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GRUMBLING RUINS DELAY RESCUERS Work More Difficult Than at Messina. ITALY'S DEATH LIST GROWS Proportion of Survivors Is Un usually Small. VICTIMS EXCEED 25,000 Number Injured Is Xow Estimated at 33,000 to 40,000 Sora, Ad ded to Towns Suffering Terrible Iioss ot Life. ROME, Jan. 13. Communication with the earthquake-stricken districts of Italy still are broken, and estimates ot the number ot dead continue to vary widely. The more conservative estimators believe the total number of killed will be close to .25,000.,. The number of Injured is placed at 30,000 to 40,000. There is reason to believe that only a few hundred persons out of the 17, t)00 who inhabited Sora have been saved. It is impossible as yet to ascer tain the exact number of the dead and Injured. Belief expeditions have been hurried to Sora, and every hour is bringing more harrowing particulars of the destruction of the town. Buildings Carried Away. The shocks were so severe at Sora that some buildings were apparently removed from their foundations and overturned some distance from their original position. The River Liri Is In flood. Avezzano's death roll is still believed , ' to exceed 13,000.. There was a small proportion of injured survivors at this point, many dying in the ruins before delayed help reached them. The casualties at Magliano-di-Marsi are estimated at 1300 out of a popula tion of 1500. At Pesoinl 4000 persona are Teported killed, and the number of dead at San Benedetto is given as 3000. Sixty towns and villages are reported to 'have been affected. People Camp Snow. tAt Cappadocio all the houses are un inhabitable and the people are camping on the snow. Twenty bodies have been recovered from the ruins there and it Is estimated that SO more Are still be neath the debris. The . town , of Sourcola is now noth ing but a pile of ruins, beneath which are buried hundreds of bodies. Of the population of 900 only 30 escaped death. Capelle was destroyed with the loss of more than 1200 lives. Nearly the en tire population of Sap Benedetto, num bering 3000, met death. The towns of Ortucchio. with S400 in habitants, and Giosamarsi, with 3500. are in ruins. -At Peseina, the number of deaths is about 4000, which is approx imately one-half of the population. Hooncs Crumble to Dust. The work of rescue at Avezzano is more difficult than was the caso at Messina, where the houses for the most part were built from large blocks of stone, which in falling often lodged in euch a way as to protect those Im prisoned, and made it possible for the rescuers to creep through the stones to reach the victims. The houses of Avezzano, on the other hand, are of less stable construction for the most part and crumbled almost into dust. One detachment of firemen from Rome worked in the ruins of Avezzano 20 hours at a stretch. Many Senators, Deputies and other persona of proml v nence went to Avezzano and placed themselves at the disposal of the military authorities to render whatever assistance possible. Count Zomaglla, president of the Italian Red Cross, " supervised the work of rescue. V tnn Dlea as Rescuers Work. In digging among the ruins, rescuers discovered a woman's hand. A physi cian was summoned and said the woman was still alive. The rescuers worked with feverish haste, but it was almost Impossible to dislodge the mass of shattered masonry in which the woman was imprisoned. After several hours only one arm was free. Then the attempt was abandoned, for the physician said that death had made futile the efforts of the rescuers. Many houses are in ruins in Sara cinelco. a village perched on the sum mit of a crag, which has been well known to several generations of Amer ican artists on account of the unusual beauty of the young women who have come from that town to serve as art ists' models. The ruins of the medieval castle there rolled .down the face of the mountain. AMERICANS FETE GERMAN Speaker ot Reichstag Wishes Con tinued Peace With United States. BERLIN, via London, Jan. 15. Dr. Johannes Kaempf, speaker of the Reichstag, was present at a luncheon given at the American Club today, which waa attended by American Am bassador Gerard. American Consul General Lay and other prominent Amer. leans. Ambassador Gerard welcomed Dr. Kaempf. who. in his response drew at tention to the friendly relations be tween the United States and Germany and expressed