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VOL,. L.V XO. 17,117. PORTLAND. OREGOX. movtiav rm-rT? 1 : CZAR'S ULTIMATUM GOES TO BULGAAR1 Day Given to Break With Teutons MINISTER READY TO LEAVE Facts Held Not to Square With Sofia's Pretensions. WARNING IS REITERATED rrt rograd Demands That German and Austrian Military Officers Now In Country Be Dismissed Within Tvventy-four Hours. rETROGRAD, via London. Oct. 3. The Russian Minister has been ordered to leave Sofia unless within 24 hours the Bulgarian government openly breaks with Austria and Germany and sends away the Austrian and German, military officers now In Bulgaria, ac cording to the semi-official news agency. The news agency gives the following nolo which th Minister at Sofia has been ordered to hand to M. Kadoslavoff, the Bulgarian Premier: "The events which are taking place In Bulgaria at this moment give evi dence of a definite decision of King Kerdinand'3 government to place the fate of its country in. the hands of Germany. , Hostile Purpose Mot Doubted. "The presence of German and Aus trian officers at the ministry of war and on the staff of the army, the con centration of troops in the zone bor dering Serbia, and the extensive finan cial support accepted from our enemies by the Sofia cabinet no longer leave any doubt as to the object of the mil itary preparations of Bulgaria. "The powers of the entente, who have at heart the realization of the aspira tions of the Bulgarian people, have on .many occasions warned M. Kadoslavoff j that any hostile act against Serbia would be considered as directed against themselves. The assurances given by the head of the Bulgarian cabinet in ..reply to these warnings are contra dicted by the facts. Open Break Demandail. "The representative of Russia, which Is bound to Bulgaria by the imperish able memory of her liberation from the Turkish yoke, cannot sanction by his presence preparations for fratricidal aggression against a Slav and allied people. "The Russian minister, therefore, has received orders to leave Bulgaria with all the stuffs of the legation and con sulates if the Bulgarian government does not within 24 hours openly break with the enemies of the Slav cause and of Russia, and does not at once pro ceed to send away officers belonging to armies of states which are at war with the powers of the entente." - i MOBILIZATION IS COMPLETE Strength or Bnlfrarinn Forces Xow Estimated at 350,000. LONDON. Oct. 3. An Athens dis pach to one Exchange Telegraph Com pany Bays it is learned from Sofia that Bulgarian mobilization has been, com pleted. The strensth of the Bulgarian troops fs estimated at 350,000. The artillery regiments have been sent to the Serbian frontier, while the Sixth snd Seventh divisions are con centrated in the regions of Koula and Bclogra.lchik. near the Danube. MR. FOGLEMAN TO LECTURE Salesmanship Expert 'Will Address Grocerymen. Harry L. Fogleman. of Chicago, pop ularly called the "Billy Sunday of salesmanship." will be in Portland to-da- and tomorrow and will be the guest of honor and principal speaker at the luncheon of the Rotary Club at the Benson Hotel tomorrow noon. He will address the proprietors of the local grocery houses at a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce at 8 o'clock tonight and for Wednesday it has been arrnnged that he will address the clerks employed in the grocery houses of the city. "Grocery Salesman ship" will be the subject of his two addresses before the grocery men. He will give a general talk on salesman ship before the members of the Rotary Club. PLOT OF SIKHS NIPPED fcla lighter of British In Cathedral at Hongkong Prevented. HONOLULU, Oct. 3. Plans of Sikh mutineers to surround a cathedral in Hongkong during services August 4 and kill the British Governor, officers and congregation, were discovered In time to prevent their execution, ac cording to Bishop Restarick of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Hono lulu, who has just returned from the Orient. Thirty-eight ring leaders of tha plotters were sent to India to be put to death German money was found on the leaders. Bishop Restarick said. An in tercepted letter disclosed to the of ficials the complete plans of the mutineers. MINERS ENTOMBED SIX DAYS RESCUED NINE SrEX SUITER FROM IX. TEXSE COLD AX1) HUNG Eli. Efforts of 200 Workmen and Com pany Officials to Tear