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VOL. L.VI. SO. 17,238. PORTLAND, OREGON, .MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND HAN I OF GERMAN RAIDERS COUNTRYMEN AID SHERIFF IS KILLED . BY JAILBREAKERS TEUTON SEAPLANES IN BAY OF BISCAY IN CATCHING SPY 5 KILLED Ifl WRECK NEW DEADLY DEED FRENCH IilXEK CHICAGO PCR SUED, BUT ESCAPES. LINCOLN'S CAPTURE DUE TO MEN ALSO ROB MARSHAL AND CITIZENS OF GERMAN BIRTH. LOCK HIM IN CELL. RUSSIANS UNMOVED BYWARSAW'S LOSS POISONER PLANN NG RAID BRITISH COAST Trains Collide in Fog Near Spokane. BENJAMIN J. BERKEY VICTIM Washington State and Railway Officials Among Dead. 3 ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED Persons Killed and Injured Are Crushed in Berths; Some, Badly Mangled, Plead for Help, but Die Before Released. STOKANE, Wash.. Feb. 10. Five persons were kiled and three seriously injured today at South Cheney, 17 miles west of Spokane, when Northern Pacific train No. 2, known as the North Coast Limited, ran into the rear of Northern Pacific-Burlington train No. 42. telescoping an empty day coach that was being "deadheaded" east into the rear Pullman of the Burlington train. which was standing In front of the station. The accident happened, in a dense fog. Cortland Maa Killed. The dead: Professor Elton Fulmer, state chem ist, Pullman, Wash. I. J. Minnick, deputy oil inspector, Spokane. Lee N. Conry. Northern Pacific traveling passenger agent, Spokane. B. L. Berkey, traveling salesman, Portland. Or. . J. J. White. Spokane. Seriously injured: I R. J. Spear. Pomeroy. Wash. Dr. John Matthews, Everett, Wash. J. A. Payant, Los Angeles. All the dead and injured either were asleep or dressing when the crash came. A score of persons had berths in the car. but several had Just gone into the dining car ahead and were not injured. The others escaped with mitior bruises save Mrs. J. N. Atkins, of Spokane, who is suffering from shock. Special Can-lea Sargesas. A special train from Spokane carried surgeons and nurses and returned be fore noon with the victims, the three seriously injured being placed in a hos pital. Both trains eastbound were being de toured as sections of Spokane, Portland & Seattle train No. 4. over the line of that company between Pasco and Mar shall, because of flood conditions on the Northern Pacific. The engineer of the Burlington train stopped at Soath Cheney for orders. C. G. Lude, rear brakeman, says he immediately started back to flag No. 2 which, according to the last report the Burlington train crew had, was one hour and 20 minutes behind the Bu ington at Pasco. Ensiaeer Vnable to Stop. When Lude had run a distance of be tween 900 and 1000 feet passengers estimate the distance at five or six car lengths he says he saw the headlight of No. 2 beginning to glow through the fog. He lighted a fusee but the en gineer of the North Coast Limited, ap plying emergence brakes, could no quite stop his train in time to prevent the smashup. v netner "ae Burlington train was behind ecnedule or the rear train had made up sufficient time to encroach on the running time of the Burlington has not been ascertained. Jrofeaaor Fainter lasnred. On the body of Professor Fulmer was found an accident insurance card, pro viding for $25,000 insurance in case of death on the trip. The policy was ob tained just before he boarded the train at Pullman, Wash. Railroad officials tonight were un able to assign the cause of the colli tion. An investigation has been begun by J. L Deforce, division superintend ent of the Northern Pacific, and by the County Coroner. No. 42 had been at Cheney Station for some time when, without warning. the engine of No. 2 crashed into the rear car. which was a steel chair car with no passengers. This chair car crushed into the Pullman, Crookston, telescoping almost the whole length of the car, carrying, berths, bedding, fur niture and passengers in front of it. Only the front tier of berths escaped. The porter happened to be in the aisle making up berths, and the front of the crushing car carried him ahead without injuring him to any extent. Most of those killed were mangled frightfully. In one case the head, body and left leg were crushed through a window, the right leg being caught under the telescoped car and