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. ' 84 Pages Section One Pages 1 to 16 KlRht Sections, Including SemUMoithljr Jlacn VOL,. XXXIII xo. 5. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. m COUfWS EASTERN HALF STORMBOUND Chicago Cut Off From East and South. TRAIN SERVICE IS CRIPPLED Wires Down in Every DirectioA Owing to Sleet. FATALITIES ARE REPORTED TTnempIoyed Men. Find .Blessing In Blizzard, for Thousands Are Immediately Put to Work to Raise Embargoes. CHICAGO. Jan. 31. (Special.) Sweeping up from the Oulf of Mexico, the worst blizzard of the year struck the country from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic Coast and from the Gulf to the Great Lakes last night and to day. Its severity was noticed most, however, in Illinois. Indinana. Ohio and Bouthern Michigan. The storm cen ter was In the vicinity of Cleveland a d Is proceeding eastward along the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Riv er. The storm center did not pass west of the Mississippi River. No snow whatever fell In Iowa tonight, but a report is the blizzard had touched the Wisconsin state line. Chicago got only one corner of it, but that was plenty for all practical purposes. Two Killed, 20 Hart In Chicago. Two persons were killed, 20 injured and transportation lines damaged to the extent of fully $50,000 here. Five thousand dollars worth of electric lights were put out of commission and the telegraph and telephone companies estimated their damage at $50,000. Chi cago is practically isolated from the Rast and Southeast. The . telephone company has only one wire east, out of more than 100. Each of the telegraph companies has a straggly wire east and nothing to or south of the Ohio River. This Is said to be due to heavy sleet over Northern Indiana and Ohio, which beat down hundreds of wires. Indications are that the brunt of the stcrm will not strike New York, but Boston and the New England states and Eastern Canada will probably feel Its full fury tomorrow. One remark able feature of the storm in Chicago Is that it came from the southeast, while a stiff wind was blowing from the north. Fully a foot of snow fell and where the wind had action It drift ed from four to seven feet in depth. Unemployed Are Benefited. The storm was a blessing to the thousands of unemployed men in this city, who were immediately put to work at $2 and $2.50 a day. Ten thou sand men were put to work today and there are calls out for many more. All energies today were devoted to dig ging the heart of the city out of the drifts and keeping the transportation lines open. In the suburbs transporta tion was dead. Steam trains were hours late coming and departing. Indiana received the brunt of the sleet storm. Two persons were killed in Indianapolis. The sleet storm was . also especially heavy In Northern Ohio, and this accounts for the loss of hun dreds of telegraph and telephone wires from Chicago to the East, which are massed in the vicinity of Cleveland. The average snowfall In Indiana was ten Inches. The snowfall was unusual ly heavy In Michigan. Snow has been falling in that state almost daily for two weeks, and the fresh supply last night filled railway cuts and ravines. stalling trains and interurbans. In (Concluded on Page 2.) 'SKY DINNER' GIVEN ATOP STEEL TOWER BERKELEY STUDENTS TIIEAT WOItKMEX 2-10 FEET UP. Completion of Campanile lYame at University of California Marked by Aerial Banquet. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31. (Special.) A sky dinner, hoisted In buckets 240 feet to the top level of the university campanile at Berkeley, was this noon served to the .50 steel workers have completed their work on the giant needle. Joe Kobloth, the chef, who on several occasions has been forced to postpone the spread, superintended the serving of a turkey banquet from a safe posi tion on the ground. The workmen received a regulation "Thanksgiving" dinner, with turkey and cranberry sauce as the main ob jects of attack, and on the aerial plat form, 35 feet square, they enjoyed the repast with a nochalance not possessed by the few invited guests. The work of covering the steel struc ture with California stone will start within a few days. An elevator and staircase is to be included in the in terior and an observation platform and clock tower will be features of the completed campanile. ANIMALS WILL BE LISTED Pedigrees of Zoo Inmates Are to Be Compiled by Zoologist. The task of "interviewing" each ani mal at the Washington Park Zoo, from the bull snake up to the African lion, will be undertaken this week by M. W. Gorman, a Portland botanist and zoolo gist, who has been engaged to take a census of the zoo. He has been engaged by the city to find out the age and pedigree of each animal, as well as a history of each from the time of birth or the time of leaving the Jungle up to the present, "Yes, It is quite a task," admitted Mr. Gorman yasterday, "but I guess I can get the'informatlon quite accurately by Interviewing the animals and their at tendants." GIRL KEEPS "HER0" BUSY Spring Hold, Mo., Miss Turns in Alarms to See Fireman Pass. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Jan. 31. A young woman's desire to see her "he ro," a fireman, rush by her home on a fire engine, it developed here tonight, has been ,the cause of. repeated., false alarms from the residence district. Six alarms have been turnd In from this section in the last week, and W. D. Price, chief of the fire department, placed detectives on the case. Today the young woman admitted her guilt. She will not be prosecuted. BRIDGE BILLIS PASSED Portland-Vancouver Jfeasure Sow in Hands of President. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Jan. 31. Representative John son, of Washington, today called up lit the House and secured the passage of the Chamberlain-Johnson bill author izing the construction of the Portland Vancouver bridge across the Columbia River. The bill has passed the Senate and now goes to the President for signa ture. AGED PAIR DIE SAME DAY Man Once Wealthy Passes Away in Hovel in Springfield, Mo. SPRINGFIELD, Tlo Jan. 31. Re duced to poverty. Jesse M. Kelly, 83 years old once one of the wealthiest men in Springfield, died in a hovel on the outskirts of the city today. His wife, who was 80 years old, died an hour later. When she learned several days aso that her husband was sinking gradu ally she refused all nourishment and prayed that they might die together. CARTOONIST REYNOLDS COMMENTS IN j"' HIGHWAY TO AID DOUGLAS FARMERS Ricker Wends Way Via Beautiful Valley. ROADS' ENTHUSIASM GROWS Camas Valley to Rock Creek Route Full of Holes. MYRTLE POINT IS ACTIVE Petition Now Being Circulated for Bond Issue of $445,000 in 20 Year, 5 Per Cent Bonds to Con struct In Southern County. BY DAVID SWING RICKER. MYRTLE, POINT. Or.. Jan. 31. (Spe cial.; .every evening at twilight a handful of men and women, limping laboriously, heads wabbling on wab bly necks, quarreling with themselves, out of sorts with the world and with everybody in It, hats awry, hair ffying or hanging, travel-bedraggled and rain bedabbled, slink into the Grand Hotel at Roseburg and make a bee line for a bed. In this bed they linger for many hours nursing grouches and peeves of small or great size, bruised muscles. stretched ligaments, and rattled bones, everything on earth low it strained nerves uninterested in above It or be- At 3 o'clock, or thereabouts, every morning another handful of men and women, bearing their peeve in silence and their aching ribs with admirable fortitude limp Into Joe Schilling's Illi hee at Myrtle Point and drop into chairs pulled around the bljr open fire, silently, always silently, the deadly calm that expresses complete surren der to long suffering. Too mad to at tempt the use of words, are they; too tired to cry; too sore to sit down, stand up or lie, yet compelled to do all three, and trylng to grin and . bear. -Scene Vividly Focoacd. Now it is. important to know, be fore the eye is capable of fully en compassing these two tableaux, that the Grand Hotel in Roseburg is a one end of the Roseburg-trans-moun tain-to-Myrtle Point stage line and Schilling's Illihee Is at the other end Between these two ends are 61 miles of fluid of mud and muck . through which the stage, sunk to the gunwales, sallB and rocks, dips and careens for something like 18 heart-breaking hours. Also between the two ends are 9.999 boulders, rocks , stumps, crev a3ses, holes and pits which the stage driver is instructed to hit with all four wheels or else lose his reputation as a daredevil. It has not yet been recorded that any of the stage drivers have been called upon to hang up their reputations and retire to the less hazardous toll of Bit ting on a shingle and being hauled down a flight of marble stairs by a runaway horse. A lumberman, mild mannered but built like a giant, who managed to say between Jolts this name was Carl Gearing, turned to the driver after he had ridden in silence for half a day, the silence that follows resignation. "It may not interest you," he said mildly, "and you may not believe it, tut, sir, that was the nearest I have v- " oiii"'o here quietly making my peace WitbJ God." Bis Happy-go-lucky Ira Cornelius, who knows every rock on the road bo well that he never misses any of them, turned to the old man, looked him (Concluded