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o eawSSSW - IS f.K IP T 1 VOL. Ml- NO. 10,078. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TRIPLETS' FATHER TAFT SEIITILIEIIT GOfilPERS INVOLVED TAFT GIVES IDAHO GIFT IN $3,000,000 GIRL LEFT BEHIND EXPECTS PENSION STAYSTRUET0V0W iii mm trial IS OF DEADLY RIOTING BLACKSMITH APPEALS TO SEC PRESIDENT ALLOWS STATE'S ENGLISH LASS WAITS FOCTt YEARS TO SEAL TROTH. RETARY OP STATE. BIRTHRIGHT CLAIM. CLARK'S MANAGER BELGIUM IN THROES GROWS STRONGER SNUBBED Leaders in Chicago Ex press Confidence. COMMITTEE FACES TANGLE Calling of Roll Will Precipitate First Contest. BARNES MAY HOLD PROXIES Rosewater Lively to Be Chairman of Committee While Contests Are Being Considered hltu '. at Ion Complicated. . . CHICAGO. June 4. (Special.) There was a noticeable strengthening of Taft sentiment In Chicago today, due largely to ths fact that several prominent Re publlcane Identified with tha Preel dent's umptlm for renomlnation ar rived In tba court of the day, and each expressed confidence that Taft would be the winner at tha convention. General Charles Pick, of Ohio, who la looking after tha con testa for tha Trepidant, aald ho expected that all of the Taft delegates whoa seats arc be ing conteated would win pluces In the convention, declaring that their claims were Just, and that the National com mittee would hava nothing elae to do than to aat them. John Evsrsman. right-hand man to Director MrKlnley. cams In from Waeb Ington and aald there was no doubt tha President would bo renominated. Ha aald It bad been a rule of The bureau to make no claim It could not substan tiate, and that every vote It bad put In the Taft column would bo found there when the rollcall on the nomina tion was completed. Rose water Not Alarajud. Victor Rosewater, of Omaha, vlca chairman of the National committee, who Is acting chairman. showed no alarm over the contention wf Rv Howell, of Omaha, that Howell la of right the National committeeman from Nebraska under the law of that stats, and that he should bo recognised la place of Mr. Roaewatar when the com mittee meets on Thursday to begin con sideration of the contests. ' Chairman New, of the committee on arrangements, said that when tha Na tional Committee met Ita flrst duty probably would bo to elect a chairman to serve during the two weeks which the present committee will be la exist ence. Ho gavo It as his opinion that Mr. Rosewater would bo elected and would preside over the deliberations of the committee and call the National convention to order. CeaaeaHtee'a Work Cat Oat. The committee faoeo a tangle auch aa perhaps has never confronted a Na tional CommKtea of the party on the eve of a convention. The right of newly chosen committee men to seats: the queetton of open hearings of the more than 190 dele gates' contests; tha prospect of a tight to the finish on the selection of Senator lioot for temporary ehalrmaa; and the 1 belief that Colonel Rooeevelt and his assoclatee will carry Into the conven tion their right for the seats of their contesting delegates are soma of tha problems engroealng the attention of Chairman New and the other members of the snb-eomraltteo on arrangements. It Is the belief of National commit teemen now in tha city tRat tha right of R. B. Howell, of Nebraska, to the aeat now held by Vlotor Rosewater, will be settled when the committee meets Thursday morning. Tha calling of the roll will bring Mr. Roaewater's aeat Into controversy. It la aald. Baraiee Way Hold Pray. Roosevelt forces ara expecting the arrival of National Committeeman Ward, of New Tork. who la looked on aa the prospective leader of Rooaevalt activities In ths National committee. Reports that William Barnea, Jr, Taft leader In New Tork. might hold a proxy in the rommlttes. complicated the alt nation today. Tha National committee will meet at 10:10 o'clock Thursday morning. Its first regular business will bo to name a chairman. Acting Chairman Rosa water probably will bo named to suc ceed the lata John F. Hill, of Main. Consideration of new rules and other