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Jtfmwf Jill VOL. LII-NO. 16,183. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V TAFT ENCOURAGED BY REGENT EVENTS Prospect Is Found to be Satisfactory T.R. DECLARED OUT OF RAC Issue, President Says, Is Be tween Himself and Wilson. TRUST POLICY REITERATED 'Utterance of Democratic Nominee at , William's Grove, That Farmer Does Not Need Protection Is Criticised. . DALTON, Mass., Oct. 6 President and Mrs. Taft and their guest. Miss Mabel Boardman, spent a quiet Bun day here with Senator Crane. Tlv second day of their six-day automobile trip through Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire was In marked contrast to the first. In the morning the Presidential party attended church In Dalton and late In the afternoon motored to Senator Crane's country place, seven miles away.' Early tomorrow the - Presidential party will strike northward Into Ver mont. Newa Satlsflea President. President Taft summed up tonight the political situation In a statement in which he said: "I have every reason to be satisfied with political conditions. I have been simply overwhelmed for days past with letters and newspaper clippings show Ins the trend of the tide toward the Republican party. Its platform and its candidates. I have been especially gratified by the news from the North western states. Chairman H'illes, of the Republican National committee, who has been visiting the Northwest, tells me that reports from all parts of those states bring most gratifying evidence of Republican confidence and activity with earnest determination to achieve the success of Republican prin ciples and candidates. Northwest Is Complimented. "The population of the Northwest Is Dot surpassed anywhere in intelligence ind thrift and attachment to American Institutions. The farmers of that part at the Union were never so. prosperous and they do not mean to risk the loss 3( their prosperity by abandoning the Republican party, whose policies have enabled them to prosper. They are convinced that the third-term candi date Ui no longer In the running, and that the choice is between the Repub lican platform and candidates on the one hand and on the other hand the Democratic platform with its plank of a tariff for revenue only; and Its can didate. Governor Wilson, who said in an address at Williams Grove, Pa., that the farmer does not need protec tion. "It Is unnecessary to explain to the farmers West, East. North' or on the Pacific Slope, what Governor Wilson's very frank declaration would mean, with Mr. Wilson In the White House and a Democratic majority In the Capitol. Institutions Not In Danger. "The principal reason for the exist ing prosperity is ihe assurance that under the Republican policy of home protection and trade er'-.nslon, Amerl can Industry, while reaching for for cign markets, is not in danger of losing the home market. While our foreign trade Is growing more rapidly than at any time in our history, domestic com merce Is making advances fully as re markable. Our population is lncreas ing, the demand for the necessaries of life is Increasing proportionately, and, thanks to active business and good wages, the people are able to pay for what they want and to keep our Indus tries busy supplying their wants. "There is no serious danger, I believe, to our Institutions from industrial agitation. So long as such agitation keeps within the legal boundaries, it Is not without wholesome significance and may tend to Improve conditions. When It passes beyond the legal limit. whether those self-outlawed are con nected with capital or with labor. It is a menace to be dealt with by lawful authority. Golden Rule Crows In Popularity, "Notwithstanding occasional outbreaks of violence In labor disputes, there Is a Krowing tendency to settle differences by peaceful means, and there Is un doubteuly manifest a much more friendly and humane attitude on the fart of the employers toward employes than was apparent not many years ago. The golden rule is getting to be more and more a guide in business, as well as in religion. Social and economic conditions are growing better, not worse, and Republican policies foster "ng and stimulating National prosperity undoubtedly tend" toward this better ment. "For the man or the community en joying robust health, quack remedies have little attraction, no matter .bow vociferously recommended as curealls for the body' politic. The law of sup ply and demand, along with the labor organizations and arbitration, should Insure such legislation as may -roperly ae enacted governing hours of labor and rates of compensation In the pub llo service, thereby giving an example WOMEN OF RANK SEEK TO BE THIN 'AMERICAN FIGURE" WINNING FAVOR IN GERMANY. "Starvation Camps," With Diet Which Fruit Predominates, Being Established. in BERLIN, Oct. . (Special.) Women of rank and fashion In Germany have been seized with a passion for becoming thin for requiring an "American fig ure." Accordingly, "starvation camps' have been thronged with women taking the "cure." After the "patient Is weighed, she Is put on a diet of which the following is a sample: 7 A. M., saucer of cherries or grapes. cup of corn coffee, slice of brown bread, two nieces of sweiback or toasted bread. , " 10 A. M-, glass of lemonade, saucer of cherries or grapes. . 