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I VOL. LV. NO. 10.939. 2 WARSHIPS OH WAY 10 MEXICAN COAST Bryan Again Warns Americans to Leave. CARftfNZA RECEIVES NOTE Zapata Occupies Capital Obregon Abandons It. as ULTIMATUM NOT GIVEN President Says United States Only Presents Views and "Acts Ac cordlngly" Diplomats Detect Serious Possibilities. W SHINGTON. March . American citizens again have been warned to )v. Mexico City, in view of the critical situation that has arisen there. Se-rctary Bryan announced tonight that transportation facilities would be soucht tor as many as desired to leave. The battleship Georgia and the armored crul.-er Washington were ordered by Secretary Daniels, after con ferences with President Wilson, to pro ceed at once to Vera Cruz. Consular messages from Vera Cruz aid it was reported there that the evacuation of Mexico City began last niKht- . . Occupation of Zarata Reported. Enrique C. Llorente. Washington rep resentative of General Villa, received a message saying the Zapatista forces oc cupied Mexico City today, immediately on the evacuation by Obregon s troops. Word came from American Consul Silllman that at a personal Interview with General Carranza he has delivered to the latter the formal note from the United States Government demanding an improvement In conditions for for eigners in the territory under his con trol. Carranza promised a written reply soon, but said orally that General Obregon had not prevented food sup plies from reaching the City of Mex ico, nor had he sent the available sup plies from the capital. SerUns Consequences Possible. Th wre the principal develop ments today In the Mexican situation, the importance of which today over shadowed in official Washington inter est in the European war. Although the contents of the Ameri can note to Carranza were not revealed. Its emphatic tone Impressed members of the diplomatic corps that serious consequences would ensue if Carranza failed to heed the representations made to him. The United States, in Its com munication, it became known today, de scribed conditions as "intolerable" and called on Carranza to take the neces sary steps to correct the situation. The note pointed out that if harm befell any foreigners the American Government would hold the Carranza officials "personally responsible" and would take the necessary means to Impose the responsibility where It be longed. Note Xot Ultimatum. It was not In the nature of an ulti matum. President Wilson himself to day declared that the United States did not utter ultimata, but presented views and acted accordingly. The movement of warships to Mexi can waters and the warning to Amer icans, it was said, had been decided on out of an abundance of precaution. The entry of Zapatista forces into Mexico City, It was believed by offi cials, would mean the reopening of communication north to the American border. Secretary Bryan was hopeful that the situation would solve itself without the necessity of proceeding further than the making of representations. Trains to Be Demanded. In view of the interruption of rail road communication between Mexico City and Vera Cruz, except for military purposes, the State Department was prepared to Insist that trains be pro vided for Americans who desired to reach the sea. That many Americans cJc.-Ire to leave Is known. TIe Carranza agency here issued an other denial tonight of the reports of General Obregon's activities, giving a lele;ran from Obregon himself deny ing t'.iat he had interfered with the shipment of food to the city. President Wilson indicated that some of thi; reports about conditions in the capital were exaggerated, but said that the fear of riots and outrages and the food famine had brought about a seri ous situation. It is known, too, from reports from the Brazilian Minister that General Obregon refused transportation facilities for the International Relief Commission, which raised a fund of 230,000 pesos with which to bring sup plies into the capital to succor the poor and destitute. Zapata's Arrival Gives Hope. It was believed tonight a reply from Carranza would be received tomorrow, but with the evacuation of Mexico City and the-return of the Zapatistas, who according to official reports, policed the city well when they last were in com mand, officials were inclined to believe that the crisis would be passed