All the News thaf s FStjto Print Everybody Reads the Daily Capital Journj :'M" tsr-x'-i . Vnk . . j. I n m f IT IISI " '(1 d 5 :: 77ie Largest Circulation !: THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR. ALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1914. PQirr Twn rrwrc on trains and kbwb rKIW InU 3. STANDS, FIVB CBWTS. ? M I SrVr CV W t.tM.t MMMMM.M.f CRAWFORD CANDIDATE FOR PLAC Attorney-General Announces He Will Seek Governor i ship of State. HE URGES MANY REFORM MEASURES Economy in Administration of Office Promised in His Platform. Attorney-General A. M. Crowford this afternoon announced his candidacy for governor on the republican ticket. His announcement follows: "When one makes application for the nomination for the high office of governor of the stato, those whose votes be solicits, wish, and' are entitled to I: now something at least' of the -applicant ' views upon current events -and governmental functions. "Therefore, with this announcement of my candidacy for nomination on the republican ticket for the office of gov ernor of Oregon, subject to the approv al of the voters, I respectfully submit to the consideration of the electorate, the following suggestions tending as I toeTicve towards better government for 'Oregon. "Since tho products of field nnd for est are the foundation of all prosper ity and a largo portion of our lands are farming and grazing, tbo imposition upon such lands of the entire burden of taxation would bo intolerable to the farmer and to workers who own their own homes. Therefore the single tax propaganda should be rejected. "As the struggle, for existence bears li'aviets upon tho laborers of the statJ, 1 would suggest exemption from taxation and execution of nil household furni ture and personal property to be chos en by the householder to a reasonable amount, and that a constitutional .amendment be adopted to effecuate the S'line. For Botter Roads, "Believing that cheap transportation is a great factor in the development of a state, and tluit nothing is more conducive thereto than good roads, and a Federal court for tho district of Oregon, having decreed that the bal ance of tho Oregon-California railroad grant, amounting to something over two millions of acres, originally grant ed in aid of tho construction of a rail rood, north and south through tho state; is forfeitod on tho ground cf non-complianco with the conditions of the grant, I would suggest that all the influenco which can be brought to hear by tho state administration and our delegation in Congress, should bo exerted to the utmost to have the for feited lands or the proceeds thereof donated to the State of Oregon for the jTpr COnilition was duo to hunger strik construction of good hard surface jj;,, Fankhurst was imprisoned reads. "General intelligence of tho people being the assurance of free government and personal liberty, liberal support should bo given our schools and col leges. To this end, and at the same time keeping taxes within reasonable (Continued on page four.) Strike Situation in South Africa ( t'NITKD MESS MUSED Willi.) Pretoria, South Africa, Jan. 10. The railroad strike situation was alarm ing today throughout South Africa. It developed with paralyzing sudden ncs. The railroad men were called out several days igo, but failed generally to respond. The leaders, however, ap pealed to the Johannesberg trades fed eration. By nightfall the utmost bit Candidate for Governorship V;. ' 1 i : - : Crawford. Late News Bulletins I'MTKD lM'.ESS LBAHBD WIUU. Washington, Jan. 10. Congressman Covington, of Maryland will introduce a resolution in the house next week for an investigation of the cold storage business throughout the country. Ware house interests were understood today to be preparing to offer testimony to offset charges that they have manip ulated supplies of perishable foodstuffs, like eggs, in order to force exorbitant prices in fall and winter. New Bedford, Mass., Jan. 10. A wiroless message received here today declared the Standard Oil steamship Comet is in distress, 35 miles off Nan tucket Island. A leak in the fuel tank, the wireless said, forced the steamer to stop its boilers to prevent an explo sion. The revenue cutter Acushet had gone to the Comet's assistance, Pass Christian, Miss., Jan. 10. Pres ident Wilson today played his last game of golf here. This afternoon he will say goodbye to tho local friends he has made. Tomorrow he will leave for (Washington. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 10. Several in dependent steel mills postod announce ments today that their plants will re sume running full time Monday on ac count of fresh orders calling for about 100,000 tons of steel. Manila, Jan. 10. W. M. Johnson, California, today defeated Elia Fot- trell, also a Californinn, at tennis, fi-3, 5-7, 6-.1, winning the Philippine cham pionship. Bucharest, Eoiunania, Jan. 10. King Cnrolus' illness took a turn for tho worse today, and it was admitted ho was in danger. Pneumonia threatened him. London, Jan. 10. Miss Sylvia Pank- hurst, daughter of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the militant suffragette lender, was released from Holloway tirjHon todnv on the verge of collapse January 3. LONG DISTANCE WISE. t XITEU PUKKA LEASED WIR. Soyville, X. Y., Jan. lO.-Operators at the Telefnnken wireless station de clared today that they communicated last night with San Francisco,-a dis tance of 3000 miles overland. A. M. Grows Alarming terness teemed to saturate practically the entire working class population. Two dynamiting of trains and an at tempt to dynamite a third last night aggravated matters. No one was hurt. Militia infantry, cavalry and artil lery was being mobilised everywhere. Officials of the railroad men's unions were being arrested ts rapidly as possible. UNFITTEST SURVIVE 10 Several Causes for Race De generacy, One Being Pov erty of Toiler. RICH WOMEN TO BLAME Those Who Have Beet Homes for Chil dren Do Not Want Them and Re sult Is Not Encouraging. UNITED PBKS8 LBASBD WIBS. Battle Creek, Mich., Jan. 10. In these modern days, said Dr. D. A. Sar gent, director of the Hemenway gym nasium, Harvard, at the eugenic con ference today, the doctrine of the "sur vival of the fittest" has been reversed it is the "survival of the unfittest" now. "Twenty per cent of America's mar ried women," he went on, "are unable to bear children. Twenty-four per cent of tho women of the so-called upper class are unablo to bring children into the world. Twenty-seven per cent of women college graduates are storile. "In some New England towns the death rate exceeds the birth rate. If it were not for our foreign population some of our larger cities would be do populated. " Causes of Race Degeneracy, As causes of "race degeneracy" Dr. Sargent named poverty, workingnien 's inability to support large families, lux urious living, ' rich women's love of ease and amusement, the fact that a steadily increasing number of women are entering professions, which prevent motherhood and the growing attitude of apartment house owners, that children are a nuisance "In this ago of intense living," said the doctor, "it is hardly to be won dered at that many persons shrink from the responsibility of raising chil dren, but sex hunger is a dominating passion, which gives rise to the most frightful crimes of our-times infanti cide. "Ancient Greeso and Rome paved the way for their decay when their beauti ful women ceased to bear children, and men sought tho companionship of cour tesans. The race which adopts this method is doomed to eventual extinc tion. Imperfectly Developed. "Unless the bodies of our American women aro more perfectly developed ' meet tho needs of tho race we surely face deterioration, "Yet of what value is it to have women perfect ill herself, if man comes to her diseased. No wonder girls ore becoming reluctant to entrust them- (Continued on page four.