Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, March 05, 1912, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextI SENATE TO FIGHT FREE SUGAR BILL Belief Is Measure, With In come Tax Rider, Will Be Carried in House. 'PROGRESSIVES' TO OPPOSE I.ltcly iou :tI"1 IIck"'"1 fourrtlo Only I'n-asP of Two Tariff i:-l-ln i-urfsWool nil I and oeion III II. WASHIN'ITI'N. M-rc'ii 4. The llvll sl rf ti t.inlf rrTl.-Ion fights In the pr-ent --i..n of Conirrr- will brk iMi w.-rk mhrn the Prmorratlc fr ienr (.lit. ami the Income or eiclM tax bill, wlild nm with It to make up rn l".'ioo.ov a year tht wouht be In asar !'iti-. i-robaoly will K Ihroiiit trie Hiiii-- ami to defeat in the ;.n.'. The of the bllla :n tlie H.urc Bfii:ii assured by the ri-m.H-rnt:.- major. 'V wlilrh ratified Them In -.i: i:-. In the -i'T-Kte the "p rTee!- i ve He--,iMi. -an iil pi.e rnttmn auuar on ie f-e- t:t at . I many lvmurru trlew 1-i -lar-n t:.e ! "f " much revenue mil n-ih a me.iiire. beeet with the !.t!i:ttv rf a trial of Ita conatltu t 'r.alttv. the only offset. -ree laiar Fare4. S-r.a'.r Itri-t'. jeaklnK a on. t.nrr..lif." ealil that rone of Ma fllrairii. f.ivi.r.l free nilgai, but all nror-.t an in.fme Ut. tie H It .uM he unfair to American auptar .rixi'i.ei . hf had urown under the ,:iniur.t- of duty, to remove all their ;.r..te.t:--n h- a -!rgl- 1k In la t It art. The ' ..r rc.tvr" ltepiihllfana. who ! ..l the hl.mrf -f Miwer on party 1 ir-.ti.Mi In the Jin.it.. have evlrtenced n- rii-p'.-'"''n to eeek common around ,itli the iK'iii'nr.iN to pueh tariff re ' t nn I I. gi-l:xU..n. tea alar. lak. eala. The r.uhir Itepubllcana will con cede the i 1 1 t of t of only -r. urlff revision measur-a. a wool b :i and i com.n bill. None i.f the m"aiire ha Jret come I-i.ui the lluii-c iia and nieana rom mlit.e anil t?e Kepuhlican conceion h.i.c.1 on the fact that the tariff l-.-ir.t already !'- reporle.l on woot n I oon a II rej.ort on the cotton a "hed'lle l'-n. linn arbitration treaties with KnsUri'i and Krunce 'II come up on t ie l-n Ixl.tt ve day of Tueedav. ,frna Mr ah. have been ai.pportttiK their raifl'Mtion unatiien.led aay they will r!- the Senale by the neceaaary twu tuirila vote. CHINESE ROBBED BY TRIO I'-i-uilo Oifi-rr Tn.tr t."0 and Coat Ulirn IHnckmall 1 Krftf-rtl. nohbeil of an overcoat anil 1-0. WonR Ki. a t'hlne-r. complained to the po lice laat tilsht. and Mlaa Florence Thorpe, a ho eaia ahe la un actreea. and l.eeter Iturke viere arrested tty the po l.ce. Miaa Thorpe admitted to the po lice that ehe had conspired with Burke and a man whose name the police do not Know, to mulct the Chinese. The woman confeaaed to having lured Wonir Kio to a room at the llar t..n rooming-house. Thirteenth and Alder ftrcet.4. last night, and ty pre ;i rran: ment Hurke and a man mho e lapeil iirrral. suddenly entered the room ami. tvlluic the Celestial they were nfrti-iT. demanded money to re lease him. When he refused, tha men robbed hltn. Miss Thorpe told the police that she a. is a member of a theatrical company hi. h broke up at Kverett. Wash., two necks au:o. Mie ei.ys her home la at Stockton. I'ul. Iloth Mlsa Thorpe and liuike are held at the city Jail. INJURY CASE APPEALED Important I'olnt ArlM-a in A-tlon by I. 'llrl-n. loetcr. PALLAS, Or- March 4. iSpcciaD The uctlon for damancs commenced last Kail bv Clarence 1. O'Brien, a loirrer. az.itnst the KalN City Lumber Com pany, and which resulted In a verdict for the plaintiff for M-mo. lias been ap- prwvlcd. This case attracted considerable at tention, as It waa tne of tho first tn the .-ute bv a man Intured In a loKKlnic tamp since the adoption of the employ ers' liability act. The defendant says the act d.na not apply to loKKlns con cern and operations, but that tn re spect to this occupation the common law doctrines are still in force in this state. The court instructed according to tha n-t. and It Is upon exceptions, to these Instructions that the defendant basest its appt-aL T.R. SAYS VOTERS WITH HIM 4'olonrl unil Adherents Admit Pos sibility of I.oslns Convention. dYSTKII HAY. N. Y March 4. Colo r el ' Koosevclt s own views of tha poll-lea! situation nn.l his reasons for etit.-rinic the campaicii were explained bv him today. He said that his rea son tor enterms Into a political cam puirn as an active candidate waa that men who share his political beliefs con vinced htm thry needed an effective leader. As to the prospects of victory. Colo rel r.ooseiclt expressed the opinion that on a popular vote a would be the choice of his party by a blir ma-j.-rltv. How far thia result mtKht b modirYd by the Interposition of the machinery of politics he was unable to "'Von.-l P.ooeevell said he supposed a treat many persons would not be lee it. but that he had not wished t. er.t.-r the tlKht. -so far as a personal victory is con cerned. 