VOL. LIX NO. 18.622 'e"tr'1' 1 Portland fOregon) ii JU " Postoffice a Second-Class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS INTERNATIONAL- AID TO PARTY CHARGED STATE REPUBLICANS ; BUCKLE INTO WORK BOURBON LEADERS ARE LEFT I DARK LUMBER OUTPUT LESS, BUSINESS IS, SLACK PBDDCCTIO.V BELOW NORMAL; ORDERS UNDER OUTPUT. FOREST FIRES RAGE IN NORTHERN IDAHO STRIKERS WILL BE' ORDERED TO IRK WILSON'S CONDITION HOUNDS AT HEELS OFTWQ FUGITIVES CRITICAL IS REPORT, OFFICERS IXARV CHOSEN" PRELIM. TO CAMPAIGN". v FEDERAL CREW'S RUSHED TO DANGER ZOXE. PRESIDENT SAID TO BE UNA BLE TO W ALK ACROSS ROOM. I Financing of Democratic Campaign Attacked. HARDING AGAIN QUIZZES GOX "Powerful Interests" in For eign Policy Alleged. LEAGUE ISSUE PUT FIRST Nominee Declared to Have Been Vnable to Agree With Walsh Concerning Article 10. MARION. O.. July 30. Senator Harding prefaced his front porch campaign tonight with a statement again asking Governor Cox for speci fications of the democratic stand on the league of nations and charging that the "powerful International In terests" concerned in President Wil son's foreign policy were preparing to finance liberally the democratic campaign. He declared tt had become appar ent that the democratic " campaign managers hoped to keep the league in the background, but he promised they would not be permitted to do so. "The more the democrats attempt to get away" from this issue," he said, "the more insistent the country will be to know what they Intend to do if they are intrusted with the adminis tration." t Spilt ob League Charged. Referring to the conference at Day ton yesterday between Governor Cox and Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, a democratic supporter of the repub lican treaty reservations. Senator Harding said it was evident they had not agreed on article 10 and that the democratic nominee was standing by . the president for ratification of the league without essential modiflca tlons. The statement also rapped George H. White, the democratic national chairman, for his criticism of,the re publican plan lo hold campaign con tributions to. 1000 each, and pre dicted that by November the country would show Its disapproval of unlim ited campaign funds. Powerful Interest Accused. "Undoubtedly it Is quite true," he continued, "that certain powerful in ternational Interests deeply concerned In carrying out the administration's foreign policy .are prepared to con tribute most liberally to the demo cratic funds. Undoubtedly it is true too, that without such contributions the democrats would, find it difficult - to raise the funds they need." The candidate did not reveal whether he would make the league is sue a feature of his .first front porch address tomorrow, but those In afeis confidence said he was prepared to follow up the fight with other public utterances soon. Tomorrow's address la to be delivered to a delegation from Mansfield, Ohio. Senator Harding's statement said: "Our democratic friends are having difficulty getting away from the em barrassment incidental to the candi date's visit to the White House and the announcement that he and the president found themselves In entire accord. Old Questions Recalled. "At the time of their conference 1 addressed some questions to the" dem ocratic candidate, which he has not thus far seen fit to answer. One was whether jn his conference with Presi dent Wilson he had pledged himself to the ratification of the. treaty and league without essential modifica tions. Another was whether article 10 had been accepted by him. Still fur ther, I asked whether Governor Cox had undertaken, if elected, to renew the demand that this country take a mandate over Armenia. "I asked whither Governor Cox had undertaken to maintain the adminis tration policy in the Adriatic, where their policy had already well-nigh forfaited the friendship of the Italian nation, brought Italy to the verge of revolution and almost wrecked the establishment of the peace. I asked whether Governor Cox had pledged himsglf to Insist, as President Wilson has heretofore Insisted, that Thrace shall be settled as Bulgaria desires rather than as Greece desires. . No Questions Yet Answered. , . ;."In short, I asked whether the dem ocratlc nominee has taken over the various known.and unknown commit ments of the administration's foreign j.ollcy in order to establish harmony between the president andGovernor Cox. ' "None of these questions has been