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vol- I-TII. XO. 1G,515. PORTLAND. OREGOX, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. v. WILSON HAS PLAN CUT KEEPS SECRET Scheme to Pacify Mex ico Hatching. ELECTION IS NOT RECOGNIZED New Method of Obtaining Vot L ers' Will Proposed. EUROPE EXPECTS RESULTS Diplomats at Mexico City Said to ijrave Criticised United States Severely for Failure to 5 Restore Tranquillity. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. President Wilson has under consideration a new plan for restoring peace In Mexico, which he will discuss with his Cabinet Friday ana make It public within a few days. Officials were reticent as to what Is contemplated. As the United States has asked not only the European gov ernments, but those of Latin-America and the Orient, to withhold the formu lation of their policy toward Mexico until the Washington Government can make known its plans for dealing with the situation, the solution on which the President and Secretary Bryan are working is believed to be more com prehensive than any suggestions here tofore made for the pacification of the southern republic. Means to Be Suggested. High officials of the Government, while declining to say what steps would be taken by the United States, declared that the purposes and alms cf the Government had been explained in the President's speeches at Swarth . more. Pa., and Mobile, Ala. The Ameri can Government's course of action will be embodied in a formal note which, it is expected, will set forth the prin ciple that constitutional government must be established out of the chaos in Mexico Rnd will suggest means for ac- complishing that purpose. ( Although the State Department has not been informed officially of the re ported purpose of General Huerta to declare General Blanquet as having been elected, it is certain that in line with previous declarations the election of last Sunday .will not be recognized as constitutional. Safeguards to Be Suggested. The inability of the Huerta govern ment to conduct a constitutional elec tion, it is thought, will lead the Ameri can Government to suggest a method of holding the elections in which safe guards and guarantees can be given which will permit the constitutionalists to participate freely. Many diplomats here believe that before negotiations concerning any election can be carried out the elimination of Huerta from the situation must be accomplished. It is thought the President will re peat tho suggestions ho outlined re cently to John Llnd upon which a sat isfactory settlement of the trouble in Mexico seemed to be conditioned, but will add the stipulation that someone acceptable to all factions be placed In provisional authority to conduct a fair and free election. Details of an elec tion plan, it is thought, will accompany such suggestions. Pressure vn Huerta Considered, With the united support of foreign governments it is thought by some of ficials here that the retirement of Huerta could be accomplished, al though others who know of Huerta's personality declare he will not yield to any foreign pressure and will retire only If the Constitutionalist arms are successful. Various alternatives, such as moral support of the Constitutional 1st cause or lifting the embargo on arms, have been suggested as ways to Influence Huerta to retire. That some comprehensive plan for dealing with the situation is expected bv Europe was apparent today, when the character of the representations made by diplomats at Mexico City to their home governments became known. Although no collective opinion was reached at the conference of dip lomats at the Mexican capital, many of them, it -was learned today, criti clsed the United States severely for not taking such steps as would restore tranquillity. Some suggested interven tion in one form or another. The French Minister is said to have been among those who roundly criticised the American policy, while the Spanish Minister is declared to have made caustic reference . to the invasion of the rights of Spanish nationals while the United States maintained a quies cent attitude. BRITISH TAKE OVER LARGEOIL HOLDING TWO CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENT COMPANIES BOUGHT. Syndicate Headed by Andrew Weir to Pay $110,000,000 for Union and General Petroleum. SAX FRANCISCO, Oct. 29. The pur chase of two independent oil companies of California, the Union Oil Company and the General Petroleum Company, Involving $ 110,000,080, was announced today in London by Eugene DeSabla, according to advices received here. DeSabla cabled that papers had been signed whereby a huge British syndi cate, headed by Andrew Weir, will take over both companies. The deal In volves more than $76,000,000 In stock and $35,000,000 In cash. The sale means that the Union Oil Company with its wide oil fields. Its subsidiary pipe lliie companies and its great fleet of oil-carrying steamers, barges and sailing ships, will pass from the control of Lyman Stewart and his family and become merged in a gigan tic British concern. ( The Union Oil Company