when he was found his body was practically split length wise. He called to another of the vie tims tor neip put aiea Derore He was released. One of the men who was taken from the wreck alive was able to call for help, but was unable to release him self as both legs and arms were pinned under the car. Another was under the debris but was able to call out for air as be was smothering. He was later Identified as L. M. Conry, traveling passenger agent. Northern Pacific Railroad. A hole was cut into the side of the car, but Conry died before they were able to reach him. The entire wreck was witnessed by Suspected Vessels Are Said to Bo Disguised as Neutrals, but Un able to Make Much Speed.' PARIS, Feb. 20. (Special.) The cap tain of the French liner Chicago re ceived two wireless messages when his vessel was nearing the Bay of Biscay, warning him of the presence of enemy corsairs. One message was from the captain of the Lafayette and the other was from the French land wireless station. On the night of February 17, about o'clock, a vessel suddenly appeared off the Chicago's starboard bow about three miles away. There was a heavy mist, so the outline of the vessel was indistinguishable, but she carried all lights and immediately signaled to the Chicago to heave to. The captain promptly ordered full steam ahead and the stranger gave chase for a quarter of an hour, but the Chicago was mak ing 17 knots and quickly outdistanced her. The captain of the Chicago is sure it was a German raider, because the wireless warnings said the raiders were vessels disguised as neutral mer chantmen carrying lights at night, but able to do only about 14 knots. The Chicago sailed from New York for Bordeaux on February 11. Many Americans sailing on the steam ship from Bordeaux on her previous trip on January 2 received anonymous warnings that an attempt was to be made to sink the vessel. Defeat Fails to Demor. alize Army.. Examination of Effects Shows No Evidence That Others Are Im plicated In Adventures. Chicago P' o Waiting For Return. . CITY SEES LITTLE CONFUSION Hope of Germans for Separate Peace Disappointed. POSITIONS IN REAR READY Teuton Declares It Is Hopeless to Fight Against 3Ien Who W ill Not Play Game and Admit Loss When It Comes on Him. LAMP-SHADE HOSE ARRIVES Follies Dance Nearly Upset When Pantalettes Also Show Up. The lamp-shade hose, that dernier cri in women's wearing apparel, al- most upset the Follies Dance at Chris tensen's Hall Friday night. It all but disrupted the party. Some there were who were outspoken that it was going "Just a little too far." But when a pair of pantalettes (or would 'you call it a pantalette gown?) came tripping into ;he room, the more sedate threw up their hands and waited for the worst. But that was all, and when the as tonished ones got second breath, the excitement was lost in the dance. The Follies ball is a high school set affair largely, and the advent of the lamp-shade hosiery was almost too much. For the benefit of the uninitiated the lamp-shade hose takes its name from its peculiar hovering and drooping around the shoe tops. GLIDDEN TOUR PROPOSED Plan to Include Columbia Highway Meets Official Favor. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash- ington, Feb. 20. Samuel C. Lancaster, engineer of the Columbia Highway, has suggested to officials of the Automo bile Association of America that a Glidden tour be arranged next Summer, to start at San Francisco and run up the coast to Portland, out the Colum bia Highway and return, and thence to Seattle. The suggestion has been received fa vorably and tentative plans .are being made for the tour, so arranged as to bring the automobilists to Portland June 7, at the time of the Rose Festi val, and the date on which the high way is to be formally dedicated. BY STANLEY WASHBURN. (War Correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, Returned From the Russian Front, r ud. llshed byArrangement.) In the final retreat of the Russian army from Warsaw, as in m" others that I have accompanied, or rather, preceded, in Russia there was nothing in the faces of the men to indicate whether they were retiring or advanc ing. Wednesday, August 4, Warsaw's last day, we left early in my motor and ran down to the position where the