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PORTLAND, OREGON, ' TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH T 21, r 1911. TWENTY PAGES.
PRICE TWO CENT5 " Aid mswt
Y woiAiins SON : fll
OF MURDER MANIA VHILE TAFT WAITS
LIE FOR 24 HOURS
, ,
Mrs.- Geo. Wilcoxson of Walla
Walla Shoots Son, William,
, Killing Him Instantly, as He
' Lies in Bed, in Early Morn.
BULLET IN HER BRAIN -IS
INSTANT SEQUENCE
Neighbors, Hear Shots but' No
Immediate Investigation Is
Made; Insanity Theory.
(Sp.Hiil Dlpt te Th. Jonrnnl.)
Walla Walla, Wash.. March 21. For a
reason that will never be' known. Mr,
George Wilcoxson of this city yesterday
morning: shot her 23-year-old son Wll
11am. and then blew lief brains out with
the same gun. Neighbors heard the
shots, but raid no attention to them,
and as Mr. Wilcoxson was not at home,
the crime was not discovered until this
morning, when suspicion aroused, by
the nonappearance of mother and son
led to the search that revealed the mur
der and suicide.
The woman left no note. Her friends
can ascribe no. reason for the crime
but that she was seised with an acute
attack of Insanity. This Is the only the
ory that can be madu .to fit the trag
edy. i
Tightly gripped In the hand of the
dead woman, the gun that took two lives
was the only clue, and It told a horrible
tale. Dlsh.es half washed .showed the
woman must lave been, washing, them
wlierivthV impulse, to commit the orhns
seised , her. x. The young man wan still
In bed and asleep, from nil appearances,
and he had been shot thouglv-the-hettd
"Just behind Che ear. Mrs. Wilcoxson. had
then turned the weapon against herself.
Although neighbors declare they heard
three shots, evidence of but. two can be
found. p '" :
. The family is well known here, the
young man having been formerly a stu
dent at Whitman college. The father,
who travels for the Best Manufacturing
company of this city, is on the read,
supposedly somewhere in Montana.
BY
Critics of American Treaty
: Seek to Impeach but Are
Defeated; Japs Are Treated
Only as Are Others.
um
STANDS
STORM
n
JAPANESE JINGOES
(Unite Press Leased Wirt.)
Tokio, March 21. Efforts by the anti
American or Nationalist party in Japan
Ao Impeach, Prime Minster Katsura and
( his cabinet 1n the diet failed utterly
today and Foreign Minister Komura
, Improved the occasion to declare that
' the Japanese government was deter-
' mined to4 maintain the present friendly
TeTatlonswlth the-United Stales7
The motion of Impeachment was In
troduced In the lower house of the
; diet. As this was the last day of the
session, It was hoped to rush It through
and get a verdict against the govern
k ment., The resolution demanded cen
t sure of the cablrtet (for tho conclusion
' of the recently signed treaty with the
United states as "humilating" to Japan
because of the fact that no further
privileges were granted to Japanese
In America, ; , . .
Replying to . the charges, Baron Ko
mura declared ; that Japanese, by the
new agreement, vere placed on an equal
footing with other nations In immlgra
tlon to the United States and announce
v . the determination of the government to
h. adhere to its present , policy and o
( ; maintain, friendly relations with the
a; Unite States. ' ; ' '
' ; On "a" vote the Impeachment : proposal
v ; failed, & large, majority of the diet vot
' lng confidence In the government. ': ;
TAKES ONE ROUND TO
.DISABLE OLD TEXAS
, (United fmi Lewed Wire.)
Aboard Flagship Connecticut. ' In
, Chesapeake Bay, March 21. Just one
round of firing from1 the great guns of
the battleship New Hampshire was re
quired hers today to put the old battle-
of commission. The guns were trained
on the San Marcos to test the new de
. tached explosive to be ugad In the navy.
After only one round had been filled
the Ran Morcoa was In an unseaworthy
condition.
V.
WORD FROM DIAZ
Acknowledgement Made That
Minister Limantour Carried
; Back to Mexican Capital
Official Messages.
TAFT HAS NO FEAR OF
TROUBLE WITH JAPAN
Cabinet Meeting Postponed to
TomojTOW, No Urgency
i Existing.
