Morning Oregonian., March 23, 1915, Page 5, Image 5

TITE MOTIXTN'G OREGOXTAN, TUESDAY, MARCIT 23, 1915.
TURKS AIM TO KEEP
RUSSIANS ENGAGED
Official Declares Operations in
Caucasus Oblige Czar to
Send Large Force.
WAR IN. EGYPT DEFERRED
la II road Being Boshed to Comple
tion to Aid Invasion Turkish
Soldiers in Field Have Bread
Shortage but Plenty of Meat.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Feb. IS. (Cor
respondence of the Associated Press.)
"if you mention my name in connec
tion with what I have told you I will
apply our military law and have you
shot. Your promise not to do so may
be all risht. but we do not trust re
porters and editors any more. They
have lied too much; lied the blue out
of the sky, and. let me assure you
that if you use my name the protection
of your embassy will not help you.
You know under what stipulations 1
have talked to you. The Turkish army
has nothing to conceal, but it does not
want to be lied about."
This was the admonitory conclusion
of a statement obtained by a corre
spondent of the Associated Press from
a man who would permit that as au
thority "a semi-official source" be
given. Since the statement that he
must be looked upon as an authorita
tive source will not bring the firing
squad any nearer, that designation will
be in order.
Turks Keep Russians Busy.
His statement follows:
"The position and condition of the
Turkish army in the Causacus is ex
cellent, do not expect that the
decision of the European war is to take
place in the Caucasus. Our operations
there have primarily the purpose of
obliging the Russians to keep a large
force there In order to ease our allies
In Poland and Galicia.
"Some of the Russian companies in
the Caucasus have dwindled down to
25 men Instead of 250. We recently
wiped out a Russian regiment so com
pletely that funeral services had to be
held for the entire organization. There
wasn't a man left.
"The crossing the Suez Canal three
months ago by a battalion of Turkish
Inlantry demonstrates that the water
way is no obstacle to us. We do not
Intend forcing operations against
Ugypt just now. We have men enough
there for that purpose, but supply con
ditions do not allow a general offen
sive for the time being.
Railroad Belli Rushed.
"The railroad which will serve to
make communications through the 200
kilometers of desert easy will be com
pleted soon. I cannot tell you where
that railroad is being built; where it
joins the Hedjas line, or where it will
touch the Suez Canal. Our forces are
advancing as fast as is feasible one
army along the coast of the Mediter
ranean; another along the Gulf of
Suez, and the third In the center.
"We have no trouble feeding our
men in the field. In the Caucasus we
have not always been able to give
them enough bread, that Is true, but
the meat supply in that region is so
plentiful that we have made up the
rations in that way.
"There are thousands of flocks of
eheep in and near the Caucasus. Our
men live on them and are well off. There
has been no difficulty in supplying our
troops In the south with food, though
the scarcity of water there has been
omewhat of a problem one which we
axe meeting satisfactorily, however. I
have no recent data on the subject
but believe that the rains of the sea
son have helped to solve this problem.
Ammunition Tint Scarce.
"Talk of scarcity of ammuntion and
other supplies of war is rank nonsense.
We have an ammuntion factory able
to meet our demands, and there is in
operation a plant in which wo are
able to turn out field artillery. You
are at liberty to inspect both.
"The resources of this country in
men fit fer military service have been
a surprise to me. We do not have to
take men from Turkey in Europe for
service in the Caucasus and Egypt.
Risrlit now we are raising several
corps in Anatolia. We have in Tur
key, in Europe, six army corps to give
a proper reception to any force which
may undertake to land on these shores.
We can do it because we have the
men and the needed supplies and
equipment. The spirit of our troops
Is excellent.
The stories alleging that the Turk
ish troops in the Caucasus and else
where in drove are inventions. There
has been some sickness, as there has
been in all other armies. A good many
of our men hve had their hands and
feet frozen. The Winter in the Cau
casus has been bad, but it soon will
be over now. The American Ambas
sador hero deserves great credit for
his efforts to get sanitary supplies to
our troops."
