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3 ttttc jronxixa oreooxianv Thursday, may 2, 1012. SUFFRAGISTS T HO SIDE SADDLES ;atest photogeaph or harry k. thaw and members or his rAMILY. Cavalry Division of Monster Parade Not a Unit for Riding Astride. fa run u.f -; . ,j : - V--'- n- u w BATTLE OF HABITS WARM Threatened Pfesenslon Averted b CompromlM Signatures for rrde Come Readily Many Young Girts Enthusiast. NEW TORK. Mar 1. (Spclal Ptenslon !n th feminine cavalry di vision to participate In the moml" suffrage parada Saturday for a time rlou!r endangered the harmony of the (K-rajilon. The quetlon aa to how the horiM are to be ridden, astride or side-saddle, was the issue and at ore time the difference was so bitter that It waa thourht the cavalry branch f the parade mtg-M have to be -lvcn up Th eitra militant branch was all for ridlna- astride. What was tiie parade for. they said, except to show that women could do prrtty nearly everrthinir men can do and Just as well as men. rn the other hard, there came to t'-e f'ouncll. entIe-volced. blushlnff women, who said their Idea of proper attitude of the advocates of votes for women was one of a-entle femlnlnlt". It w for the uffraa-lst to prove she could be a sweet with the ballot In lir han.l as with an Infant at her breast, ('tsrsala la Reached. The battle of habits crew close to spKr. The advocates ft the side saddle at last announced they wo:il. ht cit of the parade rsther tun use rrosa-aadd'.es. With diplomacy it was announced tiat the cause was preater than breeches or skirts. The riders iniaht use either kln.l of a saddle. In the parade there will be two owadrons. The cross-saddle riders will he in the first division, while the onnrn of the old-f Jieliloned flowlnc habit will ride In the second, or side saddle division The fnlted States Army rccruitlnr officers In "ttv Tark Hall bad rival In woman suffrage recruitlnar officers, alio were enrolling volunteers for the r'iffraee parade, anil It must he ron feed that I'ncle Hani's men were no match for their fair rivals. While the soldiers went trampinir alone and neir Icted before their sljjn. "Men Wan'ed." t':e snffraiirists Mrs. IViward Ltvinz ston Hunt and Mrs. Charles K. Knob n.ieh who didn't want men and had no i7n5. were surroiinde! by a crowd of 100 or more In no time. They pot so manv more men than they wanted that It seriously Interfered with their busi ness of hcKullInc women Into signing parade pledges. anTraaUta IVIa rollce-nsem. It took a braye soul. Indeed, to push her way throuch the crowds and slrn a slip, while the mob Jeered. The suf fraxtsts appealed to a policeman to clear the pa!h for them, but he an- wered It win none of his business. It was Just before 5 o'clock when the piirple. preen and white banner of the Woman's Political I'nlon first shone above the tulip bed north of City Hall, and the homeward bound business folk pot the full benertt of it from afar. "Suff raicette-? I bet!" Then the yvuna; men eiuKled. ' Then, when they i-aine r.earcr: liee! Pretty pood lookers, thouch. If tiiey are sufferlnir. cats." The two women who were Invitins the stenographers to march with them were clad in Immaculate white serce suits, white pumps mow and then there was a glimpse of purple silk stocklncs. tool. brad purple, preen and white "Voten for Women" ribbons across their chests and white hats. One had a green veil and the other a pur ple one and they held their flag In white-cloved hands. All this had a no ticeably stlem-lns; effect jipon the downtown crowds. They Rippled and passed remarks, but they did It In un dertones. rsfer Are Caerte4. Many who came to scoff remained to sipn a pledpe. Three KlsTKlinic shop piri iwark-rrcl up arm In arm. "Woukln't suffraire make women Just like men?" the leatler asked. "1 think it would be awful. In the Titanic the women couldn't have been rayed first If they'd been like men." Miss Caroline Iexow assured her that chivalry would not vanish with the prxnttnc of the ballot: and. her feare thus assuaged, the a-lrl passed on. hastened In spirit, bearlna suffrage literature. Another clrl said she was too busy with her own affairs to