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3 DIE WHEN GREAT ICE BRIDGE BREAKS Niagara Wonder Swept Into Whirlpool. HUSBAND AND WJE DR3WN Man Refuses Rescue When He Cannot Save Woman. YOUTHFUL HERO IS LOST Id CVnld Have Reached. Safety If He Had Not Stopped to Give Aid Firemen of Two Nations Join In Futile Effort. NIAGARA FALLS. Feb. 4 Ths treat lc bridge that ha choked the river channel between tha cataract and tha tipper steel arch bridge below tha fall" for tha past threa weeks broks from Ita shoring at noon today and went to ward tha river, taking with it to thalr death a niaa and woman eald to ba Mr. and Mr. Eldrldge Stanton, of To ronto, Canada, and Burretl Heacock. IT years old. of Cleveland, a Fear other persons wera on tha lea at the time, bnt managed to ret ashora la safety. Bride Reararde as Sale. Tha bridge was considered safe. For weeks tha great fields of tea hsd been com lac down the river. ptllnr np aaslnst the barrier until It waa from to to feet thick and under tha In fluence of sero weather tha great mass had becotna anchored firmly to tha shore. Tha Jam was about 1000 feet wide and In some places a quarter of a mile In breadth. For two weeks It bad offered safa passage to tha hardy, and today an Immense crowd of excursionists cama to view tha Winter wonder of tha river. Had the accident happened an hour Ifcter hundreds would hare loat their lives, for tha crowd was moving- Into Prospect Park In tha elevators that . rua down tha cliff for tha purpose of venturing out on tha tea. Mas Jparme Rnn. Somewhere deep In tha great whirl pool tonight lies tha man. partly Iden tified as Mr. Stanton, who twice pnt aside bis chances of rescue to remain with his terror-stricken wife, and who. In the shadow of death Just at tha break In the rapids, spumed asslstsnca for himself and attempted to bind about tha woman'! body a rope dangling from tha lower steel arch bridge. Tha lad. Burrell Heacock. had he not turned back on tha lea to give asslst snca to the man, also might hare made the shore. On the bridge, when It tora from tha hire, besides these three wera Mon roe Gilbert, of this city; Ignatius Roth. rf Cleveland, Heacock's companion; William Hill, an old rlverman: William Lablond. rlverman. and an unidentified Italian. Waaaaa Falls, ExhaBMed. Hill's shack was nearest to tha American shore. When ho heard tha grinding and crushing of the Ice ha ran et top speed toward tha Canadian shore, calling to the others to follow him. La blond gave them warning that safety lay I : that direction. Gilbert and tha Italian followed their lead, but tha others became confused. By the time they had regained their composure, the bridge waa going fast down tha river. The man and woman started first to ward the American shore. but they were stopped by a lane of open water. Back they ran again towards the Canadian side, turned sbout and made for the Ameri can aide. When hardly more than SO yards frjin the rocky shore, the woman fell on her face, utterly spent. I can't go on: I can't go on." aha cried. "Let ua die here. Great Ire Field reds Oa All tha time the great field of lea went on. breasting the terrible outrush of the Niagara Falls Power Company's tunnel outflow, the mightiest current In all the river, without being broken. As the woman fell, the man tried to get her to her feet again and tried to drag her along the Ice. calling for assistance to Roth and Heacock. Heacock turned back to the couple, and helped support the woman. The act cost him his life. Roth struggled along over the hum mocks of Ice, getting close to ths open stretch of water at the Canadian end of the Jam. There were men on tha shore ready to give him assistance Lablond. Hill; William Cook and Harry King, superintendent of the Ontario Power Company. They were stationed st the bottom of the cliff. Just at tha foot of Eastwood street. Niagara Falls, CnL Roth was afraid to trust him self in the Icy waters. Lablond Jumped out to the field of lc with a rope and half carried, halt dragged the boy ashore. Flraasea Try ta Save. Tha men then made an effort to reach the other three on tha Ice floe. but at a point too feet below tha upper steel arch bridge the Ice field broke Into two great fields. One section an chored near the hydraulic power-house. The moving floe with the three help less beings passed slowly down the river. Meantime Niagara Falls firemen CCaacIud.d sa fas