If yon havs bloyole, sewlar machine' or diamond that jro wlah to exchange to adventag Tour wants bo known through - a Journal want ad- THSY oorfT sin; IiXttui. The weather-Fair tonight and Thursday; northwesterly winds. uoiio ;'4 ,74 ; Seattle !..!5t Spokane , '04 Marahfleld 54 Ban Tranolaco ea Portland I54 Koseburg , '.!'.! M a.' VOL. X. NO. 122. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1911. EIGHTEEN PAGES. TTD TO TXm fT?MTe ON THATNR MT VfllM 1 i.c .TANna rivii V Runs Away to Work TYPIST'S SLAYER HIMSELF KILLED RUNNING SHORT! 2 1 ii 1 . I ill l -n i i i i it 1 v I'll xi I la I I v i-v .v.. f i B i i. 11 ii II 1 i a ii "V 11 II. II . jininr. . WAR CLOUDS LOOM DARKER: ENGLAND IS OPENLY DEFIANT ADDITIONAL DOCKS AND OPEN RIVERS PORTLAND'S NEED WIT INI. UR Struggle Is Brought Apprecia bly Nearer by Announce ment That Lloyd-George May Head Foreign Affairs. APPOINTMENT WILL MEAN SANCTIONING OF SPEECH Conservatives Believe Asquith Is Resolved to Make the Kaiser "Back Down." (T'nlted Pres. Leated Wire.) London, July 26. War between Great Drltoln anA P.ocmn n - fh ImmlnfinPA fit which Is stirring England as It has not been stirred for yearn, was brought ap preciably closer today by the seml official announcement that Chancellor Af tv WYchiifiiipr llnvfrl T.lovil-Oeortire may become secretary of foreign af fair . This appointment. If It cornea, will mean that the chancellor's recent speech warning Germany to keep her hands off In Morocco, has received the official sanction of the cabinet and, many dip lomatists say, would be tantamount to an open threat of battle. Announcement Knocks Conservatives. The announcement that Lloyd-George, who voiced the threat, may take over the reins of the 'country's foreign pol icy has shocked the conservatives, most of whom believe that the Asquith gov ernment has resolved to make the kaiser "back down" even if It comes to a hos tile declaration. That the government believes the chances of serious trouble are great la seen today . In the cancellation of the Atlantic fleet's Norwegian cruise. This will hold the hulk of Britain's sea fighters near the shores of England, ready, if necessity arises, to make -a demonstration against Germany or lo Bteam into the North Sea to meet a descent of the kaiser's fleet Situation Admitted Acute. That the Anglo-German situation la more acuta than had recently been deemed possible, is generally admitted. Germany'a Interference at Agadir, her evident Intention to gain a footing In Morocco and the presence of her war ships at Agadir in particular,, are con sidered here as a. thrust at England, rather than 'at France. - "That the en tente cordials, however, la to be reck oned with la evident from the close re lations, being maintained between the French and English foreign offices. ' It la well-known that they are quite agreed on the course to be pursued, 'and the prominence of France's former for eign minister, M. Delcasse, in the pres ent French administration la taken as a guarantee that hia well known anti German proclivities will aid in holding (Continued on Fhge Nine.) ARRIVING DAILY; Health Authorities of New York, Alarmed by Influx of Those Stricken by Plague, Admit Situation Is Serious. (United Vrrnt Leiiwd Wlr. New York, July 28. With cholera victims constantly arriving here on Italian liners, two suspects Isolated at Bellevue hospital and ten new cases irom a cargo of Immigrants who ar rived yesterday now lHolated at Swin burne Island, the city authorities ad mitted today that the situation in New York is serious. Alarmed by the influx of those who have been stricken with the dread dis ease, federal, state and city health offi cials are constantly in conferonow as to the best moans of controlling the malady. Tho state health department will take action after a general com paring of notes at Albany next Monday. Danger of the epidemic getting a seri ous foothold in the city was greatly In creased today when three Italians who were held prisoners on tho liner Pe rugia, which arrived from Palermo, July 14, escaped from the vessel last night. All three had been stevedores at Palermo