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VOL- LI V. XO. 16,679. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY. 31AY 11, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MEXICO UNSAFE IF TROOPS LEAVE NOW People Will Think De parture Was Forced. INTERIOR INTENSELY HOSTILE Americans Say They Will Lose All if Bryan Idea Wins. RETURN IS NOT EXPECTED Men AYlio Have Spent Lives In Busi ness In Country Find It Too Late to "Start Over Again," as Secretary Advises. REBELS FIERCELY ATTACK TAMPICO HEAVY FIKLD GUXS SWEEP FED ERAL ENTRENCHMENTS. SUDDEN REVOLT 111 CAPITAL IS FEARED -RV JOSEPH MEDILL PATTERSON. VFRA CRUZ. ADril 29. "I know Mr. Bryan says every one in the American colony in Mexico is an adventurer and gambler and ought to go home to the States in case of trouble. Or else that v, i- 0 i'nrr.nratlnn emnlove and eo, I suppose, ought to be burried alive. Well. I am a corporation employe, the Pasadena El Mate Mining Company of Guanajuato, Mexico. It's my own corporation, however. I have spent 19 i-ara nf mv life developing it. It's all 1 have. It's all my family's got. Too Late to "Start Again." "Mr. Bryan says to me, "start again.' Start again with what? I am nearly 50 years old. Mining and especially that particular mine of mine is all I know and Ife all I have had. rather." C. J. Kimball, a keen-faced, clear eyed, bronzed-faced man, was speaking. "It isn't as if I were a gambler and adventurer. I am not," he continued. "I am a business man, and I know my business. It isn't as if I had been harsh or abusive with my Mexican employes, always got on fine with them. Al ways would have if it wasn't for these everlasting revolutions one after an other sweeping over the country. "Do you see this suit I have on and this pair of shoe's and hat and watch? It's my last suit and last pair of shoes. I got them from the States. I got my phonograph from the States, and my rocking chairs, and brass beds. About all my reading matter comes from the States. So do my clocks and plumbing, canned goods and kitchen utensils. Americans Develop Market. "Well, that wouldn't be important if it were not that the rest of the 40,000 Americans in Mexico buy their house hold goods as well as their mining machinery, farm implements, and so on. from the states. "Even that wouldn't be so particu larly important 40,000 Americans, though most have money and are heavy purchasers of American goods. But 40,000 aren't by themselves a tre mendous market. "The nub of the thing lies deeper Mexicans are all learning from us to buy American goods. If you doubt me, look at the figures. America sells Mexico $54,000,000 annually, three times as much as all other nations put to gether. Twenty years ago when I came the 'mports into this country from the Vnlted States were $12,000,000. "Does Mr. Bryan want to throw this big and growing market away? Looks to me as if he does, if this mediation goes through. ........ People Will Think Troop. Fled. "Because, if we land these troops and then re-embark them, every peon in Mexico will be told they were chased out, and no American will be safe in the interior for 20 years. As it is we have been walking in the middle of the street, giving the spicks the side walks for the last year. Now, Mr. Bryan won't let us even take the mid dle of the street." "I have been in Mexico 23 years," said X. J. Spillane, a gray-whiskered, sunburnt man. "I had a ranch in San Luis Potosi. Sugar, corn, cattle. It was worth $500,000. I came here a poor man. But I earned it all and hon estly. "I am nothing like what that Bryan said. 1 am a farmer. 1 am a good Catholic, too.' I stand by the church. The bishop of San Luis Potosi is a fine friend of mine. Well, those rebels came in a week ago yesterday and left me naked. I haven't a coat to my back." He was eating in shirtsleeves. Americana Will Not Be Safe. j "They took my cattle, my horses, my J mules, my wagons, my guns, my sad dles, everything. Then, to make a good Job of it, they burned my house and gave me a piece of paper" Che showed a scrawl on the back of an envelope in bad Spanish) "to say they had confiscated my land that I worked on and for, that I irrigated with my own money." He stabbed the writing with his gnarled forefinger. "I don't know whether this confisca tion goea