Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, January 06, 1913, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textn jo VOL. MI-NO. 1G.2G1. I'ORTI.AN'r). OREOON. MONDAY; JANUARY G. 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PEOPLE STILL WAIT FOR LISTS OF DEAD CHICKENS CALLED DEATH SUMMONS INFLUX OF UNFIT MENACE TO RACE TAFT FOR SPECIAL ARBITRATION COURT CAXAL TOLLS ISSUE XOT ONE TOR THE HAGUE. US MEN ARE AND FED BY CLOCK 1ED IN GALE OF INTENSE GOLD PORTLAND ATTORNEY INVENTS PROFESSOR SEES CHANCE TO NOVEL DEVICE. APPLY EUGENICS PLAN. GUSTO GRIP JAMES LAiDLAW n Bulgars Give No Time to Counting Costs. EVERY FAMILY IS BEREAVED Women at Home Bear Burden Of Keen Suspense. 75,000 SOLDIERS ARE HIT Nnmbcr of Lives Lost Equal to To tal of American Flshtln Men at San Juan Hill "Wounded Have Little Care. BT FREDERICK. PALMER. Special Correspondent in the Balkan War for the New York Times and The Ore gonlan. MUSTAPHA PASIIA. Dec. 5. Madame, how would you like to wait day In and day out, week In and week out, after a battle, without know Ins whether your son, or brother, or husband wore dead or alive? The Imagination of a Torquemada could not invent a more cruel suspense than that which has hung over the homes of Bulgaria and Ser vla. While the peo ple wait on the re sult of a talkative peace conference. they wait also on Frederick l'uliiier. the lists of the dead and wounded. In both countries the method was the same: but I speak of Bulgaria for it was the Bulgarian army to which I was attached. The Bulgarians suffered the heaviest losses. They had the larg est army of any of the allies. With a population of only 4.000,000, the Bulgarians boasted that they had an army of 500,000 lu the field. At the same ratio, this would give, the United States an army of 12,000,000, Germany an army of 8,000,000, and New York City alone an army of about 600,000. However, many observers make 400,000 the highest figure. Including all the Macedonian volunteers; and possibly 300.000 Is nearer the truth. One In Four or Five 1m Hit. Seventy-five thousand were struck by' bullets or shrapnel. That is, one man out of every four or five was hit within two months of flgnting. History, so far as I know, records, since the days when no quarter was given, no such heavy percentage of loss in so short a time. Not less than 12,000, and prob ably 15,000, were killed In action or died of wounds. Add to this 5000 who died from disease, and you have 20.000 breadwinners whose last service to their country has been performed. Twenty thousand Is equal to the total force that wa sent up San Juan Hill. It is larger than any single army that we had In the revolution asalnst the mother country. It is more than one fourth the number engaged on either side at Gettysburg. It represents a force large enough to run a pretty big railroad system; wage earners enough . for a city of 70,000 or 100.000. There Is not a man. woman, or child in all Bulgaria who has not had some relative killed; for these dead are scat tered over all parts of the country and distributed through every class o-so-ciety. The well-to-do merchant or pro fessional man must serve under the law of conscription beside the peasant and the street cleaner. Bulgaria was one great family of common grief at the samo time that It rejoiced over its vic tories. First Object In to Win. Officially, whenever a Turkish bullet went through a Bulgarian, such was his flesh structure that It was supposed to be Immediately self-healing. Far from telling the number of casualties, the correspondent was not e-pected to men tion the wounded, though exceptions were made if you praised their be havior, which you were only too glad to do, for their conduct In the face of hardship deserved more praise than the generalship of the staff. The Bulgarian staff said that their first object was to win the war. When they had done that they would count the costs. The hardest kind of military reasoning thus prevailed. A poor coun try might better use its money in the wherewithal to beat the enemy than in comforts fur the wounded. A dead man is out of the war. He Is lost but not a source of any expense, of any labor except that of making a grave to cover him. A man shot through the hand, or suffering any kind of a flesh wound, is bound to recover If he has a proper first-aid dressing; and soon he