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VOl,. LIV. XO. 16,608. PORTLAND. OREGON. . TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V V R. A. BOOTH GIVES OUT HIS PLATFORM Republican Principles Are Embraced. SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN IS ON Headquarters Open; Fair Vot ers Welcomed by Own Sex. STATE IS TO' BE TOURED Various Interests, Including Parmer, Settler, Laborer, Business Man, Hare Place In Outline of Improvement Aims. It. A. Booth, of Eugene, candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator, in a formal statement yesterday outlined the plat form on which he will make his cam paign. - In his platform Mr. Booth points out the necessity for scientific aid for the farmer and of a system of rural cred its under Government auspices by vhleh tho farmer may borrow money en long time at low Interest. He de clares himself In favor, also, of Gov ernment aid for road construction, that the farmer's means of transportation may be bettered. Aid for Settlers Intent. He takes a stand for the reclamation of waste land and for legislation to make easy the acquisition of agricul tural land by bona fide settlers. He favors laws to better the condition of the laborer and to give him constant employment and protection from dis ease and accident, with prompt com pensation for injuries. Mr. 'Booth points out further that the main problem of modern politics Is the relating of the various interests represented by the producer from the soil, the laborer, the transportation companies, the manufacturer and the merchant to each other and to the Government, and the application of high moral principles to their adjust ment. Vndeslrablen Are Opposed. - Proper restriction of Immigration and the extension of woman suffi-e to every state are other planks of his platform. Though he has delivered several In formal addresses In response to Invi tations, Mr. Booth will make the first formal political speech of his cam paign at Carlton, Or., on Wednesday right. He has been invited to address Republicans of that town at a meeting In the City HalL This is only one of numerous Invi tations he has received from clubs, schools, churches and granges to speak. He said yesterday that he will re spond to as many as possible. At balem this afternoon Mr. Booth will speak before the Toung "Women's Ulirlstlan Association of Willamette University on "Christianity of the Twentieth . Century." He will be a guest and a speaker in the evening at a banquet given by the Men's Six o'clock Club of the First Methodist Church of Salem. . Students May Be Addressed. He also has Invitations to speak be fore six colleges and high schools In various parts of the 'state, the dates for which have not yet been definitely ri.xed. campaign headquarters have been opened by Mr. Booth in suite 441 of the Morgan building. In Portland. Women as well as men will be welcomed as . visitors. A special room In charge of a woman has been fitted up in which to receive women who call. Mr. Booth is planning to make a per sonal canvass of the state In the course or nis campaign. Ho Intends to visit every county. So far the calls have been more than he could respond to. He has been In Portland for the last lew days, and in that time much en couragement has been given him, and he has received calls from many friends who desired to assure him of their warm support. Nominee to Be Supported. "I phall conduct a clean campaign ana one entirely devoid of personali ties, said Mr. Booth yesterday. ,-I have no desire to place hardships on the candidates of any party. I wish to keep myself in shape to help the noml nee of the Republican party, and to play the part of the patriotic citizen in aiding whomsoever may be elected." Here is Mr. Booth's platform: la former written statements and oral declarations given publicity through. the press, it is probable that I have sufficiently st forth tho reasons for my affiliation with the Republican party. To all who may aid my candidacy for the United State Sen atorship. 