preliminary bualneaa will occupy Thursdsr'a session and eonteet cases probably will not bo taken up until Fri day. Hew t'eateta Added. Two new contests and two cases where tho number of delegates ex ceeds the allotment, were added today to the cases prepared for submission to ths Natlora committee. In the fourth Virginia and tho third North Carolina districts contest cases have been prepared and In the thirteenth and sixteenth Miaaourl dlctricts, double the number of alloted delegates were chosen. The conteated delegatea now recorded by tho committee Included cases where extra delegates were chosn. now num ber 131. Additions may bs made to thla number. Secretary Hayward received telegrama from the two factions In Arlsona. announcing the proposed filing of contest briefs. The Artinna cases will not bo taken up In regular order, but will bo held up until tho briefs are on hand. California Official and Lawyers Dig Through Statute hut Find Jfo Provision Made. SACRAMENTO. Cal., Juno 4. (8ns ciaL) With three baby girl triplets, born last January, cheering his home, a Calaveras County blacksmith la seek ing tho blessing of tho State of Cali fornia In tho way of collecting that mythical Income which la believed to be paid to famlllea whera triplets are born. This blacksmith haa written to 8eo retary of State Jordan aaklng for In formation concerning tho "triplet pan elon." Hero Is his letter: "I have been Informed that ths State of California allows a monthly Income to the family that Is blessed with trip lets. Wo have three little girls, born on the 17th of last January. They are all alive and doing nicely. Now,- am a poor blacksmith and If there Is any thing coming to me I would be pleased to know it." Jordan had hla office forco digging Into the law booka and even called in several lawyers to aacertain whether or not snch a statuts lies hidden away In the books, but no "triplet law" was found. HAIR AND BEARD STOLEN Vandal Takes Half. Leaves Half, as Victim Sleeps In ParkJ RAN FRANCISCO. Juno 4. (Special.) When Andrew Reese, a landscape gsrdener. strode Into Golden Gate Park last night and sat down for an hour's nap ho boasted a head of hair that would have aerved as a testimonial to any hair tonic and a beard that fell to hla breast. The same man sat in ths dock In the court of Poltca Judge Bhortall this morning, but his appear ance was much changed. Tho hair on one side of his head had been clipped to tha scalp and half of hla board was missing. Reese was charged with vagrancy, He had been arrested In Golden Gate Park after trying for an hour to de termine why people stopped to gase at him and passed on with laughter. When he awoke on the park bench after his slumber he failed to detect ths work of a mysterious culprit and ho sat still with tho content of one who haa all that hs could desire until several men and women passed, glanced at him and laughed uproariously. It was not until he leeuld tho park polioa atatlon In tha company of an officer and looked la a mirror that he learned why hs had been the object of so much levity. Judge Shortall gavo tho unfortunate gardener his liberty. SOCIAL HYGIENISTS MEET Qnack Specialists Hit In Conference at Tacoma. TACOMA. Wash, June 4. (Special.) Preliminary to tho organization of a local society, ths Northwest conference of the Social Hygienic societies of Portland. Spokane and Seattle met In Tacoma yesterday. Rabbi J. B. Wise, of Portland, made tha Introductory ad dreaa, telling of the work In Portland. The sessions were devoted to ad dresses. dr. Calvin 8. White. State Health Commissioner of Oregon, la two brief addresses during ths afternoon con demned quack patent medicine special ists as a menace to publio welfare. He said that Portland and throughout Ore gon the quack had been practically eliminated. Dr. White and Dr. Andrew C. Smith, of Portland, commended tho work of the medical profession looking to ths suppression of social svils. AMATEUR FLYER TUMBLES Fred Mejn's Machine Is Broken bat He Is Uninjured. VANCOUVER BARRACK 3. Wash, Juno 4. (Special.) When attempting