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I --.. '-.'.tir' J ( T . . , 1. lii THE WEATilZPs .Fair tonight, and. "Wednes day; variable winds, mostly northerly. - COAST, .TEKPERATUH S A. M. Today. VOL. X. NO. 270. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16,, ,1912 TWENTY .PAGES. j l PRICE, TWO CENTO ACiCSW J V y J V Wl(Pvl Wtttd&y U tl s"::::::::::::::::::::::::::: a FLAMES DEW 5000 OH IBS; Siorm of fire" Eats Into Sec ' tion of Japanese City In habited by Lower. Classes Are Not Yet Extinguished. ALL-NIGHT;FIGHT SAVES V BETTER PART, OF TOWN Firemen,' Assisted by: Infantry , and Sappers, Keep Confla :. gration From; ' Others. . (United Preai Leed Wlrs. . . Toklo, Jan-. 16. Five thousand homes have been eaten up In a storm of fire which la raging today In Osaka.' " ' s After .fighting with the flames from 1 o'clock In the mornjng ; until S, the : firemen aided by a regiment of Infantry and a battalion of sappers, managed to control the fire In the better, part of ; tha city; But at noon the.flamea were still burning homes In the poorer sec tion. f 'l ' ' n ; -'f' 7" ASSASSIN ASSERTS WIFE ; CAUSED HIM TO KILL MATE . Ui1twl Vrm Leaed Wlre. ' . ' , , St. . Louis, Jan. 16. Her promise to wed him, 11150 In cash -and alt her per-' sonar , property were the Inducements Mrs. Anna Hunning offered Joseph ... Seldl- to- assassinate hesi. huaband Mar tin Hunning, according to Heidi's con , fesslan today at Hillsboro. Mo., where the - crime occurred. ' , ' I " Hunning was slain while standing at tha telephone on the . night ,' of Deem ber 8. The -woman "declares that.Beldl - planned the trim, and that she baa no part hi ine poi r nm mmuti. . . - . OFFICERS SEEK ACCUSED . MINISTER IN TENNESSEE .. r Pittsburg, Pa.. Jan, 1. The arrest of the Rev. W. F.. McFarland, age 0, pns ' tor- of tfke United Presbyterian mission ' at Greenville, Tenn,,- and wanted here ,on charges of performing two criminal operations on Mies Elsie Cos, who has ' sne died, is momentarily expected. Tha - district attorney s orrice here received word, that the minister. Is .at Cedar ' Creek, Tenn., and Instructions for hfs arrest were wired there. , Miss .Cos,' who was AIoFarland's pri vate secretary, died here January 6, fol lowing two Illegal oprrations which she said were performed by the minister. ' WOMAN AND 6 CHILDREN : r KILLED; BY COAL GAS ' r fonttsd Prins Uuri) Wire.! . Yorktown. Bask., Jan. 1. Mrs. Mien' ael McNichol and her six children, rang ing from 5 to 11 years of age, wer as phyxiated by coal gas while asleep in their home nar here. Nlghbors were first to discover the tragedy. - Tha stove pipe had been closed up. with snow and frost, forcing the coal gas back Into the house. , . "PIIC'IILEHIEY cry About Hard Times All a , Part of Game With Beef Barons Hidden Profits Enormous. ' POOR I HARDEST PACKERS HOWLED TOOK III HUB (United Press Leased Wire.)' Chicago, Jan. 16. When the trial of ' J. Ogden Armour end the nine - other - millionaire Chicago beef barohs was re . sumed In the- United States district court today the government Introduced ' testimony intended to show that while the packet's were howling' about the hard times Incident to 'the panic of 1907 they In reality jnatla millions in ; hidden profits. - Through questions put to Harry Tlm- tnons, chief accountant for the. Morris company, the government showed, that tha packers juggled accounts and in flated costs. An Instance of this was ' shown -when private books of the Mor ris company revealed that hides which ; appeared as (fnstlnrf 003 sold for 13,147,4(7. This sale of hides covered a Dcriod of 15 months. . BERGER INTRODUCES J . EQUAL SUFFRAGE BILL 'United Press I.ea.od Wire. Washington, Jan.