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'fair; .probably
cooler ,vrnir
erly wlnda.l
TEMPERATURES JODAY,
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.tbi Portland,
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A
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Wash'toa "....74
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. J PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENlVo.' AUGUST 13, 1912-TWENTY" PAGES.
VOL. XI. NO. 186.
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3000
m m Turkish Earthquake CANAL CONFEREES
50,000 Persons Homeless
It K It H , t ' It t H ' It "
Scores Lie Pinned Under Ruins of Cities
INJURED CAUGHT
UNDER WALLS ARE
" i Nl STARVATION
Reported That Active Crater
. Has Appeared on Asiatic
; Side of the Sea of Mar
mora.' (Cnlted Preaa !,? Wtra.)
Berlin, Aug. 13. Three thousand
persons are known to have been
killed in an earthquake which rocked
southeastern Turkey, according to a
message Justreeelved here by the
Tagablatt, from Ita correspondent at
Constantinople. ' s
More than 60,000 persona are
homeless and starving. An active
crater Is also reported to have ap
peared on the Asiatic side of the
Sea of Marmora.
Later dispatch? received hero Indi
cate that conditions are much worse In
the disturbed replon of Turkey than the
earlier advices staled. Supplementary
rncitaees rrrlYi! tonight Bay that
scores i-uup'-.t uinlir the towering-wall
-are still alive but slowly starving, to
death. The Turkish government la aald
te be doing Its utmost for the relief
of the sufferers, but officials admit
their Inability to rope with the situ
ation." Unless outside aid Is extended at
once." It Is feared thousands will per
ish from exposure arid lack of food.
TARIFF REVISION BILL
OVER VETO OF TAFT
Vote Is 174 to 60; Spea'ke
Clark Rules That Measure
Has Carried,
tTnltd Prg IiiM4 Wlm.)
Washington, Aug. 13. By grace of
ruling made by Speaker Clark, the
house today passed the wool tariff re
vision bill over President Taft'a veto
by a vote of 174 to 80. Nineteen Repub
lican Insurgents voted with the Demo
crats.
On the vote as at first announced by
the speaker the Democratic-Insurgent
alliance apparently had failed to paaa
the bill by two votea.- Ten members
who had raired with absentees voted
as present-.
Ol.:i'! ruled that it took only two
thl': ," the members voting "aye" or
"it ' . i'nss the bill, and ruled that two
1 1 , : i :. Iiuil so voted "aye" and that the
bill was passed.
A violent ' dispute followed, the Ba
"Tubllcans"t)rnerly "aUackfhg Clark. On
this Underwood made a point of order,
thus finally enabling tha speaker to de
clare the bill passed.
Before the vote was taken Congress
men Cannon, of Illinois; Hill of Conner.'
tlcut; Green, ... of lowa and" Utterr of
Rhode Island defended President Taft'a
veto of the wool bill.
Utter accused the Democrats of play
lng politics In.- foisting responsibility
for the wool bill on tha president.
Fitzgerald of New York took a hand
in the discussion and called the Wool
report i of the tariff board mere" guess
work. "He-flin of Alabama also spoke,
denouncing President Taft and the Re
publican party generally.
E
(fnltefl Pre X.ttinS Wlr.) ,
Sa.i, Francisco, Aug. 13. Steering $o
fine a course arotmd the treacherous
bank off Angel Island, the British
steamer Strathardle, with Captain La
ment at the helm, went ashore on the
..rocky bottom of the west side. 'of the
island shortly before noon today. The
powerful army tug Slocum'and three
tugs are standing by ready to give the
Strathardle a line If necessary.
The Strathardle was bound In ' from
Baltimore with 6400 tons of coal for the
government; The vessel la valued at
$200,000' and carries a crew of 80 men.
As the steamer grounded at high tide
It wlll be difficult to float her.
To Journal Readers
The omission of the nsnal Sat
urday comic supplement1 and oth
er features of the Saturday and
Sunday editions Is due to' the fact
that The Journal Is now moving
Into Ita new quarters at Seventh
and Yamhill. As soon as the
Pr?sseare2jn8taUeOllJ;b.ft-Xa-:
miliar features of the two editions
will be resumed.
