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T ,"V..: ", r-. ' Trm- "T" ,a assssasM TEMPERATURES TODAY Boston, li,ia, . ,0 Portland, S ft. m. .09 1 Wash'toa " . . ,7 Marshfleld . ,43 Charleston i , ;80 Seattle . ..60 Haw Torn ...eaiBoli . Chicago, 7 a. u. .Tot Fras, .'. , .B St. Paul " . .74 Bosebufrf M '. .44 Xan. OltT u . .70'SpokABS " ..43 Portland humidity, a. m. .93 . . Fair tonight . , v and. Sunday; ; . with . north- ' . .easterly winds. VOL. XII NO. 156 PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1913. TWO SECTIONS 18 PAGES. PRICE - TWO CENTS. Sx52x 0 & S?t lAWIES J: HILL Will EMPIRE BUILDER WILL AID PORTS COMMITTEE FLIMSY WOODEN PULLMANS SMASHED IN NEW HAVEN WRECK FOUND GUILTY IN AT HOT SPRINGS ' " ffQl AAVA SVN TAA jSSv--" ml Ca AAAVAA O A II wish', j'zn" I. 12.11,11 FIRE BURNS 60 BLOCKS DREW CAMINETTI SUPPORTMOVEFOR DEFPiAR CHANNEL WH TESLAVECASE J Great Railroad Chief to Make Special Trip to MoutrTof Co lumbia to See What He Can Do to Cooperate. PORTS COMMITTEE IS , GREATLY IMPRESSED Plans Discussed for Open Wa terway at Dinner Given by Ex-Senator Bourne.. Profoundly Impressed by the lmpor - e lance to all commerce of the movement lo deepen the channel over the Colum bia river bar, James J. Hill has written to the chairman of the ports of Colum bia committee. Dr. Alfred Kinney, say ing within a few weeks he will make L special trip to the mouth of the Co , lumbia. Thus he will be enabled to de lermine what he can do to cooperate With the campaign and add strength to the organization which Is already the largest west of the Mississippi river. Srawing membership from the entire district drained by the Columbia, and Including five states. The mouth of the Columbia Is now the ocean terminus of the Hill lines. The Hill interests expect 10 operate hips out of the port of the Columbia Llong the coast, and havo also been pre paring tor the commerce of the Panama (anal, which" will be transshipped from Dcean vessels to the western inland Relative to the plans of the committee, Dr. Kinney has written Mr. Hit! at St. laul: Committee Has 3000 Members. "The committee Is now enlarged with 1000 members, not only representing very local industry and the ownership Df over 150,0u0,000 worth of standing timber rioe for factories and transport Hon to markets, but with a membership rapidly Increasing throughout the five Mates of the Columbia river Dasin. To discuss ways and means of for warding the campaign to deepen the channel over the bar, former Senator Innathan Bourne entertained members f the executive board of ihe Ports of Columbia committee at dinner In the -MArttnstdn lub last-night, there betas present Major James Mcinaoe 01 ine United States engineers; General Bag nail, government. engineer In charge of etty building at the mouth of the river; Samuel M. Mears, president of the Port or Portland commission; T. B. Wilcox, president of the Oregon Development league; George B. aicLcoa, waniei nern, nd C. V. Adams. Dr. Kinney has a letter from H. H. Cleland of Spokane Joining the campaign ind saying: "Within a very short time after the canal is open we will be flood ed with Immigrants and must be pre pared to handle tiiem and the great nuount of freight that will necessarily follow." Mrs. Duniway Joins Committee. Another notable addition to the mem bership of the commlttoe is Mrs. Abigail Bcott Duniway, who has written, ac cepting membership on the committee. 1 wish to add my word of com mendation for the mighty work the board has undertaken. It is no easy task to wrest from nature the locked Kecrets she holds in the earth, the wa ter and the air," she wrote. "In studying the map of the world, tine has but to note the relation the mouth of the Columbia river bears to the Golden Gate and the almost com pleted inter-oceanic canal to see how contiguous they are to one another, and how necessary It Is to hasten the work the Ports of the Columbia has begun If the Pacific northwest Is to reap Its khare of commerce and travel arrtong the tompetitlve nutfons of the earth." HEADLESSBODroT