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J VOL. LII- XO- 16,226. PORTT-AXD. OREGON, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 26, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SUFFRAGE MAY BE LOST IN MICHIGAN PEACE OF EUROPE E PLOT" MARY GARDEN HAS EXPLOSION ADDS JULIAN HAWTHORNE ACCUSED OF FRAUD RECEIPT FOR YOUTH THEORY ASSAILED TO WRECK HORROR L KILLS SELF BY T LEADERS ADMIT RETURNS ARE SHE SUBSISTS ON CURDS, WHEY SON OF AUTHOR INVOLVED SALE OB' MINE STOCK. IN INDICATIVE OP DEFEAT. AND A LITTLE "WHCSKV." DYNAMI1 FEARING DISHONOR, HANGS ED 9 Powers Deny Prepar ing for War. TURKEY INCREASES D.NGER Sultan May Reject Peace Hope of Later Gains. in HOSTILITIES NOW HALTED Rervla's Ref ual to Reply to Austrian Demand and Germany's Delay In Seeking to Mediate Re garded as Ominous. VIEN.fA, Nov. 2." A rumor ha aprrad today that the AuKtriaa Consul at Prlarcad, Prorhaaka, had beeu killed hr Servian troops. There la bo coaflr matloa to thla. The military Journal aara the Auatriaa aqnadroa la Turkish waters haa beea ordered home. LONDON. Nov. 23. The extreme anx irty manifested by all European gov ernments to deny reports of warlike preparations and to represent the po lltlcai situation as peaceful and satis factory is In itself an indication of bow slender a thread the Issues of peace and war In Europe now hang;. The danger arises not alone from the conflicting; Interests of Austria. Servia and the other powers, but from the possibility that Turkey, following the traditional policy of profiting; by the embroilment of the great powers, 'may adopt an Irreconcilable attitude In the peace negotiations. Battle at Tehatatja Halted. . Beyond the fact that the plenipoten tiarles met today nothing Is yet known not even whether an armistice has been arranged. There appears to be a suspension of operations at the Tcha - talja lines, apparently, by tacit consent rather than by formal agreement. The semi-official Bulgarian newspa per, Mir, editorially voices the govern mental Irritation at Turkey's dilatory methods of negotiation and accuses the porte of deliberately nominating dele gates from remote points In order to gain time. This probably refers to Oman Nlzaml Pasha, the Ambassador to Germany, who only arrived at Con stantinople from Berlin today. Servia Declines to Answer. In the diplomatic field the most im portant reports are that Servia declined to reply to the Austrian demands until the war is concluded and that Germany lias not undertaken to mediate between Austria and Russia. The news that Servia is throwing further obstacles In the way of the Austrian representative in search of Prbschafka, the Austrian Consul at I'risrend, is another disquieting fea ture. Fighting continues around Adrlan ople. where the besieging forces are reported to have drawn their investing circle to within two-thirds of a mile of the town. Plasne Raters Bulgaria. Already ther are several hundred rases of cholera at Mustapha Pasha and the scourge has entered Bur gar ia, tele graphs a correspondent. The foreign doctors have met to con sider what advice could be offered the Governments respecting precautions against the spread of the disease. The cholera, the correspondent adds, is raging at Adrlanople and Is spread ing among the Servians. The losses to Turks and Bulgarians have been enormous, but the demorill xatlon of the main Turkish Army has not extended to the garrison at Adrian ople, which dally displays desperate gallantry. It has succeeded several limes in winning back lost ground, es pecially on the right bank of the Marit xa River where the seventh division, under the Bulgarian general Khirkhoff, has retired four miles, and on the left bank, where a Servian division has sustained haevy losses. Early Thursday morning, after a fierce night engagement, the Bulgarian infantry actually entered Karagac, a suburb of Adrlanople, where street fighting ensued, but were compelled to retire. The Bulgarian and Servian losses since the beginning of the siege cannot be less than 12,000 killed and . wounded. Austria May Take Measures. The hospitals for the wounded are sufficient, but provisions for the cholera patients are dangerously Inadequate. Bodies of those who perished from this disease are often not removed, for a whole day. and are buried at night in the old Turkish cemetery. The Slaritza water is poisonous, and there are ves sels in Which to boil It sufficiently only for the seventh division. It Is feared Austria will establish a quarantine al most Immediately. A Constantinople dispatch to the Dally News says: "Despite the utter inadequacy of their own hospitals and attendants, the Turks appear unwilling to make use of the European corps of volunteers or anything like the extent they might. Certlan medical units sent from Eng land, although abundantly provided with equipment, have been unable to fill half the beds owing to the Indolence or Importency of the Ottoman officials. (Concluded