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PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL,. LIII SO. 16,293. SHRAPNELFiRt TEARS STREETS E Hundreds Killed in Battle Conducted Partly From Skyscrapers. AMERICAN CONSULATE HIT Steel and Concrete Building of Y. M. C. A. Used as Screen by Fighting Men. FLOYD OSBORNE IS WOUNDED Author One of Three Americans to Suffer Injury. ISSUE STILL UNDECIDED Shells Fall Throughout City and Pavements Are Converted Into Fortifications Bhmquet Says Tie Is Loyal. IOE3O00 CTTT. Feh. 11. A pitched battle was fought today among; the skyscrapers and homes of one of the great cities of the world between ad herents of President Francisco Madero and the revolutionary forces of General Felix Diaz. Cannon roared in the streets of the densely populated city ana rifle bul lets spattered against the walls that housed thousands of foreigners as well as the countrymen of the combatants. When darkness put an end to the bat tle, after seven hours' fighting, neither aide appeared to have gained any marked advantage. Dead .Vumbered In Hundreds. Estimates of casualties run as high as 1000. although accurate Information cannot be obtained at this time. The dead certainly will be counted by hun dreds. Three Americans are known to have suffered Injuries by stray bullets. They are Lloyd Osborne, the author, who was hot In the thigh; Dr. K. H. McCrosson. of Lincoln. Neb., and Mark Johnson, a negro, of Madison. 111. Artillery played the chief part in the day's fighting. The rifle fire was kept up continuously. Scarcely four blocks separated the heavy guns of the opposing forces, but the shells fell throughout the entire city. In no section were the inhabi tants safe. Office buildings, devoted tint II now to the battles of busnless, were turned into fortresses. T. M. C. A. Building; Rattle Onter. 1 nder the red (lag of Diaz tho Young Men's Christian Association building Ml made the screen of a machine guti battery which sprayed a rain of bullets through the streets upon the soldiers of Madero, while the return Are sought every crack and cranny of the building. The occupants wero driven from the leading-rooms and dormitories and tiieir places taken by soldiers. Sharpshooters and machife gun bat teries took up their positrons on the tops of skyscrapers and picked off any enemy that broke cover. Office build ings and residences were loop holed for rifle fire and the rattle of musketry replaced the click of typewriters and telegraph Instruments. 'Yemeni. Made Into Barricade. l.'nder a heavy shrapnel tiro streets were torn up and the pavements formed Into barricades by the Diaa soldiers against the assaults of the Maderistas. Time after time the ad herents of Madero swept forward in an attempt to carry the Diaz positions by assault and four times they were repulsed by the tire that poured from the swinging muzzles of machine guns and from the modem rifles with which the Diaz Infantry was armed. At a late hour In the afternoon neither side had gained a decisive ad vantage, although the Diaz forces had maintained and even extended their positions. The assault on the Diaz positions was ordered by Madero. In spite of the friendly offer of Francisco de la Barra. the former provisional President, to act as mediator, and over the protest of the American Ambassador and the dip lomatic representatives of other foreign powers, even though he knew that this would entail a terrlnc bombardment of the capital. The federal assault on the rebels for tified in and around the arsenal began at 10:1S In the morning. Dins' Flmm: IVim Defiance. All through the day the federal com manders were placing their men In position. Twenty cannon, some of heavy caliber, had ben brought in from the outlying districts. Rurales were engaged in transporting am munition. From above the captured arsenal (Concluded on Page ft.) OF I X COC FY SKIRTS TO BE OF LONGNARROWTYPE ARBITERS OF FASHION SET STYLES FOR SPRING. Coats Will Be From 34 to 2" Inches Long Blouses Are Adopted as "leader lor Season." NEW YORK. Feb. 11. Arbiters of fashion set tooay for the Nation and Canada Spring styles and length of women's outer garments. After arguing hotly at night and discussing the matter more calmly to day representatives of the National Ladles' Tailors' and Dressmakers' As sociation from SI states, the District of Columbia and Canada, announced to night that coats are to be 24 to 27 Inches long, skirts from one to three and one half inches from the ground, and the train skirts from 4-to 12 inches in length. California. Illinois and Canada a'.l had suggestions for coat lengths, scal ing from 22 inches to 32 inches, while California radically demanded that skirts range from two to five and one half Inches from the floor. The meas ures adopted.