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OKKOOS' CITV FA'TKIf IMMSI'. Kl.'l ) A V. .1 AXITAItV LM. 1'tHS. HILL IS NEW HEAD OF DEFENSE 80CIETV 2 WHO PLOTTED PARENTS' DEATH ARE PUT IN JAIL CYCLONE" DAVIS MAJOR MOTON SUCCEEDS BOOKER T. WAIHINQTOf MAKES BOW IN HOUSE IS LOST AFTER HEN ARE KILLED ALL-OREGON HISTORICAL PACE ANT AT EUGENE If APPROVED BY BOARD OF REGENTS. IDLE RICH UPDIKES WILL FACE BRUTALITY AT PORTLAND DEN NEW YORK NAVY YARD IS ICINI OF TRAGEDY; OTHERS ARE LIKELY TO DIE. INSANITY CHARGE; PARENTS ARE RELUCTANT. TAL SCHOOL IS CHARGED BY HIS PARENTS. KlIORy IS NAKED IN MEMORY of the uie s. h. mm ACTION IS TAKEN ONLY WHEN OPERATIONS DO NOT BENEFIT NAVAL OFFICERS ARE NEHRU OVERCOME IN RESCUE IffORJ ACTUAL MURDER IS ATTEMPTED FORMER 0. A. C. fOOTBAL STAR LA V BUILDING STUDENT'S MIND CASE10DES0N FOR UNIVERSITY r SUHRINEAND4 IS AUTHORIZED COLLEGE HAZING i :) J r ) Cilia F. Littrtnct Become Dean of Architecture, Erie W. Allen Dean of Journilxm and Dr. Joseph Schafer, of Extension. ( i V f rxivKitsiTv of oiikcon. km. gene, .liiu. in When Ihe university board of regent adjourned us annual meeting (hit afternoon the members bad autlirrlrcd ihe erection of Ihe firm unit cf a new school of duration build Ins. the ii li It lo rol $10 000. voted $1000 frra Idle funds for llio woman' memorial building fund, munis the dormitory "Frh niily Hall." In honor of tne late r-.i iiiiti ii. iTuuniy. lone member of the board, and iiferred the question of military drl'l to a romtnll ti of three composed of A. ( Dixon. Mri. G.-orge T. Ccrllngvr and J. A. Churchill. The allOrvgon historical pageant, first proposed by Mis. George T. Ger linger as new and dominating tea ture for the next commencement and recently approved by ihe faculty. was also authorized by the regent. Thl will Involve an entire recasting of commencement week, placing the graduating exercises before the, exami nation, putting alumni day on Satur day instead of Tuesday, abandoning Ihe senior play as a commencement feature, and changing the date of the recent" meeting to Friday. June I. 19K. I The new bul'dlng authorized will temporarily house the department of law and the extension department. Military training In the university was discussed at length by President Campbell In his report-to the resents Four new schools were created out of present departments of the Institu tion and the present heads of three of the departments were elevated to dean ships. The news organizations are school of architecture, Ellis F. Lawr ence, dean; school of jouma'ism. Eric W, Allen, dean; school of nnlversltv ex tension, Dr. Joseph Schafer, dean school of medicine. Dr. K. A. J. Mac kcnzle, being already a dean. ' be. pa v.v j) 'we mil u I n.MH li) Am. II. an ftru Awoi-iiiilon, At a recent meeting in New York of the American IVfcnse society Dr. Da vid Ja.vne Mill, former ambassador to Germany and expert on Internaiiuiiul law. was made president of Ihe advis ory board. After tho meeting Dr. Hill ald that the American Defense sot leu did not purpose to et up any rivalry, with other preparedness organizations I and that no specific International sit nations had been discussed. No de'i nlte program of action by the society bail b?en work cut other thau to dis cuss genera'ly of what preparcdnets should actually consist. Irving L'pdike I Said to Be Mentally Unbalanced Herbert, Younger Brother, Held; FatherWant Him Banished. I 4 iii im i-T-a n.r 'CYCLONE" MVV6 JAPANESE LINE WILL BUILD PACIFIC FLEET SEVEN 25,000 TON BOATS ARE PLANNED BY TOYO KISEN KAISHA. CHICAGO, Jan. IT. Irving and Her bcrl t'pllko were a r rait; tied before Jus tice Kendall lute today on a charge, of a conspiracy to eoiiiuiit a felony, and were sent to Jail, lucking the 9 .'.iH'd bail demanded. They were not openly charged with a conspiracy to murder their aged parents. Doth will be ex amined for their sanity January 20. at which time they will have an opportun It y to revise or adde- to their lengthy confession made last nlghl. I Their father, Airman D. I'inliko, Representative Cyclone " Davis, pic niultlmlllionairc retired lumberman, j turt-iut Texan and fortn.-r Populist suggested that Irving, who is 35 years, stump speaker, made his maiden of age. be sent to an usy'iim and that speech In the house at Washington by HerlxTt. who Is II. be banished from ! attacking the preparedness program the country. Hoth were willing to ac. Waving hfs lung nrms anil oc uslonul cept these terms in lieu of proseeu-i 'y slreklng his luxuriant whisker. Mr tlon on serious charges. j Davis Inveiuhed against war. the lie The police do not believe the young.' publican party, greed, the money trust or son would have gone to the extreme munitions nutkers and vailous ottu r of murder. In fact, this was shown ' tilings. At one period Mr Davis re-l w hen he made a partial confession' to ' galed the houso with hoinein.ide poetry his mother. As for the elder son. It a staiua of which run Ernest Roberts, Attending North Pa dfie Institution, I Sent to East ern Specialist Method of Treatment Described. PLOT 10 OVERTHROW is said his brain. has been disordered, for many years. j Neither of the parents will consvut ' to prosecution on criminal cliarces ! They say they were familiar with the' details of the plot before the dicta-; graph was brought In und the plot re-. corded. They did not appeal to the police until It appeared that the plot w as to be put through at 10 o'clock ' last night and the mother discovered one of the sons on the ladder leading, to her bedroom. It was a year ago when Irving' hatched the first plot to Mil his father. Poison was contemplated at the time, but the scheme fell through for some Shall gun thunder nevi r erase. And dying million moan. While we feed the dogt of war On human flesh and Ixuie 11 KILLING OF AMERICANS RESULT OF MISTAKEN POLICY, IS COLONEL'S OPINION. OVER 200 BRAZILIAN OFFICERS IN PLOT ARRESTED AT RIO DE JANEIRO. RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. IS. Timely discovery of a plot to overthrow the government led today to frustrating it and the arrest of more than 2uo petiy army officers. Auioonues announced mat the revo lution had been well planned but had been nipped in the bud by secret serv ice men. Tho army men concerned therein planned to seize the arsenals and forts guarding the bay, und ot!n;r strategical points and that to force the retirement of President Iiraz. The leaders were arrested on the very day on which they expected to start their revolution. Mounted pa trols and armed marines broke up two meetings of soldiers and took into cus tody all the revolutionists. They were thrown into prison on an island, Rio de Janeiro Pay; some of them confessed that wealthy men had financed their machinations. Ostensibly It was a sergeants rebellion" over the govern ment s failure to raise their pay. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. IS Eigh teen million five hundred und fifty thousand dollars have been voted b) line for a ship building yard, and seven me directors or the Toyo Kison haisha new Transpacific steamers. This colossal sum Is lo be spent by the Japanese company immediately in reason order to clinch for all time its hold on Meanwhile the father had bought Irv- , the maritime trade of the orient. llg a $j,;no membership on the Hoard ' Of the seven new ships lo be eon-jOf Trade. Irving later sold the meni-l NkW ORK. Jan. 1 1 - Theodore structed. two of them are to be the worship at $JH0 profit and says he has,' Roosevelt's solution of the Mexlcnn crl largest and finest passenger ships r-njnmch money beside the original JLTiO''.' sis is to send General f ood with an the Pacific, having a displacement ol Neither of the boys ever did any sort! army forthwith to restore order, exact ia.Oi'O tons each, and a passenger ca-'of work toward supporting themselves, i 'y 118 h restored order In Cuba after pactty of 1000. They are typical "id'e rich" sons al-'"'e Spanish war. In Colonel Roosevelt's view there is a hundred times us much reason fur armed Interference In Mexico as there wus for armed Interference In Cuba He believes that only by such means can the repetition of such outrages as that of Monday be prevented. This dreadful outrage." bo says. "Is only an Inevitable outcome of tho pol icy that has been followed In Mexico for the past five years, and abovo all fur the last three years. The policy of 'watchful waiting' the policy of not Interfering with "blood spilling.' the policy of asking South and Central American republics to take from us the responsibilities that we were too timid to lake, has borne Its fruits." PORTLAND. Ore . Jan. II - Krurst Koln rts. a slmpplng six foot twolmli louCi of i years, who played foot lull at Oregon Agricultural college, but who entered Him North Pacific College of Dentistry and I'lmrmaiy in Portlauii lust fa' I. left tonight for New York Clly lo consult bruin I'ccialli.te. Surioiiiiilliig In departure I a story of perhaps the most brutal baling epl one ever occuring in Portland. In which It la alleged by his mother lie was obliged to run a gauntlet of score of student armed with club. Following (ho bating hn suffered a complete loss of memory, during which he left a luxurious home owr'ook.Tln the rlxer at 79S Melrose DrUe. and for ten day wandered about from town to town several hundred miles from Port land, returning of his own accord, but going to a hotel In Portland not know i ing who he was. rxr lour week III memory wan blank. Four physician worked on his case: an operation wu performed, mid gruduully he recovered Ills mind. The doctors do not know whether llio re covery I permanent, on reeoierlni; from this stale of mental amnesia lie vigorously denied any of llio events and action that had occurred during his lapse of memory. Su h Is ttto story tuld by his mother. .xirs. Hubert H. rger. of Ti'H Mulrono Drive. Mrs. Derger Is president of tho Utcr'ook club and one of the most prominent cliibwomeu In Portlund. Major Robert T. Motoii. of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va , chosen to auc ced IWkr T. Washington as president of Tuakegee Institute, the IH gru Indus trial sehmd whlih Dr. Washington ! founded, truce bis Hiu eniry from a mi-inhcr of an Afrlian tribe who captured by a rival ililef and sold Into slavery to an Amerlian In 1735. lie was bom In I Mi; In Amelia county, V . where Ills mother was cook and bis father was a foreman. Knun the plan er' family he received encouragement to t'duiatK hlmse'f, and when hn heard of Hampton, from which Dr. Washing Ion wu graduated, he decided to go there. He entered In tli ami was graduated In IV'O. After be had flu Irhcd nt Hampton the negro boy de cliled to enter the legal profession. Im Cenerat Armstrong, head of lluiuj t Institute, prevailed upon him tu r mailt at D 'uipton and help to prepare teacher. He took the xltliui of drlllmasier utol alstiu, to the com niandant and within a few months wns promoted to Ihe. rank of commandant He Ii asmH lated with many movement, for the advancement of Ms race. Victim of Accident Were at Work en New Edsn Battery, But Com mandant lay Thl Would Cenertl No C. REPRISALS WILL BE They are to be the type of tho Man-! wa's "ui'I'lH'd with plenty of money churia and Mongolia recently sold u.vj8n1 ixrmitted to spend It as they do the Pacific Mail company and will run ' sircl- between the orient and San Francisco. News of these momentous matten in the tiade war of the Pacific was brought here today by the Matson lin Matsonia from Honolulu, where the de tails of the Toyo Kalsen Kasha's direc torate were received by cable. The meeting where this expansion In ships and shipyards was voted upon was held in Tokio on December ... and a second meeting of tho direc' ors is to be held there on January J.I when the final details will be present ed ine uirectois. it was learned, met with President S. Asano of the r. K K. line. STATE BUILDING TO BE ACCEPTED AT ONCE OF $75,000 BLAZE FIRE DEPARTMENT HANOICAPPED BY LIPPERY STREETS WAREHOUSE BURNED. WOOD SAYS ENEMY COULD LAND EASILY A. H. LEA IS ELECTED SECRETARY OF FAIR TWO MEMBERS OF STATE BOARD THEN RESIGN TO EXPRESS DISAPPROVAL. BERLIN WILL RETALIATE IN BAR ALONG CASE; KILLING OF PRISONERS LIKELY. WASHINUTOX, Jan. 19. Major General Leonard Wood told the sen ate military committee today the coast line of the United States was open to attack by any well-organized foreign army, despite Its equipment of forts, mines and submarines, and that the oceans formed no serious barrier to in vasion. He maintained that in the country's present tate of utter unpreparedness for war, a trained force of 150,000 men eould inflict incalculable damage be fore an army could be assebled to meet it. Events of the European war demon strated clearly, the general Baid, that the sea was the best medium for the!caHe' O. A. C. IS DEFEATED. I movement of troops, and he pointed out that a force of 126,000 men ful'y I equipped had been landed at Gallipoli from a single expedition of !S shins. I against submarines, mines and an un- SALEM, Ore., Jan. IS.-Iiy the voles! U(;rwater scre "t barbed wire which of Savage, M. L. Jones and Mrs. Weath-I mU?'!(1 every avllu,,le '""'""K I'la'e. erred, A. H. Lea was this afternoon elected secretary of the state fair hoard to succeed W. Al Jones, liooth and West voted for Jones. Immediately following the ciection of Lea, J. H. liooth of Kosebtirg and N. K. West of La Grande announced they would hand in their resignations. They gave as their reasons that W. Al Jones had made a success of the state fair, and that he was entitled to reap polntment. WALLA WALLA. Wash., Jan. IS. Whitman defeated O. A. C. in the first basketball game of the season here last night, 13 to . The bcore at the end of the first half was Whitman 0, O. A. C. 0. HER LIN, Jan. 14. (Ry wireless to Sayville, N. Y.) The German govern men has transmitted to Great Hritain, through the American embassy, a note which declared that, as a result of Great Rritain's failure to fulfill Ger man's demand for an explanation of the circumstances surrounding the sinking of a German submarine by the Hrltlsh patrol boat Itaralong. Germany will adopt suitable measure of reprisal. Germany first made demands several weeks ago through the United States embassies at Herlln and London on the British government for punishment of the captain and crew of the patrol boat Raralong as murderers for the alleged killing of the commander and 10 mem bers of the crew of a German subma rine after the submarine had been sunk by the Raralong, which surprised the underwater craft while It was making an attack on the Ilritish mule steamer .Vicoslan. A London dispatch of January 6 said that Sir Edward Grey, DritiBh foreign minister, replied to the German de mands, offering to submit the Raralong together with three others In PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 1 1. Secre tary of State Oloolt ami W. C. Kiiigh ton. stute iirehltei t. were In Port'iinu this morning In their way to Pendleton, where they wl'l meet State Treasurer Kay, who Im returning from tho enxi At Pendleton they will accept, on be half of the statu, tho new wing tu tho eastern Oregon state hospital for the insane. The new wliu Just completed, was built ut a cost of Uno. nmi, for which an appropriation was made by the luht legislature. The new udditlon Is ex petted to relieve the congested condi tions ul the Institution, wheru there nrc about ;iiil patients. Dr. W. 1). Me.Nary Is superintendent of the Institution, which Is compurn lively new, und has put It in fine con dition, according to Secretury Olcott, who suld the state board members ure we'l pleased with the institution. CHILDREN DO NOT KNOW SCHOOL IS ON FIRE WHEN ALARM IS SOUNDED. which Germans had destroyed Ilritish passenger vessels and one submarine, to an impartial tribunal, suggesting that it be composed of United States naval officers. It was general thought In London at that time that the reply to Germany would not be satisfactory and that the next move would he reprisals In the form of the shooting of Ilritish offi cers and soldiers, held prisoners In Ger many, in equal number to those of the German submarine who lost their lives. 2000 GET RAISE. MORTON, Wash., Jan. 14. At 10:1 o'clock this morning, lire broke out at the schoolhnu.se, and the children were marched out of the building in a mill uto and a half. No one was injured The lust time fire drill was held the teachers said they would make smudge the next time, so the children were not much alarmed until tho fire began coming up through the floors. The temperature was near zero, and most of the children were without wraps. They were soon taken home, Damage to the building was not great, and is covered by Insurance. The origin of the lire Is not known FOR STATE SCHOOL $2,000,000 DEAL CLOSED. ESCAPE FROM DEATH NARROW. PENDLETON, Ore., Jan. 18 D. W. Jackson, roundhouse foreman for the O.-W. R. & N. here, had a narrow es cape from freezing to death this morn ing at Pilot Rock Junction. He fell into the engine pit and was found some time later unconscious, bruised and with hfs face frozen. The temperature was 20 below zero at the time. Physi-j clans report he w ill recover. AHERDEE.V Wash.. Jan. IS. The j timber deal by which the Lowe-Erance timber Interests in Grays Harbor county passed to the Poison, Coats Fordney and Simpson lodging compa nies, has been confirmed. The timber will cruise 800,000,000 feet and covers 1j sections lying be tween the head waters of the U'lshkah and v ynoociie rivers. The pries was $j,noo,ooo. ALLEN'TOW.V, Pa., Jan. 19. A wage increase ranging from 7 to 10 per cent lias been given the 2000 employes of the North Hamilton plant of the Atlas Portland Cement company, near here, according to announcement today. The Increase becomes effective January 1. PORTLANDER IS DEFEATED. MEDFORD GIRL HURT. CHEROKEE, Iov.a, Jan. 17. Caro lino Andrews, of Medford, Ore., was among more than a score who were injured when a Northwestern train was ditched by spreading rails here today. The Pullman car telescoped the day coach . i MANY PEOPLE DONT' KNOW an avi-fu! lot of misery. Spelte of diz an awful lost of misery. Spells of diz ziness, headaches, constipation and biliousness are sure t;ins that your liv er needs help. Take Dr. King's New- Life Pills and see how they help tone up the whole system. Fine for the stomach too. Aids digestion. Purifies the blood and clears the comp'exion. Only 25c at your Druggist. (Adv.) EUGENE, Ore., Jan. 17. The Uni versity of Oregon will have a new $40.- oiio building ready for use at the open ing of the fall term this year, If the present plans of tho executive com mittee of the regents are ucepted al a meeting here Tuesday. The prelimi nary outline of the building will be presented at that time. This structure, it H planned, will house the schools of education, law and architecture and will form the first unit of a larger building which will take care of other departments, says a member of the hoard. The pre liminary plans for the building have been drawn by E. K. Lawrence, of the arenitectiiral department at the unl versity. J lie members of the board say the money Is in sight for the erec tion of the new structure. GUARDIAN FOR GIRL SOUGHT. A petition for the appointment of a guardian for Dorlu F-.t,. i,.i, this afternoon In a strike riot at the years, was fi'e.l in n, ..!.... Edwards Valve company plant. Manylment of the count vr i'..n t,..h, i. shots were fired. her father, James Eaton. SALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. 15. Raluh Gruman of Portland lost on a decision I after eight rounds of milling to Frank Callahan of New York here last night because His Jaw was broken. In the third round the New Yorker uncorked a t-.-rrific right, which caught Gruman fairly on the jaw. TWO KILLED ,'N RIOTS. EAST CHICAGO, 111., Jan. 19. Two men were killed and three wounded NOISELESS LOCOMOTIVES NEXT. HARTFORD, Conn., Jun. 17. My device similar to that whereby he si lenced the exhaust of motorboals nun automobiles, Hiram Percy Muxlm. dls- coverer of the noiseless rifle, an nounced today that he will sllonce the disagreeable "chug chug'' of rullroail locomotives. E-2 EXPLOSION UNEXPLAINED. fsh MIRK, Jan. 17. The explo sion aboard the submarine E-2 which st four lives Huturduy remained n mystery today. Officials scoffed at the Idea of a plot, and declared their be lief that the b'as was accidental. Mean time, an Inquiry Into tho. cause Is bo Ing pushed. The new Edison batteries used in the vessel ure hold to have had nothing to do with the explosion. THE NEWEST REHEDY FOB Backache, Rheumatism and Dropsy. Kidney, Rlnddcr and Uric Acid troubles Dnng misery to many. VYhon the kidneys are weak or diseased, those natural filters oo not cleanse the blood sulllclontly.and the poisons uro carrli-U to all parts of tho body. Thero follow depression, aches and pains, heaviness, drowsiness. Irrita bility, headaches, chilliness and rheu matism. In some people thero are sharp pins In the buck and loins, distressing bladder disorders ond sometimes obstin ate dropsy. 'J'ho nrln acid sometimes forms Into gravel or kidney stones. When tho uric ucld aiTeeLs thn muscles und Joints, It causes inmbngo. rheumatism. trout or sciatica. This Is tho tiinn to trv "Anurlc." During digestion urle acid Is ahsorhed Into tho system from meat cnten. and even from soma vegetables. Thn noor kidneys get tired and buckachn begins. Thin la .. ....A 4 ..!. a A .. l - ,. ia oj K"si iUiiu IA LUItU illllirie, the new discovery of Dr. Pierce for Kid ney trouble and Ruekachn. Neglected kidney troublo Is responsible) for many deaths, and Jnsiiriinco Company examin ing doctors always test thn water of an applicant before a policy will be Issued. Have yon ever set aside a bottle of water lor twonty-four hours? A heavy sedi ment, or sewing sometimes indicates kid- nctnr of diseases, cstioclallv those of thn kidneys and urinary organs, con often be determined by a careful chemical an alysis and microscopical examination lis is conn nv exoerc ennm ism oi tnn ftledlral Staff of the Invalids' Hotel. If VOU wish to know vour condition send a samplo of your water to Doctor Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., and de scribe your symptoms. It will be ex amined without any expense to you, and Itor Pierce or his btatF of Assisting Physicians will Inform you truthfully. PORTION!). Ore., Jan. IV-Neurly $7f,iM0 dumuge wus done by u fire that swept through thet old Union block ul the northwest corner of Krsl und Murk streets, shorl'y after I o'lluck this morning. The hea v lent loser Is the Fairbanks, .vioise it to. warehouse, which wax pruttlrully gutted with the dumuge or destruction of llio expensive slock ol pumps, scales and engines. The loss there will exceed .".0,000. Other losers, however, urn Henry Dlsston k Co., nt 91 First street; the I uelilc Store Service ( otnpuny, Uil First street, the Sltnond.i Manufiiclur Inf company. 5 First street, und lb Fulling estate, owners of the series of buildings affected. The losses are covered by Insurance, according to the statement of a repre sentative of W. F. Norman, locul man ager of tho Fairbanks, Morse & Co., and officers of tho other concerns. The lire originated on the first floor of the Hc'iilc.i house. Tho heating plant Is located on the first floor, und It Is thought that the blaze started from d fectlvo flues. Although the furnace hud no lire In it at tho time, tho fire men believe that tho blaze had sinol dered during tho curlier hours of tho night, breaking out this morning. Much difficulty wus experienced by some of the fire compnnles In reaching the scone, because of the slippery streets, and Fire Chief Dowell turned In a third alarm. This brought pruc tl' ally all tho west side apparatus In the blaze. NF.W YORK, Jan. IS.-Four in. u em killed and 10 others Injured, five of tin-in dungeniualy, an In riplilon whlih oejurrrd this afteni.Miu mi the uliiiiurliiv K2 while the iiuft . uu lergolug repair In drvd.x k at the Ne Yoik navy juid One of ilia men killed was an enlisted ele Irh Imi and Ihe other Ultra civilian vvoiKen Al lean! three of Ihe 10 now In hopllals are not eHSte, to le. Thn Interior nppartutu was badly .haltered, but so tlghl was the ve.iel hell thai there no means of e aw of gas which mi cumulated, an I H wan mora llian au hour after the blast before the work of rexue leiovrilng Urn bodies could be completed. A ladder v blown up through the ciiiiiiIiir lower and fell !0 feet away. lie injured men mid one body wire removed aooii after the ait Idi lit. but Ihe bodies fur down In the uaft could not be reai bed until ki gas had been blown om ,y compressed air. Hoou after thn rvplosion several naval offl ter led a r-.cue party Into thn dry disk, but were partly overiomo by gas fume, when they attempted to de. ei ml Into thn vesael. It wa then that i ninpreed air plx-a warn run In to the shell und the n, forced out. The Number of men In.lde the iub niarliie Ml Ihe lima of tba explosion la I not defiiiliclv' known About I'll vu rr I working on the craft, but Hot all of I bent were In (he underwater boat at Ihe mine lm(.. It H not thought po slide Unit uliviuie who wus llialdn could have eeuH-d Injury. What caused the explosion has not been definitely decided Rear Admiral I'xher. couiinumlatit of lh tiavy yard, after un examination of the truft and CiletlMiltlg workmen who had been lieurny, lbs- lined lo express un opinion He n Id: 'The men were at wotk In tho bat ''O' e purtnienl of the E 2, discharg ing Ihe new Edison huddles' through u rheostat lo measure the voltuge, ami Hie cx-ploHloii occurred In Unit compart ment while they were working there The battery will generate no kind of gun and thero was no kuhoIIu ii board. The engine wu of the oil burn Ing Diesel lypc." BRITISH SAY HALF MILLION OF FOE DEAD UNDER SECRETARY OF WAR ESTI- MATES GERMAN WOUNDED AT 1,568.549. !T IS DEAD IN EL PASO FAMILY IS PRESENT WHEN FOR MER DICTATOR OF MEXICO PASSES AWAY. LONDON. Jan. 19. Morn than f.oo.- 000 men killed outright und more than 2.0011,000 put out of action by wounds, capture and dlnenso Is the cost of the world wnr to Germany lo dute, accord ing to an announcement mudo In parlia ment today by Cnder Hocrelury of War Tcnminl. Tho total Ionium casualties. Ten mint s report said, uro 2,C.1S,7G8. Of these, r.S8.9Xd vvero slain outright. Tim German wounded were given us 1,5(10,. 549, and tho Teutons worn suld to huve lost 350,153 prisoners. Of theso, 21.. 0S0 died of their wounds und of sick, noss. . ' These disunities, Tenniint suld. wore for tho German empire, only. Thev did not Inclulo tho louses of tho Ami trlatiH, liiilgars or Turks. The total cusimllles of tho Teutonic allies, it Is estimated from tho figures given by Tonnunt, must reuch well over 4,000.- 000 men. KJIOTf THYSELF I Bead all about yourself, your system. iology, anatomy, hygiene, simple etc. In the "iximm-in ckmrn Medical Adviser," a book of lOUtf Medical Adviser" a book of loot pages, fiend to Dr. V. M. Pierce, Buffalo, N7y three dimes or thirty cents In one-conf (tamps for ft cloth-bound copy. EL PASO, Tex., Jun. 13. General Vlctorluito Huerta, former Provisional president of Mexico, died at his home hero at 8:30 o'clock tonight. General Vlctorlano Huerta", who suc ceeded General Frunclsco I. Mudero, In executive power In Mexico City, ami later left Mexico, died of sclerosis of the liver. Ho was surrounded by lib family und servants when tho end came. Funeral arrangements uro to ho mudo tomorrow, It was announced at his residence today. It Is believed an effort will he made to arrange fnr his burial In Mexico. FOR RHEUMATI8M. SNOW HAS QUI T TEMPERATURE GRADUALLY RIS ING, SAYS FORECASTER COLD TO CONTINUE. As soon as nn attack of Rheumatism begins apply Sloan's Liniment. Don't waste time and suffer unnecessary agony. A few drops of Sloan's Llnl ment on the affected parts Is nil you need. 1 he pain goes at once. A grateful sufferer writes: "I was suffering for three weeks with Chronic Rheumatism and Stiff Neck, although I tried many medicines, they fulled. Fortunately I heard of Sloan's Llnl ment and after using It three or four days am up and well. I am employed at the biggest department store 1n S. F. where they employ from six to eight thousand hands, and they surely will hear all about Sloan's Liniment." H. II. Smith. San Francisco. Cal . .Inn 1915. 25o at all Druggists. (Adv.) PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 15. Tho cold Is to continue but no snow Is expected tomorrow, according to Theodore F. Drake, assistant weather forecaster to-day. Mr. Druko says that with the pos sible exception of southern Oregon, jm snow is expected In the threo status of tho northwest. Tho weathur predic tions for Washington and Idaho nro tho same as for Portland during thu next 24 hours. Tho temperature Is gradually rising it being one degree warmer on uu aver- ago than it wns yosterduy. The ther mometer registered 20 degrees today ut D a. m. At 5 o'clock It was 21 de grees above zero or 3 degrees warmer than at the sumo hour yosterduy, MENACE EDITORS FREED. JOI'LIN. Mo.. Jan. 14. Tho Jury In tho c ase of tho alleged editors of tl Menace, charged with misuse of tl,.. mallB, returned a verdict this of not guilty, following out the instruc tions of the Judge. They were out over-night.