on i.) With Three Connties to Report Of ficially Majority for Amend ment Is Only 165. LANSING, Mich, . Nov. 25. Leaders in the light for the passage of the .suf frage amendment to the constitution of Michigan admitted today for the first time that the complete official returns may show the defeat of the measure by a few hundred votes. But three counties, Keeweenaw, Mont calm and St. Clair, remain to be heard from officially. The official vote from the remainder of the state gave a ma jority of 165 for the amendment. Un official returns from the three missing counties rolled up a majority of about TOO against It. There is a possibility that the offi cial returns may be changed in some instances before the contest is finally determined. It was announced today at the office of the Secretary of State that the returns from a large majority of counties contained mistakes and were sent back for correction. S0LONS FLOCK TO CAPITAL Prenarntiona On for' Opening of Congress Next Monday. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. Dosens of Congressmen, the advance guard of the influx to Washington that will con tinue from now until next Monday, when the last session of the Sixty-third Congress .begins, arrived today. ' Chairman Clayton, of the Judiciary committee, called a meeting for Wednes day of the managers who will prose cute Impeachment proceedings against Judge Archbald, of the Commerce Court. It Is expected the trial will be con cluded by the Christmas holidays ad journment. Representative Sparkman, of Florida, chairman of the House rivers and har bors committee, called, a meeting of his committee for Wednesday. The com mittee has before it estimates from the Army engineers for $40,000,000 of river and harbor Improvement and It is be lieved the bill will total about $50, 000,000 as reported to the House. COW DREDGED FROM HOLE Animal Ia Imprisoned 10 Days After 4 0-Foot Tumble. OROVILLE. CaL,- Nov. 25. (Special.) After 10 days' Imprisonment in the bottom of a 40-foot prospector's hole. left In the early days, a dredger today completed the task of digging a cow from the hole, which at the opening was but three and a half feet wide. The cow was the property of James Edwards, of Thermallto, and a year ago a dredger performed a similar feat for him, when one of his horses fell nto a pit on the same land. For several days the disappearance of the cow mystified the owner and his' son. and another man were sent on a search. The sound of breathing emantlng from the hole led to the discovery. Defense Aims to Pu Burden on Three. M'MANIGAL IS UNDER FIRE Witness tells of Plan to Blow Up Panama Canal. KERN ATTACKS MOTIVES Informer Says lie and McNaniaras Had Planned- to Wipe Los Aii geles "Ofr Map" Money Not Only Incentive for Crimes. BLANCHE BATES WILL WED 'Girl of Golden West" to Be Bride of cx-Xevrspnper Man. NEW YORK. Nov. - 25. (Special.) Thanksgiving day will be the wedding day of Miss Blanche Bates, probably best known as the "Girl of the Golden West,' who made her professional de but in San Francisco. At her home near Osslnnihg she will become the bride of George Creel, reform Police Commissioner of Denver. Mr. Creel met Miss Bates three years ago when she played In Denver. As a dramatic critic he reviewed the pro duction and later in the week met the star. Since that time he has left the newspaper field for politics. The wedding of the two will be largely attended by literary and stage folk from this part of the country, Judge Ben Llndsey, of Denver, will be best man. RAILWAY EARNINGS GROW November Shows Increase Over One Year Ago of 6.5 Per Cent. CHICAGO, Nov. 25. (Special.) A further Increase in railroad activity Is Indicated by the returns of all United States roads reporting gross earnings for the first two weeks of November, the total amounting to $15,822,490, an ncrease as compared with the earnings of the same roads for the correspond ing period a year ago of 6.5 per cent. These roads reported a gain of 4.4 per cent the first week of the month, nd 4.1 and 4.9, respectively, for the rst two weeks of October and Septem ber. The Improvement is now quite niformly distributed and loss reported being very exceptional and extremely small. . URK MARRJES BULGARIAN New York Girl Marries Man Whose Brothers Are Fighting Hers. NEW YORK, Nov. 25. A truce was declared between a Turk and Bulgarian n New York City tonight and the two nationalities mingled on friendly terms at the wedding of Miss Alegre Relnachs to Bahamln Samuels, a Bulgarian dia mond merchant. Miss Relnachs is pure Turkish and she has two brothers fighting at Tcha talja. Samuels was born In the capi tal of Bulgaria, and has three brothers In the armies of the allies. INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 25. The con tention of the defense that the Mc Namaras and Ortie E. McManlgal alone were responsible for explosions and that the Ironworkers' Union executive board and President Frank M. Ryan knew nothing