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IStt Stttt.fcit .fit (itoimtttfftt f Pagesl to 12 VOL. .XXVIII. XO. 49 PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. COfiERESSTOSHQW HOW IT LIKES TIFT MAN FINDS HIMSELF WITH2H0USEH0LDS TWO WIVES ARE SISTERS AND ALL IilVE IN HARMONY. STORM GRIPS CITY; cold tvirjn. SNOW Mercury Falls to 24.2 Above Zero. HOMESTEAD RIOTS FEARED IN OHIO ANOTHER AFFINITY APPEARS IN CASE MERRY SCHOOL WAR AGITATES DAYTON ISSUE IN BRITAIN FIVE J1EX SHOT WITHIN (2 4 HOURS IN STRIKE. SCPERIXTENDENT RESIGNS, ALL HIS TEACHERS QUIT. FOGGED BY WOMEN Believed More Radical - Than Roosevelt INSURGENTSPRQMISE SUPPORT Aid Limited, However, to What They Think Is Right. POSTAL BANKS DOOMED? It Postponement Is Made, Friends of Scheme Promise to Cause Much Trouble President May Not Get All He Asks For. ORBGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec 4,. Congress will meet Mon day In the first legislative cession since Mr. Taft came Into office. The House already Is fully organised, committees have been appointed and there is no rea Bon apparent why the members should not begin the important work of the Winter at once. Unusual interest attaches to the coming session, because before it is ended Con gress must disclose its attitude toward 'vthe progressive policies of Mr. Roosevelt's successor policies in every way as dis tasteful to the organization majority of Republicans in Congress as they were when the man now in Africa first gave them his sanction. " i Taft Has Measures of Ills Own. Mr. "Taft his Inherited parts of an un finished legislative programme, but it , must not be understood that he has not several matters of public moment, the result of his own thought and intiative, to bring to the attention of the National legislators. It will not be surprising at all if some of the legislation which the President will urge before the Winter is over proves to be more radical than any thing which Mr. Roosevelt advocated. There are many things of general pub lic concern to' come before Congress dur ' ing the coming session, but the great questions for consideration and debate as far as can be foreseen at presont are: Measures to Come Up. Amendment.to the interstate commerce law; legislation to make certain that the natural resources of the country shall be saved to the people from the hand of greed; establishment of a postal savings bank system; reduction of governmental expenses; the question of separate state hood for Arizona and New Mexico. The insurgents in Congress, through their spokesmen who have ,come here in advance, say without reservation that they will support every Administrative endeavor of Mr. Taft along the lines of progress, and that they will not allow a personal grievance, growing out of trou ble over the rules, or of insurgent antag onism to Speaker Cannon, to move them "from their position of loyalty. Insurgents Loyal to Taft.( The reactionary members of Congress have promised, with every outward ap pearance of sincerity,, that they will give heed and sympathy to everything de manded by the Hepublican platform and to everything which the President may recommend and which they think has the people's support. The promise of the conservative gentlemen is engaging. The question, which the Administration could have answered in advance, is, will the promisers keep their promises? The feel , ing among the insurgents seems to be that the organization members of Con gress, who are one with the conservatives, will give way just as little as they can to the President's progressive demands and yet save themselves from the wrath of their constituents when election day comes, next November. Postal Banks May Fall. There seems to be a feeling that Con gress1 will refuse to authorize tlie estab lishment of postal savings banks. It is possible that the question may be post poned for consideration until another ses- (Concluded on Page 2. ) HARRY I : '. . : -. . . ' . ; . : ' : 1 I wiu ue toM. Town Meettns Bell WUI Rinff First Spouse Leaves Him for Holy Rollers, He Weds Again and No. 1 Returns. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4. Ernest Pen dleton, a prosperous baker, who has lived in this city for 20 years, is con fronted today with the difficult proposi tion presented by the fact that he has suddenly found himself possessed of two wives and that he has two house holds to provide for and supervise. The fact that his two wives are sis ters and that there is not only no dis cord between them, but a great affec tion, and that be is equally fond of both, only tends to complicate the sit uation for him. Thirteen years ago Mr. Pendleton was married here to his first wife, ind lived with her for seven years. Then she was attracted to a band of relig ious people known as "the Holy Rollers and went away with' them. Hearing that she had procured a divorce in DenVer. Pendleton, three years ago, married a younger sister .of the :'..jt Mrs. Pendleton in this city. The first Mrs. Pendleton returned .to Los Angeles a few days ago and has met her former husband and been for given. While he does not know vet just what his legal matrimonial stand ing is in regard to the sisters, Pendle ton has undertaken to maintain an establishment for each until some solu tion of the difficult problem can be found. TANGLED BEAR TROUBLES Bruin, Policeman, Leash and Box Mix Interestingly. A picketed cinnamon bear in the back yard of the home of Howard .Gilnett, 359 Fifty-first street, caused no end of con sternation in the neighborhood last night after it had become cast in its leash. The police were summoned to untangle bruin and Partolman Webster, after a sparring match with the cub,- resorted to strategy to release the bear from the tangled chain. A large . packing box was dragged out, and whit patrolman and bear sparred, the neighbors manipu lated the box. An instant later the angered bear toppled backward into the box. where he remained for the night lying on his back. An effort will be made today to extricate him from the tmarled leash. Shortly after o'clock last night Mrs. C. E. Marstcn. a member of the local Humane Society, living three' doors from the Gilnett home, notified police head quarters of the predicament of the bear. CALHOUN MAN FOR CHINA? Reported Chicago Lawyer Has Been Ofrered Vacant Post. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. It was reported here tonight that' William J. Calhoun, a Chicago lawyer and formerly member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, had been offered the post of Minister to China by President Taft and would accept the office. No confirmation Was obtainable tonight. Mr. Calhoun is a member of the firm of Calhoun, Lyford & Sheehan, of Chicago. William J. Calhoun tonight declared he had not been officially 'notified of his appointment as Minister to China. Ap parently, however, the news of his prob able selection did not occasion him sur prise. TOWN IS MUCH TOO GOOD Marshal of Lake Arthur, La., Re signs, "Nothing to Do." LAKE ARTHUR, La., Dec. 4. Civic righteousness has made a new record, and municipal, civil and criminal busi ness is so dull here that the Mayor has resigned and the town marshal's salary h.as been reduced to Jl a "month. The " Mayor tendered his resignation because he said there -was "nothing to do." TAFT IMPROVES HIS PCAY President Defeats Bourne on Chevy Chase Golf Links. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. President Taft today resumed his favorite amuse ment, golf, and defeated Senator Bourne and Frank B. Kellogg in a game at the Chevy Chase links. MURPHY LIGHTENS UP DRIFTS BLOCK CAR SERVICE Small Boy With Bobsled Enjoys Day at Coasting. BUSINESS IS CURTAILED Wires Go Down and AVeather Bureau Is Unable to Make Forecasts, but Predicts Continuation Severe Weather Over Northwest. t MORE SNOW TODAY, 8AY8 I WEATHER MAN. At a late hour last nieht the I Weather Bureau predicted that Lilts ymeui n i u r III would conunu. throughout Sunday. In that caBe it Is feared that few streetcar lines will be operated in Portland aside from the main trunk lines, which the company la making special ef fort to keep open. There will be a strong wind from the east during the day, which in dicates that the weathr will not turn warmer. -All stations along the coast are displaying storm signals. The maxi mum temperature yesterday was 29.8 and the minimum 24.2, a fall of o degrees being noted from 12 o'clock noon to lfl p. M 1 J The coldest day noted in Koran- t ber was warm compared to yesterday, . I the thermometer reaching 29 