1 don't care." he said. He sal 1 his position was different In isi.t Th-n he Has desirous of tha nominal. on because he wished the peo Vie s seal of approval. In taking up the f Kht this year, however, he .was i. prosing his personal Inclinations. iVlonrl Koosevelt s assertion that he j. Itrved a larse majority of Republican n.ters favored him made when he was informed of the result of m nn ,fl In different sections of the coun :ry. shoatrsT an allered ratio of 1 to t f.'r Koosevelt. The Colonel said he thought that about represented the situation. Colonel R..osvelt aald he believed he aould receive a majority on a popular ota lr all but f-ur or nr states, ln Jxaii iin him a slight lead ovex l'rasl- cludlnir Delaware and Utah. Ha added that he felt confident he would have a majority of the l'enns Ivanla delega tion to the National convention. He was told the test vote In New England dent Taft and he said that he waa not at all surprised at that. Ex-Snator Beverlilt. of Indiana, came to Oyster Bay to ro over the rpdlana situation with the Colonel and ex-Representative Landis, of Indiana. Mr. Ijindls arrived last nlcbt. Amos Plnchnt. of New York, brother of Gif ford IMnrhot: John Bass, brother of Governor Bass of New Hampshire: Ben jamin Ids Wheeler, president of the University of California, and Lieuten ant John C. Greenway. of Blsbee. Arls an old friend of the Colonel In the HoUKh Riders, were the other guests. Colonel Roosevelt aald that Indlan waa the weakest of the Western States from the viewpoint of the Roosevelt forces. If the Issue could be put to a popular vole, he said, he believed a majority of the enrolled Republicans would favor his cause, but as there waa no primary system In Indiana for the expression of preference as to Presi dential nominees, the result waa in doubt. Kx-Senator Heverldae expressed the same view. "There was a Roosevelt movement In every district." he said, but It will be pretty hard to defeat the ors-anlxatlon which will rule tha convention. Fl LM S " STFr" iLO PER S MOTION riCTIRES CACSK OF ITI.LM.IX LOVKPiS" IXIGIIT. Banker's Dauchtc-r and t"ollo Youth tscv-. INiinnntU- Plioto-IMay. I'leo rilj iVrddlnic Follow. SPOKANK. Wash March 4. (Spe clal. A motion-picture play, deplet ing two lovers confronting the objec tion to their marrlace of stern parents, an elopement, a chase across the prairies In an automobile, the recon ciliation and happiness ever afterward, this wss the Inspiration that resulted Wednesday In the" elopement at Pull man of handsome Jt-year-old Bessie Klemitard. dauahter of James S. Klem aard. PullTTtan banker, and Marcel Parsons. 17-year-old son of C R. Par sons, of SIT Washington street. Youni; Parson was a student at Washing-ion btate College. Mrs. parsons, mother of the youth, told the romantic story this afternoon, the first detailed statement of tha causes leadlnt; up to tha affair made since the Juvenile lovers were discov ered In this city last Friday evening and were married Saturday afternoon. "Marcel only met the cirl Kelu-uary said Mrs. Parsons. "They went to a motion-picture theater and both were much exerclsec" over one of the plays, tho story of an elopement. So they planned to elope Just for the fun of It. you mlpht say." Improved by A sr. Judge. But oon't you think the Karl la rather too old for your daushterr' "Not a bit of it. The oliier the bet lir. I've seen some old Karls who were THfher decent." new bills at theaters -4j THE PRINT: OF TOMBHt." A MoeleaJ Comedy by llimah. Adaois aad lloaani. Presented at the HelllK. CAST: Lara Fylvester McOregor Sidney Stone Tha Old C.srdentr. Tommi channon... Hot! Messenser... Bonnie Htuart .... ....Lew lovwson Ernest D. Wood Frank Htnne ...Claire Xoelke V ri. Iranlel Stuart ..Loralne Bernard Ianiet Stuart Jno. C. Iaeh Knvoy I- C. Henderson Llf-eaver Chris Oottschalk Manager "The Hreakers" ...Thomas II. MrKnlxht Jim Poutherlsnd. . . Henrv Woodruff Vlrstela Xtuart Vera Htanler yxrr Ferol Mosley l!ea Nina Seamans Kathrrlne lavura Castle Marie Frances Vaugban rollcemaa Frank T. Onn J' BT l.rOXB CASS PAER. RARK Indeed is the musical comedy that la worth (coins- to sea twice ami a third visit Is too often add ing Insult to Injury. That Is dealing with tne subject In a general way. Individualizing we come right down to the presentation at the Ilellig last evening. In no aense by whatever stretch of jrenerous imagination one may color the evening, was "The Prince of Tonight" an entertainment worthv of booking at this playhouse. Just what evil genius persuaded Mort Singer tnat this saUly inane and pa thetically one-man show could stand on Its legs and buffet the gale of an other, and still another season, must have Its only explanation in the box office receipts of tha one-night stands, where shows ara few and far between and tho patrons, as a consequence, can not be discriminating. We listened to that new and pristine ballad. "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now." and heard once more that pretty little Joke which the serpent asked Adam. vlx.. "Is your wife entertaining this year?" "No. not very": we were permitted to gax long and often at veritable