of any $1000 expended from the union funds for destroying non-union property were pursued in the cross-examination of McManlgal at the "dynamiting conspiracy" trial today. Before being turned over by the Gov ernment, McManlgal had told stories of bow he and the McNamaras bad talked of blowing up the locks of the Panama Canal and how James B. McNamara was to return to Los Angeles "and wipe that city off the map" by a series of ex plosions, and how they were prevented from carrying out these plots by their arrest In April, 1911. Offer of Bribe Related. He also had related that after his and James B.'s arrest in Detroit and on the train to Chicago, James B. offered Guy Biddinger, a detective, $30,000 to allow them to escaDe. telllna: Biddlnsrer. it you don't get It, Clarence Darrow4 wilL" Senator Kern, for the defense, cross- examined McManlgal. "Was the pay you received from the McNamaras your motive in causing so many explosions?" asked Senator Kern! "No; It was not money. Herbert S. Hockln, when he first started me into the dynamiting business, terrorized me, saying If I did not do it he would pre vent me from getting work. Then I wag prompted by a foolish notion that it was for the good of the Ironworkers' Union. My mind was Inflamed with the idea that It would build up the union." McManlgal Admits Arrests. McManlgal admitted he had. been ar rested three times, twice for larceny and once for disorderly conduct. "After, the Los Angeles Times build- "Oh, Yes, They Give 'Whusky' to All Old Dodoes on Last Legs," She ' ' Snys of Carnejle. NEW YORK, Nov. 25. (Special.) Mary Garden, more beautiful than ever, arrived today on the North German Lloyd liner George Washington. "You know I am so glad to be here, she said, "although I have had such a wonderfully happy Summer in Scot land." Miss Garden was dressed In sable furs, a purple frock and a close-fitting bonnet with white wing3. While In Scotland Miss Garden says she discov ered a sort of fountain of youth. As the reporters pressed around her she explained: "I subsisted largely on curds and whey the breakfast food of little Miss Muffet, who sat on a tuffet, turn-turn tiddledy-tum." Then she added with a mischievous wink, "Naturally, as I was In Scotland, I took the little whusky once In a while." . "Andrew Carnegie," the prima donna was told, "on his return a short time since, said he also took his little whusky occasionally, while at Skibo." "Oh, yes," remarked Mary, "that's what they give all the old dodoes who are on their last legs." Miss Garden has bought a 16,000- acre estate In Aberdeenshire, adjoining the Scotch estate of the late King Ed ward, and there she " will spend her Summers in the future, eating curds and whey and taking a wee nip of "whusky" now and then to keep the spiders away. FIRE IS 47 STORIES HIGH Crowd Packs Broadway Watching Smoke in Wool-worth Block. NEW YORK. Nov.25. A tar kettle which boiled over on the 47th floor of the new Woolworth building provided such an unusual fire spectacle late to day that Broadway, 650 feet below. was choked for an hour by a crowd watching great clouds of smoke roll from the open tower windows. A high wind made the situation seem 'threat ening. v- Several policemen who gained the scene by a scries of elevators and lad ders ruined their uniforms in helping the workers beat out the flames. The damage to the building was nominal. - r? -cr RIS0NER LIVES ON APPLES Locked In Car for IS Days, Unwill ing Passenger's Feet Are Frozen, SlOUXcrrr, Ta.. .Hpv. 23. Andrew Three Men Dead and , Others Injured. TRESTLE CRUSHED BY TRAIN Seeley-Anderson Logging Road Near Bandon Scene. SEVERAL HURT MAY DIE Dollar Lumber Company Interested in Railway Recently Built to Tap Rich Tract of Timber Vic tims Pinioned Under Debris. MARSH'FIELD, Or.. Nov.- 25. (Spe- ! clal.) Added to the horror of wreck today was the explosion of 700 pounds of giant powder, causing death or in- Ljury of everyone aboard the train on the Seeey-Anderson logging road near Bandon. when tne train aasnea mrougn trestle- 70 feet high Into the gulch below. The train and logs were blown to splinters. Three men are dead and several of the Injured will die. . The dead: James McDowell, engineer on the logging train: Charles Smith, fireman on the train: Morgan, logger, first name not known. The Injured: . L. Anderson, brakeman. badly Inj but may recover; Guy Rose, a b keeper of Myrtle Point, badly crushed and scalded by steam, probably will die; Atkins, a logger, first name not known, recently from California, hor ribly crushed and will die; Clancey Humphrey, logger, recently from Cali fornia, badly crushed, probably will die. Anderson is the only man who has much chance of recovery. Dollar Company Interested. The railroad Is one . In which the Dollar Lumber Company, of San Fran cisco, was Interested and was recently built up Bear Creek to" tap a large tract of timber and furnish logs for the Ran dolph Lumber Company near Bandon. It was