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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, TUNE 28, 1913. ATTITUDE TOWARD MEXICO DEBATED THREE PRINCIPALS IN JAPANESE OPERETTA AT SUNNY SIDE CHURCH. OIL SHIP EXPLODES irianos and i layer iriaeo: 3! At Tremendous Price Reductions in the 5 Killed, 6 Injured When Tank J? Steamer Bursts in Harbor. Bacon, Believed to Voice Ad ministration's Policy, Prom ises Early Action. efoire-Eimveinitory Sale id. J GASES- IN HOLD IGNITED . r-f-c,- r SOLUTION WITH MEXICANS Educated Classes Strong Enough. Says Senator, to Restore Order. Arlzonan "Wants to Seize T.ower California. WASHINGTON, June 27. A change in the attitude of the United States toward the warring factions in Mexico was urged in the Senate today with the result that the foreign relations com mittee of that body is to take up the question immediately. Senator Fall, of New Mexico, at tacked the present policy and asked for the repeal of the so-called 'neu trality" resolution of the last Con gress.. Under this authority, he said, arms were permitted to go across the border to the Huerta forces, but were prevented by the armed forces of the United States from going to the fac tions opposed to Huerta. Uaron Offers Solution. Senator Fall praised the Wilson Ad ministration for refusing to recognize what he termed the "assassins of the President of Mexico" as the established government in the republic; but he declared the practice of the Adminis tration in allowing arms to go to one faction and not to the other ,iad re sulted in retaliatory steps toward American citizens that no other na tion on earth would permit. His speech brought a response from Senator Bacon, chairman of the for eign relations committee, that was re garded by some as voicing th atti tude of the Administration. Senator Bacon said the solution for the pres ent difficulties in Mexico was for the men of the republic constituting the educated classes to take up arms to establish order. Educated Men Can Control. Enough educated men resided in Mexico City alone, he said, to establish order in the whole republic. He added that for the United States to attempt to protect her citizens by arms In Mex ico meant intervention and occupancy probably for all time. Senator Smith, of Arizona, in the de bate which followed, advocated the United States' taking possession of Lower California in compensation for Americans killed and American prop erty destroyed in Mexico. Senator Wil liams Joined in urging the repeal of the "neutrality" resolution. Senator Bacon assured the Senate the committee would soon consider the Question. OJEDA'S DEFEAT COMPLETE Federal Commander Leaves Wound ed and Supplies on Battlefield. DOUGLAS, Ariz.. June 27. Claims of Sonora state, officials of a victory over the federals above Guaymas, at first Questioned, were sustained today from various independent sources. Officials of the State Department at Washing ton confirmed General Ojeda's complete rout. The federal Governor of Sonora in messages to the border admitted that Ojeda's forces had returned to the California Gulf port after their pro tracted campaign to the North. General Obregon, In command of the state insurgents, telegraphed tonight that a detachment under Major Trujillo had occupied San Jose de Guaymas, a suburb of strategic importance, six miles from the center of the city. The officials state reports that the federals had abandoned their artillery, pro visions, prisoners and wounded seemed today, to have' been well established when private advices were received from Hermosillo, the state capital, and other Interior points. Encouraged by their success in pre venting Ojeda's march toward the capi tal, the state leaders plan an immedi ate Investment of Guaymas. The town, however, presents a different problem on account of its natural advantages for fortification. Guaymas is set in a range of hills and from the bay Mexi can gunboats in the vicinity may assist in the defense of the only remaining point In Sonora held by the Huerta government. It was to offset the ef fect of the gunboats that the insurgents had planned to use Didier Masson's aeroplane, but the