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VOL. LIV. XO. 16,710. BUTTE RIOTERS FOR TIE CONTROL CITY Mob Wrests Prisoners From Jail. LYNCHING THREAT THWARTED Newspapers Told to Eschew "Mob"; Respect I. W. W. ' FIRE DEPARTMENT SEIZED Pisturbances Stop Only When Lead ers pive AVord Saloons Closed First Time on Sunday In Many Years. S BUTTE, Mont.. Jnne 14. Governor Stewart, accompanied by Attorney General Keely and 'Adjutant-General Oreennn, left Helena tonight for Bntte in an automobile. BUTTE. Mont.. Juno 14. An attempt to lynch two special Deputy Sheriffs, efforts to throttle the newspapers, in timidation of the fire department of the city and general rioting- featured the Sunday disturbance brought about by the schism in the Miners' Union. Which became wide Saturday during the celebration of the organization's 34th anniversary, and was capped by the dynamiting of the homes of two offi cials of the union early this morning by Insurgents. Early In the afternoon a crowd took two prisoners from the jail; later took possession of an aerial fire truck, which was moved through the street by the city authorities in an effort to dis perse the crowds, and threats to lynch Special Deputies Owen Cribben and Martin Harkins, failed to materialize only when police, with drawn guns, res cued the two men -and backed down an alley with them. . Blob Releases Prisoner. Two miners who had threatened the lynching were arrested and taken from the mob by the same stroke that saved the deputies and were placed in the jail, but later the mob became so men acing that Chief of Police Jere Murphy ordered the two prisoners released. The crowd carried the two away on their shoulders. When the city attempted to move the fire truck through the streets on a false alarm the rioters climbed Into the ma chine and began to run it, but gave it back to the firemen after cautioning them not to attempt again to run through the crowd in the street. Delegations went to two fire stations and told the firemen not to take ma chines from the building until they were certain there was a fire. The crowd followed the captured machine back to the Arizona-street station, broke sev eral windows and did minor damage. Farther Disorder Forbidden. The remainder of the day was spent in parading the streets until the mem bers of the newly-appointed executive committee of the insurgent miners, con stituting themselves a law and order committee, informed the agitators that no more disorder would be tolerated, and succeeded in dispersing the'gather lng. the miners going to their homes. A delegation visited the three news paper offices and demanded that no fur ther mention be made derogatory to the I. W. W. and that the words "mob" and "rioters" not appear in any news paper . story.- Mine Managers Concede. The managers of the Speculator and Blackrock mines have agreed that the Western Federation card system shall be discontinued and with this' under standing several hundred men returned to work today at these mines. A full night shift has signified its intention of resuming work. Governor Sam V. Stewart will arrive in Butte late tonight from Helena to investigate the situation. Calls have been sent to the capital for the militia, but the general sentiment Is opposed .to bringing troops. The belief is prevalent that the situ ation ie under control. No arrests have been made In con nection with the wrecking of the Casey borne this morning by dynamite. Dynamiters Not Found. The home of P. K. Sullivan, an offi cial In the local union of the West ern Federation of Miners, which was dynamited at 2 o'clock this morning, was badly wrecked, but Sullivan, his -ife and three children were uninjured. The police have been unable to find one of the miners that was reported last night to have taken $30,000 from the federation safe after it was dyna mited by the insurgents while a crowd of about 1000 looked on from a dis tance. Acting Mayor Frank Curran, who was thrown out of a window, sustaining a broken leg and-wrist, while trying' to paciry the mob which wrecked the fed eration headquarters yesterday, is rest ing easy In a hospital. The riote yesterday were caused by long-standing ill-feeling between the regulars of the 9000 members