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VOL,. LVI XO. 1T,309. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, 31AY 13, 1016. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 1 PEACE HINT IS SEEN IN GERMAN NOTE ' crnipcc new disease laid I llllLUU I ta ctdtmi ini ip i irr EFFICIENCY IS TOPIC BAIND01N GETS AID WOMEN'S RIGHT TO FOR NORTH JETTY iuoi ncnuuuo Lire TOWNS WITH VIGOR AGAIN LOOKED INTO AT REED MEETING VOTE CHALLENGED BRITON' SAYS, HOWEVER, THAT EDITORS AND OTI1EK MEN OF AFFAIRS SUBJECT TO IT. GOVERNMENT AGREES TO GIVE TERMS ARE VXACCEPTABIiE. HALF OF ESTIMATED $66,000. QUAKE BOCKS IDAHO BkAIDES Chimney in Boise Busi ness Section Falls PLASTER AND DISHES GRUMBLE Irrigation Canals Damaged, , but Loss. Is Slight. GAS WELL IS SET AFLAME Eastern Oregon and Montana Also fchaken; Disturbance Is Second. v 'Within Two Weeks, out Dif- ference Is Xoticeable. EFFECT OF EARTHQUAKE IN VABtOrS CITIF.S. Idaho. Boise Chimneys, plaster and dishes shattered; people flee from buildings. Wetser Gas -well is set afire and pressure greatly increased. Payette Windows are rattled. Emmett Inhabitants fright ened by violence. Nampa Shock slight. Irrigation canals damaged. Oregon. Ontario Persons on upper floors made dizzy. Baker Shock felt on tipper floors. . Montana. Anaconda Slight shock felt. BOISE. Idaho, May 12. Boise ex perienced the most violent earthquake shook in the history of the city at 7:2 tonight. The tremor lasted about three seconds and was more in the nature of an upheaval than a wave. In the down . town district people rushed from the buildings to the streets. Only slight damage had been reported early to night. The quake was the second in a fortnight, the last one having been re oorded April SO. In Boise a chimney of a business block in the heart of the city was shaken down and others were damaged, and in other bulldiT' plaster was broken from the walls. Irishes fell from tables and plate racks, tables, chairs, beds and desks were moved. Cittrrus Are Alarmed. Aside from fright to residents and fear of a repetition of the shock Boise and 5outhern Idaho escaped serious in Jury. The quake in many sections of this part of the intermountain country was without direction in its motion, and in that respect was different from th one frit here last Fall. The swaying motion was not felt in the quake here tonight. Two weeks ago there was a distinct shock in this territory but no dama wa-s done. The swaying of lights, the rattling ef furniture and dishes and straining of timbers in buildings for two or three seconds were other incidents of to night's shake. Residents exhibited as much curios ity as fear over the disturbance. . lam Esrapra Damajre. Reports from the surrounding terri tory are to the c-ffevt that the shock was distinctly felt, but there were no casualties, and no particular damage done. Fearing the quake might have dam aged the great Arrow Rock dam, 22 miles above thie city, inquiry was Im mediately made of the caretakers after the shock, but they reported that, while the quake had been felt there, the dam was not damaged in the slightest. From the irrigated sections reports have been received that some of the canal3 were damaged, but not beyond repair. The earthquake last Fall split a deep team across the New York Canal, one of the largest in Idaho, and it required weeks to repair it. Quake Violent at Welaer. Instruments at the local weather bu reau office Indicate the quake was confined to the Intermountain country and that the duration of the quake was less than half a minute. At Weiser. 80 miles west .the quake Was felt with exceptional violence. A new gas well, in which a flow was struck ten days ago. showed remark able increase of pressure immediately after the shake-up. This morning the pressure wa 75 pounds. Tonight the flow caught fire, and hundreds of peo - pie are out watching the shootins flames. Twenty-nve miles north, at Emmett. the quake was violent and alarmed the inhabitants. Nampa, to the south, also felt the shake, aa f!d Idaho City. 38 mllea north. Windows rattled at Fayetle. ONTARIO, OR.. IS SHAKEN UP Persons in Upper Rooms of Hotel Become J Miry, OSTARIO, Or, May IS. Special.) Two distinct earthquake