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Section One 78 Pages r. Pages 1 to 16 r Six Sections VVYI,. --) 7 rUKILAl, lilX IHJ- , PUilWAi hwjxx,, - f XJm ' - . i i . I I f I E F, Senate Adopts Minority Report 1 5 to 1 3. HOUSE MEASURE SUPPORTED Mr. Dimick Opposed to Making Barrooms of Homes. TEETOTALER LEADS FIGHT Mr. 1'arrell Declares Neither Elec tors Xor Drafters of Bill Desired Collective Family Restriction, but Error Crept In. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or.. Feb. 13. (Special.) For the flrst time uunnS the session the Senate today went or. record on the prohibition question, and the answer was ultra "dry." The minority report of Senator Dimick, of the committee on alcoholic traffic, which is favorable to the bill passed t- the House with no Important amend ments, was adopted by a vote of 15 to 13. It retains the sentence: "It shall be unlawful for any one person or fam ily within this state to receive from any common carrier more than two quarts of spirituous or vinous liquors or more than 24 quarts of malt liquors within a period of four successive weeks." Majority Report Would Expand Sale. The majority report by Senators Far rell. Bishop. J. C. Smith and Strayer eliminated the words "or family." mak ing it possible for every member of the required age of a family to pur chase the stipulated amount of liquor. Senators voting to substitute the minority report for the majority report were: Barrett. Bingham. Butler. Clarke, Cuslck. Day. .Dimick. Garland, Hawley. Iji Follette. Ragsdale. I. S. Smith, Stewart. Vinton and Wood. Senators favoring the majority re port were: t. . .-1 c,.o-oea ITnrrell. HolliS. Kid- Lelncnweber, jicKriue, jiosei. s. J. C. Smith. Strayer. Von der tins. Ilcllen and Thompson. Mr. Kellaher Excused. Senator Kellahcr said he did not favor cither report and was excused from voting. Senator Langguth was the absent Senator. Senator Farrell, chairman of the committee, said he had received a letter from A. M. Churchill, who drew the original bill of the Committee of One Hundred that it was not the intention to restrict the ordering of liquor from outside states to a family in the col lective sense. The Senator further said that he had talked with members of the alcoholic committee of the House and they had informed him the re etriotion had been made In the House bill through a misunderstanding. -This amendment," declared Senator Dimick. 'simply transfers the barroom to the home. Under it all members of a family will be allowed to have liquor shipped to them. I say the people, when they passed the prohibition amendment, did not mean this. There is no reason for this Legislature being so liberal when the people do not want it and have said so. So far as I am person ally concerned I would like to see every drop of it Btopped at the state lino. But it seems there must be some of it allowed and I am confident, the House bill fixes the correct limit." l imit Declared Constitutional. Senator Vinton agreed with Senator Dimick in that the majority report transferred the saloon to the homes. IT.- declared thRt he had conferred l Concluded on rage 8.) LIMIT ON PURCHAS F LIQUOR avored W TH- CA TACK HENEY'S MANAGER IS NOW HIS WIFE LATE CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR MARRIES SUFFRAGIST. Engagement Rumored During Last Campaign, When Both Were Too Busy With Politics to Wed. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13. (Special.) Francis J. Heney. late Progressive can didate for the United States Senate in California, at the last election, and Mrs Edna Van Winkle, his campaign man- aerer. were married today. Mrs. Van Winkle is well known in California political and social circles She managed Heney's campaign for him last year when he ran for the unueo. statin Senate. Mrs. Van Winkle Is a suffragist and u- lcarimsr nart In the political -.iiti.. rr r-niifornla women. Her en- aLiiiiuc. V- gagement to Heney was rumoreo nere th. ht of the campaign and was neither affirmed nor denied by r.r- Mrs. Van Winkle, Dotn ue ih. time that they were too busy electing Mr. Heney as United States Senator to thinK aoout mony. . .... hi. n f a nt 60 years and the brides as 35 when they obtained the marriage license. DEATH DEFEATS JUSTICE Chicago Attorney Drops Dead as Deputy Sheriff Seeks Him. -uiicn Fh. 13. Lewis E. Dickin- tnrnv under sentence w serve four years in the Penitentiary for an attempt to oDsiruci. puui , j jooj in n restaurant near the QU1IICU " rrt nnildlne today while counsel argued a motion for a new trial before Judge Petit. Dickinson was out on bonds. Judge Petit denied the motion and j .ontonrA