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THE MORNIXG OKEGOXIAX. MONDAY, SEPTEJIBKIl 27, 1915. V 3 ARSON PROFIT $600 DISTINGUISHED MUSICIANS, WHO ARRIVED YESTERDAY. POLICE BAFFLED BY uiai inn am m raJUWVJ! .! UIIII.U.!Un.WI WI'W IW SI JJIJ.g. ayii J FOR EACH FIRE SET WISCONSIN MURDER Burright in Confession Says Gang Bought Housesn In- X It a r-ki i:u sianmeni Man. DATES AND PLACES GIVEN Portland, Tacoma and Seattle, Be sides XI ne California Cities, ' Visited ; Seven Men and Three Women Are Implicated. OAKLAND. Sept- 26. Details of the operations of an alleged arson gang were made public here tonight when the police gave out part of the con- resson said to have been secured ves terday from Charles U. Burright. who with his wife, is in custody awaiting trial on a charge of arson. Burright, the police say, gave them the dates and places of 28 incendiary fires for w men ne and his sans were resnon Bible, and on which they are said to have realized, by collecting the insur ance, an average profit of $600 a fire Burright told the police that he left Butte. Mont., in 1009, for Portland, where he met "Richard Currier," who is believed by the Oakland police to be tlie same Currier now under arrest for arson in Portland. Partnership Lasts 18 Months. Currier, Burright said, told him how easy it was to beat the insurance com pany. . This partnership lasted 18 months, according to Burright. They had a split and Burright went into the business for himself. Their method, Burright explained, was to buy lots on the instalment plan, build houses and furnish them, also on the instalment plan, take all the in surance they could get and then set the place on 'fire. "U'e were always careful in starting the fire." Burright said, "to see that the wind was in such a direction that it would not endanger other property. In the 26 fires we started no outside property was ever damaged." Seven Men, Three Women, Named. Burrightgave the police the names of seven men and three women in his '"employ." These names the police will not divulge, but they expect to have them all under arrest in a few days. Burright declared, the police say, that he and his gang had burned houses In Tacoma, Seattle, Portland, Or., and in the following California cities: Rich mond, Oakland. San Jose, Englewood, Pasadena, Long Beach, Los Angeles, San Diego, Calexico. WORKS CRITICISES TACT SEXATOR SAYS JIDGH IS WISE POLITICIAN." NOT IKrramm Regarding Caliofrnia Elec tion Law Declared to Have Marred Party Harmony. LOS ANGELES. Sept. 26. John D. "Works, Republican and senior United States Senator from California, issued a statement here tonight criticising a speech made here September 18 by ex President Taft. He said it was poor politics and took issue with part of it as to the subject matter, but agreed with Mr. Taft in the position that the non-partisan etate election law was not a good one. Mr. Works praised Mr. Taft highlv, but added that "with all the judge's admirable qualities, h-e has never been looked upon by his best and most loyal friends as a wise politician. A greater political mistake could not have been made than the delivery of such a speech in this state at this time." It came, he said, when men who be lieved in the fundamental principles of the Republican party were trying to bring together other men in and out of the party with whom they have dif fered to oppose the Democrats and "it could have no other effect than to de feat this most desirable object, al though it might be well enough ia Connecticut." BATTLE RAGES ON LINE (Continued From First Page. ) Chamnagne district and that the Brit ish at the same moment would start a smashing drive against the Kaiser's battle front between Arras and Ypres Belgium. Dawn Saturday saw the beginning of the struggle. With almost startling suddenness the roar of big guns ceased. In the next instant tens of thousands of British infantrymen leaped from their trenches south of the region ot La Bassee Canal and raced forward to the first-line trenches of the Germans. Many of these had been utterly de stroyed; only mounds of earth freshly turned by the bursting shells remaining where they had been. German Dead Strew Ground. The ground was found strewn with German dead. There was no halt. The British pressed forward, braving the fire of German cannon, which were now trained on what had been their own forward position. The British stormed the second line, then the third line and finally in many places reached the fortifications behind which were the German reserves. Here took place the hottest of the hand-to-hand fighting as the British second-line soldiers hurriedly dug trenches while their comrades gave battle to the Germans. The Kaiser's reserves fought with de termination and sought to deliver counter-attacks, but they were held at bay. The battle continued without in terruption throughout all Saturday night with the greatest fury and was still raging today without pause. Hill 70 and too. Captured. "While the British divisions south of La Bassee were carrying the fortifi cations opposite them in this brilliant infantry drive, other British forces stormed Hill 70, and routed their foes from the village of Loos and from the approaches to Hulluch. Similar suc cesses were won by the troops com manded by Sir John French south of the Menin road, where the Germans were routed from trenches a third of a mile wide. The French opened their battering-ram infantry attack at day light in the Champagne country and also in the Arras region. The French attacked at the same in stant on a front 15 miles wide. Divi sion after division of infantry swept across the open space between the op posing trenches and cut their way through for distances varying from two-thirds of a mile to two miles and a half. As on the fields where the British were fighting, the French encountered little opposition at the first German trenches. Their defenders were dead and the shelters were in Tuins. 