(United Prei LeMed, Wlr.)
Washington, March 21. The admin
istration la apparently marking time Un
til the result of Minister Llmantour's
mission to Mexico City shall become
known.
It was learned today that Limantour
carried official messages to President
Diaz from the Taft administration,
On account of the absence of several
members the cabinet meeting set for
today was postponed to tomorrow. It
was asserted that no need for hasty
action by the cabinet existed and that
the president personally did not fear In
ternational complications from the Jap
anese angle.
The war department announced today
that hereafter It would publish all or
ders to troops participating in military
maneuvers.
NSURRECTOS AT
Sniping Campaign Against
Garrison Conducted by a
Force of 200; Non-Combatants
Flee to U. S. Side.
(United frew LtMsd Wtrs.J
San Diego, Cal., March 41. In reports
from Tcearte, Lower California, it Is
stated that the federal troops are still
keeping' up a fight across the narrow
valley near the town with the revolu
tionary force. This force, said to num
ber 3 90 and to be under thb comnmn l
Of Berthold and Leyva, Is keeping the
federals well within their scant forti
fications. There was a good deal of
firing last, night, but no damage was
reported from the federal side
A number of noncomhatants, fright
ened from their homes by the guerilla
warfare that has -continued in the dis
trict for weeks, have come across the
American line. Most of them are with
out sufficient food and help has been
sent for by- the American ranchers, on
whom the burden has fallen. It Is said
that 126 refugees are Wng cared for
(Continuea on Page Seven.)
SCARCELY 1ST
Answered by U. S. Military
Authority-- Besides, Navy
Best to Oppose Armies.
(IT nl ted Treiw Lstwd Wire.)
Washington, March 21. Answering
the criticisms of Colonel Gacdke, Ger
man military expert, who declared' that
the American army was" very weak,
army officers today point to the state
ments of former Congressman Hull of
Iowa, who for 20 years was chairman
of ths house committee on .military
affairs. , V
f "We can arm 1.000,000 men In the
mobile army today," declared Hull. "Wt
are within 28,000,000 rounds of the
supply of small arm ammunition that
the ordinance bureau thinks we should
have as a reserve. It is true that in
case of war, we would hav rto" draw
upon all our reserve artillery ammuni
tion, but that Is because the supply Is
ordered t by another committee, which
has frequently been antl-mllltary.
"We have a small army and should
not Be niggardly in ammunition supply.
'1 believe that this government should
hr--grwit riwrr uf TOWnteerWrcrs.
An army of, 100,000 regulars Is not too
big, and a reserve force of 250,000
trained and" xf ftcere d men shovM be
created. This' force- could be main
tained at an expense of not mors than
120,000.000 year." - . -
FIGHT ON TROOPS UMANTOUR'S TASK STOCKYARDS SHOW
DOLLARS, OR
' ItoifeprToJ "I ' IMP. ' '
Which
BACK TO LOYALTY
Diaz Said to Contemplate Re
. forms Equal to Reasonable
Demands of Insurrectos
Submission First Condition.
(United Prem Leaned Wire.)
El Paso, Texas, March 21. That Jose
Yves Limantour, principal adviser of
President Diaz, has been placed In
charge of Mexico's Interior Affairs, and
that rliewJi4sooa -Issue an order ta the
Insurrectos to abandon their arms and
send 'delegations-to a national conven
tion at Mexico City, was stated in offi
cial circles at Juarez today. The con
vention. It Is said, will take up reforms
demanded by the Insurgents.
It is declared that President Diaz
will not resign, and that he will not
order a new election as long as a sin
gle man is under arms against the gov
ernment. A large body of insurrectos, It Is re
ported, -crossed-the -Rio Grande into
Mexico near Langtry last night with
arms and ammunition. A company of
the Twenty-third Infantry under Cap
tain Dillingham started today for Lang
try, which is 300 miles below here.
But Commotjon Due to Rumor
Induces Stolypin to Re
consider Resignation.
(United Prus Leased Wire.)
St, Petersburg, March 21. Reports
that Russian Minister Korostovlts has
been assassinated in Peking are still
unconfirmed today, but fearing they
may prove trua Premier Stolypin, who
resigned yesterday, announced today
that - ba would temporarily retain his
post In an effort to avoid a crisis In
th Chines situation.
