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Y v VOL. LIII-NO. 16,291. xvxa, I ; " i 1 . ... . nnA I ARMY REVOLTS AND CAPTURES MEXICO CITY Rebels Hold Arsenal and Power Works; Madero Flees From Palace. 250 ARE KILLED IN STREETS Genera! Reyes Liberated, to Fall Soon Afterward, and Villar Is Wounded. FELIX DIAZ LEADS FORCES Virtual Control of Capital in Hands of Insurgents. OFFICERS ARE EXECUTED Public Square Dotted With Bodies of Dead and Wounded, Including . Civilians Taken by Surprise, and Many Women. DIPLOMAT LOOK TO DIAZ TO PROTECT FOREIGNERS. MEXICO CITT. Feb. 8. Presi dent Madero wai asked tonight by the diplomatic corps to ear yea or no aa to whether ha could give pro tection to fore I en residents. Tha President did not answer. The diplomats then sent a message to oeneral Dlaa. notifying him that they would look to him to live such protection. The total n amber killed ts re ported to be 250. Three Spaniards were killed. An American. E. I Ramsey, form erly of Galveston, waa seriously wounded. Stray bullets catered the embassy buildings. MEXICO CITY, FEB. 10. At aa early hour this morulas It waa reported that President Madera and bis family had fled from the'eapltol toward the East rrs roast. It also waa rumored that all the members of the cabinet had re signed. Confirmation of these rumors could not be obtained. Madero's decision to flee. It la aald. followed the knowledge that General blanqnet. who had arrived with a amall portion of bla force, was aawllllna; to light General Felix Dlaa. Since the arrival of Blsnqnet's force the bridges between tha capital and Toluca have been burned. MEXICO CITY, ilex.. Feb. 9. The army rose in revolt today in Mexico City, took possession of the public buildings, shot down Federal adherents In the streets, released General Felix Diaz, leader of the Vera Crus revolt, and General Bernardo Reyes, from prison, and, falling: into line under the Dlas banner, virtually captured the Mexican capital. At least 250 persona were killed In the street fighting that took place In the great public square and other parts of the city. Many of these were civil ians, who were taken by surprise when the firing began. Several women were killed. The number of wounded Is large. Reyes Killed Early la Fight. General Reyes himself was killed In front of the National Palace soon after being released. Following General Reyes' death, his son. Rodolfe. shot himself through the head, dying in stantly. Grief over his father's death was the cause. He was a well-known attorney. General Villar, a loy alist, was wounded. Colonel Morelos, prominent among the federal leaders, was slain. General Gregorio Ruis, a federal offi cer, two captains and three lieutenants were executed In the patio of the na tional Palace. It Is officially reported that this was by orders of the govern ment, but another story is that they were killed by a detachment of their ' own men because they opposed their Joining in the revolt. Added to this is the report that these mutinous troops were overpowered and disarmed. .Madero Besleced In Palace. Francisco Madero. President of the Republic, led the loyal troops for a time. Later, with members of his Cab inet, he took refuge In the National Palace, where they were besieged, but with some loyal troops at their backs they succeeded In defending the pal ace from the assaults of the revolution ists. The President fortified himself in the palace, while General Felix Dial with a targe majority of the regulars behind him. has virtual control of the capital. President Madero an! hie Ministers WOMAN'S POWER FELT AT CAPITOL LEGISLATION PASSES THEY EASILY. FAVOR When Portland Schoolteachers Ap pear, All Opposition to Civil Service Bill Fades. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Feb. 9. (Special.) The Influence of woman-with-the-ballot over mere man has been amply illustrated during the present session of the Legislature. Every measure that apparently had the sanction of the women of the state has gone sliding through either house as if on greased skids. The minimum wage bill, designed to aid women and minor workers, went through thd Senate with the same ease as It .would have been defeated two years ago. The widows' pension bill found only one dissenting voice In the two houses. Perhaps no more striking illustration of the deadly Influence of the female of the species can be found in the pass age of the teachers' civil service bill w..ich affects Multnomah County alone. Despite the strenuous opposition that had appeared against . the bill, and a charge that the bill would bring dire results, and in spite of the fact that a number of the Senators were on the verge of voting against the bill, the feminine contingent of Portland school teachers appearing at the pyscholog lcal moment Bwept all before it, ana not a Senator could muster sufficient courage to cast an adverse vote. It was something probably undupll- cated in the annals of Oregdn Legisla tures. Numerous women lobbyists have been here during the session. Time was when, save for spasmodic appearance of delegations of women. Dr. Owens Adair was about the only consistent lobbyist before Oregon Legislatures. This year the halls have been full of them. PORTLAND LAD IS HONORED Prescott Cooklngham supplants Harvard Man In Scholarship. BOSTON, Mass.. Feb. 9. (Special.) Prescott