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1 1 itlttll PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. 1,1 1 -M. 16,2G9. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS ADOPT SOBER GARB WOMEN DETERMINE CAPITAL OF LOCAL BANKS $8,450,000 MERCHANTS SAVIXGS ADDS TO STOCK AX'D CHAXGES SAME, FILM HERO MOVES INDIAN TO IMITATE TO RECALL JUDGE SMASHED AT START 12 LEADERSHIPS EXTRAVAGANCE IX DRESS TO BE FROWNED IPOX. LAD PITS TIES OX TRACK AXI THEX SAVES TKAIX. WAR WITHIN WEEK BALKAN FORECAST SENATE GOMBINE IS MULTNOMAH WINS 0 Speaker McArthur Di vides Many Plums. OTHER COUNTIES FAVORED TOO Democrats Get Chairmanships on Five Committees. COMPLETE LIST ISSUED No Member of Lower House Has .More Than One Chairmanship Xor More Than Four Commit tee Places 10 Jobs Killed. STATK CAPITOL, Salem. Or.. Jan, 14. (Special.) James D. Abbott, of Multnomah, is chairman of the ways and means committee of the House of Representatives. Multnomah County also drew another Important assign ment in the appointment of J. T. La tourette to the chairmanship of the judiciary committee. Westerlund of Jackson, one of the leading orcliardists of the Rogue River Valley, Is chairman of tho committee on horticulture. Reams of Jackson is chairman of the committee on rail roads. The chairmanship of the com mittee on printing:, likely to be impor tant by reason of the proposal to re peal the law placing the printer on a flat salary, passed in 1911, went to Katon of Lane. Speaker McArthur gave the impor tant chairmanships of expositions and fairs. Judiciary, labor Industries, reso lutions and ways and means to Mult nomah County. Multnomah gets 12 chairmanships out of the 41. Outalrie Conntle Winners, Too. The important chairmanships going to outside counties are: Assessment and taxation, banking, education, fish eries, game. Insurance, irrigation, rail roads, revision of laws and roads and highways. ' ' Democrats were given chairmanships on the committees on agriculture, for estry and conservation, game and rail roads. All other chairmanships go to the Republicans. No member has more than one chairmanship nor more than four committee places. Multnomah has one representative on 28 of the 41 committees, two repre sentatives on seven committees and is represented on seven. The complete list of committees follows: Hoiute Stnndlnic Committees. Agriculture Brunk, Chapman, Mann, Meek, Schnoerr. Alcoholic traffic Thorns, Carpenter, , Westerlund. Assessment and taxation Forstrom. Barton. Blanchard, Loughlln, Spencer. Bunking Stanfleld. Belland. lloman, Howard, Parsons. Capitol building and grounds Hughes. Lofgren, Stranahan. Cities and towns Nolta. Johnson.' Massey. Claims Graves, Chapman. Gill. Commerce and navigation Handles', Chapman, Teirce. Stranahan,' I'pton. Corporations Carpenter, Childs, Chapman. Hinkle. Parsons. Counties Forbes, Carkin,Hurd. Lof gren, McDonald. Education Blanchard. Anderson (Clatsop). Appelgrcn. Brunk. Howard. Elections Hall, Eaton, Forstrom, Hagood. Lofgren. Kngrossed bills Massey, Forstrom, Latourette. Unrolled bills Anderson (Clatsop), Nolta. Lawrence. Expositions and fairs Upton. Appel gren, Massey, Torter, Weeks. Food and dairy products Weeks. Childs. Hall, Hill, Meek. Fisheries Gill. Anderson (Wasco), Belland, Howard, Peirce, Reames, Up ton. Forestery and conservation Hagood, Belland, Eaton. Handley, Schuebel. Game Homan. Hagood, Lewelling, Nichols, Stanfleld. Health and public morals Bone brake, Appelsren, Hall, Olson, Schnoerr. Horticulture Westerlund. Graves. Hurd. Stranahan. Weeks. Immigration Lofgren, Hurd, Mc Donald, Nolta, Westerlund. ' Insure ce Barton, Campbell, Car penter, I'arsons. Thorns. Irrigation Hinkle, Forbes, Homan, Mitchell, Smith. Judiciary Latourette, . Handley, Mitchell, Olson, Reames. Labor Industries Lawrence, Ander son (Clatsop), Barton, Childs, Lough lln. Livestock Porter. Brunk, Nichols, Potter. Stanfleld. Manufactures Spencer, Campbell, Hill, Heltzel, Howard. Medicine, pharmacy and dentistry Anderson (Wasco). Hall, Johnson. Ol son. Pchubel. Military . affairs Murnane. Blan chard. Hill. Mining Mitchell. Blanchard, Carkin, Loughlin, Spencer. Printing Eaton, Abbott. Anderson (Wasco), Lawrence. Porter. Publio" lands Appelgren. Forbes, Potter, Schnoerr, Stanfleld. Railways