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4 THE BIORXING OKEGOXIAy. THURSDAY, 3IAY 6, 1915. SHARP NOTE WAITS BEHHANY, IF GUILTY Severest Letter Sent Foreign Power in Years Is Contem plated by Wilson. GULFLIGHT FACTS WANTED Berlin "Will Be Told She Has Passed Talc or Law, If Reports of At tack on American Steamer Are Proved Correct. KEW YORK. May 5. (Special.) A special dispatch Irom Washington to the New York World says that It the published reports regarding; the Amer ican steamer Gulflight, which was tor pedoed or hit a mine In the North Sea, are proved true. President Wilson will send to the German government the severest letter sent to a foreign power In years by the United States Govern ment. The correspondent Gays that Ger many will be told that she has passed beyond the pale of the law, should it le determined that she is responsible for the Gulflight disaster. The dispatch says, however, that TVesident Wilson is awaiting official reports regarding the explosion that wrecked the Gulflight. WASHINGTON. May 5. President Wil son 'discussed briefly with his cabinet Tuesday the torpedoing of the Amtrl Jcan steamer Oult'llght off the Scilly Islands, but, in the absence of a de tailed report of the incident, no policy was formulated. Messages received from Ameriaan Consul Stephens at Plymouth and Con-ttul-Gener&l Skinner at London added little to the Information previously ob tained. Both - were instructed today to get complete statements from mem bers of the ship's crew and to gather such evidence of a technical nature concerning- the damage done to the ship as could be learned by an examina tion of the vessel on ite arrival In port. Officials want to establish beyond doubt whether the vessel was struck by a torpedo or a mine, and if possible the nationality of the explosive. Sec retary Bryan said today that until these facts were in hand, no predic tions could he made ns to the course of the United States Government. Thus far It Is definitely known only that a submarine was sighted by one of the officers of the Gulflight 25 minutes before the attack and that tho submarine submerged immediately. No proof has been reported that the sub marine sighted made the attack and Its nationality Is still undetermined officially. Nor is there any evidence available as to whether the Gulflight flew the American flaw at the time or what colors were shown by the two British patrol boats which are said to have accompanied her. To enable the German government to present any Information it may have. Secretary Bryan explained that an in'iutry had been directed to Am bassador Gerard. This action, he said, should not be construed as implying I hat the United States assumed that a German submarine had attacked the Gulflight. Naval officers here do not think It will be difficult to establish whether the damage to the Gulfllght was caused by a torpedo or mine, as the vessel has been towed into port. Some think it will be possible to determine from the nature of the damage the nationality of the explosive. WOMAN FIGHTS INTRUDER Neighbors, Hearing Screams, Put Armed Assailant to Flight. The screams of Mrs. W. I Clinton, of 683 Kast Nineteenth street North, who liluckily fought with an armed intru der who invaded her home yesterday morning, succeeded in frightening the would-be robber away, but not before she had sustained a badly cut lip from the blows of the ma:.. Mrs. Clinton was -ilone in the house, her husband being at work and her children at school, when there was a knock on the door. She responded and the man sprang inside and slammed the door to. He tried to choke her and threw her against a table, afterwards drawing a! short-barreled revolver. The thtig could not intimidate Mrs. Clinton, however, and . her screams aroused the neighbors. As they came to the rescue, the man fled, covering those who would pursue with his gun. Patrolmen Bales. Stran, Shaffer, Thompson, Wade and Long were rushed to the scene, but the man had disap peared A good description of him was secured. MANAGER? NO, SAYS BAKER Candidate for Commissioner Directs Own Campaign, He Declares. George L. Baker, candidate for elec tion as City Commissioner, is out with a statement declaring that he has no campaign manager and has not em ployed any paid worker In any capacity to advance his campaign before the voters. 