will be back on the firing line. But the badly wounded man is a real burden. There Is no ch.mce of his being of any further service In a short war. Do Ihe best you can for him; but the price of a Creusot shell Is more valuable to a ra tion In a hurry to win than a hospital tent, or a spring ambulance. If you must choose between the two. Only Veterans Can Understand. When our ovn country is conducting a campaign we publish a complete list :t the killed and wounded at the earliest possible moment after a battle. All the i immediate relatives of the dead and wounded receive prompt personal noti fication. From the Philippines we sent homo to the relatives the bodies of "'.tl (Concluded on Faze 2- Alarm Recognized by Poultry as Summon to Dinner Feed Pro vided During Owner's Absence. Robert C. Wright, a Portland attor ncy, living at Mount Tabor, by means of an alarm clock, a thread and a feed trough, has invented a method of auto matic feeding of chickens that may largely increase the poultry business by making it more popular because practicable as a side issue. Mr. Wright has a brood of intelligent chickens and a poultry house a short distance from his home. As he works all day In Portland it was necessary that the chickens be fed during his ab sence. After thinking over the subject and expending much effort and gray matter, he hit upon a very happj- solu tion of the problem. Now, when Mr. Wright wants his family of chickens fed, at 3, 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon, he winds up the alarm clock and attaches the cord to the key and leaves for his place of business with absolute Assurance that at the exact time the alarm will sound, which, being Interpreted by the fowls, means "Chicky! Chicky!" and simultan eously it makes the feed available. The Invention Is simple. The key is left in the clock and when the alarm calls the chickens the cord operates a device which pulls open the feed trough. The chickens have been trained to come whenever the alarm clock calls them. Mr. Wright experimented with electric batteries as part of the scheme, but without success. He tried tbe alarm clock and It worked out. HEINZE BEGINS NEW FIGHT Possession of Idaho Ore Body to Be Contested in Court. WALLACE, Idaho, Jan. 5. With the aid of mining engineers and geologists of note, F. Augustus Heinze and other directors of the Stewart Mining Com pany are here to begin tomorrow in the District Court a legal battle against the Ontario Mining Company for the possession of the Ontario ore body, said to be worth ft, 000,000. Heinze and his associates claim the ore body by virtue of Apex and extra lateral rights. Experts retained by Mr. Heinze In clude H. V. WInchell. of Minneapolis, former chief expert for the Amalga mated Copper Company: Professor C. H. Tollman, head. of the department of geology of Leland Stanford, Jr., Uni versity, and Alfred Frank, general man ager of the Ohio Copper Company, of Utah. Experts for the other side Include Max Boebmer, of Denver; Walter A. Wylle, of Los Angeles, and Fred Searles, of the Goldfleld Consolidated Company. GIRLS EAT NO CHICKEN Co-Eds Stint Selves and Work Hard to Raise ti.vmiiaslum Fund. COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo., Jan. o. By going without chicken at their Sun day dinners, by washing hair at 25 cents a head, cleaning rooms and other menial tasks, the 200 girls of the four dormitories of Colorado College have raised $9300 toward a 150,000 endow ment fund to obtain $100,000 offered for a gymnasium by Mrs. A. D. Julllard, of New York City.. As li. P. Shove, a retired business man here, has offered to give a dollar for each one they raise, the girls now have secured 81 S. 600 and declare they will lo without chicken until they have raised the rest. SUFFRAGISTS ROUT CHIEF Wa-liinfton Business Men Rally to Aid, and Pageant Wins. WASHINGTON. Jan. 0. (Special.) Major Sylvester, superintendent of the Capitol Poljce. who yesterday an nounced that the Washington suffrag ists would not be allowed to hold a pageant on March 3, the day before the inauguration, was routed by the Suffragists almost as soon as he rashly announced there would be- no pageant. James F. Oyster, president of the Chamber of Commerce, quickly took up the Suffragettes' cause, as did other prominent men, and today Sylvester receded from his position. The women will