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Pases 1 to 20 86 Pages PRICE FIVE CENTS. BULGARS ATTACK TURKS PIECEMEAL WINDOW CLEANER MASS MEETING IS : rrm ... nnnTiivn 1 nnFRnv sitvthv -urwvrvrj xoyfiirer 24. 1912. VOL. XXXl-u. -ii. , v..-.. - . , . .-' 1 i i ' ' . I s-h a r- i ki "v i r" I m .am. a . m a A I I HOGKIN, DECEIVER, RETURNED TO JAIL MEN RESOLVE TO 5EHUHUW FIELD GOAL GIVES OREGON 3, QIC. 0 Fenton's Kick Decides Game at Albany. FLEES WITH GEMS CALLED FOR TODAY BORN AS FIRST OIES COURAGE GHASTLY AS EXEMY MARCHES TO DEATH. MRS. AUGUSTUS A. LOW LOSES $10,000 IX JEWELRY. PORTLAND VICE COXDITIOXS UP FOR DISCUSSION. VARSITY STATE CHAMPIONS 6000 Orange and Lemon-Yellow Adherents See Battle. FLEET PARSONS IS STAR Knjrcne Eleven.- Mostly Through Ability of Rl?ht Half, Gains 298 Yards to Corvallls' ICO. Punting of Both Good. FOOTBALL STORES. Pacific Coast Oreiron S. Oregon Agricultural College 0; Queen Anna High (Seattle) 41, Broadway High (Seattle) 7; Montana 1. Gonxaga 7; Santa Clara 19. Nevada 3 (Rugby); Hlllsboro High It.' Estacsda High 0; Berkeley High . Palo Alto High 6; Aberdeen High 17. Jefferson High (Portland) T. EuUro Brown Si. Norwich 7: Harvard to. Yal 0: Army 23. Syra cuse 7: Navy 23. New Tork I'nlver-' alty 0; Dickinson 0, Swarthmore 0. Middle West Colorado J. Mines 24; Purdue 24. Indiana 7; Kansas 12. Mis souri 3: brake 2. Ames 2i; Iowa 10. Wisconsin 28; Northwestern 6, Illi nois 0; Chicago 7, Minnesota 0: Wyo ming; 25. Kearney (Neb.) Normal 42: Nebraska It. Oklahoma : Carlisle SO. T. M. C. A. College 24; Kansas t. Missouri 2. BT KOSCOB FAWCETT. ALBANY. Nov. 23. (Special.) That Intangible something; known as "Ore gon spirit" sprang one of the greatest surprises of the football year today at the Albany ball park. The University of Oreg-on literally massacred the Or egon Agricultural College, and,, while the score was only 3 to 0, the wonder . of. It is the margin wasn't larger. A 25-yard place kick by Carl Fenton, of Dallas, at the start of the second quarter, decided the state gridiron championship, but the scintillating: star In the great battle of the year was Halfback Johnny Parsons, a former Portland High School athlete. Corvallls IJne Outplayed. Oregon's beefy line simply smothered the Corvallls "Aggies," but It was this dashing- Parsons, who ate his way through the quick-closing' orifices, cir cled the ends, zigzagged and plowed for three-quarters of the Oregon yard age. On the very first play he electri fied the 6000 wildly excited enthusiasts by biting off 25 yards around the feeble "Aggies' " right wing-, and after that the varsity always' hold the upper hand. Perfect order was maintained both on and off the field. Between halves the Agricultural College khakl-clad rooters assembled In communion on the rather slippery gridiron and liberated a score or more of orange - bedecked pigeons, who carried first news of the core to Corvallls. "That's the way the Aggies' play," shrieked one budding George Ade. from the chrysanthemum section. "Always up In the, air." .And the witticism aptly described the situation on the field of play. Dolan's men played high and tackled woefully, while Oregon showed a complete re versal of past mediocrity by playing real hard football, both old style and modern. Oregon's Defease Strong. With perhaps the exception of Chrls- inan at center and the doughty SItton I at guard, the entire Corvallls line was fConrluded on Pafe 12.) ' p- 1 : 11 J " 1 ; : r - j Retiring Oatposts Lure Beleaguered Garrison Into Sortie, Then Slay With Artillery Fire. FT FREDERICK PALMER. (Copyright. 1912. New York Times.) MUSTAPHA PASHA, Nov. 23. (pe clal.) The drama of Adrlanople, with Its g-arrlson at the point of starvation and desperation, is steadily proceeding. The Bulgarian method of whittling down the defenders by murderous re pulses of their sorties is proving ter rlbly successful. At 1 o'clock this morning- Mustapha Pasha was awakened by such a heavy gun fire that it seemed as If a general aacault on the cltv must have been begun. It seems that yesterday the Invading force saw that the Turks were prepar i.v to moke sorties . In heavy force to the west and south of Adrlanople. Withdrawing their advance posts, the Bulgars encouraged attacks upon them and at the same time converged a kui Ing tire from the infantry batteries and raDid-flre guns upon the enemy. The Turks advanced with ghastly courage into the face of death, while the Bulgarians showed that they could be as skillful In night defense as they were In night attack. The end of the fighting- did not come until noon