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THE MORNING ORKGONIAN. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1913. HEHCO REBELS IN BLOW UP 2 TRAINS Fitty Persons Killed on One, 30 on Other Dynamite Set Off by Electricity. SURVIVORS ARE ROBBED Only American Passenger Known to Hare Been on Train First Re ported Demolished Is Xot Hnrt but Is Robbed. LAREDO. Tex, Sept 2!. Fifty per sons were killed when rebels dyna mited passenger train on the Mexi can National Railway 0 miles aouth of Saltillo. Mex, on Friday afternoon, according to official reports to Mexican federal headquarters in Nuevo Laredo today. The train waa then looted and tho surviving- passengers robbed. It is said. - Forty federal soldiers and 10 second class passengers comprised the official death list. The number of injured waa not given. W. W. Mervain. of San Francisco, the only American on the train, is said to have escaped Injury, but was robbed. Two dynamite mines were set off by electricity, it is said. The nrst-claas coach was only derailed but the bag gage, express and two second-class coaches were blown to pieces. MEXICO CITT,Sept. 22. A north bound train on the Mexican National Railway has been dynamited by the rebels near Vanegas. In the northern part of the state of San Luis Potosi. From the meager reports received here it is believed that 30 were killed. The train left here Saturday night, but turned back at Vanegas on account of blown-up bridges further north. The locomotive passed safely over the dynamite charges, but the baggage car and two coaches were destroyed. The passengers killed were in the second-class coach. The telegraph lines have been cut both north and south of the scene. Troops were sent from San Luis ro tosl today to round up the rebels. INFORMATION IS PILING UP Complainants Against Alleged Phone Trust .Remain Active. u-iSHlXGTOS. Sect 22. Complain ants against the American Telephone &. Telegraph Company, who are urg ing Attorney-General McReynolds to Investigate the so-called Ball Tele phone Trust continue to flood the De partment of Justice with information regarding tho telephone situation. To emphasize tho significance of protests from tndenendent interests and the at tention they warrant, one complainant pointed out that there were 20.000 in dependent telephone companies in the United States, with an aggregate ca pacity of 300.000.000 and with almost as many subscribers as their big rival. The Attorney-General has not de cided whether he win await the con clusion of the Interstate Commerce Commission telephone inquiry or instl tute an independent investigation a once. MRS. THAW WILL AID SON Continued From First Page.) ATTEMPT TO HURRY MONEY BILL FAILS lawyers, one of their number said to- nte-ht. -Previously he said, "counsel for Thaw have been fighting for delay. Tim. ! now cast. We are now mov Ing forward to Thaw"s freedom and we shall ask the Governor to decide ih. mitm without delay. Governor Felker saw the fugitive to day for the first time. At noon their glances crossed as they looked about the hotel dining-room. Each manifest ed Interest In the other, but there was no Introduction. After consultation with his mother ..si hrnthcr. Thaw gave out a state ment in which he denied a report that he was to become a citlxen of Man chester. Charge Subterfuge Sara Thaw. o one in aiancnesier &ui . i.j .aid "What our friends in New Hampshire want "is the defeat of this tiahniiat ati.mnt to extradite me to New York. Everyone knows that this rhirro la only a subterfuge, to be rirnnnft as soon as I should reach New- York. The srrand jury in Dutchess rnnntv knows it is a fraud and al 9r has refusedito indict. The grand lurv won't indict, the requisition is too flimsy and my mother and I hope t mt to ara home in peace. "While anyone would be proud to be a citizen of New Hampshire. I feel that as I am not one, my place Is In Pennsylvania, where I belong and where my mother, who has undergone so much strain, lives. My desire is to see her again In peace and comfort. such as we enjoyed before we became th target for the attacks of a few rich and Influential gentlemen In New