hold their demonstration as planned. CAR PATRONS TO BE HEARD Public Invited to Attend Council Committee Meeting: Today. buRffcuUons tor the beuerment of the street-car service In Portland will he heard from the general public by the special street-car committee of the City Council, at a meeting to be held at the City Hall at 10 o'clock this morning. Chairman Joy of the committee. has asked that all persons who have sug gestions or conplaint3 to make to ap pear at the meeting, where they will be permitted to talk. Officials of the street-car company will attend. This Is the second meeting of the kind held by the committee. LAE0RERS SHARE IN ESTATE Lime and Cement Manufacturer Leaves $500 to $1000 to Each. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 4. Sixteen la borers, who have worked from two to :0 years for the Henry Cowell Lime & Cement Company, received Saturday sums varying from $500 to 11000 from the estate of tfce late K. V. Cowell. Cowell died in Kurope In 1911, leav ing an estate valued at J972,?;2. Peritonitis Is Fatal To British Consul. OPERATION FAILS TO RELIEVE Funera! Arrangements Await Arrival of Sons. PORTLAND HOME 41 YEARS Skipping Business and Diplomatic Affairs Absorbed Attention of Mr. Laidlaw Time Is Found for Philanthropic AVork. James Laidlaw, British Consul at Portland for the district embracing Oregon, Washington. Idaho, Montana and Alaska, and for 42 years a resident of this city, died of peritonitis at St Vincent's Hospital at 6:45 o'clock last night, following an Illness of ten days. He would have been 66 years old had he lived until January 23. Mr. Laidlaw resided with his family at 211 North Twenty-fourth street. He had been enjoying his usual good health until two days following Christ mas, when he suffered a severe attack of what appeared to be Indigestion. He was removed to the hospital December 28, an operation by Dr. K. A. J. Mac kenzie disclosing a serious case of peri tonitis. Bnaicess Calls to Chill. Mr. Laidlaw was born January 23. 1847, at Fisherton, Ayrshire, Scotland, where his father,- Rev. James Laidlaw, was at that time minister. Shortly after birth his parents removed to Wanlock-Head, Dumfriesshire. Young Laidlaw commenced his studies at the parish school in Wanlock-Head. later taking a higher course in Glasgow, Scotland. After completing his education he entered the employ of Cross, Wedder spoon & Company, of Glasgow, contin uing with this firm for seven years, when he was sent abroad by his em ployers to the office of the firm of Cross & Company, Valparaiso, Chill. He remained in Valparaiso until 1871. Sbipplns; Business Started. Coming to America in that year, he visited Portland .and was so favorably Impressed with this city and the future assured this community by reason of its natural advantages that he located. Under the firm name of James Laidlaw & Co., he engaged in a shipping and commission business. The following year H. J. Gate, of London, was admit ted to the firm. Two years later Mr. Gate retired, but Mr. Laidlaw con tinued the business. In 1874 Mr. Laidlaw was appointed British Vice-Consul. Twenty years lat er he was made Consul. At the same time he retired from active business, turning his interests over to his son, J. Ernest Laidlaw, and devoted all of his time to the consular service. On July 21, 1873, Mr. Laidlaw 'mar- (Concluded on rage 11.) Immigrants Admitted Store Readily Than Cattle, Says Harvard Man Who Pleads for Change. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 3. (Spe cial.) Professor Robert do Courcey Ward, of Harvard, Is firm in his be lief that the present Immigration laws, if continued in force, will eventually prove the greatest potential factor in the downfall of the American race. "We are today taking better care to see that a Hereford bull or Southdown ewe imported to this country for breeding purposes is sound and free from disease than we take in seeing that alien fathers and mothers of fu ture American children are strong and sound and sane and fit," said Professor Ward today. "The greatest opportunity which any nation ever had to apply eugenic prin ciples Is our own opportunity in-handling of the problem of alien Immigra tion. It Is almost useless for us to try to prevent the breeding of our own mentally and physically unfit as long as we keep on admitting the mentally and physically unfit