declaring that "the issue involved Is
ing as a transport, that sh« did not
VILLA SEEKS TRUCE TO CONSIDER
of such moment that to remain a mem
carry a cargo prohibited by the
ber of the Cabinet would be as unfair
statutes of tho United States, and
WARNING OE PRESIDENT WILSON
to you as it would be to the cause
that if, in fact, she was a naval ves
which is uearust my heart, namely, the
sel of Great Britain she should not
El Paso, Tex.—General Francisco
prevention of war.”
receive clearance as a merchantman,
Villa has decided to ask General Ven-
The President accepted tho resigna
and it performed that duty and en
tion in a letter of regret, tinged with
ustianu Carranza to agree to a neutral
forced its statutes with scrupulous
deep personal feeling of affection.
vigilance through its regularly con
territory for a conference to consider
Dramatically tho official relation of
stituted officials. It is able, there Brief Resume of General News the suggestions contained in (’resident
Mr. Bryan with the administration of
President
Wilson
and
Secretary
fore, to assure the imperial German
Wilson's note, according to a telegram
the man whoao nomination he assisted
government that it has been misin
so materially in bringing about at tho
received here from Colonel Enrique
from
All
Around
the
Earth.
formed.
Disagree
Over
Germany.
Baltimore convention of 1912 came to
I’erez
Kill,
private
secretary
to
Villa.
“If
the
imperial
German
govern
Legality of Sinking of Steamer ment should deem itself to be in pos
an end. It caused a sensation in l lie
The
telegram
was
date«!
Aguas
Cal-
National capital scarcely paralleled in
of convincing evidence that the
recent
years.
Lusitania flatly Denied session
officials of the Government of the UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL lentea.
COMMONER'S
PEACE
VIEW
DISCORDANT
"General
Villa
ordered
his
secre
Ambassadors,
ministers and diplo
United States did not perform these
mat!!
from
foreign
lands, officials of
taries
to
come
from
Chihuahua
to
by United States.
duties with thoroughness, the Gov
every
rank
anil
nation
heard the news
Aguas
Calientes
to
draft
the
note
to
ernment of the United States sin Live News Items of All Nations and
as
it
was
Mashed
by
newspajier
Carranza,” says Colonel Rul, "and Other Members Are Claimed to Have They interpreted variously its extras.
cerely hopes that it will submit that
effect
also the reply he will send to I‘resident Threatened Retirement Unless on the delicate situation that hail risen
evidence for consideration.
Pacific Northwest Condensed
ORIGINAL DEMANDS RENEWED Contentions Held Irrelevant.
Wilson. Villa's ministers have
between Germany and the United
reached Aguas Calientes,”
for Our Busy Readers.
States. The resigantion of the
“Whatever may be the contentions
Foreign
Policy
Was
Firm.
The Rul statement relates that Villa
staunchest advocate of |>eare in the
of the imperial German government
decided
to
invite
Carranza
to
agree
to
President’s official family spread
"to prevent further sacrifice in
Precautions Insisted Upon and Right regarding the carriage of contraband
broadcast the belief that the policy of
of war on board the Lusitania, or re A German submarine Friday sank a the truce
republic which might produce in Washington, |1). C. William Jen the United States as definitely deter
of Americans to Travel Seas
garding the explosion of that material two British torpedo boats, one steamer tervention,” that when Villa, in keep nings
on would assert and defend the
Bryan, three times Democratic mined
by torpedo, it need only be said that, and six trawlers.
ing with this suggestion, ordered his candidate
rights
of the United States in any
Lawfully, Declared, Notwith
for the presidency of the eventuality
in the view of this Government, the The schooner New Jersey is reported troops to retire General Obregon start United States
that might arise.
ami
author
of
nearly
30
standing Warnings.
contentions are irrelevant to the ques lost in the Arctic regions and four of ed in pursuit, "bringing on a battle in
Originally,
it was the intention of
tion of the legality of the methods her crew have perished.
peace treaties with the principal na tho President ami Mr. Bryan to have
the station of Leon.
used by the German naval authori-
obliged our forces which came tions of the world, resigned Tuesday the announcement of the resignation
The plant of the Butte Socialist, a "This Silao.
commanded by General as secretary of state as a dramatic se made simultaneously with the dispatch
WAsiflKfiTON
June
10_The
text
*»es
that of vessel.
