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Newspaper Page Text78 Pages j Pages 1 to 16 . ULi. A.A.A11 J. 37. " v-M yjyw. ' ' GQLDFIELD SWEPT BY RAGING FLOOD Cloudburst Fatal to in Mining City. TOWN SHROUDED IN DARKNESS Railroads Heaviest Losers as Tracks Are Washed Out. WATERS RUSH DOWN BASIN Scores of Residences Swept Away, Portion of Town Carried Off and Property loss Placed at $100, 000 Relief Work Begins. GOLD FIELD, Nev.. Sept. IS. At least Ave IlTea are believed to have been lost, cores of residences swept away and thousands of dollars worth of property destroyed by the torrents that carried away a portion of the town of Gold field this afternoon. Unconfirmed re ports from Tonopah. JO miles away, and now cut off from communication, indi cate even sweater losses of life and vrooertv from the cloudburst that devastated the entire district. With nearly all wires down and the power plant crippled and out of com mission; Goldfleld with Its 6000 popu lation is in darkness tonight and hun dreds driven from flooded homes are being cared for by a hastily organized relief corps. All telephone and power . lines are down, rail communication is cut oT by washouts and most of the county roads near here nave been washed away. The skies are still lowering and grave feara are felt that there will be a continuance or the downpour. Five Kim to Be Dead. The known dead are: Mrs. DeGarmo and a child; another woman believed to be Mrs. Pelt and two unidentified persons, whose bodies were carried away on the first crest of the torrent. One report, the source of which could not be traced, placed the loss of life at Tonopah as high as 100. Efforts to confirm this fact are impossible as all lines of communication are down. TUe rainfall began here at 11 o'clock this morning. It grew heavier until. J:I5. when the cloudburst descended the Malapal range, which overlooks the district. Walla of water and sheets of bail filled the streets and then the two deep gulches that skirt the east and west sections of the town became swirling rivers that swept away everything in their paths. - umi Estimated at 9100.000. Goldfleld lies in a basin beneath the Malapai range and the rising waters, even in districts remote from scenes of the more serious damage, filled the basements and destroyed stocks of mercantile establishments. Losses of business concerns alone are estimated tonight to be 1100,000. Women worked with men In the streets while the rain poured. The fire department and town and county offi cials and others carried forward the labor of salvage and rescue and many hairbreadth escapes were reported. The scores whose homes were car ried away or were rendered uninhabit able are being cared for in a section of the town not reached by the flood waters. It Is feared that the list of dead will be augmented when isolated nearby camps and . prospectors are heard from. Rala Falling la Torrents. - Rain began falling in torrents again at 7 o'clock tonight and the gravest fear is felt that more desolation and loss will be wrought in the heavy darkness in which the town is plunged. (Concluded on Psse 8.) t 1 WORK OF DREDGE LAUDED BY KINNEY RESIDENTS OF COLUMBIA BASIN TO BE CONGRATULATED. Credit Due Men of Engineering De' partment, Who Worked for and 3Iade Record. TJV A T.FRED KISNET. Chairman Commute Port of the Columbia. ASTORIA. Or, Sept 13. (Special.) Let all the people f he Columbia Basin congratulate themselves, for great work has been done. In less than Kit rinnbia-Bhlft davs ODeratlon the mighty dredge "Chinook" has deepened bv three feet a chanel 600 feet wide across the Columbia River bar and has deepened 600 feet additional of width, hv mora than one foot, giving us a way through the bar of 19 feet at dead low water. All jonor to the Engineering Department. Gerald Bagnall. Lapiain Varenoa, chief engineer and crew, who worked for a record and made it! Now. while all pull hard for a great display of energy In ua building of the north Jetty, yet let us all redouble our efforts for more dredgers and ask the Government to Increase the dredg ing operations by '250 per cent by In creasing the capacity of the "Chinook.' Wa need two pairs of 26-inch pumps Instead of one pair of ZO-inch order them now. ready for Installation during the Winter storms. With two additional dredges to be sent durlnr the Winter, through the Panama Canal, all pumping together as the Spring freshet begins, the re sult will be that one year from today, when the report of the September sur vey is given out. every great ocean liner that floats the seas will have been officially Informed that al the ports of the Columbia are on the map. The Oregonlan has done Its part well. ROAD BUILDING TO START Clackamas County lias