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v Your To Let P- JVsSK JJ M Lj Jl Kj ! r f"j J jj LJ " (5 1 Occasional tn V focuses the attention of all prob- V T " V, ( ti 3" Jy "xK NiA S' HjyAVyV ' ) FW morrow; "t v; . . r. : able renters on our property. - -S mTditarl 'U" v PRICE TWO CENTS. txJm friv. cSr. VOL. XII. NO. 261. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1914. SIXTEEN PAGES. BoLDilEL BY IN III BED Resident of Woodstock Fires ; on Two Burglars When . They Invade His Room, Half Score of I Shots Are Exchanged. HUSBAND AND WIFE HAVE NARROW ESCAPE Two Bullets Lodge in Wood ! Within Few Inches of Their Heads; Dead Thief Found in1 BrUSh NeaC HOUSe: HiS "Pal" Escapes. A. A. Hatcher, 4524 Forty-fifth street. Southeast, shot and fatally 'wounded a burglar in : his home this morning at 4 o'clock, the burglar escaping from the house, but was found dead at dayllglik with about $400 worth of Jewelry taken -from the Hatcher home. The man has not been Identified. Ten- revolver shots were exchanged between Hatcher and the burglar's partner, wtio escaped and is still at large. . The pistol duel was in the bed- . room. Hatcher firing six shots, while the burglars fired four. Mrs. Hatcher was awakened by a dis turbance about her pillow. She real ized there were burglars in the- room ,,-atid remained absolutely quiet, except to nudge her sleeping husband. The burglars walked to the foot of the bed. and turned on a small flashlight, which awoke him. Hatcher Opens Fire. Quietly slipping his hand -under his : pillow. Hatcher seized his pistol and began firing into the dark at the foot of the bed. At his second shot, the burglars began firing at the two per sons in bed. One bullet from the rob ber's gun struck six inches a"bove Hatcher's head, jWhile another bullet truck about 12 inches above the head of Mrs. Hatcher. Two other balls lodged farther away from the bed. All " the time Hatcher and his wife re mained flat on their backs, the hus- "band shooting. When the two men had fired four hots,' they ran through the parlor, dining . room, kitchen, out the back door and away. Hatcher and his wife raised a front window and ran to the adjoining neighbors, as the burglars bad cut the telephone wires at the re ceiver. The, police were called. Acting Captain InBkeep and Patrolmen Wise and Gouldstone responding.- They made - a search of the neighborhood, but as the arc lights went out at this time they were unable to find the dead burglar. Body pf Burglar Found. This morning as soon as it was light Hatcher continued the search, finding the body of the burglar on Holgate (Concluded on Pace Nine, Column Two) CASH RESERVE HUB Institution Proposed Would Handle Any Situation and Ern Confidence, (United Press Leased Wire.) New York, Jan. ,7. The currency or sanitation committee met here again today. Secretary of the Treasury Mc- Adoo and Secretary of Agriculture Houston were present. George F. Baker, president of tho First National bank, of New York, and Charles Sabln of the Guaranty Trust company, testified. Both favored in cluding New England, New York and northern New Jersey in the eastern federal reserve system. Baker said he thought Philadelphia and Pittsburg should also be included in this system but Sabln was not so sure of this. Baker believed a bank big enough to handle any situation and one com nanding the respect and confidence of banking' Interests ought to be located here and capitalized at about $23, 000,000. Secretaries McAdoo and Houston will leave for Boston tomorrow, and will bold several meetings there. Stephen Baker, president of the Bank of Manhattan, . favored Chicago, Minneapolis ana one on tne raciric coast. He favored Philadelphia over Washington and Baltimore. James MartlOdale, president of the Chemical National bank, did not think eight banks were necessary. He sug- rested that a bank In New York, with branches in Boston and Philadelphia, could take care of the entire east. ; 'All witnesses were agreed that the hilftw York Reserve bank should have . the greatest capital. LANE INDIGNANT AT Z FEDERAL ARCHITECTS '""-' (Washington Bureau or The Journal.) Washington, Jan. 7. Senator Lane ; is very indignant because the archi tect of the treasury department wants ' to abandon Portland postof f ice plans. ' sell the site and ask an additional 1 million dollars for a new building. ."Tfcey could put up that building in six; months, and have money left. I ; tdld the architect's office plainly what v I thought of It .Clerks are running FINANCIER FAVORS BIG NEW YORK BANK AS FOLK DANCES MAY BE BARRED FROM SCHOOLS BY BOARD Teachers' ! Committee Rec ommends Teaching of Art Be Discontinued in Every Form