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muMg. JIB PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND, OBEGOX, SATURDAY. 1912. VOI,. 1,11- XO. 16,158. OIL LAND IS HELD GALIFDRNIANS ARE BOYS ROUT ARMIES IN MIMIC BATTLE STRAUSHEADST.RS PASTOR DECLARES SUN IS ON HIS SIDE FEDERAL OFFICIALS SWOOP UPON DIVE BULL MOOSE WILL TO SUPPLY NAVY NEW YORK TICKET LOCK M'PHERSOX POINTS TO WEATH ER FOLLOWING PRAYER. LADS IGNORE HAIL OF BLANKS AND RUSH OX FIELD. . GOVERNMENT PREPARES DEVELOP OWN FIELDS. TO HARD HIT BY RAINS Orchards and Hopyards HORNS TODAY Washington Followers to Hold Primaries. SUREST THING IS UNCERTAINTY Faith of Some Leaders to Abide by Vote Doubted. SAFEGUARDS NOT LEGAL Aggressive Candidates Will Conduct "Traveling" A'ote Collectors and While Funds Are Plentiful Lack of Organization Felt. . BY M. M. MATTISOX. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 6. (Special.) Bull Moose primaries will be held throughout the state tomorrow to In dicate a preference of progressive party voters for Congressional, State and County candidates. The census of opinion in Bull Moose circles Is that between 35,000 and 40.000 votes will be cast, but there are no available data either at Bull Moose headquarters, newspaper files or the official quarters of the other political parties to indicate either the number of counties which will hold primaries or run county tickets or the general character of the primaries in those counties where ballot boxes are to be opened. Executive officers of the Progiessive party expected to have complete re ports today which would show the man ner In which the primaries are to be held; the number of counties which will make an effort to open ballot boxes In all precincts; those which will name county tickets and those which will Ig nore the call. If this information was received and it probably has not been, the Bull Moose leaders will not give out any information regarding it. Ii a gen eral way the assertion is made that some sort of a primary expression will be held in all counties save Jefferson uid Pend d'Oreille. Lack of O'rgrnntMtlOB Felt. This probably Is a true statement, for the Bull Moose party was hurried ly launched and Inasmuch as many counties are extremely difficult to cover it is likely that word has not been sent out. generally. The Bull Moose lenders have made an effort to make the primaries representative and un doubtedly have done the beet they could. But that headquarters should not know what is happening in many counties is the logical outcome of the decision to hold the lists open for nomi nation to the last moment and of the lack of general organization which prevents thorough organisation in all counties. Bull Moose leaders do not attempt to give details, but explain the situa tion generally to .be this: In some of the larger and better organized coun ties like King. Spokane, Yakima. Pierce. Whatcom and Snohomish, fairly repre sentative primaries will be held for all tickets. In other counties an effort will be made to make the primaries representative, but there will be a lack of expression on county and state tick ets In many precincts. In some coun ties there will be no attempt to nomi nate a county ticket. In others, pri maries will be held in the cottnty seats alone. Still others will send automo biles about soliciting votes where they can be found. Even in King County where the Bull Moose are best organ ized, a traveling primary will be held in some country precincts, though in the better organized distrlctajjthe polls will be open between 8 A. M. and 8 P. M. Faith of Some Questioned. This primary, the leaders claim, will reflect popular sentiment regarding Bull Moose sentiment on nominations and the pledge of the leaders in the movement is to ratify the results of these primaries in county and state conventions to be held September 10. There Is no question about the good faith of some of the leaders to carry out this programme, though it also is undoubtedly true that some Bull Moose want to disregard these uncertain pri mary results and make pure convention nominations. I'nder the Washington primary law only parties which have cast 10 per cent of the vote at the last general election can participate In the official primaries September 10. The Progres slve, or Bull, Moose, party being a new creation, is listed among those which must make nominations at conventions held on primary day. To observe principle of the Progressive party an advisory primary tomorrow was ord ered Sio Legal Safeguards Exist. Inasmuch as the primary is unoffi cial and the convention is the legal form of nomination, skepticism regard ing the bona fides of the advisory pri mary has been shown. All arrangements for the primaries popularity designated as soap-box prl. marles. are in the hands of voluntary commlttees. These are pledged to pro tect returns Insofar as possible, but there in no legal safeguard . thrown about the affair. Surface indications are that the Gubernatorial fight lies between Sena tor W. H. Paulhamus. of Sumner, and Sheriff R. T. Hodge, of Seattle. John C. Lawrence, former Public Service Commissioner and Otto A. Case, Audi (Concluded on face 0-J Secretary Fisher Recommends Ac tion in View of' Increasinjr Use of This Fuel by Warships. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 6. Thirty-seven thou sand acres of oil lands in the Elk hills, California, adjacent to the Mid way and McKItrick oil fields, have been withdrawn from entry by the President and will be held for development and used by the United States Navy. It is the intention of the Navy Department to sink wells on this area and use the oil on naval vessels equipped with oil burners. In the opinion of many offl cers, the time is coming when oil will be. universally used on all war ships and it is deemed advisable that the Government shall have an adequate oil supply of its own. Torpedo boats and other small craft are' now burning oil. The battleships Nevada and Oklahoma are oil burners and the Pennsylvania, Just authorized, will also be equipped with oil burners. The withdrawal of these lands was recommended by Secretary Fisher at the request of the Secretary of the Navy. BABY'S ESCAPE IS NARROW Rock From Blast Demolishes Buggy Occupied but a Moment Before. Severely crushed but a moment after its occupant had been taken out, was a baby buggy outside 763 Third street, by a boulder hurled from above and over the housetop . as tne result oi faulty blasting in connection with the new Terwllliger boulevard above Fourth street. Children standing all around and playing at the foot of the house escaped uninjured. Mrs. Angorina Polisella, the mother. had Just ascended the steps with little Antonio in her arms when the piece of rock, a foot long and eight inches in breadth, crushed the buggy, tore holes in the little Jacket that had been left inside, and embedded itself in the wooden pavement C. Frezzi, the owner of the house, said yesterday that this particular blasting occurred shortly after 4 o'clock, but that the day before stones had fallen all around, on the tops of the houses and in dangerous proximity to the many children at play around the neighborhood. . W. Holz, of 250 Woods street, said he had informed the police Thursday and again yesterday, and was told that the matter would be inquired into. The contractors for the work on the boulevard are Gieblsch & Joplln. "BEAUTY CARRIE" IS DEAD Former Pet of Millionaires Victim of - , Morphine Habit. CHICAGO, Sept. 6. (Special.) Car rie Meyers, "Beauty Carrie," who 20 years ago was the pet and toast of millionaires, will be buried tomorrow by the county in the potter-s field, un less some friend claims her body. She once numbered ex-Senator Piatt among her admirers. A victim of morphine, the once pop ular and beautiful actress, who was the hit of the famous "Black Crook company, lies on a wooden slab in a dark corner of the county morgue. She was arrested September 4 and appeared next morning in the police station, a slovenly, feverish-eyed old woman. "Dope and raising a disturbance, said the policeman who made the ar rest. Judge Going fined her $10 and costs. She had no money and went to prison. Three days in a cell without morphine drove her hopelessly insane and on the third day she died, moaning pituuliy for the drug. Her identity came to light today. MAIL SCHEDULES ISSUED Local Postoffice Prepares Tables for Outgoing Trains. For the information of patrons of the office, particularly business and pro fessional men, Acting Postmaster Will iamson has caused to be prepared a schedule showing the hour of depart ure of all of the principal mall trains departing over the different railroad systems from this city. " The schedule gives the number of the train and the road over which it travels, the hour for leaving the depot, hour mail closes at mailing divisions atFifth and Glisan, hour mail closes at the main office and the destinations for mail carried by each train. This has been done by the Portland office to asr.lst in expediting the han dling of outgoing mall. Between 400 and 500 of the schedules were dis tributed in the business district yes terday. Additional copies will be printed today and may be had upon ap plication at the Postoffice. HOWARD IS NAMED AGAIN Recess Appointment Made to Succeed Hanford on Bench. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash Ington. Sept. 6. It was announced at the White House today that a recess appointment has been given Clinton W. Howard, of Belllngham, as United States District Judge for Western Washington. - Howard was nominated late In the recent session of Congress, but failed of confirmation because Senator Poln- dexter demanded an investigation of charges preferred. The recess appoint ment will place him immediately upon the bench and his nomination will be sent to the Senate again next Decern ber, when It is expected the judiciary committee will make an investigation, unless the charges are withdrawn Howard succeeds Judge Hanford. Suffer Damage. TABLE GRAPES ARE RUINED Downpour So Sudden Drying Fruit Cannot Be Saved. HOPS LYING ON GROUND Situation Is Without Precedent in Quarter CenturyWeather Fore caster Says Warning Pre vented Greater Loss. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6. (Special.) For the first time in 25 years rain fell yesterday this early in September, and it continued today, with signs" of much more tonight. Up until noon to day nearly half an inch was the record established for the two days. From the great interior valleys of the state come walls from orchardists, vlneyardists and hopgrowers that the greater part of their crops have been ruined. A report from Fresno says that from one-half to two-thirds of the entire table and shipping-grape crops have been ruined by the rains. Hun dreds of carloads of drying fruit spread on racks in orchards could not be stacked and covered in time to pre vent loss, the rain came so suddenly in the middle of the night. Hopplckers Without Shelter. In the great Sonoma Valley thou sands of hopplckers have suffered three days and nights of severe hard ship, as they have never been accus tomed to go to the fields provided with tents or other protection from rain. The storm found these thousands sleep ing unprotected in the fields. A dis patch from Santa Rosa tonight reports more than 1200 acres of hops, together with supporting poles and wires, were collapsed and on the ground as a result of the storm. It is feared that when full reports from the entire state are received the amount of damage will reach an enormous figure. Weather Forecaster See Relief. 'Twenty-four hours more should see the end of the present downfall," said Forecaster McAdle. "It is one of the most unusual in the history of the city and this portion of the state. The (Concluded on Page 5.) D o IAJM V SUM V C4fyv4 - I Bjgr, WHEN THE TO SLEM aSP' f Jf W V ANO ASf B Xjp lilt Wmm W HR jst THEY ARE TWfrf(r Of SYC-LUONG IN THE LIST Of: FAMOUS SVATIS J-OnS Shining Cartridges on Ground Lure Youngsters and Spoil Maneu vers at Kansas City. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Sept. 6. Hun dreds of small boys scampering over the battlefield collecting discarded blank cartridges all but routed both armies in the re-enacted battle of Westport at Swope Park today. Twenty thousand persons swarmed the hill tops in the park and watched S300 soldiers comprising the third regiment, Missouri National Guard, and several United States battalions from Fort Leaven worth work out In bloodless battle the problems of the famous Civil War en gagement of 50 years ago. The conflict was scarcely under way when the young Americans noticed that each time a squad dropped to the ground to' fire they . left a shining streak of empty nickel plated cart ridges. In their ardor to pounce upon these relics of war the youths often completely surrounded the firing squad. receiving the galling broadsides in their faces. i - . Many a. bold charge was for a mom ent turned aside because the soldiers considered its unheroic to trample small boys underfoot even in a sham battle. ONE JOB PUZZLES COUNCIL Suggestion Is Made That City Hall Carpenter Repair Political Fence. "Why is a City Hall carpenter?" asks Mayor Rushlight The question arose at a meeting of the civil service commission yester day afternoon when one man wanted to be transferred to the position of bridge carpenter from the City Hall. "I cannot understand wny mere should be a City Hall carpenter," said the Mayor. "What does he do all the time?" No one replied. N "Why. a carpenter doing nothing else, could overhaul every piece of fur niture in the building in a year, ae- clared Commissioner Armstrong. "I know nothing definite on the sub ject," said Commissioner Logan, but I can guess he probably spends a good deal of his time repairing political fences around the "Hall. The transfer was not allowed. PHYSICIAN HAS TETANUS Disease Contracted 'tfTien Treating Patient Who Died Later. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 6, Dr. Clarence B. Pierce, of O' Fallon, 111., is in a critical condition from tetanus, contracted when treating Miss Kmlline Schoell kopf, who died from the disease Tues day. Dr. Pierce became unconscious Wed nesday, and up to this morning 125,000 units of anti-toxin had Deen adminis tered to him. He regained conscious ness today, and it Is now thought he will recover. THERE ARE OTHERS. mwr? inn "Uiv i H I'll' Stampede Started by Ex-Broncho Rider. DECLINATION SWEPT ASIDE "Suspender Jack" Is Hero of Hour at Syracuse. CONCLUSION IS DRAMATIC Controller Prendergast and State Chairman Hotchkiss Withdraw and Leave Field to Former Cabinet Minister. SYRACUSE, N. T, Sept. 6. Oscar S. Straus, ex.