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K VOL. VL.I NO. 17,439. PORTLAND, . OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1016. PRICE FIVE CENT 9. ATTEMPT MADE TO DITCH HUGHES TRAIN SOUTHERN OREGON TO HAVE NEW LINE EPISCOPAL SESSION ARGUES Oil DIVORCE CALIFORNIA SNOW MAROONS CATTLE ONE KILLED; 275,000 VOTERS ARE REGISTERED SECTIONAL ISSUE IN RIOTS TWOHY BROS. FINANCE WALDO WILDERVILLE ROAD. 500 HEAD IX DANGER OF PER ISHING IX BLIZZARD. TOTAL IS ALMOST 30,000 LESS THAN IX 1914. MANY WOUNDED V Rail Is Broken on Dan- gerous Curve. SECTION MEN PREVENT WRECK Candidate Answers Heckler on Lusitania Case. REPLY IS WILDLY CHEERED Nominee at Louisville Says He Would Have Taken Firm Stand When Germans Gave Warning , and Thereby Saved Ship. ' LOUISVILLE. Ky, Oct. 12. (Special.) When Charles Evans Hughes, Re publican candidate for President. In vaded Tennessee recently and made two speeches, he was shamefully -heckled and insulted, but these tactics by rabid Wilson partisans only served to put the candidate on his mettle. Today there was another Incident, unexplained so far and more serious as to possible result, but the candidate ig nored It other than to put more pepper and visor Into his denunciation of the Wilson Administration. Attempt Made to Wreck Train. There are ample evidences that a de liberate attempt was made to wreck the Hughes train. Just as the Hughes spe cial was pulling out of Paintsville, sec tion men discovered a broken rail and warned the engineer, who was able to stop the train before hitting the danger point. The Chesapeake & Ohio road has a branch running from Catlettsburg to Elkhorn City, and it was on this branch that the fail was smashed. Apparently the work had been done with a heavy eledge. Section men were unable to find any of the pieces that had been broken off, and it Is believed wnoever broke off the flange of the rail carried away the remnants. Dangerous Point Selected. The work had been done on the point of a dangerous curve around a precip itous bank of the Big Sandy River and had the train hit the loose rail while going at ordinary speed the train must have been thrown down the embank ment into the river, which, is lined with sharp rocks. Mr. Hughes refused to become ex cited over the incident, but his eyes flashed as he dismissed the suggestion of a deliberate attempt to wreck his train and kill him and the others on board. Mr. Hughes invaded the district made notorious by feuds and moonBhinera to day, and hammered home facts in a manner that was most refreshing and convincing. 1O.00O Mountaineers Present. Ten thousand mountaineers, who rarely go to the polls, male up his au diences in large part and he brought out much enthusiasm by his reference to "government by hold-up" which he char acterized as a new system' of slavery in which the Wilson Administration had. riveted the shackles upon the taxpay ers of the country at the behest of a handful of men who get more In a sin gle day in wages than the Kentucky mountaineer can make in a. week by the hardest kind of work. Mr. Hughes' allusions to the bun gling in Mexican affairs also made a hit with his audiences. In all he made "Wix speeches and he and his managers are Jiighly pleased with the results. At Pikesville a barbecue was given at which 4000 pounds of beef, prepared by a famous cook, was served to the voters. Big; Rally Ends Day. The day's tour ended with a . big rally in this city tonight. Mr. Hughes, answering a question here tonight as to what he would have done when the Lusitania was sunk, de clared that he would have "made it known in terms unequivocal and unmis takable that we should not tolerate a continuance of friendly relations" when notice was published "with ref erence to the threatened action." Interruption Brings Hoots. Mr. Hughes was in . the midst of his discussion on the maintenance of American rights when he was inter rupted by the question. "The path of peace is the path of self-respect, which maintains the dig nity of our citizenship and cements the friendship of all nations," he said. A man from the audience interrupted him. "Justice Hughes, Just a moment. Please permit a respectful interrup tion. ' shouted the man. "What would you have done The heckler got no further for the moment. His voice was drowned in Jeers, hoots and cat calls. Question Is Permitted. "Please permit the question to be asked," requested Mr. Hughes. "I don't want anyone shut off from a courteous question. Go on, sir," the nominee .added. turning to the questioner. "Please ask your question." To cries of "go on. you boob" and general hum of voices, the questioner continued: "I ask you with all respect that I know, what you would have done when the Lusitania was sunk see if you can answer that. Mr. Hughes paused for a moment. I wtll answer this," the nominee (Concluded on Puge i, Culumn 3. Link From Grants Pass to Open Pro ductive Country Where Copper ' Mines Are Waiting. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 12. (Special.) The opening of the large section of richly productive country between Grants Pass and Waldo. Or., is now as sured, according to a report today that John Twohy and his son. Robert Twohy, of the railroad contracting firm of Twohy Bros. Company, of this city, had succeeded in arranging the sale of $2,000,000 of bonds of the old proposed California & Coast Railroad. ' Mr. Twohy has long been active in promoting the railroad which originally was projected to run between Grants Pass, Or., on the line of the Southern Pacific, to Crescent City, Cal, a dis tance of approximately 90 miles. The city of Grants Pass raised T200, 000, and completed, more than a year ago, ten miles of this proposed, rail road from Grants Pass to Wildervllle, in Oregon. Later the road was taken over by Mr. Twohy. It is the present intention to extend the road from Wildervllle. to Waldo, a distance of 45 miles f ronsGrasUs Pass, and it is estimated that $2,000,000 will be required for this construction. At Waldo are a. number of productive cop per mines, one of which is owned by Mr. Twohy. ' According to George W. Boschke, vice-president of the Twohy Bros. Company, it is not the present Intention to build on to Crescent City, which is 45 miles from Waldo. BIG SAWMILL IS ASSURED Baker Concern Announces Purchase of Great White Pine Area. BAKER. Or.. Oct. 12. (Special.) That the erection of a large sawmill to handle the 124.000,000 feet of Govern ment timber on the Middlefork of the John Day River will be started at once, was the announcement today of Frank Mitchell, president of the Pacific States Investment Company, which purchased the timber last week. Mr. Mitchell also announced that his company had acquired 13,000 acres of white pine land, in addition to the 14,600 acres purchased from the Gov ernment. JOBS FEWER THAN SEEKERS Of 5139 Applications for Work In Portland but 16 63 Are Filled. SALEM. Or., Oct. 12. (Special.) Reports received from the Portland of fice of the Bureau of Labor Statistics by O. P. Hoff, State Labor Commis sioner, show that during July and August 1663 applications for help and 5139 applications for employment were received. The bureau furnished employment for 4661 persons in the two months. At Astoria, out of 170 persons who ap plied for work, 104 were provided with employment. CYCLONE DAMAGE HEAVY Loss In Danish West Indies Is Big and Suffering Is Intense. ST. THOMAS, Danish West Indies, Oct. 12. Late reports concerning the cyclone which struck the Danish West Indies Islands early in the week show that the country districts in the island of St. Croix suffered heavy damage. Entire villages and numerous mills were destroyed. The damage done in St. Thomas is estimated to exceed $1,000,000. The poorer class of the population suffered heavily. Fatalities were few. LOAN PROMOTERS CURBED Farm Bank Board Charges Scandal In Western States. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 Attempts of promoters in the West to make per sonal profit out of the organization of joint stock land banks under the Fed eral farm' loan bank system, today resulted in a suggestion to the Depart ment of Justice by the farm loan board that Federal prosecutions be brought. Members of the board explained that attempts to promote organization of banks for commissions has become a scandal in the West. TERMS OF PEACE ASKED Premier Refers Member of Com mons to Chancellor's Speech. LONDON, Oct. 12. David Mason, Liberal, asked Premier Asquith in the House of Commons today to furnish the House with particulars of the terms of peace Germany was prepared to offer and which he said were in tolerable. Premier Asquith in reply said that he referred to the terms announced in the German Imperial Chancellor's public speech. U. S. STOPS BRITISH SHIP City of Madras Brought Back bj War Vessel for Ignoring Signal. NEW YORK, Oct. 12. The British steamship City of Madras was over hauled off Ambrose Channel lightship tonight by the United States torpedo boat destroyer Sterrett and brought back to Clifton, Staten Island. The City of Madras had ignored the war vessel's signal to stop when it left quarantine- Remarriage Bar May Be Made Absolute. LEGAL ASPECTS CONSIDERED Proposed Canon Would Tie Hands of Clergymen. VOTE WILL BE TOMORROW Amendment Would Do Away With Exceptions Where Decree Is Given for Statutory Rea sons by Courts. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 12. Remarriage of divorced persons, one of the paramount issues before the convention, provoked a spirited three-hour debate at today's session in the house of deputies, lower house of the Protestant Episcopal con vention. After vain efforts to bring to a vote a proposal to amend the canons of the church to provide that no divorced per son, having a partner still living, shall have a wedding ceremony performed by a clergyman of the church, further discussion of the issue was postponed until next Saturday. The house of bishops, the upper house, announced it would consider the proposal when the report of the action of the lower house is presented to it. . Absolute Rule Proposed. A score of clergymen and laymen, arguing from scriptural and legal angles, participated in the debate in the house of bishops, which began with the submission by the Rev. Charles F. J. Wrigley, of Brooklyn, of the report of the joint commission on legislation on matters relating to holy matrimony. This report recommended that pres ent canons of the church which permit a clergyman of the church to perform the marriagfe ceremony In the case of innocent party to a divorce granted on statutory grounds, provided, the case has the approval of the diocesean bishop, be changed to read: "No marriage shall be solemnized in this church between parties either of whom has a husband or wife still liv ing, who has been divorced for any cause arising after marriage." Plan Similar to Catholic. ' In presenting the report. Dr. Wrig ley intimated that the proposed canon would bring the church into harmony with the Roman Catholic Church, and that it would "protest against the most scandalous condition that ever existed in the United States." Other speakers urged that the proposed canon would be ineffective because it makes no distinction between the mass of "trivial offenses for which our courts grant divorces and the great crime of adultery." Dr. Wrigley quoted the Scriptures (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) 'V ; A FRIEND INDEED! t ! 1 W : rRr-i r x I tnf LADIES. ?M WITH r , Ljp t StwV OM LY BY STATES h J lm vfryi)- comas ................................................................... ...... ...,4 Herd Is Caught In Depth of Six Feet on Kearsarge Pass, More Than 12,000 Feet Above Sea. INDEPENDENCE. Cal.. Oct. 12. (Special.) Five hundred cattle owned by John Bell. Fred Krater and Will lam Gibson, of this place, are snow bound on Kearsarge Pass and in danger of perishing. They were being brought over from the Bubs Creek flats and were overtaken by the storm Monday. Now the snow is six feet deep and all day a terrific etorra has raged. The owners are with the animals and this morning a dozen men. well mounted and carrying shovels started from here to make efforts to extricate the cattle. The scene is about 20 miles from In dependence and at an altitude of more than 12.000 feet. . Grave fears are felt for the safety of the rescuers. It would be Impos sible for them to see ten feet through the blizzard today. MAD BAVARIAN KING DEAD Otto Passes Away Suddenly In Castle Prison. LONDON, Oct. 12. Ex-King Otto, of Bavaria, who has been Insane for many years, has died suddenly, accord ing to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company, quoting a Berlin official announcement. The mad King died at Fuerstenried castle, near Munich, where he had been con fined since 1873. King Otto was born April 27. 