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VOT.. "VXI. SO. 17,427. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTE3IBER 29. 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FILIBUSTER FUTILE, DECLARES HUGHES k"tL TERRIFIC BATTLE WIDOWS' PENSIONS REGARDED AS EVIL WOMAN REPORTER EX-WIFE SAYS THAT DIVORCE IS MISTAKE SYMPATHY STRIKE COMPLETE FIZZLE FOUGHT IN MEXICO SHOOTS POLITICIAN SOJaNEE AGREES WITH VIEW'S PETITIONS FOR BACK PAYMENTS TO BE FOUGHT IN BAKER. HUSBAND EXPLAINS LETTER; HE DIDN'T DESERT. OF MR. HCGHES. V V Tactics of Obstruction Are Opposed. OLNEY'S QUESTION ANSWERED Administration Cannot Cry It Should Have Been Saved. MERE DELAY INEFFECTIVE Administration in Action on Adam son Bill Ieclared to Have Been Governed Manifestly by Partisan Expediency. SARATOGA SPRINGS. X. Y.. Sept. 28. Charles E. Hughes tonight told the Republican unofficial state convention here why he had not urged Republican Senators to filibuster "to the last ditch" against the passage of the Adamson eight-hour law passed to avert the threatened railroad strike. The nom inee declared he did not believe In fili bustering, for one thing, and that if the majority in Congress had deter mined to pass the bill there was no reason whatever why its passage should have been delayed by filibustering tac tics. " "It (the Administration) acted with swiftness," Mr. Hughes said, "and it cannot cry now that a Republican can didate a thousand miles away should have saved it from carrying out its fixed determination." Hequesta for Action Shown. The nominee read to the convention correspondence between Chairman Newlands, of the Senate interstate com merce committee; Harry A. Wheeler, chairman of the committee on railroad situation of the Chamber of Commerce of the. United States, and President Wilson-rjone of the letters was from the President, but he was addressed in the. correspondence to uphold his contention that 300,000 firms and cor porations In the country had asked the President to take action before the threatened strike situation became acute. ' Mr. Hughes also quoted an extract from the President's address to Con gress on the subject to support his contention that the bill should not have been passed. Illchard Olney Answered. A question asked by Richard Olney, Secretary of State under President Cleveland, as to why Mr, Hughes had not urged Republican Senators to fill buster against the bill was made the occasion for Mr. Hughes' declaration. "A distinguished Democrat, a former Secretary of State, Mr. Olney, whom I have always admired and respected and whose record presents a singular con trast to that of the present Adminis tration, springs to its defense in its hour of trial," said Mr. Hughes. "With his ability I assume he has done the best that can be done. "He says, referring to the recent railroad situation, that I object not to the averted strike, but to the mode of accomplishment, to wit: by the threat of a. strike within a time too short for due consideration of necessary leg islation. I am not prepared to admit the necessity of wage increases by law, but I do object in every fiber of be ing to legislation under duress. Surrender to Force Protested. "I object to the surrender of the Executive to force. That is the path of disaster. If the distinguished ex Secretary of State desires to take the Nation along that path I will not ac company him. "He asks why I did not urge 28 Re publican Senators to filibuster to the last ditch. Well, I do not believe In filibustering for one thing. If Con gress, through its majority, was deter mined to pass the bill, there was no reason whatever why its action should be merely delayed by filibustering. Ar guments along this line really come to this that in some way the Administra tion should have been saved from itself. Principle of Arbitration Yielded. "The truth is that the Executive de stroyed the moral strength of the sit uation when he threw up his hands, yielded the principle of arbitration and went to Congress demanding the rail way wage bill as the price of peace. Congress, so far as the moral of the situation was concerned, ratified a sur. render already made. The Administra tion chose its ground, it selected its ground carefully and with manifest