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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
SALBM, OEEOOK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1911.
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rjtVlCL. IWU VC.i10. STANDS, FIVH CUNTS.
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MARSHALL
DEFENSE IS
TAKEN UP
Heated Argument at State La
bor Convention on Cassi
dy's Report.
MARSHALL DEFENDS
COMPENSATION ACT
Member of State Commission
Takes View It Will Help
Workingmen.
: UNITED TRESS LEASED WIRE.
Astoria, Jan. 21. A communication
from W. A. Marshall, a member of the
Typographical Union of Portland, al
so member of the state workmen 's com
pensation commission, criticising the
report of J. F. Cassidy on the proceed
ings of the last session of the legisla
ture caused a heated argument on the
floor of the State Federation of Labor
convention here today. Marshall ob
jected to the view which Cassidy took
of the workmen's compensation bill,
contending that the act was not a det
riment to the laboring class, and that
the organization should not go on rec
ord as believing such, Speeches were
made on both sides of the question. On
motion it was decided to place the com
munication on file.
Label Committee Reports.
The report of the label investigating
committee was read and accepted;
'' President Biirchard made a short ad
dress in which he stated that if all
, , , . . ,
union members would buy union made
goods, there would be little (need for
business agents.
tion, introduced are being taken up for
adoption or rejection, and tomorrow.
the nominfition
made.
of
officers will be
EMAN AND MAT
MAY BE PRESENT AT
ll XITI'.I) WIK88 LEASED WIRE.
Tncoinu, Wellington, Jau. 21. A po
liceman in uniform and a matron " of
jiood moral character" will be present
at every dance, whether private or pub
lic, that is held in Tacoma hereafter,
if the measure filed with the city clerk
today by Commissioner Mills is passed
ly the council. The two censors will
have to be paid for their services by
the dance managers.
Another provision of the bill does
away with free admissions for women.
'They must pay at least half as much
as the men.
OF
I'NITEII PRESS LEASED WIRE.
Calesburg, 111., Jan. 21. Albert Big
gins, the aged father of Rebort Hig'
gins, who confessed yesterday to shoot
ing and killing his wife, when she dis
covered that ho had been intimate with
his step daughter, does not believe that
his son killed the woman.
"I don't enre if Robert did make
a confewion," said the elder Higgins
today. "There must be some terrible'
mistake. I don't believe Robert could
o such a thing."
Tonight. "Vhe Hand from Amster
dam." Popular prices.
Extra Performance TONIGHT at Popular Prices
ELKS BIG SHOW - The Band from Amsterdam - Grand Opera House
Legislature is
Rapped Hard
Washington House of Representatives
Is Denounced as Nauseating Mess
By Orange Member.
UNITED PRESS LEASED VISE.
Raymond, Wash., Jan. 21. In a
speech before the State Federation of
Labor today Fraternal Delegate F. J.
Chamberlain, of the State Grange,
characterized' the last house of repre
sentatives as a nauseating mess com
posed of three elements whiskey, saw
dust and fish. He roundly scored the
methods he alleges were used to defeat
labor legislation.
A committee on legislation reported
13 resolutions favorably, chief among
which was the state-wide 8-hour law
for all classes of laborers. Te resolution
was adopted without a dissenting vote
by the convention.
IS CLAIM OF
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIItE.l
Portland, Or., Jan. 21. Declaring
that the so-called "peddlers law" of
the state of Oregon is discriminatory,
and that its enforcement means the
I violation of at least four points in the
i federal constitution, the executive of
ficers of three, counties, Multnomah,
Clatsop and Hood Biver, were enjoined
from its enforcement in a suit filed
with the fedoral court today by attor
neys for the Grand Union Tea company
of New York.
The peddlers law was passed by the
legislature in 1909 and prohibits persons
going through the country taking orders
for the future delivery of goods to
consumers without passing through the
wholesalers or retail stores. For this
reason, the complaint Btates, the law is
'discriminatory. The complaint, among
' 1 ' .
other things, declares the act violates
the spirit of the declaration of inde-
pendence. Going further back it says
th MaB Charter, the first declaration
of ''B''t of the people of England made
--......, "
U (U lO.K nnntw nn,1 iinAn nrl.Inli ftiA
common w ui wns cuumry
is violated by the act. United States
District Judge Wolverton granted the
temporary injunction ana set rue near-
ing for January 30,
WILL EDUCATE AUTOISTS.
united press leased wire.
ban Francisco, Jau. Jl following a
conference yesterday with the local po
lice judges, the local Motor Car Deal
ers' association called a meeting for
January 28, to outline plans for edu
cating autoists and the public as to
their rights.
