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K PORTLAND, - OREGON,' FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1912. PRICE FIVE" CENTS. VOL. LJI-JfO. 16,181. V V BULGARIAN TROOPS GROSSING FRONTIER BattjeVWith 400 Killed, Is Reported. SKIRMISHES ARE GENERAL Sudden Advance in Balkans Comes Without Ultimatum. PORTE PREPARES FOR WAR Turkey Appoints Xazim Pacha to Su premo Command--Rouraania Tak ing No Action Yet--Powers ' . Negotiating; for Peace. LOXDOX, Oct. 4. An engagement has taken place south nf Hnnnanll, a Bulgaria Inn 37 mile morth of Adrl anonle, according to a Constantinople dispatch to the Exchange Telearaph Contpaar.. The casualty list la placed at 400 killed. . LONDON, Oct. J. Hostilities between the Balkan states and Turkey have commenced, according; to reports from many grounds tonight. A dispatch to the Russian government says Bulgar ians are crossing the frontier. Military action has outstripped slow er-footed diplomacy, for no ultimatum has yet been presented to Turkey and in Constantinople none is expected un til Monday. The porte, however, has sent an official notification, to the powers. Turkey Reserves Rlsrht to Act. "In view of the manifestly aggres slve attitude of the Balkan states,' this reads, "Turkey reserves to Itself full liberty of action, convinced that the civilised world will not fall to do justice to its moderate attitude. But this cannot exclude care for safeguard ing its dignity and .security, as well , as Us rights." This, it would seem. Is the Porte's way of preparing the world for the failure of the powers to stave, off hos tilities. No official confirmation of the rupture of peace is to be had, but skirmishes are reported to have taken place In the neighborhood of Djumbala, called also Jaraboll, Bui garian territory In the Albanian vilayet of Scutari, along the Montenegrin frontier and near Buschkvrania, on the Servian border. Ronmanla Delaying- Action. Turkey has appointed the War Min ister, Naaim Pacha, to supreme com mand. Routnanla has not yet mobilized and it Is said will take no action for a few days. Negotiations, by the great powers in favor of peace are being carried on, the most important conferences being held at Paris. It is reported that Aus tria will receive Europe's mandate to take the needful steps to localize the war. All dispatches . from the near East are subject to heavy delay and cen sorship. rXTTMATCM IS NOW EX ROUTE Republic Declared in Santos With Sofulis as President. CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 3. Reliable information reached here tonight that the Balkan ultimatum demanding au tonomy for Macedonia would be de livered Monday. In view of the gravity of the crisis, the government contemplates adding to the Cabinet two or three members without portfolios. Persistent rumors' are current that hostilities have begun on the Bul garian frontier north of Kirk-KIlieseh, but the Porte declared it is without news. Bulgarian excesses against the Turks are reported from Varna, Aidos. Burghas and other places. Thirty Turks hare been killed and many wounded, according to this re port, and several villages looted, bombs being employed in some cases. The Samlan leader, Sofulis. late ad vices say. has proclaimed a republic in the Island of Samos, with himself as President. A detachment of Turkish frontier guards today attacked . the Montene grin guards on . the border in the Be r ana district. The Montenegrins did not reply to the firing and the Turks retired. King Nicholas, of Montenegro, and his ministers have received several telegrams urging them to begin hos-i tillties Immediately against Turkey. The Porte has decided to reject the Greek demand for the removal of the embargo on Greek vessels. The Porte has taken the ground that Interna tional law permits a sovereign state to requisition foreign vessels for its own requirements. It is willing, however, eventually to compensate the owners of the craft. Abdullah Pasha, commander-in-chief of the Turkish forces in Albania, has been appointed to command the north ern army to operate against Bulgaria and Servia. All Riza Pasha. ex-Minister of War, will command the southern army against the Greeks. The war fever of the populace is ris. ing rapidly. Thousands of students and others formed processions and marched through the streets tonight. They held demonstrations in favor of war before the palace, where the Sultan appeared and saluted them. Thenco they pro ceeded to the various embassies and the (Concluded on Page 3 . SAFETY PIN TAKEN FROM GIRL'S LUNG RARE OPERATION' PERFORMED IX PORTLAND. 