Iff 84 Pages Section One Pages 1 to 20 mm. Six Sections VOL. XXXII NO. 50. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY 3IORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS WILSON ORDERED TO T President's Illness Not Grave, Says Tumulty. WHITE HOUSE REPORT ISSUED Trip to South Advised, Despite Work of Congress. NEW YEAR'S RECEPTION OFF Executive) Sends Regrets to Gridiron I Club Copies of Official Dis- l nillut. w TT ,1 in Bed. Foot ball Cause of Cold. WASHINGTON; Dec. IS. President TVIlson continued today to nurse the cold that has kept Mm In his room atnce last Tuesday. Most of the time he has remained in bed on the advice ft Ms physician, chiefly as a measure of precaution to Insure complete rest and rapid recoTery. Notwithstanding positive assurances from the White House, reports gained circulation that the President's condi tion was alarming to his official fam ily. To quiet these rumors the follow ing official statement was given out at t'ne White House: "Secretary Tumulty stated at the WSiite Hou;e that reports of the Pres ident's condition being; alarming; were absolutely groundless. His condition Is entirely normal and satisfactory, ex cept for a cold, which has caused him discomfort, but has at no time threat ened any complications. Doctor Orders Rest. "As a matter of precaution Dr. Gray son, the attending; physician, advised t'.at the President suspend his usual :'flcial activities. Including- the re volving of visitors. In order to throw ;f the cold and give him an opportu nity for rest and recuperation. "The expectation Is that the Presl :em will resume his official duties tariy next week. There is nothing in President's condition to cause the lightest alarm." The President has not been entirely wt 11 since he attended the Army-Navy football game in New York. Sitting In the open stands on a raw day. he devel oped a cold In the head which became worse after his return to Washington. President Seoraa bvereeat. His physician suggested warm cloth ing, but the President scorned an over coat, but put on a heavy woolen sweat er vest In the cold wind; that was blowing on the day of the Army-Navy same It is believed the President caught additional cold, and when he attended the meeting of the Red Cross jr. Tuesday his voice was weak from its effects. His physician then ordered Mr. Wilson to bed with the determina tion to keep the President quiet until he had absolutely recovered. Tt had been the intention of the Pres ident to take a vacation during the holiday recess of Congress. This was officially announced recently, together with the statement that the New Year's reception would not take place owing to the President's absence. In view of the uncertainty of a recess of Congress, in connection with the progress of the currency bill, friends of the President have been urging him to go to a southern climate, regardless of whether Congress suspends its ac tivities during the holidays. Trip. Seat Ptaaaed. It has not been determined when or where the President will go, but It Is said his proposed trip is the result of prearranged plans and in no way eon concluded on Pas 3- s You ( See 3-udgeX TH EGO IS J Yoia QwreJ KE VACATION iesh s .tfJPNa. ft ' .mA1- 45 "A 1 .wwtTWAi ' . JS II SPAKrtG a (Mil" 1 ' -sass WV W " ' " " ,11 tV A! ' lVKrwyo oy SOLDIER SAYS HE HAS SEEN STEAD AWAKEXLVG OP TITANIC VIC TIMS IX ETERXITY DESCRIBED. Sir Alfred Turner Says Departed Editor Helped Compos Multi tudes in New AVorld. General Sir Alfred Turner, the wall- , known British soldier, whose recent ghost stories attracted much attention, has found a medium able to material ize spiritual forms and to obtain other remarkable psychic phenomena. The name of this medium is Cecil Husk. He Is 70 years old and completely blind. His seances are held In a house at Pock ham. Rye, on Sundays only, owing to falling health. , Sir Alfred says Husk was originally a singer In Carl Rosa's Opera Company, Husk's sister won fame as the creatot of the part of Lady Angela In Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience." Sir Alfred said today: "Husk is a trance medium. Three weeks ago W. T. Stead was material ised In the presence of 1" persons, each one being a bio 'to see him. He ap peared In half form, that Is frem the waist up. and floated about the room, having something to say to every one present. He smiled and said to each one of us, 'It's all true; it's all true. Let the good work go on.' "Referring to the Titanic disaster, he told us that It was not true that be had been hit on the head with a spar, but gave us a vivid description of the terrible time he had in composing the multitudes who were suddenly plunged Into eternity. He said that to a ma