325 rr TZ ' PORTLAND.. . ORKGOX, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IIL.. I.l -w. lAvi - . . I I COAST CITIES WIN RATE Cut of 20 Per Cent Eastward Ordered. RAILROADS' PLEA UNHEEDED Commission Finds No Serious Loss Is Threatened. OWN FIGURES ARE TAKEN Conwntlon Made bj Portland and Brattle Chamber of Commerce tpheld Fully, Confirming Tentative Periston. OREOOMAX SEWS BUREAU. Wub. Infton, Not. 14. Portland. Seattle and Taeoina Jobbers won an Important Tie tory before the Interstate Commerce Commission today when that body or dered a 30 per cent reduction of all Interstate class rates from these cities to points In Washington. Oregon. Ida ho and Montana, and directed that the new rates be put Into effect Jan uary IMJ. The fight for this reduction was made by the Chambers of Commerce ef Portland and Seattle. Today's or dr Indorses the tentative decision of the Commission. announced some months ago. the railroads having ut trrly failed In thetr endeaTor to show t'at a JO per cent reduction would be ruinous or even unfair to them. Rallreatda ajar'. W'hm the Commission flrst an nounced Its belief that a 10 per cent rut should be made the railroads ob tained six months In which to submit figures showing what losses they would sustain If such regulation ihouM b made. The Commission, af ter atudylna those figures, lost no time In promulgating Its order, for It dis covered from the statistics compiled by the railroads themselves that a 10 per cent cut Ic class rates would de prive the railroads In question of lesa than I per cent of their operating revenue. In view of the financial con dition ef the four roads affected, the Commission holds that they will not be adversely affected by this reduc tion. rs7ee ea Uin Tabulated. The following table gives the car riers estimate of the effect of a 10 per cent cut In the present rates: Rev. und.r Total par rent prra rat. In.... raduc Carrl.r. O -W. ft. N.I tu.i.t ia Or. t. I. in. 41.3.'. 20.0 14.4 17.1 1S.0 Ct. North. ro. .So. Pacific. 51.?3 1.401.4.4 Si'.'lo :ii.4ii IS.1S.0T0 Total I3.01S.40S The net operating revenue of those four roads for 1)10 waa as follows: O TV. R. X Orofnn Short LJae... fit. Nortb.ra ....... Northern I'aclfle .... f .J4.STS 113-1 372 23 3;.43 2a.as.4:a Total I71.S7B.10S The following table gives In cents per hundred pounds for distances tlated new class rates which the Com mission orders Into effect on January :. ltll: riaaa. Mitaitra ..1 2 S4ABCDa TIIIBCM Of tH mll.a or mm SO 44 JOO to h0 ml. ... T3 01 :w to too mil.. . . St TT to 4O0 will.. .110 t4 4w lo O0 mllM ..129 110 13 SO 28 S3 20 IS IS 10 S4 4 S 3 : S3 IS 14 4 33 4 8 S 2T 23 IS TT 33 33 44 33 2 23 SO 7T S3 S3 33 3 33 2 SAO lo H mil's . .14T 123 JOS M T4 T4 44 ST I S'X to 700 mile ...J4 IS 11.1 s 1 J 64 II 41 U OREGON MAY SEE 'CHINA Ilaltle.hip Scheduled to Go ir Rein forcements Are Needed. m OREOOXIAN NEWS BUREAU. tVash tngton. Nov. 24. The battlenhip Ore gon, with the rrulsers Pennsylvania. 6L 1-ouls and Raleigh and the monitor Cheyenne, now held In reserve) on the raelflc Coast, will be sent to Join the Asiatic fleet tn the event that compli cations In China beeome so serious as to require the reinforcement of ths American warships now in Chinese water. The State department has.' not yet made a request for additional ships to protect American interests tn the Orl ent. but the question of preparing these reserve ships for Asiatic duty has been taken op by the Navy Iepartment and these veesela ran be sent across th Pacific on short notice, if thetr pres ence becomes necessary. MAILCAR ROBBER ESCAPES Masked Man Take Regietered Let ter on South C arolina Train. COLUMBIA. R C. Nov. 14. A masked white man tonight robbed the mall car of th Atlantic Coast I.lne train No. So between Koystera and this city, took the registered lrtter. stopped the train and Jumped off Just before It rrarhed the rltv limits. The value of the registered mall stolen Is not known, but the letters are said t contain several thousand dol lar. Thore la no clew to the Identity of the robber, who escaped In th dark, si