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PORTLAND, OREGOX, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1913.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SULZER PLANNING
SENSATIONAL COUP
"Inner Workings" to
Be Exposed.
CANAL HAS SECOND
EARTHQUAKE TEST
LOCKS REPORTED UXI1AM AGED
IX AXY DEGREE.
FULL STATEMENT PROMISED
On Stand, However, Advice of
Counsel Will Be Heeded.
GOVERNOR EAGER TO TALK
Scheme of Putting Details In Writ
log but Avoiding Them in Tcs
timony Will Soften Ordeal
of Cross-Examination.
ALBANY. N. T.. Oct 4. Governor
Sulzer tonight was said to have per
fected a plan for getting his who!
story before the public and at the
same time escaping cross-examination
on more than a part of it.
It was generally reported that if his
attorneys continued to Insist on his
curtailing his sworn testimony-
they are said to be doing he will
abide by their demand, but will issue
a statement to the newspapers con
taining that part of his narrative
barred by his legal advisers. He will
give out the statement on taking the
witness stand, it is reported.
"Inner Workings" to Be Exposed.
Should he do this be would get his
whole story to the people, which he
always has insisted he would accom
plish In some manner. One thing that
he has told many callers and main
- tained in talking with his counsel Is
that the people are entitled to know
everything he does about the "Inner
workings" of political organizations in
the state. His attorneys have pointed
out repeatedly that If he lets his de
sire to divulge information carry him
too for he will open the way for the
severest cross-examination for counsel
for the board of managers.
Bo, If the Governor's counsellors have
their way, his sworn testimony will
be much less sensational than the
statement he now Is said to be plan
ning. Manager Eager for Fray.
The asserted eagerness of the at
torneys for the board of managers to
have the Governor take the stand has
made his attorneys somewhat chary
about his "telling everything." Coun
sel for the managers made no secret
of their hope that the testimony of Sul
zer would open the way for the intro
duction of much new evidence, which
they cannot introduce if he falls to
testify or only denies briefly stories
told by witnesses for the managers
last week.
The Governor's eagerness to make
public what his statement is expected
to contain if it is Issued has caused
endlesB arguments between him and
his counsel. More than two weeks ago,
It is said, he planned an expose of 2500
words and was ready to give It to the
newspapers when his counsel checked
him.
Murphy to Be Attacked.
It is understood the Governor's prom
ised statement will be largely devoted
to "Boss" Murphy, of Tammany Hall.
He will say, among other things, that
Murphy laid the groundwork for the
Governor's future overthrow even be
fore the holding of the convention at
which Sulzer was nominated.
The "boss" consented to his nomina
tion, and even offered to lend him
money, the Governor will allege, be
cause he knew he was $19,000 in debt,
and that in all their dealings there
after he used the knowledge of Sul-
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Buildings at Panama Severely Shak
en, and Residents of Colon
Are Much Alarmed.
PANAMA. Oct. 4. Another earth
quake occurred on the Isthmus at 5:06
o'clock today. It was almost equal
in intensity to the shock of Wednes
day night, its duration being from 10
to 15 seconds.
Buildings were severely shaken, but
apparently no damage was done be
yond the falling of plaster and the
structures.
Reports from the canal zone offi
cials indicate that neither the locks
nor any part of the canal suffered in
any degree whatever.
COLON, Oct. 4. An earth shock last
ing four or five seconds was felt at
Colon a few minutes after 5 o'clock
today. The disturbance was not near
ly as sharp here as that on Wednesday
night. The canal officials at Gatun
report no damage to the canal. As in
the previous case, residents were much
alarmed over the tremors, many of
them seeking safety in the streets.
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TARIFF LAW FOUND
Reduction Clause
Seeming Conflict
in
FOREIGN TREATIES INVOLVED
INDEX CF TODAY NEWS
Deficit May Take Place of Sur
plus, as Consequence.
SNOBBERY CHARGE IGNORED
Daniels, However, to Look Into Gam
bling Aboard Vessels.
WASHINGTON, . Oct 4. Declaring
that a naval officer's social relations
"are a matter for personal determina
tion," Secretary Daniels let It be known
today that he did not expect to invest!.
gate published allegations by Arthur
Middleton, of. Washington, a former
Navy paymaster, that caste and snob
bery prevailed in the American Navy.
