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VOL. LII-XO- 16,239. PORTLAND. OREGON. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HUGH C. WALLACE BRIT PROTESTS IS. HELD OP, 14-INCH GUN BLOWS CITE BUTTER PRICES IN HOST TO M'COMBS UP; NO 0JNE HURT TONS OP MKTATj HURLED FOR PORTLAND AVIATEI AT mm TOLLS 2 I GET $20,000 T. R. FOR TEMPT TCOMA CANDIDATE FOB CABI WHOLESALE MARKET MAKES XET PLACE SCORES. i QUARTER ,OF A MILE. JUMP TO 39 CENTS. TRAIN IDAHO 3 HARRIfill ROADS FACE MERGER NOV GO Formal Note Carried to Secretary Knox. VIOLATION OF TREATY IS SEEN Objection Is to Rebates for Coastwise Shipping. ARBITRATION IS SUGGESTED Sir Edward Grey Says Attempt to Kxclndo British Ships Owned by Canadian Railroads AV111 Be Resisted. WASHINGTON. Dec. 9. Great Brit ain's formal note of protest against that section of the Panama Canal act which exempts American coastwise shipping from payment of tolls for passing- through the Panama Canal, document written by Sir Edward Grey, British Minister of Foreign Affairs, was presented tonight to Secretary Knox by the British Ambassador, James Bryee, who read the note word for word to the Secretary In the lat ter home. It is an elaboration of the points of objection in the note presented to the State Department last July. Treaty Vlolatloa Charged. In brief these are the objections: "That while It was clearly In . vlo latlon of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty either to remit or refund tolls on all American shipping using the canal, the same objection probably would apply to the coastwise shipping in view of the probable impossibility of framing regulations that would not result In a preference to American shipping. In addition to supporting these points by long arguments. Sir Edward indi cates clearly that strong resistance will be offered to any attempt to ex clude from the canal British ships owned by Canadian railroads or whose owners may be guilty of violating the Sherman anti-trust act. Be holds that this section of the act cannot apply to British shipping, but only to United States vessels. He indicates that underlying the ob jection to the exemption from toll of American coastwise ships Is an ap prehension that in the future the prin cipie mignt Do extended to cover American ships in the foreign trade. Taft'a Views Are Opposed. Otherwise the note is devoted al most entirely to an effort to demon strate that any such exemption of American shipping as is proposed Is in direct conflict with the terms of "-'"-Pauncefote treaty and that Tresldent Taft : was clearly wrong when he took the contrary view. The British note might be summed tp as a definition of the differences between the two governments regard Ing the Ilay-Pauncefote treaty, wind Ing up with a proposal that the issues be settled by arbitration, if they cannot be ut-justea by mutual agreement for which a way remains open. Secretary Knox listened attentively to the reading of the note and prom ised to take the subject under consid eration, which he felt would require some time. It has been strongly Inti mated In official circles that it was the President's intention to settle this Im portant question before closing up his administration, either by recommend ing that the Senate agree to submit It to arbitration, or preferably by the more direct means of an. agreement be tween the two nations. Subsidies 'ot Frowaed 1'poa. Sir Edward begins bis note with the statement that the President does not fully apprehend the British point of view and has misunderstood the note of July 8. He says it Is not the case that the British government seeks to prevent the United States from grant ing subsidies to Its own shipping pass ing through the canal nor does it seek to deprive the United States of any liberty which Is open either to them selves or any other nation to encourage its own shipping "or own commerce by subsidies. The purpose of the United States in negotiating "the Hay-Pauncefote treaty was to recover their free dom of action and obtain the right which they had surrendered In the Clayton-Bulwer treaty to construct the canal themselves. But this complete liberty of action was to .be limited by the maintenance of the complete principle of equal treatment for both English and United States ships. Word "Xeutrallsatlom- I. laaue. The word "neutralization" in the pre amble of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty is not confined to belligerent operations, but refers to the system of equal rights for whjeh article S provides. Joint protection and equal treatment are the only subjects alluded to to which that neutralization must refer. "It certainly was not the intention of the United States Government," says Sir Edward, "that any responsibility for the protection of the canal should at tach to them In the future. Neutraliza tion, therefore, must refer to the sys tem of equal rights." The note declares that the situation reat-d by the substitution of the Hay Pauncefote treaty for the Clayton-Bulwer treaty was identical with that re sulting from the boundary waters (Concluded on rasa 14.) Would-Be Secretary of Interior Has Wilson's Right-Hand Man as House Guest Two Days. OREGONIAX NEWS BUREAU, Wash Ington. Dec 9. Hugh C. Wallace, of Tacoma, who also maintains a rest dence In this city, has been putting one over on Joseph N. Teal and Vt 111 K. King, of Portland. Mr. Wallace is the leading Wash ington candidate for the appointment as Secretary of the Interior In Wil son's Cabinet, and for two days he has entertained at nis home in this city William P. McCombs, Democratic Na tlonal chairman, and Wilson's right hand man. The fact that McCombs passed two days with Mr. Wallace, and the further fact that ex-Senator Tur ner. of Washington, and other influ ential Democrats are strongly urgin the appointment of Wallace as Secre tary of the Interior, has created an im pressslon that Wallace will be seriously considered for this Cabinet office. He, thus far, appears to be closer to th powers that are to be than are the other candidates from th Pacific Northwest. In this connection. Governor Haw ley, of .Idaho, and Governor Norrls, of Mon tana, both active candidates for this Cabinet office, have been in Washing- ton for the past three days conferring with Democratic leaders of influence, and quietly working up their respective booms. Both Governors were on th floor of the Senate today, and spen several hours in conference with Demo cratic leaders. Governor H'awley, In his talk with Senators, found sentiment quite gen era! in favor of the selection of a Western man as the next Secretary of the Interior, and Senator Perky took occasion to point out to many of the Senators the qualifications of the Idaho Governor for this office. Both Hawley and Norrls declare their first concern is to see the right kind of a Western man chosen. If they can get some assurance that the President- elect will pick his Secretary of the Interior from the West they are willing, as is ex-Governor Adams, of Colorado, that the man for the place shall be selected by a process of elimination. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 9. (Special.) Mr. Wallace is a well-known Tacoma capitalist. He gave 13000 to the Demo cratic National campaign fund. His wife is a daughter of the late United States Chief Justice. . He has always been prominent in Democratic state circles. ETROLEUM BILL IS TARGET Germans Think Group Behind- It No Better Than Standard Oil Men. BERLIN. Dec. 9. The German gov ernment's petroleum bill was again subjected to vigorous criticism today in the Imperial Parliament. It was then referred without opposition to a committee which will endeavor to evolve something acceptable to the ma jority of the House. Not a single voice was raised toaay in defense of the bill in Its present form. Most of the speakers appar ently were convinced that the bank ing group behind the proposed com pany was quite as dangerous as the Standard Oil Company and would raise prices if the measure became law. Still it Is thought there Is a chance that the measure embodying the gov ernment's aim namely, the ejection of the Standard Oil Company from Ger many will ultimately be adopted and most probably In the form of a state monopoly utilizing different methods of organization from those now pro posed. WAGON ROAD PROJECTED Timber Belt Near Wahkiacus May Be Made Available. WAHKIACUS.' Wash.. Dec. 9. (Spe ial.) Another wagon road has been projected, surveyed and granted by Klickitat County to connect with the various roads that lead to uahkiacun. The proposed route is close to the north bank of the Klickitat River, reaching he mouth of the Little Klickitat, which is to be bridged. After leaving the river a good grade will be obtained through a saw timber belt and a rlch ndeveloped dairy