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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LH-yO. 15.993. ' POUTLAyP. OREGTlY, FEBRUAM 27, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. i , a i i a r r i - - n iiii a l r i i i TAR'S MANAGER IS CERTAIN HE'LL Will T.R.Won't Get Nomina tion, Says McKinley. FORGAN HOLDS SAME VIEW President's Friends Are Not Alarmed by Outlook. CHICAGO HAS "W. H. T. DAY' Anio-unceroent of Rooaevelt'a Candi dacy Will 3 lake No Difference in Chief xerntlTe' Campaign for Re nomination. ATTTT DCLU 19 COITDET. Mti-i.FnT. e.. r.K ra. p- raL Mlaa Delia C Torrey. my. aant of t r'.r kaowa aa J president Tart, familiar! , -Ami Iw'la.. la aat pleased at tba announcement of s. President Rooew- vert that ba wttl accept tha Repwb- leas nomination If It la effered him. J ! Tmm. wbo la iT years aid. and a a who rriurntd Saturday from a rial I a lo tlia Wblta Howa. aald today: "1 am very sorry Colonel Rmm- r:t liu decided It b, candidate fr.r the rrMklncT. I M sore ba will ba defeated! and that my nephew. President Tan. will ba reaoratBated f and r-aleete for a second term. I think the President haa done nothing ix cauee tba people to go bark an 4 Mm. and while I am a woman and e l ao low wiurh about politics. I think public eeattinent ta with Preal- t dent Taft and will carry bins throngs , all right." a....................... rillCAOO. . Feb. It. (Special) That President Taft will ba renomi nate by the Republicans at tba Na tional convention In Jane, In splta of the open candidacy of Theodore Roosa relt for a third term, waa the emphatlo prediction made today or Representa tlTe William B. McKinley, of Illinois, ho la directing tha President's cam pal cn. This forecast wss Indorsed alaa by I'aTld B. Forgan, president of the Taft Club of Illinois, who baa Just returend from Washington, where ba was In touch with tha National work which .a being dona In tha President's In. tereat. and where be bad a rood op portunity to learn the sentiment of the people of the country. Taft Day la Chicago. In fart. It was distinctly Taft day at Hotel La Fall, where Republican leaders from all parts of tha atata cat he red for one purpoM and another, and that. too. notwithstanding the Inns expected announcement by Mr. Roosevelt that ba will accept tha nom ination for a third term If It is ten dered to me." "The announcement of tha candi dacy of ex-Pnaldent Rooaevelt will make not the slightest difference In the world In the campaign that la be ins; carried on for the renomlnatlon and re-election of President Taft." said Representative McKinley. "Mr. Taft will bo renominated at tha Chi cago convention. Of this there Is to my mind not tha slightest shadow of a rtoubt. MrKlaley Alaraaed. "We hare no quarrel with Mr. Roose velt. It la bis privilege to become a candidate for tha Republican nomina tion for the Presidency If ha ao de al re a. and I was not aurprlsed at hie announcement. But wa believe that Mr. Taft la entitled to renomlnatlon and we. who are In a position to know, believe that ho will set that renoml natlon. "I am In touch with tha situation. I know what has been dons and what la being dona. There la no doubt about Mr. Taft's nomination. " T. U. JIGGLED. SAYS EDITORIAL .sun FrancLtco Republican Taper As sails Colonel's Methods. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. t. (Special.) The Chronicle (Republican) aays: "There was no equivocation whatever In the pledge which Colonel Rooaevelt leave at tha time of his re-election that under no circumstances would he be a candidate for a third term. "For bis supporters now to claim tiiat he only meant that ha would not be a candidate at the election of 1S0S. la for bis supporters to claim that Colonel Rooaevelt JUKKled. "Whatever hie meanlnc. he should he rla-ldly held to his pledge as Intended to be undemtooB at that time, nor Is there any doubt that he will be ao hel.l by the people. Tlie reason why he should b held 1.1 fiat pledge la obvious. To confess 1'iat la thla whole Nation there Is but i.ne man fit to be President Is to lay tne ax at the root of popular govern ment. If that ba true, tha alternative Is s dynsaty." Mutiny on Vermont Penled. WASH1N' ON. Feb. !. The