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X L W . .. . .... . X. A . - VOL. LII- NO. 16,088. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. T. R. STILL SEEKS MODERN INVENTION GITY.SEETHES III VOLCANO'S TOLL IN PUTER ARRESTED; 26 ARE KILLED III COLONEL WARLIKE HALTS CUPID'S PLAN LIFE SEEMS SMALL PLACE FOR BORAH AND SPLIT IS NEAR Fl TELEGRAPH MESSEXGER AND REVENUE CUTTER SFCTJMjOCH OBSTACLES TO ' CHAIRMANSHIP NOT TOTAL- BAB. MOTORCYCLE PAPA'S AIDE. FINDS NO DEAD. " JUNE 17, 0 IDS QRGEHY CHARGED MISSOURI GY Grave Situation Now Confronts Party. CALM COUNSEL MAY PREVAIi Hot Fight From Start Is on Roosevelt Programme. SURPRISE TO BE EXPECTED Ex-President, Much Wrought up Over Texas and Washington Caaes, in Mood to Set fp Convention of His Own. CHICAGO. June Is. (Editorial Cor resnondence.) It Is tha seaaon of treason, strategems and spoils. Treas en to one candidate Is being freely In Tiled and mysteriously procured by the other, tbe strategems are the same old devious ways of the politicians and the spoils are the Southern delegates and the weak-kneed representatives of ether states. It has been a great day for Colonel Roosevelt. He may not get the noml nation, but be has got the practically nnanlmoua indorsement of the entire hotel lobbies and the street crowds. Thatvmay not be actual votes, but It helps to make sentiment and sent! ment la a big factor In any convention. Sentiment and sheer bravado enabled the Colonel to walk over the heads of the astonished delegatea Into complete control of the Saratoga convention In 111. . Ceieael Always Original, Memories of that spectacular achieve ment Inspired the loud C. Q. D. call to the Colonel at Oyster Bay for the pres. ent emergency. What has been done may be done again, though It ought to be remembered that Colonel Roosevelt never does the same thing twice in the same way. What surprise in political strategy the Colonel has In store can only be conjectured, but while the. exact meth od may be In doubt, the Roosevelt pur pone Is not at all uncertain. Colonel Roosevelt finds on arrival the cards pretty well atacked against him. The National committee has calmly taken from his precious list of dele gatea more than one state that he tlrmly believes belongs to him. Temporary Roll Is Tail's. Tha temporary call will unquestion ably show a majority, or at least plurality, for Taft and therefore for Root as temporary chairman. There will be rough-house from tbe start If the Colonel has his way, and he usually does. The so-called theft of various dele gates will be vigorously denounced at the outset, and the roll call will b called a fraudulent and spurious af fair. The Roosevelt minority of the National committee will. If it can, sub mit Its own accredited schedule of del egatea and the trouble will be fairly under way before Mr. Root has won his expected victory. This Is tbe Colonel's idea of his tac tics. But cooler counsel may prevail and he may be persuaded to let the tem porary organisation go by default and make the supreme test over the cm dentlala committee's report. . Every convention must have some kind of i temporary organization and the dele gates are likely to feel, even some of the Roosevelt men. that the way t test the eligibility of participants In the convention la to proceed In the cus toroary manner. If Colonel Roosevelt refuses to proceed without a great row, what then, heaven only knows. na af Mlad Belllgereat. The truth appeara to be that Colonel Roosevelt is In a moat wsrlike frame of mind over tha action of the National committee In the Texaa and Washing ton eases, and he has almost convinced himself that a National convention con trolled by a steam-roller is no National convention at alL This la almost say. ing that the Colonel would as lief bolt as not and set up a Republican Na tional convention of hla own. That is Just about the fact. The talk of a bolt has almost wholly subsided here, for one hears almost nothing about it, either in tbe newspapers or In current lobby gossip. But the truth 13. I firmly believe and I am not bas ing my opinion merely on my- own In terpretation of a grave situation that the Republican party has at no time been so near a wide-open split aa it Is tonight. Celrael's Way Will Be Bit On. It may be averted. I know that strong pressure to avert It Is being brought