h ri - ' - A.r--'' ''us - -. , . w THE . - COAST TEMPERATURES ( , s 8A.1L Today. ' BoIe ' 2 Seattle j? -pokaaa .I.T."" sa Francisco ,..r, ....... ' ' Portland .. J 5, Rosebuxg .',,;,")' 4g WEATHER Rain, tonight ; and Tuesday. So u ths ply .pbRTiAND.'OREON.f moday; evening;' January;; 15,,.1912-sxxteen pages,, PRICE TWO CENTS AOTOEIIjFc THE BEAR'S HUNGRY? i MERCHANTS START: MESSING HEIRESS -),T '?'': '''-. ':. ;-.-V.''''.:j ' a ..-"f - f :."'Jc'V-- j WILDE CASE L. J S V. LOUS Soldiers1 Rush Massachilsetts Rioters . With Fixed Bayo nets, TWounding -M en, Wo men andlChildreri; tS . ; ' nni r r rn n n t cpj. - i ruuiC- ur ruun 01 1 icon: PRlQnMFPQ IM Mil I YfiRn i ' iNil Aiiumrltfae Uainloce Ra. . . Willi nuMiviiiiva. iiviuivww wv- i . fnia Romnn Thrnnn 'ftf v' t , . ? - . p - 1 - - 1 ; . Three Thousand. (United Press Leased Wire.! " " Lawrence, Mass.. Jan.,. IS. -Two com panies of mllltla and the local battery of artillery were armed with rifles and sent on the double qulck to the Paetflo mills here I today when' S000 -strikers atormed the factory, amashlng windows and demolishing fences to secure pick' eta for clubs. .. ,, . ' -:' - An ammunition wagon wftn 10 ball cartridges for each soldier .waa rushed to the scene of the riot. - . SO Hart In Charge. - After ithe; strikers, had swept the po lice aside the militia arrived ana charged the rioters with fixed bayonets.' Fifty men, women-, and children wer injured . in the ehargfc-and the strikers fled, car rying the Injured with them. - -: Captains Donovan and Ranlett ordered . th bayonet charge , when the strikers fired their revolvers at the troops who were trying to clear the yards of' the - Pacifio mills. As the strikers left the yards.- the. jpolMer attacked- them -and - fierce melee ensued. Further outbreaks are feared.- ..- '. The order to charge was Issued only after the police of Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn and Haverhill, the four big Mas sachusetts factory, towns, had failed, to disperse the rioters,- who were Jammed, thousands strong, about the mills where the strike, is ' in progreea The police were stoned and forced to retreat to the. yards of the mills,,, where they were held prisoner until the militia arrived. - All Have tame "Grievance. .:: While no serious violence haa as yet occurred in Lynn, Lowell or, IlaverbllU. ; the woraera.? in those clues nave -the same grievance as the Lawrence wprkr " ers that their hours" and pay are ut by the employers' appUatiair the new , state 64 hour law and'. it Is believed that before the week a avef rravn eon "dltlons may prevail throughout the en tire region. The city, la quiet this af ternoon. ' . " ' ; ' v-;;1' l More than -100 foreigner wer ar-,j rested after the not; - Most oi them were 'armed with revolvers,- dirks-and rarors. The poltee allege that' the lead ers ordered them to enter the mills and wreck the machinery. More Militia Sent to Lawrence. ICnltee rrm ImmI Win.)-, s Boston, Jan. 15. Five more companies of state militia-were ordered to Law . rence; the scene of todaya rioting, by Governor Eugene N. Fobs this' after noon. They left here on a special train. Other companies probably will be sent later. . ; LAW IS VALID ACT Justice Vandevanter Delivers : Opinion That , Buriden Im posed on , Interstate ' Car riers Is Not Violation. (UnlUd Tw imm4 Wire.) "Washington, Jan. 16. The United States supreme- court today, declared the employers'- liability law passed, In 1901 to be constitutional. The opinion was delivered by Justice Vandevanter. Justice Vandevanter' opinion says In partJi:4:i..r-:.:ti,-j.---..-i. "It - rested with congress to say whether a law operating upon all states was better than laws In -several states. It is true that liability Is Imposed only on Interstate carriers, but It does not follow that that Is a preference In vio lation of the fifth amendment of the constitution. 