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r VOL,. LIII. NO. 16,446. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. EVEN TS VMI C 0 REPORT Envoy Arrives in Mex ico City. BACON ISSUES EXPLANATION Senator Says Wilson Has Sup port of All Parties. ALL WANT TO AVOID WAR Some Favor More Drastic Measures Than Others, but General Opposition to Intervention Is, Voiced in Congress. MEXICO CITY, Auk. 11. . A. Jen nlaits and Marvin Ferre, two American newspaper correspondent, were ar rested last might and are held by order ot the minister of the Interior. The nature of the charge! against them Is not atated. Jennings is a representa tive or a Hearst paper and Ferre In a correspondent of a Loa Angeles paper. WASHINGTON', Aug. 10. "With the arrival tonight in M-.tIO City of John Lind, personal representative of Presi dent Wflion, Administration officials detiared that no further steps would he taken in carrying out the policy of the United States toward Mexico un til Mr. Lind had made a careful study of the situation there. While the President has mapped out a direct course of action, about which strict secrecy is being maintained, It is known that the instructions to be sent Mr. Lind ' from time to time will depend largely on developments in the Mexican capital ,in the next few weeks. Party Lines Not Drawn. Further enlightenment as to the er rand of Mr. Lind and the policy the President has formed came tonight from Senator Bacon, chairman of the Senate committee on foreign relations, who declared that President Wilson was facing "a. great responsibility" in the present situation and had the hearty support and co-operation not only of the foreign relations commit tee, but of members of the Senate, re gardless of party lines. To explain various interpretations of last night's conference between the President and the foreign relations committee Sena tor Bacon made the following state ment: "The foreign relations committee recognizes that the President is acting in good faith in trying to solve the problem peacefully. Committee In Accord. "The President's undertaking is with that view and in that general purpose the committee are in accord and have confidence in his sincerity and integ rity. They recognize that he wishes to settle the question without violence and for the best interests of the United States and Mexico. Of course he can not be expected to go into details. In the first place, some of the details are necessarily not worked out and depend in a measure on developments and in formation which is to be derived from the methods he is now pursuing. In the second place, some matters of de tail, if . given out In advance in the present delicate situation, will defeat the very ends sought to be accom plished. "There is some divergence of opinion in the committee. It could not be otherwise. Some favor more drastic measures than others. The committee generally sympathizes with the Presi dent's desire to avoid Intervention or anything that will produce war. Frankness Pleases Senators. "Even those, however, who favor drastic measures have confidence in the President, and are supporting him in his present efforts. I think, witii a few exceptions, there is no disposition to draw party lines. I think that is true of both Republicans and Demo crats in the committee and in the Sen ate generally. "The President manifested a strong desire to have the co-operation of the Senate, and frankly said he would be very glad to have any suggestion from them either as individuals or as a body and would welcome their assistance. Senators seemed gratified by that frank statement on his part." Wilson' Responsibility Heavy "While there ia a small element In this country that would like to see war the large majority of the people oppose it. There is no secrecy on the part of the President as to the general purposes he has In view and the gen eral methods he Is trying to employ "There never was a greater respon sibility on a man than now rests on the President of the United States to guard this country ' against being in volved In war on account of Mexico, and I believe that it is the duty of every man. Inside and out of Congress, who has confidence in the Integrity and capacity of the President, to up hold him in the effort he la making and to do as little as possible to em barrass him In working out success fully the difficult undertaking." Ilnerta Not Asked to Resign. From other sources it was learned that the Administration will carry ou its