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VOL,. L.V. NO. 17,030. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY. Jl'XE 24, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 81,500,000 DAMAGE IS DONE BY QUAKES Tremors Continue With Decreasing Force. IRRIGATION SYSTEM IS SAFE Important Imperial Valley Unit, However, Shaken. EIGHT PERSONS KILLED Kevelry or Border Town Rudely In terrupted by Falling of Adobe Walls, "Wliich Crush Dan cers Under Them. ' EL. CENTRO. Cal.. Juno 23. Two more slight shocks were felt here to night, but' no further damage resulted. It is estimated here that the total dam age in the Imperial Valley will reach $1,500,000. A revised list of the dead at Mexicali, across the border line, where the only fatalities occurred, brings the number up to eight. Four Americans and four Mexicans were killed. The injured number a score. The identified dead are Joseph Bach. 45 years old, a butcher of Celexico; James Penzil, 82, gambler, and Frank W. Smith. Bert Arbuckle, of Los An geles, is said to be the other American killed, although the body had not been positively identified late tonight. Town Under Martial Uw. The bodies of the four Mexicans were crushed beyond recognition. The last one was removed tonight from the ruins of the Buckhorn Gambling HalL Rescuers believe this to be the body of a man they heard groaning in the ruins last night, but were unable to locate because of the darkness. Martial law prevails tonight In Cal exico, Heber, Mexicali and this city. Except for lamp and Candle light this city Is dark. Arc lights illuminate the streets of Calexico, but all houses and business blocks are dark. Heber is also in darkness, and the water supply has been shut off. - ...... - Thousands Sleep In Open. Several fires -which broke out late today And tonight caused considerable excitement, but no serious damage re sulted. A special ordinance ordered all the people off the streets at 9 o'clock tonight. Thousands are sleeping in the open, fearing further shocks. Sheriff Meadows removed the pris oners from the county jail to a. gal vanized iron houee. The principal losses in this city are: Delta Mercantile Company's building, destroyed by fire, $150,000; Newmark Grain Company warehouse, $25,000; Ma sonic Temple. $15,000; Dunaway build ing, $40,000; Barbara Worth Hotel, $25. 000: Baldridge Pharmacy, destroyed, $10,000; Globe Milling Company, $10, 000; El Centro Hotel, total loss, $50, 000; grammar school, total wreck. $30, 000. The walls of the depot were badly cracked and both the ice and power plants were damaged. Calexico Hotels Damaged. At Calexico the walls of the Calexico Hotel were cracked and the damage placed at $45,000; Planters' hotel walls damaged. $10,000; Virginia, rear wall fell. $5000; one building under con struction which will have to be razed. $35,000. Ko damage was done to the irriga tion system of the valley, except at the Alamo waste gate. This was com paratively slight. The damage at Imperial, Holtville, Niland and Brawley was slight. A list of the injured in Mexicali fol lows: Margaret Kelly. 17; Marion "Wil son, IS; John Hazley, 35; William Nichol, 30; Juan Jiminez, 38. At Heber Perle Emery. At El Centro Richard McGregor, Charles A. Davis and Mrs. May Smith. An area extending roughly from the shoulder of the Cocopah Mountains of Lower California to San Bernardino and Needles, CaL, on the north, Yuma, Ariz., on the east and San Diego on the west was shakerv The tremors continued intermittently today, decreasing steadily In strength and doing only negligible damage. Frontier Revelry Halted. The zone in which the temblors were felt most centered about Calexico and Mexicali. the Mexican town opposite, in Lower California, where the free rev elry of a frontier collection of saloons and dance halls halted when the first shock put out the lights and where all the fatalities occurred. The men and women killed were crushed beneath the adobe walls of a dance hall as the visitors fled panic stricken to the street. to tar as can be ascertained, the Alamo wasteway, connected with bharp's Heading, a controlling unit in the $5,000,000 Imperial Valley irriga tlon system, was severely damaged. The heading itself and other important units in the system withstood the shocks, although fissures opened in the ground around them. Water System Still Safe. Unless further quakes render one of the headings useless there will be no lack of water, it is said, for the 400,- 000 acres under cultivation are depend ent