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Pages 1 to 18 DENTISTS TO TEST TAFT FORCES WIN GOLF FOURSOME PKKS1DK.VT FINDS RrXAXATIOX OS NEW JEKSEV LINKS. PRESIDENT GAINS IN WEEK'S RETURNS TORNADO WRECKS I IS I1 OKLAHOMA TOWNS SKILL ON CONVICTS TO DIRECT SEARCH IN GIVING PnnTLAXD. OKEGOX. SUNDAY MORXIXG. U'KIL. 28, 1912. PKICE FIVE CENTS. ' I I mm ED TITANIC 01 LIFE-SAVING GREW POSITION RESCUES HUE. MEN Fishing Schooner Vida WOMEN AND CHILDREN AMONG . THOSE REPORTED DEAD. PRISONERS CHOSEN AS SUB JECTS AT EXAMINATION. Is Wrecked. BAY CITY IS SCENE OF LOSS Boat Strikes North Spit at Entrance of Inlet. DARING WORK IS LAUDED When Craft strikes and 1 Prac tically Totally IeMroed on Rocky Shore. Hardy Mm Ilufth to Shlpv reeked. BAT CLTT. lr.. April IT. Special.) Driven from her roure la entering the harbor here tonight, the tlshlng schooner Villi, of Seattle, struck the North Spit at the entrance to the bay and was wrecked. llr crew of five men were rescueil with difficulty by the Itfe-savlnr crew from Garibaldi. The Vlda will be a total loss. In command of George Nelson, the Vida. which la a gasollne-drlven craft, had been outside the harbor's entrance exploring the halibut banks. As she was returning this evening at ebb tide the boat was forced from-the channel by the swift current and. despite ef forts of all aboard, pounded onto the spit. The schooner struck at t:10. The boat's plight was seen at Gari baldi and the life-saving crew hurried to the scene and removed the Are men on board from the craft, which now lies partially submerged, with the waves breaking over her. The Vlda was loaded with Huh caught during the day. Besides Captain Nelson, whose home Is at Seattle, other men saved are Jo seph Johnson, engineer, Seattle: Ed ward Martin, steward. Seattle; Herman Tleson and George Thomson, both of Bay City. Slrurk by a heavy wave, the schoon er's rudder was carried away. and. ' helpless, she drifted until she struck the north spit. The rescue of the boat was accom plished daringly by the ltfesavlng crew, who plunged Into the surf and reached the vicinity o? im wrecked craft, where they picked up the five men who had been forced to leap from the schooner into the breakers that the llfesavers might pull them Into the boat. Engineer Paul displayed the great eat heroism, and It was due to him that the llfesavers arrived In time to save the crew. With more than six feet of water In the hold, and the craft rap Idly being- pounded to pieces by the giant breakers that broke over her decks. Paul stayed by the engine and kept the whistle blowing signals of distress, thereby calling the atentlon of the llfesavers to the schooner's plight. The craft Is now lying a short dis tance from shore. The Vlda was a two-masted schooner of CJ tons burden and 9 feet long. I'ntil recently she had been Ashing In Alaskan waters. She arrived here Thursday from Seattle. DIRECT. ELECTIONS WAIT IIoa to Act First on Pastofflcc Appropriation Rill. WASHINGTON. April 17. The House will not act on the constitutional amendment for direct election of Sena tors until the Postofflce appropriation bill has been disposed of. Chairman Rucker. of the elections committee, said today he had Intended to ask for immediate agreement with the Senate on the direct election reso lution, but that at the request of mem bers who desired to spesk on the sub ject had decided to withhold action u:til neat week. t ALL TUCHEO AWAY V HIS 0tA HMJE T- Z. I rlly Wfll them rrNno TjC . -Vk ''it 1 Sii.K' JLJ- . V . r7I-Xl-U 1 YV. SSC'V(E' - ' - SAT If 1 Colonel IlirtPjr and T. W. Webb Tjoc Came From Which Gallery Ite- fpect fully Withdraws. NKW YOKK. April 27. President Taft laid aside his political clothes, put on an old gray cap and a sweater and relieved his feelings by - knocking a golf ball around the course tod.ty at the Baltusrol Golf Club,, near Oranae. .The President played with Ogden Col gate, of Newark. The president played a foursome will A. r. Chandler as his partner an rnlnnrl flennre Harvey and T. W Webb for opponents. The game lasted IS holes and the Taft forces won. There were many other players on the links, but out cf respect for Mr Taft there was no gallery to watch him play. TODD TO JOIN DONWORTH DiMrlct .Attorney Resigns to JVcconi Judge's I -aw Partner. SKATTI.E Wash- April IT. (Spe rial.) United States District Attorney Klmer K. Todd has resigned to become associated with Judge George Don worth, who only recently retired as a Federal Judges Mr. Todd and Judge Ionworth have taken a suite of offlc In the Hon building. Mr. Todd said that he had forwarded Ms resignation to Attorney - f.enerai Wl.kersham a fortnight ago. and that. while he