1 r4 - til? :"x 1 MR A?m MRS. FRITZ KREISLER, FROM PHOTOGRAPH TAKES WHEX THEY REACHED THE ti ll. 42 BABES ARE TAKEN Mrs. Fritz Kreisler Mothering War Orphans. VIOLINIST PLAYS TONIGHT Programme for Concert at Heilig Includes Selections IVom Han del, Tartini and Viotti and Slavonic Dances by Dvorak. Fritz Kreisler, the great violinist and the "soldxer' who followed orders" and who appears at the Heilig tonight, ac companied by Mrs. Kreisler. arrived in Portland yesterday. Mrs. Fritz Kreisler. besides being the wife of the greatest violinist in the world today, lias not bought a dress Or a hat for a year. She saves all the money she gets. She has 42 babies. let there are love and harmony in the Kreisler household. The truth Is Mrs. Kreisler's sym pathies are stirred for real sufferers In the tig war in Europe. Her 42 babies are the adopted children of 11 soldiers who passed away in war hos pitals. Their last whispered words were, when their eyes were glazing: "My tamily! My little children!" So, Mrs. Kreisler, who was then an army nurse, understood the mute ap peal or these desperately wounded soldiers. She agreed to adopt the babies of these dying fathers, if her nusband, who was then in the trenches, were returned safely to her. He came back wounded. Mrs. Kreisler gets 10 per cent of her husband's concert earn. ings to support her war babies. Ave haven t any money any more. we give it all away," said Mrs. Kreis ler last night at the Hotel Benson. When my husband and I go into a restaurant at night after his concert is over and meet some of his men friends, I refuse to let these friends ,buy wine. There is no use wasting 15 on bottles of wine for us. I make these friends give me the $5 they in tended to spend on wine and add the money to my fund for the relief of distress. "I also send money to helD sumiort Impoverished musicians in Eurone. These artists are stranded over there. The usual orchestral employment in cafes and grills has nearly stopped be cause of the war. and these men many of them helpless must live. They can't dig in the fields, or do a 50-cent job in the streets. In times of peace these musicians gave us pleasure with their art. Why should we not help them, now? .Tonight. Mr. Kreisler appears in violin recital at the Heilig. His pro gramme is a brilliant one. Contrasting witn the inspiring strains of Handel and the brilliant genius of Tartini and Viotti will be the enchanting grace of Weber, the appealing melody of Schu bert, an enthralling Spanish serenade by Chaminade. a new vaise by Godow- eky, two Slavonic dances by Dvorak, an exquisite scherzo and lyric by Kreisler, whose grace of imaginaton will be per ceived also in new arrangements of the numbers already named. INANCIER JS ARRESTED Secretary of Hawaiian Trust Com pany Cliarged With Embezzlement. HONOLULU, T. H., Sept. 26. Louis Abrams, secretary of the Hawaiian Trust Company and prominent in social and financial circles, was arrested to day on a charge of embezzlement. It id alleged that his shortage amounts to $26,500. The discovery of the alleged embez zlement was made while Abrams was visiting San Francisco, where his wife now is. Abrams returned voluntarily on the steamer Lurline and announced on his arrival that he could explain everything. ALL FRANCE IS STIRRED (Continued From First Page.) again that there are really more men than can be used, and that what is important is ammunition and the sow ing tnem in. Much Expected From British. Experts hope that by SDrine- everv new British volunteer now here will have become so accustomed to the con dition of war as he has learned them from his association with the already experienced troops, that he will have perfectly imbibed the qualities which usually come only through conscription training. As matters now stand, even those English officers who formerly cried for conscription are convinced that there is no immediate need, except to convince the allies of England's su preme effort and to do away with un fairness. But from the military point of view they say it is absolutely not necessary. There are supposed to be a quarter of a million British at the Dardanelles, as contrasted with 40,000 French, and a million and a quarter British in France. Now to see how the optimism works in regard to the Russian si'tuation: The parallel with Napoleon is worked over time and you hear both Knglish and Frenchmen saying, "Go on, go forward, boches, keep it up, and God be with you I" It Is a