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VOX. LIV. NO. 16,705.
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY. JUNE 9, 1914.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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PEACE PLAN MADE;
PROTOCOL IS NEAR
United States' Draft Is
Given to Mediators.
HUERTA AGREES IN PRINCIPLE
-l Provisional President and Cab
il inet of Four Proposed.
PARDON FOR ALL PROVIDED
Mexican Delegates Announce They
Will Not Thwart Mediation Hope,
Even if America Allows Am
munition to Be Landed.
NIAGARA PALLS, Ont., June 8. The
United States Government, through
Justice Lamar And Frederick W. Leh
mann, presented today to the three
South American mediators a complete
plan for the pacification of Mexico.
It Is the same In principle as that
presented by the mediators and already
agreed to by the Huerta government.
It contemplates establishment, at the
earliest date practicable, of a new pro
visional government in Mexico City,
which would conduct general elections
for a permanent government.
Counter Proposal Made.
The plan written by the American
delegates, after consultation with the
Washington Government, Includes sev
eral counter propositions of which the
Huerta delegates will be advised to
morrow. A full conference of all dele
gates and mediators Is planned for to
morrow or Wednesday. This is for the
formal consideration and final drafting
of the protocol.
The Mexican delegates let It be
known that, while they hoped the
Antilla's cargo would be returned to
New York, they were not disposed to
Interrupt mediation, even If the ammu
nition finally got ashore.
American Advice Awaited.
Final word was awaited tonight from
the American Government as to
whether the Antilla would be permitted
to land her arms. The Spanish Am
bassador at Washington is expected to
receive from Secretary Bryan the reply
to the note addressed originally by the
Huerta government to the mediators
and referred to Washington by the
American delegates here.
The Huerta delegates wrote the note
before they knew a blockade had been
ordered, but when General Huerta
learned that his representatives were
taking the matter up through dlplq
matlc channels he suspended the block
ade. The Mexican delegates asked If the
American Government would object to
action being taken by the Mexican gun
boats to prevent the landing of ammu
nition. Tho delegates wanted to know
If the right of search in this case would
be regarded by the American Govern
ment as a violation of the armistice
between the United States and Mexico.
Mexican Delegates Optimistic
The Mexican delegates are optimistic
and see the end of the parleys here.
They are assuming that the American
Government will deal with the consti
tutionalists if the latter do not come
Into the negotiations immediately.
It is known authoritatively that the
original terms set by the mediators for
constitutionalist participation the dec
laration of an armistice and broadening
the scope of discussion from interna
tional to internal questions still Is not
acceptable to the constitutionalists,
though official word to the effect is
lacking.
It is understood that a diplomatic
way of approaching the Internal ques
tion would meet the approval of the
constitutionalists, but the mediators are
Insistent on an armistice. The consti
tutionalists, according to informal ex
pressions, are desirous of discussing a
solution of the Mexican problem by
diplomacy, but they are unwilling to
disrupt their military campaign until
they have good reason to believe the
plan under discussion meets their ap
proval.
llebels' Aid Wanted.
The mediators now are trying to
evolve a method by which the peace
plan will meet the approval of the con
stitutionalists before a protocal is
signed, though the American Govern
ment may conduct its negotiations
with the constitutionalists.
There is a feeling of confidence that
the constitutionalists eventually will
approve the plans being worked out.
While details of the peace plan are
necessarily withheld until there is
flour agreement, it 13 Known that a
large share in the new provisional gov
ernment will be given, to the constitu
tionalists.
The plan calls for the establishment
of a provisional government at the
head of which shall be a neutral per
son with a cabinet of four persons
representing the varied political Inter
sts of Mexico.
No other internal questions are in
cluded in tne peace plan, as recom
mendations and suggestions with ref
erence to agrarian and educational re
forms are phrased in such" a way as
to constitute advice rather than dicta
tion. General Pardons Provided.
The plan Includes provisions for gen
eral amnesty, the payment of claims,
the withdrawal of the American forces
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LET MILITANTS DIE
IS CRY IN ENGLAND
BRITISH CLERGY GIVE VIEWS
OX "HUNGER STRIKE."
