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Km VOL. LII-XO- 16,237. PORTLAND. OREGON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FINEST FEATHERS MAY BEDECK HATS GAME WAHDES REVOKES CHIXA PHEASXT EDICT. WINGED LOVE GOD EFFORT TO UNIFY EMPLOYERS VAINLY BLEASE'S IB LAW SEEKING LABORERS ENJOYS DAY OFF REBELS EXPOSED OVER GREAT LAKES PROSPEROUS COXDOTTOXS ARE AT LAST MIXUTE CUPID LEADS SOTED IX CHICAGO. LOXE COUPLE TO MART. BIO STORM RAGING COLUMBIA FIGURES HIGH IN ESTIMATES REPUD ATED Army Engineers Favo Important Work. RIYER IMPROVEMENT ADVISED Projects Much Helped by OffI clal Indorsement. JETTIES REQUIRE MILLION Dredging Propose to Assist in Ob taining Depth of 40 Feet at Low Tide Work on Hirer Chan net Progressing. OREGONIAX NEWS BUREAU. Wash lngton, Dec. 7. If Congress is inclined to deal liberally with the important waterways of the country In framing and passing the river and harbor bill this session, the Columbia River will fare exceptionally well, for the estl mates of the Army Engineers have been favorable to most of the Northwestern projects. The various estimates have heretofore been given In these dls patches, but the annual report of the chief of engineers contains much mat ter not previously made public. In that report he discusses all of the Northwestern projects, reciting work done and expenditures made In the past and the needs of the future. For the mouth of the Columbia River, an appropriation of $1,000,000 la recom mended, to be applied to the cample tlon of the south jetty and contlnua tlon of work on the new north jetty, This Is only a part of the amount re quired to complete this project Jetty Project Described. Discussing the project at tho mouth of the Columbia River, the chief of engineers. In his report, says: "The existing project provides for extending the south Jetty to a length of about seven miles, the height to be not less than mid-tide level and width of crest not less than 25 feet; for con structing a north Jetty about 3 'miles long, and for dredging to assist the jetties in securing a depth of 40 feet across the bar at mean lower low tide. . "During the first half of the fiscal year the trestle tramway was extended 87 bents. Thirty bents were takon up before the beginning of Winter to pre vent loss during Winter storms. During the Winter two bents were carried away and before the end of the fiscal year IT bents were replaced Six bents of jetty tramway which were carried away by the schooner Admiral were also rebuilt and about 260 plies driven to strengthen the older parts of the trestle or to replace piles carried away by storms. - "A total of 716.420 tons of stone was received under contract and, dumped In the Jetty. A large amount of rock was used in filling up low places in the older parts of the Jetty and in feeding the slopes flattened by the storms. The subsidence of the enrock ment appeared to be much less during the Winter than duTing the previous year, except at the outer end, where the work is new. "The annual survey of the bar was commenced June 11, and completed June 22. It shows that the opening through the bar between 24-foot coatours has Increased during the past year from 8000 to 10.000 feet. The location of the best channel has not shifted during the year, and the controlling depth of the best channel remains 27V4 feet, with a width of about 1000 feet. There Is a clear channel width of 000 feet with a least depth of 26 feet as com pared with a channel width of 4000 feet with a least depth ot 25 feet last year. The middle ground found inside the bar last year baa almost entirely disappeared, decreasing the distance between 90-foot contours Inside And outside the bar from S000 to about tOOO feet. . Depth Increased Wine Feet. "All of the expenditures during the year were for new work, except $80, 361.82 expended for repairs and opera tion ot the dredge Chinook, which may be considered as applied to mainten ance of channel. "There has been expended on' the existing project to the end of the fiscal year the sum of ?7. 865.113.16. of which 8287.S64.10 was expended for altera tions, repairs, and operation of the dredge Chinook, and may be consid ered as applied to maintenance. "The proportion of the project ac complished to the end of the fiscal : year Is approximately 92 per cent for south jetty and less than 1 per cent for north Jetty. "The advantage derived from the im. proTement has been the increase of about nine feet in depth on the bar since the adoption of the project. 