of Europe and of Asia as at present. . The most logical and most effective eugenic programme must concern itself with the further selection of our immigrants on eugen ic grounds." WOMEN MAY SEEK OFFICE Dr. L. Victoria Hampton Probable Candidate for Seat In Council. The municipal election next June will see the names of a number of women on the ticket, if the urgent wishes of their friends are realized and the wo men don't change their minds. Dr. L. Victoria Hampton Is consider ing the advisability of placing her name upon the list of aspirants for the office of Councilman. ' Dr. Hampton, who is a physician and chemist with a wide acquaintance, says that she feels that in the City Council there Is a vast field for a wo man with a boundless amount of energy and she is weighing the matter very gravely. With much faith in her friendship- and in her ability to win, or if need be, lose, she says she will not spend any money at all in her effort to acquire the office. CONGRESS MORTALITY HIGH; Vice-President, Six Senators, Representatives Die One Session. WASHINGTON. Jan. 5. Mortality records have been broken during the present Congress. Since the Sixty-second Congress began. Vice-President Sherman, sis: Senators and 16 Repre sentatives have died. One Representative-elect, Joel Cook, of Pennsylvania, died before the Congress convened. The full, mortality roll of the Sixty-second Congress follows: Vice-President Sherman, Senators Frye. the President pro tem; Davis, of Arkansas; Heyburn. Idaho: Taylor, Tennessee; Rayuer,' Maryland; Nixon. Nevada; Representatives Anderson, Georgia; Bingham, Kipp. McHenry, Pennsylvania; Connell. Malby, New York; Foster, Vermont; Gordon. Tenn essee: Hubbard. Iowa; ' Latta. Ne braska: Madison. Mitchell, Kansas; Lbudenslager, New Jersey. Utter, Rhode Island; Weuer.ieyer, Michigan; Wick liffe, Louisiana. WRECKED! Three Vessels Ashore Near San Diego. SEVEN KNOWN TO EE LOST Almost Every Trace of Wreck age of Sloop Is Gone. DISTRESS SIGNALS VAIN Five Men Seen Frantically Waving for Help, but Sheriffs Men on Arriving at Scene Can not See Craft In Dark. SAN DIEGO. CaU Jan. 5, The great est marine disaster in the vicinity of San Diego in many years occurred Sat urday night at Point of Rocks and Im perial beach, when three small vessels were swept ashore by the high wind and raging sea and dashed to pieces. The illfated craft were the United States Immigration Inspector's launch, Elizabeth, the fishing power boat Old Nick, of San Diego, and an unidentified sloop. Seven men are known to have been drowned, while two, after battling bravely with the surf, succeeded In get ting ashore. Total Loss of' Life I'nksowl. The total loss of life may not be learned, owing to the fact that the number of occupants of the third vessel. the sloop, is unknown. The seas re moved every trace of the wreckage of the sloop with the exception of the rudder and part of the upper works. The known dead are: United States Im migration Inspector Gus T. Jones United States Immigration, Inspector Daniel Kuykendall; G. Gorolami, en gineer of the immigration launch Eliza beth; Anton Basil, local fisherman Clarence Hill, Pacific fleet boatman: Tim Good, engineer of the Old Nick; Pete, a friend of Good. The known saved are Frank Stout, partner of Hill, and Nick Demlteff, owner of the Old Nick. The scene of the wreck is 15 miles from this city. The sloop was wrecked about a mile north of the other craft, and is supposed to have had a crew at least of three men. It Is probable these were lost, in addition to. the seven known to have perished. Distress SlKmals Reported. The first word" of the disaster came last night when F. W. Taylor, of Im pcrial Beach, telephoned to Sheriff Jen ning, in San Diego, that a sloop was reported ashore several miles south of Imperial and that five men were. fran tically waving signals of distress from the wave-battered craft. The sheriff at once sent three men to the scene, but they could accomplish nothing. The night was very dark and tre mendous seas were breaking on the shore. The Sheriff's men could not dis cern the sloop and it was only when daylight came that the wreckage was discovered. Moral Pressure From Europe Would Be Enormous and Count Against I'nlted States . Claims. WASHINGTON. Jan. - 5. Although President Taft is willing to submit to arbitration the issues between Great