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VOL. VL.I. XO. 17,382. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. "GIRL IN DISTRESS" SIX OREGON CROPS AUTO REARS, FALLS AND KILLS .OWNER BIG SHIPPING PLAN LANE COUNTY WOOL BRINGS 40 CENTS SGEHETRA61GWHEH FATHER LOSES BABY IS BANDIT LEADER ARE FOR PORT EVOLVED DAINTY HANDKERCHIEF MASKS CAR SHOOTS VP STEEP IXCLLXK WHEX DRIVEH CRANKS. 40,000 POUNDS CONSIGNED TO PORTLAND CONCERN". WOCLD-BE ROBBER. HUB DECRIES SPOILS SYSTEM LL O A RES r K Ruthless Raids by Dem ocrats Denounced. EFFICIENT POLICY DEMANDED Nominee Scores Putting Diplo macy in Hands of Office t. seeking Politicians. AMERICAN RIGHTS UPHELD Acts of Past Three Years Are Declared to Inspire Deep Sense of Shame. DETROIT. Augr. 7. Charles E, Hughes, in the first set speech of his trans-continental trip, tonight assailed the Administration vigorously for its foreign policy, its Mexican policy, far appointing men whom he termed inex perienced to diplomatic posts, and for what he characterized as a "raid upon the civil service of the United States." "He kept us out of war," Mr. Hughes said, referring to the Presi dent and a Democratic campaign slo gan. "Yet, we seized Vera Cruz. That was war very ignoble war and it was called war over the bodies of those dead soldiers; it was called a War of service. Civil Service Raids Denounced. The nominee cited the Republican platform declaration that 30,000 Gov ernment positions had been taken from the operation of the civil serv ice law during the present Adminis tration and declared that that sort of thing has got to stop. It was "inexcusable," Mr. Hughes asserted, for the Administration to take, "in country after country in Lat in-America, where we have frequently said we desired to cultivate the most friendly relations," men from the dip- lomatic service who "had represented the country with credit and had ac quired an admirable and important ex perience and put in men utterly in experienced." Past Administrations, the nominee said, had sinned in that particular, but standards were being made and there were men in our service of long experience and fine training. Other appointments by the President were assailed. Who Knows Wilson's Policy? "Talk about policy. What is the President's policy does any one know? Has the Executive ever had a policy for more than six months on the Mexican question ? I reiterate, who knows today what the policy of the Administration will be three months hence? My friends, the trouble is that this Administration has written such a record that, no matter what it says, you do not know whether it will stick to it. "We have had an exhibition during the past three years which, I confess, fills me with a deep sense of shame. I have not a particle of militaristic spirit in my system, but-if I am elect ed President I will see to it that American rights in Mexico are re spected." Citizenry Must Not Be Cheap. Mr. Hughes assailed the Adminis tration's course toward upholding American rights abroad during the European war. "When I say that I am an Ameri can citizen," the nominee said, "I ought to say the proudest thing that any man can say in this world. But you can't have that prize if Ameri can citizenry is a cheap thing, if it is not worthy of protection this wide world over. "There is no man who could sue cessfully present to an American community the platform that an American citizen's rights stop at the coast line and that beyond that Amer ican life is to be a prey of any ma rauder that chooses to take it." "If we are to have a Secretary of State," Mr. Hughes declared, "we want a man who will stand before the world as a man of learning, of skill, of experience, of power. Mr. Hughes also laid stress on what he termed the need for industrial brotherhood and closer co-operation between employers and employes, There was no capitalistic class, no (Continued oa Page 2. Column 1.) Men Companions Also Masked and Heavily Armed, but Tlielr At- ' tempt Ends In Failure. LOS ANGELES. Aug. 7. (Special.) A slender girl, her features masked by a dainty handkercnlef.. today was the