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I'ORTLAXD, . OREGON, TUESDAY, Al'KlL. 30v 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PROGRESS IS CRY PROHIBITION MAYOR Hi IS SENT fiOTHAMWOULDFINE CHESTER WEDS AN BAY STATE FIGHTS VETOES DRINK BILL CHRIST, SAYSSOLON INDIAN, IS REPORT OF YUAN SHI KM US. SENATOR OKfUVRF-S IIEALIXG REUATIVKS SAY OXEIDA CHIEF'S COTTERILIj WOtXD CONVICT SELLER INSTEAD OF BUYER. DAUGHTER AUTHOR'S BRIDte. WOULD VIOIiATE LAW. RIOTING 111 Z1DN MANY ARE HURT FO GUNBOAT TO HEARPRESIDEI1T "I'm No Longer Man of Straw", Says Taft. HE WON'T CALL T. R. "LIAR" 'Word Not in My Vocabulary," Enthusiast Is Told. COLONEL HOTLY ASSAILED l.orimrr I-rilcr Written Year Before Mm W In King;" "Condemn Me hj Other VHncC! Than Theodore Rooevelt.- He Sv- BOSTON. April 29. President Taft ended In Boston tontht U hours' eampatsn through Eautern Massachu setts. From the tint he began hl speech maklnz t Attleboro with a talk on the tariff until h made hl last ad ..rr.s at Melro.e and aaked for "a suarc deal." the Prealdent spurred his hutky voice Into strenuous action. Mr. Taffa last lonjr addreas was at Lowell to aa audience that packed the oprn-houiu. 80 eaajer was the crowd to train admittance that several mem bers of the Prenldenfs party could not set In until lone after he had started to speak. Taft Wea ar "Mar." When he talked about the boe and the Roosevelt charges, someone In the fillery sfcouted: -lie's a liar." "No. that Is not In my vocabulary." said the President. Later he was re ferring to the Lorlmer case and evi dently the same man repeated his cry after a mention of Colonel Roosevelt's name. M-'s a liar." he shouted. "My experience on the bench has taught me the value of words." said Mr. Taft. "One of the most unsafe thins to do Is to go farther than to bor the f a. tv I. appreciate- tu sup port of my distinguished and enthu siastic friend, but I must decline to adopt his vocabulary." Maajle Teres Adveeated. After declaring that he was sorry It was necessary for him to mingle In a political struggle, he suggested an amendment of the Constitution so that a President should serve six or seven years and be Ineligible for re-election. "I think that would prevent this." be said. "No man has the right to misrepre sent another to get himself In office, no matter bow humble that man la." the 'resident shouted at one point In bis tyowell address. "Condemn me If yo-i wtlV he said In conclusion, "but condemn me by other witness than Tteodore Roose velt. Mil Straw Laager. "I ws a man of straw; but I have been a man of stra long enough; every man who has biood In his body and who haa been misrepresented aa I iiave been la forced to ?lg,ht. I appeal my friends In Massachusetts, who I think believe In a square deal." In the first half doien speeches to day the President Jid not mention Colonel Roosevelt by nsme. a'thotigh followed closely over- the patr his pre decessor made throug.i the tat Satur day and today. Aa he came nearer and nearer to the Colonel's footsttps. how ever, the president wa'med up to his subject and assailed the Colonel .time after time. The crowds were large and they cheered enough to warm the hearts of the Taft managers. Virtually every town the t-restdent visited is a manufacturing center and in many places tha mills were closed, t'ie schools had declared partial holi days and every prepa'atlon had been made to welcome the Nation's chief. Aadttera laterrapf Taft. Interruptions were frequent, espe- la'Ty when Mr. Taft asked If he had been given a square dial. "Xn,'1 yelled someone at almost every a. idle nee. The IVesldent sounded at Haverhill a new note In replying to Mr. Roose velt's charge that ha came out against Senator Lorlmer. of Illinois, only after he was defeated In X'.i primaries In that state. My letter to Mr. Roosevelt .f-out Irimer was written a year before I knew that the Colonel's hat was In the .In at all." V..!.-e "Take It out of the rlng." 1 say that Mr. Roosevelt had no right under any circumstances to mis represent me In that regard." For :he most part Mr. Taft's speeches were much alike. Here In part Is a typical one. delivered In Crock ton: "It in said that I dlstruct the people: that a distrust popular government. Any man who says so is talking tlirouch his hat. To be represented as an aristocrat, to be represented as an oligarch, hurts. Talede Sa-eeeh Kxslalaed. "I said In my Toledo speech In polnt .ng ojt the necessity for constitutional government that this was In a general srne a government of the people, but that, freaking exactly. It was a gov ernment of the people, for the people, hv a representative part of the people, and In the context of what I said I showed what I meant by It. I said Coaclu4fd Tas X) 1 r.ii(..ni.s Sneak for Christian Science AgainM Owen BUI; Rap Medical Association. WASHINGTON. April 2. Senator Works, of California, said today In the Senate that If Jesus Christ were prac ticing Ms healing today in New xorK. ss he did In Judea 1900 J'ars ago. he would be subject to tine ana ....