ANOTHER BIO HOTEL
IS TALKED IN PORTLAND
united ritEsn leased wiiie.
Portland, Or., Jan. 21. Negotiations
are pending today for the establish
ment of another first class hotel in
Portland. A company is being organ
ized by 8. Benson, the millionaire, tim
ber man, to purchase the Interest of
Wright and Dickinson In what is known
as the uregon notei, aim conduct it
under separate management. The old
part of the hotel will be retained
by Wright and Dickinson and conduct
ed by them under the old name. Tho
new hotel will be known as the Hotel
Benson. The change is expected to be
made shortly after February 1.
ILLNESS HALTS TRIAL.
UNITED rRESS LEASED WIRE.
London, Jan. 21. An indefinite ad
journment was caused hefe today In the
suit brought by Dr. Ernest Villiors Ap
pleby, formerly lecturor in the Univer
sity of Minnesota for the recovery of
0,000 from Baroness Mann De I al-
lant, formerly Marie Dugas, of Chicago,
by the sudden Illness of the Baroness.
The Baroness, according to the profes
sor, broke her promise to marry him.
Meals and shelter for 100 or so work
less men for a day won't appreciably
afflict any Oregon community, but
citizens suspect such visitation) might
become a custom.
IS
Mrs. Anita Mayer Sought Ac
quaintanceship With Lot
of Salem People.
HER LANGUAGE IS OFF
Uncle Sam Says It Is Objectionable
and She Is Taken to Portland for
' Hearing.
Mrs. Anita Mayer was arrested late
yesterday afternoon at her home on
Marion street by Deputy Marshal Ful
ler, of Portland, on a charge of send
ing improper matter through the mails.
The arrest was made after many busi
ness men of Salem had received letters
from the woman, in which she sought
their acquaintance, and used language
unfit for transmission through the
mails. '
Mrs. Mayer has been here since early
in December. .She has been using the
mails industriously in an effort to es
tablish a friendship with many well
known businoss men of the Cherry
City, and early this month three of
them took the matter up with the post
master. He called the attention of the
federal authorities to the matter, and
an investigation followed, with the re-
l,lt that the w"IIln was ""ested yes-
'"""J'
It is stated that a number of replies
to her letters were found in her pos
session when she was arrested.
SCHOOL CHILDREN MAKE
" UNEMPLOYED MEN HAPPY
UNITED PnESS LEASED WIRE. '
San Francisco: Jan. 21.-r-Wat and
cold from working )n the nin m meD)
former members of the army of the un-
employed, were mde glad here today by
a hot dinner served by school children.
The men are removing a large bank of
dirt at Juniporo Serra school. When
Mu Nora Mlivan the princjpB( ttI1a
th othpr t(ia(.nm heard tll6 mcn were
Koillg to work today, they prepared to
.... ... ... .. . .
t(,p,j them, and the students ottered to
nep 0ne hundred students brought
lllnnneSi anil tu0 teachers prepared hot
Poffce Mi .onp T)l ,linner wa8 Bervcj
in ,h(, BPn , ai,aitori,n.
STRIKES CAUSE DRAINS.
united mess leased wire.)
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 21. Section
a reports occupied the attention of the
flpWntes nr rndnv's session of Hin
Vnited Mine Workers of America in
convention here. District officers in
variably reported that serious drains
had been occasioned on their resources
by the, Colorado and West. Virginia
strikes. A committee was busy this af
ternoon drawing np a wage agreement
which will be tendered soon to the op
erntors.
FOUR KILLED IN EXPLOSION.
UNITED PRESS LEAKED W1IIE.1
Ottawa, Out., Jan. 21. Four men were
instantly killed hero today in a boiler
explosion which wrecked the Howiek
Hall, where a winter fair was in pro-
gress. Scores of others escaped with
Bovero cuts and bruises. Part of the
boiler was hurled through the roof. The
bodies of the victims were badly man
gled. ALASKA BILL FAVORED.
! UNITKU PRESS I.EASM1 WIIIE.)
' Washington. .Tun. 21. What manv re
gardeil as a test vote and indicating
the final passage of the Alaska railroad
bill was taken this afternoon in the
house. The members voted, 270 to C5,
to limit further debate on the bill to
13 hours and to begin actual considera
tion of the measure February 4. The
bill is expected to pass the house either
February 11 or February 18.
WAOES ABOUT DOUBLE.
CNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.
Detroit, Mich, Jan. 21. Women sud
girl employes of tho Fonl Motor com
pany were paid today. All shared un
der the new profit sharing plan. In
every cae wages wore practically
doubled. The women also were grant
eil an hour fur lunch with two ten mln
lite rest periods daily.
Late News
Bulletins
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.)
San Francisco, Jan. 21. The prelim.
inary examination of Carlos Sanjinea,
Bolivian consul, on the ttatutoryy
charge preferred by two thirteen-year-old
girls was started here today by Po
lice Judge Deasey. Both girls testified
and the case was then continued for one
week at the request of the defendant's
counsel.
Chatham, Mass., Jan. 21. Captain
Hart and his crew of seven men were
rescued today from the . two-masted
schooner General Adelbert Ames,
wrecked off Monomy Point. The ves
sel threatens to break np.
New York, Jan. 21. "Unavoidable
accident" was the verdict returned to
day by a coroner's jury in case of Rich
ard Lankford, vice-president of the
Southern Railway, who was found dead
in his apartments in Brooklyn last Fri
day. Lankford was asphyxiated.
Laredo, Texas, Jan. 21. Several
hundred rebels who had been encamped
at San Ignacio, Mexico, 40 miles south
of here, were believed today to have
started for Matmoras. Federals sent
from Nuevo Laredo to engage the reb
els in battle found the camp deserted.
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UNITED PRESS LEASED WIDE.
Washington, Jan. 21. President J.
M, Flannery, of the Standard Chomlcal
company, told the house' eommittee on
mines and mining today that an "aged
millionaire" planned to build 20 hos-'ber
pitals at a cost of $1.1,000,000 for free
treatment by radium of cancer. Each
institution, ne saul, will be provided
with five grams of radium. Flannery i
refused to disclose the identity of the
millionaire, but intimated that it was
neithor Andrew Carnegie nor John D,
Rockefeller.
Mine Commissioner Thos. Honelian,
of Colorado, told the commission that
if radium lands were withdrawn the
price of radium would Increase to 'iOO,
000 per gram. He favored states' rights
and Bnid all Colorado wants is to ho let
alone, and she would mine her own car
notito without being under federal es
pionago or control. He said he wonted
the prospectors to have free rein.
Colorado Has Lot of It.
President Flannery followed Bene
linn. He recited efforts to discover
nncer cure, and si. id Hint, experts sent
to Europe had found the riiidum cure A crowd quickly gathered outside,
effective. He pointed out that it takes however, and Mrs. Parsons attompte.l
from 2.'.0 to 400 tons of ore to produce ninie 8 "I"'"1' fr"m tl" cllr,)- Ac
a gram of radium. Colorado, he said, cording to the police, she urged an at
has enough radium to supply the can- ,Ul k "" ,llTi'"' Ml,,,.v o tll0H0 in tl10
ccr victims of tho entire world five ernw,i '"i"' At a".v rato ",ie
times over, l'lnnncry said that gof, had spoken but a few words before she
grains would supply all the cnurer suf- n 'rested,
ferers in America. ' "The constitution giiaruutees the
"I am willing to agree to furnish right of free assemblage, " sho said, and
that amount to the government in five """ arrested,
years," ho declined, "and nt a price. Scuffle Starts.
lower tban the government could man -
ufacturo It at n maximum flgura of
$80,000 for a gram."
Valuable in Other Diseases.
Flannery declared that radium was
25 times more valuable in other discus-
e than In cancer. He was positive
thnt It is a cure for rheumatism and
other painful diseases. Fluunery then
made bis statement regarding the un
named millionaire who planned to es
tablish a chain of 20 free radium hos
pitals. The Weather
WILL SORELfl v
.SPOIL. AAVX'
The Dlekny Bird
says: Oregon, rain
west, rain or snow
east portion to
night, and Thurs
day: southerly
winds.
OF
INCLUDE WIDOW OF
Five Held in Jail on Charge of
Inciting Disturbances on
Streets.
