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PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LII-XO. 16,162. CHUM, CONFIDANTE, i PROVES DETECTIVE PROSPERITY NOW CHEMISTS REVEAL DEFINITE LIMIT IS PLACED Oil 1ADER0 FORMER PREACHER OBTAINS DIVORCE BOTH OLD PARTIES HI TOPIC IN ENGLAND ES REINS SECRET OF BRAVE West Hammond Girl's DECLARED CORRUP T UPSETS ALL PLANS r- . Committee'Roasted'for KRVTTSCHXITT SAYS OUTLOOK FARMHAND GCILTY OF CRIME WIFE JEALOCS EVEN OF HIS XIECES, HE CHARGES. STEPS INTO TRAP. CAUSES COMMENT. : Heavy Programme CROWDS ARE DISAPPOINTED Colonel - Seeks . "Fresh Air" - While People Wait. POLICE FEAR HE IS LOST Coe Ordered to "Cut Out" Meetings at Playgrounds and Colored FolVs Gathered There Go r Away Murmuring. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the United States and candi . date for the Presidency on the Pro gressive party ticket, was so angered by the disappearance of a volume ot The Second Koman Republic, by Her in It Paul, from his suite at the Hotel Oregon yesterday afternoon, that he did not return to that hostelry lor oin Tier at the appointed hour, but instead changed his plans suddenly and went from Moose Hall direct to the Lnion Depot. He ate on the train, which left Portland promptly at 8 o'clock for La Grande. The precious volume was a gift to the Colonel from Mrs. Roosevelt and he prises It very highly. He made a peremptory demand on M. K. MacRea, manager of the Hotel Oregon, for Its return. MacRea Insists that, while he has made what effort he can already, and will do more later, the man agement of the hotel is not responsible for the loss of the book. The Colonel commissioned "Steve' Connell to search for the book. , The book incident formed the climax of features connected with the Roose velt visit during the day. which de veloped unexpected and startling changes of the most abrupt nature In the programme as arranged by the local committee, of which Dr. Henry Waldo Coe Is the head. Clashes Are Frequent. : While there' were some Incidents in the morning, they passed away fairly well .and left no marks, but In the afternoon things went wrong frequent "ly. The first clash. If such It might be called, came when the Colonel re fused even to appear at the North Park playgrounds on the West Side, where the committee - had scheduled him. Instead, he issued a direct and positive order to the committee to detach his automobile and take him eut of the line of march to less con gested quarters, saying he wanted air. This action on Colonel Roocevelt's part completely broke up the remain der of the parade programme, which was scheduled to close with at least an appearance at the playgrounds in the North Parkway and the return to the Hotel Oregon for a brief rest. - Hardly had he reached his suite In the hotel when he looked for his prised book and could not And it. He began to. say things forthwith to his secre tary and demanded the book. The sec retary could not locate It. "You go downstairs and tell the man. alter that I "want that book rlnht away: . tell htm I want It at once," ordered Col onel Roosevelt, walking back and forth across the room in a rage. The order was delivered and efforts were made to trace the book, but it was not found. The Colonel's rage In creased with each report of failure to And it. until, when he left the hotel for the Gipsy Smith Tabernacle, he was greatly exercised. Wbmi, Secure Aategrapk. It waa suggested that perhaps Mrs A. W. Nicholson, a prominent member of the local committee, had taken away by mistake the volume when leaving the suite after securing Colonel Roose velt's autograph In two of his books, which she had purchased for the occa sion. She was granted an interview for tb,e purpose shortly after the Colonel reached the hotel, and he handed her the volume of essays to read while he breakfasted in the grillroom with the local committee and some of the mem bers of his party. - It was suggested that she might have misinterpreted his meaning and taken the book as a pres ent. vThis, however, was found to be not the fart, as she told the Colonel herself at the tabernacle meeting. '- The Colonel was billed to return to the Hotel Oregon from Ms speech at the tabernacle for dinner and waa to have left the hotel to say a few words to the Moose Lodg- at 7 o'clock. In stead, however, he changed the pro gramme so that he returned to the curb In front of the hotel about :2S; sum moned Manager MacRae