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.. PORTLAND. OREGON. FRIDAY. APRIL 26, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LII NO. JU.u. ' ' STEAMER WRECKS 3-YEAR BABY POURS GASOLINE ON FIRE LAI) SWALLOWS FLAMK. HOISE BURNED. MOTHER. INJURED. SENATE HEATED IH DEBATE OVER T. R. 0R0ZC0 PLANS TO STARTS TO LB. .DOCK; SINKS SHIP ALAMEDA CRASHES INTO PIER AND RAMS TELEGRAPH. FORCE FIGHTING TRACK BY TORNADO UNITE COLLEGES DECLARES TAFT SIX THOUSAND REBELS ARE READY FOR BATTLE. : : : i r TRAIN BLOWN FROM MOVE DANGEROUS Way Paved to Remain President for Life. ATTACK IS MADE UNWILLINGLY Roosevelt Held to Have Violat . ed Square Deal Policy. COUNTER CHARGES HURLED letter Quoted Sltowlii- Taft Was Acaint Lorlnirr and That Rough Rider Knnt It Campaign Method Are Upheld. BOSTON. April 25. President Taft ast aside tonight his policy of avoid tg personalities In hla campaign for enomiftatlon and devoted hla en !re speech to an attack upon 'oionel r.oosevelt and a defense f himself and his Administration gainst charges Colonel Roosevelt re ently made on the stump. Mr. Tiffs speech bristled with coun- er charges against his predecessor In he Whit House. H declared that Mr. lonsevelt had wilfully misrepresented im. had falsely distorted some of his uhlic utterances, had failed to live up o his policy of a square deal, and had lolated a solemn promise to the Amer--an people not to be a candidate for a hlrd term. PrBnls Tarow. I.lgkt. "That promise and his treatment of !.- said Mr. Taft. "only throws an In orming light on the valu that ought ow to be attached to any promise of Ms kind h may make for the future. The President snok at Springfield r.d Palmer, twice In Worcester and at Net lek. South Framlnshtm and several mailer towns. In the beginning he remed to utter hla attack on Colonel ;(HeveIt with reluctance. -This wrenches my soul." h said iw-e. As the day wore on. howerer. and h tade speech after speech in which h enounced Mr. Roosevelt again and sain. Mr. Taft crew more aggressive n manner, emphasising; hia words with vsttires and apparently laid aside any relink of regret he felt at thla evl ence that Ions friendship with his for icr chief was broken. Oloael Farias Way. Declaring- Mr. Roosevelt "ought not he selected aa a candidate of any arty." Mr. Taft said the ex-President uglit now be paving the way. If auc rssful In the present campaign, to re tain the chief executive of the Nation r as manr terms as his natural life ouhl permit. "If he la necessary now to the Got rnment. why not later?" asked the rrsldent. and continued: "One who so lightly regards constl itlonal principles and especially the wiependence of the Judiciary, one who so naturally Impatient of legal re raints ard of due legal procedure and - ho has no misunderstood whnt liberty 'gutated bv law Is. could not safely e Intrusted with successive Prrsiden al terms. I say this sorrowfully, but say It with the full conviction of Its uth." iafarsaatlva sad-Haad. Mr. Taft referred to some of Mr. oosevelt's charges against him as the 'lose and vague Indictment of one ho does not know and who depends nly upon second-hand Information for .s statement." The President said that his speech, night waa on of the most painful ties or his life, that It waa In re nnse to an obligation he owed to ie Kepubllcan party which selected rn a ita candidate and to the Amerl n people who elected him President. "It grows." he said, "out of a phase f National politics and National life at I believe to be unprecedented in ir history, ho unusual the exigency iat the ordinary rules of propriety iat limit and restrict a President In a public addresses must b laid aside nd the com. naked trutn must o ated In sue a way that It shall serve warning to the peopl of the nlted States." Olassawa Speerk Alarms. Mr. Taft aald that Colonel Roose lfi Columbus speech accepted as hla iatforra. "sent a thrill or alarm trough all the members or the corn unity." Mr. Roosevelt, he said, then und that if th nomination wer to me to him. he must minimise the lra jrtanc of "this charter of Democra-.