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- - ; : - ' , i VOL. XIII. NO. 7. PORTLAND, OREGON TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1914-SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. g&SffifgjjBSg V , . - . . . . WALLS FULL ON SEARCHERS; 23 IE 1 CT1S Ruins of Burned Missouri Athletic Club's Building Topple Over on Firemen and Adjoining Building. 400 Wellesley Girls Escape Dormitory Fire r. at t, at t t at at at at at at at at at Flee From Burning Building in Light Attire College Hall, Administration Building of Wellesley College, Which Was Destroyed in Early Morning Fire Today With a Loss of $1,000,000; Students Form Fire Brigade; No Fatalities Reported. 18 FIREMEN CAUGHT WHEN RUIN CRUMBLES Groans and Cries Come From Spot and Number of Dead Not Learned. M'nllPd Pr L-.d Wire St. Louis, Mo., March 17. Mre men, digging in the debris of the Mis souri AtUletlo dab's fallen wwt wall, cam about 4 o'clock npoa Etrmtn Cobb, itlHmia for ths Bt. Lmli Seed company. He was alive and 30 "man worked to mt him. Sis head and arms were quickly freed, but bis body was pinned by debris. K said b thought bis feet rastad on a corps. fC-w fb I Vi?- yxi&4&s&&-" - I CA1LLAUX QUITS CABINET PLACE OVERSHOOTING SIZE OF ALASKA French Minister of Finance Resigns as Result of Kill ing of Editor Calmette of Figaro by Mme. Caillaux. Mexican Bandits Are Blamed Action Is Up to at at at at at at General Murray Major General Arthur Murray, United States Army, in Command of tho uwm iwn,rmpnt U'hn nisrnsfiMl Mexican nltuatlon. r"oi- 1 ' . . . t. . lowing His Inspection of Forts at the Mouth of tne coiumDia impOrianCe tO rORianU 01 Klver ami Arrival in inis tiiy. n: r..i Sh.ju.-. uJCiiiiiy ulCdl Uicill Territory as Result of En actment of R. RiBill Told. Washington D (ittES Gets Report BUSINESS MEN i 1 8 M. VICE PRESIDENT OBJECT OF ATTACK BY WOMAN Entire Ministry Threatened With Overthrow Through Dramatic Shooting. Bt. Louis, March 17. The west wall of the burned Minsourl Athletic club bulldlngr. In eollaptflng this afternoon upon a force of men who were search ing the ruins for more victims of the recent fire, also crashed upon the St. l,ouls Seed company's building- adjoin ing and partly crushed It, burying a number of employes. Those It seemed certain were under the wreckage were: Misses Hazel and Mildred Conder man, sales girls for the seed company Herman Cobb, a seed company salesman. Miss Mae Mullrlne, a stenographer for the company. Henry Strathmore, the company s bookkeeper. Fourteen members of the searching party were working In the ruins of the club building. These were In addition to the four Injured men taken out. According to spectators In Washing ton street, the men were massed about the swimming pool on the first floor level trying to clear the wreckage, with the west wall, 17 Inches thick and badly weakened, towering seven stories above them. Krom the first this wall had been regarded with apprehension and Build ing Commissioner McKelyey., Jiad planned to dynamite it as soon a 1!hs swimming pool had been searched. As the workers tugged at the ma'Sc of charred timber, twisted steel work and crumbling masonry. Just at 2 p. m., the wall collapsed. It was so un expected that but a few of the men were able to Jump from under the mountain of bricks arid mortar. A stifling cloud of dust arose, and as the spectators rushed forward, groans and cries could be heard from under the wreckage. A fire alarm was turned In and messages were sent to th city dispensary for physicians, hospital supplies and ambulances. A fresh search for the latest vic tims was begun at once. Blaze Starts in Fourth Floor Laboratory at 5;30 and Girls Flee for Their Lives, Emptying Building' in Three Minutes; Must Close Temporarily. (United Press Leased Wire.) ' Wellesley, Mass., March 17. Few cf them clad In anything more than their night dresses, 400 girl students were driven by fire from the main dormi tory in the administration building of Wellesley college at 6:30 a. m. today. The structure was completely de stroyed with $1,000,000 estimated loss. The college' fire brigade, composed of girls, with Miss Mary O'Mahoney as chief, aroused the students, directed the rescues and saved what little prop erty they could. The dean's records were carried out by her secretary, Mias Mary Frazer Smith. The building, five stories high, 400 feet long and con taining . 