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Newspaper Page TextPages 1 to 16 VOL. XXXI NO. 4. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY 3IORNING, JAXUAKY 28, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 78 Pages V REFORM NOSTRUMS I u 111 UUdlllUII PRESIDENT'S TEXT Recall of Judges iantly Assailed Val- SANCTITY DF LAW DEFENDED Ohioans Warned of Dangers in Proposed Legislation. PERIOD OF UNREST NOTED Conservative Element Vrjretl to "Get Together" and Combat Move Which Would Make Courts Creature of Popular Will. NEW YORK. Jan. ST. On the era of his three days visit to Ohio, bis home state. President Taft spoke, tonight at the Waldorf-Astoria to tha Ohio Society of New Tork. dollrerlnr probably tha moat Important speech h has made In many months, directed against the "nostrums of reform." and particularly aimed at th recall of Judges. In the efforts which the President said have been made to ref i lrglsla tion In this country, he taw much that was food. He saw the faults of gov ernment In tha United elates today, and admitted that In trylnr to eradl rate thera much might be accomplished hv reformers. But In the effort to make the judiciary responsive to "every whim of the people" he aaw destroo tion. Lae Overihrew Mrs. He declared that t. conservative elemeet of the Nation ereneually must "get together" to prevent a movement that would make the rourta tha crea tares ef popular will and might make the decision In every case. . ot la ac rord with the law. but accord with what a majority of the people thought the law should be. Thr are having a constitutional convention "Tn Ohio." aald the President, "and I am told that one of the proposl. lions Is to propose the Judicial recall, orators and statesmen are going up and down the country denouncing courts, pointing out ttvetr corrupt na ture. "Tha time Is coming. In my Judg ment, when the conservative people of this country who are In favor of the eternal princlrles of Justice and their administration so as to make them pre vail, should rise to meet these mis rulded supporters of an utterly Inde fensible theory and end the agitation against the courts." PreaMeat Kept Baay. Tha President's speech to tiro Ohio Society waa only one of bla many en gagements here tonight. From Ohio he "stepped over Into West Virginia," In the urns hotel, and addressed the Now Tork Society of that name and then motored to Sherry's to speak to the Aero Club Of America. Before re. tiring at the homo of bla brother, Henry W. Taft. tn President "dropped In" at tha ball of th laughters of Jacob at tha Seventy-first Regiment Armory, to which 10.004 Invitations had been Issued. Ho Is due to leave New Tork tomorrow for Cleveland. President Taft made bis principal speech at th banquet of tha Ohio So ciety at tha Waldorf-Astoria. He paid a warm tribute to Ohio, her Institu tions and people. In opening his ad dress, and after mentioning tha various "isms" that had sprung up In tha coun try, said: t arret la Ohio Seea. "We have now reached another period when another now political nos trutn. or series ot them. Is being (Concluded on face S-) Ff?AHCSCO iSOCSTY OUT0OS- m m v y r- f -,t ws , i r v MOTHER SEES BOY DROWN IN RAPIDS OREGON" CITV FALLS SCENE OP FATAL ACCIDENT. Little Oue Cling to Toy Wlil.-Ue as Turbulent Water BurfeU HI in to Ills Death. OREGON' C1TT, Or, Jan. 27. (Spe cial.) While his terror-stricken mother looked on. Paul Piatt. years old. son of Mrs. O. C. Piatt, of Cane mah. waa drowned In the river basin below the falla here this afternoon. The' boy fell from a sidewalk that skirts the swirling pool Just below the falls and was swept down tha rock Jutted stream. Mrs. Piatt and Mrs. Katherlne Lund had been shopping at Oregon City and with little Paul were returning home along the sidewalk, which follows the river bank to Caneroah. The lad had been given a whistle and was lagging behind Joyfully blowing hla new toy. At a scream from Paul nls mother turned and beheld her son floundering In the turbulent mlllrace. For a time the boy's blouse kept him afloat and he clung to bis whistle as he waa buf feted by the stream. C. A. White. Henry Jones. Fred Free man and Herman Rakel. employes of the Hswley Pulp aV Taper Company, beard the cries of the drowning boy, but were powerlesa to aave him. At the point where the tragedy occurred the river la deep and ao awlft that a man could not survive In It. When the boy disappeared for tha laat time his mother fainted. The rail ing where the boy fell Into the river consists of a top and lower rail, tha latter of which Is nearly two and a half feet above the walk. The sidewalk la maintained by the Portland Rail way. Light rower Company. - O. C. Piatt, father of the boy. came to Oregon City six months ago and later returned to Rhode Island, where ha la at the present time. SECRET WEDDING BARED Pullman Students Married Year Be fore I "act Is Known. SPOKANE. Wash.. Jan. ". (Spe cial.) Keeping their secret for almost year. Lee Mantx. a senior In the pharmacy department at Washington State College, and Miss Joyce Mc Klnney. student In the domestic sci ence department. let the matrimonial cat out of tha bag last night it Pull man. The students were married se cretly at Moscow. June 8. 