Half Buried in Sand on Bank of Hudson River Near Cliffside, N, J, Cliffside, N. J., Sept. 6. Discovery of the headless and' nude body of a beau tiful young-woman half burled In sand Dn the bank of the Hudson river here has given the police of this village such a. mystery to solve as tney have never raced before. BoyB playing near Clayton's boat house found the corpse, Near It' lay a bloody pillow and sheet with every In dication that the slayers had been frightened away, leaving their ghastly work half done. Phxtficlans who examlnod the body ay the girl was In perfect health when death came. ' Her appearance Indicated that she was accustomed to luxury. The hands were beautifully manicured and showed thtft she had never done hard work of any sort. So far not a clue has been discovered to the identity of the woman nor as to the tragedy which ended her career. LARGER RESERVES IN OREGON COUNTRY, BANKS (Washington Burnau of Tbt Journal. ) Washington, Sept. 6.The abstract of - conditions of the National banks of Ore gon, exclusive of Portland, at the close of business August 9, as reported to the comptroller of the currency, shows the average reserve held at 19.07 per cent, s compared "With 18.78 per cent on June 4. Loans and discounts decrease front $23,098,138 to $28,040,333. gold coin from 8 2,258,351- to 82.242.S34 and in dividual -deposits from 829.448.06S to & 8:8,288,259.:; 'MK'm ' NUDE WOMAN FOUND James J. Hill. I HIS CASE CONTINUED Lawyer Believed to Have Gone to Vermont; Thaw Is Happy in Coaticook Jail, United Preu Leased Wire.) Coaticook, Quebec, Sept Harry K. Thaw, triumphant again in his fight to prevent Immediate return to Matteawan asylum, rested contentedly in Jail here today while William Travera Jerome, his nemesis, is apparently a fugitive from Justice, even If only to the extent of breaking his 'ball rather than face a charge of playing "penny ante" in public place here. Jerome, who left the town In an auto mobile after giving 3500 ball for ap pearance on the gambling charge, is be lieved to have "gone to Vermont. He failed to appear today at the hour set for his hearing on a charge of gambling, His counsel entered an appearance for him and the hearing was continued un til September 11. --In continuing tire-ease against Jerome, Judge. McKee said: "Jerome may think Coaticook is a suburb and that h can play poker in the street here. But we will enforce the laws and show him he can't play 'cards before our children. He will be prosecuted to the fullest cx tent of the law. The crowd in the courtroom cheered wildly at the conclusion of Judge Mc Kee's remarks. " Thaw, who will be brought before the full court of king's bench, appeal side, In Montreal on September 15, is likely to remain here until that time. The townspeople, who almost to a man are his partisans, anticipate that Thaw's hearing in Montreal will surely result In his being permitted to pass through Canada to where he will. Meantime they are anxiously awaiting Jerome's reappearance here, hoping to obtain some sport by legal, and personal, nag ging of the man who put Thaw in Matteawan and who for the first time has had the tables turned on him here through a seising upon one of his well known fallings. , Allegation that It is not possible to deport Thaw by the means so far em ployed by New York state's lawyers In made by Thaw's attorneys. They baso their belief on an affidavit by Thomas Rellle Mclnnes of Ottawa, framer of the Canadian immigration law, which attached to the habeas corpus writ obtained for Thaw yesterday In Montreal. Mclnnes assert that the board of inquiry which ordered Thaw aeportea aid so illegally because they had failed to file a formal complaint against Thaw with the minister of the interior, as the law provides. IPAL San Franciscans Will Be Given Opportunity to Buy New Bond Issue. (United Pren Lea ted WIre.t San Francisco, Sept. 6. Returns of the municipal railroad, the first in the United States owned, and operated by the public, showed that August receipts and profits eclipsed those of any month