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1 i . Jt WEATHER Rain tonight and Wednes day; south to southeast winds. . J 1 O A ) A "" ' ' TEMPERATURES TCDAY Tioiton, 8 a. m.. 40; Portland, 5 l "U41 lit i r Ss)r J.:ew York " ,4a, fc'oUia . ..4 1 Charleston . ,5rt KoIes viiinrton " ..44 pun Fran. t '-ucao, 7 a. m..3 J-unebuin J' fin. City , .zn t uolmiie fct. Fan! . .aa, fciarnneld turtland tumidity, S a, m..,. h rLIESjQW .43 " ..44 " ..6 1 1 3 VOL. XI. NO. 231. Portland, Oregon; tues day evening, December 3, 1912-twenty-two pages. PRICE TWO CENTS 'OW TW.tlK v $ STANDS HVg Cii.lt, MS1 ilKII Kl liEfflliffill CHARGES IS BEGU! United States " Senate Meets, Agrees Upon Rules of Pro , ccdure In Hearing; Jurist Is Ninth to Be Tried. CHARGE JUDGE USED HIS- OFFICE FOR OWN PROFIT Indictment of Member of the Court of "Commerce. Has ;': : 13 Articles. Judge Kobcrt W. Arcbbald. UItd Fmt Leatcd W1rt. -Washington. Dec. .The United States senate at 1J;30 p. m. today re- 5 , solved Itaelt Into a high court of lm- : pearliment to try Jtobcrt W, Archbald, associate Justice of the federal court of ; commerce.' on charge of ."mlftbtfttylor and mlsdemeanora"- In office, ' ; -Kctiator Bacon of Georgia, president tro tern, formerly declared the aenate a court. ,Th court adjourned alx min utes later, after having agreed upon a jjlan of formal procedure v "Misbehavior and misdemeanors' In office are the formal charges agalnaj i Judge Archbald. Tha Indictment, pre aented by the house, consists of 11 ar ticles, a most . scathing and bitter ar raignment of the federal Judge. Use of his office for personal profit it the substance of all of the chargea against the defendant Ha la charged (Continued on Page Eleven,) As Result' of Last Election Re- v, publicans . Also Must "Take vThlrd Place on Ballot.- 4 ; f For tha next four years at least, thers Will be no Republican election clerks and Judges , in Oregon. ' This announce j inent was made this morning by Deputy City Auditor C P. Wiegand, after he had examined , the "stata election laws preliminary to sending a notification to the city council to appoint oflclals for city primary and general elections next year. . ' According to tha particular section of the state : law governing the . appoint ment of election officials these 'must be selected from members of the two political parties '';that . east1' the two highest number of votes for presidential electors at the last preceding.- presi dential election, and no -more than two Judges and two clerks on any one elec tion board shall be members of the same political party." ' - ' At the coming primary election next May, therefore, only Democrats and Progressives will be Included .on the , election "boards. There will be two Democratic judges and two Democratic clerks and one Progressive Judge and one Progressive clerk on each board of alx. ; '::;i!;iv;vivK'V -t'l Furthermore the Democrats will have first place on the ballot and the Pro gressives will have second place. The Republican candidates will 'have to be content with third place. Just ahead of the Prohibitionists and Socialists, Such 'la the strange turn of affairs brought atH"')by the great split In the O. O. P. Y Theodore Roosevelt and the result ant ascendaney of the party of Thomas Jefferson. .--':-, v . Another feature of the election lawt which will be brought to the attention of the council by Mr Wlegand is a cectton requiring that there be one pre cinct for every 250 voters. If the county court redlstrlcta Multnomah county In order to meet this requirement, tho num ber of precincts: Inside" the' city limits -win be doubled and possibly tripled. The city Is divided into 1(4 precincts St pront and If the number is doubled thora will be 828, thus doubling the cx T enso ., of ' election clerks and Judgea, j hn last rlty election cost , more than 1 12,000. The city oudltor's office estl i i.ii.'a ti nt the next clcctka vlil ct t 1-nst -.'.('. :J. H ...... ! .;: 1 ' i : i G. 0. P. LOSES RIGHT OH ELECTION BOARDS HUM KM Sve pEe via Russia Prepares Army of Half Million, in Poland to Check Any Move Her Enemies May -Make; Hostility Displayed.