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THE MORXIXO OREGOXLiN, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1913. WORRIED, NERVOUS, DIAZ GUARDS TALK HTJERTA'3 SPECIAL AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN, WHOSE MOVEMENTS ARE WATCHED WITH INTEREST IN AMERICA. ale S8.85 !' i y e s y o ti . choice of Tailored Suits in mixtures and That Will Interest Many .Women " Is Announced for This Week. solid colors, that were formerly priced at $25. - - Restlessness of General Ap parently Not Duetto Strain of Travel. Alder . and Broadway S9i75 In this group are Coats and Tailored Suits in fancy mixtures and See the -Windows EX-AMBASSADOR IS LAUDED white serges. The Coats worth up to $25. The Suits up to $30. f: JJ . ' ! Aa I i . , r A - i h"l''t- I - V V is f r i ',1f t i . f fr' I t ' '" Mexico's Attitude Toward Una Will Be Governed by Nature ot Mis-, sion Traveler Reticent on Situation in Republic SEATTLE, "Wash., Augr. 10. (Special.) "Mexico's attitude toward John Lind will depend entirely on thn nature of the message he brings. Until this Is made public, which I believe will be tomorrow, I can make no comment," said General Felix Diaz today. ; "Henry Lane Wilson was a valuable man in my opinion. I hesitate to say anything about his resignation until I ltam more of the details. When I left the City of Mexico, July 19, Ambassador Wilson occupied his official position and, except through, press reports, . I have heard, nothing about the condi tions that prompted or enforced his retirement." " It was a nervous, restless man who sat through the half-hour interview and the apparent Impatience and rest lessness was not seemingly due to fa tigue attendant on travel. General Dlas had the demeanor of a man worried by a situation bordering on the critical. He was characteristically polite but ex tremely guarded in his utterances. "What is your idea of the situation' in Mexico at present regarding possi ble intervention by the United States or recognition of the present Adminis tration?" was asfted. , There was a two-minute discussion between General X)laz and Secretary Romero and then theinterpreter an swered: "I have been absent too loner and any not familiar enough with conditions to day to make a statement." The word "war." used in connection with a suggestion that the United States and Meico might indulge in hostilities provoked an abrupt shake of the head and a hollow laugh from General Qiaz. Then through Secretary Romero he said: "We should not discuss such things when we are so slightly Informed as to exact conditions." General Diaz also said he had no offi cial notice of a recall at the hands of President Iluerta and did not expect surh,a tiling. The General was taken on a sight seeing tour of tho city today, i Japanese still insist that the meeting of Consul Takahashi and General Diaz was purely friendly and of no further significance. General Diaz and party leave to morrow for Vancouver and will sail "Wednesday for Japan. -AMERICANS BEING REMOVED Refugees from Empalme Cared For on Board War Vessels. WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.--Safe re. - moval of American citizens desiring to leave the danger zone in the vicinity of Empalme, Mexico, was reported to the Navy Department today by Rear Ad miral Cowles. commanding the Amer ican Pacific fleet, from Guaymas, Mex ico. The refugees are being taken care of on the cruiser Pittsburg and the sup ply ship Glacier, and will be sent to the United States, according to Admiral Cowles' wireless despatch. "The local authorities.' reported the Admiral, "have delivered over L. H. Morrison to the commander of the Pittsburg, for transportation to the United States, and William Zierlck. now being taken care of on the Glacier, will go north on that ship." The Americans reported removed to the warships are the prominent citi zens for whom anxiety has been felt for some time. CANNON TRAINED ON AVIATOR Didier Masson Cause of Unexpected Bombardment of Empalme." NOG ALES, Arix.. Aug. 10. An unex pected bombardment of Empalme was occasioned early today by an accident to Didier Masson's aeroplane. The en gine suddenly stopped while he was living over Guaymas harbor. Masson volplaned to the shore, landing in the Mexican section of the American rail road settlement. The French aviator was caught on land within reach of the federal can non for the first lime since he began dropping bombs around the gunboats Guerrero and Tampico. For an hour and a half schrapnel was scattered over Empalme. the gunboats being Joined by the federal shore batteries. The general offices of the Southern Pacific of Mexico, other railroad prop erty and many private- buildings were damaged. All non-combatants fled to the hills. Masson was believed to have escaped and no foreigners are reported injured in official advices received from Em palme tonight. MINISTER'S SON IN JAIL Youth Is Accused a Leader of Auto Bandits vSix Arrested.