-3 IS. National woman suffrage Is provided for In an amend ment to the constitution Introduced In the house today by Victor Ii. Berger, Hoclallst congressman from Milwaukee. If the amendment is finally adopted, Berger proposes to enforce itsprovia . ions by enactment that any state at tempting to evade Its terms shall be punished by reducing the state's repre sentation in the national house. FRANCE TO GIVE MORGAN LEGION OF HONOR POST ISpn-lnt to The JonrnM.I "Paris, Jnn. 16. In recognition of hi Klfts to the I.,ouvre, the French, govern ment, according to a Parisian newspa )'fr today," has decided to decorate J. l'inint HnrKBii, Willi the commander sliij of the l,ccun nf Honor. E TO ALASKA VILL BEfJEXT IHORDER ' , i . . . ; i . Hardware Dealer Pledges His Attendance at Such Excur sionTen. Institutions May Be. Represented. EASY TO GET FREIGHT ; FOR ALASKAN PQRT& Fifteen , Vessels Now Ply J Be , tween Alaska, Seattle and ' !v: .-British : Columbia, r The first man to pledge his" attend ance upon .an Alaska trade excursion leaving Portland early in the spring 'is A. C. Callan, head of the Pacific Hard ware & Steel company. '' ' There are enough, other firms In the city interested n getting Alaska trade for Portland, also a Portland-Alaska steamship line," to hae at least 10 of the leading business institutions of the city represented by their presidents or managers, according to a statement made 'today by. the Alaska committee of the Progressive. Business Men's club. . Ill have an excursion of my own. if others do not Join It,", declared Mr. Callan. "But I am -sure there will be others; undoubtedly more than 10. v - "I am convinced there Is large busi ness for Portland out' of southeastern Alaska. The fact that Seattle now gets most of it, doesn't argue against us for the future. We have the goods. Alaska has Jhe friendly, spirit and. the 'come nutier ror t'oruana. , xnis comoinea with the well known; quality of ' treat ment given buyeraby Portland will gain for us our good share of Alaska busi ness provided we go after it.".', iWe will never get Alaska business without going after U,- and we don't deserve it if ve stay at heme and merely tain, "uetttng Alaska trade for Portland and a steam ship' line, can't be done in a day, but It can bs done." - The committee appointed yesterday by the Progressive Business Men's club general committee to lecrn ''how 'much freight for Alaska Is now shipped out of Portland will commence its, active work tomorrow morning,, it waa.an announced by the chairman, P,. A Free man, . cashier" of the. tiumbermens Na tional bank; today. " . v-. .Oaa Sasily Get TrelgHt. 1 . "It is impossible to say how much freight now goes out of, Portland,, par ticularly for Bering ea ports,' that could be applied tor the guarantee of 8O0 tons a trin asked by K. II. Dodge for IS. jr. Dodge & Co., steamship com pany," said Mr. Freeman. - i 4 . - "But from preliminary information I feel confident that we csn find most of the freight needed, end that this can be used as basis for new business, that- our Portland business leaders can -ascertain there is tn Alaska." ! ' - - ' John J., Flnnegan. United States com missioner' from Seward, Alaska, with a district large as a state to administer, is In Portland today on his way to plea-1 before the congress the needs of Alaska. .-"Alaska must be-opened up to de velopment bt soma reasonable means, else conditions will continuously become (Continued on Page Five.) L IE IS II RIPE K r, " - -r, v Oregon Senator Says; Other Reforms More Badly Need ' ed; Parcels Post and Cheap er Postage Wanted." (Wnshlneton Ttarei4 of ?T JoaroaLt " Washington, Jan. 16. While the post master general's proposal that. the gov ernment take over the telegraph lines, which wai authorized by the president, haa caused general surprise, leading Re publican members declared that unless all telegraph tolls are materially low ered there will be a" general -sentiment in the house In favor of the government taking hold of the systems. . . Senator Jonathan Bourne' Jr.,' chair man of the senate committee on post offices 'and post roads, before which any legislation to carry out Sir. Httcln