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K V ZTTZ ZTZZZ " vtt vn npt-nnv TTTTTT?sr Y. JUNE 25. 1914. " PKICE FIVE CENTS. vol, jliv. ju. ie,7ia. tmnii. . - , , 1 i i COLONEL ATTACKS COLOMBIAN TREATY Payment Is Called "Be lated Blackmail." 'HALF-WAY MEASURE' WRONG "If Mr. Bryan Is Right," Pres j,i cnce on Isthmus Is Wrong. NATION OPEN TO DERISION Colonel Declares 'Wilson and Bryan Have Made United States "Plg- lire of Fan" by Handling X . of foreign Affairs. NEW YORK, June 24. In a lengthy statement tonight. Colonel Roosevelt Just home from Europe, asserted that the payment of $25,000,000 to Colombia for having obtained the right to build the Panama Canal as provided for In the pending- treaty would be merely the payment of belated blackmail. "If the proposed treaty Is right," he . said, "the presence of the United States In Panama Is wrong- and Panama should therefore be restored to Colombia and the United States should abandon the cone. Anoloiry Tendered Blackmailers, In his statement Colonel Roosevelt said in part: "The payment of $25,000,000 to Co lombia, tog-ether with the expression of what is In effect an apology for our having secured the right to build the Panama Canal, is merely the belated payment of blackmail with an apolgy to the blackmailers. If this proposed treaty submitted by President Wil son through Mr. Bryan is right, then our presence on the Isthmus is wrong. In such case Panama should at once be restored to Colombia and we should stop work on the canal and abandon the place, bag and baggage. There houl be no half-way measures. If we as a nation have been guilty of theft we should not pay blackmail. United States "Fla-nre of Fan." "The handling of our foreign af fairs by President Wilson and Secre tary Bryan has been such as to make the United States a figure of fun In the International world. This proposed Colombian treaty caps the climax, and. If ratified, will rightly render us an object of contemptuous derision to every great nation. In view of Its sub mission to the Congress, I wish to call attention to exactly " what was done under my administration. "Because of the action of that Ad ministration, the people of the United States acquired what they could ' by no other means have acquired, the right to build the Panama Canal. In . 1903 It was still doubtful whether we would adopt the Nlcaraugan or the Panama route. The government of Colombia was exceedingly anxious that we should adopt the latter and offered to ar range, and did arrange, a treaty with us in order to prevent our going to Nicaragua. Partly In consideration of this treaty we abandoned negotiations with Nicaragua. Good Faith Asserted. "We acted in good faith and the course of action we thereby entered upon was conditioned upon their pro posal, their promise. It was our right and also our duty to our own people and to the rest of the world to exact the performance of this promise. "For 400 years there had been con versation about the need of the Pan ama Canal. The time for further con versation had passed, the time to trans late words Into deeds had come." Half Century of Conversation Avoided "If I had followed President Wil son's policy ot 'watchful waiting it would have insured half a century of additional conversation and the canal would still be in the dim future. It is only because the then Administra tion acted precisely as It did act that we now have the Panama Canal." The colonel then declares the United States "was in duty bound" to build the canul itself because it could not permit an old-world power to gain such a foothold in America and would nut allow the usefulness of the canal tu be arrested because of the greed of private capital.. Colonel Roosevelt says that until the present treaty negotiations were en tered into he did not believe it pos sible "that an American Administra tion would thus betray the honor and Interest of the American people by submitting to blackmail." The colonel had made it plain, he said, that the Colombian government was in error "when it Indulged in such a supposi tion about my Administration." Colonel Roosevelt says he has no quarrel with the people of Colombia end does not