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You Can Save Tune- and money If you naed a- furnished flat by reading The Journal's Purniahed 111 , For Bale ads. WANT ASS ONE CIST A, WOKS CASH. The weather Occasional rain to- night and Saturday; southerly winds. COAST TEMPEIIA TURKS 5 A. M. Today. Boise ,, , 93 Seattle ........ ta Xarshf leld . .... 30 Baa ITancUoo .........,....i...v ea .. Portland . o VOL. IX. NO. 264. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY vEVENING, JANUARY 6, 191X TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. PRICE " TWO r CENTS. OS TRAINS AND St?'! STANDS, FlVg , CI NTS BIG TAHiFF BATTLE S ELECTRIC PUNT AT Skyrocket Financier of New York IN CRUCIAL CASE IN HIGHEST COURT T 'S LET ALL FOLLOW BUILDING !N 1910 OF if j- ON TRIAL RANK LA TOILETTE SAYS RAGES IN E N FIFTH IN NATION MIHEAPQLIS. IS suV'RECKED: BURNED OF WOOL GROWERS LEAD RU v. Explosion of Gas, Followed by r'.-rvr -7 Conflagration In Which the Plant, Valued at $600,000, Is. Totally Destroyed. ' . HI i 'I "t. 1LLT OF PILLSBURY, COMPANY THREATENED r No Less cf Life, and Only Two ;J Persons ,lnjured;;Power f iVFanime One Result.. , J I. , J - , , i - ' ,J , 1 -y J . ' .iCnltea Treis Leased Wlrs.V' C -. Minneapolis'. Jan. 6. -An explosion, aid to hay been caused, by an accumu lation of In the basement,- today Wrecked, the plant of the Minneapolis General: Electric company. Two person! were severely hurt, and theplant valued at 1500,000, ' .was totally destroyed. Flame followed . the- explosion' and ; spread to adjoining buildings.; Firemen topped the fire before it reached mtttiotwhether It hae the..power to Crush A" . ef the Plllabury Flour company, which was threatened. The destruction of the plant shut off Jlfchtand , power from many factories and stores: The Western Union and Postal -'i Telegraph , companies found themselves .without current and for a time were vnable ' to handle any mes- eaires. . The western union finally ob tained power from Bt. Paul. ,The ttekenr in the Chamber of Com- rce were stopped. Defections from the ranks of the senators claimed by Bowerman nnd his trfenda In the struggle for the presi dency of the state v senate took . place,; yesterday and today and, the selection of Ben Belling Is now assured. ilt, Is eertaln that Belling wiiv muster at least 14 end probably If Republicans, While only 11 can now be, accounted as sure for Bowerman. ? eelllng would nave a majority or uie Republican votes, and if tne ngnt is carried onto the floor he would receive one or two Democratic Votes. In view of the developments of the last 24 hours, It seems unlikely that the Bow erman forces will attempt to call a cau cus unless they can create some changes in : the eituatlon, , which at present ap pears to bo beyond them. In view of the new developments M" i possible that some ot those who have been lukewarm on, the subject, or lave even favored a caucus would now Oppose one. ,:The change if the situation favor of ? Selling strengthens -the fight being made by Jerry Rusk of Wallowa for the speakership of the house. Be already claims H votes with four contingent ones, and apparently has the lead over any other candidate. With the selection CI selling to mi aenaus, ji wouia appear inevitable that an eaaterri, Oregon man be choren for the pivotal position in the house. - It is declared that att the' tnettlng OIIEISIilD Participant, Beaten to Death, I Found in Box , Car at Cor j nelius; Murderer Escapes to w iviuuiiiauio 1' V " (Special Dlipatrlt to The fouraal.) CorneUus, Or.; Jan, i.--A quarrel over a game of cards resulted In-the death arid mutljatlon of a Greek in a boxcar la this city Monday night, according to itlje mute evidence discovered . by the jectlon foreman at this atatlon. :rVo; Greeks were employed4on the section her and.;when' they failed to Hppear;,or work Tusday morning. lha foreman investigated , and : founu he dy of 'one. of the men ; lying In the oocat where the two- mei had lived. rhe 'imurdered man,'s head Was-crushed nd, lood was visible the floor jot ne cr, indicating mat a tejrrsoie Strug, ;le had'- taken place, - The man's body km partially covered with gunny sacks ihd: rubbish; and theVdoor of i'the car a- locked,'V 7J'itf';!yi'v -.f :v The ihertrf and coroner were' lmme llately notified and efforts are nowbe ng made to locate the murderer j, It is believed .thatJie. Jaaa..gQnBiuU.