Extensive Programme Mapped Out. OREGOX CITT. Or, Sept 13. (Spe cial.) Clackamas County has started a campaign for better roads, and the court has let its first contract for mile of macadam to be built out of Mllwaukla for $8720 as the first step in the betterment of the county high ways. The court has had In mind the con struction of several roads at various points and is looking over plans and specifications for bridge repairs and Improvement over the several streams. The court has determined on the construction of a new bridge At Molalla, but 'the work will not be started until Spring because of the Aantrmw frnm flnnH. and hA flflmairit that would result while the material was belnsr olaced. Improvements or the nlgnways oi the county at the minimum price are being- planned and will be pushed as rapidly as the county officials feel that the work is justified. JEWELL CASE DISCUSSED Judge Takes Verdict From Jury in Manslaughter Prosecution. LONDON. Sept 1. (Special.) The case against Benjamin Jewell, held by a Coroner's verdict on a charge of manslaughter on account of the death of his young daug.iter, who was al lesred to have died for lack of medical attendance when ill, has been dismissed in the Central Criminal Court Jewell had employed a Christian Science prac titioner in his family. The dismissal was made by the Judge after the prosecution had called three witnesses, all doctors. The third doctor was not allowed to complete his testi mony, the judge declaring It would be clearly dangerous to convict a man on such evidence, and therefore there was no cause for the Jury. ATHLETIC MEETS TABOO School Board Forbids Participation by Seattle Students. SEATTLE, Sept 13. The Seattle School Board last night adopted a res olution forbidding athletic contests be tween grade or high-school students of Seattle and those of other cities. There is uncertainty as to whether or not the board will permit schedules already existing to be carried out HUMOROUS ASPECTS OF SOME OF THE nnnn vn nTI?nrV BTTVniV TimT? VTKfJ. SI? PTFTXrRKTE 14. 1913. : i i STORK SULZER WILL IS Report of Overtures Declared False. GOVERNOR DEMANDS DETAILS Assemblyman Reiterates New York Lawyer Told Him So. NEW TESTIMONY IS GIVEN Brewery Salesman Said to Have Told . Impeachment Managers of Fund of $50,000 Raised but Not Accounted For. ALBANY. N. Y, Sept. 13. A state ment by Assemblyman Aaron J. Levy, chairman of the board of impeachment managers, today that tie had been ap proached by a "prominent New . York lawyer, a friend of Governor Sulzer," with a question whether the proceed ings would be dropped if the Governor should resign, was questioned by the Governor tonight. Tne Governor said positively he had no intention of re signing. This exchange gave new interest to the situation here today. Levy in mak ing his statement began by saying he did not believe the Governor would stand for trial. "Prominent lawyer" Quoted, Levy said that a prominent New York lawyer who had been a close friend of Sulzer for 25 years had come to him todav direct from Albany with this question: If Governor Sulzer should resign. would the impeachment proceedings be dropped?" Levy said he replied that he had no authority to stop them. He added: This man, a former officeholder, called to sco me this morning. In his opinion. Governor Sulzer will never come to trial. He asked me If I would consider recommending a man like AX ton B. Parker to go to Sulzer apd take proofs of the charges against him that we have and advise him to resign and save himself from the indignity and humiliation -of a trial. I said, of course, I could not do that" Counsel Denies Story. When Governor Sulzer's counsel, D. Cady Herrick, learned of ' the state ment ha sent this telegram to Mr. Levy: "I see from press dispatches that you state a prominent New York law yer has come direct from Albany with this, question: 'If Governor . Sulzer should resign, would Impeachment proceedings be dropped? "I ask you what the name of that prominent lawyer is. Either you are stating a falsehood or you have been Imposed on. Governor Sulzer has no intention of resigning." From New York came this answer from Mr. Levy: "I will repeat that a prominent New York lawyer, who has been a friend of Governor Sulzer for years, came to me this morning and asked if it could be arranged to drop these proceedings, if Governor Sulzer would resign. This man told me that he had had a talk with Governor Sulzer in Albany re cently. Whether he was speaking to me as a representative of the Governor I don't know. I will not disclose his name unless he releases me from the confidence he Imposed upon me." Brewery Fund Alleged. At the hearing before the impeach ment managers today, the board an