question their "fine pri vate qualities." Nation Judged by Government. "But." the statement continues, "un fortunately in international affairs a nation must be judged by the govern ment that speaks for It" Colonel Rosevelt, in mentioning the proposal of the Colombian government to confiscate the property of the French government In Panama, for which the United States has offered to pay $40, 000,000, said it was simply a scheme on the part of Colombia "to get $40,000,000 from us." "Incidentally, Colonel Roosevelt con tinued In his statement. "I would call Cooolud4 m face AX POVERTY LAID TO SIN AND DISEASE PHYSICIAN SAYS NORMAL PER SONS NEVER REACH LEVEL. Chief Cause Declared to Be Infrac tions of Code Not MenfJonable . In Public Gathering. r ATLANTIC CITT, N. J., June 24. Feeble-mindedness, sin and disease Were today characterized as the prin cipal causes of poverty by physicians and surgeons attending the sectional meeting here of the American Medical Association. Dr. Hurt, of Indianapolis, a member of the committee on poverty, declared the normal person never sank to the level of poverty. In the main, he said, poverty was caused by sins unmention able in a publlo gathering. The eradi cation of sin and disease, he said, would remove poverty. The. Infant incubator has been more of a failure than a success. Dr. B. Chapln, cf New Tort reported in a paper before the section of diseases of chil dren. Out of 150 personal experiences with the Incubator for Infants, he could not report one satisfactory result, death resulting In the great majority of Instances. The specialists were surprised by fig ures presented by Professor Herman TTnftTi.r. of Breslau. Germany, one of the experts in this line of surgery of TCnrone. who related that 40 01 iuu cases treated by surgery, where the diagnosis has been brain tumor, had failed to gave the life of the patient. LINER GLENLOCHY ASHORE Royal Mall Steamer Gets Out of Channel Near Kalama. The Royal Mail liner, Glenlochy strayed from the deepwater channel of the Columbia River near Kalama, last, night, and grounded. A 'wireless message, asking for the aid of two tugboats, was received by the steamship Santa Catalina, berthed at the Portland Flouring Mills dock. Superintendent Campion, of the Port of Portland, was notified and the tug Ocklahama was quickly dispatched to the aid of the Glenlochy. The Glenlochy carried a general cargo taken in Puget Sound, and wheat from Portland. She left yesterday for Kalama to load lumber. A. J. GRONNA RENOMINATED North. Dakota Primary Returns In- ' dloate 'senator "Wins. r.Rjun PYVRKS. N. D.. June 24. United States Senator A. J. lironna was renominated on the Republican ticket. Judging from returns received up to midnight tonight from the state-wide primary election. Governor L. B. Hanna also was renominated on the Republic an ticket on the face of early returns. W. B. Purcell and J. P. Jones were running about even In the Democratic s.nnrliti contest. For the sruberna- torial nomination on the Democratic ticket Oliver Knudson was leading . u. Hellstrom by a safe majority. . BACTERIA NOT VEGETABLE Head of American Physicians Dis counts Textbook: "Facts." . ATLANTIC CITT, N. J., June 24. Bacteria can not be classified as be longing to the vegetable kingdom. Contrary to the textbooks on the sub ject and established opinion. It Is more akin to the animal kingdom, ac cording to Dr. Victor Vaughan, presi dent of the American Medical Associa tion, who spoke at the largest of the many symposiums held by the physi cians here today. The substitution of lard for butter In Infant feeding was advocated by Dr. John Zahorsky, of St. Louis. DUMB ROOSTERS WANTED City Commission May Ban the Bird With Mighty Voice. . Roosters may be things of the past in Portland soon. Either that or roost ers must be crowless. At the sugges tion of A. J. Martin, of 1219 East Tay lor street, the City Comlssion Is going to consider an anti-rooster or an antl "crow" ordinance. Mr. Martin, in a letter to the Commis sion, says roosters are a source of much annoyance to people all over the city and chicken raisers in the United States lose about $15,000,000 each year by having them. 