-however, were those pro posed by New York. With New York voted Massachusetts, Maryland, Vir ginia, New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Rhode , . ., YieenPi , Tennessee. North and South Carolina and the Dis trict of Columbia According to tho announcement. New -v-avv. nmndM: of "blouses as the leader of the season" was accepted, to gether with the following styles: "Fancy cuts for tailor-made gar ments: habit effects for skirts: bias lines in tailors' skirts; top coats, box effects and small drapings or. back and front; sleeveless coats for three-piece suits: skirts not wider man one ami one-half yards around the bottom." "BOMB" FOUNDJN CAPITOL Janitor Finds Bottle of Nitro-Glycer-Ine and Buries It. STATE CAPITOL Salem. Or.. Feb. 11. iSpeclal.) Lying in a little grave somewhere on the State Capitol grounds, just where Head Janitor George Dunsford, refuses to state, is a mysterious bottle, supposed to con tain nltro-glycerlne. At least written on the outside of the Bottle was that awful word. Dunsford found it lying in the lobby, in the rotunda of the Capitol on the second floor with the crowds of lob byists surging on every side. He did not stop to ascertain whether some Jokester was responsible for leaving the bottle or whether some plot of a fanatic was being perpetrated to blow up the building. Gingerlv he carried the bottle to a remote point on the grounds. Placing it gently on the sod he stepped several feet away and dug a deep hole. The bottle was laid as gingerly into the hole and the sod was dropped, a few handfuls at a time, on the bottle. "I will take no chances," said Duns ford. BIG ELECTRIC DEAL IS ON Milwaukee Railway Would Buy "W. W. P." System at Spokane. SPOKANE. Wash., Feb. 11. (Spe cial.) The Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway plans to purchase the Washington Water Power Company, using the four power plants of the lat ter to furnish power for the electrifica tion of the Milwaukee main line be tween Avery. Idaho, and the Columbia River and for the development of an extensive system of interurban feeders radiating from Spokane. This is the project which is belni; worked out in connection with the electrification of the main line between llarlowtown, Mont., and the coast. tv y1iti contemnlates the consoli dation of tho city lines of the Wash ington Water Power Company and the Spokane Traction Company, to betaken over by a holding companj'. and a dis tinct and separate corporation which will be friendly to both the Rockefeller and Hill lines. The Interurban sys tem of the Spokane & Inland will re main with the Kill?. ELIOT CRITICISES TAFT Fourth-Class Postmaster Order Held j Blow at True Clrll Service. BOSTON. Feb. U. President Taft was criticised today by President Em eritus Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard University, for having placed fourth- class postmasters of the country under. civil service rules. The criticism was contained in a hearing ou civil service matters at the State House. "I greatly regret to criticise a Presl- i dent of the United States, and I regret j that a President of the United States should issue such an order as that Issued just after the election." said Dr. Eliot. "The fourth-class postmasters were patronage appointees. They are to be continued in office now simply because of the application of the spoils sys tem. The blow has been struck from the capital at true civil service." $1 BILL SENT BY POST Albany Man Malls Paper Money to Son in Colorado. ALBANT. Or.. Feb. 11. (Special.) One of the most unique packages ever sent by parcel post was a dollar bill mailed out of the Albany postofflce to day. A small card bearing the address and a 2-cent stamp was pinned to the center of the bill, which was not en closed at all. The bill was sent by H. S. Logan, ticket agent at the Oregon Electric depot here, to his son at Fort Morgan. Colo, POWER BILL MADE E DRASTIC YET Northwestern Electric Is Open Target. TWO PROJECTS ARE ASSAILED At White Salmon and Klickitat Plants Measure Is Aimed. SENATE COMMITTEE ACTS In Executive Session Draft Curbing Interstate Electric Traffic Is In dorsed Officers of Corpor ation Are Heard. OLTMPIA, Wash., Feb. 11. (Spe cial.) In executive session here to night the Senate committee on Irriga tion and arid lands voted, 4 to 1, in favor of a drastic bill aimed to oust tho Northwestern Electric Company from the White Salmon and Klickitat rivers, where power for Portland is to be generated. The bill, if enacted into law, will prohibit the use of water within this state in generating power to be sold outside the state except by companies which are actually supplying such Interstate power on or before March 1 of this year. The executive session of the com mittee was held after a Joint open meeting of the irrigation and arid lands committees of the House and Senate, at which representatives of the Northwestern