nounced, through Chairman Levy, Charles Dersch, a salesman allied with the brewery interests, had testified (Concluded on Paza 2.) RESIGN DENIED 4&' mm w Mtp cm "'r. .' i f x w w w 0 ' wmm i i J-' sa. v rr m m xr y m niiv r asu rv s i i w-m a t jm - i INDEX CF TODAY NEWS 'Dim H'Mher. TEST3RDAT'S Maximum temperature, 70 degrees minimum, 56 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northweaterly winds. Foreign. Masked workers make demonstration in London. Section 1. page 1. Untimely death of Belgium prince years ago tells of hidden tragedy. Section 1, page 10. Japan giving business men of Great Britain no end or worry, section j, page i Spanish dancer writes play based on Gaby Deslys-KIng Manuel escapade. Section 1, page 10. National. Present special session of Congress longest on record. Section 1, page 2. Domestic. Cloudburst causes loss of life and property at Goldfleld, Nov. section 1. page 1. Thaw gets writ of habeas corpus in Federal court Section 1, page 0, California girls eager to be envoys of Portola Festival committee. Section 1, page 5. College president spanks his father apd grand Jury is investigating. Section i. page 5. Bishop of Methodist Church South objects to rating use of tobacco as sin. Section 1, page -i. Sport Pacific Coast League results: San Francisco 6. Portland 1; Sacramento 4, Oakland. 3 (11 Innings): Los Angeles 5, Venice . Section V. page 2. Northwestern League results: Vancouver ?, Portland 4: Seattle 4, Spokane 0: Victoria 2. Tacoma 1. section 2. page 2. City Bowling League formed, with SS teams entered. Section 2, pago 3. Oregon's football umber looks best since 1D06. Section 2. page 4. Lacking punch, McAllister not of champion. ship caliber, declares Harry B. Smith. Section 2, page 5. Football Is here fortnight hence. Section 2, page 4. Rowing Club regatta furnishes thrills for spectators. Section 2, page 1. Y. M. C. A. gymnasium classes begin regular schedule tomorrow. Section 2, page 0. Faclflo Northwest Section 1, page 1. Marshal Ames, of Estacada, explaina Wein berger arrest Section 1, page 14. Kinney tells excellent results of work of oredge on uoiumoia bar. oection l, page 1. Fraud charge denied In answer In Walla Walla realty case, ejection x. page v. Rich timber and farm area opened up by logging road out of La Grande, becuon 1, paga S. City manager plan proposed in Tacoma to replace commission form. Section 1, page 7. Fire-swept Sheridan, Or., makes real prog ress in building up. Section 1, page Field day at Umatilla experiment station attracts many settlers. Section 1, page 7. Washington's appropriations demand higher tar levy. Section 1, page 9. Real Estate and Buildings. Improvement in realty market noted. Sec tion -4. page 0. Irrigation offers new field for electricity. Section 3, page 20. Mount Scott district making rapid growth. Section 4, page 10. Hundred thousand horsepower may be de- i veloped In Klamath project Section 4. page 1L Automobiles and Roads. Good roads movement making strides. Eeo- tlon 4. ae 4. Seaside woman operates livery auto. Section 4, paga 4. Highway Expert Howard makes recommen dations. Section 4, page 6. . Commercial and Marine. Wheat in stronger demand at higher prices. Section 2, sage 17. Chicago wheat market influenced by flour salas at Portland, section , page xi. Stock market strong, with sharp advances. Section 2, page 17. . Portland and Vicinity. . .' ., ' Federal aid will be asked for . Interstate power project Section 1. page 12. - - Government will reforest SOOO acres in Ore gon and Washington. Section 1, page 15. Weather report, data and forecast Section 2. page Cttys free night school will open September 20. Section a. page 7. F. A. Freeman and Arthur L. Tucker., bank ers, promoted. . Section 2, page 16. Teachers and Superintendent prepare- to open school term tomorrow, section ,, page 12. Judge McGinn won't punish Chinese lor smoking opium, section 1. page l. - DRUG USER IS INVENTIVE Scheme to Smuggle Opium Under Postage Stamp Frustrated. LOS ANGELES, Sept.' 13. A new scheme for smuggling opium Into the city Jail was frustrated here today by Jailer Shand when he intercepted & letter written by jack MacLennan, alias "Gopher Tooth," serving 100 days for habitual use of drugs. In the letter, which MacLennan bad trusted for delivery to a prisoner whose term expired today, he asked the friend to whom it was addressed to send him opium under stamps on envelope con taining apparently merely irienaiy letters. Secretary Wilson on Speaking Tour. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 Secretary Wilson left here today to fill several speaking engagements in the West and South. He expects to return to wasn ington In about two weeks, after visit ing Hamilton, O.; Milwaukee. Knox- vllle, Tenn., and Pittsburg. WEEK'S EVENTS INSPIRE CARTOONIST REYNOLDS TO ACTION. MACK IS KING OF ALL BUOKAROQS Great Roundup Closes in View of 35,000. FEROCIOUS 'LONG TOM' RIDDEN Careening, Plunging, Twisting Wild Ride Is Marvelous. STAGE COACH RACE VIVID Nettle Haws, Braving Death, Be comes Fair Sex Champion of the World on Bucking Pony. Roundup Ends Gloriously. PENDLETON, Or., Sept. 13. (Spe cial.) "Spilling over" with enthusiasm. and keen for the first hint of "time to start" the biggest performance or tne biggest show of its kind on earth, fully 35,000 people gathered at Round-Up Park today to witness the last or tne three days' performance of Pendleton's famous frontier show. Immediately after the Westward. 101 parade had passed through the business section of the city during the early nart of the forenoon covering miles and miles in its course, the Immense throng began wending Its way toward th mammoth stadium, but not unui after 1 o'clock was it possible to seat mf,ohiv oil so ereat was the nrn U'll Old Sol retired behind some very boil eray clouds, and with a mild breeze stirring most of the afternoon, gave the spectators a pleasant cnane i weather. Sun's Splendor Not Reeded. So sray were the colorings, bo happy the spectators and participants, and so decidedly brilliant from start to finish was the entire show that Old Sol made a sneak behind a soft gray cloud for fear of casting a shadow on the mag nificent spectacle. A. E. McCormach, of Cheyenne, Wyo., la the newly-hailed 1913 champion in the bucklne contest, and well deserv ing is he of the trophy offered for the best "Buckaroo". his ride being made on the Roundup's famous and fero cious "Long Tom." Careening, plung ing. Jerking and doing numerous extra "special twists" in an inimitable lasn ion, the . "King of the Buckers" was ridden straight up by the Cheyenne man. One of the most marvelous fea tures of the ride was the fact that McCormach rode with his right foot out of the stirrup from the first Jump a rare feat. All Rides Wonderful. Bob Cavin and C. C Couch were se lected to ride in the finals with Mc Cormach the former on Hotfoot and the latter on Lightfoot, both animals being vicious, as will as hard buckers. All three of the cowboya made won derful rides, but it was the consensus of opinion that McCormach drew the 'hardest bucker" Everett Wilson carried off the honors and was greeted with wild enthusiasm by the excited crowd. The wild-horse race, like the bucking contest, is quite beyond description, for it would be im possible to tell of the many thrilling details of these events of each person getting his full quota of same from first to last. Nettie Hawn on "Snake" won the cowgirls' bucking contest for the championship of the world, her ride being the most daring and splendid ever made by a woman. Minnie Thompson and Bertha Blanchett also made the crowd hold its breath during their exhibitions.- SIcCarty Best Steer Roper. Ed McCarty carried off the steer roping contest, after establishing a (Concluded on Page 2.) MASKED WORKERS PARADE IN LONDON 3f ARCHERS COVER FACES TO "AVOID VICTIMIZATION." Speakers Draw Graphic Pictures of Underpayment of Clerks and Poor Working Conditions. LONDON, Sept 13. The "masked" worker made his first demonstration in Hyde Park today in favor of trade unionism, following: tactics similar to those adopted by the laborer artisans, who held meetings in the vicinity. The participants, many of whom were women, were all clerks representing a irreai variety of employment. They marched from the Thames embankment to Hyde Park wearing; black masks with tho object of "avoiding victimiza tion." Sandwich boards said that 25 per cent of the clerks die of consumption in con sequence of wretched working condi tions. Speakers drew a graphic picture of the under-payment of the clerks the unsanitarv conditions prevailing in a majority of the offices and stores and the slave driving methods of employers. PIONEER PAIR CELEBRATE t Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Miller Pass 50th Year of Matrimony. ALBANY, Or., Sept. 13. (Special.) Congratulated by scores of people, Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Miller, of Albany, pioneer residents of Linn County, cele brated their fiftieth wedding anniver sary at their home in this city today. Robert B. Miller and Martha Frances Terry were married September 13, 1863, on the old Andrew J. May donation land claim three miles west of Sclo and, with the exception of two and one-half years in which they lived in Jefferson, they have resided In Linn County continu ously since that time. Mr. Miller came to Oregon in 1860 and settled with his parents on his father's donation land claim, on which the town of