where cholera Is epidemic. They were "to have been deported when the Perugia sailed. POPE PIUS MUCH WEAKER; REPORTS CONTRADICTED (ITntted' Prest Leafd Wire. Rome, July 26. Confidential reports from the Vatican today say that Pope Plus is much weaker and that hia gen eral condition Is worse. These reports contradict the bulletins Issued by tha pope's physicians who say his ailment Is laryngitis, and that he is in no danger. CHOLERA VICTIMS WORRY i ' J ,Map of northwest coast of Africa, showing kingdom tan , -CI ! Miss Louise Swan, 10-year Boclologl eal student, who worried friends by disappearance. TELEGRAM TO MAID IS Mystery of Disappearance of Beautiful New York Girl Is Partly Cleared Up by Un signed Message. ( t'nlted Pre. Letoed Wire.) New York, July 28. Believing- Iulse Swan, 19, missing for 10 days. Is safe in Philadelphia, her father, .William Swan, today withdrew the $1000 re ward offered for her. This action fol lowed the receipt of an unsigned tele gram from Philadelphia, which said: "Am perfectly t.efe and have good po sition. Do not: worry. . Please with draw offer of reward, as I promise I will write tomorrow. Do not look fur ther." The telegram was addressed to a maid In the employ of the family. Miss Swan, noted for her beauty, dis appeared from her home 10 days ago. Raised In the lap of luxury, she had often complained hat she was too red blooded to lead the life of a rich do nothing. She was an ardent student of sociology and had often said ahe wanted to work for a living. Miss Swan's disappearance prostrated her mother. For days it was feared her parent would not live. SAYS LOUISE SWAN SAFE AND WHERE GERMANY IS TRYING TO "BUTT IN" f 1 Unknown Man Who Riddles Sacramento Stenographer's Body With Bullets Meets a Similar Fate Soon After. HOLDS OFF PURSUERS WITH SHOWER OF SHOTS Concealed in Brush, Murderer Puts Up Desperate Fight Until He Falls Dead. (I'nitPd l'rv Lenwil Wlr.) Sacramento, Cal., July 26. Leaping from concealment In the alloy between J arrd K streets, on Twelfth street, an unidentified mnn today drew a re volver and, with nn oath, began flrlns shot after shot Into the body of Miss Anna Dudley, a stenographer In thy office of the state engineer, who whs passing on her way to work. She dle l almost Instantly. Attracted by the woman's fiereiins . crowd gathered within a few spccwiIs and followed tlio murderer, hut w, kept at bay by another fusillade i shots until tho fugitive had gained good start. Within tmlf nn hour ufur he had killed the woman the murderer supposed to be C. II. Kmery of Sun Franclpco, was surrounded In tho brush near the American river, near the end of Sixteenth street, where In a des perate battle with a score of officers he was killed by a shot from a pump gun in the hands of Captain of Police Pennlsh. Fighting desperately the brute continued the unoven battle even after he had been wounded several times. He fired at least 40 shots at the officers who were hemming him In. Concealed in the brush and reload ing his weapon from time to time, the (Continued on Page Fourteen.) TORY ISSUE T BE SOLVED AT'HNB Councilman Fights for Ordi nance Calling for Immediate Action; "Do Not Embarrass the Mayor," Pleads Baker. Charging that the mayor and city health board have wasted a month in in vestigating the crematory situation and demanding that Immediate action be taken either to reject or accept the new plant shut down at the close of the Simon regime. Councilman Tom N. Monks of the First ward this morning threw the city council Into a heated discussion by demanding the passage of an ordinance forbidding the delivery of any more garbage at the Guild's lake grounds than the old crematory plant, which is now operating, can destroy. Mayor Rushlight pointed out that if the ordinance Introduced by Councilman Monks were to pass it would virtually necessitate the acceptance of the new burner by the city, as that would be the lesser of two evils. "I don't care whose hand I force," hotly replied Mr. Monks, "and I don't care what you do with the new plant. If you don't handle the garbage at the crematory grounds you can put It