PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LI "SO. 15.9G3. PORTLAND. OREGON. TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1912. V GUST SHOQft GAY AVIATOR TO DEATH Daring Costs Novice at Flying His Life. PREDICTIONS COME TRUE Accident Befalls Yale Man on Heels of Warning. AERIAL HONEYMOON SEEN larrtag-e Cmrnonr Performed tn Aeroplane at Lo Angles Mft Treacherous Wind Spoil Part of Bridal Tour Plana. LOS ANGELES. Jan. 22. Rutherford Page, aged M. a Tale graduate, tared from New Tork and flying aa on of tha Curtlaa aviators, foil IS feet to hla death thla afternoon on Dominance Field, a few momenta be for the close of tho third day'a pro gramme of tho third International art atlnn meet. Hie death, tha doctora said, waa Instantaneous. Almost every bono In rage's body broken. Hla neck waa broken, both less and trail and bla rheet i-rushed. rase waa endeavoring to "torn on a plrot" at a height of about ISO foot when tha swell of air orer tho bangers raught hta planea. Frlgkteaed Avtater Jasasta. Page made an effort to regain bla balance, but evidently fearing that tha aeroplane had gotten beyond control. tiT. up and when abont fO feat In tha air Jumped clear of the machine aa It wi) dropping Ilka a plummet. He cleared tha machine and fell flat Into the plowed ground. According to tha doctora he waa cruehed to death. Page waa flying for tha flret time as a licensed aria tor, baring been awarded hla llcenae Saturday. Hla flying early today waa one of tho spec tacular features, deaplta a puffy and treacherous wrnd wMch lent color-to the free expression of predict lone that tha day would be marred by acci dent. Pago Tartlla Crowd. Page waa one of tha flret to leave tha ground. In the flret beat of the flve-mlle handicap. In which he and Lincoln Beachey. the Curtlaa veteran, were the contestant. Page thrilled tha crowd by hla sensational maneuv ers. All of the dlpa and aharp turna made by Beachy were duplicated by Page, who waa even more daring than Beachey. The more experienced aviators shook their beads when they witnessed Page's apparently foollah avolutlona and when he descended. Glenn Curtlaa. who taught htm to fly, cautioned him against attempting at hta first meet to perform feats of flying that required long experience to learn. Yeeaa; Avtater Beaatfal. Tase merely laughed and aaaured Turtles that he waa "all to tho good. Purine the afternoon the young New Torker had told those about the hang era that be would beat Beachey "or break my fool neck." Taga lived In New Tork with hla mother and two slaters. Hla father la dead. Ho waa graduated from Tale la Ills and waa a member of tho Yale Club of New Tork. About alz weeka ago ha Joined tho Curtlaa camp at San Diego, where ha received hla first Instructions In flying. Glenn It. Curtis, after tha acclcfent, declared that Page'a death waa due to lack of experience and hla extreme daring. Darlasi Leads te Death. "He waa mora than fearless," de clared Curtlaa. "Ha had been called tho aecond Beachey. and It waa predicted by all who had witnessed Page'a early flights that he would be a world beater If some such thine aa happened today did not end hla career." Immediately after the ace'dent tha wreckage of Page's machine was piled up and burned to prevent Its being carried away piecemeal aa souvenirs. An aeroplane marriage and a man hunt by aeroplane were tha principal features of the day'a programme. Miss Leona Cowan and Neal Cochrane, both of Los Angeles, were wedded seated In Clifford Turpln's Wright biplane and although It waa planned to have tha pair make a trip together, conditions were such as necessitated tha carry ing out of the honeymoon by Install ments. Turpln first took the bride on a Jaunt through the air and later Phil Parmalee took the bridegroom on a cross-country spin. PACK'S HOME IX XEW YORK Death 1 F1rt Air Fatality In In I ted States in l12. NEW TORK. Jan. St Rutherford Page, who waa killed at Loa Angeles, waa the son of Mrs. William D. Page, of IT East Thirty-eighth street, thla city. Page bad done aoma practicing at the aviation school at Nassau