view to partisan expediency. In the closing days it acted with swiftness and it cannot now cry that a Republi can candidate 1000 miles away should have saved it from carrying out its fixed determination."' Mr. Hughes' citation from President Wilson's address to Congress was a brief one. The part quoted followed the President's declaration that yield to no man in firm adherence alike of conviction and of purpose to the principle of arbitration in Industrial disputes." and was a part of the same sentence, which was as follows: "But matters have come to a sud den crisis in this particular dispute and the country has been caugnt un provided wun any practicable means of enforcing that conviction in prac tice, oy wnose iaun we win not now stop to inquire." After declaring that "here was Amer ican business, a month before the rail- iCuu-luued vuV. o. culuuiu J., Country Declared to Be Passing Through Great Epoch, With Koviccs at Helm. PUEBLO, Colo.. Sept. 28. The tariff question, the Mexican situation and economic and political problems grow ing out of the continuation of the -war and their relation to the United State were among tne subjects discussed by Charles Warren Fairbanks. Republican nominee for vice-President, in an ad dress here today. This country, he said, was paseing through one of the greatest epochs in history, unfortunately with amateur statesmen at the helm of the ship of state. At Colorado Springs today Mr. Fair- banks received a delegation of mem bers of the National women's party. In response to a request for his attitude upon the Susan B. Anthony amendment. he told Mrs. Jessie Mackay, of Washi ngton, D. C. who headed the suffra gist party, that he stood firmly with Charles E. Hughes on the question. Both his addresses were punctuated with cheers. The Fairbanks party left for the West tonight. Mr. Fairbanks' next for- al address will be delivered at Salt Lake City Saturday. BIG DAIRY BARN IS BURNED Portland Man's Loss Near Stanfield Is More Than $3000. STANFIELD, Or., Sept. 28. (Special.) Fire today destroyed a large dairy I barn and the enclosures together with iy wounded. farm implements and hay on Sunrise Details of the fight were few and ranch, three miles northeast of Stan- were appended to the request of Gen field. The ranch is one of the best al- erai Ramos "for surgeons and medical f alf a farms in this region. It belongs j to E. A. Baldwin, a Portland realty man. The loss is between $3000 and $4000. Rex Sanford. manager, discovered the fire, but it had gained such headway that only quick assistance of farm hotifl anA ndrhhnrs KHVPfl valuable livestock. One calf was burned. The origin has not been determined. LAND CASE AGAIN LOOMS Mr. Reames to Leave Monday for San Francisco to Prosecute. ' Clarence L. Reames. United States Attorney for Oregon, will leave Port land Monday for San' Francisco to pre pare for the second trial of six de fendants accused of frauds in connec tion with the location of land seekers in the Oregon & California land grant. On the first trial, which ended June 28, the jury failed to agree. The sec-) ond trial will begin October 16. The defendants are Norman B. Cook. W. A. S. Nicholson and Franklin P. Bull, law yers, and A. J. Reetz. William B. De- Garm and Sidney L. Sperry. Mr. Reames will conduct the trial. CZAR REPLtES TO WILSON Personal Letter About Poland For warded to Shadow Lawn. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. A personal letter from the Czar, replying to Presi dent Wilson's note to the heads of five belligerent 'nations, requesting conces sions for the shipment of relief sup plies into Poland, was received at the State Department today and forwarded to Shadow Lawn. Replies already had been received from Germany. England. France and Austria-Hungary. ' , " It Is understood that all of the rulers virtually have reiterated their position. under which it has been impossible to bring about an agreement. MAN, 90, MOWS HIS LAWN Roseburg Pioneer Spends Time Working About Home. ROSEBURG. Or., Sept. 28. (Special.) H. C. Stanton, a resident of Roseburg since 18&3, oDserved. his 90th birthday Tuesday by mowing his lawn, enter- , ..SILVIO 1 1 V. k.A.llUlllllfj 1 IU,' niscenses of the long ago. Mr. Stanton was born in Albany County, New