from the hotel and again took up In a vigorous manner the subject of the 'lost book. - "That book I prlxe very highly," mM the Colonel, speaking emphatically and In loud tones. "You had no right to allow anyone In my rooms while I was out. I want that book advertised as lost In the morning papers; you get It and send it to me either In San Francisco or Chicago. It was a volume of essays by Paul Hermit one that I value very highly. I think tlwaa tak en away by some 'jack,' and I want It back." Closing his book subject, the Colonel ordered that he be driven to Moose Hall. It was SO minutes ahead of his scheduled sreech and the members had (Conclude! on Page S.) J Union and Southern Pacific; Pre pared for Congestion Sierra Tunnel Story Premature. . NKW YORK, Sept. 11. (Special.) Julius Kruttschnitt, vice-president ana director of maintenance and operation of the entire Harriman system, who re turned today from Europe on the Kron Prlns Wilhelm, said: "The outlook for a year of business activity and general prosperity In the United States Is so pronounced tnat has filtered through the English news papers, which are giving It considerable soace. although they are not in tne habit of printing much regarding America. "Regarding the prospects of traffic congestion, I may say that with the large equipment orders placed by tne Union- and Southern Pacific several months ago. equipment which is now being delivered, and with the double tracking which Is steadily in progress over .our main lines, I do not believe that we will experience much traffic congestion on our system. . "The recurrent report that the Southern Pacltic is about to construct another tunnel through the Sierras at a cost of 110.000,000 or more is decided ly ' premature. The proposed tunnel would reduce the altitude of our,cllmb over the mountains from more than 7000 to something like 6800 feet and enable a moderate increase In the speed of our trains In that district, but the benefit would be nothing like that ordinarily attributed to the project. It probably would pay with " greater traffic and will doubtless be realized In time, but for the present the mat ter Is In abeyance.'' Mr. Kruttschnitt was accompanied by his wife. They spent their time abroad motoring through England and Scot land, visiting scenes of historic interest. particularly noted castles and cathe drals. '..''. LIFEBOAT RULE MODIFIED Extension of Summer Leniency Sub mitted to Secretary Nagel. WASHINGTON. Sept 11. Modifica tions of life-saving regulations submit ted by the Federal supervising steam boat inspectors to Secretary Nagel for approval, would permit the lesser life boat requirements for the Summer sea son to remain in force until October IS for all Atlantic and Pacific coast wise vessels. - The season, under regulations Is- sued a few months ago as a result of the Titanic disaster, now runs from May 15 to September 15. during which coastwise steamers are required to have lifeboat equipment for only 60 per cent of passengers and crew. During the rest of the year, however, they must provide lifeboats and rafts for all. The proposed 'modification would not af feet the ocean, lake, bay, sound or river steamers. The Department of Commerce and Labor takes the position that if no dls tlnctlon were made .between Summer and Winter regulations the excursion trip (rade of the coasts would prac tically De killed. HOOD RIVER WANTS BOATS Portland Petitioned to Keep Up Co lumbia and Snake River Line. A petition signed by more than 200 representative citixens and merchants of Hood River was received yesterday by Secretary Giltner, of the Chamber of Commerce, from the Hood River Commercial Club, asking that the Port land organization use -Its Influence In keeping the line ot boats ot the Open River Transportation Company In op eration on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. The matter will be placed be fore the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce at its next meeting. The unanimous desire of the Hood River business men is that this com pany be kept in business that water competition may be retained. NEW TAX PLAN FAVORED Arizona League Would Adopt Sy tern in Vogue in Australia. PHOENIX. Artz.. Sept. 1L If movement begun here today proves successful. Arizona will have the Aus tralian system of taxation. Under this plan each property-owner turns In his own assessment. The state then has the right to purchase any property at an