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VOL. LIU. XO. 16,478. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BUILDING CHANGE UP 10 CONGRESS WHITE RIBBONERS SCORE HOP YARDS PICKERS ARE HELD rXTRlE TO CHRISTIAN STANDARDS. Lane in Doubt as to Policy to Pursue. EFFECT OF DELAY IS FEARED Resolution Might Encounter Opposition in House. LOCAL OPINION AWAITED Treasury Department Tells Senator It Must Build for Postofflce Exclusively Under Appro priation Now Made. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. 16. Senator Lane, in con ference today with officials or tne Treasury Department, was Informed that under the law appropriating $1,000,000 for the Portland postofflce, the Government cannot erect a general office building to accommodate In ad dition to the postoffice. all the other Government offices In Portland which now occupy rented quarters. The De partment holds it must comply strictly with Its statute and construct a build- Ins exclusively for the use of the post office. While some officials with whom he talked regard favorably his proposal and that of Postmaster Myers to use the 11.000,000 available in the erection of a six or eight-story Government building, all agreed they could not alter the original plan unless authority were granted by Congress. Senator la ta Don tit. ' Senator Lane after a conference said he was In doubt whether to offer a resolution authorizing the use of the $1,000,000 for the erection of a large office building, or allow the Treasury Department to go ahead with plans for an exclusively postofflce building. Such a resolution would occasion delay, for It would have to pass both Houses, and with suvi a resolution pending the Treasury Department would not feel disposed to proceed with- the prepara tion of any plans whatever. There has been se much demand In foruana lor the early erection or a postofflce building that Senator Lane is in doubt whether he would be Just! fled In occasioning further delay by a resolution. However, If he finds sen timent in Portland generally favorable to a change in plans, and prefers a general office building to a two-story postofflce. he will Introduce the neces say resolution and press it to early consideration. Temperance Union Decries Industry and Those Who Aid It Reports Read; Officers Elected. MOT WOULD TELL WARSHIPS TO LEAVE "Visits of Vigilance" No Longer Welcome. Mexican President Advises Against Renewal. FAIR ELECTION PROMISED Denouncing all Christians and W. C. T. U. workers who pick hops or work t- .u- . .,, in the rieht standard, the delegates of the Mult- MfMIT IS NEARLY EXPIRED nomah County women s Christian Temperance Union, at their annual con ventinn. held vesterday in the First Christian ChurcTi. unanimously adopt ed a resolution decrying the industry and those who aid its progress. The fact that beer is made from hops la the reason for the denunciation by women wearers of the white ribbon. The morning and afternoon sessions were devoted to reading reports and during the late afternoon the election of officers took place. Mrs. Mary Mai let was unanimously re-elected presi dent. In her annual report. Mrs. Mallett spoke of the great progress made by the unions and of the wonderful op portunities for work along temperance lines In Portland. She praisea city officials for their splendid efforts for law and order, and touched on the pro posed campaign that will be waged In 1914 to make Oregon dry. Early shopping was advocated by Mrs. Lucia Addlton In her report on the department of labor. Sh suggest' ed the establishment of "coffee carts1 to supply good hot coffee to laboring men as a substitute for beer. Reports were made by Mrs. Anna O. Foote. Mrs. J. W. Wilklns. Mrs. s. iv. Northrup, Mrs. Lutitia Ross. Mrs. Lora C. Little, Miss Frances Gotshall, Mrs. Ella HInes, Mrs. C. A. Poney, Mrs. Mat- tie Sleeth, Mrs. J. S. Scott. Mrs. Alice Hanson. Mrs. Kachael Kelly. Mrs. Mary Post and Mrs. J. A. Banner. Message Says Administration of United . States Does Not Truly Represent the People in Treat ment of the Situation. NATURAL GAS DISCOVERED honed for an earlv Molutlnn nt t!iA Hff Well on Olympic Peninsula Will Be ference8 between the two nations and MEXICO CITY. Sept. 16. The only striking feature of the message of President Huerta, read to Congress today, was the declaration that he did not favor a renewal of the permission to warships of other nations to remain In Mexican waters later than nex month. The limit allowed by Mexican law was originally 30 days, but the Mexican Congress recently Increased it to six months. This limit expires next month. General Huerta said the strained dip lomatic relations between Mexico and the United States had caused the Mex ican nation to suffer unmerited af fliction and- had retarded the pacifica tion of the country. Nevertheless he INDEX OF TODAY NEWS Sunk Deeper for Oil. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Sept. 18 (Spe- ial.) Gas sufficient to supply the needs of 200 or 300 families has been found at a depth of 1300 feet at Forks, to see Mexico and the United Slates once more united in bonds of friend ship. American "People" Called Friends. The provisional President drew a dls tinctlon between the attitude of the above the Hoh River in the Olympic Government of the United States and Honae May Delay Question. lie can get such resolution through the Senate without difficulty, but may encounter delay in the House, which has refused thus far to consider local legislation. However, the Senator thinks that. In view of the fact his resolution would not call for any ap propriation, or lead to an Increase of any appropriation already made, but "actually effect saving to the Govern ment, House leaders might consent to its .passage when its purpose was fully explained. Senator Lane will take no action until he hears from the commercial bodies of Portland. CITIZENS' OPIXIOXS DIFFKlt Construction of Inadequate Building, However, Is Opposed. Prominent Portland men were asked last night whether they favored Sen ator Lane's plan to offer a resolution in Congress authorizing the erection of a large office building with the $1,000 000 appropriated for the new Portland Postofflce. with the attending dange of considerable delay, or whether the original plan for a building exclusively for postoffice purposes should be ad hered to. Their replies were: F. S. Myers, postmaster of Portland If the measure appropriating $1,000, 000 for the Portland Postoffice doesn t permit the building of anything but low. shed-like structure of the present prevailing Federal building type. It ought to be changed. I certainly favor the Introduction of the resolution pro posed by Senator Lane. It will en able us to put up a building that would save the Government nearly $100 a day now paid out in this city for rent. The various Government departments in Portland which are now scattered all over could all be housed in this same building, which would also provide thoroughly modern postofflce quarters for years to come. I don't think this resolution would cause any appreciable delay, but 'even if it should It would certainly be Justified. If the Govern ment ties up $1,000,000 here in an old style building that never could be rn larged we wouldn't be any better off in a short time than we are now, for postofflce facilities alone, to say noth. ng of caring for the other Federal de partmcnts. if we had adequate hous ing facilities in Portland we could get the 13th division of the railway mall service, now located in Seattle, with a branch of the dead letter office; the postofflce Inspectors' headquarters for the Northwest, now In Spokane, and the headquarters for . the 11th civil service district, now in Spokane. These three big Federal departments should all be in Portland, and they would be if we had any place to put them. . Such an office building would not cost any (Concluded on Pax X) that of the people of that nation, say lng: "The tenseness of our diplomatic relations with the Government of the United States of America,' although luckily not with the people," bad put Mexico into a state of apprehension. The message was disappointing to those who had expected that President Huerta would deal at some length with recent diplomatic exchanges. This sub ject, however, he said, "being so deli cate and the permanent commission of Congress being already Informed," he passed with a bare mention. The Deputies and Senators in Joint CAR RATE AGREEMENT SET !s s:n f'"ed the"oor J". the. Chamber Peninsula. The well Is said