in District's Buildings DIRECTORS WILL ACT ON QUESTION JAN. 15 Social Events in Evenings May Not Be Included in the Ban. Teaching of folk dancing In Port land's public schools will be taboo hereafter if tVia vainlnHnna ....l Mst night by the teachers" committee ui iob Doara or education are adopted by the school board at its next regu lar meeting Thursday evening, Jan ary 16. Following protests from a numbe: of ministers and laymen the committee after lengthy deliberations finally came to inese conclusions last, night: All folk, dancing during school hours should be discontinued, but folk and song games should be continued In the kindergarten and first primary three graaes. in reference to the use of school assenriDiy rooms for dances or other social center uses, the committee was no less clear cut. It recommended that dances should be allowed, when piop- eriy directed, i provided - the use of school property in this connection is not contrary to law. Dances, or any umrr social center activities, it was explained could be held only after school hours. : v When the' teachers' . committee, which is composed of Directors Som mer and .Plummer, met last night In the county courthouse, it was greeted by a strong contingent of persons who have interested themselves in the school folk dancing problem. , The session; was a troubled one In some respects, and once Rev. J, K. Hawkins made the assertion that Mr Plummer was ; "unfair." Plummer an swered him ! sharply, denying the charge,- and before the evening was done, half a dozen speakers, who stood for the elimination of dancing, were warm in their ! praise of the fair-mind (Concluded on Page Eleven, Column Seren) ACTING SECRETARY IS NOMllTTnl TRANSFER OF CARDEN Mexican Minister's Policy In imical to United States, It Is Hinted, Unofficially, (tjnlted Press Iveaaed Wire.) Washington Jan. 7. Acting Secre tary of State John Bassett Moore would neither confirm nor deny today the re port that the department had heard Sir Lionel Cardcn, British minister to Mexico, was about to be transferreo to some other post. It wu learned positively, however, on unofficial authority that ' Ambassador Page, American diplomatic representative in London, had sent word that .e Eng lish government does Intend such a transfer. No one in official circles here trie'! to pretend that. Sir Lionel's transfer from Mexico City would be otherwise than very gratifying. He arrived at his post Just as President Wilson was making his Initial efforts to force Gen eral Huerta from the Mexican presi dency, eized the occasion to present his credentials to the dictator, and by the conspicuous recognition which he thus accorded to him, did a rreat deal toward rengthening the Huerta regime , It was pretty broadly intimated at the time, both In this country and in England, that the British foreign of fice was acting In Mexico to ruit Brit (Concluded on Page Twelte, Column One) Nineteen vessels barbound at the mouth of the Columbia river for sev eral days went their way today, the storm having " abated sufficiently to make the crossing of the bar possible. Communication by wire with Astoria, out since Just after dark last night, was resumed at noon today, and first word received here was to the effect that the weather blockade had been broken. First to cross the bar was the steamer Beaver inbound from San Francisco, carrying 175 passengers and 1000 tons of freight. She : was followed by the Bangor, Oleum, W. F. Herrin and W S. Porter. , Of the out bound ships, the Breakwater, Bear, John A. Hooper, and MultrlCniah, San Ramon, Daisy Gadsby, Daisy Putnam, Portland, Atlas,; Christian Bors, Craig hall, Yellowstone, Paraiso and Fen wick sailed. j Gives Children Candy. Pass Christian, Miss., Jan. 7. Presi dent Wilson spent the morning playing golf. On hts way to the links his au tomobile was halted in front of a school at Long Branch. Children lined botu sides of the machine and each re ceived a package of Christams Candy SEA MODERATES AND SHIPPING RESUMED SEAM MUD SLIDE (HELMS HOUSE; Ei Mother, Buried to Chin in Mud and Water, Rescued With Difficulty, (Cnlted PreM Laed Wire.) Seattle, Wash., Jan. 7. Baby Booth, years old. was killed and six other members of the family of Simon Booth were injured when their home on the bluff on Alkl avenue, near Fairmont avenue. West Seattle, was swept 25 feet down the bank by an earth 6lide late yesterday afternoon. When the house commenced to rock Mrs. Booth seized the baby and at tempted to leave by a rear door. A storm of rain and mud forced her back into the room. The baby was caught against a piece of furniture and killed. Mrs. Booth tell through a hole In the floor as the sliding