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IT, 1 VOL. LV. NO. 17,208. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 2000 NORWEGIANS HOMELESS BY FIRE PEACE PILGRIMS APPEAL TO BERLIN ALL OREGON IS TO WRITE EAST TODAY RUSSIA BEGINS NEW DRIVE IN CAUCASUS BATTLE TO DEATH MAROOXED DELEGATES FEAR $ TO TRAVEL OX NORTH SEA- THRIVING SEAPORT OF BERGEN ' HAS $15,000,000 LOSS. ARMY HEAVILY REINFORCED OX FRONT OF 100 MILES. CHURCH FACTIONS UNITED OPPOSITION TO WILSON LIKELY $350,000,000 IN 2 GREAT MERGERS 1 Killed, 2 Probably Mortally Wounded. DOZEN OTHERS ARE INJURED Knives, Revolvers and Clubs Are Used by Rioters. STATE TROOPS ATTACKED Objectors to Authority , of Catholic Bishop of Scranton and His SupKrtcrs Fight for Fos eesfclon of Building. ' ERANTON. ra.. Jan. 16. Rioting between rival factions at the church of the Sacred Heart or Jesus in Pupont, near here today resulted the doath of one man. the probable fatal wounding of two others and the erlous Injury of at least a dozen more. Knives, revolvers and clubs played prominent part in the riot. 11 state troopers being among the wounded, George Creisor. the dead man. was shot through the thigh, the bullet severing the artery. Trooper Rois fcumncr. of Pottsvllle. sustained fracture at the base of the Bkull and Joseph Tinh. of mipont. was shot through the lungs. Neither is expected to live. ' Fartloa Opposes Bishop. This church has been the scene of balfadozen riots in as many weeks, one faction objecting to the authority ex excised by Bishop M. J. lloban. of the Catholic diocese of Scranton. and the other supporting him. Every time a newly appointed priest has sought to hold services he has been prevented from entering the church by the opposing faction, but today ar rangements had been made to say mass under the protection of the Sheriff, who called on the state police. Troopers Sead for Help. A detail. ef.a.doBen troopers was on hand when services were to have opened, but so forbidding was the attitude of the crowd that a call was sent in for more and ii responded. Before the reinforcements arrived the mob had attacked the first de tachment and when the second reached the scene most of the damage had been done. A second riot ensued, in which the fighting was spectacular. When Father Kurkowski. surrounded by state troopers, reached the church today a crowd of S00 men and women already had gathered. The Sheriff pleaded with the mob to disperse and permit the priest to enter the church. The mob ignored him and began to throw red pepper and mustard Into the laces of the Sheriff and troopers. Tolllns of Bell la Slsnal. Then the church bell began to toll. As if this were a pre-arranged signal the mob charged the Sheriff and the troopers. Captain Pitcher, who stood beside the Sheriff, was struck on the head with a heavy club. As he stag gered back one of the rioters hit him w ith a stone. He fell unconscious Into the arms of one of his men and was carried through the crowd to a house ue.a: by. Then the call was sent for reinforce ments. Eighteen troopers hurried from the local barracks to the scene. Riot sticks were brought into action in an effort to disperse the mob. The women fled in terror. The men stood their ground and one after another fell. Ringleaders Are Arrested. Trooper Hummer was in the thick of the fight when a burly man crept up behind him and struck him on the head with a heavy club. Hummer dropped. In another moment his assailant was stretched out beside him by a fellow trooper. Troopers made wholesale arrests of the ringleaders. These were taken into the basement of the church and placed under guard. Twenty-three men who sought refuge in the parochial resi dence and seven who were hidden in the belfry were beaten into submission when they showed fight. VILLA COLONELS EXECUTED Two Generals Leading Small Bands A.