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MOKMINO UKEUOMAX, WEDNESDAY. JAXTJARY 29. 1913. SPECTATORS HURT 115 STRIKERS RIOT Deputies in Serious Clash With Employes of Steel and Wire Plant. SQUARE IS BATTLEGROUND One Man la Killed, and Woman and Babe Are Among Wounded. Demand lor Increase of Wages Is Made. PITTSBURG, Jan. 28. Deputy Sher iffs and strikers from the Rankin plant of the American Steel & Wire rompanv, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, clashed to night, one man being killed and 12 persons injured, several fatally. A" the wounded except Wo Deputy Sher iffs and a policeman were spectators. Not a striker was injured so far as can be learned. Among the Injured are several wo men and a 6-month-old child. The Deputy Sheriffs and strikers collided on Hawkins avenue, one of the principal streets of Rankinborongh, which adjoins this city. The county officers, armed with revolvers and rifles, and the strikers, armed with re volvers and stones, battled for one hour within an area of two street squares. Deputy Sheriffs Retreat. The rioting and shooting ended when the Deputy Sheriffs retreated within the fence of the mill. George Kozley was shot twice In tne stomach and died. Fritz Beck, shot In the head. Is dying. Rankin, the scene of the riot, is al most directly across the Monogahela River from Homestead, where tne great steel riots of 1892 occurred. The trouble' tonight is the first serious mill riot since that time. The strikers, numbering 300, held a meeting late today In a public hall to consider the situation. When they left the hall they posed for a newspaper Picture and then, separating into small groups, walked down Hawkins avenue. About the same time 80 Deputy Sher iffs, headed by Sheriff Bruff, Burgess Mllligan. of Rankin, and Chief of Po lice Barnett, left the wire mill and marched towards Hawkins avenue. The two forces met and stopped. A coal wagon passed, the negro driver yelling lustily at his mules. Some one picked a piece of coal from the wagon and threw it Into the crowd of strik ers. Within a moment the riot was on. In a twinkling the air was filled with coal, stones and bullets. The deputies fired volleys from their revolvers, but were forced back to the mill. Deputies Appear Armed. The deputies from the mill in about 15 minutes appeared armed wtih guns and loaded with buckshot. The battle was renewed. Almost every wnidow facing Hawkins avenue for a distance of three squares was broken and sev eral persons In the houses were In jured. , The crash of the guns, breaking of glass and screams of men and women infuriated the strikers. They charged the deputies desperately and the latter again retreated behind the mill walls, taking with them the wounded Deputy Sheriff and the Rankin chief of police. Within a short time the man killed had been sent to the morgue, the seri ously Injured to their homes and the borough became quiet. The strike in the plant of the Amer ican Steel & Wire Company started less than a week ago. The strikers are mainly foreigners employed as la borers in the galvanizing, Bhipping and fence wire departments. They are paid at the rate of 19 cents an hour, or $1.90 a day of ten hours. They are demanding SO cents an hour. Shortly after the trouble a tempo rary understanding was reached be tween the men and company by which the difficulty was to be decided by conferences. This plan failed, however. The first outbreak occurred last Sat urday night, when strikers and police men of Rankin clashed. Nine persons were Injured, a majority of them offi cers, llany shots were fired, without effect. Sunday was quiet, owing to the presence of Sheriff Bruff. of Alle gheny County, with a large force of deputies but the strikers took posses sion of "the hills surrounding Rankin and built bonfires. Occasionally shots were directed toward the yards of the mllL Early Monday morning the Deputy Sherlffis dispersed the strikers and ex tinguished the fires and Sheriff Bruff Issued an order closing all saloons. The next incident was the probable fa tal stabbing of a TJeputy Sheriff, whose assailants escaped. Burgess Mllligan. of Rankin, issued a proclamation today declaring that borough to be in a state of riot, estab lishing a dead line of S00 yards around the plant, warning all children from the streets and continuing the order to keep all saloons closed. elimination contest held tonight in the university chapel to select a Willamette representative for the State Intercol legiate Oratorical Association meeting. Eric Bo;t, of Marshfleld. member of the sophomore class, won first place with an oration entitled "National Vi tality." Walter Gleiser. of the freshman class, was awarded second place. Mr. Bolt will represent