- Q PflltTIiAXI). OREGOX. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LII M. l ..:. : TAFT GAWPAIGH MANAGER CHOSEN McKinley of Illinois to Direct Work. CONFERENCES TO BE CALLED No Attacks on Other Candi dates Will Be Made. BUREAU TO TELL FACTS vr Eiecntlve A1m Chosen Cli Ha inan of Congressional Commit tee at Ilirmooioai Meet In Yesterday. WASHINGTON'. Feb. i. Taft head quarters ara to ba opened hare Imme diately, and Representative McKinley. of Illinois, chairman of the Republican Congressional committee. will ba In iarge of the Prldnfa political In terests from now until the Chicago convention. This announcement waa su.xle tonlght. Mr. Tafts friends have advised each m step, but no action waa taken until pressure of political work became ... rret that Secretary Hllles found It ::!. ml Insupportable. aferearea la Be i'-atled. In hla capacity aa chairman of the K'ptihllfan Congressional comnr.Utee. Mr. McKinley will have exceptional inrint of keeping In close touch with j.oilti.-a'l affalra throughout the coun try. The headquarters will be opened a a.on as suitable quartern can be f..und. .Mr. McKinley announced tontght his Intention of holding a aeries of con ferences at once. He will begin to morrow morning and the reat of the week probably will be devoted to inap i ing out a plan of campaign. Mr. Mc Kinley later gave out a atatement concerning- hla appointment and his plana. Tafl'a F.leellM Irr I -.. The suggestion came to me late this evening, came aa such a surprise that I must plead for time to think." he said. "I cannot make any predlctlona to night except to reiterate what Secre tary Hiiles has said, that the renom Ination of Mr. Taft la ensured. It la. however, the dealre of the frlenda of the prealdent throughout the country to have some central place from whtcb they ran be kept advlaed of tha details sf the campaign. The ldfa now la to arrange within few days for n central bureau, from which the country alao will be Informed n a thorough manner as to what the Administration has accomplished. There alii be no attacks on other candidates, an. intriguing. It will be an open rampaign. Mr. Taft will stand on the rerorl of hla Administration and the record of hla party. Aa to when the headquarters will ! established la Washington. I can not state, until I have had opportunity to confer with the party leaders. I a-ttl start to work In the morning." t'osasaltfr la Hirawaleas. Mr. McKinley a election aa chairman rf the Congressional committee waa made at a harmonious mectlne; of tha .-ommlttee held here today. Represen tatlve Woods, of Iowa, an insurgent, placed Chairman McKinley In nomina tion. Appointed to the executive com mittee were: Representatives Burke, South Dakota; Utter. Rhode Island. Woods, Iowa; Davidson. Wisconsin; Moore. Pennsylvania; Weeks. Massa chusetts; Hedgeson. North Dakota: Karthol.it. Missouri; Kalrchiid. New Vork. and Xeedbam, California. The sudden announcement of the de rision to open Taft headquarters here Immediately came aa a complete sur prise, but occasioned no more surprise than did the selection of Mr. McKinley to taka command. It was recalled to rtght. however, that Mr. McKinley haa been a frequent visitor at the White Mouse In the past few weeks. He haa conferred with the President and Mr. llill-s almost daily. Past Werk Reessalse. on one of his recent visits he waa asked whether he would accept re election aa chairman of the Republican Congressional committee. "Well."" he eaUI. laughingly. "I'm a little fellow and I would have some difficulty in reslstlr.g." In the Inst National campaign the Congressional committee, of which Mr. McKinley then, us now. was chairman and worked In complete harmony with the Republican National committee In advancing Mr. Taft'a political fortunes. The work done then by Mr. McKinley. It Is believed, had much to do with hla selection attain to look out for Mr. T-ift's fences. p.lmater-General Hitchcock, who Is t.ikir.g an active part with Secre tary Hllles In the pre-convrntion work for Mr. Taft. will be among the f! rat men whom Mr. McKinley will consult. The Postmaster-General. Mr. liillea and .Mr. McKinley