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VOI,. XXXII-XO. 23. PORTLAND. OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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WELCOME IS SENT
TO COMING GUESTS
California Visitors En
route, 300.
CRUISER ST. LOUIS IN RIVER
Street Crowds Take On Holi
day Attitude.
DECORATIONS GO UP FAST
Plans Completed Tor ArrlTal of Rex
Oregonus Into His Summer King
dom and Formal Reception
of Subjects at Rose Show.
Portland already Is reaching out to
welcome the guests that are coming
to participate In the opening of the
Kose Festival tomorrow.
Telegrams were flying hack and forth
between the officials of the Royal
Rosarlans and their guests who are en
route from California, all day yester
day, bearing greetings and consulta
tion about plans for the celebration,
after the arrival of the visitors. The
Knights of the Pasadena Tournament
of Roses, who will be among the first
of the Callfornlans to arrive In Port
land, wired yesterday that there are
180 persons In their party, and Infor
mation from other delegations which
are on the way indicate that the Rosar
lans are to be hosts to more than 800
men and women from California to
morrow. Escort Leaves Today.
Headed by J. Fred Larson and C C
Craig, a committee will leave Portland
today to meet the California specials
after their entrance Into Oregon and
escort them to Portland. The main
body of the Rosarlans in the meantime
is completing all details of preparation
for the reception of the visitors at the
1'nlon Station when they reach here
at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning.
The headquarters of the Royal Rosar
lans at the Multnomah Hotel yesterday
were filled with busy men putting
everything in shape for the week-long
"open house" that the Rosarlans are
to hold there.
St. Louis to Dispense Hospitality.
Announcement of the approach of the
United States cruiser St- Louis, which
Is coming from the Bremerton Navy
yard and will be anchored In the har
bor throughout the week, sent special
representatives of business clubs of the
city and representatives of the press
hurrying down the river yesterday to
greet the great fighting craft and ac
company it to Portland. The St. Louis
will be anchored below the Broadway
bridge and will entertain visitors
throughout the week.
Cooler weather and possible showers
are predicted by the weather bureau for
today, but these conditions are not ex
pected to continue Into the beginning
of the Festival week, and decoration
In the streets and on the buildings
went on yesterday and practically all
of last night without hesitation.
Holiday Spirit Seen.
The crowds on the streets yesterday
eemed to catch the inspiration of the
approaching week of festivity, and in
the throngs that flowed up and down
the business streets In the heart of the
city last night there was an exuberance
that told of the magic from the realm
of Rex Oregonus already astir In the
hearts of the people.
While the unofficial vanguard of the
Rose Festival visitors Is pouring into
the city today the final touches or prep
aration will be completed, and by sun
rise tomorrow everything will be in
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SEA DOG DAZED BY
RAPTUROUS KISSES
PRETTY WOMEN BASH OX SHIP
AND EMBRACE CAPTAEV.
Old Skipper Says He Liked It, Even
After Learning That Actresses
for Movies Hogged Him.
SAX FRANCISCO, June 7. (Special.)
To be kissed three times by a pair
of pretty women without knowing the
why or wherefore was a situation that
Captain Alexander, of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company liner State of Cal
ifornia, ran up against at San Pedro
a few days ago.
Captain Alexander, who for many
years commanded the steamship Santa
Rosa before it was wrecked off Point
Argueilo two years ago and is the old
est skipper in the employ of the com
pany In point of continuous service,
admits he enjoyed the kissing, but de
spite the fact that he subsequently
learned that the women were motion
picture actresses and that a marine
scene In which he was to be a central
figure was being rounded out.
Reels of films had previously been
taken for the photoplay, which was to
climax with two pretty women, one of
middle age and the other a fair young
thing, rushing aboard a vessel after
it had entered harbor and enthusias
tically welcoming home their long
lost "husband and father."
From a point on the dock the motion
picture camera was clicking on the
film reel as the vessel docked. The
women ran aboard, brushed passengers
aside and made their way to the bridge,
where Captain Alexander was giving
the last order to make fast.
Unceremoniously the women rushed
up to the skipper and In turn kissed
and hugged him. To be sure that the
film in the camera would register ac
curately, the surprising performance
was repeated three times.
Then they scurried away as quickly
as they came, leaving the skipper de
lightfully non-plussed.
GRETNA GREEN FLOURISHES
Cnpid Leads Couple- to Vancouver
to Evade New State Law.
