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Jtitwitif Jjj VOL. LI "0. 13,743. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY .11, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V JUAREZ CAPTURED, IS REBEL CAPITAL Federals.Cornered.Are Taken Prisoners. GENERAL NAVARRO GIVES UP Many of His Soldiers Enlist in Madero's Army. MUCH BOOTY- IS SECURE6 Rebel Soldiers. Worn by Thre I)a; Fighting. .Make Half. Rnlnrd Town Ring With Their Shouts of Victory. I.r DEVMyOPMENTS IX MZX ICAX WAR. Jaare surrenders to rebels and Is mad rebel capital. Federal abandon Agua Prieta aad mrrch to relieve Hermostllo, closing rustom.Botxse at Agua Prieta and Naro. Rebel take possession. Rebels at Tla Joan await attack frra federal from asTsral points. Itrmard for belligerent right from rebels expected la Washington, but I I bo denied. Rebel attack on Torrooa repulsed. Entire federal sarrtsons of Saltlllo and Conrepclon del Ore killed or wounde!. rifOAD JUARKZ. May 10. This lit tle bullet-riddled city tonight Is the provisional capita of Mexico and Fran rlwo 1- Madero, Jr provisional Presi dent, and hla staff have taken com plete possession, after winning the bloodiest battle of the Mexican revolu tion. In a corner room of the barracks, which for two daya he held against the terrific fire of the rebels, alts General Juan J. Navarro, the federal commander, a captive, having surrendered today, with almost bis entire garrison of several hundred men. after a heavy loss In killed and wounded. His sallow face Is sunken, bis bead Is bowed and be does not talk, for the bitter attng of deleat has disheartened him. Rebels Willing for rear. in contrast, in another part of the little town is F. L Madero, Jr, the con queror, surrounded by members of bis family aad his staff of officers, joyous, exultant and flushed with victory, yet ready to make peace, they say. with the Mexican government If It Is dis posed to deal frankly and aincerely with the revolutionists and "without euca vague promises" as President I "lax manlfeato contains. In hotel lobbies, store fronts and hallwaya, the Improvised hospitals of the battlefield, are scores of wounded, attended by a host of physicians and nurses from El Paso, who have volun teered medical relief. The floors of the I'orflrlo !a Hotel, where 10 wounded lie groaning tonight, are cov ered with blood and gore-soaked cloth ing. "The fortunes of war." mumbled an Insurrecto soldier In Spanish tonight. as he stood with tears in hla eyes over the body of a dead federal soldier whom he had known for years. Federal Dead SO, Rebel IS. The dead are being burled tonight. The federal dead are aald to number nearly SO. while the rebel dead number about 15. with a total wounded of ISO. The total number lost probably never will be known, as deserters were many and the dead have been buried quickly. TI:e Associated Press correspondent counted seven dead federate In the bar racks late this afternoon. Among the dead were Colonel Tamborel and Cap tain Sachudo, the former the man who recently taunted the rebels as cowards. On the American side of the line five have been killed and about 17 wound ed, some of them being Innocently en gaged at a distance from the river bank. - Navarro Yields With Tears. The actual surrender of the town by General Navarro took place at about 1 o'clock. General Navarro giving hla sword to Colonel Garibaldi, of the In surrecto army, after the rebels bad completely surrounded the barracks and threatened to annihilate the gar rison within. His eyes dimmed as he surrendered, but Colonel Garibaldi. with a handshake that bespoke his sincere admiration for the brave fight the federal leader bad made, assured him every courtesy. A score of rebel officers rode up and extended to the federal commander their sympathy as Mexicans for him and his men. There la the same fraternal senti ment tonight In the hearts of the en tire Insurrecto army for their country men who have been defeated, .but everywhere are heard words of oppro brium for President Diaz, whom they hold responsible for the loss of life and the suffering of the wounded. Madero Praises) Vanquished. General Madero himself, when he ar rived this afternoon at the corral where the federal prisoners are now quar tered, made an addresa full of sym pathy and encouragement, lauding them for their bravery and assuring them that In his heart, aa well as In tt-'oscluded oa Fas .) HEAT WAVE TAKES CHICAGO UNAWARE WORKMEN' PROSTATED AND TORRIDITT BREAKS RECORD, Morcury at 87 Catches Folk With Winter Flannels on and Rush Is Made to Parks. CHICAGO. May 10. (Special.) This was the hottest May day Chicago has had la 10 yeara. The mercury shot up to 87 degree, eclipsing any record since May S. 1901. when It registered 8T decree. The tint heat prostration was report ed at noon when the police of the Hln-man-street station were summoned te care for John CDonegan. 