1 P. M., two small slices of meat, dish of vegetables (not potatoes), lettuce, dish of fruit stew or jam. 4 P. iL, glass of lemonade, saucer of cherries or grapes. 6:30 P. M., dish of vegetables (not po tatoes), saucer of cherries or grapes. LEGISLATURE IS . LIMITED Arkansas' First Initiative Measure Passed Checks Solons. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. . (Spe cial.) By a large majority, the people of Arkansas have declared legislative sessions shall not be prolonged and the people's money wasted In useless legis lation. This was the most decisive re sult of Arkansas' initial attempt at di rect legislation under the provisions of the initiative and referendum. ' By a majority of 18,437 of all the votes cast in the election on September 9, complete returns of which are Just at hand, the people said the lawmakers should receive pay for only 60 days. This will revolutionize the methods of the Arkansas Legislature, which has been operating under the constitution of 1874. which limited the sessions to 60 days, but provided that any session might be extended by a two-thirds vote of all members. Should the new provision obtain. there will be about 46 actual working days in the 66-day session, and in that time the House and Senate must dispose of all necessary state busines, or con tinue the session without pay. Veteran legislators admit that, should the. new law be strictly complied with, it would act as an effective bar against the In troduction and consideration of the mass of local measures which take up 80 per cent of the time of the sessions. The Legislature of 1911 enacted 1369 pages of special and local acts and 595 pages of general acts. ' MRS. SAGE BUYS BIRD ISLE Refuge for Migratory Flocks In Gulf Purchased for $150,000. NEW YORK, Oct 6. (Special.) An nouncement was made today that Mrs. Russell Sage has purchased Mar3h Island, off the coast of Louisiana, and will make of it a bird refuse for all migratory birds. It is Mrs. Sage's intention to dedicate the island in perpetuity to this purpose. The plans of administration have not yet been made. Mrs. Sage will place the con tropin whatever hands seem best. It has not been decided yet whether these hands will be those of the Federal Government, the State of Louisiana or some association organized for the pur pose. The island cost Mrs. Sage about $150,000. It Is in the gulf some 200 miles southeast of New Orleans. Its length Is about 18 miles and width nine miles at the broadest part. The area is approximately 75,000 acres. The birds will be given absolute protection from poachers of every description. T. R. HAS BUSY DAY OF REST Despite Decision Not to See Anyone Colonel Talks to Many. ' OYSTER BAY, N. Y, Oct. 6. In pite of Theodore Roosevelt's decision not to see anyone during his period of rest here, he will attend to several ii portant matters before he leaves on his next campaign tour. He passed most of the afternoon conferring with lead era. . Oscar Straus was one of his earliest arrivals. Colonel Roosevelt had not seen Mr. Straus since his nomination for Governor of New York by the Pro- ressive party, and the two candidates had a long talk. Governor Johnson and Colonel Roosevelt told each other of their experiences on their campaign trips. Walter Brown, of Ohio, brought report of conditions in his state. State visitors included Senator Dixon, George W. Perkins and Frank A. Mun sey. GRAPEFRUIT CROP LARGE Citrus Season Begins in Florida. 7,000,000 Boxes to Be Shipped. WASHINGTON, Oct. C (Special.) Reports on the Florida citrus fruit crop say that; j.uuu.vuu noxes, more than half of which will be grapefruit. Ill be shipped out of the state. The citrus season has begun. Twen ty-three thousand cars will be required move the crop. Overdue Vessel Arrives. SAN DIEGO. Oct. 6. The overdue British steamer Northumbria. Captain Hedley, 34 days from Mururan. Japan, arrived in port today. When ten days ut from Mururan tre steamer en countered terrlfio gales which carried away part of her upper works. The Northumbria brought 78,000 ties and 250,00. feet of lumber, both for WAR IN BALKANS HANGS IN BALANGE Scale Swings Slightly Against Peace. WORD RESTS WITH BRITAIN England's Procrastination Cause of Uneasiness. Is CRISIS FAR FROM PASSED Even if Great Britain Agrees to In tervene Question Is "Whether Tur key Will Grant Enough Re forms to Satisfy Balkans. PARIS, Oct 6. War or peace be tween Turkey and the Balkan states Is In the balance. If anything, it might be said that the scale swung slightly today, against peace, in the sense that every hour's delay in the powers' intervention increases the dan ger of hostilities. The word now rests with Great Britain. ' All the other powers have accepted with1 some