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Newspaper Page TextvIme er VOL. LVXO. 17,062. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JLL.Y 31, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. '1 WASHINGTON READY FOR MEXICAN MOVE Action to Follow Re turn of Wilson. ARMY AND NAVY PREPARED Armed Intervention, However, Regarded as Improbable. LAST CHANCE TO BE GIVEN ffroops May Be Employed to Assure Transportation of Food to Starv ing People Arms Embargo Is Under Consideration. ' WASHINGTON, July 30. Definite Bteps toward restoration of peace In Mexico will be taken immediately on President Wilson's return to Washing ton next week. What specific action the President may have decided on has ot been disclosed, but It was authori tatively announced tonight that the ex ecutive departments of the Government were preparing to carry out the pro gramme determined on. Only an unexpected movement In Mexico itself to end the strife, it Is said, would further delay affirmative action by the United States to restore constitutional government in the war torn republic. Armed Intervention Improbable. Armed intervention Is not believed to be contemplated In the President's programme. Many officials believe no forcible measures will be required. Persistent reports have reached here that the faction leaders are inclined to yield to the- demands of this Govern ment for a peace conference. Iteports are generally credited that a message will be sent to the opposing leaders giving them a. final chance to cease hostilities within a limited time and assemble a conference to settle their differences. Possibility of an other failure to. do so. In view of the last refusal of General Carranza to join In a conference with his adversaries, is being considered by the President, it is declared, in formulating a plan of action. Army and Navy Ready. Whether In that event a general em bargo on arms exportations will be im posed or American troops employed to assure the transportation of food to the starving people can not be predicted. It is known, however, that the Army end Navy have been preparing and now are ready for any eventuality. Secretary Lansing said today that the representations sent to Generals Carranza, Villa and Zapata last night, urging that routes to Mexico City be opened to provision trains, were force ful. The message to Carranza, who controls the railroads from Vera Cruz, was particularly emphatic. While not couched as a "demand" that the rail road to Mexico City be opened and kept open, its purport was to that effect. Gonzales Again Near Capital. No answer from any of the Mexican generals had been received tonight. It was believed, however, that provision trains would be moving to Mexico City within a few days under guard of Car ranza troops. Officials were led to this belief by re ports that General Gonzales had driven off a Villa column under General Flerro and returned to Villa Guadeloupe, Just outside of Mexico City, practically oc cupying the capital. Roving bands of Zapata soldiers, which have been har assing the railroad, are being driven off. It was said, and garrisons stationed along the railro&d. Carrama to Hold City. Charles A. Douglas, who returned to Washington . today from Vera Cruz, after conferences with Generals Car ranza and Gonzales, brought assur ances that Carranza forces would hold Mexico City after the reoccupation, the danger of isolation of the city by Villa and Zapata forces, which existed when they took the town before, having been overcome. Separate representations have been made to General Zapata, regarding the attack upon Allan Mallory, an Amerl can citizen, who was detained by Za pata soldiers at Puebla while carrying departmental dispatches. An effort has been made to fix the responsibility for the attack and to assure protection of Americans in future. The message to Zapata was sent through Mexico City. Carranza s Washington representa tive tonight made public a report from General Obregon, via Vera Cruz, that he had defeated the main Villa army at an undesignated point between Aguas Calientes and Zacatecas and later occupied the latter place. Obre gon said his cavalry was pursuing the Villa troops toward Torreon. A Red Cross statement tonight said conditions around Hermosillo. Sonora, "are getting worse every day. The gov ernment Is taking all wheat from farm ers without asking, and all flour." Oeneral Gonzales was not ready to enter Mexico City when he die so early In July, according to Mr. Douglas, but desired to satisfy the Washington Ad ministration. He was forced to evacu ate almost immediately, because of the danger of being completely cut off from Vera