5v 5KSk A Xi A wC. AA JSA rS JWfWl4 fj PORTLAND, OKEGOX, "WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LII- T. IG.072. MISS SEARS WILL FORM POLO TEAM KAISER, UNRUFFLED, HEW JERSEY GOES SOLID FOB COLONEL ELGIN GIRL GARBED AS MAN IS ELOPER wickers says he'll prove fraud BUYS WIFE'S HATS OF FIGHT Ofl WOOD TIDE OF PROSPERITY SOCIETY GIBLS TO CONTEST WITH MEADOWLARK WOMEN SWQSTIIEARTS, - PCRSVED - BY POSSE, HIDE IX MOUNTAINS. VISITS TO MILLINERS TAKEN AS ' OMEX OP PEACE. AINSVDRTH BIG CROPS USHER IN Returns Indicate All 28 Delegates for Him. TAFT FORCES ADMIT DEFEAT Wilson Runs Far Ahead and May Have 22 Votes. COUNT COMES IN SLOWLY One-Fifth of Total Ballot Gives Room-veil 10. ISO. Tafl 5S0 and La Fbllette 3 1 S Vote on Preference I About Same. NEWARK. N. J, Mir :. Indlca t.ona based Dpon falrlr conclusive re turns are that Theodore Roosevelt has nn all lha St drlecate. selected yes terday at th. New Jeraey primaries. republican primary returna from SIS out of 1T5 election districts In tha a-ai. an delegate, at largo give: Tafl Roosevelt l. 150; La Follette IIS. Returns from tti out of Kf on -ref- irar: Taft. ::t: Roosevelt. 1J.I50; La Follette. ITT. Wllaaa -tarawa. -Male. Inrnmplnlt returns fmm every die trlrt In tha state Indicate that Gov. rrnor Wilson will get the delegates at and at If-aat M of tha :i dtatrict 1l-tea, giving hltn a total of 3!. Iwmocratlc primary return from 12a out of IT)) districts In the state on tha d-ircatea at Urea give: Wilson, 2iH uninatruct.d. 2tS. Returns from 1: out of tha 1T A .trlcts on preference give: Wilson, unlnstrdcted 2. Tafl Mea Taaeede Defeat. Miortly after midnight E. W. Gray. ' retary of tha Taft Iluatncaa Men s Leacue. roa-edu that Rooaevelt had arrlefl the atate on tha preference vote nd that he would, hare tt. rour dele-tares-at-Ur-.. "It looks,- be aald. " If the Preal--1.ru were surely beaten. Incomplete returna from tha first lur Conrreaaional dlMrlrta to report mtlrated that K.xeTelt bad carried all 'ur (eight d.Iegatea). CANBY SHUTS OUT RAILWAY ((imnmn.lvr Clause iH-mandcd In I'ranrhlw Pmes" I'minoicrs. c'REOiW CITT. Or.. May It. (Spe riaL) Announcement was made at the mretinar of the Live Wlrea today that the money contributed for the removal of dead eela from the river during tha low water period wouM be expended under the aupervlalon of the Flan and Game Commlaalon. R. T. McButn re ported that f bad been contributed for the work, and the fund would be .argely Increased. William Sheahun. Jha W. Loder and Rav. C. W. Robin son were appointed a committee to in veatlitate tbe feasibility of establishing public swimming pool or bain In tha river near Oregon City. Several bun-l-rd residents of the city petitioned the Live Wires to usa their Influence n obtaining the pool. 3L J. Lea. of Canby. who Is Intereated a tbe proposed railway between fanby Molalia. aald that the terminus ould probably be near the Clackamas ''ounty fair grounds, outside the rity .:mita of Canby. owing to the atttiuil .f the City Council, which bad de manded a common-user clauae In the franchise. HEALTH BUREAU FAVORED Orrcon CnncnHtmrn An a re They Will Stand by Bill. RKFn. Or.. May :i-tSpHal.)- t tha r u t of tha Raker Commeri-lal lub, aktnf what rt their -nt frr-tents i regard to tha proposed eatabllPh n'nt of a National BurMU of liea'th, :t tha Orecon Congressmen have rc j:'M a follow: s'ntor Bourn I thank yu for wir .w on t hia aubjrvt and lh anura ou that thry will re-c-e.va ny careful conlii',ration."" .- nati-r ChamNfrlaln "I Murt you hj4t tha M:i 111 rrc!vt my carrful 'inn!. 1 ration. " iprtMntatlr liffsr?y "I vhall v- this blil my har:y support. Kpr"ntat1va Mawy "I ba: to y t..at from til Ui formation I now .. I win irlv th bill my Taarty i'pert.