shocks were tell bere at 7i3U o'clock tonight. No damage has been reported. The first tremor lasted only a fevr seconds and was barely noticeable. The second, Concluded on fate i, Columa S.) United States Told It Must "Use Own Judgment" if Called On to Deliver Request. LONDON, May 12. "The latest peace overtures said to be of German origin. while not as insolent and impossible as previous statements on the same subject, certainly do not yet offer i basis for negotiations said Lord Rob ert Cecil, Minister of War Trade, in discussing with the Associated Press the latest reputed German peace terms. Lord Robert continued: "We have never received any direct peace suggestions from Germany, and the only indirect overtures we are aware of appear in the speeches of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg and the recent German note to America. We would not think of discussing or even considering any overtures with out consulting our allies. "In diplomatic procedure a neutral is hardly likely to make any sugges tion of peace terms unless certain they are acceptable to the recipient. "If Germany should decide to ap proach us through the medium of the United States, the latter would have to use its own Judgment as to whether or not to deliver the request." While -disclaiming any knowledge of the international condition of Germany, Lord Roberts declared that increasing rumors of peace overtures indicate there is some truth to the story that the central powers are in desperate straits. 1500 TURKEYS EXPECTED Donglas Rancher Is Preparing to War on Grasshoppers. WF.NATCHEK. Wash.. May 12. formerly of rancher of County, has (Special.) C. K. Stauffer, Wenatchee, but now a East Winesap. Douglas more than 10UO turKey eggs set ano expects to set 1500 more. From these It is expected that 1500 young turkeys will be raised. Stauffer is getting ready for the grasshopper crop. If there is any more trouble with either grasshoppers or crickets, in this section hereafter. It might be quite possible to make a deal with the turkey king to turn loose a portion of his feathered army. Last year Stauffer raised more than 300 of the birds and is going into the busl ness on a much larger scale tnis 3 ear. TROOPS RISE IN LISBON Berlin Has Report From Spain That Arsenals Were Burned. BERLIN. May 12. (By wireless to SswiiiK. X. T. i A dispatcn irom Granada. Spain, says that a revolution has broken out in Lisbon. It is re ported that troops have mutinied and that the arsenals have been Durnea. A wireless dispatcn from Berlin on April 14 gave a report that several Portuguese provinces were in revolt. It also was Kaid that a mutiny bad broken out among the Lisbon Guards in the Carmo barracks and that Marines had been sent to suppress the muti neers. Within the last few weeks there have been reports of food riots in Lisbon. RIDGEFIELD MILL IS BUSY Wages Are Increased and Operations Are Being Rushed. RIDGEFIELD. Wash.. May 12. rSpe cial.) About 30 employes at the H. J, Potter Lumber Company sawmill are in a happy mood all because their wages were increased 25 cents a day. Th mill is working 11 hours a day to fill orders on hand before the plant is forced to suspend operations because of high water. Two and three carloads of lumber are shipped from thii mill almost daily .to points in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. Idah'o. Oregon. South Dakota. Minne sota, Illinois and Pennsylvania. Lake River is rising at the rate of about a foot a day. BORDER CAMP IS RAIDED American Side Guarded on Reports of Activity Farther South. TUCSON. Ariz.. May 12. Mexican bandits are reported to have raided Polaris, a mining camp seven miles below Lochlel. on the border, yesterday. Colonel Sage.commanding at Nogales. sent a company of infantry and 20 cav alrymen to guard Lochlel. Washington Camp and other towns on the Ameri can side. A telephone message received here from Washington Camp, near the bor der, today said that American soldiers had crossed the line and visited Polaris Camp, but found the bandits had fled. No further trouble was reported up to noon. GIFTS OF BREAD BARRED Fra-noe T"nalle to Umlerwta-nd' Xevr German Herniation PARIS. May I2-' According to news papr armoti nrmentj