to have been drilled by railroad interests. The gas flows freely and has quite a pres ure. The well will be sunk further in an effort to find oiL Thv- Jefferson " 0 Company No. 1 a-eli.i. near .ie inflfrli of the Hoh. Is down 80 feet and the odor of gas is strong. The Indian OH Company will begin drilling soon. Recently 16.000 acres of reservation land have been leased by individuals and corporations. City Gets 3 Cents a Vehicle Crossing Bridges Since May 3 Last. At a conference yesterday between City Commissioner Daly and President Griffith, of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, an agree ment was reached 'whereby the com pany will pay the city 3 cents for each car operated over bridges of the city from May 3 until the present. This is considerable concession on the part of the company, inasmuch as the orig inal plan was to make the 3 cents a car rate applicable at some later date. Under contracts held on the bridges bv the company the rental was small At the" rate of 3 cents a car the amount due the city will be much greater than the amount which would be due under the provisions of the contracts. were packed, the diplomatic gallery being filled with foreign representatives and their families. The silence, which, prevailed during (Concluded on Page 2.) The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 82 degrees; minimum, 57 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and not so warm; norther ly winds. t Foreign. Huerta would exclude foreign warships making "visits of vigilance" from Mexi can ports. Pajre 1. National. Treasury Department cannot change Post office building to General Federal build ing without Congress' consent. Page 1. Domestic. Witness says Sulzer borrowed extensively and still owes balance. Page Digits and Harris acquitted on subornation of perjury charge, rage 4. James J. Hill is 73 years old. Page 2. Chicago matrons put $"u.OCO annually Into dress. Page 1. Priest confesses to counterfeiting. Page Necklace worth $850,000 is found. Page Democrats seriously concerned by result of Maine election. Page 2. Soeclal nrosecutor charged with belnr in terested In defense of young man accused by woman. Page 4. Thaw lays foundation for appeal to United States Supreme Court, page i. Rival gangs of New York gunmen engage in street battle in New York. Page General Harrison Gray Otis gets bomb through mail. Page 1. Snorts. Pacific Coast League results: Portland Venice O; Sacramento 6, Oakland S (10 Innings): Los Angeles 5, San Francisco 4. Page 8. Northwestern League results: Portland 13. Seattle 2: Spokane 3. Vancouver z; ia coma 4. Victoria 2. Page 8. Richardson defeats Ooss in Irvington Club tennis finals. Page tt. Kllbane wins decision from Walsh. Page 9. McCredle and Hocan declare they are In fight to finish. Page S. Standridge Is leading pitcher. Page 8. Rltchlt. to fight Cross in New York. Page 9. Pacific Northwest. Fight over Speakership expected at Olympla. Page 6. Record attendance expected at Willamette University. Page 6. ' Commercial and Marine. European hop crop estimates sharply duced. Page 19. Wheat firm at Chicago on export sales of Manitoba grain. Page 19. Selling Dressure eliminates early gains In stock market. Page 19. Local firms offer stock feed to Federal . Government. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Firemen's band returns, cheering for home city. Page 14. Temperance Union condemns hop industry Page 1. Multnomah County Fair opens at Gresham, Page IS. Major Mclndoe lauds Port's open-river cam paign. Page 14. Weather report, dates and forecasts. Page 15. Schools make gains In enrollment. Page 12. City bonds Ro at premium at first popular saie. rage i. County may cancel Insurance. ' Page 7. Miss Anita Burns bride at brilliant wed' ding. Page 12. Campaign for Columbia bridge bonds be gins, page i-'. GOTHAM GUNMEN BATTLE IN STREET "THE LURE" IS WITHDRAWN Sliuberts Forestall Action Aimed at "Red Light" Drama in Xew York. NEW YORK, Sept. IS. (Special.) The red ligh, drama. In-New York re ceived a knockout blow today when Lee and J. J. Shubert voluntarily with. drew "The Lure" from the Maxine Elliott Theater, as an acknowledgment of a protest of public decency, and the Henry B. Harris estate has promised to tone down "The Fight," at