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Newspaper Page Textt VOL. LIII-XO. 16,377. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. MAY 21, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JAPAN ASSURED OF FRIENDLY FEELING American Charge De livers Message. BRYAN, ALSO, IS PACIFIC Administration Now Awaiting Action of Tokio. PEACE ELEMENTS WORKING Visit of Jnpanene Statesmen to Call fornla May Bo of Benefit In Enlightening Countrymen at Home. WAPHTXGTOr. May 20. Interest In the negotiation between the United 6tatea and Japan over the California land legislation has shifted from Wash ington to Tokio. The American Gov eminent, having delivered lt reply to the Japanese protest. Is awaiting the new step of Japan and the situation was not even mentioned at today's Cab inet meeting. Tokio Receive Asanraarea. In official circles It is regarded ai significant of the desire of the Ad ministration to convince the Japanese covernment of Its purpose to do every thing possible to maintain the best of relations that American Charge Dai ley Blanchard has called on the Foreign Minister at Tokio to assure him of the determination of the United States to find a friendly and satisfactory solu tion of the present Issue. Secretary Bryan already has given such assur ances verbally to Viscount Chlnda. It Is believed here that the visit to California of the Japanese statesmen, Ebara and Hattorl, representing both of the great political parties of Japan will be of benefit, as they will be able to enlighten their people at home as to the conditions In, California affecting Japanese residents. Peace Iafluearee at Work. Other Influences are working In the same direction, and the Japanese-American Society in Tokio Is sending 'one of 1? trusted members to f's country, charged with personal messages to prominent Americana, calculated to re lieve friction between the two countries. Mean-while, resting secure In the be lief that nothing more can be done by them until the next word comes from Japan, the President and Secretary Bry an apparently have discharged their minds from the consideration of the subject. JAPANESE HOXOJl AT STAKE Tokio Conservatives Son Echo De mand for Equal Treatment. TOKIO. May 20. Efforts of the Japanese government are concentrated at present on pacifying public opinion, but the task is regarded in many quar ters as a more difficult one than at the time of the California school con troversy. Since the death of the old Japanese Emperor, the authirlty of the govern ment has steadily diminished In resist ing the growing Influence of public opinion and the spirit of democracy is augmenting throughout the Empire Arthur Ballly-Blanchard. secretary of the United States Embassy, visited Baron Muklno, the Japanese Foreign Minister, today and reiterated the de termination of the United States Gov ernment to exert every effort in order to find a friendly and satisfactory so lution of the question. He emphasized the fact that It was a California, and not an American question and thanked the Japanese Government for its friendliness and for its attempts to restrain the excitable public opinion of Japan. It is generally believed in govern ment circles that Washington will find a solution of the problem, but the more conservative elements in Japan are now echoing the public agitation for equal treatment of the Japanese. They declare that the racial issue, which it Is contended is involved and the steady recurrence of anti-Japanese bills In California should receive "basic cur,a tlve treatment." . A prominent official said today: "The Japanese people feel that their national honor Is involved. The pres ent question will be solved peacefully. but what is needed to assure the per manence of our traditional friendship Is a change of heart in some Amerl cans toward the Japanese." TACOMA JOINS PORTLAND FAT WOMAN FINDS IT BAD TO BE ILL AMBtLAXCE TOO SMALL AXD STRETCHER TOO FRAGILE. Hospital Bed Not Strong Enough Af ter Eight Men Have Helped Patient on Her Way. rHipr.n Vir 20. Marv Perry, 4 years old, professional "fat woman, exhibiting at a Chicago amusemen park, suddenly became ill from blood poisoning tonight and was taken to the County Hospital after a series of Ah.f..i.a KiH h,n overcome. lc weighs 600 pounds. The ambulance of the Sheffield nue Dolice station responded to the call of the amusement park employes but ih. .hl.u m-n a fonnd too small for Miss Perry's avoirdupois and the patrol WftM 111 bstltuted. Then the .i..t.h.r u.