Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, December 26, 1911, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V V SHUSTER'S GOING AROUSES MASSES MartialLawlsDeclared in Teheran. VO CE OF PEOPLE IS STIFLED Cabinet Notifies American Of ficial of Dismissal. MORE OUTBREAKS COMING I'rrin Xrtsopapers Opposed to flowing In Kuwia Are Soppresed. lighting on Street of Tabrls Continue. TEH Ell AN", Dec. 21. The Cabinet to day notified W. Morgan Shuster, the Amerlran Tressurer-UeneraJ of Persia, of his dismissal from that office. This follow the decision of the National Council and the Ministry to submit to the demands contained In the Russian ultimatum. The Cahlnet Intimated to Mr. Shus-ti-r that they would communicate to Itim later plans for turning over hi accounts to a successor. ' An indication meeting was held after aunoum etnent of .Mr. truster's dis missal was made to protest against the so-called roupe d'etat, but the crowds were dispersed by the police without disorder Further demonstratlona are expected. All the opposition newspa pers have been suppressed and martial law ha been proclaimed. The Russian consul, who has as sumed the government of Resht. re ports the town quiet at the present time, tut look for further outbreaks. It Is reported from fhlrax, capital of the province of Farts, that Persian had a battle with Indian soldiers. There hss been considerable trouble at Slilras on account of the boycott In stituted against the Indian troop by the Mullahs. Klghtlng continue In the street of Tahrlx between the Russian troop and the Persian constitutionalists, accord ing to reports received at Jul fa. The Russian reinforcements, consisting of a regiment of rifles and a company of Cossack with a mountain battery, which left Jutfa December IJ for that dir. arrived there today, having en countered little .opposition from the Persians. I'KRSHX PFOPLK STIPKF1ED Iipatcltr Keoeived at London Tell Mora of Alleged Massacres. LONDON1. Pec. IJ. A massacre has been glng on In Resht since Saturday, according to official Persian telegram received In London today. These as sert that on Sunday 50 Persians were killed by the Russians, many of them bring women and children. The peo ple, it la said, have been exhorted not to right and cot to give the slightest provocation, but the massacre con tinue. Ilexhi Is the capital of the Province of GhHan and has 40.000 Inhabitants. The government bouse has been bom barded and many government official and police have been killed. Private houses have been demolished. Accord ing to other dispatches the Russlsns killed four unarmed Armenian In the Armenian quarter of Tabrla during the fighting in that city. "The people of Persia." says a dis patch, "are srupcfled at the attitude of Russia, especially as these outrage have followed immediately on the ac ceptance by Persia of the Russian ulti matum snd when Persia has shown every desire and disposition to concll iste Russia and establish friendly re lations." NEW YORK'S POOR GLAD strm of Aid Pronaonerd Most Ef ficient In Years. ..NEW YORK. Lec 2i. There was no iv to make a white Christmas In New York this year, but a brlgat sun and a clear sky. with air almost Au-lumn-like made the holiday cheerful. If there were dark places which the bright weather failed to reach, the hand of charity did. and with more thoroughness It is said, than ever be fore. The Salvation Army and the Volun teer of America provided Christmas dinners - for thousands. . Incidentally, the Salvation Army celebrated the birthday anniversary of Commander Eva Booth, who presided, today at the distribution of toys. Seven thousand men shared In the vnnual feast which State Senator "Big Tim" Sullivan gives. After being stuffed with a good dinner, each man was given a package of tobacco, a pipe and a ticket, which will provide him with a pair of shoes and woolen stockings. The Bowery Mission gave breakfast to more than a thousand hungry man. In the Borough of Brooklyn a "red 'locking committee" organised to see Inst every child received a well-filled I'hrlstma stocking. The churches began wttli Christmas services to the night workers In the early morning hours and kept up their carol and masses all day. DARING NURSE WINS STOCKMAN'S HEART LONG RIDE OX OREGON" RAXGE HALTS