0i r VOL. LV. XO. 17,044. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 10. 1915. pi: in: rivi: cents. PLEDGE GIVEN TO flffllllj SHIPS Germany, However to Con tinue Submarine War. OFFICIAL GUARANTEES ASKED Conditions Made for Travel Under Own Flag or in Vessels of Neutrals. BERLIN FORWARDS REPLY Surprise Felt That Lusitania Sank So Quickly Munition Policy Not Changed. BERLIN, July 9, via London, July 10. Germany's offer, embodied in the reply to the United States note re garding the sinking of the Lusitania and submarine warfare, was delivered to James W. Gerard, the American Ambassador, last night. Its essential features are: First, reiterated assurances that American ships engaged in legitimate trade will not be interfered with nor the lives of Americans upon neutral ships be endangered. American Ships May Pass. Second, that German submarines will be instructed to allow American passenger ships to pass freely and safely, Germany entertaining in re turn confident hope that the Amer ican Government will see that these ships do not carry contraband; such ships to be provided with distinguish . ing marks and thaiir arrival announced a reasonable time in advance. The same privilege is extended to a reasonable number of neutral passen ger ships under the American flag and should the number of ships thus available for passenger service prove inadequate Germany is willing to per mit America to place four hostile pas senger steamers under the American flag to ply between North America and Europe under the same conditions. Text of German Reply. The text of the German note fol lows: "Berlin, July 8. The undersigned has the honor to make the following reply to His Excellency, Ambassador Gerard, to the note of the 10th ultimo in re the impairment of American in terests by the German submarine war: The imperial government learned with satisfaction from the note how earnestly the Government of the United States is concerned in seeing the principles of humanity realized in the present war. Also this appeal finds ready echo in Germany, and the imperial government is quite willing to permit its statements and decisions in the present case to be governed by the principles of human ity, just as it has done always. Early Friendship Recalled. "The imperial government wel comed with gratitude when the Amer ican Government in the note of May 15 itself recalled that Germany had always permitted itself to be gov erned by the principles of progress and humanity in dealing with the law of maritime war. Since the time when Frederick the Great negotiated with John Adams, Benjamin Frank lin and Thomas Jefferson the treaty of friendship and commerce of Sep tember 9, 1783, between Prussia and the Republic of the West, German and American statesmen have in fact always stood together in the struggle for the freedom of the seas and for the protection of peaceable trade. In the international proceedings which since have been conducted for the reg ulation of laws of maritime war, Ger many and America have jointly advo cated progressive principles, espe cially the abolishment of the right of capture at sea and the protection of the interests of neutrals. Declaration of London Indorsed. "Even at the beginning of the pres ent war the German government im mediately declared its willingness to ratify the declaration of London and thereby subject itself in the use of its naval forces to all the restrictions provided therein in favor of neutrals. Germany likewise has been always tenacious of the principle that war should be conducted against the armed and organized forces of. an enemy XOnrludnd on ft a, (Column sVl HUERTA REFUSES TO FURNISH BAIL EX-DICTATOR REMOVED USTJER GUARD TO FOKT BLISS. Demeanor Is Quiet as He Protests He Will ot Waive Rights As sociates Are Out on Bail. EI PASO. Tex.. July 9. General Victoriano Huerta waived, preliminary hearing on charges of conspiracy to violate the United States neutrality laws late today and was held under $15,000 bonds for the Federal grand jury at San Antonio December 20. He declined to furnish bond and was re moved to Fort Bliss, where he will be guarded by Deputy United States Marshals. Immediately Generals Ygnaclo Bravo. Eduardo Caus, Jose Delgado and En rique Corosteita and J. B. Ratner