Away 3 00 Feet of Rock Succeeds. LANSFORD, Pa., Oct. 3. Nine miners entombed in the Lehigh Coal & Navi gation colliery at Coaldale last Mon day, were rescued alive today. They were found on top of a chute in which they had crawled to escape a flood of water from an abandoned working which caused more than 300 feet of gangway roof to fall, shutting off all escape. The men are In the hospital and are expected to recover, .v The rescue was accomplished after 200 mine workers and company offi cials had battled for six days against discouraging conditions in the choked up gangway. After blasting and tearing away more than 300 feet of solid rock, coal and timbers, rescuers reached the chute where the pitiful group was discov ered. It was intensely cold in the lit tle space and the rescuers found the nine men, two of whom are scarcely out of their teens, curled up in a com pact mass to retain the warmth of .their bodies. Fish oil and a few crushed chicken bones, found in a dinner pail, had made up their principal diet until Thursday, when the latter gave out and the fish oil composition used in their lamps was the only item on the menu. MILITIA FRAUD CHARGED Texans Said to Have Sold Uniforms to Mexican Revolutionists. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. 3. The War Department has advised the State Adjutant-General's office at Austin that the Government allowance to the Texas National Guard for the ensuing year will be $9000 instead of $100,000, it was announced here today. A deduction of $91,000 from the usual appropriation was made by the department to cover the value of uniforms and other equip ment belonging to the state militia, which, it is charged, were sold to Mex ican revolutionists after official state ments had been submitted that the equipment had been condemned and destroyed. Three .officers of the Texas National Guard recently were indicted here on charges of defrauding the Government in connection with the alleged sale of militia equipment. Agents of the Department of Justice say that $20,000 worth of uniforms were sold to Carranza troops, the United States Army buttons being re moved and Bold to a St. Louis firm. STRIKE AMNESTY FAVORED Colorado Company 'Willing to Drop All Except Extreme Cases. DENVER, Oct. 3. The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company would welcome an amnesty regarding alleged offenses growing out of the coal miners' strike of 1913-14. according to a statement by J. F. Welborn, president of the com pany. Mr. Welborn said the state au thorities had been, advised that the company would not be averse to the dismissal of all cases against ex-strikers, except where evidence of guilt is exceptionally strong. "It is our desire, however,." he said, "to see the slate cleaned as quickly as possible." Mr. Welborn's statement was made in reply to a question whether the adoption of the Rockefeller industrial plan would have any effect on the so called strike cases. WRECK IS LAID TO MINE American Naval Officers About Con vinced in Hesperian Case. WASHINGTON', Oct. 3. Naval offi cers assigned to examine pieces ofj rt r.nnJ nVnn1 the Allan liner Hesperian before she sank oft the Irish coast September 4, are virtually convinced that the vessel was wrecked by a mine. Their find ings will be submitted to Secretary Daniels this week. While there has never been a formal announcement on the subject, dis patches from London have credited the British admiralty with the belief that the Hesperian was torpedoed without warning- by a German submarine. COREA HELPING RUSSIA Order for 800. 00O Army Boots Is Placed in Seoul. SEOUL. Corea, Sept. 3. Russia has' placed an order for 800,000 pairs of I army boots with the Cho-sen Tanning Company, which is operating day and ! night. Advices here indicate that Russian army officers are buying all available cattle and sheep in Mongolia. The fig ures are estimated at millions of heads. The livestock will be for the most part butchered in Mongolia in special abat toirs and then forwarded to the Rus sian armies. MORMON TEMPLE PLANNED Church to BulId Opposite Honolulu on Island of Oahu. S1I.T T.AVC r i t-i. - . ------- --. . . . .. - v. ilia juuimos Church will erect a temple at Lale. op- pusne nunoiuiu, on tne island of Oahu, a Catherine of nhn:if tonnn of the church having voted' unanimously in iar 01 me project wnen it was submitted by President Joseph K. Smith at the opening of the eighty sixth semi-annual conference ' of the church. This will be the sixth Mormon temple and the first outside of North America. Utah has four and a fifth is in course of construction in Alberta, Canada. FRENZIED FINANCE STORY TO BE TOLO Witnesses Gather for Big Bank Trial. LORIMER MAY BE CALLED Ex-Senator's Lieutenant De fendant in Present Case. JURY CAREFULLY CHOSEN Defense Excludes Bankers and There "Will lie Few Men of Large Busi ness Affairs 200 Likely to Take Stand. MORRIS. 