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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1913)
Pages 1 to 20 VOL. XXXII. SO. 2. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SALEM STAGE SET FOB LEGISLATORS PRETTY MISS WINS KISS FROM TAFT AUDITORIUM IN ONE YEAR PROBABILITY GIRL LOST IN FIRE REMEDYFORGARLEY ACT POINTED OUT MOUNTAIN SNOWS HALT ALL TRAFFIC L OF AND QUAKE FOUND PROBABLE PRESIDENT REJOICES HEART OF SEVEJT TEAKS' SEARCH BRIXGS MILWAUKEE ROAD KXOWS XOT WHERE ARE ITS TRAIN'S. LITTLE WXOMIXG ADMIRER. SUCCESS AT LAST. 80 Pages EI I SEEMS Forty Days' Session Is to Open Tomorrow. CAPITAL ALL IN READINESS Twenty - Seventh Assembly Most Business-Like. ONE CHANCE OF BIG FIGHT Possibility of Leglslatnre Opening t'p Quarrel Between State School Officials Might Start War Outside Xeeded Legislation. STATE CAPITOL, Salem. Or., Jan. 11 (Special.) The stage Is set for the 27th Legislative Assembly, which con venes here Monday and Is only awaiting- the actors. Only a few stragglers have drifted into the capital during the past few days, the great bulk of them having passed their time in Portland preparing for the 40 days' session. The sole effort of those legislators who have been interviewed here during the few weeks as they have drifted through the capital for various reasons, will be along the line of expediting business and making this assembly an example which will be hard for future Legislatures to follow. With the organization practically out lined, the selection of a United States Senator out of the way with a few minutes' work, and the Governor ready to read his message, probably Monday afternoon, the business of the session will start Immediately. One Chance at Fight. There seems now to be but one chance of a big fight developing over anything but the needed legislation. This is found In the possibility of -the Legis lature opening up the quarrel over the State School for the Feeble-MInded and the Oregon State Training School, which has been the center of the caj clum here for the past several days. The hurried adjustment of the trou bles yesterday would indicate that the board is desirous of hushing up the troubles so that they will not receive an airing in the session. Remembrance of the bitter and acri mqnious debates which stirred the pre ceding session over the State Insane Asylum question stand out all too vivid ly for the board to wish to have them reopened on the other Institutions. Resolution In Probable. It has been intimated, however, that resolutions asking for an investigation of these conditions will be introduced. Much will hinge on the question of the "honor" policy of the Governor. This has been installed In a somewhat em bryo stage at the Oregon Training School and has also figured in some bitterness which arose between Gov ernor West and Superintendent Smith, of the Feeble-Minded School many weeks ago. This trouble in a measure was revived with the recent talk of Investigation and charges against Smith. If there is a big fight on any par ticular question aside from the regular legislation and appropriation bills, It is prophesied that it will develop on the Governor's "honor system." lieavy criticism which has been di rected at the plan which Is in vogue at tho prison and is reaching out to the State Training School has been heard from many parts of the state, and a number of the legislators are opposed to the plan of leniency, which throws hundreds of prisoners unguarded onto ,,,,1.lt...,...llllllllllTllttTTI1TlltlTlllllTT " - ........... ................. , CARTOONIST REYNOLDS FINDS A LIGHTER SIDE TO SOME OF THE WEEK'S SERIOUS EVENTS. j t dImandA i2- ' l7 (hIsiy j " I Girl of Four Refuses to Go Home Until Kissed and So Appoint ment Is Made for Her. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. On Presi dent Taft's appointment list today was this brief entry: "Phyllis Wlnstrand. Lander, 'Wyo., to be kissed." When that item caught the Presi dent's eye as he sat down at his desk he looked about ms office and over in one corner saw a little girl with blonde curls looking eagerly at him. Beside her was a woman, evidently her mother. "Well, Phyllis," he said as . he rose from his chair to shake hands, "so you want to be kissed by the President of the United States T' "Yes,- sir," she lisped. "Well." said the President as he raised her high In his arms and kissed her fairly on the cheek, "I hope you will remember that." Phyllis is 4 years old. She went through the White House recently with her mother and some friends and an nounced then that she would never leave Washington until she had been kissed by the President She was so insistent that her mother wrote to the White House and finally made an ap pointment with Mr Taft. Phyllis left for her home in Wyoming today quite j satisfied. LEA COLLECTION OFFERED General's Bequest to Widow More Valuable Than Morgan's. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11. (Special.) When General Homer Lea died he bequeathed to his widow treasure in the form of gems of Chinese art. The collection, embracing . vases, embroi deries, china and pottery, is declared to have no equal in" the world, eclipsing In antiquity that of J. Plerpont Mor gan. The Lea collection is soon to be sold in New York, and it is said in Los Angeles that men who know Mr. Mor gan's tastes in this respect are nego tiating for the major portion of it. The richest piece is an imperial heir loom, made in the Cheng Hwa era of the Ming dynasty nearly 500 years ago, and its value is variously estimated at from $5000 to $1,000,000, according to the appreciation and dollars of the appraiser. It Is a crackle Ming ware vase two feet high. This and hun dreds ot other pieces were given Lea by Chinese personages in high places. E. J. HORTON TAKES BRIDE Junction City Lumberman Weds for Fifth Time. i JUNCTION CITY. Or.. Jan. 11. Spe cial.) E. J. Horton the president of the Horton Lumber Company, which is one of the richest concerns in this sec tion of the state, was married yester day to Emma Kaping, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Kaping, of this city. This wedding came as a surprise to his many friends in this city. The bridegroom, who is 54, has been mar ried four times previous to this match. The bride is only 18 years of age. Mr. Horton is one of the most well- todo timber and lumbermen In Lane County. His timber interests alone are a fortune. He and his brothers operate one of the largest sawmills in the state. $1200 SILVER FOX KILLED silver Lake Man Secures Animal Willi Shot Fired From Home. SILVER LAKE. Or., Jan. 11. (Spe cial.) J. W. Embody, manager of the Embody Lumbering Company, killed a big male silver gray fox a week ago, shooting the animal from an open window on the second floor of his house. The pelt of the fox. which was uninjured by the shot. Is worth from $1200 to $1500, according to old trap pers here. 1 A. Market Block Is Likely .to Be Location. GENERAL SCHEME COMPLETED Building Will Accommodate Ten Thousand Persons. STRUCTURE TO EQUAL BEST Architect Freedlander Maps Out Working Plan and Will Leave To day for Xew York to Finish Details of Construction. CHIEF FEATURES OF PORT LAND'S AUDITORIUM. It will be (In all probability) on the Market block. Third and Market, Second and Clay streets, occupylng entlre square. It will be of terra cotta and light brick construction. The arena style will be followed on the Interior, making excellent place for automobile shows, poultry exhibitions, etc. It will have wide entrances and special exits, so that crowds may quickly assemble and quickly dis perse. Ten thousand persons may pour out of. the exits In two minutes. ' Lighting system will be of the best and most scientific order. Every facility for accommodation of patrons, such as rest-rooms, smoking-rooms, full kitchen and equip ment for banquets; ballroom, etc., will be installed. Special sliding wooden floor with seats attached for certain occasions will be Installed. Stage will seat 600 persons alone. Private entrance ' on Second and Third-street sides for autos. Floor will be absolutely flat, de- , signed particularly for big shows. Will be absolutely fireproof and modern la every particular.. Probably on the site of the so-called Market block. Third and Market, Sec ond and Clay streets, will be completed within a year one of the finest audi toriums in America. While the site named -has not been selected officially, lack of funds with which to purchase a new one virtually forces the Com mission to use this one. J. H. Freedlander, of New York, with whom is associated A. D. Seymour, has been here for a week and last night, at the Hotel Portland, gave out the general working plans of the Auditor ium, for which the people of the city have provided a bond issue