Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, February 06, 1912, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text: i 1 ' ' ; 1 ' j ( ' i " . .. PORTLAXD. PRECOX. TUESDAY, . FEBRUARY 6, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 1 LA FOLLETTE if READY TO GIVE UP Switch to Roosevelt's Banner Forecast. MUOBMIGK SHOWS TREND Illinois Republicans Urged to Work for Colonel. DESERTIONS ARE RUMORED Wisconsin Senator' Xerrons Break down Partly Responsible for Loss of nope on Tart of Or ganisers of Boom. WASHINGTON. Feb. 8. (Special.) It Is apparent from developmente today that tbe organisers of tba La Follette Presidential novtrntnt in about to throw op tha sponge. Senator La Fol tetts's nervous breakdown, which mar be mora serious than his close frteoda hare been wlllinic to admit, la partly responsible. It certainly haa aenrad aa an ticut for aome persons Identified with the motemint to throw their ener eMea Into quarters that ahow the like lihood of mora practical return. Two weeka es-o there were Intima tions of desertions from the rank of the La Folletta boomers. When a round up waa held here several day a ito, par ticipated la by Glfford Plnchot and hla brother. Amos; Louts D. BrenJels. of Massachusetts; Charles R. Crane. Pro fessor C. E. Merrtam and Walter Hoger. of Chicago, together with aev 4 eral member of Consress who have been staunch defenders of the Wiscon sin Senator In his Presidential aspira tions. It was rumored that efforts were making; In the La Folletta ramp to turn his strength over to Roosevelt. The reports were emphatically denied. Now, however, there Is tangible evidence of the drift away from La Folletta. . MeCa.na.lrk laaaea Statesaeat. Medlll McCormlrk, who several months ago attached himself to the La Folletta propaganda and waa made head of Its publicity bureau, tonight rave out tha following; statement, addressed to the Illinois Progressive Republican League: "Considering; all the circumstances. Including Senator La Follette's physical condition. In tha opinion of the over whelming majority of "Progressive Re publican members of both houaea of Congress. Progresstves In Illinois must unite to aend Roosevelt delegates to tbe next National convention. "With Roosevelt and Jonea tha pro rresstvea can sweep Illlnola and eetab llsh In atata and Nation progreaalva administrations which will substitute a policy of positive leadership for a policy of compromise with principle and concession to special Interests." Tha Jones mentioned as a running mate on tbe ticket with Colonel Roosevelt Is the "progressive Repub lican candidate for the Gubernatorial nomination In Illinois. The managers of the Republican Progreaalva campaign committee, which waa another name for the La Follette Presidential organization, have done their best to maintain hla fight In the face of tbe situation that haa de- eloped within the last few weeks, iemator's Itlaesa Drawback. Even alnre the Senator waa stricken with an Illness that compelled the can celing of his speaking engagements, two or three days ago. statements have been Isssued declaratory of a deter mination to keep hla campaign going and to continue a vigorous fight for delegates In every state where the movement haa secured a foundation. Tonight, however. W. L. Hcunr, xhair man of tha La Follette campaign com mittee. Issued a statement which, to those who read between tha lines, will Indicate a conviction on tha part of the Wisconsin Senator's managers that hla personal cause practically has run Its course. Those In close touch with recent de velopments expect announcements quickly to follow from Glfford Plnchot and others who have been Identified with the La Folletta campaign of tha transfer of their active support to Roosevelt forces. Clerks still at Mark. S- far as physical conditions are concerned there Is not as yet any evi dence of a slackening of tha vticor of the La Follette fight. The extensive quarters nere are occupied by a force of clerks, but for how much longer thla will continue la problemet.caX Those who have lent bona and sinew to the La Folletta movement are men conteatlng for principles which they advocate