John Cochran, marriage license dep
uty in the County Clerk's office, was
called over the telephone yesterday
afternoon by a woman who said that
she and her divorced husband were
about to be remarried. She asked if It
would be necessary for the bridegroom-to-be
to undergo a physical examina
tion. On being answered in the affirm
ative, she said:
"Well, here's where the State of Ore
gon, the preacher and the doctor all
lose some money. We'll go to Vancou
ver," and up went the receiver.
The tendency to go to Vancouver,
Wash., to be wed which has Increased
since the Oregon law requiring physi
cians to certify the freedom of men
applicants for marriage licenses from
venereal diseases, went into effect last
Tuesday Is bothering Mr. Cochran con
siderably. John has a streak of Scotch
blood in him and he hates to see money
for licenses being lost to Multnomah
County and going to enrich Clark
County, Wash.
MEARS RACEC0ST $267
Candidate for Commissioner Files
Statement of Expenditures.
It cost E. C. Mears $267.75 to be a
candidate for Commissioner at the last
city election. This is the amount of
expenditure shown in his official state
ment of campaign expenses filed yes
terday with City Auditor Barbur. He
is the first candidate to make a report
of his expenses.
Auditor Barbur says the candidates
have until June 17 to get their 'state
ments in. After that time they will be
delinquent and will be liable for prose
cution under the corrupt practices act.
Senators Await Salmon Banquet.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash, i
insrton. June 7. Senator Lane will In-
vlte members or the Senate to a Royal
Chinook salmon luncheon at the Capitol
on Monday, If a 42-pound fish sent him I
by Herman Wise, of Astoria, arrives j
in time.
MOST COLLEGE MEN
ARE ABLE TO MARRY
Same True of Girls,
Educator Says.
SHORTER COURSES AOYISEO
Fewer Studies and More Thor
oughness Favored.
DR. JUDS0N IS WITNESS
Illinois Vice and Wage Investigators
Told Efficient Men Can and
Will Earn More Than Law
Can Provide.
CHICAGO. June 7. Dr. Harry Pratt
Judson, president of the University of
Chicago, told the Senatorial vice and
wage Investigating committee today
that most college graduates entered
business after graduation and soon be
came financially able to marry.
"And what beoomes of the girl grad
uates?" asked Chairman O'Hara.
"I am happy to say that most of
them marry," replied the educator.
He said that school and college
courses should be shortened In order
to start young men and women on the
serious business of life earlier. He
declared that high school studies
should be fewer in number and that
these should be studied more thor
oughly. Students Make Own Way.
"Many of our young men work their
way through the university," volun
teered Mr. Judson. "which costs them
from $400 to $500 a year."
O'Hara wanted to know whether the
law should provide a minimum wage
for minimum efficiency. In response to
which the witness arranged workers
Into three classes, efficient, semi-efficient
and inefficient,
"Efficient men will earn more than
any law can provide," said Dr. Jud
son. "They'll take care of themselves.
For the semi-efficient we might pro
vide industrial training."
The witness had no remedy for the
Inefficient.
On the subject of the minimum wage,
Dr. Judson said:
"You may provide a minimum wage
which will give a man what he needs;
no law can provide a wage which will
give a man what he wants."
Wealthy Nelsttbors Set Pace.
William T. Abbott, vice-president of
tho Central Trust Company, said: "The
men who are fitted for bank work are
not the kind who would marry unless
they could afford it."
He thought a man could marry on
$1000 If he did not try to follow the
pace of wealthier neighbors to make a
"splurge."
Mr. Abbott said: "I believe that the
establishment of a wage minimum
would be the most efficient method ot
destroying efficiency that human in
genuity could devise. There is a wage
fixed by custom for starters in banks,
but by custom no employer need pay
an employe more than he earns; by
law he might have to."
A. w. Harris, president of Northwest
ern University, followed the banker.
He said that every girl should receive
at least the rudiments of a business ed
ucation. He believed it to be the duty
of the community to see that the girl
thrown on her own resources was able
to live respectably.
Harrlman's Reward Deserved.
"E. H. Hariman left a fortune of
$100,000,000," said Dr. Harris, "yet that
was not too much compensation for a
rare Individual who made whole rail
road systems more efficient and indi
rectly worked to the welfare of hun-
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GREATEST SHOW
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature.
72.6 degrees: minimum. 56.6 degrees.
TODAY'S Showers and cooler; south to
southwest winds.
Foreign.
Anti-American feeling growing in Germany
because of Underwood tariff". Section 1
page 6.
National.
Weather Bureau employes demoted for activ
ity in behalf of Willis L. Moore. Sec
tion 1, page 5.
Senator Lane files formal protest against
Indian bill. Section 1, page 5.
Ex-President Taft gets lost In Capitol. Sec
tion 1, page 1.