Boule vard. Long Island. In a machine aald tn have been of hla own construction. Tage's death Is the first aviation fa tality in thla country In IMS. and the 114th In the world ainco actual flying brgan nearly four years ago. There have been three deaths of aviators In France since January 1, CHATS WITH SPIRIT WORLD HELD EASY MRS. HASTIE TELLS OF MESS AGES FROM QUEEN VICTORIA. "A Pure Mind la Only Needed to Commune With the Departed." Depoaltlon In Tlngley Case, SAN DIEGO. CaX. Jan. 22. Cora tnunlcatlona from tha spirit world ware aaay, according to tho deposition of lira. Mary L. Use tie. companion of Mrs. Harriet P. Thurston, whose will mak Ing Mrs. Katharine Tlngley tha chief benefactor la being contested by Mrs. Thurston's eon. George L. Patterson. The reading of the depoaltion waa re sumed In Superior Court today. Mrs. Hastle'a receipt of mind im pressions from Queen Victoria, the prophecy aha received from Bishop Joyce and visions aba had of a Virgin Mary and Christ were deacrlbed In de tail. Mrs. Haetle aald In tha depoal tion that aha never had received any communication from tha Virgin Mary or Christ. "A pure mind ta only needed to com mune with the departed." said Mrs. Haatle In explaining bow she waa pos sessed of that power. "I hava a pure mind." was her statement on thla point. Tha reading of tha deposition waa not completed today. Antlclpatione are that at least a month will be re quired to complete taking testimony In the case. ' DEMOCRATIC LIST DRAWN Committee to Arrange Convention Named by Chairman Mack. NEW TORK. Jan. it. Chairman Norman E. Mark, of the Democratic. National Committee, today announced the committee on arrangements for the Democratic National convention. Chairman Mack. Vlce-Chalrman Hall. of Nebraska, and Secretary Vrey Wood son. of Kentucky, are ex-offlclo mem bers of the committee on arrange meats. Thoaa appointed by tha chair man are: Josephua Daniel, of North Carolina; Clark Howell, of Georgia, and John T. McGraw, of West Virginia, represent Ing the South Atlantic States: Martin J. Wade, of Iowa, Edwin O. Wood, or Michigan; Roger C. Sullvan. of Illinois and Thomaa Taggart, of Indiana, rep resenting tho Middle Western Statea; Robert Ewlng. of Louisiana, repre senting the Gulf Stataa; Robert S. Hud speth, of New Jersey, and Thomas H. Brown, of Vermont, representing tho Eastern and New England States; ex- Governor John E. Osborne, of yo- mlng, representing the Rocky Moun tain and Pacific Coaat Statea, and J. F. Talbot, of Maryland. NORTHWESTERN EYES CITY President Oardnrr Expected in Portland on Secret Mission. William A. Gardner, president of tha Chicago A Northwestern Railway, haa been In tha Northwest for the past week. It la aald. on business connect ed with the proposed entrance by hla road Into Oregon and Washington. The fact that ha la traveling In an effort to prevent hla movements from becoming known la taken to Indicate that bla mission Is one of more than ordinary Importance. Tho Northwest era frequently haa threatened to lnvada tha Northwest In the last few years, and recent activities of Its agents. It la aald. have been with tho definite purpose of securing a foothold In this territory at tha earliest possible date. It Is said that tha Northwestern is Interested In some of the recent real estate activity on the East Hide and that It now Is negotiating for terminals In Portland. President Gardiner la expected In Portland within tha next few days. KNOX TO BE SUBPENAED House Committee Determined Find Ont About $20,000. to WASHINGTON. Jan. 21. A second subpena commanding the production of voucher recorda will be served on Secretary of State Knox by the House committee on expenditures of the State Department In order to Ret before tha public the method of expenditure of 120.000 appropriated for tha celebra tion in 190 of the discovery of Lake Champlalit. V Chairman Hamlin Intimated to Sec retary Knox, who was on the witness stand, that he Intended to make a test case of tha Lake Champlaln Incident, but before doing so he would Issue tha "subpena duces tecum" to give Mr. Knox a chance