Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1911)
if iiiilf jS$ . PORTLAND. OREGON. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LI NO. 15,883. . : - .i.-i. THIRSTY FOLK MUST TRUST PLEAS FOR SCHOOL DARK IN PASTOR ACCUSED 6 COUNT 'EM 6 COMETS VISIT SUN OLD SOIi IS HOST AT SOCIAL LEVEE IX HEAVENS. REBELS VICT '5 HOP SALES TEACHERS' STRIKE SAY "WHEN" EARLY MERC! UNHEEDED OF POISONING GIRL ON LAND AND SEA BEST II HIST TUTORS OP X1GHT TRADES CLASSES SEEK MORE PAY. DALLAS WOMEN' TO TAKE HAND AGAINST TOO CON VIVIAL. 1 OR US DAY DRY 10,000 Bales Go on Coast at Big Price. TOTAL OF DEALS $800,000 Intense Excitement Prevails as 40 Cents Is Offered. DEALERS CROWD FIELDS Only 11.000 Bales tft In Oregon After Whirlwind Market Some Ge 40 l- and 41 for Yield. Advance Is Predicted. (RE DATS HOT "ALES. In Ors la waMoiri la California Bale . M . 1 K . a.oo Total Left la .10.000 Pale. ...1.X" ... . ...JO.OOO ...37.nO In Oreea In Wablnitoa la Ca;ifornla . . Crepe (inn aai CmmU. Pair. ;2.iw 87.WO Oreon .... Wa.hinatoa California . Ta ISl.OuO Testerdsy was a record-breaking day for the Oregon hop market. The vol ume of business dona on the Cotrt was the largest tor a single day In the hit try of tha world's hop trade. Pur chases of mora than 10.0O bales were made In the three states, and mora than half of these were mad In Oregon. The day's sales amounted to StOO.OOA. HopniVn have no recollection of a time when the excitement was so in tense aa It was yesterday. It spread to the growers, and. contrary to the usual coarse of thins;, they were as ready to meet the buyers aa the latter were to care hops. This was prob ably because fhe market reached the figure at which so many of the farmers had decided to sell. It waa a 48-cent market from the opening of business to the close. For a few lota WH cents waa paid and on or two crops were taken at 41 cents, bat the going price wss 40. and the matter of qusiltjr did not enter much ln the trading. Almost every dealer of Portland and Patera was In the game. The offices In both cities were deserted, except for the principals, as the buyers, agents. Inspectors and other employes had been hurried Into the country by the earliest trains or by antos. Heavy Bayiag Ceatlaea. The buying. In fart, started Thurs day night and was kept up without In terruption. Herman Klaher remained In his Portland office all night, busy with the telrphone directing his lieu tenants or dealing direct with growers at their homes In the country. Although 40no hales or more were purchased in Oregon, it Is safe to say tha unfilled orders were twice as many as those enecuted. While many grow ers were glad to gt 40 cents for their hops, there were more who held out for SO cents or better. When It Is con sidered that hops cost ( to 10 rents a pound to produce It can be seen that the sales at yesterday's prices netted the hop plantera handsome returns. The buying made a big hole In the available supply of hops on the Coast, it was estimated last night that there are unsold in Oregon now only about 13.000 bales, and only a few thousand bales are left In Washington. California has probably Jo. 000 bales to dispose of. Elsewhere In the world, growers stocks are exhausted. Never before In the his tory of the trade has the supply been so reduced at this early period of the season. A I,ondoa cable received yesterday said the entire English crop had been sold out and that the market had ad. vaneed to 340 shillings a hundred weight. This is equal to 11.41 cents a pound. The crop of continental Europe la almost out of first hands and the New Tork crop ss well. That Is why the buyers turned their attention to the Pacific Coast. F.aa-lUa salaaaemta latendeel. Of the hops bought In Oregon. Wash ington and California yesterday, fully TS per cent were taken for shipment to England. From the viewpoint of the man who has not yet sold, this Is tha strongest factor of the market. Since the 0rst of the month the export buying ha been continuous. It assures the shipment out of the United ftatee of a great quantity of bops In a year when the American brewers cannot afford to see a pound of hops go abroad. Tha question naturally arises, where will the I'nlted Ftates brewer go for his hope. He will be . forced, of coarse to fill his large wants aa best he can from the small stock left on this Coast, ana he will pay dearly for bis delay. This Is what has happened In Fng land. The English brewers allowed a great many b-lea cf English .bops to be shipped to Oermany. where there waa a partial crop failure, and now. realising the shortage, the brewers of tCwsTledaa ea fas a 12.) Two Smaller Bodies Are Old Frlenda but Others Are Strangers. One- Visible at Dosk. SAN FRAXCTSCO. Oct. 20, (Spe cial.) According to reports from Licit Observatory. University of California, the sun la holding a twrt of social levea during the present week., fix comets, two of them bright enough to be aeen with the naked eye. are now in the neighborhood of the sun.'