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Section One
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Seml-Monthiy Slasaslne
VOL. XXXIII-XO. 11.
P0RTLAXD. ORKGOX. SUNDAY MORNING. 31 ARCH 15, 1914.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BATTLESHIP FIRES
GREAT BROADSIDE
QUEEN, IMPATIENT,
SNAPS PEARL CHAIN
DRESSER, ON STEPPING BACK,
RUINS $10,000 WORTH.
on AT PFNfll FT W000 perish in
LU Ml I LIIULL c.i A7m ti n a I aal-
00.00
ACRES
DEADLOCK REACHED
THAW APPEALS TO
PEOPLE OF STATE
Prisoner Begs Support
for Resolution.
STATE TO BE. OPEN
RKCORD BROKEX AT TRIAL- OF
ARGENTINE DREADNOUGHT.
WAVE OVERWHELMS TOWNS AS
HURRICANE RAGES.
Nil RULE ISSUE
DICTINT
Tract Is Taken From
National Forests.
ORDER SIGNED BY PRESIDENT
Land in Deschutes and Paulina
Reserves to Be Settled.
BARS DOWN IN 60 DAYS
Entire Area Is to Be Placed Under
Jurisdiction of Offices at The
Dalles and Lakevlew Other
Openings Are Likely.
More than 400,000 acres of land In
the Deschutes and Paulina ' National
forests in Crook, Lake and Klamath
counties will Be thrown open for set
tlement within 60 days through an or
der just signed by President Wilson
withdrawing this land from the forest
reservations.
It is reported that tne land will be
epened for actual settlement May 9 and
that filings will be permitted on and
after June 8.
Officials of the Forestry Bureau In
Portland estimate that of the aggre
gate of 410,763 acres thrown open, ap
proximately 120,000 a:res are occupied
by settlers. These settlers will be per
mitted to remain. Settlers on Fhe re
maining 290.000 acres will be permitted
to take up homesteads of 160 acres each
in accordance with the Federal land
laws.
Transfer Bring: Made.
" The formalities of transferring this
land from the Agricultural Department
of the Federal Government to the In
terior Department now are in progress
at Washington, D. C.
The entire area will be placed under
Jurisdiction of the local land offices at
Lake view and The Dalles. Intending
settlers are Instructed to make In
quiries concerning the lands at those
offices. - -
. Of the total 60,893 acres lie within
the Deschutes forest and 349,879 acres
in the Paulina forest. The land is in
the same general locality, since the two
forests adjoin.
Large Area la Near La Pine.
An aggregate of 176,640 acres of the
gross' elimination lies In the immediate
Vicinity of La Pine and Crescent. This
acreage is covered with lodgepole pine,
a timber species which, in this locality,
is of low commercial value. Seme of
this land, however, has already been
settled. The precise area that has not
been settled and that will be open for
the entry of new homesteaders now is
being calculated and its exact location
will be described so that settlers will
have a Minimum of difficulty in locat
ing jt
An aggregate of 221,070 acres, which
also includes lands that have been set
tled and lands not settled, s in the
hills about the Fort Rock Valley and is
covered with a sparse growth of juni
per trees and sagebrush. This land
was recommended for elimination
largely on account of thu low value of
the timber and the availability of other
National forest timber land nearby for
community use for lumber and fuel.
George II. Cecil, district forester in
Portland, has not received official con
firmation of the dates upon which the
land will be opened for settlement
and for entry, but it is understood that
it will not be later than the early part
of June.
C'lawilfiratlon Not Made.
The lands have not been Anally
classified by the Department of Agri
culture as to. their agricultural char-
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TM; WAS? t?rY T(
Men on Board Forced to Carry Rub.
bcr In Teeth, Cotton In Mouths
to Endure Detonations.
' BOSTON, March 14. Firing what was
said to be the greatest salvo of big
guns ever discharged from a battle
ship, the Argentine , dreadnought
RivadiVta tiday completed the trials
demanded by the contract. Every re
quirement was fulfilled, ' her builders
announced. ' '
The salvo was delivered In one
broadside. Twelve 12-inch guns and
six six-inch guns were trained from
the portside of the big sea fighter as
she lay off Cape Cod. With the pres
sure of a single button the 18 guns
were discharged, sending as many
heavy projectiles out over the waters
of the Atlantic The dreadnought was
shaken somewhat, glass was broken,
notwithstanding copper shutters, and
minor fittings were displaced, but the
structure of the battleship, it was said,
stood firmly under the strain. The
test was repeated without causing any
unexpected damage.
