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TURKISH PRINCE IS
HILL SCORES
STATUE, SLIGHTLY
CLARA BARTON, WAR
REDUCED RATES Oil
DRESSED, DRAPED
SPOKANK STCDKXTS MODESTLY
APPLY CLASS COLORS.
THROWN INTO JAIL
QUOTES
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THEY GLIMPSE BIG KETTLE.
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WOOL ARE ORDERED
Roads Are Required to
File New Schedules.
DECISION FAVORS INDUSTRY
Maximum to Be Paid Near
Eastern Line of State.
COAST RATES WILL STAND
DlMam-e on One Side, Water Com
petition on Other, Complicate
Situation Waiving of Short
Hani Clause Justified.
OREGONIAN NEWS EVRKAl. Wash
ington. April II. Radical reductions In
freight rates on wool, both In sacks
and In bale's, transported from Western
points or origin to Eastern destinations
were prescribed today by the interstate
Commerca Commission.
The present rate of $1 on wool from
Pacific oCa.it terminals to Boston and
other points on the Atlantic seaboard
will be continued In effect, notwith
standing that this rate Is materially
higher than the rate from Intermediate
points Inland. The commission spe
cifically declares that this rate of II
ls forced upon railroads by actual wa
ter competition, and that if the rate
were advanced railroads could not han
dle wool from coast to coast.
latrrter Rates Exr"slve.
While sustaining the coast rate, tha
commission finds that rates from In
terior- points are excessive and orders
reductions, but gives the railroads un
til May 1 to file new schedules which
comply generally with the terms of Its
decision.
Under this decision, maximum rates
will be paid by points along the east
ern border of Oregon.- California and
Washington, the rates diminishing east
and west of that line aa necessitated
by distance on one side and water com
petition on tha other.
Huntington. Or., which is near the
high line, will get slight reduction
from 2.2 to 12.01. Points west of
Huntington will get a lower rate, grad
ing downward as they approach the
Coast, where the dollar rate will con
tinue. Short-Haul Clause Waive.
The commission finds that this Is one
instance where the long and short-haul
clause can properly bewalved, because
of the fact that water competition ac
tually exists and cannot be overlooked.
At the same time, the commission de
clines to make this water-compelled
.jots the basis of rates from interior
points to the Atlantic seaboard.
Thee opinion holds that the present
rate of 11.15 a hundred pounds of wool
In sacks from Colorado common points
to St. Louis should not exceed to cents,
and that from points west of Cheyenne.
TVyc on the Union Pacific and Trini
dad. Colo., on the Santa Fe. the rate to
St. Louis might be 3 cents higher for
each 2S miles.
Rate Basla la Drflard.
On the Inver Rio Grande a rate
of 90 cents Is authorized from the first
Ktation wwt of Tueblo with a similar
1-cent Increase from points further
west. Concerning the rates to be ap
plied on through shipments from West
ern points to BoMon and New York,
Chairman Prouty said they should be
contructed "by adding to the rates
prescribed to St. Louis, in the case of
sacked woll. 12 cents to Boston and
4 cents to New York; in the case of
baled wool. 47 cents to Boston and 41
cents to New York. In thj Judgment
of the Commission, trans' t privileges
should b allowed at Intermediate
points on a direct line by payment of
cent I a hundred on the condition
the shipments originated west of the
Mississippi River.
The decision will be generally favor
ible to the wool Industry.
WATKR GRADE RECOGNIZED
Oregon Growers Benefited by lc
rllon of Commission.
Oregon wool growers will be greatly
benefited by the rate reductions or
dered by inn Interstate Commerce Com
mission. Heretofore the abnormally
hlgh rates have cut deeply Into the
margin of profits enjoyed by the wool
men of the Northwest, and to a cer
tain extent have plated the Interests
of the entire Industry In Jeopardy.
The decision of the Commission Is
regarded as a further recognition by
the Commission of the water grade en-
Joyed by the Oregon growers, aa in
some Instances the new rates irom
tais stale will be lower than those
from the lntermountain region.
A graduated acale of rates, rather
than the old blanket system, will be
applied by the new tariff following the
Commission's announcement.
Hlat Injures Uorkmcu.
OREGON CITT. Or April 11. (Spe
cial.) Otto Stryker. of Eldorado.
while employed on the road work near
Molalla. was painfully injured by a
Mast today. He is now in the Oregon
City hospital- Mr. Stryker was in the
act of lishtinc a fuse to some dyna
mite, when the fuse exploded. mall
pieces, of rock lodged In the young
man s eyes, out u is not oeiieveu oe
will lose bid eyesight.