The Secretary is investigating, how
ever, Middleton s charge that he had
observed, drinking and gambling aboard
the cruiser Denver and the gunboat
Yorktown. The former paymaster, who
was at the Navy Department today In
response to- a letter from the Secre
tary asking for an explanation of his
allegations, confined himself to general
statements without details. He will be
questioned further later.
COURT ACTION CERTAIN
Granting of 5 Per Cent Rebate on
Goods In American Bottoms
May Force Reduction to
Favored Nations.
WHEAT MARKET SLUMPS
Signing of Tariff Bill ' Blamed by
Farmers at Walla Walls.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Oct. 4.
(Special.) Instead of an expected
slight advance In wheat prices today.
which would have caused a heavy un
loading of holdings, the market took a
slump and there was nothing doing.
Some of the dealers refused to give
prices and would not buy, while others
gave prices, but did not purchase. The
farmers and dealers blame the sign
ing of the tariff bill for the slump, as
the duty has been removed from wheat.
Club wheat was quoted at around 68
and 70 cents and bluestem at SO cents.
The prices are the lowest In years.
Few of the large lots of grain have
been disposed of. Early in the week
there were a few sales, but of small
lota.
'ARTNERS DISAGREE, SUE
Allen, Charging Conspiracy, Wants
Court to Order Aconnting.
F. J. Allen filed suit yesterday in the
Circuit Court against Donald H. Smith,
asking for a dissolution of the partner
ship existing between the men and for
an accounting. Allen alleges that
Smith, in conspiracy with T. C. Allison,
has collected commissions aggregating
1943.75 for real estate transactions, but
has accounted to him for only $56.25.
The two men formed- a partnership
last December and since that time have
ngaged in the general business chance
and real estate business, Allen charges
his complaint. In addition to the
commissions of 1943.75 Allen says he
has reason to believe that other com
missions have been collected by Smith
and that Allen is entitled to one-half
of them.
WASHINGTON Oct. 4. Officials of
the Treasury Department . want . to
know what Congress actually meant by
that provision of the new tariff law
allowing a 5 per cent reduction of du
ties on goods Imported In American
ships, with the condition that the dif
ferential should not be construed to
abrogate or impair any existing treaty
between the United States and a for
eign Nation.
Literally Interpreted it is declared
the provision would give a 5 per cent
decrease to goods in American bottoms
and automatically grant the same priv.
liege to the same ships of the many
nations whose treaties with the United
States guarantee no discrimination be
tween their vessels and those of
America.
Deficit Would Be Created.
iiiis construction, which would be a
horizontal reduction of 5 per cent in
the tariff for importations from most
of the great countries of the world.
involves probably 110,000,000 in rev
enue for the Government, creating a
deficit instead - of a surplus in -the
Treasury, as has been estimated by
the tariff framers. .
The question undoubtedly will be re
ferred to President Wilon and Attorney-General
McReynolda and ultimate
ly will reach the United States Su
preme Court.
The State and Treasury Departments
are in consultation on the effect of the
provision. In avoiding a literal con
struction, some officials contend that
Congress ment the reduction should be
allowed only In cases where the United
States did not have a treaty which
would interfere.
Serious Questions Arise.
Whatever the interpretation of the
provision for nations with these guar
antees of equality, it is pointed out
other serious questions arise as to
23 nations whose treaties with this
country do not guarantee against dis
crimination. The countries which thus
will be charged the full Underwood
duties In any event are Brazil, Chile,
China, Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
France, German Empire (except several
German states), Greece, Guatemala,
Haytl, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Per
sia, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Salvador,
Siam, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay
and Venezuela. The treaty with Great
Britain also does not guarantee equal
ity of treatment for vessels of her
colonies such as Canada and Australia.
Secretary Houston, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, today promul
gated the regulations governing the
importation of meat and food products
under the new act.
Meat Regrulatlona Rlarld.
The regulations require foreign cer
tifications of both ante-mortem and
post-mortem inspection from the coun
tries where the animals are slaughtered
and inspection at port of entry by
agents of the Department of Agri
culture. Rigid regulations govern the imports
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60
degrees; minimum. 42 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair, northerly winds.
Foreign.
Succession to Russian throne worries Czar
Nicholas. Section 4, page 6.
Bsc-Empress Eugenie, now S3, now in exile
. district, breaks custom. Section 4, page 6.
French republic President and President
Wilson alike. Section 4, page 0.
Royal scandal In house of Leopold shocks
all Europe. Section 4. page 6. ' .
National.
Treasury Department already altering plans
for Portland Federal building. Section
1. page 2.