natural belief that the Ger mans are preparing themselves for a bad smash if they go too far into Russia, and that a sharp offensive an intense, deadly forward movement on the part of the French would make them have to recall troops from Russia whereupon the Russians will fall upon the remnant and revenge themselves. Troops 3iot Kaay to Recall. Nor can these troops be recalled to the Western front with the same ease that attended their presence on the German frontier. They are too far in. the lines are not sufficient to transfer men and material in any sufficient quantity under three weeks. It takes, so I was told today, 3000 trains to convey an army corps and its material. There is a story of Napoleon which was told me by a French historian who wanted to prove that the Germans are in as much danger in entering Russia as was Napoleon. It seems that when Napoleon was undertaking his 1812 campaign of Po land he said at Vitebek to Jomini. who tells the story later in his memoirs: "I won't make Charles XIl's mlstal-e and go too far. There shall be no Poltava for me." When he got to Smolensk, at the end of the second stage. Napoleon said: "Just one more tstroke and I've got them. They ere in the most perfect position now for complete mastery." Jomini reminded him this time of the Swedish king and of Poltava, but Na poleon retaliated: "Conditions have changed entirely. I have splendid communications: Charles XII had none, and, anyway, I'm not going too far." At Moscow Jomini says: "I thought sadly about Charles XII. but it seemed discreet not to mention him to the Emperor. However, I am convinced that this same thought was often in his mind." So the Frenchman tried to convince me by telling this story from Jomini's memoirs that the differencve between Napoleon and the Kaiser was no great er than that between Napoleon and Charles XII, since each thought he was so far in advance of his predecessor mat no clanger could come to him, but that the country, the cold, and the immense distances were equally de structive forces in all three cases. This buoyant optimism of the French and their belief in an almost immedi ate offensive received further en couragement in the various new orders which have gone out today. All offi cers on leave have been recalled. The men may remain for the limit of their permission, which in no case exceeds six days,' but the officers must rejoin at once. And after this no more per missions will be granted for a consider able time. Letters from the front must be left open. All letters leaving France are to be detained 4S hours. This is the new est edict of the military authorities and went into effect last night. Also let ters coming in are liable to a deten tion, which will, however, never ex ceed 48 hours. All these things look like business, and coming one after the other seem to justify the hope we all have that the cold weather will not set in before the French army has strengthened its line between Verdun and Belfort to In-, elude Metz in French territory. 60 BURNED BY YflQUIS PA88EXGERS FORCED IXTO CAR, WHICH IS SET OX FIRE. Indiana Are Deserters Front Army, and Victims Are Said to Be Mostly Women and Children. SAN DIEGO, Sept. 26. Eighty pas sengers on a Southern Pacific Mexi , can train were forced Into a car con taining hay and the car set on fire by a band of Yaqui Indian leserters Fri day, near Torres, Sonora. according to wireless advices received here today from Hermosillo via Guaymas. Only 20 passengers have been ac counted for thus far. It is believed that the remainder were burned to death. The Indians, according to the mes sage, numbered about 60 and were de serters from the army. They first derailed the train running from Campo Verde to Torres, after which they placed all of the passengers, number ing 80, most of whom were women and children. Into a car containing hay and applied the torch. Torres is a small town on the South ern Pacific railroad about 70 miles north of Guaymas and a junction point of the roads, a spur line running into the mining district where Campo Verde is situated. Brother nad Sister Wed Together. ALBANY. Or., Sept. 26. (Special.) A brother and sister were participants in a double wedding at Halsey today. A. C. Leeper was married to Miss Hazel Gaub, and his sister, Miss Georgie Leep er, became the bride of Lloyd W. Byerly. Licenses for the wedding were Issued at the County Clerk's officer here yes terday. Byerly making the affidavit for Leeper's license and Leeper signing the affidavit for the issuance of Byerly's permit. Relatives of Couple Angrily Reject Theory That Captain Slew Wife and Self. TOBACCO LABEL IS CLEW Course, of Bullet Traced From Bit of Paper to Clot of Blood and Grass Shows How Woman's Body Was Dragged. MILWAUKEE. Sept. 26. (Special.) The paper label on a package of cheap tobacco tonight is the evidence on which the authorities of Green Lake County are seeking the murder of Captain R. W. Mueller and his wife at their lonely Summer home on Puck away Lake Friday night. The trail of a bullet, grazing the bark of a tree, leads from this tobacco label to the clot of blood beside which the glasses of Mrs. Muller were found, and a faint brushinc of grass shows where the