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THE MOTtXIXG OREGOMAN, MONDAY, ArRIIi 13. 1914 REBEL CONFERENCE BRINGS HEW HOPES State Department Thinks Sit uation of Spaniards May Be Clarified. LIND'S ARRIVAL AWAITED doctrines of the Industrial "Workers of the World, was arrested today for in terrupting the services of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church. Rising from a seat in the gallery of the church. Miss Est started to attack Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst. the pastor. "I want to call your attention to an article in this paper." the young wom an said. It was Just as the prayer of consecration was about to be offered. As she spoke, she waved a newspaper. "This church." she added, "has a minister who repudiates Christ." Hearing the disturbance, the sexton called a policeman and the two. as- Change of Policy Toward Mexico Xot Promised, but It Is Realized Problems Involved Have Been Changed. WASHINGTON. April 12. Washing ton officials and. diplomats were spec ulating tonight on the outcome of two conferences to be held during the com ing week, one in this city between President Wilson and, his personal rep resentative in Mexico, John Lind, and the other at Torreon, between General Carranza, chief of the constitutional ists, and General Villa, victorious lead er of the rebels in the field. President Wilson will return to the capital tomorrow from his week-end trip to West Virginia. Mr. Lind is coming up the coast from Vera Cruz Aboard the yacht Mayflower and is ex pected, to reach here Tuesday. About the time Mr. Lind is making his report the Mexican rebel leaders will be meeting for the first time since the days of the Madero revolution and on this conference much is believed, to depend. Rights of Foreigners In Balance. Officials here think that a face-to-face talk between Carranza and Villa will result in a clearer understanding concerning the rights of foreigners in Mexico, especially their power of re pressing claims through American con sular officers. The Navy Department was without a final report from Admiral Mayo on the outcome of his demand, that the Mexican federal commander at Tarn- pico salute the flag as a part of his apology lor the affront to America In the arrest of a detachment of United States marines from the Dolphin. It van reported tonight that import ant dispatches had come to the State Department from Mexico City. Secre tary Bryan said, however, that he had nothing whatever to give out. The Secretary commented on the absence of press reports from the Mexican cap. ital and remarked that apparently i rigid censorship was being maintained. Problems ITndergoing Change. No one is predicting that any change or policy on the part of the United btates Uovernment will follow on Lind's report to the President, although it is realized that the problems in volved in Mexico have undergone some radical changes since Mr. Lind went up from Vera Cruz to see the President at Pass Christian during the New Year holidays. One of the results of the Torreon meeting is expected to be a reply to the State Department's latest represen tation, especially in the case of Span iards exiled from Torreon. Although General Carranza has told the Depart ment that he is not disposed to. inter fere with Villa's course toward the Spanish, there is a frankly expressed expectation that this stand may be modified. As to the situation resulting from the arrest of marines at Tampico, Sec retary Daniels is satisfied that Rear Admiral Mayo having been notified of Huerta's apology will consider the in cident closed. Now that General Huer ta's apology and promised investiga tion have relieved the tenseness of the eituation, the Secretary feels that any further reparation may be deferred until the inquiry is completed. TRANSPORT SENT TO TAMPICO Imperative Orders Issued for Relief of Foreign Refugees. NEW ORLEANS. April 12. The United States transport Hancock to night received imperative orders from Washington to proceed immediately to Tampico. It is understood that the vessel will take aboard refugees from the battle- ewept city of Tampico, where heavy fighting between Mexican rebels and i ederals has been reported. The Han cock will sail tomorrow. WASHINGTON. April 12. Rear Ad miral Mayo, commanding the American squadron at Tampico, asked several days ago that an Army transport be sent to the