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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1912)
HUNDREDS DEAD IN BIG CYCLONE Canadian Cities Wrecked; Prop* erty Loss Immense. City of Regina Is Mass of Debris- Boats Carried Half Mlle- Wounded In Ruins. Winnipeg, Man.—I lead and injured to a number estimated between 400 and 600 persons and a property loss of «10,000,000 is the toll taken by a wind storm that converted into a mass of debris the greater part of Regina, Hawk., and then swept on through the province, leaving destruction in Its pathway. Telegraph and telephone wires are down and it Is almost impossible to get news from the other towns In the province, but so far as learned here no loss of Ilfs occurred outalde of Regina. Great destruction of buildings has been reported from Qu’Allelle and also from Melville. The magnitude of the calamity which Kegina has suffered could not be estimated at a late hour. It seemed certain, however, that the casualties would roll up to a total of between 400 ami 500. Crowds of volunteers all over the city were assisting in the work of searching the wreckage, and for hours hardly a minute went by that a human body or the mangled form of some living victim was not uncovered. The sweep of the storm, the worst in the history of the Canadisn North west. was over a city which only a short time before had completed the work of decking itself in gala attire for the celebration of Dominion Day. Bunting and flags covered buildings everywhere and networks of electric lights were strung and ready for il lumination. Through these gaily decorated streets the tornado swept and within a half hour Regina had been turned into a city of mourning. In the wreck of the storm building after building lay in ruins, shrouded in its gsy-colored bunting. The storm cut a swath sev eral blocks wide right into the center of the town, leveling the buildings in its wake. In a twinkling three of the hand somest churches in (Kegina were laid in ruins. They were the Methodist, Baptist and Knox churches, and the first of the city’s largest buildings to be blown down. Then the roof was swept from the Y. M. C. A. building and the walls of the structure were shattered. The new public library was badly wrecked and the Presbyterian church laid in ruins. In rapid succession the Masonic Temple and telephone exchange were leveled. Although many of the tele phone girls were Injured, none were killed. One of the most serious losses to the city was that of the warehouses and the row 'of grain elevators in the Canadian Pacific yards. Upon these the farmers of the district were de pending for the storage of their crops this season. Only one grain elevator remains and that is much damaged. Strike Is Threatened. Chicago—Representatives of the In ternational Union of Shop Employes on all railroads running west of Chi cago have addressed a joint letter to W. A. Garrett, chairman of the Gene ral Managers' association, asking for a conference to present certain de mands. In the event that a confer ence is denied, the officers have been authorised to order a general strike. At a conference in St. Louis June 24-25, the recent vote taken among the shopmen on the Western railroads was canvassed by the international offi cers, anil showed an overwhelming majority in favor of a strike, unless immediate settlement is reached on the Illinois Central and Harriman lines, where the shopmen have been on strike for nine months. China Rejects Loan Plan. London—The Pekin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says China abso lutely rejects the demands of the six powers group, which were that the loan must be 1300,000,000; that three European financial supervisors must be appointed, and that the group must have its financial agenta in China for five months during which there should be no issue of bonds and no business of any kind involving the pledging of China’s credit without the signature of the supervisors. China’s counter proposal is aim ply’s 950,000,000 loan. REPEAL UNIT RULE. FORCIBLE FEEDIN& ANGERS. Democratic Delegates Left Free to VotejTheir Choice, Socialists Assail Asquith for Treat ment of Suffragettes. Baltimore, June 20.—The progress ives in the^Democratlc national con vention claimed a noteworthy victory tonight when they carried a motion abrogating.the rule by which some state delegations were bound to cast their vote as a unit The tlght^for and 'against the unit rule was waged particularly about the State of Ohio, where 18 district dele gates hadjbeen instructed by primaries to vote for fWoodrow Wilson, but where the state [convention, controlled by the Harmon forces, had Invoked the unit rulejbinding all Ohio dele gates to the Ohio governor. The convention by a vote of 665 to 489 voted that no state delegation should be bound by unit control except in such* cases where a state law was mandatory on the subject. Wilson supporters in the convention who earlier in the evening had carried on a demonstration lasting 33 minutes regarded