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VOL. LIII-XO. 16,321. 3 FULL FROM FIRE II Hop Sing Gunmen Kill Two, Wound One. BOW LEUNG MEN ARE VICTIMS Shootings Take Place in Rapid Succession Last Night. 20 CHINESE ARE ARRESTED Polio Round Up Suspects for In vestigation Lew Soon Stands at Boor of Store While Two Alleged Aides 6hoot- TOJfQ WARS WAr.FI) W IHBM COAST CITIES. At Portland Two killed. " wounded. The dead. Lam Foon and Chans Ah Gons; wounded. Bins Man Victim members of Bow L.un tons: aaaallanta. Hop lns. At Seattle Three wounded. They ere Chin On and Chin Tin, of Hop Sins tons and VT. O. Tan. of Hip Sins tons- B Leung garimm blamed. At Fan Francisco Louis Jin. of Hop 81ns tons "hot and killed by member of Bins Kons tons. Two Chinese were shot and killed last night In a revival of an old tons war between the Hop Sing tong and the How Leung tons'. The shootings. In .. .nnh.r Chinese was slightly wounded, took place within a few min utes of each other, at points in .mua tomn i: blocks apart, at about 9 o'clock. Those killed were members of the Bow I-eung tons, and the men who shot them are said to be of the Hop Sinus. The Chinese killed were Chung Ah Oi.nir. so years old. In a restaurant at Fourth street North, and Lam Foon, proprietor of a store at 81 Second street. Hlng Man. a flunky at the siore. was sligntly wounded by a bul et which praxed his back. Shooting Carefully Planed. Im Foon's death was Instantaneous, but Chung Ah Gong lingered for three hours In St. Vincent's hospital, where the police sent him In an ambulance. Evidently carefully planned as to time, the report of the first shooting had hardly reached the police station when news came of the other, which was within two blocka of the tempo rary station at . Sixth and Everett streets. Lam Foon. proprietor of a Chinese stors at 81 Second street, received two bullets through bis shoulders from the front and two from behind, bringing almost instant death. At the same place, Hlng Man. who worked about the store, was shot and slightly wounded la the back. Lam Foon Is a Bow Leung tong member and a brother to Seld Jam. of the Seld fam ily. Bow Leung adherents. Seld Blag Harder Recalled. Chung Ah Gong, a Chinese 80 years old. was shot down as he sat In a booth In the Norn Kin Low restaurant on the second floor at "5 North Fourth street. He was shot through the left lung, slightly above ths heart, the bullet ranging downward. With Lew Soon, who was arrested a year ago in connection with the Seld B'.ng murder, standing In the door and watching the efforts of his cohorts, Hoole Chung and Looe Hlng, two Hop Sing tong men. walked Into the store at CS Second street, about o'clock. Draw ing revolvers, after they had asked nine- Man for some tobacco, they shot at Chung Ah Gong, and one bullet creased his back. As Chung jumped down behind the counter, they walked toward the rear of ths store, and when Lam Foon started toward the secret room at the back, they shot. As hs turned around In falling, they pumped two more bullets Into him. killing him 1.1 most Instantly. Saoottnc Is Wltacaaed. Hlf a dozen Chinamen who were In or about the store Identify the three as the gunmen and say that Lew Soon was the director of the tragedy. In the Nom Kim Low restaurant at 7 5 Fourth street. North, a Chinaman. to years old. as sitting at meal. Two white men were sitting near and their siory of the shooting is this: A China man, with a gun In hand, entered the front door snd another by the kitchen entrance of the place, and closed in on the old man before he could rise from lus chair. They shot at him several times. The testimony of the two men became vsgue at this point, because they ran out, with others In the place. The two. Chinese ran down the back stairs of the brick block and vanished. Detective Royle and ratrolman Long, u ith two reporters, hastened at once to the Hop Sing Tong headquarters, on t.e opposite corner of Fourth and Everett streets. The bunks and living-rooms were unoccupied and In dis order, and neither In the meeting hall .f the tong nor the living quarters were any Chinese to be