Th senate's rejection of Btplypln's
plan to Russianize Poland Is given to
dX PfUlli .Clltef-je&soo-f or- tha-pra,
mler'a resignation, which is regarded as
a reactionary triumph, ( The . bureau
crats, deemiag Stolypin dangerously
liberal,, are said to have seized the da
feat of his Polish plans a an oppor
tunity to force his resignation.
T BRING REBELS V S COLONISTS
NO CONFIRMATION
OF ASSASSINATION
SAFETY FOR
will weigh most with the city council?
I ss
Scarcity of Hogs Used to Il
lustrate Need of Extending
Hog Raising Industry in Or
egon; Show .Ends Tomorrow
Many colonists vlnwed the exhibit of
fine Oregon livestock at the Union
stockyards today. Some came with the
avowed intention of purchasing high
grade ..cattle, "beep, or hogs wttiKyhlch
to stock their new farms in Oregon.
The newcomers saw livestock, how-eve.-,
such as the cast does not produce.
There were stierx1 from the Willamette
valley, fine of .wool, heavy of fleeco and
hardy, anil singularly free of disease.
There were broad faced, pf-aceful short
horns from the ranges and the new
West Highland breed, with long hnlr
like Angora cats, chunky bodies and
great Texas steer horns. The . West
Highlanders were brought, a carload
of them, by Bales & Jones of Idaho,
who expect them to take well in Oregon
because they are good range animals,
fine for beef and withstand cold splen
didly because of their long hair.
In'tba department for hog exhibits,
there wan manifest considerable dis
appointment. Many exhibits had been
promised, but not a great many were
sent. Tiie officers of the Pacific North-
(Cdntinued on Page Fourteen.)
JAPANESE LEAVE
Officers Say Destina
tion Sonra Point on West
Coasfof Mexico."
(United Preti Leued Wlr.
Tacoma, March 21. Japanese In large
numbers are leaving Tacoma and Vicin
ity for some point along the .south
Pacific l coast, aocording to local na
tional guard officers. . Forty Japanese
loft Laeey last wtk In a body, em
barWngJromf atU.J?u. A. BtcawncJoi
San FranclBco, whence, militia officers
say, they planned to sail for soma point
on the west coast of Mexico,
Dozens of the foreigners are said to
be quitting their employment in saw
mills and lumber camps and taking their
departure for the south. ' . ' .
SOUND COUNTRY
HUMAN LIFE?
WELL, WAR WOULD
BE A NEW TOPIC
ANYWAY. FORAKER
Traction Magnate Son of Ex
Senator Foraker Would Ap
preciate Diversion From Big
Interest Themes.
J. B. Foraker Jr., a son of former
Senator J. B. Foraker of Ohio, Is In
Portland today and discussing the Jap
anese war scare, said he rather Inclined
to the view that a war with Japan would
be a good ""ffilhg Tor fbe-UnltexTSfateHS
because It would give it something else
to talk about besides Alaska coal land
grabs, water power steals and tho gen
eral conservation of resources discus
sion that haa been prominent for the
past two years.
Mr. Foraker, who Is interested in the
Cincinnati city and suburban fraction
companies controlled by ex-Senator For
aker, said he didn't want to say that he
favored a war with Japan, but it seemed
to him that something was necessary to
take the public off the trivial matters
it had been stirring up the past few
years.
"Personally I can't see how this coun-
(Contlnued on Page Fourteen.)
L
SAFE. CHEAP FUEL
Coos' Bay Inventors to Build
Factory to Make Fuel of
Waste Coal and Wood.
IGNOLET IS NEW
(Sperltl Qlspttcb to The Jourool.)
Marshfleld, Or., March 21. Utilizing
waste wood from the sawmills and the
waste coal from the mines for making
a new fuel is a plan which has been
perfected by Dr. E. Mlngus of this city
and H.' C. Dlers, a civil engineer of
North Bend. The new fuel will be
known as lignolet. It is callmed thai
it will be useful for all domestic pur
poses and for steam and factory pur
poses, and that IV w)U afford a cheap
and .safe fuel for steam .vessels, and
sasaajje Jis.ed.jgenema.gaWkjrutt
gas engines. Valuable bl-producW are
also 'secured In the process. It Is
planned to put up a, factory where the
fuel can be manufactured.. The Invent
tors have been working three years on
the scheme, and claim that thay now
have it absolutely perfected,
i v
TRIAL MARRIAGES SIMON, FAILURE IN
TABOOED; IB SIGHT IF HE RUNS.