jority death came so suddenly that when people awoke In the other world they were unable to realize that they were no longer on e&rtn, and it took them some time before they realized the new condition surrounding them." MAD SEA BELCHES RELICS Submarine Disturbance Brings Wreck and Mastodon Bone Asbore. SANTA BARBARA. Cal, Dec. 13. The submarine disturbance which has kept the ocean along the South Coast . In fury for several days. ' cast up the wreckage of an ancient ship near here today and a few miles south part of a mastodon's skeleton; which apparently had been brought, up . from a great depth, was washed ashore. ' Experts said that the skeleton frag, merits Included about 35 feet of verte brae and the skull with eight-foot tusks Intact. The ship's wreckage' bore indications that tt had lain on the ocean bottom for .perhaps 100 years. It was thickly armored with barnacles. EXPLOSION MAY COST SIGHT Cathlamet Farmer's Child, Aged 2, Played With Dynamite Cap. Victor Sprebe, two years old. son of a farmer at Cathlamet. Wash., was brought to Portland yesterday to the Good Samaritan Hospital, where he Is reported to be seriously hurt about the eyes. He may lose their- sight. The hospital authorities were In formed that the baby picked up a dyna mite cap while playing about the floor at his home and dropped It Into a stove. The resulting explosion pitted its face and seriously bruised It. MASONS OF CANBY ELECT tAlI Night Session Is Required - to Name Officers for Year. CANBY. Or., Dec. 1J. (Special.) Canby lodge of Masons elected officers Saturday night at an all-night session, made necessary by the rapid growth of the order. Candidates were taken In, the election held and a banquet was attended. The following are the new officers: Fred M. Roth, worshipful master; John Eld. senior warden: Ralph Knight. Junior warden; L. D. Walker, treas urer: Howard H. Eccles, secretary; Perry O. Stacy. t. l.. and C. L. Bates, tyler. The installation will be held Saturday, December 10. EVENTS OF THE WEEK-AT HOME AND AFAR GET TF1 FLEETING V A X.X XI I Y I V-VVX.VXXXl X f av. aar-B. e A , V .A kv V lh I I J 3 A A A?XCASY CAS SPANIARDS ACCUSE VILLA OF BARBARITY Appeal Sent to Wash ington and Madrid. CHURCH TREASURES LOOTED s Spanish Residents Told They Alone Were Not Safe. PROPERTY IS CONFISCATED Man Forcibly Taken From British Cons a late Now Held for $250,-00-0 Ransom Millionaires Penniless as Refugees. PinsTANcr or protest made BY SPANIARDS IX MEXICO. Spanlsn. residents of Northern -Mexico have sent representations to Washington and to Madrid declar es That General Villa announced that ha would protect all foreigners. In cluding the Chinese, but excepting; the Spaniards, whom be threatened to bill ir thay did not leave the country within tan days. That as soon as he arrived In Chi huahua, Villa demanded from tha merchants f 1,500.000 In gold. In ex change for which he would glvo them so-called constitutionalist money. That the Spaniards appealed to American Consul Letcher, who at tempted to forward a rode message to Washington, nut waa told br Villa that "Men of honor do not need to send messages In code." That Villa looted all the stores owned by Spaniards. EL PASO, Tex.. Dec. 1J. Stories of wholesale looting by General Francisco Villa's rebel army on Its entrance Into Chihuahua and of the despoiling of church treasures, of the robbery of Spanish priests and nuns, of the con fiscation of property and demands for exorbitant sums of money, were brought here today with the arrival of 478 citizens of, Spain, who had been banished from Mexico by the rebels. Eighteen Catholic priests and nuns of Spanish' origin were among the refugees. They Joined with the other exiled Spaniards In sending to the Spanish Ambassador at Washington and to the Minister of Foreign Relations at Madrid a protest against what they asserted was sn outrsge of their rights. Sacred Vewtaaeata Stolen. The priests said Villa had" demanded $5000 from each of them and after they had given all they possessed Villa's army looted the cathedral and churches and the convent of all the gold and jeweled chalices and sacred vestments. One priest said he paid over to the rebels $95. which was all he had; an other said he gave f 155. The nuns gave all but their personal belongings. Other Spaniards reported that. In ad dition to threatening them with death If they remained In Chihuahua longer than ten days. General Villa demanded from merchants $1,500,000 In gold as a tribute to the revolution. In exchange for which he would pay them In so called constitutionalist currency. United States Consul Marlon Letcher was appealed to In vain, tha refugee said, because the right of sending a code message to tha American Govern ment was denied him. Appeal Seat to Carraau. General Villa's attitude toward Spaniards was regarded as so grave that other rebel leaders at a meeting today 1A -Juarez 'telegraphed to Gen eral Carranxa, nbw at Hermostllo. re- (Concluded on Pass 9.) PORTLAyAO (a as Y?Ae& ro INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS . The Weather. YESTERDAY'S1 Maslmnm ' temperature. 