found. Captain Riley, of ths first relief, and a squad of police, rounded up 20 Chi nese In the restaurant and took them to the police station for Investigation. Among them was Hoi Man. a young Chinese, who was Identified by Emma Crawford, a Depress and frequenter of OF WARRH6 TONGS iConcIuded n rase 4. CANNON STILL IN POLITICS, HE SAYS PRIVATE AMBITION, HOWEVER, SO LONGER FACTOR. Ex-Speaker, Now Private Cltixen, Shuns Trip Around World, but May Visit In South. WASHINGTON. March 16. Joseph nnmev Cannon, private cltixen. went home today, accompanied by two big cedar boxes containing private letters snd documents of a long series of years In Washington's political turmoil. "What are you going to do back homeT" he was ssked. "WelL my business Is In pretty good shape." he said. "I guess I'll Just look . - hi. The folks are planning a trip around the world, but I'm not going. I may take a little run through Mississippi and Arkansas, but uiai win be about all the traveling I'll do." "Will you continue In political "Wh.. r mu Interest in nolltlcs. you can bet I will be dead; I will still be In politics as private citizen." Then, as an after thought ne saia. "Without personal ambition." AGE NO BAR TO ACTIVITY Mrs. E. A. Pierce at S Cares for Farm and Helps Xelghbors. Mrs. E. A. Pierce, who lives alone on her ranch at the Junction of the Sandy and Zigzag rivers, near Mount Hood, has Just completed her 68th year. Tkranrh her own efforts she has de veloped her ranch from its wild stave Into an attractive and productive larm on the north bank ot tne Banay niv". Mrs. Pierce, In spite of her great ago, full of enere-y. and can do m re .nrv than the average young woman. She Is now engaged In preparing for a Spring crop, planting loganberries ana garden truck. She Bas wood cut for the ensuing year, and will soon have fresh lettuce. tain home Is loved by its owner, and nothing could tempt her to move to town. When anybody Is sick or In trouble Mrs. Pierce Is generally the first to render assistance. COAST RAINS PREDICTED Northern Border to Experience Snow, Says Weather Bureau. WASHINGTON. March 16. Low tem- - win nrevall the creater part of the coming week over the country east of the Rocky Mountain. wn Moncay and Tuesday In the Southern states except the central and southern portions of Florida, according to me weekly weather bxreau bulletin Is sued today. "With the exception ot ngnt iomi snows along the northern border and rains in the North pacific states." says the bulletin, "the weather will be gen erally fair for the next several days. tk. i,Tt disturbance of Importance to cross the country will appear in the Far West Tuesday or weanesaay. pro ...ii nwer th Middle West about Thurs day and the Eastern states Friday or Saturday. This disturbance win do pre ceded by rising temperature and be at tended by locsl rains." SARTORIAL HOME RULE AIM American Designers Are Urged to Ignore Paris Fashions. NEW TOP.K. "March 16. Sartorial home rule, or the designing of Ameri can fashions for American women, is to be proclaimed In this country, according to promises today in speeches made be fore the Women American Designers, members of the United Cloak and Suit Designers' Mutual Aid Association, hold. Ing its semi-annual convention here. As a matter of fact It was declared the fashion revolution In the United States Is already about completed and our conventional dependency on Paris has been practically eliminated. Designers were urged to study Ameri can pictures and to Ignore cubist and futurist creations. "Paris has gone mad for sensation." It was declared in this connection. The convention voted for a SO to 40 Inch length for women's coats and Jack ets during the coming season, CLAMD1GGERS FACE DEATH Bay City Visitors Lose Boat and Narrowly Escape Drowning. BAT CITT, Or March 16. (SpeclsX) While John Borba. of Beaver; A. M. Borba. of Tillamook, and two other men. were digging clams today on the tide flats near the center of Tillamook Bay. the arising tide swept away their rowboat. The men tried to reach higher ground, but the tide flowed too fast, and while yet a long distance