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VOL. I.I 1 1.- NO. 16,590. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. K v 60 AHEAD" SPIRIT NOTED IN.BUSINESS Chicagoans Point to Signs of Revival. FIVE PER CENT MONEY NEAR Leading Banker Says Custom ers Report Good Trade. STEEL PLANT PUTS ON MEN Expected Permission to Increase Freight Rates Will Have Bene ficial Erfect on Situa tion, Is Belief. CHICAGO, Jan. 25. (Special.) Busi ness conditions in Chicago and throughout the country are decidedly better than they were a short time ago. The year 1914 promises to be one of profitable activity. The present looks like a good time to "go ahead." That, In brief, is a summary of the lews expressed by prominent bankers, manufacturers and merchants Inter Viewed today. Since January 1 several thousand men who had been laid off late in 1912 have been put back to work in differ ent industries. Reports are that work Ing forces will be increased still fur ther. Among the points advanced as Indi cating an active business year are: The seeming certainty that the rail roads will obtain permission to make an advance of 5 per cent In freight rates. Interest mill Be Lower. More plentiful supply of money and lower interest rates. Coming inauguration of the new sys tern of regional reserve banks, which will get the currency question out of the way and which, its friends say, will diminish the chances of panics. Better understanding between busi ness men and the Administration. J. Ogden Armour, who conducts one of the greatest business enterprises in the world, expressed satisfaction with the present business outlook. "The business outlook Is rosy. Indeed." said Mr. Armour. "The manufacturers will be busy and money will be easy." Bankers In Chicago repeat the opti mistic "go ahead" assertions made In the city by Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo. "Those are my sentiments,'" said James B. Forgan, president of the First National Bank, and added that the "go ahead" spirit, coupled with general feeling of optimism, presaged a better business condition. Spirit of Optimism Prevails. "A general feeling of optimism seems to be prevalent throughout the coun try," he said. "This was echoed in the speech of Secretary of Agriculture Houston before the Bankers Club. The general sentiment Is coupled with the 'go ahead' spirit, and it is this sort of feeling that usually brings better busi ness. "Money rates are easier than they have been In months. Rates are set tllng around a 6 per cent basis in Chi cago. Money Is flowing in from the country in large volume, but it Is a nat Ural situation at this time. Our cus tomers report that business is picking up and that collections are fairly good John J. Mitchell, president of the Illi nois Trust & Savings Bank, said: "Busl ness sentiment has improved greatly In the last week or 10 days, although the tangible developments which should show as a result of this condition have not as yet become numerous. believe that If the railroad rate ad vances are allowed and I am of th opinion they will be the incident will have a splendid influence." Working Forces Increased. E. D. Huldert, vice-president of the Merchants' Loan & Trust Company, pointed out that the fact that manufac turers were inclined to. Increase th working forces in their plants was on of the best indications" of better condi tlons. To bear out this statement the Jolle plant of the Illinois Steel Company re sumed full operations yesterday, oper ating TO per cent of capacity of the las Eli months. Five hundred additional men were employed, raising the fore to 8000 men. "Write 'optimism' In black face typ clear across the page and you will ex press my sentiments," said Harry N. Wheeler., vice-president of the Union Trust Company.'" "The Nation is building on bedrock the foundation for a greater and mor j, table prosperity," said Byron I Smith, president of the Northern Trust Com pany. Manufacturers, railway men . and heads of big retail establishment shared the views quoted by the bank ers. FIVE DIE AS TRAINS CRASH Michigan Central Passenger Collides Head on With Freight. JACKSON. Mich., Jan. 25 Five per sons were killed and possibly a score were Injured tonight when a Michigan Central passenger train collided head on with a freight train near this city. Owing to the darkness the work of rescue was slow. BEACHEY TO TEST LANGLEY'S FAILURE EXFERT TO TRY TO SHOW DE- IUDED IXVEXTOR WAS RIGHT. 