77 K PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 23, V v VERACRUZ! EVE OF EXPECTED FIGHT Federals Almost on City's Outskirts. FOREIGNERS TAKE TO SHIPS American Consul Canada In Charge of Refugees. FEDERALS . GIVE NOTICE General Belt ran Tells City Council Battle Is Abont to Begin, and Declines to Give Fur ther Concessions. MEXICO CITr, Oct. 2Z. Iaformatloa toalsrkt from government sources w that federal troop had oecapled a part of Vera Crux, Including; the maaiclpal valaee. It la reported that a trace has beea aliened until 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Oct 22. The federal forces began at noon today their advance on Vera Crux. The reb els under General Felix Diaz, who oc cupy the city, calmly awaited their ap proach.. G4tteral Beltran, commander of the Federals, previously had informed the City Council that the battle was about to begin. lie declined to allow more time for the removal of non-combatants to the neutral zone. Refugees Take to Harbor. The boats in the harbor ' have ' on board more than 6000 foreign refugees and 10,000 Mexicans. The United States cruiser Des Moines is about 100 yards from the American consulate. The space between is neutral, and many of the refugee craft have taken up posi tions there.' Only 32 Americans remain within the town. The foreign Consuls have gone aboard the boats. The American Con sul, William W. Canada, has assumed leadership of the sftuation. Federals Approach City. Within an hour or two the federals were only seven miles from the city. General Dlas said that the artillery on the heights on the outskirts would fire on the loyal troops. Only if his outposts are driven back will he fight in the city. Trace Until Daybreak Offered. Promiscuous firing seemed to indicate that the battle had started. It was a false alarm, however, as General Beltran sent an emissary offering a truce until daybreak tomorrow. This is taken here to mean that Beltran probably will Join the revolution. The troops under General Diaz were sent back to the barracks and con ditions became quiet Thirty sailors escaped from the fleet and joined Diaz. A few of the federals from General Beltran's outposts also went over to the Diaz cause. The advance posts of both federali and revolutionists still occupy their po sitions. General Beltran has S00 fed erals within sight of the city and Gen eral Zozaya commands artillery about a mile and a half to the West. OROZCO MOVES WEST AGAIN Leader In North Thought to Have New Design on Chihuahua. EL PASO. Tex.. Oct. 22. "None of the chiefs have personal ambitions and they are . disposed to unite with any new revolutionary movement which has patriotic tendencies." This, contained in a letter received here today from Pascual Orozco, Jr., appears to bear a prediction of the Felix Diaz revolution at Vera Cruz. The letter was dated October It at Rancho Santo Domingo, a few miles southwest of Eagle Pass, Tex. From the location of the rebel forces. It is shown that General Orozco is moving west again. This bears out a report received today by United States Government men here that Orozco Intends to re-enter Chihuahua, encouraged by recent rebel successes In the south of Mexico. In the letter Orozco warns Attorney Gomes Robelo, his representative here, to take care not to violate the neutral it v laws, and to give to the press only verified facts regardless of partisan ship. Orozco denies he has been In the Vnlted States. All remains quiet about Juarez, Met Rebels under Salazar who threatened to attack the border town have retired to the hills, evidently expecting rein forcements. Plaz to Control Chihuahua. IXIS ANGELES, Oct 22. Arturo M. Ellas, former Mexican Consul in Los Angeles and now representative of Gen. eral Felix Diaz in this city, announced today that the government of the State of Chihuahua would be taken over at once by officials pledged to Diaz. They are Provisional Governor Gut . teres, J. M. Ponce de Leon. Provisional Secretary of State, and A. Tajavera, president of the Chihuahua Legisla ture, who left here Sunday for El Paso. Northern Troops Hastened Forward. MEXICO CITY. Oct 23. General Blanquet reached the capital from the North tonight with 1500 troops. The five trains were transferred to the Mexican Railway and proceeded imme diately for Vera Cruz. MEXICO CHANGES PLANS OF TAFT WASHINGTON HEARS RUMOR OP . SPECIAL SESSION. President OmltsSchednled Visit to Hot Springs Stimson Return ing in Advance, Too. WASHINGTON, Oct 22.