the first time that a-heavily laden train had run over it. ' There was a trestle 300 feet long Distinguished Father Is Quoted as Having Advised Boy Never to Become Writer of Books. ' NEW YORK, Nov. 25. (Special.) Julian Hawthorne, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author, who quoted his father in a promotion pamphlet as ad vising him, "whatever else you do, don't try to make a living by author ship," was put on trial before Judge Hough in the United States District Court today on an Indictment, charg ing him, with others, with using the mails to defraud Investors in raining stocks to the amount of $3,000,000. Also Indicted and on trial with htm are Joslah Qulncy, once Mayor of Bos ton and formerly Assistant Secretary of State at Washington; Albert Free msn, promoter, and Dr. William J. Mor ton, a nerve specialist. The mining .companies involved In the alleged fraud are the Hawthorne Silver & Iron Mines Company, the Temagaml Cobalt Mines, limited: the Elk Lake Cobalt Mines, limited, and the Montreal-James Mines, limited. It Is charged that the defendants, as mem bers of the Julian Hawthorne Com pany and Continental Syndicate, con trolled all the companies named, and that Hawthorne's name was used as a drawing card. Hawthorne Is charged with writing- booklets and doing liter ary work for the promoters. At the conclusion of the -'first day's proceedings 12 tentative Jurors were in the box, with the defense havlng-nlne challenges left and the prosecution six. Some Indication of the line of the de fense may have been given, Vy questfons asked the talesmen. Mr. Hall, counsel for Qulncy, asked this as a final test of talesmen: . "Do you consider it criminal for a man to take a roseate view of the value of his possessions, even though the view was roseate to an unwarranted degree?". Mr; Wellman. counsel for Mr. Haw orne. put It this way: 'Should it prove that glowing de scriptions of our properties made by us were based on engineers' reports. which since have proved to be inac curate, would you think us guilty of in tent to defraud?" Typist Leaps Out of 20th Story. MESSAGE TELLS OF POVERTY Young Woman, Out of Work, Obsessed With Strange Idea. TESTAMENT TIED TO NECK Banner Pinned Around Body Has Legend: 'Death Before Dishonor.' Note Tells of Fear of "Spirit ualist White Slave Trade." Gorchlwbf Newburgh, N. Y. after be- over a gulch, and when the train ran (Concluded on Pair. 5.) lng a prisoner 13 days In a car of ap ples, In which he had crawled at New burgh, was released when the car was opened, here today. . His . feet were frozen and may have to be amputated. He had eaten nearly a barrel of apples. He has a wife and five children In Hungary. : -. :. -: on -tne iresue mo isavo either because of the recent rains or because of some defect in the building. At the place where the break occurred practically the entire train dashed down Into the gulch below. Steam escaped from the locomotive (Concluded on Page C.) TWO'S COMPANY, 'THREE'S A CEOWD. TWWW) ::V' VIM t WAR REN TON WOMEN VOTE Whitman Massacre Survivor of 1847 First to Cast Ballot. WARRENTON, Or.. Nov. 25. (Spe cial.) Seventeen women were Included in the total vote (64) cast at the special election here today, and the first of these 17 was Mrs. S. S. Mundson, a sur vivor of the Whitman massacre in 1847 and widow of J. W. Munson, who for 30 years was lighthouse keeper at Fort Canby and Point Adams, at the mouth of the Columbia River. Accompanying her to the polls was Dr. R. A. Owens Adair, a lifelong advocate of woman suffrage. All tax amendments, also amend ments pertaining to street improve ments, were lost by 15 votes. Amend ments pertaining to the changing of the date of the regular election car ried. The present Council has already is sued warrants on the dike districts which will require ythe total limit of tax levy for 1913 to pay off, and are confronted (by the refusal of voters to Increase the annual tax limit for dike repairs) with considerable absolutely j necessary dike repairs to be done with out any funds for one year hence. CARNEGIE LAUDS WOMAN "They Have Attained Almost An gelic Height," He Declares. NEW YORK, Nov. 25. The universe is well, according to a sweeping diag nosis of affairs which Andrew Carnegie made in a genial philosophical mood on. his 77th birthday today. He said that anyone who believed the country was going to the "bow wows" was sadly mistaken. - "We pick our own kings," he said, in commenting on the elections, "and we always pick good unea." "Do you know the reason I'm so happy?" he asked. "It's because I have a higher opinion of the human race than ever and this higher opinion is caused by knowing many men and women. Women, he continued, after a pause, "have attained an almost angelic height." BOSTON WELCOMES OPERA Society Gives Brilliant Setting to Premier Performance. i BOSTON, Nov. 25. Society came out In full strength tonight to give its cus tomary brilliant setting to the opening