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VOL. LI V. NO. 17,073. mini, -iu, y,w., - WILSON MINIMIZES TROUBLE Oil BORDER Precautions Taken Be lieved Sufficient PEACE PLAN IS DISCUSSED Carranza's Dissent, Villa's Agreement, Announced. ZAPATA ALSO IS IN LINE Anrance Repeated That Mexican Sovereignty Will Tic Be Imper iled Right of Recognition to Be Jreore Vsed. WASHINGTON. Aug. St That Gen eral Cai-rans baa flaly refused to en ter Into a pear con f err nee. while the Villa and Zapata element In Mexico already were preparing for one, wm revealed officially here today, on the return of President Wilson from Cor nish. X. If. A comprehensive account of the situation was laid before the President by Secretary Lansing. The Secretary told the President that official reports Indicated the aituatlon In the vicinity of Brownsville was of a local character, and quiet prevailed at Vera Crus. where there had been aome anti-fretgn demonstrations. II out lined the discussion of peace plana at the New Tork conference yesterday of the Fan-American diplomats. rreeaarWaa Believed fflctcat. Neither th President nor Secretary Lanslna; waa Inclined to view the situ ation as requiring; any further precau tionary measures than have been taken In sending; battleships to Mexican waters and more Federal troops to the Texas border. They devoted most of their time to a discussion of the inter American plan on which they are placing their hopes for th early re storation of pear In Mexico. Th appeal to all factions baa not yet been sent, although algned by Secre tary Lansing and the Ambassadora and ministers of the six Central and South American governments participating In the conference. A list of chiefs, gen erate and governors Is being compiled, and as soon as the locations of all are determined the appeal will be tele graphed simultaneously to every part f Mexico. ramau Make Flat HefwaaL On th eva of thla action cam th announcement from th Villa agency her tonight that General Carransa had flatty refused to agree Id a peace conference and would treat with his opponents only on terms of uncondi tional surrender. Incidentally. Secretary Lansing re vealed that General Villa recently had Informed th Stat Department that fce waa willing to sign an axmUtlc for three month or longer, la th course ef which a peace conference might be eld. Indications ar that both th Villa ad Zapata elementa ar preparing to receiv favorably th appeal of th failed Stta and the Latin-American republics. They already ar planning a yeac conference. Os-ttaaUae Is M Changed. Th appeal signed by th American diplomat In New Tork yesterday la addressed to all the leaders Generals and Governors In Mexico, and will be made public In a day or two. General Carranza's diepteasur over th effort ef the Latin-American countrlea I conjunction with th United States doea not alter the feeling of optimism among officials and, diplomats, who de clare unwarranted th Inference that any attempt la to b mad to Invade Mexico's sovereignty. Tha reply of th Minister for For eign Affalra ef Argentina to General rarransa. Issued by the Carranxa agency here. In which It was said that th Lalln-Amerlcan countries specifically understood at th outset of their con ference that there was to be no Impair ment of Mexlco'a sovereignty, repre sents th views of the United States Government, whose present effort. It was officially announced today, la to obtain peace without resort to meas ures of force or Interference la tha In ternal affalra of Mexico. Appeal la Ferns f laejalry. Tha United States and th Letln An.ertcaa governments, according to the explanation given In high official quarters. Intend merely to exercise Ju diciously th International right of awarding formal recognition to a gov ernment in a neighbor country com posed of elements which seem most capable of giving th necessary guar antee of life and property and of com plying with international obligations. The appeal addressed by th seven governments take th form of an In quiry to determine which of the fac tions or elements are willing to re habilitate tha natlon'a aovereignty. Thoj elements which respond will be considered as exponents of National patriotism In Mexico, while those who refuse to enter Into such a plan will b ignored. Secretary Lansing aald today ha waa sot certain when the La tin-American diplomats