3-Inch Clasp Lodged Near Seventh Rib of 12-Year-OId Lass In Fit . of . Laughter Week Ago. Ten inches below the throat, a three inch safety pin, which had been swal lowed by Wilma Wade, 12 years old. of Summerville, Or., and had been In her bronchial tubes for six days, was last night recovered In St. Vincent's Hospital by two Portland physicians in an operation which Is thought to be unique in Portland. No record of the recovery of a safety pin under such circumstances was found in medical journals devoted to such operations. Wllma Wade, who is the daughter of a Summerville rancher, was seized with an attack -of laughter last Friday and in the indrawing of her breath as she laughed, the safety pin, which she was holding in her mouth, was drawn back into her throat. It was closed. allowing it to pass smoothly down the thorax and into the' bronchial tubes. After a number of homely remedies had been tried to remove the pin, the lri was brought to Portland Sunday and taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. There the operation was performed yesterday. A tracheal bronchiscope was used to locate the position oi tne pin, a light bulb, mirror arrangements and a tube being let into the bronchial tubes through a suture cut - In the throat into the thorax. With a medical hook the pin was drawn Into the tube and so out of the passages, The pin was at about the seventh rib and. was lodged crosswise in the passage. An X-ray photograph of the girl's throat was made to locate It The girl suffered little from, the op eration and is expected to be dis charged from the hospital in a few days. " SPEEDER AND TRAIN CRASH Gasoline Car and Freight Collide Head on In Cascades One Hurt. ELLENSBURG, Wash., Oct. 3. r(Spe clal.) Mounting a steep grade in the Cascades on a little gasoline speeder, a signal man named Thurston this aft ernoon collided head on with an east hnnnri frelirht. was thrown from the machine and suffered a compound f rae ture of the skulL The freight was rushed into Cleelum with the Injured man, and at tha hospital there the doctors held out little hope of his re covery. Thurston had orders to repair the newly Installed block signal on the Milwaukee and was making last time up hill, despite the blinding rain and snow storm. The freight fas making about 25 miles an hour down grade on a curve when the two collided. The collision occurred a half mile east of Whittier, only a short distance from the scene of the disastrous wreck last August, when the Olympian crashed through the trestle, killing five. Thurs ton's helper, who was riding back of him on the speeder, Jumped from the machine just as the freight hit. He escaped with slight bruises and was the first to reach the side of Thurston. PORTLAND COUPLE ELOPE Leila Clancy and W. J. Oberteufer, Jr., Motor to Vancouver. The climax of a high school romance occurred 'Wednesday afternoon at Vancouver, Wash., when Miss Leila Clancy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Clancy, became the bride of W llllam J. Oberteufer, Jr., son of a prominent of ficial in the Quartermaster's Depart ment of the Army. Mr. Oberteufer, Jr., is a salesman for a Portland hardware company and on Wednesday afternoon called for the girl at her home under the pretext of going for a short .automobile ride. That was the last time she was seen In Portland as "Miss Clancy," for Mr. Oberteufer steered the machine down town, where he picked up a schoolboy friend and hied to Washington, where the knot was tied by Rev. Mr. Eck. The principals in the affair are both under age, but the match had the ap proval of their parents with ease when they came home and confessed. Port land will be the home of the couple. $100 OFFERED FOR APPLES Price of $2.50 a Box Guaranteed for . Best Fruit Exhibited. Howard Elliott president of the Northern Paciflc, will give $100 in gold for the best 10 boxes of apples grown in the American Northwest this year and exhibited at the Northwestern Products Exposition in Minneapolis from November 12 to 23. The exposition