on Page lO. OUS7VVG- IKDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Ibe Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 51.S degrees; minimum, 44.8 degrees. - TODAY'S Generally fair: westerly wind. Plot to depose Huerta nipped in Mexico City. section 1, page 1. National. Senator Lane is all but ejected from floor of Senate m parliamentary sense. sec tion l, page 4. Burleson committee reports In favor of Government ' monopoly of wire com munication. Section 1. page 2. While House committee holds trust hearing Senators will investigate by mail. Section 1. ge 6. Hous3 omits Asiatic exclusion from Burnett Immigration bill. Section 1 page 4. Movement to make suffrage party Issue developing in Washington. Section 1, page 5. Domestic. Packers and railroads indicted for rebating. Section 1. page 0. Youth who murdered messenger for - $70 expects to escape hanging. faectlon l. page 5. . Ex-Senator Cullom's body lies in state In Illinois CapitoL Section 1, page J Friend of Murray I. Diggs. arrested, refuses to tell where other two men wan tea can be found. Section 1, page 3. Whole eastern half of country stormbound. Section 1. page 1. Aerial banquet given by Berkeley students to workmen. Section 1, page l. Bride of Judge Lindsey to help husband In court. Section 1. D&ge 2. Insane woman who long watched over sis ter's dead body Is heiress to &w,uou, Section 1, page 1. Monroe's captain files libel on TCan tucket for 5i,H0,lXK lor collision. section page 3. Sports. Dugdale predicts good season for Seattle team. Section 2, page 2. Sale of Boise baseball club and Union League entry please fans. Section 2. page B. Interscholastic league soccer season opens Tuesday. Section 2, page 4. Oregon University fans fear defeat in first conference basketball series, faectlon page 8. Portland ' ball fans of 1901 recall personnel of team. Section 2. page 3. Turn Verein classes to meet in new home tomorrow. Section 2, page 4. California, voters may prohibit boxing at November election. Section 2; :age 5. Ballplayers take care of arms. Section 2, page 2. - Federals take business manager away from Chicago . Cubs. Section 2. page l. McCredie threatens to send Krapp to Kew Orleans. Section 2, page 1 Campi knocked out in' 12th round by Kid illlams. Section 2, page 4. Majority of old-time boxers are on easy street. Section 2. page o. Defamation suit Is sequence to Vancouver ballot scandal, section 1, page n Pacific Northwest. Idaho politicians consider prohibition plank tor Diatrorms. faectlon 1, page i. Campaign for Columbia County road bonds ends Willi facappoose meeting. toection x page 8. Ricker, reaching Myrtle Point, tells hofl highway would benefit Douglas farm ers. Section 1, page 1. Six Willamette Valley counties unite in Good Koadi Association. Section 1, page 8. Labor member may be ousted from Wash ington Industrial Insurance Commission place, faectlon l, page 7. Washington commission carries cost of room ana boara xnrougn mytnica-i gin s ia qulry. Section 1, page 11. -. .. Dr. James Withycombe. of Corvallis. an H ounces candidacy for- Governoihi U Ef.minatloiu.v feecvion 1, paga w. Gale tears and tTiUi Seade. . tction 1, page 7. - Automobiles and Roads. Day of survival of fittest near in auto In dustry. Section 4. page 6. More auto-racing urged. Section 4, page 6. H. C. Bradfleld takes optimistic view of situation. Section 4. page 6. Winter auto trip made to Mount Rainier. Section 4, page 4. ' - Auto show proves to be financial as well artistic success. Section 4, page 6. Commercial and Marine. Higher prices paid for wheat in country markets. Section I, page la. Northwest millers believe flour will take leap skyward. Section 2. page IS. Ample snow covering weakens wheat v Chicago. Section 2, page 15. Stock and bond prices in Wall street con tlnue to advance. Section 2, page IB. Portland ships 2,056,994 bushels of wheat during month. Section 2, page 6. Portland and Vicinity, Northwestern Electric Company to complete street work by February 30. Section 4, page 9. W. D. "Wheeler lauds President in schol arly address here. Section 2, page 6, Mrs. Gerllnger acquitted by iitry after ad mitting she la a bed Lawyer Brown. Sec tion l, page is. Dissolution of Central and Southern Pacific seen as commercial injury to Oregon In te rests Section l .page 13. Mr. Stover's legal coup questions power of Mayor or any city official to discharge employes. section x, page xz. Carl Rochet, carrier for The Oregonlan, wins Harvard Ciuo scholarship. Section 1 page 12. Tiger trounces leopard for snoring. Section i, page i. iionai meeting, section l. nave in Maccabees tents and hives to entertain head of order tomorrow. Section 4, page lO. January