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THE 3IORXIXG OREGOMAX, SATURDAY , JANUARY 11, 1913. GARRISON KILLED, 01 DESTROYED Mexican Rebels Annihilate Two Detachments Sent to Re lieve Ayotcingo. MORE TROOPS ARE ON WAY Force Operating Within 25 Miles of Capital Declared to Be Numer ically Strong Trains Are linn fnder Escort. MEXICO CITT, Jan. 10. After de stroying the little garrison of federals and razing the town of Ayotcingo, 25 miles from Mexico City, a body of rebels withstood yesterday the attacks of two detachments of federal rein forcements, virtually annihilating them. This information was brought here last night by passengers arriving from that district and was -confirmed offi cially. Three other groups of rein forcements sent to the scene of the fighting have not reported. The sack ing of the town was admitted early by the government officials, who attempt ed to minimize the Incident by assert ing that the rebels numbered only 180. Those who brought the story to the rapital estimate that the rebels num bered between 500 and 1000. Federal Reinforcements Destroyed. The attack on Ayo'.cingo began in the morning. Of the garrison of 18 only two escaped, one of them wound ed. A force of 20 federals dispatched to reinforce the garrison was wiped out after a fight. One hundred fed erals hurriedly dispatched from Xico met the same fate. Fifty federals from Chalco, a small detachment from Mil pa Alta, in the federal district, and 100 home-guard volunteers from Mexico City left for Ayotcingo this afternoon. More troops are being sent to the front, but the rebels are expected to retreat, possibly attacking Chalco. Not a house was left standing in the town, but the residents were not mis treated physically. Colonel tn Command Asks Aid. Colonel Vasconceles, at Chalco, who is directing operations, twice has tele graphed to the war department for reinforcements. He said that the reb els, who, in the beginning numbered 1000, have since been reinforced by a large band. The hacienda Cerro Gordo, in the state of San Louis Potosl, has been sacked by rebels under Francisco Vas quez, a nephew of Dr. Francisco Vas ciuei Gomez, and a quantity of arms and ammunition captured. Bridges on the Mexican Southern Hallway between Puebla and Oaxaca have been burned Just after being re built. Owing to the presence of Gen eral Hfgino Aguilar between the Mexi can and Interocean Railways near Paso del Mach, the Governor of Vera Cruz had ordered military escorts for the trains on the Inter-Oceanic tra versing that district. Bridges have been burned on the International Hail way between Monterey and Torreon. VOTES CAST FOR WOMEN N"cwi)crg Men Pay Compliment to, but Do Not Nominate Sisters. XEWBERG, Or., Jan. 10. (Special.) An unusual scene was presented last night at the caucus held here for the nomination of candidates for various offices. Early in the evening women voters came in force. ' many of them meeting at the Imperial Hotel by agree ment and coming1 in a body. Compli mentary votes were cast for Mrs. Bowerman, prominent as a W. C. T. U. woman; Mrs. Clarence Brett, and Miss Anna Fogle for Mayor. Without oppo sition W. W, Nelson was nominated for Recorder, an office he has held for ten years. S. E. Launer, a Socialist In politics, one of the High School professors, was Mayor J. D. Gordon's opponent, and lacked only 14 of making It a tie vote. It was not generally known that Mr. Launer was to be a candidate, and the result of the vote was a surprise. The two will he pitted against each other at the election next Monday. Nominations for Council men were George Kelty and H. Craw. First Ward; John Hutzen and Aaron Bray, Second Ward; Henry R. Morris. Third Ward. For Treasurer, W. S. Wharton was nominated. CLATSOP LEVY IS FIXED Total County. School and State Is Placed at 25 Mills. ASTORIA. Or., Jan. 10. (Special.) The County Court today fixed the tax levies on the 1912 assessment roll at 21.2 mills for county and state pur poses ani 3.8 mills for county school, making a total of 25 mills. List year the Invlrs for those purposes totalled 2t4 mills. In making its estimate of the county expenses for th ensuing year the court provided for the erec tion of a new jail and construction of a building at the poor farm. The total levies on property lying within the city limits are as follows: County, school and state, 25 mills; municipal, 17.5 mills; city schools, 12 mills; Port of Astoria, .3 mill; total. 