86 Pages
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Section One
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VOL. XXXIII-XO. 13.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1914.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
KARLUK, LIKE II-
O-WISP.SEENAGAIN
Fog Rolls Up as Esk
imo Views Craft.
STEFANSSON WRITES STORY
Log of Arctic Experiences Is
Recounted Graphically.
NATIVES REFUSE TO TALK
Explorer Endeavors to Continue Re
search Along Religious Lines,
but Fears Keep Eskimo
Iom Telling Beliefs.
Vilhjclmar Stefansson, commander of the
tefansson Arctic expedition, sends to The
New York Times and The Oregonian the
article printed herewith, which has Just
reached New York from the Mackenzie
River Delta. It Is one of the series of articles
by Mr. Stefansson under a special arrange
ment.
tCopyrleht, 1914. by The Hew York Times
Company.)
BY VILHJALMAR STEFANSSON.
MACKENZIE RIVER DELTA, Arctic
Canada, Jan. 25. After .our reports
' were sent out from Point Barrow on
November 1 by the dogsled mail (due
to reach Candle, the outpost of the
Alaska mining- camps, early in Decem
ber and Seattle late in January) and
already published in The Oregonian,
we spent another week at C. D. Brow
er's whaling station near Barrow.
This was to get finished an outfit of
clothes which the natives were mak
ing for us. as well as a tent and sled
being made by Mr. Brower's workmen.
We had to have these, for the Arctic
Winter would be at its severest when
we started, or at least before we
reached our two schooners that were
reported at Collinson Point, some 300
sledging miles to the east, though less
than that as the crow flies.
Gale I'paeta All Ideas.
When we left the Karluk in Septem-
' ber it was for a week's hunt of bo in
Autumn weather, and we had been
equipped with nothing which" looked
for an absence from our ship of more
than two weeks at the utmost, for
Captain Bartlett and I had agreed that
she was almost certainly frozen fast
for the Winter, and quite certainly she
could not go anywhere where we could
not easily find her. The unprecedented
gale from the east of September 22 to
26 had upset all calculations, and we
had therefore to draw on Mr. Brower's
ample resources for everything we
. needed for comfortable and safe Winter
travel.
We finally got started November 8.
Knowing that our -schooners were safe
and amply equipped for wintering and
thinking there was nothing particular
for us to do there except help consume
our comrades' rations, we took our
time In moving eastward. We would
stop at one Eskimo camp for ethno
logical reasons, at another to set our
net for fish, and at a third just because
they were old friends who were anx
ious to have me stay a day or two.
Eskimo Visit Pleasant.
As an ethnologist, I always find
these visits pleasant and profitable,
although this year I find that concern
- in- the native religion and sacred
practices it is only from my oldest and
most Intimate friends I can secure in
formation of any kind beyond a gen
eral and untruthful blank denial that
they know or remember anything of
the matter that I Inquire about. Al
though I have lived for five years in
the houses of these people as one of
themselves, devoting myself to their
language, and especially to their re
ligion and their complicated systems
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C
I C tea
TARIFF PLUMAGE
LAW WINS FRENCH
FRENCH SOCIETIES GIVE GOLD
- MEDAL TO FRAMEK.
Ambassador Herrlck Accepts Token
for William T. Hornaday, Noted
Wild Life Protector.
PARIS, March 28. Myron T. Her
rick. United States Ambassador to
France, received today a deputation or
moTr.hi.rii r.r th French Acclimatiza-
tion Society and of the French Natural
History Association. They nauaea w
Hm v.- o-nirt mortal conferred on Wil
liam T. Hornaday, director of the New
York Zoological Park. The nonor was
conferred on Mr. Hornaday for his in
ternational service in the protection
of wild life. He was unable to be
present, as he was detained by , his
work at Yale University.
Mr. Hornaday drafted the paragraph
dealing with plumage in the new Amer
ican tariff bill.
Edmond Pommier, who aided the
HftnlltfLtlon. addressed the Ambassador,
eulogizing the work of Mr. Hornaday.
The Ambassador, in reply, saio. u
caamaH tn him that the French, in be
stowing the medal on one of the fore
most champions of distressed wild life,
hurl c-iven an answer to the insistent
demand of fashion, and added:
"The people of America, wno nave
witnessed the wanton destruction of
herds of buffalo and deer and of wild
birds, will appreciate the high courage
you have displayed in taking this
broad and unselfish standpoint."
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ARKANSAS VOTE CHANGES
Senator Clarke's Opponent 59 Ahead
With 5500 Votes Uncanvassed.
t.tttt.k ROCK. Ark.. March 28.