today, when the Turks fell back on their positions, leaving a large proportion of their men on the Held. Some estimate that at least half of the attacking force were killed or wounded, The sortie, according to all accounts, was a fight for bread as well as for Allah. The losses of the Bulgarians was slight, as they remained In positions not exposed to the enemy and were firing steadily on an object exposed by the light of the bursting- shells. Although the Bulgarian soldiers, for the most part, have not been out of their clothes for six weeks and are sleeping on the ground, they continue to amaze the foreign observers, by their cheerfulness and aggressiveness. They are impatient to storm Adrlanople, but wiser counsels prevail among- the Gen erals and the policy of piecemeal de struction of the Turkish army will be continued. Opinion In the army here Is strongly adverse to the signing- of peace until Adrlanople falls. - The sanitary conditions In the be sieged city are reported to be ghastly. Much of the town Is on a low level, and the ueavy rains with the high water fn the river Maritlza are said to be spreading? disease as well as famine. WOMEN SEEK BALLOT DUTY Medford Sufragists tAsk for Place on City Election Board. MEDFORD, Or., Nov. 23. (Special.) Women of Medford were quick to take advantage of their recently grant ed franchise tonight, when, at the first meeting of the City Council after the election, an application was made for a woman member of the city election board, and an application will also be made In the near future for a police matron in this city. The. women who applied were members of the civic im provement committee of the Greater Medford Club. The Mayor and Council received the feminine delegation with every mark of courtesy and respect and granted the first request, appointing Mrs. A. B. Schuster, -of Medford, a member of the local election board. The enfranchise ment of the women has doubled the vote in Medford and It is probable that there will be two election boards here after to take care of the increased leg islation. TOWN OF WHITE OWL BURNS Prairie Fires In South Dakota Also Destroy Farm Homes. STCKGIS. S. D.. Nov. 23. According to word received here today the entire town of White Owl. 65 miles from Sturgls, was destroyed by fire yester- day. The blaze started from a prairie fire. Many homes in that vicinity also were destroyed. Court Doubles Bonds of Spy in Union. SENSATIONS FOLLOW FAST Witness Says Dynamiter ln . volved Printers' President. JUDGE DENOUNCES WRITER Woman Gets Hint Xot lo Return to Courtroom Ironworkers' Offi cials Held In Contempt At torneys Repudiate Acts. INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 23. Imprison ment of Herbert 6. Hockin, one of the chief defendants. In default of an In creased bond which was required by the court "because he had deceived every one," the denouncing by the Dis trict Attorney of a woman writer In the courtroom as an "anarchist"; and the repudiation by attorneys for the defense of some of the acts of the de fendants, were among sensational in cidents at le dynamite conspiracy tri al today. I lock In was declared to have been in the employ of detectives soon after the Los Angeles Times explosion. He was also accused of having told a witness of overhearing John J. McNamara talk to President Lynch, of the International Typographical Union, about "an ex plosion on the Pacific Coast." Defense Disavow Acta. United States Senator Kern was among the counsel for the defense who disavowed an article published by some of the defendants. The 45 men accused by the Govern ment of complicity In the McNamara dynamite plot;, by abetting for four or five years In the Illegal, transporta tion of explosives, sat In silence while the testimony and the action of the court brought in unexpected changes. . The developments of the day -werei- Herbert Sf. Hockin, secretary ' and treasurer of the International Associa tion of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, was taken to jail in default of his being unable to increase the 310,000 bond to $20,000, ordered by the court after a witness had said Hockin was in the employ of a detective and had been since soon after the Los Angeles Times explosion, "and was not to be trusted day or night by anyone." Hockin la Union Officer. Hockin Is the successor of J. J. Mc-, Namara, the dynamiter, as an official of the union, and Is regarded as one of the principal defendants. Miss Mary Field, of New Tork, was branded aa an anarchist "who ought to be excluded from the courtroom," to certain articles