answered. But there is accumulating evidence as to the democratic atti tude. Senator Walsh of Massachu setts, a democrat, was in Dayton yes terday, and after a long talk with Governor Cox, declared he was going to support too governor. According to the newspaper reports,' the senator was ask-ed about Governor Cox' deci sion regarding article 10 and Senator Walsh eaid It was possible for him to agree wl'h a candidate on nine out of ten Issues ,and still support that candidate, even If they differed on the tenth pro'poaal." "Thus it become apparent Senator Walsh was not able to agree with - iCpacluded on Fags 2, Column 2.) Headquarters ' to Be Opened and " Efforts Made to Carry Ore- j gon for. Party, f - '". - - . .- With. the: election of officers, the republican 'state executive committee perfected organization y e 8 t e r day. Next week the preliminaries for' the campaign will begin with the open ing of headquarters in the Morgan building. n ' The executive committee consists of the state chairman, national, commit teeman, secretary, treasurer and 21 others, 11 of whom are state com mitteemen and the remaining ten are women. The committee yesterday elected Clarence R. Hotchklss as sec retary, and re-elected, Arthur Jones as treasurer. O. C. Letter was se lected for publicity manager. The committee , has decided to have a bureau of speakers, a bureau of pub licity and a bureau for the organiza tion 'of republican iclubs. At the meeting, Robert N. Stan field, republican nominee for United States senator', -epoke, talking along party lines. - The main policy of the campaign committee will be to urge support of the entire republican ticket, with ' particular reference to electing republican candidates to con gress to uphold a republican presi dent. Sanfield... Macdonald, manager of the Johnson campaign in the Ore gon primaries, spoke, giving assur ance of the -support of the Johnson admirers to Harding and Coolidge.' ' Those attending the meeting yes terday were R. E. Williams, national committeeman;" Thomas H. Tongue, state chairman; Clarence R. Hotch klss, secretary; Arthur Jones, treas urer; J.'W. Cochran, the retiring sec retary; C. G. Huntley, W. P. O'Brien, Roy I. Smith, S. S. Smith, J. E. Dunn, S. E. Notson. Mrs. F. O. Northup, Mrs. C. E. Runyon, Mrs. ' Lee Davenport, Mrs. C. P. Bishop, Mrs. A. M. Dibble, Mrs. Frank. L. Chambers and Miss Anna Long. RAILROAD. UNIONS GROW Increase In Membership Attributed to New- Wage Scale. CLEVELAND, O., July SO. Al though objectionable aspects of the wage award by the railroad labor board In Chicago were discussed by the heads of the four big railroad brotherhoods today, formal action was postponed until a meeting here In two weeks. It was announced by ,W. G. Lee. president of the Brotherhood of Rail road Trainmen, that membership In that organization is Increasing by 100 to 123 per day. The heads of the three other, brotherhoods also re port increases in membership. ' The officials attribute it to the better wages being paid as a result of the new wage scale. CREAM MART WAR STARTS Butterfat Goes Up. 4 Cents Pound While Butte Holds. War for tftie control of the cream or Butterfat market has been started by a number of local creameries with the result that as high as 62 cents was offered yesterday. This repre sents an advance of i cents In the price or buttenac .without a cor responding advance 'in the quotations for butter. At the new rate offered, creamery Interests declare that the making of every pound of butter represents loss. A disposition to- fight to a finish was prevail. declared, however, to LIONESS BEARS 41 ST CUB Father Ackbar Roars at Birth, but Quickly Regains Poise. NEW YORK, July 30. Helen, a lioness caged in Central park, today licked her forty-first offsDring as affectionately as if the cub were her first.. Her keepers explained this unending maternal affection by say ing her. other children, save two which died in infancy, have all -been sent away to populate other zoos. Ackbar, the father, roared fiercely when the youngster was born, but later looked on the event as simply representing one more lion In the world. . ' RAKER UTO : INVESTIGATE Japanese. Situation in Hood' River . . . s; to Be Looked Into. ' HOOD RIVER, .Or..,, July 30. (Spe cial.) R. E. Scott, secretary of the Hood River Anti-Asiatic association, just back from Tacoma. where he testified,, as to local Holdings of Japa ness fruit growers, says that Repre sentative Raker, California member of the congressional committee . en gaged in Investigating. Japanese on the Pacific coast, is .coming here to study the local'situatioa at first hand. Mr. Ttaker, Mr. Scott says, will come here as soon, as investigations in Seattle are closed.. . " AUTO CHAMBER ELECTS i. ii .. P. E. Sands Named Head of.W'ash I , Ington Organization. ABERDEEN, Wash., July" 30.