besieged-port to take care of refugees who have been flocking aboard the foreign warships to save themselves from the shells and bullets. The Avar Department was not in clined to "lend" one of its vessels for this purpose, so the Navy is making use of the Hancock, its only transport. DOMINICAN REBELS QUIT Citadel and Fortified Position Xow Jn Federals Hands. SANTO DOMINGO. April 12. The rebel forces who have occupied the citadel at Santiago have surrendered to the government, it was announced today. Another rebel force under com mand of General Jiminiez, the chief of the insurrection which occupied a for tifted position at Lavega. also has sur rendered to the federals commanded by Tancredo Savinon, who has been ap pointed Governor there. President Bordas. at the head of 1500 men. now is on his way to Santiago, having taken the field against the ln eurrectos. The Governor is virtually in full con trol of the republic, and peace prevails except in the northeast portion. r....... ..........., 1 f I GIRL IS HOSTESS FOB r'I4CB I PABTI. J t 57 v '.m- - i - '-a-..- - . i 1 V , 'T.J IS :: I i fcf -s L - " v GREAT POSSIBILITY FOR TRADE NOTED Late Entry to Alaska Is De plored by Oregonian Correspondent. oat - i m CALL OF FAR NORTH FELT Addison Bennett Describes Trip to New Territory Being Invaded Xow by Portland Merchants and Waxes Enthusiastic. f Continued From First Pa. Miss Gladys Miller. Miss Gladys Miller celebrated her 18th birthday at a deaf-and-dumb party in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Miller, S64 East Taylor street, on Friday evening. The rooms were deco rated prettily with wild currant and dogwood blossoms. Miss Marjorie Barratt served punch in the library, a short musical programme followed, after which supper was served. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bauer, Mr. and Mrs. Her bert Eckman, Misses Arleen John son, Ethel Graves. Mildred Ray mond, Winifred Nelson, Mildred Steinmetz. Anna Lee Miller, Helen Lenker, Winifred Barratt, Faye Steinmetz, Marjorie Barratt, Jean Shay, Violet Johnson, Myrtle Huff, Iola Barratt, Lillian Oren, Grace Miller, Grace Goodall and Messrs. Elwyn Marston, Douglas Bates, Charles Raymond. Albert Nelson. Eugene Steinmetz, James Lenker. Irving Oehler, Adrian Mann, Jay Thompson, Verne Graves, Earl Walker, George Berreman, Lloyd Carrick, Edward Larson, Wesley Hewitt, Rex Fuller. sisted by members of the congrega tion, ejected Miss Est. Dr. Parkhurst was not in the church when Miss Est began her harangue. HUGE TUSK PLOWED UP WILD BOAR'S HABITAT IS EX TENDED TO CALIFORNIA. Laymen Venture Belief, Pending; Re. port by Scientists, That Animal May Be Epochs Old. LOS ANGELES, April 12. (Special.) That California was at one time the home of practically every kind of ani mal has received further proof from the discovery of the Bkull and other portions of the skeleton of an immense wild boar in Imperial Valley. The skull with its 10-lnch tusks arrlvr In Los Angeles today. The find was made on tne California-Mexico Land &. Cat tie Company's ranch, one of the great iractor piows naving brought the sku to tne sunace when preparing the ground for a cotton field. One tusk of the great pig lacks just a iraciion or Deing lu Inches long, wniie tne other is broken off at the tip. Much interest has been aroused to the age of the beast for the reason that at present, or for many years past, there is no hunter who has Knowledge of the existence of wild boars in this section of the world. j.nelr usual habitat is Continental Eu rope, Asia Minor and some parts of Africa. Archeologist8 will be invited to make an Inspection and report. It is consid ered possible by mere laymen that the animal belongs to the pleistocene period and is in a class with the ani mals found In the oil pits at La. Brea. is an arm of the sea, and then liowe for a distance of over 2300 miles, reach ing the sea again at a point a short distance south of St. Michael. Its mouth is about 150 miles almost due south of Nome. Climate Found Peculiar. The peculiarities of the Alaska cli mate are enough to make the student believe that altitude and' latitude are not always to be reckoned with when it comes to calculating on degrees of heat and cold. The best agricultural section of Alaska is near Fairbanks. which is 400 miles north of Skagway, about 1100 miles north of Portland, but it Is also a good thousand miles west of