district to the lower nd of the Crorton Prairie section, hieh is devoted to fruit and wheat growing. At the extreme east end of the survey there will be an intersec tion with the road leading to Kayser Creek and old fort blockhouse. Delvan S. Brooks, of Wahkiacus Heights, says the new road will not only be a boon to the settlers in his section, but will afford an outlet for 10,000.000 feet ot Klickitat pine that could be made into lumber at Wahkiacus. , JOB REWARD FOR HONESTY Idle Youth Finds Purse, Kxchanges It for Good Salary. MEDFORD. Or.. Dec. 9. (Special.) That honesty is the best policy has Just been demonstrated here, when Joseph E. Boyer, aged 15, found a purse owned by Mrs. William O'Hara, containing S7 in cash and a check for 8. Toung Boyer promptly turned the article over to Police Chief Hittson. and upon questioning the lad the Police Chief found that he was out of work and looking for a job. Appreciating the boy's honesty and knowing its value in the business world. Chief Hittson soon found a good position for the young man. and he Is now earning $10 a week, with an op portunity for more. When asked why be. didn't keep the money,' the young man replied: "Keep it? Why. It didn't belong to me!" C. M. Dodson Is Lien tenant. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Dec. f. The President appoint ed Clarence Monroe Dodson. of Oregon, a Second Lieutenant of infantry in the Unltrd States Army. Dodson has passed a competitive examination. Express Messenger Is Felled by Robbers. LOOT IS ALL IN GOLD COIN Money Is Being Sent to Bank at Taft, California. MAN IN' CAR IS STUNNED Express Messenger Says Ho Does Not Know What Hit Him and Bid Not Get Chance to' Sco Whether Assailants Were Masked. BAKERSFIELD. Cal., Dec. 9. Twen ty thousand dollars in gold was the haul tonight of two robbers who held up the express car of the Sunset West ern train bound from Bakersfleld for Taft, Cal. The money was consigned to the First National Bank of Taft by the First National Bank of Bakersfleld. It was not placed in the express safe. When the train arrived at Taft rail road men were forced to break down the door of the express car. In a corner covered with-mail 6acks was M. W. Hamby, the express messenger, who was just regaining consciousness. but physicians who examined him de clared that apparently he was hot se riously hurt. Hamby could provide only few details of the robbery. He said that two men entered the care Just as the train was leaving Maricopa.. He did not know whether they were masked and was unable to tell how he was rendered unconscious. He said he was just re covering consciousness as the train entered Taft, about a l.alf hour after the robbery. He appeared to be suf fering from the effects of the blow and was rather Incoherent. He could give no description of the robbers. Officials of the First National Bank here confirmed that $20,000 had been shipped to Taft. and that they had been notified of the theft of the gold. The Sunset Western is a branch of the Santa Fe, which runs to the Midway Oil fields. Several posses left here for the scene of the robbery, and others, are search ing in the vicinity of Maricopa and Taft. College Receives $100,000 Gift. COLORADO SPRINGS. Col., Dec. 9. President William F. Slocum, of Colo rado College, announced this morning that Mrs. A. D. Juillard, of New York, had donated $100,000 to the college to build a new gymnasium as a memorial to her father, the late Frederick H. Cossitt. 5llil5l aP"1" J SomernMG to show s (h fA Test of Newest Type of Artillery Ends in Disaster-r-MuzzIe Rips Up Section of Track. NEW YORK, Dec. 9. A gun of 14 Inch caliber and of SO tons weight, the largest and newest type built by the United States Government at a cost of $130,000, exploded today at the Sandy Hook proving grounds. While the ex plosion - of - smaller guns has taken scores of lives,- the big 14-lncher blew to pieces without causing a scratch to the men around it. The two-ton breech block was blown a quarter of a mile, the muzzle was hurled BtlU further' away and frag ments were spread. in every direction. but Ordnance Officer Brennan, who was standing on the temporary disappear ing carriage, was not struck, although the structure Itself was wrecked. ' Brennan was thrown many yards, but sustained hardly a bruise. The other officers and. men in charge of the firing were behind a bomb-proof wall which protected