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THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, . JANUARY. 8, 1914. 3 MYSTERY OF EDWIN ROOD IS SETTLED Bernard Shaw Sits on Dickens Jury With Jerome, Barrie t and Others. JASPER IS FOUND GUILTY Manslaughter Agreed On in "True British Spirit of Compromise." Literary London In High . ' Feather at Trial. i-ONDON. Jan. 8. Students of Dick ens met at King's Hall. Covent Garden, last night, and gathered up the. threads of Dickens' unfinished tale, "The Mys tery of Edwin Drood." The entertain ment took the form of court passages In which John Jasper was placed on trial for the murder of Edwin Drood, O. K. Chesterton, the novelist, acting as Judge About midnight the Jury, re turned the following verdict: 'In the British spirit of compromise, we adjudge the prisoner guilty of man slaughter." A rider to the verdict left the prls ener to the Judge's mercy, and threat ened those daring to question the ver dict with commltal for contempt of court. Stair Seats Worth Gnlneaa. The trial was held under the auspices of the Dickens Fellowship, and many of the leading literary men of London took part. Guineas were vain ly offered even for a seat on the stairs. Bernard Shaw was foreman of the Jury, and his sallies, with Chesterton's pom pous gravity, as Judge, gave an enjoy able turn to affairs. Hoars of laughter greeted the Jokes, as when, for in stance. Foreman Shaw, after listening to the prosecuting counsel's speech, bounded from his seat with the char acteristic Query to the Judge: "Do you imagine, my lord, that the convictions of a British Jury are going to be influenced by any amount of evidence?" J. Cummin Walters, a well-known au thority on Dickens, was leading coun sel for the prosecution. W. Walter Crotch, author of "Charles Dickens as a. Social Reformer," acted for the de fense. Ho declared that there was every reason to believe that Drood was etill alive, and suggested that the key of the story luy in the opium habit of the two men. He urged that in the un explained disappearance of Edwin Drood there was no evidence on which to convict Jasper of murder. DlMtlnffulnbed Men on Jury. The Jury included such distinguished men as Jerome K. Jerome, Sir James jr. Barrie, Sir Edward Russell, W. W. Jacobs, William DeMorgan and Dr. W. 1 Courtney, Hllaire Belloo and Ray mond Baton, who had been drawn, were not able to be present. The wholly spontaneous character of the proceedings the opposing counsel not having consulted with each other or seen each other's briefs added greatly to the seat of the affair. The trial had never been rehearsed. The fitage in the hall was set as a court scene, and all the witnesses, who in cluded impersonators of Dickens' char acters, appeared In the costumes of the period. after the Copperfleld episode, which has now died away to virtually noth ing, is finally settled. ROAD WOULD CLOSE AGENCY Oregon Sliort Line Sees Xo Business at Copperfleld for Time. SALEM. Or, Jan. 7. (Special.) Al leging that the declaration of martial law and the closing of the saloons In Copperfleld had put an end to its busi ness there, the Oregon Short Line Rail way Company today, through its gen eral superintendent, E. O. Manson. of Salt Lake City, asked permission of the State Railroad Commission to close its agency In the much-advertised Ore gon town. Mr. Manson wrote: "We would like to close our agency at Copperfleld, where there Is practic ally no business. Homestead station be ing able to take care of all of It. What little business we did have at Copper field will probably be a thing of the past, due to a telegram of Governor West, which I quote: " 'The town of Copperfleld has been placed under martial law, and all ship ments of Intoxicating liquors Into said town over the northwestern branch are hereby forbidden until further notice.' "We will appreciate very much your co-operation in this particular matter, with the assurance that when business revives and warrants, the service will be Increased." The Commissioners will act upon the request at its earliest convenience. CHINESE BANDIT DEFIES AMERICAN MISSIONARIES NOT AL LOWED TO RETURN. United States' Refuses to Land Ma rines, as Other Nations Have Done to Obtain Results. PEKIN, Jan. 7. The