1 offer In advance grateful ac knowledgment and the pledge of best ef forts for the common good. Within reason able limitations it is difficult to set forth clearly views that can control under all conditions ss they may be presented. Nominee to Be Supported. If I become my party's nominee, I shall expert as circumstances warrant further to amplify my position on all pertinent public questions. If not chosen as my party's nominee. I shall support the choice of the Republican tarty as expressed through the direct primary. If elected, I shall expect to act with iy party. It had Its birth In ex altation of human rights as against Indus trial expediency and material gain. Its pol icies at homo hRVe been constructive and forceful; its policies abroad have been firm but iust. It Ias added glory and honor to our flag and under Its rule, wherever our citizens have rightfully gone or lawfully -conducted their business, the stars ami tripes have, been the guarantor of their protection, Party policies cn be best enforced (Conolact on Pas 11. MOB HALTS TRAIN TO GET PRISONERS 50 MASKED MfiX, ARMED, TAKE NEGROES FROM SHERIFF. Alleged Assailants of Wealthy Miss issippi Millowner Taken by Force and One Is Lynched. HERNANDO, Miss., Feb. 16. Stop ping an Illinois Central passenger train in the woods near Love Station. Miss., late today, Su masked men held passen gers and train crew under cover of re volvers while they forced. Sheriff E. F. Nichols, of De Soto County, - to turn over to them two negroes accused of wounding J. K. Ingram, a wealthy mill owner near Byhalia, Miss., several weeks ago. The negroes were Johnson McGulrk and William Phillips. When the Sheriff and his two pris oners disembarked, the mob permitted the train to proceed, while they marched the handcuffed negroes to a trestle. Preparations were being made to lynch both, but trie pleadings of Nichols in behalf of Phillips, against whom it is stated the evidence is slight, were ef fective, and, he was returned to the Sheriff. A rope was placed around McGuirk's neck and he was forced to leap from the bridge. The mob then disappeared. The negroes were being brought to Hernando from Batesvllle, where they had been taken at the time of their arrest to' escape violence, for prelim inary hearing tomorrow. Ingram was shot from ambush three weeks ago. He is reported to be in a precarious condi tion. NAVY AVIATOR FALLS, DIES Lleutenan. Murray Perishes When Plane Drops Into Pensacola Bay. PENSACOLA, Fla., Feb. 16. LUuten ant J. McC. Murray, of the United States Naval Aviation Corps, stationed here, was killed late today, when his machine plunged 800 feet into Pensa cola Bav. The machine was demol ished and Lieutenant Murray's body was found about 100 yards from the spot where he fell. Lieutenant Murray had been flying out over the gulf and was returning to the station when the accident occurred. An investigation has not revealed the cause of the accident. This is the first fatality at the Pen sacola station. Lieutenant Murray was 32 years old. HORSE IS FOE OF FIREMEN 'Pat" Responds to Anti-Biting Rem. - - edy Until Uniform Appears. "Pat," the fire horse which is under going treatment at the hands of Dr. D. B. Boyd to break him from biting persons, "has it in" for firemen par ticuiariy, it seems, rne animal was responding splendidly, apparently, to the treatment at the Lewis and Clark Fair Grounds, and had shown no in clination to taste human flesh yes terday, as several persons were near, until Tom Gavin, chauffeur for Fire Chief. Dowell, appeared In uniform. "Pat" immediately grabbed nlm. "Pat"ls still undergoing anti-biting treatment. WOMAN HOLDS UP GIRL Foodlcss for Week Mary Mc Corniick's Reason for Attempt. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Feb." 16. Miss Eliza Francis, a young stenographer, was held up on one of the city's busiest streets today by Miss Mary MuComick, SO years old, who at the point of a re volver, demanded money of ler. Miss McCormick was seized by a po liecman. She said she had not eaten for a week and had determined to kill "some of these women," whom she' did not like to see "walking up and down the street with furs and mesh bags." She was placed under observation to de termine her mental condition. DEAN OF PRINTERS IS DEAD Theodore L. De, VInne Passes In His Eighty-Sixth Year. NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Theodore Low de Vinne, dean of the printing frater nity and author of several bouks on printing and types and their uses, died here tonight in his eighty-sixth year. Mr. de Vlnne was born in Stamford, Conn., educated at the Newburgh Acad emy and In 184S came to this city to learn the printing trade. He later es tablished his own press, which soon gained