APPENDICITIS. Christmas Wedding lit IO Angeles Joins Sheaville Rancher and Plucky Boise Girl. LOS ANGELES. Dec 25. (SpeclaL) The culmination of a romance that had Its inception near Old Fort Lyon, on the state line between Idaho and Ore gon 1J montha ago. came today In Los Angeles, when the principals, Mary D. Llnehan. a trained nurse, and Qrover C. Knight, a wealthy stockman of Sheaville. Or, wera married at the rec tory of St. Viblanas Cathedral. ( Early in June, 110. while riding the range In search of a stray band of cat tle, Toung Knight Buffered a sudden attack of appendicitis. So intense wa the pain that he fell from hi saddle. The nearest surgeon was In Boise, a distance of 70 mile. In Boise It wa found that the only available nurse was Mis Llnehan. From Caldwell, the nearest town on the railroad. 50 miles from the Knight ranch, the surgeon and nurse set out In an automobile. When ten mile of the distance was covered the machine broke down. Miss Llnehan rode horseback the remaining 40 miles of the trip over an unknown and poorly marked trail. She saw an operation wa Imperative and made the necessary preparations. After two months of nursing. Knight wa re stored to health and the nurse departed for Elko, Nev.. to pursue her profession and later came to Los Angeles. ARBUCKLE MAY BE SUICIDE Refusal of Medical Aid and I'se of Assumed Name Suspicious. ST. LOUIS. Dec. IS. Reports that Thomas Castlllon Arbuckle. brother of Maclyn Arbuckle. the actor, had com mitted suicide, wer said tonight to have originated from the fact that he refused medical attention at the hotel where he was foum. dead yesterday afternoon. The cause of his death will be de termined by Coroner Baron tomorrow. Either pneumonia or heart disease Is believed to have caused his death. None of the man's relatives could explain why Arbuckle registered at the hotel under an assumed name. It wa ad mitted ha had been drinking heavily. The brother. Maclyn. will be unable to attend the uneal here tomorrow afternoon, because he is to appear at the first performance of a new play in which he 1 to star. Arbuckle' father, James Arbuckle, bad been prominent In promoting trade relation with Latin-America. ROBBERS TAKEN TO PRISON Wheeler County Housebreaker and Bootleggers Plead Guilty. FOSSIL. Or., Dec. IS. Sheriff Kelsay has gone to Salem with Charlea La May and Fred Realties, two housebreaker who pleaded guilty, and were aentenced to the penitentiary. La May was given an indeterminate sentence of from one to five year, and Reams from Ave to fifteen years by Judge D. R. Parker, who held a term of the Circuit Court for Wheeler County at Fossil lsst week. At this term of court three bootleg gers pleaded guilty, and were fined a follows: Harvey Reed, of Fossil, 1100; Irvln Wllks. of Spray, against whom 10 Indictments were returned, $350: Henry Wilkes, of Spray, who wa In dicted on two counts. $150. Court ad journed on Thursday. PHONE UNITES, DINERS Ilueband in Denver and Wife In Salt Lake City Talk at Table. DENVER. Col.. DeA 25. Although separated by 500 miles, Charles R. Anderson, a wealthy 'railway broker, and his wife today enjoyed a Christ mas dinner together by telephone. Mr. Anderson is at a Denver hotel and his wife la in Salt Lake City, I' tan. Arrangements were made where by telephone were placed at their re spective tables, and waiter on exten sion telephone heard husband and wife order a menu together a If they had been sitting side by side. During the meal, husband and wife kept up a lively conversation. Tele phone charges brought the cost of the dinner up to $75. APPROVED BURGLARY WINS Electricity and Kid Gloves I'scd in Cracking S1000 Safe. SEW YORK, lec. 26. Graduates from the new schools of burglary operated on a safe In a flve-and-ten-cent store In Harlem today, and got away with nearly $4000 in cash. The men entered by way of the ekylight. drew electricity from a wire to oper ate their drill, and with nitroglycerine blew off the safe door. Peslde the safe were found kid gloves which the burglars evidently hsd used to avoid leaving finger prints. CAR FALLS, 8 MAY DIE Trolley Containing 1 Topple Off Bridge In Pennsylvania. PITTS VIIJ.E. I'-. Dec 13. A west bound trolley car running between Schuylkill Haven and Pottsvllle. toppled over Black