management will give $50 in gold or a silver trophy worth that amount for the second best 10 boxes and guarantees to sell the 20 boxes winning the first and second prizes at a minimum of $2.50 a box and remit the amount to the exhibit ors. A number of Oregon applegrowers expect to enter in the competition. HEARST PARTY FOR STRAUS Independence League In New York Indorses T. R. Candidate. NEW YORK. Oct. S. Oscar Straus, candidate for Governor on the Roose velt Progressive ticket, was indorsed for Governor by the Independence League in state convention late today. The vote was 89 for Mr. Straus and " for William Sulser." Democratic nominee for Governor, whose name was the only other one placed in nomina tion. . . . - : MORGAN SAYS GIFTS IMPLIED fJO RETURN Financier Admits Con tributing $180,000, "GCOD OF COUNTRY" SOUGHT Chief Sums Given When Colo nel Was Candidate. T.' R. TO TESTIFY TODAY Questions Will Be Asked Particu larly as to Standard Oil Aid in Campaign and as to Pre- . Convention Finances. ' WASHINGTON, Oct. S. J. Plerpont Morgan told the Senate campaign con tributions committee today that while he had contributed $180,000. to the last two Republican Presidential campaign funds, the gifts were made "without expectation of return." After saying he had contributed $150,000 to the fund of 1904 and $30,- 000 to the fund of 1908, Mr. Morgan turned to the committee and exclaimed earnestly: , 'I want it distinctly understood that J. P. Morgan & Co. never made a single subscription to any election, with any promise or expectation of anything or return in any way, shape or manner and we never made it without we deemed it advantageous for the Gov ernment and the people. We never had a communication from any candidate. We never had an application from any candidate for money and anything that wo did or that was done under my suggestion and we were all In har monywas what was necessary for the good of the country and the busi ness of the people. There was never any expectation of any return and we never got any. return either, from any body." Concerted Action Is Denied. This statement followed a series of questions by Senator Pomerene as to whether New York financiers had con ferred and ascertained the attitude of various candidates toward business be fore making contributions. Mr. Mor gan repeatedly denied that there was any concerted action among Mew York business interests in support of the Republican candidate in 1904. ' Mr. Morgan said that after making his original contribution of $100,000 In 1904, he was importuned to give another $60,000, which he did. This, he understood, was part of the . so called "Harrlman , fund," and was turned over to B. B. Odell, treasurer for the New York state fund. Charles H. Duell, assistant treasurer (Concluded on Page 5.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 90 degrees; minimum, 44 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; north westerly winds. ' Foreirn. " Bulgarian troops cross frontier. Page 1. ' " National. t J. P. Morgan admits campaign contributions of sSQ.OW.. rage 1. Politics. Wilson says Koosevelt is . "incompetent.' .Page 16. Chairman Moores, of Republicans, says "smoke 'em out" process of Bull Moose is nzzie. page -."V. Taft party without; electors on California ballot. Page 2. Senator Borah, of Idaho, roils Bull Moose of Washington and polndexter withdraws - support of Borah. Page Domestic. Thirty-four bridal couples on steamer form "anti-nag league." Page l. Irrigation -Congress at Salt Lake adjourns. Page 7. Prosecution wins point in dynamite conspir acy cases. Page 2. Eight- killed in train-wreck in Connecticut, Ave of number being women. Page 4. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Oakland 5. Portland 2; San Francisco 4, Los Angeles 3; Vernon -Sacramento game postponed, rain. - Page 8. Xew football rules seem-to remedy formal defects of game. Page 9. Vernon likely to loso Coast League fran chise. .Page 8. - - Commercial and Marine. Easier tendency of Eastern country hide markets. Page 21. Wheat lower at Chicago on favorable news from Balkans. Page 21. Sharp rise in stocks, with dealings on large scale. page zl. - , Dock construction knowledge to be pub lished abroad. Page 20. . . PaclSc Northwest. Witnesses at Creech murder trial ' tell of -scenes following killing. Page X. Senator Chamberlain, speaking at Polk County Fair, tells of Harriman-Rooseveit deal. : Page 4. Lewlston ready for opening of Waterways Association convention, page -o. Representatives of Upper Willamette Val ley cities discuss plans or , river im provement Page 6. - Portland and VlcinHy. : Columbia River branch of Women's For eign Mission Society opens sessions, page 15. . Karl V. Lively alleged victim of extortion plot. - Page 1. : Northern Pacific pushes work of modern izing coastwise lines, page jo. Gresham fair opens with array of exhibits and events.