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TIIE HORNING OREGOXIAX, TITUKSDAT. FEBRUARY 20, 1913. GHAHGELLOirSHOHE VRECKEO BY BOMB Mrs. Pankhurst Accepts Full Responsibility for Destroy ing Lloyd-George's House. RESIDENCE IS IN RUINS Suffragettes Exult and Leader Says Police Xeed look. No Further, but if She Is Ixcked Up She Will Declare Hunger Strike. LONDON. Feb. 19. A bomb which was exploded in the country residence of Chancellor of the 'Exchequer David Lloyd-Georsre at Walton Heath thl mornlnsr. virtually destroyed the hand some bouse but injured none. Police inquiry brought the suffragettes unde suspicion and tonisrht a message iro Cardiff. Wales, quoted Mrs. Emmallne Pankhurst as accepting full responsi toilltv for the act. "We have blown up the Chancellor of the Exchequer's house." Mrs. rank hurst said to an enthusiastic meetln of suffrasrettes at Cardiff. "The au thorlties need not look for the woma who actually did it. I personally cept full responsibility for It." Mrs. Pankhurst declared that if sh were sent to penal servitude she would go on a hunger strike. The Government will then have set me free," Bhe added, "or let me die. If I dron out a hundred women are ready to take my place." The beautiful Lloyd-George country residence is new and has not yet been occupied. Mr. Lloyd-George himself la on a motor triD through France. Most of the rooms in the bulldin were wrecked. The bomb, which con slsted of two seven-pound, cans o powder, had been placed in oil-satu rated heaps of shavings In separate - rooms. Burning candles carried the flame to the wood and caused the ex plosion. The force of the blast split the brick walls In all directions. Finding of two hatpins in the wreck age at once led the police to suspect women. Then came a report rrom neighbors that an automobile contain Ing several women had passed through the village early in the morning. An official of the Woman's Social and PO' Ktlcal Union, however, told the po lice that the society bad no knowledge of the perpetrators. "General" Flora Pruminond. how ever, declared that the explosion was "undoubtedly the work of women." She exclaimed enthusiastically: "I- think i Is grand. It was a fine act. success fully carried out and shows the deter ruination of the women. I say all pow er to all kinds of militancy in the di rection of harassing Cabinet ministers. short of taking human life. This is the second time within a year that violent methods have been used against the residences of Cabinet Mln isters, the first being an attempt to burn the houseof Lewis Harcourt, Sec retary for the Colonies, at Nuncbam event at the home of Mrs. J. Chandler Sloan. 1524 North Prospect street, a widely-known Tacoma society singer. was told the City Commission this morning by Chandler Sloan. Sloan had been absent from the city until yesterday, he said, and his water bill for January had remained unpaid. Last night an employe of the Water Department called at the door while Mrs. Sloan's dinner was on the range In preparation for guests from the elite of Seattle and notified Mrs. Sloan he had shut off the water and why. She could not finish preparing dinner until she had called a plumber.' Sloan told the Council his wife tele phoned the Water Department but had been answered insolently and that he had received no notice of his delin quency. Considerable time was de voted to the hearing and clerks were called on the carpet and instructed to be mere courteous. MARCH HAS PAUSE Suffrage Pilgrims Carry on Campaign in Theaters. "HIKE" IS RESUMED TCDAY DIFFICULTIES ARE SEEN Marchers1 Differ as to Rlcwiug 7p of Lloyd-George's House "Nothing Finer," Says One, but Quak eress . Grieves. vlcted of libeling King George of England and detained by the Immigra tion authorities at Ellis Island, re ceived permission today from Federal Judge Noyes to enter the United States. Judge Noyes sustained a writ of ha beas corpus. Judge Noyes in his de cision held that Mylius was not con victed of a crime involving moral tur pitude. "It is proper to emphazise. he said, "that no conclusion which I may reach tn Interpreting these immi gration statutes can be regarded as in the slightest degree minimizing the serious character of the petitioner's acts as disclosed nor as reflecting In any way upon the fairness and regular ity of his trial. If the petitioner be discharged, it will be solely