degrees. J Snow, with a biting east wind and a temperature ranging between 24.2 and 29.8 above zero,- gave Portlanders a touch of real Winter yesterday. The wind, which at times seemed to come from all directions, attained a ve locity of 35 miles an hour and piled the light snow in numerous drifts, seriously crippling the street-car service, keeping people Indoors and making the day the severest since the storm of last January. Small Boy Made Happy. The snow made the streets slippery for pedestrians, interfered with telephone and telegraph lines, but proved a source of joy to the small boy who was fortunate enough to own a sled. If the youngsters were not busy on the coasters they found time to hide behind fence corners, and, impervious to the cold which kept mother busy with the furnace and father swear ing at the fuel bills, they pecked away with snowball ammunition until even the grumpiest of the few grumps in the city of roses, were glad to admit that condi tions might have been worse. Forecasts Are Curtailed. With the shifting of the storm center, which has hovered over Puget Sound for the past two weeks, there came a cor responding high temperature in the North, causing the snow storm of yes terday and this morning. Up to 5 o'clock last night two and one-tenth inches of snow had fallen in the park ' in front of the Custom-House, and at. a late hour the officers of the Weather Bureau were unable to formulate any prediction as to when the storm would moderate. Wires Along Coast Go Down. All lines are down connecting with Coast stations, but in a round-about way it is ascertained that the storm center is now off Marshfield, and from that basis of calculation it is predicted that snow will continue to fall in Portland through out today. , Two hundred men and -three rotary broom cars were at work yesterday after noon in an effort to keep the streetcar tracks clear for the evening rush. C. J. Franklin, superintendent, was in personal charge of the men and in order to secure more power in "bucking" the drifts at street corners and Intersections of tracks. (Concluded on Page 5.) THE GLOOM OF A SNOWBOUND SUNDAY BY CONTRIBUTING A SERIES Regiment of Infantry and Cavalry Squadron Called Out to Keep Order at Bridgeport.' BRIDGEPORT, O., Dec. 4 Martial law tonight holds sway here, where 2000 strik ing employes of the Aetna-Standard plant of the Sheet & Tin Plate Company, a sub sidiary of the United States Steel Cor poration, have been rioting since mid night Friday. A regiment of infantry, one squadron of cavalry and over 150 deputy sheriffs and police from the city guarded the mills. Five men have been shot and more or less seriously wounded within 24 hours. A Federal Court Injunc tion has been asked to restrain strikers from injuring the plant. The lawlessness bringing on the present situation comes from a trivial incident. Early today a mill guard stepped outside the mill enclosure to escort another guard to a cab. A fusilade of shots greeted the two men. Two bullets struck one of the men, but the wounds were not serious. A third guard,- rushing from the enclosure, dragged the two men to safety. Sheriff Armine wired the Governor for troops, saying: "We fear another Homestead strike and much bloodshed." The strike at the Aetna-Standard plant had its inception five months ago when the American Sheet & Tin Plate Company issued an order that all its plants would be operated on the "open shop" policy.' Before the present trouble ends it Is feared plants in Wheeling, Martins Ferry and Pittsburg will be affected. INDEX OF TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TODAY'S Snow, continued cold; high east wind. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 29.8 degrees; minimum, -4.2 decrees. foreign. Suffragettes to face issue In. British cam paign now on. Section 1, page 1. National. ... I-and Commissioner Dennett in report de clares proper use of National resources as "necessary as conservation. Section ' 1, page 4. Secretary Ballinger announces changes In Reclamation Service. Section ,1, page :t. Senator Culberson resigns as Democratic leader. Section 1, page 3. Coming Congress must show how It feels toward President Taft. Section 1, page 1. Zelaya asks commission to investigate ; will resign if report is unfavorable. Section 1, pagc 11. Domestic. Woman on wager plods through snow on tramp from Shoshone to Denver. Section 1, page 11. Through return of first wife, Los Angeles man has two households. Section 1, page 1. Railroads stop employing more men; lift embargoes; say situation is normal. Sec tion J., page a. Sports. Question of two baseball teams at Port land awaits Swing's return. Section 4, page 4. Dugdale and McCredie both confident North western League . will win. Section 4, page 4. Plans for automobile road to Mt. Hood make progress. Section 4. page 5. Post -season football games of Grammar School League to begin. Section 4. page 6. Jeffries' enmity prevented acceptance of Mc Carey's bid for fight. Section 2, page 2. Vancouver, B. C. baseball franchise may be subject of International litigation. Sec tion 1, page 5. Pacific Northwest. Nam pa pioneer tells eon to .lump from run away, old man stays and is killed. Sec tion 1. pa-ge 6. Malheur residents want .former Government project split in two districts. Section 1, page 6. Dayton, Wash., greatly stirred by school war; superintendent quits job. Section 1, page 1- Second affinity, "Koran Hamilton," appears in embezzlement case. Section 1, page 1. Attorney-General Crawford, in reoly brief, declares addition of three justices to the State Supreme Court by the Legislature is Illegal. Section 1. page 6. Vancouver candidate for Mayor challenges present Mayor to debate; opponent de clines. Section 1, page 7. Judge Bean to try Barber-Moon land-fraud cases. Section 1, page 7. Liquor fight in The Dalles causes arrest of 23 saloonkeepers. Section 1, page 6. Gray Harbor sawmills to shut down be cause of low prices. Section 1, pago 5. Snow storm general throughout Northwest. Section 1, page 8. Captain Selter relates graphic story of bat Captain Salter relates graphic story of bat !Feture. Society news. Section 8, pages 2, 3, 4, 3. Editorial. Section 3, page 6. Participants in French fete. Section 3, page 8 Dramatic and , musical news. Section 4, page 2. Real estate news. Section 4, pages 7, 8, 9. Portland and Vicinity. Radical reform intended in selection of Na tional Guard non-commissioned officers. Section 3, page 12. Sncw storm, with biting east wind and low temperature, grips Portland. Section 1. Page 1. Hope for great reduction in Multnomah County's tax levy next year is slight. Section 1, page 8. Police hold two ex-convicts as highwaymen. Section 2, page 12. Complaint against car service on East Side becomes serious. Section 1. page 1Q. One"INorah Hamilton" Cashes Draft. HAZEL MOORE AGAIN IN LIGHT Passes as Hamilton's Wife When He Buys Furniture. STATE WARRANTS BANKED State Shows In Embezzlement Case How Adjutant-General Takes Pro ceeds for Own Use Many Doc uments Are Introduced. . OLYMPIA. Wash., Dec. ,4. (Special.) "Norah Hamilton," the second affinity of ex-Adjutant-General Ortls Hamilton, came into the trial of Hamilton for embezzlement today when testimony was introduced that a $700 draft rep resented to be in payment for 24,000 rounds of ammunition, from the Gov ernment had been sent to Portland by Hamilton and cashed in that city by her. Hazel Moore, the notorious affinity, was also -connected with the defendant when the first witness, Attorney J. W. Carr, of Seattle, identified Hamilton as the man who accompanied the Moore woman and her daughter to his office and completed the purchase from Carr of his household furniture. Hamilton Passes as Married. - Carr said at that time Hamilton said lie was Frank Moore, that he was in terested in Alaska copper mines, resided in California, that Hazel was his wife and the girl who accompanied them was their daughter. Carr had advertised for sale the fur niture from his Seattle home, which Hamilton later bought with a $1400 cashier's check of the National Bank of Commerce, Seattle. The state' has shown that about the time the voucher upon which this embezzlement- charge was based Hamilton opened an account with this bank, that all credits in this account were pro ceeds of state warrants and called Carr to prove how Hamilton had converted these funds to his own use. E. C. John son, cashier of the Scandinavian Amer ican Bank of Tacoma, testified to a sub-voucher which - Hamilton Induced him to sign in a transaction where Hamilton