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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LI-XO. 15,935. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1911. PRICE FIVE CEXTS HOUSE IS QUICK TO UPHOLD PRESIDENT Notice to Russia Is Made Complete. EFFECT OH TRADE DISCUSSED Breach in Diplomatic Relations Is Improbable. NEW TREATY NOT HURRIED Off trial Reply Indicates That Modi flration of Lanjrnace of It. ration Ht Found Favor In St. Petersburg. WATTT!COTON. T"w. SO. Congress today ratified the President rtotlfl ratlon of th termination of th Rus sian treaty of Kit and sent the meas ure, to the Preeldent for hl signature The Houte disposed of It according to pmsjramm within 75 minute. Speaker Clark aliened It at I 5 P. M ; Vice-President Sherman signed It at I SI P. M. after the Eouate had re mained In session purposely to permit him. under the TO lee. to affix hi sig nature while It was In session. Con gress tomorrow will reresa for the holiday. This was an Important fac tor In the expedition of th ratification. It waa a perfunctory proceeding In the House, for Iemocrat and Repub lican voted together. Macon of Arkan sas (Dem.) alone, Totli( In the nsga tlre. lie explained to the Houaej later that he Toted against th resolution In a spirit of levity. Saleer railed PMitot In the debate Republicans Joined with their political opponent In trib utes to Representative Eulxer of New York, the Iemocratlo author of the House bill, for accepting the Senat meaure amending his own. "Mr. Sulzer has shown that ha la act ing through the promptings of patriot ism, not politics." Republican Leader Mann said. The Russian reply to the notice from Ambassador Guild that America wished to terminate the treaty of 1131 has been received at the State Depart ment. The officials decline to publish th text of the note, but admit that Its contents have been well outlined In th news dispatches from 81 Peters burg. Hence It la inferred that the Russian foreign office made no re sponse to Secretary Knox's Invitation to embark on negotiations for new treaty. Resets Xe te Be Harried. It may be said upon good authority that the Russian government does not Intend to be harried In this matter, but on the other hand. It does not ex pect to conclude a new convection be fore the existing treaty expires on D reraber II. 1113. Unquestionably th modification of th terms of th orig inal resolution of abrogation has been a strong factor In Influencing the Rus sian government to consider favorably th framing of a new treaty. Notwithstanding some expressions to th contrary by individual Senators, the weight of official opinion Is decidedly in favor of th contention that, with th withdrawal of th "favored nation" treatment guaranteed to American ire ports Into Russia by the treaty about to he terminated, th full maximum Russian tariff rates will automatically become effective against American gooda INsleaatl Break Vallkelr. Tt has been suggested, however, that Russia will continue to extend to American Imports the lower rates of Its tariff on th ground that .the Presi dent's proclamation Issued under the terms of the Payne-Aldrlrh tariff act. allowtng minimum tariff rates on Rus sian goods, is equivalent to "most favored nation' treatment. It Is declared that no breach of di plomatic relations Is Impending, as preparations are being hastened for th early occupation of the residence of ti-Vlce-Pretlent Fairbanks by th Rus sian ambassador, who expects to take a prominent part In the social life of th capital. SHVSTER MAT IIAVK TO GO Dismissal of Treasurer-General Is Foreshadowed. TF.HERAX. Ivc. SO. The cabinet has won an Important vlvtory over the na tional council which foreshadoas the acceptance of Russia's demand for the dismissal of W. Morgan Shuster. the American Treasurer-General of Persia, unless public opinion proves too strong. The nstlonal council. In a session that lasted from o'clock last night until after midnight, finally accepted the proposal to appoint a commission of five deputies with plenary powers to deal with the Russian ultimatum. Sixty members were present and the proposal was submitted by Vossoogh-Ed-Dowleh, the Foreign Minister, and was adopted by a rot of 1) to 1). The composition of the commission has not yet been announced. Vossoogh-Ed-Dowleh's proposal was hotly opposed by the democrats, who declared that such a