1 W BE INDICTED WITHDRAWS NAME
Twenty Klamath Bucks and
Squaws Are Summoned to
Appear Before the Federal
Grand Jury in Session Here.
LAWS OF WHITf MAN
ARE TO BE ENFORCED
Braves Must Not Discard
' Wives of Whom They Tire,
Is Order.
Lo. of the Klamath reservation, and
his lady of the left bower are feeling
the Iron hand of civilization strongly
upon them. For the order has come
fj-om Washington that trial marriages
are not to be tolerated among the Indi
ans and as a result ten bucks and as
many squaws are facing Indictment at
the hands of the United States grand
Jury.
This Is the first time, probably, that
the government's work of civilizing the
Indians has reached the moral stage of
Interfering with trial marriages. Here
tofore, the Indian hes been content to
tako a wife, live with her for a while,
and in case he tired of her or she of
him, either cauld seek solace elsewhere
by merely saying "Robert I love you,"
or whatever else migl4 occur to tb
Cavallerll-llke Indian maid.
Agent Makes Complaint.
But all this has been changed, says
the department of Indian, affairs. In
February. 1910, H. G. Wilson,, super:
lhtendent and disbursing agent 'for the
Klamath reservation, reported to the
United States attorney here that a num
ber of the Indian bucks on the reserva
tion had deserted their wives and were
living openly with other squaws. He
wanted to know if there wasn't soma
law to- cover these offenses.
The district attorney's office took the
matter up with the Indian department
at Washington, and recently received a
reply saying .that the white man's laws
In this respect, as in others, must ex
tend over the Indians.
As a result United States deputy mar
shals descended upon the astonished
Indiaus and haled them, male and fe
male, before the grand Jury In Port
land. That body Is investigating their
moral delinquencies today, . and prob
ably will Indict them In accordance with
the law.
Brides Bought With Rattle,
Marriage lsws among the Klamaths
have never been very strict. It Is said.
Formerly the braves negotiated with
fathers of young squnws . and offered
so many head of cattle for them, if
the terms were accepted they were ac
cepted as wives. - in case the. couple
tired of each other they could separate
again by mutual agreement upon the
return of. the stock paid father-in-law
for bride's hand. But when the Indian
department decreed that buying wives
should be done away with and lnsistod
upon raarriafRe licenses the Indiana
naturally supposed the troublesome
feature of their divorces the return of
(Continued otr Page Fourteen.!
WOMAN'SUFFRAGE-BILtp
KILLED IN IOWA SENATE
(United' Tresn Leased Wire 1
Des Moines, Iowa, March 21. By a
vote of 27 to 21 the state senate here
today defeated the Allen bill, which was
framed to grant equal suffrage to
women.
Uncle Sam will pay the railroads of
the United States about $50,000,000 this
Vnar for carrying the malls an advance
of $5,000,000 over any previous figure.
The new postal law, copies of which
have been received by postofflce offi
cials In Portland, shows the appropri
ation for the Inland transportation of
malls by railroad lines to be $50,092,200,
of whlh about $i9.ona.OOO will be avail
able on July 1 of this year.
Wooden mall cars will have to go out
of commission soon, however, unless
what may be a Joker in the new postal
law, kills the intent of the department.
The law provides that after July 1 no
wooden cars excepting those approved
bv the pbstmaster general can be op
erated in trains where th majority of
the cars are steel -or . of steel under
frame, or between the locomotive and
a steel frame car.
This regulation, however, applies only
lo full mail cars- cars ot 40 feet or
longer for which the government pays
the railroads a special rate per mile per
annum. -
The regulations also provide a penalty
for railroads t operating wooden, mail
cars after July l. lit, in train where
a.-iuaJiorUiujDJL4.UiaCara araaUiaixaaa.
