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VOL. LVI NO. 17,212. " PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY.- FEBRUARY 25, 1916. PRICE FIVE CEXT3. NOT TO TRAVEL President Says Rights of Citizens Are Clear. ONLY ONE COURSE IS SEEN Deliberate Violation of Posi tion of America Not to . Be Tolerated. HONOR TO BE PRESERVED Other Humiliations, Declares President, Will Follow if . Expediency Rules. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Presi dent Wilson, at the end of two days of agitation in Congress for action warn ing Americans off armed merchant men, wrote a letter tonight to Sena tor Stone, chairman of the Senate for eign relations committee, saying that he could not consent to the abridge ment of the rights of American citi , zens in any respect. "The honor and self-respect of the Nation are involved," he said. "We covet peace and shall preserve it at any cost but the loss of honor." !' Humiliation to Be Avoided. '' He added: "To forbid our people to exercise ' their rights for fear we might be called upon to vindicate them would ( be a deep humiliation, indeed." ' The President also pointed out that "once accept a single abatement of right and many other humiliations would certainly follow." The President expressed hope that ' explanations of the declared inten tions of the central powers of Europe to sink all armed merchant ships with out warning put a different aspect on a situation which now seemed to pre- i sent insuperable obstacles. Germany's Faith Not Questioned. "We have had no reason to ques- 1 SON OR D j tion their good faith or their fidelity to their promises in the past," he added, "and I, for one, feel confident that we shall have none in the fu ture." The letter was in answer to one written late this afternoon by Sena tor Stone outlining the situation ex isting at the Capitol, where, since yes ' terday morning, persistent demands had been made for some action which might lessen the possibility of war be tween the United States and Germany. The President's statement will be repeated tomorrow morning to Speak- er Clark, Representative Kitchin, ma- jority leader, and Representative ) Flood, chairman of the House foreign ' affairs committee, w"ho late today asked for an engagement in order to explain the position in which the . House found itself and ask the Presi dent for a statement of the Adminis '. tration's views. The President's letter follows: I "February 24, 1916. My Dear Serta- 1 tor: I very warmly appreciate your kind and frank letter of today and ' feel that it calls for an equally frank reply. y President Does Not Want War. "You are right in assuming that I , shall do everything in my power to keep the United States out of war. I think the country will feel no uneasi- ' ness about my course in that respect. ) Through many anxious months I have cirivon 4nr tVli.fr. nfriiprfr nmirlst dif ficulties more manifold than can have been apparent upon the surface, and so far I have succeeded. I do not doubt that I shall continue to succeed. "The course which the central Eu ropean powers have announced their intention of following in the future with regard to undersea warfare seems for the moment to threaten in superable obstacles, but its apparent meaning is so manifestly inconsistent jvith explicit assurances recently I given us by those powers with regard I to their treatment of merchant vessels on the high seas that I must believe that explanations will presently en sue which will put a different aspect on it. "We have no reason to ques'tion GIRL, 14, CRUSHED TO DEATH BY AUTO ESTHER GIBSON- IS INSTANTLY KILLED 'UNDER TRUCK. Child on Way to Practice for Church Entertainment Is Run Down by Slowly-Moving Vehicle. Esther Gibson, aged 14, was run down and instantly killed by a heavily- loaded auto-truck at the intersection of Williams avenue and Fargo street, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The truck, operated by the Alberta Fuel Company, was driven by the owner and manager. M. Weiser. of 825 Alberta street. Mr. Weiser, at police headquarters, said his view of the street corner was obstructed by telephone posts and until the girl was struck he did not observe her. He turned the truck quickly, but the hind wheel passed ove." her shoulders and neck. The truck was going no faster than six miles per hour, says the driver. The mother, Mrs. John Gibson, of 681 Rodney avenue, is overcome with