1 . .. ( , . gnpertedes Othec Aota. ' . " The United SUtes supreme court holds that the act rightfully supersedes the acts in various statea The opln " Ion was delivered In four cases. H A fireman on the Northern Paolfio rail road named Babcock was killed In a cnmsion loungi rotni, Montana, In 1908. His wife sought ooo damages under- the 1S0S employers" liability law and won her ' suit. The railroad com pany contended 'that the federal law was unconstitutional'.: by reason of a Montana law on ths same subject gov erning the1 ease. ? The supreme court ruled-that caies may be brought In either the state or federal courts having concurrent Jur isdiction where such authority of the state courts Is clearly defined. . . The employers' liability act of 1908 Is a measure passed by congress to de termine matters of compensation to employe and - of , publio carriers en ; gaged. In Interstate commerce. -' and Is r designed to supersi de various state laws on the same subject. -J - :.:,':'-;';'.; j- Act onoa Held.IavalldV':. As originally passed by Congress the art was declared unconstitutional by the United States supreme court for the reason that It related to Intrastate as well as interstate commerce. Later, however! the- Intrastate clauses were (deleted from. the measure. , f . ; ,, The purport of the law Is that in cases where negligence exists as the (Continued on Page Four.) SUPREME COURT .HOLDS LIABILITY ' ':; -m , wi i ii in ii ii i ssi . . : ' tv. - j V"u. .-.,-- sj. t : .ii';--'vv' ,w -'' V 4 I ... Progressive ; Business. - Men's Club xToday Names - Sub committee' to Calf on Pros pective Freight Shippers. DODGE ' RENEWS 4 OFFER T0 PUT ON BOAT- LINE Meeting Enthusiastic and Big ' Results Are Expected to -, : ; Come From It. -4 J A definite beginning in the.secuiing! Of Alaska trade for Portland waa made at a luncheon of business men held this afternoon in the Commercial club. The meeting waa called by the committee appointed . by the . Progressive Business Men's club. t A subcommittee of five members was appointed to learn how - much freight for Alaska la now shipped out of Port land via Seattle. This eomnlttc rnn. slsts of F. A. Freeman, James F: Kln- aer, mil B. Bate. J. L. Starrett, J. R. Oodson' of Circle City, Alaska. The committeemen will call upon the Job bing houses of Portland and secure de tailed information. Heeds of the firms now doing business with -Seattle will probably be asked to meet the general committee in a meeting yet to be called. - ''.' Offer. Hade .by .Dodge. E. H. Dodge of jSr-Jr-Bodge A Co.. Gan Francisco, came before the commit tee saying that his firm will . put a boat Into -Portland to take Alaska freight-wW'-gunrantWf TO? ton for each of three trips' to Bering sea, ports. He said that It would be a loss of $1000 a trip, but .that his firm 4s so confident that business between Portland and Alaska will grow to profitable propor tions when once started that it la will ing to stand the first deficits. J. R. . Dodson of Circle City who at tended the meeting declared that as soon as'- Alaska merchants know they can buy goods from Portland and se cure direct water shipments they will give Portland the 'business. , ., L. . F. v Weaver ef St ude baker .Bros.. said his company '.Would eend a man to Alaska- to aollolt .buainess-' C. S., Jack son -Oirered..tovconriwitef in -casn.-ms ton guarantee asked by K. J. Dodge & Co. R. W. Raymond said the American safety powder .company, which he rep resents, will ' supply one tenth of the guarantee or 10 tons a trip. As a result of the meeting the com mittee "will either agree ' to send - four ttien to southeastern, southwestern, Ber ing sea ports and Interior Alaska re spectively, or It will Induce local firms, each1 to send its own representative, or It will ask the Progressive Business Men's club to pay the salary of an Alaska traffic manager, . who will or ganize a Campaign for the business. ' j F. A. Freeman i suggested ; ttiat ine Chamber of Commerce . Alaska commit tee bo brought into cooperation, and C C. Chapman said that the Alaska com mittee of the Chamber of Commerce no longer existed and that the chamber would be glad to see, the work- led by tha-Progressive Business Men's club. There were In attendance at the meet ing today tJ. F. Johnson, presiding, C C. Chapman,.