without serious difficulty. The Carranza agency here announced tonight that the following had been re reived from General Obregon in reply to a telegram asking for Information about conditions in Mexico City: "I note what you say in regard to the (Concluded on Par 2.) OREGON SAWMILLS REOPEN APRIL 1 KLAMATH COUNTY'S BIGGEST PLAXTS SOOX KE.VUV. Pelican Ray Company Will Turn Out 150,000 Feet or Lumber In Rebuilt Property Now. KLAMATH FALLS. Or, March 9. (Special.) Klamath County's two big gest sawmills, the Pelican Bay Lumber Company's and the Algoma Lumber Company's plants, will begin operation ,vi. .,. tnrii l. The plant of the Pelican Bay Company burned last July, but a new one has been erected and will reopen with about 300men in employ ment. The new plant will have a ca pacity of 160.000 feet of lumber every ten hours, or about twice that of the old mill, which was destroyed last year. While' the Algoma mill has not been running to capacity this Winter, Its box factory has been turning out about 23 cars of snooks a week. More than 200 men will find employment there In April. The Lamm Lumber Company has closed a contract with the Forest Serv ice for considerable timber to be cut on the west side of Upper Klamath Lake near Odessa and are planning a busy season. The Edmonds company i,. Knuirht a. larire tract of timber east of here near Olene ami will erect a mill shortly, the machinery for which is al ready on the ground. WOMAN DIES IN BLIZZARD "Scotty" Allan Discovers Body of Mrs. Ralqulst in Drift. NOME. Alaska, March 9. The body of Mrs. Emma Dalquist. who became lost in a blizzard Sunday night while driving a dogteam from Safety to x'nr miles, was found burled under a snowdrift today. She had been frozen to death. Apparently the woman be came deranged In the bitter cold, for she had thrown away her mittens and mukluks. ATr nalnulsfs badv was found by A. A. (Scotty) Allen, the widely-known ,.Mnr Hon- driver, who was on me trail since early yesterday seeking the lost woman. He found ner muKiuKB 15 miles from Nome and a short dl3 tnnCA nfr the Cane Nome road early this morning. Returning to the vicinity later in the day he searched among iha arwMvdrif ta and found the woman's body, which is oelng brought to Nome. ALL R0SLYN PAYS TRIBUTE Mines Halt and Many Travel Far to Funeral of Henry Smith. TtOKT.VM Wash.. March 9. (Special.) Mines stopped, business houses closed and practically every maa and woman In Roslyn today paused to honor me memory of Henry Smith, one of the oldest residents of this community, who died last Saturday at Everett. To the funeral services, which were in charge of the local Masonic order, came an escort of Knight Templars from the Ellensburg commandery, and nearly 100 old-time Kittitas County citizens from the lower valley, as well as others from Seattle and Tacoma. Mr. Smith came to Roslyn 28 years ago from Streator. 111. He leaves besides his widow two sons and four daugh ters. For 25 years he was Justice of the Peace here, and was one of the wealthiest and most influential citizens. BITNEYS BOB UP IN BAKER Results or Taxi Rate War Is Service That Kivals Jitneys. BAKER Or.. March 9. (Special.) Baker has a bitney service. Not a Jitney nor a taxi service, but a bitney service. One taxi firm in a rate war tried to get the business by selling books good for ten 25-cent- rides for 2.25. There were -many purchasers, but another firm lowered the rate to 25 cents a round trip wth a ticket for another ride If the passenger goes only one way. This made the fare 12V4 cents or, in common talk, a bit That is why they call them bitneys here and the only people who do not enjoy the war are those who loaded up on the books that ga-ve rides for 22 cents a ride. PARTY UNION PREDICTED John Hays Hammond Says Republl cansWlll Win on Tariff. MILWAUKEE, March 9. "There can be no doubt that upon this one great economic Issue the tariff the Repub lican party can rely for victory in 1916." said John Hays Hammond last night. 