ess. REDUCTION SEA IS POSTMAN AS PERIL LOOMS rASSKXGERS IX PANIC CAST MESSAGES OVERBOARD. Palfl- Mall Liner "Weather Tf plionn That Onoe Threatened to Engulf All. BAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 14. Caught In a terrific typhoon off the coast of Japan and believing death unavoidable, passengers 'on the Paclfio Mall liner Korea, which arrived here today, cast farswell messages to loved ones Into the sea In wicker and tar bottles. For more than 10 hours the big ship battled with the storm. Huge waves broke over her and often her twin propellers were fanning the air. The passenger ware panic stricken and re fused to be comforted by the officers. It was the Count De O. Bedln de GeJsmbert. of Paris, who hit upon the scheme of trusting the waves to de liver a farewell to his wife and chil dren In the French capital. Hastily writing two affectionate letters to his family, he sealed them In a bottle, which be tossed Into the sea. Other passengers quickly followed the Count s example. Eo fierce was the storm that Captain Fisher was compelled to alter the ship's course, turning back toward Yokohama for 12S miles. FREE RIDES TO BE FEWER Railroad Are Being Hemmed In by New Lot of Restriction. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 14. (Special.) Circulars wer received at the vari ous railroad7 offices In San Francisco to- . . . w II day In which It wss said mat eacn .... road Is to designate and file fh ..--... r-r.mm.rro Commission a statement of the designated officers au therlxed to request of and to Issu to other railroads free or reduced irana rortatlon. Such designated officers ar also required to keep on file the orig inal requests received or made cover ing passes or reduced-rat tlcketa .is sued. In order that th reoords may be properly kept and easy of access and check. In other words. It I no longer possi ble for a railroad to Issue passes or se cure passes from other Hns without having th arpllcat,0n referred first to a particular office In th company de manding the pass, then to the desig nated Eastern offic and to th Com mission before th request Is even con sidered. On railroad "man remarked today: "If you want to get a pass to a country town off your own line to pend tb holidays, you will ban to ask for It lo July." PORTLAND BANK GAIN BIG Clearings Increase tB.i Per Cent. 40 Leading Cltle Climb. Without a single exception th 40 leading financial cities In th United State showed an Increase In bank clearings for the week ending yester day over th business for th corre sponding week of last year. Portland made a fine showing with total clear ing of Sll.So3.000 and a gain of 21. per cent. The total clearings of Seattle were S10.2S1.000. th gain In that city being 1S.S per cent. Lo Angeles and San Francisco made substantial gains, whll Tacoma and Spokane wer on th strong side of the' percentage col-, uren. The total clearings of the United Statea amounted to SS.114.S14.000. as against I2.111.4S1.000 for the corre sponding week In 1910. showing th remarkable gain of S993.1S1.000. ALLOPATHS ARE GRILLED Senator Work Also Object to In spection of School Children. CHICAGO, Nov. 14. t'nlted States Senator Works, of California, address- I Ins the National League for Medical Freedom here tonight, assailed the allopathic school of medicine, which he charged waa seeking to form a trust to the exclusion of all other methods of healing and particularly denounced th medical examination of public school pupils. His remarks were directed chiefly to the part of the school Inspec tion Involving girls In the upper grades. He said: "I sincerely hope you never have medical Inspection here. Do you know that In many states, under medical In spection practice girls of from 14 to 10 are required to bare their bodies to the waist and submit to an Inspection, usually by an unsuccessful or undor- doctor Just out of school and all tjile without the knowledge or presence of their mothers?! 