111.. Oct. "3. (Special.) The vanguard of the army of witnesses summoned in the trial of Charles B. Munday, lieutenant of William Lori mer, began arriving today. Four ad ditional jurors remain to be selected, and it is thought taking of testimony in the case will begin Tuesday. The jury will hear an amazing story of political banking and frenzied finance in which professions of re ligion and other elements entered and which subsequently cost depositors, creditors and stockholders several million dollars. The prosecutor's statement will require a day In the telling, starting with the Inception of the La Salle-street Trust & Savings Bank on ten worthless, notes down to its disastrous collapse. Lorimer May Be Called. There is :i strong Intimation that Lorimer wiL be summoned as a wit ness, despite the fact that he is also under indictment on the same charges as those.for which. Munday Is on trial. Assistant gate's Attorney Holly will make the opening statement on behalf of the prosecution. It will be a re cital of what the state expects to prove in support of its charge that Munday conspired with ex-Senator Lorimer and others to loot the banks of all their good assets and to substi tute worthless stocks and bonds. Sensational tTharges Made. The prosecutor's statement is ex pected to be sensational. Every overt act discovered by the state check kiting, the organization of a string of other banks on assets pilfered from the La Salle Trust Company's vaults, evasion of laws through connivance with public officials, juggling moneys to put up a "front" of wealth, and other happenings incidental to the "high" and frenzied financing which culminated in the final wreck will be explained to the jury. It will be a hard taslc for the Jurors, no matter from wnat walk of life they come, to assimilate the maze of fig ures offered them, understand the In tricate banking methods of the Mun-day-Lorimer banks or comprehend the nerve which was the basis of many acts. There are to be no bankers on the jury the defense has made that tConcluded on Page 3. Column l. JUST A LITTLE I "tk ' ","J" ' i'KICE FIVE CENTS. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 45 degrees; minimum. 48 degree. TODAY'S Fair with riin temperature: northwesterly winds. War. Russia sends ultimatum to Bulgaria. Pace 1. Ground won in Champagne district only by protracted fighting. Page 2. National. Germany still falls to disavow sinking oV Lusitania. Page 1. ' Portland engineer named to advise Boundary atcr Commissic n. Page U. lomestic. Majority of Delegates to Republican National Convention will be chosen under state primary laws. Page 2. Witnesses gathering for trial of Lorimers lieutenant. Page I. - Militia ordered to Arizona copper mines. Page 3. Earthquake spares Arrowrock dam. which is to be dedicated today. Page 1. Witnesses gather tor trial of Lorimer lieuten ani on frenzied finance charges. Page 1. Nine miners who were entombed six days rescued. Page 1. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Oakland 3-0. Portland 1-0 (second game 10 innings): Salt Lake 11-4. San Trancisco 1-1; Los Angeles 7-0. Vernon 4-1. Page 10. Multnomah Club footbsll men rate Oregon as three or four touchdowns stronger than Whitman. Page 11. CHICAGO wins Federal League pennant in final game of season. Page 10. Doble appoints "Hap" Miller "field ' mar shaV to replace Captain Hunt on Washington eieven. Page It. H. S. Burdeck, of Seattle. Is elected presi dent of Pacific Northwest Association. Page 10. Iacific Northwest. Farmers or Morrow County flock to dedi cation of big well at Lexington. Page 5. Clyde Brock, cashier of hank at lone. Or., is suicide. Fa$re 5. State fair receipts are expected to exceed best previous total. Page A. Sam Case at Parkplace kills brother. E. K. Case. Page 3. 