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TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAN. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 18. 1915. 0 4 AMERICAN TROOPS 2 BORDER FIGHTS Lieutenant of Cavalry Fired On Treacherously While Mak ing Investigation. 17 MEXICANS WOUNDED One of Jiattlcs Lasts Two Hours and a Half Mob Forms at Mat- V araoros, Demanding Guns of , Carranza Commander. Brownsville. Tex., sept. n. American cavalrymen had two flgrhts with Mexicans across the Rio Grande today, one here and one near Donna, about 60 miles ur the river. In both n lashes the American soldiers were ked on and returned the lire without Themselves suffering any casualties. Ten American cavalrymen - in the I'onna nplit. which lasted two hours and a half, reported they were fired on by about fi0 Mexicans, and believed that they had hit about 17 Mexicans. Twenty American cavalrymen fought on the outskirts of Brownsville for half an hour with Mexicans on the op posite side of the bank of the river. After the light one Carranza soldier was taken to Matamoros, probably fatally wounded, but tonight Carranza officers denied emphatically that any of their men joined in the battle. In vestigation of the affair is In progress. Firing: neeun by Mexican. Colonel A. P. Blocksom. American commander at Fort Brown, here, re ported to Major-General Funston at Han Antonio tonight that the Mexicans started the firing- near Brownsville. Immediately after the battle a small mob formed in Matamoros about the headquarters of General K. P. Nafar- rate. Carranza commander, shouting: OJive us guns." . They had heard the rifle shots and tre angered by reports that their people had been fired on. General Nafarrate refused their demands. He sent Colonel P. A. Chapa, his chief of staff, to investigate and Colonel Chapa took United States Consul John- pon with him to the Mexican side of the battle ground. Snipers Shoot Into Ranch. Mr. Johnson found some evidence to support the Mexican soldiers' assertion that they were not implicated in the light, but after coming to Brownsville to learn the American version, Mr. Johnson said he was convinced that Colonel Chapa had not yet been put In possession of all the facts. Few Americans knew f the fight until it was over. The trouble at Brownsville began when Juan Diego, a Mexican resident of Brownsville, re ported to Colonel Blocksom that for two or three days snipers on the Mexi can side had been shooting into his ranch on the river front. A bullet struck nis house and another killed one of his horses. Colonel Blocksom sent Lieutenant E. L. N. Glass with 19 men of Troop C. Third Cavalry, to in vestigate. Arriving at the Diego ranch house. Lieutenant Glass heard a shot near the river. Glass himself went out on the river bank when he saw two Mexicans sit ting on the opposite side, one of whom appeared to be fishing. Glass, calling across to the fisherman, held a short conversation in which the Mexican de nied having heard shots. Q Lieutenant la Fired On. Glass was on the sand bar some dis ance from cover. As he turned to re turn to the bank half a dozen rifles opened fire on him. and Glass replied with a pistol, trying to hamper the Mexicans' fire while he retreated to ward the brush. His men came for ward on a run, opening fire on the Mexicans. The firing died down when the Glass detachment had- used a few rounds. Then a lull came and two Mexican of ficers rode up on horses, waving their swoi ds. Glass stepped from cover, signalling that he wished to talk. He asked what ' this firing by the Mexicans meant. The officers, after a couple of ques tions, replied, according to Glass: "They were only irresponsible pela dos" (a word variously meaning a com mon man or an irresponsible). Then these officers, using swords as whips, were seen to drive some men away from the levee. Near Donna two men of the Twelfth Cavalry were fired on by Mexicans 0:ross the river. Ten other men of the velfth, under Lieutenant Holliday, ere sent investigate. They also were fired on and returned the fire. Lookouts on the American bank re ported that 17 Mexicans seemed to have been hit at various times. COTCH NATIVE DIES AT 82 .Roderick McKenzle, or Summerville, I.evcs Six Children. LA GRANDE. Or., Sept. 17 (Special.) Roderick McKenzie died at his home In Summerville this morning in his 82d year. A couple of months ago he suf fered a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Mc Kenzie was born in Rosshtre in the Highlands of Scotland, February 14, 1834. At the age of 12 he embarked with an uncle and followed the seas until 1S57. He crossed the plains to the West in 1S63. He leaves a widow and six children. Those