: " ' ! PnRTi.An. OREGOX. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1911.' PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL.. L.1 io,oio. ; ' i 1 i : . r TUFT'S. TRIP BUTTLE INTEREST Territory of Enemies Will Be Invaded. HE'S WITH PEOPLE, HE SAYS Tour Most Notable Ever Un dertaken in "Off Year." MANY TOPICS SCHEDULED 'Progressive" States Will Be Pene trated and President trill Tell Inhabitants He Will Aid Them in Struggles. WASHINGTON. Sept 10. (Special.) i week hence President Taft will be on his way across the Continent on one of the most notable political tours ever undertaken In a non-cam Tiilnliii Tear. Two years ago President Taft swung oat to the Pacific Coast and hack through the Southwestern and Southern States, but that trip lacked the battle Interest that will mark every mile of his forthcoming Journey. This time, aside from groin among: the people as their President, he presents himself as a candidate for renomlnatfon and re election. Mr. Taft will traverse territory where th.r. are Renubllcan chieftains deter mined to wrest leadership from him If they can. They have anticipated Ms coming; and are appealing: to their fol lowing to repudiate his .dmlnlstratlon. Taft -of People, He gays. Into the "progressive" Central States, and farther West, goes the President to tell their Inhabitants that he la of them and with them In the light of the hour for all which Is termed "prog- resslveness." Els right to such a posl tion Is challenged by powerful states men. who at thla time are characterised under the general term of Insurgents. If one will forget for a moment the personal end. let the thought pene trate that certain matters have been left undone and that It la the Taft pro gramme to aronae a publio sentiment which will forca Congress to action when again it meeta to fuss over change in the existing law. It suffloea to say that If such publio sentiment Is aroused to the point of effectiveness It la to be counted aa an asset In Presi dent Taft's light for continuance In hla present high station for another term. Big Issue to Be Toadied. There will be big issues In the Na tional campaign of next year, and they are to receive their preliminary handl ing from one side by President Taft In his big across-and-back tour. First, there Is the tariff. The passage of the Canadian reci procity measure has made an Issue, not between the Republicans and the Demo crats, but between the Republican Ad ministration and the opposing faction within the Republican party. It la true that "stand-patters" and "pro gressives' were banded together to de teat this reciprocity, but so far as the future is concerned, the political Issue may be said to Involve mainly the In surgent element and the Administra tion. It Is the President's purpose rather his hope to make the rank and file reach an understanding that what has been done In this line was for the wel fare of the many, and he believes that experience will demonstrate the fatu ousnss of the fear that American farm ers or any other clasa w.U be injured by the arrangement proposed. Vetoes Another Topic. Then there are the vetoes of the piece-meal tariff revision measures passed at the recent extraordinary ses slon of Congress. These vetoes have raised a tremen dously big Issue. Tha Issue is likely to be the paramount one of the campaign next year. They will be defended by the President on the ground that all tariff revisions following the Payne Aldrlch law which he will defend only as a move toward real, scientific re vision, the best that could be obtained at the time and under the previously existing conditions should await the report of the tariff board, which at present represents in Its operations the tariff commission. The Insurgent "progressives" contend that measures already vetoed involved needed tariff changes, and the Presi dent has Joined issue with them on that question, and is about to argue It In detail before the great American Jury. Referendum to Be Discussed. Other supremely Important topics which the President will take up be tween the rising and setting sun sec tions of the country are the arbitra tion treaties, which have been pre sented to the Senate, the statehood question with particular reference to the referendum and the recall, and the question of constructive legislation with respect to corporations. In some speech on his trip Mr. Taft is going to tell his audience that to his mind a divorced man denied the right of remarriage where divorced and remarrying in another state s com mitting bigamy. The marriage yesterday of John Jacob Astor. a divorced man. who lias (Concluded on Fas "WET" OR" DRY," UP TO MAINE TODAY BOTH SIDES CONFIDENT; FORE CASTS VARY WIDELY. "So License" Forces Close Cam. paign With Unique Taradcs . by 30,000 Children. PORTLAND. Me., Sept. 10. (Special.) Estimates tonight on the vote tomor row on the question -of repealing the Prohibition amendment are no closer together than yesterday. They vary from fOOO to 10.000 majority for repeal to an extreme of 