commission was in violation of the constitution. It is said that the Regent. Xaslr Kl Mulk. earlier In the day summoned the mod erates and threatened to resign unless the cabinet's proposal was accepted. GIRLS BARTERED FOR GOLD IS CRY RISSIA-V MISS WHO WANTS TO WF.n AMERICAX TFXLS. F.Kie Xavlkoff Brave Ke of Her People a she .V-cuM Them of Illicit Auctions. I.06 ANGELES. Dec. 10. (Special.) Declaring bitterly that th local Rus sian colony of 000 Is a marriage mar ket wherein young girls are bartered by their parents like so many cattle, KIsle Navikoff braved a hundred pairs of eyes In Judge Wilbur's court today and screamed that she would bar the secrets of her people rather than sub mit. Beside her stood Raynor Hal lack, a sturdy American, who served five years In th Navy and to whom sh clung be cause she loves him and he wants to marry her. She Is 17, educated. Amer icanized and pretty, the daughter of John Navikoff. and she asserted that her father and mother had sold her for 1100 gold to a man she had never seen, so she ran away. That is why she was before the Judge In Juvenile court. Th girl's testimony constitutes as sensational a chapter as any ever heard In a local court. She asserted, and of fered to prove, that there are 00 young Russian girls for sale here at an aver age price of $500 to men wanting wives; that their parents ar the sellers ana the highest bidders th buyers; that th personal charms of girls are Invento ried like the points of livestock and constitute the criterion of sale. Her frail form shaking with the In tensity of her feelings, she flung the denials of a score of Russian patriarchs present back Into their teeth. Judge Wilbur continued the case and a thor ough Investigation of the colony will be made. Officers of the court declare the girl's statement are true. MID-STATE TOUR BEGINS President Farrrll, of O.-W. R. "., and Other Officials) Depart. J. D. FarrelU president of th O.-W. R N. Company, left Portland on a special train last night on his first trip into Central Oregon. H waa ac companied by J. P. O'Brien, general manager; William Bollons. general superintendent, and other officials. The party will stop at various points on th Deschutes line, then will re turn to the main line and will cover the Shantko, Condon and Heppner branches. Tlyy will investigate con ditions In each of the four counties visited Crook, Gilliam. Morrow and Sherman and will endeavor to meet some f th people there. With the completion of this trip Mr. Farrell will have covered aJl the main lines and branchea within his Juris diction. It la his purpose and his pol icy to keep In close and constant touch with every portion of th O.-W. R. 4 N system. He has been eager to visit Central Oregon ever since coming her. PORTLAND CARGOES LARGE Vreeehs Going to Los Angeles Are Taxed to Limit. LOS ANGELES. Dec. 20. (Special.) Ocean freight and passenger traffic to Los Angeles Is greater now than ever before In the history of the city, and local steamship agents declare that their accommodations are taxed at the present time to th fullest extent. D. W. Ferguson, local agent for th North Pacific Steamship Company, which operates a line of steamers be tween this port and Portland, said to day that during the past two months the amount of freight brought from Portland her by his lln has Increased at least S00 per cent and that, while th passenger traffic has not Increased to that extent. It Is the heaviest in the history or the company. -The freight and passenger traffic from Portland Is much better than ever before, far beyond anything w had expected." said Mr. Fergujon. diaries Krueger. agent for the San Francisco Portland Steamship Com pany, baa a similar story to telL CAT'S BITE PROVES COSTLY Raymond Man May Ask Insurance Commission for Aid. CLTMPIA. Wash.. Dee. SO. Because a cat bit his finger when he was at work. Alexander Matulz. of Raymond. Is slated to draw compensation from the state accident fund. H waa em ployed at $4 a day. piling lumber at a Raymond mllL On November 25 he tried to lift a cat out of th way. so It would not be hurt by the planking, and the feline bit his right Index finger to the bone. The Injury was dressed, and, after reporting th accident to the Stat In dustrial Insurance Commission, he re turned to work. On December IS, ac cording to a new report, th injured fin ger was bumped against a stick