cock's proposal would' go, had this to say this afternoon: i 4 "I am unable to understand the decla ration alleged to have been made by Postmaster General Hitchcock In favor of government ownership of ' telegraph lines. When the advocates of, an en largement of our - Inadequate parceli post service asked for his views some time, he objected to the enactment of a law establishing such a service and asked for an appropriation of $100,000 which he could expend In experiments on a few rural routes and in a few cities. If we cannot enlarge a sen-Ice we already have without spending tlOO,. 000 experimenting, we are certainly '.n no position to undertake an entirely new service. , " . "Personally, I doubt if the postmaster general authorised- the statement at tributed to him. Last August It was stated In a Washington paper that he gave an interview saying he had col lected data from foreign countries Oil the subject of the parcels post. I re peatedly requested him to submit the data for use of the senate committee on postoffices and post roads, but re ceived no response for several weeks, and then Mr. Hitchcock repudiated the interview .and admitted that he had nut collected the data. - "pofiiMy the time may, come when we will need to make, the telegraph an 'iContlnucd on l'ttilu JHvl Ml BOURNE BELIEVES POSTA &GAPH ViDOV OF MURDERED INVENTOR SVVEARS SHE IS INNOCENT VICTIM Hysterical, Mrs. Morrow Says ; Slain Husband Was Bitter Old Man, lls " appointed With Ilia Failure In Life, So Killed Himself.,! .... - '. IDnlted Presi Leased Wire.) ' Chicago .Jan. ' 16. Weeping and threatening her attorney for not secur lng the necessary $40,000 ball for her release, Mrs. Bene Morrow, charged, fol lowing ; her I preliminary hearing ' today with tbe murder of her aged husband. declare she Is an innocent victim, of circumstances.' She is on the verge of hysteria. 1 could have proved my Innocence, convinced the Judge and been at home now if my lawyer had let me take the stand and tell my story, said Mrs. aior row between sobs. ' "But ha made me sit quiet,; and here 1 am, charged with murder, and they are trying to hang me. 1 I Know nothing or we crime- nothing. ; Because quarreled with my husband, a bitter old man disappointed with his i failure -in life, who had noth lng to live for and decided to die, I am held, and they want to send me to the gallows. - - . . Judge Fake fixed Mrs. Morrow's ball at 140,000. The defense has as yet been unable to furnish this sum. ,',11 KILLS.TWO SOLDIERS Fifteen Other, Dying and Twenty Seriously Injured as Result of At tempt Made to Take Life of .the "Iron Man of China.1' ' ; ' (United Press Leiaed Wtre.t Peking,: Jan. iS.Two men aredead. IS dying and 80 others are seriously in Jured here today as the result of an at tempt upon the life of: Premier? Yuan 8hl Kal by- ijomb-throwlng assassin. Although three of, the horses; attached to the premier a carriage; were killed, Yuan: Shi Kal remained calm and col le.rted , through it . all .and. probably te tnis ract ns owes tils iite. . - The attack on the premier was made as Yuan was leading the palace for a drive. The first bomb was thrown 41 rectly at the feet of the prime minister, but it failed to explode, Realising the danger. Yuan 6hl Kal cried "Drive on but the order was hardly : given before the second bomb, fell under the feet of the horses, exploding with terrific force, Two' soldiers who. were acting as the premier's bodyguard .were Instantly killed, the bursting fragments inflicting fatal injuries to a score of pedestrians. and less serious Injury - to scores of others. ' . , " - Manchu attendants of Yuan Sht'Kat captured the would-be assassins of the premier. They are being held under heavy guard and will be executed- Im mediately. , 1 ' ' . - .'I-- 75,000 Engineers Will Tsko Tort.. ' Ban ' Francisco,'' Jan. 1 6. Seventy-five thousand engineers will participate In the international engineering congress to be .held here during the 1415 exposi tion "to. mark the completion of the world's greatest engineering : achieve ment. . Mine engineering societies are now in preliminary conference to pre pare for their coming,. The engineers will have a special building at the fair. ' . . ,. THE J THROVN AT YUAN FORMING BODYGUARD -M'',;v&"''i - '-v.