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VOL. LII- NO. 16,172. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MABELHITE CREDITS TUNY GOLD IN NATIONAL HEALTH ACTS ON OR SUN YAT SEN LEGAL ERROR IS TJ. FOUND BY DREAM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BUREAU ADVOCATED DENIES CLASHES LET TRUSTS S GIRL KEEPS SERIOUS FAULT ACTRESS, CURED, WILL BE ON TAFT FAVORS PLAN IX TALK AT FROM INDICTMENTS. BROADWAY SOON". HYGIENIC COXGRESS. BRYAN SAYS BO OW WILSON CAMPAIGN AMERICAN DEMAND Rumors of Strife Are Declared False. CIVIL WAR IS NOT EXPECTED Foreigners Said to Be Striving to Cause Internal Discord. PEOPLE HELD TO BE UNIT Ctillia Not "Sleeping Notion," Say ex-President Lendrr Cannot Be Bought by Flattery, Fear, Intrigue Nor Gold, Ho Says. NANKING, August 27. via San Fran Cisco, Sept. 23. (Special.) Sensational reports were recently cabled to t,ng land and reproduced In the American press, of the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. ex-provisional ires ident of China. Coupled with this re Dort was the rumor that he had quar reled with the President of China and that he had been put to death by a band of assassins. Dr. Sun promptly stamped these rumors as designed in ventions by enemies of China, and to the correspondent of the ?ew York Sun he Rave the following carefully prepared interview, which in realty is an address to the American people: "To Friends of China in the Untted ' States of America: While officially I am not compelled to speak of Chinese af fairs and can in no direct sense be the mouthpiece o the government of the reDUbllc. I feel that It is my bounded duty to speak quite fully regarding matters in which I am deeply con cerned, to the end that certain misun derstandings prejudicial to the Interests of my country may be cleared. .Misstatements Are Resented. "Perhaps I would not feel this justi fication were It not for the fact that I tcslA In American and British Journals many misstatements of fact, particularly regarding my own rela tion! with the head and the heads of the Chinese government and of cer tain factions of my countrymen. "Relations between President Yuan and myself are personally very cor dial. It Is true that we do not agree upon all matters of public policy, but our differences are those wnicn tne world expects to find among its pub lic men. "During my visit to President Yuan in June I told him very frankly my Ideas upon many important matters. We discussed at length the six-power loan, and the terms upon which it should be made and accepted. Views Largely tn Accord. "At that time President Yuan gave out a very complete statement of his views on many of these questions, and while his expressed opinions were his own, they embodied very largely my own views on various topics. Almost to the last word of that statement my own views were in accord with those of the President. "I wish to go on record once and for all as saying that in spite of efforts, past or future, of enemies of the Chi nese Republic, there will be no civil war In our country. China has been credited with having been a "sleeping nation' for centuries, and In a certain sense the phrase has been correctly ap plied. But our enemies must not count too confidently upon China beinac asleep today. "We understand too well that there are certain men of power not to In clude for the present certain nation: who would view with greater or lesser satisfaction an Internal rupture In the new republic. They would welcome as a move toward the accomplishment of their own ends and designs a civil war between the provinces of the north and smith. Men at Forefroat in Harmony. "However, the foreign ill-wishers may as well understand first as last perhaps better now that the men who are at the forefront of Chinese affairs are a unit for the republic as estab lished, and cannot be bought, individ ually or In factions, to oppose the on ward - march of the Chinese nation. Neither flattery, fear, intrigue nor gold has power to make the leaders of the new China, nor any one of them, turn back the hopes, wishes and aspirations of our people. "Let not one word which I have ut tered be construed as being even Te tnotely a hint that the China of the new order is opposed to foreigners or to a legitimate outside interest in the country's welfare. The very opposite is the case, for we welcome mission aries, men of trade, and scientists of other nations. lifted of Money Pressing:. "Perhaps it is almost superfluous for nie to say that the most pressing need of China today Is her establishment upon a sound financial basis. Alarm ists have said because the proposed loan has not been quickly negotiated that the republic was in dire danger of col lapse. There is not a shadow of rea son for this assertion. It should be re membered also that China, in spite of her reputation for poverty and famine, is really a very rich country In natural resources. Experts have made reports and have told me personally that the coal fields, still untouched, are of a value quite unflgurable. while the Iron, copper and ztnc hills are pronounced by Former Head