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PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1916.
PRICE FIVE CENTS. .
PROFESSOR SAVED
BY PORTLAND GIRL
VOTE ON RAILROAD
STRIKE CALLED FOR
DEMOCRATIC PLAN
IS MADE APPARENT
ADVICE" COSTLY IN
RAPID TRANSIT DEAL
HUGHES IS SILENT
UNTIL NOTIFIED
SOMISEK BUY MAKE FOURTH
OP JULY ADDRESS.
GEORGE II. LEARNED PULLEl)
FROM PERIJJ IN SEA.
'WILSOX KEPT ITS OCT OF
WAR" TO BE SLOGAX.
SOU
DEAD
DEMOCRATS i
OTHERS ARE SAFE
Captain Quits Wreck After
Night and Day Vigil.
FOGi CAUSE, OFFICERS SAY
Only 1 3 Lifeboats Left Vessel,
Declare Skipper; Purser
Says 14 Got Away. ,
DOG CAUSES 2 TO UPSET
Woman's Grab for Pet Makes
Small Craft Collide; Port
land Man Hero.
SAX KKAXCISCO, Jnne 1. All tbe
210 pasungtri and members ( the
mir of the wrecked steamer Bear have
been aceonnted for. according to a
statement giTen oat early today by the
Ban Francisco A Portland Steamship
Company, owners of the vessel. The
five who were drowned and whose
bodies have been recovered were the
only persons that perished, said George
I Blair, 'general manager of the com
pany, after checking all names over the
telephone with Parser C. V. Heywood
at Eureka. .
"Owing to the fact that there were a
number of theatrical people on board,"
aald Mr. Blair, "and a consequent mtxup
between their stage and real names and
owing to the dispersal of the survivors
In Eureka to different parts of the
town, a correct check of the names so
far has been Impossible.
"Mr. Heywood assures me that all
have been accounted for." -
The salvage steajnev laqua left here
tonight for the scene of the wreck.
EUREKA, Cal., June 15. After a
careful toll of the survivors of the
Virrecked steamer Bear the record at
midnight showed that of the 210 per
sons aboard when the steamer left
Portland, 200 have been landed alive,
five are dead and five unaccounted for.
The bodies of the known dead all
came ashore and four of them have
been identified. The unidentified body
la that of a young: girl.
13 Boats Left, Says Captain.
A difference of opinion developed
tonight between the captain of the
Bear and the purser as to the number
of boats sent away from the wrecked
steamer. Captain Nopander said that
of the 15 lifeboats lashed to the Bear's
deck only 13 were required to take
care of the passengers and crew.
Purser Heywood maintained that 14
boats were sent away. A careful tally,
however, based on a personal investi
gation made by the Chamber of Com
merce relief committee, lent consider
able strength to the captain's report
of 13 boats. He said the remaining
two boats probably still were aboard
the Bear unless they had been dis
, lodged by the pounding of the vessel
and floated away.
Captain Nopander said tonight that
at the time the Bear went ashore he
was taking every possible precaution
for the safe handling of the ship in
foggy weather.
Quake Changes Ocean Bed.
"There were five of us on watch,"
he said, "at the time she struck. The
sounding machine was going continu
ally. When the soundings showed 28
and 30 fathoms we headed the ship off
shore until we got to bottom. We
changed the course slightly south and
a few minutes later the ship struck."
Navigators here familiar with the
Coast said that the 1906 earthquake
affected the ocean bed in the vicinity
of Cape Mendocino and that there are
numerous sink holes near Sugar Loaf
.Reef.
A woman passenger's dog was said
to have been responsible for the cap
sizing of the lifeboats in the surf at
Bear River. According to one of the
survivors the dog fell overboard. The
woman who owned it grabbed for the
animal and in grabbing knocked one
of the oars out of the oarlock. .
Portland Ulan Is Hero.
This caused the boat to veer into
the other lifeboat and in the collision
P" both boats capsized.