-k for Amnesty. JUAREZ. Mex.. Jan. 16. Two Villa fncers. Colonel Valles ml Lieutenant Colonel Cisneros. were executed at Guzman. Chihuahua, yesterday, ac cording to advices received todav from Casas Grandes bv the Carranza com-' mandant here. Two Villa generals with small bands have sought amnesty. Colonel Valles was the leader of bandits who terrorized Durango and Chihuahua state before the Madera re volt. It was he who also had charge of the executions which followed the capture of Juarez by Villa two years ago. KAISER AGAIN AT FRONT Complete Recovery Officially An nouneed in Berlin. BERLIN", via London. Jan. IC. The following official communication was issued today: "After his complete recovery Em peror William returned Sunday to the ar theater-- Mayor of Stockholm, Who Is Among Samber, Says He May Lose Job if He Does Not Go Home. THE HAGUE, via London. Jan. 16. Dr. Charles F. Aked. Mme. Rosika Schwimmer and other members of the Ford peace board, after having vainly appealed to the German Minister at The- Hague for permission for the Scandinavian peace delegates to re turn home through Germany, tele graphed today to Berlin for the de sired permits. Recent efforts of mem bers of the Ford party to cross Ger many have been blocked by the German military authorities, with the explana tion that the delegates are undesir ables. Twenty-five subjects of Denmark; Sweden and Norway, ' who came here with the peace expedition, are desir- ous of returning to their homes, which they are unable to do unless by way of the North Sea. This route is re garded unsafe. Included in those ma rooned here is Paul Lyndhagen, mayor of Stockholm, who says he may lose his office unless he returns soon. Mme. Schwimmer, who is a Hun garian, telegraphed authorities at Ber lin that the blockade against the re turning delegates is proving a great inconvenience to the expedition and urged the lifting of the embargo. SLED PLUNGES; BOY KILLED Sneedinz Coaster Fails' to Take Turn and Goes Over Bank. EVERETT. Wash.. Jan. IS (Spe cial.) Gerald Pilon, 12. plunged to his death in a coasting accident at the Norton-avenue trestlo at 13:30 o'clock this afternoon. He sped down the steep Twenty- second-street hill on an improvised sled and was unable to make the turn. shooting through the railing and land ing on his head on the Great Northern Railway tracks. 35 feet below. At the Providence Hospital he died two hours later. FATAL ERROR HINTED AT Berlin Thinks Allies Sank Own War Vessel by Mistake. BERLIN", Jan. 16. (By wireless to Sayville. N. Y.) Among the items given out today by the Overseas Ne-va Agcnry was the following: 'Reports from Vienna say the Stefan! Agency on January 14 announced that the French submarine Foucault sank an Ausiro-uungarian cruiser oi me Novari type. Since no Austro-Hun-garian ship is missing the Foucault must have sunk a ship of the entente powers by mistake. Robins Strip Holly Bushes. ALBANY. Or.. Jan. 16. (Special.) As an indirect result of the snow storm all holly bushes in Albany have been stripped of their berries. They were eaten by robins. After the Christmas season some berries remained on many local holly trees, especially the upper branches, but the robins, deprived of usual sources of food supply, have stripped the bushes clean. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TEPTERDATS Maximum temperature, 28 degrees; minimum, 20 degrees. TODAY'S Threatening, with snow flurries, possibly turning to rain during the aft ernoon; easterly winds. War. Berlin regards Montenegrin campaign as ended. Page 1S- Oerman authorities taking good care of ex hibits abandoned by enemies at Leipzig book fair. Page 2. Russia begins new drive in Caucasus. Page 1. Mexico. Carranza to authorize all citizens to avenge massacres without formality. Page 5. Foreign. Peace pilgrims appeal to Berlin, fearing to travel by North sea. Pare 1. Bergen. Norway. nas 115,000,000 fire Page 1. National. Mexico to be dominant Issue. In Congress this week. Pago 4. Edison's chief engineer says new battery did not cause E-- explosion. Page 3. Wilson outlines plan for mobilizing Indus tries against event of war. Page 5. Domestic. United Republican opposition to Wilson fully expected by leaders. Page 1. Church factions In fatal riot. Page 1. Great mergers In steel and oil n earing com pletion. Pago 1. Ojvemor Johnson doubts that Progressives will accomplish much In future as party. Page 4. Mrs. Claude Gra ha me-White, aerial honey mooner. sues husband. Page S. Sports, - Canadian League outcast may Join Beavers. Page 10. Allen ownership In baseball is passing. Page 10. Fight promoters bid high for Wlllard-Moran bouu Pago 10. rartfie Northwest. Hotel of pioneer days makes way for mllL rage 4. Death closes romance of former Centralis resident. Pago 2. Open caucus to be Issue at Seattle Republi can merting. Page 4. Vanrouver Ferry Out of Service. Page 11. Financial and Marine. Lumber and agriculture declared to be la thriving condition. Page 11. Crews work all alght unloading Nlssel Mara. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. Baker play declared unusually strong for stock offering. Psge 14. Rock and White headline fine bill at Or pheum. Page 14. Portland-New York direct telephone com munication is held. Page 14. Rev. Mr. Boyd declares Natloa has divine mission. Page 9. Mrs. Charles Morrison recovers from collapse following revelation of husband's mis deeds. Page 8. Rev. Thomas 8. Anderson In Atkinson Me morial pulpit. Page 9. Democrats have no dearth of candidates ss delegates to National convention. Page 14., Mention asked for festival In tourist letters. Page S. Question exists ss to whether or not Jitney law becomes effective today. Page S. Hobos to enter highbrow class. Page 7. PortlaJMl is warmer. Page 1 1. J All Oregon to writ Eastern tourists today. I fa. 1. Republicans Count on Restored Party. ROSEATE PROSPECT IS SEEN Hughes Leading Figure if He Permits Use of Name. LEADERS SEE ROOSEVELT Colonel Invited to Participate In Councils, With Suggestion That Ho Forego Personal Ambi tion for General Good. BY JOHN CALL AN O'LAUGHLIN. WASHINGTON, Jan. IS. That there will be united opposition to President Wilson in the coming campaign is the confident expectation of Republican leaders, based on the recent decision of the Progressive National committee to hold the Progressive convention in Chicago at the same time that the Re publican convention Is in session. Conservative leaders of the Repub licans make no secret of their intention to go practically the full limit so far as the platform Is concerned now that the Progressives have relegated the initiative and referendum and recall of Judges to the states and to consider the best interests of the party and the country with reference to the nominee. Leaders Talk 'With Roosevelt. It is known that Senators Smoot and Penrose have been in communication. perhaps Indirectly, with Colonel Roose velt and that they have made it clear to the preparedness advocate that they regard him as too big a force to be outside of the Government and that they strongly desire to co-operate in defeating the Democratic Administra tion. Whether they would be willing to support the Colonel is another ques tion. From what can be learned, they seemed to take the view that he will realize that even if nominated ho could not bo elected .and that he will be dis posed to step aside and to select a can didate mutually agreeable. The man the "standpatters" are de sirous of nominating is Associate Jus tice Charles K. Hughes. They are not enthusiastic about his nomination, be cause they realize . that if elected he would not be considerate of them and their wishes as they would like. But they want to restore the Republican party to power. They believe Mr. Hughes would win without much dif ficulty, since he would have back of him Colonel Roosevelt and practically all of the Progressives, as well as the Republican party itself. The attitude of Mr. Hughes on the question of the nomination still re mains to be disclosed, but the impres sion is that he will accept in case there should be unanimity displayed by both the Republican and Progressive con ventions. In drafting" their platform, the Re- (Concluded on Pbko 3. Column 1.) T..seeeseeees....s. ...... , DON'T FORGET TO WRITE THAT OREGON LETTER THIS WEEK. 1 Destruction of Large Storehouses Containing Food Makes Prob lem of Supplies Acute. CHRISTIANIA, Norway, via London, Jan. 16. A third of the city of Bergen, a thriving Norwegian seaport with a population of 90,000, was destroyed last night by fire. Two lives are reported to have been lost and 2000 persons are homeless. The property damage is estimated at $15,000,000. The conflagration is said to be the worst ever recorded in Norway. The business section, with Its