of Peoria Schools Is Charged With Forgery Vital Words Left Ont of True Bills. PEORIA, 111.. Sept. 23. Fifteen in dictments against Newton C. Dougherty, former head of the schools of Peoria. were returned this afternoon by the grand jury. The true bills charge forgery. an embezzlement charge which it was said the evidence sus talned, having become outlawed. Judge Worthington fixed the bond at iSOO for each, or a total of $12,000. A young woman's dream last night led today to an investigation which corrected a serious error In "the indict ments as drawn by the State's Attor ney's office. But for the dream the true bills would have been faulty and Dougherty would have been absolved from guilt under the greater portion of them. Miss Lillian Adams, private secre tary to State's Attorney Scholes, was the young woman who had the dream. For several days she has been directing a corps of assistants in the compilation of the blank indictments, and last night she dreamed that the indictments were faulty. Upon her arrival at her office today she eagerly read them and found that n several of them the final charge had been omitted, the words "against the form of law prescribed," etc., having been overlooked. She Informed the State's Attorney, and the error was rectified. ACCIDENT BRINGS DEATH John W. Eliott Passes Away at Home Near 3Ionitor. OREGON CITY, Or.,' Sept 23. (Spe olal.) John W. Klllott. who met with a serious accident at his home, near Monitor, Clackamas County, last Thurs day, when he was In his barnyard and attempting to get into his wagon when his foot became caught and he was thjrown under the wagon, when the horses started to run, aiea at tne family home on Friday afternon at 4 o clock. Mr. Elliott's nose was Broken, his arm broken, also his leg. Gangrene of the leg set In. resulting In death. The funeral serTlces were held from the Monitor church on Saturday after noon at 2 o'clock, and- the interment was in the family lot of Rock Creek Cemetery, many friends attending the services of the departed Oregon pio neer. Mr.- Elliott was born at Richmond County,. Missouri, In 1841, and ume to Oregon across the plains in 1K4 witn his narents. He has resided In Oregon since that time on the old homestead at Monitor. He was well known throughout the southern part of Clackamas County. Mr. Elliott is survived by his wife, two daughters Mrs. Nora Rail and Miss Wilda Elliott one son. Albert Elliott, of Monitor; three sisters Mrs. J. T. Apperson. of Oregon City. Mrs. Eliza White and Mrs. Ella Sanborn, of Portland. Mrs. M. J. Moreland. of this city, and Mrs. Jennie Smith, of Needy Or, are cousins of Mr. Elliott. SHOCK RETURNS SENSES Man, Long Deaf and Blind, Recovers Hearing and Sight. VICTORIA, B. C, Sept. 23. At Kam loops recently Andrew Forsyth, after having been "stone" deaf and totally dumb for a period exceeding 14 years. suddenly recovered both senses as the result of a shock. The good fortune of Mr. Forsyth was practically synony mous with the misadventure which cost John Edmunds his life. Edmunds had been helping him self to a ride on a C. P. R. train as it ran slowly through the city, and. losing his footing, fell to death under the grinding wheels. Forsyth was one of those who rushed forward to gaze at the mangled body and in his horror Be screamed. He heard his own shout and also the talk of others, and forthwith joined In the conversation, although his lips had framed no word for almost 15 years. Neither the doctors nor Forsyth at tempt to explain the miracle, except saying that the sudden shock suc ceeded where medical and surgical science had proved of no avail. GEN. SICKLES SUED AGAIN Action Brought to Recover $5000 on Note Wife Aided Before. NEW YORK, Sept. 23. (Special.) General Dan E. Sickles was today made defendant tn a new suit in the Supreme Court, in which the Bank of the Me tropolis sues to recover $5000 on a promissory note. Last Spring the Lincoln Trust Com pany recovered judgment of more than $8000 against the General, and the Sher iff was ordered to seize the antiques and other' bric-a-brac In his house at 23 Fifth avenue. The day before the sale was held. Mrs. Sickles, wife of the old General, with whom he has not lived for years. pawned Jewels in order to pay the judg ment. WARSHIP IS COMPLETED Battleship Wyoming Turned Over to Government by Builders. . PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 23. The bat tleship "Wyoming was turned over to the Government at the Philadelphia Navy-Yard today by the Cramp Ship building Company. The Wyoming, which is a sister ship to the Arkansas, will be commanded by Captain F. L. Chapin. She will be placed in commission next week and will participate in the aval review In New York harbor next Record of Seven and Half Years Cited MONOPOLY HELD DANGEROUS Nebraskan Opposes Colonel's Plan of Control. SOME IDEAS APPLAUDED Commoner Says Roosevelt's Position Good Only Where He Has Fol-' lowed Democrats Issues Should. Be Dated, He Says. ' LOS ANGELES, Spt. 23. William Jennings Bryan, who is following the trail of Colonel Roosevelt at his own expense and In the Interest of Gov