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TROOPS STAY UNTIL PEACE IS RESTORED Wilson Sends Word to Arbitration Envoys. HUERTA WILLING TO RESIGN Dictator's Envoys Admit He "v Will Quit if Necessary. CONDITION IS ATTACHED Mexican's Mediators Go to Confer ence With Enlarged Powers and Agrarian Question Will Be Taken Vp as One Step. WASHINGTON. May 1 8. President Wilson today told the American Com missioners who leave tomorrow for the mediation conference at Niagara Falls. Ontario, that the United States will keep its troops at Vera Cruz until a definite settlement or the Mexican problem. The President save the American Commissioners Justice Lamar, of the United States Supreme Court; Fred erick W. Lehmann, former Solicitor General, and Diplomatic Secretary H. Perceval Dodge no specific instruc tions. They were told to place them selves in a receptive mood and await proposals from the three South Amer ican mediators. Haerta's Elimination Wanted. But at the same time he outlined that peace seemed to him to be con ditioned on the elimination of the Huerta administration and the estab lishment of a strong provisional gov ernment, which would conduct an elec tion giving fair treatment to all fac tions and parties' and guaranteeing, moreover, a solution of the agrarian problem and other internal difficulties which have bred revolution. The President wishes the Mexican question settled on comprehensive lines that will take into account the economic principles for which Zapata in the south, as well as Carranza in the north, have been fighting and will at the same timo conserve the right ful Interest of the people in the ter ritory controlled by the Huerta gov ernment. Huerta to Rnisn Is Asked. During the day a dispatch came to one of the foreign diplomats here from a diplomatic source in Mexico City, stating that General Huerta was ready to resign and would permit his rep resentation at the mediation to elim inate him if necessary. Intimations that have come from the three Huerta delegates since their visit to this country showed they had real ised Huerta's elimination was regarded as essential to a settlement. The Huerta delegates. It is learned from persons who Iiave talked with them, also understand thoroughly that the scope of the mediation has been broadened beyond the differences which arose because of the arrest at Tamplco of American bluejackets and now com prises the entire Mexican problem. Definite Asrreement Demanded. The Huerta delegates are said to be ready to recommend Huerta's retire ment, but only on the condition that a definite understanding is reached on the kind of government that is to follow. President Wilson In his final talk with the American Commissioners, at which Secretary Bryan was present, spoke hopefully of the mediation. He indicated that every power and legiti mate influence at the disposal of the American Government would be exert ed to make It succeed. rrnblrm Mnde ( lrnr. The President laid before the Com missioners the Mexican problem as he saw it, emphasizing that the duty of the United States was to seek un selfishly to assist Mexico to set up a constitutional government which could be accorded recognition by the world, bemuse of Its capacity not alone to maintain peace within its confines, but to observe international obligations. The mediators have worked out a general plan which they will submit to all factions. One feature of it became known definitely today. It seeks to rraill'-ate the perplexing agrarian ques tion by prescribing a division of lands in a way that will be satisfactory to the masses, but its details have not been revealed. Economic questions, however, will not be submitted until a satisfactory agreement is reached on political phases. In his talk with the Commissioners Die President touched briefly on the land question, speaking of it as a per ennial cause of discontent and dissatis faction, which had made it compara tively easy to raise a revolutionary army in Mexico. Government Retains Tower. The President gave his representa tives autograph letters to present to the mediators. These letters refer to the unofficial character of the repre sentatives and indicate clearly that the final decision on all questions pro pounded so far as the United States Is concerned will be made by the Govern ment at Washington. If the Huerta delegates are concilia tory and show themselves amenable to the plans proposed by the mediators and acceptable to the United States, an effort to draw the constitutionalists Into the agreement undoubtedly will (Concluded on Pace St.) " BENSON NOW LEADS IN JUDGESHIP RACE LAKE OOrXTT KETURNS GIVE LEAD OVER M'XART. Klamath County Aspirant Now Has Six Votes tlie Better in Primary Contest. Late returns last night from missing precincts in various counties of the state and partial returns from - Lake County which had not previously been heard from gave Henry L. Benson, of Klamath Falls, a lead of six votes over Charles L. McNary, of Salem, for the Republican