'Deepening of the channel over the bar will admit of the use of ships of greater draft and increased carrying capacity, and with larger vessels frequenting the port it Is reasonable to suppose that the charter rates on deep sea tonnage will be reduced, and that the present rail rates on transcon tinental shipments may also be reduced. "The amount estimated as a profit able expenditure in the fiscal year 1914 will be applied to maintenance of south jetty and to continuing work on north Jetty, which is necessary in order to secure the depth on the bar provided for in adopted project." The Army Engineers estimate that It (Concluded on rase 5.) Check Applied to Prevent Slaughter of Protected Birds WH1 Not Be Pushed Further. Fashion note Chinese pheasant plumage Is expected to be much in vogue this season for adornment of headgear. . Game Warden Finley says so, and he knows, for it was by his edict that the popular feathers disappeared at one fell swoop from a thousand bonnets, about a year ago. Thrifty housewives, who in fear of arrest, stripped the golden feathers from their skypleces and sub stituted less gaudy but more legal ornamentation, carefully packed the contraband plumage away In trunks and now may bring it out again. The law which forbids wearing pheasant feathers is still on the statute books, and a recent ruling of the Attorney-General throws no doubt on its being enforclble. but if Game Warden Finley doesn't invoke it, no one else Is likely to. And Finley has announced that he no longer is going to be a hateful, ugly old bear and have a lot of nice women dragged Into Justice Court for violat ing the game laws 'by trying to look pretty. 'A check was applied to the wearing of pheasant feathers," said Mr. Finley. when It became apparent that their use for millinery purposes was acting as a bounty upon the killing of the birds and frustrating our efforts to en courage their propagation." 1912 SALMON, PACK LESS Lack of Demand Reduces Output of Grays Harbor Plants. ABERDEEN. Wash.,' Dec. 6. (Spe cial.) Due to lack of demand and low prices the Grays Harbor salmon pack this, year has been little more than half that of last year. The market was glutted in the 1911 season and the ever production has resulted in an exceed ingly dull market. The Pacific Fisheries and Packing Company, the largest concern In op eration on the harbor, packed but 19, 000 cases this year as against 82,000 cases last year.' Chums and silver sides were by far the most plentiful. 16,000 out of the total pack being of these species. RAYNER, LEAVES ..MILLION Property Divided Equally Between Senator's Widow and Son. BALTIMORE. Dec. 6. The value of the estate of the late Senator Rayner will approximate $1,000,000. This will be shown when the Senator's will is filed next week for probate. The property is divided equally be tween the widow and the son, William B. Rayner, a portion being left in trust. The Senator left to the widow and son the right to make such chari table bequests as they may see fit, saying in the body of the will that their Judgment would enable them to act In accordance with what would have been his ideas. BRIDE IS SENT TO PRISON Sentence of 2 to 14 Years Follows Slaying of Tradncer. LOGANSPORT. Ind.. Dec 6. Mrs. Jo seph Lang, bride of one day, who shot and killed Mrs. Mary Copple last Tues day, was sentenced today to serve from wo to fourteen years in the women's prison at Indianapolis and pay a fine of $25. The woman pleaded guilty. Mrs. Lang declared the Copple woman said she was "ugly" and that Lang could nave done better in choosing a wife. Mrs. Copple was a guest at the wed ding supper. Mrs. Lang said she wished her act to stand out as a warning to all women who gossip. WILSON AT WORK AGAIN Message to Xew Jersey Legislature Begun at, Bermuda. HAMILTON, Bermuda, Dec 6. Presi dent-elect Wilson began today the final stages of his vacation In Bermuda by beginning work on his message to the New Jersey Legislature. He virtually has concluded his period f recreation and social engagements and expects to work steadily until he starts on the homeward voyage. NEBRASKA WOMEN BUSY Equal Suffragists to Petition for Putting Amendment to People. OMAHA, Neb, Dec. 6. The Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association decided today to petition for a submission to the people of a constitutional amend ment providing for woman suffrage. The petition will require 22,000 sig natures and a committee was appointed to start work on it. FALSE TEETH CAUSE DEATH Woman Swallows Plate Which Cuts Blood Vessels of Stomach. SANTA ANA, CaU Dec . False teeth caused the death here today of Miss Elizabeth Mitchell. Ten days ago she swallowed two false teeth and a plate. Veins or arteries in her stomach were cut by the teeth and death re sulted from Internal hemorrhage. Magon Chosen byLead ers in Mexico. ENVOYS MEET IN EL PASO Men Now in Open Revolt Are Not Considered. DYNAMITE FACTORY SEIZED Government Property Falls Into Rebels' Hands. Durango Alarmed by Efforts to In cite Peons to Revolt, " MEXICO CITY, Dec. 6. Another ef fort to unify all revolutionary elements in Mexico was exposed today. Agents of the various antl-admlnlstratlon par ties. Including the Orozco movement In the north and the Zapata revolt in the south, are said to have been holding se cret conferences In El Paso, Tex. A ticket acceptable to all factions Is said to have been selected. J. Flores Magon, former Minister of the Interior under President Madero, Is said to have been named as President, with Attor ney Emilio Vasquez Gomez as Vice- President. Active Rebels Eliminated. Gomez is at San Antonio, recently released