!'. 'V EX.; t ; v I X Lai I todafs'news THE PEOPLE'S JOS TODAY PAPER " 36TH YEAR. SALEM, OREGON, 11VSDAT, MARCH 11, 1911 DDI PC TtAfrt'TrMTo on trains and nkws I iiiul. I IIU UtltllO STANDS. FIVB CENTS WOULDRUIN STATE From Which It Is Seen the Big Witness Thinks His Busi ness the Whole State. AGREE ON MINIMUM WAGE Millionaire Says: "My Firm Pays Mar ket Waxes, and We Therefore Do All Required of Is. ' Chicago, March 11. Joseph Basch, vice-president of Iho Slegel-Coopej' copany, testified yesterday afternoon that his concern employes 1250 wo men and girls. They earn, ho said, an average- of $8.50 a week, the minimum 16lng $3.50. Uasch denied low wages Is responsi ble for tho downfall of girls. "It Is not poverty that makes girls go wrong, but evil minds," he said. Ilasch defended the system of paying girls less than they can live on, saying It gave them an opportunity to school themselves. Seaa'or Juul Interrupted the wltnws liore to say that a girl who received loss than a living wage must either starve, steal or booomo immoral. "Would you want your daughter put In that position?" Senator Juul asked liasch. As (load a h the Others. The latter evaded the question. "My son Is working In the store as an apprentice," ho buUI, adding that lie would favor a minimum wngo law if it provided a period of apprentice ship for young girls. "My firm pays market wages," said Ilasch. "When we do as much as our neighbors, we have done our part. Ho fixed $9 as the weekly minimum on which a girl could llvo but de clared that any law providing a week ly wage of $12 "would ruin Illinois." . targe business IntorostB, it was re ported Uiis afternoon, are bringing strong pressure to bear on the probers, suggesting that tho committee Is go ing "a little too far with Its Investi gation." Portland Wakes I'm. Portland, Or., March 11. Prominent social workers and and club women of Portland are heartily In favor of the Investigation being mado by Illinois senatorial cominlttoe at Chicago Into tho low wages paid women workers and the 'possible connection between low wages and the whtlo slave traffic. Two Portlandors who have spent much time In the study of this question, ex prosed themselves as follows: Dr. R. S. Fisher, ono tlmo member of the medical staff of Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago: "I am strongly In favor of tho senatorial Investigation Into tho low wages now being carried on In Chicago. Thero Is no doubt but what low wages contribute to the downfall of girls In many Instances, Many girls will go wrong regardless of wagta and many others would not fall no matter what tho temptations, but there Is a class tluvt when they con not get food and sholter and stay straight, they will go wrong. Any ono -who has over lived In Chicago knows that girls cannot livo on $4 or $5 a week." Low Wages the Cause, Mis Caroline 0 lea son, social work' er and director of the wage survey conducted by the Consunvare' Leaguo "There Is absolutely no doubt but that low wages, too hard work and too long hours are largoly responsible for the downfall of many girls In the shops. stores and factories of this country. Girls do not enter Into a life of prostitution deliberately, but they gradually drift Into It because they must supplement their wages In order to eat threo meals a day and have a roof over their heads. From long hours and Inadequate nourishment and cloMiIng a girl grows weak not only physically but morally." San Francisco Stirred. San Francisco, March 11. "Any thing that turns attention of the gen oral public, or the care-Urns corfsumor, on the struggle girls are making In our nililm to merely llvo Is a good thing," said Miss Katherlne Felton, head of the Associated Charities, today shaking of Senator Grant's proposed bill. If the Investigations that are be ing made In Illinois and other states, the Investigation Senator Grant is ntiout to have smarted In California, accomplished nothing else, they would (Continued on page four.) A Woman Burglar. San Francisco, March 11. Search for a woman burglar who fled east from here Febru ary 28 with more than $50,000 was started today by the San Francisco police after they had wrung from Otto Owen, alias 0. D. Conn, of Chicago, the ad mission that the woman helped Win In. robberies throughout California which ended here Saturday when Owen was shot by the police. Owen, the po lice say, told Uiem that Uie wo man came here