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PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BANDON ATTORNEY KILLED BY -ENEMY CONVICTS ESCAPE IN MOTOR TRUCK PRESIDENT HELD FRIEND OF LABOR BRIDE-TO-BE COMES ALONE FROM GREECE PROTESTING COUPLE JUST WED 1 HUGHES REITERATES DIFFER POLITICALLY TRIPLED LUSITANIA POLICY ONE IX VMFORM OF GUARD DRIVES AXAi TO FREEDOM. 19-YEAR-OIiD GERIi TO WED MAN WHO IS STRAXGER. WITNESS STOPS DEBATE SO HON EYMOON CAN BEGIN. VOL.. L.VI. NO. 17,443. WOMEN WILSON V Assailant Then Shoots 'Self; Death Near. OLD FEUD CAUSES TRAGEDY Without Word, Joseph Coach Fires on G. T. Treadgold. SLAIN ' MAN PROMINENT Former I-lquor Dealer, Once Prose cuted by Lawyer, Attacks Him Day After Wife Brings L. Action for Divorce. MARSHFIELD, Or.. Oct. 19. (Spe cial) Joseph Coach, of Bandon, walked up to G. T. Treadgold, a Bandon attor ney, tonight and, without a word, shot him dead, stepped a few feet away turned the automatic on himself andj sent a. ,32-caliber bullet into his own left temple. Treadgold had just gone for his car at the Coquille garage when Coach approached and shot him. Coach is in the Baxter Hotel, uncon scious, and there is no hope of his surviving. On approachlug Treadgold when ho fired the fatal shot. Coach did not say a word. Nothing passed between the men, according to A. A. Powell and V. 51. Perkins, witnesses of the tragedy. Tragedy Follow Short Talk. Coach and Treadgold had held a short conversation a few minutes before on the steps of the Baxter Hotel, but no loud words were exchanged, nearby persons said: The killing is the outgrowth of a feud which has existed between Tread gold and Joseph and Arthur Coach for the last five years. Coach had said he had been persecuted by the attorney. Coach was the son of a wealthy timber owner, who died flvej years ago, and inherited one-third of the property amounting to several hundred thousand dollars. The Coach brothers got into litigation on several instances and Treadgold was frequently opposed to! Uiem. Liquor Case Augments Bitterness. Two years ago this Fall. Treadgold, as prosecutor, brought about the con viction of Joseph Coach at Bandon for selling liquor to Ituby and Lolita tiimpson, and Coach's saloon license was revoked by the City Council. Re sulting from that prosecution, a libel suit was started by G. T. Treadgold agatnat a Coos County daily newspaper. Subsequent to the conviction at Ban don, the Simpson girls said on oath that they were coerced by Treadgold into swearing that liquor was given them by Coach, and Coach was released from an indictment in the Circuit Court. Yesterday Joseph Coach was served with a suit for divorce by his wife, and it is supposed he believed Tread gold had something to do with pro moting it. Treadgold Not In Caw. Treadgold had taken the'ease at first but later turned it over to Claude Giles, of Myrtle Point, and Treadgold's name did not appear in the papers. G. T. Treadgold had been a practicing attorney at Bandon for the past nine years, was married, and leaves a wife and two children. His father and brother and sister are residents of the Bandon neighborhood. Witnesses who were about the garage said that Coach had been drinking before the shooting. The af fair caused a profound sensation at the county seat where Treadgold had been attending a session of the Circuit Court. Liquor Crusade Jllta Coach. Treadgold was 33, and had been a successful practitioner. He was City Attorney at the time of his death, having been appointed two years ago by Mayor George P. Topping, when there was a need felt for cleaning up some of the rough saloons in the city The result of the first crusade was the closing of the Joseph Coach and an other saloon. Joseph Coach has a sister in Coquille, Mrs. Leo J. Carey, and a brother, Ar thur Coach, of Lampa Creek. He was about 35 years of age, and was married last year to & Portland woman, who the day before the tragedy sought a Separation from him. Much of Coach's fortune was ex pended in litigation, and his brother was also a victim of several costly legal affairs. The property of the Coach heirs consists of ranches and timber lands in Coos County, mostly in the neighborhood of Lampa Creek. AMERICAN VESSEL SEIZED Fishing Schooner Captured Off Ice land Is Taken to Britain. LONDON, Oct. 17. (Delayed in trans mission.) 