. . Two of the smaller bodies are paying regular visits' In the course of their ordinary orbits. The other four are strangers, dropping In now unan nounced, and for the first time so far as the astronomers know of. ' The brightest comet Is visible Just after sunset. Just north of the sunset point. It has a bright head and a tail about-seven degrees long. .It will re main visible for several days. The second comet Is said to be brighter than Halley's It was discov ered by Dr. Brooks last uly. It had last night a tall 20 degrees In length. It should be looked for In the morning Just before t o'clock northwest of Venus, the morning star. SHOT PEPPERS NEIGHBOR Altoona Man Mistake Friend for Marauder of Henroost. ASTORIA. Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) William Helner, a resident of Altoona. on the north side of the Columbia, was brought to the hospital here early this morning, suffering from a gunshot wound Inflicted by a neighbor. Helner and H. L, Miller, who live in adjoining houses, have been bothered by chicken thieves. Last night both heard their chickens squawking and rushed out to frighten the supposed thieves away. Helner fired his revolver into the air, while Miller, thinking the hen-roost robber was shooting at him, fired his shotgun at the flash of the pistol, filling Helner- breast full of bird shot. On being brought here, many shot were removed from Helner'a breast, but none of them had penetrated sufficient ly deep to make any serious trouble. MISS HELEN G00DE TO WED Portland Cilrl Is Engaged to Young Italian Nobleman. Rumors of another international ro mance hare come to this city with tha news that Miss Helen Goode, daughter of Mrs. Edith F. Goode. was engaged and soon to be married to Teno de Morltxl. a young nobleman of an old Italian family. The engagement has not been officially announced as yet. but Mrs. Ooode, who Is In New York, is soon expected to make It. Miss Ooode became acquainted with the young nobleman on board the steamer while on the way to Europe. The courtship followed and now comes the news of the engagement. Teno de Morltxl was educated In this country, and received his degree from Tale University a short time ego. .' . ! " - " 1 ItP i. i ". w -a ' Loyal Chinese Army Driven From Camp. GUNBOATS FORCED TO RETIRE Imperialists So Hotly Pursued They Abandon Baggage. ENEMY "WELL INTRENCHED Advance Conducted With ' Caution, Hundred of Huts Being Burned to Prevent Ambush Rein forcements Are Obtained. . REAK-ADMIRAL MrRDOfK TO BE NEAR BfKNR OF HOSTILITIES. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. Rear-Ad-mlral Murdock. commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet, cabled to tha Navy Department today that hs was leaving Manila tor PpanxhaJ. to be nsarer tha scene of tha Chinese dis turbances. Hs announced that he was leaving on the Rainbow and that his fli shlp. the Saratoga, would follow him. IIAJTKOW, China, Oct. 20. The rebel army has won a victory on sea and land, after two days' fighting. The Imperialist army has been forced to retreat and wait for reinforcements and -the loyal gunboats have been driven down the river. The govern ment foroea are now encamped at Bev-en-Mlle Creek. The reoel army is well entrenched three miles from the city and it Is believed here that the ad vantage already gained will be fol lowed np without unnecessary delay. "When the fighting ceased Wednes day night the revolutionists took up a strong position. Reinforcements for the rebels arrived during the night and early this morning a force fully 8000 strong began advance on the Imperial encampment. The advance waa conducted cautiously.