5 irf VOL. VT,J. NO: 17,441. PORTLAND, OREGON, 3IOXDAY, OCTOBER 1G, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTSL 10 KILLED, II HURT. Ifj TRAIN COLLISION SUMMER DAY BRINGS MANYOUT OF DOORS 302 OF ELECTORAL LANDRITH LAUDS DRINKING CLASS LONGING FOR PEACE IS KEEN IN VIENNA GUN ACCIDENTS KILL ONE, WOUND. TWO SHOT THROUGH HOUSE CAUSE OF WOMAN'S DEATH. VOTES ARE CLAIMED AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OP 58 MAKES SUNDAY DELIGHTFTJIi. DRUNKARDS NEVER MISERS, DRY CANDIDATE SAYS. HUSBAND KILLSfiN WHO ANNOYS WIFE V v Third Section Strikes Rear End of Second. 5 SAVE . SELVES BY JUMPING Lack of Lights and Warning Signals Given as Cause. CABOOSE SMASHED TO BITS Hotbox Brings One Part of Train to Stop and Crew Is Said to Have Neglected to Flag On coming Second Section. ELWOOD, Neb., Oct. 15. Ten men were killed, fatally crushed, and 11 others seriously Injured when a train on the Burlington Railroad crashed into the freight caboose in which these were riding, 12 miles east of here this morning- Five other men, standing- .on the Tear platform of the caboose, saw the approaching train soon enough to Jump to safety. One other man In the ca boose cupulo was thrown cleao- of the wreck and esctfped Injury. The trains in collision were the sec ond and third sections of a regular stock train. Lack of lights and warn ing signals is given by survivors of the collision as the cause of the accident. Most of Victims Stockmen. All the victims are residents of Ne braska towns of western and central parts of the state, most of them farm ers or stockmen. The dead: W. H. Merrill. Wallace; Adam Miller, Rain; William Kilnook. Holatein; G. S. Kronley, Maywood; J. J. O'Connor, Elsie; William Zanton,' Venango; J. C. O'Bryon. Wallace; W. G. Hamnils, Rom ersert; William Sullivan, Wallace; Will lam Heart, Elsie. The second section train had stopped at a point about half , way between Emlthfield and Bertrand because of hot boxes. Signals Forgotten, Is Charge. . Members of the crew were at work n the thot boxes when the third sec tion, running 10 minutes behind the first, crashed into a. caboose. It is de clared that the crew of the second sec tion had failed to put out torpedoes or lights to warn the train following, and that the headlight on the engine pull ing the third section had gone out. No one was aware of the danger until the third section was within a few yards of the rear end of the second. The engineer reversed his engine but he could not stop. The heavy stock train Jammed Into the train ahead, driving the waycar un der a car of cattle ahead. The 21 men on the floor of the caboose were Jammed into a space of less than four feet in width and this was filled with wreckage. The railroad ran a special train from Holdredge with physicians and the injured were taken to Hastings for hospital care. It Is reported here that two of the Injured died on the way to Hastings. The Coroner of Gosher transferred the dead to undertaking rooms at Bertrand. PRICES ON SHOES SOARING Advances of 50 to J 5 Cents a Pair Made in 72 Honrs. PITTSBURG. Oct. 15. Wholesale prices on men's and women's footwear have been advanced 60 to '75 cents a pair within the last 72 hours and cer tain lines have been withdrawn en tirety irom tne market owing to a shortage in leather, according to an nouncement here today by officers of the Pennsylvania Shoe Travelers" As sociation. Many letters were read from firms manufacturing shoes announcing an advance of 37 to 60 cents a pair on upper stock and eight to 10 cents a pound on sole leather. LIGHTS SHOW U. S. FLAG Captain on American Liner Careful That U-Boat Might Not Err. NEW TURK, Oct. 15. When the American line steamship St. Paul which arrived here today from England, ap proached the American coast Satur day night, she was brilliantly illuml nated so that no German submarine might mistake her for a vessel of the entente allies. Captain A. R. Mills, ordered also that a cluster of lamps be swung out to port and to starboard so passing craft might distinguish the American flag painted on each