All the News that's Fit; to Print Everybody Reads the Daily Capital Journ 0,ii Jl it jfTu f The Best JU 77.e Largest Circulation 1) : Newspaper THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR. SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1914. PRfpr Twn rrnrrc ON trains and khwb rIlVE. 1 WW lC.Nld. STANDS, FIVB C8NS8. e mm iii EXPRESS RATES IS ORDER IN STATE Railroad Commission Ignores Block System as Arranged by Interstate Commission and Portland is Center Commer ciallyCuts 20 to 60 Per Cent of Present Rates Are Made All Express Companies Treated as One in Making New Schedules Some Examples of Sweeping Cuts Made in Rates. Following the meeting of the railroad commissioners with representatives of the express companies at Portland re cently, the announcement is made that there will be a material reduction of ex press rates in the state. The companies had asked the commission to look into the martter, and, if possible, arrange a T)lock system that would be in harmony with the interstate system as nearly as .possible. . , The commission ignored the block sys tem as arranged by the interstate com mission, and made Portland the center commercially. With this,as a basis it established 45 blocks in the state. Tho full detailB have not been worked out, but the reductions will be from 20 to SO per cent from present rates, depend ing on weights and distances. The com i mission, iu making ratos, treated all ex press companies, as though they were one, fixing the rate between points and 10 DELAY If i I UNITED HIE88 LEASED WIBE. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb, 14. Carrying two passengers Aviator Glenu Martin ascended from Griffith Park here at fl:20 o'cloc k today and pointed his- bi plane towaid San Diego. His flight was undertaken to break the world's duration and altitude records with two passengers. Martin was compelled to desceud .at Occanside, 60 miles south of Los An geles at 10:55 o'clock, when his machine bearings became heated. New parts al so were needed, and they will be taken to. him from Los Angoles. It was not believed that he would continue hit flight today. Chris Will Try Again. Bnkersfield, C'al., Fob. 14. Aviator Silas Christoft'erson, who was halted at Tejon pass in his attempted flight from San Francisco to San Diego, re turned here today from San Francisco with a 100 horse power C'urtiss engine, which be mill install in his aeroplane He planned to make several trial flights over Bnkersfield today, and to try to morrow to resume his trip southward over the l as. Flies Over Santa Ana. Santa Aim, Cnl., Feb. 14. Glen Mar lin flew over Santa Ana at lO.i'O o'clock todiiv, headed southward. On Return Trip. Santa Ai.a, Cal., Feb. 14. Lieuten ant Dond '" army aeroplane, headed southwnrd, pawed over Santa Ana on its return flip from Loa Angeles at 0:31 o'clock. Dodd was flying at an alti tude of about 4000 feet. THINKS IT LUCKY DAY. (VSITtD PHRNS IJtAHKD WIHK. Snu Frni.-cix-o, Feb. H. L. A. Larson mivicte,l of wife murder in Los An geles three months ago and sentenced o be hanged yesterday in Sau Quentin prison, said he considered Friday the 1.1th lucky instead of unlucky. He had secured a stay of execution pend ing appeal. WILSON KEPT INDOORS. Washington, Feb. 14. rreident Wil son's cold was better today, but he was ttot permitted by Dr. Grayson to leave the White House. leaving it to the companies to divide the sums as they saiw fit. As an example of the reductions, the rate from Ashland to Huntington, two of the most widely separated points, was, from Ashland to Portland, $2.10, and from Portland to Huntington $3.2.' a total of $5.35. This is now made $3.50 j for the entire service. Another example is that from Port land to ' La Grande. Here the rates were reduced as foOows: On 5-pounds from 65 cents to 27 cents; on. 10 pounds from 80 cents to 34; 20 pounds $1.10 to 48 cents; 30 pounds from $1.50 to 76 cents. While the reductions will not be so great in the western section as east of the mountains, they will be substantial. Those new rates are acceptable to the companies, and also to the interstate commission, and will be put in force ns soon as the rates are all worked out. AFTER AN ILLNESS UNITED MESS LEASED WIDE. Washington, Fob. 14. Senator August O. Bacon of Georgia died hore today after an illness of two weeks. Ho was chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and a member of other important committees. Senator Bacon was born in Bryan county, Georgia, October 20, 1839. He was the son of Rev. Augustus O. Bacon and Mary Louisa Bacon. He graduated from the literary and classical departments of the University of Georgia iu 1859 and the law depart ment in 1800. He entered the Confed erate army at the beginning of the Civil war and served during the cam paigns of 1861 and 1802 as adjutant of the Ninth Georgia regiment in the army of Northern Virginia. Later he was assigned to staff duty and com missioned captain in tho provisional army of the Confederate states. At the close of the war ho resumed tho study of law and began to practice his chosen profession at Macon, CI a., in 1S00, From that date until his election to the senate he actively con tinued to