- On the march the rebels burned hundreds of huts, fearing am bush. The loyalists' infantry made a faint show of resistance. When the rebel scouts reached the imperial camp they found It deserted, and the main body entered, waving banners and shouting. NEWS OF REVERSE WITHHELD Fugitive Imperialists Likely to De moralize Whole Army. FEKIN', Oct. 20. It Is apparent here tonight that the Imperial government Concluded on Pase (S.) PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN IN HANKOW. SCENE OF ."ft 1 - . -. -W I t . w a ' - J ; - i" ... IHOW9 HARROW'S POIT!Ot l ITS ' " i "f v t '-" "J- Town. Council Prepares Official Blacklist for Those Who Can't Carry Their "Wkker" Well. DALLAS,, Or, Oct. JO. (Special.) The pink, elephant, tha apotted tiger with the wooly neck, the friendly co bra, the dark-brown taste and other gentle housebroken pets and coaw--ItanU of the morning after have -.n doomed and cast out of Dallas forever. This by virtue of an ordinance passed by the Dallas City Council last night, which makes.it harder for the merry inebriate to get the dram his soul craves than for an honest man to pass Into a pay-aa-you-enter car without a nickel. v The ordinance puts control of the thirst problem for the convlvlally in clined largely Into the hands of the women of the family, though It is not limited to them. The feature of the law Is an official "blacklist of habit ual drunkards'" . or other persons , in the habit of becoming intoxicated, as the city fathers naively added. Any father, mother, wife. son, daughter, sister, brother or guardian of any such person has the right to have his name placed upon this "blacklist." So has the County Judge, the .Sheriff or Constable, the City Marshal or City Attorney. The "black list" Is to be posted conspicuously In pktces where liquor is 'sold Including drugstores, the ordinance says, and any licensed bartender who sells a drink to anyone on the list Is liable to a fine of 150 to $100, and revoca tion of his license. But that Isn't all. Any person not a bartender who takes pity on the plight of the one deprived of his Hlkker" makes himself liable to a fine of $25 to 1100 or Imprisonment up to 40 days in the City JalL Dallas folk are hopeful that this ordinance will decrease the number of habitual drinkers in the city. AGAIN PORTLAND LEADS Seattle Is Outdlstancd In Bank Clearing for Week. Bank clearings-for the week showed substantial Increases In nearly all Pa cific Coast cities. Portland's totals were $14,848,000, a gain of 19.4 per cent over the clearings for the corresponding-week of last year. The total clearings at Beattle were 114.406,000. or $448,000 less than at Portland. Both Ls Angeles and San Francisco made good showings. San Francisco's clearings amounted to I66.14V.OOO and the totals at Los Angeles were $24. $70,000. Spokane made a gain of 191 per cent, the clearings of that city being $5,672,000. Tacoma had a loss of per cent, the total clearings being less than those at Spokane. Thomas W. Lawson Acquitted. PLYMOUTH. Oct. 20. Thomas W. Luwson. the Boston financier, was. or dered acquitted on a charge of dispos ing of property by a lottery. In . the Su perior Court here. The complaint was made by the Watch and Ward Society of Boston, after Lawson had presented a horse and carriage to the holder of a numbered ticket to the annual fair of the Marshfield Fair Association. REBEL VICTORY AFTER TERRIFIC BATTLE. It i win i: aKS.1 n r I . -Jk .ah- . i . c &-m KEI - ATIO., TO OTHER STRATEGIC lUiAia. Taft Says Law Must Be Enforced. POLICY WILL BE VIGOROUS Wyoming Hears Declaration in Strongest Terms. ADDRESS MADE IN SNOW Blizzard Seems Imminent as Train Speeds on, and Buffalo Robes Are Comfortable on Drlve at Fort 3IcKenzle. - NEWCASTLE. Wyo Oct. 20. Presi dent Taft again made 't clear in a speech here tonight that It was his in tention to enforce the Sherman anti trust act, no matter how much offend ing combinations squealed for mercy. "The Supremo Court," said Mr. Taft. "has rendered two decisions one against the Standard Oil Company, or dering it to be broken up and disin tegrated Into parts, and the other against the American Tobacco Com pany. There are other companies that are charged in the same way; some of them are coming Involuntarily to di vide themselves up. And just as we are about to reach a proper and successful administration of the law we begin to find that there are some people that object to the Administration because of the fact that we are prosecuting those trusts and enforcing the law. Doty Will Be Done. "It Is a case where the Administra tion is In the situation of being damned If it does, and damned if It doesn't. But our understanding in the Adminis tration la that when the President lifted his hand and swore to defend the Con stitution and enforce the law it meant something: and when there was a law upon the statute books for 20 years to suppress these combinations against in terstate trade, to monopolize and to In terfere with trade and to control prices, it waa his business and the business of all under him to enforce the law, and that Is what we are doing. "And that is what we propose to do, no matter whether we be damned or not. The prosecution of these ' great combinations that have been engaged in tryfng to prevent competition