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ill KHV Pages 1 to 20 82 Pages VOL. XXXI. yO. 4'J. . rxiniMARM. : BALKAN WAR PEACE Servian Cry for Port Crux of Question. AUSTRIA'S ATTITUDE WORRIES Ottomans Seem Resigned to Big Loss of Territory. TURKISH DEBTS PUZZLE Envoys Must Settle Commercial Status of Various States Under standing Between Bulbars and Turks Indicated. LONDON, Dec. 7. The prospects for a satisfactory and reasonably rapid set tlement of the Balkan war and of the greater European Interests hanging upon It seem brighter tonight than at any time since tne allied armies took the field against Turkey. The envoys from the Balkan kingdoms. Greece-r-if Greece decided to participate and the Ottoman Empire, will hold the first meeting of the peace conference next Friday. At the same time the Ambassadors of the great powers In London charged with the task of protecting the inter ests of their countries will meet as a sort of court of appeals to watch, ad vise and admonish the peace delegates. Complicated Arrangement Reached. To reach even this complicated ar rangement has strained all the re sources of European diplomacy. There have been times in the last month when even the consent of all the govern ments to a friendly gathering appeared beyond the range of possibility. Austria consented yesterday to join the ambas sadorial conference, and Germany, which stood aside waiting the decision of Its ally, announced Its acquiescence today. This wlil be by far the most Import ant assembly of diplomats since the Berlin conference of the Russo-Turkish war. Giants like Bismarck, Beacons field, Salisbury and Gortchakoff. to be sura, will not tread the stage, but their successors who go will have an equally important work to perform. Servian Isnue Dangerous. One question charged with the possi bilities of disaster is Servla's unquench able determination for an Adriatic port and Austria's determination that she shall not have it. Servian official newspapers make it plain, however, that the little king dom has made up Its mind to take In structions from the powers, so far as public opinion In Servia will let it. A second interesting struggle will take place over Turkey's endeavors to hold as much of the conquered terri tory as Oriental diplomacy and the help of friendly powers can save for her. The best bargain the Sultan can make probably will reduce his subjects in Europe from more than 6,000,000 to fewer than 2.000.000 and the Turk seems reconciled to this. Greeks Important Factor. A third Important factor will be the Greek attempt to gain Salonikl. Besides, various difficult questions will arise over the commercial status of the various states, the disposition of the Turkish debts attached to the conquered country and the final status of Adrianople. That the peace negotiations proper will be less complicated that had been feared Is promised by the two facts that Turkey and Bulgaria appear to have reached an understanding al ready and that the dissension among the allies portended by the failure of Greece to sign the armistice is mostly (Concluded on Page 7.) PROjPEGTSIHPROVE i f 7 i : ir 7" jr j Q f jpffi I !m CANADA CONT,8,T5 & ( . ) 'SSSr' ' feP TVKer passes jru nix' W l3g"e0R5" jJtVL llfeS S-TLLUPTo-rt : I . :- " WILEY'S SUCCESSOR TO BE DR. ALSBERG ! GOVERNMENT CHEMIST TO HEAD BATTLE FOR PUKE FOOD. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson Aids President in Naming Man to Replace Ousted Official. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. President Taft and Secretary of Agriculture Wll- son, alter monins ux uuuoi.a......... decided today upon the appointment of Dr. Carl AisDerg, a cneminv hnrnn of druza and plants, as chief of the bureau of chemistry in the De partment of Agriculture, a position mm h been vacant since the resignation last Spring of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the famous defender or tne pure law. In Washington the place of Chief Chemist, with its attendant duty of en fnrraniKiii of the Dure food act, is regarded in many ways as a non-political position. Dr. Alsberg has been in the Depart ment of Agriculture four years. He was educated in uoiumma uni""i' a r.:hiirir University In Germany. He engaged In research work In Ger many for several years. , wo-hino-tnn ha was in charge of the department of sociological chemistry in Harvard university. n-i.. n...uni decided, uoon this ap pointment only after a careful consid eration of the claims nn .hoisin . HIb decision to name Dr. Alsberg was made only today. 