trade in many lines shows gain, although start Is - conservative. Section 2, page 16. Weather report, data and forecast. Section J. page e. John Manning formally enters race for Gov- ernor. Beet ion l, page 12. PTCTTTFES ON SOME y- T fTc7! nn? PLOT TO DEPOSE HOERTA IS NIPPED Friends of Felix Diaz Thrown Into Prison. HUNDREDS OF RIFLES SEIZED Chief of Police Does Not Be lieve Conspiracy Is Rife. BLANQUET GAINS EVIDENCE Recent Candidate for President Said to Have Dropped Hint of Plans to American, in Havana Agent Sent to Paris Is Missing. MEXICO CITY. Jan. 31. With the arrest today of Jose Luis Requena, chief of the Felix Diaz political organ ization, and two or three other men who were also orominent in his sup port in the latssrace for the Presidency and the discovery of several hundred rifles stored In the capital, the War Department believes It has well In hand a new plot which, it Is alleged, had as its object an attempt to over throw the government tomorrow. The case has been handled entirely by agents of General Blanquet, Min ister of war. Colonel Francisco Chavez, chief of police, many of whose men are alleged to be Implicated in the treasonable plan. Is Inclined to doubt the accuracy of the War Department's information. Detective I'Ihj "Double Cram." The arrests were determined on after the submission to General Blanquet of evidence discovered by a detective who had represented himself as Juan Or tega, an active rebel operating in the State Nichoacan and the territory of Teplc. The detective went to the home of Francisco Serrano, a civil engineer liv ing at Tlalpam, a suburb of Mexico City, with a- letter, purporting to. be from rebePfriend3 of Serrano. " " " The detective, on Serrano's confes slon and offer to contribute $500 and 500 guns, promised that 1000 men would join the new cause.. Serrano, it la alleged by the Intelligence depart ment of the War Office, sent a note to Requena, asking his opinion regard ing acceptance of the offer. ZUflea Brongkt to Arsenal. At the department there Is a letter supposed to have been written by Re quena to Serreno In which Requena advises acceptance of the rebels' of fer. As if to corroborate the genuine ness of the invitation, 600 rifles have been brought to the government arsenal wbich, it Is said, were dis covered where Ortega said they were hidden. Pedro Villar, an attorney who Iden tified- himself with General Felix Diaz' political fortunes, went to Havana to meet him and accompanied him to Vera Cruz in November, remaining with him until the night of his flight, has also been arrested. Enrique Fernandez Castello, son-in-law of Requena and prominent in po litical affairs of the capital. Is sought by agents of the War Department. Details of Plot Unknown. The exact development of the plot and the exact form of the new gov ernment was to take are things on which General Blanquet is uncommuni cative nor do his agents profess to know the details. They say they have evidence to indicate that the plan was either to Install as temporary Presi dent General Fernardino Gonzales, an army officer of repute, who 13 now in (Concluded on Paga4. ) OF THIS WEEK'S CHIEF iAAy THAT CAKB! LEOPARDTROUNCED IN CAGE BY TIGER SNORES OF BIG BABE ANGER Ql'KKX, ROYAL BEXGAL. Battle Is Waged While Animals Roar in Menagerie at Country Club Until Trainer Calls Time. Despite the recent order putting a lid on prizefighting in Portland, there , was a real scrap at the Country Club ' Friday night. It waged for more than 30 minutes, until Louis Roth, trainer for a circus that is wintering In Port land, reached the ringside and . called time. Queen, a royal Bengal tiger, got the decision over Big Babe, a trained leopard. It has been current gossip about the menageries for several days that trou ble was brewing between Queen and Big Babe, but there was no open breach until Friday. Then Trainer Roth did not think the trouble serious enough to change their adjoining apartments. Mr. Roth says Big Babe snores in her sleep. Queen resented this and knocked down the inch board partition separating her room from the boudoir of Big Babe. When the battle started all the ani mals in the menageries set up a roar that awoke the circus employes sleep ing in cars a quarter of a mile from the animal barn. Trainer Roth was the first to reach the ringside. He found Big Babe wedged into a corner. with the tiger on top. Queen had cut the face, neck and side of the leopard. and Big Babe had gone down for the count when Mr. Roth Interfered. Queen had several scratches on her neck and side, but neither is seriously injured. Big Babe sulked about her cage all day yesterday and refused to leave it in the afternoon