Jtitritiiif Jj PORTLAND. OREGON, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 7, f913- PRICE FIVE CENTS. " i VflT. T.TTT ."Nil. i i V WEATHER MENACES ON EVE OF SERIES Nation Awaits Cry of "Play Ball!" Today BETTING IS VIRTUALLY EYEN Speculators Force Visitors to Pay Enormous Prices. LINEUPS ARE KEPT SECRET Commission Decides to Let Players Write Bender and Marquard or 3Iathewson Almost Sure to Be Opposing Pitchers. TROBABIT KAIK" JFORECASTi CONDITION'S "UNSETTLED." NEW YORK. Oct. . "Probably fair," w&l the conclulon reached to day by the weather forecaster re garding tomorrow same. Northeast wind are expected, however, and unsettled" atmoapharo eondltlona was the most definite prophecy. NEW YORK. Oct. 6. The staffs 1 set and tomorrow the curtain will rise on the final act of the 1913 baseball drama. Behind the scenes the Phila delphia Athletics and the New York Giants are at their stations ready for the cue that will send them Into the limelight of the world's series. Spectators from all parts of the Uni ted States are ready for the rush on the Polo Grounds and only the menace of the weather man stands between thousands of fans and the fulfillment of their expectations. "Unsettled conditions," was his dubi ous prediction for tomorrow. Players Refuse to Predict. Neither managers nor players will venture a straight prediction as to the result of either the first game 'or" the .series, and their doubts as to the out ibme Is reflected by the wagering. The Athletic supporters In .Philadelphia are i-fferlng 10 to 9 on Connie Mack's teem, while the New York supporters me willing to lay similar odds when baited in their own bailiwick. Professional bookmakers and men' of their type accustomed to figure bet ting propositions In a manner which gives them the edge, offer 9 to 10 with the bettor making his own choice as to the probable winner. There has been less betting than usual. The amounts range from IS to $ SO and many are of the freak variety, both concerning . the pitchers for the opening game, total number of games In the series and similar propositions. Baker's Bat Mentioned. Supporters of Mathewson and Mar quard advanced a score of reasons why Manager McGraw should start their favorite against the Athletics. Fans from Philadelphia smiled and gently Inserted In the arguments a mention of J. Franklin Baker and what his trusty home-run bat did In the series of 1911. In the midst of the turmoil of "fan ning" the players . of the two clubs slipped away early and tried to calm frayed nerves with a snooze that ap peared to be one of the most unattain able things of the series. The mem bers of the New York club retired to their homes several hours before mid night and even the literary charac ters among them dropped pens and pencils In order that the bat might prove effective on the morrow. The entire Philadelphia club, accom panied by a number of "rooters," ar rived In the city shortly after 10 P. M. and retired at once to an uptown hotel. Little information regarding the plan of campaign was forthcoming and apparently both Connie Mack and John McGraw were playing a waiting game so far as final plans and line ups were concerned. Speculators Are Active. While the principal actors In the great climax of the basebe.ll year were wooing sleep the ticket speculators and the baseball public were far more active. Despite the plans and protesta tions of the New York National club of ficials, the New York ticket specula tor proved his right to the title of "king of his craft," for, although there were but 8000 reserved seats sold by the club to a selected list of patrons, a certain percentage of the coupons quickly found their way into the hands ot the ticket vendors, who offered them at prices .many times over their face value. There was the usual cry of "scandal" and "investigation," but old-timers smiled 'and spoke of similar previous experiences which resulted in much talk but no action. Because of the fact that 8000 of the 63,000 seats were disposed of in the advance sale, ' the opportunities for speculators to secure tickets were not as great as in the past. Consequently those that, were available commanded almost fabulous prices. Seats for the three New York games were offered at prices ranging from $50 to 1100, ac cording to local newspapers. Single seats for each game were quoted at $30 each, and found ready purchasers at ten times their original price. Boatoa Club Owner Wroth. James K. Gaftmen, president and owner of the Boston National League club, was one of the first to Interview the speculators. Gaffney applied to the New York club for 46 seats, aa was his privilege as a club owner and - (.Concluded on Pace .) HEIR TO $415,000 FOUND WEEK LATE WOMAN POSIXG AS DAUGHTER OF A. DUVALIi APPEARS. Claim tor California Estate Made Few Days After Property Is Sold for State. OAKLAND, Cal, Oct. 6. Interest In fh. sale laBt Saturday of the famous Alexander Duvall estate, valued at nearly half a million