33 RILLED BY EXPLOSION Injured Terribly Mangled In Liver pool Oilcake Mill. LIVERPOOL. Nov. 14. Thlrty-thre workers ar known to hav been killed and upward of 100 others Injured by a boiler explosion today at the oil cake mil! of J. Bebby at Sons. Many of th Injured were terribly mangled. The force of the explosion was ao terrific that the roof of th mill was blown off. while the walla split and rmmbled. An outburst of flame .fol lowed. There were 400 workers In the building. At a late hour tonight 22 bodies have been recovered from the ruins, and It Is believed other are still be neath the debris. It Is feared that sow of th Injured will succumb. , LING PLOT EXTENDED Texas and British Col umbia Yield Clews. ONTARIO HAS ONE GATEWAY Large Quantities of Opium Brought in by Chinese. MORE ARRESTS EXPECTED Store In Chicago Fitted Vp With 100 Banks In Rear Thought to Be Station on Line of Under ground Railway. CHICAGO. Nov. 24. (Special.) An opium-smuggling plot by means of which thousands of pounds of contra band articles are brought Into the' country by Chinese border-runners and upon the persons of smuggled Chinese was revealed today while the Federal grand Jury here waa hearing testimony against "Croppy" Nelson. "Blmmlo" Ouelette. Lorn Stoneberg, Gordon Fer ris and Moy Sing, arrested as leaders In the Chinese "smuggling trust." When Ferris was arrested In Detroit six cans of opium were found in his possession. The opium. It Is said, was also found In large quantities at Moy Sing's store In Chicago, which was the hiding place for contraband Chinese. In New Tork, at Moy Sal Tlghe's place In Mott street, large quantities were found. Windsor, Ont, Is Gateway. According to Information obtained to day Government operatives found that the opium was being smuggled ashore from Inbound steamers at Victoria. B. C. It was taken to Windsor, Ont., and smuggled across the border, either at Detroit or Niagara, In sealed box car on the Grand Trunk Railroad or by Chinese runner who "ran . the Canada Una under the cover of dark Bess. At Detroit an electric line runs par allel with th river. Outside of th city cara were stopped and contraband Chinese and opium were taken aboard by the "white pilots" of the . smug gling gang. At South Bend. Ind, th Chinese were usually met by white menwho were scheduled to deliver th contraband to either Moy Sal Tlghe In New Tork or Moy Sing In Chicago. Ramifications of the smuggling garig xtend from coast to coast and from the Gulf Into Canada. ' Store Shelter Chinese. At Moy Sing's store, which waa con ducted as a Chinese grocery in China- 16 WIDELY roncludfd on Ps 2.) I appeared down a dark street. Concluaea onPas SHOP EARLY AND AVOID THE RUSH. j cjm mmm jt-,mM i e ....,... THE OREGONIAN ANNUAL WILL BE PUBLISHED JANUARY 1, 1912 Continuing a policy that has been followed for 30 years. The Oregonian, on January 1 , 1912, will publish a special New Year's Edition. This number will be de voted particularly to chronicling the progress of Portland during the year, calling attention to forces that are effecting the development of this city and describing some of the big things that Portland and Portland's people are doing. The state's industries will also be cov ered adequately. The Oregonian Annual is an institution. In the 30 years it has been printed it has been the most potent single factor in advertising and upbuilding Oregon. It has . been the one great medium for telling Eastern and Middle West ern people of the state's resources and opportunities, thus attracting them to Oregon. The reliability of its text and the excellence of its illustrations commend it to every one. The circulation is enormous. As in the past. The Oregonian will publish the Annual without thought of expense involved. The preparation of an elaborate edition, such as will be issued, is accom plished only at heavy cost, yet the price will be 5 cents a copy. It is the purpose of this newspaper not to print the Annual for profit, but to promote the welfare of the city and state. ITALY PLANNING BLOCKADE Threat Against Dardanelles Stirs Diplomats to Action. CONSTANTINOPLE. Nov. 14. Neu tral commerce la seriously threatened by the proposed blockade of the Dar danelles by