K VOL,. IVII. NO. 17,550. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ) K V PASS: SESSION Long Cheers Greet Report of Vote. ISSUE BEFORE PEOPLE JUNE 4 Legislature Works Far Into Wight to Clean Up Bills. CONFLICTS ALL1 CLEARED Route of Some Road9 Changed and Kew Ones Ordered In Other Cases by Measure $1,000,000 Is Limit for First Year. ' STATE CAPITOL,, Salem. Or., Feb. 20. (Special.) Tbe legislature ad journed tijie die at 2:30 o'clock this morning. STATE CAPITOL., Salem, Or., Feb. 10. (Special.) At 12)30 o'clock tbls morning the joint conference commit tee from the House and Senate agreed on all disputed points in the 6,000,000 road bonds bill. A few minutes later both Bouses concurred. The bill now goes to the Governor. The Joint conference committee was composed of Senators Orton, Shanks and Vinton, and Representatives Rit ner, Schimpff and Laurgaard. Except for c few bills on Trhich con ference committees are still working both Houses had completed their work at 12:30 o'clock this morning. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Feb. 19. (Special.) With only four dissenting Totes the $6,000,000 road bonds measure. amended to provide for its submission to the people at a special election next June 4, passed the Senate at 6:25 o'clock today. It was sent Immediately to the House for concurrence. Late tonight the House passed the Senate's special election bill. The House amended the bill, however, so that the Normal School question and the proposal to build a $200,000 home for delinquent children, both of which were referred to the people by Legisla tive resolutions, will not be voted upon by the people until the regular election In November. 1918. Twenty-five to four was the vote by which the measure passed the Senate. The four Senators who held out against any bonding measure to the bitter end. even after friends of the bill had made almost every concession asked and its ratification by the people had been accepted as a condition of its passage, were Dimick, La Follett, Pierce and Strayer. 25 Vote for Bonds. The 2Ii Senators -who voted aye and they voiced their sentiments lustily as the roil was called were: Baldwin, Barrett. Bishop, Cusick, Eddy, Farrell, Garland. Gill, Handley, Hawley, Hur ley, Huston, Leinenweber, Lewis, Olson Orton, Shanks, Smith of Coos, Smith of Josephine, Steiwer, Vinton, Von der Hellen. Wilbur, Wood and President Moser. The road bill out of the way, the Senate settled down to the grind of disposing of nearly 100 other bills still cluttering its calendar, which must be attended to before the Legislature can adjourn. Senator Moser urged the Senators to give their best efTorts to cleaning up the calendar so adjournment sine die can be taken tonight. ' Senate to Sit Till Late. Although the time for adjournment will be formally set for 11 o'clock to night. It will probably be 2 or 3 o'clock tomorrow morning before the last bill Is disposed of, conference agreements reached as to disputed amendments be tween the two houses, and final ad Journment taken. The House refused to concur in the Senate's amendments, and Representa tives Schimpff, Ritner and Laurgaard were appointed on a conference com mittee. The Senate committee was Olson, Vinton and Shank3. At midnight the committee agreed on a basis substantially as follows: That no more than $1,000,000 of the bond money be spent the first year and no more than t2.000.000 the second year, and that the bill be made general In its terms so that it applies to all parts of the state, including Multno mah County. Constitutional Question Avoided, While it is proposed not to spend any of the bond money In Multnomah County, leading lawyer members of the House expressed the view that the measure would be unconstitutional if it specifically excluded that county. Final passage of the bill followed an all-afternoon discussion of amendments as reported out by Senator Conrad P. Olson, chairman of the committee on roads and highways, and others pro posed by various Senators in commit tee of the whole. Except for one flurry, when Senators Dimick, Pierce and La Follett bitterl attacked the bill, this discussion was of the most friendly nature. S8,00O,0OO Issue Provided. The bill, as amended In the roads and highways committee and the committe of the whole of the Senate, provide for an election on Monday, June 4, of this year; carries an emergency clause as far as the special election is con ROAD BONDS ADJOURNS .