- and must nnd some other Issue yon which to succeed. Without giving up the principles an lunced In hia Columbus address, the resident said. Mr. Roosevelt relegated lem to an incidental place and unged his campaign to one of critic m of Taft and the Taft Admlnistra n RomKirll'i Letter Unced. one by one the President took up th charges made agalnut him by Colo--I Roosevelt and sought to refute em. In two Instances he quoted nm correspondence between himself id i oionel Roosevelt and said he was -epared to make other letters public Mr. nooevclt should desire tCoucludsd a fas XI Woman and Child Are Rushed Ten miles by Launch to Doctor, -While Neighbors Sae Home. OLYMPIA. Wash, April 25. (Spe cial.) Henry Raymond, the I-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Law rence, of lUrtseln Island, threw a pint or gasoline Into the stov today while his mother was out of the room and Immediately set tir to himself. The child sustained severe burns about the chest, neck and head and his mother was burned In a similar manner while rescuing him. In th meantime th house caught fir and considerable damage was done hefor neighbors arrived-and pi it AOV8I X-iiuqn O i CI the flames. Th Injured woman and child were rushed to Olympia, a distance of 10 miles. In a launch, and th attending physicians declare they will both re cover unless complications arls due to swallowing flames. BIG CELEBRATION IS PLAN Huh City Festival" Is Name Select ed for Three-Day- Event. CENTR ALIA, Wash, April 25. tSp clal.) "The Hub City Festival" Is th nam selected for the big three-day celebration to be neld In Centralla, May 20. 31 and June 1. In connection with the midsummer meeting of the South west Washington Development Associa tion. The programme" waa decided upon at a meeting of business men held last night. The sessions of the development association will be held in tha audi torium of the new high school. The dedication of the new high school will be held on May 30. during the day exercises will be held under the direc tion of the Q. A. R. and W. R. C. On May 21 the new postofTIre will be dedi cated and the cornerstone of the new library laid. The Masonic Lodge will have charge of the latter event. On June 1 the new passenger depot will be dedicated. A big banquet will be served to the visiting delegates Sat urday night. There will be a baseball game each day of the celebration. The State League games for these dates are scheduled for Chehalis but arrange ments are being made for transferring them to this city. One of the big features of the celebration will be an aeroplane exhibition by Claude Berlin, the Centralla aviator who is now In New York purchsslng his machine. BOILED EGGS UNFERTILE Women Accused? of Pouring; Hot Water In Incubator. When four eggs out of settings ag gregating 117 gave forth only four chicks, George W. Gailber. East Seventy-ninth street and Thirty-seventh avenue, taking Into consideration neighborhood friction, placed the blame upon Mrs. Daphne Louslgnot and Min nie Johnson, and caused their arrest. Jo Louslgnot. brother-in-law of one of the women. Gatther asserted, had told how the women had poured hot water upon the eggs. When Joe was placed on the. witness stand, however, in Municipal Court yes terday, he denied all knowledge of the vandalism, or of having told such a story. He explained that Gaither had made him a participant In th drink ing of a pint of alcohol, and that any statements he had made were Induced by th fiery potation. With Its only witness recalcitrant, the city waa forced to consent to a dismissal. BONDS TO PORTLAND BANK Monmouth Iuc of $20,000 Pur chased by Lumbermen. MONMOUTH, Or.. April li. Sp- etal.l At the meeting of the llty Council last night, bids were opened for the Issue of 120.000 water bonds. which were awarded ' to th Lumher- mens Bank of Portland, at a premium of IJ0. Construction bids will b opened on May 4. and th system pushed to com pletion without further delay. As provided by the plans a large reservoir will be located on Cupid's Knoll, and all residence portions of the town will be supplied. 