dollars, .was re vived here today, when Public Admin istrator Mehrmann received a telegram from Attorney Warnocke, of Chicago, Tinr tiia hi. client. Amelia Duvall Stevens, the long-missing heiress to the big estate, had just learned that she was sought In connection wltn tne cis nnaltion of the nronertv. Th. ilnt of the nubile auction of the property, totaling nearly I300,oou. will revert to the state, owing to me failure of the public administrator to locate the missing daughter or tne ec centric old man. There still remains ntiioM nronertv valued at about $115,- 000 and this will go to the daughter in the event of her producing satisiactory proof of her relationship to Alexander Duvall. The arlrl was cast off by her father In 1896 because of her romantic mar- risK. tn Thaddens Stevens. On the death of Duvall, last April, a diligent search was made In the united estates sn rnTiada. for the daughter, and It was only when it became the generally- accepted belief that she was oeaa tnat the valuable estate was put under auc tion. TIM WOODRUFF RELAPSES Xew Tork Political Leader's Condi tion Reported Serious. vnRff Oct. 7. Timothy L. Woodruff, who was stricken at the fusion notification meeting a week ago niih what was declared to be paraly sis, suffered a relapse Sunday after- nnnn and was said to be In a more serious condition tonight when he wa revived after being In a state or coma for 30 hours. His wife and son are in constant at tendance. It is learned that the ar- tat-iaa nn th rts-ht side of his head hardened, thus causing paralysis of his left side and that tne anactt was brought on by a stroke of apoplexy. WEST, OLCOTT, KAY SUED Attorney-General 4 Brings $16,000 Damage Action for State. bit.hm Or 'Oct. 6. CSpeclal.) Cir- ..nit .Tiidee Kelly having sustained the demurrer to the suit of Attorney-Gen eral Crawford against Governor West, Secretary of State Olcott and State Treasurer Kay for alleged wrongful ex penditure ot about $18,000 of the pen itentiary revolving fund, the Attorney General today filed an amended com- niaint. charging that the state had been damaged in that amount. Attornev-General Crawford is con fident he has a cause of action against th defendants. It is the Intention to appeal to the Supreme Court; no mat ter which side wins in tne circuit Court. DRILLERS TAP OIL AND GAS Courier Brings Xews to. Aberdeen of Find Near Hon River. ABERDEEN. Wash., Oct. 6 (Spe cial.) Oil and gas in considerable quantity haa been struck by the Wash ington Oil Company in its well at Forks, north of the Hoh .River, ac cording to a dispatch brought here by a courier today. At a depth of 1400 feet the gas was so plentiful, that sheets of flame shot high t-ver the well when it was ignited. The oil seepage is very heavy, but a pool of petroleum has not been struck so far. Drilling by the Indian Oil Company at Tahola, on the Quin ault Indian reservation, started this morning. KAISER GIVESWIDOW HALF Emperor of Germany Compromises on $800,000 Beqnest to Him. BERLIN, Oct. 6. Emperor William agreed today to a compromise in connection with the estate of $800,- 000 left to him by Herman Knorr, a patriotic but eccentric wood Kausch- wlta. The Emperor has consented to take one-half and allow the widow to keep the remainder. PANAMA TOWN DESTROYED Earthquake Shakes Down Village and Is Felt at Colon. PANAMA, Oct. 6. The village of Tomosi, In the Western part of the Re public, according to a report as yet unconfirmed, was totally destroyed by an earthquake on Saturday. Shocks were felt both here and at Colon the same day. Tomosi had a population of 300 per sons. . MENAGERIE BEASTS KILL Austrian Government to Send Men After Wild Animals. VIENNA, Oct. 6. The destruction of flocks and herds in the mountains of Styria. Austria, by a pack of wolves, hyenas and lions, which escaped from a menagrle last month, has been so enormous that the Austrian govern ment has ordered the organization of an expedition to kill the wild beasts. BRANCHES OF PARTY AIM TOWARD UNITY Convention in 1914 Is Becoming Likely; FIGHT CENTERED ON RULES 'Get-Together' Plans Are Out lined by Cummins. DELEGATES CHIEF ISSUE Belief Is Republicans and Progres sives Can Be Harmonized If Power of Convention to Rule Itself Is Taken Away. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. Senator Cum mins outlined today in part the reform plans of the so-called "conciliation com mittee" of Republicans and Progres sives which hopes to bring about the holding of a National Republican con vention early In 1914. , The change In the representation of Southern states in the National con vention Is a -secondary matter In the programme of the committee. With the added support of many Republican leaders who did not participate last Spring In the "get-together" conference in Chicago, they will Insist that the control . of the Republican National committee over seating of delegates In a National convention be abolished. Seating; of Delegates Chief Issue. "The chief Issue in this fight" Sena tor. Cummins said today, "Is that In volving the method of selecting and seating delegates in the National con vention that nominates the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate. , We shall Insist that the present rules be so modified and reconstructed that the Republican National committee will no longer have the power to make up a temporary roll of .delegates or pass on the credentials of , state .delegates be fore they are seated in the convention. "Where states have primary laws that govern the election of delegates It will be an easy matter to provide by party rule that the certificates Issued by local election officials shall be final evidence entitling the delegates to seats in the convention. Where such laws do not ex,lst, however, I believe that Re publican authorities in each state, either the state committee or a special board, Bhould pass on all contests and settle the eligibility of delegations be fore they go to the National conven tions. "We shall insist that - some such change as this be made, so that the (Concluded on Page 2.) NOW INDEX CF TODAY NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 53 degrees ; minimum, 47 aegrees. TODAY'S Rain; southwesterly winds. Foreign. Raging militants fight policemen who arrest Miss Annie Kinney. Page i. National. Senator Lane takes up Celllo power plant plans with reclamation heads, page 2. Domestic Fugitive vagrant, now rich and married, re- turna to complete sentence. Page 1. Police declare Spencer falsified In telling of 19 murders. Page 6. Attorney for Sulzer compares him to Apostle Paul. Page 2. Get-together plans for Republicans outlined by Cummings. Page 1. Helresa to Z415.0O0 estate appears week too late. Page 1. F ports. Weather lis menacing on eve of world's series. Page 1. -Portland fans pull for New York Giants. Page 6. Pitching statistics show five Beavers above .600 mark. Page 7. Seals' chance to finish in first division Is good. Page 1. "We're right, that's all," says Connie Mack on eve of big series. Page 6. Pacific Northwest. Club women meet at Hood River. Page 8. Woman is elected City Treasurer at Rose burg. Page 12. Alfalfa apostles spread gospel fA Yakima Valley. Page 5. Nome devastated by storm and fire. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Broader- demand for hops gives market strength. Page IT. Free wheat scare used by Chicago bears to depress prices. Page 17. Stock market under pressure and declines are general. Page 17. Major Mclndoa ordered to leave for Manila in December. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Vacation earnings of high school students total big amount. Page 4. As result of competition Portland lighting bill will be reduced 1 20,000. Page 11. Industrial and Historical Pageant planned .for "bridge day," October 23. Page 1. Pruning knife to go deep on budget esti mates. Page 11. Rural babes carry off many honors at State Fair. Page 10. Multnomah Club must psy taxes. Page 18. Postal Telegraph Company wins right-of-way suit. Page 4. Telephone companies - answer Government suit. Page 12. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Irvlngton Parent-Teachers' Association to meet tomorrow. Page 10. Remedial Association plans whirlwind cam paign for subscriptions. Page 4. $200,000 PAID IN TAXES Estimate of Delinquency for Second Half of Year $10,000. Delinquent taxes for the second half will amount to but little more than $10,000, said Deputy Huckaby last night after his office closed. About $200,000 was collected yesterday, about 1500 persons appearing In person to pay their taxes and mora than, double that number remitting through the mails. . - In addition to the checks that were received yesterday, another flood Is ex pected tttJay, ana all letters post marked October 6 will be treated as received yesterday and so credited. i Diplomatic dominations Due. ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. President Wilson expects to send to the Senate this week the nomination of H. M. Pindell, a newspaper editor of Peoria, 111., to be Ambassador to Russia, and that of Mayor Brand Whltlock, of To ledo, to be Minister to Belgium. There is still a possibility that William F. McCombs, Democratic National chair man, will be nominated for Ambassa dor to France. TOR THE GREATEST OF GAMES. RAGING MILITANTS FIGHT POLICEMEN Miss Annie Kenney Is Again in Prison. ARREST CAUSES A WILD RIOT Suffragette Leader Captured While Planning Hostilities. OFFICERS USE MAIN FORCE Shrieking Women in Hall, While Trying to Protect Leader, Are Scattered About Like Ninepins. Clothes of Many Are Torn. LONDON. Oct. 6. The militant suf fragettes were deprived of one of their leaders. Miss Annie Kenney, who was arrested on the platform of a London music-hall in the course of a meeting today to mark the recommencement of hostilities. Miss Kenney was released from prison after a hunger strike two months ago. She was undergoing a term of 18 months' Imprisonment for