: TEMPERATURES . TODAY- wi-4'.-y:srt. "' -r ' ' ostoa, "".'a,.;. T4 Portland. 8 a. . . 61 . " WMdlnrtli .,,. MrhfiU Ii s :; Cnarlasfoa' 78 gttl -. . . ' t Hew'Tork - .,ta Boise k ' ... ta .Chicago, T ft. m.,66 8a Tran. x V , ,,.54 ; -V St, aal h " . . .B8 Bosesorr f ri w.e v.' ' k. Xsa. City ' - . . . 68 Bpokaae ; fr.v. a , Portland aamldlty, a. m, . .'.". ' ,' , .86 . i. 4 m ' ii Inn ft i, 1 1 . ii -X i -. TltB : .-.V'-: .V tveathB ; Showers ir-t,;? ; nlfht or Fri- ' i it i VOL. XII. NO. 118. 'A2 ". PORTLAND; OREGON; THURSDAY;'(EVENING, JULV ' 24. ? 1913 TWENTY PAGES.' PRICtt TWO CENTS. on Tcujri AtB mrwt , fTaMOa IITm C1MT8.-1 . SUITTO .S(MUCH concerned About mad dogsJ ,.. "T-: - I IJ i m C0r.1PEL UIIBIN6 OF cSe f sISSff. Mill SENT FOR . ... 1 i ' '',' .. BELL 1 1 F in ffl PFHT! rJiFHIBlill Case Is' BroLfeht'Urider!ShermanAnti ' and Is $js'6Vfnmf!!s! ?AtS"ck'-hTAileg(Sa Trust Urfder This ;;fjpefehdaifits!)nclude 35 Abstf bedJS mpe OLDTIME COMPETITION IS DESIRED AGAIN Home Phone;and; Independent Phone ' of Puget Sound and : Northwestern ' Long Distance of ;; Oregon and Washington Are Included. Suit of th. goyernment aatnit the American Telepbone Telegraph com- , piny 'to unmerge U connection with ithe Northweatern tnlr Distance Tele phone company and other independents with which 1t has affiliated within the last few. years, was inetitutei tnis ari ' In the Unlled BUtea district courU The case haa been pending eince ' early In December, wnen it was nrsi mentioned that the government was to conduct a grand Jury inveatlgatlon of the activities of the alleged telephone trust In fieattle. . ronatantlne J. Smyth, former attor ney general of NebrasKa and recently appointed special assistant io me i " torney general to handle this case, filed the bill of complaint after It had been certified to before Clarence L. Reames, . United States attorney for Oregon. The suit is1 directed , against ' the - American Telephone and Telegraph FESTIVAL DIRECTORS TO BE PICKED FROM : A FED OF THIRTY Special , Committee to. Select Th aitectitlve committee of the Rose Tantivnr raorcanlxatlon. delegated to a committee of five yet to be named today. Us power to nominate 30 citizens from among whom a new Rose Festival dl rectoraU of 12 will be selected by the general body. C. V. Cooper, chairman of the general committee, will call a meeting to hear the report of the execu tive committee when it has prepared It. In the beginning wmlnatlohs were made from the floor, These, names were re ferred to the smaller committee for In formation.' A motion to ask each body affiliated In the Rose Festival reorgani sation to nominate 1 of the 30 failed, but a motion calling upon the affiliated organisations .each to submit the name of one It would like to see elected a director wasrarrled. The executive committee will not be bound to act upon the list subwiltted by the committee of five. Among those who were tentatively nominated at the meet ing held this afternoon In the Com mercial club were: B. 8. Josselyn, Frank C. Riggs, W. F. Woodward, A. H. Averill, ''Franklin T. Griffith. W. a Alvord, E. B. Piper, ti. Bamuei, C. 8. Jackson. J. Fred Larson. Mrs. Tiftoh, H. M. Haller, Dr. T. L. Perkins, C. L. MrKenna, Wil liam McMurray. W. J. Hoffmann, T. 8. Mann. Ouy Talbot, A. D. Charlton, C. V. Cooper, John T. Dougall, John M. Scott, C. C. Hall, Harry C McAllister, W. H. Crawford. Mrs. M. U. T. Hidden, 0. C. Bortsmcyer, J. B. Werleln. Fl PROBABLY BE URGED ... - : ' Industrial Welfare League De ; cides on This Figure. After Conferences, , - . "I think I could live'oq 140 a .month," said Mrs. Frederick Bggert, prominent worker in, the Portland Woman's olub, ."but I do not believe tha I could do so, nor that any other woman could do so and live respectably on very much less. The problem, of living at a minimum ex penditure has been worked out to a fine point by the Woman's union, "but the trouble Is that that Institution, where expenses are cut down to IS or $4 a week, the accommodations ara limited. Occasionally ft young . woman may" be fortunate enough to get In a good family .where she cart live nicely for $20 or $25 a month, but ordinarily. I think that $40 a month Is a fair minimum.'" " .. "in view of the high cost of living at ' present, Jr think that the minimum work ' lng vmtn'i wage of $9.11 a' week, or $40 ft month, as planned by the Indus trial welfare commission, Is as