waived preliminary hearing: and all ex cepting: Bravo furnished bond to ap pear with Huerta at San Antonio. General Bravo, who is 82 years old and who has served 60 years in the Mexican army, was released on his personal recognizance. The bonds of the others, which had been fixed aj. $15,000 each,, were reduced. General Caus' bond was fixed at $2500. The others were required to furnish bonds of $5000 each. Huerta explained to J. B. Oliver, United States Commissioner, that he declined to give bond and was willing; to be confined at the fort. He pro tested, however, that he did not wish to waive any of his rights in the case and his attorney explained that by waiving his preliminary hearing he was not prejudicing his case. Huerta's manner in court was quiet, contrasting to his demonstrative ap pearance when committed last week. His six days' close confinement appears not to have affected his health. LONDON'S ASSENT LACKING Washington" Explains Failure of Proposal to Restore German Cable. WASHINGTON; July 9. Germany's proposals of last February for the re opening of her cable communications with the United States Tailed because they were conditioned on the consent of Great Britain and the London For eign Office, which never replied to the negotiations communicated by the United States. State Department officials made this explanation today in the light of a published assertion by Herr von Jagow, the German Foreign Minister, who laid stress on the lack of cable communica tion) as a means of an exchange of views between the American people and the German public during the sub marine warfare controversy. FOOD IS DENIED CIVILIANS Germans Reported to Have Adopted Stern Measures In Belgium. ROTTERDAM, Holland, via London. July 9 It is reported here the German military authorities in several of the Belgian provinces, in an effort to force the civilians to work for the army of occupation, have withheld food supplies sent in by the Commission for the Re lief of Belgium. In Malines the supply of food is said to have been stopped because the mechanics refused to work in their shops. At Courtrai the workers are reported to have been deprived of food because of their refusal to work in barbed-wire factories, while similar action was taken at Roubaix on the refusal of the workers to make sandbags for trenches. LOVE BOWS TO HARD CASH Only 13 of 2 08 Xormal School Garduatcs Arc Wed. MONMOUTH. Or.. July 9. (Special.) "To marry or to teach?" This question has confronted many of the 298 dainty girl graduates from Oregon Normal School since its rein statement in 1911. . Just 13 girls, four-tenths of 1 per cent, bowed to Cupid. The remaining 99.6 per cent decided to teach. None of the 110 girls in the 1915 class became a June or July bride. Higher salaries are said to be the weapon with which the God of Lore has been worsted. Of the total of 326 new alumni, but 28 are men. Four have married. LIFE STARTED HIGH UP Babe Born on Roof of Wells-Fa rgo Building. A 10-pound baby boy was born at noon Wednesday on the roof of the 12 story Wells-Fargo building at Sixth and Oak streets. The proud parents are Mr. and Mrs. C. H. McGirr. who have their home In a neat five-room bungalow on top of the skyscraper in the heart of Port land's business district. Mr. McGirr is superintendent of the building, and his strange dwelling Is fitted with all the conveniences of the modern office build ing and has many of the comforts of the suburban home besides, even to the extent of a small garden. TURKS THREATENING ADEN Arabs Aid Attacking Force British Fall Back. and LONDON. July 9. Turkish forces from Yemen, Southwest Arabia, sup ported by Arabs, are threatening Aden, the British free port, according to an official report issued by the British press bureau tonight. The Turks, with a large number of Arabs and field guns, crossed Aden Hinterland pear Ihej, MINNEHAHA IN PORT AFTER EXPLOSION Gale Besets Liner on Way to Refuge. AMMUNITION CARGO IS SAFE Officers Convinced That Bomb Was Set by Holt. CREW BATTLES WITH FIRE Flames Gain Headway and Pene trate Adjoining Hold, but Are Extinguished After Vessel Reaches Halifax. HALIFAX N. S.. July . A bomb placed aboard the Atlantic transport liner Minnehaha, probably while she lay at her pier In New York, caused the