1913 COTTON WORTH MUCH Next to Largest in History Is Most Valuable of Any Year. WASHINGTON. "June 24. Final fig ures on the 1913 cotton crop announced today by the Census Bureau place It as the largest the United States has ever grown, with the exception of that of 1911. At the same time the estimate of the total value of the crop shows It was the most valuable ever produced. It being worth $1,043,760,000. BELVA A. L0CKW00D HURT Only Woman Who Ever Ran for President Falls in Office. WASHINGTON, June 24. Miss Belva A. Lockwood, the only woman who ever ran for the presidency of" the United States, fell In her office here today and suffered a broken arm and shoulder. Miss Lockwood Is 84 years old, but her physicians stated she would re cover unless complications. let in. - I IN BUTTE IS FEARED City Quiet After Night of Dynamiting. MAYOR'S YIEW IS PESSIMISTIC Movement to Organize Vigil ance Committee Begun. MOYER IS GOING BACK If County and City Fall to Protect Him, Labor Leader Says, It Is Duty of Other Peace Agen cies to Do So." BUTTE Mont, June 24. Butte was quiet today, after a riot, which, caused by Internal strife in the local miners' union, cost the life of one man. in juries to four others and a heavy prop erty loss. Mayor Duncan, however, would not predict that the turmoil was at an end. He fears reprisals of the two factions of the once powerful local union of the Western Federation of Minora Citizens here looked to Governor Stewart at Helena for a solution of the trouble. Charles H. Moyer, president of the Federation, and others who were driven from the miners' hall under fire, appealed to the Governor at Helena today for state control at Butte. Mayor Duncan said he would not ask for troops, as he believed that is part of the Sheriffs duties. The Sheriff has has taken no action toward that end. attneowners Not in Fight. The mines worked as usual and so far the operating companies have not been brought into the controversy. It was officially announced that the mine owners have taken no part In the fac tional fight. Altogether 250 pounds of dynamite were exploded in the streets of Butte last night In, four hours. The dyna mite was obtained by the rioters from the West Stewart mine after the en gineer had been forced to lower the rioters to the powder magazine at the 1000-foot level. Three trips were made to the mine and five boxes, each con taining 50 pounds, were taken. At one time men in charge of the dynamiting exploded 50 sticks from one fuse. The report was deafening and shook build ings more than a mile away. . Civil Authorities Inactive. One man stood In the middle of the street in front of the miners' union hall, cut holes In sticks, inserted caps and fuses and then tossed the dynamite Into the 'building. Pistol shots warned (Concluded on Fag 5.) RENEWED ROUBLE 1 1 ! IT BEGINS T0D,Y. JL A 1 F M mrt J i m V M,SSES vj yJ?giJ&trfl HmzvN' any oFrHES.il t i A I T WiWMrT cherry J I I 1 i t : - - J I e , JULSJLS- JL-Se j.e.s. J X s o. sjjl' U-UJJ.'.'.'mJJ.'JJJ.i " J - - - INDEX OFTGDAFSNEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, degree;-minimum, 56 desreea. TODAY'S Probably shower; southwesterly winds. . ' Mexico. Mexican protocols signed at Niagara Falls. Page 1. Zacatecaa falls . before Villa's Infantry. Page 8. Foreign. New version of fall of man found Indicates Noah, not Adam, ate the apple. Page 1. Servian King abdicates. Page 2. , National. President refuses pardons to 20 convicted dynamite conspirators, commnltes four sentences, holds two in abeyance. Page L Legislative trick nearly costs Florida Sen ator his seat. Page 4. Political outlook alarms Democrats. Pag 3. Domestic Physician say poverty Is caused chiefly by sin and disease. Pag 1. Renewal ot outbreak In Butt feared. Pag I. Seven dead, many injured - by storm in East. Pag 4. Colonsl Roosavelt stands up for Perklna Page .. Rooeevelt says TJnlted States has been mad flgur of fun" In International world. Pass 1. . . Sports. . Coast League results: Portland T, Los Ange les 1; Venloe 4, San Francisco 0; Sacra mento 5-7, Oakland 2-8 (second gam 10 ' innings). Page 6. "Happy" Bogan wants strict salary limit Instead of 20-man rule. Page 