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1 PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1912. VOL. LII-XO. 16,160. PRICE FIVE CENTS. UNPAID ALIMONY E GIVES T. R. HEAT BLISTERING OF SEMEN PEEK-A-BOO GOWN SHOCKS CARDINAL SHOIS FLY ACROSS E APPARENTLY STOPS HONEYMOON IN MIDDLE WEST f LOST F ARREST FOLLOW S WEDDING OF DEATHS AND PROSTRATIONS PRELATE TELLS WOMAN WER IXG CREATION TO LEAVE. CANEMAH COUPLE. . OCCCR OX ALL SIDES. SPOKAN 1 GOES REPUBL CAN mIGHTY BUSY TIE II 0 BORDER INTO TEXAS Haines Leads for Gov ernor by 4000. CONGRESSIONAL RACE CLOSE Democrats Ahead in Four Districts. One 0 1 VOTE FIVE-SIXTH COUNTED Legislative Returns Too Meager to Indicate Which Party Has Con trol Local Issuer Rule in Campaign From Start. PORTLAND. Me.. Sept. 9. The strug gle between the Democrats and Re publicans in Maine today for control of the executive and legislative da partments of the state government, the four Congressional districts and county officers was one of the closest years, with returns up to 11 o'clock in favor of the Republicans. With live-sixths the state on record. William T. Haines, Republican, had Rood lead over Governor Frederick W. Plalsted. and the percentage system indicated that if the ratio were main talned. the Republicans would win the fisht for the head of the ticket by ington, when the Republican, Demo about 4000. cratic and Socialist parties will nom- Returns from the four Congressional districts also leaned toward the Repub-1 llcans especially In the First. Third and Fourth districts with the Second show- ine a Democratic tendency. - . , . K,n , of 634 election districts give Haines (Rep.), 66,121: Plaisted (Dem.), 62,127 The corresponding vote in 1910 was Fernald (Rep.), 60,556; Plaisted (Dem.), 67.501. These returns show a Republl can gain of 9 per cent and a Demo cratic loss of 8 per cent The Legislature returns were too meager to give. any indication of the complexion of either - branch, so that the outcome of the fight for the United States Senatorsbip between Senator Obadlab Gardner. Democrat, and ex- Congressman Edwin C. Burleigh, Re publican, was in doubt. Democrats oa Defensive. The Democrats went into the cam paign on the defensive, having won control of the state government in the election of 1910. They based their cam paign almost wholly on National Issues, although defending their course in the state dministration. The Republicans used state Issues entirely as the weapons of attack, and refused to be drawn into any discussion of National affairs. The Buil Moose element of the ReDUbllcan party was In full control of parry machinery, but with the ap proval of Colonel Roosevelt a split was averted, .until today's struggle. Many of the leading state speakers In the campaign' announced tonight that they were no longer in the Re publican ranks, but would take the stump for Roosevelt. Democratic Strength Wanea. The Republican organisation was able to bring out a greater vote for Haines in today's contest than was given for Fernald. the party candidate who was defeated two years ago, while the Democratic vote for Plaisted showed a falling off from that of 1910. In the First Congressional District Congressman Hinds, the only out spoken Taft candidate In the election, showed an Increase In his vote of two years ago and first returns seemed to Indicate hU re-election over M. T. O'Brien, his Democratic opponent In the Second District early returns indicated the re-election of Representa tive McGillicuddy. Democrat by a re duced margaln over William B. Skel ton. Republican. In the Third District Representative Guld. Democrat, apparently had been defeated by Forest Goodwin, Repub lican. Republican Has Slight Lend. In the Fourth there was a close fight between Representative Guernsey. Re publican, and Charles W. Mullen, Dem ocrat with the first cities and towns heard from placing the former in the lead. Returns for Congressman in the Sec end District from 20 out of 124 cities. towns and plantations giver Skelton, Republican. 2580: McGilli cuddy, Democrat. 2386. The corresponding vote In 1910 was: Swasey. Republican, 2717; McGilli cuddy, Democrat. 