7. rrX-'C--f' -L, i rORTLAD, ORtGOX, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1911. PRICE FIV.E CENTS. . PRISONER STEALS INITIATIVE GOES BANKER WALKS 485 BULLETS FLY IN SHIP, WITH VALUED PROMISES TO BE TURKISH PEOPLE GLAMOR FOR VI Reinforcements Sent to Ottoman Fleet. BOY'S JAIL BIBLE MILES FOR HEALTH CARGO, IS ASHORE STEAMER EDITH STRIKES NOT FAR. FROM WRANGELL. TO HIGHEST COURT KEPT, SAYS TUFT Fears of Objectors to Be Overcome. STRIKE BATTLE ex -clown worm read text NOT SEEN SINCE TOVTH. SEATTLE MAN TRAMPS FROM SEATTLE TO MEDFORD. 0 VOLUJiTtERS ARE PLENTIFUL Replies of Powers to Interven tion Plea Disappoints. CABINET WORRY GROWING Telegram. Tell of Sinking of Motor Ttoat. by Italian Sea-Fighter Dirinz Lively Chan of Saltan's Destroyer. CONSTANTINOPLE. Ovt . Turkl.B telegram, today reported that an Italian warship had .unk two motor - boat, near llodelda, a port on the Red Sea. and puraued the Turkish torpedo-boat destroyer Petklshevult. Thla new, circulated In the streets. Mrved to Inrreaee the popular clamor for battle, and citizen, by th. hundred, volunteered their services, either on land or .ea. Ke.pUe the fact that Turkey ha. appealed to th. power, to Intervene the people want to fight. And Turkey I. coin ahead with prepara tion for war. A large number of volunteer., both LM and sailors, well officered, de-P.rt-d for the Iardanelle.. where th. larger portion of the fleet Is awaiting order,. Two batlrshlps. th. Messudlch and the Assar-I-Tewf Ik. and th. tor ped. crul-er. Berk-I-Satvet. have .ailed from the Golden Horn to Join It. rtrallea Sattafaeiary. Replies to th. Port.', appeal hav. .been received from roo.t of th. pow er., but they give Uttl. ..tlafaction. In eff.ct the power. ay they will b. unabl. to offer mediation until th. Port, .ugget. a ba.i. of .ettlement on th. line, of Italy, demand.. The Austrian Ambassador had a long Interview with th. C.rand Vlsier and .1 la announced th. Russian Ambassa lor will Tt.lt him tomorrow, but It 1. ,u..tlonabl. whether Said Pasha will able to remain in offlc. another lf. Aaatrla Give Owaraate. It la understood that Austria has tiven a guarantee to Turkey that th. .atu. quo In the Balkan, will b. maintained. Mehm.d Faaha. .on of Sheikh Abd-l-Kd.r. the last Alge rian .overelgn, haa asked the Sultan to allow him to return to Tripoli for th. purpo.. of rousing all Mussulman. In Africa to repel the Italian Invasion. Th. Grand Vizier'. Inability to form a cabinet I. causing th. Sultan great worry. Hllml Pasha reolutely refused to enter th. cabinet, aa It la lacking a well-defined policy. Sine. Bald Paaha took office, th. Ministry ha. had three all-night sit tings, in addition to prolonged dellber auona during the day. and the physical strain Is beginning- to tell on th. ag.d viaier. raretga afcls Mf. Th. port, ha notified the embaale. that neutral cargoes In Italian bottom, will be respected, with th. exception of contraband articles. Th. Oerman Consulate I. besieged by 4000 Italians, who wish passports per mitting them to leav. th. country. Thl. city Is cut off from communication by cable with Tripoli and Is In the dark regarding .vents there. It 1. rumored that a prominent Egyp tian baa offered to organise Jtf.000 Egyptian, to march against the Italians at Tripoli. Turkey haa a thoroughly Kuropesn army and during th. recent revolution In that country the most modern de vice. wre used, such as armored auto mobile.. Th. first reorganliatlon of the Turkish army, according to Euro pean Ideas, took plai-e In 141. In th. war. of 1SS and 17 further reorgan isations occurred In ISSi Colonel Von der Ootta completely modernised the Turkish army. Ha I. "till In th. serv-!- of Turkey and I. assisted kj II other German officer t krlsttaaa If Ilsrrea. A the Arab trloe. and all Chrlsllon. are exempt from mliltary service, the who'.e burden of th. army tall, on the ll.v.W Moslem, who are les. than one-hair the population. But It hs. been decreed that In the future Chris tian residing In Turkey .hall do mil itary ervlr. The total active strength of the Turhleh army Is about S0.o men .nd the reserve 1. even greater In number.. Hair's standing army in I1.-111 numbered 21.0Q0 men and 14.0 of ficers, but a far rreater number could be put In the field. Th. Italian navy consists. In vessels commissioned, built or building, of 1 battleahlpa. armored cruisers. 17 unarmored cruiser, and gun vessels. IS destroyer., an equal number of flrst-clasa torpedohoate and 22 submarlnea In th. naval force there are approx imately ll.Oeo men. teamen for th. fleet are recruited by conscrlpttnn and all man following th. seafaring life of I. year, of ag. must serv. at sea for II month or mora. Tripoli, th. Vllavet of the Ottoman Empire, which la being eovetd by Italy, haa been a "political football"- for age. Since lt annexation by th Cartha- tCaalu4d ea Fag 1 i lYrlghter lilts In Heavy Ftt; t Lain Honr of Night, With $250. 