and transportation Reames. Bonebrake. Forstrom. Massey, Murnane. Resolutions Olson, Barton, Handley, Mitchell. Reames. Revision of laws Heltzel, Forbes. Lewelling. Schuebel Upton. Roads and highways Peirce, Gill. Lincoln Co-Eds Organize Club Which "Will Put Ban on Expensive School Costumes. Lincoln High School is to have a dress reform club. On Friday after noon the girls of the school will meet in the assembly hall and the organiza tion will be formed. For the last few seasons there has been much comment on the extravagant manner in which the girls of the preparatory schools have been dressing; mothers have sighed over the vanity of their daugh ters and fathers have groaned over the dressmakers' and milliners' bills, but their girls wanted to look as well as the other's, and the thing has grown until of late it has become a serious problem. Now, the unexpected has hap pened. The girls say they realize this lavish ness of dressing for school is inappro priate, and are going to Inaugurate a reform of their own accord. The idea first took root when the young people read a story in The Ore gonian of January 5, in which Mrs. J. C. Elliott Kins discussed the sub ject of dress. The Interesting part of the affair is that the most popular, the brightest and prettiest girls of Lincoln High School are the organizers of the club, and will strive for the honor of being the first to sign the constitution. Those who join will pledge themselves to the adoption of the simplest of dresses, to the wearing .of appropriate, sensible footwear and to omit laces, ribbons and all extravagant ornaments and jewelry from their school costumes. Girls who hitherto wanted the latest frivolity In dress, who taxed their parents with their thoughtless selfish ness, are going to try their hands at making their own simply-planned dresses. At Friday's meeting the most popu lar girls, those who are considered the leaders, will make speeches, and the election of officers and the adoption of rules and regulations will take place. BILL NO. 1 IS WOMAN'S Minimum Wage Law Is Proposed in House at Olympia. OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 14. (Special.) The first bill ever introduced in a Washington Legislature by a woman was House b.111 No. 1, introduced today by Mrs. N. Jolin Croake, of Tnooma, providing a minimum wage for girls and women in- Washington. Mrs. Coake had her measure all pre pared and the instant it was in order to introduce bills she presented hers, which received the first place in a shower of 17 bills of all descriptions and from all parts of the state. Mrs. Croake's bill provides a mini mum wage for women and girls in any line at 11.25 a day, or 16 cents an hour where engaged in piecework. Excep tion is made of women who are unfit by reason of physical disability. A penalty of from $50 to 1100 la provided for violation of the law. The measure was referred to the committee on labor and labor statistics. A woman's wage bill will be intro duced in the Senate within a few days by Senator Piper of King County. His measure Is similar to that to be con sidered by the Oregon Legislature, having as its main feature the appoint ment of a commission to Investigate the cost of living In various parts of the state and establish minimum wages by districts. CHURCH BURNS MORTGAGE First Baptist at Albany Celebrates Lifting of All Debt. ALBANY, Or., Jan. 14. (Special.) With elaborate ceremonies the mort gage representing the last of the in debtedness against tho new First Baptist Church in this city was burned last night. The church, with Its. splen did new edifice, is now free from debt. Rev. Elbert H. Hicks, pastor, held the platter on which the mortgage was burned. Rev. S. A. Douglas, ex pastor of the church, who is now the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Ashland, struck the match and Mrs. Dr. J. P. Wallace, Mrs. J. L. Tomlln- son, Mrs. J. C. Morgan and Mrs. M. B. Reeves, the lour women who have served as presldents'of the Ladies Aid Society of the church since the new church was erected, each tore off a piece of the mortgage and burned it. The mortgage burning occured six months to the day since Rev. Mr. Hicks became pastor. During that period 30 new members have been added to the church roster. 