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VOL. L.V. NO. 16,977. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. COLONEL ADMITS HE DEALT WITH BOSSES Piatt Recognized As Head of Party. LETTER FROM QUIGG IS READ Assent Given to Spirit of Ad vance Assurances. DAY ON STAND IS LIVELY Cross-Examination by Attorney for Jtr. Barnes Marked by Frequent Exchanges and Punctuated by I Laughter of Auditors. STRACUSE, N. T.. April 22. Theo dore Roosevelt spent five strenuous hours under cross-examination In the Supreme Court here today. He admitted without any hesitation that he had ver bally and in writing discussed with "bosses" the question of securing the nomination for Governor of the State of New York. He Identified as being his a letter he wrote to Lemuel K. Quigg. of New York, a Republican leader, and now a delegate to the state constitutional convention, in which he acquiesced In Mr. Quigg's assurances to ex-United States Senator Piatt that, in the event of his election he would respect the Senator's position as head of the Re publican party and would "consult with him freely and fully on all important matters." Three Cktets" Telesrram Forgotten. Then he was asked whether, on the final passage of the bill, which caused the break between himself and Senator Piatt, he had sent to the Senator In Washington a telegram containing nothing but the two words, "Three cheers." "I don't remember the telegram," the Colonel solemnly replied. Then he made a grim face, smiled, slapped his , thigh with hla open hand and "added: "But It is characteristic." On several occasions Colonel Roose velt was more cross-examiner than cross-examined. His- eyes sparkling behind his glasses, he would snap out a nronosyllable as an answer to a ques tion put to him, then proceed to make a statement on his own account, and finally conclude with a query to William Ivins, chief counsel for William Barnes, who is suing to re cover $60,000 from Colonel Roosevelt for alleged libel. Mr. Ivins Answers Questions. Mr. Ivins nearly always replied to the questions of the witness before re suming his examination, in a soft voice that was scarcely audible in the rear of the courtroom. . Mr. Ivins, regarded in legal circles as a master at the art of cross-examination, alternately stood and sat in front of the witness chair, a great pink car nation carefully placed in the lapel of his coat and a little black skull cap on bis head. Once, after the Colonel be came enthusiastically emphatic, the grey-haired counsellor remarked that the witness was treating him "as a mass meeting." while on another occa sion he declared that he had no desire "to be eaten up here." j Witness and Attorney Friendly; However, while long letters between Colonel Roosevelt and Senator Piatt, and Colonel Rooseveyt and Mr. Quigg were being read to the Jury, Mr. Ivins stepped up on the stand and engaged the witness in a whispered conversa tion, which both of them seemed to enjoy. The letters had to do with the relations between Colonel Roosevelt and Senator Piatt in regard to legisla tive and political affairs before, while and after the former was Governor. The Colonel remarked in the course of the day that he believed he had written 150,000 letters on various sub jects while he was Governor and Presi ldent. This was only the first day of Colonel Roosevelt's cross-examination. He will resume the stand again tomorrow. At the conclusion of the proceedings to drfy the Barnes attorneys piled up on the table in front of them stacks of books, papers and pamphlets, letters and telegrams. They had questions to ask Colonel Roosevelt from each 4t the documents. Cross-Examination Is liegun. K. M. Ivins began the cross-examination by asking Colonel Roosevelt if lie ever studied tne Constitution. "I did while I was studying law at Columbia University," was the answer. "Later, however, I became an author." "Have you always been an author?" "I have been a naturalist, an author and a public official. Sometimes I have followed all three pursuits simul taneously." The crowd in the courtroom laughed. The cross-examination went into the Investigation of the office of the Sher iff of New York. Mr. Ivins seemed to be seeking to show that the Sheriff's side was not heard. "Did you follow the rules of law in your investigation?" he asked. "I took the advice of counsel," said the Colonel. "I knew that substantial justice was done." "How do you know substantial Jus tice was done?" "Becauso 1 did It. Whenever I do anything I try