with him from Chicago and that sht was the brains of the partnership. THE DRY CAMPAIGN Deride to Hold nil Flection Early In May Preliminaries Are All Arranged. With a whooping display of verbal and financial pyrotechnics tho cam paign to make Salom a dry town was officially launched at a meeting at the First Baptist church at noon today. Upon a motion made by P. F. Schrock the board of directors of the Municipal Improvement league was authorized to take the necessary stops for an elec tion on the liquor question at the ear liest possible moment. The' election will without doubt be held early In May. A special provision of the Salem charter makes an elec tion possible at that' time, and If the election Is to be held In the course of tho summer, It Is tho doslre of tho league as voiced by R- A. Harris, state printing expert, to hold It before a largo part of tho population leaves the city on summer vacation trips. Expense !tot nmit. Tho prevailing opinion of the gath ering was that a special election can be held in Salem for little more than 250, but President Jenks declared that the treasury should contain 500 good substantial iron men before the campaign is far along. It was pointed out that a spcclnl election Is desirable for two main reasons. One is that If the liquor question is merely one feature of a general election interest in the ques tlon Is frequently loat. Another rea son was that It will be practically Im possible for the wet forces to colonize for a special election as they some times do for general elections where the liquor question Is an Issue. Minion nnd Itlirdon There. W. T, Rlgdon and E. C. Mlnton, tho two fighting members of the city coun cil, who are nearly always on opposite sides In city affairs, were both present at the meeting and each applauded vigorously what the other had to say, and they had a lot to say. The two men will Join their efforts to make the town dry. A special provision of the Salem charter n mkes It possible to call a spe cial eloctlon by ordinance after the people have presented to tho council an initiative petition asking for a spe cial election to be held. The charter is Independent of tho state statute. ASKS FOR CLEMENCY FOR Hl'MPHRElS IlKOTIIEItS H. J. Parklson, of Portland, attornoy for the Humphreys, appeared before tho governor today asking clemency tor the Humphreys brothers, claiming that newly discovered evidence would Indicate that a man named North, an Itinerant dentist, who was at Philo math at the time of the murder, next day had a sum of money about equal to the' sum Mrs. Eliza Griffith, the murdered woman was supposed to have hod. North loft soon after. He purchased a suit In Portland, leaving his old suit, the coat of which was found to have blood-stains on It, and an analysis showed tills to bo human blood. North has vanished. This evi dence Parkinson says has been ob tained In the lust two weeks. Hill Orders Two Illg steamships. Just where they will be placed Is unknown, hut will operate In conoctlon with the Panama canal, and In so doing will bring the famous Tashmoo cigar to the front. Mint .Muzale Hatpin. umtku rnnaa leased wins.) Boston, Mass., March 11. A hatpin "muzzling" act Is signed by Governor Foss here today, Hereafter any wo mnn not properly safeguarding her hatpin points will be fined $100. FIDMAI GIVEN Leading Montreal Physicians Meet Him at Depot and Es cort Him to Hotel. HE ADMINISTERS SERUM His Heart Touched by Pitiful Condi tion of Girl, and She Was First to Be (Jlven Treatment. UNITED l'HI 91! LBiSED WINS. Montreal, March 11. Hearty wel come was extended here today to Dr. Frederick Franz Friedman, discoverer of a tuberculosis serum, when he ar rived to oonfer with Montreal physi cians. Colonel Durland, chief benefac tor of the Royal Tuberculosis Insti tute, greeted Dr. Frledmann at the depot, and escorted him to a hotel, whore a score of prominent physicians awaited him. After a brief conference Dr. Fried man went to the Institute, where he administered hlB serum to a number of patients in the presence of 50 physi cians. All the doctors who welcomed Frledmann were most friendly, and assured him of their support In In troducing his remedy for the "white plague." Maryi Rancour, aged 10, a tuberculnr patient whose parents had died of the disease, touched Frledmann's heart at the Institute clinic, and, as a result, she was first patient treated. The girl lives In the wilds