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L.f A - AMV VOL. 1,1V. XO. 16,673. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY. MAY 2, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SIBERIA, REPORTED LOST, SAFE IN PORT Pacific Mail Steamship Reaches Manila. YOYAGE IS UNEVENTFUL ONE Arrival at 11 A. M. Saturday i. . Reported by Cable. CODE SIGNALS CONFUSED Vessel's Own Designation, "M. B. 6.," Mistaken for "3 .O. S." "Wire less Distress tall, "Weather Making Sending Difficult. MANILA, May 2. (Saturday.) The Pacific Main steamer Siberia arrived here at 11 today. Her captain reports that the vessel had an uneventful voyage from Nagasaki to Manila. The first report that the Siberia was in distress was a wireless message received at the Ogezakai station in Japan. It was said to come direct from the Siberia early Friday morn ing, and said that the steamer had met with an accident and was in dis tress. The message was mutilated and no further information could be gleaned from it. Warships Hasten to Rescue. The message was communicated to the Great Northern steamer Minnesota and the British cruiser Minatour and tho Japanese government ordered the steamer Kanto Maru from a Formosan port and several warships to the scene of the reported wreck. SAN FRANCISCO, May 1. The liner Siberia, reported wrecked off Formosa, steamed into Manila bay within an hour of schedule time. Advices cabled from Manila under tomorrow's date re ported that at 11 A. M. the vessel deopped anchor and her captain re ported an uneventful voyage from Nagasaki. Shippers Peaslmistlo at First, Prior reports from Manila led to gen eral belief that the 18,000-ton steel ship was safe, but local shipping: cir cles remained pessimistic, arguing that messages of latiude and longitude do riot spring from nowhere. The ex planation that the wireless call aS. O. and the code signal of the liner Persia "M. D. S." had. Vacome eonfused, straightened, out this phase of the affair. Exceptional interest was taken throughout the country In the faj.e of the Siberia, because of the number of prominent persons on her passenger list, which included the name of Mrs. Burton Harrison, wife of the Governor General of the Philippine Islands. Wireless Conditions Bad. The wireless operator on board the Siberia said the atmospheric condi tions yesterday had been bad, making the sending of wireless messages difficult San Francisco was kept in a high state of tension all day by the rumors The Siberia was bound for Manila with SO saloon passengers, one of whom was Mrs. Frances Burton Harrison, wife of the Governor-General of the Philip pines. There were 7-0 persons on board, including steerage passengers And members of the crew. Mum or Cansrs Deep Gloom. Other well-known passengers were Mrs. William Bremer, "Walter H. Heyne mann and Mrs. Dolly Heynemann Greenbaum, well-known In San Fran cisco society. The Siberia sailed from San Francisco April 7. Her commander is Captain Adrian Zeeder, one of the best-known skippers of the Pacific. The early reports caused deep gloom In San Francisco. Two cable mes sages received In New York from Ma nila reporting the Siberia safe failed to cheer local officials, who seemed to be at too great tension to relax unless full confirmation could be had of the vessel's safety. They were Inclined to think the messages started on their way ahead of the supposed accident and not after the time when it was said to have occurred. Somo marine experts, however, credited the Manila cables, and de clared their belief that the Siberia cither was damaged slightly or not at all. Other Disasters Recalled. The report that the vessel was sink ing fell heavily upon a city not unused to calamity. The shipping records of this port weave back and forth to the Orient with hardly a tragedy. The signal exception was the loss of the Pacific Mail steamship liner Rio de Janerlo. which Bank at the entrance of San Francisco bay February 22, 1901 with the loss of 128 lives. The Siberia, with its sister ship, the Corea, was put on the Pacific Mail run across the Pacific in 1901 a few months after a vacancy had been created in the schedule of the company by th sinking of the ill-fated Rio de Janeiro. The Siberia is a steel, twin-screw vessel with a displacement of 18,000 tons. She is registered in the port of Sew 1 ork. Polk County Prepares for Fair. BUENA