to see to it that justice is done." Colonel "On rolice Force" Two Years. The examination went into the Colo nel's politicoi and ranch life. This took a plant bearing on the Colonel's legal (Concluded en Fairs j, Column 1.) TWO MEN DROWN IN M'KENZIE RIVER PAIR IX BOAT LEADING COWS "WHEN CRAFT TJPSET. Companion, Unable to Swim, At tempts Kescne Kroni Back of Horse; Searchers Seek Bodies. EUGENE, Or.. April 22. (Special.) Haggert Tronsen. son of C. O. Tronsen, of Eugene, and Charles Cole, residing two miles from Coburg, were drowned hn the McKenzie River at 10 o'clock to day when their boat capsized. At a late hour the bodies had not been re covered. Tronson is 22 years old and single. Cole leaves a widow and sev eral small children. The men were drowned as N. J. Han sen, uncle of Tronsen, made desperate attempts from the back of a horse to rescue them. He could not swim, but he unhitched a horse nearby and rode the animal into the river. The bodies had disappeared. He reached the boat and crossed to the main land to call help. The accident happened near the mouth of the McKenzie, four miles from Coburg. Mr. Hansen was pulling the boat across the river as the men In the boat led some cattle that swam be hind. The boat capsized after the rope broke, when one of the men, who had dropped out of the boat to assist one of the cows, attempted to scramble back In. All day long the river was dragged and patrolled by a crew. Help was sent up from Harrisburg. A pulmotor was rushed from Eu gene, & distance of eight miles, in 16 minutes, in hopes that the bodies would be recovered before too late. ELECTRICITY RATE CUT Springfield to Have Separate Meter Service for Cooking Purposes. SPRINGFIELD, Or.. April 22. (Spe cial.) a new schedule under separate meter service by which cooking by electricity will be as cheap as by gas was announced here today by Atilla Norman, vice-president and manager of the Oregon Power Company. The new rates will become effective May 1. The present distributing mains will serve, but -special wiring will be re quired at each residence. The low rate will apply to current used for irons, toasters and all other household electrical equipments except lights. Dallas and Independence are served from the Dallas plant and the Springfield-Albany plant running together will supply Springfield, Eugene, Al bany, Corvallis, Brownsville, Coburg, Junction City, Harrisburg, Halsey, Shedd and other small communities. Experts to demonstrate the scope of electrical cookery will be put In the field next month. CANAL CARRIES SHIP SOON OTrst Trip in Cclilo Locks Likely to Be on Monday. It is possible that the first vessel to pass through the newly-constructed Celilo canal will make the trip next Monday. Water has been turned through the locks, and engineers in charge believe that conditions will permit the passage of the first vessel early In the week. Major J. J. Morrow, United States engi neer in charge of the work, will go to Celilo today, and doubtless then will determine when the canal will be ready to receive its first vessel. This ceremony, however, will be wholly informal and preliminary to the formal dedication of the, locks and open ing of the canal two weeks hence. ST. PAUL RUN CUT 8 HOURS Great Northern Announces Aban donment of Cascade Limited. SEATTLE. April 22. Great Northern officials today announced the estab lishment of a through Seattle-Kansa3 City service via Billings, shortening of the time between Seattle and St. Paul on trains 3 and 4 by eight hours and the abandonment of the Cascade Limited, now operated between Seattle and Spokane. Trains 3 and 4, now known as the fast mail, have been renamed the Glacier Park Special. PRIBIL0F PEOPLE SAVED Vessel Back After Deliverins Food to Islanders in Time. SEATTLE. Wash.. April 22. The power schooner Bender Brothers, which left Seattle March 5, with a cargo of supplies for the inhabitants of the Pribilof Islands, in Bering Sea, who were threatened with starvation, re turned to Seattle today after an un eventful voyage. Much of the time the weather was Summerlike. On St. Paul Island, the natives had been re duced to their last barrel of salt meat, but the food supply on the other Islands had not been exhausted. PARIS SOCIETY DECIMATED Generals, Priests and Titled Aristo crats Killed In War. PARIS, April 22. Tout Paris, a so cial register of the French capital. Just Issued, cantains the names of 1500 Parisians killed on the battlefield up to February 25, 1915. Included in this number are the names of 20 generals. 