would b called Into con ference again. Most likely th next session will be held within three weeks, for th present plan la to wait tea days after the reception of th ap peal before considering any replies re ceived. Secretary Garrison mad It plain to tCeaelwded ea 1 Cceieasa 2.J " 1 1 I MITCHELLS POINT FOLK PLAN FIGHT OWNERS TLACE BAR TO MOVE TO CHANGE NAME. Ed far lock Point Ont Official Registration and Threatens to Cloee Property to Public. HOOD IUTVER, Or, Aug. 11 When the State Highway Commission seeks to change th nam of Mitchells Point to Ptorm Cliff, they will find that they will be unable legally to do eo. Edgar Locke, who owna tha larger portion of tha great basalt barrier, hi line ex tending over th crest and well down tha west side, has registered officially th name of Mitchells Point under a state law passed by th 111 Legisla ture. I wrote to the Governor thla afternoon.- said Mr. Locke, who waa In the city today, 'and told him that If the name of th scenic point waa changed I Immediately would place trespass signs on tha property and refuse to ad mit campers on the property. "For 1J yeara Hood River people have visited th rock. Nearly every day during the Summer months I can hear someone calling to me from tha top of Big Mitchells. If the old name la al lowed to remain unchanged. 1 do not care how many tourists travel over the cliff." Mr. Locke aaya the Point waa orig inally a part of the Hayes donation land claim. "I have the old papers at home now' be remarked. "They ar signed by Ulysses 8. Grant. Mr. Mitchell, for whom the place la named, lived there tS yeara ago. George Martin and C. VY. Parker, who own the wast has of the cliff, also are protesting against a change In name. CENTRALIA REVENUES FAIL Shortage of. St 0,000 la Caused by Liquor Licenses Expiring. CENTRALIA. Wash, Aug. 1. (Spe cial) While moat cities In Washing ton will suffer financially In 11 by the state going dry. Central! finds itself about 110.900 short on thla year's income. When City Clerk Mabel Le prepared her budget last year arte figured 111.020 saloon licenses among th receipts. Three of the license expire next month, however, four In October and two in November, so that Instead of 81 1.000. th city will collect only about tiooo. In nearly all departments the city is keeping under its 11 estimate, so that wlu strict economy practiced between now and tha first of th yar it It pos sible that the ahortage will be eliminated. DR. HEXAMER DUE SUNDAY Head of German-American Alliance to Be Entertained In City. rr. C J. Hexaroer, re-elected preal dent of th National German-American Alliance at the convention held last week la San Francisco, will arrive In thle city eSunday night. August IS. at 10:1( P. M. from San Francisco, He will be met by officials of th local German-American Alliance and ea corted to the Imperial Hotel. Th Na tional Alliance baa a membership of 1.500.000. Monday morning Dr. Hexamer will attend a meeting of tha American Neu trality League at th German 1 louse, and at noon he will be the honor guest of th German -Americana at lunch. In th evening he will address a mass meeting at th German House. RESTORED OFFICER PLACED Colonel C 1 Perkins, Once Retired, Marine Commander at Bremerton. ORECONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Aug. 11. Colonel C K. Perkins, of the Marine Corps, who waa restored to the active list by direction of Con gress after having been retired by the Navy Department, waa today appointed commandant of th marine barracka at Bremerton. Colonel Perkins' case attracted wide attention. It being alU-ged he was un justly retired for disability while hold ing the rank of Lleutenant-ColoneL In restoring him to th active list. Con gresa promoted him to tha grnd "t Colonel. FOREST FIRE GETS AWAY More Men Are Sent to light Flames Near San Bernardino. SAN BERNARDINO. CaL, Aug. 1J. The forest fire In Lyttle Creek Canyon leaped the nre brake today and la on Ita way farther Into the spruce Umber which waa attacked last night. Th flames already have destroyed timber and the watershed brush cover ing 20)0 acres. Forty additional men were dispatched to the canyon today. Many of the men on th scene had been on duty for ti hour and were ex hausted. U. S. HOLDS SPY SUSPECT Man Who Say He la German la Charred With Mapping Coast. TALLAHASSEE. . Fla.. Aug. 11. August Orbolph. held her today