recent report that soma of the enlisted men aboard the battleship Vermont had mu tinied against Inoculation with typhoid prophylactic was denied today by tba Naty Icpartment. TAFT MAY ORDER ROOSEVELT TO WAR COLONEL'S LKI-la.lt OP YEAR AGO COMES TO LIGHT. Meaaaare) lo President. Addressed Dear Will." Ask Right to I-esd Regiment Into Mexico. WASHINGTON. Feb. It. The an nouncement of Colonel Roosevelt's willingness to accept the Presidential nomination and bis consequent open break with President Taft was said here tonight to have developed a pic turesque possibility In connection with threatened trouble In Mexico. Senators who assert knowledge of tha facts aald that about a year ago, when the Madero revolution waa at Ita height In Mexico and tha possibility of Ameri can Intervention waa being dlacussed, Colonel Rooaevelt wrote to President Taft. volunteering to bead a regiment of cavalry which waa to be in the fore front of tha Invading force. Colonel Roosevelt. It Is said, stipu lated that his subordinate officers were to ba of his own choosing, and went so far aa to name some of the men ha would select. These Included Colonel Cecil A. Lyon. Republican National committeeman of Texas; Jack Aber- nathy. tha wolf -strangling ex-Marahal of Oklahoma; Sloan tilinpson. of Texaa. a Rough Rider; James Sloan. Jr- secret service agent, now with President Tart, and aeveral members of the old "Rough Rider" regiment of Cuban war fame. Colonel Roosevelt at that time. It la reported, said It was his highest ambl. tlon again to be In the saddle In time of war. The Colonel's letter to President Taft asking to be placed In command of a regiment In the event of trouble In Mexico was addressed "Dear Will." ac cording to tboee who aay they saw tha document. President's Taft'a reply waa ad dressed "Dear Theodore." It ssld. ac cording to reports, that the Colonel's proposition waa very "Interesting. In deed." but that the possibility of American Intervention waa too remote a contingency to be considered at the time In any way. PILLOW ROUTS BURGLAR Woman AtUu-lis Thief Whom Men Are Afraid to Molest. LOS ANQ ELES."caL. Feb. !. (Spe cial.) A brave woman had more terror for a burglar early thla morning than did men. but tha burglar was not cap tured. Mrs. W. IL MacLaren. of Vancouver. R. C. who Is staying at tha Hotel Bal boa. 1127 West Seventh street, proved her mettle by boldly entering her room when, she saw a burglar at work and chasing him away with a sofa pillow. She lost several plecea of Jewelry, the to' -I valuation of which was a trifle more than 1100. Several men had passed the partly opened door of her room, but tha burglar continued to work until Mrs. MacLaren appeared. Ebe told the police that ahe saw him at work carefully selecting rings and stickpins from her Jewel box. and aha became frantic. Bhe ran In and, aelx Ing a pillow, attacked him. Tha bur glar's nerve deserted him and be Jumped out of tha window and fell to the ground, about 15 feet below. POLL AGAINST COLONEL a - " House Press Gallery Predicts Itoose velt Will Be Defeated. WASHINGTON. Feb. I. Special.) la the press gallery of tha Houee today a poll waa taken on Theodora Rooee velt's chances of nomination and his chances of election If nominated. Hera ara tha queatlona and results: -Do you think that Mr. Rooaevelt can capture tha nomination?" Answering "yes," 11: answerln "no, la. -If Mr. Roosevelt la nominated, do you think ha will be elected?" Answering "yea." ; answering "no," ST. Tha poll waa conducted by a repre sentative of a Washington newspaper. KTery newspaperman who entered tha ajajlery was questioned and no one re fused to reply. They represented -stand-pat.'' Insurgent. Democratic and Independent newspapers. MEN REACH MT. M'KINLEY Fairbanks Party Arrive at Rase f Teak and May Defeat Rivals. FAIRBANKS. Alaska. Feb. :. (Spe cial.) Tha Fairbanks Times party of Mount McKinley climbers that left here February S has reached the base of tha peak, according to Jack Phillips, ona of the party who returned here Sunday. Tha men ara ahead of the Parker Brown party and their trip has been successful aa far as they have gone. The mountain top was visible and the weather pleasant The altitude at the head