Pages 1 to 16 VOL.. XXXII NO. 31. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY .MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 1 GARRISON PLEADS FOR BIG MILITIA Secretary Asks Aid of Business Men. DANGER OF WAR EVER NEAR "It Takes Two to Keep the Peace," Says Visitor'. WOOD URGES PREPARATION Portland Will Get 40-Foot Channel to Sea, Even if People Have to do it for Themselves, Says Chief of Staff of Army. WHAT SECRETARY GARRISON DID IN OREGON 1ESTERDAY. 7:40 A. M. Arrived at tnlon Depot from San Francisco. 7:50 A. M. Breakfast at Multno mah Hotel. 8:50 A. SI. Left for Fort Stevens on special North Bank train. 12:10 P. M. Arrived at Fort Ste vens. . 1 :45 P. M. Returned from fnspec tlon of south Jetty over Jetty railroad and had luncheon. 2:20 P. M. Left Fort Stevens for Portland, arriving 6 o'clock. 8:00 P. M. with General Wood, as In other events of the day. guest at banquet at the Multnomah Hotel; both spoke, as did also J. N. Teal. Today will so to Vancouver Bar racks 9:30 A. M., make inspection of post; return to Portland. 1:30; see the city by automobile; leave for Seattle at 3 o'clock from Union Depot. Taking: under advisement with a " brief passing: comment, the appeal for Government aid in securing "40 feet of water at the Columbia bar." which was made by J. N. Teal, both Secretary of War Garrison, and Major-General Leon ard Wood devoted their addresses at the banquet at the Multnomah Hotel in their honor last night to an urgent plea for awakened responsibility and co-operation on the part of the busi ness men of the country in building up a strong- National Guard side by side with the standing Army of the United States. "There is a. spirit in the West that I want directed toward the larger af fairs of the department with which I am identified," said Secretary Garrison. "There is a larger sphere than that of the development of your own resources. Do you realize that in all the conti nental United States, you have on Its feet and fully equipped for action In case of war only 82,000 men? Trained National Guard Needed. "If a quarrel is forced on us. and J am the last man among you that would hope for such a thing, do you realize that we have got to have behind our standing Army, a trained National Guard to stand as a second line, and back of these we must have laws that v ill enable us to bring into action all of the able volunteers who are will ing to bear arms? "It takes two to keep the peace, and no man can tell when in a controversy between nations a point may be reached where it will be necessary to resort to armed aggression, no matter how much disposed we may be to avoid conflict." Major-General Wood carried the same thought further, after touching lightly on the appeal that had been made by. Mr. Teal earlier in the evening. "You will get your 40 feet of water at the tar," he said. "If you don't CARTOONIST REYNOLDS PICTURES HIS IMPRESSIONS Of'sOME OF THE WEEK'S NEWS EVENTS. ' I t YDS Lsv I , SUi 1 GOOD ADVGIr AS SZG"rU.r JTn, f rL uj j I i j JISy? x I I I ...... ...............TTTT-TTTTTTT--,TtTT..,,,,,T,,TT. . T . . . T . . I ' SEA DOG'SHOCKED BY PARIS DANCES KOREA'S CAPTAIX CLAMPS LID OX JOYOUS GLIDERS. Gallant Frenchmen Teach Latest Terpsichorean Innovations Until Limit Is Passed. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2. (Special.) For the first three nights after leav ing Honolulu the dining saloon of the liner Korea, which arrived here today from the Orient, might have been talsen tor the Cafe de Montmontre, the Magic City, the Tabarin of Paris, according to some of the passengers, who had not recovered from the shock when the vessel docked this morning. Patis night life in the cafes was re peated in a modified form. New glides fresh from the trotteries of Paris were Introduced by Lieuten ant L. Ducene, of the French army, and J. Delegarde, a lithe French dancing master, who joined the gay throng on the Korea at Yokohama. When the vessel reached Honolulu the passenger list was augmented by many happy travelers, including sev eral young San Francisco society women. All were eager to learn the new Paris dances. The only way they could catch the steps was by dancing with the young and gallant Parisians. This was all well enough until it de veloped Into a habit. Then came -protests from husbands and chaperones. On the fourth night out of Honolulu someone aboard succeeded in communi cating the shock to the captain and the dance which had been arranged was unceremoniously called off. The young Frenchmen, who had been lionized by some of