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TIIE MOHNIXG OREGOXTAX, FRIDAY, APRIE 24, 1914. 15 RAILWAY BUILDER HAS GREAT BIG JOB President t6 Decide as to Whether Army or Civilian Is to Do Work. CHANCE FOR FAME GIVEN If Congress Gives Man in Charge I'.nougli Money to Push Plans to Consummation, He Will Succeed or Fail. WASHINGTON. April 18. What en gineer, army or civilian. Is to be given the big Job of constructing the Alaska railroad? President Wilson and Secre tary of War Garrison today have a problem before them similar to that which confronted President Roosevelt nnd Secretary of War Taft seven years tgo. The man who Is appointed chief en gineer of the Government work In Alaska will have an opportunity to make a great name for himself, or, as Is possible, he may not be able to achieve the great name, failure coming per haps from no fault of his own. If Con gress shall give the man in charge enough money to push the work and he has as free a hand as was given the workers in Panama, the chief engineer will succeed or fail according to hia own merits. If Congress delays in parceling out the $35,000,000 appropriated for the Alaska work, dribbling the supplies out at long intervals, the road con struction will lag and the head man on the work probably will be blamed for something which is no fault of his. If the lawmakers show that they want the thing clone and vote the money free handledly, the proper man In the proper place will complete the commanding piece of work and will get fame sec ond only to that which has come to the engineers who constructed the great isthmian waterway. Panama Knslnecrii Busy. Prior to this It has been said in these dispatches that it might be considered rather cruel to send a Panama Canal irngineer from the tropics to the sub Arctic to labor under new climatic con ditions and possibly with a lack or sup port back of him from the Congress of the United States. Now it is understood that none of the Panama Canal engineers, barring, of course. Colonel Goethals, would object to the Northern assignment. Colonel IT. K. Hodges has been retained on the isthmus In official capacity by Governor Goethals. Lieutenant-Colonel Gaillard is dead. Lieutenant-Colonel William L Sibert. the other engineer member of the isthmian canal commission, has been ordered to report to Washington and is expected to arrive here daily. Is he to be assigned to the thankful or thankless task, whichever it may be, of heading the Government's enterprise In Alaska? Nobody knows. In fact nobody knows yet definitely whether the President and his Secre tary of War will decide to assign an .Army or a civilian engineer to the great work of construction, . There - always has been more or less criticism of the course of the civilian engineers who first were sent to Panama to build the canal. They have had their friends to stand to their defense and their leaving of their posts before being able to see a point within a good many miles of the end of their work also has its defenders. Army "Sticks" to Job. There was great pressure brought to bear on the Roosevelt Administra tion to appoint civilians to the Panama Canal task. Afterward when Secre tary of War Taft had felt called upon to score severely one civilian engineer who did not "stay put," the Army was called in and the Army stuck to its Job. There may be a big difference, how ever, between Alaska work and Pan ama work. At Panama the heart of the whole people of the United States was engaged; Congress knew it and Colonel Goethals got all the money that he needed quickly and his division en gineers were able to go ahead without fearing that something half completed would have to wait until the funds were fotrhcoming to pay for the rest of the material and labor. In Alaska, if the engineer, civilian or Army, has the support back of lilm that- was given to Colonel Goethals and his as sociates, the work probably will go ahead swimmingly unless the wrong man is detailed to the labor of con struction. Some time ago in one of these dis patches it was said, that friends of the Government project in Alaska feared that the enemies of Inderal construc tion In any form or in any place might be perfectly willing that Congress should delay the appropriations or vote them in such small sums as to give the work the appearance of failure. It seems hardly possible that this shall come to pass, but there are men who are sincerely opposed to Government ownership and who might think that they were not being unpatriotic if their Influence should be used to handicap the cftortB of the men assigned to the Job. FEDERAL IiEAGTJE. t. . PUtsburs 6, Brooklyn 5. PITTSBURG. April 23. In a hard hitting game today the Pittsburg Fed eral league team aeieated Brooklyn. 