the Hud son Theater, so that objectionable scenes and dialogues will be eliminated. Both firms pledged themselves to the District Attorney . to make no further attempt to' show the interior of a bawdy house on the stage. The grand Jury was to have reported on "The Lure" and "The Fight" today. Rival Gangs Open Fire in Front of Theater. MATINEE CROWD IS EMERGING Voting in New York Primaries Thought to Be Cause. CHICAGO MATRONS' GOWNS ARE COSTLY FEW WOMEX IX WINDY CITY SPEXD $75,000 AXXUALLY. POLICE IN TAXI CAPTURE Two Sets of Gangsters Shoot From AutosThree Men Escape by Jumping but Four Are Caught. All Thought to Be Repeaters. NEW YORK, Sept. IS. Gunmen, said by the police to be members of rival gangs, whose activity in the primary election today led to the renewal of an old feud, engaged in a revolver duel while seated In two automobiles stand- ing'on upper Broadway just as a near by theater matinee crowd swarmed into the street. The attacking party of seven, after firing on three men in the other cat half a block away and being shot at in return, attempted to speed away, but were overtaken by a traffic patrolman in a taxlcab. Three men jumped from the car and escaped. Four, including the chauffeur, were arrested and locked up. No attempt was made to capture the members of the besieged party. So far as could be learned none of the gunmen was injured. According to the police, the four men under arrest are members of the "Jack Slrrocco gang," and those on whom they opened fire members of the "Hud son Dusters" and the "Rose gang." A search of the captured car revealed nder a rug In the tonneau six pack ages of typewritten slips containing more than 300 names, supposedly voters in the Eighth Assembly -District down town, and the policy . are wock.ag oti the theory that the "Wen arrested are repeaters" who, after voting In the lower part of the city went up to the Fifteenth Assembly District to "work" the primary there in the same way. It became known tonight that the hooting, which resulted in the arrest of four men early in the evening, was the second of the day. In mid-after noon the same two automobiles met on W est Sixty-ninth street and their oc cupants started to "shoot up" each other. Three men are said to have been Injured, escaping before the arrival of the police. While One Hundred Social Leaders Put $50,000 Yearly Into Dress, Factory Girl Spends $200. CHICAGO. Sept. 16. There are a few women In Chicago who spend $75,000 annually in personal adornment, ac cording to an estimate submitted at the semi-annual convention of the Chicago Dressmakers' Club today. The dress makers figured that the average fac tory girl spends $3.84 a week for cloth ing. These figures were arrived at by averaging the estimates made by the various delegates. The table reads: "A few, $75,000. "One hundred social leaders. $50,000. "Ten thousand others, $5000. "Well-dressed club women, $1500. "The suffragist, $500. "The club worker, $500. "The social worker, $300. "The stenographer, $275. - "The shop girl, $250. "The factory girl, $200." Madame C H. Phair, president of the club, declared that many working girls lose money because they don't know how to make their own clothing. BOY SLAYS HUGE BEAR BOMB MA LED IS TO GENERAL OTIS Japanese Servant De tects Powder. PUBLISHER SUSPECTS LABOR Los Angeles Police Believe Mexicans Are Responsible. EXPLOSIVE IS POWERFUL Attempt on Life Is Second in Threo YearsOwner of-Times Attributes Attack to Agencies Friendly to McXamara Brothers. Percy Hill, ot Hoke Point, Wash., Holds Cowlitz Record Shot. Percy, the 20-year-old son of C. S, Hill, of Hoke Point, Wash., in Cowlitz County, shot what is believed to be the largest bear, ever killed in that sec tion, last Sunday morning. The young man had to fire seven shots with his 30-30 rifle to end the life of the monster bruin, which charged him from a distance of 300 feet after his first shot had wounded it The seventh bullet broke its back and laid the animal low when it was within 30 feet. . Percy, in great excitement, ran two miles in 17 minutes to his father's home with word that he had killed "the largest black bear in creation." After the big brute had been skinned and dressed, the meat of its carcass alone weighed 225 pounds. COURAGE. BROTHER. HE