a reputation' throughout the co'untry. MAIL STAGE ABANDONED Molalla Line Operated for 60 Years Gives Way to Train. OREGON CITT. Or., Feb. 16. (Spe cial.) Mall to Molalla went by train through Canby today for the first time and for the first time In 60 years the stage between Oregon City and Molalla did not run. The stage from Oregon City to Mo lalla was one of the first to be estab lished and the longest to operate out of Oregon City. ' LIFE'S SAVINGS ARE STOLEN Robbers Gag Watchman, Wreck Safe and Escape With $10,000. MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Feb. 16. Robbers got more than $10,000 In cash early today, when they bound and gagged a night watchman in the of fice of C. S. Bonner and wrecked the safe. Mr. Bonner says the loot was his savings of a lifetime. SEATTLE TO NAME CANDIDATES TODAY Many Women Register to Use Franchise. HI GILL MAY "COME BACK" Man Once Recalled Conceded Nomination for Mayor. EIGHT OTHERS IN FIELD 2 7 Seek Five Places In Council and AVith Rest of Aspirants Make Up Longest Ticket Ever Put Be fore Voters of City. SEATTLE. Feb. 16. (Special.) A primary election will be held in Seattle tomorrow to choose two candidates for Mayor, corporation counsel, controller and treasurer; six candidates for three year terms as Councilmen and four can didates for two-year terms'. The voters will pick their favorites for Mayor from among nine aspirants. Twenty seven seek the five nominations for seats in the Council, and 10 aspire to the offices of corporation counsel, city controller and city treasurer. The ticket is the longest ever presented to the electorate here. A remarkable feature of the campaign has been the large registration of women. The total registration is 73, 932, ajj increase of 1 per cent over that of 1913, but the increase in the regis tration of women was 2 per cent. Of the total of registered voters, 26,585, or 35.8 per cent, are women. Interest, naturally, centers around the fight for the nomjnatlon for the Mayoralty. Of 10 candidates who were to have been on the ticket for Mayor, one, W. D. Wood, withdrew too late to get his name off the ballot and has asked that his supporters - cast their votes for Austin E. Griffiths. -. Foar In "Lead. These foar aspirant- appear to have shown 'the greatest strength " tn 'the campaign that closed tonight: Hiram C. Gill, attorney, who was elected Mayor in 1910, recalled In 1911 and de feated for election in 1912; Mr. Grif fiths, attorney for three years for the City Council; James D. Trenholme, manager of a Mexican Investment com pany, and chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee; Richard Wlnsor, Socialist, attorney, president of the Seattle School Board. The remarkable feature of the cam paign is the strength shown by Hiram G. Gill. When Mr. Gift went Into the race after making a little statement of penitence for past misdeeds and ex pressed a dtermination to make good if another chance were given him, none of the local political observers con (Concluded on Page 2.) r-'yjr nn si - i ss : i i' 1 , '' ' ' V " ' INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Wemtber. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 48 degrees; minimum, 38 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; southeasterly winds. National. Immigration bill likely to be vetoed by Wilson as result of literacy test. Page 1. Homage Is paid to heroes of Maine on six teenth anniversary of Havana Harbor disaster. Page 3. Copper striker at Congressional Inquiry tells of "system" which binds men. Page 6. Commissioner-General Caminetti of Immi gration Department to quit, says gossip. Psgo 2. Administration's trust legislation programme meets obstacles. page 2. Domestic New Tork Commission learns girls In New York candy factories get lesa than $5 and $8 weekly. Page 3. Christoffcrson flies over Coast Range Moun tains in California. Page 2. Senator Gore declares on stand suit brought Dy woman is political plot. Page 1. Mob halts train to get prisoners. Page 1. Five of 60 Injured in Missouri collision may aie. page 4. Grandsons of the late Jacob Kamm to wed sisters in California. Page 1. Big syndicate formed, to aid severing of in terests or two bis wiro services, page o. raackay companies report 1913 prosperous year, page o. , Steamer with 500 battles In blizzard off No Man's .Land. Page 4. Route chosen for aeroplane flight around world. Page 2. ports. Willamette Valley league Is planned. Page 12. Federals send agent to Paris to tempt wona-iouring players. Page 12. ' uregon loses another basketball game. page 12. 