- GREECE; DELAYS SIGNING ' THE PEACE PROTOCOL Balkan States Refuse to Act . Viithoirt Her and Armis-"-. ; tice May Fail. ' (Celfd Prns fVlre.t '.Loudon, Dec. S. While Turkey and the Balkan allies hesitate on the brink of an armistice today with a growing probability that no agreement will be reached, London . is far mora gravely concerned over tha lncreaslna- danicer that Europe is to be Involved In war oven a division of the spoils to be taken from the sultan. Sharp upon Chancellor von Bethmann- Hollweg's Jingo speech in tha German relchstag, Austria, the kaiser's ally, Is quoted as threatening that a division Of her forces moblllaed at Semlln, Hun. gary, will move at once Into Servla If. as Is expected, Consul Edl reports that bervian troops maltreated or Insulted Auatrians after" the fall of Prlsrend. This Would mean war,, and it is be lieved certain that ItUBsia, which is re ported to have 00.000 meit ready In Poland, would attack-Austria the' mo ment an Austrian soldier crossed the Servian border. 1 r;- . . The injection of Roumania' Into the situation, is "also causing the craves t anxiety. Th visit today or tha crowd prince or RoumaHaTto"fferTIri and his expected interview tomorrow, with the uerman foreign minister, are consid ered as a. certain indication that the kaiser and his allies Italy and Austria have made plans to cover all eventual ities, it is suspect ea that Boumanl-, if an European war ; seems U unavoidable will be cast in the role of an asrirressor against Bulgaria, Then, if Russia comes to the am pf her ally, Austria and Ger many might take a hand In the strug gle without onenlv incurrlna? the of starting nosUU.tiea, rT.-f.'.t.H'' ureeces refusal : to aign th reaoe protocol, whlck.caxne today on dafin't inatructiona from Athens to the Greek envoy, is neiieved to have made the sit uation more serious. K - . t The refusal of the other Balkan states t act without Greece and the evMnnt determination that they stand together, is admitted to have greatly strengthene j 8ervia's hand. It practically disposes Of, Jeports that frictlcn existed betweei th little kingdoms which have broken Turkey's power In EuroDe. and ' makM it more than probable that In, a general convulsion Russia and Servla could de pend on their active support as Saralnst Germany, Austria, Italy and Rouroanla. - Adding to the serious aspect of the situation are reports f the gravely hoe. tile attitude toward Servla5 which pre vails In Austria, The Buda Pest Dirlar, a newspaper, demands that the king of Servla be compelled to appear in full regalia before the Austrian legation at Belgrade and there publicly-express his regret for the alleged-Insults to Consul Prochaska at Prlsrend; and make prom, ises to punish the guilty, ; . This proposal, it is believed; Is baaed (Continued on Page Four.) TO EUROPE IN OF Widow of Former .Governor .and Maybr Died 'in -.Paris - Yesterday After Long Illness Mrs. Mary X Pennoyer. widow of the late Sylvester Pennoyer. governor of n iye to 1898, died yes terday In Paris. Word of her death was received by relatives in Portland this morning Death followed long siege of illness, and it was in search of Jiealth that Mrs. Pennoyer. wi.th her daughter and son-in-law. Mr. and Mr r..nn. v Russell, went to Europe. - mrs. rennoyer was 75 years of axe, harving attained that age on August 3S 1918, just two years after she bad left Portland for Europe. She was a pio neer of Oregon. bavin cronn t,. plains from St Joseph, -Mo.; in the fall of 1SS4, with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. W, Peters. On this long trip across the plains. Mrs. Pennoyer suf -fered the loss of ; her first husband. Frank Allen. Two yeara later, in March, 1858, she married Sylvester Pen noyer. Five children were - born ttt them, but only th daughter, who was with her in Paris, survived her. During her lifetime, Mrs. Pennoyer Jived a very quiet life, especially after tha death of her husband. She waa noted for her liberal charities,. but waa not affiliated with any' social or char itable institution., She was a member of the Episcopal church. c ;- . Xo arrangements have yet been made as to tne runeral, as j only the bare news of her death haa yet been re- celved here, i 'It is f believed, hawnno. that the body will be returned to. Port. lan4-.ior-lnterment.