-a found too fragile and it was strengthened by heavy timbers Breathing heavily, five policemen ana three park attendants placed her in the natrol wagon. At the hospital no bed strong enougn to support her could be found and two were placed together and sypponeo with chairs. Attending physiolans after examin ing the patient expressed the opinion she would recover. SCHOOLBOY PLAYS ROMEO Elopement Planned by Seattle Lad Gains Him Fair Jnllet. SEATTLE, Wash.. May 20. (Special.) Cecil Coapes, 21 years old, and Ida Watson. 19, both of Queen Anne .High School, now are Mr. and Mrs. Coapes, s the result of a successful elopment nirineered by the young swain last Friday, the first step in which was a surreptitious assembling and removal f the bride-elect's luggage from tne Watson residence in tne pre-sunnso period Friday morning. It was not un til today that friends were let Into the secret. Young Coapes slunk in the shadows beneath the ledge of his sweeinean s window, Romeo-llke, and deftly caught the suitcases his fair Juliet gently dropped. License Bureau Clerk Claude Gage said they could obtain licenses all right if they had proper witnesses. Coapes grlnnlngly waved to a young chum-conspirator and the precious doc- ments soon were In hand. Then fol lowed in quick succession a visit to the mlnlete. s, a quiet-little wedding feast d a start for the honeymoon trip. Mr. nd Mrs. Watson were duly notified after it was all over. They were rather taken aback, but refused to become agi tated, for they approve hlgh.y of Mr, Coapes. UNIOR FLUNK DAYTAME Aide From Few Kidnapings and TIeups Programme Carried Out. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallis, Slay 20. (Special.) "Junior Hunk day." the annual occasion on which the third-year students of Ore gon Agricultural College observe the traditional custom of flunking their essons to serve the institution as unkies on the campus and practice the tonsorlal arts on seniors who make themselves too conspicuous was cele brated in artistic fashion last night nd today. The flunkers limited their campus mprovement this year to decorating the trees with class colors and flying their banner from the administration building. Aside from a few kidnaping j and tleups which delayed the astern- ling of the Junior picnic party and their start to the grounds, the Junior programme was carried out with little ariation. FIGHT Of HARRIS IS COM mm Agreement Averts Sen ate Filibuster. REPUBLICANS ALLOW VOTE Date, However, Is Set as June 25, After Conference. CONFIRMATION TO FOLLOW Democrats Admitted to Have Neces fcary Votes Guthrie Confirmed as Ambassador to Japan. Postmasters Chosen. Sound City's Commercial Clubs Drop From Pacific Coast Union. TACOMA. Wash., May 20. (Special.) Trustees of the Tacoma Commercial Ciub and Chamber of Commerce at a meeting today formally decided to withdraw Tacoma from membership In the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the Pacific Coast. Failure of the California members of the association to aid in lifting the Ban Francisco embargo on finished, fir lumber is the cause of the breach. The Portland Chamber of Commerce baa already given up Its' membership and it Is understood Spokane Is con sidering the advisability of withdraw ing. Seattle is reported aa opposing the HOUSANDS TO EMIGRATE Pioneer Steamship Man Says Rush Will Follow Canal Opening. SEATTLE, Wash., May 20. (Special.) Tens of thousands of the most thrifty, intelligent and Industrious people of Scandinavian countries are preparing to emigrate directly to the Northwest and Puget Sound, when the Panama Canal Is opened," said Captain John L Anderson, pioneer steamship man, to day who returned yesterday from a three months' business trip In Europe. Captain Anderson emphasized th fact that $4,000,000 had already been subscribed by Swedish and other capi talists to establish a direct line of modern steamships between Scandi navian ports and Seattle via the Pana ma Canal to handle this traffic He said it was Impossible to describe the enormous proportions of the emigra tion movement of the people of the north as Its ramifications extend every, where over Scandinavia. WASHINGTON', May 2Q. Senators who were looking forward to a discus slon of census