jinri a deputy rciii 1 1 1 nicu ic c7-wv sheriff, armed with a capias, was sent to search for the deienaanu i m.. official fiund Dickinson a few minutes after he had died. TINIEST EXHIBIT ARRIVES Fraction, or Grain of Mesotherium Valued at Nearly $300,000. SiX FRANCISCO. Feb. 13. The smallest and most valuable exhibit at the Panama-Pacifio International Ex- win ho the fraction of a grain of mesotherium, a derivative of ra dium, valued at nearly isuu.uuu. wn.uu ,m h Disced in the German section of the Palace of Liberal Arts. The exhibit is now on Its way irom Hamburg in a lead box. carried by a personal representative of the discov erer. Dr. Hugo LieDer. GERMANS ENTER UGANDA Kaiser Reports German East Africa lias Been "Cleared of Enemy." BERLIN, via London. Feb. 13. The following German official statement was given out tonight: r.m,n Est Africa is now com pletely cleared of the enemy. German troops have entered Lganua, mm East Africa." r,iiff. a noted military leader during the Hottentot rebellion, has been appointed commander of the colonial troops in German Southwest Africa, according to the Overseas News Agency. BRITISH STRIKE AVERTED Demand of Railroad Men for Higher Wages Compromised. LONDON. Feb. 13. The threatened strike of several thousand railroad men throughout Great Britain, demand ing an Increase of wages, seems to have been averted. Announcement was made following a conference today between railroad managers and representatives of the union that an agreement had been reached, the terms of which will be an. nounced next Monday. j SOME LEADING ii l cpi in iajouD HA I ' , AJ fv 11 r JV Jrrsr- - nani r-V 1 1 V f I I I ' 1 a sk ,y At.- ,v -w-rwr . vi t gTTYTi .4 "v TirrT? xrr-vr TTSTfTT ATJV iT 1915. PIUTE FIVE CENTS. ACCUSED AIDE OF M'NAMARAS FOUND O LA M. A. Schmidt l.xvir After Four Years. ARREST MADE IN NEW YORK Complicity in Dynamiting of Los Angeles Times Charged. RECENT EXPLOSION CLEW Bomb That Killed Three Persons in Flat House of Same Type as That Placed at Home of General Harrison Gray Otis. NEW YORK, Feb. 13. Matthew A. Schmidt, 34 years old. was arrested here tonight as a fugitive from justice on an indictirent found in Los Angeles in October. 1910. charging him with having been implicated in dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building. The arrest was made on Upper Broadway, where detectives had traced him after a search of four years. Detective William J. Burns, who ac xnmnanieri the officer making the ar rest, said the indictment charged that Schmidt was one ot two men wnu went with J. B. McNamara to the works of the Giant Powder Company in California and purchased 1000 pounds of dynamite. Prisoner Held Without Ball. Schmidt was held in Magistrate's Court, on a short affidavit, without ball until February 24 to await extradition. When, arraigned before Magistrate McQuade the prisoner said he was a .rhmlr .14 vears old. but refused to answer the other customary questions. After the arraignment, however, the magistrate said the man had confessed vim It, his rhsmbers that he was Matthew A. Schmidt, as alleged in the Los Angeles indictment. Detective Burns saii mai un micai of Schmidt was tne outgrowth of an investigation into a. bomb explosion which occurred in a six-story flat house on Lexington avenue, in this city, on July 4 last year, and which killed three persons, injured others and partly wrecked the building. Type of Bomb Recognized. Detectives who examined the prem ises became convinced that the bomb used was of the same type as that used In blowing up the Los Angeles Times building and similar to those placed at the homes of General Har rison Gray Otis, owner of the Times, and of the secretary of the Manufac ..... a .cnim inn.. The investigators soon struck a trail, which was followed and led to the arrest of bcnmiat. The three men charged with buying the dynamite from the Giant Powder r-nanv works were J. B. McNamara. M. A. Schmidt and David Caplan. A world-wide search was made lor mc Namara's associates, and their capture ,nnnnslv reported on many oc casions. Until Schmidt's arrest here to night, both had eluded capture. . r t.