13,000 for reafflrma tlon of the principle that has made Maine famous. - Both sides appear to be confident of success. Frederick G. Fassett, secre tary of the Nonpartisan Local Self Government League, composed of Dem ocrats and Republicans who favor re peal, and his associates at headquar ters feel certain that a substantial ma jority of the people, t-l"t 5000. will declare against prohibition. On the other hand, George W. Norton, secre tary of the No-License movement, also made up of Democrats and Republicans, aaya positively that the majority against repeal will be around 11,000. Both estimates are based upon the re turns of canvassers. The managers of the "wet" campaign In Portland look for a total vote of about 125,000. In Bangor, from which the campaign in Eastern Maine has been handled, the leaders do not expect a total vote of more than 100,000. The last day of the campaign was unique.. In this city, Bangor, Augusta, Bath, Lewlston and other large places there were parades of children bearing banners Inscribed, "Vote for us." Mora than 80,000 children turned out. There will be a great demonstration in this olty tomorrow, led by Mrs. Lil lian N. Stevens, National president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. TURMOIL STIRS HONDURAS Martial Law Declared aa Result of , Revolutionary Plot. 6 AN SALVADOR, Republlo of Salva dor, Sept. 10. It is reported here that martial law has been declared In Hon duras. . v ' Recently a gigantic revolutionary plot against the admnlstratlon of Hon duras was unearthed. Theodore Her nandes and M. Ugorta were arrested and letters were found revealing the hiding place of a large quantity of arms and ammunition. It was said that ex-President Davlla, who was .deposed by the revolution under General Bonilla, was implicated. ETNA' ACTING OMINOUSLY Quake at Brief Intervals Alarm People Living Near Volcano. CATANIA, Sept. 10. Mount Etna is showing a revival of activity. Two new craters have opened about 8000 feet above the sea level. A cloud of smoke Is visible and ashes are erupted continuously. Earthquake shocks at Intervals of from Ave to 10 minutes are felt In all the surrounding villages, where the Inhabitants, are greatly alarmed. T0RRE0N IS MADE SAFE Thousand Troops to Maintain Order on Mexican Holiday. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. Danger of trouble and disorder at Torreon. Mex, on the Mexican national holiday, next Saturday, need no longer be feared. aocordlng to a report to the State De partment from American Consular Agent Corrothers, at Torreon. He announces that 1000 Mexican troops have arrived at Torreon to .pre serve order. ; - cy J&M- 4Mi I " m P-x i i - . . - . . i RARE TIME AWAITS AT BIG FAIR GATES Stylish Stock Is Shown . in Stables. FINE EATABLES GRAM TABLES Great Exposition, Opening To day, Does State Proud. SALEM PRIMPS FOR CROWD Addison Bennett Tells of 1800 Folk Outside Ground In Tented Town and Their Mayor, Who Seems , to Be Man of Some Renown. BY ADDISON BENNETT. . SALEM, Or., Sept. 10. (Special.) As milady stands before the dressing table In her boudoir anC dabs a bit of rouge here, a dash ot powder there, plasters an eyewlnker with a splash of black. grabs a corset, a shoe and various other articles to the deponent unknown to assemble herself, so to speak, so It Is as the fiftieth Oregon state fair assem bles "herself for the morrow's open ing. The clans are gathering from far and wide, from near and remote, from Mal heur to Clatsop, from Lake county to Wallowa, they come come singly, dou bly. in platoons, companies and regl ments and still they come and will come to make the next six aays memorable in the annals of Oregon. And with them come the exhibits of all sorts and kinds. That great mort gage lifter, the cow, will be here with her great records of golden dollars poured into her owner's purse; great draft horses, coach horses, saddle horses, race . horses, trotters, . side wheelers" and runners and more horses, young; and old; and the hog- aye, the hog that, properly fed and at tended, can work such wonders of pros perity for the farmer; and old "biddy" and her chicks, the "old gray goose and gander," the ducks end turkeys and pheajsanta; the sheep and goats and mules and Is there any likely livestock left In Oregon side from what Is assem bling and to be assembled at the fair grounds tomorrow? Yes. "a few." But there will be enough and to spare here. Let the beholder know that the Oregon farmer Is "some punkins" when It comes to raising arid showing livestock. 