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1 76 Pages Section One Pages 1 to IS Biz Sections Including; l(ulif PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. XXXIII NO. 1. ' ' K POLICE KEEP ORDER AT BRIDGE -SESSION Stormy Meeting Ends Without Action. KOLTA DEPOSED AS CHAIRMAN Debate Over Interstate Span Contract Is Heated. CHALLENGE NOT TAKEN UP Nolta Refuses to Make Direct Charge or "Cnfalrnees Against County Heads and Is Called "Cow ard" by Holman. A meeting called at the Public LI brary last night by J. H. Nolta, an In terstate bridge advocate to protest against the selection of Waddell & Harrington, of Kansas City, as super vising engineers of the structure, broke up, under active police regulation, after nearly three hourB of heated debate, In disorder and confusion without taking any definite action whatever. The meeting, which overflowed the assembly room, showed no disposition to be Influenced by the ostensible pur pose for which it was called. Within a few minutes .after It was opened Nolta was deposed as chairman. Dr. Andrew C. Smith was Installed In his place, and the police were called In to preserve order. Cheer and Jeers Mingle. A final effort was made late in the evening to pass a motion expressing confidence in the County Commission ers, but the division of sentiment was so pronounced that the chairman, al though declaring that it had seemingly carried, called for a rising vote. But Instead of voting the people arose In a body, after considerable time spent in appointing tellers, and with cr.eers mingling with Jeers,, left the i L Oin. . ' ' Personalities Are Flame. Personalities were, frequently In dulged In and would have been persist ed in had not the restraining hand of Die chairman prevented. The ostensible purpose of the meet ing that of protesting against the Commissioners' action for a long time .was entirely forgotten and the ct'srument settled down to a quarrel between Mr. Nolta and Rufus Holman, chairman of the Board of County Com missioners. The climax of this proceeding came '"hen Nolta failed" to accept Holman's challenge to charge the Commissioners with unfairness and Holman stepped to the front of the'platform and pointed his finger at Nolta, shouting: "That man is a coward!" Holman's Influence Felt. Nolta failed again to answer, and from that time until the conflict was taken up by rival engineers and their friends, Holman conducted things to suit himself. He made a convincing speech. In which he explained all the proceedings leading up to the selection of Waddell & Harrington and seemed to have the sympathy of the crowd. But the crowd was temperamental, if not fanatical, but entirely good-hu mored and shifted Its sympathies from one speaker to the other almost fast as they followed one another to the stage all except Nolta. After he was removed from the chair he made little progress toward reinstating him self In favor. Nolta opened the meeting without preliminaries. He had opposition from ( Concluded on Page 11 . ) N S3 5r ' ' 0 ' ' NEW JOBS FOUND FOR DEAD HEROES SOME LIVE ONES ALSO wix DIS TINCTION FROM PUPILS. High School Graduates Think Lorado Taft President, Wilbur Wright Settlement Worker. CHICAGO. Jan. 3. High school grad uates 'who id not know the name of the President of the United States and who think Wilbur Wright was a set tlement worker were revealed today in the' report of an . examination for the public library training class. Some of the answers to questions follow: Captain Raold Amundsen Is with the Salvation Army. Bismarck was in the American Revo lution. Garibaldi was a French, writer of the ninth century. Lafayette was an American General, who later became President of the United States. Kosciusko Is President of Japan. Employer's liability is the power to do or not to io a thing. Lorado Taft is President of the United 'States. Moses was the chosen father of Jesus Christ and was born about BO A. D. Wilbur Wright and Dr. H. W. Wiley are connected with settlement work. PEER SHIPS AS SAILOR Lord Richard Farrer Herschill and Valet Work Way Home From Peru SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3. (Special.) Lord Richard Farrer Herschill, of English nobility, today reached San Francisco as a sailor on the tanker' Prometheus, having shipped from Lobltas. Peru. With him came his valet, Annett, who booked as a cook on the same ship. As soon as they landed they got into fashionable clothes and registered at the Fairmont. Necessity forced Lord Herschill to stoop to' ordinary labor as a sailor on the Prometheus. That vassel had