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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1911)
ARMS STORED FOR AUTHOR'S WIFE TO BE SENTIMENT E HONDURAS REVOLT SEEK REAL MATE MRS. SIVCLAIK TIRES OF "ES SENTIAL MONOGAMIST." WITHOUT-REASON BEATEN, IS BELIEF ISSUE IN IDAHO DISTRICT NEEDS TOTS TO SECURE STATE FUND. PLOTTERS ARE ARRESTED WHES EVIDENCE IS FOUND. GARTH! MAY MAD SAYS NEW WITNESS CANADA Taft Quoted in Reci procity Fight. "PARTING OF WAYS" ATTACKED Opponents on Stump Make Ap peal to "Loyalty." ANNEXATION CRY RAISED lYench-Canadtan Prmlnee of Que bee I Pivotal Point Laurler Denounced by BourM Too Imperialistic. OTTAWA. Ont.. Aug. 27. Reports renting In from all parts of Canada bow the Intensity of the election struggle now tinder full headway, and reflect also the position and progress of the various elements on the mala lasae. reciprocity between Canada and the t'nlted States. Although the campaign comes while harvesting la at Its height, conven tlons and political meetings are draw ing audiences unparalleled for else. It Is conceded that a greater percentage of votes will be polled than ever be fore In Canada. Sunday Meeting Held. Reciprocity has continued the domi nant issue since Premier Laurler and Oppoaltlon Leader Borden made their Initial addresses. Since then Mr. Bor den has remained In Ontario, speaking dally, while Tremter Laurler. after one Ontario meeting, has swung over the French-Canadian province of Quebec, where he has been addressing; from one tn two meetings each day. Including Sunday. Meantime the premiers of various provinces and other leaders have been arraigning themselves on the firing line. Premier Whitney, of Ontario; Premier McBrlde. of Brltlnh Columbia, and Premier flaxen, of New Brunswick, have taken the stump In oppoaltlon to reciprocity and to the return of the Laurler candidates. Clifford flfton. formerly a member of the Laurler ministry. Is boldtnc meetings In On tario, at which he denounced the reci procity agreement. Appeal Made to Sentiment. The grounda taken for and against reciprocity are shown In the reports coming from all sections. The right agslnst reciprocity is made on both ecooomie and sentimental grounda The opposition speakers declare that agri culture in the United States la so much better developed thsn It Is In Canada that the Canadian farmer will be swamped by the arrival ef food products from the L'nlteu States. Con servative papers have been printing offers from alleged American fruit, dajry and provision flrma to sell cheese, fruit. vegetables and other provisions to Canadian dealers at leaa than the prevailing Canadian rates, as soon as the reciprocity agreement Is confirmed. The Liberals have denounced these torles as not genuine but arranged merer tor the purpose of stampeding the Canadian farmers sgainst recipro city. TaTt's Words Vsed. The sentimental ground raised against the return of the Government la based on the report of a speech by President Taft. In which he aald that Canada had come to the "parting of lh waya" aa Justification for having urged the reciprocity agreement. Leader Borden said In a recent speech: 1 don't doubt the loyalty of Cana dian people, but If Canada deliberately Interlocks her Interests with those of tre Cntted States, she will be led step bv step to conditions which loyalty could not change. The time to with draw is now. before the threshhold is reached.' The fight for reciprocity is based by Premier Laurler snd his followers on the economic advantage It will bring t Canada and they denounce the an nexation cry as a hollow device of the campaign. The French-Canadian province of Quebec. Is regarded as the pivotal point In the election. Here Henri Bouraasa, the oppoaltlon Nationalist leader, is vigorously denouncing Premier Lau rler as too Imperialistic. Boorassa declares that Laurler be trayed Canadian Independence to Great Britain by securing a law for the crea tion of a navy which eventually will lead to the conscription of the young men of Oneda. This same cry stam peded the electors of Srummond-Ath-beaka. where Laurler was brought up. la a bye-election, two years ago. Pre mier Laurler at a meeting In St. Euetache recently, departed from his usual dignity and calm by declaring that Mr. Bouraasa was a "wilful liar." Opposing Claim Sairrmariaed. The claims of the two sides np to this date are about aa follows: The opposition contends that It will gain seats from the government in the maritime provinces INova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) and In Quebec. Ontario. Manitoba and