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C- WEATHER ' Fair tonight ind Thursday, Northwesterly winds. , ...... J ii 1 t L ltn. 8 a. m.,.60 Fort. a, 6 a. m. ' ' Mw totll " , ,h H " , ' Chrlton , .fco " . Waah'ton u . .V sun rrn. " ,.t Chicago, 7 . m. .4 H(ir.bnrg " . . n Ka. City " . .64 -gpokana " . . St. -Paul " . .44 aMrahllald . .. Portland humidity. a. m i U U n fr1 ; U !- l ! v.! -iX c-fe- "aA"" KO VOL. XII. NO. 61. Portland, . Oregon, Monday evening, may; w, 1913. twenty pages. PRICE TWO. CENTS. 01 THJUNS AND STANDS riVE ClNlit. -i-U LU Jll I JURY SECUHEO TO S HEAD OF WOOLEN TRUST IN DYNAMITE TRIAL FIGURES BROUGHT OUT PROMINENTLY IN WORLD'S NEWS T, F ' ... y 1' STRIKER BILL IS SIGHED BY S JOlllATIltl i Mi ' m TROUBLE; GETS A BULLET III GPU Bloodshed at Oswego This Morning When Striking Electrical Workers ' Taunt Employes of Home Co. ; V . Ml nn ri IUULCII " ' ' '" "v II ' ' ' :"y'' jj ? Governor's Only Fear Is Ref erendum Vote That Would - Hold Up -Effectiveness o Act Until Noveiber-1914. STEP TAKEN IN SPITE OF . 'NATIONAL-GOVERNMEN ; Governor Declares. Those Who ' Wish Another Bill Should , Use Initiative.' ' A IVniHi Pnm Lei.e4 Wire.), - Sacramento, Cal., May 19. Governor . Johnson signed ttia Webb-Blrdsall ant.. lien land bill shortly before noon to day. V The law prevents-the 'ownership of agricultural lands In) California by Japanese or other aliens Ineligible to - cltisenshlp, although It permits three ; year leaseholds, wWch may be renewed by rotation.:" .: Y'th'i the slgnatore tjy the governor .. or ine aau-euen out loaay, uamornia. despite threats of a diplomatic breach . with Japan and the most urgent pro , tests from the national administration, , basrtaken the flnalstcp In enacting a law! to" prevent' the acquisition of her agricultural , lands by Asiatics. The seal of the state' has been set to the policy of excluding from her. lands aliens who I ) are non-asslmliable. :. v Johnson Tears Keferendum. ; .ln connection with' his approval of : the measure. Governor Johnson had. lit tle to say. tie appeared to be far more concerned about the threatened calling of a referendum to suspend the act, leaving the state without a bar agalrfst further, acquisition of lands by Japa nese untit November, 1914, than about the effect his action might have tu Washington, or. TokJo. .... . ? - The governor declared that he would send no official notification of his ac tion to Washington. -. "I repeat what 1 have said before." waa Johnson's cominecL "California, -forthe first time, has an antl-allen land act Anyone who wishes another kind of law may consistently invoke the initiative. ,t - . . ;', Pleads for Present taw. . . "No man Who really wishea an antl - alien land law, will sign a referendum as , to this law.t ir another' law la sought It " may ba , presented, by- Initiative petl- t Continued en Page Fifteen.) Crealtiif Office PioviJed for Him; Dr, Brannert Now Assistant, to Be President, Or. David SUrr Jordan. (CnitM Press Leatett Wire.) : Stanford University, Cal., May 19. Dr. David Starr Jordan announced this afternoon hi. retirement as president of Iceland Stanford, Jr., university, to be come chancellor of the same institution, a new office.- He will be; succeeded as president by,DT- John Casper Branner, professor Tt geology. - This announcement was made by Dr. Jordan during his address to the grad uation clasa of 1913, and came as a de 'es surprise to the ! students, who knew nothing of the creation of the new office, which continues him as the official head of 'the. university. The change : merely means; it Is stated, that Dfr Branner .will share Dr. Jor lan's duties "to permit the latter to ' continue hla Worle for world peace. " Th trustees of the university, it was said, will formally ratify, the change at their regular meeting bereMay -2J, It was decided some time ago to create the office f ehancellor. for pr.Jordanrbut the plan, was kPt secret until today. VJr. Jordan will feave shortly for the Balkan States to study the results tbfre of theTurko-Balkan. war,: but "no defln- "ttr date has Itwrtt for hla departure. 