deal will be made on a cash basis, while the Gen eral Petroleum Company will change hands through an exchange of stock. Andrew Weir Is at the head of An drew Weir & Co., the largest shipown ers in the United Kingdom. CHARGES BANDIED IN NEW YORK FIGHT Sulzer War on Tarn many Continues. BRADY'S DONATION FIGURES Ex-Judge Now Says Murphy Gave $25,000 Back. GRAFT PROBE PROMISED Confession of ex-Senator Stilwell, Now Convict In Sing 'Sing, to Be Laid Before District Attorney Whitman. POKER GAMES GIVE CLEW Marslifield Missing Funds Were .Lost at Cards, Is Indication. MARSH FIELD, Or.. Oct. 29. (Spe cial.) That the $3000 missing from the East Side city funds was lost in poker games in Marsh field is indicated by evidence that Prosecuting Attorney Lllyquest is gathering. The money is said to have gone mi cards within a week. City Kecorder Leaton, of East Side, will probably be taken into custody tomorrow on a charge of mis appropriating funds and then fixing the safe to indicate that it had been robbed. The funeral of Mayor Gordon, who committed suicide as the result of worry over the robbery, was held to day, and was one of the largest ever held in the county. MRS. MADERO SEEKS REFUGE Woman Remains Several Hours In Consulate at Vera Cruz. VERA CRUZ, Oct. 29. Mrs. Daniel Madero, in fear that she was about to be arrested, went to the American Con. sulate today noon and remained there several hours. She and Mrs. Evaristo Madero were brought here with their husbands, who were arrested by the Federal authorities at Monterey. The two men now are held in San Juan de Uluoa prison. The two women have been trying to procure aid for their husbands, so that their removel to the capital might be prevented, . WOMEN WILL TAB VOTES Fair Sex Held More Efficient as Election Officials. Out of 65 additional Judges and clerks selected yesterday by City Au ditor Barbur for the special city elec tion December 9, next,- 42 are women. Practically every woman who applied for a place on the election boards se cured a position, it being the opinion of Auditor Barbur that women are much more efficient In election work than men. The list of clerks and Judges for the special election was submitted to the City Commission and approved. With this work out of the way other ar rangements for the special election will be taken up. APPLE DAY TAKES WELL Hotels in Many - States Promise to Serve This Fruit Novemoer 18. Hotels and railroads throughout the Northwest are Joining the movement to bring about a proper celebration of "Apple day," November 18. In the Port land Commeroial Club are letters from hotels in all of the Pacific Coast States promising to put apples in as the main feature in the menus of Apple day. Positive promises of co-operation in the plan, which was first suggested, by The Dalles Hotel, have been received in the past few days from a number of leading hosteiries In Oregon, Wash ington, California and as far east ai Colorado and Minnesota. OLD SHORTAGE N0TPR0BED Refund of $21,000 Made by ex- Sheriff of Jackson County. ASHLAND, Or., Oct. 29. (Special.) The second panlel of the Jackson Coun ty grand Jury was dismissed today without arriving at any solution con cernlng the shortage of $21,000 in the office of ex'Sherlff Jones. This mat ter has been, investigated for months past by county officials and special experts to no purpose. . In the meantime, however, the ex Sheriff has voluntarily made good every cent of the deficit. The grand Jury's investigation was simply perfunctory, inasmuch as the statute of limitation barred action on evidence which might have been discovered. LABORATORY IS WRECKED Explosion or Unknown Cause Does Damage of $10,000 at Tacoma. TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 29. (Special.) An explosion about midnight wrecked the laboratory of the E. A. Friend Drug Company on the second foor of the National Realty building, Tacoma's tall est building. The damage may total $10,000. The cause of the explosion has not been determined. COLD -THREATENS APPLES Ozark Orchardists Build Smudge Fires to Save Crop. SPRINGFIELD, Ma, Oct 29. Smudge fires are smoking throughout the Ozark apple belt today In an effort by orch ardists to save thousands of bushels of fruit still on the trees. The drop In temperature to 23 degrees early today caught many fruitgrowers" with the picking scarcely begun. NEW YORK. Oct. 29. New York's heated municipal campaign was kept in the feverish stage tonight. John A. Hennessy, Governor Sulzer's graft in vestigator, whose speeches for the fusion ticket headea by John Purroy Mitchel have been a striking feature of the campaign, ktpt up his attacks on Tammany Hall and Edward E. Mc Call, the Tammany nominee for Mayor, laying stress in his talks tonight on charges of barge canal graft, by which, he declared, Tammany benefited. Judge McCall, who spoke in Man hattan and Brooklyn, attacked Mitchel for his former connection as counsel for a corporation. Money Returned, Saya, Judge. The $25,000 organization contribution from Anthony N. Brady, traction mag nate, now dead, first offered to and