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jiwttwir III VOL. LI V NO. 16,735. PORTLAND, OREGON. TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DEVASTATING HAIL LAYS LOW CROPS Thousands of Dollars in Damage Done. CLOUDBURSTS ADO TO RUIN Tracts Laid Waste Range From 640 to 900 Acres. UNRIPENED GRAIN ESCAPES Eastern Oregon and Washington Country Suffers Serious Finan cial Loss Just as Harvest Comes Sherman Hit Hard. prtnctfat, facts of Oregon and washington storms. Sherman County. Oregon, iwept by rain, hall and cloudbursts. Thousands of seres of grain are totally destroyed. Crop loss estimated at 230.O00. North Yakima, Wash., district sus tains loss of 175.000 from fruit dam age. Ellensburg. Wash., deluged with .68 Inch of rain in 10 minutes, and buildings, light, power and telephone lines are Injured. MORO. Or., July 13. (Special.) Property and crop damage, variously estimated at from $100,000 to 1250,000, was done in Sherman County on the east side of the Deschutes "Valley Sun day night when three distinct storms, either as cloudbursts or of heavy hail, left a path of devastation through thousands of acres of growing grain. Individual farmers lost entire grain crops on tracts ranging from 640 to 900 acres. The Sherman County storms were more severe in the Monkland district, east of Moro, where a severe rain fell; In the Shearer Grade district, where a cloudburst sent down a deluge of wa ter, and in a stretch of territory two miles wide reaching from Kent to the John Day River, east of Rutledge. Standing grain, ready for harvest, was mowed down and rendered entire ly worthless, although much unripened grain escaped without severe damage. Standing Grain Mowed Down. Threshing was in progress in the Monkland district when the storm broke, but the workers were compelled to seek shelter, leaving the cut grain at the mercy of the elements. The un cut wheat was stripped of the standing heads wherever the storm's fury was felt. Shearer Grade Reports Meager. Reports from the Shearer Grade dis trict are meager and the extent of the damage done there is not available. The hail storm that swept from Kent to Rutledge broke about two miles from Buck Hollow and rushed, with awful damage to all crops in its paths In a northeasterly direction. Detailed figures of losses are far from complete. Those known to be heavy sufferers are: Henry Schadewitz, 800 acres of grain completely destroyed. James Wilson. 640 acres. George Barrett, 900 acres. Arthur Smith, 4S0 acres. Many Losses Not Estimated. Others severely damaged, whose losses are not known, are: Commis sioner Holt Arthur Holt. W. S. Hall, W. B. Wilcox, Charles Davis. Arthur Smith, Dell Dakln. John Thompson and John Schassen. All these farmers lost heavily, as jnust have scores of others who were In the path of the storm. It is known that 166.000 sacks of grain were contracted for sale in the hail cone, and every farmer had sold short. The buyers were the Wasco Warehouse & Milling Company and Balfour, Guthrie & Co. WIFE DUCKS HUBBY AS HE DOES TOTS MOTHER SITS OS FATHER WAVES ROLL OVER HIM. AS Mrs. Honeywell Sweet "Teaches" Husband In Same Way He Tried to Teach Boys to Swim. SEASIDE, Or., July 13. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. Honeywell Sweet, with their three children, arrived today from their ranch In Washington County to enjoy the ocean breezes and give their children their first view of the Pacific. Incidentally, it seemed to Mr. and Mrs. Sweet that it would be a good idea to teach the children to swim. With that laudable object in view, they appeared on the beach today at bathing time with the smaller members of the fam ily dressed in nice new bathing suits. "Go right on in." said Mr. Sweet to the little fellows, and he stood back with his beaming wife to enjoy the spectacle. The children went down to the water's edge, but were alarmed a the massive waves and refused to do more than to advance to the depth of about two inches of water. Sweet watched them with growing dlssatis faction. "I will show 'em," he said. He pulled off his shoes and stock ngs. rolled up his trousers and waded in. He grabbed up all three children and went into the breakers and soused them, one after another. The young sters screamed with fright, but it made no difference to Sweet. He was teach- ng them not to be afraid of the water, But it made some difference to Mrs. Sweet, who is a large woman. Mr. Sweet is somewhat diminutive. With ncreaslng anger she saw what was go ng on with her children and when the crisis came, with great speed and without stopping to divest herself of any superfluous garments, she rushed into the breakers. First she grabbed the children away from Mr. Sweet and brought them back to a place of safe ty. What she said to him no one knows, for nobody heard. But her wrath had evidently not disappeared, for she immediately re turned to the surprised Sweet, who was till up to his waistline In the