-,the oountalna ipear Buxton. The wtatlon lgent at ; Cornelius sold va Greek a icket T"day for Hlllsboro.. , The murderer, is described as a short, peavy set man with considerable hair AilllS LOSING 6R8UIID; BETTER FOR RO ' '' j. it ' it 1 . . GREEKS QUARREL roe CARD CAME RED m 'a the back of his left fcn& ,1 ) -" ' v. 1 " Tobacco Case Argued at Cap ital for Second Time, After Postponement Due to Va cancies on Bench. FATE OF SHERMAN LAW DEPENDS ON DECISION Nation's Ablest- Legal Talent in Array; History of Trust and of Opposing Suit. . (United Press UuM Win.) Washlng-ton. Jan. . Before the court of Iast : resort , today began " the final I legal iMttle for life, of the American Tobacco company and Its subsidiaries. High priced corporation lawyers matched wits with the government's trust buit ersja struggle to determine whether the Sherman antitrust law la invalid the tobacco trust. On the outcome of the fight depends the life or death of the vast corporation, with an invested capital of -more than 1400.000,000, or the emasculation of, the Sherman law, which would nullify 'the government's strongest weapon against corporate aggression, r Attorneys General George "W, Wieker gham and Special Attorney J. C. Rey- (Contlnued on Page Fifteen.) 4 , of the Multnomali, delegation Wednes day night there was-no attempt to con centrate on any particular candidate, and that the meeting was merely called to discuss the situation and tentatively choose a malt, if possible. The Rusk forces however, maintain they have James M. Ambrose, Edwin G. Amine, Ralph Clyde, Seneca Fonts, Stephen Col lins, C. A Blgelow, J. C. Bryant James v. a o oouj no jyojattfii. jiaaored-JV. RTTBatlen Is understood not to have taken any well defined position, but the Rusk men declare they believe they will get his support James Cole has given his pledge to another candidate, and W, J, Clemens has. been managing the Eaton campaign. For reasons of policy the Rusk men (Continued; on Page Seven.) MINISTER, WHO. QUIT PULPIT FOR LIVING AGAIN ANSWERS CALL - (United "rteas Lewd Wire. Los Angeles. Jan. . The call e 4 t the ministry proved too strong e for Rv.j;: L- ?tfoore, who after e :gtvln up 4' pastorate to become , 4 ..commercial agent of the Salt 4 Ske railroad at Santa Ana, Is 4 O , back in Loa Angeles preparing to e -; reenter his profession. , He will 4 , take charge of ar Spokane church. 4 , Rev. Mr. Moore found several 4 -months ago that' he could not make ends meet with his meager ministerial salary. A natural 4 hustler, he was offered the post- Hon of representative of the Salt Lake railroad at Santa Ana. He accepted, and made good. But love for the church won. e TED MAIL Three Bags Disappear on Way From San Francisco to ' Oakland. Ban Francisco, Jan. 6. Three bags of registered mall with contents valyed at approiimately 150,000, stolen from the government while on the way from San Francisco to Oakland, is engaging the attention of more than a score of local and federal detectives. The mall bags were Stolen separately. The first was taken on the night of December 25, the second disappeared two days later, and the ,third was stolen either December It or 80; , .' ": -v.-,. " The fact that only the registered mail sacks were taken has led to the belief that someone familiar with postal regu lation committed the theft but here the clue ends So far as the detectives have been able to learn,. the bags were In their , places on the 4nall trucks when Uejwei-heeleeVHon-4heferrF-"on-the Ban Francisco side They were missing when the boat reached the Oakland mole, despite the fact that a heavy wire guard! padlocked, encased the truck, t" ' . Until today the government has en deavored to keep the matter secret VANISHES ON Sketch of Joseph O. RoMn, charged with theft of $1,000,000 from the Northern Bonk of New York, who attempted to commit suicide In court when arretted on the specific charge of stealing $80,000 of the bank's funds. ROBIN LEADER OF Former Manager of Banker's Country Place Says Drunk ""eTnVomenDahcingliTSnow Was Sample Spectacle. (tnlted Pret IaihI Wlr.. . New York. Jan. 8. An investigation of the transfer of tb,e half million dol lar residence of Joseph Robin to his sis ter, Dr. Louise Roblnovltch, the day be fore the ex-banker gave himself up for the alleged theft of (80,000 from the Northern Bank of New York, Is being conducted bjr District Attorney Whit man. The estate, known as Driftwood Manor, was held In the 'name of the Wading River Realty company, officered by Robin's employes. It was trans ferred on December 28. On the next day Robin surrendered. 