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V: JPifttitg j Pages 1 to 16 PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING,. MAY 19. 1912. I'KirK I IVK I FXT FEDERAL CAT FEED RACE FOR 3D LIVES ADRIFT AT SEA, TWO RESCUED BYCHANCE CAR WHEELS WHIRL rT? stump DATE SPLIT flnlL UUIill IIUlll REQUIRES RED TAPE GOVERNMENT BUYS MILK FOR POSTOFFICE FUSSY. W I W aaaa V I W IS NOT PERMITTED BY 3 SLAYER TO DEATH D AFTER SEVEN' HOURS CAPSIZED CRAFT IS SIGHTED. SINGER AND HUSBAND BOTH WANT VOTES FOR W03IEN. 82 Pages PflMDOflMiet DELEGATION IUL WON HOUR 010 PREDICTED Strenuous Battle in New Jersey Next. BANDWAGON' TO BE FACTCR Prospect of Scramble Makes Outcome Doubly Important. BUCKEYE NATIVES' BUSY Some Republicans Not Before Active Reported Working lor TfU . w York IX-f rot ion to Colonel Not Credited. NEW YORK. May ! (Special.) The New York Herald tomorrow will say that Mr. Tmft'a candidacy la In a duffrooi position and that Theodore Roosevelt la making great gains. Ohio U tlll the key to the situation. Thl la tha etatua of tha Republican Presidential battla 21 daya before tha National convention, with all but 124 of tha 10i delegatee elected and both the President and Mr. Roosevelt- mak ing final personal appeala to tha voters of Ohio for aupport at the Important and perhapa Tllal primary conteat to be held In tha Buckeye atate on Tuea day. according to tha Herald'a polL Tha Herald will aay. furthermore: "Tha (real struggle In tha Repub lican camp on Tuesday la to coma In Ohio, with tha second and last great combat providing tha Buckeye bat tle doea not settle the whole "matter to follow In New Jersey, where on May Z. 2 delegates will be elected at a Presidential preference primary. Tha Ohio delegation of 4 will be pretty well spilt up. Settvee Reseat lalrveJs. -In one section eTldence was found that tha Ohio aatlvaa hava resented f.e Invasion of the state by Mr. Roose velt to oppose a natlva son and that several Republicans never bafora active are working for Mr. Taft. But. aa a rule, reports enow- that Mr. Roosevelt Is strong with the rank and file of tha voters and that the President la not overwhelmingly popular In his noma. Hoth men have spent a week cam paigning through Ohio, and have made frrvent appeals for support. In the Youngstown section the trend Is to ward Mr. Roosevelt. Lake front sec tions of tha extreme eastern end ara strong for Mr. Roosevelt. In tha Springfield section a majority of tha Republlcana ara for Mr. Taft. but Mr. Roosevelt la gaining. -On paper It would appear that tha President la assured of victory provid ing he makes a fair showing In Ohio. On paper he haa 44 delegates, needing I more to give him a majority of s40. Rut 124 remain to ba elected and of these coma from Ohio and New Jersey. Hand W Vote Valaaala. -The theory of the politicians Is that whoever should make a big 'clean-up' In Ohio would become so formidable that there would ba a grand scramble on the part of the other delegates still to ba elected to get on his band wagon. Mr. Roosevelt might get them all and still not have a majority. He needs . but If he got all that ara to ba elected and ail In the doubtful column, he would bave eight more than a ma jority. -It should ba explained for the bene fit of those, who wish to make com putations that tha 4M delegates counted tor Mr. Taft ara not all Instructed for him. Including 81 from New Tork there are 140 who are bound only by pledges and announcements that they Intend to 4lum-lud.d on PmX 7He TKASfoTTHOmX VATOrfL SOC4LSTS Scloonrr Pkk up Fl.-hernico Tood Aito Bar on Wrecked Smack, Seven Miles Out. ASTORIA. Or., Mar IS. (Special.) Clinging for aeven hours to the cap sized boat aa It waa carried Into tha ' mouth of tha Columbia and out to sea again over the breakers at the bar, O. Koynold Thompson and Hans Jensen. Ma boat-puller, who have been missing since Wednesday night, were picked up almost by accident seven miles out early Friday by the schooner Doris and carried to South Bend. Only by the timely arrival of the Doris, after another steamer, presum ably the Breakwater, had failed to no tice them, were the men saved, as the seven hours In tha water had prac tically exhausted both veterans. The two were fishing In tha lower harbor Wednesday evening and at ni!