since the road was first put in operation. In all the city road took In 350,570.50 in August, an increase of 33793.10 over July, when the receipts were 348,477.40. And July's receipts were the biggest up to tnat time. "v Monday the board of supervisors will be asked to authorize City Treasurer McDougald tn sell over the counter of his office 33,500,000 bonds already voted to extend the city car lines. Mr. Com mon People will' get first chance at them. Then the banks' opportunity will come, .but McDougald is sure the people themselves win take two-thirds of the whole issue. ARCHITECTS ARE NOT IN SYMPATHY WITH CONTEST (Washington Burem ot The Joomtl.) Washington, Sept.-ftv-ProtesU from Lawrence & Hoi ford, Whitehouse & Koullhoux, Doyle & Patterson, Portland architects who were dropped by the treasury department from the list' of contestants for new postofl Ice plana, have been received here. The depart ment declares they were out v of sym pathy with the spirit of the competition because they wanted the program Of the competition altered. ;:;.'r;,.y..r:,f , .'';).'. ! iis'f.M i-f f w.-A 'it P 1 :! -V V,.' ROME DOESN'T SHOW AT GAMBLING HEARING MUNIC RAILROAD RECEIPTS INCREASING Big Hotels, Water, Light and Power Plants Destroyed by Conflagration Which Was -Finally Stopped by Dynamite NO LIVES LOST AND VERY FEW PERSONS INJURED Tents Asfced to House Home less and Relief Fund for Food, Clothing Started. (United Prew Leaned Wire.) Hot Springs, Ark., Sept. 6. More than 2600 persons are homeless, 312,000,000 damage in done and 60 blocks of this city, covering a section half a mile wide and a mile and a half long are in ruins today through a disastrous fire which started late yesterday afternoon and did not burn itself out until 8 o'clock this morning at the foot of West Mountain, the southern limit of the city. Citizens patrolled the burning section all night and prevented looting. Gov ernor Hays, who is here, took full charge of the situation today, and it Is prob able that United States troops will come from Little Rock to aid in the work of keeping order during reconstruction. Within a short time of the starting of the fire it was seen that the local force was incapable of coping with the flames and aid was rushed here from Little Rock. By the time it arrived, the fire, fanned by a high wind, was practically beyond control, the water works was out of commission and only free use of dynamite and shifting winds kept the main part of the city from destruction. The city's water, light and power plants were utterly ruined, several big hotels and hundreds of homes were consumed and today all streetcar serv ice through the stricken section is abandoned. While it is not yet certain, It is not believed that any lives were lost in the conflagration. Guests at the big hotels destroyed fled without waiting when the flames approached, and many of them lost much of their property. A great mass meeting of citizens was held today, at which a relief fund for the fire victims was started with many large subscriptions. All business In the city is suspended and the streetcars are unable to run because of the crippling of the power plant. The mayor today will ask the gov ernor for militia tents to shelter the homeless. It has been ascertained that very few persons were hurt during the fire and none of those seriously. All saloons In the city are closed today. TO SOLVE PROBLEM Male Friends to Be Enter tained by Various Nation- alties Different Nights. (United Preu Leased Wire.) Los Angeles, Sept. 6. The Progres sive Household Club, composed of housemaids, cooks, second girls, taun dresses, nurse girls, etc.. Is launched today with a charter membership of 200 Organization was effected after a mass meeting of prospective members was addressed in the German, Swedish, Kin nlsh, French, Danish and English lan guages. The club will maintain club rooms, at which its members may entertain their male friends, different nights each week being set aside for various nationalities. It will provide a cheap cmpioymwjt bureau for members. A