WASHINGTON, June 10. l ne text -g ut sinking
¿,e sinking
passenger ships weekly paper of Butte, Montana, was from
Villa,
to
attack
the enemy vigorously,
the note to Germany, but when Mr.
to his disagreement with Pruel- of Bryan
of the American rejoinder to the Ger- involvM principles of humanity which blown up by dynamite.
dispersing them after indicting heavy quel
did nut attend the Cabinet meet
dent Wilson over the government’s ing unitl
man government’s reply to the note throw into the background any special Italian troops are reported as having losses. ”
President Wilson sent for
following the sinking of the Lusitania circumstances of detail that may be occupied Monfalcone, and being within The Villa forces have retired to policy toward Germany.
him, rumors that the President hail
follows:
i thought to affect the cases—principles
Lagos, state of Guanajuato, 38 miles The resignation was accepted by the been unable to bring the Secretary of
of Trieste, Austria.
north
of Leon, according to Rul’s President. The Cabinet then approved State to his point of view tilled the air.
“The Secretary of State ad interim which lift it, as the imperial govern- sight
American friends of Germany be statement,
the loss of many the resjionse which had been prepart'd Finally, the news became known and
to the American Ambassador to Ber- ment wil> no do“b‘ be quick/« recog- lieve
the critical stage in the Lusi men or any "without
war materials. ” It also to the German reply to the Lusitania was confirmend.
lin: Department of State, Washing- /» « *nd acknowledge, out of the class tania controversy
is
passed.
says that Villa retains quantities of note. Acting Secretary Robert lou Just when tho subject was first
ton, June 9. 1915.—American Ambas-1 of ordinary
subjects of diplomatic
dis
or international
controversy.
military equipment captured in the
A
German
admiral
says
the
Mediter
signet! the document and it was broached between the President ami
sad or, Berlin: You are instructed to cussion
be the facts regarding the ranean sea will be the next field for battle of Silao last week and has or sing
Mr. Bryan is not definitely known but
cabled
to Berlin.
deliver textually the following note Whatever
Lusitania, the principal fact is that a German submarine^operations.
dered some brigades south to recapture Secretary Bryan will return to pri the fact that Mr. Bryan would resign
to the Minister of Foreign Affairs: great
steamer, primarily and chiefly Official statements declare that there Leon and continue the campaign.
life. It was learned that he in was known to a small circle of officials
“In compliance with Your Excel conveyance
for passengers and car are yet 9000 Germans and 4000 Aus Rul declares that in the fighting at vate
tends
continue his political sup|>ort as early as last Sunday. When the
lency’s request, I did not fail to trans a rying
than 1000 souls who had trians of military age at large in Lon Silao the Villa forces captured a train of the to President.
principles un which the note to Ger
mit to my Government, immediately no part more
lot in the conduct of the don.
containing powder and apparatus for Rather than sign the document j many should be based were discussed
upon their receipt, your note of May war, was or torpedoed
and sunk without
manufacturing ammunition; that this whirh he believed might |>oeaibly draw ' Mr. Bryan found that he could not rec
28 in reply to my note of May 15, and so much as a challenge
Germany in the Frye case declares train was burned to prevent its recap the United States into war, Mr. Bryan oncile his own position with that of the
your supplementary note of June 1, and that men, women or and a warning,
the right to sink any ship carrying ture by Obregon.
submitted his resignation in a letter , administration.
setting forth the conclusions, so far were sent to their death in children
contraband, but is willing to pay dam
as reached by the imperial German stances unparalleled in modern circum
war ages.
government, concerning the attacks
German residents in America believe Canadian Aviator Blows Up Huge
on the American steamers Cushing fare. Duty Owed to Humanity.
the retirement of Bryan from the cab Zeppelin, Killing Entire Crew of 28
and Gulflight.
“The
fact
that
more
than
100
Amer
inet will make negotiations with their
Principle of Freedom Recognized. ican citizens were among those who country
easier.
Ixindon— For the first time on record
“I am now instructed by my Gov perished made it the duty of the Gov Multnomah
Typographical union, of a Zeppelin in the air has been destroy
ernment to communicate the follow ernment of the United States to speak Portland, has started
to ed by an aviator in an aeroplane.
ing in reply:
of these things, and once more, with have all text books a for movement
the public Reginald J. Warneford, a young Cana
“The Government of the United solemn emphasis, to call the atten schools
dian sub-lieutenant in the royal navy,
printed within the state.