Gift to High School la It 06 Goes
Through Fire, but Becomes
Victim of I)res Reform.
SPOKANK. Wash.. April 12. (Spe
cial.) David, victim of notoriety, fire
and dress reform, has attained new
honors. Early arrivals at the new
Lewis ami Clark High . School this
morning found David modestly and
tastefully draped In royal purple and
gold, colors of the senior class.
David Is a statuette about three feet
high, the gift to the High School of
the class of J90. He is technically
known a the Capronl cast of Marcte's
David. He la but slightly dressed.. This
fact caused much stir when he waa first
presented to the old South Central
High School nearly si years ago by
the class of 1906, then about to gradu
ate. The cast represents the biblical cast
ing in victorious pose, a dagger up
held, with his foot upon the bead of
a lion. The notoriety that beat about
the heads of the two Davids. David
... .. nrinplnal of the SChOOl.
and David, the plaster cast, came to
a climax when David, the statuette.
was found one morning arrayeu in
oat and trousers.
t . . -1 ..- . - Ka .nl. mirtvr of the
fire of June. 1910. His remains were
but fragmenta or plaster among ino
pile of debris that workmen raked up
a few hours later.
MA IGNORES PA'S POLITICS
Wives of Republican Are Delegates
to Democratic Convention.
SEATTLE. Wash- April II. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. George B. Simpson, wife of
a prominent attorney at Vancouver.
Wash, was at the New Richmond to
day. Mrs. Simpson will be one of the
six women delegates to the Democratic
state convention at Walla Walla se
lected by Clark County Democrats.
"Four of those six women delegates
have Republican husbands," said Mrs.
Simpson, -which proves that Washing
ton women are doing their political
thinking Independently. Why. Mrs.
Lloyd Dubois, whose husband is one
of the most prominent Republicans in
Southwestern Washington, will go to
Walla Walla as a Democratic dele
gate. ,
"Our delegation is unlnstructed, but
a private poll shows that it stands 11
for Woodrow Wilson and five for
Champ Clark. I am for Wilson myself
and am proud of It."
COLD SHOULDER FOR COAST
Navy Department to Send No More
Battleships Till Canal Is Built.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. April 12. The Navy Depart
ment will send no more battleships to
the Pacific Coast until after the com
pletion of the Panama Canal. This an
nouncement waa made today by As
sistant Secretary Wlnthrop to Repre
sentative Humphrey, who called to
nrge the department to recommend the
building of an additional submarine on
the Pacific Coast, or for a station on
the West Coast.
Wlnthrop also said the department
would not urge the construction of
more submarines for station on the
Coast and otherwise Indicated that the
department would not favor the Coast
In any way.
REGIMENT TO BE IMMUNE
Even Women and Tots With First
Infantry Must Bo Vaccinated.
VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Was,
April 12. (Special.) Every officer, en
listed man. servant, woman or child
going to Honolulu with the First In
fantry must be vaccinated and have a
certificate to show the transport sur
geon that they have been protected
against smallpox, according to an or
der received by Colonel McGunnegle.
Commander of the First Infantry at
this post.
All of the new men Joining the regi
ment are vaccinated, and they are also
made Immune to typhoid fever.
OFFICIALS FORGET HOLIDAY
Clark County'' Courthouse Closed
When Fact Is Discovered.
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VANCOUVER. Wash.. April 12.
(Special.) About an hour before noon
today several oounty officers received
telegrams from Olympla saying that
today is a legal holiday, and that the
Courthouse might close at noon. The
county officials did not know that they
were to close the Courthouse until the
telegram was received.
Arbor Day and Good Roads Day were
celebrated' Jointly today by the schools,
the pupils setting out trees and clean
ing the 'school grounds.
PORTLAND CLEARINGS GAIN
Total for Week S 1 3,3 1 9.000 Against
SI 1,394.000 In Seattle.
Portland's bank clearings for the
week reached a total of $13,319,000,
with a gain of 1.4 pec cent over the j
iwm tor lue corresponaing wees: -last
year. The clearings at Seattle
were J 11.5? 1.000. or ll.T25.000 less than
the total clearings in Portland. Seattle
showed a loss of 1.3 per cent.
The clearings at Tacoma were 34,
!9.0P0. the Increase being T.7 per cent.
Spokane's clearings amounted to i,
7S4.000, with a loss of CI per cent.
Red Cross Founder Is
Brave to Last.
SICKROOM PLACE OF CHEER
Great Regret Is That Autobi
ography Is Unfinished.
WORK WAS INTERNATIONAL
Burial to Be X04 :iAOxll AMajqro O
ford. Mans. Friends Are RctU
cent Concerning Retire
ment From Work.