old wholesale houses, several of the largest of the hotels, several schools, the electric plant and banks and newspaper build ings, was burned. The difficulties of the 2000 persons now wfthout homes were increased by the fact that the largest storage houses, filled with provisions for sup plying the surrounding country, were burned down. It is Harder to obtain groceries today than at any time since the outbreak of the war. Bergen never was so flourishing as at the beginning of the present year, these conditions being largely due to the increased merchant marine. The fire started Saturday night in an ironmonger's shop. Fanned by hurricane, the flames spread rapidly and soon enveloped all the business portion of the city. The firemen finally blew up buildings on the outer edge of the path of the flames. The King has gone to the scene at the head of a relief expedition. BRITISH BOMBARD LILLE Berlin Says Only Slight Damage Has Resulted Thus Far. BERLIN, via London, Jan. 16. British artillery is bombarding the Important French town of Lille, near the Belgian border and inside the German lines, but so far the shells have caused only slight damage to the place, German headquarters announced today. The statement also says there was lively artillery fighting and mining ac tivity yesterday along the French front. STOVE BLOWS ROOF " OFF Woodburn Mayor Struck on Thigh in Explosion at His Home. vVOODBURN", Or., ' Jan. 16. (Spe cial.) Shortly after Mayor John Steel hammer mado a fire In the kitchen range Saturday, it blew up, part going through the roof and out the side of the house.". . 1 The Mayor was struck on the thigh and will be lame for some time. There was $200 damage done. ALBANY BIRDS WELL FED Feed Store Offers 1000 Pounds of Seed to Provide for Songsters. ALBANY. Or., Jan. 16. (Special.) Scores of local people have been feed ing the birds during the present snow storm. Both of Albany's daily news papers have been urging the matter of looking after the birds. A local feed store announced yester day it would give away 1000 pounds of seed for this purpose. Tourists to Be. 'vited m r CO to 4,fgS"r .-at . C V ,ot1' Hi" V GIANT MAIL BOX IS READ Half Million Letters Expected to Be Sent at Opening. PORTLAND TO SEND 100,000 Rivalry Between Clubs Keen, Each Trying to Send More Missives Than Others; Individuals Urged to Write, Too. All Oregon will write to the Bast to day. More than 100,000 letters are expect ed to go out of Portland alone today, bearing the Invitation to the tourists of the East to make their plans for th Summer of 1916 to include a visit to Oregon's acenie wonderland. The participation of people in other cities has been organized as carefully as In Portland, and predictions are made that the mail sacks of the state will be stuffed with perhaps a half million letters today. All Claaaea iotm Move. Mayors of all of the leading cities have followed Governor Withycombe i example and have issued Letter-Writ ing - week proclamations, ministers throughout the state announced it from their pulpits yesterday, and commer cial and civic bodies everywhere have pledged themselves to join In the move ment with all of their might. The spectacular formal opening of the week in Portland will be at noon today at the giant mail box which has been set up on Sixth street by the postoffice. The railroads have been given the honor of the opening day. Members of the O.-W. R. & .N. Club the Transportation Club, employee of the Southern Pacific, the North Bank the Great Northern, the Oregon Electric Company and the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company and other rail road employes will march at noon to assemble at the big box and mall their letters, while whistles of all the fac tories in the city herald the opening of Letter Writing Week. Committee to Canvass. Meanwhile A. M. Grilley's canvassing committee will be out in the business district calling the attention of the heads of all the firms in the city to the importance of the event and urging them to encourage their employes to participate. There will be no excuse for anybody overlooking Letter Writing Week, or failing to participate. Public stenog raphers will be stationed in the busi