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7 W-N. -X- VOL. LTV. XO. 16,G85. " , . PORTLAND. OREGON, MONDAY. 31 AY 18, 1914. " , PKICE FIVE CENTS. - : . . - - ; . j - . MEDIATION WILLNEIT MIL, THUS TAFT Offer and Acceptance However Promising. WILSON'S POLICY CRITICISED Aid Given to Rebels Blamed for Present Situation. AMERICANS WILL DO DUTY People Willing to Go to "War If Nec essary, tut Will Do So "in Serv ice of Mankind" and Not to Make Conquest. NEW TORK, May 17. William How ard Taft gave his views on the Mexi can situation today in an address at the Free Synagogue's celebraton of Peace Sunday. While the ex-President expressed lit tle hope that the pending mediation conference would accomplish its im mediate purpose, he asserted that the offer of mediation and its acceptance constituted an important step toward the future settlement of international disputes in the Western hemisphere. He said there was no popular pres sure for a military policy which the Ad ministration could not resist. He said the people were determined to do their duty, even should that duty involve war. But for war, he added, the people had little enthusiasm. Aid o Rebels Crltlclard. The criticism Mr. Taft leveled at the Wilson Administration had to do wth the aid which, he said, the Administra tion had given to the Mexican, rebels. 'In my Judgment," he said, "if in our course towards Mexico during the past year we had not exerted such direct influence as we have to aid one of the contending parties, we should not now be so near general interven tion and war." In conclusion he called on all Amer icans to aid the President In his efforts to find peace. "Threatened war between two stable nations is much easier to deal with than such a condition as confronts us la Mexico," he said. "Disease of Revolution" Prevalent. "What .we have there to contend with is the disease of revolution, ljlghty per cent of the people are ig norant and illiterate. A three-years' war has laid waste the country, de stroyed its industry and exposed all foreigners to lawless violence and all their investments there to' destruction. In such a case a neighboring nation may properly intervene and help tho forces of law and order to end such anarchy just because It -wishes to live in a quiet neighborhood. "But If we are to be involved in war because of Mexican anarchy, let us have It fully understood that we go into It 'in the service of mankind,' as the President phrases it, and not upon the "Tsaue of a mere punctiillio In naval cere monial. Let us not enter lightly or unadvisedly upon a course that will in volve a sacrifice the extent of which may well make us pause." Enornom Task Involved. "We have, say, 60,000 mobile troops of the regular Army fit to take the field In Mexico. If the available military force of Mexicans trained and made hardy by a three years' war were to be massed aganst our troops, we should need a much larger force than we now have to capture the large strategic in land towns. After we had captured them and dispersed the armies, the forces against us would adopt a system of guerrilla warfare. The best expert estimate of the force required by us to garrison the necessary towns, sup press guerrilla warfare and tranquillze the country is 400.000 men, and it is eaid that this would take two or three years and involve an expenditure of 31.000.000 a day. "It would be a dead pull which would wear the patience of the Nation and in which the few lives lost in each battle would total large and would grow less and less tolerable as the dreary contest went on. Disease in that country would thin our ranks more than bullets. Mexicans Would Be V ".appreciative. "Then, after having lost thousands of lives and expended a treasure double that which it has cost us to give to the world the Panama Canal, we would have on our hands & hostile Mexican people, without any grattude for our sacrifices. "Our duty to them and to ourselves would be to give mem a government as secure and practicable against a re currence of anarchical conditions and ilording them an opportunity for ma terial and intellectual progress. The latter task would be even more difficult than that of the war and the work of tranqullization. It might take us years. Having entered on the war from a sense of duty and retaining control to make our work effective, we would be charged with being landgrabbers. "Indeed, after the burden of cost, many of our people would be anxious to annex Dart or all of thn trftrnntHmH territory as compensation and in the interest of both peoples. Moaro Doctrine Strengthened. "With the refusal of one of the war ring parties to accept mediation and with the probable defeat of the other, (Concdluded on Pass 2.) STIFF SKIRTS AND FALSE CURLS WORN CRIXKLY TAFFETA GOWNS AP PEAR IX FASHION PARADE. "Kiss Me Quicks" on Wire? Over ,Earsand Bangles Bigger Than. ' Gipsy, Queen's Arc Popular. ATLANTIC CITT. May 17. Every well-dressed woman who appeared in the boardwalk fashion parade today wore a grown or taffeta, the sort that retains Us shape just like a stiffly starched apron. Everything now Is taf feta, the stiff kind, and the woman v. ho hasen't the taffeta costume with four tiers in the skirt is not in style, ac cording to boardwalk dictates. Other new fashions noticed include little false curls which are fastened on long wires hooked -over the ears and stuck to the cheeks with mucilage or other, sticky substances, which come in bottles especially prepared for the purpose.