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' ' VOL. I,TV. SO. 16,667. PORTLAND. OREGON. MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. AMERICAN CONSUL THROWN INTO JAIL Federals Raid Consu late at Monterey. FLAG ORDERED TAKEN DOWN Official Building Subjected to Humiliating Search. REFUGEES ARE DETAINED Women and Children Are Dragged From Train at Agua Calientes and Imprisoned Ambulances on Way to Musquiz Stopped. PROMINENT AMERICANS UNDER ARREST IN MEXICO CITV. VERA CRUZ, April 26. K. M. Van Zandt, president of the American Club, and all the trus tees and officers of the club are under arrest In Mexico City, according- to news received here. Among those detained are H. C. Hagramonte, a Civil "War Gener al; W. I. Vail, J. B. Buchanan, William A. Parker, C. G. Ray, E. Marr and Charles Tager, the club's manager, who also is a vet eran of the Civil War. All the officials of the Mercan tile Banking Company and the Mexico City Banking Company are In custody. The officers of the banks were arrested because they refused to give money to the Mexican government. The American Grocery was burned, and an attempt made to fire the American Club. WASHINGTON. April 26. United States Consul General Phillip C. Han na, at Monterey, reported to Secretary Bryan tonight, that he had been hu miliated and placed in jail by Mexi cans on April 22. He was kept behind the bars until released two days later by the constitutionalists when they captured the city. Flaga Are Trampled On. Consul Hanna's telegram follows: "Monterey, Met., April 26, 1914. "Secretary of State, Washington, D. C: On the 21st of April a federal mili tary officer by the name of Captain Alvarez Del Castillo, evidently instruct ed by the federal commander to tear down all American flags, arrived at this consulate general with a street mob which he had gathered, about 4 In the afternoon and pounded on the door and demanded that the American flag over this consulate general be Im mediately lowered or he would shoot It down: and the other federals pro ceeded to tear down all American flags, standing -on them and making speeches throughout the City of Monterey, burn ing some of them and tearing them up and leaving them piled in the middle of the streets. Bnlldlng Is Searched. "It was the most ' insulting act that I or any of the people of Monterey have ever witnessed. They then placed a guard in front of this Consulate-General and all the inmates in the building were prisoners. The next morning, April 22, a police lieutenant arrived with a force of men and advised me that he had been instructed to search the building. "When the insulting search was com pleted your Consul-General was taken prisoner through the streets with the mob and carried first to the prison and afterwards to the state government palace, which building has been for eome time a military headquarters and fortified, and was the object of special attack by the attacking forces. "Insults Laid to Position." "While I was placed under heavy guard in the grand reception-room, I fully realized that I was constantly being Insulted and greatly humiliated, not on account of my personality, but on account of my position as represen , tative of the United States. At about eight in the evening of April 22 I was taken before the military court and notified that I was charged with being in sympathy with the Constitu tlonallst chiefs and being friendly to certain Constitutionalist generals and especially General Pablo Gonzales and General Antonio Villareal. Rebel Release Prisoner. T was kept a prisoner incommuni cado until the evacuation of the city by the Federals and until the arrival of the rebel forces early this morning. "There were times during the period when it was believed by very many that I would be shot or carried to the mountains as their prisoner in case the Federals evacuated. However, the evacuation oi the city by their forces. Federals, state and police, took place during last night and I was left en tirely alone In the state capitol, being Kb sole guardian for about six hours, without being Informed by any indi vidual or officer of their departure." Consul Detained at Aguas Calientes. American Consul Canada has notified the State Department that many Amer ican refugees have been taken from trains and imprisoned at Aguas Calien tes by Mexican mobs. Besides Ameri cans, the consul reports, other foreign ers have been detained, most of them having been employes of the smelters Concluded on Pace 3.) MILITIA MUST BE FIRST TO ENLIST WAR DEPARTMENT REITERATES POSITION AS TO VOLUNTEERS. Spanish War Veterans and Other Or. Kantsattona Cannot Be Used as Such Under First Orders. WASHINGTON, April 26. (Special.) The War Department made it plain today that in raising a volunteer army for service against Mexico preference will be given the organized