In barges and send It to the ocean if you (Continued on Page Fourteen.) of Morocco. CREMA ; ' SIX COMMISSIONERS AND MAYOR . I URGED BY MAKERS OF CHARTER , p mm m Other Members of the Municipal Family Are to Be Named v Ether by: the Commission. Mayor's Salary to Be $6000 and That of Commission ers $4800 Yearly Heated Debate Ensues at Meeting "Back to the pure commission plan," was the Slogan of the charter revision committee when It met last night in the city hall. The city auditor, treasurer and at torney were successively pruned from the list of elective officers. Committee members differed seriously on the ap pointment or election of tho municipal Judge until W. F. Woodward suggested that since they had "swallowed so many camels It seemed a pity to choke on ao email a gnat." Then it was decided that the commission Bhould appoint xne municipal Judge. The commission plan ballot January 9. 1912, as decided upon last night, shall be for the election of six com missioners and a mayor only. All other municipal offiolals and employes will be appointed either by the commission, or by. individual commissioners as de partment heads. Salaries of appointees will be fixed by the commission, the Idea being to pay each what he Is ap proximately worth to the city. Six thousand dollars will be the an nual salary of tho mayor as fixed by the revision committee last night, with $4800 a year each for the six commis sioners, or an annual salary total of $34,800, for the commission. Departmental Business. The departmentlng of city business and the division of duties between seven commissioners, including the mayor, is a duty given to a sub-committee for report at the next meeting. The ap pointing of tills comwilttoe Chairman Iironaugh reserved until today. Motions by O. W. Taylor to deny the L (United Prwii Itemed Wire.) Tacoma, July 2fi. Richard A. Ballln ger, former secretary of the interior, will not sign the oetition asking con gress to create an Alaska coal commis sion to mino the coal in Alaska and sell it to the people at cost of production. The petition, which was put In circula tion yesterday and already Is being widely signed, was presented to Mr. lialllnger at the city hall today, when he happened to ie there. "I don't care to sign It," said the for- mer secretary curtly. Pressed for a statement, Ballinger said, even more curtly. "I don't want to be Interviewed about the matter at all." Prnctlnallv all citv officials of Ta coma have signed the petition. LILLIAN GRAHAM FOUND; SAYS SHEJV AS KIDNAPED (United PreBB t.eed Wire.) New York, July 28. Discovered In a hotel at Poughkeepsle, Lillian Ciraham, assailant of W. E. D. Stokes, who dls appeared last Saturday night from New York city; today declared she had been kidnaped. Miss Graham said she was overpowered by an unknown man, thrust into a motor car ano, having lost conaolcusness, knew nothing more, until she found herself In. Poughkeepsle. Lillian appeared today at a theatre where she had been employed, was greeted with complaints of "coarse work,' . for her press agent stunt and Informed that after Saturday night her services would be dispensed with. --, OPPOSES ALASKA OA PUBLIC 'or Individuals "ornsame' mayor's veto power and by J. E. Wer leln to give the mayor power, in the event of a tie vote In the commission, to reserve his vote until the next meet ing, were both lost. This leaves the veto provision of the present charter unchanged. A, motion by Gay Lombard that a committee of three bo appointed to Sub mit a tentative draft of the commission plan charter at the next meeting was defeated, W. F. Woodward and othera arguing that the present city charter was the basis of present revision, that special committees had been assigned special tasks ot revision, that their work should not now be fruitless but that they be permitted to report results of their toll. Much Seated Debate. ThORe results did not obtain without heated and informal 'debate. The num ber of voices simultaneously sounding at last Impelled Dr. Andrew C. Smith to move that formal parliamentary rules be observed, including but one three minute