taking from days of Babylon to the present were disap pointed tonight when the promised fight over the confirmation of W. J. Harris, of Georgia, aa director of the census, succeeding E. Dana Durand, waa submitted to arbitration and an agreement was made to vote on It June 26. Senator Burton had announced his Intention to Inform his colleagues on census taking as a fine art, and had piled the space under his desk with an cient and modern records. Other Re publicans who opposed the confirmation of Harris were primed with figures and facts, and they looked forward to an Indefinitely prolonged, merry war. Compromise Date Frowned On. The Republicans had insisted 'at Harris be not confirmed before July '. and offers of a compromise on June 1 ad been frowned on. The agreement for a vote June 25 was reached only after it became apparent that those op posed to confirmation at this time were prepared to take advantage of the Sen ate rules and keep talking as long as the Senate remained in session. No charges ever have been filed against Harris, and since a voting ar rangement has been made he probably will be approved, for the Democrats have plenty of votes to confirm his nomination. In the two hours' executive session tonight the Senate confirmed the nom inations of several score postmasters and other officials, including George W. j INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weathen iJSDTERDArs Maximum temperature, 71 aogrees; minimum. Its degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. Foreign. Henry If. Flagler dead, pare 4. uenocal Inaugurated President of Cuba. fag a o. Indemnity of 2.000,000 francs demanded of xuraey. fage a. National. Single tax advocate to be Assistant Secre tary or ittDor. page 2. oonme minority prepares to orrar many mrm amendments, page a. Administration reassures Japan of friendly leenng. .rage j. Fight on Director of Census Harris is com promised.. Fags 1. Domestic. Portland ad men's burlesque on Japanese situation takes Governor Johnson by surprise, page s. m.ness in "aynamite conspiracy" says un dertaker told him head ot woolen com pany was in plot. Page 2. Professional fat woman's journey to hospt tai oeset witn trials, page 1. Charles M. Echwab admits existence ot steel pools. Page 3. Pacific Northwest. First Japanese Women's Club organised at Seattle, page 1. Crowds gather at Roseburg for Strawberry festival, page 7. Home Telephone Company has J. C. Ains oerry reieasea on luuo ball. Page 6. Ten graduates of University of Oregon will Decomo scnooi teacners. page 0. Gaylord McOanlel and stepmother, Mrs. Pocn on trial for murder. Page 4. Snakeup in city government In Spokano near, page i. Sport. Pacific Coast League xesuits: Portland 4, Venice 3; Oakland S, Los Angeles 1; San r rancisco z. Sacramento 1. page 10. .Northwestern League results: Portland 4, xacoma a; Vancouver 4, Seattle 1; Vic tuna a. Spokane 7. Page 10. McGlnnity releases Lou Nordyke. Page 10. Lipton's challenge for America's cud Is ac cepted by Now York Yacht Club. Page 1. Bud Anderson, of Vancouver.' Wash... de feats Joe Mandot iu 13 rounds. Pace 11. Gunboat Smith wins 20-round decision from wyiard. Page 11. Commercial and Marine. Oriental buyers secure wheat for Summer snlpment. page 23. Rains in Dakota and Minnesota weaken wheat at Chicago. Page 23. Low prices, offered for New Yolk City Donuo aicect stock market. Page 23. Henry Teal buys $1,250,000 publlo dock Donas, page 22. women Portland and Vicinity Greater Irvington club working for change sueeicar route. page 14. Grand Army members will address pupils ui jjuuuc scooois. page 42. Albee sounds warning In talk to voters, page 8. Mr. nnd Mrs. W. E. Prudhomme observe wedding anniversary. Page 9. Weather report, data and forecast. Page IS. Man in Kansas City Jail, posing as woman. aupes Portland women. Page 1. Jury in Sleeth libel case may be completed louay. page 19. nayor Rushlight In speech defends action in anoagrass case, page 8. B. Irvine, ex-Mayor of three towns, views local campa'gn. Page 18. Records of more candidates Page 8. Rosarlans name Saturday as day to swell xuna. page o. Kellaher assails Mayor Rushlight's stand on xrancnise. page s. are given. ANCIENT URN UNCOVERED Gold Articles of Phoenician Origin Dug Vp In Germany. BERLIN", May 20. An urn contain- Guthrle as Ambassador to Japan, John insr a collection of gold articles attrib- UPTON WILL RAGE FOR AFvlERIGA'S GUP New York Yacht Club Accepts Challenge. JAPANESE WOMEN FORM FIRST CLUB FAIR NIPPONESE OF SEATTLE BECOME "AMERICANIZED." 