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PORTLAND, OREGON, TIiriiSDAV, AUGUST 31, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ESKIMO IS WISE RICHES TO FOLLOW AVIATION STYLES WORTH $1,000,000, -TDTER COAST IS MAGNET ON WOMAN'S WAY COLLEGE DEGREE MAN DIES IN RAGS TO RULE MILADY BEATTIE HOPE WHITE .WIFE WOCLD BE TOO GATES' NEPHEW TO BE PAID SPOKANE MAX BECOMES HEIR COSTLY SAYS INGENIOUS BOY. WHEN EDUCATED. TO $300,000 IX BIG ESTATE. " " """" " """ ' " 1 - . . . I i . . . .....r- i - . . i nin irn to i i mui m-vi SHAGGY GUN BABE STOLEN WHEN CU S IfJ UPROAR DRAWING HUB 1ST New Center of Popula tion Is Found. 10 YEARS GAIN 39 MILES Total Movement West Since 1790 IS 558 Miles. EAST INCREASES RAPIDLY fia rranclco. Portland. Seattle and Sacramento Equal In Drawing Tower Philadelphia. Bos ton and Baltimore. WASHINGTON. Am. 30 The center ef population of the United State n announced by Director of the Censj Durand today to be In the western part of Bloomlngton. Monroe County. Ind. This l eight mile west of the loca tion announced July 17. when Director Durand placed It four and a quarter mile outl or Unlonvllle. In the came Cviunty. Ten yeara ago the center of popula tion waa six miles aoutheast of Co lumbus. Ind, 3 miles east of Its new location. Same Error Made Twice. The change In the center of popula tion alnce July IT Is due to the dis covery of an error made In the census office. Two clerks worked separately In computing the geographical point, but both made the same error and the wrong result wss published aa the renaua office's determination of the spot. The movement of the center of pop ulation If miles westward Is due to the Increase of population on the Pa rlflc Coast. East Growing Rapidly. The great Increase In the popula tion of New York. Pennsylvania and center states north of the thirty-ninth parallel has balanced the Increase In Texas. Oklahoma. Indian Territory and Southern California.' aald Director Purand. The greater advance toward the West Is to a large extent due to the increase In population of the Pacific Coast States, their distance from the renter giving them much greater weight than the populous states east ef the center. Coa.l I Strong Magnet. Tor Instance. San Francisco. Port land. Seattle and Sacramento, with a population of 0.M. hare aa great an Influence on the center of population aa Philadelphia. Boston and Baltimore with a population of J.77i.07." The total Western movement of the renter of population alnce 1790 la tit tn:les- MEDF0RD TRAMP PLAN NEW Working Vagabonds Proves Ret Scheme to Rid Community of Pest. 5IEDFORD. Or.. Aug. SO. I Special.) "Working vagabonds, who are unable to pay their fines, on the streets of the city baa proved a big success and mar be the solution of Med ford's problem of how to get rid of the tramps that Invest the railroad yards." declared Chief of Police Hlttson at a speclsl meeting of the City Council last night. The Council baa but recently adopted the plan. "Several hundreo dollars a month Is saved the city in money that usually goea for food and the tramps are given a lesson that they don't soon for get. We are letting dosena of them work out their Ones every day and I haven't noticed any of them romlnr back to the Job aaaln. Under the old system the Judge would turn 20 out In the morning and half of them would be In again the aame night. Nothing like that now. "Shirk. No sir. Thev do not shirk because th more thev shirk the longer they have to work. This plan of work ing our city prisoners Is carried out on a strictly scientific basis. The men get pnld for whst they do. not what time they put In. If a man earns fl a day he gets credit for that on his fine. If he Is worth only IS he gets credit for that." concluded Hlttson. UNREST LAID TO CHURCH Lloyd-George Say Rich Christians Should Aid Poor More. LONDON. Aug. JO. David Lloyd George. Chancellor of the Exchequer, while laying the cornerstone for a chapel at Heath yesterday, appealed to the Christian churches to right the wrongs frem which the masses are suffering. "There are multitudes In the country who. notwlthetandlng grinding toll. d- not earn enough to kep body and soul together." he said. "There are members of Christian churches who never have m(sed a delicacy, yet thev become angry when another claes of the pop ulation makes an effort to ameliorate Its conditions. "Let them cease reviling and con sider