- 4ILVVAY MEN IN ASTORIA ificUlft Pmlkl Hearj Traffic to oat City Thl Seaoa. "TORIA. Or, May 2- (SpelaL) :d---nt J. 1L Toantr. -General freight !'seener Afrent V. E. Co man and - ofAciala of the Spokane, Portland i ntl Koad p ! the dar In A- , and left toniajht for SeaMe. mh-r will remain a day or to. Mr. Ic spoae quite hopefully of the k for the romtna: year, aad Mid i -ert the t"afr-? on the Aatorta nim tummer will be tha hear. CM h! story of the line, rumpanr. he said, la prepared i part In hand. mar the tnrreaae-d ind the train e-he-Jul will be k -ably taster than la former Hoten Athletic Helrret-a Say She AMU Not Wear Divided Skirt but Will r Polo Cotnmc. NKW YORK. May S. (Special.) Mlas Kleanor Bears la again In the lime light, this time with a proposal to form a polo, team of Boaton and Brookllne aociety girls, which will contest honora with Itm elder slater. the Tloneer Women a team of the Meadowlark Club, of Lone Island. The organisation of tha women team of the Meadowlark Club haa served to crystallise Miss Sears Idea. The Meadowlark team la composed o prominent society women, led by Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock. "It is not hard for a woman to play polo riding astride. aald Miss Sears. -The Meadowlark team la covering; six or eight periods of eight minutes each In every practice game and playing almost as fast a game as tha men. I know all the members and alternates and must of them can play as well as the average man." -Would you wear divided skirts Mlas (.ears wss asked. -I should say not. It would be as much aa your life waa worth to wear skirts: I'll nde In a polo costume, of course." UNIONS HAVE NEW PLAN Steps Being Taken to Nationalise Marketing; of I n Ion Products. SPOKANE. Wash.. May !. (Spa rlaL Stepe are being taken to na tionalise the marketing of products of union members, delegates to the state convention of tha Farmers' Education I Co-operative Union meeting In Spokane today were told by tha Na tional president of the organisation. Char lea S. Barrett, of TTnlon City. Ga. "The ateel trust and tha oil trust, big aa they are. won't be In our class, if we aucceed." President Barrett assured the delegates, and the announcement was greeted with cheers. Two weeks ago at a meeting of the executive com mlttee the decision to gradually na tlonallxa the marketing end of tha farm bualneas was reached. Barrett said. The start was made In Mississip pi, i'l warehouses, all members of the union, being banded together In one company. From this atate It Is pro posed to gradually extend tha mar keting work, first through tha South, then throughout the country. SNAKE'S BITE NEAR FATAL Wounded lnt'lor Rides Hor?c Klght MtIC9 for ArWlMtlHT, IttKtD . RITRR. Or May (Spe rial.) Dr. J. M. Waur. a physiHan of thl city, who Irft hr Sunday for bin ranch flht mtls back In the hllli from White Salmon, waa bitten by a rattlesnake, and but for a sensational horseback ride orer the rough moun tain road back to White Salmon, where he received medical treatment, the polnon would have ended his life. Ir. W'mukH waa struck In the arm. The reptiles fanes hunjr in his coat, and he waa forced to arajip It with the free hand and hurl It away from him. Dr. Waugh cut the wound open, allow ing It to bleed freely, then mounted his horse and rode back to town, lie fell from the horse twice during the ride, but traversed the eight miles In 3 j minutes. When he reached town he w.is blind and fell from his horse In stupor. 1r. M loom Bronson, his partner, attended htm. "PREXY" FREED FROM JURY Head of Wa-hington -"L" nclicvcd I mil After Com nicu cement. SKATTLK. Wash, May S. (Spe cial.) To prevent President T. F.Kane from being forced to do jury duty dur ing commencement, th senior counsel of the Cnlverslty of Washington ap pointed a commute, of three men and petitioned Judge. Mitchell Gilliam to ex cuse the college head from the required work until the cap and gown ceremo nies are over. The Judge granted the renuet. When the president was drafted for Jury duty this Spring It was suggested tliat he escape It In some way, but Dr. Kane held that It was the duly of very American cltlxen to serve some time la this capacity and refused to take advantage of his friends In fluence. He had no