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VOL. LV.-XO. 17,107. " , PORTLAND. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER fg, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FERRIS BILL WILL HOT BE SUPPORTED Opposition to Federal Programme Apparent. COMPROMISE BEING URGED Conference of Western States Organized Harmoniously. GOVERNOR SPRY CHAIRMAN Delegates to Discuss Legislation Regarding? Natural Resources Welcomed by Mr. Withycombe. to Which Mr. Lister Replies. The first day's session of the "Western States Water Power Conference at the Multnomah Hotel yesterday was de voted principally to organization and the presentation of formal addresses by Invited speakers. The conference will get down today to Its real work discussion of the ad dresses and consideration of the action it will take to voice the sentiment of the West for a practical policy that will not conflict with the interests of the West. Kate Resolutions Barred. This action will be expressed in the resolutions finally adopted by the con ference. By adopting the report - of the committee on permanent organiza tion and order of "business, of which W. Lair Thompson is chairman, the conference agreed that no resolutions except those offered by the committee be received after 4 o'clock today. The resolutions -committee, in turn, was instructed to make its report at the close of the general debate follow ing the regular programme and to make this report not later than to morrow noon. Opposition to Ferris Bill Assured. One thing seems certain. Whatever the resolutions adopted by the con ference, they will not support the Fer ris bill, to be reintroduced at the com ing session of-Congress, in any form based on its present principle .of Fed eral control of state-owned water powers. Although there was no. debate or dis cussion yesterday, the reception of the various papers and speakers showed clearly that the majority of the dele gates will not agree to support the bill, even in modified form, so long as it embodies this principle. Administration Forcn Finn. It was just as clearly demonstrated t irmi me reoerai Aaininistration will not be content with anything less than a measure embodying this principle of Federal control. This was unmistak ably brought out in the addresses of Clay Tallman, Commissioner of the General Land Office and representa tive of the Secretary of the Interior; Henry S. Graves, Chief Forester of the United States, and O. C.' Merrill, Chief Engineer of the Forestry Bureau, spokesmen for the Administration. At the same time the Federal rep resentatives and their supporters ap peared anxious to persuade the confer ence to agree to some compromise, which, however, would still embody the principle 6f Federal control. Compromise Is Urged. Governor Lister, of Washington, Democrat and Administration man, in a speech yesterday morning declared himself for compromise, and.Commls eloner Tallman urged the same thing. The feeling of the delegates opposed to the Ferris bill, in their attitude that the interests of the West will never per mit of compromise with the principle of Federal- control, was well expressed by ex-Senator Piles, of Seattle, when, in the course of a rousing address on "State Ownership of Water Power," he said: "Of course we protest against the Ferris bill. This is not a question of assailing any officer. It is not a ques tion of impugning any men's motives. There is no partisanship or personality in our attitude. It is simply a question of our fundamental rights. E&-Senator Plies Specific. "It must be admitted by every well informed lawyer that the states do own the waters within their boundaries. This right has been upheld more than once by the Supreme Court of the United States. There can be no room for discussion on that point. "The whole principle of Government control of these -waters, the rights to which are vested in the states by .the Constitution of the United States itself, is fundamentally wrong and does not admit of compromise because it is wrong." Organization of the conference pro gressed rapidly after the preliminaries of selecting temporary officers and naming committees had been settled. Coin in I (tees' Reports Adopted. Governor" William Spry, of Utah, chosen temporary chairman, and C. C. Chapman, of Portland, temporary secre tary, were speedily and unanimously made permanent officers of the confer ence