200 rooms, was emptied in three minutes. It was ereciea in me 70's and was the oldest of the college structures.- President Ellen Pendleton, of tne college, announced at chapel today that the institution 'Will slose until April 7. The fire was believed to have started In a laboratory on- the iourtn rioor. Tt ' mrettfl- wltTT-great' rapidity ant- th tlm the Kirls in rooms on the third floor were awakened by the smoke they had time to do no more than serin from their beds and run for the exits without stopping for clothing or voi.mhips From the lower floors a little property was saved but not much The girls generally behaved with ad mirable coolness. Ing will be a distinct loss to hundreds of Wellesley graduates scattered over tne entire nation. It was the oldest building on the college campus, and placed in a com manding position with respect to tne other buildings. It was built in 1875, or pressed brick, at a cost of $450,000, by Henry F. Durant. Old-fashioned as it was. it was loved and revered by all Wellesley students as mother of all the Wellesley buildings, and as typi cal of the spirit of the Old Wellesley. While the building can be replaced. Its collections of art treasures, paint ings, statuary and relics are an Irre parable loss. It was used for both dor mitory and administration purposes. Wellesley college is situated at Wellesley, Mass.. 16 miles from Boston, on the Boston & Albany railroad. Its grounds embrace 320 acres. Its pres ident. Dr. Ellen Fits Pendleton, was re cently a guest in this city as the house guest of, Mrs. Vincent Cook at 6 North Fifth street. Mrs. Cook, who is president of the local Wellesley alumnae society, stated Ttil Snortiiflrttiarthe flriwe. ture was the most revered building on the Wellesley campus. "I could not feel worse about It if it had been my own house that had burned," she remarked. There are a number of Wellesley alumnae in Portland. Miss Frances Baltes. daughter of F. W. Baltes, of the firm of F. W. Baltes & Co., printers, of Portland, is a mem- woiinTrort hv tradition and recollec- I ber of the freshman class at Wellesley, tions of pleasant associations, the de- As the freshmen were not housed In struction by fire of the main building J the old main building she could not at Wellesley college early tnis morn--o ueen in uanget. LUMBERMEN SE END TO TRADE WITH EAST IF FE TOLLS LOSE OceaiiSled Trip Is Stefansson's Plan Letters From Explorer Say K Will Venture Out oa Ice of tba Arotio f or at Xreart ISO Miles. Ottawa, March 17. letters to the naval department from Vllhjalmur Steffansson, the explorer, written laat January, were received today In the mall from the Royal Northwest Mount ed Police at Fort McPherson. A sled trip over the Ice In the Arctic ocean Into an unknown region to the nort.i west of Herachal island was referred to by Stefansson. He said he- expected to go at least 150 miles out In the Arc tic ocean. Lad Is Scratched Wound Proves Fatal Mother Merely Breaks Skin With Sols ors, But Blood Poisoning1 Develops; Medical Aid Proves of Ko Avail. Walla Walla. Wash., March 17. A month ago Mrs. Melvln F. Turner of this city accidentally scratched her 1-year-old boy, Archie, with a pair of scissors. The wound was nothing more than a slight abrasion, and no attention was paid to it for two or three weeks. Then the arm began to get painful. Yesterday the child died from blood poison, despite all the phy sicians could do for it. King's Attendants Eject Suffragettes Throw Them Oat When They Interrupt Matinee at Which King- sad Queen Wars Quests; One Gets In Commons. London, March 17. King George and Queen Mary attended a matinee at the Palladium this afternoon. During its progress several militant suffragettes arose and attempted to address me gathering. They were ejected. Later