' T 1 T- F T- i n
josepn iiooney, oi i-ornana, jt.,
risked his own life when he undertook
to save Miss Hazel Hansen from
drowning by the overturning of . one
of the lifeboats. Dooney grasped Miss
Hansen's ankle as she disappeared in
(Concluded on Fa 7. Column 8.)
Lifeboat Swamps and Pacific Uni
versity Man Flounders Until
Vera Adams Rescues.
EUREKA, -CaL. June IS. (Special.)
Miss Vera Adams, cabaret singer of
Portland, saved the life of. Professor
George H. Learned, when the lifeboat
capsized after leaving the . wrecked
steamer Bear. Clad only in a sweater
and nightgown, Miss Adams climbed
into the lifeboat at the officer's di
rection. The craft contained mostly
women and children.
The lifeboat swamped before it left
the side of the vessel and the occu
pants were thrown into the water. It
was righted and all were placed aboard
safely. Twenty-seven finally put off,
according to the young woman, and
again the ' lifeboat capsized. Mrs.
Learned clung to her Infant. . The
father was a few feet from the life
boat, floundering in the water unable
to swim. Miss Adams, clinging to the
side of the boat, reached out and
hauled Professor Learned to safety.
A thoroughbred horse being shipped
by President Farrell, of the Oregon
Railway & Navigation Company, to
San Francisco to participate in a pre
paredness pirade is still aboard the
wreck.
Vera Adams Is a cabaret performer
and was employed as a singer and
darcer in th- Oregon Hotel grill for
several weeks. She discontinued her
service at the Oregon Hotel a few
days before the Bear sailed. She was
bound for San Francisco, where she
had obtained employment as a cabaret
singer. ; '
APARTMENT FOLK SCORED
Bishop Hughes in Talk at Tacoma
Advocates More Homes.
TACOMA, Wash.. June 15. (Special.)
Bishop Matthew S. Hughes, of Port
land, rapped apartment-house dwellers,
old maids and bachelors here last
night at the cornerstone laying of the
First Methodist Church when he spoke
on "The Place of the Church in the
Community." ,
"Both the church and state reet on
the foundation of the home," said
Bishop Hughes. "Too cannot build
either out of hotel people, nor can you
build them out of old maids and
bachelors. If we are going to have
churches we must have homes. . .We
must have homes if we are going to
have a state. The church and state are
not the products of hotels and restau
rants, but of homes. It fills the great
est, element In man's makeup, his do
mestic nature."
CALL FOR GUARD INDICATED
Orders for Militia for Border Duty
Unofficially Intimated.
Intimations that the Oregon National
Guard is to be called out Sunday and
dispatched to the Mexican border for
service were received in Portland last
night, when it was unofficially learned
that muster blanks had been received.
When asked to conftrm the report
Adjutant-General George A. White said
he had received no official Indication
of anything of the sort. However, the
Adjutant-General did admit that all
precaution had been taken for imme
diate mobilizing and that all necessary
instructions had been dispatched to the
various commanding officers.
He refused to discuss a report that
muster blanks and other reports for
mobilization had been received re
cently. DR. MARCOTTE BACK HOME
Westminster Pastor to Tell Parish
ioners His Plans Sunday Morning.
rr. Henry Marcotte. pastor of the
Westminster Presbyterian Church, re
turned yesterday from a trip to Kan
sas City, where he preached last Sun
day. Dr. Marcotte- while there, re
ceived a call from the Second Church
of Kansas City. He now has three pas
torates offered him.
The first call came from La Grange,
111., and the next from Pottsville, Pa.
On Sunday he will annouce which of
the three charges, if any, he will ac
cept. The announcement will be made
to his congregation at the morning
service.
FRIDAY HOODOO AVOIDED
Convention Cuts Off Speeches to
Nominate Before Midnight.
COLISEUM. St. Louis. June 15. (Spe
cial.) Opportunity was denied to sec
ond the nomination of Woodrow Wil
son. The convention, swayed more or
less by dread of the possible result of
nominating on Friday, cut off -seconding
speeches at seven minutes before 12
o'clock, and Mr. Wilson was nominated
by acclamation. Judge Bennett, of The
Dalles, had been selected to make the
nominating speech, but the nomination
by acclamation shut him out.