French aviator's bomb-dropping expeditions so far have been of little -assistance. LESSEES TO RETAIN HOTEL Columbia Securities Company Loses Case at Hood River. HOOD RIVKR, Or., June 27. (Special.) In one of the most remarkable cases of its kind ever tried in Oregon, that of the Columbia Securities Company, a corporation owning the Hotel Oregon property here, attempting to regain the possession of the building from the les sees, E. A. Baker and Carl P. Ross, on proceedings of unlawful detainer, al leging nonpayment of rent, Judge W. L. Bradshaw has handed down a deci sion declaring for the defendant hotel men, who will be allowed to retain the , hostelry without paymen of rent until the owners replace a porch that was torn down on November 15, 1911, and which brought on the litigation. The defendants. Baker 'and Ross, re fused to pay rent of $600 a month on December 1, 1912, and on December 23 the papers in the action alleging un lawful detainer were filed by the Co lumbia Securities Company, which al leged that the city authorities had or dered the porch removed. However, the defendants. Baker and Ross, in troduced as evidence the fact the muni cipal authorities only demanded that the posts supporting the porch be re moved and that the porch, supported from overhead would have been per mitted to remain. BOY SCOUTS BUILD TRAIL Hood River Company Will Be Given "First Aid" Instruction. HOOD RIVER, Or., June 27. (Spe cial.) The local Boy Scouts, who are now engaged in building a trail from the city residence district along the Hood River gorge to the Indian Creek Korge, donated to the city by Dr. T. L. Eliot, of Portland, will also receive instruction this Summer from Dr. E. D. Kanaga in first aid to the injured. This will comprise an elementary knowledge of surgery and the meth ods of resuscitating people rescued from the water. On a former occa sion the lessons of Dr. Kanaka caused the boys . to be able to resuscitate a companion, apparently dead, after he had been rescued from one of the Co lumbia River sloughs. The Boy Scouts are under the super vision of Albert L. Crocker, a young Harvard graduate, who has located here; the scout master. Rev. R. A. Har ris, pastor of the Congregational Church being in Southern California, where he is delivering lectures on a Chautauqua tour. STRAUS CENSURES KNOX ACTION IX KECALLIXG MINIS TER CRAXK CRITICISED. Great Need of Country Declared to Be Supreme Law to Prevent Interference by States. NEW YORK. June 27. Oscar Straus, ex-ambassador to Turkey, speaking to day at a luncheon in honor of Dr. David Starr Jordan, given . by the International Peace Forum, declared that ex-Secretary of State Knox had demonstrated "that he is not of inter national caliber" by his action in re calling Charles R. Crane, of Chicago, while he was on his way to take up the post of ambassador to China. With reference to the Japanese situ ation in California. Mr. Straus said: "There is need in this country of a law that will make the national law supreme over state laws in cases of this kind. We cannot afford to have one section of the country plunge the entire Nation into a dispute simply be cause the people of that section do not like the Japanese. However, we settle all our big problems correctly eventually and the unerring Judgment of the American people rights all wrongs and solves all difficult matters. It will be so in this case." Other speakers were Dr. Henry Allen Tupper, Dr. Jordan and Mr. Crane. The latter made no reference to what the former ambassador had said. Dr. Tupper, who represented the forum as "peace commissioner" in Mex ico, declared that conditions in that country were "becoming increasingly disastrous to Mexico and increasingly perilous to the United States." He urged the appointment of a peace com mission frcm both countries, "which could confer as to the wisest methods to be adopted for the restoration of peace and the establishment of a stable government in Mexico." OREGON PIONEER PASSES Mrs. Marguerite Hoi man, Aged 84, Dies at McMinnvlIle Home. M'MINNVILLE, Or., June 27. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Marguerite B. Holman, pioneer of 1847, having arrived in Oregon across the plains in ox-team conveyance with her father. Rev. Glenn Burnnett, died here today, aged 84. The Burnnett family settled in Polk County and in 1857 Marguerite became the wife of Daniel S. Holman. The latter died here in 1910. Several children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Holman, those surviving be ing William D. Holman, of this city; W. T. Holman, Oakland, CaL; D. O. Holman, .Dallas, Or.; Mrs. L. M". Wat kins, Mountain Home. Ida.: Mrs. N. E. Turner, McMinnvlIle; C. W. Holman, San Francisco; J. E. Holman, Compton, CaL; R, D. Holman, Oregon City, and Walter B. Holman, of McMinnvlIle. Two brothers also survive, viz.: Judge Albert Burnnett. of the Superior Court, Sacramento, and Peter H. Burnnett, of this place. The funeral will be held Sunday. FAMOUS SETTER NOW DEAD "Xlm" Will Stir Up No More China Pheasants for Hunters. SALEM, Or., June 27. (Special.) 'Nim," a Llewllyn setter belonging to J. E. Brophy, of West Stavton. and probably the most famous dog in the state for hunting China pheasants, is dead. He died of old age at his mas ter's -home last night, and was given a burial today befitting a human being. The grave is in the side yard at the Brophy home and the mound is cov ered with flowers contributed by per sons who were fond of the dog. "Nim" for several years was sought by persons in all parts of Oregon when preparing to hunt pheasants. He was more successful in flushing the birds than most other setters and- was one of the few dogs in the state who did not allow the pheasants io excite him. OLD SETTLERS GREETED Basket Dinner Furnished by Elma Folk Is Enjoyed. ABERDEEN. Wash., June 27. (Spe cial.) More than S00 old settlers gath ered In the park today to listen to the programme of the annual picnic, the principal feature of which was the ad dress of Lieutenant-Governor Hart. The basket dinner with strawberries and cream furnished by Elma people was served in Oddfellows' Hall. More than 50 new members, settlers who had come to the county prior to 1885, were enrolled as members. Mr. Hart's ad dress was appropriate and Interesting. Moran Knocks Out Logan. NEW ORLEANS. ' Jurte 27. Frank Moran. of Pittsburg, knocked out Tim Logan, of Chicago, in the fourth round of a scheduled 10-round fight here to night. Moran floored Logan shortly after the opening of the fourth round with a hard right to the Jaw, and a little later put the Chicago man down for the count with another stiff right to tne same place. Both men were registered, close .to 200 pounds. Cochran Explains Away Charges. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 27. W. H. Cochran, rec ommended by National Committeeman Pattison for postmaster at Spokane, will probably be appointed, it being un derstood he has satisfactorily explained away all charges preferred against him. V $rS$ W t Us A Japanese operetta, "Princess Chrysanthemum." wn o-Ivon at miiMi.- side Congregational Church last night unuer direction or William L.owell Pat ton by the rirls" Eutcrnlan Cluh as sisted by several young men and young women irom otner churches. Following is the cast of rharirtm Princess Chrysanthemum, Marguerite Morre; Princess' attendants, To-To (Anna Earsley). Yum Yum (Grace Goodall). So-Sa fEthel Khlolri.l Tn (Myrtle Huff) ; Fairy Moonbeam,' Grace a. nose; tmperor "What-For-Whi Clarence H. Soraerue: Prirnp Sn.Tni Edwin Thomas; Prince So-Sli. Harvey Hudson: Ton Not. Edith Ponso- ,....- Eyes, Theodore Harmon; sprite's" of the 'sni, ranees marker, Mildred Thomp son, aiary j-arrell. Marlon Krever. Or lena Wollett; fairies Esther Welling ton, Mildred Root, Blanche Wollett, n.veiyn jriuss. Marie Chapman. Marga rete Hyatt; attendants, Henry Hewitt Earl Knight. The proceeds of the entertainment will go towards the young people's subscription to the general expenses of the church. Miss Phila McDuffy rendered a vocal selection and an orchestra assisted the chorus of some 30 voices. Miss Florence uie is xne accompanist. PERRY RELIC KEPT "Don't Give Up Flag" Is To ledo Museum's Motto. DANIELS ORDERS ACTION Local Officials Refuse to Surren der Keepsake Lent by National Government When Naval - Officer . Calls