probably will go orer the situation together tomorrow n. I make tentative plans for launch ins the rampalgn. The enthuai-turu ahowu here today iroved most gratifying t' the support ers of the President, all of whom are inoKt confident that the move will make great headway now. (ACQUITTED SLAYER PESTERED BY GU1L I CONSCIENCE MAKES WRECK OF IDAHO MAXK1LLEH. Broken In Mi ml anil Body 1- E. I.akin TelK Preacher How Ho Mnrdrrcd diaries Edwards. MASON CITY. Iowa. Feb. 8. (Spe cial.) With a gnawing conscience, which drove him almost to desperation. I B. Lakln called at the home of Dr. L. C. Clark, of the Methodist Church, and later tlie story was related that In February, 10S. he had murdered Charles Edwards. Lakln said that In a poker frame at Rex burg. Idaho, the two had quarreled and that he deliberately shot and killed Edwards After some time he was ar rested and at the time of the trial he was acquitted on the around of self-defense. While this rleared him In the sight of the law. .the fact that his liberty was secured by false plea has so preyed upon his mind that he Is now almost a physlcaj and mental wreck. If there Is any way he can atone for the crime, he now offers himself up. The authorities at Rexburg have tel egraphed the authorities here that La kln's story Is correct. It Is a case m-lth hardly a parellel. HOOK IS STILL HOPEFUL Friends Renew Efforts to Secure Appointment. WASHINGTON. Feb. . President Taft a selection for the vacancy on the Supreme Court bench believed gener ally In Washington to be Secretary Na gel will be discussed and probably ratified at the regular meeting of the Cabinet tomorrow. Efforts In behalf of Judge Hook, of Kansas, were renewed today. Repre sentative Anthony, of Kansas, took to the White House an analysis of Judge Hook's opinion In the Oklahoma "Jim Crow" case. It waa that decision which was said to have eliminated Judge Hook from the presidents list of possi ble appointees. Soma Kansans expressed the opin ion that Judge Hook's opinion In the "Jim Crow" case had been presented to the President by those friendly to some other candidate. Anthony said hia analysis would present to the Presi dent another view of the case. NOME TOLLS CONDEMNED 1 Iono Told Seattle-London Cable Charges Are Cheaper. WASHINGTON. Feb. I. The cost of a cable message over the Government lines from Seattle to Nome Is 280 per cent higher than the cost of a Seattle tivLondon message, according to statements made before the House committee on territories today by ex Senator Wilson, of Washington. Governor Clark. Bishop Rowe and other Alaskans urged the committee to aid In reducing cable tolls, to provide an adequate system of fish protection, to Increase the number of lighthouses and aids to navigation In Alaskan wa ters and to provide for the construc tion of Government railroads to the coal fields. NATIONAL RELIGION S PLAN Clod-Fearing Cult and Sentiment of Morality to Be Raised. VICTORIA. Feb. f. The Japanese Home Minister has called a conference of the representatives of Christian. Buddhist and Shinto religions to dis cuss a national religion for Japan. Official recognition Is now given to Shlntotsm. a cult for the worship of ancestors. Mr. Tokanaml, Vlce-Mlnls-ter, said the primary aim of the con ference was to bring the religions Into closer relationship with the state and to raise a God-fearing cult and senti ment of morality among the people. LIFE ENDED OVER ERROR Steamer's Fuel Gives Out, Jap En gineer Jumps Overboard. VICTORIA. Feb. S. News brought by the Canada Maru today of the arrival at Yokohama of the Toyo Klsen Kaisha steamer Klyo Maru from South America without fuel. The steamer cf 17,000 tons encountered heavy weather after leaving Honolulu and when 300 miles from Yokohama the coal supply gave out. Chief Engineer Tamashlta com mitted suicide, having a note saying that he did so to atone for his fault in allowing the vessel to run short of fuel. He Jumped overboard. ' TURTLE RANCH ON ROOF Students on Top of Washington Kt-lem-e Hall Study Tortoises. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Se attle. Feb. t. (Special.) Four good, old-faaholned Hoosier mud turtles stuck their snake-like heads from under their shells yesterday and regarded with some Interest JO young men and women who with notebooks and renclls were sidestepping around them trying to determine their exact species of the tcstudinal.ie. Professor Trevor Klncald has. started a turtle ranch on the roof of Science Hall and It Is here that the little ani mals are being experimented on. . RUEF "BACK HOI" 10 GREET MOTHER Convict Pretends He Was in Europe. BRIEF VISIT IS AFFECTING Ex-Boss Is Alone With Aged and Bed-Ridden Parent. JUDGE RELENTS AT LAST Invalid Woman of 83 Years Cheered by Son for Whose Return From Abroad" She Had Waited for More Than Eleven Months. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. . (Special.) Convict Abraham Ruet "came, back from Europe" today to his aged mother. In view of general public condemna tion of his order forbidding Ruef the privilege of visiting his age., parents. Judge. Lawlor relented this morning and Issued an order enabling Sheriff Kggrrs to convey Ruef to tha Plerca street home, where the. mother, bed ridden, has waited his "return from Europe" for these 11 months. She does not know the truth. To her, her "boy." as she. has always called htm. was traveling, recuperating from his long siege during his trluls. Klghty three years old, she has lain on ber bed of pain awaiting his return. It came this afternoon. Shortly before 1 o'clock Ruef, his eyes moist after his first embrace with his sister on the steps of their home, passed on through the familiar door way, up the carpeted stairs, to enter hia mother's room. Haef flora Alone to Slolher. He went in alone. Nona of the fam ily, not even his aged father, or his sister, or his niece, went with him. What passed between Abraham Ruet and his agd niotner is theirs alone to know. For him it may bo his last parting, for the faith that has sustained tha 01-year-old mother during her heavy trouble may not support her longer, now that ho must "go away again to Kurope." Such Is the fear of her fam ily. Ruef, stepping from the Union-street car In company with Under Sheriff Kleversall, waa met In the garden of hla home by his sister, Mrs. Henrietta Slttenfeld. She threw her arms about his neck and broke Into convulsive sobbing. ("oavlet'a F.yea Dim. Ruef made a strong effort for con trol and. other than the dimming of moisture In his eys, did not break down. He did not trust himself to (Concluded on Page 2.) THE I'll STORA&ft' -e y N. SAY. HONESTlYj S TTT I DO YOU THINK J CD 1 I SErtATOI? CUMMINS J v J jfrfOW'-Zx Jdlllg' . TOT0UNS1. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTER OAT'S Maximum temperature. 44 degrees; minimum, 40 degrees. TODAY'S Italn; southerly winds. Foreign. Klola rrte havoc In Fpaln and Portu- Ks!. I'uBC 1. Pek!n row helievrs Tuan will succeed In sav ins throne, 1'apc 1. Frltlh War SecrMsrj- is unofficial peace envoy to fiermany. Page 4- Trenpa at.d rain prevent rioting at Church ill's Belfast meeting. Paga 6. National. State Prparlni.nl assures Mexicans that in tervention is not intended. Page 2. Woman telegraph operator savs Hlnea tried to bribe her In l.orimer case. Page 0. Politics. McKinley. of Illinois, chosen to direct Taft'a campaign. Page 1. Baltimore Democratic convention hall will seat 15.100. Page 2. Domestic- V Abe Ruef. pretending he haa been abroad. visits hla mother. Page 1. Slayer who killed man In Idaho eonfessea to Iowa preacher. Page 1. Schvab tears cut In ateel tariff will do much harm. Fane 2. Ohloans reject Harmon's advice to go alow as to Initiative and referendum. Pase 4. Grim, bowed Invalid. Charles W. Morse, home 111 New York. Page 5. Uaynor douhta tariff "Is wholly to blame for hard tlmee." Page 6. David Starr Jordan says Rothschilds are real rulers of Europe. Page 0. Hetty Oreen. world's richest woman. Is ac cused. Page L 8 ports. Billy Rodaers. at Santa Maria, aaya Beavers will win again. Page 8. McCredie expects great things from Coltrin this season. Pane 8. Ceremonies dedicating new baseball park will be simple. Page s. Pacific Northwest. "Dr. Hazxard cannot be halted In her plans to practice "starvation" cure. Pag 5. Albany men escape wiles of De Larm of "Orchard" fame. Page T. Women voters In Tacoma aeek. to modify present recall provislona. Paae7. Commercial and Marine. Port of Tortland restores SO-cent towage rate for vessels loading lumber between here and Astoria. Page 2a. Early-shorn Oregon wool aella at 14 to 10 cents. Page 21. Wheat weak at Chicago on larger recelpte and settlement of Argentine strike. Page 21. Wide gains In copper stocks In Wall street. !'