THE MORNING OREGOMAX. TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1913. FALL OF II fii BERG IS EXPECTED S Austro-German Columns Are Only Few Miles From Capital of Galicia. ADVANCE IS PROGRESSING 1 IMore Than .33,000 Russians Cap- ; tured During Battles Near Prz- f cmjsl, Says Official Announce- :' ment from Gcrmanj. ; LONDON, June 7. Telegrams from !" Vienna say that Lemberg, capital of ; the Austrian crown land of Galicia, '. now in the hands of the Russians, may Te taken at any moment by the Austro German forces, according: to a dispatch from Copenhagen to the Exchange ', Telegraph Company. : One message from the Austrian capl ' tal says that the Austrians are 25 miles -L from the town, and other advices esti ' mate the distance at only 10 miles, v The official Vienna communication -. says: "The attacks of the central Austro- German forces are making considerable progress north of Mosciska (Galicia). Cieneral Linsingen's army, after storm t ing a bridge head at Zurawna, gained ; r firm footing on the northern bank f the Dniester." The announcement of the German war office follows: 'l ''During the battles at Przemysl 33, 5' S05 prisoners' were taken. "East of Przemysl the troops of the J? Teutonic allies continued their vic v torious battle. They drove back the J enemy towards Wysznia to the north .. east of Mosciska. Part of the army under General Von Llnsingen has crossed the Dniester at Zurawna and r has taken the hill on the north bank I by storm. Farther BOuth, the pursuit l eached the Nowlca-Kausa-Tomaszowce line. i "North of Kurschany our cavalry i. forced a passage across the Windau end advanced In a southeasterly di i rection. Southeast of Kurtwiany and in ' the region east of Rawdynlkl our of j fensive made good progress, and an ad J ditional.3400 prisoners and ten machine - guns fell into our hands. South of the Niemen, the bank of the river has been cleared' of all enemies as far as the j lines from Tolausie to Sapiezyszkl." I RCSSI.VSS WEAKEN" IX XORTH ; Jiost of Troops in Baltic Provinces i Are Aged Reservists. ; BERLIN, via London, June 7. As a T result of what is described in military i circles here as almost complete ex- haustion, the Russian offensive in Cour t land is declared to have shifted to a i weak defensive, against which the 4 Germans daily are making headway ; which is only overshadowed by their " gains in Galicia. The Russian troops in this section, it Is said, are mostly old reservists, who are aided by laborers who have been t nurriedly armed. The German advance ; northeast and south of Shavli was checked with difficulty by the Russians, ; who barely succeeded In bringing up their 19th corps to Mitau. . Directly before Libau the Russians are declared to have withdrawn their lines about 60 kilometers (about 40 miles). Their activity is limited to -. shelling the intervening villages. In order to make the German advance f more difficult. Officers say the weak- ness of the Russians is noticeable all j along the line, but nowhere more so- than near Mitau. It is asserted that the Russian of ; fensive movement near the Dubyssa " and Shavli were only weak and tem ; porary and were accompanied by great losses. An illustration of what Is de-rt- clared to be the general attitude of the ; Russians was given by an officer thus: ; "Recently several hundred prisoners ; were being escorted from Mitau to Til ; sit by a dozen German landwehr troops ; when a strong Russian cavalry patro. ; appeared. The Germans abandoned ; their prisoners to tight off the Rus ; sians. The engagement lasted an hour ; and drew the Germans several kilo- 5 meters away. ; "When they returned after defeating ; the Russians, expecting to And their V prisoners gone, they were amazed to : discover the prisoners seated in a ditch j; anxiously awaiting them and faarful lest the Russians should be victorious and they would have to go back into '- the service." ; .The situation at Libau is said to be Improving daily. The factories are re-t- opening and the population Is return- ing to work, no longer fearful of the J Germans. 1 KEEFE'S WQUND FATAL YOL.NG MAS SHOT AT VXIOX JUNC TION BY SHERIFF SUCCUMBS. Relatives and Fiancee at Bedside as ? Life Ebbs Away Prosecution of y . Officer Not Contemplated. LA GRANDE, Or.. June 7. (Special.) Death tonight claimed the life of John Keefe. aged 30, of Moscow, Idaho, because of a prank. His parents, wealthy and willing to aid him in every way, and hia pockets well fllled with money, Keefe stole a ride on a passen ger train bound for Baker, to see his sweetheart Friday. He was put ofT the train and a bundle of blankets he car ried incited suspicion of the Sheriff, who stood nearby. When asked to ex plain he bolted and ran, and was shot through the lung. Since that night his death has been but a matter of hours. It is expected local Elks will have some service before the body is shipped to Moscow for burial. .Although relatives refrain from ex pressing their personal viewpoint for publication, it is understood on good authority that they do not contemplate prosecuting Sheriff Hug. It is under stood that they entertain no bitterness toward the Sherin. C. W. Keefe, a Great Northern conductor out of Spo kane, was the last brother to arrive, and the two brothers, father, mother