for . It. T0J'E0' - June 27. Officials of the Toledo Museum of Art refused to day to deliver to Ensign Lowry, sent from Annapolis by Secretary of the Navy Daniels, the Commodore Perry flag bearing the inscription "don't give up the ship." Several weeks ago the Secretary of the Naw l.iiori nn . . j i . i . . - " wci- iciming tne flag to the r'lii- r.t tij , months, to be the central figure in an art and historic display in connection with the Perry victory centennial cele bration. Ensign Lowry bore an order countermanding the loan of the flag to Toledo and lnlr,,ni.. v. i 0 ceed with it to Erie, Pa., and place it nagsnip raised from .-'" "' .misery Bay and which is to be conveyed this Summer to Lake cities which will celebrate the Perry victory. WASHINGTON- i-n t o Daniels has instructed Ensign Lowry to call on United States Attorney Denman at Toledo to use legal measures at once to recover the Perry flag from the art ....uiuuuii wuicn oecnnes to give it up, that it may be placed on Perry's restored flagship. Ensign Lowry was instructed today to promise the Toledo authorities the Navy Department would return the flag to the Toledo Miisonm . after the celebration if the museum "vu tsive up without further trouble. ALASKA TOURISTS IN SITKA San Franciscan, Who Is Represent ing President, Will Make Report. SITKA Alaska, June 27. The 112 ' j f- -uuuucit3u on an 8000-mile trip through Alaska by me oeauio unamoer of Commerce, ar rive! h P1A tnria.r on .. 1 . . j " mxsxTl DIIVWO IQS Government experiment station by Professor Georgeson. beth Mann of San Francisco, who is representing President Wilson on the trip, is taking an active interest in everything and is acquiring an intimate knowledge of the country's resources and possibilities, which will form the basis of his report to Washington. STEAM ER POTTER First Trip Postponed. The first regular trip of the O.-W. ti. &. jn. steamer T. J. Potter to North Beach this season, which was or I fin ally announced as Saturday. June 28, 1:00 P. M.. has been postponed for one week; account unexpected changes and repairs. ueiimte dates will be an nounced later. Adv. On a test, caper tnaulatlnn nn nncH electric wires has withstood service for 23 dears. Vessel Carrying 3 0-0 Tons of Fuel Oil Is Charred Wreck In Xew York Bay Workman Carries Candle Into Danger Zone. NEW YORK, June 27. Two hundred tons of fuel oil on board the steel tank steamer Mohawk, owned by the Stand ard oil Company, exploded this, after noon with a terrific roar and a burst of flame while the vessel was at anchor off Tompklnsville, Staten Island, in new lorK Kay. live persons were killed and six others Injured. A dozen or more are unaccounted for, but are believed to have been rescued. Two bodies were seen floating in the hold whilo fireboats still wero pouring streams of water into the wrecked steamer late tonight. The other three victims were probably blown to pieces. xne dead wero machinists and sailors. Helper Careless With Candle. Carelessness of a machinist's helper was reported to have been the cause of the explosion. Fifty men. including the crew and 20 machinists who were mak ing repairs preparatory to the Mo hawk's departure for Tuxpam, Mexico, were on board. A helper was declared to have carried a lighted candle into the hold below the flreroom, while searching for a washer lie had dropped The candle is believed to have caused combustion of gases generated In the hold. The explosion was heard for many miles. A flash of flame 200 feet high shot Into the air. followed by a vol cano of debris, and the Mohawk began immediately to settle aft, while fire- boats, wrecking tugs and other harbor craft hurried to tlie scene from all directions. Score Reieael From Water. A score of men who were blown overboard were rescued unhurt from the water. Others clung to stanchions and rails or huddled In the bow, whence they were dragged to safety on boats. Shortly after 9 o'clock the fire was under control, and the crew returned on board and began pumping the vessel out. The stem was completely under water, but it is believed the steamer can be gotten Into drydock for repairs, IS TAMPERING WITH JUDICIARY ' LAMENTED