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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, XOTE3IBER 1, 1917. 17 FANS BRACED FOR BLOW AT BEAVERS If Coast League Drops Team Few in Portland Will Be Much Surprised. SACRAMENTO SEEKS PLACE Big; Delegation of Baseball Bugs From California Capital Will Urge Coast Directors to Let Town Have Xcw Chance. BY JAMES J. RICHARDSON. TVhen the Pacific Coast League base ball impresarios meet in secret con ference at the St. Francis Hotel, in San Francisco, today to discuss the status of the Portland baseball club. Judge "William Wallace McCredie and his nephew. Walter McCredie, will both be on hand and eye the proceedings with a "heavy, heavy hangs over thy head, what shall the owner do to redeem his franchise?" stare on their countenances. In view of the concerted efforts of the Southern magnates to separate the McCrediea from their holdings, Port land fans will not be surprised at any announcement that might be forthcom ing from the gathering of magnates today. It is positively known that a delega tion of Sacramento baseball fans will be on hand to petition the Coast League directors to include Sacramento as one of the clubs in the Pacific Coast League. The capital city Is going to make a big -plea. Back of the movement to reinstate Sacramento is Alden Ander son, a bank president and millionaire, and associated with him are a group of men ready to spend the money neces sary to give Sacramento a bang-up ball team. Just why Mr. Anderson and his asso ciates are so willing to donate their loose change for the entertainment of the Sacramento ball fans is more than a. mystery. Sacramento has been jock eyed back and forth in baseball circles for several years past. Harry Wolver ton was the last person to take a "flier" at the valley town, and he caused enough grief in the capital city that it was supposedly understood that class AA baseball had died a natural death in Sacramento, but somebody "dynamited" the fans and they have the spirit with them again. Charley Graham, than whom there is no squarer chap in the world, is mak ing the big fight for Sacramento. Graham formerly caught for the Sac ramento club and also managed the team when Jack Atkins dropped a few thousand simoleons in an effort to popularize the National pastime. They had a lease on a' baseball park at so many "kerplunks" per month about 300 and the lease still has three years to run. Good authority says the rent on the ball orchard has been cut since the Coast League team made its exit and was transferred to Salt Lake, but Graham and Atkins are still forking over enough "iron men" each month to start another liberty loan in their efforts to live up to their agreement on the lease of the Sacramento baseball park. And the dear boys want to come back. They are ready to spend Mr. Anderson's money in launching their scheme. It will be no trouble at all in getting Sacramento started in the Pa cific Coast League, but when they start to check -up the attendance which files past the turnstiles there is apt to be another story to tell. Sacramento never did pay as a Coast League ball town. Just why the mag nates should give the valley town con sideration at this time in preference to Portland is something which only the owners themselves can see. Charlie Graham may have his ball park lease to take care of. and he is unquestionably one of the grandest and squarest men that ever lined up in Pacific Coast League baseball history, but Graham's high qualifications will not help pay hotel bills and transporta tion any more than Portland. We await the verdict. The American Association club own ers are having their little Jamboree along with the Coast magnates. Trie adjustment of whatever troubles there may be disturbing the American Asso ciation will come to a head at the an nual meeting of the league at Louis ville. November 12. According to President M. E. Can tlllon. of the Minneapolis club, it has been thought best to postpone the an nual meeting" of the American Asso ciation until after the meeting of the National Association of Minor Leagues. This idea has been abandoned and the meeting will be held on November 12. None of the clubs have made a move toward looking for players for next year. With the draft impending no one seems to know where the players are going to land. The same condition exists here in the Pacific Coast League. Not until after the final placing of the draft will it be possible for club own ers to make a move toward strengthen ing their clubs or rebuilding them for next season. The McCredies will not send out contfacts until January 1. COAST MOGULS' ACTS IN DARK Probable Results of Directors' Meet ing Today Problematical. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31. (Special.) The moguls of the Coast League will convene at the St. Francis Hotel to morrow to discuss affairs of great im port to themselves; that is, they are expected to do that, but may be it will be just one of those meetings that work the bellhops and the boys in the white jackets to a state bordering on exhaustion. Still, that Is hardly likely this time, for this has been one of those lean years in baseball, where the turnstiles rusted and huge dents were made in the bank rolls of the club owners, so water may be the beverage. There has been a lot of preliminary talk about fixing up the circuit so that the railroad companies will not get all of the gate receipts. The dope is that Portland and Salt Lake are to be dropped, and a snug little circuit fixed up that will make it possible for the club owners to take in enough dough to move the players around. Judge McCredie is on his way from Portland, and will be here in the morning. He has so many figures to show that Portland is a better baseball town than Los Angeles that he is carrying excess baggage, the statistics being checked in a large trunk. The judge is the "figgering kid" and, once he puts on his specs and delves into the : dope, he will have his fellow moguls gasping for air. Walter McCredie is here waiting for the uncle and, after the meeting, he probably will go to Los Angeles and work during the Winter. Johnny Powers, of Los Angeles, is said to be the chief shouter in the agi tation to drop Portland. And his talk Is chafing Walter McCredie. - "Frora the way he talks, I guess Johnny, is running the league," said Walt; so we will have to wait until he gets here to find out what is to be done with us. '"I understand he made the crack that if Portland and Salt Lake were kept in the league he would refuse to take his team to those two towns next year. That would be dreadful. If he breaks awoy I suppose he will form a little league of his own." As a matter of fact, if Judge McCre die really wants to keep Portland in the Coast League, Powers will have small chance of getting him out. Cal Ewing and the Judge are close friends, for they worked hard together to save the league after the fire of 1906. If the Judge wants to stay, Cal will stay with him. Jack Cook, of the Salt Lake club, is a former partner of Cal. and he would vote with Cal and McCredie. because if Portland is dropped Salt Lake will go too. That makes three votes, and as there are only six directors and President Baum is not allowed to vote, Powers would have a tough time putting it over, even if he convinced Hen Berry and Tom Darmody, and he has yet to get the demon manager on his side. The boys will do a lot of talking, anyhow, and then adjourn for dinner. Then they will talk a lot more. There is no way to dope this meet ing something big may be put over and then again it may be just a talk- fest. The things that are gnawing at the vitals of the club owners may be put over until the annual meeting late next month, but the gathering tomor row will give the men a chance to exchange opinions. ISRAEL WEINBERG TRIED Change of Venue in Bomb Murder Case Denied by Judge. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26. Israel Weinberg, fourth of the bomb murder defendants to face a jury, was brought to trial recently before Superior Judge Emmet Seawell, of Santa Rosa. Cal., who was asked to preside by Superior Judge Frank H. Dunne, in whose court the case has been called. Motion by Weinberg's counsel for a change of venue, alleging bias and prejudice , on the part of Judge Dunne, was denied by him. Subsequent illness resulted in the substitution of Judge Seawell. The state produced witnesses in tended to prove that Weinberg drove three of the six defendants to the scene of the explosion in his Jitney bus, where a tan suitcase, alleged by the state to have contained the bomb, was placed on the sidewalk on the spot where the blast occurred. Alibi witnesses were placed on the stand by the defense whose main contention was that Wein berg was driving his machine in an other section of the city when the ex plosion took place. A feature in the course of the elec tion of a Jury, which took two weeks, was a ruling by the court disbarring from jury service members of any or ganization which contributed directly or indirectly to any fund used by the defense or prosecution. The court spe cifically named the San Francisco Chamber of .Commerce and various labor unions. The Chamber of Com merce had appointed a special prose cutor in previous cases, while many labor unions had contributed money for the defense fund. Warren K. Billings, Thomas J. Mooney and Mrs. Rena Mooney, wife of Mooney. were the first defendants tried In the order named. Billings and Mooney were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and death re spectively. Appeals in both cases were taken to the State Supreme Court. Mrs. Rena Mooney was acquitted of one of nine indictments for murder. Her motion thereafter for liberty on bail was denied by order of three Su perior Judges in whose courts the in dictments were pending. Shortly before the trial of Mrs. Mooney a charge of attempted subor nation of perjury was brought against Frank C. Oxman. a Durkee (Or.) cattle man, by counsel for Mooney, at whose trial Oxman was a material witness Oxman, accused of having sought to induce F. E. Kigali, of Grayville, 111., to testify falsely against Mooney, was acquitted in the Superior Court. A charge of direct perjury subsequently brought against him was dismissed through lack of evidence. The cloud cast on Oxman's testimony, however, caused State Attorney-General U. S. Webb to file a stipulation of consent for a new trial for Mooney in the State Supreme Court "in the interest of justice." It was denied, the court declaring it had no constitutional au thority to go outside the record in the case, in which Webb said he had found no reversible error. This denial had no errect on Mooney's regular appeal. Return of Jewels Demanded. "PARIS, Oct. 27. M. Herbaux. Procurator-General, has received a demand from Lady Abinger, formerly Madame Steinhell, for the restitution of Jew els belonging to her that were seized by the police during the sensational Steinheil