-P.-E Sands, Seattle, -.was eleoted president of the Washington automobile cham ber of commerce at the sixth annual convention in session here today. Leon Titus, Centralia, Wash., was' elected vice-president and W: J. . Coyle, Se attle, managing secretary. " The convention adopted a resolu tion indorsing the Carlyon bilT for paving state roads. ' National Chairman and - Nominee at Odds. LEAGUE ISSUE IS PUZZLE White: Denies Binding Wilson .Cox Contract. BREAK NOW NECESSARY Administration Newspaper Charges "Flavor or Cheap Politics About This Sort of Thing." OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington. July 30. Democratic leaders and democratic newspapers find themselves groping In the dark today. The editorial and news col umns of all Of theiNew Tork demo cratic papers Indicate a desire to ascertain their own whereabouts be fore turning definitely in any direc tion. s . Statements made' yesterday by George White, the new national chair man, were so contradictory of the interviews given out by Governor Cox and President Wilson just after the White House conference that polit ical experts said it might be neces sary to appeal to-the ouija board for interpretations. When Governor Cox left the White House the Information was that the democratic candidate -was in complete acooTd with Mr. Wilson on the league of. nations and prepared to make it the dominant Issue. ' At any rate that was everybody's interpretation at the time .and the presidential candidate did not undertake any correction. Contract Is Indicated. It was only when an unfavorable reaction swept like a tidal wave over Trail's End and Washington that ex planations in the form of reservations began to be offered to the White House pronouncement of Governor Cox. Chairman wnites statement yesterday- that "no iron-elad contract was entered into between the presi dent and Governor Cox in discussing the peace treaty," was accepted as an admission that some kind of a contract was made, though not "iron clad," and that Mr. Cox' managers hve found it Imperative that the pact be broken for him. The New Tork World and Times, both administration papers on the league of nations,, today soft-pedaled on the league issue as it concerns the democratic party. The World con tented Itself with asking Senator Harding where he stood on the league, while the Times discussed the (Concluded on Page 2, Column 4.) T . "' ' - ' ' ' ' . 1ml ; 'J' I I yk, " " 1pT?HfPS SOUTH AMOlCf t -""-Z : -"ST ' WILL, SOLKE.THE. I Car Supply Is 3 3 Per Cent of Re- quirements in Xorthwest, Ac- cording to Weekly Review.' For the week ending July 24 lum ber production in Oregon' and Wash ington was 20 per cent below normal, orders were 20 per cent below produc tion and 13 per cent above shipments. Car supply was approximately 33 per cent of requirements. Such is the substance of the weekly review of the . lumber situation Issued by the West Coast Lumbermen's association. Mill stocks throughout the territory- range from 25 to 4-5. per cent above normal, the report continues. Tre volume of new business taken on during the week was 58.597,507 feet, and the total production ' from the week's operations, according to the reports of the 129 mills sending in statements to .the association, was 72.947.498 feet. Shipments totaled51. 200,532 feet, of which 36.900.000 feet was by rail. - Local deliveries averaged slightly above normal with 4.188.15G feet; do mestic cargoes 5.048,ll9 feet; export cargoes 5,064,257 feet. Unshipped bal ance for transcontinental rail trade was 225.120.000 feet, or approximately 504 carloads. The unshipped domes tic cargoes amounted to 62,072,315 feet, unshipped export cargoes to 86,- 163,454 feet, and the total of all un shipped business to 353,355.969 feet. DRIVER SUSPECT GIVES UP Mrs. Bcrgdoll Furnishes Ball for Alleged Accomplice of Slacker. PHILADELPHIA, July 30. Harry G. Sen up, said to have been chauffeur for Edwin R. - Bergdoll, millionaire draft evader, when . the latter-was dodging about the country, surren dered today. He was indicted by a special' grand jury charged with con spiracy to harbor stnd conceal Berg doll and In aiding his escape. lurs. nmma u. tsergdoll accompa nied Schup to the federal building to day and furnished $10,000 bail. LABOR FACTIONS AT WAR Workers in Barcelona, Spain, Suf fer Reign of Terror. MAUK1JJ, July 30. The non-syn- dicalized workers . of Barcelona have been suffering a reign of terror for ten days at the hands of the. syn dicalists, who av8 assassinated or attempted to assassinate 30 persons. The victims are refractory work men who have refused to continue to pay dues to the syndicalists. JIMS0N "coffee;deadly Death of Couple Attributed to Use of Weed Seeds. COLUMBIA, Mo.. July. 30. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Orvllle Allison, aged 69, were found on their farm to day by neighbors. Jimson weed seeds were found in a coffee pot and the coroner expressed the belief that the couple had drunk some of the. coffee. The coroner said Allison and his wife had been dead about ten days. "THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE, SHE HAD SO MANY CHILDREN SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO." Twenty Conflagrations Reported In Montana; Several Burn Fierce ly Along River, v - SPOKANE. Wash., July 30. (Spe cial.) A dozei forest fires have start ed in the St. Joe and Priest river dis tricts of Idaho durine; the last 24 hours, and three or four of them are reaching large proportions, according to Information given out today by the United States forest service in Spo kane, Coeur dAlene and Sand point. ' Two f ire-f lgntlng crews were" sent out from the Spokane office last night and orders were received today for six more crews numbering nearly 200 men, according to F. R. Ingalsbe, local manager. A line of fire fighters extending 100 yards into the street from the Spokane fire office signed government contracts, to combat the forest flames this morning. The recent hot days taking all of the moisture from the ground, and the electric storm which passed over the Idaho forest districts yesterday are given as reasons for the sudden spread of fires. "The three largest fires In this vi cinity are the Perkins lake. Shoulder creek and Coolin fires," declared Mr. Fitting of Sandpoint. "The Shoulder creek blaze covers about 200 acres. and the Coolin fire, eight miles east of Coolin, is 20 acres in extent now. The Perkins lake fire is eight miles north of Bonner's Ferry. About 20 other small fires caused by lightning were put out before gaining headway. HELENA. Mont., July SO. Reports of 20 forest fires, several of them beyond control. In a strip of heavily forested arer. between Troy and Co lumbia Falls, Mont., have been re ceived by J. C. Van Hook, state for ester. Meager reports from the Flathead -country are to the effect that the fires are in both the state and na tional forests and in some privately owned timberlands. The area where the fires are burning is small, but It has been dry there some time and re ports are that men to assist in the fight are not easily found. Many of the fires in this section are along the Kootenai river. OIL DELIVERED TO NAVY 10,000 Gallons Given Up at Brem erton on Demand. SEATTLE, W-sh., July' 30. (Spe cial.) On instructions from directors of the Standud Oil company in San Francisco, John L. McLean, district sales manager of the company in Seattle, .yesterday delivered 30.C00 barrels cf fuel oil and 10,000 gallons of gasoline to the navy department at Bremerton. Demands for the sup ply were mide through the United States district attorney yesterday in the form of an ultimatum. As a result of the delivery to the navy, and delay of a tanker bringing a supply of fuel oil and gasoline to Seattle, automobiles were today placed on a ration of three gallons of gasoline, in place of five and trucks were reduced in their allowance from ten gallons to sevn gallons by the Standard Oil company. Compliance With Wilson Wishes Decreed. OBLIGATION HELD VIOLATED Settlement Possible Only by Return to Mines. FAIR RELATIONS MENACED President Speaks Plainly in Appeal to Workers to Abide by the Terms of Contract. INDIANAPOLIS. July 30. In com pliance with the wishes oh Presi dent Wilson, John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, will issue a mandatory order in structing all. miners on strike in Indiana ami Illinois to return to work immediately to permit the normal operation of the mines, it was an nounced at miners' national head quarters, tonight. ' The