a.) HOT RACE ON FOR APEX OF McKINLEY FAIRBANKS PARTY SETS OCT TO BEAT SCIENTISTS. Alaskans Declare) Ilonot of Ascend ing to Summit First Must Bo to Residents of Northland. FAIRBANKS. Alaska, Feb. 4. (Spa claD In an effort to beat the Parker Browne Mount McKlnley expedition, traveling from Seward by way of tha beadwatera of Susltlna RlVer and Mul drow Glacier, a party of local men. financed by the Fairbanks Times, will leave here tomorrow morning. Two sled loads of provisions weighing 100 pounds and hauled by 1 doga are to ba taken over the Kantlshna trail to the base of the north slope of the peak where a permanent camp will ba established. Tha Times party comprises Martin Nash. George 8. Lewis. Ralph Calms and Jack Phillips. They Intend to study the most feasible route and make a dash for the ommlt by March IS. Professor rarker and Belraora Browne'a party have a camp In the same vicinity. Since the Cook climb proved a fake. Lloyd, of Fairbanks, declared he scaled the peak In 1S10 and placed a flag at the. top. The Parker-Browne party Intends to show that no flag Is there and so get the honor for themselves. The Times party was organised to prevent the possible honor of tha first ascent going to non-residents of Alas ka. Keen Interest Is manifested here tha mm and confidence la expressed h. h Times nirtr. who will take scientific Instruments and cameras and collect exhaustive data, will win. WIFE-COLLECTING IS FAD Brovra Has Accompanying Mania for Pianos, Says One Spouse, LOS ANGELES. Feb. (Special.) Tha trial of Nelson Brown on the charge of bigamy was continued In Judge McCormlck's court yesterday af ter one of his wives, Mrs. Lura Brown, of Portland, with the consent of tha tuda-a and tha District Attorney. swore to an Insanity complaint against him. According to a statement she made ta ftecretarr of the Court Gould. Brown haa a habit of collecting wives and pianos. He bas eight wives and seven pianos, sne Mki. Mrs. Lura Brown had not lived with her husband for five years when ha was arrested on the bigamy charge. Brown Is In tha County Hospital. CURRY GETS FIRST AUTO State Issues Registry Number to Gold Beach Owner. SALEM. Or, Feb. 4. Speclal- The automobile haa finally penetrated Into Curry County and. according to tha records In the automobile department of tha Secretary of State's office. Delmer Colgrove. of Gold Beach, who has Just sent In his application for an automobile license. Is the first one to take out automobile registration In that county. rmninm In tha realstrr department era confident that he Is the first person In that county to own an automooue. 1 ABOVK, PREMDKXT MADERO. or M,CO. MHOS '.'?ipgiB' (COPIRlUlIT BV AMUItlCAJI PHEM ASSOCIATION . MEXICO TO RETURN TO DIAZ' METHODS Agitators Will Be Pun ished Swiftly. OFFICIAL POLICY IS DECIDED Drastic Cure Is Proposed for Revolutionary Disease. JUAREZ REVOLT MYSTERY Madero Government Does not Be lieve Mutiny of Garrisons In North Had Any Connection With Other Fprlslngs. TROOPS TO RE HELD READY. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. To meet any emergency that may arise la connection with the unsettled condi tions hi Northern Mexico. General Leonard A. Wood, chief of staff of the rnlted Btatss A mix. today Is sued orders to commanders of sev eral Army posts In various parts of the country to hold their troops la readlnese for doty along the border. General Duncan. In command of the Department of Texas, was In structed to "use his own Judgment" In moving the troops under him In enforcing neutrality laws or strength ening the various garrisons along the International line. MEXICO C1TT. Feb. 4. Without blare of trumpets and without official proclamation the Federal government proposes to employ the drastic meth ods of Diss In restoring peace. Im mediate application of the new policy will ba tha cation's only apprlsal of It. This Is the substance of a statement by a Cabinet Minister today. Swift punishment la to be the portion of all agltatora who can be reached, whether of gun or pencil. A few newspaper writers will be deported. It la said, un der that provision of the constitution which provides for the expulsion of un desirables. Public parades and street oratlona are to be prohibited In cases where the purpose Is In any manner connected with the political affairs. Natieaal Disease Dlagaoeed. This prescription Is In accordance with tha government's diagnosis of tha revolutionary disease that has broken out In so many parts of the country. Official figures place the loss In death, both north and south, since Jan uary 26, as follows: Federals. 