nomination for the Supreme bench. This includes the complete vote from Multnomah County and complete re turns from Benton. Columbia, Gilliam, Lane, Marion. Morrow, Wheeler and Tamhill counties. Curry County, the only county yet to report, is expected to Increase the lead in Judge Benson's favor. He has been running strong in rural districts. Lake County, with only half the vote re ported, where he formerly lived, yes terday gave - him 3 37 votes to 22 for Judge McNary. The vote in the state now gives Judge Benson SI, 754 and Judge Mc Nary 31,748. The official count will be needed to decide the contest. The three other places on the Repub lican Supreme Court- ticket will be filled by Thomas A. McBride, Henry J. Bean and Lawrence T. Harris, as the first returns Indicated. Tester- day's returns added materially to their pluralities. Yesterday's returns did not change the relative positions of any of the other candidates on either the Repub lican or Democratic tickets. Dr. James Withycombe's lead over Gus C. Moser for the Republican nomination for Gov ernor was increased, so that he now leads his opponent by approximately 4000 votes. The lead of Dr. C. J. Smith over Judge A. S. Bennett for the Guberna torial nomination on the Democratic ticket remains at approximately 1300 votes. None of yesterday's reports af. fected this margin materially. 5 BARGES THREAD CANAL Tug and Tow Inaugurate Panama Service, Finishing: Trip Today. PANAMA, May 18. Barge service through the Panama Canal was inaugu rated today with the passage of a tug with five loaded barges In tow through the Miraflores and Pedro Miguel locks. Thence the tug and her tow proceeded through Culebra cut without disturbing the work at Gucaracha and were tied up at Gamboa, the half-way point in the canal, fcr the night. The trip through Lake Gatun and the Gatun Locks will be made tomorrow. Five empty barges will start from Colon in the morning on the trip to Balboa. FRENCHMAN SEEKS POLE Jacques Suzzanna, Artist, Starts on Three-Year Arctic Trip. , NEW YORK. May IS. (Special.) Jacques Suzzanna, the French artist and explorer, started today on a trip to the Arctic Zone and expects to be away at least three years. He has been with Arctic exploring parties before. He is taking 30 Eskimo dogs with him. He is financing the trip himself. His companions are George Warner and Ralph Jordan. He will proceed to Greenland by boat with dogs and sleds and will there stock' up for the trip to the North Pole, which he is con fident of reaching. Suzzanna is 35 years old. SENATE TURNSD0WN BILL 20-Year, Graduated Water Payment Proposal llelievod "Head.' OREGONIAN SEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, May IS. The House of Repre sentatives today refused to consider the Senate bill allowing settlers on Government irrigation projects 20 years instead of ten, in which to make water payments, and providing for graduated payments. Friends of the bill think it dead for this session. BERRY RATES SUSPENDED Interstate Commerce Commission Acts in 'Weight Case. WASHINGTON, May IS. A new reg ulation governing weights on carload shipments of berries by express from points in Oregon and Washington to destinations as far east as Chicago, 111., by which the transportation charges were increased, was suspended today by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. The suspension holds until Septem ber 17. EXPLORER REPORTED SAFE Baron Erland von Xordensenold Es capes Prom South Indians'. BERLIN. May IS. Baron Erland von Nordensenold, the leader of the Nor wegian South American exploring ex pedition, who was reported to have been killed by Indians March 14. last, is safe. The news of his escape from the In dians reached here today in a letter from Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Bolivia, dated March 21. which reported his ar rival at Trinidad, the capital of the bollvlan Department of Benl. Explosion Takes 11th Victim. NORFOLK. Va.. May IS. Chief En gineer W. L. Porter, who was badly burned in the explosion of the Old Do minion steamer Jefferson last week, died here today. He makes the eleventh victim. ROOSEVELT ARRIVES IfJ NEW YORK TODAY Traces of Hardships in 4 Jungles All Gone. DEMONSTRATION NOT WANTED Family of ex-President Plans Quiet Home-Coming. COLONEL NOW WELL MAN Illness Due to South American Pri vations Vanished, Says Advance Xews Jlonkey, Boar and Other Specimens in Tort. NEW YORK, May 18. Theodore Roosevelt's return from the jungles of Brazil will terminate probably late to morrow with his arrival at his home in Oyster Bay, Long Island. He is a passenger on the Booth liner Aldan, which according to wireless messages tonight is due at quarantine about 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. If the steamship reaches port at that hour Colonel Roosevelt will be taken off at quarantine and transferred to a tug which will carry him to the W. Eralen Roosevelt pier at Oyster Bay. On the tug which will meet the Aldan will be only members of the Roosevelt