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PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. I.I NO. 15,867. RAILROAD WIZARD STRIKERS MAY BE POSTAL RECEIPTS 320,000,000 IDLE, " YET 0 H EG 0 M- WAITS METHODISTS URGE TURKS ARE AIDED CARDS AND DANCES GENUIS AT POKER REACH $1,000,000 BY 60,000 ARABS F LVINDHURLSDIXQN EXCLUDED OR EVER INTO UP OF DEATH Aviator" Who Topped Rockies Killed. ' ILLINOIS CENTRAL CHIEF ' IS PORTLAND TOUCHES RECORD CHURCH RULE 3L.VT FALL AT ' GENERAL CONFERENCE. BEST PLAYER IX WEST." . FIGURE FOR FIRST TIME. I Stage Is Set for Grim Drama of War. ITALIAN FLEET OK GUARD German Ambassador Advises Sultan to Cede Tripoli. CONSULATE IS ATTACKED Only Pmnw of Troop Presents Manvrf of Refugee 'When Victor Dsnuanpl'i Colon LM Quit Hostile Port. MALTA. Vt. P- M.) Word Jut received from Tripoli HTl thmt Anki and Tark are entrenching be hind th city. Sixty thousand Arabs, aid to be armed with Mauser, hold m strong position SO miles behind the town la a country which Is an excellent natural stronghold. An advance guard Is stationed 10 miles from Tripoli. The Turkish gar rison has left the forta I5NDON. Oct. 1. The Constantinople correspondent of the Chronicle sends the following dispatch: "The Sultan passes many hours pray ing at shrines. He grants frequent audiences to the German Ambassador. I am assured that at last the Am ' basaadnr has proposed, on the Emper or's advice, that Turkey cede Tripoli to Ttsly. the Emperor undertaking to see '.hat Turkey shall receive adequate compensation. Th United States. It Is understood. Is ns'og Its utmost Influence to brine about a cessation of hostilities and Russia elves repeated assurances thst ' she will not allow complications to rise In the Balkans. Velaateera Are Keeralted. "A special commission haa been formed to recruit volunteers for the country's defense. From all parts of rvta and Montenegro (rest military activity la reported. Turkish reinforce ments have been sent to Jaaln. "Turkey sent her flnsl note to the pnwers last nlsht. appealing for friend ly Intervention. If the response Is un favorable, orders wtll be irlven Imme diately to begin military operations. A high Turkish ofTU-lal declared that Tur. key had not yet begun hostilities. In tplte of Italy aggression. 'A mob attacked the Italian Consul ate at Kalonlkt today. The consulate was seriously damaged, although sol diers prevented It being wrecked. Tbe men then surrounded the ex-Sultan's villa and fired revolvers st the win dows file! Is Marderea, "The authorities are taking a cen sus of the Italians la Constantinople and an Inventory of their property. If the war continues. Italian convents and all other property will be confiscated. The murder of a girl In a cafe last Bight csused rioting. Thst Is the seri ous aspect here: any untoward Incident tlrs the peop to excitement. The po lice, however, are handling the crowds welt. The Turkish warehtps tn the Darda aelles are the battleeh'ps Hamldlen. Harberosa. Torgult. )livt, cruiser MedJIdleh and Tlr-I-Psmu. Zguian. Mugveartt. Illdmet and Zadlgular. The fleet has anchored off Nagara." OX BO VRP ITALIAN WARSHIP OFF TRIPOLI. Sunday. Oct. L 11 P. M-. by way of Syracuse. Sicily. Oct. 2. No bombardment of Tripoli has yet taken place. The Italian Consul Is authority for the statement that the bombard ment will be begun three days after the notification which was given Satur. day. Correspondents are under the strict est censorship and are not permitted to disclose the names of the blockading ships, nor the military movements. Of all the Italian colony In Tripoli, there remain only two monks and two nuns.' who are rating for Invalids la the hospitals. Turkish soldiers guard the Italian consulate and Italian busi ness houtea When the Isst Itsllsn colonists left ths German consulate Saturday, mher they had spent the night under protec tion of the German flag, the streets were strongly lined with Turkish troops. Crowds of natives had gath ered and hooted and jeered angrily. There were evidences of violent rage on the part of th Arabs and It Is prob able that only the presence of the sol diers prevented a massacre. The Oer maa Consul escorted the refugee's to the boats NEUTRALITY IKKTMKVT DRAWX t nftrU State Awaits Action Vntll War Status Is Known. WASHINGTON-. (VI J Tie state Department has decided to await the action of European nations more di rectly Interested than