the conditions under which mil lions of poor workers live. If they dn . they will reside thrtr responsi bility and remove the rju-e for unrM, lest the next struggle vUxht prove In finite worse. Millionaire Tramp" Passes Away In New Jersey After Veara of Wandering Over Knee of Earth. SPOKANE. Wash-. Aug. 30. (Spe cial.) Crippled and dressed In rags and supposed to be penniless. Oeorge W. FVrloitnn. formerly of Bpokane. died at Long port. N. J. a month ago. It now develops that Eccleston lert prop erty In Nebrsska valued at $1,000,000. one-third of this estate goes to a son. Charles H. Eccleston, of Spokane. Another third goes to a daughter. Miss Bessie Eccleston. who lives near North V m L I ma Tnfl DlllBCt WBS left by the "millionaire tramp" to Mrs. Claire P. rii.mmar founder of the Blde-a- Wee Home at Longport. where Eccleston. Br., spent bis last days. r!.inii Kr lived In Sookane with his son for some time last FalL He i . . t t .H a hit hn to eccentric i 4 ... .nd navar Iinv contented In one place. Through this love of wan dering over the country, be departed frAm Snnkmne unexpectedly and his children knew nothing of his where abouts until they beard or ma aeatn in the East. Kcrleston had been divorced from his wife shortly after the children were born. The mother raised them. They bare always lived In poverty although they knew that their father bad a fortune. -rh. rr.i.tnfi itata comprises a Urge tract of the richest land In the State of Nebraska." said cnaries t.c cleston's partner In a Spokane saloon. II. F. WestfalL last night. He also had property holdings In other parts of the country." MONKEY NAMED FOR CZAR "Smallest of Kind In World." Kea- on Given by Russian Poet. NEW TOKK. Aug. 10. fSpeclal.) Nicholas Dunaew, one of the leading poets of the Russian social revolution. has arrived In America from a visit with Maxim Gorky In Capri, bringing the smallest monkey In the world" as a gift to the public Zoo. I shall offer It to the Bronx Oar- den." said Dunaew. "No, Ira not from Gorky, and there's no symbolism In tended. We named the little thing Nicholas II because he's the littlest thing of hie kind." It Is scarcely the six of a rat- mottled brown, with long, soft fur and agate eyes. 'Uorky has Just completed a drama which will be thought great." said Dunaew. "It's called the "Children of the Sun.' meaning those born In the light yet who csnnot see the light." Dunaew's own drama, h vam pire." la to be produced In five weeks In New Tork In Russian. The title Is a symbolic name for the eplrit of op pression prevalent In Russia. ALLEGED "SLAVER" TAKEN Barber, and Woman Brought From Germany, Sent to Portland. ASTORIA. Or.. Aug. SO. (Special.) Guntaf Harry Hadley. a barber who has been In Astoria since the middle of June, was arrested today by Immigra tion Inspector Botihom on the charge of being a white slaver and his com panion, a woman named Emma Hall, was also taken Into custody. Hadley Is alleged to have brought the woman from Germany to Canada in J 90S. Later he took her to Seattle and about two months sgo came to Astoria. The arrest le a most Important one as the evidence appeara to be exception ally strong. Hadley will be prosecuted for violating the Federal Immigration laws In bringing a woman Into this country for Immoral purposes the pen alty for which Is Imprisonment for lb years. The woman will be deported to Canada. Both the prisoners were taken to Portland tonight to be arraigned in the Federal Court. LEWIS TAX RATE HIGHER No Improvements to Be Ordered Un less) Tlx-re's Money In Treasury. CENTRA LI A. Wash.. Aug. 30. (Spe cial.) As the result of a meeting of the Board of L-wls County Commissioners yesterday. It la estimated that the tax rate for the county will be much hlghr thla year than 110. The rate last year waa 3.44 mills, but the amount raised by taxation waa only I J. "00. as against tlt.000 Issued In warrants for new roads and bridges. It la the general opinion this year that the rat will be between t and mills. There Is a state law forbidding any county to exceed Its legal limit of In debtedness, but thla Is being violated In II counties In the state. ' It Is probable that beginning next year In Lewis County no Improvements will be or dered unless there Is sufficient money In the treasury at the time to cover the expense. PRUNE SHIPMENTS HEAVY Consignment of 300.000 Pounds Is Sent East From Dallas. DALLAS. Or, Aug. 