entirely on the vast network of canals and laterals. The water may be shut off at Han Ion's Heading, near where the Colorado River enters the Irrigation system, Concluded on Page Column 3.) GERMAN SPY SHOT IN LONDON TOWER BRITISH EXECUTE ONE OF TRIO AFTElt TRIAL. F. Robert Muller Faces Firing Squad as Did Loci J Companion to Hare Court-Martlal. LONDON. June 23. F. Robert Muller, who on June 4 was found guilty at the Old Bailey police court of being a. Ger man spy, was executed In the Tower of London today by shooting. Another alleged German spy, Robert Rosenthal, who is said by the police to have confessed that he was sent to England by the German Admiralty to obtain information on naval matters, is to be court-martialed. The official announcement concern ing Muller and Rosenthal was extreme ly brief, saying merely that Muller had been put to death in the tower and that the "summary of the evidence in the case of the alleged spy Rosenthal was taken to the "Wellington barracks to day. He will be tried by court-mar-tiaL" It is presumed that Muller faced a firing squad in the yard of the Tower of London at dawn, as did Carl Hans Lody, who was executed last Novem ber, after he had been convicted of spying. F. Robert Muller was arrested some time ago, together with Anton Kuep ferle and another man named Hahn. All three were accused of sending military information to Germany by means of invisible ink. Both Muller and. Hahn were convicted and Muller was sen tenced to death, while Hahn was sen tenced to seven years" penal servitude. Kuepferle committed suicide while his trial was in progress. GRAIN CROP IS RETARDED Unfavorable "Weather Diminishes Prospect of Breaking Record. WASHINGTON, June 23. The pros pective record-breaking crop had some what unfavorable weather during the week just ended, the National Weather and Crop Bulletin announced today. Continued rainy weather in the cen tral and northward portions of the principal Winter wheat belt, caused too rank growth and lodging in some dis tricts and heavy local damage occurred from hail, wind and floods in portions of Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. Spring wheat was somewhat re tarded by cool weather, but it probably proved beneficial In developing satis factory rooting. Rainfall in the Spring wheat belt was sufficient for the pres ent needs and the outlook looks prom ising in all districts. In the com -gro wlii g states the weath er was generally unfavorable. NEW JJTNEY RULE PASSED Cars Charging More Than Five Cents Must Post Rate. Jitneys charging more than a 5-cent fare are to be required to post a sched ule of rates on the windshield of the cars. The City Council passed an or dinance to this effect yesterday for the purpose of curbing the owl Jitneys from charging rates as they please and to enable the Jitney bus operating be tween Portland and Linnton to charge a 10-cent fare. Complaint was made that the Linnton Jitney would have to go out of busi ness after July 8 If the city enforced the 5-cent fare when Linnton becomes a part of the city. The measure was passed with an emergency clause. " RAID DECLARED EFFECTIVE German Report Says Airmen Hit Big British Arsenal. BERLIN, June 28, by wireless to Say ville, N. Y. The Overseas News agency today said: "A message from Christiania says the steamship Iotum, which has arrived at Stavangar, reports that several Zeppe lins on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday (probably June 15 - 16) dropped many bombs on the Armstrong works at South Shields. England, which destroyed the navy-yards and arsenal. "Several buildings burned all night. The damage was enormous. Seventeen persons were killed and 40 injured." PHONE SUPPLANTING KEY Railroad Men Say Operation of Lines Is "Undergoing Change. ROCHESTER, N. Y June 23. That the telephone is rapidly supplanting the telegraph in the operation of railroads was asserted at today's session of the Association of Railway Telegraph Su perintendents. It was estimated by Barney A. Kaiser, of the American Tele phone & Telegraph Company, that of the 252,000 miles of railroads in the United States, 100,000 are operated by telephone. Direct telephone connection with San Francisco was demonstrated tonight by the American Telephone Company. ALASKAN WORK PROCEEDS Streets of Government Railway Town Are Ordered Cleared. SEWARD, Alaska, June 23. Secre tary of the Interior Lane has Instruct ed the Alaska Engineering Commission to clear the streets in the townsite of Anchorage. Other townsite