hesitation, how ever, in accepting tha extension. LAWYER LOSES MEMORY Miletus Spokane Attornej Found. .Mind Is Vnbalanced. BOISE. Idah". May If. iSpeciaL) J. C. Howe, a prominent and aald to be a wealthy attorney of Spokane, who myaterloualy disappeared a week ago and for whom the pollc. of the Nortb weat have been combing th. cltlea. waa found wandering th. streets of Boise today. His mind appears to be com pletely unbalanced. Spokane police were notified. Howe was Identified by papers he carried. He wore valuable Jewelry, in cluding a large diamond ring worth a.veral hundred dollara. Aalde from Informing th. polio b. one. lived at Spokane. Howe could gtv. no account of hlmaelf or hla Identity. The police believe him t. be under the Influence of a powerful drug. Hand of Retired Officer Seen in Bill. EX-ADJUTANT IS VINDICTIVE Amendment Projected by Un parliamentary Methods. CHIEF OF STAFF POPULAR Taft May Veto Whole Measure If Objectionable Provision Prevails. Wyoming Army Post Enters Into Calculations. ORKGNIAN NEWS BCREAC. Wssh tngtnn. May J. President Taft returna to Washington to find another nasty fight on his hands; an outgrowth, really, of the Alnsworth-Wood row In the War Department. A week ago tha confer ence committee on tha Army appropria tion bill, contrary to the rules of leg islation. Inserted the near provision In thst bill which Is designed to legislate General Leonard Wood out of the office of chief of start, and to prevent his re appointment to that poaltion at any time In the future. Thla provision was Inspired by Gen eral Alnsworth. who Is now on the re tired list, but is anything but retired In his habits. It waa proposed to the conference committee by Representa tive Hay. chairman of the House mili tary committee, and was accepted by House and Senate members of the con ference without a protest, save that of Representative Prince, ot Illinois. Pravlal.a Irreatjlarly Adopted. Tha limitation upon General Wood was not In the Army bill aa It passed he Senate or House, and, therefore, the provision waa out of order In tha con ference committee, but In spite ct tbls fact. It was- adopted and now the fight a on In earnest, much to the embarrass ment of the President. Tha text of the amendment which haa given rise to so much trouble, reada aa f ol Iowa: "That hereafter, except In time of war or when war is Imminent, no officer who shall have served four years as Chief of Starr shall be eligible for further service as Chief of Staff until after he shall have served for at least ten year a with troops In the line of the Army: and after March B. 1915, no offi cer shall be detailed or permitted to (I'onciuded on Fase S. a-,easea.seeasseeeee.ees.eeaaeaaasnaaae.eseaseeaeaeeae...a............-,.,-.a. GET BUSY! HEZE COME THE ROSE FESTIVAL AND THE ELKS. i Rfg'l lir 1111' J I --a-awa-asj-afBB-a-BS-e ' ---C? OST THAT 6 '30 ..-LAWfVAOIASZ X X " JOHN, VOU SAID YoJo yes. Clfl--KOM, GV&fVTf TO i OBT UP fTCY I'Vf ObNXV " AHf l.rr ST Of 4W0 I S YHOSe fZOSB I A.sf30s 74LK HS SiP BOSHS " Miss Clara Norris, Forbidden to Wed, LI.ten to Capld and De fies Law and Flees. LA GRANDE. Or.. May 18. (Special.) Garbed In the attire of a male moun taineer. Miss Clara Norris. of Elgin, la hiding In the fastnesses of the Blue Mountains, probably. In the region of Tollgate, with her sweetheart, and un less a poase of men. aent out today, have found the youthful couple at a late bour tonight, cupld and the law are still participating In a thrllllng hide-and-seek game. The girl Is 17. and ber sweetheart, whose name is T. H. Hopson. Is 22. The chase through the mountainous district above Elgin commenced In dead earnest when Hopson. driven to It probably through sheer starvation, emerged from his seclusion and pur chased supplies from the Palmer lum ber logging camp up Looking Glass. 