. Mr. Marshall escaped a Friday nom
ination by four minutes.
WILSON FEELS GRATEFUL
President Notified at 1 o'clock Ht
lias Been Nominated.
WASHINGTON, June IS. President
Wilson was notified at 1 o'clock by
Secretary Tumulty that he and Vice
President Marshall had been nominated
by acclamation at the St. Louis con
vention. His only comment was: "I am very
grateful."
Managers' Terms Are
Refused by Men.
500,000 WILL BE AFFECTED
Ballot to Be Sent to Union
and Nonunion Men Alike.
SECRET MEETING DECIDES
Result Expected to Be Known by
August, 1 Negotiations to Be
Renewed If Brotherhoods
Sustain Leaders.
NEW YORK. June 15. More than
503,000 union and nonunion workers
of America will vote within a month
on the advisability of calling "a gen
eral strike to enforce their . demands
for an eight-hour day and time and a
half for overtime as a result of the
failure by representatives of the rail
roads and the men to reach a settle
ment here today after a two weeks'
conference.
Hope of adjusting the dispute
through the conference faded when' the
railroads submitted a tentative com
promise offer to the men, 'granting
their demands, but eliminating the ma
jority of "double compensation" rules.
The conference adjourned yesterday to
give the railroad managers an op
portunity to discuss further their stand
on this point, but when they met the
men today they not only refused to
make a specific offer covering the com
pensation rules, but advised that their
differences be submitted either to the
Interstate Commerce Commission or to
a board of arbitration to operate tin?2r
the provisions of the Newlands act.
Both Offer Declined.
The men declined both offers and
the decision to take a. strike vote fol
lowed. The leaders and the 500 delegates of
the four brotherhoods of trainmen, en
gineers, firemen and. conductors, who
attended the conference decided on the
necessity for the strike vote at a secret
meeting following the break.
A. B. Garretson. president of the
order of railroad conductors, an
nounced later that the ballot would
be drafted at once and distributed to
all railroad men, whether members of
the brotherhoods or not, before the
close of next week.
The canvass will consume at least
three weeks, the leaders agreed, and
before August 1 the result will be
known. If the men vote for a general
strike, the leaders will return here and
again present the demands of the men
to the railroads in an effort either
to gain their demands In full or a
compromise offer without the necessity
of putting the strike actually Into ef
fect. Past Gains at Stake. Say Men,
Elimination of the "double compen
sation rules." the railroad men contend.
(Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.)
Chairman James Alludes to Mexico
. in His Remarks, but Makes Lit
tle Defense of President.
COLISEUM. St. Louis. June 15. (Edi
torial correspondence.) Permanent
Chairman James, a physical giant with
a voice, made a rattling good stump
speech at the day session of the Demo
cratic National Convention. With more
courage than ex-Governor Glynn, or
perhaps with greater bravado, he
lugged Mexico into his remarks. But
he made no special defense of the
President beyond, asking what his
critics would have done. That is about
all anybody can say for him. Senator
James stirred the convention to great
enthusiasm by his eulogy of the Presi
dent. But it was little more than an
appeal to the country not to change
horses in the middle of the stream.
The course of the convention up to
this time makes it clear that thet key
note of the Democratic campaign Is
peace, prosperity, preparedness and
Americanism, with emphasis upon the
slogan that "Wilson has kept us out of
war."
The resolutions committee is at this
hour of writing wrestling with the
platform. There Is no disposition to
reject any of the President's sugges
tions, but the average Democrat would
like to have more light on the real
meaning of the proposed White House
plank against "hyphenism." Possibly
the committee will work out something
more definite than the published text
of the assault upon the unnamed ene
mies of the republic whom the Presi
dent would denounce. Naturally the
delegates want to know who is meant,
and if they are not to know, why say
anything about it?
This brief dispatch Is written in the
recess between the day and night ses
sions. It is obviously impossible now
to review the day'a events or results.