HOUSE
PASP WOOL
BRITISH STEAM
R GOES
ASHORE ON
ROCK BANK
. " v - - - .... " " " Miw omrinT n
Searching forMurderers
Copyright by Underwood & Under
wood, New Tork.
District Attorney Charles W. Whit
man of New York.
UBIUII
B
STOP IH HICK Of Hi
Captain Reports Bow Dam
aged Above Water Line by
Vessel Nosing Into Floe,
' (United Praia Leased Wire.)
Montreal, Aug. 1J. All efforts by
coaat wireless stations, today to get In
touch with the Allan Uns steamer Cor
sican, carrying 200 passengers bound
Tor Liverpool." wMcfi struck"n iceberg
late yesterday cast of Belle Isle, near
New Foundland, so far have - failed.' A
message from Captain Cook of the Cor
slcan, in reporting the accident to Al
lan line officials, said:
"Corslcan struck iceberg this after
noon. Stem injured above water line.
Ship making no water. Will proceed."
Officials of the Allan line announced
later In the day that they had received
a second wireless report from Captain
Cook giving further details and con
firming his earlier message that the
Corslcan was not seriously damaged.
The second message stated that the
engines of the vessel were reversed
when the iceberg was sighted; that the
ship merely touched the bow and that
the'sllaht damage sustained was con
fined" to that portion of the liner above
the water line. - ,
L
TRAIN KILLS FIVE IN
WRECKAT
Engineer Al Townsend of -Sa
lem Among Dead; Three
Passengers Injured,
(TJnlted Prexi Leaaed Wlre.
Keechelus. Wash,, Aug. 13. As a re
sult of. the wreck of the Olympian, the
Milwaukee's crack train, when the reg-
Mmglne and the helper jumped the
trHls.,t the bridge over coal creen iaie
yesterdax afternoon, araggmg me ex
press1' arid "Uaggage cars and day coach
with them to. the creek bed 40 reel b-
low, killing five persons, trafflo 'e
blocked today and the trains are being
run over the Northern Pacific, tracks
It is expected that the track will be
cleared tonight.
The dead are: Mrs. Simon Jurich, iD4
Western avenue, Seattle; Engineer Al
Townsend, Salem," Or.; Engineer Henry
Nobhf, Seattle; Fireman J.. H. Thlmbell,
Cedar Falls, Wash., and Fireman H.
Spencer, Tacoma.
Three, persons were injurea, oui win
recover.
The train was approaching the sum.
mlt of the Cascade mountains when the
forward tender was derailed. The Pull
mans amd tourist sleepers, dining and
observation cars end one baggage car
Stayed on he rails.
B. G.-Snyder, Seattle, returning from
the bull moose convention, to which he
was a delegate, said today that many
lives In the rear half of the train wera
saved by the weight of the steel bag
gage car which, although it left th
rails, was too heavy to be pulled off the
bridge.
70,000 MAY STRIKE AS
PROTEST AGAINST MILIJIA
Charleston, W, Ve. Aug. li.As a
state wide protest to the action of the
authorities In sending militia , to, the
mints, Jn thA . PJnL.Crk.lltrltl OJiaa
ri,l7..il.Mi.n,
raw
is
HE'S
CRACK
KEECHELUS
(coal miners in West Virginia expect to
bs called out today. .
At present there are 10,000 men on
Strlks in the district, ..." ;
and Starving
S
T
GRAFTER CHIEFS
Lawyer, Politician and Hotel
" keeper Said to Be Civilians
Sharing in. Distribution of
$2,400,000 Yearly.
(Dolled Preu Leswd Wlre.t
New Tork, Aug. 18. Seven indictments
In connection with the murder ja Gam
bier Herman Rosenthal and charges of
grafting against the "higher ups" of
New York's police force are expected to
be returned here today by the grand
Jury. William J. Burns and other mem
bers of his detective agency are said
to have uncovered the three chief graft
ers In the "system" by which it la al
leged $2,400,000 "protection" mdfiev
paid by gamblers was divided yearly. A
wealthy and prominent New York law
yer, a well known politician and a hotel
keeper are said to be the civilians shar
lng in the. grafting system. Their ex
posure probabljncnr come later.
The two representatives of DlstHct
Attorney Whitman's office who Are ris
ing io nui springs, ATKansaa, lor earn
Schepps, who Is alleged to have paid
the money to the gangsters for slaying
Rosenthal, are due to reach there lato
today. They will immediately start
back to New York with their prisoner.