surveys have been authorized, but no further names or locations have been an nounced. The Government railway, along the line of the Alaska Northern, is now open to Mile Frfty. A telephone line has been completed to within 40 miles of Anchorage. FOE FLEES IN PANIC; LEMBERG iS JOYFUL Austrians Cheered by Rescued Populace. CITY IS CAPTURED BY STORM Berlin and Vienna Celebrate in Highest Glee. RUSSIAN RETREAT SPREADS Austro-Germans Regard Czar as Thoroughly Beaten and Final Victory Assured Petrograd Is Still Optimistic. LONDON, June 23. "Amid demon tratlons of Joy by -the populace. Gen eral von Boehm Ermolli entered 'Lem berg at 4 o'clock in the afternoon with the troops of the second army," says the official Austrian communication regarding the recapture of the Galician capital. The news of the fall of Lemberg pro duced an outburst of wild joy through out Austria and Germany, says a dis patch from Amsterdam to the Exchange Telegraph Company. Berlin and Vienna are flag bedecked. A holiday will be given the school children of. Germany and Austria tomorrow. Russians Reported in Panic. On the other had, the Russian army is in retreat of the most disorderly character and in panic, in fact, accord ing to news dispatches sent to Berlin by correspondents in the Galician field. Emperor William of Germany and Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria Hungary exchanged long telegrams of felicitation. The Sultan of Turkey telegraphed at length, both to Berlin and Vienna. Emperor Nicholas left for the front today, according to Reuter's Petrograd correspondent. ' Landwfhr Storms Works. The Vienna War Office describes the actions leading up to the fall of Lem berg, and other engagements! as fol lows: "The northwest and west fronts of Lemberg, on the line of Zolkiew to Mikolaiow, were strongly occupied by Russian defensive forces. Tuesday at 5 o'clock In the forenoon the Vienna landwehr stormed the Rzezna works on the road from Janow to Lemberg. "From the northwest, at the same time, our troops advanced across the heights east of the Mlynewka Rivulet and stormed several bulwarks before Lysa Gora Height. Heavy Losses Suffered. "During the forenoon, while advanc ing further in the direction of tht town, the remaining works northwest and west of the fronts were capture, after sanguinary fighting. In this fighting the Russian front again was brokenr and the enemy, who suffered (Concluded on Page 3. Column 2.) T . . . ...... ................... ........... .......................... .........ee.. WHERE HE HAS ALWAYS STOOD. t INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather, YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 70.2 degrees; minimum, 54.6 degrees. TODAY'S Increasing cloudiness, probably followed by showers; southerly winds. War. Russians reported in panic after fall of Lemberg. Paga 1. British shoot Gcnnaa spy in Tower of Lon don. Page X. Lloyd George gives British labor leaders seven days to produce munition workers; compulsion to follow their failure to do so. Page 3. Mexico. Carranza. refuses to treat with adversaries; says he will crush them; Wilson sees little hope of settlement. Page 4. Brother of General Zapata defies Americans to Intervene in Mexico. Paso S. National. Robert Lanslns named Secretary of State to succeejl Bryan. Page 2. Wilson leaves for vacation. Page 2. Domestic Damage -by Southern California earthquake will reach Sl.500,000. Page 1. Physician says Americans live 12 years longer than they did in 1880. Page 3. Mrs. Eccles admits she disobeyed Mormon Church mandate against polygamy. Page 1L Sport. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 8-1. San Francisco 5-0; Oakland 11. Salt Lake 7; Los Angeles 2, Venice 3. Page 14. Russell Smith loses to Jack Neville at Ta- coma golf tourney but only by hardest kind of luck. Page 14. New York Yanks defeat Athletics in double header. Page 14. Independence race meet opens. Page 15. Pacific Northwest. Congressional committee admits Oregon's need of reclamation aid. Page 1. -Spanish War Veterans nominate at Cen- tralia. Page 4. Friends of man defeated by popular vote for Silverton postmastership keep up fight. Page 1. Silverton citizens refuse to abide result of election for postmaster. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Oregon hop market turns strongly upward. Page 15. Export buying lifts wheat prices at Chicago. Page la. Coalers are firm feature of Wall-street mar ket. Pag 15. Plans for dredging North Portland harbor to be discussed. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. Krasner Jury reaches verdict which is to be presented scaled today. Pa;e 10. Associated Charities needs volunteer work ers to handle clothing distribution. Page 9. Portland today to have demonstrations of loyalty to President in crisis. Pago 8. Comparatively few Indian war veterans answer roll call. Page 4. Lincoln High School graduates 100 students. Page 5. Carl shoemaker, of Roseburg. likely to be appointed State Game Warden. Page 5. Registry of pioneers for "reunion reaches 877. Pare 4. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 11. REVENUE BELOW ESTIMATE Receipts Kroin Customs Since June 30 Are $204,000,000. WASHINGTON, June 23. Customs officials declared tonight that the rev enues from customs now in hand for the fiscal year which ends June 30 amount to more than 1204.000.000 and there is a prospect for the year that they will be close to $210,000,000. This would be $30,000,000 below the estimates made by Secretary McAdoo last Fall and less by more than $80. 000,000 than the receipts last year be fore the European war interfered with imports. ATTACK ON PRISON FEARED Guards Where Leo lYank Is Con . fined Are Increased. MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., June 23. Rumors of a possible attack on the Georgia prison farm here, where Leo M. Frank ie confined, caused the man agement today to increase the number of guards on both day and night duty. An extra supply of ammunition was received. CARRANZA REFUSES EVERY COMPROMISE Effort to Crush Adver- - saries to Continue. REPORT LAIO BEFORE WILSON President Now Sees Little Hope of Settlement. FOOD SITUATION ACUTE Ked Cross Funds Exhausted. While Even in Vera Cruz Women Are Begging Sudden Exhaus tion of Corn Is Feared. WASHINGTON, June 23. General Carranza has informed the United States government that under no cir cumstances will he treat with General Villa, that he will not compromise with his opponents, and that be will con tinue his plan to crush his adversaries by military campaign. President Wilson had before him to day a. long report on General Carranza's views as given In informal conversation with an American consular officer at Vera Cruz. He found in It little hope for an accommodation of differences as between the Mexican factions. Opponents Called Reactionaries. General Carranza gave the same argument for refusing to enter into peace negotiations with General Villa as he had made on previous occasions recently, reiterating that his was not a campaign for the elevation of per sonalities, but for principles of the revolution; that his opponents were "reactionaries and desirous only of sat isfying personal ambitions." Outlining his plans for the future Carranza said that he soon would dom inate the situation and would grant amnesty to all who were not guilty of crimes. General Villa and his asso ciates', however, according to General Carranza, must either leave the country or be tried by a military -court. vWashlnsTton rNot Surprised. General Carranza's views did not sur prise officials here, as he has consis tently ignored all offers of peace made by the ViUa-Zapata faction as well as suggestions of foreign mediation In do mestic affairs. No advices have been received of ficlally as to the outcome of the re ported differences between General Carranza and General Obregon. En rique C. Llorente, Washington repre sentative of the Villa-Zapata govern ments, today gave out two messages re ceived here by Manuel Bonilla. ex-Cabinet Minister under Madero. one from General Villa and another from General Angeles, denying that any friction ex lsted. Red Cross Funds Exhausted. All Red Cross funds available for famine relief in Mexico have been ex 4 Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) P0ST0FFICE VOTE BRINGS DISCORD PROTESTS ARE MADE DESPITE ELECTION AT SILVERTOX. Opponents of Defeated Candidate Determine Not to Abide Result of Poll, Asked by Senators. SILVERFTON. Or.. June 23. (Spe cial.) An election was held here yes terday to select a candidate for recom mendation for appointment as postmas ter of Silverton, but notwithstanding more than two-thirds of the registered vote of the city was cast, reports say opponents of the favored candidate are determined not to abide by the result. John H. Brooks, druggist, carried the election. He received 386 votes, as against 169 cast for his opponent, George Cusiter, a merchant. Reports today were that protests were in circu lation for signatures urging that the