1)11, and ucceeded until yesterday In keeping tha knowledge from both their parents and their fellow-students. Whan the members of the Beta Kappa aorority. of which Mrs. Mants s a member, learned of the marriage, they announced a reception and the student body turned out to greet the couple. The secret marriage was dls closed when Attorney Frank Sander, of Pullman, returned from Moscow, where he bad accidentally seen the names of the two students on the mar rtace register. Mrs. Mants. who Is a sophomore, lives at Waltsburg. and Mr. Mants Is a real !ent of Colvllle. ROADS CONFER ON "TIPS" Public Blamed Chiefly, but Man agers Would Aid Core. CHICAGO. Jan. S7. (Special.) Con tinued complalnta by the patrons of railroads, especially commercial travel era, against tha so-called "tipping evil." have caused the managers of several leading Western roads to give tha subject serious consideration, and It la expected that steps will be taken In tha near future to check the alleged nuisance. Several Informal conferences already have been held and others are sched uled to take place soon. While the managers maintain that the public la chiefly to blame for the wide scope of the tlp-sollcltors' activities, they also believe the railroads can assist In tha rruaade to crush the evIL , CARTOONIST REYNOLDS COMMENTS PICTORIALLY ON SOME OF SENATOR TULMAM TAMES A SHOT ATT COLOWSL. WATYFfZSQtl RICH IN SHOT BY INTENDED VICTIM Chauffeur Replies to Fire of J. J. Moore. W.FE IN CAR WITH DRIVER San Franciscan Who Fough Divorce Suit Will Die.' DYING STATEMENT MADE Wounded) Man, Recently Principal In Sensational Action, Say He Shot When Mrs. - Moore Re fused to Get Out of Auto. SAN MATEO. Cal., Jan. 27. J. J. Moore, a wealthy fuel dealer of San Francisco, was shot and probably fatal ly wounded tonight, near tbe residence here of bla wife, by J. Timothy, a chauf cur employed by a wealthy neighbor of Mrs. Moore. Moore was carried Into the residence of his wife and later taken to a hospital, where it waa an nounced he could not live. Timothy surrendered and Is now In the custody of the Sheriff of San Mateo County. Mrs. Moore recently sued for divorce. charging Moore with extreme cruelty. Her husband. In a cross-complaint, al leged habitual Intemperance. The names of several men socially promi nent In San Francisco figured In tha rase, including Resr-Admlral Tbomes S. Phelps. Wife la Car With Chauffeur. City Attorney Klrkbrldg refused to make public all of Moore's statement, but In part It la aa follows: "I aaw Mrs. Moore In the car, stopped It and ordered her to get out of It. She refused and I began shooting." Timothy, It was said tonlgbt, had been seen frequently purchasing one or more bottles of champagne In local sa loons. Timothy is a deputy constable. Attack la Related. According to the story told by Tim othy, he was driving past the Moore residence, when his engine failed. As be was bending over the hood of the car, a man stepped from behind a tree on the side of the road opposite the Moore home and. calling out. "You're the man I'm laying for!" and. adding a string of oaths, fired two shots Timothy hid behind the car, he says, in time to escape two more bullets. Timothy asserts be then drew his own revolver and fired onre. Wife Sees, Collapses. The bullet struck Moore In the abdo men, but he did not falL Captain H. N. Royden, of a military school nearby, ran to the scene and found Moore still standing by the road. With the as sistance of Timothy and a maid from the Moore residence, the wounded man was carried Into the house. ' Timothy surrendered to Chief of Po lice Boland and was later taken to Redwood City by the Sheriff. But one chamber of Tlmothy'a revolver had been discharged. CHURCH EXPELS RICHESON Formal Action Takn by Emmanuel Baptist Congregation. CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Jan. 27. Rev. Clarence V. T. Rlcheson. who Is under sentence of death for the murder of hla former sweetheart. Avis Llnnell, was expelled tonight from tha Baptist Church. o BILL ;,ls INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Tbe Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 49 degrees; minimum. 43 degrees. TODAY'S Fair, southeasterly winds. 