brigand Hwang Liang, who in the anti-Manchu reVolt proclaimed himself uling Emperor, still delles the authorities and refuses to permit the American missionaries who have been for months at Foo Chow to return to their missions In the in terior, although he has allowed all other foreigners to do so The American legation has made re peated representations to the Chinese Foreign Office on the subject, but Ed ward T. Williams, ex-American charge d'affaires, and Paul S. Reinsch, the present American Minister, have been equally unsuccessful in their efforts to persuade the Chinese government to take any action. In American circles hero It Is thought that only the landing of a force of marines will accomplish the fulfillment of the Chinese treaty obli gations, and it is pointed out that the Japanese and other nations obtain quick satisfaction for their grievances by making naval displays. It is re marked that neither foreign residents nor the Chinese contemplate the pos sibility that the United States shall take any such action and that con sequently there will be a continuance of defiance by Hwang-Liang. CONRAD KREBS III TOILS PROMINENT HOPDEALER, ACCUSED OF PERJURY PROVIDES 250O BAIL. SOUTH AFRICA IN PANIC Strive of 35,000 State Railway Em ployes Imminent. JOHANNESBURG. Jan. 7. The strike of 35,000 South African state railway employes is fixed for 7 o'clock tomor row and the situation has caused a feeling of panic. The country is faced with the possible suspension of all in dustries. The only hopeful feature is that the Cape Railway men do not seem Inclined to Join in the strike and are taking time to consider action. They may possibly call for a ballot of the men. All the men In the Pretoria and Johannesburg district however, are go ing out. After a hurried Cabinet meeting at I'retorla today. General Smuts. Minis ter of Defense, with the Minister of Mines and Railways, came here to ar range with the authorities for the pres ervation of order and for railway serv ices. For several days the authorities have been removing rifles and ammunition to places of safety, so as to prevent their falling Into unauthorized hands. It Is reported that unless a settlement Is effected before Saturday, the Fed eratlon of Trades will call a general strike throughout South Africa. HUNGER-HIKE LEADER RIDES Head of Unemployed Says III 3 Fol lowers Are Footsore. BAKERSFIELD, Cal.. Jan. 7. A. L. Hall, head of the band of unemployed that is walking down the state, ar rived here by train today and appeared before the boards of Trustees and Su pervisors in an attempt to obtain food and lodging for the 135 marchers dur ing their stay in Kern County. Hall says his army Is tired and foot sore, that there are three cases of pneumonia, and that there have been several accidents. Five meals will be served here at the city's expense, but the trustees say they are unable to furnish lodging for the army, and shelter will probably be provided by the labor unions. GUNS TURNED ON GODWIN (Continued From First Page.) nnd on this finding it Is believed will be settled the status of the Copperfleld saloonmen who may seek from the de fendants in the case damages for the forcible seizure of their liquors. At the depot at Baker there arrived today the shipment of liquors, bar fix tures and gambling paraphernalia which had been seized at Copperfield It is a strange array, weighing 10,000 pounds and occupying half a car. Sheriff Hand and Lieutenant-Colonel B. K. Lawson returned tonight from Copperfleld, where they went today from Huntington. They did not lift martial law at Copperfleld, but left four militiamen there, with a sergeant in control. Saloonmen Refuse to Reslsrn. Saloonmen refused to resign their official positions and on that account martial law was not lifted. The Sheriff has not yet defined the position which he will take with Gov crnor West, but declared he expects to issue a statement tomorrow. Colonel Lawson this morning sent all the members of the. militia who were with him at Huntington back to Port land. The belief is general that there will bo no martial law in Baker County MINERS' OFFICIALS OPPOSED TO STRIKE Michigan Governor Told Con flict Was Forced by Refer endum of Members. WORKMEN'S SIDE HEARD Snlt Grows Oat of