and sweetheart waited at the bedside for the end to come, which all knew was certain. PR1SOX FXIKTATIOX JlECALI.ED Correspondence Maintained With Girl Inmate During Jail Term. k John Keefe, the young man tsliot by mistake by Sheriff Hug at Union June. X tion. Or., Friday night and reported to i. be dying, has been followed by a curi- i ous fatality since his arrest by Federal f authorities last Winter on a. charge or i using the mails to defraud. ; Hid offense was not a vicious one. t the amounts he obtained through his alleged fraudulent scheme being small ""- ones,- and Assistant United States At- 0 torney Johnson, who prosacuted him, joined with others in asking Judge Bean to exercise leniency. Judge Bean sentenced Keefe to only 60 days in the County Jail in Portland. A physician's statement that he had contracted tu berculosis was another mitigating fac tor In his case. While he was in jail Keefe became involved In a. harmless but spectacular looking-glass flirtation with a. woman prisoner on the floor above him. He wrote notes which he hoisted on a string to the cell window above and lowered the return notes In the same way. This continued for several days before it was discovered and Keefe was put in solitary confinement. After his release Keefe remained In Portland for some time, but finally de cided to go to Baker, Or., where he has friends. Having no money he beat his way as far as Union1 Junction, whers he was put off the train. Sheriff Hug happened to be waiting by the track on the lookout for a cou ple of "yeggs." He challenged Keefe, who tossed his blanket roll at the Sheriff and ran. The Sheriff fired. Keefe fell, dangerously hit. United States officials and others who had to do with Keefe here all say there was nothing vicious about him. land that his troubles were more the resultof reckless judgment than of de liberate lawlessness. NOTED ARTIST IS DEAD WILLIAM S. PARROTT SUCCUMBS NEAR GOLDEKDALE. Entlre Life of Pioneer ot Klickitat Valley Spent In Painting Pictures of Scenery of Northwest. GOLDENDALE. Wash., June 7. (Special.) William Samuel Parrott, an early settler of the Klickitat Valley and an artist of world-wide fame, died at the Golden homestead, near Golden dale, today after a brief illness. He was born in Missouri in 1844 and came to Oregon with his father. Lewis S. Par rott, in 1847. In 1859 Lewis S. Parrott and hia son-in-law, John J. Golden, founder of Goldendale, came to the Klickitat Valley. William 8. Parrott, wllen a boy, dis played natural talent for painting out door scenery and spent his entire life reproducing the snow-capped mountain peaks, waterfalls and other landscapes of the Pacifio Coast States. He opened a studio in Portland in 1867, where he resided for 20 years. A painting that he made of the Massacre of the Lava Beds during the Modoc Indian war in 1874 brought him into prominence in Portland. One picture that he painted of Mount Hood sold for $10,000 in New York. Other of his paintings are to be found in the leading art galleries of Paris and London. In 1887 he closed his studio in Portland. Just a few days before his death he completed a large painting of Mount Shasta. The following brothers and sisters survive: Mrs. Jane G. Golden, Golden dale. Wash.; Mrs. Ben E. Snipes, Se attle; Mrs. Elizabeth Pond. Seattle; El gin Parrott, Seattle; John F. Parrott, Portland, and E. D. Parrott, Seattle. ATTACK NOT REPORTED GERMAN ADMIRALTY TRYING TO FIX NEBRASKAN CASE. Official Report Says Several Sub marine Were In Vicinity, but None Reports Amy Activity. . WASHINGTON, June 7. Ambassador Gerard reported today ihat the German Admiralty as yet had no report on the torpedoing of the American steamer Nebraskan, but was conducting an in vestigation. Ambassador Gerard's . message was an answer to the State Department in quiry whether any report had been re ceived from German sources. Mean while the department await also a full report of the inquiry by American naval attaches sent to Liverpool from London. BERLIN," via London. June 7. No report has been -received from the sub marine flotilla covering the torpedoing recently off the coast of Ireland of the American steamer Nebraskan. It is believed that all the submarines which were out at the time already have returned to their base. Several underwater boats were In the general vicinity where the explosion damaged the Nebraskan. but none of them has reported any attack having been made on a steamer in the place cr at the time when the Nebraskan was damaged. GRIEF LEADS TO SUICIDE Body of Dead Soldier's Brother Is Found at Neighbor's Home. VANCOUVER, Wash.. June 7. (Spe cial.) Grieving over the death of a brother in the Russian army, John O.. Alpenheimer, a Russian Pole, natural ized, committed suicide at a. neighbor's home on Elk Horn Mountain, near Dole. He hung himself. The body was found yesterday, though indications are that lie had been dead probably since about May 26. Edward Kaholospi, the' neighbor, had been at Roseburg and during his ab sence Alpenheimer was supposed to be working for him. Returning May .30, Kaholospi was surprised to learn of his friend's disappearance. In a few days the odor from the body led to the search. COLONY WINS LAND SUIT Contract for Purchase of $60,000 Tract Xear Peoria