3rarmeTnrT5nme'esor6r ge ology at Stanford since 1892, and vice president of TtVie Institution since 1899. He is a native of Tennennee. -t ... T i '"DAVID STARR JORDAH (I :-:T IS." ' - ' ' w i (-LM f,"i ;: "wfr'"'5".! j) 1 i 'n !'. !: : t I William Wood. T PERSONAL VIEWS flo Crisis Nor Near Crisis, Al- ii i i in ' though Certain Phases,- He Admits, Are "Loaded With Diplomatic Dynamite." (United Prum VtftS Wire!) .Washington, May 19. Talklna with remarkable frvedoni upon pTiajes of the Japanese-California land ' controversy which were "Joadeil with diplomatic dynamite,"4 President Wilson, in hla con ference wltlv the newspaper correspond ents here today Hiri'fservedly aava his interviewers complete "inside informa tion" of th controversy as 4jc see It. The president declared that . both be and the mikado expected an early and amicable arrangement of the California Innd controversy. He sata, therwaj rav CristB .pr:nPr-.rui!,r)1tXlb-Sftnxrj adf KretpltKS After,; talking .freely. -upon" the "dyni-l mite",- phases of the controversy, the president invoked, the bag of ? secrecy mite" nhftS -nf-. th.rnnlMv.ri. hJ mv. r,rio ,hf .v, mint Tint, nrin, hia l.n. ..Kl.L . ... . .. caiu, weia. purri.v ufrBOliai, liuon me causes .which had inspired taae us present stand.. ;t x. , , f , Snda KlsnaderstaBdinr. President Wilson indicated that" he was following out his "confidence plan" .mi ; : wiak. . tt , nu'i... .. i . BMft, raised ' in the , cohtroversy urtiikw i .) nn..ikii ..... "i.. iiin He be leveV !&t "the iources" of the -Japanese war tslk are purely con- Jecturak Reporta of -the American charge d'affaires at Toklo minimize re- ports of anti-American sentiment there, h. t.h. "Affiioi- T.n. sition to the California land law has Kone was not definitely to be ascer- (Contlnued on Pg Two.) L IN U. S. NAVY PLEA OF EXPERTS 'reliminary. Tests' Indicate Coal Is . Satisfactory; ,Wa Would Paralyze Shipping, Pndl Ic C4?c4,i .A- wi 10 vjauiauiui ,ai f (I'nMed Press Leased 'Wire. V Washington May 19.A stronr nlea I VILSON GIVES Oil ALASKAN COA TO SENATE COMMITTEE for Alaskan coal for navy use on the tectlve Agency,-whose claim were vlg Pacific. coaet. was voiced today . before I orously disputed. Carpenter's , support ine senate committee on territories by John Higgona, a navy paymaster. The navy, according to Hfggrons. is using 250, ouo tons or coal annually on the Pactflo coast, and It Is all shipped from Norfolk and Baltimore. "In case of war,"-said Higgons, "the government would be forced to demand the service of all colliers, and this would practically paralyse all private JnduetryV David Boyd, at member of tha navy naineerina bureau, said that ' nrellml- Lgry tests indicated that Alaskan coal was entirely satisfactory. IN AFRICAN BATTLE fTJnltes rrpw laaH wir. I - Banghaal, Africa. May. 19. News of heavy fighting. between Araba and Hal- lans at Sido Oerba .reached here today, No details were received of the casual- ties, but they are known to have been heavy, - General Ganbrettl, who bag been In command at .Derna, headed the Ital- ian trbope in a desperate stornStng. of thejr.iositloit-lbough at.a. grjat jmlcxU. Italians! were subjpfed to two heavy flank-attacks huttticy -maintained their, positions, though at a great sacrl- flee of Ufa, .. v ITALIANS' LOSS HEAVY William Wood, Multimillionaire Manufacturer,: on Trial