'You Can Fly a Kitchen Table If Your Motor Is Strong Enough," Says IiOop-the-Ixoping Aviator. SAN FRANCISCO., Jan. 25. The mlthsonian Institution at "Washington accepted by telegraph today an. offer of Lincoln Beachey to demonstrate the possibility of successful flight in the flying machine" invented and built by Professor Samuel P. Langley. Derision was excited when Langley's machine fell into the Potomac River and he was said to have broken his arm. Beachey 111 try to show that the machine was right in every way and needed only a tronger motor. A telegram received today from Charles Doollttle Wyatt, director of the Smithsonian Institution, said that while it would be inadvisable to take ut the wrecked machine from its place n the institution, every facility would be afforded to make a perfect reproduc tion. In order that Langley's real suc cess may be shown. You can fly a kitchen table if your motor is etrong enough," said Beachey. That is what I want to show." Beachey looped his 67th loop la 60 days here today In a high wind. VACATION IDEA DENOUNCED Educator Proposes Continual School to Save Boys From Streets. WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. Character izing the practice of closing public schools during the Summer months as primitive and preposterous," and as serting that the most important prob lem of today was "to get city boys from three months' contamination In the city streets," P. P. Claxton, com missioner of the United States Bureau of Education, today approved a plan which would, mean continuous school essions. He says that he proposes that two million children shall be enlisted In vocational work. WOMAN WINS0WN SUIT Washington Supreme Court Hears "Portia" Plead Case. OLTMPIA, Wash., Jan. 23. (Special.) Mrs. Clarissa Bailey, of Seattle, who during the last term of the Supreme Court was allowed the unusual privil ege of arguing her own case after she had disagreed with her attorney, was awarded a reduction of nearly $17,000 In street assessments against her property. In a decision handed down Saturday. Mrs. Bailey, who Is of Indian extrac tion, asked and was accorded the right to argue her own case after she had seen , two women lawyers on opposite ides of a case the previous day. SECRETARIES IN DENVER Colorado, Utah and New Mexico to Have Bank Hearing , Today. DENVER, Jan. 25.Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Secretary- of Agriculture Houston, composing the committee on organization under the ew currency law, reached Denver to day but transacted no business. The first hearing before the commit tee will be at 10 o'clock tomorrow, at which time the presentations and argu ments In support of Denver's conten tion as a location for one of the re gional reserve banks will be , begun. Utah and New Mexico will be repre sented before the committee in the Den. ver bearings. WOLVES DEVOUR CHILD Continued Cold Brings Starved Anl mals Ont of Woods In France.. PARIS, Jan. 25. The long continued cold, especially In the central districts of France, Is bringing numbers of wolves, frantic with hunger, out of the woods. A little girl at La Couquille, near Perlgueux, was devoured by the animals, the searching party finding only a torn pinafore and a few bones. Hunting parties are being organized everywhere. The temperature in Paris has shown a slight improvement in the last day or two. POETESS TAKES HUSBAND Fannie 'Stearns Davis Becomes Mrs A. McK. Gilford. PITTSFIELD, Mass., Jan. 25. (Spe cial.) Miss Fannie Stearns Davis, th poetess, whose verse has -appeared prominently In magazines for several years, was married Saturday to Augus tus McKinstry Gifford, of Schenectady, at the home of the bride. The bride is a grand-daughter of the late William Stearns, president of Amherst College. One of her brothers is Professor William Stearns Davis, author of "A Friend of Caesar's" and other historical novels. DIVE FATAL TO AVIATOR George Lee Temple Caught In Gust of Wind at Critical Time. LONDON, Jan. 25. George Lee Tem pie, British aviator, was killed today while flying at Bondon. He was mak ing a difficult dive when a gust wind caught the tail of his monoplan and the machine crashed to the ground. The aviator's neck was bro ken. Temple was the first British aviator to make a flight upside down In this country GHOS T PLAYS PART "THIRD DEGREE" Stage Set for Accused Wife Poisoner. SHADE . MAKES ACCUSATION "Why Did You Murder Me?" Is .Asked, Without Result. QRUGGIST DENIES CRIME Body Exhumed at Los Angeles on Information Given by Father of Woman, In Maine Widow Also Figures In Case. ' LOS ANGELES. Jan. 25. The "third degree," with a "ghost" as the central figure, was applied by arresting offi cers In . an attempt to obtain from John H. Grondln, a young druggist. a confession to the murder of his wife, Zella, according to a statement made public today by his attorneys. Grondin'8 attorneys declared that shortly after he was arrested last night he was taken by detectives Into a darkened room, where a "ghost soon appeared and demanded in gloomy tones: "Why did you murder me?" Prisoner Is Unmoved. His attorneys said they considered such methods outrageous, but at the same time positive proof of their cli ent's Innocence, as the shadowy form and the dismal question alike failed to move him or to obtain from him the slightest admission of guilt. Grondln, who was charged with hav ing poisoned his wife and with having attempted to establish that she killed herself by Inhaling