During the dtspharge the men aboard
had to carry rubber between their
teeth and cotton in their ears to ease
the jar of the mighty detonations.
LINER'S " RUN 618 KNOTS
Lusitanla Makes Record of Almost
31 Miles an Hour for Day.
NEW YORK, March 14. (Special.)
A wireless message received by the
Cunard line today from Captain Dow
reports that the Lusitania, which left
Now York Tuesday has broken the
record for a day's run on' the trip
across.
From Thursday to noon yesterday the
Lusitania steamed 618 knots, an aver
age of 26.70 knots for 24 hours. , This
is equal to a speed of almost 31 miles
in hour. The best previous record
was 23.47 knots an hour, made by the
Lusitania's sister ship, the Mauretania,
when Captain Dow was temporarily in
command of her.
'RQFESSOR TAFT DECLINES
Two Reasons Prevent Acceptance ol
Any College Presidency.
WILMINGTON. Del., March 14. Ex-
President Taft has declined an offer to
become president of Delaw?!e-College,
which position was offered him at a
salary of $5000 a year. In a letter to &
trustee of the institution, he said:
'I am quite content with my posi
tion, in New Haven, and I could not ac
cept the presidency of any university
or college for two reasons first, be
cause 1 am not fitted for it, and. sec
ond, because I have other work in which
I believe I can do more good."
CROWN PRINCEHAS FROLIC
Kaiser's Son Stages T"rench Play and
Jests With Actors..
BERLIN. March 14. (Special.)
Crown Prince Frederick William acted
as stage manager for a French ' play
which wa3 performed by celebrated
Berlin comedians at his palace tonight.
The performance was very success
ful, but the tone of the play, which
is freer than anything the Kaiser
sanctions at court, rather scandalized
the aristocratic audience, which Yas
further shocked by the Crown Prince
supplying the actors and chatting and
laughing with them.
SAND SPIT TO. BE SOWN
Sea Grass, Bull Pine and Willows to
lie Tried at Coos Bay.
MAKSHl'IKLD. Or., March 14. (Spe
cial.) Roy Rozelle, United States en
gineer in Coos Bay, will start the
planting of 35 acres of sea grass next
Monday on the north sand spit.
Mr. Rozelle is also expecting to plant
bull pine and willows in the sand
country.
SOME EVENTS IN THE WEEK'S NEWS MOVE CARTOONIST
Ulster Insists on Per
manent Exclusion.
WAR PREPARATIONS GO ON
Orangemen's Efforts No Long
er Characterized as 'Bluff.'
CHURCHILL GIVES WARNING
Close Friend BelieTes Premier As-
quith Eventually Will Abandon
Nationals and Exclude
' Ulster From Plans.
LONDON, March 14. A settlement of
the Irish home rule difficulty apparent
ly has teen little advanced by the
British government's great concessions
to the Vlsterlties and, taking the as
sertions of both political parties at
their face value, the deadlock today re
mains as immovable as before Premier
.squith's conciliatory offer was made
in the House of Commons on March 9.
The signers of the Ulster covenant
declare strongly that nothing less than
the permanent exclusion of the Protes
tant counties of Ulster from the Irish
government at Dublin, instead of the
proposed six-year? option, will be con
sidered by them.
Entire Province Dcmaadtd, .
The more radical covenanters demand
not only the exclusion of the four coun
ties Antrim, Armagh, Londonderry and
Down in which the Protestants are In
the majority, but they want the entire
province of Ulster excluded. ' Anything
else, they say, would be the desertion
of their comrades in counties where
Protestants are in the minority and
would be treason to their covenant.
Sir Edward Carson, leader of the
Ulster Unionists, sent a message to Bel
fast today, saying:
io lar as our preparations are con
cerned, the pronouncement of the gov
ernment,- if anything, necessitates a
still more forward movement this year.
We are going to make good in action
all we have been saying and pre
paring for during, the last two years."
Limit Reached, Says Churchill.