leader in a. daring attempt of automo bile robbers to hold up Thomas Jones at Cahuenga pass. She was assisted by three men. also masked and armed with heavy automatic pistols. "When Jones was rolling through the pass he noted ahead of him a heavy touring car, seemingly stalled. As he passed there came a request for aid from the girl, whose face was con cealed as she bent over at the side of the machine. "We've had a breakdown," she called, appealingly. "Won't you stop a min uter" The'merf 'of 'the ' robber paTty 'were under the machine or crouched on the farther side, and Jones immediately brought bis machine to a stop. "What can I do for your' he asked. "She whirled and faced him in an Instant. "Give us your money, and be quick." she cried. At the same time her male companions covered the automobllist with their pis tols. Jones "stepped on It" and, bending low, sped toward- Los Angeles. A glance showed him that the "disabled" ! par had swun? ftcrirl v into the chase. But his machine proved the speedier. HUMMING BIRD MURDERER Two Canaries In Cage Killed and Marauder Caught. OREGON CITY, Aug. 7. (Special.) Two canary birds of the Hart variety. belonging: to Mrs. "W. W. Leete, of Gladstone, were killed by a humming: bird recently and the murderer was caught in . the. eagre beside: the bodies of his victims. The canary birds were on the porch of the Leete home. The humming: bird was able to fly between the wires of the cage and attacked the canary birds with its long and pointed bill. The canary birds, although larger than their assailant, were almost powerless against his quick darts. The humming bird came out of the battle almost un hurt, but was unable to make his exit by the way he had come In. The canaries were valuable. THRIFT LESSON LEARNED Child Borrows From Bank and Don' bles Money in Chickens. EUGENE, Or., Aug. 7. (Special.) Several months ago the Bank of Com merce of Eugene inaugurated a cam paign to encourage thrift among boys and girls of Lane County, lending them small sums of money for various farm activities. Kathryn Washburn, 11, four months ago borrowed $5. invested the money in eggs and raised chickens. Today she repaid the loan and deposited $4.90 additional in the bank, after deducting 10 cents for interest on the original capital. In a letter she said she has more chickens to sell and others she will keep as a nucleus for another flock, STRANGE WARSHIP IS MET Master of Schooner Hardy Reports Hail Off Rogue River. MARSHFIELD, Or., Alls. 7. (Spe cial.) Captain K. M. Michaelson. of the steam schooner Hardy, reported today that off Rogue River at 2:30 A. M. hie ship was accosted by either a torpedo boat destroyer or a cruiser. First Mate J. Swanson said the craft had four stacks. The Hardy was proceeding north in the face of a northwest wind, about 10 miles off shore, when the war craft came up from the rear and hugged close enough to hail. Mate Swanson could not understand the halloo and asked what wae wanted. At that the craft pulled away. NEW PAPER SOURCE FOUND Germans Discover Process forCtllU- ing Cotton Stalks. BERLIN, Aug. 7. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The royal testing material station at Gross-Lich- terfielde, a suburb of Berlin, an nounces the interesting discovery that paper -can be manufactured from cot' ton stalks. The discovery is . not consid ered of much importance for Ger many, which produces no cotton. but is pointed to as of vast im portance to the United States, the greatest producer of cotton In the world, because of the shortage of paper reported in that country. WILSON TO VISIT PORTLAND President to Come to Pacific North west in Late October. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7. Plans have been made for the reception and enter tainment of President Woodrow Wilson in Los Angeles on October 16, accord ing to Benjamin F. Groves, secretary of the Democratic County Central Com mittee, The President is to dedicate the Elephant dam near El Paso. Tex., and it has been arranged for him to come to Los Angeles en route to San Fran cisco. Portland. Or, and Seattle, It was stated. Wheat, Leader, Valued at $13,097,230. TOTAL OF ALL IS $30,181,730 Yield of Oats 13,200,000 Bushels, Price $5,412,000. SPUDS WORTH $5,000,000 Apple. Estimate 3,216,000 Boxes at $1 Each, Barley $2,447,500 and Corn $1,008,000 Berry Yield High In Percentage. SIX OBEGOX CROPS, YIELDS OF WHICH EACH WILL EXCEED S 1,000,004 THIS YEAR. Yield. Bushels. Value. Wheat '. .... 