0 V J 1 r SIX Iff,;, f i o n n iniin m S1 VOL. XXIX SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY i 1913. Nft. 108. SCHOOL BUM HOT PR WITH SUFFICIENT FIR CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS TO PERMIT GOUDITIOrJS TO REMAIN AS THEY NOW ARE Means of Egress Are Entirely Inadequate and Should Fire Break Out Loss of Life Might Be Appalling School Room Doors Open Inward, and the Halls and Staircases Would Simply Be Chimneys for the Fire Should It Start in the Basement Conditions Must Be Remedied at Once. Salem, Ore., April 29, 1912. To the President of the Salem School Hoard, Salem, Ore.: Dear Sir: Pursuant to a commun cation which 1 directed to the chief of our fire department relative to am ple lirescapes on all school buildings, together with any recommendations which he might desire to make, 1 en close herewith letter of March 8th, last, for your serious consideration. You will notice that some of his crtl clsms are very severe, bordering on the criminal, and It becomes my duty to urge upon you the absolute Import ance and necessity of throwing every possible safeguard around the pupils who attend our public schools. The Importance of this matter is ap parent and I will thank you to advise ine without delay Juat what action the lioard intends to take to remedy ex isting conditions, otherwise I feel it incumbent upon me to take the mat ter up with the council for adjudica tion. Awaiting your reply, I remain Very truly yours, LOUIS LACHMUND, Mayor. Salem, Ore., March 8, 1912. Mr. Louis Lachmund, Mayor, Salem, Oregon : Dear Sir: In accordance with your vedcst that I Inspect the different TAFT GOES AFTER THE COLONEL CNITKD PliEHR IJCAHHD WHIG. Bayview, Md., May 4. "I am a peaceful man and 1 don't want to fight, but when 1 do fight I hit hnrd," Haid President Taft In his speech at HyattHvllle today. Then he launched Into a bitter denunciation of Roose velt. "The cause I represent is being injured by misrepresentations of Colonel Roosevelt. He Is spreading the impresHion that If you nominate liim he will abolish bosses. Roose velt was president for seven years and I would like some one to tell me how many bouses he abolished." Referring to Charles J. Bonaparte, attorney general under Roosevelt, President Taft said: "My friend Bonaparte, If I may call him that, says I am substitute presi dent. I cannot reply to that. Such an nttaek is like criticizing one's personal appearance a matter of taste only." At Laurel President Taft again re ferred to Roosevelt In a sarcastic manner, saying: "I tremble for the country were Roosevelt to die, with so much depending on his life." STATE MAKES STRONG CASE AGAINST ALLEN'S vnitiid runs!! ijtAsr.D wire Wythevllle, Va., May 4. The state's evidence against Floyd Allen, mem ber of the Allen clan of outlaws on trial here for the part he played In the shooting bee enacted In the Hllls vllle courtroom, was practically fin ished today. Allen, dazed at the strength of the murder case the state has presented against him, Is on the verge of rollapse. Sldna Sprackler testified that he heard Claude and Floyd Allen talking In the court room at Hillsvllle be fore the shooting. He declared he heard Floyd Allen aHk: "Are all the boys ready?" When the firing started, said Sprackler, Claude and Sldna Allen mounted a bench and opened fire, Boston Beat Brooklyn. DNirao rums umwo wiri.1 Boston, May 4. The neaneaters wiped out yesterday's defeat today beating Brooklyn in a heavy hitting contest, t to 4. Score: R. H. R Brooklyn 4 11 1 Boston 6 10 2 Retteries: Stack, Knetzer snd Phelps; Brown, Hogg snd Rartdan. Umpires: Rlgler snd Flnneran. school buildings, and report to you my findings, together with any rec ommendations I might make, I will say that I have Inspected said build ings, and beg to report as follows: All of the buildings have one com mon fault, namely: That the pupils are compelled to pass through a com mon hall In leaving the building. In the East Salem building the pupils ' who occupy the upper floor are com 1 pelled to pass down stairs Into a hall that Is used by the pupils who occupy I the floor below, and then pass out of I the same exit with the lower floor pu 1 pils. I Nearly the same conditions exist at I the High School. At the High School the assembly rooms on the upper floor, where, at times, during enter tainments, some 800 people are liable , to be congregated. There aro two stairs leading from this floor said stairs are 6 feet, 6 Inches in width. These stairs lead down to the hall be low, and from this floor there Is an I exit that leads to the outside, and two stairs which lead to the ground floor hall. In the North, South and Yew