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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.
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IS NOT PERMITTED
BY 3
SLAYER TO DEATH
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AFTER SEVEN' HOURS CAPSIZED
CRAFT IS SIGHTED.
SINGER AND HUSBAND BOTH
WANT VOTES FOR W03IEN.
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DELEGATION
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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
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"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.
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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
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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
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