for "Planting" Dynamite , Dur Ing Lawrence Textile Strike MOTION TO QUASH IS , OVERRULED BY COURT I Deputies Guard ' Trial Room Against Demonstration by -' I. W. W. Sympathizers. - (Dultcd frtu tttHl Wire. I B6ston, May 19. The actual, trial of William W . Wood, ' multl-milllonalnt president of the woolen trust; Frederick E. Atteaux, a Boston manufacturer, and Dennis Collins, dog fancier of Cam bridge, started here this afternoon. . The defendants are charged with conspiracy I to plant dynamite In order to discredit the textile strikers, at 4Lawrenc last year. Only St minutes was consumed in fUU ing the Jury box. The wealthy . defend ants were spared the humiliation of Kit ting in the "felon's box." Instead they occupied seats Just outside the enclosure separating- the attorneys from the spes- tators.. i. District Attorney Pellatler opened for the-prosecution with a scathing denun ciation of the defendants. Wood sat ap. parently unmoved throughout the ar raignment.' i . Judge Crosby Informed the Jury that Ijie did not believe it was necessary to lock them up at night, Persons who applied for admission' were closely scrutinized and all who did tarred. Th. ,vtc (Continued on Page Fifteen) GOOD AND BAD POIHTS IN CANDIDATES ARE REVEALED; VOTER NEED NOT Records: of Seekers After Co biased Manner;; Business C - Vej-iyeS ULyil.lt AMHMMWIC3' OUUVV Hfieur Ott-i , . '. -' ' .- .'iv"". .."''.';' ff'';.;; .; . ; . W'' '"' ' - -1 i " . The records of more candidates, for I comm ssioner are published tn The I Journal tOdaV. '... '. I Aftv mAAltlm Any additional information that may 'apan tolbw obtained about these candidates, as a iron l pintrs nust .rKr( ,nio given prsvjlouslyf will be published by Tha Journal .What Is given now is the result of investigation, so Jar conducted. 1 Q. CARPENTER Better known in I underworld as 'Iou, or ous.' jxjrm- ff' P mn a wpwj I live. Now in Coast Detective Agency, ofttcelln WHcox building, Residence feet- . H" Wlft ' tllr children. Uvea hwse wth but relons very distant and ne on,y P"iy upir,. ..m. I ust 2S. 1911. Carpenter resigned from the Pllce .force eP " j Uklng grart money rrom-i unaerworm parasites, nrviaence B.uav mm ru strong. He had. about two weeks pre vious, been- suspended by Acting Chief of Police Slover. Following his sus pension, he resigned, but withdrew his resignation shottlyaftorward, Gljen Inkling of nature of evidence against him. hastily resigned again on August 26, this time for good. In 1906,' was one of four detectives dismissed by Mayor Lane lor ' rrou uiiiuvj " fought case through courts and were reinstated on technicality. . Elected to legislature from Multnomah county last November bv small plurality. Voted there as naid" ito do. , hi vote being indov nf aids taken bv machine. He rt voted hla efforts there mainly to get tin through H. B., 941. appropriating 11000 to Coast Detective Agency for ap- prehendlng the Humphrey brothers, re- centlv hanged at Balem. Through, the efforts of Representative Claranoe Reames and others., an amendment to this waa finally secured malting , tne monev navable to the persons aeciaed by the courts to be entitled to tha 11000 reward rather than to the Coast , De- TO BE HEARD FRIDAY Supreme Court Directs ; Port land Auditor to Print No Ballots Until Then, w ' ' (Salem Bums of The Journal.) .Balem, Or May 19. Next Friday morning at 10 o'clock fa the time set by the supreme court ror neannr area ments In the manaanus sun niea today to- test the validity of the new commls- slon charter ia Portland, j .j ' ' Chief Justice McBrlde signed thvor- der for an alternative writ In Portland Saturday evening, f The order directs the city auditor to refrain from having any ballots printed forjthe election un- derthe: commission cbsrter tinilli.the esse . Is, derived.., .Tha. peUtlnnera -are Abigail -Scott Dunlway ALary K. Rey- fluid and Robert M. Aistrop.anit At tor-' ney naipli Duqlway wlll.argus the case for them. - - , ' , . MANDAMUS SUIT COMMISSI GHMnER i . . . . sT .!;::-;': :-:--Xv.;:- v 1 mmissionerships Given Trr Un Status and Glimpses Into Prl- """ 1 .'" 