because I regard the offense of criminal libel as not involving in Its Inherent nature moral turpitude." Mylius left Ellis island today, de claring that he was ready for a new start In life. WASHINGTON. Feb. 19. Secretary Nagel, who ordered the deportation of Edward F. Mylius, declared, when told of Judge Noyes' decision, that he prob- I ably would appeal the case. STATE ASKEDT0 DECIDE Commission Gets Complaints From Grants Pass and Portland. SALEM. Or., Feb. 19. (Special.) The State Railroad Commission this morning received a formal petition from the Rogue River Water Company of Grants Pass, asking for intervention in Its dispute with the City Council. Last Summer the Council passed scries of ordinances calculated to regu late the water rates and to control the service generally, and the company ob jects on the grounds that compliance would involve bankruptcy. The commission also received a pe tition from 52 visitors and lotowners of the Mount Scott Cemetery, in Port land, asking that the Portland Railway Ught & Power Company be ordered to ixend its lines out to the burial grounds. EARL CRALL FOILS ROBBERY Prairie City Man Knocked Senseless by Blow From Thief. PRAIRIE CITT. Or.. Feb. 19. (Spe cial.) When Earl Crall, a baker In the meat market here, entered the front room of the market at eleven o'clock last night, he was grabbed by someone In the back room. Crall re slsted and others came to the assist ance of the burglar who first attacked him, after Crall ; freed himself for a moment. He emptied his revolver at Ills assailants, probably wounding one of them, but was struck and knocked senseless, allowing the burglars to es cape. The motive was no doubt robbery but being Interrupted by the entrance of Crall. they did not succeed in open ing the safe. TREASURY BALANCE SAFE MacVeagh Says $33,000,000 Enough to Work With. Is WASHINGTON. Feb. 19. Secretary Maoveagh told the House committee on Treasury Department expenditures today that 135,000,000 In the treasury above current liabilities was a prac tical working balance, and that in emergencies it could be run beyond that amount. "There is now an actual surplus in the treasury," said he. "created prac tically by the sale of J50.000.000 in Panama bonds nearly two years ago." It had been figured out for him that the treasury could have put in the banks during the stringency of last Autumn 60,000.000 without lmparing the working balance. 3 - CENT RATE ENJOINED Southern Pacific Contends Limit in Nevada Is Constitutional. CARSON CITT. Nev.. Feb. 19. A , temporary order was issued in the Fed eral Court today against the railroad commission. Attorney-General and Dis trict Attorney preventing them from putting into effect the 3-cent passenger rates established by the recent decision of the State Railroad Commission. The Southern Pacific, against whom the order was directed, alleged that the rate established by the Commission was confiscatory and unconstitutional. DEBT MARS SOCIAL EVENT Tacoma Matron's Dinner Delayed Because Water Bill Unpaid. , TACOMA. Wah, Feb. 19. (Special.) How an unpaid bill marred a social MONEY TItUST COMMITTEE NOT CLEAR AS TO REMEDY. WILMINGTON, Del.. Feb. 19. 'General" Rosalie G. Jones and her band of suffragists held full sway In Wilmington today and tonight. The .Ll. . . -. . ,U I Regulation of Stock Exchanges Re- ." . . 1 gurded as Matter for States Alone to Deal With. leaders at the Wilmington vaudeville theater, where they spoke between the acts. Their addresses, which did not exceed five minutes each, were on the WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. The House I general subject of woman suffrage. money trust Investigation committee me - niaers win leave wiimingion began today consideration of the finan- at 9 A. M. tomorrow. The first stop will cial regulation legislation which Willi be at Newport, Del., where Mrs. John SUNG TERM DISPUTED COURT RULES OUT "COME ACROSS" IN TESTIMONY. Mezzanine Floor a Delightful Rendezvous for You and Your Friends Tl "Merchandise Merit .OnbT DOLL HOSPITAL on Mezzanine Floor SkilfulRepairWork of All Kinds Effort Will Be Made to Vitiate What McManlgal Said on Stand in Darrow Trial. be recommended In its report. The committee discussed Informally th evils disclosed by the hearings and possible remedial laws. No action was taken and the report will not Anally be framed until Samuel Untermyer, LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19. The collo-l will result In the throwing out of most of the testl- A. Cranston, president of the Delaware Woman Suffrage Association, will give i, . Imonv firlven hv Ortl A1Tnnie-l- t b - . . 