York. "We hope people In New Hampshire v ill help us on our way home. (RAND JURY DOESN'T INDICT Body Adjourns for Two "Weeks With out Acting In Thaw Case. POUGHKEEPSIE N. Y., Sept 22. The Duchess County Grand Jury that has been considering the conspiracy rharrea against Harry Jv. Thaw, aa journed today for two weeks, without havlnir found an indictment against him. The inly information District Attorney Conger would give out waa that the Grand Jury had cot reported upon the Thaw case. The matter was presented to the Grand Jury several days ago. Last Friday when a partial report waa made n other indictments, it was persist ently reported that a vote had been taken on the Thaw case and that there were lacking sufficient votes to indict. The case of Howard H. Barnum, the gate attendant at Matteawan when Thaw escaped, waa presented to the Grand Jury on the conspiracy charge at the same time as that of Thaw. No report has yet been made on this case either. TWO LATE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MEXICAN WAS SCENES, i i s V i f 12. V r- i i V- I- i 1 ' th H if 'ilv,,4 i k 4. v y S Air- s Effort in Senate Committee to Limit Consideration Is Openly Fought. AMENDMENT NEEDS FELT NEW YORK MOURNS FOR - LATE . MAYOR Million Persons Line Streets in Silence as Funeral Cor tege Passes. NOISES ON RIVER STILLED cmnol TTntermrer. counsel ior Fujo Trust Investigators, Finds Provision as to Commercial Paper "Hopelessly Loose." WASHINGTON. Sept. 22, An attempt to hurry along consideration of the cur rency bllU in the Senate banking and currency committee failed today at the end of a day of desultory questioning of Samuel Untermyer. who was coun sel for the Pujo money-trust committee of the last Congress, senator onai roth, of Colorado, tried vainly to se cure an agreement to close the bearings on Saturday, October 4. Senators Reed, of Missouri; Brlstow. of Kansas, ana Weeks, of Massachusetts, declared against any attempt to limit the con- iflrtirvn of the bill. -t hinlr nther members or ine com- r bee-Inning to see," Senator Weeks said, "that this bill will take up . th.. Trail uii I rjurpoee calling up in the committee soon the resolution I Introduced in me oeuaic bill to go over until the regular session next Winter." Senator Reed saitt nearinss nnt nnlnts of the bill which showed the necessity for amendment and that he was in favor of hearing everyone who had any important sug gestions to otter, eenaiur " gtBted that the small country banker should be heard, and Senator w eeits said that he naa requests prominent Massachusetts bankers who wished to appear. In his discussion of the bill Mr. r..nv. i-itiriaA the nrovlslon out- L II IC. . i . lining the character oi coiamiv... paper to be used as "''' rency. declaring that the deflniUon "hnn MS V 1UUHC. no ba.u, ever it would be aavisaDie io oim.i. the issue of a certain amount of cur rency on cotton and grain warehouse receipts. Mr. Untermyer suggested that making good commercial paper a basis for cur rency would result in depriving stock hoo. cnomilators of the funds now sent to New Tork for Investment by country banks. , . C.mlnn HltencOCK ana rrii.u throughout the day insisted that the bill should confer on member banks In the system, as a matter of right, the authority to go to the Federal re---- konV. or the rediscount of their paper. Mr. Untermyer oppoaeu ww also condemned a scheme proposed by Senator Brlstow whereby the regional reserve banks would be eliminated and the member banks allowed to go di rectly to the Government to secure cur. rency on their commercial pijoi. Th, iwvr Reread witn oenaior son that the reserve notes should be made redeemable In gold and not "in gold or lawful money," as provided by the bin. FIRE MENACES GIANTS i, hi-, '& , V?nl c:' t t v Ha- stfhSshT ' ' ' ' . M . It - lit i Photographs by Underwood & Underwood, New York. Ton General Ud Blanco Confiscating 73,000-Acre Estate of Felix Dla. and "ba"U It to Settler-. Bottom-Scene -t Railroad. WUere Rebela Re cently Woded Carload of Powder In Transit to Federal. Rear Taca- baya. Services Without Parallel In City. William Jay Gaynor's Body Placed in