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K Pages 1 to 18 PORTLAND, OREGON', SUNDAY MORNING, DECE3IBER 17. 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. XXX NO. 31. 'pP'y V T ' V 10 16) ULIl PROTEST Abrogation of Treaty Seems Certain. VEILED THREAT INEFFECTIVE Ambassador Reported to In tend Quitting Post. VETO IS NOT CONSIDERED Author of Resolution Reiterates That Language Follow Prece dent and Does Not Depart From Facts In Case. WASHINGTON. r-c. 1. A protest by RuhIi today acalnst the abrogation of the treaty of 1812 with that country In the form proposed by the Sulxor reso lutlon. overwhelmingly adopted In the House of Itcpresentatlves. was followed tonla-ht by the declaration of Senate leadera that. In nin.ltfled terma, a resn lutlon declaring the treaty nt an end would be put thromrh the Senate before the adjournment of that body on Hon iliv next. Some Sen.itora went o far as to say that the Sulxer resolution, containing various recltala said to be objection able to the St. Petersburg government, would be adopted without amendment, but the consensus of opinion was that the Senate would atrip the resolution of everything but a declaration of abrogation. Protests a lie laawred. The point upon which all seemed to agre was that the Senate would act on Monday, regardless of any protests that might be made and regardless of the negotiations that have been In progress between AVashlngton and the Russian capital. It was reported tonight that if the Senate should adopt the House resolu tion, which boldly declared that Russia has violated her treaty pledges, the Rus sian Ambassador. George Hakhme ff. would ask for his passports and quit the country. At best It was said the Ambassador would quit Washington "unofficially." leaving an under-of f Iclal In charge. aagaaa-e filve" Vsabrasi. It became known that at a White House conference last night Ambassa dor Pakhmcteff had expressed both to President Taft and to Secretary of State Knox the .view of St- Petersburg that the language of the Sulrer reso lution was objectionable. The confer ence waa followed today by a second between President Taft and Secretary Knox. This conference. In turn, was followed by one between Mr. Knox and the Russian Ambassador. News of the Russian stand created a decided sensation. The Senate was not In session, but there were several hur riedly called conferences at which the situation was fully discussed. Chair man Sulzer of the House committee on foreign relations said there was noth ing In his resolution which could be construed as an Insult to "sensitive Russia. and urged the Senators to adopt It without any modification what ever. rablaet Meeting Called. The first stir over the announcement that Russia l.ad become aroused over the proposed action of the American Congress In cutting off all commercial and treaty relations with that country and that International complications misfit ensue soon was followed by an other thrill, when six memhers of the Cabinet were summoned to the White House late In the afternoon. Officially , It was said that the Cabinet had been railed In council to pass finally upon -i-.ciii.l-d on !' '2. ) FA SAVS HE cOt- ORE niL RUSSIAN J 3. Fin? Boors (j CAR RUNS AWAY; SCORE LOCKED IN PASSENGERS SAVKJ WHEN' IX TERCRBAN BOLTS. In Mad Race With Death, Condnct or's Xerve Proves Him Hero; 18 Killed Two Years Ago. VANCOUVER. B. C. Dec 16. An ln terurban trolley-car, bound from Van couver to New Westminster, ran away for four miles down a steep grade to day, but the conductor locked the 20 passengers In and the car stuck to the track, so that all survived the terrl fylng ride. The car had Just climbed the hill west of Kerrlsdale station and was on the down grade to Eburne. Motorman Hayes sought to apply the brakes and discovered that the bolt had dropped out of the brake-beam and that he had no control-whatever over the car. Conductor Batten Imtne dlately locked the doors and Informed the passengers that the car was out of control, but would come to a stop across the bridge on Lulu Island. Several of the frightened passengers tried to break through the windows. and ne man attacked the conductor. He was subdued, however, and Ratten kept .the passengers under control. People In the village of Eburne were amazed when they saw the car flying past in its mad race with death. A perilous curve beyond Eburne was passed safely, and after a mile and a half along the level grade of Lulu Island the car stopped and the pas sengers disembarked. In a similar runaway two years ago 18 persons were killed. LANDIS SCORES USURERS Ilnk Clerks Wlio Mole to Jleet Pe- ' mantis Ksonpe Lightly. CHICAGO. rec 16. Loan brokers were excoriated by Judge Landis today when he gave light sentences