1 The American fishing schooner Richard W. Clarke has been captured in the waters around Iceland and taken to Grimsby. The schooner Richard W. Clarice, Is of 603 gross tons and is owned by A. A. Corey, of New Bedford, Mass. Late in August the American fishing schooners Maxine Elliott and Lizzie Griffin were seized while fishing off the coast of Iceland and. taken to Ler wick, Shetland Islands, but were later released. " Six Inmates of Sing Sing leave in Daylight and Abandoned Vehicle Gives First Intimation. OSSINING. N. Y., Oct. 19. Six in mates of Sing Sing drove past a guard in a prison automobile truck and made their escapo about noon today. Warden Calvin Derick announced to night. The finding of the abandoned truck a half hour after the escape gave the first intimation that the men. all of whom were serving sentences of from 15 years to life, had fled. Acting Warden Derrick, who took charge of the prison only this week upon the resignation of Thomas Mott O.sborne, said that Richard Hyler, the guard' at the . prison gate through wrsjehthe truck passed, had been sus pended pending an investigation. The truck, which was supposed to be used exclusively Inside the prison walls, was driven by a convict who wore the uniform of a guard. Another man, in the regulation prison garb, sat beside him, while the four others were hidden within the truck. The guard. Warden Derrick said, did not stop the truck nor look to see what it carried. MUTES FIGHT BY SIGNS Couple Take Quarrel for 8-Ycar-Oli! Daughter to Court. A contest, not over the divorce, but over possession of a pretty girl of 8 years, was conducted in the courtroom of Circuit Judge Kavanaugh all day yesterday. The contestants are deaf mutes. The suit was filed by George W. Kreidt against Effie L. Kreldt. whom he married in Pendleton in 1906. The child, who is In full possession of her faculties of speech and hearing. Is Georgia E. Kreidt. " Property to the value u. 700 is involved. One of the allegations of the divorce complaint of the husband is that his wife "in a mad rage would call 'him all kinds of names." MAN, SHOT, WINS DAMAGES Seattle Jury Finds for Victim MU 1 taken lor Burglar. SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 19. (Special.) Because John Slocum mistook him for a burglar and fired a bullet at him Inflicting a flesh wound in his band. J. J. Hancock today obtained Judgment against Slocum for $100 by a Jury in the Superior Court. Hancock aued Slo cum for $7500 damages. Several months ago Hancock went to a house in the Green Lake district to visit a friend and found the friends absent. Slocum, who occupied an ad- Joining house, saw Hancock on the porch and commanded him to hold up his hands.' Hancock put up his hands but retreated into the shadow of the porch and Slocum fired at him. BABY IS BADLY BURNED Child Pulls Lighted Lump Into Its Carriage. LEWISTON, Idaho. Oct. 19. (Spe cial.) The 16-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Settler, of Lapwal, is In St. Joseph's Hospital at Lewiston suffering from burns caused by a lamp exploding near its carriage. Mrs. Settler had gone to the wood shed and left the child near the lighted lamp, which was placed on a small table. The baby grasped the table cover and pulled the lamp into the carriage. The lamp exploded when It upset, spreading the burning oil over the child's body. MOOSE KEPT ON BALLOT Requests to Have Names Stricken Cannot Be Granted In Iowa. DES MOINES. Oct. 19. W. S. Allen, Secretary of State, in an announcement today informed candidates for office on the Progressive ticket throughout the state that he had no authority to order the names removed from the of ficial ballot for the coming general election. Mr. Allen said that more than half of the Progressive candidates in the state have written him asking that their names be stricken off. DETINUE SYSTEM IS ENDED San Francisco Prisoners ' Xot to Be Held Incommunicado. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 19. Chief of Police White abolished today the po lice detinue .system, under which per sons are arrested and held Incommuni cado without any charge being placed against them. The order means the last of the "deti nue book," where in were entered the names of the victims of the practice. All persons are to be brought before magistrates now and specifically charged. RUSSIA MAY CURB IMPORTS Washington Disturbed by Report Regarded as Trustworthy. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash lngton, Oct. 19. Government officers were perturbed today when Informed unofficially but confidentially, and .from a trustworthy source, 'that Rus Bia tomorrow probably will prohibit the importation into Russia of a long list ol commodities, with a view to con serving cargo space for war munitions. The effect of this on trans-Pacific trade Is regarded as harmful, Cabinet Member Talks for Administration. RESERVE BANKS HELD AID W. B. Wilson Addresses Fitted House at Baker Theater. WALL STREET POWER LESS Secretary of Labor Says New System Prevents Panics and Provides More Flexible. "Financial Strength for Country. Before an audience that completely filled the Baker Theater last night, even to the stage. William B. Wilson. Secretary of Labor in President Wil son's Cabinet, discussed the labor laws enacted under the present Administra tion and declared they entitled Wood row Wilson to re-election on his record. He said more social Justice legisla tion had been passed in the three years of President Wilson's incumbency than in the administration af any previous President. Progressive Votes Sought. On this statement he based an ap-j peal for the votes of Progressives, whom he divided into three classes: hero worshipers, disgruntled Repub licans and "real Progressives" who were dissatisfied with the Republican party in 1912 and didn't quite trust the Demo crats. He declared the Clayton anti-trust act to be the greatest piece of emanci patory legislation ever enacted, and de fended the Administration's stand on the Adamson law with much vigor. Address Laali One Hour. Though he discussed each of these topics and many others in much de tail. Secretary Wilson gave probably the shortest campaign address that has been heard in Portland this Fall. He talked Just one hour. - The meeting opened at 8 o'clock. Secretary . Wilson began speaking at 8:15 and at 9:15 he had completed his address and was shaking hands with admirers who crowded to the platform. Judge Samuel White, Democratic state chairman, called the meeting to order. Otto Hartwig. president of the Oregon State Federation of Labor, pre sided and introduced Secretary Wilson. In his introductory remarks. Mr. Hartwig told how Secretary Wilson be gan working in the coal mines when he was only 9 years old. how he later became a labor leader and a member of the National executive board which organized the United Mine Workers of America in 1890. and how in 1913 he became the Nation's first Secretary of Labor. Secretary Wilson." said 5Ir. Hart- (Concluded on Page O. Column 1.) Voyage of 800O Miles Will End at Baker Greek Priest Will Perform Marriage Next Month. . BAKER, Or., Oct. 19. (Special.) Mineteen-year-old Elene Spiropolls is near- the end of her 8000-mile journey alone, to wed a man she has never seen. She is expected to arrive at Baker next Saturday and soon afterward meet 26-year-old Nicholas Spiropolis, of Durkee. her future husband. Faith in friends and relatives has brought her on her long Journey into a strange land to meet this strange fiance. Elene left her home in Athens, Greece, and sailed from Tripoli, Sep tember 25. She arrived In New Tork the first of this week after being de tained at Ellis Island two days while authorities ascertained her destination. Next month there will be a wedding at the home of Thomas Spirls. of Baker, at which a priest of the Greek church from Portland or Pocatello will offi cite, and soon afterward there will be a new bride at the home of one of the four Spiropolls brothers near Durkee, who together own 7000 head of sheep and many hundred acres of grazing land. Mr. and Mrs. Spiris were Cupid's aids for when Nick last June asked Tom if he knew of a good wife, Tom recom mended Elene to Nick and wrote to James Spiropolis. Elene'a father, about how manly a fellow Nick was. In stead of the usual dowry, Elene's father paid her way to her husband, the transportation being nearly (600, and gave her a beautiful trousseau. HEN LAYS TWICE SAME DAY Forest Grove Man Has Fowl Thai Breaks All Records. FOREST GROVE. Or.. Oct. 19. (Spe cial.) While Oregon hens are making records, some of them laying an egg and a half a day, a Forest Grove man comes forth with a hen that beats all records thus far given. Hugh Smith of this city, owns a hen that today laid two eggs Inside of 10 