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K v VOL. I.III.- NO. 1G,58G. , PORTLAND. OREGON. ,VF.nKSTl.Y. .iAvnpv o , ACTION FOLLOWS WILSON'S ADDRESS Machinery for Hearings in Motion. CO-OPERATION IS PROMISED Gallinger Tells Democrats to Abandon Caucus. THIRD PARTY CRITICISES Representative Mnrdock Says Sug gestions Are Inadequate Demo cratic Leaders Profess Illa tion Over Policy. WASHINGTON. Jan. 20. President Wilson's suggestion to Congress today In his trust address that the Govern ment and business men are ready to meet each other half way "in a com mon effort to square business methods with both public opinion and the law" fell on attentive ears and struck a re sponsive chord In different parties. The atmosphere of co-operation and accommodation in the message, the re forms proposed expressed in terms of conservatism and the spirit of friend liness to supersede antagonism In deal ing with big business which dominated the President's thoughts roused expres sion of approval from all sides. Few discordant notes were sounded In com ments from members of the Congress who are to pass on legislation urged to prohibit monopoly and hold men of business within the law. Susaeatlons Are Applauded. Throughout the delivery of the ad dress the assembled Senators and Rep i eentatives listened intently to every void, applauding frequent when the President began ennumeration of evils which he believed needed remedying. 11 is proposal for an interstate trade "inmission to facilitate business and Keep it in the straight path; the rec t mmendation of laws to prohibit in terlocking directorates and holding companies; suggestions for authority to l-ogulate railroad securities; for an act that would fix guilt upon individuals instead of punishing business, and that the courts be opened to individuals harmed by illegal business all of these were received with general approval, evidenced by enthusiastic applause. Action Is Bearun Promptly. Before the plaudits of his audience had ceased and as the President was passing from the House chamber where his successive appearances since last April have contributed to the Na tion's history, his utterances had pre cipitated action. Representative Underwood, majority leader of the House, was the first to act. As soon as the House reconvened after the Joint session held to hear the President, he offered a motion to refer to the Interstate and foreign commerce committee the suggestions for the crea tion of an Interstate trade commission and for a law empowering the Inter state Commerce Commission to regu late the Issuance of railroad securities and to refer to the committee on judi ciary these proposals relating to lcgls lation designed to supplement, but not amend, the Sherman anti-trust act. This motion was adopted and It was an nounced later that both committees would begin work at once and arrange lor public hearings. Slurdoclc Not Satisfied. Members of the House Judiciary com mittee and members of the Senate in terstate commerce committee, headed by Senator Newlands, of Nevada, con ferred again . on plans for expediting the bills to be submitted to Congress. Later Senator Newlands talked with Joseph E. Davies, Commissioner of Corporations, who read the trade com mission bill proposed by the judiciary sub-committee. This measure now will be introduced from the Senate com mittee probably tomorrow. Tho only unfavorable criticisms em anated from Progressives. Representa tive Murdoch, the third party leader asserting that the suggestions for the solution of the trust evils were "lnade Quate" and would render the trust evil more acute. "The President's recommendations aro moderate," said Senator Gallinger, leader of the Republicans in the Sen ate, -ana lor tue most part wise. It seems to me there is nothing In the recommendations that need disturb . business men or that would Justify radical legislation. If the Democratic members in both branches of Congress will formulate bills along the lines sug gested by the President and abandon their method of legislation by party caucus, they will find the Republicans ready to co-operate with them in bring ing about legislation of real benefit to the country." Senator Lodge remarked that the message was "very satisfactory" and Senator William Alden Smith, of Michi gan, said: "The President has at tacked the problem from his own view point, but probably his programme will do some good." Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, who repre sents the Progressive-Republican wing of the party, praised the address. "It was admirable," he said, "and I am In full accord with it, especially that portion which would fix personal crullt for violation of our trust laws." Representative Mann. tho minority leader of the House, also commended .Concluded on Page 2,1 IDAHO UNIVERSITY RAISES TANGO BAN DEAN OF WOMEN", CENSOR, SAYS KEW DANCE BEAUTIFUL-. Objection Originated Through "Po sitions Necessarily Assumed by Dancers," Asserts Woman. MOSCOW, Idaho. Jan. 20. That Miss Perineal French, dean of women at the University of Idaho, has lifted the ban on the tango In a modified form and one-step has Just developed In varsity circles. Miss French, who Is censor, said: "When the question arose, as happened some months ago, as to whether I would permit the dancing of the new steps at tho university, I decided most emphatically the new and much-advertised dances should not ap pear on any university programme and that no girl-student should dance them in Moscow. I objected to the positions necessarily assumed by the dancers and to the ungraceful and highly im proper movements Introduced. "Since that time public opinion has asserted itself so strongly that the dances have been modified and made beautiful. As they are now danced in the ball rooms of well-bred people I see in them nothing to object to, yet much to admire. They are graceful, animated, and some of them require a great deal of skill for their proper per formance. "I do not now and shall never per mit any student to dance any dance in an improper fashion. I think the present rage for the. new dances Is partly owing to the manner In which they have been talked about and partly owing to their novelty. "I may say. in conclusion," said Miss French, "that I have never permitted the girls to attend public dances in Moscow, whether their parents object or not. I do not regard a public dance hall as the proper place for any young woman." VEILED WOMAN IS MYSTERY Major Albee's Office Bestirred by Unusual Occurrence. When an attractive young woman. prettily attired and quite heavily veiled tripped quietly into 'Mayor Al bee's office yesterday arid asked if she might sit there for a while she spun a web of mystery which is causing con siderable uneasiness to the Mayor's secretary, Will H. Warren. The pretty young visitor did not an nounce her mission, either upon coming in or leaving. She merely askea the privilege of sitting in the office a little while. She took a chair over to a. desk, pulled out a pad of paper and -began making note. She would sit and look about at persons entering the office and would then make notes. After a half hour or bo of such mysterious antics she bowed politely and departed. leaving Secretary Warren trying to figure out what was to happen next. CHATHAM CALLS FOR AID Line to Yellowstone Breaks After 40- Mlle Tow Southward. MARSHFIELD. Or.. Jan. 20. (Spe cial.) The steamship Alliance, from Eureka, passed the Chatham and Yel lowstone this morning at 6:30 o'clock, and the towline had parted. The Yel lowstone put out signals and the Chatham was returning as the Alliance left the scene. The Chatham is calling Southern wireless stations for a relief tug from San Francisco for aid. The Chatham made 40 miles before her line parted. She reported at 8:30 A. M. that the Yellowstone had lost her anchor and chain, but the line had been attached and they were proceeding southward. The vessels were oft Cape Blanco. OLD FIGHT FOR BABY ENDS "Incubator" Child Matures as Battle Wages for Her In Court. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. The long legal fight for possession of the St. Louis Exposition "incubator baby" was dismissed in the Supreme Court today because neither party to the suit had printed the record. Mrs. Lottie Bleakley, of Topeka, Kan., and Mrs. James G. Barclay, of Moline, 111., were the litigants In a con test that involves the identity of the baby, now a grown girl. Courts of Kansas and Illinois have worked on the case several years and the child had been awarded first to one contestant then to another. Mrs. Bleakley had her when the appeal was taken to the Supreme Court. GIRLS' CIRCUS AIDS BEASTS Humane Society Gets $10 liaised by Portland Heights Lassies. President Robert Tucker, of the Ore gon- Humane Society, yesterday received $10 in pennies and nickels from three little girls Elizabeth Kerr, Francis Mathews and Marion Catlin. who live on Portland Heights. Impressed by the cruelty of drivers on the steep hills leading to the Heights they decided to do something to help. After consultation they de cided to give a. circus. Later they gave a. play to which other children and grown-ups were invited. The -admis sion was o cents, programme 1 cent and refreshments 5 cents. From the two entertainments they nettea iu. District Attorney Nominated. . OREQOXIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Jan. 20. President Wilson to day nominated Francis A. Garrecht. of W alia Walla, to be District Attorney tor Eastern Washington. Appointment made on joint recommendation of Hugh Wallace, , of Tacoma. and Senator Poln- dexter, WIFE BEGS DEATH, OLD MAN KILLS HER Slaying of Invalid Con fessed by Veteran. MINIMUM PENALTY IMPOSED Seven Years in Solitary Con finement Is Sentence. NO SIN INTENDED, HE SAYS Spouse Pleaded to Be Put Out of Misery When Found Lying In jured at Bottom ot Stairs, Aged Man Tells Court. PHILADLEPHIA, Jan. 20. Tottering under the weight ot nis 80 years, Will iam Eberwein stood in Criminal Court here today and told a simple but dra matio story of how his wife, 15 years younger, had pleaded with him to kill her and how he committed the deed. After the old man had completed the Story Judge Walling, of Erie. Pa., tem porarily presiding in the court, sur veyed the bent form of the prisoner, fixed the crime at murder in the second degree and Imposed the minimum pen alty, which, in this case, was practi cally a life sentence. It was solitary confinement In the penitentiary for not less than seven years or more than 14. Wife Plead tor Death. Holding onto the prisoner's dock with trembling hands, Eberwein, who is a veteran of the Civil War, told the court that his wife was an Invalid and that one day last October he went Into their home and found her lying at the bot tom of a stairway, down which she had fallen. He offered to have her sent to a hospital, but she wouldn't go.. 