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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1913)
All the News thai 0 Fit to Print. Everybody Reads the Daily Capital Journal t- jAll !u S"A 77ie esf 77ie Largest Newspaper J Circulation J ..' .1 THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1913. PRICE TWO CENTS on trains and nbws rani u. rnninT h. ... . .... ... . i west B EXPECTED IN 5?XS aai an nBfivriA a n nr W I of AN -r -"ft ;uk-. r; ft SI hi- '. " . -r - 4 i -h 3 - 1 i ' ! ' . fit I" 111 J Ml III PRESIDENT WILSON MAY CHINESE FROM INSANE . -Mfe Hans Schmidt and Girl Ha Killed. HELD 1L BE CLOSED UP TIGHT Executive, Interviewed in Port land, Intimates Raid Will Be Made. NOT GIVE DETAILS Fails to Make It Plain Whether Militia Will Bo Used But PtouIm De s yelopments Soon. Question of Sanity of Prisoner Only One Involved and Judge Tells Jury if It Decides He Is Guilty of Murder in First De gree and Sane at the Time H e Must Go to the Electric Chair Case Goes to Jury at 2 O'clock and Members Immediate ly Go to Lunch. ujhtid j-mss LiusiD wiaa. o 'clock, It was expected that the de New York, Dec. 29. Hans Schmidt, liberations of the jury would be brief, the confessed murderer of Anna Aumul-1 J"lge Foster's charge dealt solely , . , , . . . , , ... with the law relating to homicido and ler, will know lus fate before night. The , , . .? . , . , , insauity. He said if the jury decideo case went to the jury shortly before 2 thftt u mugt gQ t(J o clock this alternoon. Matteawan asylum if convicted of The jury immediately went to lunch, first degree murder, he must die in the the court ordering a recess until 2:45 electric chair. DYNAMITERS BELIEVED TO HAVE PLANNED TO UP GAS PLANT Three Captured in Boat and H ave in Their Possession Dyna mite Bomb, Three Automatic Revolvers, Shotgun, Two Rifles Fitted With Maxim Silencers and Bag of Guncotton No ExplanationOne Former Electrical Worker Richmond Chief Says One Is an I. W. W. UNITED PRESS LEASED W1BB.1 Pass Christian, Miss., Dec. 29. Dr. Gary Grayson 'forbade President Wilsoli to attend to any correspondence today. He insisted that the president would bo interfering with his recovery to at tempt to answer all the letters on hand here, and they were forwarded to ASYLUM ARE ON WAY IE This morning 2 Chinese patients from the state asylum for the jnsane were sent to Portland on a special car on the Oregon Electric. They reached Portland at 10:30, and were sent to Se attle, where they will be placed on the liner Minnesota, which sails Tuesday, and shipped to Hong Kong. Through BOOZE-LADEN CRAFT IS STRANDED ON STREET AND TDWED TO CELL with the promise that ho would not at tempt again to land with such an un reasonable cargo. onitid run xji as id wraa.l Portland, Or., Dec. 29. "We are go ing to Copperfield. We are going to close up the saloons, and we are going to do it right." In these terse sentences Governor West answered today when asked con corning the situation in Copperfield, Baker countv, whore citizens com plained that conditious were deplorable and that the laws were boing disregard ed by saloon koepors. The citizons even stated that their lives were endangered. The governor did not go into dotails as to how he would close the saloons, whether by use of the militia or not. He said: "There will be some develop ments in a day or so." Governor West was in Portland attending the meeting of the interstate bridge commission which is selecting an engineer for tho proposed Pacific highway bridgo across the Columbia river from Portland to Vancouver. FIRST MATE PUNISHED FOE FOE LOSS OF FOUR SAILORS Washington for hia secretary, Joseph BrraiiKemonts made by the Chinese Six P. Tumulty, to answer. ' Companies, thev will be met there by relatives and taken care. Dr. Stoiner President Wilson's desire for pri vacy has been ignored by the residents here, and unless conditions improve, the president and his family intend to spend the remainder of his vacation either in Texas or Florida. accompanied them as far as Portland, and may go as far as Seattle. They CNtTBD 1'BiaS UlARai) WIB1. San Francisco, Doc. 2!V The inspec tors of hulls and boilers found First Of ficer H. W. Ravons, of tho stoamahip A M finrmn TivW hi name as '-rcsmuin, guiiry i mwn m W, Madison, was arrested right opposite, et w,th the drownmg of four per the police station, on Chemokota from tho hlP November 20, and street, yesterday aftornoon by Officer lenled his lwense for 13 months. w,k M,i;.n . . intarinteil i Captain R. J. Paulsen and Second Offl- Welch. Madison was so intoxicated that he experienced great difficulty in navigating the narrow sidewalk on the north side of the thoroughfare. He are in charge of J. II. Barbour, of the J first luffod when the curb hove in sight immigration service, and