to two young bank clerks who had falsified bank records to cover up a shortage of 1500, taken to satisfy a debt to a "loan agent." A vouth who earned $110 a month was sent to the House of Correction for CO davs. and the other, a .0-a- m-onth clerk, was fined 1 cent, which his counsel promptly paid. The money lender. Carl Carroll, who la .l.n a lawver. has been cited to ap- nrar before Judge Landla and show cause why ho should not be barred from practice In the Lnlted States Dis trict Court. SALMON PACK RECORD NEW Over 1,625,000 Cases Is Season's Work by Canuers. SEATTLE. Wash.. Dec. 18. Tire Pu- sret Sound salmon pack for 1911 estab lished a new record, a total of 1.615.000 cases having been packed according to figures compiled by Secretary Craw ford of the Puget Sound Canners As sociation. The nack was twice as large as the most otitlmistlc packers expected and exceeded the record "of 1909 by almost 50.000 cases. The value of the output Is placed at IS.1I5.000. The record breaking production Is attributed to the heavy run of pink salmon, 1.052,261 cases of which were packed. Of the 23 salmon canneries on Puget Sound only "Three were Idle. $600,000 IN GOLD COMING Steamship Northwestern Arrives With Riches From Idltarod. SEATTLE. Wash.. Dec 1. The steamship Northwestern arrived from S-ward today with 1600.000 of idltarod gold In care of an express company. The gold came out by dog team from Idlta rod to Seward. Among the passengers of the North western were a dozen of the leading Idttarod operators and much of the gold belonged to them. More miners are on the way out to pass the Winter and ; more gold Is also on the war. CARTOONIST Vmtr& Ptr-VI EMPEROR. IVLL PKTO0AB1- FIND iOnL JMtrrir QUITE Uf-TO-0ATE in HIS IMPERIAL ' . rvSr.. Mj ( ( ( -SfA VWaiy; this hid sms HOPP,n&M- fJyS waitin' TOSEEV . vr-i w7M I pair op- I 'HVvm rnor Z lev. he f Sh (,1 rATHEXHEIS ' ff&W'vJ Cj&Vv fins w'I fP$A nw)iMi)Mwj Y m locating ws mm WwJA4-& A -vl' w 'wfflf' vjCx mm mu 1 7 MtdC soothe m!Lr WmmXvk EXPLOSIONS TIMED TO GOME TOGETHER McNamara Would Make People "Sit Up." SAWDUST CLEWS ARE LINKED "Good fellows" Sought to Aid in Mystifying People. STATES WILL PROSECUTE Federal Officials Will Co-operate in Efforts to I'ncover Criminals, but Will Retain Control of Evidence. INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 1. The $1000 paid monthly to John J. McNamara as secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers, for "organizing purposes," and for which he was not required to give any accounting, was Inquired into today by the Qovernment officials who aro conducting the dynamite investiga tion before the Federal grand Jury. The relation of the fund to fees paid to Ortie McManlgal, the confessed dynamiter, for his work in blowing up structures erected by non-union work men also was traced. TCItro-Ulyeerlae la Traced. From an employe of a livery con cern at Muncle. Ind.. the Investigators learned of McManlgal's movement of nltro-glycerine from Albany, Ind., to bis storehouse at Muncle. McManlgal, under the name of J. W. McGraw, bought 100 quarts of the explosive near Albany. It was delivered to him in a wagon outsWle the city. driven by him to an empty house at Muncle and there packed In sawdust. He confessed that he afterward used some of the nltro-glycerine for ex plosions at Peoria, 111. The similarity of some of the saw dust found at Peoria to that found at Muncle and In the wagon led to the linking of the evidence by detectives and the transactions were gone over to ascertain what money had been paid for expenses. Synchronous Kxploelona Planned. Another point taken up waa the pur pose of McNamara, according to Mc Manlgal, to employ more men to have explosions occur on the same day or about the same hour at cities widely separated. J. O. Badorf, a detective employed by the National Erectors' Association, who worked on this phase of the case and procured scores of photographs of wrecked structures, was before the grand Jury for several hours. According to McManlgal, J. J. Mc Namara caused explosions to occur at Omaha, Neb., and at Columbus, Ind., cn the same night. It was In this connection that McNamara is charged by McManlgal with having said: 'I want them to go off about the same time, so they will wonder how the fellow was in Omaha and Columbus the same night Wh.it I am going to do Is to get about six or eight good fellows and 1 am going to station them around the country and I am going to have explosions come off at ne time, one right after another. I will make them sit up and take notice." Time Arraszeo by Telea-raph. It has been shown that In the Omaha- Columbus Incident on March 24, 1911, the explosions were caused by Mc Manlgal and J. B. McNamara. the time being