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THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR.
Efforts Are Being Made to
Have Him Lead G. O. P.
and Progressives.
SPECIAL CONVENTION
PLAN CONSIDERED
Borah Wants Representation
i
Ratification Left to Sev
eral States.
' UNITED FUSS LEASED WIRE.J
"Washington, Dec. 10. Southerners
present at the dinner given the Republi
can national committeemen last night
by Chairman Charles D. Ilillcs, claimed
today to have won a victory in the pro
posal to reduce the delegates from
southorn states to the national conven
tion. Their claim was based on a pro
posal that the committee arrange for
voters to ratify whatevor action in this
connection may be taken at a proposed
extraordinary convention of Eopubli'
cans.
Action on the proposal to call an ex
traordinary convention of republicans
will be taken, it was expected, at to
day's formal meeting. If the conven
tion iB called the proposal to change
the basis of representation at national
conventions, which would lead to a re
duction in the proportion of delegates
from southern Btatos, will come up. This
percentage, according to the present
plan of apportioning delegates, would
bo based on party votes in various
states. lint it also is planned that state
party convention in stnto whore two-
thirds of the entire Republican vote
was cast last year must ratify the pro
posal. Roosevelt's Friends Active.
Friends of Colonel Theodore Roose--velt
were most active at last night's
diunor and laid plans intondod to recall
liim to the leadership of both the Re
publican and Progressiva partioe. The
movement was led by former Governor
Hndlcy of Missouri, Senators Cummins
and Borah, and Ormsby McIIarg. They
expected much support.
Chairman llilles appointed this morn
ing a special committee to consider s
special committee to change the repre
sentation at national conventions with
out ratification. Senator Borah did not
ibcliove this would bo done.
"I do not expect the committee will
call a spocial convention," he said,
"but thiuk it will change the represen
tation itself, subject to the ratification
:by the state conventions."
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FIPIiKMW IN CM ffiMMV F(I!K FJ3lP"I
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ROOSEVELT
MEN ACTIVE
AT MEETING
nnAAPi i r i t I
Admission to Bar
Made Much More
Difficult Here
Applicants for admission to the bar
through oxnmlnations, must hereafter
be graduates of some college, high
school or literary institution, and attor
neys applying for admission from other
states, on certificates, must have prac
ticed law In such state for three years,
according to rules adopted today by the
supreme court.
Heretofore no such requirement was
made of applicants for examination,
and attorneys could be admitted on cer-
i i.a ), nnreme courts
of other states, whether they had prac
ticed or not If an application for ex-
aminatioo is sot a graduate he must
pass an examination before the board,
V
To Take 10,000
Men to Capital
March of Unemployed on Sacramento In
an Effort to Got Special Session of
Legislature.
UNITED PRESS IIUN WTB2.J
San Francisco, Dec. 16. Plans to
take 10,000 unemployed men to Sacra
mento within two weeks to petition
Governor Johnson to call a special ses
sion of the legislature to provide means
of employment for jobless men were an
nounced here today by E. Teesdale,
known throughout the country as
"Roughneck" Teesdale. The slogan of
the men, Teesdale said, will be "We
will no longer starvo in a land of plen
ty."
Teesdale plans to speak at a Btreet
meeting here tonight, when he will call
for volunteers. He says he is willing
to buy transportation in cattle cars
from the railroads to Sacramento for
the army of unemployed,, but Baid if
this could not be ararnged, the trains
will bo commandeered for the proposed
trip.
T
OF
RAIL ANNIVERSARY
UNITED PKESS LEADED WIR1.1
Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 16. Prepara
tions for a dinnor and entertainment to
be held'ln the rooms of the Commer
cial club tonight in celebration of the
fortieth anniversary of the coming of
the first railroad train to Tacoma were
completed today. A stage has been
erected in the assembly room, together
with railroad ticket offices and other
novel features to add to the effective
ness of the occasion. Colored waiters
from the Pullman cars will attend the
tables, and the menu cards will be in
the form of railroad tickets.
