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A, a i 1 -v ' t a t " ) 2 tr '.- J J . f r. J 11 ft . : i JUL 1 - ViZ.Il DAIIvV . -5 A. II. loy. Boise , r i Seattle i ; 4 i Spokane ; , jj i Starshfield 31 i Ban rrancisco .....'........,.,..'.. 43 j; Portland S3 M Tho weather Fair tonight and Friday; southeasterly winds. X rXe flies VOL. IX. NO. 09 PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1911. -TWENTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. Binw, rivs ce.su FT GfflNl A1A2j -A -iCLfJLvsj JJii,.v-v:V-ii;I JflL . V V i iA. luMEsrm-CHim TO-BE-SEIZEB-iBY fine ti ItOL I Charge Made That Russian Merchants Cannot Sell Tea in .Chinese" Territory and Consuls Barred From Cities. Loud cm rtb. ieJ-onatf sotloa that . &niU UtaaOa to mlt miUtary Aam onitratioa aguinit (nilna to fore oom--.plUao wttb tub. UMty of 1881.: mi n to tit Hrltbli for lcm offloo by TREATY mGHTS TO BE MADE BY FORCE tat SiiiUd rorenunant. y A t ' It U pndcritood tbat almllar sotaa c bara feooa cent to tho otbo powara. . ' 8t Petersburg,' Veb. Pfactkal certainty that Kuasla will be involved 'it in wat with China within m few'houra fa teen Jier today-in a, publication by ' the newgpapor Retcljrthat .the Rnsslan , ' Korprnment plana, to, occupy the 111 rcg--ion in Chinese Turkestan. Conferences at the war ministry today.' It is -believed. iTt over , the preparation! for the In- ' vasion. . . , r ' BussU la aggrieved over China's aU Mea-ed violation of the treaty of 1881, . whereby Kuasla" evacuated lit province after an occupation of 19 years, in re ,:turn for which China promised Russia commercial .concessions in 111,. Mongo lia and Manchuria. Russia asserts that these rights have been gradually cur tailed. ' . Russia's Intention la , declared to be to first aetze the town of Kuldja,, Its f occupation will ,b eaylvalent loudec- n laratlon of war. J but actuae hostilities are considered as 'unlikely, ' for it is considered certafn tliat Chlni will yield. If China resists war. is inevitable. . ;. Russia declares that -China is hinder ing Russian merchants in selling tea in Chinese territory and that China re- ' fuses to permit Russian . consuls : tn ,. many of tier cities.. , Two WaJI Street Scarcsj " . ' (UnUrt .Prtta LeasH Wire.) . , v New - York.- Feb. : 1 Wall street was frightened today, by. the. report that; war was about to be declared by Rua ala against China, and that John D. Rockefeller was dangerously ill. The market for securities broke heavily in consequence, although the selling was limited. -.The report or Mr.' Rockefel ler's illness was denied, but .the , de nial waa not believed on the street, - SAFE OF AH "STORE CMED 'Two, Youngsters, J'Out to Pick ( I Up Some ' Loose . Changed j j Suspected" of Bungle That i? Yields Not Even Carfare. , Two well dressed young fellows, who - hung about'Anabel station on the Mount $cott line yesterday afternoon, are sus pected of attempting to blow open the .safe of the Mount Scott .Feed & Fuel company at about 8 o'clock this morn- ' ing. f ."Wa'rt out km to pick up . little loose change In real estate," one of the men said. 1 . " ,l 1 t Anabel residents were awakened be ' tween 8 and 8 o'clock by the noise of an explosion. Several went in the direction Whence they thought , the sound came, but found no evidence of a blast - This morning P. L,., Wilkinson, mana ger of the Mount Scott Feed A Fuel company, reported to the police that an attempt had been made to blow the company's safe, a" Webb ' strong! box, about Sts 'feet high and 3 feet Jong. . The combination knob had ' been filed Off, Altro-glycerine injected : into the . opening and the hlist set off. The ". mechanland of th.e1)ii?blnation-was torn ; . to pieces,: but the door was not opened. ?'The explosion waa so loud that I think the men must have run away, , without returning to open the safe," (Continued on Page Fifteen,) ; (United Prww TaHI Wirt.) '"-'Puerto Plata, Sair lomlngp, Feb."l Five ' thous&nd ; Ilaytlen troops;' com manded by President Simon, are in the northern provinces of iHaytl, stamping out the rebellion .theijo with fire" and sword. Juan .Mendenza,' which fell be fore their attack, was burned. WITHOUT REWARD K j, . ,,, , ( CRUSHING REBELLION WITH FIRE AND SWORD f - - i .ef , - J f 2xv . , I - ' . ! : I ' , ' - , . " t j; J '(.to- ' ifc .. .. .... g r-. ..r.T .. v,. Czar Jflcholaa Must Puslj, Reciprocity Cam- paign Ho' Limit; ;Standpat Element Pleased at 'Clark's So-Called Blunder. I Wasblngton. Feb, 16. President Tt today chose . Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts as executive whip for the senate and Instructed him to push the campaign for reciprocity to the limit Crane It is said has been told to ap preach other senators who have bills pending and ask them to step aside with their measures in order; to let tha reci procity bill pass. ' T sf ; i Tho president .today Is endeavoring to assure Canadians that Champ Clark's annexation speech, was unimportant, but the: reported excited -repudiation of the sentiment in -Canada and England, it Is believed here, makes the success of the Taff pian for freer trade at least less probable than it was, ',, " The standpat element In contvas is hugely tickled over what is admitted to be a grave blunder on Clark' a part, and Is bending every effort to make the situation still more disagreeable. - ' if " "' - ' " London, Feb. l.Presldenfs Taft's flat disavowal of Champ Clark's speech in congress predicting the annexation of Canada as a certainty if reciprocity comes, Is taken very differently; by the Liberal rand Conservative -organs . here today. - The Liberal papers praise Taft and deny that America intends to absorb Canada,, The Conservative papers , de clare that Taft's disavowal does not re flect the true . sentiment of American statesmen. v 1 ' - , , The Globe says: , i-Naturally Taft re pudlated Clark's referring to reciprocity (Continued on Page Fourteen.) :ER IS SUICIDE '. innltpd Pro.. Lird Wlr. r Newport, R. J.i Feb. H.-Newport was astounded today, when it became known that Commander Frank Marble of the staff of the naval .war college, who died Tuesday, was a suicide. Naval surgedns reported' that two bullets had been found in Marble's body,' doing away with the theory first edvartcedthatjie foil and fractured Ws'sVullX , -, The announcement caused a sensation.- Both Marble and hi wife were prominent in army, and nay circles. Mrs. Marble was formerly Miss Vard Jey, a Newport belle. Commander Mar ble was wealthy. ' J t SENATOR CRANE iS$ TO ACT AS IIP FOR PRESIDENT m COLLEGE :e row . , 'ffUSSMS (. - ......rjr. . i( a of Russia. Gompers Appeals to All Unions -in Fight Against Capital ; In Los Angeles $500,000 " Fund Is Proposed. " ' (Colted Pret Lriised Wire.) ( Washington, Feb. 16. Announcement that 1500,000' is being raised by ;the un ions of the country to finance the strug gle of the unions of Los Angeles against "Open shop"' conditions, was made here today,, by President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of. Labor. Its collection, it is said, will mark the open ing of the biggest fight between capi tal and; labor . that the United States has ever aeen. . ' V-i"- - Appealing to art union men to contrtl ute to. the. war In the name of "iustlce and liberty?' GompSra today Is sending out an appeal for funds, to various cit ies, and' Secretary "Frank Morrison of the federation announced .that, already contributions aref streaming in. Union leaders declare that the national asso ciation of manufacturers is backing the merchants ' and manufacturers' associa tion of Los -Angeles in Its fight against unionism, r.nd that it is the intention to utterly stamp out the union movement In the southern California city, Oompers' appeal for funds to aid the Los : Angeles unions -In-- their- f igh tor ne - ctosea Bnop ' reaas: , ..ia, . : "The toilers of . Los Angeles have made and are meklng-'one of the most gallant and heroic struggles on record. The" national sscclatlon of manufact urers, through ita 'subsidiary organisa tion, in Los Angeles, bas. controlled the officers of that iltys government; who have acted as Ita puppets, passing ordi nances - denying ro'. men the right! of peaceably, .walking on the streets or Of talking to the workers whom they met "Hundreds' of unionist have been arrested- and persecuted: and -through -a (Continued on Page Fourteen.! BREAK INTOJAIL i e - - tlTalttd Prw Leased Wlr. , ' ' WUkesharrer Pa.. jFeb.' . 