Park, the Englewood and the Garfield, exits are provided so that the pupils In the (Continued on page 5.) UNITED lMlESS LEASED Will,.) Seattle, May 4. Charles W. Wap pensteln, chief of police in Seattle for two terms, is today in the custody of penitentiary officials. His vigorous fight to the last for a stay in his sentence of three to 10 years for bribe-taking, failed. He left for Wal la Walla at 7:30 Inst night in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Liner, and was received there this morning. There was no one at the depot to bid him good-bye. The man who one year ago was the storm center of Se attle politics, passed practically un noticed. Wappensteln was neatly dressed, bought his own ticket to Walla Walla with a berth reservation, nnd smiled to the newspaper men as he boarded the train. "Politics got me," he said. "I am Innocent of the charges, and could have saved myself by perjury. I might have said others were to blame. I am paying one of the pen alities of politics. "That's the way It goes," he said, "what did those men care that they vnted mv life nwAV? T nt 111 hnne that my good friends will be able to do J something, for this blow falls heav iest on my family, on my wife, and my boy and girl who are now In school. And that hurts." Story Is Dissipated. DUITBD mil MASSB WItl. New York, May 4. The story told the Titanic Investigation committee by T. J. Dunn, a travelsing salesman, ,thRt a White Star line official re ceived a message early on the morn- i Ing following the disaster, stating that the vessel had sunk, was dlssl- I pated here today by Senator William lAlden Smith, chairman of the senate ! committee. I Fred Dauter, a delivery clerk at the '. Western Union office here, whose son 1b alleged to have told Dunn that his father handled such a message ad dressed to "lslefrank" the code name for Vlve-Presldent Franklin, emphat ically denied to Chairman Smith that he handled or seen such a message. Salem and Vicinity: Fair to- . night with light frost. Sunday fair and warmer. Westerly winds. A LESSQU POLITICS e escapes Another Strike In fliicflirn. Chicago, May 4. Eight thou- Band freight handlers, clerks I and rherkera nn 9ft rallrnDta mi- A terlng Chicago, were ordered to waiK oui ai noon today. The men demnnrieri in a nmnth in A crease in wages, a half holiday x on Saturdays and double pay for all holidays. The strike was ordered uendine a. flnnl r. ply from the railroads. The men announced that they would wait until noon for n favnmhia answer. PAPERS ARE ALL TIED UP FOUR-PAGE EDITION'S WAS THE BEST THE BIG DAILIES COILD DO THIS MORNING-OTHER UNION'S JOIN THE STRIKERS. UNITED PSCSS LEASED Willi. V Chicago. Mav 4. Foiir-nnee erllt(m was the best Chicago's big morning newspapers could do Tor the reading j public here today. The Issues ap peared without advertising In their pages, and only a few were distributed I in the residence districts, while none could be bought In the chief business streets. It is generally believed here that the pressmen will win their strike. I The leaders spent today In enlisting ine am oi otner printing trades. All Stereotype joined the pressmen at midnight, and other trades will prob ably quit before tomorrow morning, unless the publishers give In. The Chicago Socialist, an afternoon publication, got out a morning paper, and thousands of copies were sold. The Chicago Day Book was also wide ly circulated. A few small riots were reported to day when attempts were made to sell the morning papers down town but no one was seriously injured. It is feared other riots will occur later In the day. CAMERON WILL J FIGHT THE RECALL That District Attorney Cameron of Multnomah county, Intends fight ing the recall proceedings launched against him became evident today wlien he fa led to nresenr. tn tin. anc- retary of state his resignation and Monday morning the secretary of state will call an election for his re call. The election must be held within 20 days after the call Is made. uameron s deputy consulted with the attorney general on the siitilert of fighting the proceedings several days ago. It Is understood he In tends to restrain the secretary of state from calllne the elitlnn nn tlm ground that the recall amendment to the constitution Is not self-executing but that further leglslalon Is neces sary. It Is also understood that he will contend, that the amendment Is contrary to the constitution of the rniied states. The Reimbllcnn stiile coninil mlttcc met In Portland today. A firebug made two attempts to burn the Woodburn livery stable last week. AVIATORS GET A FALL OF 400 FEET, HOT HURT UNITED PRF.fJR LEAKED WIBE.l Philadelphia. Mav 4. Tn a dangerous