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Mat. .11; MIn.no.
SECOND
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Illinois Committee Receives Assur
nnco of Support From All Over
Nation In Campnlnn to Remedy
Wliltd Slavery nml Wnyn Problem
President Wilson Sympathises Willi
Principle of Minimum Wane Fac
tories, Swcalsliops to Dc Probed
HPiUNOriELI), III., March 12.
Jlttiohn or telegrams and letters con
fronted tint Illinois statu scnato com
mittee probing tlio Marvntlon wages
nml whit" slavery problem when
they returned hire today to rtitumi
their deliberation. Communication
from governor of 14 Mate, In re
sponse, to U'Uhn from Lieutenant
Governor Kartell O'llura promlaed
tiiinicdlattt recommendations looking
tii whltu slave, probes. Thcan state
lire Oregon, IHnh, Arltnnn, Colorado,
Indlntia, Inwn, Michigan, Ohio, Min
nesota, MUalMlppl. New Mexico Now
York, Virginia ami Wisconsin.
In addition tn tho promtac by
themt governors, titmollcltfil offer of
aid havo poured In from legislature
till over tin' country.
It linn alio been learned by the
prober that President Wllaon sym
pathize with tho rliicliilt of a mini
iniini wagn and will be Bind tn re
ceive, them In Washington. The acnr
ate rommltteo probably will decide
tomorrow when thry go east to vlatt
Washington, New York. Phllndel
lihln. Ilnltlmnre, Albany and Pill
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' After returning from their enatorn
trip tho llllitnl committee cipccls
tn dolvn Into conditions elatlng In
sweatahopa and fnetorlea In Illinois.
They also probably will probo the
rnmllllona tindor which chorim girl
are forced to work, especially regard
IrtK Ihn danger to their health and
morala from Improper dressing
rnoma In the llioatrea whore thry arc
employed.
J)OWI.AR. Am., March 12
Ocnorul Ojedn miiatfil llio fodoral
liht nt Apia 1'riela, .Mexico, opposite
Douglas, today with his roinmnud,
iiiii;uini'iilrtl liv the fugitives from
Mir defented garrisons of Nneuznrl
mill Kl Tigre. At the bond of uhoiit
rilll) iiiiMt In) niiuolied westward, up
piinmlly with Nngnlen iih Iiik ob
jective point.
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GEI TURTLE SERUM
ASTORIA, Ore, March 12.-Dr.
'AnpiHt M. Kinney will lenvo fur Now
Yoik tomorrow wlmro ho Imi nn np
polntiiunt to mcol Dr. Krinlmnnn, nl
li'p'd dicuovorcr of n lidn'roulosis
piiu. Kinnoy coos an n ropresonlii
livo of tho htnto honid nf hcuHli.
W'lillii ip tho ennt ho will coiihiiU with
Kovoninioii. cxporla who nro invcMi
(iitinu; the omo, mid will nulonvor to
hi'i'iiro u iiunullty of tho Hcriiin to ho
used on Orojton Hiifforcrx. .
ni.YMPlA' Wnsli.. iMiuoli l'J.
Cnpllnl piinlslitf4:''l !"' I""?" wipvd
off tho Blnlnlo of thiH Htnto touny
with tho nssurnnco Hint iiovonmr
Unlet- will hIkii Urn lU todny. Tho
iiionsiuo inHod tho U'tfMithiro IiihI
iiIkIiI l.v u hnrp tioiihlHiillunnl miijor.
ily. SmmlovH CoIIIiih and Sharp.
Hlein foiiKht for Iho rploiillon of tho
dotilli pminlty, whllo SmmiorH Jciiboii,
Fiilrt-hlldH mid Stoinor Hiippotiod tho
hill.
GOVERNORS
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BORDER
FORTRESS
UINGTONABOB
CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT
FIND RAILROAD
OWNERSHIP IN
STEAMER UNES
Interstate Commerce Committee Or
ders Railroads to Submit State
ments Showlnn Connection With
Shipping. Companies
Court of Commerce Slaps at Congress
by Declaring Pipe Lines not Com
mon Carters as Now- Considered
WASHINGTON, Mnreh 1'.'.-Willi
the Umiiuici' of mi order to nil ntlU
mmW in Die country to mihriitt stne
mnnU hhoviiii; llicir connection with
donn-Mic, eonxtnisn nnd foreign fthip
pini; companies hy April 1", tho in
)erhlnte eoinmerer eoinniisxinn hrnn
n Hwprpinir iiroln todny of rnilrond
Interext in flenmhip'(. The htnte.
inentrt mtisli i.how Ilia connrction he
tween land nnd water truffle up o
June Kl, (ll.