conspiracy. Miss Kenney had just opened her speech with the words, "I hear there are detectives In the "wings,' " when a squad of policemen dashed out on the platform in flying wedge formation. Policemen Scatter Women. The women seated around Miss Ken ney tried to get between her and the policemen so as to give their leader a chance to escape, but the policemen scattered the women about like nine pins and caught Miss Kenney just as she was preparing to leap from the platform into the orchestra. As Miss Kenney was seized yells of protest arose from the hundreds of women filling the hall. There was a wild din accompanying the short but fierce struggle between women who endeavored to rescue Miss Kenney and the. officers who had ' her la custody. She was rushed to a waiting taxicab, which started off after . a final sharp skirmish to Holloway Jail. Flgffct In Street Fierce. The scene In the street In front of the music-hall was of the wildest de scription. The women fought and struggled furiously, and their torn dresses and the rips in the policemen's tunics testified to the fierceness of the scrimmage. One of the women threw herself in front of the wheels of the cab. Others attempted to climb through tho win dow, and the shrieking militants had to be pulled off by main force. Eventually a solid phalanx of police- (Concluded on Page 2.) FUGITIVE VAGRANT RETURNS WEALTHY ESCAPED PRISONER STRIKES IT RICH IX ALASKA. With 30 Days of Sentence Yet to Serve, William Walker, Now Mar ried, Gives Up to Police. OAKLAND, Cal., Oct. 6. In Feb ruary, 1912, William Walker, serving three months on the Alameda County chain gang for vagrancy, escaped with 80 days of his sentence yet to run. To day he returned, married and wealthy, and surrendered himself to the central police station. He explained that he had gone to Alaska and struck It rich, but that the cloud of his unexpired term had both ered his conscience. He asked if he could pay a fine and escape going to Jail, but tho City Attorney found that the sentence called for serving time. Walker declared his willingness to be locked up. During the next 30 days Walker will be extended every favor possible and will be made a prison trusty. His wife will Be given the privilege of visiting him each day. SCHOOLS MAKE GOOD GAIN Final Registration Census Shows At tendance of 2 7,537. The final registration census for this half year In the public schools of Port land was taken yesterday, this being the fourth week of the year, and the total 'was 27,687. Although the registration on the opening day of the year was light, the attendance quickly caught up and yesterday's figures showed an advance of 3873 over the figures of the opening day. Without exception the schools of Portland show now an Increase of at tendance over last year, although sev eral new schools have been established. The advance in the registration over that of last year at the fourth week is 1149. LAZY HUSBANDS EARN $422 Amount' Will Be Divided Among Families at Seattle SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 6. (Special.) Sheriff Cudhee's report on the work of the lazy husbands at' the county stockade, north of Ballard, filed today with the County Commissioners, shows a total of $122.25 earned by the prison ers during September, to be distributed to their wives and" minor children. The report is used as- a voucher and war rants are Issued to the wives tor the amounts reported earned, which vary from $87.50 to 14.: . . - : ' ' . The men are credited with from 31 to $1.50 per day. according to the size and necessities of their families. The current month's report. It is said, will show much higher earnings. DESIGNS ON FLAG SCORED Veterans and Auxiliary Organiza tions Protest Proposed Change. The plan which is now pending be fpre Congress to alter the American flag is strongly opposed by the Grand Army of the Republic organizations. The Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, of Wlnslow Meade . Circle, No. 7, meeting at the Courthouse yes terday, also passed resolutions of dis approval of the Idea. The proposed resolution Is denounced as "un-American and unpatriotic and every patriotic citizen in Oregon and the United States Is urged to enter pro test to the Representatives in Con gress by addressing personal communi cations condemning such a resolution." ROYAL TILT EMBARRASSES Kaiser's Envoy Will Try to Mend Matters With Cumberland. RF.RLW. Oct. 6. The controversy be tween the royal houses of Hohenzollern and Guelph has assumed a form highly embarrassing both to Emperor wniiam t.na nuke of Cumberland, as well as to the imperial officials, owing to indiscretions of the Hanover legitimists and the amount of attention the affair has attracted. The Emperor's brother-in-law. Prince Adolph of Schaumburg-Lipp, went to day to Gmunden as the Emperor's en voy to attempt to bring about an agree ment. His visit was officially an nounced as a hunting trip with the Duke of Cumberland. RAIN PLEASES