20 miles from Elgin. This Information was conveyed to the authorities here and the Sheriff's office Immediately cent out two deputies from Elgin to follow the clew. The couple wanted to marry lata last week, but parental objection frustrated this and the elopement followed. All that tbe authorities have to guide them the fact that Hopson waa within striking distance of the Palmer camps not over 24 hours since. FLOOD REFUGEES HUNGRY Whites and Blacks Clamor for Food In Jena District. NEW ORLEANS. May 28. While there has been general Improvement in flood conditions for a week or more. In some sections suffering among refu gees has been marked. In the Jena dis trict whites and blacks are clamoring for food and Governor Hall, who last week succeeded Governor Sanders aa state executive. Is making a determined effort to give them relief.' As a result of damage to railroads, supplies can not reach J he Jena district before to morrow. A 2-year-old boy was drowned in the Atchafalaya River at Woodside, La., yesterday. Cyclists for Olympiad Chosen. NEWARK, N. J- May I --The final selection of 10 bicycle riders who will represent the I'nited States In tha Olympic games at Stockholm Is aa fol lows: Carl Shuttle, Kansas City; W. C. Martin. St. Louts; Alvin Loftus, Providence; John Beck. New York; Jerome Steiner, New Tork; Joseph Kapsky, Boston; Frank Melssner, Grand Rapids; Jesse Park, New Tork; George F. Naugauer. Cleveland, and Walter Pohfel, Newark. Met ice r Asks Postoffioe. WASHINGTON. May 2S. The people of Metxger. Or., six miles south of Port land, have filed with the Fourth As sistant Postmaster-General a petition for the establishment of a postofflce. Disclosure, Promised in Oil Land Case. SECRET LETTERS RELIED ON Southern Pacifh Aqent Said to ii r I or nave aavea u iib aTv . GRANT WORTH MILLIONS Statement Issued in Washington De clares Correspondence With Late W. D. Cornish Will Show Company's Intent. WASHINGTON. May 2S. Attorney General Wlckersham In a statement to day declared the Government's suit against the Southern Pacific Company for the recovery of valuable oil land in Southern California "has developed sensational and startling disclosures." Testimony by witnesses subpenaed by the Government, he says, "presents a remarkable picture of crlmlnf.1 con spiracy among high officials of the Southern Pacific Company to acquire from the United States, under an agri cultural grant, oil lands valued at ,15,000.000." ( oafere.ee Precedes Stateme.t. The statement waa issued xaf ter a conference between the Attorney-General and Willis N. Mills, his special assistant in charge of the case, con cerning recent developments In the suit. The proceedings were Instituted by direction of Mr. Wlckersham in December, 1910. to set aside patents and revert to the Government title to 6000 acres of valuable oil lands In the Elk Hill country of the McKlttrick oil district. Kern County, California. , ladeasalty Laada I.volved. The lands are within the Indemnity lists of the grant of July 27. 1866. to the Southern Pacific . Railroad Com pany in aid of the construction of the road. The original granting act. the Attorney-General's statement says, ex cluded all mineral lands, the inten tion of Congress being to grant agri cultural lands, reserving the mineral lands to the United States for all time. The Government lawyers are confl dent, the statement avers, that the dis closures made by the testimony of Charles W. Eberlein "will result In the restoration to the public domain (Concluded on Page 2.) Newspaper Says Emperor Who Is Concerning Self With Family Is Not Thinking of . War. PARIS, May 2. (Special.) DIs patches from Berlin annonnce that the Kaiser chosoes his , wife's hats and Temps, the leading conservative news paper, sees therein a favorable sign for the peace of Europe. .'This Interesting feature of the Kai ser's private life," it comments, "Is perhaps of historical and political sig nificance following the sensational de bates in the Reichstag., where the So cialists somewhat mauled tha sover ""V thoueh unahlA to nnnt th vot. . "Ol'js ' enormous credits for the aug- m.M-Ation of. armaments. "An Emperor who'goes to the mllll