side. BLIND WILL AID BLIND Senator Gore Coming West to Speak for Walla Walla Candidate. WALLA WAT.T.A. Wash., Oct. 15 (Special.) To aid another sightless man he has never met. Senator Gore, the blind Senator, will cross the con tlnent. He will speak here October 27 at a Democratic meeting in the interests of Cbarles W. Masterson, of Walla Walla, a blind man who is running for Rep resentative in Congress on the Demo sjratlo ticket. Autos, Cars and Other Conveyances Take Crowds Out of City Dry Record Closely Approached. The weather man planted a Summer day right in the heart of Autumn yes terday. The temperature reached a maximum of 66 degrees between 3 and 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and at no time during. the day was It below 50 degrees. The normal temperature for this time of year Is 64 degrees, and the average mean temperature yesterday was about 4 degrees above that. The temperature has been running slightly below nor mal, and as a consequence the rise was particularly noticeable yesterday. Portland residents in large numbers took advantage of the beautiful weather yesterday to make trips to the country and otherwise disport out of doors. Cars, Jitneys and other means of con veyance were crowded with picnickers and merrymakers, and many automo bile parties went out the Columbia River Highway and the various other highways leading from Portland. Yesterday was the 87th dry day to date this Fall. This Is unusual for Fall weather, and approaches the record for dry weather this time of year. The record for dry weather In Fall was made in 1895, when the dry spell ran for 42 days. MINE SELLS FOR $50,000 Property In Greenhorn District Will Be Developed. BAKER. Or.. Oct. 15. (Special.) One of the big mine deals of the year was announced today in the sale of the Tempest mine, in the Greenhorn dis trict, formerly the property of Millard Bennett and E. E. Bennett, of this city, and of others in the East, to Flor ence Naylor Doty, of Denver. The price agreed on is 150,000. The Tempest mine includes three claims, the Tempest, the Saturday Night and the Seward. An Increased force will be put on at once, and plans for a mill and a cyanide plant are under consideration by the new own ers. The mill has been operated 20 years with ore running up to 32 a ton. $2200 PAID FOR BULL Idaho Breeder Buys Prince Rupert 80th in East. LEWISTON, Idaho. Oct. 15. (Spe cial.) Dean Jddings. of the University of Idaho, stated today that Henry Th lessen, of Sweetwater. Idaho, has purchased at Kansas City at the Amer ican Hereford Association sale the bull Prince Rupert 80th, paying 12200 for the animal. Mr. Th lessen came to- Idaho from Germany as a stowaway several years ago. iie is now said to be the greatest producer of pure-bred Herefords this side of the Mississippi River. It has been Mr. Thiessen's policy to ajwavs raise the best cattle possible, regardless of price, and he attributes his success to following this policy. CANAL STRIKE SPREADING Dredging at Panama Not Yet Inter rupted by Conditions. PANAMA. Oct. 15 The strife KtnT-rort Dy negro workers on the Panama Canal is spreading, 500 streetcar employes having gone out, completely tying ud the road. The bakers threaten to walk out tonight. The police todav close the headquarters of the strikers to prevent street assemblies. Prisoners are cleaning the streets nf Panama, the regular cleaners having quit work. There were many fight: today, but no fatalities. The strike has not interrunted dreriir ing in the canal. EXPLOSIVE CACHE BARED Secret Storehouse In Maine Town Is Revealed by Great Blast. EAST MACHIAS, Me, Oct 15. An explosion which shook this village early Saturday has revealed that a building at the head of navigation on the East Machias River has been used secretly as a storehduse for some pow erful explosive. .Effort to ascertain the ownership of the explosive were unsuccessful today. Reports that boats had been heard passing up the river during a heavy storm Friday night and Saturday morn ing could not be confirmed. TURKISH TRANSPORT TAKEN Russian Submarine Near Bosphorus Captures 6000-Ton Vessel. PETROGRAD, via London, Oct. 15. The Russian submarine Tulen, October 12, after an engagement near the Bos phorus, captured the Turkish 6000-ton armed war transport Roditsto, says to day's Russian official statement.