- R. W. Raymond. John F. Carroll. J.'-R. Dodson, Ralph Hahn, E. H. Dodge, C. S. Jackson, B. F. Irvine, E. B. Piper. J. F. Kinder, J. L. Starrett and V, A. Freeman. PASTOR. GIRL SECRETARY 1 ' ' .1 -- --v- n- . - i--. - - i -t -' - ..- . . .. (,-....'... Warrant Charging Perform ance of i Two Criminal 0p derations Is Issued for Ar rest of Minister. , : ' (United PreM tieed Wire.) 'Pittsburg, Jan. 15. A case almost parallel to that of the Reverend C. V, T. Rlcheson, of Boston, confessed mur derer of Avis Llnnell,. developed here today when a warrant was Issued for the arrest of the Reverend W. F. Mo Farland, aged 60 years, pastor of the Unl ted Presbyterian , mission at Green ville, Tenn. A coroner's Jury today recommended that the minister be held pending an Investigation of charges that he performed- two . criminal opera tlons on Miss Elsie Coe. aged-18. his private secretary, which resulted In her death. . 1 . As a result of the JuryV findings a warrant for McFarland's arrest on a statutory chsrge has been Issued- and he Is being sought by the police of a dosen eastern olties. .. ;,, . i .--'. According to the police tha minister performed- two operations on the girl at her home here. It Is alleged that the mother , and sister had no knowl edge of Mies Coe's condition, believing that McFarland was a licensed physi cian, ' . A J In a statement Issued Just before her death Miss Coe. stated the minister had performed two illegal operations on her and these charges were substantiated by the woman who ' administered the anaesthetic, The Rev. Mr.. McFarlond resigned his position hers as head of the academic department of the- Central high school In June, 1910, to take charge of the Ten. nessee mission. ' Mine Coe spent her vacation in Greenville. - - ' -.f ' After the alleged operations Miss Coe was removed to the homeppathlo hospi tal. Where she died January . 6. , : ; -'The minister has a-wife and son llv lng In Tennessee. i . ACCUSED BY DYING Fifteen.Year-Old Violet Bueh h le'r Found in New York Ten ement, Laboring as Nurse Girl for $3 WeekK WILLNQTaEAVE: UNLESS SHE IS TAKEN BY FORCE "I Expecf to Marry JackWhefi Tm a Little-Older," De . . ' dares Child. . v ' : (United PreM Leased Wire.) New Tork, Jan. IS. Infatuated with a i waiter and found working as a 3-a-week nurse girl that aha might be near him, Violet Buehler, ' the 15-year-old Chicago heiress who disappeared No vember 25, and for whom the skyscrap ers of tho Chicago loop district were searched. Is today held here, awaiting word from her relatives. For a time It was believed the girl had been, kidnaped. This seemed to have been borne out In a mysterious letter which fluttered from a window of an upper story of ; an office building In Chicago. It was signed, with her name and said she was being held a prisoner in a cartaln ' office. Search failed to locate her, ' ; .- " Found Working In TFeaement, Last night Miss Buehler was discov ered working as an attendant for Mrs. Brltt, anUnvalld, in an east side tens ment, under the name of Belle Ross. The police found a note addressed to Jacklewtterr-wWerTWnrcrf "JackDon't give up, Hun. - I most go. Will write as soon as possible. Bye-bye. V. . . .. ;, . ; ' , ' "P. S. Stick to me, Jack; every thing will be O. K.'V Miss Buehler admits -her ' Infatuation for the waiter. She denies, however, that they are married. But she em phatically declares she will not return to her relatives in Chicago unless taken by force. "I expect to marry Jack Clewne when I am a little older,'! she said. 1 "Of course I love him. He used to bum around Chicago with my gang. He's a fine fellow." The say I'm foolish-to leave home and all that $100,000 to work for 3 a week, but.! 