Pi? PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1911. BERRIES TICKLE VIRGINIA CREEPER SCHOOL BOYS BURN HARD BLOW DEALT WRITER'S PALATE TEACHER IN EFFIGY ii BERRY IS DEADLY CALLED PREJUDICE "' PROTEST CHINESE REBELS MAX TO WHOM SHE LEAVES ALL, PLAN'S FUNERAL. PORTLAND'S CIIARMS APPEAL TO EDWARD BXXGERPORD. STCDEXTS AT - WALLA WALLA DANCE ABO IT PIKE. DRYS Imperial Gains Help Moral Effect. NEGLECT HURTS REVOLUTION Doubtful Provinces Now Slow to Join "Movement. YUAN SHI Kl COMMANDS Viceroy Accept UumllliUni Condi tions to Secure Serriees Con tois Report Pekln Is In Xo Danger. PEKIX. Oct. 11 The Chinese gov ernment asserts that It has won a great victory at Hankow and announce that the troop hold th station, where th troop train ar arriving rapidly. Al though tht appear to be an exagger ation, tha feeling prevails her that th government has really achieved an Important moral victory. Th belief ha been held her that If tha f!rt neintr between the revo lutionaries and th loyal troop proved decisive, th supremacy would b set tled ther and then. Only a few un important towns outside of Hankow. Wuchang and Han Tang hav taken part In th rising. Nanking. Chang She. Canton and other citl of known revolutionary tendencies hav not re sponded to th call or th Insurgent, o far as can- be learned. They ar seemingly awaiting the result of th first encounter. Rebel Leader Ieleetfnl. Had the rebels overwhelmingly won today's battle It wa expected th provinces below th Tangtse-Klang would be theirs. With other Important cities in rebellion, th government would have been unable to concen trate Its strength against th thre la Hupeh province. Th rebel leaders hav shown characteristic weakness in net following op their early vtctoriea. No news was received fro.ro Sse-chuen province. Th American Legation .failed t receive reports, except that from Consul-General Oreen at Hankow, announcing that the battle had been begun. Acceptance of the office of Viceroy of Hupeh make Tuan Shi Kl'a appointment a military one. It Is re liably stated that Tuan Shi Kl demand ed permission to raise his own di vision of 10.000 troops and also to cash a personal grant of 1.000.000 taels (11. 010,00). To this humiliation th re gent agreed. Refer m Offtvtala Dlasrraatled. Tuan Shi Kl Is expected to start from Pekln within three days. Many officials, dissatisfied with the progress of reform, sr rallying to the support of the government, as they now bellev th chance for securing reform ar greater by aiding th dynasty. Owing to the censorship, even th officials are unable to obtain reliable news, which they ar eagerly seitng front correspondents and th Foreign Legations. British and Japanese re ports fall to confirm the announcement that the situation at Nanking Is crit ical. Th Russian troops hav been or dered to suppress lmmed'ately any ex cesses by revolutionaries r bandits near th railway stations in Man churia without, watting for further In structions. Rebels Uw Tbelr Heads. A consular report says that several revolutionists have been decapitated at Mukden. Except th Japanese, ther are. few foreign consuls beyond Har b n and Vladivostok, hence reports of Russian activities depend entirely up on Russia sources. From Hankow comes th report that detachment of Japanese and German Infantry are expected ther soon. An edict has been Issued forbidding th exportation of rice from Pekln. A di vision of th old-style troops which ar rived here yesterday is quartered la camps and temples around the various city galea and in the streets In which the high officials live. Rear Admiral Murdork. commander of the I'nlted States Asiatic fleet, tele graphs the lecatlon that the protected cruiser New Orleans has been ordered to Nanking, the protected cruiser Al bany to Shanghai and the collier Abe renda to Tientsin, the port of Per kin. bringing reinforcements to th lega tion guard. The American Charge her is anx ksua that ther shall be no alarm re tarding Pekln. as It Ls considered to be In not th slightest danger. Aetaal Battle lBart-i.lv. Th Imper.al Chinese troops and th revolutionists have come to grips at Karkow. The battle as yet Is Indecisive. The government at Pekln claims a great victory and th governmeat troops hold th trenches at Hankow, a well a th station, where reinforce ments are hourly arriving. Tha rebels hav fallen back on Wu chang, which. It is said, they hav auo cede4 In fortifying strongly in th past few daya Th casualties on both aides In th engsgement ar reported t be large, for th fighting at times was at th bayonet point. Ta th battle between the land forces Suspension of Football Players by Principal link Anger and Is Clone of Demonstration. WALLA WALLA. Wash., Oct. H- (Special.) Displeased at the action of Principal Heck, who had Indefinitely