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THE WATUEK ' Fair; tonight I ad probably Friday; cool; winds- north easterly. TEMPERATURES TODAY . Boston, B a. m.. .48 Portland. 8 a. ..30" Vew Tork " . .52 Ssattla - , S3 Charleston" ..60 Boise' 23 Waahingt'a ..64 Ban Pra, - ,!44 Chicago, T a. a.. SO koa.bnrg - . 33 Kan. CltyL.!aa Spokane St. Paul " . .10 liarshfield ..3 Portland humidity, s a. m. 89 VOL. XII. NO. 10. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING,' MARCH ,20, 1913 .TWENTY-TWO PAGES PPT PP. TWfi ; fTTMTC 0 TRACT TB mn HAL EM'S .WIDOW MOBED HELPLESS, SOBS NEW YORK EXPERT CIES.IST Ifl CfTY MM ADMIRAL EATON AND FAMILY OF HIS fslURDEw BRYAN'S IE IN She ; Is ' Arrested at Hirigham, Mass., This Morning, Upon Charge of Giving Retired U. S. Naval Officer Arsenic. PLEADS NOT GUILTY; IS r HELD WITHOUT BAIL Analysis of Dead Man's Stom ach Shows Poison; Willed . Step-Daughter Money. (United Press Leased Wlre. Htngham, Mass., March 20.-Charged wiib the murder of her, husband. Rear Admiral" Joseph u, Katon, Mrs. Eaton was arrested here todiy. 1. is declared Admiral Eaton vm uoisOued ' . The inquest into the mysterious death of Rear Admiral Joseph O. Katon at his home in NOrwell, , near here, was re sumed here today.- V '- ' The police a'ro seeking the Eaton will, which leaves everything to Dorothy Alnswortb, the admiral's step-daughter. -Accompanied by ' two officers, Mrs. Katon was brought to the courthouse in a closed automobile. , 8he Was ar ralgncd before Judge Kdward Pratt, and pleaded not guilty. . The case was Con tinued until March 28. She ,1s being Jiel.1 without bait :r ' 'W.- The district attorney announced today that the examination of Admiral Eaton's stomach, made by Professor Whitney? the Harvard chemist, showed strong traces of arsenic. v Declaration that Admiral Katon was always afraid of poison was made today by James Prauty. : Eaton's . neighbor. Pratty said he once removed a package of parts green from the Katon home at the admiral's request Tragedy XiWtlra 0. ' Peculiarly weird and uncanny in Its rapidly developing details Is the tragedy of the household of the late Rear Ad miral John Giles Katon, United fltates navy, retired, and the strangest, part of the mate of murder charges, poisoning plots and deatbf is that the whole re markable narrative clings about the love of an old man for a little child, 1 '. Upon the groundwork of that love is built the story of two tragic death, two ets of murder charges and the gossipy ucahdal that Involves the name of a man Who commanded at different times four of the proudest war vessels that ever carried. the American flag, and who was the swift MercurY WIH6 "U'k'S. who -told the world that Spain's, fleet had been, annihilated hear the harbor of Santiago,,- t .'i ; ?v." j.t f . Two sets of pliantOm figures tnvolun- (Contlnued on Page Seventeen. AUSTRIAN FLEET GOES 10 ENFORCE DEMANDS E Wants; Hostilities in Albania Stopped and Satisfaction for ; : Alleged Abuse of Sailors, i , ., (Batted rreas Least! Wirt.) . Vienna, March 20. The government confiscated today's issues of several newspapers because they published ac counts of the sailing , of the Austrian fleet to make a demonstration off .Mon tenegro and to enforce Austria's de mand that hostilities in Albania stop. Peremptory demands that Montenegro allow all noncombatants free exit from 8cutarlby the Austrian government to day brought the Balkan question near a crisis. " The government also demanded full satisfaction for alleged abuse of Austrian sailors at San Giovanni Dl Medna by Montenegrins and Servians. ' It is believed here the sailing of the three warships from Pola is to enforce today's demands. ' : ' ' Btaltd Pre Iefl Wlr .( V San Francisco, March 20. Hints that Captain Robert Scott's exploration party were driven by, hunger to cannibalism were vigorously denied by the Rev. Fa ther Lynch, an Australian divine, , who arrived here today otf the ateamer Mo ana. ,'-:..v :.f "Captain Bcott was too brave & man to resort to such methods to sustain life," Father Lynch declared. . r: , The Moana stopped at Wellington the day Mrs. Scott, the explorer's widow, omvedt that port.";, -.