she published concern ing the trial In the union magazine. All of the officials of the union, now on trial. Including Frank M. Ryan, president; J. T. Butler, Buffalo, vice- president; M. J. Young. Boston, and P. A. Cooley, New Orleans, were de nounced for publishing what the court said was "an outrageous contempt of court." Federal Judge Anderson said that as It was Saturday night he -would not be inclined to increase the bonds of the last named defendants, although he would not act on the motion at this time." Judge Threatens Attorneys. No sooner had the court spoken than Senator Kern and William N. Harding, among the attorneys for the defense, arose and said they had not been con sulted about publishing the article criticising the trial, and that they dlsa- (Concluded on Page 2.) PICTORIAL SIDELIGHTS After Polishing Panes for Hour Workman Leaves and Robbery of House Is Discovered. NEW YORK, Nov. 23. For the last three days the police have been prose cuting an unavailing search for J 10,000 worth of Jewelry that was stolen from the apartmqnt of Mrs. Augustus A. Low, at 30 East Fifty-fifth street. News of the robbery became public today through members of the family., The robbery was accomplished In broad, daylight Wednesday morning, while members of the family were in the apartment. The thief was a window-cleaner, hired to polish the win dows. In preparation for a visit from Governor and Mrs. Dix on the follow ing day. After having plied his cloths for an hour the cleaner reported that he -had dropped his chamois polishing rag Into the courtyard, and would have to go get It. He went out and -did not return, whereupon a hasty inventory was taken and it was discovered that the Jewelry was gone. COURT TO SETTLE DISPUTE Astoria Taxpayers Bring Test Case Over Irving-Avenue Slide. ASTORIA. Or., Nov.. 23. (Special.) The question of the legality of paying the Irving avenue improvement war rants with money taken from the gen eral fund of the city is to be tested before the courts. That was decided upon this afternoon when a suit was filed In the Circuit Court by Robert Carruthers and Franz Kankkonen against the city, the Auditor and the Treasurer, asking that the defendants be restrained from paying the warrants In question. About four years ago 316,500 In war rants drawn on the Irving avenue im provement fund were Issued to pay the contractor for 80 per cent of the work done on the Improvement. Soon after wards a big slide occurred on the street and the Improvement was never com pleted and no assessments have been collected. On last Monday, evening, the Council, over the Mayer's veto'and di rectly against the advice of the City Attorney, passed an ordinance authoriz ing the payment of those warrants by Issuing in their place warrants drawn on the general fund. The complaint filed today asserts that the ordinance Is void, as tinder the charier. Improvements must bo paid for with warrants on the improvement fund and In no other way. 200 GIRL VOTERS ': FETED Samuel Hill Gives Women Credit - for Electing Lister. SEATTLE,' Nov. 23. Two hundred young women, members of the Seattle Business Girls' Club, were guests to night of Samuel Hill, ex-president of the St Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway, at a banquet in the ballroom of the Hotel Washington, which had been elaborately decorated. The only invited guests, oeslde the girls, were Governor-elect and Mrs. Ernest Lister, who attended, and Governor West, of Oregon, The dinner was given to celebrate the election of Governor-elect Lister, Mr. Hill asserting that the young women had brought about his victory. After the banquet, which was ordered to be prepared regardless of expense, the whole dinner party was conveyed In special streetcars to the huge stone palace which Mr. Hill built for the entertainment of the Belgian Crown Prince during his proposed visit to the World's Fair and which has been closed for two years. Addresses were made by Mr. Hill and others. December 1 0 Is Portland Day. At the Lewlston Fat Stock Show, De cember 9-13, December 10 has been des ignated Portland Gay, and it Is pro posed to run an excursion from this city, leaving eitner the night of the 8th or the morning of the 9th. Mne thou sand dollars In purses Is offered, and Lewiston expects to entertain between 5000 and 8000 people for the entire five daj-s of the show. ON SOME OF THE PAST BO.. WTO" POLITICS Suffragists Act Despite Protests. JANE ADDAMS WINS BATTLE Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont Leaves Hall After Defeat. SOCIALISTS STIR TURMOIL Delegates to Xational Association Convention at Philadelphia Excited at Circulation of Socialist Stickers. PHILADELPHIA, Nov., 23. (Spe cial.) The National American Woman Suflraee Association, by an over- wnelmlng vote, 380 to 38, sane tioned today, after full and free dis cussion, participation by its officers and members in the affairs ot political parties. - Some women, prominent in the as sociation, who have been ardent work ers for woman suffrage for years, and others who have had t-e distinction of being liberal contributors to its treasury, asserted that the vote in convention today marked the end of the National organization, but the dele gates. 