of Northern Canada, and hearing that Frledmann was oomlng, she made the trip to Mon treal alone and addled to tho officials to place he name on the list for treat ment. Mary Rancour has pulmonary tuber culosis In an advanced stage. She arrived nt the Institution hours before' Frledmannn reached the city, and waited In an r.nto-room. When Dr. Frledmann entered she was the first he saw. She had tears in her eyes. Frledmann looked at her chart and shook his head. Dut ho looked again nt the child's tears, noticed her trem bling mouth and said: "We'll try to save her." She was the first taken In to the clinic. DEFENDANT USED ALL KIXDS OF WEAPONS City Attorney Page and Councilman Macy are the legal representatives In tho case of the City vs. Frank Day, which Is being heard before Judge El gin In the recorder's court this morn ing. Day Is chnrged with disorderly con duct, which Is alleged to be the result of a fight with Fred Corbln In a lodg ing house on North Liberty street. Councilman Macy Is representing Day. On the witness stand this morning. Corbln testified that, In order to save his life, he hit Day with an ax, his fists, threatened him with a knife and finally struck Mm with a milk bot tle. He told Judge Elgin that Day niBhed at him with a butcher knife, with the Intention of killing him, and would have succeeded had It not been for the defendant being knocked down, Both combatants were In court. Day sat with a plaster over his right tem ple, and showed City Attornoy Page a hole In his head, where he says Cor bin struck him with the ax. Corbln's right arm Is In a sling, and a long mark over his forehead shows that he did not get off without damage. Much blckelng upon the part of the coun sel for the defense and Corhtn took place, and Judge Elgin was compelled repeatedly to Interpose objections to the manner In which the cross-examination was being carried on. The case will extend through the afternoon, owing to the number of witnesses to be examined. The pro ceedings were evidently looked for ward to with Interest, as several wo men were In attendance, and trtok careful ote of the statements made by the witnesses. Weather Forecast fevTTnp ri'icps i.n:p wins 1 Portland. Ore., March 11. Weather forecast, Oregon: Fair tonight with light frost west and heavy frost east portion: Wednesda'" fair with rMng temperature. Northwesterly winds. Nearly Four Miles, f TTNITKD PIlESS IBAIIEO WIUl l Paris, March 11. A new record for nltltudn was established) here today, when Aviator Perreyon, In a mono plane, ascended 19,800 fet from the Due aerodrome. rotects 'fiie Postal. Chicago, March 11. United States District Judge Carpenter today pcrnianeritly enjoined two Chicago locals of the Interna tional Brotherhood of Electric al Workers from molesting the property of tlie Postal Tele graph company. The Postal printed copies of the order on placards and posted ihnn on telegraph poles throughout the city. District Attorney Wllker son asked the Injunction. CAN SELL THE LAND Supreme Court Holds It Is Owner In Fee Seven Other Coses Decided This Morning. Holding that Albany college had a rlf,ht to sell the Involved land and use the proceeds for the improvement of tho Institution, if the land was not sold to a religious denomination other than the Presbyterian church, the supreme court this morning, In an opinion writ ten by Justice McBrlde, afflrmel the opinion cf i he lower court for l.len county, in tie case of the board of trustees of AlLtiny college, respond ents, tguinat C. M. Montelth, et al., ap pellants. Tho Mnnte'tbs, In 1809, delivered to tho college a deed to four blocks of land In Albany. By mistake two of tho blocks were omitted from the de scription, but the plaintiff took pos session of the lnnd, and used it until the commencement of the suit shortly after January 1, 1913. The Intent on the part of the grantors, to convey to the college all of the land now occu pied and claimed by the college, 1b not questioned by the defendant, but when the college recently purchased other property, presumably with the Intention of disposing of some of the land deeded by the Montelths, tho lat ter declared that tho college was not the owner In fee simple, and asked for a decision of the court, declaring the college trustees to lie trustees ot the property, and for a dismissal of tho suit. The court decreed that the col lego was the owner of the land in fee simple. In