York, in 1826. He crossed the plains by ox team and soon settled in Roseburg. He passes his time work ing about his home, attends meetings of the Grand Army of the Republic post regularly and is active In civic affairs. WAR PROFITS CONFISCATED Australia to Sequester All but Small, Established Maximum. MELBOURNE, Australia, via London. Sept. 28. M. Higgs. minister of the treasury, announced today that the government purposed to confiscate all war profits in excess of a small maxi mum to be established and reduce the limit of income tax exemption to S50J, except in the cases of married men and of single men with dependents. Old age pensions will be increased to 12 shillings 6 pence. RAINS DRENCH AUSTRALIAN Floods Make Serious Breaches Levees Near Melbourne. in MELBOURNE. Australia. Sept. 28. Floods have made breaches in the river I levees in this region, inundating 100 square miles of country.' The town of I Moropux has been virtually submerged. Ballan has had ten inches of rain pincc Thursday last. Six Inches of rain iiitve alien ut Melbourne. Villa and Carranza Forces Lose Heavily. MEDICAL AID IS SUMMONED Bandit Who Originated Idea of Cutting Off Ears Taken. m i it i n ji t in ji m rtr-iaimntr-r LHinUAnUH CI IM rUrtU CU Troops Continue to Pour In From South to Take Up Pursuit of Villa Men of Garrison Are Fighting In Field. CHIHUAHUA CITY. Mexico. Sept. 28. More than 100 Villa followers were killed, the bandit leader. Baudelio Uribe, -was taken prisoner and heavy casualties were suffered by Carranza forces in a terrific fight at Cusihuir lachic. an Important mining center. about 50 miles southwest of Chihuahua City, according to a message received today by General Trevino from General Matias Ramos, who was himself slight- supplies. - A hospital corps detachment wlli be accordingly rushed to the scene by train. Garrison Fights In Field. It is said that the garrison at Cusl- huiriachic co-operated with the forces of Ramos, but whether they were at- tacked or had been the aggressors does not appear. Baudelio Uribe, leader of the band and Villa's chief lieutenant, was the originator of ' the idea of cutting off the ears of captured government sol diers. Many others of his command are reported to have been made prisoners. News of the fight was also received here from- tho telegraph operator at Santa Isabel, who added nothing to the report of General Ramos. The Gen eral's official report was sent by way of that town, to which the l.ospital train has been dispatched Santa Isabel is 33 miles by train from Chihuahua City. The Mexico Northwestern Railway makes a loop to Cusihuiriachic from Santa Isabel, while the direct distance between the two towns is about 35 miles. More Troops to But Villa. Troops continue to pour into Chi huahua City from the souh to parti cipate in the Villa hunt. General Apolonio Trevino's command arrived from Torreon today and pa raded through the streets. The horses of this command were in good condi tion, and the troops will be sent into the field in pursuit of Villa at once. General Fortunato Maycotte is ex pected to arrive here soon with his (Concluded on Page 3. Column 4.) FIRE CHIEF v. I I t County Judge Declares That It Is ; Often Advisable to Send Chil dren From Home. BAKER, Or.. Sept. 28. (Special.) Widows who are seeking back pensions from Baker County will have to fight for them, according to the announce ment of County Judge J. B. Messick to day, following tne filing yesterday of claims of 12 . widows, aggregating $4297.50. He said that he was prepared to carry the matter to the Supreme Court if necessary. He disclaimed all personal feeling. In the matter and asserted that he be lieved in helping the deserving poor. but declared that the state law is a vi cious one, and is an imposition on tax payers in cases where the applicants for pensions are not dependent. Judge Messick asserted that the re vised statute of 1915 gives the county judge large discretion, and that by vir tue of the power vested in him as coun ty and Juvenile judge, he would be le gaiiy ame to aeciare mat It is not to a child's welfare to remain at home, but rather to be sent to a state institution, thus removing the mother's chief quali fication for a pension. CAR SHORTAGE HITS WHEAT Grain, Market Is at Standstill at Pendleton as Kesult. PENDLETON. Or.. Sept. 28. (Spe clal.) Because then are no available cars for handling wheat and all Pen dleton dealers are loaded with wheat they cannot move, the Pendleton wheat market is at a standstill. Neither the O.