80 Pages Section One Pages 1 to 16 Seirest Sections, Including: Semi-Monthly Magazine VOL,. XXXIII-M). 9. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUXDAY MORXIXG, MARCH 1, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. i POLITICAL FISH A! E WIS SET Governor's 'Machine' Is Baited for Deputies. NEW WARDEN GETS FREE REIN Ousted Helpers, if 'Right,' May Get Back Jobs. L. ALVA LEWIS DISMISSED Allejred Disloyalty and "False and Malicious Statements" Laid to Employe of Commission. Duncan at Meeting. SALEM, Or., Feb. 28. (Special.) Finishing touches were out on the po litical "reorganization" ot the State Fish and Game Commission at a meet ing here today when C. H. Evans, a personal friend of Governor "West, and the new State Game Warden, was em powered to employ' such deputlos as he desired. This action, following fast upon the wholesale dismissal of the deputies, politicians here declare, proves conclu sively that the appointments to be made will be with a view of enlarging the scope of the "machine" which is in tended to do yeoman service for Dr. J. C. Smith, Governor West's candl date for Governor, and other candidates favored by him. 41 Old Deputies Let Oat. About 41 deputies under the old regime were let out and Mr. Evans said after the meeting that it would be nec essary for him to employ about 28 or 30. He denied that there was anything political In the move, and said the men had been dismissed because it was be lieved the best way to bring about a reorganization. He intimated that many of the former deputies would be ap pointed. It is believed that a number of the men will take the hint to "get In right" politically. A resolution summarily dismissing L. Alva Lewis from the employ of the Commission, for alleged disloyalty and "false and malicious statements" was adopted. State Biologist Finlcy, who presented the resolution, said that Mr. Lewis had made false statements to Governor West. He is agent for the United States Biological Survey in Port land, and received $50 a month for work done for the fish and game de partment. Reappointment Gets Notice. B. E. Duncan, ex-member of the Com mission, who was reappointed by Gov ernor West yesterday, attended the , meeting. His reappointment gives color to a report circulated at the time the Governor accepted tils resignation and those of Commissioners Hughes and Stone, who said they could not get along with Commissioner Kinney, thai eventually one or two of them would be again made members of the board when the Governor had obtained com plete control of it. When the Governor found he could not dismiss Mr. Kinney it became nec essary for him to devise a plan for at least preventing him from accomplish ing anything on the board until he could be removed. Evans, one of the new appointees, in a few weeks ob tained a place at a salary of J2100 a year provided by the board, and he re signed as a Commissioner. Duncan was then named as his successor. Should Mr. Kinney attempt to retain his position on the board through court proceedings, it is declared because o a constantly changing personnel of the Commission he would not know who (Concluded on rage 4.) CITY TO GIVE AWAY 105,000 ROSE SLIPS PLANTS TO BEAUTIFY SIDE AVALKS XOW NURTURED. Cuttings From Parks Are Being Set Out at Mount Tabor Xursery and Will Be Distributed in Fall. One hundred and five thousand choice rose bushes are to be given away free by the city next Fall to per sons who will agree to plant them in the parking strips and take care them. Announcement to this effec was made yesterday by Park Superin tendent Mische, who has worked ou plans for a mammoth city rose nursery at Mount Tabor Park. All the cuttings from rose bushes in all the' parks of the city have been sent to Mount Tabor FarK, wnere gardeners are now setting them out. They will be carefully cultivated until next Fall, when they will be strong plants with roots. It is the plan then to take .them up and distribute them among persons who will agree to care for them. Each bush will be marked correctly as to name and color, so that persons can have a choice in selecting the plants for their parking strips. It is estimated that if the bushes are planted 12 In front of each BO-fooV lot there will be a sufficient number of plants to extend along both slde of the street over 1100 blocks. Here tofore the rose cuttings from the parks have been thrown away or used for making slips for use in the parks. The innovation is one aimed to beautify the city by havin-r healthy rose bushes along every street. MARS CANALS CHANGE HUE Development Held to Support Theory