Harry Minto, of this city, who will accompany them , Every morning the state Agricultural to their aogtination. Dr. Lai Yick goes College mails the president three dox- with them M interpreter. The getting en fresh eggs, and the parcel post brings rid of theg9 wilj a considerable him large quantities of garden truck. MVing to the state. Fans Through Portland. I Portland, Or.rDec. 29. Twenty-two insane Chinamen, under guard, passed through Portland today from the state insane asylum at Salem, en ' route to Seattle, where thoy will be deported oh the steamship Minnesota, scheduled to sail tomorrow for Hong Eong. I The deportation of the men said, will effect a saving to the state of about fi0,000, with the expectancy that each of the 22 has ten years yet to live. The Chinese government will care for the unfortunates upon their arrival at Hong Kong. BY LEAPING FROM FIFTH FLOOR UMITKO miss UiSHD Will. Chicago, Dec. 29. Mrs. George So cor, an actress aged 30 years, known on the stage as Mabel Collin, committed suicide here todny by leaping from the fifth floor of the Revere hotel. Scores of persons in the criminal court build ing, directly across the street, witness ed tho act. Nervous hvRtcria, resulting from hard rehoarsals, friends said, was the cause. A note addressed to her husband, an ac tor, at Appleton, Wis., said: "I am writing this at fl:M p. m. I have been on my feet since 10 o'clock this morning. I had to change my co.i tumo three times and make numerous thatiges in my lines." IS V AnA mi A tii anil Ihan V a fnpltnd (lUOP to the other port when the hedge on the other side came too near him. Finally the booze-ladon human craft attempted to port alongsido a little fir tree on tho lawn in front of the T. O. Bligh house, with the result that he lost his bearings and ran ashore. It waa then' that Officer Welch an swered the S. O. 8., and towed the stranded man-craft inside a steol-bound cove, whore storms never frequent, but where headaches abound. MadiBOn had an improvised drug store aboard, and when he was searched it is by tn0 Police' P'"' l'0''0 ttnd 8,,0ut every kind or momcino wore unioaaoa. The officers tried to induce the man to toll whore he secured his cargo, but Madison simply advised them to mind thoir own business and they did. Judge Elgin this morning proved merciful. Madison was allowed to leave after depositing $3 with the court, and cor T. J. Mathieson were exonerated. The President was making the run between Seattle and SRn Francisco whon a passongor was washed over- lmard. Ravons ordered a boat loworod. HOLDS TRAIN FOB ACTORS. Portland, Or., Dec. 29. The Nortborn Pacific has consented to hold its Seattle train one and one-half hours so that Alice Lloyd, English comedienne, may participate in a New i ear's bonefit show. FARM LABORERS WILL BE OBLIGED TO IRK BUT EIGHT HOURS DAILY omitio rasss liassd wiai. San Francisco, Deo. 29. Richmond1 police had a queer problem to solve to day in connection with the discovery of a "dynamite boat" in San Pablo bay.- Instead of being called on to deter mine who committed a certain crime, thoy faced the task of learning what crime certain persons had planned to commit. That is to say, this was the task cut out for them, assuming that the per sons in question planned to commit t crime at all. Certainly the circum stances wore suspicious. The three moo hold prisoners Charles King, H. G. llaulon and Joe ISrown, as they gave their names could hardly have had a dynamite bomb, throo automatic revolv ers, a sbotgun, two rules fitted wltn -Mil xi m silencers and a bag of gun-cotton in thoir boat, the police argued, per haps not unnaturally, for any peaceful purpose Deny They Planned Crime. Yet all throe doniod that thoy plan ned any crime. Moro than this, thoy would say practically nothing. It leoin ed fairly well established that Hanlon lias had employment as nn ulectricol worker lu Stockton and Snciamonto. From all that could bot learned, his rec ord at both plnces was good. King and IS BULL! ttHiito rssss ijiasid wtaa.l Chicago, Dec. 29. President Charles If. Mover, of tho Western Fed-ration of Miiicm, was onrated on todny at St. Luke's hospital here. A bullet wns re moved from the muscles Bt the left side of his back. Dr. William Marsh, of the hospital, had previously located the leaden slug with the X-ray. The opera tion was pronounced a success. r'The patient is weak," bulletined the surgeons, after it was over, "but we think he will come out all right." E TO GAMBLE IN PLACE Judge Elgin this morning fined Frank Stottnrd, the proprietor of the little store on Court street, between Liberty and High, for permitting gambling to be carried on in his place of busi ness. Stottnrd is the mnn who was arrested in connection with three young boys who wero fined $-3 each