Set Aside. ALBANY, Or., June 7. (Special.) The colony of Russian Donkhobors to day won the case it instituted against B. J. Hecker to rescind the contract whereby it purchased for $60,000 the tract of loOO acres which it occupies near Peoria. The decision was handed down by Judge Galloway, who took the case under advisement when It was tried the last week in April. The case will be appealed to the State Supreme Court. AVIATOR WRECKS ZEPPELIN Con tinned From K!rt Pje. Warneford's bombs were immediately effective. "Unhappily the airship crashed down on the Grand Begulnage de Salnte Elisabeth; one of the best known con vents in Belgium, which is situated in the suburbs of St. Amand. "The burning mass fired the build ings, which were filled with nuns and Belgian women and children refugees. Terrible scenes followed. A man, bent on rescue, leaped from a window with a child in his arms and both were killed. "The Zeppelin was one of .the largest yet seen in Belgium. It was-returning from a scouting expedition . along the Belgian coast." Use Santiseptic After Shaving. tSootfainr, cooilng, refreshing. Leaves soft, vel vety finish. Inutaotlr relieves aod prevents irrl- lauon. i-revni jniccrion. You u like Its clonic, ocaim j oaur. doc. 'All druggists. NOTE DELAY DOE TO CAREFUL WORDING American People Will Be Sat isfied With Reply to Ger many, Say Officials. ISSUE IS SQUARELY PUT President's Desire Is to Present Document Which Cannot Be Im peached by Any I-ix J?V-r t in International Law. WASHINGTON, June 7. President Wilson let it be known today that the note which the United States is to send to Germany with respect to submarine warfare had been prepared with the ut most expedition and had not been sub jected to an hour's unnecessary delay since it was first drafted. The President's desire to have the document convey explicitly the position of the United States Government so that it cannot be misunderstood abroad or invite protracted discussion on the fundamental Issues involved is 'chiefly responsible for the fact that the note has not yet gone forward. Legal officers of the Government ex amined the note with minute care to day and sent it back to the President with some changes. It may reauire further consideration by the President and his Cabinet tomorrow, and high officials did not know tonight just wnen it would be cabled. On the high est authority, however, it was said that as soon as the. President regarded rne communication as satisfactory in phraseology it would be transmitted to Ambassador Gerard. Unimpeachable Note Is Desire. Questions of such serious moment are involved in the wording of the new note that the President is anxious that the communication not onlv shall meet his own wishes, but should be unim peachable from the point of view of the experts in international law. While the President has been at work on the document, special agents of the United States Government have by their investigation corroborated in every de tail the statement made in the first American note that the Lusltania was unarmed. At the same time Myer Ger hard, personal ' envoy of Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, has been voyaging nearer to Germany, carrying important messages from the German embassy concerning the Ameri can point of- view on submarine war fare. The latter circumstance, how ever, was declared in high official quar ters to have been merely a coincidence and in no way to have Influenced the progress of the note. Hope ot Adjustment Held. To what extent the German view point here regarding the situation be tween the United States and Germany 13 the same as that held at Berlin Is not clear as yet. But certainly the general view in German quarters at the capital is that the recent trend of events gives hopes of a friendly adjustment. This is based not alone on the probable course of the German side of the negotiations, but also on the Americah course, which is regarded as developing along lines which will permit of a satisfactory conclusion. The most promising formula for a solution, according to the German viewpoint, is one which would combine an agreement on the status of the Lusitania as an armed or unarmed ship, and also a general agreement guaranteeing immunity from attack hereafter to all unarmed ships carry ing passengers. As to the Lusltania, the German po sition thus far has been that she was an a(med ship, according to the in formation in her possession, but when the United States Government declares definitely that its official information shows the ship was unarmed, then it is suggested the Berlin authorities will be in a position to accept this positive assurance from a friendly gov ernment, notwithstanding any report to the contrary. Peace Is Possible Resnlt. The recent Von Jagow note, it is pointed out, was predicated on the view that the Lusltania was an armed ship, but did not assert the principle that unarmed passenger ships would be similarly Bunk. It is maintained therefore that the principle of im munity to unarmed passenger ships is one which could be accepted by Ger many as consistent with her attitude up to this time and would give the largest measure of protection to Amer icans in the future. Such an agreement on the status of the Lusitania and the principle