Bridge, two mile oth of Ptttsvllle. late tonight. There were 1 passengers In the csr and it Is said that halt of tbem are falaily Injured. . BROKEN IN SPIRIT, REYES SURRENDERS VeteranMexicanGener al Admits Defeat. HIS REVOLUTION IS FAILURE "I Called Upon People and No One Responded," He Says AIDES FUGITIVES STILL Stripped or Pride, Old Warrior Says Dream of Rebellion Is fiono Ho Gives Cp to Bluer Personal Enemy, Trevino. LINARES. Mexico. Dec. 25. De feated and etrlppedMf Ills former pride. General Bernardo Reyes, Mexico's one time great military leader and more recently leader of a revolt that threat ened to tear the country from border to border, surrendered here today. He later was given his liberty on his word that he would not leave the city. General Reyes surrendered offi cially to General Trevino, a personal enemy for years. Riding alone into Linares today, the gray-haired rebel gave himself up to Lieutenant Placldo Rodriguez, com mander of 15 rurales, the sole military guard here. Permission wa obtained to telegraph a formal capitulation to General Trevino, commander of the third military sone at Monterey. He frankly admitted hi dream of another successful revolution having come to an end and placed himself at Trevino' disposal. People Cold Reyes. "I called upon '.he army, I called upon the people," said the broken gen eral, "and no on responded. This at titude I regard a a protest and I am resolved not to continue this war against the government. I place my self at your disposition." Reyea asked no guarantee for him self, but pleaded for mercy for the lit tle group of men who have followed him in his wanderings to and fro throughout a large area in this state and in the state of Tamaullpas. He requested consideration for them. They are still fugitives and will be hunted down by Trevino's men unless they, too, surrender voluntarily. Companion Fugitives Still. To Reyes' message General Trevino replied that General Reyes would be kept under surveillance in Linares pending instructions from the central government. That he will be taken to the capital to answer for hi offense is considered by Reyes as the natural result of his surrender. Reyes' attempt to save hi few fol lower wa answered by Trevino, who telegraphed, to Reyes that he had no authority to' relax his campaign. The climax to Reyes" unsuccessful attempts to recruit an army came yes terday and resulted In his decision' to surrender. A small body of his fol tConcludd on Pase 4.) I - .' ti...sasssssesaessaaaasaaaeassssesswaaasa.s. - INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTE RDAT'8 Maximum temperature. degrees; minimum, 14 degrees. Newsboys of city struscl in streets for hours for coins tossed by spectators. Page 17. FedrraL. city and county officials pass msrry Christmas. Page IT. One thousand destitute persons enjoy Christ mas feast at Portland Commons Page IT. Express companies will require week to de liver all Christmas packages. Page It Theater folk are msde happy in several Christmas celebrations. Pace 10. Children in city hospitals made hapsy by heaps of toys. Face 18. All Catholle churches oelebrai ChlisUnss with special services. Pais 17. foreign. - Hsrry Lauder has narrow escape from death by drowning. Page 1. Dr. 8un Tat Sen arrives at Shanghai and confers with Wa Ting Fang. Page A Shuster formally notified of dismissal. Page 1. V General Royes. broken In pride, surrenders to oltter enemy. Psge 1. Domestic). Nurse, who rode far on Oregon range to save etockman's life, wins heart. Pass L. Dr. D. K. Pearsons, 05-year-old philanthro pist, reels so good he thinks he gave away fortune too soon. Page 2. Attorney says Jury trial of Mellon divorce case will hurt public morals. Page 3. Report that Abe Ruef will be paroled In March Is believed. Psge 2. Dr. Mary Walker in Washington to tell President that collar buttons cause In sanity. Page &. Six or eight Indictments by Los Angeles grand Jury are expected. Page 4. Cuptd. In case of rich alumnus and Tale college widow, bests business man. Page 3. Andrew McConnell. magazine writer, arrested while writing alleged confession of shoot ing wife. Page . b ports. McVev wins decision over Sam Langford in UU-round right. Page 12. Lew Thomas Is winner of third Christmas swim, la which 17 participate. Page 