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
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