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' ' " ' li ' ' 1 " i j -.I - v, f j v , y i . a v- y TEMPERATURES K; v.r.u;:: r.r Showers t o- night or Sat urday, with westerly winds. New York " Porfnnd, S a. ia., ' i oton, 6 a. m., fseattle , . Cnarle.ton .. 62 Itulic " . ,i I Waali'ton " . ,6a: Ban Tran. , .M ' Chicago, 7 a. tn..BO Hoieburg ..6 ) Kan. City " . .60 fcpou . .41 bt. Pant " . .48 Mi'hllld " .. Portland humidity, 8 a. m I) J i VOL. XII. NO, 35. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1913.TWENTY-FOUH PAGES. PRICE TWO. CENTS. OS TTAIJr TJ rw stakes mi ci it. mapo mittimp at ilflod IIIHIHUi Ml TOKIflDEMANDSA T TO ill Count Okuma, Former Premier in Speech Says War Is Im pending and Only Influence of Christianity Can Stop It. BISHOP HARRIS CABLES ' SITUATION IS SERIOUS President Wilson Not Dis ' turbed, Though Absence of Ambassador Inconvenient. (Cntlfd Preai Lf.Md TVlre.l ' TokloV April 18.- Open declaration that war with the United Stat Is Im pending a a result of California's pro posed a.nti-allen land holding legislation, and that. only the Influence of Chrls- tlanlty could prevent hostilities was voiced here today In a public speech by Count' Shigonobu Okuma, former pre- . mlor of Japan. Anti-American senti ment Is increasing rapidly, and while Count Okuma declared thegvernmeni did not share the popular hostility to-, ward .the United States, changed condi tions In Japan' now make It Impossible for the government to restrain the low er classes and 1rresponslbl newspapers whu are Insistent in .their demands for Immediate war. The situation' in Toklo is rapidly be coming alarmingly serious, and If Is feared-the lower classes may rise up against American residents here. At a mass meeting today thousands of per sons composed mostly of Irresponsible, demanded instant retaliation against " Anicrieaby Japan. . War, songs were sung to arouse' the populace to patriotic frenay. Certain newspaper writers have outlined" plans for" ther eisurs of the rhlllpptnea and Hawaii, openly denounc- 1 in the government's submissive . atti- tude. . . ;'. v Timed to show the friendly feeling nf the government to the United Statja, Baron Noboakl, the foreign minister, today was hout at luncheon in -honor of Or. Hamilton Wright Mable of New Yotk, 1 Div Peabody and John I MoU, secretory of the international committee of the Young Men's Christian associa tion. The most cordial spirjt le velled. , -', -After the ' luncheon the " .Americans met a number of representative Japan eso Christian at the residence -of Count Okvimar and the former premier' alarm ing speech followed. Mott replied, and agroeinn-tht-Ttnrrrt ssTtritrhr now believed the influence of Christianity was uperlative. WILSON NOT EXCITED . AT JAPANESE WRATH OVER ANTMUEN BILL tCiilted Prt laaed WI Washington, April It. Hysterical rter.mnds by 20,000 persons assembled In mass meeting in Toklo last nlgnt thai the Japancce government resort to arms to protest against the . passage of the anti-alien land bill now pending before the California legislature, failed to excite President Wilson today. Nat urally Washington officialdom ; is (Continued on Page Sixteen.) TO ENJOIN THE RESOR DENTISTS ATTORNEY WILL ATTEMPT SP Election Act Unconstitutional, Contends John A. Jeffrey, in ! That It Limits Initiative Power of People; If In junction Is Successful, U. of 0. Appropriations and'Oth er Important Measures May Be Tied Up Two Years. Injunction proceedings will be brought against Secretary of State Ben W, Olcott to prevent the holding of the rspeclal referendum ; election next No cnber, according to Attorney John A. 'Jeffrey of Portland. "The election was provided , for; in a bill Introduced by Kenatofr Day and passed by the recent legislature. It appropriated only $12,000 .for the .expenses of ,the. election. and it Is declared this sum is entirely in- ;-adequate:;::...:.vj;ir:i:..:.'L''t..J.:lr:': :. Jeffrey declares the bill is uncon stitutional In that It is an attempt of the legislature to limit the powers ot the people in Initiating laws. The bit: , would only allow referendum measures i to bt voted on and Jeffrey declares th,j legislature cannot prevent the peoplS from pnttlng Initiative measures on 'any- ballot. . .j. Another, point made by 'Jeffrey Is that the bill carries an emergency clause, which, according to the con stitution is only to be attached where , the legislation is necessary to preserve the public health, peace or safety. The holding of gn election to consider a few referendum measures does not concern the public health, peace or safety, he declares. 