declined by William Sulzer when he was running for Governor last year and then given to Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, who declared yesterday that he' returned it to Brady, remained a point of discussion. Sup port was given Murphy's declaration that he returned the money to Brady by a statement from ex-Judge Beards- ley, who originally took the $25,000 from Brady to Sulzer, and on the lat ter's refusal to accept it handed it to Murphy. Beardsley in his statement today, without; mentioning' Murphy's name, said that "a campaign contribution of $25,000 made by Mr. Brady In the cam paign of 1912 was subsequently re turned to him." Hennessy In one of his speeches to night challenged Beardsley to furnish proof that Murphy gave back the $25, 000 and declared that Beardsley could not and would not attempt to prove any such- thing through the Brady es tate. The confession of ex-Senator Stilwell, INDEX CF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTTLRTjAY'S JMaxImum temperature. 62 degrees; minimum. 41 degrees. TODAY'S Rain: winds shifting to south easterly. Foreign. Felix DIai virtually Drisoner . on United States warahlD. Page 5. Experts disagree on blood-getting motive for murder at -Kiev. Page 4. Domestic. Congregational Church votes to espouse cause of labor. Page 1. Colorado strikers burn Postoftice. Page 5. Graft charges bandied by New, York lead ers, rage i. . Appeal of accused dynamite plotters argued. Pace S. . Work on Gates $1,000,000 mansion halted by contractors. Page 2. Divorce Is denied Captain Merriam. Page 1. British syndicate buys big oil holdings in California. Page 1. Buseh will equalizes advances made to chit dren. Page 4. Mrs. Eaton's fate submitted to Jury. Page 4. National. Wilson said to be' preparing to announce Mexican policy soon. Page 1. Currency bill undergoes changes In detail. i'age 2.. . Sports. Vardon and Kay show fine form on Waverly links. Face 7. Quarterback Younff returns to game with Washington. Page 6. Lincoln High School defeats Portland Acad emy 12-0. Pago 8. Bud Anderson beats Rees in four rounds. Page 7. Jimmie Johnston rated best Coast league player by McCredie. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Umatilla Indian to be tried for murder at Pendleton. Page 18. T. S. Townsend suggests keeping butter prices down to offset foreign competition. Page 12. Recall fight on Hood River County Court continues. Page IS. State-wide prohibition fight dependent on results ox jnanon county biwwuu. Page 16. Oregon Agricultural College and University share experts. Page 1. Clarke County. Washington Sheriff seeks owner of burned farm buildings. Page 12. Commercial and Marine. Wheat market has firmer undertone, but buying is limited. Page 17. Crop outlook in India and Argentina sends wheat up at Chicago Page 17. Bonds active and firm In Wall street, but stocks are weaker. Page 17. First of W. R. Grace ships due lit Portland next week. . Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Highway missionaries to bold meetings urg ing bond issue. Page 11. Judge Lovett comes to Inspect lines solely, says Farrell. Pace 10. Parkison hears his own arguments on uni versity referendum riddled to pieces. Pago -11. Weather report, data and forecast- Page 17. Parade and banquet for bridge day Satur day, expected to be unique In charac ter. Pace 0. Friday Night Dancing Club's party smart event., page 10. "September Morn" baby moves critics to admiration. Page 11. GHURCHTO TAKE UP (Concluded on Page 5.) WOMAN, BEATEN. SHOOTS Deserted Wife Fires Through Door d When Husband Returns. To defend herself from further at tack by her husband, who had beaten her the day before, Mrs. Mary Willey, proprietor of the Kery Hotel at Second and Salmon streets, last night fired two bullets through the door of her room at her husband, who was seeking ad mittance. Mrs. Willey told Detectives Hyde and Vaughn that her husband left her more than a year ago and did not return un til Tuesday night, when he beat her. Last night he ' again appeared, but could not be found after the shooting PROBLEM OF LABQ Brotherhood's Scope to Be Extended. BLOOD TO BE PART OF PRICE CongregationaNsts Decide on Broader Policy. ANNUITY PLAN ADOPTED Jlinisters to Contribute 20 Per Cent Chnrch 8 0 Ter Cent, of Needed Funds Wilson Asked to Limit Armaments. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 29. Establish ment of a social service commission to have charge of . extending the aid of the church to labor in its struggle fo industrial justice, the adoption of an annuity plan for aged ministers and the adoption of a "peace" resolution criticising the expenditure of large sums of money for war were the prin clpal things accomplished by the Na tional Congress of Churches today. The social service commission will be composed of nine members and will take over the work previously done by the brotherhood of the church. The scope, however, will be greatly extend eu. Tho church plans to make an ag gresslve campaign to aid ' in righting industrial wrongs." Church to Aid Labor. The secretary of the new