34; rebels, from 222 to 272, and non-combatants. 10. Unofficial reports, apparently well founded, add to these figures IS federal dead and 45 rebel dead. Juet how many men now are In arms (Concluded on Pass 2.) OFFICIALS AND PLACES - . ... t .. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 40 nsres; minimum, 37 degrees. TODAl'8 Rain, southeasterly winds. Foreign Inrentor of parachute killed when device falls to open. Page 8. Madero government to adopt Dies methods In crushing rebel movements. Pass L. Two provisional governments probable oatcome of Chinese Empire. Page ft. National. President suspends Valentine's order pro hibiting religiose Insignia In Indian schools. Page 6. Tatt to appoint Judse Hook: Carpenter to fill Groascup's place. Pace ft. Bourne's omission causes serious delsy to Portland's new Pottofnce. Page ft. Domestic Labor leaders disturbed by rumors .of In dianapolis indictments. Psge 2. Chauffeur who suddenly falls heir to for tune, says he'll be no piker. Page 2. Matrons battle over dying butterfly. Page 1. Widow of man -whom chauffeur killed may make home on ranch, though will gave her only II. page . Henry Clay pierce rays" dsushter-ln-law 1200.000 for son's freedom. Paga 8. Husband and wife and youthful hero car ried to death whsa Niagara lea bridge breaks. Pass 1. Ex-Portland man held as Important witness In New York bomb mystery. Page 8. Mrs. 8uydsm-Nobls snd young plumber hue bend carry out aniclda pact. Pace 1. Chinese gunners halt controversy for mil lionaire's funeral. Page 2. Do Lerm. missing head of defunct orchard company, also In telephone deal. Page 4. ports. Mount Scott soccer team defeats Independ ents. Page 8. Bud Sharp arrives at Oakland to take charge of team. Page 8. Coast clubs to waive on Catcher Tom Mur ray. Page 8. Kschles nine wins championship of Port land Indoor Baseball League. , Page I. Pacific Northwest. Dr. Hsssard Is found guilty of manslaughter. Page 1. Agreement reached with Desert Land Board . permitting completion of Bend project. Page 9. State supplies for six months will cost "8.- 882. Ps is a. Mrs. Mable Young Warner says she will nle seventh will In contest for $50,000 estate. Page . Mad race on to heat Parker to Ht MeKla- ley Pege 1. Steam yacht I aqua raported In distress oft Fslss Point, near Cape . Mendocino. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. Second Indictment against Louis J. Wilde msy be dismissed today. Pegs 14. Charles H. Chick, tlmberland operator and central figure in three sensational suits, married. Psge T. Chlnstown. stirred by arrests In murder case, on MrKi of tong war. Page 14. Portland Central Labor Council sends state ment broedcast warning immigrants from Oregon. Page 10. Comraon-user clause in Fourth-street fran chise perplexes Councllmen. Page 4. Pastor ssys all religions have healing abilities. Page 14. f Many sermons prearhed In day to swell endowment of Willamette University, page 12. 3 TRANSPORTS FOUNDER Reports or Disaster to Italian Vew sels Roach Constantinople. LONDON, Feb. 4. A Constantinople dispatch to' the Daily Chronicle says It Is announced officially that three Italian transports have foundered off Suaa, Taormine and Tobruk. No confirmation of this report has been received here from other sources. PARIS, Feb. 4. The French Govern ment has sent telegrams to Constanti nople and Obok, French Somallland. In quest of Information regarding the activities of the Italian warships in the Red Sea, especially with reference to the bombardment around Hodelda. TRIPOLI, Feb. 4. General Canova, the Italian commander, left here today for Italy. General Frugones Is now In supreme command of the troops. PROMINENT IN TEN3E MEXICAN - .i 1 t J K. . ; ill II i,. HassssssssBBMsBaM as . -"-an J -J) Z .,r : , Li - ' T 1 1 FAMOUS -iVHNITIES IN SUICIDE PACT Mrs. Suydam-Noble and Husband Dead. TWO, EMBRACED, INHALE GAS Ex-Wife of Millionaire and t Plumber End Romance. DESERTED' NABOB SILENT Rich New Yorker From Whose Magnificent Home Woman Fled to Join Soul Mate, so Unnerved . He Drives Anto Over Man. f NEW YORK, Feb. 4. Double sui cide . today ended the sensational ro mance of the former wife of Walter I Suydam and Frederick Noble, the young- plumber for the love