suspended Frank Booker and Frank Cox. of tha football team. 30 ' or 40 mom ban of tha Walla Walla High School gathered near the school last night, then marched to th campus, where they took a sack of straw, la beled It "Mr. Heck" and set It on firs, dancing a war dance, around it. After giving a few yells they dispersed. Th faculty as yet has taken no ac tion to ferret out the ringleader Tk.M 17S bov In the school and most of them deplore tha Incident, say ing It places the school in a baa iigni. .tvtiii the students circulated peti tions last week asking that the two young men bo reinstated. It- Is saia oy Superintendent Jone and Principal Heck that these petitions hav not been presented to them 'for action. rwk unnAnslon order on Booker and Cox went Into effect when they ap peared in tha assembly-room of th school clad In full dress and caused a commotion. Tha faculty member say that ther hav been other offenses and this was the last straw." . Cox was suspended last year, but was al lowed to com back on promise that ha would be good. COUNTRY SCHOOLS TOPIC Assistant Secretary I" ryes Attention to Fields and Rural Education. COLORADO SPRINGS. CoL. Oct. IS. "Too little attention has been given to the broad problem of conserving the field." declared W. M. Hays. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, addressing the Dry Farming Congress today. Secretary Hays traced th develop ment of agricultural education In America- He said that the work of his Department, th State Agricultural Schoola and th normal achoola was Inadequate to meet the needs of th great rural population of th country and urged greater attention to th country schools. Th feature of the day at the Farm ers' Institute was an address by Dr. V. T. Cooke, dry-farming expert for Braxll. It. Ella S. Webb, of St. Paul, was the principal speaker before the Congress of Farm Women. TAX EXEMPTION UPHELD Public Service Corporations Sus tained by San JTraoolsco Court. SAN FRANCTSCO. Oct IS. Th con stitutionality of the amendment ex empting public-service corporations In California from municipal taxation was upheld today in a decision handed down by Superior Judge Srawell. The City of San Francisco sought to collect f SO: taxes from the Pacific Tele phone Telegraph Company, which filed a demurrer based on the amend ment. Judge Seawell sustained the demurrer. PRISONERS CONFERRING WITH ATTORNEY AND JAIL WHERE ALLEGED DYNAMITERS ARE CONFINED. i r . ; V 4 1T -Vrlr t itt if r. E - i! ! - w J .. .'. - ABOVK. LEFT TO Rir.RT I. J. MWAMARA, ATTORKMT JOSEPH "COTT AD JAMKS'B. MX.IHAR.I. BK LOW LOS AUELKS COVNTIT t Issue Drawn in Choos ing Times Jury. DEFENSE ENTERS OBJECTION Talesman's Mind Open Toward Defendant Personally. ISSUE WILL CAUSE DELAY Prosecution Cites , Case In Which Barn Was Bumcd to Justify Re tentionJudge Takes Time for Tteflcctlon. DOS ANGELAS, Oct. 18. Three talesmen were examined and one was excused In the murder trial of James B. .McNamara today.' What is consid ered one of the big issues of the trial whether a man who believes firmly that 'the 'Los Angeles Times building was destroyed by dynamite ls thereby disqualified from serving on the Jury rested tonight In the hands of Judge BordwelL Opposing counsel see no hope of securing ' a ' Jury until this point is decided. Clarence S. Darrow and other coun sel for th defense, holding that tha Times explosion was caused by gas and that McNamara could not have brought it about for this reason. argued today in court that a fixed be lief in th dynamite theory prejudiced th rights of their client, and that th talesman who held it would not be a fair Juror. Bars Case Is Precedent. District Attorney Fredericks, for the State compared the situation to the case of a burned barn, which is - of record. 'A man. believing that the barn was burned, yet having no opinion whether th defendant burned it, was allowed to serve as a Juror," he said. "Simi larly, a talesman may believe that the Times building' was destroyed by dynamite and still have an open mind regarding th defendant In this case, as these men say they have." "Is this your Idea of a fair Juror?" asked Attorney Darrow of Fredericks, after Otto A. Jeason had testified that he believed the Times was dynamited by member or offloers of trades unions, and that he "thought he had a prejudice against unions, but had no prejudice toward McNamara him self." ConcluddonFirejr) ' , v 3 t? U-at'L. ,-... i K -i ., I --3 i.: --t v - a II mmmm a Fin Krult and Ploomins Rosea In Overcoat Weather Appeal to Fancy of Eastern Authors "When I arose this morning it was cold enough for an overcoat. I ate strawberries for breakfast, and saw roses growing in the gardens. Port land houses on Portland Heights, with their trass door knockers, reminded me of a New