angle 400 feet downward through the air, crashing through two rences and rinally landing In a creek bottom beneath their overturned bi plane. Marshal Karl Field, an amnteur aviator, and his Instructor, (1. W. Heattv. escaned with mlnnr ini,.ri,, while on a flight from New York to Philadelphia. The mishap occurred near Elizabeth, N. J. The nalr were hnwllnir nlnno- inn feet above the earth when their motor began to miss fire ,and the machine started downward at a dangerous an gle. The areoplane was smashed to bits when It struck the creek bottom, but the aviators fell In such a way that neither was seriously hurt. Died as Ilr 1,1 red. Lexington, Ky., May 4. While standing In front or his store at Crocketsvllle, Breathitt county, today, Ed. Callahan, Kentucky's most noted feudist, and the Instigator of many fatal shooting affrays, was shot and killed from ambnah. His slayer-Is as yet unknown. CHICAGO ... Jast a Sneew. . ' Los Angeles, May 4. Reach- Ing for the papers In the case of Kaczcrkiewicz vb. Kaczcrkle- wlcji, judge Monroe began : "Case of of case of of K-a-c- z-c-r-k-l-e-w-l-c-i," he spelled;" "against er the same." He joined the grin as the bailiff pounded for order. nnota OF LUIS COMPUTE Welch Takes Over the P. R., L. & P. Co's Street Car System Today Arid Purchases a Block on Commercial Street CONSIDERATION IS $500,000 Block ou t'liiomcrelul Street Cost $100, 000 Loop From Prison (o Asylum to Bo Completed nnd Another on Forry Street From Frout to Libert) and on It to Slate Roads to Be Built to Ifosednlc, Stayton, and then, Welch Only Knows. The transfer of the Portland Rail way, Light & Power company street railway lines at Salem and suburbs to the Welch system was accomplished Friday, although scheduled for May 1st. The consideration was about $500,000, and $100,000 has been in vested In the block of ground on which the Commercial Hall, on Commercial street, stands. j j, A number of changes will be made In the service at Salem, and the street car system and Interurban lines will all center at an union station on the corner of Commercial . and center streets. The loop connecting the state prison and asylum will be completed, and the line will run around from Front on Ferry and then on Liberty to State. Other changes will be made. Frank Waters, former mayor of this city, was In Salem yesterday to file the transfer pnpers, and Bald a number of extensions were planned, but could not yet be announced. Among them are a lino to Rosednle south Stayton and north, but how far no statement would be made. Base Ball Archer & Wiggins' (Weonas) the pick traveling team or Archer & Wiggins' League of Portland, vs. The Local Team League Grounds Tonirorow, !l p. in. POLITICS ARE RED HOT TODAY III MARYLAND UNITED rnKSS LEANED WII1E.1 Baltimore, May 4. Four candidates for the presidential nomination, Colo nel Roosevelt, President Taft, Gover nor Judson Harmon of Ohio, and Speaker Chnnip Clark, are today busi ly engaged In telling the Maryland vot ers just why the stute delegates should be Instructed to support their candidacy. The most Interest, how ever, centers In the fight being waged between Colonel Roopevelt and Presi dent Taft. i President Tart left Washington at 8:30 o'clock and started to woo the voters right after breakfast, speaking first at Hyattsville. At the same time Colonel Roosevelt was addressing in enthusiastic crowd at Westminster. Both Roosevelt and Taft claim vie. tory, but politicians here believe the contest for Maryland's delegates will be close. Irt addition lo speaking at Westmin ster Colonel Roosevelt addressed big crowds at Iloymsr Frederick and Hagerstown. He will wind up his cam palgn tonight at Cumberland In the heart of the coal mining region. The former president will start for Oyster Hay Immediately after he finishes his address, and will arrive home 8umlay. President Taft's Itinerary Included Laurel, Aberdeen, Elkton, Belair and Havre de Grace. Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, will make his appeal to the voters next Monday. flliUlED JOT COVEu Indians Killed Contable. Clinton, B. C, May 4. Prov- Inclal Constable Kindness was shot and killed today near Clin- ton, B. C, while in pursuit of Moses Paul and Spintlam, the two escaped . Indian murderers who killed a white man and a Chinaman near Clinton last July. Provincial , Constable Forest Lorlng was wounded In the arm. Three special constables, who went out with the first two are missing but are presumably safe. THE ANNUAL RELAY RAGE IS RUfJ TODAY THIS IS THE SIXTH RACE CHEM AWA AND PORTLAND I. M. C. A. TEAMS CHEMAWA HAS WON FOUR PORTLAND ONE, AND IT WILL BE A HOT CONTEST TODAY. At ten a. m., Governor West