Britain and the United States over Panama Canal tolls, he does not favor such procedure by The Hague tribunal. .This became known here tonight upon the President's return from New York. Although he has not given the subject of a tribunal much thought, the Presi dent probably would prefer a special board of arbitration composed of an equal number of citizens of the United States and Great Britain. The President has expressed to friends the view that all The Hague tribunal would be against this Nation, and that the moral pressure on the court would be enormous, because Eu rope is interested in Panama. In a court In which only Great Britain and the United States were represented. It is argued, there would be a much greater chance of a fair decision. Several Democratic Senators have voiced the opinion that a special tribu nal should be created to arbitrate this dispute. TITANIC WIDOW DIVORCED Woman Learns of Husband's Fate After Obtaining Decree. DENVER, Jan. 5. Ignorant of the fact that her husband went to his death In the Titanic disaster, Mrs. Mary Rlppey, of Denver, obtained a divorce Friday. Today she. learned of his fate from a New York attorney. Mrs. Rippey declared on the stand that her husband was a fugitive from justice; that he forged a check in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and that he de serted her, leaving her penniless. Mrs. Rlppey's attorney received I letter today from William H. Simp son, of New York, a lifelong friend of her husband, giving her the first news Of Mr. Rippey since she last saw him five years ago. Simpson wrote that Rippey had been followed to New York by a detective and that the detective learned that he had gone to London there changing his' name to Charles Tait and obtaining a position with a detective agency. He sailed under the name of Tait on the Titanic and was not reported among the rescued. BOY DIES OF HIS INJURIES Gilbert Itaynlo Succumbs as Resnlt of Striking Auto. As .a result of internal injuries sus tained when he ran into the side of an automobile belonging to J. Woods Smith, of 691 Clackamas street, Gilbert Haynie, six years old, died at Good Samaritan Hospital yesterday. The boy was hurt at Thirteenth and Morrison streets Saturday afternoon, when he ran across the street and struck the rear door of the machine. Mr. Smith took him to the hospital Immediately and gave him medical care. At' the detective headquarters last night Mr. Smith said that all incident expense of care and tbe funeral would be paid by him. He denied responsibil ity for the accident, and was borne out by witnesses. The boy, whose name originally was .Kramer, lived with his stepfather at 123 Thirteenth street. GEORGE ADE BADLY HURT Humorist Falls on Icy Sidewalk and Is Made Unconscious. LAFAYETTE, Ind.. Jan. 5. (Special.) George Ade. the humorist, was ren dered unconscious by a fall on the side walk here today, and. though con sciousness was soon restored, he Is still disabled and it Is feared may have sus tained internal injuries. He had come here for a visit with Judge Henry Vinton and started down town in a severe Rleet storm. A slip on the icy pavement sent him to the ground. A passerby picked him up un conscious, carried . him to a near-by drugstore and summoned a, physician. The doctor worked for some time be fore consciousness was restored, and he ras then sent to Judge Vinton's home in an ambulance. He is reported some better tonight. BABY SAVEDFROM FLAMES Stranger Hushes in Burning House and Rescues Child. MARSH FI ELD, Or.. Jan. 5. (Special.) While Mrs. A. J. Stephen, of this city. was In the kitchen preparing the New Year's dinner for the family, the room in which her baby lay sleeping caught fire, supposedly from a spark from the stove. The flames were first seen by a stranger passing the house. He rushed into the room and, finding: the baby in the blazing? crib, bore it safely from the house and then informed Mr p. Stephen that the house was afire. The house was destroyed. FALLING METEOR IS SEEN Resident of Southeast Portland Re ports Astronomical Phenomenon. A large green ball of fire, descending from the sky due west from Mount Ta. bor was observed at 9:15 last night by Frederick J. Glass, of 6009 Thirtieth avenue Southeast, who reported, the astronomical phenomenon. Mr. Glass was unable to account for the peculiar light, unless It was a me teor. It descended, gradually, throw ing out rays which lighted the heavens. Mercury as Low as 34 Below Zero. OVERDUE WINTER DAMAGES Sleet Plays Havoc With Car Service in Chicago. BARE WHEAT IS EXPOSED Forecasters Predict Even Colder Temperatures Over All Farts or United States Widespread Suffering Is Keported. t JlIXCMt M TESWERATl'RES . 