England city. Tour view from the Heights ls not surpassed by anything I saw anywhere on my West ern trip." This was his Impression of Portland as told by Edgar Hungerford. writer for the Saturday Evening Post, Harp er's Weekly and the Brooklyn Times, who was In the city yesterday. He de parted late last night for Seattle, and will go thence to San Francisco, and then to Salt Dake City. From there he will return to New York City. Hungerford is making a six weeks' tour of the West, gathering material for a series of articles on Western growth, but feels he is unable to do Justice to It in so short a time. He Is also "feeling" out the' attitude of the West politically. He said last night that the East ls strong for the re-eleo. tlon of President Taft. PORTLAND BANK GETS DEED Clackamas Southern Raises Money ' for Italia and Rollins; Stock. OREGON CITT. Or., Oct. 18. (Spe cial.) The Clackamas Southern Rail way Company, whloh ls constructing a railroad Into the rich Molalla Val ley, today filed a deed of trust to tha Merchants' Savings at Trust Company, of Portland. This company Is the trus ts of a 13(0,000 bond Issue for the purchase of rails and rolling stock. Sufficient money for grading and building trestles has been raised through stock subscriptions. Much of the grading has been done, and work on the big trestle her has ' been started. Tha bonds will be Issued In denomi nations of $100, ISOO and 11000. It ls believed that most of them will be bought by residents of this county. At a recent meeting more than (20, 000 of stock was sold In less than 20 minutes. The road is negotiating with a millionaire Portland man, who owns large forest lands on the rail way, to' haul 20 cars of timber dally for 20 years. ' OREGON NAME WINS, FAME Fruit From Eugene No Longer Shipped as "California.'' EUGENE. Or, Oct. 18. (Special.) Proving that Oregon's reputation as a fruit country has commercial value, the new label on tha prune boxes shipped from the Eugene Fruitgrowers Asso ciation reads: "Oregon prunes, packed by the California Fruitgrowers' Asso ciation." Only a few years ago every can, crate and box that went out of here was labeled "California Fruit," be cause the Eastern - market demanded California products. At that time the cannery and pack ing plant was in local hands, and the word "California" was used because of Its commercial value. Last Spring the California Fruitgrowers' Association entered the field, taking over the local fruitgrowers' associations'' plants in the Willamette Valley. Presumably the label "Oregon Fruit" ls used by the California company because of Its com mercial value. APPLE TREE BRINGS $600 Ever-Hearing Seedling Xear Albany Is Acquired by Nursery. ALB ANT. Or, Oct. 18. (Special.) A Linn County apple tree was sold to day for $600. It Is an "ever-bearing" tree, being a great natural curiosity and. so far as known, the only one of its kind in the world. It ls a seedling which grew up in a fence" corner on the farm of David E. Junkin, 10 miles southeast of Albany. It ls now 10 years old, and for several years has bom ripe fruit from May to Novem ber of eaofc - year, having blossoms, green fruit and ripe fruit all on its branches at the same time during the Summer. The appjea are of good qual ity. The tree waa bought by a nur sery company, which is to have all Its products for 10 years- The tree will be left in its present situation and the company will utilize it in securing buds and aclons in am effort to propa gate the "ever-bearing" variety. VEILED SINGER PLEASES Soloist at Majestic Makes- Decided Hit With Theater Patrons. The Veiled Prima Donna made a de cided hit at the Majeatio upon her first appearance yesterday. Her Introduc tion to th audience is as the curtain parts, showing a handsomely gowned and pretty woman, with th upper part of her face closely veiled in green chif fon, which ls far from being a disfig urement and adds a curious attractive ness. This is. however, forgotten as soon as her rich soprano vole ls heard, singing brilliantly, with a technique showing high culture. , A charm of manner won her audience at once. The curiosity concerning her identity ls heightened after listening to her, and the question is raied why she should appear veiled and traveling in cognito. . Secretary"GoesAhead' Addressing Brewers. DIG IS GIYEN TO CRITICS Government Cannot Be Run on Their Theories, He Says. BEER MEN ARE CAUSTIC President of International Congress Delivers Scathing Denunciation of Leaders of Temperance Movement. CHICAGO, Oct. 18. Secretary of Ag riculture Wilson, on his arrival here today to address, the International Brewers Congress, expressed himself In regard to the "criticism that has been made against his participating In the meetings and later delivered his speech before the