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VOL. LV.-XO. 17,129. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FRENCH GUSH WITH 40,000 BULGARIAHS Battle Is Begun North of Saloniki. ALLIES REACH ENEMY'S SOIL Fall of Strumnitza Reported to Be Imminent. GREEK ATTITUDE CHANGING Prompt Action Thought to Have Modified Attitude or Anti-War Party; Ho u mania Expected to Join Entente Allies Soon. ATHENS, via London, Oct. 17. The French troops in Macedonia have re ceived their baptism of Are near the railway bridge at Hudovo Vilandovo. where "they were attacked by 40.000 Bulgarians. The fighting continues. The Bulgarian artillery is bombard ing the Vilandosto garrison, which is offering a stout resistance. The Bulgarian government has offi cially announced that mines have been laid along the coast of the Black and Aegean seas. Lights have been ex tinguished and the port of Dedeagach has been closed except to neutral mer chantmen. LONDON. Oct. 18. The allied forces from Saloniki have begun operations gainst the Bulgarians with unexpected seal. Allies on Bulgarian Soli. The Serbo-Anglo-French forces have penetrated into Bulgarian territory Just north of the Greek boundary and are attacking the Bulgarian stronghold of Strumnitza, according to advices re ceived from Saloniki by Reuter's Tele gram Company by way of Athens. The advices declare that "the fall of Strum nitza is imminent." The dispatch continues: "The Serbs, aided by the allies, repulsed the Bul garians, who retreated on Strumnitza. "It is learned from diplomatic sources that Field Marshal Mackensen, the Ger man commander, has demanded rein forcements. Frenrn Encounter Enemy, French troops have encountered the Bulgarian army at Ghevgheli, accord ing to a dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph Company from Athens. Ghevgheli, or Gievgeli, is on the Nish-Salonlki railway line in Serbia, about nine miles north of the Greek border. A dispatch from Athens last night K.iid that the railroad administration at Saloniki had been ordered to pre pare seven trains for the transporta tion of allied troops to Gievgeli. Another dispatch from Athens said that allied troops had left Saloniki Saturday for the Serbo-Bulgarian frontier. ATHENS, via Paris, Oct. 17. The en ergetic action of the entente allies and the opening of actual hostilities be tween Bulgaria and Servia apparently Is rapidly modifying the attitude of the Greek anti-war party. Greece May Abandon Neutrality. There is credible authority for the statement that King Constantine is preparing to go to Saloniki in the near future, and it is said in circles usually well informed that Greece will abandon her attitude of neutrality as soon as the concentration of troops. is complet ed and army arrangements perfected. The impression prevails that Rou manla also will shortly ally herself with the entente powers. According to information from a diplomatic source, the army of General von Llnsingen. which was originally Intended to be thrown by the Teutonic allies into the Serbian theater of war. was forced to return) to the eastern field of operations to face the Russians. EERUX, Oct. 17, via Sayville, X. Y. The German official communication, is sued today, says of the progress of the fisrhtlng in the Balkan war theater: "All the heights south of Belgrade re in German hands. Bulicara -Force PMttagr. "General von Gallwitz' army has thrown tne enemy behind Ralja, south west of Semendria. General Boya Jieff's Bulgarian army has forced a passage of the lower Timok and stormed Glopovica mountain. 1198 me ters high, and has taken prisoners 200 Serbians. He also took eight cannon. The Bulgarians also have advanced to ward Firot." W All IS DECLARED BY FRANCE Example of Britain Toward Bul garia Is followed. PARIS. Oct. 17. The Council of Min isters, presided over by President Poincare. announced at noon today that a stats of war existed between France nd Bulgaria, dating from 6 A. SI. on October 1. The Ministers, at a special Sunday meeting; at Elysee palace, after going over the diplomatic and military situa tion, adopted the following: "Bulgaria, having taken action with our enemies and against the allies of France, the government of the republic announces that a state of war exists between Bulgaria and France from Oc- i Concluded oi i'jiga 2, Column l.) 3,000,000 MEN BY SPRING DEMANDED BRITISH RECRUTTIXG DIREC TOR STATES NEED