Company were given an opportunity to defend their rights. The company was represented by Gen eral Manager W. E. Coman and At torney Erskine Wood. Present also was W. S. Yearsley. from whom the company Becured tho riparian rights on the Klickitat River. Drastic Is Measure. The bill as It has been Indorsed Is more drastlo than the original measure considered by the Senate Judiciary committee and the House Irrigation commltee last Saturday. The original bill was aimed primarily at the Klick itat River part of the company's new generating system, while the new measure Is aimed at both the Klickitat plant and that to be situated on the White Salmon. The original bill was so worded that it would have affected also the rights of the Washington Water Power Com pany, of Spokane, to transmit power trom this state to mines and towns of Idaho, which prohibition was not de sired by the members of the commit tee or the originators of the scheme to oust the Northwestern Company. Back- (Concluded on Page 3. 1 1 tf9-&sr INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 4 degrees; minimum, 3 degrees. TODAVS Fair; easterly winds. Foreujrn. Amundsen says fate of Scott party wilt not deter him from exploring Arctic. Page 5. Turks lose 6000 men In battle at Bulalr. Page 6 Mexico City torn by shrapnel in seven hours battle amid skyscrapers; hundreds arc killed. Page 1. Northern party of Captain Scott's South Polar expedition undergoes terrible hard ships. Page 1- Iesi slntures. Oratory la eliminated in House and bills get through. Page ti. Washington Senate puts teachers' pension up to voters and House passes oiii to pension mothers. Page 7. House, at night, passes Malarkey wage bill. Page 8. Northwestern Electric is open target of Washington Legislature. Page L. National. Cost of Congress will break all record Page 4. Fight on Connecticut River dam bill opens in Senate. Page 16. President and advisors. In session until 2 A. M.. order battleships to Mexico and Army transports placed in commission. Page 1. Domestic. Five West Virginia legislators charged with bribers'. Page 2. I Suffragists to start on "hike" from New Tork to Washington touay. rage o. Gaynor suggests "department of morals" to control saloons, gambling and houses of Ill-repute. Page 2. James J. Hill says credit Is more and more abused. Page 2 Arbiters of fashion set Spring styles for women's skirts and coats. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Oregon Supreme Court hands down decision. Pace 7. Southwest Washington Association meets at Olj-mpla. Pago 4. Sport. National League selects nine umpires. Page 12. Rapps probably will be sent to Waterburs club. Pago i2. Multnomah Club elects directors. Page -2. Commercial and Marine. No wool contracting as opening of mar ket approaches. Page 17. Wheat prices depressed by plentiful mois ture In Winter crop belt. Page IT. New waterfront ordinance passed. Pag 16. Portland and Vicinity. Mra It. B. Lamson and S. S. Montague wed at New Rochelle. N. Y. Pago L Portland society to give musical comedy to aid Newsboy's Home. Page 10. Hugh McLaln. Oregon Democratic elector, works for Coos Bay Improvement at Washington. Page 10. Articles of Incorporation of company to fight loan sharks approved by business men. Page 10. President of Commercial Club names com mittees. Page 11. Joseph R. Keep arrested at The Dalles. Page 16. LOSS OF LEGDELAYS LAW Seattle Man on Way to Hear Jail Sentence Injured by Trolley. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 11. (Spe cial.) When Ernest M. Dobbs failed to appear in Justice of the Peace Fred C. Brown's court yesterday to be sen tenced to six months for petty larceny an investigation was started which dis closed that Dobbs was fallen under a streetcar and was at the time court officers were looking for him under going amputation of his right leg below the knee. Dobbs had pleaded guilty to taking electric light goods, valued at $19.30, from his former employes, but when up for sentence January 27 obtained a stay, pleading his wife was destitute and would starve unless ho could earn enough to support her while he was In Jail. NOT GETTING ANYWHERE. ANTARCTIC HEROES SURVIVE ICY DEATH Northern Party Passes Terrible Winter. FOOD AND FUEL RUN SHORT Campbell and Men Live Half Year on Month's Supplies. SNOWDRIFT USED AS HOME Burrow inf Igloo 1 3 With Down, Explorers Builil by 9 Feet and Line It Seaweed Seal and Blubber Are Ealen. (CoDvrlaht by the New York Times and The OregonlanO CHEISTCHUKCH, N. Z., Feb. 11. (Special.) Terrible In the extreme were the experiences of Lieutenant Campbell's party, which formed the Northern expedition of Captain Scott's force. For more than six months the men cut off fTom the rest of the exploring body suffered the greatest of priva tions from hunger and sickness and constantly were fai:e to face with