60 years old. a bricklayer, who was overcome when at work on a building. Chicago sweltered under the sudden torrid wave. Few had said good-bye to their Winter flannels. Hundreds hied to cool spots In the parks and neighborhood recreation grounds. The beaches took on a mid-Summer appear ance. The demand for row boata was large and the lagoons In the large parks were filled. Bathers declared the water a bit cold, but plunged In bravely. In the loop district the restaurants were unable to fill the unexpected de mand for Ice rream. DIVORCE SjJIT FRIENDLY Couple See Mistake Made In Lire's Twilight Ruth Agree. CENTRALIA. Wash, May 10. (Spe cial.) Seven weeks after their mar riage, and In the friendliest spirit Im aginable. Mr. and Mrs. Karl Grossman are seeking divorce -on grounds of temperamental Inadaptatlon. They make no specific complaint, but say they made a mistake In wedding In the twilight of life and would be happier apart. Mr. Grossman came here to live after marrying .Mrs. Grossman, who Is a Centralla woman, the marriage being his first venture and her second. Marriage Isn't what I expected, and Pra too old to start learning. I'm will Ing to provide for Anna, but I want to be by myself again." he says. Karl is a good creature." says Mrs. Grossman, "but he la best left by him' self, because he Isn't the husband kind of man. and la too old. anrwar. W have both made a mistake and will be ood frl.nds the rest of our lives." As Mr. Grossman has not lived In thti county and stare tn peclned r n ;. of time, he has been advised to file suit In Portland, where be lived several years. PADDLING FINDS MOTHER 31 re. w. Lawssner Says Man Who Dared Columbia Long-Lost Son. VANCOUVER. Wash.. May 10. (Spe cial.) Seeing a news story telling how Julius Lawssner. returning from Alas ka to bis home for the first time in 10 yeara. paddled his way across the Co lumbia River here and was arrested as Insane for attempting aucbv a daring act. Mrs. William Lawssner recognized that he Is her son. whom she has not 1 seen since ne leit home when he waa 21. I Mrs. Lawssner came to Vancouver I from Portland tocjay and searched for ner son. biie said her husband. Julius' lamer, died last March and that the will Is to be opened In Portland tomor row. She wanted to have her son pres ent at the filing of the will. 1 hen Lawssner left her Tuesday he started to walk to his old home on Che- latchle Prairie. The telephone wires were down today and Mrs. Lawssner re turned to her home with a daughter In roruana tonight. She had mourned her aon as dead, and today asked the man. who ssw ber son paddle across the Columbia, to tell her again and again that it was true. CARS TUMBLE INTO RIVER Two Killed, ST Injured In Train- wreck in Colorado. ULNVER. May 10. Westboand Denver A Rio Grande passenger train No. 1. tbe Pacific Coast flyer, which left Denver at t o'clock thla morning. 'aa wrecked near Minturn. JO miles west of Leadvllle, at 8:60 o'clock to night, the chair car and a tourist sleeper plunging Into the Ragle River. which is skirted by the railroad at that point. According to reports from the scene of the wreck, two are dead and 27 injured, eight seriously. Reports received by Denver Rio Orande official here declared one killed and 15 slightly Injured. a special wrecxing train carried a force of doctors, nurses and volunteer rescuers from Leadvllle. TRAIN LEFT TO SAVE HOME Engineer Leads Passenger to Hes- cue of Sleeping Women. CHII.T.ICOTHE. Mo, May 10. Leav ing hla engine on an eastbound Wabash passenger train. Charles Miller, an en gineer, today led a party of 60 passen gers to the burning home of Miss Salsy Whlttacker. near the track west of here and extlr fkilshed the flames, prob ably saving the lives of Miss Whlt tacker and her aged mother, who were asleep on the second floor of the house. The women were