184$, and succeeded his brother, Ludwlg II. in 1886. Ludwlg II was also insane and drowned himself in Starnberg Lake. King Otto was deposed November 6, 1913. and was succeeded by the pres ent monarch. Ludwig III, formerly re gent. AMERICAN KILLS MEXICAN Strayed Mule Followed Over Border and Arrest Resisted. NACO. Ariz., Oct. 12. When an Amer ican auto driver attached to the Ari zona National Guard crossed the inter national line near here today to recover a strayed mule, he shot and fatally wounded Private Miguel Fonteso,-' a Carranza guard on the Mexican aide of the line, who tried to arrest him. The muledrlver fled to the American side of the line, and Army officers are now trying to locate him in the camp here. IRIG0YEN HEADS ARGENTINA Xew President of Republic An- j nounces Cabinet Appointments. BUENOS AIRES. Oct 12. Dr. HIpo lito Irigoven assumed the Presidency today. P.lagio Luna took office as Vice-President. The new Cabinet is announced as follows: Minister of' the Interior. Ra mon Gomez; Foreign Affairs, Carlos Becu; Justice. Jose Salinas; finance, Domingo Salaberry; Agriculture. Ono rio Pueyrredon; War, Elpadio Gon zales; Marine, Francisco Alvarez To ledo; Public Works, Pedro Torello. Standard Oil Strikers Again Fight Police. NONCOMBATANT SHOT DOWN New Jersey Militiamen, Back From Border, Aid Officers. OIL SHEDS SET ON FIRE Lawyer Running From Scene of Bat tie Felled by Bullet in Back. Volleys Fired 'Into Ranks of Mob Bring Order. BATONNE. N. J.. Oct. 12. One man was killed and at least a score wounded, two of them so seriously that they are not expected to live, in a fight here late today between striking employes of the Standard OH Company and the police. The fight was the culmination of a series of disturbances ' that began Wednesday and continued throughout last night and today. New Jersey militiamen, back from duty along the Mexican border, who were sworn In as special policemen, aided In dispersing the rioters, who were terrorizing the city by looting and burning. Sheds Set Fire. . Half a, dozen sheds overlooking the oil refineries were set on fire before the authorities were able to restore a semblance of order by firing volleys of rifle and pistol shots Into the ranks of the strikers and their sympathizers. Isldor Natilsky, 22 years old.' a lawyer who had no part in the rioting late today, was the man killed. He was shot through the back, it was said, while running from the scene of battle. Harris Martin, 19 years old, a by stander, was . shot through the right lung and it was said he will die. Ed ward Green, 30 years old, was shot through the left Jung. He also probably will die. Five In Hospital. Five others are in hospitals suffering from wounds, but are expected to re cover. The police report that more than a dozen strikers and their sym pathizers who were injured were car ried to their homes. As far as could be learned, none of the policemen or the militiamen was hurt. A fireman, however, was shot and wounded earlier In the day while attempting to attach a hose to a hy drant In an effort to drive away an unruly crowd. Strikers Again Battle. Another battle between the strikers and the police occurred shortly before midnight, when about 100 of the strik ers who had assembled in an alley were ordered to move on. Several shots were exchanged and the crowd scat tered, leaving one of their number be hind with wounds In his left side and (Conciuded on Page 3, Column 2.) Mailing of I2cction Pamphlets Will Be Completed Probably by Next Week. SALEM. Or.. Oct. 12 (Special.) Oregon's total registration for the gen eral . election next month will be ap proximately 275.000. or nearly 30.000 below the 1914 registration, according to estimates today by Secretary of State Olcott. Although the registration books closed in all the counties October 7. the names of all who registered during the few days preceding the closing of the boogs have not been received by the Secretary of State. The mailing of election pamphlets. containing names and statements of candidates, is now about half completed and by the middle of next week it is believed every voter registered In the state will be in possession of a pam phlet. October 28 is the time fixed by law when the mailing of the pamphlets must be completed. Pamphlets containing the measures which are to be passed upon by the voters at the coming election have been forwarded to all except those electors whose names have not yet been received from the County Clerks. POLITICS IRKMISS HUGHES Nominee's Daughter Glad Slie Is Out of Campaign Rush. WELLESLET. Mass. Oct. 5. Miss Catherine Hughes confessed Wednesday that