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r THE , WEATHER Fair today ' with' south-" easterly winds. ' , ' THIS X3SVTO Or The Sunday Journal , coacp&zssa ' 6 Sections 68 Pajres VOL. VIII. NO. 42. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, ,1912. PRICE FIVE "CENTS- To Visit United States "WHIP BEHIND FELLOWS!" MAY: OPPOSE TAFT TEXTILE.FACT0R1ES AHS GUARDING NATION MM STRIKERS CAPSIZES ON BAR ..- ..... . . i- M! La' Follette, Cummins, Robse- velt, Each Leading Separate . Progressive- Faction, Ex- pected to Participate. . SPLIT AMONG INSURGENTS -! SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION None Able to Tell Just What Effect Candidacy of lowan - V Will Have on Situation.; .V'-'rv ' (United PrrM T. sated Wire.) Washington, Jan, 20. That President Taft may be opposed pit the Republican presidential; nominee by three candl- dates, each commahdlrtg a separate fac tion of progressive Republicanism, : be ta ma apparent tonight. v - The possibility of the heretofore elpse--4y bound progressive movement, split tint In three branches., with La Follette, . Cummins and Roosevelt each leading his '- personal cohorts In pursuit of the nom ination.' was -discussed "widely as a re sult of Cummins' statement today that he Till .be a candidate.. ' . . eult lUU'la Doubt. - - "There Is no way of telling; now Just what"ef?ect Senator Cummins v an- , .'nouncement.-will have on' the -progres. - slve ' campaign," , said Representative -Norrls. .Nebraska, progressive leader in w , the -house,, tonight., "When ' the pro gressives organized, It was decided to support Lit Follette, iiTbere 'seemed lit ' tie chance of success at that time, -But , now-that La Follette has made a phe nomenal campaign and won unusual sup- -: port, Indicating the possibilities of the movement, candidates ere cropping up with astounding regularity., .?.. The two nen who declined to lead the progressive ..movement when leadership was offered them, were. It was said, to night. Roosevelt and Cummins. , ' . 1 ' X. wana 5avor Cummins. ; 1 The" Iowa ; progressives were all ' In favor of Cummins announcement. Their attitude was expressed by Representa , tive Good's statement. "We believe that the progressive's vote bids, fe4r to b split between Roose velt and-Follette. Cummins offers candidate who can "win the support of followers of both of VhH , La Follette supporters claimed that - Cummins'' declaration would belp'tiie 'Wisconsin candidate Cummins win 'go Into th convention as Iowa's favorite son, ;. Tbe" La? Follette men say that this wiirtake the, delegation onto the floor " progressives; and :that after- a com plimentary vote for Cummins, they will , line Up forLa Follette.'.t-J: - '--f iV,ri L .Follette would not .discuss Cum mins': candidacy tonight -' Most ' all of his supporters likewise refused -to 'com---ment. .Chairman Houeer pf L Follette's i campaign committee" merely "declared Continued on Page Two.? j Roosevelt in Fine Humor, but ; m Avoids Questions as to Re 1 ported , Conference " With Hitchcock; "' v - - . ' . (By the International Kewi Berries. ) - Oyster Bay, N. J.i Jan, 20. Althouarh Colonel Roosevelt owuld not admit it, a strong Impression prevails that th former president and Postmaster Gen eral Hitohcock had a secret conference today In Newt Yofk. S. When - this was . broached to ' the colonel 'on the train on the way from New York tonight, Mr, Roosevelt assumed a quizzical air. . -'Hitchcockr he ' repeated, , "why. I dlda't know he was in town until 1 read In the- newspapers that he had arrived" - Pressed to say At ree- aid not actually meet the Taft cabinet member In New Torfc Mr. Roosevelt replied! "Why, how could I have met him T My time was all taken -up." v Abruptly rismlsses Subject. ' "Mr.; Roosevelt abruptly dismissed the Hitchcock Incident by saying there was nothing for him to discuss about It. - Mr. jtlltohcocH arrived in New York In the morning and was busy with call ers UntHv. shortly after noon,; when ha 'suddenly disappeared from the Manhat tan