statement was Issued after a conference had reported favorably on the president's message, received to night. "I am profoundly impressed by the president's telegram," the statement said. "The suggestion of the president will be approved by every right-thinking and loyal mem ber of the United Mine Workers of America." f "The fairness of his statement must be apparent to everyone with respect for constituted authority -or the least regard for the public wel fare," the statement continued. "The suggestions of the president . . . will be considered as a stinging re buke to men of the type of Frank Farrington, who has deliberately and maliciously incited men to disregard their contract obligations. Public castigation of such leaders cannot be too severe." Cewrse Declared Clear. Compliant with his order that the strikers return, he said, would "pave the wajrfor the calling of a wage conference as suggested by the presi dent for the consideration of in equalities in the agreement." WASHINGTON. July 30. President Wilson, through the United, Mine Workers of America, tonight appealed to striking mine laborers in Illinois and Indiana to return to work. Inequalities 'in the wage scale held by the strike leaders to be the cause of the walkout which has closed most of the bituminous mines in the two states may exist, the president 6aid. He added that he could not recommend any correction until the strikers returned, but that when they did so he would invite the joint scale committee of operators and miners to meet to adjust any inequalities. Contract Held Violated. The president's appeal, a telegram addressed to the United Mine Workers of America, was eent after he had studied a report on the coal situa tion submitted by Secretary of Labor Wilson. The president dwlared he was dis tressed, not only because failure at this time. to mine coal would result in suffering during, the winter, but also because the "violation of the terms of your solemn obligation Im pairs your good name and threatens the very foundation of fair industrial relations." Pointing out that the United Mine Workers constitute the largest sin gle labor organization in the world, he said "no organization could long endure that sets up its own strength as superior to its plighted faith or its duty to society at large." Fair Relations Menaced. The president's telegram follows: "It is with a feeling of profound regret and sorrow that I have learned that many members of your organiza tion, particularly In Illinois, have engaged In a strike in violation of the terms of the award of the bi tuminous coal commission and your agreement with the government that the fiadings of the commission would be - accepted by you as final and binding. "I am distressed, not only because your action in refusing to mine coal upon the terms which you had ac cepted may result in great sufferings in many households during the com ing winter and Interfere with the continuation of industrial and agri cultural activity which is the basis of the. prosperity which you, in com mon with the balance of our' people, have been enjoying, but also, and what Is of far more importance, be cause the violation of the terms of your solemn obligation impairs your good name, destroys the confidence which is the basis of all mutual agreement and threatens the very foundation of fair industrial rela tions. Faith Valuable Asaet. "So government, no employer, no person having any reputation to pro tect, can afford to enter into con tractual relatii n with any organiza tion which systematically or repeat edly violates its contracts. "The united mine workers of Amer ica is the largest sirgle labor organi zation fn the United States, if not in Concluded oa Paga 3, Coiuma 2.) Friends Hope to Keep Campaign Progress From W hite House Fear ing Irritation May Cause Relapse. OREGON IAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, D. C. July 30. Ac cording to some of the most im portant political callerc who have seen the president during the last two weeks, he is unable to walk across the room and uses an Invalid chair al most constantly. One leg and one arm are helpless, according to these callers, and the president's, com plexion shows the long months of suffering In a pallor that is ashen gray. Special arrangements have been made for assisting him into the White House automobile by means of a Eeries .of steps, and so acute are the inroads on the president's health that the