for playing cards in tho former's store last Friday evening. Mottanl picauixi guiuy iu and paid his fine. The Weather The Dickey Bird says: Oregon, rain west tonight and. rain or snow east portion tonight or Tuesday; moder ate east winds in Interior, brisk to high southeast winds along the coast. The troublo over tho oight-hour law as applied to state institutions is not vet over. Recently State Treasurer Kay stated the board would hold that the law applied only to farm and othor laborers, and not to the employes in charge of the patients, and of other work in the building. , It has beeu stated that the attorney-general took this view of it, but Labor Commission er Hoff, says he has no reason to be lieve the attorney-general has so ad vised, and that be will insist on the law being enforced as to all stato em ployes, since the supremo court has de cided it does so apply. Dr. Stoiner has prepared a statement showing that if the law is held to ap ply to employes generally at the asy lum that it will cost tho state $05,000 more next year than under the old sys tem. Commissioner Hoff says be will bo gin suits to enforce tho law unless it is complied with. He looks at it that he had nothing to do with making the law, but since it is the law, it is his duty to enforce it, regardless of objections from any source. alarm clock set for 12:30, and from this . Arnold deduced that the trio meant to plant the explosive under tho Pacific Gas and Electric company's Richmond power house, blow the power house and loot a bank under cover of the ensuing darkness and confusion. Another theory offered was that tho men were not robbers, but believers in political "direct action" who planned a "demonstration In force," the blow ing up of the towers which carry tho gas and electric company's feed cables across Carquinoz Strait, for example. A third theory was that an attempt was planned to froo some convict or convicts from San Quentin penitentiary. Believed Them Convicts. This, of tho throe hypotheses, had the fewest supporters. San Quentin did, however, unquestionably figure in the ase in a way if Frank Molvillo and James Hurley had not escaped front thore last Tuesday, King, Hanlon and Brown would not have boen caught. MoBt peoplo in tho bay cities were oa tho alert for the two fugitives, and when King, Hanlon and Brown landed from their gasoline boat at Sin Pablo point and started toward Richmond, they wero suspected, the alarm was giv on and on thoir return to the boat all three wero arrested. Thoy were held without specific charges against them pending investigation. Their equipment of arms and explo- Brown did not mind saying they worel irom Lincago. iieyoua mis mey were lvM wa8 , very workimiIllihe nn0, Th, 9''0"t I bomb was connected with oloctric wires, Chief of Police Arnold, of Richmond, ' fitted with caps and would, so the po- across Ban Francisco bay Irom nore, voiced tho belief that ono of the men waai an I. W. W. He also inclined to the opinion that King had oporated as a dynamitoT in the east' He had estab lished neither" of those theories, how ever. ' , Oas Plant Threatened. . The bomb was connected with an lice said, easily have blown up a "city block." Convicts Still at Large. The convicts, whose escape led to the capture of the "dynamite boat's" crow, were still' at large today.. The Ban Quentin authorities believed thoy were hiding in Oakland or Berkeley and wore watching both towns for them. Man Who Hides Fact He Has Wife Refused Citizenship SAYS IT 13 AN ACCIDENT. losiTKO rsasa uuin wiai.) Vancouver, Wnsh., Dec. 2:). Telling the police that he accidentally shot him .f. nuil friends that some one elsp was responsible, Peter Fleck, a railroad contracting foreman is in a critical condition today, attended by five phy sicians. Littlo hope is entertained for his recovery. The shooting occurred at Fleck's home. The bullet lodged in the left lung. Bow Callow Youth of Country is Worked by New York's Gay Girls BY CARLTON TEN EYCK. (Written for the United Press.) ow York, Dec. 29. This is the way it is done on the Great White Way, bet ter known as tho t'pier Tenderloin. A youth, new to Broadway, stands at the brilliantly illuminated corner of Forty. third street, watching the merrily eddy ing tiilo of humanity femininity f Well, maybe pass jauntily by, wishing he were a pRrt of it. He is, only he doesn't know it, vet. Suddenly there darts bv a girl, a liltln bit of a fair haired ad venturess. Hhe has a vaguely familiar look, so tho lorner watcher soliloquizes, and ho stc out beside her. Oh, she is in stuh a hurry, because sho has agree 1 to meet a Im-mls ami sne is aires, iv late. It is so kind of the strange man to suggest a tsuicah, but really, it Is useless, she is so late now that she knows her friend will he tired