of the grand opera season at the Bos ton Opera-House. For the premier per formance of its fourth season, which is to extend over 18 weeks, the Boston Opera Company presented Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman, under the leader ship of Conductor Andre Caplet. The occasion was marked by the first appearance in this country of Mile. Louise Edvina, who was given an ova tion as Antonia, while Edmond Clement appeared for the first time in the role of Hoffman. SAUER KRAUTJJROP LARGE Product, Largest in Tears, Made From Thousands Tons- of Cabbage. FREMONT, O., Nov. 23. Withy the kraut season closing this week, own ers of factories here announce that the product is the largest In years. The thousands of tons of cabbage produced In this vicinity for kraut have sold at from $3.60 to $6.50 per ton and gro cers have made money. Fremont is the cented of the kraut industry in the United States CHICAGO, Nov. 25. Obsessed by the idea that she was pursued for dishon orable purposes. Miss EvaVan Deusen. 25 years old, leaped today from the SOth story of the McCormlck building and was crushed to death on the stone pavement of an alley at the street level. She Jumped from an alley fire escape, nearly 250 feet from the ground, in view of many pedestrians. Her body struck another fire escape at the first floor and bounded Into the alley, nearly every bone in her body being broken. Miss Van Deusen, according to pa pers found In her pocketbook, was a schoolteacher in Humboldt, Neb. From her papers it appeared that she had been seeking a position here and had been obsessed by the idea that she had been in danger from white slavers. She wrote that she had been driven to appeal for protection to Chief of Police McWeemy, to the Federal Department of Justice and to social settlement workers. Banner Worn Around 'Body. She had prepared for her death by pinning across her bosom a strip of white linen which had been stained crimson at either end and on which she had printed In large letters "Death! Death! Before Dishonor." She had tied around her neck a copy of the New Testament in which she had marked passages in St. John. She held her handbag In her hand as she Jumped, and It was picked up near her body. In it was another marked Bible and a typewritten state ment of several thousand words which she had entitled, "Part of My Life's History." "I will die clean If I have to kill my self," was written at the head of one of the sheets. Woman Without Employment. The landlady of the house In which Miss VanDeusen had been rooming said the young woman had been without employment for a time. "I am trying to write this without the least emotion." her typewritten statement began, "and though the fol lowing statements may seem dramatic. your reason will assure you that they contain only common sense. First, 1 have very little money and am not allowed to hold a position. Second, I will accept no money but that I earn. To be without money is to be ex posed to any amount of insult and to fall Into the bands of spiritualist white slave trade. "If I do not get help it will be a cer tainty that I cannot escape falling into the hands of the spiritualist white slave trade, and that will force me to self destruction." Statement Pussies roller. The police do not understand what Miss VanDeusen meant by "spiritualist white slave trade." A copy of a letter In her handbag addressed to Miss Jane Addams, read: "I wonder If this note will ever reach you at all. Good people nowadays are protected by 'secretaries' so that it is hard to get to them. If you have, as I understand, clothed a number of harlots with respectability and refuse to help a girl who has to be right, I shall not even thank you for helping me. But I shall love you if you are good really or intend to be as you determine." A letter apparently written by Miss Addams in reply said that she was too busy to see Miss VanDeusen at that time, but would make a later appoint ment with her. Miss Van Deusen, it is said, was the daughter of Dr. Lydia Van Deusen, of Falls City, Neb. She is said to have told friends that she worried a great deal over a Hindu cult. The young woman is said to have been harassed by a hallucination that she was pursued by the representatives of this cult. GIRL HAD MENTAL AILMENT Miss Van Deusen Refused to Accept Money From Mother. FALLS CITY, Neb., Nov. 25. Miss Marie Van Deusen was well known in Falls City, where she grew to woman hood. She taught school In Falls City and in Richardson County districts for a number of years. About six years ago Miss Van Deusen suffered -from some peculiar mental ali ment and became estranged from her family. She Imagined they were trying to deprive her of her property. For a time she was treated In a Lincoln hos pital, and later she went to Chicago. For the last two years her relatives knew little about her, but they under stood she was making her way In Chi cago, working as a typist or stenog rv 107.5v