--Speculatlon connects the approaching return to Washington of President Taft contrary to arrangements previously made for sojourn at Hot Springs. Va, with the critical situation in Mexico, and there are hints of the possibility of a spe clal session of Congress to relieve tne n u... . ..i.inn to whether J I OOlUCll k V v, . . the time is ripe for Intervention! Officially the idea is scouted ana tne determination of the Government 10 adhere to its present policy In regard to Mexico is reaffirmed. Secretary Stimson Is returning to wh1nirtnn Saturdav from New Tork it Is understood in advance of original plans. MUNICIPAL PHONE SOUGHT Seattle Council Authorizes Plans for City's Own System. SEATTLE. Wash.. Oct 22. The City Council today advanced another step inwarH the construction of a municipal telephone system and a municipal street railway. An ordinance was passed appropriat ing 11B00 for preparing planB and specifications for a telephone system to ho submitted to the voters lor tneir approval at the city election next Spring. Another ordinance was Introduced appropriating 2300,000 for the con frnrtlnn rt the north section of the municipal railroad for which 1800,000 bonds were voted two years ago. ane line to be built now will conneot the downtown district with Ballard and will constitute the north half of a trunkline running from the northern to the southern city limits. RAILROAD HOSPITAL PLAN Northern Pacific Employes to Build Structure, in Spokane. SPOKANE, Wash., Oct 22. (Spe cial.) For the care and treatment of sick and injured employes of tfte Idaho and Pasco divisions of the Northern Pacific Railroad a large, well-equipped hospital, to cost 1150,000, will be In course of construction in Spokane by the Northern Paclflo Benefit Associa tion witliln the next 18 months. An emergency ward ia also to be es tablished by the organization in a hos pital at Pasoo and similar plans will be worked out at various other points along the Northern Pacific line where there is Inadequate means of caring for the sick and injured at the present time. Spokane, however, is to get the next regular' Northern Pacific Benefit Asso ciation hospital and from now on only white help will be employed In such institutions. HIGH VALUE PUT ON TEETH Woman Sues for $20,000 for Loss of Nine In Streetcar Fuss. LOS ANGELES, Oct 22. For nine teeth alleged to have been knocked out in a tight on a streetcar, Mrs. Alice P.' Nelson wants the Los Angeles Rail way Company to pay her 220,000, ac cording to a suit filed today In the Superior Court She charged that last August she and her husband, A. L. Nelson, who sued the same corporation for a simi lar amount boarded a crowded car, and that W. J. Reld, a car inspector, or dered her husband to move forward, but Nelson, because of the crowd, could not obey. Then, she averred, Reld struck her husband and she went to his rescue. In the next few minutes, she asserted, she lost nine teeth and was perma nently disfigured. She blames the car inspector. WIDOW'S INCOME $30 DAY Napavine Lumberman Leaves All but $1000 to Spouse. CHEHALIS, Wash., Oct 22. (Spe cial.) A. A. Hull yesterday filed for probate the papers In the Hamilton Pitcher estate. Mr. Pitcher was a Nap avine lumberman who died recently In a Seattle hospital. By the terms of the will the wife was made sole heir, with the exception of $1000 given to the 11-year-old daughter. The estate amounted to a little more than $163,000 and was principally in securities of various kinds, including mortgages, notes, etc. It is Invested in such a way that the income will net the widow practically JS0 a day. The appraisers were William Urquhart and Pete Summerset of Chehalis, and George D. Berlin, of Centralia. GEESE INVADE ARLINGTON Islands and Sky Are Filled With Birds and More Are Arriving. atjt.tvoton. Or.. Oct 22. (Spe cial.) To the delight of sportsmen, the geese have arrived and are still flocking' in and