bodv of the murdered wo man was carried to the tiny cottage where the bodv was found beside that of her murdered husband, i This. 13 as far the Investigation into the most mysterious murder of recent years has led the authorities. Bloodhounds Fall to Take Trail. Bloodhounds have been unable to lead the searchers more than a few yards to the shore of the lake. The tobacco label is the one piece or evidence which blocks the theory at first advanced that Captain Mueller killed his wife and himself, for Cap tatin Mueller never smoked. The murderer. It is now assured stood in the door of the cabin when Mrs. Mueller approached the house on her way from the boat to the cabin w-heni she returned with her husband from a trtp to the village of Marquette for supplies. The scarred bark of the trees marks the trail of the bullet from the gun of the murderer to the body of Mrs. Mueller. She was ap proaching through the -trees. The mur derer, standing in the shadow of the cottage, fired through an opening in the trees, clipping three trees before the bullet struck Its target. Relatives Reject Suicide Theory. How Captain Mueller was slain mys tifies everyone connected with the case. The District Attorney is inclined to be lieve that Captain Mueller killed his wife and himself. The Milwaukee rel atives of both in a rage declare that this solution is advanced to clear him of any charge of inability to trail down the murderer. Captain Mueller was a crack shot with a pistol and rifle, but his domes tie relations were of the best and his visit to Marquette the day of he mur der to buy more supplies and the con dition of the bodies, all. they, say, proves it was murder. The murder theory is based on the presumption that Captain Mueller stopped to try to shoot a duck for supper, that his wife was shot by ambushed murderers while her her husband was gone and that he was killed irk his own cottage when he re turned and found his wife dead. Crushed Skull Against Suicide. The crushed skull and battered con dition of Captain Mueller's body is given as evidence that he could not have killed himself. One of those declaring the suicide theory untenable is Captain W. J. L ronyon. .of Milwaukee, for 40 years h medical officer with Captain Mueller in the National Guard, and expert in many historic Milwaukee murder cases. He conducted the autopsy at Puckaway Lake on the two bodies. The time of the murder is set at before 9 o'clock Friday night by the latest Investigations. At that time the nearest neighbors of the Muellers, a mile distant, saw a hie in the direction or tne nome. but thought it was a beach nre. as these were often built at tne Mueller cottage. GONZAGA STAR IS KILLED SPOKANE COLLEGE DEPRESSED OVER LOSS OP BIU ATHLETE. Louis Darrctt. Victim of Automobile Accident, Was Rated as Best foot ball Player In School. SPOKAXE. Wash.. Sept. iS. (Spe cial.) There was depression in Gon zaga University today when the news of the death of Louis Barrett, killed in the automobile accident on Palouse Highway last night, became known. The big- fellow was not only popular as a student, but his athletic record was such as to make his loss especially felt. r Football prospects suffer severely in Barrett's death. He had not only clinched the right end position, where he played a fine game the year before, but he was Gonzaga's only high-class kicker in sight, the best man on the team in receiving the forward pass, and. all around, probably the most val uable single player on the squad. Coach Coyle was disconsolate today. "Not only was he a star performer," said Coyle, "but he was a perfect thor oughbred, and I am going to miss him greatly just from a personal standpoint. I had been watching him for the last few days, and had just remarked that I believed Barrett was one of the best looking ends I had seen in all my con ference experience. I actually looked for him to be Gonzaga's one man on the AU-Northwest team this year." UNION FORDS TO COMPETE Special Auto Race Is Planned at La Grande Fair. LA GRANDE, Or.. Sept. 26. (Spe cial.) Union County Fords are to be pitted against each other during the Union County Fair, October 5-8. A race between owners has been ar ranged, with suitable cash rewards, and the entries will be required to compete on a half-mile horse race track. The fair promoters do not con template establishing a world's speed record, but they do look for some great sport when the Forda get on the siarnns line. mere is going to be a race lor an makes the same day. Union County is sending the greatest exhibit to the State Fair at Salem this year that has ever gone down to the capital grounds from this section. lailed Sailor's Condition Critical. Al Slade. a. sailor, was taken from the city jail to the emergency hospital early last night to be treated for pa ralysis. The man was arrested several days' ago. Assistant City Physician Harding says blade s condition is seri ou if The Constipation Bugbear OBSTINATE cases of chronic constipation, which no longer respond to the usual laxative and cathar tic remedies, may be success fully treated by the use of Nujol as an internal lubricant. The mineral oil treatment for constipation has received the unqualified endorsement of leading specialists both in this country and abroad. It has none of the dangers of the habit forming laxatives, and is of par ticular value in the treatment of constipation in children. : I II Bayonnc KEPT SECRET Condemned Man Says He Is Sacrifice to Chivalry. DIPLOMAT PLEADS CAUSE Swedish Minister Asks Delay of K-xe-eutiou; Kequcst Is Telegraphed by State Department to Gov ernor of Utah. SALT LAK12. Sept. 26. An effort Is being made, through the Swedish min ister to this country and the State De partment, to secure postponement of the execution of Joseph Hillstrom which is set for next Friday. Hillstrom was found guilty of having murdered J. G. Morrison, a grocer of this city, and his 15-year-old son, Ar ling. on the night of January 10. 