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n ! i' ; Y - ' VOI,. LI1I- XO. 10.337. PORTLAND. OREGOX. FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. I l- -- -. I r-. I a I "V I f- T mil !m am mm m m m m I mm. A 4 WIVES IN SAME . SUBURBARE FOUND fXIR SAID TO HAVE AVKD AS XEA.lt, REEK AND DEAR. SENTENCE McMANIGAL IS NOT HUERTA REPORTED SCIENTISTS SAIL OFFICIAL FAVORS WILSON WRESTLES WITH SENATORS FREE, AS RUMORED CALIFORNIA HAS NO FTNDS FOR BUILDING AT EXPOSITION. FOR NORTHERN SEA READY TO RESIGN IMPOSED CROSS-TOWN LI11E Qoestion of Revenue Awaits Solution. 0 1 S. STUDY OF ANIMAL AND BI11D LIFE IS PURPOSE. PANKHORST Tariff Plans Depend on Upper Body. FREE LIST DEVELOPS FOES -Sugar and Wool Too Much for One Session, Leaders Say. COMPROMISE IS LIKELY Cent a Pound on Sugar, With Grad ual Reduction to Vanishing Point. One of Bases of . Agreement Suggested. WASHINGTON. April .3. The com jletlon of tha new tariff revision bill, the character of the duty to be levied upon intir and the extent to which President Wilson will give the support of the Administration to the coo fileted measure depended tonight upon the uecesa that might attend efforts of the President to reach an agreement wltk Senate tariff leaders. The tariff situation shifted to the Senate today with the prospect of much work ahead of the Chief Execu tive to smooth over disputed points and to bring the Senate, the House and hie own views Into harmony before the new bill Is brought out to the gaxe of the public. eastern la Tea feme. Senators Simmons. Stone and Hoke Smith, all members of the finance com mittee, had a long conference with President Wilson tonight. At Ha con clusion. Senator Simmons, chairman of the committee, said the conference bad been In every way satisfactory to the members. A sweeping canvass of the Senate has been undertaken to determine Just how far the Democratic members of thst bdy will go In support of the policies laid down by the President. The deci sion to pot raw wool on the free list and the threat of . free sugar have stirred up the Democratlo forces of the Senata to such an extent that mam. bars of the finance committee told the President tonight soma Important changes would have to be made In the present draft of the bill. If It Is to meet with a cordial recertlon when tt reaches the Senate. Seaata Seartseeat Obtelaed. The President also saw Senator Hughes, of New Jersey, another mem tier of the finance committee and a radical revisionist, and Senator Kern, the Democratic lesder of the Senate. Ills conference with Senator Kern, which followed that with the members of the finance committee. Is understood to have given the President a fairly ac curate Idea of the sentiment that pre vails In the Senate over the proposed free wool and reduced sugar duties and over the sweeping reductions In other rates that have been determined upon by the House committee on wsys and means. Today's developments Include the rrartlcal completion of the bill by the House ways and means committee long the lines sgreed on with the President. The Senate leaders have made It clear thst It would be Impossible to pass a bill carrying both free wool and free sugar. gar CassproaUae Probable. It appeared fairly certain here to night thst the sugar duty would be prepared at a compromise of I cent a pound possibly with a provision that the duty should be entirely abolished In three years, or thst there should be a gradual reduction of 2S per rent a year from the existing duty until It had disappeared. The Senata leader did not come to any definite agreement wtth the Pre si -dent. The result of their conference will be laid before the full Democratic membership or the finance committee at a meeting called for 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The determination of the committee then aa to disputed Questions will guide Senator Simmons In future conferences with the Presi dent and with Chairman Underwood of the ways snd means committee. SnMM Prafeaa Sattafaetlaa. -We went over all the disputed points In the bill with the President tonight." said Senator Simmons, "and the Interview was very satisfactory to the Senators. It was agreed that the Democratic members of the finance committee should meet tomorrow and go over the ground, preliminary to fur ther conferences wtth either members of the Senate, the President and mem bers of the House wsys and means committee.1 No further statement was made by Senator Simmons or by the other par ties to the conference. The Investigation, which has been under way for some time, has brought out strong opposition to the reduction -proponed by the House and sanctioned by the President in many Important schedules. It Is understood that Sen ate leaders Instst many of these must be changed If the new bill U to have their support from the outset ataale Kill DwMei aa. President Wilson made tt known to ds? to visitors that he had not settled In hts own mind whether there should be one general hill or a series of sched. ul Mils. The House leaders are pre pared to pass the entire