of McKinley River, where tha party la camped at present, la 5500 feet. They expect to make tha top within a month and beat tha other party in tha race. SECRET VOYAGE IS ENDED BijC Cruiser Weht Virginia Rack at Honolulu. Probably From Palmyra. WASHINGTON. Feb. 2c. After a ten days' absence, tha big armored cruiser West Virginia turned op In Honolulu harbor today as mysteriously as she disappeared. The Navy Department declined to make any atatcment as to ber cruise, but it is understood that she was aent to look Into conditions on Palmyra Island, about the title to which there la said to be some doubt. (TEXAS MILnUMEH FIRED ON AT NIGHT Attackers at El Paso Said to Be Mexicans. AMERICANS ARE THREATENED Mexicans Say They Will Unite if Border Is Crossed. FLYING BULLETS FEARED I'nited Mate Troops In Keadlness at Strategic Points bat I-ck Au thority, as Y'et, to Io More Than Protest at Position. KL PA SO, Tex. Feb. bbbbII e tarhaarat af Caaapaay K, Texaa State Mllttla, eagaged la sntardleg the Kl ! electric llgkt Blast, were fired , tealaht br sari Ire raaeealed be- blad baxrara aad aald to ba Mexleaaa. Snia illeaMia went aaed oa the gwaia aad more lass S ahata were fired, ballet aaaalBg thraagh tha hat of aae f the awardsaaea. K.I. FARO, Tea- Feb. IS. At litis e'eleck tealsht the rebel fareea of liaii arrived aa tba river bask aaMUe aid Fart Bllaa aad ebo.t on mA . half hIIm aarlkweit af Jaarea. They are aappaaed to be exteadlag a wise aroaad tba weat aide af 1st city. EL PASO. Feb. SS. El Paso speedily took on a martial appearance tonight upon announcement that a telephone conference between F. C Llorente. Mexican Consul, and Emllio Campa, commanding tha Vasqulsta army at Bauche, commanding tha gate of J u area, had terminated unsatisfactorily. Aascrlcaaa Flee Over Border. United Ststes troops of tha Fourth Cavalry and the 18th Infantry together with machine guns were stationed at strateglo points, although Colonel E. Z. Bteever said he had no Instructions to do other than protest ahould Mexican bullets be fired Into American ter ritory. Americans In Juares responded promptly to the warning Issued by United States Consul Edwards. . and crossed the Rio Grande to El Paso, to gether with hundreds of Mexicsn non- combatants. These preparations were hastened by the report that Campa's troops bad al ready begun their advance from Bau che. but at o'clock no Information was obtained as to their distance from Juares or tha probable time of their arrival. The defense of Juares consists of sbout 100 police reinforced by 400 vol unteers, who declare they will not sur render without a fight. Two machine Concluid on Page 2. : 1 BUT, THE RACE IS NOT ALWAYS TO THE SWIFT. J INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. f TESTRRDAT'S Maximum temperature. 48 desreea; minimum. 40 decTeea. TODArS Fair; westerly wlnda. Foreign. Texas Militiamen fired on at El Pane by band believed to be Mexlrana. I'ac 1 Nat tonal. v Secretary Meyer makea atrons plea for more battleships.' race 2. I'olitlre. Roonevelt rosy be aent to war in Mexico. Page 1. Rooaevelt defends his limited recall of Ju diciary Idea In Boston, pass 2. Representative McKinley aays advent of Roosevelt will not affect Taft. Pace 1. Kithty-Bix candidates file with Secretary of Mate at Salem. Page 6. Senator Lodse declines to aupport Rooae velt'a candidacy. Fun 2. TomesUc Jury obtained In Moors murder case at Red wood City. Pace 3. Echlff makes public letters In Brandt case. Pae . Telephone f-'ti appeara la Croker-Breen di vorce trial. Pace S. Sport. Sportsmen ask that herda of elk be kept In Wyoming. Pass 7. Bob Brown ausxesta that Northwestern League buy or charter steamship. Pass 7. Vernon Spring training bexlns. Pace 7. Northwest imerrolleclata baaketball not yet decided. Pace 7. Berg throws "unknown" and retains bla title aa champion, pace 7. Pacific. Northweot. Chief of Police at Grants Paaa deposed, fol low In c raid. Pace 6. Slaver of two at Taeoma arrested and con feaaaa eight hours after crime. Pace 1. District Attorney Tongue sooraa Sheriff Maaa and lietectlve Levlngs in connection with Hill murder case. Page B. Pacific Stats Rank of Seaside files articles of Incorporation. Pace a. Contest for Marlon