Bosidos Governor Ernest Lister and
Governor Oswald West, of Oregon, the
Speakers will bo George T. Roid, as
sistant to the president of the North
ern Pacific railroad; Judge F. V.
Brown, general counsel of the Great
Northorn; W. W. Cotton, general coun
sel for the Oregon-Washington; R. M.
Calkins, traffic manager of the Milwau
kee railroad and Ezra Meeker, the pi-
onoor, who was a passengor on the first
train to enter Tacoma 40 years ago.
Every seat available for tho dinner
has been taken, and more than 250 will
attond the function.
THE EE KILLED IN FIEE.
tONITID rUIIS LEASED WIKE.l
Now York, DcjC 16. Three were kill
ed and four injured, one fatally, in i
fire which destroyed an upper west
side apartment houso early today. A
score had narrow escapes. The dead
were Mrs. Mary McMnnus and hor
crown son and daughter, Thomas and
Mary.
Good food does not-mean fancy food,
Fancy food gonorally means poor food-
of examiners, which will cover the scope
covered by an approved four-year
course in a bigh school.
Another change made by the rules
adopted today is that the examination!
shall be conducted by an examining
board of five lawyers of the Oregon
bar. These are to be appointed by th
president of the Oregon Bar association
for a term of three years. While con
ducted by this board the elimination
are under the direction of the tnprem
court. Heretofore the supreme court
has conducted the examinations. Th
examinations hereafter will also be hel
only in Salem. Prior to this they bav
also Den neid in i enuieion.
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IDT
CU1 HEJS INSANE
Shouts It Is Not True and "In
the Name of God I Pro
test" in Court.
IS FORCED INTO CHAIR
Court Attaches Grasp Him and Compel
Him to Be Seated, But He Mum
bles Incoherently.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.
New York, Dec. 16. The stato rested
its case at noon today against Hans
Schmidt on trial here for the murder of
Miss Anna Aumuller.
The last witness ordered by the
prosecution was Mrs. Amy Williams, J
the last occupant of the flat where Miss
Aumullor mot her death before it was
rented by Schmidt. She testified to
mooting Anna there, explaining that
the latter gave the name of Mrs. John
Schmidt.
Schmidt Bat with bowed head as At
torney Olcott started outlining the de
fense's case.
. "I will show," ho began, "that
Schmidt is mentally unbalanced, and
has been logally insano for years."
Hearing this, Schmidt leaped to his
feet.
It's not truo," he shouted. "I
protest! In the name of God I pro
test!" Son of John te Baptist.
Court attaches forced the dofondant
into a chair and, although he porsisted
in mumbling incoherently, Olcott con
tinued :
"Schmidt bolieves he a sou of John
the Baptist, and also believes that his
admission to the priesthood' was due di
rectly to St. Elizabeth. His mind is in
constant turmoil. It is marked by
viciousnesg and crimes obnoxious to
moral law's. He is guilty of acts show
ing a stranger inversion of facts than
was ever devolopcd in the Jekyll-Hydo
story."
LEACH AND BUD SIGN.
UNITED PBSBS f ABASED WISE.
Los Angoles, Cal., Doc. 10. Leach
Cross, of Now York, and Bud Anderson,
of Vancouvor, Wash., lightweights,
have signed articles of agreement todny
for a 20-round bout on New Year's day
at the Yenon arena.
Tho fighters, according to tho agree
ment, are to make 135 pounds two
hours before the contest.
Every Property Owner Should
Join Commercial Club Boosters
The board of govornors of the pro
motion department of the Sulom Com
mercial club met at tho Marion Hotel
yesterday and with George Kodgers
chairman, anil W. M. Hamilton as vice
chairman, proceeded to discuss the club
its plans for 11)U, and principally the
getting of cvry citizen solidly behind
it in its efforts to improve and benefit
the city. The retiring board of gover
nors and Its officers did splendid worl;
for both tho club and the city, and tid
ed the club over what wns a real cr;n
of large proportions, The now bnnrd
starts in under fairer skies, and with
loss stormy weather ahead: snd thi'f
results will show soon for the good work
donn, and that will be done, Is assured.