modifications, the French premier's plan for Intervention, but It is understood Great Britain hesi tates in going so far as to assume with other powers responsibility for securing broad reforms In Macedonia. Delay Causes Uneanlnesa. Great- Britain's procrastination is causing some uneasiness and some censure In Paris. Such papers as the Temps say they cannot understand Great Britain's lack of sympathy in the needed Turkish reforms when In 1876 that country rose up in a body against the so-called Bulgarian atro cities of that year. Even with England's support and this is expected to come tomorrow, the crisis is not removed. The great ques tion remains as to whether the pow ers can obtain extensive enough re forms from Turkey to satisfy the mil itant Balkan states. Reports received here give the Bal kan governments irreducible, minimum as complete national autonomy for Macedonia, with Christian ' governors of the provinces. The. creation of a local militia and the withdrawal of Concluded on Page 4J Itofr JU 'A l I I II 13 ft a 1 M - - INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Foreign. German women of ranVr and fashion seek to attain "American figures." page X. American marines rout Xfcarajruana nea Leon, killing 13, and losing 5 wounded. rage . Intervention by Powers in Balkan States lies wltn Great Britain. Page l. National. Government to try plan of leasing coal lands in Wyoming, rage a. Politics. Job E. Hedges, Republican nominee for Gov ernor ox ew lorit, is strong candidate. Page 3. Clapp committee falls to sound real depths in campaign inquiry, rage o. Wilson and Bryan sit up late talking over Miuauon. ra.se - A. E. Clark predicts success of Bull Moose ticket In Oregon, page 14. Taft Issues statement declaring outlook sat isfactory. Page 1. La Follette says Colonel was not Progressive until he became candidate, page 10. Domestic. - Woman con fesses she was tool of Gibson ; tells of several murders. Page 2. Ralph De palma's chances tor recovery are bright. Page 2. Man shows joy at being home from Europe by showering coins from hotel roof. Page American endurance flight of more than six hours made in hydro-aeroplane. Page 3. Burglars get gems worth $3000 from Colonel James Hamilton Lewis. Page 2. Ten battleships enter Hudson to participate in naval review of 127 warships. Page 5. Chicago's famous "levee" dark for first time In 40 years. Page 2. Mail-pouch is robbed of $200,000. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Eugene sends Invitations to railroad chief to attend celebration. Page 9. Idaho to exchange areas In forest reserves. Page 10. Vancouver man travels to Greece to wed. Page 10. Sport. Hugh Fullerton picks Boston to win world's championship easllyt . Page 1. Scramble to get seats for world's series Is on today. Page S. . Beavers leave home with record of many re cent victories. Pase 8. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 0-5, Oakland 1-1; Vernon 6-1, Sacramento 2-4; Los Angeles 3-0, San Francisco 2-4. Pago 8. Major leagues finish season. Page & Portland and Vicinity. Portland Irishmen pass resolutions Indorsing Home Rule measure. Page 7. German day observed in Portland. Page lt Mazamas face farmer with gun in orchard" Page 14. UNIFORM CHANGES ANGER Naval Officers Protest Because of Expense for New Suits. WASHINGTON. Oct. 6. (Special.) Naval officers are up In arms against the - latest order of the depart ment making changes In their . uni forms. Each officer will have to spend $300 to 9500 for new uniforms and changing old ones. The order, say the officers, is without justification and imposes financial"- hardship on every one from Rear-Admiral to middle. A number of officers here, tired of continually having their uniforms al tered at the whims of bureau chiefs, are going to try to get a bill through Congress forbidding changes in naval uniforms , without express authority from Congress. . "-. ' The recent order to which they ob ject lengthens the boat cloak and frock coat and specifies a velvet collar for the cloak. Changes also are made in warrant officers, uniforms, to which they object. THINK IT OVER. IVF AMrv V J I $20010 IS STOLEN rnnii Mill POUG il II Money Sent from Cuba to New York Bank. POSTAL INSPECTORS BAFFLED Package Put ..in Registered Pouch at Havana. CASH IS IN $10,000 BILLS Whether Loss Was In Cuba, Aboard Ship, on Train or at New York, Is Mystery on Which Secret v Service Men Are Working. NEW YORK, Oct. 6. (Special.) Postoffice inspectors of two countries, secret service men and the W. J. Burns detective agency are investigating to day the mysterious disappearance of a registered mail package containing $200,000, consigned from Havana to the National Park. Bank of this city. The loss was discovered last Wednes day or Thursday, when a registered mail pouch from Havana was opened in the New Tork postoffice. When and where the package disappeared, whether in Havana, aboard ship or the train which brought It or thereafter, no one has been able to discover. Postoffice authorities are working zealously