Conveyance of Prop erty by Brother, Said to Be for Avoidance of Debt. SALEM, Or., Jan. 7 (Special.) Con rad Krebs, a prominent hopdealer, who was arrested in Portland on a charge of perjury, furnished bond today In the sum of $2500. It is alleged that Krebs committed perjury in his tes timony in a suit brought against him by Hanna Brothers, of Independence, which Involved land conveyances made by John Krebs, a brother of the defendant. John Krebs, It Is alleged, was In debted to Hanna Brothers, who ob tained judgment for $1000. It is said that John Krebs previously had con veyed his real property to his brother Conrad, and suit was Instituted to have the deed set aside. It Is charged that Conrad Krebs tea tlfied that the conveyances were made In a legal way and denied that there had been a contract to reconvey the property. Joe Bentley, employed as bookkeeper by John Krebs. produced a contract purporting to have been en tered Into by the brothers for recon veyance of the property. Bentley was arrested on a charge of having stolen the contract and will be tried for al leged larceny. Attorneys for Hanna Brothers placed the evidence before District Attorney Ringo and Conrad Krebs was indicted on a charge of perjury. The Krebs Brothers until recently owned one of the largest hop ranches in the United States, in the Independence district. Conrad Krebs now lives in Portland. Assertion Made That Neither Mover Nor Any Other Union Officer Has Authority to Call End to Trouble. HOUGHTON. Mich., Jan. 7. The strike of copper miners, which was called here on July 23, was opposed by the officials of tha Western Feder ation of Miners, Governor Ferris was told today by representatives of the union. In furtherance of this idea the Governor was asked- to listen to the stories of miners and trammers who had worked under ground for years and half a score of these men related con ditions under which they had labored and the pay they had received. As was expected, the union men stood on their proposition to John B. Dens more, of the Department of Labor, so far as a settlement of the strike was concerned. It was revealed at the hearing that the Federation had pro posed that the hours of labor and rates of pay posted by the mining companies December 1 be allowed to stand; that the one-man drill grievance was not mentioned and that the question of recognition was to be obviated by a non-discrimination clause. Officials Without Authority. In addition the union delegation em phasized that since ithe strike was called only after a referendum vote had shown a big majority of the rank and file insistent on It, any proposi tion for a settlement might be passed on by the general membership. O. N. Hilton, chief of counsel of the Feder ation, told the Governor that neither he nor President Moyer nor any other official of the Federation had any au thority to stop the strike. He indi cated, however, that the officers of the union were willing to recommend to the men any basis of settlement that would carry with it an affirmation of some kind .of the right of the men to Join any society, union, church or oth er organization that suited them. Throughout the hearing the Tart that local men had taken In the affair was kept well to the front. Practically all witnesses testified they started to labor when less than 15 years old and had been under ground from 15 to 25 years. Their pay had ranged from $18 to $40 a month as boys and from $52 to $90 a month as miners. Opposition to Strike Related. Dan Sullivan, president of the dis trict council of the Federation; Carl E. Hietala, secretary of that body, and William Rickard and John Anttala, president and secretary of the Calumet local,, went on record as having been opposed to the calling of the strike. All four said that when they tried to stave off the strike they had been accused of selling out to the companies. Hietala said that "a lot of- fellows" had so accused him and Anttala said that 100 union members had berated him for his attitude. Hietala told the Governor the ballot boxes had been open for days for a vote on the Btrike question and that a count on July 8 showed approximately 7680 votes for the strike and about 125 against the proposition. He said the membership of the various