- They call them "kiss me quicks," and every girl is wearing them. Big ear bangles, bigger than the big gest ever worn by the most beautiful gipsy Queen, also appeared and bid fair to become popu!ar. ANTIS" M0CK FEMINISTS "Gallery" Provokes Derision and Prediction as to Fate of Man. WASHINGTON, May 17. (Special.) The gallery of feminists, which "the antl-suffragists say is the worst gallery of all, .has been given to the public. The membership, as described by the antis, includes women ranging from well-known actresses to muckrakers." In publishing this list of suffragists the National Association Opposed to Wo man Suffrage has this preface in the announcement from Its Washington headquarters today: Woman suffrage and feminism is the movement born of a cubist and futurist age of extremes. A state of society is approaching where man will not figure n the life of woman except as the father of her children. Those who run may read, and those who read modern suffrage literature are Impelled to run In self-defense." TWO BURNED BY GASOLINE Hubbard Man May Die and House Is Destroyed. HUBBARD. Or.. May 17. (Special.) Taylor Skees lies in the Hubbard hos pital In a precarious condition as the result of a gasoline explosion on his farm near Hubbard at about 9:30 A M. this morning. - While endeavoring to repair the en gine for pumping water at his home a spark from the wires exploded a five gallon tank of gasoline, which set fire to Mr. Skees clothing. M. C. Crittenden, who was helping Mr. Skees. was burned also, and the latter's home was totally destroyed. MT. VERNON IS RESHINGLED Home of Washington Gets Fourth Set Since Building in 1743. WASHINGTON', May 17. (Special.) Mount Vernon, the home of the Father of His Country, - is to have its fourth set of shingles since it was built, in 1743. The mansion was reshingled In 1785 and In I860. Before putting the fourth roofing on the shingles were rounded at one end to make them conform to the original shingles of 1743. The shingles are of cypress, hand made in North Carolina, and are of the same size as those used when the house was first roofed. PARKS' EXECUTION SEEN Deserting: Huerta Conscript Promises to Tell Story. VERA CRUZ. May 17 Additional confirmation of the execution of Pri vate Samuel Parks, of the Twenty eighth Infantry, was received today. There was brought into the Ameri can lines one of Huerta's conscripts who had deserted. He said he was an eye-witness of the execution of Parks and agreed to relate the facts as far as he knew them to the American Gen eral in command if in return work were given him here or he was other wise cared for. MUZZLING BEGINS FRIDAY All Uoffs Kuiininj? at Large, Not feo Provided, to Be Arrested. s The muzzling all dogs that are allowed to run at largre will be en forced from next Friday, when the ordinance passed by the City Council last month goes into effect. Officials of the dog: pound, the City Health Bureau and the police will co operate in enforcing the measure. All dogs caught at large without muzzles will be sent to the pound, where a fee of $3 and the purchase of a suitable muzzle will be required of owners be fore the animals ar; released. RIVAL AIR FERRIES RUN New San" Francisco-Oakland Line Has Troubl-on First Trip. SAN FRANCISCO. May 17.- Two rival lines of the San Krancisco-to-Oakland aerial ferry were running today, but Roy Francis, who inaugurated the sec ond line, encountered engine trouble in the Oakland estuary and had to drop to the water. . His machine was towed to the foot of Broaflway landing In Oakland. Silas Christofferson, of the other line, made one trip and carried one passenger. Weldon B. Cooke will operate the ferry hydro-aeroplane tomorrow. r v REFUGEES TELL OF MEXICAN EXCESSES American Brig Siezed at Manzanillo. PASSENGERS MADE PRISONERS Small Boats Trying to Escape Are Fired On. CONSUL ORDERED AWAY t Official Guarded on Steamer by Sol dier Who flourished Revolver Through Shutters -Several Murders Reported. SAN FRANCISCO, May 17. Graphtc reports of the murder of Americans, the capture by a Mexican transport of the American brig Geneva, the imprison ment of United States Consul Edwards, of Acapulco, and many atrocities on the west coast of Mexico were brought in today by the officers and 150 refugees on the British steamer Cetriana, which arrived from Manzanillo. Lieutenant Edward J. Minister, royal