of timber. It is badly Inflamed, and he Is In th hospital. Th attending physi cian reports that the man probably will be off duty for four weeks, and possibly longer. A wife and four children are dependent upon Mm for support. TRIPLE HOLIDAY DECLARED YJ1 street to Observe Christmas From Friday to Tuesday. j NEW YORK, Dec 10. Christmas is to be celebrated In Wall street by a trlpl hoUday. Th directors of the stock exchange voted today to close th exchange on Saturday, so that business will be sus pended between Friday afternoon and Tuesday morning I - . v "OLD GUARDSMEN" . RALLYING TO TAFT Pledges of New York Support Given. LEADERS HOLD CONFERENCE Root and Loeb to Direct Pre Convention Campaign. PRESIDENT GOES SHOPPING Auloinohllifta Told of Opposition to Open In National Trvaetiry to Kxpenslve System of National Roads. NEW YORK, Dec 10. President Taft today held a political conference with New York leaders. In the SO hours of his visit here he spoke at four dinners, laid the cornerstone of a new home for the blind and did some Christmas shopping. Among his political callers were Senator Root. William Loeb. Jr., and Otto Ban ord. It is said that Root and Loeb were chosen definitely to head the movement in this state for the President's renomlnation. Since Mr. Taft arrived there haa been a general flocking of the "Old Guard" to his standard. William Barnea. Jr., how ever, waa not In the city and did not meet the President. . Colonel Roosevelt had gone to Oyster Bay and. although he returned to New York tonight, pe did so only to attend a private dinner. The President's last speech was be fore th New York Young Republican Club at a dinner given In his honor, H appeared Just as Senator Borah of Idaho waa scheduled to speak and lis tened attentively to the stirring: ad dress by the Western Senator. Way to Hefora Twa-Kold. Th President In an optimlatlo speech agreed with Senator Borah that the country had defects, and con cluded: "Effective reform can be mad in two ways, either inside the party or by the breaking up of th old party and th founding of a new one. Th ques tion for every man Is: Has th party to which be Is attached the material in it to carry out his Idea for reform, or la It necessary for him to Join a now party to gain them? I still have hope for the redemption of the Re publican party." Before making his speech to the Toung Republican Club, president Tsft Joined 1500 members and guests of the Automobile Club of America at their banquet at th Waldorf-Astoria, and for half an hour or more talked to them In such a genial vein that they war kept almost constantly either laughing or applauding. He took occasion to declare himself (Concluded on Psre 2.) ........ s..s',', '1,,,,,,,,,,",T WHEN KETJBEN COMES TO TOWN. ; . I t ---is, sums J sssss.ssss.ssssssssessessssssisee... INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 41 degrees ; minimum. 35 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds. Foreign. Tuan's envoy sees no hope of diving dynasty. Page 1. Commercial sad Macrae. Larger movement In spot and contract hop. Page 21. Wheat decline at Chicago on subsidence or Argentine scare. Page 21. German bank heavy borrowers of fund at New York. Page 21. Prise steer brings $10 hundred at Mock yards. Page rl. Reawakening In grain-charter market pre dicted. Page 20. . National. Parkers surprise Government with new con tention for acquittal. Page 0. Congress completes ratification of Tart's act abrogating Russian treaty. Pag L Interstate Commerce Commission report says tariffs Intended to develop Paciflo Coast arrest Interior and la wrong. Page 5. Commerce commission finds Portland Is natural meat packing center. Pge 1. Congress leaders differ a to wool tariff programme. Psge 2. President recommends lower tariff on wools, baaed on difference In costs. Page 2. Politics. New York political leaders pledge Taft sup port. Page 1. Domestic. Gompers. In Editorial, says American Fed eration of Labor courts Investigation. I'age 4 Seamstress, wife of South African million aire, glad f divorce for children's sake, but sas he ll never psy S1O0.00O. Page 5. Rote Eytlnge. aged 72. dies at Actors' Fund Home In New York. Psge 4. Indianapolis prosecutor yanks dynamite de tective tc court and Is held In contempt. Psge T. ' Senator Borah scores business men who vio late lawa Page 10. Sport. MeCredlee leave for Northwestern