There is talk of concluding the ses
sions tonight, but it is not likely that
it can be done. K. B. P.
PREHISTORIC HORNS FOUND
Wallula .Trapper Sends Discovery
to Biological Official.
PENDLETON, Or., , June 16. (Spe
cial ) Tie horns of an animal of an
extinct species of the ox family, which
were dug up by Trapper R. C. Fulker
son. at Wallula last week, have been
sent to E. F. Averill, District Inspector
of the Biological Survey. . The head
of the animal was too decomposed to
send, but it is said to be -more than
three feet long, which is much larger
than that of any uilmal on the North
American continent today.
Mr. Averill will send the horns to
the Biological Survey Department at
Washington.
SOCIETY TO GET $10,000
City to Appropriate 8 d Per Cent of
. Total Taken In Dog; Fees.
Ten thousand dollars le the estimated
amount to be received this year by the
Oregon Humane Society as its share of
the city's receipts for dog licenses and
pound fees, 80 per cent of the total. An
ordinance has been prepared appro
priating that amount to the society.
The society took over the pound May
1. At that time the city allowed the
society to borrow (4000 which is to be
paid back next year. The $10,000 la
additional.
THE WATER'S FINE!
J. P. Morgan Explains
Item of $500,000.
HALF CHARGED FOR TALKING
Financier and Investigator
Lock Horns at Inquiry.
BIG BOND SALE PROFITABLE
Quarter Million Charged for Stand
ing Heady to Supply $100,000
000 When Needed Inside His
tory Revealed by Witness.
NEW YORK, June 15. "InsKe" finan
cial history was revealed by J. P.
Morgan when he took the witness tand
today before the Thompson legisla
tive investigating committee and told
of the relations of his banking house
with the Interborough Rapid Transit
Company in connection with the build
ing of New York's subway system.
The witness was questioned closely
as to the services for which his house
received $500,000 from the Rapid Tran
sit Company. After a clash with Frank
B. Moss, counsel for the committee. In
which the financier declared heatedly
that the questions asked him were In
sulting, he told of the advlc given
the corporation.
Advice Valued at 9250,000.
Half of the $500,000. Mr. Morgan
said, was paid his company after al
most dally conferences with Theodore
P. Shonts. president of the Interbor
ough Company, for watchful supervi
sion of propositions made the company
with suggestions to the Interborough
officials as to how to frame their pro
posals to the city; what to include and
what to reject, and numerous confer
ences with city officials.
"So you got this $250,000 Just for
talking to Mr. Shonts?" asked Mr. Moss.
"Yes,-sir, and It was well worth it."
replied Mr. "Morgan.
Asked to be more speclflo as to what
services he had rendered. Mr. Morgan
said he had told Mr. Shonts how to
convince the city officials the Inter
borough could obtain the money needed
to build the subways and thus guaran
tee that their plans would be carried
out.
"But I want you to tell Just what
you did for this money," persisted Mr.
Moss. "In your suggestions to Mr.
Shonts how much did you charge him.
say. for advising him to go and see the
Mayor?"
Morgaa Reseats Qaeatlom.
"I won't stand this," asserted Mr.
Morgan, angrily. "You are insulting.
You seem to Intimate in your sugges
tions that I was getting up some sort
of plan for cheating the city."
At this Juncture Mr. Moss declared
he, too, was being insulted, and State
Senator Thompson, the chairman, took
a hand to end the controversy. Mr.
Morgan said that his company received
(Concluded on Pace 2. Column 2.)
So Many Visitors Flock In That Day
Is Given to Welcoming Them and
Conferences Are Pnt Off.
NEW YORK, Jjine 15. Pledges,
promises and predictions continued to
pour Into the ears of Charles EL Hughes
today from many Republican leaders
and from the rank and file of the party.
So many callers crowded into the some
what cramped temporary headquarters
that the Presidential nominee had vir
tually no time for conferences, but
spent nearly the entire day welcoming
visitors.
Party plans apparently are still in
abeyance so far as the immediate work
of the campaign the selection of Na
tional committee officials, appointment
of the executive committee, designation
of the date of notification and selection
of a campaign manager is concerned.