(Concluded on Pace 4. Column 2.) l BONE-DRY LAW IS SIGNED BY LISTER FUNDS FOB REFERENDUM EF FORT SAID TO BE LACKIXG. Law Prohibits Possession of Liquor Except by Ministers and Radical Penalties Are Provided. OLYMPIA, "Wash.. Feb. 19. Governor Lister signed the bone-dry prohibition bill at 1:45 o'clock this afternoon In the presence of Representative Elmer Halsey, author of the bill, officers of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and other advocates of the bill. There was handclapping from the group surrounding the Governor when he wrote his name. Unless referred, by petition to the 1918 election, the law will become effective 90 days after ad- ournment of the Legislature. A total of 22,656 names would be necessary to send the law to referendum, and so far as known, no steps have yet been taken to obtain names, further than, to ask liquor dealers and organizations In other states whether they would bear the expense of collecting the names. The answer was said to have been that the liquor dealers would expend no more money in this state. The law prohibits possession of In toxicating liquor by any person except regularly ordained clergymen, priests and rabbis actually In charge of con gregations, for sacramental purposes. It allows wholesale and retail drug gists and manufacturing chemists to handle alcohol only if granted a license after public hearing and provides radi cal penalties for violations. BATTLE BRISK ON TIGRIS British Make Two Gains, Lose One and Relinquish Other. LONDON, Feb. 19. British troops on the left bank of the Tigris River in Irak took the offensive on Saturday against the Turkish positions at Sannal- at, says a British official statement ssued today, and occupied two Turk ish front lines on a frontage of 350 yards and 540 yards, respectively. The. Turks launched two heavy coun ter attacks and forced the British right wing back to its original line. The British left wing repulsed a Turkish counter attack, but when night came the troops were withdrawn from their newly won positions. GRAIN INQUIRY ORDERED Potatoes, Beans and Onions Also Under Federal Investigation. BOSTON. Feb. 19. United States Dis trict Attorney George W. Anderson, who Is in charge of a Nation-wide in quiry into the high prices of food and other necessaries, announced today that he would order a special investi gation into the grain situation at Chi cago and other middle Western cities to determine whether conspiracies ex isted to raise the price and delay ship ments to Eastern markets. He also said the high prices of po tatoes, beans and onions are being in vestigated. ESTATE WILL BE DIVIDED Taconiu Salesman Loses Last Move in Fl ght for Riches. SAN FRANCIS CO, Feb. 19. The Cal Ifornia Supreme Court today refused to grant a last-minute stay in distrl bution of the $2, 600, 000 estate of Fred erick W. Sharon, set for tomorrow In the lower court. Frederick Wallace Sharon, a Tacoma, Wash., salesman, a contestant for half of the estate as an adopted son, asked for a stay through counsel engaged since counsel formerly representing him withdrew a few days ago. - GREEKS STILL HOLD ARMS Entento Blockade Continues for That Reason, Dispatch Says. LONDON, Feb. 19 The French British and Russian legations at Athens have published a statement ex plaining the reasons for the continua tion- of the blockade, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from that capital. The chief reason is that the require ments of the entente ultimatum to the Greek government, especially with ref erence to the delivery of arms, have not been fulfilled completely. SALVATIONISTS' AID SHOWN Many Million Beds and Meals Fur nished in Last Ten Years. CHICAGO. Feb. 19. Statistics made public here today by the Salvation Army.1 covering the entire country for the last ten years, show that the army fur nished approximately 34,000,000 beds for Indigents, nearly 44.000,000 meals were provided and 343,418 persons sent on Summer outings. More than 30,000 tons of coal were given for emergency relief. FAMILY PERISHES IN FIRE Man, Two Women and Three Chil dren Victims of Alberta Blaze. LETHB RIDG E, Alberta, Feb. 19 Six persons are believed to have per ished in a fire which destroyed the home of Fred Dase In a lonely district five miles south of Taber Saturday. Coroner Humphries, of Lethbrldge, said today that the bodies of Dase, his wife and his wife's sister, Mrs. John Tankrantz, had been recovered from the ruins and that search was being made for the bodies of three children. nCMCPfll CIIHGTIIH Ulhu uUUUtfiLi Fatal Stroke Comes at San Antonio. ACUTE INDIGESTION IS CAUSE Aguinaldo's Captor Expires Playing With Child. MILITARY RECORD UNIQUE Late Commander of United States Troops on Border Ends Distin guished Career Wife Is Prostrated at Presidio. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 19. Major-General Frederick Funston. commander of the Southern Depart ment, United States Army, since Feb ruary, 1915. died suddenly at a hotel here tonight, a few minutes after he had finished dinner. He collapsed while seated in the lobby of the hotel talking with friends, and was playing with little Inez Sllverberg, of Des Moines, la., a guest, with her parents. at the hotel, when he fell unconscious. Death was almost lntantaneous. Gen eral Funston was 51 years old. Burden of Work Great. Ever since March, 1916, when he was placed In command of all United States forces on the Mexican border. General Funston had worked at -an unusual pace. At critical times In bor der developments he frequently re mained on duty 24 hours of the day. The handling of regulars disposed of at various stations on the border, the Pershing expedition, and of late, re arrangement of regular troops, while providing for the return of National Guardsmen, have entailed an enormous amount of detail work, probably ex ceeding that which has fallen to any commanding General- of the United States Army since the Civil War. Only today General Funsfon completed or ders for the return of the Guardsmen. Philippine Exploit Distinguishes. The plctureeqiie" and dashing cap ture of Agulnaldo. the Filipino rebel chief, was the achievement which brought Funston prominently to the attention of the American people, but he performed many services for his country besides that which were prob ably more difficult. His administration of affairs in Vera Cruz, where he carried out the President's orders with a firm hand, simply holding the city when every influence about him was centered upon forcing the American Army into actual fighting with the Mexicans, probably was the most notable service of his career. The American troops had been in possession of Vera Cruz only a few days when one of the Mexican gener als sent in a message' saying In most polite terms that h was unable to restrain his troops ' longer, and that (Concluded on Page 2, Column 2.) t i S-5 .sZs-ShS I t INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 41 degrees; minimum, 87 decrees. TODAY'S Rain, possibly part snow; south westerly winds. Legislatures, bill passes Senate Road bonds 25 to 4. Page 1. Idaho antl-allen bill Is reintroduced In State Senate. Page ti. Olympic legislation ceases while mountain's name is discussed. Page 0. House passes S12.0O0 expense bill for .'bond election. Page 7. Washington bone-dry law Is signed by Gov ernor. Page 1. Rural credits bill passes. Page 7. State will not press suits against Pacific Livestock Company. Page 6. War. Germany, slow to awake, spends untold sums to influence neutral press. Page 4. One TJ-boat sinks three ship. Berlin reports. Page 3. Submarines. Americans unable to get permission to leave Germany. Page 1. Wilson still defers final action In submarine situation. Page a. national. General Pershing succeeds to command on border. Page 2. General Funston dies suddenly. Page 1. Wilson gives notice he will hold Cuban rebels responsible for damage done to foreign property. Page 3. Domestic Ex-wlfe killed for refusing kiss. Page 2. Alleged Teuton spies arrested in New York for violation of American neutrality. Page 1. Sports. Western Club boxing smoker Friday night to consist of seven bouts. Page 12. World's checker champion plays exhibition in Portland. Page 12. Uncle Sams have last chance tonight to get out of cellar. Page 12. Jefferson swamps Hill. S3 to 0. Page 13. Pacific Northwest. Submarine base Is up to Astorlans. Page 14. Commercial and Marine. Uniform quality and standard packages urged on creamerymen. Page 23. Unfavorable crop reports and traffic im provement lift wheat at Chicago. Page 23. Cattle and swine Higher at Portland stock yards. Page 23. Allies may place orders here for 4000-ton wooden ships. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Belgian relief campaign opens with rush. Page 24. Retail dealers In session. Page 5. Liquor seized in raid on Golden West Hotel. Page 11. Episcopalians raise (12,252 for clergy pen sion fund. Page 13. Lincoln High class tree planted In 1889 Is felled. Page 11. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 23. Stolen love case opens. Page 1. Christian Endeavor speaker gives military talk. Page 6. GIRL IN SUBURBS IS CHOKED Margaret Callahan's Assailant Is Frightened Away by Pedestrian. Miss Margaret Callahan was attacked at Bast Fifty-third and Belmont streets by a man who seized and chokert hen last nigh, according to information received by the police. The girl's assailant was frightened away when a pedestrian came up at tracted by her cries. Miss Callahan said she was going to visit a friend at 229 Fifty-second street at the time. BRIDGE GUARD DOUBLED Xew York Guardsmen Get Drastic Orders About Poughkeepsle Span' POCGHKEEPSIE, N. T., Feb. 19. The guard of Poughkeepsle bridge was redouble today following receipt of drastic orders received rrom division headquarters of the National Guard. The militia officers would not dis cuss the extraordinary precautions or a rumor that they had knowledge of Intent to tamper with the bridge. JUST WAITIN' AN OVERT ACT. : : ' PERMITS TO LEAVE GERMANY REFUSED American ResidentsDe- tained in Country. NO OTHER TROUBLE IS MADE Most of Those Still There Are Planning to Remain. MUCH OPTIMISM IS FELT Opinion of Germans, Including High Officials, However, Is That Two Countries Are Yet Steering Toward Hostilities. COPENHAGEN', via London. Feb. 19. All Americans arriving from Berlin have reported that the situation In Ber lin, so far as Americans are concerned, is little changed since the departure of Ambassador Gerard. The Lokal Anzelger, the Deutsche Tages Zeltung and several other news papers of Berlin and the provinces have fprlnted unpleasant things about Amer ica and Americans, but there appears to be no disposition to make trouble for Americans remaining In Germany. The only inconvenience has been Inability to get permission to leave the country. Many Decide to Remain. Even this is not felt seriously by a Large part of American residents, who have determined to remain In Germany regardless of developments, and who, with the usual optimism of Americana in a similar crisis, are becoming con vinced that matters will not go-beyond the present status of ruptured relations. This, however, does not appear to be the impression of Germans, Including those in official positions, who .eeem to believe tbe two countries are steer ing toward actual hostilities, and that there Is little chance of ultimately avoiding war. The American Legation here has re ceived Instructions from Washington to look out for Americans arriving in Copenhagen from Germany and cable their names promptly to tbe depart ment. More Consols Are Leaving. The American Consular-officers In Germany who did not accompany James W. Gerard, the American Ambassador, when he departed from Berlin, now are leaving Germany, most of them by the route to Switzerland. Frederick Achen bach. Special Commissioner of the American Treasury Department In Ger many and Scandinavia, and his brother and clerk, Charles Achenbach. who were to have left with the Consular officials, arrived last night, having elected to come from Berlin this way on account of their connections with Scan dinavia. The same train brought Mr. Luetke. delegate of the American Red Cross ef Austin, Tex. Two other Americans, whose passports were vised througu - (Concluded on Page 3, Column 3.) SPY PLOT AGAINST BRITISH ISCHARGED ARRESTS MADE FOR CSEVG UNITED STATES AS BASE. Agents Sent to England Said to Have Sent Back Information Written In Invisible Ink. XEW YORK, Feb. 19. Agents of the Department of Justice arrested here tonight two men, giving theri names as Albert S. Sander and Charles W. Wunnenburg, charged with violating the. Federal law against carrying on a military enterprise against a for eign country. They are accused of conspiring to obtain military. Information In Eng land to be sent to this country and then forwarded to Germany. The complaint charged them with conspiring to employ agents to obtain maps, photos and other military In formation in England and Ireland for the benefit of Germany. Sander, who Is 35 years old. Is presi dent of the Central Powers War Films Exchange In this city. Wunnenburg. 