arranged by telegrams sent In code to J. J. McNamara In Indianapolis. Reports reached Indianapolis of the ntentlon of the state authorities to start prosecutions for explosions (Concluded on Page . ) REYNOLDS SKETCHES INDEX TO TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum Mmperature, 4T degrees: minimum, 44 degree. TODAY'S Occasional rain; southerly winds. Foreign. Earthquake rocks Mexico from ocean to ocean. Section 1. page B. ' Ioraestlc. Home Telephone and Postal Telegraph ex change wires. Section 1, page 3. Portland wheat shipments In November largest in country; I" H months second only to New York. Section 1. page 1. Mrs Armstrong Howell in hiding, realizing that marriage was "awful mistake." Sec tion 1. page 9. McNamara planned simultaneous explosions to mystlry public. Section 1. page I. Crowds brave storm to welcome Governors home. Section 1, page 2. Canadian legislator predicts Anglo-German war within six years. Section 1. page Z. Mrs. Edna Robinson. Portland divorcee at Chicago, calls man who rejected her to telephone and shoots self. Section 1, page 1. Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad to sue W. K. D. Btokes for liOO.OOO. Section 1. page 6. Bishop Kendrlck dies suddenly; wife and daughter dangerously 111. Section I. psge 2. National. Senate will vote tomorrow to abrogate treaty with Russia. Section 1. page 1. Reprsentatlves Mann and sisson clash In House, section 1. page S. tporte. Ad Wolgsst wslks from hospital and says be will fight In March. Section 2. page 8. North Bank soccer team bests O.-W. R. N.. 4 to O. Section 2. page 2. Lincoln High School football team defeats The issues. 33 to 0. and wins state championship. Section 2. page 2. Nick Williams foresees good 1812 season In Northwestern League, section 2. page 2. New Oakland manager has good record. Section -. psge z. Coast league clubs have almost all men signed for 112 season, oecuun -. y Boxers scarce in San Francisco. Section 2, page 8. Faclflc Northwest. Two of Weill's parolsd convicts rob at San Diego and flee across aicxii-" Section 1. page S. Vancouver administers severe rebuke to fltste InsDectlon Bureau. Section 1 Dage 7. Government proseuctor tells plans' In Oregon A California land-grant suit. Section 1. psge i. Score of passengers locked In ss runaway ear crashes down uritun t.oiuniui mu. Eee'ion 1 pace 1. Mayor of Payette replies to accusers who say he deserlea wire, eecnun North Idaho has no cinch on Republican nomination for uovernor. oetnuu , page 8. Heal Rstate and Building. Week In realty circles marked by brisk trading. Section 4. page a. Homebullder. tell bow they won success. Section 4. psge 8. Many ssles of Oregon farm land are re corded. Section 4. Pace 9 North East Side shows marked progress. Section 4. page IS. Commercial and Marine. Hide prices decline in American and foreign markets. Section 2. page 19. - Wheat lower at Chicago on better Argentine reports. Section 2. page ltf. Lehigh Valley Is feature of stock market trading. Section 2. page 19. New York banks Increase their surplus re serve.. Section 'A page tu. Hammond Interests to build steamer to carry S.OOO.OOO feet of lumber for ranana Cogal trade. Section 2. page Is. Portland and Vicinity. Fireman testifies Lochard's accuser said last June time xcnara Kiiiea .paruara Holzman. Section 1. page 10. Great throng of Christmas shoppers Invades Portland stores at nignt. section i, page 10. Contributions to Festival fund often dou bled. Section 1, page 11. President Karrell. of O.-W. It. N. denies report that Trafjo Manager Millers post has been offered others. Section 2. page 20. Depositors of wrecked Vsncouver bank de mand lndtment or btate ank Kxam luer and tni officials of the concern. Traffic expert says "back haul" rate deci sion is gain lor bpoltana. section S. page 12. Horticultural Society urges building of monument In memory of Jesse Applegate. Section 1. psge 11. Railroad men are honored guests at novel dinner at Commercial Club. Section 1, page 1. Charles E. Sumner denies action to Intervene in telephone suit was inspired to aid Louis J. Wilde. Section 1. page 4. HATPIN AND WHIP SAVERS Rancher's Wire, in Buggy, Xearly linns Over Wonld-Be Thug. TACOMA. Dec. 16. While Mrs. E. F. Drexel, wife of a rancher was driving Into town along the Lemons Beach road today a man with a handkerchief over his face Jumped out of the brush at a lonely part of the- road and brand ishing a revolver, ordered her to stop. Instead of stopping she pulled a long hatpin from her hat and gave the horse the whip, nearly running over the would-be highwayman. When about it feet away he fired at her and disap peared In the brush. CHRISTMAS IMPRESSIONS, SOME GRAVE, OTHERS GAY. rv-w I I Mi:tV I SUICIDE ATTEMPT HEARD ON PHONE Portland Divorcee, Re jected, Shoots Self. MAN SHE LOVES. HEARS SHOT Mrs. Edna Robinson Desponds When He Won't Marry. RECOVERY IS PROBABLE Frank B. Cockrell, Lumberman, Spurns Proffer to Wed at Chicago Cafe Xext Pay She Calls Him to Phone and Fires Shot. CHICAGO, Dec 1. (Special.) Hold Ing the revolver close to the telephone transmitter so that the man who, she asserts, had scorned her love might hear the report, Mrs. Edna Robinson, of Portland, Or., attempted to commit suicide in her room In the Hotel La Salle shortly after 4 o'clock this morn ing by shooting herself. Krank B. Cockrell, a lumberman from Jerseyville. 