First snag in new tariff law encountered.
Section 1, page 1.
Domestic.
Canal withstands second earthquake test.
Section 1. page 1.
Underwood announces candidacy for Senate.
Section 1, page 5.
Low church party believed in majority in
coming Episcopal convention. Section 1,
page 4.
Mexican federals win sanguinary battle at
Santa Rosalia. Section 1, page 1.
Sulzer planning sensational coup. Section
1, page 1.
Roosevelt sails for untrod worlds. Section
1. page 2.
Sports. f
Coast League .results: Oakland 7, Portland
4; San Francisco 7. Sacramento 4; Venice
4, Los Angeles 1. Section 2, page 4.
Boise seeks change from Western Tri -state
to Union League. Section 2, page 2.
High scores made on Middle Western grid
irons, section 2, page 3.
Multnomah defeats Oregon Agglea 6 to 0.
Section 2, page 2.
University of Oregon swamps Alumni- eleven
41 to a. bectlon z, page 2.
Hal Gray, fast Oregon-bred horse, again
wins at Salem races. Section 2. page 6.
Matnewson writes of coming world's series.
section z, page i.
Maine ties Yale eleven. Section 2, page 8.
Nine Beavers picked in All-Stars. Section 2,
page 4.
California fans concede pennant to Beavers.
section 2, page o.
Mack gives Athletics almost no work In
final days before big serlea Section 2,
page 6.
Northwestern League batting averages given.
oecxion x, page e.
Pacific Northwest.
Most successful of Oregon's state fairs passes
into nistory. bectlon 1, page 4. i
Hood River prepares to welcome delegates
to Federation gathering. Section 1.
page 10.
Seattle Socialists will ask Governor Lister
to pardon Sncialista sentenced for con
tempt. Section 1, page 6. . .
Big crowds pull state lair out of debt. Sec
tion l. nags i.
Corporal Shade returns to Fort Stevens and
testifies to threats of violence and death
made to him. Section 1, page L
Dallas lawyer accused of misleading Attor
ney-General. Section 1, page 11.
The Dalles Mayor says Councilman is Im
moral. Section 1. page 2. . '
Pendleton rolling mills sold to Holland
syndicate for price approximating 1500,-
uw. section l. page 6.
Tacoma taxpayers demand cut In -taxes.
Section 1, page . .
Gold mines In Eastern Oregon' show prog
ress, section l, page 11. -.
Automobiles and Beads.
Prestige of Rome In best days due partly to
gooa roaas, sun in gooa snape. Section
8, page 8. .- -r -
Oregon roads law provides for tax. Section
8, page 5.
Sportsman find auto more to- be desired than
train schedules. Section 9, page 4.
Good thoroughfares at root of community
progress, says Julius L. Meier. Section
8, page 4.
Real Estate and Building.
Sightly hillsides to be Portland's finest
home district. . Section 8, page 10.
Commissioner Brewster urges residents to
visit city parks and note merits and de
fects, section 8, page 11.
Mllwaukle, Or., makes rapid progress. Sec
tion 8. page 13.
Extensive improvements made . on grain
docks and elevator. Section 8, page 13.
Commercial and Marine.
BLOODY BUTTLE IS
BY FEDERALS
WO
Many Non-Contestants
Among Killed.
PLOT TO DITCH, ROB
0REG0NTRAIN FAILS
PORTLAND EXPRESS HAS CLOSE
CALL. NEAR REDDING.
VILLA'S REBELS ARE ROUTED
Principal Buildings of Santa
Rosalia, Mex., Demolished.
CHIEF BUILDINGS RUINED
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Oregon onion harvest shows smaller crop
than last year s, section 2. page IT.
Signing of tariff bill has depressing effect
on wheat at Cnlcago. section 2. page 17.
Portland may become bag manufacturing
center. Section 2, page 7.
Weakness of Steel shares affects Wall street
market. Section 2, page 17.
Portland and Vicinity.
Railroad Commission suggests carrying
Watson case Into court. Section 2, Pfege
18.
University club to warm house next Satur
day. Section 1, page 16.
Burglars with automobile take silver, linen
and cut glass worth $1000. Section 1,
page 18.
Oregon may be represented by districts
rather than counties at'lSlS Fair, Sec
tion 1, page 14. ,
Steel passenger coaches for Portland, . Eu--gene
& Eastern line delivered. Section
1. page 13.
High school activities In St. John are var
ied. Section 1. page 10. '
Weather report, data and forecast. Section
1, page 4.