the hope that they would .continue undisturbed. WOMAN LEGISLATOR INTRODUCES BILL 'LADY FROM JACKSOX. DEFINES CRIME OF COXSPLRACX. Miss Marlon B. Towne Produces Measure Given Her by Some " or Her Constituents. I STAT F. CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan. 15. (Special.) Miss Marion B. Towne, "the lady from Jackson" and Incident ally "the only woman" In the Legisla ture, has introduced her first bill. She slipped up to the reading clerk's desk this morning and quietly depos ited It there. It defined the crime of conspiracy against the state or any of Ita political subdivision and fixes a penalty therefor. "I had not Intended to Introduce any bills at all," she explained, "but this o fvn m hv in of mT constitu ents and I Introduced It at their re quest. It merely means what it It affords a means of punishing per sons convicted of conspiracy against the state or against any city, county, town, road or school district. It 1m- fin nf not less than $100 and not more than $10,000 and a Jail sen tence of from 30 days to a year ior such offense." HEIR WARNED NOT TO LEND Property of B. S. Pague Lett to His Only Son. An estate of J12.000, left by B. S. Pague, well-known Portland attorney, who died January 8. goes to his son, Donald Mitchell Pague, 23 years old. 7S9 Pettygrove-street, under the terms of Mr. Pague's will, which was filed for probate yesterday. "There is one thing I want to im press upon my eon." says Mr. Pague in his will, "and that is not to lend any money to friends without secur ity. If he does he will lose his money and his friends." . Until the son is 30 years old, it is his father's wish that in all matters pertaining to his property be consult with A. H. Devers, H. L. Pittock and E. H. Sensenich, cashier of the North western National Bank. The estate is estimated in the peti tion for probate to be worth $10,000 in real and $2000 in personal property. The will names the son as executor. It is dated April 24, 1913, and witnessed by C. R. Meloney and Lydia HummeL KAISER'S NEPHEW INSANE Experience in Emden' s Last Fight Leaves Prince Demented. VANCOUVER, B. C Jan. 15. That r,i,-. 'RVan-.Tnsef of Hohenzollern, a nephew of the German Kaiser, has be come demented as the result oi nis ex periences on board the Emden In her fight with the Australian cruiser Syd ney, was made known here today In a letter received by Rev. T. Pitt, secre tary of the Seamen's Institute, whose brother Is a Lieutenant on the Sydney. T i.ni.nml Pitt wrote that while the Prince was engaged in firing a tor pedo, a shell from the Sydney enieroo ... . -J- or, .4 killed all the men, the Prince alone escaping. When rescued Prince rranz was num; " . j a t 1,4a mini (TAVfl WfiY oe uusru. ' ' ' " . completely so that it was necessary to place him under restraint- no " taken to Port Said with the other pris oners of war and placed under medical care. GOVERNOR T0 BE GUEST Executive Will Attend Wedding of Xepbew Today. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan. 15. isnigi i Governor Withycombe will attend the wedding of his nephew. John Withycombe, Jr., and miss tiua Jones, tomorrow morning. The cere mony will be held at noon at the home of the bride. Lake Labish Meadows. eight miles from Salem. Mr. Withycombe is a son of John Withycombe. the Governor's oldest brother. . Miss Jones is a daugnter oi .r. L. Jones, a prominent agriculturalist of the Willamette Valley. SWAKOPMUND IS OCCUPIED South African Forces Take Port in German Territory. ( LONDON. Jan. The forces of the Union or South Africa have occuoied Swakopmund. German Southwest Af rica, according to the Pretoria corre spondent ot Renter's Telegram Com pany. . Swakopmund is a port of call at the mouth of the Swakop River. It is a trading and mission station and is con nected by rail with Windhoek. ELEPHANTS SOUGHT HERE Washington Fancier Trying to. Lo cate Couple Landed in Portland. Who has two pet elephants secreted? Last month two large Asiatic eie ,.., orrkcH in Portland on a steam- -. - - er and were whisked' away by their owner to another part of the state, where they have lived so quietly that Harry K. Myers, an elephant fancier ot Hivereit, waau.. n locate them, though he has written every elephant-lover in Oregon. SEINE IS 0UJ OF BANKS Passenger-Boat Service Stops and Tributaries Overflow. PARIS, Jan. 15. The River Seine is rising rapidly. At Troyes it already is out of Its banks