them. The big gun, which hurled a projec tile weighing 1660 pounds at a range of 12,000 yards, was successfully fired several times in tests last month, and was believed to be in perfect condition. A charge of 340 pounds of smokeless powder Is used. When the lanyard was pulled today a tremendous explosion ensued, and broken pieces of the gun were sent in all directions. The muzzle was hurled toward a railroad, where It ripped up a large section of track. Speculation as to the cause of the accident brought out the belief that the sudden drop in the temperature had some effect on the gun. - Guns like that which exploded today have been proposed for the fortification of the Panama Canal. MISSING MAN IS- HOME Garago Owner Located in San Fran cisco Cannot Recall Incidents. After having been missing nearly a week, during which time he was sought by the police and fellow lodge mem bers, li. C. Newman, proprietor of an East Side garage, arrived at his home yesterday after a trip to San Fran cisco, during which, he says, his mind was an entire blank, and he is unable to offer any explanation for his mys terious conduct. First news of the missing man was received by his wife Saturday by long distance 'telephone, reporting his ar rival and awakening In San Francisco, with insufficient funds to make the re turn trip. Mr. Newman, while working in bis shop, about a month ago, sustained a blow on the head, and to that is at tributed his aberration. Diamond Thieves Make Haul. CINCINNATI. Dec. 9. Three thieves, in the guise of tax collectors, today stole diamonds worth $10,000 from the Jewelry store of Adolph Wlebell. They asked the clerk to show them the dia monds. He did so, whereupon the men bound and gagged him. and. securing the stones, walked leisurely out of the store. ' AT THE POULTRY SHOW. On Decision at Boise Today Hangs Move. NEAR ANARCHY IS CHARGED Attorney-General Says Colo nel's Act Hits Bench. SHARP WORDS FLY FAST McDougall, State Official, Says Ar ticles Published and Roosevelt's Telegram Charge Judges ' With Double Dealing. BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 9. (Special.) That Colonel Roosevelt's telegraphic appeal to voters of, Idaho, protesting against Idaho's Supreme Court decision striking Roosevelt electors from the ballot, would result in his citation for contempt, were he within the court's jurisdiction,- was evident in the pro ceedings before the court today. R. S. Sheridan, owner; C. O. Broxon, editor, and A. R. Cruzen, alleged stock holder, charged with contempt of court for publishing in the Capital News alleged prejudicial articles lnslnuative of ulterior motives for rendering the disfranchising opinion, argued their demurrer to the complaint In court to day. It was taken under advisement, the court announcing it will render an opinion tomorrow ' morning at 10 o'clock. Sharp Words feature. Sharp words and plain statements featured the argument. Counsel for the newspapermen claimed the court exceeded Its jurisdic tion in citing them; that a high tribu nal could not command respect through contempt charges; that the press has the right to criticise justices for re election and their opinions. Attorney-General McDougall replied that the articles and Roosevelt's' "tele gram as published not only charge the court with double dealing, but are a step toward anarchy. The Roosevelt telegram is repeated in the complaint a number of times. It was issued to State Chairman Glpson November 12 and" published November 13. Its charge against the court is quoted as follows: Protest, Cries Roosevelt. "Through you I desire to appeal to the men and women of Idaho not to permit themselves to be disfranchised, as the court has sought to disfranchise them. It Is impossible to protest too (Concluded on Page 2.) Changes in East Sends Dairy Prod- net to Highest Level in Two Tears at This Season. There was a 2-cent advance tn the Portland ' butter market yesterday morning. The reason given for the rise was the shortage in the local sup ply, which is usual at this time of year, and also the higher prices pre vailing in the East. It is necessary to bring in a con siderable quantity of Eastern butter In the Fall and Winter months to make up for the deficiency in the Oregon supply, and the market here is. therefore, governed by the changes in the Eastern dairy districts. At the present wholesale price of 39 cents. butter Is higher