PEINDLETON Sheepmen Fear Snow in Hills Will Delay Exit of Sheep. . PENDLETON. Or.. Oct. 6 (Special.) The heaviest rain storm Pendleton haa seen in many months is being ex perienced tonight. The downpour is causing general re joicing among all classes, with a single exception of the sheepmen. It Is feared by them that the storm in the moun tains has taken the form of snow and will, therefore, render more difficult the task of bringing out their sheep. The growers of grain are the ones who will receive the greatest amount of benefit from the precipitation. RUSSIAN PALACE GETS MUD Thousand Cases to Be Shipped for Czarevitch, Presumably. ODESSA, Oct. 6. (Special.) One thousand cases of mud from the salt lake baths near this city have been ordered for shipment to the imperial palace at Malta. It is understood that the mud is to be used in the treatment of the malady from which tho Czarevitch is suffering. BLIZZARD hht AfiU DEVASTATING NOME Flames Rage in Ruins of Mining Camp. PROVISION DEPOT DESTROYED Gale Drives Raging Seas Into City Built on Sand. 5C0 BUILDINGS TUMBLE Men and Women Labor in Icy Water to Save Enough Food to Sus tain Life Famine Is Feared. Vessels Pile on Beach. NOME, Alaska, Oct . Fire Is com pleting the destruction of Blizzard wrecked Nome tonight. Following a night and day of terror, 24 hours of the worst Arctic storm that ever visited Alaska's most famous min ing camp, flames started in the ruins of wrecked buildings and at a late hour tonight the city seems doomed. The Pacific Cold Storage plant, in which is stored the chief supplies of Winter 'provisions. Is burning. This plant contains virtually all of the meat in Nome. Flrehouaea Swept Away. It is impossible to cope with the flames.- All of the f ire-fighting ap paratus 'was destroyed by the storm and the waterworks. also Is out of com mission. The firehouses and their con tents were swept away by the gale. Front street is a seething mass of wreckage Into which ice-laden seas are breaking. Hundreds of homeless persons are struggling against wind and wave in an effort to collect enough food from the debris to sustain life for themselves and families for a day or two. Receding seas are carrying away wrecked homes and store buildings with their contents. None of the buildings on the spit, that part of the city virtually "built upon the sands." remain standing and a scoro of fires are plazing at different places in the ruins. Sand-Spit Residents Cat Off. Persons who remained on the spit are unable to reach the mainland, as the high seas have made an Island of that part of the camp. Front street is a sea of floating de bris. Not a house Is standing on this thoroughfare. More than 500 homes and business buildings are destroyed. Telephone and electric light service went out of commission early last night Newspapers and other plants depending on electric power have sus pended. It is estimated that the loss will reach $1,600,000. Famine May Follow. , So great was the destruction of pro visions that It Is feared a famine will follow. Men and women, standing waist deep in the Icy waters of Bering Sea, la bored all night In an effort to save some of their household goods. Sweeping in from the sea, the wind backed water and ice above the foun dations of all houses in Front street The gale completed the destruction and by morning not a building was standing on the waterfront. Suffering from the cold was Intense, although no loss of life has been re ported. All small boats in the harbor were piled on the beach and destroyed. The steamers Victoria and Corwln escaped by running to the open sea. The fate of Candle, a camp 100 miles north of Nome, is unknown, as tele phone lines along the beach fell with the first blast. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. The revenue cutter Bear is now en route from Un alaska to Nome. No official report has reached here regarding the storm, which wiped out the Alaskan city, but the Bear is expected to reach Nome in a day or two and probably will make a report of the needs of tho people. POSTMASTER FISK TO QUIT Official Who Defied' Burleson to Resign Voluntarily. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 6. Arthur C. Fisk, postmaster, who four months ago announced his determination to resist the efforts of Postmaster-General Burleson to remove him from office following his refusal to resign, de clared tonight that he would resign voluntarily soon. Flsk expects to leave San Francisco In 'December to take charge of the es tate left by the late F. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin. DANIELS WILLASK INQUIRY Navy Head to Deal Drastically in Cases of Drunkenness. WASHINGTON. Oct 6. Secretary Daniels will Insist on an official re port on the case of Ensign Chevalier, one of the Navy aviators arrested In Baltimore after running down two boys with an automobile. The Secretary also announced that he proposes to deal drastically with cases of drunkenness among Naval officers.