131 PACIFIC COAST CITIB8. Degrees. Portland Roseburg IS Vancouver, Wash IT 4 Seattle 22 f Fresno . 25 f Santa Anna 2 T CHICAGO, Jan. 8. (Special.) Winter, as the term is understood in the Qreat Lakes region, already more than three months overdue, made an other and more successful attempt last night and today to fasten itself upon the Middle West. The deadly cold, or iginating tn Western Canada, where 16 degrees below zero prevails at many points. Is spreading rapidly over the country. It reached Chicago In the form of a snow storm, which later turned to rain and still later to heavy sleet, with continued falling of the tem perature. The sleet has badly hampered steam and electric railway service, more noticeably the latter, as tbe third rail service is especially open to damage by sleet, which prevents the trans mitting shoe connecting with the powar rail. Wire Trouble Expected. Telegraph and telephone service was fairly well maintained, although the companies expected much damage and delay if the sleet continues much, longer. The Intense cold weather has not yet arrived In Chicago, but Gov ernment forecasters say It will be here by Monday morning and remain a long time. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and all Northwestern states report below zero weather and growing colder. In this city charitable organizations found themselves swamped by appeals for aid early in the day. Notwith standing the remarkably long stretch of warm weather, the arrival of Winter finds more than the usual number of persons unprepared. There Is much suffering In- the tenement districts. Streets covered with ice are responsi ble for the crippling and death of many horses, and also several automobile crashes owing to skidding. Damage to Waeat Feared. Grain traders are apprehensive of great damago to Winter wheat. They say tbe fields are bare, and a siege of cold weather will kill the plant. There is said to be practically no snow cevering the wheat area in four or five big states. It also Is feared that the lack of snow will result in drouth next Summer as the ground already is dry and hard. A hard freeze will bring to the surface what little moisture re mains and It will evaporate. In this city snow or heavy rain would be hailed with Joy by the health department. The streets, practically uncleaned for months, are heavy with dust and filth, filled with millions of germs, which are distributed by every breeze, resulting In an epidemic of bronchial troubles. That the entire country east of the Rocky Mountains Is in for some gen uine cold weather is plainly Indicated by special dispatches tonight from the storm center In the Northwest. Qn'appelle Has 3 Below. Qu'appelle, which seems to be the center of the disturbance, reports 34 below zero tonight, and still dropping. Havre. Montana, has 32 below. Mlnne dosa reports 28 below and the cold wave then trickles eastward, spreading out like an Immense fan.' Some of the temperatures, all below zero, reported tonight, are Denver, 10; Cheyenne, 10: Bismarck, 16; Devils Lake, 32: Duluth. 14; Mooshead, 18; Wllllston, 20; Huron, 8; Rapid City, 10; St. Faul, 6. Snow is falling tonight in Northern Texas, Michigan. Wisconsin. Colorado. Wyoming, Iowa and portions of Kansas and Illinois. Heavy snow is reported in the wheat districts of which Omaha and Sioux City. Iowa, and Wichita, Kan., are the centers. Jiain Is falling in Eastern New York, Northern Ohio, Southern Michigan, Nor. thern Indiana and Illlonls, and Miss ouri. Northern Texas has a tempera- . ture of 10 above, while in the South eastern Gulf Coast states, the tempera tures range from 54 to 76 above. The cold wave will probably filter through to the South by Wednesday and cause cold rain and lower temperatures. TEMPERATCRE AT SEATTLE 52 Railroads Welcome Cold Wave in Cascades; Snow Is 1 1 Feet Deep. SEATTLE. Wash., Jan, 5. A mliiN mum temperature of 22 degrees above zero was recorded by the Weather Bu reau in Seattle today. The continued (Concluded oa Fago MrRT 107.0 !