-.... - Mrs. Pennoyer was one of eirht 1. tera, and her death is the first among them. The sisters who survive are Mrs F. M. Cleaver, Mrs. H. H. Delano. Mrs. W. II. Fayle, all of Portland ; Mrs. A. J. Frlesa and Mrs, F. B. Morse of San Francisco; Mrs. Mlnnlo Humphrey of Forest Grove, endlong brother, W, S. I,t.r, of California.. Mr,- IVrtnoyerl : 1 In 1002. PENNOYER'S TRIP an HEALTH m Gladstone Women Run Election Without Asking a Question n K k k t it t k it . n' h it it it n it it n it n , Not a Hitch Mars City Poll Cpndiicted by Fair Officials Tho top picture la that of the Gladstone, Or.,' election board, composed entirely of women. From left to right the five women of the board are: - MisIvM. Ilarrlnirton, Judge, and first woman to vote; MIhs Pearl Harrington (front) clerk? Mrs. Stella McGetchie, chairman; 5Irs. Tbom aa Burke, Judge, and Miss Adah' Ilnlbcrt, clerk. Standing is Mrs. I. O. Taddock, a voter, and to her right. In order, are J. J. Burgess, 03 years old, oldest voter, and W. . R. U'Rcn, father of W. 8. U'Jlen. Tho photograph to lower left Is that of Mrs. Minda Church, elected city - !, treasurer of Gladstone.' On : life- C j MEH0NBST1EIEIIKS : IS MADE AND HILL WORK WILL START Approximately $3000,000 Will Be Spent at Once in the Con-; v structioh of, Warehouses. and in Laying , of . Industrial; Tracks,1 if City : Council Approves , the Final Contract as v ' Presented 1 by", Railroad . Companies. A . - v i 'Adjustment of the east sUe' terminal problem was effected this morning be tween the Hill and, Harrlman Interests and tomorrow the matter, will come bo fore the city council .for final action. The railroad companies have signed an agreements which It was stated at noon today Is satisfactory to all concerned and drawn so as to, meet with the ap proval of Mayor Rushlight and the city council. V; - f.-.i'-v-' '.' ' To the- general publlo this agreement means Ahat. the Hill -people' will im mediately . begin . construction of their east, side warehouses and terminals aa announced and outlined some time ago and Involving an expenditure ef approx imately $3,000,000. . Included in this project is the large concrete structure at East Morrison and Union avenue which will serve aa the foundation for the east side terminals of the various Hill roads. Signing of the agreement further means that the O.-W. R, & N., the Southern Paclfio and the Hill lines have come to a definite and satisfactory un derstanding . regarding switching charges, - exchange a of service and switching operations;; S;; , 1 Settles' rourth Stret Pranchlse. The agreement signed today has been up for consideration for a number, of months and innumerable meetings and conferences hava been held ' between President J. H. Young, of the Hill Iins, President J. D.'.Farrel of the O.-W. R, & N., and General Superintendent W. D. Campbell of : the Southern Pacific, as well as the attorneys and rate experts of the three Interests. It waa sug gested by Mayor Rushlight as one way of solvlng: a difficult problem when the Hill people applied for a franchise to make physical connections between its east and west side properties, r It is understood too, that, as a result ef the agreement entered Into today the Southern " Pacific company: wilt be granted i Its Fourth v? street franchise which has been held up pending a set tlement of the east side controversy. ; Passage of the Fourth street fran- oaisa waa. delsyel jjy the couacli. upon urgent requests from tha east side busi ness Interests who felt that the east side problem should, be solved before tha Southern Taclflo was granted any further concessions.' ' , . During the past several months, the II 1 11 people have purchased a number of blocks of (round on the east side: of thu river between - Hurnetde street i and Hav.'horue avenue for the terminal lower right is Miss Itoso Cave, first woman voter in UUlsboro, On J r . yarda . and plans , have been completed for a number, of warehouses the con struction of which will be commenced as soon as the city council puts Its final - stamp of approval on . the pre liminary work. ' consummated by the ; (Continued on Page Seventeen.) CHRISTOFFERSON WILE ' TEACH OTHERS TO FLY Aviation Romance Hero, Em barks jn More Substantial , Business Than Giving Thrills Ellas Chriatofferson, the young man who has given Portland and Marshfleld so many aviation thrills, and who re cently capped an aviation romance with honeymoon trip ...by aeroplane, has gone to San Francisco to enter the aero plane manufacturing business and eon. duct a school of Instruction for flyers there.' He believes that at present there is a broader field for, aviation In San Francisco than In Portland. ' Chriatofferson has Just incorporated under the laws of Oregon a company for the manufacture -of aeroplanes, with a capital stock of 110,000,. .His associates are Ernest Hammer, for some time his partner liere, and Harry Twltchell for merly an automobile agent in