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K VOL. LIU. "SO. 16,511. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V V UNITED STATES TO WARN ALL NATIONS Interference in Mexico Not Wanted. FRANCE MAKES DISCLAIMER Britain Denies Authenticity of Carden Interview. DIAZ MAY RECEIVE AID Predicament of Candidate Who Is Prevented From Making Cam paign, Excites Attention of Officials at Capital. WASHINGTON. Oct. 24. The United States Government Is preparing to no tify the nations of the world gener ally that any Interference In Mexican affairs will be regarded as unfriendly to this government. President Wilson. Secretary Bryan and Counsellor John Bassett Moore, of the State Department, have exchanged ideas on what the proclamation to the world should express. It will be com municated to foreign governments everywhere. In line with the policy es tablished earlier of keeping other na tions informed of every step taken ia its handling of the Mexican problem. Policy to Be Defined. The proclamation also will serve. It is expected, as a definition of the policy of the United ..States toward the de facto authorities in Mexico, explaining the principle that recognition can only be given to governments on this hem isphere founded on law and order. Two things. It is known, have con tributed to the determination of the Government to define Its policy the presentation by Sir Lionel Carden, Brit ish Minster to Mexico, of his creden tials immediately after Huerta had proclaimed himself dictator and the dispatch of several war vessels to Mex , lean waters. ' $ The British embassy here today,-at the direction of the British foreign office officially advised Secretary Bryan that the British government pronounced as unauthentic the now famous Interview credited to Sir Lionel Carden, expressing the view that. the United States did not understand con' ditiona In Mexico. ..... France Disclaim Vnfrirndllness. Another significant Incident tonight was the assurance from Ambassador Jusserand to the State Department that the French government In sending a warship to Mexican waters did not Intend to embarrass the United States. If the powers Indicate further un willingness to embarrass the United States, this Government may withhold Its pronouncement, but some officials are of the opinion that sooner or later - such a declaration, which they regard as tantamount to reaffirmation of the principle of the Monroe Doc trine, would be made. The disposition ot the high officials of the Government tonight was to await developments of the next 48 hours before making a move. Presl dent Wilson bad some doubt about going to Mobile, Ala., to deliver an address on Monday before the Southern Commercial Congress, but he told friends tonight he probably would go. He goes tomorrow to. Philadelphia to make an address at the Congress Hall celebration, and should there be ex traordinary developments he may not make the southern trip. Huerta'a Announcement Discounted. Secretary Bryan was In frequent con ference with the President today. Mr. Bryan called attention to General Huerta's promise to the diplomatic corps that even if his friends voted for him next Sunday he would not accept the Presidency, as it would be useless for him to succeed himself. Inasmuch as President Wilson in a note recently announced that the United States re garded the assumption of dictatorship by Huerta as a violation of the prom ises for a constitutional election, the result of this election is not believed to have any material effect upon the American policy. The predicament of General Felix Diaz, one of the candidates for the Presidency, who remains isolated in Vera Cruz, apprehensive of danger if he tries to make a political campaign. excited the attention of officials h?re. who are determined to give bim refuge if necessary. The position of the Ad ministration with respect to all candi dates is . that they should not be molested in any way. COURT WILL tPHOLD HUERTA Opinion Declaring All Acts Legal Now Being Prepared. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 24. President H.-erta is to be upheld for all the apt; of his administration, and his eleva tion to the Presidency is to be shown as legal, through an opinion that Is being prepared by judges of the Su preme Court. Several of the judges have been searching the - records for precedents and applying them to the acts of the executive It Is expected the opinion will be endered by Judge Demetrlo Sodl and probably concurred in by one or two other members of the supreme bench. The opinion. It Is said, will deal chiefly with the dissolution of Con gress, and doubtless will show that . v Concluded on P axe ILi. 1 ALIEN WIFE OF ANY CITIZEN MAY VOTE OREGON ATTORNEY - GENERAL DEFINES WOMAN'S EIGHTS Civil Status, Though She 3Iay Not Be Naturalized, Held Same as That of Husband. SALEM, Or, Oct. 24. (Special.) Attorney-General Crawford today held that a marrieu woman, although not naturalized. Is vested with the right ot suffrage if her husband Is natural ized or is a native citizen. The opin ion was the result of numerous let ters having been received