1 STUDENTS TO BUILD ROADS Washington High School Pupils to Demonstrate Theories. The students of the Washington High School in the department of physiography have been studying road building during this term and this morning they will have a practical demonstration of their theories. Un der the guidance of Miss Jane Stearns, head of the department, the yoong people have learned what soils and rocks combine best according to lo calities and climatic conditions and today under the direction of F. N. Bingham they will build miniature roads. The boys of the manual trail ing department have made the boxes and tamps to be used in the demon stration. Miss Stearns says that the study of road building will help to make the young people efficient judges of good roads and when they become property owners they will be-safe from Allies Decide Turkey Is Only Drifting. WAITING PROVES EXPENSIVE Formal Notice to Be Given to Envoys of Powers. TURKISH OUTLOOK GLOOMY Resignation of Vizier Likely to Be Followed, by Anarchy Country Without Money, Army's Loyalty Is Doubted. LONDON. Jan. 14. Unless unforsecn events should change the current of affairs, war in the Near East will be resumed within a week. The allies, convinced that the Turks merely are drifting, without a fixed policy, have determined to end the seemingly fruitless debates and wire pulling by resuming military opera tions where they were left off more than a month ago. Allien Find Waiting CoMfy. The Balkan kingdoms, moreover, are anxious to obtain relief from the heavy burden of maintaining armies on a war footing indefinitely, wishing, however, to observe all diplomatic courtesies, they have given the powers a reason able time to agree on the note regard ing Adrianople. frame It and present it to Turkey. If Turkey, as seems prob able, fails to yield to the note, the Balkan kingdoms have agreed that they will call another sitting of the confer ence through Sir Edward Grey or Rcchad Pasha, who, according to the rotation followed, would be the next presiding officer, and announce defi nitely their decision to break off nego tiations. Four Day' Xotioe tjo Be Given. Immediately afterward the Servian, Bulgarian and Montenegrin comman ders will notify Turkish headquarters that hostilities will be resumed within 96 hours. The allies have no faith in the ef ficiency of the note the powers will present to Constantinople. The Otto man government failed today to con vene the grand council, and apparently has no intention or meeting the allies' ultimatum on Adrianople. The allies feel that the note of the powers is couched in too mild terms to be ef fective, and that Turkey will know that it means nothing because the pow ers will be unable to agree on coercive measures. Second Terms More Severe. The allies say that it is easy to pre (Concluded on Pajse 3.) PENPICTURES OF BOOKS' 7VVy JVrV y tjF SSSoy. Officials of Oregon Electric Make Investigation and Discover Chemawa Boy to Blame. SALEM, Or., Jan. 14. (Special.) The disastrous effects of the mock heroics of the "movies" on the young mind came to light today, when the officials of the Oregon Electric rail road discovered that Louis Sires, the Chemawa student, who was credited with saving the train recently from being wrecked by a pile of ties, was himself guilty of piling the obstruc tion on the track, and flagging the cars In an imitation of a maving picture heroes. After heaping up the lumber on the rails, the toungster who is now at tending the Chemawa school, ran ahead, and arrived just In time to stop the train with a piece of red calico. He was the recipient of consider able commendation for what appeared to be his foresight, but the. company has been investigating, and the detec tives now announce that the boy him self was the guilty one. An officer arrived in the city to night for the purpose of thoroughly investigating the affair and it is prob able that the lad wll be taken into custody tonight. MANY MEN HEAR HENRY Attendance Increasing at Brief Xoon Talks at Portland IT. M. C. A. Several hundred men packed the auditorium of the Young Men's Chris tian Association yesterday noon when Dr. J. Q. A. Henry, the evangelist, spoke on "A Lost Bible." The address was one of the most forceful