Portland, i An. aeroplane iiimottsiaeV so calUd because It will have a body almost like that of a limousine car, designed ' to nni.' MM.1,.. t.".. carr-; fo irasengcrs. ,1s , construction by, Chrtstofferson, ..; He de clares it wm be even safer than the present hydro-aeroplane, in which he has flown so often over Portland.,. It, too, wlM be equipped with the pontoon attachment by which it can rise or de scend and float on the water, ' . A trip from Sen Francisco to Loa 'An. polos Is ft that Chrlsffferson will atttmpt soon. BUILD AEROPLANES AND V 4-' Board- Praises' Behavior- of-Wasculine Voters Who . Chival--vA roiisly Took Off . Hats and, Refrained 'From 'Using " . T ... .Tobacco; More Like Society Event.' - - 4 Women - t(t tha tows of Gladstone, Or' a. mile, north of Oregon' City and about JI, miles from .Portland, ran the city election there yesterday. They, not only elected a-woman, Mrs. - Mlnda Church, as- city treasurer, by a ma jority of 15 votes over her man oppo nent, but an -election board of five of Gladstone's most attractive young ma'lds and matrons was in entire charge of the lection. i S Mrs. Stella McGetchie 'presided over the', election 'tables as chairman of. the board, and handed , the . ballots to the voters. She was assisted ' by Mrs. Thomas Burke,' third election 'Judge, Mlas'Iva M. Harrington, second elec tion Judge, sat-at the ballot-box and took the folded ballots ana aroppea them inside. Miss AdahAHulbert was first clerk and Miss Pearl Harrington rond plerk. . ' - ' ' Instead' of i being puixled by their T T Tazwell Now Must Adopt New , Course if He Wishes to Con tinue Contest. A serious obstacle was placed in the way of Judge Taxwell's plan to contest the election of George N. Davis to the circuit Judgeship, when Davis yester day went quietly to Salem and there " frora Governor West a duly irnd na comm,SBloa clr This recognition by the governor' of tho official count without contest will mske it necessary for TaiwelL If he continues the contest, to direct it,, not toward a question as to who shall re ceive the commission, but for the re vocation of tho commission given. I tlnk,M said Mr. Davis today, nhat it will be much "more difficult , to take from me my . commission than to pre vent ray gewng. a--i vent my getting. it..--i?t-'-.'.y,'."-;... the recount proceedings Instituted by Judge Tazwell against Davla were heard m COMMISSIONS m AS JUDGE AND BLOCKS UN by Circuit Judge Morrow Saturday aft ernoon and the attorneys were in structed to submit further arguments In writing which has been done. Judso Marrow has not yet announced his tlo-clst-'in. A. K. ClarSt rpprpsfnta )ivt. la tha contest ami l'-r.ry Et. .- ., attorney for Taiwel :. duties, the young women of the election board rose to the occasion as If they had been, officials at elections all their lives.. -From o'clock .:in the morning, when they opened the polling place In Percy Cross real estate office, swept out tor tne occasion, until the ballots were counted after o'clock at nWrht. they didn't ask the help or advice of so mucn as a single man. ffe Tobacco Sot Good Porau . ... Gladstone folk say It was the most businesslike election they ever 'had. The vptes were counted faster than ever be- lore, ana it was a heavy vote. - too There wasn't a mistake so far as the Judges were concerned, in the course of the day. , In some ways it was more like an in- lormai society affair than an eiArtinn Whenever" a woman, voter entered there waa a cordial exchange of greetings, and whenever-a. man came, in to vote, be left his cigar or cigarette ontslde. That was the 'only ' formality that- the' fair juages insisted on. , Some of the guests Who used "tobacco" In eating form were samomsnea at- the door by a lively yuung man or eu. wno made the com fort and welfare of the election officials his especial duty;-that It was no longer in good form at election gatherings All this curtailment of ancient liberties of the race of man was taken In great good part. - a ' - r - The men have been Just splendid to us," as Mrs. Thomas Burke, una fit tha Judges, explained. "Why they couldn't have treated us nicer if -we had been entertaining them In our own homes, They even took off their hats when they came in the polling place Just three) men who voted all day didn't do that, and one of them apologised to us ' (Continued on Page Sixteen.