upon Colonel Roosevelt by aome of the men he trusts. Others In his confidence sre entirely reckless of the consequence to him or to the party of a rule or ruin policy, and they In sist that he shall neither compromise nor temporise. In the end the Colonel will take hla own advice and what that will be no man knows. That tha Colonel does not Intend to leave Chicago without Presidential Domination Is perfectly clear. If he cannot have the one, he knows be can have the other. One or the other he will surely take unless he Is indueed somehow to prepare at the last moment an act of supreme eelf-abnega- Concluded ea Fas 2.) I rale Parent. Finding Juvenile Daughter Had Started to Elope, Nips Move in Bnd. LOS ANGELES. Cal-, June 1. (Spe cial.) The march of progress proved too much for Cupid today when the telegraph, a mercury-footed messenger and a mtle-a-mlnute motorcycle cop collaborated to defeat a spectacular midnight elopement. The combination of modern inven. tions landed behind the bars Miss Dea sle Green, pretty but juvenile daughter of L a Green, wealthy rancher and hotel owner of Indlo. and her prospec tive husband. Oscar Cheatham, also re lated to land holders of means. The couple decided to elope and Miss Green packed her suitcase, hid It In the yard and at midnight jumped out of ber window Into the arms of Cheat ham. They ran to the railroad station and caught a train for this city. Papa Green, with the first streaks of day light, discovered the defection and got busy on the wire. A Western Union messenger broke all records getting hla telegram to th police station and three mlnutea be fore the Indio train was due, the de scriptlon was placed in the hands of Motorcycle Officer Kleracey. Kieracey got to the station Just as the pair wei alighting and placed them under ar rest, i SEATTLE MAN AT KODIAK Merchant on Alaskan Trip Unheard From Since Disaster. SEATTLE, Wash., June 1. (Spe cial.) Considerable anxiety is felt among friends and relatives as to the safety of John J. Agutter, who left Seattle May 7 on a hunting trip In the vicinity of Kodlak and the recent vol canlc disturbance and who haa not been heard from since May IS. Mr. Agutter until recently was member of the firm of Agutter & Gros wold. Mrs. Agutter, who lives at 1ST Ninth avenue, has been considerably per turbed since reading of the recent vol canlc eruptions. The last letter she received from her husband was dated May IS and was sent from ' Seldovla, saying he expected to be back In Seat tle by June 20, and that be would wire her aa soon as be- reached a point of communication. She feels that he ought to have reached some town by this time. MOTHERS' MEETING JULY 2 Speakers Announced for Sessions of Summer School at Eugene. UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, Eugene, Or, June IS. (Special.) A course of lectures by prominent authorities upon subjects Interesting to the mothers ana teachers of Oregon was announced to day by Professor Joseph Schafer, dean f the Summer School. lor congress 01 Mothers and Parent-Teachers Assocla tions, which is to be held at the uni versity July z and 3. The programme has been divided into seven sessions. all of which will be presided over by Mrs. F. L. Talt. of Portland, acting as president of the state organisation of Mothers' Clubs. Among others than those mentioned who will take part as speakers in tne Mothers' Congress are lira G. R. Ste venson, Dr. George Rebec, of the Uni versity of Michigan; Professor Joseph Schafer. Dr. James Taylor, of Eugene, and probably Professor Arthur Evan Wood, of Reed College; I H. Weir, H. Churchill ana A- u. hud. COLORADO LEVEE BREAKS Railroad Mars sailing Men to Com bat Ilmminent Danger. NEEDLES, Cal, June IS. That a break In the Colorado River levee had occurred at aome unknown point was the belief here tonight, aa the river suddenly began to fall early this morning and kept it up all day. River men said this fall waa due to a break at some place where communication had been cut off, but it waa believed to be at aome point, on the Arizona side. For several years past it haa been demonstrated that the greatest damage during high water occurred after the crest of the flood had been reached and the water had begun to recede, and to combat this situation the Santa Fe Railroad la marshaling hundreds of men and a great