000 Salmon Catch. SEATTLE. Oct. . Th. Alaska Pteam- h!p Company-, .teel freight steamer Edith la ashore on Level Island. Sum ner Strait, not far from WrangelL Alaska. The Edith I resting on aoft sand and her owner, believe they will be able to save her. Message received late today from Captain Jame. Panlels. master of th. Edith, .ay th. freighter struck at 11 o'clock laat night, during a heavy fog. The Edith waa southbound front Skag way and has a cargo conltlng of 60. .00 case of salmon, valued at t;S0.O0O. The Alaskan liner Alameda, which I en route from Valdez to Seattle, ha been notified by wireless to go to th. aid of the Edith and scow, have been ent from Wrangell to take off part of the cargo. The water I amooth and It I believed the .teamer I. undam aged. The Edith la a .teel steamship of I5 ton. gro. register. She waa built at Sunderland. England. In 1ISJ. and carries a cr.w of 11 officer, and men. BIG CORPORATION TARGET Receiver for Western Steel Firm Akert In Scuttle Court. SEATTLE. Waih, Oct. I. (Special.) Judge King Dykeman cited th. West ern Steel Corporation today to .how cause why a receiver should not b appointed for the company on October (. at 1:10 o'clock. The order waa Is sued on the petition of Aaron Rome, who ha. claim of fSOT.lS against th. company for scrap Iron, he says he sold In August. It I. charged by I Lome that the com pany owe. large .urn. to diver, per son, and corporation, that It Is un able to pay.- PRUNES TO BE EXPORTED Clark County'a First Carload I Rilled for Europe. VANCOUVER. Wash, Oct. 1. (Spe cial.) Th. first carload of prune, dried lo Clark County thla year wa. shipped East today by the J. K. Armsby Com pany. The consignment la billed for export and will b .hipped direct' to New Tork. where It will b. transferred to a (teamer for Europe. E. L. French, of Ellsworth, also a heavy prune ship per, completed a car for shipment to day. Th. rain of ye.terday and today will hav. a tendency to Injure the prune further In the parta of the county where the fruit I. not gathered. CREW LEAVESBOAT ADRIFT Big Steamer Now In Path of Vessels on Lake Superior. PL'LUTH. Mlnn Ort. J. Abandoned by her ere w of II men. the .teamer A. L, Hopkins. laden with lumber. I. adrift on Lake Superior In the path of vessel, bound to and from the head of the lakes. The new. reached Puluth late toduy from Ashland, whither the crew wa. taken by the ore carrier Dickey. The crew waa picked up at t o'clock today. PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING TYPES OF SOLDIERS OF EUROPEAN NATIONS NOW WARRING rr RTTi.in a- rrti.M t U.Hi imtnv r for rfvik.w OK T1Bk7II I HOIUUIIUI OlTDE PAL.ACU OF MOUAMMalU V, IX Tl HaKl, TARIFF IS TO BE REVISED President at Denver Talks Also on Conservation. DEFENDS LEASING SYSTEM Capital Will Come and West Will Receive Its Share of Approprla tinna ratience Enjoined In Solving Problems. DENVER. Oct. I. Whan President Taft wa. taken for a two hours' au tomobile ride tonight and was hurled along at a .peed varying from 35 to 4S mile, an hour. It waa only an Inci dent of one of the most .trenuou. day. he ha. .pent since leaving Beverly, more than two week. ago. The President-. Denver host, kept him on the go from early morning until late to night, when he left for Cheyenne. Mr. Taft made two Important speeches In the course of the day. the first to the public lands convention and the second to the members of the Republican organisation. Including tha tat. central committee and variou. county committees. The President talked politics to the Republican com mitteemen and outlined the position of the Republican party, as he Interpret ed it. Growth. Moat Be legitimate. "We ar. In favor of progress and construction." he said. "We ar. In favor of prosperity and of doing noth ing that will interfere with th. busi ness growth of this country, provided that business growth be along lines that are legitimate and within the stat ute. There la not any desire on our part to "hit corporations Just becauae they are corporations. And If they are con. trlbutlng to the growth of the coun try. If they are furnishing a large wage fund for the support of wage-earners, and ar. engaged in that kind of work that Is evidence of enterprise, w. ar. to encourage them. not discourage them. Xm A plo ay oa Tariff. "The question of the tariff," Mr. Taft added. "I think all Republicans sgree upon. W. are in favor of a tariff that will enable the manufac turer, of tht. country that are depend ent upon the tariff to live and to meet competition from other countries. We are not making any apology in the slightest for the blocking of those bills that failed to sustain that measure in respect to tariff protection." The President took a fling at "some tariff reformers," when he said: "There seems to be a little miscon ception as to what my duty was In re spect to signing the tariff bills passed at the recent session of Congress on (ConcIutUJ on ! 