locals was then about 9000, approximately 1200 having failed to vote because of absence or indiffer ence. These figures led the Governor to In quire about the present strength. Fig ures taken from the district council records showed a total of 9815 men now In the district, of whom 7710 were on the relief rolls. Hietala explained the difference between the total member ship and the relief roll as representing the men who had been able to support themselves without aid from the union and Instanced the cases of 25 men, who, he said, had made their first ap plication for strike benefits only last week. SECRETARY LANE REFUSES Neither Governorship Nor ship Attract. Senator- SACRAMENTO, Jan. 7 A newspaper dispatch today from Washington quoted Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, as refusing to be p. candi date for United States Senator or for Governor of California, Secretary Lane said his refusal was positive and with out qualification. His name has been mentioned frequently as a possible op ponent of Governor Johnson on the Democratic ticket. SAN JOSE, Cal., Jan. 7 John D. Fredericks, District Attorney of Los Angeles County, the prosecutor in the McNamara dynamite casa, said here to day that he was willing to be a can didate for Governor of California on the Republican ticket. M'CREERY WINS DECISION Millionaire Can Send King's Physi cian to Prove Sanity. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7. Walter McCreery, millionaire, held in Califor nia to be insane and held in England, whither he fled recently, to be sane, won an allowance of $5000 by a deci sion today in Superior Court. This sum is to bring to this state JVlcUreery ana a Dr. Mercler, special pnysician to the King of England. The Kings physician will be the principal witness at a hearing January 12 to determine the competency of Mc Creery. Dr. Chapman Talks to Students. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, Jan. 7. (Special.) Dr. C. H. Chapman, of Portland, ad dressed the students and faculties at the convocation exercises today. In addition to the regular students the short-course students attended in a body. Dr. Chapman also delivered an address before the faculties and the extension officers in the afternoon. Other noted speakers secured by Presi dent Kerr during the present school year are Lincoln Steffena an4 "Bill' Hanley. Pellagra Hospital Asked For. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Secretary McAdoo today asked Congress to ap propriate jii.uuu tor a pellagra hospl tal at Savannah, Ga. A GILO VE S AILE With a Definite Purpose With a Positive Object With a Fixed Principle With Genuine Economy Why? Eyery Pair of Winter Shoes for-Men, Women, Children Is Trenchantly Reduced Every Pair New This Season French Lecture, Friday, 11 to 12 A. M. "Les Grande Inities," by Selurie In the Phonograph Hall, Basement. Given by Dr. DeLory, PH. D. . Free to All. turn "Merchandise or of Merit Only Basement. Merchandise of of Merit Only" a LE Qp ' rlANHATTAN SHIRTS ' i j BETTER RAGE IS AIM Conference in Battle Creek to Be Begun Today. WIDE RANGE IS COVERED Practical Eugenics, Conditions of Labor as Affecting Standard of Humanity and Kindred Top ics on Programme. BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Jan. 7. With the improvement of the human race as the chief purpose of its en deavor, the National Conference for Race Betterment will begin a confer ence here tomorrow, at which several hundred delegates are expected to be present. Some of the topics which will be the subject of papers read before the con ference are: The Basic Principles or Race Betterment," "Apparent Increase in Degenerative Diseases," "Crime," "Sterilization," "Practical Eugenics, ' "Alcohol," "Tobacco, a Race Poison,' "Factory Degeneration," "School Hy giene,' "Infant Mortality" and "Better Babies." Among those who will attend and present papers are: Dr. C. A. L. Read, of Cincinnati; Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, of Chicago; Jacob A. Rils, of New York; Dr. D. A. Sargent, of Harvard; Profes sor Fisher, of Yale; Dr. J. N. Hurty, of Indianapolis; Dr. Ernest Hoge, of Ice land Stanford University; Dr. Richard Root Smith, of Grand. Rapids, and Pro fessor Walter F. Willcox, of Cornell. Stephen