Cruz by Villa and Zap ata forces. Railroad Patrol Kstahllshrd. "General Gonzales told me," said Mr. Douglas tonight, "that it would have Concluded oa Pag Column, o.) ESTATE IS WON BY FAITHFUL SERVANT COURT UPHOLDS CONTRACT, THOUGH WILli IS UNSIGNED. Agreement Entered Into in Lieu of Wages and Kept for 1 3 Years Is Declared Valid. EUGENE., Or.. July 30 (Special.) Elizabeth Murray worked as house keeper for James Sanford, an eccentric bachelor, for $1.50 a week, until he proposed that she care for him with out wages on condition that he would bequeath her his property at his death. For 13 years she carried out her part of the bargain, even after her employer became old and helpless. At the time of his death the deed, purporting to give his property to his caretaker, was found unsigned. Rela tives filed suit claiming the property of their wealthy relative, and offered to pay the housekeeper a sum equiva lent to wages during the time she worked. The case was bitterly fought in the courts. Judge Skipworth today entered a de cree, giving Mrs. Murray property in the heart of the business section, valued at $25,000. No written contract Is said to have existed. "I have never seen a clearer case of faithful performance of contract than shown by this woman," said the court. "Any effort on the part of a jury to compensate her for her time would amount to a fraud on the woman.". RECRUIT STANDARD LOWER Canada to Accept Defectives Slay Be Developed. Ybo OTTAWA, Ontario. July 30. A new policy respecting recruits, it was an nounced today, has been adopted by the Canadian militia authorities. Here after men with poor teeth and other minor physical defects will not be re jected, but will be accepted and eent to dental and surgical depots for treat ment, after which they will be trained and sent to Europe. Two inches have been taken off the size standard, and men below size in chest measurement will be taken If the surgeons are of the opinion that training will give them the proper chest size. ARIZONA DRYS WIN RULING Court Permits Enforcement of Xenr Law, Holding 'Xear-Beer' Alcohol.. LOS ANGELES. July 30. The United States Circuit Court, sitting en banc, denied today application for a tem porary Injunction to restrain the state authorities of Arizona from enforcing the prohibition amendment to the con stitution. The court held that "near' beer" was alcohol, and its importation into the state was a violation of the state constitution. The suit was Instituted by two Cali fornia breweries on behalf of manufac turers of the beverage In all parts of the country. $27,000,000 War Order Refused. PASADENA, Cal.. July 30. E. T. Bar rowes, a wealthy manufacturer of Port Ian, Me., who is spending the Bummer here, announced today he had refused a telegraphic offer to supply $27,000, 000 worth of rifles to the allies. LARGE PORTRAITS ARB MR. A.VD I " ' -, - - - ' - , ' s V v "'. , r---v J ' - .--4 I , - . i I' h.-:, i . .',,. ' ' ..;:. ,p(X 4 U, Kf I': ' ' f I If ' i r.: I It f f . ...;-JMJ VATICAN DELEGATE REACHES PORTLAND Prelates Here Greet Monsignor Bonzano. ARCHBISHOP GIYES DINNER Reception Tendered Visitor at Hotel Portland. STATE'S RESOURCES AMAZE Building at Exposition, Great Pano rama of Forests and Mountains and Growth or Cities Prove Surprise to Noted Guest. His Excellency Monsignor Giovanni Bonzano, the apostolic delegate from the Vatican to the United States, stopped in Portland yesterday en route from San Francisco to the Knights of Columbus convention in Seattle, to pay a visit to Archbishop Christie and to be greeted by the Catholic citizens of Portland. It is his first visit to the Pacific Coast since he was sent to the United States four years ago and took up his resi dence in Washington. D. (X, and he has taken the liveliest Interest in every phase of his journey. "The journey has been abundantly worth the time I have been obliged to take away from my work In Washing ton," he said, "although while I am away I will find that things have been accumula'ting there that will mean much more work for me for a time. 1 am glad I have taken this trip, be cause of the new Idea It has given me of the vastness and variety of this won derful country. I came through the wonderful low, fertile states of the Middle West and was precipitated Into a garden of flowers In California. Unfolding Panorama Enjoyed. "And from California up to Portland It has been again doubly wonderful. All the way through the valleys I kept my eyes at the window all the time 1 could, so I would miss nothing." His Excellency's eyes sparkled with a reminiscent enthusiasm that conjured up before one's Imagination the picture of him "keeping hla eyes