Domestic.
Governors declare states should administer
lands withnn border. Section 1, page 2.
Mrs. Merriam to fight Captain Merrlam'a
divorce suit. Section 1. page 2.
Denver Commissioners win bitter fight for
office. Section V. page 2.
William M. Wood acquitted of conspiracy.
Section 1, page 3.
College president tells wage investigators
most college men are able to marry. Sec
tion 1, page 1.
Old sa. captain dazed by being klased
thrice by pretty actresses. Section 1.
page 1.
Mlneworkers officials Indicted for wage con.
splracy. Section 1, page 4.
Sports,
Pacific Coast League results Oakland 6,
Portland 2 (10 Innings); San Francisco 7.
Venice 2; Sacramento 1, Los Angeles 0.
Section 2, page 2.
Northwestern League results Victoria 0-10
Portland 4-8; Tscoma , Vancouver 0:
Seattle 13, Spokane 5. Section a. page 2.
James may ge to major league. Section 2.
page 2.
R"r0'reT!ref,t1.Jo Rv weight term,
for July 4 fight. Section 2. page 2.
WIC,rS.ham. wJn fln1 -natch at Irving
ton tennis handicap tourney. Section 2.
Page 3.
Meek 'tads Northwestern League batters
Section 2, page 4.
Only four regulars on Coast bat 300 Sec
tion 2. page 4.
Salem wins annual relay race from Portland
Y. M. C A. Section 3, page 2
BUd6enionrIrpag.-f5ld " "Sht ""
Schmltt nicks Multnomah to win big Pacific
track meet. Section 4. page 87
TWpa,ge"foVe mo(orc"t to race. Section 2.
Ne'S;?,,ma5 referM boxing card Thursday,
bectlon 2, page 5.
I"!2?1paBen 3 conferne Section
RUS.e S""th,'l Mrs. J. Gllllsen Oregon
golf champions. Section 2, page 3.
Pacific Northwest.
tL1lvMtock, Show we "tended. Sec
tion 1, page 8.
Oregon special referendum election law held
unconstitutional. Section 1. page 7
Trt'in,-,,7eck ne5r SaIam injures five, 'sec
tion 1. page 7.
".I f lty ro"t "how Is big success. Sec
Government witnesses In treason case at Fort
PUHML Iuy"terlou,1y missing. Section 1,
Flames and smoke pour forth from Alaska
volcanoes. Section 1. page 1 Alaska
Vancouver school children unite in "May
Day in June" party. Section 1. page 11
.end ZC ?0l"'ate year at Eugene. Sum
mer school arrangements are made ' Sec
tion 1, page 9.
Bell phone system employe shown to have
"p?rt advice t Seattle Councilman,
section 1, page 4.
Real Estate and Building.
All branches of business show Improvement.
Section 4, page 8.
"S;: "ne" building to rise at once,
oectton 4, page 8.
Caution la urged in conveyancing rroperty.
fcection 4, page 9. r.-"
Commercial and Murine
HoP rkets respond to first crop reporta.
Section 2, page 17.
Drenching rains in Kansas weaken Chicago
wheat market. Section 2, Page 17.
XowL?" of "ousncsa or liquidation in
Wall street. Section 2, page 17.
New York banks In comfortable position.
Section 2, page 17.
Captain Rankin will command flagship of
river pageant. Section 2, page 7.
Portland and Vicinity.
Routes for Rose Festival parades are laid
out. . Section 2, page 18.
Final arrangements made for arrival of Rex
Oregonus. Section 1, page 1.
Reports indicate that freshet is about over
Section 1, page 8.
Scottish Rite Masona burn $55,000 mortgage
on Cathedral altar. Section 1, page 10.
Mayor-elect Albee likely to take charge of
Public Safety department. Section 1
page 14.
Flax culture in Oregon urged at Thresher
men's convention. Section 1, page 10.
Nine Northwestern girls to go to Philadel
phia to plead for Liberty Bell. Section 1
page 10.
Nearly 300 are working for Citizenship Con
ference to open June 29. Section 1.
Page 14.
Architects of Northwest and entire Coast
Join in big exhibit In Portland. Sec
tion 1, page 12.
Eventful year at Reed College is finished.
Section 3. page 12.
Mrs. Marcel la Clark sues rector of Trinity
Episcopal Church for $25,000. Section 1,
page 4.
Weather report, data and forecast. Section
2, page 7.
13 INJURED IN CAR CRASH
Pittsburg School Children in Acci
dent Returning From Picnic.