ness section of the city and will be prepared to write letters as dictated, or to prepare and mail unlimited quanti ties of form letters, for men and women (Concluded on .Page 4, Column 2.) Turkish Version Says Muscovites Are Losing Heavily; Petrograd Reports Many Prisoners. ' CONSTANTINOPLE, via Berlin, and by Wireless to London, Jan. 16. A new general offensive along a front of al most 100 miles has been undertaken 1 the Caucasus by reinforced Russian columns, according to an official state ment issued today at the Turkish Wa Office, which said: , ."On the Caucasus front the enemy, heavily reinforced, commenced a gen eral offensive on January 11. Th fighting, which, is taking place over front of nearly 100 miles between Karadach, south of the Arasa River and Icham, south of Milo, is develop ing favorably for us. "Two Russian attacks near Kara dach, south of Kogij, on the 13th, suited in the complete defeat of th enemy, who was compelled to flee in disorder. Prisoners taken at this poin say - that during four da's' fighting each of their regiments lost at least 800 dead." PETROGRAD, via London, Jan 16.- An official statement given out today says: "On the Caucasus front, in the course of the fighting January 14, we captured 20 Turkish officers and more than 400 men, a quantity of war and engineer- ng material and provisions, one heavy gun and seven other guns and eight machine guns." OREGON DEBATERS NAMED Mrs. Rosalind Bates Is Only Co-Ed to Win Place on Team. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Jan. 16. (Special.) Six, members of the debate squad, including a co-ed, have been chosen as the sextet to rep resent the university in the forensic field this year. The woman is Mrs. Rosalind Bates, a junior and the wife of Dr. E. S. Bates, head of the depart ment of English in the university. There is but one member of last year's team in college, Cloyd Dawson, of Tillamook. Fear is felt that Nicho las Jaureguy, also a member of the team of last year, will not be able to compete. Other members of the squad are: Cloyd Dawson, Tillamook; Walter My ers, Eugene; Earl Fleischman. Eugene, Edwin Cox, Salem, and Hobart Mc- Fadden, Junction City. RUSSIANS WIN IN PERSIA Presence of Germans Near Hamadan Rearorted by Petrograd. 'PETROGRAD, Jan. 16. The War Of fice's ofticial statement today says of the fighting in Persia: In the fighting at Kangaver we took many prisoners. The enemy abandoned many dead on the battlefield. Our losses were insignificant. 'Southeast of Hamadan we drove back toward Daulatabad a detachment consisting of Turks and Germans." LONDON, Jan. 16. The Russian offl-1 ial statement, issued today, gives the first official intimation that the Ger mans are fighting with the Turks in Persia. GIRL FALLS INTO BUILDING Collision . Throws Miss Stewart Through Open Window. HOOD RIVER, Or., Jan. 16. (Spe cial.) To avoid a collision with an other coaster. Miss Katherine Stewart teered a speeding bobsled loaded with her girl friends straight for a snow bank on the sidewalk. When the girls picked themselves from the huge drift they found that Miss Stewart was missing. She had! been hurled from the sled, through an' open, basement window into the lower tory. of a business block. The janitor was summoned to release the young: woman, who was not hurt. RIDE'S LUGGAGE MIXED Salem Churchman Takes Wrong Suitcase From Auto, STAYTON, Or., Jan. 16. (Special.) bride's suitcase was the luggage car ried away from an automobile which had given him a lift by Dr. T. B. Ford, superintendent of the Salem Methodist Church district. He arrived here recently on business at night, and soon was located at the Methodist parsonage by a young man who asked If the doctor would not like to exohange suitcases. The trade was effected with a hearty laugh at the i stake. Dr. Ford's auto had broken down on e way here. L00Q RISING IN HOLLAND Devastation Continues and Afore Bodies Are Washed Ashore. LONDON. Jan. 16. A dispatch to the Central News from Amsterdam says: The floods in North Holland continue their devastation. The town of Pur- merend, which Is less than 10 miles from Amsterdam, is under water and at many points the flood is three feet higher than on yesterday. Everywhere