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE SET
Vanconver Instructors to Attend
One-Day Session at Camas.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. March 22.
(Special. A one-day teachers' Insti
tute will be held in the High School
building in Camas Wednesday. Those
from Vancouver who will attend will
make the trip on the lone. Mrs. Eliza
beth Sterling. County Superintendent,
has secured a rate of 50 cents for the
round trip on the boat, which leaves
the Northern Pacific dock here at 7:4o
A. M. and returns, leaving Camas at 4
P. M.
Anions the speakers will be Dr. Nor
man P. Coleman, of Reed College. Port
land. The Camas Girls' Glee Club and
the Treble Clef Club, of this city, wpill
help entertain.
LIQUOR LAWJS APPEALED
Kunsa Pcrsisent Violator Act to Be
Taken to Hi?lir Conrt.
TOPEKA. Kan., March 22. The
Supreme Court of the United States
will be called on to decide the con
stitutionality of the Kansas persist
ent violator act pertaining to the sales
o' l'yuor. Notice of appeal was served
today on officers of the Kansas Su
preme Court by William Brlggs. of
Shawnee County, under sentence to the
penitentiary as a persistent violator of
tiie liquor law.
The Kansas Supreme Court recently
affirmed Bribe's sentence and decided
the last was constitutional.
ROAD SECTION ORDERED
(Cor t inuxi From Firt Pate.)
will go. We owe Jackson County $10.
00 and a law passed at the recent
session of the Legislature provides
that we shall give it $48,000 more. The
state is largely responsible for the
trouble in that it has proceeded on too
extensive plans. It should not have
torn up so many roads until new ones
were built. I think the engineer made
mistakes in putting tob much money
in engineering and so expressed hyself
at the time."
Bowlbly Recommendations Rejected.
Major Bowlby said it was not incum
bent upon the state to pay Jackson
County the ,ij,00 Mr. Kay said was
due. He further declared that the law
passed by the Legislature did not make
it imperative that the county be given
$48,000 this year. That, according to
his construction, was the maximum
sum.
A member of the board said that al
though the counties which were asking
money would be aided the recommenda
tions of State Highway Engineer
Bowlby as to amounts would not be
approved. He recommends the follow
ing apportionments:
Douglas County, $20,000: Hood River
County, $60,000; Clatsop County, $40,-
TRANSFER
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Railroads Show Why Grain
Tariff Should Be Bigger.
SLIGHT INCREASE, ASKED
Statisticians and Officials Tell of
Large Expense in Handling and
or Great Number or Empty
Cars Which Are Hauled.
CHICAGO, March 22. L. E. Wettling,
statistician for the 41 western rail
road systems which have asked for an
increase in freight rates on certain
commodities, testified before Interstate
Comerce Commissioner W. M. Daniels
VIEW OF MITCHELL'S POINT.
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Willis MI-IB Itflll I V " ' " 1 " '
Scene on Columbia Highway, where a new road and a tunnel will 1
t be constructed at a cost of $40,000 to attain a 5 per cent grade. t
The old road mounts the low part of the ridge, , T
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000; Columbia County, $60,000; Jackson
County, $40,000, and miscellaneous
bridge work, etc., $20,000.
TWO MORE HEIRS BOBUP
TACOMA WOMEN GETS $500,000
EACH OP WKH,000 ESTATE.
Falrrtew Farmhand Gets Only $500,000
by Appearance of Half Brothers
and Slaters.
T A rrT A TVoefc MnTCh 22. CSne-
cial.) That they had inherited $500,
000 each of the $3,000,000 estate of the
late John K. Bell, commission mer
chant of Manchester, England, is news
that has come to Mrs. Blolse M. Ball,
3611 South Twelfth Btreet, and Mrs.
K. V. Hoyt, 3502 South Twelfth street.
"I always had known my uncle was
wealthy, but I did not know he had
so much money as that," said Mrs.
know Just how much of the $500,000
legacy to each will De in casn, auu
what in securities and property, that
amount is coming to us.