or not. I suppose it does if. that Bryan has his way. I buy all my goods in the states household and farming. I won't any more, though, if they withdraw the .troops now, because I wont" have anything to buy them with." "When do you expect to start back to your ranch?" "You mean if the troops withdraw because of this mediation?" "Tea." "Never. No American will be safe in the interior for the next 2u years if the troops withdraw. I could have lived Captured French Shrapnel Is Used With Deadly If.f feet Gunners Sight by Light or Burning Tanks. JUAREZ. May 10. The most desper ately-fought battle of the Mexican rev olution is being fought tonight at Tampico, according to reports reaching rebel officers here. It is reported some of the oil wells and tanks are burning and that a portion of the town is on fire. It is said all Americans have been taken aboard the United States war ships, but other foreigners are scat tered throughout the oil wells district. It was this section of the battlefield that the United States Government sug gested should be made a neutral zone. The rebel Generals refused to adopt this suggestion. By the light of the blazing oil tanks, tired by stray shots, the rebel artillery- . men hurled shot after shot from 20 heavy field guns into the strongly-entrenched position held by General Ig nacio Morelos Zaragoza, the federal commander, in the center of town, sweeping the breastworks with a hail of shrapnel in. an effort to open the way for a dash by General Pablo Gon zales' infantry. For the first time in the righting be tween the men of Huerta and Carranza the constitutionalists were on equal terms with the federals in the matter of artillery. The 20 French field guns captured by General Gonzales at Mon terey and placed in position before Tampico have done tremendous execu tion, the French shrapnel bursting with the utmost precisioin in sharp contrast to the home-made shells used by Villa In his battles about Torreon. . ' ' Diplomats Uneasy As To Foreigners' Fate. ZAPATA SAYAGE IN THREATS Rebel Sends Word to Citizen He Will Eat Ears Fried. NEWSPAPER MEN SET FREE INDEX OFTODAFS NEWS Retired Army Officer Acting as Cor respondent, Said to Be Detained as Spy, Faces Inquiry If He Returns. BENTON FAIR PLANS MADE Schools Reported Taking Greater In terest in Project Than Before. CORVALLIS, Or.. May 10. (Special.) The Benton County Fair will be held September 17. 18 and 19. B. W. John son is president, Frank Groves is man ager and Mrs. M. H. Whitby will act as secretary of the Benton County fair board. The Benton County Fair prom ises to be greater this year than in previous years. The committee handling the school exhibits reports that school children all over the county are taking a de cided interest, and have planted a great variety of products for exhibit at the county fair. An eight-day clock with chimes has been offered by the Northern Pacific Railway Company for the best agricul tural exhibit from any school district in Benton County. This clock will be a duplicate of the one given by the Northern Pacific last year, which was won by the Irish Bend district. BARRACKS REVERE MOTHER J 000 Soldiers Join in Special Church Services at Vancouver. VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash., May 10. (Special.) One thousand men at .this post appropriately observed "Mothers day ' in the post assembly hall at 3 o'clock this afternoon. At 2:45 o'clock Musician Ackerman, sound ed "church call." In the course of an excellent pro gramme Mrs. George B. Voaburg and Mrs. John C. Fairfax played an instru mental selection. Mrs. Fred W. Bug bee, in line voice, sang a solo and a trio, composed of Mrs. Wilson Chase, Mrs. Watler C. Sweeney and Mrs. Bugbee, sang. Chaplain James Ossewaarde de livered an eloquent sermon on "Mother." A committee comprising Mrs. Mc Broom, Mrs. Sparrow and Miss Swan son supplied eacji worshiper with a flower, in token of mother, "bright for the living, white for the dead." WASHINGTON, May 10. Much ap prehension was expressed today in diplomatic quarters as to the fate of foreigners at Mexico City in case a sud den revolt should overthrow Huerta and permit the entry of the Zapatans and other undisciplined rebel bands. These foreigners are said to number 6000, not counting the Americans, most