Thirty-sixth Corps, now reinforced by the Thirty-fifth, was standing between the Germans and the Russian line of retreat. It was a perfectly still day, with hardly a cloud In the sky. Save for the dull booming of the guns over on the river there was peace everywhere. During the morning there was scarce ly any movement on the Lublin-War saw road, which was the line of com munication of the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Army Corps. Almost No Confusion Seen. When we turned into the main road"! from Sedlice to Warsaw the evacuation was under full head. I suppose during the entire rftreat this afternoon was the nearest to confusion; how slight this was is, I think, made clear by the fact that, though I was going back to the- town and the tide was 'flowing the other way, there was never such density as to stop my motor or cause me to reduce speed below 15 miles an hour. This, then, was the "rout" of the Russians at Its high tide. It was after 6 when we came over the hills that looked down on Warsaw that so many times before had greeted us on the return from scores of trips. But now a glance showed that the city, which we who had followed its des tinies for a year had come to love was doomed. At the end or the beautiful new bridge hung one of our observation balloons, while a couple of miles up the river the big German shells were bursting with terrific detonations, lit erally spurting buildings into the air. Our own batteries, down to their last shots, replied only occasionally or; as n many places, not at all. Warsaw was passing from us and, MOOSE T0LDT0 DISBAND Texas Committee Says Party Has Outlived Its Usefulness. NEW YORK, Feb. 20. The capture here last night of Ignatius T. O. Lincoln, former member of the British parlia ment and self-styled German spy, after his escape from the custody of a United States Deputy Marshal in Brooklyn on January IS, was brought about through the assistance given to the special agents of the Government by several naturalized citizens of German birth, it was learned authoritatively tonight While officials here of the Depart ment of Justice and United States Dis trict Attorney Francis, of Brooklyn, declined to divulge the information ob tained from the examination of Lin- GUARD PUT ON CHURCHES coin s eirects, it was saia notning was found to implicate others in his escape or in harboring him since then. It was said that Lincoln was planning I to leave New York when arrested. LETTERS REVEAL INTENTION Anarchists Shadowed in Effor to Find Assassin. Suspicious-Looking Men Are Seen Lurking in Vicinity of Edifices MILLIONAIRE WEDS AGAIN and Police Decide They Will Take No Chances, William II. Moffatt Takes Bride When First Wife Gets Decree. rwrrifin irK sn (finpcial 1 The RENO, Mev., Fen. 30. (special.) , ' . , . . . .., William H. Moffatt. millionaire cattle- "" man and nresident of the Cattlemen's crones, sen-coniessea conspirator iu Association, was married, today at his destroy guests at the banquet to Arch Alamo farm home. The bride was Mrs. I bishop Undelein, has been playing with Virginia Davis, who -came to Reno 15,000 police of New York and Chicago, from Knoxville, Tenn., about eight I is believed to be drawing to lan end. months ago. I According to information which Mr. Moffatt is rated as one of the I reached Chicago today, the poisoner richest men in the West. His first wife secured a decree two months ag ill xietiu, in-uitiufi &, tctod dciucuicui, according to report, of 130,000. SLAYER OF I. W. W. FREE Utah Politician Found Not Guilty by Jury at Salt Lake. SALT LAKE CITY", Feb. 20. Major H. P. Myton, former Indian agent, and well known in politics here, was found ot guilty of the murder of Roy J. Hor- ton, an I. W. W. street orator, by a jury n the District Court last night. Myton shot and killed Horton on the treet here October 10, after Horton had truck him. Myton's plea was self-de fense. has unwittingly betrayed a plan to return to Chicago and carry out a threat to wipe out churches, public buildings and bring violent death to prominent citizens. Letters Are Intercepted. - The betrayal of Crones' plans, ac cording to the information received, was brought about by Federal inter ception of letters the anarchist wrote to two of his intimate