0. A. C. GIRLS HOSTESSES Brilliant Social Success Crowns Ef forts of Fair Folk. .nnrnTI.TtTRAL COL- LEGE. Corvallls. Dec. 7. (Special.) A brilliant social success crowned the efforts ot the girls in the dormitory . ... -- i nt their annual re- ceptlon in Waldo HaU. The parlors and halls were crowaea wmi members of the tacuity t f.unria frnm outside the campus. Evergreens, mistletoe and poinsettla were used in me km decoration. .,..i..r, r.f the decoration com mittee was Miss Elva Tagg. Warren- ton- music committee, .Miss Oakes, Enterprise: refreshment com mittee. Kathleen Warner, Portland; in vitations, Delia Purvis, Seattle; enter tainment, Lois Wilson. Salem; clean up committee, Margaret Weist, Mend. i .v.- ,Mivnir line were Mrs. Crayne. Miss Lucy Crawford. &1 ss Esther Leach, airs. i. a. .viy.. Ava B. Milam. Mis Hadwin, Miss Lois Wilson and Miss Cordelia Goffe. . CIGARETTE SMOKE COSTLY First Vancouver Woman So Caught Gets 30 Days in Jail. VANCOUVER. Wash., Dec. 7. (Spe cial.) Thirty days in the city Jail is the punishment imposed upon Mrs. Maude White for smoking a cigarette in the City Park, while sitting on one of the benches there, by Police Judge Shaw today. Mrs. WhTte was sitting on the bench puffing away at a cigarette she had made apparently, when Officers Jack Smith and Henry Burgy passed and ar rested her. At the City Hall she said that she was sick, but the Judge took a different view and passed sentence. This Is the first time that a woman in this city has been arrested for such an offense. PASTOR ON SCHOOL BOARD Rev. Harry Hendley Chosen From Field or Nine at Tacoma. TACOMA. Wash.. Dec 7. (Special.) With only 309J votes cast in the whole city. Rev. Harry B. Hendley, pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church was elected a member of the Board M)f Education at the school election here today, to succeed George B. Williamson, retiring. Williamson had refused to stand for re-election and there was a field of nine candidates. out for the place, including three women. Rev. Mr. Hendley received 1192 votes, his next nearest competitor, Mrs. Min nie Davis, having but 420 and the dther candidates below that figure. No attempt was made to eniorce tne elec tion closing law upon the saloons, which have always kept open on school election days. PICTORIAL SIDELIGHTS CAST BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS ON . .- TFr-nv cttvtiaa' imnTfl. DECEMBER 8. 1912. ' PRICE FIVE CENTS. 2 ROBBERS WOUND GROCER: GET $17 Joe Charland Is Victim of Highwaymen. THREE BULLETS STRIKE LEGS Wounded Man Fights Flames From Upset Lamp. YOUNG ROBBERS ESCAPE Woman Employe Sounds Call for Aid and Neighbors Rescue Man From Flames Of Four Shots Three Take Effect. With instep smashed by a bullet, two bullets in his leg and his head bleeding from a blow from an empty soda bottle In the hands of a holdup man, Joseph Charland, proprietor of the Eleven-Mile House, on the Base Line road, crawled back into his store when his cries failed to summon aid last night, and with his bare hands struggled to beat out the flames which had kindled the building when his assailant, fleeing, fired a last shot Into the1 kerosene lamp which lighted the room. Charland Shows Fight. The hold-up occurred about 7:30 o'clock, two men being implicated, neither one of whom appeared to be more than 20 years old, according to Charland and Mrs. Maude Wilson, who was employed in the 11-Mile House. Mrs. Wilson was alone in the room when, the first man entered and pur chased a bottle of Eoda water. In a few minutes the proprietor came in and Mrs. Wilson left the room to at tend to some of her duties about the store. . An instant later a second mar. came In and threatening Charland with two revolvers, ordered him to give up all the money lie had in the store. Char land attempted to close with him and disarm him. In the scuffle five shots were' fired, three of which struck Charland. The first smashed his right ankle and instep and as he fell to the floor he received another in his right leg above the knee and one in his left leg. . v ' Bottle Final Weapon. The fourth shot went wide. His as sailant, who In the scuffle had passed one of his guns tohls companion struck the prostrate man over the head with the empty soda bottle. Then both men fled. As they left the room the man who had attacked Charland fired his last shot into the kerosene lamp. The oil splashed over the walls and carpet, and the walls being covered with pa per the room was quickly filled with flames. Charland crawled into the road and endeavored to summon help, but, as no one responded, he crawled back into the burning room