from the first marriage are: James McKenzie. of Summerville; Dan Mc Kenzie, of Wallowa, and Mrs. Ellis Rinehart. of Moses Lake, Wash. There are three sons from the second mar riage, Alexander and Clyde, of Sum merville, and Roy, of Corvallis. ENATOR LANE ON TOUR Needs of Curry and Klamath Coun ties Being Investigated. r.OSEBURG. Or.. Sept. 17. (Special.) United States Senator Lane, accompa nied by Mrs. Lane and daughter. Miss Marjorie. arrived here last night by automobile en route to Curry and Kla math counties. In Curry County Senator Lane will Investigate the need of a breakwater, for which the people of that county recently petitioned Congress. In Klamath County Senator Lane will inspect the Indian reservations and re port his findings at the next session of Congress. Sen itor Lane is a member of the Indian committee of the Senate. Widow Awarded $15,444 by State. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Sept. 17. (Special.) The widow of C. A. Wood, who ai killed last month at the plart of the Pelican Bay Lumber Company, of this city, was notified yesterday ttiat she had been awarded as a death claim the sum of $15,444.53 by the State Industrial Accident Commission. This is one of the largest claims ever al lowed by the Commission. Mrs. Wood has five children dependent upon her. FAMOUS WAR WRITER, EDITOR WHO IS HERE PREACHING A I , i f ' " jS . wj s ( "' ' : - ' 1 I f & , ' ' - . J i " - - - ' , 1 - - t ,r u, - :, - A yf- - , . -v. i " - - - ' LAFAYETTE YOUXG. PEACE PLAN GIVEN German-Americans Can End War, Says 'Lafe' Young. FALSE IMPRESSION FOUND Teutons Thought Millions Here Would Have Aided Fatherland, , Says Iowan Republican Victory Is Predicted. (Continued From First Pa Re. ) ment are not swarming around him. I repeat what I have often said, that there is nothing so badly needed in America as a patriotic awakening. "We have allowed every man to in vade this country and have taken up his cause instead of our own. "The fight for peace in America has destroyed all patriotic impulses, be cause it has not been on a legitimate basis. Some people think this country of 100,000,000 can exist without any friends and support of its own. They may live to learn differently." Diners Rise and Applaud. At a luncheon in his honor at the Chamber of Commerce at noon. Sen ator Young brought the 250 diners to their feet with a swelli ng outburst of applause and feeling at the conclusion of a remarkable address on "UnAmerl can Americans." He declared that the time had come for America to stand for one people and one language. He deprecated the fact that men of foreign descent, or those who had recently come to the United States, failed to recognize that they now owed their allegiance to the United States and its flag. "If these citizens do not care to ren der that allegiance there is no room for them here. I believe that every for eigner should be required to read ami write the English language before he is allowed to be . naturalized. "I believe in one language for one people. In America it must be the English language. The difference of languages has been the cause of more wars than all the differences of re ligion the world has ever known. "It is the cause of the wars of En- rope today. in the Lnited States we have the same number of languages that a well-known manufacturer has pickles, and the time will come when this thing will be the undoing of the Republic. We have colonies of every nationality, with their oj-n churches and their own schools where their children are taught and their sermons are preached in a foreign tongue. Warning: Is Given Americans. "What does Germany, or Italy, or Russia, or Austria do with the" lan guage of the people under their gov ernment? They require that the lan guage of the people shall be the lan guage of the countries. And we can learn from them that much. "I warn you Americans that you 'are fiddling while Rome burns' bv not giving this matter your attention." The speaker paid a warm trlhnto in that large body of naturalized Ameri cans who have been true and loyal and appreciative of American institutions. "I want a free government of a free country and a free people," he went on, "but I want it one people. J. want every man to be at liberty to cuss the government if he wants to, but I want him to cuss it in English. I want to know whether he is speaking treason or just exercising his right to differ with the President or yie constable. I want a country that is filled with Americans and not spies for some foreign power." Mr. Young praised President Wilson and his peace policy, and paid even a greater tribute to the Roman Catholic Church for the splendid work it Is doin" in relieving the