"The other neirs, eacn oi wnum set
$500,000, are Thomas Wiltan Bell, a
farmhand at Fairview, Or., a half
KMrh.i trt Tr H nvt nnH me: Fred
Bell, of the Everett apartment, Port
land, Or., a banking clerk; Lester Bell,
of Centralis, Wash., and Brenton Bell,
who was in Tacoma a few weeks ago
on the Pantages circuit"
The late Mr. Bell was survives, ay
hI.Hv., hut the children of his
' v. U omA in the United
I'll i y uiuuici, " " " . .
States years ago, but with whom he
had kept in touch.
CHRIS BELTZ DIES, AGED 26
Popular Young Business Man of
Aberdeen Passes in California.
, tcintr'i"V W.oh TVfarph 22.
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(Special.) Word was received today
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erra Madre. CaL. of Chris Belts, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Belt, and one of
the best known young men of the city.
Mr. ueiiz was uea.il j- -u - 1 -' '
had gone to California with his wife
in the hop of benefitting his health,
which had been failing for several
. i , u.,it . waa ,7-T-nriiintprl from
mourns, -n i - ' ' 1 '- ,J - - .
the Aberdeen High School in 1909. For
the past year ne naa oeen propni'
of the Beltz Automobile Company. He
. . i .i v. iTn i v.Tsitv of Washine-
KLLCIIUCU .'IV- . j
ton for one year and was a member or
the Washington chapter of the Phi
Delta Theta fraternity.
Besides bis laxner ana mui-iict,
reside at Sixth and K streets, Beltz is
survived by two brothers and two sis-
. T-V. - I Ihnr. aTA 0 1 W 1) 1 1 1 of thiB
city, and Frits, of the Seattle law firm
of Trefethen and Grinstead. His sis
ters are Mrs. Oscar sscnuiiz, 01 ium-
100k, Or., and Mrs. Btrananan, 01 Ore
gon.
Vancouver Has W armest 3Iarch Day.
.....nArnrvn - w" -i . Vi "March 22.
v aivuu f "1 .
11 ii ift.r innkine back through
many years of records, A. A. Quarn-
berg Government weainer
here, found that yesterday was the
i,.n..t il.v for March 21 since the
records have been kept. The ther
mometer registered 79H regrecs. March
31 1911. the Temperaiuic -aa .
gr'ee; March 15. 1900. it was 77 de
crees There is a aenciency in io
annual rainiau. umusu .
now is moist and in fine condition.
ncnUal m mrwiWA to
British political pwu. u..eivu V-rvT
speech inad by Charles J. Fox in
whIS he referred to the necessity for "rmd
lent reform .
It Certainly WU1 Cure a Cold
niere is no doubt wnatever aooui mo
beneficial effects of Chamberlains
gh Itemeay in cases v- . .
ghs. It has been in use ir
years and has receiveu mo np"'-. "
the praise, i ,, ' 7
have used it. It is equally valu-
for children and adults.
Cou
cou
not
who
able
Indigestion Permanently
Cured.
Affr inendinir hundreds of
JnMarm. tnr medicine and tfeat-
" - w- .
ment for indigestion and consti
pation with only temporary re
lief, C H. Mines, or wmuow,
rk. ,says he was permanently
-.ured by Chamberlain' Tab
lets
today as to the amount the railroads
hoped to add to their annual revenue
on the proposed increase in the rates
for grain and grain products.
Of the J10.000.000 which the rail
roads estimate would be added to their
annual revenue through all the pro
posed increases, J2,252,493, Mr. Whett
ling testified, would come fro grain
and grain products. This, he said,
would be about one-third of one per
cent of the total revenue.
Cost of Handling Geat.
N. D. Ballantine, assistant to the
second vice-president of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, testi
fied to what he termed the excessive
cost of handling grain. This cost, he
said, greatly - reduced the apparent
profit on grain handling.