Increase of 10 per cent over the owner s valuation. The Arizona Tax League, formed to day, nwIII work for the adoption of a constitutional amendment to tnls end. AFFAIRS OF'BANK PROBED Grand Jury to Investigate Failure of Boise State Depository. BOISE. Idaho. Sept. 11. (Special.) Responsibility for the failure of the Boise State Bank, which went to the wall a year ago, will be placed by a special Federal grand jury called to convene In this city, September 20. The petition for the grand Jury was made by County Attorney Raymond Glvens. He refuses to make a state ment as to the nature of the evidence to be considered. HORSE PLAGUE SPREADING Animals Die From Disease In Two Counties of Iowa. COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia., Sept. 11. The horse plague has crossed the Missouri River and several animal have died near Shenandoah, Clarlada and Pacific Junction, in Page and Mills Counties. Ia. Campaign Goes On. MORPHINE IS FOUND IN BODY Chain of Evidence Against Vice-Ring Is Growing. FRANKIE FORD COLLAPSES Woman Charged With Administering Drug to Messmaker in Dive TJn-' able to Testify Virginia Brooks ' ' Aids Plans for Prosecution - CHICAGO. . Sept.' , 11 (Special.) Secrets of one of the many graves laid at the door 'of WestTHammond's vice-ring jwere. Dared, today when, the Coroner's "chemical analysis on John Messmaker a body showed "morphine sufficient to - cause death." John Messmaker was the West Ham mond engineer, whose death In the Henry Foss dive started Virginia Brooks on a fresh campaign against vice. In which Coroner Hoffman was enlisted. His death came after a night of revelry at the Foss dive.. After one death, Frankle Ford, an Inmate of the Foss dive, along with other witnesses, disappeared. The Ford woman was re cently captured. Foss told the Coroner that Messmaker did not pass the night there and later Robert Clayton, a cab driver, who contradicted Foss' stater ment. succumbed to "stomach trouble.". ladlaaa Coroner Asked to Aid. Now, It la to the body of the cab driver that the Coroner looks for fur ther enlightenment on the operations of the West Hammond ring, already subject to prosecution from three dif ferent angles. That will entail cb-operation with the Lake County, Indiana, Coroner.. The Coroner"s next step will be re-examina tion of "Frankle" Ford. Mr. Hoffman's plan to conduct the examination yes terday was interfered with , by the physical collapse ot the Ford, girl 'at the; Bridewell, where she awaits ar raignment on a charge as accessory in the murder of Messmaker. Superintend ent Whitman notified the Coroner that , her appearance, was impossible. T do not believe that Frankle Ford Killed Messmaker, said , Virginia Brooks. "The girl reformed after the result was announced. I believe this is all a conspiracy on the part of dis reputables of West Hammond to make t appear that she Is responsible for his death." Villa- "Joan" Aids Officers. Durinsr the day the village "Joan," as she Is termed, assisted at the County Attorney's office In the final prepara tions for prosecution of Justice Frank Green at West Hammond, and Justice Charles Wittenberg on bench at Burn- ham." - Formal complaints and charges of T iMOo!) , 1 AMSHAMf TOSHpoy " Deputy Sheriff Arrests Laborer in Act of Burning Barn When De niands for Money Fail. SEATTLE, Sept. 11. After digging potatoes for ten days on the farm of August Fisher, a short distance north of the . city, "County Detective. J. W. Sampson, who had been assigned to discover the writer of threatening let ters to Fisher, arrested Arthur Qulncy Hoffman, a fellow farmhand, today as be was setting fire to Fisher's barn. For ' two months Fisher, who is wealthy, has received letters threaten ing his life and the lives of his wife and five-children, if he did not place $2600 In gold where the writer of the letters could find it. Last July Fisher's barn was burned, but Hoffman, who slept in the loft, escaped- unscathed.-: Hoffman was greatly Interested In the "black hand" letters and -volunteered to protect the Fisher family, frequently funning- from the 'barn at night and firing a pistol at mythical intruders! but the letters contlnued-'to come regularly. .: f Ten -days ago Fishep appealed to the Sheriff, and -.SampsoR,. disguised : as a farm hand, appeared at the Flshjr home and 'went to work In the potato .field,' sleeping at night with Hoffman. At first Hoffman was suspicious ot the newcomer, but Sampson's prowess as a potato-digger won -Hoffman over and he confided to the detective - that- he! thought Fisher ought to give up the money.' ' ' . , The detective watched Hoffman closely after the receipt of a letter Monday threatening to dynamite the Fisher - home, and arrested him today just after he had set fire to the new barn. . . - Hoffman is in the County Jail. WAIVER SYSJEM ATTACKED Suit Brought to Require Bidding on Street Improvement!. 