Mr. Hughes reiterated today his in
tention not to comment on political
Issues' until his notification of nomina
tion, which probably will be subsequent
to July 4. In the meantime, however, a
half dozen invitations to make Fourth-of-July
addresses have been received,
and these are under consideration.
The nominee was the dinner guest
tonight of Samuel H. Ordway, a class
mate at Brown University.
HUMP ON FISHJS MYSTERY
Oddity Develops Years After Plant
ing In Rock Creek Lake.
BAKER. Or, June IS. (Special.)
What put the miniature camel-like
humps on the fish of Rock Creek Lake
is the question that Etlert Etlertson.
Rock Creek rancher, is putting up to
State Biologist Finley. Mr. Ellertson
planted 5000 Lake Michigan trout in
the lake many years ago and until this
year they showed no difference from
others of their specie. Recently, how
ever, small humps Just behind the first
back fin were seen on many of them.
It is not believed to be disease and
the size and the flavor of the trout do
not seem to be impaired.
There is no possibility of a cross
with any other breed because nothing
but the Lake Michigan trout have been
planted in the lake, which was orig
inally devoid of fish.
Cowboy Is Injured.
ALBANY, Or.. June IS. (Special.)
Robert Hall, one of the cowboys who
will appear in the Philomath. Roundup,
was injured today when an outlaw
horse kicked him as he was leading
It from the corral at Philomath. The
hoof of the horse shaved his ear, but
the injury is not considered serious.
A carload of outlaws arrived today
from Eastern Oregon for the show,
June 22. 23 and 24. '
INDEX OF TODAY'S MEWS
The Wtmtiier.
TESTIS RD AY'S Maximum temperature. 91
decrees; minimum, 6 decrees.
TODAY'S Fair, not so warm; westerly
winds.
Bear Disaster.
Anxious Portlanders seek word of Bear sur
vivors. Page ft.
W. H. Rowe rescue deaf boy from steamer
Bear. Pace 7.
Bear is third vessel of same line lost. Pace 7.
Vera Adams, of Portland, saves lire of
George H. Learned at wreck, of Bear.
Pace 1.
Portland man la last passenger to leave
Ber. Page 8. ,
Five passengers dead; all accounted for.
Page 1.
Politic.
Hughes not to comment on political Issues
until after formal notification, page 1.
Convention.
"Wilson kept us out of war to be Demo
cratic slogan. Pag 1.
Wilson and Marshall renominated. Page 1.
Cobb feels deep sympathy for smothered
chicken. Page S,
Wilson platform, ideas . meet opposition;
President stands out. Page S.
Bryan defends Mexican policy In speech
- before convention. Page 2.
Wilson's work Is held epoch-making. Page 3.
War.
Russian advance proceeding swiftly. Page 5.
Official war reports. Page 5.
i Mexico.
Three American soldiers killed In Mexican
raid into Texas. Page 15.
Domestic.
Strike question submitted to railroad em
ployes. Page 1.
Prosecution seeks to prove Orpet gave girl
poison In liquid form. Page 15.
J. p. Morgan testifies to expensive "advice"'
given by his firm in Rapid Transit deal.
Page 1.
Sport.
Pacific Toast League results: Portland 4,
Vernon 3; Los Angeles 2, San Francisco
0; Salt Lake 6. Oakland 4. Page 18.
S. CoeIeskla beats Yanks. S to 2. Page'19.
Phils outbat Reds, but lose, 2-1. Page 18.
McCredle to give three Northwestern play
er once over. Page 18.
Pacific Northtwest.
Girl tells of buying liquor at Frits Boysen's
hotel. Page 6.
Highway Commlrslon rellnquishec direction
of Mr. Cantine again. Page 4.
Bandon father fatally shoots man In
daughter's room. Psge 15.
Forest Grove gets next encampment. Page 4.
Move to recall Polk County Court voted at
Dallas meeting. Page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat carryo-er In Korthwest of record
jlxe. Page 19.