militia of the various states and t.iat in no state will Independent volunteer organiza tions be received until the resources of the militia of the state have been exhausted. Under the new law signed yesterday by the President, the department will retain the officers of the militia when militia enlists in the volunteer service, and unless some good reason exists the officers will retain the identical po sitions in the volunteer service that they now hold in the National Guard. Under this law, the Government can not . expect Independent volunteer organizations on the first call unless the response of the militia, falls short of expectation and for this reason vol unteer companies and regiments com posed of Spanish War veterans and others who are not members of militia cannot be availed of under the first call. It is pointed out. however, that Span ish War veterans who desire to join the first volunteer regiments may ac complish their purpose by first enlist ing in the militia. All officers of the volunteers must be nominated by the President and con firmed by the Senate before they can be commissioned regularly. SAMUEL E. LARRABEE DIES Brother-of Portland Capitalist Suc cumbs at Deer Lodge. Samuel E. Larrabee, a brother of C. X. Larrabee, Portland capitalist, died Tuesday at Deer Lodge, from an at tack of heart, disease. . Mr. Larrabee was born in New Tork State in 1S45 and came to the West in 1864. He established the first bank at Deer Lodge and in 1877 he estab lished a branch bank at Butte, in partnership with W. A. Clark. Later the firm dissolved and Mr. Larrabee le tained the bank at Deer Lodge In part nership with his brother, C. X. Larra bee A widow, two sons and three daugh ters survive. His brother has been active in busi ness in Portland for many years, hav ing only recently disposed of the great er part of his real estate holdings In this city, which lay chiefly in the Hol laday Addition.- - ? . . - . .. SIGNAL CORPS CALLED OUT Daniels' Personally Trained Men Go Aboard Super-Dreadnought. NEWPORT. R. I., April 26. Sixteen young men, trained in the school for signalling, organized under the per sonal supervision of Secretary Daniels last Summer, were ordered last night to the new super-dreadnought New York, flagship of the special squadron, com manded by Rear-Admiral Winslow. The lads are expert both with the wigwag system and with the wireless. BULLET ENDS WIFE'S LIFE Lucille Schultz Dies at Prosser While Posse Hunts Husband. PROSSER, Wash., April 26. (Spe cial.) Lucile Schultz, who was shot by her divorced husband, H. J. Favor, died last night, from the effect of her wounds. A posse, with bloodhounds, has been out all day in search of Favor, but, up to a late hour tonight, he had not been apprehended. t - - LJ r r---Tr" "-O' - - ....... . . .. ,. .A1...,.., , , "B".i""r. VERA CRUZ PLACED UNDERMART1ALLAW Fletcher's Stroke Stops All Quibbling. ADMIRAL IS ABSOLUTE RULER Federal and City Employes In vited to Resume Tasks. SCHOOLS TO OPEN TODAY Mexican General Tearing TTp Tracks 16 Miles From Town. Railroad Truck Farms to Be Put In' Operation. VERA CRUZ, April 26. Definite In struction from Rear-Admiral Badger, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, to nil American aon-combatanti to leave Vera Cms by the steamer Mexico, -were posted at the consulate and other plaeea today. - . VERA CRUZ, April 26. Vera Cruz Is under martial law tonight. Rear-Ad-mlral Fletcher, commanding the Ameri can naval forces on shore, today issued a proclamation to this effect, and the last opportunity Mexicans had for handling their 'own affairs in Vera Cruz under their own laws disappeared. Admiral Fletcher determined there should be no more quibbling with the Mex'.can officials regarding forms of goT eminent. Until further notice, the residents of this port will be Judged by military law. This makes Rear-Ar-miral Fletcher absolute ruler ashore. Way to Restoration Open. It is expected that the martial proc lamation will have another effect, that of opening the way for more city and federal employes to return to their posts and co-operate in restoring the local government functions. An order that all arms be turned in by the residents by noon today brought to the headquarters of the provost marshal "bushels of small arms and stacks of rifles. A large number of local Mexican of ficials have reported their willingness to resume their duties as officers under the supervision of the Americans. The American' officials' named to assist In the supervision of the city government are: Commander O. H. Stickney, of the Prairie, captain of the port; Fleet Sur geon W. L. Pratllng, sanitary inspector; Commander D. F. Sellers, of the Ar kansas, provost-marshal; Commander John Lubby, of the South Carolina, director of the postofflce. Schools to Reopen Today. Roberto Diaz, Mayor of Vera Cruz, is among; those who have agreed to re open their offices, and it has been ar ranged that the public schools shall be reopened tomorrow. The efforts of Rear-Admiral Fletch er, supplemented by those of the Brit ish commander. Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock. and the French and German consuls and private citi zens to bring about the departure from the interior of all foreigners who wish to leave are being continued energet ically. General Maas has established head- Concluded on Page 2.) PH0T0GEAP HS ILLUSTRATING LATE DEVELOPMENTS . ii. immmmmmmmmmmmamam i mil ttrntmrnrnT INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 58-2 degrees; minimum. 47.0 degree. TODAY'S Monday fair and warmer, -westerly winds, Mexico. Vera Cruz placed under martial law by Fletcher. Page 1. Eighth Brigade, traveling eastward, find welcome in Yuma. Page 2. Weird "news" printed la Mexico City papers. Page 1. Congress less belligerent. Page 2. Rebels celebrate capture of Monterey. Page 3. Arizona asks protection. Page 2. Huerta said to have accepted offer tp mediate. Page 1. American Consul thrown In Jail at Mon terey and refugee imprisoned at Aguas Calientes. Page L Domestic. Miners capture Colorado mining camp after two hours' battle. Page 1. Paeiflo Northwest.. Shots halt three convicts who overpower Walla Walla turnkey. Page 9. Oregon state girls' conference at Albany at . tended by 2O0. Page 4. Sports. Coast League results: Venice-Portland game postponed, ram; Oakland 1-0, San Fran- clsco 0-2; Los Angeles 12-2, Sacramento U-O. Page 10. Northwestern League results: Spokane 4, Portland 1: Vancouver 8, Seattle 0; Ta coma 11, Victoria L Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. Oddfellows celebrate 95th anniversary -of founding of order. Page 9. Evelyn Thaw thrills two Hellig audiences. Page 14. Mayor Albee challenges recall backers to file petitions at once and save expense of special election; other political news. Page 14. Odiva, mermaid, has headline act of new Orpheum show. Page 7. Grace and old Taylor Church Methodists wipe out breach. Page 0. Robbers get 12500 by blowing safe of L. Snanahan. Page 14. Pictorial address on Holy Land made at Sunnyside church. Page 9. MAN CRUSHED BY - CARS Employe of Hallway Company Killed While Working at Oregon City. OREGON CITY, April 26. (Special.) F. W. Hammitte. for 18 months an employe of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, was killed at 4 A. M. today while switching cars into the Hawley Pulp & Paper Company's mill. No one witnessed toe accident and Its occurance was unknown until other members of the crew found the body on the track with the head crushed and legs severed. Hammitte, who was 26 years old. is survived by a widow and two children in Portland. . His father, who lives at Roseburg, has been notified of the tragedy and. will arrive tomorrow. Coroner Wilson held an inquest to day and while the Jury placed no re sponsibility for the accident, it did rec ommend that a change be made in the trackage at that point. . BORDER FOLK UNFRIENDLY W. G. Ayre, Back From San Diego, Tells of Conditions. "Mexicans on the border have no friendly looks for Americans," said W. G. Ayre, a cattleman, of Baker, at the Portland Hotel yesterday. Mr. Ayre has Just returned from San Diego. "I had planned a business trip well Into Mexico but was advised by those who had just come from there to stay at home. While I was down there the Mexicans killed one or two Americans at Tecate, which is about 30 miles from San Diego. - "My impression is that something should be done. That incident of the insult accorded our sailors, which first made the situation tense, was insig nificant in comparison to the flagrant acts committed long before that time." Refugees Crowd Douglas, Ariz. DOUGLASS. Ariz., April 26. This city is overcrowded with refugees from Mexico and 100 Mormons who arrived from Colonia Morelos, were permitted to camp in the open near the city water plant. R. L. Hawes telegraphed from Cananea: "No looting or stealing In Cananea. Everything quiet and best order." OFFER TO MEDIATE THOUGHT ACCEPTED Spanish Diplomat Has Private Advices. WASHINGTON CREDITS fT -6 ol Bryan Reports Another Misun derstanding Cleared Up. REFUGEES MAY GO FREE Report of Detention of Mexicans, Given by Huerta as Reason for Holding Americans, Corrected Through British Consul. WASHINGTON, April 26. Spanish Ambassador Rlano announced late to night that he had received private ad vices from Mexico City saying that General Huerta had accepted the offer of Argentina, Brazil and Chile to use their good offices to bring about an amicable settlement of the differences between the United States and Mexico. This Information, though unofficial, was accepted as authentic by the Am bassador, who expects to be prepared to place General