low aa It can be humanely made," said Mrs. J. H. Bristow of the Coterie, fit la possi ble, too, that If department stores and manufacturing plants are forced to pay more wagea they Will correspondingly ' Increase the cost of life's necesitrlos. So far as my experience: foes I telleve that while m woman-may support her 'self respectably and comfortably on $40 a-month, that tn is ; wage ; would leave : only, a . alight margin for clothes, and MONTH MINIMUM OR WOMEN WORKERS Continued , on Page Twu.) company and some 39 other defendants. The bill denominates the Pacific' Tele phone and Telegraph company, the Sun set Telephone and Telegraph company; the Pacific States Telephone and Tele graph company, as Bell companies, and the ones mentioned are included among the-defendants. ' Suit Comes trader Sherman Aot. This Is the first time that the gov ernment has proceeded against the Bell Interests for violation of the Sherman anti-trust act The action now started Is a proceeding under , the civil section of the act and the complaint asks that the purchases made by the telephone syndicate of the smaller companies be declared unlawful and that the defend ant corporation be required,- subject to the approval of the Oregon federal court, to dispose of the stocks, bonds and other property thus "Illegally" ac quired, to persons not connected with the Bell company1 aa stockholders or otherwise. The complaint further asks that competitive conditions be established aa they were prior to the ' acquisition of the independent property and that the Bell company be perpetually' enjoined from hereafter acquiring any control of any kind over the stock or property of the Independents. Should the court ba of the opinion that public Interest would be better served . the complaint asks that a receiver be appointed for these properties. The complaint charges the Bell company with having a monop oly of the telephone business for the past six years -In Oregon. Washington and Idaho. Thia service. It -Is allege.!, waa poor and unsatisfactory and for this reason t the. Independent companies were asUblisbed.; . Ai u.&W. Among the independents mentioned are: The Home Telephone company of Puget sound, operating in Tacoma and Bellingham; the Independent Telephone company, operating In Seattle; the In terstate Consolidated company,' operat ing tn Montana, Idaho and Washington. (Continued on Page Two.) THEY SHOULD BE IS" LAWYER'S ASSERTION Attorney Declares That Feder al Courts Better Be Abol ished If. Same Course Lasts. That the fees Imposed by the federal court of the district of Oregon, along with other districts of the Pacific coast are far in excess of what they should be,' regardless of the cost of maintain ing the courts and the court' clerks' of fices la the declaration of .Thomas 3. Greene, a member of the bar asaocia- tlon'a committee investigating the mat ter of court coss. ; Declaring that many persons who' have legitimate wrongs let them bo un- righted rather than Incur the exorbi tant court feea. Mr. Greene declared to day that some system must be worked out to reduce them, 'If organised government cannot maintain Its courts without Hiirh heavv drains upon the resources of the peo ple who have disputes to settle, we'd Deiier not nave any courts and settle out grievances In the old faHhloncd, personal way. Joseph N. Teal, chairman of the bar committee, said the committee is work ing-on the fee question and will make some kind of a report to tho State Bar association when- It meets probably In septemDer. "There is so much fo consider in this matter that we are going slowly." said Mr. Teal, "but we expect to make some sort of recommendation. There Is no question but that the fees are too high. putting a heavy burden upon litigants. What remedy there may be Is yet un certain, whether specific amendment to the federaUstatute arresting this dis trict, or other legislation affecting the whole Judicial system, be sought.-' - A. m. cannon, clerk of the federal court, said yesterday ha doubted if the Bar association, will Suoceed in its ef fort to. reduce . th ost or ,, litigation. His salary Is 17000 a year, besides cer tain emoluments In naturalisation, eases and'.' as , United ; States . commissioner. This" salary is double -what such offi cials receive in most o. the States, Ore gon being, one - or tht districts ; under the "double maximum" statute, which allows clerks, marshals and district at torneys twice aa much as In moat districts,- M.V'-io'ilWr..'1'..' ,'. ' V, V-'"'.