6 to 5. The visitors used three pitchers. while Barger for the locals, although allowing eight hits, was Invincible in the pinches. Score: R. H. e. Brooklyn ...20102000 0 5 8 a Pittsburg ..12100020 6 14 4 Batteries Marion, Chappelle, Lafitte ana uwens; .Barger and Berry. St. Louis 3, Indianapolis 0. T"ni AN! Pfll.TS A nrll rr, . gles, an infield hit and a double gave iai. uuuia Liiree runs in me ninth and a victory from Indianapolis In the opening game of the season here to day. Score: R. H. E. St. Louis ...00000000 3 3 9 0 Indianapolis 00000000 0 0 5 2 Batteries Keupper and Hartley; f alkenberg and Texter. Baltimore 4, Buffalo 3. BALTIMORE. April 23. Baltimore defeated Buff alo today 4 to 3. Krapp relieved Moore in the fourth Inning after Baltimore ' had scored two runs with no one out. Score: R. H. E. Baltimore ..0 1120000 ( 9 2 Buffalo ....0 0200000 1 3 8 4 Batteries Wilhelm and Jacklitsch; Moore. Krapp and Blair. Chicago 9, Kansas City 1; CHICAGO. April 23. Chicago's third "big league" team opened its season today. Joe Tinker's men defeating the Kansas City Federals, 9 to 1. Claude Hendrix pitched for Chicago and held his opponents safe throughout. Art Wilson, former catcher for the New Tork Nationals, was the hero of the day. He knocked out two home runs. Score: R. H. E. Kansas City -0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 2 Chicago.... 031 20201 0 9 15 1 Batteries Johnson, Stone, Hogan and Easterly; Hendrix and Wilson. FHESH31EX WIX TRACK MEET Pacific University Sophomores One Point Behind. PACIFIC UNIVERSITY", Forest Grove. Or., April .23. (Special) Freshmen won the annual inter-class track meet today by one point. The. final count was: Freshmen, 48 points; sophomores, 47; seniors, 13; juniors, 10; academy, 4. Frost was the star performer, taking five first places and scoring 28 points for the freshmen. Tupper took every thing in the distance runs and piled up 16 points for the sophomores. Taylor, the only senior entered, pulled 13 points, and Patten got 8 points for the juniors. The results were as follows: 50-yard dash R. Frost, freshman: McNeill, sophomore; Axelson, sopho more. High jump McNeill and Dibble tie, sophomore; Rogers, freshman. Mile run Tupper, sophomore; Robin son, freshman; Donaldson, Junior. -Shot-put R, Frost, freshman; Pat ten, junior; Donaldson, junior. Broad jump McCoy and R. Frost tie, freshmen; Tupper, sophomore. 220 hurdles Taylor, senior: Robin son, freshman; Rogers, freshman. 100-yard dash R. Frost, freshman: Ricker. sophomore; N. Frost, academy. 880-yard dash Tupper. sophomore: Morgan, freshman; Rogers, freshman. 10-yard.high hurdles Dibble, soph omore; Taylor, senior; Robinson, fresh man. 220-yard dash R. Frost, freshman: N. Frost, academy; Ricker, sophomore. .foie vault Taylor, senior: Webb. freshman; Austin, sophomore. Discus Patten. junior: R. Frost. freshman; Burlingham, sophomore. Relay" won by the sophomores. Pacific meets McMinville College in the first track meet of the season Mav 1 at McMinnville. YOUNG GENIUS IS NIPPED La (1 of 12 Collects $1.07 as Bridge Toll Before Stopped. CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 18. A few days ago apparently as a result of the attitude of the House of Repre sentatives on the matter of tolls in general it was decided that the penny toll demanded of those who passed over the Kanawha River bridge in this city should be abandoned. Arnold Hunt, a 12-year-old boy. read the accounts of the toll situation on the Kanawha bridge and, realizing that habit is a great old institution, walked out to the bridge and sat in the old toll office. He didn't ask anybody for anything, and, as a matter of fact, didn't show his head over the counter in the office. At the end of the day he had S1.07t Today Arnold reported for business as usual, and was on a fair road to financial independence when a watch ful policeman came along and started him toward his home with' all of the