Government Believed to Hare Move
Under Way to Alter laws So Suf
fragettes Mar Go Limit.
LONDON, June 8. "Let them die" is
becoming a popular slogan in connec
tion with the "hunger striking" suf
fragettes since the public has become
so profoundly resentful of the actions
of the militant women. '
It wan reported today the government
had decided to take a step In this
direction by introducing legislation to
indemnify the prison authorities
against the consequences of allowing
suffragettes to starve themselves to
death while in prison.
The Evening Standard today Inter
viewed a number of prominent people,
including clergymen, on the subject,
and all of the latter who are quoted
by the newspaper express themselves
in favor of the proposal.
Father Bernard Vaughn, brother of
the late Cardinal Vaughn, replied:
"There would be nothing ethically
wrong In letting them die. , Let them
start at once and make up for lost
time,"
Rev. Arthur Waldron. vicar of St.
Matthews, Brixton, said:
"If the women refuse food, they
should be allowed to die."
Rev. Richard Free, vicar of St. Cle
ment's, Fulham, replied:
"I think the suggestion very good.
I have advocated it for many months."
Several of those interviewed de
nounced impartially both forcible feed
ing and the "hunger strike," while
Willoughby Dickinson, a Liberal mem
ber of Parliament. Lady Cowdray and
Lady Muir-MacKenzie dismissed the
suggestion as preposteroua
HERE'S MILWAUKEE NEWS
Brief Items About Home Happenings
Ready for Visitors.
(Furnished by the Milwaukee Journal.)
MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 8. (Spe
cial.) Milwaukee is sweltering, with
no prospect for immediate moderation
In temperature.
William H. Hatton, Republican can
didate for Governor, says: "Expenses
of the state should be met with income
from corporations. Inheritances, etc.
and should be sufficient. There should
be no direct levy."
Herbert W. Underwood and Robert
W. Pierce, well known, are dead here.
Chief of Police Jansen's saloon, black
list Includes many well-known places.
Abraham Do Homer and Lieutenant
Guy W. Castle, Mllwaukeeana, have
been praised for bravery at Vera Cruz
by Admiral Fletcher.
Timothy Burke, of Green Bay, Is a
candidate to succeed Senator- Isaac
Stephenson.
EIGHT TORNADOES FROLIC
South Dakota- Farms Damaged and
Rains Flood Huron.
HURON, S. D.. June 8. Eight tor
nadoes about ten miles north and
Northwest of Wesslngton this after
noon damaged farm buildings. ' Partic
ulars are not obtainable.
Storms near Shenfleld and Southeast
Huron also did much damage. Heavy
rains have fallen here nine Inches in
week and the town is flooded.
ST. PAUL, Minn.. June 8. Storms
visited Minnesota, Wisconsin and the
Dakotas tonight, overturning barns,
destroying small buildings and putting
out of commission telegraph and tele
phone wires.
A tornado struck Truax, Wis. No one
was Injured.
HUNGRY WOMEN ASK PEACE
2 0 0, Starving, Beg for Surrender of
Mazatlan to Rebels.
ON BOARD U. S. S. CALIFORNIA,
MAZATLAN, Hex., June 7. (Via Wire
less to San Diego.) Two hundred
starving women trailed in a straggling
procession behind the carriage of the
military governor of Mazatlan today.
imploring him to surrender the city
to the investing constitutionalist army.
The federal garrison is not much bet
ter off for food than the non-combatants
It is supposed to be -protect
ing.
WIRELESS IS 'DIVINING ROD'
Scientists Discover Mineral and Ore
Deposits by Elcctricty.
GOETTINGEN, Germany, June 8.
The Society for the Investigation of the
Internal Structure of tho Earth today
declared it has succeeded in discover
lng by means of - wireless telegraphy
subterranean springs and ore deposits.
It states it also has ascertained their
depth by the use of electrical waves
applied according to the method in
vented by Professor Leimbach, of this
city.