'lnam-lal and Industry. Myron T. Herrlck opposes Federal aid for farmers, page 0. Henry Clews says America will be supreme when peace Is restored. Page 9. Lumber trade growing decidedly firmer. Page w. Portland and Vicinity. Orpheum acts all prove entertaining. Page 7. "Damaged Goods" opens at National Thea ter and film moves big audience. Page 14. Dr. Dyott favors training boys to be good Americans. Page 8. Night schools to open tonight. Page 14. Russian bark Fahrwohl arrives unexpectedly to take out grain. Page 11. A. K. Churchman arrested on embezzlement charge four years old. Page 8. Churches hold rally day services. Page . Weath-r report, data and forecast. Page 11. OPEN THEATER PROTESTED Ncwberg ' Churches Aroused When Show Runs on Sunday. NEWBERG, Or.. Oct. 3. (Special.) For the first time in Newberg'a his tory a Sunday performance was given this afternoon by a theater. At the morning services in all the churches a vote of protest .was. taken by the. con gregations, and .he iiiyor and City Council are to be asked to close the show house on Sunday. The theater manager says that under the recent Supreme Court decision on the Sunday closing law he is within his legal rights and that no ordinance can be passed by a City Council in conflict with a state law. Confectioners and ice cream parlors are open here on Sundays. ALFONSO IS FDR PEACE Desire Expressed for Conference in Spain to End War. PARIS. Oct. 3. A Madrid dispatch to the Havas Agency says: "The Spanish Premier. Edouardo Dato. discussing the international situ ation, asserted that the national aspira tion and strong desire of King Alfonso favors the holding of a peace confer ence in Spain." ARTILLERY PRACTICE DOWN ON i i i GERMANY FAILS TO SATISFY DEMANDS Sinking of Arabic Is Not Disavowed. W'b..Yu.0N IS SECRETIVE Final Refusal May Cause Rup ture of Relations. BERNSTORFF TO CONFER Ambassador Will Be Asked to Re ceive Views of American Govern ment in Person and Has Authority Jo Act. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. Germany has failed to satisfy the request of the United States that the sinking of tie Arabic, with a loss of American lives, be disavowed and liability for the act assumed by the Imperial government. This became known after a confer ence tonight between President Wil son and Secretary Lansing, at which the latter submitted a note given him yesterday in New York by Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador. Ambamdor to Be Sent For. No announcement was made after the White House conference. Secretary Lansing said merely that it was inad visable to comment on the situation while the negotiations were still con fidential. He declined to say what the next step would be, but It was learned later the German Ambassador would be asked to come to Washington soon to receive the view which the American Government takes of the last German note. Count von Bernstorff is fully author ized by his government to conduct the submarine negotiations. Immediate Break Averted. . The situation has improved to the extent that there is no danger of an immediate break in diplomatic rela tions," 'as' the "note affords ah oppor tunity for further negotiations. It was said reliably that final re fusal by Germany to meet the Ameri can viewpoint on the Arabic case might bring about the threatened rupture in diplomatic relations. Just what the details are on which the two governments are in conflict was not definitely known, because se crecy has enveloped the negotiations. In general, it was learned that Ger many, after examining the evidence submitted by the United States, came to the conclusion that her submarine commander erred In assuming that the Arabic was intent on ramming the Ger man, submarine when steering to res cue the passengers on the British steam ?r Uunsley. Full Reparation Insisted On. This admission of a mistake would amount to the act. but the United States has insisted that disavowal must be accompanied by an assumption of responsibility and liability, and that full (Concluded on paje 3. Column 2.) MULE CREEK. 