On the other side the government
representatives assert that Premier
Asquith's scheme is the absolute limit
of concessions and is not a basis for
further negotiations.
Winston Spencer Churchill, flrst lord
of the British Admiralty, speaking at
Bradford, Yorkshire, today, said:
"It seems to me that in principle
I don't speak of details that it is the
last offer His Majesty's government can
or ought to make."
Sir Edward Russell, who Is a close
friend of Premier Asquith, writing in
the Liverpool Daily Post, of which he
is the editor, takes a different view.
He. says:
"In non-political clubs everybody is
confident that Premier Asquith has
made up his own mind to let the Na
tionalists go, that sooner or later he
will tell Mr. Redmond that the only
feasible home rule is one which means
the entire exclusion of Ulster."
Some of tho Nationalist organs bit
terly denounce the Nationalist members
for submitting to Premier Asquith's
terms.
War Preparation Not Ridiculed.
Little talk is now heard that the
Orangemen's preparations to tight are
a gigantic blufT. The covenanters say
they have 90,000 men drilling in Sir
Edward Carson's army, with 60,000
rifles and some pieces of artillery.
The London newspapers are filled
with pictures of Ulster men in civilian
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Mary of England, in Being Disrobed,
. Piqued at Delay, Attempts to
Give Aid Disastrously.
LONDON, March 14. (Special.)
When assisting Queen Mary to disrobe
last night after the last court of the
season. Miss Selby, the . Queen's chief
dresser, had difficulty in opening the
clasp of Her Majesty's large pearl neck
lace. '
The Queen, "who is notoriously some
what impatient In such circumstances,
endeavored . to open the clasp herself.
She broke the chain and nine pearls
slipped off.
Miss Selby In stepping back trod on
three of them, accidentally doing S10,
000 worth of damage. The necklace
is most valuable, as It was a joint pres
ent from Queen Victoria, King-Edward
and Queen Alexandra.
WOMAN KILLED, 30 HURT
Crumbling Rails Believed to Have
Been Cause of Wreck.
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ST. PAUL, March 14. An unidentified
woman was killed and more than 30
other persons injured, several probably
fatally, when two coaches of passenger
train No. 4, on the Chicago, St. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad left the
rails tonight and rolled down an em
bankment at Mendota, Minn.
Two coaches in the middle of the
train broke from the rear coaches and
toppled out. One of them stood almost
upright, throwing the passengers to the
end of the coach. Only a few passen
gers In this coach escaped Injury. The
fact that both coaches were steel prob
ably saved a score of lives.
Railroad men differ as to the cause
of the wreck. The general opinion was
that the rails crumbled after the en
gine and first few cars had passed.
HARD GALE HITS IRELAND
Roofs of 100 Houses Lifted and
Liners Are Unable to Dock.
QUEENSTOWN. Ireland, March 14.
A severe gale caused heavy damage to
property and shipping here today. The
roofs of more than 100 houses were
ripped off by the wind.
The Cunard liner Andania, from Bos
ton, after being delayed for several
hours in the inner harbor,, was obliged
to proceed to Liverpool without land
ing i her passengers. The Haverford,
for Philadelphia, also-was kept in the
harbor for several hours.
ALL-WOMAN CHURCH BORN
English Suffragettes Tire of Men
Conducted Worship Places.
LIVERPOOL, March 14. (Special.) A
number of women, including many suf
fragettes, who are dissatisfied with
men-conducted churches, have formed
a women's church, to be run by women.
It will be called "The Church of the
New Ideal," all preachers will be wom
en. At some of the services women
only will be admitted. Men will be
allowed to be present at others.
FLEEING YOUTH IS SHOT
Policeman Opens Fire on Supposed
Thieves and Hits One.
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CHICAGO, March 14. A 16-year-old
boy shot in the head by a policeman to
day was taken in a dying condition to
a hospital. Physicians said he had no
chance to recover.
Two policemen heard some one
beaking Into an elevated railroad sta
tion. They gave chase and sent a hail
of shots at three fleeing figures. One
of them crumpled and fell. The other
boys, 15 and 11 years of age, surren
dered. Oldest Member of Elks Dies at 109.
OWOSSO, Mich.. March 14. Daniel
O'Connell, 109, known during the last
few years as the oldest living member
of tlie Elks, died at his home near
here today.