to govern unarmed passenger ships, it Is generally admitted, would pave tne way for a much wider adjustment of all the various . conflicts which have arisen over American ships and the safety of the seas,' and the hope is expressed that this larger adjustment might even in turn lead to the supreme question of bringing the warring na tions to peace. Isaac Is Pat Squarely. Officials familiar with the situation dissipated the notion that any influ ences had arisen to delay the sending of the communication. One of the President's closest advisers declared that there had been no intentional de lay, but that the note had required much scrutiny and careful considera tion. When the document finally is made public, these officials said, it would not only satisfy American publlo opin ion, but wouid place squarely before Germany the issue as to whether the imperial government intends to adhere to the hitherto accepted principles of International law on maritime warfare. The President has been olepleased by the numerous detailed accounts of what the note would contain when he himself had not yet settled finally on Its contents. . He is anxious that mis conceptions of the position of the United States shall not be cabled P0SLAW1 FAMED FOR ITS POWER OVER ECZEMA Every Eczema sufferer should know just now greatly poslam is able to benefit tnis persistently stubborn trou ble; how. quickly it brings relief, stops itching; cools, soothes and comforts. To spread Poslam over an angry, af fected surface is to feel that here. In reality, is the precise healinar influence the skin demands. 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Harms Says Keig-bbor Accused Him of Committing Felony. OREGON CITY. Or., June 7. (Spe cial.) "H. D. Harms wantonly poisoned two of my pedigreed Airedale dogs and killed them," J. M. Steward Is alleged to have remarked to persons in the Macksburg district recently. Today Mr. Harms, through Attor neys Brownell & Slevers. filed a suit in the Circuit Court for 15000. To kill a dog is a felony, punishable by a peni tentiary sentence, argues the plaintiff. Therefore, Steward is alleged to have accused him of committing a felony of which, he says, he is Innocent. The suit Is considered unusual by local at torneys. BOGUS PASS PLANT HINTED German Officer Counterfeits Ameri can. Documents, Says Rumor. WASHINGTON, June 7. Ambassador Page has advised the State Department of the circulation in London of 'stories to the effect that Robert Rosenthal. a. German held there as a spy. recently made a confession in which he charged Captain von Prieger, of the German ad miralty office, with having a. complete equipment for issuing fraudulent pass ports. Department officials said today it was presumed the Ambassador was in vestigating and would report later. VISITOR ASKING PEACE (Oir.tinued From First Page.) efforts by neutrals to mediate if begun now would be successful. Germans Not All far War. ' Most significant of the impressions which Mr, Geldemeester brought from Berlin, it was said today, was that a large section of the populace and an important element in the German gov ernment itself were not in sympathy with the extreme militarists and be lieve a discussion of peace terms is not undesirable. Just how far Mr. Geldemeester may have been encouraged in Berlin to pre sent his views to the people in the United States is not definitely known. Jane Addams and others Interested in peace who have recently visited Ber lin have been cordially received by high German officials, and in German quarters here lately there has been constant reference to the likelihood of peace growing out of the present cor respondence concerning neutral rights. In allied quarters here any talk of peace emanating from Germany is looked upon with much scepticism and doubt and the time is regarded as in opportune, with German troops on French, Belgian and Russian soil. 'It is suggested, too, that peace talk might be designed to divert the attention of the Government and people of the Unit ed States from the serious issues in volved in the sinking of the Lusitania. Mr. ' Geldemeester is expected back In .Washington in a few days. He may not desire to see officials, but to In form himself in other ways on the feel ing concerning peace as it would be reflected in the diplomatic and official quarters C the capital of the largest nutral Nation. 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Let us admit that our first and second cam paigns against Germany have been failures, and start a new one." writes Major G. W. Redway, a well-known Rfltish military exoert. to the Daily Mail, urging the seriousness of the war situation and the necessitity of a com plete reconstruction of the British plan of campaign on orwact more intensive basis. Major Redway puts it even stronger. "The contest, if now stopped," he de clares, "would be decided in favor of the Austro-German alliance. German science has beer, opposed by British inertia and science has won." "It is very difficult to be precise in suggestions which may savor of criti cism because this war is not a British war ' primarily, and our gallant ally across the channel must always figure asHhe senior partner in the enterprise. 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