of $600,000. He has been conferring with the mem bers of the Commission, of which Theo dore B. Wilcox is the chairman, and has completed all preliminary details and will leave for his home and headquar ters today. He is full of enthusiasm over Port land and declared his utter surprise at the activity in the building line here and at the thoroughly modern con struction that is being accomplished. "I have been very greatly surprised," said he, "at your busy city. I had no idea it was so large and so progres sive. Why, we have no better class of buildings in New York than you have here, except a few that are put up strictly for luxury. It is amazing, the enterprise Portland has, and I congrat ulate your citizens." Building; to Be Unsurpassed Mr. Freedlander was the winner in a competition in which more than 60 architects all over the Country partici pated. He and his associates will have I Concluded on Page 2.) I Miss, X'ow 12 Years Old, Loves Fos ter Parents and Would Xot Return to Her Own. ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Jan. 11. (Special.) A search of almost seven years ended here this week when the police found Mr. and , Mrs.- Henry Sorensen living In the outskirts of St, Joseph, and with them a 12-year-old girl whom they had brought up to think she was their own. It was an echo from the San Francisco earthquake and Are of 1906. The day before the disaster Mrs. Martha Green- leaf sent her daughter, Alice Loree, then 6 years old, to visit the Sorensens over night. The next day the Soren sens home was. in ruins and so was the home of the Greenleafs. Search failed to reveal any traces of the Sor ensens. - It was not until a month ago that Mrs. Greenleaf managed, through relative of Mrs. Sorensen, to get a clew which ultimately led to St. Joseph. Then an appeal from the mother in duced the police . to concentrate their efforts toward finding the Sorensens. They succeeded and telegraphed to Los Angeles, where the Greenleaf family Is now living, that the Sorensens had been found. The girl's blue eyes opened wide with amazement when her foster parents told her of her parentage. "I'll never leave you, never," she cried.. "I don't know these, other peo ple who say they are my family." The Greenleafs have telegraphed that they will institute proceedings to gain custody of the girl. 12-YEAR-OLD BOY INJURED Willie Wicke Run Over by Motor. Concussion of Brain Resulting. Stepping off a streetcar before it had stopped yesterday, shortly after 3 P. M., Willie Wicke. 12 years old. son of Mrs. Mary E. Wicke, of 1060 East Washington street, was struck by an oncoming automobile and knocked down, sustaining concussion of the brain. , A. Kirchner, of 232 East Forty fourth street, who was driving the au tomobile, pierced the boy up and rushed him to the Good Samaritan Hospital, where at first it was feared hia skull was fractured. At a late hour last night the boy was still wandering in his talk and will be treated at the hospital for a few days. The strange part of the accident was that the -machine went right over the boy, without doing any other injury than that occasioned by his striking tile fender. Shortly before this accident Mr. Kirchner collided with, another auto mobile, smashing his front guard and running-board. TOSS OF COIN WINS PLACE Jfortb Bend City Council Deadlocked Over President for Time. MARSHFIELD, Or, Jan. 11. (Spe cial.) While not recognised as legal by the city charter, the toss of a coin decided who was to be president of the City Council of North Bend last even ing. The Council was hopelessly dead locked on the proposition, and it looked like an all-night session, when someone proposed that the contestants. Dr. Bar tie and L. F. Falkenstein, toss up a coin to see- who should wear the hon ors. The gentlemen agreed and the coin was flipped, with the result that Falk enstein was the lucky caller, and then to legalize the matter so that it would, appear on the records In strictly par liamentary form, the council then took another vote and gave the ballot to the winner. Millionaire Dies as Wife Reads. AUGUSTA. Ga Jan. 11. Dr. I. Devere Warner, millionaire manufac turer and philanthropist, of Bridge port, Conn., died suddenly at his Win ter home here today, while his wife was reading to him Irrigation Nen Urge Relief for Settlers. STATE'S NEGLIGENCE SHOWN Congress Seeks Action on CO' lumbia Southern