housekeeping school is also contemplated. "The club is not organised with the object of fostering strikes," explained Vice President Hannah Anderson, but for mutual improvement. Also, it seems. that mistresses haven't made a start ling success in attempts to solve the servant problem so we plan to see what we can do for ourselves." GUNBOAT AND 1000 MEN AGROUND, UNDER FIRE Douglas. Ariz., Sept. 6. The Mexican gunboat Tamplco, carrying J 000 troops and 'a quantity of ammunition, is aground near Toplotfampo find Is being harassed by a detachment of constitu tionalists, according to dispatches today from Ouaymas. The dispatches further state that the commander of the Americas squadron at Guaymas refused aid to the Tampico because it is not in a sinking condition. Rebels on shore have frustrated two attempts to land the soldiers from the gunboat. - ASTORIA FIRM'S BID IS LOWEST FOR ARMY BOAT (Washington Bureau nf The Journal.) Washington, Sept 6. Wilson Broth ers, of Astoria, have submitted the low est bid, 828,000 for building a survey cruiser for th United States army. The Mare Island navy yard's bid was $32,- 000. Senator Lane is, urging acceptance of the low bid. A decision is expected 11 UHU.J . , No liar for Commercial Club. Burlingame, Cal.. Sept. 6. "The light. ning bug is brilliant but it hasut any mind. It blunders through existence with It's headlight on behind." Thua re. fleet members of the. Commercial club tier who are mighty dry. Too late, thoy found the deed for their property absu- Jutely prohibited be)r ' ..., , .;, ,( SERVANTS FORM CLUB Convicted by Jury in San Fran cisco on One of Four Counts After Five Hours of Deliberation. TWO JURYMEN WANT TO BRING ACQUITTAL Verdict Said to Be Result of Compromise by Impatient Business Men. (United Treai Leased Wire.). San Francisco, Sept. 6. Convicted of white slavery as defined In the Mann act, K. Drew Camlnettl. son of United States Commissioner General of Immi gration Anthony Camlnettl, and Maury I. Diggs; scion of a prominent Sacra mento family, will be sentenced by Fed eral Judge William C. Van Fleet next Wednesday, September 10. Camineti was found guilty of trans porting Lola Norris, 20-year-old Sacra mento girl, from the capital to Reno for immoral purposes. He was con victed on one of four counts brought p.galnst him in the indictment. The maximum penalty is five years' Im prisonment, $5000 fine or both. The Jury returned its verdict at 5; 15 last night. Diggs was convicted on four of six counts relating to the taking of Marsha Warrington and Lola Norris. to Reno. He can be given 20 years or a $20,000 fine, or both. Both Beleased on Bonds. Both men are out on bonds. Cam Inetti's security, $10,000, was immed iately furnished by Theodore Bacclgalup of San Francisco and Attorney Frank J. Freeman of Willows. The Incongruity of the Camlnettl ver dict is the topic of discussion here to day. Camlnettl was found guilty of aiding In transporting Lola Norris to Reno, although it was proved that he did not actually purchase the tickets He was acquitted on the other hand of persuading and enticing the girl to elope with him, although on this point the testimony against him appeared strongest. Lola Norris had established to the satisfaction of the Jury that aba was chaste before having met Camlnettl and that she submitted to his advances only after a long siege. Two Jurors Would Acquit. Ten of the 12 Jurymen were for con viction on at least two of the four counts. Two, believed to have been William A. Helster, a married real es tate man, and Thomas H. Hasklns, mar ried, a coffee and tea merchant, stub bovnly held out for acquittal on all counts. Tlio men on the Jury have big busi ness interests. They were chafing at the delay at getting back in harness. Five hours of wrangling proved Irk some to these positive, strong willed Jurors. The result was a compromise of the ten with the two. That was the reason for the strange verdict against Camlnettl. Plre Hours for Verdict. . It was believed from the outset that the defendant would not be held re