5S degrees; minimum. 43 degreea. TODAY'S Probably rain: southerly winds, foreign. Medium said to have materialised W. T. . Stead, who describee Tltanlo victims' awakening. SecUdb 1, page 1. Theft of "Mona Lisa" due to patriotism, fac tion 1, page National. Doctor orders Wilson to take vacation. Sec tion 1. page 1. Root warns against danger of currency In flation under new currency bl!L Section " 1. page z. Nations not likely to remove troopa from Cblna. Section 1. page S. Latterly cuts hla name to "Walter" In new directory. faction 1, page S. nnaestle. Movement begun to have new Repub'lcan National contention adopt platform. Sec tion 1, page 3. Partisans of lira. Young Jeer Director who voted against her. Section 1, page 0. Sports. Inter-fraternity basketball teams to meet In Onals at Eugene. Section Sv page . Ward McDowell, ex-Portland player, la not taken back by Napa. Section 2. page 6. Del Howard flies claims for Qve dratted p Layers. Section 2, page 31 Fielder Jones put O. K. on new Federal League. Section 2. page 3l Expert swimming to be taught at Princeton. Section 1, page 1. rarlfle North wee. Organisation Democrats of Washington make lait stand for patronage. Section 1, page t. Governor Lister begins ahakeup. Section 1. page t. Mooae Lodge treaaurer at The Dalles, said to be sbon. vanishes, and message tells of alleged foul play. Section 1, page 1. Porter Brothera barge wrecked In Yaqulna Bay with damage totaling liOOO. Section 1. page 1. Walter H. Moore, ex-prealdent of Oregon Trust A savings Bank wt Portland dies. Section 1. page I. Judre Harrta rules "dry" victory at Spring field stande; Judge Galloway upholda "wets" at Salem. Section L page T. Confuaton feared at next election If present lawa are not harmonised. Section 1, page 8. Governor comas to aid of State Printer In dispute over union contract. Section 1, , page 7. Commercial and Marine. Record pack or leading canned goods staplca Section 3, page 17. Wheat at Chicago weakened by heaviness of corn. Section I, page 17. Stock prices decline and later rally on covering. Section 2. pace 17. Replacement of red lights on bridges planned to aid steamboat men. Section :, page f. Real Estate and Building. Oregon galna by Chicago -land now. Sec tion 4, page 20. . Chamber of Commerce out to aid fruit growers. Section . page 10. Fortune made in ginseng culture. Section 4. page 11. Many lota on East Bide change hands in week. -'Section 4, page 11. Nv stractures take place of old at Sand)', Or. Section 4. page 11. Automobiles and Roads. Trip from Portland to Grants Pass made In Bupmobll. Section 4. page 4. Pathflnder Nell Patterson leaves Detroit' on last leg of trip. Section 4, page e. Auto plowa Into flncke of grasshoppers. Sec tion 4. page 7. Umatilla County will spend ilOO.OOO-on highways. Section 4, page 7. Portland aad VlcUlty. Or. ( wins divorce and all property In dispute. Section 1, page l.". Klch CsrMale graduate accused of series of burglaries. Section 1. rase 1. City Treoaury bureau handles 27.0O0.000 In ya-. section 1. pace 14. Kundrerta of friends urge Booth to run for Senate Section 1. rage 12. Auction sale of HnlMeln-Frlectan cattle brings 114.630. Section 2. page 7. Work by Oregon artiata, now on exhibition, la reviewed. SecOun 1, page II. Charities' Puma rtaus must take place of fsther who Is In jail. Section 1. page 1. Hydro-Electric CommlRslon ptana Investiga tion of problems of. power manufacture. Section 1, page 10. State Commission suggested as possible at.u- tlon by Dan Malarfcey. Section 1, page 17. llollatfav School sets - standard In all branches of work. eciiun 4, page 12. Rich schools sud universities compete for Hose Festival poster honor. Section 4, page 12. Municipal auditorium icon to be built. Sec. tlon 1, page 14. Union County farmer fears Conwsy and Hlchet case gives, fsiae Impression of lands. Section 1, page 18. Womnn of AT, residing at fashionable hotel, arrested for swindling. Section 1. page Id. W. C. l:nbov defends rigbta of Council. Section 1. page Bishop Cooke finite Methodist Episcopsl church rift difficult task. Section 1, page Id. J. T. Conway and Frank Tllchet convicted on an counts. Section 1, page 18. Celebration to mr.rk beginning- of electric service on Vslley line. Section 2, page 7. Boat with aviia! propeller la odd craft. Sec. tlon 1, page 