PLAINLY. TJnlesa Force Is Supplied, Says Gen eral Swayne, Military Will Not Be Responsible for War. LONDON. Oct. 17. "Great Britain needs 3,000.000 more men by Spring." This declaration was made today by Brigadier-General Sir Erick Swayne. director of recruiting in the northern command, in a speech at Hull. I General Swayne estimated that Ger many still has between 9,000,000 and 10,000,000 men from the ages of 18 to 45, and that, therefore, it was useless to talk about wearing out Germany. In the Spring, said he, Germany would lose more men than the allies, which would balance the numbers of the allies and the central powers, but if Great Britain should raise 3.000,000 additional men, Germany probably would recog nize that it would -be fruitless to con tinue. Great Britain, he added, did not want compulsion, but unless 3,000,000 more men were recruited by Spring the mili tary authorities could not be respon sible for the war. JAILBREAK IS FRUSTRATED Cut Bar Noticed In Eugene Cage and Saw Subsequently Found. EUGENE, Or., Oct. 17. (Special.) An attempted jailbreak was frustrated last night by the discovery of a cut bar in a steel cage and the subsequent finding of the saw with which it was cut. The prisoners in the Jail accused Dale Gufty, a prisoner held on a big amy charge, who escaped once from jail and was recaptured a few days ago. and George Bell,, in jail charged with signing a name not his own for shipments of liquor. Gufty is the prisoner who thought himself divorced and both he and his wife had remarried. ITALY ARRANGES CREDIT One-Year Loan of $25,000,000 Is Placed in United States. NEW YORK, Oct. 17. The Italian government has arranged to place an issue of $25,000,000 one-year notes in the United States, it was announced tonight. This will be the first direct loan negotiated here by Italy since the beginning of the war, and it will be used to pay for war material and. gen eral supplies. Lee Higginson & Co., of New York and Boston, have been appointed to place the loan. The notes will have controvertible bond privileges, and it is thought they will bear about 6 per cent interest. APPLE IS KING TOMORROW Fruit to Be on All Menus and Day Will Be Observed at Fair. ' Observance of Apple day tomorrow will be most strongly emphasized at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and prominent "applegrowers from Hood River and other apple centers of the state, who are exhibiting at the Ore gon building, have undertaken to han dle Oregon's representation for the occasion. Locally the restaurants and grills of the city are planning to feature apple dishes on their menus, and all of the railroads will give apples a prominent place on their dining-car bills of fare. PARK VISITORS DOUBLED National Resorts Report Heavy In creases Durlnjr Year. WASHINGTON. Oct. 17. Reports made public tonight show that more than twice as many persons visited the National parks of the West during the season Just closed than last year. The Yellowstone Park recorded 51, 820 tourists, compared with 20.250 in 1914; Yosemite 31,642, against 15,145, and Mount Rainier 34,314, against 15, 038. Secretary Lane said the policy Inaugurated two years ago of permit ting automobiles to enter the parks had been a success and would be con tinued. 5 BURNED IN TENEMENT Fire Started in Coal Bin From Can dle Sweeps Through Building. NEW YORK, Oct. 17. Five persons were burned to death and three in jured in a fire which swept through a five-story Third-avenue tenement on the upper East Side early today. The injured and remaining members of eisht families were rescued by police and firemen. The dead were Mrs. Julia Wcn and her two daughters and Mrs. Annette Grochal and her young son. The fire started In a coal bin from a lighted candle. JERSEY FIGHT NEAR END First Campaign by Women in East to Be Decided Tuesday. NEWARK, N. J.. Oct. 17. The first battle women have waged in Eastern states for the ballot will close tomor row night. The next day, Tuesday, the fate of "votes for women" will bo decided at the polls by vote on an amendment to the New Jersey constitution, which, if adopted, will give the franchise to U women over 21 years old resldlnc five years within the state. CZAR'S GOAT FALLS INTO GERMAN HANDS American Phrase Has Literal Meaning CAPTORS SHOW SOLICITUDE Skierniewice Evidences Effect of New Occupation. SYSTEM NOW IN EFFECT Big Iron Cross in Foliage Plants Adorns Grounds of Czar's Cha teau; Captors Respect Treas ures in Historic House. " BY JAMES O'DOKXELL BENNETT (Wat correspondent of tbe Chicago Tribune, c-opyrleht. 