from safety rendered further progress Im possible. After a long time they man aged to attract attention by shouting, and E. A. Hess reached them with his rowboat In time to save their Uvea A powerboat dispatched from the llfe savlns station arrived about the same time. "F" ON NICKEL DEFENDED Treasury Department Says Artist's Initial Is Not Unusual. WASHINGTON. March 16. Protests against the Initial "F" of Artist Fraxer. appearing on the sew nickel, caused officials of the Treasury Department to declare today that this was customary on practically ell the coins of- the United States and of other nations. On some foreign coins the artist's full name appears. PORTLAND, OREGON. 3IOXDAT, LEWIS READY FOR NEW ILLINOIS DEAL Colonel Still Hopes to Be Senator. BRYAN ON WAY TO CONFER Wilson Said to Favor Compro mise on J. B. Payne. DEMOCRAT MUCH DESIRED Lewis' Friends Point to Possibility of Combination With Lorlmer or Hopkins Forces, or With Progressives. CHICAGO. March !. (Special.) The crisis In the long-drawn-out United States Senatorshlp deadlock at Spring field will be reached this week. with Secretary of State Bryan, armed with President Wilson's commission, on the way to use his offices to obtain the election of a Democrat, the vari ous candidates today marshaled their forma and manned out lines of pro cedure. Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, Democratic primary choice for the long term, and Charles Boeschensteln, or ganization selection for the short term, are especially Interested In the visit of the Secretary of State. Para Offered aa Compromise. Mr. Bryan Is declared to have White House authority to suggest John Bar ton Payne as a compromise candidate If it appears Impossible to elect either of the announced active condidates. Mr. Boeschensteln today conferred with Roger C. Sullivan, who returned today from Washington. State Chair man Charles also was a party to the conference. Mr. Boeschensteln Issued a statement tonight. In which he urged the Democratic legislators to stand firm for the election of two Democrats when the Legislature convenes again. From the Lewis camp came the of-ei-ii- snnonncement that John Mc Carthy, former Sullivan head of the county committee, and Mayor Alien, oi Jollet, had been named campaign man- . f. the oolonel. with full power to act for the advancement of the Lewis candidacy. v wta Friend Predict Election. Backers of Colonel Lewis Insist that Mr. Bryan will urge the Legislature to ' stand behind the primary choice, and they predict the Colonel's election. It was Intimated that while the Lewis forces are standtng upon their former position, that Colonel Lewis and Law rence Y. Sherman, Republican primary nominee, should be elected, they held ( Concluded on Page STYLES MAY CHANGE. BUT ST. PATRICK'S DAY GOES ON FOREVER. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 55 aegrees; jjunimuiu, ' TODAY S Occasional rain; southerly winds. Faretan. TMfeated Mexican rebels plan to renew fight Militants "mobbed by crowd of 10.000 la London, page i. Turks refuse demands of allies. Page 1. Murder suspected In death of American auncer ou uvea u ....-.. o - National. Congress pressed to consider additional sub. , - . unln. Tae 2. Wilson visits secluded church to avoid cur ious throngs. Page 2. Carnegie endowment urges repeal of tolls- nempiioB pra.iNuu v. .- Domestic, Cannon still In politics bat without private ambition. Page 1. Secretary Redfleld says redueed tariff will mean new moral nwu - 1). Q Burglars get 6250.000 loot by tunnelling Into pawnshop vaults. Page 3 James Hamilton Lewis ready for new deal In Illinois contest. rf. pacific Northwest. Idaho Legislature raakes expense record. Testimony of wife In Henry murder trial at Aioany ipcciuauvc 6D w. Qulnautt Indian reservation allotments or dered will benefit about 1000 persons. Sudden death of Forest Grove woman still mystifies, rage a. Sports, Rigglnbotham and Bellmann stars In Beaver victory over negroes. Page o. Anderson and Brown to fight again, pro Fandom blames manager for Anderson s failure to win fight. Page 8. Ed Shearer elected captain of Multnomah