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PORTLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUAKY 15, 1914.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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RESCUERS REACH
BREAKING VESSEL
96 Leave Cobequid; 12
Stay by Wreck.
SHIP FOUND AFTER 36 HOURS
Captain and Eleven Men Re
fuse to Desert Liner.
WOMEN TAKEN OFF FIRST
Rescue Work Accomplished Without
Accident Boat Grounded on
Trinity Rock Obscured by
Haze for Two Days.
TARMOUTH, N. S.. Jan. 14. Snatched
from what seemed, almost certain
death, passengers and crew of the
Royal Mall packet Cobequid are snug
tonight In Yarmouth harbor.
Wireless appeals for assistance,
which the steamer first made 36 hours
before, were answered late today as
the doomed vessel was being dashed
to pieces on Trinity Bock, six miles
off Port Maltland. The rescue will
fro down in shipping annals as one of
the most notable ever accomplished on
the Atlantic coast. Ninety-six persons
were taken safely to shore, 12 remain
ing by the wreck.
The Cobequid bad begun to break
up under the battering of the terrific
seas that beat mercilessly from the
time the vessel struck early yesterday.
Quantities of cargo covered the wa
ters as the lifeboats ranged along
side. Rnrnc la Without Accident.
The costal steamers Westport and
John Ij. Cann were first to get boats
Into the water and they were followed
toon by the boats of the Government
f-teamer Lansdowne and the Rappa
hannock. As the work of rescue pro
gressed the sea subsided considerably
nd no mishap marred, the triumph
over the waves.
Captain McKinnon, of the Westport,
found the liner on the southeast part
of Trinity Ledge at 4:20 o"clock this
afternoon. At tho time there was a
high wind and rough sea. He took off
in three lifeboat loads 73 persons, in
cluding all the passengers, the purser,
several officers and part of the crew.
Captain Stays by Wreck.
The Westport stood by until 6:11
tonight when the John I Cann came
up. The latter took off 24 men, as
the Westport was leaving for YaN
mouth. The captain and 11 men of the
crew decided to remain on the ship
until morning and the Government
steamer Lansdowne remained by with
them. The Westport arrived at Tar
mouth at 9 o'clock and the John L.
Cann followed soon afterward.
The Cobequld's stern was not bro
ken, as first reported, according to
the account given by Captain McKin
non. In fact the after part was high
est out of the water, f The Cobequid
was heavily coated with ice.
A gas buoy on Trinity Ledge was re
ported by Captain McKinnon as being
in position, but badly iced, which
might make it of little use in a enow
storm.
Woman First Rescued.
The 108 persons on the Cobequid In
cluded 13 first-cabin passengers and
an equal number in the second class.
Mrs. W. C. Zoller and her child were
the first to go over the side. Then
followed Miss Marguerita and Miss
Dorothy James, daughters of the late
R. P. James, Mayor of St. George's
Bermuda, and two Sisters of Charity
One by one the men were lowered to
lifeboats until only Captain Hawson
and 11 men remained on the deck.
. Preparations had been made here to
care for the shipwrecked ones and
they were given every comfort th
city afforded.
Trinity rock, on which the Cobequid
was transfixed at 5 o'clock yesterday
morning. Is a pinnacle of granite rising
abruptly from the sea half way between
this port and Brier Island, where the
steamer was at flAt thought to have
struck. Trinity rock Is awash at low
water.
The famous Lurcher shoal, which is
indicated by a lightship, lies ten miles
outside Trinity Rock, while the course
up the Bay of Fundy takes vessels still
further off shore.
Gale Send Ship to Shore.
The bay was swept by a blizzard as
the Cobequid, bound from the tropics,
began to feel her way toward St. John.
The last of the ebb tide was running,
and the wind was strong from the
west conditions which tended to drive
the steamer closer to the eastern shore
than her skipper anticipated.
The crash came Just before dawn, and
& few minutes later the wireless "S. O.
S." was flashing over the sea. The
Cobequld's operator was unable to give
her location, for no one on board knew
It definitely. Four hours later flood
tide and gales had driven the steamer
still farther on the rock, breaking, her
back and flooding the engine-room.