-t a vr1! (v Feb. 13. After Matthew Schmidt. James B. McNamara j . mon known as David Caplan ar ranged with the Giant Powder Works, it is alleged, for tne purcnase oi "J'" mite, later believed to have been used for the destruction of the Los ymgeles - kniuinfr thev are said 'p have negotiated for 'the rent of the launch Teerless at Sausanto, osiensiui . tour of the bay. Subsequently, it developed that tne three men changed the name oi ino v. . tha patim" while en route to Giant, Cal. The dynamite was said to have been taken In suitcases io Angeles. EVENTS IN THE PAST VB "tHF 1 im MCMfa ' I ' 1 ZS . J 1 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 48.8 degrees; minimum, 3S.6 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. Lesrislatures. Senate r. ,.e 1 to provide additional rary - - i Judge for Multnomah 1. page 8. passes bill to transfer Juvenile Court to Judge Cleeton. Section 1, page s. House passes and Governor signs act for women teachers to receive same pay as men. Section 1, .page 0. Record of Idaho Legislature Is given. Sec tion 1. page 8. Senate adopts minority report limiting pur chases of liquor. Section 1, page 1. Washington Legislature has passed only eight bills. Section 1, page 8. Appropriations totaling $5,500,000 have ap proval of joint ways and means commit tee. Section 1, page . President Kerr, of Oregon Agricultural Col lege, denies withnolding information from legislative committee. Section 1, Pase 10. War.' Turks and Arabs, officered by Germans, an . nihllated in attack on Suez Canal Section 1, page 6. Congestion of British porta due to scarcity 59t labor. Section 1, page 6. Russians beaten in East Prussia b Vf Hindenburgs quiet strategy, section 1, page 5. Mexico. Spain appeals to nations to end anarchy in Mexico; Washington admits situation is bad. Section 1. page o. Foreign. Explorer Shackleton writes diary of voyage Ion way to South Pole. Section 1, page -National. SeSaJeV co-operation by state. Section 1. page . German Ambassador hints warfare on mer Section 1, page 2. Domestic. KrarsVTeney marries hi. campaign manager. Section 1. page 1. R. w. Meade. New York traffic man fear. jitneys will rnin reliable streetcar line. Section 2. page 10. Witness against " 4 swore falsely at trial. Section 1, page . raclflc Northwest. Lumbering Industry In Northern Idaho un. usually active ,1 . . t. Big increase marks lumber P. clflc riortawCTv ... Olympia Democrats groom House leader for big job. Section 1. page i. Advertising now run. Into million, otjolr. rays speaker In address to -rs'ty OI Oregon students. Section 1. page Sport.. Uncle Sam, have chance to tie for lead In next hockey game. Section -. page Oregon track team faces heaviest .chedule In history, section 2, page 3. Oregon, with tour of defeat. , on ord yet hopes ior vuiuu. - - , - Huso Beidek plans real baseball park for ?,i"u.. r rri7nn team. Section -, Many a scrub sets world', record after year. of effort, aociiou -Sportsmen tell of wonders of "Mig for salmon in Willamette, aectlon -. Lester Patrick, hockey star. wear. J" wa'ch, gift for winning second title ior Victoria. Section 2, page 5. Merles of golf -matches between Portland, Eugene, lalem and Medford player, ar ranged. Section It, page 4. Mattv thinks transfer 1. good tWn Ior Lajoie. Section 2, page 2. Some Salt Lake fans fear cold f"hf 'i! eanse team to get poor .tart. Section 2, page 3 Coast League schedule out and Pfa; fact fans' Winter ends March SO. section invitation, for Columbia veUj annual meet to be Issued this week. Sec tion 2, page 2. Multnomah Club soccer team beats acad emy, 5 to 1. Section 2, page 4. Aggie basketball team hopes to retrieve honors on home floor when Idaho is met. ecuuu jj -Syracuse manager shows Washington grac ate managers ""! - :r ; tour to be "sour grapes." Section . page 1. Leading polo men of country now play.as a California. Section 2. page 2. Aggies barely win basketball game from Willamette. Section 2, page 3. Commercial and Marine. Local wheat prices fall following break at Chicago. Section 2. page lo. Fear of Argentine competition causes heavy selling and rapid decline at Chicago. Sec tion 2, page 15. Additional facilities for discharging ballast proposed. Section 2, page 5. Accident occurs while Morna Is being dry- docked, section -'. page o. Portland and Vicinity. Jitnev test by city shows dally net earnings of" $2.17. Section 1, page 1. Peace in Methodist Church row not yet reached. Section 1, page 11. Many expected to run against Commission ers Bigelow and Brewster, June . Sec tion 1. page 12. Valentines for 1915 declared more artistic than of yore. Section 1, page 13. Retail Merchants' Association of State con venes here tomorrow. Section 1, page 1j. Many pay honor to Dr. Mary Thompson on 0th birthday. Section 1, page lJ. Tt M Grav's new store one of beauties of Pacific Northwest. Section 2, page ,30. Jitney company organizer says service Is failure. Section 2, page 16. Jitney folk admit some regulation la needed. Section 2. page 16. WEEK'S NEWS ARE ILLUMINED BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS LANE DESIGNATES CO-OPERATIVE UNIT State Must