the. women aboard, said today that they had been snubbed by several of the American men aboard. TOWELS HOTEL PROBLEM Health Officer Has Plan to Prevent Thefts and Gain Law Obedience. Finding difficulty in enforcing the use of individual towels in public places, because of much of the linen being stolen. City Health Officer Mar cellus yesterday made a suggestion which he believes will solve the problem. Instead of placing the towels in a pile on a shelf in a lavatory or other public place. Dr. Marcellus plans to have a chain attached to the floor and to the shelf and to have the towels attached to the chain by means of a hole in one corner, made solid by a metal eyelet. A towel can be taken from the shelf and used while still at tached - to tha chain. It can then be dropped, still on the chain, to the floor or into a basket. It will be im possible under this plan for anyone to carry away a towel. PUPILS TO TILL IN WINTER Davis School Plans Experiment in Vegetable Gardening. A Winter vegetable garden is to be inaugurated at the Davis school on Twenty-first street between Quimby and Raleigh. The garden has been or dered by the School Board as an experi ment. A plot 60 feet square has been set aside for the purpose and work on It will start tomorrow. Ben Swindler, who has had much practical experience in growing Winter vegetables, will superintend the gar den. When school opens a committee of pupils will look after the garden. The seeds, which consist of Winter carrots, beets, kale, late turnips, brocholi and radishes, have been donated. TEMPERATURE GOES TO 107 For Two Days II ou lion Is Treated to Warm AVave. HOULTON, Or., Aug. Z. (Special.) Houlton has been having some exces sive heat this week. On July 30. the thermometer stood at 100 degrees in the shade at noon. July 31 it reached 102 degrees at noon and 107 degrees at 2 o'clock. Yester day was slightly cooler, with a maxi mum of 90 degrees. RESCUERS KILLED If MINE EXPLOSION Nineteen Dead in Penn. sylvania Colliery. DYNAMITE LIBERATES GAS Some Crushed, Some Burned and Others Suffocated., ONLY ONE IS UNINJURED All Those-in Position to Tell How Accident Happened Are Victims. Two Believed Ikying "Under Wall of Rock. TOWER CITY, Pa,, Aug. 2. Nineteen men were killed and two seriously In jured today in a double explosion In the East Brookside mine of the Philadel phia & Heading Coal & Iron Company, near here, by what is believed to have been dynamite and gas. Thirteen men died in the first explosion and five went to their death in the second blast, after an heroic attempt to rescue the first victims. One of the rescuers es caped. The dead include the foreman and fire boss of the mine. Two bodies have not been recovered. Only Three Taken Out Alive. It is not known what caused the ex plosions, but miners believe the first explosion was that of dynamite and the second was caused by gas which had been liberated by the dynamite explosion. Only three men were taken out alive and one of these died on the way to the hospital. Superintendent John Lorenz was in the mine when the first explosion oc curred. He was rescued several hours later, burned and bruised, and is in a critical condition. It is possible the real story of the explosion may never be known, as all who were in a position to know were killed. Superintendent Lorenz is In no condition to talk. ' " .. Death Cornea In Three Forms. The men were killed in three differ ent ways. Some of them were hurled against the side of the tunnel in which they were working and crushed, some were burned to death by the explosion of gas and others were suffocated by afterdamp. ' The East Brookside colliery closed down Thursday night for a week, but Charles Portland, a mining contractor, who has a contract with the Heading Company to drive a tunnel, kept some of his men at work. There were a half dozen muckers at work, whose duty It is to load the debris blown down by the blasts which are fired at night. There were also a mucker boss and a blacksmith and his helper. All J were at work in the tunnel, which is about a quarter of a mile from the sjope en trance to the mines. The men took 175 pounds of dynamite with them' when they went into the mines today. Rctcner Are Killed. Superintendent Lorenz and Mine Boss Farrell were in the mine making an in spection and were about 600 feet from the tunnel In which the Italian work men were engaged. Shortly before noon men on the surface heard a rum bling noise coming from the mouth of the slope. They knew it meant an ex plosion and a rescue party was quickly