Smith, vice-president of the New York State Board of Charities, Is president of the conference. The hon orary presidents are Judge Ben B. Lindsay, Woodbridge N. Ferris and Right Hon. Sir Horace Plunkett. Pro fessor Irving Fisher is one of the vice presidents. Dr. J. H. Kellogg is a member of the executive committee. S. S. McClure and Giflord Finchot are two of the members of tha central committee. John Mitchell , and Frank Morrison against charges of contempt of court, of which the labor leaders were con victed in the courts of the District of Columbia. Mr. Gompers, the only one of the defendants present, sat with his wife through the argument. Mr. Parker presented the case from an angle different from that submitted when the original appeal was argued in 1911. He asserted the utterances which have been made the basis for the contempt procedlngs were not de signed to violate the District Supreme Court's boycott Injunction Issued in favor of the Bucks Stove & Range Com pany. He said they were a part of the campaign to induce Congress to remedy the threatened danger result ing from the Supreme Court's decision in the Danbury hatters' case, in which it was held that the Sherman anti-trust law applied to labor organizations. The argument will be continued to morrow. 3 CANDIDATES TO SPEAK PROSPECTIVE SUCCESSORS TO W. L. JONES WILL ATTEND DLWER. PARKER AIDING GOMPERS New Angle Presented in Argument of Contempt Cases. WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. Alton B. Parker began the defense today before the Supreme Court of Samuel Gompers, PROMINENT SOCIOLOGISTS WHO ARE HOLDING CONFERENCE ON IMPROVEMENT OF RACE. 13 r - ytt9? ' f -1 JjS ( Jr6x f V J 1 - (S ' 1 r " ' 'T-ffi - s. , , . . ' f v 7 ' - t " v;v -v cr I - t i t i f - An . 1 Several Dodge Issue When Invited to Attend Jefreraonlan Dollar Dinner In Seattle Thnrnday. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 7. (Special.) There will be but three Senatorial candidates represented at the Jackson day dinner of the King County Demo cratic Club Thursday. The state has been combed by the programme com mittee to find other aspirants but if any other Bourbon has his eye on Wesley L. Jones' seat he has managed to escape the posse of county chairmen sent out to locate him. Ex-Senator Turner, of Spokane, who is expected to be in the race, is in the East and will not return until next month. Whether or not Turner is pre pared to avow himself openly is not known even to the Democratic com mittee which failed to elicit a reply to its invitation. Maurice A. Langhorne may be intend ing to make the fight but he did not make himself known to the chairman of the Pierce County committee and has no place on the King County Club's list of speakers. L. F. Chester, of Spokane, who was a. candidate for the gubernatorial nomination last year and who was announced to be a can didate last year for Senator, was in Seattle a few days ago to declare that he planned to move from Spokane and enter the practice of law here. He probably will abandon his senatorial aspirations. Aside from Judge W. W. Black, of Everett; George Cotterlll and Hugh C. Todd, of Seattle, who will frankly discuss their own . candidacies, the Jackson day speakers will be Rev. James P. Morrlssy and A. R. Titlow, of Tacoma. The dinner will be held Thurs day night and is to cost $1 a plate. HARRISBURG IS DRY STILL ZJ0( "'JDSZ ABOVE, GROUP OF" COMMITTEEMEN TOP (LEFT TO RIGHT), SIR IT. PLUNKETT, DR. J. H. KELLOGG, GIFFORD PINCHOT BOTTOM ROW OF GROUP S. S. M'CLURB AND PROFESSOR IKVI'6 FISHER BOTTOM (LEFT), STEPHEN SMITH) (RIGHT, DR, J. H. KELLOGG. Council Passes 'Saloon Question On to Its Successor. HARRISBURG. Or.. Jan. 7. (Spe cial.) Notwithstanding the fact that the town of Harrlsburg has been de clared wet by the recent decision of Judge Galloway, who ruled the election here illegal, the City Council refused to errant any of the three applications for saloon licenses which were present ed at their meeting last night. This meeting was the last of the old Council. When the petitions were read Council man Cartwright moved that the two licenses presented by the men who have operated saloons here the past year be granted. His motion was lost Councilman Weatherf ord's motion that