Portland, which gives it the benefit of the warm Japanese air currents. Just think of raising all sorts of vegetables, berries and grains so far north! An agricultural experiment sta tion, conducted by the Government, is located here. At this station wheat has shown a yield as high as 67 bushels an acre; oats have yielded 115 bushels an acre. All of this the reader will say has nothing to do with Skagway; but Skag way is at present, and will for some time remain, the entrepot of UDDer Alaska. The White Pass & Yukon Rail way has made it such. When the Gov ernment steps in and builds a railway to the north this may be changed. If this road should start out trom Haines, which town is practically the same as Seward, Haines will likely become the jumping-ofl place. One Railway Out of Use, There is a railway built from Seward northwest for about 100 miles, but it is a bankrupt concern and not in over ation. Many think this road will be taken over by the Government and be come the main line to the north. Its western or northern terminus is at the base of Mount St. Ellas, the great mountain of Alaska, which is lust on the boundary line between the Ameri can ana British possessions. beward Is a few miles to the south west of Skagway. It has the advan tage over many of these northern towns in that it lies on an eminence well above high tide and has three or four square miles of level land. There Is an Army post there at which there are now four companies of troops. Haines is a half mile to the south on the same level land. We stopped there an hour or so and went through the town. It has been quite a place at one time, but three-quarters of the buildings are va cant now, and nearly all dilapidated They say they have a population of about 300 whites and perhaps as many natives. It is a rather good agricul tural section, the hardy vegetables do ing exceedingly well there, particularly caoDage. i ney declare they once sen out three heads of cabbage weighing 102 pounds, 84 pounds to the head. That Is some cabbage story. Cordova Favored for Terminus. The main difficulty in the opinion of many against Skagway and Seward as the terminus or starting point of the railway which the Government is ex pected to build is that from eithe place the road will lead many miles mrougn isrltlsn territory. Hence great many believe Cordova, at the head of the Gulf of Alaska, about 400 miles west of Skagway. will be the starting point. Time and President Wilson only can telL Getting back to Skagway.it can be said mat it is now a nice.-orderlv. busln like little city of perhaps 1500 people. remaps more, pernaps less. It is hard We are constantly in touch with the two great coffee markets of the world Hol land and New York. This enables us to purchase the very rarest and finest coffees grown. Try a Package of Manning's MANNING'S COFFEE STORE JONES MARKET FOURTH fir ALDER from the vessels can be loaded directly on the cars. From the end of the roadway In the south end of town to the end of the Moore dock Is a little over 3000 feet. It is planked with 4-ltich lumber the entire length. As this lumber was brought in from Puget Sound, and the piling from long dis tances, it can be seen what the build ers were up against. Freight In the early days was anywhere from $10 to $20 a ton. It Is now about $5. Excess baggage cost the incomers 25 cents a pound and about all save what the Incomer carried in his pockets was excess." Before we tied up at the wharf the pl-:nk roadway upon which "Soapy" Smith was killed w.s pointed out; later I saw the spot where he was killed and everybody who had not been here before bought a copy of "The Soapy Smith Tragedy." I sup pose nearly every reader knows enough about the killing of "Soapy" and the turning out of his gang and the changing of Skagway from a place unfit to live in to a place of law and order In a few hours. Skagway is almost at the head of Lynn Canal, which is an arm of the sea reaching north 20 miles from Chatham Strait. It Is a narrow body of water, but deep. Its name once Drought a member of Congress to grief He was on a committee to do some Investigating in Alaska, and uvai ink liic uiiici iiiciuuria laifvlilg u i Lynn Canal, he asked, "When and by I whom was this canal built? 