programme as originally planned being guided, by Mr. Lind's" reports on the situation. It was said authorita tively that the American Government had no intention of calling on Presi- FROM L1ND (.Concluded un Page ) SHIPPING TO USE CANAL THIS YEAR USE OF DREDGES EXPECTED TO HASTEX OFESIXG. Oceans Will Be Connected for Ves sels of Light Draft In Octo ber, It Is Believed. WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. Latest re ports from the Canal Zone are that as the result of the possible substitution of dredges for steam 'shovels In the excavation of the famous Culebra Cut. the canal may be ready for shipping by next December. Even earlier than that light draft vessels are likely to be passing through the waterway, for as the greater part of the canal prism already has been cut to its final depth, small vessels probably can navigate it safely within e. few days after October 10, when Gamboa dike is to be blown up, thus admitting to the Culebra level the great store of water in Gatun Lake. The 34 steamshovels now in the cut handle only 800,000 cubic yards of earth and rock a month, which output will be greatly reduced as the depth of the cut increases and the available room for shoveling Is reduced. Colo nel Goethals, however, has assembled 15 dredges with monthly capacity of 1,600,000 cubic yards and these will be floated Into the cut as soon as the dike is destroyed. Meanwhile, not content with digging away at the base of the cliffs, the en gineers in their haste to open up the waterway have begun to tear away the top of the hills with great jets of water under high pressure, sluicing the earth Into the bed of the canal, whence it is being swept up by pneu matic dredges and pumps and dis charged into the ravines and valleys, so far away that It can never wash back. HEARING TOBEIN PORTLAND Evidence In Compensation Act Fraud Case to Be Taken This Week. SALEM, Or., Aug. 10. (Special.) Circuit Judge Galloway will read evi dence in Portland this week in the case to have the petitions for reference to the people of the workmen's com pensation act thrown out on si charge of fraud. The hearing is expected to last most of the week. All the witnesses live In Portland. The case will be argued here. E. R. Rlngo is chief counsel for the plaintiff. It is charged that signatures to the petitions were obtained through fraud and the court is asked to restrain the Secretary of State from, placing the caption of the measure on the ballots at the special election in November. Attorney-Generaf Crawford probably will have nothing to do with the case until it reaches the Supreme Court. Secretary of State Olcott says fraud must be shown before he can act- ROAD BONDS PROPOSED Jackson County to Vote on $500,- 0 00 Issue on September 9. ASHLAND. Or Aug. 10. (Special.) -A proposal to bond Jackson County for $500,000 for roads will be submitted at a special election September 9. The initial work is proposed on the main highway reaching from Ashland through Talent, Phoenix,, Medford and Central Point to the" Josephine County line. The improved highway will in clude the new road over the Siskiyous south of Ashland and the survey will begin at a line intersecting the Mount Diablo Meridian in Siskiyou County, California. - This extensive Improvement la sub ject to the result of the special election. but it is understood that the new road over the mountains In this vicinity will be. put through at all events. This is on the assumption that a -beginning must be made somewhere and that a good business policy dictates that tho most difficult portion of the work should be completed first. 1000 CHILDREN ON BILL Annual Play Festival Will Be Held at Peninsula Park Today. Over a thousand Portland playground children will participate in their annual "play festival" at Peninsula Park to day. There will be folk-dances, games and athletics. Six hundred and fifty little girls. In costume, will dance the. 