tha matter be referred to the new Council carried. Although elected by a large majority on what has been generally conceded to be the "wet" ticket, there is strong belief that they will refuse to issue any licenses for saloons until the Supreme Court has rendered a decision. DELAYS ATFERRY AROUSE Vancouver Women Appeal to Oregon Railroad Commission. SALEM, Or., Jan. 7. (Special.) De claring that the connections at Van couver between the streetcars of that citv. the ferry and the Portland Rail way. Light & Power Company's lines are poor, the Women's Club of Vancou ver, through Its president, Mrs. Frank E. Vaughan, today filed complaint with the Oregon State Railroad Commission. Mrs. Vaughan asserts that often de lays of from 30 to 35 minutes at the ferry are caused. A 30-minute sched ule is asked on both lines. It is probable that the club will have to apply to the Interstate Commerce Commission for relief. Blazing Sliirt Signals Aid. SPRINGFIELD. Or.. Jan. 7. (Spe cial.) When shouts and firing of a re volver failed to bring assistance, M. P. Van Houghton, a visitor from the State of Washington, who had. fallen from his horse near Vlda and broken his leg Monday night,- tore oft bis shirt and. setting it on Are, waved the blazing torch until be had attracted attention. He was returning home alone at the time, . - Manhattan Shirt Sale The Great Semi-Annual Event Will Attract More Men to This Store Than All Others Combined For Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Are Principal Manhattan Shirt Agents $1.50 Shirts, Sale . . '.$1.15 $ 4.00 Shirts, Sale . . . $2.85 . $1.38 $ 5.00 Shirts, Sale . . . $3.55 . $1.88 $ 6.00 Shirts, Sale . . . $4.45 . $2.25 $ 7.50 Shirts, Sale . . . $5.45 . $2.65 $10.00 Shirts, Sale . . . $6.45 $2.00 Shirts, Sale . $2.50 Shirts, Sale . $3.00 Shirts, Sale. $3.75 Shirts, Sale . First Floor, Washington St Entrance An Unusual and Extraordinary Sale Of the Famous Forsythe Waists The Joy of the Smartly Gowned Sports-Loving Woman 4 Clearance $1.50 Regular Prices $3.50, $3.75 -"Forsythe aists" stand for the best in tailored waists for women a gar ment that is always worn by the fash ionable and well-dressed women of America. In fact no wardrobe is con- sidered complete without at least a few changes of these smartly tailored waists for outdoor wear. This is a very unusual and unexpected sale, offering these famous waists made of plain and striped madras in various ef fective colors having plaited fronts and either the soft or laun dered cuffs. , Third Floor Plaid Walking Skirts, Clearance $4.23 Of fancy wool plaid materials cut in the late straight-gored models, some having pockets at the sides and others plaits down the front. -. Such skirts as these will do service for many a long day for cross country walking, for beach wear next season and for morning shopping trips on rainy days under the raincoat. 3d Fir. Newest Nadia Corset Sizes 20 to 30 Special $1.95 These nadia corsets have just arrived and represent one of the latest models for Spring. Made of a fine grade of coutil having the medium low bust, long over the hips and back with the elastic gore to give ease in sit ting. Three pairs of hose ;upporters. A New $3 Corset Clearance $1.95 New 1914 model in Ren--ro Belt made of fancy boucle with low bust, and jna; over the abdomen, hips and back, with elastic in back to give ease in sitting. Boned throughout with dou ble . watch-spring steels. Three pairs of hose support ers attached. izes 20 to 30. 4th Floor Second-Day Sale of Brassieres Selling at $1.00 to $1.50 Special 69c Various styles and trimmings, suitable for stout as well as me dium and slender figures . Fourth Floor. 1 25c 1 l Each- H For Picture Frames That Sell Regularly at 75c to $2.00 Here is your chance to se cure the prettiest frames for those pictures you have put off having framed. All of these frames are made up of odds and ends of our fin est mouldings which were left from the busy Xmas selling. Frames of mouldings from a half to .two inches wide of gilt, antique gold, walnut ve neer, mahogany and mission finish. Stock sizes from 8 by 10 inches to 16 by 20 inches. All special 25c each. Sixth Floor. FREE CLASSES FLEISHER YARNS Free instructions daily by Miss S. S. Schaefer. -Second Floor J .