A recent net of cnnxresn provider
tlml inilroniN cniuiol hold nil interest
in oompcliiic water linen iiiiIchh the
inler-clale commerce ronimisiion ex
empli them. The law applies to
overv inlerntnte road and Hh pro
viMops include firry limits Iurk mid
vcmhcIk of nil kimln.
The object of the new probe in to
nxcertnin what rondx operate strain
erx. (.o Hint the commUlon may be
piepared to enforce tho cmiKrenMionnl
net rrctdntinir I'litmnin Tannl coin
iiiercn nnd bnrrini; railroad omied
vcmhpIm from tho waterway.
Another cIiikIi between the I'nitcd
States court of commerce ntid con
crc came today when llm court de
cided tlml conuress in not cntwnvercl
lo make pie lines common carriers,
nnd declared tho hilcr-Mate com
merce law to that end invalid.
The decision invokes tho Standard
Oil company of New Jersey, the
Prairie Oil and Ons company, the
I'ncle Sum Oil ontnnany, the Ohio
Oil company nnd others.
The court also issued an injunction
rcMinininc orders issued hv tho in-ler-slnte
commerce coiuuiiMou re
ubiliui; Philippines lines.
WOLGAST STARTS"
BAN I'HANCIHCO, March 12.
TakttiK time out to r.lvo Wllllo
Hltclilo abiteut treatment for cold fevt
tieforn ho departed from thin city,
former champion Ad Wolcaot la on
hi way to Medford, Ore., to look
after no mo IiukIiic.h IntorcatH. lie l
accompanied by Mm. Wolr.axt and
Tom JnucH, IiIh inniiitKur. Tho former
champion uxpecta to return hero In a
few dayri.
Ad nays Illtchto U wnltiiiK for a
toft one. Then ho nald thlims about
tho chnmnlnn that nnibably would
Htart n flnht without the formality of
a ring or a pumo wcro Illtchto pres
ent.
PATNT OIIUKK JUNCTION, W.
Vu Mmch 12. Whother It Is mur
der It u man kills another In war
wn tho Issue offered by tho defense
today to the military court which Is
tryliiR "Mother" Jones, tho noted
woman labor leader, and 40 minora
hero on ix churso of conspiracy to
commit murder.
Defense Attorney l- M. Mwtheny
uHhm
"Waa tho battlo of Gettysburg
murdorT" Ho clnlma that U tho mlu
ors killed, It was war, and should
not bo charactorUed ua nuirdor,
Thrco proclamntlonH lBsued by Gov
ernor Glnsscoolt cnllluR tho groat In
dustiial striiRRlo In tho Pulnt Crook
district "war" havo been Introduced
iih ovldonfco. These declared tho ills
trlct under martial law.
"Whntovor vlolonco tho minors
mny lmvo resorted to," anya Mntheny,
"wan aimed ut n aystein nnd not nt
Individuals. Whntovor happened
MOTHER JONES DEMANDS RIGHTS
MEDFORD,
DEFEAT OF THE TURKS AT J
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0UO (J3CD AQAIM3T A?H Hj 40P&k ""
'J'lie 'fin I lli furtruis vt Jmuiiih. the
If) to I lie ii'mIoii of tliu I'ruvlui-c
of Kplrii, w.tli In Krrlou of a.Mi'
men Mitieudend In the ilreek army
after u defeiKC whkh f iriut i lie of Hie
uiiml liritilaut cplmslcs uf the llaltuu
war I
THIRTY BUILDINGS !
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CHICAGO. March 15- John Da
nlca, allecrd captain of tho areon
tritit which has used tho torch from
Keattle to Now York, confeed hero
today to Amlntaut District Attorney
Jnhnxon that ho had burned at least
20 atorca In ChlniKO aa ageiit of tho
araon rlnK. He r.ald tho losa from
theao flre'rt would reach SGOO.rtoO.