75-FOOT CRAFT TO BE BUILT Whether Boat May Be Towed Not Yet Decided. DESIGNER IS NOW AT WORK Decision of New York Club That Smaller Type of Yachts Shall Compete Pleases Challenger. September, 1914, Is Date. Purroy Mitchell as collector of the port of New York, G. M. Saltzgaber as Com missioner of Pensions, and Albert Lee Thurman as solicitor of the Department of Commerce. '.Vhe nominations of William H. Berry as Collector of ' astoma at Philadel phia and of Franklin P. Colcock as Col lector at Beaufort, S. C, to which Re publican objection has been raised, were passed over. , uted by experts to the seventh and eighth centuries before the Chi'stlan era was uncovered todav by we dig gers on an estate in .ne vicinity of Eberswalde, about 27 miles from Berlin. The urn, which is among the most ancient finds ever made in Germany, contains 78 articles. These Include bowls, bracelets and rings supposed to be of Phoenician origin and imported to Germany by way of the Baltic. LONDON", May 20. Once more America will defend the America's cup. The classic yachting race was assured for September, 1914, when the New York Yacht Club today sent by cable an acceptance of Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge. The race will be sailed under the present rules of the New York Yacht Club as to measurements, time allow ance and racing conditions. Sir Thomas lost no time after tie receipt of the acceptance in laying plans for building the finest chal lenger be has ever sent across-the At lantic. Even as yet he does not know whether he will be allowed to tow the craft across the ocean or not, but he says this does not especially mat ter, as he would want to tow the yacht only in the event of a head wind or a dead calm. Designer Now at Work. Relying entirely on the sportsman ship of the members of the New York Yacht Club, the. Irish sportsman re fused to consider the possibility o? being opposed by a bigger boat than the challenger he will send. He now has Charles F. Nicholson, yacht de- igner of Gosport, England, at work on models for the new yacht. The message of acceptance, sent by the New York Yacht Club, Is: 'The races are to be sailed as sug gested in your cable 'under our present rules of measurement, time allowance and racing rules, it being understood that the rule requiring a yacht to race at the highest limit of her class in cer. tain cases shall not apply to this match." Challenger's Length to Be 75 Feet. "The challenger will be 75 feet on the water line and built under the present New York. Yacht Club rules," said Designer Nicholson. "This size was really fixed upon by Sir Thomas LIpton because in his challenge he suggested racing under the same measurement rule as In the last con test, and thought that with the ex- Little Brown Men Soon to Know Trials of Yankee Brothers in Late Dinners Etc. SEATTLE. Wash., May 20. (Special.) Madame Butterfly .and Miss rurple Eyes are doomed. In their place looms the new Japanese woman of the club type, emancipated and progressive, who promises soon to reduce the little brown man to the conventional submissive state of the American husband. Kimonas have been cast aside for scant tailored suits; huge ornamented hairpins are replaced py Parisian model hats, and the wee little feet are ex panding in the roomy, recesses of boot ies of approved English cut. But most significant of all, there has Just been formed In Seattle a Japanese Women's Club. This stride in civilization was taken at a meeting of 35 Japanese women in the Y. W. C. A. rooms at which the following officers were elected: Mrs. S. Yosioka, president; Miss Kigo Nte. vice-president; Miss Kusanna, secre tary, and K. Sakamoto, treasurer. Among tho members is the daughter of the Japanese Consul, Atsuko Takashi, and the wife of a Japanese banker, Mrs. S. Takashi. Local American club women assisted their brown sisters to organize, after which tea was served. To the short-sighted this organiza tion may seem trivial, but to the far- seeing it Is revolutionary. It will only be a few years until the Japanese house holder, returning home to complain at dinner, will hear from his good dame that she was unable to supervise the household duties that day, as