7. All' games In Nonnwestern Lsagu post poned becausa of rain. Pag 0. Three big tights In week ar scheduled In Europe. Page - 6. Sport programme for 1913 fair Is shaped at Portland conference. Pag 1. Oregon man wins golf tourney in Seattle. Page 7. Pacific Northwest, Raport on standardisation of high schools submitted. Pag a. Three Spokane boys and three girls are miss ing from homes an automobile. Pag S. Linn County pioneers open today their 26th reunion. Pag 5. Andrew Bossen tells strong story in his own defense. Pag 3. v Banquet ends meeting of merchants at La Grande. Page 5. Commercial and Marine. Offerings of new-crop wheat are larger and market broadens. Page 17. Wheat continues to decline at Chicago with certainty of enormous crop. .Page 17. Stock market under pressure and declines are general. Page 17. Chmook, overhauled, arrives at Astoria to work on channed. Pag 12. Merger of three big Japanese shipping con cerns probability. Pag 12. Portland and Vicinity. Portland saloon to be fewer after today's Council meeting. Pag 11. Railroads opposed to terminal rates for Astoria. Pag 11. Southern Paclflo employes and employers to plcnlo Saturday. Pag 18. Weather report, data and forecast. Pag 17. "Painless Parker" challenges "ethical" to publlo debate. Page 16. - JOY IS FELT IN GREECE Consent to Sale of Warship Regard ed as Peace Omen. ATHENS, Greece, i June 24. Jubila tion was expressed In political circles here today over the news that the United States Congress had authorized the sale of the -American battleships Idaho and Mississippi to Greece. The acquisition of the two war vessels will, it is declared, assure the balance of naval power between Greece and Turkey, and thus prove a factor In maintaining .peace, , which . has been threatened. MALTA, June 24. The Greek Consul here today issued a notification to Greek naval ' reservists in Malta that the Greek government had ordered five classes of the reserves to return to Greece by Saturday. FORMAL PROTOCOL SIGNED AT NIAGARA Internal Details Are Left to Mexicans. REBELS ARE EXPECTED TO JOIN Terms on Which Recognition Will Be Given Outlined. MEDIATORS TO SUSPEND Opportunity Given Contenders to Compose Own Differences 'While United States "Waives Its Own National Claims. NIAGARA FALLS. Ont-, June S4. Terms for composing all international differences between the United States and Mexico have been concluded. The conditions under which diplomatio re lations will be resumed were tonight embodied in a protocol which wai signed by the Ambassador from Brazil, the Ministers of Chile and Argentina and the American and Huerta dels gatea The character of the settlement Is expected not to arouse opposition from the constitutionalists, who will partici nt In. and to a large degree will mould, the adjustment of all Internal dlsputea Mexican Factions to Confer. When a new provisional government is established to succeed that headed bv General Huerta, the result of me diation recognised as a triumph for pan-American diplomacy will Decome effective. Colncldentaily with the action taken tonight It was announced that the ao- tnal selection of a provisional Presi dent and the organization of the new s-crvernment. which is considered a purely internal problem, will be left to' an Informal conference of repre- aentatlveai ef - the constitutionalists Luis Cabrera, Rafael Zubaran and Jose Vasconoelos and the delegates sent by General Huerta to the mediation con ference. Tt was decided by the mediators and delegates to postpone consideration of the exact date when American forces shall be withdrawn from Vera Cruz. This, as well as the constitution of the new provisional government in Mex ico, will be protocolized after the con ferences between the constitutionalists and Huerta delegates adjourn. Mediators to Suspend Sessions. No formal adjournment of the medi ation will be taken, but there will be no sessions while the representatives of the two warring factions In Mexico (Concluded on Pag 8.) NOAH, NOT ADAM, ATE APPLE, IS VIEW NEW VERSION" OP KlOOD AND FALL OP MAN IS FOCXD. Fragment of Early Tablet Changes Bible's Stcry of Beginning ot World In Several Particulars. PHILADELPHIA, June 