- ' PORTLAND FIRM HEARS OF BIG CHINESE BATTLE H"The revolution la of serious nature. Great battle, la going on. Prospects favorable to th government t - The above cablegram was received In Portland today by- F. 'Ktrchhoff of tne AmXbfflo? t tfSSSrtfii. Sffiffl -sCtitnt i:J-pA China Import & expoi t Co., .frdim, the FEES ARE MORE THAN :f,-f ' ! t , I l I II II , . .', if President iyVilso Unalterably v Opposed ' to ' Intervention and Hopes to Arrange Set- ofiWarsr CONGRESS ASKED TO BE CALM OVER SITUATION Eachr of Several Plans Pro posed jnejuties Peaceful Settlement of Affair. Bolted Pri la6 Wire.) Washington, July 24 That William J. Bryan may go' to Mexico aa head of an Amerltan cmm:sslon seeking, to mediate between the factions there is ttoe report here today. It haa been learned that Chairman Flood of the house foreign affairs committee, and Chairman Bacon of the senate commit tee on foreign relations have discussed the advisability of such a move. Bacon on Saturday - will make a full report on, the Mexican situation to the senate foreign committee. .Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska today opened up a new plan for a settlement of the Mexican matter when he sug gested the possibility that a cession of a portion of northwestern Mexico to America might satisfy the enormous claims arising out of the Mexican dis orders. He said: "The Mexican people will be unable to meet 'our fair claims for damages with a cash payment. It Is possible they might agree to give us Sonora. Chihuahua and the northwestern region In partial satisfaction. Then an Amer ican protectorate mjght be formed for another sons. I do not think that any mediation commission sent to Mexico now would accomplish much. We must let events take their course." The president, It was learned today. Is unalterably opposed to intervention except as a last resort . He believes the (Continued on Page Two.) BODY OF MISSING LAD Boy Was Drowned Presumably Near Amusement Park Sun day Afternoon. . Eight-year-old Joe Vgnaziltto, who disappeared from the liome of his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ygnazzltto, 4s East Harrison street, ana whose disap pearance was reported to the police yes terday, was drowned in the Willamette river, probably last Sunday afternoon, near the Oaks, where he was a frequent visitor. Hig body was found this morn ing, fully clad, under the Madison street bridge and recovered from the river by the harbor patrol. The identification or tne body waa made possible by the deputy coroner through a descriptive article and a pic ture published in last night's Journal. The parents were notified at once after the identification was made. The child left his home last Sunday saying he was going to the Oaks, and It Is believed that while playing along the river bank in the vicinity of the Oaks, he fell into the river. No one has re ported seeing any such accident. Joe was known to have had very few com panions, as he preferred to play by himself. Tne rather and motner were both terribly shocked by the report of the death. IS FOUND IN THE RIVER, NEAR MADISON BRIDGE GIRL COMPANIONS OF CLAUD Pe-H, WUUu,i.; otltvMketit '' PPm I CUMMINS TO : MULHALL 'mBntli' IN LOBBY INVESTIGATION BOY PAYS PENALTY WITH E KL Two Young Women Also Badly Hurt When Youth Motoring at High Speed Turns to Talk With Them and Sends His Machine Into the Ditch, Carelessness of Claud Sumption, the 19-year-old son of Dr. H. L. Sumption, a dentist, coupled with his inexperience as a driver, resulted In the young man's death, the serious Injury Of Miss Clara Fry, of 474 Columbia street, and her cousin. Miss Pearl Williams, of Ogden, Utah, and the demolition of a five pas senger, automobile, in a smashup on the Powell Valley road near East Seventy second street, shortly after midnight this morning. The dying youth and the two girls were hurried to the Good Samaritan hos pital in an ambulance and the police touring car, where City Physician Zleg ler treated them. Sumption, who sus tained a broken neck, died at 6:50 this morning without regaining, conscious th. loftnd Mlaa SW Fry of Thtrteeath; Columbia, ; .treeta. Wrt-i acrioua; Injury, whwfJilmpllowa'5ftaaiy..r.liyi HIS OWN LIFE SS DRIVING OF AUTOMOBILE ness. Miss Fry is suffering from a broken wrist