must go on until either the law Is repealed or the law Is enforced that no combina tions shall exist which shall be able to prevent competition and establish a monopoly; and that is the policy which the Administration has adopted and in tends to carry through." Snow Falls on Speakers. The President spest the day traveling tConcluded on Page 2.) , ti i j f t i if. r. "T?L vl aiA mm ....vr---t"' ts Institution Falls to Open Because of Walkout, Instructors Asking $40 Instead of. $30.. Seven men teachers and school ma'ams of the night classes of the School of Trades have "struck" for high er' pay and the classes have not been opened, due to the "walkout." The in structors demand $40 a month Instead of $30, as paid heretofore. Though scheduled to open Monday night, the Trade School has been dark all week. Superintendent Rigler order ing Principal Brandon not to open the night classes when he learned that tho teachers had refused to serve at the salary fixed by the Board. Superintendent Rigler declares he understood that all the teachers but one were satisfied to continue over the night classes at the old pay and Mr. Brandon says he reported that none would serve for less than $40 a month. The teachers are required to teach three sessions of two hours each every week. They declare the strain of teaching .both night and day Is so great that they feel Justified in demanding $10 more. Members of the School Board have thus far refused to heed the demand for more pay and it is possible that the night trade classes will not be re sumed, although 100 applications for enrollment have been received. '.The teachers will be summoned be fore the teachers' committee of the School Board to discuss the trouble, m an endeavor to settle the subject ami cably. OREGON IN TRYOUT SPIN Famous Battleship Uses Engines for First Time in Six Years. SEATTLE, Oct. 20. The battleship Oregon, rebuilt and modernized, moved under her own steam for the first time in six years today and made a trial spin from the Puget Sound Navy-Tard across the Sound to Seattle, around the Seattle harbor and back to her anchor age at Bremerton. Since she was laid up at the Navy- Tard six years ago the Oregon has un dergone extensive alterations. New bat teries and machinery were installed and the spin today was made to test the engines preparatory to sailing Mon day for Los Angeles, where the famous old battleship will Join the Pacific fleet for annual inspection. The Oregon came Into the harbor at full speed and her maneuvers were watched by a throng that turned out on the waterfront to get a look at the old fighting craft under way. WOMEN , VOTERS PLEASED Miss, Appointed Deputy City Clerk, Wins by Womanly Tact. VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 20. (Spe clal.) The problem of getting the wo men voters of the city to register has been solved by Vancouver. Hundreds of women, who have steadfastly main tained that they would never vote, are to be seen at the City Hall registering. The secret lies in the employment of a young woman as deputy city clerk. Miss Kathryn Clancy has been appoint ed. Miss Clancy asks the questions in a way that does not offend and women do not mind telling her truths about themselves that they would forever keep frcm a man. Now that the women are registering in large numbers, the men are coming out to register and often accompany their -wives to the City Hall. It Is popular among women to close an af ternoon's meeting by going In a body to the City Hall. BEAR MAULS OLD HUNTER Infuriated by Gunshot Wounds, AnU . mal Attacks Defenseless Man. EUGENE. Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) Fearfully clawed and mauled by a huge black bear which he had wounded, Lee Whitmore. an old miner and hunter of the Bohemian District, was brought Into Cottage Grove this morning, almost dead from loss of blood. His body was badly mangled and his injuries may prove fatal. Whitmore was walking tHrough the woods near the Champion mine when he came upon the beast, which charged him savagely. Whitmore stood his ground, and fired two shots into the infuriated animal, which exhausted his magazine, as he had forgotten to fill it before starting, and the bear was upon him before he could run. Miners found him somo time after wards, and 10 feet away the dead body of the bear, which was one of the larg est ever seen in this country. WASHOUGAL DEPOT ROBBED Safe Resists Attempts Believed to Be Work of Amateurs. WASHOUGAL. Wash.. Oct. 20. (Spe cial.) The Washougal station was en tered by robbers Jiere last night and an attempt made tb open the safe. The till was torn from its place and