In hla ronfeaaton Danlea Impli
cated a score of bitalneaa men and In
aurnnco adjuateni hero and In other
cltlca, and tho Indictment of at leaat
to prominent peraona la expected.
Danlea said CIiIciro merchanta
first naked him to become a flruliuc
a year aco. Ho declared that Hen
rink, who confeaaed at 8ount Dend
recently to acttlni: many flrea, waa
employed by a rival arann rlnR.
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NBW YOUIC, March 12. Char;luB
that M)or Gaynor libeled hla fathor,
tho lato Joseph Pulltxer, In n apeech
before tho South llrooklyn Hoard of
Trade, llnlph l'ulltxer, ono of tho
publishers of tho New York World,
today demanded that maKlatrato Ker
nochan laauo n warrant for Gaynor
for aliened criminal libel.
"Joseph l'ulltxer nmnssod a for
tune of SO, 000,000 by blackmail
and Indecency," Is tho statement
which Ralph Pulitzer nllcRcs Gaynor
mado before tho llrooklyn orcanlzaz
Hon. MnRlatrato Kernochan had la
sued tho order, saylni; that a charxo
of slander may bo placed nRiilnst Gay
nor, worn nets of war ami cannot bo
Judged by ordinary rules of wur and
morality.''
"Mother" Jones Is breaking undor
tho strain of confinement nnd on
route to tho courtroom each day
leans heavily on tho arms of com
panions. Her spirit, howovor, Is un
broken, and tiho refuses to recoRiilio
tho military court.
"Look what hnppenod yesterday,"
sho said todny. "Judgo Advocato
Wallace railed Harrison Kills, a de
fondant, to tho ntand and domandod
that ho testify. Can you Imagine
nnythlnK worse than thntT" Wo aro
not nfrnld to testify but wo domand
our rlghtu ns citizens. Tho consti
tution saya n prisoner cannot bo
placed on tho stand by tho prosecu
tion to testify In n matter In which
ho Is u defendant unless ho volun
tarily waives htH rights. And I want
to Bay that no body of men In West
Virginia la empowered to suspend
tho (edurul constitution."
ADMITS
BURNING
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PROVOKES SIORM
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SALKM, Ore, .March 12 -Objec-tlona
to the appointment of K, II.
Klchard aa county attorney of Jo
nephlnc county -are rcachlnR Gover
nor Went today. The principal ob
jector la Robert 0. Smith, mayor of
Grants Paaa. Today the Governor
dcloftatcd hla aecretary. Ralph Wat
aon, aa special am'jaairador. to visit
Grants las BBdInvrtlBoic. Wat
son will leave Friday. In the mean
tlmu tho appointment of tho county
attorney Is helm; held up.
GRANTS PASS, Ore.. March 12.
Tho appointment of Kdward H. Rich
ards aa county attorney of Josephluo
county has provoked a first claaa
rumpus In the ranks of local democ
racy. Aaalatant Dlatrlct Attorney
Johnson, who la a republican, was
vndoraed by Mayor It. G. Smith for
the poaltlou. but the bulk or the
democrats endowed Richard.
Major Smith says: "This appoint
ment Is absurd, and the Kovernor
would never have made It If ho un
derstood tho altuatlon. Richard has
been In the county about 18 months,
and baa been practicing law In this
ntnto lesa than a year. Tho county
attorney la the loRnl adviser of tho
county court and precedence would
dictate that somo one familiar with
tho lawa and procedure of this state
Hhould be selected. If tho appolntco
must bo a democrat I um a candi
date. mself."
Richard has resided In Omuls Pass
for tho past 18 months, having
coma here from Covington, Iji. He
Is n democrat in politics, nnd baa
been n practicing uttorney for tho
pnst seven years. For nearly six
yearB ho was a partner In tho offlco
of tho district attorney In I.outslnna,
SWEPT BY STORM
LOS ANGHLKS, Cal., March 12.
Although heavy seas aro running it
In believed today that tho storm that
has swept tho southern California
coast for tho last 12 hours Is abating.
Tho Rrcntest dnmago was dono at
Rcdoudo beach, where 200 feet of
wharfage wns washed nwny. Other
piers were battered by floating piles.
No dnmago to shlpplnR was reported.