12. Multnomah soccer team defeats Ocesnlcs 8 to -- Page 12. Multnomsh footbsll tesm defeats Seattle Athletic Club to 0. Page 12. Commercial and Marine. Fleet plying between Portland and Oregon Coast ports to be increased. Page 13. Portland and Vicinity. Jay Bnwerman. In responding to suit, says Thomas C. Devlin sa receiver for Oregon Trust ac Havings Bank. Imposed on State Circuit Court. Page 1. University of California Olee Club, which won success In Europe, to appear here. Page jo. Panic follows fire at Christmas church cele bration at St. Johns. Page 1. LINER ENCOUNTERS QUAKES Chief Engineer on Pennsylvania Is Rolled 100 Feet Alone Deck. SAX FRANCISCO. Dec 25. Many earthquakes and one or two day in which he encountered unusually heavy seas featured the voyage of the Pa cific Mail liner Pennsylvania, which ar rived In port today from Panama. Chief Engineer J. E. Keenan was caught by a huge roller that boarded the Pennsylvania off the Gulf of Tehuantepec and was swept 100 feet along the deck, dashed against a winch and seriously bruised. The earthquake shocks started on December 17. at 2 P. M., and lasted until 8 P. M.. the shocks coming at Interval of about 20 minutes. The Pennsylvania was off Capulco at the time. MISS AGNES PATTEN BRIDE Daughter of Retired Pit Operator Weds Lawrence Rasscll Wilder. CHICAGO, Dec 25. Miss Agnes Pat ten, daughter of James A. Patten, re tired Board of Trade operator, was married to Lawrence Russell Wilder at the Patten home in Evanston to night. ' Mr. and Mrs. Wilder departed on a wedding Journey to the Bermudas. JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING F0"R OLD MOTHER EARTH. DEALING LAID TO DEVLin Receiver for Wrecked Bank Accused. COURT HOODWINKED, ALLEGED Oregon Trust Manager Held . Responsible for $600,000. DUAL POSITION CRITICISED Jay Bowerman, in Reply to Suit, 6a j s Manager of Defunct Con cern Imposed on Justice by Filling Two Posts. GroBS and fraudulent violation of his duty to the court, the creditors and the former owners and officers of the Ore gon Trust fc Savings Bank Is charged against Thomas C. Devlin, receiver of the defunct banking Institution, by Jay Bowerman in a brief he has filed with the Oregon Supreme Court as at torney for L. O. Ralston, respondent In the civil suit of Devlin, as receiver against the officer and directors of the bank. Mr. Bowerman presents the further argument that since Mr. Devlin served as receiver of the Oregon Trust & Sav ings Bank and at the same time held the office of secretary-treasuer of the German-American Bank, which took over the asset of the suspended bank, under an agreement to liquidate its affairs within two years, then Devlin alone should be responsible and ac countable for ail unsettled claims of creditors against the defunct institu tion. Devils Sara for 9600,000. Devlin brought a civil suit against W;- Copper Morris. E. E. Lytic, L. O. Ralston, Leo FriedflT'Albert T. Smith, W. H. Copeland, Walter H. and Henry A. Moore, officer- and director of the Oregon Trust 4 Savings Bank, to re cover about $600,000 which is needed to complete the liquidation of the claims against that institution. Judge Oatens in a recent decision held that Walter H. and Henry A. Moore and Morris were liable for the amount demanded by the receiver-in his suit, but excused the other defend ants from all liability. It was from this decision that Walter H. and Henry A. Moore appealed to the Supreme Court, wherro the case is now pending. Ralston has tiled his brief with the court as defendant-respondent. "Mr. Devlin was appointed receiver," contends Mr. Bowerman in his brief. "It was his plain duty to administer the estate in an indifferent manner. It was a plain violation of his duty to permit himself to" become so situated that he would have any personal in terest whatever in the present or fu ture title or possession of any of the property belonging to the estate. That he should ever profit or hope to profit except only in the way of a lawful Concluded on Page 13.) HARRY LAUDER HAS BRUSH WITH DEATH COMEDIAN' BATTLES IX SKIFF OX HEAVY SEAS. " Son and Wife Watch Fight for Life. Actor Says He Wouldn't Do It Again for All His Money. LONDON, Dec. 45. (Special.) Harry Lauder yesterday narrowly escaped being; drowned while attempting- to