This put out the. fires and Interrupted
the wireless apparatus.
Passengers were greatly alarmed. 'but
the courage of Captain Hawsen and his
abiding faith in his ship reassured
them. The steamer took water rapidly
and the cargo began to tear away.
Throughout the day and the night
, that followed officers scanned the sea
for passing craft, and the operator
iCouoludetl oa Fas 0.).
SUFFERING FROM
STORM IS ACUTE
FIRES ADD TO DIFFICULTY OF
SEW YORK SITUATION.
Mayor MItchel Considers Opening
Madison Square Garden to New
Army of Homeless Ones.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14. Relief from
the most severe cold spell that this
city has experienced in 15 years was In
sight tonight. Rising temperatures
abated the suffering in the streets, but
during the day the weather was so
cold that six persons succumbed to ex
posure, bringing the death list for the
city and vicinity up to 13 since the
frigid wave arrived early yesterday.
The mercury rose from 5 degrees be
low zero at 2 A. M. to 19 above at 5
P. M., when It turned colder, and four
hours later stood at 13 above, with
prospects, however, that it would not
drop more than another three or four
degrees during the night.
. Directly due to the cold, the fire de
partment had one of the busiest days
in its history. Water pipes were frozen
in homes all over the city and many
fires were caused by attempts to thaw
them out.
More than 1000 persons, ' including
the Inmates of two Bowery lodging
houses, were driven to the streets. The
fire situation became so serious dur
ing the day that engines were put to
work thawing out frozen hydrants.
The homeless descended on the lodg
ing-houses again tonight. The Mayor
considered hiring Madison Square Gar
den and turning it and the city Arm
ories over to the suffering if the usual
sheltering places become overcrowded.
As one measure of relief, the Mayor di
rected the street-cleaning department to
put the jobless men to work tomorrow
paying them sufficient wages to en
able them to buy clothing and food
until the weather moderates.
COUPLE NOT 'ONE' ON JURY
Man on Same Case With. Wife Says
He and Mate Think Apart.
SPOKANE. Wash., Jan. 14. (Spe
cial.) "I see that juror No. 11 has the
same name as yourself," remarked At
torney J. J. Lavln to another Juror
in Judge II. L. Keenan's court today In
the process of picking out a jury "Are
you acquainted with her?"
"Let me see," answered L. P. Lowrie,
from the box, reflectively. "I think
It's about 23, no, 24 years since I met
her. Isn't It Ida? She's my wife." he
added. And so ' both of them are serv
ing today on the same jury.
That 24 years of acquaintance, they
both insisted, had not prevented and
would not prevent each one from
forming a separate and Individual opin
ion. WOMAN DECLINES OFFICE
Lebanon's Elected Recorder Can't
Af rord to Take $ 1 0 0 a Year Place.
LEBANON, Or., Jan 14 (Special.)
Miss Helen V. Crawford, who was
elected to the office of City Recorder
of Lebanon, after investigating the
matter and the compensation paid, con
cluded that she could not afford to
give the office the time required with
out neglecting her business interests
and did not qualify for the office. The
salary attached to the office is only
$100 a year.
The Council this week elected to
fill the vacancy Rev. W. L. Elkins, pas
tor of the Christian Church, and he
has qualified for the office.
DEAD TARS FOUND IN BOAT
Papers on Bodies May Tell Fate of
German Steamer Acllia.
VALPARAISO, Chile. Jan. 14. Two
boats containing the bodies of the sec
ond mate and two sailors of the Ger
man steamer Acilia were found today
in Aguirre Bay, Terra del Fuego. The
Acilia left Tocopllla, Chile, early in
October and later called at Corral,
Chile, whence she sailed for Hamburg
on October 27.
No report of an accident to the Acilia
has been received by the authorities,
but the papers found on the dead sail
ors are expected to throw some light
on what happened.
CANAL TO SOUND IS PLAN
Columbia River-Puget Waterway Is
Idea of Senator Jones.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash,
ington, Jan. 14. Senator Jones today
introduced a resolution directing the
Army Engineers to make a survey and
estimate the cost of a canal connect
ing Puget Sound with the Columbia
River by way of Grays Harbor. He will
offer this resolution as an amendment
to the river and harbor bill.