distress of the countries where the effects of the war are most apparent. In so doing he described the attendance at worship from his per sonal observation, and told of the mil lions of women gowned in black who are the only attendants at church. He closed with recoupting his war ad ventures and his own arrest and ex perience in prison." Repetition of Speech Irged. The ex-Senator was . surrounded by AND EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR, REAWAKENING OF PATRIOTISM. scores of prominent citizens when the luncheon adjourned. He was pressed to repeat his speech at the Chamber of Commerce next Monday night. After continued urgings, Mr. Young consented, though this made it neces sary for him to remain in Portland a day longer than he had intended. The meeting will be held on the eighth floor of the Commercial club building, and will be open to the general public, women as well as men. as well as to members of the Chamber. He will be introduced at 8 o'clock, and will tell the story of the war In vivid words from his experiences in the trenches and with the artillery and the aero-t planes. He was with the German army in the German trenches, and was down as far as the battlefield of Sedan, fa mous in 1870, where Napoleon III sur rendered. Mr. Young cannot remember the time when he hasn't been in the newspaper business. As long as he can remember he has been puttering around with type or writing articles or editorials. Twenty-six years ago he founded the Des Moines Capital with $1500 and not much else except natural ability and a capacity for work. For years he was publisher, proprietor, reporter, business manager, printer and janitor for the pa per. Those lean days are past now, and the Des Moines Capital has a circula tion of 46,000 in a town of 110.000. War Experience Is Wide. Mr. Young went to the front as cor respondent for his paper in the Spanish-American War, and served through the Cuban campaign with the Rough Riders. He was with the regiment in every fight of the campaign, and was made an honorary member of the Rough Riders before the regiment was mustered out. He was with the Serbian forces in the Balkan War of two years ago, and again went to the front as correspond ent when the present war broke out. In politics Senator Young is almost as experienced. As a delegate to the Republican National convention of 1900. at Philadelphia, he made the speech nominating Theodore Roose velt for Vice-President. In 1911 he was appointed United States Senator to succeed the late Senator Dolliver of Iowa, but in 1912 was defeated for re-election by Senator Kenyon. Senator Young and his party are staying at the Benson Hotel. "COLONEL" TIMMONS DEAD Auctioneer and ex-Deputy Sheriff Succumbs at 64 Years. OREGON CITY. Or.. Sept. 17. (Spe cial.) W. H. Timmons. for the last 12 years one of the country's leading auc tioneers and familiarly known as "Colonel" Timmons. died at his home in Gladstone last night, after an illness of six months. He was 64 years old. The funeral was held today. Mr. Timmons was born at Cadiz. Ky., and lived there many years, serving as jailer and Deputy Sheriff for several terms. Four years ago Mr. and Mrs. Timmons moved to Gladstone. He is survived by his wife and the follow ing children: Harry Timmons, Glad stone; Mrs. Orville Dann. Sellwood: Mrs. Albert Stone. Woodburn; Bunyan Timmons, Cadiz. Ky.; Archie Timmons, Lake Charles, La.; Mrs. Richard Solo mon. Mrs. Newton Wallace and Miss Gertrude Timmons. Let Resinol Make Your Sick Skin Well That itching, burning skin can be healed! The first use of resinol oint ment seldom fails to give instant relief. With the help of res inol soap, this sooth ing, healing ointment usually clears away all trace of eczema, ringworm, rash or similar tormenting, sleep-preventing skin diseases quickly and at little cost- Physicians have pre scribed resinol ointment regularly for over twenty years, so you need not hes itate to use it freely. Sold by all drug gists. For a sample free, write to Dept. 4-R, Resinol, Baltimore, lid. IS VOIR TOILET SOAP SAFE? Many toilet soaps contain harsh, in jurious alkali. Resinol soap contains absolutely no free alkali, and to it Is added the resinol medication. This gives it soothing, healing properties which clear the complexion, comfort tender akins and keep the hair healthy. COWBOYS ABE KURT FURNISHING THRILLS Bulldogger and Bull Rider In jured at Walla Walla Frontier Celebration. BRONCHOS BUCK VICIOUSLY Several Give Spectacular Perform ances and Others "Hit Dust" In Busting Contests Finals Are to Be Held Today. WALLA WALLA. Wash., Sept. 17. (Special.) Featured by good steer rop ing and broncho busting, the second day of Walla