rag-tag and bobtail of Incon gruity of chorus costuming, and In tha name of music were compelled to listen to one of the most tuneless and spirit less set of voices that ever warbled across the Helllg footlights. Henry Woodruff waa most apparent ly laboring with a severe cold and sang accordingly- Hut the other prin cipals had no such subterfuge. The story Itself haa had In Ita youth Just as much plot and bright lines as the average musical comedy. But. un fortunately for a 1911 presentation, neither songs nor lines are of the sort that llva and flourish. And like many a sutr vrho has gone before and many a one who will come after. Mr. Wood ruff Insists on shining big and all by his lonesome, with an Indifferent sup port, whoaa fallings will only accen tuate his own prowess. Of the cast. Vera Stanley, the prima donna, has one little iance. a sort of oriental thing, all dash and grace, which she makes Into a most captivating special ty. Another bit that would have gone better had there been more college men In the audience was "Her Kyes Are Hlue for Good Old Ysle." John c. lach afforded the only comedy in the dreary evening. Occa sionally some one laughed right out loud at the antlca of the roly-poly Mr. Leach. v ho. In the aulse of the hero ine's rich pa, was ohsesseii with a rabid mania which took the form of smashing other men's headgear. Of actual acting, very little waa done, but the blue ribbon for that much goes unreservedly to Uw Lawsoa. in tha role of an old gardener. "The Prince of Tonight- will hold royal audience tonight, tomorrow nixht and at matinee and svcnlntf per formance on t aslaaaday. Trre Mon?rr-G okegom.o', tuespat, aiAKcn 5. miz. FAMINE FOLLOWS WAR III TRIPOLI Arab Women Starve That More Food Shall Be Left to the Soldiers. LIZARDS USED AS FOOD firnln That Falls From Xoshag ot IlorM-s I Kancrly f-leanod by Famished Natives Trasic Morlos Ileluted by Writer. BY Al.AX OSTl.HH. AZIZ1A. Tripoli. March 4. (SpeelaL) Famine lias followed on the heels of war In the north of the province of Tripoli. It is famine of the cruelist kind. lor Its victims are almost all women and children. The adult males of the popu ;atp.n are one and all at war with Italy. They draw their rations and re ceive their ammunition, and even their horses must not -o short. Food for the soldier and his mount has been lel.-d out by the Turks from the bejrin nintc of tho war. But Arab women are flhtinir for the rains that fall from the horses" nose biias. and babies that should be plump ami brown ara bony and yellow, with skin the hue-' of dried parchment stretched over rickety frameworks of bones. This miiM have been pninir on for weeks, for the starving people who have come within the hist few days to Axlxia are the mothers and wives and children of the men from that belt of oases that fringes the coast from Zou ara eastward nearly to the town of Tripoli Itself. The Italian campaign of October, and the casual shell fire from prowhns cruisers, which has made a target of very mud hut visible amone the palms, ilrove these poor wretches from their homes early during the war. Rata aad l.lsarda Food. Thoe In the neighborhood of Zouara were gathered together by order of Musa Mchemot. the military commander of the district, and housed in the stone fortress In the oafci of Ulgdalin, but it seems that hundreds fnon the scat ti red villages further east fled in disor ganized crowds into tho desert, and. subsisting on roots and rats and llsarus, have made their pitiful way at last to thi; new headquarters of the Turkish ttoops at Axirta. I do not know the details of their miseries In tho lesert. They did not !arc to go back to their homes. Some of them Joined their men In the out post camps, and shared their dole of rice and barley. But even here they seem lo have Tin: t;IKI. 1OM TtF'TORS." A Faree-Comedy by Panl Poller. Pre sented at the Baker Theater. CAST. Puddle Thomas II. Wallsee Klrhard O. Bhsuxhnersy J Fox L Andrew Tandy. .Harry H. Castle Lxiuts Sedslns . . . .Kathertna Raynore I'rof. Aubrey Msboon.H. S. Thompson Mrs. Wltherspfion Copley .. I.tda Kane Marcla Hincleton Bessie Proce Anclli-a Anita Allen Judtte Caparton. . .J. Wsllace Clinton Dcscon Wlfaleford. .H. Pennypacker Klnckebein Clsude Robinson NOTICKABI.Y pruned In giddy ac tion, and rounded at conversation al corners are the escapades of that in genuous "Olrl From Rectors" which opened a week's stay at the Baker yes terday afternoon. The eliminating pro cess has left the story only mildly naughty, and retains all Its amusing lines. Almost any girl might take her grandmother to witness the antics of the Rector lassie, so perfectly proper is It as a production. Of course they have not gono so far as to destroy what plot there was In the original production, but the dances, the risque situation have folded their tents and quietly stolen away. Still loominir large on the horizon of marital infelicities is the trio of mis mated ones; "the girl" who poses as a charity worker and