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Everybody Reads the Daily Capital Journal Lll " gsf . r " " 'v f- ' THE BEST I NEWSPAPER TDE LARGEST !! CIRCULATION THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. SALEM, OREGON, MOKDAT MAT 19, 1913. rriu,&, i WU ctw IS. stands, ma curra. All the News that's Fit to Print 1 fe'. ' . fiOVER 1H B1GAJTENDANCE City 1$ Beautifully Decorated and Fair Weather Prom ised for the Event. HOWDY, PAP, IS GREETING Tuesday Will Be Big Day and Each One Still Bigger, Until the Lights Go Out Saturday. "With all the decorations in place, the carnival shows on the grounds and ev ' ery committee of the Moose lodge work ing diligently to perfect the fraternal . part that will be played, the Mooee carnival will break forth with much . enthusiasm tomorrow. The carnival ' ebows will be the Mecca for the live people of Salem and elsewhere tonight, notwithstanding the fact that the amusement people have not as yet en tirely completed preparations, and ; from the manner in which not only , members of the Moose lodge, bet oth ' era, are manifesting enthusiasm over ' the event, Salem will show some ex traordinary life this evening. Never before has the city been so beautifully decorated. Extra flags have l)een strung from the span wires across .... JJ1 tjiriw''" :anii; the business - -tue are ''responding admirably by dee orating their places of business with popular colors. The big moose head ''. and .the familiar words: "Howdy, ' Pap," appear on every show window, ; which has available space. As is customary during the first day of festive events, which last a week or longer, amusement and. pro gram features are not in full sway. Even the state fair fails to draw a banner crowd on the first day, and not until tho second or third day do the crowds begin to arrive. Tomorrow . should see many new faces in the city, ' while Wednesday, will undoubtedly firing many outsiders to Salem. By to morrow everything will be in readiness to entertain both visitors and Salem itos, and it is hoped that we will have tho pleasure of tho presence of many people from other cities on that day. Time of Sports Changed. ! Due to the fact that the time Behod tiled to hold the sporting contests in terfered with the time during which all school children are in the midst of their studies, and that the young Amer icans of Salem would not have an op portunity to indulge therein for this reason Mr. Wolf and Mr. Coursey, the members of the sports committee, an , nounced today that during the re , tnainder of the ' week, the contests will be pulled off at 4 o'clock In the afternoon, instead of 10 o'clock in the morning, as first announced. Delaying the sports to this hour will give every school pupil an opportunity to contest for tho splendid prizes offered. The sports committee will call up on the principals of the different schools this afternoon and requoet them to make the announcement to the differ ent rooms to the effect that the ; . sports will be held at 4 o'clock p .m., on Court street, in front of the Moose building, at the corner of Court and high streets. T Have a Cherry Fair. Members of the executive committee of the Salem Board of Trade and the lllihee club held a meeting at the Hotel Marinn todnv at noon and discussed several matters pertaining to both the future disposition cf the Hoard oi Trade's interests, and also voted by a good majority, to hold anothor Cherry Fsir. Very little was said concerning the purposed consolidation of the Board of Trade and the lllihee club with the ex cention of naming the new organize tion. A meeting of the executive com mittee of tie Board of Trado will be held in the lllihee club quarters to morrow night and at that time a Cher ry Fair committee will be appointed. There wore thirteen members of loth organizations present at the meeting today. Every man has two kinds of friends, those he needs and those who need UK JO Ad. Men's Convention. Sacramento, Cal., May 19. The convention of the Ad. Men of the I'acifie Coast opened here today with addresses of welcome and a parade through the city streets. Delegates are in attend- ance from every big clity on the coast. The Oregon and Washing- ton delegations arrived on spe- ciul trains. Trips to Folsom and other nearby cities are scheduled this afternoon and a reception and stag smoker are planned for tonight. The convention will end Wednesday. IS Eighteen Contestants Are in List and Their Standing 8howj Ladies of O. A. K. at Head. The Capital Journal's Refund Bar gain Contest is now off with a whirl. By special request from many of the contestants and those interested in the contest tor The Journal's 4100 in gold arrangements have been made to open the ballot box daily and publish tho list and contestants and their standing. Today tho first list appears and it is woll represented by many among ths best organizations and several popular people" in the city. " Even though the standings of these contestants may seem large, it is not too late to enter the contest. Bight now is just as good as an entry made nt the very beginning of the contest in view of the fact that you can judge your opponents strength by seeing what they have done in two Weeks time. Taking the leading contestant for" ex ample. They have 5065 votes. By put ting the decimal point before the last two figures you have $50.65. One thou sand of these votes were on the nomin ation coupon. Surely with the assis: auoe of a fow of your friends or witd the help of your club, lodge or church memborj you could easily pile up this number of votes. Judging from present indications the Ladies of the O. A. B., the Playground (Continued on page 8.) SONS Governor Has Nothing to Say Only Being Opposed to In voking Referendum LAW NOT STRONG ENOUGH He Says Those Objecting to the Law Should Use the Initiative So as Not to Leave State Helpless. UNITED PHBSS LEASED WIB1.) Sacramento, Cal., May 19. Govornor Johnson signed the Webb-Birdsall anti alien land bill shortly before noon to day. The law prevents the ownorship of agricultural lands in California by Japanese or other aliens ineligible to citizenship, although it permits three year leaseholds which may be renewed by rotation. With the signature by the governor of the anti-alien bill today, California, despite threats of a diplomatic breach with Japn and the most urgent pro tests from the national administration, has taken the final step in enacting a law to provent the acquisition of her agricultur.il land by Asiatics. The seal of the state has been set to the policy of excluding from her lands aliens who are non-assimilable. In connection with his approval of the measure, Govornor Johnson had lit tle to say. He appeared to be far more, concerned about the threatened calling of a referendum to Buspend the act, leaving the state without a bar agoinBt further acquisition of lands by Japan ee until November, 1914, than about the effect his action might have lu Washington or Tokio. Will Not Notify President. The govornor declared that he would send no official notification of his ac tion to Washington. "I repeat what I have said before" was Johnson's comment. "California for. tho first time has an anti-alien land act. Anyone who wishes another kind of law may consistently invoiie the in itiative. "No man who really wishes an anti alien law will sign a referendum as to this law. If another law is sought it may be presented by initiative petition, 1 L NSA A Strenuous Campaign. Sydney, N. S. W., May 19. John Weinholt, a Queensland farmer, is trying to fight his way into the commonwealth parlia- ment with his fists. Instead of making the usual stump speeches he is tourihg the Wide Bay dis- trict of Queensland, taking on all comers for limited round boxing matches. Australia holds it gen- al election May 31 and Weinholt is contesting for the seat now held bv Premier Andrew Fisher. and in tht meantime the present act will be in operation. ' "To tie up the present law by refer endum means no law until Novombcr 1914. "Those who are sincere in their op position lo anti-alien law or believe the present act is not drastic enough are consistent if they take steps to invoke the initiative. But the referendum would tie up the law we now have, without putting anything in its place until 1914, leaving the state open in the meantime to colonization by the aliens against whom this legislation is aimed." , Governor Johnson would not hazard an opinion on what he expected to be the result i n the international situation of his approval of the Webb measure. INTEE0LAS8 TRACK AND FIELD MEET AT UNIVERSITY Having accepted a, challenge offered by tho sophomore class, the affiliated classes of Willamette Univeristy will hold an interclass track and field meet or. Willamette field next Friday after noon. First team men are to bo barred from events in which thoy have won points, but may enter any other event. With the medics, laws, the theologs and liberal art students all in the con test, a very stiff meet should result, and much new material is expected to be developed and discovered in the work outs for this content. Weather Forecast. Oregon Fair tonight and Tues- day; northwesterly winds. He It Charged With Conspiring to Plant Dynamite to Dis credit Textile Strikers IS PRESIDENT OF A TRUST Therefore Was Not Compelled to Occu py "Felons' Box," Where Prison ers Are Usually Placed. united rsass i.sased wiaa.l Boston, May 19. The actual trial of Wm. W. Wood, multimillionaire pres ident of the woolon trust; Fredorick E. Atteaux, a Boston manufacturer, and Donnis Collins, a dog fancier, of Cam bridge, started hore this afternono. The defendants are charged with con spiracy to plant dynamite in order to discredit the textile strikers at Law rence last year. Only 55 minutes were cousumed li filling the jury box. The wealthy de fendants were spared the humiliation of sitting in the "felon's box." In stead they ocupied Boats just outside tho enclosure, separating the attor neys from the spectators. District Attorney Pellaier opened the prosecution with a scathing de nunciation of tho defendants. Wood sat apparently unmoved throughout the arraignment. , Judge Crosby informed the jury that he did not believe it was necessary to lock them up at night. CAPITAL JOURNAL'S WORK APPRECIATED The Capital Journal has received many nice compliments for the big space devoted to the Moose carnival ami to tho many beautiful cuts provid ed by it. Well, The Journal likes to be appreciated and at the same time never stutters about expressing its apprecia tion of others. It appreciates tho good work done for Salem by the Moose or der and hus done and will continue to do all it can to back up the good work of that