( ROAD IS RUINED BY HOP E OF That the Clemens Horst company, tho largest hop raisers in Polk county, has ruined a lnrge stretch of good road leading from McNary to the company's yards, was the statement made here to dav. Recently the company had sev eral hundred yards of fertilizer ship pend from McNary and hauled it over four miles of main road and about two miles of side road to the ranch. Four horses were attached, to wagons, and the rather narrow tires of the wagons cut through the gravel surface of tho roadway into the enrth beneath for a distance of a foot. The road is totally ruined, It was asserted today, and it will cost thousands of dollars to repair It. Many of the residents favor some ac tion toward making the hop rompnny niBke tho necessary repair. It wo asserted today that there would not be rand funds enough available in that section of Polk county to make the re pairs this year. FALL PROVES FATAL. frsrritD rsrs maxd wirx.) Plan Francisco, Jan. 10. Mr. Agnes Wilson, mother of J. C. Wilson, stock broker, died early today of injuries suf fered by a fall while stepping from s street ear last evening. Southern Pacific Traffic Delayed Four Freight Cars '. Demolished sod ' Wreckers Expect To Have Track 1 Cleared By Evsning. united prbss uuaio wmn. Eugene, Ore., Jan. 10. A freight wreck at Springfield Junction two miles south of hare early today, in which four cars were .demolished, has tied up traffic on the fnain line of the Southern Pacific. No one was injured. One car jumped the track and bumped half a mile over the ties before turning turtle. The other three cars piled on top. All trains are being 'routed over the east side branch. ' Wwekers expect to have the tracks clear by evening. UNITED miHIt IJDARED WIS!. Presidio, Texas, Jan. 10. Reinforced by tho arrivals of 3,000 rebels from Chihuahua City, Goneral Villa this af ternoon began driving back tho Ojinaga dofenders' outposts. He was expected to open a general attack within a-i hour. Judgo Cnlloway this aftornoou issued an order dissolving tho injunction and dismissing tho important case of Foil, ot al., against tho city of Salem and the Oregon Electric Co. Tho court's decision thus removes nil obstructions which have been holding up the work of completing tho new Oregon Klectric railroad and wagon bridge over Mill crock on North Front street, ami mak ing tho necessary improvements on the street north of tho structure. It is said that there are about 2"0 men waiting to go to work on the bridge and on North Front street, ami it is more than likely that the crew will be placed on the job at, an early date now, that tho court has removed the obstacles. Foil and other brought the suit to restrain tho defendants from carrying on the work, on the grounds that the proposed Improvement would throw the street off grade. In spenking of the cose this after noon. Attorney Winslow. one of the counsel for tho plaintiffs declared that it is not known whether the court's decision will be appealed. The con tractor who I to work the bridge to completion is L. O. TTerrold. CLAIMS OF S. P. ATTACKED. fnmrsD prshs uahis wibs.1 Washington, Jan. 10. Claim of the Southern Pacific company to California oil bind worth :.HO,000,000 were at tacked In a brief filed with the United States supreme court toby by Edmund P,urke of Lo Angeles, The brief as serted that petroleum i a mineral and for that reason tho railrul could no' claim petroleum property a "agricul tural land." The Weather Tho Dickey Bird says: Oregon, rain west, rsin or now east portion to night an.d Sun day; southeaster ly wind high along the coast. III A T'5 Wont 1 w Ill HF COPPERFIELD MEN Portland Attorney Appears for West, Miss Hobbs and Others Involved. DEFENDANTS ARE ABSENT Suit Will Establish If Civil Action Can Be Brought to Recover Damages for Losses. UNITED FBBSS LBA8SD WIIUI. Baker, Or., Jan. 10. Attorney Col lier, of Portland, representing Gover nor West, Miss Fern Hobbs, Colonel Lawson and the militiamen who aided in the establishment of martial law in Copperfiold, appeared in Circuit Judge Anderson's court this afternoon and filed an answer to an injunction suit brought by Copperfield saloonmon to restrain Colonel Lawson from seizing their stocks of liquors. Colonel Lawson disregarded the restraining order, and the present suit will establish whether civil action can bo brought to recover damages for the confiscation . of the liquor. Noue of the dofendants wni present. Threo militiamen at Copperfiold are still holding down the lid. Colonel Lawson reached home last night, but had made no report of conditions