te make answer to It. Secretary Knox declined to make public the Lake Champlaln expendi tures" today. Ha said ha acted under tha order of tha President C0RVALLIS WILL GET LINE Oregon Electric to Ron Branch to City Thla Summer. ALBANY. Or, Jan. 22. (Special.) That the Oregon Electric la planning to build a branch Una this Summer front the Albany-Eugene line to Cor- valils la shown by developments here today. Representatives of the com pany have taken tha preparatory steps toward securing rights of way. Thia branch line will leave the Al bany-Eugene line at a point five miles aouth of Albany and run almost In an air line to Oorvallla. It la aald that the Oregon Electric has mads an ar rangement with the County Court of Benton County for Joint uae of the wagon bridge which that court Is pre paring to erect across the Willamette at Cor vail Is this BummerJ RECALL INDORSED BY LA FOLLETTE Senator Begins Inva sion of New York. "PROGRESSIVES" IN SESSION Wisconsin Man Favors Votes- for-Women Campaign. ROOSEVELT NOT PRESENT Gilford Plnchot Sap He Will Sup port Insurgent Statesman for President Candidate Is Cheered by Crowd. NEW TORK. Jan. II. Tha political atmosphere In tha East waa further changed tonight by the first appear ance In thla aectlon of Senator R. M. La "Follette, of Wisconsin, alnce he an nounced his candidacy aa a "progres siva Republican" for tha Presidential nomination. In connection with the Senator's coming there was political gossip to the effect that Colonel Roosevelt also might appear at tha Carnegie Hal masa meeting which Mr. La Follette ad dressed and possibly lend asslatance to his boom, but the Colonel waa not present. Instead ha attended a dinner of several prominent leaders In charity work. Plaehot Makra Speech. Glfford Plnchot, a close friend of President Roosevelt, who has been re garded as a staunch Roosevelt lieuten ant, appeared with Senator La Follette, however, and presided at tha meeting. He presented the Senator aa tha "can didate I support for tha Republican Presidential nomination." While the meeting was under way tha crowd that aought admittance waa so large that tha police had to keep the throng away. seaator la Cheered. When tha Senator waa finally led to tha platform In tha hail the audience rose and shouted, women waved hand kerchiefs and cheera were given for ulm aa the "next President of the United 6tatea." "I have admonished." said La Fol lette. "that I am to addresa an audl- ( Concluded on Pare 2.) HE CAN'T STOP m INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDAfS Maximum temperature, degrees; minimum. 38 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds. 4T Dr. Son accuses Premier Yuen of trickery. Pace 8. Japanese Foreign . Minister reiterates tia- tlon's friendship for United Tese 4. National. Statea. Democrats propose 30 to 50 per cent cuts la sieei tiiirr. rift o. Bouse committee exonerates Dr. Wiley. Page a. roll Ilea. Judge Donwortb withdraws resignation to save Tart from faolng dilemma. Page X. La rollett speaks In New Torw for first time alnce ha ODtoid campaign, rut i- Taft refuses to believe Hitchcock Is dls loyal. Page . Domeetlc. Railway linking Key West with Florida mainland operates. Page 1. Oust of wind sends daring aviator ta death on heals of warning. Page J. Chats with sou-lta easy, says woman In Tlngley caaa. pace 1. County, state and Illinois Central Inrestlgat- Ing wreck that killed officials. Pace a. Duke of Connaught decides to visit Wash ington. Page S- bport. Roadsters' Spring camp may be at Chios. Page 7. Johnny Coulon knocks out Harry Forbes la third round. Pase 7. Attell-Brown decision starts rivalry among tight critics. Pace 7. McCarthy. Multnomah wrestler, may surprise unselc Spokane champion, page Pacific Northwest. Professor Hrschel Parker starts on attempt to scale Mount Mchllnler. Page 8. Death of young woman near Newport, found snot through heart, le mysuiyiag. f aga a. Kehalem City wins fight for water supply. Pace . Attorney-aeneral contends part of univer sity petitions thrown out must be al lowed as valid. Page I. Salem Council