grief. ' The little girl had left home only a few minutes before the accident, to at tend a programme rehearsal at a neigh boring church. The testimony of witnesses tends to exonerate Mr. Weiser of blame for the accident. Mr. Weiser was permitted to return to his home. Because of the death of Miss Gibson, the entertainment, which was to have been given tonight at the Central Methodist Episcopal Church by the Queen Esther Circle, and in which she was to have participated, has been postponed. - HEARSE RUNS DOWN CHILD Funeral Is Halted While 14-Months-Old Boy Is Carried Home. Nick Falotio, the 14-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Rocco Falotio, 615 Fourth street, was possibly fatally in jured by being struck by Finley & Sons' Tiearse during- a funeral yester day afternoon. The funeral party stopped while the child was taken home and a physician summoned, and then went on to Riverview Cemetery. The child was sitting in front of his home near Fourth and Sheridan streets when the funeral party approached. He jumped up and ran out into the road, evidently Intending to cross the .street. He fell and the front -wheel of the hearse struck the child's chest, crushing several ribs. The child was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. Th hearse -was driven by D. D. Parks and stopped within six feet. Dr. H. F. Leonard was summoned by W. W. Johns, a member of'Finley & Sons, and the baby was hurried to the hospital. BOY! PAGE DIOGENES! Injured Workman Declines state Compensation for Sunday. OLYMPIA, Wash.. Feb. 24. (Special.) The State Industrial Insurance Com mission recently allowed George Har vey Moore $5.73 for four days' loss of time on account of injury. Moore is a lineman employed by the Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company at Bellingham. Yesterday the Insurance Commission received back its voucher unsigned, ac companied by a letter from Moore ex plaining that one of the days allowed as time lost was Sunday, when he wouldn't have been employed anyhow. He desired the allowance reduced to three days, a decrease of J 1.25 in his cash benefit. MILL TO ADD NIGHT SHIFT Aberdeen riant Booked Up With Foreign Lumber Orders. ABERDEEN", Wash., Feb. 24. (Spe cial.) That the Wilson Brothers' mill will operate day and night here after March 1, was the announcement of Manager John Wilson today. He said orders from South America and Aus tralia were piling up fast and that the mill had made arrangements for ton nage in which to transport these. The night shift will employ 100 additional men. Mr. Wilson intimated that the steam er Columbia would be restored to the Aberdeen-San Francisco trade. THREAT HEEDED BY JUDGE Black Hand Letters Followed by Re tirement From Strike Case. CLEVELAND, Feb. 24. Black hand threats caused Judge John H. Clarke, presiding in United States District Court here today, to withdraw from the trial of cases of four men charged with destroying the postoffice at East Youngstown during the recent strike riots there. The cases were postponed until Monday. The threat was in the form of a letter sent to the owners of the Youngstown .Vindicator at Youngstown, in which Judge Clarke is a large stockholder. BONDS TO BE CABINET PAY British Ministers to Accept Part Paper, for Economy. LONDON. Feb. 24. In response to agitation by the newspapers urging the Ministers to set the country an example of economy, preferably by accepting re duction in their salaries, it is announced the Ministers have agreed for the fu ture to accept one quarter of their salaries in the form of five per cent exchequer bonds. It is expected the whole body of the civil servants will be invited to accept portion of their salaries in a similar IT EXPECTED TO E OUT FOR I. R Washington Looks for Announcement Soon. SPEECH THOUGHT FORERUNNER Ex-Senator Feels Strongly on Foreign Policy. AMERICANISM IS INTENSE Weakness of Country's Present At titude Deplored and Colonel Re garded as Man Fitted to Voice Nation's Ideals. BY EDWARD B. CLARK. (Washington Correspondent of the Chi cago Evening Post.