case. M. Herbaux replied that the articles are at her disposition whenever she chooses to call for them or to send some duly authorized per son to receive them. The jewels in question played an important role in the case, as did an unset pearl that was found in the garret of the Steinheil studio during the investigation, of the tragedy. Phone your want ads to Tho Ore- gonlan. Main 7070. A 6095. AS KNITTER, TRIXIE FRIGANZA IS SOME ORPHEUM HEADLINER Delia O'Callahan Makes It Known BY LEONE CASS BAER. It AKE a slip knot on the left I VI hand needle. Into it insert the '" right-hand needle, pressing it from left to right beneath the left-hand needle. Pass the yarn around the point of the right-hand needle " Delia O Callahan is learning to knit. She was reading the directions and fol lowing them at one and the same time in. her dressing room at the Orpheum yesterday. Not nimbly does Delia knit, nor skilfully, and she has to unravel every other stitch, but she goes about it gladly and with the pep that char acterizes all else she does. . . Delia has knitted one inch a week since . she started on this tour four weeks ago, and her contract with the Orpheum calls for 52 weeks. "I guess it will be a scarf, 54 Inches long, when I get it done," opines Delia. Maybe you saw her doing her bit of knitting at the Orpheum? She takes it out of a parasol and counts crlbbage or pinochle points the while she Jabs the needles In and through. Off stage she still knits, but she reads out of a hows-how while she does it. St oris Beat Train. Delia O'Callahan is Trixie .Friganza. She was born O'Callahan in th state of Kansas, With" an Irish daddy and a Spanish mother. Trixie says she shud dered to think of the name Delia O'Cal lahan in electric lights on Broadway and as she very early in life decided that nothing short of electric light Broadway would satisfy her, she took her mother's name. Frlganza, tacked on her pet name of Trixie and that's the how and why. The name of the village where she was born is not known to history, although Trixie says she has made every effort to find it. "It's a watering station or a coaling place or a siding or something some where between a village named Genoa in Kansas and Fort Scott," said Trixie. LANE DUBIOUS ON ALASKA GOAL RELIEF Secretary of ..it rior Writes Senator McNary Letter Ex plaining His Views. COMPETITION ' BIG PUZZLE Transportation Facilities to Be Available to Anchorage and On to Seward ' by Next Season and , Every Opportunity Given. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Oct. 24. Although facilities will be provided next Spring for get ting Alaska coal to tidewater, Secre tary Lane, as evidenced by a letter written to Senator McNary, does not anticipate that this coal will play any considerable part in solving the fuel problem in the Pacific Northwest next year. This year Alaska coal is not available for export in any quantities. Secretary Lane, according to his let ter, seems to harbor a doubt as to the ability of Alaska coal to compete along the Pacific Coast with Washington coal and with California oil. Furthermore, the information he furnishes the Sena tor does not indicate that any sub stantial development is now in sight. The letter of Secretary Lane is in response to a series of inquiries pro pounded by the Oregon Senator more than a month ago. In that communi cation Mr. McNary called attention to the fact that "if it could be demon strated that coal in large quantities can be mined in Alaska next season at a price that is not prohibitive, such show ing might induce Pacific Coast capital to provide the necessary ocean trans portation to get that" coal to Pacific Coast ports." The Senator several times conferred with Secretary Lane on the Alaska coal situation, it being his de sire, as it evidently is Secretary Lane's desire, to see Alaska coal on the Pa cific Coast market, in the hope of avoid ing another season of fuel shortage and high prices. . Necessary Capital la Mere Guess. Secretary Lane, replying to one ques tion by Senator McNary, says it is not possible accurately to estimate the amount of capital necessary to open up and operate commercially a coal mine in the Matanuska field, but he ventures the rough guess that $250,000 should be sufficient to open such a, mine, if transj portation facilities are close at hand. As to the amount of coal likely to be mined in the. Matanuska field next year, on the basis of leases made or in sight. Secretary Lane again avoids making any forecast. He points out that Oliver LaDuke and others are developing a leasehold with a view to selling coal locally and in trade with the states "if they can compete with other sources of coal." "I can only say," adds Secretary Lane "that we expect by the end of this, season to have transportation fa cilities available to Anchorage and by next season to have the line connected up to Seward, so that by that time it would seem that there will be every opportunity for mining coal if it is pos sible to mine coal successfully in the Matanuska field in competition with outside sources." LaDuke's lease covers 1400 acres, and within Qve years not less than $160,000 will be spent on that tract in develop ment. Associated with LaDuke in this venture are Wilson A. Smith, of Port land, and Chauncey C. Harcey, of Se attle, with two residents of Alaska. Another 1440-acre tract has been leased to California parties, who are required to make a minimum investment of $144,000, and it is the intention of these