2631. Returns for Congressman In the Fourth District from 20 out of 120 cities, towns and plantations give: Guernsey.. Republican, 1656; Mullen, Democrat-1353. The coresponding vote In- 1910 was: Guernsey. Republican, 1S40; Hansen. Democrat 1271. SHIP BRINGS RICH CARGO Largest Consignment of Treasure From Alaska Reaches Seattle. SEATTLE. Sept 9. The steamship! Senator, which arrived from Nome. yesterday brought gold bullion from the Nome and Idltarod districts valued at 81.200.000, the largest consignment of treasure that has been sent from the Far North this year. ini senator also naa a ncn cargo of furs. Including mink, marten, polar bear and red. blue and wMte fox pelts. I Bride Is Niece of Wife Who Had Her ex-Hubby Taken Into Custody After Marriage. OREGON" CITY, Or., Sept. (Spe cial.) Soon after he and his ex-wile s niece married at Canemah today, Mrs, Eugenia Smith notified Circuit Judge Campbell that W. W. Smith was. in aareara S40 alimony. Deputy Sheriff Miles found Smith and his bride at Parkplace and brought iie- bridegroom . . u ; , t in with I 'rum t v Clerk Mulvey. .and was instructed to make answer to the charge of being In arrears tomorrow. Judge Campbell also issued an order prohibiting Smith from interfering with his ex-wife. Miss Effle Morris, who became his bride today, was formerly a teacner in the Parkplace School, ana uvea with Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It is the intention of the couple to go to Powell River to live. . - Smith obtained the license to mar ry early this morning and he and Miss Morris and Justice of the Peace bam- son met at the home of Luke May, in Canemah, where Smith had been board insr. After the ceremony the couple went to Parkplace, and, it was report ed. they were preparing to leave lor Powell River. Mrs. Eugenia Smith, however, heard of the marriage In time to apply to the court to compel her ex-husband to pay the alimony al leged to be due. WASHINGTON VOTES TODAY Interest Centers in Republican, Dem ocratic and Socialist Primary. SEATTLE. Sept. 9. Brilliant cool for tomorrow's weather is forecasted official primary in the State ol vvasn Inate candidates for state office. The Democratic nomination for Gov- ernor is most eagerly sought, there being seven candidates: E. C. Million, Ernest Lister, William H. Dunphy HuKb C. Todd.' W. W. Black, M. M. God man and L. F. Chester. On the Republican side Governor Hay, seeking renomlnation, has only nominal opposition, but a bitter fight is being waged by the Governor's friends on John H. Schively, who is seeking renomlnation as State Insurance Com missioner. SHIP JARS "WATERWAGON" V Accident at Goble Breaks Cp Pro hibition Meeting.' GOBLE. Or., Sept 9. (Special.) Just as B. Lee Paget was about to address a meeting from his automobile water wagon shortly after 5 o'clock tonight a steamship, which afterwards proved to be the Artemis, was seen to crash Into the Broughton & Wiggins wharf, half mile below this place, and the . "t . man, nurnea to me spot, ana xne meet ing was abandoned. The steamer Cascades succeeded in pulling the ship out Into the stream after half an hour's work. No damage was sustained by the steamer, but 100 feet of wharf was demolished. The accident is thought to have been caused by a mishap to the steering gear. "... TELEGRAPH RATES TARGET Western Union Charges Fixed Arbi trarily, Is- Alleged. WASHINGTON. Sept 9. Reasonable ness of telegraph and cable rates was attacked today by William N. White 4 Co.. New Tork, In a complaint against the Western LTnion Telegraph Company to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. The comprainine. concern contends that the telegraph rates are fixed ar- bitrarily, that the handling of press dispatches at one-fourth the rate charged commercial business subjects the general public to "undue prejudice and disadvantage," and that the West ern Union Company has bought up smaller companies and eliminated com petition, in violation of commerce laws. The New York concern asks J000, which tt alleges the telegraph company has collected in overcharges on cable grams and telegrams. 