Italy and Turkey's defen sive measifres. The Ambassadors of the foreign powers here are conferring on the subject, as It is believed that Italian action will not be delayed much longer. It Is thought Italy may even try to force the Dardanelles and dictate her terms of peace at Constantinople. COIN PALMED FOILS THIEF Eugene Man, Victim of Holdup, Is Today ' $6 Richer. EUGENE. Or., Nov. 14. (Special.) Because he had the presnece of mind to palm the coin that he was Jingling In his pocket when a holdup man thrust ft long blue gun In his face tonight and ordered him to hold up his bands, Claude Kelly Is $5 richer than h would have been had be been slow-witted. He retained th money In his hand when he shoved it above his head and the holdup found nothing In his pockets but a bunch of keys. Disgustedly or dering Kelly to "beat It," th man dls aoDeared down a dark street. ABERDEEN CHECKS . W. W. I Special Police Sworn in Number 700. LAWS WILL BE ENFORCED City Streets Patroled andAII Roads Under Guard. ALL CITIZENS BACK MOVE Grays Harbor Towns Promise Sup port to Aberdeen In Effort to Resist Plans of Industrial Workers of World. ABERDEEN, Wash.. Nov. 24. Aber deen Is tonight in the hands of its clti xens and the threatened Invasion of the Industrial Workers of the World has so far been effectually checked. Seven hundred business men and citizens patrol the streets In down-town sections, all alleys are guarded, H street at Heron, hag been roped off and every road leading; into the city is carefully watched. At midnight the men who had been arrested were escorted out of town and told not to return. These joined some 50 Workers who were camped all evening at Junction City, Just outside the city, not daring 'to come in until they should have received word from theft- companions that it was safe to do so. They never got the word. The raid, which followed last night's demonstration, resulting In a near-riot and forcing the city authorities to call out the fire department In an effort to drown out the demonstrators, began shortly before S o'clock when W. J. Patterson, head of Hayes & Hayes Bank, assisted by Dudley G. Allen, sec retary of the Chamber of Commerce, made the first - .arrest. .-taking into custody, under the orders Issued by Chief of Polios Templeman, the first man they saw wearing a red tag. From that time on the arrests continued. By 8:30 o'clock tonight TOO men had reached the station and had asked to be sworn in as volunteer special po licemen. Theater Meeting Called Off. The Empire Theater had been rented tonight to the workers for a meeting, but It was decided to prevent the meet ing. The theater was placed under guard and those who came In there wearing a red tag were placed under arrest. Then word went around that the Workers were assembling In an other hall. This, too, was visited, but HO l r . DEAL IN RAWHIDE NETS BIG PROFITS GOODWIN OPTIONS 0 CENTS; SHARES SELL CP. TO $1.50. Government Introduces Contract In Effort to Convict Bankers of Misuse of Malls. NEW YORK. Nov. 24. Although H. Scheftels St Co., whose officers are on trial for alleged misuse of the malls, paid only 20 cents a share for Rawhide Coalition stock, they sold It all the way up to $1.50 a share according to evidence adduced In court today. The Government's first step toward proving this was the introduction of the agreement between the Nat Goodwin Company and th original owners of the Rawhide Coalition Com pany, which it Is alleged was later taken over by the Scheftels concern. The. contract was made March 1908, and. witnesses testified, gave the Goodwin Company an option on the greater part of the 3,000,000 shares at 20 cents a share. Its par value was $1. The stock was deposited with th Scheellne Banking & Trust Company at Reno, Nev. Morltz Scheellne, presi dent of the bank, testified today that the Goodwin company had exercised its option on thousands of shares. , ' In a paper published by the Goodwi Company and later In one published by the defendants under another name, was testified. Rawhide stock was steadily advanced, the price at on time