no papers for carrying passengers, and the nobleman and his servant were so eager to leave Peru -they willingly signed articles, and all the way up the coast they tolled at hard labor one In the galley, the other on deck. Burke's Peerage says Richard Farrer Herschill Is. a baron, born in 1878. He was educated at Eton College, and la an expert golfer, cricket player and musician and a first-class sportsman. FAIR HIKERS FACE STORM Sleet Delays Suffrage Army Under General Rosalie Jones. v NEWBURGH, N. T., Jan. 3. After struggling gamely through a sleet Btorm for several miles General Rosa lie Jones and her suffragette army reached Cornwall at 5 o'clock today, somewhat exhausted and behind sched ule. The route over the 'mountains near West Point taxed the stamina of the party. In spite of this they decided to make up the time lost during the day by a night march of two hours, which would bring them to this city about 10 o'clock. The army plans to leave Newburgh tomorrow for a 30-mile march to Kingston. MURDOCK IS CANDIDATE ( Progressive Leader in House Aspires , to Brlstow's Seat. WICHITA, Kan., Jan. 3. Victor Mur dock. Progressive leader in the House of Representatives, announced tonight his candidacy for United States Senator to succeed Joseph L. Bristow. The elec tion will take place next Fall. Mr. Murdock said tonight: "I have announced my candidacy for the Progressive nomination in Kansas for the United States Senate. I have taken this step as a pleasant duty. Kansas helped start this movement and the people are for it." PACIFIC HIGHWAY BEING SEEN AFOOT Seeking Facts, Writer Is on Way South. FARMERS ARE INTERVIEWED Portland-Oregon City Route Offers Vital Problem. ALL COUNTRY TALKS ROADS D. S. Ricker, With Wife, Begins Plod to San Diego to Learn at First Hand Truth of Prepared ness for Panama Canal. KBWSPAPER COKRESPOSDENT STARTS ON LO.G TKir. With the express purpose of re porting actual conditions, D. S. Ricker, a prominent newspaper man, formerly Sunday editor of an Eastern dally newspaper, has started on a walk along the Pa cific Highway to San Diego. -The Oregonian, in conjunction with a number of other newspa pers, will publish his series of articles, the first of which Is given here. BT D. 8. BICKER. BROOKS, Or., Jan. S. (Special.) I'm on my way off to San Diego; with a bundle on my back and a wife trudg ing . along at my side in. mackinaw, riding skirt and long boots, carrying my camera slung over her shoulder, swinging down the road with short strides, like a willing caddy, brimful of energy, red-cheeked; eyes open to the snow-topped mountains, to the cotton woods reaching into the sky, to the river hurrying through the valley, to the squirrels darting to cover, to the Winter gardens abloom with roses, and turning; .to me now and then to pro- t.nt that nh never felt better in her life and Isn't a bit tired. We have walked 45 miles in four days; we have had Christmas dinner in the "jungles" with Christmas trees all around us, we have brewed mulligan and "peorie" on the banks of the Wil lamette and we have fished for our breakfast without luck. But we have had rabbit not rarebit tender, gamey rabbit, cooker! In a pot over flames that leapt from fuel gathered in the dry nlaces of the deep and sheltered woods And we have finished the first lap' of 8ur down-coast hike a 45-mlle stroll at an easy, swinging gait, from Port land to Brooks, a little town of 100 population, eight miles from Salem. Tomorrow we shall go on to Che mawa, look over the Indian school, and reach Salem in time to find a comfort able Indoor "flop." Story to Be Flrst-nand. Thus has begun our coast-length journey down the Pacific highway a journey with a purpose more definite and less personal than the trylng-out of the strength of limb or nerve;-a pur pose to give to the public: 1. A first-hand story of the condl tlon of the trunk road that chains the Coast cities and what is being done to make it ready for the heavy travel of 1915 travel that will bring dollars into the Northwest. 2. A close-range estimate of the com parative wealth of -tra different sec tions through which the road passes as measured by their undeveloped natural resources. 