--nlght picked up their nets Just below Desdemona Sands light, set sail and started for home. Suddenly the wind died out and. car ried by the strong tide, the craft be gan drifting toa-ard the mouth of tha river. Tha anchor waa thrown. It would not hold and at t o'clock Thursday morning tha boat waa carried Into tha breakera on Peacock spit, where It capsized. Both men succeeded In grabbing tha lines and climbing on the overturned boat. The breakers carried tha wreck over the bar and out to sea. fhortly after sunrise the men. ex hausted by tha strenuous ordeal, sight ed a ateamer. evidently tha Breakwater, and lmprovlaed a signal flag from a piece of rigging and boom. The effort waa In vain. At If o'clock Jensen succeeded In at tracting tha attention of the Doris, then coming Into sight. The capsized craft waa aeven mliea off shore when the rescuo waa made. The capsized boat waa taken aboard by tha Ports -and. with tha men. waa landed at South Bend, tha destination of tha Doris. AUTO WRECKED; TOT SAVED Physician Smashes fSOarO Car Rath er Than Run Down Infant. Dr. Homer I. Keeney. East Thirty eighth and Gllsan streets, with offices In tba Medical bonding, wrecked bla new 15000 automobile yesterday after noon, rather than ran down a little i-year-old girl who had dashed In front of bla machine. Dr. Keeney waa driving along East Bumslde street, when at East Twenty fourth street the tot raced out from be hind a pile of cordwood In pursuit of a ball with which aba bad been playing. There waa Just a fraction of a second to decide and the physician made that decision In favor of the child. A swift turn to the left sent the heavy car Into the high sidewalk, smashing tha wheela and tonneau. The child, stand ing stock still, waa unharmed. Although severely shaken and slight ly bruised. Dr. Keeney waa not serious, ly Injured. TAC0MA T0HECK SPEED Strict Ordinance Regulating Autos to Result From Accident. 'TACOMA, Wash- May 18. (Special.) Sweeping changes in the city traffic ordinances may result from the Injury to S. J. Maxwell, secretary of the Pierce County Taft' Club, who was run over and badly bruised by an automobile Friday night aa he alighted from a streetcar. An amendment to the statute to require all automobiles to come to a dead stop In passing a standing car on any street will be passed. More specific regulations aa to tha display of licenses also are assured. The Commissioner of Public Safety announced that he la preparing for tha purchase of more police motorcycles to catch speeders. Examples will be made of the speeders, he said. Murder of Woman in Los Angeles Clears. NEMESIS OVERTAKES MAN Body Found Near Chicago Said to Be That of T. -Dillon. FACTS WOVEN TOGETHER V.?ctlre Confident Man Killed by Tu'c One Who Slew Ml Bessie ; in California, as adscript ions Tally. CHICAGO. May 18. (Special.) Tha whirling wheela of a Chicago & North western Railway engine are believed to have ground out the solution of the mystery of the murder of the woman whose body was found In a lonely bungalow In Los Angeles a week ago. From under them waa gathered to day near Wllmette the mangled body of a man. later Identified as Calappiaa Columbus Dillon, a man of dual Iden tity, wrecker of homes and traveler. Threads ef Evldeaee Wsves. From the moment of this Identifica tion the solving of tha Los Angeles murder mystery progressed rapidly. One by one the Chicago detectives, picked up tha tangled skeins of evi dence until they feel certain that tha victim of the accident or suicide la T. Dillon." aought In Los Angeles In con nection with the bungalow murder. Tbey are equally confident that the victim of tha murder la Mrs. Bessie Jones, lately of 510 Berkeley avenue, Norfolk. Va, who left her husband and home for Dillon and lived with him In Chicago a few doora from where his lawful wife waa residing. Three "women have Identified tha picture of the Los Angelea victim as that of Mrs. Jonea. They have recog nised ' tha peculiarly upturned nose, tha glint In the eyea and the forehead and bust of the murdered woman aa that of tha former Chicago woman. Evidence la CeMfiwi. To this Identification of Mrs. Jonea there was added a remarkable, simi larity of the description sent out by tba Los Angeles police as that of Dil lon and tha victim of the railroad acci dent. Then, too. It haa been estab lished beyond a doubt that the Chicago Dillon waa In Los Angeles at the time the murder was committed, and that the peculiar medical Information which the Los Angelea Dillon was credited with might well have been obtained by the Chicago Dillon: that Mrs. Jonea, the woman whose life the Chicago Dil lon had ruined, had written that