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THIS MOKNING ORJEGOXIAN, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1U13. MEXICO IS FIRED iii WITH PATRIOTISM Thousands of All Ages Ask for Instruction in Use of Military Arms. PLANTERS OFFER MONEY Preparations Under AVay for Large Demonstration on Independence Day Kxodus or Americans In Centers Checked. MEXICO CITT. Aug. 31 A wave of patriotism is said to be sweeping over Mexico, and from many states and from all classes, it is announced, as surances of allegiance and offers of service are being received daily by President lluerta and his minister of war. Plans are being made for as large a display as possible of military strength on September 16. Independ ence Day. when It Is proposed to hold a big parade in which are ex cec ted to march. The war department has been called on to furnish military instructors to a dozen cities, where the fear of being impressed for service against the revo lutionists has given away before a later patriotic ardor. Thousands of all ages are asking to be drilled In the use of arms. Nor is the aid offered the govern ment confined to offers to serve in the ranks. A delegation of planters from the state of Morelos has waited on the president and tendered a subscription of 3.000.000 pesos. In addition to the students of the preparatory schools, where military In struction has been enforced for some weeks, the manual of arms is being taught workers who are attending night schools and the employes of the tax department. The employes or sev eral banks are also said to have or ganized a company and proferred their services. The newspapers continue to devote themselves editorially to the late diplomatic exchanges, dwelling on the alleged sympathy and encouragement Mexico is receiving from the press of France, Germany and Great Britain. Followers of General Felix Diaz ex pect him to return to Mexico City not later than October 4 to push his cam paign for the presidency. The excitement among American res- ldents over President Wilson's warning subsided to a large degree over Sun day. A limited number of persons left on trains to Vera Cruz today. The opinion is growing that the warning, so far as regards the large centers, will not be generally obeyed unless further Information of definite character is forthcoming. HALE HAS IMPORTANT FACTS Lind at Vera Crux Still Without Fur ther Intimations. VERA CRUZ, Aug. 31. Dr. "William Bayard Hale, who now is on his way to Washington, is expected to place before President Wilson and Secre tary of State Bryan important facts in the Mexican situation. The President's personal representative, John Lind, is still -here awaiting instructions from Washington, but so far has not re ceived any indication from the Huerta government that it would be willing to make more concessions to the Amer ican demand. It was considered not improbable that Foreign Minister Gamboa's ex planation that General Huerta could not become a candidate for the Pres idency at the next elections because of the constitutional amendment made during the Madero administration might bo construed by the American representatives as an assurance that he would withdraw definitely from the executive power after October at the latest, but Mr. Lind is cognizant that the Mexican constitution does not pre vent General Huerta from resigning and thus rendering himself eligible for the Presidency. Mr. Lind is also well ' Informed regarding the editorials in the Mexican newspapers since the ex change of notes, in which is suggested the necessslty of General Huerta's ac cepting such candidacy. The authorities at Vera Cruz, to whom has been shown the State De partment's Intimation that they would be held personally responsible for any maltreatment of Americans, appear to have taken the matter philosophically. Considerable confusion has resulted here through a misunderstanding on the part of the American refugees and American residents attempting to com ply with Washington's warning to leave Mexico. Consul Canada is lodg ing in hotels those Americans who represent that they need assistance, because there is no American transport here and no boat is sailing for some days. WASHINGTON STILL, IS WAITING Mexican Orders for Mobilization Cauc No Anxiety. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. Secretary of State Bryan, on his return today from a lecture trip, announced that nothing had been received at the State Depart ment from Mexico City to cause any alarm or to change the diplomatic sit uation that exists between this Gov ernment and the provisional govern ment in Mexico City. Mr. Lind, It was asserted, would re main in Vera Cruz tomorrow. That the Administration is still content to await hopeful developments is apparent on every hand. Presidet Wilson planning to remain at Cornish, N. H.. over Labor day. Reports of new orders for mobiliza tion of troops In Mexico by the pro visional authorities caused no excite ment in official circles here. At the War and Navy departments officers were on duty all day, but no reports from the Mexican border were received regarding atempts to smuggle arms Into Mexico. The Administration, it was reported, is encouraged by statements emanat ing from Mexico City which give strong indications that the provisional au thorities do not regard negotiations with the United States at an end, and that they are expecting to hear further from the American confidential agent. It was said tonight that no