Shelburn Is now bltuated. He was elected County Treasurer of Linn County in 1900, serving two years. - Mr. Miller was clerk of his school dis trict near Sclo continuously for nine years. Mr. and Mrs. Miller became the par ents of four children, three of whom are living. They are William C. Miller, of Yamhill, Or.; Mrs. O. W. Mitchell, of this city, and Mrs. Margaret Stevens, of Portland. SHEPARDS END VACATION Mothers and Children Entertained at Lyndhurst Playgrounds. TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Sept. 13. (Spe clal.) Mr. and Mrs. Finley J. Shepard returned last night from Roxbury in the Catskills, where they spent the Summer. Mrs. Shepard today enter talned 675 mothers and children from the Presbyterian Church in East Sev enty-fourth street. New York. They came out on a special train and were conveyed to the Lyndhurst playgrounfls in trolley cars, where Mrs. Shepard wel comed them. She provided luncheon and the afternoon was spent in games. Mrs. Shepard has Issued invitations to her sewing school to attend an enter tainment she is to give at Lyndhurst on Wednesday next. ARMY WILL MAKE PHOTOS Appropriation Made for Constructing Dark-Room on Field. WASHINGTON, Sept 13. The Army board of ordnance and fortification has received an allotment of 500 to enable the chief signal officer of the Army, Brigadier-General Scriven, to experiment in war photography. The object is to develop a suitable method of photography In the field so that re sults may be enlarged for the benefit of the commanding-general. It is proposed that a tent shall be constructed in such a way that the en largements of photographs, and possi bly those taken from an aeroplane, may be shown with the least possible delay. . PRICE FIVE CENTS. BIG 'TI SULLIVAN IS KILLED BY Body Unidentified 13 ' Days in Morgue. MYSTERY SOLVED BY CHANCE Transfer to Potter's Field Is Already Begun. MARKS NOT INVESTIGATED Member of Congress and Local Tain, many Leader, Once Wealthy, Al most Consigned to Pauper's Grave When Found. NEW YORK. Sept 13. The body of "Big Tim" Sullivan, member of Con gress from the Thirteenth New York district and a local Tammany leader, was identified by chance today in a Fordham morgue, where it had lain for 13 days. Sullivan disappeared August 31, when he eluded one of his nurses, set to attend him because of a mental malady, and ever since then his friends had searched for hira in vain. His body was on its way to the Potter's field when tho chance observation of a policeman who had known him inti mately checked its course. So many friends and relatives then identified the body positively that the wonder still grows that it was per mitted to lie so long without the mak ing of an effort to run down the sev eral clews that were apparent from the start Nurse's Name In Hatband. One of the clews was the name of nnrn who had been attending him and which was written on the band of the hat he wore. Ho had exchanged hats with the nurse by mistake before he had escaped. Another clew was the tailor's mark on the coat he wore. In addition to these marks, which any of the Sullvan clan would have recognised, the shirt worn by Sullivan bore his laundrymark. Patrick IL Sulli van hlix hrnt hfir. toniirht complained bitterly that the body had been per mitted to lie so long without an at tempt to identify it Harry Mulligan, Sullivan's step brother, was summoned. He looked at the face once and turned away. "It's Big Tim," he said. "Big Tim" met his death two hours or less after he had wandered out into the night from the home of his brother, Patrick, at Williams bridge. The neigh borhood Is sparsely settled there and Sullivan had only a dollar in his pock et Ho struck out across the fields for the railroad, apparently with the thought In mind that he would take a train for New York and visit his for mer cronies on the East Side. Body Found by Policeman. Pelham Parkway station lay not far away. It is possible that Sullivan saw its lights and made it his immediate destination. In any event his body was found at 4 o'clock in the morning near the tracks by a policeman. For many months "Big Tim's" mind had been under a cloud. Elected to Congress last Fall, he had never taken his seat because of this trouble. A commission was appointed to admin ister the affairs of his large estate and to watch over his person. He made a trip to Europe last May in a vain quest for health. When he returned three male nurses were em ployed to guard him. He played cards until 2 o'clock the night he last disap peared. His nurse nodded. "Big Tim" took advantage of the moment and fled. Sullivan was a much-beloved leader on the East Side. The Bowery was his stronghold. Every Winter he dlstrib- (Concludcd on Pata 3.) TRAIN