the vote as distinctly favor able. The Wilson boom bad been growing throughout the day. Wilson had gained and Harmon lost 18 votes from the Ohio delegation as a result of the fight. It was said the abrogation of the rule might lead to breaks in other delegations and this left the presidential race tonight in greater doubt than ever. New York's solid block of 90 votes was cast, amid hisses and groans, in favor of continuing the unit rule. Missouri, the home state of Champ Clark split 29 to 7 in favor of the unit rule, and this result was received with groans. When Nebraska and Kansas voted solidly for the abrogation of the unit rule there were cheers from the Wil son forces, Pennsylvania, a Wilson state, gave a big majority for abro gation. There had been signs in the day of a growing sentiment in the New York delegation in favor of Wilson. The delegation voted under the unit rule tonight in casting its ballot ageist the proposition fostered by the New Jersey governor’s supporters. The fight over the unit rule carried the evening session well along toward midnight. The report from the cre dentials committee was then received. As there was a minority report, re quiring discussion, an adjournment was decided on until noon tomorrow. London —Intense embitterment has been engendered in England by the forcible feeding of the imprisoned suffragettes, who declared a hunger strike while in jail. This was reflect ed in an extraordinary scene in the house of commons, when George Land bury, a Socialist member, denounced Premier Asquith and the government in such vitriolic terms that the speak er ordered him to leave the bouse and threatened to have him ejected unices he went’out voluntarily. Timothy Healey, the Nationalist, had appealed to Premier Asquith to release the women and the premier re plied that they could leave prison on giving a promise not to repeat their offense. Mr. Landbury immediately project ed himself at the treasury bench, shaking his fist in the faces of Pre mier Asquith and the other ministers. With his face only a few inches from that of Mr. Asquith, Mr. Landbury screamed: “You’re beneath contempt. You know that the women cannot give such an undertaking. It is dishonorable to ask them to do so. Talk of Russian atrocities! Why, you will go down in history as the torturers and murderers of innocent women: You ought to be driven out of office!” The house was quickly in disorder. The speaker, however, finally secured quiet and ordered Mr. Landbury to leave. He replied: “I’m going out while these con temptible things are torturing and murdering women.” He yelled this out in a loud voice and appeared to be much overwrought, but when the speaker warned him that he would be forcibly ejected unless he went of bis own accord, the labor members gathered about their col league and induced him to quit Three suffragettes nearly succeeded in invading the house of commons. They obtained admission to St. Steph en’s Hall, where they smashed the glass panels of the door leading to the central hall, when they were seized by police and taken to the station bouse. The militant tactics of the suffra gettes has assumed a new form. On the arrival of a train from Tunbridge Wells at Victoria station, in London, it was discovered that many windows had been smashed, carriage fittings and cushions cut and destroyed and the walls plastered with written demands for votes for women and the abolition of forcible feeding. The culprits were not discovered. Another batch of suffragettes who had been on hunger strike were liber ated from prison. JAMES PERMANENT CHAIRMAN Progressiva Democrats 'Control In Permanent Organization. Baltimore, June 26.—Refusing to subside even after yesterday's defeat, the progressives in the Democratic national convention today engaged in a desperate oiTort to reverse yester day’s setback and succeeded in regain ing much of their lost ground. The first victory was in reversing the program of the conservative steer ing committee, which intended to con tinue the temporary organization and make Judge Parker the permanent chairman. Instead, the progressives forced the selection of Judge Ollie James, of Kentucky, by the committee on permanent organization to be per manent chairman. Although instruct ed for Champ Clark, in the presiden tial fight, James is progressive and one of Bryan’s closest friends. His keynote speech is expected to be strongly progressive. Bryan today repudiated the Murphy- Taggart-Sullivan attempt to mollify him, an<l refused election as chairman of the resolutions committee. He also made it plain that unless an out and out progressive platform is adopted, he will return a minority report and carry the fight back to the floor, even to the country if forced to do so. Bryan forced an unprecedented step by having the resolutions committee demand that the platform be not adopted until the candidates are named. The effect of thia will be that even though a conservative should get the nomination he will have to run on a radical declaration of principles. Picnic to Be Given 20,000. Los Angeles — H. E. Huntington will pay all the expenses of a picnic party of 20,000 persons at Redondo Beach late in the summer. Tranporta- tion, lunch, dinner, amusement enter tainment and everything to make everybody happy will be provided at the trolley magnate's expense. His guests will be the 5000 employes of the Ix>s Angeles railway corporation, their families and close friends, and it is expected the number will be easily Athletes st Stockholm. reached. Huntington says he does not JfStockholir.