reports of anti-American demonstrations had been received. This, generally, was re garded as a favorable sign, in view of the fact that the exodus of Americans might have aroused some feeling. POLICE ROUTE STRIKERS Riots In Which Stones Are Hurled Result in Dublin. DUBLIN. Aug. 31. Fierce rioting In connection with the tramway strike was renewed today. Hundreds of per sons. Including 20 constables, were injured- Sixty or more persons were wounded Saturday. AH the hospitals are so crowded that many serious cases had to be sent to their homes for treat ment. The strike committee, in the interest of peace, had rescinded early in the morning the proposed mass meeting in O'Connell street and had sustituted a parade from Beresford place to Croy don Park at Fairview, a suburb on the north side of the city. The authorities meanwhile had prohibited the mass meeting. Croydon Park belongs to the Trans port Workers' Union and a meeting was held there without disorder. But on the return march attempts of the police by baton charge to disperse the constantly growing crowds led at once to rioting. The mob was Incensed by the arrest of one of strike leaders, James Larkin, against whom a war rant had been out for 24 hours. Larkin was on the balcony of a hotel in Saek ville street. He was wearing a dis guise, but an enthusias'c admirer raised the cry: "Three cr --ers for Lar kin." The police Immediately pounced on him and violent scenes ensued. The rioting became general in vari ous parts of the city. The police charged repeatedly with their sticks and this led to pitched battles. Stones, brickbats and bottles were hurled by the infuriated rioters and the streets soon were covered with prostrate forms. T.BS JEWELRY STOLEN COtOVtlS SIGNET RING IS GIV EN TO WOMAN. Missing Property All Found and Ne gro Employe of Household Is Arrested for Theft. MINEOLA, N. Y., Aug. 31. George A. Parker, a colored employe of Colonel Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill. Oyster Bay, was placed in Jail here tonight charged with having stolen J1000 worth of Jewelry from the Roosevelt home Saturday. All the Jewlry was recovered. Mdch of the Roosevelt jewelry and silverware has been in a safe deposit vault, until Thursday, when James Ames, t!ie colored butler in the em ploy of the family, removed the valu ables to the Roosevelt home. It was rumored tonight that the reason I'arker was discharged from the Colonel's home was an attack he had made on one of the maids em ployed in the household. It was said that the maid fled panic-stricken to Colonel Roosevelt with her story and the negro was immediately discharged. J. E. Amos. Colonel Roosevelt's secre tary, however, is said to have dis charged I'arker a week ago, before Colonel Roosevelt came home from the West. Amos then discovered the Jew elry had been stolen and called in de tectives. The most expensive article stolen by Parker was a pearl necklace with a diamond clasp, valued at $800. This was found today in a crevice in one of the closets in the house. Other articles were found in a Brooklyn pawnshop. Detectives found that Parker had shaved the Initials from one of the rings taken a signet ring of the Colonel's and had given it to a woman. Thi3 was recovered, too, Parker recently sold a bicycle belong ing to Kenneth Roosevelt to a Mineola dealer and also tried to dispose of a diamond pin to several villagers. "MONSTER" IS DREADED Ex-Suffragist Says Frankenstein Is Outdone. WASHINGTON. Aug. 31. (Special). 'Women who have obtained the fran chise are modern Frankensteins, cre ators of a political monster that has turned on the sex with appalling results." Thus the National Association Op posed to Woman Suffrage prefaces a statement given out today, containing a denunciation of woman suffrage by Miss Annie Bock, a California woman. who uses her own state as an illustra tion In support of her assertions. Miss Bock was one of California's most active suffragists for more than a year, but now Is working against it. As secretary of the California Po litical Equality League," says Miss Bock, "I gave without remuneration more than a year of my life, working tor suffrage. Now all I have to say is that if I had it to do over again, I would work twice as hard, if that were possible, against lt I consider the result of suffrage in California not only unsatisfactory and disappointing, but disastrous. Woman suffrage in California brought woman into too familiar con tact with man. She has her rights now; she is equal to him on his level. here previously men were enerally courteous, now they are rude. Woman suffragists will almost make one believe suffrage has been a great success in California, but if you analyze what they say you will fiind all the success they talk about is mere assertion. "Rev. Anna Howard Shaw is quoted as saying that in all the 65 years of fighting there has never been a man or woman advocate of equal suffrage wno Had done an unlawful act or who had been other than a law abiding citizen. Where has the Reverened Anna been all these years in her closet praying? I want to say to the Reverend Anna that there are hundreds of men and women who are advocating uur r irst oirtnaav Anniversary oaie 1 in the New Store Starts Tomorrow IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Read Monday Evening Papers for Full Particulars Regarding the Greatest Series of Sales Ever Offered the People of Portland man Merchandise of J Merit OnT .01 woman suffrage in this country alone