at the beginning of the afternoon session. The entire reports of the committee on credentials and the committee on. per manent organization and order or busi ness were also adopted. The latter re port recommended that the speaking programme continue without interrup tion of the speakers and without de- Concluded on Pa 4. Column 1.) HTI7FN "ROnklFS" ' innti n in nun nn h -lr,r,.... Ir-.rr- , ...r-, i, rn7rir v.r.Ji M ih WN h INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Km H H HHhMflHh rmt.ia bwttmb pun RCPMnW'PAl uC OHIOAGOAXS TAKE FIRST LES SONS IX SOHOOIi OF WAR. Maneuvers. With Thousands of Reg ulars and National Guardsmen Planned as Climax. CHICAGO. Sept. 21. The citizen sol diers at the civil army camp at Fort Sheridan went through eight hours, of hard work today. Beginning at 6 A. M.. with the temperature below the freezing point, the professional and business men, accustomed to cozy of fice quarters, learned their first les son in "the school of the soldier." How to stand erect, how to face about, mark time and march in squad company these were the chief lessons which confronted the rookies. Maneuvers on the scale of real war, embracing thousands of regular sol diers. National Guardsmen, infantry, cavalry and artillery, with such mod ern auxiliaries as aeroplanes and war automobiles this is the proposed climax to the month of training now being considered by state and Federal officials. A plan to call out the Chicago regi ments and batteries of the National Guard for field service 'lasting v from two to four days of the last week- at camp has been submitted to Governor Dunne. A wide section of the North Shore has been designated as the battle ground. Administration of the typhoid pro phylactic to all men not yet inoculated was begun by surgeons late today. $1,050,000 SALE CLOSED Wendling-Johneon Property Taken by Michigan Trust Company. . As the representative of the1 bond holders of the Michigan Trust Com pany, of Grand Rapids, Mich., Melvin L. Hawley, of Chicago, has purchased the entire holdings of the Wendling Johnson Lumber Company in Lane and Douglas Counties. The consideration was $1,050,000. N The sale was the outcome of a suit brought last Summer to foreclose a mortgage for $1,250,000. held by the Michigan Trust Company. A decree ordering the property sold was granted by the United States District Court in Portland on August 13. The property involved, is a large tract of timber located near the mouth of the Siuslaw River. The timber is principally fir. A large sawmill at Acme, Or., is included in the transac tion. NEW PACIFIC LINE LIKELY Service Between San Francisco and Orient May Begin Soon. - SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21 A new monthly steamer service from Java, Manila, P. I., and Hongkong. China, to San Francisco may be established in December by the Java-China-Japan Line, it was announced today by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. The addition of such service has been sought by the Chamber of Commerce for several months, since the Pacific Mail announced its now accomplished abandonment of trans-Pacific traffic. Inasmuch as the Java-China-Japan Line employs Dutch crews and officers, the seamen's act, effective in Novem ber, will not affect it materially. SUNDAY CLOSING OBSERVED Oakland Only Town In Douglas County Complying With Law. ROSEBURG. Or., Sept. 21. (Special.) Oakland was the only town in Doug las County that complied strictly with the Sunday closing law last Sunday. Every Business establishment in Oak land, . with the exception of a livery barn, was closed during the day. Although exempted by law the drug stores closed their doors, as did the confectionery stores and other similar business places Practically nothing other than bakery goods Was sold dur ing the day. Other towns of the county delayed action pending the publishing of instructions from the District At torney and Sheriff. FIRE-PREVENTION DAY SET Governor Urges Instruction on Dan- gers October 9. SALEM, Or.. Sept. 21. (Special.) By proclamation issued today, Governpr Withycombe has designated. Saturday, October 9, as "Fire Prevention day", in Oregon. This is the anniversary of the Chicago fire of 1S72, and the executive urge3 an organized effort for -a cam paign against "unregulated Are." In connection with Fire Prevention day, the Governor suggests that in struction concerning