The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, February 22, 1914, Section One, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text78 Pages Section One Pages 1 to 16 Six Sections VOL. XXXIII-NO. 8. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1914. t. CALIFORNIA STORM WORST IN HISTORY Flood Extends From Te hachapi to Mexico. GALE RAGES ALONG COAST Seven Lives Are Lost; Damage . of $4,500,000 Is Done. CITY HOUSES SWEPT AWAY iios Angeles Suburbs Are Threatened With Food Famine, and Water i Supply Is Cat Off In Some j CasesWide Region Isolated. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21. With a loss of probably more than 14.500.000 and a total of seven human lives since Wed nesday. Southern California began to recover tonight from the effects of the Worst storm In Its hiBtory. Swept by wind and rain for the past tl e days, most of the territory between the Tehachapl Mountains and the Mex ican line was flooded, but with the sun shining most of today the situation Im proved considerably and, while nearly all of the towns affected remained lso ".ed tonight, progress was made to ward re-establishing wire and rail com munication. Financial Louses Heavy. According to an estimate made by A. C. Hansven, assistant city engineer, Los Angeles was damaged to the extent of at least $1,500,000. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars represented the damage to city streets alone. The re mainder represented losses sustained by railroads and by citizens who lost their homes, which were swept away by tho floods, with all their household effects. Except In the vicinity of Pomona, this county, where young groves suffered severely, orangegrowers reported com paratively little damage. Ranches and em. ' farms were Inundated, but no re liable data could be obtained as to the losses sustained by them. Gale Adds to Havoc. The flood situation about Los Angeles became acute early last night and con ditions were greatly aggravated t the same time by a gala v Men reached velocities of from 38 to 50 mles an hour at various points inland and" along the Pacific Ocean chore. - Poles and towers carrying power lines and the wires of telegraph and telephone companies went down and, with railroads and suburbr i trolley lines already out of commission, the stiuation became at once one of com plete prostration. For nearly four hours there was no streetcar arvice, and dur ing the entire day the city had only brief periods of communication with the Bast. Surrounding towns, with few exceptions, remained entirely isolated without communication by wire, rail road or trolley. Railroads report that the collapse of big bridgej over the Los Angeles River In this city and the washing out of big spans elsewhere made it uncertain when traffic could be resumed. But large gangs of men were sent out to work In continuous shifts in efforts to repair damage as quickly as possible. Hundred City Houses Destroyed. More than 100 homes were destroyed In Los Angeles alone by the torrents that rushed through the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo-Seco. As the floods in these waterways subsided to night, household goods and other prop erty, including everything from stoves (Concluded on Page 5.) CHS '5 " X J SPELLING MATCHES WILL BE CITY-WIDE WRITTEN "BEES" FOR GRADE STCDEXTS ARRANGED. Contests to Be Held In Portland Schools In May Intended to Show Modern Pupils Well Trained. L. R. Alderman, city superintendent of schools, has planned a comprehen sive programme for the revival of spelling competition in the schools which is calculated to take the place of the old-time "spellin" down matches." All of the pupils In . the grades from fourth A to ninth B, In clusive, or from 16,000 to 18,000, will participate in a city-wide competition this Spring. - Each grade of pupils will be given from 250 to 400 words to learn each term. These words will be selected from the following sources: Thirty per cent from the regulation spelling book, 30 per cent from the reader and 40 per cent from general sources. Contests will be held on Thursday and Friday, May 27 and 28, and every pupil present in every class on the day of the contest must enter. The contests will be written. The charge has been heard often that young people today do not spell as well today as they did In the days of the spelling match and the three R's, when more apparent emphasis was placed on rudimentary branches of learning. One of Superintendent Al derman's objects In the proposed con test Is to improve the children's spell ing in a positive way. One of the assistant superintendents remarked yesterday that he doubted very much whether parents today could spell any better than their off spring, and cited numerous badly spelled