1 racifio Northwest. Woman confesses she saw murder of three Japanese. jyage o. -ii . ii r i 3 biiui il Will tiIlllJL.cn 111 ignt. rsgQ o. Seattle will hold primary election today. Pago 1. Crook County Judge wins fight with, other officers. Page-7; Commercial and Marine. Wheat farmers refuse- to sell except at higher prices. Page 17. Chicago market responds to advance in wheat abroad. -Page 17. Stocks decline owing to action by Interstate Commerce Commission on freight rates. Page 17. Government may restrict gillnetting on Co lumbia bar. Page 16. ' Portland and Vicinity. R. A. Booth, candidate for United States Senate, outlines platform. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 11. Auditorium issue still unsettled. Page 11. Mayor registers, but others lag. Page 18, EUGENE WOMAN ARRESTED Plume on Hat of Daughter Leads to Charge of Larceny. En route to Portland yesterday, Mary P. Gerry discovered a plume, which she alleges was stolen .from her millinery store at Eugene on Saturday, on the hat of Mrs. Bert McKibbons, 17 years old. who was accompanied on the train by her mother, Mrs. Mary Herlbert, who Mrs. Gerry caused to be arrested when the train reached Portland. Detective Tichenor made the arrest. JMrs.McKalxbe.ns said the rlurae was given her by her mother, and the daughter was not held. The mother Is charged with larceny. BOATS COLLIDE ON RIVER Steamers Portland and General Hubbard Slightly Damaged. ASTORIA, Or., Feb. 16. (Special.r The steamera Portland and General Hubbard collided in the Columbia River near Prescott early this evening. Both vessels sustained slight damages above the water line. Details are meager. Both steamers are en route from Angeles for Portland. They arrived in today. GOT 'EM STIRRED UP NOW. IMMIGRATION BILL FACES VETO DOOM Literacy Test Will Not Pass President. EXECUTIVE'S STAND KNOWN Senate Expected to Make No Radical Changes in Draft. REPORT TO BE MADE SOON Chairman Smith Says Measnre as It Passed House Will Be Reported to Upper. Body Wilson and Caminetti Differ, Too. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. President Wilson will veto the Burnett immigra tion bill if it comes to him for his signature with the so-called literacy test contained In it. This became known from an authori tative source tonight after Chairman Smith, of the Senate immigration com mittee, had announced that the bill. virtually as it passed the House, in cludtnsr the literacy test. ' would be favorably reported to. the Senate soon. Prospects are that the bill will pass the Senate as reported from the committee, but the measure never will become law, according to close friends of the Presi dent. Wilson Given Views to Sntr. The President does not consider lit eracy a test of character, and believes some other means shouM be devised to prevent undesirable aliens from enter ing the United States. He told callers today that he had given his view to the Senate committee, and had left It to them to make it public or not, as they chose. It also became known tonight that suggestions with reference to Chinese and Japanese immigration made to the House committee on immigration last Friday by Commissioner Caminetti, of the Immigration Bureau, were not in accord with the views of the President. Mr. Caminetti's ' views were expressed without previous knowledge by the White House. The Burnett bill contains no Asiatic exclusion provisions, the House having voted down all amend ments In that direction. Senator Announce Plan Senator Smith announced the deter mlnation of the committee to report to the Senate the Burnett bill as it passed the House, with some modifications, by the last of this or the first of net week.' He made known the decision of the committee not to eliminate from the measure the literacy test which would bar from entry all aliens over 16 years of age who cannot read the English language or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish Asiatic exclusion, which has been much (Concluded on Page 2.J FIRE OREGON SCIONSWIN CALIFORNIA BELLES GRAXDSOXS OF IATE JACOB KAMM TO WED SISTERS. Daughters of Golden State's Treas urer Brides-elect of Sons of Mrs. Charles T. Kamm, Portland. - SAN BERNARDINO, Cal.. Feb. 