respectable matron In llattle Creek, Mich., for two long months of each year, and passes the rest of the time getting all the emolu ments her title at Hector's allows her; her husband flirtatious, promiscuously and constantly: and gay old Tandy, who la a modern Henry the VIII and Nat Goodwin rolled Into one these are the principal atrayers from tha path of domesticity. A dozen others In mar ried, have been married or will bo mar ried conditions, aid In telling the story, which takes four acts, and has for Its sole purpose the denouement of the escapades of "the Girl." Katherlne Raynore handles this role acceptably, despite a heavy cold that handicapped her voice in her lighter scenes. She haa particularly fine eyes, saucer-like In slxe and sparkling, an asset she evidently haa been apprised of. for she uses them to an excellent advantage. Graydon Fox. a capable young chap, makes himself likable In tha role of the "Dlcky-blrd." who is entangled in the lure of "the girl's" smiles, but who es capes to wed the little girl whom the playwright invariably provides for such occasions. Harry Castle, as Colonel Tandy, a polite reprobate, and J. Wallace Clin ton's portrayal o the part of Judge Caperton the girl's liege lord, both give good accounts of themselves as actors. A clever comedian Is Kdward S. Thompson, who creates a "Joyful dis turbance as Professor Maboon. who i the Intellectual "goat" for various en terprises. One of the real bits of act. Ing ability is displayed by a dainty Ut. tie girl, Anita Allen, in the role of a French maid, whose accent Is so truly Par)slenna one wonders if it Isn't the real article. Bessie Bruse as the unsophisticated and really good fiance of the Dlcky blrd. Llda Kane as her mother, a role she acts exceptionally well, too, com plete the cast, with the addition of Henry Pennypacker aa the dyspeptic killjoy Deacon Prlggleford. The piay will coniinue all week at tha Baker with the usual matinees. A Gentle Hint. Satire. Assistant Editor "Here's a poem from a fellow who Is serving a five years' term In Sing Sing prison. Managing Editor "Well, print It. with a footnote explaining the circum stance. It may serva aa a warning to o tn or poets." starved themselves lest the men and horses, who are defending their coun try, should go short. I have said that Arab women scram Me for the barley-grains that fall from the horses' nosobags. Well, that is not meant merely as a figure of speech. It Is literally and terribly true. At Senatl Benl Adhem. the cavalry outpost near here. I caught a woman doing this very thing during the night, and thought at first she waa robbing the horses. She wasn't, poor thing! She was simply gleaning after them. Momrn Starve That Men May Fight. On the very next day I saw a woman crouched on the ground near where some sacks of grain had been, and she was picking up grain by s1" w'th her fingers. "To whom shall you sell It?" I asked. "I shall eat it." she replied. "Surely you cannot live on horses food?" I said. And she answered that she and her children had eaten nothing else for many a day. Gradually I found out that even those women, who. with their children, have come to hanc on the outskirts of the army, are in a state of half-starvation. Thoy them selves say: "We must eat little, lest our fichiing-men go short." As for those who wander to and fro In tho desert, shelterless, nearly naked, and with bones starting through their skin, how they live on. day after day. only those who know the endurance of the Arab race can understand. Purlng the last day or so crowds of them have gathered round tho white buildlnir which marks the headquarters here at Azizia. It was the death of a pack-camel that brought them. Hitherto, save for a few bony children begging for scraps in the market-place, and for the fur tive, shrouded women gleaning the crumbs that fall from the table of our four-footed beasts of burden, the famine-stricken wanderers have hidden their misery rather than paraded It. aioel's Carcass la Shored. It was not until the death of a camel that they flocked In great force to beg for food. The camel, blundering In the night-time about the 'courtyard, had snapped Its ungainly leg acrosa a wagon-wheel. It filled the night with hideous groans, and was killed to put it out of pain. The news spread through the desert hollows, where tho fugitive women and children hide, as the news of a camel's death always spreads among the hungry wastes of Africa. They flocked to Azizia, a ghastly crew of scarecrows. Like the chorus of "The Tragely of Want." they sat In a patient seml-clrcle before the arch way of the courtyard. They did not reed any pleading other than their looks. The dead camel was cut up and Ustributed among them. When the lumps of meat were doled out. what wonder if there was fighting and screaming, and much pitiful trickery to get more than a fair share? GOVERNORS' HELP DENIED "Roosevelt Forces Dispute Claim of Taft Manager!