111., was the man to whom Mrs. Robinson was talking over the phone and for whom, she declared, she tried to take her life. Cockrell was In his room In the Hotel Sherman, where he heard the report of the re volver over the telephone. He rushed to the LaSalle and found that Mrs. Koblnson was being taken to a hos pital In a police ambulance. Second Attempt Also Futile. The night watchman of the Hotel LaSalle also heard the shot, and imme diately reported the fact to the office. The door was forced and Mrs. Koblnson was found seated on the bed, her eloth ing saturated with blood. When the men entered the room she made an effort to reach the revolver and shoot herself a second time. "You should let m end it all," she moaned. "It Is better that way." While waltins for the ambulance, Mrs. Robinson told the reasons that Impelled her to attempt to take her own life. "I was with Mr. Cockrell last night," she said. "We were nt the Lambs Cafe most of the evening. iast night I asked him to marry me, but he refused. That is why 1 tried to kill myself. I had nothing to live for." Cofadltlon Is Precarious. When the ambulance arrived it was found that Mrs. Robinson was In' a precarious condition. The bullet had penetrated her chest anc she was bleed- In" profusely, che became unconscious as soon as the attendants started to carry her to the ambulance. The room at the hotel was Uttered with Christmas gifts, which were ready for mailing. A large, framed picture of Cockrell lay on the table. Cockrell arrived Just as Mrs. Robin son was being carried out of the hotel. He told the detectives that be had heard the shot fired by Mrs. Robinson as she was talking to him over the telephone. He accompanied her to the North Chicago Hospital. When questio: 1 by the detectives Cockrell said that he had first met Mrs. Robinson in Portland, Or a year ago. They had become friends, he said, but nothing more. It was learned from Mrs. Robinson later that she had been divorced from her husband about two years ago In Portland. She refused to tell the name of her former husband, but it was learned that It was Harry S. Robinson. Robinson Is a telegraph operator. The manager of the Lambs Cafe, (Concluded on Page 6.) ALL. TrtS ' TLVLL BE G-UEBK .VJ. G-&EEK PORTLAND WHEAT EXPORTS LARGEST NOVEMBER SHOWING PUTS CITY FIRST IN LAND. In 11 Months Gain Is ?5 Per Cent, While Paget Sound in Same Per iod Ships Not Half as Much. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec. 16. Although Portland ex ported more wheat during November than any other customs district In the United States. Its shipments were not great enough to enable It to pass New York and climb Into first place. Month ly statistics of the Department of Com merce and Labor made public today show that Portland's wheat exports for the 11 months ended with Novem ber amounted to 6,244,833 bushels, val ued at S5.351.163. . During the same period Puget Sound ports exported 2,170.087 bushels of wheat, valued at 12,247,483. During the corresponding months of 1910 Portland's exports amounted to 3.355,364 bushels and Puget Sound's to 3.582,331, showing that last year at this time Puget Sound was leading Port land by a slight margin, whereas Port land this year has exported more than double the quantity of wheat shipped from Puget Sound and has Increased Its own shipments more than 75 per cent over last year. Puget Sound, it will be noted, shows a decline of nearly 1,000,000 bushels. New York, which alone exported more wheat than Portland, shipped 7,103,948 bushels during the psst 11 months. Portland has a firm hold on second place, being 1,000,000 bushels ahead of Baltimore, which ranks third. Portland's wheat exports for Novem ber are given by the department as 677. 823 bushels, as against 361,308 bushels exported from Puget Sound and 695,655 from New York. - In the matter of flour exports, Port land during the past 11 months has exported 686,077 barrels, valued at 2, 723,184. Puget Sound has exported 1,867,356 barrels, valued at $7,130,935. Next to New York, Puget Sound Is now the leading flour exporting district. GREAT ACREAGE RESTORED Oregon Regains lor Public Entry Large Tracts Previously Withdrawn. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec 16. Secretary Fksher, In a report sent to Congress today, snows that In the last 12 months 15,974 acres of public land In Oregon were with drawn to protect power sites, and 18.970 acres previously withdrawn for this nurnose " were' restored to entry. Also 104.123 acres, withdrawn to de termine their coal content, have been restored to entry, it having been found that they contained ro commercial coal. In Xt-Q.hfnD-tnn 37 276 acres were withdrawn to protect po-.er sites, while 1157 m, of Dower-sltd withdrawals were restored to entry. In addition to 897 acres withdrawn for coal. In the Snake River Valley, Idaho, ins sLcron of land, withdrawn on the presumption that It contained coal. has been restored to entry, no coal having been found. In addition 149,179 acres of phosphate withdrawal and 18,265 acres of power-site withdrawals vara n 1 h n rMtnrAd. An additional 63,427 acres In Idaho were newly wlth- rawn for power-site purposes. TWO "HONOR MEN" DECAMP Convicts From Portland and The Dalles Break ror Liberty. SALEM. Or, Dec. 17. (Special.) Two more of Governor West's "honor men" have taken "French leave" from a state Institution. Late last night, Burt Boyd, convict, from The Dalles, and Fred Fox, convict, from Multnomah County, who have been allowed to roam about the State School for the. Feeble-Mlnded, decided that real freedom was what they wanted and, after stealing a couple of over coats and several other small articles of clothing and personal Jselongings, left for "parts unknown." tActing-GoVernor Olcott immediately ordered scouts out, but up to an early hour this morning the men had not been apprehended. ' FEAST HONORS MEN OF RAILROAD ROW 350 Drink to Health of Officials Here. DINING ROOM LIKE B18 DEPOT Life on Rails Is Depicted at Commercial Club. MERRIMENT RULES DINNER Clung ol Bells, Calling or Stations, and Rush at "Grub" Time Make Honored Guests at Home. Every Minute Joyous. Making every stop and taking every . switch, strictly on schedule, flagged along the line by ten-minute speakers, passengers on the limited of the Boost ers' Railway, running via the co-opera tlon route, were fed last night at "Pop" Merrick's eating Joint Into which the Commercial Club dining room had been transformed. While the train was making her run, the switchmen, "Tarn" McArthur, Max well Wood, H. ,6. Wells and G. L. Meyers, gathered at the shanty and told stories, the car tlnks tinked and pounded the wheels, and the men at the semaphore harvested every minute) or so a batch of telegrams to members of the train crew and the eaters. At the terminus the switohmen turned In their switch keys and lights while George J. Major, conductor, took: down his markers, turned In his light and keys, signed the train register and made his wheel report. In between, the passengers who were) unable to be waited on by Merrick's rosy-cheeked, gum-chewing waitresses. Miss Charlotte Russe-Moore, Miss Car melia (Jimmy) Dunn and Miss I-Phella Yarnell. "with every-date filed for the) next six months," had their hash slung In the roundhouse and after they had eaten were provided with seats In the main lunchroom. None Excused From Jest. Those who were not railroad men were heard to mutter that the function was the Portland Commercial Club'a dinner to the new members of Port land's transportation family, but the) railroaders laughed them to scorn and told of the circumstances which had happened to congregate the famous ones at the wayside lunch counter. Neither railroad man nor guest was spared by the committee. All the flesh was fowl to the committee on arrange ments and if the visitor was not ground beneath the wheels of wit and sarcasm, he endeavored to derail hla tormentors at the first opportunity. The illusion which It was the pur pose of the dinner to maintain waa car ried out thoroughly. The waiters were train-wipers, as greasy as could be, but were assisted by the young women waitresses whenever the fair ones could spare a moment. There was not one dull moment from the time the passenger diners tools their tickets and lunchroom checks from the switchmen, in all the glory of the oldest uniforms they could pick up at the Union Depot. At the door of the resting room, "Charlie' Merrick clanged a tray and besought all to come in and be "done brown," Dln-lng-Car Conductors W. J. Hofmann and John Minto, who said they wanted to get their "cut," collected the checks and passed the passengers In. Big Railroad Men Attend. Mixing with the motley gathering ere the following railroad men re cently to come to Portland, who were the lunch counter's guests of honor: D. (Concluded on Page 4.) t