-W. R. &. N. Company nor the North ern Pacific will provide anything but foreign cars for shipment of wheat to the-' East. The situation is working a hardship on both wheat dealers and farmers. One buyer today attributed the leth argy In the market entirely to the car situation. CHINESE MINISTER RESIGNS Dr. Koo Gives III Health as Reason for Retirement. PEKIN. Sept. 28. Dr. Wellington Koo. minister to the United States. has -sent his., resignation to the for eign office, giving ill' health as the reason. The resignation has not yet been accepted by the president. Dr. Koo was graduated from Co lumbia University in 1909 and was appointed Minister to the United States in November, 1915, by President Yuan Shi Kai. for whom he had previously acted as private secretary. PRUSSIA HAS MORE .HOGS Increase of Two Million Shown by Livestock Census. BERLIN. Sept. 28. by wireless to Sayville. N. Y. A census of Prussian livestock, the Overseas News Agency announces, shows an increase of 2.000.- 000 hogs during the period from June 1 to September 1 of the current year. The number of cattle remains vir tually unchanged, the only decrease being a drop of 1 per cent in the total number of cows. WOODROW RESPONDS TO A GENERAL ALARM. r M ,v ........ ...... , A . . . . 1 Insult Given as Cause of Attack. EDITOR HELD AS ACCOMPLICE Republican Leader in Thomp son Falls, Mont., Victim. THREE BULLETS FIND MARK Miss Edith Colby, ex-Assistant La bor Agent of Spokane, Fires Shots Following Dispute Over Truth of Writings. THOMPSON FALLS. Mont.. Sept. 28. Miss Edith Colby, former assistant city labor agent of Spokane, shot A. C. Thomas, Republican county chair man. three times today, one wound in the abdomen being serious. An alleged insult was the cause. Mr. Thomas ana Elmer Irving, who Is here to establish a creamery, were standing in front of Thomas' office yes terday. Miss Colby, who has been re porting for a paper opposed to Thomas. approached and said: "Where can I find this man Irving?" Thomas replied: "Oh, around town some place." She continued down the street a short distance, then returned. Irving had gone. She said to Thomas: Girl Accused of Untruth. "Why don't you give me any news He says that he replied. "I don't give news to anyone who goes out and ltes about me and my friends the way you do." She asserted to the Sheriff that he added further implications against her . moral record. Today Thomas and a friend were talking in, the Ward Hotel. Miss Colby was in the lobby and emerged before them. As they appeared on the street she stepped" in front' of Thomas and demanded an apology. He turned aside with some disavowal and continued to walk with his friend. After they h gone a few steps she pulled a .32-caliber revolver from her coat and fired four shots. Two struck Thomas in the arm and one in the abdomen. .He ran into the office. She went down the street and was arrested shortly afterward by the Sheriff. To him she said the in centlve was an insult. Paper la Foe of Victim. The paper for which she has been working is owned by several local men who have been opposed bitterly to Thomas and a group of Republicans. Almost every issue has directed at tacks to them. This afternoon J. Manire, of Ken tucky, recently employed as editor of the .paper, was arrested on the state ment of Miss Colby to the Sheriff that he had ucged her to do the shooting. (Concluded on Page 3. Column 4.) Mrs. Ethel M. Clark Wants Default Decree Set Aside When Man Re turns From England. Fear that she had misunderstood a etter from her husband, and that she may have done him an Injustice, led Mrs. Ethel M. Clark yesterday to file a motion in the Circuit Court to set side the default decree of divorce from George T. Clark that she received last Spring and to re-open the case. Mr. Clark has explained matters that had led his wife to believe she had een deserted, and if the case is re-op- ned it is not unlikely that it will be ismissed. One of the- chief allegations of the omplaint filed by Mrs. Clark January 7. 