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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1914. RUSSIAN CENTER IS MOVINGNORTHWARD Success at Lemberg Followed by New Tactics; Two Gen erals Reported Dead. AUSTRIAN ROUT COMPLETE Quarter of Austrian Artillery Re ported Captured Galicians Wel come Invaders, According to Prisoners Stories. LONDON1, Sept. 5. The Rome corre spondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company says dispatches from Vienna announce that following its success at Lemberg the Russian center has sud denly begun a movement northward against the flank of the armies under the Austran Generals Aufenberg and Eankel, who have been successfully operating against Lublin and Zjamohac. A dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph Company from Rome says a message received there from Petrograd says that the Russians have completely routed the Austrians near Tomaszow and that two Generals are among the Austrian dead. The Times' correspondent in Petro grad sends the following: 'Information telegraphed by the that the victory at Lemberg is only the beginning of the end. The retreat of such an enormous force, reliably estimated at eight army corps, taken In conjunction with the rout of the army, which was to serve as a screen to their retreat, already spells disaster complete and overwhelming. Informa tion obtained by the War Office, shows that the garrison has already been pre paring positions at Grudek, 20 miles to the westward, on the railway to Przemysl. Town Commands Eight Railroads. "The fall of Lemberg, which is the Junction of eight important railway lines, renders the Russians absolutely masters of the whole Eastern Galicia." The correspondent adds: "We may yet have to record the complete disruption of the dual monarchy's forces. The operations ex tend over a front of 250 miles. Prob ably 1,500.000 men were engaged." Tho Post's correspondent at Petro grad telegraphs that prisoners brought to the Russian base reported that part of the Russian forces entered Lem berg quite in accordance with the plan of the commander-in-chielf. Russians Turn on Enemy. The Austrians, according to these reports, opened the last stage of the week's conflict around Lemberg by a determined attack on the Russians be tween Kubl, Lublin and Kholm, about 120 miles north of Russian territory. The attacks failed and the Russians as sumed the offensive, the Austrian army retiring southward, and received ter rible punishment from the pursuing Russians. The next day the Russian army moved forward along the whole 200 mile front to about 40 miles southeast of Lemberg. All along the line, the Russians attacked strongly and when the second Austrian army, which was posted east of Lemberg. broke and fled, the Russians captured in the im mediate vicinity of Lemberg another score of guns. The forward movement of the Russians continued without in terruption, the Austrians having en trenched in a strong position west of Lemberg at Gorodsk, 18 miles back, on which to retire when forced past Lem berg. Victory of Great Magnitude. Of the magnitude of the Russian vic tory before Lemberg. there can be no question, tho correspondent adds. The Austrian forces amounted to no fewer than 200.000 men, with 500 artillery pieces. There were three complete armv corps, the Third, Eleventh and Twelfth and parts of the Fourteenth and Seventh. An Austria army corps on war footing, it is explained, is raised to three divisions, of which the third is made up of reserves. By this victory, Russia has put out of action a quarter of the total Aus trian first line troops and captured nearly a quarter of the Austrian ar tillery, besides commanding all roads leading from Galicia into Hungary. The Galicians warmly welcomed the Rus sian troops, according to prisoners, who also spoke of the terrible execu tion of Russian artillery. An official statement from Petro grad says: "Concerning the operations of the Russian army in Galicia, official re ports say the enemy Is retreating after desperate fighting near Halicz. leaving 450-0 dead on the field. The Russians took 32 cannon and railway material. "On the south. In front of Warsaw, the Austrian attack was repulsed and the offensive taken by the Russians." News is received from Vienna that a German army corps was hurriedly transported to Galicia to aid the Austrians against the Russian attack before Lemberg. RUSSIAN ADVANCE TO CONTINUE General Staff Describes Campaign Leading to Lemberg. PETROGRAD (via London), Sept. 4. . The Russian general staff issued to day the following account of the fight ing which led to the capture of Lem berg. capital of Galicia: "In the offensive against the Lublin Kholm front the main Austrian forces deployed on the Zavlchost. Tanoff, Bielgoray, Zomachoff