'I am before the voters on my merits," said Mr. Baker, "and I have made and am making my appeal direct to them. I am managing my own campaign, which is a simple one, and I shall do so to the end. Any reports that my can didacy is otherwise directed are, there fore, wholly erroneous, and I make this statement without qualification. I am depending for election upon my friends and upon other voters who know me by reputation and who believe I am a fit candidate for the oflice." TOKJO DECIDES OX ULTIMATUM Brief Time Limit Given, According to Japanese Cabinet's Decision. LONDON. .May 5. The correspondent of the Central News at Tokio says in a dispatch received tonight: "I learn that the Cabinet in special session has decided to send an ulti matum to China. The ultimatum will accord with a brief time limit for China's compliance with the Japanese demands." TOKIO. May B. The Yomiurl. in an extra edition, declares that the elder statesmen, after listening to lergthy Explanations from Premier Okuma and Foreign Minister Kato, have approved a project to send an ultimatum to China. The information reaching Japan, this paper says, leads to the convlc tlon that the nature of the last Chi nese answer obliges Japan to resort to this logical diplomatlo step. Continuing, the Yomiurl says that the concessions made by Japan, partlcu larly the restoration of ICiau-Chau to China, had created the belief that China -as satisfied and that the mat- tec woujd, a arranged. pea.cef.uUy. There is an impression now that Yuan Shi Kai. President of China, desires an ultimatum in order to Justify China's eventual acceptance. According to the Ilochi Shtmbun, martial law will be proclaimed iu South Manchuria simultaneously with tne issuance or trie ultimatum. WASHINGTON' STILL HOPEFUL Resources of Diplomacy Believed Not to Bo Exhausted. WASHINGTON, May" S While offi cials read with the deepest interest today the press dispatches from Tokio foreshadowing an ultimatum to China to secure an acceptance of the demands Biade on the latter country, there still is a well-defined belief here that re sources of diplomacy have by no means been exhausted. Official information received here indicated that the Japanese press was clamoring foi an ultimatum and that many of the articles that had appeared represented correctly the views of the Japanese government. Whether an ul timatum finally would be decided upon by Japan and the effect in Pekin of the Japanese newspaper utterances was a matter of wide speculation among well informed observers. President Wilson early in the day expressed the belief that the situation would soon clarify itself, but said he had heard of no ultimatum. He set at rest reports that China had made an appeal to the United States for moral assistance by declaring them unfound ed. While declining to discuss details, he Indicated that the American Gov ernment was observing closely the progress of events in the Far East. Confidence prevails In official quar ters generally that the way is still open to mutual concessions and com promises, a feeling shared to an extent among Japanese here, although the grounds for such hopes are admittedly the previously announced policy of the Japanese government to take no step that would threaten existing treaties or agreements with foreign powers or violate the territorial integrity of China. COURT MAY SETTLE VALIDITY OF BONDS Friendly Suit to Determine Character of Road Issue May Have to Be Heard. NOTICE POSTING DEFEATED VACATIONS ARE ORDER DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY FORCES VACATIONS WITHOUT PAY. Many Employes in Portland Postoffice and Other Federal Buildings Affected by Ruling. Democratio economy, which Tecently brought about the dismissal of several employes at the Portland Postoffice, is extending still further and the latest orders from Washington are that many employes of Federal buildings through out the country will be required to take enforced furloughs, without pay, between now and June 30 In order to stretch the Congressional appropria tion over the needs of the service. Approximately $600 will he saved in Portland by temporary furloughs or dered for employes of the Postoffice and the Custom-House. These en forced leaves of absence will be taken during the coming 60 days. Postmas ter Myers, custodian of the Postoffice