Wallas Frontier Days, ended with practically all the prelim inaries completed for the finals tomor row. There will be a few prelimins? ries in the morning. ' The lineup tonight Insures the best list of entries in .the finals of any of the celebrations. Today's events were more thrilling to the spectators and dangerous to the contestants. Clayton Danks broke a shoulder blade in a tussle with a steer in the bulldogging. and J. Roff got a bad scalp wound when he fell from a wild bull. A variation was given the wild horse race today. The horses were freed in the arena and at a pistol sig nal the mounted cowboys dashed for them in an effort to lasso, bridle, sad dle and ride them. It was 10 min utes before a cowboy succeeded. Funny Race Is Stasrcri. The night shirt race caused much fun. The cowboys mounted, rode a quarter way around, dismounted, opened a suitcase, took out a night shirt, put it on and continued carrying the suitcase. They stopped again, dis mounted, picked up an umbrella and mounted, opening it on the run. Sam Garrett won. Pablo Martinez took the cowboys' saddle race: Thomas Yallup the Indian cayuse race; Irene Bushman the squaw saddle race; Mrs. James Parsons the cowgirls' pony race; Tom Yallup the Indian thoroughbred. Jam-3s Parsons made the best time in the relay. 4:03. while Bob Lee on the Irwin string, did it in 4:04 4-5. Tomorrow brings the finals and the pioneers' parade, which this year will have more pioneers than before. This is the big feature of the three days, pioneers from the time of the Whit man massacre, 1847, taking part. POLK CROPS ARE GOOD Grain All Harvested and Quality Is Declared Perfect. RICKREALL, Or.. Sept. 18. (Spe cial.) Polk crops of grain, hay. hops and fruit are heavy this year. Hay in large quantities was stored away for Winter feeding. There was a larger acreage than usual and the yield was good in all parts of the county. The grain has been wholly harvested. The last fields threshed had been stand ing for three weeks, but were in perfect condition. Wheat was grown more generally in this county than since Dioneer days, owing to the high prices of last year. From 15 to 40 bushels was the yield obtained. Some of the richest fields raised wheat this year. On the Riddell farm, near Monmouth, ' M'swiufcirvuiihu'r r i i"""" f""Tni''j'"i-'i'!'m mumi i ;r the wheat grew sLx feet high, and sup ported a hat. wnich is the old test for heavy-yielding wheat. The average to the acre was 37 bushels. The acreage in vetch and oats was uncommonly small. The " oats out crowded the vetch and both yielded poorly. Hundreds of acres were planted to Spring oats which yielded heavily all over Polk County. What is believed to be the best here is that of Sheriff Orr, near Rickreall, which ran S2 bushels to the acre. An 80-acre field of Riddell Bros., near Monmouth, averaged 55 bushels an acre. J. F. Morrison, a well-known farmer of Perrydale. gives the estimate in that district as follows: Wheat. 30 bushels an acre; oats. 45 bushels: vetch, 15. Farmers there are holding for higher prices. The hop harvest is practically com pleted. Yards in the Independence. Dallas and Rickreall sections were heavy with hops. although in the Luckiamute Valley, south of Mon mouth, the . yield was exceptionally light, the harvest requiring only from six to ten days. At Independence sev eral large yards had three weeks pick ing. In 1913 a trainload of hops was sent Last. The prune harvest now is employ ing many in Polk County. The yield is average, but the effect of Spring frosts is noted. DUMBA STILL REMAINS -NO PREPARATIONS FOR DKPAR TIRE HAVE BKE .MADE. BcrnMorff Takes Pains to Announce That Visit of Austrian Ambassa dor Is Not Conference. NEW YORK, Sept. 17. Dr. Constan tin T. Dumba. the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador whose recall has been asked by President Wiison. visited Count von Bernstorff at his hotel late today and remained with the German Ambassador more than an hour. When Dr. Dumba left he declined to discuss his visit or any other question. Through his secretary. Count von Bernstorff said he wanted it under stood that Dr. Dumba had not held a conference with him and that, being an old acquaintance, the Austrian Am bassador had merely dropped in to pay a friendly call. ' Asked if Dr. Dumba's call was in the nature of a final adieu, the secretary answered: "Not at all." He added that he did not believe that Dr. Dumba had made definite arrange ments for his trip to Vienna. Inquiry at the steamship offices in this city today brought out statements from officials that no reservations had as yet been made for Dr. Dumba for any steamer leaving this port in the near future. WASHINGTON. Sept. 