the dangers of fire be given in the schools, and that indi viduals and communities take oppor tunity to do domestic and municipal houseeleaning. SMOKER LOADS DYNAMITE Lane County Man Lives Hour ATter Lighting Pipe. EUGENE. Or., Sept. 21. (Special.) William Clinton Keever today lighted his pipe, then started to load a hole in a rock with 12 sticks of dynamite. He lived an hour and leaves a wife and four children. ' The accident occurred at the Lane County rock quarry, 21 miles west of here. Kenneth Carter was within three feet and E. W. Mathews and John Mc Donald were close by, but escaped in- I jury- I JOHN Ml WIELDS MINES Workmen Doubt Ability to Earn Good Wages' GREEN MULE WINS SYMPATHY Oil Man Partly Satisfied by Driver's Explanation. SPEECH MADE IN TUNNEL 'We Are Farmers In This Business,' Says Visitor, Pointing Out That Neither Labor Nor 'Capital . Can Prosper Singly. VALDEZ. Colo.. Sept. 21. Dressed in overalls and jumper. John D. Rocke feller, Jr., entered the underground workings of th6 Frederick mine of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company here today. Not until the arrival was it known definitely that Mr. Rockefeller intended to visit the 'underground workings. -Miner's Uutnt Worn. Mr. Rockefeller, clad in a miner's outfit, carrying a miner's lamp and ac companied by E. H. Weitzel, manager of the fuel department, disappeared into the dark tunnel. The tour of the mine was made to give Mr. Rockefeller first-hand infor mation of actual conditions under which the miners work. Mr, Rockefeller arrived at Valdez after a 15-mile automobile ride from Trinidad over "Stone Wall" highway, recently graded and improved by the expenditure of, considerable Rockefel ler Foundation money under the su pervision of W. L. MacKenzie-King. In the course of his stay he visited sev eral of the buildings and talked with the men. particularly with Archie Den nison, the grievance representative of the camp. Direct Mediation Beneficial. Dennison told the Standard Oil mag nate of several instances when, through direct mediation with the oflleeis of the company, he had secured relief from burdensome rules which, he declared, had been imposed by mine bosses with out the knowledge of the heads of the corporation. The roof was low, the path rough and sometimes slippery with water. The Rockefeller back was bowed and the Rockefeller brow time and again thumped painfully on the overhanging coal ceiling. Reaching the section where three men were at work, Mr. Rockefeller shook hands with each, and Toney and Mike Bukinovich and some others ducked their hands and grinned bashful answers to- the questions' of the oil map. Mr. Rockefeller asked particularly regarding the wages and working con ditions of the men, and received a wide variety of answers. Just before leaving the mine the (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) PICK If! GOAL I ............................ -----ttt.t. SssSSSSSSSSSssSSsj (MILITARISM IN THE SCHOOLS. I -- I YESTERDAY'S Maximum tvmpersturu, 67 decrees ; minimum, 55 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds. . Water-Power Conference. Delegates to states' conference show an tasonlsm to Ferris bill. Page 1. Time limit -In power permits is opposed. Page 4. Representative of Colorado Governor scores rerris bill at conference. Page 5. Ex-Senator Piles calls Ferris bill beginning of paternalism. Pa?o o. Many addresses scheduled for Western States', conference today. Page 5. War. British prepare to adoot hiirh tariff and In. crease income tax to meet war expenses. A3 x-a.se . "I'ro-CJerman" bankers to participate In loan to allies. Page .1. ' Russians capture 70,000 In south. Page it. Mexico. Orde- being restored In Carranza territory. Page 2. Domestic- Democrats believe Mr. Roosevelt is plan ning to capture Kepublican nomination. Page 2. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., wields pick In Colo rado -coal mine. Page 1. National rural credits movement initiated at San Francisco. Page 9. Chirago'3 civilian soldiers bave freezing weather In camp. Page X. Investment bankers approve foreign credit as goqiJ business for Americans. Pa;c U. Miss Margaret Favar and man beaten to death. Page 3. Shortage of ships threatens crisis. Page 4. " Pacific Northwest. Supreme Court says it has no power to pre vent gerrymandering of boundary boards. Page 14. Fight on Bitihop Cooke probable at Metho dist conference at Roseburg. Page 14. Fire sweeps wide rant); area near Halfway. Or. Paffe 1. Fire sweeps ranches near Halfway. Page 1. Yamhill County Fair opens. Page 0. Sports. Pacific Coast league results: San Francisco o. Portland 5 (15 innings j ; Oakland 4, Los Angeles 2; Vernon traveling home to meet Salt Lake. . Page 1-. Detroit Tigers win while Red. Sox are idle. Page lo. Phillies increase lead by winning double header. Page 1 j. Ward not subject to draft at Class B price, says McCredie. Page 13. Commercial and Marine. Flour prices reduced In Northwestern mar kets. Pace 17. Wheat weak at Chicago, 'owing to fine threshing weather. Page 17. Motor shares I'.-ad in Wall-street advance. Page 17. Careless navigator loses license. Page 4. Portland and Vicinity. Commission, inspecting schools during fire drills, sees pupil march, clad only in blan ket. Page lb. Senator Chamberlain warns nomen against politics in suffrage campaigns. Page lu. Efforts to calm Congressional Union factions fail. Page 7. I. B. Hammond, manufacturer for 25 years, die at 71. Page 9. Fiancee to be witness in suit over death of W. E. Askay. Page 11. New arson confessions show power of "ring." Page 11. Dollar day call sounded. Page 7. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. PILEDRIVER KILLS MAN Caspar Vaughn, of Eugene, Is Vic tim of siccident. ' EUGENE. Or., Sept. 21. (Special.) Caspar Vaughn, 23 years old, son of Mrs. F. G. Vaughn, Eugene, was in stantly killed yesterday when he was drawn into a revolving drum on a pile driver operated by Porter Bros., con tractors on the Willamette-Pacific in the construction of a bridge across Smith River, in Douglas County. His parents did not learn of his death until date today, shortly before the arrival of the body here. Girl Brinks Fly Poison, Lives. ROSEBURG, Or, Sept. 31. (Specials Quick action on the part of a Rose burg physician probably saved the life of the 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hill, of Roseburg, Sunday night. The child was playing about the family homo when it drank the contents of a saucer of fly poison. ADOPT HIGH TARIFF Increase;loome Tax coming. HUGE BUDGET IS OUTLINED Tax Designed in Part to En force Economies. THEORIES TO GO BY BOARD Chancellor McKenna Tells Commons Money Must Be Raised Without ' Regard to Permanent Kf" Ject on Trade. LONDON. Sept. 21. The present Rad ical occupant of the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, Reginald McKenna. was forced by circumstances today to re vert to some extent to the principles of Joseph Chamberlain. He was com pelled to half-mast the free trade flag and replace it by an embryonic repre sentation of a tariff reform banner, in introducing in the House of Commons today the largest budget on record. Faced with huge bills for war and ordinary expenditures, aggregating in the neighborhood of 5,000.000 (?25,O0O, 000) daily, and bent on raising larg sums toward the current co.it of the war by taxation, apart from loans, the Chancellor proposed a sweeping in crease in taxation. Tax Ilnnrd on Two-Fold Principle. e went Deyond the customary sources of revenue, such as the income tax. tea and tobacco, into the wider field of revenue-raising advocated by the great Tory statesman who resigned office to prosecute his tariff reform campaign. Fiscal theories must go by the board. Mr. McKenna declared, j The Chancel lor was actuated by the two-fold prin ciple of raising additional funds and enforcing economy on all classes by means of taxation. The Chancellor also proposed an in crease In the duty on sugar to 9a, 4d (?2.21) per hundredweight. Duties Radically Inrrenscd. An all-round increase of CO per cent in the duty on tea, coffee, chicory, to bacco, dried fruits and other articles was suggested, and also an Increase of 100 per cent on proprietary medicines. Another source of revenue is to be an increase in postal rates, which is expected to bring 4,975,000 ($21,875, 000). The Chancellor plans to abolish the half-penny postage and impose ad ditional charges on telephone and tele graph messages. A tax of 33 1-3 per cent ad valorem on all imported motor cars, bicycles, moving-picture films, clocks, watches! mil, ical instruments, plate glass and hats also was put forward by the Chan cellor. Mr. McKenna's opening sentence left no doubt as to the drastic character I I Concluded nn T(.a n I h FIRE IS SWEEPING