1915, by the Chicago Tribune. Published by arrangement.) SKIERNIEWICE, Russia, Sept. 6. When I say that the Germans have "got the Czar's goat" and are taking the best of care of it, I do not mean to convey either a sinister or secret mean ing. Far from being a code, it merely echoes a rude American slang phrase, which implies that when you have, fig uratively speaking, got a man's goat you have deprived him in a manner at once unceremonious and decisive of something dear to him. and that In the process you have not only stunned and bewildered him. but in some measure made him ridiculous. The imperial goat in question is wan dering care, free and comfortable on what used- to be the Czar's favorite Polish playground the hunting lodge at Skierniewice and German soldiers now occupying the place not only have got the goat but are making much of it. Animal la Photographed. Accustomed, apparently, in past times, when courtiers were as common as stable boys at Skierniewice, to having its every wish promptly gratified, the goat still emits the querulous and fre quent bleat. At this signal, from one to three German soldiers instantly pay attention and minister to the goat with a solicitude which could not but be gratifying to the former master of the lodge if he knew about it. As Skier niewice has been utterly Inaccessible to him since last Christmas time he prob ably does not know. This morning numerous ribald corre spondents from numerous more or less neutral lands come upon the goat in a bit of a back yard to the left of the avenue of grand old trees which leads up to the imperial chateau. Instantly the indecorous cry went up, "The Ger mans have got the Czar's goat!" Forthwith the pretty creature, which assumed in rapid succession attitudes aloof and unconcerned, skittish and in quiring, combative and supercilious, was photographed in all those atti tudes, and all the photographs were labeled "Getting the Czars Goat." Sentries Wonder at Laughter. After that Skierniewice settled back into the dull decorum of 'German occu pation and the sentries wondered what (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) 2 it's ' 'l index of today-s news TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature. S3 degrees: minimum, 4u degrees. TODAY'S Partly cloudv and occasionally threatening weather; southerly winds. War. Czar's goat captured by Germans. Page 1. British recruiting director calls for 3,000.- OOO more men by Spring. Page 1. Paroxysm of distrust and pessimism spreads over England. Page 1. Correspondent describes British assault on redoubt of Hohenzollern. Page 8. French army from Saloniki attacked by 40.- OOO Bulgarians. Page 1 NationaL British Ambassador advises British-Americana to be faithful to adopted citizen ship. Page 3. Need of American unity in world crisis be comes plain. . Page ?. James Hamilton Lewis may' be Wilson's next running mate. Page 2. Domestic. Big preparations made for Oregon day at San Francisco. page Reorganization of defunct railways expected to pile up fortunes. Page 1. Salt Lake murderer Indifferent to fate. Page 2. Sport.' Pacific Coast League results: I-os Angeles 1.1-3. Portland 3-1: Salt Lake 11, San Francisco 10 (12 innings); Oakland 7-0, Vernon 4-15. Page 10. "Loneitar" Diets hailed as greatest football coach Northwest has seen In years. Page 10. Oregon's footfall stock soars as result of victory over Idaho. Page 10. - Hockey war between East and West Is Im pending. Page 10. Pacific Northwest. Henry Hewer found dead near home at Vancouver; notea tell. of murder and sui cide. Page o. Addison Bennett writes of opportunities of fered at Castle Kock. Page 5. Vancouver business men to have modern organization. Page 0. Finance and Industry. Rediscounts of Northwestern banks are trlfllns. Page It. Inspection trip over Willamette Valley line proposed. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. Carolina White at Orpheum proves vaude ville appreciates opera. Page 16. Winifred SacUvllle Stoner arrlvea here to day to lecture on child training. Page 10. Movie theaters open with new film pro grammes. Page 7. Manslaughter charge will be made against Dr. Ausplund today. Page 8. Mr. Baker discusses unemployment prob lem. Pafl 12. Episcopalians urged to assist Scadding House. Page 12. Suspected widow of murdered man denies Knowledge of crime. Page Id. Southern woman urges greater study of his tory. Page 9. Bankoku Mirn arrives to take lumber to Orient. Page 13. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13. JEWELRY CACHE IS FOUND Watches and Trinkets Worth $150 May Be Loot From Homes. About two dozen watches and vari ous articles of jewelry, consisting principally of sets taken from rings, were found yesterday in a clump of bushes in Sellwood by Enar Lowen berg, 15 years old. who lives at '1650 Ea.st Sixth street South. The police were immediately notified and Captain of Detectives Baty and City Detective Robert Craddock, after an investigation, said the property may belong to some of the houses robbed recently. The value of the watches and jewelry was probably originally at least $150. DUMBA. LEAVES ENGLAND Recalled Austrian Ambassador to America en Route to Holland.. LONDON, Oct. 17. The steamship Nieuw Amsterdam sailed from Fal mouth for "lotterdam today with Dr. Constantin. Theodpr Dumba, recently recalled as Austro-Hungariau Ambas sador to the United States, his wife and his valet on board. Dr. Dumba gave an undertaking to the British Foreign Office in respect to his valet, whose want of a passport caused some delay. ONLY A SCRAP OF PAPER. CHICAGO IS DRIER BECAUSE IT IS WET Rain Checks Dete of Suncfeaw. OUTSIDE SALOONS SUFFER Ex-Mayor Harrison Attacks ' Policy of Successor. PLANS OF EVASION TRIED Restaurant Has Patrousl Buy ot Saturday and Store Liquor on Ice; Dancehalls Timorous, Fearing to Be Closed. CHICAGO, Oct. 17. (Special.) Chi cago passed through its second dry Sunday without any violent upheaval. The city and county, particularly the county, would have been much wetter but for steady, drizzling rain that fell all day. Thus it would have been wet ter had it been dryer. The rain and slippery pavements kept the automobile crowds, main support of the roadhouses, indoors, and the 400 saloons within a radius of 20 miles report tonight that the day's business was below normal. Ex-Maror Attacks Mayor Thompson. Ex-Mayor Harrison, always friendly to the saloon interests, was the chief speaker today before the United So cieties for Personal Liberty, and he attacked the action of Mayor Thomp son in closing the saloons. He said the saloons had always re mained open during his several terms and during the reign of his father, also several times Mayor. If they were to be closed, he said, the matter should be submitted to a referendum vote. He made no reference to the law on the statute books for many years, which had been ignored until Mayor Thomp son enforced it. Restaurant Tries Experiment, In the city proper, there were S3 ar rests for., violation of . the law. One restaurant tried the experiment of having its patrons buy quantities of liquor on Saturday and this was placed in refrigerators, subject to their or ders Sunday or any time. This dodged the law. which forbids selling liquor on Sunday, but it probably means trouble, because the liquor was served on Sunday. Some of the clubs holding special dance permits, which also include li cense to sell liquor up to S o'clock Sunday morning, made a feeble effort to evade the law. They had been urged to this attitude by the liquor in terests, but pioneers were scarce, as they realized their permits would be canceled and they would be unable to secure others. Consequently there was little drinking at the dance halls after midnight. Coffee and Ten In Demand. Hotels and restaurants did a big business in dinners and suppers and coffee and tea in large quantities took the place'' of intoxicants. Speaking generally, the public in- (Concluded on Page 2. Column 4.) Sunday's War Moves ALTHOUGH there is heavy fighting at some points along the eastern front, as well as in the west, the Austro-German and Bulgarian inva sion of Serbia and the efforts of the British and French Generals to bring help to their little ally before it is too late continue to occupy the chief atten tion of the peoples of the belligerent countries. A dispatch to London from Athens says that French troops have encoun tered the Bulgarians at a point on the Nish-Saloniki railway, where a battle is progressing. The Serbians are being helped by the weather, which is cold and Winter like. The rains have set in and are impeding the movement of troops and guns, which at the best