of whom have left. Word has reached some of the lega tions here of savage threats Zapata has sent to leading citizens and their wives and daughters in towns near where he was operating. One message is said , to have notified a prominent citizen that when the town was cap tured Zapata would cut off his ears and "eat them fried." Fear la City Will Be Looted. Another from him to the daughter of a merchant is said to have informed her In revolting language to prepare to become his wife on his taking the town. The chief fear in diplomatic quarters is that the city will be overrun and looted. The War Department has not been omcially Informed of the arrest of Lieutenant Charles M. Malgne. a re urea oincer 01 ine Army, acting as correspondent of a Washington paper and said to be under detention as spy at Soledad, near Vera Cruz. Gen eral Funston reported today that Lieu tenant Maigne had gone through the Mexican federal lines but nothing was reported of his arrest. Officer MaMt Explain Whatever may be Maigne's fate, be will be asked to explain his conduct to the War Department. Officials ex press dissatisfaction that Lieutenant Maigne went to the front in a private capacity and penetrated the Mexican lines and Secretary Garrison said today that Maigne had gone out of the country The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 68 degrees; minimum, o3 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northwesterly winds. Mexico. Americans will long; be In danger in Mexico If tiyopa should leave now. Paga 1. Huerta.' s envoys reach Vera Crux, decline hospitality of Americans. Page 2. Great fleet at Vera Crux more brilliant than city after dark. Page x. Diplomats fear sudden revolt in Mexico City. Page 1. Fierce battle raging at Tampico. Page 1. Foreign. Mme. Nor d lea dead. Page 3. National. House faces record vote on liquor question Page 3. Ex-Secretary Knox opposes repeal of tolls exemption law. Page X. Domestic. Defiance, second of aspirants for cup de fender, launched at Bath. Page 11. Pacific Northwest. One thousand, homesteaders squat on 6S Rainier forest reserve claims. Page 6. Pendleton newspaper files show Mr. and Mrs Smith and Committeeman Mitchell re garded monthly fines complalsantly. Page 6. Sport. Coast League results: Los Angeles 6-4, Portland 5-1; Sacramento 11-3. San Francisco 10-2; Oakland 6-7, Venice 2-6. Page 10. Nort h western League results : Portland L. Vancouver 0. Seattle 4. Victoria 0; Ta- coraa X, Spokane 0. Page 10. Tualatin Country Club scene of pleasure for many. Page 10. Thoroughbreds In training at Salem race track. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. Granges aid public market. Page T. Two men burn to death under automobile. Page 1. Reed College folk busy preparing for con Terences. Page Id. Profitable trade for Portland said to depend entirely on service. Page 8. "Mothers' day" is observed in Protestant c h urc hes. Page 16. Rev. William Youngson gives "father" place in "Mothers' day sermon. Page 16. Long pastorate of J. Allen Leas subject of celebration Page 16. Six hundred East Side business men and families on Bull Run excursion. Page lit, Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13. Winters will case drawing to close. Page 2. Pacific Coast Unitarian Conference meets here today. Page 16. KNOX URGES TOLLS EXEMPTION RIGHT Ex-Secretary Denies Violation of Treaty. (Concdluded on Pane 2. NEW DEPOT FIGHT URGED Va nco u ver Wan ts Sta t ion Brou gh t Mile Nearer City. VANCOUVER, Wash., May 10. Spe clal.) A depot at the foot of Washing ton street, at the intersection of the North Bank Railroad, is a goal fo which many residents of Clarke County are striving. Steps to this end have been begun, and the State Railroad Commission will be asked to compel the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Rail road Company to meet their reques Camas and Washougal also would b better served by a, depot located there. and Camas has taken the matter through the Commission. The Vancouver City Council has ap pointed a committee to act in the mat ter, and the Vancouver Commercial Club has adopted a resolution askin the Railroad Commission to take favor able action. The Clarke County Com missioners have adopted similar reso lutions. Some, however, think that action should be deferred until the Interstate bridge has been started. The present depot is a mile below the site of the proposed new depot. Passengers from North Bank points, therefore, are carried a mile beyond their real destination. 