UNEMPLOYED INVOLVED
Tares - Persons Are Hurt In Fights
Which Take Place When Attempt
Is Made to Arrest Leaders.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRS.
San Francisco, Jan. 21. Five more
prisoners were in jail here today on
riot charges growing out Of the local
unemployment situation.
They were Mrs. Lucy Parsons, whose
husUand was hanged in Chicago years
ago on a charge of participation in
, Chicago's famous Haymerket riot; Johu
Sloan, Howard Sharp, William Delhantj
and Charles Monestiel.
Mrs. Parsons was arranged before
Police Judge Sullivan this forenoon
charged with rioting, the charge was
dimissed, she was re-arrested on a
charge of rioting and her case was set
for Thursday. Similar action was tak
en in Sloan's case. Sharp, Dolhanty
and Monesteil .were held for disturbing
the peace.
Three persons were hurt in the fight
ing which accompanied tho arrests.
They were:
Lulu B. Wighttnan, knocked from a
soap box speaking platform and severe
ly bruised.
Wilbur Davis, cut on the head by (
policeman's club.
George Brewer, head bruised by s
policeman's club
Property dnmago consisted of a num
of store windows being broken by
stone or clubs thrown from the crowd.
i Circular Distributed.
The disturbance had its origin in a
"'muar (,eBttored frool-v about th cit'
yesterday the following effect:
"All those who wish to protest
oguinst the high handed and outrageous
methods of the police force of San
Francisco in railroading to prison Wil
liam Thorn, Ous Meyers, Bus Bradigan,
Pedro Cudero ami II. Finley, thus at-
'"ml'tiK to overawe the unemployed,
onin to Jefferson squnre hall Tuesday
evening, January 20."
Tho police did not approve of the
circular's tone and when Mrs. Persons
nnd n uunilior of others arrived early in
the evening at tho hall, which a num
ber of women in radical circlos hired
recently for such meetings, a squad of
'l''oat ejected them.
1 Ho.iiiif it iinriossililo to hold a
meet-
nir there, the crowd surged away In
the direction of Filiiinre street, tho
M)lice following, on foot, on liorseboek
and in automobiles. At Post and I'i.
I more streets Miss Wiuhtmau, who was
i.!,, . ,,iu.h fi.ni,l hr nn hoi
... w.,mv.,r w,,,it,l it. The nolle. In-
terefcred again, however, aud It was
iu the ensuing scuffle that Miss Wight
man was thrown down.
By this timo tho crowd numbered sev
eral thousand and a genuine riot was In
progress. Tho police kept the crowd on
th move, however, ami It poured down
Filinuro street and (Jolden Date avenue
to Market, smashing windows here and
there, singing revolutionary songs, and
shouting "free speech" and "free as
semblage'' and thunderously inviting
everyone to como nnd hear how Chief
of Tolice White had broken up a pub
lie meeting.
Police Quit Interference.
At Grant avenue and Market street
a meeting was already in progress. It
was nuii'kly swallowed up In the
jgn-ater crowd, fresh speakers mounted
the plntform, nnd for nu hour the pn
Kills Herself
When He Re-weds
Divorced Wife of Agent For Steel Com
pany Had Hoped for Reconcil
iation With Him.
UNITED PRE8S LEASED WISE.
San Francisco, Jan. 21. Chloroform
linament swallowed by Mrs. "Georgia
Clark, after she learned that her di
vorced husbnd,.rJohn C Clark, Paeifie
coast agent for the Willamette Iron and
Steel company, had married another
woman, proved fatal here today. Mrs.
Clark had hoped for a reconciliation.
Clark recontly married Miss Hazel
Rushing, of Eureka.
A note written to her former hus
band by Mrs. Clark read: "I told you
I would do this, so I guess you are
happy now after getting rid of me. At
loast I hope so, dear.''
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Governor West is in Portland today
and addressed the Ad Men's club at
luncheon. He gave out the following
upon leaving:
"News reports indiccto that In my
letter to District Attorney Goodwin his
misfortune in losing an arm was indi
rectly referred to. No such reference
was made. I said his election was an
act of charity, and I meant just what I
said. f ' -,
"The people found him a half
starved lawyer without a client, and
placed him In the district attorney's of
fice as an act of charity. Instoad of
repaying them with gratitude and ser
vice, he, like the snake of the fable,
after being warmed by the hearthstone,
turned and bit his benefactor."