'Also a 10-Inch main on Main street will b laid with a view of paving this street in the near future. CUPID'S AIDE HIT; WEDS Marriage License Clerk at Oregon City Takes Husband. OREGON CITT. Or, April 25. (Spe cial.) Miss Margaret C. Mulvey. Dep uty Circuit Clerk, who has Issued hun dreds of marriage licenses, today had one Issued to herself. She and L. Arthur Smith, a prominent young man of Ore gon City, were married at the home of the bride's mother this evening. Miss Mulvey was urged by her friends to Issue her own license, but she de clined, declaring It might be bad luck. Her brother. W. L Mulvey. however, who la County Clerk, and was recently married himself, filled out the blank. Collage Grove Man Hurt. COTTAGE GROVE. Or.. April 15. (Special.) Frad Affalter met with a peculiar and painful a.cldent yester day, resulting in ire severing or two cords and artery Just above the wrist of the left arm. He was chopping wood at home ana uoes not Know himself Just how the accident hap pened. In some manner the ax slipped nr turned In such a iy as to swing round and Inflict the blow that re sulted In the Injury. The Injured msn waa Immediately given medical atten tion and Im aetuoc along nicely. Williams Says Colonel Is 'Modern Caesar.' APOSTLES' CREED PARODIED Mississippian Severe in De nouncing Third Term. BRISTOW MAKES DEFENSE Charge of Collusion In Sending Har vester Correspondence Is Re newed, but Denied by Au thor of Resolution. WASHINGTON. April 25. The first sensational debate In the Senate at this session of Congress broke today over Colonel Roosevelt's official correspond ence about tho International Harvester Company when ho was President, in 1907. Senator Bristow, of Kansas, wss the principal speaker In support of Colonel Roosevelt, and Senator Williams, of Mississippi, was the principal assail ant. Mr. Wllllama characterised the former President as a "modern Csesar, willing to seire power by any means," while Mr. Bristow defended the Col onel as the modern tribune of the peo pl and warmly criticised , rreeidont Taft's Administration. Apoatle's Creed Parodied. Tb-dbate became almost ultra-sensational when Senator Williams read to th Senate a parody on the Apostle's Creed, as follows: "I believe In Theodore Roosevelt, maker of noise and strife, and in am bition, his only creed (my Lord). H was born of the love of power and suf fered under William H. Taft; was crucified, dead and burled. He descend ed into Africa. Tho third year he arose again from the Jungles and ascended Into favor and sltteth on tha right hand of his party, whence he shall com to scourge th licked and the dead. T believe in the holy Outlook, th lg stick, the Ananias club, th for giveness of political activities, the res uirectlon of Presidential ambitions and th third term everlastingly amen, amen, amen," Bristow Renews Charges. Th debate was precipitated by Sen ator Brlstow's return to his charge of yesterday that collusion had existed between the Senate and the Depart ment of Justice in th sending of the official correspondence yesterday and that partiality had been shown In that only correspondence , regarding th course of President Roosevelt's Admin istration had been sent to th Senate, while th papers relating to the Taft Administration had not. He asserted again that Attorney-General Wlcker sham had had his reply ready to send , when Senator Johnston's resolution of yesterday reached him and referred to the fact that two similar resolutions by Senators Overman and Lea had not b)en complied with. Senator Johnston dented there had been an understanding" and said he had fonrIiM on P &- fSSSSSSlSlS, ! . , j NEVER ROIL A FAT MAN. t .ss.es. - A 'l ' ' '-' ' ' ' 1 ' Zapatistas Iose 200 Killed In En gagement In Which Federals Recapture Hnitzilnc. JIMINEZ. Chihuahua, April 25. Gen eral I'asqual Oroxco. chief of all the rebels, reached here today from Chihua hua, bringing with him 600 mon. This brings th total rebel forco up to about 6000 men, stretching from here to Es- ralon. Oroxco will tomorrow make an Inspection of all rebel soldiers prior to leading them into battle. MEXICO CITT, . April 23. The re taking of Hultxllac. State of Morelos, by federals last Monday after an ar tillery bombardment, cost the Zapa tistas 200 men killed,' according to re norta received here today. The loss of th federal troops Is officialiy given as eight men killed. Reports from Nelves, In the Depart ment (if Zacatecas, say that 150 rebels have surrendered and accepted amnesty. Telegrams say San Bias on the west coast is in danger of falling into th rebels' hands. ANNA THINKS OF MARRIAGE Mis Hcld's ex-Husband Still Has Chance, Actress Admits. NEW YORK, April 25. (Special.) Anna Held, who has ended her long matrimonial engagement with Florenx Siegfcld, left today for Faris aboard the French Line steamship Savorle. She was asked If she would marry again. "Who knows?" she replied. "Perhaps It will b poor Florenx again, he looks so forlorn xet.I may give heem nuzxer chance. But my sorrow for Florenx ees divided with xat for my poor dog gie, xe General Marceau. He ees dead, you know. "Zee poor leetle General Marceau. ne swallow one beeg toy balloon and then he cet one British lion, an' he swell oop an- xce glass eyes 01 see "n.u lion, and xee pins what ar stuck In him and xee sawdust, eet all man heem very seek." Miss Held said that she would return next season perhaps under the man agement of her recent husband. HATHAWAY PASSES TEST Sergeant Successful in Preliminary Examination for Coruniisslon. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. April 35. Sergeant Paul Hath away. Company I. First Infantry, at Vancouver "Barracks, was among th enlisted men who passed the pre liminary examination for a commission In the Army. Sergeant Hathaway is a son of Gen eral S. H. Hathaway, V. B. A., retired, of Portland. Completing a course of study In the Allen Preparatory School four years ago, Mr. Hathaway began to prepare himself for the examination for commission In the Army. Two years ago, Mr. Hathaway enlisted In Company I, First Infantry, at Vancouver Barracks, wher he Is now stationed with the Intention of taking the exam ination for promation at tha first op portunity. School Warrants to Bo Called. CHEHALIS, Wash.. April 25. (Spe cial.) County Treasurer Arnold will within a few days call Lewis County warrants of various kinds, aggregating upwards of liOO.000. A big school war rant call, together with the proceeds from $SOO,00 worth of bonds that were recently sold, is expected to untie a great hulk of capital that Is now In vested In warrants. ' j 29 Injured; 3 Coaches Are Overturned. ENGINE ONLY LEFT ON RAILS Three Killed at Ponca City. Okla., by Cyclone. WIND CARRIES MAN MILE Four Great Storms Rage at Once Along Kansa.s-Oklahonia Line. Several Towns Wrecked by Blow Lake Floods Over. OMAHA. Neb., April 25. Twenty nine persons were injured, on of them perhaps fatally, when a cyclonic wind struck Union Pacific passenger train No. 35. one mile west of North Loup, Neb., late today. The entire train, the engine excepted, was blown from the track and all tho cars were overturned. A mile of telegraph line was blown down, cutting off direct communication. "The train, composed of a combina tion mail, baggage and express car and two day coaches, was running at a moderate rate when the gale struck it. Engineer O'Brien ran the engine to Ord and returned with a car In which the Injured were taken to Ord. WICHITA, Kan.. April 25. Three persons are dead at Ponca City, Okla., as the result of one of four tornadoes near the Kansas-Oklahoma line today. The tornado at Ponca City swept through an addition in the west part of town, destroying about 75 houses. Those killed were a mother and child and a man who was carried nearly a mile and dropped on the prairie. At Uncas. Okla., 75 miles southeast of Arkansas City, the Santa Fe depot and a number of houses were destroyed. Another storm near Geuda Springs, west of Arkansas City, destroyed sevr cral farmhouses. A fourth tornado passed between Arkansas City and Winfleld, destroying a farmhouse. At Geuda Springs a near cloudburst flooded the lake and th large concrete dam Is endangered. STRAW HATS DUE MAY 1 Admen Must Observe Rule or Suffer Penalty. May day, the first of the month, was selected by a committee of the Ad Men's Club for Straw Hat day in Portland. Members of the Ad Club will wear straw hats to their luncheon on that day, even if it should rain, for there is a penalty imposed upon any mem ber who Is behind the times. He won't get any strawberries or straws for his lemonade, among other things- Portland Is 15 days ahead of the East in her date for abolishing the derby. There it is a time-honored custom to capture all the lids worn by men on that day which are not in accord with the mandates of the dudes. After that particular day they may wear what they choose. This is Oregon's first Straw Hat day. Night Disaster on Puget Sound' Re sults in Big Loss and In jury to Many. SEATTLE. April 25. The steamship Alameda crashed into the Coleman dock while coming into her berth tonight. It Is reported that several persons wer knocked into the water and that many others were injured. Th Alameda struck the pier 100 feet from the end and plowed throush it, sinking the Sound steamer Telegraph, which lay at her mooring on the other side. The severed end of the dock fell into the water and the deck of the Alameda was covered with wreckage. BOYS