and Miss Williams from a dislocated shoulder. The fourth oc cupant of the rar, Curtis D. Hlckock, who resides on East Fifty-fourth street, scaped with only minor bruises. As far as ran be ascertained, respon sibility for the tragic accident rests with Sumption, who paid for his reck lessness with his life. With the car traveling at a rate of 85 or 40 miles sn hour, he had turned around In hl seat to ppeak to Miss Williams and Hlckock, who were on the rear seat, when the machine swung off the road and struck the soft dirt which slopes Into a seven foot ditch. The car zigzagged along the edge of the roadway for about 70 feet, (Continued on Page Three) SUMPTION M. Will Sue Newspaperr (raited I'reM Leased Wire.) . Washington, July 24. There was a spirited clash In the aenate lobby' In vestigating committee hearing this af ternoon between Witness Mulhall, who was testifying and Senator Cummins of Iowa It came after a letter was read in which Mulhall declared he had con ferred with (Jummlns over a speech Senator Kenyon made on the eight-hour law. That's a lie, and you know It,'.' shouted Senator Cummins. , Mulhall Insisted that every word In the letter was true, angrily shouting that he was tired of hearing denials of the truth of his letters. "It makes no difference to me wheth er you are tired or not," was Cummins' come-back. "You do not tell the truth'." Never saw Knlball Before. Turning to the members of the com mittee, Cummins added: "I never met this man Mulhall before, he appeared here. : I never Invited him to come to Senator Dolliver's room for a conference. I couldn't have, because Dolllver did not have a private office." The trouble was caused by a long report which Mulhall Is alleged to have written James Kirby, president of the N. A. M . on May 26, 1910. It said Mul hall had called on Senator Cummins who was most angry because former Speaker Cannon had been the principal speaker at a N. A. M. banquet held In New York. Mulhall said he calmed Cummins by saying he (Cummins) prob ably would be Invited to the next ban quet. Cummins denied the allegations In the report and Mulhall tried to refresh his memory. ' "There is no need for you to try to refresh my memory," shouted Cummins. "The events' you recite never happened." Will Rue Newspaper. me u:-si or wnai threatens -to be a series of suits against metropolitan newspapers for caustic comment on of ficials of the National Association of Manufacturers, as a direct result of Martin M. Mulhall' testimony before the senate lobby committee, waa prom ised .today by Attorney Parker Nevln. Stung by editorial criticism appear ing in the North American, a Phila delphia newspaper, officials of the N. A. M., through Nevin, announced here today that suit for $600,000 would be brought against tho Philadelphia publi cation tomorrow. Nevln asserted that tho North American Monday referred) editorially to orriclals of the N. A. M. as "criminal conspirators." Ha also threatened to institute proceedings against other newspapers which he de clared were ("exceeding the latitude of press freedom." Yesterday's letters referred to the. Dan bury hatters', strike of 1909 and how the N. A. M.. when there waa a move ment started to Increase former PresI dent Taft'a tariff board to five mem bers, tried to have Frederick Schwcdt man, then president of the Citizens' In dustrial association, appointed to mem bership on the board. ' ! ' ! i , ? ?, - Mulhall said that-ln September, 1 0. ho went to Philadelphia and urged the hatmakera there, - who were Interested In iha Panbury strike, to employ former Congressman James Watson aa their at torney, '"becausa'Watson always waa a friend to the N. A. M." j ' Newf Oovernor for Hawaii. A , (VMtsd ffeaa-UaiM! WltaT 'i- '.. oV'Kn aent to Washington, July J4.-The nomination i f to. ! governor of ..Iha aenate today. , Rioters In Houghton .County Surround Peace Officer Who Says 2000 Men Are Needed . to Maintain Order. . ' 1 1000 DEPUTIES CAN'T - t"! HANDLE THE SITUATION 20,000 Men idle in Copper Mining Region and Mills , and Smelters to Close. ,' . (Called ftm Leased Wh.' Calumet, Mich., July 4. Jlore than a dozen deputies were' injured, several an rlously, in a clash here this afternoon v with striking copper minera.'