- The transport. which was com manded by German officers, was taken to Sebastopol. FARMER KILLS DAUGHTER Girl's Refusal to Work In Fields Causes Double Tragedy. ALEXANDRIA. La, Oct. 15. Charles M. Bonnette a farmer of Melder, La., shot and killed his 19-year-old daugh ter yesterday when she refused, to work in the fields, according to the Sheriff's office .today. Bonnette committed suicide. 36 More Than Needed Put in Hughes List. MORE STATES WON RECENTLY Several in Doubtful Column Expected to Be Added. FEW CONCEDED TO WILSON Oregon, AVashington, Idaho, All of New England, Indiana, Illinois and California Among Those Held Certain Republican. CHICAGO. Oct- 15. (Special.) Re ports reaching Republican headquar ters in Chicago from all parts of the country Indicate that If the election were to be held next Tuesday, Mr. Hughes would be certain of 302 votes in the electoral college, or 36 more than the number necessary to elect. It Is the firm belief of the Repub lican managers that Mr. Hughes even will get a larger vote than that which they now regard as certain, the ulti mate number depending on the success of the campaign now being waged in the doubtful states. Figures Favor Hughes. As the situation throughout the country Is now viewed by Republican campaign managers, the following states are regarded as today being for Hughes, the numbers indicating the votes each state has in the electoral college: California Connecticut ...... 13'New York 43 7 North Dakota 3 4 Ohio 24. 2H Oregon 5 15 Pen nsyl va nla ..... 8H 13 Rhode Island S 10 Knuth Dakota ..... 5 BLIah 4 18!Vermont ......... 4 l.v Washington 7 Idaho Illinois Indiana .......... Iowa ............ K-ansas ........... Maine Massachusetts .... Michigan ......... Minnesota i5 New Hampshire. . . 4 Toial 802 New Je.sey .-. 14, Thirty-Six. In Doubt May Be Won. The Republican managers look on Delaware, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska and Wyoming as doubtful, but with present Republican leanings: these states have a total of 36 electoral votes. They regard the following states as doubtful, with Democratic leanings: A-rlzona 'Oklahoma ..in Colorado 6 West Virginia 8 Kentucky 13 Wisconsin 13 Maryland 8 Nevada 8) Total 67 acw jaexico at The states of the solid South Ala bama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia. Louisiana. Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, with a total of 126 electoral votes are, of course, safely Demo cratlc. Of all the states now claimed by Re publicans, the one which the Democrats (Concluded on page 3. Column 3.) JOB I ll II if i f f , iCcn WE )j, . i. I ,i f f 1 STAMO FOUR. I III l hill, kir lliiliM"EAyBWs IP ' I III 111 HHltu r Q"ocgATJc 1 1 i 1 asasgo.. ..U. DMlMSTr?A- J Mk. 11 Prohibition Urged That Type of Men 'With Social Instinct Be Saved From Themselves. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Oct. 15. A tribute to the class of men who become drunkards-was paid by Ira Landrith, the Pro hibition candidate for Vice-President. in an address to young women at Ward- Belmont College in Nashville today. "Don't Judge the drunkard too hard ly," Landrith said. "For one thing, he never is a tightwad. He who worships the eagle on the dollar seldom wor ships the bottle oh the shelf. The mean, miserly, narrow skinflint does not get drunk. The man who becomes a drunkard likes men; the miser has no social Instinct. Prohibition of the liquor traffic will save to us a genera tion of men who would give blessing to their time." None of the other speakers abandoned Jthe special during the day. Frank Hanly, the Presidential nominee, rested his voice for the strenuous Idiana in vasion tomorrow. 