she was preparing a paper on "The American Invasion; Should It Be Tolerated?" And Togo will take himself to his club, and mournfuIl mutter over his "Sake;" "Bad Days Ahead." HP0S1DR DUPES PORTLAND WOMEN Posing as Woman, J. A. Baker in Hospital. YOUTH PROPOSES MARRIAGE Position as Teacher Offered by Superintendent Armstrong. PENIEL MISSION GIVES AIH Confessed Forger-Counlerfeiter a id Feminine Impersonator, Now lit Kansas City Jail, Deceives Sev eral "Htghcr-Vps" Here. (Concluded on Page 3.) VISIONARY DAN. BOY, ALONEIGHTS FIRE 1 6-Year-OM Lee Heller Saves Home of Mrs. Gross From Ruin. Lee Heller, a 16-year-old boy living at 1402 East Hoyt street, Monday night saved the home of Mrs. Lizzie Gross from being destroyed by fire, attacking the flames with no better equipment than a common pail and the water that could be secured from a kitchen faucet. although they had already spread through one entire room of the house. Mrs. Gross was absent when the house caught lire and the young man noticed the flames when they were well under way. Having no time to hunt for a garden hose or to turn in a fire alarm, he broke into the house and fought the flames alone. The damage to the house will be only about $700. The young man had difficulty for a long time In bringing the fire under segregation of the Northwest organl- I control, and suffered considerably from satlona from California. jth smoke that reached hl lungs. CHAIR. f II CLOCK SOUNDS FIRE ALARM Chinese Saves Lives With Timepiece as Enterprise Hotel Burns. i ENTERPRISE, Or., ; May 20. (Spe cial.) The Commercial Hotel, a three- story frame building, was burned to the ground this morning, i All the 20 per sons In it escaped, although some had to Jump from second-story windows. The fire started about 2 o'clock on the second floor. The cause is unknown. A patron and the Chinese cook wen through the building arousing the sleepers, the latter starting an alarm clock and carrying it from room to room. . TV building and equipment prob afcly tost 110,000, and were insured for 15600. -The structure was erected fou years ago -on the site ot another fram hotel that had burned. i Hayes Kernan was the owner. It Is unlikely that the hotel will be rebuilt, but probably modern brick or stone structure will be put up In a more central location. GAS TANK BILL ; IS SIGNED Erection of Reservoirs Xenr Church or Residence Prohibited. Gas reservoirs may no longer built within 250 feet of any church o residence in Portland. Tho ordinance prohibiting gas tanks, gasometers and other structures devised for the stor age of petrol oils within that distance of a church or dwelling was passed by the City Council last week with a emergency clause, and was signed by Mayor Rushlight yesterday. The ordinance will prevent the build Ing of a gas reservoir at East Twelfth and Division streets, where the Port land Gas & Coke Company bough ground and prepared to erect such building. Residents of that distric protested and it was on their urging that the measure, which was intro duced by Councilman Joy, was passed the Council. CULEBRA CUT CONQUERED Ens-lneer Predicts Early End o Great Canal Difficulty. WASHINGTON, May 20. The Cucara- cha slide, greatest of the earth move ments in the famous Culebra cut, will be entirely removed by the end of this year in the opinion of Colonel D. D, Gaillard, the engineer In charge of the Culebra district of the Panama Canal, who has Just arrived in Washington. He believes that, in spite of all the difficulties caused by the earth slides, which involve about 60 acres, the Culebra cut will be finished sooner than some other parts of the canal. 2 ELECTROCUTED; ONE DIES Accident Near Aurora Fatal to Sec' tion Man of Hubbard. AURORA. Or., May 20. (Special.) Charles , Ball, a section employe, was Instantly killed this afternoon by elec trocution from a telephone wire that had become entangled with the electric light wires carrying 6600 volts. An other section man named Dick was bad ly burned by the same wire. Both men were residents of Hubbard. The accident occurred between Aurora and Barlow. The Coroner will hold an Inquest at Aurora. BIBLE MADE COMPULSORY New Pennsylvania Law Penalizes Teachers Who Fail. HARRISBURG, "PaL, May J!0. Under a bill, approved by Governor Tener to day, 10 verses of the Bible must be read without comment in the public Schools of Pennsylvania. Teachers