sponsible for the Warrington girl's lnpse, since Diggs, whose companion she had been on the elopement, had been proved to be the major domo of the party. By strange coincidence the Juries in the Diggs case and that of Camlnettl were out the same length of time, al most to the minute. In each case It took five hours to reach a verdict. JUDGE NOYES ENDS LIFE WHILE READING TOLSTOI Grief Over Death of Wife Is Given as Motive for Suicide. l'-..:ted Press Leased Wire.) Los Angeles, Sept. 6. Unbearable grief over the death of his wife Is known today to havo prompted the sui cide ot former Superior Judge J. S. Noyes, who killed himself by swallow ing laudanum after lie had soothed his last hour by reading a chapter from Tolstoi's "Resurrection.". Judge, Noyes' body was found in Syca more Park at sundown yesterday. In his lap was the book, and a note ex plained his act. It read: "it is little use for mo to try to live longer. It was a happy homo for me with Fannie, and I have constantly mourned her death ever since, day and night. I am now ut terly exhausted with sorrow." Judge Noyes was the first Judge of the Riverside county superior bench. He served there 12 years and recently came to Los Angeles. FELL ASLEEP IN HAYMOW; CANNOT BE AWAKENED San Jose, Cal., Sept. 6. Every phy slolan In this city admits lie is non plussed by jthe remarkable1 case of 18-year-old "Wright ' Keehle, member of a prominent family, who has slept like a child for. more than a month. Keeble wandered away and had been missing two days when he was found In a hay mow,' wrapped in a blanket and with several boards piled on his body. v Every effort to awaken him has been in vain. He Promises to Obey. x Santa Ana., Cal., Sept.' Whether the officiating magistrate or brld'V groom, Arthur Dentler, was rattled, r both, the fact remains today that Dent ler- promised to love, honor- and obey Llda Turner, with whdm h eloped from ho Angele.:f";; , :''.Vjv;l;;1-.i v, ., om- c?;'1' ''.-.:;-. f :". ;,.' V u , - '"" : . aKs 1 ' p ' " Pi mi rt jjyM, : ate :...-Jr Above How grHt mogul engine smashed wooden Pullmans on rear of Bar Harbor express. Below Searhcing for bodies under wrecked Pullman last Tuesday, atter the White Mountain Express crashed into the rear of the Bar Harbor express, near New Haven, Conn., killing 21 and injuring 40. ENGINEER OF WRECKED TRAIN HAD BUT LITTLE SLEEP FOR A WEEK Made His Own Run and That of Another Engineer Who Was III. (United Press Fussed Wire.) New Haven, Conn., Sept. 6. Testify ing at the public investigation Into th New Haven railroad disaster Tuesday Engineer Miller of the wrueked train said today, that, for a week before the accident he had been covering ills own run and that of another engineer, who was 111. .,, "He was to have come back to work Tuesday," Miller continued, "but wasn't in shape to do it, so they said as i had done his work as well as my own for one week, I might as well do it for an other and here we are. "I did my work, without the aid of stimulants. No, I drank no whisky. I slept when I could. ,Sunday I rested, go ing to Springfield Sunday night. Mon day morning I took my engine out on my run to Stamford, arriving there at 9:15, cleaned my engine, started homo and arrived at 12:15. Then slept until 4:45, returned to Stamford, rested an hour, started for Springfield and got there at midnight. "At 6:13 we started the return run and at 6:65 the wreck occurred." General Manager G. L. Bardo of the New Haven road, following Miller as a witness, said that between August. 