BARRYM0RE MUST PAY
BARBER EIGHT HUNDRED
LOS ANGELES, Cul., March 12.
Eight hundred dollars is tho sum
Juok Hurryninre, netor, must pay for
roriontinp forcibly tho implication of
Miirlin Nergmnii, barber, (lint he
needed n haircut, Soveu hundred
nnd fifty dollars tixemplnry dnnuiRCs
nnd fifty dollars phyaivinnta bill is
Judge Allen's idea of tho dniunRO
suffered by llorginnn, who mied for
$1,550.
llarrymore, in n disposition, ns
Kerled that ho stnok Horntiinn when
tho latter threatened him with n
shampoo bottle.
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NAM NG OFRICHARD
GRANT
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MARCH 12, 391.').
GIVES THE GREEKS ANOTHER BIG VICTIM
100.000 BURGLAR
STOLE WIFE FROM
CHICAGO, March 12. -A pitiful
story of his efforts to induce his
wife to reject the attentions of Owen
I). Conn, Snn Francisco's .100,000
burglar, wns told here todny by the
Hev. y ester Clnrkson. Conn involved
Mrs. Clnrkson in Ids confession to
the San FruiieiM'o police.
Clurkon Minok with sobs n he
told of his. wife'jJ r$ln'tioua.wHkr,t)ie
burglar. The minister is now Super
intendent of the White Cross Mid
night Missfonnrv association here.
"My wife," said Clnrkson, Vinet
Conn when ho wns in jnil. She was
n kooiI woman then nnd was doiti?
splendid work ns a missionary. Ihit
she became iiifntunted with Conn nnd
finnllv packed her trunk. kised our
children good bye nnd left with him.
"Conn deserted my wifo in Omaha.
Sho returned o Chicago and asked
for n reconciliation, hut I refused."
Clnrkson'K eyes filled when lie nd-
milted he did not know Mr. Clark
son's present wheronbnuts. He ex
hibited several letters from Conn to
Mrs. Clnrkson which hnd been writ
ten from the Wisconsin stale peniten
tiary.
SUFFRAGtnES TRY TO
LONDON, March 12. -Militant suf
fragettes wero accredited by tho jsi-l
llco today with an attempt Monday
to burn tjio Hrltlsh musueiu, A wo
man left nlone in a room was seen
leaving hastily, tho pollco say, and a
watchman who investigated found
oil-soaked rags smouldering In n cor
ner. Scotland yard detectives todny are
searching for Ylnton Lenten, a suf
fragetto who recently disappeared,
SACRAMENTO, Cul., March 12.
Iu reply to n Chicago .newspaper
which is polling tho sentiment of the
executivo 8tntcrt relative, to tho in
vestigation of the nffinity between
low wages nnd white smvery, Gover
nor Hiram W. Johnson today wired
iv plcdgo of his eo-operutiou in whnl
is rapidly becoming u nut'.o.i-wlde
probe.
The governor believes (!Q first
remedy to cheek tho spread of the
vice must coma throuph u minimum
wage. His telegram follews:
"Strongly do I favor n minimum
wngo for women. Tho exnot sum I
could not fix hut investigation Mich
ns ure now being carried on iu Illinois
should bo prosecuted in every slate
to enable us to dotormiuo upon n
wngo just to tho employer nnd which
shnll ho n living wngo for tho em
ploye. I favor action both- nation,
ally nnd in tho various atato?. I will
gladly cc-onernto in any legitimate
investigation loading to tlu propct
CHICAGO
MINISTER
JOHNSON FAVORS MINIMUM WAGE
CROWN PrglNCE Or GKECE
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APPEALS
FOR HELP MADE
FROM ADRIANOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE. March 12.
Frantic appeals for aid, acompanled
by the declaration that "I can hold
out only a week longer," Arcro re
ceived today by army officials In
cipher wireless dispatches from Shu
krl, Paaha, the Turkish coniiaander
at Adrlanople. - '
It was said that ShukrI Paaha has
exhausted hi. .supply at food aad am
munition and that scurvy and Intes
tinal disorders aro ravaging the ranks
of the defenders.
The Turks havo withstood the
siege guns of the Ilalkan allies for
months.
iACTIVE LIST MAKE
NEW YORK, March 12 Advances
which included nearly tho entire ac
tive list marked tho opening ot tho
stock market. Canadian Pacific
jumped three points, and most of the
railroads advanced a point. Selling
took tho edgo off the market and a
reaction set In. The market closed
fairly strong.