on bond from a Federal court where ha is held on' charges of con spiracy. An amicable result was reached by eliminating .from the projected port folio the names of all now actively engaged in open revolution. In this way it Is expected to gain also the antl-Madero element at the national capital. It also Is said that the army will be attracted by an appointment. Rebels Take Dynamite Factory. The government dynamite factory at Dynamita, 30 miles northwest of Tor reon, fell today into the hands of reb els. A train for Dynamtla was turned back and communication with the place has' been cut."," ' " " Alarm la inciaslng In the State of Durango, where the. rebels are reported to be concentrating and Inciting the peons to revolt. The strike of the dock workers at Vera Cruz has become general. Four, teen hundred men are involved. Sev eral passenger steamers are experienc ing difficulty in discharging their car goes. T. X. Strong, of Portland, Honoredi MILWAUKEE, Dec. . (Special.) Robert D. Jenks, of Philadelphia, was elected today chairman of the council of the National Civil Service Reform League. Thomas N. Strong, of Port land. Or., was named as one of the vice-presidents. Calls for Charity Few Mild Weather Permits Outdoor Work Settled Financial Condition Is Aid. CHICAGO, Dec 6. (Special.) Bus! ness men, labor officials and charitable associations agreed today that the working classes in Chicago are more prosperous now than at any time in their recollection. There is work for every man who desires it at union wageB and contractors and employment agencies are vainly seeking men. With Winter well advanced there are no calls for charity and the "flops,' where homeless men hang out at 10 cents a day, are not making expenses. Their ordinary patrons are making good wages and living in better lodging-houses. Usually at this season the municipal and other lodging-houses are crowded to overflowing. Large employers of labor, labor officials and charity work ers assign the following reasons for the unprecedented prosperity: Unusually mild weather, making out door work possible; increasing build ing activities in Chicago and other cities; Increasing construction activl ties by railroads; settled financial con ditions following the election: The contractors say there are from one-fourth to one-half more craftsmen working now than there were a year ago at this season. DENVER GATEWAY! CLOSED Harrlman Lines File Tariff Affect ing Northwest Lumber. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. (Special.) J. N. Teal, of Portland, while at the Interstate Commerce Commission to day, found that the Harrlman lines have filed tariffs closing the Denver gateway against other roads on lum ber from the Northwest to Eastern Points, except by way of the Union Pacific and other Harrlman lines. These tariffs are directed - especially at the Santa Fe and Denver & Rio Grande. Mr. Teal, while here, will also try to secure an adjustment of freight rates from New York to Portland, via the Panama Railway?" so as to restore old rates. An increase was recently ordered. WOMEN PAY FOR LICENSES Twenty Dog" Cases Arise but the Owners Don't Appear In Court, Twenty dog license cases. It of the defenders being women, were disposed of in Municipal Court yesterday, nearly all by the Imposition of $3 costs and an agreement to- take out the delin quent license at once. Few of the wo men appeared in person, the husbands taking that duty upon themselves. All sorts of pleas were made, the most common one being to the effect that the unlicensed dog was "a little bit of a thing belonging to the child ren." One woman turned upon Poundmaster Welch with blazing eyes and scored him roundly for "dragging a woman Into court on such business." Other arrests are to follow. HELPING- FATHER RULE THE SEA. Last Hope for Christ mas Ship Gone. PASSENGER STEAMER SAVED Vessel Escapes dutches Reef After Many Hours. MANY SHIPS ARE OVERDUE Roaring Galo Blows 50 Miles an Honr From Northwest, Then Shifts Suddenly to Southwest Without Abating Violence. CHICAGO, Dec. S. (Special.) A rag lng sea, with treacherous squalls and shifting winds, imperiled several lake boats bound for Chicago today and swept away, the last vestige of hope that the three-masted schooner Rouse Simmons and its cargo of Christmas trees would sail safely into Chicago harbor with Its hardy crew of 16 men, The roaring waters were driven by a 50-mlle gale that first burst upon Lake Michigan In all its fury from the north west and then with suddenness veered to the southwest without diminishing its force. High winds and rough seas were re ported over all the Great Lakes ex centinsr Ontario today. On Erie the storm was the worst of the season, and a barge sank at Put-In-Bay. gale was blowing at Sault Ste Marie, Mich., and a fleet of ten boats took shelter behind Whltefish Point. Navi gatlon was nearly impossible. The steamer Easton, ot the Booth line, long a causa of deep anxiety, was released st 7:15 tonight, according to dispatch from Duluth, from the clutches of the Iroquois reef, and pro ceeded under her own steam to Port Arthur. All on board are safe. She s expected to arrive in Duluth tomor row afternoon. - -.'