States notes with gratification the tion of the imperial German govern
who mastered aeroplaning only this
full recognition by the imperial Ger ment to the grave responsibility which According to figures announced in summer,
has jierformed the feat, and
man government, in discussing the the Government of the United States the house of commons, 79,946 English is somewhere
within the British lines,
cases of the Cushing and the Gul conceives that it has incurred in this women have registered for war work, while a Zeppelin
lies in ruins, sprawled
flight, of the principle of the freedom tragic occurrence and to the indis of which 1916 have been utilized.
the roof and ground of an orphan
of all parts of the open sea to neutral putable principle upon which that re Rowing crews from the steamer on
near Ghent.
ships and the frank willingness of the sponsibility rests. The Government Rose City twice beat the crews of the age Falling
a blazing mass after being
imperial government to acknowledge of the United States is contending for naval reserve cruiser Boston in the struck by the
aviator’s bombs,
and meet its liability where the fact something much greater than mere Rose Festival races in Portland harbor. its crew of young
28 men were killed, as
of attack upon neutral ships ’which rights of property or privileges of
several occupants of the or
have not been guilty of any hostile commerce. It is contending for noth News reaching Geneva confirms the were also buildings.
act’ by German aircraft or vessels of ing less high and sacred than the report that cholera has broken out in phanage
The theory is advanced that this
war is satisfactorily established; and rights of humanity, which every gov Vienna. It is believed to have been Zeppelin
the craft which raided
the Government of the United States ernment honors itself in respecting taken there by wounded sdldiers from the east was
coast of England Tuesday
will in due course lay before the im and which no government is justified Galicia.
night, for the fact that it was in the
perial German government, as it re in resigning on behalf of those under
attendance at the Panama-ft» air over Belgium, between Ghent and
quests, full information concerning its care and authority. * Only her cific The Exposition
San Francisco has Brussels, at 3 o’clock in the morning,
the attack on the steamer Cushing. actual resistance to capture or refusal passed the six at million
mark, an aver leads to the belief that it was return
to
stop
when
ordered
to
do
so
for
“With regard to the sinking of the
age
of
55,000
per
day
since
the open ing from an expedition,not starting.
steamer Falaba, by which #h Ameri the purpose of visit could have af ing on February 20.
breaks early these days and
can citizen lost his life, the Govern forded the commander of the sub The British are again warned by one the Dawn
Zeppelin could be Bighted far
ment of the United States is surprised marine any justification for so much of their best-known newspapers that off, huge
and
it
that the craft
to find the imperial German govern as putting the lives of those on board disaster is imminent unless they pro was headed is for presumed
home hangar when
ment contending that an effort on the ship in jeopardy. This principle vide their army and navy with more Warneford came her winging
swiftly un
the part of a merchantman to escape the Government of the United States
der the gray skies.
capture and secure assistance alters understands the explicit instructions liberal supplies of ammunition.
The Zeppelin, which was flying com
the obligation of the officer seeking issued on August 3, 1914, by the im The Standard Oil company announces paratively
began to mount at
to make the capture in respect to the perial German Admiralty to its com a cut of one cent per gallon in the once, but the low, British
was speed
safety to the lives of those on board manders at sea to have recognized and price of gasoline, effective throughout ier and climbed into wasp
the air in long
the merchantman, although the ves embodied, as do the naval codes of all the United States. The new price is spirals, reaching a position
sel has ceased her attempt to escape other nations, and upon it every 8.8 cents. A year ago the price was over the German’s vast bulk at length
From
when torpedoed. These are not new traveler and seaman had a right to
this point of vantage Warneford burst
circumstances. They have been in the depend. It is upon this principle of 12 At cents.
Zeppelin’s shell repcadedly with
a luncheon to the visiting Chinese the
minds of statesmen and of interna humanity, as well as upon the law commercial
his
incendiary
bombs.
delegates,
President
Emer
tional jurists throughout the develop founded upon this principle, that the itus Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard, de
ment of naval warfare, and the Gov United States must stand.
clared that China should have an ade Portland, Or., Youth Escapes From
ernment of the United States does not “The Government of the United quate
and navy, adding that "no
understand that they have ever been States is happy to observe that Your nation army
can maintain a national exist
Mexicans After Awful Experience
held to alter the principles of human Excellency’s note closes with the in ence without
a national force.”
ity upon which it has insisted. Noth timation that the imperial German
Counsellor of Slate Department and Now Acting Secretary of
ing but actual forcible resistance or government is willing, now as before,
Alden J. Blethen, owner El Paso, Texas — Forced to act as Robert I.ansing,
State,
Whose Signature Is Affixed to Note to Germany.
continued efforts to escape by flight to accept the good offices of the of the Colonel
Seattle Times, is dangerously ill. gravedigger for Vaill’s execution
when ordered to stop for the purpose United States in an attempt to come Degrees
in Juarez for a month, James
are bestowed on 254 stu squad
of visit on the part of the merchant to an understanding with the govern dents at Oregon
sion warehouse.