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PARIS HAS HEAVY SNOW
Two and a Half Inches Fall
Sight on Avenue Amazes.
and
PARIS, June 8. Two and one-half
Inches of snow and hall fell In one
section of Paris this evening and the
spectacle of horses struggling through
snow on a June day In the Avenue Des
Champs Elysees was amazing.
The air had in it a Wintry chill, the
temperature being 40 degrees Fahren
halt.
BAPP'S DEFENSE IS
SUDDENLY HALTED
Salacious Testimony Is
Not Produced.
DIYA'S SERVANTS DISAPPOINT
Schumann Heink's Chauffeur
and Companion on Stand.
NOTES TO MRS. DEAN READ
Impassioned . Missives 'Written by
Contralto's Husband to Alleged
Affinity and Intercepted, Ar
dent Evidence for Crowds
CHICAGO, June 8. William Rapp's
defense against the divorce suit of his
wife, Mme. Ernestine Schumann Helnk.
ceased suddenly today with the testi
mony of only four witnesses and the
case was given over to the attorneys
for argument.
Owing to the fact that Rapp filed a
cross bill charging his wife with a
statutory offense, a large crowd packed
the sweltering courtroom eager for tes
timony bearing on the counter allega
tion. They were disappointed.
Singer's Chauffeur on Stand.
Bryan Humphries, who was the fa
mous . contralto's chauffeur for six
weeks last Winter, and Miss Helen Sat-
tler, her traveling companion since 1910.
were the witnesses.
Humphries testified he had glimpses
of George Baldwin, of Appleton, Wis,
off and on at, his employer's home in
Chicago. Miss Sattler said ehe had
known Baldwin for two years, and that
she saw him last around Christmas,
1913. She said, also, that a policeman
with a fine voice visited the madame at
her h.ome in Caldwell, N. J., for singing
lessons.
Insinuating Lawyer Repulsed.
He had a wonderful voice, but all the
technic he had he got from dropping
nickels in phonographs." witness said.
"Ho was a. wonderful man, too,
wasn't he?" insinuated Benjamin
Smith. Rapp's lawyer.
I didn't say he was a wonderful
I said he had a wonderful voice,'
snapped the witness.
In Chicago Miss Sattler said her em
ployer always slept on the second floor
in a room next to her daughter, Marie.
A. door was always open between the
two rooms, she said.
When Mme. Schumann Helnk rented
a cottage at Culver. Ind., on the occa-
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather..
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 63
decrees: minimum. 50 dairMl.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; westerly winds.
FestlvaL ,
All are subjects of Thelma today.1 Pace 1.
Rosarlana complete arrangements to enter
tain Festival delegation.. Pace 12.
Ten conventions hold sessions In Portland
this week. Page 12.
Regatta this afternoon Is big event of Fes
tival. Page 11.
Mexico.
Huerta rescinds blockade order. Page 2.
Peace plan as presented by United States to
mediator has approval ot Haerta dele
gates. Page 1.
Poretgn.
"Let Militants die in hunger strikes" Is
cry in England. Page 1.
-National.
New bill In House would prohibit Bryan's
and other's lecture tours. Page i.
Domestic.
Greatest wheat crop In history predicted In
Government crop report. Page 1.
All Socialism must fall declares ex-President
Tart. Page z.
Rapp's defense suddenly baited as diva's
servants testify. . Page 1,
Sports.
Beavers expect to win four of Festival games
from Oakland. Page 6.
Portland team leads Pacific Coast League
In batting average. Page S.
International committee defines amateur.
Page 8.
Northwestern League results: Vancouver 8.
Tacoma 1; Spokane 4, Seattle 0: Portland
Victoria game postponed, rain. Page .
Pactflo Northwest.
German ships, beer laden, through canal,
promise new apple market for Coast.
Page 5. .
Nearly all classes smee 1871 represented at
Corvallis Alumni day. Page 8.
G. S. Potts on trial for wife murdes at Can
yon City. Page 8.
Commercial and Marine.
Oregon official crop report estimates cereal
yields above average. Page IT.