( 31. Portland and Vicinity. Oregon Guardsmen eager to be ordered to Mexico. Page S. County Court opposes good roada bond measure aa unfair to populoua districts. Page 12. M. Caalmlr Perler vlewa Portland Harbor. Page 14. Vacanciea In Legislature overlooked In scramble for other offlcee. Page 14. Multnomah Hotel la christened. Page 15. Governor West shows views of convicts st work In address to East iide Business Men's Club. Page 12. Railway men of Portland to form perma nent organization, l'age 10. Fifteen Oregon counties now have Taft clubs in campaign for President's re election. Page In. Dramatictsaclicr, accused by woman stu dent. Is sought. Page 16. Southern Pacific plans to have electric serv ice in operation by October 1. if franchise la granted, pairs 20. MAY SUTTON GOES ALOFT Tennis Champion Enjoys Every MInnto of Aeroplane Flight. SAN DIEGO, Cal.. Feb. S. Miss May Sutton, ' champion tennis player, made her first ascent In a hydro-aeroplane on North Island thla afternoon. She was taken up more than 400 feet with Lieutenant Theodore Ellison, acting as pilot. "I enjoyed every minute of it," she said, as she alighted after 10 minutes In the air. OEEGON VS. THE IMPORTED EGG. YUAN WILL SAVE THRONE; IS BELIEF Rebels Lack Power to Compel Action. ABDICATION TALK ABATES Premier Repudiates Promises of His Adherents. OPPONENTS ARE BAFFLED Many Members of Legations Foresee Dictatorship, With Weakened Imperial Power Preserved Only for Temporary Ends. PEKIN, Feb. 8. It Is believed here in many quarters that Premier Yuan Shi Kal possibly will succeed in saving the throne. The Pekln papers no longer mention abdication or discuss the throne's re tirement. Certainly Yuan Shi Kal does not intend to proceed with abdication unless compelled to do so. The opinion here Is that the rebels do not possess power to compel the premier to act. The readiness of the republic ans to agree to a permanent armistice and also their willingness to grant the court liberal concessions inspires the belief that they themselves recognize their Inability to capture Pekln. Itepnbllrans Sorely Presaed. Reports received at the capital Indi cate that the republican predicament is worse than that In which Premier Yuan finds himself. Confiscations of property, forced assessments and brigandage are causes of discontent throughout the republican provinces. Should Yuan Shi Kai accede to the republican demands, his own authority wouTU terminate. Ho would be at the mercy of the republican leaders and the heretofore loyal army would divide be tween the republicans ' and Manchus, with the latter's supporters hostile to him, believing that he had been treach erous. But retaining the throne, whose power has already been delegated to him, he would be the country's strong est man. Adherents' Arts Repudiated. The imperial premier's proposal of terms In behalf of the court, including even a provision for the eunuchs, has won the court's support and baffled the opposition of minor Manchu nobles. Yuan Shi Kal has encouraged his fol lowers to make promises of abdication to the rebels and publicly to arrange plans to this end, but he now repudi ates them, declaring that the Empress Dowager authorized him only a week ago to enter into negotiations for a l concluded on Page 2. ) I RICHEST WOMAN IN WORLD IS ACCUSED LAWYER SAYS HETTY GREEN" TRIED EXTORTION. William Kit ndnljih Hcarj-t .Ulcere! Intended Victim Mrs. Green Makes Strong Denial. NEW YORK. Feb. 8. (Special.) C. M. Bovee, attorney for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and active In behalf of William R. Hearst, declared before Justice Davis in the special term Supreme Court today that Mrs. Hetty Green had "attempted extortion" on