of the Western Federation of Miners here and the Insurgents, mostly members of the X. W. W. The members with senti ments in favor of the I. W. W. ob jected to heavy assessments levied against them by the Western Federation cf Miners international officers and local-officials as strike benefits for the (Concluded on Page O i DAY HOTTEST OF YEAR, MERCURY 89 THOCSAXDS SEEK RELIEF IX PARKS' SHADY SHELTER. , Breeze Makes Hot Weather Not Unbearable In Roseburg and Med ford Temperature Is 94. - By noon yesterday, the asphalted Portland streets were springy beneath a footstep. By1 two o'clock they had begun to "crawl." The thermometer had been doing some crawling upward In the meantime, and at four o'clock the Instrument in the office of Assistant District Fore caster Drake registered 89 degrees, marking the day as the hottest of the year. It was the only really hot day since May 13, when 87 degrees were registered. Eighty-eight degrees were registered at five o'clock, and the mercury was still stubbornly sticking at this mark when Mr. Drirae shut up shop at seven o'clock. v. There .was a breeze nearly -all day. and thousands sought the - shady shel ter of the parks. Only those whose fate led them into the downtown streets no ticed the "heat to any extent. - The mercury registered 94 at Rose burg and Med ford and 102 at Phoenix, Ariz., if there is any consolation in these-figures. ' Chicago for the time being was a first-class Summer resort, with a tem perature of only 66. Mr. Drake said last night that con ditions were "favorable for fair and continued warm weather" in this dis trict today. ,' LONG HYPNOSIS IS BROKEN Performer Awakens Boy When In humane Charge Is Dropped. GARY, Ind., June 14. Arthur Tracey, the 18-year-old boy put into a trance Thursday night and left so for more than 36. hours because the hypnotist had been arrested on complaint of club women, was awakened Saturday after the- clubwomen had withdrawn the charge against the hypnotist and prom ised not to prosecute. The women had the hypnotist held alleging Ms exhibition was inhumane, and the hypnotist, retaliated by refus ing to undo his good work, and the boy pedaled for 36 hours, while lying on his back, under the illusion he was riding a bicycle. - SCALE FIXED FOR CRIMES London Paper Gives Prices It Says Women's Political TTrlion Pays. LONDON, June . 14 (Special.) The Daily Express says it learns that as a result of the recent raid on the head quarters of the Women's - Social and Political Union the police ascertained that the organization has a regular scale of prices which are paid to its dupes for various offenses. It gives as an instance the payment of .50 for the slashing of valuable pictures. Other well-paid performances are ar son, placing of bombs, insults to the King and Queen, and annoyance of Cab inet Ministers. BOY AMAZES SPECIALISTS 5 -Year-Ola Bostonian Reads and Memorizes Heavy Literature. SKOWHEGAN. Me.. June 14. (Spe cial. )-Ralphard Peters, 5 years old, a nativtf of Boston, reads and memorizes the most difficult literature, such as "Gray's Elegy," and can pronounce al most any word in the English lan guage correctly. Noted specialists have examined him with wonder. He could read when 2 years old. He reads the Bible to his grandparents and explains the paragraphs. He ad vanced so rapidly that his grandparents became alarmed and consulted a physi cian. FREE SPEECH MEN IN ROW Authorities Forced) to Intervene at Tarry town Meeting. TARRYTOWN. N. Y.. June 14. Ad vocates of free speech developed such differences among themselves at a meeting today Jn free speech advocacy that .authorities Intervened and the gathering broke up. Mrs. Charles A. Gould, a prominent woman suffragist, offered the use of a theater on her estate for a meeting, and today Upton Sinclair and others availed themselves of the opportunity to pre sent free speech arguments. FIGHT IS 'MAN'S. NEMESIS Carpenter, Trying to Hit Clerk, Falls and Is Himself Killed. SAN FRANCISCO. June 14. Joseph Jones, a carpenter, entered a grocery store today, quarreled with a clerk, swung his fist at hjm, missed the blow and, losing his balance, struck his head on a stone coping and was killed, ac cording: to the findins-H at lli. nnlls The police