ners with a-- view to presiding person ally over the selection of several hats for the Empress and Princesses is evi dently neither greatly troubled by par liamentaaj- tumults nor likely soon to disturb the peace of Europe. "The monarch who amuses himself so politely In the bosom of his family seems to promise the people tranquil' ity and likewise- gives an excelent ex ample." SCHOOL BOOKS RAISE CRY Washington Farmer-Teacher Objects to "Libel on Soil." (SPOKANE. Wash.. May 28. (Spe cial.) Text books adopted by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for use In Washington schools nsxt year libel the soil and climate possi bilities of this state and teach the pu pils to regard this as a bleak and bare country, according to W. G. Clark, a school teacher of Milan, and delegate to the State Farmers' Union conven tion, who wants the book expurgated. The text book criticised is Hilgard and Osterhout's "Agriculture for the Pacific Coast." The following quota tion is that to which exception was taken: "As the weather in Autumn gets cold enough for snow before Summer drought ends, grain in the Pacific Northwest, east of the Cascades, Is not sown In Autumn, but In early Spring. This severely cold weather of Winter (the blizzards) requires selection of es pecially frost-resistant fruit or forest trees for northern portion of Washing ton, Idaho and Montana." WOMEN WILL RUN PARKS Few Men Take Supervisor's Exami nation This Tear. Women will this year shine as never before in the management of the city's playgrounds and all because Mayor Rushlight has said they shall receive appointment ' over the men. The fact is, not enough men had sufficient In terest to take the examinations for supervisors and the women "beat them to it" Superintendent of Parks Mische felt that, while there are Just 18 on the eligible list and just 18 positions to be had, the Park Board should go out side the list for some more men. He waa doubtful as- to the efficiency of women for certain supervisory work, but the Mayor settled It and the wo men will supervise both men and wo men. COUPLE LONG PARTED WED Mr. and Mrs. William Higgins, Di vorced 80 Years Ago, Remarry, VANCOUVER, Wash., May 28. (Spe cial.) Thirty years ago, in a little hamlet in Iowa. William Higgins mar ried Miss Emma Fowler. Two years later a daughter was born, but the couple disagreed and the mother took the child, while the father came to Eugene, Or. Divorce was secured and neither one married again. Two years ago Mrs. Higgins and the daughter came West and settled near Eugene, "where Mr. Higgins one day learned they were living. He visited bis former wife and they settled their differences. The couple came to Van couver today, - secured a license and were married by Rev. J. M. Canse, of the First Methodist Church. They re turned to Eugene to live. $5000 BET TO OPPOSE T. R. Politicians May Wager Colonel Will Not Be-Nominated. r SEATTLE. Wash... May 28. (Special.) Politiciana here say a $5000 pool is being made up to wager that Theodore Roosevelt will not be nominated by the regular Republican. National Con vention, and that if nominated at all, he will not be elected President. This money. If Is said, will be ready ror wagering either here or in the East within a day or two. In all probability it would be impos sible to place an amount so large with the betting crowd In Seattle, for the percentage of "wise" money that figures on either a split or some anti-Roosevelt or compromise candidate winning is Increasing. . e " Arbeit Returns Four Siftonites. EDMONTON. Alberta, May 28. Elec tions In five districts in Alberta have given majorities to members of Parlia ment who are supporters of Premier Sffton: Four of the victorious candi dates are members of the Slfton Cabi net, including Charles Cross, Attorney-General. Northwest New Wealth Near $500,000,000. PRICES GOOD; ACREAGE YAST In Three States Staples Alone Worth $150,000,000. INDUSTRIES ARE PROLIFIC Combined Income From AH Lines of Agricultural Endeavor Including Forest and Factory Placed at Greatest Ever. CHOP VALUE FORECAST FOR PA CIFIC NORTHWEST. Wheat Oats Barley Hay Fruit Wool ........ Hops ........ Total value .... .-.-.son, 010 .... is.S75.noo 9.900,01)0. .... 35.390.000 .... 1S.0OO.00O f.eno.ooo .... 4.660.000 ......142.715,000 It the Pacific Northwest does not this year have the most prosperous times it has ever known, It will ba because of some circumstance that can. not now be foreseen. If huge and high prices mean any thing to a community, the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho should this year roll In wealth. Nature has been prodigal with all her gifts in every section of the North Pacific Coast. The crops came through the Winter as well as ever before, the Spring weather has been ideal for vegetation, and the area planted to the various crops Is, with a few excep tions, the largest on record. Good Prices, Too, Assured. On top of this is the assurrance that the farmers will receive good prices for most of their products and very high prices for some of them. The value to the producers of a few of the staple crops can be estimated at this time, and it reaches, in the three states, the immense amount of nearly $150,000,000. No account is taken In this calculation of many of the indus tries, the livestock, dairying, lumber, small fruit and kindred lines, which, in the aggregate, would produce total probably as great as that here enumerated. Wheat Crop Placed at 52,0OO,00O. The wheat crop of the Pacific North- west will bring to the growers more than $52,000,000, basing the average price on the farms at 75 cents a bushel, as the crop will probably amount to 70.000,000 bushels. The oats yield Jn Oregon, Washing ton and Idaho is estimated at 41,500,- . 000 bushels, which will mean more than $18,600,000 to the growers. Barley may not sell as high as last year, for the Eastern crop In 1911 was almost a failure, but placing the yield at 16,500,000 bushels, it will be worth nearly $10,000,000. Hay Crop Worth 33,0O0,0O0. Hay, which Is one of the great staple crops, will produce an income of over $36,000,000 in the Northwest. Estimating the orchard fruit crop of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and the Bitter Boot Valley in Montana at 16, 500 cars, the total value will probably be close to $15,000,000. The small fruit and the cured fruit crops will also bring great sums at) the farmers. The wool season is proving a most prosperous one, the clip being the greatest ever known in the Northwest, and the prevailing price better than for several years. Sheep owners are now getting 10 per cent more for their wool than at this time last year. The total wool clip of Oregon, Wash, ington and Idaho amounts to about 44,000.000 pounds and is valued at $6, 600,000. Hops Yield Large. The hop crop of Oregon and Wash ington Is larger than for several years, and, what Is unusual with a large crop, the price Is good. Buyers are making contracts with growers for delivery of tbe new crop at 25 cents a pound, and on this basis tne output oi tne two states will be worth about $4,650,000 The other resources of the Northwest, those of the farm, range, forest and rivers, will bring in as much money as the staple crops. When to these are added the valua tion of the manufactured products, it will be found that a total income of close to '. -.If a billion dollars will oe the portion of the great Northwest thit year. BAUWARAERTS IS GUILTY Belgian Convicted of Murdering Mrs. Guyot, of The Dalles. RIVERSIDE, Cal., May 28. Frank Bauwaraerts, a Belgian, lavas found guilty today of having murdered Mrs. Harriet Guyot, of The Dalles, Or., whose body was found buried in the desert near a mining camp some months ago. Bauwaraerts was charged also with the murder of Miss Julia Francois at the same time, but was not tried on this count. The two women had been financ ing some mining operations in which the prisoner waa engaged. J a. .a. ..a. .as. a. a. ..a. ease. a. t.aa....a.. .a. 6