naval reserve, commander of the Cetri ana, goj his steamer, loaded with refu gees, awaV from Manzanillo by daring and skilful action on April 28, when it was believed the Mexicans were pre paring to burn it at the dock by firing and dynamiting thd( wharves. Rifle Kf re Directed Against Veael. According to the refugees, when news of the capture of Vera Cruz by the United States reached the west coast. it was taken by the Mexicans as the beginning of war. The Mexicans, were inflamed to a high pitch, they say, and the Americans abandoned their homes and. fled. As the Cetriana got away from the dock, maneuvering adroitly out of what is reported to be an attempt to hem it in by four Mexican steamers, a rifle fire was directed against it. Many of the bullets struck the steamer. Upwards of a score of murders, most ly of Americans, were reported by the Cetriana's passengers. Captain W. H. Ferguson, of the brig Geneva, of San Francisco, was one of the Cetriana's passengers. For nearly a week his ship, crew and four refu gees were held as prisoners of war by the Mexicans, he reported. The arrival of the cruiser Raleigh brought about his release. Water and Food Refused. "We left San Francisco January 31 and discharged our cargo at Guaymas, (Concdluded on Page 2.) e a. INDEX 0E TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TODAY'S Fair, northwesterly winds. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 71 degrees; minimum, 4 degrees. Election. One Supreme bench candidate yet in doubt. Page 1. Legislative nominees pledged to economical administration. Page 4. James D. Abbott passes Arthur langgutn, in race for State Senate. Page 4. Germany pledged to Britain against official exmuit at ban Francisco. ..Page -i. Mexico. Taft thinks mediation will not avail. Page 1. Pacification of all Mexico hope of medi ators. Page 1. Foreign. Japan In midst of portentous movement to ward democracy. Page Five more survivors of burned freighter picked up after 13 days in open boat. Page 1. Stiff taffeta gowns and false curls on wires over ears appear in fashion parade. Page 1. Domestic. Ellipse of sun to be observed August -1. Page H. -Colorado Governor asks for Federal aid in settling strike. Page 3. bporta. Pacific Coast League results Portland 2-4, Venice 5-0; Los Angeles 9-3, Sacramento 1--; Oakland 3-3, San. FranciBCO 4-6. Page 8. Northwestern League results Tacoma 1, Seattle 5: Portland 6, Victoria 5. Pe 8. Annual interscholastic meet set for Mult nomah field next Saturday. Page 8. Portland and Vicinity- . Circus day is here. Page 14. Festival Queen may be announced today. Page 11. Norwegians celebrate centennial of adop tion of constitution. Page 14. Dr. Corby tells congregation how to cure blues. Page 11. Vaudeville stunts being booked for Follies. Page 14. "Portland 195" conference at Reed Col lege ends. Page 7. Dr. B. J. Hoadley. one of Epworth League founders, speaks at stiver Jubilee serv ices. Page 11. Annual conference of Episcopal diocese of Oregon opens tomorrow. Page 1 1. DR. MORRISON IS BETTER Hector of Trinity Church Reconper ' ating at Hospital-. Rev. A. A. Morrison, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, is slowly recuperat ing at Good Samaritan Hospital from a breakdown of a week ago, probably in duced from nervousness and stomach trouble. He is to leave the hospital In a week. If present favorable conditions continue. t Dr Morrison suffered a similar breakdown shortly after Easter -and was in the hospital for some time. Fever and chills sent his temperature to a dangerous point at one time, but this condition has been overcome. WEEK TO BE STORMLESS Temperatures Below Normal on Pa V ' -- - cific. Coast Expected. - .WASHINGTON. May 17. Generally fair weather over much of the country is fhe official weather forecast for this week. The bulletin says: "Temperatures during the week will average near or slightly above the nor mal over practically all parts of the country east of the Rocky Mountains and somewhat below on the Pacific slope. There is no important storm charted to cross ttie country during the coming week." HE'S A LIVELY OLD ELEPHANT NOW SURVIVORS 13 DAYS ' AT SEA PICKED UP Five Sti 16 .---"L ttT 9 .fuo Left in Boat. SEYERAL DIE FROM BURNS Last of Crew of Freighter Res cued by Cutter. DEAD THROWN OVERBOARD Number Dwindles Day by Day, Until at End. Those Kemaining Are Unable to Signal for Help. Gales Are Weathered. HALIFAX N. S., May 17. After 13 days of terrific suflering In an open boat adrift at sea, five survivors of the freight steamer Columbian were picked up in the North Atlantic by the United States revdpue cutter Seneca today. Eleven others of the boat's crew who left the Columbian when she was burned just south of Sable Island on May 3 had succumbed to Injuries and privations, and their bodies had been thrown overboard. . Tho death roll of the lost freighter now stands at 15. Twenty-seven other members of the crew