order. There is nothing too good in or around the Capital Journal office, for tho Moose, or for that mat tor, any other order or individual who is boosting for Salem in any way. LAND ILL New Alien Land Law. San Francisco, May 19. Dis- satisfied with the leasing clause of the anti-alien land bill passed by the California legislature and which now awaits Governor Johnson's signature, the execu- tive board of the Asiatic Exclu- sion Leaguo will .moot here to- night to draft an initiative law which will absolutely exclude the Asiatic agriculturists from Call- foruia. This action was ordered by the league by unanimous vote at its monthly meeting yesterday. . STATE MAY HANDLE Governor Is Having Question Looked Up With View of Getting Mors Satisfactory Method. Governor West is ..having Attorney Ernest Itingo look up the matter of co ogierating with the federal government in handling crimes committed on In dian reservations. County authorities over tho state have been side-stepping bootlegging cases, and the, result has beon rather unsatisfactory. Indian wit nesses have beon summoned on trl to Portland, and the federal court has been congested with the cases. Some of the Indians are believed to have 'fixed things' In brdor to" got' a free "trip to the Rose City. Attorney Ringo has been instructed to make a caroful investigation of the law, to ascertain noma method of pro- cedure by which speedy justice can be meted out by tho state, and tho federal courts relieved of the annoyance. TOOK A LONG CHANCE AND SO LOST OUT After evading the hands of the law for one year and six months after bo ing charged by Oscar Johnson, of this city, with obtaining money undor fulse pretenses, William It. Cogswoll was ar rested last Saturday night by Sheriff Each, and todny he was bound over to await the action of the noxt grand jury undor 251 bonds. I Hints That He Thinks There Is Not So Great a Call for the Webb Bill as Imagined GETTING A WRONG HUNCH Vote In the Legislature was 107 to 5 la Favor of Bill This Is the Real Sentiment foNiTiu) run ss uiaiD win. Washington, May 19. Talking with remarkable freedom upon every phase of the Japanese-California land contro versy which were "loaded with diplo matic dynamite," President Wilson in his conference with the newspaper cor respondents here today unreservedly gave his interviewers complete "inside nformatlon" of the controversy, as he sees it. The president declared that both he and the Mikado expect an early and amicable arrangement of the California land dispute. He said there was no crisis or near-crisis, little anxiety and no interference by foreign powers in the prosont diplomatic negotiations. After talking freely upon the "dyna mite" phases . of the controversy, the presidout invoked the -ban of secrecy upon certain more delicate subjects. He gave orders that the newspaper men must not print his opinions, whioh, he said, were "purely jwrsonal'f upon th causes which bad inspired Japan to . take its present stand. War Talk Is Foolish. " President Wilson indicated that he was following out his "confidence plun" In order to end any misunder standing rnd to make it plain that no issue baa been raised in the controver sy which is not possiblo of peaceful so lution, lie bolioves that the sources of tho Japanese war talk are purely con- . jiwtural. Reports of ' tho i American charge d 'Affaires at Tokio minimize reports of antl-Amerlcan sentiment there.' How far the "offieiul" Japan ese oppositton to the California land law hns gone was not dofinitoly to be ascortuined from the president's talk, but it is rnrtuin that ho fools that Jap an approolntos America's friendly of fices, which in the past have beon ex erted in her behalf, The president indicated to tho re porters that Secretary Bryan will not reply to Japan's protest until Governor Johnson has signed the antl-alion land bill, lie said that neither nation is In clined to be hasty in the matter, but that both are anxious to proceed care fully to a solution, which will mean In- roased friendship. He also declared that no further negotiations with Gov ernor Johnson aro expected. The ten tative draft of the reply to Japan Is ready and is being hold by Bryan un-' til Johnson's signature of the bill makes its despatch to Japan timely. Getting Wrong Steer. The disposition of the powers to keep their hands off the situation has in tensely gratified tho prosidont, who felu that it la a matter "botwoen friends." The president understands that senti- mmit on the auti alien question is di vided In California. Ho has beon ad vised that the northorn part of the Ktnto is moie Btrongly In favor of ex clusion or of checking tho settlement of Asiatics than Is the southern part of tho stalo, and this fouling, It is be lieved, ha maile him doubt that the call for tho Webb bill Is so strong as appears on tho face of things. Albany Is Coming. The Allinny Evening Herald of Sat urday, sayB Over three hundred Albany people aro expoctcil to leave this city on the excursion tiain which will be run to Hiilcin next Thursday morning by tho Moose lod;c of this city and great preparations far the ovent are now being made by a coniiulttoe from Wil lamette Lodge No. 859. The noit American battleship will cost -0,00(),000. And to catch up and keep up with Great Britain w must build not one but five or six, or more, a year. . him. T