at the front to the governor up to noon. At The Dalles the mayor has crawlod un der the lid, and tho council is sitting on it, with no protest from him. At other points, whore the govornor intimated things needed fixing, all is quiet, but tho newspapers of the locali ties aro somewhat soro Bt the govornor, and thoy aro presumed to reflect the community sentiment. SAILOR SCANTILY CLAD ON PARADE IN MARSHFIELD L'NITF.D dlEHH I, BASED WIRB. Marshfiold, Or., Jan. 10. T. M. Carr, a sailor from tho Ornco Dollar, kept the city in a turmoil of excitement Inst night by appearing on the streeU in overalls. Carr was on the streets as early as 0 o'clock, and, despite the ef forts of tho polico to apprehend him, he outran nil. Timid women were fright ened when they learned that a de mented man was about. Some people, mistook Carr for a track athleto, and thought ho was training. After dodging capture until 4:20 o'clock this morning, Carr returned to his ship. He was examined today for insnnity, and will bo kept on tho ship until it re turns to Snn Francisco, 3, 10 fl'SITKD P'OMK l.KAHKtl WHIR. San Francisco, Jan. 10. The urinin- IS ployed relief committee said today that i Angeles i at liakcrsfield today. The at least ii'on and perhaps 8000 men city appropriated i!00 to feed tho would be put to work Monday at tho marcher during their stay hero. They fixed scale of $1,110 for eight hours' expe. ted to continue their tramp to work. Iloulevard-mnlnng, park lin-Imorraw. provement and repair of beach dam age by tho recent storm will occupy them. Free feeding will bo continued until work tins been found for all reg istered at tho Co operative employment henibpiarters. The police still refused to permit street gatherings or processions, for there was still much dissatisfaction among those who object to work at less than $,') daily, and trouble wus yet fcnreil bv the authorities. STEWARD'S PROMOTION URGED. I SITI'O rucss IKAHKII WHIM. J Washington, .Inn, 10. Senator Cham berlain and Peprcsriitntive linker plan to urge the promotion of Colonel Wil liam Stewart, culled tho "American Dreyfus'' bivaiue he was banished nnd i"ubsniiiently ousted from active service in the Tinted Stntc army, They will ask that he be mnde a brigadier gener al. Colonel Htewnrt refused to retire in 1007, after he had served 40 years as commissioned officer. He then wa transferred to an abandoned post at Fort Grant. Iter be was summarily retired. He sought an inquiry thiee times, but failed. ' i Schooner May Have Gone Down No Word From Tog Sent Out to Search for Vessel Drifting Belplessly Off Caps Flattery. oNiTio rssss uasid wiu. Seattle, Wash., Jan. 10. At noon to day . the Puget Sound Tugboat com pany, owners of the tug Tatoosh which was sent out yesterday afternoon-, in search of the four masted schooner William F. Garms, had heard neither from the tug or the Garms, which was reported Friday as dismasted and help lessly adrift 100 miles southwest of Cape Flattery. The schooner carries a crew of 10 men, and sailed December 28 from Coupeville, Wash., lumber laden, for Santa Rosalia, Mexico. The Garms is owned by Olsen & Mahomey of San Francisco. FOR RESTAURANT IS A complaint was filed in the circuit court this morning by William and Dora Black against W. A. Irvine, in which the plaintiffs allege that, by rea son of fraud on the part of the do- fondant, they wore induced to trade 104 "T , , . .. p. o... .j.th9 Western Federation of Miners, in 1UUU IVi IUQ .L411LU V-OlUj MIU have been losing 414 a day on the busi ness since taking it over. The plaintiffs aver that the defend ant told them that the Elite Cafe was worth $7500 as real proporty, and that it was capable of bringing in gross re ceipts of $3500 per month. Tho plain tiffs entered into an agreement, accord ing to the complaint, with the dofend ant whorohy they transfered a deed to 104 acres of land in Marion county to tho dofendant and in turn wore givon possession of tho rostnuront. They now claim that tho defendant has been un truthful to them in describing the proporty he traded, and that, by reason of alleged frauds, the deed to the land should bo reconvoyed, and that the do- , fendant should be enjoined from dis posing of the proporty. 