his opinion. Justice McBrlde holds that the deed was a gift for charitable purposes, and that the college has power to sell the land, as lone as It Is not sold to a religious denomination other than the Presbyterian church. It is held that the sale would not be In violation of tho trust, and that any founds derived from tho sale are Im pressed with tho original trust, and must be applied to the Improvement of the college, as designated In the deed. Waring Cnsc Remanded. An opinion written by Justice Bean remands to the lower court tho case of W, W. Walker, et al respondents, agnlnst J. D. Waring and tho Capital City Nursery Co., appellants, an action for tho collection $3398.70. The remanding carries directions to credit tho defendants In tho case with that amount and to enter Judgment for the balance. Other opinions handed down today were the following: John Deckenbach, et al., appellants, against Johanna Deckonbach, re spondent, Multnomah county, affirmed Justice Burnett. C. A. Moore and L L. Foster, plain tiffs and apiiellants, against the United Elkhorn Mines, respondents, linker countx, petition for rehearing denied. Justice McBrlde. Dan R. Murphy, plaintiff and nppcl lant, against Lydla C. Tlllson and An na B. Smith, defendants and respond ots, Multnomah county, affirmed. Justice Eakln. Chosteen Hughes. John Bird and W. II, Parker, plaintiffs and appellants, against Evan Evans, defendants and respondents, Polk county, affirmed. Juctlce Eakln. This case was nn ac tion to collect a commission for the sale of real estate, The court declared the contract void, M. Ynsul, respondent, against A. ('. Hnllom, et al.', appellants, Hood River county, reversed. Justice Moore, Salvation Army. Brigadier Robert Dubbin, from Re nt'le, officer In charge of Washing ton and Oregon, will be In the city to morrow, Wednesday, March 12, to com pinto the arrangements for Command er Miss Booth's lecture at tho npnrn house, Tho brigadier will conduct a public meeting at the Salvation Army hall Wednesday night at ft o'clock. All are heartily Invited to come. IS ID Appeals Pouring Into Congress to Establish a Minimum Wage Law CALIFORNIA IS AWAKENED And Colorado Also Takes a Hand Movement to Protect. Girls Is Be coming Country-Wide. UNITED FHISS UASSD WIRI. Washington, March 11. Stirred to action by the revelations uncovered in the "starvation wages" probe In Chi cago, apiieals for Immediate considera tion of a minimum wage law for wo men poured in here today on members of congress. Tho pleas came from nearly every state In the union and as a result It was predicted that tho wage problem would bo considered nt tho regular session of congress next De cember. Congressman Potors of Massachu setts lias interested himself In tho movement. "The testimony In Chicago," he said, "shows exactly what any one Btudylng the subject knows that a girl gutting from $4 to $5 weekly must ask favors outside to support horself. I favor a minimum law nnd believe tho bedrock of that law should not be below $6 a week." Colorado to Help. Donver, Colo.,, March 11. Stirring tribute to the rank and file of Denver's army of girl and women workers who maintained their purity In tho faco of grinding poverty was voiced hero to day by Agnes Itiddell, a member of tho lower house of the state legisla ture. "It Is wonderful how thoso glrlB" said Roprosontatlvo Rlddell, "koop In the straight path when ono considers the conditions under which they labor. Truo, somo fall, but, thnnk God, the great majority remain good. "However, conditions nro no hotter or worse hero than thoso brought to light In Chicago's 'starvation wngo' probo and an Investigation is needed here. It Is not right to deny any girl a living wage, uubjeot her to tho terri fic prosBure of low pay, tho high cowt of living nnd tinhnnlthful self-denial, no matter how determined sho may be to maintain her purity In the terrific struggle." Mrs. Rlddell also announced her do. termination to Introduce a resolution for an Investigation of wngo conditions In Colorado. Los Angeles Had Ix)s Angeles, Cal., March 11. Pro viding matorlal for Immediate further Investigation, startling reports of wages paid and conditions prevailing among working girls in ! Angeles are on fllo today with a munlclpnl commission appointed by tho city council. Following aro somo of tho charges made by tho commissioners at rJio weekly meeting of tho organiza tion : Tho 8-hour law