51.8 mills. The total on last year's roll was 56.2 mills. COLLEGE BILL : INDORSED Provision for Extension of Agricul tural College Work Wanted. Resolutions were adopted by the Portland Oregon Agricultural College Club at a meeting held at the Commer cial Club Thursday night indorsing the proposed bill, which provides for the extension of the agricultural college work to every county in the state by means of experiment stations and trav eling demonstrators. The measure carries a $25,000 appropriation, which will bring a- like amount from the Government for educational purposes m the stock and dairy field. Another provision is that the state contribute $2 to every $1 raised by the separate counties for the work, within a certain fixed limit. Permanent organization of the club was effected last night by the election of the following officers: President, W. Y. Masters; first vice-president. Miss Gladys Moore: second vice-president, D. M. MacClaire; secretary-treasurer: M. E. Smead; board of trustees. E. C. Calloway, S. A. Wilson, R. R. CHASE IS THRLLIING Police Pursue Suspect While Real Thieves Take Gems. . MESSAGE FOOLS OFFICERS While Authorities Have Running Kight With Chauffeur Automobile Robbers Hurl Brick Through Window and Rob Store. CHICAGO, Jan. 10. While a squad of heavily-armed policemen was pur suing and firing at Albert Almbast, a chauffeur whom tne officers mistook for an automobile desperado, last night, two real motor car thieves threw a brick through a South Side Jewelry window and escaped with Jewels val- STJRVTVORS OF ROSECRANS' CREW WHO WERE RESCUED BY LIFE SAVING CREW. 1 V 1 I UP " i &r lft t ,r 4, ' v tit It .. a i ftla4lstfsBlBiu LEFT, JOE SIEJf"IG, SECOXD QUARTERMASTER OP ILL-FATED VESSEL; RIGHT, ERIC MXDMAHK, CARPENTER OF SHIP IT WAS THESE MEX WHO HELD TO THE MAST FOR FIVE AND A HALF HOURS. Clark, John G. Schroeder, J. H. Galla gher, H. C. Getz. E CYCLE EXPRESSMAN" FORCED TO PART WITH $60 BY PAIR. Men Escape on Motorcycle City and Connty Officers in. Pursuit Xearly Shoot Each Other. Robbers on a motorcycle made a 60 haul Thursday uight, in the latest, up-to-date method of highway robbery so far practiced in Portland, when they held up M. A. Rule, an expressman of 1065 East Tamhill street, at East Fifty- second and Division street. In the pur suit which the police and county au thorities immediately began. two motorcycle officers, one for the county, and the other for the city, came near shooting each other on the Sandy road when they met. Rule, after making express deliv eries in Mount Scott, was driving slowly along East Fifty-second street, near Division, when two men accosted him in a dark spot. He halted, and one held a revolver pointed at htm while the otHer climbed on the wagon and went th.ough his pockets. Then, while the dismayed expressman looked after them, they Jumped on their ma chine and sped away. Motorcycle Patrolman Schirmer. on their trail out the Sandy road, saw a motorcycle coming toward him and into Portland. He doused his lights, drew his machine to the side of the road, and waited. "When the machine came close, he sprang out and threw light and revolver toward the rider. "Hello, Schirmer," came the unexpect ed reply, and Officer Truesdale for the county Jumped off the motorcycle. The same two men are supposed to be responsible for the scaring of A. ii. Schaffer, a farmer, at East Seventy- fifth street and Base Line road some what later about 10 o'clock. But one man appeared, and as Schaffer had no money, the robber gave him scant attention. Dr. Boyd Starts Series of Talks. Dr. John H. Boyd, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, commenced the first of a series of weekly lectures on the services of Christ last night. The chapel was so crowded that the next lecture will be given in the main audi torium next Thursday night. His sub ject will be "Christ's Entrance Upon His Public Ministry." ued at $800. The chase after Almbast was thrill ing. An anonymous telephone message informed the police that a chauffeur was acting suspiciously and appeared to bo a desperado. The car, loaded with officers carrying rifles, started after Almbast. - Ho had a speedy ma chine and soon began to distance them. They warned him to stop and when he failed to do so fired at him eight times. Finally his gasoline gave out and he stopped. He was arrested and charged with being intoxicated. Two clerks wore in the Jewelry store when the real desperadoes robbed the window. The thieves escaped before the police appeared. Hubert Saucier, who is held on the suspicion that he is a motor car des perado, attempted tonight to escape from his cell at the central station. When the door was opened to admit a keeper carrying a tray of food Saucier tried to rush out. The prisoner was overpowered. JOHNSON TRIAL POSTPONED Smuggling Case to Await Outcome of White Slavery Indictments. CHICAGO. Jan. 10. "Jack" Johnson, negro prizefighter, appeared today be fore Federal Judge Carpenter for trial on a charge of smuggling a diamond necklace valued at 6000 Into this country from England two years ago. The ornament was presented to his former white wife, who committed suicide in Chicago several months ago. The necklace was confiscated by the Government. Judge Carpenter continued the trial indefinitely and said that he desired to dispose of 'the indictments charging the Negro with violation of the Mann "white slave" act before