she In tended to bo In Los Angeles at the tlmo of that murder; that there waa a motive for her being slain by Dillon, and that In half a dozen other ways the Chi cago Dillon, crushed to death under the' wheels of a North western train, waa linked with the Los Angeles Dillon sought by the police. Nemesis dealt tha blow which led to the death of the Chicago Dillon, whether ha la tho man wanted' In Loa Angeles or not. His fate overtook him when, with a wife In Chicago with four children to care for, and another woman rulnc. through him, he was on his rot urn from a visit to' a third. Third Womaa la Case. Tuesday, May 11 Dillon, returning from Los Angelea, where he had been since April 10 or 13, was employed by Charles 1L Adams, of Evsnston. for whom he had worked before going West. Friday ho drew 815 In pay and (Concluded, on Pass 2.) CAKTOONIST REYNOLDS COMMENTS PICTORIALLY ON ft "Y But Mary Garden, balling ou Same Ship, Says She Puts Love of nome First of All. NEW TORK. May 18. (Special.) The liner George Washington sailed today, filled to capacity. Prominent In the George Washlngton'a list were Mme. Nordlca, announcing that she had Just Joined the suffragists; Mary Garden, declaring that she would never Join tha suffragists: Alexander Bond and Mrs. Coins P. Huntington. Mme. Nordlca was accompanied to the pier by her husband, George W. Young, who will later Join her in Europe. "In tha Fall," said Toung, "my wife and I are both going on the stump." "Indeed, we are," said Mme. Nordlca. "Now that I have Joined the suffra. gists, I am going to work for the cause. I made my first speech In behalf of the ballot for women In San Francisco be fore GOO women and a good -many men. The men told me that they would vote for suffrage it I would sing for them after I spoke, and I sang." "Me a suffragette?" exclaimed Mary Garden, throwing up her hands. "No; not me; now or ever. I am all for home and do not believe In this votea-for-wom en cause. Much as I admire and re spect Mme. Nordlca, I am sure she will not suoced In converting me. My love I for the home la intense probably for the reason that I have neither husband nor home. But If I had one, I would put it above everything and votes for women last." LOVE GOD FAILS CHINESE License Clerk Refuses Certificate to Wed White Girl. SEATTLE. Wash, May 18. (Special.) Lew Gum, Chinese foreman of the Pacific Canning Company's warehouse at Oakland. Cel.. was greatly surprised this morning when be led Miss Mary Taschella, a pretty white girl, to the marriage license window at the County Audltor'a office and waa refused a li cense to wed. The couple came from San Francisco on the last boat, finding that the Cali fornia law waa against the marriage of Chinese with whites. Clerk William Castle explained that It was against the policy of the office to Issue licenses to Orientals and whltea and Lew, with plenty of money In hla pocket and a pretty girl ready to mar ry him. waa unable to understand why a matter of policy should Interfere with his happiness. Ha started out to tell hla story to a Judge of the court and finally asked Attorney A. J. Bpeckert to take up the case. Speckert advised him to "go to Ta coma, where the going was easier for a mixed marriage, and Gum and his Intended bride took his advice and left on an afternoon boat. t FEAR FELT FOR BARGEMEN Revenne Cutter Will Keep Watch lor Eight of Haydn Brown. CORDOVA. Alaska. May 18. Although virtually all hope for the eight men who were aboard the barge Haydn Brown when she waa cut loose from the tug Pioneer during a terrific storm In Prince William Sound, May 10, has been abandoned, the revenue cutter Manning, which cleared today on her regular trip to the westward, was given orders to keep a sharp lookout for the barge or her crew. The Manning will watch the shore line In the hope of finding the men If they succeeded In escaping from the foundering barge. Donald to Leave Railroad. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash.. May 18. George Donald, president of the North Yakima at Valley Railroad, a subsidiary of tha Northern Pacific Company, an nounced today that he had offered his resignation to take effect In the near future. It Is said here that Donald probably will be succeeded by George Reld. of Tacoma, general counsel for the Northern Pacific 1 HAVE onjz TO THSSF Spokane-Railroad Com pact Blocked. OTHER CITIES CONSIDERED Commission Says Case Has Gone Too Far fop Recession. COURT DECISION AWAITED Shippers' Acceptance of Schedule Slightly Higher Than One Pre viously Found Reasonable Is Not Approved. OREGON! AX NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. May 18. The Interstate Com merce Commission today declined to approve the agreement recently en tered Into between Spokane shippers and the Northern Pacltlc and other railroads, whereby the railroads pro posed to put Into effect at once the schedule of carload commodity rates from Eastern territory to Spokane and Spokane territory slightly higher than the ratea previously found reasonable by the Commission, but materially low er than the ratea against which Spo kane originally complained. The agree ment between the shippers and the railroads was submitted to the Com mission for approval at a bearing on May 8. It was then said that the pro posed schedule was to be established forthwith by the carriers and that Spo kane rate proceedings would be dis continued by the Spokane complain ants. Discontinuance- la Refused The scehdule of the Commission had named both carload and less-than-car-load commodity rates, but the schedulo of the carriers embraced no less-than-carload rates. In announcing lta po sition today the Commission says: "F'rst The Spokane case cannot be discontinued. Other parties, involving Other communities, have Intervened and are parties to that proceeding. After the time and effort expended in per fecting that record, the Commission would not feel warranted in allowing the proceeding to be discontinued un til the matters in Issue had been Anal ly disposed of. ' "Second The reasonableness of the proposed schedule has not been con sidered by the Commission and no opin ion whatever la expressed thereon. "Third No opinion Is expressed whether the less-than-carload commod ity ratea should be finally prescribed. Court Action Awaited. "Fourth The Commission adheres to the position which It has taken under the fourth section and will feel entire ly free to dispose of this whole ques tion as may seem Just, when It Is de termined by the Supreme Court what action can be taken under that sec tion. "If the carriers, understanding the position of the Commission, see fit to make the proposed rates effective in June next, the Commission will take no further action until the final de cision of the court upon the fourth section. "If carriers do not, on or after May 23, 1912, notify the Commission of their Intention to establish this schedule, the matter will be at once otherwise pro ceeded with aa may seem Just and proper in the premises." Burns to Have Reading Room. BURNS, Or.. May 18. (Special.) This city Is to have a public reading room as a result of the efforts of the Ladies' Civic League recently organ ized. The rooms will be pro-ided with the latest magazines and newspapers, books of reference and other literature. SOME EVENTS OF A BUSY WEEK. iAf- THiHH Postmaster Makes Out Requisition for One Year's Supply for Basement Mouscr. ' In the requisitions made out yester day on the Postoffice Department for supplies and equipment for tho Port' land Postoffice by Postmaster Merrick and Assistant Postmaster Williamson for the ensuing fiscal year, waa an al lowance for a U-months' supply of milk for the cat In the basement. The Item was not a Joke. The base ment contains a cat and the Govern ment, through intricate red tape ma chinery, makes allowance for pussy's annual food supply, but It la only al lowed when regular requisition is made therefor In the same manner as other supplies are" procured. Although the Postmaster In Portland receives an annual salary of (6000, be cannot expend one cent for supplies unless he first applies to the Depart ment and receives authority. Among the minor Items of supplies used In the Portland Postoffice and for which a separate requisition must be forwarded to Washington is that for oil for cancelling machines. An allowance for the purchase of streetcar tickets for the use of the head Janitor in visiting the various substations. Is also granted only when the proper requisition has been filed. The Postoffice Department furnishes Postoffices with towels from year to year as they are required, but the weekly laundry bill for the same Is paid with funds appropriated direct from the Treasury Department. LAST DASH UP MOUNT IS ON Though No Word Received for Days, Woman Believed Nearing Summit. CORDOVA. Alaska. May 18. No word has been received for several days from Miss Dora Keen, the Phila delphia woman who