passes ordinance to raise sa loon licensee over Mayors veto, rage Eyes of Dr. Haxxard terror to patient, tes tifies slater of dead woman, rase i. Hlllsboro woman convicted of wielding gun- Pase J. Mother and son wounded by pistol la hand of youth. Page e. Commercial and Marine. All cereals strong la Northwestern markets. Page 17. Wheat nervous aad Irregular at Chicago. Page 17. Trading In bends Is broad and confident. Page 17. Broadway bridge foundation is completed two months ahead of time. Page IS. Portland and Vicinity. East Side Business Men'e Club discusses purchase of Home Telephone company oy State of Oregon. Page 18. Inquisitor finds distressing cases or loan shark work In city. Page ll. Council alms to curb telephone and light companies in deposit fee practice. Page lu. Stata has only one peremptory challenge left In Wilde case, rage 1. New distance rates ordered by Railroad commission are regarded aa Portland aid. Page 10. Twelve Burns enthuslaatis dine together In celebration of Oregon Short Line a pro posed entry to Harney County. Page 10. Men who say they represent unemployed threaten to use force ix city ooes not grant relief, page 11. I) W. W. supporter and religions faith fol lowers fill street with noise. Page lo. Only one challenge left prosecution In Wilde case. Page 1. Western opera Is magnet of fashionable Portland folk. Page 4. Mualc of "The Girl of the Golden West" strangely Impressive. Page 4. Holdup man shoots bartender In arm. rage 4. AN APPETITE, STARVED FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS. u DR. HAZZARD'S EYES TERRORIZE PATIENT Sister of Dead Woman Tells of Treatment. BROTH DIET MAIN FOOD "Starvation Cure" Doctor In troduces Letters to Aid. ACCUSED HIGHLY PRAISED Communications Describe Women Getting Better In Health, but 3Ilss Williamson Says She Wrote Just as Directed. SEATTLE, Jan. 22. Miss Dorothea Williamson declared on the witness stand at Port Orchard today that Mrs. Linda Burfleld Haizard. who la an trial In tho Kitsap County Superior Court accused of starving; to death Miss Claire Williamson, her sister, waa un kind to her at Olalla and that she feared Mrs. Haizard to such an extent that she would have Ions; crying- spells when ahe thought of meeting; tho atar- vatlon doctor. This statement was made by Miss Williamson In the cross- examination by the defendant's coun sel. "You had an awful fear of Mrs. Hag gard T" Miss Williamson waa asked. Witness Telia of Fright. "Tea. I feared Mrs. Hazzard. Ono evening; I waa In my room crying and Mlsa Robinson was trying to soothe me when Mrs. Hazzard came home from Seattle. She rushed up stairs, seised my wrists and told me to be quiet. She stared at me so hard that I acreamed with horror. Mlsa Robinson was near and I darted to her and grabbed her for protection, and she aoothed me." 'Were you In your right mind at that timer1 'Yes. I was, except that I was stupid from weakness," " Miss Williamson said that she didn't know whether Mrs. Hazzard waa un kind to Claire, as she waa not per mitted to see her. She said Mrs. Haz zard told her that she would be better If she would not see Claire often. She (Concluded on Page 2.) WOMAN CONVICTED OF WIELDING GUN ROAD SUPERVISOR AXD CREW COWED BY PELLETS. Sheriff Present In Tualatin Valley When Difficulty Arose, but Ac cused Was Obdurate. - HILLS BO RO, Or.. Jan. 22. (Special.) A Jury In the Circuit Court this morn ing; returned a verdict of guilty against Jennie McE. Galbreath, of Tualatin, charged with pointing a firearm. The defendant asked for Ave days to argue for a new trial. The charge was the result of a gun play at Tualatin August 29. 