- (United Press Leased VTIre.) , " Minneapolis, Dec. J. Discussion was rife here today of the dramatlo method used by the Rev. G. I Morrill to Illus trate his sermon, ("Praise Him With the Dance," in engaging two chorus girls to do the "bunny ; hug.'' '"Jelly wobble," "turkey trot" and other "rag dancea in the pulpit of. hia church. When tno "coup de" theatre was over and while the congregation still gaspeJ, the Rev. Morrill said; "I admit there Is a decent flanr, a dance helpful to the bo-iy, plesant to the mind itml bannVKs t r RAGGING IN PULPIT ; : ILLUSTRATES SERMON ilBJffi N Ml: rnnyrr 1 11) I Li Texas Jury Frees Amarillo Mil lionaire of Blame for Shoot ing Down Aged Father cf ' Man Who Took Mrs. Sneed., MUST STAND TRIAL FOR .SHOOTING AL B0YCE JR. In First Trial Jury Disagreed; Second Was Out but Few . , Hours.' , ' ueaina mat nave ronowed in the wake of the Sneed-Boyce elopement: . : - 1. -Captain A. O. Boyce, father of Al Boyc the eloper, shot and killed by John Beal Sneed on January IS, 1912, aa ha was sit ting in the lobby of a hotel at Amarillo, Texas. - ; - 2. Edward Throckmorton, son of a former governor of Texas 4 ana pnncipat witness against John Beal Sneed, died after a mysterious two days- Illness on February 1, 1912, : claiming he .was drugged," . ' ; 8. Qaptaln 3. T. Sneed, father1 of John Beal Sneed, shot dead before the postoffice at Amarillo . by R. C, Billiard, a former em ploye, , en March i, 1912. Bil liard left a note stating that his act was one of revenge. , , . t. R. C. Htlllard, Sneed's for- 4 i mer employe, wno killed himself arter murdering sneed. (. Al Boyce, who eloped with ' 3 ohnBeaI Sneedrs' wif a. "Boyce " waa shot and Instantly killed by John Beal Sneed at Amarillo on September 14. . . 6, Sylvester 8. Morris, a real estate man of Fort Worth, who was shot and killed on a street car by Detective Ben Bell be cause ha resented Bell's slurring references to Mrs. Sneed. - (TJnlUd Press Lcned Wirt.) Forth Worth, Texas, -Deo.' 3. John B. Sneed. millionaire banker of Amarlllj. was acquitted by a Jury here today of the murder of Captain G. Boyce Sr., In a Fort Worth hotel. The Jury re tired late yesterday and returned Its verdict at 9:30 o'clock, this , morning. Sneed mustrnow stand trial for the mur der of Captain Boyce's son, A. G. Boyc jr. .- ..?-: - .". ;. The Sneed-Boyce feud began with tho. elopement Of .Mrs, Sneed with the' younger Boyce, Sneed shot down Boyce' Sr., during a quarrel at the Metropolitan hotel here over the elopement. Several weeks, later Sneed shot ' and kriel; Boyce Jr. i Judge Swayne Instructed the Jury that if it found the defendant guilty, it must bring in a verdict of .either first : or second cegrce murder; The acqulttntj Irdicates that the Jury believed the an-' written law . was- Justified In Sneed's -case. .-. . . ,. The Jury In Sneed's first trial dis agreed. - Following the verdict toJiv. Sneed's friends Ignored, the court au-1 started a demonstration In the court room. .;. .' ; . ' Sneed " will be tried In February for. the murder of A. G. Boyce Jr. Sneed and his family will leave Im mediately for California, returning here in time for the trial in February. Mrs, sneeu, wua wnom a. j. ttoyce jr.. eloped to Canada, expressed Joy over her husband's acquittal. : Wars Schoolmates. - r As college chums at Georgetown, John Beal Sneed, Al G. Boyce Jr. and Lena I Snyder formed a three sided acqualnt- (Contlnucd on Page Four.) JOHNSON GETS LICENSE TO MARRY WE Gil - WHOM HE ABDUCTED Lucille Cameron, 1 8, Will Be come .Pugilist's Bride This; . Afternoon, . (United Prll"t.d W're.l Chicago. Dec, 3.-Clad in a fur coat. Jack Johnson,' negro prizefighter, so companled by his white valet, JoMcpn Levy, secured today a license to marry Lucille Cameron the white girl wltu whose abduction he is charged. Johnson gave his age as 84 and HUm Cameron's as 18. The pugilist was fol lowed through ; the streets by a hi crowd. . . i The wedding : Is ' Schedule-J to t?! place at the Johnson home here at 3 5') o'clock this afternoon. Emerging from, the courthouse thu negro grinned and invited the rews- paper men to attend the ceremony, pi. isina- them oodles ..og cimmpaene, swell feed and a fine orchestra." ji i said tha minister of an Arncan let church here would officiate et t wedding. r " ' r It was learned today that JoV i fered yesterday to pli-vt m'"v i . white slave cliarsfd nr-iiimt i i' ase conld-be' mmnromW.-l, f- - Utilted Kiait'8 T1. !i: t f " refused to ll(ttn to t-ii.i i . son frankly aJin!!t-"l I v over the prospect of r " f tfHtirtf', , ..v-r.-v.-'-t i " nil in