2 BURN TO DEATH UNDER AUTOMOBILE GEORGE BETZ, FLORIST, KILLED WITH FRIENTJ OX ROAD. UNITED STATES BEARS RISK erils and.ro? o;ared by No Cuier Nation. OSITION IS MADE PLAIN Member of Taft's Cabinet Who He Jected British Protest Pleads Against Giving Away Hard Won Advantage. WILSON SETS U1IT ON COLORADO ORDER WASHINGTON. May 10. Philander a Ktim. Secretary of State in rrwi- dent Taft's Cabinet, who rejectee Great Britain's protest against the right of the United States to exempt American coastwise shipping from the payment of Panama Canal tolls. Issued statement here tonight arguing against the exemption repeal bill. Primarily Mr. Knox asseneo xnai toll exemption for American ships Is not in violation of the Hy- Pauncefote treaty. Pointing out that the United States is building the Panama Canal at an expense of $800,000,000. Mr. Knox ar gued that it took other risks, too. United States Xlone Pays BUI. "We alone are expending the untold millions necessary to fortify and protect the canal so that some belligerent ea-a-er to secure the resulting advantage may not destroy it." he said. "We alone are bearing the risk of losing all this investment as the result of some natural cataclysm, such as an earthquake, against which no human mrencv can secure us; we alone have stood for. whatever of criticism h come from the manner of acquiring the Canal Zone a criticism encouragea and fostered by the very class which now .seeks to turn over to Europe, as a gratuity, the benefits of our actions; we alone have put the lives of the flower of our Army engineers and of thousands of American citizens through all the hazards and dangers of fatal tropic maladies: and finally no other country has shared and none other proposes to share one penny of this expenditure or any phase, of any risk connected with our stupendous Identical Terms Sot (Guaranteed. "Surely on these facts there arises no necessary implication that Great Brit ain is entitled to the benefits of this Two Riding on Back Seat Escape Uninjured One Says Car Run ning: Slowly at Time. George Betz, manager of George Betz & Son, florists at 699 Williams avenue, and a man known as "Irish," but whose name could not be learned late last night, burned to death on the Canyon road near Sylvan, when an au tomobile in which they were riding overturned in a ditch and caught fire. The accident happened about 8:30 o"clock, according to Howard Frank lin. 194 Fargo street, and Walter L James, a negro porter, who were rid ing In the back seat of the automobile when It overturned but were able to crawl from under the car. Mr. Betz was driving, with his friend "Irish" sitting In the front seat. The party left a barber shop at 285 Russell street at 5 o'clock to take ride about the city. Beta had Just returned from Vancouver. Wash., and was in excellent spirits. The ride ex tended over the Canyon road. Before reaching Sylvan the automobile was stopped and the top Raised. r ranklln says the car was moving slowly when Bets seemed to lose con trot. Betz and "Irish" screamed frantical ly for help when they were unable to crawl from beneath the burning auto mobile. Franklin and James made every possible attempt to extricate them before the tail light set fire to the machine and the gasoline tank ex ploded. 1 Sheriff Word and Deputy Sheriff Rossman hurried to the scene of the wreck and directed the. work of recov ering the bodies. Prompt Surrenders. Guns Demanded. Requirement Made That Roll. Shall Be Furnished Army. (Concdluded on Pane 2. PASCO PROJECT PLEASES Work on Pa louse Irrigation Expected to Be Started. Ditch PASCO, Wash., May 10. (Special.) Several "Government engineers were in Pasco this week looking over the sur vey on the Palouse irrigation project. Among these were Charles W. Swlgert, chief of the reclamation work in Wash ington; R. K.. Tiffany, manager of the Sunnyside canal, and E. R. McCullough, engineer in charge of the Palouse re survey. It is generally understood that the engineer's report will be favorable and that work will be commenced soon on this ditch. The work was held up about seven years ago, and this ts the first time it has been possible to pro cure a resurvey or to have the Govern ment officials reconsider the matter. This project will irrigate about 100, 000 acres tributary to Pasco. 