3. The facts about the harbors of the Pacific Coast cities; ' their preparedness to receive the commerce that will fol low the Joining of the two oceans and (Continued on Pace 16.) COMMENTS IN CARTOONS BY INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDATS Maximum temperature, 48 degrees; minimum, 4'2 degrees. TODAY'S Bain; southerly winds. Foreign. Irresistible desire to see young; son leads to Artist "Affinity" Earle's arrest In Nor way. Page S. New cancer cure safer than radium, ia re port from Berlin. Section 1, pace 14. Zroland asks America to remove embargo on spuds. Section 1, page 14. Big labor college in England is triumph. Section 1. page 14. German patriots advocate war. Section 1, page 14. national. Camlnettl to recommend closer watch on Oriental Immigration. Section 1. page 6. Domestic. Wisconsin eugenics law to be attacked as class legislation against men. Section 1. page 1. Purity Promotion body's head replies to Jack London. Section 1. page &. Refugees from Mexican battleground con gest border at Presidio, Tex. Section 1. page 4. . Steamship Cowrie beached to save her after perilous time in enoaL section l, page . Chicago high school graduates show little Knowledge of history. Section 1. page 1. Wilson's partisans object to bis ignoring factions in appointments. Section 1. page 0. Portland woman arouses interest as special examiner in telephone case in East. Sec tion 1, page 4. Northern Atlantic Coast in grip of second storm or season, section l, page sc. Mediation fails In Michigan copper strike. bectlon 1. page 1. Land's conference with Wilson remains secret. Section 1, page 6. Bport. Jack King says Bud Anderson poorly man aged, section 2, page 4. Armory Club promises series ef fast bouts. bectlon 2. page 4. America! League believed to be ally of Fed eraL Section 2, page 1. Japanese play baseball like veterans. Section . page 8. Mathewson tells how Conle Mack east eft shyness. Section 2, page 2. Twlrlers look easy to spectators, but are hard tor Datters. section 2. pane 2. Oregon athletes help Notre Dame win. Sec tion z, page 4. Seals add little strength to team for 1914. Bectlon 2, page 1. Ritchie-Murphy fight next bis ring event. section page 4. Pacific Northwest. Defying injunction against West, Iawson cans more troops to copperfleld. Section l, page 1. Volunteer posse offers to march on Copper- neia ana iignt mllltla. section 1, page 7. Pacific Coast salmon pack for 1013 estimated at s.ous.ouo cases, worth 135, 000,000, Section 1, page 10. Agricultural College and Southern Paclfio roaa to co-operate on farm train. Sec Hon 3, page 10. Medford city politics In turmoil. Section 1, page ix. Newspaperman, covering Pacific Highway moot, writes or conditions. Section 1 Page 1. Ousting of Kane ends three-year war at university or Washington. Section 1, Page 5. Gale at Columbia mouth remains terrific section l, page 7. Marshfieia to install new officials Janu ary 5. Section 1, page 10. Commercial and Marine. Hod shorts settle contracts with loans. eeotion 2, page jh. i Sensational slump In corn prices In Chicago jm.. DBcuin , page is. Wall street bears sen market to lower level section 2, page is. Barley dealers of Portland may find new market with annoupced reduced rates. ruwuu page u. Powerful Japanese house establishes head quarters in Portland. Section 2, page 6. Portland and Vicinity. P.ose City Park district sees expenditure of o.ouu.uoo, with oooo homes built. Sec tion 4. page 0. Portland work for regional bank becomes more aggressive. Section 1. page IS. State School Nurse reports better janitors In rural districts Is -crying need. Section J. page it). Widows not needy ask aid under Oregon pension law. Bectlon 1, page 12. Referendum Invoked on franchise granted ror trolley line In East Seventeenth street. Section 1, page 15. County Commissioners adopt Somer realty valuation system. Section 1, page 1 Municipal civil service may hear death Knell, section 3, page 10. Christmas child arrives and parents are as- tounclea. section, s, page 10. Civil Service Commission will fight removal or Russell 1. (Jhamcerlain. . Section H, page 10. Story of Centralia's checking of typhoid epldemlo told by C. C. Chapman. Section 2. page 14. Three posters left in Rose Festival contest. Section 2, page 6. Woman murdered In new underworld: slayer leaves letters.. Section 1, page 16. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2. page 6. Juvenile Court cases for three months total 219. Section 1, page 17. Multnomah County's cash on hand January 1. 