'folk-dances of 13 nations, and will join in a general dance on the green. The programme will be opened at 2 o'clock by a grand march of all the children, headed by 16 boys, dressed and armed as Roman soldiers. The Portland Park Band will provide music for all the dances. Instead of cash prizes for the dances and competitions, as were given last year, there will be ribbons for the winners. WIFE, ALONE, DIES IN WATER Boathouse Occupant Drowns When Precipitated by Broken Rail. Mrs. Jessie Turner, wife of H. W. Turner, a photographer, was drowned yesterday on the Willamette Slough half a mile west' of the Burlington ferry, where she and her husband lived in a houseboat. Mr. Turner left home early yesterday to take some pictures of a new oil plant near L'nnton. and when he returned In the afternoon the wife was ihlssin Search revealed a broken railing at one side of the houseboat and grappling brought the body to the surface. It is thought Mrs. Turner, while watching passing boats on the slough, leaned upon the railing, which broke. She was 22 years old. The body was taken to the undertaking establishment of Dunning & McEntec. . MISUSE OF FUiS DENIED BY SULZER Some Cash Deposited, Then Returned. STOCK SPECULATION SCOUTED Accounts With Brokers Not Gambling, He Says. INDICTMENT IS CONSIDERED Frawley Investigators Regard Evi dence Now In Hand ns Strong Enough to Justify Course.' Leaders Will Confer. ALBANY, Aug. 10. After a long conference tonight with some of . his close political advisers, Governor Sul zer issued a short statement, denying absolutely that he ever used campaign funds for speculative purposes. He says he never heard of the stock bro kerage firms of Fuller & Gray and Boyer & Griswold, alleged transactions with which figured largely in the tes timony before the Frawley legislative committee until these names were brought out before the committee. The Governor admits he did apply certain campaign contributions to his personal use, but adds that he made the amount good. He also admits hav ing transacted with the stock firm of Harris & Fuller, but insists that his accounts with this firm was not specu lative and consisted of a loan on stock and collateral. He denfes that he ever speculated In Wall street. Governor Sulzer"s statement follows "It would be unwise for me at this time to make any detailed statement in reply to the matters that have been brought to the attention of the Fraw ley committee, but having promised that I would furnish a statement to the Dress. I make the following reply: "I deny that I used any campaign contributions for personal use. "I deny that I speculated In Wall street, or used money contributed for campaign purposes to buy stocks either in my own name or otherwise. "I never had an account with Fuller & Gray or Boyer & Griswold. I never had. business with cither of these firms: I do not know the members; and know nothing about transactions with these firms testified to before the Frawley committee until recently threatened with exposure, and the alleged transac tions were brought to my attention by the Frawley committee. "The stock account with Harris and Fuller was not a speculative account but a loan on stock as collateral which stocks had been acquired and paid for years before my nomination for the of fice of Governor and from other sources than Harris & Fuller. "Certaiii checks given me for cam (Concluded on Page 4.) T. ........................... his summer" vacation- j : l . ' .................. ..........J ........ -m ............................ ...... . .... A INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Foreign. Sylvia Pankhurst arrested In fight between suffragettes and police. Page 1. National. Lind arrive in Mexico and Administra tion's policy will wait on his report. Page 1. President's currency bill to be given first test in caucus today.. Page 4. Domestic. Knights Templars' conclave begins at Den ver witn reuglous ceremonies. .Page 2. Women "coppers" to have thslr own fashloa plates. Pass a. Bankers say they do not need help to move Nebraska home rule law for cities curtails political pickings. Page 1. Cardinal Gibbons opens great convention of uamono societies. Page 2. Panama Canal likely to be ready for ship ping in December. Page 1. Federal Court takes measures . to control crowds at Dlggs trial. Page 3. Rain carries relief to corn fields In Middle west, page 1. Three killed. eiEht in lured In ant a c ran h near Oakland.- Page 4. Two men arrested suspected murderers of rcu aiamona merchant. Pace 8. Governor Sulzer denies applying campaign iuuus 10 personal use. page .1. Antl-suffra.gettes organize conservationist league, tt fight evils of equal enfran chisement. Page 2. Snorts, Coast League results: Portland 2-4, Venice i J-oa Angeies o-e, Oakland 8-4; San r MuciBco -. sttcramento Z-1. Paae o. Northwestern League results: Snokane 5. Portland 2; Seattle 2. Victoria 1 (11 In nings) ; Tacoroa 11, Vancouver 2. Page 8. Seaside- beach races draw large crowd. Page 9. Both Major league teams lose ground dur ing week. Page 9. Boise and North Yakima win games in Trl- omic. race o. Pacific Northwest. Delayed Alaska Salmon run starts. Page 3. State printing Board to name secretary to day, page 6. Intimation given that Fort George Wright may d ecu me more important. Page 10. Everywoman" Is presented at the Keillg. Portland and Vicinity. Dissension appears In meeting of Women of uuu;i n.t i urauu linage, rago l. 