building, and Collector of Customs Burke, in charge of the Custom-House, will enforce the orders of the Treas ury Department, which is in charge of Government buildings, at once. Approximately ten employes at each building will be affected. They in clude engineers, firemen, elevator men, watchmen and at the Postoffice the order will include two charwomen. The Custom-House has no charwomen employed. The order is necessary, it is said, be cause Congress did not appropriate sufficient money to meet the needs of maintenance of Federal buildings. T. R. AGAIN ON STAND Intention Is to Show Xo Malice Held Toward Barnes. SYRACUSE, N. Y., May 5 Theodore Roosevelt again went on the witness stand in the Supreme Court here today, after many witnesses, including a son and also an ex-secretary of the late Thomas C. Piatt and Franklin D. Roose velt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, had testified in his behalf. The ex-President Intended, under a new ruling of the court, to offer testi mony designed to show that he har bored no malice for William Barnea. It also was his intention to tell about cer tain things not specified in the plead- ngs, which, under the original ruling were excluded. But errors committed in transcribing his testimony under di. rect and cross-examination were point, ed out. So the Colonel used up nearly an hour and a half in correcting them. His counsel planned to have him re sume the stand tomorrow. SEIZURE OF FOOD ASKED California House Memorializes Con gress and President. SACRAMENTO, May 6. Two resolu tions, one memorializing Congress to seize the nation's food supply fgr the purpose of preventing its exportation to the belligerent countries, and the other a request that President Wilson use his Influence to end the war, were adopted in the lower House tonight. The resolutions were of Socialist origin. C. W. BRYAN FAR IN LEAD Secretary's Brother Probably- Elect ed Mayor of Lincoln, Xeb. LINCOLN, Ueb.. May 5. Early re turns on today's municipal election in dicate the return of three of the pres ent five Commissioners Dayton, Schroeder and Hensley. Charles W. Bryan, brother of W. J. Bryan, is far in the lead of present Mayor Zehrung and probably will be Lincoins next Mayor. The fifth Commissioner is in doubt. MERRJAM REPORT DENIED Captain's Wife Says Divorce Is Xot Arranged. SAN FRANCISCO. May 5. Mrs. Bes sie Merriam, who was reported as hav ing decided to accept a decree of di vorce from Captain Henry C. Merriam, United States Army, on a charge of de sertion, denied tonight the truth of the report. She says she never made or author ized such a statement. II. B. Miller to Speak. II. B. Miller, director of the School of Commerce of the University of Ore gon, will speak Friday at 12:20 o'clock In the Y. M. C. A. auditorium on "The Economio Law of Value," and Friday night D. N. Mosesaohn, editor of the Jewish Tribune, will speak again on "The Psychology of Advertising." J. W. Brewer also will discuss "The Opportu nities for the Small Investor." Last night F. N. Clark, of F. N. Clark &. Co., spoke on 'Present Opportunities in rortland," Boston Attorneys Demand Proof of Election Feature and Lawyers Here Cite Declaration of Court After A'ote Was Counted. A friendly suit to determine the le gality of the $1,250,000 bond "issue for hard-surfacing 70 miles of highway in Multnomah County' may have to be brought and carried to the Supreme Court before the bonds can be sold. It all depends on whether the 'firm of Boston bond attorneys, Shorey, Thorndike, Palmer. & Dodge, whose fa vorable opinion is guaranteed to pur chasers of the bonds, will accept the view of the law taken by District At torney Evans as to proof that the spe cial bond election itself was legal. as published in The Oregonian yes terday, this firm , has written Mr. Ev ans that there is no proof that printed notices of the election were posted at least J0 days prior thereto as required by law. They advised the District At torney that it would be necessary to obtain affidavits from election offi cials in each precinct that the notices were properly posted. Task Thought Impossible. To obtain such notices the District Attorney says would not only be im possible, but would not be proof even ir ODtaineo. in the first place, it would be necessary to get 3842 affidavits, that being the number of election