associates in anarchy here. Strict wach on the mails for letters addressed to these men, whose names are known to the Chicago authorities. but who have been in hiding since is Pitched Battle Fought by Pursuing Officers and Fugitives Headed for Mexican Border. EL PASO. Tex., Feb. 20. Dwight B. Stephens, Sheriff of Luna County, New Mexico, was killed and a deputy sneritf. Buck Sevier, seriously wounded In a battle at Rincon, N. M., today with five fugitives who previously had escaped from the Jail at Demlng, according to a report received here tonight. One of the fugitives also was killed, it was said. Four of the fugitives are reported to have overpowered City Marshal Tabor, of Deming, and locked him in a cell. Tabor was relieved of his watch, pistol and $5, and several rifles were taken from the Jail office. The men then obtained an automo bile belonging to D. O. Snodgrass. Snodgrass was robbed of $20 and also thrown into jail. Joe Cranston, held for vagrancy, was put at the wheel. and the' party started toward Rincon. Tabor and Snodgrass were found In the jail in an hour after the escape. and Sheriff Stephens, with Deputy Sevier and a small posse, started in pursuit. The posse came on the fugi tives at Rincon. Stephens fell dead in the ensuing fight. The four survivors are believed to have fled toward the Mexican border. Two Men and Boy Are Killed by Bombs. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE Church Windows Blown in as People Sing "Te Deum." PURSUIT IS FRUITLESS FLIGHT RECORD IS BROKEN Corporal in 11 dro-Aeroplane Stays Up8 Hours, 4 2 Minutes. SAN DIEGO. Cal., Feb. 20. Corporal Albert Smith, attached to the signal corps aviation school at North Island, established what is declared to be a record endurance flight for hydro aeroplanes Saturday when he remained in the air 8 hours and 42 minutes. The American sustained flight record for pilot alono in a machine of this type formerly was held by Lieutenant ohn Towers, United States Navy, who flew more than six hours at Annapolis In July. 1914. Attackers Travel in Pairs and In One Instance Keturn to Scene After Having Htscu High and Seemingly Vanished. Crones' departure from the city, it said by this man, enabled Government officials to seize the letters and at the same time determine the whereabouts of the addressees. The letters were forwarded to th proper addresses, and the men for Wll Sf)N NARROWING LIST whom they were intended are now be lieve Crones will, return to Chicago to carry out a plan of destruction with hi Chicago associates. Intimates Expect Return. WASHINGTON. Feb. 20. President "Crones is either planning to come Wilson is expected to select a new Sec- here or is already on his way to Chi retary of War this week. It was under- I cago. He has two close intimates here stood today that he had narrowed the who are expecting him," said a man list of men he considered available who has kept in touch with the case down to a few men. and asked that his identity not be re Either Secretary Houston or Thomas I vealed. Secretary Houston or- T. J- May Succeed Garrison. Jones D. Jones, of Chicago, was likely to be appointed. believed Concluded on Page 4, Column 1.) Eugene Banker Says Times Good. EUGENE, Or., Feb. 20. (Special.) Business in Eugene for the first seven weeks of 1916 shows a decided im provement, according to B. B. Brun- dage, cashier of the Bank of Com merce. Mr. Brundage says that the most hopeful sign so far as this section of the state. Is concerned is the demand for lumber, which shows an improve ment of over 100 per cent more than the same period one year ago. "Crones has written these men and his letters have been intercepted. They were addressed to two men whom the police have been searching for since Crones is supposed to have fled to New York. They have been in hiding and watch has been kept on incoming mail in the hope that Crones, who wrote several letters to the New York Times would also write his Chicago friends Just recently the letters were dis covered in the mail. They were opened and read. Their contents revealed half-formed plan Crones has had in iConcluded on Page 2, Column 2.) WHICH FLAG DO WE INTEND TO PULL DOWN? SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 20. The executive committee of the