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' ' ' " ' ' ' ' ' : ' '''' ' ' ' ' PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1915 FRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. JSY. NO. 16,930. 50,000 TROOPS AND PRZEMYSL GIVE OP Nine Aastrian Generals Among Captives. CAPTOR DECORATED BY CZAR Russian Siege Is Successful After Many Months. GARRISON IS STARVED OUT Ammunition Also Kxhaustcd Pcfro grad Celebrates in Snowstorm and licncTis ITope or Victory Attack on Cracow Likely. PETROGHAD, via London, March 22. .The rricmynl garrison, which capitu lated to the Russian army today, sur rendered without a fight. The hoisting of the white flay over this fortress, which was said to be n the point of surrender on a num lrr of occasions, caused little surprise, as it was generally known that It was In a terribly weakened condition, with out food or ammunition, and its en durance waa only a question of days. War office advices report that nine Austrian Generals were taken, more than 300 officers and 60,000 men. Czar Decoratee Captar. The Russian General commanding tlio investing army has been decorated w ith St. George's Cross. A heavy snow storm failed to check the enthusiastic demonstrations in which the civil and military popula tion united when the fall of Przemsyl was announced. The crowds, flounder Ins In deep drifts which tied up street traffic, cheered the officers and sol diers who remained to participate In the celebration. From the Kazan Cathedral, the strains of the national anthem swelled in volume as the crowd gathered, and from other points throughout the city, Mysteriously hidden behind the dense curtain of falling snow, music burst , Xorth and added to the general spirit of enthusiasm. Victory Regarded I ipertaat. The moral effect of the victory on XtuBsia. it Is expected, will be great. wakening hopes that this will be the turning point in the Galiclan and Carpathian campaign! The ending of the lonjr siege is con sidered here of great importance. It rives Russia control of virtually all of Eastern Gaiicia and releases for sery ice elsewhere the Russian army which lias been besieging the city. Nothing since the capture of Lem TBerg and the victorious sweep of the Russian army through Galicla in the beginning of the war has aroused an equal degree of enthusiasm. Newspaper offices and army headquarters were fcombarded with telephone inquiries for information. Crowds stood in a pelt ing snow storm before the bulletin "boards. The fate of the fortress had been in evitable since the failure of the last '.Austrian drive from the southward for lis relief. Artillery Fire Incessant. There have been evidences of a short age of provisions, and reports of the ravages of disease reached the besieg ers from time to time. Gradually the lines about the city were drawn tighter, until within the last fortnight Russian riflemen were within range of the outer works. Rus sian artillery pounded the forts cease lessly. The Austrian sortie of last Saturday was preceded by such an extravagant use of ammunition by the artillery as to leave the impression that the be sieged army was at the end of its re sources and desired to consume the re mainder of its ammunition prior to surrendering. Sleaze ot Cracow Likely. Although Przemysl had been elimi nated as a positive menace to the Rus sian troops operating in Galicla, since it was isolated and surrounded early in October, it always bad been a po tential source of danger. Many stub born battles have been fought by the besiegers with portions of the garrison which attempted to break through the Investing lines to Join relief columns, which, on some occasions, pushed to ylthin IS miles of the city. It is believed here that the next im portant development in Gaiicia will be a Russian advance toward Cracow, the .Austrians having been virtually driven cut of the territory as far southward as the Carpathians. The siege of Przesmyl has been under way since the early days of the r. It has been a bitter and relent less siege, which has never been re laxed for a day since the Russians In vested the city. Several attempts of the Austrians to raise the siege have Xailcd. Forts Stop Rujtalaa Advaace. With the fall of Przemysl. which has keen described as the key to the Aus trian empire, the only important for tified town In Gaiicia which is still in the hands of the Austrians is Cracow, in the northwestern part of the prov ince close to the German border. In the early day of the war it was part of the plan of the Russian offen sive campaign to Invade Germany through Galicla. The Russians pene trated Gaiicia, but the success of the Ai.trinns in holding Prsemyst and PRZEMYSL'S FALL HARD ON NEWSBOYS HOW TO TELL PUBLIC ABOUT BIG STORY IS PROBLEM. Xante Looks as if It Should Sound Like "Pretzel," tut Boys Resort to Ingenious Substitutes. Newsboys on Portland streets are perplexed. For once they seem tem porarily to have lost their goats. Here is the biggest news of the war and they are unable to cry it out to their patrons. Przemsyl Is reported to have fallen and the newspapers are full of It, but how to tell the public is the problem. They all seem to be stuck on that word "Przemsyl." None of them has the hardihood to attempt to pronounce it. A great variety of ingenius sub stitutes have been resorted to. "Great Russian victory," shouts "Scott- down on Washington street. "Gigantic Austrian fort is captured." cries "Schneider," a few blocks farther east. "Austrian fort taken at last," ,a tn way Abe Gordon tells it. "Russians capture Important Aus trian town," walls Max Lewis at Sixth and Washington. Some of the less resourceful newsies have been up against it good and hard. A few of them have been arguing among themselves how best to utter the unpronounceable name, and they have agreed that if pronounced as it looks in print it out to sound some thing like "pretzel." PRIZE COURT MONEY PAID Britain Gives $600,000 for American Grain Seized on Foreign Ships. LONDON, March 22. The prize court today ordered paid $600,000 on Ameri can shipments of flour and wheat de tained on board the Norwegian steam ers Alfred Nobel, Kim and BJornstjorne Bjornson and the Swedish steamer Frid land. So far as is known here this is the iirst money to be paid out by the prize court on American foodstuffs seized. The owners of the cargo of food stuffs on board the American steamer Wilhelmina, destined for Germany, are becoming discouraged over the delay of the prize court in giving the case a hearing. It now seems unlikely that the case will come up March 29. MARSHALL'S REPLY WAITED Formal Pete to Be Arranged If Vice- President Visits Here. Vice-President Marshall, who is on an official visit to the San Francisco exposition, has not yet replied to any of the several invitations sent to him to visit Portland on his return trip. He has been Invited by the Commer cial Club, the Chamber of Commerce and by the Loyal Order of Moose, and it is considered probable that he will take advantage of the opportunity of visiting the Northwest. If be accepts, some formal arrangements for his en tertainment will be provided. Mr. Marshall insists his visit is purely offi cial. "MAN" IS GIRL IN DEATH Masquerade Adopted the Better to Support Self and Sister. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., March 22. The death of Miss Florestine Albertine Beaudoin, whose body was found in Willlmansett Saturday night, revealed that she lived disguised as a man for four years. She resided with her sis ter. Mrs. Mary Lachapclle, and as "Al bert Beaudoin" worked in the paper mills of Holyoke. The only motive suggested for her long masquerade Is that she could earn more as a man for the support of her self and her sister, who is a widow. Her death was due to heart trouble. IRON CROSSES ARE GIVEN Secretary of German Treasury Deco rated for War Loan Success. BERLIN, via London, March 22. Em peror William has conferred the iron cross, second class, on Dr. Karl Helfferich, Secretary of the Imperial Treasury. The decoration is a reward for the success of the new war loan. The iron cross also has been given to the Vice-Chancellor, Clemens Del brueck, and other secretaries of state and ministers, and to Rudolph Haven stein, president of the Reichsbank. SCALES DUMPED IN BAY Forty Wagon Loals of Short-Weight Devices Ordered Destroyed. SAX FRANCISCO, March 22. Twenty five thousand short-weight measures, scales and weights, confiscated by the city bureau of weights and measures, were ordered dumped in San Francisco Bay today by the board of supervisors. The board authorized the use of 40 wagons to haul the condemned devices to the bay. The collection represents the work of the city bureau for several years. BOMBS FALL AT MULHEIM Aviator Flies Over Baden and Three Soldiers in Barracks Are Wounded. BERLIN, via London, March 22. An enemy aviator appeared Sunday above Mulheim. Baden, and dropped three bombs on the city and the artlllerjVbar racks. Three soldiers were wounded. TEUTO?, AND SLAV T Difference Is Plain on March Into Russia. THRIFT SIGNS LEFT BEHIND One Side of Border Prosper ous, Other in Poverty. ROADS BAD, HOMES POOR James tVDoiinell Bennett Potter, bes Trip Info Territory Occupied by Germans and Changes Now Being Wro u g-ht . BY JAMES O'DONNELL. BENNETT. ("War CorrBpondmt the Chicago Trib une. Copyright. 1915, by the Chicago Tribune. Published by Arrangement.) LOWICZ, Russia, Feb. 20. The Ger man officer in the auto with me, and the three German officers in the auto that wu3 folio wins ours, gave the short, crisp German "Hurra!" which has a dif ferent sound from our American "hur rah!" as the cars swept over the Ger man frontier at the little town of Stra kowo. Most of these border towns, by the way, have at least two spellings, and some m?-ps Stralkowo becomes Strzalkowo. The cheer, though, was g-ood. plain German. The officers always give it when they pass through Stralkowo on their way to the battlcfront in Russia, and on their way back from the front if they are making the return journey in their coffins they repeat the cheer. So, both coming: and going, they are satisfied with life. Teuton and Slav Contracted. Once we had got well clear of the' frontier and out of the influence of the taut German system of ordering life, every mile brought an object lesson in the differences between the Teutonic and the Slavic way of doing things. The contrasts were as amazing as they were depressing. Not Ave and twenty miles back all had been trim. accurate, productive, prosperous; houses well built and well lighted, cattle sleek, roads smooth, the people with shoulders erect, heads up, eyes candid, and the bearing of them independent. . And now we were in a region of waste, grime, misery and mud; houses more like huts than like cottages, the cattle under sized, the roads atrocious, and getting worse save where the German soldiery were mending them, and the people fur tive and painfully obsequious. All these tokens of a backward system, or of no system at all, were emphasized as the signs in the Russian language became more frequaatand the tall astrakhan caps more numerous. ItUKMian Cattle Undrrslzed. , The statement about the undersized Russian cattle over the frontier is not (Concluded on Page 3.) IN SHARP CONTRAS INDEX OF TODAFS NEWS Th Weather. TESTE RD AT S Maximum temperature, 74.5 U greet?; minimum, 49 decrees. TODAY'S Fair; not o warm; northerly wind . TTar. Austrian stronghold Frzemyil surrenders to Rusniaiur Pape 1. Holland demands tha-V" a explain sels- ure of ships. P.'-v Ex-Portland v. ' ,GKfrd by Turks in Persian 8. British AV - erlns; law regarded as most f v modern nines. mjo rticlal tells his country's plans for .tiipalgn. Page 6. German commissioner may be prosecuted by United States. Page 3. Paris waits liv vain for s-eheduled second Zeppelin raid. Page 1. National. America preparing protest to allies on block ade. Page Oomeatle. Rate case hearing testimony goes Into rea sons for greater grain tariff. Page fi. Sir Walter Raleigh, descendant of early-day nobleman of same name, reaches New York. Page 1. Sports. White Pox defeat Beavers third tims in final game of series. Page 6. Aggies to play Monarchs Saturday as pre liminary t raising of curtain for City League season. Page & Municipal baseball holiday Is hope for "open ing day," on April 13. Page ft. Pacific Northwest. Contract awarded for Mitchell's Point road. Page 1. Widely known editors indorse schools of Journalism. Page 7. Fifty miners and women killed by Home Sound landslide. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Cessation of export buying leads to weak ness in local wheat prices. Page 15. Course of Chicago wheat prices gorerned by war news. Page 15. 11 Sterling exchange falls to lowest point in years. Page 15. Extreme price paid for lambs at local stock yards. Page 15. .Norwegian bark Hiawatha week overdue. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. "Arrested" gamecocks make life miserable for Sheriff's deputies. Page 16. East Side business men indorse road bond issue after talk by Mr. Yeon. Page 13. Maggie Teyte to appear in recital at Heilig tonight. Pago 9. f Dr. Marcellus In report urges free dental clinic six half-days weekly. Page 7. Harvey Wray, 25, and Mrs. Mary Richard son. 35. free from charges after love profession. Page 11. Five thousand members sought by Cham ber of Commerce campaign on today. Page 11. BOYS PUNISH "COURTSHIP" High School Students Duck Albany College Freshmen in Canal. ALBANY, Or., March 22. (Special.) Because they visited the high school frequently to pay attentions to high school girls, two Albany College fresh men were ducked In the Eighth-street canal Friday night by a group of Albany high school boys. The two young men were graduates of the high school last year-. .It seems that frequently the two entered the as sembly room for vacant periods, sitting with high school girls. The college boys intimate that the affair was not entirely school spirit, but that jealousy may be the basis. Some of those who participated in the affair have asserted since that the ducking wasn't altogether due to the girl question, but that the high school boys have resented a spirit of "lording it over them" upon the occasions of the visits by the college men. A'ermont Has Eugenic Marriage Law. MONTPELIER, t March 22. The Legislature today passed an act provid ing for eugenic marriages. A fine of $500 is fixed for any person who weds without fulfilling the requirements of the law. which is aimed to prevent the marriage of those pronounced physical ly or mentally unfit. THE BRAND NEW CONSOLIDATED BAND-WAGON LANDSLIDEPILESON 50 MINERS ASLEEP Women and Babes at Howe Sound Killed. RESCUERS FIND 18 BODIES Twenty Injured Rushed to Van couver Hospital. BUNKH0USE SWEPT AWAY Private Homes Caught in Path of Avalanche and Steamer Goes "With Nurses and Tloctors to Attend Many Hurt. BBITTANNIA BEACH, B. C, March 22. Fifty sleeping miners were killed And 20 injured when a landslide of enow and earth broke away from the upper workings of the mines here Sun day night and swept through the settle ment, engulfing every building in Its path. Eighteen of the dead have been re covered. Rescue parties have been dg' ging all day in the debris, while doctors and nurses who arrived In a special steamer from Vancouver have been car ing for the injured. Of the dead several are women and children, living In homes in the path of the avalanche. Tho greatest number of deaths occurred in the bunkhouse and cookhouse, which were caught in the slide, carried a distance down the mountain and finally buried under the debris. The mine offices, store, rock house and tramway terminal were also engulfed. IS Bodies Itecevered. The following is a list of the bodies recovered: P. Burns, St. Louis, Mo.; D. Duggan, Ireland; A. Dupuis, Vancouver; M- Halligan. Brlttannia: W. Morley, Vancouver: J. McKune, Brlttannia Beach; J. Newspose, Lancaster, Eng' land: S. Stuart, Scotland; F. Wall. Brit' tannia. Beach; G. P. Marshall, Vancou ver: D. G. McLeod, Vancouver; John Duggan.. Ireland; Mrs. Appleton and two children. Brlttannia Beach: William Stamp, Vancouver; M. O'Hara, Japan; S. Kawaski, Japan. Missing. Those missing are: Mike Bolo, Bri tannia Beach: John Borick, Britannia Beach; Mike Bradrich, Britannia Beach; A. Clempson and three children, Van couver; W. F. Claque, Lancaster, Eng land; John Duggan, Britannia Beach; Mike Gasco. Britannia Beach; M. L&tlce, Britannia Beach: Carel Marson, Ques nel. B. C; J. Martin, Vancouver; John Olsen. Vancouver; John Pavelich, Van couver; Peter Ponark, Vancouver; Elis Smilgemick, Vancouver M. Sulleck, Vancouver; George Starr. Vancouver; John Sobol, Vancouver; Mrs. Thomas McCulla and daughter, Seattle; C. E. Copelarjd, Los Angeles, and wife, of Se- (Concluded on Paga 3.) STARTS TODAY. Mondays War Moves THE long Investment of the mld Galician fortress of Przemysl has ended. Depleted by disease, subsisting on horse flesh and surrounded by a su perior force of Russians, the garrison has surrendered to the besieging army after a defense lasting many months, which, up to the present. Is recorded as Austria's most noteworthy contribution to the wi-r. Petrograd, London and Paris cele brated the event last night Petrograd and Paris In the spontaneous manner characteristic of those cities; London with silent and grim satisfaction, which is the Briton's way. The newspapers assert that the fall of tlra- fortress marks the most import ant capture of the war, not excepting Antwerp. In that it not only releases considerable Russian force which can be thrown into the fluctuating struggle in the Carpathians, but opens the door to Cracow and the plains of Hungary. It Is argued, moreover, that the moral effect of the surrender will bo tre mendous, the theory of the allies being that it will stimulate feeling in their favor both In Roumanla and Bulgaria, just as tho operations In the Darda nelles are causing an agitation lu Greece and Italy. The Italian situation Is receiving re newed attention by the press of the allies, though rumors, rather than facts, seem to be the basis of most of the dispatches. The Italian embassy at London had no confirmation last night of the report that the freight traffic between Italy and Germany, by way of Switzerland, had been stopped, nor was there any confirmation of the reported massing of Austrian and Ger man troops along the Austrian littoral or the assembling of artillery at Trieste. Przemysl fell with honor, the British press concedes, for it withstood the onslaughts longer than any place dur ing the war, the Investment having begun about September 16, something more than six months ago. The dura tion of the siege compared with the length of time it took the Germans to capture such strongholds at Liege, Na mur and Antwerp, was due to two causes, one being the desire of the Russians to keep the loss of life among the besieging army at a minimum, the other to the lack of great guns, which the Germans had in Belgium. The investment was not a close one, the garrisons having had up until re cently a radius of about 12 miles in which to move about, and some dis patches told of shooting expeditions indulged in by officers of the garri son. An aeroplane post was maintained almost up to the last, and It Is said that even some scanty food supplies were carried in this way. . - The Przemysl garrison, was' ti mated at 80,000 men last September and last week It waa reported that It had diminished to 25,000. f-There have been concurrent reports oWchol era and other diseases, but these were as vague as many of the1 premature reports regarding its surrender. Nothing of great Importance has been recorded in the Western war zone In the East, aside from the fall of Przemysl, the situation around the German port of Memel is the most In teresting. From this town the Ger mans maintain they have driven the Russians, while a controversy is being waged by the two countries as to the merits of the Russia contention that civlliana" fired on them In this latest incursion in Kast Prussia an act which demanded reprisals. There Is no late news from the Dar danelles, and the belief In England seems to be that the operations will perhaps he more protracted than at first expected. The Netherlands government has asked Germany to explain the seizure of two Dutch steamers and the confis cation of their cargoes. A British prize court has ordered that American flour and wheat in the car goes of three steamers detained in British ports be paid for. A German submarine has blown up the British steamer Concord in the English Channel. Three German soldiers in Mulheim. Baden have been injured by bombs dropped by an allied aviator. FAIR KEEPS OUT CIRCUS San Francisco Board Refuses to GlTe Permit for This Year. SAN FRANCISCO, March 22. (Spe cial.) There will be no circus In San Francisco this year. The Board of Supervisors denied to day the application of the Sells-Floto shows to exhibit here during the first week In May. "The exposition Is taking enough money from the people," said Super visor McCarthy. "Why add to this by a circus?" "I have seen some things on the zone, said Supervisor Walnh, "that cause me to believe we have circus enough already. It was also argued that it would be better for the exposition not to have counter attractions. So there will be no circus. 