hotel, i One story has it that Mr. Roosevelt and the truculent- postmaster general, who has broken with the Taft administration, met at the National Arts club In Oramercy Park, while another version Is that they went to the Union League. They are reported to have had luncheon together, with the entire situ ation respecting the ante-convention nomination fight ea -the subject of dis cussion. Mr. Hitchcock Is reported to have given Colonel Roosevelt assurance that he can count on a flock, of southern delegates to the national convention If he stays in the fight. . . . , , T. B. Goes Out ( Taft Comes is. Colonel . Roosevelt - left hit editorial office for Oyster Bay about -the time that President t"aft was coming In from , New Haven, ' . t Asked If he would not tarry and shake hands with the man he had boosted into the presidency,.: his erstwhile) bowim ehum, Mr. Taft, Mr, - Roosevelt smiled broadly and exclaimed: . ' . "I'm in a. great hurry'tO-get to Oys- ter Bay.",.'' -;, ; - v The ex-president was In fine humor, on top of ibe interview given out by former Uovernor J, Franklin. Fort of Ntw Jersey, in whlrh Fort expressed the expectation tlint Mr. Roosevelt would tContlnued on I'agu Two.) COLOHEl W NOT . TARRY TO SEE TAFT: HURRYv HE SAYS . t. t: ' : h 4 ' f! ' ' ' ' . .i t - tin:1 Mr- if -' - !J Poke add Duchess, of Connanght. CncleVSnro Will Pnybsolutely-Jfo Attention 4o Royal Visitors; nigh Official , 'Sayg ''Tbtal is -hiogeCxer WWtela.RelSlrwH .. -'' - t:" ..:v:.,i i . . , l- ."if: ' '' (By tie InternHonl tiews erTle. . .' Washington. ; Jan. 2G-Morttf led and exasperated .'beyond expression by the -attt4ndegljecH'rjhstdie4 Hnsult, offered ' by the Duke,; and Uuehess of Connaught and . thu Princess . Patricia in: visiting; the 'United, SUtes without the courtesy of a call upon President Taft, the government will pay absolute ly no .ttentlon toithe royal visitors. , it '.was announced : today " that - contrary- to customfsa military attache and a naval attache would not be designated to accompany them. Never before has a royal - visitor , paid America the honor of a visit without being tbe recipient at Ieasto.t-Ihat'c0urtesy. The unqualified; statement "was made by a . high of Xicial .of the government that in making arrangements for their royal highnesses, . somebody , bad ' blun dered ' Furthermore, It was stated that the blunder was not made la the United States... v-i i ;-. .:..".-,-., y - ' It waa explained. 'with, no liftle bitter ness that, "this la, altogether1: a White law Held show." and jxot only that, the uuicevoi- connaught and Mr.- Reia have given further unalterable offence by arranglig v their dinner for : Tuesday night.- the night for which White House invitations are long since out for the reception of ithe Judiciary, which, next to the diplomatic reception. Is the most Important official -function of the year. With this fact and the slight to Pres ident Taft " prominent in their minds, a number of High officials of the gov ernment have declined invitations from Ambassador Reld to be present at this dinner and meet his royalty. A diplo matic official or the United States de clares ' tonight it waa-an unmistakable custom the world over for. a royal vis itor or an important governmental per sonage, evn though traveling Incognito, to make his presence-known---- -He vouchsa fed . the opinion " that In falllnsr to follow such precedent; the Duke of . Connaught acted with studied intent and that he had given deliberate affront to the White House, . 