house was wrenched apart and sank in the mud. It took the combined efforts of several nelahbors C5 minutes to extrl cate her. For more than half an houry the mud and water continued to rise and reached a level with Mrs. Booth's chin. As fast as the rescuers removed the mud it would rush back again. Booth threw his daughter Catherine, aged 4, out of the door to safety when, attracted by the cries of his wife, he started to rescue her, but his legs were pinioned by two sills and he was held prisoner until neigh bors chopped away the wood. None of the survivors were seriously injured- FAVORABLE REPORT ON RIVER PLAN EXPECTED (Washington Bureau of The Journal.) Washington, Jan. 7. A favorable re- Dort by the district engineer on the improvement of Coquille river from the mouth near Bandon to Coquille is now before the board of engineers for rivers and harbors, which is understood to be favorable to It. The last rivers and harbors bill con tained a provision by Hawley for a survfy to clear out the channel, to im prove navigation. The report recommends $40,000 for the work to prevent erosion and for revetment and $6000 -for maintenance. WEDDING CAKE MADE 73 YEARS AGO EATEN ON CHRISTMAS DAY Wedding fruit; cake 73 'years old made up one of the items on the menu of George R. Os good of Tacoma on ' Christmas day. Mr. Osgood is one of the excursionists of the British Co lumbia party entertained in Portland last night He said the cake.' despite its antiquity, was still eatable and revived many old memories. "My aunt back in Vermont Is now 93 years old," said Mr. Os-' good. "Her husband has been dead more than 60 years, but every year on her wadding an niversary, she has served a morsel of this cake. This year her daughter conceived the idea of sending us a bit of the cake and my son and my grandson attended the Christmas dinner and partook of a few crumbs." BABY Di 1 WRECK "HERE COMES THE CONDUCTOR!" 0 j SURVIVORS E SPANISH CRAFT'S Shipwrecked Sailors Rescued Off Tanker Oklahoma Say Much Valuable Time Was Wasted at Perilous Point. BATTERED MEN REACH THE HARBOR OF BOSTON Bavaria's Seamen Lauded Captain of Jll-Fated Boat Gives Details. (United Press Leased Wire.) Boston, Jan. 7. Declaring a Came gle medal the .due of every one of the sailors- who helped to save him self and his men from the sinking tank steamship Oklahoma, Captain Alfred Gunter and seven seamen res cused with him arrived here today on the Hamburg-American liner Bava ria. It was a battered Party. Loud In his praise for the Bayarla's crew, Gunter was equally emphatic la his denunciation of those who manned the Spanish steamship Manu el Calvo, the first vessel to respond to the Oklahoma's wireless calls for help. j "The Calvo sighted ub early Sun day," said Captain Gunter. "After it (Concluded on Page Seien, Column Three) T Albert Fleischhauer Did Not Turn Over Tax Money to Skamania County. (Special to The Journal.) Stevenson, Wash., Jan. 7. Mystery that enveloped the disappearance last August of Albert Fleischhauer, former county treasurer, was ' cleared up yes terday when a discrepancy amounting to 13081.44 was found in the records kept by the . missing t man. Fleisch houer was bonded for $25,000 by the American Surety company, and that institution, having been notified of the shortage, will seek to find him. At the time of Flelschhauer's disap pearance his books were audited by experts and pronounced all right. It was then reported that the treasurer had wandered away and died.. The truth came to light yesterday through notification sent to the Wey erhaeuser Lumber company that it was delinquent in taxes. Auditor Marshall of the company appeared be fore the county commissioners show ing receipts for the money believed due, together with the company check in payment received through the bank. Fleischhauer is about 60 years old. He is a member of the Elks, Oddfel lows and Knights of Pythias lodges. His wife is living at Stevenson. CREW FOR DELAYS MISSING REASURER SHORT IN ACCOUNTS S. Ah J! II U I II 1 1 If 1 1 1 1 1 ! HI III i ss. "zess's. s Mill, ' , i t l INDEPENDENCE AVENUE, MAIN STREET OF COPPERFIELD, OREGON wr :i-''?y-W PSs Si! Wi - J l Nearly all the buildings of the Eastern Oregon town, now under mar tial law, are shown MAY HAVE BEEN THE CAUSE OF KILLINGS Believe It Was Woman Who Shot Daughter, Man and Committed Suicide, (United Press leased Wire.) Los Angeles, Jan. 7. Blighted ro mance is believed today to be respon sible for the deaths of Mrs. Mary Graves Cox, her' daughter, Florence, 12, and a man believed to be William Melton, a realty broker. The bodies of the trio, perforated by bullets, were found shortly before midnight In a room at the