for arraignment on a charge of having made drawings of military reservations and lighthouses along the coast, claims German nationality, according to Jail officers. He denied, they said, reports that he waa of Austrian birth. Orbolph waa arrested by Federal officers aa ha waa hoarding a train laat night. BARNES COMPARES T. R. WITH BISMARCK Check on Socialism Is Demanded. PROPOSAL STIRS OPPOSITION New York Constitution Makers in Lively Debate. TYRANNY DECLARED GOAL Benevolent State, Saja Mr. Barnes, Breeds Pependenta and Oppres sion of 'Crowd-Interest la Movement Backward. ALBANY, X. T Aug. . Willam Barnes. Jr.. today warned the constitu tional convention, now in session here, that If a stop were not put to what he termed "socialistic' or class legisla tion, there would be established In this country an autocratic state similar to that of Germany, "denying utterly the American theory of equality." Incidentally, th Republican leader compared Theodore Roosevelt to Bis marck and asserted that the Progres sive party had inaugurated and waa advocating the identical policy which had caused the Socialist party In Ger many to become the largest single group in the Reichstag. Mr. Barnes- warning and attack on the Progressives was contained Jn ' a speech urging the convention to adopt his amendment prohibiting the Legisla ture from passing minimum wage, old- age pensions or similar laws. Proposal Meets Opposition. George W. Wlckersham. majority leader of the convention and ex-United Statea Attorney-General; Jacob Gould Schurman, prealdent of Cornell Uni versity, and Robert F. Wagner, Demo cratic leader of th Senate, opposed th proposal. - "I protest against seriously consid ering writing Into the fundamental law of ' tha state a provision that Is In violation of every dictate of civilised enlightenment and progressiva - gov ernment." Mr. Wlckersham aald. Sac rificing everything to the Moloch of th Ideal of equality. It would. Instead of preventing New Tork from imitat ing the example of Germany, erect thla stat Into aa Imperial, as hearties a social organisation aa th worst ene mies of Germany accuse It of being." Mr. Scharaaaa Scents Danger. Mr. Schurman professed to see 'dy namite' In tha proposal. "For the sake of theory of govern ment which I think erroneous," he said. "Mr. Barnes propose to discriminate against tha industrial classes. Gentle men. I warn you there la dynamite In hia proposal. If you adopt It, it la lia ble to dissolve existing political par ties, to create clasa antagonism in the stat and ultimately to Impair, if In deed It does not undermine, that au thority on whjch all government rests L'onciuded on Page 1. Column X it ii ...eeaaseceeeeslilltiieelttir-T n,Tv irniTST ig. . PRICE FIVE CTEXTS. I INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TBSTERDAY8 Mtxlmnm temperature, 80 degrees; minimum. 02 degrees. TODAY'S Fair: northerly winds. War. Turks lose heavily in second campaign In Caucasus. Psge 2. lAbor of German prisoners transforms Morocco. Page 12. French critical of BrltUh allies. Page X. Mexico. Wilson believes present precautions on Mex ican border sufficient. Page 1. Foreign. New Japanese Foreign Minister Is friend of America. Page 3. national. Wllsnn confers with Daniels on defense pro gramme. Page S. Domestic. Lieutenant Redonda B. Sutton, of Portland. injured by fall in Army plane. Page S. Moose divided on timing of return. Perkins being accused. Page IS. William Barnes. Jr.. compares Roosevelt with Bismarck. Page 1. Callfornlan plana mall-order liquor business (or Orison and Washington. Page V. Teaching of thrift la public schools advised. Page e. . Classification of Income tax law demanded. Pag X. Sports. Multnomah Clob may stage 1016 wrestling championships. Psge JO. Pacific Ccast league results: Portland 1, Vernon 2; Los Angeles 4, Oakland J; San Francisco . ball Lake 2. Page 10. Mlas Fording Is double winner at Seattle tennis tournament. Psge 10. Farlfra Kortbwest. Final link In hlchwsy from Inland Empire to sea Is dedicated. Page J. Oregon hop crop estimated below lOO.OOti bales aXter extensive inspection. Fase o. Mitchells Point folk plan fight to block move to change name. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. New Psrr-McCormiek line steamers are ex pected to compete tor northbound Coast freight. Page 1- Further advances In local barley market. Page IS. Wheat higher at Chicago, owing to buying by millers. Psse li. War contract atocka lead In Wall-street trading. Psge IS. Portland and Vicinity. Committer tells Mr. Baker of suggestions to find Jots for Jobless. Page 18. Defense In Cashier trial rests suddenly. Psge 1. Bsnk Kxamlner choice causes state Demo crats to mourn. Psge 11. Investigator absolves retail men of in fluencing mart campaign. Page . Federal Trade commission to meet in Port land today. Page 11. New territory Is Invsded for buyers. Psge . Weather report, data and forecast. Psge IS. IPS FRIDAY; ALSO 13TH Knock Wood, Be Cautions In Things, Is Sage Advice. All Knock wood. Then knock wood again. Today Is the day when black cats are unusually fetal. Dreams of weddings today are interpreted by dream experts as cer tain death. The best spook authorities consider all dreams dangerous today, for this Is Friday, the- 13th. Last year's almanac says that Fri day, the 13th, Is unlucky for all who were not born on that day. The same authority advises all others not to start Journeys today. The booklet pre scribes care in watching all foodstuffs, lest they be Inoculated with the Juice of the deadly yew tree. "Don't pick mushrooms today," says the pamphlet, "for they may prove toadstools." "If you are married," says the book, again, "be careful how you address your wife. If you ar not, knock wood." "In conclusion." saya the almanac, "be cautious In all things today." For this Is Friday, the 13th. Germans Sink Two Smacks. LONDON. Aug. 12. Th fishing smacks Ocean Gift Ksperance and George Borrow have been sunk. Their crews were landed. A SLIGHT INTERRUPTION. CASHIER DEFENSE RESTS SUDDENLY Testimony Completed for 7 Defendants. MENEFEE EXONERATES OTHERS Responsibility Is Taken for All of Company's Action. 3S REBUTTAL OPENS T0L$ Arguments on Motion to Dismiss or Instructed Verdict Are Expected to .Occupy Day. and Jury to Get Case xt Week. The defense In the United States Cashier Company trial, which has now been In session for 26 days before a jury In Federal Judge Bean's Court, came to a sudden halt yesterday after noon. Just after the cross-examination and redirect examination of Frank Mene fee. president of the company, had been concluded, and after lawyers for five of the other six defendants had asked him a few questions, attorneys for all seven defendants announcsd that they rested their cases. This strategic move took the whole courtroom by surprise. Even Judge Bean looked a bit mystified. Everyone had expected the defense to continue probably for another week, at least. Rebuttal to Open Today. United States Attorney Reames an nounced that he would he ready to Introduce his rebuttal testimony at 10 o'clock this morning. He said ho ex pected to have all this testimony in within an hour. The remainder of the day probably will be taken up with arguments by attorneys for the defense and counter arguments by the Government, for an instructed verdict and dismissal of the charges against the Government. The Jury, of course, win be excused before these arguments begin, probably until next Monday at 2 o'clock. Arguments May Laat Several Days. ' Following this, unless the motions for dismissal should be granted in be half of all the defendants, will come the closing arguments to the Jury. These may take several days, as at torneys for each defendant will un doubtedly wish to present separate arguments. Instead o'f having one or two attorneys argue for alL. In any event. It will probably be well Into next week before the case goes to th Jury. . , As th case now stands, Frank Men efee, who was on the stand for the bet ter part of five days in his direct and cross-examinations, has shouldered vir tually the' whole burden of all the defendants. Mr. Menefee gave testi mony to exonerate In one way or an other all six of the other defendants. In eo doing he took upon himself practically the entire responsibility for Concluded on Page :t. Column 1.) MAIL ORDER LIQUOR FOR OREGON IS AIM 380,000 TIPPLERS OF THIS STATE, WASHINGTON WSTED. Enterprising Californlan Erects Large Warehouse In Border Town and Tillage Boom Is On. REDDING. CsX. Aug. 12. (Special.) The names of 380,000 tipplers in Ore gon and Washington are catalogued and arranged in an alphabetical Index by a mall order liquor bouse that Is preparing to open for business In Horn brook, the California