excuses. ZI0N MAY SMOKE OR CHEW Court Lifts John Alexander Dowie's Dictum Against Tobacco. SPRINGFIELD, 111.. Feb. 21. John Alexander Dowie's dictum against to bacco, which has been the law of the faithful in Zion City, 111., was over thrown by the Illinois Supreme Court today. The city, ordinance of Zlon City, forbidding the use of tobacco in any form within the city limits, was declared unconstitutional. Attempts to enforce the ordinance have kept Zion City in the throes of intermittent rioting for several years. HORSE RUNS DOWN WOMAN Frank Cereghinus, Farmer, Who Re fused to Stop, Arrested. With his horses traveling, it is al leged, at a fast trot, Frank Cereghinus, a farmer, yesterday ran down Mrs. J. W. Dozier, an elderly woman, at Union avenue and East Morrison street. Mrs. Dozier's hand was run over by one of the wagon wheels and she was pain fully bruised. She sas Cereghinus drove on without assisting her. Later Cereghinus was arrested by Patrolman Lewis and charged with In ability to drive a vehicle. CABINET MEMBER TO COME Secretary of Commerce Redfield tc Be in Portland in March. Secretary of Commerce RedSeld, of President Wilson's Cabinet will be in Portland and will be the guest of the Portland Commercial Club late in March. Announcement of his coming was received yesterday. The Chamber of Commerce will co operate with the Commercial Club In preparing to entertain him and detail: for the affair will be Worked out as soon as the definite date of his visit is learned. TRAINS WILL BAR LIQUOR New Haven Decides to Abolish Sale Throughout Its System. NEW YORK, Feb. 21. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad has decided, beginning March 1, to discon tinue the sale of liquor on Its trains throughout the entire system, it was officially announced tonight. US SSY)Si KrY STEFANSSON SEES KAHLUK SLIP AWAY View of "Man on Ice" Thought Schooner. SNOW SQUALL HIDES CRAFT Explorer Writes Own Story of Alaskan Experiences. BEST EQUIPMENT ON BOAT Despite Loss, Adventurer Win. Con tinue Work, Hoping to Find His Ship Next Summer Log of Dally Events Given. BY VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON. . BARROW, Alaska, Oct. 18, 1913. (Special.) On August 6, 1913, the Kar luck was in the pack ice about three miles off shore, floating northeast par allel to toe coast at about 13 miles per day. She would have been In danger of being carried an indefinite distance into the open ocean to the northwest, to freeze in there for the Winter, had the southwest wind continued that was driving the Ice in which she was pinned fast; had the wind shifted to any point between west and north before we drifted clear of Point Barrow she would have been likely to get crushed. Neither of these things happened. We passed Point Barrow early the morning of August 7 and, as expected, commenced drifting northwest on ac count of the current from the south west, which had brought us, uniting with a current from the southeast that met U3 as soon as we had passed the poleward corner of Alaska. We now drifted at the rate of over 40 miles per day. About noon of the 7th the wind changed to northeast, however, and soon after that the ice began to loosen up. By S o'clock we were able to get under way and in half an hour we were steaming freely to the east ward, mong scattered ice floes. with land In sight to the south. Cooper's Island Sighted. Toward evening the ice became denser and the weather thickened, so we tied up to some Ice for the few hours of the midnight twilight, about eight miles offshore from Cooper's Island, which we recognized by the Eskimo houses that were visible both in the evening and early morning. Soon after daylight we got under way. The ice was neither heavy nor densely packed and it was only occasionally necessary to "buck" any of it. That evening we passed Cape Hal kett and everything went well until afternoon, when, we ran aground among the Colviile fiats. We got off again In half an hour, as the bottom thin, soft mud overlying dense sand happened to be favorable. . Later we went aground again, but only lightly, as we were under slow speed. Ice Requires "Backing?." That evening we passed the Jones Islands, sometimes called the Thetis Islands. Toward morning we had to do considerable "bucking." as the Ice again became denser. The evening of August 11 we tied up behind a cake- of grounded Ice about half a mile offshore from a small gravel island or sandpit, known to some whalers as Cross Island and to others by various other names. It Is about ten miles from the mainland, in longitude 148 degrees, approximate ly. The wind was northwesterly and the ice was gradually closing in. We remained tied behind this ground ed ice until the following" afternoon, when we commenced working our way out Into the pack again. Shortly be- (Concluded on Page 11.) SOME EVENTS IN THE PAST WEEK'S NEWS ARE HEREUNDER NOTED BY REYNOLDS. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 52 degrees; minimum, 47 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional rain; southerly winds. " , Mexico. ' ( Bryan orders searching inquiry Into execu tion of Benton. Section 1, page 2. Rebels say Briton was executed for attacx on Villa. Section 1. page 1. national. ' Senate ratifies renewal of eight arbitration treaties. Section 1. page 6. Wilson's friends to boom him for another term despite platform. Section 1, page 8. Administration primary bill may restore Souta's vote in Republican conventions. Section 1, page 2. Domestic. Mysterious extra witness found locked up in Colorado mine inquiry. Section 1, page 8. American woman ordered - deported trom Italy. Section 1, page 6. Jerome argues Thaw is conspirator. Sec tion 1, page 6. ."Lou" Fields. veteran superintendent ot Southern Pacific, retires. Section 1. page 2. Southern California floods worst in history. Section 1, page 1. Frauds force change In Ohio initiative and referendum, section 1, page 5. Sports. Jefferson High-Columbia University basket ball game may be delayed. Section 2, page 4. T-'niverslty of Oregon likely to have strongest baseball team In . Its history. Section 2. page 4. Mathewson criticises Hank O'Day as rule maker. Section 2. page. 3. Orange O Club plans athletic carnival In May. Section 2, page 6. Portland Golf Cluo campaign adds 50 mem bers. Section 2, page 6. Jewish Boys' quintet wins 57 games, loses 5 Section 2. page 4. Outlaw days on Pacific Coast recalled by Portland men. Section 2. page 3. Harry Smith gives Seals once over.-. Sec tion 2. page 2. Horsemen looking for good harness racing year. Section 2. page 4. Billy Evans writes on "picking sports" ' in baseball. Section 2, page 2. Fawcett writes Ritchie like prophet without honor in home town. Section 2. page 3. Astoria Athletic Club takes breakers In midwinter. ' Section 3, page S. Candidates for sport honors at University of Washington number 150. Section 2, page, 5. Murphy ousted from baseball; Charles P. Tart buys Cubs. Section 2. page 1. Dr. Stewart denies Sieberts is "ringer" or professional. Section 2. page 1. Speck Harkness keeps In "form" by pitching gravel. Section 2, page 2. Pacific Northwest. Benton farmers start big "drainage project designed to make tillable 1.000,000 Ore gon acres. Secton 1, page 6. Washington officials plan to. organise work, men to check increase of accider-Ls. Sec - Hon 1, page 7. Second-choice votes to play , determining part in Washington Senatorial contest Section 1, page 7. . Recall petitioners to seek signatures at Ts coma. churches today. Section 1. page 8. State Treasurer Kay denounces extrava gance of .commissions. Section 1, page 10. Vilhjalmur Stefansscyi writes own story of disappearance of Karluk. Section 1, page 1. Masked robbers hold op Seattle-Tacoma ln- terurban. Section 1, page 1. Christian Endeavorers of state re-elect Mr. - Baker president. Section 1, page U. Posses by score vainly, seek train robbers. Section 1, page 8. New 600-barrer mill at 'Astoria to open April 1. Section 4. page S. Republicans represent 61.04 per cent of total , state registration to date. Section 1, page 4. Commercial and Marine. . Hop prices decline with cessation of 'East ern demand. Section 2, page 17. Chicago wheat trade distrusts crop failure . news from Hungary. Section 2, page 17. Mexican developments have depressing ef fect on stock market. Section '1. page 11. Old pilot schooner Joseph Pulitzer may be come fishing vessel. Section 2, page 6. Beaver's purser resigns to return . to old love. Section 2. page o. Portland and Vicinity. Auditorium site likely to depend on Supreme Court decision. Section 2. page 18. Coast cities celebrate 50 years of salmon industry March 13. Section 1, page 13. Only five days left in which to file Income tax statements. Section 1, page 13. Portland this week kills old system of sa loon license transfers. Section 1, page 15. Ex-uoventor Geer announces candidacy tor Governor, indorsing state-wide prohibi tion. Section 1, page 14. "All-Western Civic Pageant." gigantic pa rade planned at Panama Fair. Section page 18. Sons of American Revolution to invite Na tional meet to Portland in 1915. Sec tion 1. page 9. Superintendent Alderman announces plans tor city-wide written spelling ' bee' for Portland. Section 1, page 1. Rules to detect rabies given. Section 3, page 7. .Dr. woods Hutchinson to speak here Friday. Section 1. page 15. Columbia Highway progress Is rapid. Sec tion 1. page 12. New taxpayers association attacks water meter plan. Section 1, page 4. Hopes vanish for ex-police captains as