14. Lebanon Has Home Talent Play. LEBANON", Or.. Dec 1J. (Special.) The Woman's Civic Club presented a musical comedy entitled "The Linn County Fair," In which 150 persons took part. Thursday and r riday nights. The affair was a financial success. s 1 icl 1 1 I2,f LODGE TBEASPr4 ACCUSED, WISHES Telegram Tells Wife at Dalles He Is Slain. MOOSE LODGE MONEY FIGURES C. A. Rudell, of The Dalles, on Day Set for Arrest, Goes. MISSING MAN BANK CLERK Telegram to Wife, Left in Ignorance, Says Lodge Treasurer's Letters Were Found and That Hoboes Carried Body Away. THE DALLES. Or., Dec 13. (Spe cial.) The wife of -C. A. Rudell, book keeper at the French & Co. Bank, this afternoon received a telegram stating that her husband had probably met with foul play near Corbett. 20 miles esst of Portland. Rudell Is missing from here since this morning. He Is alleged to have misappropriated funds of the Moose, Lodge, of which he was treasurer. Faal Plar Indicated, v Tha message received by Mrs. Ru dell said that letters bearing tha name of her husband had been found near Corbett. along tha railroad right-of-way, and that four hoboes had been seen carrying a body with a crushed skull. The message further stated that the Indications were that Mr. Rudell had met with foul play. The telegram was signed A. Koukl. having been filed at the Portland office of the Western Union. Koukl appeared to be a fictitious name. Western Union of ficials have been unable to locate the sender. Rudell. who was treasurer of the local Moose Lodge, is alleged to be considerably short In his accounts. Of ficers of the lodge hsd sworn to a complaint against him, but had post poned serving a warrant, giving him until today to make good the alleged shortage. ' Wife Left la Igaeiiser. Mrs. Rudcu did not know that her husband Intended to leave town until the bank officials telephoned to her to ask why he was not at his desk this morning. He Is reported to have left this city on a westbound train at 5:30 this morning. He 'cashed a check for $30 shortly ' before that time at a local store. The message from Koukl was at .first believed here, but later the indi cations pointed to the conclusion that Rudell had decided to flee and that he or some friend had sent a falsa mes sage to his wife to throw possible searchers off his track. Rudell knew that ha waa to be ar rested today if he did not make good the alleged shortage, MESSAGK SKXT Br TRACK MAN Sheriff Unable to Find Body or Trace of Hoboes. The telegram to Mrs. Rudell waa sent by J. U. Koukl, a Japanese, from the branch office of the Western Union Telegraph Company on Broadway. Koukl aald he was a trackwalker for the O.-W. R. & X. Co. He has not been found since he sent the telegram. The telegram read aa follows: "From letters found on beach near Corbett. Implication shows foul play to Mr. Rud dell. Four hobos seen with body. Crushed skull. (Signed) J. U. Koukl." Mrs. Rudell at once telegraphed to her sister. Nellie Todd, a stenographer (Concluded on Page ATTENTION oi.l s rcjzsc? y a yo ; OF PORTER BROTHERS BARGE IS WRECKED NORTH JETTY AT YAQUIXA BAY STRUCK; CRAFT BEACHED. Cargo of Oats, Hay and Dynamite Damaged to Extent or $3000, With Xo Insoranoo Carried. NEWPORT. Or.. Dec. 13. (Special.) The barge Frederick, owned by Porter ! Bros- Portland contractors. In tow of J the tugboat L. Roscoe of Florence and laden with 80 tons of oats. 70 tons of hay and (0 tons of dynamite struck the' north Jetty at the entrance to Yaquina Bay today, tearing her hull, and now lies on the beach at Olson vllle. Captaln A. Erikson. master of the Roscoe, said that his boat did not have sufficient power to combat the strong southerly wind and current, which drove the barge from her course onto the Jetty. After the barge struck. Cap tain Erikson fortunstely was able to pull the craft free, and as there were five feet of water In the hold he beached the barge In a safe place and commenced discharging the damaged cargo at low tide. Captain Severson and a sailor were on the deck of the barge when it struck, and there was much fear that the pounding, which lasted about ten minutes, might explode the dynamite. The damage to cargo and hull Is roughly estimated at 13000 and the cargo was not Insured. The shipment wss from Yaqulna for Gardiner and Florence, where Porter Bros, are constructing a railroad eventually to connect the Coos Bay country with the Willamette Valley at Eugene. MATE'S DANGER UNHEEDED Sailor Mutters on Dock While Ap prentice Rescues Companion. "Drown, you silly beggar: drown. I'll get your bloomln" sea boots," is languago attributed to a sailor on the British bark Hlnemoa In a report made to Captain Jack Speler, head of the Harbor Patrol, relative to