'National. Proposed probe of "money trust" may split Congress Democrats, '-section 1. page 5. President Taft again assails recall of Judges, Section t, page 1. BUI revising metals tariff will be passed tomorrow. Section 2. page 6. Borah criticises forest homestasd laws. Sec tion 1, psge 6. Domestic Lincoln Beachey, garbed as woman, sensa tion of Los Angeles aviation meet. Sec tion 1, page 4. National Erectors Association detective charged with murderous attack on Frank M. Kyan. Section 1, page 10. James J. Hill extols slm and plan of North western Development League. Section 2, page 8. Big rata fight to be opened in Chicago Hon oay. section 1. page lo. Fire at altar Interrupts wedding ot railway magnate's son to Pittsburg girl. 8 action 1. page S. Reporter affirms that Fels made Incendiary remarks about Times disaster. Section 1. page 1. , Wilson and Hearst supporters In California clean. Section 1. page S. Speaker Clark declares he is Democratio Presidential candidate. Section 1, page 2. J. J. Moore, rich San Franciscan, shot by chauffeur. Section 1, page 1. Politics. S. F. Wilson, of Athena, says he has not yet entered field as candidate, section 1. page 12. Loss of South and Indiana as result of Wat tenon's defection feared by Wilson. Sec- lion 1. page 3. Ralph E. Williams looks for announcement that Roosevelt is candidate. Section page 5. Sports. ' Anglers' Club aims to Include all fisher men In Its membership. Section 2, page 2. Hayward hopes for good track team at Unl verstty ot Oregon. Section 2. page z. Queer baseball plays puzzle umpires. See tlon 2. page 3. Ekl Club returns from Mount Hood. Section 2. page . Summer baseball allowed by "Blg Eight" college conference. Section 2. page i. Ban Francisco and Fpokana trapshooters make world record, section z. page s. Portland's new grandstand at ball park fast nearlng completion. section z, page e. Irvlngton Club tennis players to get 1912 surprise, section i. page a. ateteorlo career of Delaney as pugilist de veloper recalled. Section page 4. Parlrle Northwest. Idsho Democrats may send unlnetruoted aeiegatiira to tmumort. owuoo a. page . Old Point Adams Lighthouse Is ordered de stroyed by Government- section 1, page 6. Montamara Feato chosen name for Tacoma Bummer frolic. Section L- page 7. Defense In Hazzard trial would show "fast- cure specialist" "loved" dying patient- Section 1. page 4. Hood River ore hard let favors comprehensive selling agency tor mutual benefit, sec tion 1. page 7. Let Oregonlana back Oregon Is plea of Wll lam Hanley. Section L page d. Point between Oregon City and New En may be selected for state quarry, bec- tlon 1. page 11. Mother sees sen drown In rapids at Oregon City. Section 1. page 1. Oregon electors must vote on 34 measures. Section 1. page S. Realty and Building. Portland realty market strong. Section 4, psge 9. Possibility seen for every man steadily em ployed In Portland to own his own home. Section 4, page u. Builders' Exchange progresses rapidly. Sec tion 4. page 9. East side continues big building progress. Section 4. page 11. Automobiles and Roads. Barney Oldfteld scores National club's of ficials for laxity over Federal aid lor good roads. Section 4. page 4. Automobile raring calendar for 1912 Is filled with attractive events, section . page . Freak cars find no place at manufacturers' annual National exhibit- Section 4, page 3. Record shipment of autos on wsy to Coast from xiulck factory, section 4, page o. Commercial and Marine. Raw furs advance sharply at London sales. Section 2, page 1. Royal Mall packet Company to begin service here In 1913. Section 2. page IS. Portland and Vicinity. Sumner wins suits to have receiver ap pointed for Northwestern Long-Dlstance Telephone Company. Section 1. page 14. Seattle will Join In Rose Festival planting ceremony. Section 2, page 20. Chinese girl arrested at Billings may be Choi Bin, murder suspect. Section 1, page 18. Southern Paclflo will build branch from Salem, seven miles east, to Fir. Section 2, page 20. Portland schoolgirls becoming expert as breadmakers. Section 1, page 15. Statute, long on books. Is club against loan shark. Section 1. page 14. Lud wig Schwabacher. paper manufacturer, dies. Section 1. page IS. State shows Banker Morris sold phone bonds, SbOOO at par. for $3300. Section 1. page 1. Parkinson, In brief filed, attacks Univer sity of Oregon referendum decision. Sec tion 8, page 8. Democrats want strongest candidates pos sible for Legislature. Section 1. page 12. Judge Brown, friend of boys, will visit Port- j land. Section 1. page 13. I J 1 1 I . MARKET FAVORED AS CLUB QUARTERS Majority Says Growth Warrants Change. NEW GOVERNORS ARE CHOSEN Election Brings Out Heaviest Vote of Record. MOVE OF HOME CONTESTED Resolutions Are Adopted Author izing Directors to Lease Upper . Four Floors In Proposed Pub lic Market Building;. With sentiment overwhelmingly fa voring; a change In location the Port land Commercial Club last night passed resolutions at its annual meeting giv ing the board of governors full