organized. The six rescuers were low ered to the level next to the bottom of the mine. It is believed the second explosion occurred about 20 minutes after the first. The rescuers had time to walk about 600 feet from the mouth I (Concluded on Page 2.) ' INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The "Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 87 degrees; minimum, 63 degrees. TODAY'S Showers and cooler; winds most ly westerly. Foreign. President Gomes, of Venezuela, to lead army In person against Castro. Section 1. page 2. Pope's health, affected by beat. Section 1 page l. Captain of Pacific liner puts lid on Parisian dancers. Section 1. page 1. i Hector Macpherson writes of farm condl-; tlon in Denmark. Section 1, page 5. j . National. Administration would help Americans got out of Mexico. Section 1, page 4. Senate to lengthen sessions to baste n tariff bill. Section 1. page 5. Bryan's plan for Xicaraguan protectorate shelved. Section 1, page 2. Domestic. Party of rescuers killed In Pennsylvania mine explosion. Section 1. page 1. Girl accused of mutiny is bound over. Sec tion 1, page ti. Nine Japanese who crossed Pacific In an tiquated junk arrested. Section X. page . Harvester concern to make noteworthy ex hibit at Panama fair. Section 1, page s. Bolt of Whitman forces in New York re garded as possible. Section 1, page o. v Pacific Northwest. Lightning kills one. Injures another In "Wal la. Walla country. Section 1, page T. Judge Watters appointed receiver for Major Kinney properties, section 1, page 7. Life certificates Issued to 54 Oregon teach era Section 1, page 8. McMinnville ballplayer slain and another man Injured and assailant. Jailed. Sec . tlon 1. page 8. Governor overrides court -restraining order and says circus will not be held at Ore gon City today. Section 1, page L Governor West would prosecute men who drove I. W. ' W. editor out of Bandoa. Section 1, page 6. Sport. v Coast League results Los Angeles 2. Port land 1 0 1 innings) ; San Francisco 4, Oakland 2; Venice 6 Sacramento 3. Section 2. page 2. Northwestern League results Portland 6, Tacoma 2; Spokane 6, Seattle 4; Vancou ver 5, Victoria 1. Section 2, page 2. Portland polo players plan series of games with visiting teams. Section 2, page 1. Ritchie lucky tn opponents. Section 2, page 4 Callfornian wins Western tennis title over Minnesotan. Section 2, page 2. Marksmen chosen t represent Oregon at International shoot. Section 2, page 4. Real Estate and Bull ding. Northwestern Electric rushes work, new plant ready January 1. Section 4. page V. Future of Eastern Oregon hinges on water. Section 4, page 9. Milwaukee makes big Improvements. Sec tion 4, page 8. Sullivan gulch development on at early date. Section 4, Page 10. Non-taxable land makes long list. Section 4, page 11. Automobiles and Roads. Hill-climbing trip proves eventful. Section 4. page 4. Direct drive is new Cadillac feature. Sec tion 4, page 4. Pathfinder causes great enthusiasm. Sec tion 4. page 0. Detrolter to invade Oregon at early date. Section 4, page 5. Commercial and larlne. High Quality of Northwestern wheat crop is assured. Section 2, page IS. Corn continues excited advance 4n Chicago - 'pit S-sctijn 2, page .15. " '."7 " " Improvement continues In Eastern money markets. Section 2, page 15. 1 Portland and Vicinity. War Secretary and party ' inspect work at mouth of Columbia, section i, page i.. Numerous bridge fires lead to theory of incendiarism. Section 2, page 10. Marksmanship of National Guardsmen Is - praised. Section 4, page 12. George A. Bateson scoffs at copyright threat, section 4. page iz. Hill interests hurry ships for California In vasion. Section 2, page 6. Peninsula residents seek extension of pro posed crosstown . carllne. Section Z, page a. Real estate traders held to answer to grand jury for traua. Section l. page 12, Portland, Eugene &. Eastern soon to start work on new shops. Section 2, page lo. Secretary of War Garrison honor guest at banquet at Multnomah Hotel, bectlon l, page l. Mazamas start on trip to Mount Adams. Sec tion 1, page 15. Assessor Reed to tax club property. Sec tion 1, page li. Women of Woodcraft hear annual reports. Section 1, page 14. Superintendent Armstrong distributes Mult nomah County school fund. Section 2, page 15. Fraudulent locators profit million in Oregon and California grant game. Section 1, page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2, page 6. . Mother Cuts Children's Throats. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 2. A woman living in a colony of foreigners in West Philadelphia cut the throats of her three children tonight and then slashed her own. The mother and one of the chil dren died shortly afterward. The other two children cannot live. The police have been' unable to learn the name of the woman or the motive for heract. MARTIAL LAW WILL STOP SUNDAY SHOW West Ignores Court's Restraining Order. CITIZENS BACKING GOVERNOR Oregon City Residents Ready to Shoulder Arms. SHERIFF SAYS HANDS TIED Manager or Wild West Outfit De clares Executive's Threats Are Inconceivable in Face of Decision From Judge. SALEM. Or.. ; Aug. 2. (Special.) "There'll be no circus performance In Oregon City tomorrow night, it mar tial law will prevent it." In a statement Issued tonight Gov ernor West says he' will place the grounds occupied by the circus under martial law tomorrow and keep it in force until the injunction against the Sheriff's interference is dissolved and the Sheriff is free to enforce the law. The Governor's statement is as fel lows: "My taking a hand in the Oregon City affair is not because I am straight laced on the question of Sunday amuse ments, for I am not. I look upon harmless Sunday amusements as a good thing. But when a 'one-hoss Alkali Ike' show, with noise as the chief at traction, attempts to ride booted and spurred into a peaceful community, in spite of the protest of the people and the Sheriff, it is time for this office to lend a hand. "When the outfit learned the Sheriff would likely place them under arrest, they obtained an Injunction to prevent the enforcement of- the law. Now that the precedent has been es tablished, I take it that when a man wants la steal a horse or break into a house he -will, if he is up to snuff, ask for an injunction against the peace of ficers in order that he may perpetrate the crime unmolested. "Upon being advised by the Sheriff that his hands were tied by an injunc tion, he was Informed that this office would come to his relief. We will be on hand to give the people of Oregon City .due protection by placing the grounds occupied by the circus undei martial law until such a time as the injunction is dissolved and the Sheriff again free to enforce the law. CITIZENS READY FOR, FIGHT Residents of Oregon City Would Back West With Rifles. - OREGON CITY, Or., ..Aug. 2. (Spe cial.) Headed by Representative Schuebel. 50 residents of Oregon City are awaiting an order from Governor West to shoulder rifles and march to the circus grounds near this city to prevent the Sunday performance of a Wild West show scheduled four tomor row. On application of J. E. Hedges, rep resenting the circus. Judge Eakin, of the Circuit Court, today issued an in junction restraining Sheriff Mass and his deputies from interfering with' the show. Sheriff Mass will leaVe for Texas to morrow. . The 50 citizens include business men and preachers. They have bombarded Governor West throughout the day with telegrams, urging him to take some action. These men have assured the Governor they are ready to take P0PE'Sv HEALTH IS AFFECTED BY HEAT STRENGTH IMPAIRED BY THE WEATHER OF PAST FEW DAYS. Reception of Canadians and Flans to Curb Mutinous Swiss Guards Impose Added Burden. ROME, Aug. 2. (Special.) There have been rumors in Rome this week that the Pope's health has again be come a cause of anxiety. The weather in the. Eternal City has been exception ally warm the last few days and this has pulled down his strength again. Beyond this it is believed that there is not any Immediate danger. Pius X received this week a pilgrim age from Canada and he has been busily occupied with drafting a new statute to curb the unruly Swiss guards. He will now take a rest. Some time next week the Vatican courts will close for the Summer vaca tion. Those prelates who are not im peratively required for the Vatican dally routine will go on a vacation. The Pope himself will give no recep tions. He will rest completely, spend ing the early morning in the Vatican gardens and taking a siesta In the afternoon, while In the evening he will receive visits from his sisters and inti mate friends. WOMAN VOTES WITH FEET Armless Founder of Home for Crip ples Marks Own Ballot. CHICAGO. Aug. 2. Miss Kitty Smith, who is armless, marked her ballot with her foot when she voted today at the. first election, held In Maywood, a suburb, under the new woman suffrage law. She is founder of a home for crippled children, and was the first woman to appear in the precinct. Only 11 of the 235 registered women voters failed to cast their ballots. The measure to annex