Senator Jones also introduced a reso.
lution for a new survey of the Olympia
harbor with a view to its further im
provement and another for a survey of
the Columbia River at Kettle Falls.
JAIL BRAVED FOR FRIEND
Boy Walks 7 5 Miles to Plead Guilty
to Bootlegging Two Fined.
FORT SMITH, Arlt, Jan. 14. To
save John Sharp, a friend, Brodie
Bates, 19 years old, walked from Braw
ley, a mountain town, to Fort Smith,
75 miles, that he might plead guilty
today to selling whisky at a picnic
Bates told Judge Toumans, of the
Federal Court, that he and not Sharp
was responsible for the sale, of the
whisky. The Judge fined the boys
$100 each, suspending a jail sentence,
and gave them two months to pay the
fine. Sharp is IS years old.
IMMUNITY- BATHS"
TO BE ELIMINATED
Wilson Outlines Trust
Plans Again.
FRIENDLY SPIRIT IS URGED
President, However, Insists on
Personal Responsibility.
LEADERS IN CONFERENCE
Committees of Botb Houses Deter
mine to Proceed With. Drafting
of Bills No Pnblle Hear
ings to Bo Held.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14. President
Wilson took Into his confidence today
on the subject of anti-trust reform the
Democratic members of the Benate
committee on interstate coirlmerce and
a subcommittee of the House Judiciary
committee.
With these committees, which will
be in charge of anti-trust legislation,
the President spent several hours read
ing his forthcoming message and
pointing out-the general lines along
which he . believes trust legislation
should be framed. From the confer
ence the following programme was as
sured: Prohibition of Interlocking direc
torates in banks, trust companies and
allied industrial corporations.
Uncertainty to Be Kllmlnated.
Elimination of uncertainty as to
what constitutes a restraint of trade
under the Sherman law through spe
cific definition of monopolies and
trusts, so that there can be no "rea
sonable" restraint of trade.
"The removal of all possibility of
"immunity "baths" for offending cor
porations or individuals.
Establishment of an interstate trade
commission, which would take over the
bureau of corporations, serve as an
auxiliary to the courts and Department
of Justice and act as a bureau of In
formation to which the business world
could direct inquiries, but which
would have no power of granting im
munity or of regulation.
. Provision In every case for penalties
based on individual responsibility and
personal guilt.
Details Left to Future.
The conferences were devoted large
ly to generalities. The President did
most of the talking, with occasional
interruptions from his visitors. De
tails were left to the committees them
selves to work out In co-operation with
the Department of Justice and the De
partment of Commerce.
The President Impressed his desire
that the task be approached in a
friendly, Tather than a hostile, spirit
(Concluded on Page 2.)
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDATB Maximum temperature, 60
degrees; minimum, 42 degrees.
TODAY'S Occasional rain; southerly winds,
foreign.
Rand strikers besieged by police In union
hall. Page U
Rescuers reach, wrecked steamer Cobequid.
Page 1.
Continued eruptions prevent rescue In Japan.
Page .
Mexican General tells why soldiers fled to
Texas. Page 2.
National.
Two Alaska railway bills debated in Con-
greaa. Page 2.
"Immunity bath" eliminated from Wilson's
trust programme. Page 1.
Domestic.
Portland bride arrested In San Francisco on
charge tat stealing suitcase.. Page 2.
Independent phone companies want Govern
ment to own toll lines. Page 2.
Industries resuming on large scale in East.
Page 1.
Mew York storm entails acute suffering.
Page 1.
Ex-offlclal of fuel concern says company waa
willing to act "handsomely." Page 4.
Pacific Northwest.
West Woodburn may lose charter, through
action of liquor men. Page L
Spokane banker says be' will answer in
Cooley case. Page 7.
Two men' In lonely Siskiyou mountain
cabin mysteriously shot dead. Page 8.
President Bushnell inaugurated and 65th an
niversary of founding of Pacific Uni
versity celebrated. Page B. .