-.. . ment under the laws of that ' Senator Works, a Christian Scientist, was speaking In opposition to the Owen bill to establish a Government depart ment of public health. He charged that the bill was a part of a concerted scheme of the American Medical Asso ciation to obtain Instruction to perpet uate the power of the regular school or medicine and said It was a mer cenary attempt of doctors to establish a medical bureau Independent and free from control by any department of Government, with a regular physician at Its hesd. whereby all other schools of medicine and modes of healing would be placed at the mercy of the regular school. He contended that efforts of doctors to monopolise healing had. of late, been directed chiefly against Christian Sci entists. GRAIN RATESUIT HALTED Chicago Board of Trade Withdraws Complaint; Another rrobablc. CHICAGO. April 2. Hearing of the complaint against the rates charged by railroads on wheat and flour from the Northwest fields and mills to Chicsgo. which was begun today before a spe cial examiner for the Interstate Com merce Commission, came to an abrupt end late today. The report of the Chicago Roard or Trade, which filed the complaint, ob jected to the method of procedure and moved that the complaint be dismissed. It Is believed the complaint will be riled again In amended rorm. In grain and railroad circles It was said the appeal to the Interstate Com merce Commission was a conflict be tween the Chicago Board of Trade and Minneapolis millers. UTAH TRIES "HONOR PLAN" Convict Sent Cnsruardcd lo Attend ' Funeral or lll Father. HALT LAKE CITY. April J. Warden Pratt, of the Plate Penitentiary, save the "honor system" a trial yesterday when he bought a railway ticket and started Pam E. Poeman, a convict, to attend, unguarded, the funeral of his father. Doeman traveled 40 miles and was back at C o'clock In the evening. He haa served six years of a l-yeax sen tence. Twenty convicts, some long-term men. have been building roads in the southern part of the state, with but one or two attendants, mho art as overseers rather than guards. YOUNG TAFT CASTS VOTE Son of President at Harvard Gives rather Ills Ballot Today. CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. April 29. Rob ert A. Ta. son of the President, will cast his first vote at the primaries here tomorrow. Although more than lot) Harvard students were disqualified by the election officials because they were not self-supporting, young Taft'a right to claim residence was supported by evld.-nce showing he could exist even ir he had no allowance rrom his father. He gave his last place of resi dence, before entering college, as Washington, saying he had not lived In Cincinnati for six years. "Father will win the nomination without doubt." young Taft told the registrars, "and I expect to vote for him for the Presidency next Fall. Every American who believes In the square deal should assure my father a renomlnatlon and re-election " CEMENT COMPANY APPEALS Fnited Stales Conrt Asked to Set Aside Bankruptcy Suit. CHICAGO. April 2. Stockholders of the Yellowstone Portland Cement Com pany appealed today to I'nlted States Judge Ijndls to have set aside bank ruptcy and receivership proceedings begun several months ago. The stockholders charge that Donald, Grant, of Faribault. Minn., president or the organisation and member of the board of directors, filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy by alleged fraudulent methods. The petition was Hied September IS. 111. and the Cen tral Trust Company, or Chicago, waa appointed receiver. One or those bringing todsv's action was T. J. Walsh, or Helena. Mont. The plant ot the company Is In Pork Coun ty. Mont. PRISON WARDEN REMOVED George W. Cowing: Placed In Charge of Nevada Penitentiary. CARSON CITT, Nev.. April ID. George W. Cowing was appointed today warden ot the State Penitentiary by the State Board or Prison Directors to suc ceed Ray Raker, removed by the Board. Governor Oddie and Secretary of State Rrodlgan voted for Cowlnc. while Attorney-General Raker voted to retain his brother In orfice. Baker's rem.Aal was hroucht about by charges riled by Governor Oddle. which were heard by the Prison Board several weeks ago. Cowing Is a Demo crat, while Baker Is a Republican. The new appointee will take charge or the prison May 1. Fight Over Tobacco at Prayer Meeting. BELL SUMMONS ALL CITY Nonreligious Workers Resent Rule Against Smoking. WOMEN AMONG INJURED Two Elders Beaton . -7 o 'jQ Cn conscloosne and One's