-. WASHINGTON. March 4. The Na tional Koosevelt headquarters made public tonight a statement disputing the statement that President Taft in liis candidacy for renomlnntlon has the support of Governors Hooper, of Ten nessee; Governor Oddle. of Nevada, and Governor Doneen. of Illinois. The Taft bureau a few days ago made public telegrams of indorsement from nine Republican Governors, in cluding telegrams from Governor Hooper and Governor Oddle. No tele gram has been received from Governor Iieneen. but the managers of the Taft bureau claimed liis support. in connection with the statement to niuht. the Koosevelt headquarters gave out copies of telegrams from Gover nors Hooper and Oddie. Governor Od dle sent two telegrams: "Carson City, Nev. In reply to a telegram from Senator Nixon asking me to define my position, I wired him on February 2& as follows: 'In con versation with President Taft last Fall, at that time with no anticipa tion that Colonel Koosevelt would en ter the fight for President, I assured President Taft that 1 thouKht the Kc publicans of Nevada were for his re nomination, and that I personally was for him. 1 consider that the announce ment of Colonel Roosevelt's candidacy has absolutely changed the situation.'" "Carson City. Nev. Will be highly pleased to have my name added as a member of committee from my state supporting Colonel Roosevelt for the Presidential nomination." Governor Hooper's telegram follows: "Nashville, Tenn. You are correct in assuming that my policy Is 'hands off In the contest for delegates from Ten nessee to the National Republican con vention, which haa been my position from the outset and will be adhered to If I am to head the state ticket, as it now seems probable. I'owe it to my friends to pursue a course that will not weaken the ticket, whatever my personal preference may be as to the Presidential nominee. It would not conduce to strengthen the state ticket for me to Inject myself Into this con test for delegates lor tho National con vention." "Governor rOeneen." says the state ment, "has announced himself in favor of a Presidential primary." The statement also declares that Governor Pothler. of Rhode Island, from whom a telegram of indorsement was given out at the Taft bureau,' has "not committed himself to the candi dacy of tho President." FCLLi CONTEXT IS DEMANDED Colonel Will Not Keply "Unless Xante of Recipient Is Given. OYSTER BAY, N. Y March 4. Colo nel Roosevolt. when he saw tonight's dispatches from Washington contain ing a letter of his dated June 27, Mil, quoting him as having no intention of being a Presidential candidate In 1912, made tho following statement: "I will say nothing unless tho name of th recipient of the letter is given and the letter published in fulL Prob ably the language is not correctly published in a Chicago evening paper which I said I would not refuse the nomination Is suppressed. The letter published In a ..cago evening paper one month ago contains substantially all I have said In these letters. "THEODORE KOOSEVELT." The letter referred to aa published In a Chicago newspaper was a copy of a letter which Colonel Roosevelt sent to Frank A. Munsey, explaining his po sition. MRS. ANNIE YEAMANS DEAD "Grand Old Woman of Slage" Fanions in Many Lands. NEW YORK. March 4. Mrs. Annie Teaman, who has been known as America's "grand old woman of the stage." died yesterday after suffering recently a stroke of paralysis. Since the age of ten she had been on the stage and appeared before audiences In all parts of tho world. She cele brated her T6th birthday on Novem ber IS. AH In Garden Fair. Harper's Bazar. New Yorker What did you have in your garden last Summer? Suburbanite Cochin Chinas. Ply nioutii Kocka and Leghorns. FOREIGN ACTORS 111 AUSTRALIA MAY GO Proposal Made to Put Embar go on All Except "Stars" of Stage. HOME TALENT IS FAVORED Xew Union In Antipodes Urges Tliat Action Be Taken to Protect AH Those Who Have Made Homes on Continent. SYDNEY. N. S. W.. Jlarch 4. (Spe cial.) The latest addition to Austral Ian labor organizations is an Actors' I'nion. whose members have signalized its advent by putting forward the re markable proposal that an embargo should be placed upon the importation of stuge players, even those who mere ly visit the country on tour. At the meeting held here it was agreed to except "stars," who, appar ently, may go and strut their hour upon the stage unchecked, but they must be supported by local companies, recruited and rehearsed on the spot In fact, the old system of the travel ing "star" and stock company is to be revived, -with the sanction of law, at the behest of the new trade union. The movement Is said to be In the inter ests of '"local people and English and American actors who have stayed in Australia." New Faces Wanted. It Is no doubt true, as the union asserts, that many of the parts in plays produced in Australia by touring com panies could be filled quite as capably by talent already here, but. as the Aus tralian remarks, it is a fancy of the