- OHIO PROGRESS VE ASKS ROOSEVELT TO OUTLJHE STAHD r " ( J i i .' Chairman oT Insurgent Organ ization Demands That the Colonel Tell ; His Attitude -Toward Trusts, Tariff, Etc. "WOULD YOU TAKE WATER -OUT OF CORPORATIONS?" "Up to " You to Explain Your Position," Says Writer, Ex ; pecting :to Be Ignored. (I'nltfd Press Leased Wire.) i - v Columbus, "Jan. . 1 n an open letter here today, John Faokler, chairman of the Ohio progressive- Republican organ ization, demands - of Colonel Roosevelt that ' he teli-Mils attitude toward ' the trusts. the tariff and the Aid rich mone tary scheme." The letter says In part: "It has-been pointed out that during the seven years of your administration, in so far as any official action was con cerned, you did nothing in regard to these matters. The people Would ; like to know where you stand on the tariff question., . . - - t , "You - have--declared"that -you favpr federal Incorporation and -license. -The people are unalterably, opposed to such ' plan . at - the 2 time of incorporation They want the water squeezed out of existing Industrial monopolies and the stock of Such incorporated companies limited, to actual .values "as going con cerns. , -, , "Would .you take the water, out of the dropsical corporatlonsT v ' ,- . - "What' - Is your' attitude In reference to the. Aldrich mpnetary plan and... the national reserve association? -. "We appreciate the fact, that you may Ignore' these . questions by denying our right -to ask them by stating that ;you are not a candidate.. Your friends', are making you. a' candidate and it appears to me that you are. not offering any very strenuous objection, . Therefore it Is up to you.t tell, where you stand.". BALDWIN WILLCASE ' V - i r COURT OF CilLIFORillA i,',- ; ...ji wn, ' I - Appeajf of Mrs. Lillian Ashley Turn bull' in Behalf of Daughter, Beat rice Anita Tnrnhull, Being Heard by State Tribunal. '. t -.-. -. - -: i : ' ;j ; if x ' ' (Doited Pre Lemd Xftn.1 ' '' ' . Ban Francisco, Jan. 16. Argument on tha appeal of Mrs. Ullian'Ashley Turn bull in behalf Of her daughter, Beatrice Anita Turnbull., whose suit to break tha will ot the late K. 3, ("Lucky")' Bald win, , millionaire turf manc whom she claims ia the father of the girl, was de cided adversely. In. the Los Angeles su perior court, Is on here this afternoon before the state supreme court, sitting en banc. - Judge , A. , W. Hutton of Los Angeles opened the argument for the appellant devoting himself to a review of the testimony, which Judge Rives of Los Angeles held to be Insufficient and virtually non-suited Mrs. Turnbull and, her daughter by directing the Jury to bring In a verdict against them. . UP BEFORE SUPReiE INFANT PROTECTOR ' Henry Labouchere , .. R. R .MR K " R Vais Famous as Editor' and as Diplomat Henry Labouchere, M. P., Great English , Editor and1 Worker for. Home , f , Rule, Who Died Today in Italy. TOLD OF DEATH OF HIS MBllftStflll? -mm mm Drlter of IUvislon Head's Wagon Flees ,When Hodirs of , Two Crash t .;to Pavement at His Feet;, Goes' In- 'sane MTien He Hears Walsh Dead, ", i fPuIred PriWi Isesed Wire.) ' ' "! 