League meeting at Seattle. Page 8. Multnomah gets Keck, great kicker. Page a. Pacific Northwest. Grant B. Dlmlck declares single tax plan is to shift burden from capital to farm era and small owners. Page 9. Nathan B. Harvey, Mllwaukle nurseryman, la charged with murder of Hill family at Ardenwald. Page IS. Mcsllnnvtlle man may be candidate for Sen ate to succeed Chamberlain. Page 18. Water-users of country get together on re form plan. Page 2. Absconding Oregon Hotel clerk, Charles W. Jones, arrested at Spokane Page 4. Governor' trip prove grand success and means much for West, says Oregon Ex ecutive, page 9. Portland and Vicinity. F. D. Robinson, general freight agent of O.-W. R. 4 N., finds self promoted on return from Chicago. Page 20. Mrs. N. B. Harvey says she know husband did not kill Hill family. Page 15. Laborer reports that he saw Lochard at S o'clock In morning near scene of murder of ehlld. Page 14. Gipsy Smith passes hour In Portland on wsy to flan Francisco. Page 12. Prospective bridegroom. Jilted, appliee te County Clerk for return of marriage li cense fee. Page 1. President Gray In St. Paul confers with James J. HIIL Page 14. Russian miss, who wants to marry American, says girls are suctioned off to highest bidder by Los Angeles colony. Pge 1. Peoples' charter commission adopt resolu tions to consolidate three charter drafts. Page 16. Patrolman Hewston shot In duel with crook; be wounds assailant. Page L PORTLAND MAN IS NAMED E. T. Allen Appointed to Conserva tion CongT8 Committee. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec 20. John B. White, president of the Conservation Congress, today named committees for th ensuing year. Among his appoint ments are George C. Pardee. California, executive committee; David Starr Jor don, Palo Alto, Cal.. education; and E. T. Allen, Portland. Or., and E. C. Griggs, Tacoma, Wash. PATROLMAN SHOT; ASSAILANT -FALLS Street Duel May Be Fatal to Ruffian. OFFICER HEWSTON IN BATTLE "Tacoma Kid," Attacker. Is Caught by Captain Keller. QUERY ANSWERED BY SHOT Confessed Criminal Fires on Police man When Asked' His Business. Although Frohably Fatally Hit, He Huns Before Falling. Patrolman Charles E. Hewston, of the second night relief, shot and perhaps fatally wounded the "Tacoma Kid." a confessed robber, and was himself seriously wounded In a spirited gun fight at First and Hall streets In th darkness at 1:15 this morning. Both men emptied their revolvers at each other. Hewston was the first to fall and was carried to the hospital In the belief that he had missed his man, who escaped after the encounter. The policeman's wounds had not been dressed at St. Vincent's Hospital before the "Tacoma Kid," the admitted as sailant of Hewston, was brought there. Keller Makes Capture. He waa captured after a revolver duel with Police Captain Keller on Front street, near Clay, shortly after Hewston waa shot. When the fugitive dropped in his tracks after the exchange of shots with Keller, the polloe captain believed he had shot him but the "Tacoma Kid" saki that Hewston had wounded him. He admitted having the duel with Hewston. He admitted, too, that he robbed Smith's market. Alberta, and" that, he came here recently from Ta coma. The police say he was responsible for a aeries of startling burglaries In that city. These were credited to the "red-headed robber." The wounded prisoner at St. Vincent's has red hair. Nurse kinds Fiance Shot. -Miss Bertha Williams, fiancee of Patrolman Hewston, nearly swooned with fright when the wounded man was carried into St. Vincent's Hospital. She Is a nurse there, and will care for her Intended husband until he re covers. Hewston was shot In the groin, and while the wound Is serious, the policeman's recovery is expected. A sequence of exciting events came when Patrolman Hewston met a sus picions pedestrian on his beat and in quired: "What are you doing on the street at this hour of the nlghtf In reply the man, described as large (Concluded on Page 4. MANJILTEDWANTS LICENSE FEE BACK DISAPPOINTED SEAR - BRIDE GROOM IS REFUSED KFJTXII. Albert Allen Volok Complains to County Clerk Parents of His Fiancee Took Her East. Jilted at the last minute by Miss Alice Vera Swanson,. of 250 Twelfth street, whom he expected to wed, Al bert Allan Volck returned to the of fice of County Clerk Fields yesterday and requested refund of $3 which he paid Tuesday for