play-going public to see new faces now and again, and it has hitherto been a legitimate part of managerial enter prise to Indulge that fancy. "Considering the population of Aus tralia, it Is remarkable how many act ors, permanently settled here, have maintained consistently their place in popular favor. Dozens of names spring to mind proving that members of the profession, once their footing is gained, may spend a good slice of their lifetime in Australia without exhaust ing the goodwill of tie little commu nity here. It is now proposed to ex ploit this good nature by rigidly en acting that playgoers shall see and smile upon no newcomers." Industrial Growth Mnde. A review of last year's progress dis closes ample ground for satisfaction at Australia's solid advance in manufac turing enterprise. In New South Wales alone tho annual value of local manu factures Is now put et $250,000,000. During the last decade factories in the Commonwealth have increased by l."04, work people employed by 30,923, sal aries and wages by $13,454,545, and the value of the plant engaged by $23,115, 420. Mr. Wunderllch, president of the New South Wales Chamber of .Manu factures, asserts that Australia is nat urally an Industrial country. "By her geographical position,'' he tays. "she should be the manufacturing purveyor for four continents." Yet he is not, apparently insensible to the lion in the path of manufacturing- progress shortage of labor and Industrial un rest. In face of recent happenings. Mr. Wunderlich thinks that the state by drastic legislation could prevent strikes and bring about a condition of reason ableness between employers and em ployed. Many other Australians, bearing the experiences of 1911 in mind, are less optimistic For although production has never been greater, work more abundant or wages higher thun they are today, the Commonwealth has wit nessed more strikes during the last 12 months than In any previous period in its history. A mass of Industrial legis lation, largely in favor of the employed and designed to secure the amicable settlement of disputes, has not brought peace; on the contrary, there has been constant war. Again and again, causes of the most trivial kind have brought out large numbers of men sometimes in defi ance of solemn agreements with the result that much avoidable loss and injury have been inflicted on the com munity. Situation I I nlinproved. Y'et the average worker is relatively no better off. Labor agitators appar ently fall to realize that higher wages necessarily increase the cost of produc tion and that the added burden Is fin ally passed on to the public, including? the workers. In the agricultural districts of Aus tralia the dearth of labor has become so serious that the area under wheat is being progressively restricted. I,ast year there was a decline of about 500. 000 acres, and according- to an expert whoso views were recently published, this year will, unless conditions Im prove, show a further decrease of 1.000.000 acres. The same handicap Is making itself felt in the dairying- dis tricts, where herds are being reduced simply for want of labor. Trade union agitators declare that it Is only a question of wages, and that if reasonable Inducements were offered there would be no lack of men. FOREIGXEKS FLEEIXG MEXICO Hidden but Pointed Warning Seen by Many in Taft's Message. MEXICO CITY, March 4. Publica tion yesterday of the Taft proclamation and the statement Issued by Ambassa dor Wilson operated to calm the aroused fears of foreigners In the cap ital. Still there was a strong under current of uneasiness. Many chose to read between the lines of the declaration a hidden mes sage which they Interpreted as possi bly tho most pointed warning that could come out of Washington at this time, that Intervention would likely follow a continuance of the disorders. Others accepted the proclamation at its face value, considering that it con cerned foreigners in the capital only remotely and waa directed almost en tirely to those in outlying and exposed localities. The warning has had the effect of causing many to decide to leave the country. Visitor are cutting their stays short and scores of residents who for weeks have been keyed up to a high tension by the progress of events have announced their intention to go at the first moment when ac commodations are to be had by train or steamer. Interested- In Settlements. Judge. "Gettem Is interested in settlement work." "Ah! Philanthropist, I suppose." "No; he Is employed by a collecting agency." Jf Our Spring overcoats form an all star cast. All are leaders in then chosen lines. If you want an overcoat for looks, use, style and for wear youll find it in our carefully selected company. Rough, fuzzy English fab rics in blues, greens, browns and grays; Chesterfields in black and Oxford; fancy styles with big pockets and long collars. Long raincoats with new features. Knee-length raglans. You may choose from any overcoat or raincoat in our entire stock, regular $30, $25 and $20 garments, this week, special at $16.85. lilUll GusKuhn Prop. 166-170 THIRD ST.