family. Colonel Returns AVrll Man. From his South American explora tions the ex-President is returning nearly a well man after a siege of seilous Illness due to hardships and privations he encountered, according to Captain Andrew Alexander, of the Booth liner Dunstan, which arrived to night from Brazil. For four days Colonel Roosevelt was a passenger on the Dunstan before be ing transferred to the Aldan. Captain Alexander said the fever from which the Colonel had been suffering had disappeared, the wound on his leg, due to an operation performed at Manaos for an abscess, was fast mending, he had gained in weight, his appetite had returned and he was in the best of spirits. Demonstration Not Wanted, According to friends of the Roose velt family, the impression that the Colonel is returning home a sick matt probably arose over their efforts to have him reach home without being generally hailed by the public on shore. The family is desirous of avoiding a demonstration, either at tu nrooklyn pier or at the depot at Oyster Bay, where the townspeople of his home village have planned to greet him nois- Concluded on Page 2.1 "GO INDEX OF TODAFS NEWS Tbe Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 70 degrees; minimum. 44 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. Mexico. Vera Cruz mob hoots and hisses Huerta's ex Minister of Interior. Page 2. National. Federal troops will not be withdrawn from Colorado soon.- Page 3. Sentiment in favor of arbitrating tolls dis pute grows. Page 5. Domestic Becker wanted Jack Rose killed, says ex Lioutenant's friend on stand. Page 3. Colonel Roosevelt arrives In New York to day. Page 1. . Captain Griffiths, faclns courtmartlal board, says not guilty. Page 3. Sport. Northwestern League results: Tacoma 5. Portland 3: Vancouver 4, Seattle O; Spo kane 7, Victoria 3. Page 6. Travers is loser, but hope of Americans winniny golf honors remains in young sters. Page 8. Sportsmen now have laugh on Stanford and California over Rugby .mess. Page 7. Justin Fitzgerald still leads Coast League batters. Page S. Pacific Northwest. Portland is made headquarters for North west Fruit Distributors. Page 1. J. K. Pardee, defeated at primary, takes life. Page 5. Leper patient escapes from quarantine sta tion. Page 5. Flathead Indian maidens want white boys for husbands. Page 1. Dr. Vv'ithycombe guest at Corvallis recep tion. Page 2. Commercial and Marine. Northwestern prune crop estimated at 6.000,000 to 9.O00.000 pounds. Page 17. Chicago wheat market affected by Hessian fly reports. Page 1,7. Broad demand for stocks and good gains are scored. Page 17. Santa Clara, to load lumber here for New York, expects to use canal. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Secretary of State for Washington confers with Oregon officials. Page 11. Coast counties are prosperous, says Tom Richardson after visit. Page 11. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Factions denounce each other at meat in spection ordinance hearing. Page 16. Railroad news and notes. Page 16. Miss Thelma Hollingswortli cbosen Festival Queen. Page 1. Seventeen acts are offered for 10 places on "Follies" programme. Page 13. Defeated Republican candidates pledge loy alty to party. Page 16. FORESTERS CHECK FIRE State and Federal Officers Join in Saving Wood Sear Eugene. EUGENE. Or., May 18. (Special.) Co-operation between the State Forest er's office and the Government For estry Department saved 1000 cords of wood here today. A brush fire started in a wood camp near Spencer's Butte, six miles from Eugene and was beyond control of the wood-cutters at 2:30 o'clock, with 1000 cords before the flames' and a stiff wind blowing. State Forester Elliott at Salem was apprised of the situation at 3 o'clock, and within 20 minutes, through the co-operation of Clyde R. Seitz, Super visor of the Cascade National Forest, a crew of men was on the way. The fire was placed -undar control wlthia an hour. The loss was nominal. RIVER SAVES FIRE VICTIMS Michigan Townspeople Lose Homes Tli rough Forest Blaze. ESCANABA. Mich., May 18. The vil lage of Alfred, 18 miles from this city, was wiped out by a forest fire today. The inhabitants were forced to seek safety in the Escanaba River, in which they had to remain for hours. ON OVEE, IT "WON'T HURT YOU!" CITY HEADQUARTERS FOR SELLING FRUIT Distributing Company Sends Manager Here. GROWERS BENEFIT IS CLAIM Agencies Formed in 38 States . and 11 Foreign Lands. CO-OPERATION IS PURy , C,atV Great Yield .-apples, Peaches and Pears Distributed Over World as Consumed Even Price Paid. Reports Indicate Success. SPOKANE. Wash., May IS. (Spe cial.) The board of directors of the North Pacific Fruit Distributors today ordered that headquarters for handling all fruits be opened immediately at Portland, with Wilmer Sieg, of Hood River, as sales manager. Mr. Sieg will go to Portland at once to secure quarters. He will be ready to throw the influence of the co-operative association in behind the Oregon grower at a time when crop estimates Indicate a large production of apples, peaches and pears for the coming sea son, which condition heretofore has produced chaotic selling conditions. Better Distribution Sought. The plan of the distributors is to distribute the fruit intelligently over the world as it may be needed and consumed. The Portland headquarters will be connected directly with and receive the benefit of the extensive selling machinery already established by the distributors in 38 states of this coun try and 11 foreign lapds.