in the Portland mar ket than it has been for two years at this season. Local wholesale prices on the corresponding date in previous years were as follows: 1911, 37 cents; 1910, 37 cents: 1909, 39 cents; 1908, 37 cents; 1907, 35 cents; 1906, 35 cents; 1905, 30 cents; 1904, 30 cents. These prices apply to the best grade of city made butter. Outside cream ery brands generally sell lower. The cheapest price this year on city cream ery butter was 25 cents. In the first week In May. . While butter is advancing, eggs are working downward in price. The wholesale quotation now is 4214 cents as against ia cents just oeior& xnanKH- giving on the best Oregon ranch prod- uct. The eetr market here, like the butter market. Is governed to a certain extent in the Winter months by prices and market conditions in the East. In the Eastern cities storage eggs are being -offered freely a. the present time and this is unset-ling the egg market throughout the country. It is a rule with egg speculators never to carry stocks in storage after the first of the year, -find the December market Is therefore generally disturbed by the unloading that occurs at the big stor- age centers. FRUIT LAW IS IN DISPUTE Horticulturists to Discuss Proposed Change Today. Whether horticultural law. hall re- main in Oregon. as they are or-shall be reorganized, is the discussion that will be foremost at the meeting of the ieglslative committee appointed at the last session of the State Horticultural Society. This committee will bold its meeting at the Imperial Hotel today. At the recent convention Dr. C. A, McCrum, chairman of the committee, submitted a plan lor abolition 01 tne State Board of Horticulture and ad- vocated the creation of the office of Agricultural Commissioner, this Com- missioner to have the power to ap- point a board of three, one of whom hall be the Governor, one the presl- dent of the State Horticultural Society and the third one of the experts con m.i, 't ul 11 -1 1 h t Vi a etota avnarlmnt ato. I tion at the Agricultural College. As a compromise, before the adoption of this report. President A. P. Bateham was empowered to appoint a committee of 19 to draw up measures wnicn snouia Hire l w 1 111 Kcaci ixi nuuiuvai hiuuiik me The forces opposed to the plan ad vanced by Mr. McCrum advocate a re turn to the old conditions of the Horti cultural Society, In which everything connected with the work of the or ganlzatlon was on a voluntary basis. Dr. McCrum's wing of the society urges that emphasis be placed upon state I control of horticultural affairs, holding that this method insures more uniform and general protection to the hortlcul- tural industries. The representatives of the two opposing factions will meet in the session of the committee of 19 to- day. CASTRO REPORTED ACTIVE Venezuelan ex-President Said to Be Promoting Revolution. President of Venezuela, is the object Pacific owns less than 60 per cent of of much newspaper comment here. The this stock. The Central raclfic ls the Temps today describes him as being keynote in the present situation.. Port engaged in preparing another revolu- iand will benefit most if the Union tion m Venezuela. ine newspaper says he has arrived here, but his Telegrams from Antwerp report Cas- tro on his way to Hamburg, whence he Is said to be proceeding to a Ger- man sanatorium. Another circumstan- tial report says ne aisemDaraea irom the steamer Windhuk and went to Brussels with the Intention of pro ceeding to Paris. SMUGGLER ADMITS GUILT Defendant Declares He Was Forced - to Engage in Business. iis ivnwT.vs -i rw otr Llovd pleaded guilty" In the ' Federal Court here today to having smuggled 22 Chinese Into the United States from Mexico and was sentenced tp serve two Gne of the minor results of the de months in the County Jail. , , ,,, . ... Jt , ,t,x i..i Lloyd, who was arrested shortly cislon will be the divorce of the . ocal after the Chinese were landed from the launch Starling on San Clements Island, July last, has been in jail stnee. He I told the court he had been forced to enS.aS "m,5"i1S.b5r Y"Ilam. Fits- Ethel Ha I. the -caTeS "oueen" of a Chinese smuggling ring. GENERAL TOWEL BARRED Sanitary Regulation Applied to In-1 terstato Vehicles and Stations. WASHINGTON. Dec 9. The common towel was ordered abolished from rail- road cars, vessels, all other Interstate vehicles and from stations, by Secre- tary MacVeagh today, in an amend- raent to the interstate quarantine regu- lations. Thls action follows closely the aboli- tion of the common drinking cup from use on interstate carriers. Towels may be used again only after having been sterilized In boiling water. O.