water and, grabbing him. she threw him down the water and sat on him for about 5 seconds. Finally she released him and, glancing contemptuously at the grinning spectators, disappeared with the children to the Moore Hotel. CRIME LAIO TO OLD NEW HAVEN HEADS "Profligate" Days Are Bared in Report ESTIMATED LOSS $90,000,000 Millions Used as Stage Money; Corporations as Pawns. DIP INTO POLITICS SHOWN WIFE SAVIOR OF ANGLER Man Arrested for Fishing Without License Finds One in Pocket. To be arrested on a charge of fish ing without a license, taken to the District Attorney's office, and there to find a license In his pocket, was the experience of Robert S. Poole yester day. Mr. Poole went on a fishing trip to the creeks about St. Johns and forgot to procure a license but Mrs. Poole did not. She had taken -out a license for her husband the day before and had slipped it into the pocket of her husband's fishing mackinaw, unknown to him. CALLS MAY BE SWITCHED ELLEXSBCRG FEELS STORM Wind, Rain and Hail Play Havoc to Buildings, Crops and Wires. ELLENSBURG, Wash., July 13. '(Special.) One of the most severe wind, rain and hall storms to visit this valley in years struck Ellensburg and Its suburbs last evening at 7:15 o'clock, doing considerable damage. Trees and frame buildings were moved from foundations and electric light, tele phone and telegraph wires were pros trated temporarily. So heavy was the rain and hail that pedestrians were forced to seek shelter for protection. Many narrow escapes from death were reported, while a number of persons were slightly injured by the upsetting of vehicles and automobile collisions, due to the blinding storm. Basements were flooded, plate glass windows were blown in in the down town district, while the patrons at one of the local picture houses were thrown into a panic when the lights were ex tinguished and the noise of the storm, which was in reality a miniature cy clone, broke on the outside. Automobile parties coming in from near-by canyons were drenched, and two machines were blown Into the ditch. The occupants escaped with minor bruises. Local Forecaster R. Lee Barnes says .63 of an inch of rain fell in ten min utes. Grain and fruit crops on the west side of Ellensburg were laid flat. Pacific Telephone Company Quits Fight on State Ruling. Hotels having both the Home and Pacific telephone systems may now switch calls from one switchboard to the other. The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company yesterday gave notice through its attorney, C. H. Carey, to Judge Wolverton, of the United States Dis trict Court, of the withdrawal of its suit against the Oregon Hotel Company and the State Railroad Commission, by which it sought to restrain the Com mission's ruling allowing a "common user" arrangement." Interstate Commerce Commission's Findings' Allege Criminal Mal administration Sherman Law Clearly Violated, Is View. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS LASSEN RENEWS ACTIVITY Pillar of Smoke Stands Like Huge Mushroom in Sky. REDDING, Cal., July 13. A pillar of smoke, which shot 1000 feet Into the air from the crater of Lassen peak at o'clock this afternoon, stood like a huge mushroom above the mountain In ft windless sky for 10 minutes and then melted away in a bank of clouds. The explosion, the 16th of its kind since the volcano first renewed its activity. May 30, was preceded by a series of smoke puffs, which were ob served coming from the crater shortly before noon. BABY HEIRESS IS DROWNED Two-Year-OId Xiece of United States Senator Dupont Falls in Pool. PHILADELPHIA, July 13. Nancy Carpenter, the 2-year-old heiress to millions, and niece of United States Senator A. Dupont, of Delaware, was drowned today in a shallow pool on the estate of her uncle, Pierre S. Du pont, at Kennett Square, near here. The child was the daughter of R. R. 11 Carpenter, a banker of Wilmington. Del. The accident occurred during the absence of the child's nurse. (Concluded en Page 2.) URUGUAY WOMEN HOPEFUL Bill to Grant Political Equality Is Ready for Presentation. MONTEVIDEO, July 13 El Dia, the official newspaper, announces that a bill la to be presented to the Chamber of Deputies tomorrow granting politi cal eq.uaj.ity to Uruguayan women. WASHINGTON, July 13. The story of the "reckless and profligate" finan cial operations of the New Haven Rail road, one of the most remarkable chap ters in the history of American rail road and' American finance, was re vealed in .part today by the Interstate Commerce Commission in a report to the Senate of its investigation of that road. It told of millions used like stage money, of corporations as pawns in a monster game with all New England's transportation as a prize, which led the New Haven in the ten years Just passed from the height of prosperity to the point where a dividend has been passed, where a dissolution suit is threatening and where criminal indict ments of many of the directors