were saved by the Cunard liner Franconia and the steamer Manhattan after two days' exposure. Limit of Kndurance Reached. ' The men snatched from death by the Seneca today were '.he first officer, whose name was not given in the radio dispatch from that vessel; Seamen Rob. ert Ties, Oscar Kendall and Peter Bel langer, and a fireman. Michael Ludwig- Ben. The Seneca reported she expected to reach Halifax tomorrow morning. The survivors had lived 'on only a few ship's biscuits and a cask of wa ter, which had. long ago been exhaust- ed. They had gone the limit of human endurance. Hope for this missing thjrd boat had been abandoned after a dozen of the trans-Atlantic liners searched for five days In a wide, radius of the spot where the ship had buret into flames. Several Die From Barns To seafaring men "It seemed impos Bible that a small boat could pass through the series of gales that have since swept these waters and the news that the Seneca had picked up sur vivors was received almost with incre dulity here. Although the survivors were " too weak from their suffering to tell the (Concdluued on Page 2.) GERMANY PLEDGED AGAINST EXHIBIT OBLIGATION- TO BRITAIN RE VEALED TO EMPEROR. Forceful Personality of One Man, "Who Since Has. Died, Prevents Participation in Exposition. LONDON. May 18. (Special.) The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail says he has learned the real reason why the movement headed by Herr Ballin. managing director of the Hamburg-American Steamship Company, In favor of the participation of German merchants in the Panama-Pacific Ex position in 1915 collapsed. The corre spondent says the head of the offi cial opposition to. participation in the exposition was the brilliant capitalist, the late Dr. Goldberger, chairman of the government exhibition department, whose s. forceful personality imposed non-participation on the government. The correspondent says Dr. Gold berger said that the surest way to make participation by Germany un necessary was to induce Great Britain also to refuse1 to take part, and if is to be inferred from the correspond ent's statements that Dr. Goldberger was responsible for persuading Great Britain not to participate officially. When Dr. Goldberger died last Fall, the Emperor paid a long visit of con dolence to the widow, who told him her husband's death had been hastened by heated antagonisms which had been engendered by Herr Ballln's campaign to secure German participation in the exposition. She enlightened the Emperor for the first time as to how Germany was bound in honor to Great Britain not to participate in the San Fran cisco exposition. The Emperor thereupon stopped Herr Ballin's movement in favor of partici pation. EPWORTH SESSIONS CLOSE Albany Man Named League Presi dent at Convention in Lebanon. LEBANON. Or., May 17. (Special.) The Eugene District Epworth League convention, which closed a three-day session hero tonight, was attended by more than 100 delegates. Today's programme was as follows: Sunday school; sermon. Dr. J. C. Rollins, of Corvallis. Evening, devo tional meeting, led by E.'U Clark, of Lebanon; address by Kev. A. C. Brack enbury. of Brownsville. At the close of. the last service the following officers were installed by Rev. J. T. Abbett: President, Clyde E. Williamson, ot AiDany; first vice president, Harry Bowers, of Browns ville; second vice-president, Walter iioemg. of Corvallis; third vice-president, Armorel M. Sutcllffe. of Lebanon; fourth vice-president, Lola Wilson, of Cottage Grove; secretary. Edna Cowles, of Albany; treasurer. Otto Schantz. of Eugene. VOTE IN HOME IS BIG Wi tli y combe -Polls 944 of 1170 Votes in Benton County. CORVALLIS. Or.. May 17. Dr. Withy- combe received 760 out of a total of 873 votes cast for all candidates for Gov ernor in the City of Corvallis. He re ceived in 16 precincts heard from out of the 22 In 'Benton County 944 votes of 1179 votes cast for all candidates for Governor. The remarkable thing about the vote received by Dr. Withycombe in Benton County is that he did absolute ly no campaigning. His name was written in on a great number of Demo cratic ballots. WARNING GIVEN FARMERS Mayor 'Says High Prices at Public Market Must Cease. Store prices for farm produce at the new Yamhill-street public market are not to be tolerated by the city. If necessary the prices will be regu lated by ordinance, declares Mayor Albee, 'who, although a staunch be liever in public markets, says he be lieves it would not be right to allow farmers to sell in the streets at the same prices as are charged by grocery- men who pay rents and local taxes. BOWMAN RALSTON IS DEAD Grand Opera Singer Known in Two Hemispheres Passes in Seattle. SEATTLE. Wash., May 17. Bowman Ralston, formerly well-known through out the United States and Europe as a grand opera singer, died at his home here last night after an illness of sev eral months. He was 66 years old. Mr. Ralston was