30. (FpeciaL) W. N. 8 a y re. a prune buyer. Intends to commence packing the prunes pur chased In this vicinity within the next two weeks. There will be It carloads packed and shipped to Eastern points. The packing probably will be com menced next week, and Soehren's ware house in this city will be used for that purpose. Seventy girls will be em ployed anj Ave men. The II carloads will contain 1000 cratea. totaling 300.000 poundt. There are several. other buyers of prunes who have purchased the fruit In this county. The J. K. Armsby Com pany will pack their prunea at their Vancouver, Wash., plant this year. It being too lata for them to build here thla FaU Two Witnesses Tell of Odd Bearded Man. PROWLER NEAR CRIME SCENE Defendant's Tale of Highway man Is Supported. PROSECUTION ENDS CASE Counsel for Virginian Strives to Break Dotrn Testimony of Paul Beat tie by Showing That He Had "Get-ETen" Motive. CHESTERFIELD COURTHOUSE, Va.. Aug. 30. Testimony corroborative of the story told by Henry Clay Beattle. Jr., that a bearded highwayman klled his wife with a shotgun, waa Intro duced by the defense In the Beattle trial today, when W. R. Holland, who lives In 'the vicinity of the Midlothian Turn pike, where the murder occurred, de- cleared he had seen a bearded man with a shotgun there fve hours before the trsgedy. It was the first move of the defense after the prosecution rested Its case at noon today, to establish the verac ity of the prisoner. Besides Holland's statement concerning the man with a shotgun. Eugene Henshaw.' a farmer whe travels the Midlothian Turnpike dally, testified that he saw a atrange man of about SO yeara prowling about on three different days before the mur der. Prosecution Holds Back Card. It la reported tonight that the prose cution Is ready when Its time for re buttal arrives, to put rn the stand the man who passed along the railroad tracks where Holland said he saw a man with a shotgun, and that the new witness will say he was squirrel hunt ing that day. The defense summoned many wit nesses. Besides the testimony regard ing the bearded man. expert testimony was Introduced aa to the bounding qualities of an automobile similar to that driven by Beattle. thereby ac counting for the Jolting out of the car of the shotgun placed In a rear seat by Beattle after the encounter with the alleged highwayman. The prosecution attacked this line of evidence on cross-examination. 'The Idea of the prosecution has been to Indicate that Beattlo himself slowed down at the cross'"- and threw the gun to one side on his way to the Owen home with his dead wife. Witness Sanity Questioned. Beattle's counsel attacked the declar ation of Sam Talley that he heard on the night of the murder a shot and the acream of a woman In Midlothian Turn pike. Several witnesses t-:lfled that the morning after the murder, when Beattle talked with Talley and others, nothing waa said about a woman's screaming. An amuslns. Incident occurred when the defense put on the stand William (Concluded enPage 8.) Berry-Browned Youth From North ernmost Point Vnder American Hag to Go to School. SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. JO. (Spe- claL) If life as you find It wearies you. If It appears too commonplace, too drab and colorlacklng. look about the City of Beattle with the eyes of "Paul of Barrow." 1 Paul, or Patkotak. as he Is called at his home on Point Barrow, the north ernmost point under the American nag. Is a berrybrown, wire-haired 19-year-old native-born Eskimo. He arrived here Saturday by the Victoria to com plete the education he began at the little Point Barrow Government school. With . wondering eyes, the sixe of saucers, Paul paused on Second avenue to stare at a passing woman. Speak ing English aa taught to him by the American teachers In the Point Barrow school, be queried: "Why does she wear that lower gar ment so small about the ankles?" He was Informed of fashion's dicta tes and asked for his opinion of the hobble skirt. "It Is bad. very bad." aaid PauL "If the woman bad to mush a long way she must take many email atepa Instead of a few big ones. Soon her mocassins are worn out from much walking.? Of the beauty of our women, IHul. ordinarily short of speech, waxed eloquent.. Tea, Indeed, he 'would like a white wife. Were they expensive? Paul's conductor led him to a shop window. "Why." exclaimed the ingenious youth, "there's a hat