who figured in its deals are at least a pos sibility. Lom Mar Be $90,000,000. Hampered by unwilling witnesses, by burned books and by all the mazes which lawyers invented to cover the trail, the Commission estimated that in the progress toward monopolization of New England transportation the New Haven stockholders have lost be tween 365,000,000 and $90,000,000, but little of which they may recover. In return, that report said, they have on their hands properties which pay no dividends, which eat into the earn ings of the parent road and which will be a burden on its capacity for many years to come. The report deals with the manage ment of the New Haven under ex President Charles S. Mellen, and of the present directing head. Chairman Howard Elliott, and Walker D. Hines, special counsel, says "they have co operated with the Commission and rendered it substantial assistance throughout this Investigation." The combination reared by the hands of Mr. Mellen and approved by the late (Concluded on Page 2.) The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 86 degrees: minimum, 68 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; westerly winds. Mexico. Mexico rebels prefer to "take" Mexico City Page 2. Foreign. Lay monk, held to be power behind Russian tnrone, is stacrDea by woman. age a Ireland observes Battle of Boyne day with out trouble. Page 2. National. Interstate Commerce Commission report accuses old New Haven heads of criminal profligacy. Page 1. Bryan moves to terminate rebellion In Iziytl. rage l. Interstate trade bill Is attacked In Senate. Page 2. Domestic. United Railroads of San Francisco eager to sell streetcar system to city. Page 3. Sports. Coast League directors ask majors to stop practice of drafting players, page liK Beavers hope to bunch league leaders in series with Angels today. Page 10. Play starts in Oregon State Tennis tourna ment. Page 10. Northwestern League results: Tacoma 4. Portland 2; Spokane 4, Seattle 3; Van couver 4, Victoria 1. Page 1L Pacific Northwest. Guardsmen pitch camp at Gearhart. rage 1. Storm in Sherman County does damage es timated at thousands of dollars. Page a. Professor Dagcy puts four "p's" in success pod at Gladstone Park Chautauqua. Page S. Angry wife ducks husband as he does sons. Page 1. Highway commission agrees to spend $30,000 In Hood River County. Page 5. Commercial and Marine. Export flour season may be late in opening. Page IB. Heavy new crop receipts weaken wheat at Chicago. Page 14. Active demand for all classes of livestock at North Portland, page 15. Longshoremen's officials begin canvass of uniform wage vote. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. O.-W. R. A N. excursion for poor children gala event. Page 14. Land grant "locators" put 50 men on same land in same day. Is testified. Page I. Half hundred "fresh air" children leave for Sllverton today. Page 0. City Commissioners initiated into Order of Muts. Page 7. J. B. Werleln thanks public Juvenile candi dates for helping Newsboys' Home. Page 9. Sale of 181,000,000 feet of timber on Grant Land Tract ordered by court. Page 14. Benson lead may be but one vote. Page 4. Taxpayers' League to probe Commissioner Holman's charges. Page 4. Weather report, forecast and data. Page 9. GAMP IS PITCHED; GUARDSMEN BUSY Fine Art of Warfare to Be Daily Menu. ARMY EXPERTS WILL DIRECT BRYAN REQUESTS MARINES FOR HAYTI UNITED STATES MOVES TO PUT DOWN UPRISING BY FORCE. FIFTY FILINGS SOLD E SM SECTION Idaho and1 Oregon Companies Make Splendid Showing. LAURELS WON AT START Detraining Accomplished Quickly, Tents Spread In Record Time and Serious Business of In struction Starts at Dawn. CR0KER IS COMING BACK Ex-Leader Will Try to Oust Murphy as Tammany Boss, Says Friend. NEW YORK, July IS. Richard Croker will return to New York from Ireland next September and seek to oust Charles P. Murphy from the leader ship of Tammany Hall, according to Harry W. Walker. Mr. Walker is a confidant of Croker, who reached here today from visit to Croker iri .reland. CALIFORNIA SWINGS BACK Registration Shows Republicans Far in Iiead; Democrats Second. SACRAMENTO, CaL, July 13. Reg istration reports from 57 counties showed today the following" totals: Republicans, 378,067; Progressives, 183,386; Democrats, 200,287; Socialists. 