3.) Sacred Volume Discovered, Thief Cries and He Is Allowed to Keep It Circus Tales Amuse. t Stealing a Blbl. so that he might read words of th. New Te.tament. which he explained ha had not read sine, ha waa a lltU. boy In New Tork. Charles Relff. better known as "Dutch." a prisoner In th. city Jail, last night took the little volume from a fellow prisoner and conveyed It .ecreU ly to his bunk, where he read It for two hours before he waa found out. Search ing for bis little black Te.tament. the other prisoner finally found it In "Dutch's" possession and took it away from hire. "Dutch" cried bitterly when the volume was taken from him. and he was allowed to keep it. Several days ago the mother of on. of the prisoners, coming to visit him. brought a small black leather copy of the New Testament.. Relff. who waa watching the meeting between mother and son. asked for the use of the book, but was refused. Sine, then he has been keeping watch on the boy, try ing to get the volume when he waa not looking. When th. boy went to th. hydrant last night for a drink, "Dutch" took the volume and hid It. Relff, who was arrested for drunk enness two weeks ago and aentenced to serve a term In the city Jail, says he was once a clown In the Rlngling circus. Occasionally he declares he is one of the Rlngling brothers, the old est In the night, when be tends the fires in the police station, the officers' room and th. Jail, "Dutch" amuses the men, with Imitations of animals, with Jokes and antics of a clown. He is a favorite with the prisoners In the Jail, being handy with tools and needle and thread, and willing to work. WOMAN TO JDEFEND MAN Non-Support Is Charge Against , Prisoner In Tacoma Jail. TACOMA. Wash., Oct. S. (Special.) A young weman lawyer defending a man accused of failing to support his family was the unusual situation de veloped today when it was announced that habeas corpus papers were to be filed in the Superior Court in behalf of Clyde Cole, a Kapowsin shingle weaver, bound over to the County Jail to await trial on a non-support charge.- The attorney-la Mis. Melda Jaeger, and it is her first criminal case. Ac cording to Cole's representation to his attorney, the non-support prosecution was started by Cole's mother-in-law, Mrs. Fannie Jones, who had never given her consent to Cole's marriage with her daughter. May. According to Cole's representations. his wife is willing to testify that he aupported her. Cole is held In default of $100 bail. 30-YEAR MYSTERY CLEARS Man Long Thought Dead Calmly Walks Into Home of Parents. BELLE FONTAINE, O., Oct. 3. After being missing 30 years and given up as dead, Rufus Heisler walked Into his parents' home at West Mansfield today. He has become wealthy as a rancher in California. He gave no reason for his sudden disappearance. He left home SO years ago today to go squirrel hunting and then disap peared. . bki.ow. roi.rnn of vnrsn V op ii i tv mohTmmed ok COXSTAXTIXOW.E, JEW FUOTOOBAPH OF MLTAX MOHAMMED OK Test of Oregon System Is Intended. BASIC PRINCIPLE IS ATTACKED Guaranty of Republican Form of Government Invoked. DEMOCRACY NOT MEANT Telephone Company Appeals Tax De cision, and Fate of Direct Legis lation Througliout Nation x Is In Balance. WASHINGTON, Oct 8. The task of attempting to put an end to all initia tive and referendum legislation in this country was begun today in the Su preme Court of the United States. Counsel for the Pacific Statea Tele phone & Telegraph Company filed a brief attacking a taxing law of Ore gon because It was enacted under an lnltlati vet clause of the state constitu tion, which is alleged to be In violation of the Federal Constitution. It was urged that the failure of the company to have a hearing before the raising of Its taxes by the initiative method placed the company at a dis advantage with others taxed after be ing heard by the State Legislature. In this way. It was contended, equal pro tection of the laws waa defined. "Brute Force" la Result. The Initiative amendment and the Oregon tax are denounced as violative of the right of each state to a "repub lican form of government," which was guaranteed by the Federal Constitution. It is contended that in legislative as semblies the minority rarely, if ever, failed to moderate the wishes of the majority, however powerful, but that government by direct legislation was government by "brute force." Governor Wilson, of New Jersey, is qouted as having said that a govern ment must have its law-making body, as "it can no more make laws through its