667 other officers. 14 priests and 193 titled members of the aristocracy. The register also gives in a separate list the names of 200 society people in the Tout Paris of last year who are now classed as "undesirable." This list includes Germans, Austrians and Turks. GERMANS DANGLE BRIBE BEFORE FOES Russians Invited to De- sert for 10 Roubles. FALSE NEWS IS EXCHANGED Children Are Bearers to Pro tect Prospective Traitors. CZAR USES COLD AS ALLY With Defeat of Napoleon in Mind, All Windows Are Broken When Town Is evacuated Captives Suspected of Contentment. BT JAMES O'DOXSELL BENNETT. (By cable to the Chicago Tribune. Copy right. 1915, by tho Tribune. Published by arrangement..) MLAWA, Russia, March 12. In a field a few miles east of this little Polish Russian town is an altogether excep tional tree. Early In the morning, say once or twice a week, it produces leaves of news. These leaves are really produced In the night and are Inscribed with German words by Russian hands. Some call it "The Letter Tree of Mlawa." No Russian in the trenches near by shoots at the German soldier who comes to pluck the leaves. IVewa Is Not Reliable. Not much store is set on the authen ticity of the news gathered from this tree. But as indicating a state of mind the leaves have their value and no German General in this zone of opera tions is above being interested in them. So at dinner once or twice a week you are likely to hear a staff officer say to his commander, "Something new from the letter tree today, Herr Gen eral." "So!" says the General, and listens not at all superciliously when a copy of the news letter is read to him. Bribe Offered RuoMlnns. Most of the letters from the tree are Russian answers to German letters. The German letters may have been dropped from aeroplanes or sent to the Russian trenches a day or two before by children. A specimen of these reads thus: "Come over to us. The Czar does not want war. Only Nicholas Nicholavietch. So if you would best serve your Czar come to us and end this war. Bring your rifle. Ten rubles we give you for it and 100 rubles for a machine gun. By the way, do you know that the Ger mans are In Warsaw? Come over to us and be well treated!" I heard a story to the effect that Russian prisoners said that soldiers who picked up these letters were shot by order of their officers. I don't be lieve it. Anyway, a German did tell me that sometimes the letters were sent over to the Russian lines and de- (Voneluried on Page Column 1.) v t i-"! ( -r t. J SSNNSN. W ITM E S S STAM O INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 8.t degree; minimum. S7.G degrees. TODAY'S Unsettled and thretenins;, prob ably without rain; westerly win da War, Seven million Poles, 2.000,000 of whom are Jews, are in dire need of food. Pare 2. Renewed vigor is noted in battle In Car pathians. Page 3. Germany amends sea prize rules. Page 2 Germsns dangle bribes before enemies In Foland. Fage 1. Mexico. Villa assembling all his forces for crucial battle. Pago S. Oomestic. Chinese patriot trying to sell "baby bonds" of republic in isa.n Francisco threatened with death. Page 5. Recovery from quake and fire- is commem orated at Exposition. Page 5. Colonel Roosevelt admits dealing with "bosses" about New York. Governorship. Tage- 1. Pacific Northwest. Two drown in McKenzie River. Page 1. Rogue River Bank robbed of IftOO by high wayman. Page L Mr. Lister wins fight over emergency clauses. Page 7. Spprt. H. Chandler Kgan defeats Rudolph Wil- helm, of Portland, at San ITranciseo golf tourney. Page 16 Pacific Coast League results Salt Lake 3, Portland 4; Oakland tt, Los Angeles 4; Saa Francisco o, Venice 3. Page Itt Groat crowd sees Phillies beat Braves In opener on boine grounds. Page 16. National Commission denies three requests of Baseball players Fraternity; grants one. Page 17. Commercial and Marine. Albers Brother to add two stories to dock north of Broadway. Page 13. Governor of Idaho may proclaim holiday May 3 for canal celebration. Page 13. Europe's purchases of leather manufactures stimulate hide markets. Page 17. Export wheat sales for day over 2.000,000 bushels. Page 17. . Stock speculation decreases and prices are Irregular Page 17. Portland and ' Vicinity Impresario Lambardi dies and young widow attempts suicide. Page L James Amusement Company sues for re moval of censorship boasd. Page 7. Inquiry is proposed to determine whether or not there is an Ice trust In Portland. Paje la. Visiting Nurse Association