Ellswortji, whose home is in Portland, Portland Has Disastrous Fire; Five
Agricultural college. Or.,
man has ever been held to forfeit the ment of Great Britain, by which the
Five freight cars in the Southern
where
he
left
two
years
ago,
es
lives of her passengers or crew.
character and conditions of the war The Seventh Annual Rose Festival caped Sunday night and came to the
Blocks Swept, With Immense loss Pacific and O.-W. It. & N. yards were
badly burned and the freight house
“The Government of the United upon the sea may be changed. The was formally opened at Portland Wed American side, hatless, his clothes
j used jointly by the two railroads was
States, however, does not understand Government of the United States nesday.
covered
with
blood
stains
and
slashed
Portland,
Or.—Fire
that
swept
clean
consider it a privilege thus to German submarines have sunk six where the Mexican officers had beaten five blocks on the waterfront just j damaged also.
that the imperial German government would
is seeking in this case to relieve itself serve its friends and the world. It more
over the back with their swords to south of the east approach of the Burn The estimated loss of $400,000 in
ships, among them be him
of liability, but only intends to set stands ready at any time to convey ing a merchant
the roughly estimated loss of
make
him work.
Norwegian
steamer.
side bridge caused an aggregate loss cludes
forth the circumstances which led the to either government any intimation
the
box
factory and planing mill, a
Ellsworth,
who
is
22
years
old
and
or
suggestion
the
other
may
be
will
commander of the submarine to allow
estimated
at
more
than
$300,000,
jaw-
A
delegation
of
Chinese
merchants,
vast
quantity
of lumber, and smaller
of
good
appearance,
says
he
went
to
himself to be hurried into the course ing to have it convey, and cordially touring this country, will visit import Juraez on a sightseeing trip when he sibly $400,000, and threatened other plants consumed,
as well as the dam
invites the imperial German govern ant cities in the Northwest.
which he took.
valuable
neighboring
property
at
1
:30
age
to
telephone
and
wire service, tho
was
arrested.
He
was
forced
to
dig
ment to make use of its services in
the graves and witness the execution Wednesday morning.
Southern Pacific and O.-W. R. & N.
“Your Excellency’s note, in discuss this
Canadian
miners
at
Fernie,
B.
C.,
way
at
its
convenience.
The
nine men during his imprisonment, The heaviest losses were suffered by freight office and railroad equipment,
ing the loss of American lives result
world is concerned in anything refuse to work with alien labor, which of
hauling
each of them to the grave the Standard Box & Lumber Co., esti whirh caught from the sparks ami the
ing from the sinking of the steamship whole
that may bring about even a partial includes Germans and Austrians.
from
the
adobe wall after they were mated by the superintendent at $250,- belching flames as they were driven
Lusitania, adverts at some length to accommodation
interests or in any
executed.
“l “ “ 000; the Acme Planing Mill company, eastward by the lively northwest wind.
certain information which the imperial way mitigate the of terrors
loss fixed by officers at $19,000, with A launch tied up near the mill ex
German government has received with ent distressing conflict. of the pres keep away may be made to operate He left for his home in Portland im $9500
insurance; Page & Son, commis- ploded and was destroyed.
mediately.
regard to the character and outfit of
as
in
any
degree
an
abbreviation
of
that vessel, and your Excellency ex “In the meantime, whatever ar the rights of either cf American ship
Notcd Banker* Dies.
presses the fear that this information rangement may happily be made be masters or of American citizens bound
Rate Petition Is Granted.
Berlin Hebrew Protests.
may not have been brought to the at tween the parties to the war, and on lawful errands as passengers on London — The Exchange Telegraph Berkeley, Cal.—Charles R. Bishop, Washintgon, D. C. — The Interstate
tention of the Government of the whatever may in the opinion of the merchant ships of belligerent nation company has received a dispatch from vice president of the Bank of Califor Commerce commission authorizes tho
United States.
It does not understand the im Berlin by way of Amsterdm saying nia, San Francisco, died here, aged 93. North Bank road and Great Northern
imperial German government have ality.