1800 Dwell In Town of Tents. And then the other exhibits butter and cheese and honey-hams, shoulders and bacon. And Jams and Jellies and preserves! Gee! Let me say It over again backwards for emphasis pre serves and Jama and Jellies and Jams! And hurrah for the Oregon Jams I But why go into details. How can I diagnose the squeals and bleats and bellows of the stocs, or draw a parallel to the good things brought In "by the famous housewives of Oregon? But before you get to the fair proper. Just after you cross the railroad track of the S. P. line, you come to a tested city, where 1800 campers will live and move and have their being and eat their "ham an' " and flprk and beans this week. And who presides over this tented city, this ephemeral center of civiliza tion, this assembly there! I have done It! Assemblages - ill pass muster, but In the newer lexicon of Oregon there is no such word as assembly, and far be (Concluded on Page 3.) TYPICAL TAFT PICTURE TAKEN ON LAST .A y -in , ,fi :7 ,' W--:u4fi H " s ) " : Aw! li in? s HAFIHOTS OB1 THE PRESIDENT OJt MIIWfG TOUH. AMD OF INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Foreign- French bankers cause of financial disturb ances In Germany. Fage . Nine Mexicans slain in political battle. . Pua 2. . - China sends troops to guard foreigners In flood districts. Page 4. . National. Taft's trip across Continent and back notable political move lor "on year. rwo Domestic United States Attorney attacks Colorado s title to statehood. Page 2. TTntAit Kinnlnir f n th Pr-in-laW tells Of author diet vagaries, Page 3. Governors plan ambitious programme for tms weeK conierentc ms" Woman suspected of stealing Mona Lisa. Pin 8. ' Maine to decide "wet" or "dry" Issue to day. Page 1. Trm. nrfpNhv back from Europe won t telle of social triumphs. Page 3. Chicago fashion makers decree tight dresses without unaersajres. r o. , .nnhiif. will suffer" an less Krattschnltt makes concessions. Pa vik 1 Millionaire Investigation says drinking Is Inmilnfl-lv nrevalent In colleges. Page 1. Altnr te-111 attempt flight from Golden Gate to Reno today. Page 2. Pacific "Northwest. Addison Benne't tells of attractions of state fair at Salem, which opens today. Page l. Huge lor raft grounded on Peacock Spit breaks up. hundreds of heavy piling are washed out to sea. rage w. Nine widows, whose ages total 625 years, attend party In honor of Tth blrtnday oi Vsinoniiver woman. Page 1 Southwest Washington State Fair opens to il a v. Pasa 5. East Side route for Portland-Salem high way is selected, page o. Sport. Pacific Coast lasue results yesterday. Portland 1, Sacramento 24 Innings) 1, Vernon 5-B. San Francisco 2-4; Oakland H-l I.na Anrelea 1-X. Page 8. Northwestern League results yesterday: Victoria 7-0. Portland 8-2: Spokane j-i. Vancouver 1-1; Tacoma 2-1; Seattle 1-8. Pa&a R. Beavers and Vernon Tigers will begin series In Portland tomorrow, rage s. Referee at meet where Dan Kelly ' made world record declares Smlthson's con fession" is fabrication. Page 8. Industrial. Remarkable development predicted for Tual atin Valley. Page lu. Tillamook-Bay Ocean highway Is proposed. Page 10. Pasco plans J3O.OO0 dock. Page 10. Rain Is aid to Hood River orchards. Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. Sailors-' from British cruiser Shearwater march through Portland streets on way - to church. Page 7. Evidence obtained at first hand to figure in Grand Jury hearings. Page 14. National leaders of Knights of Security guests of Portland lodges. Page 8. H. C. McAllister, manager of ' Home Rule - Association, protests at police Judge's laxness in enforcing liquor ordinance. Page 14. Southern Pacific attorneys explain defense In land grant, suit. Page 9. Horace V. Wlnchell. noted mining engineer. says Alaska has been uelamea ny lawn reports. Page 11. Portland pastors denoance minister who married Colonel Astor and Miss lores. Page 14. Knights of Columbus from afar attend big initiation ceremonies in Romano, rage s. WIDOWS FLOCK TO CALL Idaho School Superintendent Del- uged'with. Applications. "WALLACE, Idaho, Sept. 10. (Spe cial.) Do the widows In the North west outnumber the old maids? Miss Frances Wilson, superintendent of the Shoshone County schools, believes they do, Yesterday, after sorting over one of her dally budgets of applications for the position of teacher of the Gor don district where the trustees re quire a widow with four children, she felt her assertion was Justified. "Since It became publicly known that these trustees wanted a teacher with four children of school age to add to their enrollment," said Miss "Wilson, "I have been literally flooded with appli cations. Letters and telegrams have come from all parts of the Northwest." Among these applications Is one from a married woman wlfji four chil dren, who Is willing to come with her husband from Eastern Oregon. In a postscript to her letter she asks in re- , gard to the chances for a man. . An other letter from one who wished to stretch the requirements, came from a Spokane girl of 18 years f age, who igreed to bring two brothers and two sisters of the proper ag. In the last few. days the Gordon ' school has been given to a widow with six children. For her own services and for the serviced of the four' whom she delegates as pupils to sit with the dis trict's, she will receive a monthly sal ary of J100. - "SWING ABOUND CIRCLE." SIMILAR TO ONE NOW ABOUT TO BE UNDERTAKEN. COLLEGES RIBALD, MILL! NA1RE SAYS More Harm Than Good Done, Crane Finds. STUDENTS DRINK TO EXCESS