'Billy' Sunday In shirtsleeves delivers char acteristlc address. Page 16. Women bathers at Oaks discard stockings una s Kir is. rage y. Log building favored by Oregon Commission ior ranama-racinc fair. Pass 16. Miss Anna Cole becomes bride of Richard Aiuxnoiiano. Page T. Exhibit to be given showing proper means v. ttujut iur mi ik. supply. Page 9. Second party of fresh-air beneficiaries re turns in nigh spirits. Page 10. Photo engravers hold annual outing. Page 9. Warm Sunday drives thousands to see it com fort of cool resorts. Page 16. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 10. xweive big steamers arrive In or leave roruana in aay. Page 16. LIPT0N CRITICIZES BRITISH Essential for Xatlon to Take Part in Exposition, Says Merchant. LONDON, Aug. 11. (Special.) Sir Thomas LIpton, writing; as a British merchant, to the London Times this morning, Indorsing- the attitude of that newspaper In ' criticising the British government for aeclining- to take part in the "Panama-Pacific Exposition, says he ls going: to exhibit at the San Fran cisco exhibition whether or not the government supports it. "Putting: aside all the international and sentimental questions Involved," says Sir Thomas, "it Is absolutely es sential for strictly business purposes that Great Britain . be officially and adequately represented." He adds that his own experience as an exhibitor at the Chicago and St. Louis fairs was gratifying, although the tariff was then at its highest. , "Nct:.' ,ie continues, "when the walls of Jericho have fallen, we sulk outside instead, of entering and taking the city." INSURGENCY RIFE IN WOODCRAFT RANKS Rival Forces Waiting for Advantage. CENTRALIZING POWER FEARED Length of Session Attributed to Friction. THREE OFFICERS OPPOSED Movement Has Been Under Way Four Years and Attack Is Against Proposal to GiTe Grand Guar dian Supreme Authority. Ostensibly over a question of cen tralization of power In "the hands of the present administration of the "Women of Woodcraft, but really, It Is said, directed at the administration it self, an insurgent movement has de veloped among delegates to the con vention of the order now in session in Portland. , The session began July 31. The first Intimation that entire peace and har mony did not prevail within the inner circles came Saturday night, when th convention failed to adjourn accord ing to programme. ' It waa given out that this was due to the great amount of business com ing before the convention. Insistent rumors have been heard, however, that at least one reason for holding into the present week was the desire of both sides to postpone the active struggle to the most strategic moment Insurgents on Guard. The insurgent forces are said to be waiting with extreme vigilance for any attempt to report out a certain recom mendation now in the hands of the committee on laws. Mrs. Sarah Mar tin, of Portland, is chairman of this committee, which, i appointed by h grand guardian of the order, head of the administration, and consequently It is largely under her control. Among the features in this report es pectlally' objectionable to the insurgent element is one which would centralize management of the order almost ex clusively, it is declared in the hands of the present grand guardian, Mrs. C. C. Van Orsdall. This would be effected, according to information purporting to be authoritative in regard to what the report contains by abolishing the pres ent board of five managers, one from each of five states, who, with the grand guardian, the grand clerk and the grand .banker, comprise the executive com mittee. Conflict la Expected. As this executive committee has vested in it entire management of the affair of the order between conven- ( Concluded on Page 2.) MILITANT LEADER CAPTURED IN FIGHT SUFFRAGETTES FAIL TO REACH ASQOTH'S HOME. Women and Children In Streets Rid den Down by Mounted Men With out Ruth 15 Arrests Made. LONDON, Aug. 10. The third at tempt of suffragettes under command of Sylvia Pankhurst to take Premier Asquith's house in Downing street by storm failed today when the militant leader was captured by a cordon