not merely for the purpose of being beard, but because of their sin cere belief in the soundness and wis dom of those ' principles. They are atmlcg to accomplish results and have for some time been convinced that tha La Follette movement could not ac quire sufficient momentum to give any assurance of success. It hss required no hunting around for some of the men who originally ttt'-hed themselves to the La Follette standard to find another leader. Some r i;-ero were Roosevelt men originally but they also were antl-Taft men ss iniich as anything else, anl their rea- lioaciudeti on i'sae SHOWHOUSESWANT ISHI TO BE ACTOR FOCR VAUDEVILLE T IIEATERS BEi IXDIAV TO APPEAR. Primeval Man Orrrrrd Bis Salary to Brrome Footliglit Star Col lege? to tilre Decision. SAN TRANCISCO. Feb. 6. (Special.) Ishl tha Indian fresh from the for- eata. tha primeval man who even now, after aome montha In a large city, doean't know tha difference between a gin Has and a barbecue, whost quaint antics and still more quaint accom plishments have drawn great curloua throngs to the affiliated colleges mu aeum each Sabbath afternoon, can now nam hla own OffUra and burst right Into vaudeville. In the past week tha sole remaining representative of a defunct tribe haa been made four separate and distinct offers to step right out on the stage plat form and act. while managers of local ahowhouses are willing to let Ishl sign his own contract All offers for Iahl'e act have been referred to Ralph Merritt. controller of the University of California, and tha Indlan'a fate, aa Juat plain Indian or star performer, la decidedly up to him. In turn Merritt will probably refer tha offers to tha university re gents. Iahl la wanted by the Empreaa, Fantagea and Portola theaters, on Mar ket street, tha fourth bidder wishing to keep the name of his showshop a se cret. CITY HIGH AS CAR BUYER Purchase of Street Railway for Year Second In United States. Among the citlea of the United States and Canada. Portland ranks second In tha number of new streetcars and Inter urban cars placed In service In the last year. Chicago, which bought 21S new cars, takes first place. Portland bought a total of 147 cars. Figures for several other citlea are: New Tork. 1J5; Boston. 110; Detroit. 104; Minneapolis, 100; Toronto, IS; Philadelphia. If; Buffalo. 3; Oakland. 0; Kansas City. 4; Winnipeg. 32; Spo kane, St. Louis and San Francisco, 15 each; Rochester. li; Seattle. 13. All the new cars plaoed In commission In Portland were of the prepayment type, which are the accepted standard In all modern American cities. Of the new cara purchased In the larger cities of the United States, fulry to per cent were of the prepayment type. Only the smaller towns and interurban lines con tinue to use the old-style cara In the year just closed ISM new cars were bought for various Unas In the United States and Canada. SISTERS SAVE 30 PATIENTS Invalids Taken Front Horning- Insti tution at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 8. Slaters of Mercy. In charge of St. Catherine's Home, rescued 30 Invalid patients today from a fir which partially destroyed the home. The fire was discovered by the patients. Their screams for assist ance aroused the Sisters, who calmed the frightened Invalids and hurriedly rolled their cots Into the street, Mean while firemen assisted In tbe work of rescue and the women were removed to an annex of tbe home. During the fire, 300 Incorrigible girls at the Magdalen Home, near by, were kept locked In the building by attend ants and several fainted from fright. LAKEVIEW HAS HOT FIRE Opera-Honse, Store, Iodclng-Honse and Residence Destroyed. LAKEVIEW, Or.. Feb. 5. (SpclaL) Fir destroyed the Opera-house, tha Willis Furniture Company's store, the Antlers lodging-house and the resi dence of A. L. Thorton at o'clock to night. The total loss Is estimated at more than $25,000. The orlgn of tbe fire Is not known. It gained great headway in a short time and the local fire department had hard work to keep It from jumping across the street and destroying the Lakevlew Herald office. MINERS FIGHT TARIFF CUT Coenr d'AIene Operators Send Pro test to