0LSS0N WILL GET ..PAPERS Hanford's Decision Denying Citizen ship to Be Entered as ''Error." WASHINGTON. Sept 9. Acting At torney-General Harr instructed the United States Attorney at Seattle. Wash., today to agree to a reversal by he Circuit Court of Appeals of former Judge Hanford s decision canceling the citizenship of Leonard Olsson. a Social ist which resulted .in impeachment proceedings against Judge Hanford and his resignation. The United States Attorney will file a stipulation which practically will be a confession of error. This is expected to cause the Circuit Court to restore Olsson's citizenship. BERNHARDT DROPS YEAR Actress Gives Correction In Age and Says She Is Only 88. PARIS, Sept 9. (Special.) Sarah Bernhardt has returned to Paris from her country place at Belle He and will go to London at the end of the week She asserts that she recognizes most gratefully London s unwavering ap preciation of her art but makes the important correction that this year will not see her 9th birthday, but her S8th. . " She added: "It does not make much difference, but at my aire one cannot allow one's self to be made more old." ' Middling Lively Day," He Says on Leaving. MANY TOPICS ARE DISCUSSED Four Speeches, Three 'Feeds' and Meeting on Programme. ONE TALK TO WOMEN ONLY Equal Suffrage Defended Demo cratic Candidate's Stand on Mini mum Wage Scale Called "Ob jection of Schoolroom." SPOKANE. -Sept 9. When Colonel Roosevelt climbed on board his private car tonight to wend his way Westward once more, on the last stage of his Journey from tne Atlantic to the Pa ciflc, he turned to look back at the city from the vantage point of the obser vation platform and remarked: "Well. by George! Spokane has given me what I might call a middling lively day." The colonel was permuted to nave eight hours' sleep after he reached Spokane last night, and that was all the time be had to himself. He made four speeches, attended a breakfast, luncheon and dinner, talked politics with the Progressive leaders and head ed a parade through the city. He is due in Seattle In the morning to spend the day there and in Tacoma. In his speeches. Colonel Rooseveit gave his views of woman suffrage, re plied to Woodrow Wilson's criticism of the Progressive proposal for minimum wage scales, assailed the position of the Democratic party and talked of the tariff, the courts, the high cost of liv ing and the farmers. Of the Republi can party he said little, on the- ground that he never discussed "dead folks." . Afternoon Given to Women. Colonel Roosevelt gave over most of the afternoon to the women of Spokane. A meeting exclusively for women was slated for. the auditorium. More than an hour before the time set there were twice as many women there as the building would accommodate and an other theater was engaged for an over flow meeting. Outside each building there , was a crowd which could not find a place within. Colonel Roosevelt said he never had addressed just that kind of meetings before and he did not know just how to do It. He had brought up two daughters, he. said, who always treated him gently but firmly, but he felt more at home when he was talking to at least a few men. As he stepped out onto the stage at (Concluded on Pass 2. OVER IN WASHINGTON Rabid Dogs Bite Many Milk Fam ine Looms In Chicago Cows Re fuse to Eat and Are Exhausted. CHICAGO, Sept. S. (Special.) Sizzling heat still envelops all the country from the Rocky Mountains eastward to the Atlantic seaboard and from the Northwest to below the Ohio River line. : The upper Canadian sta tlons report a maximum average of 70 and a minimum of 46. Even th southern border of the United States is more favored than is . the Middle West. ' There were two deaths in Chicago and numerous prostrations. More than a dozen persons were bitten by rabid dogs. In La Crosse, Wis., the heat reached 95 and the schools were closed and business suspended.. One death and manyp rostratlons were re ported from Dubuque, Iowa. From Aurora, 111., the center of the Northern Illinois milk supply, came the alarming news that the milk supply will be entirely cut off in two more days unless there is a break in the heat wave. The dairymen announce that the cows have not eaten a mouthful for more than a week and cannot be tempt ed take