The first work of the new board wi'l
be to get a larger membership, and In
this effort It should be backed by every
one in the city, and especially every
property owner. The latter should not
wait for an invitation to join the pro
motion department of tho club, bi.t
should do It of their own will. It is the
property owner who 1 most benefited
by Inrrcasrtl trade and the consequeLt
fl
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8ALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBEB
Late News
Bulletins
UNITED PBE8S LEASED WIBI.1
Vienna, Dec. 16. Thirty persons are
reported killed and 35 seriously injured
today in fc railroad wreck near Darnow.
An express train collided with a work
train carrying 800 men, The cause of
the wreck is not known.
Panama, Dec. 16. The canal actual
ly opened today from end to end.
Dredges have removed enough of Cu
curacha slide to allow tho passage of
medium-sized vessels.
united ruERS leased wins.
Williston, N. D., Dec. 11. Overpow-
oring tho sheriff and breaking into the
jail, a mob lynchod Frank Culbortson I
early today. He had been convicted of
murdering three members of a family
named Dillon, on a farm north of hore.
The lynchers, 50 in numbor, all
masked, and carryirtf rifles, attacked
tho jail so suddenly that Sheriff Erlck
son had time to put up but littlo re
sistance. Culbcrtson, crouching inside his coll
as the mob battered at the stoel door,
sprang furiously to his feot ss it wont
down and leaped into the crowd, fight
ing like a wildcat. As he was drag
ged outsido, Btill scratching and biting,
somoone In tho mob disabled him with a
shot.
Automobiles wero wnitlng, and, tum
bling him into one of them, the vigi
lantes autocd swiftly with their prison
er to a bridgo across tho Littlo Mis
souri rivor, a milo east of town, and
hanged their victim from tho rail.
The Weather
The Dickey Bird
says: Oregon, fair
tonight and Wed
nesday; easterly
winds.
growth of tho city. It is also the prop
erty ownor, as a general thing, who is
ln.it to do anything to aid In gnttlng
this result, In this, as in every other
city, tho business man is alwnys the
burden carrier, arid it is a burden, too.
snd one thut the property owner should
uliaro in the currying. Kvery proposi
tion tluit comes up that requires mon
ey to carry it through, Is at onco sml-
lled onto the business mail because ho
is easy of approach, Mid also the moit
liberal with his aid. The property ow.v
er cannot alwnvs be found at home, and
besides if ho Is, lie lins nut been educat
ed up to the helping Idea as has the
hiitc'inc-M man, who is always accensllile
It is more from this thnt the propeit;
owner does not do hit part than from
uiiwilliiigmws to ilo It. 1 1 o has never
been called upon to do It, and so fancle
it Is not his business or duty; but It
urcly is, for he gets the benefit of ths
unearned increment and has hit prop
erty made valuahlo with no help from
him.
The new board proposes to change
this, and will make s strenuous effort
to get all property owners to become
f The caaal
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Reads the
16, 1913.
BLAMED FOR FIRE IN
WHICH m PERISH
Salvation Army Official Says
Meyer Threatened to Get
Even With Them.
MANY UNACCOUNTED FOR
Total of 138 Asleep In Shelter Whan
Fire Broke Out and Dozen of
Them Are Injured.
DNIT1CD MESS LEASED WIRE.)
Cincinnati, Doc. 16. In a firo which
destroyed a Salvation Army shelter
hero parly today, at least six persons
perished and it was feared more vic
tims were buried in tho ruins. A dozen
injured wero In local hospitals.
At loast 13S porsons were asloep in
tho shelter. Bosidos the known dead,
many others wore unaocountol for.
, Salvation Army officials snid a man
who asked accommodation at tho shal-
t recently ami, lor some reason, mot
with a refusal, threatened to "got
evon."
On the strength of this statement
Fred Meyer, a man of 40, was arrested,
He was ordered from tho sholtor twice
last night.