60-DAY TERM YEARS LATE Ex-Dctcctlve Loses 1 Decisions and Begins Serving Sentence. CHICAGO. March 22. Edward Gard. an ex-detectlve, fought four years and lost 19. court decisions trying to avert a SO-day jail sentence for contempt of court. Today he voluntarily began serving the sentence, which had been affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States. Gard got into trouble by arresting a man who had just been freed on a write of habeas corpus. The Judge who freed the man. considered the de tective's action an affront. T IS State Awards Contract Held in Abeyance. OTHER COUNTIES SEEK AID Selection of Highway Engineer Expected Monday. MAJOR B0WLBY CRITICISED Mr. Kay Lays Trouble 1 Overhead LJipen-es and Attempt to !o Work on Too T-atMi N-ul. Assistance If Iromled. SALEM, Or., March !J. tSnecal.) After announcing thnt the strctoh ef the Columbia Highway t Mitchell's Point, Hood River County, would be built with state funds In accordance with a declMon reached lsst July, the Stute Highway Commlnlon today awarded the contrsct for the work to the Stsndlfer, Clark.on Company, of Tortland, the loweft bidder. The work will be done for $40,542.60. which is almost IlO.ono less thsn the estimated cost.. It is tlio Intrnllon to expend the remainder of the 150.000 allotted to tho county on other parts of tho highway there. KMKineer'a Post ftetiaht. Announcement also was made today that E. I. Cantine and Herbert Nunn, of Tortland. had strong backing for the position of State Hltrhway En gineer to succeed Henry L. Bowlby, who resigned at the request of Gov ernor Wilhycombe and State Treasurer Kay of tho Commission, but Is be ing retained to finish certain work. It is probable that the new engineer will be appointed at a meeting of the Commission next Monday, when Sec retary of State Olcott, who Is now la California, will be present. Both ap plicants are said to have had much ex perience in road building. Major Bowl by, however, will be retained on tae work in Hood River County until It Is completed. State Aid Iraed. John D. Dougal, of Portland, repre senting taxpayers of Columbia and Clatsop counties: County Judge Clark, of Columbia County: Commissioner Harley. of the same county, and State Senator McBride and George McLeod. also of Columbia County, appeared be fore the Commission asking for stale aid for completing the Columbia High way in those counties. No decision was reached by the Com mission! regarding the money to be ap portioned among the counties, but Stat Treasurer Kay said they would he aided from the state fund. t'latsep'a Fonda l.en. Mr. Dougal said thst Clatsop County had contracted In excess of Its Imme diate ability to pay. and inasmuch the Columbia Highway mta classed as a state thoroughfare the people thought the state should help the county out of its difficulty. He declared If the coun ty were a private business enterprise it would be a bankrupt. Of the (60,000 ratsi-d by the county this year for road work a large part would have to be used In paying a defi cit, part would be needed for bridges and there would be nothing left lor general road repairs throughout the county. Major Bowlby said If the Commission would set aside 140.000, that, with !:!. 000 which he believed the county would have left, would open the road through the county. Ulrfrreat Opllaa l:'irsa4. Major Bowlby and Mr. Dougal dis agreed as to tbere having been a gen eral understanding that the original bond Issue would be sufficient to build the road. Questioned by Mr. Kay, Mr, Dougal said that the hard-surface stretchca of the road needed reaurfae ing, and Major Bowlty said it would cost from 13000 to 15000 to do that work. County Judge Clark, of Columbia County, said the engineers estimated cost ot grading tho highway In that county at 1320.000 and already $290, 00 had been expended. It would take $64,000. he thought, to build the bridges. "We haven't any hope of opening the highway through the county with out your aid," continued the Judge. "If you donf help us we will have to give up the Idea of connecting our part of the highway wtlh those of Multno mah and Clatsop. We received about $22,000 for preliminary survey, there was $5000 we knew nothing about and $5000 more for machinery which wa knew nothing about." Coualy Supenlaloa Dealred. Asked by State Treaaurer Kay if ha would rather have the remainder of the work done under the supervision of the County Court or of the State High way Department, Judge Clarko said he favored the court doing It. Major Bowlby took isaue with Jud Clark regarding the amounts of esti mates and expenditures. "A year ago the Commlaflon decided to aid counties that bonded themselves to build roads," sald Mr. Kay. "It was not the Intention then that counties ao aided rhould be aided soon In tl. future. We sympathize with the coun ties that arc having trouble, and in asmuch as no other county but Hood JUver has bonded Itself, we Intend to aid them again as far as our fuoda (Concluded on las ft.' MITCHELLS PON ORDERED (Concluded ca rage 2.) I 1 . I 4 4 A A