had first arrested the clerk on a charge of manslaughter, but later released him. " - -r BOLT KILLS 6-IN LONDON Several Others Hurt on Wapdsworth Common In Electrical Storm. LONDON, June 14. Lightning killed six persens, four of them children, and Injured several others on Wandsworth Common today durins a severe storm. Many buildings In South London were struck by lightning. POTITT.AXT. OI?EROV HinvnAV .IIIV17 1 1? -tni 1 FOG IS NEMESIS ON DARING AIR TRIP . Watts and FawcettNear Death On -Peak. CLEAR SKY REVEALS-DANGER x . '. Nerve-Racking 17-Hour Aerial Ride Not Classed as Sport. ADVENTURE TOO THRILLING Scenery at First Described, Coffee Cooked on Lime, Frog Concert Is Hideous, Two-Hour Nap Rests, Excitement Warms, Fears Told. (Being; first-hand Impressions of balloon ing by a novice sporting editor of The Ore-g-onian who accompanied Captain John Watts, famous international aeronaut, in the Kansas City III, on her nerve-racking trip from Portland, over the Cascade range.) BT ROSCOE FAWCETT. LEBANON. Or.. June 14. (Special.) Many people fall to grasp how balloon ing may properly be classed as sport, in view of the fact that the balloon is always at the inercy of the wind. , After 17 hours in the air, covering between 200 and 10,000 feet in the good ship Kansas City IIL bound from Port land to Nowhere - in - Particular, and safely arrived, I am proud to say that I am listed with the unbeliever. There are some who might live through our experiences and cry for more, but I am not one of them. It is no business for a newspaperman especially when your balloon is lost in a bank of icy, biting fog, reaching 7500 feet above the earth. Fog Host Treacherous Foe. It was the fog that came within some five feet of hurling us 5500 feet down the ice-coated side of Three-Fingered Jack, beyond the summit of the Cas--ides at 6 o'clock Friday morning. It was the fog that cut our trip short some three hours later. The fog was our Nemesis-" But for' this . terrible, ghostly nothingness, which wrapped its deadly tentacles around us at 3 A. M. Friday, I believe we could have re mained aloft for another 2-4 hours. We could have ascertained our bear ing on Frldr -nd it would have been a Joy -ioe. Practical Ballooning' No Joke. In any event, the man who pro nounced ballooning exhilarating surely did not gain his practical experience on the serrated shanks of the Cascade Mountains. He probably navigated them on an atlas and confines morn ing exercises to the Middle Western Plateau. But for the nimble brain work of one John Watts, 'wice a mem ber of America's international balloon (Concluded on Page 8.) 'i V OCEAN SHEEP CAflV PrU . ,y y. t l INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The IV eat her. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, aegrees; minimum, 50 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. Balloon. Thrilling experiences on balloon trip de scribed by Roscoe fawcett. Page 1. No trace yet found of missing balloon "Springfield." Paga ?. Foreign. New "Robespierre" bids Italy revolt and join new "Republic." Page 1. Militants explode bomb In famous church. Page 4. - National. Sale of warships to Greece is resented by Turkey. Page 2. rel!x Diaz would help Huerta save face Is view. Page 8. Domestic Oakland Mayor's plan' to "lift lid" a wee bit In interest ot business fought. Page 8. Mount Lassen's latest eruption Is most vio lent of all. Page 1. Death of Adlal Stevenson takes noteworthy pillar from Democratlo party. Page V. Butte mlner-rloters Ifa control of city for time. . Page 1. Little mother of 9 years brings slater, 8. to new home out West.' Page 1. Pacific Northwest. E. F. Blaine, of Seattle, mentioned as Dem ocratic dark horse for Senatorial nomina tion. Page 11. Sports. Del Howard suspended and Cat Ewlng tails - to appear again In uniform. Page 10. Tow restriction for yacht trophy race agi tates English circles. Page 10. ' Pacific Coast League results: Portland 6-8, Oakland 8-2; Sacramento 1-0, Venice 0-6; Los Angeles 1-0, San Francisco 8-3. Page 10. Boy is killed by racing auto after last race Is run. Page 14. . . Shifting lineup held only hope for America retaining polo trophy. Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. William Flledner dies at age of 82. Page 7 Solemn tribute paid nation's flag by Elks' lodge. Page 1 1. Free textbooks Issue in school election today. Page 9. . "Faith In Man" Is expounded by Pastor James Diamond Corby. Page 9. "Wronged From the Start" at Orpheum Is a New England scream. Page 14. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 11. Aeronaut Is. added attraction at Empress. Page 14. New baby dies -as unnatural mother turns against it. Page . Mercury soars to 89 degrees on hottest day ot year, page l. Washington road expert enthuses over Co lumbia Highway. Page 4. VETERANS PARTED 50 YEARS Two Idaho Civil War Soldiers Meet First Time Since Discharge. WEISER, Idaho. June 14. (Special.) To separate at Nashville, Tenn., where both received T.heir honorable discharge from the Army at the same time, and to meet again for the first time in Welser nearly half a century later, was the Joy experienced by two veterans who attended the Grand Army conven tion which closed here yesterday. - J. B. Wentley, of Horseshoe Bend, and Samuel Gardner, of this city, were members of Company L Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry. Both enlisted In Pittsburg and served until the close of the war. . FAIR WEATHER. FORECAST Disturbance in Extreme - Northwest Due Near End of Wee. WASHINGTON, June 14. Generally fair weather is forecast for the coming week. Toward the end of the week a disturbance Is expected to develop in the extreme Northwest. Over the north temperatures will be somewhat low with a recovery toward warmer condition over the northwest after the middle of the week." THEY'VE GOT HIM GOING NOW. ' 1'KICJ.E FIVE CENTS. NEW 'ROBESPIERRE' BIOS ITALY REVOLT Loyal Troops Use Bayo nets on Deluded Mob. "BRUTUS GAZETTE" INFLAMES Anarchists Stir 'Revolution" by Wanton Ruses. TOWN IS LAID IN RUINS Count Is Seized; and Forced to Go Through Province Spreading News or "Republic's" Advent. One District Quieted. ROME, June 14 With the occupation of the disaffected provinces by the military forces, order Is rapidly being restored and it is expected that within a day or two the district of Romagna, comprising the provinces of - Bologne, Ferrara. Ravenna and Forll will have resumed normal conditions. s In the Lugo district, however, dls turbances are still In progress, on ac count of the non-arrlval of troops and at Ancona there are still signs of dis content, as the anarchist propaganda is still being carried on. Lines Guarded y Troops. The strike has come to an end and the strike of the railway men. which included only a small number of the employes, has been called off, with the result that the workmen are returning to their tasks. Railroad, telegraph and telephone lines are hurriedly being re paired. Ravenna and Piminl have again been called by telegraph. These lines are now guarded by troops. The railway line between these points has been re stored by the use of a military train with sharpshooters. Admiral Cagnl who was in command of the Italian bluejackets on their first landing at Tripoli, has under, his di rection the quelling of disorders at An cons. Bluejackets from his division have reinforced the garrison there. ' Troops Chsrge- the Mobs. Before landing the admiral reminded his men that they were Italian sailors and had never endured insults, either abroad or at home, and hoped they would be worthy of their traditions. Shortly afterwards & mob attacked the station and the bluejackets with fixed bayonets, charged the revolutionists who fled before them. When the revolutionary movement began at Ancona, a week ago, the an archists headed by Malatesta organized a committee composed of 13 members, before which persons suspected of not favoring the revolutionary cause were questioned and judged according to their (Concluded on Page 8.) 