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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
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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
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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-
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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.
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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.