Columbia, in MidSt of Tempta tion, Called Worst. BEER - RULES PRINCETON Wealthy Investigator Bitter as Re sult of Findings Yale Clubs Have Tables In Barrooms, Is Accusation Made. CHICAGO, Sept. 10. R. T. Crane, millionaire iron manufacturer, made public today an arraignment of the big universities of the country. He charges alarming prevalence of, drinking and gaming among the students. Colum bia he ranks the worst, but conditions at Harvard, Princeton and Cornell, he declares, are almost as bad. Of the students at Harvard, 90 per cent drink in their freshman year; 95 per cent in their senior year, and 15 per cent of them go irrevocably to tne bad, according to the report of an in vestigation which Mr. Crane caused to be made. Mr. Crane has spent much time and money Investigating the re sults of higher college education. So bitter Is he in consequence that he de clares colleges do more harm than good. Heavy Drinking Common. "An outsider can scarcely realise the amount of drinking that goes on in the clubrooms of the colleges." says Mr. Crane, in his report. "Referring par ticularly to Harvard. I estimate the number of students who combine In a nild degree wine and bad women, 65 per cent: who drink heavily. -35 per cent, and who have two or three 'bats' a year also 45 per cent. "I do not doubt that even worse states of affairs exist In other col leges. At Princeton, it is beer, beer, beer. The body of students in my mind drink even more than Harvard men. On one occasion I believe there must have been more than 300 students dead drunk. "At Tale drinking Is recognised in so great a degree that clubs have their tables at barrooms. I was never so shocked in my . life aa when I found New Haven the dissolute, debauched and whisky town that It Is. Some time ago the statement appeared in a New Haven paper that theras were 2000 fallen women In that city. Cornell "Great Oa Beer. "At Cornell the conditions are some what the same, although I believe Cor nell students do not carry their ex cesses so far as do boys at Princeton. Yale and Cambridge. The Cornell boys are great on beer, as are also the, men at Princeton. 'At Columbia, I believe, there exists more debauchery than at any other col lege, on account of Its nearness to the famous resor.ts of the city. If further proof be necessary, let me quote from a letter received from E. C. Mercer, who is special secretary of the Association of Colleges of North America, and who is following this matter up for the as socation, which shows that it has taken upon itself the work of reforming col lege men. "He is delivering a lecture entitled. (Concluded on Page 2.) .CROWDS OF ADSXIHERlt NINE WIDOWS SIT AT BIRTHDAY TABLE HOSTESS IS 76, AND AGES OF AXIi TOTAL 625 YEARS. K Two Daughters of Mrs. Sarah J. Hastings, of Vancouver, Bring in Old Friends to Surprise Her. VANCOUVER. "Wash., Sept 10. (Spe clal.) Nine widows, five of whom were wives of Civil War veterans, and whose combined ages totalled more than 625 years, were guests at a dinner today, given In honor of the 76th birthday ot Mrs. Sarah J. Hastings, by her two daughters. Mrs. Mary Moore, of Port land, and Mrs. Rachael Cox. at Mrs. Cox home, 612 "West Thirteenth street. The party was a complete surprise to Mrs. - Hastings, who had expected only a visit from her two daughters. An elaborate dinner was served, no one except the nine widows being seated at the table. All were pioneers of the county and each had known all the others before their husbands had died. It was a Jolly party, and many were the amusing stories told of the long ago. Mrs. Hastings received many pres ents from her widowed friends, and all passed a happy day. The widows present were: Mrs. Sarah Jane Hastings, guest of honor; Mrs. Prlscllla Sparks, Mrs. Nancy Good night, Mrs. Freelove Claver, Mrs. Isaao Dletderich, Mrs. S. E. Campbell. Mrs. T.nnlnda Burt. Mrs. R. A. Munn and Mrs. Martha Huff. , T. KRUSE NOT THEODORE Theories as to Whereabouts of Miss ing Man Fall Again. With the discovery that the T. Kruse who was in Glenwood Springs, Colo., SeDtember 4, was not Theodore Kruse, the hotel man who disappeared from Portland August' 21, more mystery has been added to the case. 'feA. man named T. Kruse, of Portland, was In Glenwood Springs, September 4, and left the same day for Denver. Upon request of G. C. Larm, manager of the new Carlton Hotel' here. Manager Arroll, of the Colorado Hotel at Glenwood Springs, went to Denver to trace Kruse. He reported yesterday In a letter to Mr. Larm that he found T. Kruse there but he was not Theodore Kruse. He re ported that ha was a traveling man and that he made his headquarters In Fort land. Philip Gevurts, who had a number of business dealings with Kruse, says he still believes Kruse will return. CATHOLICS MAKE READY Archbishop Says Organization Is Hope of Church Here. CHICAGO, Sept 10. The Catholic Cnurch Is preparing to meet the same adverse conditions In the United States that It has in Franoe and Por tugal, according to a statement by Archbishop Qulgley, in an address to day before the sixty-fifth annual con vention of the German Catholic Cen tral Vereln. 