"Last season, for instance," tes
tified the witness, "we had 2000 cars
held up as far as 1000 miles from the
ports. The grain heated and it was
necessary to inspect all of it and trans
fer and elevate a large portion. We
had more than $2,000,000 worth of per
ishable grain on our hands and it en
tailed a large expense. There is an ex
cessive empty haul on these export
cars. On one division, northbound, the
empty cars are 174 per cent of the
loaded box car mileage.
Cars ot Loaded to Capacity.
"Export cars are not loaded to ca
pacity, as the commission found in
1907. 'The load is not more than to
within 15 or 20 per cent of capacity.
There is a great added expense and
delay to other freight trains where
sidetacks are filled with empty cars,
stored for export grain loading.'
Mr. Helm. cross-examined Mr. Ballen
tine as to the cost of loading, labor
and cooperage of grain.
Questions were asked as to the cost
of cooperage and grain doors. The
witness said he had no figures, but as
serted that it would be impractical on
account of the heavy weight to place
grain doors on box cars which were
used only part of the year for the
hauling of grain.
BAKER LIGHT FIGHT LOOMS
Old Issue Kevived in Petition for
$80,000 Bond Election.
BAKER, Or.. March 22. (Special.)
In an effort to force an election to de
cide whether Baker shall extend its
municipal lighting plant to furnish
power for homes and business use,
Robert Service and M. F. Newton today
filed the form for petition, which is
being circulated tonight.
The petition calls for an election
July 14 to allow the people to vote
on authorizing an $80,000 bond issue
for the enlargement of the present
city power plant.
At the last city election the Com
missioners were elected on a platform
promising the lighting election, but
after election they called off the matter
when the Eastern Oregon Light &
Power Company reduced its rates 40
per cnt.
School Clubs Being Organized.
HE LOVES
HIS BATH
With
GUTICURA
Soap because it is so sooth
ing when the skin is hot,
irritated and rashy.
Samples Free by Mall
Cntleur Sotp and Ointment told ererywhersx
Liberal impt of nek mailed tree with 32-p. book.
Addras pom-esnl "CuUcora." Dept. 17F. Boston.
nor-ii, l TiMpid Worker Harrinprton.
of the 6tate department of agriculture
has been here for several days tour
ing the . County. He explains that
Klamath County school children are
displaying a healthy interest in the
! .1 1 'i 1 l,iH wnrV mtHwI On this
year by the department. Many of the
projects can be carrieu on in mis
county in connection with the contests
the Klamath Water Users1 Association
Kftnriiiit Merrill. Mount Laki.
Pine Grove and Gale schools have or
ganized clubs. Mr. Harrington is Do
ing assisted in this work by H. Roland
Glaisyer, county agriculturist, and
Fred Peterson, county acnooi superintendent.
BOISE GRAND JURY SITS
HALF POLICE FORCE SUBPESAED
IX DISORDERLY-HOUSE RAID.
M. J. RothehUd, Alleged Forger, to Be
Disposed Of State Affairs May
Come TJp Again, Is Report.
BOISE, Idaho, March 22. (Special.)
After a rest of 30 days the grand Jury,
probing into state, county and city af
fairs, reconvened today and commenced
investigation of the charge that in
violation of the city ordinances and
state laws disorderely houses are in
operation in Boise. Half of the police
force was under ubpena.
A probe into the forgery case, in
volving M. J. Rothchild, arrested in
Portland and returned to this city for
passing a forged check drawn on H. L.
Robb, of Nampa. for $45 at the Owyhee
Hotel, kept the grand jury busy dur
ing the morning session. Rothchild is
from Chicago. After leaving that city
for the West he left a trail of forged
checks behind him, it is alleged. Leav
ing here he went to Pendleton, where
he is said to have cashed bad paper
also, and this led to his apprehension
at Portland. He was returned to Boise
and has been waiting in the County
Jail pending action by the grand Jury.
Statehouse affairs will be probed
again while the jusry is in session,
matters in connection with the Treas
ury deficit being scheduled for con
sideration, according to report.