W. Cooklngham, of Portland, who is associated with Robert W. Taft, son of President Taft. as co-editor of the Harvard Law Review, is one of the 21 men trained at outside colleges who are supplanting Harvard's own men In scholarships at Harvard Law School, capturing all but two of the editor ships. The Harvard Crimson, the col lege dally. makes this assertion: "Cooklngham was .graduated from Princeton two years ago and will com plete his law course next year. The Crimson declares Harvara a own boys are falling far behind in scholar ship. It points out that the editorships where regarded as a standard Indica tion of scholastic mark have been won by the outsiders, who inciuaea int President's son, now editor-in-chief. Furthermore this year's elections to the Law Review have fallen to ten second-year men. all of whom are out side graduates. " M.dero. - . 7 Where Fighting Centered, , i y mifis tev i v- Jy' - mj Lst ) !bte r JVm A 11 -Iff -A ! ; M,vn nBMnv wnxTUT. FEBRUARY 10, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ADAMSANDNEWELL ACCUSED IN REPORT Reclamation Service Is Called Incompetent. REMOVAL TO BE DEMANDED Appropriation Is Asked for Broad Investigation. INDIAN AFFAIRS INVOLVED Government Declared to Have Lost $6,747,396 on Salt River Proj ect Alone -Newell Character izes This as Absurd. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. Charges of Incompetence and maladministration of the reclamation service are made and an -appropriation of $25,000 is re quested for a Congressional Inquiry that will deal broadly with reclama tion projects, in a report that will be sent - tomorrow to the House by the committee In Interior Departments ex penditures. The report recommends the removal from office during the pendency of the proposed inquiry of Assistant Secretary of the Interior Samuel Adams, and F. H. Newell and L. C. Hill, director and supervising engineer, respectively, of the reclamation service. . Officials Deny Allegations. Interior Department officials, in cluding Director Newell, flatly denied tonight the allegations in the printed report, which Is unsigned, but which was given out by the committee with the statement that Representative Hensley," of Missouri, would present it tomorrow. Mr. Hensley is chairman of a sub-committee that has been in vestigating affairs of Indian tribes, whose interests in the Hensley report says, " are outrageously intermingled with the affairs of the reclamation service." Other members of the sub committee were Representatives Calla way, of Texas, and Jlanna, of North Dakota, since become Governor. . Discrimination la Charged. The report charges that "Newell and his associates" discriminated against the farmers and the corporations op erating the canals and that the bond holders thereof "alone received atten tion from them on the Salt River proj ect." It is alleged that as the reclama tion act provides that only the estl- mated cost of construction may be re- (Concluded on Page 3.) LEADING FIGURES IN LATEST MEXICAN CRISIS, AND PALACE WHERE MADERO IS SIEGED. Photo or Madero and With His Wife, and General Felix Ulmm, Z7". ,Aa Uc , . - . 1.k. usiist n'nra " INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY Maximum temperature, 4. degrees: minimum, 2tl degrees. TODAY Fair. Eastern winds. - Mexico. and takes control In Mex ico City; Madero besieged In palace. Page 1. Killing of Reyes rem ores ardent foe of Madero. page 2. Foreigners at Mexico City eagerly await ena of rebellion and warfare. Page z. Ambassador Wilson reports palace Is only point loyal to Madero. Page Z Legislatures. Influence of women on legislation felt at Salem. Page 1. Many new boards up to Legislature tor creation. Page 1. Fight on bill prohibiting Intrastate liquor shipments expectea touay. -- Oregon Legislature probably will refer ,n electors. Page xx. Hanley sees good In Senate bill M. T2. Page 11. Foreign. h Kaiser pleads for Germans to keep laitn of fathers Page 4. National. Wlekersham. 'approving Harriman lines dis solution terms, says Ideal competition will be created. Page 3. Bouse committee accuses reclamation ser vice of Incompetency. Page 1. Revenue cutters saved property worth four times what service cost last year. Page 9. . Domestic Two new Arctic expeditions planned for this year. Pago, 3. Elinor Douglas wise becomes bride of cue de Richelieu at Baltimore. Page 3. Edward B. McLean takes negro boy as fos ter child to be reared In luxury as play mate for their son. Page 8. Confessions show New York graft to be S2.400.000 a year. Page 1. Sporfa. South Portland and Cricketers win soccer matches. Page 10. Universities of Oregon and 'h'"?'0 "T - to send track teams to Berkeley meet. Page 10. i President McCredle preparing series or baseball articles for The Oregonlan. Page 10. ... . . Jack King says Ad Wolgast will he In better condition for Murphy bout than ever before. Page 10. Pacific Northwest. Mysterious death of woman In Beattla to be investigated. Page 4. , Ice flow threatens blockade of Columbia River at Vsncouver. Page L . Portland and Vicinity. Throngs of children pass Sunday roller skating In streets. Page 14. Mazamas hold paper chase. Page T. Rev H. F. Ward, of Chicago. In address here scores employers. Page 11. Clerk arrested for violation of anti-pass law, said to have led dual life. Page 10. interstate bridge bill ready for Legislature a Joint committee. Page 14. j w. Blackmore. of Seattle, faints twice on Portland's streets. Page 8. Sam Hill host to legislative party at Mary. hill. Page 14. . GOVERNOR SUED FOR LIBEL Levee Engineer Kesents Charge of Incompetency In Floodtime. , MEMPHIS,' Tenn..