-".' - Since 5:30 o'clock Thursday morning the boat had been fast on the rocks. The lightering of the ship's cargo was sufficient to allow the vessel to back off Into clear water. Many Vessels Overdue Local mariners were made uneasy when many boats which were due here were unsighted at the hours when they were scheduled for docking. The body of an unidentified man, be lieved to have been a sailor on the missing bark, was found on the beach at Pentwater, Mich. When Chicago watchers peered through ' spyglasses for a glimpse of Incoming vessels, and relatives of the crew of the missing Rouse Simmons kept their vigils. Lake Michigan hurled (Concluded on Page 2.) Marriage License Clerk Frets Under Dearth of Business, Worst, He Says, In Recollection. . From 9 o'clock yesterday morning, when the County Clerk's office opened, till nearly 6 o'clock in the afternoon, closing time, Cupid, the little winged god of love, was mysteriously absen from Multnomah County, if the mar riage license, book may be taken as criterion. Deputy County Clerk Noonan. the little fellow's chief aide at the Courthouse, had about given up in do spalr. For tbe first time during the four years be has been in the office the day threatened to pass without marriage license being issued. A couple entered the door hesitating ly Just as the clock pointed , to 4:45 Their bashful and diffident manner in dlcated their errand and Noonan le loose a yell of exultation which brough several of his fellow clerks, of both sexes, on the run to partake of hi Joy. W. A. Burchell, of Clackamas, Or. R. F. D. No. 2, aged S9, and .Anna De Busman, of 8029 Fourty-nlnth street Southeast, aged 32, were given a permit to wed. Cupid, according to Noonan, followed the couple in and went out with them again and to the marriage clerk's In tense disappointment had not re appeared with another loving pair in tow when the hands of the clock pointed to 5. As Noonan closed up the book for the day, however, he declared that he "Just knew the little beggar wouldn't pass him up altogether." Testerday's scarcity of licenses was in marked contrast to the record of th day before Thanksgiving, when 42 11 censes entitling the holders to enter matrimonial harness left the Court house, leaving the county treasury $126 to the good. Noonan states that be can not remember a day when only one 11 cense was Issued, and F. G. Wilde, who has been in the office about 10 years. says he recalls Just one. JACKSON DAY TO BE NOTED Oregon Democrats to Have Banquet and Programme January 8. Jackson day will be observed and the election of Wilson and Marshall will be ratified jointly by the Democ racy of Oregon at an appropriate ban quet In this city January 8. This was definitely decided last night at a meeting of the Jackson Club, when details of the double celebration were referred to- a r Special committee con slsting of the president and secretary and the members of the executive com ml t tee. It is the intention on this occa sion to have a gathering in Portland of prominent Democrats from all sections of the state. Incidentally the election of officers of the club for the ensuing year took place at last night's meeting. In the choice of six members of the executive committee George I. Smith and Ernst Kroner tied, Mr. Smith winning when a coin was flipped. Officers elected were: President, John H. Stevenson; first vice-president, E. Versteeg; sec ond vice-president, J. W. McGinn; sec retary, Fred J. Phelan (re-elected); treasurer, Adolph Harms; . executive committee, H. B. Van Duzer, Bert E. Haney, G. W. Allen, James B. Carr. George I. Smith and W. S. Snider. ACTRESS WINS HER SUIT Validity of Ten-Year Contract With Klaw & Erlanger Upheld. NEW YORK. Dec 6. Edith St. Clair, actress, won her 222.500 suit against Klaw & Erlanger when a Jury de clared today her contract for that amount with the theatrical firm valid, The verdict came after a sensational trial. In which Abraham L. Erlanger charged a lawyer with blackmail and declared the contract was made under duress to save annoyance to his wife, who was ill at the time and who later divorced him. Miss St. Clair under the agreement was to have received 12500 a year for ten years. The contract was lived up to for only one year,, the testimony showed. BOWLEGS ISJJEBATE ISSUE Statesmen to Argue Relative Merits With Knock Knees at Press Club. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.' "Resolved, That bowlegs are a greater menace to navigation than knock knees," will be debated Thursday evening at the Na tional Press Club here by prominent statesmen of the Nation. On the affirmative, William Sulzer, Representative from New York and Governor-elect of the Empire State, and James M. Cox, representative from Ohio and Governor-elect of the Buck eye State, will argue. The negative will be presented by Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, and Senator Gore, of Oklahoma. John Hays Hammond will be Judge. 