Wide-Open Gambling
Believed Charged.
POLICE DEPARTMENT IN CLEAR
Two Witnesses Thought FaC'
ing Perjury Accusations.
SHERIFF SEEKING ACCUSED
Half of Parties Against Whom Bills
Are Returned by Grand Jury Are
Said to Be Missing From City.
Frontier Days Recalled.
PENDLETON. Or., March 14. (Spe
cial.) Twenty indictments were re
turned late today by the grand Jury
after passing the greater part of the
week in investigating the alleged
charges of gambling, bootlegging and
immoral practices under police protec
tion. Though no arrests have yet been
made and no names Ivave been disclosed
by the officers. It is believed that no
indictments were returned against
Chief Kearney or any of his subordi
nates. It is understood that 18 Indictments
are for gambling, allowing gambling
in places of business and permitting
minors in poolrooms.
Perjury Chances Likely.
The other two indictments are said to
be for perjury, it being alleged that two
witnesses subpenaed before the grand
Jury gave false testimony.
One paragraph of the grand Jury's
report was ordered stricken out by
Judge Phelps. It is reported that this
paragraph declared that while there
was no evidence of corruption-on the
part of police officials, these men
should be censured for permitting gam
bling-rooms to be run in almost open
violation of the law.
It Is said that evidence brought out
in the course of the week's investiga
tion tended to show that Pendleton was
Just as wide open a town, so far as
gambling was concerned, last Fall as
it ever was in her palmiest frontier
days.
Gamblers Exodua follows.
The months of September, October
and November are the ones in which
gambling is said to have flourished to
the greatest extent. Later many of the
gamblers are alleged to have left the
city. During a part of the Fall a half
dozen bouses are said to have been in
full swing.
It is also said that fully one-half of
those against whom indictments are
returned today have anticipated the
action of the grand Jury and left.
Warrants for arrest were placed In
the hands of Sheriff Taylor tonight and
arrests will be mado as fast as the ac
cused men can be located.
RAILWAY WORK ANNOUNCED
Improvements to Be Started Soon at
Walla Walla Will Cost $200,000.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., March 14.
(Special.) Work on the erection of a
foundation for the new freight depot
and the laying of many additional side
tracks, which will mean an aggregate
expenditure of J160.000 to $200,000. will
be started by the Northern Pacific
Railway Company in a few weeks.
F. M. Smith, of the engineering de
partment of the company, was here to
day with plans. General Agent Cakler
head said that work will commence in
less than a month. The depot will be
located at Oak and Second streets and
is to cost $70,000. It probably will be
of pressed brick.
REYNOLDS TO ARTISTIC EFFORT.
Dam Breaks at Historic Town and
130 Are Drowned in Yazenkaja.
Province Is Storm-Swept.
EKATINADOR. Russia, March 14.
More than 1000 persons perished today
in the inundation of the towns of Sta
nitza and Achtyrskaja by a tidal wave
from the Sea of Azov. The wave
struck the town during a violent hur
ricane which swept the province of
Kuban.
More than 130 persons also were
drowned In floods in Yazenkaja.
A dam collapsed in the town of
Temryuk, on the Tanana Peninsula, 98
miles northwest of this city, flooding
the greater part of the city and
drowning many persons.
The sea. washed away 380 fniildings
in Achtyrskaja.
Temryuk is a historic town with a
population of 16.000. It once was the
seat of the Turkish fortress Adass,
The towns of Stanitza, Achtyrskaja
and Yazenkaja do not appear on any
available maps and probably are small
places bordering on the Sea of Azov.
The province of Kuban, in which the
stricken towns are situated, is in
Southern Russia and has coast lines
on both the Black Sea and the Sea of
Azov. The population of the province
aggregates about 2,000,000 persons, of
whom two-fifths are Cossacks.
The country is extremely fertile and
extensively used in ihe culture, of
grain. . Cattle grazing is also con
ducted on a largre scale.
ACCIDENT CHEATS GRAVE
"Safety-First" Button Swallowed,
Reveals Dangerous Appendix.