- LOS ANGELES. Aug. 10. (Special.) Six boys led by "The Bear," a. minis ter's son. are in the County Jail, a dozen more will be arrested tomorrow and then the mystery wtll.be lifted from a long series of highway automo bile holdups, thefts of automobiles and the stripping of machines for the sula of accessories through a systematic or ganization of automobile fences Three holdups charged to motot ban dits are admitted by part of the g.ng and Deputy Sheriffs are working on half a dozen more that have eclpod to spread terror along the county roads in the last six months. -The gang was dominated tby "The Bear," Harry Nt-lander, alias Harry Smith, li jiri old, the son of Rev. Edward Nelander, pastor of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church. Those arrested with him were George Teller, alias Ray Fuller, aged IS, and George Temple, alias George Cramer, aged 19. The other trio whose opera tions are interlaced with those of "The Bear" gang and who were also ar rested are Charles Weaver. Chris Nel son and Percy Ingling, aged from 15 to IS. Oovrrnor May Appoint -Senator. BIRMINGHAM, Ala '-Aug. 10. Gov ernor O'Neal tonight, as a result of a conference with political advisers, tttated he. has about reached the con clusion that he has authority- to ap roint at once a successor to the late Senator Joseph F. Johnston. - " Photo Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. F-EI.IX DIAZ (WEARING WHITE VEST) AND MEMBER OF HIS ENTOURAGE SNAPPED AS THET LANDED AT . . t . ' SAN . .DIEGO. - THREE DIE IN CRASH Train Demolishes Two Speed "V ing Automobiles.. 8 HURT; 3 MAY NOT LIVE Dead and Injured Residents of CaUTornia Survivors Attribute Accident to Defective Light On Pile of Dirt By Road. OAKLAND, Cal., Aug. 10. Three per sons are dead and eight are injured three of whom probably will die-as the result of a collision this afternoon of the Southern Pacific's - Stockton flyer and two automobiles at San Lo renzo. The dead: Mrs. John Bellini. San Francisco. Mrs. Margaret Odenwelder, Oakland. Robert McTeer, 15 years old, Sacra mento. - The injured: Mrs. Elbert Bellini. Sacramento, skull : fractured; Elbert Bellini. . internal injuries: Elbert Bel lini, Jr., leg broken; Dora Bellini, in ternal injuries; John Bellini, San Francisco, head injured; Mrs. Edith Elliott, daughter of Mrs. Odenwelder, cut; and bruised; John D. McTeer, Oak lani, fractured skull and three ribs broken; Mrs. John T. McTeer, lacerated and bruised. At the point of the accident the highway nearly parallels the railroad track. The machines were running at a good speed, but those who escaped grave injury said they were not run ning fast and attributed the accident to a defective lantern on a pile of dirt near the roadside. The accident occurred .at dusk. The tw. cars were en route from San Jose to Oakland. . In the foremost car were Mr. and Mrs. John D. McTeer. in the front; Mrs. Margaret Oldenwelder, their daughter: Mrs. Edith Elliott, wife of the chief engineer of the United States ship Buffalo, and Albert Mc Teer, .the young son of 'the driver of the machine. In the second car were Mr. and Mrs. John Bellini and Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Bellini, with their children, Everett and Donna. McTeer, nearlng the railroad . station af San Lorenzo, slowed down. The other car shot ahead and McTeer. with a spurt, followed it. As the Bellinis' machine mounted the tracks the train struck it squarely. Its occupants were thrown into the air. except two women. who were caught on the pilot and car-ried-there until the train stopped,. The automobile was -demolished. The. sec ond car was not so squarely hit, but was utterly demolished. McTeer said he was somewhat mis led by a light which he thought must nave Deen set Dy tne roaasiae. He could not tell just how it all happened. McTeer is an Oakland contractor. John Bellini is the owner of a cleaning and dyeing works in San Francisco. Elbert Bellini ' is the Sacramento rep resentative of the California Wine As sociation. WEEK TO BE COOL ON COAST Lower Mississippi Valley to Begin With Hotter W eather. WASHINGTON. Aug. 10. Tempera tures below normal are prophesied for this week only for the Northwestern states and the Pacific slope. "The .distribution of atmospheric pressure over the American continent and the adjacent oceans," says the weather bureau weekly bulletin to night, "is such' as to indicate tempera tures below the normal for the week in the Northwestern states and on tb Pacific slope' and high temperatures the first half of the week in the lower Mississippi valley, followed by lower temperatures Thursday or Friday. Rain will fall in . the region of drought the last half of the week." - SULZER BREAKS SILENCE (Continued From First Page.) paign purposes were