the Vnlted States In the war between Italy and Turkey before Issuing a neutrality proclama tion. The document has been prepared, but tCeaclalea ea rage . President Markham, "Who Began Career as Par Laborer, Can Play ' Two Pence Like Four of Kind. CHICAGO. Oct. 1. The best poker player in the Middle West" has -mads good" as the bead of one of the biggest railway lines In the West. Charles H. Markham, president of the Illinois Cen tral since slz months ago. haa demon strated that be knows railroading as well as he knows poker. So the finan cial record of the road, made publlo today, makes clear. The men who dubbed him champion In poker today acclaim him -genius in railroad management . Because the figures, show that the Haxrlman line.' during "his control.' en Joyed the most prosperous and success ful period in Its existence. .Its spas modlo lesps to high points of finance were made, as the records show, since the inception of the 'Markham regime December 13. llo. Th financial world has been wait ing for the report. The giants of capi tal have wondered what kind of a rail president a man would make who be gan his railroad career as a day la borer. Investigation a year ago showed that the root of the graft system unearthed In the Illinois Central's submanage ment lay In the juggling of the figures of cost of maintenance of equipment. The new figures In this particular show a decrease in that Item of 1. 884. S5. or .7t per cent below the records of the previous yesr. Charles Markham hasn't a poker face. but he haa a poker brain, and quiet. absorbing, secret-holding eyes. He haa the reputation of sitting behind a harmless pair of deuces, watching his antagonist and never "batting an eye." MEN TELL OF MIGHTY RIVER Kubak, In Alaska, Reported Naviga ble SOO Miles From Mouth. SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 2-Spclal.) Adding one more discovery to the sum total of human knowledge so far as the white race is concerned. Cap tain John Backland. with the four masted, schooner Transit, arrived at Se attle from the Arctic with news that th Kubak River, hitherto believed to be a small Arctic stream. Is a mighty liver, navigable for at least SM miles from Ita mouth. News of the navigability of the Ku bak River was given to those on board th Transit by miners and traders, who, for ths first time had thoroughly ex plored Ita main reaches for a great distance Inland. While they say thst It Is navigable, for good-elsed vessels for at least SOO miles. It Is their opinion that any ves sel which could get ever the bar prob ably could make Its way at least 00 miles up the etresm. DIPLOMAT PROMINENT IN PEACE I . . ': . :, ': -.? .?v--k. i .&.. s ; ill t ,.T. f 1 f ?? I !55r jp r , ; I U TS U-VTi . s UVWlilV'-'r f ' . f- irtmJ-- '7' 'v - Z F : . h ;.3 feMv XMl -3 hfr d r 11 W l' Kv';';' ; .4l lErv, (Jill 1! -m swsss a boys, ntnov vm mKnrRerFi. ;krw XMRiMiimR at oiv-tixtiwie, TBRnrcH WHnu tirkey seeks TO IVTEREKT kaiser to IvrKRlKXb AD ori'lt KK! OF KRHtl ARWT Alt TRET APPEtlU:D K LAT KIEID MA.EIVER BELOW, MAHMOTD 8HEFKET, Tl'RKISH t H W I l-.TV.lt. RIDl.tU l. AKIOKtU AI TOMUB1LE !.' COJiSTA.MI.XUPLE, AD DIKE OK CKXOA, HEAD OF 1TAUAX WAVY SOW EXGAGEJ) IX M LJJlTTtMX AtA-T. - , Ultimatum Issued by Oregon Short Line. LAST CHANCE IS WEDNESDAY Shopmen Must Return to Work by Then or Be Barred. OFFICIALS ARE CHEERFUL Statements of Both Sides In Railroad Controversy Show Wido Vari ance in Estimate of Number of Worker Ont. , SALT LAKE CITT. Oct L Th Ore gon Short Line Railroad took the of fensive today for the first time since the federated shopmen left their jobs laat Saturday. A circular letter was Issued to tlfe striking shopmen promis ing them employment If they returned to work on or before Wednesday, but stating that those who did not return then need never apply for further em ployment with the road. Th strikers claim that the shops are In a crippled condition, and say that they are tn a position to stand a long siege.' W. P. Bancroft, vice-president and general manager of the Short Line, Is sued a statement tonight declaring that a number of old employes had asked to be taken back and that more than 100 new men had applied for em ployment here today. Tbe statement gives th following figures on the men . at work In tha three principal shops a compared to normal: Salt Lake force at work, ; normal force, 160. Ogden. fore at work. 181; normal force. 