at the win dow" as the panorama of the Oregon woods and valleys was unrolled before him. "I saw, growing, the same tremen dous trees a sort of pine that I saw in San Francisco in your Oregon build ing, which is a wonderful structure. "One can hardly realise the versatil ity and variety of resources that this country possesses until one has been able to get such a glimpse of it as I have had in the past few weeks." In the four years of his stay In Amer ica the people of the United States have won a warm place' In the heart of Monsignor Bonzano. "Everywhere one goes one finds such (Concluded on Page 12. Column 6.) NOTED DEMOCRAT PHOTOGRAPHED AFTER MRS. BR VAX. BELOW SIR. Buy AN INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTKRDAT'S Maximum temperature. 65 degrees; minimum. 58 degree. TODAT'S F"lr and warmer; northwesterly a lnds. War. Norway neutral officially, but people are angry with Germany. Pag L. Pope Issues appeal for peace, Pas 4. Austro-Germans are closing In about War saw. C S. , Mexico. Definite more to be mad In Mexican case when President returns to Washington. Page 1. Foreign. Japanese Cabinet resigns. Tags 3. AD WAR 1TU341'J343 National. British supplemental reply nearly ready for delivery to United mates. Page 2. '.'wo American ma-lnes killed In Haiti Page 1. Domestic. Steamer Kastland seised by Federal offi cials mbtle inquiries so on. Paga 3. Executioner's electric shock ends Charts Seeker's prayer. Page 8. Great crowd continue to visit Kxposltl Page 5. raclfio Northwest. Roseburs; railroad bond Issua upheld by Su preme Court. Page ft. Court upholds faithful servants claim to lata employers estate. Page 1. rortlaad sal V trinity. Monslrnor Bonzano, papal delegate, reaches Portland, page 1. Bryan parries on candidacy query. Pag 1. Council adopts laly water meter report by vols of 2 to 2. Paga 11. J. J. Hill urged to build from Bend to Klamath Kails. Pag 8. Weather report, data and forecast. Page IS. Dodge contract would hav paid profits In seven years, asys F. A. Krlbs. pags . Sport. Paclflo Coast Lesgue results: Portland 3-S. Vernon 1-4; Kan Francisco 1. Oakland S; Los Angeles 17, Bait Lak 13. Pag 1U. Multnomah club Invited to compete for grid iron championship at Exposition. Page 11. Every member of Northwest track team wins right to compel for championships at Fair. Tag 10. Sensations many in Stat tennla tourney. Paga 11. Lee Axworthy Ins 110.000 Merchsnts and Manufacturers' stake at Detroit Grand Circuit meet, paa-a .10. Commercial and Marine. All deliveries of wheat higher In local mar ket. Page 1G. Chicago wheat market rallies after early decline. Pag lft. Speculation In wsr stocks In Wall Btreet slows down. Pag IS. Lieutenant-Colonel Potter, T 8. A arrives to assura oft Ice of division engineer. Page 12. Portland buyers tell of methods of Cssbler advisory board. Page . W. J. Bryan addresses throng at Helllg Theater on religion and politics. Page 4. RELIEF CRUISER RETURNS Tennessee Spends More Than $5, 000,000 Aiding Americans. NEW YORK, July SO. The armored cruiser Tennessee returned today from nearly a year's cruise in European waters In relieving American refugees In the war zone. She left New York August 7. 114, with $5,867,000 In gold and returned with $169,000. The balance was distributed to needy Americans in Turkey and Asia Minor. She aided also in rescuing nationals of bellig erent countries bordering on the Medi terranean. When the warship arrived In the harbor she was met by a coast guard tug. The $169,000 was taken under guard to the Subtreasury here. Fire Destroys Qulnaby Home. QUINABY. Or.. July 30. (Special.) Fire, starting from an unknown ori gin, destroyed the frame dwelling and barn occupied by M. E. Dietrlck Mon day night. The loss is partly covered by Insurance. Mr. Dietrlck says he lost $765 in currency: He aided his wife and five children to escape from the sleeping apartments. ARRIVAL IN P ORTLAND LAST IJ SHOWN BCTWEEX IMTKD STATES .LEFT AMI HARRY LaSG OH tUttUX.