Northwest Steel Company patting up big
gest plant on Coast. Section 1, page 1(.
New York man walking to San Francisco
and back reaches Portland. Section 2,
page 18.
Special Eugenics writer for woman's Journal
says Oregon babies are beat encountered
ao far. Section 1. page 12.
Reed College men to give series of public
lectures. Section 1. page 16.
Total Number of Dead Estimated at
7 00, Most or Casualties Being
on Rebel Side Costly Mis
sion Is Damaged.
EL PASO; Tex., Oct. 4. Meager de
tails of the battle of Santa Rosalia,
in which General Francisco Castro and
his 4700 federal troops succeeded in
defeating and routing Francisco Villa
and his 4000 combined rebel forces,
tend to show that it was desperately
fought and a bloody one. General Sal
azar, of the federal forces, in a private
telegram to friends at Juarez, placed
his estimate of the total number
dead at 700. The-casualties were most
ly on the rebel side. The loss of life
among non-combatants in the town
resulting from the federal artillery
fire, he said, was enormous.
The principal buildings and most of
the residences of the town were prac
tically ruined. The mission, one of the
costly buildings in Santa Rosalia, was
badly damaged.
Federals at Juarez have no news of
the direction taken by the rebels who
were defeated in the fight. General Cas
tro has not made his report of the en
gagement, and aside from his message
announcing the federal victory has not
given the Juarez officials any In
formation concerning the battle or the
course taken by Villa's troops.
SINALOA SCENE OF BATTLE
but
Insurgents Have Advantage
' Fighting: Is Continued.
DOUGLAS, Ariz, Oct. 4. Constitu
tionalists and Federals fought all day
today at the City of Sinaloa, according
to tonight's rebel advices,' which also
contained the assertion . that the In
surgents had the advantage, although
the fight was still in progress.
The number of Federals engaged in
the battle was not given in the dis
patches, but the Constitutionalist
troops were said to total 2000. They
were commanded by General Iturbe.
Two Federal gunboats, stationed in
Guaymas Harbor for a considerable
time, were said to have been ordered
south with troops to reinforce the Sina
loa garrison.
In the last week the Federals re
paired the railroad between Kmpalme
and Cruz de Pledra, but the Constitu
tionalists again put it out of commis
sion by dynamiting the tracks.
STEAMER SPOKANE ON WAY
Vessel Which Struck Capo Ltazo Re
claims Passengers Again. -
SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 4. Tha Pa
cific Coast steamship Spokane, which
went on the rocks off Cape Lazo in the
Inside Passage Friday night, pulled
away today, reclaimed her passengers
from the La Touche, and Is expected to
reach Seattle about 2:30 o'clock Sunday
morning.
The followng wireless has been re
ceived, here from the Spokane: ' "La
Touche transferred passengers back to
Spokane, which is proceeding to Se
attle under own steam."
Waterworks Superintendent Folia
Plans After He Is Warned by
One of Armed Highwaymen.
REDDING, Cal., Oct. 4. (Special.)
An attempt to hold up the Portland ex
press, southbound, about half a mile
north of Redding, 'shortly after 10
o'clock tonight was foiled by J. F.
Johnston, superintendent of the city
water works plant, situated on Jenny
Creek, a mile north of here. Johnston
left the city at 10 o'clock to go homo
and had gone about half the distance
when a man stepped out of the brush
and warned him to get out of the lo
cality as fast as he could.
Johnston started back, but circled
through the brush to the plant, where
he telephoned to the Redding police and
then got a lantern and flagged the
train. The police found the track
piled high with logs.
The express messengers, who were
on the lookout when passing the spot,
saw three men armed with rifles on
the bank. These men escaped.
Two men were found on the top of
the baggage car. They were unarmed
and said they were stealing a ride.
They were arrested. Thef gave their
names as Walter Wright, formerly of
Boston, and George Howell, of Manton,
Mich.
DEAFNESS CURE HERALDED
Radium and Mesothorium Rays Said
to Bring Remarkable Results.
BERLIN, Oct. 4 (Special.) New im
petus has been given to the already
unsuppliable demand for radium and
mesothorium for medical purposes by
report printed today in the Berlin
Clinical Weekly by Dr. Hugel, saying
that he has had remarkable success In
the treatment of deafness and partial
deafness with mesothorium and radium
emanations. In view of the fact that
it is estimated that over 500,000 per-
surs in Germany are deaf or hard ol
bearing. Dr. Hugel's discovery Is at
tractlng attention in both medical and
lay circles.