and attempted to beat out the flames, where he could reach them, with his bare hands. Timely Help Arrives. In the meantime Mrs. Wilson heard the scuffle and shots and ran to call help, returning with neighbors in time to rescue Charland from the burning room and, with hastily gathered buck ets, to put out the fire. Deputy Sheriffs Leonard, Hunter, French and Phillips hurried to the store as soon as the report reached them, arriving within half an hour of the hold-up. Up to midnight no clew had been found as to who Charland's assailants might be, excepting a hat dropped by one of them in the road. Both the bands were torn out of the hat, making it practically valueless as (Concluded on Page 7.) i SWAYING OF CHAIR MAKES POPE ILL RESTORATIVES REVIVE POXTIFF AFTER COXSISTORY. At AH Future Functions Aged Man Will Be Carried Only Inside Hall of Beatification. ROME. Dec 7. (Special.) The Pope was so affected by dizziness and sickness-caused by the swaying of the ees tatorial chair during the recent con sistory that he nearly fainted in his apartments, and doctors had to use restoratives to revive him. It has since been decided that at all future functions the Pope shall be car ried in the chair onljj Inside the Hall of Beatification, and not all the way from his apartments and down the steps, which occupies a full quarter of an hour. This action was taken be cause It was feared that, at the Pope's age, such an attack as the recent one might some time prove fatal. The use of the chair cannot be abol ished, as it Is part of the liturgy, and during the ceremonial the Pontiff is carried shoulder high, surrounded by cardinals, with other lay and ecclesias tical functionaries walking behind. DRESS SUITS UP FOR VOTE University of Washington Students to Decide Formal Ball Fate. ; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Se attle, Dec. 7. (Special.) The war on the campus between those who favor an Informal 'Varsity ball and the sup porters of the "full dress" affair will be settled by an election. The board of control wilt put the matter before the students at the Spring election and It will be decided once for all whether the student body will pay for a formal function every year. Two members of the 'Varsity ball committee have announced their Inten tions of appearing at the function mi nus the. dress suit and other students will follow their example. The dance is financed by the student body and has been a money loser nearly every year. Because of the high cost of liv ing an agitation was started this year to do away with the dress suit part as well as the taxicabs and flowers, and the faculty has given its support to the movement. Dean Condon, of the Law School, who is a member of the faculty committee on student affairs, is one of the radical supporters of the in formal dance idea. BALKAN CREDIT IS GOOD Financier Says Low Interest Shows Bankers Discredit World War. NEW YORK. Dec. 7. (Special.) George A. Crater. Jr., who has homes in London and San Francisco, arrived today on the steamship Cedrlc from Liverpool. He said that he had repre sented London financial interests In negotiating the loan to the Balkan states in their war with Turkey. The Balkan countries, he declared, had got ten all the money they wanted at 3 per cent and could get as much more as they desired at the same rate. This indicated, he pointed out, the feeling of security of the European bankers in the face of world war talk. He said that the bankers had no fear of any sort of a general outbreak of hostilities. BANKER WINSAN ACTRESS Xew Yorker Soon to Wed AVillette Kershaw and Tour Europe. NEW YORK, Dee. T. (Special.) Richard Schuster, a member of the banking house of Speyer & Co., will marry Miss Willette Kershaw, the ac tress, within a few days, and on Decem ber 19 they intend to leave for a wed ding trip through Europe. Schuster Is a prominent banker in Wall street and rich. Miss Kershaw was last seen in New York in "Snobs." Before that she ap peared in "The Country Boy" and "Brown of Harvard," and in 1909 she succeeded Miss Elsie Ferguson in "The Battle." P0L1TIGIANS ROAST Oil GRIDIRON GRILL Scribes Poke Fun at Leaders and Issues. WILSON LANDSLIDE EXPLAINED Beneath Each Jest Is Touch of Human Kindness. TAFT AND CABINET ATTEND Leaders ot Three Big Parties Bur lesqued in Wit and Song Bull Moose Fight Is "Carmen" Fea ture at Annual Dinner. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. The land slide of 1912; how it happened, and the futility of an attempt to reorganize the "G. O. P." on the old lines, were the themes upon which played the wit and humor of the Gridiron Club at the annual Fall dinner tonight. Events of political importance and actions upon which turned National Issues were treated in a spirit of levity and fun Underlying each Jest and quip and skit were touches of human sympathy and kindliness for the victims of the No vember avalanche, as well as some bits of homely advice and warning for the victors, that kept everybody in good humor. Not even his late political enemies failed to welcome the pathetic tribute to President Taft In the song rendered by the Gridiron Quartet appealing to him, "not to forget us when you go away." The President sat and listened with the members of his Cabinet seat- tersd about the banquet hall. Fun Begins Early. The fun started early. It was dls covered that the usually immaculate hall was not as tidy as it should be, and a "White Wing" whs sent about cratherlne all sorts of litter. This turned out to be "Campaign Rubbish," and each find brought forth a ripple of applause. He pulled out from- the bandstand a pair of moose horns, and the club members tossed Into the bag some wornrout souvenirs of the cam paign. . Such were the "last positive predictions of Senator Dixon and Charles D. Hilles"; "that smile that wouldn't come off; the bluff at big bus iness, O. K.'d by Bill Bryan; a couple of old empty wallets, one marked, "C. P. T." and the other, "G. W. P." the peace treaties, the commerce court, and the "hopes of Henry Cabot Lodge for the chairmanship of the Foreign Re lations Committee." Unlike other clubs the Gridiron Club initiates its members in public, and this time it acquired two worthy young journalists in novel fashion. Hobbling into the hall on crutches, bandaged hats knocked in, and clothes dishevel led, came caricatures of President Taft, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, "Nick" Longworth Murray Crane and Representatives Solloway, McKinley and Dalzell, "sons of the landslides," who declared their purpose to reorganize the Republican party rallying around the states of Utah and Vermont. The messengers from these states each announced their four votes In a verse, Vermont de claring:; In the Green Mountain State, recollec". Old Taft won out by a neck. And we'd 've elected him Ef they hadn't neKtected him In forty-six states,, by heck! "Spies" Are Discovered. The messengers, It was discovered, were "Bull Moose spies" In disguise, who when stripped of their false beards turned out to be the new members of the club, Charles P. Keyser, corres pondent -of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and Edward B. Clark, correspond ent of the Chicago Evening Post. The Republican Electoral College ln i Concluded on Page 5.) SOME EVENTS OF THE SCRAP HEAP YIELDS VALUABLE STAMPS MAX MAY REALIZE $100,000 FROM $50 PURCHASE. In Bundle of Waste Paper Also Arc Found War Requisitions Signed by George Washington. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7. (Special.) Edward D. Hemingway, who found a fortune that may exceed $100,000 in a heap of scrap paper purchased for $30 the other day. has already sorted out 102 rare stamps, valued at $100,000. Ho Is said to have sold five stamps for $10,000 and is negotiating with a syn dicate for the saie of the rest of the lot for $100,000 flat. Tjist week Hemingway, trading as th Hemlnewav Paper Stock Company, bought a heap of scrap paper from whnm he will not say. It was taken to the plant to ,be made into new paper. WhliA sorting It Hemingway rouna 65 letters, or covers, on which 102 stamps were pasted, and several docu ments which are yellow and faded with age. The rarest of the stamps has been sold for $2500. A collector is now com ing 3000 miles across the country to look at the collection. Th. find overshadows that of 1895 In the basement of the Louisville, Ky., Courthouse, that finally was disposed of by an expert stamp dealer at a trine less than $100,000. Tho vnln nf the "Hemingway find Is almost concentrated in one kind of stamp the famous "Bear" issue of fat. Louis. The value of each of these stamps ranges from $400 and $500 to $5000. Amonir the account books found are some keDt by Chalmoner & White, who were provlsloners to the Conti nental Army and original requisitions for supplies signed by George Wash In eton. Autograph letters of Robert Morris, the financier of the revolution; a few by Major-General Benedict Ar nniH an others by Anthdny Wayne were found in the scrap heap by Hem ingway. OLD WOMAN EARNS HOME Early Settler in Baker County "Proves Tip" on Homestead. BAKER. Or., Dec 7. (Special.) prh!ns the oldest citizen of