by Mr. Craw ford on the subject. "TVi naturalization laWS Of the United States," said the Attorney-Gen eral. "provide that when a woman be comes the wife of a citizen her civil status becomes the same as that of her husband. Therefore In this state she Is entitled to vote. An alien woman who marries a citizen cannot take out naturalization papers, but must fol low tha status of her husband. Of course, in order to vote these women have to register and conform to other minor reaulrements the same as men. Attorney-General Crawford also held that under the state constitution an alien who makes his declaration to be come a citizen before a Circuit Judga one year before an election Is entitled to vote at that election. SQUIB TAKEN AS WANT AD Concern Would Furnish Blue Prints to Find Postorfice Stamp Window. Subsequent to the published com plaint of Postmaster Myers that the public has been overlooking the new stamp window that he had Installed for its benefit, the suggestion was made in a paragraph on the editorial page of The Oregon lan that "the man who would buy stamps at the postofflce needs a blueprint to find the window. Yesterday Postmaster Myers received a bid from a local map and blueprint concern offering to furnish blueprints on paper for 2V4 cents a square foot. and blueprints on cloth for 10 cents a square foot. "These people are surely keen for business," said Mr. Myers, "but they should understand that the fellow who writes editorial paragraphs does not expected to have his little flings at things taken seriously." BANKING FIGURES GROWING Clearings at Portland. $14,972,000 tor Week, Gain of 20.C Per Cent. Portland banks are doing a big bus! ness If the volume of clearings can be taken as evidence. Total clearances handled by the "banks in the week ended Thursday of this week aggregated ?14.972k000. an increase of 20.2 per cent compared with the corresponding week of last year. Most of the Important cities of the country show Increase, especially those on the Coast. Seattle cleared $16,273,- 000, a gain of 23.9 per cent. Los Ange les and Spokane also showed substan tlal trains. San Francisco suffered a slight loss. Clearings for the entire country are showing a good advance from week to week. JANITORS TO GO TO SCHOOL Caretakers of Educational Buildings to Hear Problems Explained. A school for janitors will be opened tonight at the Buckman Schoolhouse. at which the 57 public school janitors of Portland will begin a course of In struction in the practical handling of the various features of their work. The first lesson will deal with the thermostats and the regulation of the heat in the school buildings, and will be explained by George C. Reed, heat ing and ventilation engineer for the public schools. School Clerk Thomas Superintendent of Properties -Naramore and School Director Plummer will also be speakers. Meetings will be held monthly and experts will explain the problems ot school work. WOMEN TO WORK IN JAIL Prisoners Will Make Linen for Beds In City Bastlle, Women prisoners In the City Jail are to be set to work at once making sheets, pillow slips and other bed clothing for the beds In all wards of the City Jail. Mayor Albee and City Purchasing Agent Wood yesterday signed requisitions for two sewing ma chines and a supply of cloth' with which to start the work. - Heretofore the women prisoners have been kept in the jail with no work to perform. It Is the opinion of city offi cials that the wmen will be better sat isfied if they have something to do and the city will save considerable money In the cost of bed clothing. LIFE RESTORER GEMS GONE Woman Misjudges Distance In Jump ing From Launch to Wharf. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24. When re turning today from a visit to the war ship fleet, Mrs. Nellie Meyers tried to leap from a launch to the Washington street dock, but misjudged the distance and plunged into the bay. Besides be ing nearly drowned, Mrs. Meyers lost a gold mesh bag containing $500 In money and jewels. It was necessary to use the respira tory apparatus at the harbor hospital to revive her. Little hope is held out I I for the recovery ot her valuabfbs, ' DEATH TAKES TOLL OF MINE RESCUERS Helmet Men Smotherin Gas-Tainted Depths. TRAINED MEN TAKE PLACES Volunteers Waver When First Fatalities Are Announced. DEATH LIST NOW IS 263 Belief Prevails No Life Remains In New Mexico Colliery Condition of Those Leading Rescue Work Gives Concern. DAWSON. N. M., Oct. 24. The most tragic 12 hours of the disaster in Stag Canon mine No. 2 since the explosion Wednesday passed tonight. Not until today did tne dead claim the living those sturdy, silent men who uncom plainingly have donned their helmets and oxygen tanks and walked unfalter ingly through the thousands of feet of death-lined chambers and entries and then, just at the beginning of the day which had been fraught with possibili ties for the throngs of gaunt women, ever watching the man way, came the news that, two of the lifesaving crew were dead. Instantly that which might have been was changed. With few exceptions the remaining helmet men wavered and