PEARY SAILS TO
RECEIVE A MEDAL
PORTLAND. e., March 12. To
receive a medal from tho ltoyal Ital
ian Geographical society, Admiral
Robert K. Peary, who discovered tho
north pole, will sail Saturday from
New York for Rome. Mrs. l'eary,
Miss Mario Peary. Robert E. Peary
Jr., and Secretary Herbert L. Drldg
mnn of tho Peary Arctic club, will
accompany tho explorer abroad.
legislation nnd which has for its de
sign the fixing by law of n minimum
wngo for women thnt is. a living wngo
and the stumping out of white shiv
ery. "Tho subject of a minimum wage
for women is one in which I havo
been interested for a long time and
unoii which I lmvo taken issno with
rtho Snu Francisco Labor Council. It
was my purpose at this seiou of
tho legislature, nnd is still if it i
possible, to havo n commission ap
pointed which shall after tho ad
journment of the legislature thor
oughly investigate tho matter and re
port its findings.
''Tho sumo necessity for immediate
notion in fixing a minimum wngo foi
woman docs not oxist in this stute
ns in some of tho eastern states but
that same nece&sury mnj soon exist,
nnd it is my hopo thnt then our
pooplo mny ho fully prepared to denl
firmly, justly and adequately with
tho matter,"
NO. 301.
EXTRA SESSION
TO FIX TARIFF
President Wilson to Issue Call for
Congress Co Reassemble In Next
Few Days, Announces Underweorf
Revision Plans Incomplete
Only Tariff to Occupy AttentlM of
Law Makers ianklni ni Cur
rency Await Stsslofl
WASHINGTON, March 12. Presi
dent Wilson was Informed today by
Democratic leaders that the cosaralt
tco's working on plans for ayevlslon
of the tariff would not be' ready to
report April 1. It Is now reported
that tho report will call the extra
session for April 8 Instead of April 1
as originally Intended.
WASHINGTON', March 12. Rep
resentative Underwood of Alabama,
majority leader In the bouse, follow
ing a visit to tho White Howie, an
nounced today that President Wilson
would lasue the call for the extra
session of congress within a few days.
He predicted that Wilson's message
would recommend that the extra ses
sion be conflqed to revision ot tho
tariff, and probably suggest that the
banking and currency committee or
ganize and prepare bills for the reg
ular session In December.
DEMOBILIZATION
AUSTRIAN ARMY
VIENNA, March 12. With tho or
dering home of the military reserv
ists on the Russian frontier, demob
ilization of the Austrian forces began
today. All of tho reservists wjll re
port to the colors again. March 26,
but no significance la attached to this
move.
The demobilization ot the Rusalsn
forces U expected to follow.
SEEKING PARDON
SALEM, Ore., March 12. A con
certed effort ou the part bt many
Oregon citizens Is today being made
to Induce Governor West to commute
tho sentencos Imposed on George and
Charles Humphreys, who aro under
sentence to bo hanged Friday, March
21, for tho murder of Mrs, Eliza
Griffith, an aged woman. Attorney
II. J. Parkinson, attorney for tho two
condomned men, appeared before tho
governor with a statement that con
fessions reported to have been made
by them were not true. Governor
West replied that thla would hare no
bearing on his action, as the sale
question to bo determined was wheth
er tho Humphries were guilty or In
nocent. LANE ASKS RENEWAL
OF LAND GRANT CASE
WASHINGTON, March 12.-To re
quest a renewal ot tho prosecution ot
the lund suit against the railroads
claiming ownership ot thousands ot
acres under government charters,
given In connection with their con
struction, Senator Lane ot Oregon
and tho other members of tho Oregon
congressional delegation called at tho
department ot justice today.
SHANIKO EDITOR FOUND
DEAD AT THE DALLES HOTEL
THE DALLES, Ore., Mnrch 12.
E. II. Overman, editor of the Shuniko
(Oregon) Star and Maupin (Oregon)
Monitor, w'ns found dead in hi room
in n local hold today. Death re
sulted from natural caumw. Over
muu nrived here lust night on n busi
ness trip.
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