0RE T0 BE 8ENT BY MAIL WORRIES MAIL CARRIERS (i nitkii riitss i.rAsro wmn.l Spoknuc, Wash., Jan. 10. Postoffice inspectors received yesterday telephone colls from worried rurnl delivery car- ' tiers, asking aid. Tho carrier who rides horseback from Paradise, Or., to Antelope, Wash., IS miles, notified the inspectors thnt a man fit Paradise Is ready to ship SflOO pounds of timothy seed by parcel post. I The enrrier at Elk City, Idaho, tele- I phoned that, mine owners had three cnrlo:iilx of concentrated ore ready for shipment by parcel post to tho smelter, a distance of (10 miles over mountain rond. I The I'l-pci tnrs have put In a reqnisi- ! tinn for t nit to help out the Idaho ' carrier". UNEMPLOYED ARMY MARCHES. i'vitko i r.css ikaskd wins.) I Uuknsfield, ( al., Jan. 10. One hun 'drcd nnd thirty five strong, tho unem ployed army that is inarching to Los Brother Refuses to Make Public Mrs. Cox's Note 1,'NITKII I'I'.KSH I.KASr.l) WIIIH.l Sun I'rnncico, .Inn. 10. Joseph Crave, brother of Mrs. Mnry Crave Cox, who, Lor Angeles polico sny, shot and killed her 111 year-old daughter and William M. Melton end then ended her own life in tho southern city, railed at the jiotoffico hero today and received s , the packoge which Mrs, Cox mailed to l mm on tnn night or me triple iragciy, The authorities believe it contains the valuables of Mrs. Cox and a note tx plaining her determination to kill her self, Meltoa tad her daughter. START TO EVICT 4000 Snow on Ground and Very Cold . But Mine Owners Proceed With Work. GRAND JURY TO REPORT TODAY Said Several Indictments Will Will Be Returned Against Lawbreakers. oniced mass uuu wiss. Calumet, Mich., Jan. 10. That tha Houghton county grand jury would complete its work this afternoon (jits, the return of several indictments was reported here today. Inasmuch as it it was this grand jury which investigated the deporta tion from the copper county of Presi- Ann fnwd a 1 i m . , j'l. touso interest was felt in its report It was thought possible there might b true bills for some of those concerned in the deportation. Although several inches of snow had fallon and it was very cold, the mlno owners today started evicting 4000 strikers' families from the company owned houses. Treatment of Strike Breakers. Washington, Jan. 10. Regarding the treatment of Calumot strikebreakers, a government report today saysi "Many of thoso men made affidavit tliut the agout informed them that thoru was no trouble or strike whera they were to work but ou their arrival they vuio guarded by deputies and not permitted to leave thoir buukhouses at the mines. "Some, of tho smaller companies luivo beou operating at a loss but tho largest concom in tho region, the Cal umet and llecla company employing up nurds of 50 per cent of tho miners of the region have made extremely large profits. Its actual cash capital, paid in, is $1,200,000. Its total dividends from tho date of its organization in 1S71 to March 30, 1SI3, were $121,00 000, besides about $75,000,000 re-invested out of its net earning." The report was compiled by Walter Palmer of the bureau of statistics. REPORTS 18,300,000,000 FEET OF TIMBER IN COUNTY I N ITKII 1'IIKSS l.tAHliD Willi. Marshfiold, Or., Jan. 10, Dennis MoCarty, official timber cruiser fur Coos county, has filed his report of 11113, which shows he has cruised 18, 300,000,000 feet since the contract was let threo years ago, McCarty's force of cruisers found VOi),000 feet of sugar sud yellow pine in the extreme southern part of the county this year, which was not kuowa to exist. The report does not include the total, as tho contract is not com pleted. When asked by Detective Whales to open the package, Graves refused. "In no circumstance will 1 allow any one to see what my dead sister sent me," h said, "t may communicate luter with Chief White, if I find any thing within this package that might warrant my doing so." The package was addressed so as to only bo delivered to Craves, and had been held at the registry office since last Wednesday. The funeral of Mrs. Cox and her daughter probably will be held from the Graves home her Monday. NCALIET