1 1 " ' ' - .'.i'.j'i, it . i ' 'Sil , , ,v lli underworld. wlthrwMeli h had deal- '"' many . years as--ponce, aer.ective, vry strong. Regarded as 'candidate of viee interests and paving "trust." Has lived .in Portland. 24 years. About i years old. Born In Chicago, and lived there until he came to Portland. Man of Itttla education. Did not finish com mon schools. Reputation bai unnt for any public office. : aecord ihows Wo Qualifications. W. IRVINO SPENCER-XiveK ui Larrabee street, Married and has lly. He Is 31 years old. Served in legislature as representative from Mi nomah county.. His energies at Balum were largely davoted to getting Multno mah delegation to agree, to and legtsla ture to ratify legislative act to put his father, Oaptaln E. W. Spencer, on Poit or Portland commission. Spencer Intro duoed and made effort to pass H. B. 673 requiring installation of automatic fire sprinklers In orphan asylums. His ten ographer. A. r. fitone. who also liveji at ao larraoee aireet, -wae Portland agent for the Automatic Sprinkler Co of America. This was the joker in the measure." Voted-down after debate, in Which. Spencer was charged with Im proper motives. Spencer later withdrew H. B.' 871 and 573, requiring sprinklers in public school- buildings and county hospitals. Throughout the session Spen cat's dissolute habits occasioned much scandal. After adjournment of the' leg islature, Spencer disappeared for more than a Week. It was learned he bad gohe to -San Francisco with a young woman who had been with him much of Continued on Page Fifteen.) 3 Buttermilk and Ice Cream at Pejidleton ' Sweetshop Give Asylum Employe Poisonfng, Upeet.l to Tbe Jonro.1 Pendleton. Or., May 19. The Eastern Oregon branch hospltsl is in mourning today over the death of Prank H. Daughters, special traveling agent, yes terday; morning, Just three days after the day set for hla wedding; with Miss Lottie Hopson, one of the attendants. Ten days ago Daughters, was seised with ptomaine poison after drinking; -butter- tntrx and eating ice rream at a local confectionery store. He seemed to rally under : treatment for several davs hut his vftality became -exhausted by the struggle against the poison Last Wednesday had been. set for his marriage to "Miss Hopson, and employes I of the institution had been laylnr plans for making- the occasion a holiday af- falr- When .hla . brlde-to-ba . returned t Em a-ii f bS father, as Sesatse- Hopsoji f Marion county, she found her lover at death's door.' . Both young people were, very popular among employes. 1 DAYS FROM DATE SET FOR HIS WEDDING F. H. DAUGHTERS DIES ililillllll ''i;:S4i-':i'.:U::-:.- l vs 'i'1,.. (V'-.-4 J ovp (left) Harry K.' Thaw, slajvr ofHtanfo.;-niii'ribe'''TiM'' tinionr Helped " Convict ' J, '. Anhut 'of Attempt" to, Bribe Insane 'Asylum Poctor. ';.' ' . " " :! ' : :Mlf:ui - eve (right) Patnc Quinlan, I; : W.' Jieader, .Irrested o? Inciting to Kiot In raterson, J., Silk Strike. r.;-tA.-v ' Helow--This photograph showg a London Militant displaying the official Wgan of the canse, the MSnffragett;Wth the one word Raidod' rprinted on the front page, contrary to the warnings of the police. DANGER OF EPIDEMIC C : BYANOTHER INCINERA Voters Urged Not to Again Reject Bonds ' Project; Albee's Plan of Reduction Plant Down River Based on Mis information, It The defeat of the bond Issue for an other city Incinerator again at this elec tion wouid mean a. very grave prohiem for Portland in regard to health. 