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Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXIX. NO. 9 PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GIANT WARSHIP IS PLANNED BY MEIER ADVICE, NOT BILLS, GIVEN BY CARNEGIE BALLINGER CULLED AMERICANS LOSE WITH POOR GRACE ASQUITH ABOUT TO FALL FROM POWER COUNT COMES TO . WED MISS DALY HORSEWHIP WAITS FOR W. H. GARLAND DISLOYAL, ENEMY LA Hi I OF SKIBO RESPONDS TO OLD CHCM'S PLEA. HEAD OF ERIE RAILROAD IS PESSIMISTIC IX TALK. SIGRAY SAID TO HAVE IGNORED HIS FAMILY. 78 Pages p. IV Approval Awaits Data of 14-Inch Guns. COST WILL BE $18,000,000 Pacific Coast to Have Ten New Submarines Next. PROGRAMME DECIDED ON Boose Committee Tentatively Agrees Tpon Two 2 7,000-Ton. " Battle ships at Once Japan Lays Keels of Dreadnoughts. WASHINGTON. Feb. 26. Secretary Meyer, of the Navy Department. Is said to have told the House naval committee today of plans for building a world's record-breaking battleship of 32,000 tons displacement at a cost of $18,000, 000 and making the United States the leading naval power. Members of the committee said that the Secretary's radical plans were favorably received by the . committee. The Secretary did not refer to naval strength In number of ships or arma ment, but to various features of im provement of the efficiency of ships and guns. 14-Inch Battery Designed. The building of the proposed giant battleship is delayed until next year only because the naval experiments with 14-lnch guns have not been com pleted, and the department desires to know the result of full experiments. Tentatively, it is planned to arm this great battleship with a battery of 14 14-lnch guns of the latest type. The Secretary said that plans for en largement of all the drydocks of the country, as outlined to the committee some weeks ago. were made in con templation of the great enlargement of the battleships and he wanted the flocks built to accommodate' ships of great size. .... Programme Agreed On. It was tentatively agreed today that the naval increase this year, based on the Secretary's recommendations, shall be as follows: Two 27,000 battleships, equipped either with 12 or 14-inch guns; one repair ship, two colliers and five submarines. The submarines are for the Pacific Coast and are the first- of a fast fleet of these vessels which, .will .be provided in the next few years. The plan to place ten additional eubmarines on the Pacific Coast next was considered favorably. The. Pacific Coast Congressional dele gation, which told the committee several weeks ago of the practically defenseless condition of the Western Coast against foreign men of war, appealed strongly to the members, and the submarine fleet has been decided upon. Pacific Submarines to Be Fast. These submarines will be of the fastest ' yet launched, and will be capable of making a speed under water of 12 know an hour. Recently the Government acquired bet ter knowledge than that which other na tions possesses, it is asserted, in the steering of these submarines when they are being driven at high speed. A member of the committee said that the Government' had unofficial informa tion to the effect that Japan is laying the keel of two great battleships ap proaching the 32,000 ton limit. He said the tonnage of the great battleship under consideration would depend to a great extent upon the weight of the batteries of the huge 14-inch guns, which would bo placed on this ship. Would--Be Matricide Gets 25 Years. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 26. John Hanuscheck, 18 years of age, was sen tenced by Judge Willis yesterday to 25 years In San Quentin for having at tempted to murder his mother by pour ing formaldehyde into her coffee. Mrs. Hanuscheck has recovered. HARRY MURPHY HAS SOME 'MIGHTY PERTINENT THINGS TO SAY, THROUGH THE-MEDIUM OF HIS PICTURES. 4 A L""e Kld,n f tbc IIand"- How Maoom Would Have It. I Hi, Ideal. Jflx tor the Kalaomine. Opening the Spring Boon. ThOM near-Savonarolaa. Constitution They Really Want. t Boyhood Playmate, Now Poor, Calls on Iron King; Conies Away ' " With Speech on Economy. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Feb. 26. (Spe cial.) James Gillespie, of San Pedro, who was born In Andrew Carnegie's native town four years before the Iron king saw the world, and whose grand mother, a midwife, assisted In the first ceremonies in which Carnegie ever fig ured, was rn,uch excited when his old boyhood chum came here last week and decided to call on him. To his disap pointment, he found Carnegie had gone through, and followed him to Santa Barbara. Carnegie received Gillespie with out stretched hand and seemed delighted. The two Scotchmen sat together for hours In the Potter Hotel, talking of early days. Gradually conversation drifted to the present, and Gillespie told how he worked 20 years on his humble express wagon, had managed to save a little, but was struggling to lay by something. There was a delightful hint In his voice that a little substan tial assistance would not come