it "will not be permissible after May 15 to eed bread In parcels for FVench prisoners in Ger many. The French Foreign Office says that , if the announcement refers to the cur rent situation it is inexplicable, be cause an agreement was recently made between the French and the German governments allowing bread to be sent to French soldiers held prisoner by the Germans. Advice on Drug-Cigar Merger Brought Out. BORAH SHOWS OPPOSITION Giving Away" of Rate Case Reviewed by Witness. MR. HARLAN TAKES STAND Commissioner Insists Mr. Brandels Represented Commission Letter Indicated He Was to Pre sent Shippers' Side. WASHINGTON", May 12. (Special.) The extended hearing on the fitness of Louis I- Brandels, of Bostcn. for the Supreme Court was re-opened and closed today in a three-hour sitting of the Senate sub-committee of the Judi ciary committee. In the absence of Senator Cummins, of Iowa, a Republi can member of the sub-committee. Who declared himself of th opinion that Mr. Brandels should not be confirmed. Senator Borah, of Idaho, today took his place. The general tenor of Mr. Borah's questions today confirmed the impres' sion given by his remarks in the Sen ate a short time ago that he. too. re garded Mr. Brandels as unfit for the Supreme Court bench. w Charges Investigated. The sub-committee looked into th charges regarding Mr. Brandels part the merger of the United Drug Company with the Riker-Hegeman drugstores and questioned Mr. Harlan, of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion regarding Mr. Brandeis course in the 5 per cent freight rate case. In that case Clifford Thome, of the Iowa Railroad Commission, said that Mr. Brandeis after working throughout with the representatives of the ship pers, gave tne whole case away in ths last speech, to which his colleagues could not reply, by admitting that the railroads needed additional revenues. The sub-committee heard three witnesses regarding the drug merger IjouIs K. Diggett, director of the United Drug Company; Mr. Snow, of the com pany's counsel, and Gedrge W. Ander son. United States District Attorney at Boston, who In the early stages of the hearings appeared at the sub-committee's request practically as counsel for Mr. Brandeis. Merger Advised by Brandels. Mr. Anderson had held the merger violation of the inters ta te commerce law and so reported to the Departmen of Justice. Mr. Snow and Mr. Brandeis. whom he consulted on the subject, ad vied the committee that the merge was legal. Mr. Liggett testified that Mr. Snow, after recommending that the merge be effected, thought that as regular counsel for the corporation, his view might be prejudiced. He therefore 4 Concluded on Pas Column 1.) WHEN THE BAND BEGINS TO PLAY THE ELEPHANT HEADS THE OTHER WAY. Sudden Shooting Pain Under Wish bone Is Warning to Victim He Is Working Too Hard. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. May 12. (Spe cial.) The rush of modern life has pro duced a new disease, mortally increas ing in extent and especially prevalent mong doctors, teachers, clergymen. editors and other men of affairs. Dr. Oliver S. Haines, who announced he new ailment at the Hahneman Medical College, calls it "angina of ef fort." In plainer English, that means sudden shooting pain under your reastbone because you are working too hard. No connection with Spring fever was hinted at. It comes from living too hard, and sometimes from an "antago nistio attitude toward the problems of ife." No happy-go-lucky ever gets It. "HUCKLEBERRY FINN" SUES Man Wlio Says He Is Mark Twain's Character Goes to Court. EUGENE, Or.. May 12. (Special.) Huckleberry" Finn is in court. Ben amin F. Finn, pioneer of the Upper McKenzie River Valley, who claims to have been the original character upon whom Mark Twain founded his story. has begun suit In the Lane County Cir cuit Court against Ida D. Ward and her husband. Albert J. Ward, well- known residents of Vlda, for the can cellation of a deed. Mr. Finn, who is 81 years old. asserts in his complaint that he has no recol lection of having signed the document and that he never received any com pensation for the land Involved. ZEPPELIN CREW SET FREE Norway Finds No International Lau Governing: Status of