take any Interest in-other women. "But Just think." pleaded Miss Ixow. "Thousands more women Jle every year from overwork than pcriehert p the Titanic. Don't you want to help them T "Niv. I've ot my own affairs." Generally, however, if a artrl was be aulled Into the chermed circle of those white suits and smiling persuaaive in vitatlnn. she was lost. It was notice able, too. that the younper feneration was much more Interested than the older women- who passed by. j "They're ot In their ways." that's 11." lauched Mrs. Hunt. "One old wo man actually told me to so home and wash my dishes. The young frlrls, thouch. say: iure. we oupht to vote. Ain't we down here working same as men T " ABOVE, mMOER 0 W AV TO HKt Rli BKI.OW. ll.ICK A.M MRS. WILLIAM THAW Y.S HOITK TO t'UlKT. THAW THAW IN FINAL TEST Release From Matteawan to Be Determined Soon. PRISONER IS LOOKING FINE PLUMBER TESTS COST $300 a and Means Committee) A ska Money for Fxamlnatlons. The ways and means committee of iie city Council yesterday ordered an appropriation of iiOO to defray ex pense of a forthcoming examination for plumbers by the civil service com n"son. Chief Clerk Tupper. of the civil serv iee commission, was present to explain that It is necessary to purchase certain supplies for these examinations. If they are to be worth anything. He aid he had advised with Mayor Kush ilpht. who Is a practical plumber, and lliat the Mayor held the supplies neces ry. There are II applications at present, out before the examinations are held .Ills may be increased to as high as SO. perhaps not all of the money appro priated will bo expebJd. Ontralia Ad Club Korniert. CENTRALIA. Wash.. May I. iSpe rlaL) The Centralla Ad Club was or pan I led at a meeting held in Centralla vesterday. with a membership prac tically of all the merchants of the city. Or. Pavid Llvlnpstone waa elected president of the club, and E. K. Garlich. secretary Mother and Sister Aid In Fight fur Ills Liberty He) Wants Commis sion to Say YVhrthcr or Sot lfe Is Now Insane. NEW ROCHKLLK, May 1. With an able array of counsel to present his las.-. Harry K. Thaw will come to Now Kochelle May to make another and what many persons consider his final attempt to secure his release from the Matteawan Hospital for the Criminal Insane. If he falls In this attempt it will probably be years before he can Induce the courts avaln to consider his case. It Is believed by lawyers that failure In the effort to be made means that Thaw must live the rest of his years In Matteawan. Thaw reached Judge Hough's pic turesque little courthouse for the pre liminary licarlnir fully an hour before Ms rase was culled. He had to wait while many lawyers In other cases were first heard. Accompanying Thaw were Ir. J. W. Russell and two keepers. Iavld LaMth and Charles McMorrow. from Matteawan. They rode out from the atatlon in a trolley car. Tbaw Looklaa; Well. Thaw never looked better. His face has filled out until a suggestion of a double chin appears. Ills eyes no longer seem ready to pop out of his head as during his trials. He was Just a little nervous as he rode out In the trolley and kept twlrllnp his thumbs. He sat with one lea- crossed. Whenever the car stopped one could plalnl count Thaw s pulse in the beatlnir of the pen dant foot. It rapped well around 10. and leave proof that Thaw was more nervous than he seemed from a casual glance. Ha wore a dark blue serge suit, a double roll collar, and blue four-ln-hand tie. Ilia derby hat. distinctly rusty, was of the style of some years ao. probably the one he wore when he went first to Matteawan. Tbaw Mather Greets Hiss. Thaw wants a commission named to ko Into the question of whether ho .Is now sane or not. This the state op poses and Insists that all proceedings must be In open court before a Judpe. Thaw's mother and his sister, former ly the Countess of Yarmouth, and Roger CMeura greeted him as he en tered the court room. Mr. Phesrn opened the proceedings with the statement that Justice Staple ton had Issued the pending writ of ha beas corpus on April 15 on the peti tion of Th&w's mother, who alleged that her son Is now sane and Is there fore being