'You do it, William,' " Everwein al leged she said. " 'Do what? I asked," the prisoner said. " 'End it all for me; it's no sin when I'm suffering so." "I had; a board In my hand that I brought in out of the yard. I looked at her and. euessed it wouldn't- be a sin. Tale ot Murder Told. " 'Go on, William, she said; 'go on.' "Then I tapped her on the head with the board and I tapped her ajiairi . She didn't moan much and once when I stopped she klnd'er whispered: 'Go on it won t De long." "So I kept on tapping and she rot quiet-" Lberwein stopped speaking, but no , mcamanou. j (Concluded on Page 5.) ................... TT1 tll, ,,,,,, ...... - u ALL, GOOD INDIANS NOW. I . V WO 'A1 ALL y ov fTffi f i . . " . - 1 1 1 I I - INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 48 degrees; minimum. 40 degrees. TODAY'S Ham; southerly winds. Foreign. Treaty governing safety at sea Is signed. Pago 6. London court astounded by American doc tor's successes at Monte Carlo. Page 2. Lord Btrathcona dies In 84th year. Pace National. Machinery in motion for hearings on topics suggested by President's address. Page 1. President In message says business has right to know where It stands. Page 2. Member of Congress threatens to kill lawyer and rushes tor weapon. Page o. lometic. v Tottering veteran tells of killing invalid wife at her request. Page 1. Friends of. P. Lewis Clark believe he Is dead, but not as suicide. Page 6. "Dutch Jake." picturesque Spokane mil lionaire, marries former Portland steno grapher in Chicago. Page 8. Ex-Senator Cullom dying. Page 4. Appeal -made to stockmen for more freedom for wife on farm. Page 4. Inquiry shows outside aid given, Oklahoma convicts. Page 4. . Sport. Western Tri-State League plans expansion. Page 14. McCredle looking for new trainer. Page 14. Three big league pitchers and four umpires algn Federal League contracts. Page 14. Gibbons predicts he will defeat McFarland. Page 14. Notre Dame quarterback to locate in Port land. Page 14. High scores at revolver shoot. Page 15. Pacific Northwest. State Federation of Labor, meeting at As toria, discusses Important matters. Page 7. Four lost children arrive home after two da-3 in woods. Page 7. Governor's plan - to take over irrigation work rejected. Page 6. Governor West attacks one-armed official. Page 6. Couger trees co-eds and escorts. Page L University of Oregon regents name archi tects for addition. Page 6. Idaho University lifts ban on tango. Page 1. Oregon dog tax expected to raise canine standard. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Wheat farmers decline to consider current market offers. Page 19. President's message has small effect on stock prices. Page 19. Rock dumping on North Jetty will be start ed February 2. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. This year to be lively In state political cir cles. Page 1. David Swing Rlcker finds roads are one bad part of valley. Page 1. Captain made prisoner by sailors foretold trouble. Page IS. Portland bonds sell at premium. Page 12. Farms only to be urged on Jews coming- to Pacific Coast, Page 12. Year of good work shown in Y. "W. C. A. reports. Page 13. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 19. Monday Musical Club hostess at Giltner home In Irvington. Page 12. Entries for cat show close with 213 In. Page 8. Federal grand jury selected. Page 8. Vaudeville theater managers to be asked to advise committee on censorship. Page 8. PARCEL POST CARRIES SALT Two Tons Travel From Pocatello to Burns- in 50-Pound Sacks. BAKER, Or.. Jan. 20. (Special.) Two tons of salt were shipped through Baker today by parcel post from Poca. tello to Burns. The strange shipment, which, because it is in an airline less than 150 miles, comes within the rate for the second zone, will travel more than 600 miles before' it reaches its destination. , ' x' PRICE FIVE CENTS BOADS THE ONE BAD FEATURE OFVALLEY Farmers on Pacific Way Want Improvement. THEY BLAME COUNTY OFFICIALS Supervisors Declared Partial to Their Own Property. ACTION SOON IS FORECAST David Swing Kicker Finds Progres sive Spirit in Regard to Other Matters in District Between Tangent and Eugene, Or. (In his story, printed in The Oregonian. January 19. Mr. Rlcker described the bad condition of the Pacific highway in. Ore gon between Albany and Tangent. In Ills story today the conditions found between Tangent and Eugene are described. Mr. Rlcker is a trained newspaper man who previously was Sunday editor of a Chicago daily publication. In company with his wife he Is walking from Portland to San