PITTSBURG, June 7. Thirteen per
sons were Injured, most of them se
riously, tonight, when two streetcars
collided. The cars were heavily loaded
with school children returning; from a
picnic
ON EARTH NOW ARRIVING IN PORTLAND
MISSING MEN HALT
TRIAL FOR TREASON
Fort Stevens Case Be
comes Sensational.
WITNESSES ARE THREATENED
Several Refuse to Give Testi
mony Against Socialist.
FOE OF DEFENSE SLUGGED
Armed Friend Guard Victim and
Special Police on Duty at Ham
mond Prosecution Is Seek
ing Absent Soldiers.
FORT STEVENS, Or., June T. (Spe
cial.) Two soldier-witnesses myste
riously missing:, a third person way
laid and sandbagged, the promiscuous
circulation of anonymous and threaten
ing; letters, and a continuance of the
trial are new developments In the case
of the United States Government
against Waldo H. Coffman. the Social
ist, who Is charged with spreading
treasonable propaganda among the
troops at the fort at this place.
Private Crawford, who is said to be
one of the Government's most Impor
tant witnesses, disappeared Wednesday
night, and no trace of him can be
found. He was last seen in Buck's
saloon at Hammond. This is near the
water front and It is heia by some
that he may have been drowned.
Others advance the theory that he Is
being held prisoner at Astoria until
after the trial.
Second Witness Missing;.
Private Lowe, another witness for
the Government, left the Presidio at
San Francisco for Fort Stevens some
time ago to testify at the trial. He
is several days overdue and no word
has been had from him.
Deacon Lawton, a Socialist, of Ham
mond, who has opposed the tactics used
by the defendant, Coffman, Thursday
night was rendered helpless by a blow,
presumably from a sandbag, as he was
returning to his home, following a
conference with Colonel Staub, com
mandant of the fort. Lawton was
found several hours later by some
women, who stumbled over his 'on
sclous form and an armed friend later
took up the task of guarding him from
further attack. Mr. Lawton had con
siderable money on his person at the
time of the attack, but this was not
molested by his assailant.
Colonel Straub has received numerous
annonymous and threatening communi
cations, dealing with the Coffman case,
and also Is being flooded with Social
istic literature, In which he is the ob
ject of bitter attacks.
Several witnesses against Coffman
are refusing to testify and soldiers
are asking for transfers, with the
avowed Intention of avoiding giving
testimony.
Special Police on Tnty.
Special police have been appointed
to patrol the streets of Hammond, and
Colonel Straub, has issued orders re
straining soldiers from visiting the
town without written permission.
Coffman's trial was begun Thursday.
Corporal Shade, of the Ninety-third
Company, was the principal witness for
the Government. The trial was post
poned Friday in order to give the pros
ecution a chance to produce the missing
witnesses.
Corporal Shade has been threatened
numerous times since he felled a man
in Astoria last week for taking him to
task for his position as a witness
against Coffman.
It is declared that friends of Coffman
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TAFT GETS LOST
IN CAPITOL MAZE
EX-PRESIDENT HAS TKOtBLE
FINDING CHAMP CLARK.
It Is First Visit to That Side of
Building In Years, but He TJsed
to Go There to "Lobby."
WASHINGTON. June 7. Ex-President
Taft made his first visit to the White
House today since he left on March 4
to become a private citizen and teach
law at Tale University. Mr. Taft was
the luncheon guest of the President and
Mrs. Wilson, but before he again sat
down to the White House table he
made a brief visit to the executive of
fices, shook hands with all old em
ployes and made the acquaintance of
Secretary Tumulty.
Before his White House call Mr. Taft
motored to the Capitol and got lost.
Alone and unannounced he went to
the House wing and looked for Speaker
Clark In the chamtter. The House was
not in session and only an array of
empty benches greeted him. He strollel
through the lobby and after asking a
few questions of the pages, stepped up
to the door of Representative Under
wood's private office, to find It locked.
"I'm looking for Speaker Clark." said
Mr. Taft.
"That's not his office," suggested a
bystander, who pointed out the proper
door.
"I am looking for a gentleman named
Champ Clark," said Mr. Taft as he
entered. Speaker Clark Jumped from
behind a newspaper and shouted, "How
are you?"
Mr. Taft and the Speaker conferred
for some time. Both are members of
the Lincoln Memorial Association, which
will meet here next Monday.
"1 am the happiest -nan in the United
States." declared Mr. Taft as he left
the Speaker's office. Pointing to the
Speaker, he observed: "The Speaker
hasn't changed any, I find."
"I haven't been on this side In more
than four years." added Mr. Taft. "I
used to oome up and lobby as Secretary
of War."