1911, when a crew, under the direction of Road Supervisor C F. Casteel, waa endeav oring to remove a fence built In what the oounty officials Insist la a highway In front of the Galbreath residence. The supervisor started to remove tha fence and Sherff Hancock waa sent to the scene to preserve peace. The officer entered the house to see that no one molested the workmen and after he had talked with Mrs. Gal breath for a few .minutes she excused herself and went upstairs. A minute later a shot waa fired, supposedly from the upstairs window, and the shot rattled close to the supervisor and his laborers, who fled. The Sheriff rushed upstairs and found Mrs. Galbreath seated In a rock er. In response to a question aa to whether or not she fired the shot Sheriff Hancock said that she declined to answer. A shotgun was found In the next room, with an empty Bhell on the floor. None of the crew was struck by any of the shot. The defendant was Indicted by the grand ' Jury, charged with "pointing a firearm." The case has attracted wide spread attention and will doubtless go to the Supreme Court. 'RAFFLES" SEEKS DEATH Tired of Life, Gentlemanly Robber Faces Revolver. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 22. wanted to die. I courted death In front of that Italian's big revolver, waa weary of the fight and wanted to give up." This statement was made In the City Hospital here today by Fred H. Helmer, a "gentleman robber," shot and serl ously wounded last night by an Italian storekeeper after Helmer had held up half a dozen persons and taken small amounts. Physicians today said Helmer might recover and thus be cheated of his dearest wish to die. "I am of good family In New York, where I was born." Helmer said. "Had It not been for the great fire in San Francisco, which took all I had, should be all right today." uiacalone. the Italian, bears out Helmer's statement that he faced full around and received the bullet without flinching. Helmer's holdups were ac complished with an old-fashioned "bulldog" revolver. Innocent of loads, BONDS BRING 3.1 PER CENT Block of $5 63,050 for City Improve ments Sell Readily. Portland improvement bonds total ing ?G6S.250 were sold yesterday by tho ways and means committee of the City t-ouncii at premiums better than 2 per cent. Out of a total of $621,499 of fered for sale the city purchased but 158.249 at par. The balance of $563, 250 was in great demand, as was ap parent by bids totaling nearly $3,500,- 000. Following are the successful bidders and the premiums: Ladd & Tllton. $5000 at 3.1 per cent; W. F. White, $10,000 at 3 per cent; A. Tlchner, $105,500 at 2.5 per cent; A. TV. Dolson, $2500 at 2.25 per cent; Hibernla Savings Bank, $10,000 at 2.26 per cent; Ladd & Tilton, $100,000 at 2.1 per cent; United States National Bank, $3000 at 2.6 per cent and $250,000 at 2.16 per cent; Emma Drake, $250 at 2.5 per cent; S. F. Siferd, $2000 at 2.25 per cent; W. F. White, $250,000 at 2.17 per cent; Hiber nla Savings Bank, $50,000 at 2.16 per cent. EDICT IS AIMED AT "RATS" Women. Voters Must "Wear Hair Flat So Clerk Can Measure Height. WILLOWS. Ca'. Jan. 22. (Special.) The County Clerk has found it more difficult to register women as voters than it is to register men, and has Issued an edict that has attracted the attention of the fair sex throughout the county. He has found difficulty tn measuring their height on account of the pre vailing mode of hair dressing. Many come with their hair dressed high, and the county officer is unable to get their correct height. In order to avoid this trouble the clerk has caused a notice to be published asking women to dispense with "rats." etc, and wear their hair flat when they come to reg ister. DIVISION OF CROOK URGED Culver Development League .Would . Divide Interior County. PRINEVILLE, Or., Jan. 22. (Spe cial.) A proposal for division of Crook County has been offered by the Culver Development League. Resolutions have been drafted and sent to all the com mercial bodies In the interior urging a plan for carving three counties of Crook and asking other organizations In Cen tral Oregon to. join them In a call for a county convention at Prinevllle. BUT ONE CHALLENGE LEFT WILDE'S FOES Four Peremptories Re main for Defense. JURY MAY BE IN TOMORROW Senator La Follette's Cousin Dropped by State. , ;i NOISY COURTROOM QUITTED Racket Made by Builders Prompts Judge Havana ugh to Remove to . Quiet Quarters One Venire- i man Mistrusts Morris. . ' Both the defense and the proseeu tion in the Wilde case yesterday ex erclsed an