-, Always Reliable. SYNOPSIS OF THE AXNirAL. STATEMENT UNITED STATES'CASUALTY COMPANY UV NEW YORK, In the State of New York, on the Rlt day of i.e'.-enber. lftll. made to the limiranr. Commiskloner ot the Slate of Oregon, pur suant to law; Amount of capital pal'" 'up ... 500.00O.00 Income. Premiums written during the y.ar I,s.s.o.,-. n Int.rcst. dividend!! and ri-nts re- clvtd durinc the year II.. b..j..u Income from oilier sources re- --..,-. ceived during the year ''''" Total income ll,9Sli.0.09 Difab in-sr nirnt t. Losst paid durinu tli ar, PeVtc ."dJ.U.S.t.mr":...-,:X".n,061,060.34 Dividends paid during the year on capital stuck 48,no-.JO Commissions and salaries paid during the year ".to- Taxes, lk-enses and fees paid during the year i.Vi.io'Ii Amount of all other expenditures fc.i.l.w.- Total expenditures l,057,esT.3i AselH. Value of real ejtate owned " Value of mocks and bonds owned -'.Ola.!.ij.u Loans on mortgages and collat- n n () 00 Cns'tf in banks' arid on hand.. dl.ir.ll.OS Premiums m course of collection and In transmission .I5,.k.n Interest and renls due and ae- . crued t I.I.I.O Total assets Less special deposits . .2,644.757.55 In the 2.-..310.00 Mate Ol uaiiiia. Total assets admitted in Ore gon ....'. Liabilities. Gross clHims for losses unpaid. .$ Additional speelal reserve for claims (Including claims in curred in reports In ll- Amount of unearned premiums on all outstanding risks .... Reserve for reinsurance Hue for commission and bro kerage Capital stock All other liabilities: Contingency f nnd Salaries, rent. expense. etc., $7 (lOO reinsurance, SS.114.14; dividends. $12,725; state, coun ty and municipal taxes due or accrued, SllO.OOl) 447.35 220.00 112.3B 537.18 434.1 n .000.00 6S.9S4.07 Total Total liabilities ... jt.sr..Tj7.st I7,.r,si.2 S1.S1II.447.5j Total premiums in force Decern- bor 81. mil $l.f.GK. i4.i.u Business In Oregon for the Year. Gross premiums received out ing the year Premiums returned during the year Losses paid during the year.... Losses incurred during the year 20,044.00 279.M I.12H.B4 3.111.(14 Total amount of premiums out- standlns In Oregon December ,--, 31. 1011 -1-19-el MTED STATES CASUALTY COMPANY By D. G. Lt-CKKTT. Secretary. Statutory resident general agent and at torney for service: JOHN If. BlBfiABB. Lewis Bldx. SYNOPSIS OF THE ANNTAL STATEMENT OF THE Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company OF SI'KIXGFIIS-D. in the State of MaFsachusetts, on the 31st day of December, 1911, made to th In surance Commissioner ot the State of Ore gon, pursuant to law; Capital. Amount of capital paid up . .purely mutual Income. Premiums received during -s-a qcg qt the year 5 P.obti.aso.y Interest, dividends and rents received during the year 2.8o6,416.40 Income from other sources re- ceived durlns the year 361, 8-8. 4 Total income $12,763,134.31 DlBijnrsrmen ts. Paid for losses, endowments, annuitie, and rdcr val- $ Dividends paid to policy-holders during the year Commissions and salaries paid during the year . - Taxes, licenses and fees paid during the year . Amount of all other expendi ture - 1,739.498.00 l.S0:l,441.57 222.702.39 .-,S!1.42 Total expenditures -,i3!i,Oii6.2a Assets. Market -value of real estate owned 1.031.00D. Market value of stocks ana Hnnrin nanCll r.r:!3.: Toans on mortgages 2:1. Premium notes and policy loans y, Cash in banks and on hand.... ..(...n.cteri and deferred :.'.u. :iH4.i II71. oremiums 1 ,l.-.i, Other asseta (net) !)j2. Total assets .4,730.42.31 Total assels admitted In Ore- ,1 $84,730. (142.31 Liabilities. Net reserve Total policy claims .... . .;6,844.1S.O0 1s4.00y.14 . . S.fiO.'.Hilf.SU . . 3,020.9U1.U7 All other naomiies Surplus ......... Total liabilities t 64,730.342.31 Total Insurance in force De cember 31. 111 283. 660,270.00 Business fo Oregon for the Year. Tntnl risk, written during the year Gross premiums received dur ing the year Losses paid during the year.. Losses incurred during the year 640.40S.00 lfll.B60.SB f.9.678.78 61.678.78 Total amount of risks outstand ing in Oregon December 31, lull 4,641.292.00 MASSACHCKKTTS MTTTAT, LIFE INSURANCE ClMirANY By WHEELER H. HALL, Secretary. Statutory resident general agent and at torney for service : it a. roi.Tox. Fortland, Oregon. SYNOPSIS OK THE ANNTTAL STATEMENT OF THE imn Mlllflre Mil hi a! FlfP .iliXuliiail HitU'wiO IIIUIUJI a uv Insurance Co. of LANSING in the State of Michigan, on the Slst nay of l)eceml.er. Hill, made to the Insurance Com Skp'bI the late of Ores-", pursuant to law: lncomr. Premiums and assessments re ceived during the year in cash ; 6,.!33 Interest, dividends and rents received during the year 4.jM.J. Income from other sources ie- ceived durlns the year aa...-.. Total income 7".1,5S3.70 llihhiirseaienlH. losses paid during the J"'!,r,-, S19.4S.S9 Commissions nnd salaries paid -,,.., con duriiiK th year b-.4-.ll Taxes, licenses and fees paid ,-K n- durins the year . Amount of all other expenditures Mi,."V4l Total expenditures 774.Siu.2S Assets. Value of rcn! estnlo owned..! 