tariff revision (Concluded ea Pace ) Court Investigators Find Daring Case of Bigamy With Husband of IVur Father of 26. CHICAGO. April 3. (Special.) George Fear. 5. burst Into prominence today, when Investigators for the Coun ty Court asserted they had discovered he had four wives and 24 children. It la charged that he first married under his right name, his legal wife being Mrs. Josephine Fear. Three oth ers, all residing In Ravenswood. are Mrs. Mary Near, Mrs. Susan Dear and Mrs. Martha Beer. His children are listed as 1 Fears, three Nears. two Dears and two Beers. This is the first time In all my ex perience that I have coma In touch with so remarkable a case." said Coun ty Judge Owen. '"It Is one of the most daring Instancea of bigamy I overheard of. If It Is within my power, I am go ing to make him support all those chil dren." Mrs. Josephine H. Lawrence, speclsl Investigator for the County Court, ran down the facts In the case and Mr. Fear-Near-Dear-Beer la In for a herd experience In court. The Investigation will be continued on thsajsasls that his entire matrimonial history has not yet been exposed. RAILROAD MAKES REFUND After Four Years Overcharge Al lowed Octogenarian. SALEM, Or.. April 2. (Special.) After four years of trials and tribula tions. E. D. "Whitman has to his order a check for $2.86 from the Southern Pacific claim department. Where Mr. Whitman Is now Is not known, and the check Is at the State Railroad Commis sion office awaiting his order. When last seen by the Commission. In 11S. Mr. Whitman was SO years old. In its he made romnlalnt to the Commis sion that he had shipped from Jeffer son. Or- to New Sharon. la., his house hold a-ooda. but deciding not to re move to Iowa had them shipped back before they were taken from the New Dh.mn atlnn. He alleged an over charge of 1. as there were 430 pounds In the shipment going east ana ou pounds returning, although nothing bad been added. In September. 1S1I, ho received a re bate of $7.30. but In October the rail rnmA ,.Wm1 tnr 14 cents of that back. The Commission, taking It up again, found that the railroad still owed $2.3. and as a result the check arrived today and a hunt for Mr. Whitman will e started. DIRTY FACES TOLERATED Board of Education Refuses to Buy Liquid Soap for Schools. Boys and girls of Portland, cheer up; von do not have to wash your hands and faces while at school. Th members of the Board of Edu cation are your friends. They refused to Install liquid soap In the schools and therefore you do not have to bother about washing hands and faces while In attendance. A liquid aoap company has been try ing for some time to persuade the members of the Board that Its output should be In every school, but when the members met yesterday they unani mously voted agalnat Its Installation. on the grounds of economy. CLAY TALLMAN IS SLATED Nc-radan Believed Chosen for Head of Federal Land Office. OREGON! AN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. April J. It Is understood here .h. rittv Tiilmnn. of Nevada, will be appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office on the recommendation or Senator Newlanda. Tallman ran for Congress last No vember and was defeated by 45 votes. Later he was urged for Secretary of the Interior by Senator Newlanda. LOVESICK BOY STABS GIRL Id IS Sells Old Papers to Get Money for Wedding. JOLJET. 111., April 3. Michael Rag lan, 13 years old, stabbed Anna Jack son. 7 years old, today, because she would not marry him. The girl will recover. On morning recently the boy se cured several Chicago newspapers of an old date and sold them to get money for the wedding. He hss disappeared. FLAGLER IS MUCH BETTER Patient Takes Nourishment and Physicians Have Hope. WEST PALM BEACH. Fls.. April 3. The condition of Henry M. Flagler, who haa been HI at his home for sev eral weeks, was reported greatly Im proved today. Sir. Flagler took some nourishment and his friends are hopeful for his re covery. His physicians are said to re gard his condition today as favorable. Vancouver Veteran Benedict. VANCOUVER. Wash, April 3. (Spe cial.) James McSparren. steward of the Vancouver Commercial Club, vet eran of the Spanish-American War and retired sergeant from the regular army, surprised his friends Wednesday by msrrvlns; Mrs. Kate Meinel. The cere mony was performed bv Father Felix Verwiighen. of St. James Catholic Church. 