3500,000. Section 1, page 17. State Railroad Commission to seek stan dards for gas and other utilities. Sec tion 1. page. 17. Public utility companies announce retrench ment for 1914 Section 1, page 16. Police summoned to protest meeting on bridge- contract. Section 1. page 1. Admen to become circus freaks 'for big ses sion. Section 1, page' 12. REYNOLDS ON SOME iFFORTS TO SETTLE COPPER STRIKE FAIL Recognition of Union Absolutely. Refused. MEDIATOR GIVES UP HOPE Federation Prepares to Strug gle to Bitter End. CONGRESS ASKED TO HELP Employers Suggestion That Secret Vote of Present Employes Be Taken Is Rejected by Federation Men. . , HOUGHTOST, Mich.. Jan. 8. Efforts to end the strike of copper miners by conciliation failed tonight. John B. Densmore. of the Department of Labor, so announced after a final effort to bring the warring interests together. He did not hesitate to blame his failure on the uncompromising attitude of the mineowners. The rock that split the negotiations and shattered the hopes of peace was the Question of recognition of the union. . ... "In a nutshell, the Question was whether the union men should go back to work with or without discrimina tion the companies refused to do any thing but discriminate against mem bers of the union," Mr. Densmore said. Union Counsel Predicts Fight. "It means a struggle to the bitter end," said O. N. Hilton, chief of counsel of the Western Federation of Miners, who has represented President Moyer here since the latter's deportation. "The outcome is due entirely to the attitude of the companies. They wanted every thing and would concede nothing." The union's" last word was an offer to withdraw the Western Federation from che field. Its place to be taken by a union affiliated with the Michigan State Federation of Labor, the United Mine Workers or some similar body, This was rejected by the companies. The employing interests suggested to Mr. Densmore that a secret vote of the men on strike. If properly safeguarded. would show a majority f nem in favor of returnlnr to work outside of the union fold. When this was broached to the federation men there was an imme diate declination to submit the case to any such test. x Word of the negotiations was tele graphed to the Secretary of Labor by Mr. Densmore tonight. He said that a full report uf the efforts ould be made by him after his return to Washing ton. He has set his departure for to morrow night. Managers .esoaoeo Union. Statements by mine managers took practically the same grounds for refusal to treat with thr unions as that issued in Boston tonight by the executive heads of the Calumet Hecla Company. "It was "simply a case of asking us to burden ourselves with an organiza tion whose history is one of violence," said F. E. Denton, of the Copper Range Consolidated Company. "The proposals that reached us were mere subter fuges. - As a matter of fact we have already settled this strike. The men now working for us are entitled to every possible consideration and it would have been rank ingratitude for the companies to promise them " our protection and then ask them to labor alongside members of the Western Federation. "Then, too, anything leBS than elim ination of the Western Federation from the district would have meant that (Concluded on Page 2.) OF THE PAST WEEK'S WISCONSIN EUGENIC LAW TO BE FOUGHT CLASS LEGISLATION" AGAINST MEN IS CONTENTION. Common-Law Marriajre Under Old Statute of State Is Adopted to Avoid Physical Test. MILWAUKEE. Jan. 3. Application for a writ of mandamus to compel County Clerk Wldule toissue a mar riage license to Alfred A. Peterson without the submission of a medical certificate, as demanded by the eugenic law, will be presented early next week. Attorney McLogan said today. That the measure Is unreasonable and an -unjust exercise of the police power win be contended, and, further, that It is class legislation. In that It demands something from the man with no corresponding assurance to him of the absence of disease in the woman. For a third cause, the lawyer for Pe terson will set forth that the law dis criminates against physicians under io yeArs old, the majority of those under that age being capable, and. if anything, better qualified, for the rea son that they have received later and more advanced medical teachings than older men. An alien, whose name has not been divulged, failed to obtain a license, with two other prospective bride grooms, today. He refused to undergo the physical examination and went to an attorney, where he secured a state ment, to which he and his prospective bride affixed their signatures, which will make them common-law man and wife, according to a Wisconsin statute, He said he had rented a hall for the wedding and no "eugenic" was "going to spoil the event." RABIES F0LL0WS-D0G BITE Autopsy Shows Man Who Feared Hydrophobia, Dies of It. SYRACUSE. N. T., Jan. 3. James E, Hubbell, ex-County Clerk and one o the best-known residents of Syracuse died at a hospital today; following