'east sea.lt' that way. 1 don't think I'm foolish at all. I would rather work end make my own way here; than be rich In Chicago.'" My foster mother - there, treated- me ; well but wouldn't let me go out. and I couldn't have any boy friends.. : "I suppose now' I'll have to go back to Chicago, but . I will : return to New York the first chance I get. Other girls without money are allowed to go into the world ' and make their own way. They can have , aweethearts and do as they please. I think that's per fectly dandy. I enjoyed doing ' some thing here for someone else, and I felt that I amounted to something. In Chi cago I was the one taken, care of, and I didn't amount to anything. Now I've got to go back to it again. " Haled to Children's Court. : Miss Buehler waa arraigned before Justice Qlmstead In the children's court on a charge of being under Improper guardianship. Leaving the court " room, she saw Clewne in the - corridor, and, breaking away from her escorts leaped into his arms and tried to klsn him, but the po lice interfered and Clewne was 'arrested on a technical change. He was soon released, the police declaring his rela tions with the child were- perfectly proper. , , . ,;. Violet was remanded to the care of the Children's Aid society until, her fos ter mother arrives Saturday to take her back to Chicago. . , '! $1,000,000 Endowment Planned. - San ' Fran'clsco,:- ' Jan.- -15. Clarence Mackay is declared today to, be planning a $1,000,000 endowment , fund for. the University of Nevada, the money to be raised among the children of the miners who made their millions In Nevada. . -. MISSING 15-YEAR-OLD; v st. - . " . - ifAy - r : ; x r TZ , -- ... .. - . IM". ' '"' " r' "" i Violet Bucbier, who disappeared from her home In Chicago, November 23. . . Search all over the United , , T Btatca waa made for her by her weoltJjy" parents. , i , Two Saloonkeepers It t K Wife's Warning lust SELF BULLET T ' ' (United Prew teawd Wire.) San Francisco, Jan. 16. Fighting desperately with three masked holdup who attacked him in his saloon here, John E. Mullally, assemblyman from the thirtieth California district, was fatally shot early- today. He died soon after ward. John Craig, who was In tho saloon, was shot through tha thigh In a fusil lade fired by the bandits after Mullally fell,,., The thugs escaped.. t Wife Phones to Be Careful. At the time Mullally. was- shot, his wife was trying to telephone him from their home to be careful, , as she had a short time before obsei-ved three men skulking near the house as though lying In wait for someone. Mrs. Mullally called up at the very moment her hus band received his death wound. Mullally waa preparing to leave for home when three men entered. Looking up, he saw they were armed and masked. Two had their features -concealed by red bandannas and the third by a white handkerchief. The latter seemed to be the ringleader. . One Advances to Bar. . ' The two in red masks took stations ar the door and the one in white ad vanced toward the bar. '; . . Mullally hurled himself upon one ban dit. In the struggle -he got a. bullet through the liver. The robbers fired 28 shots in the saloon, CHICAGO GIRL FOUND IN ON BANDIT: GETS fiROUGH BODY ' 1 Slain by Robbers t . H" t H t Too Late for One BUT SHOOTS MAN IN (United Press Leased Wire.) ' Stockton, CaU Jan. 15. William New man, known as "Diamond Bill" Newman, waa shot and killed In the Hoffman cafe. of wrhich-he was proprietor, here early today by a masked robber. Newman was Just preparing . to close his saloon. His bartender had gone out side to close the iron gratings over the windows. Newman was standing behind the bar counting his cash, and five men were seated in a rear room playing cards. " ' . The robber entered from the front with a pistol in, each hand. He backed Newman from behind the bar Into the rear room, when one of the card players opened a sliding door which separated the card room from the bar. Surprised at seeing Newman with his hands In the air and the man with the revolvers, the card playera started to run. Tha holdup man was equally sur prisedfor he evidently thought Newman was the only man In the place. He fired four shots, one of which pierced Newman's heart, killing blm Instantly. The robber ran out of tha place and was chased for several blocks by a po liceman, who fired aeveral shots at him. Others took' up the chase, but after a run of three blocks the fugitive made his getaway under cover of the dense fog. He secured r.o loot The robber Is described, as five feet six or seven Inches tall and of slender build.1 ; '.