Wheat eases off at Chicago In anticipation
of bearish Government crop report.
Stock market undertone steady but trading
is siow. rage IT.
Dredge Chinook ordered to channel work of
last year, page Is.
. Portland and Vicinity.
Milwaukee tourists will be guests of Port
land today. . Page 18.
Children's essays will be read at library to.
night. Page 11.
Free textbooks is Issue at school election
next Monday. Page 7.
Queen Thelma and party return to city.
f age 7.
Cashier Company stockholders' meeting
lana to develop quorum. Page 4.
Mayor .AJbee, members of Mason's crew and
others testify at Northwest Door Com
pany fire inquest. Page 4.
GIRL FALLS 800 FEET
Aeronaut, 22 Years Old, Loses Grip
on Parachute Before Crowd.
MARINETTE, Wis., June 8. Nettie
St- Clair, aged 22, a professional aero
naut, was dashed to death in. the pres
ence of several thousand people late
yesterday at Lakeside.
She ascended to a height of 800 feet
and lost her hold on the parachute.
FOUL KILLS BALL PLAYER
Oklahomun Dies Few Minutes After
Being Hit Over Heart.
SPARK, Okla., June 8. A foul ball
struck Thomas Gilpin, a player In a
ball game, over the heart today and
caused his death within a few min
utes. HERE COMES THE QUEEN!
GREATEST WHEAT
CROP EVER IN SIGHT
United States Visible Is
900,000,000 Bushels.
ESTIMATE IS HALF WORLD'S
Government Report Predicts
Sensational Bumper Yield.
CONDITION SETS NEW MARK
Comparison -With Last Year and
With 10-Year Average Shows
Vast Improvement All Around.
Other Grains In Proportion,
WASHINGTON, June 8. Nine hun
dred million bushels of wheat, almost
half of tho average world's wheat pro
ductlon. and a new record for the
United States, is the prospective total
yield of the farms of the country this
year, the Department of Agriculture
announced today in its June crop re
port.
The enormous crop will bo 137.000,000
bushels more than ever was grown be
fore in the United States In any one
year.
There also will be large yields of
oats and barley, probably second in size
In the history of the Nation.
Statistics Tell Good News. ,
Statistics for the various crops, with
comparisons for other years follow:
Spring wheat Area planted, 17.990.
000 acres, compared with 18,485,000
acres last year, 19,243,000 acres in 1912
and 20,381,000 acres in 1911. Condition.
95.5 per cent of a normal, compared
with 93.5 per cent last year asM 93.6
per cent the 10 -year average. Indicated
yield, 14.6 bushels per acre, compared
with 13 bushels last year and 13.5 bush
els the 1909-13 average. Estimated
total production, 262,000,000 bushels,
compared with 239,819,000 bushels last
year. 330.348.000 bushels in 1912 and
190,682,000 bushels in 1911.
Winter, wheat Area planted, 35,387.',
000' acres,' compared with 31,699,000
acres last year, and 29,571,000 acres in
1912. Condition, 12.7 per cent of a nor
mal, compared with 95.3 per cent on
May 1 this year, 83.5 per cent June I
last year, and 80.8 per cent, the 10
year average. Indicated yield, 18.1
bushels per acre, compared with 16.5
bushels last year and 15.6 bushels, the
1909-13 average. Estimated total pro
duction. 638.000,000 bushels, compared
with 523,561,000 bushels last year, 899.-
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BILL MAKES TOURS
BY BRYAN ILLEGAL
MEASURE WOULD FIXE, I3EPRXS
OX CABINET LECTURERS.
Senators, Representatives and Gov
ernment Clerks Who Lecture for
Pay Also Included.
WASHINGTON, June 8 Secretary
Bryan's lecture tours cropped up in the
House again today when Representa
tive Britten, of Illinois, Republican, in
troduced a bill, to make it a penal of
fense for any Cabinet officer, head or
clerk of a Government department to
lecture for pay, other than for actual
hotel and traveling expenses, and to
prohibit Senators or Representatives
from lecturing for pay while Congress
Is in session. Offenders would be
fined 810,000 or imprisoned for two
years or suffer both penalties.