physical material for a long cry. Then the policeman put up a sign at the toll office warning the absent-minded public that they had been relieved of a slight burden. OIL KING'S DAUGHTER SUED Former " Servant Awarded $2 00 for Beating, Long Secret. NEW YORK. April 18. That Mrs. David Hunter McAJpin, daughter of William Rockefeller, was sued last Fall by Winifred Maloney, a former chambermaid at Brooklawn Manor, tbe country estate of Mrs. McAJpin at Morris Plains, N. J., for assault, was disclosed in the Supreme Court. The chambermaid obtained judg ment in the City Court last November for $200 damages, but so skilfully did the lawyers guard the case that the details did not become public until to day. Mra. McAlpin has appealed to the Appellate term of the Supreme Court for a reversal of the jury's ver dict, considering it a stain upon her good name. Miss Maloney alleged that" on or about September 12, 1912, Mrs. McAl pin "for no justifiable cause, assaulted, struck and beat plaintiff in the pres ence of several other persons, causing her to suffer pain and nervous shock and to become nervous." The plaintiff brought suit for J2000 damages. KING HONORS AN AMERICAN Dr. Hamilton Rice, Amazon Explor er, to Receive a Medal. LONDON. April 25. Every year the King, through the Royal Geographical Society, gives a gold . medal for ex plorers. This i year the recipient selected by the council of the society and approved by the King is Dr. Hamil ton Rice, an American medical man, who for several years has been ex ploring on the borders of the Amazon and Orinoco river basins. Last year he returned from an ad venturous journey in this - region. during which he suffered many hard ships, living among savages, on scanty diet, in a pestilential climate, tor mented by insect pestsu. During the expedition he contracted a serious illness and had to operate on himself. He brought out. however. a good map of the country, and much important information about native diseases. OIL KING'S HOME ENTERED Man Caught Through Burglar Alarm Bays Ho Wanted Place to Sleep. TARRYTOWN, N. Y., April 19. Walter Murray, of Pocantlco Hills, is held in North Tarrytown on a charge of entering the Lowery cottage on John D. Rockefeller's estate. The house is equipped with a burglar alarm, and when a rear window was opened the alarm was sounded, in the estate of fice. Several guards with dogs immedi ately surrounded the house and Mur ray was captured. Murray says h had a quarrel with his family and did not want to go home, so he went to the Rockefeller house to spend the night. ACTOR THORNTON DYING Author of Scores of Popular Songs Falls Going to Wife. NEW YORK, April 18. James Thorn ton, noted vaudeville actor, author of scores of popular songs. Including the "Belle of Avenue A," on his way to St. Luke's Hospital to pay a visit to his wife, Bonnie Thornton, fell down flight of steps In a subway station. His skull was fractured. Thornton, unconscious, was carried from the station at One Hundred and sixteenth Btreet and Lenox avenue. where the accident occurred, to Har lem Hospital.. .He is near death in one hospital, and Mrs. Thornton is very low in another. Mrs. Clara S. Bntler, of Cleveland, has invented and patented a. device whirh elimi nates the harsb, metallic sounds in a phono- REWARD IS SHABBY Russia's Ingratitude to Soldier Shown in Trial. VOLUNTEER FARES BADLY Pamphlets Seized by Destitute ex Fighter Once at Port Arhur XJseti as Basis to Prosecute, but Court Says "Xo." ST. PETERSBURG, April 21. (Spe cial.) Pitiful stories of a country's ingratitude towards those who had fought and bled for her were told- in the St. Petersburg District Court a day or two ago, when a volunteer soldier named Plmenoff, who received the highest order of St. George's Cross, was brought up for trial on the charge of spreading "knowingly false state ments calculated to excite enmity towards the Government." The prisoner received five wounds during the Japanese war; seven times he had his horse shot under him, and he was one of the handful of Russian survivors of the Homeric fight on "Eagle's Nest." His only ' son was killed in battle, and when Plmenoff returned from -the front he found him self without means of subsistence. Many other maimed "Knights of St. George" were in the same plight, and in order to draw attention to their