of whom Mrs. Suydam ran away from her mil lionaire husband and married. The bodies of Noble and his bride of a month were found In their New Tork apartment today. The couple bad been asphyxiated by gas. Tha suicide pact, the discovery of its resulta by Mrs. John J. White, of Washington, D. C, mother of Mrs. No ble, and other features of tha case brought startling developments. Daughter Flees House. Mrs. White, who has an apartment on Lexington avenue, had her daugh ter as a visitor last night, and sup posed the daughter would remain over night. When, however, Mrs. White awoke this morning she found that her daughter had fled the house and she hurried. Immediately to the daugh ter's apartment on West Twelfth street. Two policemen were summoned and they forced an entrance. The entrance door had been barricaded with chairs and tables and the doors of all the rooms of the large apartment were locked and barricaded. Odor of Cos Detected. When the party forced Its way to the dining-room, the odor of gas was detected and the mother became hys terical. Breaking through the next door, which led into the kitchen, the party found Noble and his wife lying dead on the floor, their heads almost Inside the oven of the gas range. They were partly undressed and clasped In each other's arms. A great volume of gas was escaping from five burners of the range and the oven Jets also were turned on. The woman was clad In a silk ki mono. She lay with Noble's left arm encircling her body, their faces being close together. Every window In the apartment was closed and bolted. Mrs. White, who was the first to see (Concluded on Page S.) BORDER SITUATION. a Ml J. f . I i FT Ma a WIT rVO VCf V V v -7 a. A V WOMEN FIGHT OVER DYING BUTTERFLY TUSSLE CAUSES ' SENSATION IN FASHIONABLE INN. Mrs. Clement Shakes Mrs. Barker, Who Would Impale Specimen. Little Son Acts as Referee. OAKLAND, Cal., Feb. 4. (Special.) Over the quivering body of a dying butterfly Mrs. Henry Baker and Mrs. Ada D. Clement, both well known ma trons of Oakland, engaged In a hand-to-hand tussle In a room and hallway at the Key Route Inn today, which created a sensation among the guests and re sulted In the calling of the police. Tha trouble arose when Mrs. Baker, wife of a the proprietor of the fashionable hotel, Insisted upon her right to Im pale an unusual specimen of genus lepldoptera with a pin, to the distress of tha more merciful Mrs. Clement. A struggle ensued in wmcn Clement grasped Mrs. Baker by the shoulders and shook her forcibly. Ac cording to Cecil Clement, 7 -year-old son of Mrs. Clement, his mother showed cleverness and good staying powers In the encounter, boxing gracefully. The youth acted as referee and told of the experience with unquenchable glee afterwards. Sobbing. Mrs. clement told her story at the police station later. She did not succeed In getting a warrant for Mrs. Baker's arrest, but engaged an attorney to prosecute her case. Mrs. Baker says that she merely .shook Mrs. Clement off in the struggle and that she did not strike hen- WOMEN ASSESSORS NAMED Spokane Official Alms to Get Levy on Feminine Adornments. SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 4. (Special.) Seven women will be aopolnted dep uties by Glenn R- Crelghton, Assessor of Spokane County, and he expects these assistants "to make a cleanup of property hitherto unrevealed. He sees no reason why, when there are wo men Jurors, bailiffs, policemen and clerks, there should not be women as sessors and will assign them to the sections where the more wealthy live, so they can get on the taxrolls at proper valuation the diamonds and other Jewelry, laces, rugs and expen sive frippery of their sisters. That these have been overlooked in large part by the male assessors seems to be the belief of the Assessor. The deputies who begin work March 1 for one month are: Mrs. H. F. Golden. Mrs. Mary Welsh, Mrs. Delia B. Hershfield. Mrs. Lydla M. Donaldson, Mrs. Mar garet Plough. Mrs. Vanness and Mrs. Margaret McKernan. i POLICE CHARGE -WORKERS' Mounted Officers Break Up Street Meeting at Vancouver, B. C. VANCOUVER. B. C, Feb. 4. A squad of BO mounted police charged a group of 500 Industrial Workers of the World, who gathered at the Powell street grounds, a public square, to make a free speech demonstration, and broke up the meeting today. Four arrests were made. Several thousand people watched the,.attack on the