800 of M400" to 'AtfeLdA' . (Uy tli lnterpnttonal 8rrlre. - New York, Jan. 20. On - behalf of Whltelaw Roid,' ambassador to the court of 8t. James, it was announced today that neither ; ..be nor "Mrs. . Reid would allow, the non-official, vllt of the Duke of Connaught and the Princess Patricia to be an occasion for .the. setting up of a new list of 'Boclety'.a .elect. ,; , Mrs.' ORdt-ii Mills will respect the am bassador's, wishes.' ,' Her. dinner , danoe to his ;, royal guests ; therefore ; will . be lareer. ,. thstead of cutting down what Is known as the ''400'! to S00, she will In clude about 00. ' v ( . - 1 ' TEN CLASSMATES GIVE ' BLOOD FOR YOUNG GIRL '(tJnltea Preat Leased Wirs. - Grand Itaplds, Mich., Jan; ,.20. Ten young - men' of . the Grand Rapids high school, totay-; gave up a 'pint of thelf blood, and probably saved "the life of Miss Theresa . Shnjp, a -member '.of their cIhsr, who,. phyaU-lans stared, would die unless there was a trannfuslon of blood. Professor J es', B. ' D Via, ; principal of the high-school, told her Classmates of the doctor's statement.' " - - s Practtlly. the entire' class clamored for a chance . to help nave, the i life of their classmate. t Ten young men were Silfi'ted. , ' Physli lans eivy" Mls Sharp will prob ably recover. . - DUKE OF CONNAUGHT HOWTO SNUB SNU8BER . , - , -r: K4 r. Militiamen,':' State Police and ' Private Detectives Patrol Towri of Lawrence, Cover ' ing All Districts. - FINDING OF DYNAMITE, - FRIGHTENS OFFICIALS Heads of.. Municipal Govern ment Believe City in Grave" Danger of Destruction. , (United Pram Leases Wire. Lawrence, Mass., Jan. 20. This, city Is an armed camp tonight. ; Militiamen, to wbom a double round of ball cartridges was served out tonight, patrol the business section and the mill region with their guns ready for- in stant action, -State police and private detectives, with revolvers only half con cealed, are.-much in evidence, not alone in the business , section but throughout the residence quarter. ..The city officials all united in declaring that, as the re sult of the textile workers' strike the city Is in grave danger; of destruction, . .. Volnt to Caoaei of Dynamite, ' ::- In COnf lrmation of this declaration, they point to the discoveries they al lege to have made of great -quantities of dynamite cached in the heart of the Syrian quarter. In a clump of bushes less than a stone's throw from the big Ar lington mills.. Tfis explosive -they dis play is JO. per cent, double in its de structive power of the - ordinary com mercial dynamite, and they , assert that it waa fitted .' with caps' and ready for detonation at a tecona's notice, ; Because, of Its powerful , nature the officials Insist that there Is no doubt it was : brought here to blow . up the town and assert that within ' a few hours 'they will -arrest noted " dyna miters who, they allege, have been con nected with the Industrial Workers of the World and . who were responsible fo,r dynamite outrages In the big min ing fields of the far west notably In the Black Hills Cripple Creek- and Ne vada. ' . " Charge Explosivs Was "Planted.' . The strike leaders openly charge the dvnamite was ttlanted bv emissaries of rChetnllt oWn,er.',?,J'oic!t7' "JStter, Tiead of tbe strikers, said tonight that tbe mill owners, frightened by the change in public .sentiment which is now behind the strikers because of their obvious attempts to preserve order In' the face of mal treatment, by the militia, . nave Uken advanuge of the publicity given the McNamara dynamltlngs to discred it the workers who are "demanding a living . wage." : .v fer;; i-- -' p-;:-;.K:h:' In cells In the city ; prison are we men and three badly frightened wo men. The police call them dynamiters, but rthev- protest their innocence- in broken English and aver . that they are noor lawabldlng laborers. 1 w no oniy want a chance to earn a living ior themselves and their families." ., All Admit Gravity of Bltnatloa, The situation is admitted by both sides to be very grave. " The mill owners say they will treat with their former employes as "indl vlduala and the majority of the strik ers .insist - they wilt Vstarve" before they, will abandon their union. The strikers Insist that they have crippled every mill and that - none will open on Monday. KThe ,mill owners, while1 keeping their plans secret, say that-they will Have plenty or neip nere by then and if the state will furnish protection they will open up and keep going. . -.te-i SANTA FE LIMITED : WRECKED IN NEW MEXICO ' (By the International