Airships. BERLIN, May 12. (By wireless to Sayville, N. T.) According to a dispatch from Christiania, says the Overseas News Agency today, six men of the wrecked Zepplin t-20 have been re- leaned in view of the lack of int national regulations regarding airships The Ncrwegian government decided to follow the law governing the ship wrecked crews of belligerent warships, In accordance with this decision, six men from the Zeppelin, who bad been rescued by private boat-', we . c liber ated. NOVELIST LEAVES $44,805 Servants Remembered by Henry James In Ills Will. LONDON, May 12. Henry James, the novelist, who died In London. Febru ary 28, left property valued at $44. &05. He bequeathed a portrait by fiargent to the National Portrait Gallery of Lon don, with the proviso that if it were not accepted it should go to the Metro politan Museum of Art in New York. To several servants Mr. James left 500 each. Sales Manager to See Highway. J. B. Piiese. Pacific Coast representa tive of the Stewart-Warner Corpora tion, with headquarters In Pan Pran clsco. Is in Portland for a few days on a tour of the Northwest. Mr. Suese is proposing to take a trip over the Columbia Highway and will visit Port land business friend,. Delegates Number 300 at Social Conference. DEFECTIVES ARE CONSIDERED Dr. BntA , ine Annual v 0 - ."0,000,000,000. VARIOUS PHASES TAKEN HP Society at Large Held Responsible for Mentally Incompetent, Somo of Whom, It Is Said, Are Con. Bklcred High-Class Citizens. Higher efficiency for man In all his social activities," was the note sounded bv sneakers of the first section of the Oregon state con'.erence of social - - " as-encie. which mM vesterdav after-1 noon at Heed Colleze to discus, the I question of segregating the socially in efficient. I Nearly 300 delegates and other per- sons Interested in social welfare gathered in the collcgo chapel at 2:30 P. M. and heartily applauded th speeches and papers delivered by well known advocates of social betterment The meeting was the largest that has ever been gathered together at the opening meeting of ths Oregon con- f rence. Ir. Buaanell Speaker. President C J. Bushnell. of Pacific University, began the programme of the afternoon by outlining the ques tion of social Inefficiency. "There is no more important question before the world." said Dr. Bushnell. "and especially America, than the cost of social Inefficiency." He proceeded to draw various illustrations of the many ways in which social, industrial ana governmental inemciency was draining the country or an annual sum! of 110.000.000.000. "The cause." he eon- eluded, "is id Insufficient "X"iM con sciousness, too many people acting on the principle, or the lack of principle. of every fellow for himself." He sug- sjested as a remedy the development of a social conscience by means of civic and social center organizations. Industrial Side Shown. O. B. Coldwell. superintendent of the Portland Railroad, Light & Power Com pany, read a paper on the problem of Introducing efficiency into industry. nefeetlve t'laaalflcatlon t'lte. The question of the high-grade men tal defective was dealt with by George A. Thatcher, president of the Oregon State Prisoners' Aid Society. "We don't appreciate the fact that mental grada tlons are oftei as variable as physical conditions. Wo are too apt either to classify a man as a complete idiot or a rational being accountable for all bis actions. "Pew people realize that there Is class of human beings which make up more than one per cent of the popu lation, who are neither Imbeciles nor accountable rational beings. It la from Concluded on Pag 4. Column 2. Improvement Declared of Para. mount Importance, as Routs Aro Often. Held Several Daj. BAN DON. Or., May 12. (Special.) The north Jetty at the mouth of the Coquille River is to be extended 600 feet seaward, according to announce ment made by the Fort of Bandon Com mission today. This decision was reached following a meeting here yes terday to consider the proposal of the Government engineers that the port pay half of J60.000. which is the esti mated cost of the work. Work will commence Immediately upon completion of the inner Jetty project, which is due by June 1. Negotiations have been