ernor Wilson, of New Jersey, Demo cratic Presidential candidate, departed from Los Angeles tonight for Sacra mento, where he expected to speak at the Democratic state convention tomor row. While here he devoted many words to Roosevelt's candidacy. " . From early morning until late in the afternoon he was kept busy speaking, although only four addresses had been scheduled. Many Speeches Impromptu. Bryan spoke In the afternoon to many thousands at Fiesta Tark. where the police had difficulty In controlling the crowds, and before that place was reached the Nebraskan had stopped his automobile at many places. Discussing Colonel Roocevelt and the trusts, Mr. Bryan said: "Mr. Roosevelt says that the trusts have come to stay and he denounces the Democrats for wanting to make it impossible for a private monopoly to exist. We have said that before in our campaigns. But Mr. Roosevelt says 'No. You must not try to prevent monopoly. Just regulate It. Let it grow and grow; let It, merge and merge; let it consolidate and consoli date, but watch 'it.' Record of Two Terms Cited. "My friends, he watched it for seven years and a half and it merged and merged and when it got to a doubtful point, when It didn't know whether It could merge or not, it went to him and asked him and he said, yes, merge. "I don't believe that we can long maintain political independence when we have lost industrial Independence. "I am not in favor of Mr. Roose velt's plan of making the trusts grow and increase. It has brought corrup tion into every state government that (Concluded on Page 2.) T.R. THIS HURTS 8- After Doctors Give Vp Hope She Takes Mother's Advice and Now Says She's Well. NEW YORK, Sept. 23. (Special.) Mabel Hlte, who was given up as dying in the Summer, hopes to be back on Broadway soon, singing the good old hits and some new ones. Miss Hlte de Clares she owes her cure to Christian Science. Miss Hite underwent an operation June 11 at a sanitarium on East Thirty- third-street. A few days later it was announced she could not recover. "When they at last said that they could not cure me," said Miss Hite, "I took" my mother's advice. I came home and got a Christian Scientist. The doc tors said I had come home to die, but now I am going out on Broadway twice a week and I hope in a short time to have put the rollers under my rolling chair for good. "For two weeks I have been able to take my meals at the table, sitting in an invalid chair. I shall soon be all right again and I owe my cure to Christian Science and my confidence in God. and now I feel like singing. I sing hymns." ' POPULAR LAW IS UPHELD Colorado Court Says Initiative and Referendum Is Constitutional. DENVER, Sept. 23. The State Su preme Court today handed down a de cision declaring the Colorado Initiative and referendum law constitutional. The ruling of the court was written by Chief Justice Campbell, all the justices concurring. The point at issue was the conceded failure of Secretary of State James B. Pearce to publish the proposed amend ment in the session laws four weeks previous to the general election of 1910, when it was adopted. The Supreme Court holds that the requirement of publication four weeks before the elec tion applies only to the legal publica tion in newspapers and not to the ses sion laws. Twenty-seven Initiated and referred measures are ready for sub mission at the general election in No vember under the upheld amendment. OREGON CITY WORK STARTS Carnegie Library to Be Completed ' on January I. OREGON CITY, Or., Sept. 23. (Spe cial.) The work on the new Carnegie Library for Oregon City has been com menced, and it Is expected to be com pleted by January 1. This will be a handsome building and will bef red brick, with, white trim mings, and having 20 white columns. The building will cover a space 58x68' feet, and will be built in the Seventh street Park and face John Adams street. The basement will be 60x20 feet' and S inches. In the basement will be the fuel and heating room, the building to be heated by steam, and also In this part of the building will be a work room and fumigating room for the books. On the main floor will be a vestibule, lecture room, the latter to be 20x34 feet; the librarian's office, this to be 12x20 feet. NOW, BUT IN 1916 YOU'LL BE TICKLED TO DEATH. Murphy Favors Dix for Renomination. PHOTOGRAPHER CAUSES BREAK Refusal to Be Pictured With Tiger Leaders Angers. PARTY MANAGERS WORRY Democratic Xcw York State Conven tion Meets October 1 Straus to Run Strong Murphy's Mind Unchanged. BY I.L.CTD P. LONERGAN. NEW YORK, Sept. 23. (Special.) Governor Wilson ana his campaign managers are seriously concerned over the situation in New York State. On October 1 the Democratic state convention will assemble at Syracuse, and unless Charles F. Murphy changes his mind. Governor John A. Dix will be renominated. The National campaigners, after a careful study of conditions, are satis fled that Dix Is so weak he Is walking on crutches, politically. They also re alize that Murphy will name the Gubernatorial candidate and be in full control of the convention from the time it is called