1 Declaring that the waiver system, under which street Improvements are sometimes made. Is contrary to the city charter, the law firm of Hunting ton & Wilson, representing a number of property owners, has filed a petition with the City Auditor protesting against the City Council letting con tracts under the system in the future. The waiver ' improvements are made when all the property owners ; on a street file written waivers of rights asking for competitive bidding-. The petition filed yesterday declares that the charter requires the City Engineer to prepare plans and specifications for all improvements and also requires competitive bidding. The waiver sys tem has been used in making street Improvements for many years past. . SULPHUR CARGO ON FIRE Thousand Tons Consigned to Port land Threatened at Dock. . SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11. Fire, which broke out tonight in the hold of the British steamer Fltzclarence at the Green street wharf, threatens to destroy 1000 tons of Japanese sulphur in her cargo. The Fltzclarence, Cap tain J. H. Blair, arrrved recently with coal for this port and sulphur for Portland, Or., from Muroran, Japan. It the sulphur Is destroyed the loss will be between J40.000 and 850,000.- Water from five tugs and several fire engines was turned Into the hold without appreciable effect. NEVER TOUCHED HIM. Thirty Days Given to Protect Americans. AMBASSADOR HAS MESSAGE Resignation Must Follow Fail ure, Is Ultimatum. OFFICIALS ARE RETICENT Intervention Will Follow, It Is De clared in Washington,, if Mexi can Executive Refuses to Meet Conditions. I WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. (Special.) President Taft has given presiaent Madero 30 days in whlcn to protect A murl.an nrnwrttf and lives In-Mexico. If Madero falls to do this the United States will require that he resign im medlatelv... If Madero should refuse to resign Intervention will follow speedily. This statement was made here toaay by a high official of the Department of stato tn Juan Pedro Didapp. repre sentative of the Mexican revolution in Washington. The name of the official is withheld, hut full credence is srlven the state ment here, In view of recent events in the Mexican situation. Ambassador Leaves In Haste. rin. Manni rAiriv Mnxican Ambas sador here, hurriedly left Washington last week for Mexico City, bearing a personal message from President Taft to President Madero. It is oenevea the message he took from the Admin itratlnn to Madero was of the tenor described. Diplomats say that Calero would not have made a personal trip from Washington all the way to Mex ico City unless the issue was extraor dinarily urgent. . Developments this week showing the strong exertions of the Madero admin istration to get troops to Northern Mexico to protect American Interests. which quickly followed Calero s arrival In Mexico Cltv. also . lend weight to the reported threat of the United States.- State Department Reticent. Officials at the State Department to day were reticent when questioned concerning this development in tno Mexican situation. It was Intimated that -the . Administration intends to force Madero to protect foreign inter ests in the Republic, but none would discuss the report that this Govern ment plans to compel the Mexican president to resign if he fails to got a better grasp on affairs along the Ro Grande. Warrant for Automobile Agent Out. WINNIPEG, Man., Sept. 11. A war rant was Issued today In the City Police Court for the arrest of Robert Gibson Larimer, vice-president and treasurer of Larimer & Co., Limited, local branch of a Detroit automobile company. Winnipeg backers of Larimer say he f innooo of ,rnnM clnlma here. Her Insistence on Going With Him on Parish Calls Drove Him Out of Pnlpit, He Says. RENO, New. Sept. 11. (Special.) Edwin E. Knapp, twice pastor of Cen tral Baptist Church, Brooklyn, once pastor of the Baptist Church of the Redeemer, .New York; twice a pastor at Jay, in the Adirondacks; twice a traveling