to soar on ths wings of a machine which he had built. Fred Meyn. an amateur aviator, fell SO feet to the ground today, but escsped uninjured. The machine was wrecked. Meyn was practicing on ths artillery drHl grounds and after making a flight tho full length of the field was not high eoough to go above a telephone wire, so ducked under. He tailed to rise on the other aide. SEATTLE FOUNDER IS DEAD MIm Livonia O. Boren Passe Away at Age of 4)1 Years. SEATTLE. Wash, June 4 Miss Livonia Gertrude Boren. one of the party of 14 persons who founded Se attle November IS. 1141. died at her home In thla city last night, aged tl. She was 11 months old when the schooner load of people from Portland landed at Alkl Point. Her father. Car. son D. Boren, who built the first houee In Seattle, la atlll alive. Nine of the 14 founders survive and will hold a reunion at the Stats Pioneer meeting to be held here this month. ARMY MEN TABOO PAINT Fourteen Members of 34th (Company Coast Artillery Walk Out. FORT STEVENS. Or, June 4. (Spe cial.) Fourteen men of the 14th com pany. Coast Artillery, commanded by Captain Bowen. deliberately quit work on a painting Job to which they had been assigned today. It Is not known what action the military authorltlea will take, though ths offense is a most serious ona from a military standpoint Bribe Money Said to Come From Him. FRANKLIN QUOTES DEFENDANT State Says Secret Fund Wi Be Traced to Federation. BANK CASHIER ON STAND Fredericks Rays No Effort Will Be Made to Show Complicity by Labor Loader In Alleged Corruption of Jurors. LOS ANGELES. June 4. That the money alleged to have "been uaed by Bert Franklin to bribe jurors In ths Mc.Vamara trial would be traced to ths defense fund of the American Federa tion of Labor was the assertion made today by the prosecution in the 'case of Clarence S. Darrow. the Chicago attorney on trial accused of having bribed George N. Lookwood. The pros ecution placed on tho stand li. It. Flat, her. cashier of a National bank of Washington, T. C. Mr. Flather was called to the stand after the cross-examination of Bert II. Franklin, which had assumed sensa tional aspect, had been temporarily discontinued until morning at the re quest of the defenae. Cosapera TVaaae Used. The name of Samuel Gompers, presi dent of the American Federation of Labor, was brought Into the record several tlmee. Franklin testifying on one occasion that Darrow had told him the money for tho alleged bribery of George N. Lock wood came direct from Mr. Gompera. District Attorney Frodeiicka said that no effort would bo made to show any complicity by Mr. Gompers In the alleged bribery, but that tho state pur. posed to prove that the 14000 had been drawn from the; McX'a-mara defease fund of the American Federation of Labor and sent to Mr, Darrow. He made the same statement In reference to Job Harrlman that no effort would bo made to Implicate him. , Special Famd Told ef. Mr. Flather said he did not know Mr. Gompers personally. He said ha knew Frank Morrison, secretary of Me American Federation of Labor, welL Mr. Morrisca had about five accounts at bla bank, testified the witness, ona of which was known aa the Frank (Cenrluded on Pss S.) T. R. Order Signed Donating 100,000 Acres of Finest White Pine Land in World to Commonwealth. BOISE. Idaho. June 4. Special.) When President Taft algned an order today at Washington allowing Idaho's claim to its birthright. 100.000 acres of the finest white pine land in the world, located within the St. Joe Na tional foreat reserve, he preaented thla state with approximately $1,000,000. District Forester Totter telegraphed Governor Hawley and State Land Com missioner Day today that the President had signed the order. The land is located adjacent to the famous Marble Creek district. It was Included with ths St. Joe reserve in school indemnity sections 14 and 14 by President Rooeebelt after Idaho made application for eurvey. The Attorney General of the United Statea and the Commissioner of the General Land Office ruled that the proclamation nul lified Idabo'a claim to