who violate the law are subject ia dismissal James Arthur Baker, under arrest in Kansas City for an alleged theft in Summeriand, Cal., came into Portland In men's clothing, posed as a woman, was wooed by a man, and left a few minutes ahead of an investigating oody, three months ago. There are about 10 women, connected in various ways witn the Tenlol Mis sion, of 207 Jefferson street, who be lieved until yesterday that James A., or Alice Baker, was really a woman. Baker victimized several Portland women of money, clothes and hospital care, and a Portland physician is still "out" the costs of an operation, per formed upon the man of dual Identity. Baker, who was at that time dressed in men's clothes, but who left Portland dressed in women's apparel, first ap peared In Portland, supposedly from Idaho, In March. Ho went to the Peniel Mission, and after an evening there in religious services, went to Mrs. Phi lander Arnold, wife of the superintend ent and "confessed" that he was a woman. Ho said that in traveling, after a disagreement with parents in Idaho, he found it necessary to wear men's clothes, but that lie had docided that it was best to resume women's clothiiig. He said that he was about to get a position at teaching school, and after examination by Hnperintit-' ent Ani:f'"' 't the school board, was given a I ' -district position and placed ay" y J for "her" appearance. Portland Doctor Operates. Shortly afterward Baker told women in tho Peniel Home, where he waa be ing cared for as a woman, that he was in Immediate need of an operation. L'r. George S. Whitesides was appealed to, and lie made an examination under ether, at a hospital. Dr. Whiteskles said he leartieri the patient was a man and so advised the mission. In the meantime, George B. Smith, traveling worker for the Peniel Mis sions, became suspicious of Baker, and asked Acting Chief Slover and Mrs. Lola G. Baldwin of the Department of Public Safety for Women, to investi gate. They questioned Baker, but as he had evidently not received any money by his deceptions, and they were not suro of their opinions, took no action. Baker stayed in the hospital two weeks. He is said to have revealed himself fully to a woman, who is still of the belief that Baker is a woman. Wig Obtained In Portland. Saying that he had received an offer of a position in Oakland, Cal., Bakor asked his friends for sufficient money to go there, and received about $15 in small contributions, not sufficient to pay his fare. When the entire fare did not materialize, he one day camo to trie mission and said he was about to leave. He asked to have Mr. Arnold and Mr. Smith, his "kind friends," go to the steamer Roanoke with him, but when the "kind friends" arrived at the dock, they found that he had taken a boat of another line. With him, they discovered, was a man, who had not appeared at any other time. Tlie djsgulse which Baker used lr. California, was the gift of his bene factors in Portland. He lamented tu the women who had interested them- ( selves in him, that by continued mas querading as a man, he had lost many of his feminine traits, and his sliort hair bothered him. They bought him a so-called "transformation wig. Portland Mnu Propones. Baker, according to the Portland people who met him. was slim, dressed well in women's cluthes. had Jong, black hair, somewhat like an Indian's which he explained by saying that he was a half-breed. Lamenting his gradual hanging to masculine gait, and ap pearance by continual traveling as a man. he said that he had ruled wttn putty or paraffin the bridge of his nose, in order to give tho masculine ook, and had grafted upon his upper Up, hair skin, which In time produced slight mustache. Baker explained his .'masculine clothes by saying that when "she'" went to college "she" found that it was much easier to get along i i the world as a man than as a womag. "She" saiil that "she" had dressed r.s a man for years. Confession that "she" had married twice, once to a man and once to a oman, was made bj the unusual dual creature, but did nu. deter a love ad venture In Portland. A young follower ot-'the so-railed "Right Reverend St. Martin," an evangelist, asked the pseudo young woman's hand In mar riage. "She" held his offer Ih abeyance, un til they should "be better acquainted," and before thai condition cajne .bout "he" left Portland.