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PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1911.
BERRIES TICKLE
VIRGINIA CREEPER
SCHOOL BOYS BURN
HARD BLOW DEALT
WRITER'S PALATE
TEACHER IN EFFIGY
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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.
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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
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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
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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!
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