Old Willamette In the state contest between the different Oregon colleges which will be held the middle of next month at Xewburg "Un der the auspices of Pacific College. The Judges on composition were: Dr. R. N. Avison, pastor of the First Metho dist Episcopal Church: Miss Maude Da vis, department of English. Salem High School: Justice Robert Eakin, of the Supreme Court. The Judges on delivery were: Rev. E. P F Schrock, pastor First Congrega tional Church; P. J. Kuntx. City Super intendent of Schools, and Walter L. Winslow. The following programme was given this evening: Piano solo. Miss Gertrude Eakin; oration. "National Vitality." Eric P. Bolt; oration. "The Brotherhood of Nations," Hans G. Schroeder; vocal t DEATH TAKES WOMAN WHO J CROSSED PLAINS 1ST 1853. l r ft I j It -r- Ml Mrs. Lemuel E. Davis. NEWPORT. On. Jan. 28. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Lemuel E. Davis, of South Beach, who died January 24, was born in Indiana In 1831. From Missouri she- crossed the plains in 1852, her father's party suffering many privations and dangers in the Piute Indian country, where so many of the emigrants, both before and after them, were murdeved. They nar rowly escaped the Whitman mas sacre, leaving there Just three days before. They settled at Eugene, where she was married to Lemuel E. Davis, August 31, 1853. and in 1866 removed to Taquina Bay. Mr. and Mrs. Davis were .among the first white settlers on Taquina Bay. Mrs. Davis is sur vived by her husband, a son, Tracy W. Davis, and a daughter, Mrs. Kate Winant. both of South Beach. A sister, Mrs. Joseph El wood, lives In Eugene. LIVING CONDITIONS PROBED Los Angeles Council Authorizes Sweeping Investigation. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19. A sweeping Investigation of the conditions of living in Los Angeles was authorized today by the City Council. An Investigating commission, named by the members of the Council's in dustrial committee, was appointed to learn the cost of living, the wages paid comparative Industrial conditions; cost of rent and transportation as com pared to other cities; charges that children are forced to live upon the contents of garbage cans at the city inirkrt: charges that dealers are de stroying food products In preference to lowering the prices, and accusations that a nsh trust Is in existence. RIVER BAFFLES ENGINEERS Gap In Mississippi Levee Cannot Be Closed Until Summer. wiSHTOOTON. Jan. 28. Army en glneeis have concluded that It will be Impossible to contend with the great Vteulah crevasse In the Mississippi Klver levee system near Greenville until next Summer. They can "tie the end of the broken levee" by piling and prevent further erosion, but It is be lieved to be impossible to close the gap until low water. In the meantime, it Is said. 1000 square miles of corn and cotton land will be under water until April si ieasu ERIC BOLT WINS CONTEST Marstafirld Youth to Represent Wil lamette at State Meet. . tcii.i.amETTE UNIVERSITY", Salem, solo. Miss Ava McMahon: oration. "Cap ital Without a Monopoly," George A. Odgers; oration, "Child Labor." Walter Gleiser: violin solo. Miss Lucille Dun bar McCully. ' - HAMMOND T0GET PIANO School Faculty Gives Cafeteria Sup pers to Kalse Fund. vriT sTFvvva nr Jan. 28. (Spe cial.) The school faculty of the Ham mond Public School has adopted a most unique and successrui system oi rio lng funds for a school piano they are about to purchase; namely, a cafeteria supper. The necessary supplies were collect- . A fwm hA fnmlllA'l nf the school children; the affair was extensively ad vertised, and the first supper, servea from s to 9 in tne evening, auraciou the largest crowd that has ever at tended a public function In the City of Hammond. C3.mA ,e th. mn that Vfir. Dr!tflllt developed a capacity for edibles that under ordinary circumstances, woum k... hn. n rlfAirracpful- Amidst tasty surroundings, listening to a musical HMnwAmma anil B.rvAil In the DIQSt charming manner, all metamorphosed into genuine oiscipiea oi iuuuub. Another such feast and the piano prob lem will be solved. GIRL RETURNS TO HOME Norma Harris, of Carlton, Not Con don, loses Way In Darkness. CARLTON, Or.. Jan. 28. (SpeciaL) Norma Harris, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harris, who ran away from homo last night after a trivial dispute with her mother, returned home this morning at 8 o ciock, alter wauuer lng about alone all night. She !s in a weakened condition and ner parents fear pneumonia will set in as a result of her long exposure. i The girl declared she wouia nave re turned home last night but tor the fact that she lost her way and had to wan der about to keep warm until daylight. In the original dispatch Condon was given as the