Is leading an ex pedition up Mount Blackburn, one of Alaska's unsealed peaks, but it is be lieved that the party' Is making tha final dash for the summit. Until two days ago, a 14-day storm raged over the coast and the Interior, but the last two daya have been Ideal for mountain climbing. When the storm broke Miss Keen's party was camping at the timber-line and was ready to resume the climb aa soon as the weather cleared. The expedition Is expected to return to Kennecott, the nearest railroad sta tion to the mountain, within a few days. OREGON NEWLYWEDS' GOAL Riverside Septuagenarians Plan to Live on Ranch. RIVERSIDE. Cal- May 18. (Spe cial.) Joseph A. Knight, a native of North Carolina, aged 73, and Mrs. An gelina D. Haynes, a native of Indiana, aged 70, both of Riverside, were mar ried today by Judge George A. Franch, at the home of the bride, 1S7S Park avenue. Each owns property in Riverside, but they are going to Central Oregon, where the bridegroom has a ranch, to spend the Summer. This is Mrs. Knight's third marriage. WILDE FORMS BIG FIRM Ex-Portland Banker Back of Slilllon Dollar Trust Company. SAN DIEGO, Cat, May 18. (Special.) Returning today from Los Angeles, Louis J. Wilde announced the forma tion of a banking and trust company with $1,000,006 capital. ' which will have quarters In a concrete building to be erected by Wilde at the northeast corner of Second and D streets. Wilde said that Los Angeles and Portland capital was Interested In the enter prise. The bank will be ready for business, he said, in about six months. HOUG-H OF EGCHOTHSf Heroic Mate Goes 10 : Miles i0pen Boat : GREW FASTS GN STERILE ISLE Lone Steamer Is Hailed in Time Off Alaska Coast. - ICY BLASTS GNAW AT MEN Horrors Following Wreck of Schoon er Russ in Northern Waters ". Told by Men Who Faced Death for 1 1 Days. SEATTLE. Wash., iiay 18. (Special.) Bringing Captain Charles Foos and the crew of the codflshlng schooner Joseph Russ. wrecked on Chirikof Is land April 21, the steamship Bertha, of the Alaska Coast Company, arrived in Seattle at 1:30 this afternoon. , Giving a graphic description of the terrific storm which resulted in the loss of the schooner and the death of John Jorgensen, the vessel's first mate, members of the crew of the Russ declared that only for the heroism of A. E. Reeves (Scotty), second mate, and five sailors, who went to Chignik in two open boats for assistance, all would have perished. In a terrific gale', with heavy seas breaking over her, the Russ was driven ashore at 6 o'clock in the evening. : . Sailors Lash Selves to Mast. Grounding on the sand she held her own for several hours, but finally, aa the heavy seas continued to pound her, the vessel batches gave way and she quickly filled with water. Captain Fobs and. Sl.fnpjbera of the crew had climbed high in the masts and lashed themselves to the rigging to prevent being carried away by the giant waves. First Mate Jorgensen bad started for the main mast to take refuge when a wave hurled him against the side , of the vessel. His skull was crushed. - Here they hung until 6 A. M., when the storm subsided and the tide left the Russ high and dry. Jorgensen was buried far up on tha sandy beach and a wooden cross marks the grave. Captain Foss and his crew built a hut of pine boards and in this they stored the small amount-of provisions saved and established sleeping quar ters. Men Go 110 Miles In Open Boats. It was when the provisions began to run low and they realized that Chiri kof Island is unhablted that Second Mate Reeves and five members of the crew volunteered to put- out iu two open boats for Chignik, 110 miles dis tant, for assistance. . They were fortunate enough to ar rive at that port before the departure of the mail steamer Dora, which im mediately proceeded to the rescue. When the Dora arrived on the beach, warmed by a driftwood fire, but scant ily sheltered, were the 30 men, who for 11 days, with tortured minds, had dis cussed the remote possibility of Scotty and his brave companions ever being able to reach civilization. The rescue work was accomplished under great difficulties, as the lifeboata had to be driven through a treacher ous surf, while fierce blasts of icy wind swept seaward. To little Scotty, the marvel of the rescue is that had the two boats which put out on what looked a hopeless er rand been three hours later in arriv ing at Chignik. the 30 men certainly must have perished. SAH FHAMCISCQ fOLIC ARE- TO & TUHWJT OJLTSS !