GETS TEN YEARS FOE TAKING
AUTOMOBILE OF ANOTHER
(united mess lhased wins.
Los Angeles, Col., Doc. 10. Ton years
in San Quontiu ponitentiary was tho
sentence imposed hore today by Judge
Willis upou Edward Robinson, a lino
type operator of Pomona, who was
found guilty of appropriating for a joy
riilo an automobile he found standing
by a curb here. The car belonged-to
C. H. Bingham, of Alliambra.
Iiobliisoii was arrested and tried on n
chargo of grand larcony.
Judgo Willis recently announcod that
ho would donl summarily with persons
convicted of "borrowing" automobiles.
WANTS FEDERAL QUAE ANTES,
UNITED WEBS LEASED Wlllfl.
Washington, Dec. 16. Senator BriB
low defended a provision for fedoiul
guarantee of bank deposits, when tho
debute on the currency bill was resum
ed in tho swnnto today. It waB expected
the bill would pass the sent to late this
week.
It seems that there will have to bo
strong and able team work again to get
a rivers and harbors bill passed this
winter, Kverybody in tho far west who
has any influonco should uso it.
members of tho club and assist In the
good work. As Mr. Iluckestoin said at
tho banquet a few nights ago, nothing
can bo douo towards helping the poor by
"giving three cheers for tlwm," and
nothing can bo dona towards upbuild
ing the city ami advertising Its resourc
es by giving threo cheers for tho Halom
Commercial Club, It takes money for
printing, for maintaining rooms and
splays of the country's products
whero strangers enn soo thorn, for each
nnd everything tho club does. This
would not be a burdensome tax on any
If each contributed his shnrn, but when
one lias to ilo wnat a dozen snouiu
share In, then It does become burden
some, Indeed. If tho property owners
want the town to grow and prosper,
they must contribute to tho work of
nmklng It do So,
We mulorstjind tho dues III tho pro
motion department are only one dollar
a month, and It surely Is not unreason
able to ask citizen to aid to this ex
tent. This, gentle reader, Is not for
your next door neighbor or for someone
else, but It up to YOU. I)n your part
jand then get after the next door man.
Daily Capital Jonna
PRICE TWO
Pardon Given Man
Who Escaped Cell
Governor Dunno Shows Mercy In Cass
of Policeman Who Erred, Reform
ed and Has Big Position. -
UNITED FXE8S LEASED WISH.
Springfiold, 111., Dee. 16. Governor
Dunne today issued pardons to Joshua
Tedford and Maurice Enright, both
well known men, one under a prison
sentence and the other actually serving
timi) in Jolict.
Tedford, a policeman, was convicted
in 1906 of spiriting away a witness in
a pending trial. Ho was sentenced to
seven years in the ponitentiary, and ap
pealed. The supreme court sustained
the verdict, but when its decision arriv
ed in Chicago, a clerk pigeon-holed it,
leaving Tedford at large on bail. He
got work ns houBo deotoctive for the
"Hub," one of tho biggost clothing
stores in the west, and rose to the posi
tion of its manager. How his case had
boon smothered was but recently dig
covorod. Enright, a Chicago union labor load
er, killed a prominent lonow unionist,
Viucbnt Altman, in a labor dispute.
WARN CARRANZA TO GET
GENERAL VILLA ON
(UNITED FllillS LEASED WISE. J
Washington, Doc. 10. Chihuahua
City was still temporarily tip danger
point In Mexico today.
Ooneral Carranza was warned from
Washington that ho must again got
Ooneral Villa on his good bohavlor, and
keep him there.
If he cannot do this, it was Intimat
ed, Caranza will not be a good miiu
for Washington to support, whon Hu
orta is overthrown.
Tho robclB' Washington junta aont
word to Villa that if he mistrcutod for
eigners, he would injure tho rebel
cause. .-
Ooneral Boravldos, robel, command
ing at Juarez, admitted Villa knew lit
tlo of International rules, but felt sure
ho would abide by them whon told
what thoy woro.