1. - The Wilkesbarre police today are ' searching for.two jmasked bajndlla.who.broka.lnto the. Jail at Warrior Kun, near nere, last, night and at the muzzle of a gun robbed Stanley Jandua, a prisoner, of 829.. .. ,, Jnndus was alone In the prison, his jailor having eon to hed.v Jandus, find ing himself free, went out and notified the holloa, . , - I , t , 1 ' , - . , . ' w"" 1 ' -V I4 LABOR WILL WAGE OPEN SHOP POLICY AND ROB PRISONERS GENERAL NAVARRO r GREAT STUMP LAND -w m BAILEY IHOU IRY ' IS BOTTLED IIP BY Insiirrectos Said to Be birch ing -on Mexican City Fr;om 4 All Points of Compass; At- tack Soon Expec'tefJ. V. ; TRAP. SAID TO HAVE ; : -"BEEN LAID BY FOES Explanationuffered Jor Easy Approach of Federal Troops , Into the City. tlnlt1 Tmi jfRmd WlreJ Ei Paso. Texas. Fob 1.--The pux sllng indlffere.iceof the Mexican reb els to General Navarro's relief of Juares is believed to be explained today by a score of reports coming In from the south that the insurrectos are marching upon Chihuahua from all points of the compass. Friends of the revolutionary movement here - declare that the city may be captured within 10 days, leav ing Juarez also at the mercy of the rebels. it is now generally felt that Oroico'a failure to give battle to Navarro on his march to Juares was due. not to fear of an encounter,' but ' In line with a cleverly laid plan to draw Navarro to tha north, thus making It easy to take Chihuahua, and thereby provide a ral lying point for the Insurrectos of the interior of the state. - From Chihuahua, the revolutionary Junta says, it will be easy to capture Navarro and all his troops, as command of the Mexican Cen tr&l railroad,- will cut -of f - th . federal general .from his base or supplies. ' Evidence that those in the inner coun cils of. the revolutionists do not by any means regard their cause as hopeless, is seen today in a fiat refusal by .the in surgent -General Caalllas, who is in ail here for violation., of neutrality t rer nounce the cause of the rebels. General Ahmuda, the federal chief in Chihuahua state, who is an oia personal xnena or Caslllas, pleaded today with the Insur gent commander to desert the foes of Olas, return to Juares and be reinstated fn all his former honors, Caslllas flatly refused, -saying that he placed his duty before his friendship, and that he by no means despaired of the overthrow of tha Dias sovernment E Four Senate Committeemen '.Favor "Retention of En tire Appropriation. (Sperisl Dlipitch to Tn JonrnaL) -Salem, Or., Feb. 18. Prospects In the senate today are much brighter for re tention, of the appropriation of $60,000 for prevention of forest fires" In house bll 60, by Buchanan. - Instead of being favored by only two. members' of ways RFDFLS in JUAREZ FOREST FIRE BILL HASGOOD CHANC . I and means committee or tne senate, as "fjueared yesterday, four members have c j sighed a report to prevent reduction of the amount . :-. Chairman Albee, Calkins. SInnott and Nottingham have signed the majority report In favorof the bill as it came from the housey while Mawley, Wood and Patton want the appropriation cut to $201020, a sum regarded as entirely inadequate oy tne rrienas or tne dui. .. -.The bill will coma up for tMrd road Ing atid final - passage tomorrow. . At gument by tlie friends of the forests and the homesteaders threatened yearly by flaming - forests is overcoming .opposi tion and It is thought tha bill will pass Joaqnln filler Not Dangerously 111. Oakland, CaW Feb. Joaquin MHie the poet who , haa been seriously ill at Fablola hospital , here, is better today. He passed a very comfortable night and today is resting easily, .'. rVv-i-t.. Whlle. hi condition i critical, phy lclans say there is no immediate cause for alarm. . f. REACHES VLADIVOSTOK , (Cnlted Press Uated Wire.) t . 8t Petersburg, Feb. I.-Vladivostok is quarantined today, following the reported, discovery of a case of pneu monic plague there. Tha city has trafi floater a large extent with Manchuria, where hundreds of plague Victims, are dying dally; and ms believed the easejies. Jbeencpmmunicted, as a result,; All business relations witfe Manchui-lu have ceased, o Railway transportation betweenr Vladivostok and therplaguv jltmict is under medical eupervlsion. Vladlvoetolf authorities are.- taking every precaution to prevent spread of the disease. . - , PNEUMONIC PLAGUE SCHEME EXPLAINED; SjlOilTS RECEIVE IT -J.