17. The Aus trian government intends to recall Am bassador Dumba for consultation, ac cording to intimations given to Am bassador Penfield, when he delivered the note from the United States, ask ing for the return of the Ambassador to Austria. Such an arrangement, which is in accord with Dumba's own request for recall on leave of absence. Is satisfac tory to the American government. It is understood, however, that Ambassa dor Dumba will not return to the United States at the termination of his leave. Caretcria TJnn at Kelso High School. KELSO, Wash.. Sept. 17. (.Special.) Miss Roma Huntington. domestic science teacher at the Kelso High School, with the Kid of her pupils is conducting a cafeteria at the hlga school building. The meals are sim ple and are served practically at cost It is self-sustaining, however, and the students are expected to get much uabig training fmn their work. TO PORTLAND Tomorrow the Retail Merchant Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce will publish in The Ore gonian a page advertisement, giving the list of Portland merchants who have agreed to par ticipate in "Dollar Day." If you have not already signed the list communicate with the com mittee by calling up Broadway 440 and asking for the Retail Merchant Bureau. A Dollar Will Talk Louder Next Thursday Than It Has Ever Before This does not mean that all advertised articles will be comfined to one dollar. It means that the wide-awake merchants will increase the purchasing power of the dollar by offering extraordinary inducements for this day, whether the article advertised is priced at one dollar, five dollars, or more. SURPRISING OFFERINGS WILL BE MADE EVERYWHERE That will make the day memorable. Persons looking for goods of every descrip tion, though of higher or less cost than a dollar, will find equal money-saving in ducements in the advertisements of Portland Merchants. FOR INSTANCE THE RESTAURANT MAN can give a discount on each check. THE JEWELER can give dollar bargains and discount on other goods. THE HABERDASHER can make dollar combinations without number. THE SHOE MAN can have dollar discounts and perhaps dollar goods. THE DRY GOODS MAN can make dollar inducements without limit. THE FURNITURE AND CARPET merchants aside from dollar offers can reduce different pieces of furniture and rugs according to judgment. THE CIGAR MAN can sell by the box or give extra cigars to each dollar purchaser. THE DENTIST can give one dollar discount on every five dollars of work contracted for on this date. EVERY BUSINESS MAN can arrange his prices and combinations to suit his business even if it is something to sell for less than a dollar. "Dollar Day" means to sell goods at a bargain on Dollar Day not necessarily goods that sell for one dollar. Dollar Day is under the auspices of the Retail Merchants oureau of tne L,hamber of iommerce. This store will be closed today, Saturday, Sept. 18, until 6 o'clock P. M., in observance of A Jewish Customers are courteously requested to defer, making purchases until evening. The store will be thrown open from 6 to 10 o'clock. Ben Selling- Morrison at Fourth Two Great Lectures Today 2:30, Scientific Care of the Face New V-N - J J 3 : Flynn in Action. on a charge of robbery and the case went to the jury last night. Albert Ferguson will be tried tomorrow on the same charge. HAY PALACE FAIR PLEASES Lower Yakima Valley Makes Success of Sliow at Mabton. MABTOX, Wash.. Sept. 17. (Special.) The Mabton Hay Palace Fair, which opened Wednesday, is proving success ful beyond expectations. Representing Governor Lister, James Rrislawn addressed a great throng at the opening, as did C. E. Amy. Lower Yakima Valley is taking the greatest interest in this fair. The agri MERCHANTS Holiday 8 o'CIock, Cause and Cure of That Tired Feeling and the Blues Fiynn Health Chautauqua 11TH-ST. THEATER, 11TH AND MOR-' RISON. Gen. Admission 2oc or 10c and thia Ad. Reserve Seats 50c or 25c and this Ad. WATCH AD. FOR NEXT WEEK. cultural exhibits are considered equal to any grown anywhere on the coast. R. E. Crow is president of the fair. T. W. Howell is secretary, and A. J. Bush, treasurer. The directors are R. E. Crow. C. B. Cox. A. H. Wilson. J. A. Humphrey and E. J. Lutz. President Atly, of Water Users, lies. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Sept. 17. (Special.) Abel Ady, president of the Klamath Water Users' Association, died early this morning at his homo at Merrill, of heart trouble. Mr. Ady had been suffering much from the dis ease for several years, since he was injured in a railway wreck. He was 48 years of age. A wife and four chil dren survive. He came to Klamath Falls several years ago from Santa Clara. Cl.