It is evident that the season is.open in full blast. The sky i.ianri or the Columbia seem to be alive with them and from the way It looks now this season win surpass all former ones. The geese do not seem to be aware th. Tnanv hunters that will arrive from far and near in the next few days. Already several parties nave Deen out i whuihmiM. of this cltv. got the first goose of the season, Judge Bur den and J. Ferkins coming m next with a record to beat of 36. F IG G RAGING ALL ALONG BORDER Bulgarians Reported Falling Back. INCREASING ARMIES ENGAGED Progress of Montenegrins To ward Scutari Slow. GREEKS HOLD SEA HONORS Capture of Lemno Gives Base From Which to Operate Against Otto man Fleet When It Emerges From Dardanelles. LONDON, ' Oct 22. An almost im penetrable veil conceals the most in teresting operations of the war those in the vicinity of Adrianople. No of ficial account of any kind bearing on these movements has yet been issued. . The Sofia newspapers report heavy fighting around Adrianople and Kirk Killsseh, to the east and three forts in the vicinity of Adrianople captured. According to one- rumor 2000 Bulga rians were killed and 4000 wounded In a desperate engagement outside Kirk Klllsseh. Fall of Klrk-Klllsseh Unfounded. It is clear, however, that reports of the fall of Kirk-Kilisseh and the cut ting of. communications with Constan tinople are unfounded.. Fighting continues at all pplnta along the frontiers and an Important battle is impending in the Kumanova district between the Servians and Zek kl Pasha, who, according to a Constan tinople report (probably exaggerated), has 100,000 men and strong artillery. A Constantinople dispatch reports that the battle has begun virtually all along the line from Adrianople to Kirk- Kilisseh, the Turkish troops advancing and the Bulgarians falling back, with heavy losses. Montenegrins' Progress Slow. The' Montenegrins apparently are making slow progress In the direction of Scutari. Podgori&za dispatches say the bombardment of Tarabosch ' con tinues, but although the fort has been greatly damaged, there Is no sign of yielding. In naval matters the honors so far are with the Greeks, who have cap tured Lemnos, thus obtaining a base from which they can attack the Turk ish squadron should 'It emerge from the Dardanelles. Seemingly, however, the Turks are not disposed to leave the (Concluded on Page 4.) NOT liiiiitiiiminniiiiiiiitini mi iiiniiiii tssssstssssssi it i I I ; 1 -... . . ,r- . I. : INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS the Weather. TWTmjnAra Maximum temperature, 53 degrees: minimum, 45 degrees. TO DATS Occasional rain; south to west winds. , Foreign. Fighting- brisk along all Balkan frontier. Pare 1. Vera Cruz on eve of expected battle lor possession of city. Faga l. Rational. Sprockets recounts wars of sugar combine. Page 12. President's return to Capital may be inspired by Mexican situation. Pag 1. Politics. dovernor Marshall says he would exclude certain class of aliens. Page 2. Governor Marshall doe here Thursday to speak. Page 2. B. z Paget. Prohibition candidate for Sen ator, assails Bourne, fag zu. Wisconsin man says split In Wisconsin surely aids Wilson. Page 16. Domestic. Scope of evidence In dynamite case extended. Page B. Policeman says Ettor defense tried to buy him. page 7. Lucllo Cameron turns against Jack John son and gives damaging testimony. Page 7. Colonel nooMvalt passes night unattended by physician. Page 2. Passengers tell of hours of terror en steam, ship Camlno. Page 6. Becker defense closes, but police lieutenant does not testily. Faga 1. . . , Sport Pacific Coast League results: Vernon 4 Port land 8; other games postponed, rain. Page S. BUI Steen returns from Cleveland to pass Winter In Portland. Page 8. Roger Brashear deposed as manager of St liouls Cardinals. Page 8. Indian Hauler Is bona fide O A. C. student Page 8. Rain aids Vernon's chances. Page 8. Pacific . Northwest Oregon City youths pay for tragic lark with year in Jail. Page 6. ' Powder blast near Monroe today to explode S0.000 pounds of dynamite. Page 16. Biennial report of Desert Land Board fa vorable to operation of Carey act Page S. Freight earnings show times continue to get better, aays Carl R, Gray. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Choice hops rapidly passing out of growers' Hands. page 21. Buying flurry on war newa sends wheat prices up at Chicago. Page Zl. Cessation of liquidation causes Improvements In stock -values. Page 21. Foreign grain freights fall to soar as had been anticipated. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. Mayor CotterllL of Seattle, speaks to W. G T. U. delegates. Page 14. Clandestine Masonic lodge Is raided; four of ficers arrested. Page 18. Heed of moving vast crop Immediately taxes rail lines, says Kruttschnltt. Fage 12. Outlook tor Prohibition party never so bright declares Mrs. Frances Beauchamp. Page IS. Army "near beer" Is opposed by temperance women Page 15. For society girl and her fads W. C T. TJ. now has fear. Page 15. POSTAL RECEIPTS HEAVY For Tear Ending September SO This City Leads Seattle $33,497. Portland's postal receipts for 12 months ending September SO, 1912, reached a total of 11,062,999, according to a statement Issued yesterday by Acting Postmaster Williamson. As receipts show an Increase every month over those' of last year, it is expected that the totals for this year will show big gain over the revenue from stamp sales In 1911. Seattle's receipts for the year ending September 30, 1912, showed a total of $1,029,502. or 233,497 less than . the receipts at the Portland Postoffice for the corresponding period. THE TIME OR PLACE TO EXPERIMENT. BECKER DOES NOT APPEAR ON STAND Case of Defense Ends Dramatically. COURT ORDERS IT REOPENED "Jack" Sullivan Is Compelled to Testify to Plot. TALK IN JAIL RECOUNTED 'King of Newsboys" Says He Was Besought to Corroborate Stories of Others, That They Might Win Immunity. NEW TORK, Oct. 22. The case of the state against Police Lieutenant Becker closed dramatically this after noon with the District Attorney, at the court's command, reading into the record a flood of testimony from "Jack" Sullivan, for the admission of which Becker's lawyers had fought long and hard when Sullivan testified before. Amid the vigorous protests of Beck er's counsel, who had objected as vig orously when Sullivan's testimony was barred several days ago, the King ot the Newsboys" unloosed his tongue, H told hia story belligerently ana excitedly In his own way, just as he had asked permission to tell when he was on the stand before. His testi mony was in direct support of the con. tention of the defense that Rose, Web ber. Vallon and Schepps, Informers and state witnesses, had conspired in Jail to send Becker to the electric chair by their own perjury. Court Reopens Causa. John P. Mclntyre, Becker's chief counsel, had declared his case Tested when Sullivan was recalled. He said frankly that he did not want Sullli van's testimony. The court ordered the case reopened and Instructed attend ant to call Sullivan to the witness stand. - Mr. Mclntyre refused to ques tlon him and Justice Goff Instructed the District Attorney to ask the wit ness. "as a part of the case of the ofonRA " Questions which tne couri had excluded during Sullivan's previ ous testimony. These questions had to do with conversations Sullivan said he had in the West Fifty-third-street iall with Rose and Webber. Rose told me that he and Webber and ' Vallon and Schepps were going to frame up Becker," Sullivan de clared. "He asked me to corroDorate his testimony. They were after me (Concluded on Page 4.) GOOD TIMES AHEAD, SAYS CARL R. GRAY GREAT XORTHERX PRESIDENT SEES BUSINESS GROW. Freight Earnings of Hill Bond In Last Year Increase $5,000,000 and Are Better Dally. SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 22. (Spe cial.) Immense crops, with business conditions getting better every day, was the report made in Spokane today by Carl R. Gray, president of the Great Northern Railway. President Gray arrived in Spokane Monday evening from St Paul and spent the night and today in the city in conference with other officials of the Great Northern and Joseph E. Young, of Portland, president of the Hill steam and elec tric lines In the Northwest "Our freight earnings for last year were between 25,000,000 and 26,000,000 better than the year before," declared