deposited to my personal account and thereafter had to jrepay the amount of said checks to my campaign committee. Impeachment May Be Initiated. "In filing my statement of receipts and disbursements with - the Secretary I relied on statements furnished me by those in charge of my campaign and in whom I have the most implicit confi dence and I believe the statement fur nished by them to - me to be accurate and true." The genrj impression is that with a majority of more than two-thirds in the Assembly there will be enough Democratic votes in that body to initi ate the impeachment proceedings with out the aid of the Republicans or Pro- gressives. Seventy-six of the 102 Demo, cratic Assemblymen would be sufficient to reach that end. The Republican- strength in the House, however, is' a little more than one-third of the total present' repre sentation. Besides that, several of the Democratic Senators are believed to be partisans of the Governor. If the line up .in that body should be reasonably close -to party divisions the impeach ment would fall through unless more than two-thirds of'-. the .members .are sitting in judgment" as .a, two-thirds majority of the House and Senate would be essential to the Governor's removal COMMITTEE DIVIDED OX ACTION All Members Convinced of Guilt of New York Executive. NEW YORK, Aug. 10. (Special.) There is a bare chance that Governor Sulzer may not be impeached and th his indictment on a chirge of per jury, or violation of the corrupt prac tices act will be sought instead. The Frawley committee is divided on the question -of impeachment or indictment, a member of the committee said today, and will meet tomorrow to consider which course to follow. It is expected to make .the report tomorrow when the State Legislature reconvenes in Albany. All of the committeemen are ' con vinced of the Governor's guilt, they assert. Nearly all members had reached Albany tonight and the course to fol low, whether impeachment or indict ment, will be decided tomorrow at a conference there. If impeachment is decided on another conference will follow - on the heels of the first. At the second confer ence the Democratic leaders of the Legislature will be present. The sec ond conference will settle the time with which the Assembly will be asked to impeach- the Governor. CITY HOME RULE LIMITS NEW NEBRASKA LAW EXTENDS CIVIL SERVICE WIDELY. Omaha Faces Big Fight on Chartet That Would Reduce Saloons to One for 1000 Citizens,.' OMAHA, Aug. 10. (Special.) Every town in Nebraska with a population of 6000 or over Is wild over: a new "home rule" charter which the recent session of the State Legislature gave cities and towns the power- to make. In Omaha a big fight is being made azafnnf th charter a a rnnrt. Ku- ti Commission, and it is probable that a -new commission will have to be elect ed and a new charter made and submit ted for approval. The first provision in the new char ter places all city " positions ' except Commissioners under the civil service system and robs the "victor" of all his spoils. The Commissioners are removed from the State law of recall and are nol subject to that provision. Saloons are restricted in Omaha to 240 In number until the year 1920, after which there shall at no time be more than one saloon to each 1000 citizens. No saloons are ever to be licensed in c residential district and none in the principal retail district f the city. A maximum term of 10 years is pro vided as the life of any public service franchise. RECALL FIGHT IS BEGUN Orchardists Demand Jods of County Officers Appointment Not Liked. HOOD RIVER. Or., Aug. 10. (Spe cial.); At a meeting of the citizens of the West Side, at the Barrett school building last, night, when a large dele gation or n,ast side orchardists were present, it was decided to circulate petition, for the recall of Hood River County's; : Board . of Commissioners George R. Castner. "Judge; George A. McCurdy and John R. Putnam, Commis sioners. At the suggestion of A. L. Mason, it was decided also to put into the field a second petition asking the court to discharge J. Ji.. Marshall, road master. Friction between the Board and the orchardists was caused by the appoint ment of Ir. Marshall as general super, visor of construction Df roads in th county and the payment of So per day for his work and $2.50 for automobile hire whenever Mr; Marshall made use of his own car. , If the Board of Commissioners ac cepts tlie petition calling for Mr. Mar shall s discharge, it is believed the re call petition will not be filed. 