speech for each committeeman who obtained the floor by rising and addressing the chair. This motion un animously carried and Dr. Smith was the first to bo reproved for violation of the rules. While discussing the advantage of. paying salaries to city employes "-commensurate with the value of the service, Adoipho Wolfe startled the revision com mittee members by exhibiting figures he had obtained from the auditor on the way the office of city engineer wa. administered under ex-City Engineer Morris. "Morris." said Mr. Wolfe, "waa a $2)0-n-month man and that was his salary. But while Morris was receiving $2400 a year the city was compelled to seek advanced engineering advice amounting to $7!.fl71, or more than 25 times the annual salary of ' the engineer. If Portland hal had a competent city engineer, by paying for one, all of this additional outgo could have been avoid ed " "There were present at last night's meeting, revision fommltteo members, .lurle Rrnnaugh, .1. E. Werleln, Adolphe Wolfe. It. I). Inman. W. F. Woodward, (). VV. Taylor. 1). O. Lively, Frank S. Orant. George Ii. Cellars, Dr. Andrew C. Smith. 8. (Jrutze and Oay Lombard. A report of Lombard, Orant and (Continued on Page Nine.) Next Sunday's Journal See the Magazine Section for the Following: DON Ll'IS MAY GET YOU Engaging story of old swln die that ever is finding new victims. CONVENTION HALLS OF THE UNITED STATES Illustrated article of what other cities have in the way ' of great auditoriums. WHERE .WOMAN IS MAX OF THE HOUSE Interesting discussion of cus toms in' Assam, British India, ,. where moat advanced suffra getlsra prevails. 1 f - VAN TO IG ROCKEFELLER Townsend Report Presented to Steel Trust Investigating Commission Was Made 3 Years Ago. (United Presi Leud Wire.) Washington, July 28. That J. Pler pont Morgan, usually esteemed the money king of America, Is in reality only the servant of John D. Rockefeller, whose colossal form looms up behind the builder of trusts as the real power In American finance, was the gist of a report by Burdette C. Townsend, now as sistant United States attorney general, which was presented to the houscom mlttee investigating the steel trust to day by Congressman Stanley, chairman of the committee. Stanley declared ths report, which was made in 1908, to Attorney General Bonaparte, proved conclusively that prosecution of the steel trust under the Sherman law would have been success ful. Asserting that the trust controlled 90 per cent of the farm machinery busi ness, Townsend said in his report: "Harold MeCormlck, one of the heaviest stockholders in the machinery trust, is a son-in-law of Rockefeller. The MeCormlck family, therefore, is al ready distantly related by marriage with the great American family of the trusts. Morgan Is the trust architect usually employed by the Rockefellers. He Is a good builder and receives fabu lous fees. George W. Perkins is his associate. "Therefore, if a harvester trupt were formed. I should anticipate some of the circumstances of Its organization it wouid bo designed and constructed by Ji P. Morgan & Co., probablv throucb jl'erklriK; tho amount of the foe charged wou!rt indicate the character of the work; it would be organized in sueh a (Continued on Page Four.) (United Preni Leased Wire.) Brooklnnds. England, July 26. After the most thrilling air race In history. Lieutenant Conneau of France, flying under the name of Ande Beaumont, to day won the $50,000 London Dally Mail prize for the great race around the British Isles. Pierre Vedrine was sec ond. Beaumont's total flying time was 22 hours, 28 minutes. He won by 54 min utes, 29 seconds. Racers riy sreok and Keek. Flying neck and neck, passing; and re passing; through the mists and rain which at times waa accompanied by the flash of lightning and the roll ot thun der, Beaumont and Vedrine made the contest the most daring and spectacular in the history of aviation. Beaumont' ascended at Bristol at 4:S0 o'clock with Vedrine following two min utes later, but 63 minutes behind . on total flying time. Mile fitter mile the blrdmen raced almost side by aide, Beau mont high in. the