Newi Serrtce.) -WiHlamsr Aris Jan. 20. The Cali fornia limited on the Saata Fe railroad which ijft Chicago Thursday night ran Into an opened switch at Manuelito, New Mexico, If miles east of here shortly before 8 o'clock this afternoon, .dashed into a work train that was standing on the siding, and the engine and baggage car of ; the limited were derailed and turned over. The only persons. Injured were the engineer and fireman of the limited who were slightly hurt, , . Traf fic will be delayed for about six hours. SCENES ATTENDING ft. it H i ' ' ' i v v 4 t - . - ( '.! ; ' I'hotograph. by International News Service, - First photograph of the strike riots at Iawroiic Bfass. The photograph " shows the methods employed , Uc police in koopluir tho threatening strikers awny from the mills. ' mm S DRINKER LICENSED SAYS CLUBS BRED DRU ENNESS . - l-v ' t-lX: "-"' Wss-Wststsaasssssssssi sj' t 1; .t. , .'..H-'Mt Pure Food Expert Declares Treating Habit One of Worst of .AH Evils; Believes That Treaten Should Be Muzzled in Some j, Manter (By tbe International News Service. "Washington, Jan. ; 30. Declaring his belief that -most of tbe drunkenness la America originates n clubs. Dr. Harvey Wiley, pure food expert for the govern ment, today advanced as a solution for a critical situation that all drinking men and women who treat be forced to take out individual licensee. -VI have stopped drinking In my club," explained Dr. Wiley.!. Not because I am stingy. Things have come to the stats that where six or seven meet and one offers to buy a: drink, they keep right on. treating until every man pres ent has bought something. .Pretty soon they are all drunk. 1 i f T ',. "If I had my way we would stop mak ing saloon keepers pay .bugs licenses. Why not charge -tKem a nominal fee and regulate them? Then put the; real; tax on the drinkers. Make every person who wants a drink take out a license and pay $1 a year for It. , If a person is, seen to he drinking too- much-or his family needs the money or be has a weak constitution, then refuse to give him a license. K ' "' "When a : man goes - into -a saloon, make him present his license number and pay 1 cent Internal revenue tax for every drink. Hake him Write his name on a slip of paper for evwy drink. If it Is seen that a saloon keeper is giving too many drinks to any one man, then stop, the saloon man's license. Do these things and you stop drunkenness." : TEXTILE WORKERS' STRIKE ...... , v Ct. G. 1 BEATTY CARRIES -JC0RDN1 v '. -.- - .- ' ..-v - ' I- '. - ' , ... , Aviator Acoompllshes" New Feat ' in America by Flying t Height , pf 600 Feet With Adult and Two . Boys as Passengers. . v (By tbe Internationtl News Berrlce.l New York, Jan. 20. Four persons flew slmultanenously In one aeroplane this afternoon at Nassau boulevard at a height of BOO feet for over 10 mln utes. It was : the first time the feat had "been accomplished in America. George W. Beatty, who holds a num ber of American flight records, was the pilot and Dr. Alexander O. Belden of Terre Haute, Ind., Master Jack Find. lay of Garden City, L. I., and Master Herbert Pratt of Garden City, L. I, were the passengers. - Tbe flight was made in Beatty's Wright biplane with which he recently made a sensational flight over Brooklyn. -f .;.- The combined weight of the four aerial Joy riders was in the neighbor hood of 600 pounds. Tbe two boys who unexpectedly : achieved : the distinction of being two of tbe first people to fly together over the .American continent. are 11 and 12 years old respectively. Until they were hoisted Into the air on the craft they did not know they were to make the trip. Beatty had Intended to make a longer flight but descended when, he saw the boys were shivering with cold, not being properly clad for an air voyage. - Domlngues, Field, Cat., Jan. 20. Fly. lng from Domlngues field to Coropton, two miles In two minutes, Glenn Mar tin, this afternoon delivered the first aerial mall In the history of the Pacific coast" He returned to the field for a second oonslgnmest, collected from the spectators, which was to be carried to the Los Angeles city limits. - AT LAWREMCE, MASS. e ":::;. :.':::,f::':::'-';:j by THREE PASSENGERS II Si ('.'I GREAT NORTHERN FOR OREGON LAND PROJECT - J -' -'.. ,'f " "'' .i -i - . 