started the annual relay race between the Chemawa Indian Training school and Portland Y. M. C. A. At Portland the relay runners arrive at the Y. M. C. A. building at 3: 30 to 4:00 p. m. Teams (or Each Lap In each of the teams are five men who have participated lu the race pre viously. On the Chemawa team these men are Joe Denmart, Tom Powers, Aurellus Talbot Louts Dan and Klotus Jim. The teams for each of the laps In the order In which they come are as follows: First lap, Klotus Jim aud Bard dollar; second lap, Ell Gangra and McDonald; third lap, Louis Dan nnd Payton; fourth lap, William Dale and Vanderlip; fifth lap, Paul Flnley and Brown; sixth lap Aurellus Talbul nnd Turner; seventh lap Tom Powers and Frelchel; eighth lap, John D. Ad ams and Gunther; ninth lap, Dnvls Nathan and Jensbold; tenth lap, Joe Denmert nnd llooth. Itecords of the Past May 4, 1907 Chemawa winner; time 5 hours, 26 minutes; lead 12'4 minutes. May 2, 1908 Chemawa winner; time G hours, lfiMi minutes; lend !M minutes 18 seconds. May 4, 1909 Chemawa winner; time 5 hours, ,'U minutes, 52 seconds; lead 9 minutes, 43 seconds. Mny 8, 1910 Chemawa winner; time T hours, 17 minutes; lead 13 minutes D seconds. May 13, 1911 Y. M. C. A winner; time !i hours, 3" minutes, 20 seconds; lend 13 minutes, 6 seconds. The course adopted last year re quires that the runners starting the race pass through some of the main streets of Salem. 'This serves to ar ouse much more enthusiusm In the race than would otherwise be man ifested. From the cupltol building the runners go down State street to Coinnierclul, from Commercial to Hood, from Hood to the Fairgrounds road and thence toward Portland. The course Is divided into ten laps of slightly over five miles each. The Cnplfal Journal will get re ports on each lap. (Continued from Page 5.) S I I GOVERNOR FAILED TO BE THERE The absence of Governor West from the stute house today will nec essitate the canvass of the abstract of the state vote without him, though the law specifically provides that the canvass shall be made by the secre tary of stute In the presence of the governor and the state treasurer. The law provides that the canvass must be made within l.'i days after the election nnd today Is the last day. Governor West yesterday was at Hood River and Unlay before return ing, Intended to visit his camp of "honor men" who are at work on the Shell Rock road just below Hood River. The secretary of state and state treasurer after directing Private Sec retary Watson to get West back If IHMtslble, decided that should he fall to arrive, to proceed with the can vass without him, As he Is not due In Portland until about 4 o'clock, it Is not likely he will be able to get here. Whether the canvass would be le gal, not being done In his presence Is a question. LLI! D0LU1 LOSS CAUSED GY EL 5000 SQUARE MILES ARE UNDER WATER 111 LOUISIANA MONEY LOSSES APPALLING Loss Has Already Reached $60,000,000, and the Breaking of Levees Today Wll Add $25,000,000 to This 500 Stu dents of the State University Working Along With every Available Man in the City inan Effort to, Save Baton Rouge From Destruction Rice Growers' Loss $2,000,000 Cotton and Wheat Growers $7,000,000. New Orleans, May 4. Five hundred students of the Louisiana State Uni versity are hlplng In Baton Rouge In efforts to save the levees. Fordoche and Ravenwood, two prosperous towns of this vicinity, are submerged today with great property loss, but no fatulltles. All the Inhab itants were rescued from the rush of water. SEVERAL DIVORCES (iKANTED YESTERDAY In Department No. 2 of the circuit court yesterday afternoon and this forenoon, the following decrees In divorce cases were had: Minnie C. Wells, from Edward C. W11b; the minor child Madeleine D. Wells, age eight years, was awarded to Its moth er; Hallle Parrlsh Hinges from Charles H. Hinges, the custody of Karl E. and Hallle May was awarded to Mrs. Hinges; J-ottle C. Dorcas from CharleB A. Dorcas, the minor child being awarded to Its mother; May B. Warren from Edward K. Warren. . , Court adjourned ihls forenoon un til 9 o'clock Thursday', May '9th. UNITED I'llKHH I.BAHKD WIIIK. San Francisco, May 4. In a tele gram received here today, addressed to ex-Muyor James D, Phelun, New Jersey's progressive Democratic presi dential candidate, Woodrow W'lson, In no uncertain terms states Ills attitude on the question of oriental exclusion, and the encroachment of Asiatic la bor. The dispatch came as a reply to a question as to his views addressed I to Wilson in behulff of a large number of California voters. It snvs: ''Princeton, N. J., Muy 3, 1912. In j the matter of the Chinese and Japan ese coolie Immigration 1 