reaching $1.60. NEW ORLEANS GETS REPLY RatM & Chesebrongh Say Traffic Did Not Justify Steamer Line. NEW ORLEANS, La.. Nov. 24. (Spe claL) Bates & Chesebrough. the San Francisco owners of the California & Atlantic Steamship Company, which has abandoned this port, today replied to an Inquiry of J. W. Porch, president of the Progressive Union, declarln that lack of freight tonnage, heav losses and no prospects of Increase business from this end of the line pri marlly caused the action by the com pany. The telegraphic reply further de clared that if New Orleans merchants "desire to operate a steamer between New Tork. New Orleans and Colon, making a Pacific Coast connection, w would be very glad to co-operate and assist In every way." The reply Is not regarded by Presi dent Porch as satisfactory and does not heal the wound. MINERS' HEAD ACCUSES Election Returns' of 49 Unions Were Purloined, Says White. COLTJMBTJS, O.. Nov. 24. The Colum bus DlsDatch today says: One of the biggest sensations In the history of the United Mine Workers of America, In volving the direct charge by President White, that fraud prevailed in the elec tion contest for president of the order between himself and Tom L. Lewis last January and that the returns of 49 unions in Illinois disappeared after they had reached International headquarters in Indianapolis, has been disclosed. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Th Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maxlmtim temperature. 52 decrees; minimum 36 degrees. TODAY'S Probably fair; nouthwesterlr winds. Foreign. Mexican fOTernment arrests 10 accused of aiding- Reyea .rage a. Chinese missionaries atacked; two women teachers killed. Page 5. National. Northwest Coast cltls win Important rate reduction- Page 1. Census Bureau analyzes constancy of em Dloyment in various industries. Page 4 Domestic. Bankers' Association approves Aldrlch cur rency plan. Page 4. Opium smuggling plot ramifies from Texas to Pacific iSortnwesL. jrage i. Panic-stricken passengers on liner cast farewell messages into sea. Page 1, W. E. D. Stokes testifies against girU who shot him. Page S. Jury convicts two defendants In tar party case; third Is acquitted. Page 3. Seattle, eonfesse'd wife murderer, la put to death In electric chair. Page tL John F. Dryden. founder of Industrial life Insurance in United States, dies. Page 2. Eight Jurors sworn In McXamara case. Page 2- Denttst. who kept girl prisoner In office for 16 months. Is found guilty. Page 4. Sport. Harvard and Yale and Army and Navy meet In annual struggles today. Page 6. Chad bourne would exchange himself for Kansas City player. Page 6. Pa-ctflo Northwest. H. C. Phillips, of defunct Commercial Bank, of Vancouver, falsified records. Is alleged. Page 7. Washington County telephones pass into new hands. Page 7. William Waldo, Oregon pioneer of 1843, dies at Salem. Page 7. New system being used by Coast Artillery at Fort Stevens. Page 7. Aberdeen swears In BOO special policemen to halt I. W. w. invasion. Page l. Commercial and Marine. Unwise marketing of Pacific Coast apples In England. Page 17. Chicago wheat market affected by unoer- talnty of Argentine crop. Page 16. Irregular course of stock prices In Wall street. Page 17. Business conditions show gradual but pos itive gains. Page 17. Passengers on Bear praise ship's personnel for courteous treatment. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Portland shippers say rate reductions "will extend city's Jobbing sone. Page 13. Chinese before grand Jury do not give evi dence of graft by officials as premised. Page 9. Western Lime A Plaster Company sells out to Acme Cement fc Plaster Company, of St. Louis for $250,006. Page 12. Harry M. Courtwright loses point In suit against Sheriff for preference In purchase of property on delinquent tax list. Page 6. Tabernacle choir presents Gipsy Smith with gifts at close of meeting. Page 12. I IS GOALS Mrs. Patterson's Story Mercilessly Assailed. SOBS SHAKE MAN'S SLAYER Endearing Notes to Husband Offset Tale of Cruelty. ' DEFENDANT ADMITS SHAME I'nder Persistent