15.T81.000 $13.0US.J0 Oats 13.200.000 8.412.000 Potatoes 6.230.000 6,000.000 Apples 8.216.000 3.216.000 Barley . 4.450.000 " 2.447.600 Corn 1.200,000 1.008.0OO Boxes. SALEM. Or., Aug. 7. (Special.) Oregon farmers this year will reap a profit of $30,181,730 from nine principal products, according to estimates com piled today by O. P. Hoff. State Labor Commissioner. The crop of wheat, corn, oats, barley, potatoes and apples will each exceed $1,000,000 In value. rthe percentage of the combined con dition of all crops during July, based on a 10-year average, was 94.3. The biggest item in Oregon's enor mous harvest this year, as In the past. Is the wheat crop, which, based on crop conditions August 1, will show a yield of 11.781.000 bushels of Winter and 4,000,000 bushels of Spring, or a total of 15,781,000 bushels. Wheat Worth 913,000,000. . Commissioner Holt's estimates indi cate that the state's Winter wheat crop is 86 per cent of the average for 10 years, while the Spring wheat crop is 86.2 per cent. The estimated value of the entire wheat crop of the state at the- farm on August 1 was 83 cents bushel, or a total of $13,097,230. The stock of wheat now held on Oregon farms Is placed at 873,000 bushels. The State Bureau of Labor statistics forecasts an oats yield of 13,200,000 bushels, worth $5,412,000 to the Oregon farmer at 41 cents a bushel. The crop is 90.3 per cent of normal. Potato Aerease 50.500. With 50.500 acres planted to potatoes planted this ear and the crop 9 per cent of normal, a yield of . 250, 000 bushels Is forecasted. At 80 cents bushel this crop will have a' value of $5,000,000. The state's apple crop will tota 3.216,000 boxes of a value of $3,216,000. (Concluded on Pace Column 5. OVER ON TliE MAINE COAST Raymond Motorist "Stalls Engine on 15. " Ier Cent Grade and For- . gets to Disengage Gears. : GRANTS PASS. Or.. Aug. T. (Spe cial.) William R. ' Osborn's life was crushed out today in one of the most unusual automobile accidents ever met with In this county. In attempting to climb Wolf Creek Hill, 13 miles north of here, where a 25 per cent grade on a narrow right of way confronts the traveler. Mr. Os- born killed his engine. He left the car in gear, and when he cranked the en gine the car shot up the side of a precipitous bank, fell back on him and crushed him to death. It was evident that Mr. Osborn had made a futile effort to gain control of the machine. Death Is believed to have been In stantaneous. When the engine was killed Mrs. Osborn left the car to. help her hus band, the only other occupant, search for a stone to hold the rear wheels. Otherwise she undoubtedly would have been killed or dangerously Injured. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn. accompanied by the former's nephew, O. M. Lee, and his wife in another car, were on their way from their home ' in Raymond, Wash., for a tour to California. The Lees drove up just In time to witness the accident. Mr. Osborn was a prominent mill wright of Raymond and was 54 years old. . He was a member of the Odd fellows and Knights or Pythias. ALSATIAN SHOT AS SPY Man Charged Willi Entering Civilian In Aeroplane. AMSTERDAM, via London. Aug. 7. According to the Koelnische J'olkiel tung. a courtmartlal at Muelhausen, Al sace, sentenced to death David Bloch, a German subject. He was charged with - joining the French army and entering in civilian clothes from a French aeroplane the German lines for the alleged purpose of pionage. He has already been shot. the newspaper declares. WOMAN UP FOR CONGRESS Dr. Eva Harding Wins Democratic - Nomination in Kansas. TOPEKA,' Kan., Aug. 7, It became certain today that Dr. Eva Harding, of Topeka. a suffragist leader, had won the Democratic nomination for Repres' entatlve