—An immense crowd of care if 25,000 turn out. those identified with the Olympic Women Sell Flowers. games greeted the steamer Finland London — Ten thousand women, in when she docked here Sunday morn ing. J. S. Edstrom, vice president of cluding many prominent society wo the Swedish Olympic committee, made men and several duchesses, all of them a speech of welcome in which he said dressed in white and wearing white he expected the Americana to win the hats trimmed with garlands of wild Olympiad, but added that the Swedes roses, sold flowers on the streets hoped to teach them something. The Thursday, which was called Alexandra majority of the American team made Day in honor of the Qtfeen Mother. no attempt at’exercise except to walk. The proceeds are to be given to the metropolitan hospitals and convales Cskay and Another 8oar. cent homes in the name of Queen Vienna—At the International avia Alexandra, who originated the idea. tion meet the here the Austrian avia Chinese Still Seek Loan.] tor Cskay, whose real name is Miller, Pekin—The loan negotiations be reached an altitude of 4200 meters (approximately 13,779 feet.) He car tween the international bankers and ried a passenger. The previous alti the Chinese government have neither tude record with a passenger ’was been concluded nor broken off. The made by Prevost at Courcy, 9840 feet. Chinese government apparently Is en Roland G. Garros holds the individual deavoring to make a bargain with the bankers. height record of 18,948 feet. UN your finger down the eightieth parallel of longitude west. Pause at the equator and note a small dot about two degrees south of the in- ersectlon of the two lines The attached to the doL if the map bo largo enough, will bo GuayaqulL Ecuador. Only those who have visited Guay aquil or who have noted recent Ecus- joran news dispatches have any Idea if the sanitary conditions existing there. Ecuador, according to mag izlne writers and travelers who have touched merely on the higher por tions of the country, baa a climate 'second to none In the world. But It Is not because of Its climate that the attention of the United States bae been called to Guayaquil, nor is It because of the death of the tuberculous patients that the hand of the state department Is upraised to fall on Ecuador. It Is because, according to health .authorities who have visited the city. Guayaquil Is the most unhealthful, the most unclean and the least sani tary port In the world. It Is because of the danger that yellow fever, bubonic plague and lep rosy—all of which live and thrive in unwashed Guayaquil—may spread to Panama and through the canal to the gulf porta and eaatern cities of the United States. It Is because a United States naval officer. Commander Levi C. Berto- lette of the gunboat Yorktown, was stricken with yellow fever while In the performance of his duty In Guay aquil a few months ago and died with in two daya. while 11 of his men fell from the same cause. And. finally, it a because Guaya quil Is tn the hands of one of the best organizer!, most rapacious and utterly unscrupulous "Tweed rings" which ever dominated and all but throttled an entire country while menacing the commerce of the world for their private gain. Only Promises. The parental eye of the United States government has long been on Guayaquil. Twenty years ago reporta from this port Indicated a disregard for sanitation and health rcgula'ions which threatened seriously to disrupt commerce, and the United States then Intimated that something must be done to clean up the port or a more rigid order would be Issued. The Ecundoran authorities, after promis ing to comply with the International health code, nllowed the matter to lapse, and the American government, fo ■ some unexplained reason, took no further action. Anotbe- outcry against Guayaqull- an fl.th was made in 1902. when yel low fever claimed Thomas Nasi, the American cartoonist, then consul gen eral of Ecuador, who, despite elabo rate p*ecautiona against the yellow scourge, contracted the disease and died within a few daya. Again the municipal and federal authorities promised to clean up "the pesthole of the Pacific"—and again they failed to do so. An Indication of the Ecuadoran lack of rppreclatlon for the dangers jf yellow fever may be obtained from the message sent Secretary of State Root upon the occasion of his visit to South America a few years after Nut's death. Guayaquil was at first included tn the Root itinerary, but ■he secretary, being Informed of the ack of sanitary recautlons there, canceled his engagement The Guay- aqullan authorities, upon learning tne reason for the secretary's sctlon. wrote him "regretting that a few cases of yellow fever, sporadic, should prevent Secretary Root from visiting the premier port of Ecuador." The death from yellow fever of Dr. William M Wightman. U. S P. H. and M H S.. stationed at Guayaquil, again caused an outcry against insani tary conditions there, particularly since Doctor Wightman was supposed to have been Immune to the disease. Ever since the Manama canal pro ject has become an established fact health officers In the canal sone have made repeated demands for the sanitation of Guayaquil, but the re cent death of Commander Bertolette goaded the United States to decisive action, and the state department hu determined that Guayaquil muat bo cleaned before the opening of the Panama canal, otherwise drastlo ao- R lion sufficient to cut off Ecuadoran commerce from the outside world will bo taken and Guayaquil will be prac tically starved Into submission. Always Afflicted With Yellow Fever. Guayaquil Is one of the moot im name portant porta on the western coast of South America. It has the only first class harbor In Ecuador, and be cause of this lack of competition the city refuses to worry about its sani tary condition. According to the report of Chief Quarantine Officer J. C. Perry, U. 3. P. H. and M. H. S.. Guayaquil Is al ways afflicted with yellow fever. Even In the dry season, when the stegomyla (yellow fever) mosquitoes are fewesL the disease is to be found In some parts of the city. This is due to a great extent to the fact that only three streets are satisfactorily paved, and many depresstons exist for the formation of pools, providing breeding places for the mosquitoes. Half of the city is forced to depend upon sccumulated rain water for Its wster supply, while the other half, bousing some 40,000 persons. Is fed by an 11-inch main from Bucay, to tally Inadequate to carry enough wa ter for the needs of the Inhabitants. In addition to this, the barrels and tanks used for the collection of rain water are unscreened and form excel lent breeding places for the death dealing stegomyla. Smallpox Is also prevalent In Guay aquil. and. as little Is done to prevent Its spread, it marches on practically unhindered. Patients are not Isolated, little disinfection is attempted and general vaccination baa never been tried. "Leprosy," according to Doctor Parkers 1911 report, "is frequently seen about the streets of the city. Five cases of this disease are always reported on the bills of health for the Information of health officers, but the actual number of cases Is un- kno* n and co attempt at segregation is made.” But It Is not because of her yellow fever, smallpox or leprosy that the United States fears Guayaquil and Is considering taking steps to close the port—It Is because of the bubonic plague, which stalks unhampered through her streets. Brought Into Ecuador by Asiatic ships In 190'. the dreaded scourge of the Orient spread rapidly through the crowded, dirty city until people died by the hundreds. Dr. B. J. Lloyd, the American health officer then sta tioned at the Ecuadoran port, had ob talned favor with the then president of Ecuador (General Eloy Alfaro, re cently lynched by a drink crazed mob) by curing him of an apparently fatal attack of diabetes, and when the plague appeared in Guayaquil Doctor IJoyd immediately commenced an ac tive campaign against IL He bad long preached the doctrine of sanitation nnd hygiene to the Guayaquilans. but they had not heeded him. Now. with hundreds of deaths from plague oc curring every month, they turned to the American physician In their ex tremity. General Alfaro himself con tributed about $10,000 a month from the government treasury to fight the plague, and after a five months' struggle Doctor Lloyd stamped out smallpox, reduced the deaths from yellow fever to a minimum and had begun to make inroads upon the plague. "Which Is Pa!" The Sunday school teacher was ex plaining to the class how the priests of olden times thought that, by tor turing themselves, they became bet ter men. "There aren't any men at the pres ent time so foolish as to think that any good will ever come from hdrt ing themselves, are there?" she asked. "Yes. My pa's one," piped up a lit tle boy, “for every time he licks me he says it's for the best, but it hurts him as much as It does me. He's eith er an awful liar, or else he tortures himself something awful." Making It Right. iAidy (at fashionable ball)—Do yoi know that ugly gentleman sitting op poslte us? Partner—That to my brother, madam. Lady (tn confusion)—Aht I be« your pardon. I bad not noticed tbs resemblance.