born in Liverpool and came to America 30 years ago. He had lived at Seattle Ave years. He is survived by his widow, who was known on the grand opera stage as Elizabeth Fairbairn. FIVE DROWN FROM LAUNCH Pleasure Boat Capsizes in Missis sippi; Four Are Saved. MINNEAPOLIS. May 17. Five mem bers of a party of nine persons in a pleasure launch were drowned today when their launch capsized in the Mis sissippi River near here. The dead are: Mrs. Otto Justmanrt and her two children and two children of John 7. Buckholz. " Those saved were Buckholz. bis wife and one child and Fred Weber, a relative of Buck hols. Confirmation Is Administered. Bishop Scaddlng confirmed a class of 22 at .Trinity Episcopal Church yester day morning. In bis address be told impressively of the sevenfold gifts of the holy spirit In confirmation. Special music marked the service. 1 SUPREME - BENCH PLACE IS Ifl DOUBT McBride, Bean, Harris -Are Nominated. BENSON AND M'NARY CLOSE Returns Not Yet Received From Three Interior Counties. I WITHYC0MBE VOTE GROWS Total for Benton County Man Now 17,402, AVItb. Moser and Craw ford Running Second and Third in Primary Race. The only place left in doubt on the 1 Republican ticket after receipt of ad ditional returns yesterday was one nomination for the supreme bench. The nomination of Thomas A. McBride. Henry J. Bean and Lawrence T. Har ris seems assured, while the fourth place lies between Henry L. Benson and Charles J. McNary. The difference between tho two. with all of Multnomah counted, ex cept one precinct, and incomplete fig ures received from all but three coun ties, is about 600 votes. This advan tage is on the side of Judge McNary. In Multnomah County, Judge Benson ran ahead of Judge McNary, but Uie up-state vote has wiped out his lead and turned it the other way. One of the missing counties, however, is Lake County, where Judge Benson is said to be strong, and the vote there will alter the returns somewhat, if expectations are borne out. McNary'. Chanees Beat. But as the general trend of the vot ing on the two candidates outside of Multnomah is favorable to Judge Mc Nary. it is indicated that he will re ceive the nomination by a small lead. Judge Cleeton will be very close to the loser. The latest figures, compiled from in complete returns from all but three small counties, follow: , Bean 36.89S Benson 30,169 Cleeton.... 29.691 D'Arcy 15.960 Harris.. 32.604 McBride 39,283 McNary.. 30,77 7 Richardson 17,416 .AVlthycombe'a Vote Grows. Additional' figures on tha voting on the Governorship nomination in the Republican party brought Dr. Withy combe's lead up to nearly 4000 over Gus C. Moser. The complete returns will add 1500 to 2000 more to his plu rality in all probability. The figures now stand: Brownell 3.943 Carter 8,739 Crawford '. .... 11,778 Dlmick 9.014 Geer 6.735 Johns .... .. 6,561 Moser .. 13,625 Withycombe 17,402 These figures Include all of Multno mah County except the precinct of Bridal Veil. Brown Far In Lead. The lead of George M. Brown for the Republican nomination for Attorney- General Is more than 5000 in the to tals of incomplete returns. As now compiled, with Multnomah almost com plete Included, the figures stand: Brown 24.688 Farrin 6.964 Grant 19,438 Johnson.. .". ....10,884 Lord 10,808 Additional figures failed to alter the relative positions of Judge Bennett and Dr. C. J. Smith, candidates for the Democratic nomination for Governor. The forecast for Dr. Smith's final plurality Is about 1500 over Judge Ben nett. The later figures give the fol lowing totals: Bennett. 10,041 Cobb 1,679 Manning. 4.581 Miller. . 1.000 Smith 11.34S ' ProznMlre Returns Slow. In the returns sent in from outside counties figures on the Progressive vote for Governor are almost totally lacking." Jackson and Marion Counties seem to have gone for L. II. Mc.Mahon. while Union County will apparently give a small plurality for F. M. Gill. Reports from elsewhere are lacking. In the Second Congressional District the Democrats and Progressives had no avowed candidates for Representative In Congress, c-ut it is thought likely that names were written in. No ac- count of these has been kept by tho unofficial compilers and the candi- dlTtes, if any, will probably not be known until the official count is com pleted. In the vote on Republican National Committeeman, so far as counted. Ralph E. Williams has a majority over Charles W. Ackerson of 7562. Mr. Wil liams' total. including Multnomah County, is 35,117 and Mr. Ackerson's 27.555. The counties from which returns are wholly lacking are Lake. Curry and Wheeler. In Curry the only wire com munication is by telephone ( to the county, seat, and in Gold Beach the -telephone office was not open yesterday. For the same reason the county scat . in Wheeler County could not be reached. While there are telegraph offices at Lakeview. it is the Invariable rule In elections that it is Impossible for any (Concluded on Psse 4.)