With official returns from all town
cv,ir. onrt nniintie in last Wednesday's
primary election not completed at
o'clock tonight, figures compuea oy
the Arkansas Gazette showed Judge
William F. Klrby was reading United
States Senator Clarke for the Senato
rial nomination by 59 votes.
Th flE-ures were based on a total
of 126,531 votes accounted for. It was
estimated at that time that about 5500
votes remained to be canvassed.
GRADED PRISON PLANNED
Walhi Walla Warden Considers
Adopting Eastern System.
OLYMPIA, Wash., March 28. (Spe
cial.) To make Walla Walla Peniten
tiary arraded prison is the plan being
given consideration by Warden Henry
nrnm. Mr. Drum is here for a comer-
ence with the State Board of "Control.
His chief turnkey, T. J. Burke, is in
the East investigating the workings
f graded prisons. ne proposal in
th. establishment of three
classes of convicts. Upon entering the
prison each man would be assigned to
the second grade. Good behavior would
win him promotion, while demerits
would cause a drop to the third grade.
ROAD WORK IS PLANNED
Holiday to Be Observed in Wasco
April 9 by Mayor's Order.
WASCO, Or., March 28. (Special.)
Every resident of Wasco Is expected to
don overalls April 9. and put in a full
day's work on the John Day grade, 12
miles east of Wasco. This was built
last year by Sherman County at an ex
pense of S7000.
The day has been declared a holiday
by Mayor Morrow and autos will carry
the workers from town.
Over 100 men are at work on the new
state road between Biggs and Wasco.
The camp will be moved to Mud
Hollow shortly after April 1.
Search for Body Abandoned.
CORVALLIS, Or., March 28. (Spe
cial.) The search for the body of P.
J. Knapp, who was drowned a week
ago, has been given up. A professional
diver searched the bed of the river in
the vicinity where the drowned man
was seen to go down. Numerous deep
holes, excavated by a gravel dredge,
and a number of submerged snags
made the task difficult, and after the
diver had snagged his diving suit he
gave it up.
SKETCHES INSPIRED BY
''SSL "V -
i
TOLLS FILIBUSTER
IN SENATE LIKELY
O'Gorman Accused of
Making Delays.
COMMITTEE IS NOT CALLED
Party Lines Disregarded in
Spirited Debate in House.
MINORITY NOT CAST DOWN
Motion to Recommit Bill to Be Made
Prior to Vote Measure to Ad
mit Foreign Vessels to
Coast Trade Offered.
WASHINGTON. March 28. Reports
that an organized effort would be
made in the Senate to delay the passage
of the bill repealing Panama toll
exemption aroused Administration lead
ers today while the general debate of
the issue in the House continued to
hold the public Interest.
The intimation that a prolonged fili
buster in the Senate had been deter
mined on, now that the first decisive
battle had been won by the President,
was reported to several Senatorial sup
porters of the Administration, and It
was suggested that Seantor O'Gorman,
chairman of the committee of inter
oceanic canals, already was delaying
consideration of the measure by his
committee.
O'Gorman Makes No Haste.
Senator O'Gorman was asked when
he expected to call his committee to
gether to consider the subject which
already is before It. Senator Owen hav
ing introduced a repeal bill similar to
the Sims House measure two weeks
ago. In the course of the day Senator
Crawford, a member of the commit
tee had returned, the chairman having
said previously that he would not take
the issue up in committee until the
South Dakota Senator -reached Wash
ington.
"There will be no meeting of the
committee," Senator O'Gorman asserted,
"until after the bill comes over from
the House, which probably will not be
until next Wednesday. Senators Sim
mons and Shields are absent now and
It would be unfair to act until every
member has had an opportunity to be
heard."
Six Weeks' Delay Predicted.
How long the issue would be held in
committee Senator O'Gorman would not
predict, declaring that there was other
important legislation to keep the Sen
ate busy, such as anti-trust and appro
priation bills.
"I heard several Democratic Senators
who. probably will vote to repeal the
toll exemption declare today that they
did not look for a vote in the' Senate
within six weeks," the New York Sena
tor said. ,
Senator Owen, a Democratic member
of the canals committee who Is lead
ing the preliminary . fight for repeal.
asserted tonight that any attempt to
delay the bill in the Senate unduly
would be foolish. He intimated that
deliberate delay in the committee might
result in forcing the issue before the
Senate on a motion to discharge the
canals committee from consideration
of the subject.
Owen Hints at "Pettifogging."