Senators. WALLACE. Idaho. Feb. i. (Special.) Prominent mining operatora of tba Coeur d'Alene district assembled here tonight and unanimously urged that a protest be sent to Representatives In Congroa against the Underwood metal tariff revision bllL The second deep cut In the valuation of lead In tbe New Tork market Is re garded with grave alarm by the mining men In this .district. PRICELESS GIFTS MADE J. P. Morgan, Jr., and Ogdcn Stills Give to American Mucum. NEW TORK. Feb. t. At the annual meeting of the trustees of the Amer ican Museum of Natural History to night important gifts to the museum by J. P. Morgan. Jr.. and Ogden Mills were announced. Mr. Morgan presented his almost priceless collection of meteorites and minerals and Mr. Mills gave the George Catlln collection of 250 oil paintings of Indians and tbe life of the redskin In tha West between 1133 and 1340. POWER VESTED If! GENERAL OROZCO Mexican Fighter Gover nor of Chihuahua. SENSATION SEEMS BREWING Reports Say De la Barra Is to Take Madero's Office. CABINET MINISTER HALTS One of President's Official Family Suddenly Retraces Steps to Cap ital on Receipt of Mysteri ous Telegram. EL PASO. Tex, Feb. 5. General Pas cual Orosoo waa Installed aa Governor of the State of Chihuahua today, ac cording to passengers arriving here to night on tha first train to reach Juares since Wednesday. No demonstration attended the Inauguration or the ar rival In Chihuahua of the mutinous Juares garrison. Orosoo will direct tha suppression of uprisings In North ern Mexico. Abram Gonsales, Minister In Presi dent Madero's Cabinet, was reported to have left on a northbound train at Santa Rosalia, bla journey to Chihua hua being Interrupted by the receipt of a telegram which It Is said threat ened a sensation. Passengers say that Chihuahua Is rife with reports that Francisco De" la Barra Is to be recalled from his pres ent mission to Italy and again be made acting President, The train left Chihuahua at noon to day, at which time the city was quiet. DICTATORSHIP IS ADVISED Gonzales Advises That Orozco Be Given Complete Powers. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 6. General Pas- cual Orozco will be appointed military dictator of the State of Chihuahua with full power to quash the uprisings. If the recommendation of the retiring act ing governor. Aurellano Gonsales, is heeded by the federal authorities. It waa asserted In a telegram from Chihuahua to a high official In the capital that 'the state government felt Itself powerless to control the situation here, and that the acting chief execu tive In tendering his resignation yes terday morning offered the above sug gestion as a possible remedy. The dispatch adds that there has been disorder In the city since tbe battle last Friday, and that no fear was felt for the American residents, who gen- (Concluded on Pass a.) ! : Sv i p ii i - n i i INDEX OF TODAYS NEWS The Weather. TESTER HAT'S Maximum temperature. 40 degrees; minimum. 89 degrees. TOPArs Occasional ratns; south to east minds. Fore!. Klnr Oeorge and Queen Mary return to England tram India. Page S. Governor of Mexican province asks appoint ment of dictator to quell outbreaks. Page 1. National. Lafferty chosen Congressional committee man for Oregon. Page 2. Borah-Jones three-year homestead bin passes In Senate. Page ft. House shrewdly avoids expression en third term." - Page 2. Politics. Organizers of La Follette boom declared ready to quit. Page 1. Domestic. Harrlson Fisher, artist, tells of ten most beautiful women. Page a. More Indictments of union labor leaders ex pected in Los Angeles. Page 2. San Francisco ahow housea beg Ishl. pri meval Indian, to become actor. Page 3- Evldence In New York bomb mystery dam aging to ex-Portland man. Page 1. Sport. New football rules tend to make game open and lessen element of chance. Page 7. Ban Francisco baa new prizefight ordinance. Page 1 Gene Krapp bolda out with Cleveland. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Flour prlrea advancing In all Coast markets Page 17. Wheat weakened at Chicago by heavy re ceipts. Page IT. Small outside Interest In, stock market. Page 17. Son of ex-PTeeldent of France to arrive In Portland Thursday to investigate trade conditions, canal opening in view. Page la. Pacific Northwest. Many eager gold saekera buay In South Bend region. Page 6. Dallas Armory dedicated at sixth snnual convention of National Guard Associa tion. Page 6. Mrs. Prances Ellen Hare. of Astoria, celebrates 101st birthday anniversary. Page 6. Investors to alft lands for gold near Med ford. then plant fruit. Page 1. Sister of victim of Mrs. Haszard'a fast cure admits aha may be bride soon. Page 8. Discharged stenographer la questioned in new Lorlmor row. Psge 1. Portland and Vicinity. Attorney John H. Stevenson may be ap pointed to Circuit bench if Judge Gan tenbeln resigns Page 12. Ministers discuss proposed remedies for dvla rill Page 11. Portland organizations unite to drive out fraudulent promoters. Page 11. Tong refuses to aid prosecution of three al leged murderers of Said King. Page 10. Taft committee decides to form county com mittees at once to begin vigorous cam paign. Page 10. Oregon's dairymen protest sgainat use of oleomargarine at asylum. Page 16. Commercial organizations resent warning away of workmen by Central Labor Coun cil. Page lo. Pleas for Willamette TTnlverslty endowment renewed at reception tendered Metho dist bishops and others. Page 12. Three men seized as counterfeiters who roads bad coin out of stolen Jewelry; one oonfesees. Page a. Orpheus Club la raided by police; man bald foe gambling. Page 4. - TEMPERANCE WORKER DIES Sirs. Mary C. Learltt Long Active as W. C. T. V. Lecturer. BOSTON. Feb. oV Mra. Mary C. Leavltt. for 40 yeara an honorary president of the World's Women Christian Temper ance Union, and a traveler in many lands In behalf of temperance, died In this city today. Mra. Leavltt was born In 1830. She traveled 300.000 miles, and, with the aid of interpreters, spoke to people In 61 languagea In behalf of temperance, morality and Christianity. TEKRCES OF THE OREGON WILDS. V - kit- Jit pzzz77ry f ssk v. k HIKES FIGURES IN HEW LORIMER ROW Discharged 'Stenog rapher Questioned. SHARP TILTS ARE FREQUENT Ex-Employe of Committee Re iterates Cry of "Fake." - CONTEMPT CHARGE FACED Senate Investigators Would Learn Connection Between Blumen berg's Charges Agalst Burns' Reporter and Lumberman. WASHINGTON. Feb. 5. Discharged as an official stenographer of the Sen ate Lorimer Investigating committee and awaiting possible further punish ment for contempt." Milton W. Blumen berg today took the witness stand be fore the committee to tell why he branded as "manufactured" the steno graphic report by J. E. Sheridan of al leged phonograph admissions by Charles McGowan. ' Statements made Saturday night be fore the committee that the notes were "faked" were repeated under oath. The tense situation Into which the Investi gation has unexpectedly shunted re sulted in sharp passages between coun sel and member! of the committee. '. ' Conduct Not Explained. Blumenberg'a discharge came after he refused to explain his conduct Sat urday In ordering his stenographers to Quit reporting the proceedings. Reso lutions were adopted looking to his punishment for contempt, and the com mittee attorneys began a search for precedents to bring Blumenberg before the bar of the Senate. The testimony of J. E. Sheridan, the 19-year-old stenographer of the Burns Detective Agency, was then completed. The witness declared his notes were genuine. He reiterated that he had not attempted to report all that came over the phonographic apparatus from the room In which detectives were talking to McGowan, but that he took only what he deemed material. A willing ness to submit to any test of speed was expressed. His now famous note book was turned over to the com mittee. Storm of Questions Followa. Blumenberg told how he "examined" Sheridan's testimony as to his "quali fications,' and bow he watched over his shoulder as he read his notes on the witness stand. Then followed a storm of questions from members on (Concluded on Page 27) SEEDS TO REPLACE GOLD IN PLACERS INVESTORS TO SIFT SAVDS IX LANDS NEAR MEDFORD. Tract Purchased for $292,000 in Foots Creek District Will Re Developed for Orchard. MEDFORD. Or.. Feb. 5. (Special.) First