British Columbia while the Western fcx-lall.l Too Much Absorbed In Work to Deote Proper Time lo Loving Spoue. NEW TORK, Aug. 27. (Special.) Meta. Fuller Sinclair, wife) of Upton Sinclair, the Socialist author, from whom he says he Intends to be di vorced, told today her story of ber troubles with the Socialist. She says she does not Intend to fight the suit If her husband brings one. Speaking of her married life with Mr. Sinclair she says: -We were married 11 years ago and for the first ten years we tried to adjust ourselves to each other and the world. Recently I have given up all such at tempts and have been seen In publle accompanied by other men. My hus band has a conservative mind by na ture, but choice has made him- a rad- IcaL" Then she said be was an "essentlsl monogamist. " and defied him. She said that such a man had three qualities: First, he Is not able to devote bis time to his wife; second, he should not be so absorbed In his work -that he It not able to keep his wife from being seen with other men; third, her husband ws over developed Intellectually. She admitted that a woman Is an In stinctive monogamist, but said that hunger for a real mate and she was most Insistent on the word "mate" was so strong that sometimes a woman has to commit sin before she can And him. She said that such conditions would not exist If men were not so selfish. PATHFINDER STARTS NORTH Automobile) Tourist to Follow Coast Route to Vancouver. SACRAMENTO. CaL. Aug. 27. (Spe ctsl. From the steps of the Capitol building. Governor Johnson presented to Dr. Charles G. Perclvai. of New York City, who Is touring the world In the Abbott-Detroit "bulldog." the pennant which the California Touring Club Is sending to the Portland Automobile Club, together with a letter In the In terest of good roads, and the proposed Pacific highway, which the Abbott car Is "pathf indlng" from San Diego to Vancouver. The "bulldog" left wlth-33,000 miles traveled since) July II. 11. and will follow the cosst route to Vancouver, with stops at Portland and Seattle, where letters will be delivered to the various automobile organisations. OWN PROTEST.IS DENIED B later. Taxpayer, Petitions Blaker, Equaliser, Without Success. rial.) A. M. Blaker. chairman of the noara or equalisation ok viara twuni; day made a protest to himself, asking lor a reauciion ok iiici wmu-u h asaessed upon hla property. A. M. u i k r citizen, ikourht these taxes were too high. A. M. Blaker. chairman, made a thorough Investigation of the complaint and then ruled against A. M. Blaker. citizen. His fellow commis sioners sgreea with mm. v, Di.ir. .-in . w ih. (m .1 as sessed. With the completion of this DUSiness ine corririiii"n-t. JU"1 Protean this vear acalnst taxes as sessed have been few. PROMINENT FIGURES IN BEATTIE MURDER CASE, f E I . .V . " . r a L. Ill'" f 1 1 - If: .cS , . 'fal - V 1 ' Ar -,-. V-'1:' r y - 7 : A:. rr.-v:-"---' f - A )) H r v n rF4: - f&ii :,ll':fu II ("' "" V" -fin" ' f'fw Rolph Picked to Win by Astute Judges. SAN FRANCISCO IS STIRRED Present Mayor's Hold on Busi ness Men Is Lost. LABOR IS DISGRUNTLED Old-Time Tenderloin Vol Divided Because Favorites" Have Been Played Disaffection Seen on Many Sides. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 27. (Spe cial.) With the San Francisco munici pal campaign well under way and the primaries set for September St. almost a month off. It Is the consensus of opinion of political experts and men who have studied the situation, that James Rolph. Jr, will be elected over P. H. McCarthy. Moreover, the feeling Is strong that Rolph will show suffi cient votes at the primary to elect him at that time. Instead of being com pelled to go through a second cam paign In November. Of course, there may be a change In sentiment, but that Is unquestionably the etate of af fairs now. McCarthy is far from being strong. even within his own lines, and with disaffection here and there where he polled votes two years ago. It does not appear that lie could bring himself to the front. Opposition Is Invited. The registration In San Francisco that rlosed last Saturday night shows a total of 104,000. . It is expected that because - of the Interest In the cam paign there will be 10.000 votes cast at the primary. In 107 Taylor and Ryan together received 3S.011 out of 57.720 votes cast to 17.S17 for McCarthy. That waa after the complete exposure of the Schmltx administration. Taylor was elected. In l9t. out of 6S.06S votes cast. Crocker and Leland received together 33,360 and McCarthy 19.455. There are virtually only two candi dates