Emery Buckner, attorney for the
committee of aldermen which will in
vestigate alleged grafting methods of
New York police- officials, announced
this morning that the Inquiry would
open here September 4.
- District Attorney Whitman and De
tective William J. Burns met Jn the
criminal court building here this after
noon. It was believed Burns would tes
tify before the grand Jury today along
with 18 other witnesses. Whitman said
he did not know Just when Indictments
would be returned.
District Attorney Whitman today In
vestigated the contents of Polios Lieu
tenant Becker's safe deposit box at the
Madison Safe Deposit company. - It was
learned that Mrs. Becker made 14 visits
there between November and June.
SLAYS TO PROET HER
(Tnlted Preu Lraaed Wtra.t
Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 13. Claiming
that she shot and killed William Shof
fer to protect her honor, Mra. J. R.
Allen, a young widow 22 years of age,
Is today at liberty on $10,000 ball.
Shoffer, Mrs. Allen alleges, attacked
her and then, calling her up on the tele
phone, threatened to kill her if she re
fused to marry him. When he called
she shot him dead.
Gil
UNCOVERS
m
y
HONOR
FREED
iyiai -ininm
Chamberlain Does Not Look
Gloomily Upon Legislation;
- Chance That One Free-Toll
Provision May Be Dropped.
HOLDS THAT BILL DOES
NOT VIOLATE TREATY
Not Intention to Give Great
Britain Voice in Regulation
of American Shipping.
(Waitlostoa Biitmo of . To IsnroiL)
Waahlngton, D. C, Aug. 13. Senator
Chamberlain of Oregon said today that
he did not look gloomily, as do some
of his fellows, upon the Panama xanal
Conferees on the canal measure have
discussed severaK men or matters in
connection with tha bill and will have
a meeting tonight.
"I think the bill will come out of the
onftrence In practically, the same
shape as It was passed by the house,
and possibly strengthened Irt some par
ticulars," said Senator Chamberlain this
morning. "There Is a chance that the
conference may eliminate the provision
allowing American ships engaged in
foreign commerce to pass through the
canal without the payment of tolls.
That assumption Is based on the belief
of many members of both the house and
senate that such a provision would be
In violation of the Hsy-Pauncefote
treaty. J
Sees Ho VI ola t ion.
"In speeches delivered In the senate,
took the position that It would not-
be a violation of any treaty between
the United States and Great Britain
but there are gentlemen who are friend-
(Continued on Page Fourteen.)
0.-W. R.& N. CO. SUBSCRIBES $75,000
T
Only Conditions Are That S.,
0PRW11
and Remaining Sum by Citizens of Portland; Committee
to Take Up Matter With Hill Line Immediately Form of
Railway Company's Subscription.
With a formal aubacriptlon of $75. -
00, one-third of the entire' amount
needed, the O.-W. R. & N- company mis
morning started the $225,000 fund to
e-iiarantee a line of steamships from
Portland to the orient. '
The Buttsenptlon was made through
President J. D. Farrell, who signed his
name at the head of the subscription list
as the chief official of the railroad
company. At the meeting of the Ori
ental committee of the Chamber of Com
merce a week ago President Farrell first
promised to give $25,000, and then
raised the amount to $75,000 to help In
establishing a direct and permanent line
out of Portland, and today he made good
his word at a meetlifg with the. special
EITHER KEY WILL
PLOT TO KIDNAP
. CZAR AND FAMILY
Men of Battleship Had Intend
ed to Seize Royal Party on
YachJt and to Force Nicholas
to Abdicate.
ATTACK UPON CAPITAL
TO HAVE FOLLOWED
Object Was to Establish Lim
ited Monarchy and Consti
tutional .Regime.
(United Tret Leued Wire.)
Odessa, Aug. 13. Sixteen seamen and
a petty officer are under sentence of
death here today as the result of a
revolutionary plot framed on board the
battleship Ivan Zlatoust of the Black
sea fleet, by which It was Intended to
seize the Russian imperial, family on
board their yacht' and force Cxar
Nicholas to abdicate.
The conspirators planned to hold up
the imperial yacht while the caar and
his family were being conveyed from
Yalta, their favorite resort In the
Crimea, to Sebastopol.
