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TAFT ZEALOUS 10
BEGIN CAMPAIGN
Time Here to Dispel
Untruths, He Says.
LEAGUE CLUBS UU3 RECORD
Annual Dinner at Washington
Brings Party Confidence.
LEADERS FORESEE VICTORY
Senator Root Declares Administra
tion Is Marked by Real Gain
for Ration Strengthening
of Lines Is Realised.
WASHINGTON". Feb. 10. President
Taft. speaking; with campaign f error,
told an enthusiastic assemblage at the
annual banquet of the League of State
Republican Clubs tonight that he wel
comed the coming campaign as "a four
months' period In which to get rid of
li'S and misrepresentations."
The President had listened for two
hours to a variety of speeches lauding
his Administration and attacking the
Democratic party, and began to speak
long after midnight. He said he felt
sorry for the scathing vhlch Democrat
ic Presidential possibilities had re
ceived, remarking that It was hard for
them to promise things which they
knew nothing about.
DMwrallt force Sweat
In the Fall of 110. he said, there was
some reason for Democrats to believe
they would meet with success In 11I.
but at present he compared the party to
an athletic team which had spent Its
force in the middle of the season.
The President declared that even In
1910 the confidence of the Democrats'
ultimate victory in the whole Govern
ment was misplaced, as the vote then
review of Republicans by Re
publicans." and constituted "a mlsun- j
derstandlng which has been clearing j
Itself away as the Republican party has
given evidences of the good faith in
which it is carrying out Its promises of
1M."
Political Hwht CHed.
-We have reason to congratulate our
selves. said the President, "on the
evidences that the enemy have gotten
beyond the point of their greatest
strength. They began with harmony,
but with that unerring accuracy they
have selected the right time to do the
wrong thing."
The President declared the Demo
crats had trifled with the Army and
Navy by reducing its strength, and
"when business peace is most important
they have selected this time by radical
changes to break up the Industries of
the country by changes that will not
permit those Industries to live.
Real lr(m Is PHaetple.
"The Republican party 'a still the
Republican party. It Is not a reaction
ary party. It never was a 'reactionary
party." he said. "The Republican party,
however. Is the progressive party, yet
adhering to the fundamentals' of the
Constitution, which It would not sur
render. -We are going Into the campaign.
We are clearing the atmosphere and we
ought to welcome It because It Is a
four-months' period to get rid of lies
and misrepresentations. And we can
show that on the record of the Repub
lican party we can count on victory."
Representative Longworth counselled
"encouragement and good cheer" to
Republican, declaring he was not dis
posed "to throw up the sponge before)
(ronchidHoB Pass 4
LS t SfSSOV TO eCfJSS THROUGH TSXAS '
I I X I .
3 FIVES IN DICE
GAME WIN BRIDE
BELLE OP RCSSIATOWN LETS
CHAXCE MAKE CHOICE.
Each Sailor Has License and When
Game Is Plaird Before Girl
Loser Burns His on Spot.
FRESNO. CaUFeb. 10. (Special.)
Three Uvea In a dice game today won
pretty Kiss Lizzie Shorton as Ernest
Legler's bride, much to the aorrow of
Peter Dermer. who fain would have
taken the belle of Russlatown to his
own bom as his wife.
The story of the dice game as to
who should claim the prettly little
Russian girl reads like a story-book.
Legler obtained the second marrlsge
license that had been Issued for Miss
Shorton In the past two days. Some
time ago the young girl and Legler
kept company, and it was the talk of
Russlatown that they soon would be
married. -
Legler obtained a position in the
mountains several months ago and
neglected to write to the anxious little
-i.i i- rtn. Then Peter Dermer
appeared and bestowed his affections
on the girl. He proposed, was accept
ed and got the license.
Legler arrived in Fresno today and
also obtained a marriage license for
the glrL He then went to the Shorton
home, and In the presence of the fsm
lly the two grooms shook dice. Der
mer tost and his marriage license was
burned on the spot.
JURYS DIN SPREADS ALARM
Men Set Cp line and Cry When Not
Released by Bailiff.
SEATTLE. Wash, Feb. 10. (Spe
.i.i v un.. hv a. terrific din Issuing
from a room In the Courthouse at mid
night last night, deputy sherins swept
Into the Jail yard ready to quell what
they thought to be an attempted Jail
break. Search for the source of the
hubbub revealed that a Jury in depart
ment No. 1 of the Superior Court had
ku. iwkxt in since t o'clock In the
afternoon and that tne bailiff had de
parted beyond the range of the vexed
voices of the Jurymen.