explosion and fire at sea. In the opin ion of the officers of the steamer, which put In here for examination to day with the fire still unextinguished. The explosion occurred In No. 3 hold and was of terrific force, shaking the vessel from stem to stern. Those of the crew who were forward at the time were stunned by the shock and two sailors were hurled into the air. Flames followed, and for two days and nights the crew battled to eave the ship. Deed Attributed Holt. There Is no doubt In the minds of the officers that Erich Muenter. alias Frank Holt, or confederates, were re sponsible for the explosion, which oc curred at 4:15 o'clock on the after noon of Ju'y 7. the date on which Muenter predicted that some vessel, as to the name of which he appeared uncertain, would be destroyed. Muenter's plans were frustrated by the fact that his weapon of destruction was placed in miscellaneous freight forward and was so separated by stout bulkheads from an enormous cargo of ammunition. ' which, with other in flammable munitions of war Intended for the allies, filled the after holds. While the sailors fought the fire Cap tain Claret headed for Halifax and brought the ship safely through a gale and fog to an anchorage here today. By that time the flames had eaten Into No. 4 hold, but later it was announced that they had been extinguished. SntYocatlag Fusses Follow Explosion. The theory of spontaneous combus tion was never entertained, as the ex plosion .was followed by the Issuance from the hatches of suffocating fumes which seriously hampered the crew In their fight, and which the officers be lieve had been let loose by some In fernal Instrument. Thrilling stories were told by the 100 men who made up the crew of the freighter. The first two days out were uneventful. The Minnehaha sailed from New York for England last Sunday night. Half an hour after midnight on (Concludtxl on I'uk 'J. Column 1. J a . 1 fcnJ,-''.,Att,--,J- ; INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The W rat her. YESTERDAY Maximum Umpnlor, 1 decrees; minimum 67; part cloudy. TODAY'S Fair, northerly wind. Mexac. Huerta refuses to gtva ball and la aent to Fort HllMm unlr guard. Page. 1. War. Liner Minnehaha reaches Halifax after ex. ploaion that endangered munitions cargo. Tags 1. Germans atfll advancing In region of War aa r. I'age Ferelga. German reply to American nota offere Ira muDlty to American vessels and to American passenger on neutral ships In legitimate trade. I'ag-a 1. Many prominent, men arrested In neutrality violation charges. I'age S. Itatnestle. Woman to testify to murder she saw com mitted 47 years ago. i'age 1. Thaw counsel fall in effort to have proceed ings doc la red mistrial. Page i. Single highwayman robs 100 tourists In Tel. lomstone Park. Fag 3. Public Intuition declared effective chock on newspapers. I'aga 3. f port a. Pacific Coast League ree tills: Portland 1. I.os Angeles 2 ; Vernon 3. 6alt Le.Se 1; baa Francises 6, Oakland S. Paga 14. Giants take both ends of a double-header from Cincinnati. Paga 14. Cuts are latest to be put on honor eystem. Paga 14. raetrlo Nortbwe.1. Payday looms for guardsmen In camp. Paga 6. Stat Hlnhwar Engineer defies Commission concerning oartaln orders. I'aga i. Mora legislators decry extra session. Page 11. 27-year orator amaxea Chaulaaa.ua. Page a. Ceanmercial and Marine Plant ordered for coal bankers In North Portland harbor. Pass 11. Captain p. C. Fuilert home from residence of years In Japan. Page 11. Production ot drug plants In Oregon to be encouraged. Pas IV Wheal firm at Chicago, owing to harvest da lay and bullish cable, paga li. Stocks again depressed by foreign selling. Page li. Portland aad Vicinity. Attorneys In Dodge easa have clash and prison threat Is made by court. Page . Many children drill for parts In Liberty Ben rxtsDL Page 7. Question of repairing topper Washington street paving causes fuaa at Council moot log. Paga 14. Judge Oatens accused when he grants Al bln L. Clark retrial. paga . Hot wava damages Northwest grain. Page 1. Bweetpea show la delight. Paga lO. Juris. Oatens grants new trial to A'bln L. Clark. I'aga . Stenographer Is reluctsnt witness In Cashier case. Pago 1. Wheat ks Injured by excessive heat. Page la. Auditorium plan la attractive. Paga 