gas, was said by the police to have tried once before, while living in Portland. Me., to kill his wife, but for some reason had been afraid to complete the act and had resuscitated her. Letter Pronounced Forgery. When Mrs. Grondln was found dead October 30, last, Grondln made public a note he said had been written by his wife and left as an explanation of her alleged suicide. It contained an admission of infidelity and the hope that he would be happy with the "woman who truly loved him." Handwriting experts asserted the writing in the note was a forgery and their assertion, coupled with the arrival here from Watervllle, Me., Of a wealthy young widow, in whom Grondln was said to be interested, caused the exhumation of Mrs. Gron- dln's body, although a coroner's jury had decided her a suicide.. Pathologists reported yesterday on (Concluded on Page 2.) OVER IN COLUMBIA COUNTY THE GOOD ROADS SITUATION : - yvag J i ..... ...... .X., ... . . ....... ... . ..... ..... . . J INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 48 degrees: minimum, 1 aegrees. TODAY'S Rain, brisk southerly winds. Foreign. Mexican rebels outlining- campaign against Southern Mexico. Page 2. John Redmond would make concessions to win confidence ot Ulster. Page 2. ationml. New test by Navy of Bering River coal is urged. Page 2. Congress prepares to expedite trust legisla tion. Page 3. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont gives $5000 to suf frage cause. Pago 1. Domestic Wife of football hero dancing tango on stage now that husband baa left home. Page . Chicago business men say business is reviv ing. Page 1. Astor baby owes remarkable health to sim ple rules. Page 2. Beachey will try to fly in machine that balked with Langley. Page 1. Scientists stumped by Sir Oliver Lodge's statement weather can be controlled by copper belt around world. Page 4. "Wife's "ghost" plays part in "third de gree" sweating of murder suspect. Page 1. Crop of citrus fruits promise big for 1914. Page 4. Sport. : Former ' favorites of "West will play with .Federal league. Page lu. Gus Fisher brands no-pass idea as 'rot.' Page .10. Swimmers plunge In river as spectators aniver. page 10. Portland may be home of large modern swimming house. Page 10. Majors Ignore Federals In plans for Spring training, page 10. Pacific Northwest. Labor Commissioner answers critics re garding eight-hour fight. Page 9. "Tommy Manville and show-girl bride get ov,uw zrom Mr. Manviue, sr., by ruse, is report. Page 9. Digest of Oregon election laws to be dis tributed. Page 9. Portland and "Vicinity. Mayor Albee decides cabarets must cease. page 14. Friends "of Mrs. Beaumont give surprise party tj celebrate her birthday. Face 8. Highway engineer, reported lost, writes story of perilous trip. Page 14. Annual automobile show will open at Ar mory luesaay. page 14. City officials wonder what. If anything, Governor will do to hire Idle, rage 8. Prohibition to be chief Issue in warm cam paign to begin after primaries. Pagev Hardest gale of year blowing off coast. pase l. Weather report, data and forecast.' Page 11. Robert Burns celebration is held by church people, page 11. Christian pastor preaches on "Devils of aiontavma." page 11. Old marine honor paid Major Morrow. Page 11. HAITI REVOLT IS GROWING American and German Cruisers Go to Scene of Pending Strife. PORT ATJ PRINCE, Jan. 25. The revolutionary movement in Haiti is growing stronger daily. All the towns in the north are in arms against the government and several of the most important places have been captured by revolutionists. The United States armored cruiser Montana arrived today in Haitian wa ters and the German cruiser Vlneta is expected at an early date. Michel Create, president of the re public, had practically decided to abdi cate and turn the executive power over to General Beliard, but today Senator Theodore proclaimed himself supreme chief of the revolution and President Creste announced his deter mination to offer every resistance in his power. Theodore and Beliard are aspirants for the presidency among the revolutionists. PROHIBITION TO BE CHIEF STATE ISSUE Big Question to Arise After Primaries. WARM CAMPAIGN PROMISED 'Drys" to Offer Two Amend . menis Through Initiative. SINGLE TAX FIGHT LIKELY Eight. Proposed Changes in Constitu tion Submitted by, Legislature Also Are to Be Voted On at Election November 3. Warm as it gives promise of being, the coming primary election campaign in Oregon will be only a mild fore runner of what the voters may expect In the campaign preceding the general election, November 3. Chief interest In the primary race centers about the candidates and their personalities. The competition is largely a family affair between men of the same party, who desire to be selected as the party choice for office. So far there has been comparatively little talk about Issues, outside of those personal issues within the par ties a"5 affecting the different candi dates for nomination. But