1916. was of cruel and inhuman reatment. based on a letter received from Mr. Clark. In which he said that e was going to England to the home f his people, and would not return to the United States. This statement. coupled with the failure of Mr. Clark furnish his wife with any money. ed her to believe that she had been deserted. Since, however. Mr. Clark has re turned to the United States, and Mrs. Clark asserts in the affidavit on which the motion is based that she now knows that he did not intend to desert her. and that he meant in the letter merely to say that his employment would take him to England and keep him there. Mr. Clark asserts, says his wife, that he never received a copy of her com plaint nor summons, probably by rea son of uncertain mail service, due to the war. and had no opportunity to answer her complaint, which opportun ity she now desires to give him. At torneys Yates &. Yates represent Mrs. Clark. AIR ATTACKS PROTESTED Luxemburg Declared Ready to Sell Munitions to Any Buyer. BERLIN. Sept. 28. (By Wireless to Sayville. N. Y.) Attacks by entente air craft on foundries in Luxemburg are da dared by the newspaper Obermosel to be unjustified. Luxemburg, it declares, stands read: to furnish ammunition to any customer. It cites Switzerland and the United States as in a similar position. BOMBS FALL ON BUCHAREST Old Fires Still Burning When Ger mans Repeat Visit. BERLIN, via London. Sept. 28. Ger man aviators yesterday again dropped a great number of bombs on Bucharest. according to today's German official statement. This adds that several points of the Roumanian capital "are still burning as tie result of our previous attack." INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Tbe Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 7G degre-as; minimum. 2 decrees. TODAY'S Fair; northeasterly winds. War. Russians report further gains. Page 4. British capture German redoubt. Page 4. King - of Oreece ready to declare war on Bulgaria. Page 4. Politics. Mr. Hughes replies to Richard Olnay. Page I. Fairbanks shares views of Hughes on suf frage. Pago 1. President opens letter-writing; campaign writes to Portland woman. Page 5. Three new Hughes alliance branches or ganize Page 2. Results in New Jersey and Massachusetts hard blows for Wilson. Psge 5. Mexico. Terrific battle fought in Mexico. Page 1. Domestic. t'tw Tork sympathetic strike Is fizzle. Pago 1. Banker to act on livestock situation. Page 3. Victim of hotel shooting satisfies husband of loyalty and Is taken back. Page Beaver and Rose City not In steamship merger. Page 20. Baroness Is sued by former friend. Page i Woman reporter shoots politician. Page 1. Sports. Pacific Coast league results: Portland e. Vernon 1; Los Ansl 8, Salt Lake 5 Oakland 5, San Francisco 4. Page 10. Boston Red Sox lose to Yanks. Page Is. Philadelphia takes first game of crucial series with Brooklvn. Pace Id. TVaverley women to play for club golf cham pionship next week. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Baker Judge has poor opinion of widows' pension law. Page 1. Portland Methodlt pastors are expected to be retained. Page 6. Senator J. Hamilton Lewis says America Is In grave danger. Page 3 Another section of Interstate bridge li floated into place. Page 20. Elks Invade Saiem and visit State Fair. Page . Madame Schumann-Helnk to sing at Mount Jubilee today. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Eastern apple buyers complain of auction competition. Page 21. Steel leads In heavy Wall-street trans tlons. Psge 21. Public docks ludget filed with Mayor. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. Visitor from Coos Bay says Portland trad excursion will be welcomed. Page 13. Army dispatch rider's mailed ha-ha! fol lowed by fine for speeding. Page 9. State Veterinarian Lytla explains why hs did not press charges against Ueorga R. Mokel. Page 8. Rises for city employes recommended In budgets. Page 11. Woman wants divorce set aside when husband returns from England. Page 1 Mrs. Alexander ready to fight charges filed by Mr. Alderman. Page 10. Progressive Rustneffs Men' oppose single tax loan measure. page 11. Southern Pacific creates office to provld cars, page 2U. Jury disagrees in