HALFWAY RANCHES CROPS AXI) SMALL BUILDINGS VOll MILE AM n.VLF BURN". Stores Close, 300 ' Citizens Fight Flames, but Are Unable to OlT&et High Wind. BAKER. Or.. Sept. 21. (Special.) Three hundred citizens of Halfway ant vicinity are fighting a tire that has spread for a mile and a half from tho north city limits to the farming coun try northwest, north and northeast of Halfway. Several thousand dollars' damage al ready has been done to crops and small buildings, the firefighters having beau able to save many fine ranch building. The blaze started at 10 o'clock today, when a sudden wind scattered a pilj of trash being burned by Ira Ellia in the north part of Halfway. He notified Deputy Sheriff Richard Garllnghouse. who had an alarm sounded. Stores were closed and the citizens went to the fields to fight the blaze, but could, make little impression, because irri gation ditches were dry. The blaze spread across the ranches of Bruce Pancake.- Beecher Robinson. Walter Gover and Mrs. M. Irwin, de stroying fences and many haystacks, as well as old vegetation. It is now work ing from the city, but should the wind change it will quickly eat its way into Halfway. Firefighters are desperately chopping timber In its path to check the tire, but with little effect tonight. EXHIBITS ARE REMARKABLE Pupil Displays 17 Varieties or Prod ucts at Cottage Grove. COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Sept. 21. Remarkable exhibits of what Is pos sible agriculturally in the famous, fer tile, fruitful Willamette '''alley were shown at the Grange Fair Thursday, Friday and Saturday. An individual farm display by C. .T. Wilkinson, of Saginaw, contained 150 separate ex hibits. One by. M. M. Wheeler contained nearly as many. Still more remarkable in their way were the agricultural exhibits by Earl and Arthur Stewart in tho school in dustrial department. The former, who is 13 years old, had 46 separate ex hibits. That by the latter, who is 11 years old. had 47 separate exhibits. LIVES GIVEN FOR WOMEN Two Men .lump Into Lake to Give Buoyancy to Imperiled Raft. DILLON, Mont., Sept. 21. Sheriff Bruce M. Bryan, of Deer Lodge County, and his under-Sheriff. Charles Madison, were drowned today while ' fishing at Elk Lake, near Monida. Sheriff Bryan and Under-Sheriff Madison, with their wives, were fishing from a raft, when the raft began to submerge. Both men jumped into the lake to give the craft buoyancy enough to support the women. Neither man reached the shore. The women were rescued. The lake is in the crater of an old volcano and its depth may prevent the recovery of the bodies. RACE IN AIR SAVES DATE P. C. Morton, Missing Boat, Hurries to Engagement In Hydroplane. ST. HELENS. Or.. Sept. 21. (Spe cial.) When P. C. Morton, a Portland traveling-man, missed the boat here to day on his way to an important en gagement at Rainier he engaged Pro fessor Stromer's hydroplane and made the trip in 20 minutes, a distance of IS miles, and beat the boat to his desti nation. Mr. Morton is president of the Travel ing Men's Protective Association. Bootlegger Fined S1H0. ROSEBURG, Or., Sept. 21. (Special.) Frank Cox was fined 1250 by Justice of the Peace Riddle for bootlegging. Being unable to pay the fine, he was committed to the County Jail for 125 days. The trials of the other nine de fendants arrested- yesterday on simi lar charges will be held this week. Tuesdays War Moves THE German encircling movement against the Russian army which evacuated Vilna has appreciably inten sified and tightened and, with the re treating forces virtually without rail communication, their retreat seems to have reached the most critical Junc ture. There is increasing misgiving in England with regard to the outcome of the maneuver. The latest Berlin official communica tion shows important advances by Field Marshal von Hindenberg's right wing as wejl as progress by Prince Leopold of Bavaria on the center. The only development from the point of view of the allies, as an offset to the continued i ush of the Germans in the east, is the news received from Paris that French troops have crossed the Aisne-Marne Canal, an assertion which Berlin concedes. The British front, which has been so quiet for weeks, has been hammered by the Ger man artillery, but according to the official report, prompt retaliation by the British balanced the score. September 1914. French try to advance by simulta