51,723; Prohibitionists, 28,199; declined to state, 70,041; miscellaneous, 2189. One county is yet to be heard from. CAMP JACKSON. Gearhart, Or., July 13. (Special.) With the arrival today of the Third Oregon and the Second Idaho Infantry regiments, the largest trnnn concentration ever eiiecteo. iu Oregon for field maneuvers Is complete. The Oregon and Idaho infantrymen were preceded by the Twenty-first United States Infantry, the Oregon field battery and the Oregon cavalry troop. Tonight a military force is under canvas here considerably larger than was required to complete the invest ment of Vera Cruz and more than half the size of the Amrrlcan force now holding down the lid in Mexico. No Loafing Scheduled. During the next ten days these troops are to be kept on the move early and late, putting to practical use the instruction in military science tney have received in barracks or armories during the past year. The Intricacies of the fine art of warfare are to be taken up In detail under the direction of expert Army in structors. The troops will have practice in taking care of themselves, under con dltlons of active service, and will try out the fine points of meeting and besting a hostile force in the gentle game of battle. In no way similar to the old type encampment is the field instruction camp that has just been thrown up. Practice Succeed Pomp. Officers and men put their energies and interests into a studious effect to perfect themselves In what has grown to be the exact science of modern war fare. Pomp and ceremony are put aside. If there is a single dress parade dur ing the camp it will be at the end of the instruction period, during an in terval that might otherwise go for rest. Secretary of State Asks Navy De partment to Prepare Fleet for Terminating Rebellion. WASHINGTON, July 1. Seven hun dred marines today were ordered as sembled at Guantanamo, Cuba, to be held In readiness for service in revolution-torn Haytl and Santo Domingo. The Navy Department acted at the request of Secretary Bryan, who asked that the fleet be prepared to deal with any emergency that might nrlse on the turbulent little Island. The ma rines will be gathered from those now on duty in Mexican waters and from the marine barracks in Philadelphia and Norfolk. At Guantanamo the force will be only a day's sail from, the North Coast of Haytl and San Domingo, and their proximity Is expected to impress upon the revolutionary forces the deter mination of the American Government to terminate their activities by forc ible means unless they listen to the warnings already given. The situation In Ban Domingo has come to be regarded as almost hope less of a cure from within, while In Haytl conditions are little better. Marion County Official Tells of "Locators " STENOGRAPHER 6IVES SECRET Logan's Confederate Answers 'Buzzer' as 'Prospect' Calls. OFFICE METHODS SHOWN (Concluded on Pace I.) r 7 NOW BILL BELIEVES IN LOTS OF "SALVE." ( rJlj ALWAYS TrTr Jlf tJ lH BUYING- UR8I77?W OJWj z- THAT SUM i j DINERS MAYTANG0 AGAIN San Francisco Supervisors Consider Bill to Remove Restaurant Ban SAN FRA.NCI3CO. July IS. (Special.) If a resolution which was Introduced before the Board of Supervisors today passed and approved by the Police Commission, dancing will no longer be confined to private homes and a few cafes. The measure would permit all th cafes ana restaurants m the city, ex cept those on the Barbary Coast, an in the residence districts, to invite their patrons to tango, rag, hesitate Maxlxe to their hearts' content, after having been under the "lid" for two years. Stenographer Testifies That Menrher of Concern Posed aa Buyer or Satisfied Customer So That Others Would Follow. REBELS DEPORT LABOR MEN Carranza Gives Orders to Trouble at Cananea. Settle NACO. Arlx., July 13. Twenty labor leaders from Cananea, Sonora, where strike of 2500 miners has been progress for some time, were deported here today by constitutionalist soldiers under Colonel P. Ells Calles, com mander of the Sonora garrisons. Calles has been ordered by Oen Carranza to settle the troubles at Cananea. It is believed here the deported laborers will be denied admission to the United States by the Immigration authorities. NEWBERG MAN'S LUCK BAD George W. Orltes in Three Fin Loses Home, Contents and Barn. NEWBERG. Or.. July 12. (Special.) George W. Crltes, of Newberg, thinks he Is pursued by fate. Last year he lost heavily by the burning of a large livery stable. About ten days ago his home caught fire, but the damage was slight. Yesterday the house and its contents were destroyed. The former fire was thought to be cased by the gnawing of matches by a a mouse. Yesterday's disaster was due to an electric Iron which had been left with the current on. WOMAN'S DAILY SOON OUT Democratic Organ to Be Edited and Circulated by Fair Sex. SAN FRANCISCO, July 13. A new daily newspaper, owned, managed. edited and circulated by women. Is ex pected to make its first appearance here within the next few days, to serve the interests of the Democratic party in the coming campaign. At present the contract calls for pub lication only during the life of the cam paign, 100 days, but it is hoped to make the paper permanent. Miss Mary Falrbrother. It Is under stood, will be managing editor. FUTURE CITY IS DESCRIBED Skyscrapers Will Be Linked by Ele vated Wnlks Is View. DULUTH. Minn.. July 13. "The city of the future" was described at the convention of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers here today. Graphic pictures of skyscrapers con nected by an elevated system of side walks across the