after the candidates have been sifted down to a war' footing on May 15, the big issues on which the general election campaign la to be waged will come to the front. Time Not Lacking. There will be. plenty of time to thresh them out between the primary of May. 15 and the election of November 8, a period of almost six months. From, all the Indications the threshing-out process will be continuous and enthu siastic - Undoubtedly the Issue overshadow ing all others in importance will be that of state-wide prohibition. Ore gon this year will be one of the main battlefields in the struggle between "wets" and "drys." Prohibition campaigns are to be waged next Summer and Fall in five Western States, of which four are in the Pacific Coast section. The five states are Oregon. Washington, Idaho, California and Colorado. The anti liquor forces are preparing to center their efforts in the three states which appear to them to have the best chances of success. These states are Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Oregon SDryan Encouraged. This is especially true of Oregon, where important "dry" victories in the (Concluded on Page 4.) IS SOMETHING LIKE THIS. ..." FORTUNE WILL AID SUFFRAGE CAUSE MRS. BELMOXT SENDS $5000 "WITH APPLICATION. Women Declare War on Democratic Party and Will Make Especial Effort to Defeat Henry. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. (Special.) The big fortune of Mrs. O. H. P. Bel mont, of New York, and her Influence has been pledged to the Congressional Union forWoman Suffrage! which Is battling here to secure an amendment to the Constitution giving the ballot to women. The union today received a letter from Mrs. Belmont applying for mem bership and inclosing a check for f 5000 as a contribution to the cause. A statement was issued by the union tonight declaring war on the Demo cratic party because the public rules committee has refused to create a woman suffrage commute in the House. Suffrage leaders declared that they will make a special fight to defeat for Congress Representative Henry. of Texas, chairman of the rules commit tee, because Mr. Henry, ther say, dodged the issue by absenting himself when the rules committee finally voted against the suffrage committee. Speak ers and money will be sent into Henry's district this Summer during the Co gressional campaign, and the women will work hard to defeat the Texan. WAY TO MARKET IS NEW Mail Order House and Parcel Post Solution for Loganberries. -SALEM, Or.. Jan. 25. (Special.) Jesse Huber, a loganberry grower, of South Bottom, says he has solved the problem of finding a market for the berries grown in thjs county, through a Chicago mail-order house, which ad vises that it' can easily take care of the product. "The immense distributing facilities of this house," said Mr. Huber, "through parcel post, freight and express, brings it in touch with virtually every home in the United States. It is backed with $20,000,000. "In its evaporated form the logan berry will be offered to all consumers at reasonable prices." LATIN REPUBLICS TO SHOW South America to Spend $3,000,000 on Panama Exposition. NEW YORK. Jan." 2 5 South Ameri can republics will contribute about J3.000.000 to the Panama-Pacific In ternational Exposition, according to a statement "made tonight by Felix Martinez and Daniel O'Connell. United States Commissioners for the exposit tion, appointed by President Wilson to interest these countries In the under taking. Messrs. Martinez and O'Connell have just returned from their South Ameri can trip. Among the nations that will exhibit are: Argentine Republic. Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay, Chile, Peru and Bolivia. 15 INJURED AT WEDDING Porch Collapses With Dancers, Bride Is Probably Fatally Hurt. AURORA, 111., Jan. 25. A wedding celebration in Little Hungary was sud denly transformed into a tragedy last night, when a porch colapsed beneath the weight of 15 dancers and they fell 20 feet to the ground. Mrs. Florence Bish, the bride of an hour, was perhaps fatally injured. Her husband, Joseph Bish, suffered a broken arm and internal Injuries. Four others were seriously hurt and the remaining guests were scratched or bruised. JAIL SMUGGLING CHARGED Newsboy Accused of Trying to Give Liquor to Prisoners. A young man who gave his name as W. Mahoney, and who had newsboys' badge No. 72, was detained Saturday night by Jailer Aldrich, after it Is al leged he was caught trying to smuggle liquor to a prisoner at the county roi;k pile at Kelly Butte. Mahoney asked to visit a prisoner named Murphy, and was about to pass him a. pint bottle of whisky when re strained, it is said. While the jailer on duty was telephoning to Sheriff Word for Instructions Mahoney again made the attempt. ASTOR YACHT OVERHAULED Noma Believed Intended for Forth coming Honeymoon Trip. NEW YORK, Jan. 25. (Special.) Vincent Astor is having his yacht, the Noma, overhauled and refurnished, and as his orders to the ship-building firm are that the work must be finished by early . Spring, it is thought he is plan ning to spend his honeymoon in a sea trip. His father. Colonel John Jacob Astor. used the Noma on his second honey moon trip5. The cost of overhauling the vessel will be about 1100,000. HAWAIIAN SERVICE LONGER Army Men Must Remain in Islands Four Years,., Under New Order. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. (Special.) The War Department has decided that the length of term of duty of Army of ficers, line and staff, in Hawaii here after shall be four years Instead of three, as has been the custom. The term of duty in the Philippines and the Panama Canal Zone will remain at three years. HARDEST GALE OF YEAR IS OFF COAST ShippingWarned to Re main in Port. BAROMETER LOWEST SINGE '80 Wind Blows 76 Miles Hour at North Head Station. DAMAGE RESULTS IN CITY, Wires and Poles Blown Down and Plate - Glass "Windows Smashed When Wind Renews Its Vigor. Katn Heavy; River Rises. 1 WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE PACIFIC SOKTHWEST. ASTORIA Heavy gala outside; wind Increasing. ABERDEEN Heavy rain. with southwest Rale. SEATTLE Gale at Cape Flattery 60 miles an hour; storm predicted for entire North Coast. WALLA WALLA Snow disap pears with Chinook, but mercury drops at night. SALEM Crest of flood believed to have passed; river at 16.3. ALBANY Ri ver rising slowly and lacks three feet of flood stage. ROSEBURO High wind accom panies heaviest rain of Winter. SAN FRANCISCO Numerous towns damaged by floods or wind, buildings and wires blown down and railroads washed out. The "Big Wind" which chased ship ping to cover and created havoc with telegraph and telephone - wires and signs in cities all over the Pacific Northwest a week ago, played a rous ing return engagement last night. when It "came back" high in velocity and accompanied by a fall in the ba rometer to a lower point than ever before in the past 34 years. After- having subsided early last evening, a southerly wind began to blow with renewed vigor in Portland at 1 o'clock this morning and In a few moments had gained the velocity of a young hurricane, sending small objects flying hither and thither. Portion of City In Darkness. At 1:30 this morning a large circuit of street arc lights in North Portland was put out of commission, throwing a large area into darkness. A live wire was blown down at the corner of Union avenue and Browns street and was a menace to traffic for several hsurs. A number of telephone poles In the vicinity of Thirty-second and Thirty fifth streets and Hawthorne avenue were blown down at 1:35 this morning, demoralizing service in that district. At 1:50 o'clock this morning a plate glass window in the building of the Overland Automobile Company, Six teenth and Washington streets, was blown out. At 2:35 electric lights from the river to East Fifteenth street, between Hol laday avenue and Russell street, went out. The scope of the storm was exceed ingly great, forming central at Straits of Juan de Fuca and covering all of the western half of the United States. California, particularly, is affected by the storm and floods, and many towns being damaged, others isolated and buildings and wires being blown down. Storm Warnings Ordered. Storm warnings were ordered out for the southwest at 6:15 Saturday night and changed to southeast at 11 o'clock yesterday morning for the mouth of the Columbia and the Western Wash ington stations. Last night at 7 o'clock, while the storm- signals were being ordered shifted southwest for Astoria, North Head and Aberdeen, the force of the wind began fullyto become apparent in Portland. Sixty miles an hour was the velocity reported at Tatoosh Island and 76 miles at' North Head. At Tatoosh Island a thunder storm was recorded. Reports from all parts of the Coast indicated a rapidly falling barometer, beginning yesterday morning. The low register for Portland was in January, 18S0, when It reached 28.56. In the storm a week ago It reached as low as 29.56 and last night It was at 28.88, and reported still falling. Shipping; Ordered to Remain. Seattle reported 28.80, but announced ihat the gale had not yet struck that point. At Astoria the barometer was down to 28.70 at 6 o'clock P. M., at Olympia it was 28.65, both record breakers. One of the feats of the gale last night was to hoist one of the triangular frames which the Northwestern Elec tric Company uses to cover its excava tions on the street, through the win dow of the Wiley B. Allen muslo store, at Broadway and Morrison street, dam aging some of the pianos with the bits of flying glass and sending the fine rain driving In upon them. The damage was about $325. Wires) Are Entangled. The gale tangled several electric wires at Ninth and Davis streets, caus ing a short circuit, setting fire to the pole and putting out seven or eight aro lights on that circuit. It was nearly a half hour before the wires .(Concluded on rase .,