amiss. "Jimmle, I think I can give you some thing that may help you," finally said the multi-millionaire. Going to his room, he returned with a neat little paper package, which he put into his old playmate's pocket. It felt like crisp new bills. Gillespie did not unwrap the package until he got to his room. It inclosed a pamphlet, containing one of the Laird of Skibo's speeches on the manifest advantages of being economical. . TARIFF IS ISSUE, SAYS MACK Democratic Leader Insists President Is In Difficult Position. BUFFALO, N. T., Feb. 26. Chairman Norman Mack, of the Democratic Na tional Committee, makes it evident in the March number of the National Monthly, that he believes the tariff and the high cost of living are to be two of the principal issues of the Dem ocratic Congressional campaign of the present year. Mr. Mack criticizes sharply the tar iff portion of President Taft's Lincoln day speech in New York, and declares the President cannot now sustain his Winona speech without repudiating the New York address, or vice versa, and that he must disavow Senator Aldrloh or withdraw his declaration on the woolen schedule of the tariff bill. "Try as he will," says Mr. Mack, "President Taft cannot read into this tariff measure that It is a revision downward. On the question of tariff making. Mr. Taft is an Innocent child, compared to the astute and crafty Aldrich." "CORPSE" COMES TO LIFE Misconstruction of Law Lets Woman Remain Long in Snowbank. BROOK VILLE. Ind., Feb. 26. Pop ular misconception of the Coroner's law nearly permitted the body of Miss Olive Sanders to be frozen in a snow bank today. In' a warm room and in the presence of the undertaker the "dead" woman came to life. Miss Sanders' sister missed Olive from the house and found her, seem ingly dead, lying In the snow In the barnyard.' It took two hours to get the Coroner and the body lay where It was found. He "viewed" the body and it was carried into the house. The undertaker was called to prepare it for burial. At this stage Miss Sanders revived. CREDITORS SEEKING GEMS Cincinnati Jeweler Arrested in Los Angeles on Fraud Charge. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Feb. 26. Charles Rosen, a jewelry dealer, of Cincinnati, is In the custody of the United States Marshal here today, having been arrested on a warrant from Ohio charging him with having secreted $10,000 worth of diamonds from creditors. Rosen, it is alleged, filed a petition in bank ruptcy and then failed to schedule the gems among his assets. CINCINNATI, Feb. 26. Charles Ros en, who was arrested in Los Angeles, conducted a Jewelry store here until about six weeks ago, when he was forced Into Involuntary bankruptcy by his creditors. A receiver was appointed who found, it is charged, that $10,000 worth of diamonds that should have been turned over to the creditors dis appeared simultaneously with Rosen. Pinchot Declares Presi dent Was Deceived. EXPLANATION FALSE, HE SAYS Ex-forester Furnishes Repeat ed Sensations at Hearing. LONG STATEMENT MADE ETldence of Seattle Man Is That Glavis" Prospective Share of Tim ber Enterprise Was $10,000. Garfield Will Testify. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. With Gif ford Pinchot on the witness stand the Bailinger-Plnchot inquiry entered its second phase today. The dismissed chief forester, before being sworn, dramatically declared that when his story had been told the country would demand a verdict In harmony with the general conviction that the Secretary, of the Interior has been unfaithful to the public, whose property he has en dangered, and to the President, "whom he has deceived.' L. R. Glavis, the Cunningham coal claims and Attorney Brandeis all stood aside to make room for Mr. Pinchot, for Attorney Pepper, his personal counsel, and for his story of Secretary Balllnger's dealings with the water power sites of the public domain. Disloyalty Charge Made. Mr. Pinchot accused Secretary Bal llnger of having made an explanation of his conduct to the President that was "essentially false." He charged him with being a "dan gerous enemy to conservation." He charged him with having n.ade a state ment shown by undisputed document ary evidence "to be abfoiutely false la three . essential par .culars." He charged him with having "wilfully de ceived the President," and of befog disloyal to the President. Mr. Pinchot's first hours on the wit ness stand were as replete with sensa tion as. had been promised and the suffocating crowd In the hearing room hung intently upon every word that fell from his lips. A trifle nervous at first. Mr. Pinchot soon became accus tomed to his surroundings and main tained a confident poise thereafter. President May Be Embarrassed. His recital had not progressed far when there came an objection from Mr, .Ballinger's attorneys as to the witness repeating conversations with President Taft. It was contended that the relation of these conversations would put the President in an attitude where he would either have ' to 're main silent or else appear