Dr. Henry has delivered in Portland. It was an ap peal that the Bible teachings should not be lost sight of in the daily struggle of the business life. Dr. Henry is speaking this week on "Five Lost Things in Portland." He will talk today about "A Lost Christ." The subject tomorrow will be "A Lost Kingdom." and on Friday, "A Lost Soul." The meeting Saturday will be addressed by Dr. W. B. Henson. The meetings begin at 12:20 o'clock each day and are adjourned promptly at 12:50 o'clock. The attendance has been larger than at any similar series ever conducted by the Y. M. C. A. All men are invited to attend. FRANCHISES ARE HELD UP Southern Pacific Must Kclease Old Grants First, Says Mayor. Mayor Rushlight is holding up the franchises for the Southern. Pacific Company on Fourth and on Jefferson streets because the company officials have not as yet filed with him a letter releasing alj of their rights under their present franchise. They promised such a release. "I am waiting for the letter of release," said the Mayor yesterday, when asked if he had signed the franchises. "Superintendent Campbell told me he would furnish a letter, set ting forth that the company would relinquish all rights in the old fran chise. When I get that, I will sign the franchises." OREGON LEGISLATORS BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. ." & TS- THS &&0SY MO fSS ooz f&es r-yr Attempt at Defense Is Met With Hisses. FRIENDS ARE HOOTED DOWN San Franciscans Aroused by Reduction of Man's Bail. PETITION EAGERLY SIGNED Jurist's Pathetic Plea for Consider ation of His Devotion to His Mother, and tt City Fall on Unsympathetic Ears.' SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14. Standing before a bitterly hostile mass meeting of club women convened for the pur pose of planning his political destruc tion. Police Judge Welicr, against whom a recall campaign has been launched by members of the Oceanslde Woman's Club and others, attempted today to make a dramatic plea for jus tice at the hands of his accusers and met only with a volume of hisses and catcalls that almost drove him from the platform. Cries of "Throw him. out" and "Down with the rascal" came from all parts of the hall and it was with difficulty that the chairman, Mrs. A. W. Best, brought about order to allow Judge Weller to speak. No Sympathy In Shown. Judge Weller is accused because of his action in reducing the bail of Albert Hendricks, charged with assault upon a young girl. Another police judge had fixed bail at $3000. Weller reduced it to 11000, and the prisoner, after gaining his liberty by depositing this sum, fled from the city. In making his defense. Judge Weller pleaded that he had followed the usual custom of the police courts, z He. spoke pathetically of. bis own family, of- his devotion to his mother and to the city. There was no answer ing spark of sympathy ' from the grim audience. He left the platform amid a fresh outbreak of angry cries. Defenders Hlseil Io-ivn. Other speakers, among" them attor neys of prominence, attempted to speak in behalf of the judge. They were hissed off the platform, and finally the chairwoman, pounding her gavel for order, announced: "We are not here to listen to a de fense of Judge Weller. We are here to present the case against him." After several clubwomen and clergy men had spoken in bitter denunciation of the accused jurist, the first petition (Concluded on Page 2.) n v - -iv TOS7 - 5V? ovrs, R.- A. Porter Named Director of Lumbermen, W. D. Fenton and A. D. Charlton of Northwestern. By increasing its capital stocjc to $250,000 the Merchants Savings & Trust Company which at the same meeting yesterday changed its name to the Commerce Trust & Savings Bank brought the aggregate capitalization of Portland's banks up to $8,450,000. All banks held their annual stock holders' meetings yesterday. Their reports showed them in prosperous condition. Few changes in the di rectorates were made. R. A. Porter, a member of the well known railroad contracting firm of Porter Bros., builders of the North Bank and Oregon Trunk roads, was elected a director of the Lumbermen!! National Bank to succeed Adolphc Wolfe, who resigned on acccount of press of private business. W. D. Fenton. counsel for the South ern