- When the shipping season is started Sales Manager Sieg will be in receipt of hourly information as to where the fruits of Western Oregon are in de mand. At any hour of the day he will know at what point a straight car of any grade or of mixed fruits may be secured. . - - . The distributors' organization is said to be the most advanced in co-operation that has yet come Into existence in the Northwest. It belongs to the growers themselves. It is the farmer in business. Millions Paid Growers Last Year. The meeting today concluded the first year of business of this organiza tion. Reports submitted show that it handled during the year 1913 a total of 3958 cars of fruit and that it paid the growers of the states of Washington, (Concluded on Page 3.) b INDIAN MAIDENS LIKE WHITE BOYS GIRL- WITH FLATHEAD LAXD SENDS APPEAL- TO AGENT. Tribal Belles Promise to lie on Hand If Squaw-. Seekers Will Advertise Their Coming. SPOKANE. Wash.. May IS. (Spe cial.) Captain Jonn McA. Webster, lo cal Government Indian Agent, today received a letter from Miss Jane Tugle shell, an Indian maiden of the Flat head tribe, at Kallspell. Mont., request ing that he refer some of the white boys applying to him for squaw wives to the girls of that tribe. The letter refers to Buck Newmann. of Harrison, Idaho, who last Fall com plained that his prospective bride. Olive Koegan. a Spokane) Indian girl, had been stolen by another white man. The letter in part follows: "Captain John M. Webster, agent. Spokane Indian Reservation. Sir: I see by the papers that you have more calls from white boys that want young allotment squaw maidens for wives than all the rest of the Indian agents in the Far West. "Some time ago we seen a real con test between two white boys. James Clark and Buck Newmann. for the hand of Olive Koegan. It seems that Clark got the girl and Newmann claimed that he vaa robbed. He said he would make one more trip among the young squaw maidens on the res ervation and find one more heavy weight squaw, not too lean or too fat We have not seen his name In the pa pers since and us Flathead girls have come to the conclusion that he did not find the heavyweight girl he was look ing for. "Now, if Mr. Newmann is on the square, the Flathead Indian girls would like to have htm call on them. If he will be kind enough to have an 'ad' in the paper when he will bo in Kal ispell the Indian girls will all be on hand." BUREAU TO RETURN LOST San Francisco Pair to Have Depart ment for Recovering Persons. SAN FRANCISCO. Mav is r-. tion of a human lost and found depart ment, tnrough which adults as well as children may be recovered, was an nounced, by the Panama-Pacific Expo sition today, it will consist of a cen tral registration bureau in communica tion with 30 or more telephone stations about the grounds. The department is expected to min imize the confused searching for friends and relatives that is always a "r" great gatherings where per sons are likely to become separated. OREGON ACRES ARE OPENED 9 00,00 0 in Small Tracts In Eastern Part or State Designated. , w i,uiv,nu, asn- Ington, May 18. The Secretary of the uesignatea touay for enlarged homestead entry 900,000 acres of land in small tracts, scattered all over East ern Oregon. The largest designations are in the Deschutes and John Day Val leys. He also designated 170,000 acres in Asotin and Okanogan Counties, Wash ington, and 250,000 acres in Lewis and Nez Perces Counties. Idaho. KEROSENE POISONS BABE Skin Peels Off After Clothing Is Sat urated With Oil. OREGON CITY, Or.. May IS. (Spe cial.) Poisoning by kerosene ended the life of Irene Marion. 10-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lval Glass. of Park Place, early Sunday morning. Mrs. Glass spilled a can of kerosene on the front porch Friday and the baby's clothing was saturated with it. When the child's undergarment was removed Saturday its skin came with it and physicians' efforts were unavail ing. ARMY MAN TO GO TO CHINA House Authorizes President to Grant Request for Engineer. WASHINGTON, May IS. At the in stance of the Chinese government the House today agreed to a Joint resolu tion to authorize the President to grant leave of absence to an engineer of the Army to accept an appointment under the government of China on works of conservation and public improvement. China particularly desired a United States Army engineer to examine the flood and famine region in the Huai River Valley. FORAKER SEEKS TOGA AGAIN Former Senator From Ohio Formally Enters Race for Nomination. CINCINNATI, May 18. Joseph B. Foraker. former United States Senator, today formally announced his candi dacy for the nomination for United States Senator from Ohio on the Re publican ticket. In a letter Mr. Foraker disagreed with the President as to his Mexican policy and opposed the Panama tolls act. Med ford Man Accidentally Killed. ' MEDFORD. Or., May 18. (Special.) According to a telegram received here Sunday evening from Wrangel. Alaska, Harold Trowbridge, of this city, acci dentally shot and killed himself. De tails are lacking. He left this city three months ago for Alaska, where he was employed as engineer on a gasoline launch. 