- A- nUB -dred shots were, exchanged. ' The trouble ' resulted from -a " at ,. tempt by the miners to force emptoyea In the machine shop to ftult work. Gov. -ernor, Ferris was asked again this 'aft- " ernoon to rush t'roopa here. V;V-v. ; rjnH4 TreB 1 Wlee. ' 1 Lansing. Mlch. Jirty 24. Xesplt ad- vices that Calumet" If reported In; the hands iff an armed mob' of BOO men and that deputy sheriffs have been dtvet4 , of stars by striking copper miners. XJov, j ernor Ferris, telephoning from Bay City this . afternoon decided to withhold troops from the disturbed, city. f'V ' s Adjutant General VandercOckV'' now'- ever, was ordered to Instruct alf militia commanders to hold their troops tn read- iness to move at a moment's notice and to nitif y division commanders': to re- main in touch with telegraph off Iceu. -1 Governor Ferris' decision to withhold the troops Came as a great eurprlse here, -especially as Sheriff Crune of Houghton county had asked . for Immediate; help, asserting he was - entirely unable , 19 t cope with the situation. v.' W : Sheriff Crune of Houghton - county asked that 3000 militiamen b rushed there Immediately, insisting that thia number Is necessary to preserve tha peace. A thousand deputies 'already; have been sworn In, but this number la .. . Inadequate to. cope with' the situation, .. t Twenty thousand men. Sheriff Crune : t estimates, are Idle and he aaya eerlous- . rioting Is certain to come." Th-rlki . era are. arming and another ' aertou Clash 1a expected momentarily. .ii.ylitfW '.Tha,,armV"'-ot"ldle mn''ls expected o j, f. .- be au gmented aKw by ne sloatng f W-?' JjmOUera 'and. atmp.. mills. vir':f-.!' 4,The'Wal'fetms4diibI'''retftgJ4at night throughout , the region, . several ? ' mobs attacking non-unionists on their way i to worts on th night hlftg4.,Th"': operators, to prevent serloug trouble, V closed their night 'workings, y The miners assert they have been ' promised support by the American Feriftrfttinn of Labor.- ' " " ' t' General Abbey Sent to ' Xanslng: (United Pis Ina4 Wire.) Kalamazoo. Mich,. July 24. Brigadier General Abbey, commanding the Mich-; igan' state militia, started for Lansing this afternoon In response to an urgent message from Governor Ferris,,,; Vr . El HWAtS SUBJECT:: OF STATE LECTR1C WIRING ENQUIRY Railroad Commission, to :ln-. .. . vestigate Safeguards :: to -Public From Live Wirw.V. , j -t,f . ' (Special to TM .Joarsal.) v'j.-f . jt-v,; . V ... Salem, Or., July J4.--The next lnyea- US; tlgation of state-wide interest ' to be 1 taken up by the 8tat Railroad commls- slon will be the regulation of overhead -,' and' underground, wiring for telegraph i, telephone, signal, trolley and power , lines. , The commission Is today sending out notices to all c6mpanlea , la i tha i; v. ,. state having such wiring to appear be fore the commission at Salem at 10:30 , -o'clock a. m., August II. Alonr w1t(l A,''a"7 these notices the commission. Is sending , : out tentative regulations for new con struction, so the , companiea will , hava opportunity to ; famlliaria themselves. ' with them and make, any objections de elred'-at the 'narlng..!; . W'x&"V This Investigation la being taken up V bv the commission on Its . own motion , . and is for the purpose of making regu '-f 'i luttons mat Will give more, proieoiioa to the public and to . linemen against . ' Dossible contact with live electric wires. " ? ; " The tentative general regulations which ; ara not intended to supercede any local . ' . municipal regulations or ordinances,-g Into detail as to the height above the ; i ground all wires carrying various de. .' greea of voltage must be, and the dls- . -tance between, wires. V. ;..M;.;.;1;';.;;; TODAY'S TEMPERATURE i ; TAKES 1 ANOTHER " LEAP V.T' 1 p'..m... p. m. .. i ' '.' , , . . . . I , 4 . ' . . ' (! ' Cooler i weather which haa .been peeled for the past two days haa not materialised, an at 11 o'clock thia mornina- the temperature waa.T degrtea higher than It waa at th same hour yesterday although at noon the differ ence was only I degrees, . The mercury stood at 77 degrees at 11 o'clock, and 71 atlncon. The Wghest point reached by the mercury yesterday afternoon was i degrees,- . y- '- . However, showere are predicted Tor tonlaht or Frldayv by Acting Plsfrlct Forecaster Drake, although 1)6 save timf In ' general ' the teiupertre chana a III ba unimportant. Thunder aiorm were reported yesterday In aaatern D" gon.and '.Washington,, nl in oi parts of the .district... The wit),-. cooler in the Interior r out!i -Oregon'-and northern Colifofa'