the land. Idaho Insisted on Its right, carried It to President Taft and by hla order the former President's proclamation Is so amended aa to give the atata title.. FAMILY RETAINS WEALTH Two-MJ1 Hon -Dollar MrCormtck Es tate Goes to Widow and Sons. ASHLAND. Wis., June 4 Officials of Ashland and Bayfield counties have received notice of the order of the court regarding the distribution of the eatate of Robert L. McCormlck. lum berman, who died a short time ago in Tacoma, Wash. Before going to Ta coma. McCormlck waa the bead of tha Northwestern Wisconsin Lumber Com pany's operations at Hayward. The estate la valued at 1 3.0.0.6 J. The family residence and all peraonal effect a become the property of the widow, Anna E. McCormlck. One-half of the remainder of the estate, which includes stock In the Weyerbaeuaer Timber Company, several banks snd other enterprises, also goea to Mrs. McCormlck. and the remaining half la equally divided between the two Bona, William L. and Robert A. McCormlck. ASHLAND CARNIVAL OPENS Third Annual Rose and Strawberry , Fest Begin Today. ASHLAND, Or.. Juna 4. (Special.) The third annual - Rose -aad Straw berry Carnival will be held today and tomorrow, for which ovent greater preparations than ever have been made. Tho programme Includes a parade In whloh will appear a number of spec tacular floats, a baaeball game be tween the Fats and Leans, together with a play by local talent, entitled "A Bachelor's Honeymoon." These features are among the at tractions of the first day. the aecond day being devoted to race and ath letics snd a baby show. Tho carnival ends with a grand ball In the evening The Women's Civic Improvement Club atanda sponsor for thla amusement enterprise. I GUESS I'M THE MAN TOE THE Fred T. Dubois Is Not Sent to Baltimore. IDAHO DEMOCRATS IN CLASH Delegates Instructed for Speaker Without His Leader. EACH TO HAVE HALF A VOTE State Convention at Coenr D'Alene Outwits Leader In Every Move to Control Body to Balti more Meeting. COEUR D" ALEVE. Idaho. June 4 The Idaho state Democratic convention selected today It delegates to the Bal timore convention, each with half a vote. Instructed for Champ Clark, but Fred T. Dubois, manager of the Clark National rompalgn,- was not among them. The Dubois forces maneuvered for every point, but were defeated at every turn by the determined antt-Dubols ma jority. The presentation of Dubois' name with 22 others for places on the delegation, let loose a flood of In dorsement and of condemnation. In an instant chargea and recrimina tions were flying between the rival factions and tha convention broke Into shouts and cheers. . Joe's Perky Slarta Fight. Judge K. I. Perky, a Dubois leader. clearly outlined the fight aa "Mormon" nd "anti-Mormon." when he proposed as a compromise measure that Dubois and B. P. Millar, i. L, Evana and George H. Flaher. the candldatea of the so called "Mormon' counties of Oneida and Bannock, be selected delegatea at large by acclamation. This proposal waa voted down, it being charged that the selection of Dubois was as a red flag to a bull to the Democrats of Southeastern Idaho " and that It was useless to expect to elect a Democratic ticket In the atate If Dubola again waa to become a dominant figure la Idaho politics. A proposal to name Dubola a dele gate at large without reference to other candidates, wss ' decisively defeated, and when the SI candldatea were bal loted on as a whole. Dubois lacked over 10 votes of the necessary major It. Jerosao J. Day Withdraws. The fight was continued In the e- (Concluded en re x.) Jok HaPPy Marriage at Vancouver, Wash., Reveale Romance Which Spanned Sea and Land. VANCOUVER. Wash.. June 4 (Spe cial.) After having been separated from her aweetheart for four years, being In England. Miss Catherine Wig gins came to Vancouver to meet Mm, and the romance resulted In her mar rlage here tonight to Harry Hall. Four years sgo Hall, an expert far tier, earns to the United States, final ly settling here In tbe employ ef John H. Marsh. He kept up a frequent cor respondence with the girl he had left