1 AUo it is declared several structural ' lefects have been found in the measure S RATE IS - $20 PER TREATMENT fTlhllrit rrr LMWd WIMl ovlnlswas. .. April,, J.-a-.1 waaty dollars per patient is the rate fixed here oday by Dr, FreuencK u, rneimann or Berlin for further Inoculations of. his alleged tuberculosis cure. : Frledmann departed -for New York todiy to hold a conference with Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the United States public health service. '1 FROM MARY EVELYN MUNLY, . AGE 4; TO W, C, North to Be Marshal of Great Parade Planned for Opening. . The program for Broadway; bridge opening day, April 22, was arranged by a joint committee from the west and east Sides, meeting this morning in the offices of Judge M, Q. Munly, who was president of the Noitheast Side Im provement association while that or ganisation vas leading the fight for tin bridge. W. C. Noith was chosen grand marshal. Little Mary Kvelyn Munly, 4-yesr-old daughter of Judge Munly was chosen as official chrlstener of the bridge. She will tbristen the big span with flowers and not champagne. A feature of the program, will be the ceremonial first Jmeetlng on the bridge between the people of East and West Broadway. Caroline Levy, tiny niece of J. C. Beck, will greet the ast side people on the bridge and welcome them with flowers. ' The parade will begin at 2:30 o'clock on bridge opening day. It will form at Williams avenue and Alberta street, move to Russell, thence to Union att nue, east to Broadway and east on Broadway west over the bridge up what was Seventh street and now is Broad way to a point of disbanding yet to be indicated. Grand Marshal North sn nounces that minor changes In the line may be made. From Union avenue via Broadway the line of parade will be pver the fills recently mads in the street so that It might connect perfectly with the bridge. . - , In preparation for the bridge opening (Continued on Page Two.; 01 R. OF Mrs, Stone Is Indignant at German Emperor's Ban on American Girls. (Chitted Pre Leased Wirt.) V - Washington, April 18. With the dec laration that "American girls are good enoOgtT forT Anybody," Mrs. John Stone, prominent Minneapolis delegate to the congress of the Daughters of the Amer ican .Revolution, took a full-arm swing today at the Cerman government's pol icy of forbidding its diplomatic repre sentatives to marry women from this country. , Mrs. Stone presented a resolution in the convention urging the establishment of a bureau for the registration of all American girls of long lineage, i; "This will show that many of our girls can trace their ancestry to royal and noble families," she declared. s '.: The resolution was tabled. ', By a rising vote the convention adopt ed a resolution thanking President Wil, son and the members of his family for their-religious observance of Sunday andJLfor.-exclud.ing liquor .'from White House functions.; , . . . that will practically render it void. Attorney Jeffrey said he had , not had time as yet to go over the defects thor oughly, but he had noticed several ot them and would go into the master more thoroughly when he filed the suit Jeffrey has been retained by some Portland dentists to circulate petitions and refer to the, jifopia the dental bill Introduced - by Senator Perkins - and (Continued on Page Six.) LANE WILL SEND AGENT TO SIFT ALL UMATILLA TALES TO THE BOTTOM Secretary of Interior-Has Re - ceived Conflicting Stories of Hermiston Project. ' (Wnshlntton Bureau of The Journal 1 Washington, April., lg. There should t little wonder that the secretary of the-' interior, Franklin K. Lane, 1 un able to decide just what course to pur sue with respect to fj)e West Vma tilla extension reclamation -project Report' have reached the secretary that indicate a serious condition at the project and he would like to know what weight to give them. He has intimated mttrTfatfrrronrrorrfin drri to' f The Journal that he will send an agent to look into the: matter and give him an Impartial report. "The reclamation service Is usually very" popular," ho says, ' In any locafttv where it Is at work. When- it has rin- CHRISTEN BRIDGE WITH FLOWERS SWANT BUREAU