President Gray. Accompanied by President Young, L. C. Gilman, of Seattle, assistant to Pres ident Gray, and Howard James, of St Paul, director of purchases. President Gray will go to Portland in the morn ing over the Spokane, Portland & Seat tle. J. M. Gruber, newly elected vice president of the Great Northern, ac companied by George H. Emerson, newly elected general manager, arrived In Spokane this evening from St Paul and will Join the Gray party in Port land. After visiting Portland for several days President Gray will go to Ta- coma. and Seattle, returning to Spo kane in about 10 days. WILSON URGED TO RESUME Demands for Speeches Received by Letter and Telegram. PRINCETON, N. J., Oct 22. By letter and by telegram Governor Wilson is be ing urged from many parts of the coun try to resume his speaking campaign. The demand for speeches, the Governor said tonight has Increased In the last few days, and his campaign managers are being bombarded with requests. He said he had no change of plan to an nounce as yet The Governor spent the day at the statehouse dealing with the routine of New Jersey business. He made a brief call at his own political headquarters. The nominee wrote tonight the mes sage which will be read by campaign orators throughout the country, on Wilson day, November 2. It probably will be his last declaration before elec tion day. ANGRY FISH BITES MAN Senator Rands, of Vancouver, Poi soned in Hands. VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 22. (Spe cial) Bitten by a large rainbow trout, ex-Senator E. M. Rands, of this city, is suffering much from an infection on his hands. Senator Rands was fishing at Inter laken, or Four Lakes, on the North Bank Road, where he is one of several incorporators of a private fish and game preserve. He succeeded In land ing a large rainbow trout and when he attempted to release the hook in its mouth, the fish closed its Jaws on the Senator's fingers and punctured the skin. In trying to release his finger Mr. Rands used his right hand and was also pricked on that member. Infection set in and now Mr. Rands Is gofng around with both hands in bandages. SPOKANE-GETS BIG PLANT Largest Storage Building in North west to Be Erected. SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 22. (Special.) The largest cold storage plant in the American Northwest west of Minneap olis will be built In Spokane by E. H. Stanton & Company. The plant will be 10 stories high and 100 feet square and will cost $100,000. It will have a capacity for E00 car loads, and Its construction will Include the latest scientific achievements in cold storage processes. The new storage-ln-transit rate of the Northern Pacific for Spokane, which went into effect on October 19, opens up tremendous opportunities for this city as a storage center," said E. H. Stanton, president of the E. H. Stanton Company. GRAND DUKE ALEXIS ILL Russian Orown Prince Suffers I-Yom Recent Accident. ST. PETERSBURG. Oct 22. The Rus sian Crown Prince, the Grand Duke Alexis, is seriously 111 at the Imperial hunting lodge of Spala, In Russian Po land, as the result of an accident on October IS. He then suffered an In Jury on the left side of the groin. which caused no anxiety until Sunday morning, when his temperature was 103.6. Several court physicians are in at tendance. The Grand Duke is only 8 years old. HOPS SHIPPED TO ENGLAND Entire Crop of 15 Cars Dispatched From Salem. SALEM, Or., Oct 22. Ealem today distinguished Itself by shipping 15 cars of hops, an entire crop, to Eng land, via Galveston. This was the first such shipment ever made in the United States. It was consigned to the Wlgan Richardson Company, from their prop erty at Independence. . NOTED IS TRIBUTE TO Birthday Party Unique in Oregon History. PROMINENT FOLK DO HONOR H. L. Pittock, Governor West and Others on Platform. SUFFRAGIST WRITES HYMN Author, Singer and Composer Loud ly Applauded at Gipsy Smith Auditorium as Last Beauti ful Notes Die Away. Seated In a comfortable armchair beneath the figures "7S" in evergreen against the white background of tilt decorations, with many of the moM distinguished citizens of Oregon, men and women, seated at either side, and facing an