14. Reports cabled from London describing a new version of the flood and the fall of man deciphered from an ancient Su merlan tablet by Dr. Stephan Langdon, profeasor of assrrlology In Jesus Col lege, Oxford, were confirmed today by officials of the University of Pennsyl vanlan Museum. The tablet Is part of the collection unearthed by the uni versity's expedition to Nippur. On comparing the tablet which Dr. Langdon has Just translated with a similar f ragmen t translated by Dr. Proebel, the university authorities found that the two tablets evidently had been written by the same person about f50J B. C or 400 years before the time of Abraham. It is believed the fragments are part of two separate tablets, which, with others, formed a treatise or hymn of praise containing an account of the beginnings of the world. The fragment tells of the flood, and It differs from the Biblical account of creation In reciting that tt was Noah who sinned by eating of the tree of knowledge and thus brought abouT hit fall. From this time on. according to this account, Noah had no work, and man's days were shortened to their present length. Instead ot a serpent, it was Enkl. the water god, who tempted him. HELEN TAFT BRIDESMAID Ex-President's Daughter Figures In Noteworthy Social Event. PROVIDENCE. R. L. June J4. (Spe cial.) The most brilliant social event of the season In Rhode Island was the wedding of Miss Eleanor Roelker, of East Greenwich, and Harrison Tweed, of New York, at the Greene Farm ot General Nathaniel Greene, of Revolu tionary fame. In that town today. The ceremony was performed at the end of the poets' walk, under a great floral screen. An Ivy-covered stump crowned with Madonna lilies served as a prledieu. Ushers Included fitew- art S. Lowery, San Francisco, and Win. throp Aldrich, son of Senator Aldrlca. The bridesmaids included Miss Helen Taft, daughter of ex-President Taft. GIRL KISSED BY PRESIDENT Los Angeles Lass Says It Was the Sweetest She Ever Had. WASHINGTON. June J4. President Wilson today gave a little girl from Los Angeles what she described as "the sweetest kiss I ever had." The girl was Laura Margaret Rellly. the 10-year-old daughter of Charles T. Rellly, a Prince ton graduate. Little Miss Rellly called on the Pres ident today with her father and mother. After Mr. and Mrs. Rellly had shaken hands with the President th little girl stepped up and pleaded: "Please, Mr. President. I want to take a kiss from you back to Califor nia." "Certainly." said the President. ITALIAN PLOTTER ESCAPES Anarchist Organizer of Republican Movement Eludes Officials. GENEVA. Switzerland, June 24. En rico Malatesta, the Italian anarchist who organized the plot to establish republican rule, has escaped despite the efforts of the government to capture him. Disguised as a workman, Malatesta made his way to the Swiss frontlsr, crossing the boundary at Chlasso. He remained In hiding for a time and Is now believed to be on his way to London. NATIONAL DRYBILL HELD House Leaders Fearing Campaigns May Not Force HobMin Draft. WASHINGTON, June 24. House lead ers. It was said tonight, have about agreed not to force a vote at this ses sion on the Hobson resolution to smend the Federal Constitution so as to pro vide a Nation-wide prohibition. Many of the Democrats In ' House have protested strongly against imme diate action on the resolution on ao count of the effect it might have on their Fall campaigns for re-election.' WOMAN ASPIRES TO BENCH First to Run for Supreme Court Place Files Petitions In Kansas. TOPEKA. Kan., June 24. Lizzie S. Sheldon, of Lawrence, Kan., the first woman in Kansas to become an avowed candidate for the Supreme Court, filed her nominating papers with the Secre tary of State today. The petitions contained 12,000 nam, the signatures coming from all parts of the state Supreme Court candidates in Kansas run as non-partisan. DOCTOR'S WIFE IS QUEEN Mrs. T. Forsstrom Elected In Spir ited Astoria Contest. ASTORIA, Or.. June 24. (Special.) Mrs. T. Forsstrom. wife of Dr. Fors strom, was elected this evening as queen of the Astoria annual regatta The voting was spirited and the con test netted the committee approximate ly