gleaning the gold from the land and then planting the property to apple and pear trees, ia the plan of Alex Hall and W, H. Goss, who have pur chased 2100 acres of placer ground on Foot's Creek for $292,000. The deal was closed tonight. The two men represent an Eastern mining syndicate which has placer property throughout the country said to aggregate more than $5,000,000 In value. The property on Foot's Creek Includes the Bowling, Lance, Mattis, Mathews, Osborne and Short properties, a district already known for its free gold and also Its rich orchard land. The plan la to wash the hills and bench lands with hydraulic pumps, dredge out the gold and return the resi due along the banks. Small hills and hillocks will be leveled and when, in the opinion of the engineers, the avail able gold has been secured, the district will be put Into final shape and planted to fruit trees. Foot'a Creek is well known as a placer region, the Champlain brothers having operated a dredge there for some time on a very profitable basis. The present dredge will be on the west fork, and, according to the promoters, operations will begin as soon as the dredge arrives. Mr. Hall and Mr. Goss were formerly prominent mining men In Butte, Mont., and declare that South ern Oregon promises to become one of the richest mining sections In the coun try. ACTOR ASKED FOR ALIMONY Mrs. Theodore Roberts Wants $100 a Week but Xo Divorce. NEW YORK, Feb. 6. (Special.) Mrs. Theodore Roberts applied in the Supreme Court today for $100 a week alimony and $1000 counsel fees, pend ing trial of her suit for a separation. Her husband Is now playing the star part In "The Bird, of Paradise," at the Maxine Elliott Theater. Mrs. Roberts had abandoned her suit for divorce brought last Summer, and she told Justice Davis that this was done because as a member of the Ro man. Catholic Church she could not seek a divorce. Roberts has no prop erty, he declares, except a motor launch valued at $500 and a piece of land in California worth $250. The Mrs. Roberts named in her origi nal action does not appear In the pa pers. JUDGE DENOUNCES TIPPING Partners Who Supply Pocketless Walters Quarrel Over Gains. CHICAGO, Feb. 6. Tipping was branded as illegal and un-American by Judge Brentano today. Partners In a corporation which bought the "tip con cession" from hotels and cafes were in Circuit Court for the second time with in a few months, quarreling over a di vision of the profits. i For the second time they heard themselves called violators of the law. They supplied cafes with attendants, whose uniforms contained no pockets, and all gratuities were turned in to the promoters. CHINESE TO PLAY INDIAN Washington Student Will Be "Hia watha" in Opera. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Se attle, Feb. 5. (Special.) William Lai. the Chinese tenor singer, who made a hit when he toured the Northwest with the University of Oregon Glee Club under Professor Irving Glenn, will jtake the part of the Indian Hiawatha In the opera, "Wedding Feast of Hia watha," to be given February 14 by Washington students. Lai is one of the few Chinese who have made a success of singing. When Professor Glenn left Oregon to take charge of the department of music here Lai came with him. TAFT BETTING FAVORITE Wall Street Has Xo Takers of $5000 to $4000 Waster on Election. NEW YORK, Feb. 5. (Special.) Wall street today learned of the first offer to bet on the outcome of the next Presidential election. The offer was made on the curb of a stock exchange house and no takers could be found. It was a bet of $5000 to $4000 that President Taft, If nominated, would be re-elected. It was said today that Wall street had come to believe that Roose velt would not get the Presidential nomination at the Chicago convention. The offer to bet will stand, however, for some time to come. HAWLEY WILL IS MISSING Document Must Be Found to Dis pose of $40,000,000 Estate. NEW YORK, Feb. 6. Although it is understood he left an estate approxi mately of $40,000,000 it became known today that the will of the late Edwin Hawley ' cannot be found. Until it is found the disposition of Mr. Hawley's vast estate, including