16. (Special.) The approaching double wedding in two of the prominent fami lies of California and. Oregon was an nounced here today. State .Treasurer and Mrs. E. D. Rob erts announced the engagement of their two accomplished and beautiful daugh- - . miOO UUUISt 1 i lUUUl La Will be the bride of Walter Willis Kamm and Miss Maud Marie Roberts will wed Philip Schuyler Kamm. The wedding will occur in the Fall. The double romance began aboard the steamer Corona en route to Europe In 1910. The two Kamm brothers are the only children of Mrs. Charles T. Kamm. of Portland, Or., and are grandsons of the pioneer transportation kin? of Oregon, the late Jacob Kamm, of Portland. Both are Amherst college men and members of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. The Misses Roberts are graduates of Dana Hall, Massachusetts, and native daughters of California. Miss Louise Robertas has been a student at the TJni versity of California and a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma society and of the Oakland Friday Night Club. Miss Marie Roberts is a student at Mill) seminary. Mr. Roberts is one of Cali fornia s most prominent bankers. PASTORS BACK DR. AKED Ministers Refused to Accept Resig nation by Vote of 74 to 19. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16. By a vote of 74 to 19, the San Francisco Church Feleratlon refused tonight to accept the resignation of the Rev. Charles F. Aked. pastor of the . First Congrega tional (jnarcn, as president of the or ganization. Dr. Aked had been criticised by mem bers of the federation for saying In a sermon he did not adhere to the ortho dox belief regarding the virgin birth of Christ. The minority of 19 announced they would continue their efforts to oust ur. AKed. WARRANTS PRECEDE VOTE Charges Against 100 Lodging. House ; Keepers of Oakland Filed. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16. (SDeeial. on the charges by the anti-saloon iorces in Oakland that wholesale elee Hon frauds were planned by the other siae at tomorrow s initiative Hinnn election, Arthur Arlett, a leader of the antis, today swore to 100 warrants against Oakland lodging-house keener The statutes compel lodging-house keepers to provide, noon l,lanb rr. nished them by registration officers, a list of all lodgers on their premises at the time and failure to do 6o, or re fusal, constitutes a misdemeanor. VETERAN MORMON PASSES Richard Douglas Is Survived by 14 Children, W Grandchildren. OUUH.JN, Utah. Feb. 16. Richard Douglas, one of the few Utah pioneers wno saw the burning of tho Mormon temple at Nauvoo, III., died' today at the age of 87 years.- He was one of the advance band to prepare the way for the great exit 'from Illinois, but re turned later to Nauvoo and was on a river steamer near that place when the little building was burned. 1 Douglas Is survived by 14 children. 62 grandchildren and B4 tr(.al.rr,n,i children. GIRL WANTS "NICE MAN" Governor Gets Application From New Jersey for Husband. fc-ALEM, Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) Miss C. Davis, of 527 Benson street, Camden, N. J., Is looking for a nice young Western man with whom to correspond. She does not say that mat rimony is her object, but it evidently is. Governor West received the following letter from the young woman today "Just a line to ask you If ycu know of any nice young man who would like to correspond with an Eastern trirL If so would be pleased to hear from one.1 WEALTHY HAWAIIAN DIES Mrs. Samuel Allen, Richest Woman on Isles, 'Succumbs. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16. (Special.) Mrs. Samuel Allen, Hawaii's wealth lest woman, died at Honolulu last Sat urday. The news was received here to day in a cable to her niece, Mrs. R. B Booth. Mrs. Allen's fortune is estimated at J3.000.000. She was the widow of S. C. Allen, of the firm of Allen and Robin son, lumber importers. KIN OF POET THREATENED Blackmailers Demand $10,00 From Henry W. Longfellow II. BOSTON, Feb. 16. Letters threaten ing death to Henry W. Longfellow, IL a descendant of the poet, and to hi wife and family if a demand for J10, 000 was refused, have resulted in th placing a police guard about the Long fellow home in Allston. A box filled with washers was de posited where directed with, police guards stationed nearby, but no one appeared to claim it. GORE BRANDS SUIT AS POLITICAL PLOT Senator on Stand