Dr. Hugel reports that mesothorium
rays have proven effective in almost
all forms of partial deafness and even
where .the disease has been chronic.
suppuration and ulceration of long
standing has quickly disappeared. Dr.
Hugel says the most interesting part
of his treatment of the ears is that the
rays revivify the tissues and nerves.
CORPORAL TELLS
OF DEATH THREATS
Fort Stevens Soldier
Surrenders Self.
FEAR OF VIOLENCE REVEALED
Sensational Disclosures
low Fast in Case.
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ARMY INSPECTOR PRESENT
Willi Cofrman Safely Lodged in Fed
eral Prison at Leavenworth,
Siade Returns From Flight
to Canada and Testifies.
FILIPINOS ARE UNEASY
Outbreak Predicted Unless Freedom
' Is Promised Definitely.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. Trouble with
the Filipinos, unless there is some dec
laration soon of the purpose of the
United States to confer independence
on the archipelago, is predicted in the
annual report of Major H. H. Band-
holtz, the director of the Philippine
constabulary, made public today.
The report says that while the Fil
ipinos would rather have the United
States dominate the affairs of the is
land than any other power, they want
their freedom, and already there have
been many rumors of an uprising such
always In the past preceded actual
utbreaks.
RELIGION FREE IN PERU
Constitutional Amendment Remov
ing Restrictions Adopted.
LIMA, Peru, Oct. 4. Peru in future
is to enjoy religious tolerance. Hereto
fore the exercise of any religion other
than the Roman Catholic has been prohibited.
The Chamber of Deputies adopted to
day, by 66 votes to 4, an amendment to
the constitution dealing with this sub
ject The amendment bad been ap
proved by the Senate.
In spite of the constitutional prohibi
tion, the Government some time ago
permitted the building of Protestant
hurches and mission schools in vari-
us parts of the country.
FORT STEVENS. Or., Oct. 4. (Spe
cial.) Great excitement prevails amid
Army circles here over the astounding
disclosures of Corporal Shade, who re
cently surrendered to the military au
thorities at Tacoma, Wash.
He testified before a special court
convened at Fort Stevens to the effect
that he absented himself from that
place in order to avoid certain death
at the hands of the friends and minions
of Waldo H. Coffman, now in the Fed
eral penitentiary at Leavenworth.
He was first offered by John Vogel.
a civilian tailor employed by the Post
Exchange at Fort Stevens. $100 and a
suit of civilian clothing if he would
leave Fort Stevens and thereby nullify
the efforts of the prosecution in the
Coffman case. These offers he rejected.
From that time on he was subjected
to a series of threats of violence.
Shade Told f Fate.
' According to bis knowledge of the
case he testified on the first day of the
trial concerning the treasonable utter
ances of Coffman. About this time
Crawford, a witness of equal import
ance, mysteriously disappeared. Shade
was threatened with a similar fate.
Later he was approached by Edward
Johnson, an avowed Socialist and friend
of Coffman, with an affidavit purport
ing to show that the commanding o ni
cer. Colonel Oscar I. Straub, had used
methods of coercion in obtaining his
(Shade's) testimony, that his testimony
was all false, etc
Threatened with summary violence
he at last agreed to go to Astoria. He
started on the train to Astoria with
Mechanic Davis, now a deserter. Davis
outlined to him the foilowingilan,
namely, that he was to proceed to a
certain poolroom in Astoria; there he
was to meet a' committee and sign an
ffldavlt to' the effect that hla..tcstl-
mony was false and secured by means
of threats from the commanding officer.
Davis assured him that one of the mem
bers of this gathering was a desperato
man, capable of killing him should he
fall to carry out his part of the pre
arranged programme. He was informed
also that a notary public would be
present who would affix his official
seal without looking at the document
in Question.
Shade Locks Self I'p.
Shade believed that in either case he
would be murdered so. Just before his
arrival in Astoria, he locked himself
up in the lavatory of the car he occu
pied. He pulled down the blinds and
watched for Davis, who was observed
by him to be pacing up and down in
front of the train waiting for him tt
get off.
Mortally afraid of carrying the dead
ly game further ho continued his trip,
rushing for the Canadian border. There
he remained until a Sunday copy of
The Oregonlan convinced him that the
men he had most to fear bad either de
serted or been confined at Fort
Stevens. Immediately upon receipt of
this intelligence he departed for the
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