town nearest to the Oregon-California line. Oregon and Washington states will go dry Janu ary 1 next. The lav states allows, after the o V- new year, any per- v ..o states to purchase . bottles of beer and two t-vO . mottles of whisky every four .eks. The enterprising dealer in Hornbrook who proposes to shoot alcohol across the state line into Oregon and Wash ington, has built a warehouse 100 feet long and 80 feet wide, in which he will store his alcoholic beverages. . A fireproof, burglar-proof safe has been built. In which are kept the naraqs and addresses of the 380,000 tipplers of Oregon and Washington, who. It seems, will be likely purchasers. ' The value of town lots in Hornbrook has advanced SO per cent the last three months, or since the .property oa-ners realized the geographical advantage they have in dealing with "booze ship ments to the northern states. A second mail order house has bought a large lot and proposes to enter into the business which promises such hand some returns from the dry states north of California. SCHOOLS TO DEBATE 'ARMY' Military Service Question Chosen by League Committee. SALEM, Or., Aug. 12 (Special.) Oregon high schools thle year will de bate the question of military service for young men of the United States after some plan analagous to the Swiss system. , The executive committee of the Ore gon High School League that made the decision today consists of R. L. Kirk, of ' Springfield; President P. L. Camp bell, of the University of Oregon; J. A. Churchill, State Superintendent of Pub 11c Instruction; Cornelia Marvin, State Librarian, and Earl Kilpatrlck. of the extension division of the University of Oregon. Last year 41 Oregon high schools took part in the league contests, the championship going to Salem High School. TURKS INCJTE FILIPINOS Sultan Urges Mohammedans to Re ligious War, Says Consul. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 12. (Spe- clal.) The Sultan of Turkey has been inciting the Mohammedan residents of the Philippines and the East Indies to a religious war, according to G. M. Hanson, United States Consul at Sanda kaiv Borneo, who arrived here on the transport Logan from Manila today. Special priests have been sent through the Jolo archipelago and the East Indies spreading the war doctrine, according to Hanson, but they have met With little success. The Sultan of Sulu is head of the Mohammedan faith in that section of the world, but has not taken an active part in the propaganda. It is said. GERMAN CONSENT NEEDED Informal Inquiry Made as to Beet Seed Importations. WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. Informal negotiations were begun today by the foreign trade advisers of the State De partment to ascertain whether Ger many will agree to the terms on which Great Britain has consented to permit exportation to the United States of 60,000 bags of German beet seed. Germany stipulated some time ago that . any such shipment must go through a German port and that In exchange an equal value of wheat, forage or meat must be given. Now Great Britain requires that the ship ment be made through a neutral port and that no exchange of commodities be involved. AUSTRIA HAS EARTHQUAKE Shocks of Exceptional Severity Are Felt at Laibaoh. AMSTERDAM, via London, Aug. 12. A dispatch to the Frankfurter Zeitung from Laiba.cn, Austria, under date of August 11, says that extraordinarily severe earth, shocks, the strongest of any recorded Bince the establishment of the observatory there, were registered at frequent Intervals yesterday. The most violent shock occurred at 10:14 A. M. Information concerning the main zone of disturbances is lack ing, but the secondary zone embraces all of Southern Italy, where undulatory shocks occurred. FOURTH HUSBAND IS TAKEN Lexington, Or., Woman of 4cJ Bride of J. H. Hurd, or Mill City. .ALBANY, Or., Aug. 12. Mrs Ida May Beckett, of Lexington, Or., be came a bride for the fourth time at the age of 42, when she was married to J. H. Hurd, of Mill City, here last even ing. Mr. Hurd is 46. The ceremony was performed by County Judge McKnlght. w COLUMBIA HIGHWAY TO SEA CHRISTENED Governor Leads Auto Party Over Road. TOWNS UN ROUTE CELEBRATE From Inland Empire to Ocean Is Slogan on Trip. IMPORTANCE IS REALIZED Julius L. Meier, S. Benson and Many Other Prominent Men Take Fart in Dedication and Fes tivities at Gearhart. BY