1 1 Sunday's War Moves THE Russian minister at Sofia has been ordered by his government to j leave the Bulgarian capital if within 24 hours Bulgaria does not openly I breck with the central powers and dls-1 miss the Austro-German officers, who recently arrived in that country to direct the operations of King Ferdi nand's army. The other powers of the quadruple entente are backing up Russia in this demand, and so Bulgaria must, within a few hours, decide on continued neu trality or be considered definitely com mitted to the central powers. From Balkan news of the past few days It is considered certain that King Ferdinand and Premier Radoslavoff have made their choice and are only awaiting the completion of mobiliza tion to strike at Serbia and assist the Austro-Germans to open the road to Constantinople, which has been anx iously waiting for many weeks for promised aid from the central powers. Greece, it is believed, will live up to her treaty with Serbia and go to her assistance if she is attacked, but the attitude of Roumanta. which re mains an only partly mobilized spec tator, is uncertain. Rain and mud have prevented the Anglo-French armies from continuing their full offensive in Artois. Fighting of a stubborn nature, however, still Is going on in that region. Success there, as in Champagne, apparently is vary ing, although the allies are holding virtually all the ground they gained in last week's thrust. That other similar thrusts will take place soon Is the conviction of mili tary writers of the allies, who see in the repeated bombardments of the Ger man position on the Belgian coast by British ships and big French guns and air raids over the German lines evi dences of another storm brewing. The air raid in Champagne Satur day by 65 French aeroplanes is the biggest enterprise of the kind ever undertaken. The French, according to the German report, have lost the air ship Alsace, which was mentioned a few davs ago in the official communi cation as doing valuable work. Although fighting continues, there is little or no change in the eastern situ ation. The Russians, while being forced back at some' points, are themselves presln,j the Germans at other points, particularly to the east of Yilna. where Field Marshal von Hindenburg's drive toward Minsk has been checked. The Russians In the Caucasus, fol lowing the lead of the British In Me sopotamia, are taking a more active offensive against the -Turks. Octeber 4, 1914. Russia .reports rout of Germans toward east Prussian front. Allies make gains near Solssons and take some German trenches. Bulgaria and Turkey to attack Rou manta unless fh remains neutral. BRITONS URGED TO SAVE Women Counsel Avoidance or Sweet meats and Other Luxuries. LONDON. Sept. 13. One of the first reforms proposed by the Women's War fcconoray League is to Induce the peo ple to try to get along without sweet meats. Other needed economies relate to the J35.000.O0O spent annually in motorcars, motorcycles (and cycles and 120,000.000 on Imported gasoline. Britain spends also $15,000,000 on skins and furs. $7,500,000 on ornamental feathers, $So, 000.000 on silks, $25,000,000 on wine's and spirits and nearly .$40,000,000 on tobacco. The league also urges strict economy In coffee, tea, and all imported articles of food, drink and wear. ELDERLY COUPLE TOURING Hood River Pair, Nearly 60, Carry Camp Ontflt Going: to Fnlr in Auto. HOOD RIVER. Or.. Oct, 3. (Special.) Mr. and Sirs. J. J. Ward left Satur day morning, despite the rain of the previous night, on a motor trip to San Francisco and other California points. Although both are nearing the mark or three-score years, a honeymoon cou ple was never more enthusiastic. The tonneau of their machine was equipped with a folding camp apparatus to be turned into berths at night. They car ried camp equipment, fishing tackle and guns. They will travel through Central Oregon to Klamath Lake. " WRIT TOO LATE FOR SHOW Constable With Attachment Finds $2.25 In Theater Box orfice. OREGON CITT"; Or.. Oct. 3. (Spe cial.) Only $2.23 was in the box of fice of the Star Theater at 9:30 o'clock Saturday night when Constable D. E. Frost attached the receipts of the Frank Rich show for H. K. Evenson. a musician, claiming $45 on unpaid sal ary. The attorney for Evenson found. that practically all of the properties of the company bad been shipped on to Aber deen, Wash., the next stop. A settlement was reached, however. CATHOLICS JSKED TO AID Appeal for Relief of Mexicans to Be Made Through Clergy. BALTIMORE. Oct. 3. An appeal for the relief of distress in Mexico will be made through the three cardinals, 14 archbishops, 100 bishops and practically 18,000 clergy of the United States to the Roman