High prices paWt for wool at Pilot Rook
sale. Page 19.
Public intercut lacking in stock market.
Page 19.
Employers refuse to meet longshoremen.
Page 16.
Chamber demands open shop; calls long
shoremen ungrateful. Page 18.
Portland and Vicinity.
School Board asked to pay S1O.80O to pupil
and employe. Page 14.
Chinese students conference discusses race
bias. Page 13.
Six schools unite in gar 'graduation tn
Laurel hurst Park. Page 14.
Portland gasps with mercury at ftl.
Page 14.
Contributions for Independence day celebra
tion given willingly. Page 11.
Fisheries delegates open session. Page 20.
School election on bill for tomorrow.
Page 17.
Arson defendant blames union leaders for
Menefee mill fire. Page 17.
Mr. Dleck refuses to let men testify before
Civil Service Board unless they are paid.
Page 13.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 18.
HoRher nomination over old guard related
by National Commltteman Williams.
la 14.
EXPECTED TICKET
Wilson and Marshall Are
Chosen by Acclamation.
SPEECH BY BRYAN IS HEARD
Preliminaries Cut Short to
Permit of Nominations
Before Midnight.
PLATFORM TODAY'S TASK
Confusion Reigns at Close
and Prominent Leaders
Are Marooned Outside.
COLISEUM, St. Louis, June 16.
President Wilson and Vice-President
Marshall were nominated by acclama
tion late Thursday night by the Dem
ocratic National convention, the ticket
being: completed four minutes before
Friday.
Contrary to expectation, however,,
the convention did not finish its work,
because the platform was not ready,
and it will meet again at 11 o'clock
this morning:.
It was announced in the convention
that the sub-committee drafting the
platform had finished its work, but
that the entire resolutions committee
was not assembled to pass upon it,
and it was not known when that could
be done.
President's Plank Accepted.
President Wilson's own plank,
charging conspiracy among some foreign-born
citizens for -the benefit of
the foreign powers and denouncing
any political party which benefits and
not repudiating such a situation, was
incorporated in the platform just as
the President himself had sent it from
Washington. It was understood that
the President insisted that the plank
should be put in the platform in the
way he had drawn it.
There never was any doubt of Pres
ident Wilson's nomination tonight, but
there was a possibility that some
Vice-Presidential booms might be
brought out in opposition to Vice
President Marshall.
Prepared Speech Cast Aside.
They melted away, however, when
the convention got in session, and as
soon as President Wilson's nomination
had been made a roaring chorus of ac
clamation, Senator Kern, who re
nominated Mr. Marshall, cast aside a
long prepared speech and simply de
clared: "I nominate Thomas Riley Marshall,
of Indiana, for Vice-Presidentl'
To President Wilson's nomination
there was only one dissenting vote,
Robert Emmett Burke, of Illinois, who
came to the convention declaring that
he was opposed to the President. His
vote technically made the President's
nomination 1091 to 1.
Bryan Called On to Speak.
A striking incident of tonight's ses
sion was the action of the convention
in calling on William J. Bryan to
speak. This was done on the motion
of Senator Thompson,' of Kansas, that
the rules be suspended and the ex
Secretary be permitted to take the
platform. The motion was carried and
Mr. Bryan was escorted to the plat
form immediately.
He spoke 45 minutes, pledging his
support to the President in the cam
paign and defending the Administra
tion's policies.
Hall Completely Filled.
For the first time since the conven
tion began the big hall was completely
filled. Since the distribution of tick
ets began, the admission coupons have
been shuttled about in a confusion of
pasteboard and badge speculation.
While hundreds of people have been
clamoring at the doors for admission,
empty rows of seats have stretched
through the galleries, because ticket
speculators, who had obtained posses
sion of the prized tickets, were hold
ing them for larger prices.
The convention's sudden decision to
day to proceed with nominations and
finish tonight instead of prolonging
the sessions through tomorrow and
probably into Saturday, as had been
planned, let down the bars and the
speculators unloaded their tickets. The
big Coliseum was packed to the roof
as a result.
The speculators were unprepared
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