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. (Special.) Many Republicans here believe strongly that Elihu Root is preparing to make at an early date a public declaration in favor of Theodore Roosevelt for the Re publican nomination for President. Before Mr. Root made his speech in New York outlining the policies in whin he believes, there were rumors in Washington that the ex-Secretary of State eventually would be found in the ranks of his former chief. There were some things known which have not been made public, but it is enough perhaps to say that there were "solid reasons" why the word should go out that the New York lawyer in tended to say things which would ad vance the cause of Americanism. Colo nel Roosevelt's friends maintain this necessity would advance the cause of Roosevelt. Washington Hu Eyes on Xnr York. Washington is watching New York Just at the present moment with a good. deal of interest. There are some fac tional differences in the Republican party in the Empire State and if Elihu Root, as he may, pronounces before long for Colonel Roosevelt, there will be more trouble, but it will affect only the Barnes element which, however, big as it is today, will be much smaller im mediately following a Root pronounce ment. Republican Senators and Repre sentatives in looking over the political field have noted what has been fully said concerning the distaste In the Mid dle West and the West for any assump tion by the Republicans of New York that they are entitled to the leader ship in the party. Several Republican leaders here have their views on this matter and have not been unwilling to disclose them. It seems that the feeling among the Republicans in the House and Senate is that the party in New York is not entitled to take the leadership on or dinary , occasions because generally what New York wants is antagonistic to that which the Progressive-minded Republicans of the West want. Feeling Toward New York Changes. Today, however, the Republicans here say that things are different, that the party in New York has taken the leadership this year because it has based it on issues which must be ac ceptable to the party all through the (Concluded on Page 2. Column 1.) conn I CRACK TRAIN HELD UP NEAR SEATTLE I, ROBBERS TAKE BAGGAGE AND MAIL CAKS INTO FOREST. Passengers on Cars Left Standins Hear Explosion Soon After. Flagman Is Made Target. SEATTLE, Feb. 24. The Northern Pacific eastbound North Coast Limited, train No. 2, was held up at 8:45 o'clock tonight a mile and a half east of Cov ington, 25 miles east of Seattle. The robbers uncoupled the baggage and mail cars and compelled the engine crew to haul the two cars up the track into the mountain forest. Automobiles filled with deputy Sher iffs were dispatched from Seattle to apprehend the robbers. At 10 o'clock tonight the Northern Pacific officers here had not been informed concerning the action of the robbers aftey they disappeared with the baggage and mail cars. A short time after the engine and baggage and mail cars disappeared passengers in the cars left standing on the track heard an explosion. It was supposed the robbers dynamited the ex press safe. The flagman who reported the holdup from Covington said that the robbers fired several shots at him as he ran down the track to give the alarm, but he escaped uninjured. The flagman ran back to Covington as soon as 'he learned the robbers' purpose and was unable to give details of the robbery. BOYS ARE JOINING COLORS Adjutant-General White inspects Artillery at Roseburg. ROSRRITRG. Or.. Feb. 24. (Special.) That high school boys 18 years old are taking a great interest in military affairs throughout Oregon and had aided materially in increasing the en rollment of the National Guard, was the assertion made by Adjutant-Gen eral George A. White, of portiana, in an address before the pupils of the Roseburg schools here today. "While the United States is not a wurrinir Nation." said General Whte. "it is a matter of defense to have a strong force ready to withstand the invader. Ha believes the preparedness pro gramme will be" in operation here by july. BIG MILL IS TO RESUME Seattle Men Buy Lumber Plant on Vancnuvor Island, B. C. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 24. H. A. Dent and A. W. Milroi, Seattle lumber men, today purchased the Canadian Pa cific lumber-mill and 25,000,000 feet of fir and cedar timber at Port Al berni, on Vancouver Island. B. C. The mill, which has been idle for 18 months, will be operated with 200 men on or before March 10. The plant will cut from 100,000 to 200,000 feet of lumber a day and will be kept running to its full capacity. COLONEL OFF TO GUIANA Return Home Will Be Made by Way of Trinidad. BARBADOS. B. W. I.. Feb. 24. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt arrived here today and pro ceeded to Demerara, British Guiana. Thv will e-o from Demerara to Trini. rinH where thev will take a steamer direct to New York. Both Colonei Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt are in good health. WHO'S RUNNING THIS CIRCUS? FEDERAL HID FOR CAR RELIEF ASKED Lumbermen Seek to Avoid I o-3. ot ALL ASSOCIATIONS SIGN PLEA Co-operation Between Manu facturer and Retailer Urged. ADVERTISING TO BE TRIED Standardizing of Product and Sta bilizing of Market Declared Re forms Most Needed In Trade. Points Made by Speakers. The crystallization of a meeting of the trustees of the West Coast Lumber Manufacturers, held yesterday morn ing in connection with the conference of both retail lumber dealers and man ufacturers in three days' session at the Chamber of Commerce, was the offer ing of a resolution to the members at tending the afternoon session, praying the Interstate Commerce Commission to relieve the car shortage that was making the"distribution of lumber and fuel almost an impossibility. The inability of shippers to obtain bottoms, thus tying up cars at seaport terminals, is the reason given for the car shortage. Deliveries to Be Slow. It was the statement of men repre sentative of manufacturing interests yesterday that orders should be placed now for deliveries many weeks hence, as the car shortage was of such mag nitude that immediate delivery was Impossible. The danger of lumber manufacturing plants losing a large per cent ot their profit by inability to get the means of transportation to make deliveries, ac cording to the natural laws of distri bution, was emphasized in the conclud. ing remarks made by George Cornwall editor of the Timberman. at the close of yesterday's sessions. He asserted that it was a fact there were many hundreds. cars wafting to be unloaded at vialveston, that Cali fornia had a shortage of 2000 and that other seaport terminals were affected similarly. Resolution Is Presented. The following resolution was pre sented at the conclusion of Mr. Corn wall's speech: "To the Interstate Commer.ce Com mission, Washington, D. C: "Members or the West Coast Lumber Manufacturing Association, the West ern Pine Manufacturing Association, the California Redwood Association, engaged in the manufacture of lumber and the products of lumber in the states of Oregon, Washington and California, and the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, doing business west of the Rocky Mountains, respectfully repre sent that for years the industry has been laboring under a severe depres sion, and but recently has begun to re vive under an increased demand. "It is now, however, confronted with a condition that, unless relief is speed (Continued on Page B. Column 2 GUARD IS GIVEN TO TREASURE SHIP URITISH STKAMF.R AT SKATTLL' HAS $8,500,000 CARGO. Anonymous Threat Received That Germans Would Destroy lllue Funnel Liner Talthybius. SEATTLE. Wash.. Feb. 24. When the big British steamer Talthybius, of the Blue Funnel line, docked at the Smith Cove terminal tonight every ap proach to the wharf was closely guarded by policemen and special watchmen employed as the result of an anonymous threat tha,t the liner's $8,500,000 cargo had been marked for destruction by alleged German spies. The Talthybius brought 6000 tons of rubber, worth $5,000,000; silk worth $1,000,000 and other Oriental products valued at $2,500,000. The rubber was shipped from Singapore and will be rushed by rail to the East for use in American automobile and tire factories. Owners of waterfront property, al though skeptical of the authenticity of the warning sent to Fire Marshal Harry Bringhurst, have placed guards about their warehouses as a precautionary measure. Several months ago pier 11, which was used by the Blue Funnel fleet, was destroyed by fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin, and from time to time there have been vague threats that other piers used for the shipment of war munitions to Rus sia would be destroyed. MAN DIES WASHING HANDS ETfort After Heart railuro Attiifk Fatal to Olympla Resident. OLYMPIA. Wash., Feb. 24? (Spe cial.) Confident that he had entirely recovered from an attack of heart fail ure. Albert E. Stanford stooped over to wash his hands in preparing for lunch, eon with his family at home here today. He sank to the floor and died in a few moments. Mr. Stanford was 67 years old and had