"Any. disposition to pettifog in this
matter," Senator Owen said, "obviously
would be a silly thing to do. As far
as Senator O'Gorman is concerned, I
think he is disposed to delay now. I
personally expressed to him yesterday
wish that the committee might be
called to consider the repeal bill which
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SOME OF THE PAST WEEK'S NEWS EVENTS AS
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 61
degrees; minimum, 42 degrees..
TODAY'S Kain; brisk to high southerly
winds.
Foreign.
France awards gold medal to frame r of
plumage paragraph in American tariff
law. Section 1. page 1.
Stefansson tells of Eskimo who saw Karluk
later. Section 1, page 1.
Leveling of classes growing out of crisis in
Britain. Section 1, page 2.
Huerta described as man without fear. Sec
tion 1, page 5.
United States protests against Germany's
professed oil monopoly. Section 1, page 3
Villa hampered by lack of hand grenades.
Section 1, page 5.
Two deputies resign from committee investi
gating scandal in France. Section 1,
page 6.
National.
Tolls filibuster In Senate expected. Section
1. page 1.
Fixed camps to be abolished In Army and
militia maneuvers. Section 1, page 2.
Bryan peace treaty rejected by Danish Sen
ate. Section 1, page 1.
Domestic.
Missouri official gets work as 'casual labor
er," describes conditions. Section 1,
page 2,
Town wrecked by two tornadoes In Kansas.
Section 1, page 1.
Teacher killed; refractory pupil suspected.
Section 1, page 5.
Frederick Weyerhaeusers recovery slew
process. Section 1, page 0.
Pacific Northwest.
Southwest Washington Fair award list ready
for distribution. Section 4. page 12.
Southern Oregon gold mining active. Sec
tion 4. page 12,
Horde nan for office in Tacoma. Section
1. page 9.
Call bank statements show reserves are un
usually high. Section 1, page 9.
Many pledge support to George M. Brown,
Kepublican aspirant for Attorney-General.
Section 1, page 8.
Political situation enlivened by more filings
for state offices. Section 1, page 7.
Washington conference adopts plan to ob
tain settlers. Section 1, page 8.
First firing school, seven robbers then hold
up Bank of Elma, getting Sa7lM. Sec
tion 1. page 1.
Sport.
Dugdale uses pruning knife on team now
slashed to 20 men. Section 2. page 2.
Fistic bouts in April light. Section 2, page 5.
Hayward advises on 8S0-yard run. Section
2, page 5.
Colts unable to solve Arrelanes' delivery.
Section 2, page 2.
Helena club opens training season by win
ning. Section 2, page 2.
Swimming meet likely to bring out new
stars, says Multnomah Instructor. Sec
tion 2, page 5.
Washington and Jefferson High runners tie
in cross-country contest. Section 2, page 5.
Spalding's baseball guides to be given away
through Oregonian coupons. Section 2.
page .
Coast League managers tell why six teams
will win pennant. Section 2, page 1.
Stage is set for opening of CoaBt League
race. Section 2, page 1.
Major players fall as managers, says Will
G. Mac Rae. Section 2, page 3.
Dr. Stewart re-elected coach at O. A. C.
Section 2, page 3.
Portland and Vicinity,
Spring vacation this week for Reed College
students. Section 3, page 7
Benafljs oX gQpd;ds told.. Section 4.
Hge 9. "-
Weather report, data and forecast. Section
2, page 7.
Someone gunning for Mary Garden, grand
opera star, who is coming here. Section
1, page 12.
William Hanley, upholding Wilson policy,
asks United States Senatorial nomination
on Progressive ticket. Section 1, page 14.
Portland might be denied share of Exposi
tion travel by arbitrary rate. Section 2,
page 18.
Julius Meier on return from East says trade
. awakening is nearlng. Section 1, page 12.
Educators in conference hear Mr. Redfield.
Section 1, page 35.
Work of county's faithful servitors who op
erate bridges is shown. Section 1. page
10.
Leaky hotel bathtub and forgotten package
of spurious coins cause arrest of three.
Section 2, page 7.
Secretary Redfield deeply Interested in
fishing industry of Northwest. Section
1, page 8.
Mayor Albee tells Helen Keller newspapers
hinder his efforts. Section 1, page 14.
Petition for meter referendum filed. Sec
tion 1, page 12.
L. H. McMahan. In announcing for Governor,
denounces West rule and urges abolition
of state offices. Section 1, page 13.
George W. Stapleton seeks place on circuit
bench. Section 1, page 14.
FAWCETT WILL BE AT SACRA
MENTO TUESDAY ,
and will report the opening game
between the Wolverines and the
Beavers for Wednesday morning's
Oregonian. He will tell you
Wednesday Just . how the new
Portland machine works, how near
the veterans are to mldseason
form and what promise the
youngsters give of hearing a call
from the big circuits the Fall.