'MOTHER', 9, BRINGS SISTER, 3,0UT WEST fKAAlLKSS ORPHANS CROSS OOXTIXEXT TO SEW HOME. Dan Weaver, Spokane, Plays "Mr. Good Fellow" to Second-Class Pas sengers, Who Finish "In Style." GARRISON. Mont.. June 14 (Spe cial.) Penniless and traveling alone from Hackensack. N. J, to North Yaki ma, WaahT, two little girls, Dorothy Turnnellne. aged 9. and her sister Mary, aged 3, will pass through Sookane to morrow morning bound for a new home, new friends and new parentage, with a well-to-do family of North Yakima. Dorothy and Mary left their father five days ago to bo adopted by the West. Their mother died last year, leaving the father to care for five chil dren, the eldest of whom is Dorothy. She is a perfect little mother, caring for her baby sister as would a parent thrice her age. ,The lassies are anxiously awaiting arrival tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock that they may see their new ahnHd nt enter on their new life in the West. Their father, finding himself unable to bring up his children u he -wished but desperate in an attempt to give the care he could, found adoption the only relief and tearful lv luriad sith Dorothy and Mary, after purchasing for them a second-class passage to North Yakima. Unbeknown to the father, Dan Weaver, of. Spokane, and affiliated with Calvin Helllg, of Port land, in the theatrical business, who alighted at Butte, purchased first-class tickets for the youngsters and cared for them from the time they left New York till he left them at Butte. Sev eral passengers on the North Coast Limited are watching over the babies and will see that they reach their new home in comfort. Mr. Weaver is a Spokane clubman and frequent visitor to Portland. He is In the real estate, mining and the atrical business. FLETCHER'S REWARD SET Rear-Admiral at Vera Cruz to Com mand Great Atlantic Fleet. WASHINGTON. June 14. Command of the great Atlantic fleet, the' goal of every American Naval officer's ambi tion. Is to be the reward of Rear-Admiral Frank E. Fletcher for his work in Mexican waters.. Secretary Daniels announced tonight that he will recommend Admiral Fletcher to succeed Rear-Admiral Badger, when the latter completes his term of service soon. Several officers outrank him. but the Secretary holds that the conspicu ously masterful conduot of Admiral Fletcher at Vera Crui entitles him to special recognition. DR. GUY MOUNT IS HURT Car Driven by Oregon City Physi cian Tarns Somersault. - OREGON CITY. Or, June 14(Spe clal.) Although his automobile turned a complete somersault when a front tiro burst while he was speeding down a hill near Beaver Creek tonight. Dr. Guy Mount, of this city, escaped with a broken collarbone and a few bruises, and his companion, John Beattie. was only slightly bruised. Both men were , thrown clear of the machine. Mr. Beattie helped Dr. Mount to the farmhouse of Hal Undsley. An auto mobile from Oregon City took Dr. Mount to the hospital. THEODORE Jll IS BORN Colonel's First Grandson to Bear Christian Name Arrives. NEW YORK. June 14. (SpeciaX) Theodore Roosevelt III, first grandson of Colonel Roosevelt to bear the family name, was born today at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., lea .ast Seventy-fourth street. Mrs. Roosevelt tonight was reported to be resting comfortably. The baby Is said to tip the scales at about 10 pounds. This is the second child born to the wife of Theodore. Jr, the first. a girl, being born August 17, 1911. 800 ACRESARE FLOODED Colorado River Rise Menaces Vast Cotton Ranch in South. CALKXICO. Cal., June 14. Eight hundred acres of cotton on the Abbott ranch in Lower California are covered with water from the overflow of the levee at Volcano Lake. It is reported here. Ranchers are fighting hard to save the rest of this 5000-acre ranch. Volcano Lake is said to be rising as the result of the flooded condition of the Colorado River. NIPPON OFFICERS HOSTS Japanese Vice-Admiral to Come North With Cruisers Today. SAN FRANCISCO, June 14. Vice-Ad- miral Kurol and the officers of the Japanese cruisers Asama and Azuma entertained at a farewell reception on board the Asama today. At 10 A. M. tomorrow the two cruis ers will weigh, anchor for Puget Sound ports, where they will visit before the return to Japan. Km 11 Seidel Nominated as Senator. MILWAUKEE. Wis., June 14. Emll Seidel, ex-Mayor - of Milwaukee, was nominated today by the Social Demo cratic party of Wisconsin for United States Senator. The convention rati fied the last National party platform. LASSEN EROPTIOfJ VIOLENT; ONE Fire, Rock, Smoke and Cinders Belched. PEAK NOW NEWEST VOLCANO Top of Mountain Blown Off and Deadly Gases Abound. FALLING DEBRIS INJURES Twice in