In the field tlite year. The So cialists will have a candidate, who Is expected to poll In the neighborhood of 6000 votes.' Riving McCarthy his full strength -.hat he polled in 1909. that would leave Rolph something like 40.000 votea McCarthy Lows Buslne&c Men. McCarthy may gain some of the votes that went either to Leland or Crocker two years ago, but, on the other hand. It la believed he will lose heavily. At that time he .had a strong following among the business men so strong (Concluded on Pase- Overthrow of Administration Candl- date at Next Election Plan Exposed In 'Letters. ri'ERTO CORTEZ, Honduras. Aug. 23. via wireless. New Orleans. Aug. 27. A gigantic revolutionary plot against the) administration of Honduras was unearthed August 19. when Theodore Hernandez and M. Vgorta were ar rested. Letters were found, revealing the whereabouts of hidden arms and ammunition. Hernandes was placed In Jail at San Pedro, where excitement Is at fever heat. Vgorta was escorted to the capital. Tegucigalpa, under an armed guard and Incarcerated. Ex-President r...n .q.nnaeri hv the recent revolu- ' n . . f . tlon headed by General Manual Bonllla. Is supposed, to be unpiicaiea in iu plot. . The letters mentioned that munitions of war were hidden near Flmlenta, and that the first mve agalijst the admln ..... tinn wa to he started at the elec tion next October of General Bonllla. tho unopposed candidate tor ine pr. dency. " ' WEATHER CHANGE IS, DUE Washington Predict Disturbance in Northwest About Wednesday. . WASHINGTON. lug. 27. Rains with in the next 48 hours over the greater part of the country from the Missis sippi Valley to the Atlantic Coast and In the Southwest are predicted today In a bulletin of the Weather Bureau. Following them will coma consider ably cooler weather, with frosts the firat nart of the week In the North ern Rockies. North Plains States, the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Up per Lake Region. Another disturbance i. Jim to anoear in . the. Northwest sbout Wednesday, whence It will move eastward. POSTAL BANKS EXTENDED North Yakima, Wash., ' Among 50 Cities to Get New Facilities. wiSHtvOTON. vcVin. 27. Post mas te r- r:. .,- Hitchcock today designated 60 more first-class pqetof flees as postal savings depositories, among wnicn wa North Yakima. Wash. The receipts in the postal savings offices at New Tosk. Chicago. St. Louis and Boston, which opened fgr business in..t i. It was snneunced at the de partment, amounted to a 'quarter of a million dollars at the end of the first three weeks. . GALE HITS GEORGIA COAST South Carolina. Towns Cut Off From Wire Communication. SAVANNAH, Gl, Aug. 27. Suddenly appearing off the coast of South Caro lina and Georgia this morning, a storm, reaching a velocity of a mile a min ute, passed over Savannah tonight, spending Its force on plate glass win dows, street lamps and trees, putting ii m-ire between Savannah and Charleston out of commission, and at an early hour Isolating that city ana Beaufort. S. C WHICH IS ATTRACTING NATION-WIDE Huckster-Throws Light on Beattie Case REVELATIONS ARE EXPECTED Rich Young Man's Relations With Girl May Be Told. MEMORIES OF YOUTH BACK Just Previous to Pleading "Not ' Guilty," Rich Virginian Bows Head, Touches Iilps to Band of Gold Act Pathetic. RICHMOND, , Va., Aug. 27. Instead of the respite that Sunday was expect ed to give the principal figures In the trial of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.. for the murder of his wife, a new witness was accidentally discovered by the prosecu tion today. He is said to have asserted that he knew a day ahead of time that the murder was to be committed. He is George Jones, a huckster. He Is alleged to have given this informa tion in the presence of H. B. Chewning. a contractor, and another man. De tective Scherer, when told that Jones had said he "knew about the murder the Monday before." expressed the opinion that the man might have made the remark In a boastful manner. Couple to Testify Today. Notwithstanding this, the prosecu tion decided to subpoena Jones and Chewning to appear at the ChesT terfleld Court House tomorrow, when the trial will be resumed. Jones is known to be a close friend of "Claudie," a sister of Beulah Binford. "the girl in the case." When Detective Scherer heard of Jones' alleged conversation with Chewning and another man. he went to Chewning, who confirmed the story. Later, when Jones, Chewning and Scherer were together. Jones denied having made such remark, but Chewn ing reiterated that he had. Jones showed uneasiness at being called as a witness ahd attempted to minimize his assertion. The prosecution, however. Is deter mined to probe thoroughly Jones' knowledge of the affair, particularly aa it regards the Binford family. Having built up Its case largely on the Binford girl as the alleged motive for the murder, the state tomorrow will attempt to press that point on the Jury by producing witnesses to testify about, frequent visits of Beattie to cer tain resorts with the Binford girl. ATTENTION. 