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VOL. Lrlll. SO. 16,514. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. v K v E UeOPE COUNTS AMERICANS TO ACT Co-operation as to Mex ico Indicated NATIONS ACCEDE TO REQUEST France Shows Good Faith by . Asking Help of Warship. HUERTA STILL OPPOSES Administration Believed to Cling I to Policy That Mexicans Must Hold Election That TTnlted States Can Kecogniie. ' MEXICO CITY, Oct. 28. In the event that the Huerta - Blanquet ticket la ahoTrn to have polled a majority suf ficient to be declared elected, aa now aeema probable, Congress Trill declare the Huerta voir void and Blanquet will take the oath aa Vlce-Prealdent and asanme the Presidency pending; the calling- of farthes elections. Thla Mate ment vras made by the Mexican Foreign Milliliter tonlg-ht. The clause In tbe constitution prohibition: the President from suceeding himself does not apply to the Vice-President, Senor Moheno explained, and Blanquet would be eli gible for election. The returns continue to pile up plu ratifies for the Administration ticket. Even the leaders of the Catholic party, who at first vrere extremely optimistic, admit the probability of the election of Huerta and Blanquet. The majority of Senators and dep uties reported elected thus far are aald to be members of the Catholic party. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. Three Euro pean nations Great Britain, Germany and France have agreed to adopt no new policy toward Mexico until the Government of the United States can submit for their consideration a def inite plan for the future treatment of the revolution-torn republic That a request of the powers to await a proposal regarding Mexico from this Government had been made, and that the three great European nations had yielded to the request was an nounced late today by Secretary Bryan. President Wilson was en route to Washington from the' South when the announcement was made, and the Sec retary of State did not say what would be the nature of the contemplated ne gotiations with the forelcrn govern ments. The President arrived here late tonight and planned to confer early tomorrow 'with Mr. Bryan. Reasonable Time to Be Given. When the note to the powers Is to be presented has not been determined, but the belief prevails that reasonable time will be given for the announce ment from the Huerta government in Mexico of the result of last Sunday's election for a new government. That the announcement will be that the elec tion of a new President had failed be cause of the Insufficiency of the votes still is the expectation of officials here, and It is believed President Wilson and his advisers are proceeding on the theory that some concerted effort must be made by all the governments Inter ested in Mexico to rid that nation of the domination of General Huerta. Refuge Only Temporary. Although Interest in this development overshadowed all else in official cir cles here, the flight of General Felix Diaz from Vera Cruz to refuge on the American gunboat Wheeling was much discussed. Rear-Admiral Fletcher was notified tonight by Secretary Bryan that political refugees could be shielded only temporarily. Admiral Fletcher, who Is In command of the American ships in Mexican waters, notified Washington early to day that asylum had been granted to Diaz, with two Mexican champions and tn American newspaperman, on the Wheeling after pleading that their lives were endangered. The Adrr' I asked for instructions as to their disposition. Tho State Department first Instructed him to inquire of the Mexican refugees where they wished to go. Later the Department notified the Admiral that within a reasonable time they must be transferred from the American war vessel. They may be placed aboard a commercial liner bound for Havana or New York, as they choose. America Probable Haven. It was believed here tonight that Diaz and his friends would ask to be placed aboard an American-bound ship. As to the future treatment of Mexico ty the United States and other nations, there has been much discussion, both here and abroad, since the election Sun day under supervision of the Huerta provisional government. President Wil son, in two public speeches, has out lined a general policy of international co-operation with all Latin-American nations, and from France and England have come assurance of a desire to co-operate with the United States on some concerted effort to restore peace and good government in Mexico. Ger many, which recently sent a war ves sel to Mexican waters, naw has sig nified a desire to enter such a co operative peace-making enterprise. That all tbe foreign nations are look ing to the United States to take the (Concluded on Fag 2.) LOAN SHARK FOES EARN DIVIDENDS BUSINESS PROSPERS DESPITE BORROWED CAPITAIi. Iiess Than Three and Onf -Half Per Cent of Business Goes Into Unredeemed Class. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28. (Spe cial.) The sound condition of the San Francisco Remedial Loan Association, organized a year ago by philanthropic citizens to combat the grasping loan shark, was' reported at a meeting of the executive and advisory committees at luncheon at the St. Francis Hotel today. Incidentally It appears that Portola week enhanced the business of pawn shops, as well as other lines. Manager Auger said that the Portola brought many additional customers: to the wicket with their Jewels during the festival week. December will see the close of the first year's business of the Remedial Association and steps were taken to day looking to the announcement of a dividend, to the Increase of capital and to holding the first sale of unredeemed pledges. The unredeemed pledge sale will be held on December 3, at which time all articles which have been held by the association for eight months or over will be sold to repay the loan. Any balance realized at the auction over the amount due on the pledge will be returned to the borrower. This sale will cover the business of the first four months. The total value of the arti cles which will go under the hammer between $5000 and $6000. As this is less than three and one-half per cent of the total business of these four months, it Is considered a remarkably good showing. The association has now $91,400 paid in capital. It is borrowing $85,000 from the banks and also has a cash surplus out in loans. The intention is to increase the paid-in capital after the first of the year and pay the bank loans. These, however, have proved profitable, as the association earns more with the money than the amount of the interest it pays plus its ex penses. ROBBERS CHASE 'CENTRAL' The Dalles ' Operators Robbed and Driven to Street. THE DALLES, Or., Oct. 28. (Spe cial.) Breaking Into the local tele phone exefiange building, robbing three operators and chasing the frightened girls to the street, screaming for help, two robbers made their escape. Later Frank Peterson and Anton Paulson were arrested as they entered the ex change to secure an overcoat which' one of the robbers had left in his hur ried flight. The two men, were bound over to the grand jury today by Justice Allen. ' . The arrests were made by Policeman 'McLane, who stationed himself at thj telephone building, hoping the'' robbers would return to recover the coat. The girls lost only small amounts of cash. SEA'S ROAR COSTS $1200 Engineer Sacrifices $100 a Month to Return to Moaning Surf. SACRAMENTO, Oct. 28. "The sound of the surf at night is worth $100 a month to me," reflected Charles L. Snyder, chief examiner and secretary of the State Civil Service Commission today, in announcing his resignation. The position pays $3600 a year. Sny der, may now return to Alameda, a suburb of San Francisco, and resume work as secretary of the Pacific divi sion of the Federal Civil Service at $2400 a year. He has been on leave from this position, which is a perma nent one. POTATO GROWING LURES Idaho Mali's Success to Lead to Planting of 15,000 Acres. CALDWELL, Idaho, Oct. 28. (Spe-. cial.) As a result of the phenomenal success of J. B. Frye, a Deer Plat set tler under the Payette-Boise project, in raising potatoes, there will probably be some 15,000 acres set out to tubers in this vicinity next season. Mr. Frye this year made J4500 off a 15-acre patch, gathering 9000 bushels, an average of 00 bushels to the acre. He used the Idaho rural variety and got an average price of 50 cents per busheL AUTOS CATCH HORSETHIEF Members of Ancient Society Reviso Methods to Fit Occasion. DEDHAM, Mass., Oct. 28. The Ded ham Society for the Apprehension of Horsethieves abandoned today methods in vogue in the society for ioO years. When W. Cameron Forbes, ex-Gov ernor-General of the Philippines, re ported that a horse had been stolen from his stable the society, which has been renowned for its hard-riding members, turned out in full force in automobiles, recovered the horse and captured a man supposed to have stolen it. FAR-AWAY BUTTER COMES First Imports From Siberia and Ar gentine Reach Chicago. CHICAGO, Oct 28. The first butter ever received in the local market from Siberia or Argentina made its appear ance today 750 pounds from Siberia and 56 pounds from the Argentine. The importation with a chance of profit was made possible by the new tariff law, it is said, . CHARLES G. GATES DIES OF APOPLEXY Youthful Millionaire Passes in Wyoming. CODY CHURCHES' DEBTS PAID Knowing Death Near, Gates Gives Away Riches. HEALTH SOUGHT ON TRIP With Party of Friends, Son of Late Financier John W. Gates, Conies West on Hunting Jaunt, bat Heart Fails Career Varied. - ESTIMATE I WEALTH OF LATE CHARLES G. GATES. Combined riches placed at $20, 000,000, distributed as follows: Southern Wire Company, United States Steel Corporation, Baltimore Ohio Railroad, Western Maryland Railroad, Republic Iron & Steel Company of New Jersey, American Salt Company, United States Realty & Improvement Company; Tennessee Coal, Iron & R. R. Co., Clyde Steam ship Co., National Bank of North America, Texas oil fields. First Na tional