re fused to return to the work of rescue. Trained Cre-nra Enter Breach. Then came the trained rescue crews from the United States rescue service car, which had been hastened forward from the Kansas coal fields with all the power of man and steam. Without stopping for questions, waiting only long enough for instructions from their director, J. C. Roberts, these men, under the leadership of C. S. Stevens, hurried into the mine. For six hours, stopping for refilled oxygen tanks, these men fought, until they finally emerged with the bodies of two dead helmet men. An hour before, two miles from the camp, funeral service was being read over 36 bodies of dead miners placed In coffins In the temporary morgue. All through the services, which were mer cifully brief, could be heard the chant of the Austrian widows, the hysterical j cry of Mexican women, "the moans of Greeks and the sorrowful sobbing of the little group of American women who so suddenly had been bereft of their own. Doable Fnneral Service Held. Father Collier, of St. Joseph's Parish, (Concluded on Page 2.) ... j ! I INDEX CF TOWS NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, degrees; minimum. 50 degrees. TODAYS Fair, northwesterly winds. Foreign. British editor thinks Anglo-Saxons should not quarrel over ltln-American Page 2. Sanatoria for tuberculous patients found to effect cures. Page 7. Roosevelt in Rio de Janeiro defends Mon roe Doctrine. Page o. National. Wilson refuses to accept single bank cur rency nlan. Page 1. United States to warn all nations not to Interfere in Mexico. Page 1- Senator Bradjr urges union of all Western members of Congress. Page 15. ' PrA,lrlont' m,mlnfl nrnmlse trouble tOT Democrats. Page 2. i: Domestic episcopal "bodies divided on negro question. Page 7. Death takes toll of mine resellers. Page i. Head of Steel Corporation says "mud-sling in-" has made capital timid. Page 2. New typhoid serum announced as giving nope or aborting disease, page o. Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks dies. Page 7. Mrs. Eaton's witnesses say Admiral was intemperate. Page 8. Rockefeller gift of $1,500,000 to John Hop. Kins announced. Page 1. Escaped convicts surrounded near Folsom expected to give battle. Page 4.. Sport. Coast Leasrue results: Portland 2. Sacra- mento 8 12 innings) : San Francisco 2, Venice 1; Oakland 6. Los Angeles 3. Page 9. Two big gridiron games on in Northwest College Football Conference today. Page . Columbia University eleven wins fast game from Jefferson High. Page 8. Real gridiron test comes for big Eastern college elevens today. Page . Washington State clashes with Multnomah eleven this afternoon. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Citizen's wife, though not naturalized, may vot.e In Oregon, says Attorney-oenerai. Page 1. Addison Ttennett writes of Grants Pass, tell ing progress and predicting big luiure. Page 8. Employers fear minimum wage law will make many women jobless, page a Wounded hunter carried for days through snow. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. All hides and leather markets are strong. Page 18. Condition of Winter wheat crop best ever known. Page ja. Stock market closes with prlees advancing. Page 18. Colder weather helps distributive trade. Page 18. Campaign on rats Is Dr. Marcellus1 plan. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Southern Pacific officials will Inspect Wil lamette Valley lines. Page 18. Mrs. Arlstene Felts new president Mothers' Congress. Page 3Z. Commissioner Dleck's salary roll target tot budget pruners. Page 38. Morrison home is scene of dancing party. Page 12. Man wanted for wholesale swindles in Northwest, arrested. Page 14. Couple at Oregon Hotel marry with stran gers as wedding guesta page i. Portland business men admire construction work on new Hood River, road. Page 14. Postmasters are instructed to take Interest in good roads.. Pago 1. . North Portland workers prepare for bridge banquet. Page Weather report, data and forecast. Page'15. RULER'S DOUBLE WARNED Actor Who Resembles' German Em peror Must Change Makeup. BERLIN, Oct. 24. (Special.) Be cause the actor Paul, playing in the comedy, ."The Gay Capital," looks too much like the Emperor, the police have ordered him to change his makeup so as not to resemble the Emperor. NO DOUBT, TEDDY IS SEEING THINGS IN . . . . . . . . . . ...... ..... ....... .a... . ....... ..v WILSON STRONGLY OPPOSES ONE BANK Pending Currency Bill Again Indorsed. EXPEDIENCY ISSUE IS RAISED Opposition to President May .Yet Be Abandoned. ADMINISTRATION IS FIRM Official Statement From White House Denies Recession From Position "Which Whole Country Understands." WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. Whether there shall be one Federal reserve bank with branches throughout the United States or several banks as pro vided for in the Administration bill promised to be the chief Issue of the Anal currency reform fight In the Senate committee that Is to open Mon day. The hearings of the committee will be concluded tomorrow night and the committee members will begin again the arduous task of endeavoring