his great rail road Interests, will remain In doubt. He made the will in 1903, naming as executor his partner, Frank H. Davis. CLEWS ARE FOUND Iff BOMB MYSTERY Dickinson's Face Bears Marks of Quarrel. WOMAN'S FLAT SHUT TO HIM Letter Written by Suspect to Mrs. Taylor Held. MAN'S MOVEMENTS TRACED Tollce Say ex-Portland Resident W'as Locked in Hla Rooms Day Before Fatal Explosion and Think He Made Bomb Then. NEW YORK. Feb. 5. Investigation today Into the mysterious murder of Mrs. Helen Taylor by the explosion of a bomb in her apartments last Saturday night brought out some alleged facts that the police regard as significant in connection with the recent movements of Charles M. Dickinson, formerly of Portland, Or., who was with the woman when the explosion occurred. A few days before the explosion, Dickinson and Mrs. Taylor had a quarrel, the police say. in which the woman scratched Dickinson's face. Later Mrs. Taylor called on her sister, Mrs. Evans, and expressed fear of Dickinson. Letters Held as Evidence. A letter, aigned by Dickinson, found among the dead woman's effects, the police say, begged that he "be taken back." In Dickinson's pocket the police de clare they found what was apparently the answer to his letter, which read: "If you know what is good for you, you will stay away from my flat." On the day before the murder Dick inson passed many hours, the detect ives learned, locked in his room and they are - now .Investigating on the theory that the bomb was manufac tured In his room. Dickinson's Face Scarred. With the scars of the scratches said to have been Inflicted by Mrs. Taylor still showing on his face and looking haggard from the effects of his two days' incarceration, Dickinson was ar raigned before the Coroner today, and there met his aged father, postmaster at Champlain, N. Y. "I am innocent of this, father," he told the old gentleman. "I believe you, my boy," he replied. The elder Dickinson obtained from the Coroner permission to have the hearing put over until Wednesday. Woman's History Clouded. Concerning the matrimonial history of the Taylor woman much conflicting evidence has been taken, but according to Commissioner of Police Doughty, It was learned that one J. H. Taylor, supposed to have been a husband of the murdered wo man, died In December, 1911, In a sanitarium at Plattsburg, N. Y.; that a man named Howard Taylor, a friend of the woman, died in Binghamton, N. Y., and that Howard Walker, also sup posed to have been a husband. Is alive and is being searched for by the police. Efforts to find the messenger boy who delivered the bomb to Mrs. Taylor have proved futile. DICKIXSOX'S RECORD IS GOOD Portland Police Find Xo Cloud In Reputation of Bomb Suspect. At the request of the police of New York, local detectives made a thorough investigation yesterday of the history of Charles M. Dickinson while in Port land. Detective Hawley traced Dickinson's career while he lived in Portland. His employment was found to have been as given In The Oregonlan yesterday; with Chief Engineer Boschke, of the North Bank road, the Clear Creek Lumber Company, Harvey O'Bryan and the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company. All his former employers gave him an excellent recommendation. The detective also found a young wo man who was a close friend of Dick inson when he worked here, and she added her testimony as to his good qualities. No instance was found where he had any sort of dealing with the use of explosives. GEMS TAKEN FROM ASHES Burned Trunk Contains $6000 in Diamonds and $500 Molten Coin. HELENA, Mont., Feb. 6. Two steeple jacks scaled today the tottering walls of the Hotel Helena to a corner room in the fifth floor and recovered dia monds valued at $6000, a molten chunk of gold and silver worth about $500, and the ashes of a large roll of cur rency. The property belonged to Mrs. John C. Barth, mother of Henry C. Barth, the proprietor of the hotel, who, in her hasty exit from the hotel yesterday aft ernoon, left her valuables in her trunk. Only a narrow shelf of the flooring of the room remained, but upon this was the burned trunk, with the valuables in its ashes.