parties to mine coal for shipment to the Pacific Coast states. Prediction Not Made. "Little in the way of prospective de velopment can be predicted at this time," adds Secretary Lane, "on other applications that were filed for lands in the Matanuska field, as practically all of them have been withdrawn or in effect were rejected. "In the Bering River field the situ ation is different," the Secretary says. "Only two applications have been made. Final action has not been taken on either, as I have been endeavoring to arrange in some way for transportatio n facilities at the time the leases ar3 let, as it is perfectly apparent that one operation cannot succeed .without the other. "Before the end of next season there will be adequate transportation facili ties to tidewater for all coal that can be mined in the Matanuska field. Coal now could be shipped via Anchorage to the outside, but wharfage facilities at Anchorage are not as good at present as they will be when improvements now under way are completed." Secretary Lane says it Is not in tended to use any of the appropriations thus far made for the Alaska Railroad That She Was Born Somewhere in "My mother was on her way to Fort Scott from Genoa, when the stork caught up with her and I made my advent like one of these headline stories you read about in the paper. Nobody took down the name of the station because then, of course, I gave very little promise of becoming any thing but another O'Callahan and now, if Kansas ever wants to erect a statue to me it will have to lay out a trail of 'em or dedicate to me a highway from Genoa to Fort Scott." Passing? of Gosslpa Noted. Trixie is of the opinion that the old rocking-chair, sewing-circle, tatting variety of she-gossip and the equally I gabbling friendly-old-pipe variety of he-gossip is slipping out of the scheme of things. "She and he for the hes are quite as bad as the she-gossips, aren't being done any more," says Trixie. "I at tribute it all to the fact that we are thinking of bigger things these days. I don't mean that we are getting away from personalities. "Men seldom get away from indulging in personalities and women never do, but I mean the cheap, malicious and cruel gossip the criticising, pulling-down-and-tearing-to-tatters gossip. It has always emanated from women who have restless minds and idle hands. Now they're too everlastingly busy. Both minds and hands are busy. Every where we hear women talking of patri otism and loyalty. Not only do they talk it, but they practice it. It creeps into all their activities nowadays and women are becoming thinkers and doers. "Yes, the old-fashioned gossip is ob solete. There are too few folk who have time to listen. Make a slip knot on the left hand needle. Into it insert the right-hand needle, pressing " Delia O'Callahan was knitting an other millionth of an inch. 1 C CIGARETTES Y( cflMPOKFEDatid DOMESTIC f3 tobaccos BlendedL " I f" "Satisfy?"' Yes! l jmiMm Yet they're Mild ! Wrapped iri Tin Foil keeps them Fresh in building a line to the Bering River coal field; rather, he intends to com plete first the lino under construction now. Old estimates, however, show that $2,000,000 would build a 50-mile rail road to connect the Bering River coax fields witl. the Copper River & Norri. western Railroad, at a point 38 miles from Cordova, and such a line, the Sec retary points out, not only would fur nish a coal supply to this privately owned railroad, but coal for smelting operations and for local and export trade. A direct line from the seaboard to the Bering River field is feasible, but would not directly join the coal and the copper resources of that part of Alaska. If a road is built to connect with the Copper River road, then operating agreements with a private concern will be necessary; the alternative, not stated by Secretary Lane, is for the Govern ment to buy the Copper River road. Dlfflcnltlea Warning Out. "While I am desirous of seeing both coal fields developed," continues Mr. Lane, "you will appreciate the diffi culties as to the development of the Bering River field. Manifestly, the Matanuska field presents the better op portunity for immediate operations. "As to the quality of the coal in the two fields, there are many differences of opinion. The tests made by the Navy indicate that Matanuska coal is satis factory for naval purposes, while Ber ing River coal is not. The Bering River field contains a considerable amount of anthracite, and the Matanuska field some. It generally is conceded that the Bering River field will furnish a good supply of coking coal for smelt ing purposes." In reply to questions by Senator Mc Nary as to whether or not the form of leases required for Alaska coal lands are standing in the way of develop ment. Secretary Lane says: "I am ready to consider at any time any changes in said regulations that may render same more practical or which may lend more encouragement to coal mining in Alaska, provided such changes leave the lease properly pro tective of the interests of the Govern ment and provide for sound adminis trative methods." Senator McNary suggested to Secre tary Lane that lack of extensive de velopment, in view of the early com pletion of the railroad to the Mata nuska seemed to indicate the presence of some obstacle. "If this obstacle," says Secretary Lane, "consists of Impossible or im practical requirements on the part of the Government, I shall be glad to have it pointed out, as nobody desires more than I do to see Alaska