another suffragette arose near the roval box and tried to speak. King George was roundly applauded when his bodyguards and attendants ejected the woman. A dozen others who tried to speak also were carried screaming from the building. Miss Catherine Williams, a militant suffragette, arrested last night in the house of commons lobby in man's attire and with a dog whip hidden In her sleeve, told a magistrate today i "1 went to the house of commons to give Premier Asquith or Home Secre tary McK'enna a good thrashing." ''She was sentenced to six weeks' Imprison ment at hard labor. Lack of Primaries Surprises Wilson British Columbia Will Get $7 Rate While Oregon, Wash ington Must Pay $13. (Washington Bureau of The Journal.! Washington, March 17. How the re peal of Panama free tolls would affect the lumber industry of the Pacific northwest is told in concrete illustra tions In the following letter to Senator Chamberlain from the Grays Harbor Lumber company of Hoquiam, Wash. ''About a week ago we asked a for eign lumber buyer or Balfour, Guthrie & cor of Portland, or, what woqidUbe th. probable rates. ot lumber.' frfttn Liner Goes Ashore' Passengers Saved City of Sidney Aground on Sambro Bocks, Wots Scotia, and Probably Total Zioss ; Tugs Get Passengers. Halifax, N. S.. March 17. The steamer City of Sydney is aground on samoro kocks. Tugs have re moved the passengers and are bring ing them here. The steamship lies in a serious position and probably will be a total loss. CANDIDATES MUST SHOW Washington, March 17.--The house elections committee today started an Investigation into campaign contribu tions. Congressman Voods, of the Re publican committee, and Representative Hlnebaugh. chairman of the Progres lve committee, were asked to appear before) the committee and testify con earning campaign contributions. - President Writes Senator Xtrn Ex pressing Wonderment That So Wide awake stats Should Be So Backward Washington, March 17.-President Wilson today wrote Senator John W. Kern expressing surprise at the lack of statewide primaries In '"so great and wide-awake state as Indiana." He said he hoped tbey would be adopted there soon. The letter was received by Senator Kern on the eve of his departure to attend tne inaaana state convention to be held In Indianapolis. Secretary of State Bryan congratu lated Senator Kern on the demand for statewide primaries In Indiana and urged the adoption of the Initiative snd referendum. Wearin' o' the Green Was for Men Only St. Patrick's Say Celebration Commit tee Refuses to Allow Women In Parade, rearing Suffragettes. New Tork, March 17. The St. Pat rick's day celebration committee re fused today the applications of all women's organizations to take part in the parade, intimating that it was be cause the committeemen were afraid it would be turned into a suffragette demonstration. - . Soldier Socialist Gets Citizenship Waldo H. Coffman, Dishonorably Dis- charged at Port Stevens, Has Oitl xensMp Restored, Record Cleared, (Washington Bureau of The Journal. Washington, March 17 The senate has passed a bill restoring to Waldo H. Coffman full citizenship and grant ing him an honorable discharge from the army, after Senator Chamberlain had reported favorably on his case from the military affairs committee. This is the young man who was court martialed at Fort Stevens, Or., last year on the charge of speaking dis respectfully and indecently against the national flag. He was convicted and sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., and to receive a dishonorable discharge and forfeit all pay due him for services as a soldier. Senator - Thompson of Kansas, ad dressing the senate In favor of the bill said: "I know this young man personally, end am well acquainted with his father and mother, who lived at Iola, Kan., during the five years I resided there. He Is a young man of the highest character and, wholly incapable of committing such an offense." Youth Is Charged With Robbing Man British Columbia to New Tork through the Panama canal. He stated that. at the present rate of freight It would be about $7 per thousand feet. The low est freight . rate that we had been promised in American bottoms through the canal is $13, leaving a difference In favor of Canadian lumber of S per thousand feet in freight rate alone, and even if we should get a small re duction in freight rates we will never be able successfully to compete with that competition. Therefore the pres ent law admitting coastwise shipping In American bottoms through the canal free of toll should stand, unless at the same time our laws be so changed that we be allowed to ship from coast to coast In foreign ships. On the whole, w are Inclined to agree with Mr. Chadwlck that no toll for American ships is not right, but III Xvyjr pvM;Jv "GET MINDS OFFiOWN LOT TRAFFlCfiADVISED Vigorous Effort tp Extend Commerce Declared This City's Chief Necessity. Till. Alleged Confessions of Two Boys Are To Effect That Beating Was Given Victim in Taking Valuables. John Campbell, 19 years old, today was charged.' in the municipal court with taking $8 and a watch from J. J, McQuinlen of. Oregon City last Satur day evening. Two other boys are Im plicated In the affair, both, it is as serted, having confessed their part in the act. They . are Frank Weber and William Connors. Detectives Hellyer and Tackaberry arrested the trio Saturday for taking bicycles. . McQuinlen reported his loss also complaining the boys had badly beaten him about the face and bead. The alleged confessions are to the ef fect that Campbell did the assaulting. Campbell has two suspended sen tences hanging over his bead. , He also broke out of the reform school, making his escape while wearing an "Oregon boot." (United Preas Leased Wire.) Paris, March J7. Joseph Caillaux, whose wife Henriette yesterday shot Editor Gaston Calmette of the Figaro, wounding him so badly that he died a few hours later, today retired minister of finance. His fellow members of the cabinet made a decent show of objecting to his resignation, but popular feeling against him was at such a pitch that it was obvious he could not continue In of fice, and finally it was accepted. That the rest of the cabinet could survive seemed doubtful. The mem bers were in conference with President Polncare this afternoon, considering whether to surrender their portfolios or reorganize the ministry. Political excitement was Intense and public men generally hesitated to ven ture Into the streets without guards, An unidentified woman. Indeed, at tempted an attack on Vice President Augagneur of the chamber of deputies. A detective who was with him saved him from violence. The cause of tha attack was unknown. Snooting Was Orer letter. Mme. Caillaux, who shot Calmette because he published a love letter writ ten to her by her present husband be fore her divorce from a previous part ner and his from a previous wife, wept in her cell at St. Lazare prison when told her -victim was dead. "T'm nnrrv hn 4rt " aha anhhail "T 2my Mtende 1 r8KhteneMmfonothtd Shortage Found in Quartermaster's Department at Seat- been- such that I trembled daily when I opened a newspaper. My heart bled for my husband In the merciless cam paign the 'Figaro' was waging against blr" Tpa Mf" on nun were fright ful, unrelenting, unfair. He Is thei most honest man on earth. He couldn't and wouldn't deceive." Bn : ,;; h t the western department, the burn husband as well. The newspapers de- ing of a general store at Tecarte, Cai., nounced them In unmeasured terms. I containing the United States postofflce Only strong police protection saved I and custom house and the murder of me nnnnco wimsitr lrum nivuuiug Postmaster Frank Johnson, is not u ho emerged from the St. Lazare prison I matter that should Involve the aov after an Interview with his wife last ernments of the United States and night. Crowds ltarcn the Streets. Until midnight crowds marched through the streets, shouting: "Down with the assassin! Down with Cail laux!" The minister spent a sleepless night at a friend's house. Caillaux has been considered one of France's most brilliant men. He was ambitious to become president and would have been