'NASSAU' COMPOSER DYING rroreseor Karl Lanirlotz Honeless Invalid at Age of 80. TRENTON", N. J.. May 10. (Special. Professor Karl Langlotz. sole sur vivor or faculty of Princeton of B0 years ago. and famed as composer music of 'Old Nassau." battle hymn of the university. Is now a hopeless in valid. With his sight almost gone an other infirmities of age crowding upo him, he has been confined to his mod est little apartment for nearly ; tw years.' He is nearly 80 years old. It was in 1895 that Professor Lang lots wrote the music for '"Old Nassau. the words, by Harlan Page Peck. '69, had won the prlsbe in the Nassau Lit had won the prize in the Nassau Lit "Its music was quickly and care lessly composed," said Professor Lang lotz, yet It lives when composition that I completed after long study and with a hope that they would win a last ing recognition were praised for time and then forgotten." tConcJuded on rage 3.) ELKS WILL REPEAT PLAY Vancouver Amateurs Scheduled Appear in Salem "Friday. VANCOUVER. Wash., May 10. (Spe cial.) The "Wedding of Jones, a two- act musical comedy, made such a hit here May 4 and 6 that the local lodge of Elks will repeat the performance in Salem on Friday. The play will be presented under the auspices of the Salem lodge of Elks. There are 39 members In the cast- Many will make the trip with the ama teur players. It is reported the company may ap pear in Albany, Or. ROYAL QUARREL IS DENIED Ex-King Manuel and Princess Au gustine Victoria .Harmonious. LONDON. May 10. Marquis de La v radio, private secretary of Ex-King Manuel, today denied published reports the approaching visit of Prince Wtl helm of Hohenzollern to England ia for the purpose of taking home Princess Augustine Victoria, wife of ManueL The secretary said: "The relations of the King and the Queen are most happy." ... ............................. .............. ................... I TWO LEGISLATIVE PLATFORMS. W BEN SELLING ab.ludd . ttllSI DRACSMITH Z D.C.LEWIS L fgp.w.HORNE xt? SB-HUSTON SrmW KSgaIs nTOsrotT iUJtWBiM r LM 1 IN III KNrV RSI Kxs rr . I t I m IM 7" MM Mff. M l r , ri it -mvui n a k ti,s r: n I I f Mi I 1 UuMnr .1 1 MU W.AlV'T -L I t l; . - '. PASCO RUN WITH ECONOMY Socialists Cut Ooct From $14,73 for Quarter to $6910. PASCO, Wash., May 10. (Special.) A report of the City Treasurer show that the past four months of city gov ernment for Pasco, commencing Janu ary 1, 1914, resulted in a reduction o running expenses to about one-half of what It was for the year 1913. The present administration is socialistic, and at the time of the election- last Fall that party agreed to cut down expenses of the city. The first four months of 1913 cost the city $14,732.08, and the past four months have only cost $6910.63, a sav ing of $7821.45. ENT COLONY IS PERMITTED NEW MEN TO BE BARRED TRIBESMEN RECALL CHIEF Indians Who Permit Women to Vote Want Kullblood as Head. RKDDIN'G, CaU May 10. Chief Wes ley, of Baird, head of the Wintun tribe of Indians of Northern California, was removed from his chieftainship today In a recall election believed to be the first ever held by Indians. Wesley was elected chief about a year ago in an election at which Indian women voted, following the privilege of their white sisters of California. It was not for dereliction in office, but because Wesley is said to be part Yaqu that he was recalled. - The Wintums want a full-blooded chief of their own strain. President's Order Rars strikebreak ers and Others Not Actually Employed in Mines W Iven Troops Were Called. TRINIDAD, Colo.. May 10. President Wilson, through the War Department. today instructed Colonel James Lockett, commanding the . Federal troops in Southern Colorado, to per mit no importation of strikebreakers, and announced that a time limit would be set at once within which delivery of arms must be completed, according to statement by Major W. A. Holbrook tonight. Major Holbrook said both subjects would be treated in proclama tions later. Colonel Lockett tonight announced that the War Department had deter mined to permit the