destitute . state Pimenoff wrote a pamphlet called "From the Diary of an Arthurian," In which he described Row they were thrown onto the streets and forced to beg for food, which, he said, was a disgrace to the Russian uniform. Considering the pity and indignation excited in St. Petersburg and other cities by the appearance of these starv ing cripples, it is hardly surprising that Pimenoff has been acquitted. Nearly all the witnesses for the de fense had won in battle the distinction for valor." Their evidence was as pa thetic as their appearance. One poor fellow was led Into court by a little girl. He was completely blind and had an artificial throat, his utterance be ing almost incomprehensible. The only pension he received was one of $19 a year. Another witness, twice wounded at Port Arthur, who has three children, of whom two are now in hospital, re lated that the' War Minister gave him only $1 annually, and therefore he was obliged to beg. A third witness, also wounded at Port Arthur, said that dur ing the last three years he had re ceived in all 124. A veteran of the Russo-Turkish War who participated in the storminc- of Kars, described how he. too. was re duced, to beggary. Then, again, there was an unpensioned soldier who fought in 20 engagements during the kusso-Japanese War, and after betas- wounded at Port Arthur, lay for three days and nights among the dead. He was recommended for the St. Georere's Cross, but through some mistake or other did not obtain it- He traveled nearly 6000 miles to try to get the error rectified, but hitherto his efforts had been fruitless, and he was now a Deggar. The Public Prosecutor asked that the minimum sentence should be passed on Pimenoff. The court, however, ac quitted the prisoner. WEALTHY GIRL DRIVES TAXI Rich French Lss Labors to ' Help Sweetheart Not So Well to Do. GENEVA, April 25. (Special.) How a wealthy girl drove a taxicab to aid ner sweetheart is reported from Laus anne. The young woman, who belongs to a rich French family livinir at Evian-les-Bains, recently eloped with a taxi driver. Her parents informed tne ponce, and as she is still under age, had her arrested and sent back home. once more she escaped and reloineri her suitor, for whose sake she cut oft her hair and. disguising herself as a chauffeur and giving an assumed name, obtained a post as a taxi driver. This time the course of true love was interrupted by an inouisitivn de tective, who, having hired the lady's cab, marveled at the driver's clean and dainty hands. After being closely ques tioned, she blushingly confessed her Identity and was again captured by ner parents. ELSIE JANIS IS "MANAGER" London Theater-Owner Negotiates With Actress for Two Artists. LONDON. April 18. (Special.) Elsie Janis has become a "manager." accord ing to Airrett Kutt. proprietor of the Palace Theater, where Miss Janis opened In the new Revue. "When -Miss Janis was in London last Summer." Mr. Butt explained. "I signed her to appear at the Palace When she arrived back here a few weeks ago she informed me she had brought two other artistes and I must rind places for them on the bill. "I saw them for the first time and asked them both to sign contracts. To my amazement they said they couldn't sign; that tney already were undere contract to Miss Janis. I asked her what it all meant, and she told me nbe had both these music hall artists tied up tight for 12 months. If I wanted their services I must negotiate with their manager- and I did. 30 WOMEN DIE FOR CAUSE Many Maimed for Life in Raids by Suffragettes in England. NEW YORK, April 18. (Special.) "More than 30 women have lost their lives in the suffrage campaign in Ens land. Many more have been maimed for life in the various raids made by the suffragettes. But every suffragist and every suffragette in England is ready and willing to lay down her life for the cause if necessary. So declared Miss Dorothy Pethick be fore the Equal Franchise Society. She declared Lnglish women would con tinue to Tight Asqulth and prevent his re-election. "WOMEN LIKE MACARONI' "Beeg" Members of Fair Sex More Pleasing to TItta Ruffo. DENVER, April 18 A piece of baked macaroni trying to stand upright. This is the dennitlon of the modern Ameri can women, by Tltta Ruffo, of the Chi cago Grand Opera Company. 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