Snow Is Responsible. BOSTON, Feb. 28. The so-called canals on Mar are now exhibiting striking seasonal developments, ac cording to Dr. Perclval Lowell, of the Flagstaff (Ariz), observatory. In a dis patch received here today he said: "The North Polar cap of the planet Is melting and the canals are strongest and darkest near the edge of the cap." This is said to be in accord with Dr. Lowell's theory, that the melting of snow at the Martian Pole produces floods that, sweeping south, are re sponsible for color changes in the "canals." GIRL F0UNDWITH POISON Homesick One Plans to Die if Effort to Reach Home Fails. LOS ANGELES, Feb.. 28. Caught with a bottle of poison, wl lch she said she intended to take if her plans miscar ried, Mildred Weinberg, a penniless girl, aged 17, was found today hidden aboard a train on which she said she intended to beat her way to Chicago, her old home. "I am homesick; that is all," said the girl when arrested. "I want to go hack to Chicago. If I can't go back I want to die." The girl refused to give the address of her former home in Chicago. She was taken to the Detention Home. MILITANT CHIDES ROYALTY Suffragette Thrown From Hall for Scolding King and Queen. LONDON, Feb. 28. At a charity concert in Albert Hall tortniit, where the King and Queen were present, a suffragette seated opposite the royal box started haranguing King George, demanding why he did not make his ministers stop torturing women. Attendants seized the woman and ejected her from the hall, the audience meanwhile hissing her vigorously. Immigration Station In View. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Feb. 28. Secretary Wilson has informed Senator La'ne that if immi gration increases with the opening of the Panama Canal an immigration star tlon will be established in Portland in due course. CHT00TI3T GARRANZA REFUSES OF Benton Case D&clared British Question. CASE OF BAliCH DIFFERENT Rebel Commander Will Investi gate Fate of American. OWN DIGNITY DEFENDED "I Am Supreme Chief of Constitu tionalist Army," Says General, and Adds letters Should Be Addressed to Him. NOOAT.RS Snnnro T7Vl! N 1 Carranza declined today to, . ..llh in formation to the State Department at wasmngton regarHing the killing at Juarez of the British subject, William xienton. At the same tln-m h t-n va assurances to Secretary Bryan that he wouia investigate the disappearance near Juarez of Gustav Bauch. an Amer ican citizen. This strongly defined stand rnmps after three days of negotiation between the American Secretary of State and constitutionalists' commander-in-chief, through Frederick Simpich, American Consul at Nogales. and Tsld Acting Secretary of Foreign Relations in carranza s provisional Cabinet. Two Answers Made at Once. Until today General Carranza had re. mained silent retarding hla st.nii nr. the request of Secretary Bryan made three days ago for information of Ben ton's death. Another mcssace arrived tnrlnv fmm Secretary Bryan in which he requested immediate information about the dis appearance of Bauch. Carranza's re plies were made to both nnpstinn at the same time and In the form of docu ments translated into English. The stand was taken bv thA rovniu- tlonary leader that the death of Ben ton, a Briton, should be tak en 11 n through the diplomatic channels of Js country. " The fact that Enirland has j-Bcno-nWni the Huerta central government was not mentioned in the document, but oc casioned much speculation among those familiar with the situation. Pointed Notice Taken. Carranza, in his reference to the Benton case, pointedly remarked Bryan's original message had been the first official mention of the matter brought to his attention as directing head of the revolution. In the written message to Secretary Bryan which was addressed to Consul Simpich, Carranza did not say that any Investigation of the Benton case was being made on his part. However, simultaneously with the two notes to Washington, Secretary Fabela issued an official announcement saying that the Benton case was being investigated for the satisfaction of the Constitu tionalist party. It was understood that Secretary Bryan's first message merely asked for information regarding the Benton death, which had been requested by the British foreign office. On the delivery of this telegram. General Car ranza entered on lengthy conferences with his adviser. Investigation Is Ordered. Senor Fabela when pressed for more ample information in the Benton case said: Mr. Carranza has officially informed the Department of State at Washing ton that he could only attend to rep resentations regarding