VISTA, Or, May 1. (Spe cial. Preparations are under way the farming districts of South Polk County for exhibits at the county fair to be held at Dallas in September, the Oregon state tair and the Panama Pacific Exposition In 1915. Children have formed industrial clubs for county fair work and are also working to se cure prizes at the stats Fair. STRAW HATS LIKE , CROCUSES ON LAWN BLOSSOJriXG REVEALS MODELS OF 1913 ABE TOO FLAT. Day Kept by Consent of Weather and Brings Out Ribbons Outdoing JLard -Working Rainbow. By common consent, which Included that of the elements, yesterday was "straw hat day." The new "lids" blossomed on the streets amid the more somber major ity of headpieces like croenses on a lawn after the first shower of early Spring. There was no mistaking the high crowned new ones for those of yester year, however well holy-stoned those relics of 1913 may have been. Not even a splendid new Roman-stripe ribbon served to disguise the low crowned back numbers. Many of the new ribbons are as streaked and pied in hue as was young Joseph's envy-breeding new Spring suit of old, and outdo any well-ordered, hard-working rainbow in their infinite variety. There was a slightly accelerated de mand for straw han and the shopmen report brisk sales of Summer under wear. It was straw-hat weather, and, al though no actual instances were re ported, many persons were seen whose faces were assuming the fixed expres sion of cheerful blankness which pre cedes the time-honored greeting of the Summer solstice, "Hot enough for you?" There was something of a run on the Benson fountains, and Ice-cream foun dries had their first symptom of real activity. Citizens who 'took a day oft to help their wives transfer their lares and penates to places of new abode were the only ones to suffer with the heat. Little rivers and deltas of perspiration appeared on their noble brows, sooty and wrinkled with the problem of get ting the kitchen range through the same door it entered a year ago. The maximum temperature was 79.8 degrees. Fair weather and cool west erly winds are predicted for today. CANADIAN DEALERS ALERT Lumbermen View Possible Future Advantages From Canal Tolls. WASHINGTON, May 1. (Special.) Washington lumber dealers are receiv ing letters from lumbermen in British Columbia in which attention Is directed to the' tremendous advantage Canadian lumber milla wilL have over mills on the American side of he boundary by repeal of the tolls exemption laws. After declaring that "it is only a mat ter of a few years when the Middle and Eastern states will have to look to the Pacific Coast for the bulk of their lum ber," one letter continues: "Do you know that with the opening of the Panama Canal, with no free tolls for American coastwise ships. British Co lumbia will be able to deliver lumber on the Atlantic Coast at a much lower rate per thousand than the Pacific Coast states can do it?" WEDDING PLANS ARE MADE Miss "Wilson and Dr. Grayson Will Be Bridesmaid and Best Man. WASHINGTON. May 1. Although de tails of the wedding on May 7 at the White House of Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson and Secretary McAdoo have not been announced, it became known to day that Dr. Cary T. Grayson, U. S. N.. the President's physician and naval aide, would be best man, and Miss Mar garet Wilson maid of honor. Dr. Grayson has been one of the in timate friends of the Wilson family, as well as Secretary McAdoo, and was confidante of the couple during their courtship. GRAIN INSPECTION BEATEN Senate Defeats McCnmber Bill for Uniformity of Grades. WASHINGTON. May 1. By a vote of 37 to 20 the Senate tonight defeated the bill of Senator McCumber provid ing for the Federal inspection and grading of grain entering into inter state commerce, and designed to secure uniformity in standards and classifica tion of grain. The bill has been before the Senate for more than a year and has been the subject of much discussion in the last few weeks. ICE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN City Sealer Says Orders Should: Be by W eight Not Price. "Buy ice only by weight. Find out what amount your refrigerator will hold and it will be easy to determine whether you get full weight." This is the request of City Sealer of Weights and Measures Jones to insure protection of purchasers against the shortweight icemen. To buy ice