"The recent announcement from Phil
adelphia, that several members of Con
gress and the distinguished Secretary
or btate nad signed contracts for a
period of lectures beginning July 1 is re
sponsible for my bill." said Mr. Britten.
"I am at a loss to understand how
the Secretary can consistently leave
his office when a state of war practi
cally exists between this country and
Mexico and the foreign policy of our
Government is being laughed at by
every civilized nation on earth. This
certainly is no time for Mr. Bryan to
be hiking around the country doing
one-night stands with Tyrolean yod
lers, contortionists and sleight-of-hand
artists, and I am equally opposed to
members of Congress doing this sort
of things when Congress is in session."
HEAT IS FATAL IN EAST
Four Bead; Many Overcome and Big
Cities Swelter.
NEW YORK, June 8. One death and
many prostrations were reported In
the wake of the heat wave of this
city and Its suburbs today. The tem
perature reached 83 degrees. Many
persons overcome by the heat were
removed to hospitals.
ST. LOUTS, June 8. The hottest
weather of the season was experienced
here when the Government thermome-
tr registered 95 degrees at 3 o'clock
this afternoon. Only sixteen one-hun-dredths
of an inch of rain has fallen
here in a month.
CHICAGO, June 8. Three deaths in
directly due to the heat of the last two
days, were reported to the Coroner to
day. The thermometer indicates 91
degrees, one under yesterday.
BRIDAL COUPLE 135 YEARS
License and Umbrella Forgotten
Amid Excitement of Event.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. June 8. (Spe
cial.) George W. Anderson, a Civil
War veteran, 70 years old, and Mrs. Su
san Cochran, five years his Junior, were
granted a marriage license here today.
H. A. Severance, also a Civil War
Iveteran and lifelong friend of the bride
groom, was the witness.
Flustered by the excitement, the
prospective benedict forgot the license
when he left the County Clerk's office,
and the bride left Tier umbrella behind.
These were restored and the wedding
Ceremony performed by a Justice of the
Peace.
FESTIVAL VISITORS COMING
Special Train Leaves Med ford With
2 2 5 Passengers Aboard.
MED FORD, Or.. June 8. (Special.)
With 100 from Medford. 75 from Ash
land and CO from Grants Pass, the
special train for the Portland Annual
Rose Show left Medford at 6:30 tonight
amid the cheers and goodbyes of hun
dreds of relatives and friends. It was
the largest number ever to attend the
Rose - City Festival from the Rogue
River Valley.
The "Medford car was full of local
roses and a gay carnival spirit was in
evidence everywhere.
SCIENTIST CHURCH ELECTS
Portland Woman Is Chosen Second
Reader of 31other Church.
BOSTON, Mass., June 8. (Special.)
At the annual meeting of the members of
the Mother Church, the First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, held to
day, the election of John C Lathrop, of
Brookllne, Mass., as president for the
ensuing year was announced.
H, Cornell Wilson, of New York, and
Mrs, Blanche H. Hogue, of Portland.
Or., were elected by the board of di
rectors as first and second readers re
spectlvely of the Mother Church for the
next three years.
HORSE LEAPS INTO AUTO
Runaway Animal Kills Woman
Unusual Charge.
In
DUBUQUE, la,, Juno 8. Mrs. Archie
Legg. of Oneida, la-, was killed last
night by a runaway horse, which
leaped into an automobile in which
she was riding.
One of the horse's hoofs struck her
on the head, crushing her skulL
LASSEN SPOUTING AGAIN
Steam Shoots 7 00 Feet High
Fire Tongue Is Reported.
and
RED BLUFF. Cal., June 8. At 4:S0
o'clock this afternoon a column ot
steam 700 feet high shot out of Mount
Lassen.
It is reported the mountain in emit
ting fire.
ALL ARE SUBJECTS
OF THELMA TODAY
Latch String Hung Out
for Visitors.