Join to Ob tain Reclamation. DESCHUTES PROJECT CHOSEN Federal Appropriation of $450,000 Is Recommended. ACRE COST WILL BE $40 Amendment to Sundry Civil Bill to Be Offered in Senate Secre tary's Condition Disappoints Oregon Members. OF.EGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Feb. 13. Secretary Lane within an hour after the House of Represen tatives today passed the sundry civil bill iesignated the North Canal unit of the Deschutes irrigation project, in Crook County, Oregor as one for which he wishes Congress to ap propriate $450,000, but in making this designation Secretary Lane recommends that the money appropriated shall not become available until a like amount is appropriated by the state. The project which the Secretary con ditionally approves will cost $900,000 and in the event the Senate adopts the amendment no work can be done until the state has appropriated an equal amount. State's Co-operation EaNential. Failure of the state to make the ap propriation will invalidate any ap propriation by Congress. Aa forecast in the dispatches sev eral days ago, Secretary Lane with held his designation of the project in Eastern Oregon until after the sundry civil bill had passed the House, thereby making it Impossible for Representa tive Slnnott to secure an amendment in the House. Chairman Fitzgerald, of the House ap propriations committee, declared from the first he would consent to no ap propriation unless made for a desig nated project. Secretary Lane's recom mendation, however, is sufficient justi fication for a Senate amendment to the sundry civil bill and such an amend ment doubtless will be adopted by the Senate appropriations committee before it reports the bill. Area Has Been Reduced. The project which Secretary Lane approves differs from the project ap proved Jointly by the state and Fed eral engineers, in that the area to be reclaimed has been reduced from 36,000 to 26,000 acres. This tract occupies the middle area of several Carey act segregations of the Central Oregon Irrigation Company and includes with in its limits 2200 acres already irri gated by the Carey act company. The Government proposes, if the state and Federal appropriations are made, to take over the diversion dam one mile below Bend and the main canal built by the Central Oregon Company and to carry the project to completion at a cost approximating J40 an acre. Oregon Members Disappointed. There is disappointment among members of Oregon delegation because Secretary Lane has attached co-opera tive condition to his recommendation, for he had given Representative Sln nott and Senator Chamberlain to under stand he would be willing to waive this and allow Congress to make direct ap propriation for a project to be built entirely by the Government. Saturday's War Moves BERLIN Is celebrating the evacua tion of East Prussia by the Rus sians, which is hailed in the German capital as another great victory for Field Marshal von Hindenburg. England Is not attempting to hide her elation at the success of her airmen's raid on the German positions In Belgium and all Europe is eagerly discussing the American notes to Great Britain and Germany and contemplating what the replies will be. Great Britain has already Intimated that British merchant ships have been advised to. use neutral flags only in case of emergency and no general use of such flags is anticipated. The German Minister at The Hague has issued another warning to neutral, to the effect that, in view of the alleged declaration of ail the British ports as war ports and the use of neutral flags by British ships, it would be dang-erou. for neutral merchantmen to visit the prescribed waters after February 18. So far as the East Prussian situa tion is concerned the Russian official report indicates that the Russians, having evacuated the greater part of the German province, are making a stand on or near their frontier whether for a pitched battle or only to delay the German advance it will take a few days to tell. On the last occasion that Von Hinden burg drove them from East Prussia, the Russians fell back to their fortified lines between Niemen and the German frontier, where they defeated the Ger mans. On this occasion, however, they have had more time to prepare their positions and may give battle before the fortifications are reached. The Rus sians say they already have repulsed" one German attack near Lyck. Throughout Poland, where fierce fighting has occurred during the past week, the battles now consist of artil lery engagements, while in the Car pathians fighting of more or less sever ity continues. The Germans are mak ing repeated terrific