St.. -Believed to Have Been Frac tured; Trouble Threatened. ZION CITY. 111.. April 2. Rioting started here late tnls afternoon when employes or Independent manufactur ing concerns attacked a group of 200 Zlon men and women at a prayer meet." Inr. Both men and women were clubbed and a number were seriously injured. The fight came as the climax of a week of trouble between Independent concerns which recently have begun op erations here, and the church people, formerly followers of John Alexander Dowle. Ztoaltea Are Boated. ' As a protest against the use of tobac co by employes of the manufacturing companies, the Vollva people have been having prayer meetings In the plants twice a day. Elder Royal had Just called the second meeting, when sev eral score of men rushed out of the plant, tore down or leaped over the barriers around the prayer meeting. and drove the Zionists from that part of town. Vollva ordered the large alarm bell rung and more than 1000 men as sembled at the auditorium to riscuss plans for resisting further attacks by employes of Independent companies. who filled the streets tonight and threatened to "clean out the town." - second clash between the churNV people and the Independents was pre dicted. Vollva urged his followers to protect their women and chlldTen from the "tobacco smoking curse." Elder F. SI. Royal and Joseph Bishop I tfoneludert on Pas 3. ) ann Aiexanner rsnucu. A THRILLING LEAP TOR LIFE. j , , T T t T I .... r . r Friend of His Divorced Wife De clares He Is With letter, Who Is 111 at Philadelphia. CHICAGO, April 29. (Special.) Con siderable mystery attaches to a dis patch from Green Bay. Wis., announc ing that r"Oin J. Kellogg," who mar ried Miss Laura Minnie Cornelius, daughter of the former famous chief of the Oneida Indians. Is In reality Gorge Randolph Chester, creater of the "Wall Ingford" stories. Chester P. Cornelius and Miss Alice Cornelius, brother and sister of the bride, are authority for the statement that "Kellogg" is the author and that he and his bride are now visiting friends In Fairfield, Iowa. Miss May Wallace. "an actress with the Thomas .Rose Company, now play ing here, claims to have had a letter Saturday from Mrs. George Randolph Chester, said to be ill In a Philadelphia hospital. In which she says her hus band is constantly at her bedside. Miss Fay doubts the Green Bay story. Green Bay relatives are Just as certain the author married thlr sister in Stevens Pint, Wis., a week ago. WOMAN SHOOTS DOCTOR Former Football Star Fatally Wotindcd by Accident. CHICAGO. Arrll 25. Miss Muza O. Osborne was arrested today after she had shot Dr. W. D. Fischer at her resi dence on the North Side, where the physician roomed. Dr. Fischer was taken to a Hospital, where it was said his wound, possibly would prove fatal. Dr. Fischer, who Is a graduate of Rush Medical College and a former player on the Oberlln football team, was at one time a partner of Dr. Hal dane Clemlnson. now serving a life sentence for wife-murder. Miss Winifred Gray, a witness to the shooting and a friend of Miss Os borne, declared Miss Osborne acci dentally had -discharged a revolver be longing to Dr. Fischer. FOUR REPRIEVES GRANTED California Governor Postpones Exe cutions) in Murder Cases. SACRAMENTO. Cal.. April 29 Gov ernor Johnson today Issued' four re prieves to prisoners condemned to he hanged at Han cjuentln on May 3 and 10. The reprieve in each case was 'or f..!. ira. anil tv .i k extended bv the t.i.vernor for the purpose or allowing time In wh!rri to look into the application for executive clemency In the way of commutation of sentences to life Imprisonment. The prisoners reprieved are George Flgucroa. Willie Luis, William Burke and Alexander Szafscure. Modernization of Re public to Be Slow. PRESIDENT SENDS MESSAGE Need of Money for Building Up Land Held Paramount. PLEA IS MADE FOR ORDER Retention of Foreign Friendships Is Deemed Important Religious Liberty Pledged People ricascd With Contest. TEKIN, April 29. Tuan Shi Kai. President of the Cninese Republic, de livered today, at the opening of the session of the advisory council, which virtually Is a Provisional Senate, his first Presidential message. The President proclaimed that the principles of the new Chinese govern ment must be the maintenance of order in the territory, the achievement of progress and the retention or external friendships which are necessary to the existence of China. The attitude of foreign powers in recent years, he said, hau been such as to merit the gratitude of China. The people, he said, should rejoice over the establishment of a republic after thousands of years of despotism. Foreisa Capital Kaaentlal. The most important matter -at pres ent, the President said, was nnance. Foreign capital was essential to China, and the