had received no word sine as to who his successor was -likely to be. he had notified the Attorney General that it was his desire that It take effect at the close of business April SO. Mr. Todd said that Judge Donworth would return to Seattle from his pres ent trip during May. With the severance of his official relations with the Government next Tuesday, Mr. Todd will have served four vears and a half. as District At torney, Including a recess appointment. VOTERS ONE-FIFTH WOMEN Total Registration In San Franclso U 136,490. SAX FRANCISCO. April IT. (Spe cial.) Registrar aeraansay luuajr u pleted the official count of the vote registered in San Francisco, both men and women, for the Presidential pri-nirie- on May 14. The total is 13S.490. Women number 26."70 and men 109,- The total registration for the Repub lican and Democratic parties, the only parties that will have a place on the Prosldentlal preference primary bal lot. Is: Republicans. 56,653; Democrats, 20.291. Of the total registered vote of 136. 490. there were 19,546 voters who de clined to give their party affiliations and who are consequently barred from voting at the primary, bringing the total i.uniber of voters eligible to vote on May 11 to 10O44. Feminine Population 377, 727. OKEGONIAN NEWS BL'RKAU, Wash ington. April IT. The Census Bureau yesterday made public a preliminary summary giving the number of women and girls 21 years old snd over In the State of Washington, as shown by the last census. The total number Is !. TIT. of which 141. 269 are native white, of native parents: 19.132 native white, of foreign parents; T0.K36 foreign white: 169T nearo: V04 Indian: 119 Chi nese, and 1171 Japanese and Coreans. Kear-Adnilral Thomas Retired. WASHINGTON. April IT. Rear-Admiral Chauncey Thomas was placed on the retired list of the Navy today on account of age. lie was appointed to the Naval Academy from Pennsylvania In 1867. His active service ended when he relinquished command of the Pa cific fleet, about two months ago. Thread .Mill Strike Grows. W1LLIM ANTIC, Conn.. April 27. strike of operatives in the manufac turing departments of the American Thread Company embraced today 1500. an Inerease of 900 since yesterday. The strikers say that a promised 10 per cent wak-e Increase has only netted from 2 to t per cent. POLITICS AND THE mi Fight for Delegates Is Spectacular. CLARK IS MAKING HEADWAY New Jersey Governor Loses Some of Former Lead. TAKVEN ARE CONFIDENT Victory, Thonfc " Close Margin, Is Predicted in a."". Slate, While Rumored Desertions In - South Arc Denied. NEW YORK. April 17. (Special.) The New York Herald tomorrow morn ing will publish the following esti mate of the relative strength of the Presidential candidates, as the result of an Impartial review of the situation: Republican. T.nft Roosevelt . !.n Ko'lette Cummins . .41.!l'nrertain 4 07;Neded to nom...r4u ... .1(1,1 t to choose 4uo . .. H1 ptemoerata. Clark nn:;urk 10 Wilson UN' Uncertain lot Marshall :: Needed to nom...7tf Underwood -4 Continuing, the Herald will say that the President is virtually assured of the nomination at Chicago at this writing, adding: "Speaker Clark is gaining steadily and Governor Wilson is losing some of the big lead he had two and three weeks ago. Other Democratic aspirants for the-nominatlon are far in the rear. right rowa Spectacular. "That Is the situation in the two great battles for the Presidential nom inations now being waged throughout the Nation. In the number of dele gates gathered In during the week, the President easily led his rivals. He ob tained SI, as against eight for Mr. Roosevelt and four for Mr. Cummins. The fight for delegates on each side Is becoming one of the most spectacular contests of its kind ever witnessed in the country. Especially Is this true on the Republican side, with President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt both making speeches In debatable sections. Ip to the present time, 672 "of "the 1078 delegates who will sit In the Republican convention have been elected. Of these 415 are either In structed for the President or have an nounced that they would vote for him. Mr. Roosevelt has 107 delegates, which is 333 short of a majority. There are 406 delegates yet to be elected, and the best Judgment at the present time is that President Taft will obtain from the 406 the 115 needed to give a ma jority. Taft Cfcaaee Best la Massachusetts. The chief event of the present week will be the primary elections In Mas sachusetts for the selection of dele gates to the National convention. The Herald's information Is that at the present time the President stands the best chance of winning, but by a scant