and passenger boat service haa been, temporarily- sus pended. At various places the tributaries are out of their bank. PERISH AFTER VAIN CRIES FOR AID Succor Slow in Reach ing Quake Victims. RAILWAY LINE IS DAMAGED Buried Children Literally Cry Themselves to Death. SOLDIERS NOW ON SCENE Clouds of Dust Rising Over Avez zano After Its Destruction Suf- ; focate Hundreds Imprisoned in Bains of . Homes. BY RAPINE MACKENZIE, (Correspondent In Rome of the Chicago Dally News. By cable to ttie Dally News.) ROME, Italy, Jan. 15. I have Just returned from the place where the city of Avezzano stood until 8 o'clock Wednesday morning. The Journey was made by motor car Wednesday night over a road along which peasants were huddled all the way from Rome to the center of the earthquake district. They were pass ing the night around huge fires, which illuminated with a sinister reddish glare the long, winding road across the plains, hills and valleys of fertile Abruzzi. Every Dwelling; Deserted, Groups of peasants around fires could be seen everywhere through the district, which is thickly populated and dotted wtih towns, villages 'and farmhouses, all of wblcll were illumi nated by bonfires. Not a dwelling was Inhabited, as all the young and old, able-bodied and in firm, were nassinir the night in the open, heedless of the cold and wakeful lest they be caught, in another earth quake. 1 - Even the churches were empty and the people were praying in the open air. At Tagllacozzo the first scenes oi iumin mused bv the earthquake were oan . in., rnllnnneil houses. .The half- clad 'survivors there were still dazed with terror, some speechless and weep. Imr Kllentlv and others begging for food and blaming the government- .for delaying relief. Railway Badly Damaged. PfttwAAti To.arllacozzo and Avezzano the highway skirts the railroad, which is considerably damaged, every station and watchhouse having collapsed. The watchmen and their families were burled in the ruins, some probably still living. when flnallv we reached Avezzano we fmind the station destroyed, but with enough of its walls remaining to mark the site of the town, which had been r.HnH in a wilderness of ruins bo shapeless and chaotic that one can hardly realize that a city stood there and was completely demolished within the space of half "sl minute. The arst imnresslnn was that the town had been destroyed years ago and abandoned by fConcluded on Page 4.) EliOUQH, FAITHFUL SERVANT I WHAT WILL YOU HAVE ? INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. - TESTER DAY'S Maximum - temperature, 46 degrees; minimum, 37.2 degrees. TODAY'S FalPt northerly winds. . - Earthquake. Many quake victims perish of cold and suf focation before belated rescue comes. Page 1. William Marconi says Aveszano has ceased to exist. Page 4. . Crumbled ruins of Italian towns delay res cuers In their work. Page 1. legislatures. ':. . Dr. Mareellus appointed member of Stats Health Board. Paso . General Finzer resigns and Captain George White, of Portland, named to command National Guard. Paga 6. Two prohibition bills before Legislature and third assured. Pago 6. Miss Marion B. Towne,- only woman legis lator, introduces her first blU. Page 1. Senate starts economy programme by lopping off S170.UOO expense.. Page 1. x Washington legislative committee recom mends recount for seat of T. N. Swale, V Progressive. Page 7. - Senate votes to abolish Immigration, Ac counting and Census Bureaus. Page T. . Alleged shortages In Idaho funds reported at investigation. Page 13. War. . British high officials disinclined to recog nize transfer of steamer Dacia. Page J. Germans report north bank of Alsne en tirely clear of enemy. Page 2. New Russian army of 800,000 men Is advafrc ing on Germany. . Page 2. Mexico. Iturbide thanks United - States Government for 'aiding him to escapo from Mexico. Page 3. United States warns Carr"Ta against confis cation of oil plants Oi foreign companies. Page 2. - National. Witnesses say Minister Sullivan's support was promised them for fat contracts in San to Domingo. Page 1. Sports. Chicago Colored Giants agree to play game with t'niversity of aregou team at Eu gene, March 30. Page 16. Lee Magee raises peonage Qtiestlon in ask ing rlrfht to intervene in Federal League suit. Page 10. Four swimmers and two divers may repre . sent Multnomah In Fair aquatics. Page 16. Seals seek Ilellmann and Beavers may land Barbour. Page 