any food. The milk supply has depreciated 40 per cent in the last two days and experts say the cows will refuse to give milk in two more days, as they are thoroughly exhausted. DARWINIAN THEORY TESTED Socialists Train Monkeys Like Hu man to Note Effect. BALTIMORE." Sept. 9. (Special.) Dr. J. B. Watson, director of the psy chological laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, has . adopted an . unique method of testing the Darwinian theory. Seven weeks ago a bright lit tle monkey was born at the institution. The parents of the simian, which are very Intelligent, have been carefully trained by the scientists and the off spring of such parents is believed to afford opportunity of determining bow nearly like a human being he can be raised. When ready for schooling every ef fort will be put forth to develop his mind along lines that will fairly tax his mental capacity to assimilate human knowledge. FAMILY OF FOUR IS SHOT Voiitli Wounds Victim Seriously, Then Kills Himself. VAN WERT. O., Sept 9. Ernest Verrbeke, . a 22-year-old foreigner, aimed a shotgun through the window of Richard Marten's home near here last night and emptied the contents of both barrels into the Marten family as they sat at supper, according to a report received here today. Verrbeke then shot hlmselr in . the stomach, dying almost Instantly. Verrbeke's victims were: Mrs. Marten, shot in back, condition critical; Bertha Marten, who had .re pulsed Verrbeke, wounded in face and throat: Clara Marten, shot in foot and Camiel Alleemete, a farm hand, shot in head. i THE BULL MOOSE HAS A REAL Arctic People Are Blue Eyed, Red-Haired. WHITES' EXISTENCE UNKNjWN Norwegian Words Detected in Blonde Eskimos' Speech. EXPLORER COLLECTS DATA Vilhjahmar Stefansson Arrives In Seattle After Passing Four Years In Far North Animals of Rare Species Obtained. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 9. Vllhjal- mar Stefansson, after passing more than four years in Arctic exploration, re turned to Seattle today by steamer from Nome, Alaska, and told of his probable discovery of the descendants of the Scandinavian colonists of Green land, who were last heard of In 1412, and who, when trade with Greenland was resumed in the seventeenth cen tury, had entirely disappeared. Stefansson and his companion. Dr. R. M. Anderson, of Forest City, la., made a valuable zoological and ethnological collection, which Is now on the steam whaler Belvedere with Dr. Anderson, and will arrive in San Francisco the first week in November on the way to the American Museum of Natural His tory. New York. Stefansson will leave for New York tomorrow night. Stef ar.sson reports Dr. Anderson in perfect health. Men Work Apart. The Belvidere is now whaling off Wrangel Island, Siberia. During more than four years Stefansson and Ander son were together only nine months, covering more ground by separating. Stefansson and Anderson went to the Arctic in 1908 by way of Winnipeg, Edmonton and down the Mackenzie River to Its mouth. They were bound for Coronation Gulf, a region marked in red on Canadian maps, "uninhabit ed," which they had been warned to avoid. Stefannson passed the first Winter at the mouth of Coville River, Alaska; the second at Cape Parry; the third on Coronation Gulf and Victoria Land; the fourth at Cape Parry. On leaving the Arctic he made a leisurely journey alone with a dog team from Cape Parry to Point Barrow, 1000 miles, visiting all the Eskimo set tlements along the coast. He left Cape Parry March 22, and reached Point Barrow June 13. -The expedition made its headquarters for collecting at Bailey Island, a resort of whaling ves- (Concluded on Pace 3.) PUGILIST IN THE RING. She Points to Paintings of Angels and Martyrs but Compromises by Donning Shawl. VENICE, Sept. 9. (Special.) Cardinal Cavallari, the patriarch of Venice, who recently fulminated against what he termed as the "immodest female fash ions." has threatened to expel from his church hobble-skirted and peek-a-booed women. Yesterday he interrupted the service at St Mark's Cathedral " and sent a prelate to warn a woman who was dressed conspicuously in a peek-a-boo creation that be would not resume the