-i'V, GIVES HER GEMS, SILVER, r FOR ALTAR. MONSTRANCE (TJidted Prw L.m,4 Wire.)1 Los Angeles, March ; 20. -The silver and practically all the jewels of the lata Mrs. Ida Hancock Koss are given to St. Joseph's Roman Catbolio church of Los Angeles for .a monstrance, by her will, which is on file here today, , , ... The pastor of St,' Joseph's church is made trustee of. the gifts, with the stipulation that the silverware shall be melted and moulded into a monstrance for altar. use, and all Mrs, Ross' dia- mondsnij)therrf clous stone jmt pwuicajiy given to relatives .shall be net Into "the monstrance, n , , , G. Allan Hancock. Mrs. Rots son, Is her principal legs lee, bolng given 'leal (Biftts worth from t,OOO,00O to $8,000, ('.'0. ' - UN CANNIBALISM BY SC0TTrS DEFENDER - I till X&ZVJT -fr . :;irfr"-v Iioar Admiral J. CJ.'lCatdn, who wai . A' wit I WmTMilf i arrested today on suspicion of poisoning-him, and her ' daughter, beneficlai'y of the rear 'fdmlriU's vatate,' . ' - ' - V' t r ALL LOVE AND PEACE IN BAT NELSON HOWIE; YES, THEY'VE MADEOP Fay King Telephoned for Bat and He Came Running and Soothed Her4-aJiclWell , ( .- (Halted Vttit teased :Wh-,l Denver, Colo.; March 20. .The biggest, broadest and, longepj grin that. Denver , has. seen in years today is smeared i over tne race or Battling nelson, former lightweight champion "of the world. Bat says it's going to ..'"stay put,!' too, and for the best reason, in the world. ;, Here h Wi) -: i Mrs.. Nelson, formerly Fay King, , a newspaper artist, ' sued Nelson for di vorce within a week after her marriage. She claimed sh "was literaUy'kidnaped" by the fighter and "two hours after the ceremony knew a horrible mistake" had been made." V .i. ... v . .. . Yesterday Mrs. Nelson suffered a nervous collapse and wired Bat at Pueblo to "come at once", and, to use the former champion's expression, "he came -runnin'."- Then In the presence of witnesses and while Bat's face ex panded, Mrs. Nelson. said,: - , m "Bat is the squarest 'and biggest! man I have ever known. He loves me and has: proved it.1 I love" him and T am going to prove It regardless of what has been done in court here" . ,. Here Bat broke in: . v . " "Well, fellows, I guess- I .'should worry and get another cauliflower ear," "All thljr rubbish and lies.'V continued Mrs. Nelson, "about my breaking, with Bat Just for a press agent;atory when my heart-was breaking; the refusal of even my best friends to believe that I suffered and the tragedy 'of facing it all alone and unaided, caused my cpl lapse yesterday. ' i ? i "When the.last shred of resistance In me gave way I knew-the truth. I loved Bat, and I wanted him. I telephoned htm at : Pueblo, where he was playing, and he cams instantly. UHe stayed and soothed me, and for the first time since our. marriage I waa perfectly happy."...-.-'. ; :'-';'''" :'. -; -'y ', CHILD CAN'T DRESS ON '' : $12,000, WANTS TWENTY ItlDltetf Ptmik I.MMd Wire. ' ' . New York, March 20. Twenty thou sand dollars yearly 'Instead, of $12,000 is the sum needed, by Helen Dewitt, a IS- 4 oatolOielress-t? keep up appear Slices," according to tne snowing made In court today by .Josluh H. Dewitt, the girl's uncle and guardian. The court granted tho Inereawe. The child's spring outfit Will cost II! clnrc'1. none, Dewttt de- t Tf- J, ' ' ' !:- :::!:-.-::V '4:''-' : 4 :im 4 , w i ' -' - poisoned;' his second wife, who was Si New "Oregon Asks - Railroad -' Commission to Force Pacific-Co.- to Grant Privilege, , !. t (Sales Burean, of Tte. Journal.) nj. Salfem,- Or., -March -20. To .apply,- the 'common user'-'iDrlnciple- to .the wirerof the Pacific and r Home. Telephone com panies 'in the i Oregon hotel in Port land, is , the purpose of a oomplant filed today -wth .-the-railroad . commis sion by the Wright-Dickinson Hotel com pany. It is alleged, that tho Home com pany is willing ,or such cooperation, but,the Paciflo company, absolutely re fuses. - . . ' , ' i Both telephone companies have a switchboard in -.th hotel lobby, ' The hotel company pays the companies a monthly "rentarf or the number of tele phone1 instruments - installed and the trunk wires- used,; and in addition pays the expenses - of .operating the . hotel switchboards. The complaint points out that the.switchholrds are located close together and that it would be prac tically no, troubie-or extra expense, for the Calls, coming over the-wires, of one company 'to