7 :. Rumor He Is to Resign Is Prevalent i la Oregon and Washington ; Colo nization of 750,000 Acres Is Said to ' Be Proposed. ;; -'v'- (Special to The JMrnatt Seattle, ; Wash., Jan. J0.--A rumor that Louis W Hill is : soon to resign the Great Northern presidency haiTbeen current in local railroad circles for sev eral Weeks, '-r,' -'j:--"'-'. ;'..-''. '1'V.:-'S However, Seattle men in touch with railroad politics, profess to have no de tails, although they assert that Hill is likely to retire to - look after his private business interests, particularly his Oregon land project John A. Mil ler, Seattle general agent in tbe freight department,- who is .supposed to be In the Great Northern's Inner circles, stat ed today that be Is not Interested in Hill's land scheme and bad beard noth ing: definite regarding the rumor. Ho has not been advised when Hill is com ing 'west.- ; ,"'v ''; 'vsy''.: ."';;:' i. ':,, H. A. Noble, general passenger agent Us-4n Seattle today, but hie visit Is said to have no special significance. ; - Some ' Seattle railroad : men say Carl R. Gray, head of the North Bank rail road, la one of the logical candidates for the presidency of the Great Northern. It has been reported In Portland fre quently the past month that Louis Hill would .;' resign the ... presidency of the Great Northern to take over active man agement or a great iana project mciua lng the Miller D. Lux, William Hanley fnd other big ranches in Harney county. A eature , of the ' report has been that President ' Carl Gray of the Spokane; Portland & Seattle would become presi dent of the western division of the Great Northern. - Borne weeks ago when the rumor first became current here, Mr. Gray denied : that . there was any truth to it so far as be knew. ', STAND IN LINE SINCE CHRISTMAS WIM" NOTHING (StMWlal to The aooraatl ' :''';' . North Yakima,. Wash., Jan. 20. For ty-six people who have been standing In line here since Christmas before the door of the United States land office awaitlnjr the restoration to public entry of "half a hundred homesteads of 40 acres each under the government Tleton rec lamation project here, learned tonight that It is the intention of .the depart ment of the Interior to open the' land under some lottery system by which all cltliens of the United States will have equal chances Of winning. There were many women In the line. " LATIN GUNBOAT HOLDS UP BRITISH STEAMSHIP 'i''-: (United-press, lesiwa Wbe.J ' London. Jan. 20. Following close up on the recent seisure , of two 1 French liners, the British steamship Africa was held up late today at Perlm by the Ital ian gunboat Vol turno. Twelve Turkish army 1 officers who were - traveling 1n civilian garb were placed under arrest and the ship IS being detained pending Instructions t from the - Italian govern ment' ';'. 1 '.-.V'-v - .''-' .. -i Socialist Tote Falls Off In Germany. . Berlin. Jan. 20. A decided falling off In the Socialist vote was shown by the, results of the second ballots held today for members for the reichstag In , 77 districts. . . '-. - After the two days balloting the par ties In the relnh stag stand as follow: Socialists. 72; net gain, 28. Conservs tlets, 49; rtPt Ions, 24. Centrists, 88; not lows. 9. Liberals. 