10 to 1, were willing to take all chances. Miss Addams Starts Things. Misa Jane Addams, of Chicago, pre cipitated the issue. When she allied herself with a political party in June she started an opposition within the suffrage organization. She frankly told the convention today that she had for gotten she was a member of. the suffrage association when she commit ted her'silf to the political movement. Miss Addams' political activity caused Mrs. George Howard Lewis, of Buffalo, N. Y.. to prepare an amendment to the constitution directing that all officers and members of the association shall r-a.iT! tain a. strictly non-Drttsan atti tude toward all political parties unless they come from states where equal suf frage is in torce. It was the opinion of the delegates from Illinois and from other states In the Middle West, when they arrived to attend the convention, that the opposi tion to Miss Adams had gathered such force that there was da,nger the amend ment would be adopted and that Miss Addams would be censured. Mrs. Lewis' Campaign Vigorous. Most of their work this" week has been In organizing to protect Miss Addams. The campaign which Mrs. Lewis waged was tireless and sweeping. It was known that she had obtained the support of Mrs. Oliver H. P. Bel mont, and It was thought by members of the Illinois delegation that the prom inent officers of the association and in fluential leaders In strong Eastern del egations were In the movement aimed at Miss Addam3. Mrs. Lewis was not present when the issue finally came before the convention today, but was represented by Ida Hewster Harper, of New York. Mrs. Belmont was also pres ent, but withdrew when the amendment was defeated. Mrs. Lewis prefaced her attack upon Miss Addams with the remark that she had taken off her gloves and had rolled up her sleeves, and that she would throw her hat into the ring were it not for the hatpins. She de clared the question to be the most Im portant ever raised In a woman suf frage convention. The convention for the first time In 43 years, she said, was confronted with the question of Its officers affiliating with political (Concluded on Page 5.) WEEK'S NEWS EVENTS. Steps to Be Taken at Commercial Club Gathering to Correct Wrong Impressions- of Public. As a definite step In the campaign to set the public and the county at large right, so far as Portland and the "Port land Y. M. C. A. are concerned in the depraved scandal, recently unearthed, a meeting of public-spirited men is an nounced for this afternoon at the Com mercial Club. The men in charge of the meeting and who sent out the call are Walter A. Goss, B. B. MacNaughton, S. A. Brown, Fletcher Linn. J. W. Ganong, Maurice Walter and B. S. Huntington. The call follows: "One of the most important meetings ever held In the history of Portland will take place this (Sunday) afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Commercial Club. "Portland has been advertised throughout the Nation in a. way which has sullied our reputation and our good name. Telegrams and letters are com ing to those in authority from all over the United States seeking correct in formation in regard to the besmirehin reports which have been circulated. "All civic organizations, clubs, and organizations of any kind are asked to have not more than two representa tives present in addition to committees which have already' been given author lty to take action In this matter. "In no sense Is the meeting open to the general public, except that all are Invited to attend who may have cre dentials from some organization hav ing the best Interests of the city at heart. "Representatives of the press are especially asked to be present. "The matters for consideration at the meeting are as follows: "First The true facts relating to ex isting vice conditions In Portland. "Second The attitude of the press thereto. "Third The co-operation with and support of officials to enforce the