fie connected up with the Instruments of the other company, i "it ' won W simply require the length ening of the cords connecting 'with the trunk! lines ; of said respective . switch boards to such length that they can be 'plugged' into the other switchboard," says the complulnt , "A pOrtlon of the cords mentioned on the switchboard of the Pacific Telephone &, Telegraph com pany were of sufficient length to make such connections, - but they have been knotted in such a manner .as. to shorten them to' such an extent that the same are not of - sufficient length to make such connections, 'but the' knots therein can be easily unraveled." ( " The . complaint states that the rooms of the;' hotel are equipped with the phones of the Home company, and the hotel company wants to compel the I 'a citlc company to switch calls over its lines for guests of the hotel to the lines of the Home company.- This would be equivalent to a single telephone system In the hotel. . . c . NEVER INTEND TO WED, . . SAYS MAXINE ElyLIOTT ' (ITnlted Prns Leaned Wire.) k Now York, March 20. ."The report that I am engaged to Mr. Wilding is not true,:, I am not engaged and never In tend to be." " : ' LJJW 80??.Oii?1!C?rcabledJticrcLtc4 aay irom i'Onuon . by,- Miss Maxlns Elliott, the actress, to rumors that she had socretly married Anthony F,' Wild ing, the Australian lawf! tennis liam plon, in Niee. Franca Efforts to locate Wildlnf today provtd unavailing. - , . i I. i j 1 1 vi HOTEL Rl ER UPON HOUSE PHONES SIATE P0RTF0U0 QUITS m HUFF Assistant Secretary of State Huntington 1 Wilson,- - Hold over From Taft, Resigns Of- ' fice on One Day's Notice. NOT IN SYMPATHY WITH 1 CHINESE' LOAN POLICY President Runs : Office While Bryan Is AwawStatement ' Blames Haste. --(CJ4tf4l .Press teased Wire.). , Washington, March 20. Huntington Wilson, assistant ' secretary " of : state, resigned today because of the new ad ministration's Chinese policy. . Presi dent Wilson Immediately accepted his resignation. ' ' ')-.. President Wilson practically has as sumed personal charge of the state de partment during the absence of Secre tary of State Bryan. Third Assistant Secretary Adeo attends to the routine matters of the, department, while the momentous affairs are referred to the president. - v Secretary Tumulty announoed that Secretary Bryan would not hurry back to Washington because of Assistant Secretary Wilson's resignation. Assistant Secretary. Wilson's letter said his . resignation Mtiust take effect today. '- He declined' to Issue orders re garding the proposed Chinese loan as decreed ' by President Wilson, basing this action on the ground that to do so would repudiate his , own conduct during the. Taft administration. Wilson said he felt out of harmony with the new administration's judical (Continued on Page Seventeen.) IF ONE MILLION WILL BUILD BRIDGE, IT WILL BE Determination of Citizens to Go Ahead Is"' Displayed ? at Meeting Last Night. - ' (Special to The Jrwirnnl.) Vancoaver, Wash., March 20. Td minimise the cost of a bridge to meet the purse of Clarke county, is apparently the only question to be considered, ac cording to statements made at a meet ing of the Vancouver Commercial club last night. It was attended by v more than 100, the largest body of local busi ness men that ever met at one time at the club house. The meeting was held to determine some line) of action rela tive to the construction of the .bridge across the , Columbia river here. Judge A. L. Miller, who attended a meeting with the Portland committee at Portland last Saturday, spoke. "The Portland committee was anxlou to go ahead with the construction of the bridge," he said. "Of course they are situated as we are, there is only a few of them, and the whole of Port land, some 260,000 people, must pass upofl' the matter. "1 feel confident, however, that Port- (Contlnued on Page Five.) DONEj' VANCOUVEl WHITE MAN IS DENIED AS MOTHERS BEG HIS HELP -': ,-" v t - - - . Women Block His Way, Holding Up Emaciated and Crippled Babes, as in Ancient Days of Judea When They Held Up Sick Before Great Physician. , UNITED STATES SUGEOKS COWTWCXDl " , (United Press Leased Wire.)- ..New. York, March 20.. Dr. Herman Frauenthal, director of the" New York hospital for deformities, declared today that United States Sur geons Anderson and Stimson, who are.