of wait ing and gone, so what's the uel Why not go somo place mar by und talk it overt The youth, lost in the night life, Is more than willing and tiny stroll inn one of the brillinutly illuminutcd lob ster palaces on Forty-second Htrect, ju .1 off the main highway. Women In silks and velvets mid li.cn in lmili-d shirts nit nil about, lookii g ns if they owned the plaro, ami quite over awe tho strange cides thjit thero Is a difference, her Ti tian linir is a hulf shado lighter or darker, which was it ( No matter. There's the obsequious waiter. The girl never drinks a thing, J never, but if he will oncuse her for a iiioini nt, hIic wauls to go to the tele phone, liack she conies in a quarter of u ii hour with another girl, her room mate, a child of the chorus, who has young man. I'uder the glare of the been hunting lor Jier everywhere to ite blazing electrics, ho looks more closely ' liver B telegram from home. How did lit. his companion. Yes, she surely looks tho room tuate know she was In the lob like tho girl he thought i-he wus, the ster pnlaeef Nobody thought to ques one who said she v.ns a cloak model In tion that. a Fifth avenue department store. Ilut The two yirls order stetih and things she is not. Hie says she hns bi-eli in I lint r'in the bill up Into two figures, New York only a week; came from a iiioiiiih hile excusing themselves nuiuer soiithern home, ngainst tho withes of oim thus to go to the telephone, and her aristocratic family kin to Jeffer- when finally the youth l.nya the scire son Davis, you know to join a Broad- ami escape, to the subway to go homo, way show, lii-hcarsnls delayed, you uo- he discovers the lies of his wallet with derstand. Hie Is oh, so lonetome nnd thirty-seven dollars, his six months' sav hom'iek, .hint -dying 'for someone to ines to buy Christ inns gifts for "the talk to. The youth looks closer and ! folks back home." How did it happen I With Judge Galloway on the boneh, nnd It. B, Hazard, United States Natu ralization Examiuor for this district, conducting tho examinations, 15 appli cations for iinal papers of naturaliza tion as citizens of this country aro be ing investigated In tho circuit court to day. Tho federal officer is making ono of the most thorough examinations of the applicants ever experienced by pros pective citizens in the county nnd it Is barely probnblo that several of tho ap plicant for final papers will not suc ceed in pnssing tho rigid Investigation being pushed by both Mr. Hazard and Judge Galloway. So critical is tho innnnr lu which Mr. Hazard Is passing upon applica tions for final papers today, the appli cants are brought to realize limit tn! matter of securing admission as citizens of the 1'nlted States is of much Impor tance, not only to themselves, but to this country in general. Finds Faulty Application. An example of what close attention is being given to the present bulk of applications whs ileiiionstruleil this morning when E. firim applied for his Iinal papers, t'pon going through the applicant's affidavits, letters, etc., Mr. Ibnrd found that Mr. Urim had sworn to a false statement and he forthwith Interposed an objection. Mr. Grim 's application wus refined for the reason he kwoic lu his first ap plication that he w:s unmarried ami had no children while applying for his final riilmlselon he signed an affidavit In which lm claimed to have a wife and two children living In Oormany. He ad mitted before Mr. Hazard and Judge Galloway this morning that he kepi fair marrluge a six' ret during the 20 years he has lived in Marion county fur the reason ho did not want his friends to know but that he was a singlo man. Scores Applicant. r,May it please tho court," said Mr. Hazard after completing his examina tion, "this applicant has violated his oath by swearing falsely to the county clerk that he was an unmarried man and hnd uo children. Ho tdiowed delib eration in making theau false nnd mis leading statements and ho, in his desire to secure the right to be an American citizen, purposely docoived the court in a manlier most plain. "The greatest privilege this govern ment cnii extend to a foreign person Is granting him or her tho lawful right of citizenship. This applicant litis misrep resented himself aud I now interpose a motion to the effect that the applica tion for final papers be refused nud the mutter dismissed with prejudice." The applicant was asked If ho hid anything to say In regard to the exam iner's remarks and upon his negative 'answer the court sustained tho motion. Is Serlmj Business, Hereafter, according to Judge Gallo way, "none but the fittest" will be given that supremo privilege of eiti rouship until they have shown them selves to bo entitled to sumo; that they show tho proper spirit toward the gov- (Continued on page four.)