who scorn the law, denounce the Bible, trample our flag and work to tear down our constitution." LATEST PORTRAIT OF MEXICO'S DEFIANT SELF-CONSTITUTED HEAD. ( - r Photo Copyright Cnderwood & Underwod, New York. PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT HUERTA RATES MAY CHANGE State Railroad Commission Will Start Hearings. VALUATIONS TO BE FIXED Commercial Contracts for Electrical Energy to Be Equalized and Prices Based; on Value of Company's Holdings. An important hearing on electric light and power rates in 11 cities of Oregon will be held by the State Rail road Commission in Portland, begin ning at 10 o'clock Tuesday. Among the cities whose rates will be Investigated at the hearing at Port land, Salem, Oregon City and Wood burn. Small consumers are not likely to be affected so much as large con sumers, one of the objects of the hear ing being to place all commercial con tracts for light and power on the same basis. Prior to the passage of the Malarkey bill, which gave the Railroad Commis sion the power to fix rates of power companies, it was the custom of the companies to deal with individual con sumers of large quantities of power on an individual basis. One consumer would be granted one rate, while an other consumer, whose contract was made under different circumstances, might be granted either a higher or lower rate. There was no fixed pro rata rate, in consequence of which large consumers using approximately the same amount of current pay widely variant rates. It is possible that many ' of these consumers will find their rates revised on an upward scale rather than s downward one. What tne general trend of adjustment will be in this city, even members of the Commission cannot say until they have had time to consider the data compiled at their request by the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company, on which to arrive at a physical valuation of the company's properties. Rate adjustments will be fixed on this physical valuation. Data covering hundreds of closely written pages, already have been turned over to the Commission by the company, which has haj experts com piling figures and other information covering every piece of property It owns, down to separate bolts, indi vidual steel rails, and track spikes. All these data will be checked up by engineers for the Commission before they are accepted. Among the figures submitted by the company are those covering the valu ation of its real estate holdings, which show them to be worth, according to Its own estimates, approximately fS, 000.000. The Railroad Commission, in fixing the physical valuation of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company's holdings, will try to segregate its prop erties used exclusively for light and power purposes from its street and interurban railway holdings, so that equitable rates may be fixed for each of these public utility branches. The valuation of the street railway hold ings will have an important bearing on the justice of the proposed six-tickets-for-a-quarter rate recently before the City Commission. At Tuesday's hearing, the justice of two rates Letween Portland and Lents Junction, one of 5 cents over the Mount Scott line, the other of 10 cents, via the Springwater line, which enters Portland by the river bank route, will come up for consideration. STEAMSHIP'S CARGO AFIRE Uranium Puts in to Halifax on Voy age to Rotterdam. HALIFAX. N. S., Aug. 31. The steamer Uranium, from New York for Rotterdam, has arrived here with her cargo on fire. The steamer left Thurs day and on Friday night when 360 miles from New York, the Are was dis covered. Efforts made to extinguish the fire failed. NEW STYLES SHOWY decollette in the back and draped In tulle. Among innovations which have been received with greatest favor are new short separate wraps of velvet. Fall Parisian Costumes De signed on American Lines. MATERIALS ARE COSTLY Characteristic Xote Is Bright Col ors Shapes Puffed Out at Hips for Evening Gowns Trim mings This Year Chic. PARIS, Aug. 31. (Special.) The last contingent of American representatives of costume makers left for the United States yesterday on board the steam ship France. The general sentiment among them was one 01 contentment with their gleanings for the autumn season. Greater consideration for the Ameri can type and figure of woman seemed to have predominated In the creation of models. Extreme things are in great minority. General loveliness of the styles, quality and quantity of ma terials and trimmings which give an intrinsic value which most American women demand In a gown, aside from the chic, which is all satisfying to Farisiennes, were favorably commented on by the buyers. A characteristic note In Jeanne Lan vins is showy colors, chiefly cerise and golden yellow, and for material duvet tins or silk velvet. The shapes are puffed out at the hips for evening gowns and are more simple for tailor made dresses. Among Lanvins" finest creations is a gown of hard blue with roses made of pearls scattered around It. This gown is made of a number of volants pleated and superimposed one on the other, while the corsage la simple but very "No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him." James Russell Lowell. Store Closed Today Tomorrow Ave parade all the new Fall fashions in Men's Hats Knox, Stetson, Warburton, Dobbs & Co., Heath (London) and Bris tol. New Shirts and Neckwear now on display. Buffum & Pendleton 311 Morrison St. Opposite Postoffice r