Resting Place of Many Famous Dead. NEW TORK. Sept. 22. His plot In Greenwood Cemetery, the Testing place in Brooklyn of many famous dead, re ceived the body or isew ior - Mayor, William Jay Gaynor, at mld- -ttrr,nnn tnav alter lunerai swvra in his honor that were witnoui yaitu In the history of the city, in ine ire- h fomiiv the honorary pall- h..F,n includlns: wiuiam nunm" T,f nfl pitv officials, among them Mayor Kline, the uag-aropeu. um nrr,TTittRd to the grave in the - .iiTr nlnt The brief Episco pallan service was read by Rev. Frank W. rage, rormer pneiur jl the church where the Mayor worshiped. Million See Cortege. A minion neoDle. it is estimated, saw the funeral cortege move slowly, first from the City nail, wnere tnnuomua had witnessed the body lying in state on Snday, to Trinity Church, where Riahnn Greer conducted, ine solemn services: then back past City Hall, across the Brooklyn Driage, inrougu Brooklyn streets past the late Mayor's Eighth-avenue home and on to the cemetery. Upon the bridge, hung In. black, trar fic did not move. City employes stood six feet apart, heads uncovered, as the police-escorted cataiaiquo pruceeuro Into the Mayor's home borough. Below the river noises were sinieo. craft blew Its whistle; not a gong was sounded. Tho funeral train across the bridge and for a distance in Brooklyn paralleled a favorite route of the Mayor, who in all kinds of weather was accustomed to wain to anu irum " City Hall. Bells Toll siowiy. Theabell in the tower of the borough hall in Brooklyn tolled tor ine urai time in many years. .Numerous camtu bells also sounded their measured beats. Trinity's first, ana men iu Brooklyn. In Brooklyn public schools turned forth their pupils, who stood among the mourners In the street. In the Mayors own neignooruumi and residences were draped in crepe, while flags fluttered at half staff. When the church service3 naa enaeu the great masses 01 Tiowers v, in Trinltv Church and the City Hall were sent to various hospitals, thj choicest among them, orchids and chrysanthemums, to St. Mary's, the Ho boken (N. J.) institution where Mr. Gaynor lay after being shot down by an assassin three years ago. K FRIEXD OP GAYNOR IS SUICIDE LANE PREPARES BILL Senator to Ask -for 8-Story Postoffice Building. M'ADOO REQUESTS DELAY Secretary Wants Measure Held Up mill It Is Learned if $1,000, 000 Available Is Enough for Contemplated Structure. GREAT TREES BAREIY ESCAPE PATH OP FLAMES. FArrsL Still Blazing Xear Santa Crna Bis Powder Plant Is Still in Danger. Republicans Cheer Peters. WASHINGTON', Sept. 22. John A. Peters, recently elected to the House from the Third Maine District, was sworn in today to the accompaniment of Republican cheers. ' ' Brigadier-General Wilson Dead. WASHINGTON. Sept 22. Brigadler "eneral Charles I. Wilson. United its tea Army, retired, 7S. died today in New York. in.riru salmon in the fresh 'attrt of Tmanla ere proipering wonderfully, borne of them Increased in weHht from two ounces kavta CRUZ. Cal.. Sent. 22. The raging forest fire, which presumably was started rrom rays oi toe nun u rl thrnuarh a bottle, swept within 100 yards of the giants or tne toresis in Fremont erove of big trees this afternoon. Desoerate efforts on th nirt of SOO fire fighters saved me rrove. however, aitnougn w Mintlnna unchecked, despite back-fir Ing. The fire by 8 o'clock tonigni nao extended over ridges ana oown siopet to the San Lorenzo River, near Rincon, two miles from where it originated. The blaze started a snos aistance back of Mount Hermon and threatened that resort, with its scores of fine resi dences. A sudden change of wind sent the flames sweeping toward the big trees, after missing Felton station by half a. mile. More than S00 men back-fired near a big trestle in the grove and turned the fire southward, saving the grove. It has spread until tonight it is plainly visible from towno n the ridges north of the Hercules powder plant, and every precaution Is being taken to keep the fire from getting aangerousiy cioise. rir. Warden Walter Welch Is direct ing the fighting. The Southern Pacific romnanv sent 100 men, gai.ierea from Its divisions