Catholics of the country. This move was decided upon at a conference at Cardinal Gibbons resi dence last night. The relief movement is In response to an appeal by Archbishop Leopold Ruiz of Mexico. ARROWROCK DAM SPARED BY QUAKE Big Structure to Be Dedicated Today. SHOCK FELT IN WIDE AREA Railroad Water Tanks Top pled Over in Nsvada. DWELLING HOUSE WRECKED Earth Embankment at lirid-c Sinks and Trains Itun oil Slow Time. Otologist Says Noted "WasalcJi Fault' lias Slipped. EOISE. Oct. 3 (Special.) Great anxiety was manifested over the safety of the Arrowrock dam above this city when the earthquake shocks that vis ited Boise last night, but reports re ceived from there today has allayed this, for the shocks were not felt there. Interest centered in the dam becaute it is to be formally dedicated as a completed structure tomorrow at noon. Possible jarring of this dam at Its has preventing it from impounding water would have resulted In the waste uf four years of labor and $3,000,000. and a loss difficult to estimate to South western Idaho. The christening of the dam tomorrow will be unique. Flocks or carrier pigeons will be liberated from its crest following the ceremony, carrying the message of the dedication to many sections of Western. Idaho. Late reports from all parts of South ern Idaho and Eastern Oregon indicate that, although the earth shocks were severe, no serious damage was done. One building at Yale. In which section the quake was perceptible, was cracked. Although the swaying of buildings was noticed here and elsewhere, the struc tures did not appear to have been dam aged. Ol'AKK STOPS BAKEI5 CLOCKS Chimes Fail lo Kins. People Over sleep and Are Late to Chureli. BAKER, Cr Oct. 3. (Special.) Ma ker overslept today, breaking the usual Sunday morning record. The earth quake at 10:56 o'clock last night stopped the city's big clocks and many sleepers, depending on the chimes to arouse them, did not know of the quake until they arose late and found the hands still pointing at 10:36. The city was without the correct time all day because the Western Union clocks were among the affected timepieces. -The Western Union does not set the time on Sundays. Many persons were late to church, but the attendance was larger than usual. The shock was widely felt, but the damage was nominal. Plaster on the walls and ceilings of the Columbia Ho tel was cracked and minor breaks were reported at other places. There were also many reports of dishes being shaken from tables and cupboards. The last previous shock here was in 1873 and w-as almost of the same duration and intensity. RAILWAY IX NEVADA DAMAGED Water Tanks Topple From High Sup port and Earth Fill Sinks. IMLAV, New. Oct. 3. Much damage was done by earth shocks last night for 100 miles along the Southern Pa cific Railroad, according to reports. Several railroad water tanks toppled from their high supports, and one of them at Lovelock. 40 miles west of here, crushed one end of a dwelling house. People fled from their homes in night clothing here and elsewhere. Walls of three brick buildings at Lovelock were cracked open. "Slow orders" were issued to all trains when the third temblor was felt at 11 o'clock last night. An earth fill at the approach, to a railroad bridge at Golconda. Nev.. 50 miles east of here, sank five inches. Plaster walls and chimneys were cracked in many buildings here. Pa trols were sent out along railroad tracks from all section ""points. NOTED WASATCH FAULT SLIPS Third Shock at Salt Ijtkc Puts Seis mograph Out of Commission. SALT LAKE. Oct. 3. Professor F. J. Pack, geologist of the University of Utah, said today that in his opinion a slip of the noted "Wasatch Fault," ex tending about 150 miles north and south along the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, caused the third and most vio lent shock, here yesterday. His seismograph record indicates that the first shock was about 1000 miles distant, the second about 900 miles and the third practically local. The third shock threw the stylus of the seismograph against the flange of the drum, putting the instrument out of service. disturbance is proxovnced Needles Throw n From Dram of Seis mograph at Seattle. SEATTLE. Oct. 3. Professor E. J. Saunders, who has charge of the seismograph-room at the University of Washington, says the seismograph rec- lCuncludd on Fas 3. C-Jiama 3.