Industrialists, at a safe distance. v r ill OR. HAZZARD GUILTY OF MANSU Lights Go Out as Clerk Reads Verdict. JURORS AGREE IN 20 HOURS "Starvation Doctor" Guilty of Death of Patient. ONE FORMAL BALLOT CAST Convicted Woman Bites Ijlp as Ver dict Is Read Later She Is -Vi-clons In Denunciation of What She Terms Persecution. SEATTLE. Feb. 4. Mrs. Linda Bur field Hazzard, the Seattle "starvation doctor," was found guilty of man slaughter by a jury In the Kitsap County Court at Port Orchard tonight for having caused the death by starva tion of Miss Claire Williamson, an English heiress who underwent Mrs. Hazzard's fasting treatment. As the signed verdict was handed to the Clerk to be read, Mrs. Hazzard bit her lips tightly, but showed no other emotion. Just as the Clerk began to read the verdict, the private gas plant that sup plied the courthouse failed and the room was left In darkness. Matches were burned to enable the Clerk to fin ish the reading. Five Want Murder Verdict. The penalty for manslaughter In this state Is an Indeterminate term In the penitentiary of from one to 20 years. The court has not set the day for passing sentence. The Jury was out more than 20 hours. Only one formal ballot was taken, that upon which the verdict of guilty was returned. Several preliminary . verbal ballots were used until the Jurors agreed. On the first of these five voted for murder In the first de gree, four for murder in the second degree, one for manslaughter and two refused to express -an opinion. Those who voted for a first-degreo verdict stood firm until the last, when they too agreed to manslaughter. Soon after 6 o'clock. Judge John B. Takey was notified that the Jury had reached an agreement. He called a session of court Immediately, and as soon as all the Interested parties were In the room, the Jury was sent for. Accused Is Last to Enter. Mrs. Hazzard was the last person to enter the courtroom before the verdict was read. She was accompanied by her husband and a number of close friends. Miss Dorothea Williamson, sister of the woman for whose murder Mrs. Hazzard was tried, went to Tacoma early In the afternoon and was not In court when the verdict was read at 6:85 o'clock. Counsel far Mrs. Hazzard gave notice of an appeal and asked that the bond be fixed at J5000. The state's repre sentatives objected, and the court fixed the bond at $10,000. Mrs. Hazzard was remanded to the custody of the Sher iff until a new bond is given. The ar guments were made In absolute dark ness. Woman's Abuse Sharp. Mrs. Hazzard did not comment on the verdict in court, but after she left the building In the custody of the Sheriff she burst Into a storm of denunciation of the persecution she alleged she had been subjected to by members of the medical profession. E. D. Karr, of counsel for Mrs. Haz zard, said that he would rather have a verdict of manslaughter than a dis agreement, as It gave the defense an opportunity to try the many disputed legal points Involved before the Su preme Court. In arguing for a low bond, Mr. Karr declared that Mrs. Haz zard is at the end of her resources. Frank H. Kelley, special prosecutor, of Tacoma, and Thomas Stevenson, Prosecuting Attorney of Kitsap Coun ty, expressed great satisfaction with, the verdict. Mrs. Linda Burfleld Hazzard was ar rested August 6, 1011, on a charge of murder in the first degree, on an In formation filed In Kitsap County, the complaining witness being liss Doro thea Williamson, aged 37 years, who alleged that her sister, Claire William son, aged 33, was starved to death by Mrs. Hazzard. Williamson Women Wealthy. The Williamsons were English wom en of means who were on a tour around th world and who consulted Mrs. Haz zard concerning their health. Mrs. Hazzard soon had both the women In her starvation sanitarium at Olalla. where, on a diet of orange Juice and asparagus broth. Clair died May 9. 1911, and Dorothea was wasted to a skeleton. After Claire's death, Mrs. Hazzard obtained the appointment of herself aa guardian of Dorothea, by alleging that the latter was of lnlirm mina. ens atso applied for appointment as an admin istratrix of the estate of Claire Will iamson. The plight of Dorothea came to the knowledge of C E. L. Agasslz, British Vice-Consul at Tacoma, with the result that Ml3S Dorothea was declared of sound mind and her guardian removed. Mrs. Hazzard's application for letters (Concluded on Paga 3- UGHTER