margin. Massachusetts has 36 dele gates and the contest there will be watched with the keenest Interest throughout the country. From South Carolina comes the first suggestion Of a possible break from the Taft ranks of Southern delegates. Two delegates-at-large who bear in structions for the President and four others who had pledged their word to vote for him announce that condi tions have greatly changed since they were elected and that now they are for Mr. Roosevelt. The Herald's cor respondent says that if Theodore Roosevelt looms up as a likely, winner, the "black and tan" delegates from South Carolina will climb on his band wagon. From Virginia also came another 4 4'onrluded on F'age 3. TROUBLESOME- MEXICAN SITUATION SUGGEST Storm Mows. Swath Across Several Counties and Crosses Stnte Line Into Texas. OKLAHOMA CITY, April 27. Three persons were killed and property valued at 3100.000 was wrecked at the town of Calumet, Okla., by. a tornado which swept through several counties in Western Oklahoma late . today. Half of the little town of Rocky was blown away and the village of Blair also was damaged. overal persons were Injured at Rocky. The town of Lugert is reported blown away. At El Dorado, Okla.. It Is said one ' woman and three children were killed. Several persons were hurt at Marthe. At Altus several were hurt. A special train with physicians and nurses has been dispatched from Altus to Lugert. CHILDRESS. Tex.. April IT. Seven persona are known to have been killed and several others injured, at least six seriously, by a tornado which jut a path half a mile in width and 10 miles in length through Childress County to day. CO-EDS' HOPES BLASTED Dean of Washington Puts Foot Down on Athletic Contests. SEATTLE. Wash.. April 27. (Spe cial.) Declaring that participation In Intercollegiate athletics Is highly Im proper scd unladylike for university women. Dean Isabella Austin, dean of women. Washington University, has ruled that girls cannot enter the pro posed tennis tournament with Univer sity of Oregon co-eds In May. ' It is understood that authorities at the Oregon school are In favor of the meet and until Dean Austin submitted her statement to the faculty committee j today it was thought that all was tran quil at this end. "Intercollegiate athletics has como to be a mere show," declared the dean, "and 1 will not consent to allow Wash ington girls to participate in any such event. It is against the policy of this school and, if it were not. I would re fuse to permit university women to take part in such sport." WHISKEY MARKET "FULL" Kentucky Distillers Fear There la 70,000,000 Gallons Too Much. LOUISVILLE, April 2T. Over-production of Kentucky whisky, similar to that during the four years from 1890 to 1S93 Inclusive, which was followed by several years of depression, is feared by local distillers, who have agreed liiat curtailment In the output Is im perative. The trade has produced about 90.000.u00 gallons In the last two years, more than 70,000,000 in excess of the demand. Distillers say a tremendous impetus was given the production of Kentucky Bourbon by the pure food rulings as to what constitutes real whisky, and many Increased the capacity of their plants In anticipation of a big demand. The overthrow of Dr. Wiley's con clusion later cut into the consumption of aging whisky. Jobbers over the country, they say, practically have ceased buying anything younger than 1910's and when they buy goods of old er Inspection the purchases are alto gether for Immediate wants. HENS AID $20,000 CHURCH Eggs Ijiid on Sabbath Will Be Do nated by Mormons. MADRATH, Alberta, April 27. In order to replace the 120,000 tabernacle of the Latter Day Saints, recently de stroyed by fire here, members of the organization, beginning tomorrow, will give toward the fund all the eggs laid by their hens on successive Sabbath days. It Is thought that sufficient money will be realized by harvest time to re build the structure. Wabash Receiver to Raise Cash. CHICAGO. April 2T. Steps toward the liquidation of the obligations of the Waoash Railroad Company were taken today when Federal Judge Car penter entered an order directing the receivers to raise $1,500,000. The mon ey will be raised by means of certifi cates of indebtedness. Americans Are Lost In land in Mexico. NEED OF ARMED FORCE SEEN Buford Officers Would Like to Take 100 Fighting Men. PREPARATION IS RUSHED Occasion or Several Kescue Expe ditlons Likely to Arise Trans port Crook Being: Fitted for Possible Service. SAN KRAXCISCO. April 27. The first specific appeal to the transport Buford for help on her trip to be begun Mon day for West "Coast Mexican ports was received here today