quality of material to protect Needles, the bridges here and thee bridges farther South. GRANTS PASS NEEDS LINE Tractors and Motors Csed to Haul Increasing Products of Valley. GRANTS PASS, Or, June 16. (Spe cial.) There la actual evidence that Rogue River Valley needs another rail road. The sawmills tributary to Grants Pass are compelled to buy traction en gines and trucks to haul their lumber JS and SO miles to the distributing point. This year the Takllma smelter did not blow In. but began hauling raw ore to Grants Pass and shipped It to an outside smelter. To do this work It requires 40 teams. The company has purchased three big automobile tracks that will carry fire tons each and make the round trip every If hours. By using the auto trucks the smelter will blow in and only the matte wUl be hauled. The Grants Pass Lime Company, owning a large aupply of raw material, has purchased a large traction engine nd a number of trucks that will haul 10 tons. Masters of Turmoil Dominate Chicago. TANGIBLE RESULTS -LACKING Roosevelt Loses None of Old- Time Magnetism. ROOT THERE WITH SPEECH Samuel G. BIytfae Summarizes Pro- Convention Situation Leaders Cling to Old Rule of Game, "Claim Everything." BT SAMUEL O. BLTTHE. (Copyright. lm by Samuel O. Bljrthe.) CHICAGO, June IS. (Special.) Inaa- much as there la a very large supply of extremely competent seethers and boil ers In the city, Sunday was largely de voted to see(hing and boiling. Sedulous seethers were constantly stepping on one's feet In the hotel lob bies and seething Into one's face; and buoyant boilers boiled up, boiled- out and boiled over, here, there and every where. It was the same upstairs In the rooms that shelter the professional seethers. They were not seething In view of the spectators, but they were doing a lot more of It. for. as Is well known, they have a lot more of it to do. The net results of the day's ebul lition waa plenty of bubbles and steam, but nothing more tangible. When the sergeants and corporals who are run ning this show, or are being run by It, which is closer to the fact, closed down for the night they were In exactly the aame class as they were in the morn ing when they had their eggs. Not one of them knew what Is going to happen, and not one of them did not claim to know exactly what Is in prospect. "Claim Everrtktmsr," Is Motto. Number one of the political aphor isms is; "Claim everything." The men who are In Chicago charge of various affairs for the various .candidates are ably aphorlstlcal. They claim every thing. , Then, following out the politi cal - precepts, they - concede . nothing. Thus the eager seeker after Informa tion learns that Taft Is sure to win. that Roosevelt Is sere to win, that Cur.imlns and La Follette are sure to win, and that there is nothing to It but Hughes, or Borah, or someone else. And casting a general average, the re sult obtained is that, while aomebody Is certain to win, nobody in Chicago knowa who that somebody will be. It was hot In the morning, but in the afternoon the breeze came skylarking In from the lake, and the wilted pre dictors, and solvers and compromisers, and the compromised and prophets and seers, and fanatics and fantastlcs chirked up amazingly and the Mass of misinformation that was handed about Concluded on Page 2.) WHAT Steamer Arrives in Seward Direct : From Kodiak Bringing Cheer ing Information.' SEWARD, Alaska, June IS. The rev enue cutter McCulloch arrived here to day direct from Kodlak with the cheer ing news that conditions in the district covered by ashes from Katmai vol cano are much Improved and that there is no confirmation of reports of heavy loss of life on tbe mainland. . All the Inhabitants of Katmai. a mainland village near the volcano, are safe, having been taken to Afognak. This' explains the failure of the tug Redonda to find any sign of life when she made her cruise off Katmai Bay Thursday. The only fatalities known to have resulted from the eruption were a woman and a baby, who were dangerously - ill and 'probably would have died In a short time anyway. The livestock on ' Kadlak Island, are being taken care of by tbe Govern ment men. although little food Is to be had in the district. - Vegetation Is said to be- growing under the ash, which has settled to depth of IS .Inches, and recent rains have, cleared the water