practico in both the slate und fedeyil courts. In 1871 Bacon was elected to the Georgia house of representatives, of which body ho served as a member for 14 years. Ho was elected to th United Static senate in November, 1804, re elected in 1000, and again in 1007. In 1011 he was unanimously re-olcctO'J in a general popular state election, be- ! ing the first senator elector to tho fed eral senate by popular vote. His term would have expired March 3, 1019. Senator Bacon fell a month ago and broke two of his ribi. Serious inflam mation followed and later it was found that ho was suffering from kidney disease. Senator Overman announced Senator Baron's death on the floor of the seu ato and that body immediately ad journed. If the family is willing, the funeral will be held from the senate chamber Tuesday. ENGLAND DEFEATS IRELAND. I'XITED I'HEBS LEASED WIRE. Twickenham, England, Feb. 14. Eng land defeated Ireland here today In the annual rugby game by a score of 17 to 12. King George was an interested spectator. IS Tramp Steamer Katherine Park Ashore and Lifesavers Hurry to Her. SNOWFALL IS VERY HEAVY Seven and One-Half Inches Fall in New York City and Storm Is General Over State. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. New York, Feb. 14. A fierce bliz zard swept the Atlantic coast today Trains were stalled, wires down and street car systems paralyzed through out New York staja, eastern Pennsyl vania, New Jersey, Maryland and as far south as Goorgiq. Off shore many ships were in distress. Iu New l'ork City more than seven and a half inches of snow had fallen today and more was still coming. The temperature had risen slightly, however. Outside New York bay the big liners Campania, St. Lewis, Savoio, Amorica and Pennsylvania and a number of smaller craft waitod for the gale to subside to enter. All arriving sea craft wore caked with the ice. The Oceanic docked with a report of a giant wave which swept its upper docks two days out, knocking down and badly bruising a number of passengers, ' The tramp steamship Katherine Park was ashore off Cape Charles, Va., and life savers had gouo to its assistance. They had sighted another vessel in dis tress iu the same vicinity but had not; determined its identity. The schooner Maria Tecl was in distress in Nan tucket sound aud tho British steamship Tafna wns ashore on tho Goorgia coast. Thousands Cloan Streets. By noon 18,000 men were nt work in the streets, clearing away the snow. Most of them had beon previously un- (Continued on page 8.) Owner of Hop Ranch Murder Occurred UNITED rilEHS LEASED WI1IB. San Francisco, Feb. 14. Leaders of the unemployed iu San Francisco, who have been planning an organized effort to socure the pardon of Richard Ford and Herman Suhr, under sentence to life imprisonment in connection with tho Wheatland hop field riot last Aug ust were encouraged today to think that Governor Johnson might be favor obly moved by the report concerning conditions on the Durst hop ranch made by Dr. Carlton H. Parker, who followed the case throughout and niado a care ful investigation of tho events which led up to the riot, in his joint capacity as a federal ami a state labor invosti- gator. Parker wns very critical of condi tions oii the Durst ranch. He found especial fault with what ho referred to ns the svstetn of "holdbacks" in tone there. "Ninety cents a hundred pounds was paid by Durst during tho f i rt week for hop picking," said tho report, "to which a so-called bonus of ten cents whs added if the picker stayed the three or four weeks' season through. If tho picker quit beforo tho Inst day of the season, this so-called bonus re verted to Durst. Bonus Really Holdback. " Durst 'a so-called bonus wns in real ity n hohlbiv k out of tho normal pick ing wage for 191.1. "Durst found by Friday of the first week that he had 1,000 too many pick er. There is evidence that Durst plan ned, through state-wide advertising, to bring more pickers ti his ranch than he could posilily keep iu the field, Sonic of the pickers state in thoir affidavits thnt after they found only occasional opportunities to pick, they became dis gusted with the work and in the in- crenslug filth of tho camp and left. "Taking the bonus for forfeitures of previous years as a standard, the bun ues accruing to Durst through the leaving of the discontented workers must hive been $100 to 1150 per day." riCAL Thaddeus Robertson, Witness Against Gore, Had Long Promised Revenge. EARP CALLED' IT FALSE So Quoted by Another Witness, But Swears Gore Said He "Loved Mrs. Gore Up a Little." united press leased wire. Oklahoma City, Feb. 14. Testimony intended to support the contention of the defense that United States Sena tor Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, who is being sued by Mrs. Minnie Bond for $50,000 damages, is the victim of a political conspiracy was offered when the trial was resumed today. Deputy Sheriff- Ezell was recalled by the defense as the day's first wit ness. He said he talked to Thaddeus Robertson, an important witness for Mrs. Bond, just before the suit was filed. "Robertson told me,'' said Ezell, "that Senator Gore ha,d doubhs-crossed him but he said his revenge would be