minutes. While II r. Smith was feeding his fowls at the noon hour he noticed hen that was acting in a peculiar way. In a moment she laid an egg. Mr. Smith picked up the egg and went on feed lng the chickens. In a few moments more, the hen laid another egg, all of which Mr. Smith' is willing to verify on oath. The eggs were both perfect. With the egg market climbing sky ward. Mr. Smith is setting out to propagate this species of hen. . SUGAR 24 CENTS IN ITALY Government Raises Price to Curtail Consumption. ROME. Oct. 19. A. government decree issued today Increases the price of sugar from 20 cents a pound to 24 cents. The reason for this action, it Is said, is the urgent necessity of limiting national consumption, in view of the Increase in oversea freight rates. A sugar card system of distribution will be introduced throughout Italy. It has been proposed to prohibit the purchase by women nf expensive garments and finerv. All importation of furs and Oriental carpets has been prohibited. DOWN ON SHADOW LAWN. Chicago Mob Routs Si- lent Demonstrants. HAIR PULLED, CLOTHING TORN Banners Opposing President's Re-election Destroyed. BATTLE RAGES FIERCELY In Three Speeches of Day, Mr. Wil son Addresses Press Club Women and New Citizens Dawn of Patriotic Era Predicted. CHICAGO, Oct. 19. (Special.) Presi dent Wilson's visit to Chicago was marked by a riot In which about 100 women, members of the National Wom en's Party, were attacked, knocked down, trampled and badly used by a mob that objected to their banners ad vising women not to vote for Wilson because he la against woman suffrage The suffragists were staging a "si lent protest." They were grouped around the Congress Hotel, some in automobiles and others on foot. They did not utter a word, but held up their banners. President Wilson was seated in an automobile a few hundred feet distant when the riot began, but he passed Into the building and was not a witness of the fierce battle that fol lowed. Banner Tern t Shreds. As the President's automobile drew up to the hotel an automobile loaded with women from the Women's Party headquarters also drew up. They car ried a huge muslin banner bearing the inscription: "Women voters vote against President Wilson. He opposes National woman suffrage." In the car were Mrs. Minnie K. Brooks, of Chevy Chase. Md.: Mrs. A. B. Colvin. of 6L Paul, and Miss Carolina KaUensteln. of Philadelphia. In other automobiles, and on foot were nearly a hundred women of Chicago and nearby cities. A Wilson woman dashed up to the leading auto, poked her umbrella through the banner and tore It to shreds. This was the signal for a gen eral attack by the Wilson women upon all banners and their bearers. Suffragists Are Outnumbered. The suffragists fought back as best they could, but were outnumbered ten to one. and were soon vanquished. Hair was pulled and clothing torn, eyes and faces scratched and fisticuffs were plen tifuL The women kicked, clawed and screamed at each other, and when It was all over the street-cleaners gath ered up a large assortment of face veils, combs, hairpins, bits of clothing. three shoes, vanity cases, a number of coins and other debris. When the battle was at its height the suffragists massed into a compact included on Pace 2, Coin Marrying Justice and Bride Agree Hughes Is the Man, but Bride groom Sticks to Wilson. OREGON CITY. Or., Oct, 19. (Spe cial.) Christina Newman and Peter Kilburg did not exchange loving words and kisses as soon as they were mar ried by Justice of the Peace Sievers this afternoon. Instead they began a political argument, and II- H. Staub, one of their witnesses, was forced to step in and put an end to the discus slon. Justice Sievers had Just completed the service when he noticed & Hughes button on Mrs. Kilberg's coat. Now, Sievers is secretary of the Clackamas County Republican Central Committee and a Hughes supporter through and through. "Well. I see that you are starting your married life right po litically," he said to the bride. "Yes, I am a Republican and I am going to vote for Hughes," she replied. The bridegroom, noticing the political views of his wife, stepped up. "I am going to vote for Wilson." he declared "You are going to vote for Wilson In spite of all his mistakes in the last three and a half years 7" cried the bride in amazement. "Yes. I am." he said, "and I'll have you in favor of his re-election