before the committee as a witness, which. It was declared, would be undesirable. The question was argued for some time, and In his statement the attorney for Mr. Pinchot admitted that President Taft, in a letter written subsequent to the conversation, had declared his recollection of what transpired at the interview differed. In some particulars from that of Mr. Pinchot. The- latter was put over for consideration by the committee, and It Is expected that a decision will be announced when the next session is held Tuesday morning. Faith in Glavis Stated. Mr. Pinchot followed the vigorous at tack made upon Secretary Balllnger In his opening statement by declaring that he fully believed in Special Agent Giavis and was convinced ithat all Glavis had said was true. He charac terized Glavis as a "faithful public servant," and declared the facts which he presented "proved that Mr. Balllnger had been unfaithful to his trust as the guardian of public property of enor mous value." "The conservation movement begun under the Administration of President Roosevelt progressed rapidly up to the (ContlnaH on Tir K. I flft rtnn i f-rntnAr nn Tna-A A trfr- uprvif p I Predicts Early End to Republic, and Believes People Are Longing for Kingdom. NEW YORK. Feb. 26. (Special.) "Americans are In a class with savages and beasts because they are all bad losers," said F. D. Underwood, presi dent of the Erie Railroad, in an inter view today. But he also confesses there are many bad losers among rail road presidents who are the cause of riots. Also down deep in their hearts Americans want a nice little king and this great American Republic Is falling away. "Americans think they are good losers, just as they think they belong to the Republic, but they're wrong, all wrong,' said Mr. Underwood, in answer to a question. "There is a growing spirit of greed In this country that can only be equal to that of savages. Savages, animals and Americans are all bad losers. You take your nice little pet dog. He will be all friendly and pleasant until you want his bone, and just try to wrest It it from him and watch him snarl and snap and scratch, just like the Ameri can when you are after his pet graft, game or gamble." NOVEL SERVICE PLANNED Baptists to Sing Praises in Fourteen Languages in Chicago. CHICAGO. Feb. . 26. In the Lasalle avenue Baptist Church, of which the Rev. J. Y. Montague is pastor, next Monday evening, men and women of 14 different nationalities, united by one common tongue, English, will gather for a religious meeting which prob ably has no parallel in Chicago, or perhaps, rn America. Fourteen dif ferent languages- will be spoken, or rather sung, for all the addresses of the evening are to-be rendered in every language represented atthe meeting. The programme has been arranged by the Baptist Executive Council of Chicago, to show the cosmopolitan character of the work done by the council. It will consist of a brief word In English by a representative of each of the nations and the singing of the hymns. The languages are as follows: Chinese.- African, Hungarian, Bohemian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Persian, Lettish, Italian. Polish, Finnish, Danish, and English. Each of the ministers is an activ. .Baptist preacher with a charge In Chicago, and all will be ac companied by delegations from their congregations. G. 0. P. TO MEET TUESDAY C. 3f. SfcArthur and O. A. Neal to Be Principal Speakers. 'Shall we maintain a representative Re publican government in Oregon?" will be the subject . for discussion at a meeting of the Republican Club of this city at the convention hall of the Portland Com mercial Club at 8 o'clock Tuesday night. C. N. McArthur, private secretary to Governor Benson, and O. A. Neal will be the principal speakers. The Republican Club plans to give a banquet Saturday night. March 26, in honor of the 87th birthday anniversary of Judge George H. Williams. The com mittee on arrangements Is preparing an entertaining programme. All members of the club will join In doing honor to Ore gon's "grand old man." MEXICO SEIZES U. S. PLANT American Clothing Factory Owners, Employes, Alleged Smugglers. NOGALES, Ariz., Feb. t6. The pro prietors and employes of an American clothing factory on the Mexican side of the international boundary were arrest ed today on a charge of smuggling. Their factors', warehouse and retail store were closed and sealed by a Fed eral Inspector. One of the proprietors, L. B. Fleischer, all of the force and the mail operators are in jail. Only the girls were allowed to go free. Another of the proprietors escaped to the American side. No formal charge has yet been entered against the sus pects. The place employed 100 persons, a majority of whom are la the Mexican jail. Dartmouth Dormitory Burned. -HANOVER, N. H., Feb. 26. Fire ear'y this morning destroyed the South Fay- erweather dormitory at Dartmouth Col lege. The fire was discovered at 2:30 o'clock in the basement. All the stu dents escaped. The loss will reach $60,000. His Blunder