In Congress in the First Dis trict over Rev. H. J. Corwine, in the recent state-wide primary. Dr. Harding, whose majority 608. Is the only woman Congressional candidate in the state for the coming election. CUPID'S AIDES DESERT HIM Catholics Only Ones Able to Knot Tied in Pendleton. Get PENDLETON, Or., Aug. 7. (Special.) Dan Cupid Is having poor sledding In Pendleton at present. Unless the prin cipals be Catholics, there can be no wedding in Pendleton without import ing some one to perform the ceremony. With the exception of the Catholic priests, all clergymen and judicial office holders of the city are away o vacations. YESTERDAY THEY WERE SEEING SUBMARINES AND OTHER THINGS. Subsidy Planned to En- courage Lines. LOCAL CAPITAL IS FAVORED Representative Business Men Get Behind Project. 'ROGRAMME IS INDORSED Connections Will Be Sought Wltli Alaska, Atlantic Coast, South America, Europe, Australia and Central America. A comprehensive plan for developing water transportation and manufactur ing industries in Portland was given the emphatic Indorsement of a com pany of representative business men at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday and an energetic campaign was in augurated to carry it into effect. The plan was submitted by a com mittee of the Chamber's trade and commerce bureau comprising Nathan Strauss, chairman. F. A. Spencer. O. H. Fithian. C. C. Colt, F. C. Knapp and IL B. Miller. The committee worked on the problem for fully "15 months before evolving its final programme, which, briefly, provides as follows: Local Industry Preferred. Steamship lines shall be encouraged by paying them a subsidy. This subsidy to be raised by a tax of, say, one mill a year for five years. Local industry and local capital Is to be given preference In receiving these subsidies. Connections will be sought with Alaska, the' Atlantic Coast. Hawaii. Australia, west coasts of Mexico. Cen tral , America and South America. Europe, the Oregon Coast and possibly with Puget Sound. " Manufacturing industries will be In duced to establish here through prom lse of adequate transportation service. The Port of Portland will be urged to establish coal bunkers in the Lower Columbia to encourage ocean vessels to enter the port. Meanwhlte a campaign of public edu cation will be conducted to enlist pop ular sympathy with the project. Co operation la Urged. "The Chamber of Commerce ought to get solidly behind it." said O. M. Clark, president, after the meeting, "and 1 believe that the Chamber will. We ought to keep pounding on this thing and pounding bard. If It takes us two or three years. "We need ships if we are to develop our commerce. It will pay us to cen ter our activities on this project until we get it done. Then we can start in on something else." Mr. Clark presided at the meeting, which was attended by many prominent business men. among whom were Theodore B. Wilcox, W. M. Ladd. Henry L. Corbett. E. G. Crawford. H. W. (Conclude on Fag 14, Column 1.) Pomona Grange Pool Represents Clip or 13S Growers Wool to Be Graded Here. EUGENE. Or., Aug. 7. (Special.) Announcement of the virtual sale of 40.000 pounds of Lane County wool, con stituting the Pomona Grange pool as sembled In Engene, Cottage Grove and Junction City, to the Portland Ware house Company waf made today by C. J- Hurd. market master of the grange. The price,, though not announced. Is understood to have approximated 40 cents a pound. The wool has been shipped to Port land and will be graded there, after which final settlement with the grow ers will be made. The Portland con cern made an advance to the growers nearly equalling the market price. The pool represents wool belonging to 137 growers. JUNCTION CITY. Or.. Aug. 7. (Spe cial.) Ten thousand pounds of wool were shipped today to the Portland Wool Warehouse Company. It was sold under consignment as a part of the Lane County wool pool. . Growers re ceived 33 cents a pound and will re- elve an additional rise in price when the wool is sold by the company. Prob- bly It will be an advance , of seves cents, making a total of 40 cents for