1 Three Years in Prison Ordered by Court. SUFFRAGETTES ARE FURIOUS Human Life to Be Taken Next. One Leader Threatens. OLD BAILEY IN UPROAR Woman Convicted of Inciting Fol lowers Declares She Will Begin Hanger Strike at Once. Release Is Probable. LONDON', April 3. On the charge of Inciting persons to commit damage, Mrs. Emmallne Pankhurst. leader of the militant suffragettes, was sentenced today to serve three years in prison, after the Jury had returned a verdict of guilty in Old Bailey Sessions. Her trial had lasted two days. Scenes that followed the pronounce ment of heavy sentence were such as the Old Bailey never has witnessed before. Mrs. Pankhurst declared that she would begin a hunger strike at once. She almost broke down when the verdict was returned, and her speech of protest was almost Inco herent at times. She repeated her de termination to come out of Jail soon, "dead or alive." and continued: "I don't want to commit suicide. Life is very dear to all of us. But 1 want to see the women of this country enfranchised. I want to live until that has been done. I will take the des perate . remedy other women have taken." Xilltaat Stirred to Fury Meanwhile the sentence has aroused British suffragettes to fury. One of the militant leaders. In announcing the Intentions of the suffragettes, went so far as to say that even human life no longer would be respected. ' In Lon don, Glasgow and other plaoes through out the country, enthusiastic meetings were held tonight and every mention of Mrs. Pankhurst brought forth loud cheers. Those who are to carry on the fight during the leader's Incarceration, which nobody believes will be for long, breathed defiance to the government and promised the fight would be waged more furiously than ever. One of the leaders, whoso name is suppressed, gave out the following statement: "Human life now is In peril, so we have resolved no longer to respect It and trouble of all sorts must be faced." Threat Causes No Surprise. This statement did not cause sur prise, for the women, who at first only (Concluded op Page 8.) Panarna-T.K-ific Officials Disap ixtinted in Hoc - That Stats Would Frovitlc $1,000,000. SACRAMENTO. April 3. Fleading the excuse of an empty treasury. Govern or Johnson notified representatives of the Panama-Pacific Exposition and a committee of County Supervisors who called upon him today that it would be Impossible to make any appropria tion for a California building at the World's Fair in 1915. Since the inception of the project at San Francisco It has been taken for granted that the state would have a mammoth building, costing not less than $1,00,000 In which to display the products and resources of the several counties. The site for such a structure has been selected and tentative plans prepared by the Exposition Company. Early In the present session of the Legislature Senator Thomas Finn, of San Francisco, Introduced a bill to ap propriate $1,000,000 for use oi the State Exposition Commission In putting up and furnishing the building. Governor Johnson said emphatically todr.y that the state could not afford to spend one dollar. When asked if the state could afford half the amount named In the Finn bill, the Governor replied again in the negative. - 2800-MILE WALK PLANNED Total Abstainer Alms to Give Edu cational Demonstration. To demonstrate that a man who abstains from the use of liquor and to bacco can endure greater hardships than one who uses either or both. J. West Rowland proposes to walk from McKeesport, Pa., to Portland, Or., a distance approximating 2800 miles. , Ills Idea Is to leave his home in Mc Keesport, April 29 and arrive in Port land June 29, Jn time to participate In the opening exercises of the second World's Christian Cltlsenship Confer ence, to be held in this city June 29 July 6. He Is a business man of good repute and In no sense a crank seek ing notoriety. Mr. Rowland contends that all exhi bitions for prowess and strength prov ing the merit of total abstinence are a help to the whole, educational scheme of the country. WAITRESS JS COUNTESS Canadian Hotel Employe Becomes ; Brldo of. Titled pane. . PRINCE ALBERTTAlbertai April S. From waitress in a hotel dining-room to Countess of the Cort of Denmark wss the transition today of Miss Lena Roy, who was married to Count Hugh von Holsteln Rathbon. eldest son and heir of Lord Frederick Emlle von Hol steln Rathbon of Denmark. The Count met MIbs Roy while she was employed by a hotel at Fall River. Mass. "They became engaged, but while Count Hugo was on a trip to Den mark to secure the consent of his parents to the match Miss Roy and her family removed to Prince Albert. On his return he followed her here. The Count and his bride left today for a wedding Journey through the United States, after which they will reside In Denmark. RECOGNIZING A FRIEND. Lascurain Agreed On by Factions. CABINET TO BE RETAINED New President Would Satisfy Constitutional Demands. CARRANZA GIVES ASSENT Decision of Present Head of Mexican Government Precipitated by Zapata Uprising Army . in Serious Plight. EL PA60, Tex., April 3. To satisfy all factions In the Mexican melee. Gen eral Huerta haa agreed to the naming of Pedro Lascurain as provisional President, said advices received here today directly from the national cap! ti T asm rain will serve out the un completed term of the late President Ar Minister of Exterior Relations In Madero's former Cabinet, Lascurain is entitled to serve as next in line, in view of the deaths of Madero and v Ice. President Suarex. The Huerta Cabi net would be retained by the compro-; mlse, Carranza Agrees to Plaas. This arrangement, it Is said, has been offered to the Constitutionalists now fighting the Huerta. government in northern Mexico. It is