awful sweet." , Robertson also was recalled but de nied making any such assertion to Ezell. , . (Continued on page four). The Weather The Dickey Bird says: Oregon, fair tonight; Sunday fair, except rain northwest portion, southca s t e r 1 y winds. . Touching on sanitary conditions, the report said: , "An important part of the bop field wan moro than a mile away from the ' wells, but despite the great heat of this 1 week, no water was transported to the pickers. By noon, under the hot sun beating down on the still air held be tween the rows of vines, the children , were in a pitiable condition because of the lack of water. "Durst had let a lemonade concession to his cousin, Jim Durst, who offered lemonade, in the fields during this period at five cents a glass. This lemonade wns proven upon the testi mony of the druggist with whom Jim Durst traded to havo been made en tirely of citric acid. "A concession to sell stew had been sold and a stew wagon went out about nomi among the pickers and if a Mew was puHiHsed a glass of water could be ohtuincd with it. ' ' If :il fli Durst, the manager and pnrt owner of the ranch, is an example of a ertain type of California employer. The refusal of this type to i -t the sncinl responsibilities which come with the hiring of human beings for labor not only works cruelly unnecessary misery but fldils fuel to tho fire or re sent t an. I unrest which N begin- ii lug to burn in the tim-iired fur migra tory labnier In California. "That Durst could refuse his clti.' duty of real trusteeship of a camp on his own ranch which continued hund red of women uin children is u s ial fact of miserable import. "The lurt management, knowing exactly the linn-mil condition of the camp ami the threatened migration of park of the picking force because ot it, had in his refusutil to correct tho abuses laid Itself open to tuipii ion of intentional cnrelessnes, because of the gain accruing to Durst in thus for feited bonsuses of the pickers leaving. "Perhaps the most vicious sanitary abuse was that of toilets. There went very probably nine of these for 2,800 THIS ) ''Bill"- Astor Wants to be Carpenter Despite Wealth ( (,. " -if-' .. ' 1 V' . . i , 'c,:.. .." ' J j I "I ILL I ll EaMtMM William Waldorf Astor. Now York, Feb. 14. Sometimes he is known as William Waldorf Astor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Waldorf Astor, but he prefers to be callod plain "Bill." This lively picture of him was taken on a rocont visit of his parents to America. His farther is a British subject aud his NO BABIES BY PARCEL PAST. united piiess leased win.) Washington, Feb. 14. Babies can not be sont by parcol post. Second Assistant Postinastor General Stcwnrt ruled thus today. The parcel post can not, in fact, ha added, accept living being, human or otherwise, of any ago, with tho single exception of queen bees Where is Censured people. Thero wore certainly not less than eight nor moro than 11. These tofleU accommodated two persons. "Thoro wns no toilet inspector or cleaning. They wore used Indiscrimin ately by Hindus, Japanese, negroes, whites, women and children. The stench,' under a great heat, became so nauseating thnt many instances of vomiting have been recorded. "Lines of fifteen to 20 women worn- en and children frequently formed awaiting their turns at the toilets. "It must be noted that these facts were known to tho Durst management, "There were no toilets whatever iu the fields find at tho end of three days the fields were iu a filthv con-j difinti,'' Parker's account of the riot was a brief summary of what was brought oi't at the trial of Kurd, Suhr and their companions. As in his federal report, the Investigator said the I. V, W. pro paganda fur the California seasnnul laborer unipicstinniihly could be called a "criminal conspiracy" but that it would be curried out m'vethcle., Calls Conviction Revonso, "It Is obvious," the ii-piut contin ued, "that the violent strike methods adopted by the I. W. W. type of agi tator ure not to be accepted as a solu tion of the problem. It is also obvious that the conviction of the agitators, such ns Ford and Suhr, for murder is not a hjI ut inn but Is only the punish I mi nt fur revenge Inflicted by organ ized society fur a paid deed. "The commission of Immigration and housing it preparing to start a sliiteniile campaign uf warning and I'llin til inn among the large eiupluver i of migratory laborers ami among the workers themselves, "Tim employers must be shown thnt it is essential that living conditions among their employes bo improved, not only in fulfillment of their obligations society but also in order to protect and promoto their own welfare aud In terests. " grandfather, William Waldorf Astor, a naturalized British subjoct, but "Bill" is American right down, to his shoos, and he wants to be a carpenter. "Bill's" mother wan Nannie Lang horno. of Virginia, one of the famous I" Gibson Girls," B. F. Jonns, of lioseburg who re crtitly announced his candidacy for tho nomination for congress was hore today. Ilo modestly states that hund reds of people living in the district havo never written, tclographod or asked him to become, a candidate.. lie also expresses