service until she had left . the church. The woman immediately expostulated and pointed out to the prelate that tbe paintings adorning the church repre sented nude angels and martyrs. These arguments did not convince the prelate and he insisted that the lady leave the church. ' ... However, she donned a shawl which was near her in a pew, and this com promise permitted' the resumption of the service. ARTIST UNDER SUSPICION Circulation of $10 Hand-Painted Notes Is Alleged. CHICAGO, Sept. 9. Louis Raymore, also known as Cugmore, an artist, was arrested by Captain Thomas I. Portef, of the Federal Secret Service today. charged with having circulated numer ous hand-painted $10 notes. Captain Porter said he considered the arrest one of the most important made in the last year. Raymore has a wife and daughter who declare they believed that Ray more's large income was secured en tirely from painting portraits of wealthy people. He is said to have confessed. PLAYER'S SKULL CRUSHED "Bugs" Raymond Victim of Attack at Baseball Grounds. CHICAGO, Sept. 9. City detectives and attaches of the Coroner's office to day reported that a post-mortem ex amination showed that Arthur L. Ray mond, ex-pitcher for - the New York National League baseball team, died Saturday, as the result of a fractured skull and not from heart disease, as was first supposed. " 'Bugs Raymond died as the result of an attack, and his assailant will be under arrest by night" declared a de tective. "Raymond was given a ter rific beating at the Elsdon, 111., baseball grounds a short ime before his death, and his skull was fractured then. It was announced Saturday that Ray mond had died of -heart disease, aggra vated by excessive heat His body was found in a room of a downtown hotel by a maid. T. R. FELICITATIONS TABLED Spanish War Veterans Send Greet ings to Taft .and Wilson. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Sept. 9. During the first business session of the United Spanish War Veterans' en campment today there was a lively de bate over a motion to send felicitations to Colonel Roosevelt. The encampment had decided to send greetings to Presl dent Taft, as head of the Nation, and to Governor Woodrow Wilson, as the head of the state government, and a motion was made to Include Colonel Roosevelt After a half hour's wrangle another motion to table the Roosevelt amend ment until after permanent organlza tlon had been effected" was adopted. KANSAS CASE TO BE HEARD Electors' - Controversy Will Be Vp at Denver This Week. DENVER. Colo., Sept. 9. The Ivansas Presidential Electors controversy again Is to be heard in Denver, either Wed nesday or Friday of this week, when the United States Circuit Court of Ap peals will hear arguments on an ap peal from Judge Sanborn, who decided against the citizens of Jewell and Shawnee counties, of Kansas, who sought to enjoin Charles Sessions. Secretary of State from referring the names of eight electors, who declared their intention of voting for Roose velt to the various county clerks to be listed on the Republican ballots. Arrangements for the appeal were perfected today. I POLICE INVESTIGATE DEATH Rich Man's Daughter Drinks Acid. Male Escort Is Held. ATLANTA. Ga Sept 9. An Investi gation is being made today by the po lice of the suicide late last night by Miss Clare Cameron, daughter of John A. Cameron, until recently superin tendent of the Columbus, Ga., Street Railway Company. Waving good-bye dramatically to R. D. Whitehead, a young man of Bir mingham. Ala Miss Cameron stood in the center of the Terminal station waiting-room and drank a vial of carbolic acid. She died today.- The police are holding Whitehead. , MENINGITIS KILLS HORSES Disease Spreads Through Kansas and Nebraska. NORFOLK, Neb., Sept. 9. The disease that fcs been killing horses In Southern Nebraska and portions ol Kansas has appeared In the northern part of this state. A deputy state veterinarian held a post mortem examination here today and pronounced the disease cerebro spinal meningitis. Bullet Hits American at Presidio. 