- Page 7. ' Public dances, carefully . chaperoned, in dorsed by child welfare associations, raio 14. Four members of city's liquor license com mittee write one-tenth or einun.ru brewery fire insurance. Page 15. Tom C- Maxey, suspect in Barr murder, may be charged lormaiiy waay, raio Safety pin is removed from lung of gtri in Portland uospicai. page j-. Chief Dowell returns from trip for inspec tion of fire apparatus, page xt. Judge. Gatens favors restricted district for vice in aaaress io iraiiBiuiiuuu Paae 14. . . Draft of bill prepared for regulation of women s minimum wage, page PASCO FRUIT FINDS SALE First Carload of Apples Shipped Are Started for Seattle. - PASCO, Wash.. Oct. . (Special.) The first carload of apples grown and shipped from Pasco was loaded out from Carstens' ranch Wednesday. The apples were consigned to Seattle, and were Winter varieties of the finest quality. . Next year," it is. expected, will show a, big increase in the yield and ship ments of apples, which have heretofore been a minor. crop. -A number of trees In various orchards will come into commercial bearing within the next season. HOW RICH SLAYER BEWAILED IS TOLD Creech Sobs After Kill ing, Say Witnesses. 15 TESTIFY DURING HEARING Prominent Aberdeen - People Recount Murder Tale. MOTIVE IS INVESTIGATED Evidence Introduced by7 Prosecution . at Montesano Hearing Designed to Show That No Strug . . gle Took Place. vnNTESANO. Wash.. Oct. 3. (Spe clal.) Why J. S. Creech shot City De t..tiv SYaTik Welch June 1 was the point that the prosecution sought to have answered in the trial of the mil lionaire lumberman for first-degree murder in the Superior Court here tot- day. Fifteen witnesses were heard for the state and IS more are yet to h. hfirri unit a. number are subject to call to the stand . before the oerense eaTi nnn ltd fHfi.. Th pun Ik nnnarentlv working to ward sensational disclosures ana me courtroom is packed daily. Strong est testimony for the state was given tnrfa.v hv w. A rupd. publisher of the Aberdeen World; Mrs. Rupp, Mrs. J. P. Halferty and W. I Ballard, Dusiness manager of the World and uncle of Mrs. Runn. and it was toward them that the force of the cross-examina tions was directed. Their testimony concurred. Th Runn residence is within a stone's throw of the Creech home and vn word said after the murder was nttdihle. According- to the Rupps tea tlmony the following scene was enacted after, the murder: when Mrs. Creech heard the shots riroi h ca.ma to the back door, saw her husband's face In the light and ex claimed: "My God, Papa, what have you done?" . ... Woman Becomes Hysterical. "i have killed a man," answered Creech, and then he called out again. "I have murdered a man, ana i win have to spend the rest of my days in Walla Walla.",- Mrs. Creech , was by this time half hv.rinjil. She called for help and wanted to know if something could not be done. . . 'It's no use," answered her husband dully, "the man is dead." He then repeated his former state ments. According to all witnesses except two the shots were fired in quick succes- ( Concluded on Page 7.) ' ' 1 34 BRIDAL COUPLES AGREE NOT TO NAG XEWLYWEDS ON STEA31ER PLAN FOR IIVES OP AMITY. On Night Ont Weekly and "Xo ' Questions Asked" Allowed Hus bands Wives to See Paper. NEW T.ORK, Oct. 3. (Special.) Among 225 passengers on board the steamship, Bermudian, which arrived today from the Bermuda Islands .were 34 bridal pairs, all pledged in a covenant . they called the "Anti-Nag League.'' . ' Mrs. T. Ellwood Collan, of The Bronx, was the unanimous choice for presi dent of the league, and under her sway the 34 pairs fresh from the Bermudian honeymoon have engaged to make mar ried life a bond of amity and good will to the confusion of the champions