Questioning of Prosecutor, Widow's Relations With Chicagt) Millionaire Are Disclosed. DENVER, Nov. 24. Against the two vital points 'of the Btory Gertrude Gib son Patterson, charged with the mur der of her husband, told upon the witness-stand the cruelty and abuse of her husband, and the charge that he had sold her for $1500 to her former admirer, Emil W. Strouss, a Chicago millionaire with whom she made a trip to Europe Special Prosecutor Benson directed three hours of merciless -cross-examination today. Led to repeat various Instances of her husband's abuse and forced to de clare that, naturally, at the time sh felt toward him the greatest Indigna tion and contempt, she was confronted ' by letters she had written to her hus band on dates only a few days subse quent. The letters were couched in terms of deepest affection, models of what a devoted wife would write to an affectionate husband. New Construction Put. On the trip to Europe with Strouss a trip undertaken, she had said, at th urgent demand of her husband, who received $1500 from Strouss the state put an entirely different construction and sought to wring from the witness admissions that would strengthen th theory it advances. Under the gruelling of the special proscutor, the mask of lmperturblllty that Mrs. Patterson had worn through out the early days of the trial fell from her and vanished completely. She ran the gamut of emotions. Twice she broke down and wept, while at other times doubl, scorn and Indignation held her. Offended dignity was often her attitude, and she used It to good ad vantage. Early Lilfe Reviewed. Reviewing her early life in San doval, 111., Prosecutor Benson ob tained from Mrs. Patterson an admis sion that when she was about 14 years old she had been expelled from school. but not for immoral conduct, she de clared, as he had Intimated. Gaining an admission that Mrs. Pat terson had consulted a Chicago attor ney about a divorce in July, 1910, be cause she waa Indignant over the treat ment of her husband. Attorney Benson handed her a letter. She admitted having written it to Patterson, who was then In a Chicago sanitarium. In it she referred to Patterson as her soul mate," and said: "If you didn't sign the paper my lawyer has this afternoon, I will come to you soon, as I am very happy, and you ore the only cure." Endearing Terms Vmrd. In a letter written June 20, 1911, while her husband was in a Jjenver sanitarium, was identified. It read in part: My dear little pet: Yours just re ceived. Now you must not worry ana feel there is a responsibility on you. for there Is no( I take all the re sponsibility on my own shoulders. Tou will bo happy when you step into your own little bungalow. Just be happy, and the way to be happy Is to know that you have got the best little loving helpmate and wife In the whole world lots of love and trust me. I am true all the time. Are you?" Incident to the trip to Europe with Strouss, the state poured us neaviesi fires and the witness fought desperate- ! Proaeentor Fires uuestions. By every means the prosecution sought to glean from the witness that Just prior to the trip she had urged her husband to get Into some business , for himself and that negotiations were pending for his purchase of a half In terest In a Chicago printing establish ment, for which she was to give him 1500 she said she had received from an estate that had just been settled. "Didn't you tell Charlie Patterson that Mr. Strouss was like a father to you, that he had had you educated and taught French, and that he wanted you -to go to Europe because your knowl edge of French would be of value to him in buying goods?" asked Mr. Ben son. "I did not." "Didn't he beg you not to got "He did not." Wife Begged to Stay. "Didn't you receive a telegram from him In New York before you sailed, begging you not to go?" "Yes, after he had the $1500." "Didn't he say that he had discov ered that Strouss was a scoundrel and that things were not as he had been led to believe?" "No." ."And when you and Strouss reached (C'oncludod oa Pass 8.i BEAUTY'S PAS RAKED VE f