so there Is no shortage on the Island now. The Teredo made a trip around Afognak Island and along the mainland. She reported that conditions were serious, but could find no evidence of fatali ties BRIDGE WORK STARTS NOW New Steel Crossway's Train Deck Gets Under Way This Week. Work is to be begun this week on the erection of the lower or train deck of the new Steel Bridge over the Wil lamette River. The steel has been re ceived and the falsework practically completed for the handling of the huge girders and supports which are to make up the base of the span. The lower deck is to De so arranged that it will fold up against the under side of the upper or street dock, mak ing It possible In that way tor ordi nary boats to pass through without the necessity or raising tbe upper deck and interfering with street traffic. It will be necessary at high water time for the lower deck to be kept raised most of the time because of the close ness of the bottom of the girders to the water. At present the water Is so high that an ordinary launch could not pass through If the bridge was lowered. The bridge contractbrs expect to have their work finished by July IS. Original plans were to have the for mal opening May IS, but delays in steel shipments .have . caused -the. time to be extended. INVESTIGATION IS MADE Wahkiacus' Grievances Are Being : Checked by Indian Bureau. WAHKIACUS, Wash., June S. (Spe cial.) Skookum Wahlahee, chief of the Wahkiacuses, a river tribe of Indians, says that with Charles Parker, the Indian interpreter, be has been busy fthe past week entertaining .J. W. Whit ney, special agent of the Indian Bu reau, sent out to Investigate Skook um's demands recently made in person to the President to conserve the huck leberry patches to the uses of the red man. Skookum's face flushed with anger when told a coterie of designing poli ticians at Chicago were trying to sup plant the "Big White Chief." WILL HAPPEN TO THE ELEPHANT? Land Operator Wanted in Minneapolis. $2430 INVOLVED IN CAS Check, Backed by Forged Draft, Cashed, Is Asserted. ALLEGATION IS - - DENIED Man Famous In Connection With Oregon Land Fraud Cases Says It's Case of Mistaken Identity or "Jobbery" by Enemies. Stephen A. D. Puter, known all over the United States for his connection with the famous Oregon land fraud cases, was arrested lost mgm in nu rooms in the Mllner building at Fifth and Morrison ' streets by Detectives Day and Hyde, on a charge of forgery. sworn to by Chief of Detectives James Howard, of Minneapolis. Puter is charged with having ob tained S2300 on a check, backed by forged draft, which he cashed through the aid of a collection agency. Puter denies all. and says that It Is either a case of mistaken Identity, or that he has been "Jobbed" by lum ber Interests opposed to him. - Attorney John F. Logan Is representing him. Howard Writes Day. The letter, which charges Puter with obtaining the money. Is written by Howard, and directed to Detective Day and reads: 'S. A. D. Puter,1" under the "name of A.' L Mertz. pulled off a trick here, getting $2300. He put In a note for collection through an agency, for J2430 The collecting agency, handling it. was given a cashier's draft from a Port Chester, N. Y, bank, where the giver of the note was supposed to live, on bank In New Tork City. They also got a letter giving full .details. The col lection agency then gay e-Mertz a check on one of tbe local banks and helped him to cash it by identifying him. They put in the Rochester draft for collec tlon and it soon came back to them marked as a forgery.'- Copy of the draft, received by tele graph last night, reads: "First Na tional Bank of Port Chester, New Tork. Pay to the order of A. L. Hertz, $2430. J. M. Wilcox, cashier. To the Fourth National Bank, New Tork." It Is endorsed, says the telegram, "A. L. Mertx." The collection agency on which the forged cashier's draft was passed is that of Flneld, Fletcher and Fifield, and the partners in it are J. C. Fifield and Henry J. Fletcher. , Information sent to Minneapolis by the police here resulted In a telegram to Detective Captain B&ty last night. (Concluded on Page g.) Roosevelt Has Plan for Senator to Address ' Convention First, . Even if Not Chairman. CHICAGO, June 16. (Special.) Sen- ator Borah is still Roosevelt's first choice for temporary chairman of the