'Jones of Binghamton" Dying. BINGH AMTOX, Aug.. 10. General Edward F. Jones ("Jones of Bingham ton"). one of the few surviving leaders of the Civil War, is dying at his home In this city. He suffered a stroke of apoplexy yesterday, lapsing into a coma, from which the physicians say he cannot emerge. TEST GOMES TODAY Wilson's Currency Bill to Be Laid Before Caucus. FIGHT OVER TARIFF LIKELY Senator La Follette Expected to Offer Substitute Rates Discus sion of Mexican Question' Improbable During Week. WASHINGTON, . Aug. 10. President Wilson's currency plans will meet their first real test tomorrow when the Ad ministration currency bill will be laid before the Democratic House caucus. The President has been assured by his advisers in Congress that the meas ure can be passed in the House with out material change, and he has not altered his purpose to insist upon cur rency legislation 'at the present special session. .- , While the banking bill is thus thrust to the front a.t the beginning of the week it will not displace the tariff activities of the Congressional week. The Senate has reported some of the most important sections of the tariff revision bill, and within the coming week that body is likely to find itself in the midst of fights, over the suerar tariff, agricultural products and possi bly the woolen schedules. Progressive Have Plan. These portions of the bill will brine out the first important activities of Senator La Follette and are counted upon also to show the first definite alignjment among the Progressive Ke- puDucan torces In support of substi tutes for the Democratic tariff rates. The Progressive Republicans have at tempted to reach an understanding over substitute sections, and it is be lieved they will go into the sugar, wool, cotton and other contests with an organized programme to which thev will try to win all Republicans and a lew Democrats. . The House Democratic caucus on the currency bill begins at 2 o'clock tomor row, and it is expected to run through several days. . Representatives Rags dale of South Carolina, Neely of Kan sas and Eagle of Texas, all Democrat ic members of the bankinsr and cur rency committee, will join in ordering Chairman Glass' favorable report on tne Dill.. Discussion of Mexico Unlikely. ' With currency and tariff the only Important subjects actually before the two houses of Congress, Mexican mat ters and the long-continued lobby in vestigations divided interest with them in the activities of members of the two hrfuses. It is expected an effort will be made to keep discussion of the Mexican situation out of the delibera tions of both houses this week so that the President's Mexican policies can be developed without embarrassment. The lobby investigations by the Sen ate and House committees will be re sumed tomorrow, with the prospect of lively sessions on the House side. VIOLENCE THREATS MADE Seattle Disturbers Hint Destruction oritate Property. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 10. (Spe cial. Carrying a veiled threat of de struction of State, property if their petition was opposed, resolutions ask ing Governor Lister to remove -the Board of Regents of the University of Washington because of their order pro hibiting the "Open Forum" from meet ing on the campus, were adopted by the Seats Free Speech Defense League, which was organized tonight at a meeting held in the Labor temple. The park "board also came In for con demnation because it ordered the benches on the. campus" sprinkled with water this afternoon when the mem bers of the forum appeared for their meeting. A. J. Allen was elected president of the league, W. F. Johnson secretary and Mrs. A. S. Walker treasurer. The league will carry .on an aggressive fight for "free speech." Dr. Ben Reitman, manager for Emma Goldman, told the meeting that the only way the league could make itself respected by the "capitalist" class was KIDNAPED I. W. W. RESCUED . . . Portland Man Heads Party That Se cures Release of Officer. DULCTH, Aug; 10. Frank Little, an officer of the Industrial Workers of the World and. leader of the dock workers here, who was reported kicijjaped $11.45 ' See , ' the Windows S14.35 $30 ito $40 was the former, range of price of the Tailored Suits entered in this special group. In plain and fancy mixtures, both the cut away and straight line models. Thursday, was said to have been res cued today by a party of Industrial Workers and Socialists under the lead ership of Eric Erlckson, of Portland, Or. The report is that the searching party, numbering 10 men, left for Holy oke, Mina, late Saturday night. After arriving at .Holyoke, the rescuing party was reinforced by a number of citizens and a constable armed with a warrant which demanded the release of Little. When the party reached the Getty farm and had demanded the surrender of Mr. Little, tho men who were holding him captive are said to have fired a number of shots at the rescuing party. EUtle escaped and joined the Industrial Workers a.id Socialists, with whom he returned to Dultuh this morning. None of the rescuing party was armed. Today passed quietly in the dock strike district. FURTHER CUJMS POSSIBLE Montana Commission