death. The fortitude of the men in bearing their hardships uncomplaining ly was at all times admirable and the hope that their companions would bring relief sustained them when their resources, began to be exhausted. On November 5, 1912, Surgeon El. I Atkinson, after finding the bodies of Captain Scott, Dr. Wilson and Lieu tenant Bowers, and vainly searching for the body of Captain Oates. brought his party to the Hut Point Winter quarters and there received the wel come news that the entire Northern party, consisting of Lieutenant V. L. A Campbell, Surgeon G. M. Levlck, Mr. Priestly, the geologist. Petty Officers O. P. Abbot and F. V. Browning and Seaman H. Dlckason, had returned in safety to the expedition's base at Cape Evans on November 7. Ice Bars Way to Coast. - Lieutenant Campbell's party, which had been picked up at Cape Adare and landed for a short sledge Journey in January, 1912, returned to Terra Nova Bay on February 17. expecting to be picked up by the Terra Nova. The ship, as detailed in last year's dispatches, met with ice conditions In approaching the coast that were quite Insuperable and the party was forced to make their own way back to Cape Evans, some 200 miles away. The Journey could not be attempted until the sea was properly frozen over. (Concluded on Page 5.) MRS. LAMSON NOW MRS. MONTAGUE 1'ORTLAND COUPLE WED WHII.F. VISITING IX EAST. Fair Arc Cousins and Prominent in Society Here Announcement of Marriage Surprise. News of the marriage at New Ho ii.elle, X. Y., last Saturday of S. B. Montasue and Mra. R. B. Lamson. both prominent residents of Portland, was rt-ceived by friends In this city yester day. While It was known that Mr. Montague had been attentive for some time to his present bride, ho announce ment was made of the plans for the wedding- and consequently the an nouncement yesterday came as & com plete surprise. Mrs. Montague was the widow of R. B. Lamson, a leading lawyer and capi talist of Portland, who was killed by a fall from a horse while racing at St. Helens, July 3, 1911. She is the sister of R. W. Montague, of Portland, who was her husband's law partner, and of James Montague, at whoat. home In New Rochelle the wedding took place. S. S. Montague and his bride are cousins. He Is vice-president of the Montague-O'Reilly Company and -president of the St. Helens Quarry Com pany. Both Mr. and Mrs. Montague are members of Portland society. The bride has been visiting in the Kaat since last November. Two weeks ago Mr. Montague left for New York on an announced business trip and not until yesterday did his friends know that his mission was a romantic one. Mr. and Mrs. Montague wfil return to Portland about February 23. CITIZENS TO HONOR SCOTT "White Mourning May Be Worn onj Friday for Late Kxp.orer. White mourning will be displayed on Friday by men and women Vbo will join in honoring the explorer. Captain Robert F. . Scott, and his men. who perished from exposure after having attained the South Pole. The men will wear a white flower in the lapel of their conts and the women will wear corsage bouquets. White roses, white carnations, lilies - of - the - valley and other flowers will be seen. On that day there will be a special memorial service in St. Paul's Cathe dral In London, and Dr. David Walker, of Portland, a member of the McClin tock expedition of nearly 50 years ago, which learned of the tragic outcome of the Sir John Franklin expedition, has suggested that white flowers be worn to honor the brave men. NEW NICKELHAS SETBACK Slot Machine Interests Securo Delay in Introduction. WASHINGTON". Feb. 11. Circulation of the proposed new nickel, scheduled for February- 11, was postponed Indef initely today by the Treasury Depart ment, because of protests of slot-ma chine interests. Manufacturers vigorously complained that Just as they had perfected chewing-gum and other slot machines to re fuse counterfeit nickels and "slugs" designed for fraud, the Government was about to place In circulation a five-cent piece, the design of which practically would nullify their Inven tions. Mint officials agreed to delay circulation to consider the protests. George E. Roberts, director of the mint, left Washington for Philadelphia for a conference with mint officials. "NO FUNDS" STARTS RUN Depositor Thinks Reference Is Made to Bank, Not Check Given. KLTRIA, O., Feb. 11. Several hun dred savings depositors in the First National Bank formed in line and be gan a run on the bank when the doors opened today. Tho run was started. It is said, by a story circulated by the payee of a check who did not under stand that the words "no funds," ac companying a check which was re turned to him, referred to the bank balance of the check-giver. The run ceased shortly after noon, after About $15,000 had been with drawn. The bank was examined about a month ago by a Federal