audience of 1300 friendly faces, Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, pioneer Oregonlan and suffragist, wai tendered such a "brithday party" al the Gipsy Smith auditorium last night as perhaps has never been given to another woman In the state. When Mrs. Duniway appeared and was wheeled across the platform, which was tastefully decorated with evergreens and Autumn leaves, to her place of honor in the easy chair, she was long applauded, acknowledging the ovation with graceful Inclinations of her gray-haired head. To her right sat her son, W. C. Duniway, and to her left, her - son, Ralph Duniway, with their families. Others who sat at the left of the guest of honor were: H. L. Pittock, F. V. Holman, Governor West C. W. Ful ton. J. A. Jeffrey, F. W. Cottrell, Rob ert A. Miller and A. E. Clark. At the right were many prominent suffragists. Including Mrs. Mae Arkwright Hutton. of Spokane; Mrs. Frederick Eggert, Miss Emma Wold and Mrs. H. M. Senn. Mrs. Coo Presides, Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe, president" of the State Equal Suffrage League, who presided, announced that the pro gramme would be opened with the sing ing of the new suffrage hymn of which Mrs. Duniway is the author and for which Mrs. A. E. Clark composed the accompaniment With Mrs. Clark at the piano, Mrs. Jane Burns Albert, in a sweet clear soprano, sang the three stanzas of the hymn, which are as fol lows: God of our fathers, by whose gulldlng hand. Wo all were led to this Paclflo land. To raise on high the standard of the free. We women bow with reVrence unto Thee. Good men and women came tog-ether here. With streluous effort and courageous cheer. They tolled and bullded ou the Western snore An empire that shall last forevermore. God of our fathers, we are half the race, By men forgotten till this year of grace. when they in majesty arise and say: 'All snail be free In an approaching day." Great Is Applause. As the last beautiful notes died away Its author end the singer were vigorously applauded, and great arm full of yellow carnations were handed to the platform and piled at Mrs. Dunl way's feet. The first speaker was Frederick V. Holman, who gave an blstorlo perspec tive of the life of Mrs. Duniway, whom he called a "noble, grand and glorious woman." He told how she crossed the plains to Oregon In 1852, when she was 18 years old, and touched upon the hardships and privations that tried the hearts and tested the strength of those who dared the wilderness in the middle years of the last century. "Those were people who were willing and able to do and to dare and to suf fer in order to accomplish." said Mr. Holman. "They turned their faces un flinchingly to the West, without doubt that they would get there. It took Just the same courage as was required of the pioneers to Inspire and sustain Mrs. Duniway in her early work for the great cause of equal suffrage. Pioneers Never Faltered. "The pioneers never faltered in their long march, nor has she. But the hands that never wearied in building and de veloping are tired now, and in her hands we must place the ballot, as a tribute and a reward to this courageous. forcible and yet withal gentle worker for the rights of women." Mrs. Hutton, a prominent worker in the suffrage ranks In Washington, was next Introduced by Mrs. Coe. The Spokane visitor paid one of the greatest tributes of the evening to Mrs. Duniway, concluding her remarks as she laid a magnificent bouquet of yel low carnations at the aged leader's feet Washington Gives Greetings. Mrs. Hutton said: "Friend, champion of woman's polit ical enfranchisement, in the Nation and the world, mother of woman's suffrage In the Northwest I bring you greetings from Washington women on this, your seventy-eighth birthday. Your labors for nearly a half century for the eman cipation of your sex have borne fruit. You have lived to see the ballot given to the women of six states of this glad free West Ere the Ides of November wax and wane your peiovea uregon win am added to the list that will complete the chain of free states from Canada to the Gulf. You have lived to see heathen China become a republic and her women (Concluded on Fage 14.) IS. DUNIWAY