1 14 S'ew York. Jan 16. Still grazed by his harrowing experiences at the JEqult able fire. fimothy Manning, driver for Division Ftre Chief William Walsh. who lost his life in. that conflagration, was found, wandering around' Brooklyn': to day, after having escaped from a hos pital last night. , Manning was unable to talk coherently or remember anything except the death of Walsh. " During the progress - of the Equit able fire two men leaped from the top of the building, crashing to the ground at Manning's feet' He fled from the scene and lost-his mind when told that -.tralsh . has also perished. Manning was sent to a hospital but escaped last night.. He was returned to the hospital today, i - ,... Dies in Florence '-"it . K ; K . K R - NOTED ENGLISH EDITOR PASSES AWAY IH ITALY; A IOihE RULE FRiEliD Labouchere, Former Chief of London Trutli, Essayist and Member of i Parliament, ..Dies ln llorence A ,rroininent Figure in lublic Life. ftJnlted Pre. Leased Wlre.l . Florence, Italy; Jan. 1. Henry La bouchere, former edltor of London Truth and a famous diplomat, died here today. Henry Labouchere was born In , Lon don In 1831 and was educated at Eton. In 1854 he entered the British diplomat ic service, being at one time a member of the British legation at Washington. In 1865. be sat in parliament, losing his seat by petition the following year. Twice afterwards he was returned, rep resenting Middlesex and Northampton. During his parliamentary career he strongly advocated home rule. At one time he was part owner of the London Daily News to - which paper he con tributed articles- over the signature: "The- Besieged Resident." In 1876 he established and became ed itor of Truth, a vigorous weekly publi cation, as both, parliamentary speaker and Journalist Labouchere gained an Im portant place in English public life. - OLD-TIME FRIEND OF ' EDITOR GIVES SOME : PERSONAL MEMORIES ' ; By Wallls Nash. Death has removed one of -the most picturesque figures, prominent in po litical, literary and social life, in Lon don for more than 40 years. Henry La bouchere was born In London in 1831 and educated at Eton. 'When quite young he entered the diplomatic serv ice and we connected with the British embassies In ; Constantinople, in Italy,, in Washington and in South America. He was master ot several languages and a thorough cosmopolitan. - After returning to London he ac quired an interest in the Dally News, then the most prominent Liberal dally paper. One of his -fellow 'stockholders was Samuel Mosley, 'M. P.. tha very wealthy manufacturer ot underwear at Nottingham, .a man of strict religious life and of almost ' puritanical ' noncon formist views, . The clashes between the opposites. Henry Labouchere and Samuel Moriey, at the directors' meet ings of the Dally News, are said ' to have been thoroughly enjoyed by the e attache. !' n , i, . , , j," Correspondent ia Paris. 'When the Franco-Prussian war broke out In 1870, Labouchere-went to Paris as the special correspondent of the Dally . News. As the German armies closed' In on Paris and the great siege began he took up his abode instde, to see it out. His "Letters of a Besieged President" are the brightest and the best record of the Ufa within the fortifi cations. He sent many, of bis stories our nythe"balfrKms. which "were the only means of communication with the outside world. . i After the war ended he- returned to London and became a thorough man-about-town. ? He was very fond of the theatre,-and this net onlv as patron in front ot the curttiin. lie became the lessee of one of the London playhouses and, as ws hi custom, sp.ired no ex pense In doing thoroughly what he un dertook. Xilke a Stormy Petrel. In his comph'X character was the side of cmtIpks oiiIfiNin regarding mrn and tConiinuc.l on age l.lOii'i.J MORRIS IS 1 OF IT BE1WEEII LAMB'S Presence of Ex-Banker, in Portland, Gives Malarkey Opportunity : to Say a Few : Words ' Regarding Methods. FIVE MEN PASSED . , . OUT-OF ORIGINAL 12 Prospective ; Juror .Did .Not ; Know Meaning of Words, That Might Come Up. - W. Cooper Morris, .who Is to be star witness for the state , in the esse of Louis J. Wilde and who came from the penitentiary last week to await the tlnw he is called as a-witness, became the inciting cause of a lively Interchange between Deputy District Attorney Flti gerald 'and1 Dan J. Malarkey, chief coun sel for the defense, in the trial of Wilde this