HAZE PROFESSOR Superintendent Is Locked In Room and Evil Odor Started. SPOKANE, Wash., April 25. (Spe cial.) "Tack" Brown and his followers among the boy students in the high school at Palouse, Wash., have started a school row which threatens to give them a shock of their lives. In crder to humiliate Superintendent Elmer C. Jones and defy his authority, the gang yesterday spilled foul-smelling liquid in liberal quantities inside the building, made the laboratory room look like a kitchen on moving day, locked the superintendent in a room with "Tack" Brown and otherwise made living so unpleasant in the class rooms that all classes were dismissed. Public feeling is aroused and the school directors are working on the case and will bo backed in whatever action they take. The row started with friction be tween Superintendent and teachers and the pupils. Last Friday Superintendent Jones expelled a student for breach of discloline. Other students held a kan garoo court, acquitted the student and demanded that the superintendent shake with him and reinstate him in school, which was done. During, the same afternoon a vile-smelling liquid was poured on the floors in the class rooms, on the banisters and in the halls and rubber overshoes burned in the furnace, driving everybody outside the building. MAN'S FINGER TORN OFF Conductor Catches Hand In Harness While Passing Team. An odd accident yesterday afternoon resulted in C. Berger, a streetdar con ductor, losing the little finger of his right hand. Berger was a conductor on on of the open baseball cars. As the car was proceeding along Twenty-third street, between Everett and Flanders, it grazed a loam of horses pulling a heavy dray. The horse next to th car rubbed heavily against Berger, who was standing on the running board and he turned suddenly and put his hand on the horse, in an effort to push it away rrom the car. As he did so his finger became en tangled in the harness and was torn off. Berger considers it remarkable that th strain, which was a terrific one, did not pull him off the car. A short time after Berger was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, his finger was picked up on the street and brought to the hospital. A ring worn on the severed finger may have been In some measure re sponsible for the accident. Berger lives at 785 Savier street. SALARY BILL ON BALLOT State Printer's Remuneration to Be Put Up to Vote of People. SALEM, Or.. April 25. (Special.) That the initiative petitions directed at Etate Printer Dunlway to place him on a flat salary as soon as the votes are counted in November this year, will find a place for the bill on the ballot, was the declaration of Harry H. Hill today. Hill is a prominent union labur man and "has been largely behind the move to amend the act of 1911 in such a manner as to make the flat salary ef fective this year. Petitions were held up pending a de cision in the University of Oregon cases, as the question was raised there as to the validity of petitions wher several sheets of signatures are at tached to one copy of a petition. The Supreme Court completely dodged this question in its decision on the referendum cases. Many of the Dunlway petitions were so arranged as to make them invalid if the court had upheld Judge Galloway, but as no steps were taken in this direction, decision ha? been reached to put the Dunlway bill on the ballot. ALIENIST .SEES RICHES0N Condemned- Minister Declared Hys terical and Irresponsible. BOSTON, April 25. Clarence V. T. Rlcheson, the ex-minister, under sen tence to die the week beginning May 19 for poisoning Avis Linnell, is "ab normal, hysterical and irresponsible. according to Dr. E. B. Lane, an alienist, who observed the condition of the con demned man in behalf of Rlcheson s attorneys. Dr. Lane makes this state ment In a report to the lawyers. Rlcheson s lawyers are to appear De- fore Governor Foss and present a peti tion for commutation of sentence. Spokane Cashier Is Missing. SPOKANE. April 25. It became known today that J. B. Lemaster, act ing caMhier of the Northern Pacific Ex press Company, has been missing from his-home since Monday. The officials of the company now are auditing Le msBter's accounts. Lemaster. who is a young man of 21, came to Spokane over a year ago from Seattle, where he had been employed by the Isorthern Pa cific, West Asked to Appoint Commission. DALLAS VOTES UNANIMOUSLY At