1 have no recollection of it. ' Water Comes by (Jravlty. Skagway has a peculiar water sys tem. The water comes from a lake a thousand feet or so above the town just to the east, the hill rising abruptly irom the streets. On this hill, more properly a mountain, there is a lake fed by nearby glaciers, and from this ake the city water flows. It is as cold as Ice water. Skagway is Just a little In excess of 1300 miles from Portland by the ordi nary route of vessels; we came a sort of round-about way and traveled nearer 1500 miles. The trip here from Portland is one of the finest one could take. I am now a more firm believer in this "see America first" doctrine than ever before. I arm also a be liever In this Portland deliberately lost a trade, or failed to grasp a trade, that would have done more for the city and state than anything has ever done or ever will do. Trulv the busi ness done to and from Alaska Is as tounding; and remember our trip has taken us merely to the southeastern portion. We know nothing of Interior Alaska, nothing of Northern Alaska, nothing of Western Alaska, nothing of the western peninsula, nothing of the Aleutian Islands or the great Kar- lock Island, nothing even of Sitka, the oldest and most historic place in all Alaska. On every hand we hear the words, "You have to go to Sitka to learn the real Alaska and see the real Alaskans." Visit In Enjoyed. In fact, I am about to return to Portland knowing about as much about Alaska as the ordinary vis visitor to Oregon could learn in a two days' visit to Coos Bay Just about as much. But I have learned enough to know that a trip here, even as far as I have come, cannot be duplicated In attractiveness in any trip of like distance in any other direction from Portland, or at double the expense anywhere. Portland now has a line of three to tell when a place has fallen back steamers plying this far. Two of these MINERS' VOTE IN DOUBT One Michigan Local Strongly Op poses Ending: Strike. CALUMET. Mich., April 12. It was said tonight at the Western Federation of Miners' District Union of Hancock that returns on the copper strike vote taken by members of the locals at Han cock, Calumet. Ahmeek. South Range and Mass City were, incomplete and that no figures would be available un til tomorrow. At the headquarters in Ahmeek the local vote was given as 1257 against calling off the strike and S61 in favor of ending it. STABLEMAN FOUND DEAD I'ost Mortem Examination to Be Held on Joseph Thomas. Joseph Thomas, 26 years old. fell asleep in his chair in the Hawthorne Stables late Saturday night, and when a few moments later his roommate. H. P. Pulford, heard him fall over to the floor, he paid little attention to him. Yesterday morning he was found dead. Coroner Slocum will have a post mortem examination made to deter mine the cause of death. Thomas has been working and sleeping at the sta ble a few weeks. He was in the best of health, apparently, and was more than usually well developed and robust. I. W. W. HALTS' WORSHIP Woman Arrested for Disturbance in Dr. Parkhurst's Church. NEW YORK. April 12. Jane Est, a young woman sympathizer with the Now. J Nearly 100.000.- I OOO people llvs be- neath that flag- to- t day as compared 4 with less than 10.- I years waves f ! STABS AND STRIPKS ARB YEARS OLD TODAY. T Then. 4 Ninety-six years tagro today, at 2 o'clock the first ! United States flas of the present de . sign was holated I over the House of Representativea at 4 Washington. It had !20 stars nd 13 stripes. The flas had been made in New York by the wile of Captain S. I C. Reid. famous as J the commander of the privateer Gen- era! Armstrone. i Mrs. Reld sent It by mall to Con- gressman Wend t over. who had t been sponsor tor J ths new act by J which the law of 1794. providing for i a new stipe and a e new star for each state, was changed f to require only a f new star for each J s t at e. Thirteen 4 stripes were to be preserved to repre- 5 sent the original colonies. , The law making I the new banner the T official flag of the J United Stalea be- came effective July 4. ISIS. 96 000.0OO IIS ago. and it over a combined 4 area several times greater than that t represented by Its I 20 states In 1818. Its westermost rec- t ognltlon waa then J along the Missis- slppl River. Today the 48 states sweep unbrokenly across 4 the continent. The flag has also been planted over the J Philippine- Islands, over numerous f strategic Islands in ths Pacific, over the enormous area f of Alaska and the new gatewa or oceans at fan- ama. Several years 4 ago it was carried 4 around the world 4 by a fleet of Amer- ican battleships. 