under way for time, between the Port Com in 1.71- iuii aim uvvrriimriii riia'Kcri. obtain $42,000. which is the unexpended portion of last year's appropriation for this harbor, to be used In extending the north Jetty, but rather than delay improvements the Government offer of 133,000 available at once was accepted, and it Is estimated that (20.000 can be raved by doing the work now. as the rock quarry Is well equipped. Ui.der favorable conditions the proj ect should be completed by October 1. Kxt'ension of the north Jetty is con sidered of paramount importance be- cause, due to the fart that the north 1. . Jetty Is snorter than the south Jetty, boats are often unable to cross In or out for days at a time nrMiiuin a m TDniiDi c noAic UUHIimWMH II1UUULL unrWL. United States War Vessels Arrive at Santo Doinlnco. SANTO DOMINGO. Dominican Repub lic, May 15. The situation growing out of the differences between Dominican factions here continues critical. Rear Admlral Caperton. commanding the American forces, visited the American legation and discussed with the offi cials there what action should be taken. The banks are closed. The United Ptatea gunboat Dolphin and a torpedo-boat have arrived In port MORATORIUM ON IN CHINA Ranks Not to Pay Out Deposits or Hc-deera Paper Money. I PKK1N. May 12. The government I has declared a partial moratorium, an I nouncing that the Bank of Communlca- tiona and the Bank of China, both gov 1 emment institutions, will no longer pay out deposits, and will not redeem paper money with gold or silver. Tho mandate says that the great de mand for silver threatened to deplete the reserves, and that, consequently, the action announced was necessary. FLOOD IN AFRICA SERIOUS I Hundreds Homeless, 1 "0 Iead Property lxsn Heavy. CAPETOWN. Union or J-out h Africa, I via London, Mav 12. Hundreds of per sons are homeless as a result of the f loDds in the midland districts. The loss of life is estimated at 150. The property ilamage is large. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Hid W-Mhtr. T 1TV. RDATS Maximum temperature, 66 dnj?rtoa; minim urn. 40 d !. TODAY'S Pair; northerly winds. MnlrA. American -attitude toward Mexico unchanged. Taae 3. War. British minister thinks Germany Is hinting at peace. Fm 1- French bold ground at Verdun. Pace 2. Official report. Pax a 3: RuMlan monk, favorite of Czar, assassinated. l'tsa 2. Foreign. Two more leader of Irish rebellion shot. National. Reriened Brandels hearing completed. Page 1- Domestic. Methodists debate removal of absolute bun on cards, dancing- and theaters. Pace Attack on woman suffrage 1n Illinois made In court. Pas 1. Editors and other hard working men sub ject to new disease. Page 1. Pacific Coast league resuVs: fan Prsn clsco x. Portland 1; T-mon a. Xs Ans- Ira 4: JsUz lait 7. Oakland Z. Pags 1. T!jc-rs in 11th beat Athletics. S-4L Pass 1Z. NlsborTs hit In tenib beats -Cards. Post-Wwcern jrolf Elates may 1m shift4 to fxommoOa: Calif oT-nlans. Pegs IX Orsg'm d-feata Ol A. C- in track, meet. Tl to Pace IX Bo1m infl otbsr Idaho towns rocked by tanoqaale. Puc 1- PostaJ Jnspe--toTs charge "Montana wtaXs of ficials wiu g?gamu: rraae. ias x. Paper buyer of Manila at Oreson City place order. Pas MTw Jury Is out. Pas S. Bandon sets Gorrmneat aid for north Paxs 1- Onuiurvrlal ana Ma-rlB-r. Mors wool corning to Portland thaa In airy former xear. Pase 1 Raina In BoirLbvesX send vbACsx prices down at Cclcaso. fas jt. Broad demand for stocks and prices rise fast. Page IT. Jet t r prolect sb utd om f eared unless aid comes q ul ciUj. Pass 10. PorUsmd and Vicinity. CK-iin-up artlvHx reaches business district. Page i Tad's plea wins Own1.! -vote for Albert pia; ground. Pass ltt. Trinity thUdreti present fairy play. Page 1 Brand new car upssta, burtis; owner and friend. Pugs Blfthot Hogus s-ots mentally Indoltmt preacher. Page 1 S Council revokes license of ColtirrrMe pool . hull Page u Political plot aga1M-t "Walter Evans st1y rh'kmated. Fags is. Druggists sek to .st.tblih alcotiol blade ltU Page 11. Valley protet in Rose Festival Queen con test heard. Page i. Weather report, data and forecast. Pag Heed. College conference considers society's attitude te lacomeeienLs. -rage i Issue in