rifled. It contained only a small amount of money. The office was left locked by L. H. Freeland last night and when the lo cal freight arrived two hours and a half later the conductor found that the office had been ransacked. Examina tion showed the' Job to be the work of amateurs. Arrest is Made at Home Of Fiancee. DRUGGIST'S EYIDENGE VITAL Sale of Deadly Cynaide to 'Kill Troublesome Dog' Told. DETECTIVES LIE IN WAIT After All-Nlght Vigil Around Barred and Bolted House Where Sus pect Stays, Officers Com pel Surrender. J J BOSTON. Oct. 20. A narrow cell In Charles Street Jail tonight holds the Rev. Clarence Virgil Thompson Rlche son, the young pastor of the Emman uel Baptist Church, Cimbridge, who was arrested today for tho alleged murder of Avis Llnnell, of Hoyannis, Mass., to whom he had been engaged. His commitment to Jail this after noon on a charge of first degree mur der marked a temporary end to a chain of circumstances which police detec tives have followed since the death of Miss Llnnell last Saturday by cyanida of potassium poisoning. Girl Is Found Dead. Miss Llnnell, who was 19 years old and a student at the Conservatory of . Music, was found dead in the bathroom of the Young Women's Christian As sociation home here. At first the police believed that she had committed suicide but later de velopments Indicated that she had un knowingly taken cyanide of potassium sent her by some other person. In the belief that it would remedy her em barrassing physical condition. Officers Watch Houive. For several days the police inquiry made little progress but information re ceived late yesterday that Mr. RIcheson had bought cyanide of potassium at a drugstore In Newton led the officials to decide upon his arrest. A dozen offi cers, headed by Superintendent Watts, were forced, to maintain an all-night vigil outside, the fashionable home in Brookllne of Grant Edmands where the clergyman had been staying during the last week before RIcheson was taken into custody. Frequent pulls at the doorbells, rap pings and shouts failed to bring any response from those within the houso,' and the police, who were without a warrant, were unwilling to make a forcible entrance. Mr. Edmands is the father of Miss Violet Edmands for whose marriage to Mr. RIcheson, on October 31, cards had been Issued. These Invitations wero recalled today. Druggist Faces Suspect. The Edmands family, however, re tains faith In Mr. RIcheson and the only announcement in connection with the withdrawals of the cards was that the marriage had been postponed. Even when faced by William Hahn. the New ton druggist, who declares that RIche son had purchased cyanide of potassium from him, a week ago Tuesday the minister was apparently unperturbed. Hahn, who has known RIcheson for several years, told how RIcheson walked Into his store, Tuesday even ing, October 10, and said: "I've a dog at home that is creating a disturbance. She-will be a nuisance . unless I can kill her soon." Preacher Hu Tto Don. Hahn said that he responded to RIcheson, "I never knew you had a dog." and that Richeson replied that he had kept it in his room. Inquiry by the police where Mr, RIcheson roomed developed the pres ence only of a male dog owned by tha landlord, who said Richeson had never owned a dog during he eight months he had lodged there. , Hahn said further that he suggested chloroform to Mr. Richeson, but the minister wanted "something that will work quick." Cyanide of potassium was mentioned as acting Instantly, and tho druggist said he gave Richeson enough to kill three dogs, but the minister asked for more and the preparation finally amounted to enough to poison ten men. Prisoner VadIstiirbL In a statement regarding Richeson'" ' arrest. Superintendent Watts said he found the man in bed but awake and looking undisturbed. He asked if he would be charged with the murder of Miss Llnnell. He was allowed to talk privately with Mr. Edmunds. Miss Edmunds burst into tears wrien he bade her goodWy and threw her arm about him. He comforted her. saying. "Don't cry. dear; don't cry. Everything will be all right." . According to some friends of Miss Llnnell, at the Y. W. C. A. home here. she had dinner in her apartments with a man Sunday before her death. The police are working on the theory that . a paper with the poison was handed to her at the time, but they have not de termined that her companion at dinner was the clergyman. ! Option Law Violation Charged. EUGENE, Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) Five Srrlngfield men were arrested by deputies from the Sheriffs office yos- terdav, cnargen witn violation oi m local option law. Al