declared that Governor Carranza of Coahuila has agreed and that the Sonora insurrec tlonists will fall in line. The decision of the present pro visional president is said to have been occasioned by the recent uprising of Zapata In the south, which places the Huerta forces between two nres. Army at Low Ebb. Mexican military men here estimate that Huerta hss not more than 14,000 troops In all Mexico with which to meet the situation This Is an even smaller force than Porflrio Dlas possessed In combating the Madero revolution. Ma dero on taking office began recruiting volunteer troops with the ex-lnsurrecto corps as a basis. In the meantime the regular army was not recruited to normal strength. The desertion to the opposing side of the majority of the volunteer groups has left the actual government forces far below par. AWi SAVE 2 IX ARMY DESERT Sanchez and Loyal Followers Face Execution at Sunrise. GUATMA3 Sonora, Mexico, April 3. Commandant Sanchez, of El Cobre, (Concluded op Page 2) Party to Explore Islands in Arctic Regions and Stake Hunting Trip for Big Game. SEATTLE, Wash., April 3. The little power schooner Polar Bear, Captain Louis Lane, sailed for Bering Sea to day with a party of scientists who will make an exhaustive study of animal and bird life In Northern waters. In the party are Dunbar Lockwood, a big game hunter of Boston: Samuel Mixter. of Boston, representing the Smithsonian Institute; W. Sprague Brooks, of Milton, Mass representing the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, and Joseph Dixon, of Berkeley, Cal., representing the Mu seum of Comparative Zoology at the University of Califorta. The cruise will last six months. The Polar Bear will go from Seattle to Ketchikan, calling at ports In the Peninsular country, to Dutch Harbor, Bogoslov Islands, through the Aleu tian chain to Attu and Rat Islands, then make a dash for the Siberian coast, touching at Kommandarskt Tslands, Petropaulovsk, along the Kamchatka coast to Anadir Bay and then to Nome, after an effort to reach Wrangell Island. At Nome the little vessel will take aboard John Heard, Jr Eben S. Drap er and George S. Sllsbee, of Boston, for an exploration and big game hunting trip. On the return voyage the vessel will touch at Nome, the Pribilof Islands and Walrus Islands. FEDERAL PLANT CRIPPLED Stamped Envelope Printery at Day . ton Suspends. The printing plant at Dayton, O., which prints the return cards on stamped envelopes for the Government was so badly damaged by the flood that It will be some- time before it re sumes operations, and In the meantime those, who wish to have stanped en velopes bearing return cards must buy the envelopes and then pay a printer to have their names and addresses placed on the corner. The Government makes no charge for printing the return card on stamped envelopes In box lots, and takes the stand that the presence ' of return cards on letters lightens the work and expense of handling Improperly ' ad dressed or uncalled for mail to the ex tent' that It actually pays to do the work for nothing. According to advices received from Washington yesterday by Acting Post master Shcllenbarger It will be some time before orders can be filled for stamped envelopes with return re quests, and in the meantime the cir cular sent out by the Postoffice De partment suggests that the return cards may be placed on stamped envelopes by local printers, as the printers have always contended should be done. AUTO ORDINANCE FOILED Machine Is "Parked" First on One Side of Street Then on Other. A new method of beating the ordi nance forbidding the parking of auto mobiles in the business district was re ported yesterday by Patrolman Max well, who arrested Clement Clssne at Sixth and Stark streets. The officer charges that the defendant left his automobile 33 minutes on one side or the street and then moved It across and remained 20 minutes longer. Others arrested for this offense yes terday were: E. J. Flnley, W. S. Phil lips. M. J. Walsh and C. Sengstake, of whom each one is charged with leav ing his car more than one hour In the congested district. PRISONER'S PEG LEG TAKEN Officer Removes It on Boarding Train to Prevent Flight. CHICAGO, April 3. When Sergeant George Wilson of the Chicago detec tive bureau started from Portland, Or., last night with George Hampton, alias T. E. York, wanted here on a charge of forgery. In his custody, he took what he believed to be adequate meas ures to prevent his prisoner's escape. Wilson removed Hampton's wooden leg before boarding the train and shipped It to Chicago by express. If Hampton eludes- the officer before reaching here he will have to do It with one leg. MRS. L. R. WEBSTER DEAD Funeral Service Will Be Held To morrow Afternoon at 2:30. ti,. funeroi nf Mr. Tuise Webster. I - f ...Pnnntv fl, ll Q"P T .1 A 71 R 1 R. nr-w-.A,. n H I vMtPTdftT at their apartments in Alexandra Court, will be held tomorrow anernoon m o'clock at J. P. Finley & Scm's chapel. The body .will be cremated. Mrs. Webster was born In New Or leans and was married in St. Louis. She was a