SHOWING GIRLS W LINEAGE ECIAL REFERENDUM (Continued oa Page Ftvtg INEFFICIENCY OF . HEALTH BUREAU SYSTEM EXPOSED Portland Department Under takes Joo Little and Spends Too Little for Health Pro . tection, Says Expert. INFLATED POPULATION FIGURES ARE SCORED Officials Do Much Unscientific Guessing at Gains and Loss es; Part Time - Service. ' The" evil ot part time service aroTde scribed In the health department report of the New York bureau of municipal research to the Portland research com mittee today. s - Portland's health cannot be credited to the health department, says the re port. Climate, location, topography, distribution of population, have so far counteracted the weakness in organiza tion and inefficiency in operation of the department The research bureau thus sums up the things the health de partment lacks: "Portland's health department under takes too little; spends too little for health and health education; does too little for what it now spends; needs in creased .efficiency In using . present power and present funds; but also needs additional funds for the mors extensive health -program which is Im perative if Portland would avoid a pro presstvely increasing - nuisance rate, sickness rate and death rate." The report deals with the injury to the city of advertising inflated popula tion -increase and ..deflated death Tate, saying: "After the United States census for 1910 proved that a neighbor , of Port land's had been for several years over estimating the population upon which she figured her.health rate, birth rate, and so forth, her health department cor rected its population, and all figures (Continued on Page Five.) KILLED BY AIR BLAST (United Prew Lrid Wire.) Globe, Aris.t,April 18. Three miners in the Miami mine are dead here today and 100 injured as the result of an air blast in the mine, generated by the fall of 8,000,000 tons of capping. , The blast was so violent at the 450 foot level that filled ore cars were blown from JJ5 to 100 feet. , Arrest Follows Thaw Scandal.' . tUdlted Pre. Leased W-. New York, April 18. Charging brib ery in connection with alleged efforts to seeure the release from Mattewan Insane asylum of ; Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, sn indictment- is---returned hera-ltoday against John Nicholson Anhut a New York At torney. -. . . " -. - ,. MINERS 1 HURT III CRASH OF One Cyclist May Have Broken ; Back; Companion's Leg In jured in Collision on Alame da Hill: MACHINES COLLIDE, THEN ROLL OVER BANK JV W. Benson, Driver of Auto, Jumps and Avoids Injury in the Smashup. At the top of Rugby drive, a steep roadway leading up the Alameda hill from East Twenty-sixth street at the bottom tO' the Alameda drivewsy ' in Alameda park, a motorcycle and an au tomobile collided this morning and the two men on the cycle were seriously in jured. .; '.- - P. G. Gantenbeln. a carnenter. living at 83 Kast Sixty-ninth street north, who was at the handlebars. Is believed to have a broken back. HIb companion, K. A. Perkins, of 109 East Slxty-elghth street north, a plumber, who was on the saddle behind Gantenbeln, sustained a broken leg. Both are at Good Kamar Itan hospital. The automobile was driven by J. W. Benson of 991 East Twentv-seVenth street, vice president of the Central Se- (ContinueiTon Page Six.) ALL EMPLOYES ESCAPE JUL. Rhinelander Building is De stroyed in Early Morning Fire; Burns Quickly. (United Prem Leaied Wirt.) New York, April l8.--ilving the em. 45lQ.jWL,pjLJ;hB . paper .aji4 others in. the building only' a moment to eek safety, fire practically destroyed tha Rhine lander building here, : in which are lo cated Hearst's New York 'American and Evening Journal, early today. The firs raged for four hour before It was con trolled. It is believed that all escaped from the building In Safety." "No esti mate of the damage has been made. The Rhinelander building is an old fashioned 10 story brick structure at the intersection of William and Duane streets. The editorial and art rooms of Hearst's New .York American and New York Evening Journal occupy the se enth floor, the engraving departm the eighth floor, - and the ' mechanical department ' the upper floors. The presses are in the basement and ground floor." ' The structure has been on fire sev eral times and has been regarded as a flretrap. ., , ... ..j... .: r MOTORCYCLE ill fill HEARST S 2 NEW YORK PAPERS BURNED OT A PERILOUS JOURNEY ' l Mil, ' l . : V 'II K If . ft Wf . . ' ,s : . '1 "GUILTY" SAYS FURTH JURY .... i .... ii 9t it it it n ' ' I ' it - tit - n - SEATTLtE BANKER OVERCOME )1B1Leconviction Jncol) J'urtli. Fccutive Head or (li Seattle National Bank, Convicted oC Aliening the KecelviiiK of . Deposits J.