must be slow over what answer for roads in the Balkan States. The Germans, however, assert that they have taken the heights south of Belgrade, while along the Danube the army of General von Gallwitit is push ing the Serbians back. The Bulgarians say they are making a rapid advance into Macedonia, al though the French are already reported to be in contact with .them at Ghev gheli, while both the French and Brit ish continue to land troops at Saloniki. Neither Russian nor Italian assist ance has as yet developed, but the allies have begun a more vigorous of fensive along their frontier and have captured Pregasina, an important ad vanced position of the fortified Riva group on Lake Garda. This will be of indirect aid to Serbia, preventing the movement of any more Austrian troops from that frontier. The Germans have taken the offen sive south of Riga and forced the Rus sians out of their positions, capturing a large number of prisoners and some guns. On the rest of the eastern front the offensive remains in the hands of the Russians, who are attacking west of Dvinsk. In the center and to the south of the Pripet River. On the whole, it appears to observers in London as if the Germans were sat isfied merely to hold their present Russian line, except in the north, where they have made repeated at tempts to take Dvinsk. This would mean the fall of Riga and would com pel the Russians to withdraw behind the Dvina River. This ambition has already cost the Germans many thousands of men, but they keep on trying, first in the north and then in the south and then in the Dvinsk front. At present their attacks are developing the greater force in the north. There is somewhat of a lull in Flan ders and Champagne, on the western front. Activity has been transferred to Lorraine, vhere the French report the capture of a trench north -of Reii lon, and to the Vosges. where the Ger mans have again withdrawn from Hartmanns - Woilerkopf. which has changed hands many times. October 18, 1914. Anti-German riots etart in London. Big battle on from Belgian coast to Switzerland. German forces again threaten Dun kirk. SECOND REGIMENT FORMED Change Made at Corvallis on Ac count of Heavy Registration. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, Oct. 17. (Special.) Due to the large number of cadets reporting for military drill this year, companies have been reduced in size and a second regiment formed, with one battalion of four companies. Godfrey R. Hoerner, of Seattle, has been' placed in command, with the title of Lieutenant-Colonel. Other new appointments are: Cap tains, C. L. Hubbard. Corvallis; George F. Chambers, Newberg; Ralph L. West, Westport; George L. Kathan, Syracuse, N. Y.; Lieutenants, E. J. Thompson, Le Roy, Minn.; Darius H. Smyth, Burns: E. T. Underwood, Boyd: Leo Hollen berg, Corvallis; Lee E. Baldwin, Win lock. Wash.; A. W. Finch, Gardena, Cal.; Frank Kan, Hongkong, China; Herbert Ballin. L. W. Seggel. R. J. Case. Will Boyer, Avery Lasweil, Port land. CABINET CHANGE FORECAST One or More British Ministers Ex pected to Withdraw. LONDON, Oct. 17. Reynolds' Week ly, which is the organ of Sir Henry James Dalziel, one of the most persis tent critics of the government in the House of Commons, says today: "It is almost impossible to imagine that the next week or so will pass without changes in the Cabinet. Sir Edward Carson, the attorney-general, has tendered his resignation because he holds strong views on the vital points of concentration and conduc tance of the war without compulsory service, and has intimated that unless the cabinet t,kes his view he can no longer attend councils. "There ia every reason to believe t!iat the cabinet will adopt Sir " Edward's view and thus his resignation probably will be withdrawn. If this is the case at least one and probably more resig nations may be expected." f PRINCE NEARLY CAPTURED Serbian Directs Defense of Belgrade Until Last Moment. AMSTERDAM, via London, Oct. 17. Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia nar rowly escaped capture when Hungarian troops entered Belgrade, according to a Bucharest dispatch to the Berlin Kreuz Zeitung. The dispatch pays high tribute to the Prince's bravery In per sonally directing the defense of the city up to the last moment and not leaving until the Hungarians were entering. Several of tbe Prince's staff were captured or killed. RAILWAY FORTUNES REGARDED AS NEAR Lines In Hands of Re ceivers Promising BILLIONS IN BONDS AFFECTED Early Profitable Reorganiza tions Are Predicted. PREVIOUS EVENTS CITED Financiers Who Failed to "Get In" on War Specials Are Expected to Start Prolonged Activity In Securities Market. " ' CHICAGO. Oct. 17. (Special.) With railroads of the United States repre senting nearly $1,600,000,000 bonds and $700.000, 000 stocks now in the hands of receivers, and representing nearly 41. 