Day Column From Mount Is Seen Far Away and New Craters Appear Mile From' One Opened May 3 0. '. REDDISG, CaL, Jnae 14. A eall waa iaaned tonight for phvalctana t so to aid of Injured persons on Mount Lasses, bit wltk the exception of Dr. F". B, Saylor, nil refused to endanger them selves. A report has reached here from Mineral that Forest Supervisor Rask in gr, who la 12 miles from the crater. wan Injured while taking observations nenr the peak. REDDING, Cal.. June 14. Fire, smoke, steam, volcanic ashes, rocks and deadly gases belched tonight, not only from the crater which opened up near the summit' of Mount Lassen May 30. but also from two new craters that burst open shortly before dark more than a mile from the first of the new craters, and the first known toll Is one dying, one injured and two demented. Tho outbreak of Mount Lassen to night Is extremely volcanic in nature, and the peak becomes the newest ac tive volcano in tho world. FalUna- Rocks Hit Party. Lance Graham was fatally hurt by falling rocks. Ills head was battered and he was found half covered by ashes and cinders. He Is married and has a wife and two children who live at Man ton, 18 miles from Lassen. Graham is a stockman. Rocks hurtled from the spouting vol cano broke the arm and gashed the face of George Tipple, a lumberjack. and left him demented. George Goodwin, who lert Manzanlta Lake at 8 o'clock this morning, was within a half mile of the crater when the eruption occurred, and he also is de- mented tonight as a result. Mountain Top Blown Away. Other members of the party near the mountain at tho time, report that the top of the mountain has been blown off, and ashes, rock and cinders cover territory two miles from the peak. Six of the party saved themselves by burying their faces deep In the snow to avoid inhaling the poisonous gases that belched from the volcano. The six who saved themselves from Injury by burrowing in the snow, found Graham and Tipple burled in ashes, after the gases had lifted. Tipple was badly bruised about the face, head and arm. He and Graham were taken to Volta. Tipple was raving from the shock: of his companions' gruesome accident and his own narrow escape from death in the bewildering precipitation of boul ders and ashes. Efforts were started to get the crazed man Into the care of a doctor. Eruption Obliterates Peak. At e o'clock this morning no steam was noticeable, but at 10 o'clock tho eruption started with a thunderous roar, accompanied by a thick cloud of black steam and smoke which en veloped the top of the mountain and obliterated it from view for 30 min utes. The steam and debris has been belching from the mountain at inter vals since. Forest Supervisor W. A. Rushing to night reported the eruption clearly of volcanic nature, although no lava has come forth. Cinders fell in Mineral and Hampton, IS miles away, however. Redding, Seen Flumes. Flames were seen shooting from tho mountain during the seventh eruption of the volcano, which occurred at 7 o'clock tonight. The fire was visible from the tops of the taller buildings in Redding and from the power station at Volta. Steam and smoke could be seen to night Issuing from two new craters, one on the north side of the moun tain, and the other on the west side, each more than a mile from the first of the new craters. Graham's fatal Injury was not gen erally known and the new eruptions failed to deter scores of persons from scrambling over the mountain, taking pictures and venturing- near the amok ing crater. Towaa CO Miles Avray See. Two eruptions, reported to be mors violent than any that have gone be fore, occurred today. The sixth erup tion exploded early In the day and shot a huge column of dense black smoke, steam and ashes Into the air. The pillar of smoke was watched from towns 50 miles distant. Throughout the middle of the day the crater was quiescent, but at 7 P. M. a second funnel of smoke and ashes suddenly shot skyward. It was larger in volume than the morning explosion. Today's activity w.as remarkable , for the quantity of smoke and mineral substance which burst out of the top of the mountain. The cloud was blown northward several miles. The height of the eruption has been iCuncluvled ua 1'age 2.) DYING I