Progressive party of Southwest Texas disbanded at a meeting here last night, after adopt ing resolutions declaring that the party had passed its usefulness as a distinct political organization. The committee went on record declar ing that "the Progressive party is be ing kept alive by a few who have been active as leaders for the sole purpose of using the name and claim to con trol the vote for a trading basis at the Republican National convention, when it meets in Chicago next June." SHIPPING PROFITS HUGE War Rates Net Enormous Returns to British Owners. LONDON". Feb. 20. The reports of wo New Castle shipping lines show im mense increases in profits due to the rise in freight rates. The net profits of the Cairn line, after deducting spe cial war taxation, amounted to $813. 445, and a dividend of 10 per cent with bonus of 4 shillings a share is de clared, making a total of 30 per cent, as compared with 10 per cent last year. The profits of the Moor line amounted to $1,621,240 and a dividend of 25 per cent is recommended, as compared with 12 Vi per cent last year. SEA CLAIMS LIGHT KEEPER Body Found on Jultlntr Sandspit After 70-Mile Gale. iConcluded on Pas i. Column 3.) BOSTON, Feb. 20. Deer Island light. one of the harbor aids to navigation, failed last night and investigation re- ulted in the finding of the body of the keeper, Joseph R- McCabe, on a sand bar which juts from the island to the light. It is supposed that seas, kicked up by 70-mile gale, overwhelmed McCabe as e was trying to walk across the bar. He was to have been married on Easter Sunday. I T I I WTO WW sv.-... f W , W .A-" X S SS 1 1 s ...... .......... ......... ....4 PEACE MOVE IS REPORTED Merchants of Hansatic Cities Said to Want War Ended. LONDON, Feb. 21 (Special.) The Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily Mail telegraphs that he learns from a .trustworthy source that more than, 600 prominent men. including heads of business houses and shipown ers of Hamburg, Luebeck and Bremen, have petitioned the government to be gin peace overtures with a view to ending the war within three month Otherwise, it is asserted, the Hansa states will be ruined. MR. MYERS IN CAPITAL Portland Postmaster to Urge Early . Advertisement for Bids. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, J'eb. 20. (Special.) Postmas ter Myers, of Portland, arrived in Washington today. He said he was taking a vacation. but intended to confer with the super vising architect with reference to plans for the Portland Postoffice, and to urge that these plans be advertised in the near future. Mr. Myers said his trip had no political significance. French Steamship Torpedoed. PARIS. Feb. 20. The French steam- hip Memphis has been sunk by an Austrian submarine oft" Durazzo, ac cording to a Vienna dispatch. NDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Wrathpr. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 00 degrees; minimum, 4U decrees. TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds. War. Four Gorman seuplanes raid English coast. rage l. Washburn (ays Russians were undemoralized by loss of arsaw. Pave 1. R.SHians pressing alvantaye gained at Erze- rum. page . Australian Premier says Dominions are united in fight for liberty. Page 3. Russia growing richer despite war. Page 2. British blame Germans for failure to extend industrial aid to Belgium. Page National. Members of Congress regard submarine crisis as again acute. Page a. Official tension over Teuton sea policy heightened by unofficial news from Ber lin. Pago 4. Domestic. Conference on anthracite miners' demands to begin toduy. Page 2. Banquet poisoner plans new attack on so ciety. Pago l. Jailbreakers kill Sheriff in New Mexico. . i'uge 1. German raider in Bay of Biscay. Page 1, B'nal B'rith, in convention, will take up Plans for more extensive aid of Jews. Page 4. Sport. Good weather deluys play iii basketball league. Page 11. Pat Callahan signs Oakland contract. Page 10. Hagen and Miebus to box Wednesday night. Page 11. Oregon Aggies not to play off tie in Berke ley. Page 10. wodburn wants place In Inter-City League. Page 10. Pacific Northwest. Portland man Is one of five killed in North ern Pacific wreck. Pago 1. Marine. Movements of lumber carriers indicate new life in