- SNIPERS PICK OFF AMERICAN SAILORS Two Killed on Guard at Port-au-Prince. ATTACK ON CITY IS REPULSED Admirp' Asks Rein- -o Dy Fast Ship. REGIMENT WILL BE SENT Committee or Citizens and Offi cers of Warships .gree on Plan to Police Town Ilaitlcns Ttestored to Order. WASHINGTON. July 30 Two Amer can bluejackets were killed last night in an attack by natives on Port-au-Prince, Haiti, held by Rear-Admiral Caperton with 400 men from the cruiser Washington. The attacking party was beaten off without having approached closer than the outskirts of the city. and order was maintained In the city Itself. No sailors were wounded and the loss of the attacking force was not reported. The dead are William Gompers, sea man. of Drooklyn. and Cason S. White hurst, ordinary seaman, of Norfolk, Va. Reinforce aseata Are Seat. Reinforcements had been ordered to Haiti before word of the fighting was received. The battleship Connecticut will sail from Philadelphia with $00 marines. The Navy transport Hancock, now being overhauled at Philadelphia. also will go to Haiti. It Is said, al though It is not known what force she will take south. Admiral Caperton s message gave few details of the fighting. It showed however, that he had been warned of the intention of the Haltiens to attack the -city and early in the evening; Cap tain K. L. Beach, of the Washington. commanding ashore, moved his men out to the edge of the city to meet them, leaving strong guards to main tain order in town. People ( City Disarmed. The Halllcn soldiers and civilians In the city were disarmed yesterday to prevent sniping from the houses. The attack came at o'clock last night, the bluejacket battalion bear ing the brunt of the fighting. From the brush beyond the last houses, snip ers opened fire on them.' -The fire was returned and the attackers were driv en off. but not before Qompers and Whlteburst had been killed. The following summary of Admiral Caperton's terse reports was given out tonight at tho Navy Department: "Admiral Caperton reports from Port-au-Prince that owing to a report that the town would likely be attacked (Conclutled on Peso Z. Column a.) NIGHT, HIS WIFE AND OREGON'S SE.ATOKS WHO GKLXTKD HIM. , Fridays War Moves 'HE Russians are now facing the problem of evacuating Warsaw and the surrounding country with out losing their armies, while the Aus-tro-German forces aro making a su preme effort to get at their lines of retreat. The Teutons are said to have met with partial success In this direc tion, a Berlin dispatch saying that Field Marshal Von Mackensen, resum ing the offensive, had reached the Chelm-Lublln railroad, about midway between those two cities, and that southeast of this as far as the Bug River the Russian front had been "shaken." The success of General Von Macken sen in taking thla railroad after hav ing been virtually stopped by Russian counter-attacks denies at least one line of retreat to the Russians who might still be between him and Warsaw, and also places the Germans in a po sition to move against the Bug River front should this be decided on. British military critics, however, re fuse to believe that Grand Duke Nich olas, commander-in-chief of the Rus sian forces, has not provided for all contingencies or that he was not fair ly sure of the safety of hla troops be fore Indicating to the world that be had decided to take up a new line. In deed, the news contained In the Berlin official statement that the Germans have crossed the Vistula Kivcr south east of Warsaw, between the Pliica River and Koalenice. leads the mili tary writers to the belief that the Russians already have fallen back in this region and that perhaps even the fortress of Ivangorod haa been left to Its fate. There Is no news of the situation on the Narew River or of General Von Buelow's wider outflanking movement In Kovno province. However, the opin ion Is expressed In London that as the German plans contemplate a se ries of attacks rather than a simultan eous one It Is likely that they are waiting for Field Marshal Von Mack ensen to reach some previously ar ranged position before they resume their attacks. According to dispatcles. the csuntry around Warsaw which the Russians are leaving to the Invader; has been put to the torch, while the city Itself haa been denuded of everything that might be of use to the Germans If It falls Into their hands. It may be some days before the Teu tons occupy the Polish capital. If they finally do. for the Russians are fight ing more than a rearguard action. In fact, they are still delivering heavy. blows at their opponents and are gain ing some local successes, principally on the Narew and southeast cf Chelm. where they are op post the efforts of the Austrlans to ret to the Bur River. As soon as the present operations gainst Russia are concluded, whether or not they succeed in destroying any large part of the Russian army. It 1 expected that the Germans will turn to the west, a movement which, how ever, will take two months st least. It will therefore be a race between the Teutonlo forces and the British and French as to which side will take the offensive In France, where the situa tion remains as It has -een for weeks past. except In Alsace, where the French continue their attacks on posi tion at Muenster. There has been sharp fighting here, the French ad vance converging on Muenster from