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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORXIXG OEEGOXIAIT. 3IOXDAT, IAKCIT 13. 1016. HUGHES EXPECTED TO CONSENT IN END REFORM WARDEN OF SING SING PRISON, WHOSE TRIAL ON PER JURY CHARGE MAY INVOLVE MODERN PENAL SYSTEM- Friends Believe Insistence of People Will Overcome Present Objections. PAST ACTIONS STUDIED Tetters Concerning New York Gov ernorship Important In Consid ering Present Attitude Toward ' Presidential Nomination. BY J. WILL. LYSOXS. SEW YORK, March 12. (Special.) There have recently been republished here two statements made by Charles JO. Hughes in 1906, in connection with the Governorship of New York, which have considerable bearing: on the pres ent discussion of his name with refer ence to the Presidential nomination. In 1906 Mr. Hushes accepted the Re publican nomination for the Governor phip after discouraging: the use of his name in much the same fashion he is now doing-. He was traveling" In Europe, and the politicians of New York did not know whether he would accept the nomination for Governor. Mr. Hughes, on August 27, 1906, made the following" statement in Leamingrton, KngJand: "Everybody knows that I am not a candidate, and I have had no communi cation with anybody in New York on any political subject since 1 left home. I am not groins' to set up any hypothesis and discuss it." Nomination Accepted, After AIL On returning- to New York, on Sep tember 5. 1906, Mr. Hushes made the following statement: "There is no situation that I am aware of which makes it incumbent upon me to say anything in regard to political matters, as I have so recently returned that I am not sufficiently in formed as to politics to discuss them intelligently." After these absolute declinations to be made a candidate, he accepted the nomination. Justice tfughes, on June 13, 1912, au thorized the following statement to be made regarding the Republican Presi dential nomination: "To friends who spoke of the reports from Chicago of the possibility of his nomination by the Republican National Convention for the Presidency. Justice Hughes said that he was entirely out of politics and would not permit tho use of his name under any circum stances, and that this must be regarded as final." Another authorized statement fol lowed on June 18. 1912, as follows: "Justice Hughes stated that this deci sion is final. All use of his name Is absolutely without authority and he has forbidden it. He will not accept the nomination if it is offered to him." In addition. Justice Hushes sent a message to the chairman of the con vention declining the nomination, tho message to be used in case of necessity. Slemp Letter Believed Typical. Several letters written by Justice Hughes regarding the Republican Presidential nomination this year have been published, all of them along the lines of his letter to Representative Slemp. of Virginia, on February 4, 1916, which is as follows: "I am entirely out of polotics and 1 know nothing of the matters to which you refer. 1 am totally opposed to the use of my name in connection with the nomination and to the selection or in struction of any delegates in my inter est, either directly or remotely." Those who are backing the Hughes movement say he will go no further this year than he has gone in the Slemp letter. Conditions, they say, are altogether different this year than they were in 1912. At that time he was asked to step into a breach that, affect ed only the Republican party. This year, they say. there is a crisis that concerns the whole Nation, and no man is big enough, they argue, to decline his country's call. They say the force of this call will be amply demonstrated even before the June convention, letters) Are Pouring In. It is known that Justice Hughes is receiving thousands of letters from all parts of the country urging him to not lake himself out of the field. It is said that all the letters he receives on the subject trll him it is his duty to run for President this year. It is known that Justice Hughes does not want either the nomination or the Presidency as a matter of choice. He is now engaged in work that he enjoys, and he has no illusions about the thankless burdens of the Presidency. He is not a lover of power, although he never has been known to shirk any responsibility. His ideas and practices as an executive seldom have har monized with those of the party leaders or bosses. This, his friends declare, is one thing that has greatly impressed Justice Hughes. He feels that if a call amount ing to a demand is made upon him it will be the voice of the people and not that of the bosses. So it is confidently asserted by his friends that he will ac cept the nomination if it can be shown tiiat the people themselves demand it. COLONEL RAPS MISRULE OINORDERLr 'ATIO'" HI'I.D TO FORFEIT C'OXSIDKRATIOX. Aadrena Delivered Before In ion Club at Trinidad Roosevelt Warmly Greeted by People. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad. March 12. - Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt have been busy during the )iast week visiting places of interest in Trinidad. They have been every where enthusiastically received. At a banquet at the Union Club, a commercial and agricultural body. Col onel Roosevelt said international prog ress depended just as much on the re fusal to submit to international wrong doin- as it did on refraining from com mitting a wrong. He added: "If a nation is powerless, either to hold its own or to secure respect for the risrhts of others, or to do right within its own borders: if it falls into a condition of misrule and anarchy, then it has no right to be treated as a self-respecting and independent Vower in international matters we shall have to take steps with regard to dis orderly nations that do not behave themselves and are festering sores in tho international body politic." Vueeit of Sweden Has Iironthit is. STOCKHOLM, via. London. March 13. 3:39 A. M. Queen Victoria of Sweden Is suffering from an attack of bron chitis. u , ' II III 1 1 I il I 1 II II 1 "Ns"'' ( II it : .r I, : - V k il il v - ' . ' ! 4 ' . - XS ,. - r , THOMAS MO REFORMER ON TRIAL Ex-Warden of Sing Sing to Face Perjury Charge Today. PRISON RULES AT ISSUE Case Grows Out of Confidential Re lation of Assumed Head of In etitution With Convicts Confessing1 Crimes. 1 WHITE PLAINS, N. T., March 12. When Thomas Mott Osborne, wealthy retired manufacturer, lecturer and writer, withdrew last December as warden of Sing Sing- Prison at Oss'..:'.ns, Governor Whitman announced that he assumed that Osborne would be reap pointed if acquitted of the charges contained in two indictments which had just been made against him by a Westchester County grand Jury, which for six weeks had been investigating conditions at Sing Sing. The indict ment on which he is now being brought to trial accuses Osborne of perjury. The other pending bill charges him with neglect of duty and immorality. The cases are set for trial tomorrow in the Supreme Court here. Much interest has been aroused,' and the statement baa been made by friends of Mr. Osborne that prison reform is on trial." During his stewardship Mr. Osborne organized a system of discipline, a per sonal-dealing method of conducting convict government, known as the Mutual Welfare League. This institu tion, under which the responsibility for their conduct was imposed on the in mates, was the outgrowth of a similar association which Mr. Osborne had, while chairman of the State Commis sion on Prison Reform, organized at the state prison at Auburn after he had for six days lived a convict's life at Auburn under the name of "Tom Brown," in the Fall of 1914; One phase of this treatment of con victs was associated with the perjury indictment brought against Mr. Osborne. The prisoners often were voluntary confessors of crimes committed within Sing Sing's walls, and Mr. Osborne and members of the executive committee regarded these admissions as confiden tial. This was the stand which Mr. Osborne took when he appeared as a witness before the grand jury last De cember. At the recent hearing on the motion to dismiss the indictments, Mr. Battle quoted grand jury minutes to show that Mr. Osborne had declined to reveal confessions of immorality made to him by convicts, the witness testify ing that there is no immorality- case, so far as the prison is concerned." A previous investigation conducted by Dr.'Rudolph Diedling, a State Prison Commissioner, had revealed that of nearly a score of convicts admitting immorality, some were officers of the Mutual Welfare League, and had con fessed to Mr. Osborne. Arguments on the motion to dismiss the indictments indicated that the perjury charge hinges on Mr. Osborne's grand jury tes timony that "there is no immorality case" that is, whether Mr. Osborne had knowledge of such cases as existing at the -time he . testifying. STEAMER AFIRE IN PORT Britisher Badly Damaged at St. John, X. B., on Ere of Sailing. ST. JOHNS. N. B.. March 12. The British steamer Matatwa. which was about to leave for New Zealand, fuly loaded, was found to be on fire today in one of her forward holds. She was towed back, to the dock and three tugs and the fire department poured a dozen streams into the hold. The steamer's bow later dropped until it now rests on the bottom. . The cause of the fire has not been ascer tained. It is believed the damage will be heavy. JOHN D. AIDS ARMENIANS Additional $50,000 Is Contributed to Kclief Fund. NEW YORK. March 12. The Rocke feller Foundation has contributed an additional J50.000 for the relief of Ar menian refugees now in Titlis. Con stantinople and Tabriz, according1 to an announcement made here today by Dr. Samuel T. Dutton, secretary of the American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief. A total of $150,000 has been contrib uted by the foundation for this pur pose. Hibernians Will Observe Day. The Ancient Order of Hibernians will Photo by Bain News Service. XT (SBORK. observe St. Patrick's day. Friday night, at Hibernia Hall. A distinctly Irish programme wili be given. Rev. Father Edward Joseph Power will give the oration. Many local musicians and singers of prominence will be heard. LAND SOLD BY SHERIFF K. F. Xudd Property at Centralia liid in by A. W. Caveness. CENTRALIA. Wash., March 12. (Special.) The tract of ground lying between Center and Hansen streets, at the head of Peai i street, owned by E. F. Nudd, was purchased at a Sher iff's sale yesterday by A. W. Caveness, of this city, the property being sold to satisfy judgments rendered in the Superior Court against QtMr. Nudd and in favor of .Field & Lease and the Cen tralia State Bank. Mr. Caveness' bid was $2 more than the amount of the judgments, but in addition he assumes other indebtedness against the property. He intends to open up the tract, connecting Pearl street with D street, but cannot do so for a year, Mr. Nudd being allowed this length of time in which to re deem it. FRENCH ATTACK REPULSED Berlin Reports Capture of 2 6,4 72 .Prisoners in Verdun Campaign. BERLIN, via London. March 12. French assaults in massed formation ag-ainst the newly won German 'posi tions on the left bank-of the Meuse, northwest of Verdun, were repulsed with heavy losses to the attackers yes terday, says the official statement to day. Since the present operations be gan, in the Meuse region, the statement adds, 26,472 unwounded French offi cers and men and 189 guns and 232 ma chine gruns have been captured. PARIS, March 12. German troops, after a heavy artillery bombardment, attacked the French positions on the eastern front of the Verdun sector yes terday afternon and captured a small trench to the north of Eix, according to today's official statement. DYE PRICES SOARING YET Mood River Buyer Says $160 Lot Cost Marshall Field $5000. HOOD RIVER, Or., March 12. (Spe cial.) "Prices of coloring matter and dyes are going up beyond comprehen sion," says M. E. McCarty. purchaser for a local store, who returned yes terday from New York and other East ern cities. '"While I was in Chicago the Marshall Field stores purchased a barrel of red dye for $5000. although it had cost the original owner only J160. The big Chicago concern wanted the dye to color neck goods." Mr. McCarty says that prices are soaring in New York. He said that he found representatives of the Italian government paying 20 cents per pound for the trimmings brushed up from the floors of garment manufacturers. CARD PARTY AIDS WOUNDED Some Women Stay Away, Fearing Allies Would Get Fund. HOOD RIVER, Or., March 12. (Spe cial.) With a bevy of girls serving sandwiches and coffee, women of Hood River assembled at the rooms of the Commercial ' Club yesterday to play cards, the proceeds of the party going to the American Red Cross fund. The Red Cross party resulted from plans proposed by Mrs. L. F Henderson, who was assisted yesterday by Mrs. Noah W. Bone, Mrs. C. R. Bone and Mrs. P. S. Davidson. The women said that several invited guests had' failed to attend because of a report tbat the funds would be given to the allies. UNITED RAILWAYS Changes Schedule. On and after Sunday. March 12. the train service of the United Railways will be resumed via Linnton in con nection with trains of the North Banjt Road and discontinued in connection with the Oregon Electric via Orenco. Trains will leave the North Bank station daily at 8:10 A- M.. 12:25 and 5:10 P. M., connecting at Linnton for North Plains. Wilkesboro and inter mediate points: leave Wilkesboro 7:30 and 10:30 A. M-. 3:10 P. M.. Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and 2:10 P. M-. Monday, Wednesday and Friday for Portland. Schedules and de tails at S. P. & S. Ry. offices. Fifth and Stark; Tenth and Hoyt street. Adv. Two Pioneers Buried. ELM A. Wash- March 12. fSpecial.) Funeral services for Alexander Jolley and Alvia Porter, two Elma pioneers who died the same hour Friday, were held here today, large crowds attending both services. SponsoK i-aitied at &'24.04 wTe invoiced at the American consulate at .Nassau. Ba hamas, for shipment to the starts during ISM5, compared with $'4.1C.4 worth tor J.J1L. Always coesuiliL am aFcliItect - he is a "clearing house" of building experiences Just as you respect the vast amount of work and care it has taken for you to succeed in your business, so you should respect the architect in his business. As an originator and a "clearing house" of building ideas and experiences gained from putting up many buildings, also from studying the trend of building laws and future needs of housekeeping, he arranges the building so that it shall later suit other folks in case you sell or rent. Why architecture depends upon comfort You may build in the joyous Spring time or Summer, and think only of porches and screens, but the architect always keeps before him a vision of the grim Winter Kings. He knows that when the bitter cold days come, any occupied building' will be a failure that is not cleanly, healthfully, genially, warmed by coal-economizing radi ator heating. These outfits change houses into homes, change barn-like stores into pleasant shops! Wherein architects save heating costs The architect will more than earn his fee by alone making the radiator heating outfit BASEMENT PLAN 1 O-lOfAt I STOKl ROOM vTglu jf Your architect will tell you that the foundation of comfort is AM ERIC AN iDBAL heating. No one accepting such large responsibilities charges so little as does the architect for his is largely a profession of public service. You should therefore take advantage of his "clearing house" of. ideas and experiences by consulting him and let him show you at any of our public showrooms the pattern and size of IDEAL. Boiler and AMERICAN Radiators that will exactly fit your building needs and which will burn the kind of fuel most abundantly and cheaply available in your locality. No exclusive agents Sold by all dealers Public Showroom at Chfcsto, New York, Bortoo, Worcerter, Providence, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore. Rochester, Buffalo. Pittsburgh, Cleveland. Cincinnati, Detroit Atlanta. Birmingham, New Orleans, Indiaoapolis, Milwaukee. Des Moines, Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver. Seattle Portland, Spokane, Los Angeles. San Francisco. Toronto, Brautford (Ont.), London, Paris, Brussels. Berlin, Cologne, Milan, Vienna IMPETUS GIVEN MINING AXACOXDA COMPAXY ENTERS COECR D'ALE.VE DISTRICT. Purchase of Douglas Group on Pine Creek Announced, and Work to Start by March 16. WALLACE, Idaho. March 12. (Spe cial.) Mining- operations ir the Coeur d'Alenes have received another im petus with the advent of the Anaconda Copper Company, wnich has taken over control of the Douglas group, valuable zinc properties in the Pine Creek sec tion. Negotiations for the property have been pending: for a long time, but it has only recently developed that the big; copper concern was the real pur chaser. Announcement has been made that work is to be started at once. Accord ing: to the terms of purchase the Ana conda company must begin work by March 16. and spend not less than 9500 a month thereafter until all payments have been made on the purchase price. Instead of spending only $500 a month, it is understood that the company will begin the extensive development at once. Sinking and crosscutting is to be done to determine the extent of the ore body, which has been uncovered for about 400 feet, and ore is to be blocked out at once so that shipping can be started at an early date. PIKER'S PARTNER HEARD MR. R1TTEXHOU5E SAYS LAND FIC I'RES ARB JUGGLED. Discrepancy Said to Indicate Ksllnay Mar Have Sold 60,000 Acres Since Court Decision. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, March 12. The House public lands committee Saturday heard Irvin Rittenhouse. formerly associated with Francis J. Heney in prosecuting Ore gon land frauds and now associated with S. A. D. Putter in an effort to se cure preferential rights for would-be purchasers of Oregon grant lands. Mr. Rittenhouse asserted that Puter had been strictly honest in his land deal ings since his release from imprison ment on account of former land deal ings. Mr. Rittenhouse said there had been a juggling of figures regarding the amount of land now in dispute, and caJed attention to the Supreme Court cost you nothing, through omitting from the plans the extra chimneys, needless man tels, useless inner doors, double window sash, weather strips, storm doors, etc. Architects study fu ture values for you Those who build hope for the neighborhood to improve and value to increase. The architect helps you to study keenly the future of the locality. He will prove to you that property modernized with Ideal Boilers and American Radiators will American radiator ro pawy decision which recited that the unsold acreage amounted to 2,360,492 acres, and that the total acreage that had inured to the railroad company was 3,182,169 acres. In contrast, he cited the report of the Attorney-General saying the com pany had disposed of 820,000 acres and had on hand 2,300,000. This discrep ancy indicated, he said, the railroad company might have disposed of some 60,000 acres after Its right to sell had been denied by the cou'fas. Mr. Rittenhouse attempted to discuss the Wilson bill, giving preferential rights to applicants, in whom he is in terested as manager of the Natonal information bureau. Chairman Ferris said the Wilson bill had been with drawn, but, to make absolutely sure it is dead, the committee, on his motion, tabled it. ' , CADET INSPECTION MAY 16 Captain Tenney Ross, of General Staff, to Officiate at Corvallis. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. March 12. (SpeciaL)-rt has been an nounced by the War Department that Captain Tenney Ross, of the General Staff of the United states Army, with headuarters at Washington, D. C, will arrive in Corvallis May 16 afid that the annual inspection of the cadet regi ment of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege will take place that day. This will be the first visit of Captain Ross to the Oregon Agricultural Col lege. Captain William T. Merry, also of the General' Staff, has been the In specting officer for two years. WEATHER SERVICE PRAISED Federal Official to Make Survey of Rogue River Valley. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, March 12. (Special.) "Frost warning service of Oregon has become 85. per cent efficient, but cannot reach the perfection of one of the exact sciences." said J. Cecil Alter, of the Salt Lake City Station, United States Weather Bureau, in an address at the Oregon Agricultural College this week. Mr. Alter is on his way to Medford, where he will make a meteorological survey of the Rogue River Valley for the benefit of the extensive fruit in dustry carried, on there. Hay Scarce in Garfield County. POMEROT. Wash.. March 12. (Spe cial.) Haymows have been so depleted as a result of an unusually hard Win ter. according to reports from many of the farmers, that the supply lor teams plowing Summer fallow land will run short on some of the farms. 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Heating outfit i3 the only equipment put into a building that will never be worth less than you pay for it, and will repeatedly repay by 100 years of service its origi nal cost, through fuel and labor savings and absence of repairs. Can you possibly invest money better or more safely than this? EMBARGO NOT EXPECTED PRIVATE ADVICES FROM EXGLAXU ELATE BARLEY GROWERS, E. Clemens Horat Saym He Believes Hops Also Will Escape Prospect Chanced Within Week. SAX FRANCISCO, March J2. (Spe cial.) Private advices from England today, carrying assurances that the United Kingdom was unlikely to place an embargo on imports of barley, were received. E. Clemens Horst, president of a great hop concern, who has been keep ing in close touch with the situation, received a private cable today aeclar ing that an embargo was not excepted. "The . person who sent the cable is close to a member of the British Par liament," said Mr. Horst, "and is there fore able to feel the pulse of that body regarding a barley and hops embargo. "Needless to say, barley and hop men of California have been on the anxious seat lately. Until a week ago, or even a few days ago, it appeared that an embargo would be enforced. Now, however, I am doubtful. I think Eng land will stop with the fruit embargo." An average of about 80,000 tons of barley is exported to the United King dom yearly from California. .The Lair.arsp from whom was descended the late Justice Joseph R. Lamar, are a Georgia Hugenot family distinguished among other things for three members, now de ceased, who bore the name of Lucius Qufntus Ctnclnnatus Lamar, the elder; Lucius Quint us Cln?lnnatus Lamar, the younger, and Miranda Bonaoarte Lamar. WHAT IS AUTO INT 0X1 CATI Oil? 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