3 SO. Pocatello, fore at work, St; normal force, T(L The atatement declares that 8 per cent of the men at Glenna Ferry and Montpeller remained at work. POCATELLO. Idaho, Oct. 3. Fifteen of th SOO shopmen who walked out of th Pocatello shops of the Oregon Short Line Saturday, returned to work today. The company has hired 100 strikebreakers, who are lodged and fed Inside the stockade around the shops. ronrlM4d en Tee 14.) NEGOTIATIONS PLAN, INITIATED NENT IN WAR Records Complied by Assistant Poat- ' master Show Total ' of $1,000,050.83. Portland haa established another high record by which the future and con tinued growth of this city may be measured. It has passed the 41,000.000 mark in the matter of postal receipts for a period of 13 months Records . of th Portland postofflca compiled yesterday by Assistant Post master Williamson, show that the postal receipts of th local office for th 12 months ending Saturday, Sep tember 80, aggregated f 1.000,060.88. This la an Increase of 14.84 per cent over the receipts for the year ending September 80, 1910. when the aggregate of these sales was I874.80J.1S. This Is tha first time In the history of Portland that its postal receipts have come within. $125, 000 of the new record of 81,000,000. The bulk of this Increase was mad during the first 10 months of the 12 month period. The Increase for August was only 6 per cent greater than for the corresponding month a year ago. while the receipts for September were only ."00 7 3 per cent greater than for tha same month In 1810. The Septem ber figures for th two years were: 1810. (78.798.84; 1911. 879,375.06. TAFT'S SMILE ON PUMPKIN Likeness of President Shown on Prize Vegetable. VANCOUVER. TV ash., Oct. 3. (Spe cial.) A likeness o President Taft la to be seen on a pumpkin, .grown In Clark County, which will be on exhi bition at the Clark County Fair begin ning Wednesday and ending Saturday. Whether the likeness Is a freak of nature or was put on the pumpkin when It was small, by some artificial means. Is not known. The whole side of the pumpkin, however, la covered by th suave smile that has made Taft famous. The outline Is perfect and a slight moustache Is the same as that seen In Presidential pictures. CHINESE SEE ARMOR TEST Oriental Admiral and Staff Shown Superiority of American Plates. WASHINGTON. Oct. 3. Admiral Gonl, president of tbe Chilean naval com mission, with his staff, went to th Naval proving frrounds at Indian Head today on the President's yacht Sylph and witnessed a ballistic test of armor plate. It had been arranged so he might see the superior quality of the plate pro duced by American rolling mills and the high efficiency of the 12-inch naval line. BT TURKEY. AND TURKISH AND SITUATION. UmatlllaMightDemand Aid at Once. MONEY DORMANT OYER YEAR Yet Settlers in West Suffer . From Lack of Water. IRRIGATION WORK GOES ON Failure to Allot Big Fund Set Ajtde in 1910 by Congress Retards Development, However, In Various Sections. BT HARRT J. BROWN. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Oct 2. Although Congress, on June 25, 1910, set aside a special fund of 320,000,000 to hasten the completion of Government irrigation projects then under way, not one cent of this amount has been expended for the purpose intended,' the entire amount lying untouched in the . vaults of the United States Treasury. This 820,000,000 Is actual cash on hand, and available at any minute fle mand Is made by the Secretary of the Interior". No bond Issue Is necessary to raise the money, for Congress so worded the law as to make available actual cash in the Treasury, and pro vided that if the draft upon the Treas ury proved embarrassing, the Secre tary of the Treasury could then Issue certificates of Indebtedness the equivalent of bonds to reimburse the Treasury for moneys drawn out for Ir rigation work. yet there has been no draft upon the Treasury, and no certificates have been issued. The whole 320,000,000 Is in the vaults, not available for any purpose, having been set aside by Congress. Meantime, the Reclamation Service is going ahead with Its work In th field, paving all bills from the regular reclamation fund. It has been expending about 31,000,000 a month out of this fund. West Crtea for Aid. At the time the 820,000,000 bill was passed there was a great clamor from all over the West for extra funds to hurry up work on Government proj ects; complaint