- superintending the ' administra tion of thu Fi'ledmunn tuberculosis cure, are convinced that the treat ment .a the "greatest tuberculosis discovery In the history of medi cine." Dr. Frauentlial said the government experts had confided to him their belief that tile Fliedmann cure is epoch niaking. New York, March 20. With tears streaming from his eyes for suffer ing women and children who pleaded with him for life and happiness In New York, Dr. Frederick Franx Friedniann today issued a statement to all sufferers from the white plague. He said: "Do not come to New York now. ' Stay at home and hove patience. It will not be long before you will receive treatment. The railroad trip here will exhaust your strength and may cost your life. Furthermore I am powerless. I cannot treat cases which are not countenanced and ar ranged for by government physicians." , (United Press Lease Wire.) New York, March 20. Scenes parallel ing those described in Judea When Christ healed the sick, and probably unparalleled since his day, were enacted today about the person of Dr. Frederick Frana Frledmann, dlscovererof a serum which is declared to be a cure for. tu berculosis.' ' Crowding before the hospitals where Dr. Frledmann treated selected patients today were scores of women holding in their arms the emaciated and misshapen bodies of their children who were vic tims of the white plague. Unheeding the pelting rain, the . sorrow-stricken crowds awaited the arrival of the Ber lin savant, despite all published warn ing that only the cases already in the hospitals and selected by the govern ment physicians could be treated at this time. , But hope for themselves and their little ones would ndt die In the breasts of the mothers, and when' Friedman's automoWle arrived, scenes as pathetic JJEGALRIGHT TOJED '. -j: '-' '-; , f 1 Helpmeet for Past Ten .Years and Mother of Two Children, Is. Now Dying. .: ; Deprived by law of marrying Mary TibbetSi the last of the Columbia river tribe of Indians, with whom he. had lived for 10 yenrs, and who is the mother of his two children, W. 8. Ahderson, white, who had been arrested several days ago on a statutory charge, return! to lila home at Troutdale yesterday, onV to find that while he had been in the county Jail the shack that had been hi home for many years had been burned to the ground and that he was an out cast, forbidden to even walk within tha boundaries of that town. As a result of not being allowed by (Continued on Page Seventeen.) the: menace:! 1 " ,1. .U 1 I I I I. H i"l'H' ' !N INDIAN WOMAN ' - as New York ever .saw were enacted. Rustling up to the machine, the women fell on their knees and. Impeding the porgress of the physician, held up their children to him as no passed. One woman snatched the rags from her infant's body and. speaking in Ger man, Implored the doctor to heal the twisted and swollen limbs she bared to his view. A score of women followed her example, tearing the clothing and bandages from the bodies of their Chil dren.., .... " :' ; The spectacle of the mothers' woe un manned .the Gorman physician. With tears streaming : from ., his eyes, he forced his way through the 'crowd of women, explaining to them that at pres ent he was powerless to treat their babes, but that it they would have pa tience he would try to cure them alt. Later, still stirred by the pleas of the mothers, he Issued a statement to all sufferers, ' promising that before long every victim Of the plague would have a chance for life. , NT HARM TO CROPS L 41 Weather Man ! Says Good Come of It; Danger of FJood iNow Looms up, " 'This year's March lion, though strllt- ly on the job Just now, Is not such March Hon after ail. ' The authority for this Is Weather Forecaster Beals, who Is on the Job all the time, be March lion-like or Inmh- llke, Mr. Reals said this morning that the present little chilly spell is only an imitation of what litrs happened here In other Marches, and even up to Aprtl. - At for yesterday's snow flurry, while It will go down In the government rec ords ss a snow storm, it will be marked "T." which stands for-"trace." What snow fell over the government weather (Continued on Page Five.) E FROM Winfred B. Hoiton Will : Be: in Portland 6 Weeks;. On April 7 Dr; Henry