STILL LIVES. FIGHT IN BOAT IS FATAL Columbia Kiver Fishermen Irovn When They Full Overboard. ASTORIA. Or.. Sept. 16. (Special.) Matt Pletlla and Emil Hakkanen. two Columbia River fishermen. were drowned in the Columbia River near Desdemona Sands about 3 o'clock this afternoon. With six other men. they were en route across the river jn a fishing boat The two engaged in a scuffle and 'fell overboard, sinking before their com panions missed them. Both were na tives of Finland. Hakkanen left a wid ow and several " children, but Pletlla was not married. ASTORIA TO GIVE $25,000 Port Commission Appropriates Cash to Be Used on Bar. ASTORIA, Or.. Sept. 16. (Special.) The Port of Astoria Commission at its meeting today voted to appropriate $25,000 toward assisting in improving the channel across the bar at the moutii of the Columbia River, provided the Port of Portland subscribes the sum of $475,000 for the same purpose. Formal notice ot the action of the Commission was forwarded to Major Mclndoe. of the United States Engi neers, today. TARDY JUROR DRAWS FINE Judge Davis Assesses $3 Against Man Who Comes Hoar Late. For falling to appear at 1:30 yester day as instructed by the court Adolph Schneider, a Juror, was fined $3 by Cir cuit Judge Davis. Schneider showed up at 2:30. The court considered his ex cuse insufficient. After waiting for him a while the attorneys in the case on trial. Marjorie Mirton against Dr. E. De Witt Con- to proceed with 11 nell, stipulated Jurors. . . ; ill . ''G -, ly XJiiZL III ".o ' A . ..... - ' - ' ' us, in 9y J WARRIORS RUN FOOTRACE Hear-Admiral and Captain Fulfill Wager Made 2 0 Years Ago. . . -4- " ' PORTSMOUTH, England, Sept. 1.-A sprint- of 100 yards was run today by Rear-Admiral Sir Robert K. Arbuthnot and Captain Eric Back, of the Brltis Navy, in fulfillment of a bet made by them 20 years ago. The Captain won by a yard in the excellent time of seconds. iotn officers were serving In th Pacific on board the Warsplte in 189 when the challenge was given and ac cepted for a race to be run on th same date 20 years later. iuu oir neawortu Meux was commander of the Warsplte at th time of the wagen, and was stakehold er today. Rear-Admiral Arbuthnot is 49 years old and Captain Back 48 years. 250 HOTEL GUESTS ROUTED Unconscious Woman Carried Front Burning Building by Firemen. BUFFALO, N. Y.. Sept. 17 (Wedncs day.) Two hundred and fifty persons of the Hotel Brozel were routed out bed shortly after midnight by a fire that swept through an adjoining build ing and set the upper floors of th notei amaze. Many of the guests rushed to the street leaving all thel Deiongings Denind tnem and severa unconscious women were carried to the street by the firemen. The fire in the hotel was extinguished. The los to the hotel Is estimated at $100,000 At 1:30 the flames had spread to a six-story building adjoining that in wmcn tne lire originated. It was feared that this property, valued $100,000, will be a total loss. SAN FRANCISCO IS HOT Mercury ut 105 1-2 Breaks All Rec ords, but Humidity Is XII. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16. (Spe clal.) This was the hottest day ever known In San Francisco, the mercury climbing to 105 V4 in the shade at o ciock in union square, lour and a half degrees above the highest previous mark, scored in 1904. Forecaster Wil son says tomorrow will be equally warm, but by night the usual cool sea breezes will blow again. The city today had no wind from the ocean, hence the heat was the same as in the Interior valleys. Being without humidity. . the heat "caused no suffering among workers. Reports from the country showed temperatures in San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys rang ing from 105 to 110 degrees. FRANCE IS STORM-SWEPT Great Damage Done to Property and There Is Loss of Life. PARIS, Sept. 16. Thunder storms of exceptional violence have swept over France, doing great damage. At Mar seilles the streets ran torrents. Hun dreds of cellars were flooded and mer chandise on the quays was ruined or washed into, the sea. All traffic in the city was suspended for a time. A boat containing a flsli- ng party of six was capsized In the harbor and five persons were drowned. At Stagreve, in the department of Ardeche, and other places, houses