to order until it ad journs. Mnrphy Little Interested. During the past few days there have been numerous conferences between men close to Wilson and others who are known to be friendly to Murphy. In this way indirect communication has been established with the boss, and the opinions of Governor Wilson 'and his close advisers are thoroughly un derstood at Tammany Hall. Murphy, however, has shown very little Inter est, contenting himself with remark ing that Dix is to be renominated. f There are several explanations given as to why the Tammany boss Is so in dependent.' The most interesting - of them all lays the blame at the door, or rather the camera, of a newspaper photographer. It will be recalled that when Mr. Wilson recently visited the State Fair at Syracuse he was asked to pose' for a photograph. Wilson consented, but when Charles F. Murphy stepped up on his right side, and Mr. Dix smilingly appeared on his left, . Mr. Wilson, to quote a slang phrase, "beat It." Mur phy scowled and shortly afterward gave public approval to Dix" candi dacy for renomination. Murphy Sees Handwriting. The way Murphy figures it, he will (Concluded on Page 2.) Scientist Reports Benzoate of Soda Is Xot Poison Open-Alr Schools Are Urged. "WASHINGTON. Sept. 23. A National Bureau of Health was strongly urged today by President Taft in his address of welcome to the 15th annual congress of hygiene and demography, and by Dr. Henry P. Walcott, of Massachusetts, president of the congress. Dr. John H. Long, of Northwestern University Medical Schools, told the delegates he had experimented with "poison squads" and had found no ill effects from the use of benzoate of soda and sulphate of copper. His ex perlm'ents with benzoate of soda, he declared, had, been practically dupli cated by Dr. Russell H. Chittenden, dl rector of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, who had reported similar re sults. The discovery of a micro-organism which may be of great value in wiping out bubonic plague, being fatal only to rats In minute quantities, was an nounced by Dr. Frederick G. Novy, of the University of Michigan. One hundred millionth part of a cubic cen timeter, he said, would kill a rat. The physical standards required of women teachers are comparable to those In the Army and Navy, said Dr. Grace N. Kimball, of Poughkeepsle, N. Y. Open-air schools, not as the excep tion, but as the rule, were advocated by Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, of New York, who said that if no better method could be adopted, every window in the school room should be left open. PORTLAND IN OPERA CHAIN Oscar Hammers teln Intimates' He Will Build $700,000 Hall Here. Intimation was made by Oscar Ham merstein, grand opera impresario in a letter received by the Portland Cham ber of Commerce yesterday, that he Intends to establish a grand opera house in Portland, contingent upon lib eral local patronage. He is planning to form a complete chain of opera houses for the presentation of grand opera in all of the large cities of the United States. The cities included in his building programme are Albany, Syracuse, Buf falo, Rochester, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk, Richmond, Atlanta, Memphis', New Or leans, Galveston and other -cities of the East and Middle West. In his letter he asks the hearty sup port of Portland interests on the plea that "a culmination of my plan Is bound to bring Incalculable benefits to your city and honor . and eminence to those wbo take an active interest in the same." According to the hopes of Mr. Hammersteln, each of the theaters will cost about $700,000 and will be elaborate in every detail. HAND-STEERED SHIP IS IN Camino Brought to Portland by Pilot Bailey After Accident. Remarkable among feats performed on the Columbia River was the work of Pilot Bailey last night In guiding the steamship Camino from Mount Cof fin to the Oak-street dock by means of the hand-steering gear. When off Mount Coffin the steam steering gear broke. Without hesl tancy the pilot continued to the wharf and with many delicate maneu vers skillfully brought the ship to its docking place. When brought near the Oak-street dock. Captain Ahlin, master of the steamer, relieved the river pilot and docked the ship without trouble of any kind. This work was lauded by marine men. The Camino, sailing from San Fran cisco, was heavily laden with a cargo of cement. COLLEGIAN RAGES IN COURT Youth Charged With Thefts From Homes of Society" People. CHICAGO. Sept. 23. Panic-stricken, spectators fled from the courtroom to day when Jacob Foy Guthrie, the col lege man on trial for the alleged theft of money, jewelry and other property valued at $350,000 from the houses of society people here, threw a cuspidor at a Deputy Sheriff guarding him. Guthrie gnashed his teeth and snarled during the hearing. It was said he would be sent to an asylum. A college graduate and former school teacher Guthrie was one of the most mysterious prisoners with whom the police have had to deal. His room, when he was arrested, presented a daz zling array of Jewelry, bric-a-brac and