The game will be reported by in
nings, play by play.
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SCHOOL SET AFIRE
THEN
BED
SevenHighwaymenGet
$3700 at Elma, Wash.
NIGHT ATTACK IS DRAMATIC
Citizens' Attention First At
tracted to Conflagration.
CASHIER MADE PRISONER
Depositors Taking Advantage of
Evening Business Hours and
Passers-by Are Target for Fusil
lade of ShotPosses Pursue.
ELMA, Wash.. March 28. (Special.)
First firing the schoolhouse to at
tract the attention of citizens, seven
heavily armed men tonight entered the
Bank of Elma, made the cashier pris
oner, "covered" several customers and
then robbed the vault of between
$3500 and $3700.
Several members of the gang re
mained outside the bank and made
targets of approaching pedestrians
and the town marshal, and when their
confederates finished the looting, rid
dled the plate-glass windows as they
made off down the railroad tracks.
Fusillade of Shot Fired.
While a fusillade of shots were
fired during the robbery, no one was
hit. Elma is' on the Northern Pacific
Railroad, about 11 miles East of Mon
tesano in Chehalls County. The pop
ulation is about 1600.
The Bank of Elma remains open
Saturday nights from 7 to S o'clock.
The attack tonight was just before
closing time and the only ones in the
bank were Cashier Earl France and
two depositors, Walter Myer and
George Avery.
Four of the highwaymen entered the
bank, covered the three occupants,
forcihg Cashier France Into the vault,
where he was held prisoner. Three
of the gang on the outside hurriedly
forced two passersby into the bank,
where they were "covered." One of
the men on the inside made the haul
during the dramatic "covering" of the
citizens, taking only the money in the
vault, leaving that on the counter un
touched. Holdup Over Quickly.
The holdup was completed within
five minutes. On account of resistance
made by Cashier France, one of the
robbers fired twice at him, but neither
shot took effect. The loot had been ob
tained almost before the town realized
that one of the boldest bank robberies
in the history of Southwestern Wash
ington was being staged.
The crowds rapidly left the burning
school gymnasium and gathered at the
bank. Posses were formed at once and
under direction of Sheriff Mathews, of
Lewis County, and Marshal J. L. Smith,
of Elma, are giving pursuit.
The highwaymen were not masked,
and a good description has been sent
abroad. The men are believed to be of
foreign birth.
The Bank of Elma deposits were pro
tected by burglary insurance.
Governor Issues Requisitions.
SALEM, Or., March 28. (Special.)
Governor West today, upon request of
District Attorney Evans, of Multno
mah County, issued requisitions for
the following: Emma Brown, arrest
ed in California, charged with obtain
ing money by false pretenses; John R.
Ainsley, arrested in California,
charged with obtaining money by false
pretenses; John H. Melehen, arrested
In California, charged with larceny,
and Ike Crutch, arrested in " Ohio,
charged with obtaining money by false
pretenses.
THEY APPEARED TO
7riNAD0ES WRECK
TOWNS IN KANSAS
WOMAN" ASD BABY FATALLY IN
JURED BY STORM.
Disturbances, 15 Minutes Apart, De
stroy Property and Kill Stock
Over Three Counties.
TOPEKA, Kan., March 28. A score
of small houses were Mown down, Mrs.
Charles Van Buskirk and her baby
were probably fatally injured as the
result of two tornadoes that swept
across the town of Frederick, in Rice
County, tonight. '
Wires are down and details of the
storm are meager.
A message from Geneseo, Rice Coun
ty, said a heavy wind storm unroofed
many small buildings there and in
jured several persons. The storm,
which prevailed over Ellsworth, Bar
ton and Rice counties, came from the
southwest and was accompanied by
heavy rain and hail. At Great Bend
half an inch of rain fell in 30 minutes.
Manhattan and Junction City each re
ported a precipitation of one inch,
with a heavy wind.
The storms came 15 minutes apart.
The first struck the town at 6:15
o'clock, destroying the south end of
the place. It was then that Mrs. Van
Buskirk and her young child were in
jured. The Van Buskirk home was
destroyed. The Baptist Church was de
molished, much livestock was killed,
scores of small buildings were swept
away and telegraph and telephone poles
were blown down.
Hardly had the residents of Frederick
emerged from their cyclone cellars
when the second tornado came. It trav
eled higher than the first one and Its
principal damage was in unroofing
houses and barns.