before morning, too." George Hall and Mr. Staub. the wit nesses, and Justice Sievers listened to the argument, which kept growing warmer for several minutes, when Mr. Staub separated the couple. WILSON WAITERS WIN RISE Pay Increase Granted to Prevent Strike at Lunch for President. CHICAGO. Oct. 19. Negro waiters employed at the Press Club utilized the presence of President Wilson at lunch there today to gain for themselves in Increase in wages, without lnvestlga tion and without compromise. Just before the President was due to arrive 30 special waiters who Were to serve the luncheon put on their coats preparatory to walking out. They had not asked for more pay. but when stopped by the steward they told him they had decided they must have a 60 per cent increase on the contract price before they would begin tbel duties. The advantage was theirs and th Increase was granted. V. S. Armored Cur Tested. NEW YORK. Oct. 19. An armored railroad car, described as a "moving blockhouse," designed for patrol work ani for action against mobile troop organizations, had a. trial test at the Sassdy Hook proving grounds today. The car. said to be the first of its kind built for the United States Army weighs 40 tons, mounts on Its top one three-inch field gun and has ports In Its armored sides, from which 20 ma chine guns can be operated. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weal her. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, decrees; minimum. 3 decrees. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. War. Cunard liner Alaunla sunk by mine. Paz 4. British Chancellor defends high Intereat Day meats, page a. General Morehead says will ba derided on western front. Pace 4. French superior to enemy- In air. Pass 4. Official reports. Page 4. Politics. Mrs. K. B. Hanley leaves on tour of Eastern Oregon. Page SO. Charges of absenteeism az&lnst Mr. I .Af forty reiteratea. page to. Chairman Wlllcox explains causes of pros penty. page s. Chicago mob tramples women who mak silent protest against Wilson. Page Hughes reiterates statement of his policy In case or iusitania. paga 1- Mrs. Joseph It. Anderson to win votes for Hughes with song. Page 20. Mr. Hughes feeling on waga Issue show: by Oregon case, rax T. Jews resvnt Democratic Implication tha votes are ror sale. Pago -O. National. America buys 200 aeroplanes.- Page fi. Patriotic orders criticise Secretary Baker for speccn. page fomestlc Episcopalians adopt prayer for Army an Navy. Page 8. New York convicts escape In motor track. Pago 1. Great Elephant Butte dam dedicated. Pag 3. feporta. Farlfle Coast League results: Los Angeles 15. Portland 2; Salt Lake S. ban Fran rlsco 1; Oakland 1. Vernon O (11 Innings Fata 1. Oregon Aggies to get rousing welcome to morrow. Paga lu. Rosa City Club card for tonight materially changed. . Page 16. Pacific Northwest. Girl cornea 8000 mllea from Greece to wed atnanger at Baker. Paga 1. Hood River still short of apple pickers. Page 6. Joseph Coach shoots and kills G. T. Tread' gold. Bandon attorney. Page 1. Newly-weds differ politically before start- lng honeymoon, page J. Mrs. Jennie Kemp re-elected president of stata W. C. T. TJ. Pago 6. Mountain divisions of Great Northern to be electrified. Page 0. Ovation given Mrs. Kent at Oregon City. Page 7. , Commercial and Marine. Runaway market for grain and other cereals In Northwest. page zi. Chicago a heat passes last year's high mark. Page -'1. Sinking of Cunard liner starts selling wave In stock market, page si. Shipbuilding on river may not let up tor two years. paga -u. Portland and Vicinity. Deal Is on for sale of Euclid Heights. Page li. Small donations from working classes to Republican State Central Committee are features of campaign. Paga 10. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 2 Flour reaches new record for modern times. Page 15. School Board denies Mrs. Alexander's ai torney confidential records. Page 8. Foreign expert urges commerce with Swede Paga 11. President Is declared friend of labor by W. B. Wilson, secretary or Labor, In Port land spleen, a-age i. Tnr- tt-n-hr at bearing criticise Mrs. Alexander, former principal. Pate IT, Unequivocal Reply Is Made to McAdoo. FIRMNESS WOULD SAYE DAY Administration Does Not Know Words Mean What They Say. BAKER IS TAKEN TO TASK Rutins 'of Washington's Soldiers AVith Mexican Randits Is Scored. Deplorable Record In Mex ico Is Reviewed. YOUXUSTOWS, O.. Oct. 19. Charles E. Hughes, reiterating that he meant what he said In Louisville the other night about tlie course he would have followed with reference to the Lusl tanla. tonight replied to a recent ut terance of Secretary McAdoo with the declaration that apparently it seemed impossible to the , Administration that one could mean what he said. "Now rises the Secretary of tr o Treasury to complain tliat this was not a statement of what 1 would have done had the sinking occurred." Mr. Hughes said, after reiterating that he would have stated hie position "un equivocally" In advance of the sinking. Lualtanla Would Net Have Been Sank. 'I was under the impression that when 1 said what I would have stated In advance as to what 1 would do. everyone would know that I stated what In fact I would have done In the described event. The secretary's re marks show in an illuminating way this Administration's conception ot the value of words. "It apparently seems Impossible to this Administration that one can mean what h says. That is its difficulty. With it. a threat of- action does not seem to mean anything but words. My position Is somewhat different. "I mean what I say and because this would have been well known and we should already have had a reputation for firm and correct policies. I re peat that the Lusitania would not have been sunk." Reply Made to Baker. Mr. HuBhes spoke before an audience In the theater here. He also replied to a statement attributed to Secretary of War Baker in a recent speech In which Washington's soldiers in the march to Valley Forge in the days of the Amer- ' lean Revolution were said to be Just as tad characters as the Mexicans. 'I never supposed the day would come." Mr. Hughes said, "when the rep resentative of American administra tion would say that of those who gave us our liberty." After quoting the statement attribut ed to Secretary Baker. Mr. Hughes read from Secretary Lansing's description in June last of the atrocities in Mexico, contained In a note to the de facto gov. ernment of Mexico. Mr. Lansing's reci tal of the civil strlfj in Mexico, with its attendant loss of American life and destruction of American property, and that portion of the note relating to the Santa Ysabel massacre was read by Mr. Hughes verbatim. Apology Declared Shameful, "An administration Imbued with the spirit of true Americanism." Mr. Hughes said, "would be Incapable of the statement attributed to the Secre tary of War. It must bring the blush of shame to the cheek of every Ameri can that apologies for the deplorable record in Mexico should be made after this fashion." Mr. Hughes speech here tonight was the last of his third presidential cam paign trip. He left here at 11 P. M. for New Tork. where he Is due tomor row afternoon. The day was spent traveling, with three short addressee, at Bay City. Saginaw and Flint. Mich. It was raining and the damp weather affected the nominee's voice. Rights of Cltlaena Surrendered. In his speech here tonight. Mr. Hughes said: "The President of the United States Is the trustee of executive power. Placed in control of our agencies of Interna tional intercourse, be Is the guardian of the rights of the American citisens. He has no authority to surrender them, no right to impair them. Upon his firmness in maintaining them depends our security and our peace. The Demo cratic platform four years ago prom ised that the Constitutional rights of American citizens should protect them ' on our borders and go with them throughout the world. When it prom ised full protection for American lives and property abroad. It stated an es tablished American principle. "One of Americas greatest jurists, speaking for the Supreme Court of th United States, said many years ago. another privilege of a citizen of th United States is to demand the care and protection of the Federal Govern ment over his life, liberty and property when on the high seaa or within tha Jurisdiction of a foreign government. American Doctrine Reversed. "Now we are told that the Adminis tration ,' has turned its back on the American doctrine of full protection. That is what its leading apologist finds Its record in Mexico to mean. It is a reversal without authority and in vio lation of the specific pledge upon which it was elected. Instead of fol tConcludeil on Pag u. Coluiua L