clippings. COLUMBIA BEACH CLOSED State Health Official Finds General Conditions Insanitary. Columbia Beach was ordered closed yesterday by Dr. David N. Roberg be cause of generally insanitary condi tions. Dr. Roberg, secretary of the State Board of Health, and Dr. E. A. Pierce. another member of the board. Investi gated. A patron of the beach had no tified Dr. Pierce of the insanitary con ditions. Dr. Roberg says that there Is no drinking water other than river water. and he discovered bathers drinking from the river yesterday. TEXAS VOTE IS CANVASSED Proposal to Submit Prohll tltlon Amendment Wins by 2103. HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 7. The propo sition to submit a constitutional '.mend- ment for statecwide prohibition re ceived a favorable majority of 2103 votes in the July 23 Texas primary. according to the complete and official canvass of a subcommittee of the State Democratic Executive Committee here today. The total vote was: For, 174.43S against, 172.332. Italian Forest Is on Fire. PARIS. Aug. 7. A great fire In forest near Savons. Italy, along a front of nearly three miles is reported in a Havas dispatch from Rome. Two thousand soldiers have been sent to fight the fire, the cause of which Is unknown. INDEX OF TODAY'S. NEWS The Wealber. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. degrees: minimum. 56 decrees. TODAY'S Showers; south to west winds. Polities. Hushes decries spoils system. Pas 1. Democrats to open campaign In September. Pag a. Mr. Hushes tells Detroit manufacturers strife between labor and capital roust cease. Pas - War. British completely rout Turks who attempted arrack on Sues Canal. Pass - British withstand violent attacks at Posleres. Paso 4. Official reports. Pace 4. National. Bids for Portland postofflca opened. Pas 4, Conferees fall to acres on Niry personnel and building programme, pass a Karm Lmb Board organises. Psge 2. Democratic Senate leaders revise proposed revenue bill. Page . DOOMUS, Girl leads automobile bandits. Page 1. Railroad men hint at possibility that strike mar be averted, rage 3. New York surface car strike settled. Page 3- Sport. five Coast keaa-ue cluhs yet counted as pea nam possibilities, i see 1 1. Giants take series from Cubs. Psge 12. Athletics lose lth straight game. Page 12. Women'a pier In Murraymead tennta tour nament starts today. Page 13. Fortland pltrhers star in Northwestern League. Psge Is. Iaurelhurst tennis develops bard-fought matches. Page IS. Pwctflc Northwest. Crater Lake held great by editors. Psge e. Auto runs up hillside; fells back, crushing owner. Page 1. Wedding to symbolize union of Lane ana Coos counties. f s lu. Six crops In Oregon worth tl.0C0.O00 each. Pace 1. Lane county wool brings 40 oenta. Page L CommerrUl and Marine. Wheat quotations break In Portland. Page 17. .' Day on Wall Street Is dullest of year. Fags 17. Whest market develops weakness at Chi ciio. Pace 17. River survey Is on and freshet sedlmsnc will bedredced. Pace 1. Fortland aad Vicinity Buyers Week opens auspiciously. Page Father enacts tragic scene when court de nies him Clint to his baby. Page 1. Liquor smuccling case to be heard tomor row. Page 9. Local railway man says overwork Is only labor Issue. Page 1L Pwrk hand concerts ' terminate tonight. Pace is. Traffic bill will be presented to Council to morrow. Pace 1L. Antonio Rafael Vejar Is new Spanish Vlce Consul at Portland, page 11. Ielghton's candy shop cults, business. Pace 1- Rallwsy oprrAtors and employes here favor strike arbitration. Pace 5. Wl'.son Leagues open two-day meeting here. Pete IS. W rattier report, data and forecast. Pace IT. Big shipping plan for port Is evolved. Page 1. Knlffhts of Pythlss enjoy dinner daaee at Uotel Portland. Page 16. "Wife" Refuses to Lift Stigma on Child. ITALIAN PLEADS IN YAIN "Eet No Right to Tak' My Ba bee Away," He Stammers. JUDGE URGES RE-MARRIAGE Lawyers Not Certain Divorce, St cured Unknown to Husband Year Before Birth of Girl, Will Be Held Legal. A sorry figure, stood in the witness box. fighting to understand with his dim comprehension of American ways that the