taking up the smuggling case. Johnson went directly from court to a gymnasium, where he boxed six rounds with Matty Cutler. Later he spent several hours in light indoor work. Johnson declined to discuss his fu ture plans, but his friends declared that he had begun training to re-enter the ring. Kig Caplan Is Jailed. Sig Caplan, whose efforts to elude the law have kept Special Agent Mc Donald, of the Retail Merchants' Asso ciation, busy for the last six months, last night was lodged in the County Jail, on charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Against him are three checks, signed by his name, and written and indorsed to the order of "L. Caplan. " supposed by the police to be a mythical person. The checks total $50 and were cashed on three downtown department stores. Caplan was in Jail under a similar charge two months ago. Another compliment, and one that we apreciate most highly, the young ladies are now wearing our. over coats. They like the cloth, the tailoring and the 'comfort able free hang of the gar ments. . " ' "We can now fit the whole family in overcoats, re gardless of age, size, sex ' or politics. Buffum & Pendleton 311 Morrison, Opp. Postoffice. but made good the check. This time his bail was set at $500. which he did not furnish last night. JACK GOFFMAN IS SUED CONFECTIONER'S WIFE WANTS $500 MONTHLY ALIMONY . Mrs. Coffman Says, in Complaint, She Has Been Cruelly Treated Since Wedding Day. Allegations of gross cruelty are made in a divorce complaint filed in Circuit Court Thursday by Mabel Inez Coff man, formerly Mabel Inez Wells, of Minneapolis, against A. J. Coffman, pro prietor of five confectionery stores, whose business was taken over by creditors about a month ago and later Incorporated as a going concern, with the use of his name. Mrs. Coffman charges that her husband often cursed and abused her, and even went so far as to injure her ptiysically. From the beginning, she states, he seemed to be dissatisfied with the al liance, which was contracted in Min neapolis October 2, 1911. and did every thing in his power to drive her away and get rid of her. Another charge Is that he kicked her violently. It is alleged that it was the defend ant's habit to set the alarm clock for 7 o'clock in the morning and force her to get up at that time. If she demurred she was kicked out of bed, she says, but her husband would lie in bed till 10 o'clock and then get up, and would refuse to eat or speak to her. She asserts that he often threatened to kill himself and her and that she was forced one day to get down on her knees and beg for her life, believing that he had a razor in his hand. She declares he said he would spare her life but would kill her some time when she wasn't expecting it, suggesting that to lock her in a folding bed and let her suffocate would be the best and easiest way. Shortly before the birth of their child he started staying out all night, she complains, and when she was ill he refused to provide care for her. When the baby would cry he would fly into a rage and abuse it and throw things at it, she further complains. She de clares he also suggested that they chloroform the child. His desertion of her on December 1, when be -left for California without saying goodby or letting her know anything about it, was the final straw. Mrs. Coffman wants the custody of the child, asserting that her husband does not love, but hates it, and she wants $500 a month alimony, declaring that her husband is a clever business man. capable of paying such an amount. She also asks $500 attorney fees and $150 court costs. Hood River Docket Light. HOOD RIVER, Or., Jan. 10. (Spe cial.) Wells A. Bell, the newly elected Prosecuting Attorney for this district, is making preparations for the Circuit Court term, which will convene Mon day with Judge W. L. Bradshaw on the bench. The criminal docket Is light. Jake Horn, charged with perjury; Sam lnsted, accused of horse theft, and Frank Lacey. accused of giving liquor to a minor, will be tried at the coming term. Where He Gets Them. Judge. ' Frost Where do you get your hats, old man? ' Snow At cafes usually. But once or twice I've been lucky enough to ex change at church. PULL VIEWS OF WRECKED TILLAMOOK PASSENGER TRAIN. : 1 iH4m' ummfii v rwi .. TRikivn r4RK tviiii 1.' Mrhvivf? pirit'ir Riil.u'ir A- 4Vir:4Tinv r-niitavve i ir r & trr this nimcv TILLAMOOK. Or.. Jan. . (Special.) The accompanying views were taken at the scene of the wreck of December 29, on the Tillamook-Port- i land line of the Pacific Railway & Navigation Company. Th cars were struck and overturned by a landslide while the train wa speeding along. Several passengers were injured, though none seriously. Passengers on the train were: Louis Labovvitch. Morris Schnal, Carl Haberlach. Will Goeres, J. A. Dawson, W. B. Glrdon. Frank Rhodes, Emma J Swenson. Daisy Alionder, W. S. Ruel. of Tillamook: Charles Ray. of Cloverdale: John O. Bozarth, Thomas Edwards, of Bay City: J. R. Lamb, S. I M. Batterson. Xehalem: J. H. Smith. Bar View; Grover Hendrickson. 