4 and Just five years ago it was planted at tbe Korth Pi by C o m m a n der Peary. 4 -4 ued f Pole I der I from a population of welL some of th citizens aver that in the skyrocket days there were anywhere from 30,000 to 60.000 people there, many of them liv ing in tents, many lying around on the streets, but a fraction of them living in dwellings. The town has a fine site, almost equal to that of Haines and Seward. About half of the buildings, perhaps three-quarters of them, are un occupied. Rents are exceedingly low and houses and lots can be bought for a fraction of their cost. Of course, the cost was high, as all of the lumber and other materials were brought in from long distances at excessive freight charges. 1 saw a good two-story house, in good repair, well furnished. In a good location, which was offered me for $600 I think it would have been mine for half of that. Official Timber Landed. I am not in any way knocking Skag way. I believe in spite of anything that can happen it will always be a good business place and a good city to live in. It is as orderly a town as one often finds. The city is run by, seven Counciimen; the one who gets the most votes becomes ex-ofticio the Mayor. There was to be an election the day following our departure and there was some excitement over it. It was said. however, that of the 10 candidates and there were only 10, although there were two tickets there was not one unfit for the office he sought. Skagway has a good newspaper, the Daily Alaskan. Like most of the Alaskan papers it is an evening sheet. It is run by L. S. Keller and seems to be flourishing. Mr. Keller has an exceptionally good plant and does a large job business. The business houses surprised me. Here I found the largest Jewelry store I had seen on the trip, not excepting Nanaimo. All of the other stores carry large stocks and seem to bo doing a big trade. There are more curio stores here than at any place we have visited, and the as sortments are better. Many of the silver and ivory trinkets are made by the Thlinget and Chilcat tribes of In dians in this section and they surely do fine work. The prices of such ar ticles we found lower here than at some other places where we Invested. S liens of Activity Seen. Arriving at the great, Moore wharf here, the first thing one notices are the four great roadways leading out on piling several hundred feet into the bay. with warehouses at tbe outer ends. Three of these are unused, going to ruin. In the palmy days, the cap tain told us. there were sometimes a dozen steamers at these wharves, or discharging cargo on the beach, in many cases to be carried away by the tide. In fact, the greatest trade was done before the approaches and docks were erected. Now only the Moore wharf Is used. The railway runs between the dock and the hillside, so goods discharged have good passenger accommodations for a limited number. If each of these vessels, the Stetson and the Qulnault. do not have as many passengers as they can accommodate on each trip then the Portland people do not de serve to have a boat leaving the har bor. I am on the Stetson. Nothing that the most particular and exacting traveler could ask In the way of ac commodations have we lacked. Captain MacGregor knows every foot of every strait, narrows, canal and passage making up these waters of Alaska and British Columbia. He is a mine of in formation, and he seems to delight in imparting what he knows. The stew ard feeds us as well as any hotel feeds Its guests, the rooms and berths are clean and neat, the purser, is as urbane as any such official could be even the mate, engineer and seamen are ever courteous to us. I forgot the pilot, Antone Wle. He knows the waters perfectly. He Is also as pleas ant as any person in bis position well could be. This is the end of our journey north. From here we return to Portland, stop ping a day at Tacoma to unload 625 tons of gypsum, which we will take on it Chichagoff Inland. WHAT THE INTERNAL BATH IS DOING FOR HUMANITY Under the present mode of living the large intestine (the colon) cannot get rid of all the waste that It accumu lates, so it clogs up, and then bilious ness, constipation . is the result, and that lack of desire to do, to work, to think. 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