1. Thousands of Hhrlners on way. Page lu. COUPLE CAN WED FREE Charging Fees Illegal In Wawlilnr ton. Says Attorney-General. OLYMPIA. Wash.. July 9. (Special.) Marriage ceremonies. If performed by Washington Justices of the Peace, must hereafter be freer or charge. Attorney-Oeneral Tanner today held, ruling In an official opinion to Frose cutor J. K. Stewart, ot Grays Harbor County: "A Justice cannot legally charge a fee for performing a marriage ceremony. "In enacting a new fee bill for Jus tices of the Peace, the recent Legisla ture repealed the old schedule, which provided a fee of $2.50 for marriages, and neglected to specify any fee for the ceremony." AV. K. KcIIork Better. TANANA. Alaska. July . W. K. Kellogg, a well-known breakfast food manufacturer of Detroit. Mlciu. who was taken ill on his arrival at Fair banks, two days ago, was feeling much better when he arrived here today, bound for Dawson City. He was out for a short walk while his boat was here. LOST SHE NEEDS A NEW MAP. WOMAN TO TESTIFY SHE SAPMRS Secret Kept 47 Years to Be Revealed. FOUR NOW UNDER ARREST Wealthy Farmer. 75, Calls Proceeding "Huge Joke." NEW TREASURE TALE TOLD James Boys Said to Hare Hurled Loot Alter Robbing Hank Plat I.ot In lire and Fortnne Spent In Search. BEDFORD, July t. With four men under arrest for alleged complicity In the murder of a wealthy stockman and his son at fvlatn. Iowa. In September, IKS. and arrangements made for the protection of the state's chief witness, representatives of Attorney-General Co&son's office tonight said they were prepared for the next phase of Taylor County's double murder and burled treasure case. This, they say. would come Tuesday, when the preliminary hearing of the defendants. Bates Huntsman, fatnucl Scrlrner and Henry and John Dame wood, win be called in the local court. M.sisa Hks Saw Marder Called. C. A. Robbina. assistant Attorney General, left tonight for Des Molncs for a conference with hla chief, Attorney-General Cosson. after arrange ments had been made to Insure the appearance of Mrs. Maria Porter, of Quitman. Mo. at the hearing Tuesday. She la the woman who. as a 14-year-old glrL Is said to have witnessed the killing of the cattleman, believed to have been Nathaniel t?mllh. of SL Jo seph. Mo- and hla son. and the subse quent burial of IJ0.000 on the old Col lins farm near rJiam. Samuel Kcrlvner, the wealthiest man among 1 he defendants. In ao Interview here today, characterised the whole proceeding as a "huge Joke." The Iiamcwooda, although they declined to treat the matter seriously. announced that they wished to retain the "best lawyers" In the country. Tresssre Attributed ie Jsaws ateya. Another version of the treasure story ram to light when old residents said the money had been burled on the farm by the James boys, after they had robbed a bank. This was said to ac count for their Interest In recovering It In after years. The loss of the plat In a fir which burned the house on the place, and the death of Jonathan Dark, the only mem ber of the gang who knew where It had been burled, it was said, made neces sary the search that extended, through so many years. Scrivener, the most prominent of the men arrested, is 75 years old. Hunts man I 77. and is said to have spent a (Concluded on I'age a. Column 1 ) Fridays War Moves i TUB complete surrender of the Ger man forces in German aoulhwet Africa to General Botha, commander of the forces of the I'nlon ot South Africa; the French success In the Vosges, where they made an advance of 700 yards on a front of COO yards and captured upwards of 00 tin wounded Germans, and the stand being msde by the Russians In Southern Poland against the Austro-German forces, give the British military critics subject for comment on what they term "the turn ot the tide" In the war. which Is now approaching Its first anniversary. General Botha's victory, with the Germans cut off from the rest of the world, was a foregone conclusion, but -the fact that he won it after five months of warfare, despite the rebellion In his own country and under many natural disadvantages. Is conslJerrd by military observers to have been a remarkable achievement- To gain this victory. General Botha's forces had to march In the blistering heat through an almoat waterless