a marriage license. "The young woman I expected to marry has been taken East by her par ents." he said to Carl D. Chrlstensen, cashier in Mr. Fields' office. "Now I want my money back." "That would be impossible," an swered the Clerk. "The money Is al ready in the bank and a copy of the .collection list has been given the Coun ty Auditor." By further conversation Volok man aged to give Chrlstensen the Impres sion that the young woman's parents were, not included In the list of his admirers. " "Say," he finally asked, "would that license be any good back East? I am going back there." "No good outside the state," an swered the Clerk, "but It is good al most any time in Oregon. Better keep it and maybe you will have & chance to use it yet. How old is the young woman T' "Twenty." "Then It was up to her. She Is her own boas and need not have gone with her parents unless she wished." "I guess that's so, all right," re turned Volck in a tone of dejection. A young woman who said her name Is Swanson answered the telephone at the Buell apartments at 250 Twelfth street, last night, but did not shed any light other than to say that she had no parents in this city. She said also that she Is willing to make a Christ mas present of $3 to any young man who might have spent that amount in obtaining a license to marry her. DECOY MESSAGE CAPTURES Former Idaho Town Postmaster Must Stand Trial at Boise. BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 20. (Special.) Charged with the embezzlement of $5000 of the funds of the postofflce at Elk River, Northern Idaho, hunted anil trailed through the States of Washing, ton. Oregon and California after he had fled from Elk River a fugitive from Justice, but located in Los Angeles through a decoy telegram, George Lou- dln was arrested by postofflce inspect ors and arrived In Boise today, a Gov ernment prisoner. Loudin was former postmaster at Elk River. When the shortage waa discovered he was suspected, and when he suddenly left California, the Govern ment agents trailed him, but he evaded them. A telegram from his wife was turned into a deooy, revealing his loca tion and prompt arrest. District Attorney Llngenfelter an nounced today that a special Federal grand Jury will convene here In Janu ary to consider important criminal tes timony in his possession, but which he refuses to divulge. Loudln'a case will also be presented to the Jury. LANGEVIN DECREE GRANTED Complaint Against Professor and Mme. Curie Is Dropped. PARIS. Dec. 20. Mme. Langevin, wife of Professor Langevin, of the Col lege of France, was granted a separa tion from her husband In divorce court. While the name of Mme. Curie, winner of the Nobel prize for chemis try, was not mentioned In court today, but the separation was granted because, of . the alleged attachment between Langevin and Mme. Curie. The suit caused a great sensation throughout France and caused several duels be tween partisans of one or another of the persons principally concerned. The text of the Judge's decision says the separation is granted to Mme. Lan gevin because Professor Langevin had abandoned the conjugal domicile "un der conditions Injurious to his wife," and also because It appears by the documents submitted to the court that Professor Langevin had been guilty of "grave injuries" towards his wife. COMMISSION FORM WINS Baker's Expenses for Next Tear to Be Lower by 8 Mills. BAKER, Or., Dec. 20. (Special.) Mayor Palmer today made public his first annual report under the commis sion form of government and says he believes that the new form, although beset with many difficulties resulting from inexperience and reorganization, has. on the whole, proved entirely sat isfactory and that It is better because those In charge have given constant consideration to the municipal affairs. He shows that the changes necessary because of the new government and improvements have caused an expense of 14.7 mills, while for next year they will be 6.4 mills. PORTLAND BILL FAVORED Appropriation for Federal Building Up to Senate Soon. WASHINGTON, Dec 20. The secre tary of the Treasury submitted today a favorable report upon the bill appro priating $1,000,000 for the Portland Federal building. Supporters of the measure are hope ful of getting the bill through the Sen ate soon after the holidays? PORTLAND HOLDS SW AN Natural Advantage Is Seen. Officially. SOUND'S PLEA UNAVAILING Commission Will Not Grant Artificial Aid. FREIGHT RATES ARE JUST Business Being Developed Under Conditions Similar to Those Pre vailing When Complain ants Made Start. OREGOJJIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec 20. Recognizing Port land's advantages over Tacoma and Se attle as a slaughtering center, the Interstate Commerce Commission today dismissed the complaint of the Car stens' Packing Company of Tacoma against the O.