400 REBELS ATTACK OJKiAGA Salazar Orders Raids on Ran ches in United States. COWBOYS ACT AS PATROL American Troops Encamped Near Mexican Line and More Arc Be ing 'Rushed to Trouble Zone. Arms Held at Douglas. MARFA, Tex., Sept. 9. Ojinasa. Mexico, opposite Presidio, Tex., is be ing attacked from two ides by 400 Mexican rebels. The battle commenced at 3 o'clock this afternoon. A bullet from the Mexican side struck an Amer ican at Presidio, piercing his hip. A party of United States officers left Marfa for the scene tonight. Marfa Is 50 miles from the border. General Sanchez Is In command of the federals defending Ajinaga. Ojlnaga was taken several days age by a party of rebels without resistance, but yesterday General. Sanchez, with 300 troops from Cuchlllo, Parado and Coyamo, drove the Invaders from th town. One thousand feo'.eral troops are re ported en route to assist Sanchez in de fending Ojlnaga. About 800 so-called "red-daggers," a type of guerilla fa voring the cause of the revolutionists, are reported in the hills about Cuch lllo Padado. WASHINGTON. Scpt 9. Dispatches to the AVar Department today reported Salazar, the Mexican rebel leader, en camped across the Arizona line oppo site the Lang ranch, threatening to raid American territory. One of his troopers, captured in a skirmish, has told American soldiers that raids upon American ranches' were upon personal orders of Salazar, who wanted beef for his men. Cavalry Near Border. Major Rice, with three troops of cav. airy, is encamped near the rebel leader. Outposts have been established by both sides. Major Rice Is concentrating his command, but the border Is being pa trolled! by armed cowboys, acting as scouts. General Steever reported that officers Johnson, Boone and Wagner, in charge of patrolling parties, had talked with Salazar near Lang's ranch and that Salzar protested he meant no harm to Americans and was not with his men on the raid on Culberson's ranch. Gen eral Steever's dispatch added, "Lieuten ant Johnson does not believe the state ment." Rebel Threten Torreon. Brigadier-General Murray, command ing the Western Division, has instruct ed Brigadier-General Schuyler to utilize all the troops at Fort Huachuca. Ariz., and his dispatched two troops of cav alry to Apache to strengthen the patrol. General Murray reports that more troops are needed, and suggests that part of the Ninth Cavalry, on the way from Fort Russell, Wyo, be assigned to his command. The rebels are reported threatening the city of Torreon. The reported victory of the Federal troops at Nacozarl is discredited in a dispatch to the War Department from General Schuyler, who telegraphed it was generally accepted that the rebels had been paid by the Nacozarl Railroad Company to leave the vicinity. It was added that several -Americans still re mained In the Mormon Colony at that place, but refused to leave until ordered by their bishop. WASHINGTON. Sept. 9. Arms and ammunition which President Taft au thorized exported to Mexico for use of Americans in danger from rebels In Cananea have been ordered held at Douglas, Ariz., until there are assur ances that they will not fall Into the hands of the rebels. 400 FEDERALS AT. CAXANEA Belief Is Rebels Will Be Forced to Delay Attack on Americans. NACO. Ariz.. Sept. 9. With 500 Americans isolated at Cananea, the mining center 40 miles south of this point, friends here today anxiously await the arrival of the first refugees or couriers. It was reported before all communi cation was cut. that 400 federal troops had arrived at Cananea. If this Is true, the 200 rebels who held up yesterday's passenger train, when the railway was cut probably will not attempt to at tack the mining camp. Inez Salazar, the rebel general, who has declared to American Army of ficers that he will take Cananea, Is re ported to have begun a movement in this direction, after mobolizlng about 800 men. COWBOYS HOLD BACK SALAZAR Texans Say Rebel General's - 3Icn Hold Stolen American Horses. EL PASO. Tex., Sept. 9. American cowboys on guard on "the Mexican bor der near Hachlta, N. M., prevented Inez Salazar, rebel leader, from reaching th border yesterday to get tobacco and other supplies, according to Information brought here today by Bishop O. P. Brown of the Mormon Church. Bishop (Concluded on Face 2.) irni io7.o