-W'-'iti' Southwstt Washington ; Devel ; opers Told How l ,000,000 Persons May Be Colonized in Western Washington. . $10,000,000 COMPANY IS ' PROPOSED BY COFFMAN Vision of Logged-Off Lands Intensely . Farmed Brings - Much Enthusiasm. - Ooffnum's Big Z,and Bcheme. "Pool" large areas of logged off lands. ' Organize a 110,000,006 company to clear and develop them, v Sell the lands only in small tracts to Actual users. Develop dairying and vegetable growing to the limit ' ' . Make payments easy and cov-' ering1. long periods. , Raise money for development by bonding the land on a plan similar to that employed In lr- rlgated sections. . , r : . (Journal Staff correspondence.) . ' . Vancouver. Wash., Febk 16. Before a crowded- house at the Grand theatre last Sight. N.,,, IL Coftaaa... bajikerfcaudiPF wealthy timber man., gave his plan of developing logged-off and ; burned over lands in southwestern Washington to the Southwest Washington Development as sociation in a most masterful address and in full detail. Time and again was he compelled to wait until applause died away before he could continue his story of the proposed development of millions of acres of now useless, lands. (fnd the colonization of a million people in the section of Washington between Seattle and Portland. ..Mr. Coffman has given' careful thought td ' the subject, and pronounces the great scheme feas ible and easy of execution when a num ber of wise businessmen take hold of it with the intention of giving, sufficient time to work out the details of manage ment and financing. Mr. Cof f man's address strikes" the"key. (Continued on Page 'Eighteen.) Councilman Lombard Makes . Statement Without Reser vation After Examining the Plant; Simon Reluctant. "If the city accepts the new garbage incinerator built by the Public Works Engineering company, such acceptance will be prima fade evidence of graft," asserted Councilman Gay tombard yes terday. r"I make this atatement with out reservation," ha continued, "and I reiterate every statement I made in yes terday's Journal concerning-the crema tory plant Such asservatlons a those attributed, to Frederick P. Smith in a morning paper; lauding- his own incin erator are; of course, ridiculous and I don't believe , any one will , take them seriously. . i. ' -' - ; "It is only natural that Mayor Simon should be reluctant to admit that tha crematory is a failure. He is chairman of the health board, which let the con tract for the, burner, and is, therefore, in a-" large measure responsible for the fulfillment of the contract : To admit that the Incinerator may prove a poor-in vestment would be to re flect on his own administration. (Continued on Page Eighteen.) vVILLARRiVE APRIL 5 Washington, - Feb. f 16. '- Senators Bourne and -Chamberlain have reoelved a letter from Frank Harper, secretary to Roosevelt; saying: "Mr. Roosevelt's Uuieraxy-ii4bean...arxaagsd Ha- pacts to leave Reno at 18:43,' midnight Monday. April S,. "arriving at Oakland Tuesday, April i. at t:2i a. m,'. leaving Oakland 1 1:1 R a. m. the same day, and arriving at Portland 8:S0 p. -m., Wed- needay, April 5, leaving Portland for Tacoma thaj midnight" . . , "IF CITY ACCEPTS 1HT0RITIS A SIGN OF GRAFT" COLONEL ROOSEVELT " V i '.v '..( v .,:! .. JS.:. '' . - r I .v ; -?-v T 1 ' f ,; . -; !: - . ' r ' 4 1 - " v . r.'v; V ! . i .'-if-. , ., . ' V - ' ' V ) if-' -'- ,' - " V 4 - Queen Mother Alerandra. - (rnltwl Pr Lnrtd Wlrt.l' - London. Feb. 1. Indisposition -on tha of Queen Mother Alexandra gave rise to disquieting rumors today. Al though the cpurt physicians announced that the queen t was only slightly fu, there-were many rumors- that her con dition -is serious, f-,. -- -, Commerce Committee Recog nizes Protests of Oregon Senators Despite TaftT, 0nltrC Press Lmm Wire.) Washington, - Feb. 16.. The - senate committee - today voted to report ad Tersely on the nomination of P. S. Mal colm for collector of ;the ,port of Port land. It is 'tjof- the custom of senate committees to . assign vany reasoa ? in their 'reports "to the ( senate on their nominations, but it is known that the protests of Bourne and Chamberlain were ; sufficient to ; prevent Malcolm's eonfirmtttionfip te face -of1 Taft's ex-i pressed desire that he be confirmed,, While probably the; Joint protest of the two senators would : have been. enough to defeat Malcolm, it was known that strong support would be given the OrCgop? protestors- by 4progifesslve.r.sen ators of both parties who. have resented Taft's pretended restoration in the Bev erly letter last summer of the progres sives . to1 normal t recognition, in t the matter, of federal-appointments; fol lowed by his persistent refusal to make good that plpdge. .. ; - 't, ' (Specl.l Plipatch The Joamat . ' Salem.