'Organization Is the hope of the Cathollo Church here," he said. "The question confronting the organisation is what to do about the dangers now threatening Christianity lh this coun try. In France and Portugal the Cath ollo '.Churoh was persecuted because the Catholics were not organized." BEATTIE SINGS MERRILY Convicted Wife-Murderer One Musical Trio In Jail. of RICHMOND, Va., Sept 10. Between puffs of the perpetual cigarette, Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., who was sentenced to pay the penalty of wife murder In the electric chair November 24, tonight was gayest of a trio of singers at the Chesterfield County Jail. STRIKE LEADERS' PLANS ARE MADE Recognition Still to Be Insisted On. NO WAY TO PEACE IS SEEN "Public Will Suffer?' Unless Kruttschnitt Yields. THREAT MADE BY KLINE Advisory Committees Entrust Gen eral Officers With Conduct of Affairs Fair Warning Will Be Given. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 10. Unless Julius Kruttschnitt vice-president and director of maintenance of the HarrU man lines, recedes from his absolute refusal to recognize the Federation of Shop Workers or its committees on these lines, he will be confronted with a strike. No reason for believing tha he will recede has been found by labor leaders here. General advisory committees of the. Ave International shopcraft unions which are comprised in tne federation conclu 1 here today a three days' conference with the international offl cera of those unions. The general offl cers were entrusted with full charge o: the situation henceforth, and Inter national President Kline, of the Black smiths and Helpers' Union, their ap pointed spokesman, said that the gen eral officers had made up their mind what they would do. Unions Still Insistent. ' "Mr. Kruttschnitt will have to make concessions," said Mr. Kline tonight "or the . -lio, for which he has ex pressed so great regard, will suffer because he does not" "Will the general officers ask for another conference with Mr. Krutt schnitt?" was asked. "That is not In our present plan.". he replied. "We are going to Los Angeles tonight and may And some way of approaching the subject again, but none has occurred to us so far. "Recognition of a federation of unions Involves no principle that Is not inoluded In recognition of individual unions, already conceded by the Harri man lines and no principles not al ready utilized In the formation of the Harrlman system itself. It Is our right and we shall insist upon It" Jail Has No Terrors. Asked concerning the prospect that the Federal statutes against comblna- . tions In restraint r trade may be In voked against officers of the Interna tlonal unions, he said: 'When we took office we took all responsibilities of the office. If these Include going to Jail, we will go to JalL" Fair warning, Mr. Kline said, would be given to the Harrlman officials in case a strike is called. From Los Angeles Mr. Kline will go to Salt Lake and East to Chicago, stopping, perhaps, at Omaha. Other international officers will cover the southern routes of the Southern Pa clflc Railroad, meeting the men at railn way centers en route. EASTERX OrTLOOK HOPEFtti Machinists President Thinks Thai Strike Is Xot Imminent. CHICAGO. Sept 10. Members of the executive board of the International Association of Machinists, who met here . today to consider the advisability of a strike of the Federated shop em ployes of the Illinois Central Railroad, deferred decision until a full meeting of the board which will begin a session at Davenport, Iowa, tomorrow. James O'Connell. international presi dent of the machinists, arrived hera today from Washington and confer ences with members of the machinists' board and representatives of the com mittee of international officers of the Illinois Central Federated unions were held. President O'Connell and several other members of the machinists' board conferred later. "We reached no finality in the mat ter," said President o conneii toaay. "It was decided that the full board should nass on the advisability of au thorizing the strike of the machinists who are In this Illinois Central Feder ation. The full board win meet to morrow in Davenport, where our Na tional convention will be held Sep tember 18." "Is there any probability of an im mediate strike?" President O'Connell , was asked. s 'My best judgment would be," he said, "that there is no immediate danger of a strike." "Is it probable that the executive board will refer the entire matter. In sofar as the machinists are concerned. to the convention'" 'That Is likely," President O'Connell answered. The main question which the machinists' international convention may be called on to determine is whether a striKe oi local unions in a new Federation should be authorized. inasmuch as these locals already are recognized through their International unions, which have working agree, ments with the Illinois Central t