when it came her turn to train in the arena. Big Babe fights in the featherweight class. She weighs Just one-fourth as much as Queen. CARDINAL GENNARI DIES Number of Vacancies in Sacred Col lege Increased to 16. liOMU, Jan. 31. Cardinal Casmlr Gennarl, prefect or the Congregation of tne Council, died today. His death was due to heart disease. He is the third cardinal to pass away in the last two months, the others being Cardinal oregiia and Cardinal Rampolla. He was 7.4 years old. There are now 16 vacancies in the Sacred Collego and the holding of a consistory at an early date Is thought to be necessary. The report, repeated ly circulated that the consistory has been delayed owing to the 111 health of the Pope is emphatically denied at the Vatican. MANY SPELL PERFECTLY Lane Contest Shows 111 Pupils Have 'Scores of 100. EUGENE, Or., Jan. 31. (Special.) Results of the second spelling contest for school children in Lane County, announced this morning, show that 111 pupils spelled all 50 words correctly. In six grades, every member of the class attained a perfect grade. In the sixth grade, districts 60 and 134 are tied on the 100 percentage, and in the seventh, districts 25, 83 and 174 are perfect. In the fourth grade, districts 145 and 153 are tied, with a standing of 97 per cent. RAINFALL NEARS RECORD Total for January, 11.5 Inches, Is Way Above Xormal. January came near oelng the wettest January in the "history of Portland. The total rainfall for the month was 11.5 Inches. In 1883 January broke the record with a total of 13.71 inches and Jan uary, 1880, comes next with 12.27. The total of 11.13 made In January, 1890, ranks it as the fourth wettest Jan uary. The normal rainfall for January is 6.5 inches. During the month just passed there was not a day in which there was not at least & trace of rain. NEWS EVENTS. WOMAN BEREFT OF IS HEIRESS Finding Sister's Body Reveals Secret. MYSTERY SECOND IN FAMILY Father, Who Accumlated For tune, Drops From Sight. GEMS DISPROVE POVERTY Strange Spinsters, Believed to Be Hiding to Conceal Financial Dis tress, Are Rich in Jewels, Found In House. DOS ANGELES, Jan. SI. Without having made connected statement of any kind. Miss Nanette Warren, who was found last night keeping & lone vigil over the body of her sister, Misa Mary Warren, was placed In the in sane ward of the County Hospital to night. No one here knew until tonight that she was the daughter of a former pio neer business man and manufacturer of Toledo, O., or that she was heiress to a fortune of $500,000. It was be lieved the sisters were in reduced cir cumstances, keeping to their apart ment to avoid revealing their poverty. The finding of jewels and costly gowns in the room where the corpso of Mary Warren had remained for three weeks today disproved their pov erty. Motive Rmulns Mystery. The cause of Mary's death, or her sis ter's reason for hiding the body, keep ing everyone out of the apartment and stuffing the window and door cracks with rags may never be learned from the women now in the hospital. Nanette Warren will be taken before the lunacy commission for examination Monday. In all probability an autopsy will be held over the body of Mary, as the Coroner's office said it was too decomposed to reveal any of the causes of death. TOLEDO, O., Jan. 31 The finding of the body of Mary Warren in her apart ment in Los Angeles, and the discovery that her sister, Nanette, had been liv ing in the same room with the dead, re vives one of the mysteries In local po lice annals. The sisters lived here at the Warren homestead, 365 Fourteenth street, until they went to Los Angeles nearly two years ago. Mystery Second in Family. The mystery is the second in the Warren family. In 1S78 Samuel War ren, father of the two girls and a. re tired manufacturer, disappeared. De tectives scoured this and many other cities, searched the home and even dragged the cistern at the rear of the residence. He had apparently dropped from the face of the earth. Five years later the wife of Warren -dropped dead of apoplexy. She had formerly been Mary von Groton, of Eerne, Switzer land. Through the death f her sister Nanette becomes heir to approximately toOO.000 in her own right. The prop erty Includes Warren Place in Toledo, farms on the Maunice River, planta tions and beet sugar Interests in Cali fornia and plantations in the South. Samuel Warren was one of the pUi neer business men and manufacturers in Toledo. He was born in Tecumseh. Mich., in 1818. An orphan at 18, with out a relative, he came here and be gan working in a livery stable. Ha became owner of the barn and later was noted in Northern Ohio as a. breed- (Concluded on Page 6. 4 t REASO