silks. DEAD OUTLAW IDENTFIED Man Shot at Fresno Is James Mullen, Notorious Mountain Highwayman. FRESNO, Cal., Sept. 23. A dead high wayman, whose body has been lying In the morgue since last Wednesday, when he was shot by Thomas Ragan,. whom he attempted to hold up, was today identified by James Mullen, a miner and engineer, as Harvey Cole, a notorious outlaw, who had carried on a carnival of crime from Idaho to Mexico. Mullen declares that Cole escaped twice while serving a ten-year sentence in an Idaho penitentiary for murder, and thereafter started a career of rob bery in Wyoming and in Arizona, where he robbed a restaurant and was wound ed by a cleaver in the hands of the cook." According to Mullen. Cole killed two Chinamen in Idaho and has long been sought by te r.uthorities. Nichols Taken to Hos . pital From Jail TENSE SITUATION IS RELIEVED Innocence of Fruitgrower Is Practically Admitted. ADJUSTMENT IS PROMISED In Response to Ambassador Wilson, Governor Guerrera Says That He Will Give Matter His , Personal Attention. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 23. W. C. Nichols, an American fruitgrower for whose release the American Ambassa dor, Henry Lane Wilson, made a per emptory demand on Governor Matias Guerrera, of the State of Tamaullpas, has been removed from the. Templco Jail and placed- in a hospital under guard. Nichols Is ill and his life was in jeopardy as a result of his confine ment. This action was taken by order of the supreme court Judge, who previ ously had ordered his reimprlsonment, and it has relieved a situation that fast was becoming acute. Nichols was sentenced to eight years' Imprisonment on the charge of having killed a Mexi can robber. The court in reconsider ing his case disregarded the confes sion of a Mexican who admitted that he was the slayer of the robber. . Governor Acta Quickly. Governor Guerrera acted promptly on the demand of the American Ambassa dor and gave assurances by telegraph to Mr. Wilson that he would give the matter personal attention, until It had been arranged to the satisfaction of the Ambassador. In his message-the Governor practically admits the inno cence of Nichols and says if there lias been an error in imposing sentence on the American It was due to Ignorance on the part of the judge, rather than to persecution. Ambassador Wilson expressed him self as satisfied for the present, but will permit no unnecessary delay In further proceedings, which he is con fident will result in freeing Nichols. Minister Expresses DlaapproTal. Senor Lascurlano, Mexican Foreign Minister, expressed his indignation at the action of the Supreme Court of Tamaullpas In ordering the reimprls onment of Nichols, who before the ap peal had been removed from the Jail and kept under guard at a local hos pital. " The Ambassador has been advised that Nichols is 111 and that his life is in Jeopardy as a result of his confine ment. The charge against him is the killing of a robber, Caballos, who had been pursued by the authorities for months. While the situation on the northern border of Mexico appears less acute as the result of the dissipation of the larger rebel forces in the neighborhood of important towns, today's reports from the country at large were any thing but encouraging to those who have looked for an early return of peace. Peace Reigns la To banco. Among the many points mentioned in the official dispatches, the only peaceful spot appears to be the State of Tobasco, where there have been no disturbance for the last month. . As the resul of the government's suc cess over small armies of rebels, the State of Durango, the southern part of Chihuahua and the western part of Stnaloa, are reported to be full of bauds or bebels and brigands. The presence of several other -bands was reported near the line of the Mexican Central Railway between Dldlmlta and Jimenez. Oaxaca, cut oft from the north. Is being besieged, and it Is thought con ditions there are serious. Cuernavaca virtually is isolated, and there is no communication with Eastern Guerrero. Activities of the formidable Zapata revolutionaries are being renewed in the State of Mexico. In the capital everything is quiet, but conditions are said to be bad in such cities as Michlo can, Puebla, Very Crux and Tlaxcola. TAFT TO GIVE NEW ORDER Fourth-Class Postmasters Will Be In Classified Service. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. It virtually was decided today that President Taft ould soon Issue an executive order placing fourth-class postmasters In the classified service. This order will relieve 36,308 post masters from the uncertainty of politi cal appointment. West Stayton Seeks Cannery. WEST STAYTON. Or.. Sept. 23. (Spe cial.) A meeting has been called by the West Stayton Commercial Club for next Thursday evening to formulate nlan to secure a cannery nere. ine local people plan to get about BOO acres signed up. the owners agreeing to put In such crops as me cannery may can for. With Irrigation avauante a rota tion of crops can be grown that will keep a cannery busy throughout the season. month. i 1 Concluded on Fsge 3.) ta