this county who ever made final proof on a homestead was Mrs. KiizaDetn wiwh, who did so this afternoon before County Clerk Combs. n.rr9 Kiiiott is 78 years o'd and has been a resident of Baker County slrce 1862, when she crossed the plains with her husband to this state. The piece of land secured by Mrs. Elliott Is lo cated in Pleasant Valley and consists of 120 acres. Mrs. Elliott is growing very feeble 9n,i this afternoon, when she was asked to sign the. necessary affidavits, sho could only touch the pen so that Mr. Combs could make a cross and write her name. At the close of the ordeal the old lady said, with no little satisfaction, "I'll have a home as long as I live, any way." SEARCH ALL NIGHT WINS Walla Walla Babe Found in Early Morning Looking for Santa. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Dec 7. (Special.) After being the object of a night long search by frantic grandpar ents and the police force, 8-year-old Helen Mohr was found today with a lot of other tots. In front of a store window In which Santa Claus has been advertised to appear. The little tot failed to come home yesterday from school and as she usually was on time the grandfather, Henry Mohr, with whom she 'lived, became alarmed and called on the police force for aid. A policeman saw a redrheaded little girl pressed up close against the Santa Claus window this morning and the search was over. She didn't care to go home right then, but did go, however. She thought nothing of having stayed all night at the home of a little friend, without asking the consent of her elders. PAST WEEK. w DUKE SPURNS ROYAL RIGHT FOR FAMILY Czar Upset by Act of Brother Michel. DECISION IMPERILS DYNASTY Son Born of Morganatic Wife Influences Russian. LIFE ON FARM PREFERRED Emperor Opposes Step Because ol Recent Illness of Son, Which Has Revived Fears of Succession to Throne. ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 7. Emperor Nicholas and the members of the im perial family are greatly upset by the determination of the Emperor's only brother. Grand Duke Michel .Andro vltch, definitely to renounce his rights of succession to the throne. The morganatic marriage contracted In 1910 by the Grand Duke with the divorced wife of a brother officer was recently blessed by the birth of a son. This event prompted Grand Duke Mich el's decision. He wishes to retire to the private life of a country gentle man, assuming the title of Count in order to enjoy domestic: bliss far from .he atmosphere of Che court. Csar Fears Result of Pon's lIlnrsN. The Emperor is opposed to this step, - because of the recent illness of his only son. Crown Prince Alexis, which has revived fears for the succession. The sons of the late Grand Duke Vladimir,' who would- become the next candidates for the throne, unhappily share their father's intense unpopu larity. All classes of well-informed Russians, Indeed, regard the possibility of their ascending the throne as disas trous for the dynasty. Knprrui'i Mother Angry. The Dowager Empress Marie Is so incensed at the action of the Grand Duke Michel that she announced that she will not return to Russia unless ho changes his mind. Such a change would involve dissolution of the morganatic, marriage. The Illness of the Czar's little son and heir, the Grand Duke Alexis, Is surrounded by much mystery. Ever since the first report of the Czarevitch's serious indisposition first became known prayers for the boy's recovery have been offered throughout Russia. At present the royal heir is said to be improved. Cause of Illness Secret. The extraordinary secrecy which hat been maintained as to the origin of the Czarevitch's illness has given riso to all sorts of rumors, one of which was to the effect that he had been attacked by a revolutionary on board tho Im perial yacht Standart Denial of this was Issued officially. Following the rumor that the young Alexis has been the victim of a plot came the suicide of . Rear-Admiral Tchagln. The officer's act, it was de clared, was because he held himself officially responsible for an accident which had happened to the Czarevitch on board the Standart, which the Ad miral commanded. Tchagin shot him self at his house In St. Petersburg on October 24. He distinguished himself in the Russo-Japanese war and the Czar held him In high esteem. The Grand Duke Michel, who cele brated his 44th birthday anniversary last Thursday, was born in 1878 and Is the third son of the late Emperor Alexander III. The Grand Duke George, brother of the Czar and Michel, died in 1899, leaving Michel as the next In (Concluded on Page 7.)