iiooo- SPORT PROGHAMME FOR BIG FMH SHAPES Portland Session Pro duces Schedule. AMERICAN UNION FOLLOWED Western Championships to Ba on Major Body's Scale. DATES ARE MADE DEFINITE At Panama-Paciflo Kzpoaltton Two Mile Run Will De Substituted for Flve-M1lo Maratlmn Distance Cot; Tolnt Award Derided. nuTritr.a or isii ri arowr rROOKAMXK AS AHmxr.F.ll AT fOKTLAND t'OirmkM K, sport programm fnr Fenam. Pacirta Kipositlna etMtile prm gramm will fnllaw Amsriraa Am. tur AtM'tl t alon's xhtaul )a the main. ' Tw-ml! raa t Mtwiltui tmr flv.mli venu Maraihoa i ssediriM. Associations, aut individual eltffc. to set credit la 1nl nts Scorins to b m tur-ptnt ta, mar Western basin end rrtl!e I dstos mi at April 12 ta IX I Tentative date Jlr t-Sl arel4 9 as dfln!t for rhmplnahlr. I Ssssloa eontlnui todar at le-ss J o'clock at Voltaamsh riuh. when furtbsr dtu for championship programme will be dcldd. ? Indication ar 1P13 trilnt vnt t ! will b s res (eel West lis r T known, nlletins athlete rmm r I T rltorr weet of MlMleslppt. I 4 Se.eee.eee. e4 BY RALPH J. STAEHLI. The full programme of th Amerlnaa Amateur Athletlo I'nlnn. with on ex ception, was accepted as th list of vnte for the Western championship meet at the fanama-faclfla Exposition by th Western association of the American Amateur Athletic 1'nloit at last night's meeting of the delegates, who convened at th Multnomah Club, The one exception Is substituting th two-mil run for the five-mile. Merathea Is Mediae!. Another change from th Usual was making th Marathon a mndirud on, cutting the distance In halt. This makes It 12 1-1 miles. The scoring will b on th four-point system five for first, three for sec ond, two for third and on for fourth. This system has been tried extensively In the past two years and was found sucressfoL The points will be awarded to th association represented by th polnt wlnnera, lrrspctlv of th club they com from. All points won by men registered In th Pacific Northwest As sociation will go to th association and th championship will b awarded to an association and not to a club. Tentative Dates An-epted. Th tentatlv date, July 20 and II. was definitely accepted. Thin will be on week he for th National cham plonshlpa Th committee hop In thl manner to assur better attendance for both meets. Th meeting was opened at an In formal dinner served at the Multno mah Club. T. Morris Punne, special member of th Far Western champion ships committee, welcomed th dl gatea on behalf of th Multnomah Club. Details Are Set Kertk, J. J. McOovern, secretary of lhrtis-tna-Paclflo Athletlo Bureau, outlined the plans of the exposition meet. II explained In detail th plans whtrh J. K. Sullivan, secretary of the Amerli-an Amateur Athletlo Union, has for the big meet of the fair year. Th facilities for th meet will t th best to be bad. Th trark Is lo cated on the shore next to th Oolden Oat and there will b nothing to b desired In this particular. Th track will b a third-mil eval. accurately banked by specialists who have figured out the curves on erlen tllio prlnclplea All-star Matt Tvaejsa Cwsset, ' He also announced that all-star teams from th America and National baseball lessues would b seen on th ranama-Paclflo athletlo field. The first piece of business of the venlng was th election of commit" officers. J. J. McUovern was mad chairman of the delegate nd William L'nmack, r-sn Francisco sport writer, was mad secretary. Seward Simon, of th Knuth llw-inr Association, was unabl to corn to in meeting and that oraanlaatlon was rep resented by Wallace Kobh. Tie other representatives am: Pyke Johnson. Denver sport writer, representative of th Rocky Mountain Association; W. K. Day, Inter-Mountain Association; A, Goldsmith, Northwest Association; T. Morris Dunn. Northwest Association; William L'nmack, Parlflo Association. nd J. J. McOoram, of th Pa name -Paclflo Exposition. Date Are Ft Bed. Another Important part of the eei- ltiu's business was the a overate. of dates for th Fsr Western boxing end wrestling championship. Th wrstlln will t decided flrnt. on April 12 and It. and the boxing en April 14 nl lti- Be-HU of the nun ber of entries tr'.e riae will nee a I - Ci.uutiuvivl ea I . .