symptoms of hydrophobia, Mr. Hubbell was bitten on the lip by a pet dog No vember SO. He went to a hospital, where an antitoxin was Injected. He left the hospital a week later and his friends Joked him about rabies Hubbell began to read everything h couia una aoout tne disease. He re turned to his doctor last Tuesday and told him he was nervous and fidgety. He "was again taken to the hospital Reaching there he complained of throat trouble. The sight of a drop of water caused violent spasms of the throat -Mr. Hubbell died today and an au topsy revealed that hydrophobia and not fright caused death. ROBBERS SHOOT, THEN RUN Bullet Deflected by Iron Bar When Two Fail' In Kaid on Office. BAiiTiMOltJH, Jan. a. Two young men appeared at the cage of the secre tary of the Kosciuszco Loan and Sav lngs Association today and, with drawn revolvers, ordered him to throw up his hands. As he stooped to grasp a pistol one of the robbers fired, but the bullet was deflected by an iron bar of the cage and lodged in the" wall. The men then tried to get Into th room where the safe stands, but. find ing the door locked, they ran into the street and were lost in the crowd. BREAKWATER RUMOR OUT Reports Steamer Accident Are Has Met With Unconfirmed. Unconfirmed reports, emanating pos sibly from intercepted wireless calls, were afloat last night that the steamer Breakwater had met with a mishap off Coos Bay. Marshfield reported that the Break water left that city at 2:30 o'clock Sat urday afternoon bound north and there is no report In that city that the ves sel has met with any accident. EVENTS. LAVSON CALLS FOR ADDITIONAL TROOPS njunction Against Gov ernor Torn to Bits. HONES ANDTELEGRAPH SEIZED Colonel in Charge at Copper- field Censors News. MARTIAL LAW MADE RIGID Citizens' Committee Named and Car penter Made Mayor Lawson Pre pares for Fight With Sheriff and Deputies. COPPERFIELD, Or., Jan. S. (Spe cial.) Colonel B. K. Lawson flatly re fused today to recognize an injunction against Governor West's martial law order, which had been Bent by tele graph to Special Deputy Sheriff U. S. Jackson, by Circuit Judge Anderson, of BaKer. Instead of recognizing the in junction Colonel Lawson tore it to bits and threw it -back in Deputy Sheriff Jackson's face and told him that that was what he thought of it. He then telegraphed to Governor We-t at Salem. asking that an additional detachment of militia be sent to Copperfleld at once. "I don't want Sheriff Rand coming up here with a bunch of deputies and throwing me In the Baker County Jail," said Colonel Lawson. "I suppose the Governor-will send 60 or more troops. There Is no danger here at present, but I cannot recognize that injunction and I cannot take the chance of the Sheriff coming here and my having to resist the order without sufficient force. The town of Copperfleld is divided into two factions of about equal strength and it is certain that the one faction would all attempt to aid the Sheriff in any proceedings he might undertake." Ija-wsen Censors Messages. The Injunction was sent by telegraph to U. S. Jackson, who had ?arl!er in the day received an appointment as Special Deputy Sheriff, also by tele graph, from Sheriff Rand, at Bakor. The telegram, it appeared, . was filed at Baker at 9 o'clock this morning, but. owing to a censorship of telegraph and telephone established by Colonel Law son this morning, was not delivered until 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Jackson then transcribed the docu ments, but Colonel Lawson refused to be convinced and tore the document to bits. This was said by attorneys to be the first time that an injunction has ever been granted by a court against offi cers attempting to enforce martial law, although an unsuccessful appeal for an -Injunction against Governor Folk was made In Missouri several years ago when he declared martial law. Citizens' Committee) Named. No attempt was made by Copper fleld citizens to violate the law today. A mass meeting of citizens was called by Colonel Lawson and he appointed a citizens' committee to conduct the civil affairs of the city until such time as martial law has passed. For Mayor he chose a carpenter, Sam Grim, and the remainder of the Council se lected were: School Director Fitch, A. W. Parker, J. J. Burns, Sam Aklin and C. Strickland. All are members of the faction opposed to the saloons. The saloonkeepers who are under arrest paid no attention to the demand of Colonel Lawson that they send their liquor and bar fixtures out of Copper field before 4 o'clock this afternoon. (Concluded on Psge T.)