Th seizure, It. Is said, was to have
been the signal to the mutinous Baltic
fleet to attack St. Petersburg and
Kronstadt simultaneous! v with the oh.
Ject pf establishing a limited monarchy
and a constitutional recline.
FIVE ITALIANS KILLED
, AS FIREWORKS EXPLODE
. (United Prras LMd Win.)
Auburn, N. Y., Aug. 13. Five Italians
met death here today when fireworks
stored In a cellar in preparation for
oelebratlng the Catholic feast of the
Assumption prematurely exploded.
P. & S. Co. Subscribe $75,000
ubcommlttee In charge of raising ths
fund.
In signing up for the big subscription
from hia company President Farrell as.
sured the committee that the new Una
will have the hearty support and co
operation, of the O.-W. R. & k. company
and that every effort will be made by
thl7al1roal !o brIn abou Its success.
The only conditions attached to tha
subscription are that an equal amount
shall be subscribed by the Spokane.
Portland & Seattle railroad, the North
Bank line, of which Joseph H. Young
head of the Hill system In" the north
west, is president, and that the re
maining t,uuu shall be raised by citl
Zf Of Pi
-Hira is
j (Com
rurnana.
the form of the subscription
Unued on Page Fourteen.)
FIT!
TAL STEAM
0
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Astor Heir Expected
jf -, 4-V Mt"1 -1'iSl.-
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Sirs
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'
Mm. John Jacob Astor of New York.
AT
E:
CROWD WAITS OUTSIDE
WidowAsks.thfi..Reporters to
Hereafter Refer to Her as
Mrs, John Jacob, "
(Dnlted Press Laaaed Wlra.l
New York, Aug. 13 When It was re
ported here today that the expected heir
TdiBetcn,'"nTni!5nBr wilTdua to arrive
any minute considerable excitement was
created among the curious crowds that
have -besieged the Astor mansion, where
Mrs. Astor, widow of the Tltanio dis
aster victim, Colonel John. Jacob Astor,
ts confined.
Dr: Craglot the physician attending
Mrs. Astor, declined to make any state
ment
Mrs. Astor requested the reporters to
refer to her -as Mrs. John Jacob Astor
and not as Mrs. Madeline Astor.
FUND ISJOMEtL
Small - Contributions Ukd" the
Ones Now Comjng in Are
Wanted, Says IVtcCombs,
Contributions to the Wilson Fund.
Previously acknowledged $452.50
August Riechel
1,-00
1.00
1.00
6.00
1.00
1.00
0,00
fi.00
1.00
1.00
Charles Brandt ..
Frank E. Sweany
C. C. Chapman ..
James Smith
R. B. White
C. E, S- Wood .. .
Walter Hood
H. M. Williams ..
S. M. Tunstall
Total
.$519.60
The Journal's Woodrow WllaonTcam
palgn fund goes well beyond the $500
mark today, and & survey of the list
of contributors from the beginning
shows." that. It Is coming In the form
desired by Governor Wilson and his
managers mostly In small sums from
many Individuals, The popular amount
ts ftorn 25 cents to $5, with a few
larger amounts.
"We don't want anything from cor
porations," says Chairman McCombs of
the national committee. "I have not
hit upon any scheme for raising cam
paign funda. There Is nothing to worry
about, however, on the score of contri
butions. I feel sure that ample money
will come Into our treasury by popular
subscriptions." -
Small contributions like those coming
to "The Journal fund are the ones that
count most, for they show the wide
spread Interest of the people In a pro
gressive candidate who will not except
corporation funds to promote his can;,
dtdacy. In many parts of the country
the same thing is being done by pro
gressive newspapers, the money to go
forward to ths national committee tor
publication and distribution of litera
ture and expense of speakers,
The Journal each day publishes a list
of the contributions it has received. On
the first page will be found a coupon,
which should be filled out with n,ame,
address and amount, so that" 'proper
credit may be given.
Wofodrow Wilson
til (C '
STORK
ASTOR
MANSIONS ANY TIM
WILSON'S
CAMPAIGN
BEYOND
MA
TO THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL:
Herewith I inclos .t
paign fund.
(NAME) .
.(ADDRESS).