neighboring terri tory to the village was popular with the women and carried by a large ma Jority. A number of the polling places were decorated with flowers, but the Judges and clerks performed their duties In their shirtsleeves, as'usual. CARS USE SCORCHED SPAN Trolley Traffic Resumed Over New Harriman Bridge. Streetcar traffic has been resumed across the Harriman bridge, which was damaged by fire last. Wednesday. He- pairs on the lift span which was put out ofcommisslon by the flames were completed yesterday, and vessels were enabled to pass through. A little difficulty was experienced in lifting the upper deck span, but this is not serious. It will be several' weeks before vehicle and pedestrian traffic is restored. "MEANEST THIEF" SOUGHT Cripple's Tricycle, Gift of Neighbors, Stolen From Parsonage Gate. uhiuauu, Aug. z. police are searching today for "the meanest kind of a s thief." one who stole a tricycle from a 10-year-old cripple. The victim, little Vernon Minzey, was too poor to buy a tricycle and neigh bors bought one for him. His first trip was to the home of his minister, and while he was inside the parsonage his tricycle was stolen. PIONEER, 82, STILL FISHES B. F. Munkers Doesn't Let Years In terfere With Sport. ALBANT. Or., 'Aug. 2. (Special.) Although he is 82 years old, B. F. Mun kers. of Scio, Linn County pioneer, will pass the next few days fishing in streams of Polk County, where he Is now visiting relatives. A fishing license for Mr. Munkers was purchased here today by his son, I. A. Munkers, ex-Chief of . Police of Albany and ex-Representative from Linn County In the State Legislature. LOCATORS' FRAUDS NET GOLDEN-HOARD Victims Force Cash on Land Swindlers. EASY MONEY STORIES LURE Women Easily Gulled by Old Get-Rich-Quick Game. GANGS OPERATE SCHEME Profits From Oregon & California Grant Swindle Are Estimated at $1,000,000 Evidence) in Handa of Detectives, Investigations of secret . servic4 agents, seeking evidence for tha Gov ernment, regarding land location frauds on the Oregon se California land grant in Oregon, have shown how foolish victims rushed from the ends of th country to thrust their money at th fraudulent locators. It was a plausible story with which the "locators" baited their prospects. It was the old "get-rlch-quick" lure, but In a new form. It began about four years ago, when the Government first took steps to cause the forfeiture of the 2,000,000 I acres held by the railroad in the orig inal land grant, for failure to live up to the provisions of that grant. The litigation, with its attendant wide publicity of the fact that the Govern ment might regain ownership of the land, gave the "locators" a basis on which to play their game. Swindlers Mke Big Cleanup. Since then. United States District Attorney Reames said yesterday, it has been roughly estimated that those working the swindle have cleared $1, 000,000 in "locating" eager persons on land to which there was never the slightest chance that they might ob tain title. A surprisingly large num ber of the victims were women. The idea of owning 160 acres of choice tim ber, which they could sell at a fat profit, seems to have been especially attractive to women. The fraudulent "locators," for the most part, have conducted their opera tions in partnership groups of four or five members. In the group there would be one man who worked on the publicity end of the scheme, attract ing "prospects," a lawyer, generally one with a small practice, who attended te the "legal" side of the transaction, and about two locators, who were always represented as men having a thorough knowledge of the land and conditions. Wide Territory Covered. The publicity men of the different groups went far a-fleld in their search for prospects. The Middle West, es pecially, was dotted with their head quarters stations, but they also found a profitable field in the East. Once established, they had no trouble in "plucking" victims. In fact, there were hardly enough locators for the "marks" who came in droves to be fleeced. Some of the "outside agents" of these locating groups represented that they were direct agents of the Oregon ' & California Railroad, but for the most part the scheme used was this: It was represented that the locator had inside information, both from Southern Pacific officials and from in ner circles in the Government, to the effect that the land grant was certain to be forfeited to the Government, which would thus restore 2,000,000 acres to settlement. As goon as this forfeiture took place, Coucluded on Pag. 3.)