Judges and clerks. As provided by the law, eacn judge and each clerk re ceived two election notices to post. In the second place, it is known al ready that some of the Judges and clerks did not post their two notices, for approximately 200 notices were re turned unused to the County Clerk. In the third place, even were each of the 3842 Judges and clerks able to make affidavit that all notices were properly posted, there is nothing in the law to make this legal proof, for the law docs not provide how proof may be shown that notices were posted. Connty Court's Order Evidence. On the other hand, the law does pro vide, chapter 103, section II of the ces sion laws of 1913, that an order of the County Court declaring the fact that at any general or special election under the act a majority of the voters voting shall vote in favor of issuing bonds, "shall be absolutely conclusive as to the regularity of all the proceedings in reference to the matter." Such an order has been declared by the County Court and entered in its journal. It Is this provision of the law which the District Attorney will bring to the attention of Shorey, Thorndike, Palmer & Dodge, believing that it covers the point. Arthur A. Murphy, Deputy Dis trict Attorney, who has been handling this phase of the question, has also gathered citations from court decisions bearing on the case. These, together vj'th the section of the law quoted, will be sent by telegraph to the Boston law yers today. ' Hood Hlver CiM Cited. One of these court decisions covers a point much similar to that raised al though not altogether analogous to it. This was the decision of the Supreme Court upholding the legality of the re cent road bond election in Hood River County. The point at issue was whether an error in the wording of the election notices invalidated the election, the Su preme Court holding that it was an irregularity that did not effect the validity of the special election. However, the particular point as to whether in a special election there must be proof of the posting of the notices has not before been raised. Should Shorey, Thorndike. r'almer & Dodge accept the view that the order of the County Court declaring the passage of the bond issue by a majority of the voters voting, automatically settles any question of legality hinging on whether the notices were properly posted, then the matter would be ended. If they do not, apparently the only course left would be to have a friendly suit brought. Delay of Two Weeks Expected. When such a case came up in the Cir cuit Court the District Attorney would file a demurrer, which would be argued. The loser of the suit would then appeal to the Supreme Court. Even with the best luck In naving the case advanced on the calendar of the Supreme Court, which is crowded, a decision could not be expected short of two weeks.- It might be much longer In coming. Bids for the bonds are receivable May 1. As the bids carry the stipulation that Shorey, Thorndike, Palmer & Dodge must approve the legality of the bonds, no sales could be made until their favorable opinion is forthcoming. However, as it has not been the in tention to issue the bonds until June 1, the District Attorney's office is con fident that the legal point the attor neys have raised can be cleared up by then. - Pavlns Name Omitted. In the meantime, the County Com missioners have decided that in the eight types of pavement for which specifications are to be prepared and bids asked, the name "Warrenite" will not be used. That is, though Warren ite is one of the eight types on which bids will be asked, its specifications only will be given, the word "Warren ite" itself not being named. This, it is said, would prevent pos sible trouble should unscrupulous con tractors try to "slip something over" by bidding on "Warrenite" and then, should they be awarded a contract, get the county into difficulty over possible patent infringements. TOWN FOSTERS MARRIAGE List of Unwed to Be Scattered Broadcast Over Country. SMITH CENTER, Kan.. April 30. Through the enchanment that distance lends Smith Center, out here in the heart of the Kansas wheat section. hopes to double her population. The plan includes epreading broadcast through the Nation a list of names of persons of marriageable age. In the list will be men and women, widows, maids, bachelors and widowers, every person with a legal right to marry. Smith Center is a Cupidless town. The men folks and women folks do not seem to care for one another in any but a friendly way. For years the young men have been going to neigh boring towns to call on girls and find wives among these girls. Once mar ried they leave the old home town. Many of the girls, too, marry out-of-town fellows and move away. So there are many people here who haven't married because they didn't care, for company from - other thriving little Kansas cities. The idea is that these, ECZEMA ON HANDS ITCHED JDJW1EQ Especially the Finger Joints. Would Crack and Bleed. . Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment Healed. Hotel Summers. Minneapolis, Minn. "My eosema troubled me most in my bands, especially the finger joint. I felt at times uk mnm tba flesh off. It first appeared as a rash and it itehed and burned. Tbe joints would crack epsn and bleed at times. I could pull small pieces of scaly akin off and then he part would be very tender. Several of my finger nails came off. Cold water seemed to make tha eczema worse. '"An old friend told me to use Cuticura fioap to wash with and Ontjeure Ointment oa retiring at night. I did and now I bare not the slightest itchy feeling, not a mark or scar. Cuticura Soap and Ointment healed me." (Signed) George Lowtaer. Oct. 8. 1014. Retain Your aaad InaUx kun dear, scalp clean sad frM rim v and hair 11 VB And vlauv o....,,. a. with an occasional use of Cuticura Ointment wiu promote these covetd,.oMuUtiaas. Sample Each Free by Mall With 32-p. .Sldn Book on request. Ad dress post-card "Catlcwra, Dept. T. Boo -ton." Sold throughout the world. persons marry persons outside the city and bring theni here. The list of unmarried persons is be ing prepared by the Mayor and the edi tors of. the two newspapers. The City Clerk has been instructed by the City Council to have thousands of copies of it printed and send them to all parts of the country. At every chance he is to advertise the matrimonial desires of the municipality. The list will include farmers, mechanics, business and pro fessional men, some wealthy, some struggling along In an effort to maXo their first $1000, and even the town's ne'er-do-well3. . RETURN IS AS FROM DEAD Irish Patriot, Believed Dead 14 Years, Rejoins Family. PHILADELPHIA, April 23. Luke Dillon, the Irish patriot, mourned as dead by many of his friends and his own children for ii years, has returned to his family after being released from a Canadian jail, where he had been sentenced, under another name, to life imprisonment, on the charge of at tempting to dynamite the Welland Ca nal. . Dillon occupied a responsible posi tion in a bank here until 1900, when he disappeared. Investigation showed his books in perfect shape and all his acquaintances were at a complete loss to account for his absence until Mrs. Dillon announced his death. His faur children were raised to ma turity in the belief that their father was dead and it is only now that they learn he is alive and free. The father, aged and bent, on return clasped in his arms tbe grown-up sons and daugh ters he left as children. MAYOR IS FORCED TO HIDE Hush of Job Seekers Swamps Office of Chicago's New lixecutlve. CHICAGO, April 24. To escape the thousands of jobseekers who wanted "Just a word" with him. Mayor-elect William Hale Thompson has been obliged to go into hiding. Hundreds of persons stormed his offices j-ester-day until the management of the build ing protested because of the congested condition of the elevators and halls. They even made visits to the Mayor elect's home. f Since his return from a trip down the Mississippi River Mr. Thompson has sought seclusion in a hotel room, the number of which is known only to his closest friends. TEX RICKARD PURSUES BUG Xoted Promoter Deserts right Ring for - New Calling. NEW YORK, April 25. Tex Rickard has turned from promoting prize fights to startling science. The man who staged the Jeffries- mm? m 12 tii B sjOiij CLEAN-UP DAYS SOAP FOR EVERYBODY Trade Lathering Prices 25cResinol Soap 18 25c Poslara Soap 18 25c Wyeth Sage and Sulphur . Soap 17 25c Herpicide Soap 1.7 d 25c Hind's Honey and Almond Soap 19 6 25c Pear's Scented Glycerine Sp.l5 25c Packer's Tar Soap 14c 25c 4711 White Rose Glycerine Soap 14 15c Liebig Skin Soap, 10c; 3 for 25 15cUardas Complexion Soap, 10c; 3 for 25d 15c Wild Flowers of Mt. Hood Soap, 10c; 3 for 25 10c Wood-Lark Bath Soap,4 for 25 10c Wood-Lark Milled Glycerine Soap, 4 for 25 10c Wood-Lark Quad Soap, 4 cakes in box 19 25c bar Floating Castile Soap. .19 $1.00 Antonia Luggado Castile Soap . ... 