hopes to secure endowment fund to further work. Page 18. New films are triumph." Page 11. "Weather report, data and forecast. Page 10. CAPTIVES OPEN UNIVERSITY Belgian Prisoners In Germany Con tinue Tbelr Studies. SOLTAU, Prussia, via London, April 22. A regular university is in operation in the prison camp here, which con tains several thousand prisoners of war. Lectures are being given lr de partments of arts, law . and theology and in the commercial school. There also isa- preparatory department. The university owes its "organization to the fact that the Belgian prisoners Include many professors and the stu dents of four Belgian universities. The students desired an opportunity to con tinue their studies. The classes were opened also to other prisoners. The attendance in the preparatory depart ment is particularly large. BRITAIN TO CLOSE PORTS Vessels AVarned Against Entry Wlien Three Red Lights Bnrn. WASHINGTON. April 22. Consul General Skinner, at London, cabled to day that the British Admiral had given notice that certain ports of Great Britain may be- closed to shipping without notice. "Closing will be indicated," the mes sage said, "by three vertical red lights at night and three red balls by days. When these signals are displayed ves sels must proceed to examination anchorage or keep to sea." TEDDY'S ON THE FIRING LINE AGAIN. r r-1 i r I I UUUlun I CUM T ROGUE RIVER BANK ROBBED OF $600 Ammonia Is Thrown in Cashier's Face. GAG AND ETHER ARE USFn Auto With Two Men and Woman Seen at Door. $800 IN GOLD OVERLOOKED Attack Made at 3 o'clock. Entry Be ing Gained hy Hear, and Alarm Is Kot Given Vntil ETfect or Drug Wears Off, Hour Later. MEDFORD, Or, April 22. (Special.) Throwing a bottle of ammonia in the face of E. B Rosser, cashier of the Rogue River State Bank at Rogue River, today and then gagging him with an ether-soaked handkerchief, an unidentified robber obtained $600 in cash, stepped into a waiting automo bile and escaped. Later he was pursued by Sheriff's posses from both Jackson and Josephine counties. The robbery occurred about 3 o'clock and was not discovered" until nearly 4 o'clock, when Mr. Rosser recovering consciousness made his way to the front door and with hands still bound turned the key in the lock and, stag gering to the street, gave- the alarm Suspects Are Described. Suspicion was at once directed to the occupants of a gray automobile, two men and a woman, wlu were near the bank at the time of the robbery and drove out of town about 3:30. A description of the car and the occu pants was sent throughout the sur rounding country, and outgoing and In coming trains are being searched. According to the cashier's story, be was Just closing his books for the day when a strange man entered and, com ing swiftly toward him, directed a sav age blow at his face. Mr. Rosser put up his arm in defense, while the rob ber, with his other hand, threw the contents of a bottle of ammonia full In his face. Ether Brine Inconirlouinui, Blinded and gasping, Mr. Rosser tried to escape, but was quickly overpowered, bound and gagged and soon succumbed to the ammonia fumes. Mr. Rosser said the man came through the back door, and It is supposed he left by the back door, for, as far as known, no one saw him enter or leave the bank at the ,'Jm of tho robbery. Light hundred dollars in gold which was lying on tho desk near the money that was taken was overlooked. Trance to Adopt War Orphans. PARIS, April 22 It was decided to day by the cabinet that children made orphans by the death of their fathers in the war should be cared for by the state. i irr n 1 1 '.nun Thursdays War Moves GLOWING accounts of the strength and condition of the British Army, given in the House of Commons yester day by David Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Harold J. Ten nant. Parliamentary Secretary of the War Office. Increased the enthusiasm of the people of England. According to the two officials the output of am munition next month will amount to 25 times what it was last September. Supplementing tho statement of the Chancellor that Great Britain has more than 86 divisions of troops on the con tinent .V the output of munitions .ir-ia.nt yesterday, speaking on behalf of the Secretary for War, Lord Kitchen er, declared that recruiting had been most satisfactory and gratifying; that the health of the troops was splendid and that the wounded were in the London hospitals 24 hours after they were stricken in France. He wished to impress on the country