and Belz line. The second Austrian army, composed of the third, eleventh and twelfth corps and five divisions of cavalry, gathered In the region east of Lem berg to cover this operation. "When the Russian troops were taking the offensive the Austrian con centration had not been completed and topographical considerations compelled the enemy to reinforce the army still more with the troops of the Seven teenth. Thirteenth and Fourteenth corps, thus making a total of 12 divis ions of several brigades of the land sturm. "Our troops in the Lonthk, Dubno and Proskuroff districts crossed the frontier on August 20 and marched on Lemberg for the purpose of thwarting the Austrian covering movement and acting against the flank of their of fense. They were hampered by the numerous affluents of the Dniester River flowing across all the routes. Moreover, the enemy possessed on the Dniester a scries of fortifications destined to defend the bridges from which they menaced the Russian left flank and communications with Russia. "In the period between August 27 and September 3 tho Russian left wing advanced 220 versts i.ibout 147 miles), fighting all the time. The bulk of the hostile forces entrenched in powerful positions at Kamenka and Galltch. of fered battle and were thoroughly de feated in a desperate contest. "Between August 31 ur.d September 1 In one district of taa upper course I of the Gulla Lipa alone, where the I enemy's line was broken, the Austrians lost 12,000 men in killed or wounded. "The retreat or tne enemy aner ui defeat at Lemberg assumed the charac ter of disorderly flight and panic and the Russians took 200 guns and tens of thousands of prisoners. It is be lieved that the remnant of the second Austrian army is no longer of military value. "On September 2, when the Russians were drawing up within cannon shot of Lemberg, the surrounding forts did not stop this advance. The same day Lemberg was closely surrounded by Russian troops and was captured with great quantities of war materials. All the buildings In town were packed with Austrian wounded who had been abandoned in the enemy's headlong flight. "Beside the political and military Im portance of Lemberg as the center of Galicia. its capture is important from a strategic point of view, as it consti- Itutes a great railway Junction, com manding the lines leading to tne rear of the Austrian army, which is now halted in line with Opole, Gamostle and Belz. "The capture of Lemberg will enable the Russian army to push forward with still greater intensity." SPECIAL PROVINCE CREATED Grand Duke Nicholas Prepares to Govern Occupied Territory. PETROGRAD, Sept. 4. Grand Duke Nicholas, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian forces, has issued a general order providing for the military ad ministration of all foreign territory as fast as It is occupied by the Russian troops. The order calls for the creation of a special province consisting of the ter ritory occupied in Austria-Hungary and the placing of It under the admin istration of the commander of the armies operating in the theater of the war in the southwest. MILITARY CONTROL ATTACKED IN COURT Men Arrested by Militia in Butte Seek Release Through Federal Courts. MINES CONTINUE WORK IS DAVID J. PALMER HEADS CIVIL, WAR VETERANS NOW. Washington, I). C, Chosen aa Meeting Place of Grand Army of Repub lic Next Year. DETROIT, Sept. 4. Comrade David J. Palmer, of Washington, la., member of the Eighth and Twenty-fifth Iowa regiments in the Civil War, was elected today commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the closing session of the 48th National encamp ment, which has been in session here a week. Washington, D. C. was unanimously chosen for the encamp ment place next year. Other officers elected were: Senior vice-commander-in-chief, J. B. Gris wold. Grand Rapids; Junior vice-commander-in-chief, F. W. Kommers, Dal las, Tex.; surgeon-general, L. S. Pil cher, Brooklyn, N. Y., and chaplain-in-chief, Orville J. Nave, of California. A committee of past commanders-in-chief was appointed today to frame a Congressional bill providing for the retention of all Civil War veterans in public employment, irrespective of their age. The resolution providing for the appointment of the committee was received with much applause by the aged soldiers. Another resolution adopted unanimously opposed any change in the National flag. BUSINESS DECLARED POOR Ixm Lawson Lands Wilson, hut Dis approves of Associates. PENDLETON, Or., Sept. 4. (Spe cial.) "Only a political ostrich, sticking- his head into the sand to avoid seeing what he does not want to see, can pretend that times are good and conditions are satisfactory In the United States today." In these words, and with further withering comment, Thomas TV. Law son, the Iconoclast of Wall-street Idols and author of "Frenzied Finance," ex pressed himself tonight on his arrival here. He is on his way to Chicago. The financier had been visiting his Crook County ranch. Mr. Lawson expressed admiration for President Wilson, but inferred that he was the right man in the wrong place, or a mighty good man in the wrong political crowd. Mr. Lawson Is coming back for the Roundup, which he attends every year. He was accompanied by his sister, Miss Mary Lawson. BURTON'S ATTACK STILL ON Senator Shows No Signs of Yielding His Filibuster on Measnre. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. For many hours again today Senator Burton con tinued his attack on what he character ized as "the climax of waste" in the $53,000,000 rivers and harbors bill. Showing no signs of yielding in his filibuster against the measure, the Ohio Senator assailed item after item. Projects in many sections of the coun try, he asserted, were proposed merely to antagonize railroad competition. "You would erect monuments of folly," said Senator Burton, "in the shape of locks and dams just to force the railroads to lower rates in certain localities, forgetting that as you force their rates in interior sections where there is no water competition, it is a waste of Government money." RAISULI REPORTED DEAD Brigand, Pretender and Kidnaper of American Passes In Morocco. LONDON. Sept. 4. The Exchange Telegraph Company's Tetuan. Morocco, correspondent says that Raisull, the noted Moorish brigand and pretender to the throne of Morocco, has died in the country between Tetuan and Tan gier. Raisuli gained fame in 1904, when he captured Ion Perdicaris. an American, near Tangier and demanded a ransom of $50,000. Theodore Roosevelt, then President, demanded of the Sultan of Morocco "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." Perdicaris was released after an American fleet made a demonstration before Tangier. I doubt if any caller here ever even imagined that new and fine pianos and player pianos would ever be obtainable for such little prices. It has never been possible heretofore because there was never such a necessity for immedi ate closing out a high-class stock of a quality piano house. Aside from selling most of the instruments for what they cost us and some for even less, we are willing to sell on little payments. It's easy to pay $6 or even $10 a month. Look into this. It will pay to get a piano or modern player piano now. See announcement, "An Urgent Sacrifice," on page 7, this is sue. Ellsworth. Barnes & Davey Store is open every evening till sale closes. Adv. novel newspaper has appeared in Si. Petersburg, called the Vagabonds' Gazette. It la Intended for circulation among the criminal classes, and its chief contributors are wall known to the fiuasian police. Search for President of Xew Union Is Abandoned City Authorities Resnme Functions Except Those of Police. BUTTE, Mont., Sept. 4. The mili tary court established by the National Guard of Montana since martial law was declared here Tuesday because of threatened riots was attacked today in a petitioD filed in the United States District Court here for the release on writs of habeas corpus of three of the nine men arrested by state troops. Federal Judge Bourquin Issued an order citing the military officers to show cause next Monday why the writs should not be Issued. Judge-Advocate Jesse B. Roote said that an answer which would be filed Monday will show that the militia is in supreme command in Silver Bow County and has power to make arrests. Mines Worn: Steadily. The city was quiet today. The mines which have been operated recently worked uninterruptedly and the miners, whether they belonged to either fac tion, were not molested. Militiamen not on duty were granted permission for the first time to move beyond the guard lines providing two or more ware together. Major Donohue di rected the municipal authorities to continue all functions of the city gov ernment except the police department, which is now in charge of Provost Marshal Conley. No new arrests were made. The active search for "Muckie" McDonald, presi dent of the Butte Mine Workers' Union, was discontinued by the bringing into the city of two auto loads of militia men who had worked for 36 hours south of the city. State of Insurrection Denied. The petition filed in the Federal Court asking for writs of habeas cor pus for Edward Evans, James Chap man and D. W. Malone alleges that Governor Stewart issued a proclama tion proclaiming Silver Bow County is in a state of insurrection and that the proclamation is untrue. The peti tioners allege they were arrested with out any warrant and that they were not committing any crime. Lieutenant Arthur A. Baker, news censor, announced today