Pacific, and A. D. Charlton, assist ant general passenger agent of the Northern Pacific, were added to the di rectorates of the Northwestern Na tional Bank and of the Portland Trust Company. R. W. Montague succeeds i. M. Healy as director of the Merchants National Bank and Lee A.. Johnson, of Sunnysido. Wash., takes the place of Willard Case as director and vice-president of the Commerce Trust & Savings Bank. The First National did not elect, a director to succeed the late Jacob Kamm. SENATORS WANT TO READ Resolution to Stop Subscriptions to Xewspapers Is Defeated. STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Or., Jan. 14. (Special.) Suggesting that the proper place to start economy would be to kill a resolution providing for sub scription to five daily newspapers for each one of the Senators, Senator Mc Colloch attacked the resolution today by declaring that tho house-cleaning should begin at home. He stated the Senate spent $126 for newspapers at the last session. Senators Moser, Calkins and Miller all declared in favor of subscribing for the papers, stating that there was no manner in which the Senators could keep in closer touch with the people of the state than through he newspapers and they considered the expenditure an Investment for the benefit of the state. The motion to subscribe for the papers carried, Carson, Dtmfck, Farrell, Kel laher, McColloch, Rigsdale and Smith of Coos voting no. : Senator Carson said some of the papers had been preaching legislative economy so long he believed that this was the proper place to start retrench ment. GUEST OF HONOR ABSENT Late Trains Deprive Society of Meet ing Dixie Belle. Miss Claire Wilcox, the attractive debutante daughter' of Mr., and Mrs. Theodore B. Wilcox, spent a most nerve-racking day yesterday awaiting the arrival of her guest. Miss Isabelle Tyson, a charming girl from Dixieland, who was to bave arrived on Monday, but landslides, storms and all sorts of things delayed the train, and trains are no "respecters of persons," not even of society belles. A dancing party had been arranged, scores of guests had been asked to meet the young visitor, and as the eve ning drew nigh Miss Wilcox was wor ried to distraction. The dinner, presided over by Mis. Helen Ladd-Corbett, was designed as a welcoming event to precede the dance. It took place, but the guest of honor was not there. As the spacious rooms of the Wilcox home In King street began to fill with the belles and beaux of smart society, explanations were in order, but it was a case of "on with the dance," and the evening was, after all, a social success. CHIEF OF SCOUTS IS DEAD Captain John Dnrragh, Who Built Vanderbilt Mansion, Passes Away. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 14. Captain John Darragh, chief of the scouts un der General Crook and General Haller during the Indian campaigns, and for merly a prominent construction engi neer of New York City, died at his home at Edmonds, 20 miles north of here, yesterday, aged 83 years. Mr. Darragh was born in Enfield, X. Y., and came west in 1851. In 1884 he returned to New York andrengaged with his brother in construction work, building the first skyscraper in New York City. Among the buildings erect ed by Captain Darragh were the Waldorf-Astoria, the Vanderbilt mansion, the World building and other Im portant structures. He retired from business and returned to the Coast in 1902. ' MAZAMAS WILL SEE CAVES Portland! Club or Hikers to Explore Josephine County Wonder. GRANTS PASS. Or., Jan. 14. I Spe cial.) The Mazamas, of Portland, in a communication to the Commercial Club here have pledged themselves that early in the Summer the hikers, 100 strong, or more, will make a trip to th-! famous Josephine County caves. In reply to the good news the Com mercial Club. has promised to convey the Mazamas from the railroad to the end of the journey, that all may ex plore a wonder of the world. Hay's Recess Appoint ments Confirmed. DEMOCRATS' PROTEST FlITiLE Coup Meant to Embarrass Lister Is Charge. FREAK BILLS SHOWERED Second Onslaught by Progressives and Republicans Aioied at State v " Printer's Off let; Democrailc Forces to- Fight Buck. OLYMPIA, Wash.. Jan. 14. (Specinl.) The Democratic-Republican combinu tion which so effectively