small exertion of using these steps causes him to require a rest ing period after he effort. Efforts at the White House to min imize the seriousness of the presi dent's condition continue, but these best informed will not be surprised if serious complication- develop within a few weeks. Months may intervene on the other hand without great change in the condition of the chief executive. Specialists familiar with the mala dies which beset the president say that in similar cases months of no apparent change may occur unless there arises some situation arousing the patient to over-exertion or irri tation. In such eases, developments made may be rapid and 'serious. Political friends of the president are deeply worried and hojSe to keep the irritations and vexations of the campaign far from him personally for fear of the effect of the strain on his already overwrought physique. WASHINGTON", July 30. Prayer for President Wilson's return to health was offere'd today by a minister, sit ting in the president's chair and with head bowed over the desk long used by Mr. Wilson in his private office at the White House. The minister. Rev. John Norberry, pastor of John Wesley Church of the Nazarene of New York, had called at the executive offices 20 years to the day from his first visit there with his bride to shake hands with Presi dent McKInley. Accompanied by his wife and daughter, Mr. Norberry walked through the cabine. room and then to the president's office. There Mr. ' Norberry sat down and prayed briefly. MYSTERY SHROUDS DEATH Police Hunt Girl With Rich Jew eler When He Succumbed. CHICAGO. July 30. Samuel A. T. Loftis, head, of the jewelry firm of Loftis Bros., died suddenly tonight, supposedly from apoplexy. Police have started an Investiga tion with the view of learning the Identity of the young woman said to have been with turn at the time of his death. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. SI degrees; minimum, 00 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; moderate westerly winds. Foreign. Ex-U. S. noldiers enlist with Mexican rebel Cantu. Page 3. Cloe friend of Viscount French assassin ated. Page 3. Sir Edward Carson charges Germans and -bolshevlki are aiding Sinn Fein. Page 6. Allies take ction In support of Poland. rasa s. National. Bourbon leaders left in dark by disagree ment of Cox with national chairman. Page 1. President's condition Is said to be critical. Page 1. Business outlook declared briuht. Page 4. "Open shop" vot on United states cham ber of commerce vote is overwhelming. Page 14. Domestic. Striking miners In Indiana and Illinois to be ordered back to work. Page 1. Harding charges "International interests" plan to finance democrat!,. Page 1. Chrlstensen charges both parties plot to kill ratification of suffrage. Page 2. Governor Cox - tells paraders he will be next to live in White House. Page '2. Ponzi's book audit to latt three or four days. Page a. Husband is- suicide after s-hooting- wife. Page 4. Pacific Northwest. Jury unable to agree in case against boy charged with murder. Page 5. Poese closing in on two Pendleton outlaws. Page 1. Attack on legion administration fizzles at convention. Page 4. Forest fires rage in northern Idaho. Page 1. Washington triple alliance expected to in dorse third party proposal. Page 11. riporta. Tacoma golf team playa Waverley today Page 12. Two fast semi-pro games on schedule to morrow. Page 12. Pacific Ccast league results; Portland 5, San FranciHco 3; Oakland A. Sacra mento 4; I .os Angeles 1. Seattle t; Ver non 2, Salt Lake 1. Page 12. Foul gives Shannon decision over Bronson. Page 13. Vardon and Ray defeat Ouimet and Guil ford. Page 12. Commercial and Marine). Sensational drop In wheat quotations stops trading In country districts. Page 1!. Hog advance to IS eeSits and Iambs to 11 cents at Portland stockyards. Page 18. International exchange further collapses at New York, forcing stock down. Page la. Wheat falls steeply at Chicago as a result of financial situation. Page 10. Portland on direct route to orient. Page 14. Portland and .Vicinity. Milk probe begun by committee named by taxpayers' league. Page 9. State republlcana buckle into work by electing officers. Page 1. Arguments in movie picketing case to be concluded today Page 7. City council plans for change in Portland's garbage dispoaal ayatem. Page 7. Chamber of Commerce committee named to investigate City's building code Page 13- Lumber production or