that he had "blue penciled" two columns of edito rial matter that had been written by Mayor Duncan for his Socialist weekly. DANIELS LAUDS WILSON NAVY SECRETARY SAYS PRESIDENT SET PEOPLE FREE. Propaganda of Fear Declared to Have Been "Worked to Limit" in Op position to Legislation. BAR HARBOR, Me., Sept. 4. Declar ing that President Wilson and the Democratic party had kept all the promises made to the people in the party's platform, Secretary of the Navy Daniels In a campaign speech here to night added that the President had set America free to legislate without fear. "Greater than the tariff law, greater than the currency law itself, greater than the constructive legislation of this great Administration." said Mr. Daniels, "looms up this fact that the people may legislate without any longer fearing that our business Is going to be checked or our prosperity destroyed. The right to enact such laws as they conceive is best for them has at last been restored to them." Mr. Daniels took up the legislative measures successfully urged by the Administration and said "privilege" had mobilized Its lobby against them "with the rapidity of an European corps." The propaganda of fear, he said, was "worked to the limit." "Nobody," declared Secretary Daniels, "can say at any time that either the President or Congress has merited the name of quitter. On the very night the President signed the tariff bill, he said, 'We have only taken one step,' and summoned the Congress to go for ward with the next step the currency legislation." RESERVE BANK PRESSED NEW SYSTEM MAY BE IN OPERA TION OCTOBER 1. A Change for the Eetter is from old style, inefficient and unsightly eyeglasses to Shur-ons. Our experience in adjusting Shur-ons guarantees satisfaction. THOMPSON OPTICAL INSTITUTE 209-10-11 Corbett Bldg. Fifth and Morrison Committee Named at Washington Con ference to Make Plan for Pay ing Debts In Europe. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. After an all-day conference with clearing-house delegates from many large cities, the Federal Reserve Board has announced tonight it would proceed immediately with the organization of the 12 reserve banks provided for by the new cur rency system. Although predictions were lacking, it is generally accepted that the system can be put in opera tion about October 1. The actual open ing may be delayed, but It was 'said the 12 banks would be ready for busi ness within six weeks. A committee was named to consider foreign and domestic exchange and formulate a plan by which American obligations to Europe could be adjust ed without taking gold out of the country. In consequence of the meeting, there will be no effort on the part of the Reserve Board to name the class "C directors for the reserve banks for some time. Every other step which must precede the opening of the banks will be laid out until the directors are announced. Following is the conference exchange committee: J. B. Forgan, of Chicago, chairman: B. F. Strong, New Tork; L L Rue, Philadelphia; Sol Wexler. New Orleans; L T. Beale. Boston. FRANCE PLEADS FOR SHOES Million Pairs Ordered bnt American Firm Wants to See Cash. PARIS, Sept. 4. Orders for 1.000,000 pairs of shoes have been placed by the French government with a large St Louls Shoe Company, but it is said that the delivery on tne contract is be ing delayed until the French govern ment agrees to deposit in America funds to pay for the shoes. This is insisted on, it is said, because of a moratorium In France. Negotia tions for cash payment virtually have been completed, it is said. MARITAL GRIEF RECITED FIVE APPLICATIONS FOR DIVORCE ARE PLACED ON FILE. Husband of Three Months Seeks Sep aration and Wife of 30 Yeara Complains of Cruelty. That his married life was one con tinual war and that the first battle oc curred the day following the marriage ceremony is the plaint of Vincent J. Rivers, who sued his wife, Margaret, for a divorce yesterday. He says that as they stepped aboard the steamer Beaver on a bright May day following the marriage to go to San Francisco, he turned to speak to a woman ac quaintance on the dock and this led to a violent rage, he says, on her part. Abuse has been heaped upon him, he declares, at intervals ever since and he finds it 'impossible to live with his wife longer. They were married about three months ago. - That he refuses to eat his dinner at home or with the plaintiff and keeps such late hours that he seldom sees the members of his family, is the charge made against L F. Chitry by Nannie Chitry in her divorce suit- She asks her costs in the action and that she be paid $40 a month for 10 months. Abandoned by her husband when she was ill, she says, and later deserted altogether, Elizabeth K. Livermore brought suit against Burdette T. Liver more for divorce. They were married in Halifax, N. S., in 1905. The custody of three minor children is asked. That her husband cursed her and called her names, nagged and found fault, is the charge of Belle C. Lewis, who filed suit for divorce from William N. Lewis. The custody of a minor child Is asked, together with $25 a month alimony. Loretto Bellisle sued John, her hus band, charging cruelty. They were married in Missoula, Mont., in 1894. PARTS OF FOOT FOUND PROSECUTOR ADDS TO EXHIBIT U I I S CASK. Preliminary Examination Set for Ye- lerdny Jm Postponed. Neither Side Being Ready. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 4. Parts of a human foot, which District At torney Linden says he found today in a cesspool near the house Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Innes, of Eugene, Or., occu pied here last June, and bones found in the same place yesterday were turned over to the city chemist tonight for examination. Innes and his wife are In jail here, charged with murder and with being accessory before the fact, respectively. In connection with the disappearance of Mrs. Elois Dennis and her sister, Miss Beatrice Nelms, of Atlanta, Ga. The women were said to have been seen here for the last time last June. The Innes preliminary examination was set for today, but both sides agreed to a postponement. No date had been set tonight for the hearing. JUDGE SHOWS LENIENCY Aged Woman Thief Pitied in Sen tence of Mrs. Vera Bohnas. Though goods in her possession to the amount of several hundred dollars were positively identified as having been stolen from local department stores, the tears which shook her aged frame prevailed upon Municipal Judge Stevenson yesterday morning and Mrs. Vera Bohnas received the light sen tence of 30 days' imprisonment The complainant was Lipman. Wolfe & Co. and the charge was simple larceny, though had all the counts against her been pressed grand larceny would have been the accusation. Among the firms that suffered from the larcenous proclivities of Mrs. Bohnas were Olds, Wortman & King. Lipman-Wolfe, Meier & Frank, the Woolworth store and the American Laundry. It is believed that much of the goods secured had been sold. PORTLAND ENGINEER SHOT Tacoma Highwayman Takes $55 and Fires as Victim Shows Fight. TACOMA, Wash., Sept, 4. (Special.) C. F. Poehlitz. a retired building contractor, and Theodore Petersen, an engineer, of Portland, were shot by a masked highwayman last night Poeh litz, who Is probably fatally injured, was shot through the right lung. He was walking on the street with his wife and showed fight when the bandit or dered them to throw up their hands. Less than three blocks away from the Poehlitz affray and about 15 min utes later the highwayman met Peter sen and, after robbing him of $55 in gold, the man shot Petersen In the left hand when the engineer showe? fight. Mrs. Poehlitz Is in the same hospital as her husband, in a state of nervous collapse. . CTEIN-BLOCH clothes O for men are in high favor with good dressers because they are distin guished from the common run by excellence and ex clusiveness of fabric, by clever, painstaking work manship, and by beauty and harmony of colorings. Only the choicest handiwork of American and European looms is used in these fine suits and over coatsno point, however small, is overlooked to produce the ap parel of a gentleman. This store is showing Stein- Bloch's in the new Tartan checks, over plaids and pencil stripes, and a number of especially attractive patterns in new novelty fabrics. Superior to a marked degree, but no higher in price. Suits and Overcoats $20 to $40 The Main Floor for Men Ben Selling Morrison Street at Fourth Leading Clothier GERMANY BEARS UP Finance and Business Stand Strain of War. DISCOUNT RISE SLIGHT Condition Said in Berlin to Be Bet ter Than That of London or Paris. $500,000,000 Is Note Circu lation Expansion. BERLIN, Aug. 18. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) German financial authorities express keen satisfaction in the manner in which the business and finance of the empire has withstood the first two week's stress of the war. Up to this time they declare the foreign prediction that the German financial system would topple upon the outbreak of a great war has been utterly confounded by an excellent financial showing. The financial writers insist that the situa tion here is far better than in London and Paris. Discount Rise Small. At this writing the German im perial bank has had to raise its dis count rate only from 4 to 6 per cent which Is no higher than obtained during the Balkan wars and there Is no indication that it will have to ask a higher rate. There has been no unusual restric tion of discounting operations. Al though the pressure has been quite without