Hotel Vidamar. Basing their Judgment on the posi tions of the wounds on the bodies and the attendant powder marks, the po lice believe the woman killed . her daughter and the man and then com mitted suicide. Persons in the hotel at the time of the shooting said that they heard at least la shots. No one went near the death room until the police arrived. When the door was broken down the (Concluded on Page Five. Columm Three) BLIGHTED ROMANCE In this picture. JUDGE WHITE ASSERTS HE FAVORED ORDERLY ENFORCEMENT OF LAW 1 Godwin Says Baker Restrict ed District Was Closed Some Time Ago. (Special to The Journal.) Baker, Or., Jan. 7. "I am ready to quit, if removed for standing for or derly law enforcement, rather than radical measures," said Judge Samuel White, commenting on his removal as advocate general of the state militia by Governor West. District Attorney Godwin, asked re garding Governor West's statement that he would close disorderly houses, laughed and said he paid no attention to the message. "If West can find such places her we will thank him. We closed the re stricted district several months ago and have raided every suspected place since then. The records of the court show convictions. We are ready to let West go as far as he likes." Godwin called Wbitney today to in vestigate the alleged attempt to de stroy the Kimberland hotel, Incendiar ism being charged. Attorney Collier, representing Gov ernor West, returned to Portland, after appearing in court yesterday and agreeing that the governor. Miss Hobbs, Lawson, et al, answer the re straining order In the Copperfield case Saturday. He said possibly West will answer the charges In person. Local authorities will have the cast tried out in court, which has been theli only contention throughout the whole affair. FLOOD IN TUALATIN TRAFFIC Five feet of water flowing over the tracks of the Oregon Electric railway at Tualatin has caused a complete break of traffic on the main line of the interurban system. The Tualatin river, swollen by the recent heavy rains, went out of its banks last night, and this morning had swept over the fight of way. The expedient of placing flat cars on the track In the overflowed portion was used to allow passengers to walk across to transfer from one train to another. Baggage was carried across these cars also. Superintendent A. J. Davidson has sent men to Tualatin to protect the company's property, though no actual damage of consequence had been done as late as noon. PRESIDENT WILSON IS . FULLY RECOVERED Washington, Jan. 7. Presidential Secretary. Tumulty received a telegram from Dr. Cary T. Grayson, 'President Wilson's medical attendant, today, saying the chief executive, again in excellent health, will leave Pass Chris tian Sunday night, his vacation ended, and arrive In Washington some time next Tuesday. President Wilson admitted this aft ernoon that he was feeling better than be had in months. He . spends most of his afternoons working. The presi dent is preparing hts trust message to congress and is also considering the problem of government for the Panama canal zone. Logging on Williamson River. (Wsohlnstoa Bnreau ot The Journal.) ' Washington, Jan. 7. The interior department promises ' Senator Lane it will reopen the question ot logging on i Williamson river, Klamath reserva- BLOCKADES I. A II 11 JJ Martin KnezervJcb, Copperfleld sa loonkeeper, who wa burned out once and whose saloon was set afire a second time last month. CLEAN UP OR GET OUT, WIRES GOVERNOR TO BAKER LAW OFFICER i i Afi r J I UlStriCt Attorney bOdWin IS Threatened With ?mecU'KSlt' tion Unless He Acts, (Kaletn Bureau of The Journal.) Salem, Or., Jan. 7. Governor West's law enforcement activities in Baker county took a new turn today when he sent the following message to District Attorney C. T. Godwin of Baker: "unless you take prompt steps to perform the duty Imposed ypon you by chapter 274, laws of 1813, and abate all nuisances, such as bouses of ill fame, etc., this office will be compelled to prosecute you for negligence in of flee. Please advise me as to what ac tion we can expect on your part.", It is a simple alternative either en force the laws against vice or be pros ecuted .for neglect of duty that the governor has put up to the prosecuting officer of Baker county, and the gov ernor Intends it shall force the district attorney to show his hand as to wheth er he wants to wtnk at one kind of law violation while conducting prose' cutlons for other kinds. Chapter 274, cited by the governor is the so called abatement law passed by the last legislature. It provides that houses of ill fame are public nuis ances and shall be abated. . The second section of