The Jury room Is directly over the
Jail. When the Jury waa unable to
reach a verdict, after long deliberation,
an appeal waa raised for release. Re
lease did not come soon enough, how
ever, and the tired Jurors began pound
ing with tin pans, hammering on doors
an"BJrloud. Their chorua of
hovJ!ndemonlum waa heard for
blocks around.
The bailiff and the deputy sheriffs
arrived to free the men simultaneously.
SECRECY ISP0LICE AIM
Spokane Department Head Orders
Secret Blotter" System.
SPOKANE. Feb. 10. "Hush," will be
the watchword of the Spokane police
department in future, according to
rules promulgated today by Commis
sioner of Public Safety Hayden. The
rulea provide that all Juvenile offenders
must be booked on the "secret blotter,
as well as all prisoners held under sus
picion until a charge Is filed agalnat
them."
No Information regarding any sus
pected criminal must be given out until
after the criminal Is apprehended and
information regarding prisoners, ar
rests and other police details must be
given out by the chief alone.
"PRISON DEMON" CAUGHT
r
Convict Wounded and Suffering
From Exposure in 5hlo Storms.
COLUMBUS. O.. Feb. 10. Otis Hur
ley, the so-called "prison demon." who
escaped from the Ohio penitentiary last
night, was captured today. He had
been shot through the left foot and
was suffering from exposure in the
storms that have been raging here.
-William Brennan, another prisoner,
who attempted to escape with Hurley,
was captured after he had been shot
twice.
AGAIN INSPIRATION IS PUT TO REYNOLDS' PEN BY POLITICS, WARS AND RUMBLINGS OF WARS.
SEATTLE WONDERS
AT 64 CANDIDATES
Two Will Pe Nominated
for Mayor.
GILL HOPES TO "COME BACK"
Five Seeking Executive Office
at Primaries, February 20.
SITUATION MOST COMPLEX
Registration Lighter Than In Recall
Campaign Politicians Hold So
cialists Cheap but Bets
Place Them Third.
SEATTLE. Wash, Feb. 10. (Special.)
Sixty-four candidates are fighting for
It municipal nominations, but 9 of
them are exhibiting before small audi
ences. There are 59 small groups of devoted
friends who wish' that the general pub
lic could get its mind off the Mayoralty
campaign long enough to realise that
seven other offices are to be filled and
that a host of volunteers is willing to
assume the responsibility for filling
them. But the voting population of
Seattle, aomethlng more than 70.000
strong, doesn't take the trouble to lis
ten to the minor candidates, and they
long ago gave up the effort to bold
meetings in their own behalf or get
anything better than passing notice.
Seattle wants to know, primarily,
whether or not H. C GUI, recalled as
Mayor on February 7, 1911. can "come
back," and apparently that question
will overshadow everything else both
at the primaries on February 20 and
the general election March t, for there
Is a general disposition to concede that
QUI will be one of the two Mayoralty
nominees. - ,
Five Oat for Mayor.
There are five Mayoralty candidates,
but one, David Perry Rice, doesn't
count. He Issued a platform and wrote
out his blogrsphy, but in the excite
ment most people forgot immediately
that be was an aspirant.
Of the othera there are Hulet M.
Wells, Socialist and ex-postofflce em
ploye; T. A. Tarlsh, ex-State Tax Com
missioner and ex-County Assessor;
George F. Cotterlll. ex-State Senator,
one-time middle of the road Populist
leader and prominent In a number of
what are termed "Insurgent" move
ments. Then there is the Issue. H. C.
Gill. ex-Mayor, and prior to that for 12
years a member of the Seattle City
Council.
Among a number of other "advanced"
ideas that Seattle has from time to
time adopted la the plan of holding
non-partisan primaries and elections,
the scheme. It being developed In this
campaign, having been advanced by
Mr. Cotterlll. who seeks to be the first
beneficiary in the initial test of the
innovation. By its terms there are no
party designations, and the two high
eat candidates are nominated at a pri
mary held two weeka before the gen
eral election, running off the final heat
election day.
Other Pieces Being Sought.
This year, beside the Mayor, there
are to be elected a Corporation Coun
sel, City Treasurer, Controller, one
Councilman to fill an unexpired term
of one year, and three to serve three
yeara each, the whole involving double
that number -of nominations on pri
mary day. February 20.
The Socialists, who refuse to recog
nise non-partisan movements, discov
ered a method of beating the primary
Concluded en Page .