-W. RAN. and Short Line May Vanish. UNION PACIFIC IS AMBITIOUS Supreme Court Decision Cause , , for Proposed Action. DIRECTORS TO VIEW PLAN Triple Alliance in 'Fact Become More Certain of Adoption 4t Fight for Control of Central Pacific Is Lost, Says Gossip. To consolidate the O.-W. R. & N. Company 'and the Oregon Short Line with the Union Pacific, making the Dr0Dertv from 0man. .n(1 K... r)... to Portland one continuous system linear Ah. Aml . . "" ........ one result ot the "cent Supreme Court decision declaring Illegal the merger of the Union Pacific afld Southern Pa- cif,c- W'hen the Ilarriman directors meet tn New Tork thls week to work out plans 10 comply wun tne court s decree It is more tnan likely, according to advices rece" ea nere yesterday, that this stop wl1 receive serious consideration. So far as the finances of the three roads are concerned they are one and me same institution already. The Union Pacific owns the stock of the Oregon Short Line and tha Orecon Short Line owns the stock ot the O.-W. k. t J, company. Triple Mera-er Proposed. - Aa matter of convenience and to save operating expenses it Is proposed n"w la njerBe mree roaos ana Place them under one executive head, The Short Line already Is under the direct management of the .Union Pa- nifin. A. t. MnhUr hein nrxim nf Ktl, ,-i. bo'h companies . Juet what effect this move would nave on r oruana is nara to determine. I That would depend wholly upon the desires or nollcles of the Union Paclfli; offJcIala. There ls nothIng in the ... . , . . wor'd t0 st0P thera trom oiD Ju6t s 'ar as they like. While the executive officers of the audltlntr department of the O.-W. n. & N. comDanv Drobablv would be trans- ferred to Omaha, convenience of con- ducting the business would force them to maintain neavy operating, tratiic, engineering and legal departments in Portland. Portland would stand to lose mtlo otner tha tne prestlge that i . . . , . . , , . . tity. O.-W. R. A K. mm Name Would rasa. '.According to this scheme the whole system from Omaha to Portland would be known as the Union Pacific The name O.-W. K. & N. Company would pass into history. , nt . .. . , ,, tu, ,., adoption in the event that the lnion Pacific loses in Its fight for control 01 the Central Pacific, which ls the line between Ogden and San Francisco. While the Supreme Court -suggested maintain ownership of this line, it is understood that the majority stoek- holders are preparing to pool their in- terests In New York with the intention of preventing It from passing into tne 1 J- .. . 1. TTntA Doolfl. Til- TTnlnn p- ,f, in., it. in that event it is almost certain that the Union Pacific will divert all its Oriental traffic to Peruana, wnicn win roun m mo eratlon of regular steamship service between Portland and the Orient. Victory Affects Portland. This plan would give the Union Pa cific the haul on Its transcontinental traffic from its Eastern termini Omaha and Kansas City to Portland. Were It to continue using the Ogden gateway It would be compelled to pay a rival road for handling It between Ogden and San Francslco. Should, however, the tnlon Pacific be successful in its flgut for retention of the Central Pacific the Oriental traffic would icontlnue to move as at oresent through San Francisco. "caei omces in on nut. j,..v offices now are maintained. Tentative steDS already have been taken for opening a separate office in Portland Lor tne southern Pacific allowing the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and O. - W. It. & w. company to eu" in business at Third and wasmngion . -. cfmiup notlnn will be taken at Spokane. Seattle. Tacoma and other Northwestern cities. Democrats Discuss Offices. WASHINGTON, Dec 9. Chairman McCombs, of the Democratic National committee; today conferred with Spoak- er Clark, Representative Underwood and other Democratic leaders, and had a private luncheon with Secretary Hiiles, at which the organisation of the - White Mouse oinces was am- cussed. It was reported McCombs would take an official position, but friends said that while he has been offered a placejn the new Administration, he had not decided If he would accept 1U