stand for the 'national policy of exclusion or restrict ed Immigration. The whole question Is one of the assimilation of divers races. We cannot muko a homogen ous population out of a people who do do not blend with the Caucasian race. Their lower standard of living and la bor will crowd out the white agricul turist, and In other fields the Chinese and Japanese coolies are a most seri ous industrial menace. "The success of free Democratic In stitutions demands of our people ed ucation, intelligence, patriotism and the state should protect them against unjust and Impossible competition. "Remunerative lulior Is the basis of contentment. Democracy rests on the quality of the citizen. Oriental coolle Ism will give us another race problem to solve, and we surely hove hnd our lesson. (Signed) "WOODROW WILSON." AMERICANS (iEI OCT OF T0Rlti: Kngle Pass, Texus, Muy 4. Ameri cans ure fleeing from Torreon, Mexico, today In the face of the advance of the main body of the rebel army under Oeneral Orozco from Kacalon. The .rebels are now surrounding Torreon on three sides, and over 8000 men will be about the city when the movement Is completed. Orozco is convinced that General Huerta, the federal commander, will jmnke his final stand at Torreon. His present plan Is not to attack but tn besiege the city. The federal troops have been with drawn from Conejos, and the small gar rlsons scattered along the railroad to ! the south have been called In. The 'rebels expect to be within firing dis tance of Torreon on Monday, when a big battle may take place. If the fed erals show fight. Co-operation Is the application' of common sense to th doing ot things. LVILSOU IS AGBT ORIENTALS Reports reaching here today from various sections show that in all 50, 000 square'miles of Louisiana are un der water. It is estimated that the loss has already reachd 160,000,000 and that the latest breaks will cause a loss of $25,000,000 more. The loss to rice growers is $2,000, 000; to wheat, cotton and other crops $7,000,000. WHAT IT COST THE 1110 CANDIDATES According to an expense statement filed today with the secretary of state by tho Roosevelt campaign com mittee, the state committee spent $4,333.60 In behalf of his candidacy In the state, and the county commit tee of Multnomah county, $373.80. Max Michel spent $9,941.70 in be half of Selling, and Selling himself spent $784.16, according to state ments died. O. P. Coshow, who was candidate on the Democratic ticket for United States senator, spent, $492.40, and Walter Pierce, who was a candidate on the same ticket for th same office Bpent $989.97. uNiTun muss ijiaskd wihio. Portland, Ore., May 4. With the sea comparatively calm, the steamer Geo. H. Vosberg with her crew still aboard a tnoon today lay high and dry on the south spit of the Nehalem river bar. It Is believed that the ship Buffered much less damage than was at first thought. An attempt will be made at high tide late this afternoon to pull the VoBburg off the spit. The barge Nehalem, cut adrift from the Vosburg, was carried by the tide ' and wind across the river bar, aud now is safely anchored In the harbor. JERKY MJUPMOvVmiOMT (iETS INTO CAMPAIOt DN1THD rHKHS MIASM) WlllS.) Topeka, Kan., May 4. Interest In the coming presidential campaign has lured the ghost of the lute Jerry Simpson, former congressman, from the seventh district, back from the grave with a prophecy that Chump Clark will be the next president of the United Stntes, according to the con gressman's widow, a spirit uullst, who claims to have talked the situation over with her departed spouse, ou several occasions recently. She declares that SlmpBon told her that, while he Is where things are slow In the electioneering line, he still takes the same Interest In poli tics which he did while on earth. Simpson's ghost, according to the widow, told her at Wichita a short time ngo that Roosevelt and Clnrk would be the nominees, and that Clnrk will win out. 110 R All IN LEAD FOR VICE-PRESIDEXT The checking up of the tnlly sheets at the slate house so far show Sena tor Ilorah, of Idaho, to be leading as candidate for vice-president and Thomas McCusker, of Portland, to be second tn the race. It Is believed that Ilorah will probably bn the man nominated. Checking tip of the tally sheets also shows that there were about l!il candidates for the office, which makes It the most popular la the slate. HOMER DAVENPORT WILL II K III RIEI) AT 8ILYERTQX Word has been received at Silver ton, the former home of Homer Dav enport, the famous cartoonist who died May 2. that his body will be brought back there for Interment, r rlvlng about the first of next week. HAY SAVE STEAD VOSBURG