for women Is being violated by a ganiwnt factory. Ono girl employe of five and ten ctent stores Is carried out in a fainting condition dally on an avorago because of iMxir ventilation, Many girls In five and ton-cent storeB recelvrt $4 weekly. Many girls employed on laundry mangles rnOolvo $4 weekly. Standing advertisements In newspa pers provide a supply of laundry work ers to replace girls Injured on man gles. Hotels refuse to employ chamber maids except through employment agencies, which collect (en per cent of the first month's wages. The average life of trained nurses, after beginning their practice, Is but six years. Mrs. I). P. Noel, a member of the commission, lifter an Invewlgallou of wages paid by tho P. A. Newinark (onipany, giinreiit workers, reported that one girl whose case she heard, has recnlved an average of $ii.:il) a wivk for ten weeks' work, her lowoat wage win. Iily during this pur'od being $3.42 Mid hklii'Mt tin. She said that the girl workers are paid by the pU-f, nnd that If their machines break down they u'ii no' paid for the lime they are Idle whllo It hi being ropn'red. Members of the coiuiiiIhiiIoii an nounced that hereafter morn attention ui InvoHtlgat.lon of Individual com la'nts will be given, nnd that wher- (Continued on page C.) Took Ills Leg Along. Sydney. N. S. W., March 11. A 'story of great fortitude and extraordinary presenoe of mind Is recorded at tho country town of Gunnedah In tills atato, whore a 13-year-old boy had his leg cut off, but plckod tho limb up and drove off to the hospital with It to be attended to, Stan ley Huxley, the lad's name, had his right leg cut off by a wag on. He Immediately climbed Into the wagon, and calmly re quested a bystander to hand up the leg to him. He then drove to the general hospital here and and It Is believed tliat ho will live. s And Labor Trouble, Too, Are All to He Ended by 11)00, Says Canadian Professor. UNITRD I'lllCRB l.HtKD WlnB.1 Edmonton, Alta., March 11. Profes sor Francis J. Lewis, of tho depart ment of biology at the University of Alberta, In Edmonton, said In the course of a publlo address here ro centy that, with the knowledge already possessed by BClence It should be pos sible to remove every form of epidem ic from the known woild within CO years. Ho added that this conclusion also fits tho economic world, says Its application to the strife between cap ital and labor would rwove all fric tion before the closo of 19C0. Referring to the nuestfon of dls- ' eflae (tin ananlrni anlrl tliat-n la nnnn j known to nature, excopt amongst the human race, which means cither ex termination or readjustment. Tho for mer results In the case of man: 1iut with nature It Is otherwise, as It has the ability to adjust Itself to envi ronment and conditions. Delving Into the subject of orgnnlc evidences of evolution, ho showed the process which Is at work In the phys- , leal world, declaring that the- struggle for exlstenco Is confined sololy to the , members of their class. He laid spe clal stress upon the statement that the t different classes are not In competi tion with each other. The remedy, he said, Is tho Intelligent application of economic laws. Professor Ixiwls wns emphatic In his opiiosltlon to tho orthodox view that man has existed on tho earth only two or three thousand years, and offered proof In the form of civilization, dis covered In Java, that man, In very primitive condition, existed during the tertiary period, or many millions of years ago, HENS IX DISGRACE AND EGOS A CENT APIECE Tho lowly hen will do well to keep within tho bounds of her own back yard, now that tho suburbnn resident Is making the dirt fly preparatory for tho conglomeration of garden truck which ho either buys outright or re ceives by parcel post from tho govern ment. The old saying of "kick my dog; kick mo" now has a twentieth cen tury substitute In the form of "scratch my gurden; scratch me." Chief .f Police Shndnck Is receiving several complaints dally from persons whoso much-valued gardens are said to be suffering from roaming chickens. It bo hapt ens each spring that tho offi cers nro rppcnlcd to by tho prolnc?" cf family garden truck, and the chief has printed notices which he sends to the clil' lten owners, warning them to keep their feathered stock on their own property. One complainant from South Salem declares that he has planted his garden three limes llilii ineaHon, and that his neighbor's hens are waxing fat on the frulls of his la bors. Chicken owners are also complain ing. One irate citizen residing In East Salem declares that Ills neighbor de liberately Hlllit til lee nf ih chlcki'HS, and threw the over Ilia fence Into the yard where they originally be longed. Others complain that, their neighbors set dgs on the rhlckens which chnnce to Btrnll out of their own yards. A. V, Schaiipn Appointed. (Iiiurnor West this morning ap- Klnl."d A. W. Si haupp county at lor ney fur Wallowa county. No oilier up nolntmcnta were made this forenoon. Evory girl loves a lover. 