successful candidate be not appointed. The contest from the start has been exciting. Senator Chamberlain favored Mr. Brooks and Senator La tie favored Mr. Cusiter. It was impossible for the Senators to agree, and finally it was suggested that the decision be left to the residents of the city. The election originally was scheduled for Monday, one week ago, but at the suggestion of Mr. Cusiter was postponed one week. Mr. Brooks and Mr. Cusiter both are prominent Democrats. VAN VALKENBURG IS FREED Ex-Idaho Insurance Commissioner Acquitted of Embezzlement. BOISE, Idaho, June 27. After being out nearly 30 hours, the Jury in the case of E. F. Van Valkenburg, ex-State Insurance Commissioner, charged with embezzling $559 of state funds, tonight b."jught in a verdict of not guilty. The trial had occupied several days. Wednesdays War Moves THE Russians have lost Lemberg. They occupied the Galician capita early In September and held it contin uously until Tuesday, when the com bined Austro-German forces compelled them to retreat from the city, which is only 60-odd miles due west from the nearest point of the Russian frontier. Whether the iall of Lemberg means that the Russian army operating south of it in Southeast Galicia is effectively cut off from the army to the north stretching across Poland to the Baltic cannot yet be said. The. newspapers of both 'Vienna and Berlin say this Is the case and that the Russian arms received a blow from which they can not recover. If the stroke proves as crushing as the Teutons predict, its effect, military observers In London say. soon should be felt in the transfer of vast German forces to the west, where for days they have been hard pressed by the French. Petrograd was slow to admit the fall of Lemberg. Dispatches from the Rus sian capital, however, related details of what purported to be the systematic withdrawal of the Russians from the town, and if these details prove cor rect, it is believed that when the count Is taken of the Austro-German booty it will not be large, for, as was the case at Przemysl, the Russians are said to have worked hard to move everything of military value. Telegrams received from Vienna con cerning the capture of Lemberg and recounting the celebration of the pop ulace in Vienna over the victory, add that the Austrian correspondents with the Teutonic armies pay tribute to the magnificent rear-guard, action fought by the Russians, who are declared to have retreated eastward in good order, leaving behind few prisoners and even removing the Russian documents from the city, which since the Russians occu pied it has been called by them Lvow. One telegram from Vienna says Em peror Willis. J and Emperor Francis Joseph purpose to meet soon in the recaptured Galician capital for "fitting ceremonies to mark the end of Rus sian dominance In Galicia." On the river Dniester, south of Lem berg, the battle still Is raging. Heavy fighting on the Gallipoli Pen insula has ended with success for the allies along almost the entire line. After preparation by the allied artil lery, two lines of Turkish positions were taken and held by the allies in spite of numerous fierce counter-at tacks. In this way the allies, the French War Office says, have gained an Important strategic position, which commands the head of the ravine of Kereves Dere. defended with great de termination by the Turks for several months. The plan of the new British Minister of munitions, David Lloyd George, for quickly increasing the output of muni tions of war is embodied in part In a bill Introduced In the House of Com mons. This measure provides for com plete control of the production by the Minister, who has taken the additional step of allowing the trades union lead ers seven days in which to supply enough men to furnish the supplies ab solutely necessary for the success of the British army in the field. The labor leaders have agreed to this and will begin recruiting workmen immediately. They declare they can meet the emer gency. Of the fighting on the Austro-Italian front a General accredited with the Italian War Office summarizes the cam paign during the last month by the statement that the Italians have occu pied Austrian positions along a front of 500 miles and that the Austrian ef forts have been devoted almost exclu sively to the bombardment of Italian towns on the Adriatic. On the other hand, the Austrian War Office says that the Austrian troops maintain the posi tions they have held near the fron tier since the beginning of the