from Paul F. Car penter, of Los Angeles. He asks that a search party be sent for George Carpenter, an American civil engineer, who has been directing Irrigation works at Topolobampo and who was last heard from three weeks ago at Cuasave, 20 miies lniand from Topolobampo. At that time George Carpenter sent word that his camp had been attacked and swept clean of everything portable. Including firearms. Armed Force Needed. The probability that there will be need of other inland search parties and rescue expeditions makes officers de sirous that the Buford should carry 100 or more armed men cs well as pro visions and a full hospital eoulpment. No such orders have been received. At Sun Diego Claude E. Guyant, an agent of the State Department, will be taken on board. At each port of call the Buford will receive orders where to make her next stop. Thus her itinerary Is tentative, but as at present laid down it is in the order of the ports named: San Diego, Topolobampo, Al tata. Mazatlan, San Bias Teplc, Han zanllla. Acapulco, Salina Crui home. It Is understood that at Topolobampo there are 250 Americans awaiting her. Preparation. Being Rushed. . Work on the Buford is belnsr rushed at top speed. She was out of commis sion when ordered for- duty and her crew will be made up from thf. officers and crews of the transports Sheridan and Sherman, both recently arrived from Manila. She Is taking on 1600 tons of coal, sufficient for 40 days' steaming, and it Is estimated that her trip will take about six weeks. Two wireless operators wll: be carried. The transport Crook, also being fit ted for possible duty, was being equipped with wireless loday. Monday has been decided upon as the earliest date by which it will be pos sible to prepare the Buford for depart ure. It has been decided to take several women nurses, if this plan is sanctioned by Washington, on account of the cer tainty that a large number of the res cued Americans will be women and children. FORT STEVENS IS PREPARED Soldiers Expect Orders to Leave for . Texas Border Soon. FORT STEVEN'S, Or., April 2". (Special.) Action is being displayed at Fort Stevens In anticipation of orders to depart immediately for the Texas border. Hospital supplies and ambu lances were shipped today. Transporta tion wagons are being placed In thorough repair. The heavy marching equipment of every soldier In the post has been thoroughly inspected and all broken or damaged parts replaced. All companies are drilled daily In battle maneuvers, including skirmish drills. ( ( ; o n rl u ded onF a g &2. PEN TOPICS FOR CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. wolJLO"ll , . , , , , -ttT. ........................ .. J AH "Tooth Fixers" Who Operate Successfully on Criminals Will Receive State License. Convicts at the' State Prison have been selected as subjects for experi mental dental work at the Spring ex amination of applicants for state dental licenses, June 3. At a meeting yester day of the State Dental Board, ways and means of eliminating the usual trouble of procuring subjects upon which the applicants for licenses can demonstrate, were considered, and the convict plan hit upon as a satisfactory solution. All convicts who are In need of dental work will be treated free of charge. Upon the success of the operation will depend the license of the applicant. The temporary prison dental parlors will be open for four days. There will be about 45 applicants for licenses. The Board meeting yesterday was the first since Governor West reappointed Dr. Frank Vaughan. of Astoria, and Dr. It H. dinger, of Salem, as mem bers. They elected Dr. Jean Cline, of Portland, president of the Board by unanimous vote. Arrangements were made for a vigor ous campaign against Illegal dentists. A report was made showing that 30 dentists have been arrested and con victed In the last two years for prac ticing without a license, and other cases are pending before the court. The report shows the following arrests and convictions: Dr. Edward Edwards. Dr. Sumption, Dr. Charles Lee, Chinese; Dr. C. VVatnabe, Dr. C. McKechnlc. Dr. Brown. Dr. George Tate, Archie Pettys, Dr. Charles E. Randle and Dr. Jesse Pittenger. These cases were heard since January 22. Cases pending are against Dr. Kuhn, Dr. Carl Hall and Dr. Edward Edwards. The case against Dr. Edwards Is the 10th within the last few years. He has been convicted once. THREE IN FAMILY INSANE Mother and Daughter Under Re straint, Son-ln-Lutw Escapes. BAKER, Or., April 2T. (Special.) Mother and daughter adjudged insane and a search being made for the son-in-law, who Is believed to be likewise af fected, is the plight of a family of four today. The aged