SHAD O. KRANTZ. GEARHART, Or., Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) "From the Inland Empire to th Sea" became a reality today so far as highway travel is concerned. A bat tery of more than 40 automobiles trav eled over the newly completed Co lumbia River Highway from Portland to Gearhart and made the distance of 12S miles In less than seven hours' running time. The Columbia River Highway be tween Portland and the eea thus was officially christened. The highway east of Portland into the Inland Em pire already had been opened, so to day's performance served to complete the connection between the Inland Em pire and the sea. Banners bearing the appropriate le gend "From the Inland Empire to the Sea" were borne on every one of the long line of automobiles that made the trip out of Fortland this morning. They were intended to impress on the people along the route the important part that the new avenue of travel will play In their, future development, if indeed the people were not already, impressed with it. Importance Is Realised. To those who made the trip, however, it was apparent that the people of Western Multnomah, Columbia and Northern Clatsop counties fully realize the importance of the new road. Every city, every village and every hamlet was in gala dress for the occasion. Peo ple gathered from the countryside for many miles around to do the occasion honor. The small settlements were decorated with bunting and American flags, and cheering "Welcome" signs were stretched across the road to greet the travelers. All the municipalities along the lower river declared a holiday. The populace everywhere knocked off work for th day and Joined in the spirit of celebra tion. At St. Helens, Clatskanle and Rainier formal . exercises were con ducted In honor of the highway's chris tening. At Gearhart the festivities con tinued far into the night. Roads Value Is Seen. The Portland folks who made the trip, if they were not convinced before they started, became convinced today that the Columbia River Highway Justi fies the time, the money and the effort expended in its construction. "If seeing is believing," said Julius L. Meier, president of the Highway As sociation, "I am convinced that every ono who was in this party today be lieves that the Columbia River High way will serve a valuable purpose, not only to the country that it touches di rectly, but to the whole state as well "It not only affords Portland an easy overland route to the ocean, but It an swers an even more worthy purpose, it redeems thousands upon thousands of fertile acres to development that heretofore have been neglected on ac count of the lack of proper transpor tation facilities. It opens some more of God's own country for settlement." Congratulations Expressed. Mr. Meier, as head of the associa tion that first advocated the new road, congratulated those who have been in strumental in the work of building it. Mr. Meier's own machine, which he drove and which carried Governor Withycombe and Senator Chamberlain, was the first to leave the Benson Ho tel. It was precisely 7:30 o'clock. This car kept the lead nearly all the way and arrived in front of the Gearhart Hotel this afternoon at exactly 4:30 o'clock. Just nine hours out of Port land. But time allowance must be made for more than an hour devoted to tho lunch and an informal reception at Clatskanle, about 15 minutes for the reception at St. Helens, a similar length of time for other brief stops, and about 15 minutes for a delay due to the car sticking in the sand at Columbia Beach, an aggregate of about two hours of elapsed time, or a net running time of seven hours for the entire trip. Detoar Consumes Time. A long detour through the forests and over some steep grades between Rainier and Clatskanle also consumed about an hour. As soon as some bridges now being built across Beaver Creek are completed this detour will be unnecessary, and the running time between Portland and the sea can be reduced to six hours, and no great ex ertion will be required at that. Aside from the mishap on Columbia Beach, the progress of the trip was not marred by any unnatural incidents, and this delay was by no means serious. All hands got. out and helped to lift the machine back onto tho planking The last 11 miles of the trip was made over the beach sands and " tCuacluded ou fase 11. Column 2.