country In which the few wells had been poisoned and where sandstorms made It necessary for the soldiers to wear goggles. It Is expected that this territory, some 300.000 square miles In extent, will be annexed to the Union of South Africa. Parts of this country, particularly about Luederlts Bay. where there are valuable diamond mines, are exceed ingly rich. General Botha already has begun to serd the citizen army home, and a beginning will be made Imme diately of the organisation of a con tingent to assist the mother country In the war In Europe. There was little news from the Rus sian front, but the announcements In the Austrian and German official re ports that there was no change In the situation were taken to mean that the Germanic armies had not yet recovered from the defeat which the Russians inflicted on them north of Krasnik. where the Austrians are operating in conjunction with General von Mark ensen. It is uncertain aa yet whether Grand Duke Nicholas, commander-in-chief of the Russian forces, intends to make his finul stand on his present lines or to fall back to the River Bug. which might Involve the evacuation of Warsaw. Military men say that this doubt less depends on 4ils supplies of muni tions, which are now reaching him through Archangel and which German submarines are trying to cut off. An underwater boat yesterday sank the Hull steamer Guido. bound for a Rus sian port, but she was loaded with coal only. A submarine also sank the Russian bark Anna, which was bound from Archangel to Hull. Severe fighting continues at several points on the Western front. Tne British report the repulse of all the German counter-attacks that were made in an effort to regain tho lost trenches north of Tpres and say that the British gain has been extended and that the German louses were se vere. Or. the other hsnd. the Germaiwi re Port a repulse of the French attacks at Souchex and aert that the Teu tonic troops have made further prog ress In the Woevre reglora, where they say they raptured some trenches and :;0 prisoners. The Turks have continued their at tacks on the Galllpoll Peninsula and. according to German correspondents, have regained some trenches from the British. They have made their ap pearance also In the vicinity of Aden, the British free port on the south coast of Arabia, where, however. Brit ish troops anj warships are said to be ready for them. No estimate nas yet be.n made of the amount subscribed to the Immense Brltlnh war loan. Three banks yes terday subscribed a total of 6:. 000. 000 (IJI0. 000.000). and It l said that at a meeting of hankers It was decided that a subscription of Lombard street will be one-fifth of the entire loan of t!.:;o.ooo.ooo. RELIEF OF POLAND FAILS HocLefellrr foundation I'nable to tet Nations to Agree. LONDON. July . The last member of the Rockefeller Foundation war re lief committee remaining In Berlin has left that city, the German government having canceled an arrerntetit which permitted the commission to take charge of the work of feeding the civilian pop ulation of Poland. Krnest 1. Rlxknell and Henry James. J r members of the commission, several months ago got an agreement from the German government for Its aid In finan cing the plan If permlslson were ob tained from tli entente to Import the necessary food supplies. Negotiations to this end with the Rus sian government failed. Then the Brit ish Foreign OlUce was approached, but as no agreement had yet been reached, the German government canceled the original agreemenL AUSTRIA MAKES APOLOGY Amends Tendered United States for Abusive Newspaper Article. VIENNA, via London. July 9 Formal apology has been made by the Austro Hungarian government to I'nlted States Ambassador Penfleld because of an abusive article printed In the Neue Wiener Tageblatt. attacking President Wilson and the American people Id con nection with the second note protest ing against German methods of sub. marine warfare. As a rigid censorship is exercised over Austrian papers. Ambassador Pen fleld has Informally asked the Foreign OtTlce If the article represented the opinion of the Austrian government. The result was an apology and a sharp reprimand for the official ccusor. CASHIER LETTERS POT IN EVIDENCE Stenographer Is Reluc tant Witness. MEMORY