First "Factories Promotion Congress" of
Oregon opens at Corvallis. Page 6.
Agent of army of idle on march rides on
train. Page S.
Commercial and Marine.
Tendency of wool prices in foreign markets
upward. Page 15.
Wheat higher at Chicago on estimates of
large foreign demand. Page 15.
Stock and bond prlcea advance vigorously.
Page 15.
Cascade canal to be shut to boats January
lit for work. Page 12.
Sport.
Eight Coast players receive offers from
Federals; one accepts, one - wavering.
Page 8.
Changes on Grand Racing Circuit are sweep
ing. Page 6.
Boxers and wrestlers to meet at Multnomah
Club. Page 6.
Federal League to open season with real
class on diamond. Page 7.
Commercial League bowlers roll high scores.
Portland and Vicinity.
Bankers think' Portland's chances for re
serve bank helped by state institutions.
Pago 10.
Survey to learn value of Portland Railway,
Light & Power Company's property nears
.. Completion. Page 11.
Portland honors president of Wellesley Col-
' lete. Page 10.
Militia officers favor pay for drill bill of
War Department page lti.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17.
Side-door streetcars put in operation on
Hawthorne line. . Page 11.
Jury awards Mrs.' Gertrude Cerllnger verdict
of fl. Page 16.
"Gateway" hearing is held in Portland.
Page 12.
Mantell scores successes in "Merchant, of
Venice" and "Macbeth." Page 18.
PEACE PACT TO BE SIGNED
Bolivia Is Eeady to Meet - Bryan's
Idea for Arbitration ag Diplomacy.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. Secretory
Bryan and Senor Don Ignacio Calderon,
Bolivian Minister, agreed today on the
terms of a treaty providing that any
question between the United States and
Bolivia which cannot be settled by
diplomacy shall be submitted for in
vestigation to an international commis
sion of five members.
This treaty, which shortly will be
signed, will follow the lines of the
peace convention recently signed by
Secretary Bryan and The Netherlands
Minister.
SimIar treaties have been negotiated
with five Central American countries
and similar terms' with the Dominican
Republic have been agreed to.
AND YET WE COMPLAIN".
UNO
in IN RAND
BESIEGED
Police Make Attack
Without Avail.
FOOD OF DEFENDERS SCARCE
Wen Live-on Fruit but Water
Supply Is Cut Off.
FORCES ARE FULLY ARMED
Railway Authorities In Transvaal
Maintain Partial Train Service
and Concentrate Efforts on
Obtaining food.
JOHANNESBURG. South Africa, Jan.
14. A siege of Trades Hall, where Sec
retary Bain, of the Federation of
Trades, and a band cf supporters are
defying the police from behind barri
cades, was the main feature of the
strike drama today.
After the hall had been attacked by
police without avail, great crowds
gathered and the police were com
pelled to make several bayonet charges
owing to the aggressive attitude of
the people, many of whom were slight
ly wounded.
With the final bayonet charge the
police cleared the neighborhood and a
cordon of officers with fixed bayonets
was thrown around the hall. The post,
tion of the besieged Bain and his
friends Is serious, as they are cut off
from water.
Police Withhold Assault.
Bain came out of the ball tonight
and strolled nonchalantly about the
cleared space in view of the police and
re-entered the hall. No attempt was
made to arrest him. The police com
mander explained he had no intention
of again making an assault on the hall,
as he considered the 300 men In it as
good as In JaiL The besieged have
been able to get food from nearby
restaurants.
A bomb explosion occurred today at
Benone, slightly injuring three mount
ed troopers. Several strikers arrested
near the place were rescued by their
comrades, but were subsequently re
arrested.
The) Transvaal . Railway authorities
are maintaining a partial service and
are attempting to Insure an adequate
supply of food and fuel. The bakers
are , determined not to . strike for the
present, but they refuse to bake for
the police, troops or special consta
bles. One firm, however, has declined
to be bound by this agreement.
Natives to Be Kept at-Work.
The miners continue to stop work as
fast as their shifts end. The depart
ment of mines announces that it will
keep , the mines running and has no
intention of sending the natives home.