home of the girl, and that she was an adopted daughter t.f Mr. and Mrs. Harris. Miss Harris is a resi dent of Carlton and Is Mr. and Mra, Harris' own daughter. GRAY'S REMOVAL SALE ff" TO) fO JK -ft GRAY'S REMOVAL SALE PURC CHESTE ASEAN E D D S OVEJ ALE OF 1COAT Our buyer has just purchased 150 Chesterfield Overcoats just turned out of the factory, at a great reduction in price, and has in structed us to give our patrons full benefit of the discounts he has received. Consequently we put them on sale this morning at tne following price reductions All $20 and $25 4 t OVERCOAlb HI- 4 -L je All $30 and $35 OVERCOATS ' lHsk All $40 and $45 OVERCOATS All $50.00 OVERCOATS 273-275 Morrison at Fourth OUR FUTURE HOME After April 1st in the New Doctors' Building, Seventh and Morrison Sts. Conference to Discuss Amount to Be Given by Oregon for Building Will Be Held With legis lative Committees. 17n.. nrtmrv.af4.fAl hrtflv In tllS State has been invited to send a representa tive to Salem tomorrow night to Join with the delegation of Portland busi ness men who will meet there with the various legislative committees having : .ua Kin nrnvlriin? for an ap propriation for the world's fair at San Francisco. The committee having charge of the , 1 ........ n .VAmanta hflfl t ll P PTHnh ft d tO i VUtl 1 WIWIftbUlEUM every organization affiliated with the Oregon Development League inviting them, to join in the conference with the l (.1.t..A ..nrrtmlttPAS- RpSDOnSeS Were received yesterday from several clubs in the Willamette vaiiey seventi tms presence of committees. These representatives uuju t-uica " CONVENTION IS WANTED Portland Itubber . Company Men Desire 1914 Meeting. In an effort to bring a big conven tlon of rubber dealers to Portland next vear. 29 representatives of the Gornam Revere Rubber Company will leave over the Southern Pacific today for San Francisco, where they will attend a meeting of Pacific Coast agents. II. A. Thompson, of Portland, will have charge of the local party and will pre sent the invitation of Portland for the 1914 convention. The gathering is attended annually by about 300 persons Interested in the rubber industry, many of whom live In the East. OIL STEAMER IS GROUNDED Santa Maria Must Be Lightered to Be Taken Off Whitley Island'. SEATTLE. Wash, Jan. 18. The steamer Santa Maria, bound from Port San Luis for Seattle, with a cargo of oil. ran ashore this morning In a dense fog near Point Partridge. Whldby Island. It will be necessary to lighter 5009 barrels of oil before the vessel can be floated. The tug Tyee and the lifesavlng steamer Snohomish are standing by the rounded tanker, which Is resting on an even keel in smooth water and Is believed to be undamaged. The site of tb building In which rmnle! Wabater was born has btoa found In Frank it.. XT IT FAIR ill BE TOPIC Commercial Bodies to Be Rep resented at Salem. 100 WILL GO FROM HERE the state outside of Portland, together with the delegation of more than 100 residents of Portland, will give wide representation to the party and will provide reflection of sentiment from nearly every quarter of the state. In advance of the meeting at Salem the local visitors are not prepared to specify a sum that they think the state a to THp&S DII this POint are almost as varied as .there are persons expressing tnem. auggesieu amounts range all the way from $100, 000 to 500,000. Expressions from per sons in various parts of Oregon reveal that the people generally want an ade quate appropriation. The plan to reproduce the Forestry building, with some improvements. Is meeting with general favor. It Is be lieved that this will attract much at tention to the Oregon building, and will advertise effectively one of the state's principal Industries. It is estimated that the Forestry building can be reproduced at San Francisco for a lesser figure than a building designed on conventional lines of architecture. Much of the timber, it is believed, will be donated to the state lf used for this purpose. Moreover. th salvage from such a building would net a considerable return after the fair, it is pointed out. Proceedings before the legislative committees will xbe decidedly informal. Tom Richardson will act as chairman of the Portland committee. He will speak briefly, he promises. Edgard B. Piper, president of the Commercial Club, will follow. A few other members of the Portland delegation may speak, and opportunity will be given the rep resentatives of other cities to express their views. rrk. mAAtiner nrnMhlv will hA held In the Supreme Court rooms. While the discussions will taKe place primarily before members of the ways and means committees of the two houses and the BERNHARDT SEES GREAT OPPORTUNITY IN CANADA - Tragedienne Is Astonished at Immense Progress Made at Calgary in Last Seven Years and Invests in Property. - viv HinAUB SARAH BERNHARDT. Translation by Le Marquis de Castelthomond. (Copyright. 