organized the two branches of the Washington Legis lature Monday was ripped to pieces to day in tho Senate, when Republicans and Progressives lined up and by jn overwhelming vote confirmed all recess Republican appointments made by Gov ernor Hay, and worked out a genenil plan of procedure which, Demorcats de clare, will greatly embarrass the Demo cratic administration which begins to morrow. In the outcome of the vote Demo crats see a possibility of some of the faithful party workers who are eligible at the pie counter getting left. The only way Governor-elect Lister, who. it is said, had arranged to difli out the choice plums, can do so now. Is to discharge the men confirmed by the Senate and appoint his own men in their places. In doing this, he would show his intentions to be purely politi cal, it is said, and Democrats are in clined to believe thdt he will refuse in the majority of cases. Hearnchc Only Are Left. This will cause heart u-iieij for a small army'v of faithful Democrats. it was upon motion of Senator Josiuh Collins that the confirmation question was taken up. He moved thut the entire list of appointments be confirmed, mid the motion was seconded by Senator Hutchinson, a Progressive. A storm of Democratic reproach followed. "You haven't any right to load these men on to Governor Lister and his ad ministration." declared onator l'eu?r Jenseen, a Democrat. "Confirmation of these Republicjns means the embarrassment of Governor Lister," Hiiid Senator Maguirc. "The people of Washington voted for a good government, and they a,-e en titled to it," said Senator H. M. White. Vote Stnnda 2H to 11. "To make the government efficient, the Governor should make his own ap pointments. It Is wrong for you people to shove off the men. on to our ad ministration that caused yours to lose out." Debate of the question o:cupied more than an hour. The vote was 23 tj 11 for confirmation. Fish Commissioner Riseland. whose appointment was taken up separately, was confirmed also. What the Democrats declared was a second onslaught on the coming admin istration was a Senate resolution call ing for a detailed investigation of thu office of State Printer, which was in troduced and adopted. A committee will be appointed to ascertain the cost of printing and the net revenues, with the end in view of purchasing a state printing plant and eliminating the of fice if possible. Inasmuch as this is the best-paying job on the slate, the Democrats will fight to the last ditch any attempt to abolish ft. The commit tee rlll have 30 days in which to com plete a report. Political Scheme Feared. Following the session it w-as an nounced that Democrats will Introduce a bill In the House within the next few days providing for the creation of a state civil service commission simi lar to that in Wisconsin. It Is planned to have It become effective during the administration of Governor Lister. In this the Republicans and Progres sives declare they smell a rat, and it is certain they will oppose it on the ground that it is a political scheme to keep Democrats in office. The bill Is to be introduced by Representative E. L. Farnsworth, Democrat. A joint memorial introduced by Sen ator Rosenhaupt asking President-elect Wilson to appoint a man of the Pacific Northwest to the position of Secretary of the Interior, was carried by a vote of 33 to 8. Before the vote it was at tacked by Republican Senators on the ground that it Is not proper for a Re publican Legislature to ask a Demo cratic President for favors. It was ex plained by supporters of the bill that it is planned to have the Legislatures of Washington, Oregon and Idaho adopt Blmllar memorials to the Presi dent. Rnlra Report Attacked. A fight over rules occupied the at tention of the House during tho en tire morning, bringing out the oratory. A hot attack was made on a report of Speaker Taylor's rules commlttoe, in which it was recommended that the vote in committees' sessions be re corded In the Journal. It was the desire of many to require the name of each speaker at committee meetings as well as his business and his interest In the bill as & part of the record, but this was defeated after (Concluded oo Page 5.) l. Concluded on Pse 6.) unscrupulous contractors. 1 06.0