40 years old. Is his assistant. Coun sel for the accused men said tonight that Wunnenburg has been a natural ized citizen of this country 25 years. The men are accused of sending, to Great Britain agents who obtained military information which was trans mitted to this country In letters writ ten In Invisible ink. This information it is alleged, -was disseminated In the United States to agents of the central powers. Secret service agents had been work lng on the case for months. They be gan soon after the arrest In England of George Vaux Bacon, who claimed to represent American newspapers. Ba con's photograph was forwarded to this country by the British authorities and by means of it. Superintendent Offley said, the secret service was able to connect him with the operations of Sander and Wunnenburg, The Federal agents' Investigation Is said to have Involved at least 15 so called newspapermen employed by Sander and Wunnenburg and ordered by them to England and Ireland. Mil itary data were brought to this country by eome of their number traveling as American citizens. Women frequently were used, sometimes innocently, to carry this Information. The Ink used deceived the 'British authorities for some time because it does not become visible under heat, but requires a special chemical prep aration. AMBASSADOR TO PROTEST Fletcher Will Signal Arrival by Slaking Representations. WASHINGTON. Feb. 19. One of the first official acts of Henry P. Fletcher, the new American Ambassador to Mex ico, will be to protest against confisca tion of mines not in, operation on Feb ruary 14. Mr. Fletcher's arrival at the Mexican capital yesterday was reported today to the State Department. His formal presentation to General Carranza prob ably will not be later than Thursday and immediately afterward he will begin making representations on vari ous questions at Issue between the two governments. ZIONIST RELIEF GOES ON Work in Palestine, Poland and Lithuania Not to Be Stopped. NEW YORK, Feb. 19. The provision al Zionist committee announced here the diplomatic situation between the United States and Germany had not In terfered with Its distribution of relief funds in Palestine, Poland and Lithuania. With the approval of the Danish government and the support of Min ister Egan at Copenhagen, It was said, Danish Jews have taken over the com mittee's work In the three districts, to which more than $1,000,000 already has been sent. BIG' OIL MELON INDICATED Standard, of California, Has $25, 000,000 More Assets Than Capital. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. 19. Mak ing an affidavit that their net assets are in excess of their capital by $25. 000.000, the Standard Oil Company of California has made application to the State Corporation Commission to Issue $24,843,300 worth of stock as a stock dividend to the stockholders of the company. A similar stock dividend was de clared a year ago. The company has 745.300 shares of stock worth $7,453, 000 now outstanding. NORWAY TO GET ITS COAL British Exact Cessation of Pyrites Exports to Germany. LONDON. Feb. 19. A dispatch to Reuters Telegram Company from Chrlstianla says the special restrictions imposed by Great Britain on the export of coal to Norway have been with drawn, while Norway has stopped li censes for the export of pyrites to Ger many. The latter question, which is the main point of difference between the two governments, will be referred to two eminent lawyers, and should Norway's contention be upheld licenses will be again granted. Customs Jobs Protected. OREGON! AN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Feb. 19. Senator Chamberlain was today advised that the Collector of Customs at Portland has been In structed to abolish no offices under his jurisdiction. His force is to be reduced. but only as vacancies occur normally. IS. GADWALLADER WITH GIRL AT HOTEL Employer Not Along, Is Testimony at Trial. GIFT OF CANDY IS DISPUTED Husband Admits Taking $1000 From Troeh for Intrusion. TRIP TO SEAVIEW RECITED Witnesses Say James E. Cameron, Rich Timberman, and Pretty Stenographer Were Xot Alone at Beach Resort. Charles L. Cadwallader offered reasons of his own and testimony of witnesses In the court of Circuit Judge Davis yesterday to show why he be lieved James E. Cameron, wealthy timberman, has stolen the love of Mrs. Dorothy Cadwallader his pretty stenographer to the injury of Mr. Cadwallader In the sum of $50,000. He admitted receiving a note for $1000 from Jesse Troeh. assistant man ager of a local candy shop, last April. in recompense for an alleged Intrusion in the Cadwallader home, but said that this was not the cause of the broken ties, as he and his wife agreed to live together following what he referred to as the "Troeh incident." "Troeh Incident" Explained. Mr. Cameron's attentions to his stenographer were responsible for the desertion which led Mr. Cadwallader to secure a divorce last November de clared the aggrieved husband. Mrs. Cadwallader, on the other hand, testi fied that she lost her respect for Mr. Cadwallader when he could not work and support her and that the Troeh. case was a direct cause of her leaving her husband. Mr. Cadwallader's own testimony of the note incident at his home, after his wife had admitted to him that Mr. Troeh. had visited her one night, was: "There was a silence for some while when I told Troeh my wife had admit ter things. He asked me what my senti ment was. ' rayment of f 10OO Ileclted. "I told him I wouldn't settle things in the usual way that I'd make It a matter of dollars and cents. I said $1500 would be about right. He said he couldn't pay It, but if I took off $500 he could. So I made out the note for $1000." He testified he had not yet cashed the note, which was payable last July, because he did not feel that Mr. Troeh was the real one who had broken up his home. Chief allegations In the plaintiff's case, as presented yesterday, were six in number. Visits to Hotel In Testimony. First in Importance may have been the charge that Mrs. Cadwallader stayed two nights at the Cornelius Ho tel and one night at the Portland Hotel while her husband was out of town and that Mr. Cameron paid for her room each night. Henry E. Fletcher., manager of the Cornelius, and Joseph Herman, clerk at the Portland, were witnesses called by the plaintiff. In cross-examination by Attorneys McCourt and Watklns It was shown that the rooms were occupied by Mrs. Cadwallader and a girl friend. Alice Tooley, on February 2, 3 and 4. This wae during the silver thaw when cars were not running to Mrs. Cadwallader's home in the Mount Scott district, and at a time when hundreds of other young women were provided with hotel accommodations, by employers. Mr. Cameron Not Along. There was no evidence that Mr. Cam eron had visited Mrs. Cadwallader at the hotels, though he took her to the Cornelius the night of February' 2. Mr. Cameron was registered at the Portland the first night Mrs. Cadwalla der was at the Cornelius and was not registered at either hotel the othor nights. A second charge of the plaintiff was that Mr. Cameron gave his wife a large box of candy on Christmas, 1912. He produced the box In court. His di vorced wife took the stand and iden tified the box as one he himself had given her the first Christmas follow ing their marriage In 1912. She remembered it particularly, she said, because her husband was so pleased at being able to get It at a wholesale house, where It cost less than it would have cost at retail. Visit to Beach Gone Into. Then there was the Incident of the 1913 vacation at Seaview, Wash. Mr. Cadwallader said his wife went there alone, that Mr. Cameron followed her. went swimming with her and stayed nights at the same cottage with her. On cross-examination of Mrs. Minnie Misner. at whose cottage the two stayed. Mrs. Misner asserted that Mrs. Cadwallader slept with her every night of her visit, and that her mother and sister were In the cottage at the same time. Mr. Cameron was Invited to stay there because there was no room at the hotel, she said. When they went swimming there were hundreds on the beach. Mrs. Mis ner said Mr. Cameron paid no more at tention to Mrs. Cadwallader than ho did to her, and that Mrs. Cadwallader .(Concluded on Page 3. Column 1.) r.