Bank, Port Arthur, Texas, and other Port Arthur corporations. Heirs. Mrs. Charles G. Gates, of Minneap olis; Mrs. John W. Gates, of New York; many Illinois cousins. CODT. Wyo., Oct. 28. Charles W. Gates, son of the late John W. Gates, died in his private car here at 2 o'clock today from a stroke of apoplexy. His body will be sent East by way of Bill ings. Mr. Gates came West about a month ago In poor health on the advice of physicians, who accompanied him, be lieving he would improve with a change of climate and altitude. His. health improved sosnewhat after his ar rival here, but he was considerel a sick man. . . .. .. ,; Together ' with his physicians ' and friends, he was taken to a mountain resort and a hunting trip was planned. Hunting Trip Successful. The trip was successful from a hunt, ing standpoint, but upon its conclusion Mr. Gates was still In poor health and (Concluded on Page 5.) WHEN. IN DOUBT to gonMLr SITEiaiHLIEATrilS INDEX GF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 62 degrees; minimum, 42 degrees. . TODAY'S Probably fair; north to east winds. . Foreign. Mexicans chuckle when Felix Diaz takes refuge on United States warship. Page 2. Domestic. Colorado strikers and guards battle fierce ly. Page 1. . Peru threatens to be serious rival for Latin American trade. Page 5. SUngsby nurse sticks to story of substitut ing baby. Page 1. Charles G. Gates, millionaire broker, dies In Wyoming of apoplexy. Page 1. Antl-Ioan shark association earns divi dend. Page 1. Dr. Clarence True Wilson says Godly Ad ministration is at Nation's helm. Page 2. Sulzer publishes letter from ex-Senator now convict, offering . to expose "boss rule." Page 4. Burglar deeds fine home, bought with steal ings, to sister. Page 1. Mrs. baton's case expected to go to Jury to day. Page 5. National. Leading nations look to United States to lead In Mexican affair; Page 1. Senate committee decided, 6 to 6, on cur rency bill. Page 4.- Wilson returns to capital, but Is silent on Mexican situation. . Page 2. Sports. Brains not needed in golf, says Britisher. Page 7. Mute will seek revenge on McNeil. Page 7. Aggies not up to 111 form, says Page 6. Western football players eg.ua! those of East, says expert. Page o. Llndsay-Metzger transfer Is denied. Page 6. Odus lavor Lincoln In Academy same. Page 7. Pacific Northwest. Parole privilege for Insane abolished. Page 8. Governor and Engineer Lewis disagree. Page 8. Secretary of State Olcott announces . forest reserve fund to be $35,U50.72. Page a. Vice-President Hazeltlne. of Wlllapa Har bor Telephone Company: resigns. Page b. Commercial and Marine. Heavy buying of Yakima hops for Eastern account. Page ID. Relief from drouth In Argentina weakens wheat market. Pago 1U. New York bankers 'engage gold in London. Page ID. Steel quarterly report shows larger earn ings tiian year ago. Page lit. Government inspector to study navigation aids in Portland harbor. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. F. W. Hild returns from trip and saya Port land finance is in good shape. Page 13. Club women are complimented for 'opposing referendum on University appropriation. Page 12. 'Battleship Oreson" marooned on badly upset Fourth street. Page IS. Dancing week for younger set is at hand. Page lis. Demand made on ex-County Clerk FieldB to account lor missing funds. Page 12. Widespread Interest being taken In Inter state bridge parade Saturday. Page IS. Many persons have signed up for good roads , encouragement trip to Astoria and Sea side. Page 18. . ' President Mohler, of Union Pacific, arrives and Judge Lovett is en route. Page IS. School Board cuts new budget to figure less than last, year's for bare maintenance. Page 14. Progressives scolded by Mrs. .Hidden when women are aeteatea tor oince. page 4. Miss Kathleen Baker, working girl, attacks ruling oi vvenare commission, page v. Weather repor forecast and data. -Page. 15. Telegraphers Get Increase of Pay. CHICAGO, Oct. 28. There will be no strike of the 1500 telegraphers of the Rock Island System. ' Points at issue were adjusted early today. The rail road company granted an increase of 5 per cent in wages. VOTE YES, WHEN NOT IN DOUBT VOTE YES. HOT BATTLE WAGED fl COLORADO MINES Guard Killed and Chil - dren Are Shot. MACHINE GUNS PUT IN USE Forces Numbering Hundreds Engage on Either . Side. MEN TRAPPED IN CANYON Militiamen From Trinidad Reach Strife-Ridden Camps and Close 'Saloons Strikers, Armed, Remain Heavily Xenr. BERWIND, Colo., Oct. 28. Three bat tles, the hottest fought since the strike of coal miners in Southern Colorado began, marked the first day of martial law In this district. One mine guard killed, four union men wounded, two badly; two children of non-union men shot, one mine guard missing and a County Marshal wounded were the casualties of the three fights, one here, one at Tabasco -and the other at Hastings. The most serious fighting took place In Hastings, and It was there that the mine guard was killed and the strikers were wounded. The mine camp had