that would cost five or alz fox skins. And that white coat. . It would cost me eight fox skins. Would my white wife have to have these things? One fox skin for that small pair of mocassins. It Is too much. No. I do not want a white wife. I would be busy lu lling foxes all the rest of my life." HADLEY QUITS SEATTLE San Francisco Offers $10,000 An nually to Orchestra Director. SEATTLE. Wash., Aug. 30. (Spe cial.) Director Henry Hadley. of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, will be re leased from his contract for the aeason of ltll-13. aa a result of action taken today by the trustees of -the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. ' The trustees voted unanimously to grant Mr. Had ley's request. It was atao voted unanimously that the orchestra must be maintained. The general financial condition and needs of .the .organization, and a suc cessor j to Mr. Hadley will be consid ered at a meeting of the trustees to morrow. Mr. Hadley has received an offer of (10,000 a year to conduct a symphony orchestra to be organized In San Francisco. REVOLUTIONJUJRTS CROPS Moot ex nma District' Suffers Famine Following War Ordeal. DOUGLAS. Ariz., Aug. 30. Disorders hsve occurred in the Moctesuma district In Sonora as the result of a food short age due to crop failures, according to R. L. Cosgrove, who arrived from Moc- tezuma today. Failure of crops planted and of many presons to plant crops because they were engaged In the revolution. Mr. Cosgrove says, r has caused almost a famine condition and great suffering among the people. LARGE MAN WITH A SMILE DID IT. Kidnaper Acts Just as Mother Faints. TOT ORDERED TO HOME HERE Woman Collapses as Judge Gantenbein Decides. ' POLICE ARE ON LOOKOUT Husband Sues Wife Tor Custody of Flve-Year-Old, Who Is Seized by Man or Woman In Hubbub Following Jurist's Act. A charge of contempt of court is hanging over the head of a mysteri ous person, who bundled little 5-year-old Harvey Walker In his arma yes terday and spirited him away just t after Judge Gantenbein had decided to aend the child to the home of the Boys and Girls' Aid Society and while the mother was In a dead faint on the floor. Taking advantage of the genera hubbub which ensued when the mother'a walls rent the air the kidnaper, pre sumably a friend of the mother, dls appeared as completely as If the earth had swallowed him or her, for, as tar as the knowledge of the court offl clals goes, the kidnaper may have been a woman. At any rate all that is known is that the child Is gone, and the police department Is seeking to discover hie whereabouts. Father Wants Child. The case waa that of Marvin Walker against Delia D. Walker. The pair was divorced six months ago, and, by the terms of the decree, the mother re tained custody of the child. She went to a little town near White Salmon, Wash., where she entered the employ of Fred Snyder, foreman of a meat company, as housekeeper. The house In which they lived contained only two rooms. Mrs. Walker said on the stand that when her former husband went to visit the child he tried to force his attentions upon her, and that she met his advances with a butcher knife. The father commenced an action for modification of the decree, alleging that the relations between Mrs. Walker and Snyder were Improper, and assert lng that his former wife was unfit to have the custody of the child. Alter listening to charge and counter-charge, Judge Gantenbein decided that the child should remain In the custody of the mother, but that he should be sent to a home and educated at the father's expense, . both parents being given equal opportunity to visit him. Mother Falls In Faint. Judge Gantenbein decreed that the boy should be turned over Immediately, and Deputy Probation Officer Fisher consented to take the child to the home. The child was brought Into the room and there ensued a dramatic scene in which mother and child wept violently, and the mother hurled threats across the room at her ex-hus band. This ocrasloned considerable (Concluded on Page 2.) Blind SIster-in-Law of Magnate and Wife's Brother-ln-Law Re membered In Will. AURORA, 111.. Aug. 31. Henry Baker, 21 years old, of St. Charles, 111., only nephew of the late John W. Gates, can testify that "education pays." By the terms of the late financier's will, just read In private today, young Baker will get 3250.000 if he is gradu ated from college. He receives 