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TEPTERDAVS Maximum temperature. 50
r decrees; minimum. 44 decrees.
XODAY'S Occasional rain; winds becoming
southwesterly.
Foreign.
Mexico to delay movement of troops In
north. Section 1. page 1.
Duchess of Marlborough suffers from ner
vous breakdown over excluaion from
court. Section 1. page 3.
National.
Solicitor McCabe denies everglade charges.
Section 1. page 6.
Secretary Knox to visit Latin-American
neighbors officially. Section 1. page .
Tin plate official admits company sought
foroign laborers after winning strike. Sec
tion 1, psge 5.
Paymaster-general accuses President of sup
pressing scandal concerning political
worker. Section 1, page 2.
Politics.
Eight Governors organise Roosevelt boom in
Chicago. Section 1, page 2.
Folk virtually retires from race In favor ef
8peaker Clark. Seotion 1, page
Manila Democrats split on Taft's insular
policy: faction bolts convention. Section
1. page 6.
Senator Selling answers open letter from
Stephen A. Lowell, candidate to succeed
Bourne. Section 1. page 9.
President keen to begin campaign; sanguine
of victory. Section 1, psge 1.
Domestic.
Hawiey will reported to have been found by
ward. Section 1. page 1.
Russians in Fresno, Cel., shake dice for
bride, three fives win. Section 1, page 1.
Sport.
Danny Long signs three southpaws. Section
2, page 4.
Chances for Portland to- win pennant again
are good. Section 2, page 2.
Cmplres not to be detailed ahead of time
next season. Section 2, page 2.
IrvJngton Club directors to meet Tuesday to
elect tennis committee chairman. Section
2. page 4.
Oregon University ball team is promising.
section 2, page 3.
Pacific University sending fsst relay team to
meet Y. M. C. A. Section 2, page 4.
Interscholastlc baseball season to begin April
3. Section 2. page 8.
Portland Snowshoe Club disports on Uount
Hood. Section 2. page 3.
Cleveland fana think Vean Gregg may be
bluffing. Section 2, page 8.
Coaches approve changes in football rules.
Section 2. page 4.
Ail-Star soccer team may be selected in
Portland. Section 2, page 4.
Pacific Northwest.
Klamath Falls gets next Oregon Christian
Endeavor convention. Section 1. page 7.
Short courses at Oregon Agricultural Col
lege proving of great benefit. Section 1,
page a.
Seattle in quandary as 64 announce them
selves candidates in coming primaries.
Section 1. page 1.
Primary election and following vote to cost
taxpayers Sls.uoo. Section 1, page 6.
Army officers terra vote to reduce enlist
ment Inapt course. Section 1. page 6.
Attorney-General Crawford gives Governor
West some idea on how to construct
good roads. Section 1, page 6.
State has S?.4"8,0u left of t4.T4T.043 ap
propriated by ltflO Legislature. Section
1. page 7.
Educators of state favor plan of Federation
of Labor to have farmers, other working
classes and schools co-operate. Section
1. page T. ...
BeaUty and Building.
Tone of Portland realty market remains
strong, section 3, page 10.
Movement under way to provide streetcar
service for South Mount Tabor district.
Section 3. page 11.
C. K. Henry reviews remarkable progress
made by Portland. Section 3, page 12.
Portland shows great Improvements in
building methods. Section 3, page l'i.
Portland and Vicinity.
Judge Gantenbeln holds car company has no
franchise permitting It to- operate over
lia thorns-avenue bridge. Section 1.
page 12.
Itallwaya prepare for opening of Spring col
onist sesson. Section . page
Portland syndicate buys 40O0 acres to be
developed Into homeettes and for dlversi
ned farming. Section 1, page 15.
Portland. America's Summer capital, to mir
ror glory during Rose Festival. Section
1. pagu 13.
Elka favor one plan of decoration for whole
city In convention week. Section 1,
page 11.
Suffragists deplore attacks of co-workers on
Hoosevelt tor espousing couse. Section
1 page 14.
Report on extension of Umatilla project pre
pared. Section 1, page 12.
Government officials confiscate papers In de
funct orchard company case. Section 1,
page 14.
Pledges totalling $25,000 are received for
Willamette University fund. Section 1,
page 14.
Charles H. Corey requests official Interpreta
tion of act providing for election of party
dWegate to National conventions. Sec
tion 1. page 10.
Police prepare building at Third and Ev
erett streets to be used as temporary
jail. Section 1. page 12.