BY FAIRBANKS. Ex-Vice-President Says Attempt Is Being Made to Turn Courts Into Mere Political Footballs. BOISE, Idaho, June 27. (Special.) Sounding a warning to the people of America not to tamper with the Ju diciary ex-Vice-President Charles W Fairbanks delivered a stirring address today to between 200 and S00 business men of this city at a Commercial Club luncheon, and tonight he spoke at the Chautauqua. He was a special guest or honor, occupying Governor Haines box at the ball park during the Boise- Walla Walla game. He greatly enjoyed the sport. "I regret," declared Mr. Fairbanks in the course of his address, "to see the outbursts against the courts of our country and deplore the attempt that is being made to make political foot balls out of them. Courts and judges have been wrong in a number of in stances, but their mistakes are not so great as to Justify all the condemna tion that la being heaped upon them. "Our courts are the bulwark of our country. They are great fabrics of our Government. The Judiciary is composed of honest men upholding and admin istering the law." Forgive and forget was the advice of the ex-Vice-President to Republicans when he touched on politics. He de clared that the past should be forgotten and that all Republicans should come together again with a united front four years hence and win a National vic tory. TRADE SCHOOLING STUDIED 'Senate Passes Bill for Experts to Report on Federal Aid. WASHINGTON. June 27. A step to ward solving the question of Govern mental aid to the founding- of voca tional educational schools was taken by the Senate today through the pas sage of Senator Hoke Smith's bill providing- for a commission of nine ex perts to study the question and report to the next session of Congress. The bill is expected to halt action temporarily on the various vocational school bills now before Congress, and which have been the subject of much discussion. The commission that would be authorized would not take up the consideration of agricultural extension work, which is covered in separate bills before Congress. The commission would be appointed by the President to serve without pay. CHINESE YOUTH DROWNS Son of President Yuan's Secretary Sleets Death in Xew Jersey Lake. LAKE HOPATCONG, N. J., June 27. (Special.) King Ng Liang, 14-year-old son of Liang Shi Yl. of Canton, sec retary to President Yuan Shi Kai, of China, was drowned yesterday while learning' to swim in Lake Hopatcong. He could swim a little but got beyond his depth and sank before his teacher could help him. Liang and his brother and sister had been in America only a month. They are in charge of Charles M. Muchnic, foreign manager of the American Lo comotive Company, and were intrusted to him by their father. s SPEER'S VIEWS INDORSED Iowa Lawyers Agree In Opposing Es pionage of Judges. SIOUX . CITY. Ia., June 27. Concur rence with the declaration of Emory Speer, of Macon, Ga., Federal Judge of the Southern Georgia District, that the espionage of Judges and their courts by the Department of Justice as un American and ' should be abolished, made in his address to the convention yesterday, -was expressed by resolu tions at the meeting of the Iowa State Bar Association today. The convention elected officers as AT Closing Out Wholesale Department 4 Baby Grands $470 Each Baby Grands $490 Each 5 Residue of wholesale stock of Chickerings, Haddorf f s, Kimballs, Smith & Barnes, Story & Clark, Autopianos, Sohmers and a great many used instruments, including every TT-uwyvu ulnae, av a. ehm , On Saturday nierht. Julv 5th. books for semi-annual inventory. There is mucn worK in tne sales department to be done before that time. The extraordinary low prices at which the entire Stock of wholesale de-nart.ment. pianos (our regular catalogue styles of all the Nation's great makes) have been of- ierea neretoiore, are still more greatly reduced. We must close out our -arhnle. sale department entirely. Decide to Have a New Player Piano or a Piano Now If bo, you needn't pay. anything down and we will take $1.00 per week on pianos and $2 per week on player pianos. We have got to get rid of them all before inventory. 