- NEW YORK CITY HOLDING SALOON I; 1 6 MAY BE AFFLCTEO Ways and Means Committee's Report Comes as Pleasant Surprise to Employes of the City; One Reduction. Sixteen salary Increases amounting In all to less than 14000 a year were rec omm ended by the ways and means com- mittee of the city council this morning at a special session held to apportion the appropriations for the various mu nicipal departments during 1912. Only one salary, that or a nroommaaer in the street cleaning department, was recommended for reduction. The aetion of the committee,, in view of the. state ments made by several members of the committee from tiraa to time during the past month,- proved a complete surprise and it now appears that the threaten- rfnsr hints, dropped by Councilman John H. Burgard to the errect that city. em ployes might all expect to have ' their stipends cut instead or Deing raisea was a clever ruse to head off the hundreds of annual requests for higher wages, raw Beoussta for Balsas. Be that as it may, the hints pro duced good results and made the work of the committee lighter.: Instead Of the mass of petitions for more money with which former council committees have been deluged there were but a comparatively few requests made and these were for the most part granted. aa thev seemed to be deserving. Superintendent Alex Donaldson of the street cleaning department win get an Increase of $25 a month if the re port of the committee Is adopted by the council. ' The superintendent now receives $175 a month. Other recom mendations for salary . raises were as follows: City Sealer of Weights and Measures F. O. ttuchtelfl from $IZS a ; month to $160; Deputy Sealer Jones, from $100 to $126; Superintendent David R. Otis of the city garbage Incinerator, from $135 to $160: Deputy City Health Of ficer I. T. Beeman, from $125 to $136; Clt Graonler Hugh Brady of the har bor patrol service from $80 to $100; two engineers on the harbor patrol boat r Elldor from 178 to $86 two women clerks in the department of publio safety for young women, each to be raised $10; four, park policemen, from $2.60 a day to $2.76; one broom maker in the street cleaning department. from $70 a month to $80, (the salary of the other broommaiter was reduced from $90 to $80) ; Miss Bauerly, assistant to the chief stenographer in the city audi tor's department, from $95 to $100J two deputies in the auditor's department, from $75 to 1100. - That hardwprk and atrlct attention to duty Is certain to be rewarded was proven today when the committee raised the salary of Deputy City Auditor John Curtain from $U0 a month to $125. The deputy had not even put in a request for a raise and bis name was unknown to the councllmen. "Who is that young fellow that works In his shirt , sleeves?", asked Council man Burgard. The councilman was told the "young feilow" in question Is Mr. Curtain, -- Mr. v Burgard's motion that Curtain's wage be hoisted was unani mously carried.- All of the councllmen had noted the Industrious deputy at work without having: ascertained his namei.''' i"'fT,:':'"'?V'.,f::?,:i,-''.''i ' ''- ?'"'-':''" Only $19,000 win ne raised by direct taxation for tha support of tha street cleaning department. ,:, The rout of the money needed for that department will be appropriated from the general fund. The total appropriation allowed by the committee was $3iiB.00Q. Mayor Rush light's budget was followed closoiy in mnklng all recommendations, only two (Continued on Page Nlne. RECOMMENDED Third Day of - Proceedings to t Get Jurymen. Nets but Lit i tie Results; Saloon- Man Is Tentatively ; Chosen. '. NEW NAMES ARE TODAY ; INTRODUCED BY LAWYERS Questions Asked Pprtain to Persons Who Might Be Involved in Trial. ' i One man tentatively chosen, with a possibility that he may be excused later by peremptory challenge, waa the to tal record of results at noon