been hemmed in on two sides by the strikers, who climbed the steep hills of either side of "the canyon in the night and at daylight began shooting into the camp. Miners had been notified that Marshal Robin son with deputies was on his way into the mine camp, and when the fighting started they made a. rush out of the stockade in an attempt to locate the Marshal's party. Guards) Driven , Back. Not more than 25 guards were de fending Hastings when the miners at tacked them and for almost an hou the battle raged in the hills surround ing the mine. Then the strikers, wh numbered. It is said, approximately 300 men, succeeded in driving them slowly back to the mine and-whelter. ' While fighting outsfide of the stock ade. Guard Angus Alexander was killed. According to the story told by strikers and guards alike, Alexander had sho a Greek striKer tnrougn tne leg, tne fighting being at closie range at that time, and another Greek, one of fou (Concluded on lage 2.) BURGLAR DEEDS HOME TO SISTER HOUSE BOUGHT WITH CRIMK PROCEEDS GOES TO GIRL. One of Victims Offers to Help 'Raffles' in Every Possible Way to Be 'Real Man.' SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28. (Special.) Two lines in the real estate transfer list today chronicled the love of San Francisco's most remarkable gentleman : burglar for an Innocent little sister. The luxurious home of William Bas tian, at 1177 Stanyan street, was deeded to the sorrowful girl, who does not un derstand. She Is iosephine Bastlan, 17 years old, who is being shielded from some of the hard facts of her brother's downfall by the motherly arms of Mrs. James Cottle, wife of Detective Cottle. The house was bought with the pro ceeds of numerous crimes. Bastlan called his attorney, Thomas O'Connor, to the city prison and asked him to arrange the transfer. The prop erty, with its modern and complete furnishings, is valued at 112,000. "Josephine can live in the house if she wants to," Bastian said to O'Con nor. "She ca sell it or rent it, any thing to Insure her comfort. I want her to know she is taken care of when I go behind the bars. That is all the comfort I can ask." . Bastlan was taken to the Lome of N Wood and gave a vivid portrayal of the manner in which he entered the house and robbed it of $30'J woith of jewelry last December. , While demonstrating his prowess, the Raffles was introduced to Mr. Wood. When the owner of one of the homes he had looted offered to help him in every way possible to be a real man the strange burglar showed tears In his eyes. - Captain of Detectives Mooney indi cated the first figure of $100,000 will not fully cover Bastian's stealings. FRUIT IN GRANT IS WINNER Quality of Samples Received in Port land Is Unsurpassed. Over in Grant County, which here tofore has been famous only for its livestock, its grain and Its minerals, they grow some of the finest fruit pro duced in Oregon. This was amply dem onstrated at the recent Grant County Fair at Canyon City. Samples of the prize winning fruit have reached this city. The quality of the pears are pronounced by experts to be unsurpassed and the apples are declared as good. . ,. The O.-W. R. & N. Co. offered a valuable gold and silver cup for the test general display of farm products. It was won by Mrs. Jennie Fields, of Mount Vernon. She had,more than 60 separate specimens on exhibition. Some of the fruit in her display has been received at the O.-W. R. & N. Co.'s gen eral offices in Portland. HYGIENE AIMED AT WASTE Lecturer Tells Schoolboys Two Ten Will Bo Moral Wrecks. in CHICAGO. Oct. 28. The course of lectures on sex hygiene in Chicago public schools, begun yesterday, in cluded additional schools today. Of the 700 boy pupils of the Senn High School, only five were absent by ordc of their parents. Several fathers were present. Dr. C. A. Cotton in addressing the pupils said: "One out of every 10 of you sitting here never will grow up; you will die before you attain maturity. This Is borne out by statistics. Two out of 10 of you will become moral wrecks, This seems wasteful and by these lec tures we hope to prevent some of the waste." JOHNSON DEFEATS MATTY Giant Veteran Knocked Out of Box During Snow Storm. TULSA, Okla., Oct. 28. Walter John son, pitching for the Chicago White Sox, opposed Christy Mathewson here today, and the White Sox won over the New York Giants, 6 to 0. Johnson held the Giants to eight scratch hits, struck out eight men and walked one. Mathewson was taken out after he allowed two doubles and a single in the fourth. Wiltse, who succeeded Mathewson, was pounded freely. The game was played in a snow storm, LEMON GIFT WINS DECREE Wife's Request for Casli Brings Old Clothes, Faded Blooms, Divorce. BOSTON, Oct. 28. As a result of receiving several dried lemons, a bundle of old clothes and a bouquet of faded flowers, from Ashken Shooshan, Mrs. Shooshan received a divorce today on the ground of desertion. Both came from Armenia. Mrs. Shooshan told the court that she received the lemons, old clothes and withered flowers