Alder Hotel liquor case. Page e. Special women's Hughes campaign train to bring aoim ieaa.fr. peg 4. Cement company directors elected. Page English home of Percy H. Blyth damaged by Zeppvllns. Page 17. Sagebrush orchestra enjoys Elman as guests or Tne uregonian. Page 7. Weather report, data and forecast. Page New York Car Service . Is Improved. BUILDING TRADES ARE ALOOF Longshoremen Held Back by Respect for Contracts. M0T0RMEN STAY AT WORK Men Earning $8 to S10 a Day I'n likely to Be Called Out by Brotherhood of Engineers. Surface Lines Operated. NEW YORK. Sept. IS. The widely xploited sympathetic "walkout" of trades unionists in greater New York in aid of the striking car men. which was supposed to have started yester day, had not materialized tonight, ac cording to the police. The labor lead ers, however, asserted that upwards of 40,000 workers actually had quit their places, but refused to make public the names of any unions answering the call. The police declared they were un able to find any evidence of a general strike. A meeting late today of representa tives of 36 unions of the United Build ing Trades, comprising a membership of mere than 100,000, refused to take any action in the sympathetic strike movement. It was announced. They simply voted, according to their spokesmen, to refer the question back to the unions themselves and adjourned until next Wednesday. Longshoremea Delay Action. The longshoremen and tidewater boat men. numbering about 34,000, also failed to take any definite action. A resolution adopted by 41 longshore men's unions said the men stood ready and willing to quit in sympathy' with the car men "whenever in their Judg ment a strike is necessary" and they are ordered out by their international president. T. V. O'Connor. Members asserted that the prospect of O'Connor's calling a strike was re mote because of existing contracts. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters held a secret meeting but the result was not disclosed. Cars Operate Without Guards. For the first time since the car strike began. September 6. many surface cars were operated today without police guards. Numerous cars without wire- netting to protect motormen and con ductors also were put in commission. The service generally, it was an nounced, was Improved, cars being op erated even in suburban towns af fected by the strike. Officials of the transit companies asserted that the at tempt to tie up the industries of the greater city by a sympathetic "walk out" of union workers in the various trades had been a failure. The possibility that a strike of mo tormen on subway and elevated lines would be ordered by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was said by union men themselves to be remote, in asmuch as the motormen now are earn ing from 8 to $10 a day. Interborough Rapid Transit officials asserted they did not expect any trouble from the brotherhood. NOTED WAR AVIATOR DEAD Lieutenant Wlntgens, Second Only to Captain Boelke, Killed at Front. BERLIN. Sept. 27. via London. Sept. 28. Lieutenant Wlntgens. who. next to Captain Boelke. was Germany's most famous fighting aviator, has been killed in an engagement with entente, (filled aviators. He was burled, ac cording to his own wish, on the spot where he fell. Lieutenant Wlntgens. according to a report received from Berlin September 16, had shot down his 14th aeroplane on the Sonime front. CDl'STT 10,000 SHORT AND O.VLY EIU1IT MAYS LEIT TO HKGISTER. Figures compiled yesterday show that 81,284 voters have reg istered. This compares to a registration of more than 96.000 prior to the November election in 1914. and there are only eight more days in which to make up the deficit. It will not be made up if the in terest of the past few days is any criterion. The total number of registrations yesterday was but 494. and the day before the height reached was 409. At this rate. 1916 will be 10.000 behind 1914 in registration at the clos ing of the books at the Court house October 7. The registration is divided as follows: Republican. 58.024; Dem ocrat. 17.379; Independent. 2793; Prohibitloni.-t. 1493; Socialist. 923; Progressive. 670. Of the total. 47.199 are men and 34.085 are women, a remarkably high showing of feminine interest.