(Concluded on Page 2.)
IN HALL
'BOOZE' MAY COST
CHARTER OF CITY
GOVEUXOR FIXES SUIT AGAINST
WEST WOODBURN.
Town Wltb. targe Area Said to Be
Only SO Feet Wide In One Place
to LeaTe Out Prohibitionists.
SALEM, Or., Jan. 14. (Special.)
Alleging that the town was illegally
incorporated In order that a saloon
might be established there. District At
torney Ringo, at the instance of Gov
ernor West, today instituted suit
against the officials of West Wood
burn, asking that the incorporation be
declared void. ' The Information upon
which the suit Is based Is believed to
have been obtained by Miss Hobbs, the
Governor's private secretary, who
passed a day or two in West Woodburn
Just before ehe, was dispatched to Cop
P erf I eld.
It is alleged that the Incorporators
of West Woodburn resorted to divers
and sundry means to find sufficient
population to warrant incorporation.
According to a drawing of the town,
filed with the suit, it is shaped like an
old-fashioned locomotive, with a long
streamer of smoke behind. If a circle
were drawn around it the enclosure
would contain many hundred acres, ac
cording to the persons who have made
an Investigation. At one place the town
is said to be only 30 feet wide. This
was necessary, it is declared, because
persons living Just outside the city
limits on both sides are Prohibitionists.
TARIFF WOOLMEN'S TOPIC
Grazing Ijand Laws Also to Be Dis
cussed at Utah Convention.
SALT LAKE CITT, Jan. 14. Dele
gates from every wool-producing state
In the Union were here tonight to at
tend the 60th annual convention of the
National Wool Growers' Association,
wnich begins a three days" session to
morrow. It is predicted that the
largest attendance in the history, of
me organization win De recorded.
Foremost among the subjects for dl
cission are the new wool tariff and the
proposed adjustment in the use of nub
lie ranges by a system of leasing. At
the Utah Wool Growers' Association
today resolutions were introduced op
posing the leasing of public lands, as
provided in three bills pending before
Congress.
T. R.'S VISIT BREEDS SUIT
Hotel Asks Damages as Rival Carries
Colonel Off In Carriage.
TURIN, Italy, Jan. 14. An echo of
the visit to Italy of ex-President
Roosevelt in 1910 was heard today,
when a suit for damages instituted by
one hotel keeper against another was
ended by the rejection of the claim.
When Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt
made their "second honeymoon" trip
from Spezia to Rapallo, rooms were
engaged for them at a hotel at Sestri,
but the proprietor of a rival hotel met
them with a carriage decorated with
American flags and drove them to his
hotel. -
The disappointed hotel proprietor in
stituted a suit against the other on the
charge of "disloyal competition."
TOBACCO SALES HALTED
No Longer Can Small Boy Purchase
AVeed Even With Written Request.
No longer can the small boy bo sent
by his father to the corner grocery
store for tobacco. The City' Commis
sion yesterday passed an ordinance
prohibiting any dealer from selling
or giving (ttway any tobacco to a
minor either with or without written
request from the boy's parents.
The measure is aimed to eliminate
abuses arising from the present law
which legalizes the sale of tobacco to
minors upon presentation of a written
order. The abuse rests in the fact that
boys often forge the names of their
parents to get tobacco for their own
uses.
COW NEW CREDIT BASIS
Kansas Banker Relegates Steer to
Financial Background.
TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 14. E. T. Ran
som, a banker of Wichita, Kan., told
the Kansas Improved Stock Breeders'
Association today all bankers should
change their system of credit from the
steer to the cow.
He was discussing the conservation
of the cow, and asserted that when a
bank extended credit to farmers on
steers it was a credit that meant the
removal of the steers to a butcher shop.
"But when the banker gives a farmer
credit with which to buy cows he does
something that means additional ani
mals on the farm each year," Ransom
said.
RECRUITING RECORD MADE
Portland Navy Station Enlists Seven,
Beating Previous Figures.