68; net loss, 18. North Star No.1, Bound From Coos Bay to South Slough, . Carried ; Out to Rough Wa ter When Engine Stops." CREW AND CAPTAIN ALL SOUTH SLOUGH CITIZENS Numerous Passengers Had Got Off at Empire; Craft Is Washed. to Sea. (Special te Tfce Joarnal.t '; Marshfleld. Or-, Jan. 21. Captain Britt, of the Coos Bay life saving sta tion, was not lost as was at first feared In the accident to the gasoline launch North Star, on the Coos Bay. bar this afternoon. It was reported here that he had been washed overboard and much uneasiness was felt until his safety was assured. - -:-c,'yy., ,,.v . The North' Star was thrown up ' on the end of the Jetty. None of the five men who were on the launch have been found and a close watch is being kept for bodies. . Marshfleld, Or., Jan. 20-With four passengers and -the skipper-aboard, the little gasoline launch North Star No. t capslsed on the bar of Coos Bay this evening. AH were lost The little boat was seen to turn over from the lookout of the life sav ing station and the crew went to its assistance but could not. arrive in time. ThNecta"-tar No. 1 -was owned" and run by Joe Yonkers. Those lost L were: Joe Yonkers, the skipper; Will Bralnard. Frank Tanner, Ira Albee and Con Ferris. All live on South Slough. Bratnard was married and had four children. Tanner was also mar ried. The launch ran regularly be tween Coos Bay and South Slough. The latter Is a stream emptying Into the bay very near' to the bar. A number of ranchers and others live along the slough and there is . a logging camp there and the launch was the only means of transportation to that locality. Engine Probably Xroke Sows, When the boat left Marshfleld this ftf texnoojru large number of passengers -was aboard but all got off at Empire excepting' the four ien and the cap tain. The engine of the boat evidently broke down and as there was a strong abb tide, the boat was carried out on the bar. It struck the Jetty and capsized. It Is a small gasoline boat about 20' feet long with a cabin and engine room. The crew had no chance for their lives on the bar. , . - -. . , . - A year or two ago Yonkers had an ac- -cldent in the bay,' . The boat he - was running sprung a ' leak and sank but - (Contlnuedon Page Fojir.X . SLOWLY, SLOVLY Initial Diet of Williamson Girls ; WasHalf Cup of Water Strained' From Vegetables; Bribery ; Rumored.' (Csited Press Lsar Wire.) v ' " Port , Orchard, . Wash., Jan. , 20.' Ru mors of attempts, to bribe , the state's witnesses and the discovery that Doro thea Williamson's summer home ut Bteilacoom bad 1. been broken Into and her personal "effects and private, papers ransacked only served te add to the sensational aspect assumed by new de velopments in the trial of Dr. Linda Burfteld Haszard, -' charged " with the death of Claire Williamson' by . slow starvation. , Dorothea.. Williamson, : the sister, told her harrowing story on the witness stand In the superior court hern today, u-'-.-.-..vt-';,.'j-.,-i..-r- -. - Struggling to keen the tears back and to keep her agitation Imperceptible, the sight of Dorothea Williamson as she told the. horrible details of her sister's -life while they were being treated by Mrs. llaiiard, was a pitiable one. The simple, : artless ; manner In which' she told the story made It more than dra matic. It seemed to carry with her every person; Irt ' the courtroom; Jurors leaned forward, in their chairs; the de- . fendant, -Mrs. ; Haszard, ' charged with murder in the first degree, lay back in her chair and did: not move so much as an eyelash all through the recital, though during most Of the trial she hss consulted with her counsel frequently while other witnesses were testifying. ralth Contuses to the Sad, . The tale of . the trustfulness of the two English; women and their, totar in nocence, for months of the criminal in tent with which Dr. Hasiard Is -charged, is ih itself pathetlo. When, according to Dorothea's testimony, Ms. Haustard took, from them their Jewels and the rings from their emaciated hands, they even had faith in her;.; When she prom Ised from day to day that some morn ing they would awaken- and would bn. in a perrect state or neaitn.- they be lieved they would get wU. Painting Prom Starvation, ' Dorothea told of the beginning of X'.xn diet, which consisted of half a cip .f water In which a few sprltf of aws,.iri gus or tomato had been boiw si-t t vegetable matter drained off; lv ' after a' few days, heraum h v.r t fainting spells and hr r thinner and thinner e.t ! more ein.n'lntel ; h'-x ''..: ; have the falutlntr "''' (- SStioSe