Republican convention, and the Colonel so said In conference! with bis leaders this afternoon. Borah Is neither a dele gate nor an alternate, and on that ac count. It has been held, he Is barred. as only those entitled to sit In the con ventlon are eligible to this office, but Roosevelt announced today that he has decided to run Borah In opposition to Root for temporary chairman, regard less of the fact that ho Is not a dele gate. Roosevelt contends - that the temporary chairman need not be a dele gate. Falling In his effort to make Borah his candidate) to oppose Root, it ' Is understood the Colonel will have, Borah present a minority report from the Na tional committee on the contests doc Id ed last week, this report to urge the seating of the Roosevelt ' delegates from Washington, Texas and scattering delegates from other states where. It Is contested, contestees have real merit In their claims. By presenting this report Borah will have an opportunity to ad dress the ' convention soon after It assembles, and before even the tern porary roll Is made up. ... Colonel Roosevelt expects to make his first fight In the convention on the minority report of the National com mlttee, and the result of that fight likely will determine the outcome of the convention. Borah, therefore, is slated to play an important part In the convention after all, provided Roosevelt does not change his plans. - TRIP LIKE NEGRO MELODY Outing of Portland Party Presents Variety of Changes.' Sleeping in tho new-mown hay on Peaslee Brothers' 500-acre farm, snow balling on Larch Mountain, and danc Ing as guests of the town of Palmer, were incidents of the Mazamas' out Ing Saturday and Sunday. Starting from Bridal Veil, the town of Palmer was reached Saturday evening, and Sunday morning Fire Warden C. V. Hickman piloted tbe party to the sum mit of Larch Mountain. The party was made up of: T. Brook White, Miss Louise Almy, Miss Marlon Schneider, Miss Gertrude Bide, Miss Ann Bulirvant, Miss Anna DUllnger, Mr. and Mrs. J. p. Morgan. Miss Mar tha Nllsson, . G. B. Datson, George O. Stephenson, J. E.- Bronaugh, George Bronaugh, Charles Robs, Miss Nell Spurck, Miss Nellie Hoover, Miss Elsie Silver, J. M. Mason, W. P. Hurdesty, W. S. Beattle, H. H. Rlddell, Boyd Jen kins, Morse Rlddell, E. C. Jennings, Miss Ella Ehmsen, Miss Blanche Hart, George X. Rlddell, Miss Mabel Hines, M. W. Gorman. Mrs. M. Bagley, D. P, Lamb, Clifford Lee, John A. Lee and E. H. Bulllvant. AUTHOR IS PRACTICAL MAN Donald Bennett Excels as Literary Business Man. LONDON, June 15. (Special.) Ar nold Bennett has at last made the ob vlous discovery that he cannot continue to write with full and living knowl edge of the "Five Towns" in Stafford shire while living at Fontsinebleau In France. Accordingly, he has decided to make his permanent home In Eng land, impelled back to the old country by the need of fresh material. Meanwhile, he la busily engaged in writing up his impressions of Amer ica, which will, no doubt, show the same close observation of life that people expect to find In his works. In London literary circles he is known as "the business man in literature. because for the last 10 years he has worked at his profession with the skill of a merchant exploiting a new line of goods. . "FATHERS' DAY" OBSERVED Vancouver Divine Believes Parents ' Should Be Equally Honored. VANCOUVER. Wash., June 16. (Bpe- ciaL) "Fathers' day" was appropriate- observed today at the Irvlngton Methodist Church, so that Mothers' day did not enjoy the whole stage. Rev. J. H. Berrlnger, pastor of the church, is of the opinion that father should be honored as well as mother, and it Is his intention to hold a Fath ers' day service .annually. Besides several musical selections by a quar tet, comprising Messrs. Boniface, Buck, Arnold and Wilson, there were ad dresses by fathers J. E. Mclrwln, of Felida; S. D. Taylor, of Felida; remarks by tbe pastor, and selected readings concerning father. 