were struck by lightning, with .some loss of life. LOt? ANGELES, Sept. 16. For the second time within three years a bomb today placed in Jeopardy the life of General Harrison Gray Otis, owner of the Los Angeles Times building, which was destroyed by dynamite October 10, 1910. That he was not blown to pieces was probably due to the watchful eye of his Japanese servant, who received from the postman an Infernal machine mailed In this city, and called his em ployer's attention to It. The first infernal machine directed at the life of General Otis was found at his residence a few hours after his newspaper plant had been destroyed through the efforts of the McNamara conspirators. The attempt jn his life today was attributed by the General to agencies friendly to those for and whose con spiracy eventuated in the destruction of his newspaper plunt and the killing of 20 men three years ago. But the police and postal authorities believed something might be developed from the theory that the Mexican question had an impelling part in it. Otla Interested In Mexico. GeneraJ. Otis iOiaavily interested in lands 'si., t he Mexican territory of Lower California, where iv years ago Industrial Workers of the World Joined the "direct action" element of Mexicans in an effort to establish a Socialistic commonwealth. A few weeks ago there was another outbreak caused, according to report, by the employment of Chinese in the places of Mexican laborers by ranch ers in Lower California, but General Otis asserted at the time that none were employed by him. The bomb reached "The Bivouac," General Otis' home, at 11 o'clock this morning. It was contained In a small package about five inches long, three Inches wide and two inches deep. It was wrapped In brown paper and bore General Otis' address in what was be lieved to be a disguised handwriting. With other mall, it was given by the postman to the Japanese servunt, who removed the wrapping paper before taking it to General Otis, who was writing in an upper room of his resi dence. He told the General that he thought there' was something suspi cious about the package. General Skeptical at First. "I pooh-poohed the boy's belief at first," said General Otis, "but exam ined the box carefully. I could see parts of matches and black powder. had the boy remove the thing and asked the police department to send a man to my house." Captain E. B. Felts, a powder expert In the police department, took the ma chine to a sparsely inhabited section of the clly near the Los Angeles river and there pried open the box. He found matches fixed to the Inside ot the box in such a way that when opened in the usual way they would have rubbed against pieces of sand paper and ignited. There was also black powder, a small section of fuse. wo fulminating caps and two sticks of 85 per cent dynamite which tore a great holo in the ground. He declared hat its force was sufficient to kill 25 men. The wrappings were given over to postofflce Inspectors, who began an in vestigation. General Otis had "a surmise" only concerning the bomb. 'That surmise," he said, "is that it was sent to me by the devils who want to blow up the Times and me and who re furious because they have failed so long to do so. They may be the same old gang or segments of the same old gang, with the same old animosity." Police Suspect Mexicans. Chief of Police Sebastian inclined to the theory that the bombs had been sent by some person violently opposed to General Otis' newspaper policy with regard to the Huerta administration in Mexico. Chief Sebastian said the act lght have been committed by persons sgruntled because Mexican residents ' Los Angeles celebrated today the 03d anniversary of Mexican indepen- ence. General Otis, who ia a dnxa frltnd of former President Porflrlo Diaz, of Mexico, owns large acreage in the Southern Republic. Ho is largely Interested in the California and Mex ico Ranch & Cattle Company, which owns much land in Lower California and Sonora. Reports from Tuma, Ariz., today, were to the effect that a band of 50 Insurrectos who arrived yesterday at Colonic, on the cast bank of the Colo rado River, 60 miles south of Yuma, hud declared their Intention to "clean up" all the California and Mexico Ranch &. Cattle Company's holdings. 4 1