was heard that set tlers were suffering because of the (Concluded on Page T ITALIAN PERSONAGES PROMI California Assembly Resolve? That Amusements Should Be Matter of Individual's Taste. LOS ANGELES. Oct. 3. The Southern California conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church today adopted almost unanimously, a resolution asking the general conference which meets next May In Minneapolis to strike from the discipline of the church the rule against card-playing, theater-going and dano- lng. In place of the paragraph pronounc lng against these amusements, it Is urged by the Southern California Meth odists that the statement of John Wes ley, making It a matter of conscience with the individual church member, be substituted. - "If this resolution finds favor at the general conference," said one of the prominent delegates, "it will pull tbe teeth of this whole question, which has been a moot one in our church for many years and has resulted In much mlsun derstandlng and crititclsm." THIEVES FLEE, WAGON LEFT Lents Looters of Woodpile Escape Horse and Vehicle Held. Seen in the act of stealing cordwood and loading it on a wagon at Lents, a few nights ago at the home of C, Abplanalp, two men were captured, but managed to escape a few minutes later. They left their horse and wagon In the bands of their captors. The horse and wagon will be held. So far neither has been claimed. Shortly after 8 o'clock the son of Mr. Abplanalp, who lives on the Foster road some distance east of Lents, heard a noise outside the house, and, going outside, discovered two men loading his father's wood on a delivery wagon. He called Mr. Abplanalp, and he, with the assistance of Christian Faler. a neigh bor, captured both thieves. Faler left to summon Constable Hall, leaving Mr. Abplanalp In charge of the two th levee. While Faler was gone the captives overpowered Abplanalp and made their escape. A Quarter of a cord of Mr. Abplan alp's wood had been loaded on the wagon, which also oontalned a sack of potatoes. The animal left by tbe thieves is a large bay mare, weighing about 100 pounds and Is about 13 years old. The vehicle Is a light delivery wagon. Al though the men escaped, their tem porary capture has put a stop to the shrinkage of woodpiles that had been noticed by Lents residents for some time. BOYISH VOICES BETRAY Slx-Foot Youngsters Fall In Attempt to Join Jfavy. Two strapping young men reported at the recruiting office of the United States Navy yesterday afternoon, and sought to be enrolled as men behind the gun. Each was six feet tall and of good physique, but when they answered the questions put to them, the slldlng scale voice, traveling from treble to bass without the volition of the speak er, caused tbe recruiting officer to view the applicants with suspicion. Each said he was of legal age, but the re cruiting officer, with a kindly smile. advised them to come back In a few years. Meantime Detectives Mallet and Ma- loney were working upon a telegraphic request from Seattle to And two runa way schoolboys. They found the two embryo sailors and placed them under arrest on the humiliating charge of being runaway boys. The truants are Leslie Turner, 16, and Harold Tucker, 17. They left Seattle Sunday. Their parents will come after them. STEAM ROLLER RUNS AWAY Huge Machine Dashes Doivn Seattle Hill and Rams Building. SEATTLE, Wash., Oct 2. (Special.) When a small steel pin In the shift gear of a 30,000-pound steam roller broke this morning, Frank Atkins, en gineer and driver of the machine, which is onfi by the Barber Asphalt Com pany, took a joyrlde that was In a class by Itself. The big roller dashed madly down the University-street hill from a point between Fifth and Sixth avenues and crashed into a three-foot brick column of tlie Whltson building, moving the entire front of that, struc ture northward an lech or more. When the roller started for the waterfront. It went at top speed, gain ing it momentum at every foot covered, while Atkins wildly turned the steering wheel and shouted to the crowd In :he street to get out of the way. HERO LINEMAN IS KILLED Vich-ita, Kan., Man Electrocuted Trying to Save Fellow-Workman. WICHITA, Kan, Oct I. Emil Utz, a telephone lineman, died here today In trying to save a fellow-workman's life. Edward Trent became entangled at the top cf a pole in a net of wires carrying 2300 volts. He was burned severely. Uta