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Since 1SS2 ORANGE RATE IS SOUGHT GROWERS WOULD RUSH FRTJIT TO EASTERN" MARKET. Railway Representatives Doubt Abil ity to Obtain Desired Reduc tion of 50 Per Cent. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10. At a confer ence today between representatives of the citrus fruitgrowers of Southern California and the transcontinental railroads entering; Los Angeles, the growers asked for a special 30 days' rate on oranges and lemons destined to Eastern markets, in order that they may rush the fruit affected by the re cent cold wave to the East at the rate of 125 carloads daily. As there Is no way of determining the extent of the damage done to the fruit, all of the shipments will be la beled merely as "California oranges" and sold for whatever price can be ob tained. The railroad representatives, while expressing a desire to aid growers, were doubtful if they could secure the 50 per cent reduction requested. An other conference will be held tomor row afternoon, when it is expected that definite word will have been received from the Eastern railroads and the In terstate Commerce Commission, the sanction of which body must be ob tained. Orange growers declared today that there was more uncertainty than ever regarding the damage done by the cold spell since rain began falling through out the citrus belt. It is believed that the rain has done a great amount of good and that a much larger percentage of the citrus crop than first estimated will be saved, but citrus experts de clare it may be three weeks before the extent of the loss will be definitely determined. MISS STEEB WINS OVATION Farewell Recital Brings Cheers From Enthusiastic Audience. BT JOSEPH M. QUENTIN. Portland had the opportunity last night, in the Masonic Temple audi torium to listen to Olga Steeb's fare well piano recital before her tour of Europe and the occasion, musically, was a distinguished one. Miss Steeb won an ovation, and was not only ap plauded for her artistic work in ren dering piano gems by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and other celebrated compos ers, but she was even cheered quite an honor in this conservative city, so far as concerts are concerned. It Is not too much to say that Miss Steeb is now on equal terms as a con cert attraction with the really big pi anists of the da5F, search where you will. She has the requisite art and beautiful finish, to which can be added piano genius. Those who will dispute the correctness of this opinion, have either not heard Miss teeb play in re cital or they are hopelessly blase or de ficient in the spirt of fair play. During her brief residence in this city, Miss Steeb has won enthusiastic approba tion at her piano recitals, but has not attracted the crowd. Last night she made a graceful, mod est figure at the piano, but when once she touched the keys, her whole being was transformed to action and the pi ano sang. Lake other big artists, she played her difficult and finely-arranged programme from memory and stamped every phrase of it with her glowing personality. The Bach-Busonl "Prelude and Fugue in E Flat" is gigantic in execution alone, and so is the Beethoven "Sonata op. 53." but Miss Steeb made light of the technical difficulties, playing every phrase with dash, finish and regard for the niceties of expression. . Her chopin was superb and two of the many encores she accepted were the Schultz-Evler transcription of the fa mous "Blue Danube" waltz by Strauss and the Mendelssohn-Liszt setting of the former's "Wedding March." Recount of Votes Begins. LA GRANDE, Or.. Jan. 10. (Special.) Actual recount of votes cast Novem ber 5 for Joint Senator of Union and Wallowa counties commenced today be fore Judge Knowles as the outcome of action brought for a recount by John Hodgln, Democrat, defeated by Ed E. Kiddle, Republican, by four votes. The recount followed a denial by the court of the right of appeal by Kiddle of the decision by Knowles, assuming jurisdiction. In the first precinct recounted Hodgin lost one vote, several in two others, but stands to regain more than he lost, when votes for him were found in a pile of 25 ballots held faulty by the canvassers because of slight irregulari ties. The count will not be compiled until the middle of next week. It takes five different aged whiskies to make Cyrus Noble each one good in itself. But it takes blend ing and re-ageing to bring out the best in each to "round-out" the flavor. Why punish yourself with rough, high-proof, strong whiskey when you can get Cyrus Noble everywhere? W, J. Van Schuyver & Co., General Agents, Portland. There's No Secret About It "It's the Water" Pure, spring water,, that makes Olympia different and better than other beers. 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