1913. Rochambeau Newspaper Aynoicaic, iniai..v.... - - -- served.) SPECIAL, uorresponaence 10 x ne ui w gonlan, Written at Calgary, Can ada. Seven years ago I passed through these regions when there were nothing on the plains but ranches kept by cowboys. . ,. nA a m-wr lnHRnR who was traveling with me, wanted to buy one or tne rancnes, hut unfortunately changed his mind. I grant tnat i am petrified with as tonishment to see the rapidity with which this town has arisen. It will be a superb city. I go about in the midst of piles of construc tions of lumber and of scaffolding. The snow covers every- nearly ten times I came near breaking my neck in the holes hidden by the snow. Suddenly we found ourselves in front of a little wooden barrack on whlcn was written in large letters: -Here lives the Egyptian who fore tells the future and keeps her predic tions secret." Fortune Are Told. Wo entered and stood face to face with a woman well on in years, who must have been handsome once. She wore an Oriental costume that was soiled as well as the worse for wear. One of the young women of my com pany held out her hand and was told that she had been a widow for a month. The unfortunate young woman was Bladame Bernhardt seized with alarm, for It was nearly two months since we left Paris. She immediately sent a telegram to Paris, and a few hours later learned that she was not yet a widow. My turn came after that of the sup posed widow. The Egyptian did not know me, and told me very seriously that in eight days I was going to win a fortune. Then, as I was going out of the hut a wild idea seized me. I would buy some property. I sent a friend to a real estate office, where he bought me land under another name, for had the newspapers got wind of it I should not have had an hour's repose In Calgary. He bought it, I say. paying 40,000 francs for a splendid piece of land, and the very next day after my purchase a man went to my friend at King George's Hotel and offered him 30.00'J francs In advance of what he paid. He came to my private car asking lf I would accept it. But I am going to wait the eight days mentioned by the fortune teller, and if I do not' get a better offer I shall sell for the price named. May Grow Rick. i At Edmonton and Calgary there are immense and rapid fortunes to be made, and really poor, young people, who waste their lives in offices, earning a mere living, should come out to these parts. They are healthy, beautiful and generously hospitable. In ten years and less a young man could make an Immense fortune. For my part, I have sent a telegram to two of my cousins to come out here. One of them is 20, the other 22, and if they follow my advice they will be able, when they are SO, to return to Greece, their native land, with their fortunes made. This is my advice to Industrious and ambitious youth. house committee on fairs and appro priations, It is expected that legislators nnt otherwise eneraged in committee work will be present. The Portland programme cujuuhlico, of which Tom Richardson is chairman, fcoa ,nmnioi 1ti wiwfc an A Is readv fox the trip. Plans provide for departure on the Oregon Electric from West Park and Salmon streets at 4:30 P. M. tomor row. Arrangements have been made for dinner at the Marion Hotel in Salem immediately after arrival. Other mem- K,,, r,f tha snmmittpA are Edgar B. Piper, managing editor of The Orego nian: C. S. Jackson, publisher of the Oregon journal; joiin x: Lanon, eimw of the Telegram, and W. J. Hofinann. nriialVc, Tin nroo-AH will hflVft S6D- arate representation at the San Diego exposition ana wneiner an exuiwu a w ho miaria nt Ashland also will be de cided at the Salem conference. Tne laea oi matins an jiucmuovd play of the state's various resources at AahlnnA Viae VlAOn flrtVflnPfd bV TOlll Richardson, who argues that It will aid materially in influencing visitors to remain in Oregon ii mey can ue ntwan an nnnnrtunitv while waiting at Ashland to view specimens of the state's products. Along comes Frank Ira White, of Klamatn fans, nowever, unu points out that by 1915 the year of the big fair the Southern Pacific's Natron-Klamath cutoff will be com pleted and that through trains will be routed over the Klamath road instead of through Ashland. "If we are to have an exhibit at the southern border of the state," he says, "it should be at Klamath Falls. That's the way the trains will run." A telegram to President Piper, of the Portland Commercial Club, yester day announced that the Dallas Commer cial Club will send to Salem a commit tee of six members