in the flooded section bodies of cattle drowned can be seen floating. Only trees and farmhouses are above the surface of the water. "The bodies of 12 persons drowned in Marken washed ashore today at v--. I endam." ' Giant Deals Involving Steel and Oil Pend. DEFINITE STAGE REACHED Capital Is $200,000,000 and $150,000,000, Respectively. INDUSTRIES ARE ACTIVE Pacific Coast Interests Figure Con spicuously in Oil Combine, and Mexican Properties also Are to Be Included In Deal. CHICAGO. Jan. 16. (Special.) An nouncement of the formation of two great corporations one a stoel merger, with $200,000,000 capital, and the other an oil combine, capitalized at about $150,000.000 are expected this week. Negotiations, which have been on for several weeks, have now reached the stage in both projects where the transactions are in definite shape. In the steel deal, which Is believed to involvo the consolidation of the Youngstown Sheet A; Tube Company and the Cambria and Lackawanna Steel companies, the Repogle syndicate and the Drexcl firm, of Philadelphia, sre back of the new enterprise, and Na tional City Bank of New York inter ests are associated with tho negotia tions. In the oil deal bankers are working with Pacific Coast oil men in bringing about the merger. The best information obtainable so far regarding the steel merger is that the capital will consist of only one class of stock. The capital stock of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company is $20,000.00c common and $10,000,000 7 jer cent cumulative preferred, of which $34, 760,000 common and a small lot of the preferred are in the hands of the pub lic. Tho company also has about $41.- 000,000 bonds outstanding, including those of certain of its subsidiaries. Cambria Steel has outstanding cap ital stock of $45,000,000. and has no bonded debt. The total of tho outstanding stock and bonds of the three companies men tioned as being parties to the merger is approximately $150,000,000. Besides this, several other companies, among them the Inland Steel Company, have been mentioned as possible parties to the consolidation. In the proposed combination of Mex ican and California oil properties by banking interests, tho names of the Associated Oil Company and Union Oil Company have figured conspicuously. Tho Associated Oil Company is con trolled by the Southern racific Rail road, through ownership of $20,069,000 of its $40,000,000 capital stock. The Associated Company has a stock in terest in 13 companies, 11 of which it controls by a 50 per cent holding or more of stock. It owns 13 steamers and operates two pipe lines, and also owns interests, in two other pipe lines. It also owns its own rolling stock. The oil merger comes at a time of the greatest activity in the oil In dustry. ALL SCHOOLS DUE TO OPEN Some Portables May Have Trouble if East Wind Continues. Oil has been furnished the Couch, Shattuck and Failing schools and all classes will resume at those buildings this morning. Superintendent Alderman has been besieged with questions as to what schools will be open this morning, and last night he announced that all schools would be open for all grades. A few portable buildings on the outskirts of the city may have to be closed if the cold east wind continues. THREE KILLED AT CROSSING Chauffeur, Who Survives, Says Car "Went Dead" on Track. ALVO. Neb., Jan. 16. Three persona were killed and. a fourth was seriously Injured when Rock Island passenger train No. 5 struck an automobile near here today. The dead are: Edith Forman. aged 17; Belle Forman, 20, and Alma Godby, aged 19. J. H. Forman, who was driving the car, was seriously Injured. He said at the hospital that the car went dead on the track. KLAMATH SHIPPING LAMBS' Feeding Nets Farmers 15 a Ton for Their Alfalfa. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Jan. 16. (Special.) Heavy shipments of stock have begun from mis oisirici, m carloads having been sent out yester day. The heaviest shipment was made by O. B. MoKentree. of 2000 lambs. These lamb3 have been fattened by Klamath basin farmers, McKentree paying them an agreed amount for each pound of added weight. In this way the farm er secured $15 a ton for their alfalfa.