1911, and last July., the directors authorized expenditure of $6,926,000 for improve ments intended to make-travel safer for passengers. They had decided, he- added, to buy only all steel cars in future. Millionaires, who, living or spending their summers along the New Haven railroad line, find it convenient to pat ronise its trains, need not use the same equipment as people of no financial prominence. It was brought out today in the course of the public investigation into last Tuesday's wreck on the sys tem, in which 21 lives were lost and about '40 persons were Injured. It was the testimony of General Pas seriger Agent A. M. Smith which de veloped the latest revelation. The use of steel alone bad been ordered by the company. Smith said, in the construc tion of the "club cars" used exclusively by rich commuters, who rent the cars at $3000 apiece yearly. . The public Inves tigation into '.the wreck was concluded today.:;;;,,, PORTLAND FIRMS NET $150,000 AS RESULT OF Trade Campaign Shows En couraging Financial Re turns; Session Is Ended, The success of Buyers' Week, which ended last night, icasurd in cash, has meant Investment of approximately $180, 000 with the wholesalers of Portland. Partial reports showed an expenditure of $102,000 by the buyers of businesses from" Montana, Idaho, Washington, Ore gon and one British Columbia firm, at the Commercial club headquarters this morning. Measured In acquaintance, In enthu siasm for Portland as a Jobbing center, the value of Buyers' Week Is incalcu lable, declare members of the Jobbers & Manufacturers association, which had the. week's program in charge. The total number of firms registered from Portland's trade territory was 260. This is considered large when It is re membered that many of the buyers (Continued on Page Ten.) OLD MAN KILLED; HIS IS Bomb Exploded Under Floor Beneath His Bed; Little Home Is. Wrecked. (United Tress Leased Wire.) "San Diego, Cal., Sept 8. Dynamite or blasting powder ' placed under his house near the eastern limits of- the city ' early, today caused the death of Peter , B. Hansen, 74. and completely wrecked his little home. Hansen's son, Peter B. Hansen Jr., Was questioned but" not held.- , Hansen,' who -was - well-to-do," was asleep when the bomb was set off under the floor beneath - his bed. 8r great was the force of the explosion that the entire , floor ; of the bedroom was re duced te splinters., Hansen, was Blown half , way.'. across, the roorrt....TbeV walls were wrecked and the celling caved in. BUYERS WEEK HOUSE DYNAMITED VANCOUVER BARRACKS IS TO BE ENLARGED TO THREE REGIMENT POST General Wood Tells Senator Chamberlain of Plans for Improvement, (Wsshtoctun Bureau of The Journal.) Washington, Sept. 6. In order to set at rest a much-discussed question whether or not the war department de sires to abandon Vancouver barracks in favor of creating a large brigade post at some other place, Senator Chamber lain, chairman of the committee on mili tary affairs, accompanied by Joseph N. Teal, called today on the chief of staff. Major General Leonard Wood, and asked him regarding future plans for Vancou ver. , i. L . General Wood assured his callers that the department had no Intention what ever of abandoning the post at Vancou ver barracks; on the contrary, he -Bald, plans were under consideration for im proving It, enlarging and adding to the . buildings, Improving the grounds and making it a two or three regiment gar rison post. He said that there were various military reasons why that . post should become much more important than it is now. and intimated that con gress would be asked to make proper provision for Its enlargement. RATTLESNAKE BELTS v KEEP M'MANIGAL BUSY- Los Angeles. Sept. 8. Twenty belts from 20 rattlesnake skins In a month is the record of industry established by Ortte McManigal. star witness' In th famous case of the McNamar broth ers, who occupies a "suite" of cells it the county Jail hera pending his final disposition by the authorities,, v ; i McManigal undertook the manufacture of snakeskln belts when the fashioning of picture trames from cigar buses palled upon him. He bss been Jn Jstt , her'e since the spring of lilt and has no assurance ot how long he win re main. , . V ' . v:i:'''"tv',;v!;;t JEROME 0. TRAVERS IS ' V'CTOR OVER ANDERSON " Garden City. N. Y. Sept. I. Jsroro , P. Travers, .amateur, national golf champion, successfully '' defended ills title today against John O. Amirsn In'the finals of tP national ."'rate i.r championship tonrnamrut br. Trsvem Won up and. i to plar; ; ' V ' -'vY;-I 7: -r".'t. '.''.'" UV!;"..