the act provides that when ever such nuisance exists the "district attorney shall maintain a suit in equity in the name or the state of Oregon to perpetually enjoin such nuisance etc. The duty of the district attorney un der such circumstances Is made man datory. I .if the governor should be compelled to prosecute District Attorney Godwin he says he would act under section 2043 of the code, which provides' that if any officer of the state or county shall wilfully neglect or refuse to per form a duty or service to the manifest hindrance or obstruction of public Jus tice, whether such injury, hindrance or obstruction was particularly Intended or not, he shall be punisbed, upon con viction, by Imprisonment or fins or removal from office. From a telegram received last night by Governor "West from Colons! B. K. SHERIFF RAHD ON HIS WAY TO Ready to "Do His Duty fn Keeping Order in Eastern Oregon Towh After Con ference With Representa tives of Governor West. COUNCILMEN WILL BE 'GIVEN CHANCE TO QUIT Should They Prove Recalci trant, Small Force of Mill-' tia Will Be Left to Keep' Peace in the Now Thor- - oughly-CleanedlCamp. By J. F. 8f tor. Huntington, Or., Jajn. 7. Colonel Lawson, Attorney Frank Collier and Sheriff Ed Rand of Baker county left this morning for Ooppef field, and when they return on tonight's train Colonel Lawson hopes to bring wlth him ths guard he left In Copperfleld Monday ' morning. If the old Copperfleld coun cil does not resign, 'however, thres guardsmen, in charge", of a sergeant. rill be left there. "Colonel Lawson may take the rest or-his detachment to Baker with liim tonight. Attorney Collier returned from Ba-- ker last night, and said he believed there was some one othj-r than Sheriff Rand to blame for th conditions in Copperfleld. Rand and Colonel Law- son have discussed the Baker county situation at length, and the sheriff stands ready to do his part In keeping order In Copperfleld. In fact, so satis factory is the agreement- reached be tween Rand and Lawson. that it is like ly the sheriff will appoint a deputy to maintain order at Copperfleld, and the situation will be left ' In his hands. rith perhaps a special agent of the governor on hand occasionally tu keep an eye out for law violations. Collier succeeded in ostajninz a con tinuance of the Injunction uit against Governor West, Miss Fern Hobbs, Col onel Lawson and others until Saturday, and the contempt proceedings institut ed . against Lawson for irtjoring hs court's injunction , against removing liquor from Copperfleld will bedropped' altogether, so that Lawson can visit J Baker without fear of: arrest at the; hands of the civil authorities. j The state will face ian action for damages for removing Copperfteld's (Concluded on P Fnue,' Onlnam Two) THREE BATTLESHIPS T Delaware, Florida and Utah to Relieve Those Now There, Says paniels, (United Tress Ieauxl Wlre.V Washington, Jan. 7' Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced this aft-' ernoon that the battleships Delaware, Florida and Utah will sail for Mexican ' waters about February IE. I 'w Brill, IU1 cunu7 c- plained, to relieve the Rhode Island,' lleved remain, however, as recently happened In a similar case, the Unit ed States would have 10 battleships off the Mexican coast. Incidentally Secretary Danjels an nouncement Immediately followed a dental by him that "any order had been issued or was contemplated'' to send more ships to Mexican waters. SUB-STATION FIRE STOPS CAR TRAFFIC Los Angeles, Jan. 7.-4-8treetcar traf fic was stopped two hours as the re sult of a (60,000 firs in the. Vernon substation, caused by a bolt of light ning near a power station 100 miles away. Latent Power There has always been plenty of water power in? Oregon, but until the electric Companies de veloped It we recelvjed no benefit Now the water power Is turned Into electricity andn brought int our homes and factories for our use. The power was there but was uself as. ; ; Hundred of men ' and women In Oregon wish to' sell things , we need and buy ' things ws wish to sell; thel;' , wishes srs useless unless they are brought to us. Journal Wat Ads act as messengers; they 3? ring buyers and sellers together no matter how far apart they 111 ve. Men wish to sell Belgian hares, 250 sacks of potatoes, an- otter coat, a graphophone. with Z3S records for -$26. filinf cabinets, mattresses, furnlturr,-etc. Others ,want to rent a chicken ranch, re cover a stolen blcrtle. find $K)0 -in bills - lost last Saturday, hire lumber and- real estate" salesmen, etc. . i ' These offers ar brought to i your home every day. Turn vn your eleetriclty sn read today's. Journal Want Ads.'I COPPERFIELD ORDERED 0 MEXICO V.