commission will be Henry Atkinson, of Chicago, who has had a wide experience in re cent efforts of the church in beha of labor. Outlining the church's work Mr. Atkinson said: 'The church is realizing more every day that organized labor is not com posed of obstructionists, but of men who have a definite purpose and who are striving to attain it : 'Two million men are being Injured seriously in our Industrial machine each year. My' church is going to do its best to see that that stops. Wo are striving to make the blood of the worker l cart of the price of the com modity. We ctand for cleanliness and sanitation in the workshops and the elimination of Industrial, diseases. We stand for the shorter working day. "Our slogan is: For his reward he shall have adequate compensation.' " Ministers to Be Insured. The annuity plan, which in many re spects resembles the endowment scheme of many old-line insurance companies, provides that the ministers shall fur- concluded on Page 2.) LIST THE GOOD WORK GO ON. ' i in JBr(u&r I . . x I . . . . . . . COLLEGE AND "U" TO SHARE EXPERTS WEEKLY JOCRXAMSM CLASS TO BE HELD AT O. A. C. Is Professor Allen of University First to Hold Two-Faculty Job, hut Plan Will Grow. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, Oct. 29. (Special.) Professor Eric W. Allen, head of the department of Jour nalism at the University of Oregon, hereafter virtually will hold a posi tion on both the faculty of the Oregon Agricultural College and that of the university. This arrangement was made by Presidents Kerr, and Campbell today and tomorrow Mr. Allen goes to Cor vallis to begin his w;ork. He will have charge of a class In Journalism at the Agricultural College meeting each Thursday. The transfer Is significant in that it marks the beginning of an Inter change of Instructors between the two institutions. Both president Kerr and President Campbell are heartily In favor of the 'plan, and further arrange ments whereby an Instructor in one in stitution v-111 take classes In the other will be made. One of these will be an exchange between Dr. James Gilbert, professor of economics in the univer sity, and Dr. Hector MacPherson, who holds a similar chair In the Agrl cutural College. The scheme was first proposed by Ralph D. Hetzel, head of the extension department at the college, and was heartily favored by Professor Allen. The aim Is a closer co-oporation in the work of the two institutions and the benefit which the students will gain in hearing a subject presented from dif ferent viewpoints. VON KLEIN TRIAL IS TODAY Polygamous-Swindler-Suspect's leged Victim Still Missing. Al- DIVORCE DENIED 10 CAPTAIN MERR Charges Against Wife Not Sustained. CASE IS BITTERLY CONTESTED Decision Given by Graham. Af ter Deliberation. $75 A MONTH IS ALLOWED Woman Also Wins Custody of Daugh ter Depositions of Brother Of ficers in Case Regarded as Insufficient. Court was held last night by Judge Morrow that he might clear his docket and be ready today for the trial of E. E. C. von Klein, charged with the lar ceny of Jewels valued at $3500 from Miss Ethel Newcomb. After the larceny trial Is completed Von Klein will be tried on a charge of polygamy. Von Klein, the local police say, is one of the smoothest operators they have ever handled. All of his alleged victims are women whom the police say he married or promised to marry. He was arrested in Chicago last May after he had been Identified by Miss Newcomb, who says he married, robbed and deserted her. She testified against him in July, when his trial resulted in a hung jury, and aha dis appeared and has not been heard from since. CITY TO USE B0L0 KNIVES National Weapon of Philippines to Be Official Weed Cutter. Real Philippine bolo knives, the kind used In lopping off heads, are to be used by city employes hereafter in cut ting weeds and underbrush on vacant property. Following recommendation by City Commissioner Dieck, the City Commission yesterday ordered tho man- uiacture ai me municipal shops of a arge supply of the ugly looking bolos to replace the present supply of scythes. The shop employes demonstrated their ability to make the knives by urnlng out a keen-edged sample yes- erday It is said that by using the nlves weeds can be cut easier than with scythes. WILSON INVITATIONS OUT Number of "Bids" to White House Wedding Not Determined. WASHINGTON. Oct 29. Invitations for the White House wedding on No vember 25 were being addressed today. The invitations are engraved simply and read: "The President and Mrs. Wilson re quest the pleasure of the presence of at the wedding of their daugh ter, Miss Jessie Woodrow, to Mr. Fran- is Bowes Sayre on November 25, nine teen and thirteen, at half after four o'clock at the White House." The number of invitations to be sent has not been decided and detailed plans for the wedding are not ready for announcement. SALARY PROTEST USELESS City Commission Files Employes' Petition Without Being Read. City employes who desire to protest against the salary reductions as pro vided in the new efficiency code framed by the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, were