attacks In an ef fort to capture the heights of Koiiouw ka, in Tukholka Pass, which they won and lost twice since last Sunday. They are now entrenched within 40 paces of the Russian positions, and, despite their heavy losses, are apparently hope ful of capturing them. On the rest of the Carpathian front the Russians are seemingly making pi-ogress. The Egyptian army has just placed to its credit a brilliant minor feat by annihilating a force of 200 Turks and Arabs officered by Germans, who were preparing to attack Tor, at the entrance of the Gulf of Suez. In the view of British experts the air raid on Belgium proves that the Btitisn airmen are superior to the Ger mans and have a great advantage in the possession of a base on the Con tinent as well as in England, for, while the British, if they are unable to re turn, can land In France, the Germans must make the round trip across the sea. In France, Flanders and Ali-ace there has been little or no fighting of im portance, so far as the official reports disclose. It is announced that the leaders In the South African rebellion are to be put on trial for treason and, in addi tion to other punishment, may be sued for looting and for damage done by themselves or their followers, while the men of means will lose all their property. Meanwhile the government has announced Its Intention of pushing with vigor the campaign against Ger man Southwest Africa. Following Premier Asquith's an nouncement of his belief that wheat would fall in price, it sold at Northamp ton yesterday at 58 shillings a quarter, a decline of two shillings. German East Africa Is now complete ly cleared of British troops, according to a German official statement, which adds that German troops have entered Uganda, British East Africa. Since the war with Turkey began 49,000 Turkish prisoners have passed Ciscaucasia on the way to the interior, according to a Petrograd dispatch. J SPEAKING- OP HUfiCtE-O., 1 My y AiJEXIQo CITY 'S A TGHY 8LT THESE DAYS II II JITNEY EARNS 52.17 DAILY IN CITY TEST Council MachineTakes $7.75 in 122 Miles. COST ESTIMATED AT $4.50 Mayor's Chauffeur Reports Result of Experiment. AMUSING INCIDENTS .TOLD Good Routes Chosen and l'tfort E erted to Get livery AtI labia Xicfcel Occasional Tripper I Declared Foe of Business. 1 i RESULTS SHOWN IX JIT.KV I TEST, Receipts full day S3.C5 I Receipts half day 1 10 Total I7.7 Operating cost and depreci ation S4.a0 Driver's profit tt.it Driver s profit per diem . . . .13.11 I Number of miles traveled.... 123 I By establishing a city automobile In the Jitney service for a day and a half last week Mayor Albce and members of the City Council got much coveted first-hand Information on the Jitney business. Including the earning power of the machines, the cost of opera tion and the safety of the Jitney auto mobile from both an operating stand point and from the standpoint of mo rality. The city's Jitney was the private cur of the City Council. It was operated all Thursday and until noon Friday by T. L. Inskecp, Mayor Albee'a chauf feur, who kept clo.o tab on every phase of the b'Miness for the purpoa of making a detailed report. Tetal Receipts 7.T.. In Hie day and a half that the m china was operated Mr. Inkrep took in a total of 17.73. He operated for eight hours on Thursday on the Jitney route extending from Hecond and Washington streets to Twenty-third and Thurman sir .els nnd for four hours 011 Friday on the Rose City rout and the route on Belmont street to Eatt Thirty-ninth Klreet. He Uepl moving all the time, so that the test would not fall short In any particular. While the costs of the day and half have not Ml been figured nut In detail, it Is estimated that they will approximate $4.50. Including deprecia tion on the automobile. This would leave a total of 3.25 ss aalary for the driver for the day and a half. The machine coverej 3 miles during the first day and about 40 miles the " ond day. mi-klng a total of about K milcs for the day and a half. These figures have all been turned over to traffic experts In the Department of Public Works for tabluatlon. A de tailed report will be made, giving the actual costs una profits. Amnalsar Krlnrs ItelsleS. According to the report ot Mr. Ins keep the driver of a Jitney hai many interesting experiences. He hears msny funny conversations and sees many funny sights. One woman, he says, got on down town and after Informing Mr. Iiwke'p that she was from Kansas City told him her only purpose in taking ths ride was to "have the sensation of a spin on a real Western Jitney." "We Concluded on !'. (. A tVOArV?' 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