unaware the fire was consuming their dwelling until af ter the party had begun to battle with the flames. The Are conquered. Miller returned to his engine, pulled the throttle wide opea and arrived here but a few min utes late, RIGHTS NOT DUE AS BELLIGERENTS Taft Not Ready to Rec ognize Madero. AMERICANS WOULD BE LOSERS Claims Against Diaz for Dam ages Forfeited Thereby. MADERO CAN COLLECT TAX Control of Juarez Custom-House Gives Him Right to Duty De mand for Belligerent Rights Expected to Be Made. WASHINGTON. May 10. Now that Madero haa' captured Juarex, the most Important customs port on the Mexican boundary, the question of recognition of his belligerency assumes the first degree of Importance to Madero and. without doubt, through Senor Vascon celoa, the acting head of the Junta here, an effort may be expected to se cure It from the State Department. In dlcatlons are that such a request will not be granted, for the present at least. It la objected that by auch act the Dlaa government would be relieved of all pecuniary responsibility for damage Inflicted upon Americans by rebels. Another consideration Is that It would oblige the Government to treat the Diaz government precisely a It doea the rebels In the matter of denying them the right to Import arms and munitions of war, and would subject American goods entering Mexico to seizure as contraband. To what extent Madero has benefited by the capture of Jueras in changing his status In the eye of International law, the officials here are not disposed to say. But, offhand. It Is said the (Tutted-States will be obliged to recog nise his de facto control of Juarez, an international port of entry. In the end he will be able to receive merchandise through his custom-house and collect tariff taxes. It Is true that, when Agua Prieta was In possession of the rebels, the United States custom-house In Douglaa was closed by the collector,' preventing the exchange of goods. It is admitted that, bad the rebel oc cupation continued a few days longer, that action of the collector, which was not directed from Washington, would have been disavowed and trade rela tions between the two towns would have been re-established. It la felt here that Madero's next move, logically, is a march on Mexico City, with pauses to capture such towns In his path as may abut their gates aralnat him. The great obstacle to such a move, as seen here, is his aup- posed paucity of ammunition. Med ford Store Burns. MEDFORD. Or.. May 10.-SpeciaL) Weeks & MacGowan's' furniture store burned tonight. The damage to stock to ISO00. INDEX TO TODAY'S NEWS Mexico. Federals surrender Juares and rebels mak - It their capital. Pag 1. Federals abandon Agua Prieta and go to ' liev KermoalUo. Pag 8. Mexican cabinet trie to conceal fall of Jnarea and fears growth of revolt. Pace 3. Taft not ready to recognize Madero. Page 1. Foreign. President Estrada, of Nicaragua, reslg-cs and trie to flee from popular anger, rag . National. Democratic Senators propose scheme to fore Tart to sign free list bill or veto reci procity. Pag 1. Domestic. California Federation of Club Women may split on roc it of suffrage. Page 3. Autolsts suffer- from too much Johnson, Pag 1. Heat -wave takes Chicago unawares; work man prostrated. Page 1. Western classification committee to meet In July and settle many disputes. Page It Ohio Senat spurns "an U-whitewash bill.1 Page 3. California merchants will visit Klamath Falls. Pag 0. lira. Hugh Corby Fox withdraws divorce suit, rag 6. Sport. Pacific Coast League results yesterday: Portland 2. San Francisco 3: Oakland e. Los Angeles 2; Sacramento 9, Vernon 4. Page 10. Northwestern League results yesterday: Portland 3. Vancouver 2; Spokane 11, Victoria 9; Seattle 1. Tacoma 0. Page 10. Portland Interseholastlc League athletic stars to compete at Eugene. Page 10. I'actiio Northwest. Sidney C. Love resolves to win fortune de spite divorce suits now pending. Page 6. Financial affairs of Majcr Kinney. Coos Bay promoter, are taken over by trustee and litigation will be dropped. Page 6. Salem lays cornerstone of new Jason Lee Church. Page. 7. Commercial and Marine. Oregon woolgrowers holding back for better prices. Page 10. Wheat higher at Chicago on hot weather reports. Page 19. Stock market la sluggish and heavy. Pag 19. Cowllli River dredging work to be started soon. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Council advances franchise In exchange for Broadway bridge rights. Page 13. Mount Scott perfect plans to Join Rose Festival. Page 11. Milwaukee road orders all-steel sleepers for transcontinental line. Page IS. Portland business men leave on special train to sttend Koseourg btrawberry carnival. Page 12. John Twohy, big rallied contractor, buys stock In Portland Trust Company and Is elected to directorate. Page 9. Ex-Oovernor La Fayette Orover dies. Page 12. Search for antl-Rushllght Independent candi date tor Mayor not yet successful. Page S. Republican committee meeting enlivened by charges of plot to capture organization. Pag 4. PL Marys Alamnae Association entertains at Melllg Thoater. Page -4. Mrs. Anlc Jeffrey Myers Is desd. Page 6. SCENERY IS GOAT DELICACY Mt ngel College Dramatic Club Loses Castles, Fences, Forests. MOUNT ANGEL, Or., May 10.-Spe- clal.) Stage scenery is the latest dell racy to lure the epicurean tastes of the goat, and his gas tronom leal attentions that direction last night will necessi- ate an outlay of several dollars by the Dramatic Club to repair Injured settings of castles, fence's and forests. Testerday. while arranging the stage, the head scene shifter left some scenery on one of the porches over night, and In a propitious moment Mr. William be gan .to Investigate. First he sampled the bark on several of the trees, and, finding this to his liking, started to round out square meal on them. But there is only one definition for square meal with the goat, and that Is to devour every thing In sight, and so. presently, he turned his attention to an old castle. He first tore off the roof, then pro ceeded to masticate several "Iron bars" which graced the windows of the castle's dungeon. Very shortly the massive "Iron gate" of a stone wall went the same way as the roof and the bars, and then some of the "water" In the castle's lake was daintily nibbled at. ANYONE SEEN HIM? i11 i i i r.r. f 6 : rt im ru "u-r ,1 , . 1 r DEMOCRATS MAY PUT TAFT IN HOLE Plan to Tack Free. Lis to Reciprocity. INSURGENTS MAY GIVE HELP President Must Then Accep or Reject Both. SOME REGULARS MAY AID Their Purpose Is to Kill Reciprocity While Democrats Aim to Force Him to Sign Free List' or Lose Main Issue, WASHINGTON. May 10. Democratic Senators are figuring tonight on a move to combine the Canadian reciprocity bill and the free list bill. and. it was stated today, a motion to that effect will be made in committee, although without great hope of success. Simmons, of North Carolina, reports the Democratic Senators as a whole fa vorable to the plan, and he has been sounding regular and Insurgent Repub llcans. The regulars are reported unani mously against the House free list bill, except as a means to defeat the reci procity bill, which, they think, would be vetoed if the measures were com bined. The Insurgents are inclined to work along their own lines, but admit that coalition with the Democrats might pome to pass. If the Democrats gave a solid party vote for the plan, only five Republican votes would be needed, and it is be lieved the House would welcome the consolidation. In that event the President would have to accept reciprocity with an en larged free list or reject both. RECIPROCITY IS ATTACKED Ex-Governor of Wisconsin Takes Oc casion to Grill Publishers. WASHINGTON. May 10. Vehement assaults on the Canadian reciprocity bill marked today's hearing by the Sen ate finance committee. Farmers from border states, fishermen from Glouces ter, Mass., manufacturers of wire cloth for papermaking and manufacturers of book, wrapping and news print paper poured forth their protests. Probably . the greatest outburst oc curred when ex-Governor Strange, of Wisconsin, introduced as representing wrapping paper manufacturers of Nee nah and Menasha, Wis., addressed the committee. He swerved from criti cism of the bill to "attacking the American Publishers' Association and Its related organization, the Associated Press." Mr. Strange characterized the bill as a "cowardly" measure and of lacking love of country and brought forth at the demand of the "greatest trust In the world." He said that Congress would not be In session today conslder- ( Concluded on Page 2.) THf. Ml ITU inUIMCflM I I JJ ITIUVsl I JUIIMOUM IS AUTOISTS' CRY MARSHAL ARRESTS ALL MOTOR ISTS AXD WAXES RICH. Citizens of Claremont Think