Congress. "They are honest, conscientious, well-meaning people, probably with the best of motives, but the great Ameri can Government cannot be run upon the theories they hold," was the re ply of Secretary Wilson to the pro tests and objections that had been made by scores of prohibition socie ties and church organizations. Wilson "Goes Ahead." The Secretary continued: "I do not want to talk about the campaign that has been waged against me since .the announcement that I was going to speak before the brewers. I do not want to be in the light of criticising them. I am simply going ahead and doing- what I think ls right. "The majority of the people who have attacked me are church people. I consider that I am a good church man' myself. Our points of view dif fer, tha is all." Courtesies Are Extended. To the non-expert auditor. Ills speech before th brewers consisted merely In assuring the International visitors the same courtesy the United States has received from the European countries from 'which some of them oome. "The United States sends pleasure seekers, scientists and students to your countries to learn what they may that interests them." he said. "The Depart ment of Agriculture sends explorers to all nations of the Eastern Hemisphere to find plants . that may add to our cropping systems that our agriculture ma be Improved, and that the pros perity of our people may be enhanced. They find courtesy everywhere. We get much that ls valuable from the great nations of Western Europe and eastward to Mongolia, Manchuria and Siberia." Food Law Touched On. Few words went to explain how the crop yields have been increased by im portations from Europe and a few more (Concluded .on Page 5.) SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, WHO ADDRESSED BREW ERS IN CONVENTION YESTERDAY. . , . . I I ' - J 5 . ' J j . ' fc h - I V V ' : T I ' ' Wrr - ..jui.tuirinli' .. irfnaa tf JAMES Following - Pre-Death - Arrangement Two Women Ask Court for Custody of Patient. Mrs. M. E. Bradford, critically ill with dropsy, bequeathed her all to Albert J. Smith, of Wells, ' Minn., an old-time schoolmate, and forthwith he made arrangements for her funeral, even selecting- a casket for the remains of his benefactress. Now the case has reached the County Court, two women, one a fellow Rebekah, appealing to that tribunal to be appointed guardian over Mrs. Bradford, who, says one, bids fair to live long owing to the curative powers of potato water and footbatHs In a wormwood solution. Mrs. M. E. Thompson, who conducts a rooming house at 63 Ella street, and Mrs. Pauline Lerch, of the Rebekah Relief committee, are contestants for the custody of Mrs. Bradford. Mrs. Bradford came to Portland August 8 and went to St. Vincent's Hospital far treatment. At times In her illness, it is said, her nlnd is af fected. In a few weeks Mrs. Brad ford was taken to the home of Mrs. Thompson, later she was sent to an East Side sanitarium and recently was placed in a West Side sanitarium to be nearer Mrs. Thompson. Mrs. Thompson says Mrs. Bradford gave Smith a bill of sale of her prop erty and made her will in his favor. Smith, being told by doctors that Mrs. Bradford could not live long and de siring to leave the city, made arrange ments with an undertaker for her funeral. In an affidavit filed yester day Mrs. Lerch declares Mrs. Thomp son ls unfit to have the guardianship of Mrs. Bradford and that she per mitted Smith to be obnoxious to the patient. Mrs. Bradford's property consists of 160 acres near Madras valued at S3000, Judge Cleeton will hear the case Sat urday morning. CENTENNIAL BRINGS GOOD Eastern Capitalist Invests $79,500 In Astoria Realty. ASTORIA, Or, Oct. 18. (Special.) One of the most direct and substantial benefits which Astoria has received as a result of the recent Centennial cele bration was consummated today when C O. Laurltsen, of Portland and St. Paul, who was here for a short time during the celebration and investi gated tha local situation, returned ,and closed the deal through Wingate and Finlayson for the purchase of a tract of land comprising 900 lots in Alder brook and Hanthorns, Astoria, the consideration being 279,500. Mr. Laurltzen represents a St. Paul syndicate that also maintains offices in Chicago and New York. He re mained here tonight at the invitation of the Chamber of Commerce to de liver an address at the "get-together" banquet and leaves for his home to morrow. He expects to return in the near future to make further Invest ments. Steam Pipes Explode, Killing Three. KANSAS CITT, Mo.. Oct. 18. Three men were killed and five others seri ously injuerd by an explosion of steam pipes in the plant of the Fowler Pack ing Company here today. Seventy-five men were at work in the tankhouse if the hog-killing department