to agree on a revision of the Glass bill that will prove acceptable to Presl dent Wilson and the House. The President made it known in emphatic terms today that he was op posed to the central bank plan as sug gested yesterday by Frank A. Van' derllp, of the National City Bank of New Tork, and as Indorsed Informal ly by many members of the Senate committee. He reiterated through Sec retary Tumulty that the Glass-Owen bill, with its system of 12 regional reserve banks related only through the functions of one Federal reserve board sitting at Washington, was "admirably suited" to the needs of the country. Issue of Expediency Arises. It was apparent tonight that the course of several members of the com mittee probably would be determined Anally by the' 'attitude taken by Presi dent Wilson and other party leaders as to the expediency of the single bank plan. Senators O'Gorman, Hitch cock and Reed, Democrats, all favor the Idea of a single Federal reserve band as opposed to many separate ones, but It 1s believed that their advocacy of the plan may be abandoned In com mittee If the Democratic leaders insist that such a measure could not be passed. Senator Reed urged the President to. day to withhold judgment on the single bank Idea until its details had been (Concluded on Page G.) BRAZIL. f MtoStSef I: DOES CHAUTAUQUA CALL F. S. MYERS? NOTICE FROM WASHINGTON IS AVORRY TO POSTMASTER. Officials Asked to Help Good Roads. That's What It Says But Is That All? Whether or no he has received a covert hint that he and others of his official station are expected to take to the Chautauqua platform next Summer, Is a question that has been wrinkling the classic brow of Postmaster Frank S. Myers since yesterday morning, when he received a certain notice from A. M. Dockery, Third Assistant Post master-General. "Postmasters of all classes are here by notified that It is the desire of the Postofflce Department that they co operate with stato and county author ities In the endeavor to Improve the condition of the public roads." Portland's chief stamp-dispenser is already deep In Sam Hill pamphlets and that portion of Roman history re lating to the building of the Appian Way. "Postmasters, as representatives of the National Government, are expect ed to manifest as active an interest In this movement as is consistent with their official duties," the notice goes on. The mind of Postmaster Myers leaps to the conclusion that in the business like communication of the Third As sistant Postmaster - General may be concealed an Intimation that the Ides of next July should see him preaching the good roads gospel at Gladstone Park and other places where Chau tauquans are wont to foregather to re adjust, verbally, the universe. WEDDING JS REPORTED New York Times Says Miss Irish man Is Married to Duko of Croy. NEW TORK. Oct. 2i. Miss Nancy Leishman. daughter of the ex-American Ambassador to Germany, was married to the Duke of Croy on Friday In the Cathoiio Church at Geneva, Switzer land, according to the Times this morn ing, which says that the fact became known here through friends of the family. Only a few Intimate friends in New Tork, It Is declared, were aware of the date of the ceremony, which had been announced for October 23. The change had been made, the paper said, on ac count of the opposition of the German Emperor to the marriage. It is de clared that the Duke of Croy's rel atives also were opposed to his match with a woman not of aristocratic birth. RUMMAGE SALE PROMISED City Will Give Bargains In ''Irons" ani Other Accumulations. If you want any suitcases, blanketB, guns, watches, clothes, shoes, or any one of a thousand other second-hand articles, be on hand at the police sta tion next week when City Auditor Bar bur holds a public auction of all the uncalled-for articles now In charge of the police. All will be sold to the high est bidders, preparatory to the removal of the police station to its new home at Second and Oak streets. The articles have been accumulating for years. Mayor Albee yesterday de elded that It would be useless and ex pensive to carry them all over to the new station. The Auditor has not de cided upon U'e date definitely. QUERY! WHY IS A CACTUS? Australia Would Know if Plant Is Popular American Fodder. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. Australia has sent two scientists. Dr. R, Harvey Johnston and Henry Try on, to this country to discover "why is a cactus and wherefore?" The Australians arrived here today to Investigate what this' Government is doing toward the utilization of the plant. They desired to learn whether stock- growers in the soutnwhest used the cactus as fodder. They were told that the practice was not popular. They propose to make a trip to the South west to investigate for themselves. AERIAL 'SQUADRON FLIES Six Army Aviators at One Time In Air Over San Diego. SAN DIEGO, Oct. 21. The first aerial squadron ever seen in San Diego and perhaps the first witnessed in America was the spectacle beheld at North Island today. Six qualified military aviators, Lieu tenants Mlllington, Kelly, Post, Good ier, Willis and Mueller, rose from the aerodrome within a few minutes of each other and flew for a short time at an altitude of 1000 feet. The roar of the six motors could be heard for miles. The air craft soon descended without attempting any fleet maneuvers. MONEY IS MORE PLENTIFUL Portland Bank Deposits Show In crease of $2,650,000 in Year. Money is more plentiful In Portland than It was a year ago, according to the reports of Portland banks. Deposits have grown more than $2, 650,000 In the last 12 months. The ag gregate of all the banks in the city- at this time Is $74,509,726.69. Portland banks always manage to carry a comfortable cash reserve on hand. At this time it is $15,664, 141. 