hank exam iner and pronounced in excellent con dition. TWINS MITIGATE SPEEDING Judge Says They Are "Grand Ex cuse" and Kemits $6 Fine. CHICAGO. Feb. 11. "Speed if you like If you have new twins at home," is the rule Judge Fry put into force In the "speeders " court today. "Your honor." Albert Pongcr said when arraigned on a charge of speed ing, "someone phoned me that a to and a girl had arrived at my home. 1 forgot all speed regulations right Lhtn." "It's a grand excuse, and I like it," Judge Fry responded. "The costs, emountlng to $6, are remitted. Take the (S and start a $3 bank account for each of them." BILL TO CURB COURT DEAD Idaho Senate Opposes Legislative Control of Supreme Bench. BOISB. Idaho. Feb. 1L A resolu tion offered by Senator Dow Dunning, to amend the State Constitution so as to place the Supreme Court under the. Jurisdiction of the Legislature, was killed In the Idaho Senate today. The Senate also defeated a bank deposit guarantee measure. A public utilities commission bill, modeled after the California Taw, was passed In the House. CRISIS IS SEEN; TROOPS READY; 3 WARSHIPS GO Army Transports to Be Put in Commission at Once to Go to Mexico. CABINET SITS AT 2 A. M. Three Additional Battleships to Go to East Coast Today to Protect Americans. ARMY MEN AT CONFERENCE Troops to Be Held Ready to Rush to Trouble Zone. WOOD AT DESK ALL NIGHT President's Anxiety Increased hy Humor That American Ambassa dor Wilson Had Been Forced to Flee From Kmhassy. WASHINGTON. Feb. 12. As a result of an early morning conference at the White House, three additional battle ships will be sent to the oast coast of Mexico today and orders will be Issued at once for the Immediate placing In commission of two Army transports for the transport of troops to Mexico City for the protection of the lives of Americans and foreigners should the situation there grow any worse. Recognizing that a crisis In the Mexi can situation had been reached. Presi dent Taft summoned to the Whits House Secretary of State Knox, Secre tary of War Stlmson and Secretary of the Navy Meyer, together with several Army and Navy officers shortly after midnight. ,At 1:30 o'clock this morn ing the last of those summoned had arrived and with Secretary llllles a conference was begun In the library of the White House. Officers at Conference. The officers In the conference are: Major-General Wood, Chief of Staff of the Army; Brigadier-Genera! William Crozier, president of tho war college; Brigadier-General James B. Aleshlre. chief of the Quartermaster's corps of the Army, and Rear-Admiral Bradley A Flsk. of the Inspection department of the Navy. A general discussion of the advisa bility of troops and marines for Instant dispatch was begun as soon as all had arrived. President Taft's anxiety was said to have been increased by a rumor re ceived from Mexico City that American Ambassador Wilson had been forced to flee from the embassy. At an early hour no confirmation of this report could be obtained through official sources. Immediately on leaving the White House Major-General Wood went di rectly to the War Department, where he remained at his desk until nearly daylight working out details for the quick movement of troops, should the occasion ariBe. These troops probably would be mobilized at Galveston, Tex., and prepared to embark as soon as tho transports had reached that point from Newport News, Va. Millet, Issues Statement. Shortly before 2 o'clock Secretary HUles Issued the following statement: "After a conference called by tho President with the Secretaries of State, of War and of the Navy, it was not believed that the news from the City of Mexico required any action of an affirmative character other than to or der three more battleships to Vera Crux. These, Including the one or dered to Tamplco, will make four bat tleships on the gulf side of Mexico, or one division of the fleet, under the command of an Admiral. "The War Department will hold It self In readiness, but no affirmative ac tion was directed to be taken by the Secretary of War except to put two transports now at Newport News in commission- These transports will receive troops should further action be deemed nec essary. The purpose merely is to take precautionary steps to protect Amer icans and foreigners in the City of Mexico should conditions of violence continue and anarchy succeed. Precautions Are Taken. "The attitude of the Government still is strong against intervention and It was determined to take no step at this time which would commit us to such a policy and to take only the reasonable precautions to meet an exigency which it is earnestly hoped and believed will not arise." The battleships to be sent to Mexi can waters will be determined upon to day aa soon aa Secretary Meyer reaches his office. Orders were sent promptly (Concluded on Pax. 4.