a sailor named Davis having fallen overboard at Columbia dock No. I late Friday ; night, as both were returning from a trip ashore. Benjamin Judd. an ap prentice, formerly on the Gleneeslin. which was wrecked at Necarney Moun tain, was aroused from his slumbers and diving over the side effected a rescue. Captain Speler says the companion of Davis beat a hasty retreat from the dock and was not seen yesterday. Judd Is given praise for his work, as he leaped Into, the chilly waters of the Willamette In und-ess raiment MRS. A. G.CAMER0N DIES Albany Woman Former Portland Resident and Church Worker. ALBANY. Or- Dec 13. (Special.) Mrs. Addle O. Cameron, one of Albany's best-known worsen, and wife of M. J. Cameron, a manufacturer and member of the City Council, died this afternoon in St. Mary's Hospital. She was 56 years old. &he was born In Pennsyl vania and resided there until 1890, when she and her husband came to Portland. Two years later they came to this city. Mrs. Cameron was one of the most active members of the First Methodist Church of Albany and was prominent In the various church organizations. Mr. Cameron and three children, Clarence C Cameron, Miss Pearl Cameron, of Al bany, and Mrs. Bessie S. Simpson, of Eugene, survive. SENTINELS TOLD TO FIRE Anil-Military Agitation in Alsace Spreading to Mayence. MATENCE. Germany, Dec. 13. Sten tlnela on the fortifications and the ar tillery testing ground here, who have been stoned and shot at for several nights past, have been ordered by the military authorities to sboot down their assailants on sight. V It In feared that the anti-military agitation In Alsace has spread to this city. CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. I OP .! ( II YAnQO CS?AZ- AY VrV URY UVCT1 AS CARLISLE ATHLETE HELD AS BURGLAR Indian Gives Loot to Girls Is Charge. SERIES OF GRIMES ALLEGED Property Found From Five Robberies in 3 Days. HAT LEFT IN HOUSE CLEW Rich Xebraskan, Depito Pica of Y'oung Woman, Is Silent About Actions Lost Clippings Tell of Record. Richard Mills, a Carlisle Indian school graduate, one-fourth Sioux, and the owner of a 610-acre farm In Nebraska, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Patrolman O'Dale, on information pro cured by Detectives La Salle and Ab bott, who charge Mills with the rob bery of five houses and the possible robbery of another. These are about one-half the house burglaries In Port land since Mills came here. December ?. Mills, the police charge. Is finan cially well fixed, but steals for the love cf the game. He has served a year in Deer Lodge. Mont., for burglary. It Is said, and. It Is also alleged, that he served some time In the Washington state penitentiary in Walla Walla for the same offense. Ulrla Takes te Statlea. Alice and Vivian Barrett, of 39u Clay street, and Ethel Germain, who lives at the same address, were taken to the police station by the detectives, fo". lowfng the arrest of Mills. A telephone number on a card- and the pictures of the girls in Mills' room caused their detention. When the detectives found Mills gave a diamond ring to Alice, a ruby ring to Vivian and a macklnaw coat to Ethel, they concluded that tli girls had no connection with the rob beries and released them, recovering the property. With the arrest of Mills and the find ing of his room in a Sixth-street North hotel, the greater part of the loot from tho five residences he Is aceused of robbing and an article from another residence was recovered. It Is worth more than 11000. Ilarglary Reports Suppressed. The burglaries, which are indicated, the police say, by the property In his possession are those of the homes of J. F. Thompson. 199 Graham avenue; W. R. Blackwood, 581 Tillamook street; Charles Jennings. 533 Wasco street: J. T. Blumfeld. 746 Pettygrove street: D. A. Bowman, 1561 East Sixty-first street North, and Miss Bess Segal. 790 Kear ney street. Reports of all the bur glaries have been supressed by Police Chief Clark. Mills, who gave the name Bert Bur nett, under which he was registered at a hotel, would tell nothing of his ac tions, even when one of the girls in terested, under threat of arrest for complicity, wept in the City Jail and begged him to tell of them so that ha might free her from blame. CIIbbIbks la Hat Clew. - He clipped the papers for the ac counts of his exploits, the detectives say, ajid when. It Is alleged, he robbed the house of Mr. Thompson he left by accident his hat. In It clippings were found that told of his conviction in Deer Lodge, Uont, and of his success as a baseball player for the Carlisle team. From Thompson's he took. It is -alleged, a camera, four suits of clother. two stickpins, two tie clasps and other (Concluded on Page 2. 1