69c 8 bars Ivory Soap. 25c 8 bars Lustine Soap 25d No Phone Orders No Deliveries 10c Colgate's Allround Sp 3 for 25c 10c Physicians' and Surgeons' Sp. 6c t'MPON Ten extra '(. & H." Orn Trsdlns Stampn rIvq today with any Ica crwam or wla service In our Tea-Koom 044. Foun tain in th Baeinnt, bMwfflii 2 P. M. aiwi II p. M. l'riMot. thi cuupoa when paying the caahier. 5c Congo Cocoa Soap, 6 for. . -25c 10c California Medicated Soap, 3 for 25c; 1 dozen 8oC 10c Lava Soap (C ?Z . 10c Wool Soap 7c m- i'S Broadway Special offer: Bar of Soap, 15c Rubber Wash Cloth 25c iilii 2 Total 40c The combina tion fnr . - "I fa $1.00 bar Conti Castile 65c 10c Lister's Antiseptic Soap, 3 for ..14c 10c Valiant's Juniper Tar Soap, 3 for 18c 10c Tyre Mechanics' Soap 6c Colgate's Pound Cake Shaving Soap, 6 for 25c 10c Pure Stork Castile, 3 for. . -25c 10c Colgate's Almond Cream Soap, 3 for 25c Woodard, Clarke & Co., Alder St. at West Park Johnson battle at Reno, at the Waldorf-Astoria was showing friends two specimens of hertofore unknown bugs which he brought from Paraguay, South America, recently. One of the bugs, which resembles a beetle, has two tiny green lights Just above the eyes. When disturbed the green glow becomes greener. The other bus: resembles a fish worm. On each side of it are 11 green lights and one red light. Rickard doesn't attempt to explain what the bugs are. He says that is for the scientists to do. BROOMS USED BY WIVES Women Take Ilrst "Weapons at Hand to Defend Husbands. STAMFORD, Conn.. April 24. Wives of striking laborers here, to the num ber of 50 or more, armed with broom- fcoworiY is the BROTHER Of Comfort and A.FlRSX COUSIN TO HAPPINESS Many an economical man is better dressed than his profli gate brother.' Today the employe dresses in the manner of the bank presi dent. Our serviceable, stylish suits have that president-of-the-com-pany look stitched into their natty completeness. Let us show you. PHEGLEY & CAVENDER Corner Fourth and Alder Sts. giiimnn '-, it's Straw Hat 1 Weather H for Fair Es Get a good season's ss wear out of your new one. Buy it EE now. Splendid showing; of H MEN'S STRAWS r in large variety of E price and style. EH Split and Sennett Straws $3, $4 and $5 Panamas S $5 to $12 EE Bankoks, Leghorns and Milans . $5, $6 to $7.50 iiiuiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiius The Aristocratic Duplex Knox with felt brim " and straw crown, $10. Featuring This Week Our $25 Benjamin Suits Spring and Summer weights and patterns in the highest pitch of fashion. Buf f um & Pendleton Morrison Street Opposite Postoffice ainiuiiiiiiiiiimHi iniiiuiiiiiiniinnxi iiniiiniiiiiiiiniiiu ixiiiiiiiiiuiiiaiiiiin 02 sticks, pick handles and salt, had a hand-to-hand fight with the police when the latter sltempted to disperse them after a demonstration at the town hall. One arrest whs made. The Announcement of Our Closing -Out has met with extraordinary response from the buying public The large announcement In yesterday's Ore gonian was so filled with genuine bargains in Hardware, Tools, Cutlery, Sporting Goods, Garden Tools, Ktc, Etc. that crowds of keen buyers thronged our store. Watch for the lists of a Thousand Bargains. The Prices Will Bring You Here. As Btock may be sold in bulk at any time we advise quick action. 20 70 Third St., Worcester Building 2i Blocks North of Washington St, Near Oak. 75 To San Francisco and Back Sale dates, May 6 to 11 inclusive. Final return limit 15 days. $Ay.5Q To Los Angeles and Back Sale dates May 13 to 18 and from May 20 to 25 , Return limit 30 days. New Fast Train "The Exposition Special" Beginning Sunday, May 16. One Night to San Francisco No Extra Fare Summer Round -Trip Fares East May 15 to September 20. Permit stop-overs either direction. Visit the California Ex positions on the way. Call at City Ticket Office, 80 Sixth Street, Corner Oak, Union Depot or East Morrison Street for full information, tickets, reser vations and literature on the Expositions. Southern Pacific John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent