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1HE MOKMXtt OKKGOSIAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1913. j GENERAL WAR IN 48 ! HOURS IS EXPECTED DETAILS OF BATTLE i LATEST THEATER OF EUROPEAN HOSTILITIES AND TROOPS OF OPPOSING SIDES. IfUCI Ul ; Montenegro Leads Way , With Declaration and Concert of Action Is Seen. Treachery of Drunken Nica- raguan Rebels Costs Lives of Three Seamen. DCAPUl liTOI ULttuimtt POWERS STILL NOT IDLE Anstria. Mobilizes Four Great Aim; Corps, bnt. With Russia, la Be . lietej to Have Refused to Become Involved. (Continued From First Pave.) key. It being understood that these reforms shall not affect the sovereignty of the Sultan or the territorial integ rity of the Ottoman Empire. The powers reserve to themselves liberty of action for a collective ulterior study of these reforms. "Third, that if war breaks out be tween the Balkan states and the Otto man Empire, they will permit at the end of the conflict no modification of the territorial status quo In European Turkey. The powers will make collec tively to the sublime porte representa tions similar to the above declaration." In declining- to concur In the views of the two powers, the Montenegrin government declared that Its patience was exhausted. For more than two months it had been protesting in vain to Turkey and resort to arms was the sequence. Even If Montenegro stood alone. It was added, she was unable to act differently. An explanation of the Balkan union Is given by an official who understands the situation thoroughly. An alliance, properly speaking, does not exist. Mnotenegro is not allied with Servia, but Bulgaria, after signing a treaty with Servia, concluded a second treaty with Montenegro and a third with Greece. Bulgaria therefore stands as the link binding together the Balkan states, and it is Bulgaria that plays the leading role. 3IOXTKXEGRO TAKES VP ARMS Porte Believed Ready to Treat When Blow Is Struck. CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 8. Prior to receiving his passports from the Turk lsh government, the Montenegrin Charge d Affaires, M. Plamenatz, hand' ed the following note in behalf of his government to the porte: "I regret that Montenegro has ex hausted, without avail, all amicable means of settling the numerous mis understandings and conflicts which have constantly arisen with the Otto man empire. "With the authorization . of King Nicholas. I have the honor to Inform you that from today the government of Montenegro ceases all relations with the Ottoman empire, leaving it to thr arms of the Montenegrins to secure recognition of their rights and the rights that have been ignored for cen turles. of their brothers in the Ottoman empire. "I am leaving Constantinople. The 6val government will hand his pass ports to the Ottoman representative at Cettinje. PLAMENATZ." Shortly after the presentation of this note, which was accepted as a declara tion of war, a council of war was held at the grand vizierate. The session . 'continued late into the night. The city Js patrolled by strong detachments of Icavalry and infantry, A state of seige (prevails and there Is much excite- iment. but no demonstrations are per Emitted. i The Turkish view, as expressed by officials, is that Turkey was ready to jfnter into negotiations about the fron- JHr riinnut with Mnntenesrro. and hence Montenegro's complaint on this ;acnr6 was a mere pretext to precipi ftate a conflict before the powers wer ruble to interyene. , The opinion is deepening here that Montenegro was used as a catspaw by -the other Balkan states in order to forestall European Intervention. It is believed that the representations of ithe powers In Bulgaria, Servia and .Greece will now receive the reply: "It is now too late, we must ge to the succor of our ally." Russia has assumed charge of Montenegrin Interests in Turkey. M. Plamenatz left Constantinople without Incident tonight. The Bulgarian, Ser bian and Greek ministers are arrang ing to depart Thursday. 4 HOSTILE ACTIOJT IMMINENT Declaration by Montenegro's Allies Is Expected Soon. LONDON. Oct 8. While none of the "Balkan states except Montenegro, up .to a late hour tonight, had declared war against TuTkey, everything points Ho such action within a few days and perhaps within a few hours. It .is believed here that Bulgaria and .Turkey are maneuvering to throw the onus of the first hostile act on the other and that Montenegro's declara tion of war was made with the cogni sance of the other Balkan state to forestall interference by the powers. The latter, however, ars continuing their efforts to avert war. Small clashes are occurring on the Montenegrin frontier. In an effort, ap parently, to hold a Turkish army corps at this point until they can be relieved by reserve divisions of Kedlfs. The lirst severe fight is expected in the di rection of Scutari, as It Is unlikely the Montenegrins will attempt to penetrate to Novipazar. According to a report tonight from Vienna, Bulgaria and Servia ars ex pected to declare war tomorrow. TURKISH QUARTER ATTACKED Wholesale SOassacres Oconr Near Roumanian Frontier. VIENNA. Oct. 8. A massacre of Turks has occurred at Turtukal. in Bulgaria, near the Roumanian fron tier, according to a dispatch from OI tenitsa to the Keus Welner Tageblatt. It is alleged that armed Bulgarians attacked the Turkish quarters of the town at night, pillaged the houses and massacred the Inhabitants, not sparing women and children. Only a few Turks escaped across the Roumanian border. Seven Thousand Await War Call. BUTTE, Mont. Oct . Theodore Ptakios. Greek- Consul for Montana, Idaho; Utah and Wyoming, announced today that 7000 Greeks from those states were prepared to answer the call to arms from their native oountry and that a special train carrying the first detachment would start from here , within a few hours after the call is received from the Greek legation at Washington. v Crow's NestT" Canadian coal. C-ltOi. - Hi, '!($ y VT t, h.j!zSffiK aajt-X ' ABOVE, BULGARIAN TROOPS AT DRILL CENTER, TURKISH ARMY ON PARADE BELOW, MAP OP THE BALKANS. HAY IS QUARANTINED daho, Utah and Wyoming Crop Refused Entrance. PEST IS GREATLY FEARED Washington Commissioner Fears Spread of Alfalfa Weevil Trans portation firms Warned to Await New Order. VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct 8. (Spe cial. A quarantine on hay is the latest order from F. A. Huntley, State Com missioner of Horticulture, and the dis trict quarantined Includes Idaho, - Utah and Wyoming. The reason for this Is the prevalence of the alfalfa weevil, a small Insect which has become so umerous as to destroy crops of alfalfa. They are so many in places that they gather In a pile and resemble a hay cock. No hay of any kind will be permitted to enter the State of Wash ington from the states mentioned, until the quarantine la publicly withdrawn. . A. Quarnberg, Horticultural In spector for this district, today received these orders. All transportation com panies have been warned not to receive for shipment to this state, hay of any kind. Mr. Quarnberg went over to Portland and talked with the big hay dealers there and he was surprised to learn that they know nothing about the alfalfa weevil, which ihaa spread over a territory of 100 square miles in Utah since 1904, when it was first noted. Growers of alfalfa in Eastern Oregon are much alarmed over the pest, which multiplies rapidly. The technical name of the weevil is phytonomus posticus gylL one of the snout beetles allied to the cotton boll- weevil. It is described as being a fearfully threatening evil and Its chief forage plant Is alfalfa. Its na tive home is about the Mediterranean Sea, where It Is doubtless held in check. somewhat by its insect enemies. Ap parently it has Jumped from its home to Utah In a single bound. The seoond year after Its attack on a country, the crop la reduced from one-fourth to one- third. Each female lays more thaa 300 eggs. filling the stoak of the plant full. The weevil becomes so thick that It some times covers barns almost completely, and is very annoying to men working in the hayflelds, getting under their clothing. The mature insect Is about three-sixteenths of an Inch in length. One plant alone may receive 1000 or more eggs. It Is Imperative, so Mr. Huntley says, that every alfalfa grow er becomes a thorough student on the ubjeot of this fearfully destructive pest which threatens to be brought here. Already there Is now on the way to Vancouver, hay from Idaho, but it M: shipped from the northern part, where it has not been Infected. SMUGGLING CRAFT CAUGHT Revenue Cutter Picks Up Used foir Chinese. Vessel SAN FRANCISCO, Oot 8. The United States revenue cutter Golden Gate, acting on Information supplied by Charles Stephens, deputy surveyor of the Port of San Francisco, steamed 30 miles north today and picked up the gasoline sloop Alert, owned and cap tained by John Oosterhuls, who for months has been under surveillance by Government officials on suspicion of engaging in smuggling Chinese. The sleep, which is the notorious smug gling craft "Neptune," renamed "Alert," was brought to San Eranolsco and Oosterhuls and an Italian youth, Andrew Vasile, whom he carried as crew, are held in the city prison, pend ing their arraignment tomorrow before a Federal commissioner on charges of having engaged In a smuggling con spiracy. Mr. Stephens declared the capture of Oosterhuls to be the most Important in the recent renewal of the Govern ment's warfare against the traffic in contraband Chinese. Mr. Stephens said that he had Infor mation that when the sleep departed from San Diego It went to Ensenada, Mexico. It is the belief of Mr. -Stephens that the sloop brought to San Francisco about 20 of a consignment of Chinese, others of which were land ed here by the launch Samson No. 1, which eluded capture yesterday. CAR LINE BONUS GROWS Mount Tabor Residents Add 9 10(H) to Secure Hawthorne Extension. At an enthusiastic meeting last night in the .South Mount Tabor United Brethren Church, with E. T. Peterson presiding, nearly $1000 was subscribed toward the construction of the exten sion of the Hawthorne-avenue carline from its present terminus at Division and East Sixtieth streets to East Seventyfourth street by way of Twenty-ninth avenue. This brings the to tal amount subscribed to within 81000 of the total of $15,000 required In order to secure the extension. G. G. Root was appointed chairman of a commit tee to be appointed by himself to raise the balance required. Aooording to the offer of the Port land Railway, Light & Power Company the company will build this extension as soon as the people raise and place $15,000 in a bank, to be turned over to the railway company on completion of the extension. The total cost will be $23,000. A special effort will be made to com plete the $15,000 within the next few days. It had been reported in the community that the street railway company will build the extension any way, but It was stated positively at the meeting that the only way the people of South Mount Taboi-can get this car line is by making up this $15,000. . MOOSE OFF BALLOT Idaho Supreme Court Makes Decision at Lewiston. CONVENTION NOT REGULAR Vera Cms Reported More Peaceful. WASHINGTON, Oct 8. Commander Hughes, of the cruiser Des Moines, vis iting Gulf ports, reported today to the Navy Department that the uprising in Vera Crus state was subsiding. Names of Presidential Electors and Nominees for Congress Will Not Appear on Ticket in November. State Officers Will. LEWISTON, Idaho, Oct. 8. (Special.) That Presidential electors and candi dates for Representatives to Congress on the Roosevelt Progressive party ticket of Idaho were not nominated in conformity with the statute of the primary law and should not be certi fied or printed on the official ballot but the nominees for state offices are entitled to have their names appear on the -ballot of November 5, came to night as a decision of the Supreme Court of this state now In session at Lewiston. According tothe opinion written by Judge Ailshie, the St. Anthony con vention of July 30 was not a conven tion within the meaning of the statute or of common usage among political organizations of this country. It was substantiated that the call was not Issued by any person having author ity to call a convention nor did the party malting tne call represent any party or organization, but only them selves. As a result of the decision today the names of H. Mariana, oi layette; Henry Olney, of Sandpoint; Ell Harris, of Marysvllle. and L. M. Earle, of Idaho Falls, as