power to act upon the offer of new club quarters In the market building to be erected between Pine and Ankeny at Sixth street; and elected J. S. Beall, J. JT. Burgard. F. A. Freeman. C. S. Jackson and George W. Klelser to the board of governors to succeed the five men whose terms expired this year. The polls were opened at 8 o'clock, and while the discussion on the pro posal to move the club quarters was being carried on In the main parlor. the voting continued steadily. The greater part of the members voted. however. In a short recess which was call' Immediately after the opening of Uie polls. Vote Heaviest la History. At 10 o'clock President Beckwlth de clared the polls closed and the tellers. W. T. Buchanan. C. B. Merrick and J. F. Larson began the count, which con tinued far past midnight. The vote was the heaviest that has been cost in the history of the club, reaching-a total of 410. Votes upon each of the ten names submitted were as follows: J. S. Beall, 273; S. Blumauer, 131; J. H.' Burgard, 272; TV. H. Fear, 142; F. A. Freeman, 281; C. S. Jackson, 276; G. W. Klelser, 256; F. B. Riley. 103; A. M. Smith, 125, and Elwood Wiles, 167. C. TV. Hodson opened the discussion of the proposal to move the club quar ters, which was the engrossing topic throughout the greater part of the ses sion, although the trend of sentiment In favor of the move to a new loca tion was apparent from the very first. Sale Believed Advisable. Mr. Hodson couched his motion in the form of two resolutions, as follows: 'Resolved, That the board of gov ernors of the Portland Commercial Club be and is hereby authorized to enter into a contract for a lease of the upper four floors of the proposed new building to be erected on the block bounded by Fifth, Sixth, Pine and Ankeny streets, for the use of the club. upon the terms set out in the proposal submitted therefor with such restric tions aa to finishing, etc, as may meet with the approval of the board; con ditional, however, upon tbe sale of the present club property being made at a price which will secure for the club's present equity a sum not less than $113,500 in cash." Resolved, That the board of gover nors of the Portland Commercial Club, through Its proper officers, be and is hereby authorized and directed, for and on behalf of the club, to authorize and direct the proper officers of the Port land Commercial Club Building Asso ciation, to enter into a contract of sale of lots numbered 3 and 4. in block umbered 69, in the City of Portland, (Concluded on Page 4.) THE PAST WEEK'S oy : COLONEL IAA,TYZSOM &ACK T TLLMAM GLIT" UISHS TO ABBlTfZATJZ Chinese REBELS Tfl FELS' INCENDIARY WORDS AFFIRMED REPORTER GIVES STATEMENT OF M'XAMARA-OTIS SPEECH. Purported Denial by Single-Tax Ad . voeate Shown Unfounded by Man Who Reported Meeting. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 27. W. A. Davenport, reporter for the Philadel phia Public Ledger, made the follow ing statement today: Mr. Fels made this statement In an ad dress on the "Ethics of Taxation" at the Ethical Cultural Societies headquarters at 1415 Locust street In this city. I cannot recall at this time, having lost my notes, tbe exact text of the other parts of Fels' speech, but the published exerpt Is bonafide. Jt Tne oregonlan repuonsnea verDatim me Public Ledger story It was quite as correct as we were. In reference to single taxation. Fels on the occasion rehearsed the various trials and results of the single tax theory, at tributing failure In those instances resulting adversely to lack of practical application. He declared that he regarded single tax ation as the door through which practical socialism could best be reached. He de clared that like Carl Marx, he considered himself good enough to exist without laws, and when accused by one of the hearers of having anarchistic tendencies, replied that whether he was an anarchist or not de pended much on the interpretation of the word. He further declared that he fully ex pected to live to see one state, at least, adopt single taxation. In this connection he predicted that either all the people ot the United States then would move into that one state or they would force their own states to adopt like legislation. These facts are substantially correct. I have had to depend on my memory alone for them. but the McNamara-Otls statement as pub- jianea is correct in aetaii. p In view of a purported telegram from Joseph Fels printed In a Port land newspaper, denying that he had uttered incendiary remarks credited to him by the Philadelphia Public Ledger and the New York Times, The Ore gonlan requested further particulars from the Public Ledger. The fore going is the reply prepared by the Philadelphia newspaperman who at tended the gathering where Mr. Fels delivered his speech. Mr. Fels' state ment as published in the