rebuked yesterday by the City Commission when a petition from employes was placed oh file with out even being read. The petition was submitted by W. H. Ney and J. B. Gehr, of the public works department. It was a formal protest against the enforcement of .the efficiency ratings as prepared, because of alleged unfairness. KING DISLIKES BIOGRAPHIES George to Have "Authorized" Story of Father's Life Written. LONDON, Oct 29. It Is understood that King George is so dissatisfied with the biographies of his father, the late King Edward, which have ap peared, that he has consented to the preparation of an authorized biography from state papers and recollections of intimate friends under the general su pervision of Viscount 4 Knollys, the King's' secretary. It Is said that Lord Rosebery will be I Invited to write the biography. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29 (Special.) After a legal fight that stirred Army circles all over the country, Mrs. Bessie C. Merriam today won her long, stren uous fight In opposition to the divorce proceedings instituted last November by her husband. Captain Henry C. Mer riam, U. S. A. Superior Judge Graham ruled that Captain Merriam was not entitled to a decree of divorce on the ground. of extreme cruelty. In denying the Captain's prayer for an interlocutory decree. Judge Graham awarded' $75 a month for Mrs. Mer rlam's support. To Mrs. Merriam was also awarded the custody of her beau tiful 10-year-old daughter Charlotte, for whom sho has been fighting. Judge Graham Not Convinced. The Judgment of Judge Graham Is a distinct triumph for Mrs. Merriam, who came to this city nearly a year ago to resist the proceedings instituted by Captain Merriam and to clear her name of the charges which the Captain had made against her. Mrs. Merriam did not file a cross-complaint, but con tented herself with denying the alle gations in the Captain's complaint. She asked the courl to deny the Captain's application for te custody of Char lotte, the daughter, and prayed .that the Captain De required to make ade quate provision for her maintenance. The court announced that the decree had been denied to the Captain be cause the Army man had not produced sufficient testimony to convince the court that he should receive an inter locutory decree, .Wife Seeks Reunion. The Merriam divorce suit was one of the most sensational and moat stubbornly-contested divorce suits tried In the Superior Court here for many months. It represented u valiant effort on the part of a wife and mother to clear her name of scandalous charges. Mrs. Merriam repeatedly cried in court that she loved her husband and wanted to be reunited with him, Htid that she did not. want to be separated by a .de cree of divorce. Her whole desire in fighting tho divorce proceedings was to maintain her status as a wife and to preserve her good name. And in this she has been successful. Captain Merriam, who Is commander of the United States mino. planter George Armlstead, now stationed on this coast, filed his complaint for di- vorce in this city November 2. 1912. His principal allegation of extreme cruelty was that Mrs. Merriam was guilty of such Improper conduct at Jackson Barracks, near New Orleans, while the plaintiff was absent on the Mexican border In 1911, that she was ordered from the military post by the post commander Name linked With Major'. In the course of the trial Mrs. Mer- riam's name was linked with that of Major Clarence K. Murphy, who was present at Jackson Barracks while Cap tain Merriam was absent from the post In 1911. Major Murphy was in Paris when he first heard that his name had been identified with that of the de fendant in tho divorce proceedings. 11a ohahacterlzed the suit against Mrs. Merriam as an infamous outrage. He at once took a boat fur America in order that he might give testimony on behalf of tho defendant In tho divorce suit Major Murphy arrived in this city early In September, and was one of the principal witnesses for Mrs. Merriam. Numerous depositions from Army of ficials were introduced in evidence by Captain Merriam. It was in these dep ositions that some of the most sensa tional charges against Mrs. Merriam were made. Judge Graham's ruling to day has the effect of declaring that the matter in these depositions is nut sufficient to Justify a divorce in favor of the Captain. TRAIL INTO WILDS OPENED Tourists May Now Reach Mt. Aduitis by Way of Clspus Path. TACOMA. Wash., Oct. 29. (Special.) Completion of tho Upper Clspus trail, making a good bridal path all the way from Longmlre Springs to the foot of Mount Adams, was announced today by G. Fallen, forest supervisor in charge of the Mount Rainier reserve. The route will be opened for tourists as soon as the Bnow leaves the trail, about the middle of next June. The Upper Ciapus trail gives easy ac cess to a region that has been practi cally free from all signs of civilization. Indians invade the district near Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens each Kail to hold their annual ceremonies and pick berries.