1914, in an attempted robbery of the grocery store. Subsequently Hillstrom was ad rested. It developed that on the nisht of the murder he had gone to a phy sician for treatment for a wound in his breast. The son of the grocer hart fired at the robber after his father had been shot, and blood stains discov ered in the store showed that the shot had taken effect. Woman's Identity Kept Secret. At the trial of Hillstrom he had de clared that the wound had been gained in a fight over a woman, whose iden tity he refused to reveal because she was of prominent family, he said. The Board of Pardons, of which Gov ernor Spry is a member, last week de nied the application of Hillstrom for a new trial or any other .delay In carry ing out the execution. The Governor and other members of the board, how ever, urged Hillstrom to tell who the woman was or give some other satis factory explanation of the wound re ceived on the night of the murder. The prisoner, however, was obdurate and refused to make any explanation, even though further time and an opportu nity to clear himself if he did so were SYMPTOMS OF DEBILITY People who are tired all of the time and never feel rested even after a long night in bed. who cannot regain weight and strength, whose step lacks elastic ity and who feel no joy in living, are debilitated. 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If you can not get Nujol from your druggist, we will send you a pint bottle pre paid to any point in the United States on receipt of 75c money order or stamps. sua' jCTtsygfav' 9 wxjm TT promised him. Hillstrom persisted in his innocence. . A telegram from Francis Polk, act ing Secretary of State, transmitting a message received by him from the Swedish minister petitioning for a stay of execution, caused the calling of a special meeting of the Utah Board of Pardons today. The telegram from Secretary Polk suggested that Gover nor Spry give the request of the Swed ish minister "his careful considera tion." At the conclusion of the Pardon Board meeting Governor Sfiry tele graphed to Secretary Polk, outlining that Hillstrom had had a fair trial, his caso had been considered on appeal by the Supreme Court, and again in April by the Board of Pardons, the succes sive verdicts being against him. A complete copy of the decision of the Supreme Court and a copy of the state ment of the Pardon Board were mailed Secretary Polk by special delivery to night. "Unless there comes a specific re quest for a stay of execution from the State Department. Hillstrom will be executed here next Friday." said Gov ernor Spry. "If the Department, how ever, asks the reprieve, it will be granted in order that a further inves tigation of the claims of innocence made by Hillstrom may be made." Molalla Schools CJrow. MOLALLA, Or.. Sept. 26. (Special.) Because of the large enrollment the first week of school, it has becomo necessary to add another high school A Great Film ilhe 'EX'PI.OREP' Five-part thrilling drama showing an ex pedition to British Africa to put down the slave trade. With which is coupled a love story and a man's awakening and sacrifice. FEATURING LOU-TELLEGEN International romantic star. Former leading man with Mme. Sarah Bernhardt. Now at the PEOPLES THEATER West Park at Alder and the PARAMOUNT TRAVELOGUE A visit to South America. New Jersey 7orr.. nvTs"innifi Vr i ; teacher. The Board met Saturday and elected Miss Eunice Townsend. a grad uate of Heed College, who will take up her work Monday. The remarkable growth of the Mo lalla schools is shown by the fact that there were 63 registered in the high school the first week, while at tlio same time last year there were but C ami only 22 the year before. It. V. Rose is principal. Miss Mildred Riddle and Miss Townsend assistants in the high school, Mrs. K. M. Joy, Miss Myrtle Lay, Miss Alta Ramsby and Miss Odessa Ulen in the grades. A Mexican who ivt-l!s in A-tnn. Cal., has 1-mi 4-hnppinjr nnd l-:lulini: norl f,,r Hi lawt ."to years, and now thinks nf retir ing truni business an-i Riving the yonnc f?llo, s h chancf. His use is r and he tlink li i: onlitic-l a rst. ORDER OF UNITED ARTISANS A Social. Fraternal. Beneficial So ciety for men and women. Four plans of Insurance based upon ade quate rates, and backed by a sur plus of nearly one in ill ion dollars. 20 lodges in Portland. Over U.0"d members in Oregon. Let us tell you about it. Phone Main 120 C. L. SPKE.WA. Supreme Secretary, o'-'l Beck Uldic Portland. Or. fl 1