Considers Ai other Reduction of Rates. .HELENA,. Mont., Aug. 10. Simul taneously with the going into effect of the new grain freight rates established early in July by the State Railroad Commission for railroads operating within the state, comes the news that a further slash In tariffs on Montana cereals to Pacific Coast and Eastern points is now under consideration by the State Commission. The Commission has ordered a hear ing in- Helena August 19, when the railway companies will be f asked to show ' cause why a further reduction shovld hot be made. At the same time intrastate lumber rates on the Great Northern will be considered. THOUSANDS LOST IN INDIA - River .., Embankments Collapse, Flooding Miles of Country. CALCUTTA, Aug. 10. (Special.) Thousands of lives arebelievedto have been lost when the 'embankments of the Pamado River near Burdwan col lapsed today, flooding the country for many miles. Many villages were swept away and thousands of families are homeless and without food. There is six feet of water in Burd wan and railroad service to Calcutta is stopped. t t V. U. Plans Picnic. KELSO, W.ash., Aug. 10. (Special.) The W. C. T. U. workers of the county are planning to give a big "temperance picnic" at Haussler's Grove next Wednesday. - " Security and Service Are the qualities we offer for your consideration in choosing your bank Security Savings and Trust Company Fifth and Morrison Streets Capital and Surplus, $1,400,000 The Bank of Personal Service Why not do business with Si growing, progressive bank, whose service is efficient and up to date and whose facilities are just what you need to develop your business - Merchants National Bank Under Government Supervision Founded 1886 First National Bank Cap tal $1,500,000 Surplus $1,000,000 . Oldest National Bank West of the Rocky Mountains CORNER FIRST AND WASHINGTON STS. Grouped at this price are Tailored Suits, retrularly priced at $27.50 and $30, in the fancy mixtures, pin stripes and solid colors. FARkELL COMPANY HOMES RUINED BY RAIN CLOX.DBT.-R3T DESTROYS TRAF FIC AT PIKE'S PEAK. Water Three Feet . Deep Runs Through Streets of Colorado City. No Fatalities Are Reported. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 10. ' A cloudburst here early tonight has demol'.3hed railroad and street-car traf fic in the Pike's peak region and. sev eral families are reported to be home less at Colorado City, where the rain fall was heaviest. Water three feet deep ran through the principal streets of the town and hundreds of houses were flooded. The fire department was called upon to rescue a number of persons marooned in their homes in Colorado City and Manitou. Several bridges on the Mid land Railway are reported washed out Fountain Creek is raging. The south ern part of Colorado Springs is inun dated and many have been removed from houses on horseback. At Fountain conditions are said to be alarming, a. number of houses are re ported to be in danger of being washed away. A call has been sent to Colo rado Springs for assistance. Fountain Creek, ordinarily a small stream, is overflowing its banks all vthe way to Pueblo, where warning has been sent to expect unusually high waters. There has been no loss of life reported early tonight. ' . - MINERS TO RESUME WORK Half of Troops Will Be Withdrawn From Calumet District. . HOUGH TO IN", Mich., Aug. 10. General underground operations on a limited scale will start tomorrow morning" "at the Champion, Quincy and Calumet mines. The Western .Federation of Miners announced tonight that two of its men will meet every miner as he leaves his home and try to dissuade him from returning to work. Miners say there may be trouble at the mines. The state military board today de cided to withdraw half of the state troops in the district. Boy Explodes Dynamite Cap. KELSO, Wash;, Aug. 10. (Special.) The 10-year-old son of Jacob Sutinen, a farmer living on the Coweeman River, was badly injured by tne explosion of a dynamite cap, which he had found. Washington and Fourth Streets Alder and Broadway Both .hands were badly burned and in jured, the thumb and forefinger of the left hand beir.g so badly torn they had to be amputated. IDAHO MAN K LLS HIMSELF Coolln Farmer Leaves Spokane Hos pital and Shoots Self. SPOKANE. Wash., Aug. 10. (Spe cial.) Three days after escaping from the Sacred Heart hospital where he was operated on for appendicitis, wor rying because of his slow recovery, the body of John Hager, 30 years, a farmer of Coolin, Idaho, was found yesterday lying face downward in a rock pile Immediately north of tho Sprague avenue fill. Hager had shot himself twice in the left breast According to the coroner he had been dead six hours. Two chambers in a revolver found near, were empty. His father, mother and two sisters, at Coolln, were notified. 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