additional peremptory chal- lenge and each excused one prospect Ive Juryman who had been passed by both sides. The defense retired C. O. Paine, re&l estate dealer, of 1641 Olln street, at the conclusion of his pre liminary examination. It was apparent that Paine favored the prosecution, Barney Haffey, a saloon man, 82Va! Third street North, was tho venire man excused by the prosecution. la his examination last week Haffey waa forced to admit that he had been prose cuted three times by the District At torney's office for Illegally selling liquor Sundays. For this reason the) state did not want to take any chancea with Haffey, who was believed to be naturally prejudiced against the prose cutlon. Repeatedly declaring that be had: no confidence In tho Integrity of W Cooper Morris and that he would not believe any testimony in the case by Morris, even If it were corroborate! by competent witnesses, C B. La Fol lette, real estate dealer, of 106 Fast Eighty-first street North, and a sec ond cousin of Senator La Follette, of Wisconsin, aspirant for the Presi dency, disqualified himself as a Juror and was excused by Judge Kavanaugh on a challenge for cause preferred by counsel for the state. Railway Agent Failed. L. C. Batchelder, assistant foreman American Can Company, of 695 Borth wlck street, was passed for cause by both sides and the examination of J, T. Lacey, special agent for the Port land Railway, Light & Power Com pany, 104 East Seventy-second street North, had not been concluded when court adjourned until 9:30 o'clock this morning. Lacey had been passed for cause by the defense and was being questioned by Special Prosecutor Clark, for the prosecution, at the time of the adjournment. It was evident from the character of questions being asked of Lacey by counsel for the state that an effort will be made to disqualify him as a Juror In the case. Pertinent ques tions were asked of the venireman aa to whether he had not discussed tho Wilde case and Its merits In the last 10 days. Dlarnssloa of Case Denied. In his questions Mr. Clark implied that Lacey had conversed with "Blllie" Mitchell or Lou Carpenter or one of the operatives connected with their detective agency. Lacey, however, emphatically declared that he had not discussed the merits of the case with anybody and denied that any person had undertaken to approach him con cerning the approaching trial. Mr. Clark will resume his Interrogation of Lacey this morning. Lacey was called to the Jury box last Tuesday morning, but waa ex cused by Judge Kavanaugh because of a badly ulcerated tooth. He waa called again yesterday to take the place vacated by the retirement of Haffey, peremptorily challenged by tha prosecution. After leaving the Courthouse, did, you have your tootn treated r in quired Mr. Clark. Yes, sir." Who was your physician?" I treated the tooth myslf," explained Lacey. "I went direct to a saloon at 246 Alder street, where I found effect ive treatment. It not only cured my, rouble, but I slept good that night. too." Morris Sot Trusted. Mr. Batchelder readily qualified as a prospective Juror in the case and was accepted temporarily after an exami nation of less than an hour. Batchel der believed that the fact that when an indictment is returned against a man It is indicative that a crime haa been committed, but he would suspend Judgment until he had heard the evi dence and received the court's instruc tions as to the law. He would not take the word of Morris unsupported, but would receive any testimony Morris might offer and consider it for what it was worth, mindful all the time that Morris was a convicted felon and that he might have a motive In giving his testimony. Answering a question from Mir. Ma larkey as to whether he thought any crime had been committed in connec tion with the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank. Paine, at the morning session, said that "where there is so much smoke, there must be some Are." Ha explained that in his opinion something was worn? with the management of the hank. A plea of guilty by Morris, (Concluded on Face IX 1