air and Vedrine taking tb lower levels. . , t, . BEAUMONT WINS 150,000 AIR RACE; DASH IV10ST THRILLING IN HISTORY Local Merchants Must Bestir Themselves to Retain Trade With Interior as Result of Rate Decision. MUST FORCE BETTER DISTRIBUTIVE RATES Waterway Development Is Key to Situation, Says Expert. Construction of public docks to care for the demands of commerce, improve ment of the Columbia river and its trib utaries to maintain Portland's distribu tive supreiaacyi a vigorous fight for further reduction of railroad distribu tive rates and establishment of branches by Portland wholesalers In eastern Ore gon and other intermountain points are the lesnons to be gained by Portland as a result of the Interstate commerce com mission's decision in the Spokane rate cast;. This Is the opinion offered by Lew Anderson, a rate expert who has long been a student or Portland conditions and In the capacity of expert has repre sented the transportation committee of the chamber of commerce and other In terests in several Important cases be fore the Interstate commerce commis sion, notably in the famous Jumber case, the Tacoma and Seattle distributive ' rate case, and the Pacific Coast BJscult company case. '. Hailroada Plaascd. In Its wider aspects, Mr. Anderson holds that Duluthi , the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Omaha, St. Joseph and Kansas City will be the . greatest gainers by the decision, and Chicago, with only a 7 per cent differ ential to overcome, will be able to share the gain that will come from New York's loss. He believes the railroads wilt welcome tho decision, securing to" them as it does the Inland trade that cannot be readily reached from coast terminals. ( "Portland's only solvation for the- isr;'1'. land trade f5" the construction of public' j docks and the improvement of the rlv- ' era," said Mr. Anderson. "The grantlng t( Spokane and the inland cities east of i the Cascades of the same rate as given to the coast means that Portland houses cannot hold their trade there except by (Continued on Page Two.) WILDE AS OREGON GIFT T0 1915 FAIR, N ' M If California Likes Him So . Well, Says Oswald. West , Let Her Have Him Instead of Panama Appropriation. (United Pnaa Lsaiml Wlre.l Salem, Or., July !S."If the state of California is so deeply Interested in Loula J. Wilde, we might consider him as Oregon's contribution to the Panama ' exposition and thereby save the money whTch might be appropriated by the next .; legislature to help out the show," aald Governor West today, when asked for " his views on the attitude of Governor Johnson with relation to the extradi tion of Wilde, who Is wanted in this state for alleged embezzlement. "This would at least be a saving of money to the taxpayers of the state, ' though It would give no relief to the thousands of small depositors who were' robbed of their savings through the sale by Wilde of his bogus bonda to the bank. "He need entertain no fear about get- ting a fair trial If he is brought back here. I do not- think the governor of.': California or of any other state has any right to assume he will not be given a fair trial in the state of Oregon if brought back and tried." , At Exeter Vedrine had outdistanced his rival and was reascendtng as Beau mont arrived. Vedrine was also first at Salisbury Plains 8$ miles from Exeter and maintained his lead through out the 7$ mile flight from there to Brighton along the English channel. With Beaumont It minutes behind at Brighton, Vedrine had reduced the form, er's lead to 64 minutes.. When Brighton was reached both men wars exhausted and agreed to a brief rest. Vedrine Olvan Oration.' Beaumont started on the final lap from Brighton to Brooklnnds at 1:ZH o'clock. Vedrine followed at 2:43 p. nv, although practically with no rhajic for first money. ' 1 Vedrine arrived at Brooktands at :t o'clock, and was; given an ovation. Vedrine'a total flying , time was IS hours and 34 minutes, , .. Vettrlna waa given a special rnaols. tion prlase of 11000 by Lord NorthrUf owner of the Dally - Mall.- He t bitterly when he Jearned-that lns-. had won, . IT .ii. -