Presidential electors of the Roosevelt Progressive party of Idaho, and F. Monroe Smock, of New Plymouth, for Congress, will not appear on the official ballot at the general election, but the names of the candidates lor state officers win be certified ana in serted on the official ballot HANLEY WILL BE ORATOR Burns Man on Programme to Speak at Minneapolis. William Hanley, of Burns, sometimes referred to as "Oregon s foremost citi zen" has been eiectea Honorary vice- president of the second annual Minne sota Conservation and Agricultural Congress which convenes at Minne apolis from October 19 to 22 while the Minneapolis land show Is In pro gress and is down on the programme for a speech. Mr. Hanley has written to friends here of his intention to attend. James J. Hill is scheduled to speak from the same platform and on the same day that Mr. Hanley delivers his address. TOTAL AMERICAN LOSS 7 Marines and Bluejackets Pour . Deadly Fire Into Insurgents, BUlllng Fifty Leaders Agree to Leave Country. WASHINGTON, Oct 8. Details of the surrender Sunday of the town of Leon by Nicaraguan revolutionists to American marines and sailors under Lieutenant-Colonel Long, and the loss of three American lives through the treachery of drunken rebels were re ceived today at the State Department from Minister Weitzel, at Managua. The deaths on Sunday brought the total of Americans killed by the rebels to seven, the loss of four at Baranca Hill, on the road to Leon, having been previously reported. Three Americans Killed. The men killed at Leon were: Rov G. Morsran. turret captain on the Colorado, son of Mrs. S. M. Olson, Los Angeles, CaL George R. Bergess, ordinary seaman. Colorado, son of Ora Bergess, Stillwa ter, Minn. Marine Private John Barteis, orotner of Annie Puttcome, Melrose Park, Cook Pfinntv. Illinois. Although three were reported wouna- ed, the name of only one. Private Frank Kittsmlller, whose wounds are serious, Is the son of Mrs. Marguerite Kittsmlller, Lewiston, Idaho. Two Others Wounded. Those reported wounded, but whose names do not appear In the records, were Lemper, ordinary seamar., Colo rado, - and Dalder, trumpeter, marine. Company D. When Colonel Long demanded the surrender of Leon, Dr. Espinosa, Gen eral Irias and 11 other rebel leaders from Costa Rica, applied for protec tion and passports to leave the coun try. This was agreed to after the Colonel had communicated with Rear Admiral Southerland at Managua, who obtained the approval of President Diaz. Then the surrender of the town was announced. Before the Americans could take po sesBion, however, a band of drupken rebels opened fire upon the Americans, killing the three named. The marines and bluejackets returned the fire and killed about BO revolutionists. Among the marines wounded last Friday was Private Frank Leroy, en listed at Spokane, and son of Mrs. Mary Harris, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. HOOD RIVER IS RENDEZVOUS "World Is Small" Finds Club Men Who Gather From Four Corners, wnnn TtlVER. Or.. Oct 8. (Special.) Seven men sat In the reading-room of the Commercial Club the other even ing. One laid down his paper, then another until the seven were engaged in conversation. Naturally 'the talk turned to apples, and then to orchards. Four of the meu were unacquainted with anv of the others. Names fol lowed, then addresses. The four men were strangers and hailed from Groton, Mass.; St Catherine, Ontario; Mexico Citv. and Minneapolis, Minn. This caused comment that in a little town in Oregon all these men should meet with one common reason Hood River apples and how they do It The succeeding conversation brought up the question: "From how many dif ferent localities will the visitors of a month come?" Reference was had to the visitors' register and the result showed visitors registered at the ciuo irora t different towns in 17 states and two from out the country during the month of August. September showed. 