likely enough to have tie, Wash., According to Information Received; Captain Griffiths Is Held in Detinue,' In the opinion of Major General Ar thur Murray, U. S. A.,' commmander (Concluded on Page Beren. Column Four) (Concluded on Page Five, Column Five) Mexico. The general returned from Inspect ing the forts at the mouth of the Co lumbia river this morning and when seen at the Multnomah, said that re ports already ' received by him from San Diego In regard to the outrage, in dicates that the raid and murder was the work of Mexican bandits and not of troops of either sie?e engaged In internecine strife south of the border. "Although the investigation, which HE'LL SOON BE ABLE TO GET THE APPLE! HARLAN I. C. C. CHAIRMAN Washington, March, 17. Commission er John N. Harlan succeeded E. JS. Clark today as chairman of the inter state commerce commission. Ho will serve one year. ... Clark remains a mem ber of the commission.' - One of the most important meetings from a trade extension vffewpoint ever neid in the city was that called by the chamber of commerc:ast night to celebrate the signing o the Alaska railroad bill and to cdnser the possl tllities of the Pertland-Ulaska steam xhin Hn il r .f.-i Major J. J. Morrow, government en- glneer. showed what revolutionizing in fluence a thousand miles of Govern ment built railroad wlBHthave on ths rortunes of Alaska. fi Norman F. Titus, meager of the Pacific Steamship corricknv. amazed the business "men pretext with his showing of the business" that Is open' Ing before the Portland-Alaska line, and his fact based prediction of what the trade may mean to j'tfortland upon the building of the railroad and the real opening or the country.? ai me close or the peering which was held In the assembly! room of the Commercial club. A. tRi Uevers, the chairman, said that a bbj'd of $30,000 had been required by Ulje owners of the Wand, Stetson and: tjulnault, ves sels chartered by the ortland com pany, that It was propped to divide tne. amount between logmen, muklns the Individual liability :100 for each, of the three vessels, flat less than half the number desired; had beeri so cured, and that it wouldrtbe very satls factory If the entire nujtnber could be . completed from among1 the business men at the meeting. , ; . Bare Half Doien uitospoad. ; Half a dozen responded to. tho in vitation; the remalnderfrose and with one accord went out. tiding that tha talks had been very interesting. Those who have udti when girsn opportunity. subscribed)0 the capital rtock Dclha-bonds, -hflife bad before them the fact that la? their lack of is Wing made by Major W. C. Davis, onnd.l.nt,'! thS fenr attle commander of Fort Rosecrans. is not ? !"a thm8lv 8"1 In completed by any means, the lnfonna- gr tu m i. ' ,u tlon I have already received Indicates "r'M 9 d .Sf".'??, fo5,h. that Mexican bandits are responsible." fiSi" J'nost start said General Murray. "I not in ar7 anx W toth"6 LTstates SwnW.nVtl,tUlft thB V,BU WS;g.?l aurS!" ted States will adopt in connection "Hold cargoes will nav the officials at Washington to Whom such he, adding: is " ""The IZZX-r , 'If the lumbering interests her. get - a T fef,in between the Mexicans into the game and tryvto sell as much and Americans along ths border Is as possible of the 0,0p9.000 feet that strained. I understand, on account of will be shipped Into Alaska this year Johnson's murder, and Major r vi if t pnrii.tut mwt. m 1 . . , - - - ...... v j,,.,..,. witi rnu : has been Instructed to see that no their representatives into th territory trouble occurs. Whether we shall de- to get orders; if theUcannerles and tall a permanent border patrol is a fisheries support us as; we feel sure question that will bo considered after they will, the sucfress;of the Alaska the investigation has been made." line is guaranteed." i j Shortly after his arrival here today Portland Business.: is Zdsted. ' General Murray received a renort TJtin ih - . - from army officials at Seattle that a Titus said that the Am-ican Can corn shortage had ben discovered in the pany, of Portland, wlltsxmd over 10.000 quartermaster's department there. Joni of ... tin V-lu! Tho general admitted that Cutiln hi. n .7.