'in addressing several hundred Republicans of Wisconsin, who were assembled here for the purpose of in augurating a movement toward party, action in the coming campaign. "I believe the Progressive, or third party, will assuredly come back to the Republican party in the coming cam paign." JOB HELD FOR 41 YEARS Postmaster at La Center to Retire When Successor Files Bond. R1DGEFIELD, Wash., March 9 (Spe cial.) John K Gaither, who has been postmaster of La Center for 41 years, will retire from the service as soon as Patrick M. Kanes, recently ap pointed, can file his bond and receives his commission. Mr. Gaither, who Is 7S years old. came from Indiana in 1873, and the following year became postmaster. He has missed only one term of of fice. When he took over the postofflce there were only four patrons who sub scribed for newspapers. Mr. Gaither Is hale and hearty. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, 22 FRENCH TROOP SHIPS HEAR STRAITS Transports Are Sailing for Dardanelles. NEW NAVAL FLEETS REVEALED German Says Proof Found of British Additions Since War. TURKS BELITTLE ATTACK Result of Continuous Bombardment by Allies Declared Negligible. Rough Weather Hampers Op erations, Reports Paris. BERLIN. March 9. by wireless to Say vllle, N. T. A dispatch" to the Frank furter Zeltung says that a steamer ar riving at an Italian port reports having met 22 French transports near the Island of Malta, heading toward the Dardanelles. In an article in the Vorwaerts, the former London . correspondent of the newspaper, in dealing with the Dar denelles attack, says: "The composition of the British fleot appears to confirm the rumor that Great Britain has addea two squadrons of new ships to her navy since the war began." Results Declared Nesrllsrlnle. Turkish advices published today in the various Berlin newspapers unite in declaring that the results of the allied bombardment of the Turkish forts In the Dardanelles have been negligible. At the same time it is pointed out that several ships of the allied fleet have been damaged. The British battleship Queen Eliza beth particularly lis said to have been damaged and a French armored cruiser also is reported to have been forced to retire. Two mine sweepers, the advices from ""Constantinople say, have been sunk. Reports reached herefrom Smyrna by! way of Constantinople aescnue ino re cent bombardment of that seaport as -insuccesstul. Crnlaer la Damaged. A hostile cruiser was damaged and a vessel engaged in mine sweeping was sunk. PARIS, March 9. An official com munication telling of the operations of the allied fleet in the Dardanelles was issued by the Ministry of Marine tonight. It says: "During the day of March 8. the superdreadnaught Queen Elizabeth, supported by four cruisers, entered the Dardanelles and with her great 381 mlllimetre guns bombarded Fort Rumili Medjidieh Tabia, situated on Point Kilid Bahr. "The bad weather has hindered operations.' WHERE THE HOWL COMES FROM. I P T ' l - ,......TT-TTT-t - t INDEX OF TOBArSMWSllS!iD FAIV1ILY 10 The Weather. . . va" . .e, 63.S decrees: minimum; 4. V TODAY'S Probably fair; . .sterly winds. War. German submarines sink three more mer chantmen without warning. Page 1. Japsn to watch Germans and Austriana carefully hereafter. Pago J. Frencn find German positions armored and equipped with revolving guns. Page 2. Russians capture German stores. Page 2. James O'Donnell Bennett says fame has not turned Marshal Von Hindenbers's head. Page S. Mexico. Two 'warships ordered to Vera Cruz; United States i.oto delivered to Carranza; SSepata occupies capital. Page 1. National. Railway official says roads do not seek to profit by war. Page 3. Domestic. Gould family put out of ilissouri Pacific Iron Mountain system. Page 1. China is supreme for day with dedication ceremonies at fair. Page 5. Testimony of hotel man regarding Thaw's sanity Is forbid. Page 7. Oscar W. Underwood says time has come for Government to help business and stop hindering It. Page 5. Sport. McCredle moves Naughton to outfield po sition. Page 12. State Fair Board decides to discontinue futurities, after 1915. Page 12. LlncoIn'Hlgh School defeats Columbia In final lnterscholasttc basketball game. Page 12. Pacific Northwest. Last Legislature saved state $614,560 on ap propriations. Pace 6. Lorrls Martin, accused of killing Deputy Game Warden Hubbard, freed at Med- ford. Page 7. Lister vetoes bills aimed at direct legislation. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Local wheat market advances four to six cents. Pago 17. Foreign buying on large scale excites Chi cago wheat market. Page 37. Wall street more Interested in Mexjcan than in European situation. Page 17. Senju Maru is cleared for Orient with J150,- 700 cargo from Portland. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Mount Hood scaled earlier in season than ever before. Page 11. Council argues jitney regulation at lively meeting. Page li. Plans are made to use roses around Oregon building. Page 18. Attorneys clash and suffer Injuries before Judge calls halt. Page 11. Campaign for road bond issue launched. Page 18. Senator Bingham commends sane legislation passed by Oregon and Washington. Page 12. Four Jitneys in accident In day. Page 13. Dolly St. Denis identified as Mrs. Hazel Tackel3, of Mllwaukle. Page 6. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 1ft. ICE BLOCKADE IS EVADED Four Newfoundland Sealers Find Lane Through Floes. ST. JOHNS. N. F., March 9. Four vessels of the sealing fleet, the steamers Terra Nova, Viking, Erik and Diana, were threatened with damage by the ice pack off this port today, but a change of wind tonight enabled them to run the ice blockade. They slipped through lanes between the floes without damage and tonight were again on their way to the seal ing grounds In the Gulf of St. Law rence. Socialists Oppose Budget. LONDON, March 9. The Prussian Diet accepted the budget on third read ing today, says a Reuter message from Berlin. The Socialist members voted against the measure and the Poles and Danes refrained from voting. MARCH JO, 1915. LONGER IN Railroad Boards Drop Three Members. HOLD ON NUCLEUS IS LOST Connecting Lines Expected to Follow Example. FIN LEY SHEPARD STAYS Missouri Pacific and Iron Moan tain System's Klection Swayed by Proxy Committee Wall Street Approves the Change. ST. LOUIS. March 9. The Mi snuri Pacific-Iron Mountain Railway svstem. nucleus of the so-called Gould linr.B nnnspH tndav from control of the Gould family. An election of officers and directo which accomplished this carried with it, financiers generally conceded, con trol of the connecting and subordinate Rio Grande-Western Pacific system by which descendants of Jay Gould,- tn irr.-it railway financier, linked the Mi?nA WakI- to the Coast, reachln Pacific tidewater through the Sierras with scarcely a change in grade, f'roxy Committer Controls. Instead of the Goulds, a proxy com milieu renresented by Kuhn, Loeb Co. and the Guarantee Trust Company of New York controlled today's elec tion, at which 63 per cent of the stock was voted. How complete was the change wa' inilcatovt in rjart bv the removal o three Goulds and E. T. Jeffrey, of New York, a long-time Gould executive. from the boards. B. F. Bush, who sue oied Jeffrey 'some time ago as pres ident of the Denver & Rio Grande and Western Pacific, railroads, swung Into the saddle today as chairman of the Xnaril nf directors of the Missouri Ta cific and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern railways, and his election presently to the same position with th Rio Grande-TV estern Pacific sys ism wan conceded to be probably i matter of course. He today succeeded nnrr .lav Gould, son of Jay Gould founder of the family fortune, as chair, man of the board, and George Gould was not elected to the Doard. Brother and Son Dropped, Too .His brother, Frank J. Gould, and his son, Kingdon Gould. 28 years old, heretofore vice-presidents and members of the board were not re-elected in Finley- J. snepard, an active aiis- GONTROL 1 (Concluded on Page 2.) ! Tuesdays War Moves THK House of Commons yesterday gave the British government nu thirity to lake over the control of the entire manufacturing trade of the coun try and to place it under a combined management for the purpose of in creasing the output of munitions of war. The defense of the realm act. passed at the outbreak of the war, gave the government power to take and exercise control over works where war materials were being actually made. David Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, on behalf of the government, today asked that the control of the manufactories be extended to works which were capable of being used for that purpose. This power was unanimously grant ed, although Andrew Bonar Law, the leader of the opposition, described the measure as "probably the most drastic ever laid before Parliament." This step on the part of the gov ernment came as a complete surprise, although Lloyd George In a speech at Bangor last week emphasized the Im portance of increasing the output of war munitions, which labor disputes at that time