Mass Meeting 300 Citizens Voice Their Sentiments. CAMPBELL FAVORS MOVE Plan to Consider Merger Proposal of State University and Agricul tural College Held to Be the Only Feasible Solution. DALLAS. Or.. April 25. (Special.) Calling on Governor West to appoint a commission to look into all phases and plans broached for the consolida tion of the University of Oregon and the Oregon Agricultural College, a resolution was unanimously passed here tonight at a mass meeting, pre sided over by E, B. Piper, president of the Portland Commercial Club. The meeting Immediately followed the banquet at which Dallas was host to the Portland excursionists who left Portland early thla morning. Over 300 people attended the meet ing held at the Courthouse. The reso lution was introduced by W. K. Newell, of Portland, and the sentiment voiced was in effect that the appointment of such a commission probably would put to an end criticism often heard and which often has caused resentment at both institutions. Prominent Men Talk. Among those who spoke at the meeting were J. D. Lee, G. F. Johnson, William Hanley. Rev. E. W. Miles, Dal las; George Hyland, W. E. Trudhomme, W. J. Kerr, president of the Oregon Agricultural College; P. L Campbell, president of the .State University, and Mr. Newell. Only Mr. Newell and Mr. Loe, who seconded the resolution's passage., talked lor flie commission plan. When the matter was put to the vote both Presidents Kerr and Camp bell voted in favor of the commission. Following the meeting President Campbell said: "I think it a wise move and the plan for the commision Is the only logical way to get at a feasible solution of ' the problem which has been uppermost in the educational progress of Oregon." Citizens of McMinnville, Sheridan and Dallas extended an enthusiastic wel come to the business men of Portland, who are en route to Corvallls and the Oregon Agricultural College. The visitors were informed that everyone was in sympathy with the new slogan, "land schools on the soil." which the Portland party brought to them, and used every effort to express the spirit of co-operation, which they declared should grow between the me tropolis and the tributary cities of the Willamette Valley. The departure o fthe train from Portland in the morning was delayed several minutes while the excurstonslta waited for the arrival of Carl R. Gray, who had hurried from St. Paul to make the trip. Tliils interfered with the schedule in the earlier part of the ex cursion, but although the programme at McMinnville was cut short by lack of time, the greeting extended by the county seat of Yamhill County was i.one the less enthusiastic. W..T. Macy, president of the McMinn ville Commercial Club, welcomed the visitors at the station with a large representation of business men of the city, who escorted them to the Hotel Elberton, where luncheon was served. Yamhill County walnuts'were on of the features of the luncheon. May or Arthur McPhlllips gave a f-hort address of greeting to the Port land business men in a meeting at the Commercial Club immediately after the luncheon, the keynote of his speech be ing the unity of interests between tho Willamette Valley cities and Portland. Portland Their Big Brother. "eW look upon Portland as our big brother," he said. "It Is to us the gate way to the markets of the world and the Portland business men have struck the right key note when they come to us as they have today and show us that they are anxious to become better acquainted and to work with us for our mutual benefit." Dr. L. W. Riley, president of the McMinnville College, spoke on the re sources of Yamhill County and chal lenged the agricultural communities of the world to compete with it. Members of the Sheridan. Commercial Club boarded the train at Sheridan Junction and accompanied the party to their city, where R. K. Pomeroy, pres ident of the club, and ex-Mayor A, M. Fanning gave formal addresses of greeting and then turned their visitors ever to their hospitable townsmen. Aporti on of the party went by spe cial train to Willimina, where they in spected the operation of the plant of the Pacific Pressed Brick & Tile Com pany, which has been installed here for about four years and which is sup plying a large portion of the pressed brick used in structural work in Port land. Carriages driven by Sheridan farm ers and business men took the rcm;iin (Concluded on Tags 14.) r r