Club oaseoail team. r.g. w. Portland and Vicinity. Two Chinamen kl'!ed In tong war In Pert- lana: one .i .i--u a? .a... t CsaffU TTM 1. Unsolicited contribution of 2500 tart off festival fund. PK S. Norwegian attend reception for Minister Bryn. Page 8. - Chicago Grand Opera Company riven ova tion In San Francisco. Page 9. Preliminary organisation of American -Irish .Historic at iuiim a. - T-j-t. in nKurVa r Putrick'i riT. Pare 14. palm Sunday observed la Portland churches. Page 14. Eigh teen -year-old girl to explore bottom of UA1ae1 i v-Hlf. P Barak JL Campaign for park band lssno to be con tinuous until wTCtiou, ras" Portland school children will hunt Kastet eggs In parks. Page 1. "Movies" may play part In Mayoralty com- palgn. Pago S. F. X. Matthleu, Oregon pioneer of 1843, i seriously lit Page 14. Atito Shaw opens tonight. Page 4. Weather report, data and forecast. Page t. FRIEDMANNAT BELLEVUE Phvsician to Treat 12' Tuberculosis Patients Today. NEW YORK, March 16. Friederich Frans Friedmann returned here today from Canada and made preparations for administering his tuberculosis -vac cine to 12 patients in Bellevue Hospital tomorrow. Dr. Friedmann visited Bellevue today and met Dr. John F. Anderson, director of the hygienic laboratory of the Uni ted States Public Health Service, who will watch on be.ialf of the Govern ment the cases treated by Dr. Fried mann. Later Dr. Friedmann visited Mount Sinai hospital, where he examined the patients he treated a week ago. Con cerning their condition he would say nothing. He expressed pleasure at the reception given him in Canada and said he would return soon to observe the ef fects of his vaccine on the patients he Inoculated there. s WOHEH PLASTERED WITH 10 BY IB 10,000 Men Attack Mil itant Speakers. POLICE ARE OVERWHELMED Deluge of Missiles Pours in Over Officers' Heads. RETREAT TURNS, TO ROUT Suffragettes Torn From Protecting forces and Dragged In Streets. Ringleaders Under Arrest Rescued by Fellows. LONDON, March 16. The suffragettes who again attempted to hold a Sunday afternoon meeting In Hyde Park today were mobbed by a crowd of 10,000 per sons. They were pelted with clods, oranges and other missiles, and when the police were escorting them from the scene the rioters tore off the hats and cloaks of the women, and even struck some of them in the face. Tha trouble began when General' Mrs. Flora Drummond mounted a wagon and started to speak to the great assemblage, which was largely made up of youths who had armed themselves with ammunition of vari ous descriptions or with trumpets, mouth organs and bells. Clod Strikes Woman In Month. Her appearance at the front of the platform was the signal for an outburst of deafening noise and a bombardment of missiles. She had hardly uttered a word when a clod of turf struck her on the mouth. Mrs. Drummond maintained her good nature, smiled at her tormentors and continued her speech amid a veritable tornado of abuse, catcalls, ragtime choruses and cries of "Go home to your children." .. .. -' Tor half an hour the crowds shouted, sang and pelted the suffragette commander-in-chief, whose clothes soon were a mass of mud. At last Mrs. Drummond's speech, of which not a word waa audible, came to an end and a younger woman took her place. She fared no better, and the police, realiz ing the danger the women were in, called upon the chairman to close the meeting. Police Efforts Futile. A large force of police,- mounted and afoot, drew in about the suffragette wagon, and under the escort the women were led out of the park, followed by a Jeering crowd, which continued to (Concluded on Page 3.) 