of the single state. For Instance, one of the rules of the league which . has aroused much en thuslasm allows the husband one night out a week and "no questions asked." Also he may smoke in the flat. On the other, hand, he must give his wife the first chance at the newspaper and must not complain if dinner is late. These are examples of the rules commanding mutual consideration' by which the Anti-Nag' League would prevent the jars of married life. HANLEY PREFERS WILSON Burns Man Will Support Democratic Candidate and Gives .Reasons. Col. C. B. S. Wood has received ad vices from Bill Hanley, of Burns, that he will support Woodrow Wilson in the present Presidential campaign. Some of the reasons for Hanley' s desertion from the Republican ranks as given In his letter to Colonel Wood are as fol lows: "Roosevelt is the political creator of Taft. And now because Taft has se cured the nomination he finds him un fit and unreliable. "I do not approve of Taft's Western policy, but I believe that the people of a soverlgn state should have the use of their own natural resources. If any of our resources are due to the people of the East let them come here and collect their dues. "I was disappointed in Taft's fail ure to enforce a real tariff revision downward. "I do not care for party labels as against a principle any more than I care for the brand of steer which I know is stolen, or the pedigree of- a bull which is a poor worthless ani mal. .- . , . . . "But my real reason for refusing to support Taft is that I consider a vote for Taft is a vote for Roosevelt and I think Roosevelt so dangerous that I cannot run the risk. I' think there can be no doubt that It is either Roosevelt or Wilson, and as a man of the peo ple I prefer Wilson regardless of party." SICKLES SERVED BY RUSE Process-Servers Disguised as Mcs sengers Enter Home. NEW YORK. Oct. 3. (Special.) General Daniel E. Sickles must answer another (8000 suit. Disguised as mes senger boys, process servers today were admitted to the veteran at 23 Fifth avenue and served him with a summons and complaint in the suit of August Hecksher. to recover J 8000 on a promissory note- According to Wilbur McKinstry, at torney for Hecksher, the suit has noth ing to do with any of General Sickles' family troubles. Hecksher lent him the money in the regular course of business. The process servers said they had been trying to serve the papers for ten days but could not get Inside the house until they borrowed messenger boy suits. When they did enter they found the General and his secretary. Miss Will merdlng. The General denounced them bitterly, they said. ASTORIA SHIPPING SALMON Rate to England Higher Than From Sound, Due to Lack of Competition. ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 3. (Special.) A shipment of 10,000 cases of canned Alaska red salmon for England will be made by the Alaska Fishermen's Pack ing Company next Monday via the American-Hawaiian Line steamer Ne braskan. These shipments call attention to an other instance in which the Columbia River is being discriminated against by the ocean carriers. The freight charges on canned salmon from this port to England are 50 shillings a ton, whereas the rate from the Sound points is only 40 shillings. The reason for this is said to be the lack of compe tition and the fact there Is no regular line running from the Columbia River to European points. PHEASANTS FLOCK TO CITY Hundreds Take Refuge Within Lim its of Vancouver, Wash. VANCOUVER', Wash., Oct.' 3.(Spe cial.) Whether China pheasants know that they will be better protected if they take refuge inside of the city lim its, -or whether it is just because there are so many in the county, is not known, but it is a fact that Chinese pheasants are so numerous in the city limits, on the Rice road,- that residents have complained to the police about hunters shooting the game birds there. It seems that never, before were China pheasants so numerous, and hun dreds from the city either have gone out for a day's hunt or are planning to go soon. Several minor injuries have resulted from shooting. EXTORTION PLOT IS ; 2 JAILED Karl V. Lively Alleged Victim of Scheme. FOUR DETECTIVES GET DUO" Barr Murder Mystery Clew Unearths Conspiracy. j DEMAND FOR MONEY MADE William Rase, One of Arrested Men, Says Other Sent Messenger