rehabilitation of the strikers' tent colony at Ludlow, provided the military officers are fur nished with a roll of the inhabitants. together with the addresses of their former places of employment and pro vided further that a union man of strong influence is placed in charge of the camp, with whom the omcers might confer. Protection Promised Mines. In his statement on President Wil son's instructions upon strikebreakers. Major Holbrook said that the com manding officers here had been ad vised that no man shall be employed in any mine in the Colorado coalfields., who had not been actually in its em ploy April 22, the date of the Presi dent's first proclamation ordering the troops nto the field, was published. No mine that was closed down at the time or before the strike, would be permitted to open, according to Major Holbrook'a statement, but all others may be operated under full protection from the Government. Strikers Accept Work. Strikers, formerly employed at cer tain mines, will be permitted to return to work at the specific places of their former employment if they choose and if they are desired by their former employers, according to Major Hol brook. In connection with the President's an nouncement that a time limit would be set upon the delivery of arms. Major Holbrook announced that the War De partment would probably issue an earl- proclamation. After that, according to Major Holbrook, forcible search and seizure will begin. More Uuu Surrendered. Strikers surrendered today 24 addi tional arms at the San Rafael tent col ony, making a total of 96 weapons given up by the strikers to Federal officers yesterday and today. From mine guards in the Trinidad and Agullar districts. Federal soldiers have collected 190 arms, mostly rifles and one machine gun. At Forbes the gtiards and the few farmers turned in 55 guns. The -strikers surrendered none. At various meetings today of locals of the United Mine workers of America the members were told they would be dropped from the rolls of membership unless they complied with the disarma ment programme. CARMEL COLONY WARNED Precautions Taken at Time Poison Was Sent to Alice MacGowan. SAN FRANCISCO. May 10. The dis covery that two anonymous letters were written warning their recipients ; to beware of what they ate at the time of the attempt to poison Alice MacGowan, the novelist, has been made by the detectives who are try ing to clear the mystery that -has dis turbed Carmel-by-the-Sea, California's colony of writers and artists. Handwriting experts are studying the letters. OPIUM USERS TO BE SHOT Death for Smokers Under 40, Prison for Older Ones, Decreed In China. PEKIN, May 10. Persons under 40 years of age are to be shot if found smoking opium at .Cheng-tu, in the province of Sze-Chuen, after the ex piration of a period of 21 days from today, according to a government an nouncement Issued today. Those over 40 are to be sentenced to terms of penal servitude. EGGS GONE, PARTNERS PART One Man Is Jailed and Oilier Now Is Ixioking for His Hugs. MINNEAPOLIS. May 8. S. N. Holstad and Christ Eide were friends and roomed together at IS Second avenue North. They are no longer friends and they lo not room together. Eide still occupies the room, which is bare of rugs and oraperies that formerly fur nished it, and Holstad is locked ui at the City Jail. Eide lid not like restaurant cooking so ne kept a supply of eggs, butter ai.cl other edibles and "bached" it. When he went home his store of food was missing. Also some shoes and other articles of cloth! ng and the rugs- He called, a policeman. They hunted tip Holstad. Holstad had a package of eggs and butter. Eide is looking for his rugs and clothing. BOOSTER TRIP PLANNED Chelialis Business Lcn to Dedicate Bridge in Lewis County. CH1SHAL1S. Wash.. May 10. (Spe cial.) Under the auspices of the Citi-' sens' Club a big automobile trip is be ing planned to various Lastern Lewis County points for the latter part of July. It is expected to devote about three days to the trip. The second day the new bridge acrofs the Cowlitz River at Nesika, which is being built jointly by Lewis County and the Stale of Washington, will be dedicated. It is planned also by thie Chehalis business men to advertise the comintr Southwest Washington Kair to be held Au.u&t - ,