-7 " ' " . i.v. - r1 , . . w. .v, urmi -ve ions o r SfJ k- d, fp ? ,th this amount had alre.dsr been ordered' SSi,1? frinvauoi 2..l " said the alleged shortage amounts to ilJLTCr.r' 1" .7. approximately 18000 and was dl.cor- t .X.rfYni TJF " k t . , in are shipped out filled with salmon. ' GnVal MurVa7 decked "to . teVu.t 8JX "Z""' "t'l tu..-bar. , what the allegXed shortage J"H!2?!Sl.,-ir J"rf It is true." said he. "that I have 7L ."u CTOi been notified that a shortage has ben I De"e? wui give pan ox, tneir ou sin ess. discovered in the quartermaster's de- 'r1, C. w . n. VS" . a3v aU partment at Seattle. I am now lnveo- of r .1 n'" Portland line. tlgatlng It, but do not wish tb make I C . u - ""u"" mis, public anything until a full inquiry bu'n means sonieyiB.OOO tons of has been had." northbound freight, wlch. at 700 tons Accompanied - by his aide-de-camo. a Ye""e, mM "eveofcargoes to each Captain H. C. Brees, General Murray or vessels, pne northbound spent yesterday Inspecting the forts cannery shipments will j "become largest at the mouth of .the Columbia. He beginning April 1. - ' visited both Fort Stevens and Co-1 ajmwm mucn spruce mat local lumbla and says he found them In d,er" cul Profitably buy. said lirl much better condition than ha ex-1 Titus. From Chicago tf island 4000 to pected. I 000 tons of gypsum lire shipped each ; "The coast defenses aro well pre- montn to lacoma mat vessel can ai pared for any eventuality at any ways load with. The-.Portland . puget time, in ract, was nis comment. General Murray has now completed the inspection of the forts - of the northwest and will leave tonight for ! San Francisco. lie is accompanied by Mrs. Murrsy. (Concluded ou Page F4c. Column One) Griffith Arrested and Suspended. Seattle, March 17. "Captain J. H. Griffiths, disbursing officer in ths Seattle United States army quarter master's office, in whoso accounts has been discovered an $8000 shortage, was placed under arrest In his quarters to day, and was suspended from duty," said Major Hugh J. Gallagher. Tn charge of the quartermaster's office "Definite charges bars been placed against hftn by Colonel . John Cham berlain, Inspector general, on which be being held for trial by court martial. "The exact amount of the shortage will not be known until further In vestigation is made. "Other officers in the quartermas ter's office here were entirely absolved from any part In 'the alleged shortage. Captain Griffiths bad full charge' of all payments made by the local office. reporting directly to Washington."- - Captain Griffiths was stationed In Portland up to December,- 1112. He was assigned to the local quartermas ter's office of the United States army, serving in this city for about two years.; Captain Griffiths entered tha army service In 1898, during the Spanish-American war. He went from Port land to Seattle. Complete - confidence had always been placed in him. - The alleged deficit was discovered a week ago when Major Gallagher re quested ths disbursing officer to make a deposit of $8000 which ho was sup posed to have had on hand. If ' BUSINESS CHANCES of COO business cards, 65c Bakery, locatedifln town 4000 population, for sale. Experienced architectural engi neer, draughtsman, superintend ent and technical graduate wishes Interest with contractor or archi tect. 1 Twenty acres of Irrigated land to trade for smalt grocery. 1 Bakery and I lc i cream parlor for sale for tlQOO Old office and collection busi ness for sale. ' i Well established7 transfer and storage business jfdr sale. Complete job printing plant for ' ale. Restaurant in jl'torla for sale. Waiting room tfgar, confection- ', ery and grocery store for sale. In jicksmlth shop Partner -wanted, . Hotel or room it) house wanted must be cheap.?; Successful me study condi tions carefully before they act. A good way to stndy conditions ts to read the Buslpjess Chance col umn In today's i Journal Want Ada - Tha Items'ibovo are taken from this colurat,' 1. "ft. 5 i i . rf1