Federals wore roportod closing In on
Chihuahua City, but as the wires wero
down, It was hard to see how anybody
knew.
Huerta Celebrates.
President Huorta celebrated the
robols' ropulse at Tamplco by going on
a prolonged sproe.
Congress had adjourned and Huerta
was a pure dictntor again.
Zapatistas wero reported fighting
federals but a few miles from Mexico
City.
Annoyed by reports that Huerta had
thanked him for aid glvon by Admiral
Flotchor to the Tamplco federal,
Chargo d'Affalres O'Shaughnessy de
nied that aid had boon given, or tha
he had been thanked.
Lower Court Wrong
in Letting Gossip
Stand as Evidence
Htnting that the lower ciftirt erred In
ts Instructions to the Jury and nlso In
admitting certain cvidenco, the supreme
court today reversed the circuit court
of Washington county in the cose of the
Htntu vs. Kdward U Naylor, charged
with Illegal eohnhiutttiun Willi Martha
Traver.
The lower court allowed evidence to
bo introduced to tho effort that the
neighbors had commented on tho rela
tion of tho two, which was error, said
the court. Further tho lower court
eliminated an Instruction that tho of
fense charged could nut be Implied from
certain evidence Introduced,
j The other decisions todny were:
Illake-McFall Company vs, City of
-'HMt MS
! TOE LARGEST
CENTS. ffjatwA$SDcEM
Helmet Crew Enters Workings
But Is Forced to Return
in 30 Minutes.
SEVERAL BODIES OF
VICTIMS FOUND
Miners From Nearby Proper
ties Are Rushing' to Scene
of Big Disaster. 1
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIUE.
Glonwood Springs, Colo., Dec. 16.
At 2:15 o'clock this aftornoon 15 bodies
had boon recovered from the Vulcan:
mine of the Rocky Mountain Fuel com
pany, at New Castle, near hero, where
an explosion occurred at noon.
It was also definitely known that 43
mon wore In the mino when the explo
sion occurred. Five escaped alive. Tha
other 33 undoubtedly wore killod.
It was expected that ftll corpses w:jt
havo boon recovered by 6 o'clock this
evening.
The explosion was caused by an ad
cumulation of gas.' Men from the South.
Canon and Sunlight mines, nearby, as
sisted the roscuers in the search for
ths victims. .
fllnnwood Springs, Colo., Doe. 16,
An explosion in which heavy loss of lifet
is feared,- occurred about noon today;
in tho Vulcan mlno of tho Rocky Moun
tain Fuol company at Now Castle, ton
miles from hero.
Tho mine ordinarily employs about 40
men, but reports received here said 43
men wore at work when the explosion
occurred. Porsons standing on the sur
face, near the entrance, wero knocked
down by tho force of tho explosion.
Mino Superintendent Charles Neer
dink loft the mine but a moment before
tho explosion. Ho immediately organis
ed a helmet crew and entnrcd the work
ings. The roscuers remained below but
31) minutes.
Roports received here said several
bodies already had been found, but that
no attempt was made ta move thorn. It
was believed lioro thut all in the mine
were killed instantly.
Minors from nearby properties rush
ed to tho scene and d wtors and nurses
were hurried from horo to Now Castle
on a spocial train.
Fifty-four men were killed In the
same mine by an explosion in 1S06.
Body work Is indispenslblo to first
class brain work.
Portland; petition for rehearing, denied.
State of Oregon vs. Warner Valley
Block Company; motion to dismiss art
peal, denied,
H, K. Nicholson vs. Fred Newton, ap
pellant; motion to dismiss appeal, de
nied. Kilith Ihivls vs. John Hall, et al.)
motion to dismiss appeal, denied.
Charlotte Moffett Cartwrlght, ftppel
la nt, vs. .liuncn Voters Moffett, et nl.;
appealed from Multnomah county, In
volving tho vndldily of deed, af
firmed. W. B. Hartley vs. I.umbermon ' Na
tional Bank, appelliint appealed from
(Continued on Purs Five.)
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