County officea already la keen. Pace 6. Five Raker students beat hlch school pro fessor accused of paylnc undue attention to girl pupils. Pace S. Commercial aad Marine, a ' Hay market weakened by selling pressure from country. Pace 17. Weakness In Wall street atocka ss result of Roosevelt's letter. Pace 17. Marine Interests sdvlsed thst suit to delay Harrlman brldse work cannot be broucbt. Pace 1. Full prices paid for livestock. Page Portland aad Vicinity. W. R. Ayer elected chairman of Portland Taft committee to succeed Ben Selling. Page 12. Handsome woman arrested ss robber of neighbor's home; pawnbroker identifies her photograph. Page 1. Two lives lost over destruction of Gllmaa House by fire. Pace 11. Special good roads committee makes prog ress In agreeing on legislation pro gramme. Pace IO. Police warn Chinese to end tone war or severe penaltlea will follow. Pace 10. J. Thorburn Roaa. Frank B. Holbrook and Jobn B. Altchlaon released by court from charge alleging land fraud. Pace 10. Mayor's office like matrimonial bureau after request of Ohio widow for Western hua . band. Pace 1. Cities throughout Oregon support excursion to select first site at Panama-Pacific Exposition. Pace 11. . Detectives capture alleged Seattle slayer' after chase throuch crowd and after fir ing 20 shots at fugitive. Pace 4. Republican state central committee to test delecata law enacted by people. Pace 4. RUEF REFUSES TO TESTIFY Convicted Political Ross Will "ot Tarn on Schmitz. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 16. Abraham Ruef, convicted political boss, serving a term of 14 years In San Qaentln for bribery, will not testify In the case of ex-Msyor Schmitz, now on trial on tha charge of having bribed ex-Supervisor Wilson. This fact was disclosed today In a statement In Judge I-awIor's court by District Attorney Fickert, who said he wss ready to submit the case without further evidence to the Jury. . , . - ..I. i PHOTO OF GOMEL! WOMAN JAILS HER Pawnbroker Says She Sold Loot to Him. ROBBERY OF HOUSE CHARGED Police Borrow Picture From Resident Who Lost $500. HANDWRITING TRACED, TOO Mrs. Myrtle Enes Is Arrested a. Ransacker of Kast Side Home. Cuilt Is Denied and Alibi Is Claimed. Toung. pretty and demure, Mrs. Myrtle Enes, wife of the station agent at Perrydale, Or., on the Yamhill division of the Southern Pacific. was arrested yesterday, after Cap tain Baty and his force of de tectives had wrestled for two days with what they term the knottiest problem In their experience. Charged with stealing $500 worth of silver and clothing from a woman friend, and identified by two pawnbrokers, Mrs. Enes maintains a steadfast denial, and brings two witnesses to establish an alibi for her. When a handwriting; ex pert was called and identified the pawn ticket signature as her writing, the scalebeam tipped against her, and she went to Jail, o be released In a short time under $1000 ball. Mr. and Mrs. Enes have lived at Perrydale several months. Photo Canara Arrest. A week ago Mrs. M. A. McDonald, of 710 East Madison street, returned home to find her house stripped of valuables, including her furs and clothing. She notified the police and Detectives Mallet and Moloney found that the house must have been entered by a key which hung In a secret place, and that the entry was effected by someone who knew the place. When her friend Mrs. Enes waa sug g. ted. she was positive that there was nothing In the suspicion, but allowed the detectives to take a picture of the woman, which, when exhibited to the pawnbroker In whose Bhop part of the goods was found, was positively iden tified as that of the person who brought them in. Woman Denies Guilt. Then Mrs. Enes waa caught in Dallas and was brought back, passing all day Sunday In the conference room at detective headquarters. Captain Baty not desiring to consign her to Jail. Her sister and brother-in-law asserted that she was with them 'at the time of the robbery, while two men from the pawn- (Concluded on Page OREGON WIDOW OUT TO BEAT OHIO ONE WOMAX ASKS MAYOR KOR AD DRESS OF LAVE MAX. Kushlight's Office Recomiug Malri . monlal Bureau 3ue to One Re quest for " Western Mate. The receipt by Mayor Rushlight of a letter from a well-to-do