WASHINGTON. April 12. Miss Clara
Barton, founder of the American Red
Cross and probably the most widely
known American woman of her day.
died this mornlng-t 9 o'clock in her
borne. Red Cross. In Glen Echo, Md.
She was SO years old.
Miss Barton suffered an attack of
pneumonia In February, 1911, had a
relaps and the case became chronic.
She went last Summer to her old home
In Oxford, Mass., and returned to Glen
r.cho In feeble health last Autumn.
Muscular weakness of the heart de
veloped and for weeks the condition of
the great nurse was such as 'to cause
grave concern. Her vision was uu-
dlmmed almost to the last and her
ready ait and quick repartee made
her sick room a place of cheer. With
her when the end came were her
nephew. Stephen Barton, of Boston, and
Dr. J. B. llubbell.
Autobiography Left Incomplete.
The great regret of Miss Barton was
that her enfeebled condition made it
necessary for her to suspend work on
her autobiography. She had brought
this work down only to the beginning
of her public career as a Civil War
nurse. A woman whose whole training
fostered precision, she -left- behind
virtually" the entire correspondence of
her public career, as well as other
data bearing, upon her international
hospital work and the work which she
herself began will be completed by
other hands.
She had outlined to ' her nephew
Stephen Barton, the salient points of
her public life.
Last Years Sprat la Retirement.
The Inst years of the great Red
Cross nurse had been spent in retire-
ironcludrd on Far 3.
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j MAKES 'EM SWEAT.
Evasion of Head Tax at Canadian
Line Held by Trisoncr to Be
Cause of Arrest.
TACOMA, Wash., April 12. (Special.)
-j-Gustav Dlkran, Prince of Albania, a
province of the Turkish Empire, who
has been in Portland, Seattle and- Ta
coma lecturing on. conditions in the
Turkish Empires was arrested tonight
at Puyallup by Chief Immigration In
spector Fulton, of tha Tacoma bureau,
on a warrant sent out from the De
partment of Commerce and Labor at
Washington, D. C
The nature of the charge against
Prince Dlkran is not known, the war
rant stating that the papers in his case
will arrive Saturday. Trlnce Dlkran
lectured last night at Central Methodist
Church, in Tacoma. and tonight was to
have lectured In the Puyallup Mctho-
- Church. He was at a hotel In the
J 11 rban town when the inspector
found him and lacked even money for
his hotel expenses, leaving his over
coat as security.
The lecture was called off and Dlk
ran was brought to, Tacoma and lodged
In the detention station at the Munici
pal Dock, a real live Turkish Prince
among the common horde. The Dlkran
warrant bears date of March 27. He
says he evaded the $4 head tax when
he came Into this country from the
British side a few weeks ago and
thinks this is the reason for his arrest.
He went first to Portland, to which
olty the warrant was sen but mean
while Dikran had shlted to Seattle,
where he says, he lost HOC Ho has
declared he Is a political exile and
wears the white tunic and red cap of
his peoplo while lecturing.
BODY OF YOUTH IS FOUND
Son of Chicago Alderman Long Is
Knocked by Train Into River.
NORTH TAKIMA, Wash., April 12.
The body of Carson Long, son of Alder
man T. K. Long, of Chicago, who dis
appeared from here March 6, waa found
tonight in the Yakima River, five miles
below this city. Both legs and one arm
were broken and It is believed that
Long was knocked off Pomona bridge
into the river by a train. Nearly 1200
and valuable papers were found on the
body,, eliminating the theory of foul
play. --
Long's relatives', have spent 110,000
in searching for him, and Lawrence
Sanford, the boy who found the body,
probably will com In for the reward
of 15500 which was offered by the old
er Long for information as to the
whereabouts of his son, dead or alive.
A body was sees floating In the swift
current of the river here yesterday, but
as darkness came on It could not b
recovered, and it disappeared. Rela
tives were notified toni;'it of the re
covery of the body.
Half Sister and Half
Brother Divorced.
COUPLE WED IN IGNORANCE
Each Tells Judge That Love
for Other Remains.
HUSBAND GETS CHILDREN
Mother, for Private Reasons, Had
Led Couple to Think That Girl
Was Adopted Child Decree
Is Formal Necessity.
CINCINNATI. April 12. A strange
story that resulted in the granting to
Joseph P. Ruch, Jr.. aged 22 years, of
a divorce from his half-sister, Helen
Hoffman Rnch. 24. was related In court
here today. The half-brother and
half-sister were married October 25,
1910, neither at the time .knowing of
the blood relationship between them.
The discovery of the relationship was
disclosed a few weeks ago and the
action for a divorce followed.