Illegally held. When Harry Thaw was asked how he felt he said: "I guess my looks show. Really I never felt so good." "How much do you weigh 7 "About Hi or lg." Thaw posed for several camera men, and a motion-picture operator got sev eral hundred feet of film over his reel s he caught Tham-. his mother, sister, and the others who are Interested In the case. The Thaw party reached the New Rochelle atatlon a half hour before the train left, and there many persons watched them. The young man helped his mother, his sister, and an elderly companion of his mother to the train and sat with the sister In the last coach on the way to the Grand Central Station. borrow money for that purpose. He was a neighbor of Mrs. Griffith, living with his brother Charles and his mother on a small farm. While he vvi,s thus suspected, there was little evidence to warrant .1 hope for conviction and It was decided to postpone his arrest. The two Hum phry's and especially George were quietly wat-hed. tieorge, soon after the crime, became anxious to sell the farm, and finally did sell It for X500 less than he had paid for It about eight months previously and the Hum- nhrvs moved to Wnstilnpton County. Benton County offered a reward of 1 1 nou for the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Mrs. Griffith and Gov ernor Wesl offered a similar reward on behalf of the state. A detective working on the ease caused the arrest of Dr. Kd North, an Itinerant dentist, then In Philomath, as the criminal. North had some arpument with a preacher about murder and had marked some passages In a Bible having reference to tho shedding of blood, but this was tile limit of the evidence agalnet him and ho was discharged af ter a preliminary examination,. Ilolh Ilrotbera Confess. M. P. Burnett, ex-Sheriff of Benton County, began work on the case last Kail at the request of the Prosecuting Attorney's office anil in February of this year he asked that Detectives Mitchell and Carpenter be engaged. The detectives agreed with the local officers mentioned that George Hum phrys was the murderer and March 13 they arrested him in Washington County. The detectives questioned the prisoner and he finally admitted his guilt. He did not Implicate his brother, but the detectives believed ha was withholding something and a few days later Charles was arrested. The younger Htimphrys made a complete confession that he and George killed the woman, criminally assaulting her before and after death. After the ar rest of Charles. George admitted that his brother participated 1n the crime. BARGE EXPLODES; 5 DIE OIL OX niVER BLAZKS, BIG GAS OLIVE RIPPLY IGXITES. Men Killed Worklnc Near Scene. Other Crafl Burned Total Paniapo Is $450,000. CLEVKLAND, May 1. Five men were burned to death and damage esti mated at 1450.000 was done to boats and gasoline on the docks when Stand ard OH barge No. RS exploded late to day. All the Injured were employes of the Great Lakes Towing Company. Tho barge, which was at the Jefferson-avenue docks on the Cuyahoga River, was being filled with gasoline from a 10,000-gallon tank on the bank, leaking oil on the surface of the river was Ignited and set fire to the barge. A terriflo explosion Immediately fol lowed. The men killed were caulking another barge alongside. Burning; oil set fire to other boats, and a tug was destroyed. COLLEGE REGENTS TO MEET TWO HUMPHRYS GUILTY C-nntlmie.! Krom Flrsf Pnre. the morning when the body was dis covered. George Humphrys was In Phil omath and his face bore fresh scratch marks, although at o'clock the pre vious evening there were no marks on his face. The day after the murder he paid. Interest on a mortgage, while, but a short time before he was trying to Merger of University and Agricul tural School to Bo Topic. HALEM, Or., May I. (Special.) Governor West has called a meeting of the hoard ef regents of the Univer sity of Oregon and the Oregon Agricul tural College, to be held In Salem May 8. It Is probable that consolidation of the schools and duplication of courses will come up. The Governor does not expect to name tlie committee to consider the question of consolidation for several uays. The committee