10.000 PUPILS WILL HUNTEGGSIN PARKS SCHOOXCHItDREX TO ENJOY GAMES SEXT MONDAY. Programme of Old-Time Games Has Been Arranged Under Di rection of Professor Krohn. Ten thousand school children will hunt for colored Easter eggs hidden at the playgrounds of Portland nest Monday afternoon. Sixty-five of the students In the Playground Training School will have charge of the youngsters, who will come from every grade up to the sixth In all of the public schools of the city. The eggs will be hidden by the train ing school people early in the after noon, at Washington. Sellwood. Colum bia and Peninsula playgrounds, and at 2:30 the children will be dismissed from the schoolrooms and permitted to go out to the playgrounds to engage in the search for the colored Easter tokens. After all of the eggs have been hunted from their lairs, the programme contemplates a series of sports and games, which have been prepared un der the direction of Professor Robert Krohn, in which the children will have an opportunity to put the eggs Into use. The exact nature of the games has not been announced, beyond the fact that they will furnish plenty of entertainment for the children.' Many of the Old World folk games of Easter-time probably will be intro duced. Members of the committee In charge of the plan are Park Superintendent E. T. Mische, Professor Robert Krohn, I H. Weir, Mrs. W. B. Ayer, Mrs. Stella W. Durham, Miss Valentine Prlchard. Miss E. Wold and Miss Mary Frances Isom. MORALS COURT PROVIDED Social Question to Be Treated Sepa rately in Chicago. CHICAGO, March 16. A "morals court," to have Jurisdiction over all municipal cases In which social immor ality is the chief factor, has been es tablished as an adjunct to the Munici pal Court of Chicago and will open its doors on April 1. A morals commis sion in connection with the court will Investigate conditions and prepare cases against violators of city ordi nances aimed against viclousness. The announcement of the court's es tablishment was made here today by Chief Justice Olson, of the Municipal Court. Justice Olson said that the opening of the court ivas another step, and a long one, in the campaign to stamp out the privileged vice districts ofithe city. ' Inmates, proprietors, renters, owners and agents of disorderly resorts will be card-Indexed and kept under sur veillance by the commission, it was said. 200 OUT INALABAMA COLD One Dead, Many Injured In Town Devastated by Flood and Storm. MOBILE, Ala., March 16. Two hun dred persons are homeless'""tonlght at Brewton, unsheltered from the. cold wae which has Alabama in its grip. Th flood which reached "Its crest at 9:30 o'clock Saturday night, has not subsided, according to todays ai patches. One life Is known to have been lost. Many have been lnlured. The town Is In darkness and business is paralyzed. The floods are not ex pected to recede perceptibly before Wednesday, and the damage is esti mated at $200,000. There have been no trains to or from Brewton since Friday. 12 STATES JOIN CRUSADE O'Hara, of Illinois, Tells of Aid Promised In Anti-Vice Movement. SPRINGFIELD, TIT, March 16. Lieutenant-Governor O'Hara. chairman of the Senate committee Investigating the "white slave" evil In Illinois, announced tonight he had received letters from Governors of 12 states offering to co operate with him to suppress the traffic In women and kindred evils. The Governors from the following states have responded: New York. Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Virginia, South Dakota, South Carolina, Missis sippi, Michigan, Kentucky, Georgia, Wyoming and West Virginia. GAME'S EXCITEMENT FATAL Woman on Way to Wed Dies After Shuffleboard Contest. NEW TORIC, March 16. To the ex citement of a close game of shuffle board played last Friday on deck of the liner Baltic, which arrived here to day, was attributed the death of Mrs. Minnie McNea, of Vancouver, B. C. She died shortly afterward from an attack of apoplexy. The body was brought to port for burial in Canada. Her death cut short a romance. Mrs. McNea was engaged to George F. Wil liams, a prosperous Canadian, whom she expected to marry shortly after landing. PASTOR D0ESN0T FORGIVE Clergyman's Wife Who Ran Away With Burglar Is Still Outcast. CHICAGO, March 16. Mrs. Mabel Clarkson, the clergyman's wife who was abandoned in Milwaukee by Owen D. Conn, the burglar under arrest at San Francisco, did not effect a recon ciliation with her husband today. Kev. Mr. Clarkson did not come to see her at the home of friends, where the woman found a temporary refuge, and Mrs. Clarkson did not seek him. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ALLIES' TERMS ARE Outlook for Balkan Peace Gloomy. ARMIES RESUME ACTIVITIES Bulgars Take Redoubt at Point of Bayonet. SCUTARI IS BOMBARDED Greek Cavalry Captures 1570 Men and SO Officers Europe Con siders Demand for Indem nity Extravagant. LONDON. March 16. There is ne prospect for acceptance by Turkey of the peace terms as proposed by tne allies. Dispatches from Constantinople tonight say the leading members of the committee of union and progress have decided that the conditions can not be accepted, and it is understood that the Council of Ministers has adopted the same view. The Grand Vizier, Mahmoud Shefket Pasha, visited the Red Crescent So ciety today, and beged the members to continue their efforts, as the gov ernment was resolved to continue the war, Europe Sides With Porte. All other capitals and among the ambassadors In London the allies' de mands are considered extravagant, es pecially with regard to the payment of indemnity and the cession of Scutari and the Aegean Islands. In the meantime agitation against Bulgaria continues in Greece. Ths Greeks in Thrace and Eastern Mace donia have sent a petition to Athens against their Incorporation by Bul garia. Premier Venlzelos, in reply, boldly declared that he long ago had notified the allies that Greece laid no claim to Thrace, this announcement, made in the Chamber of Deputies, aroused vigorous protests. Armies Resume Skirmishing. With the Improvement in weather conditions, the armies In ths Near East have become more active, although thus far no news of a pitched battle of any Importance has come through. According to official reports Issued at Sofia, the Bulgarians and Turks at Tchatalja have had reconnolterlng par ties in collision. In one case a rather sharp engagement resulted. Two Bul garian parties sent out in the direc tion of Akalon took a redoubt to the east of that village at the point of the bayonet. Turks I.eave 300 on Field. The Turks, having been reinforced, tried to recapture the redoubt, but In tire attack lost 300 dead and wounded, who were left on the field. The same day the Turks advanoed toward Kadlkoui, but were repulsed. According to reports, conditions In the Galllpoll Peninsula are quiet. The Turkish warships are reported to have bombarded the Bulgarian positions at Slllvrl, but with what result is not known. Late advices say the Montenegrin siege guns have begun a fierce bom bardment of Scutari, a portion of which is in flames. The 'Greeks continue to gather In stray bodies of Turks. Near Arnltsa the Greek cavalry captured two Turk- r lsh battalions, comprising 1670 men and 30 officers. TURKISH CRUISER ACCLAIMED Hamadieh Said to Have Killed Jl Servians in Bombardment. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt. March 16 The Turkish cruiser Hamadieh arrived here this morning and an enthusiastic crowd gathered on the quays to wel come her. The cruiser does not appear to have sustained any damage during the Adri atic raid. She will leave tomorrow for an unknown destination, LONDON, MarchTS. A Belgrade dis patch says that 119 men were killed during the Hamadieh's bombardment of the Servians on the Adriatic coast. GABY'S MOTHER ON VISIT Mine. Carle Declares So Jewelry. Saying Daughter lias Enough. NEW TORK, March 16. (Special.) Gaby Deslys' mother, Mme. Almazaire Carie, arrived today by the Kaiseiin Augusta Victoria, and was greeted ef fusively on the pier by her daughter. Mme. Carle, who Is only 42, and looks younger, declared no Jewelry, saylns her daughter had enough for the fam ily. Mme. Carie will be here nearly three months, or until the end of Mile. Deslys' appearance at the Winter Gar den. About a report that Manuel, ex King of Portugal, was coming to this port by the liner George Washington, due tomorrow from Bremen, Southamp ton and Cherbourg, Mile. Deslys de clined to talk. Bryan Leaves for Nebraska. WASHINGTON, March 16. William J. Bryan, Secretary of State, left to night for Lincoln, Neb., to attend a public ctlebratlon of his birthday on March IS. The Secretary will be away from his desk for ten du REFUSED BY TURKS