by ordering 15 or 25 cents' worth is just what the iceman wants, because it does not specify the amount to be delivered. SHAMROCK IV SOON OUT America's Cup Challenger Said to Be "Most Wonderful Boat." LONDON. May 1. Shamrock IV. Kir Thomas Lipton's new challenger for the America's cup, described by those who have seen her as the most wonderful boat of her kind ever built, is to be launched May 25. Her trial races will begin the first week in June. The new challenger is said to be en tirely original in design and to com' blue many novel features. MEDIATORS STILL WAIT ON CARRAN7A Broadening of Scope of Task in Doubt. CAPITAL RELAXES TENSION Diplomats Dealing Directly With Parties in Interest OIL WELLS BECOME ISSUE Bryan and Daniels Continue Effort to Neutralize Valuable Properties at Tampico American Con sulate Is Reopened. MEXICO CITV, May 1. It Is reported bere that a tripartite agreement to an armistice was signed here today by rep. resentatlves of the United States, the federals and the rebels. Jose Manuel Cardoso de Ollverla, tbe Brazilian Min ister, confirmed tho report except as to the actual signing; of the agreement. WASHINGTON, May 1. Assurances of peace, with a steady abatement of "war talk," was the dominant feature In the Mexican developments today. At-' tention was still centered on the work of the South American mediators, who reported progress and the avoidance of any deadlock between the parties. The failure of Carranza thus far to accept the mediators' proposal for a suspension of hostilities against Huerta caused continued doubt over the outlook for broadening the scope of the mediators' work to a settlement of the entire Mexican situation. The report that Dr. Ryan, an Amer ican in the service of the United States Government, was about to be shot as a spy by Mexican federals at Zacatecas caused serious apprehension through out the day, but reassurances as to Dr. Ryan came direct from Huerta late in the day. Proceedings Advance Rapidly. Summing up what the mediators had done up to this time, a well-informed autnority sale; it represented more actually accomplished in a given time than had ever occurred before In the hitsory of intermediation. He specified, beginning April 26 and continuing six days, including today: First, acceptance of good offices by the United States; second, acceptance by Huerta; third, acceptance by Car ranza; fourth, suspension of hostilities by the United States; fifth, suspension of hostilities by Huerta. These five accomplishments, within six days, were declared to be without precedent In international bodies which (Concluded on Pase 2.) ....................................................... TTtTTT. ...... ...IT...! ' A SPECTACULAR PURSUIT. J J I 4 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum ttmnntuti. 79.S -it A degree; minimum. degrees. waai o x sir, cooler; westerly winds. Mexico. Congress support given Wilson grudgingly. Page 3. Refugees from Guadlajara tell of narrow es cape from massacre. Page 3. Mediators still uncertain ss to Carranza's at titude, page L Foreign, v Colonel Roosevelt starts home. Page National. 1 Senator Norris uryei arbitration of tolls issue, page 2. Domestic Force of regular troops In Colorsdo strike districts augmented. Page 1. Counsel for Charles S. Muellen sails suddenly as investigators seek him. Page 2. Portland physician gets Carnegie hero medal. Page 1. Sports. Coast League results: Portland 2, San Fran cisco 1; Sacramento 5, Oakland a (15 innings); Venice-Los Angeles gams post poned, rain. Page 6, Northwestern League results: Portland T. Tacoraa 1; Spokane 4, Seattle 1; Van couver 8. Victoria 4. Page 6. McCredle negotiates for pitcher snd catcher from American Association. Page 7. Pacific Northwest. Government to sell 600,000,000 feet of timber in Clearwater reserve. Page G- Brigadier-General Potts retired at own re quest after mors than 47 years' service. Page 5. Ad Club members make merry on trip to Agricultural College. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. VsIIey merchants organize 'central distribut ing agency for produce. Page 17. Estimate of record wheat acreage depresses Chicago market. Page 17. Upward movement of Wall-street stocks con tinues in full force. Psge 17. Japanese steamer shlksl Marue to replenish bunkers today and depart. Page 12. Cables are fastened to schooner Hogan and hope is held she can be saved when tide rises. Page 7. Portland and-Vicinity. Registration for primaries ends with en rollment of 14.832. Page 11. Straw hats blossom in streets like crocuses on lawn. Page 1. School children celebrate May day with pomp and pageant. Page Id. Bench and bar to attend late Judge Mai lory's funeral today. Page 9. Westminster Presbyterian Church to be dedicated tomorrow. Page 16. Weather report, data and forecast. Psge 17. LdGAN'S PROPERTY TIED UP Alleged Oregon Land-Fraud Leader Not to Resist Return. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 1. Spe cial.) John W. Logan, one of the alleged leaders In Oregon land frauds, was ordered sent to Portland today after hearing before United States Commission Francis Krull. Logan made no resistance to the issuance of the order but a stay until Tuesday was granted him. Several attachments have been levied against Logan's personal property since ia niLttnoidiiuii in me Aiameaa County Jail. Some of his alleged victims read that he had 81900 in coin, Wells-Fargo orders and diamonds on his person when taken into custody and Immediately proceeded to try to get some of the valuables by .legal process. Logan said he was anxious to stav here long enough to fight the attach ment cases. Paisley, Or., Girl to Graduate. NOBLES VILLE, Ind., May 1. (Spe cial.) Among the students who will be graduated from DePauw University this year is Vera Conn, of Paisley, Or., who has made a highly creditable record. There are 103 in the class. HRE TROOPS SENT TO STRIKE DISTRICT Garrison's Action Sets Fears' at Rest. MILITIA IS STILL AT LUDLOW Weather Keeps Strikers From Voting on Disarmament. OPERATORS RENEW OFFER Position Declared to Be Same as When Governor's Offer Was Accepted Last November but Rejected ' by Men. WASHl SGTOX, May 1. Orders to quadruple the force of Federal cavalry, men 1st the Colorado coal strike resrloa went from the War Department late tonight. The entire Eleventh Regl mcnt from Fort On-lethorpe, Gl, and two lawpa of .the Twelfth from Fort Robinson, Neb, wf rs ordered to pro ceed to the aceae at oace. Colonel Jamea Lockett, of the Eleventh, to take aw prcme command of the situation DENVER. May L Co-operation of state and Federal authorities in an ef fort to compose conditions in the Colo rado strike zone marked developments today, the second of Federal interven tion in the industrial war. Regular troops occupied the Trinidad. Fremont County and Walsenburg districts and state troops are still in service at Ludlow and in the northern coal fields. At the direction of Major Holbrook, additional state troops were sent late today from Ludlow to Aguilar. The action of Secretary Garrison in grant ing the joint request of Major Hol brook and Governor Ammons for more Federal troops, announced late today, has served to allay uneasiness In quar ters where it was feared the quota of regular soldiers would not be suffi cient to maintain order. Disarmament Vote Not Taken. While Major Holbroo'k and Governor Ammons today were devoting efforts to sectoring additional troops. the question of disarming of strikers and mine employes remained in a secondary position. Weather conditions prevented action by the strikers, who had planned to vote on the question. On benalt ol the operators. J. F. Welborn, president of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, announced that the miners and guards would be disarmed whenever such ac tion was deemed expedient by Major Holbrook. A second telegram, signed by 21 of the Colorado coal operators, addressed (Concluded on Pas 3.V HERO MEDAL GIVEN TO PORTLAND MAN CARNEGIE BOARD REWARDS DR. TIDDBALL FOR SAVING TWO. Commission Recognizes 32 Acts of Heroism and Makes Money Awards Amounting to $40,752. PITTSBURG. May 1 Charles W. Tiduball. of the Good Samaritan Hospi tal, Portland, Or., was among those re warded with bronze medals for an act of heroism by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, which held its Spring meeting here today. In all 32 acts of heroism were rec ognised. In nine cases silver medals awarded, and In 23, bronze medals. Three of the heroes lost their lives, and to their dependents, sums totaling 12725. to be applied, subject to the di rection of the commission. were granted. In addition to these, money grants In 11 cases, sums aggregating 121.000 were appropriated for educational pur poses, and in 18 cases awards aggre gating 817.000 were made to be ap plied toward the purchase of homes and to other worthy purposes. The act of heroism for which Dr. Tiddball has been awarded a Carnegie medal was performed in Iowa two years ago. He rescued two girls from drowning, risking his life in doing so. Dr. Tiddball came to Portland June 22. 