-t lie fore the Failure of the . Iiconner, Wr.sh., Htate Bank, the President of Which, V. K. Schrhker, Is Serving a Term (n the Penitentiary at, Walla Walla. x i 't . 1 ' ; f 1 Penalty in Furth Conviction Is One , to Ten Years or Fine to $10,000; Jury Is Out 20 Hours; Furth Is Present When It Reports and His Head Sinks. ... . V - ' . (United Prew Lned Wire. ' , Bellingham, Wash., April 18. "Guilty." Jacob FurthK. the financial: giant of the northwest, stands convicted of aid ing and abetting President . W. E. 8irlcker of Laconner In receiving 4e noslts after knowledge of thfc Insolvency .thatatew-Bank. ( -.Laconner. The Jury was out for 20 hours and arrived at a verdict at. 8 o'clock this morning. At 9:20 the jury having been brought into Judge Hardin's court room, the clerk read the verdict , The crime Is punishable by a sentence of one jto 10 years in the penitentiary, or a fine not exceeding $10,000. Furth plainly showed his emotion. Hfs head dropped to his breast with a jerk. The verdict was apparently a complete shock to him. His attorneys have pre pared; a motion for anew trial, and served it on Special Prosecuting Attor neys.. Bra w ley and Corrigan. No date has yet.becn set for its argument before the . court. : , ',, -, Pnrth Is a Big- Man. Furth has been a towering figure in commercial and financial circles in the Northwest ever since he etablished the Puget Sound National bank In Seattle in 1882, tie Is. at the head of the Stone & . . r. , r. (t .' H " p. NOT EXPECTED Webster Traction interests on the sound. Is chairman of the board of director of the Seattle National bank and director in several other banks and big corpora tions. He is 72 years old. Forth was iolntly Recused with Presi dent fCW. Andrews of the,Seattle Na tional bank, R. V; Ankny, V-a'shler. and Daniel Kelleher, director and attorney, of having conspired, when they learned of Schrlcker's insolvent condition, to keep his bank open for the purpose of reducing his indebtedness to their bank. Specifically, the complaint was drawn on a check, deposited- by Otto Kalso, a farmer, for $2669 on April 15. 1912, which was cashed by the Seattle Na tional bank after the Schrlcker bank closed April 16, 1912. The state con tended that while Schrlcker owed the Seattle bank $141,000 at the time Its of ficers became, cognizant of his .In solvency, the. debt was reduced to $81, 000 when the doors of the bank were closed. . , . . . Schricker Is now serving a sentence of one to ten years in Walla Walla. - Convicted Wltnout Bohrlcker. YolunilnouH correspondence between Furth and the other Seattle bankers was largely depended on by the state to prove its case, as Schricker refused to testify ; at this trial, although in the joint trial of all four banker in Feb ruary, which resulted In a disagreement, he bad given his testimony reluctantly. Throughout . the , correspondence, ref erence was made that Schrlcker would have money"as soon as the farmers be- gan. moving their' grain." , Furth ad vised .Schrlcker in one letter to make the farmers "sell at present prices." ' : ...Following the first trial, the defend ants 'elected to have separate 'trials. Anke'ny is to be put on trial next Mon day; " ' . ' . ; 1 vv NEW DISTRICT JUDGE WILL TAKE OVER MOST OF POWER OF MUNICIPAL COURT Even Lawyers Are Surprised to Made by Bill Railroaded Through at the . Last Mm " ute of the Legislature- " 7; ;' Very few-persons are aware that by a law passed in the cloBing days of the late ' Oregon legislature the old and honorable office of Justice of the peace will cease to exist in the Portland , dis trict after June 2. In place of the present two Justices there will sit three officials, at tho same salary. $2400 a year, who will be known as Judges of the district court, The impression has generally pre vailed, even among lawyers, that the third judge, whose appointment is ten to the five circuit Judges of this dis trict, is to be stmpiy-ft new Justice of the peace with powers similar io thosa ot the present justices. This is not the vase. The district court law not only makes some sweep ing changes -In the Jurisdiction of the new district court over that of the Jus tice court, b"t It grants extraordinary powers to the third Judge, powers so broad, in fact, as to make him the next most : important Jurist below circuit Judge. ; '- , : This new district Judge or depart ment No. J, as lie Is termed, Is to have exclusive Jurisdiction over all criminal rases s in the district Involving viola- Uon-t-tt-laa.