Boy for Cash Death of Grace j Dow in Auto Recalled. What started out to be a sensational clew in the Barr murder case wound up last night at detective headquar ters as an alleged plot to extort $7000 from Karl V. Lively, a member of the firm of McCargar, Battes & Lively, in connectiton with the death of Miss Grace Dow in an autotmoblle accident last July. Jack Klsbey and 'William Rasa, partners in a small traveling theat rical oompany, were locked up at tiie City Jail under charges of vagrancy as a result of the disclosures, and their bond was placed at $1000 each. Tha arrests were made by Detectives Mo loney, Swennes, Vaughn and Litber land. All day yesterday there was a per sistent rumor going about that Harry Barr, who was found at the side of the Llnnton road September 10, with a bul let through his brain, had been mur dered for a price of $5000. The al leged statements were traced to Kis bey, who before becoming a theatrical man was a chauffeur and a frequent er of Sixth and Washington streets. Different Tale Told. . A reporter' on a weekly newspaper. ' who was said to have heard Kisbey's remark, was hunted up by the offi cers and his statement put a different face on the matter. This man said that he had been approached by Kls bey with a proposal to "shake down" a prominent business man in whose car a young woman had died on the road recently under peculiar circum stances. The newspaper man said that the proposal was that he and Klsbey were to divide the $7000 half and half. He had feigned interest in the plot to gain more information. While the detectives were in confer ence with this man a tip came by tel ephone that Klsbey, from being penni less in the morning, had "made a touch," and, in company with Rase, was spending money profusely in a Washington-street saloon. Detectives went at once to the saloon and escorted both men to detective headquarters. Several days ago another newspaper man had mentioned casually to Captain Baty that Klsbey had approached him and "felt him out" on a money ven ture, but the details had not been gone Into sufficiently to determine the na ture of the plot. These facts were . pieced together, making sufficient to warrant an investigation. Klsbey 'Queationlnlng Big Aid. Not until Klsbey was questioned did the police gather an Inkling as to who the intended victim was. All day the officers had been looking for the man as the possible possessor of a clew to the murder mystery, and in doing bo they had learned many facts about him. One of these was that he had borrowed small amounts from several persons recently. Naturally, there-, fore, they immediately asked hint where he had obtained $75 which he had on his person. He refused to an swer at first, but finally said that it had come from Karl V. Lively. Pressed further, he declared that he had ob tained $135 from Mr. Lively, a little at a time. He said that he had given a note for the money, which was to be used to finance a second venture of tho theatrical concern, it having broken up at Vancouver two weeks ago after a brief trip. Klsbey denied all knowledge of the $7000 feature of the case. Later he said that he might have made such a pro posal when drunk. He was then con fronted by the newspaper man, who went over the alleged negotiations in detail, Kisbey denying each one. The witness says that Kisbey was sober at the time and that part of the plot was laid in the presence of a bartender, who, it Is alleged, heard him say, "We've got the goods on him and he'll have to come through." Questioned in a separate room Rase confirmed some details of the story. He was with Kisbey on one occasion when he went to Llvely's office and asked for $10. Rase says that Mr. Lively made the loan with apparent willingness and that Kisbey on depart ing told him to put the amount on his note. "I asked him what he had 'on' Lively," said Rase, "and he told me It was merely a business matter. Later Rase admitted that Klsbey had said ha could get all the money out of Lively be wanted. Money Demand Made. Prior to the last draft, yesterday. Kisbey bad sent a messenger boy to Mr. Llvely's office with a demand for money, which was refused or put off. Yesterday morning he went In person and on returning to the saloon where Rase was waiting, displayed a handful (Concluded on Pais 18.) fpH 1 04.0