CHICAGO, March 14.--"Safety first,"
said Harry Spieckerman, an office em
ploye of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railroad, as he placed one of
tho company's "safety first" buttons In
his mouth today. Then he swallowed
the button. It was attached to a brass
pin and Spieckerman was taken to a
hospital, where both the button and his
appendix were removed.
The surgeon asserted Spieckerman
would have died in a month if he had
net swallowed the button, as his ap
pendix was treble its natural size and
be was in a dangerous condition.
SPELLING "BEE" IS RIOTOUS
Youths Quarrel Over Word, Free-
For-All Ensues and One Is Shot?
GUTHRIE, Okla., March 14. At a
township spelling "bee" at Marshall,
near htfre, today Ray Blanchard, 13
years old, and Artie Nurse. 17 years
old, quarreled over the spelling of the
word "Constantinople."
A general fight among spectators
followed, in which Nurra was shot and
seriously wounded.
HUSBAND PREFERS JAIL
Prisoner Requests Six Months' Sen
tence So He Can Get Rest.
LOS ANGELES, March 14. Sentence
of six months ii' jail so he could ob
tain a rest from his wifo was requested
today by Alexander Krystosick, a labor
er, when he was taken before Police
Judge Frederickson to answer a battery
complaint preferred by Mrs. Krystosick.
Sentence was postponed until Mon
day. WORKING GIRLS INVITED
Mrs. Waldorf Astor Includes Sweet
hearts in Ball Plans.
LONDON, March 14. (Special.) Mrs.
Waldorf Astor, formerly Nannie Lang
horne Shaw, will give a ball next Satur
day at her home on St. James Square
for 15 girl employes of her dressmaker.
Each girl is expected to bring her
sweetheart They will be received by
Mrs. Astor and waited'on by her servants.
HOPE RESTS IN LEGISLATURE
Demand That Prosecution End
Pending at Albany.
MOTHER'S GRIEF DEPICTED
Youth Gone, Resources Impaired,
Declares Defendant in Letter to
All Who Believe He Has
Been Punished Enough.
CONCORD. N. H.. March 14. Harry
K. Thaw has addressed to the people
of the Sttte of New York, in whose
name is being conducted the contest
to return htm to the Matteawan Asy
lum for the Criminal Insane, an ap
peal to end the case against him. A
statement of the case was telegraphed
today by Thaw to newspapers and press
tssocl ttlons, calling attention to reso
lutions which have been introduced in
the New York Assembly by John B.
Golden, demanding that tho prosecu
tion be terminated.
Reviewing his two trials. Thaw sets
forth that of the 26 men confined
with him in the Tombs in 1906 charged
with homicide. 23 are free today, and
other men have escaped from Mattea
wan without being pursued.
Desire for Sympathy Denied.
Th3 statement concludes as follows:
"I do not ask for sympathy, but only
justice, which should be the inherent
right of every man. For the deed com
mitted. I ask no benevolence. It was
done in a moment when sorrow
wrecked my home nd when I was
forced to realize that the happiness
of a lifetime, which after marriage
should have been mine, was taken
from me. The deed was committed:
my family, those near and dear to me,
publicly exposed to the closest scrut
iny: my mother plunged into grief,
and myself into a living doath, the
tortures of which I do not wish to
relate.
People Asked to Write.
"I am now a man, my youth passed:
my resources impaired. My parents'
charities have been extensive; I my
self have assisted many in need. The
future holds for me an opportunity
to bring some peace and happiness to
my aged mother, who in these eight
years has known none, and who has
spent her declining years in untold
sorrow.
"My adversary now seeks to place
me in Matteawan in a living hell to
there spend the rest of my life, never
again to take my place in my mother's
home in her remaining years; and in
respectful confidence I now appeal to
the citizens of New York in the power
of their sovereignty to stop the prose
cution and therefore ask that all peo
ple "who believe that I have suffered
years of punishment commensurate
with my deed write the Representa
tives of their own district at Albany
to support and vote for theso resolu
tions." Bitterness I'VIt Against Jerome. '
Thaw's reference to "my adversary"
is to William Travers Jerome, against
whom the prisoner continues to feel a
personal grudge, such as does not char
acterize his attitude toward any of the
others connected with the prosecution
or with his incarceration. This has
been intensilied by Mr. Jerome's recent
vigorous prosecution of the case, more
recently when at Concord he criticised
the commission which recently decided
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