16. Pacific Northwest. Major Bowlby urges full control by state of road and bridge building. Page 17. Jitney habit appeals to elderly and to inva lids. Page 13. , John Minto. pioneer, aged OS, collapses la House as it - debates . adjournment. . Page 12. - x Commercial and Marine. European buying of oats advances prices in Northwest. Page 17. . Wheac aflvance at Chicago with stocks al most exhausted and farmers holding - back. Page 17. Minor -stocks gain and bonds are stronger, rage 17. Offlcerof Devon City, in port, tells of nar. row escapo from Emden. Page 13. Portland and Vicinity. Bogus bills of lading cost Columbia Mill ing Company 8430. Page 12. Realty Board believes state Institutions should use wood for fuel Instead ot oil. Page 11. ' Wife's peep through keyhole of husband's office brings reconciliation. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. YACHT- BURNSY FIVE DEAD Fumes From I-eakln; Tank -Flame .When Match. Is Lighted. BEAUFORT, - N. C Jan. 15. Five persons are dead as the result of the destruction of the private yacht Julia by fire in Pamlico Sound, near Engle hard, N. C, today. A gasoline explosion started the fire. Only one of six persons aboard escaped. The dead are J. W. Murray, president of the Piedmont Trust Company, Bur lington, N.-C; Mrs. W.F. Porch, Beau fort; G. P. Dodson, Norfolk, Va., and the two members of the crew. Mrs. Murray, who' is an excellent swimmer, swam to shore unhurt. She said the cabin, filled with gas from a leaking tank, blazed when one of the party lighted a match. The yacht, owned by Murray, left Norfolk on Wednesday for Beaufort She was 42 feet Ions', had a carrying capacity of S5 persons and was richly furnished. BUILDING UP OUR DIPLOMATIC SERVICE? I HAVE VOTED FOR YOU COMVMU ALLY SINCE ATTENDED MAP OF WOPtC YOUR LECTURES' AND - S I SINGE 1816, ' PJ V PM ATTENDED - I IS ' . YOUR LECTURES : I li iy I and: : PROFITS PROMISED,. nu nn . U 11 UU IIIIV Sullivan Accused of m Fostering Graft. ' CONTRACTOR'S STORY IS TOLD Banker's Attorney Said to Have Demanded Cash. MASSEUR PUT ON PAYROLL Witness Asserts "Good Nurse" Was Employed as Physician United States' Guarantee of Bills Declared Certain. NEW YORK, Jan. 15. James M. Sul livan, American Minister to the Do minican republic, was pictured today, at the inquiry conducted by Senator elect Phelan into his titness to bold the post, as having been associated with interests who for money con sideration would guarantee to obtain profitable contracts from the Domini can government. E. Bright Wilson, attorney for C. D. Smith, a contractor of Memphis, Tenn., the principal witness, testified that his client had told him he had been ap proached with an offer of 'iucn a , an,i h,H hern told that Sul livan could make it possible for him to get road contracts in aarn-w that would net 30 per cent Cash Payment Demanded. ' The roan who approached his client, he said, was William C. Beers, an at torney said to be associated with the o i m i.nls Interests, who con- . n 1 1 1 1. . " - - trolled the Banco Nacional at Santo Domingo. Thin is tne insiiLUL.v u it h-wi wn nrcvlously testified. vtjliv-u, - ' had obtained the deposits of Dominican customs funds througn ouuivau c fluence. J Beers wanted, among other things. ..m sr.nnn cash payment toe wimwa . as the price of securing the contracts. - ii i i. i As4-s-fl the The witness saia omn proposition. Minister's Fewer Broad. Smith's story, as told by liis attorney, was this: ' ' "Beers told me he had got in touch with some Santo Domingo contracts. He said he was responsible for appoint ment of Sullivan as American Minis ter; that there were some large pub lic road contracts In Santo Domingo and that he wanted me to get some of them. He said Sullivan had broader powers than any other Minister who had been sent to Santo Domingo. He impressed upon me that Sullivan had charge of the situation down there. I spoke about the disturbed political con ditions in the republic and suggested that it might be difficult to get paid for the work. - Unite States Gnaranteen Pay. "Beers assured me there would bo no trouble In getting paid, as the United States Government would attend to (Concluded on Page 2.) V - PEEP IN KEYHOLE vv.r,i -rr rn ipitv . i-f ii v iii rri n il i n i i vy i vi i RECOXCTLIATIOX IXLLOWS AR REST OF RECREANT HUSBAND. Judge's Action in Ordering; Walter B. Boyer, Wife and "Other Wom an"" to "Try Again" Fruitful. A