'If these bonds are defeated, the city will become a nesthola before anvthlna can be done." says Dr. George B. Story, i nairman . qr cue tuy onara oi neaun. VTha nresvnt incinerator is runnlna over capacity and it cannot handle the gar bage, much longer." That another incinerator is. absolute ly the only way to stave off the danger of. epidemic and disease Is considered by all who have given the subject any study. - The campaign stand of H. R. Albee, candidate for mayor,. that he will solve the garbage problem by a reduction plant down the river, 5 to. which the garbage will be hauled on. barges, fs baaed entirely on misinformation, said David E. Otia, superintendent of the incinerator, this .morning. . JCurt ITse ure Garbage. "In . the first place. Mr. Albee says that the reduction plant Will convert the garbage into by-products and these will be sold for sufficient to give, the people free collection of garbage. That reduction Plants cannot oe op erated at a profit ts proved by the ex periences of the few cities in- the United States that atlll use them. The last report of the Buffalo re duction plant shows , that It cost the ctty I19t,700 a year for operation. The Cleveland plant cost $E9,fi67 a year. In St. liouls, the city collects the garbage, hauls, it to two stations within the city where .the company operating the re- ductlon plant gets it. and- the city pays th company "?.T" cents a Ibn for-taklng And remember, tw a reduction plant, all trash and ashes must be kept wgpwvats feaiWr-4He ga'rbage."" The-?" ductlon plant can use only pure gar bage. -, . , . ,. .. r "fio if a reductlnn plant were in stalled here, it would mean that every ' ' ' " - -, ' -. i I "-'v- mm VENTED TOR, SAYS HEALTH OFFICER Is Declared. . householder" would hive to Veep three cans at his bck door, one for ashes, one for trash and one for garbage. And the city would stlir have to have a collec tion system for the aahea and trash, and an incinerator to dispose of it. - Ooat objected o. "Why, what if a man dies of small pox?, Would the reduction plant take his clothes and bed and destroy them so as to prevent spread of the diseasef It coura not do It. The things must be taaen.to an Incinerator.,' "Even if the reduction plant could do the work, just consider tbe cost of (Continued nPage Fifteen) TO DIE TOGETHER, FILLED 4pwll t The Jonrntl.) Spokane. WashH May 18.Gratlfying a wish ofteu repeated that they, having so long ben inseparable in life, might be Joined in death, the Misses Laura. Alice and Melissa Scovell of Republic, Wash., hare each ; been, called i to the beyond wlthjln a few days. - All were spln.stera,"and they had lived together for years on a farm near Re public. They often told . friends they wanted to die together. . Laura, 64 years Old, died of tubercu losis May a. Alice, 69 years "old. sue. cumbed to the same malady May 9, and on May 11, Melissa, (S, waa instantly killed. ina runaway accident while eh and her brother.- - H. M. Scovell. were iirivlng,,t9i ftepubllL" lo take"'g' trsTtT'for Spokane, where another slsterr Mrs. R. K. Otis, desperately ill with tubereulosla can live but a few days, according to a physician, WISH OF THREE SISTERS FOUR MEN ARRESTED; : , - POLICE 60 TO SCENE Sheriffs Word and Mass As sist In Quelling Rioters; General Fight Occurs. . Blood was shed this morning at Os ' wego as a result of the strike of eW trlcal workers, when T. C. Resm, strik er, of Oregon City, waa ahot In the groin by a man whose Identity Is unknown to tne police. , Dl 1 . J 1. . . , M . ojiiw inv vtriKf) wit. ci90iareci diaj i, there has been bitter feeling between, striking