between Watsonville Junction and San Jose, who are at work under direction of Roadmaster P. W. Bernard. nrfinVTAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash V T this lngton, Sept. zz. aenaior -morning prepared a bill directing the Secretary of the Treasury to tho 11.000.000 appropriated for a Port- , j ..... K.iii.iintr in erecting a lana puoiun,vo - otHce building on the new post office site, but he did not introduce the bill as Secretary McAdoo requ" him to withhold It for a few days while lie can have estimates prepw. - it mat to erect a ouuums c.n.tn, l.nnA contemplates. Secretary McAdoo toia ocuo... was greatly lrapramu " -- cal side of his proposition, and agreed . L . . o hunines stanapoiiii. wu.x be wise to erect a large rather than a Kiirins- at Portland. He to withhold the bill W1BUCU " - . . ll,. for a few days in oraer tnai . ascertain from me ,rnT( v...r in his iudgment il.ouu,' 000 will be adequate for the erection of such & building. r. . T ,. riArjLime of the gecre . "i.,rTt A not introduce his bill todav. but proDaoiy wn Thursday, for he is satisfied that, from advices he has had. such a building as nt has in mind can be built for 1 000 -. w if mlirVit not be possible to erect an elaDorate uuuuius money. . f His Idea is to n a uu..u.B practical design, built of local mate rials, preferably brick and terra cotta. .ahr t tl tl Tl SOme ttrUIllfcCfc u i c ...if huilt of . expensive stone shipped to Portland from Indiana or some other .eastern Butj. Secretary McAdoo nag sent nivim. ! architects to submit plani th. -Portland Postoffice building, his invitation being the same aa that Issued In the iirst iwuun", -" mnifite a two-story building for th exclusive use of the postoffice. Those invited are: ijooaricn oc uuuui T.wi P. Hobart San Francisco James G. Rogers, Griffin & Wynkoop, Stern & Felineimer win uimuu . i.o ..il vw York. sinnirir -Lane, after introducing his bill will ask that no work be done on the' plans by the Invited architects un til Congress has decided whether or not to change the law making an ap propriation for Portland, for he does not want a part of the available funds pent in securing plans for a two-story building if it is to be determined later to erect a building of six or eignt sto ries. FIRE LOSS IS LESSENED Patrol of Frests Keeps Down Blazes in Valuable Timber. ' OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. 22. With the middle of September tha fire season on tho Ra tional forests has come practically to an end with less damage than ever re corded. There Is always some danger from carelessness of campers or or set tlers burning brush and clearing land, but the real danger season extends only from the middle of June until the mid rii rt SAntftmber. Forest officers throughout the West are congratulating themselves on a se- onn n markedly tree irom neavy ioa. They feel that the immunity from loss has been due to two prutiyn nsrtiv to . favorable season, but large ly miioh hetter organization for fire protection than has been attainea h.ratnfora Tne eiiecuveness "i mo - ganization is shown particularly oy font that while there were in all annroximately 2260 fires, as against 2740 last year, yet the area burned r thi Year is only about 60.000 acres as against 230.060 acres in 1912 and 780,000 in 1911. x ainela administrative oisinti, ,hih rovers the intermountam re of Southern - Idaho, Western wvomine-. Utah. Nevada and Western Arizona, gives an example of the most favorable situation, umj j mc wc. encountered. 29 of which originated in Idaho. The total area burned over amounted to only 956 acres, which is considerably less than lour one-nun rfrert-thousandths of the total area pa trolled by forest officers in these states. CUT IN TAX IS REFUSED Assessment Against Timber Holdings Protested at Oregon City. OREGON CITY. Or., Sept. 22. (Spe- ni.i.l Assessments on timber land to taline about Sl.250,000 were uncnangeu whn the County Board of tquanzanon today refused to lower the valuations on the property of the Weyerhaeuser interests and the Oregon & California Lumber Company in this county. Tr-,r,oi nrotesta were filed with the hoard bv these companies, alleging that the assessments, based on the Neese ..Ida wora tnn T"i i izh. uiaci - " As they now stana on me v the county, the valuation or. urn acres of the Oregon ec pany is Jl.053.035 and that of the Wey erhaeuser interest u v,v.