Public Ledger and reproduced in The Oregonlan fol lows: Had I been in the place of tho McXa maras. I would have blown up the Times nunaing as they did and I would not have stopped there- And then, too, I would have waited until General Otis was In his office. He Is the rascal responsible for all labor's troubles tn San Francisco, and the courts upneia mm in his rascality. ZAPATISTAS TAKE CLOTHES Father, Daughters and Two Xonog Men Left Only With Auto. PUEBLA, Mex.. Jan. 27. Left in pos session of a big touring car but stripped of almost every stitch of cloth lng and robbed of money, jewelry and arms, was the predicament in ywhich Macedonia Olvera, his two daughters. and two young - en were placed this morning by Zapatistas. Olvera. who, with his daughters, is visiting friends in Puebla, Invited the two young men to accompany them on an automobile ride. Near the city their car was stopped by a band of Zapatis tas, who took their personal posses slons. Then the occupants of the car, all members of the better class of so clety, were forced to disrobe. They obtained necessary apparel at a work ingraan's home. EMPEROR WILLIAM IS 53 Taft Sends Congratulations and Am bassador Gives Dinner. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. This being the 53d birthday anniversary ot the Emperor of Germany, President Taft has cabled to Berlin a message extend ing hearty congratulations in the name of the Government and people of the United States and tendering his own best wishes for the Emperor's welfare and for the continuance of tbe cordial relations existing between Germany and the United States. Count VonBernstorff, the German Ambassador, in honor of the anniver sary, gave a dinner at which several prominent German-Americans were present. Toasts were drunk to the health of the German Emperor and the President of the United States. NEWS EVENTS. 9000 BOiS SOLD BY MORRIS AT LOSS State Bares Deals to Show Criminality. STOW CALLED BLACKMAILER Attorney Malarkey Says Wilde Indictment Follows Plot. . FIGHT CENTERS ON LETTER Witness for Prosecution Will Not Identify Signature lo Letter In Which Claim to Commission Is Denied Lie Is Cast. i SALIEXT POINTS OF DAY'S TRIAL IX WILDE CASE. In support of its contention that property of the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank was converted unlaw fully, the prosecution, by two wit nesses proved exchange by W. Coop er Morris of eight 1000 Puget Sound telephone bonds, of par value of J8000. for Portland residence prop erty, which netted Morris only 13300 cash. Refusal ef Frank H. Stow, wit ness for the state, to identify the signature of F. F. Graves, president of the Union Telephone Construc tion Company, temporarily prevents the defense from Introducing a let ter from Graves to Wilde. 4n which Graves Interpreted Wilde's contract with tho Construction Company to entitle him to all proceeds from the bond sale over 80 cents on the dollar net to the company. The letter de clares further that neither Graves nor Stow was entitled to any part of the proceeds of the bond sale over 80 per cent. Counsel for defense charges Stow, witness for the prosecution, with at tempted ..blackmail -of-Wllde and al leged that when he failed to force TV'llde to disgorge, proceeded to have Wlldo Indicted on a criminal charge of embezzling the funds of the bank. Dan J. Malarkey. representing the defense, accused Special Prosecutor Clark of "running the District At torney's office" and was called a liar by Deputy District Attorney Fitzgerald. Counsel for the state in the Wilde trial yesterday proved by two witnesses the exchange by W. Cooper Morris of eight 1000 Puget Sound telephone bonds of the par value of $8000 for residue property in East Portland from which he realized only 13300 in cash. These bonds are included in 40 of tho same issue and denomination which the prosecution contends were received by ' Morris, in addition to 5000 cash, aa his part of the 90.000 profit made in the sale by Wilde to the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank of the 500,000 block of Omaha telephone bonds. The purpose of the testimony was to endeavor to support the theory of the state that the transaction goes to prove conversion by Morris of property be longing to the defunct bank. It was admitted by Judge Kavanaugh for that purpose over the objection of Dan J. Malarkey, representing the defense. W. A. Currle, real estate dealer re siding at 532 Elizabeth street, testified that In the Spring of 1909 Morris gave him eight 1000 telephone bonds to trade for property or otherwise dispose of, Currie to receive a commission for his services. Dealer Recounts Purchase. The realty dealer testified that he xchanged four of these bonds to (Concluded on Page 11.) - . v.- SVEIAJ STYLES UOWEVS HATS 4-OOC SoAlrHYG LJKE THIS OATJFYTAL BALI