It was explained to the court that
the mistake had been mado possible
because of the fact that the mother,
for a private reason, had hidden from
the children the. fact that they were
brother and sister, allowing them to
believe that the girl was only an
adopted child. The couple's two chil
dren were given into the custody of
the father.
Divorce Complaint Formal.
The petition for divorce, filed by the
husband, was on the formal grounds of
neglect. The divorce was granted on
that' ground to protect the young peo
ple so far as possible in the record.
The father and mother of the young
couple were not in court wen the
hearing was held. " --'
The relationship of the Ruchs was
disclosed to the young husband and
wlef by Judge William Lenders, of the
Probate Court, a few weeks ago In the
presence of their mother. Mrs. John
P. Ruch.
Neighbors of the Ruch family In
formed Juage Leuderus they believed
the couple were half-brother and
half-sister.
He learned after investigation that
the two had grown up together under
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Cunning Savages of TIbnron Extend
Hospitality to Travelers, With
Culinary Intentions.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 12. Mem
bers of a party of excursionists who
made a six months' cruise in Southern
waters on the yacht Paxlnoza, which
arrived here today, tell the story of a
narrow escape front Serl cannibals in
Tlburon Island. The party, which con
sisted of Colonel C. K. F.ader, Captain
Jack Ross. John Llndquist, E. M. Hom
bahl and Vernon Smart, left here last
November on the yacht in search of ad
venture. Two months ago the Paxlnoia
dropped anchor off Tiburon Island and
all members of the party except Col
onel Rader went aBhore, whither they
were Invited civilly by Indians who
came out to meet them in small boats.
The four men proceeded a considerable
distance Inland, when suddenly they
found themselves in a thicket swarm
ing with yelling Serls. They ran for
their boat and had the advantage In
the race, as the naked Serls could not
move swiftly through tile dense, prick
ly shrubbery.
At a clearing- the hunted men found
a great fire under a stemming kettle
large enough to hold a man. Then they
ran all the faster, with the Serls In
pursuit firing at them with rifles. Tho
white men had no weapons. Reaching
their boat, they began rowing for the
yacht. The Serls pursued In their ca
noes and the bullets continued to fly,
but Colonel Rader began firing upon
the Indians from the yacht. The four
pursued men finally got on board and
the yacht was speeded away. .
Tlburon Island has the reputation of
being Inhabited by cannibals. It is on
the eaat side of the Gulf of California.
MAN FINDS NAME HE LOST
Alfred Xehring Bad Guess; He Was
' Really Frederick Sparer.
LOS ANGELES. April 12. (Special.)
The Milwaukee man who does not
know his name, but who guessed Al
fred Nehrlng as the nearest he could
remember, will now find the correct
one. It is Frederick Sperer, and he
was named for his father.
His mother, whose name he did not
know any more than his own, lives In
this city. She read about his predica
ment in the newspapers and called on
the police today, asking to be put in
communication with him. She has been
looking for him many years and had
finally given him up as dead.
Her story fully corresponds with that
told by the Milwaukee man in his let
ter to the chief and there is no tloubt
of the relationship.. .
FAN IS HIT BY FOUL BALL
Veasey Drives Sphere Against Eye of
Spectator at Albany.
ALBANY, Or., April 12. (Special.)
While watching the baseball game here
today between the Portland North
western team and the Albany Colts,
J. F. Cook, of Halsey, was struck in
the eye by a ball and suffered a se
vere Injury.
A number of spectators had gath
ered about 20 yards beyond the catcher,
and while Pitcher Veasey, of Portland,
was at bat in the second inning he
converted a swiftly thrown ball into a
foul which struck Cook under the left
eye, splitting the flesh and inflicting a
severe wound.
RICH AUTOIST STRICKEN
Wyoming Millionaire Found Dead In
Road Beside His Car.
CHETENNE, Wyo., April 12. Sup
posedly stricken with an acute attack
of heart disease, J. Bevan Phillips, a
prominent sheep ranch owner and oil
operator of Congress County, fell from
his automobile In which he was riding
today.
His body was found lying in a mud
puddle near the highway leading into
Douglas. His automobile stood a few
feet away In a ditch beside the road.
It is believed Mr. Phillips was dead
when he fell from the car. He was re
puted to be a millionaire.
WILL CUTS OFF PREACHERS
Legatees to Get Xothing If They Be
come Ministers of Gospel.
BOULDER, Colo.. April 12. The
grand-nephews of John L. Church, a
mining man who died here recently,
will not share in his estate of 340,000
if any of them become ministers of the
gospel. This was the unusual stipula
tion In the will, which has been filed
for probate.