voters than it can make laws, through Its newspapers." Governor Wilson is also quoted as saying: "Common counsel Is not ag gregate counsel. It Is not a sum In addition, counting heads. It is com pounded out of many views, in actual contact; it Is a living thing, made out of the vital substances of many minds, many personalities, many ex periences; and It can be made up only of the vital contacts of actual confer ence, only in face-to-face debate, only by word of mouth and the direct clash of mind with mind." le la Increasing. Reference Is made to the contention that the Initiative method of legisla tion Is a check against corruption of legislators. "It were better," the telephone com pany contends, "that the struggle against a business corporation should (Concluded onPage IS.) FOR POSSESSION OF TRIPOLI At End of Long Hike E. J. Vedder, 40 Tears Old, Says He Holds Pedestrian Record for Trip. MEDFORD. Or.. Oct. 3. (Special.) Starting from Seattle a nervous wreck, E. L Vedder. a banker of that city, ar rived in Medford last week hale and hearty, having covered the 4S5 miles on foot, walking an average of 34 miles a day. . Mr. Vedder completed the Journey In 14 days, and it is believed that he holds the pedestrian record for the distance. He slept outdoors during the entire trip and gained 15 pounds, besides en Joying such an improvement In the con dition of his eyes that he expressed his Intention of throwing his glasses away. The strain of business In Seattle was too much for Mr. Vedder and, threat ened with nervous breakdown, he was advised by physicians to take a com plete rest. Hearing of the Rogue River valley, he determined to walk to Medford, and although he had never practiced long distance walking, he was so accus tomed to being on his feet and walking to and from business that he had no doubt as to his abilities in that direc tion. Mr. Vedder is about 40 years old and Is a native of New Tork City. . He left Monday night for Portland and the East and declared that he would re turn to the Rogue River Valley next Spring. COMET'S HEAD MOSTLY GAS Analysis Made at Lowell Observa tory Is Announced. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Oct. 3. Specto grams of Brooks' comet made last night at the Lowell Observatory showed the head was composed chiefly of cyanogen and the tail of carbon monoxide with some hydrocarbon and cyanogen. There is virtually no continuous spectrum; that is, the light is not emitted by solid particles, but by gases. This is almost exactly what Halley's comraet showed with regard to the dif ferent constitution of its head and tall, except that the spectrum from solid particles was there greater. Bellowskl's comet is a striking ob ject in the morning sky and its length of tail this morning must have been about 15 degrees. It makes at the present moment the other angle of a long Isosceles triagle with Venus and Mercury. SALARIES TAKE $202,050 City Engineer Hnrlbut Files 1911 Estimates With City Auditor. City Engineer Hurlburt has filed with City Auditor Barbur his estimates for 1912. He says he will need $141,715 from the street repair fund and $210, 292 from the general fund, or a total of S352.037. Of the amount required from th. general fund $202,050 is to pay the sal aries of the 173 employes, ranging from 185 to 200. The balance of J8242 is for materials and supplies. Of the $141,745 which it is estimated will be required from the street re pair fund, $78,045 is for salaries and $63,700 for materials, team hire and equipment. The salaries are for 7D employes, 60 of whom will be laborers. 10 foremen, five bridge carpenters, three traction engineers, six Inspec tors, one clerk and one engineer. FIRST CROP PAYS FOR LAND John Seavey, of Eugene, Realises 1 4 0 Per Acre on Hops. EUGENE, Or., Oct. 3. (Special.) John Seavey, who lives Just southeast of Eugene, has finished picking and baling 13.000 pound, of first-crop hops from 30 acres of Willamette River bot tom land. The yard was set out two years ago and this Is the first crop harvested from It. The crop was sold for 32 V, cents a pound, bringing In a gross return of $4225, which is an average of over $140 per acre, or more than the first cost of the land. The hops were of exceptionally good quality, and the picking was unusually rapid. Many women pickers averaged $3 per day during the entire picking season for the yard. Oscar Bean, ot Springfield, earned $5.60 in one day and in four days made $18.10. PINCHOT MAY GET HEARING Deposed Head of Forest Bureau Leaves lor Valdez. CORDOVA. Alaska, Oct. 3. Instead of sailing for Seattle last-night as they had planned. Senator Poindexter, of Washington, and Glfford Pinchot, de posed chief of the forest bureau, ex tended their stay In Alaska. Mr. Pinchot left for Valdex today and Senator Poindexter