the necessity of increasing the supplies of artillery ammunition, adding: "There is no limit to the amount re quired." The frankness of the Cabinet Min isters In making known the number of men at the front and the reports that reach London from various sources, have convinced the people that at least the big effort against Germany and Turkey Is about to begin. Both in the Aegean and North Seas there are signs of increasing activity. From yesterday all steamboat communication with Hol land is stopped by order of the British government. Taken in connection with the news from Berlin that British submarines have been. Ui the bight of Heligoland, where the German admiralty lays claim to having sunk one vessel and perhaps more, this Is believed to foreshadow some movement in the North Sea, while there is no longer any endeavor to hide the fact that a big Anglo-French force is prepared to go, as General d'Amade, the French commander, has said, "to any point where it is re quired." A German " report says that paxt of this force, which is under command of General Sir Ian Hamilton, has been landed at Knos, a Turkish town near the Turko-Bulgartan border on the northern side of the Gulf of Saros, under the support of the allied fleet. At the same time there is news of transports loaded with troops pa-sslng the Island of Lemnos, not far from the entrance of the Dardanelles, and of others being sighted off Smyrna, on the coast of Asia Minor. This makes It uncertain where the blow is to be struck. There are Anglo French troops in the Aegean, includ ing Senegalese, who were transferred from France, and Bi'.tieh "Tommies" from the outposts of the empire, which, with the disappearance of the last German raiders, are considered safe from attack. Farther east, in Mesopotamia, the Turkish army, which was sent to bar the British advance from the head of the Persian Gulf, after having suf fered 6000 casualties, is in full retreat, harassed not only by the British, but by Arab tribesmen, whom they had en listed on their side, and who, now that the Turks have been defeated, have turned against them. Nearer home the British are holding tenaciously to hill 60, near Ypres, which they captured from the Germans on Saturday and which the Germans have ever since been trying to retake. The French are pressing hard on the two sides of the German triangle in the Woevre. The Russians, for their part, are, according to their accounts, repulsing repeated Austrian attacks on their po sitions to the southeast of Lupkow Pass in the Carpathians and are hold ing their own against the Austro-Ger-man efforts on their flanks near Gor llc.. In Western Guild a, and Stry, in the eastern part of the same provfnee. These attacks apparently are being made with the object of holding the Russians where they are while the Germans are preparing to strike at the Russian lines at some other point, pos sibly from the direct'on of Cracow. Although rumors are many and di vergent, no definite news has been re ceived of Italy's Intentions. While dis patches indicate that the tension be tween Rome and Vienna has slack ened, the belief ia general that before many weeks both Italy anJ some of the Balkan slates will assume a more definite attitude. DUTCH SHIPPING CUT OFF Britain Orders Suspension of Traffic in Doth Directions. AMSTERDAM, via London, April 22. The following official statement was Issued here today in behalf of the Brit ish government: "All shipping between Holland and the United Kingdom Is stopped for the time being. No ships will leave the United Kingdom for Holland after to day. Ships from Holland will not be admitted to the United Kingdom after today. "It is hoped shortly to resume limited cargo and passenger traffic Special ar rangements have been made for the transfer of mails." RUSSIAN OMITS BULGARIA Diplomat to Visit Koumanla and Serbia on Way to Italy. ROME, via Paris, April 12. In con nection with the approaching departure from Petrograd of Michel de Giers, the newly-appointed Russian Ambassador to Italy, newspapers of Rome comment today on the fact that M. de Giers will make visits at Bucharest, Koumanla, and Nish, Serbia, on his way to this city, but will pass through Sofia, Bul garia, without stopping. This is interpreted as a possible In dication of a lack of good feeling be tween Russia and Bulgaria, IRS. LAMBARDI ATTEMPTS SUICIDE As Husband DiesWidow Plans Own Death. fl UIUT TR niCM CMP pnire iimiii iu uil, one umco Woman Clasps Spouse's Pic ture as She Drinks Poison. WOULD-BE