Spells Dis aster to Party. PLEDGE CANNOT BE REDEEMED Expected to Secure King's Aid in Crippling Lords. GUARANTEE IS DEMANDED Irish and Radicals Will Fight Him .Vnless Bill to Restrict Veto of Upper House Passed and King Refuse to Aid Premier. BT T. I. CONNOR. (Special Cable to the Chicago Tribune. Copy right, 19io. by Tribune Company.) LONDON, Feb. 26. This has been a week of unbroken disaster to the Lib eral government, and. I believe, will end Its downfall, perhaps before the night Is out. The whole situation turned at first on the meaning of Asqulth's pledge in the Albert Hall speech, at the beginning of the elec tion campaign, that he would not as sume to retain office without safe guards against any such use of their veto by the House of Lords as their rejection of the budget or other Lib eral proposals sent to them during the last four years. All Misinterpreted Pledge. The universal interpretation put on that pledge was that the safeguards applied to guarantees from the King to swamp the House of Lords with peers so as to carry the veto measure of the Liberals. On this assumption every Liberal and every Irish candi date 'spoke and acted, and even some members of Esquith's own cabinet ac cepted this interpretation. Every Lib eral newspaper in the kingdom ,also thus Interpreted the pledge. To the horror and belwllderment of the House of Commons. Asquith an nounced last Monday night that the safeguards did not mean guarantees from the King, but safeguards to be provided by legislation. Nobody doubts Asqulth's personal good faith, but everybody who is opposed to the Lord's veto deplores the tragic misunder standing, and, above all. Asqulth's neg lect to correct the mislnterpreatlon which he ought to have known to be so universal. Asquith Had Other Problems. The explanation probably is that As quith was deeply immersed in speech making, in traveling, on the stump and In personal grief over the death of young Gordon, Lord Aberdeen's son, who was the fiance of Asqulth's daugh ter, and did not pay sufficiently close attention to what was being said about him. Further explanation Is that Asquith j is casual, scorniui ana somewhat In dolent, and does not keep up that eternal vigilance which Is the price of Ministerial and other political power. Amid the chash of hopes and faith which Asqulth's belated correction of his pledge created, Redmond on Mon day night rose to announce the Irish attitude. That attitude was a reit eration, in the strongest language, of the Interpretation of Asquith's speech as meaning the demand for guarantees from the soverllgn, and not legislative safeguards, and of reiteration of the declaration that it was on that un derstanding of Asquith's pledge that Irishmen were asked in Great Britain to give their vote to the Liberal can didates. Redmond Awaits Guarantees. Redmond further reiterated the dec laration in his speech in Dublin, which is now historic, that he would not al low the budget or any other legisla tion to get through until these prom ised guarantees were not only asked, but got from the "sovereign. In other words, either the government must Relatives Would Have Paid Debts if He Had Given Up Mine owner's Daughter. NEW YORK. Feb. 26. (Special.)--Count Anton Sigray, the Hungarian no bleman who is to marry Miss Harriet Daly, daughter of the late Marcus Daly, oopper king, soon after Easter, arrived in New York today on the Mauretania. The Count, who has been in this coun try before, as best man at the marriage of Count Szechenyl to Miss Gladys Van derbilt. told reporters at the pier that he had come to New York to be married and then hurried away to his hotel. The romance of the Austrian Count and the daughter of the American miner dates from the marriage of Miss Annie Stewart to the Prince of Braganza, in Scotland, last Summer. The Count and Prince are close friends and the former attended the wedding. There he met Miss Daly who is an old friend of Miss Stewart. When it became evident that the Count was paying serious attention to the young American girl. It was reported that his family raised strong objections. He was said to be heavily in debt. The figure was placed at $800,000. Gossip was to the effect that his family had offered to settle these debts if he would give up his plan of trying to marry Miss Daly. The Count turned down the offer, if it was ever made, and continued his at tentions to Miss Daly while she was in Europe. Their engagement was an nounced early this month. CROSSINGS UP TO FARMER O. It. & X. Wins Contention That Old Law Is Repealed. OLYMPIA. Wash., Feb. 2fj (Special.) The O. R. & N. Company wjn a favorable decision in the State Supreme Court today in its test of the 1893 law requiring that their tracks separate portions of a farm, the company must build and maintain at Its own expense sufficient crossings to give access from one part- of the farm to another and must also construct and maintain gates and bars. Huffman sued the company under the old law and obtained judgment for $2,"i0 damages for the