Officer of Law and Recorder Are "Split ting" Ten-Dollar Fines. LOS ANGELES, May 10. (Special Claremont, the little college town, 1 suffering from an' acute attack of too much Johnson and can't shake it off. Claremont had an ornamental Marshal 4 who never made an arxest and a reform was demanded, so he resigned. J. A Johnson, a pugnacious, stern individual, was Indorsed for the place by the Bible classes of two members of the Board of Trustees and appointed. Then, the Town Recorder became nerv ous and resigned and Rev: C. S. Rich, member of an approving Bible class, was put -in his place. Johnson immediately saw a speed violator In every automobillst who moved his machine so Its progress could be observed without a magnify lng glass, according to victims, and has arrested all but one who has entered the municipal limits In two weeks. That one escaped by driving off backward On Sunday the average from this city is 25. Recorder Rich fines every speeder $10. Sometimes he appears on the road where the alleged speeder is protesting and holds court in his buggy. Hun dreds have suffered at his hands, and citizens are In arms, but helpless. Tomorrow the directorate of the Automobile Club of Southern California will investigate and if conditions are not changed, no member of that organ lzation will drive through Claremont hereafter. Marshal Johnson gets $25 month. He also gets $1 for each arrest and half the fine, and he and Rich are becoming rich. OREGON PLAN NOT LIKED Wisconsin Legislature Lays Pro posed Law Aside. MADISON. Wis.. May 10. (Special.) After debating nearly two hours on the Husting bill to compel candidates for the Legislature to subscribe at the general election to statements promts ing to vote for the "people's choice' for United States Senator at the pri mary In other words, the "Oregon plan" the assembly this morning, by the close vote of 38 to 35, re-referred the measure to the committee on elec tions. together with several pending amendments, which virtually kills the bill, for It will doubtless be allowed to die In committee pigeonhole. Blchler, floor leader of the Demo crats, expressed surprise that there should be the "faintest opposition" to the measure. He explained that It pro vided virtually the famous "Oregon plan" of accomplishing the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people and asked why It should not prove as satisfactory in Wisconsin as It has in Oregon. 'Why shouldn't the Legislature be bound by the verdict of the majority' he asked. "It has worked admirably n Oregon." JUDGE LEARNS' BASEBALL Jargon of Game Explained in Ward's Slander Suit. NEW YORK, May 10. Judge Hand, who is trying the suit for defamation of character brought by John M. Tard, formerly captain of the New York Nat ional League Club, against Ban John son, president of the American League, learned some baseball Jargon today. George R. Pulford, a sporting editor. testified that he had a recollection that George Davis of the "White Sox" had uraped a contract. 'Jumped what's that?" asked the Judge. Every baseball enthusiast In the room smiled. What are the "White Sox'," pur sued the Judge. Pulford told him "the Chicago Amer ican League Baseball Club." The Judge profited by his instruction for subsequently he referred to the White Sox" In his questions. HERMANN WANTS TO RUN Ex-Representative From Oregon Anxions to Return to Congress. OREGONIAN NEWS. BUREAU, Wash ington, May 10. Binger Hermann, of Oregon, who recently returned from an extended trip through the Mediterran ean Sea, Northern Africa, Jerusalem and Southern Europe, Is spending a few days with his daughter In this city and will soon return to Oregon. In conversation with several of his Congressional friends. Mr. Hermann has said he has fully regained his health and feels In fighting trim. To several he Intimated his desire to return to Congress. He says he wants to "get back into the game." MAN WHO SOLD SELF, DIES Corpse of Chlcagoan to Be Used for Clinical Study. CHICAGO, May 10. Charles Kittrlck, who sold his "body and soul" to seven nurses at the National Maternity Hos pital, died there last night. Kittrlck was suffering from a peculiar form of locomotor ataxia "and by the terms of the bill of sale of his body, the corpse will be used for clinical study. Kittrlck sold himself for $7 and used the money to pay the last bill he owed his