1'lir estate consists of 111 acres, on which is built a bungalow which cost $125,000. Elaborate furnishings for the (Continued on Page Fifteen.) F E L Rome Dispatches Revive Story That Abruzzi-Elkins Mor ganatic Marriage, Once Proposed, May Take Place. (United PreM Leased Wirt.) Rome, Jan. .That the death of United States Sentor Blklns wilt result in a speedy marriage between Miss Katherine El kin a, his daughter, and the Duke of the Abrurst Is an open expres sion in Italian newspapers today? Tha papers assert that the real opposition to the marriage came from Senator JElklns,:.,. . '.: . Washington," Jan. . Dispatches from Rome, reviving fthe prediction of a mar riage between the Duke Dt Abrussl end Katherine Elklns, are generally credited bete. , It - is believed th senator's, ob jection to a morganatic ' marriage was the real barrier to the culmination of the romance. As the. duke was remotely an heir to the throne, it is reported, the king of Italy ' informed Senator Elklns that only a morganatic marriage with the American .heregwsA j)0S8iWa,lha duke himself, it vg generally believed, argued with Elklns. pointing oot that the posslbUlty of hi elevatl6n to' the throne was ettreroely remote. t : "Never,' the senator t-eplled, accord- (CfpUnued on Pago Nine.)- VI' Ull llballti ' I I Vim DEATH 0 FIKINS REMOVES A ROYA MA A CLEMENS TO ASK 1F1FJI ADMITS LEGISLATURE TOR .HANDLING AIM ' 11 1 -'-V. ' 'V Member Says He Never Was JoJfficeJ).utJVa "lected by Certain Interests. Gives Personal Views. "The, legislature will remove from office J. W. , Bailey, state dairy and food commissioner as soon as an Inves tigating committee reports the queer methods he has 6aed In conducting bis office," said State Representative W. J. Clemens this morning. "As early in the session as possible I will Introduce a resqlution authoris ing the appointment of an investigating committee, not only to audit the pure food fund upon which Bailey has been drawing, but to see if he has during years . past been conducting his office with a view to the greatest possible proteetlon to public health. "Meanwhile," continued Mr. Clemens, "I have. some personal views on this Bailey matter, AlO. the first place Bailey is not and never was fit to hold the of fice of dairy and food commissioner. His sense of responsibility is dulled and oonfused. I can't understand bow he (Continued on Page Seven.) CENSUS BUREAU FINDS POPULATION OF 4872 IN CITY OF ST. JOHNS Washington, Jan. 6. The cen- sus bureau today announced that the population of St. Johns. Or., under the enumeration of 1810, was 4872. CUT OUT THE NONSENSE It Is unthinkable that Mr. Bowerman should, be put In the second position of power In the state, where he would be able to combat and obstruct-the policies and purposes of the man recently chosen otef him by the peanle for governor. If the rank and file Republicans of Oregon had wanted Mr. Bowerman In high position they would have elected him. It. the senate Insists vn making him president of that body, It will be a direct slap at the people of the state who elected a Democrat ra'tber than have Mr. Bowerman. The gathering signs of a break In the Bowerman forces, and the occasional discovery that men counted for him are la fact against him, are evidence that the state senators still have respect for the verdict of the people. The thing thai Is desired at 8alem for the next 40 days, Is not a polltreaJ" combat" with Jhe legislature organized to obstruct the admin-, lstratloa; biit a business session with politics eliminated, and an earnest endeavor py'ali the departments to build for Oregcn. It Is not time for political maneuvering and partisan skulduggery, but a time for bus iness ' and horse sense. .:".'V'-'v.. , J-; i.'Xh; ' -, The purpose to partlsanize and prostitute the session la disclosed by the efforts of some of the assembly leaders to force the 'assembly issue in. the house. They go to house members whcr,twere nominated , in as-;Mmbly-4udppl then lp'the evident? purpctee to organise the house, ''hot "::for business, but for a political and obstructive program -'Anti-assembly- house - members who aid and abet such a movement Vill betray the state,' and reveal them selves aa having professed anti-assembly convictions for, campaign pur poses only. ' " V, li " J National Convention Listens to Able Addresses on Dif ferent Phases of Protective Tariff Schedules. MANUFACTURERS ARE , TAKING DEEP INTEREST Wyoming Senator Leads Fight for Revised Tariff on Wool and Woolens. An exciting session of the National Wool Growers' association is predicted for this afternoon. Up till noon today the white dove of peace has floated calmly over the convention hall in the Armory but a number of questions soheduled for this afternoon, it Is voiced about in the hotel lobbies where delegates congregate, will, precipitate heated discussions. Fred H. Blume, state senator Qf Wy oming, came from Sheridan of that state, to deliver an