Australian Commissioner comes to Oregon
to Induce irrigation formers to take up
tracts in Antipodes. Section 1. page 11.
Secretary of War explains Panama freight
hindrance. Section 2, page 22.
Republican newspspers throughout Oregon
promise to support Taft. Section 1,
page 0.
Chinese Is shot In arm In war of tongs in
Chinatown. Section , page
Oregon National Guard may mobilize for i
geld service. Section 1, page 1.
IE0 TO DELAY
TROOP MOVEMENT
Texas Issue Does Not
Come to Crisis..
RUHALES ARE BELIEVED LOYAL
Necessary Formalities Will
Consume Two Weeks.
RAIDERS DESTROY BRIDGE
Wire Communication With Chihua
hua Re-established, but Railroad
Is Still Out of Commission.
Ranches Are Pillaged.
TEXAS GOVERNOR 18 KEEPING
WATCH ON BORDER.
AUSTIN, Tex.. Feb." 10. In antici
pation of a possible renewal of dis
order at Juarez. Governor Colquitt to
day Instructed Adjutant - General
Hutchlns to proceed to El Paso Im
mediately. Captain J. R. Hughes, of the 8tate
Ranger Service, and a detachment of
rangers were ordered to El Paso sev
eral days ago. and advices from Cap
tain Hughes are said to have prompt
ed the Governor's action.
MEXICO CITT. Feb. 10. Mexico
would not transport troops through
United States territory now. even If
tho Washington Government had not
withdrawn Its permission for such ao
tlbn, according to ah official message
sent to Washington today.
Government officials . here say that
rurales at Juarex are loyal and it is
not necessary to replace them with
Federals. Even should the government
wish to send the troops through United
States territory, however. It would take
at least two weeks to arrange formali
ties to gain consent of the Senate.
The proceedings for a special session
of the Senate requested by President
Madero will go forward In the mean
time, in order that the plan may be
carried out later If the emergency
arises and the permission is granted
by the United States.
Although wire communication was
re-established with Chihuahua today,
the railroad is still out of commission.
New activities of the rebels were re
ported in the Torreon district.
A 300-foot bridge on the Coahuila A
Pacific Railroad, 15 miles east of Tor
reon, was burned and ten ranches In
the vicinity were pillaged. The plead
ings of women and children refugees
on a passenger train which fell into
the hands of the raiders gained per
mission for the train to return to
Torreon.
GOXZAI.ES HAS PEACE PLAN
Payment of Men Expected to Re
store Calm to Chihuahua
EL PASO, Tex.. Feb. 10. Governor
Gonzales, of Chihuahua, Minister of the
Interior in the Cabinet of President
Madero, of Mexico, arrived from Spof
ford Junction late today. He brings
with him a plan which he believes will
result in the complete pacification of
the State of Chihuahua. His proposal
consists of the Immediate disbursement
of J250.000 among the former soldiers
of Madero and 150.000 among the
widows and orphans of the soldiers
who fell in battle.
He is also empowered to begin an
immediate sale of state and national
tConcluded on Page 4.)
OREGON GUARD MAY
SEE FIELD SERVICE
WAR DEPARTMENT SENDS MO
BILIZATION ORDERS.
Instructions Contemplate Assemb
ling of Troops at Clackamas Sta
tion in Case of Need.
General orders giving full Instruc
tions as to the details .of mobilizing
the Oregon National Guard for active
service have been received at head
quarters from the War Department, it
was learned yesterday.
While no communication of any sort
has been received bearing on the
present situation on the Mexican
border and the possible mobilization
of 100,000 troops, yet the War Depart
ment instructions are so complete as
to leave merely the final word of execu
tion lacking.
A single telegram of ten words or
less from Washington would suffice
to throw the Third Oregon Regiment
and Field Battery A into the State
mobilization camp at Clackamas Sta
tion, 12 miles south of Portland. In
order to be able promptly to meet such
an order in the event of its receipt,
every detail for mobilization has been
worked out by Adjutant-General Finzer
and aides.
Details, even as to the routing of
cutside companies, have been worked
out and it is estimated that within 48
hours after an order is received the
most distant company of infantry,
from Baker, could be under canvas at
Clackamas.
All organizations would go out intact
should the War Department issue its
call. There could be no redistribution
of commissions such as took place
when the state troops were merged into
the volunteers at the opening of the
Spanish-American War. At that time
Captains and even Majors were com
pelled to go as Lieutenants, and In one
or two Instances as enlisted men, while
in some eases the choice positions
were given out as political rewards.