Says All "Infamous Lie." OFFICE SEEKERS ARE BLAMED Coterie of Disappointed Ones in Intrigue, Is Assertion. EPISODE" IS RELATED Blind Lawmaker Says Mrs. Bone Took Him by Haiyi and Fell Over on Bed Just as Unsuccess ful Aspirant Entered. OKLAHOMA CITT, Okla.. Feb. 16. Denouncing the allegation as an "in famous lie," United States Senator T.. P. Gore, from the witness stand, todaj declared that charges of Improper con duct, the basis of the $50,000 damage suit against him, were the invention oi a coterie of disappointed office seekers Intended to bring him into dlsreput and wreck his chances for renomlna tion. Mrs. Minnie E. Bond, plaintiff to th suit, alleges that Senator Gore at tacked her at a Washington ' hotel March 24. last. "I knew that they had "framed up' on me, senator Gore told the jury. "I told Dr. Erp when he called at my office on the day following the occur- rence that I would see them in before I would make terms with them. At no time either in my office or in tha hotel did I ever offer Mrs. Bond any improprieties or attempt to take ad vantage of her." Dr. J. H. Erp, of Oklahoma City, was a witness for the plaintiff. Senator Gore was on the witness stand the greater part of the day. When he concluded several witnesses were put on to corroborate testimony for the defense, and court adjourned. After several witnesses testify in 're buttal tomorrow argument will begin with 'the 'prospects of the case being given to the jury before Wednesday. Mrs. Gore in Courtroom. Senator Gore was a willing witness and seemed unperturbed. Mrs. Gore sat with the counsel for the Senator and frequently made-suggestions. Reviewing his acquaintance with Mrs .Bond, Senator Gore told of meet ing her in an Oklahoma City hotel, where her husband's candidacy for the post of internal revenue collector here was "first broached. At the time Sen ator Gore said he told her the position had been promised to another man. but asserted that she persisted, coming to Washington last Spring to urge his ap pointment. On the day of the alleged attack, the Senator testified, Mrs. Bond asked him to meet her at her hotel, as the was preparing to leave for Oklahoma City. At tho hotel Mrs. Bond escorted him to a. room where, after she had re ceived a telephone message, the Sen ator testified, she seised him by the hands and fell over on a bed. Just at that time, according to Mr. Gore. T. E. Robinson, Kirby Fitzpatrlck and Jamud R. Jacobs, unsuccessful applicants for Federal patronage, appeared in the doorway. "I freed myself," Senator Gore con tinued, "and demanded to know what it meant. Mrs. Bond replied that "She didn't want Bond to know about it.' I realized then that I had been made the victim of a conspiracy." Robertson and Fltzpatrick have tes tified for the plaintiff. Jacobs may be called in rebuttal. Attorneys for Mrs. Bond sought to open the way for the introduction of evidence dealing with the life of Sena tor Gore prior to the alleged episode In Washington by asking the question: "Do you .know a blind girl in Corsi cana, Tex.?" Senator Goro did not answer, how ever, under instruction of Judge Clark, who ruled before the trial started that only testimony dealing generally with the reputation of the parties to the suit would be admitted. Exceptions were taken by Mrs. Bond's attorneys, former On t law .Teetlfle. Al J. Jennings, ex-outlaw, now a candidate for nomination for Governor, also was a witness today, and contra dicted testimony given by Mitchell Bon ner, a banker of this city. It was not true, Jennings testified, that Jacobs had stated In conversation with Bonner and himself that for $25,000 he would "call off" the charges against Gore. Jennings admitted that Jacobs man aged his campaign for County Attor ney. Mrs. Bond was recalled before court adjourned and asserted that after the alleged incident at the hotel. Senator Gore called her on the telephone twice, but she refused to talk with him. "The second time," Mrs. Bond testi fied, "he asked me to come to his office, and I hung up the receiver." SUICIDE'S BOOKS STRAIGHT VIends Laud Work of Official Who Took Own Iilfo. BUFFALO. N. Y.. Feb. 16. The fu neral of John J. Kennedy, State Treas urer, who committed suicide here on Sunday, will be held Wednesday. Accountants from the Controller's office reported today, after examining Kennedy's books, that they were iu perfect condition. G: 106.2