1 . arfwaai In CUllflB are peClGU IU tnCUI L - " " counsel for the committee arrives In he 8uffr ,sts through that town with confessed dynamiter, from the records XV rnmmrtfi. ,1,, t , bmU the brass band- The Part sPend of the trlal of Clarence S. Darrow un- The committee expects to submit the tntnnrrow lt,h. . Rlulnll am i i... t,.. report by February 27. miles below Newark and IS miles, from TiT. . A variety of legal difficulties con- ,,.,,,;." "" apparently nxeu aeiermina- frontlng the committee in framing res- . ,d dirf-ren- of oninIon , the tlon he "pressed today. ulatlons for stock exchanges and clear- k . th hikerfi" mnnlfpited it- Late today the court took up the ing-houses were discussed today. The I ., ,j .i,. h- ,,i. matter of McManisral's testimony which opinion was general that the Federal I un of T,ivd -George's rnuntrv home I has been In dispute and announced that Government would have great dif tl- I xtrs Ellzabpth Freeman who served 11 would be stricken from the records an apnrentieeshiD for the "cause" in ""less the prosecution could convince England, where she was twice arrested, declared that "nothing could have been finer." Miss Morgan, of New York, also expressed sympathy with the English 7 loste 3n netjualefc of Hobelp W$&m gtesortment at Special prices culty In prescribing rules and regula tions for stock exchanges throughout the country, particularly the New York Stock Exchange. Several members of the committee held that these lnstitu tions were entirely under the jurisdic tion of the various states. Practically all of the committees recommendations necessarily will be based upon the Jurisdiction of Congress over National banks and Interstate cor porations. Laws forbidding directors of National banks from accepting a bonus from borrowers for' granting loans and for bidding interlocking of directors in National banks also were discussed. htm that sufficient foundation had been laid for its introduction. McManlgal testified that his wife and uncle, George Behm. had come to view, but Miss Elizabeth Aldrich. who h,lm at tne instigation of Darrow, then -All that is new and strictly up-to-the-minute in Waists and Blouses will be found here at prices that insure a saving which actually merits your patronage. There's nothing in the realm of fashion that has undergone such a radical change as the styles in waists. Paris has exerted her influence, and if you Would be smartly dressed you must wear the new waists. is of Quaker ancestry, said: 'I would rather have heard that chief counsel for the McNamaras, and endeavored to persuade him to "come women never would have a vote than across." "Judge Conley held in today's to hear of the perpetration of a crime like that of this morning. arguments that the slang phrase did noi necessarily imply criminality on the part of Darrow that he might riTT!iruT(! rn nivr VT-rfstr: have believed McManlgal had lied in hLtJ-KAGlSlS lO lUVfc MKbia hIs confession and only wanted' him to Marchers to Be Put in Shape to At tend Meeting at Capital. WAHTYP.TnM V. 1 Q A i.aea MINERS REFUSE TO STRIKE ba"d composed' entirely of women Kcnooi leacners irom .uarysvine, Aio., Pennsylvania Workers Will Not Quit In Sympathy. PITTSBURG. Feb. 19. A sympathetic walkout of upwards of 40,000 miners in Western Pennsylvania to aid the strik ing miners in West Virginia was urged has been recruited and will head the procession of suffragists that will march from the National Capital as far as Laurel, aid., to meet "General Kosalle Jones and her army of suf fragists in their march to Washington. 