the Benton case (Concluded on Page 4.) DEMAND BRYAN EEY1T0LDS AGAIN COMMENTS PICTOEIALLT vvi ts v v h-f t r r 'Vw-? . ySMSSMMl INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum . temperature, 54 degrees; minimum, 48 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; brisk to high southerly winds. Foreign. German Admiral says Dewey threatened war. Section 1. page 1. . Troubles o; Winston Churchill, First Lord of Admiralty, multiply. Section 4, paga 9. Tax revision aids poor of Austria. Section 4, page . Fool-proof ditch Is plan at Panama. Sec tion 4, page . National. Congress to be asked to preserve present status of Central and Southern Pacific railways. Section 1, page 4. v Italy's attitude on Immigration bill likely to rail to block it. Section 1, page 2. Wilson confronted with own words favoring tolls exemption. Section 1, page 1. Domestic. Presentation of medal to Colonel Goethals to be big occasion in New York. Section 1. page 2. Sports. Los Angeles club must climb ' on pitching staff or not at all, says Fawcett. Section 2, page 1. New rules adopted for college athletics. Sec tion 2, page 4. McCredie leaves for Spring training camp. Section 2, page 2. Edwin Pullen wins grand auto prize race in record time. Section 2, page 1. Entries asked for Columbia University meet. Section 2, page 4. 1 Tennis Insurgents win fight at annual meet ing In New York. Section 2, page 4. Committee on water carnival has day on river planned for festival. Section 2, paga 4. Australians enthusiastic over baseball since visit of American teams. Section 2, paga 2 Earl R. Goodwin picks all-star basketball team of Interscholastlc League. Section 2, paga 4. Weight question killed off Bud Anderson. says Harry Smith. Section 2, page 5. Captain Xavler Clerln, of Lincoln basketball team, leads Interscholastic League as point-getter. Section 2. page 4. Pacific Northwest, Governor West's poHtlcal fish and game "trap" is set at Salem meeting. Section 1. page 1. Gill confident he'll win In Seattle election and admits "it's soft." Section 1. page 6. Secretary of State of Washington calls con. ierence to plan caring tor seiners 1815. Section 1, page 7. County farm assistants named from Cor vallls: Section 1, page 7. Problems arising out of Vancouver's ap proach to Interstate bridge to be con sidered at meeting xuesuay. eecuun a. page 7. Big steel mills with Columbia River power feasible, section i. page u. Real Estate and Building- Meier & Frank plans stimulate real estate market. Section 4, paga 10. Two of finest farms in state sold in week. Section 4. page 10. South Mount Tabor district shows steady gain. Section 4, page 10. Lower Alblna to become railroad center. Section 4, page 11. Advantages In "deviating" Stark extension pointed out. Section 4, page it. La Grande Catholics building lto.000 church. Section 4. page 11. Lumber Industry of Northwest awakens. Section 4, page 11. Line to Mount Hood thought feasible. Sec tion 4, page 10. Payette-Oregon slope, including 21,500 acres. to get water, (section 4, page iz. Commercial and Marine. Week closes with higher prices in North western wheat market. Section 2, page 17. Lighter foreign demand weakens wheat at Chicago. bectlon z, page it. Advance In Wall street stock market is continued. Section 2, page if. Report of 1913 shows foreign ships and coastwise carriers total far in excess of mark reached In 1812. Section 2, page . Lumber rates to Orient cut. Section 2, paga 6. Automobiles and Roads. Yankee auto conquers world. Section 4, paga 5. Prospective "six" denied by Henry M. La land. Section 4, paga 4. Portland and Vicinity. Mayor Albee answers critics. Section 1, page 12. City to give away 105.000 young rose bushes to those who will beautify sidewalks. Section 1. page 1. Statistics show Portland enjoyed moderately healthy business In February. Section L page 12. Sheriff Word nips In bud plot of enemies to ensnare him by scandalous story. Sec tion 1, page 1. Two safe blowers admit robbing Kadderly store. Section 2, page 18. Grand Jury passes along graft and bribery charges In Ilnal report, section i, page 15. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2, page Circulation of referendum petitions on Daly water meter scheme likely this week. Section 1, page 13. Washington County dairy farmers form com mercial club. Section 1, page 14. German-speaking folk of Oregon organize at Portland meeting. Section 1, page 13. Llpman-Wolfe employes form club. Section 2. page IS. Shrine circus to be at Multnomah Hotel. Section 1. page 13. Oregon may return 400,000 Income tax. Section 2, page 17. Northern Crook County considers Irrigation possibilities. Section 4, page 12. Eighteen women In law class. Section 1, page 12. Messrs. Chapln and Herlow, real estate op erators, indicted. Sestlon 1, page 10. m n l ISI SSMMSMSM - - . ---fL L I 1 I DEWEY READY FOR 1 GERMAN Situation at Manila De clared Tense. BRITISH GOSSIP IS BLAMED American Described as Lashed by "Anxious Jealousy." RUSE OF ENEMIES FEARED Appearance of German Ship Under Officer of Higher Rank Attribu ted to "Chain of Un fortunate Event's." BERLIN, Feb. 28. In a statement of 11,000 words. Admiral von Dlederlchs replied today to Admiral Dewey's ver sion of the international incidents In Manila Bay in 1898. He says Admiral Dewey threatened the Germans with war If they did not cease Interfering with blockade regulations. Admiral Dewey Is declared to have been laboring under great tension. British interests are accused of fanning the flame. Admiral Diedrichs con cludes with the startling statement: "It was even related that Admiral Dew37' had already worked out a plan for the destruction of the German ships." Warlike Threats Reported. The German Admiral says that when Flag Lieutenant von Hintze visited Ad miral Dewey, this happened: "Admiral Dewey , gradually talked himself into a passion. He said, "Why, I shall stop every vessel, whatever may be her colors. And If she does not stop, I shall fire at her. And that means war, do you know, sir?" Admiral von Diederichs makes the comment that Admiral Dewey must have known a declaration of war did not depend on either admiral. He at tributes Admiral Dewey's conduct to nervousness arising from the weight of responsibility resting on him as com mander of the blockading fleet, and from the rumors reaching him in re gard to the falsity of the Germans. Iluse Feared by Dewey. The German Admiral took up prompt ly Admiral Dewey's assertion that it was his right and duty to communicate with all vessels entering the port of Manila and to make such inquiries aa were necessary to establish their iden tity. Admiral Dewey had declared that the showing of false colors was a com mon ruse in war. The correspondence between Admiral Dewey, Admiral von Diederichs and Ad miral Chichester, of the British fleet, is reproduced. On July 11, 1898, the German Admiral denied Admiral Dewey's right of visitation, and sent copies of his letters to all the foreign commanders in order to- ascertain their views. According to the German com mander, the French, Austrian, Japa nese and British commanders shared his opinion, although Admiral Chichester required some persuasion and endeav ored to demonstrate that Admiral Dewey's "pretensions" were Justified. Disagreement Turns on Word. The letter of July 12 from Admiral von Diederichs to Admiral Dewey, which ends the correspondence, shows that the two commanders were sub stantially In accord in regard to the procedure In connection with warships arriving at Manila. The variance of opinion was chiefly as to the inter pretation of the word "inquiries," which the German Admiral Interpreted as an invitation to establish the truth (Concluded on Page 2.) ON SOME OF THE WEEK'S NEWS. STAjL y THE WILSON RECENT TOLLS CONVERT CHANGE OF FROXT SHOWX BY SPEECH MADE IX 1912. 'Platform Xot Molasses to Catch Flies," Said President When Candidate for Office. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S. (Special.) That President Wilson has made a complete about-face on the Panama tolls question and only recently ex perienced a desire to surrender to Great Britain was shown today by Repre sentative Knowland, who had read Into the Congressional Record a speech de livered by Mr. Wilson to 2500 farmers at Washington Park, N. J., August 15, 1912. In this speech the President said: "Now there is another matter, you know; we are digging a tremen dous ditch across the Isthmus of Pana ma. One of the great objects in cut tinsr that great ditch across the Isth mus of Panama is to allow farmers who are near the Atlantic to ship to the Pacific by way of the Atlantic ports, to allow all farmers to find an outlet, to have coastwise steamers carry their products through the canal and up the Pacific Coast. isow at the present there are no ships to do that, and one of the bills pending provides for the free toll for American ships through that canal and prohibits any ships from passing through which is owned by any Amer ican railroad company. You see the object of that, don't you? We don't want the railroads to compete with themselves. "Our platform is not molasses to catch flies. It means what it says. It is the utterance of eanest and