Is to be named as the result of resolutions passed at Dallas. MISSISSIPPI RIVER LEVEE GOES OUT Main Dyke on West Side Lets Flood Pour Over Great Section. WATER HIGHEST ON RECORD nelief Bclnp Rushed to Marooned KamilleN Black Hirer Beftlon Conditions Terrible Perkins Share Rafts With Stock. TOR R AS. I.A.. May 1. The west side main levee of the Mississippi River near here broke tonight. The crevasse probably will be the worst in the flood history of the Lower Mississippi. Floodwater the highest on record is rushing over parts of two thickly settled parishes. Relief Is being rushed to marooned families in the flooded territory north of here. Food depots have been fixed at points convenient for distribution- TnrrlMe conditions prevail in the Black River region. In many instances parents and their children have taken rofuce on rafts, which they share with livestock. W. S. Simmons, who arrived from a trip over Concordi:i, Catajoula nnd Tensas parishes, says all of these were under water with the ere.ptlon of a fow towns prntc ted by levees. "The Inhabitants are homeless and destitute," he said. Five thousand white, persons along the Black River are in a desperate fix. The Govern ment supplies received there are Inadc quatei. "Many families, expecting the flood, built rafts, and when the water came they moved their household goods aboard. The rafts are anchored to trees and that is tho way they arc living now." 160.000 TO BK AIDKD DAILY Additional Appropriations Will Be Needed for Flood Area. WASHINGTON". Ma 1. Food and shelter for "160.000 persons probably will have to be provided by the War Department for another month as a result of the renewed flood of the Mississippi River. The destitute are being turned over rapidly to local committees, but reports from the Army engineers Indicate th'at the daily aver age to be served with "plantation ra tions" by the commissary department continues to be about 160.000 ana tne cost Is 110.000 a day. Secretary Stlmson estimates tnal ad ditional appropriations of JoOO.OUU lor the commissary department and Ij0.- 000 for the Quartermaster a L'epan- ment will be required to cover reliet work expenses. To date the Quarter masters nave spent ti.iu iui im- ape, tents and boats, while the com missaries have spent iib.uuo. Nearly J700.0(T more for the relict of Mississippi River flood sufferers was voted bv the House committee on ap propriations today. For quartermas ter's supplies, such as tents, etc., the committee provided 1277.179. The com- mlssurv department, supplying me ues- titute with food, will receive $120,000. territory reached by The Oregonlan attending the Methodist General Con ference in Minneapolis. From the Puget Sound conference. Western "Washing ton, are Rev. J. P. Marlatt, Seattle; Rev. W. H. Wreese, Everett; Rev. Thomas E. Elliott. Tacoma: Rev. B. A. I-anden. Bellingham; F. C. Harper. Port Townsend; G. L. Marsh. Ostrander; E. U Blaine, Seattle, and Miss Eva B. Bailey, Everett. From the Columbia River conference are Rev. C. O. Kim bnll. Walla Walla; Rev. Robert War ner, Moscow. Idaho: Rev. Charles E. Gibson. Spokane; Ren Walton Skip worth. Sand Point, Idaho: R. L. Brain ard. Wardner. Idaho; D. S. Cox. Walla Walla: S. E. Notson. Heppner, Or., and Mrs. Luella M. Smith, Spokane. From the Idaho conference In Southern Ida ho and Eastern Oregon are Rev. J. D. Gilllland. La Grande; Rev. George W. Barnes. Boise: Rev. Allen E. Eaton, Union, and Rev. Ross S. Sladden, Cald well, Idaho. From the Oregon confer ence are Dr. Benjamin Young, Port lnnd: Rev. James Moore, Salem: Rev. Fletcher Homan. Salem: Amodee .M. Smith. Portland: Robert A. Booth, Eu gene, and A. A. liee. Salem. The Oregon conference delegation has an advantageous location four seats from the platform, giving Dr. Young a seat next the aisle. Dr. Youns has been assigned to the important committee on episcopacy. Rev. Mr. Kimball was elected an as sistant secretary of the conference. Dr. Homan was appointed to act on the board of tellers for the session. Mr. Booth was elected chairman of the committee on revisions. Dr. J. D. Gil liland was elected secretary of the committee on state of the church. Mesdames Booth. Smith, Homan. Lee and Eaton. Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Wilson. Robert H. Hughes, Edward It. Todd and C. T. McPherson are present In Minneapolis BICICLilEVES BUS! THIRTEEX MACHINES DISAP PEAR WITHIN" WEEK. CHURCH IS FOR WORKERS d'nntinued From First rase.) Staunch Defender of Cook Dies. NEW YORK. May 1. Captain Brad ley S. Osbon. secretary of the Arctic Club. Is dying at the Tost Graduate Hospital, where he has been a patient for. ten days suffering from a general breakdown. He Is 80 years old. Cap tain Osbon was one of Dr. Cook's closest friends and has defended the explorer staunchly end persistently against all attempts to discredit his claim to be 3.:34.822 with 1S.9NS ministers. 30.39S churches and 163 local confer ences. The church last year raised 11.072.997 for foreign missions, while 1096 foreign missionaries were maintained. Church Property Worth $216,-1110,437. The total value of the church and parsonage property throughout, tne world, was (riven as $216,490,437. The church has 360 educational Institutions with 75,000 students. Bishop Burt, of Zurich. Switzerland, delivered the chief address at the open Ing session, describing the progress of the church In Europe. Ho called at tention to Russia, where, he said, de spite tho fact that the government had excluded many Americans from mis sionary work, the Methodists had suc ceeded In securing a foothold. In all parts of Europe, .he declared. Method Um was progressing, meeting opposi tlon only where It came into conflict with state churches. Discipline May Be Amended. Interest Is keen already as to what action shall be taken on a proposal to change tho present disciplinarian rules governing amusements. The rule prohibits dancing, games of chance, theater-going, circut.es ana horse racing1 as being a tendency toward worldliness." The proposition a8 to Its retention-or rejection has been referred to a committee. Among the arguments advanced in opposition to retaining the present rule, as given to the committee, are: "It violates Christian freedom. "It Is a source of constant Irritation. "It puts many In an unjust attitude as disloyal to the church. "It cannot be enforced. "As an unenforced law It brngs dis cipline into contempt. 'It keeps many conscientious peopiw out of the church. It breeds hypocrisy. "It has not added to spirituality In the church." Arguments for continuing tne ruie are given as follows: The rule carries a proiem against worldllness. 'Repeal suggests a backward step mnrall v. "Many will avoid harmful things be cause the church directs. "Repeal would be Interpreted with great publicity as Indicating a moral declension." Delegates from r'iniand. South Afri ca. South America and Asia, some of whom were dressed in native costume, were brought together when Bishop Warren, the oldest active leader In the church, ordered the roll-call. It was pointed out that this marked the 100th anniversary of the conference to which regularly elected delegates were sent. "as, after the organization in Lovely Lane Chapel In Baltimore In 174 all ministers voted at the confer ence, and It was not until 1812 that membership to the conference was re stricted to elected delegates. WESTERN DELEGATES ATTEND Pacific Coast Members Honored in Selections by Conference. BY DR. E. H. TODD. MINNEAPOLIS. May 1. (Special.) There sre four delegations from the Police Believe Wheels Dismantled nnd Parts Sold or Shipped From City Pawn Shops Searched. An unusual number of bicycle thefts have been reported to the detective de partment within the last two weeks nnd officers are baffled in their efforts to trail tho thief. None of the bicycles have been disposed of at the local pawn shops, as a close watch has been kept and the wheels do not appear to be in use about the city. As a result of the unusual number of this kind of thefts. Detective Baty has detailed two officers to watch outgoing trains and boats. From the frequency of the disap pearance of the bicycles, it is believed that a systematic thievery is going on. It is also feared that the bicycles are taken apart" and the pieces sold sep arately, or that they