members of the electrical work rs' union and the Home Telephone com pany, a majority of whom, bemg satisfied with their pay conditions, refused to an. swer the strike call. Verbal clashes be tween strike pickets and working line men have been frequent. , Five or. six men were working-near : the Home exchange in Oswego this morning when It or 20 strikers from Portland and othef points entered the town and started taunting them. Thi teiepnone comrsnys employes nnsliy sought refuge back of the telephone ex change. The strikers followed them, throwing rocks and other missiles as they ran. After corrallnr . th flrmt gang of workmen, the strikers attacked, another outfit in a service wagon, XV. C. MeUler, a company employe, was v.v ..v., . jm w M -, llicivr iil followed. :.,.., , When the strikers -threatened further violence one of the workmen fired two shots, the first bullet bitting Ream In the groin.- - -; X: The shooting resulted in a cessation ; of hostilities, but It created no end of excitement in Oswego,- Ream-'was -brought to Portland in the DOlice auto- . -blla,.:.whleh. had responded to a riot . cell with a squad of policemen, and was taken to F.t Vincent's hospital. . ' Sheriff -Mass of Clackamas- count v placed the following strikers under ar-, rest soon after the shooting: ii. E. Lew. ellen, X V. Lohr,- E., O. Miles ' and "piacklftVlsJes.-. i ' ; The company employes left town In a buggy rtght'aftar the trouble, ana hav stt-''"S,l.et -Tfea Apprehended. Sheriff Southern Assembly by Vote of -135 to 44 Decides That All " Infants Will Be Saved, . - (tfnlt'd Preo. Letfi WW.l :' Atlanta, Ga., May 1$. That claue In the Presbyterian Confession of Faith which has for IS years been known i the Infants' elect" clause, was changed here today by a vote of 135 to 44 in the southern assembly to read that all In fanta will be saved. , . " Moderator John Stone of the northern assembly indicated today that he would formally reply to accusations, that he had, been elected moderator as the re sult of a "frame-up." Friends of some of the defeated candidates . havj been before the election six delegates, headed by William King of Monmouth, 111,, met to "pav the way" for Stone's election. The assemblies separate seasiona today discussed departmental details. Proper regulation of marriage, uni form divorce laws, equal rights to men in all stations of life and a single stand-' ard of purity for all were some of tha . ; reforms advocated by the United Pres byterian assembly here today in a re port submitted by a special committee. Strict observance of tha Sabbath and the reading of the Bible in public schools and a strong appeal for temperance ajo were recommended. ' (tTnltd PreM Learnd Wlra) San Franeisco,, May 19. A story of a girl sold a year ago lrj Baker, Or., by her father for 1100 waa told in the city prison today by Thomas H. Backsteln,. a chauffeur, held for abduction. The glrIt4Mabel Wilson, is held tnj the detention home. - Backsteln said he found the girl in want in ZW Angeles. where she had been deserted by her al leged purchaser, and brought ber to Baa Francisco. ' WHTE PUPILS REFUSE TO DANCE WITH CLACK ' 11 Nil I II . . -; ' , " rjutt4 teawd Wlra.l LoaAngeles. May ohoo author! ties here have been called upon to ari l trate a difference of opinion betwexti teachers of the Hoover strent grmnnir school and parents Who refuse ta per mit their children to 4)wti with children, Mr. W. F. Gilbert complaint-, to the hoard of edilatfrnt thut hr-em.-iM On" had tif-vrt sefirnome b.-m. s J. jf fused to danrs a folk dance wuh a I ' ll negro girl. " Ipiily,giii.rlnf.i ! t of Schools Monlnx proniid an I i . - lata lnvrallgiitlon.. PRESBWAIIS'JJTH BAKER GIRL SOLD BY HER FATHER FOR $100 ' V ' t