“It is stated in the note that the been
perial
German government to ques that the Berliner Tageblatt declares Bishop’s career was an adventurous Pacific Steamsnip company to establish
the
provocation
or
the
circum
Lusitania was undoubtedly equipped stantial justification for the past acts tion those
rights. It understands it that the German anti-Semitic organs ami romantic one and included his mar class and commodity rates from Port
with masked guns, supplied with of its commanders at sea, the Govern also to accept
as established beyond are starting a new campaign to pre riage to Bernice Pauahi Paki, a Ha land, Linnton, Willbridge, East St.
trained gunners and special ammuni ment of the United States confidently question the principle
that the lives vent Hebrews from becoming officrea waiian princess of royal blood, who, Johns, North Portland and Astoria to
tion, transporting troops from Can looks to see the justice and humanity of non-combatants cannot
lawfully or in the army after the war. The Tage upon her death, left him custodian of San Francisco via Flavel, in accord
ada, carrying a cargo not permitted of the government of Germany vin rightfully be put in jeopardy
by the blatt, which is owned by a Hebrew, is a great fortune. For many years prior ance with an application filed with the
under the laws of the United States dicated in all cases where Americans capture or destruction of an unresist
the government to put an end to annexation. Bishop was a command commission, and to maintain higher
to a vessel also carrying passengers, have been wronged or their rights as ing merchantman and to recognize to urging
these
attacks on Hebrews, inasmuch ing figure in the financial affairs of the rates from intermediate points on the
and serving, in virtual effect, as an neutrals invaded.
the
obligation
to
take
sufficient
pre
as
German
Hebrews are dying glori Hawaiian nation. After the death of line of the North Bank railroad, pro
auxiliary to the naval forces of Great “The Government of the United caution to ascertain whether a sus ously by the
thousand on the field of his royal wife, he came to California, vided rates from intermediate pointa
Britain. Fortunately these are mat States therefore very earnestly and pected merchantman is in fact of battle.”
more than 20 years ago.
po not exceed the lowest combination.
ters concerning which the Government very solemnly renews the representa belligerent nationality or is in fact
of the United States is in a position tions of its note transmitted to the carrying contraband of war under a
Roumania Thought Bound.
San Diego Shows Profit.
Zeppelin Wires Words to Aviators.
to give the imperial German govern imperial German government on the neutral flag.
London—The
following
wireless
dis
San
Diego—The
auditing
department
Berlin — Count Ferdinand Zeppelin
ment official information. Of the 15th of May and relies in these repre “The Government of the United
was received here Tuesday from of the Panama-California Exposition has sent the following telegram to the
facts alleged in Your Excellency’s sentations upon the principles of hu States therefere deems it reasonable patch
issued an official statement showing German Aviation league, whirh is
note, if true, the Government of the manity, the universally recognized to expect that the imperial German Berlin:
that
the exposition made $28,361.24 on holding its seventh convention here:
"Political
discussions
in
Bucharest,
United States would have been bound understandings of international law government will adopt the measures
operation
during May. This figure is "Sincerest thanks for the greetings of
to take official cognizance in per and the ancient friendship of the Ger necessary to put these principles into Roumania, brought to light the fact the greatest
for any month since the
Aviation league, which has caused
practice in respect to the safeguard
forming its recognized duty as a neu man nation.
there exists a formal treaty be opening. From January 1 to May 31, the
a
deep
impression on the day on whirh
tral power and in enforcing its Na Rights of Americans Reasserted. ing of American lives and American that
tween
Austria-Germany
and
Roumania.
inclusive,
the
operating
profit
at
the
the
new
brought into existence
tional laws.
“The Government of the United ships and asks for assurances that This treaty, which runs until 1920, exposition totals more than $74,000, by me in creation
the
field
aerial science has
“It was its duty to see to it that States cannot admit that the procla this will be done.
regulates the relations among these according to the statement. Each brilliantly proved of
its
worth.”
the Lusitania was not armed for of mation of a war zone from which
countries
and
binds
Roumania
in
case
“ROBERT
LANSINO,
month
has
given
a
larger
profit
than
Emperor
William
has also tele
fensive action, that she was not serv- neutral ships have been warned to “Secretary of State ad Interim." of war, not to attack her allies. ”
the previous one.
graphed his thanks.
WILSON NOTE 10
BERLIN ASSERTS
HUMAN RIGHTS
WORLD’S DOINGS
OE CURRENT WEEK
W. J. BRYAN QUITS
POST IN CABINET
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