-Secreiary of Commerce and Labor in the Cabinet of President Roosevelt, was unanimously acclafmed the nominee ' for Governor of the Roosevelt Progressive party by a stam peded, convention this afternoon. Straus' nomination came about under dramatic , circumstances. The former Cabinet member, acting as the conven tion's permanent chairman, was about to entertain a motion from Timothy L Woodruff to expedite the rollcall in the names of State Chairman Hotch kiss and Controller Prendergast, of New York, when a delegate from New York County leaped to his chair and demanded to be heard. "Suspender Jack" Starts Things. "It's 'Suspender Jack' McGee," cried a voice from the gallery. Chairman Straus looked puzzled. McGee, who got his name In the Indian country by riding a broncho Into camp with sus penders used as reins, moved toward the platform. "They say I am crazy, but I know what I am doing," he cried, as he swung upon the platform steps. Chairman Straus looked with sur prise on the man, who tossed his rough rider hat on the floor and demanded the right to make a nomination. , "Whom do you wish to. nominate?" asked Chairman Straus. "Suspender Jack" pasued a moment and then cried: "I nominate the illustrious and hon orable Oscar S. Straus." Straus at First Amused. The delegates seemed stunned; then a few of hem cheered. Straus gave an amused laugh at "Suspender Jack" (Concluded on Paue 2.) Minister Replies to Critic Who Had Said Supplication Was Reflec tion on God's Judgment. "They may say what they like but they cannot deny that it was fine to day, and that on the other hand it was raining all Thursday, and long be fore that, and It Is now raining In California, so we have all the evidence on our side." So said Rev. C. T. McPherson who on Thursday had prayed for line weather. in reply to a letter ridiculing the Idea, from Perry Joseph Green, minister of the TemDle of Truth. Green, after saying he was amused at the appeal of Mr. McPherson to all Christian people to Join In prayers for the cessation of rain, held out the Idea that as God was omnipotent and omniscient, he was therefore, the best judge of the proper time to send the rain, and the right moment to stop it. If the rain was a punishment for sin. Green urged all to take their punish ment manfully or else find out where the sin lay and abstain from the wrong doing. "If orthodox preachers continue to deal in such shortsighted reason and logic. Infidels will increase," was one of his shots. "All I can say in answer," said Mr. McPherson, "Is to point to the report of the Weather Bureau, which will show that not only have we had no rain but we have even had some sunshine, and there are prospects of further fine weather for tomorrow. "As for ridiculing prayer to the Almighty, why, ever since the begin ning we have been taught to carry to the Almighty our needs. Other people before me have prayed for rain or for fine weather and their prayers have been answered, and I would point to the fact that so far, though there is no method of proving that the fine weather has come as a direct result of our prayers, the solid fact remains that there has been no rain. "Impromptu and private prayers are being offered up all over the North west, and' the only reason I can give for others abusing me and ridiculing the Idea of asking anything of the Almighty Is that they are sore be cause they didn't think of It them selves before. No one I have met has done anything but thank me and con gratulate me for doing it." AIRSHIP NIGHT LIGHTS NEXT Hydroplane's Defiance of Vague Law Worries River Inspector. There is a joke going the rounds of the Custom-House that might not end as a real joke If the Federal statutes are strictly Interpreted. The story goes that Chief Inspector H. F. McGrath has had an attack of nervous prostration and gone to Tillamook County to shoot bears because he could not find in the customs regulations anything about the regulation of hydro-aeroplanes. He witnessed one, at dusk, traversing along the waters of the Willamette with a passenger on board and without any lights displayed. Later he dis covered that it had no life preservers aboard, no bucket of sand or other re quired aids, such as fog horns, bells. anchors, etc. As it was a motor-driven boat on the water. McGrath insisted tnat it came under the regulations, but as he could not find anyone to agree with him he went to the woods to hunt bear. The craft referred to is that In which Walter Edwards and Christoffersen, of Vancouver, have been skimming the river recently. THEFT AWAKENS CHARITY ChiWs Theft of Penny Brings Help to Destitute Mother of 18. SPOKANE, Sept. 6. The theft of a penny by her small son today brought relief from destitution to Mrs. oeima Mo-L-Ar whrt has been the mother of 18 children, three of whom now are de pendent on her. Little Oliver Mayer was taken before the juvenile Judge for stealing a penny. Under the kindly questioning of the judge he told of the bitter poverty in which his mother lived. County of ficials made arrangements at once to provide Mrs. Mayer with enough money to keep her and her children in iooq and clothing. PIPE DRIVEN TO MINERS Hope Entertained That Two May Be Saved From Flood. BIWABIK. MlnSept. 