his opinion that tho best way for a man to get what he wants is to ask for it aud thou go out after it ami not wait fur it to come to him. (laving thus admitted that his candi dacy is entirely of his own initiative, liu briefly points out some of the good work ho has done for tho public iu his official capacity. Ho says he is in duced to do this to in a nieiuuiro aver age up and counter balance tho bad traits ho possesses, and which ho de pend" ou his opponents to point out, realizing that it is not necessary for him to attitnd to that part of it. In tho legislature he was tho father of the car shortage bill, and also of the j hill under which tho canal and locks ' at Oregon City were purchasod, and navigation of the Willamette niado free. At the 10117 session he Introduced a resolution providing for tho amend ment of the constitution permitting women to vote, and though the resolu tion was voted down, it wns among the first wedges that finally opened tho ballot to Oregon's women. In fact, Mr. Jones makes a showing that Is highly creditable, and he will surely mnliH .Congressman Tlawley get a move on If thnt is possible, I'o staled today that had received much eiicnurngenieiit since his candi dacy was annoiinecd. He has not yet been relieved of his duties in the laud officii ut Itoseburg, When he has been relieved he will devoto his time to the campaign. POBTMA8TKR NAMED. UNirrn riiKsn liu urn whir.) Washington, Feb. II. .lames Smith was appointed postmni-lei-l-'uirurounds, Marlon county today. ROBBERY AT MONITOR. Sheriff Km k received the information today that a store belonging to O. K. (Iregson, of Monitor,' (Ire,, was robbed last night. Tho proprietor Informs the sheriff that thn thieves broko a door open and ransacked tho establishment, taking two suit rases, several knives, some money and a revolver. IRPHYI HARD JOLT BY TENER President of National Leagu Says Owner of Cubs Can not Run Things. MURPHY VIOLATED EVERS CONTRACT Will Be Punished for It and Tener Tells Him What He Thinks of Him. UNITED FBESS. LEASED WIUE. New York, Feb. 14. Governor John. K. Toner, of Pennsylvania, president of the National leoigue, voiced today his opinion of Charles W. Murphy, owner of tho Chicago Cubs. He also told "Chubby" Charles to Ms face what he thought of him. Interviewed today by the United Press, Governor Tenor indicated that he intonded to be the head and front of the National league as long as he con tinued president, and lay down the law to magnates and players alike. "The day has passed," Hid Tener, "whon one mail can say: 'This is my club. I'll run it as I please, and do as I please.' "Baseball is going to be conducted in ttie National league for -the- uoed- ot tho league as a wholo. Club owners will bo hold as responsible as the players are whon thoy violate the rules of or ganized baseball. Murphy Violates Contract. "Tho league directors discussed the contract that Johnny Evers had with tho Chicago club, and it wns decided that It had beon violated by Charlus Webb Murphy. This certaiuly indicates that Mr. Murphy cannot expect to be rmyinlod for his action. As to punish ing the Chicago -'lub or its owuor, it might be said that whatever is done will be done for the good of organized baseball, and the Chicago club, there fore, will reap the benefit from this ac tion, even though It should protest. "If a player violates u contract the) club owner expects him to be punished. In the same manner, the National longuo, while I am its president, will hold the club ownor responsible for ful fillment of contracts with players, Murphy's Threata Foolish. "I have told Murphy to his face what I think of him and his proposition to sue the Boston Braves and force Owner Gaffnoy to give him ritcher Perdue and Infieldor Sweeney. That is all I have to say about that. "Murphy's threat to sue Ban B. Johnson, president of the American leaguo, for libel, is merely foolish, My polltlcnl friends and rivals could all sue for conspiracy and libel ou the same grounds, and every baseball writer in America, having some time said that a certaiu player was 'rotten,' also might be sued on the same silly grounds." COURT ROOM WILL BE REMODELED VERT BOOK Tho Marion county court has at lost decided to take definite action toward remodeling tho court house to an ex tent whereby Circuit Judges Kelly and Gnllowny will both be supplied with chambers In which to conduct cases in the future, Tho county officials have decided to so Ivrrnngo tho present court chambers so thnt instead of there being just nno largo room for court purposes, there will bo three chambers, one for Judge Gnllowny, one for Judge Kelly and another for the county court. Jiulgn llushcy and Commissioner Heckwith and tluulct made an inspec tion of the court quartern this morn ing and they decided that a change must bo made immediately. They plan upon constructing a hallway down through tho center of the big chamber tehn part ion off three rooms. Judge Kelly will occupy tho north half of the building, the county court the south west section, while Juilgo Galloway will havo his chambers In tho south east section section of the room. Office-holders are great sticklers for koeping appointments.