of police thrown across Whitehall after a stiff fight in which the officers used their clubs. The trouble began after a mass meeting held under the auspices of the free speech defense committee called to demand the unconditional release of George Lansbury, former Socialist member of the House of Commons, who was sentenced July 30 to three months' Imprisonment for making inflamma tory speeches, but was released August 12 under'the "cat and mouse act" while on a hunger strike. Miss Pankhurst had refused an Invi tation to address this meeting when informed that she would not be per mitted to urge her hearers to march on Downing street. Three speakers ad dressed the crowd and urged them not to be disorderly. Hatless, hair bound close to her head, the young militant leader started down Whitehall surrounded by women carry ing the Women's Social and Political Union flag surmounted by a red liberty cap and preceded by a flying wedge of dockmen and other husky East-Enders. The police in Trafalgar Square allowed the procession to leave the square and then fell in behind. The suffragette sympathizers saw the reason for this move when they encountered a battle line of heavy policemen drawn across Whitehall at the Horse Guards, the office of the Inspector-GeneraL The militants rushed this line with such dash and courage that a few of them penetrated the first cordon, where the fight became so fierce that the police used their clubs. Reserves then appeared and Sylvia Pankhurst and five other women and nine men were arrested and taken to the police station in taxlcabs. ' SAMPAN FOUND IN SOUTH Suspicions Movements of Jap Craft Arouses Federal Authorities. SAN DIE GO, Cal., Aug. 10. (Spe clal.) Captain Jack. Martin of the strainer Hekry "3 Scott, which arrived tO;gt- f -m ,F- srett. Voports that wnile several miles off Point Arena he sighted a Japanese sampan filled with Japanese coolies. The suspicious move ments of the craft aroused the atten tion of- the captain and he attempted to get closer to her, but failed, as the sampan outmaneuvered him. At the time she was sighted the sam pan was headed toward the shore and going fast. Captain Martin at once sent a radio message to ihc authori ties at San Francisco. The cutter Mc Cullough, stationed here, was notified and she is now making preparations to head -off the smugglers should they attempt to land. CLOSING LAW HAS DEFECT Cafe Patrons Can Drink All Night If They Order In Advance. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 10. Patrons ot Sacramento cafes In which intoxicat ing liquor is sold will be asked short ly before 2 o'clock tomorrow morning if they desire to order in advance to keep their parties going, so the 2-to6 closing law will not annoy them. It will not be necessary to close sa loons or cafes to comply with the pro visions in the new law when It be comes effective, proprietors say. The law merely prohibits the sale, gift or distribution of intoxlca'ting liquor, it is asserted. If any one desires to remain In the cafe or saloon and drink, what was ordered before 2 A. M., there is nothing in the law to prevent it, say restaurant men, UNPAID ALIMONY HOARDED Fortune Found in Home 'of Man Who Refused to Pay ex-Wife. MAESHFIELD, Or., Aug. 10. (Spe cial.) W. C. Lund, an ex-saHor, who died here this week, evolved a novel scheme of defeating the payment of alimony. His wife obtained a divorce several years ago and he was ordered by the court to contribute regularly to her support. He fought the ali mony vigorously, but in vain. Then Lund terminted his bank account and kept all the income from his little store in a box in his house. After death the box was opened and more than 4000 in currency was found in it. Lund kept -three of his children at home. His wife remarried, but Lund never gave up his money box or opened a bank account that might have been attached for alimony. NAVY YARDS MAY DO WORK Daniels Dissatisfied With Private Bids for Destroyers. WASHINGTON, -"Aug. 10. (Special.) Secretary of the Navy Daniels is con sidering a plan to have the six new torpedo boat destroyers, bids for wnlch were received last Tuesday at the Navy Department from private shipbuilding concerns, constructed at Government yards. All bids opened Tuesday were said today to be unsatisfactory, on ac count of their complicated estimates. It is reported Secretary Daniels will ask bids from all the navy-yards, in cluding Mare Island, for construction of the destroyers. No more than two destroyers will