road's failure to provide the crossings. The Supreme Court says that this old law has been repealed by later legislation. and that the cost of crossings, gates and bars must now be paid by the property owner. BRYCE MAY FREE CONVICT British Ambassador Assists Man Ar rested in Canada by Americans. WOODSTOCK, N. B., Feb. 26. The recent arrest of William Kelley, of Richmond, X. B-, and his subsequent conviction at Portland. Maine, and sen tence to 14 years In the Federal pen itentiary at Atlanta, Ga.. for an assault upon an American customs officer, has become an international affair. James Bryce, British Ambassador to the United States, has made representa tions to Secretary of State Knox that Kelley was arrested by American of ficers on Canadian territory and has re quested Kelley's Immediate release. Kelley, it is alleged, is a notorious smuggler. CHINA'S POLICY IS. ASKED V British Representative Seeks Light on Affairs in Tibet. PEKIN. Feb. 26. W. G. Max Muller. British Charge d'Affaires, has made friendly representations to the Chinese Foret-gn Board on the subject of Great Britain's concern over the situation in Tibet, and with reference to the preser vation of peace and order in the border states, and has asked China to state formally her policy and intentions. It is believed that the Dalai Lama has found refuge in Bhutan, an Independent state of Asia, in the Eastern Himalayas. Official telegrams received here report that the fugitive ruler Is en route to Russian territory". HILL WILL SPEND BIG SUM Great Northern Appropriates $0, 00 0,000 for New Equipment. ST. PAUL, Feb. 26. It is announced here today that the Great Northern Railway has planned an expenditure of about $6,000,000 this year for ad ditional equipment. The amount will be divided nearly evenly between the freight and passen ger service. Irate Portland Woman Wants Her Money. PROMOTER IS STILL IN JAIL Son Unsuccessful in Attempt to Secure Bonds. INNOCENCE IS PROTESTED Letters From Mrs. Frances Rarne to Seattle Attorneys Beg for Re turn of Money Advanced Gar land After Pawning Jewels. SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 26. (Spe cial.) The net of financial entangle ments into which William H. Garland, white-haired, dignified, self-styled pro moter of corporations capitalized at millions, has apparently fallen tight ens. A prisoner at the county jail he la threatened with a public horsewhipping by Mrs. Frances Barnes, of Portland, If he Is fortunate enough ever to re gain his freedom. Mrs. Barnes, in let ters which she yesterday placed In the hands of Prosecuting Attorney Vander veer, says she pawned her jewels and. seal skin coat to secure money to give to Garland that he might con tinue his financial venture. Without Principle, Says Woman. "W, H. Garland is a person without principle. He does not know the meaning of the word honor, and I do not think he even knows how to tell the truth. I have since last Sep tember tried to secure the money ha owes me and he has not paid me a dollar. If he had paid me my money my boy might .Jiave been altve today. If you do not get the money on the 15th let me know and I will come to Seattle." - Penniless, Mrs. Barnes wrote this letter to Attorneys GUI, Hoyt & Fry, asking that they secure the collection of $350 she says is due her from Gar land for her alleged services in taking care of his invalid daughter. The ac count was placed in the' hands of At torney Walter Metzenbaum for collec tion. In a letter to Gill, Hoyt & Fry, Gus C. Moser, attorney for Mrs. Barnes In Portland says: Mrs. Barnes Has Whip Ready. "1 learned a few days ago that Garland was in Portland during the Rose Fes tival, but he went back to Seattle be fore I had a chance to see him. Mrs. Barnes threatens to horsewhip him. on sight and If you cannot get a settle ment from him promptly she says she will come to Seattle and make things extremely tropical for him. She is will ing to come over If her presence is needed at any time and commence proceedings against him." In another letter Mr. Moser says: "Herewith find two promissory notes In favor of Frances Barnes for $160 and $1000. I hold as security for the $1000 note a worthless stock certificate. You will find Garland around the Hotel Washington a great deal of the time. He started a trust company here a few years ago and tried to act as promoter, but left practically all his debts un paid. Married Portland AVonian. "He married last Fall an estimable lady here in Portland and moved to Seattle. He gave his address as 1249 Sixteenth avenue north. I have taken the matter up at the request of the Portland lodge of Elks, to whom Mrs. Barnes addressed a communication. She Is In straitened circumstances, and as her father and deceased brothers were Elks, she appealed to us. "Garland was conducting a so-called trust company known as the Standard Trust Company of Portland, but It never had any assets except furniture and stationery, which he bought on credit and for which he has never paid. He made Mrs. Barnes believe that he