Huerta's formal ac ceptance before the representatives of the three countries tomorrow. The Interests of the Huerta govern ment in the United States were taken over by the Spanish Embassy when Charge Algara asked for his passports and left Washington for Canada. Am bassador Rlano received the offer of good offices from the three peace en voys last night after the offer had been accepted by the President- It was cabled to the Spanish Minister at Mex ico City and by him presented to President Huerta. Formal Acceptance A -waited. When the formal acceptance from Mexico City is in . hand the South American diplomats will be ready to proceed with their plan. It has been generally understood that the peace envoys expect to deal directly with the situation created by the resent ment of the United States in the Tara plco incident and other offenses against its honor and dignity, hoping to bring about a peaceful settlement Administration officials here ap peared to be much gratified at the prospect of having the proposals of the Republics listened to by Huerta. Until the nature of the plan is known no official of the Administration will have any comment to make. "M Is tinder Stan din is" la Cleared I'p. Secretary Bryan announced today that through the British Ambassador, the "misunderstanding in Mexico City as to Mexicans being held against their will In Vera Cruz had been cleared up." The Secretary said that he was Informed that Secretary Hohler of the British embassy in Mexico City, had taken a train load of Mexicans from Vera Cruz to Mexico City and that as a result a trainload of Americans was ready to start from the Mexican Capi tol for Vera Cruz. Secretary Bryan also declared that the State Department was receiving "very encouraging" reports from the (Concluded on Page S.) IN MEXICAN IMBROGLIO. . ' MEXICO CITY FED ON WEIRD "NEWS" POWERS SAID TO BE AT WAR WITH TJXITED STATES. Slaughter or Women and Children at Vera Cruz Reported and Retal iation Is Demanded. VERA CRUZ. April 26. Circulars enumerating American business houses are being distributed in the streets of Mexico City. The handbills call on the populace to destroy the concerns listed. Some of the American stores whose names appeared In the circular already have been looted. Another list being distributed is that of . Mexicans managing some of the American stores.' It is declared these men must be killed because of their identification with foreign interests. The newspapers or the capital are publishing stories to the effect that the American forces at Vera Cruz are slaughtering women and children, and the papers call on Mexicans in Mexico City to retaliate in a similar manner. Other stories printed by the news papers say that France, Germany, Great Britain and Spain had declared war against the United States, and that American battleships have sunk several ships flying the flags of these nations. Mexicans also are told that the Mexi can army has invaded the United States and that the negroes In the southern states have risen and are assisting the Mexicans. SPANIARDS ARE NEUTRAL Reported Willingness to Fight Vnit ed States Declared False. WASHINGTON. April 26. Spanish diplomatic officials in Washington said emphatically today that Spanish resi dents In Mexico were maintaining the most scrupulous neutrality in the pres ent situation. They declared that published reports purporting to quote General Carranza In. a dispatch to Madrid as saying that many of the 17.000 Spaniards in Mex ico are ready to fight by the side of Mexicans against the Invaders were groundless In view of the strictly neu tral attitude of Spaniards in Mexico. ARMY SCH00LIS CLOSED Leavenworth Flurry Recalls Time Preceding War With Spain. LEAVENWORTH, Kan.. April 26 a, flurry was caused at Fort Leavenworth last night, when orders were received by Lieutenant-Colonel W. P. Burnham. the commandant, from the War De partment directing that the Army serv ice schools be closed and that the stu dent officers be graduated Tuesday. The order was unexpected, as in the only previous instance when the schools were closed during the war with Spain the action was not taken until after the formal declaration of war. MISS EVERTS ENTERTAINS Dramatic .Readings Given at Eu gene for Alumni Association. EUGENE, Or.. April 26. (Special.) Miss Katherine Everts, dramatic read er and interpreter, rendered an at tractive repertoire before a large gathering at the University in Eu gene, under the auspices of the Col legiate Alumnae Association. Miss Everts was the American rep resen tative of the International Al liantfe at Stratford-upon-Avon. After the renditions tea was served by the girls of the omen s League. Mrs. P. L. Campbell and Miss Ruth Guppy presided. The Y. W. C. A. bungalow was decorated with spirea and cle matia. . "-SiJP, J f-t- -i s.t . CAMP IS CAPTURED