are remodeled, so as to be. unrecognizable. Yesterday three bicycles were report ed stolen and within the last week 13 have disappeared. Those reporting thefts of bicycles yesterday were D'Arcy Ford, of 445 Sixth street; the Advance Messenger Company, of 284 Yamhill street, and Mr. Landis. of 513 Henry building. Ford's bicycle was taken from the corner of Sixth and Montgomery streets Tuesday night. The messenger company lost a machine from the front of its office Monday. Several days before another machine was taken from this place. With the exception of bicycle thefts, the number of larcenies reported are unusually light. In April there were about 70 less cases than in the previ ous montn. t-oniana oeiccuin -covered 50 per cent of all stolen goods reported to them last monm. OLD RESORT OPENS JUNE 1 Seaside Iloiise at Hoiladay Formerly Housed Notables. SEASIDE. Or.. May 1. (Special.) The, historic Seaside House at Hoiladay, Clatsop Beach, the oldest beach hos telry in the Pacific Northwest, will be open June 1. according to an announce monl made today. The venerable building is in much the same condition as when people of fame and fashion were wont to make the try ing Journey from Portland by boat and sin e-ecoarh. During the timo Ben Hoi laday held sway among the notables of his day. brilliant gatnerings assemoieu under the old roof. Terhaps the most remarkable of the various entertainments offered to Hol laday's following were the horseraces held on the old track In the clearing Immediately before the notei. tioiia dav maintained a large stable of race horses, brought here for training for lnrc-e track events throughout the Irfoodi Sarsaparilla Originated in a physician's pre scription years ago and has el- ways been pure, safe, beneficial an honest Spring and all-the-year- round medicine. It purifies, enriches and revital izes the blood and builds up tho whole system as no other medicine does. Take it only three doses a day. Get It today in usual liquid form or chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs. Glass before Breakfast tones up the stomach, clears the head and does you good. NATURAL LAXATIVE Quickly Relieves CONSTIPATION KID FITTING ' SILK GLOVES Fit like Fownei kid gloves, i They couldn't fit any better. Fa. Continuing Today Removal Sa'es of $L50 Lingerie Waists at 98c $2.50 Untrimmed Hats at 98c $5 Embroidered Flouncings $2.95 $1 7.50 New Red Widow Capes $12.45 In Connection With Every Article in the Store at Removal Prices Coast. Traces of the old racecourse are still In evidence, but the larste stables at the south of the track woe burned down a few years asro. Good Fruit Yield Promised. T.KW1STON. Idaho. May 1 (Special.) -Estimates of the ant put of fruit in tho Lewlston-Clarkston Valley places the marketable crop at not less thar. 750 cars, which includes all the fruit crown in the valley this year. The dan ger period for late frosts has passed ar.1 it is assured that the crop here will be the heaviest ever picked. Grow ers anticipate keen bargaining for Eastern markets this year. In going East through California via Santa To you have the privilege of stopping over for side trips to Yo semite Valley Los Angeles and to Grand Canyon These are Earth's Wonders. No other line or combina tion of routes can offer this, unless you go at least one way via the Santa Fe. MAKE US PROVE IT. To Chicago Through California Santa Fe All the Way From San Francisco Our rnarlbel admits of fast time. Our cuiiipiupnt. is built by Pullman. Our menl service is managed by Fred Harvey. Our employes are courteous. Scenes of Ancient Indian Pueblos, en route. Our booklets tell what yon want to know. We are always Tickled to Talk Tickets. H. E. VERNON, Gen. Agt., Santa Fe. 252 Alder St, Portland, Or. Phone Main 1274.. go Santa Fe Tobacco that. Knows No Equal For years and years the finest tobacco in the world has been grown in the Vuelta Abajo district of Cuba. A rare mellowness and fragrance characterizethis.the most exquisite of all Havana tobacco. Think, then, of what delijfht must be.found in" the Vuelta Abajo 's very choicest product. 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