law." Organizations that will send commit tees to the meeting are the Rotary, Transportation, Ad and. Progressive Business Men's Clubs, Realty Board, East Side Business Men's Club. Social Hygiene Society and religious associa tions of the city. Chairman Goss, of the . committee, said last night: "The response of the better class of citizens has been prac tically unanimous in the support of the Y. M. C A., and will react effectively against the Dally News." NEW DORMITORY ACCEPTED Thousands of Yale Mien, Xew Old, Attend Ceremonial. and NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 23. The Wright Memorial dormitory was for mally presented to Yale University by the alumni today in the presence of thousands of Yale men, past, and present, who had grouped themselves on the old cottage campus. The new Duildlng, costing $300,000. completes the enclosure of the old campus. George E. Ide, of New York City, chairman of the committee which raised the money, made the presenta tion address. The building was ac cepted by President Hadley and a short address was made, by former Dean Wright. The Income from the dormitory also provides for annuities for Professor and Mrs. Wright. FREAK ELECTION' BET PAID Clarence C. Cameron Pushes AVhcel barrow In Albany Street. ALBANY, Or., Nov. 23. (Special.) Attired In a full dress suit and wearing silk hat, Clarence C. Cameron, a prominent Albany young man. wheeled a wheelbarrow through First street, this city's leading thoroughfare, this afternoon, bearing an advertisement of Fred Dawson's drug store. Cameron was paying an election bet he made with Dawson that Roosevelt would carry Oregon. Had Wilson failed to carry the state Dawson would have wheeled the barrow today, adver tising the planing mill of M. J. Came ron & Son. Plans for 1913 Event Already Started. ALL NORTHWEST INTERESTED Exhibits Said, to Equal Those of Big Eastern Displays. PRACTICAL RESULTS SEEN "Baek-to-tl.e-FarisV Movement H Given Great Impetus and Opinion Is Universal That Soxt Year Must JSeo Top-Notcher. CCPS AWARDED AT T.AXD SHOW, WHICH CLOSED LAST XKJHT. L. W. Hill, for best agricultural and horticultural display, Aatiland Commercial Club, Ashland, Or. O.-W R. & X. Co., for best dis play By community on that line, Tillman Router aud Madras district, Madras. Or. Southern Pacific Company, for the best display by community on that road, Ashland Commercial Club. Ashland, Or. North Bank, and Oregon Electric roads for best display by community on those lines. La no County District, Kugene, Or. Northern Pa el ft e, for best dent corn. W alla Walla Commercial Club, Walla Walla, Wash. J. D. Parrel I, president of the O. W. R. & X. Company, for best pota toes, Ashael Smith, Ladner, B. C. 4 Officials, exhibitors, judges and spec tators alike were agreed when the first Pacific Northwest Land Products Show closed last night that the exhibition, owing to the -remarkable success at tending this one, is to be made an an nual, permanent event. Enthusiasm and happiness mark?! the close. The Interest of the people of Portland, manifested throughout the week by heavy attendance, was further expressed on the last night by the presence of the largest crowd that the great building has yet contained. The demand for repeated shows of this kind was universal. Plans for next year's event already have been outlined. The suggestion has been advanced by many that the exhibition be held earlier In the season so that the best products of the local show can be collected and sent to the exhibitions lu the East. Goldrndale Display Wins. Had this arrangement been possible this year the Eastern people would have been able to see numerous handsomo displays of what the Northwestern soil produces In addition to the magnifi cent exhibits already here, as the prize winners in the competitive classes were pronounced the superior to the average shown In the great New York, Chicago and St. Paul contests. The display of tho Goldendale Fruit & Produce Association, winner of the first prlzo for the best artistic display of apples, presented a beautiful and substantial assortment of apples. In cluding Newtowns. Spltzenbergs, Win ter Bananas, Grimes' Goldens, Arkan sas Blacks, Delicious and other well known varieties. The boxes were ar ranged in checker-board fashion, yel low and red alternating. H. .1. Clark, secretary of the association, had charge. Goldendale's glory was double-dosed. The booth of. Klickitat County prod ucts, displayed by the Goldendale Fruit & Produce Association, was awarded fourth prize for district agricultural (Concluded, on Fajca 14.)