morning. i ' ' Malarkey had been asking questions of a : talesman concerning Morris and re marked that the ex-cashier-of the Ore gon Trust & Savings bank haw now served seven or eight . months In th j penitentiary on his term of Ala years. , "You don't claim he is in the peniten tiary now, do your broke in Malarkev. "Well," he has been brought down t- act as a witness In this case', respond ed Fltsgerald. .... , "He's not in Jail," retorted Malark.y, , "He is In the custody, of the warden of the penitentiary." replied the prose cutor,.,,. .... . M.,..lir?l.lli..,r - ' ' , "He is walking the streets," Malarkey replied, with some heat "It makes no difference to you where he is," came back Fitzgerald, he in turn flaring up. . - "It makes a lot of difference," was; Ma larkey's-parting shot Judge Kava' nsugh then interposing to stop the con troversy.. .,,... - "Proceed with, the examination," or dered the court "This has nothing to do with the rase." T? ' ' v;-h.,',3Hts Hcay rass.. ' .. , 7 When court adjourned at noon,. Ques tioning was under way of the last of the first 1J men .called to. the Jury hot last Friday to be examined as to their qualifications to act In trying Wilde . on, the charge of aiding Morris In the embezslement -of $90,000 from' the Ore. gon Trust A Savings bank. It seemed likely that Barney . Haffey. whose ex amination Is Incomplete will be qunll f led to serve, making five out . of the first 12 -men -passed for cause. Four men have been excused on chal lenge by the defense for cause, two ex cused in like manner on challenge hy the state, and' one-excused for two days because he Is suffering with toothache. The' four, passed by both sides are P. W. Felrclough. II. M. Call well, J. H. MacDonald and O. F Rampe. Four new men were called to the hot yesterday afternoon and this morning as the result of vacancies created by ex cusing an equal number. The new men are Martin Battler Merman Sauers, M. Tannler and J. A. McArthur. They will not be reached for a day or so longer, The defense dismissed W, E. Gaines as its first act this morning. Gaines had answered questions asked htm sat isfactorily, but the defense did'not want him and found an easy way to dispose of him as he had served as aJuror on tha regular panel last September. This is a . legal disqualification t and ' upon challenge by Dan J. Malarkey, eh Iff counsel for Wilde, Judge. Kavanaugh quickly excused the talesman. Gaines is only S3 years old and lives on a five-acre tract at Capitol Hill, lla works as a carpenter with his father. B overman Takes Band. Jay Bowerman, associated in tha de fense of Wilde, engaged for the first (Continued on Page Seven) T ' traltf-d Pro reused Wire. I Chicago, Jan. 16. Mrs. Herman Bueh ler, - foster mother of the ls-year-oid heiress who was located In New York yesterday and f6und.,to have left her home here because of an Infatuation inn a waiter, started today for New York to bring Violet back to her home her. The Illinois Humane society began to. dav an investigation into the case, Mrs. William Holsapfet, Violet's moth er, deserted by her husband 13 year ago, turned the child over to Mrs. Bn. li ler, who took her without' legal adop. tion. Since then Mrs. HnlxnpM Ims been ' uninterested In her child, and H , still apathetic regarding Violet's wel fare, indicating apparently little Inter est In the case. The foster mother, how ever. Is overjoyed at the girl's recovery. "I want violet back, she said befoifi leaving for New York. "I have dorm everything a mother could for her, Ing careful of her surroundings haps too careful and giving htr best of everything. I tried to make !i r happy, and I believe she will bo gl.ut t return." ' Centuries of Manchu Mism! , Former consul general t ) eral Chinese cities, now a i dent of Portland, ihb1ch n i able statement of cmr t tlons ot governi'ient 'i",, : China in The Suti'l ' magazine. n. 1 FOSTER OTHER GOES RECLAIM HER ViOLET