6. Officials of the Ruddy mine, which was filled by a cloudburst Wednesday night, are today driving a pipe through 85 feet of ground to two miners caught in a sub-level, to give them air If they still are alive. If the men are alive they have given no sign. It is believed, however, that the two are sale rrom ine water ana that they eventually will be touna alive. A third man caught was at tne bottom of the shaft, and undoubtedly la dead. POTATO EXPERT IN FIELD Railroad Employs Eugene H. tirubb to Teach Western Farmers. OMAHA. Sept 6. With a view to de veloping potato culture In several . . . . ,. f V. Uaann,l Piv.l 1T.lt. gene H. Qrubb, a well-known authority On POiatO Culture, Jlo "ecu 1 " .... .. T-. la. T") i . the field Dy tne union rdtmc Mr. Grubb, who has successfully ex perimented for years In that line, be lieves the West can increase Its potato , .,!,lr, wilt malri crop IU . a l. iil " - needless the present Importations from other countries, which, no djjh ,auiuUju to about za.uuu.uuu Dusueis annuauy. . "Black Bottle" House's Inmates Caught. 12 MURDERS MAY BE BARED Two Men and 14 Women Held to Give Evidence. WITNESS IS THREATENED Fearing for Safety of Miss Virginia '.Brooks, Authorities Place Two Detectives to Guard Her, Day and Night. CHICAGO, Sept 6. (Special.) West Hammond's graft - ridden "murder levee" became a Federal target tonight when Henry Foss, keeper of the dve In which the "black bottle" Is said to have been used with fatal regularity, and "Con" Moore, another vice king of the district, were arrested on charges of violation of the Mann act. The raid on the district, conducted after darkness had fallen, under the supervision of Miss Virginia Brooks and Walter M. Krimblll, assistant Dis trict Attorney, came unexpectedly. Two women, alleged to have been agents for Moore, and a dozen women Inmates of dives also were taken Into custody. They were bundled Into au tomobiles and hurried to Chicago, where they were arraigned - before Wirt E. Humphrey, United States Com missioner, and placed under bonds. - Woman Tells of Death. The new angle to the "black bottle" murders came after Mrs. Ethel Parker, known as "Frankle Ford," had taken the stand in County Judge Owens' court and openly told her story of the death of John Messmaker. It virtu ally wss the same as told last Thurs day morning and corroborated during the day by "Kittle Clark," a former chambermaid In the Foss dive, who Was found at Gary, Ind. Immediately after Mrs. Parker had told her story. Miss Brooks went Into conference with Mr. Krimblll. Govern ment agents also had been In court and heard the girl's testimony. Warrants were sworn out for Foss, Moore and a dozen women. Techni cally they were charged with having transported no less than 50 girls from Indiana Into Illinois for immoral pur poses. Specific cases of bringing a dozen girls from Gary, Crown Point and South Bend were charged. Hotel Keeper Arrested. About 7 o'clock Deputy United States Marshals Connelly and North rup and six deputy Sheriffs were ta ken In Mrs. John F. Bass' automobile to West Hammond. They entered the town secretly and then acted In con cert in a raid on the dives under the direction of Miss Brooks and Mr. Krimblll. 'Con" Moore, keeper of the notorious Colonial Hotel, first was arested. Then the squad descended on 9 State street and took Mrs. John Forsythe and Lena Deltshur Into custody. They were charged with having been leaders of a band of women who made tours through Indiana, enticing girls to the West Hammond dives. Mrs. Moore, Gertrude Collins and five other women were next arrested. Foss could not be found until a late hour. He also was then taken to the Moore dive, where the others arrested had been herded together. He had been In hiding. Results Are Bxperted. From the witnesses corraled in to night's raid the officials hope to force uch evidence bearing upon the deaths of no less than a dozen men In the West Hammond dives. Certain con viction of the divekeepers under the Mann act was promised. A sensation was caused in Judge Owens' court while Miss Brooks was on the stand during the morning pre liminary to the story told by the Far ker woman. Bailiff Doff saw a leveo character wearing a red necktie en deavoring to give the girl a bottle sup- Dosed to contain drugs. Before he could reach the man he broke throuuli the door and made his escape down the stairway. Miss Brooks on the stand told of the Investigation which had led to the girl's arrest on a charge of being an accessory to the murder of John Messmaker, the latter having died in her arms after being given a draught from the alleged poisonous "black bottle." She ended by telling of numerous threats which had been made against her life, both over the telephone and by letter. She said she had been threatened again before leaving her home for court Because of her danger, two city detectives have been assigned to guard her day and night. SPOKANE PUBLIC TO SWIM Free Bathing Pool in River Planned by Municipal Commission. SPOKANE. Sept. 6. This Spokane Park Commission decided today to build a free municipal swimming pool In the Spokane River. The pool will be a part of th river Itself, a retaining wall In the middle of the river forming one side. The water will be kept at a proper temperature by steam pipes. A large number of dressing rooms will be provided, ,