'VOLUNTEERS' TO CRUSADE Pinchot Heads Party to Stump New York State for Wilson. NEW YORK. Oct, IS. A band of Wil son "volunteers," headed by Amos Pinchot. will go to Shadow Lawn to morrow. It was announced tonight, to receive from the President a "mes sage" to carry with them when they start Wednesday morning on a speech making tour of New York state which will take them from "the Battery to Buffalo." Among the campaigners will be Rabbi Stephen Wise, Commissioner of Immigration Frederic C. Howe and the Rev. George R. Lunn. A. statement by F. D. Underwood, president of the Erie Railroad, declar ing himself in favor' of the re-election of President Wilson, was made public tonight at Democratic headquarters. $250,000 STATION TO RISE Milwaukee Road Will Begin Con struction Soon at Taconm. TACOMA. Wash., Oct. IB. (Special.) Preliminary work has been started by the Milwaukee Railroad on its new passenger station to be built here and active work will begin within two weeks. The station will be located on the spot where the temporary structure stands. It will be of stone and mar ble and $250,000 has been laid aside for its construction. GIRL'S SIRE SHOOTS SUITOR A. G. Brittson, ex-Pitcher, Also Com mits Suicide. CANTON, O., Oct. 15. After cour teously greeting Victor Rodcrwlck, 19- year-old suitor for his daughter's hand. in his home, A. G. Brlttson, formerly a well-known baseball pitcher, shot the youth and then committed suicide here today. Brittson objected to the youth's at tentions to his daughter, but had seem ingly submitted to the derision of his wife and his daughter of his attitude. OR NO JOB-CAN WE AFFORD Political and Military Circles Are Silent. RESISTANCE IS ENCOURAGING Belief Held That Central Pow ers Need Not Yield. ALL AGREE AS TO TERMS Germany and Austria-Hungary Are Willing to Quit if Poland Is Made Autonomous and Eu ropean Lines Restored. VIENNA. Oct. 15. With a keen long ing for peace has come persistent spec ulatlon In the central states as to the manner In which this blessing may be secured. But all thought on the sub ject is but the substance of the per son's own wishes. Political and mili tary circles today are as far from seeking a definite plan for the cessa tion of the war as they were in the beginning. If the fear prevailed In the central states that a peace with honor, and possibly profit, could not be secured, then thought might run in a different channel. But that the entente has not shown that it can ultimately realize Its own hopes 1s the universal view held in Austria-Hungary and Germany and their allied countries. Resistance Is Eaeoarajclnv, The offensive in the Somroe. the Rus sian attack in Bukowlna and in East Galicia, the entry into the war of Rou mania and its immediate consequences, the campaign from Saloniki and the exertions of the Italians have all con tributed toward the feeling in the cen tral group that the resistance met by the entente may yet open the eyes of those who must first announce that they will be satisfied with a peace whose terms will not have the dismem berment of central Europe as a basis. The central governments are ready today for a peace which would leave Europe very much as before the war, with the exception that Poland must be made an autonomous state and that neither Belgium nor Serbia can again trouble. Innocently or purposely, the quiet of Europe. Entente Gives No Hint. There Is here not the faintest Indi cation that the entente is inclined to enter negotiations on that basis. In Vienna and Berlin, on the other hand, nobody can yet see why the central group should make concessions, since they claim to hold through themselves everywhere by the occupation of enemy territories so large that the few ad vantages gained by the entente can bardly count. Had the Summer opera tions driven the central troops out of (Concluded on Paga 4, Column 1.) IT? Boy Asleep In Bed Discharges Rifle. Condition Is Critical Ten-Year-Old Shoots Off His Toe. . VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 15. (Spe cial.) George Dewey. 