6E. an increase of approximately J2.200.000 in lha fast year. ... . 1 ROCKEFELLER GIF! TO AID IDICIi Johns Hopkins Gets $1,500,000 Donation, SINGLE CONDITION IS MADE Professors to Devote Whole Time to College Work, j FREEDOM NOT RESTRICTED Permission Given to See and Treat Anyone, hut No Fees Are to He . Accepted Other Gifts Total $450,000. . NEW YORK, Oct. 14. One million, five hundred thousand dollars to Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore; $200,000 to Barnard College, New York City: 1200,000 to Wollesley College. Wellesley, Mass.: $50,000 to Rlpon Col lege. Wis. a total of $1,950,000 these were donations announced tonight by the General Education Board, whlrli was founded by John D. Rockefeller nine years ago. The big gift to Johns Hopkins Medical , School, made on the sole condition that the income be used to permit the staff of professors to devote their entire time to their classes and studies is the first donation ever made by a board to a medical school and the largest single donation the board has ever made to any Institution of learning. In honor of the eminent pathologist it is to be called the William H. Welch endowment for clinical education and research. Staffa to De Iteorsaulard. Reorganization of the departments or medicine, surgery and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins so that the professors and their staffs may withdraw com pletely from active paid practice is to be the object sought in making the do nation. F, T Gates, chairman of the board, In discussing the donations said: "Since the opening of the Johns Hop kins Medical School in the early '904 it has been universally conceded that teaching of the ' underlying medical science, namely, anatomy, physiology, pathology and pharmacology must be placed in the hands of men devoting their entire time to teaching and re search in their subjects. As the clini cal branches are more extensive and more complicated than the above-mentioned underlying sciences, the medical faculty of the Johns Hopkins Univer sity has become convinced that it la fully as Important that the clinical subjects should be cultivated and taught by men freed from the distrac tion involved In earning their living through private practice. Freedom IWot Restricted. "The trustees of the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins hos pital and medical faculty of Johns Hopkins University united in request ing of the general education board funds that would enable them to rec ognize the departments of medicine, surgery and pediatrics, so that the pro fessors and -their assistants In the clinic and' the laboratories should be able to devote their entire time to their work. "In making the gift, the general education board has placed absolutely no restriction upon the freedom of any of these men. They will hencefortit be In a position to do any service that either science or humanity demands. They are free to see and to treat any one, whether Inside or outside the hos pital, but they will accept no personal fee for any such service. "In the conduct of the dispensary In the teaching of students and In tha cultivation of the specialties, men sim ultaneously engaged In practice will til some extent continue to be utilized. MILLIONAIRE WEDS STAR i Gertrude Bryan Becomes Wife of Heir to Estates of Fairs. RED BANK, N. J., Oct. 24. (Special.) Miss Gertrude Bryan, late star In "Little Boy Blue," daughter of Mrs. Nellie and the late Frank Bryan, the playwright, was married today at tha home of her mother to Charles Fair, son of Robert M. Fair, retired million aire member of the department store firm of Marshall Field & Co., of Chi cago. Following the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Fair left on a three months' honey moon trip through the West Indies. When asked if she throught the stage made matrimony precarious, .Mrs. Fair replied that she did not. Fair is a member of the Stock Ex change at New York. He Is an heir to the estates left by the Fairs who were killed in an automobile accident at Paris. STUDENTS TAKE REVENGE Militants' Offices Smashed as Ketal. iation for Fire. BRISTOL, Eng., Oct. 24. Students of Bristol University avenged today the burning of the sports pavilion of the university yesterday by suffragists by smashing the windows of the offices of the militants, dumping the furniture in the streets and making a bonfire of it. The students were cheered ju large crowds, . . i