The day had been clear and cool. The
sky became overcast late in the after
noon, the breeze died i down and hot,
sultry weather prevaile-. The Sky
took on a greenish yellow cast. Then
in the southwest a black funnel-shaped
cloud quickly formed. At the first roar
of the storm everyone ran for cyclone
cellars. This probably prevented loss
of life.
GIRLS REDUCE EXPENSES
Seniors, of Oregon Normal School,
Cot Dress Costs.
MONMOUTH, Or., March 28. (Spe
cial.) According to 0. ruling of the
senior class of the" Oregon Normal
School, the material for the girls'
graduating dresses must not exceed fa,
and the men's apparel must be propor
tionately reduced in cost. Girls who
may make their own dresses thus will
prevent the dressmaker's bill and fur
ther reduce expenses.
A class of 70, the largest in years,
will o-mdiiate in June, and It is esti
mated that the action just taken will
afford all the members a saving or ap
proximately $500.
WOMAN NOT MRS. GUNNESS
Indiana Town Marshal Clears Sus
pect in Saskatchewan.
NELV1LLE, Saskatoon, March 28.
The woman living on a homestead
near here who was supected of being
Mrs. Belle Gunness, the accused La
Porte, Ind., murderess, is not the per
son sought. After seeing and talking
with the woman today, Clinton Coch
rane, marshal of La Porte, said she was
not Mrs. Gunness.
Mrs. Gunness is suspected of luring
several persons to her farm neat the
Indiana town, murdering them and
burying the bodies at different points
about her premises.
VESTAL STOREHOUSE FOUND
Professor Boni Discovers Place
Where Finest Corn Was Kept.
ROME, March 28. Professor Gia
como Boni, who last January discov
ered the "mudus," or center of the
ancient city of Rome, has now found
nearby the place where the vestals
preserved the finest ears of corn for
the celebration of marriages.
This ceremony was considered sym
bolic of the betterment of the race.
CARTOONIST REYNOLDS.
TREATY REJECTED
BY
Blow to Mr. Bryan's
Plan Is Surprise.
COMPACT USED AS PATTERN
Danes' Own Proposal Grafted
on Others Still Pending.
STATE DEPARTMENT UPSET
Test or Unlimited Arbitration With
Smaller Nations Regarded as
Feasible, Even Though Un
timely for Greater Powers.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 28.
The Danish Senate failed today to
satisfy the new obligatory arbitration
treaty with the United States. The old
treaty expires tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, March 28. The refu
sal of the Danish Senate to approve the
Danish-American arbitration treaty
greatly surprised State Department of
ficials, although no comment was forth
coming in advance of formal notice of
the action.
That the treaty might be rejected by
the United States Senate because of the
consistent attitude of the Senate
against all general arbitration treaties
or those which did not expressly ex
cept from compulsory arbitration ques
tions involving the National honor, mat
ters of state legislation and affecting
the Monroe Doctrine had been deemed
a possibility.
Treaty Asked for by Danes.
Secretary Bryan addressed the Sen
ate committee on foreign relations in
support of this treaty. While some ob
jections developed among the commit
tee members on the ground that the
interests of the United States in the
West Indies were not properly guarded,
it was believed that these could be'
overcome by slight amendment and that
the Senate could be induced to accept
the principle of unlimited arbitration
which it had formely rejected.
The action of the Danish Senate was
a genuine surprise for the reason that,
as declared on the authority of Secre
tary Bryan himself, this treaty was
made at the request of tho government
of Denmark, which had made a similar
treaty with Italy.
Way of Approach SouRht.
Secretary Bryan realizes that, while it
might not be timely to enter Into such
treaty relations with the great powers,
there was every reason why the United
States should test unlimited arbitration
with all of the smaller nations. He
felt that this gave an' easy approach to
the ultimate settlement of all inter
national disputes by arbitration.
The Danisli proposal was accepted,
therefore, and tho plan of general ar
bitration engrafted on one of the Peace
Commission treaties, nine of which had
been negotiated previously. In the Dan
ish treaty it was proposed that if the
international commission provided for
to examine into the merits of disputes
between the principals failed to reach
a direct adjustment within one year, or
if within that period tho commissioners
should concur in the opinion that such
an adjustment was impossible, the dis
pute should be referred to the perma
nent Court of Arbitration at The Hague.
The treaty was signed in Washington
January 5, 1914, and has formed the
base of several other projected treaties.
Hence it becomes impor-ant for tho
State Department to know precisely
the reason for the action of the Danish
Senate, as it may be necessary to
amend some of the pending conventions
to insure acceptance.
S SAO YO
4GASY
DANISH
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