government was araiimg mc principles of a financial reform. Pending tne Dig loan tne govern ment would, he said. Issue short treas ury bonds. Yuan Shi Kai recommended plans for lightening the burden of proper survey of lands, for a new scale of taxation, for a unified system or cur rency and ror stanaaro. weignis inj measures. He declared that because of insumdency of financial experts among the Chinese the employment of talented foreigners was necessary, ana recommended the employment of for eigners at the finance ministry so as to Insure a correct Duagci ana proper accounting. Industrial Development urged. Tuan Shi Kai pointed out that with the establishment of a republic. In dustrial development had become of . . . Saloon man Who Furnishes Liquor to Minors More Guilty Than Boy Who Buys, He Soys. SEATTLE. Wash.. April 29 (Spe cial.) Mayor George F. Cotterill, who is himself a strong prohibitionist, today sent to the City Council his veto of the bill making it a misdemeanor for min ors to enter saloons with the Intention of purchasing intoxicating liquors. The only good thing the Mayor can see In the bill, which was passed' by the unanimous vote two weeks ago, is a provision pertaining to misrepresen tation of age. In his veto the Mayor says: "When minors are permitted to enter saloons or liquor is sold to minors any where, the responsible person is the man who keeps the saloon or sells the liquor, or his employe, and the laws and ordinances now fix that responsibility where it belongs. "This ordinance would make the minor the boy or girl ot any age a law breaker. To my mind this would be monstrously out of balance to the degre3S of offense and responsibility Involved. "Moreover, such a theory would ren der It impossible to convict a liquor dealer of the offense of selling liquor to minors without at the same time af fixing the brand of conviction upon the minor. In practice this would al most inevitably result In stopping such prosecutions for the sake of saving the minors from such branding by the law, and the sale of liquor to minors would Increase without fear of effec tive prosecution." SPOKANE GAS IS REDUCED Ordinance, Agreed To, Provides De crease to $1 by 1920. SPOKANE, Wash., April 29. (Spe cial.) An Immediate reduction in the price of gas from $1.50 to J1.40. and a reduction of 10 cents Jn the price every two years until dollar gas is reached In 1920, are the provisions of the new gas rate ordinance to be Introduced in the City Council Tuesday by Commis sioner of Public Utilities C. M. Fassett. The City Council, which has left the matter of rates to Commissioner Fas sett to Investigate and recommend, is likely to pass the ordinance without amendment. The Spokane Falls Gas Light Com pany has agreed to the prices to be rec ommended y f'ommiKsIoner Fassett and the legal fight over the power or the city, to make rates, which was ex pected will be avoided. The rate schedule proposed follows: May 1. 1912. to May 1, 1914, $1.40 per 1000 cubic feet; May 1, 1914, to May 1. 1916, $1.30; May 1, 1916, to May 1. 1918, $1.20; May 1, 191S, to May 1, 1920, $1.10; May 1. 1920. to May 1, 1922, $1.00; aver age price, 10-year period, $1.20. SEA LURES HER 500 MILES St. Paul Woman Comes to Oregon to Sec Oc-;ai. SEASIDE, Or., April 29. (Special.) Just to pass a few hours at Clatsop Beach and catch a glimpse of the ocean, Mrs. Woodworth, wife of J. G. Woodworth, traffic manager of the Northern Pacific, of St. Paul, traveled BOO miles. To make her journey more conven ient, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway held its beach train 20 min utes at Portland so connections from Spokane might be made. Business having taken her husband to Spokane for a few days. Mrs. Wood worth took the opportunity and the first train for Portland. A nlsht here and she left to rejoin Traffic Manager Woodworth for the trip back, to St. Paul. SOCIALIST PAPER "BROKE" Chicago Dallys Five-Year War on Capital Ends. rtirnr.n Anril 29. (Special.) The Chicago Paily Socialist's fight against capital has come to a sudden halt. It .iKoendeo publication toaay, aner n years of financial trouble. It is the ..j'titis its publication has sus- unj It was announced today by its management that the present sus pension will be for only a tew aaB, as was the last. i, last week the paper has Deen making appeals to loyal federalists for financial assistance, but me monry u.u not come in fast enough. Today, with out any announcement, the paper fatled to appear. It was admitted that the paper is heavily In debt. The $1000 appealed for is only for needed current expenses, it is stated. , I DIES, 3 HURT IN CRASH Electric Train Smashes Into Auto "Dead" on Track. SAN FRANCISCO. April 29. In a col lision today between an automobile and an electric train in