000 miles of track, astute judges of the stock market are beginning to com pare the present situation with that of the outset of a period of reorganiza tion more than a dozen years ago, whan the nucleus of many vast fortunes and huge aggregations of capital now ex isting were formed. If history repeats itself, according to students of the flnanical situation, more fortunes will be made as a result of pending reorganizations, and the prediction is made that more money will be made in the stock market by those who buy the new securities after the assessments have been made. Frolonsred Activity Promised. There are many of those who did not get in on the recent inflation of the industrial group known as war t spe cialties. They are regarded as the ones who will take hold at the right time, and herein lies the promise of prolonged activity in the securities market. Billions of dollars of railroad securi ties were affected by receiverships in this country during tne years of 1897 to 1901 and the period -of reorganiza tion, which made the great Union Pa cific, Atchison and other vast railroad systems of today, was in the years 1903-1906. Adjustment of the transpor tation interests was accompanied by industrial combinations, formation of a United States Steel Corporation being the most important achievement, which added to the prestige of America's present wonderful flnanical organiza tion. Many Bonda In Default. There are at present 21 important railroads and a number of smaller properties in the hands of receivers. They represent one-sixth of the total rail mileage and nearly 12 per cent of the total gross capital of all the rail roads in the United States. The bonded debt of the roads involved averages approximately $39,000 a mile, and the stock outstanding about $46,500 a mile. Nearly one-half or $673,875,000 of the bonds of the railroads in receivership are in defsfult. The Missouri. Kansas & Texas sys tem was the last of the large properties to Join the ranks of the railroads in the hands of receivers, and the Wabash, which has been in the hands of the court for four years, is the first of the large ones to emerge, and is expected soon to be returned to the management of its owners. Rock Island, St. Louis, San Francisco. Chicago & Eastern Illinois and Mis souri Pacific are expected to he reor ganized and put afloat on their re sources early next year. , MYERS NOT YET CONSULTED Oregon Land Grant Legislation Not Taken Up With Senator. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Oct. 17. Senator Myers, of Mon tana, chairman of the Senate committee on public lands, on arrival in Wash ington, said his attention had not yet been called to legislation which will be proposed next session affecting the Oregon & California land grant. He was familiar with the grant litigation only in a general way. he said, and thus far has had no correspondence re garding legislation that is to come up at the approaching session, notwith standing this legislation will go before his committee for report. "Senator Chamberlain is a meml.er of the public lands committee." said Senator Myers, "and with respoct to land grant legislation I shall be dis posed to defer to his Judgment and to that of the Secretary of the Interior. Senator Chamberlain lias not consulted me as yet. but doubtless he will briir tip the subject when he reaches Wash ington." TREE IS .350 YEARS OLD Ancient Douglas Kir Found In Washington Olympic Forest.' In a bulletin just issued by the Forestry Department of this dis trict, a report is made that a Douglas fir has been found the age of which is estimated to be at least 1350 years. It was found somewhere in the Olympic forest in Western Washington by a ranger. If the age of the Douglas fir is cor rect it is a Methusaleh of trees, or o the forestry officials claim. Olive trees nave been known to reach a very old age. and the finding of one in the Holy Land 23 feet in stirth and seven centuries old is recorded.