when the pipes burst, causing the roof to fall. The three men were scalded to death by escaping steam. tVILSOJT. Babe's Death Traced to! Red Fruit VINE IN 5003 YARDS HERE Dr. A. W. Smith's Child Found to Be Victim of Poison. HEALTH BOARD WARNS ALL1 Guinea Pig Fed Pulp of Pretty j Growth Jles In 36 Hours Blind- ' ness, Paralysis and Coma j Caused by Virus. That there are few poisons as deadly j as the Juice of the berries of Virginia I creepers, which adorn no fewer than j 6000 Portland homes, ls the conclusion reached by City Health Commissioner J Whealer and a number of Portland's ! most eminent physicians and surgeons, ! who have Just completed a sclentiflo investigation of 'the sudden and mys terious death, September 20, of the in- ) fant son of Dr. A. W. Smith. The cause was laid by the Investigators to the eating by the baby of a single berry i from the' Virginia creeper vine which! covers the side of the Smith residence at 475 Tenth street Following the discovery of the dan ger of children eating the berries, which are now ripe and Inviting in ap pearance, the health department has : ' Issued a warning and ls preparing to publish a bulletin on the subject with- , in the next week or two. j Creeper's Poison Found. j The Investigation of the death of the i Smith baby was begun some time ago, ! at the instigation of Dr. Smith, who! was not satisfied with the diagnosis of! the case as made by other physicians. There were many mysterious symptoms, in the case. j Dr. George Cathey was called upon I to make an analysis of a black sub- j stance taken from the stomach of the j baby. In using a high-power micro- scope he found a large number of spicules which apparently were vegeta- j ble matter. Small bits of pine and aj trace -of dirt which had been swallowed ' by the baby, probably while playing j in the yard, were also found. i E. C Callaway, city milk chemist,; called by the City Health Board, made an examination of the Smith premises ! to And what variety of vegetation had ' been eaten by the baby. 'Popples were examined, but no spicules were found. An examination of the Juice from a Virginia creeper vine showed that each drop contained millions of the same kind of spicules as found In the baby's stomach. ' They were described as; long, slender, spines or spicules, sharp at both ends. Berry Kills Guinea Pis;. Guinea pigs were used In making the! filial experiments which showed the1 creeper berries to be deadly poison.! Berry Juice cooked had little or no ef- ! feet on the animal. It was then fed; the fresh berry and died in agony with- j ing 36 hours. Dr. Smith. In examln-j lng the guinea pig's stomach Monday at the City Hall, found that it was' filled with spicules, which had caused; Internal bleeding and had even pierced : the arteries and gone through the ani mal's system, causing motor paralysis. Many of the spicules were found cov- ered with blood substances near the heart and bunches of them were scat-. tered through the arteries In various parts of the body. Poison Cause Blindness. Dr. Smith says the action of the Vir ginia creeper vine poison is different from ordinary poisoning. The poison' causes paralysis of the diaphragm, deadens the optic nerve, causing blind ness, and brings paralysis of the blad der. In the case of the guinea pig, after these troubles had accumulated, the animal passed Into a state of coma and died a very hard death. The same was the experience of the Smith baby. If. was taken 111 Monday night, September IS, and died the following Wednesday, at noon. The first symptom . of the trouble was drowsiness. This was fol-. lowed In a few hours with a choking' cough which culminated shortly In un consciousness. Dr. Cathey reported .yesterday that his investigation of the substance from the infant's stomach had given evi dence that there had been violent lrri-' tatlon of the stomach which had caused bleeding, and paralysis followed. Destroy Berries, Is Ured. "My suggestion," said Dr. Cathey, "Is that vines or at least the berries be: destroyed to protect the children. There. are thousands of homes in Portland: where the creepers adorn the fronts ori sides of the houses In easy reach of children. Eating of one of these ber-i rles means death, and It seems to me . that every precaution should be taken,' The berries might be picked from the ground after they have fallen from the; vines. It is. particularly dangerous for, babies because they are attracted by; the pretty appearance of the berries' and eat them for the same reason they pick up other things in the yard and' place them in their mouths. . ' "It has not been known that the ber-j ries were poison until this test. I be-j lleve this ls the first test of the kind! (Concluded on Page 2.) j (CostcJa&ed aa Faae . A . Kl - -i r Im 108.2I