Bruere Will Join Him in His Work. ; H0LT0N IS SPECIALIST IN DISSECTING BUDGETS Portland Is Soon to Know if There Is Waste and if So, . Where It Is. . ..: Wlnfred .B. Hoiton, expert .from the New York bureau, 9t mifnlclpal research. arrived tn rgrtland this morning. He is to spend six weeks here in connec tion with the program of city analysis and department investigation proposed by the Portland ureaii of municipal re' search. He brought with him the an nouncement that Dr. Henry Bruere, di rector of the New York bureau, brother Of Dr. Gustave Bruere of Portland, and one of the greatest authorities In the Lnited States' On commission govern ment, would arrive here April f to take up the work with him. Arthur E. Post, another expert of the New York bureau, will not come at this time. V -: Mr, Hoiton met the mayor in con ference ImmpdlatAlv ft- i wi.ui n tn ai Kivni, ' He arranged tha this first;work will be vln . connection ;, with such public works as streets, sewers and the wa ter department, in all of, which depart ments he has been Informed there Is an- immense amount of work - to be done, :ir-l--:irr-:'- Mr. Hoiton Is an expert in cost ac counting. He is a specialist in'-.the analysis of budgets and in flnll g the jusuricatton or lack of Justification in propositions. Involving the monev of the taxpayers. He has done work in connection with streets in New York, Philadelphia and other large cities. William I-fc Alien, municipal efficient- expert. Who has .been here, until yes terday evening, 'said of Hoiton: i " "Portland people wilt find, that' lie will deliver the goods and that some of the things which he will ..find will open theiri eves." ,. ; . Hoiton and -other experts who are to aid in the Portland Investigation will have offices in the city liall, due to arrangement, by Mayor Rushlight. ' WANTS T( DESCHUTES CONTRACT (Wasblncton Boreas et Tha Journal.) Washington, March 20. State Engi neer John H. Lewis and Senator Cham berlain have arranged to see Secretary" of the Interior Lane Saturday to see if. he will consent to amnd tha contract ' between Oregon and the government on the Deschutes project to make it con form to the Btate law. Lewis also desires to get the geologi cal survey to make an emergency appro priation for topographical maps and stream gauging, this appropriation hav ing been lost when Taft vetoed the sun dry civil bllL He also hopes to get an agreement as to quadrangles to be sur veyed by the government In the state of Oregon-this ry ear. Lewis will ask tha reclamation service to set aside 115,000 for Investigation of tha power-project at The Dalles. - V BRYAN VONT DISCUSS (Calted Press Lease Wlre.i t . Des Moines, la., March 20. Five speeches were on the program of Sec retary of State Bryan here today, The first was delivered at the Jefferson cluU breakfast this ; morning.. The ' second was before the students and faculty of Drake university. At noon he mad the third speech before the legislature, ' and the fourth wna deltvered before the Jeffersan club this afternoon. The fifth and principal speech wtlT be" delivrAri it fthA Jtttfmvmnn tilth Knr.r...u, tonight, . ; . V, i Bryan refused to' discuss r "resigna tion of Huntington Wilson at length. "I have had his resignation for soma time," he said, "i "but I cannot assume now from what information I have that he resigned for such a reason ss his statement indicates .' ...; -.;,. STUDENT AT U. OF 0. . iSpeeial a Tha Jnsrnsl.i . . University of Oregon, Eugene. Or., March 20. The first co-ed, iu the his tory Of the-University of Oregon, so far ss known, to become a grandmother Is Mrs, Ella A. Stearns, who returned yes terday from Portland, where she visited the son of her daughter, "Mrs. Stanley C. Q. 8mlth,; boFn- Monday evening, Mrs. Stearns, as' a unlverHlty co-ed. Is rj Istered in the university school of Jour nalism, carrying a regular eourxi, . though at the same time she jprven hi house mother at tlie nnian' dorm) tm i, Although Mrs.. St-.ftni H !U nnh.' UUhTfsUX.' "'" t'.. I.-'; a f ':- r. sh -was not UieVuly one ta in-. uit:iiit. Several of .the, stud-iits th i '' art married men. itnil wnnn wit 'i f'.i'!-., t'liiuif'M !iimil;i;!ii, u 'i', -j. ,c . ! ' , : . of two chlMre.i, f,its a p-,-. !t ) AMEND THE WILSON RESIGNATION IS NOW GRANDMOTHER