While the steel man car regulation
sounds all rht. If Is, on the face
It, apparently of little use. It leave th
matter entirely In tho bands of Post
master .General Hitchcock ' to approve
of. disapprove of wood cars and merely
specifies steel cars in trains wher the
850,000,000 GOES 10 RAILROADS
Scouts Tell Him It's No Use
So He Finds His Private
Business Cannot Be Neg
lected for Another Term.
WHERE HIS FOLLOWING ;
WILL GO IS UNSETTLED
Werlein and Lombard May Get
Some but New Man Entire
ly Possible.
Having been advised by a small army
of scouts that he could not be elected
to another term, Mayor Simon last night
gave out word that he will not be a
candidate to succeed himself. From all
quarters -- - came discouraging reports, ,
showing the Insurgents wer In over
whelming force, and Simon, heeding th
warning of his friends, took to the cel
lar. He announced he could not afford
to neglect private business for another
term. . '
Today the political gossips are eager
ly asking each other who will fait heir
to the Simon support Borne of it will
scatter, but 11 is expected the solid line
of the old guard will be called Into bat
tle for some one candidate. Ther are
two theories as to how this support Will
be transferred.
One theory is that the Simon element
will go to J. E. Werlein, the city treas
urer, who lost no time announcing his
candidacy when he learned Simon was
out of It. His election would be pleas
ing to the Interests back of Simon. An
other candidate who Is said to have
some chance for support from Simon
Is Councilman Gay Lombard.
: The other theory of the ease Is that
the Simon contingent, In fear of the
"Rushlight peril," will go to some new
man who stands high in the business
community and has not been Identified
with factions. This idea Is based on
the choice of a man who can beat out
Rushlight In the primaries, and who,
though he may not be tied up to Si
monism, would be expected to show
some appreciation for support. '. '
Ben Belling, Olds, Woodward.
Along this line the name most fre
quently heard la that of Ben Selling,
recently president of the state senate.
Selling Is disinclined to leave his busi
ness for the mayor's chair, but great
pressure will be exerted upon him.
William P. Olds, who Is about to retire
from active business, is another In the
mentioned class, and so Is W. F. Wood
ward. '
Back of all this excitement In the Re
publican ranks are the shadows of
Harry Lane and Tom Word.- Neither is
- (Continued on Page Six.) -
IS
Special M"PJJ'!lJ?- TAt. Journal.
WEALTHY
II!
THATCHER
t (Ghver-OiveV31rWerd -
reached here this afternoon that Wll-',
llam Davis, a prominent and wealthy
rancher of Thatcher, about three miles
south of this city, was shot and killed ,
at his home about noon. No other par- '.
tlcjjlars can be obtained. It Is be-'
lieved that he shot himself, though a
murden theory has been advanced, Thi -coroner
has gone to the Davis home.
majority of other cars are steel i The
few roads ire the country that operate
steel coaches and Pullmans natural'
provide solid steel equipment such
equipment being required of all cars
operated through the Pennsylvania ter
mlnals In New Tork city, for Instance, .
Tho Harrlman lines, generally, are us.
lng steel mall cars they being In rom. '
men use on the through trains ai the "
Oregon-Washington Railroad & Naviga-v
tlon Company and the Southern Pacific V
Postal clerks, w ht v have been com
plaining, of their 111 treatment, are to
b given a travel allowance not to ex
ceed $t a day en run after the first
10 . hours. . . . y .l-.wv ),-.,,: ,.-4 ii'i f
For greater,; convenience . th star
route and "rural mails are to b clasuM
together In the future and via fr; un
der the direct management of the fourth
assistant postmaster general.? These In
dud fcH th atsf routes excepting thou .
In Alaska. ' ' -
There la a touch At human interest la
th regulation., tW, .'.After much tt
tr6aty. tiie postmaster general ami con
gress h,av .agreed tf .allow th mejsjt
''Please do oot'opeh till Clulftwas" en
lh .cover of mm-handlse nacka?" sent
i Ltuough. Itxu .iiifLitaJiu,eto?ui a lUU-l.-d-
Uay mAsif un b"-t sialnst tie rut--,
chiefly bm-uuse It was i'ec rl.it ft- i.
th nature Of a p'Twnst in. ..(- t
should reqi,iie ft wit Hai p- . - m
Bui lt h-'lwotli'i monw-i n ct t
d.-partmctit has dec I lit..
Sinning next Chrl'H .