310,000 with which to pay his course through school. He intends to enter Harvard University this Fall., Mrs. Lucerne AngelL a blind sister-in law of Mr. Gates, receives $100,000, while his .daughter, Dolores, 10 years old, re ceives 3100,000 in trust. She will get the principal when she Is 21 years old, C. J. Baker, who married a sister of Mr. Gates' wife, will receive 325,000 and a farm near St. Charles valued at $50, 000. His wife will receive $25,000. According to the St. Charles legatees of Mr. Gates, he left an estate of about $33,000,000. HOUGHTON NEARLY FREE "Chick,'' Notorious Prisoner, to Be Paroled In Few Days. ' SALEM. Or., Aug. 29. (Special.) Charles "Chick" Houghton, known to all the Portland police and detectives, will be paroled in a few days on rec ommendatlon of the Parole Board. He has been In the penitentiary three terms, once violating his parole. The last time he was sent to the penlten tiary for larceny. He still has about three months to serve,' and in case he violates his parole It will mean an added two yeara. "Chick" Houghton has a long career of crime in this city and there is scarce ly an officer on the force who has not, at some time or other, had something to do with Houghton. Houghton was born and reared in Portland, and It is said at detective headquarters that he grew up with a bad gang, most of whom are now dead or In the penitentiary. Tne crime tor which Houghton is now In prison was stealing two bolts of cloth from Vel ten's tailor shop on Washington street. While James Sullivan engaged Velten's attention by having a button sewed Houghton stole the cloth. Two hours later both were arrested. Sullivan was sentenced to serve two years and Houghton, to serve seven years, be cause of his previous record. Sulli van was paroled. Houghton is now 35 years old and his father, who is blind, and mother, live in Portland. GLACIER QUITS WIT. ADAMS Fllty-Foot Slide Causes White Sal mon River to Grow Muddy. HUSUM, Wash.. Aug. 30. (Special.) The muddy brown appearance of the White Salmon River last week has been accounted for by John McCord and party, who have returned from an outing near Mount Adams. Camped on the western slope of the mountain. the party one evening about dusk distinctly heard the . slow grinding noise of a glacier moving for about five minutes. It was discovered next morning that Avalanche Glacier, one of the three feeders of the White Salmon River, had slipped down the mountain for about 50 feet, and a chocolate-hued stream flowed from it. The White Salmon River has its source In three glaciers on the west side of Mount Adams. The largest of these Is White Salmon River glacier. To the north of this lies ' Pinnacle glacier, and to the south Avalanche glacier, which it is declared moved during the night. SUGAR CLIMB STARTLES Granulated Highest in Years and Raw Material Soars. NEW. TORK, Aug. 30. Grocery cir cles here showed concern today over the high prices now prevailing in the sugar market. There was an advance In granulated during the day to $6.25. representing a full cent rise In the, last few weeks, and the highest level In many years. Coming at the height of the canning season, this advance is of vital interest to consumers over all the country. It s attributed primarily to a poor sugar. beet crop In Europe, following pro- onged drouth this Summer. To make things worse, the Cuban crop, which furnishes the bulk of raw material for American refiners, also proved short. and prices began to soar. Far-sighted dealers bought large supplies some months ago, leaving the market almost bare of stock and raw sugars In consequence have made new high records, while many operators In the street predict that the end Is not et in sight. , UNION-CANADA TIE SEEN Premier Declares Reciprocity Is Move Toward Annexation. MOUNT FOREST. Ont., Aug. 30. The declaration that President Taft nd his friends have had the idea of future annexation of Canada in their minds was made tonight in the ad dress of Sir James Whitney, Premier of Ontario. He asserted that the reci procity agreement was intended by its advocates in the United States to hamstring and kill anything In the ature of the concentration and con solidation of the British Empire." Sir James added that back in the minds of President Taft and his friends was the idea that Canada might one ay form a part of the North Ameri can Republic, Biplane Hats, Birdmen Bows