57 towns in 10 states and four foreign countries. These are only those that registered at the club. AKRON MAN LIKES OREGON Editor Thinks He Will Settle Here Later: Ohio for Wilson, He Says. C. P. Parker, elty. editor of the Akron, O., Beacon-Journal, has been passing a few days in Portland, for a three-fold purpose, r irBt, ne is on a vacation, and says he Is enjoying him self; seoond, he Is looking for a place to invest with a view of establlsning a future residence, and believes that Oregon Is the right place; third, he is looking into the political situation on the Coast with the intention oi writing a series of stories for his paper as soon as he returns home. Mr. Parker has traveled tnrougn tne Middle West the mountain and inter- mountaln states, as well as the coast country, and will return to Ohio over the northern route. He found the po litical Jiorizon pretty badly clouded everywhere he went he reports. Al-1 though his paper Is radical in its sup- j T I HE splendid response given our daily October talks about the Fischer Piano and its rank in the piano-manufacturing industry has been the source of the keenest pleasure and gratification to us. Here is a piano, the highest type of perfection . in the piano maker's art. For 72 years it has with stood the most severe criticism and competition, but 1912 witnessed the completion of Fischer Upright Piano No. 135000. There have been more Fischer Pianos manufactured and there are more Fischer Pianos in American homes than any other single make. Is it any wonder that the people of the City of Portland and of the State of Oregon follow the judgment of all those other purchasers t Will you have a piano in your home that 'shall be your pride and the pride of your children for years to comef Remember, if you don't come in today we shall talk to you again tomorrow. - 375 WASHINGTON, AT WEST PARK We Rent Good Pianos, Expert Tuning. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. FT- TlfiH BUSINESS COLLEGE WASHINGTON AND TENTH STREETS PORTLAND.' OREGON WRITE FOR CATALOG The School that Places You in a Good Position i FOURTH STREET, NTCAR MORRISON, PORTLAND, OREGON. Business College ATTEND THE BEST Send for Catalogue, I. M. WALKER, Pres. 0. A. BOSSERMAN, Mgr. MILITARY ACADEMY POBTLAJTD, OREGON Send for ' Illustrated Catalogue. Fall Term Opens Monday. Sept. 16. Piano Studio LOUIS H. BOLL TBACHCB OF l'UAO. Special Care With Children SOO-l-S Tilford Bids. HOLMES-FLANDERS PRIVATE SCHOOL 879 E. Bnrnslde St Portland. Oregon. Special university preparation; prac tical English courses. Age or previous lack of opportunity no obstacle. Indi vidual or class instruction. Phone Bast 2481, or Call After 1 P. M. Bast Ankenr Can scours SAP0UjJ POLISHES port of the Bull Moose candidate, he Is not prepared to predict that Ohio will give its electoral vote to Eoosevelt. and admits that he thinks the Buckeye state will go strong; for "Wilson. , "I've always had a desire to come West," said Mr. Parker yesterday, "and some day I'm going: to make my home out here on the Coast. Of all the coun try" I have visited I have found none that suits me better than Oregon." New York Society Meets. About 100 members of the New York Society met last night at Chrlstensen's Hall for a social evening and to wit ness the first performance of the suf frage play entitled, "How the Votes Were Won." The play which Is staged, managed and acted by members of Mrs. Emma Watson Gillespie's dra matic school, was a marked success. Miss H. Wagstaff pleased the members of the society with her rendition of Handel's "Largo," while Nelson Armour sang "The Hose In the Bud." Albert S. Brown met with a warm reception from the company with a recitative entitled, "Annie Laurie." The piece Itself Is not a new one, but the arrangement of It was carried out by Mr. Brown. Portland Youths Disappear. Virgil Yates, 1 years old: Stanley Johnson, 18, and Otto Paulson, IB, liv ing within a few blocks of each other on East Twelfth street North, late yesterday left their homes for pa-ts unknown. They are thought to be going to San Francisco, where they expressed wishes of going some time ago. Virgil lives with his father, Charles Yates, at 384 East Twelfth street North: Stanley with his mother, Mrs. Olaf Johnson, at 465 East Twelfth North, and Otto with his father, N. C. Paulson, at 830 East Twelfth North. The police are searching for them. . 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