development go ahead as rapidly as possible. It is my best Judgment, however, that the chief obstacle is a reluctance on the part of the large coal-mining operators who do the real big coal mining in the United States to venture their capital in Alaska, they having serious doubt as with the coal produced in the States under more favorable conditions, or can compete on the Pacific Coast with Cali fornia oil." CORNFIELDS CALL FOR MEN Eastern Farmers Have Trouble Har vesting Fall Crop. CHICAGO, Oct. 24. Are you a good cornhusker? If you are you have a chance to do a big service for your country, and make good wages besides, by doing your bit for the next few weeks in the Illinois cornfields. The need of men is des perate, as indicated by the repeated and urgent calls upon the Daily News farm labor recruiting station, 178 West Madison street, second floor, from all parts of the state for help immediately. "We can use hundreds and hundreds of men in the cornfields of Illinois and surrounding states from now until Christmas," said Mrs. Sophia S. Lamb, head of the bureau, today. "And we must have them or a portion of the crop will have to be left to rot in the fields. That is the word that is coming to us from county agents and leading farmers all over the state. They call for men and simply can't get them. It seems as if the great cornhusking army must come from Chicago If it comes at all. "Good wages are assured 5 and 6 cents a bushel, with "keep," and year round Jobs If the men want them, or on a straight salary for the season. There are thousands of experienced farmers in Chicago, They are needed Sure as you're a foot High. Sounds strange, because you never before smoked a.mild cigarette that did that. Yes, Chesterfields "reach home," they let you know you are smok insthey "Satisfy"! Still, they're Mild! A new blend of pure, natural Imported and Domestic tobaccos that's the answer. And the blend can't be copied. Make Chesterfields your next buy, now. If they will register at our bu reau we will place them almost imme diately, wherever they may want to go, free of charge." Hundreds of other farm positions are open, for single men and for men with families. Emphasis is now being laid UNDERSTAND THIS NOW! CATARRH CAN BE RELIEVED S. S. S. Hes Proven to Bo n Blood Purifier That Will Cleanse the Vital Fluid and Carry Off the Impurities. The very fact that Catarrh is often considered to be nothing more than a bad head-cold or inflammation of the membranes of the nose and throat has caused many people to go through years of suffering, who might have been fully restored to health had they realized that the supposed cold in the head was not a local trouble only, but that they had become Infected with the germs of a complicated and dan gerous disease. It is true that Catarrh usually be gins with a cold in the head, and this supposed cold may have been caused by infection through proximity to in fected persons in a closed streetcar or room, inhaling the germs when some one coughed or sneezed; but, however the infection occurs, the poisons which are taken into your system ultimately find their way into your blood and the supposed cold becomes a constitutional trouble that will affect every part of your body. The poisoned blood circu lating through your system will carry these germs to the very source of your vitality. Look out for these symptoms, for there Is no more annoying or danger ous disease than Catarrh. There's a continual discharge from the nostrils, buzzing in the ears that grows worse and worse, sometimes leading to deaf ness, scabs in the nostrils, headaches, dripping la the throat, constant hawk" on securing families for removal to farms next Spring. Good opportunitiea galore await such applicants. They should register now at the bureau. Phone your want ads to The Ore gonian. Main 70T0. A r.ojis. lng and spitting, and in certain stage of the disease the odor from the breath, is very offensive. Catarrh is usually worse in Winter because of overheated rooms and of fices, and because the low temperature prevents the little relief that healthy sweating will give. The poison vitiated air in stuffy rooms is breathed over and over in fact, the dally habits ot men and women in Winter are faithful allies of this disease. As the blood circulates through the body it carries Catarrh germs into the stomach, caus ing chronic dyspepsia; it affects that kidneys and bladder; it weakens th general health and causes loss of ap petite. The sufferer feels despondent and half sick most of the time, but tho greatest danger lies in the fact that if the Catarrh is not checked, the lungs may become involved, terminating in Consumption, the most insidious of all diseases. Don't expect to permanently euro Catarrh with sprays, lotions and salves or medicated cigarette smoking. They give only temporary relief. S. S. S. is the best treatment for Catarrh, because it goes right into the blood and assists it in removing the catarrhal poison and at the same time builds up the entire system by its fine tonic effect. S. S. S. is a purely vegetable remedy and not injurious to the system, like mineral medicines are. Catarrh sufferers will find the con sulting department helpful in advising, local treatment to be used with S. S. S. Don't hesitate to write them, and if you have the symptoms of Catarrh or a cold that Is hanging on. go immediately to your druggist and get a bottle of S. S. S. Swift Specific Company, Drawer 12. Atlanta, Georgia. Adv. .