behind. When financially able to ask her to come, he did so, and she ar rived a few days ago after a two- weeks' voyage. "Harry has changed a lot since I said goodbye to htm In England four years ago. and It waa like meeting a stran ger, don't you know, when I saw him at the train." said Miss Wiggins. But they have become acquainted again, and decided that married life la the beat, and the ceremony was performed tonight. OREGON ELECTRIC BLOCKED Welch Line at Albany rots Car on Crooking and Gels Injunction. ALBA NT. Or.. June 4 (Special.) Placing a streetcar acroea the Intersec tion of Ita line with the Oregon Electrd until it could secure sn injunction the Portland. Eugene eV Eastern stopped track-laying on the Oregon Electrlo In thla city tonight. The Oregon Electrlo track Is laid on Fifth atreet to Lyon street, where It crosses the city lira of ths Portland, Eugene A Eastern. A crew planned to cut through the Portland, Eugene Eaatera track and fix the crossing dur ing the night, so aa not to atop traffic. At 4:10 o'clock tonight the car atopped aquare over the tnteracctlon and still stands there. An hour later a tempor ary Injunction waa aecured to prevent the Oregon Electric from cutting through the crossing. County Judge Duncan In Issuing ths Injunction refused to make It for a longer period than one day. Thla will expire tomorrow night unlesa renewed tomorrow. Track-laying on ths Oregon Electric through Albany and southward la stopped until litigation Is dis posed of. A big crowd Is gathered at the scene and threata of citizens to tip over or run off the Impeding car were heard, DEATH GRAZED, GIRL SAVED AutolAt Rnna Car Over Bank and Is Injured to Avoid Tot in Road. SEATTLE. Wash., June 4. (Special.) In saving the life of an unidentified girl last night, Roy D. Rogers, senior member of tha firm of Rogers at Jack' son, architects, drove his automobils down a steep embankment two miles north of Richmond Beach and sustained a fracture of tbe upper Jaw bone when the car turned turtle. The little girl gated upon the accident and then with a scream ran away. Rogers' self-sacrifice rsme when bli automobile reached a sharp bend In the road. He was driving 13 miles an hour when the little girl auddenly popped Into view, Rogers walked back to Richmond Beach and notified his father.'Dr. Cory don E. Rogers, who attended to his In juries. "It mu simply a rasa of running down tha little 'girl or Jumping over the embankment." said Rogers today. MAN SWALLOWS WHISTLE Newport Resident Will Have Throat Cut and Instrument Removed. NEWPORT. Or.. Juns 4. (Special.) Gene Brady,, the Newport druggist, was astonished recently when Loren M. Byerly, City Treasurer, walked Into hla store and asked to have hla throat cut. Byerly swallowed a wooden whistle when hs was a child, and the whistle lodged In his throat and haa remained there ever since. Byerly wants the musical instrument removed, aa It bothers blm sometimes when be tries to sleep. CRATER LAKE HAS HOPE Provision for Park Eipected In Sun dry Civil Bill. OREOONIAN NEWS BL'REATT. Wash ington. Jane 4 Representative Haw ley will sttempt to amend the sundry civil bill to provide 140.000 for Crater Lake when the proper paragraph Is reached In discussion of the measure thla week. It la proposed from tho friendly at titude of the committee that at least some provision will be made In the bill for this park and strong effort will be made to get consideration on the floor of the House. Falling la this. It Is hoped to secure amendment In the Senate. SEATTLE FUGITIVE CAUGHT Man Indicted In 1 1 1 for White Slavery In Tolls In California. SACRAMENTO. CaL. June 4. Ray Elliott. Indicted by tbe grand Jury In Seattle in 111 for white alavery, waa arrested In thla city thla afternoon on description sent out by the Federal authorities. He had been a fugitive for the laat two years. The prisoner will be taken to San Franclaco tomorrow for ar raignment in tha Federal Court. Soldiers Fire on Mobs; Scores Fall. CHILDREN ARE AMONG KILLED Post Election Troubles Take on Revolutionary Likeness. CHURCH