be built in any one yard. RAIN BRINGS RELIEF' TO CORN DISTRICTS Heat Wave in Middle West Broken. GROUND GETS GOOD SOAKING Parts of Kansas Still Hot, but Rain Is Indicated. WICHITA OFFERS PRAYERS Downpour Amounts to Torrent In Central Illinois Other Crops Than Corn Benefited Mil. lions of Dollars. - CHICAGO. Aug. 10. (Special. Heavy rains, which were general from Nebraska to Western New Tork, begin ning last night and continuing today, have broken the heat In portions, at least, of the East Central and West Central states and will be of great benefit to what remains of the corn crop. The rains were steady, without driving winds, and soaked gradually Into the ground. They will revive drooping pastures, wash six weeks' ac cumulation of dust off vegetables gen erally and replenish wells and cisterns that have failed in the long heat siege. Dispatches tonight indicate that the rains were heavy over Northern and Central Illinois and Indiana. In Cen tral Illinois the rain amounted to a torrent. Buffalo reports rain which fell practically without cessation for 40 hours, thoroughly soaking every thing and minimizing .the danger of fires in timber and fields. Corn Belt Get Soakiac. ' Iowa correspondents tonight say light rains fell Saturday night and Sunday forenoon over a large portion of Western and Central Iowa, with lo cal showers, light In character, in the eastarn portToii.'tha :ta.t?,. Tne ruin fell ' slowly ,-frc. .' ;s not r.";uinpanlecl by wind, so it v.-'u. 'be of .great benefit, as it will soak into the ground. Nebraska received a fair rainfall last night over the district between Omaha and Shelton and prospects tonight ara for more rain, over the corn belt. , Eastern Kansas and Western Mis souri sweltered under temperatures of 100 and higher today, but there are ex cellent prospects for rain tonight. Showers fell in Western Kansas in spots from the Colorado line to Hois ington, but were not heavy enough to be of much benefit. Prayer Offered for XUUn. In Wichita and Leavenworth prayers for rain were offered in the churches today. St. Louis reports no rain, but the weather map tonight indicates cloudy and prospects for rain In that district. In the Northwest recent rains have put the crops in good condition in the Da kotas, Minnesota and other states and there is no further immediate appre hension in that quarter. - Experts In the corn trade say today's rains came too late to be of much help to the crop, but say the benefit to hay pasturage and forage generally will be great. It also is admitted that esti mates of damage to corn may have to be revived, as the crop is hardy and has great recuperative qualities. Rain Area Bloving East. That the rainfall is proceeding east ward is indicated tonight by crippled wire service, due principally to rain, as no wind storms are reported from any direction. All dispatches show that much of the corn belt has been fairly well soaked, with prospects for additional rain. Even if the damaged corn is not revived to any appreciable extent, the destruction has been checked and the moisture will mean millions of dollars to other crops and relieve the country of the siege of torridity, which in seme instances has been unbroken for two months. Quite as important, perhaps, will be the replenishing of wells and cisterns, the general cleaning of dust-laden dis- tritcs with the removal of fear of ty phoid and kindred epidemics due to lack of water or to impure supplies. VOTING SCANDAL BREWS Legislators Trying to Force Machine Agent Into Open. CHICAGO. AugT 10.' (Special.) Members of the Butts legislative committee-believe H. W. Barr, agent of the Empire Voting Machine Company, and possibly officers of the company will be forced to put in an appearance in Chicago before the investigation of the Jl, 000, 000 voting machine contract Just concluded. Disclosures which are practically certain to be made when the commit tee takes testimony Monday in Ottum wa, Iowa, will be of such a nature that members of the committee may feel that failure on Mr. Barr's part to de fend himself amounts to an admission of guilt. Sensational charges against Mr. Barr and Chicago politicians will be made by the Ottumwa witnesses If they corroborate the statements in a document in the hands of the commit tee. Although Mr. Barr represented the Empire Company in making the $1, 000. 000 deal, he has refused to come within reach of the committee's ser-geant-at-arms. Mr. Barr Is known to have been in Rochester. N. T., three weeks ago. 9