today on the third day's effort to secure 12 men . qualified to try Louis J, Wilde, accused of embezzlement of $90,000 from the Oregon Trust & Savings bank, v D. W. Falrclough, a saloon keeper at Union avenue and East Burnaide street, is the man passed by both- aides after answering questions for over two hours. C, A. Eastman, the only other man ex amined this morning, is an ex-banker and man of affairs, bnt his unfinished examination Indicated -that he will be passed by both aider this afternoon. - t In addition to asking talesmen as to their acquaintanceship with the district attorney and his forceThomas C. Dev lin. Samuel O. Reed. P. L. Willis, W. a Bridges and others connected with af fairs of the Oregon Trust & Savings bank, Malarkey Introduced a new name in Frank L. Perkins, reporter for an evenlna ' IteWSnaner. hrtu rh 'tim "ni rt Wxnlal r ---- rv-waauo eei i uiu UIS: V W on the case, , Wew truats Added. When Deputy District Attorney Fit z gerald took up tha examination he also added new names to the list of celeb rities,, asking Fairciongh as to his ac quaintanceship with Frank Mlnto, sa loonman; Jack Grant, of aailor boarding house famcr Lou Carpenter, former city detective: Al Cody, a private detective from Seattle, and . another v detective named Mitchell, . "1 '. 5 All ' of these men are aaid. by tha State to be allied with Cody In detective work for tha defense . Falrclough, who Mlnto and Carpenter slightly, and.-knew Jack Orant by sight ' Asked if he speakn to Grant, ha said: "I guess I would If he spoke first c '- 'i x In answer to a final question. Fair- clough said he did not have "much use for bank failurea." ; i v t K : - W. Cooper Morris, former cashier of the Oregon Trust & Savings hank, who was Jointly: Indicted with Wilde and 1a to be the chief witness for; the state. There is leaa difficulty than at first, however, over the complications causM by the necessity of proving the guilt of . Morris Independent of the plea of guilty he Is expected to enter. Talesmen who have listened '. to : explanation of thiM (Continued on Page Four.) SLICING OF CHS Partitioning of Empire Said to Have Started With Receipt of News of Expected Resig nation of Emperor., . (United rres leased Wire.) ' V London, Jan. 15. Dispatches received here today from' Odessa declare that 4he partition of China has actually be gun, coincident with the Information re ceived at St. Petersburg that the Man chu emperor will at once resign. . , Busslan .troops, dispatched from Har bin bay, have crossed Into Mongolia at three points and the proclamation of a Russian protectorate oyer that province is expected at once. - Wu Says Manchns Have Fallen. v ' (United Preet Luted Wlre. San Francisco, Jan. IS. Special ca bles . received, today from :. Shanghai quote Dr. Wu Ting Fang,- foreign min ister In the proclaimed Chinese repub lic, as admitting without reserve that the ' Manchn . dynasty has praotlcally fallen. ; Wu declared that" Yuan Sht Kai had wired his Shanghai representa tive that tha Imperial causa la finally lost. . Wu Is quoted as saying: ' " "While it is settled that the abdica tion' shall take placa soon, I am not advised officially as to Just when it will occur, Then negotiations will con tinue with Tuan Shi Kal to decide upon the formation of a provisional' govern ment and- f ; frame a .constitution." v To ' this 1 question; U "Will Tuan ba elected president of. the republic?"' Wu replied! t "It Is. hot Improbable. V Tutin la a tried .and experienced statesman." 20 POLITICAL PRISONERS ..BREAK JAIL IN LISBOfJ (UnItd Prnm Leaerd Wlr . Lisbon, via Badajose. Jan. 16.Tweri- ty wealthy political prisoners br!h.t the prison wardens at the Oporto mili tary prison, , secured arms, . fU l ropei and five men, Including tvi nriests. managed to escape to.luy, Sev eral otbera were wounded. Th - r'- lng party was dlsooveiert on tnn r r of the building and . surrourd 1 , ' troops. Who began firing on th-n. Owing- to recurring tn - - monarchist conpir;i-i. ti - prisons and forlH iu on t i royalist prisoners. BEGINS iS n NTO NORTH