Kail this coupon, with your contribution enolosed, to The Journal.
ton . Campaign fund, Portland, Ox. Oaecks should be made payabU to 1 u
IoutbsO. ,,.,-- , '
PROMISEOFH
CROPS DISSIPATES
TRADEONEASINESS
Bounty of Soil tends to Bring '.
Entire Land Out of General1
Business Depression: From:
Which 'inia$Suffered.: ,
FORECAST GIVES LARGE.
INCREASES IN STAPLES"
Only Yielc) of Cotton Not Ex-,
pected to Be as Enormous. J,
as Before. i
Estimated fcrpp. ? 114., j -
Wheat 660;flO0.O0O bo.
Corn 2,800,000,000 bu. 4
Oats .
Barley
Rye ...
Cotton
...1.200,000,000 bu. '
.... 200,000,000 bu. .
... 38.300,000 bu. . 4
... . 13.100.000 bales
Hay SO, 000, 000 tons A
Potatoes 360,000,000 bu. i
(Special tn The Joomxl.l
Chicago, Aug. 13. In Its "Annu
Crop and Business Report," tha 'Con
tlnental Commerlcal National Bank
of Chicago forecasts enormous increases
in all the staple crops except cotton and'
ssys the country Is already feeling a
general trade revival as a result .of tha
bountiful yield of the soil .Tha report
Is In part as follows: :.
"The soil Is richly rewarding tha toQ
of man this yearr it u maWBr Tip"for7
the partial returns of the past two years.
The cllmatto conditions have not been
Ideal, but they have been, on the whole,'
favorable. The Improvement over the).,
past two years Is marked. In that there
la no section wherein all orops hawei
failed, as they did last jreae over a '
great part of the country Vest of tha ."
Missouri. The weather has been less)
freaky than usual, and every portion ofj
the country has some crops yielding In'
abundance. The production of ths soil- -this
year. In almost all things, Is over
the average. It is a bumper year when "
all products are taken Into considers- -
tlOn. .. '; " rAC(-;.-
80 Tit Cent Over rast Tsa
"The harvests In thejr abundance wllf
yield fully 20 per cent, In weight and
bulk over last year. None of the bre'ad-,'
stuffs will fall short of the need. of
the people most of them will .have a.
surplus.- Tha feedatutfa JTot.tlie. ani
mals promise large yields, and conse
quent recession in the price to the con.
sumer. while the quantity produced will
give, a Jarger return to the farmer than
the same crops the past two.years. i
"Our correspondents show a winter
wheat harvest around 380,000,000 bush...
els and a spring wheat promise of
000.000, making a total wheat harvest
of 660,000,000, which is 30,000,000 larger,
than that finally determined on the re
vised acreage-Ola year ago.
Promises Qood for Cora.
"Corn had' a bad start this year; tha
cold spring delayed planting and checked
(Continued on Page Two.)
FIRING 35 DWELLINGS
(United Preaa Laaaed Wire.)
Springfield, Mo., Aug. 13. Crying .
bitterly, but refusing to give any reason
fur her action. Edna James, an ll-year
old nurs girl, Is being held today in
prison by the' police "here for setffni
fjre to 35 dwellings. ' . " " '
' On Saturday 35, fires occurred here
In various houses. A guard was placed
at the house where Edna, worked, and :
the conflagrations stopped. The girl's
arrest then followed. j -- -
She admits firing three places, but
the police believe she Is responsible for
them all. ,:
NETS $20,000 BY FORGING
PAYMASTER'S CHECKS
(United Preaa Lcaad Wire.)
San Francisco, Aug. 13. According te)
information riven out by the aub-treaa-.
ury here today,' secret service men ara
on the trail of a young soldier who de
serted from the army after' stealing a '
book of 100 blank' army paymaster's,
checks from the post at St Michael;
Alaska. It Is estimated that tha forger .
has netted at least $20,000 by distrib
uting the checks broadcast. Owing to
the official appearance of the paper he
had no difficulty In cashing the checks;
PEKING-TO-PARIS PLANE
RACE SET FOR MAY. '13
Paris, Aug. IS. .The Peklng-to-Paris ,
aeroplane races have been. definitely put'
down for May, 1913. Several plana eon
structors already have' entered machines.
Including Blerlot, Morane, Nleuport,
Etarel. Breguet. Pa Perdusstn; Hanrtot
and others.
Campaign Fund
for the Woodrow Wflsbn cam
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