politics bored her, despite the fact that her father. Charles E. Hughes. Is seeking the highest office in the gift of the people. Miss Hughes said: "Perhaps you will be surprised, but I never think of father's prospects at all. It would do no good If I did. I'm sure I do not know how the election is going to come out. And I am very glad I am out of the rush of cam paigning. "It Is all a dream to me something just to read about. That's the -way I like politics reading about them. Frankly, politics bore me." ISLANDERS TO ADVISE SALE Danish West Indies Delegation En Route to Denmark. . SAN JUAN. Porto Rico. Oct. 12. A delegation of six men from the Danish West Indies, who were chosen by the Colonial Councils of the Islands, left here today by way of New York for Denmark to report to the committee with regard to the sale of the islands to the United States. The delegation has been instructed to recommend the sale. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. rESTEKHAY'S Maximum temperature, 61 degrees, minimum. .44 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; winds mostly northerly. War. German budget commute divided oa sub- marina warfare. Pass 4. Greek ex-Premier announces Intent to war oa Bulgaria. Pact 4. Italians add to success on Csrso plateau. Politics. Attempt mad to wreck Hushes train. F(l 1. President condemns revival of sectional la- sue In campaign. Pace 1. National. Berlin may agree to ktn-p submarine far from coast If like request Is made to Germany and entente allies. Page 2. Allies firm In mall controversy. Page 4. Domestic Episcopal church may make bar on re marriage of divorced persons absolute. Page 1. Five hundred rattle snowbound In California bllxxard. . Page I. One killed, many wounded In battle with strikers In New Jersey. Page 1. Liner Adriatic, all dark, dashes southward from New York. Page 2. Britisher reported sunk la safe. Page i- Parlfle Northwest. Approximately 273. 000 register In state for November election. Page 1. Parents convene at The Dalles. Page 7. Physicians declare Herman Rossi Insane at time of Wallace killing. Page 7. Albany ahow opena. Page 3. Trade exrurslonlsts find Coqutlle region be ginning great development. Page 5. Clackamas County Grange goes oa" record against land bill. Page a. Grants Pass-WIMervllle road to be extended to Waldo. Page 1. Vancouver prisoner sheds manacles and escapes from hospital. Page IS. Sport. Record crowd sees Red Sox win world championship. Page IS. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 8, Salt Ike 13: Loe Angeles 9. Oakland S; San Francisco 2. Vernon O. Page 17. Fast bout scheduled for tonight at Impe rial Club. Page 17. Red Fox again are world champions. Page 10. Lee Axwcrthy. champion trotting stallion, driven to waajon. lowers record to 2:02. Page 17. Aggies will meet W. P. C. team at Pullman tomorrow. Page 17. Commercial and Marine. Oregon's record prone crop now safely har vested. Page 21. Portland Journal shirking pledge to provide towns with dock plans. Page 21. Port decides to start suit soon to determine Oregon Slough Jurisdiction. Page 21. Portland and Vicinity. Butter and eiga show advances In Portland market. Page 13. Woman run down by auto. Page IS. Forger caught soon after operations. Page 13. Manager of Y. M. C. A. paper points out trade opportunities of Orient. Page 13. Fresno latorer finds runaway wife here after search of 10 months, page 11. Hearing of charges agslnst Mrs. Alexander to be postponed. Page 11. Head of P. K.. L. St P. Company tells of Injustice or Jitney competition. Page 10. Land bill vicious, says grange head. Page It. Judge Henrv D. Eatabrook speaks for Hughes tonight at Elevcntb-Street Theater, rata 8. Women's Hughes campaign party will pass ousjr u 1 y nere. rKD ,o. City officials snd druggists work on plan to prevent Improper alcohol sales. Page 3. Co!umtui day Is generally observed. Page S Greater Portland Association holds first dinner-dance, fage C. E. S. Wood plesda with women to pat numauuy Deiore auxirage. ragt 7. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 21. REVIVAL ASSAILED Wilson Says Whoever Does So Is Unworthy. INDIANANS HEAR ADDRESSES Many Vacant Seats Noted at First Indianapolis Speech. GOOD ROADS CHIEF TOPIC President Says Ciller Aim or High ways Is to Link Communities So That Entire Nation May Have Same Ideals. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Oct. IS. President Wilson today replied to the Republican charge that the Democratic party is a sectional party with the statement that "any man who revives the Issue of sectionalism in this coun try is unworthy of the confidence of the Nation. The President came to Indianapolis to address meetings of good roads ad vocates and farmers, review an auto mobile parade celebrating Good Roads day of the Indiana Centennial, and at tend a non-partisan luncheon of lead ing Indianans. In his speech he spoke of the good done by highways In pre venting sectionalism. Provincialism Is Charged. "My fellow cltlxens." he continued. "I need not tell you that I did not come here to talk politics, but here is one thing that is pertinent In this con nection which I cannot deny myself the privilege of saying. Any man who re vives the issue of sectionalism in this country Is unworthy of the confidence of the Nation. He shows himself a provincial, he shows that he himself does not know the various sections of his own country; he shows that he has shut his own heart up in a little pro vince, and that those who do not seek the special Interests of that provlnc are to him sectional while he alone Is National. That Is the depth of antl patrlotio feeling." At both meetings the President's ad dresses were interrupted frequently by applause and hand clapping marked his progress through the streets. Many Seats Vacant. The Coliseum at the fair grounds, where he delivered his first address, had many vacant seats in the rear, but the hall In which he spoke later was filled. He also spoke briefly at a luncheon given him by Governor and Mrs. Samuel M- Ralston, of Indiana. The second speech was devoted to a discussion of the works of the Demo cratic Administration for the farmers of the Nation. The President devoted most of his first address to a discussion of the na tionalization of America. He declared for the nationalization, mobilization and co-operation of the country's re sources. He said that after the Euro pean war It will be necessary for the United States to Join all Its forces to gether. He repeated his former declara tions in favor of a league of nations to maintain peaoac President Ceca Slang. Bordering on the political. the President declared that "talking through the hat ought to be a dead Industry," and that every man who speaks in public should have the motto, "put up or shut up." He added that he was willing to take "my own medi cine." and that "If I don't put up I am ready to shut up." In his brief lunch eon speech the President said, smiling, that the Republicans were Just as good Americans as he was. and that he would not "read them out of school" unless they were bad Americans. "For. after all." he added, ."we have a common object. The quarrel for the next three or four weeks is how to realize what we all wish to accom plish." Governor Ralston and Senator Thomas Taggart .remained with the President all during his stay in In dianapolis. Senator Kern was slightly 111 at his home here and the President changed his programme to call on him. Both the Senators are candidates for re-election. The President left here at S:4S o'clooet this afternoon for Long Branch. N. J.. where he will arrive tomorrow after noon at 2 o'clock. President Wilson, in his good roads speech, said In part: "I am here because of my Interest in the cause of good roads and because of my Interest in the state of Indiana. I was very much interested that this day devoted to the cause of good roads should fall In your centennial year. It made me think of many of the proc esses of our National history. This country was built without any roads. Roads Not Only for Pie name. "But after all the highway is not in tended first of all and chief of all for the pleasure vehicle. It Is not Intended for the mere traveler. It is not In tended for the mere tourist. It Is not made that some company of leisurely people may travel from Coast to Coast of this great continent. It is made be cause we need it in all the material uses of our life. "It Is perfectly obvious that you have got to have an Intricate and perfect network of roads throughout the length and breadth of this great continent before you will have realized the ener gies of America. Good roads are nec essary for every practical aspect of our iCuilcludtd uu l"iO C. CulUXUU 1.) V