address on protec- j tion for wool and woolens. It Is known that he will speak straight from the shoulder and declare himself strongly in favor of a revised tariff graded eo as to benefit the wooj growers . and manufacturers of wooTensf worsted" or carded, equally and on a thoroughly im partial. basis. He says this Is not the case under the much talked of schedule K. Mr. Blume's contention is that the worsted woolen manufacturers benefit to a greater extent than the carded woolen manufacturers, and thjs being known, it is said that strong endeavor will be made by friends of tbe worsted (Continued on Page Twenty.) Denies Knowing Men He Says fiaveWimOn&tiotof-1 50 Ounces, One of 250, of Bullion. Joseph B. Whealen, proprietor of the Fargo saloon, who Is being held a pris oner by the United States on suspicion of having been connected with the rob bery of the Alaska treasure ship Hum boldt and an earlier robbery from tho same gold shipment on a Yukon river steamer, is said to have made a state ment to government officials admitting he handled some 400 ounces of gold tor Alaska miners last fall, which he tried to dispose of, and falling, returned to the Owners. He denies that he knows thajnen who grave him the bullion, says he received but a small quantity of It and handled It without understanding that it had been stolen. This statement said to have been made by Whealen, together with the fact that he is known to have sent $450 worth of Tanana filings to the San Francisco mint Is practically all the government has to hold Whealen on, it is alleged. Conclusive evidence has failed to turn up as rapidly an was ex cected. Whealen was arrested on au thorlty of the United States district at torney, and In the absence of additional evidence, it Is thought his statements admitting having handled gold bullion for unknown men soon after the Alaska robbery will be sufficient to stave off any habeas corpus proceedings for tho present. Whealen says that last fall men com lng from Seattle asked him whether he could not sell some gold they had (Continued on Page Nine.) J Only Four Great Cities, New York, Chicago Philadelphia and Los Angeles, Surpass Oregon Metropolis. IN PER CENT OF GAIN THfS CITY IS SECOND Against Portland's Advance of 55 Per Cent, Seattle Has .-. Loss of 26.8. (Sveelal Plapatrh tn The JnaraaV) - Chicago, Jan. 8. The American Con tractor reports that the first 10 cities in the total cost of construction of building during 1910 are: New York . 8188.789,845 96,932.700 37.866,665 81,684,100 .20,884,202 19,600,063 17,516,945 14,449,110 14.363,830 13,783, 186 Chicago Philadelphia , Los Angeles Portland . , St. Louis ... Detroit . Seattle Minneapolis . Kansas City Portland's sensational gain of $7,415, 822, or 65 per cent, over its building record of 1909, is exceeded by but one other city in the country, Los Angeles having Increased its building operations in 1910 by 61 2-8 per cent Portland climbed from twelfth place among the (Continued on Page Five.) Aroused by the millions of dollars be ing expended for Oregon and. Washing ton apple lands by jnlddle ' western" yestors, and also concerned over the tld of emigration from those states to tbe Pacific coast, newspapers of the east and middle west are taking steps to "keep their money at home," and articles , tolllag-ef -tbe-condrtloits sur--f rounding sales here are to be reaturee of many papers in eastern cities this winter, prior to the annual spring home seekers' excursions to the coast John Day and A. F. Williams, repre senting the Minneapolis Tribune, reached Portland today, and will spend the next two months Investigating apple land conditions In the Pacifio north west. They frankly state that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been in- NEW ZEALAND SAVANT COMPLAINS OCTOPUS HAS TENTACLES ON RADIUM . (United Prtw Lmm4 Wlra.t Melbourne, Jan. 6. Professor ' Laby of the University of Well- ington. N. Z., charges that the 4. present high price of radium is due to the existence of-a "ring," which has bound itself to main- tain the price at what amounts to about 80 times the proper value of the substance. Profes- sor Iaby suggests that the pitch- blende Which exists in New Zea- land should be worked up with a view to placing a supply of ra- dlum on the market at a' "rea- sonable" rate. The alleged trust deals in the highest priced artl- cle in the world, . y of Well Dressed Stran ger Found Horribly Mutila ted in Granary (Special Dispatch to Tbe looroil.) Centralla, Wash., Jan. 6. The hor ribly mutilated body of a well dressed man was found lying in a granary two miles from Centralla early yesterday morning. The head