WINDOWS BROKEN Order to Shoot at Will Given to Troops at Liege and Vcrvlers. Convents Wrecked and Streets. . Piled High With Debris. BRfRSEl.S, Belgium, June 4 Th post election riots In Belgium liave taken on a revolutionary character. Following last night's troubles at Lteg and other places, the Socialist central committee declared today that It would proclaim a general strike tomorrow. A mob at Vervlers today aase'lrri gendarmes, with missiles. The latter charged repeatedly and when the rial era refused to disperse, opened rlre. Thirty . of the mob fell killed or wounded. Several gendarmes were In jured, Many arrests were made. .Moke A Hark tea Tea Is. A acore of persona were wounded at Ghent In a fight with gendarmes. Mra attacked several convents, breaking the windows of ths buildings. The rlutcr also smashed all the windows In the stores on several streets. At Antwerp one battalion of scouts and a section of artillery or the civil guard Joined the manlfestants. They rebelled against tha police authorities and vented their (eellnga In demolish ing windows. The clerical press de mands the dismissal of these troops. Several persons were killed snd a scors wounded in the exchange of voi le)! between mounted gendarmes and rioters ft Liege. Msar Killed at Vervlers. In addition to the trouble at Liege and Vervlera, where gendarmes tired upon a crowd, killing or wounding mors than ' 44 peraona, among whom were two children, there wss less se rious rioting si Bruges, Tournal. Ghent, Louvaln, Antwerp and In thla city.. Several Jesuit colleges and Catholla institutions were attacked and tbe windows smashed. Tho gendarmes charged the rioters with drawn swords. The fatal encounter occurred near the Socialist headquarters known aa "Populalre." Firing revolvera In the air the proteatanta advanced through tbe streets, sacking stores and cafes aa they went. After they had arrived t headquartera, several ahota were fired from within upon the mounteo gendarmes. Order to Fire at Will Olvra. The commandant, thinking tht soldiers were about to be over whelmed, gave tho order to flr at will, and several persons fell In the hall of bullets thst followed, some being Instsntly killed. At Liege, enor mous damage waa dons by the rioters laat night. Today the streets were piled high with broken tables, chairs. beama, planks aad stones, the arms uaed by the mob la attacks upon the police. The tramways were wrecked. In tht Place St. Lambert, the rioters over turned the street cars snd used them ss barrlcadea, from behind which they huried missiles at the police, injuring several. Aaaeaatloa to Kraare Wasted. The favorite cries of the rioters ar those demanding the administrative separation of tha Flemish and Wal loon Provinces. Horns of the news papcra report a growing sentiment among the working classes In tha Wal loon districts of the Southeast la favor of annexation to France. Flft thouaand additional reservlsta will be called out, it waa said today. Tha agitation is spreading throughout the country. Two thousand miners at Mons stru.-k today in protest sgainat the mainten ance of the present Government. GRAYS HARBOR IS ACTIVE Mills Work and Trade and Trawl Increase, Say Railroad Man. . Harry P. Potter, district freight and pasaenger agent for tha O.-W. 1U & N. Co. at Aberdeen, haa been In the city on business for several days, and re. ports that tha lumber mills in that sec tion are working with tncroaaed forces snd that their employes are well sstla. lied. The Orsys Itarhor country la boom ing this Summer," he declared, "and bualneaa la good. Trad and travel of Hoqulam, Aberdeen and other Grays Harbor towns with Portland constantly are growing. We'll aend a lot of people down to the Roae Festival next week and we'll have two special trains to ths Elks' convention." Topeka Player Fined 1100. CHICAGO, June 4. "Tip'' O Nell, president of tha Western League, an nounced today that he had fined Puy er King, of the Topeka Club. 110'. O'Nell said ths punishment was a re. suit of King's conduct toward an um pire in Sunday's game at Topeka.