Alameda Her bert Rawllnson of Alameda was killed; Mrs. Jcannette Rawllnson his wife, was fatally injured, and Gertrude Rawlln son, the 12-year old daughter of the couple, and Herman Kohn. father of Mrs. Kawlinson were seriously hurt. Rawilnson, who was driving, appar ently "ki'led" his engine in an effort to stop when he saw the train ap probating and the machine drew up directly across the track. The four occupants were hurled out as the au tomobile was dashed to the side of tha street. "Don't Stop at Mexican Ports", Message. YORKTOWN MUST BE STOPPED That Is Order to Destroyers Sent From San Diego. HOPE OF INTERCEPTION War Department, Fcarins for SafelJ of Fighting Ship, Makes Quick Move to Prevent, by Wire less, Landing for Coal. j WASHINGTON. April 29. The tor pedoboat destroyers Preble and Perry, which slipped out of San Diego, Cal., harbor last night, are under orders to intercept the gunboat Yorktown by wireless and tell her not to stop at any Mexican port for coal. In view of conditions prevailing in Mexico, it is deemed inadvisable to have an American gunboat drop in at any of the coastal cities. Both the War and Navy Depart ments today denied that the Army transport Buford. now en route to the west coast of Mexico to pick up Amer ican refugees, was to bo convoyed by the Perry and Treble. Rome Not to Mexico f The two destroyers were not under orders from Washington when tliey left San Diego, but are operating under direction of the Commander-in-Chief of the torpedoboat flotilla, with headquartters at San Francisco, and as far as is known are not en route to Mexico. The Buford will stop at San Dlcgo at 3 P. M. Tuesday to take on board Claude E. Guyant, deputy Consul-General at Mexico City, who has been despatched to Los Moclis to establish a consular agency there. He will disembark at Tolobampo and proceed overland to Los Mochis. If no Americans remain at this place he will go with the Buford to the other Coast ports. The representative of a largo colony of American farmers at Nogalcs. Ariz., in the Vaqui delta of Spnora, Just re turned from Washington, today urged upon his people, particularly the wo men and children, to leave Mexico at once. He refuses to allow the use of his name for reasons he said were obvious. Yorktovtn on Way to San Diego. The gunboat Yorktown is en routo to San Diego from Guayaquil. Kcuador and had been stopped at various Central American ports on the way up the coast. She is accompanied by the col lier Prometheus. Commander Wash ington of the Yorktown sent a radio gram to the department saying he would put in at a Mexican port to take more coal from the Prometheus. As the Yorktown left San Jose de Guatemala last Tuesday and is now at sea. the destroyers Treble and Terry were ordered to get in communication and tell her if it was at all possible to try to make San Diego without re coaling. JAPANESE SCARE IS SCOFFED Ambassador Says Foreigners Only Fishing at Magdalena Bay. NEW YORK, April 29. In response to inquiries as to trie recent agitation re garding Japanese encroachments at Magdalena Bay, Senor Manuel Calero. the new Mexican Ambassador, who was In New -York today on his way to Washington, said: "There Is no Japanese question in Mexico, and no reason why you Ameri cans should be exercised about the granting of a private fishing conces sion to Japanese. Such concessions are held by the English, by Norwegians and by Mexicans; and it Is nothing more nor less than a business transac tion in which the concessionaires are responsible to the Mexican Government, and to no other government in the world. "The whole thing, as some have tried to make it look. Is absolutely untrue. Before I left Mexico City, I saw that Senator Lodge had asked for a sena torial inquiry into the alleged Japa nese situation as regards Magdalena Bay. I made a report, for I was then Minister of Foreign Affairs in Madero's cabinet, in which I said there was no truth in the report that the concession had anything to do with the Japanese Government. Senator Lodge, for whom I have the greatest respect, was en tirely wrong. Of course If they want to Investigate, let them do it, but It will be time wasted because they will be investigating something that does not exist. "The truth of the whole matter is that a few years ago a concession for fishing privileges was granted to a private Japanese enterprise. There is nothing extraordinary about that, for the same thing is true oi citizens oc many other nations. All the conces sions are the same. "As to the report that among those who have been looking over the con cessions is a member of the Japanese parliament, I don't know anything." AMERICANS REACH HOME Refugees at San Diego; Tell of Mex ican Horrors. reports of loot and pillage outside the (Concluded on Pm. 4 1