wife's peep through the keyhole of her husband's office door may have been the means of reuniting a couple that had become sorely estranged. Tet it was not the fact that she saw her husband caressing a woman that has brought about the reconciliation, but the airing of family grievances before Municipal Judge Stevenson and the new start In life demanded of the husband was to keep out of Jail. Walter B. Boyer. a real estate man, with offices In the Stock Exchange building, was discovered with another woman by his wife when she visited his office shortly before Christmas. He was arrested and the case was tried before Judge Stevenson. When the judge asked Mrs. Boyer what she wished done to her husband she cried. She did not want him punished, but she wanted him to be true to her and not neglect her and their children, of which thore are two. The Judge cen sured Boyer severely for his actions and told him it was within his power to treat his wife right and remain out of Jail or to serve a sentence. He waa given an opoprtunity to try again and told to report to the court January IS. Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Boyer ap peared. They were radiant. "We're happier than we have been for years," said Mrs. Boyer. "Ye?, judge, we are getting along fine," agreed Mr. Boyer. Mrs. G. Luttman. the "other woman," vtas also in court. Askeda if she was staying away from Boyer, she said that she was. 'JITNEYS' INVADE SPOKANE Automobile Competition to Street cars Is Now Ilea lity. SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 15. (Special.) Encouraged by the success of the en terprise in Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. Spokane today inaugurated a Jitney automobile service in competition with the slretcar com panies. The routes selected will be from Itiv erslde avenue and Howard street across the Monroe-street bridge and west to the end of Broadway, following the Washington Waterpower Company's Broadway line. The 'busses will start at 9 o'clock In the morning, and reg ular trips will be made each way at 15-mlnute intervals. The fare will be 5 cents, and passengers will be taken on and discharged at any point they desire. SILVER F0XF0UND DEAD Iiittle Animal at Washington Tark Zoo Victim of Old Age. Portland's silver fox In no more. The little' animal was found dead in his cage yesterday at Washington Tark 200, a victim of old age. He had been in the soo for many years and was one of the principal at tractions for children. For some time he had showed signs of failing. Silver foxes are so rare that a good speciman is said to bo worth about $1030. Friday's War Moves THE latest official reports from the Russian general staff disclose a new nneratlon on the part of the Rus sian army which may have far-reach ing results. Ktortinar on their New Tear, the Rus sian cavalry began a forward move ment in Northern Poland, on the right kv nt th Lower Vistula, and have reached the Skrwa River, some 40 iio. ot of the German fortress ot Thorn. West Prussia, driving a small force of German cavalry and lntantry before them. t. KAil.vpd that Grand Duke Nich- ioo j-nmmander-ln-chlef of the Rus sian forces, intends to use in this re gion an entirely new army, consisting, according ta Petrograd dispatches, of " om 800,000 to 1.000.000 men. operating In conjunction with an army which Is advancing in East Prussia. t-, i tr ormv would nlace the German troops' at Mlawa In a vise and at the same time threaten the rear or tne Germans in front of Warsaw. The lat ter still are making occasional attacks on the Russian line and. according to a Berlin report, have taken a Russian vantage point northeast of the Kawka River. In the west the German success In regaining, in a few days, from the French the ground near Solssons which It took the soldiers of General Joffre. commander-in-chief of the French forces, a fortnight to capture, remains the outstanding feature, although it hts been somewhat pffset by the re ported British success near La Basse and the capture by Zouaves of some German trenches In the region of Ar ras. There have been attacks and coun ter attacks at other points, but gen erally it has been the artillery which has been kept busy. The Russians continue to harry the Turks, who made a stand on the bor ders of Trans-Caucasia after their re cent defeat, and claim to be capturing many more prisoners. The Russians also are making new dispositions In the province of Azer baijan, Persia, which the Turks have promised to evacuate as soon as the Russians leave the province and the Persian heir presumptive reaches Ta briz. The Governorship of the province Of Azerbaijan Is an appendage of the heir presumptive, SENATE LOPS OFF $170,000 EXPENSE Three Laws-' Repeal Is Aim Toward Economy. HOUSE ACTION YET AWAITED Uniform Accountancy Act Has a Few Friends Left. WAR HITS IMMIGRATION SeVj Though Commlslonrr and .