alleged he secured money to pay Uncle Sam for 24,000 rounds of ammunition. , "Xorah Hamilton" Indorses. The bank issued a draft for J700, which was identified, and which was cashed in Portland after indorsement by "Norah Hamilton." Mrs. Coulson, formerly employed in the office of the State Treasurer, was called as a witness and testified to the payments of the warrants by the state which Hamilton had secured. During today's sessions,' the prosecution intro duced into evidence a number of war rants, vouchers, checks and other docu ments bearing upon the case. MISSING ROSENJACK SEEN Witness Who Knows What Caused Mine Horror Seen in Cherry. CHERRY, 111., Dec. 4. Admission late today by Fred H. Buck, clerk in- the office of the St. Paul Mining Company that he had seen and talked with Alex ander Rosenjack, the missing witness who, it is believed, can clear up the cause of the recent mine disaster, came as a climax to a day of interesting developments in the investigations by the Coroner and the state investigat ing committee. Buck told the jury that he had seen Rosenjack in Cherry last night, and notwithstanding the fact that he knew of the desire of Coroner Malm to pro cure his attendance at the inquest, made no effort to advise the authorities of his whereabouts. "Guess I Cs Celebrate Christmas." Afterward Instructors Admit They Are Trifle Hasty, but Iieaulieu, Ko More School for Him. DAYTOX, Wash.. Dec. 4. (Special.) School troubles have stirred this town to the foundations of its social organization. Because two students at the High School, Glenn Samuel and Frank Barclay, were Insubordinate and mischievous, as is al leged, the superintendent of the public schools, L. V. Beaulieu, suspended them. This brought on a storm, and in the stress of censure from the School Board, the superintendent resigned. Then the entire corps of teachers also quit in sympathy with its superior. The School Board was in the act of offering the position of superintendent to Albert Livengood when the news of the teachers' strike came. All the High School teach ers demanded the cancellation of their contracts. The meeting of the directors broke up soon under pressure of the heated discussion. A later meeting was held and through arbitration the closing of the High School was prevented. The striking teachers were summoned before the board and the whole affair was gone over. Finally the teachers admitted they had been a trifle hasty. They said they believed the board was condoning insub ordination on the part of the students and did not know Beaulieu had asked prac tically for the expulsion of the two boys. Beaulieu, it is said, was particularly in censed at the boys because they had piled wood and debris on his front porch. "I'm through with teaching school," he said. "I'm going back to Greeceviile, Minn., to practice law. He was a member of the faculty of the University of Idaho last year. SLEEPS, GOLD TOOTH TAKEN Engineer Naps In Saloon, Moii'.'i Open, Thug Pulls Molar. "He tried to steal my gold tooth!" exclaimed James Watt, civil engineer for the O. It. & X., as he dashed into police headquarters last night, and en deavored to articulate his experience through swollen lips. v "Who tried' to steal your tooth?" asked Captain Bailey. "It was like this," responded the toothless engineer, regaining his com posure. "I wandered into Fritz's Place -In the North End early in the evening. I had several drinks and fell asleep while sitting on a chair in the rear of the room. I guess I must have had my mouth open. Anyway. I was awak ened when a fellow pulled my tooth with a wire or something. He got it fastened to the tooth while I was asleep and when I jumped up the tooth came out along with two others I had on a bridge. Before I could "holler" he hit me a couple of blows on the mouth. Watts held the artificial tooth he had saved as mute evidence of the attack. He then hurried from police headquar ters in quest of a dentist to repair his defaced jaw. FAIRBANKS, JjU ARRESTED Ex-Vice-President's Son Taken for Speeding Auto in Pasadena. PASADEXA, Cal., Dec. 4. Spec! ...) Frederick C. Fairbanks, son of ex-Vioo-Presldent Charles Warren Fairbanks, was arrested this afternoon .by Motor cycle Patrolmen Nicoll and Shelton ater a hot chase. He was allowed to go on his own recognizance, promising to appear Monday and answer to the charge of speeding. He declared he did not know he waj exceeding the speed limit, but sa'id that he was attempting to catch a train in Los Angeles for a friend. JUDGE ANNULS MARRIAGE Young Couple Separated Because of False Statement. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 4. (Special.) The marriage of Mrs. Hazel Rice, 16 years old, and Charle3 Warren Rice, 21 years of age. a rancher living at Al gona, was annulled yesterday in the Superior Court by Judge Mitchell Gilliam. A mysterious .Mrs. McGee faces a charge of perjury, if she can.be found, for falsely swear' s that she knew the young wife was 18 years of age when the license was secured in Spokane. OF SEVEN SATISFYING PICTURES AN EASTlDErX WHO TRiBD TO Contain HI FEtLI NCa WHEN TOLl) TO1 TAKE NEXT; -ar., totK UMrT-urnPH time And lim Damages Allowed. Time Seized Upon to Force Suffrage. MEETINGS ARE INTERRUPTED Radical Condemnation of Lords Cheered by Workmen. FREE CHURCHES IN FIGHT Churchill ltidiculcs Unionist Prom ise to Aid Cotton-Growing. Chamberlain Will Be Ke - turned Unopposed. LONDON. Dec. 4. With the country divided into two great camps upon tha issue between the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the Suffragettes began today to carry into effect a campaign of their own designed to put the major issue in the backgrouad. They were out in force at the meet ings called to discuss the question of the budget and of the power of tiie Lords to defeat the will of the lower body, and they made themselves ielt at least effectively enough to warrant the belief that before the campaign Is ended they will have become a force to be reckoned with. The National Democratic League held a monster meeting in Trafalgar Square, the crowd being addressed from six platforms. Here the suffragettes, not daunted by the tremendous press of spectators, made their presence known. The crowd proving too great for them to make themselves as prominent as they wished, they climbed onto sky lights and renewed ,their efforts. Women Hurl Bricks. At Southporl, where AYinston Spencer Churchill was speaking, they mounted to the roof of the hall and shouted their battle-cry, "Votes for Women," through the skylight. Other women caused a more serious affray at Leith, where Sir Edward Grey was t.:iedulcd to make a speech. Here two suffragettes Trho . attempted to force their way through the lines and gain admittance to the hall were charged by the police. Sev eral persons were injured. The women got their revenge by nurling bricks through the windows of the public buildings. Secretary Grey, after the interruption, spoke strongiy in favor of upholding the upper cham ber. While the various local organizations are busy selecting candidates and prepar ing for the contest in their respective districts, leaders of the great parties are carrying on a general campaign. The Radicals, who had long foreeen the fate of their finance bill, are not allowing the grass to grow under their feet. Crowds Cheer Radicals. The Trafalgar Square meettng was one of the most noteworthy that has been held In the metropolis. Fully 20.000 per sons, mostly of the laboring and artisan classes, gathered there and cheered, the Radicals who roundly condemned the House of Lords. After the interruption at Southport, Mr. Churchill was able to finish his speech, and, undaunted by his experience, held a, meeting at Liverpool this evening in con tinuation of his Lancashire campaign. He ridiculed the idea that the old age pensions and the navy could be paid for by the adoption of tariff reform and re ferred to Mr. Balfour's offer to assist cotton-growing in the empire as very odd, in view of the fact that the Unionists) when in power, although asked to do something in this direction, took no action. School Issue Raised. The National Council of Free Churches) has issued a manifesto calling attention to the action of the House of Lords, which, it declares,, "makes reforms sup ported by non-conformists impossible," and calling on the people to support the candidates who are favorable to the (Concluded on Page 5.) Oh, Trn-In-ln! U ...... ..ij.. ............ ..Lr.t.t . . ........ x ...... . . . ... . .... . "jr . .. : v;. . : - ; v" . . , I f .