Cincinnati widow recently asking that the Mayor obtain a real Western husband for her has transformed the Mayor's office Into a veritable matrimonial bureau. The letter of the widow was published in part In The Oregonian, and as a conse quence many letters have been re ceived by the Mayor from aspirants for the widow's hand. The latest commu nication Is from a merchant of Boring, Clackamas County. He says he Is the owner of a good business and of 20 acres of land, is 26 years of age end good-looking and wants a wife. Another wooer writes from Acme, Lane County, and still another from a remote part of Yamhill County. An advertisement In The Oregonian re cently setting forth that a Lane County man Is desirous of winning the Eastern widow has aroused competition for her. A good-looking widow of 30 Summers appeared In the Mayor's office yester day in quest of a husband, and asked for the name and address of the Lane County man, that she might correspond with him. "The best thing for you to do is to send him your picture," said Secretary McCord to the widow who wants to get ahead of the Cincinnati widow. She replied that she would do no such thing, saying that If the Lane man wanted to win her he must come to see her. She took his address, and will write him her name and description. If all is satisfactory she may use her leap year prerogative. REPUBLIC GAINS IN FAVOR First Step Toward Recognition of Chinese Rule Is Taken. WASHINGTON, Feb! 28. The United States took one of the first Bteps today toward the recognition of the new Chinese republic. Representative Sulzer of New York, chairman of the House committee on foreign affairs, after a conference with President Taft and State Department officials, introduced a resolution be lieved to be the forerunner of formal recognition by this country. It expressed the "confident hope that In the adoption and maintenance of a republican form of government the rights, liberties and happiness of the Chinese people will be secured." Mr. Sulzer insisted that the resolu tion was in diplomatic form and in no way contravened the status quo in the Orient or lnterefered with the proctocol existing between the allied powers. SHIP TOSSED BY STORM Lumber Carrier Blown Around Cape Flattery; Peril Great. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Feb. 26. (Spe cial.) Captain Neilsen, of the schooner Alpena, which arrived here today from Puget Sound ports with a cargo of poles and lumber, says after getting as south as Grays Harbor he was blown back beyond Cape Flattery and narrowly escaped going ashore on Van couver Island. He had reached the vicinity of San Miguel Island Friday and encountered the recent storm and was compelled to remain hove to for 24 hours with all salles reefed, and even then the Jib top sail was carried away. BLIZZARD MOVES ON EAST Middle West's Big Storm Sweeps Toward Atlantic States. CHICAGO. Feb. 26. The storm which brought a heavy snow to the middle lake region and rain and thunder on lino south of the Ohio River tonight is moving rapidly eastward. Snow Is falling from the Lake Erie region on the north to Kentucky and below the snow belt there Is rain. Forecasters here say the storm will continue its eastaward course, reach ing New York City some time tomor row. Through the Central West snow has ceased falling. A gradual rise In tem perature Is predicted. ARMY OFFICER IN PRISON Ex-First Iiieutenant Orchard Begins Serving Two-Year Term. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Feb. 26. Samuel C. Orchard, formerly First Lieutenant Third Infantry, U. S. A., to day began a sentence of two years at tho Federal penitentiary. He is the only military officer now under arrest in the prison. Orchard was convicted of embezzle ment by a court-martial at Fort Lis cum, Alaska. Tho embezzlement was committed while he was road commis sioner in Alaska, with headquarters at Valdez. ELECTION INQUIRY ASKED Resolution in Senate Proposes In vestigation of Pnpont Case. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. S&nator Reed, of Missouri, introduced in the Senate today a resolution directing an Investigation Into the election of Sen ator Dupont, of Delaware. far ; SLAYER JAILED, CONFESSES Taeoma Crime Fixed Within 8 Hours. SENTENCE SET FOR FRIDAY Criminal's Little Sons Help Detectives in Work. WIFE AND 'ESCORT SLAIN Jealous Husband, Who Does Murder in Darkness, Eager to Begin Prison Sentence Club Used to Deal Death Blows. TACOMA. Feb. 26. (Special.) Eight hours after the discovery of the bodies of Mrs. Willis Brown, aged 23. and John Alden, also known as Jack Wil son, aged 38, on a county highway near East Larchmont. and 14 hours af ter they had been killed by blows on the head from a club, Willis "Brown, aged 54, the dead woman's husband, pleaded guilty in the Superior Court to murder in the second degree. As there were no witnesses to the crime, the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney's office consented to this pro cedure, after a charge of murder in the first degree had been drawn up against Brown. Sentence to Be Given Today. Judge Chapman will pass sentence tomorrow and Brown probably will be on his way to 'the -State Penitentiary tomorrow night, within 48 hours after the double murder. Mrs. Brown and Alden wre to gether at the theater in Tacifma last night. They were seen to leave a late suburban car and start up a path to ward the Brown home. A colored woman heard several screams. At 6:30 o'clock this morning a lather, on his way to do some work on tha Brown house, discovered the bodies in the road. At noon officers took Brown into custody and statements by his two boys, aged 7 and 9 years, that he and his wife had engaged in a bitter quar rel oven Alden yesterday afternoon and that he had been absent twice in the night, led to vigorous questioning. Fleeing Spouse Struck Down. At 2:85 o'clock this afternoon Brown said he waited In the dark with a piece of scantling and struck Alden down, and when his wife fled, screaming, pur sued her and killed her with a blow on the head. "For God's sake, man, put a rope around my neck and do it now," sobbed Brown, after he had pleaded guilty. "Hang me now br put me in the elec tric chair and do it quick. I'm sick and tired of it all. When I wake up I want to find everything ended." Following his confession, arraign ment and plea of guilty. Just 14 hours after the double murder. Brown nearly collapsed. He said in his confession that he had known for the past year of the intimacy existing between his wife. Josephine, and Wilson, and had remonstrated with both, only to be told by his wife it was none of his business, that she would do as she pleased and t,hat if Brown did not allow Wilson to come and lfve at the house, she would leave It. Men Have Fight. Brown said he and his wife had many quarrels over the younger man's attentions, but that she would go down town with Wilson twice a week, com ing home on the last car. Brown said that about a month ago, while Wilson was at the house, he and Wilson al most came to blows over Wilson's re lations with Mrs. Brown. Sunday, Brown said, the woman and Wilson went down town in the morning. Knowing that probably they would re turn on the last car. Brown said he obtained a piece of 2x4 board about three feet long, and waited for them. Wilson and the woman were on the last car, as Brown expected, and walked up the road arm In arm. Brown said he came up quietly be hind them and struck Wilson over the head with the club, killing him in stantly. Mrs. Brown screamed several times and Brown said he dealt her,a blow with the club, killing her also instantly. Leaving the bodies in the road. Brown said he went home. Mrs. Brown was divorced from a man named Jackson before her marriage to Brown and came to Larchmont two years ago from Houston, Ind. EIGHT-HOUR DAY FAVORED House Goes on Record in Limiting Labor at Arsenals. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. The' House went on record today favoring the adoption of tho eight-hour work day' on all Government works when a pro vision for such a limitation of hours of labor was placed on the appropria tion for the manufacture of armament in the Army fortifications bill for the coming year. Representative Ranch, of Indiana, proposed the amendment, which was adopted after a lively debate in which labor union members of the House at tacked Representative Tribbla, of Georgia, who opposed It- 2