resident of Oregon for 25 years, living ten years in Jackson County, then coming to Portland. Mrs. Webster had been 111 for three weeks and was making headway to ward recovery when her sudden death occurred. Body Found in Siuslavr. wT-nuvo' rif Anrll x. (SoectaL) The body of James Myers, who with three other loggers was drowned In tne 7IU6iw it"' " - ' ' ' March 30, was recovered today three miles below tne supposea scene oi iuc . i ThA t,nrrh Iff hetna: con tinued for the bodies of George Myers and Cleo . Doyle. Ralph Allen's body was -recovered jaonaay. EAST 28TH STREET BACKED C. M. Clark, of Traction Com pany, Willing to Aid. CLUB CONFERENCE IS HELD L. Ml Lepper, President Foster, of Reed College, Among Others, Pre sent Situation to Head of Com pany Interest Is Great. Cross-town car lines and the entire street railway situation on the East Side were discussed for three hours yesterday by G M. Clark, of the Port land Railway. Light & Power Company, at the rooms of the East Side Business Men's Club, with representatives of this club, the Greater East Side Club and also of numerous other organizations. President Foster, of the Reed Colics-, represented that institution at the con ference. Mr. Clark was introduced to all the representatives, and he said at the out set that he was willing and anxious to' -work together with the clubs for th upbuilding of Portland. A large map prepared specially to govern the talk was spread on the table, showing the present car lines and Indi cating where crosstown lines were wanted and where some extensions were considered necessary. For the crosstown car line the map showed the route on East Thirty-ninth street, be tween Gladstone avenue and Sandy boulevard. A. tentative line was shown on East Twenty-eighth street, also on East Gllsan, between East Twenty eighth street and Sandy boulevard, and On East Ankeny street, between East Twenty-eighth street and the Laurcl hurst Park. 150.000 Would Benefit. L. M. Lepper, chairman of the trans portation committee of the East Side Business Men's Club, urged the con struction of the crosstown line on East Thirty-ninth street, and undertook to show that It would serve, outside of the Peninsula district, about 150.000 popu lation, people who own homes built near the line. Mr. Lepper pointed out that to go from Rose City Park to the Reed College on the Bouth, or to any point In the southern portion of the city, one must travel between 10 and 15 miles. By building this crosstown line on East Thirty-ninth street It would re lieve the situation greatly. He esti mated that the traffic would pay at the start. The line would touch Laurelhurst, Sunnyslde and all the great residence districts on the East Side. C. K. Henry, )l. Allen Harrison, Dr. J. H. Fenton. A. N. Searle, E. G. Welter ' and other representatives spoke for this route and urged that it be built. Mr. Clark was inclined to favor such a line. If it were built, on East Twenty eighth street. Mr. Foster presented the need of car service of Reed College and pointed out that the campus, now made up of S6 acres, would soon develop Into a great center, educational, conventional and athletic, which would need street car facilities. Question of Revenue Raised Mr. Clark raised the question of rev enue from such crosstown car line on East Thirty-ninth street. How many people would use It if It were built? How many would use it during the day? These were some of the questions he asked. Referring to the map, Mr. Clark pointed out that most of the peoplo would come down town anyway on the carlines already built. He said that the company Is looking Into the prob able revenue that might be expected from such line. He then pointed out that the company had been spending millions In Portluand for betterments, mainly on the East Side, and declared that he was deeply Interested In the growth of Portland, and expressed himself as willing to do everything within his power to improve the serv ice. Referring to the extensions made. Mr. Clark said that seven miles had been built the past year, but the in come had not shown the Increase ex pected from these extensions. He said that such lines as the St. Johns and Mount Scott had been operated at a loss, and declared that there had been an actual loss on the St. Johns line of $45,000 last year. "To get money for extensions, said Mr. Clark, "I must be able to show that It will pay on the Investment, or the money will not be furnished. That Is fair. None of you men would run a bust- -ness at a loss, would you? I think not. Now, we are going to look into all these questions that have been, dis cussed here today, and it will all come out before the Railway Commission." Dan Kellaher spoke briefly, pointing out the need of the crosstown carllne, and declared that unless the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company did provide better service some other means would be provided. C. K. Henry presented the matter of a subway and Mr. Clark said that he would look Into the matter. Estimates will be made of the prob- .(Ooncluded on Pa 2)