BRYAN PRAISES WILSON
IN SIGNED ABTICLE
united press leased wire.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 21. Strong praise
of President Woodrow Wilson was
voiced In The Commonor today in an
editorial signed by Secretary of State
William Jennings Bryan. In part, it
ays:
"Currency reform is an established
fact nt, last. For more than ton years
(lifforcnt bodies, both official and un
official, have Investigated the currency
problem, but tho plans heretofore had
In view the promotion of tho interests
of tho financiers.
"No other president In recent yenrs
has boon freo to nndortako currency re
form from tho standpoint of tho peo
ple. But when tho present executive
took tho oath of offico ho entored upon
his duties without being under any ob
ligation to special Interests, nnd, there
fore, wns In a position to urgo a rhnnge
which liberated tho fiscnl world from
bondngo."
OREGON APPOINTMENTS.
UNITED PRESS LEAKED WtRE.
Washington, Jan. 21. Tho following
nominations wore sent to the senate to
day: It. H. Turner to bo rocolvcr of pub
lic moneys at Roscburg, Or., and Oeo.
T. Smith to be receiver of public mon
eys at Portland, Or.
FATHER RIOARD REPLIES.
Santa Clara, Jan. 21. Father Rlcard
posed for the 'movies," and dictated
nil answer Into yesterday to Professor
Lnrliins' doubts of Ills sunspot weather
theory, asserting that terrestial dis
turbances do at any rate, follow the
spots, and put an appalling mathemat
ical problem to the professor to answer.
SUBMARINE FOUND.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRR.
Plymouth, Fnglnnd, Jan. 1. Subma
rine A 7 wns located today at the bot
tom of Whitcsnnd bny In 83 fathoms
of water.
lice, who dlil not attempt further In
terference, were denounced and the
public was appealed to to join In the
fight for free speech In Ban Francisco
Reports were current In the throng
that word would he sent out to members
of the I, W. W. throughout tho country
to march on San Francisco to join mil
tedly In a free speech and free assem
blfip-o rnmpnign.
PRESIDENT
OF CHURCH
IS ACCUSER
Smith Leader of Mormons,
Causes Arrest of Another
Of f icial of Faith. . ,
WHITE SLAVERY IS
CHARGE PREFERRED
Major Accused of Luring From
Smith's Household Nellie
Hawthorne.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE
Los Angeles, Cal., Jan, 21. Thomas
Major, aged 29, of Glasgow, Scotland,
said to be an official of the Mormon
church there, was arrested here today
by fedoral secret service agents on s
white slavery charge. It is alleged
that he brought to Los Angolcs from
Salt Lake, in violation of the Mann,
act, Nellie Hawthorne, aged 21 yoara,
formerly employed in the household of
President Joseph Smith, of the Mor
mon church.
Major's arrest was the result of the
personal request of President Smith,
who tolographed W. C. Jannesen, form
er head of the church here, to put the
fedoral ahthorities on the trail of the
girl. . .'
, COMMITS SUICIDE.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.
Sodro-Wooley, Wash., Jan. 81. Hugh
Sutherland, superintendent of the
Dempsey Lumber company's upper
camp, was found dead early this morn
ing, half a mile north of Birdsview,
with his throat out. ne is believed to
have committed suicide. Sutherland
lived in Tacoma. No motive for the
deed is known.
IS
ONE OF GAINERS
united press leased wire.
New York, Jan. 21. Tho openiug of
tho market was marked today by a
strong undertone. As tho active shares
wero bought in largo quantities higher
prices wero quoted, with but few excep
tions. Western Union, Reading, Le
high Volley, Northern Pacific and
Loulsvillo & Nashvillo registered gains
of about a point,
The Pacific group was especially
strong, Northern Pacific and Southern
Pacific each gaining a point. Improv
ing tendencies wore In evidence every
where. Special stocks wero Influenced
by fnvoruble trade news. Later many
new prices for the movement wore
reached.
Bonds wero strong.
The market closed steady.
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UNITED PRESS LEASED WISE 1
Fort Worth, Texas, Jun. 21. The po
lice said today they wore convinced
that M. F. Taylor, who, with his wife
and their two children, were found dead
yesterday afternoon In their home,
wiped out his family and then killed
himself. It was presumed tho crime
was committed December 6, when the
members of tho family wero lust seen
alive. All were killed by rovolver shots
through tho head.