on the case in the two re publics, as a matter of course, while private detectives have been set to work by the shipper, whose name is not revealed. The National Park Bank has no more than a normal Interest In the case, as by no possibility can the loss fall upon It. Money Not In Bag. . "The money was shipped, and when the bag was opened here It was gone; that is your story," said Maurice H. Ewer, cashier of the bank, tonight. "Is your bank Investigating?" he was asked. "No. Why?" he asked. "The shipper and the Government are doing that." Mr. Ewer declined to speak further. The reports are to the -effect that the registered mail .pouch arrived In ' this city by steamship about October 1. The Saratoga, of the Ward steamship lines, which, was due to arrive October 1 (Concluded on Page 2.) DUM. WHEN IN DOUBT AND ON MEASURES'- Jf mui ML COINS FALL LIKE RAIN ON 'NEWSIES' RETURNING TOURIST LAVISH IN EXPRESSING JOY. Home Noises -Are Best, Decides Busi ness Man, When He Hears Cry of "Extry Polper." NEW YORK. Oct. 6. (Special.) Five hundred newsboys scrambled in Herald Square for a shower of coins that de scended from a lavish hand on the roof of "the McAIpin Hotel. Henry Herbert, a New York business man. was the good angel. Herbert has Just returned from a Summer abroad, and he was so glad to get home where he could hear the familiar cry of "extra polper," that he resolved to lve the lads a treat. Incidentally Herbert Is an ardent champion of the newsboys, and, after seeing the foreign article, he was so pleased with the New York youngsters that he decided to give them a chance to "pick up" some money. The coins spun down from the roof, glittering in the sunlight, and, attain ing tremendous velocity, struck the pavement with a Jingle and bounded high in the air. There was never a second Jingle. The boys had caught them on the first bounce every time. Time after time the sliver shower struck the pavement and found Us way into dingy pockets. The money kept descending at fre quent Intervals for an hour, sometimes rapidly and then again in small bits. Herbert's head could be seen over the edge of the roof and he appeared to be enjoying the fun of throwing the money. W hen It was all over he slipped down by a back elevator and away without being approached by the ooys, wno were eagerly waiting for him. ICE INVASION PREDICTED Scientist Says All Human Skill Will Be Needed to Fight Glaciers. ITHACA, N. Y., Oct 6. (Special.) "I have no doubt that we are now in an lnter-glaclal period similar to those which, have already existed, and in future the human race will have to use all its knowledge fh another fight for Its life against the encroaching ice, said .Professor Nathaniel Schmidt, of the history department at Cornell, to day. Speaking of the Ice age, he added: I wish to call attention to recent discoveries In Switzerland of four die tinct periods of glaciatlon, and to the fact that Professor Wlnchell, of Min nesota, has been able to produce defin ite proofs that Kansas has gone through the same four periods. This is important, because" It proves the con temporaneousness of the glacial ages in both hemispheres." CALL FOR HELP SILENCED Woman Billed by Jealous Husband as She Telephones to Police. GREELY, Colo., Oct 6. 'Tor God's sake, come down here. Chief: Don has gun and Is trying to kill me." This was the message which Chief of Police- Camp received by telephone yesterday from Mrs. Don Brock. An instant later the chief heard over the wire three muffled reports, then there was dead silence. Her husband, in a fit of jealous rage, had shot his wife to death and taken his own life with a shotgun. urocK was employed as driver of a sprinkling wagon. He saw his wife on a street with another man, put un his team and went home. The wo man's call for help furnished the only particulars of the tragedy. Y0SEMITE IS DISABLED Passengers on Vessel Transferred to Steamship Beaver Off Blanco. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6. The steamship . Beaver, which arrived here today from Portland and Astoria, brought 13 passengers from the dis abled steam schooner Yosemlte, which the Beaver spoke off Point Blanco. The Yosemlte, which had broken her rudder, while crossing out from Grays Harbor, had been taken in tow by the steam schooner Bee, from Grays Har bor, which was proceeding to San Francisco. The Bee was laboring In heavy swell and asked the Beaver for aid. While neither craft was In danger it was thought best to transfer the passengers. FANS SLEEP OUTSIDE PARK More Than 500 Bivouac at Polo Grounds to Get Tickets. NEW' YORK, Oct 6. At midnight more than 500 persons were at the gates of the polo grounds to bivouac until the world series ticket sale be gins at 9 o'clock in the morning. The small boy had been hugging the gate until late in the afternoon, determined to be one of the first to get S3 seats. Many women in the crowd grew tired and as night approached slept on newspapers spread on the grass. WOMAN OF 103 SPEAKER "Grandma" Todd, of Eugene, Testi fies at Christian Church Rally. EUGENE, ""or., Oct 6. (Special.) "Grandma" Todd, ' who Is nearly 103 years old, was one of the Interesting speakers at the Christian Church rally today. "Grandma" Todd lias been a member of that denomination since girlhood, and in her message to the children as cribed to her Christian life the many friends she has now to take care of her EOF RATED ALMOST NIL Luck and Tesreau Only Hopes Says Expert. FULLERTON PICKS RED SOX Boston Held to Be Better and Gamer Players. BIG SCORES ARE EXPECTED Noted Baseball Writer Thinks New York's Only Reliance Is In Pitch er Who Can Hold Oppo - ncnts II It less Throughout. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON. CHICAGO, Oct. S. (Special.) Bos ton's Red Sox ought to win the next world's championship. If tne New York Giants win more than two games in the series I shall cease to believe in dope at all and concede that there Is something in baseball beyond the me chanical ability to play the game. ' One would be foolish to argue that New York hasn't a chance. Any one who has studied the game will realize that there are times and conditions under which the St. Louis Browns, now the worst team in major leagues, will beat the Boston Red Sox four out of seven games. The element of luck is so great that if It runs all In one direction a weak team may beat a better one in a short series. But it looks to me as if the chances of the Giants are but little better now than they were a year ago, when I could not concede them a chance to win. I believe that, with Tesreau at his best and with luck all favoring them. New York might win. But, unless things break for them all the time, the Giants are beaten. Boston Team Rated High. Boston has a better team, playing better ball, and with a better system than that of New York. Indeed, with the possible exception of the Pittsburg team in its present form, I think Bos ton has the - best . ball club. In the country. . I have spent a month studying, analyzing, and figuring on the players and the teams, talking with players, in quiring of them what they think of the men and the teams, and I believe that there is smaller chance to go wrong than on any series I ever studied. Analyzing the teams man by man. comparing them as Individuals and with regard to their value as team players, calculating the relative value of each position on the defensive and the Individual value of each man on offensive work, studying the men in relation to each other, the averages, what the players say of them and their style of work, studying, again, the bat ting styles of each man not so much what they have done (although I studied that), but what they are likely to do against the style of pitching they must encounter I have reduced the teams to cold figures. On a bssls of 100 as absolute perfection In every thing, I figure Boston at 69 and New York at 66, a difference so great as to overbalance the element of luck in such a series. Hitlew Pitcher Giants' Hope. Boston excels New York Individually in seven of the nine positions. Boston plays a better team ball. Boston, in present form, has a better pitching staff. It looks to me as if New York's only hope is to have one pitcher who shall prove unhittable and strong enough to sweep the entire series. The Boston team has Its faults, but it has proved the cleanest and most con sistent ball club of the year. I give New York credit for hustling, pressing every advantage, rushing its attack, and playing hard ball. Neither team has had any bad luck during the en tire playing season. Neither has suf fered from any serious injuries, nor from enforced layoffs by official decree. It Is out of place to comment on this, but they have gotten away with a lot that other teams have been punished for trying. That Is part of the game. They have been fortunate and favored of the powers that be. Both teams have been lucky in develop ing men in the playing season who could fill weak spots. Tesreau camo Just in time to prevent the collapse of New York. Collins and Yerkes showed more strength than was expect ed, and the catching staff proved much more effective than any Judges believed possible. 'ear's Achievement Figured. j In t -vay the rating of the players of both . tins is a trifle too high. We are compelled to figure them on what they have done this year, nor is it fair to detract from their achievements because in other seasons they may have shown weaknesses. What they have done this year we ought to expect them to do In the series now about to open. I do not think either team is quite as good as one would expect a pennant-' winning team to be. There is not a doubt in my mind but that Pittsburg In its presentorm is much better than New York has been during the year. It isn't up to us to study what might have been except as it bears upon what will be. I expected New York to win the pennant in the National League this season, not so much because of Its own strength as because no other team (Concluded on Pass D.) CHANG S (Concluded on Pass S.) the Santa Fe Railroad,