neous night attacks. Chinese complain of Ill-treatment by Japanese invaders. German submarines sink three Brit ish cruisers in North Sea British; shelled from every angle, continue advance by degrees. iiu uLiiiimii unii iu TO ASSIST IN LOAN Munitions No Longer Under Discussion. PAYMENTS IN GOLD LIKELY Amount Agreed On Will Be Close to $700,000,000. NOTES TO RUN FIVE YEARS All but Two of Details Agrees! To and Theso Are Said Xot to Be Vital Formal Announce ment Is Expected Soon. NEW YORK. Sept. 21 Borrowers and lenders of the vast sum sought in America on behalf of Great Britain and France were said tonight lo be In mt- imw ccora on an details or the pro posed loan except two. These, it was .said, were not of prime imnortanr-c Formal proclamation of tho success of the negotiations is expected within three or four days and. possibly, within 4 8 hours. Persistent reports were current dur ing the vday that the entire matter would be settled tomorrow and that a formal announcement might b- ex pected within 24 hours. This was said to be a bit premature, but there was unanimous confirmation of the report that both parties to tne proceedings were near together in their plans. Rapid rroKram Ik Made. More progress was said to have been made today than on any other two pre ceding days. A rough inventory of what was accomplished, it was said, would read about as follows: Members of New York's so-called pro-Uerman banking-houses will help float the loan. Munitions of war no longer enter into the topics discussed. While it cannot be guaranteed that they will he excluded from the loan's operation, it is the present tentative plan to con tinue paying for them by shipments of gold and American securities from London and Paris to New York. The size of the loan has been defi nitely agreed to. subject, of course, to eleventh hour revision. It will be less than ISOO.000.000. probably $700,000,000. or thereabouts. Bonds to t ome Later. The notes issued for the loan will run five years. . These notes will carry a conversion privilege, entitling the holders to sur render them at maturity, if desired, for joint Anglo-French government bond3 bearing p?r cent interest and cov- rlng a period of probably 20 years, re deemable, however, at the option of Great Britain and Franco before ma turity and at the conclusion of a term not as yet disclosed. While agreement on the fore'going details was said to have been reached with increasingly optimistic prospects that the two other details soon would be settled, the entire progremme was regarded as tentative and subject to revision before the issuance of a for mal statement. Pro-tierman" Hanks Participate. Members of at least two big finan cial institutions regarded as pro-German in their sympathies were said to have pledged their support to the proj ect and others were expected to fall in line. One of the two was Kuhn, Loeb Ai Co., whose power in the fi nancial world has been rated as sec ond only, to that of J. P. Morgan &. Co. The firm itself will not subscribe to the issue, it was said, and no authorita tive announcement whatever has been issued in its behalf. There were in dications, however, on which was based a report that some of the firm a members would subscribe as indi viduals. Other powerful financial interests, it was said, also were willing to subscribe to the Anglo-French loan. This report was strengthened by the prescence, during the day, of William Rockefeller and Henry C. Frick 'at the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Morgan has been devoting virtually his entire time recently to the negotiations and it was announced that some of the Rocke feller and Frick millions would be In vested In the joint Anglo-French notes. AMERICAN AID IS WIDENED Red Cross Parly to Care for Teuton Prisoners In Russia. GENEVA, via Paris, Sept. 21. Aus tria, Germany and Russia have con eluded an agreement under which the American Red Cross will be author ized to send 25 physicians and 60 nurses to Russia and Siberia to care for Ger man and Austrian prisoners of war. Most of the Red Cross workers have been heretofore in Germany and Aus tria. 76-YEAR WIFE IS DEAD End Comes to Woman, 9 6, Who Is Survived by Husband. 97. FREEPORT, 111.. Sept. 21. After mure than 76 years of wedded life. Mrs. Thomas Slifer. aged 96 years, is dead at her home in Lanark. 111. Her husband, at th age of 97 years, survives her.