Diego. CaL. along the route ot the Pacific highway to observe conditions of the road.) BY DAVID SWING KICKER. As we came nearer to Tangent, ploughed up fields on either side of us, stretched out to the woods; and at a sharp turn !n the road we passed be tween two files of oak and ash, whisk ered with moss that hung from their limbs like vines from a swinging bas ket trees that looked as though they had been plunged Into the sea, taken out wrapped in weed, and set back into the ground. It was then that I dis covered why the woods look green even where there Is no fir or cedar or hemlock. It's this moss that gives to the bleakness of a moor the touch of green and of Spring. Knowledse Is "Swapped." "You're going to be my guests to night," announced the farmer, who had given my wife and me a ride, after we had left Albany, as he turned in at a gate. "I want to talk to you about good roads. You can tell me some things I don't know and I can 'tell you some things you don't know. We'll swap what we know." It sounded like a good bargain so we took it up. That's how my wife and I happened to eat our supper with Mart Forster and his family that evening. And that's how we happened to pass the night under the hospitable Forster roof. And It was a mirhty good bar gain we had made. But we got all the CO-EDS AND BOYS TREED BY COUGAR FOUR HEAR NOISE AND PERCH IX BRANCHES ALL- NIGHT. Portland Youths and Girls Reach Creswell Wet and Frightened " After Their Experience. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON' Fnn. Jan. 20. (Special.) Four University of Oregon students spent Sunday night and yesterday morning In a tree after hearing what they believed was the cry of a cougar while they were de scending Spencer's Butte, six miles south of this city. Edith King, of Portland: Mabel Smith, of The Dalles; William Holden, Of Portland, and R.mn T.-l.n.lx. Portland, were the members of "the party. They climbed the butte Sunday after noon, reaching the summit about 5 o'clock. After a short rest they began the descent. It was already dark, and in the brush which fringes the base of the moun tain they lost their bearings. They heard a call they believed at first to be that of another party and answered. Soon the cry was heard again from tho direction of the summit. It sounded like a cougar, and the four climbed the nearest tree. After half an hour the two men at tempted to light a fire at the foot of the free, but with only three matches between them and no dry wood the feat was impossible. Shortly before daybreak the four de scended and started to walk in the direction of Creswell, mistaking that town for Eugene. They stopped at the house of a farmer named Reuger. who gave them breakfast and took them to Creswell., The students' clothlnsr wna inm anH drenched from the rain which fell. They were exhausted from the ex posure and fright, but otherwise were unharmed. NEW COMMANDER NAMED Brigadier-General Potts, of Presidio, Called to Vancouver Post. VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash., Jan. 20. (Special.) Brigadier-General Ramsay D. Potts, in command of the Eighth Brigade of the United States Army, with headquarters at the Pres idio, San Francisco. Cal., is to be the new commanding general of the Sev enth Brigade, now at this post, suc ceeding General Ralph W. Hoyt, who retired October 9. 1913. Since the retirement of General Hoyt. Colonel Wilson, of Fort Lawton, has been In command of the brigade, with the exception of the time Colonel Irons was in command at Fort Douglas. Major Adrian S. Fleming, brigade adjutant, who has been attending the officers' school for fire at Fort Sill, Okla. has returned, relieving Major j! C. Castner. VANCOUVER LOSES TWO Pendulum Starts to SwinS Backward From Clarke Gretna Green. The worm turned yesterday and con trary to the habit of the last six months when Oregon brides and bride, grooms have been Journeying to Van couver to be married, two Vancouver Couples came to Portland yesterday and took out marriage licenses. One couple, almost past the three score and ten mark, but who gave their age as "legal," said they had lived In Ore gon a long time, and expected to live here again, for which reason they came here to be married. The contracting parties were: John Roth, of Vancouver, Wash., 28, and Miss Magdalena Steudler, of Van couver, 21; who gave her temporary address as Portland, and Walter Mc Millan and Margaret E. Nickolson. STUDENT-PASTOR GOES FAR State University Man Travels 500 Miles- Weekly as Preacher. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Jan. 20. (Special.) A journey of 500 miles weekly for the sake of preaching to his congregation is made by Peter Crockett, of Pendleton, Or., a senior at the University of Oregon. Mr. Crockett's pastorate Is at Wasco, Or., and he leaves Eugene each Friday night, returning Tuesday morning. It is 122 miles from Eugene to Portland and about 118 from Portland to Wasco. Two years ago Mr. Crockett was a star debater and this year will com pete in the university oratorical con tests. He Is on the university soccer football team. BOAT LOSES CARGO AT SEA Lumber Steamer Scotia Survives 5 Day Battle With Storm. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20. With her deckload of lumber gone and crippled by a five-day battle with heavy seas, the little lumber steamer Scotia is be ing towed to this port by the steamer James HIgglns. This information reached the owners, the James R. Han ify Lumber Company, late today by wireless. The Scotia is bound from Eureka and was picked up off Mendocino City in Mendocino County. STEERS AT RECORD PRICES Kansas City Figure of $9.c!5 Highest Ever Paid in January. KANSAS CITT. Jan. 20. Steers sold at the Kansas City stockyards today at $9.2S a hundred pounds, the highest prk-e ever paid here in January. Calves sold as high as $11.25. POLITICS WILL BE LIVELY THIS YEAR Fifteen State Offices Will Be Filled. ASPIRANTS SUDDENLY ACTIYE Multnomah Voters Will Cast Votes in 13 Contests. COUNTY POSITIONS ALSO UP Scventy-flvo Members of Stale Lc; islaturo Also Will Be Chosen From Various Parts of Slate. Many Now in Race. This will indeed be a lively political year In Oregon, especially In Multno mah County. Fifteen officials are to be elected by voters of tho state at the general election next November 3. while in Multnomah County 11 county offi cers must be selected at the same time. Candidates for all these offices, both from state and county, will compete for nomination at the primary election next May 15. That explains the pres ent sudden activity on tho part of the politically ambitious in getting into line. Of the 15 officials to be elected from the state, voters of Multnomah County will vote for 13. The other two are the members of Congress to be elected from the First and Second Congres sional districts. Multnomah County comprises tho Third Congressional dis trict by itself. Senator to Be Elected. Hero is the list of officials to be elected from the state at large thl3 year, and the salary of each. United States Senator, at $7500 a year. Governor, at $5000 a year. Members of Congress from First, Sec ond and Third districts, at $7500 a year. State Treasurer, at $4500 a year. Attorney-General, at $3600 a year. Four Justices of Supreme Court, at $4500 a year. State Superintendent of Public In struction, at $3000 a year. State Labor Commissioner, at $3000 a year. State Engineer, at $3000 a year. " One Railroad Commissioner, at $4003 a year. State Legislators Excluded. This, it will be noted, does not take Into account members of the State Leg islature, who are elected at the same time. Sixty members of tho lower house and 15 of the 30 Senators must be chosen on November 3. Of these 60 representatives, Multnomah has 12 di rectly elected from this county, and one who represents Multnomah and Clackamas Counties jointly. Of Mult nomah's seven State Senators, two are up for election next Fall, the other five serving until 1916. Adding these 13 Representatives and two Senators to the list, Multnomah electors will vote for 23 state officials. The 11 county offices to be filled and the salary of each arc: Sheriff, at $4500 a year. County Clerk, at $4500 a year. One Judge of Circuit Court, at $1000 a year. County Treasurer, at $2400 a year. County School Superintendent, at $2400 a year. Two County Commissioners, at $150 a month. County Coroner, at $150 a month. County Auditor, at $3000 a year. County Surveyor, at $150 a month. Constable, at $2400 a year. Many Candidates Appear. Already the list of avowed and pros pective candidates for nomination at the coming primary, now less than four months away, which will serve as a sort of sifting process for the general election, is of great length. So far the rush has centered more about the state offices, particularly the Governorship, than the county of fices, but aspirants for the latter are now coming rapidly out of seclusion. For United States Senator, there are two announced candidates in the field. These are Robert A. Booth, of Eugene, who recently announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination, and George E. Chamberlain, incumbent, who is seeking re-election on the Demo cratic ticket. These two, however, are not to have the field to themselves. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., ex-United States Senator, though he has not as yee an nounced himself. Is considered as goou as in the race. Mr. Bourne, now in Washington, is expected to return to Oregon about March 10, at which time his announcement in all probability will be made. Ilsj is expected to be a candidate for the Republican nomina tion. Another possibility is Governor West, a general suspicion having gained ground throughout the state that many of the Governor's recent actions were Intended to further his chances for the Senatorshlp. Eight candidates nave so far an nounced themselves for Governor. They are: A. M. Crawford, present Attorney General; W. A. Carter, Grant B. Dlm Ick and Gus C. Moser, Republicans; W. S. U'Ren, who asserts that he is a Republican but probably will sidestep the primary contest and run at the general election as an Independent; F. M. Gill, Progressive, and Colonel Robert A. Miller and Jolin Manning. Demo crats. - In addition to tins goodly comparsj. . .Concluded on Fae i.. I