northwest below ntrma). according to weekly review. Fse L Slayer of Taylor- and Ac complice Located. TRAIL FOLLOWED IN NIGHT Posse Comes on Spot Where Outlaws Camped. RATHIE AGAIN IN OPEN Third Desperado Appears for Third Time for Food Knd of Run Believed Near. PENDLETON. Or., July 30. (Spe cial.) Belated telephone reports re ceived here at the sheriff's office early this evening from the pos.se which has been on the chase for Hart and Owens, half-breed leaders of the Sunday jailbreak, stated positively that the bloodhounds in charge of Sheriff Warnick of Union county were but a few hours behind the two half breeds.. The report said that Hart and Owens were in the Summervllle dis trict and headed toward the tollgate district, through which it seemed evi dent they would attempt to make a break over the crest of the Blue mountains and into the Grand Rondo reservation. The trail of the two outlaws was followed throughout the night and early this morning the posse came upon a secluded spot where the free ing men are said to have camped for a time during the night. Itathle Asala Appears. This is the first report received from this posse since it took up the search early last- evening after the trail of the two men was first located definitely on the far side of the Meacham hilL An hour before this report was received from the posse hunting down Hart and Owens, another report from the posse in the Gibbon district sald that Rathie had made another ap pearance at 1 o'clock this after noon near the Blue mountain sawmill, about five miles from the tollgate, toward which point the two half breeds are headed. The report said that Uathie had appeared at a farm hou3e. where he again demanded food, and after getting, it had once more disappeared into the brush. The fact that Rathie had come into the open three times for food since early last night'was given as an, in dication that he had about reached his limit of endurance and could hold out but little longer. The Walla Walla bloodhounds have followed Rathie's trail since he appeared at the Read ranch near Ryan gulch early . this morning and when the telephone re port was received here late today, it said that the hounds were less than two hours behind him at 3;40 o'clocK. thi3 afternoon. Rain Aids Hnntjra. A heavy rain in this section last night made the hunt today the most favoiable since the men mad their bieak from jail Sunday. possemen were able to follow the tracks in many places while the fresh foot prints furnished a better scent for the hounds. The dogs were reported to be bay ing angrily as they trailed through th-j woods and underbrush toward tollgate. It is believed that Rathie is making a final desperate effort to escape. He has procured food three times within the last 24 hours, and has been able to make the longest flight since he first fought his way to liberty-. The distance between Ryan gulch, where he appeared at 1 o'clock this morning, and the Blue mountain sawmill where he again appeared Just 12 hours later. Is nearly 20 miles by the mountain trail which he followed most of the distance. Just what information, the other posse has to give assurance tnat it has the trail of Hart and Owens could not be given through the meager long-distance telephone received to night from one of the posse. But ths message was definite in stating that it was on the trail of the two half breeds, and Pendleton tonight is seelh ing with excitement. Fugitive Demands Food. At 1 o'clock this morning Rpthia went to the farm home of Don Read, near the head of Ryan gulch, and again demanded feed, which -was given. The same accurate description of Rathie as given last rkight by Mrs. Ricks was again given this morning from the Read ranch, thus leaving no doubt but that the lone fugitive, who is lurking in and around the Uibbon district, is Rathie, who took, a leading part in the hand-to-har.d encounter which preceded Sheriff Taylor's mur der in the jail office early Sunday afternoon. Men who are now on the trail of Rathie have received orders to bring him in alive if possible becaus leaders in the man hunt believe that he can be compelled to divulge valu able information concerning the other escaped prisoners if he is taken into custody. The total price or. Rathie's head now stands at ST50, dead or alive. Blind Lead Followed. Intense excitement prevailed early thil morning when two wayfaiers brought word that two men identi- IConcludcd oa 1'aga 3. Column 1) f