"BIGGEST AND BEST" BILLING
Balloon Race Is Greatest of
Many Features.
SUNSHINE ONLY NECESSITY
Elaborate Programme ot Amuse
ments Provided to Add Luster to
Portland's Nam and Fame as
Queen City of Roses.
KOSB rWTITAl PROGRAMMES
FOB TODAY.
9 A. M. Rose Ehow and eugenlo
contest at Peninsula Park.
11:80 A. M. Paver pageant, es
corting into the city Queen Thelma
and her court.
13 M. Arrival of the Queen at
Btark-street landing.
12:25 P. M. Coronation ceremony
at Fourteenth and Morrison.
1:13 P. M. Opening of Festival
Center. Sixth and Yamhill. -
2 P. M. Opening of Portland Rose
Ehow at the Library; Rose Show and
rose dance at Peninsula Park, sunk
en gardens; water carnival.
2 P. M. Water carnival on river.
S P. M. Christening of Father
Schoener. new rose creation by
Queen Thelma at the Festival Cen
ter. 8 P. SI. Rose Show at Library;
band concerts at City Park and
Peninsula Park, with Illumination ot
sunken gardens.
8.30 P. M. Illumination of streets
and buildings and band concert in
Festival Center: popular ball at
East Sixth and Alder, under auspices
of Woodmen of the World. Kast
Side Business Men's Club and Rose
Festival Association.
9 P. M. Grand pyroteehnlo dis
play at The Oaks, given In honor of
Rose Festival Queen and her court;
McBlroyi Concert Band.
Weather Fair and warmer.
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Within a few hours, now, Portland
will forsake its accustomed methods of
procedure and deliver Itself over to the
reign of Queen Thelma the popularly
ahosen sovereign of the fanciful real.i
of Rosarla.
With tho arrival last night of tiie
queen-elect Portland, took on an air of
anticipation in which the Festival
spirit was only partially suppressed.
All Portland is preparing to brealc
loose today in a four-day revelry of
festivity and frolic, of happiness an I
hospftallty.
This will be Portland's eighth an
nual Rose Festival. True to the tradi
tions of its predecessors, it has been
advertised in advance as the "biggest.
best and grandest."
New Features Included.
There is reason, to believe, however.
that these superlative expectations will
be become actual realities.
In the first place this year's festival
is going to be different.
Although in general it is to be n
tribute to the rose, the flower that ha
attained, here in Portland, its highest
state of perfection, in many partic
ulars it will offer many new anil
novel features of entertainment.
The balloon race on Thursday offeru
probably the most pronounced de
parture from the accustomed festival
programmes. Four pilots of National
and international reputations have
entered. The race will be conducted
under the auspices of the Aero Club
of America and is attracting Nation
wide attention from students of aero
nautics. From the spectacular standpoint the
balloon races no doubt will be the
biggest attraction ever presented to
the people of the Northwest, It is
figured that thousands of persons will
come to Portland on Thursday to see
the big gas bags sail away. The four
professional pilots who will arrive here
today have been besieged with scores
of applications from persons desirous
of making the trip with them.
Another attractive spectacle will be
the fireflghtlng exhibition Wednesday
night, when all the units of the Port
land Fire Department that can be
spared from duty will be called to an
eight-story building at Eighth and
Everett streets that will appear to be
on fire. Thrilling "rescues" and all
the dramatic lncidenta attending a real
fire will be presented.
Weather Only III Omesu
In every particular, with the pos
sible exception of the weather. Port
land is prepared for the biggest Fes
tival of her experience and for the
entertainment of the biggest crowd in
her Festival history.
Portland has prepared studiously to
entertain her guests this year. Every
visitor will be made to feel that Port
land and the people of Portland are
taking a personal Interest in his or
her presence- '
A reception committee of nearly 5000
business men and citizens has been
recruited to serve at the various' hotels
and passenger stations in receiving the
pleasure seekers from near and dis
tant points. Every civic and quasi
official organization in the city has
contributed some of its members to
this monster reception committee.
The railroads are preparing to'
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