father, M. Creek, Is the only cne left to face the world alone. Mrs. Creek and her daughter, Mrs. N. Brinkley, are awaiting the coming of the autnorities from Salem to take them to the asylum, having been adjudged Insane Dy Dr. O. M. Dodson, of this city. When Brinkley heard that the in vestigation of their sanity was to take place he leaped from the window of his bedroom and escaped. The family has been acting peculiarly for some time, and neighbors have tried to help them, but all except the father feared that they were being poisoned and refused to eat much. This week Mrs. Brinkley became violent and the examination revealed the condition of the mother. Their mental condition Is believed to have been inherited. BUILDING THEFT DENIED Accused tan Says He Took Only Few Boards; line Imposed. GOLDENDALE, Wash.. April 2". (Special.) Herman Sperling, who was arrested upon complaint of special of ficers, of the 'North Bank Railway, charged with stealing a building from the company's right-of-way at Fall Bridge, pleaded guilty to petit larceny before a Justice of the Peace here to day and was fined J 10 and costs. Sperling asserted that he only got a few boards out of the building and that the rest of the lumber was taken by railroad employes and other per- Jublln McCarthy's Funeral Held. LONDOM, April 27. The body of Justin McCarthy, the novelist and his torian and for many years member of Parliament, who died at Folkestone, Wednesday, was burled in Hempstead Cemetery today. The procession to the grave was a long one. The Amer ican Ambassador, Mr. Reid, sent a floral piece. Error of Eight Miles Is Charged. ICE IS HELD BAR TO RESCUE Mount Temple's Captain Says He Discovered Mistake. TESTIMONY CHEERS ISMAY White Star Official Is Pictured by Stewards as Thoughtful for Safety of Others Titanlc's Seamen in Straits. WASHINGTON, April 27. Failure to give her exact position, a great field of floating ice that offered a frigid barrier to ships hurrying to the rescue and the mistake of her captain In rush ing at top speed through an ice-covered sea combined to send the Titanic and her 1600 victims to their watery grave in the. North Atlantic, according to tes timony today before the Senate com mittee investigating the ocean tragedy. Captain James H. Moore, of the steamer Mount Temple, which hurried to the Titanic In response to wireless calls for help, told of the great stretch of field ice which held him off. With in his view from the bridge he dis cerned, he said, another strange steam er, probably a "tramp." and a schoon er which was making her way out of the ice. The lights of this schooner, he thought, probably were those seen by the anxious survivors of the Titanic. Speed Denounced as limw. Captain Moore denounced as "most unwise" the action of the Titanlc's commander In rushing at 21 knots through the night, when he had. been advised of the ice. The Mount Tem ple's commander testified that he had spent 27 years In the North Atlantic. Whenever Ice 'ws'fonrW'M:'sa:id, he doubled his watch and reduced his speed. If he happened to get caught in an Ice pack he stopped his engines and drifted until he was clear. The witness was also emphatic In nls assertion that the position sent out by the Titanic was wrong. He said tha ship was ei?ht miles further eastward than its operators reported. This, he said,- he proved by observations the first thing on the day following the disaster. Variation Would Be Vital. With icebergs and floating ice cov ering the northern sea, a ship of even the size of the Titanic might be over looked through such a variance. J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Marine Company, was much cheered by the testimony of the afternoon. He listened eagerly to the accounts of his conduct at the lifeboats as told by the stew ards and seamen. His eyes fairly beamed when Steward Crawford told how Ismay had called for women to go in one of the boats and said to & woman who told him she was only a stewardess, "You are a woman; take your place in the boat." Ismay listened intently, too, as Stew ard Bright testified that Ismay had not left the ship until after all the large lifeboats had gone and only one or two collapsible boats were left on deck. Sailors Are Without Funds. After the session was over the cor ridor in the Senate building near the committee room was crowded with anxious sailors of the Titanic, who have been at the call of the commit tee since the rescue ship Carpathia brought them to New York. They were a nervous lot. Not being permitted to leave, they faced the prospect of a Saturday night and Sunday without funds. "If it is too late to get money for (Concluded on rage a.) X I