evangelist and finally a real estate operator at Mount Vernon, N. V., today secured a decree of divorce here from Jessie Allen Knapp. now be lieved to be. at Seattle, Wash. - Unreasonable jealousy Is alleged by the former preacher, who related that during his second pastorate of five years in Brooklyn he made It a point to take -his wife on all calls in his parish. Unable to allay her fears by this means, he left her to become, a prospector in Colorado and on return ing took her to Jay, N. Y. He testified that she was even jeal ous of his nieces, daughters of his five sisters. In 190S Mr. Knapp took a position in Alaska, where his wife followed him. Returning 18 months later, he again went to Jay, but says he was finally forced from the pas torate there by her cruelty. Mr. Knapp Is employe by a grocery company of Reno and also has mining Interests In Colorado. The marriage ceremony was performed at Groton, Conn., in 1887. HEALTH OFFICE HAS GERMS Three Secretaries of Dr. White Have Succumbed to Love Microbe. . Microbes ought to know better than to choose the office of the State Board of Health In which to carry on their Insidious intrigues into mind and body As a rule the average citizen looks upon such offices as the sanctum sanctorum, the harborVof refuge from their assaults. - :Yet,, judging, by happenings In. the Selling building, there Is one Insect, or bug call it what you will which seemingly cannot be eradicated, driven out or killed, the microbe love, that amatorial organism whose pictorial representation is a - chubby little in fant with a couple of wings and darts Innumerable. - Three times running has Dr. Calvin S. White " been forced to bow to the power of the amorous young god. and release the secretary of the State Board of Health. ; Now it is Miss. Ade laide Wlthloombe. who has filled that position for two years. Yesterday she bade adieu to the office and September 18 will marry Sidney Rasmussen, of the J. P.-Rasmussen Paint and Oil Company. " BEACH TRAIN IS DITCHED Second Wreck In Tea Days on Ya- " quina Bay Line Causes Fear. NEWPORT, U.., Sept 11. (Special.) The Yaquina Bay train, carrying B0 passengers, ran into the -' ditch near Wrenn Station yesterday. Nobody was Injured. The mail and passengers were transferred to freight cars and brought the remaining 55 miles five hours late. As this Is the second passenger wreck occurring in the same vicinity in ten days, fear- is felt by those com pelled to travel - on the Corvallls & Eastern Railroad. APPLE PIES LURE TAFT President Plans Visit to Aunt Deliah and Other Relatives. BEVERLY. Mass.. Sept. II. The ap petlzlng apple pies and the rich brown doughnuts that Miss Deliah Torrey used to make for Nephew "Will" Taft linger in the memory of the President, so on Saturday he will make a trip to Millbury. Mass., where Miss Torrey lives. Many of President Taft's relations are expected to shake his hand in Mill bury and Miss Torrey's house will be the headquarters of a small Taft re union. REV. C. F. WEJGLE BETTER Memorial Services Planned for Man Thought Dead, Cancelled. The many friends of Rev. C. F. Welgle, the evangelist, who conducted a successful series of meetings last Spring at the Friends Ctiurch In Pied mont, will be glad to know that the re port of his deatti was unfounded and that he has survived an operation for appendicitis at Mooers, N. Y. The contemplated memorial service to be held in the First Nazarene Church next Sabbath is therefore cancelled. , GREAT FRENCH ARMY OUT Maneuvers Participated in by 120,- 000 Meu and SO Aeroplanes. ' PARIS, Sept. 11. The most imposing and extensive French araiy maneuvers in years opened today in Touralne and Poltu, when 120,000 soldiers and 60 aeroplanes and two dirigible balloons took the field for a week ot mimic war fare. General J. J. C. Joffre, chief of the general staff. Is directing the opera tions. . Portland Man Dies In South. Frank Mason, of Portland, died Sep tember 8, after a three days illness, while visiting his son, John Mason, at their old home In East Tennessee. Mason was 85 years old and was an old settler la the Willamette Valley. He had been living in Portland for the past 10 years with his son. Dr. L T, Mason, a dentist of this city. Roosevelt Lacks Fire in Auditorium Speech. BOSS SYSTEM IS GRILLED Murphy, Taggart and Sullivan Control Democrats, Says. PENROSE CHARGE DENIED 9000 Hear' Address and Grow Im patient Before He. Begins Aged .Woman