1913. and is connected with Good Samaritan Hospital as house physician. He is engaged in private practice also at Gates Crossing, east of Portland. He Is about 28 years old and unmarried. CONGRESS ASKED TO HURRY Amendment for Election of Senator Needed Soon, Pleads Lister. OREGONTAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. May 1. Governor Lister today telegraphed to members of ths Wash lngton delegation that it will be neces sary to call a special session of the Legislature to provide machinery for electing a Senator this Fall unless there is prospect of the early passage by Congress of the bill to meet the sltua tlon temporarily. Representative Hum phrey, replied that Democrats In the House were filibustering against this bill and might defeat it, but Repre sentatlve Falconer, who is a candidate tor the Senate, conferred with the rules committee and telegraphed Governor Lister he. had assurances' a special rule would be brought In to permit early consideration of the bill. He thinks it will pass and no extra session of the Legislature will be necessary. - FRENCH EDITOR LECTURES M. Andre Bellesfort la This Year's Alliance I'runcuise Speaker. M. Andre Bellesfort, professor of higher rhetoric lu the Lyce Louis le Grand and an editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, delivered a lecture in French before members of the Alliance Francaise, at the Public Library, last night. M. Bellesfort' s lecture was on "The France and Paris Which. We Do Not See." Each year the Federation of French Alliances of the United States invites a celebrated lecturer to come -from France to this country. The lectures are given under the patronage of the French government. Professor Belles fort is just completing his present tour of the United States, having delivered 80 lectures in the principal cities and colleges of the united States. RATE APPLICATION IS VOID Commission Rules on "Wood-Metal Box" Case In California. WASHINGTON, May 1. A regulation of transcontinental railroads limiting the application of commodity rates Irom California terminals to Eastern destinations to articles shipped in boxes "made entirely of wood or of wood and metal" today was held by the interstate commerce Commission to be unreasonable and unjustly discrimina tory. The Commission held that the articles could be shipped in "fiber board, pulp board or double faced corrugated straw-board boxes. although th "rules with respect to the construc tion, packing and sealing of fiber boxes should be rigidly enforced and the ship per held responsible for any violation thereof. ' HIGH HEELS UNDO DANCER Claire Blaker Rehearses Dutch Shoe Dance Ankle Sprained. VANCOUVER. Wash.. May 1. (Spe cial.) Miss "Claire Blaker, one of the stars In the "Wedding of Jones," two-act musical comedy to be given here Monday and Tuesday evening, by the. local lodge of Elks, seriously sprained her ankle in a rehearsal Wednesday night, when attempting a Dutch dance. In the comedy she was to appear in Dutch shoes, but was re hearsing in high-heeled slippers and a tight skirt. Tbe whole company has been gloomy for two days, fearful that she will be unable to take her part. PORTLAND STRIKE IGNORED Checkers' Trouble Not Made Issne at San l""rancisoo Meeting. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, May 1. (Spe. claL) Although a meeting of the Waterfront Association was held to day at which were represented both the Shipowners' Association and the longshoremen's union. The strike of the Portland Dock Checkers did not come up for consideration. Representatives of the two bodies say they do not know when the mat ter will be taken tip as no date has been set for a conference. They de cline to discuss the possibility of ai amicable settlement of the fctrike in the near future. TOUR OF AD CLUB IS ONE HUGE LARK Agricultural College Is Inspected. SPECIAL TRAIN CARRIES 358 Paper Issued and Dance Given as Party Speeds South. BANQUET SPREAD BY GIRLS Party, Divided Into Groups of 10, Is Taken Through Buildings, Sees Parades and Drills by Students and Hears of Growth. BT ADDISON BENNETT. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis. May 1. (Special.) The finest day that 1914 has thus far given us was this May day a day long to be remembered in the annals of the Portland Ad Club and Oregon Agricul tural College, our beloved O. A. C In deed, the day has been a dream up to the hour of filing this dispatch, as we are about to partake of a banquet pre pared by the young women of the do mestic science department to be served in Waldo HalL Three hundred and fifty-eight of us assembled at the Portland Union Depot at 8 o'clock this morning. Apparently there were no laggards, so when tho hands on Ed Lyon's clock pointed to 8:20 Conductor La Forest gave the sig nal and the second Southern Pacific special rolled away for its Journey of three hours and 20 minutes. Fna Let Loose. The fun on board began at once, Ed Werlein, acting as peanut vender, sold his motheaten wares and stale drinks at fabulous prices, but there was no kick. General Passenger Agent Scott, accompanied by. Ticket Agent Stinger, shook hands with evervbodv and ex tended special courtesies to the women. J. K. Gill, the official Inspector, looked ' "" us over for virulent maladies and then Phil Bates and J. A. Currey sprayed us, officially. Meanwhile Sam Connell and his as sistant bartenders were running a cafe in the rear coach which was well pat ronized until a pretended Tom Word broke up the glasses and furniture, de stroyed the stuff in the bottles, some of which, it was said, would Inspire a jackrabblt to defy a bulldog. Ceremony Is Eliminated. Kwrvhodv pnt scausinted with everybody else, there was no standing on ceremony, for. we were all labeled with our names on our badges. The women formed themselves into a com mittee of reception and the men did likewise. Started on our way up the Willam ette, out came the first issue of the Penancespads, a newspaper that got out an extra about every 15 minutes during the entire trip. The price of this paper, so C C Chapman, its own er, editor, publisher, printer and devil, announced, was 10 cents a copy. 5 cents a year. Nobody subscribed. We threw Chap down and confiscated the whole edition as we bowled through Oregon City at the rate of 30 miles an hour. Mr. Smead. factotum at large of the Portland Commercial Club, came through and collected 82.69 from each of us. "Kcrlbe'a" Faro Paid. The Oregonian scribe spent all his money in Connell's cafe and at Wer leln's peanut stand, so General Passen ger Agent Scott started a subscription with 4 cents and the scribe's bacon was saved, also a long walk. Soon there after Mr. Stinger came along and ex changed regular tickets for the cards issued by Mr. Smead and then came the conductor and took up the coupons; thereupon we all felt as became par tial owners of the Southern Pacific What a train we had eight beauti ful steel coaches! And what a glori ous ride we enjoyed on such a heavenly day. We passed fertile fields where husbandmen were busy putting In their seeds, passed herds of dairy cows, bands of sheep, beautiful homes, passed automobiles going and coming, passed shady nooks, wooden forests, went over bridges crossing swift and lag gard waters where the trout seemed to be crying for us to cast them a fly, through the beautiful Willamette Val ley, a wonderland indeed. In truth, in fact. We were skimming along at 0 miles an hour as if we were running on rubber wheels, on cushioned . Tails, and such a Jolly, Joyous, laughing, chatting bunch. Dance Enjoyed on Train. Did ever such a party Journey from Portland town in gayer mood or under more auspicious circumstances pay homage to our O. A. C? Tbe forward car, a huge baggage carrier, was turned Into a ballroom, a piano Installed and here went on the dance, uninterrupted from Dan to Ber sheba, or rather from Brooklyn to Al bany. In the front end of this car there was a space set aside as the office and workroom of the Penancespad, our great newspaper. In some of Its issues It said queer things about queer people, serious things about the sad, and merry things about the serious and not a blamed advertisement In It. It was made up extensively of editorials writ ten by real writers on all sorts of liva subjects, principally the Mexican waft We were met at Salera by Professors (Concluded on Fase l-.