baby girl he loved better than anything else In a strange, unfair world was lost to htm. He had learned but three days before that the woman who caused his arrest had been divorced from him for three years. -and remember the child la hers and that you have no right to It," con- luded District Judge Jones. For a moment the man stood motion less, then, with the fire of his race. burst forth: I don" theenk eet right to tak" my babee away." his voice trembled. "Her love. For her I work man', man'. months. I geev all my money for my babee. An' now, I no have her? I don' theenk eet right." Misty Eres Many. Gently, the court explained that the child, legally, had no father, that the mother had no right to bear his children, after she had divorced him. Dumbly. Rossi listened, with hungry eyes on the 20-montha-old baby girl in the arms of her mother, across the courtroom. 'You understand, do you." said Judge Jones, sharply, "that you are not to molest Mrs. Rossi or the baby? Tou are to stay away from, them." Rossi nodded, listlessly. The crowded courtroom might -have been the pit of a theater. Rossi might have been George Be ban. playing on the heartstrings of his audience in an inimitable portrayal of an Italian role. For misty eyeei and throats needing audible clearing were there. In plenty. Rossi, describing his family quarrels with flashing teeth, as the humorous side struck him. and softened expres sion when hie baby girl was mentioned, swayed his audience with conflicting emotion. The climax came with the order of the court parting the man, not a father In the eyes of the law". from hia child. Baby Calls Welcome to Kather. The affection was not all on the part of the father. When Rossi entered the courtroom, the baby girl waa playing' In the lap of her mother. Rossi chirped at the youngster. Quickly the in He turned, with a amjla of welcome, and held out her chubby arms to the man she had learned to love, calling "bada." The only official action of Judge Jonea yesterday was to dismiss the charges of threatening to do bodily harm, filed by Mrs. Anna Rossi. But unofficially Judge Jones tried to un scramble affairs, so that the child would not face a nameless future. For IS mlnutea he talked to Mrs. Rosai In the privacy of his chambers, urg ing that she remarry Rossi for the sake of the baby. He went so far as to sug gest that the marriage be a formal one and that both parties aeparate at once pending another legal separation She waa firm In her refusal. She telephoned her attorney. M. J. MarMahon. whose advice was to refuse. Dm Believed Illeaai, Georo Howry. Deputy District At torney appearing In the case, believes the divorce was illegal, because the action waa brought In Clackamas County while both parties were resi dents of Multnomah County, and papers were served in this county. This may be the solution sought. If legal, it la the opinion of several attorneys that the decree can be set aside on the ground of fraud. Attorney MacMahon filed the com plaint In Oregon City August J. 113. The divorce was granted by default the latter part of December. Rossi never knew of the decree, having been told by his wife that the affair had been dropped. This was testified to by both. Rossi told of being served with the papers In the case while he was work ing for. the Scbanen Blair Marble Works. Jack Robinson, another em ploye, read it to him. for Rossi neither reads nor writes, though his Dutch Irish wife is well educated. Rossi went home and demanded to know what it waa all about. Fear Causes Lies. "I wanta tak'- to lawyer," he said. "Wife, she say no need spend money on lawyer. She aay she do it Joost to , scare me. Papers only a bluff." "He said: 'Looky, here, what you doner" was the explanation of Mrs. Rossi "I told him. He threatened me and I told him I Would let the action drop. I didn't. I told a lady that I had not dropped It and that I would ge my divorce. She told him and 1 lied out of It again. If I had told him I was going to get my divorce. I don't know what he would have done." The baby was born nearly a year iCou.:uded oa Face 2, Column 1. j