-Or.. Feb. . 16. Senator Jay Bowerman lost- his fight for his- pet assistant secreury of. state bill in the senate yesterday, the' senate refusing to pass the measure over the veto of Governor1 West On the attempted pass age of the bill over the veto, the vote Seattle, Wash,;. Feb. If. After a ter rible struggle ' in : - the v waterlOKged schooner Edward R.,, West, Captain J. Jv Jensen and' his wife are In Seattle today, .thankrui lor tneir escape irorn death -in the raging seas off Destruc tion island. For four days and nighto they drifted helplessly about' and only bx.the.jheercst,chanca were th-.y . res cued and brought ashore by Liu? Stand ard Oil tankshlp Atlas. , , The west sailed from Grays Harbor Fcbrviary 9, bound for .NowrnKiIo, Aus tralia with li.n.l-.-r 'I In re Mh tm report from 1 up by tha At! i ADVERSE REPORT ONPS.filAiCOLM CAP1AND1FE-:' ADRIFT FOUR DAYS CAN RESULT III : BUT ONE VERDICT .S.' V, f-" 'Ti-Wif '3 .v-.-s- .-.-v.' K Damaging Confessions Mad3 by Official Himself; Tells of v Little Deals in Furniture for Office.' 1 : ATTEMPTS MADE TO WHITEWASH OFFICIAL Two or Three; Members, for Political Reasons,' , May ' Hold Him Not. Guilty, i (Sperisl DlDpitch to Tha Journal.) -Salem. Or., -Feb.-1.-There can he small doubt again as to the , conces sions that have been reached by the majority of the members' of the second Bailey Investigating committee, but one or two.members of the committee, it has been earned are not willing, tnostlv for political reasons, it is believed, to concede that Bailey 1 not a competent official and is not entitled to remain in -Office.- , - Whether these members will hold out ta their opinion or come around ti thej; majority view of the matter, that Bailey" . is Incompetent not qualified for the of fice 'he holds : and has- misappropriated state funds will not be known until tha. results of 'the inaulry are made public , In the report of the Joint committee which Is expected to be made this af ternoon or evening. It may be that a compromising' report will be forced by them anrvthe-lveUga-ttonr will have ' accompliehed - nothing, or , two reports will - be substituted to t legislature. 4 Damaging Confession. ' 3. Vf. Bailey occupied the stsnd in defense of himself at the night session ' of the Committee last night from 9:30 ' o'olock until after midnight. Damaging confessions were made by him relative to his trade to himself whereby the state got a rug "a good as new" for (Continued on Page Two,) Great Northern Forced to Pay Deferred Claims , of Its Section Hands. . (United pnaa Leased Wlre.1 ' Seattle. Wash., Feb. .16. Great cor porations employing thousands of men are often apt to aerer payment of wages Until 'such delay works a. great, hard- ship on the wage earners, Judge Albert son in the .superior court has ruled, and he makes special criticism of the methods o -the paymaster of the Great. Northern rauroaa. - The court ordered a deolslon for the plaintiffs in the case" of two section hands who brought suit against the Great Northern for their delayed wages. amounting to about 450.00 each. The court granted ama.ll damages and attor ney's fees m addition to the amount claimed. . was 16 W H, four votes short of the tO.needed, and three votes leas than the bill received when it passed the senate. The victory of the administration pobably ends the - fighting effective ness of the Bowerman phalanx for this session. Bowerman loaded his. heaviest guns for this battle by which- he hopa'l to Jar the admlnlstmtimtt ' During the time left the.rpv will likely b little tol erance for bills making1 a target of th- administration, Which haa been alit naliy sustained by passage of the tratx (Continued on page Fifteen.) EGfJ itUI BURSTS BLOOD W. . . - (Cnltwi Pre I.ei"-1 Wi-) Cettlnje, ' 1 " '- M"" JIuAltUCKIO 14 "t ' 1 '' lous fontiitinn todey n hurstluj MoM'l vr,. hleedin.!? t.-'i 'i ' !.e ' - ' atantlv i-i. t -t, y 1 '- i.-.- I "n ' 1 ! BIG CORPOKATK SCORED BY JUDGE uri ivinu uj i II LI