Later Mr. Taft called on Chief Jus
tice White. He will spend several days
In Washington as the guest of W. J.
Boardman. In the hours when he Is
not busy renewing old friends, he ex
pects to play golf at Chevy Chase.
JUNE BRIDESARE WANTED
Spokane Offers Marriage Induce
ments During Pow-Wow Week.
SPOKANE. Wash., June 7. (Spe
cial.) Notice: To all June brides who
are married In Spokane during the
week of the Pow Wow:
The Pow Wow committee today au
thorizes Manager Gordon C. Corbaley
to Issue a season ticket for the enter
tainments of the Pow Wow to every
bride and her new husband who Is
married In Spokane the week after
next.
A premium is to be placed on Pow
Wow brides and each marriage certi
ficate Issued by County Auditor R. W.
Butler carries with It two season
tickets. That Spokane will be the
Mecca for the newly-weds of the In
land Empire during the week of June
16 to 21, Is the hope of the committee
and their honeymoon stay In the city
will be made so pleasant that they may
return In f urure years, as the Pow Wow
promises to be a rousing annual event.
STATE WARDS SEE CIRCUS
Inmates of Three Salem Institutions
Guests of Showman.
SALEM, Or., June 7. (Special.)
Five hundred inmates of the Reform
School, the Insane Asylum and the
Tuberculosis Hospital attended a circus
today and tonight, being guests of the
show management.
The invitation was extended early
In the morning and Governor West in
formed the superintendents that as
many of the inmates as possible should
be allowed to attend.
It was the first time in many years
that a circus had granted admission
gratis to Inmates of the institutions
and those attending enjoyed the en
tertainment hugely.
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FIRE SHOOTS Fl
ALASKA VOLCANOES
Eruptions General on
Southwest Coast.
KATMAI VIOLENT ONCE MORE
Thick Smoke Pursues Flames
From Several Peaks.
DANGER ZONE DESERTED
Shishaldin and Vnimak Pass Mounts
Reported In Action Exactly Year
From Disastrous Disturbance
on Kodlak Island.
SEWARD. Alaska, June 7. All the
volcanoes along the Alaska peninsula
and adjacent Islands as far to the
westward as Unlmak pass are In erup
tion, emitting flames and dense volumes
of smoke.
News of the activity of the volcanoes
was brought by the mail steamer Dora,
which arrived today from her monthly
voyage to Dutch Harbor.
Mount Shishaldin, on Unlmak Island,
arrivals by the Dora said, was shoot
ing flames high Into the air and
Mounts Pavlof and Makushin were
smoking when the steamer passed, them.
Hare Seen at Seward.
Mount Katmal, which was in violent
eruption JuBt a year ago when it
covered fertile Kodiak Island with a
thick layer of ashes. Is sending up a
great column of smoke, Ailing the
heavens with a haze discernible at
Seward.
Redoubt. Iliamna and St. Augustine,
volcanoes on the west side of Cook
Inlet, are also showing unusual signs
of activity, smoke in increasing volumes
pouring out of their craters.
For the last two weeks reports have
been coming from Southwestern Alas
ka Indicating renewed activity among
the volcanoes all along the Alaska
peninsula. ' Two weeks ago smoke was
reported coming from Mount Katmai
and general activity of all the vol
canoes in the vicinity was predicted.
Katmai Inactive for Year.
It was Just a year ago today that
Mount Katmai, on the mainland across
Shelikof Strait from Kodlak Island, was
in violent eruption. The volcano, long
considered extinct, broke loose the
night of June 6 and all the next day
poured forth a stream of dust and
ashes, covering the adjacent mainland
and Kodlak and neighboring islands
with a layer of debris from several
inches to four feet thick.
The people in the town of Kodiak
were driven from their hotels and
sought refuge aboard the revenue cut
ter Manning, which happened to be in
port and which remained at the sta
tion several weeks, giving aid to the
sufferers. The natives living in the
fishing villages on the mainland lost
everything and were removed by the
Government to new homes out of reach
of the volcano.
The present activity of Mount Kat
mai is not considered dangerus, but
even if the eruption had become as vi
olent as that of last year, little dam
age would be done, as most of the peo
ple who were driven from their homes
by the previous eruption have left the
danger zone.
Scientists Are Interested.
Usual scientific interest attaches to
today's report because Mounts Shishal
din and Pavlof and Begeslof Island.
In the vicinity of Unlmak Pass, are
said by geologists to be in a differ
ent volcanic zone from Mount Katmai
and the other volcanoes on the Alaska
peninsula. Shishaldin, which with Pav
lof and Begeslof has often been in
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