trade. Page 0. Portland and Vicinity. Rev. Father Black declares birth control leads to national extinction. Page 18. Breach of promise suit against Joe Howard not dismissed. Page 13. Mr. Brandeis should forego Supreme Court ambition, says Jewish speaker. Page 0. Gay apparel shown at Orpheum. Page 18. Chamber of Commerce has all data pre pared for new rate fight. Page 8., BelUs of 'COs dance with Grand Army veterans. Page 18. Rival tong protests release of gunman. ' Page 5. . Fine concert given by Symphony Orchestra. Page 3. Benefit opera at Hellig will be Thursday ulKnt. Page T. LONDON, Feb. 20. Four German seaplanes today made a raid over the east and southeast coasts of England, according to an ofllcial announcement made tonight. The total disunities ur- given as two men and one boy killed and one marine wounded. Consider able material damage was done. The official communication says: "Four German seaplanes made a raid over the east and southeast coasts at noon today. Aircraft V anlxh. Then llrturn. "The first raiders two biplanes, ap peared over Lowestoft at 10:55 A. M.. and circled over the south side of the town for five minutes and dropped bombs. In about five minutes they rose to a great height and seemingly vanished. At 11:50 A. M. the two sea planes were again over the town and then vanished eastward again. "Altogether 17 small hl0'h explosive bombs wero dropped. There were mi casualties. Considerable damage was caused to outbuildings of a restaurant and to two dwelling houses. Two naval seaplanes went up at 11:05 A. M. and pursued the raiders, but without result. Seaplanes Kly l.or Over Kent. "Meanwhile two other German sea planes were, making for the Kentish coast. The HrKt passed over the Ken tish Knock iightvcssel, dropping bomb in that vicinity at 11:20 A. M. The last raider made straight for Walnier. Reaching that town at 11:27 A. M flying at less than 2500 feet, it dropped six bombs and turned sharply to thu east. "Two of the bombs that fell destroed roofs and broke windows In the liclsli borhood. One of them fell close to a church, blowing in the windows as tlio congregation was sinking "Te Ileum." A third bomb fell on a roadway run ning along the beach, killing one Chil ian and Injuring one marine. Aeroplanes Pursue In A sin. "The total casualties were two men and one boy killed and one marine in Two of our aeroplanes which went up from Dover pursued the raider, but apparently could not overtake him." A1KMI.N .MAV VSK .SIIIM.IMK Distance of Lowestoft 1'rimi Hostile Base Becalls Ilcport. LOWESTOFT. Feb. 20. The daniHc here by the air raiders was not seri ous. One bonio uemonsneu ui cuiiu Sated roof of a sawmill, another un roofed a private house, a third sinusneu the windows of a hotel, while u. fourth smashed the windows of a churcii without Injuring any of the worshipers. Another bomb fell squarely Into a bedroom of a workman's house, but In jured nobody. Several bombs fell harmlessly into gardens and vacant lots. In view of the. distance of Lowestoft from the nearest hostile aviation base, it is recalled here that a German news paper recently described a new ar rangement whereby a submarine was combined with an aeroplane, the sub marine acting as a submersible hanxur from which a small seaplane could operate after being conveyed within suitable-distance of its objective. 35 DINERS ARE MADE ILL Mystery Surrounds Suffering After Peiinsylvinia Church Affair. PITTSBURG, Feb. 20. Mystery sur rounds the illness ot 35 persons who were compelled to ask for medical at tention after attending a church sup per in Carnegie, near here. Opinions regarding "the cause dlller. One physician who attended some of the victims said he believed they were suffering from ptomaine poison, while another physician said the symptoms were similar to those of arsenic poisoning. It was said tonight that all of the victims would recover. GREEKS RESIST BULGARS Invaders Forced to Itctlre After JOn- gagement Near Doiran. LONDON. Feb. 20. Patrols of Greeks and Bulgarians fought a shurp en gagement near Doiran Thursday, after the Bulgarians crossed the frontier, according to a Salonlkl dispatch to Reuter's Telegram Company. The Bulgarians were forced to retir. leaving two men killed. One (Jrsek soldier was wounded. i