street levels, ventilat ed with washed air and heated like the buildings of the ancient Romans with radiators In the walls, were drawn by speakers. BIG TIMBER DEAL CLOSED Blackwell and Milwaukee Companies Trade 200,000,000 Feet. SPOKANE, July 13. A deal involving more than 200.000,000 feet of timber hi s been consummated by representatives of the Blackwell Lumber Company and the Milwaukee Land Company. The Blackwell Company becomes owner of about 12.000 acres of timber land In the Crystal Creek country, near Fernwood, and in exchange gives tho Milwaukee Company rich timber claims scattered over the state. Valuation of the property was nominal in the deeds. The methods said to have been used by the so-called "Seattle group In In ducing people to buy alleged fraud u let "locations" on Oregon at California land grant lands were aired In the United States District Court before Judge Bean, when the trial of W. P. Mlnard, of Portland, and J. W. Logan and E. J. Sellers, of Tacoma, was re sumed yesterday. Clara Gaucher, stenographer for Le gan at Tacoma, In 1(11. told how a confederate of Logan's received a bus zer signal from Logan when a "pros pect" entered the office. C federate Is "Deltas ted." This confederate, according to Miss Gaucher, then would enter the office, "introduce" himself and either close a deal for a location before the "pros pect's" eyes or would say that be had lust returned from examining land on which he had been "located" and was delighted with the "investment." Max Hoffman, of Two-Dot, Mont.. a New Thought preacher, was on the stand and told of his work as an agent for Mlnard. who, he said, represented himself aa "acting attorney" for tne Oregon St California Railroad. Mln.rd Agwmt Telia of letter. Hoffman said he received a letter from Mlnard. at Portland, la March, 1(14, saying: "The grand Jury baa just adjourned. The Government spent half a million dollars, called 14 witnesses, but couldn't Indict me nor my confeder ates. I'm now a most noted man." County Recorder A, Eugene Aufranc. of Marlon County, told of having re ceived as many aa ft "filings" for dif ferent people, on the same quarter section of land, many of which wei received on the same day and In the same affidavit from Mlnard. Miss Blanche Heed, of Roaeburg. Deputy County Recorder of Douglas County, gave testimony similar to Mr. Aufrauc's, and Fred L Colvlg. Couaty Recorder of Jackson County, previously had testified that his ofllco recorded II 'locations" on the same piece of land. J The modus operandi, as brought our In the testimony, was for one of Mlnard's agents to secure from the 'prospect" a sum of money, varying with the amount of timber said to be on the quarter section of land seleeted by the "prospect." I raise Mmm Gives Prise. C. 8. Vandersllce, of Teniae, Wash, testified yesterday that the "location" price in his case was to be fit for each million feet of timber on his land. The agent, retaining his commission. would forward the remainder of the location fee" to Mlnard In Portland. Mlnard then would go through the form of offering the Southern i'aclfic Company, successors In Interest to the Oregon California Railroad Company, $2.60 an acre, or 1400, for the certain quarter section selected by the "set tler," or person whose money bad been sent him. The company would refuse to sell. Mlnard then would make affidavit that he had made application for the land for the "settler," and forward the affi davit with the "application'' made by the "settler" to the County Recorder of the county In which the land was located. The "application" would be recorded, returned to Mlnard, and by him to the "settler." On cross-examination by Attorney J. Dennis, of Seattle, representing Lo gan, Vanaersiice aamuiea mai ei no time had he bad any Intention of set tling on the land on which he was "lo cated." He did not even know whether Jackson County, where his selection was located, was In Northern, Southern r Eastern Oregon. "Ueed Proposition" Been. Pressed by Attorney Dennis, Vaader- sllce insisted that, in Investing a total of $16, for which he axpeoted to re ceive In return $6500 within 0 or 0 days from the railroad company, no thought be "had a good business prop osition." He told of going to Seattle with one of the defendants, v. J. Sellers, also a resident of Tenlno; of how Sellers learned of the opportunity to Invest in railroad timber lands, told him of it. and of how he paid $167.60. which was to be the "location fee" for a one-half Interest in two quarter-sections. Sell ers taking the other half of the deal. He said that Henry J. Harper, who already has served a 10-day sentence following a plea of guilty to the charge of using the malls fraudulently, was the man who explained the plan to him In the presence of Logan. Vandersllce said that he was told that the railroad company wanted to comply with the terms of the original grant by selling the land to settlers at Concluded so rage 2.)