Project. CELIL0 PLAN IS INDORSED Proposal to Hare State Power Plant on Columbia Is Recommended and County Good Roads Bonding Measure Is Sought. OFFICERS ELECTED BY OREGON IRRIGATION CONGRESS. President. William Hanley, Burns. First vice-president A. B. Thom son. Echo. Second vice-president C. C. Chap man, Portland. Third vice-president M. J. Lee, Canby i Secretary-treasurer J. T. Hlnkle, Hermlston. Unqualified declaration that the Ca rey act has not operated successfully and presentation of a 'substitute plan whereby the settler can give a first mortgage and secure immediate title to his land were contained In resolu tions unanimously adopted by the Ore gon Irrigation Congress yesterday afternoon- Further resolutions urge the State Legislature to provide funds for the immediate relief ot settlers on the Columbia Southern project in Crook County; to pass a county bonding act for the construction of good roads, and to appropriate money for the thorough nvestigation of the Columbia River power project as advocated by John H. Lewis, State Engineer. Settlers' Safeguards Souajht. One of the most important and the shortest resolutions provides that no reclamation project be opened for set tlement until the water is ready for distribution. This would prevent such disastrous results as those experienced by the Columbia Southern settlers. Residence requirements on irrigation projects constructed by the Reclama tion Service were declared unjust and unreasonable and action was urged that will allow water-users 25 years in which to repay the Government for construction expenses. President-elect Wilson was asked to appoint a "Western, and preferably an Oregon man, possessing legal learning, knowledge of actual conditions existing in the West and the judicial tempera ment essential to the proper discharge of the duties of the office for Secretary of the Interior." No mention of either Joseph N. Teal or Will R. King, both of whom are candidates for the honor, was made. Adjudication of the water rights un der the Central Oregon Irrigation Com pany's project, which was made the subject of an address at Friday's meet ing by A. O. Walker, of Alfalfa, was asked in a separate set of resolutions. Forestry Work Indorsed. Legislative appropriation of $50,000 to be used with a like amount already promised by Secretary Fisher, of the Federal Interior Department, in inves tigating Irrigation and power projects as outlined by J. N. Teal before the congress, was advised. The State Board of Control was com mended for its work in the adjudica- Tolegraph Wires Gone and Trans continental Lines Badly Hit. Army of Men Recovers Train. -SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 11. A heavy snow storm that began at noon in the Cascade Mountains has almost put a stop to traffic on the mountain di visions of the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Milwaukee railways. A Northern Pacific passenger train is being dug out of the snow near tunnel No. 4, west of Stampede Pass. The Milwaukee, has no telegraph wires and does not know where its trains are, and Great Northern trains are marked 12 hours late. Up to 9 o'clock tonight nearly three feet of snow had fallen today on the Northern Pacific mountain division, but the precipitation was becoming lighter. A passenger train due in Seattle at 6 o'clock tonight was almost burled by a small snowsltde near Stampede. An, army of men with shovels had dug out all of the train except the locomotive. The passengers probably will arrive here at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning Passenger trains Nos. 1 and 5 are being held at Ellensburg. All trains proceed with rotaries in front of them. A Great Northern train due here at 9 this morning arrived at 7:40 tonight. With no telegraph wires, traffic "on the Milwaukee is at a standstill, and no trains are arriving or departing over that road tonight. Commercial telegraph "wires in West ern Washington are suffering as a re sult of a fall of wet snow that began at dusk and Is continuing. SHIP BREAKS CRANKSHAFT Grosser Karfuerst, With 1000 on Board Flashes Xen-s. NEW YORK, Jan. 11. (Special.) A wireless message was received today from the steamer Grosser Karfuerst, of the North German Lloyd line, en route from Bremen to New York, with 1000 passengers aboard, that she has broken a crankshaft in latitude 46.40 North. longitude 39 West. The