17, lies In St. Joseph's Hospital here tonlgat In a critical condition from a gunshot wound sustained this afternoon, when a rifle lying beside him In bed was discharged. Dr. C C. Wilcox gave sur gical treatment at the hospital, and says the boy has a chance to recover. Young Dewey lives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dewey, near the Fteh Hatchery on Main street road. The parents were in Oregon City visiting another son at the time of the acci dent. It appears that the boy laid down on the bed this afternoon. The 25-20-caliber rifle was lying on the bed. pointing toward him. A short time later, persons downstairs heard a com motion, and rushed up to And young Dewey wounded and trying to call for aid. It la believed that in his eleep he knocked the rifle so that it was dis charged. While Dr. Wilcox was operating on Dewey atthe hospital Mrs. Vogel came in from her home at Fourti Plain, bringins'hrr 10-year-old boy, who had shot the third toe off his right foot while playing with a 22-callber rifle. The boy was treated and returned home with his mother. MARSHFIELD. Or.. Oct. 15. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Anna Nab, a resklent of North Inlet, was shot and killed In stantly this morning in a most peculiar manner on the doorstep of her own home. Her nephew. William Ahlskog. was getting his 30-30 Remington rifle ready for a hunting expedition. The rifle was discharged, the bullet going through the double wall of the house. Mrs. Nabb was passing at the point where the bullet emerged from the house. It struck her In the breast. Coroner Fred Wilson, who went to the home, found the circumstances were as related and held no inquest. JAPAN MAKING INQUIRY Concessions by Chinese to American Railway Builders Viewed. - . TOKIO,, Oct. 15. Admission was made at the Foreign office today that the Japanese government had Instituted an inquiry into the granting by the Chinese government of a concession for the reconstruction of part of the Grand Canal in Shantung province to the Stems-Carey Company, of St. Paul, Minn. Japanese officials declared no pro tests had been lodged by Japan against the American railway project, and it was added that the future action of the government could not be discussed. GREEK SESSION POSTPONED King's Decree Pnts Over Meeting of Deputies for Ono Month. ATHENS, via London, Oct. 15. King Constantino yesterday signed a decree postponing for one month the meeting of the Greek Chamber of Deputies. According to the constitution, the session was due to convene yester day. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS TESTER HAY'S Maximum temperature, 66 tiegreea; minimum. SO degree. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. War. France regards ralils by l'-3S as violation of Monro doctrine. Page 4. Greek King- excoriated by M. Venizelos. 1'age 4. Peace talk beard on all sldca in Vienna. Pago 1. National. Mexican Ambassador-Designate nays condt tions In Mexico improved. Page 2. Washington far from satisfied with note concerning mall cenaorahip. Page 4. Mexico. Troop A prepare for mounted target prac tice. Pago 8. Tomeetic Loan of $ISO,0"0.000 to Britain la temporary check, at least, to danger of Inflation. Pags 2. Vlrr'l Gar Bogus, noted civil engineer, diea. Page 5. Prohibition candidate praises rlaas of men who become drunkards. Pago 1. Ten killed and 11 Injured In train wreck. Pago U Sports. Coast League reaulta: Portland 2-2. Salt Lake 3-8: Vernon 3-4. San Franclaco 2-2: Oakland 3-3, Los Angelea 6-4. Pane 12. Aggies overjoyed by victory agalnat Pull roan. Page 13. Nebraska Is wary of Oregon Agglea. Page 13. Americana make almost clean sweep in Stockholm gamea. Pago 12. Pacific Northwest. Husband kills wife' annoyer in Klamath Falls region. Page 1. Southern Oregon cheers Hughes women's special. Page 9. , Idaho man ts shot over liquor sale charge. Page 3. Two youtha victims of accidental shooting near Vancouver. Page 1. Two carloads of liquor are seised In Wash ington. Page 5. Marine. Melrose arrives for lumber cargo. Pago 11. Portland and Vicinity. Bankers oppose suggested change in Fed eral reserve district. Page 10. Three, new branches of Hughes Alliance added la Oregon. Pago 16. Lumberman will hold sessions in Portland next week. Page 11. Boy shortage reported. Page 11. Chamber of Commerce aroused by Impend ing street railway crista. Pago 10. Cost of shoes to go still higher. Page 7. Portland has Summer day In heart of Autumn. Page 1. Ezra Meeker on trail again. Page 5. Travel ihowi increase. Page 13. New bill at Orpheom is excellent. Foge 16. Pendleton delegation arrives 'to seek votes for normal school. Page 16. Jewish children observe B'nal B'rlth day. Page Id. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13. Slayer Is Homesteader Near Klamath. LUMBER FOREMAN IS VICTIM Shooting in Dooryard Ends At tempt to Force Attentions. DEAD MAN LEAVES FAMILY Rancher Surrenders to Sheriff at Klamath Falls He Had Pre viously Taken Trouble to District Attorney. KLAMATH FALLSV Or.. Oct. 15. (Special.) Charles Hobbs. a home steader living near thf i Algoma Lum ber Company's plant, about 13 miles north of here, last evening shot and killed Ed Ways with a shotgun, the charge blowing most of Way's head Off. Hobbs then started for Klamath Falls to give himself up to tho Sheriff, and arrived here about 10:3p. He is now In jail here. Hobbs has a wife and two stiU children. The shooting took place In Hobbs" dooryard. and resulted from Ways' attempting to force his atten tions upon Mrs. Hobbs and threatening; her if she told her husband, it is said. Hobbs had the matter up with District Attorney Irwin here several days ago. Ways has been foreman of the Algoma Lumber Company camp for the past 12 years, and has a wife and children here and is said to be well liked about the plant. Hobbs is from Illinois and has been here about two years. SUED HUSBAND HELD MYTH Divorce Denied Woman Whoso Name Is Linked With Scientist. RENO. Nev.. Oct. 15. (Special.) Charging that Wellesca P. Allen for four years had been and was still liv ing with Harrison G. Dyar. chief biolo gist of the Smithsonian Institution of Washington. District Judge T. C. Hart has denied the suit for divorce of Mrs. Allen against Wilfred P. Allen. The court also indicated that Wilfred P. Allen was a fictitious and non-existing husband. Judge Hart recently dismissed the action for divorce brought by Dyar against his wife. Mrs. Zella H. Dyar, on the ground of lack of jurisdiction. Dyar having failed to establish to the satisfaction of the court that he was a bona fide resident of Nevada. 12 FLY IN GREAT AIR BOAT Trial Trip at Height of 500 Feet Made Over Lake at Buffalo. BUFFALO. N. T.. Oct, 15. An-enor-mous flying boat built after the lines of the America, with 11 passengers seated in the cabin, and the pilot, made a trial trip at a height of 600 feet over Lake Keuka this afternoon. The new flying-boat has a greater spread of wing than the America, It is not of the tractor type. There are two pusher propellers, each operated by . an eight-cylinder motor of 200 horsepower. PAINTING BRINGS $250,000 Henry C. Frick Buys Famous Rem brandt for His Collection. NEW. TORK. Oct. 15. Henry C. Frick has bought Rembrandt's painting, "An Old Woman Reflecting Over the Lecture." for 1250.000, it became known here tonight. This makes the fourth Rembrandt in Mr. Frick's art collec- tion and Is said to bring the amount he has spent for art works In the last year up to approximately $2,300,000. The canvas has been in the collec tion of Judge Forges, of Harris, for 50 years and was painted in 1649. WIFE SLAIN; 4 YEARS GIVEN Jury Sentences Man Who Dismem bered and Burned Body. JERSEYVILLE. 111.. Oct, 15. Anton Ahrling was found guilty Saturday in the Jersey County Court of having killed his wife and then burned her body in their home near here last Feb ruary 14. The jury sentenced Ahrlinff to four years in the penitentiary. - Mrs. Ahrlings body was discovered dismembered in the ruins of their home. Civic Federation Elects. NEW TORK. Oct, 15. The election of V. Everett Macy, capitalist and phil anthropist, to succeed the late Seth Low, as president of the National Civic Federation until its annual meeting January 23, was announced here today. Mr. Macy lives at Scarborough-on-Hud-eon. IC T.