2,274,055 VOTES ELECTJJEEN ROSE Thelma Hollingsworth Captures Honor. HAZEL HOYT IS CLOSE SECOND Harriman Club Wins Over Com peting Organizations. FEELING AT COUNT IS HIGH Misplaced Ballots May Result in Displacement or One Candidate. Disappointed Girls Control Tears as Fate Told Them. Thelma Hollingswortli. candidate of the Harriman Club, was elected Queen of the Portland Rose Festival as a re sult of the campaign that closed with the official count of ballots late last night. Miss Hollingsworth had 2,274, C55 votes. Her nearest competitor. Miss Hazel Hoyt, of the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph Company, had 2, 138,029 votes. Besides Miss Hoyt, the 11 maids of honor who will share In the Festival honors will be Helen Mclvor. of Lip man, Wolfe & Co. Welfare League; Miss Helen Fitzgerald, the North Bank Railroad candidate; Mary McKlnnon. East Side Business Men's Club: Anna Tlerney. Fire Department; Estella Mc Carl. Police Athletic Association; Beu lah Barringer, Progressive Business Men; Sadie E. Vlgus. Portland Ad Club, and Una Ostervold. Woodmen of the World. Owir.g to an uncertainty about one block of votes, there was a possibility late last night that Miss McKinnon would be displaced by Stella Campling, of the North Portland Commercial Club. The huge ballot box was crammed with votes when opened yesterday morning for the official count. No tally had been made since the secret voting began on May 11. The votes were first segregated and the ballots for each candidate counted separately. Three Judges Count. The judges were Judge W. N. Gatens, Dr. Luther R. Dyott and S C. Pier. The day had been filled with wars and rumors of wars that beat the gen eral election hollow. Every candidate had her official representative on hand from the moment that the ballot box was opened, ready to watch her inter ests and to fight for her every vote to the last ditch. And it wasn't long before trouble began showing and kept smoldering throughout the day. They had decided to suspend count ing the votes at 9 o'clock last night, and the question arose at to what should be- done with the ballots. "Lock 'em up," said one. "Seal "em up," said another. "Put 'em in the bank again," said a third, amid a general chorus of ap proval. When it was shown that this would mean confusion worse confounded, by throwing all the votes together again, there were more suggestions. In fact plethora of them. "Put a -cop' in charge." said one honest man. "Can that stuff. The 'cops' have a candidate themselves," same back in stanter. "Well, put in a private detective." suggested Dr. Dyott. "Don't you know. Doctor, that a d tective gets about 75 bones per?" quer ied the trouble-maker. "What of it?" mildly responded tho honest man. with a look of astonish ment. "Any guy what earns that much can be fixed. We've got J500 more to put into this contest, and I don't care if tho detective gets $100 of it. see?" Of course. Dr. Dyott saw, but he re fused to believe in this pessimist's vtew of humanity. So he said to him: "Haven't you got any faith in your brother mankind? Can't you trust any one?" "Yes," came back the answer. "I'll trust "em, sure I will, but." he added, only Just as long as I can see them." Coaotlng Not Postponed. That settled it. They decided, that instead of postponing the count they would put on some more men and fin ish it at one sitting. The trouble had started over the question of the validity of ballots that had not been marked individually by some of the contestants' friends. As a "matter of fact these were mostly the single ballots, worth only one vote each, and not in the least likely to affect any of the first 12 candidates, for whom it was figured that some thing in the region of 1,000,000 votes would be necessary. But the judges finally refused to de cide the question, so the candidates and their representatives were all sum moned, along with tlie board of di rectors of the Rose Festival. The ques tion was then put to a vote of the can didates, which resulted in ten demand ing the throwing out of the unmarked ballots and eight being In favor of re taining them. Realizing that the point was a ticklish one, the judges decided to throw the unmarked ballots to one side and to count them separately. If there shall be any difference in the standing (Concluded on Face IX) rm io7.o