was beaten to a pulp and many tergible bruises were found On the body. The. floor of the granary was covered with blood and the dis heveled condition of the body showed that there had been a terrible struggle. - The case Is an entire mystery, NO one of the description of the murdered man has been seen in the vicinity , and the body had lain in the granary several days before it was discovered by a tramp named Samuel Secord, who ; en tered "the place to seek shelter. ' Tbe-vicUtt'a shirt, had been- torn from the body, the shoes and hat were gone and there was absolutely nothing In the pdekets by which to Identify the body. The murdered man was about 8 feet 8 Inches Jn -' height, had' gray eyes, smooth face and Weighed about 140 pounds. .., , , . i .. - ' EASTERN NEWSPAPERS SEEK l!JFDRrtl ABOUT FBOIT ; BRUTAL MURDER AT CENTRALIA Commends Action In Enacting Election of National Conven . tion Delegates and Ballot on Presidential Preference. - SAYS WALL STREET HAS : CANDIDATES NAMED NOW Just Time for People, Through ' ' Legislatures, to Take Reins ' ' From Interests' Hands. . Madison. Wis., Jan. t. Today Senator La Follette at the opening of the new year fires the first gun In tbe contest to give the people the right to elect delegates to the national conventions of : 1912 by direct vote. In this week's -Issue of La Follette's Weekly magazine, r Senator La Follette declares that, "Wall street- has already . selected -4h PTeei- dential candidates qf both parties. There Is Just time to defeat the Wall street plan.. Let the people organise and de mand of every legislature the enactment of a primary law for the election of delegatee for the national convention by direct vote." Wisconsin's BeooroV k "To Wisconsin belongs the honor of ' enacting the first primary law for the election of delegates for the national convention by the direct vote of peo. ' (Continued on Page Sixteen.) -rested by residents of the Twin Cities the. last two years in, fruit lands In the northwest -with the expenditure of very , little money for advertising. , t ' i . Hade Warried Trip. '-"M Ten days ago Emerson Hough, repre- sentlng the Saturday Evening Post: made a similar, though more hurried, . , trip to-Portland-aBd other north eeae points, with the idea of writing a series , of articles on the Oregon and Washing-)'; ton apple for that publication, giving , particular attention to fruit lands as an' Investment for the easterner. Immigration commissioners for 1 a v number of the middle western states : especially Minnesota and 'Wisconsin-?' have issued bulletins this fall and win--ter advising residents of those districts' to stay, at home and be sure they knew what they wereajjout before , they in- ;f -vested money in far western fruit lands, j, Several of these bulletins attacked Pa- , cifio coast lands almost viciously and i said better fruit could be raised In the upper Mississippi valley states for much ) less money than could be grown on the . Pacific coast. ' . ' ,' looking for Tacta Day and Williams, however, do not take this attitude. They stated rthe-; Hotel Portland tortay they were out here s to make a careful Investigation Of the ' various fruit districts, and planed : to : "shoot holes" through only such proj- . (Continued on Page Fourteen.) Oregon Senators Have Infor mal Assurances of Further ance of Reclamation' Work', From General Fund. WEST UMATILLA ' UNIT OF PROJECT TO BE TAKEN UP; (Washington Bnrein of Tb Journal.) Washington, Jan, fly The department . 1 of the interior before long will ordJi , the reclamation service to proceed le Ihe-- -construction of the west unit of the' Umatilla project. It seems almost cer- tain that $500,000 will ha, available, 1 probably from the general fceclamatlon , u fund, and' not from, the 20,00.00r cer- ' tlficate of Indebtedness loan fund. How- ' ever, it will be better to have the fund , ' assigned from the general fund than s from the certificates fund, because Un ' 7 latter must bear, tnterest at 3 per cent . while the former: is repaid under the prevailing' rules, vwJthout Interest . ' Investigation by flenatore Bourne and ,. Chamberlain suatalns the i prediction , madet in 1 these T"dtspa'ticbeS' Saturday ,' Ight that there Is practlcnlly no. hop of procuring a larger apportionmnt from the Joan fund for Oregdn, b-jt they are confident a result of in- fwaat- i y that- the wt- Um till unit will be taken tip 'soon. Secretary 'BaUinger ind the bord of army engineers tjrmnlfeat no -disposition to discriminate .against Oreson. but seem disposed to constder sll ttn-ne r"n ters In the light of the beet ln-r.- -Of the public service. - ; Nirnajf;flrt-a'