threatened to diminish. Now tho workers In the engineering trade will be In the position of public serv ants, and the government hopes that this fact will impress them with the Importance of keeping up supplies for which the armies and navies of the al lied countries largely depend upon this country. A business man will be placed in charge of the organization. With the area extending and the size of the army and navy constantly In creasing, the government found some thing must be done to keep the flghtlns branches supplied with arms and am munition. The fleet engaged In bom barding the forts of the Dardanelles alone is using an Immense quantity of ammunition. Also the ships engaged probably will have to be fitted with new guns and the old ones will need to be overhauled. The operations of this fleet, which Is now reported to have been reinforced by another battleship of tho Queen Elizabeth class, and which is known to include more ships than those that have been .mentioned thus far In the dispatches, continue to occupy the peo ple of the British Isles, who always take keen interest in the work of the navy. The report that three of the forts guarding the narrows, one -on the Euro pean and two on the Asiatic side, all of which were armed with 14-inch guns, have been silenced, has Increased the confidence of the British public that the guns of their warships are heavy enough to force the straits, although nobody seems to expect this to be do quickly or without British losses. In addition to the military and eco nomic importance the opening of the straits would have, the allies are said to believe It would have an Immense effect, not only on Turkey, but on Tur key's neighbors. Greece already Is In volved In a constitutional crisis over the Dardanelles and It was reported vesterdav that a similar crisis had arisen in Bulgaria, where It was said the Premier was demanding lnterven tion on the side of the allies In oppo sition to the wishes of King Ferdl nand, who. It Is declared, desires to re main neutral. In Greece, M. Gounaris lias under taken to form a cabinet to succeed that of M. Venizolos and threatens to dis solve Parliament if that body does not indorse his policy of friendly ncutral itv toward tho allies. It is believed In high official circles In London, how ever, that the people will force the Greek, government to Intervene and that M. Venizelos will soon be back in office. In the east and the west fighting be tween the Germans and the allies con tinues, but without making the situ ation much clearer. The Russians say they have Inflicted another defeat on the Germans In the region of Augus towo. In North Poland, a short dis tance from the East Prussian frontier, which threatens to break the communi cation between the Germans near the Lower Niemen and those before Osso- wetz. In Central Poland, the battle which had promised to develop on the rilica River seems to have died down, owing, as Petrograd puts it. to the Russians being too strong for the Germans, who were forced to abandon their offensive and fall back under a Russian counter attack. Things seemingly have changed only little in the Carpathians, although the Russians, according to their reports. apparently have Improved their posi tion on the Hungarian side of the Dukla Pass. Tetrograd asserts that the Austrians have been defeated near Svidnik, which is on the Ondawa River, a considerable distance Inside the Hun garian territory. The Austrians, how ever, are still attacking the Russians south of Boligrod, which is on the Galician side of the mountains Just to the east of the Dukla Pass. The Vosges Mountains, the Cham pagne district and the Arras region continue to be the scenes of hard fighting, but apparently neither side has gained any very distinct advant age. General Louis Botha's campaign against German Southwest Africa, which had almost been lost sight of owing to the bigger events in Europe and Asia, Is progressing. One of Botha's armies, advancing In the south. Is reported to have occupied a German camp north of Ukamas, which. Is 40 miles north of the border, and to have captured a large number of tents, pro visions, clothing and transport ani mals. These captures, according to report, showed that the evacuation of the Germans had been a hasty one. Suffragists IiOt-c In Delaware. DOVER, Del.. March 9. The Dela ware House of Representatives today defeated the equal suffrage amendment to the constitution; 8 to 22. PRICE FIVE CENTS. STEAMERS IN I DAY 37 of One British Crew Reported Lost. ATTACKS WIDELY SEPARATED No Warning by. Germans, Says London Admiralty. FIVE DESTROYED BY U-16 One Spared lleenusc of Womrti nit I Children Aboard Chivalry or Commander Hclng Crltitl.-cd by German Writer. LONDON, March 10. An official an nouncement Just Issued shows that Grr. man submarines yesterday (Tucsilavt sank three steamship. The statement follows: "The steamer Tanglstnn wai sunU bv a German off Scarborough at 12:30 o'clock the morning of March 9. Onlv one man of her crew of 3S men wa.i saved. "The steamer Plarkwood was sunk by a submarine without warning otf Hastings at o'clock the morning C March 9. Her crew of 17 was saved. Prlirro Itojsl Im Hrmtrajr. "The steamer Princess Royal, of Glas gow, was sunk without warning by a German submarine at 9:15 o'clock the morning of March I off Liverpool. Her crew of 34 was saved." The official report announcing the torpedoing of the llrltlsh steamers Tangtstan, Blackwood nnj Princess Royal tho two former cargo boats and tho latter once a coat.twie rai senger ship Indicates that German submarines again are raiding at widely separated points around tho Hrltli-h Isles. As all tho boats were trrpcdoel in a period of less than nine hours It would seem probable that all thrse were sunk by different underwater boats. Scarborough, off which port the Tanglstan was nunk. Is on the North Sea. in Yorkshire: Ilastins; is on trm English Channel. In Mussex. and Liver, pool Is on the Irish Sea. SSIKt-Toa Skip Kunku The Tanglstnn. the largest of the sunken vesst 1. was of tons dis placement. Fhe was built In ! and owned by the Strlck line of Swansea. The Blackwood was built in 107 and belonged to the Tynenlde line of Nortii Shields. She was a "(1-ton Vfnrl. The rrlnccss Royal was ewvd 1 y M. IJinrland Sons, of Glasgow. Sh was a steamer of 66 tons dlsplno-. ment and was built In 1912. A dispatch to neuter"s Telegram Company from Amsterdam ay: "German submarine U-l '" re. sponsible for the sinking of five of the allied steamers which have been de stroyed since tho commencement of tlm submarine blockade, according to Otto von Gottberg, who gives In Berlin newspaper an account of the cruise of the U-ls. "The submarine was cotnmandrd by Commander Hansen, who was In Eng land when war was de.larrd and l'.'t away on the last steamer. Torpedoes Klred at Varhlns. "Soon after her departure from Kiel, according to Von Gottberg;, the l'-l en countered a British cruiser and a tor pedo boat destroyer, but the torprdnei which the submarine fired missed them. She next nlghted the steamer Laertes which outsteamed her. "The submarine's first victim wai th British steamer Dulwich, tho crew of which she allowed to get awsy In her boats. The second was the French steamer Vllle de Lllle and the third the French steamer Dlnorah, nil of -which have been reported In the British offi cial accounts as having been sunk. Von Gottberg does not give the names of the other two steamers which he says Commander Hansen sank, but declares that during tho cruise one French steamer was not moiesten, ii she had women and children on board. Chivalry la Criticised. This, aaya Von Gottberg. may have been chivalry on his part, but Germans will hardly approve of the action of submarine commanders If they allow their kindness of heart to get the bet ter of them." Otto von Gottnrg Is the war corre spondent of the Berlin 1-okal Anzelger. Von Gottberg has written descriptlvo articles recently on the German navy and its activities. One of these con cerned the engagement between British and German fleets In tho North Sea January 24, In which the German ar mored cruiser Bluecher was sunk. For It he used Information obtained from men who took part in the fight. Credit has been given the U-18 for sinking the Vllle da Lllle off Cherbourg February 17, but was not mentioned In connection with the other two steamers. The French steamer Dlnorah was tor pedoed off Dieppe, France, February 19, but was reported to have been towed Into Dleppo for repairs. The Dulwd It was blown up off Havre February 1. 15 OF 87S1 SHIPS A 111'. M'NK Britain AnnonruTs HcmiIi of Sub marine Kalils for Ten Pajs. LONDON, March .Fifteen British steamers sunk out of a total of J14 (Concluded on l ass 2 )