cross from Gourock to Lauderdale House, Dunoon, his Scottish estate. Mr. Lauder's son, who came home from Cambridge ten days ago to pass Christ mas, is ill. The comedian, who had opened in pantomime at Manchester, was worried and started home. There was no steam ship from Gourock, owing to the rough weather, and he engaged a rowboat. When midway in the channel the boat shipped heavy waves. The occu pants were drenched and the boat was nearly swamped. The Columbia, from New York, passed close by and the passengers cheered Mr. Lauder and the struggling boatmen. After three flours' buffeting the party got ashore. Mrs. Lauder and her son watched the husband and father's fight for life from the windows of the Lauder home. Mr. Lauder said he wouldn't go through the experience again for all the money he had earned or could earn. Only his anxiety for his son prompted him in risking his life, he said. He ha'd crossed the Atlantic Ocean many times, but never had such an experi ence. His son is improving. Mr. Lauder left for Manchester today. MRS. CROMWELL WILL WED Washington Society Leader to Be Bride of Edward T. Stotesbury. WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. (Special.) Mrs. Oliver Cromwell, one of the leaders of Washington society, and Ed ward T. Stotesbury, of the Philadelphia banking house of Drexel & Company, are engaged to be married. It is said that the wedding will take place early In the new year. The couple will make their home in Philadelphia. Mrs. Cromwell is as well known in New York as she is in Washington. Her daughter. Miss Louisa Cromwell was presented to society last season and was married In the Spring to Wal ter Brooks. Mr. Stotesbury is a millionaire and is one of J. P. Morgan's Philadelphia partners. He is Interested in politics, music and art. Ho has done much for grand opera in Philadelphia. It was rumored a short time ago that he was going to marry Mary Garden, the prima donna, but both denied it. He has been married before and has two daughters in Philadelphia society. CHARITY TO GET $1,000,000 Will of Los Angeles Hotel Man to Be Fulfilled, Say Executors. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25. (Special.) To provide the money for the bequest to charity of two-thirds of the $1,500, 000 estate left by the late John Wright Hunt, the Angelus Hotel soon will be sold and the proceeds, about $1,000,000 devoted to the building and mainte nance of a great orphan asylum, to be known as the John Wright Hunt Me morial. This statement is made today by John E. Harris and R. L. Lucas, who will qualify as executors tomorrow. At first, it is understood, a quarrel arose between the executors because Harris refused to file a codicil in which $50,000 and Hunt's interest in the Southland Hotel, Dallas, were left to Lucas, but this difficulty appears to have been adjusted. A contest is expected, however, from the former Mrs. Hunt, who is seeking to have a d'vorce decree set aside that sh may claim her dower right In the property. COLONEL DEEMED DANGER Watterson Says if T. R. Is Elected He Will Cling to Job. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 2.5. If Roose velt is put in the White House in 1912 we will never get him out again ex cept feet first." Thisv.was the state ment of Colonel Henry Watterson, Ed itor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, in commenting on. the Republican sit uation throughout the country. Mr. Watterson expressed the belief that the long-looked-for change of par ties was at hand, but he has not de clared his choice for the Democratic nomination. Colonel Watterson said that in his opinion the Republicans could not elect either Roosevelt or Taft and said the election, of Roose velt and the abrogation of the third term tradition would be a step toward absolutism. FIGURE WIZARD IS DEAD "Marvelous" Griffith, Mathematical Wonder, Is Apoplexy Victim. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 25. Ar thur F. Griffith, of Milford, Ind., a lightning calculator who has bewild ered vaudeville attendants throughout the country for a numoer oi years oy his" mathematical wlzardy, was found dead of apoplexy in his bed at a local hotel today. Griffith was known professionally as "The Marvelous Griffith." He was 31 years old. Within recent years his peculiar powers have been given many trsts by professors of mathematics and psychology at Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Indiana and Northwestern University. FIRE STARTS PANIC AT YULETIDE FETE Pastor and Daughter Hurt in St. Johns. CROWDS BOLT FOR WINDOWS Contrivance to Hold Gifts Ig nited by Electric Light Bulb. CHANCE SAVES CHILDREN Little Ones Assembled In Front of Building Escape Rush of Elders. Girl Severely Burned by Blaz ing Cotton Batting. ST. JOHNS, Or., Dec. 25. (Special.). The bursting of an electric light globe attached to a miniature airship used in the Christmas exercises at the United Evangelical Church here tonight caused a Are in which Ruth Stover, 7-year-old daughter of Rev. J. A. Stover, and her father were severely burned, and re sulted in a panic among the 200 persons in the church. Following the explosion and fire, men, women and children made, a wild rush for the exits. With the doors jammed with excited, fighting people, many persons leaped from the windows, but as far as is known tonight, only two were severely injured. Many per sons, however, sustained minor bruises. Chance Saves Children. That the many children in the church were not trampled upon and injured is dut to the fact that most of them were seated toward the front of the house and when the struggle for the exits began they were behind the great mass of half-crazed persons. The windows of the church aro placed close to the ground and this saved many men and women, who leaped from them to safety, from in jury. In place of the usual, Christmas trea at the exercises, a model airship had been constructed and lined with cotton batting. This was suspended 10 feet above the platform. Miss Ruth Stover was seated in the airship facing the audience. Just after the programme had been completed and the distribution of pres ents begun, the accident occurred. Pastor Rushes to Girl, The explosion, of the electric light bulb ignited the cotton on the airship and instantly the whole frame work of the contrivance was ablaze. Rev. Mr. Stover rushed forward and with diffi culty reached his daughter, who was enveloped in flame. The audience im mediately became panic-stricken and plunged for the doors and windows. Some one turned in a fire alarm but the services of firemen were not neces sary to quench the flames. Little Miss Stover was severely burned about the arms and her hair was partly burned away. Rev. Mr. Stover sustained painful injuries on both arms. WAGON RUNS OVER COUPLE Sir. and Mrs. S. It. Hayner Sustains Injuries in Collision. On their way to pass Christmas with their children, S. R. Hayner, 64, and his wife, 63, living at 420 East Sixty-third street North, were knocked down by a milk wagon at Eleventh and Yamhill streets, yesterday, and both sustained broken bones and other injuries that may prove serious. . The pair were Just alighting from a car near the home of their daughter, Mrs. A. F. Hanke, 429 Salmon street, when the wagon, driven at a rapid gait, passed between them and the curb, and knocked down and ran over both of them. Witnesses place all the blame on the unidentified driver, who wen on leaving the injured couple lying, in the street The wagon bore the name of J. Furrer. Mr. Hayner suffered fractures of four ribs and a shoulder blade, and his wife's arm was broken, besides which she suffered cuts about the head. The sufferers were carried to. tha home of their daughter. Mr. Hank reported the case to the police. PUGILIST TO ENTER PULPIT Eddie Young, Champion of Coast, 19 Protege of Billy Sunday. I.A PORTE Ind.. Dec. 25. (Special. From the prlzering to the pulpit has hn the unusual career of fcddio Young, ex-lightweight champion of the Pacific Coast, who returnea to nis birthplace at Columbus, Ind. Young is a protege of Evangelist Billy Sun day. He has not begun active work as a minister yet but will enter a theological school in Chicago Boon. Young was born in Indiana bnt went to California when a child. He ran away from home at 13 and after knowing about mining camps and lumber camps until 18 entered the prizering as a featherweight. In 1304 he was champion of the Coast. His mother finally induced him to give up the fighting game and join the ehurchi He then decided to become a minister.