- - J537.345. Wealthy Man Broods Over Mayor's Death and Hangs Himself. wTT'Tje- vnnif. SeDt. 22. Morris Metz- ger, a wealthy resident of Rockaway Beach and a lifelong friend af the late u..n, nvnor. haneed himself in his barn this afternoon, as Mayor Gaynor's body was being cameo, to ui e -ni. fn- of the barn was littered with ..n,.n, nors erivlng accounia ui m honors that were being paid Mayor Gaynor. , , . Friends of Mr. Metzger say he had brooded continuously since news of the and they attribute his suicide to, the loss of his friena. AVIATOR MAKES A FLIGH t Continued Tram First Page.) Mapleton. with the wind still contrary, -a.-am 38 minutes. Mr. Steele followed the shore line closely owing to the dense forest near the coast, so that in case of accident he could descend to the beach witnoui serious Injury to his craft. Machine Thoroughly Teated. The machine was tested out thor ontrhlv before the flight began and when he reached Mapleton a complete investigation was made- for any possi ble defects in the machinery, so that everything will be ready for an early start tomorrow. Mr. Steele Is little more than a be glnner in the field of aviation, having tkn hl course last winter in in California school. His trips about coos Rot, here have attracted a great deal of attention, and his record so far for ontinnnuH time in tne air is inroo quarters of an hour. Mill to Begin Cutting Timber. -H VWALIS. Wash.. Sept. 22. (Spe cial.) The sawmill erected by Emory a Kinn. near Napavine, has been com pleted recently and cutting will short iv hea-ln. ine piani. im unj of 0.000 feet and has back of it cut of good timber that is expected to last for the next zu years. Be wise, buy Edlefsen'a Ties. E. 303, Adv. I I"1 1 -4 about him. as Janlcick's partner can- ot speak Engllcii. Prinevllle Has Xew Postoffice. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. Zi. ine ru""'"" -Prinevllle will move into new quarters on the south side of Fourth street, be tween A and B streets, owned by George M. Cornett, November. This property, including all equipment, has been leased for a term of ten years from November 1. the lease including equipment for parcels post and postal savings bank. '. ' ' ' ' ' Philippine Inquiry Ordered. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. Secretary Garrison will direct an Investigation of charges made by Dean Worcester and W. H. Phipps. auditor or tne m i- pines, that slavery eiiau i" - lands. The Investigation win u by Governor-General Fracls Burton Harrison. H IS NEW EMPLOYE SHOOTS WITH OUT APPARENT CAUSE. - and Slayer Flees Alter aiuiug Sheriff With Posse Is Search ings Hills. RAKER. Or Sept, 22. (Special.) Without warning and apparently witn o.,t cause Bill Jauiclck killed Morn de Breon as the two were ieimS dining-room of the Highland Mine, near Haines, late today. Tne siayer es; .., , mountains are being scoured by a posse headed by Sheriff John Rand. . ., . T 1 l V and a IfillOW-COUUtiyiuou appeared at the mine yesterday and both were given work as muckers. inn.ni v h in not Know xjv cwn "W w . . . i 1 and as far as is known ne naa nu nnri9 with him. As the men filed tha room Jauiclck fired three tfme w, i-Mw . . . . , ji t..;..i1. t n Rroon. wno ieu oeao. jaun-,i-n. .v,- n,.yi twice at James Carter, bu missed. Then he fled over the hill and disappeared. His partner is held as an accomplice, nut it is -, j in the matter. Sheriff Rand and Coroner Welch left early tonight for the mine. re Breon was a resident of Baker. His wife j... a igrm chicken farm on the outskirts of this city, ne was aui. 35 years old. It is not known from where the slayor came nor anytnin It's Worth While tareceive 38 more for your money. It reduces the cost of living. No better baked beans exist. Yet you get 38 more for 15c than when you buy other brands. Order a 15c tin today. 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