- Feb. Major M. J. Shackleford has filed suit for $100. 000 damages against Governor Brewer of Mississippi in the Circuit Court here, charging libel. Major Shackleford is chief engineer for tho lower Yazoo . levee board, ' a state body, and charges that Governor Brower. In published statements, ac cused him of incompetency In handling the levee situation at Beulah, Miss.- A i I- 1. 4h. lA.raa (a eilltlrtQ- In thp i oreaa m -' - a inundation of a largo area in Missis I sippl. - . . ' wife, copyr MANY NEW BOARDS WANT RECOGNITION Creation Would Swell Expense $1,000,000 MEMBERS VOW TO USE AXE Salaries for Officials Promi . nent in Bills' Provisions. SOME COMMISSIONS LIKED irlslators Inclined Favorably to Only Such Measures as Appar ently Are Neededj Eleven More Days of Work. STATE-CAPITOL, Salem, Or, Feb. (Special.) Included in the avalanche of bills which must be considered by the Legislature In the eleven more working days left are at least 15 pro viding for new boards or commissions besides bills asking for the creation of innumerable new offices or official positions. t Some of these bills asking for new boards or commissions also ask at the same time for appropriations so large as to bring the amount past the 11. 000,000 mark. ' The formidable array of measures of this class has aroused many mem bers of the legislative assembly and they are vowing war on a majority of such bills. Need Seen For Few of Boards. Some of the commissions, however, are considered as Imperative and good legislation, these Including the com mission to administrate the affairs of Oregon at the Panama-Pacific Exposi tion and the commission to have charge of the question of industrial insurance. Among some of tne mora Important commissions or boards asked for are a State Examining Board, a State Board of Plumber Examiners, to have also i State Sanitary Jnspeotor as on attach roent,- a commission to investigate rural credits in European countries; State Board of Accounting; numerous nlans for state boards or commissions to have charge of the construction of state highways; a State Board of Music Examiners and a State Board of Bar Examiners, and the Mlnimum-wagr Commission. - - ' ' - As to new official positions one bill would create Superior Judges and Countv Attorneys, which would add a (Concluded on Pag ID aT Who Was Slnln in Battle After Be ICE THREATENS TO BLOCK COLUMBIA FIELDS MOVING 1 DOWX RIVER ARE INCREASING. Ferry Plying Between Vancouver and Hayden Island Tied np and May Cease Operations. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Feb. 9. (Spe cial.) Fields of Ice, which began com ing down the Columbia River yester day morning, are Increasing, and today thousands of acres of ice floated past this city. The ferry of the City of Vancouver, plying between this city and Hayden Island, was tied up on the Oregon shore last night, it being expected that a big gorge of ice would come down and keep the ferry from operating and marooning it if left on the north bank of the river, owing to a bend and the current. The ferry came over today at S o'clock for the first trip. Hundreds of people, learning of the ice flow, visited the river today and took pictures. It Is probable that an Ice blockade will form between banks tomorrow and a slight thickness of Ice will hold It fast. Should the cold weather inland continue, the ferry may be stopped from running. While the temperature here Is below freezing at night, it is colder in the section through which the Columbia River flows. BORAH PLAN IS OFFERED Consnmers of Electric Power Would Receive It at Lower Rates. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Feb. 9. (Special.) Senator Borah today offered an amendment to the Connecticut River dam bill, propos ing to allow the Interstate Commerce Commission to fix the rates to be charged by hydro-electric companies for power when such companies oper ate in more than one state. The amendment specifically strikes out of the pending bill that provision which gives the Secretary of War au thority to fix the charges and empow ers him to apply the receipts from power privileges to river Improvement and Inserts In lieu thereof a provision subjecting to the Jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission any person or corporation engaged In trans-, mittlng hydro-elettr3 power or cur rent from one state to another, making such concerns common carriers, whose rates and rules shall be BUbJcct to the Commission's Jurisdiction, as are the rates and rules of railroads, tele graph and express companies. Senator Borah Intends that under his plan consumers of electric current will get it at a much lower rate than will be possible If the rates are fixed by the War Department, primarily with a view to raising revenue for river im provement, as is proposed by the Con necticut River bill in its present form. GLOVER TO KEEP UP SUIT Son of Mrs. Eddy Declares He Did Not Authorize Dropping Contest. LEAD, S. D.. Feb. 9. That he has not or will not withdraw his suit to contest the will of his late mother. Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, the Chris tian Scientist leader, was the state ment today -of George W. Glover, of this city. Glover declared most emphatically that he had never authorized his at torneys to abandon the contest, that he was investigating the reports from Boston to that effect, and if true, other steps would be taken at once to press the suit. He maintained he win get a Tnrtion of the estate, and says he is prepared to fight harder than ever. MIRENE SAFELY OFF SPIT Schooner Only Slightly Damaged Aronnd Stern Post. WHEELER. Or, Feb. 9. (Special.) The schooner Mirene was pulled off the spit early today, and now Is at the dock at Wheeler discharging cargo. She is leaking around the stern post, and will have to be beached to make repairs. There is no damage to the cargo, and small damage to the stern post. lag Released With Dlaa Iron, prison GRAFT IS TRACED TO Indictments Today Will Open Whitman's War. ANNUAL TOLL IS $2,400,000 Police Captains Get Half and Inspectors Take Quarter. PROTECTION WORK BARED $600,000 Is Cut Three) Ways Among Hotel Man and Repre sentatives or Two Officehold ers as Shown by Confessions. KDW YORK. Feb. 9. (Special.). Two million four hundred thousand dollars graft from gamblers, poolroom men and illegal resort keepers $1,200.- 000 for the captains and their collec tors, $600,000 for inspectors, isuo.uuw iit tvi hands rf one man and then cut again, divided into three parts. one for a hotel man, one tor a " represents an office holder, and the third for a man who presented himself for another official. That is the "graft system" as Dis trict Attorney Whitman understands It today and that is the "system" upon .v-iu v, hrin his first actual legal battle tomorrow,- Before nightfall he hopes to have maae nis iirst uiiu.u uj Indictments against Police - Inspectors Dennis, F. Sweeney and Police Captain Thomas W. Walsh. Sweeney's Friends Active. Walsh has already told that much and will tell more. Sweeney's repre sentatives have already tried to Inter cede for the inspector and nave re ceived no satisfaction. The bargain that Sweeney must make win oe hard one. If he would save himsen after indictment he will have to tell the name of the one man to whom ne monthly turned over his share of $50, 000, which all the inspectors had to deliver. If Sweeney consents, the cir cle, already cracked by the confession of Walsh, will be torn into segments and those protected will be disclosed. They are the men whom Whitman is after. Nine indictments, and possmiy ten, n was learned tonight, are expected to be returned by the grand Jury tomorrow. Whitman Busy All Day. The District Attorney found no rest today The air about him is now sur charged with hints. He promises that with Just another little crack, another repentant captain, one repentant in spector, and he will have the graft system of the police department abso lutely in his hands. The latest report today Is but a veri fication in another form of what Wil liam J. Burns told Whitman August 12 last year, when the Becker case was being run down. Burns then de clared that money was going higher up and that the last handlers before It reached Its final destination were a hotel-keeper, a lawyer-politician and, third, a minor official of the police de partment. Whitman to "Go Higher." The physiolan attending Captain Walsh reported tonight that his pa tient would be able to go to the Dis trict Attorney's office tomorrow whers other witnesses alBo have been sum moned. Walsh is expected to add much to his confession of last week In which he Implicated "men" higher up In the po lice department, and It is believed the testimony be will give tomorrow will result In the indictment of an inspec tor. With this Indictment obtained. District Attorney Whitman will go "higher" according to intimations from his office, and 'an Indictment against a civilian official at police headquarters may be looked for, it was said. Through the confession of Captain Walsh, it has been learned, the amount alleged to have been collected from disorderly resorts alone for police pro tection in his precinct was about $1400 a month. This amount, it is alleged. Captain Walsh paid a patrolman $70 for collecting, and divided the remain der with an Inspector. In the same in spection district were four other pre cincts from which the collections are declared to have been of equal or larg er amounts. A part of this money Is said to have found its way "higher up" but of the exact amounts nothing could be learned. PEOPLE BLAMED BY WHITMAN District Attorney Says Voters Are Careless In City Affairs. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9. District Attorney Whitman, of New York. In an address here last night on the govern ment of American cities, declared that the unwholesome conditions found to exist in municipalities are due to the people themselves in failing to elect officers tq. enforce the laws. Mr. wKitman spoke before t'.ie American Academy of Political and So cial Science. He pointed out that thou sands of citizens go to tho polls to vote for President, but fall to do their duty at municipal elections and are the most free In their denunciation of munici pal corruption. "We devise what we believs to be a correct plan of government." Mr. Whitman said. '"and by our further In- (Concluded on Pag 4. I OFFICIALS '(Concluded ea Page Z.J by Rebels.