1" i I 1 Gordon, Shoshone County, Board Is Confronted With Prospect of Closing - Its School. SPOKANE. Wash., Aug. 27. (Spe cial.) Teachers applying for the Job in the Gordon district in Shoshone County, Idaho, are confronted r- the board with the requirement that the successful aspirant have four children. Health, youth, beauty and even effi ciency are disregarded. The directors orfer 100 monthly salary. The Gordon district, one of the richest in the world, must pass out of existence unless four children are added at once, reaving a good school, large; library and surplus of more than $4000. For years the five children in the Gordon district have been supplied by two families. A. Mason, with his brood of four has decided to move leav ing A. Oswald with two other men and but one child of school age. To secure state school funds and save the life of the district, remaining directors are appealing for a teacher with four or more children. TACOMA MAN IN TROUBLE Haberdasher Accused of Passing Bad Checks In San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27. (Special.) Warrants were Issued by Police Judge Deaay yesterday against Albert A. Clark, a haberdasher of Tacoma, who was arrested the night before by De tective Sergeant McLoughlln on charges of passing bad checks. George H. Young, of George H. Toung, Inc., dealer In wholesale shoes at 207 Second street, filed one complaint and alleged that Clark, on August 15, gave him a check for $250, drawn on the Fidelity Trust Company of Tacoma, which was returned by that institu tion as worthless. A second complaint, charging de frauding an inn-keeper, was filed against Clark by George Dixon, as sistant manager of the Argonaut Ho tel. Dixon alleges that Clark owes the hotel company money for accommoda tions. VISITORS MAKE HOME HERE Eastern Folk So Pleased They Would Sell Return Tickets. . Offers for the sale of 21 return tickets to Eastern cities, run In the want ad columns of the Sunday Ore gonlan, give forceful testimonial to the power of Oregon to fascinate and hold her visitors. Those who, coming here, have de cided not to return, offer tickets to nearly all the important cities of the middle Eastern states, from San An tonio and New Orleans to Chicago and St. Paul, and the routes of the trips He over railroads from the extreme north to the extreme south. One ticket is listed via the Canadian Pacific to St. Paul while a few lines further down one finds a ticket to San Antonio by way of Los Angeles. ARMY SERIOUSLY CRIPPLED Sfedical Arniy Wholly Inadequate to Field Demands, Says Grant. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. In his an nual report to the War Department for the fiscal year just ended as commander of the Department of the East, Gen eral F. D. Grant says that if all the troops in his command had been ordered out in connection with the mobilisation in the South during the Mexican revolution, or if the first field army had been mobilized, the deficiency in the medical department would have caused a break down. No progress has been made In this department, he said, since the Spanish American War. WOMAN HEAD POSTAL BANK Los Angeles Postmaster Names Mrs. bhclton, First In Vnlted States. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27. When the postal savings bank opens in Los An geles about , the middle of September. It is to be in charge of Mrs. B. G. Shel un Shelton for years has been assistant superintendent of the money order division, in the local postornce hrnnrlv was connected with the auditor's division in the Postoffice De partment at Washington. Postaster Harrison said he selected Mrs. Shelton for this responsible posi tion because of her peculiar fitness for the place. It is believed Mrs. Shelton Is the first woman to be placed In charge of any postal savings bank. POPE WHOLLY RECOVERED South American Is First Visitor Re ceived In Vatican Garden. ROME, Aug. 27. The Pope this morning celebrated mass and after ward proceeded to The Vatican gardens, where he received his first visitor out side the private office since his illness. This was Cardinal Arcoverde de Al burquerque. Archbishop of Rio Janeiro, who came to pay his farewell respects, as he was leaving tonight for America- The Pontiff appeared entirely recov ered and interested himself In the af fairs of the diocese. He ended the au dience by bestowing the apostolic bene diction on the churches in South America. Boy's Senseless Cry Is Knell of Many. NO SPARK OF FIRE IS SEEN Giant Miner, First to Take Alarm, First to Die. NARROW STAIR DEATHTRAP Eleven of Total of 2 6 Dead Are Chil dren Falling; Man Breaks Xeck of Wou Id-Be Rescuer at Street Entrance. , CANONSBURG, Pa.. Aug. 27. Twenty-six persons were suffocated or trampled to death, 25 were seriously injured and 30 were less severely hurt last night in the senseless panic at a moving-picture Bhow in the Canons burg Opera-House, according to revised figures compiled tonight. How foolish the panic was developed fully today when those involved re lated Just what occurred. There was no fire. The fatal rush at the exit was due to baseless fear. It developed that not even a spark flashed. The film broke with a snap ping noise and a bright light was thrown on the screen. A frightened boy imagined it was fire and uncon sciously shouted out the death knell of more than a score of persons as he started to rush for the exit. Huge Miner First to Flee. Bolus Dubrowskl. a huge miner, Jumped from his seat and ran for the same exit. In a moment there was a fighting, struggling mass after him. At the head of a narrow stairwao", which leads to the street, the miner tripped. As he rolled down the stairs, he swept from their feet. many person: who were waiting their turn to enter the theater. Soon there was a horrible pile of men, women and children at the foot of the steps. Dubrowskl prob ably was the first person killed. Firemen, policemen and level-beaded persons untangled the human mass. The unhurt and those slightly injured were pulled from the top of the pile. As they gained the street, they ran about screaming like maniacs. The seriously injured were sent home or taken to nearby houses. Narrow Exit Provided. The dead, many of them women and small children, were piled on the side walk. Coroner Hoffran has begun a rigid Investigation. Measurements made by the Coroner's Jury showed the stairway leading to the door of the opera-house to be only six feet and a half wide, while the doorway at the bottom is not more than eight feet high. It is customaib' for Xho management of the theater to give two or three per formances each evening, and the moving-picture machine operator was about to complete the first session when a film parted. Some of the audi ence, who had begun to leave the build ing and others were on the stairway coming up when Dubrowskl be gan his wild flight. When the door way had been filled up, others walked over the bodleS of the fallen, and breaking the glass transom over the door, crawled through and dropped into the street. Manager Calms Crowd. Manager Ferguson tried to- stop the panic. Accompanied by his wife, he started for the stairs at the first alarm but seeing no fire, made his way to the stage. Calling loudly to the frigh tened people to follow him, he led the way to the rear of the stage and hundreds went out the back exit. In ten minutes the opera-house was empty and in half an hour 20 bodies had been recovered. Of the 2 dead, 11 were children. Arthur McPeake, whose name is among the dead, was passing the building when the bodies began to ptle up at the door. The young man rushed to the rescue, and was dragging a body from the pile when a man came hurling out the transom. He struck McPeake on the back, and the young man's neck was broken. Engaged Couple Killed. Hvdnev RIttiger was at the perform ance with his fiancee. Miss Lulu Fisher. Before entering the building they had tnnne.d at a leweliw store nearby, and Kittiger had bought the ring that was to have been used at their wedding. Both were killed. Wilmer Lane, a member of the vol unteer fire department, hastened to answer the alarm, and was working at the pile of bodies at the entrance when he came upon the lifeless iorms of his two children, lying .beside that of his unconscious wife. Samuel Lane, grandfather of the chil dren, rushed toward the stairs, not vnnwinsr his erandchildren were there. and was making his way down when he saw a child almost under his feet. As h stooned to pick her up. he recognized his granddaughter, but at that moment she was swept from hlra and killed. He was seriously injured. JJC, IX HIS CELM AA1) JL C BKATT1E, SB, ALLEGED LAVER' FAT HE Br (Concluded ea rase -