1 ney also will be met ty an automo bile load of trained nurses, whose duty t will be to get the marchers Into and defeated in resolutions presented I condition to appear at a suffrage meet- today to the convention of District No. 5. United Mine Workers of America. The defeat came after stirring debate. President White of the United Mine Workers of America, denounced Gov ernor Glasscock, the West Virginia coal operators and the military. DIRECT ELECTION PASSES South Dakota Legislature Ratifies Proposed Amendment PIERRE. S. D.. Feb. 19. A resolu tion for the direct election of United States Senators, Dassed the Senate, by the House of the South Dakota Legislature. CONCORD, N. H Feb. 19. The State Senate today completed New Hamp- hlre's legislative ratification of the amendment to the Federal Constltu- lng here on the night of March 3. Arrangements have been made to have Red Cross relief stations estab lished along the line of march of the suffrage parade here March 3. They win be in charge of competent physi cians and trained nurses. New Jersey Senate for Suffrage. TRENTON, N. J.. Feb. 19. The New Jersey Senate adopted, today a concur-1 rent resolution providing for a consti tutional amendment extending to wom en the right to vote. The measure now goes to the House. tell the truth. Two exciting Incidents featured the afternoon session, which was devoted chiefly to testimony in impeachment of Bert .Franklin. D. V. Nicholson, newspaper reporter, passed Franklin as he was leaving the stand and Frank lin is said to have cursed him. Nlchol- I son made a jump at Franklin, but bailiff Intervened. In the course of cross-examination or Miss Fern Kernoghan. a former stenographer In the office of the Mc- isamara defense, counsel for the de fense protested that the questions asxea toe witness were Improper. As sistant District Attorney Ford asked the young woman if his questions em- Darrassed her. No, they don't." said the witness. out tney are decidedly insulting." rora xnen apologized. TIRE COMPANY IS LAUNCHED Vancouver and Portland Men Aim to Replace Pneumatic Product. VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 19. (Spe cial.) The Hobson Tire Company has filed articles of incorporation in this state. The capital stock Is Jl, 000,000. Wwas adoo'ted7 today ASHLAND EDICT HITS HARD Hobson. ll A Kent and j" Davis, of "o-"u, auu ir. i. iiallio,na, ut Va.II- Shaking Dice Halted and Retaliation Is Plan Now ASHLAND, Or., Feb. 19. (Special.) An edict has gone forth from the city couver. The company is to build and operate a factory in this city for the manufac ture of automobile tires to replace pneumatic rubber tires. Special $1.25 Of voile and Persian lawn. Made with tucked front trimmed with embroidery and lace insertion. Also tailored styles, tucked in clus ters. Made with high collars and long sleeves. Special $1.45 Novelty style allover tucked net waists in white only, and lined with a soft white material. A white messaline silk vest gives it a most indi vidual style. A small yoke and collar formed of fancy medallions is most effective. The long sleeves are also handsomely trimmed. Special $1.73 Waists of dainty, soft mull and Persian lawn. Some have high collars, others with low-cut necks. A variety of lace and tucked styles are shown at this price. Special $2.50 Voile, Marquisette, soft mull and Persian lawn waists. Also modeled in a diversity of styles. High or low necks and Byron collars. Trimmings of Cluny lace. Baby Irish lace and dainty embroidery and pin tucks. Long or three-quarter length sleeves. Special $3.00 Waists of voile or Persian lawn. The entire front is composed of fine pin tucks and lace. Also models with panels of embroidery and German Valenciennes lace. The back and ileeves are trimmed to match. Special $3.75 Persian lawn and fine voile blouses in a great variety of styles. Trimmings of panel lace ef fects, pretty yokes, laces, Cluny and set-in medallions. Low French neck styles or with high collars. Short sleeves, handsomely trimmed. Special $5.00 Waists of voile and soft mull in the side effect style. Trimmed with a good quality em broidery. Also hand-made blouses, hand em broidery and daintily trimmed with lace inser tion. Special $8.50 All hand-made and hand-embroidered blouses of fine white materials. Trimmed with ex quisite sprays of hand embroidery, Cluny and Valenciennes lace insertion. High neck and long sleeve style. Special $10.00 Wonderfully effective waists of dainty, sheer lawns in the high neck and long sleeve style. They are made with dainty yokes trimmed with Cluny lace and beautiful patterns of hand em broidery. The collars and cuffs are also lace trimmed. VOGUE BLOUSES Special $1.95 These new blouses are made with the Byron collar. Of good quality striped silk madras. Plain, mannish style with Gibson pleats on each side. Long sleeves with soft French cuffs. Also a small side pocket. In plain white with colored stripes. Third Floor Mr PROPOSES CHANGES VIONTESANO MILL IS SOLD halls and cigar-stores. As a result parties affected by the decree, while not disposed to fight the order, are nevertheless almost persuaded to start a movement, the outcome of which will Vancouver In List and Mar Get $150,000 for Postoffice Site. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash- ir t .. 1 n nin fnr-1 h n an attemnt to ston the nlavlnp- of I nuqu,.ni...F., J", .. h,-H,.H ' T" "a- " ll InKtOn. Feb. 19. Senator Jnr,. ,l Property and Will Move Plant. where prizes are offered. proposed amendments to the omnibus Consequently, leaders in these societv public building bill as follows: wcc.vn u.h in . 'unctions are already on their guard. .Increasing the limit cost of the pub cial.) The Syvcrson Lumber & Shingle gon calmg to nave been eIeced on I to ,350,000; appropriating 1150.000 each Company's big mill located here was stHct enf0rcement-of-the-law platform, for buildings and sites at Vancouver sold today to the Hoquiam Sash & h , . i. . ,, ' nl Wonatr.t,. 1 Door Company, owned by arren J. Egerer and F. L. Hartung. The con slderatlon was approximately $50,000. The Hoquiam Sash & Door Company will move to this city. Its river-front property in Hoquiam having become 00 valuable for manufacturing pur poses. The plant will resume operations bout March 15 and employ 100 men. with the new order of things. Stone to Mark End of Trail. OLYMP1A. Feb. 19. (Special. To mark what they Insist Is the end of the original Oregon trail, the local Daughters of the American devolu tion are having hewn a large granite stone which they will have placed in the Capitol Park in front of the state ullding. The dedicatory ceremonies 111 be held Sunday afternoon. Other States Also Fail to Elect. CONCORD. N. H., Feb. 19. "No choice" was again the result of the vote for United States Senator in the Legislature today. CHARLESTON. W. Va.. Feb. 19. The West Virginia Legislature balloted today again for United States Senator without result. I Med ford Man Takes Bride. Miss Stella Hocker. of Lampasas, Texas, and W. Tyler Smith. Jr., of Medford, were married last evening at the First Presbyterian Church. Rev. John H. Boyd officiating. They will make their home at Medford, where Mr. mlth Is circulation manager of the ornlng Sun. SURPLUS IS ENCOURAGED Controller to Put Clieck on Unwar ranted Bank Dividends. WASHINGTON. Feb. 19. Larence O. Murray, Controller of the Currency, announced today that he Intended to stop the practice by National banks of paying dividends when their earnings did not warrant it. He ordered Na tional bank examiners to ascertain what banks are violating the law by paying dividends from net profits be fore all losses and bad debts are de ducted. The Controller said he wished to in duce the banks to strengthen them selves by the accumulation of a sub stantial surplus. for the purchase of a site at Pasco. Morgan Goes Out Driving. LONDON. Feb. 19. J. P. Moriran. ac cording to a dispatch from Cairo, went out driving today. Ha is recovering from his attack of indigestion. His granddaughter has left Egypt for Rome. Twain's Nephew Killed In Fight. ELKIRK. Man.. Feb. 19 John Clem ens, son of William Clemens, of thi. dtv and a nephew of the late Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), is dead .here as the result of a fist Iignt. trans nun man, a camp cook. Is under arrest nhartred with causing Clemens' death. rni v on a blow was struck in the trouble between Hoffman and Clemens. BIG FORTUNES ARE MADE THROUGH SUB DIVISION OF LANDS Send for the "Key to Suc cess." It tells you how . . to make money. The Oregon Home Builders Yeon Building LIBELER OF KING IS FREE Court Admits Mylius, Doubting "Moral Tnrpitnde" In Act. NEW Mylius YORK, Feb. 19. Edward F. the hinglish journalist, con- 1 "All Run Down 4 ja it v" 4 s I CP "Milk Trust" Found Guilty. MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Feb. 19. The Minneapolis Dairy Company and Oscar Erlckson. its president, were found guilty tonight in the District Court of conspiracy to raise the price of milk and cream in Minneapolis. This is the second to the so-called milk trust cases to be tried here. Kansas Senate Adopts Recall. TOPEKA. Kan.. Feb. 19. The House resolution favorable to a constitutional mendment providing for the recall of elective and appointive offices of the state. 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