Portland Navy recruiting records
were broken yesterday at the recruit
ing station located in the new Morgan
building. Seven men were started on
their way to become apprentice seamen
at the training station at San Fran
cisco. Since the station was opened
in Portland August 23, 1911, on three
different days the enlistment reached
six. the previous high number.
The men enlisted were John L. Smith,
Eric A. Wright, Walter R. Raymond
and Chester A. Dark, sent here from
Spokane, and Lark N. Evans, Leiand
F. Rolf and Henry II. Ilickethier, of
Portland. -
INDUSTRIES BEGIN
TO RESUME IN EAST
Mills and Mines Are
in Operation.
WHEELING DISTRICT IS ACTIVE
Double Time Ordered in Mills
Around Birmingham, Ala.
CLOTH MARKET IMPROVES
Noteworthy Advance Recorded in
New England Textile Industry
and Expansion From Now
on Is Prediction.
WHEELING, W. Va.. Jan. 14. (Spe
clal.) Ten thousand men have re
turned since the first of the year in
the Wrheeline district alone. The ma
jority have been idle for four months.
Idle coal mines are resuming opera
tions. Many that have been in only
partial operation are resuming in full.
Five thousand men returned to work
this week at the Riverside tube plant
of the National Steel Company. Here
the new plant of the Wheeling Sheet
& Tinplate Company has been placed
in operation, employing 1000 men, and
the Whittaker-Glessner Company is
preparing to resume in full after oper
ating only part time.
BIRMINGHAM MTLIiS RESUME
Rail Plant Working Double Time
and Wire and Pipo Works Open.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 14. (Spe
cial.) The big Ensly rail mill of the
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Com
pany was working short time last Fall
and shut down for repairs during tha
holidays, but has now resumed on
double time.
The new $3,000,000 wire mill of tho
American Steel & Wire Company, at
Fairfield, is having its machinery
tested this week and will begin turn
ing out wire products within the Jiext
few days. It will employ 3000 men.
The new pipe plant of the National
Cast Iron Pipe Company, at Boyles, is
nearly completed and will begin opera
tion by the end of the month, employ
ing about 500 men.
CLOTH MARKETS IMPROVING
New England 3Ianufacturcrs and
Brokers Are Optimistic.
FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan. 14. (Spe
cial.) For the past ten days there has
been marked improvement in the New
England cloth markets, and cloth has
advanced materially, especially wide
goods. Considerably more than a ma
jority of the mills here are running In
full. Even during dull times none ot
the mills was closed. Manufacturers
and brokers are of the opinion that
from now on business will expand and
prices will advance.
Reports from cotton yarn brokers
show that the business is gaining, al
though prices named by buyers are low.
AUTO SPEED RATE FIXED
Ten Miles an Hour in Front of
Schools Now Maximum.
Ten miles an hour was fixed as the
maximum speed for automobiles in
front of public schools during noon or
recess periods in kan ordinance passed
by the City Commission yesterday. The
measure provides for the extension of
ropes across streets in front of somo
of the schools while in front of others
signs will be put up to warn automo
billsts and others.
The ordinance was passed to protect
children playing in the streets from be
ing run down by automobiles or other
vehicles.
MILITIA GETS INDEMNITY
Guardsmen Held to Come Under
Workmen's Compensation Act.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 14. Califor
nia's National Guardsmen come within
the scope of the provisions of the
workmen's compensation act and are
entitled to indemnity for injuries suf
fered while in the service of the state.
in the opinion of C. M. Bradley, at
torney for the State Industrial Acci
dent Commission.
Participation in regular practice
drills is construed by Bradley to be
service to the state."
CANADIAN NAVY TO WAIT
Government Will Not Again Oppose
Liberal Majority in Senate.
OTTAWA, Ontario, Jan. 14 Canada
will not launch a naval programme this
year, it developed with the opening of
Parliament today.
At the last session the government
brought in a bill appropriating $35,-
000,000 for the construction of three
battleships which were to be assigned
to the British home fleet. This meas
ure met with pronounced opposition.
but was carried through the Canadian
lower house, only to meet defeat in
the Canadian senate, where the Lib
erals were in tho majority. There is
still a Liberal majority In the Btnate.
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