from its own or ganization. They are: W. B. Fuller, W. U Tooze, Jr., F. J. Coad, J. C. Hayter, Eugene Hayter and Eucrene Foster. CORN EXPERT COMING HERE Ii. 11. Alderman Secures Promise From Holden, or National Fame. SAJLEM. Or., Jan. 28. (Special.) Su perintendent of Public Instruction Al derman has returned from Bozeman, Mont., where he delivered a paper at the American Country Life Convention, held in that city January 22-SO. The subject of Mr. Alderman's paper was "Habit Building." The convention was attended by not able men of the Nation interested In the subject, and as a result of the meet ing Mr. Alderman secured', the promise from P. G. Holden, the National corn expert, that he would make a trip to Oregon at an early date and speak about the progress of his work, which i n.WAn,iv arimulflto, tha rnrn nrn- iia.a t , ductlon of the country by bringing aoout iraprovea mcinuua. xuo i.uu. lh- tlon was held in connection with the Winter short course of the Montana Agricultural College, which Is located in Bozeman. FINLEY SUED FOR $50,000 Frank Russo Charges False Arrest by State Game Warden. Charging that he was damaged to the amount of $50,000, in being falsely arrested and his property being searched without due process of law, Frank Russo has filed a suit against State Game Warden W 1111am in ley. The basis for the suit, as re cited in the complaint, is" that Russo conducts the Helix Hotel on Yamhill street, and a patron left with him a pair of elk antlers as security lor nis board bill. A deputy game warden de manded the antlers on the ground that the elk had been killed out of season and that they were the property of the state. Upon his refusal to give up the horns, Russo was placed under ar. rest and taken to the office of the game warden and held there until his hotel had been searched and the elk antlers secured. It is also alleged that the arrest was made without a warrant having been previously secured and the search made without a search warrant having been issued from any court. Mr. Finley states that the antlers in question had been seized by one of his deputies near Tillamook and that they had been stolen from him while bringing them to Portland. Later they were located In the Helix Hotel and seized by one of his deputies. RAILWAY MEN TO ATTEND Salem Board of Trade Will Give Banquet Tonight. Officials of the Portland, Eugene & Eastern, the Oregon Electric and South ern Pacific railroads will go to' Salem tonight to attand the annual banquet of the Salem Board of Trade. Many members of the Legislature also will attend, and delegations will be present from various neighboring cities. R. A. Hofer, secretary of the Salem Board of Trade, was in Portland Mon day and yesterday making arrange ments for the event, which he promises will be one of the largest attended of the kind ever held In the W illamette Valley. Salem is making efforts to prepare for the Increased business that is fore seen following the completion of the Portland, Eugene & Eastern electric work in the Willamette Valley. Playground Is Proposed. A CTrtR T A Of .Tan. 2S fSnecial.Y At a meeting today of a committee of fooh,.a from tbn nuhlic schools, rep resenting the recently organized play ground association, with the public property committee of the City Council and the Mayor, the city officers de cided to recommend to the Council that a tract owned by the city at the corner of Ninth and Duane streets be graded and turned over to the association to bo fitted up as a public playground for children. PIANOLAS FREE. In order to get rid of every Pianola In our establishment, we're giving them away in order selected. Simply agree to purchase of us each month at least four music rolls for a year. All are In A-l condition Just as good as new. Can be attached to any piano. Or, If you haven't a piano, secure one now at the tremendously reduced January Clearance Sale Prices, and we'll throw in- one of these fine Cabinet Pianolas. Act quickly. Over thirty-five wera selected yesterday. Eilers Music House, the Nation's Largest, in the Eiler Building, Seventh and Alder streets. a SKIN OF B'AUTY 13 A JOY FOWgVE. Dr. T. Feilx Oouraud's Oriental Cream of Mnirlcal Beautlfler. Freckles, Hold Ptdbel, .n KhlB Til.. .... f2o f-rO-V0 u every blemnh rlz3 Vw tj yal on bemnly. nd de-h-4 a ISfirsdl jfCT Bee detection. I has stood tha teet ot K resjs, rnnft Is so nannies! wa taetelt tobesnrclt la properly made. Accept no counter feit of aimllar nam. Irr. 1 A. Earn aaia to a ledr of tbe hatrt toa (a patient) i As you ladles will use them. Ceeraeil'i Cream' si tna lead narmful of an tho FERO. T. HOPKINS. Prop.. 37 Qft Jonst SU H. a f w M. '.Mt'fr 't1 1- " 1 : & 1 : Or, Jan. 23. (Special.) In the local t.M, 4..