—Dundee Advertiser. ULTIMATE ROAD TO SUCCESS Clever Poet, With Beautiful Style and Nice Touch, Makes Fortune Out of Baseball Dopa. "What’s become of Kimberley?" "Kimberley? I don't remember any such chap." "Ob, yea yon do. He used to be re garded as the ablest literary man in this town. Wrote essays, poems, his torical monographs and that sort of thing." "Oh, yes, yes. I remember him— Algernon Kimberley, Why, he’s rich end famous now. The fact that you didn't know all about him was what made me suppose you must be refer ring to some other Kimberley. Tea, Kimberley's struck it rich." "Indeed? I'm mlghtly glad to hear that A very clever chap—beautiful style, nice touch and all that sort of thing. I’m surprised that I have not beard of his success before. But I always had an idea that his greatness would be recognized. What line has he succeeded In? I hope It’s poetry. I think he has the true poetic spirit, and his expression is rather original. We need a great poet just at this time.” "Poetry? I should say not. After be had nearly starved writing poetry and essays and historical monographs he went to writing baseball dope and syndicating it. It went great, and I understand he’s making over 9500 a week." Fatal Mistake. *T hear that the Softleighs have separated.” "Yes, and it was her fault” "What was the trouble?" "In a woman's magazine she read that singing old love songs was a fine way to cure one’s husband of grouchi ness." "Well?" "She made a mistake and read her NATIONAL BUREAU OF HEALTH busband's old love letters to him in stead.” General Federation of Women's Clubs Will Urge Measure. THE TRUTH OF IT. San Francisco—Three big topics will be the main themes of discussion at the session of the General Federa tion of Women’s Clubs, which meets in convention here. These subjects are “the Owen’s bill to create a na tional bureau of health, a measure now before congress, the suffrage question and uniform marriage and divorce laws. The first named has met with stren uous opposition from certain schools of medicine and from the League of American Freedom. There is promise of warm debate on all three topics. Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker, of Colorado, probably will lead the fight in behalf of woman suffrage. At a meeting Wednesday of the board of directors it was decided to recommend that the General Feder ation Bulletin, published in Troy, N. Y., under the editorship of Mrs. Har riett Bishop Waters, be continued as the official organ of the organization. The contest for the presidency of the federation is waxing warm and he patisans of Mrs. Phillip Carpenter, of New York, and Mrs. Percy V. Penny packer, of Texas, are campaigning ac tively for their respective candidates. Lone Robber Raids Streetcar. San Francisco—A daring robber, un masked but armed with an automatic revolver, caused a reign of terror after midnight Wednesday night in the Bay Shore district, where he started opera tions by looting half a dozen rooms in various lodging bouses. He wound up by boarding a car of the Railroad ave nue line, robbing the crew and three passengers and then forcing the mo torman to run his car a mile and a half from the scene of his raids. He es caped in the darkness and no clew to his identity has been found. Reporter is Released. Mexico City—P. A. Scott, an Amer ican newspaperman who was arrested by Raoul Modero, accused of being a spy, and sent to this city on parole, has been released by order of the min ister of war and has left for the United States. Scott had been taking photographs on the rebel side and when he came into the federal camp the was arrested and held for three days and afterward sent to report to the minister of war. Mr. Asketh—Is It true, doctor, that physicians won’t take their own medi cine? Dr. Emdee—About as true as that other people won’t take their own ad vice. Departed Hair. "A lock of Napoleon's hair recently sold for 950 at auction. Pretty high for a lock of hair, eh?” “Oh, I don’t know,*' responded the bald headed man. “I think I’d be will ing to pay at that rate for my own hair, If I could get It back.” Selfish. "I see Jack Hansom was marries the other day to Miss Rich ley.” "Yea, and I was very sorry to see it" “Sorry? For her sake or his?” “For mine; I wanted her.”—Catholic Standard and Times. Probably One of the Orators. “This,” said Mrs. Lapsling, who was exhibiting the photograph album to the caller, “is a picture of a second cousin of mine who has a government position in the Philippines. He be longs to what they call the confab» lary." Seldom Found. "All aphorisms are not true. Fo» instance, that loving words can medi cine most Ills” “Can’t they?" Hydroplane Sets Mark. "How can they when they are any Rochester, N. Y.—Fred Eells broke thing but a drug In the market?" the world’s record here for sustained hydroplane flight when he piloted his Barred From Baseball. machine over Irondequott bay, 73 "So you want your wife to go Into miles, in one hour and 21 minutes, at politics.” an average speed of 54 miles an hour. "Certainly. She’s entitled to some Eells’ flight was cut short when his of the current fun and excitement, and supply of gasoline gave out The previous record for sustained flight she doesn’t know a binglo from • home run.” was 46 miles. I