civil service board rules. Section 1, page 1. Rose Festival bids for National balloon races. Section 1, page 5. County released from tax blame. . Section 1, page 10. Al Kader Shriners to put on great open-air festival. Section 1. page 12. Recall has brand of men once put out. Sec tion 1, page 14. T II. (TfrttV ltl W-H I TZ. r-rim. ...... I I BL" 4 W. A -A L A. HOPES VANISH FOR EX-POUCE CAPTAINS Slover and Riley, Not to' X Be Reinstated. CIVIL SERVICE BOARD ACTS Rupert and Christofferson Also Lose, at Final Meeting. EIGHT RESTORED TO LIST Municipal Commission Holds Session to Pass on Rehearing Appeals of Ten and Slover's Case Re sulting From Expose. The death-knell of the hopes of four ex-members of the Portland Police De partment, Including ex-Captains E. A. Slover and Harry Riley, for reinstate ment was rung by the Municipal Civil Service Commission at a session held at the City . Hall last night Six patrolmen and two sergeants, dismissed at the same time with the four, December 11 last, "for the good of the service," were reinstated. The Commission sustained the charges against these men, and imposed a six months' enforced absence from duty, dating from the day of their dismissal. At the expiration of this time, they may take their places in the civil serv ice eligible list with the same stand ings that they received when they passed their examinations on entering the service. . . , Six ' Restored to List. The four mefi whose cases were quietly interred by the Commission are ex-Captain Slover, ex-Captain Riley, ex-Sergeant C. J. Rupert and ex-Patrolman H. Christofferson. The six men who are restored to the eligible list are: Sergeants Thomas J. Casey and A. L. Pressey and Patrolmen John Jones, A. Schlrmer, R. L. White side, Charles S. Frey, Guy E. Fuller and B. B. Hutchins. . All of the men except Captain Slover have had trials before the Commissio and the action of the Commission was taken on their petitions for a rehear ing. - It was the outspoken opinion of mem bers of the Commission, all of whom were present, that Captain Slover has never desired a hearing of his case be fore the Commission. Trn Cases Tried Together. In the cases. acted on last night, the Commission tried ten together, and the case of Patrolman Frey separately. Chairman Caldwell called the meet lng to order, and at once delegated Commissioner Logan to be the spokes man in announcing the decisions of the body. Nearly 'all of the discharged police officers and patrolmen were In th crowd which filled the Council chamber. among them former Captain Riley, for mer Sergeant Rupert and Patrolman Frey. Former Captain Slover was not present. "The conclusion of the Commission as to Captain Riley," said Commissioner Logan, "is that he, being the leader, as to his standing in office, in the of fenses committed and admitted by him, cannot be given a rehearing. This, with the further consideration that he was warned three or four months be fore the final denouement, compels the Commission' to announce that the charges against him are sustained. Rupert's Case the Same. "In the case of Sergeant Rupert," went on Commissioner Logan, "the de fense was the same, hut the Commis sion iz impelled in its action by the fact that Sergeant Rupert, withou- cause or provocation, Insulted a rep (Concluded on Page 9.) ROBBERS HOLD UP SOUND INTERURBAN THREE-MASKED MEX TAKE $350 . OX SEATTLE-TACOMA TRAIN, Thieves Cover Faces With Colored . Handkerchiefs and Force Con ductor to Pass Hat. SEATTLE, Feb. 21. Three masked men held up an interurban train on the Seattle-Tacoma Electric Railway to night and robbbed the passengers, of more than J350. The passengers made no resistance. After the robbers had collected their tribute they leaped from the moving car ,and escaped. The train, which left Seattle at 9:05 o'clock, was made up of two coaches. In the first or smoking car there were 90 men. In the second car there were 30 passengers, mostly women. The train made Its usual stop at The Meadows, about five miles south of Seattle, and among the persons who got on were three men who were colored handkerchiefs about their heads and hats pulled down. Two of the new passengers entered the smok ing car. One had a yellow handker chief over ,h's face,' with eyeholes slit in the cloth. The second wore a red bandanna over his eyes. One of the men pointed a pistol at the conductor and orderrd.him to come with them. The robbers went down the aisle, ordering the passengers to give up their money. All complied and it Is estimated that $350 was trans ferred from the pockets of the pas sengers to those of the robbers. One passenger had $160 in his pocket and gave up' $12. No attempt was made to search the passengers or parley with them, the robbers taking what was