7 VOTE BEHIND REGISTRATION In Election 144,113 of 169,888 Eli gible Ballots Are Cast. SALEM, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.) The total vote at the recent general election was 15,775 behind the .registration, ac cording to official. figures which were completed by Secretary Oloott today. The total registration was 169,888 and the total vote as shown by the poll books 144,113. The heaviest vote of any cast on the measures was that cast for woman's suffrage, the total vote both for and against on that measure being 118,109, or 25,644 votes behind the entire total vote cast, according to the poll books. Power of States Is On Side of Order. GOVERNORS DECLARE POLICY South Carolinan Snaps His Fingers at Colleagues. HISSES MET WITH LAUGH Alabama Executive Starts Storm With Condemnatory Resolution. Conference Sounds Knoll of Farm Mortgage. RICHMOND, Vs.. Dec. 6. The Gov ernors' conference unanimously repudl. ated today the recent utterance of Gov ernor Bleaae. of South Carolina, con cerning the lynching of negroes. By a vote of 14 to 4 it adopted a resolution declaring against mob violence and for the impartial enforcement of the law. The four Governors who opposed th resolution declared themselves as strongly approving its purport, but voted "no" because they thought they had no right to reprimand a colleague. Blemse Denes Colleagues. Governor Bleaae himself, the target of the attack, hotly defended his con viction, snapped his fingers In the faces of his colleagues, told them to "go, to it," declared he cared not a whit w'lat the conference said, thought, did or did. not do, and announced that all the reso lutions they might ever adopt would neither keep him from the Governor's chair nor from a seat in the United States Senate in 1915, or earlier. Four times within as many hours, he asserted, his life had been threatened because of his utterance, but this ap pealed to him as little as the resolution. Threats All Anonymous. The four threatening letters Gover nor Blease received were all anony mous. One was mailed in Richmond, . another in Washington, the third In Louisville and the fourtli In Pittsburg. The Washington writer told him he would pay the penalty if he ever came to that city. The Pittsburg writer said: You will be taken to account on sight for your words." The Richmond and Louisville missives were unprintable. Governor Blease was taken to task by a dozen Governors. Governor Carey, of Wyoming, denounced him for "claim ing a monopoly for South Carolina of the respect of the white man for women. Governor Hadley, of Missouri, de clared that the floor of the conference hall was not a clearing-house for "local and personal controversies." Goldsborongh Favors Resolutlom. Governor Goldsborough, of Maryland, declared he stood solidly by the resolu tion because It was a matter of right. . Governor Dlx. of New York, thought it would be "most unwise not to adopt the resolution." Governor O'Neal, of Alabama, in a speech which was interrupted time after time by applause, asserted hli belief that the entire conference had been belittled by the South Carolinan's remarks and that it was the sworn duty of every executive to uphold the law. To these declarations Governor Blease replied that he had been quoted yesterday as saying "To hell with the Contltution," and that what he said yesterday he repeated today "to all the good Governors here, to all the Gov ernors of all the states, to all the peo ple of the United States. Our Triumphant Future Predicted. "Long after many of you gentlemen here today are resting In the shades of private life," he continued, "I will be reaping the rewards of public serv ice. Long after you good Governors are no longer Governors the white women of South Carolina will pray for me with their arms around their girls and will arise from their knees to kiss their husbands and beg them to go to tbe ballot box and vote for Blease to protect them ' from their dally terror." ' , Once, when his voice was drowned In a storm of hisses he turned to the galleries and to his colleagues snd laughed. "What care I for your hisses T" he asked. Then, shaking his clenched fist, be shouted: 'Hiss If you must. Only snakes and geese hiss." Alabama Unloosens Storm, Governor O'Neal, of Alabama, un loosed the storm when he Introduced the following resolution: This conference of Governors does not undertake- to control the individual views of its members on any question of law or administration. It declares that this Government Is baaed upon the fundamental principle of law and ordor; that the constitution of each state Imposes on its executive the sa cred duty of taking care that the laws shall be equally enforced; that it in vites ail proper methods for strength ening and simplifying our methods of civil and criminal procedure. "This conference protests against ny disposition or uterances by those ntrusted with the execution of the aws In any of the states of this Union, which tends or could be construed as tending to the encouragement or Jus tification of moh violence or interfer- (OincludMl on 2.