1 Get a new piano for $93, a more elaborate one for $160, a new player piano for $285. GREATEST PLAYER PIANO OFFER A genuine $700 value at $457.50 must prove bet ter than any $700 player to be had East or West, or money refunded. Free Stool or Bench, free tuning, free delivery, free Music Rolls, free instructions; no extras; $2 per week will do it. Immediate delivery. Save $242.50. Your old piano taken in part payment at full value. Eilers Music House, the Nation's Largest Broadway at Alder, in the Heart of Portland STORE OPEN EVENINGS TILL SALE CLOSES follows: John C. Lacey. Oskaloosa. president; F. F Dawley, Cedar Rapids, vice-president; H. C. Horack. Iowa. City, secretary.: Frank Nash, Oskaloosa, treasurer; A. J. Small, Des Moines, li brarian. CUSTOM COLLECTORS QUIT Resignations Pour in at "Washington as Result or Reorganization. WASHINGTOX, June 27. Resigna tions of collectors of customs whose orflces will be abolished by the cus toms reorganization July 1, poured in today to the White House and treasury. The reduction of the number of cus toms districts from 162 to 49 eliminates 113 collectors. The resignations were NIGHT T CENTRAL OR Through train, leaving Portland 7:00 P. M, arrives Madras '6:00 A. M.. Metohus b:15 A. M., Culver 6.28 A. M., Terrebonne 7:0S A. M., Redmond 7-23 A. M., Deschutes 7:43 A. M., Bend 8:00 A. M. Returning, leaves Central Oregon points during mid-evening, arriving Portland 8 :10 A. M., with breakfast in dining car. -. TOURIST SLEEPING CARS AND FIRST-CLASS COACHES bleeping car accommodations, tickets, schedules and details at offices. CITY TICKET OFFICE, Fifth and Stark Streets NORTH BANK STATION, Tenth and Hoyt Streets Balance Rose 52 Selections luiiucr iBQucuon oi vc, an onerea at casn prices on littlest imaginable terms of payment. we close mir formally requested by Secretary Ic Adoo. Three collectors declined to resign, holding: that they had been appointed for four years. Treasury officials de clared they were not worried over the situation, as the new law automatically turns the collectors out of office. FULL CREW LAW UPHELD Pennsylvania Railroad loses Suit to Prevent Enforcement. PHILADELPHIA, June 27. The Su preme Court of Pennsylvania affirmed today a lower court decision upholding the constitutionality of the "full-crew" law. The Pennsylvania Railway, which sought to restrain the State Railroad Commission from enforcing the law. -TO- Leave Portland 7:00 P. M. Daily Dinner in Dining1 Car Breakfast at Central Oregon Points A BUSINESS DAY SAVED via OREGON TRUNK RY. CENTRAL OREGON LINE Stock Continues Festival Talking Machines With Each for Only $31.45 All Old-Style Pi anos Now $35 Each Good practice pianos for which hereto fore we asked all cash in order not to put a contract for so small amount on the books. These may now be had for $4 down and $2 a month. Eilers Music House The Nation's Largest. The Nation's proudest makes are all reduced to unheard-of low prices. Ask about our great and novel thirty-day free trial offer. If you cannot come, telephone, but do it quickly. You'll never regret it, for a chance to save money, such as you have now, has never heretofore been presented. Three automobiles at your service telephone and we will gladly have our driver call for you. No trouble to us no obligation to you. Better take a look. Telephone Main 6655 and A 2350. Eilers Music House. Send for Complete List of Used Pianos, Priced $35, $65. $115 contended it would increase the road's expenses nearly $500,000 annually with out providing additional safeguards for the traveling public. The law is sim ilar to those of Arkansas and Indiana, which have been passed on by the United States Supreme Court. It requires an extra brakeinan on all passenger trains of more, than three cars and all freight trains with more than SO cars. Alaska 1-Mres Vnder Control. WASHINGTON, June 27. Fires, which have destroyed several million feet of standing timber and thousands of cut logs in Chugach National forest and elsewhere in Alaska, are believed to be under control, according to re ports today to the forest service. For est officers were on the ground a short time after the fires started. RAINS GON