IN SUNDAY BATTLE Strikers Victorious in Two Hours' Fighting. GUARDS AND CITIZENS FLEE Men Said to Be Now March ing on Royal Gorge. SEVEN REPORTED KILLED Two Hundred Militia Ordered to Canon City to Take Protective Measures and Endeavor to Bring About Truce. DENVER, April 26. Strikers today captured the Chancier Coal Company camp of the Victor American Kuel Company in Fremont County, accord ing to reports to the Governor's of fice. The few guards and the resi dents of the camp, numbering 2a to 30. went to Canon City and the strikers were reported to be marching toward the Royal Gorge mine, six and a half miles from Canon City. The excitement prevailing in Canon City caused the City Council to call a mass meeting, at. "which citizens or ganized for protection. According to the Governor's advices, seven men were killed in the Chandler fight, but there was nothing indicating how the fatali ties were divided. Battle Lasts Tiro Hours. The fighting opened at 1 o'clock, said reports to operators here, and shortly before 3- the strikers were in possession of the town. Union offi cials admitted they had reports of shooting, but said they had represen tatives out in an endeavor to reach their men and persuade them to ob serve the truce. An appeal to the Governor for help from the Sheriff of Fremont County resulted in orders being issued tonight to General Chase to proceed to Canon City with 200 militia to take protective measures and endeavor to bring about a truce. Governor Holds Co formers. Governor Ammons spent a busy day at his home, holding many conferences. A telegram from Washington telling of a conference there between members of the' Congressional delegation from Colorado, M. D. Foster, of the House mines committee. Secretary Wilson and President Wilson received earnest consideration. Among other things, the telegram asked additional Information and Inti mated that no definite action would be taken on the question of sending Federal troops into the zone until re Quests had been received from all con cerned. RADICALS MEET AT CAPTTAIi Resolutions Denounce Colorado Au- thorities as "Traitors." DENVER, April 26. Colorado strik ers, strike sympathizers and radicals of various types swarmed on the cap itol ground and the corridors an hour before the mass meeting of the Work ers' Defense League began at 3 o'clock today. A heavy rain Just before the band sounded the rally for the first speakers drove the umbrellaless to shelter, finally thinning an audience estimated at a few thousand to as many hundreds. "Mother" Mary Jones created a sen sation when she appeared, unan nounced. She declared had she stayed. In Washington she would have put the Btrlke situation up to the President; but the call of the mass meeting had been too strong to resist. In her exhortation, sprinkled with reminiscences of West Virginia and Washington, she reiterated advice that they "keep cool," "do nothing un lawful." and in the Fall elections elect representatives and an executive who would "be glad to serve the honor of the state and not the Standard OiL" Just before the arrival of "Mother"' Jones, a resolution was passed, de nouncing absentee landlordism, al leging that 2000 miners died because "dividends could not be lessened by the expense of the Improvements" within the last 20 years; that the state, county and municipal officials "had. been purchased and the election ma chinery seized, desperadoes hired and. militia used as a constant threat." The resolution pledged the lives and. liberties of the audience to the relief of "12.000 men speaking 36 tongues" in the strike district, who were in re volt; demanded the withdrawal of troops; the seizure of mines by the state, pending adjustment by the strikers and operators; the cancelling of leases to 13,000 acres of school lands and the development of the state's coal land acreage; a constitu tional amendment repealing the Moyer decision; denounced Governor Ammons and Lieutenant-Governor Fitzgerald as "traitors to the people and accessories to the murder of babies." and called on the special session of the Legislature to impeach them. In conclusion the resolution called on citizens of Colorado to repudiate the million-dollar Indebtedness in curred through activities of the state militia. . Bannered Socialists, men and women, attended and distributed handbills; single tax advocates cried their liter ature on the lawns, and union locals distributed handbills of local griev ances among the crowd. TOP, LEFT, GOVERNMENT DOCKS AND RAILROAD TERMINAL AT TAMPICO, POSSIBLE NEXT POINT OF ATTACK; RIGHT. PRESIDENT WILSON READING HIS WAR MESSAGE TO COXGRESS BELOW, LEFT, AMERICAN WARSHIPS IN VERA CItl'Z IlAilii01t IlICiliT, GERMAN LINER If PI RAN G A WIIOSiE I1IUNU1NG til. AS h'OU UUKRTA TO TGUA CRUZ PRE CIPITATED MEXICAN LiASDUU- " ' aaantav. ' -. OTl 109.2f