went to Katalla and the Bering River coal fields. So far no public hearing has been given Pinchot in Valdez and it is believed that is his mission there. ; 100' BODIES COME ASHORE Heavy Loss of Life In North Sea ' Storm Is Verified. ANTWERP, Oct. 3. Two hundred and forty Hve3 are known to have been lost in wrecks of coasting craft dur ing the storm of Sunday. More than 100 bodieB have been washed ashore. Governor of Mississippi Calls Troops. BRICK THROWN, SHOTS REPLY Strikebreakers, Fired Upon, Answer With Fusillade. TRAIN TAKES TO FLIGHT Illinois Central Shops at McComb, Miss., Scene of Sanguinary Con flict Attack on Machine Shops Now Feared. JACKSON, Miss.. Oct. 3. In a fight in the freight yards of the Illinois Central at McComb City between strikers today several persons are r ported to have been killed and other wounded. ' Governor Noel ordered out troops at 7:30 o'clock tonight and two companies are now hastening to the scene. The special train bearing the strike-breakers continued on its Journey to New Orleans. Citizens of Magnolia say that when the train passed there at full speed every coach window was. broken and no one was visible at the openings, the strike-breakers lying prone on tha floor to escape bullets. Work of Correcting Abnormal Several hundred shots were ex changed and among the strikers there were numerous bruised and broken heads. Many of the wounded were carried to the headquarters of the strikers and physicians were sum moned. It Is said that several will die. The fight at McComb occurred at the freight shed, half a mile south of the depot, closely following the first encounter of the afternoon, in which one tnan was seriously wounded. The train bearing the strikebreaker, had pulled down to the freight shed and was standing on a sidetrack. More than 1000 breakers assembled, words were exchanged and It is asserted that a striker hulred a brick among the strikebreakers. Immediately a fusillade of shots fol lowed. The strikers opened fire on the coach windows, at which the heads of the strikebreakers could be seen. Sev eral fell after the first volley. Eire Returned From Train. The occupants of the coaches re turned the fire through the windows, keeping well scattered. Occasionally, when a strike-breaker bolder -than tha rest, raised his head above the danger line, he was greeted with a shower of bullets and other missels. The fight raged 20 minutes. Finally the engineer of the train made a dash for his locomotive, managed to get aboard while the bullets were flying thick about his head, opened the throttle and pulled out at full speed. The train did not stop at any point south of McComb, going through Mag nolia and Osyka at full speed. Realiz ing the gravity of the situation and fearing the striker, would attack th machine shops, where eight strike breakers are barricaled, citizens de serted the streets early in the night. STRIKEBREAKERS GUARDEt Railroad Officers Seek Vandals Win Poll Out Coupling Pins. , SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3. Seventy two strikebreakers . arrived here late today from Chicago and were taken di rectly to the Mission Bay shops of tlw Southern Pacific here. - Forty unior pickets were on duty when the strike breakers entered the stockade and I crowd of union sympathizers was gaxh. ered about the shops but there was n demonstration. The non-union men will be fed and sheltered within the stockade. The strikers said tonight that a num ber of the strikebreakers who arrived today deserted within a few hours There has been no violence here inc the strike waa ordered. Special railroad officers and Deput3 Sheriffs are searching for an alleged strikers' who removed a coupling pin from a Southern Pacific freight train at West's Winery near Stockton today, breaking the connections and causing the train to separate. The Southern Pacific officials also say that the strikers have severed over 30 hose con nections on trains arriving at Tracy. The company has posted heavy guards in the yards there and at Sacramento. The1 blame for this work of vandal Ism is denied by the strikers who as sert that it is being done with inten tion of casting discredit on their unions. Notice was Issued by H. J. Small, su perintendent of motive power, and fix ing midnight tomorrow as the tima after which non of the striking men would be taken back by the company was posted today . at the local shops. The offer waa made, it said, because "a large number" of the men who walked out had "regretted their action and expressed a desire to return to work." Dr. Hyde to Be Tried This Month. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 3. It was said today that Dr. B. Clark Hyde will be) placed on trial a second time on Oc tober IS on a charge of murdering1 Colonel Thomas H. Swop. f