steamer Is proceeding here under half speed, but will not arrive until January 17. This Will cancel her trip to Panama on January 16, for which more than 00 persons had secured passage. The wire less message was received here via Cape Race. The vessel was oft the Grand Banks when the accident hap pened. REPUBLICANS LOSE TWO Democrats and Progressives Could ' Control at Olympla. SEATTLE, Jan. 11. State Repre sentatives William A. Arnold, ot Wah kiakum County, and Herbert K. Row land, of Benton County, today took part in a caucus of Progressive mem bers of the Legislature. They had hitherto been counted among the Re publicans. The. Republican strength in the House, after these defections. Is 47 votes, as against 31 Progressives, 18 Democrats and one Socialist. A coali tion of Progressives and Democrats could control the House. The caucus agreed to support Thomas J. Corkery, of Spokane, for Speaker of the House. CHECK ARTIST IS CLEVER A. Johnstone Said to Have 'Doctored' $3.25 Paper to $53.35. MARSHFIELD. "or.. Jan. 11. (Spe cial.) That A. Johnstone, now under arrest in Coquille for forgery, is an artist in that line is proved by develop ments since he was arrested last week. The latest development shows that he "doctored" a Smith-Powers Company check for one and one-half day's work, which amounted to $3.25, but when it came into the bank It read for 11 days, and the amount was $53.35, and was paid without question. It has come to light that several Coquille men had been victimized by the same criminal, they cashing checks for sums ranging from $10 to $20. Breach Will Come if Adrianople Stands. POWERS' NOTE IS ADVISORY Turks Declare They Will Not "Commit Suicide." SOFIA IS BELLIGERENT Bonmanla Gets Hint That Her De mands Are Regarded in Light of Blackmail, Which Will Be Expensive Later On. LONDON, Jan. 11. Diplomacy still Is busy seeking a solution for the Balkan deadlock. Fears that the peace con ference will end in failure and that the allies will take up arms again are stronger tonight than at any time since the plenipotentiaries came to London. Unless Adrianople should fall within two or three days, which none of the diplomats can foresee, it appears prob able that the delegates will leave Eng land before the end of another week. A note from the powers will be pre snted to the Ottoman government on Monday. It Is firm In tone, and while recommending Turkey to leave the question of the Aegean islands in the hands of the powers, makes it clear that Turkey has no alternative except to cede Adrianople. Collective Note Prepared. Another note was prepared by the Ambassadors at Constantinople, but will be superseded by the collective communication decided upon at Fri day's meeting between Sir Edward Grey, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and the Ambassa dors. Since it is necessary to tele graph the text of this note to the con tinental capitals for approval, it can not be delivered before Monday. All the Ambassadors today had sepa rate, Informal meetings with Rechad Pasha and Osman Nazam Pasha, the Turkish delegates, trying, as one of the Ambassadors put it, to "square tho cir cle" and discover a middle course be tween Turkey, which insists upon keeping Adrianople, and Bulgaria, which insists she must have that town. Turk Not to Be Moved. The Turkish delegates were Immov able and said: "Nothing can induce us to commit suicide. It is impossible to change our minds concerning the possession of Adrianople, for which we have made sacrifices which no other country has made. The sentimental and religious value attached by Mussulmen to Adri anople can be calculated by our re nunciation of four-fifths of our Euro pean territory only because we wished to keep the holy city. In all the his tory of wars there is no example of such generous and important conces sions as those which we have made to the allies; so their greediness causes a natural reaction. "If the war is resumed the allies may find they have miscalculated their forces and minimized those of Islam. They have looked through biased glasses at their first successes, which, were due to the fact that we were sur prised by attack." Note Is Advice, That's All. The position of the powers is diffi cult because their declarations are in valid unless made by unanimous con sent. The note was agreed upon for the reason that, although Turkey com- (Concluded on Page 6.)