war. RECLAMATION HEED ADMITTED FREELY Three More Oregon Projects Inspected. MR. SINNOTT IS ADVOCATE Full Day Put In by Congres sional Committee. LUNCHEON "HOME GROWN" Hermiston, Umatilla and West Uma tilla Work Viewed and Trans formation From Sage Brush to Fertility Demonstrated. BY SHAD O. KRAXTZ. HERMISTON, Or., June 23. (Special.) It Isn't a question, in these arid areas of the West, of whether or not the Fed eral Government shall spend money for irrigation purposes, but of how much 't shall spend. And that is the reason the Congres sional committee on appropriations visited Hermiston, the Umatilla project and the West Umatilla project today to find out how much. "Claims" of Little Weight. The committee soon learned from these courageous, ambitious, deter mined, optimistic pioneers of the Her miston district how much they can spend with profit and benefit to the community, but did not determine how much It is going to spend. Of course that is not the object of this trip to say right on the spot how much each community Is going to get out of the reclamation fund. Ever since the committee entered Oregon it has been bombarded with the fact that Oregon has been one of the greatest contributors to the reclama tion fund, and has taken the least out of it, but apparently those statements are having little impression. "Square leal" Promised.'. - "Oregon Is .going to. get a square deal," declared Representative Hon dell, of Wyoming, speaking for the committee at the Hermiston luncheon today. "And I am convinced that this com mittee is going to give it to us." added Representative Sinnott, of The Dalles, in whose district the Umatilla projects are located. "That's all we ask," said E. P. Dodd, representing the Hermiston waterusers, and the principal speaker of the occa sion. The committee was given every op portunity of learning what the two Umatilla projects consist of and what is needed to make them more useful. Hermiston Folk Busy. The people of Hermiston were on the Job with the rising sun this morning, getting their automobiles ready for tho trip over the Irrigated acres and pre paring for the big community luncheon at noon on the spacious lawn of Colo nel H. G. Newport. By the time the committee members finished their breakfast the Hermiston folks had the machines waiting for them. They lost no time getting over the territory. The entire party pro ceeded first under guidance of H. D. Newell, project engineer, to the new diversion dam of the West Umatilla project. Just completed. The dam is 800 feet long and has a maximum height of 24 feet. It Is curved into the shape of a graceful horseshoe. It Is In tended eventually to water 30,000 acres of desert land. The people are asking that this project be financed by con tinuing appropriations. Secretary Lane Lauded. The reservoir back of the new dam has been christened Lake Lane, in honor of Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, who is hailed as the savior of the Umatilla Irrigation project. All Secretaries preceding him Garfield, Hitchcock, Ballinger and Fisher the whole bunch together, didn't do as much to make life for the settler en durable as Mr. Lane has done In the two years and a little more since he has been in office, declared Mr. Dodd in his address. 1 After leaving the new dam the party passed through some of the cultivated land under the original Umatilla ditch. Much of this is devoted, to orchards, but field after field of alfalfa was ripening in the bright sunlight. At some places farmers were cutting their second alfalfa crop and stacking it. On the way to the Cold Springs reservoir, which supplies the water for the Umatilla acres, the committee saw the experimental station conducted under the joint auspices of the State of Oregon and the Federal Government. The tract of T. W. Botkins was pointed out as an example of success ful farming in what formerly was a desert tract. Model Fnrm Visited. After leaving the reservoir the party proceeded to the William Leather place. This not only is a first-class farm, highly cultivated, but has all the at tractions and comforts of a modern city home. No lawn In Portland can boast of any prettier roses. His large dairy barn caught the eye of alL Adjacent to the Leather farm is the "A-C drop." through which the water supplying approximately 8000 acres of the project is dropped 55 feet. The people here have ambitions to utilize this waterfall for power development purposes, and lmpress-d this fact upon Concluded on Page 2, Column. A.).