ROADS TO PAY $200,000
Supreme Court at Olympia Denies
1913 Taxes AVere Too High.
ftT.VMTJTl TUoqTi March 5. (Sne-
cial.) Two hundred thousand dollars in
1913 taxes assessed against tne fortn
ern Pacific and Great Northern rail-
. rAA aBa,tT-Ai4- tViA utatp a n it the
30 counties in which the two railroads
operate by a decision of the Supreme
Court today, which upheld the assess
ments of the State xax commission.
Tki. i-aUfnuria contended that their
assessments were approximately 10 per
cent too nign Because Liieii- eiuu w
was valued and cited that the "good
i t i " n i,.,.. BtnrB anil nlmit.n r busi
nesses was not considered in assess
ments for taxation purposes.
rrv. G.mcATviA rmirt hnlH that in the
common acceptance of the term, the Tax
Commission did not assess the "good
will of tne raiiroaus. out mai mo
method followed of valuing each rail
road as a whole going concern Instead
,irinn 1 1 ii wdnln value of 1 1 com
ponent parts as separate entities, was
correct.
STREET TALKER CONVICTED
Jury Convicts I. W. W. In Test Case
on Abusive Language at Seattle.
SEATTLE. Wash.. March 22. K P.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. March 22. 1 Birch, an Industrial Worker of the
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Be sure that it sets off your
home in the manner nature in
tended it to.
THE GREAT CLARINDA
With its powerful 12-inch driving wheels, divided reel and Roller
Bearings, makes it positively the lightest running and cleanest cutting
Mower on the market.
NOTE THE EASY ADJUSTMENT FEATURE.
ROLLER BEARING SELF SHARPENING
COME RIGHT NOW ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CLARINDA
Established 1878.
J. J. KADDERLY
130 1ST, 131 FRONT.
WANT every
voung: man to
my '
know that in my
Young Men's De
partment I have some of
the classiest clothes ever
shown. ,
Styles confined and ex
clusive at my usual mod
est prices.
The salesmen will take
much pleasure in showing
you these handsome suits.
$15 to $25
BEN SELLING !
Morrison at Fourth
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TXT-nvl .mm linr vhfl c 1 1 1 1 " h t to t OS t til 6
city ordinance against the use of
abusive language at street meetings
by appealing from a $20 fine assessed
In ..mi vrna flillll (i f 1 i 1 1 V Of
disorderly conduct by a Jury in the
Superior Court today. Birch, it was
alleged, used abusive language in ad
dressing a street meeting jNovemuei
9. In h!o instructions to the Jury
Superior Judge J. T. Ronald said:
"Free speech as guaranteed by the
constitntion does not give on the right
to say all he pleases on all occasions.
Neither does il give anyone uiiag
to invade the public"s rights. The
streets were laid out primarily for
pedestrians and traffic. If these are
interfered with an unlawful act is
committed."
MISS DE GRAFFE WANTED
Jane Addams Asks Portland Dele-
. gate to Peace Session.
Jane Addams, well-known philan
thropic and social worker of Chicago,
is the head of a National movement to
procure the sending of a large delega
tion of American women to The Hague
next month to seek to bring about
peace in Europe.
She has written the Tortland School
Board asking that Grace De Graffe,
principal of the Kenton School and
president of the National Grade Teach
ers'. Association, be delegated from
Portland to attend the proposed meet
ing. The request will be taken up by the
Directors at their next meeting and
action taken upon Miss Addams' sppll-
HOTEL ST. PAUL
N. E. Corner Alder and Fourth Sts.
Will Be Opened
MARCH 25th
Proprietor, M. E. Foley.
Newly and beautifully furnished
throughout, modern and up to date
in every particular. Special rates
made to permanent guests.
calon. It la asked that the womrn
gather at The Hague on April 18.
Aeronautic hut hrrn r-conll
branch of mllltury Inilructlon In roe Brit
Uh army .Inc. IbTS. wh.n a b.llmtn .'-ho!
w. .t.rted tur th. royal ensln.er. at
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Philadelphia, Pa., published by the owners of
The Saturday Evening Post, in an editorial on
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