PACKAGE OFCHINAMAN DUE
Express Company to Transport Gee
Fong Through Portland.
Representatives of the North Pacific
Steamship Company have not been offi
cially apprised of the coming of Gee
Fong, a Chinese, who was shipped as
"express matter" from San Diego on
the steamer Geo. W. Elder, due here to
morrow. Portland officials of the
Wells-Fargo Company say they were
not Informed of the "shipment" and
say they have never heard of such a
proceeding.
, The Chinese was in Mexican territory,
having resided at Ensanada, and as he
is bound for Vancouver, B. C. and is
not entitled to admission into the
United States, the express company
Hied a bond with the Government guar
anteeing that he would not escape in
transit. The steamship representatives
do not know what will be done with
him on arrival, but it is presumed that
he will be turned over to an express
messenger who will accompany him to
the point of destination.
MANLESS TOWN PLEADS
Bennington, Vt., Writes to Seattle
for Western Husbands.
SEiTTI.K. Wash.. Feb. 10. (Spe
cial.) Bennington, Vt., has sent an ap- i
peal to Seattle and the Pacific coast
to furnish husbands for its excess fe
male population, the ratio in and
around Bennington being 20 women to
one man, says a letter received today
by Claude F. Gage, marriage licenso
clerk, -who is trying to do what he can
to satisfy the Eastern complaint.
From Indianapolis, Ind., writes "Eve
lyn, the heartbreaker," who says she
has had fivo offers from Indiana men,
but does on the West and can't settle
down for life in Indiana.
From a New Tork girl of 26 years, a
nurse in a prominent family, comes a
letter expressing the desire to live on
the "frontier" in Seattle and "enjoy
the wild, free life of the plains."
John bull.
BEQUEST
UPSET PLANS
Ward of Railroad Man
Finds Document.
WILL SAID TO BE POUCED
Servants Tell of Witnessing
Mysterious Papers.
WOMAN DAZED BY WEALTH
Heirs Plan to Hold Railroad Man's
Securities Unsold tor Five Tears.
If Missing Will Appears Belief
Is AH Slay Be Changed.
NEW TORK, Feb. 10. (Special.)
None of the Edwin Hawiey railroad
securities will be sold for five years,
according to an agreement made by
the heirs of the financier. From state
ments made by the relatives today. It
is also learned that this was one point
in the disposition of his estate which
Mr. Hawiey had made clear to be hla
wish before his death.
It is now explained that the will
which John B. Stanchfleld, Mr. Haw
ley's counsel, drew up In 1909, and
which was never executed, will be fol
lowed in the disposal of his estate in
Its chief provisions; that is, that one
fifth will go to each of the four broth
ers and sisters, and the remaining fifth
will be divided among the children of
the dead sister.
Provision Made Before Death.
One of the reports that were circu
lated today was to the effect that Miss
Margaret Cameron, housekeeper for
Mr. Hawiey, had produced a will, which
she said she' had found among his
effects, and that this will dispose of the
estate in a totally different way from
that which tho heirs have been plan
ning the last week. Some men Intimate
with the railroad leader say she was
probably well provided for before Mr.
Hawley's death.
There is a story told in Babylon that
Mr. Hawiey prepared a will a year ago
by which the property here, the town
house at No. 9 East Sixtieth street, and
all of his other real estate, his Jewelry
and art collections, including his col
lection of costly antiques and Turkish
and Persian ruga, were left to Miss
Cameron, and she, it is said, knew of
the provisions of this document, but
when Mr. Hawiey was about to sign it
several months ago, she begged him
not to.
Mysterious Papers Executed.
Later, when she was not present, tho
chauffeur and gardener were called in
to witness the execution of the papers,
which they believed to be his will.
Margaret Cameron first appeared at
Effingnam Park, Hawley's Babylon res
idence, when she was a short-skirted
girl, with her. hair braided down her
back. She was brought there by Mrs.
Nellie Hawiey Seymour, his sister, who
was the mistress of his home until her
health failed five years ago, when she
returned to their native town, Chatham,
N. Y. The girl was then spoken of as
a niece of both.
'Since Hawley's death it has been said
around the place that she and Mr. Haw
iey were to have been married this
Spring, but none would say that he
had definite knowledge of it.
Mrs. Frederick Crandall, wife of one
of the heirs to one-fifteenth of the
Hawiey estate, who came out of tho
workhouse to find she was about to
acquire great wealth, was still dazed
today by the prospect. When asked by
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