hon est men." SPELLING BEES PLANNED Clackamas School Superintendent Lavs Out Proposal. OREGON CITY, Or., Feb. 2S. (Spe cial.) To secure a team of 18 students to challenge any county in Oregon in spelling is the motive of a system of spelling bees being worked out by County Superintendent Calavan. The county is divided into three su pervisors' districts. By a systematic and thorough schedule of spelling bees the six best spellers will be picked from each of these three districts, making 18 In all. This number may be reduced by a system of tryouts to 10 or 12 or even less. The first challenge probably will be directed at Marion County if the planB of Mr. Calavan are carried out. ALL RECORDS" ARE BROKEN Registration Picks Up and 14 50 Get on List in Day. All registration records since the books were opened January G were broken yesterday, when 1450 voters registered, bringing the total registra tion to date to 35,214. The men still maintain their lead, but the women have cut lnta the hand icap until the men are ahead now by but a little more than two to one. If the women continue the gains they have made during the last two weeks they will soon reduce the men's lead to two to one or less. Of those who registered yesterday 943 were men and 507 women. GERMAN INGRADES TAKES Experiment at Irvington Success and Others Have Classes. The study of German In the public grade schools of Portland, which was Introduced only this year under the supervision of Frau Margareta Bekker, of Washington High School, has at tracted much interest and is bringing out large classes. There are nearly 200 in the German classes In the Irv ington School alone, where the course was first introduced. Three other schools also have classes and it will eventually be extended to the courses in many other grammar schools of the city. THRO$ TL SHERIFF OUTWITS GUQUE OF ENEMIES Scandal Story Framed by Daily News Upset. EX-PATROLMAN FULLER HELD Word Gets Confession of Plot Aided by Publication. WOMAN SAYS "MISTAKE" Ethel Smith, About Ready to Make Affidavit Accusing Sheriff, Meets Him AVithout Knowing It and Scheme Is Foiled. On the thin clue of two names and a telephone number. Sheriff Tom Word yesterday ran down and nailed a false and scandalous story, which the Dally News was preparing against him and had already partially printed, threw into Jail ex-Patrolman Guy Fuller and secured evidence which he declares he intends to use as a club in a fight to the finish against the News and those who are backing it in the fight against him. Fuller, on a hearsay statement mido to him by Ethel Smith, a young woman who had i' n run for tven riovo in , v. Gooding Aotel at Fifth street, between Main and Madison, carried to the News a story to the effect that Sheriff Word had for more than a week kept and paid the room rent of a young woman at the Gooding and had visited her repeatedly in her roomi purchased drinks, danced with the girls in the house and in other ways misconducted himself. Sheriff Gets Faint Clew. It v.-aa planned to bring Miss Smith to the Wews office yesterday afternoon and have her swear to an affidavit to these statements. Fuller called the woman up by phone and arranged for a meeting with her for that purpose The first hint of the attack the News was preparing was in the form of a paragraph referring to "pious Tom Word, dancing with the girls In the Gooding Hotel Before this much of the story was printed, however, the tip came to the Sheriff that the News waa preparing an attack on him. The only clews as to who were furnishing the stury waa the name of Guy Fuller, the name of a woman, "Ethel," and a telephone number. Sheriff Word called up the number and asked for Ethel. "You want Ethel Smith T' "Yes." He told her that he had talked tho matter over with Fuller and suggested that she meet him at 1:45 at the post- office and go to the News office to make an affidavit. The woman believed him to be Dana Sleeth, editor of the News, whom she had never seen. She agreed not to meet Fuller but to make the ap pointment with him instead and at 1:45 was at the Postoffice waiting for him. Woman Meets Sheriff. Walking up Fifth street with hli she told him that she had seen Sheriff Word at the Gooding many times and that she was willing to swear the affi davit concerning the story she had told, expressing great eagerness to get "such a man as him. They walked into the Courthouse and to the door of the Sheriff's private of fice, before the woman suspicioned that she was not with the editor of the News. "Come in here and I will Introduce (Concluded on Page 2.) 0OUV V" -aSS