-A Rocelvo No Tar, European Corf- fllct Mnkeit Csc-Icks Expendi ture to Attract Foreigner. STATE CAPITOL Salem. Or., Jan. li. (Staff Correspondence.) The Senate's contribution to the economy programme today casta up about as follows: Repral of one Immigration Commls- Hon Uw 0.0"i Rpal ot one law for s;strmatlsln( eccounts Repeal of the state ernsus lew ?e.o 1 011, 000 Total WO."" It may be said In passing, however, that the 10.0 charged against Hie state census does not appear In the ap propriations of the last Legislature. U appears only every decade. But thst Is the estimate of what the enumeration provided by a statute founded on an antiquated requirement of the cons'ltu. tlon would have cost the cuntles of the state had the law remained In force. Mouse Yet e Art. It also may be ald lhat the laws are only half repealed. The llo.ise has not yet. acted upon them, nor has the Governor, for that matter. The uniform accountancy act hat a few friends In the House; the census law and the Im migration act seem to be actual pariahs. In behalf of the murh-mallgned Im migration commission law I now arlve lo remark that It Is not such a bud law as everybody around lha State Capitol nrems to think. 1 do not expert to t on vprt a majority of the House Into sup porting opposition to the repeal. I don't know that I would If I could. But It is Just as well to point out that the best reason for abolishing this ap propriation Is not because money pre vlously appropriated has been wasted. The best arguments against the ap propriations are thst for the ensuing two years there will not be much Im migration to attract If the European war keeps up and times In this country do not Improve. In view ot the hcaty burdens resting upon the taxpayers It Is doubtless wise to dispense with the enterprise, at least for the time being. IVasae Is Misnomer. The name "Immigration CommlKhion'' is a misnomer. The department Is. In fact, a bureau of statistics and infor mation. But the literature It prepares li designed In part for distribution among the farmers of Germany and Scandi navia. To secure the circulation of this lit erature in those countries It was nec essary to organise under the name adopted and work In connection with the Federal Department. By so doing the printed material becomes eligible to entry to European countries under an agreement among the several gov ernments. Unless It came from a state immigration commission operat ing under that title It would not b eligible. In addition to the 150,000 appropri ated by the stato the cltitens of Port land have contributed 173.000 In the last blennlum for the work of tills Coiu- concluded on Page 7.1 V I M'MHKH JIHiriHKSTS VI lV AM. CANAL TAMilBtK KVI DUMU OF rnoOREKH. ABERDEEN. Wash., Jan. IS. (Special.) Rail shipments from Grays Harbor during IIH were 28,000,000 feet under those of 1913. while the cargo business showed an Increase of 15.:90.000 feet. The total rail shipment of lumber for the year was 31. ", 000 feet, while the water ship- msnt amounted to 3..7:f,00O The total oiitso from the feet. harbor waa 81M:.0OO feet, or about 1 ,000,000 feet below ship ments made In 1MX. These fig ures do not Include the ship ments of the five mills In the west end of the county or any of those east of Cosmopolla. The cut of every mill on the harbor la estimated at 00.000,000 feet Nearly 5,000,000 feet of Grays Harbor lumber will be dispatched during this month to the east coast via the Panama Canal, breaking all records for east coast shipments from this port for any single month. The total will be carried In two vessels the Peter H. Crowe)!, which cleared here yesterday with r. 300.000 feet, and the lls lv. Thurlow, which la due here from New York early next week. The Improvement In lumber conditions here Is shown by the chartering through the Grays Harbor Stevedore Company of six vessels, most of which will load on the Columbia lllver and In Puget Sound. m 1 06.0