precedent the bank has been wholly equal to the situation. Its note circulation was expanded in the fort night ending August 7 by the enormous total of $500,000,000. At the same time, however, the bank's gold stock has Just been 'swollen by nearly $50, 000,000 through the conversion of the two "war chests" of the government into its coffers and the stock is now greater than at any other time in Its history.. The bank may add another $125,000,000 to its note circulation be fore reaching the legal limit. The Stock Exchanges, of course are closed but financial writers are satisfied with the showing during the critical days Just before the war broke out. German 3 per cent loans dropped only 2.25. The two leading German bank stocks fell comparatively little as com pared with some abroad. The Berlin exchange parsed over the July settle ment with only a few suspensions of minor Importance. The moratorium has not yet been resorted to in Germany except as may apply to foreign bills drawn upon Ger man banks by countries having a moratorium. AMERICAN CARGOES DUE British Will Return Goods on Cap tured German Ships. WASHINGTON. Sept. 4. The British government has taken steps to return promptly to American shippers cargoes captured aboard German steamers. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British Ambas sador, delivered to Secretary Bryan today the following note, expressing the attitude of his government: "In order to prevent loss to subjects of neutral powers and to encourage trade. His Majesty's government has taken steps to set trm expeditiously and without reference to prize court as many cargoes as possible, even though In some cases cargoes may be liable in law to condemnation as a prize. An executive committee with full powers to deal with such cases has been appointed." Secretary Bryan expressed satisfac tion over the arrangement made by the British government. BAKER WHEAT HELD TIGHT Big Crop Harvested and Advance in Price Not Tempting Yet. BAKER. Or., Sept. 4. (Special.) Al though the farmers of Baker County are now completing the harvesting of the largest grain crop ever produced in this county they are scoffing at of fers for the purchase of their wheat. Their refusal to sell has had a tend ency to bring brices up to those of the Portland markets. A week ago farm ers were selling wheat on the Baker market at from 65 to 70 cents. The continued rise In the Chicago wheat pit and at Portland has stimu lated the market so that commission men are now offering from 86 to 90 cents and are finding few who are wil ling to sell. Many of the larger grow ers who see no reason to expect an early termination of the European con day afternoon, were dismissed upon a sell at $1.25 or more, a bushel, in Baker before long. VENICE GETS PRINCE Ruler of Albania Leaves Pow ers to Commission. ARMED PROTEST RELATED Controller Calms Crowd With Prom ises of Payment of Salaries and Prince and Princess Flee Into Italy. PARIS, Sept 4 A dispatch from Durasxo. Albania, to the Havas Agency, timed Wednesday nlgnt. Ulls of the departure of Prince William of Wled. whose brief reign has been a troublous one. It appears that a meeting of protest was held in the city and the pollcs In tervened. Armed citizens assembled before the royal palace and the apart ment of the Minister of Finance and demanded th payment of their sal aries. Comptroller Travelsky calmed the crowd with promises that payment would be made. In the afternoon. Italian sailors landed and occupied the streets In tha vicinity of the royal palace and Prince William and hla Princess, accompanied by Turkan Pasha, Akl Pasha. Saml Bey, Ekrem Bey and the diplomatic corps, left the palace at o'clock. The International commission assem bled In the garden and presented Its respects to the Prlncs and Princess, who then proceeded to the quay. Vol unteers and Italian sailors lowered the flag on the royal palace. An Italian yacht waz placed at the disposal of the Prince and after a sa lute from the Italian cruiser Libia, steamed In the direction of Venice. Before departing. Prince William confided his powers to the International commission. George Cotterlll Speak ut Kelso. KELSO. Wash.. Sept. 4. (Special.) George H. Cotterlll. of 8eattle. candi date for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator, spoke from the Kelso public bandstand yesterday afternoon. Having Just returned from warring Europe, he told of the con ditions that prevail there t present. fall hat show correct fall blocks in the following leading makes knox soft and stiff hats $5 knox silk hats and caps j a me son stiff hats $5 stetson hats $4 to $ 1 5 c and k soft and stiff hnts $4 monroe $3 soft and stiff hats in new fall blocks the hat event of the season ITI Sichel 331 Washington st, near broad way