climbed to Trent's as sistance and disengaged him, at the same time receiving the current through his own body. . TJtz was dead when taken down. Trent may recover. MACHINE CRUSHES AIRMAN : Spectators at Spokane Hear Youth's Despairing Cry. PLANES WILL NOT WORK Sadden Gust of Air Catches Aero plane on Turn and It Plunges '100 Feet to Earth Before ', Crowds at State Fair. . , SPOKANE, Oct 2. Fresh from hi triumph of last Saturday, when h topped the Rocky Mountains In a euo cessful flight from Helena, Cromwell Dixon, 19 years old, Curtlss aviator, fell to his death from a height of about 100 feet In his initial performance at th Spokane Interstate Fair Grounds this afternoon. A mere handful of spectators wit nessed the accident, and thousands who were craning their necks for a glimps of the aviator did not know of th tragedy enacted Juet out of their rang of vision. Dixon was removed to tha emergency hospital on the grounds, where he died 45 minutes after the fait Aviator Cries to Crowd. Dixon, when falling, made a plucky attempt to right his machine. As it plunged downward he shouted: "Hera I go! Here I go!" Witnesses saw Dixon bank his planes for a turn, and it Is thought a sudden gust of wind coming up through a deep cut of the Northern Pacific tracks im mediately below him caught the planes. already at an angle, and before the operator could recover himself, he was plunged headfirst to the track. When picked up from under his wrecked ma chine it was apparent that his Injuries were fatal. He was taken to the hos pital, but nothing could be done to eave him. Body Badly Mangled. Death was pronounced due to con cussion of the brain and hemorrhage. Dixon's leg also was broken, the bona protruding from the flesh. His face was battered almost to a pulp. When rescuers got to him Dixon was lying under his machine, which was smashed to pieces. He was unconscious and remained so until he died. Spectators say that he had evidently turned his machine to avoid some tele graph wires, and when ascending the guet of wind caught him. J. W. Scott, manager of the Curtlss Exhibition Company, says Dixon was one of the most promising of young aviators. Ha held pilot license No. 13, granted by the Aero Club of America, which he won August 31. He had been flying for the company about eight weeks, and learned the art at Nassau poulevard. New Jersey. He was born in Columbus, C 19 years ago, but re cently moved to New York City, where hl widowed mother survives him. Notable Records Made. Although the youngest aviator with a license, Dixon had already done some great things, his crossing of the Rocky Mountains last Saturday being his most remarkable achievement. Dixon's body will be sent to , New York. It Is understod he has no rela tives in this part of the country. PROPOSED FLIGHT CANCELLED Fatal Fall Stops Dixon's Attempt to Cross Continent. HELENA, Mont, Oct 2. Cromwell Dixon, the 19-year-old aviator, who was killed at Spokane today, was th popular Idol In Helena last week during the Montana State Fair. He gave exhibitions each day, concluding Saturday when he won a prize of 10, 000 for flying across the Rocky Moun tains, a feat which had never been accomplished before, and then flew back again, arriving at the fairgrounds to receive the greatest ovation ever ac corded any person at the state fair. Governor Norrts led Dixon to the Judges' stand and proclaimed him th greatest aviator in the world. At the close of Saturday's flight, Louis W. Hill, president of the Grea Northern, announced that he had ar ranged to have a special train accom pany Dixon on a transcontinental flight which was to start from Port land, Or., October 10. RODGERS HAS NARROW ESCAPE Trans-Continental Flyer and Aero plane Thrown to Earth. HUNTINGTON, Ind.. Oct 2. Caught in a sudden gust of wind, C. P. Rodgers' aeroplane dived to earth Just after he had started from this city toward Chi cago today. The machine was wrecked and Rodgers was painfully bruised. Rodgers started from a field half a mile south of this city. Hardly had he got into the air when a sharp wind swept the machine from his control and It swooped Into an adjoining field. The aviator picked himself out of the twisted aeroplane and said he was only slightly hurt Both planes of the ma chine were badly damaged and the carrying wheels were broken. Rodgers said it would be several days before th aeroplane could be repaired. i LJ