room rent. Record of the sale was filed with the Coroner Re corder yesterday. FACE E CRISIS Topic's Rock May Split, Federation. MEMBERS PREPARE-FOR WAR, California Organization's Con vention Opens Today. POLITICS TO BE PLAYED California Club, One of Largest in State, Declares for Ballot for Sex After Stormy Session. Will Others Follow? SAN FRANCISCO, May 10. (Special.) The annual convention of tne Cali fornia Federation of Club Women will open In Long Beach tomorrow and con tinue until next Tuesday. In the in terim, many problems of state-wide and Nation-wide interest to women will be settled, reforms launched, crises met, debts paid, old scores erased and new ones instigated, chimerical as well as practical projects outlined and bat tle lines flung in strange places. But all these issues will sink into insignifi cance beside the supreme charge, with valiant array on either side, when the fate of suffrage, insofar as It re lates to women's clubs, will be decided. Shall the official "club" badge be pinned to the bosom of suffrage? That is the question. The California Club, one of the larg est and most Influential women's or ganization In the state, yesterday, after .wordy warfare. Instructed Its del egate to Long Beach to vote for suf frage. Outcome Is In Doubt. Whether or not the California Club Is the bellwether of the state remains to be seen. There are clubs in Los Angeles, Pasadena, Fresno, Stockton and other big cities of the state which will refute and repudiate the assumed leadership of the California Club and may. in retaliation for Its alleged arro gation, vote quite the contrary, just to be contrary. A woman's club Is a . touchy proposition when It comes to framing programmes. Suffrage, then, Is the issue and suf frage will surcharge the sea air of Long Beach like a pungent smoke of battle. The spellbinders of either side, armed with their most trenchant argu ment and their most wily subterfuges, will do politics untiringly until the end of the session. The San Francisco delegates, num bering in the hundreds, left today by boat and train. They will be in the front ranks when the battle opens, fighting as valiantly as did the factions n the California Club yesterday. Many Are Opposed. Several clubs of the more conserva tive type have stated that they will not vote either way on the question, but that If the hated word suffrage comes . up in the convention--they will with draw from the Federation. Now the Integrity of the Federation Is to the well-brought-up club woman what the unity of her home is to .the old-fashioned housewife. It Is the fab ric of her day dreams, the woof and warp of her club existence. But suf frage Is politics, says she, and she don't believe In bringing politics or re ligion into the club any more than into the public school; for, says she again. the club Is a school for grown-up las sies, bo there you are. When she is not for the ballot, she's "agin" it, and she's to be on hand at the last inning unless the game is called on account of dark ness or some other unforeseen cause. Election to Be Placed. The election of officers will, accord ing to the present outlook, be dis tinctly placid and sane compared to the battle that will be waged over the uffrage question. 'Mrs. Russell J. Waters, the presl ent, has already served one year. She a Los Angeles woman, but not es pecially popular in hor own county on account of fierce local wars. Her pre- ecessory was Mrs. James B. Hume, of Oakland, who lost to Mrs. Waters most ungracefully. The San Francisco biennial of next ear clears the atmosphere of much that would otherwise tend to be a' cloud on the horizon. The reason for this is obvious. The whole state united to bring the National biennial to San Francisco, for getting all sectional differences in the National Issue. San Francisco, In con sequence, has the biennial, Is absorbed in planning for it and cannot therfore afford to be the prime mover in the coming battle. FJSHING BOAT CAPSIZES Gasoline Craft Turns Turtle Fate of Crew Unknown. and VICTORIA, May 10. The gasoline fishing boat Flshmald, of New West minster, B. C, capsized off Three Point, Alaska. The steamer Humboldt, which reached Prince Rupert tonight, sent a wireless to the Dominion gov ernment station here saying that she found the gasoline vessel upturned. Nothing is known of the fate of th crew. 1M SUFFRAG V