12.000.00 ''.,"'. . r:r. . '.'?. . ,bo.' . . m..s Loans on mortgages and collat- -nio 97S 7"i Cash in batiks ' and on hand.. llo.bLO.lS Premiums In i-ouisn of collec- niri-sr tion and transmission Uo, lbJ..' Interest and rents due and ac- crued 14-'"'-'IJ Total assets 1,021.051. 04 Liabilities. Gross claims for losses unpaid. .$ 49,482.41 Amount of unearned premiums on all outstanding risks .... 7 p. i '.3 All other liabilities l.t.j,U4.4- Total liabllltle ? 5S1, 837.1)1 Total insurance in force De- cember 31, -I'll 71,4 , S, -o.OO ltnsiness in Oreiroo for the Tear. To,a.rrlsks written during Ute Gross premiums received dur- ,,.... IriB the year 18.410.4.1 Premiums returned durlnK the n year h.wii.-. Losses paid dnrinsT the year 23,1U. Losses Incurred during the year j.9-4.4U Total amount of risks oitistand- il'lfl 42S.960.09 MICHIGAN M1M.FRS MUTT; At, 1TRE INSl RANCE CO Py A. TX BAKER, Secretary. Statutory resident general agent and at torney for service: H. M. GRANT, B02 Board of Trade Blrtg.. Portland, Oregon. STNOPSIS OP THE ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES BB-VNCH NORWICH UNION FIRE IN SURANCE SOCIETY, Ltd. OF NORWICH, (n Mhe Kingdom of Great Britain, on th 31st dav or December, 1011, made to tlia Insurance Commissioner of the istat of Ore gon, pursuant to law: Capital. Amount of capital paid up 60,000.00 Income. Premiums rrcoived durh-e th , year in cash $l,7b4,0,a..uw Interest, dividends and rents re- ceived durinc the year 00.0il.o7 Income from other sources re- Jrtftxyv.v ceived during the year -40,000.00 Total Income l,S94.0tI3.o7 Dib urnemen ts. T.osttpn Iaid during the year $ OSO.210.87 Commission;, and salaries paid durintr the year 546,2. l.-l Taxes. licenses and fees paid during the year 60.;iS".n Amount of ail other expenditures 4. .S Total expenditures $1,839,097.46 Assets. Vahio of stocks and bonds owned $J.ln..iifl..S Cash in banks and on hand., 31$,Guy.ol Premiums in course of collection and transmission aOS,669.1i Reinsurance due, but uncollected on losses paid 11,506.03 Total turrets $2,741, 460.80 Less special deposltB in any state B.-..00O.0O Total assets admitted in Ore gon $2,6SG,4tV0.S0 J.labililie. Gross claims for losses unpaid..? 187,056.10 Amount of unearned premiums on all outstanding risks . 1.-.04. 7-..-7 Due for commission and bro- kurnee 1.4S2.-t!i All other liabilities Total liabilities $l,8S0.00I.a Total insurance in force Decem ber .".I, 1011. $:.fi7.A14.3itO.OO BiiKine In Oregon for tie Year. Total risks written during the year $3.C43,00G.00 Gross premiums received during the year CO.SS.'I.ll Premiums returned during the -.-year '"s - Losses paid during the year.... L,4.S4l..n Losses incurred during the year IiiS.OS3.7o Totai amount of risks outstand ing in Oregon December .J1, 39 II $2.:i0.S.iI.O0 NORWICH IXION FIRE INS. SOCIETV, IT1. Bv W. H. LOW DEN". Manager. Statutory resident general agent and at torney for service : A. W. -IKSY. No. 70 Fourth Street. Portland, Oregon. Resident agents: Pettis-roi.ma.ver Company. WHeox BIdg Vhitmer-Kelly Co., Iev1a Biog. SYNOPSIS OF THK AXNTAL STATEMENT OF THE Western Union life Insurance Co., a Corporation OF SPOKANE, In thr State ' of Washington, on the S1t day of December. Iflll, made lo the In surance Commissioner of the Stato of Ore son, pursuant to law: Capital. Amount of capital paid tip . . 200.000.00 Tneome. Premiums received during: the S 3ST,041.6i year Interest, dividends and rents re ceived during the year. -- Income from other Bources dur ing the year 47.S0.SS 1.129,79 Total income ... .35.u71.02 Disbursements. Paid for losses, endowments, annuities and surrender val ues ' Commissions and salaries paid during the year Taxes.. licenses and fees paid during the year Amount of all other expenditures 49.737.23 162,508.41 4.R7.1.97 36.785. S! Total expenditures .. 253,705.49 Asset. Market value of real estate owned ; : : Market value of stock's .and b.ml- owned - Loans on mortgages and collat eral, etc Premium notes and policy loans Cash In banks and on hard.... Net uncollected and deferred premiums Other assels (net) 11R.759.34 74,818.28 4G(1.7in.7S R7,44n.!!l 40,140.4? 5 OL'S.-S 42.Sm7.S0 Tntl assetK 816,117.00 Totoai assels admitted in Ore- , 816,117.0f Jiabilille. "et reserve Total policy claims .... All other liabilities ... ... 4sr,.706.r;.T 2.155.70 32S.255.01 Total liabilities t 816,117.08 Total insurance In force De cember 31, 1911 12,290,115.00 Business in Oregon for the Year. Total risks written during the year 325,743.00 Gmss premiums received during the year 30.293.JS Losses raid during tho year Losses Incurred during the year.. 5. 500.00 Total amount of risks out standing In Oregon December 81, 1911 862.743.00 WESTKKX VXION LIKE RSIKANCE COMPANY Bv R. I,. RI7TTER. PreFi'lTt. Ftatutory resident general agent and at torney lor service: 1. Ji. HAJULIOK. 1