handed to them. UNITED TWINS BORN; DIE Children Resembling .Siamese Twins Succumb Before Reaching World. Heroic efforts were made last night at Good Samaritan Hospital to save the lives of twins born to Mrs. S. C. Carle son, of Park Rose. The case as re ported last night by Dr. W. "W. Bruce is one of the most remarkable in the history of local surgery. The twins were Identical with the nature of birth of the famous Siamese Twins, the exception being that the children were girls, and both succumbed be fore admitted into the world. Mrs. Carleson was removed from the family home at the end of the Park Rose carllne to the Good Samaritan Hospital, where a bevy of attendants worked for hours in an effort to save the lives of the twins and mother. JAPANESE SUBMARINE GONE After Three Bays Xaval Men Think All on Board Are Lost. HIROSHIMA, Japan, Feb. 21. A Jap anese submarine attached to the pro tected cruiser Hirado has been missing for three days. The naval attaches be lieve she has met with disaster and that all have been drowned. The submarine had been dispatched to search for torpedoes lost during practice off Kakumajima. OVERLAND TRAIN WRECKED Twin City Express on Northern Fa ciflc Derailed and One Killed. SEATTLE, "Wash., Feb. 21. Northern Pacific Overland passenger train No. 5, the Twin City Express, westbound. was partially derailed tonight at Black River Junction, 10 miles from Seattle, and Engineer Charles Dulin, of Seattle, Instantly killed. None of the passengers was Injured. WILLIAM ACCEPTS THRONE New Ruler of Albania Hailed as King, and "Your Majesty." NUEWIED, Germany, Feb. 21. Prince William, of Wled, entered the ranks of European sovereigns today when he formally accepted the throne of Alabama, tendered to him by Essad Pasha, at the head of a deputation of Albanian notables. REBELS SAY BRITON HAD FULL HEARING Armed Attack on Villa ' Is Death Charge. FRIENDS SNEER AT REPORT Declaration Benton Carried Weapons Is Disbelieved. TRIAL RECORD PUBLISHED Witnesses at Court-3Iartial Say It They Had Not Been Present General Would Have Been Murdered In Office. EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 21. The record of the alleged court-martial ot Wil liam S. Benton, made public at Juarez late today, asserts that the Scotchman was present, that he was represented by a rebel officer as attorney, and was permitted to testify, and that the ses sion was public He was executed for attempted armed violence against General Villa, declares the record, and was found guilty of giving aid and comfort to the enemy by giving them cattle and forage and by giving them Information. Benton's Friends Skeptical. Benton's friends on this side of the Rio Grande received the report with sneers. They pointed to their knowl edge of many years that he guarded against possible serious results of his high spirit and temper by never car rying a pistol. The statements that Benton was allowed to testify and that the proceedings were public carried no conviction to the men who assert that their friend was deliberately murdered. The record opens with the statement that an extraordinary council of war was convened at 4:15 o'clock last Tues day by Colonel Fidel A villa. The coun cil convened a court-martial, of which Major Jesus Rodrlgues was president, assisted by four other judges. "The accused," says the report, "was arraigned and having been advised to name someone to defend him. Captain Mariano Tamez was designated for this purpose and was warned to defend Benton loyally." Benton's Call Inopportune. There was no further mention of any activity on the part of the captain. The witnesses against Benton were Major Manuel E. Banda and Adrles Farias. It does not appear that Villa testified. Banda and Farias swore that Benton called on Villa Tuesday fore noon "at an Inopportune moment." Witnesses were with Villa at the time. Benton,- they said, made com plaint of rebel depredations on his ranch, Los Remedios, In the State of Chihuahua, and asked permission to return to it. Villa replied that it was not desired that Benton should return to Mexico because he was well known as a sympathizer w'lth Huerta, "to whom he had given help In many ways; giving Information of the movements of our troops; having intimate relation with the 'red flag" chiefs (.Orozco and Salazar), and considered the constitu tionalists as rebels and bandits. Villa," continues the report, "said that be cause Benton was a foreigner, his property had not been confiscated, but he must remain out of the country be cause he was an element destructive of the peace ana prosperity of the country." Reply "Harsh and Violent." "The accused man answered In harsh and violent terms and asserted that no human power could keep him out of (Concluded on Page 2.)