The testator's own sons were cut off
In favor of his grand-nephews and
grand-nieces.
Election Proves Cosily.
VANCOUVER, "Wash., April 12.
(Special.) The Port of Vancouver
Commissioners, George McCoy, Will
iam B. DuBois and George W. Lampka,
who were elected at a special election
held last Saturday, will begin their of
fices with no salary, and as Commis
sioners they will be in debt to Clark
County for the cost of holding; the spe
cial election. A meeting of the Port
of Vancouver 13 to be held soon, when
proper steps will be taken to levy a
small tax to create a fund with which
to work. '
Roosevelt Thirsts for
Distinction.
PROPHECY IS NOW FULFILLED
Nomination of ex-President
Would Be National Calamity.
MOVE HELD SOCIALISTIC
Speaker Declares Nation's Alarmists
Are Not Students, hut Men Who
Have Surrendered to Self
ish Ambitions.
CORVALLIS, Or., April 12. (Special.)
Speaking of the splendid achieve
ments of .the Taft Administration in
home affairs and of its great success in
, our relations with other nations. Dr.
John Wesley Hill tonight addressed
the citizens of Corvallis.
He declared Taft to be a great pro
gressive, moving along lines that are
worth while; and that to check the
movement at this time would be an ir
reparable calamity.
He quoted from Lincoln's speech at
Springfield in 1837, wherein he said:
"Towering genius disdains a beaten
path, it seeks regions unexplored. It
denies that it is glory enough to serve
under any chief. It thirsts and burns
for distinction. Is it reasonable, then,
to expect that some man possessed of
the loftiest genius, coupled with ambi
tion, will at some time spring among
us? Distinction will be the paramount
object and although he would as will
ingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by
doing good as harm, yet that oppor
tunity being past and nothing left to
be done in the way of building up, ha
would boldly set to tho task of pulling
down."
-. , - Prophecy Is Fulfilled.
"We are now witnessing," said Dr.
Hill, "the fulfillment of Lincoln's
prophecy and I thoroughly agree with
Theodore Roosevelt when he said in a
letter to Editor Moore, December 11,
1911, 'my nomination for a third term
would be a National calamity.'
"We are now," continued the speaker,
"facing a grave crisis in our history.
This no one can deny who is an ob
server of the signs of the times. The
question now confronting the American
people involves the stability and per
petuity of representative democracy.
To no one with the slightest knowl
edge of the history of the ages is it
necessary to speak In praise of our
representatlve system.
"All arguments for it are summed
up in one great, unquestionable fact,
viz: it is the only system under whicli
men have been able to attain orderly
liberty, or under -Q-hich, having cast
off tyranny and attained liberty, they
have been able to preserve liberty.
Danger of Socialism Seen.
"All human history may be chal
lenged to produce an exception to this
proposition. The apparent exceptions,
such as some of tho Swiss cantons,
either were not pure democracies in the
sense ot the term, or were able to
maintain their freedom only because
their poverty and ouscurity defended
them from conquest, or because their
powerful neighbors united to restrain
aggressive designs upon them.
"We are confronted today with a per
sistent, insidious, undermining attempt
to change our form of government. Let
there be no mistake at this point. The
revolution to which I refer la a deep
seated conspiracy to overthrow our rep
resentative form of government and
uprear on Its ruins a socialistic democ
racy. "The movement is not evolutionary,
but revolutionary. Understand. I am
not defending our representative sys
tem against the charge that it has de
fects. Its s' ortcomings are manifest,
its limitation.' and deficiencies are ac
knowledged. Conspiracy Not Justified.
"But this does not justify tho con
spiracy to destroy. It is not neces
sary to overthrow in order to uplift.
It is poor policy to burn down the
barn in order to disperse the rats, and
it is a more serious and perilous pol
icy to tear down our flag and offer the
substitution of another, the red flag,
for instance, because the Government
represented by the Stars and Stripes
does not at all times work with fric
tionless precision. ,
"The proposition, therefore, to
change our form of government, to de
stroy its representative character,
should be carefully considered before
accepted as a practical working rem
edy for those minor defects which al
ways assert themselves In the move
ments of large bodies. The framers
of the Constitution were not ignorant
of the past. They were thoroughly
familiar with the history of the ages.
They had discovered the failures of
absolute democracy to preserve lib
erty, justice and equality.
- Ariaiatle'a Worda Recalled.
"They remember that Aristotle had
pointed out that 'democracy has many
points of resemblance with tyranny."
that he had told as how a democracy.
as woll as a tyranny, may become a
despotism and that he drew a striking
picture of the likeness between 'a
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