Interrupts Judge McGinn's Introduction. Arraigning both of the old political parties as corrupt . and boss-ridden, Theodore Roosevelt, nominee of the Progressive party for President, in an address before an audience estimated at 9000 people, one-third of . whom were women, at the Gipsy Smith Audi torium yesterday afternoon, commended the new party as the only hope of the people for solving the social' and eco nomic problems of the day. Roosevelt spoke for 70 minutes and, although his audience was a sympathetic' and re sponsive one, he seemed to lack the ' fire and enthusiasm In his delivery that has characterized his former appear ances here. Roosevelt introduced his address with an Invitation to the voters, regardless of past political affiliations, to unite with the Progressive party which, he said, embraced the Democracy of Jack son and the Republicanism of Lincoln. "Nominally we are fighting two par ties, but In reality, there Is only one," he said. "We are fighting the same representatives of the same Interests In both of the- old parties. It will be the purpose of the Progressive party , to dispense with the bosses. We will not only do away with the bosses, but we will destroy the conditions which have made boss-ship practicable. These conditions are being perpetuated by both the Republican and Democratic parties through Improper alienees with the representatives of crooked business." Disclaiming any selfish - interest In assuming the leadership of the new party, Roosevelt repeatedly during his address reminded his auditors that the pending contest was their fight. He denied emphatically that : the Pro gressive party movement was a one man issue and declared that It It was, he would not be Identified with It. Th new party, he said, was bound to come because of the Inability of the old parties to cope with the situation and give to the people an administration ( that was responsive to their needs. "I have only helped to bring about the organization of the new party a little sooner ' than it otherwise would have appeared," declared the ex-President. "I became a candidate reluct antly and then only when I found that the persons whom I thought would serve the people had deserted them and were serving the enemies of the peo ple. It was then that I had to take my stand with the people and fight for the principles for which I have con tended. "The personality of any man In yils fight does not amount to anything. It Is the principle for which the party stands. In this fight, the man is of concern only to the extent that he can be of service for the time being tn ad vancing the cause." , Roosevelt referred to Archbold and Penrose and the Senatorial Investiga tion as to the Standard Oil Company's contribution of funds to his campaign and declared that the accusations that had been made were not against him but against Cornelius P. Bliss, who had been dead for seven years. Parti nan crowd Cheers, 'The substance of the testimony of Archbold and Penrose," declared Roose velt, "was that a dead man eight years ago told them that I knew about some, thing he was trying to do with them." And the partisan audience sounded Its Indorsement of Roosevelt's explanation of the transaction with prolonged ap plause. , Roosevelt appealed for support of the new party, "not alone for the enemies It has made, but for the principles for . which It stands." He committed the Progressive party to a fulfillment of Its platform promises, including woman suffrage, legislation that will safe guard the farmer and other producers, a living wage for the workman, a uni versal eight-hour workday tor all wo men engaged In industrial employment, a workmen's compensation act and other measures of legislation for im proving the condition of the working people. We do not promise the millenium. but we do promise to do away with a mass of injustice and by solving the social and economic problems that are responsible for the condition of un rest throughout this country to pro duce a more satisfied and patriotic citizenship," concluded the speaker. Introdnctloa Purposely LoS. The ex-President waa Introduced by Circuit Judge McGinn, chairman of the meeting. In eloquent terms. ; The as signment of Judge McGinn was a dif ficult one. but he discharged It well and created a decidedly favorable Im pression. The audience was restless and Impatient and did not want any un necessary preliminaries, .unknown to (Concluded on Pace 12.) 'A