PROVES TO BE BAD Documents Identified Only After Much Questioning. CARBON COPIES ACCEPTED Mis Hulda Krk-kNon, lormrrly 1 1m ployetl by Hefrntlant Company, Admits She Hoc. Not Want to Identify I-eMonn loiters. Mi.s Hulda Erlckson Is a fcrrr.er stenographer for the I'niled Siatea Cashier Company, and she has a mind of her own. When she doesn't want to testify, all the king's horses and all the king's men can only make her tes tify up to a certain point, a., she dem onstrate.! In Federal Judge I'.cnn'a court -yesterday. I'nitfil States Attorney llcamrj hd called Min Erickicon as a tvtinr t identify rurbon copies cf cert In let ters alleged to have been jent to e-.iles-men by Frank LeMonn. sale mnnaeer of the company, who I one of the reven officials and salesmen of the concern on trial for conspiracy t. lolrtte the postal fraud statute. Ovea WrltlMa- Idealised. Mr. Rcames handed Miss Krickeoti two sheets of ellow psper. " Io you e any handwriting with tvhi. h ou are familiar on this first i-hi 1 1:" lie. queried. "Yes." returned Miss Frlckson. n.it word 'Salesmen' written across the top Is in my hand writins." "And what are those Initials i.I II.. bottom of the sheet, and whit .! tli.y stand forT went on the l'mtc.1 Stntrs Attorney. "F. I- M. and H. K.." said Miss Kn. k. son. " H- K. are my initials. F. 1 - M. are tho InltlaJa of Mr. UMonn" She explained that It was the custom in the company's office for the stenogra pher to write her own Initials and those of the author of tho letter In this manner. IdeatlMrattea Is Hcfased. -la this letter, dater October 11. Mil. with tne word "Salesmen In your handwriting at the top and your Ini tials and those of Mr. LeMonn at tr bottom, a copy of a letter dlctatej to you on that data by Mr. LeMonn?" asked Mr. Reame. "I can't say whether Mr. LeMonn dic tated that letter to me or not," sail Miss Erlckson. her black eyes nshlng. "Is It that you can't or that you don't want to?" "I don't want to," snajred Miss Erlckson. Federal Agrat Called. Mr. Reamea called Hiram S. House, special agent of the Department of Justice, to the stand. He identified the letter as one found In ths record of the company, which he said had been given him a year ago by Frank. Menefee. Its presldenL "I object to this Identification." broke In Attorney Pipes for the de- fense. "This Is a csrbon ropy and not ; sisncd. It Is not the oriental and Is 'only secondary evidence." I Mr. Rrames replied that the Govern ! mrnt had been unable to obtain tho original letters. Judso Boan said that as It was taken from the files of the romrany, the Utter was in a way original evi dence whether signed or not. "As this Is a criminal caje. all records of the company are competent evidence In art effort to rrove that the company en tered Into a conspiracy." he declared In overruling tdo objection. Mist Kririuwa aseeas lltal. I'nlted Slates Attorney Reamea promptly excused Mr. House from ths stand and called Miss Erlckson back. lie questioned her about tt.e second sheet, on which were the names of SI persons In writing. She admitted that the writing was hers snd that several of the names were those of sslesnien. "Did Mr. UMonn dictate this letter to you?" asked the Fnitc.l States At torney, returning to the attack. 'lis been a lor; t'.ir.e aso. and I can't say." returned the girl. "Is this letter like the letters on arote are the form, the piper, the Initials, the typewriting. the para graphing the same?" "Yes." she admitted. Mr. P.eainea had her explain these det-tl! to the Jury, l-etter !absald aa Kilaesre. She also admitted that the letter ha I been sent to tho persons w hose unmet and addresses were or the second sheet, and Mr. Rrames Introduced the letter In evidence. It was addressed to Messrs. Hunter and While, Eureka. Cal.. and spoke of enclosing a copy of a newspuper ad vertisement of that date and of plat s of the company to conlu t an ev tenslv advertising cnmpaiKtv Then Mr. Reames brought out another letter for Miss Erlckson t Identify. "I won't say whether I wrote It or not," she said. "1 don't rememhejr." ,Tou do know that you wrote It, don't you?" asked Attorney Reamea. Attorney Pipes Interposed an objec tion at the Government's questioning. "These questions are onir being ICoacJadad ea Pas , iVamt Li