Are In Vogue. MUFFS BIG AS GRIPS ARE IN Hand-Cover Hides Mirror. Kerchief and Whatnot. FUR HEADGEAR REIGNS National Milliners at Chicago Hint at Pronunclamento for Winter That Promises to Startle Corsets Only for Stout Folk. CHICAGO. Aug. SO. (Special) Aeroplane hats with aviation bows will be the extremely proper thing In mil linery this season. The girl with the muff is coming back. This time the muff Is as large as a suitcase and Is suspended from the shoul.iers by cords or straps. Inside the muff there will be mirrors, pomades, powder puffs, handkerchiefs, In fact, a well-equipped beauty parlor. Incidentally there will be room for the girl's hands. Carrying out the aviation Idea in woman's dress and hats, it may be said right now that prices will make some new altitude records, and man will have to do some lively "stunts" to meet the bills. Broad hints of all three styles came out tonight at the opening session of the National milliners' convention, at which was shown a superb display of the newest confections In headgear. Fur Like Dunce Cap. The Winter's outfit for the properly dressed woman will be startling. In addition to the immense muff there must be a bonnet of fur to match. This to the uninitiated strongly re sembles a dunce cap with donkey's ears attached, but the creators say It Is the mercury helmet with monoplane trim ming. The cafe hat will be of un usual large acreage this season. This creation, it is admitted, will be built chiefly for the diversion and to stir the envy of the other woman diners. This lid will be so large that It will crowd the ordinary aisles and hallways and will have everything on It, in cluding the mortgage for the old home, unless the wearers have a cellar full of money. Old Sunbonnet Revived. Autoraeblle bonnets are positively the last word. They are made in all shades of velvet and are exact dupli cates of the old-fashioned sunbonnet in everything but material and price. The muff-and-hat-to-match proposi tion, however, is what will put this land of the brave and home of the free on the brink of collapse. It is de creed that no matter how many hall milady may elect to own, she must have a muff to. match each one. Gloves, shoes, jewelry and all that must also be of the same shade. It is easy to see where the breadwinner gets off. As a result of the ruling by the United States Senate that no aigrettes shall be used, herons' plumes are sub stituted where a Jaunty effect is de sired. The cafe hat fairly wallows in herons' plumes and marabout. Orien tal buckles, Japanese turbans and coro nets and the like are decidedly proper. "Deity" Hat Supreme. The "Deity" hat is strictly original in effect and derives its name from Its appearance. Made witn seal Drown underbrim. with a top of golden brown of . fur or velvet, with an immense Egyptian buckle much in evidence, it Is predicted this bat will find' much fa vor. It was announced that the new dresses would flare from the knees and that all but stout women would be denied corsets, so that women will be able to walk with some degree of comfort and grace. High-heeled shoes are also taboo In the swell sets. Per fumery and sachet powders will be more in vogue than formerly, but the perfumery will be lavished on the gi gantic muffs, so that milady will create a fascinating atmosphere as she swishes throuph the streets. MODEL SCHOOLS TO RISE Walla Walla County to Build Two, Structures on Ideal Plan. : WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Aug. 30. (Special.) Two model schools are to be established In Walla Walla County, both of which will be new departures along the line of educational, institu tions in rural districts. College Place district, west of the city, will be the first in Eastern Wash ington to build a schoolhouse accord ing to the uniform plans of State Su perintendent H. B. Dewey. The other school, at Prospect Point, south of the city, will be more pretentious. Here the school district has five acres and this will be converted into a park, with tennis, baseball and basketball grounds, together with a picnic park. The district has a cottage for the teacher and this, together with the schoolhouse Itself, will be furnished with all late electric devices, such as pneumatic air supply plant operated by electricity, lights, etc. All modern sanitary features will also be employed and the school has been planned to be . model in every respect.