SUICIDE IS 32 Noted Impresario, Architect by I'ro fession, Was Vnablo to IMay or Sini Reorganized Company to Keep Ills Kngagements. I'laspiBK krr dead husband's plrtore to her heart, Mrs. .Mario Lambardi, widow of the Impresario who died ye, terdax mornlnnr, drank m solution of bi chloride of mercury la her apartment at 203 Twelfth street early lat nlarht, and Is now In a dlng condition at Good Samaritan Hospital. "I want to die! I want to die!" Mrs. Lambardi murmured naatn and again while the Ambulnnee Service Company wum taklnn; her to the konpllal. Mrs. Lambardi was hysterical when her husband died, but no one thought he would attempt nulrlde. Mr. I.amt.ardl mm discovered hy hotel employes at Ti.' o'clock. Mrs. Lambardi Is 32 years old. . Her husband nan 6. "I am going to die; I have heard the call from above, and 1 obey the call. Bury me In Rlvervlew cemetery." These words,, spoken calmly and quietly, were among the last of Mario Lambardi, Impresario of the late Lam bardi Grand Opera Company and the present Italian Grand Opera Company now performing at the linker Theater. Stricken with cerebral apoplexy, as lie was playing a game of pool with a friend, Wednesday night at 11 o'clock. Mr. Lambardi died yesterday morning at 7 o'clock at St. Vincent s Ilo.-q.ltnl. He will be burled at 4 o'clock this af ternoon from I'inlcy's undertaking par lors. Fifth and Montgomery streets. Tho funeral service will c-onnlst of readings from Scripture, and will be conducted by George L Baker. ' M. G. Montrer.za and Hartrldge AVhlpp will sing. Ac cording to the expreiised wish of the late Mr. lambardi, the burial will take place at Rlvervlew cemetery. Businenn Not Affected, The death of Mr. Lambardi will not affect the business of the Italian Grand Opera Company now playlnir at The Baker. The company was reorganized several months ago when the late Mi. Lambardi Iot about (34.000 trying to present Italian grand opera, with the I'anama-I'aclflc and International Kx posltion as a rival attraction, in Shu Francisco. The reorganlzers are Kii. genio Ue Falco, tenor, and L. Cccchett'i, musical director of the company, who are under a business arrangement to manage the company, the assets of which are valued at about IJ00.000. The late Mr. Lambardi was born In Florence, Italy, 65 years aso, and al though his business interests have for upwards of 35 years or so been in the east and west coasts of South America, and the Pacific Coast of this country, he always looked on Florence as hij home. First Venture 40 Vrars Ago. By profession, Mr. Lambardi was an architect. As such, about 40 years ago he was commissioned to proceed to build a municipal opera house at Bogo ta, Colombia, South America. When the opera house was completed It was die-" covered that there was no Impresario to run it. Mr. Lambardi was asked to return to Italy to engage an opera com pany, and manage the opera house In question. The venture was artistically and financially successful, and so be gan Mr. Lambardi's career as Impres ario. About nine years ago Mr. Lambardi Invaded the operatic field in this coun try, and for fiveor six years has had a company in the United States every season, confining his efforts principally to the West. He brought his companies to Portland a number of times so that his name is probably better known here than that of any other operatic Im presario. KnEllah Never Mastered. In personal appearance. Mr. Lambardi was tall and striking, and was shy lo the point of delicacy. He was a tpical Italian, and did not trouble to learn English. This was unfortunate, as he had to depend on the management of his business affairs in the United States, at least, to lieutenants. and thus his personal, business supervision was lost. Mr. Lambardi was not an educated musician, although he made his living that way. He could not sing nor play a musical Instrument, yet he chose and engaged and "fired" tem peramental prime donne, and bossed hia opera company. When asked once by a Portland friend why he could dis play such acumen In hiring soloists and chorus singers, when he could not minu one note himself, Mr. Lambardi smiled, and replied: "When I hear a voice, I can Ull hy my understanding, my mind. If tlrero Is money In It." Oregon PoMniastcrs Appointed. OKEGONIAN NKWR Ht'RE.M'. VVh. n"tnn Annl " 7 1 : o Y ( r, t- . . appointed pott muster at Flavel. u -ceeding C. C. Seeley. retlrped. and E;m niet H. Cwrpenter has been made poat- mat;ir at L.IS111 Mile, vice J. M. Orr le-tsncd T ir