the north and from Metzeral to the aoutheast of Muenster Valley, in which the town atands on the open road to Colmar. Bad weather again Is Interfering with the operations in the Austro-Ital- ian theater. SENATORS- UEOUUU E. ClIAllBEULALV . BRYAN PARRIES 0!! CANDIDACY QUERY Ex-Secretary Is Not "Expecting" to Run. WAR ISSUE IS PREDICTED Many Friends Met Among For mer Nebraskans. PRAISE GIVEN PRESIDENT Followers Out In I'orco at Train to tireet Visitor and Crowds Ac company Him lom Depot to Hotel W here Keceptlon Held. William Jennings Bryan does not ex pect to be a candidate for preldent. He said so upon his arrival In Port land last night. But mark that word "expect" It Is Mr. Bryan's own. That Is the word he used when one of his friends aj.kd him: "Mr. Bryan. Is It true that you will be a candidate for president next year?"" "No. I do not expect to be a candi date." was his reply. "But does a man ever expect to be a candidate for prenldcnlT he was asked. At this point Mr. Bryan put an ab rupt end to all categorical questions touching on his own plans for the fu ture or on the political situation in general. He declared that he had been so fre quently misrepresented that he h.is ac quired a practice of answering all questions Intended for the public prl:t In wrltkng nfter they wcro submitted to him In writing. War t'esmldrred Csapslss I mm c In an Informal, off-hand manner h summed up the political situation, how ever, by declaring that the war will be the big Issue of the 1916 campaign if the war continues. "It la too far ahead to s.iy what the situation will be next year." he said. "The war question is of all-absoi binit Interest and it will be an important factor in future political events. The subject of war broucht forth questions regarding his allituiie on International relations. "I have been much misrepresented on this question," he replied. Ho Inti mated that he Is not such a determined advocate of peace th.it he believes In peace at any price, but In this connec tion declared sc.iln that whenever he expressed his views on the subject he prefers to put them In writing. He was exceedingly bitter toward those newspapers that have oi'Pon'J him and the political principles for which he stands. "latcrcats" Declared Ills Opponent. "I am not vain enough." he remarket!, "to believe that they are opposed to me personally, for 1 am but a most humble Individual. "But 1 happen to stand for certain political principles that are In conflict with the views and the wishes of th grasping plutocrats. For that res: x the plutocratic press Is opposed to i.ic. "I appreciate, though, that I have the honest opposition of many honest newspapers, but I can readily distin guish the difference between this and the conscienceless opposition of con scienceless newspapera." He added that the same "Interests" that opposed him TO years alto are op posing him now. That brought the discussion around to politics axain and led to the Inevi table question regarding his own pos sible candidacy. He parried all such movements suc cessfully but without committing him self definitely. The farthest that he would go toward defining hla position was to declare that he does not "ex pect" to be a candidate next year. President Heartily turn mended. He was reminded that he did not "ex pect" to be a candidate in 1&96, but again he requested that he be given opportunity to reply to further ques tions of this nature In writing. Mr. Bryan expressed nothing but ad miration and praise for the (.'resident yesterday. He referred to Ulm in hla speech at Albany, again to friends whom he met on the train vomlng from Albany to Portland and lso after his arrival In Portland last night, in terms of the highest esteem and regard. 'He Is a great, fearless man." he said once, and "he Is handling the grave problems that demand his attention in a most masterful manner." on another occasion. Tet Mr. Bryan found promises of sup port here In I'urtlund last night. Nu merous consistent DeniocnU there were who Informed him that they have voted for him three times already and that they are ready to do It stain. Crater lake Impresses. But flattering comment such as that brought forth nothing more than ex pressions like "Well! That's fine." "Thank you." "I'm glad to hear It" and ethers of aiml.ar non-committal nature. There was one subject upon which the ex-Secretary of State talked with freedom and enthusiasm, however, and that waa the beauties and wonders of Crater Lake. On his recent visit to Medford he and Mrs. Bryan were the guests of the Medford Commercial Club on a visit to Crater Lake, "I never saw a more inspiring sight." iCucoudevl on Psc a, Ciuuia V i