Illinois Taken Into Court. DRY ELECTION IS ATTACKED Whole Question Raised Champions of Wets. by EFFECT IS FAR-REACHING If Content Ion Is Vphrlil, Women Will Be Ietarred Krom Signing Petitions or Voting Where Uquor Is Involved. CHICAGO. May 13. (Special.) An ther court attack has been bejtun salnst woman suffrage In Illinois, and. if It is successful, this latest assault. Attorney K. B. Ebbert. of tne Anti- aloon League of Illinois, declared to- . ay. will make it practically impossible hold a "wet" and "dry election In Chlcauo. It will also prevent women from rot - Ins; on the prohibition issue In town- hip elections and stop women alto- ether from slfcnlnsr petitions to have the question of voting out saloona placed on the ballots In township, vil lage or city elections. V Pry Rleelosi Attacked. This f ar-reachinc attack comes in the form of a bill which Attorney Alfred F. Austrian has filed on behalf f Martin Smith and others, asking that the election of April 4 last In Orland. when that town went dry by women's otes. be declared null and void. The ult has been started In the County Court, and Judae Scully said today hat It would not come up for hearlnC before next week. The petition for a vote to put Orland a hree saloons out of business required 0 signatures this Sprinc. and it was ii?ncd by 40 women and 41 men. At the election the men voted to retain he saloons by a majority of 20, but the women overcame that lead and piled up a majority of 33 against the saloons. Two C bsraes Are Made. Attorney Austrian's brief makes two separate attacks against the validity of the Orland election. First." the bill assert, "the petition filed with the Town Clerk of Orland. under which the proposition Involved was submitted to the voters thereof at the April 4. 1916. election was fatally defective because, if the signatures thereto; and conceding for the moment that women may vote for propositions submitted under tho anti-saloon terri tory att, by virtue of the so-cslled woman's suffrage act. they have no right to sign petitions to have such propositions submitted. Mrsj Vo-te on Wet Mde. Second Although the woman's suf frage tu t provides that women may vols for all olHcera of titles, villages ant towns (except police magistrates), and upon all questions or propositions sub mitted to a. vote of tho electors oC such municipalities or other political divisions of this state, a township in county under township organization. Is not a political division of the state. and, accordingly, the proposition failed to carry because a majority of tha men's vote was against the same. The so-called woman's suffrage act merely provides that women may vote for certain specified officers and upon, certain specified questions or proposi tions. Not a word is contained therein giving women the right to sign any pe tition. A right to sign a petition and! right to vote are two separate and dl.Httnct rights." ('art TOeetfflo. Cited. Attorney Austrian's brief cites the re cent decision of the Supreme Court forbidding women the right to vote for delegates to National party conventions called to nominate candidates for Presi dent, although the suffrage act ex plicitly confers upon women the right to vote for Presidential electors. This decision. Mr. Austrian declares. he believes to be "practically decisive of the Orland eaae. FORKS IN STOMACH 1 YEAR Silverware Removed In Operation and Man Recovering. STOCKTON. Cal.. May 12. Two sil ver forks and a sllv.r teaspoon, mhlcli have been lodged In the stomach ot Richard Williams, a former local mer chant, more than a year, were not hampering; the digestion of William' food today, as they were romoved yes terdny by physicians. Williams today was recovering from the operation. It la believed b swal lowed tho cutlery when delirious. CANADA SENDS MCRE GOLD More Than $3,000,000 Paid to J. 1". Morgan & Co. In Week. NEW YORK. May IS. Additional im ports of gold from Canada were re ceived by J. P. Morgan & Co.. today, mr.king a total thus far this week of more than $3,000,000. Tl.e. gold, which la about eqnally di vided Into sovereigns and bars, cama frm Ottawa In connection. It is ba lieved. with recent purchases of sup plies by tha Dominion of Canada.