-W. R. & N. Co.. wherein this company sought to secure a re duction of the carload rate on live stock from Portland to Tacoma and Seattle from $35 to $25. The object of the Puget Sound packers was to drive Portland beef out of the Puget, Sound markets, but the commission holds there is no unreasonableness in existing rates and dismissed the com plaint. In doing so the Commission said: "The conclusion is inevitable that the complainant is seeking to have the Commission equalize Tacoma and Se attle with Portland as a slaughtering center. Doubtless due to her natural location, Portland has certain ad vantages as a livestock market and the testimony is that the prevailing prices of livestock are somewhat lower there than at cities on the Sound. The record does not show that this con dition is due to any unjust arrange ment of fates, and it is well settled that It Is not the function of the Com mission to equalize communities in matters of this character. Rate Not Now Unreasonable. "Testimony in this case is that the cost of transportation in the case of livestock and products of livestock Is approximately the same and this Is not at variance with our general knowl edge of the situation. Based on the same minimum car load rates for both movements of 25. 000 pounds, at the per car rate on livestock of $35 per 36-foot 6-inch car, the rate would be 14 cents per 100 pounas for movement to Tacoma and 16 cents to Seattle. When these rates are compared with the rate on fresh meats from Portland to Tacoma and Seattle of 20 cents per 100 pounds, It will be seen that at the present time the rates on livestock are lower than the rates on fresh meats. It Is our conclusion that the adjustment com plained of has not been shown to be unreasonable and the complaint will therefore be dismissed." In 1903, when the Carstens Company began business at Tacoma, the live stock rate from Portland to Tacoma was $40.60 and the rate on dressed beef 30 cents a 100 pounds. At that time the rate on fresh meats from Tacoma to Portland was only 23 cents. In 1907 the livestock rate was reduced to $35 a car, and the rate from Taco ma to Portland on dressed meats was raised to 30 cents. Early in 1910 the railroads reduced the rate on fresh meats from Portland to Puget Sound from 30 to 25 cents, finding that this commodity would not move at the old rate, but when this reduction failed to prove effective, a further reduction to 20 cents was made, with a minimum of 25,000 pounds. Reductions Are Voluntary. The testimony showed that these re ductions were voluntarily made by the railroad to build up business from Portland as a distributing center, and the Commission says that the com plaining company produced no proof whatever to sustain its charges that the reduction had been made at the Instigation of the "beef trust," with a view to wiping out the independent packers on Puget Sound. The Commission holds that the rail roads were clearly within their rights in lowering their distributive rate from Portland to meet commercial condi tions peculiar to the territory to the northward, especially when It was fcund that the old 30-cent rate was prohibitory. Moreover, Portland pack ers today are building up business under a favorable rate in a manner similar to that by which Carstens Company built up its business under equally favorable rate prior to 1907. There wasno sxomplalnt from Puget Sound then. Now that Portland Is forging to the front In the packing business, the Commission does not Intend, on the showing made, to restrict the terri tory in which Portland packers may sell, even If, under existing rates, they are able to Invade Puget Sound markets In competition with Tacoma and Seattle packers. In the East, it was demonstrated, the rates on fresh meats and packing house products are lower than on livestock, whereas, under the prevail ing Portland-Puget Sound rate, both commodities mov at approximately the same rat.