-The law is very definite in specifying-that "all cas;s arising in airt district" shall go to de- B.smeRtJiBJlw-Ai,cn n bejead II v se"t, the effect of this cinninai .juri8au.Utiu ilt - be vastlv to : minimis the- aif thorlty and importance of the municipal court. In fact, tlie municipal court lir-r-ster i!( likely to ber'omt a rnthrr 1 1 re sume and imluiportaiit place. .The only cases that th municipal JmJgo ran try 1ATHR0PTS BULLE1 PERHAPSONETIIAT TOOKOfF TURNOW Outlaw and Oldtime Friend Shooting at One Another Make .Strange Coincidence In Wynooche Woods. DOGS FOUND ON GUARD5 OVER "BODIES OF MASTERS Bearers Are Bringing Corpses Out While Companions . Slash the Way. 4 ' Statu of Stats Bsward. . - MSpevial Th Juumal.. . OlympiB, Wash., April -' is. . v Giles Quimby will get $1000 from 4p the state of Washington for the killing of John Turnow unlcsa the families of Louis Blair ami 4 4 Charles Lathrop, the two trap- 4p pers, who were killed at the time 4 4 Qtilmby shot Turnow, put in a 4 claim for a part of the-money. 4 In such a rase a hearing will be 4 4 held. 4 4 . The reward was offered by 4 4 Governor Hay on March 12, 1912," 4 4 and for the "capture of Tur- 4 now." The absence of the words 4 4 "dead or alive" will not bar 4 Quimby' claim! 4 4 Although the fund from which 4 4 this reward was -to have been 4 A na id has reverted back In tlit 4 state, the reward will be payable : 4. 4 out of the appropriation made by 4 4p tho last legislature for "Kxtra- .4 4 dltlon' of prisoners and rewards 4 4 by the governor," according tf 4 4 Deputy Auditor Jamteson. p 4 4 , . ' ' : u (Special tk The Journal.) Montesano. Wash.. April IS. John Turnow, outlaw.' paid the penalty for six murders His body, together with those of his two Isst victims, Louis Blair and Charles Lathrop, Is being packed out of his hermit retreat in the mountains, ftlong r trail which a dor-(.' is slashing .as it goes. 1 It Is expected (Continued on Fags Five.) T OF E: T Convicts Suspected - of Theft of 100 Sticks From San. Qiientin Store Houser - (Cnit'd Priaa Leaatd Wlre.l San Quentin. Cat.. Anrll 18. Led li-t Warden ... James Hoyle, ..... San ; Quentin guards are searching for. 100 sticks of dynamite stolen from the "prison under ground powder magazine last Tuesday afternoon. I'p , to 10 o'clock today no trace of the missing explosive had been found. ;. , .' " ' The d,sapPearn,,e o'" the, dynamite was not ,: discovered until yesterday, when the magazine was visited to gt dynamite and caps to be used In. the construction of roadbeds between the prison and San .Rafael. Warden Hoyle is at a loss to account for its disap pearance. He believes it ts ' possible that the dynamite may have been car ried away by ex-convicts plotting' to blow up the penitentiary, and . special precautions have been taken to prevent such an occurrence. Learn of Sweeping Changes will be those involving violations of clfy ordinances such as failure to cut gritx when notified, drunkenness and sn or-, casional case ot disorderly conduct,' All cases In . which there la an important criminal charge will come before; tha new judge of department No. 8, for the police Judge- hereafter -will not vu have, the power of a community magis trate to bind a man over to await uo, tloi. of the grand Jury. . Even now, where there I a state law and a city statute covering the sain offense. If the case promises to be an important one, the charge Is brought under the'state law. The effert of th' (Continued on page Five.) DOLLAR DIPLOMACY TO : RffiiuPHnii! UL ItJnllH twM tr.wit Wlr. Washington, Apt U 1. Priulfnt W i son end fpcretaty of Slate, liiun torlav plfinniiijj. tf rrgniilre. the fnr ami Ceittml Awuiii an dipioMt.n . r ice. ellii.ittating U)e kIik" 'f lur dlplotoacv." 1 It t"f rrprtpd tlit Brsn he''.--. i hi JMihniilinali'H h,tto liffti j, f trflftr -whli-h h .ti.itii. .", I ' from th f I t r ,!- '. i i 1 up in Uiw kuiio l"i ii : ' . . , mm ES1EH0U PRISON WW OFFICIALS FEAR A PLO