'S SCALPON HIS BELT Roasts Committee and Also the Mayor for Ways That Are Devious and Dark HE DEMANDS PUBLICITY And by Itesolntlon Takes From the Committee Power to Employ Spe clal Secret Officer. With the Introduction of a resolution last night, aimed at the authority granted tho health and police commlt ttee at a previous meeting, to employ secret police officers, and with brawny statements to back each section ot the resolution, Alderman Rlgdon ad ministered a smashing wallop to Al derman Mlnton, of the fifth ward, that sent him groggy, figuratively Bpeak'ng for the rest of the night. Incidental ly Mr. Rlgdon landed on tho mayor for a fow stiff prods. The mayor didn't counter, Tho resolution was adopted, and the evening was Rlgdon's. Tho Rlgdon resolution rescinded: the former resolution, giving the po lice committee power to employ se cret officers. Rlgdon centered his at tack on the payment of a month! salary to some unknown policeman, which the belligerent alderman - de clared should have been appprovod by tho committee on accounts and cur rent expenses. Ho Bald that at th' tlmo It was his firm Intention to en join the payment. Since tho mayor had allowed the payment, however, ho declared his Intention to enjoin any further action ot that nature, nt his own expense. Minion Arch Conspirator. "Isn't It astonishing," yelled Rlgdon. "that a councilman who has howled' his head off that tho charter must be followed to the letter, and1 that all mon ey must be accounted for, Is the arch conspirator In this grab on the city treasury? "Had wo employed three special of ficers, as was requested, tho money paid out would have amounted to threo times $7.1. For the $75 thnt wns paid out no report has been mode. Tho nnnie of tho offlror has never been divulged. He has never quallfledl for office by taking nn oath. Ho hasf never been discharged. Ho has boon, paid through tho mayor. That places1 the mayor In a peculiar position befor tho pooplo of this city. Chief Knows Him Xot "Even tho chief of police doesn't know' who this mysterious special of ficer 1h, The charter sayB that all policemen must qualify before the chief. It says that all money paid must be a matter of record. We have no record of this payment. The mayor hnn ndvocnted (ho widest publicity of all business coming before this coun cil, yet this hns never been made even a matter of record. The charter says that all officers must assist (he chief In his various duties, yet th chief doesn't know who this officer In. The city marshal and the city recorder say they have seen no results of this off I. cer's service or of the pnymetit. of the money. Thoso who do this kind of business never go down to tho bottom of things, and Investlgato from the bottom. They scratch around on tho top nnd olmcuro tho foundation, then swear by all that Is great and good that there Is no foundation. There Is no doubt In my mind that If any old fen of this city wants to slart pro ceedings to have this money returned he will not have the least difficulty In difficulty In winning Ms ease." Mlnton Takes Floor. "I am glad to see the gentleman so eloquent," said Alderman Million, when Hindoo Inn! finished, and speak ing more cnlmly than Is his wont. "But he Is much mistaken about some things. He said that this ccal offi cer was unknown. The mavor and the committee have known who he was " lllcdon Do the records show who he was? Minion Ignored the question. "Tho alderman has said that the of fleer was never sworn In," began Mln ton. Itlgdoii -Who did It? Minion--Thi' mayor. Itlgdoii Is It on file? Minion -No, I don't tlilnk It Is. "II Is no Insult to the chief of lio'lee that lb" officer was secret." cmillniie'l Mlnton. 'The chief has said tint t'e did not euro to know who ho was T1"' way In which tho officer was paid l h (Continued on pag 5 ) 1