after she had asked her husband to send her some money. SEVENTH WIFE KILLS MAN Eighth Spouse Sees Slaying in Ken tucky. WILLIAMSON, W. Va., Oct. 28. Mrs. Sarah Sloan shot and killed her di vorced husband at an isolated point on Blackberry Creek, Kentucky, near Mat- wan early today. After the shooting Mrs. Sloan boarded a train ana came here, where she was arrested later. Mrs. Sloan, it is stated, was the sev- nth wife of Jud Sloan and the man's eighth, .wife saw. the snooting. . E ADHERES 10 STORY Woman Says Body of One Baby Burned. FRASER'S CONFESSION DEhlED Mrs. Biain Insists She Told Truth in Sub-Heir Case. FICKERT THREAT CHARGED District Attorney Criticised for Ef fort to Show Perjury Doctor Who Admit "Fixing" Records Not Stranger in Courts. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28. "I do not care what Pr. Fraser said," declared Mrs. Hattle Blain today. Just after making a deposition in the Sllngsby caso before Douglas Young, British Vice-Consul here, who Is acting as a commissioner of the High Court of Chancery, London. "I am telling the truth and shall continue to tell it. "I accompanied Mrs. Sllngsby to Dr. Fraser's office and negotiated with her for a living male infant. Later I took the dead body of her own infant and burned it. That's the story I shall stick to, no matter what anybody says." Lieutenant Charles Henry Reynard Sllngsby, late of the British Navy, and his American wife, Dorothy Cutler Morgan Sllngsby, are attempting to prove that Charles Eugene Edward Slingsby, now 3 years old, was born in San Francisco and is their legitimate son. The remainder of the family seek to show that little Charles Eugene Is a changeling, born out of wedlock to a Santa Rosa high school girl and a chauffeur. Doctor Once Set Free. Dr. W. W. Fraser, who Mrs. Blain says performed the substitution, is from Weaverville, Cal. He was prose cuted on a charge of having falsltled a public document, after the case had been laid before District Attorney Fickert by the State. Board of Health, but Judge Dunne in the Superior Court upheld the contention of the doctor's attorneys that no crime had been com mitted, because, within the meaning d' the law, a birth certificate is not a public document. ' As neither Lieutenant Slingsby nor his wife aro American citizens, the State of California had no further in terest in the case until it appeared that testimony given in the preliminary hearing in Police Court against Dr. Fraser was so contradictory that some body must have committed perjury. Whereupon District Attorney Fickert convened the grand Jury for a speclul Investigation and last night Dr. Fra ser testitied that he had accepted $500 from the faction of the Sllngsby fam ily hostile to the child. Hoy Would Be Father's Heir. If the legitimacy of the boy Is es tablished he will become his father's heir to an estate yielding an income of between J10.000 and ?50,000 a year. If not the income will revert at the father's death to a Junior branch. Counsel for this branch of the fam ily protests against the activity of th District Attorney. "I don't think the District Attorney of this county has any business to call his grand Jury In a case before a foreign court, shortly to be. adjudicated by a foreign Judge," said Attorney Knight. "I want to know his interest In the Slingsby case. He has got to quit using his office to intimidate witnesses." "Mr. Fickert threatened me in his office today," added Mrs. Blain, who is a nurse. "Ho said to me: 'Afts. Blain, you tell the truth about this business-now, or I'll have you put in Jail.' Perjury Charge Investigated. I looked at him squarely and an swered: "I have told the truth ana ou know it.' He repeated his threat about putting me In jail." "My investigation," said District At. torney Fickert, In reply to Knight, "is quite apart from the hearing In prog ress before Vice-Consul Young. I have done nothing to embarrass tnat case and I don't care whether the Slingsby baby Is legitimate or illegitimate, is a Slingsby or not. My sole object Is to establish whether perjury has been committed, and if bo, by whom. "The reason the grand Jury has been convened at this time Is that the tak ing of depositions before Vice-Consul Young has brought together all tlie witnesses for the first time and thty are now available lor examination ux the grand Jury." COUNTY SEEKS "GOAT" Responsibility for Many Repairs on Broadway Bridge Sought. In order to determine tho responsibil ity for the many repairs that are re quired on Broadway bridge. County Commissioners Holman and Llghtncr and Superintendent of Bridges Murnane yesterday made a thorough inspection of the new structure. Many of the paving blocks are loose, the guard rails are not as secure as they should be and a large marblo fuse block is cracked. Almost continually since the bridge was taken over by the county repairs have been necessary, and the Commissioners say they want to know why the bridge, which has been in use only for a few months, la proving so costly. . I S s A