0LICE TO LEARN BOXING Chief of Geneva to Instruct 'Gen darmes In Manly Art. GENEVA, June 15. (Special.) M. Champod, Chief of the Police of the Canton of Vaud, has decided that all the gendarmes under his direction shall learn the art or boxing, ana nas opened school for this purpose. The gen darmes. It is stated, greatly appreciate tbe opportunity, and are enthusiasti cally taking lessons. It may be explained that the Swiss gendarme does not carry a truncheon. but a revolver, which, however, he is not allowed to use unless his life is in actual danger. A revolver shot Is al ways followed by an Inquiry, and If the unfortunate gendarme cannot prove that he was defending his life he Is punished or even dismissed from the service. A knowledge of boxing will, however, enable him better to handle the rougher classes, . j Wreckage and Death Mark Storm's Path. OTHER FATALITIES RUMORED Wires Torn Down; Reports of Damage Cut Off. FREAKS OF TORNADO MANY Baby In Bates County Carried Mile and Found TJnhurt--Bodies of Two Men Torn From Home and Dropped Mile Away. ' KANSAS CITT, Mo, June 1. Twenty-six persons are known to have been killed and many injured by a storm that passed over central West Missouri late Saturday, demolishing buildings, tearing down wires and leaving the smaller towns and country homes com pletely wrecked.. - Reports Indicate that the : storm. after doing many thousands of dollars' worth of damage here, passed to the , southwest, wrecking all buildings In Its path. In Bates County, Missouri. the northwest section was swept for five miles and nearly every building in a track half a mile .wide was de molished. Here 13 deaths have, been reported. From Sedalla, Mo, two deaths are reported, while rumors, unverified as yet, make the total much larger. The storm struck Bates County half a mile from Merwln. There, when the home of Henry Cameron was destroyed, and his three children killed, the wind picked up his baby, and it was found uninjured a mile from home today. The bodies of Gibson Groves and Fred Groves were found a mile from their home. They were In the building when ' the "storm struck. ' Telephone wires throughout Bates County are down and the reports have been brought by messengers. In the country surrounding Sedalla the wires are down, but aid is being ' rushed to the outlying towns by War rensburg, Sedalla and Windsor. Nothing has been heard from the dis trict lying between Windsor, Mo, and Butler, Mo. - CYCLONE KILLS WORSHIPPERS Church Steeple Toples and Pierces Roof; Two Meet Death. ' ZANESVILLE, O., June 18. Three were killed and a score Injured today when a tornado struck here, toppling the steeple ofthe St. Thomas Catholic Church through the roof while services were being heard. The dead are: Thomas Sklnlon, head crushed by falling stone; John F. DInan, crushed, died two hours later. The storm started tn the western part of tbe city. It lost its force ap parently after traveling 25 miles east of here and toppling over numerous barns. " ' ' More than 500 houses ' were badly damaged and 60 families were made homeless. Scores of narrow escapes were reported, more than a doben In stances being known of chimneys crashing through the roofs of houses and walls blowing down almost Imme diately after the occupants had left. CENTRAL OHIO IS SWEPT Roof of Catholic School Lifted, Wrecking Two Colleges. . COLUMBUS, O, June If. A rain and wind storm tornado swept the central part of Ohio, making hundreds home less and doing damage estimated at a million dollars. At Delaware the roof of St. Mary's Catholic school was lifted and borne across the street, wrecking two cot- tages. in this city several houses were unroofed. Telegraph and telephone companies are the greatest sufferers. Many miles of wire are down. Plain City, 17 miles west of here. was almost demolished and several per sons are reported injured. BABE SHOOTS HIS BROTHER Tot Seizes Rifle in Play and Pulls Trigger, Wounding Boy. SEATTLE, Wash, June 16. (Special.) "Bang," cried Norman - Bruce, four- year-old son of William Bruce, a mu sician in Wagner's band, playfully pointing a 22-callber rifle at his 11-year-old brother, William, Jr., this morning. The explosion of the charge followed close on the act, and the elder brother dropped to the porch of their home. Fifty-first avenue South and Bond street. He was shot through the abdo men. At Providence Hospital, where he was taken in an automobile, his case is rev garded as grave. He waa operated upon late today.' William, Jr., had been hunting. Ha returned home about 10 o'clock and laid his rlfleon the porch. The family dog came nosing around and the boy waa playing with. It when his little brother playfully leveled the rifle, Q3 108.0