Mr. Hearst. Bovee said that when repre sentatives went to the offices of Mrs. Green last Monday to pay money due on a mortgage against property owned by Hearst on Columbus Circle she "slammed the door in their faces and called for the police." The lawyer explained that Mrs. Green held a mortgage of $275,000 which had been due since 1904. and upon which Hearst has been paying Interest ever since. He said that Hearst had ob tained a loan of $470,000 from the Met ropolitan Life Company on Monday last and wished to pay off the Green mort gage with part of It. Mrs. Green re fused to turn over the satisfaction piece unless she were paid an additional in terest of J1145.83, which was not legally hers. Bovee said. Mrs. Green later turned over the mortgage for the amount named by Mr. Hearst. Mrs. Green is quoted as say ing: "The charge that I tried to extort money Is absurd. I simply asked Mr. Hearst's representatives to wait until the return of my son. who was han dling the business and when they re fused I asked 30 days' interest to which I believed I was entitled under the law." TOWEL HATS ARE LATEST Turkish Motif in Riots of Color Seen in Spring Millinery. CHICAGO. Feb. 8. (Special.) The National Association of Retail Milliners, opening its annual convention tonight, had on display an exhibit of women's headgear which Indicates that things Turkish, for both young and old, will be on call for Spring wear. A prominent novelty Is the Turkish towel hat. following in the wake of the Turkish towel coats and dresses. These hats are radical in design and comprise every color in the rainbow in Turkish combinations. "Riots in colors and daring designs" is the prediction for Spring wear, made by Miss Marie & Harris, president of the association. "Large hats for all occasions will be missed among the fashionables next Spring. As for colors, for general wear, plain red will ba by far the most popular." COTTON KING "COMES BACK Theodore II. Price Takes Another Fortune Out of Market. NEW YORK. Feb. 8. (Special.) Theodore H. Price has "come back" and taken another fortune out of the cotton market. It Is not as big as the profits he took earlier in his ca reer, but sufficiently large to demon strate that the veteran operator has lost none of the skill which made him a conspicuous figure in trade a decade ago. Trade gossip is that a short time ago, when the market was fluctuating between 9 and 8i cents. Price, through a well-known house, accumu lated a long line of December, March and May and July cotton. In the last week the market has "boomed" on sev eral occasions and cotton crossed the 10-cent level. On this advance the firm has been credited with selling 150,000 bales. ELECTRICITY MOCKS DEATH Youth and Girl Giveu l"p for Dead Brought Back to Life. , CHICAGO, Feb. 8. (Special.) The restoration of apparently extinguished life through the agency of the "pul motor" was effected today with dra matic features. The mother and father of the victims watched the battle be tween science and nature. Frank Kreut zer, 19 years old, and his sister Anna. 20 years old, were overcome with il luminating gas at their home and brought back to consciousness after a hard fight by the pulmotor experts of the Commonwealth Edison Company. The victims were given up 'for dead, but physicians and pulmotor operators were called, and after working for half an hour the victims began to breathe again. The mother of the young peo ple, who thought her children were dead, fainted when she saw them re vived. WOMAN URGEDF0R BENCH Suffragists Ask President to Fill Supreme Court Vacancy. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. President Taft's meditations on filling the present vacancy in the Supreme Court were momentarily disturbed today by a com munication from the Woman Suffrage Association of the District of Columbia, suggesting that a woman be appointed to the bench. On the ground that women now are voting In six states, while three more states are preparing to adopt woman suffrage, the President was urged to aDDoint one of three women suggested Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, Miss Emma M- Glllett and Mis. Belvu A. Lockwood. " TORRENT MENACES OLD SPANISH CITY Raging Rivers Damage Two Countries. LIVES ARE LOST IN PORTUGAL Boat Swept to Destruction; Trains May Be Destroyed. KING ALFONSO ALARMED Ruler and Premier Will Hurry to Seville, Where Citizens Frantic ally Improvise Barricades in Effort to Stem Flood. MADRID. Feb. 8. The flood situa tion Is rapidly becoming worse and the Minister of Works left tonight for Se ville, where the situation Is critical. The people of Seville are frantically throwing up barricades in an almost hopeless attempt to stem the torrent. Part of the civil guard's barracks have been undermined, causing Its collapse. The occupants were rescued with dif ficulty and one of the rescuers was drowned. Conditions are so alarming In that city that the King and Premier have decided to proceed there. City In In Darknesa. The electric light station was flood ed tonight, plunging the city Into darkness. Fifteen thousand workmen temporarily are thrown put of employ ment. The tributaries of the Guadalquivir River are over their banks, carrying everything before it- A boat on its way to LaAlgaha, three miles from Seville, was capsized today, three persons being drowned. Tralaa May Be Destroyed. There Is no news of two trains on the Cadiz line and it Is feared they have been caught' in trfe' floodl''Xt Madrid the Manazares River has over flowed, inundating the houses along its banks. LISBON, Feb. 8. The number of vic tims of the floods In Portugal will b large. Large numbers of injured are being cared for In hospitals in the flooded districts. The River Tagus is a raging torrent, carrying seaward corpses and mer chandise of all kinds. Many barges which were anchored' in the navigable section of the Tagus were sunk at the first onslaught of the flood current; others were swept seaward with a great mass of debris from the upper part of the river, including uprooted trees and the bodies of cattle and live stock. Crops through the flooded dis trict are ruined and all communication by wire Is severed. , The Chamber today voted $500,000 to aid victims of the disaster. TWO CHIEFS RULE TODAY Oregon City Major to Xante New Police Head, Old One Stays. OREGON CITY, Or., Feb. 8. (Spe cial.) Two chiefs of police will at tempt to enforce the law in Oregon City tomorrow. Mayor Dimiek, after several weeks of disagreement with the Council, decided today to swear in Charles E. Burns, ex-chief, tomorrow. B. L. Shaw, who has been chief of police for the past year, will also con tinue in office, as the City Council re fuses to confirm the appointment of a successor to htm and under the city ordinances the chief holds office until the Council has taken such action. Mayor Dimick appointed Burns chief of police once before, but the Council refused to confirm the appointment Then S. R. Green was appointed to the office by the Mayor and again the Council demurred. Exasperated by the continued oppo sition of the City Council, Mayor Dimick announced tonight that at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning he would administer the oath of office to Burns. Trouble is expected to develop rapidly when Burns attempts to take possession of a desk at police headquarters. RAIL RATE REDUCTION BIG Spokane Falls & Northern Makes Almost 5 0 Per Cent Cut. SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 8. (Special.) The new tariff schedule on the Spo kane Falls & Northern Railroad will go into effect February 13. The schedule contains a big reduction on freight to and from Spokane. In some cases the cut is nearly 60 per cent. The rate on cordwood, which is now $1.75 a cord, is cut about 50 cents a cord. This will make possible the shipping of more wood from points on the Spokane Falls & Northern to Spokane. On first-class freight the old rate was 78 cents a hundred, while the new rate is 48 cents. The second-class rate, whicli was 66 cents, has been reduced to 39 cents. The third-class rate, which was 65 rents, has been reduced to 33 cents and the fourth-class rate haa been changed from 47 cents to 29 cents. The fifth-class rate is now 29 cents, as against 39 cents for the old rate. 1