served the Northern raclfic as agent at Olympia for 23 years. He had worked two years in Portland prior to coming here, was a member of the Episcopal Church and the Elks. ' He was born near Rome, N. V., and had been a railroad man all his busi ness life. He leaves a widow, one son and two daughters. DRYS DON'T RIDE AT NIGHT Street Railway Owl Patronaue Has Decreased I'ndcr Prohibition. Another effect of prohibition has been revealed through the statistical bureau of the Portland Railway, Light & Pow er Company, which shows that the number of nocturnal passengers on the street railway lines has been material ly reduced since the first of the year. The figures show that patronage of the owl cars has fallen off approximate ly 20 per cent since prohibition has been in effect. Officials of the company attribute it entirely to the new condi tlons. Important Bank at Essen la Ms. LONDON, Feb. 2 4. A dispatch to the I'-iXcliangc telegraph Company from 7ii.tfh cava- "TH-a fulln.. f 1.... portant bank at Essen, Germany, is an nounced. It is believed that many of me men 111 me niuip wurivs nave JUKI meir a.vniKs. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, oti degrees; minimum, 37 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds. War. Germans drivinir French back In vicinity of Verdun. Page -1. National. Brandeis recused of evasive practices as lawyer. Page 'A. Senate refuses to tax power development on navlganic streams. Page o. Houston suggests amendments to land grant bill. Page 3. Pacific fleet could be defeated by one bat tleship, says commander. Page 1. President Wilson not to forbid travel ou - high seas. Vage 1. Text of Senator Stone's letter to President. Page .". Federal tax on power rejected. Pago 4. Domestic. Root expeetetl tn announce support of Roosevelt for President. Page 1. Prluco Mfslvinoff'tt suit to end today. Pago .!. Suffragists plan campaign before National conventions. Page -. Dr. J. Grant Lyman believed caught In Florida, Page 4. .Sport. Washington offers to meet Washington State at football In seuttle Thanksgiving day. pane 11. Walter Miller refuses to risk his llf.oo championship belt In match with O'Con- ncll. Page 14. Final league hockey game to bo played here tcriight. Pago 14. Football rules ei.niniltteo may require that players be numbered. Page X't. Pacific Northwest.' British treasure rhlp. threatened, guarded at dock In Seattle. Pago 1. Big Xorthwest dairy conference opens at Spokane Pao 7. Munition train a'. Tacoma is attacked; two Austriana arrested. Page 7. Northwest 1c unit In Congress for Columbia naval base. i'ago 0. Northern Pacific train held up near Seat tle; robbers lake three cars Into forest, i'ago 1. Seattle Montenegrin runs amuck and stabs six citizen. Page J. Commercial and Marine. Flour prices lo-.ver owlhg to decline In wheat. Pajje I'.. Cnicago wV.eat slumps on unverified rumor of trouble with Germany. rage i-j. All stocks weak, on selling, due to complex international situation. i-age m. Ideas differ on proposed harbor lino exten sion. Page 18. Pacific Mail 'to create new fleet of fivo steamers. . Page IS. Portlaud and Vicinity. Lumbermen ask Federal aid in providing car relief. .Page 1. Esther Gibson, 14, is instantly killed by auto truck. Page 1. Big Summer military camp near Portland proposed. Pago JS. New attack is made on life Insurance tock sale. Page II. Ladles at Grand Army party wear gowns of istw. Page 8. Anny man declares war within 10 years seems inevitable, rage 8. j Hop Sing tons displeased, but accepts truce. Pago S. i STABS SIX IN SEATTLE CROWD Threat Is Made to Kill All Germans in Sight. MONTENEGRIN RUNS AMUCK Dirty Knife Used and Danger of Infection Grave. , "WAR COLLEGE" IS SCENE While Death to Teutons Is Italtlit Cry, Vietims Arc All Neutral r Pro-Ally Assailant, Owr ' powered, Refuses to Talk. , SEATTLE. 'Wash.. Feb. 21. f Special.) With a threut to kill every Herman in sight. George Yakich. :I3 years old. a Montenegrin, ran amuck in a crowd at Second avenue and I'nion hlrtit shortly before 2 o'clock today ami stabbed six persons one of whom Is seriously wounded. The nianluc wits overpowered by Pa trolman li. K. rtltodcau and taken to police headquarters. The victims arc: n. M. Domer, :!0 years old. who lives at the Hazelton Court, stabbed 111 the back of the head. Tho cut extendi d through the mouth and almost severed the common carotid artery, Dinner condition is critical. Frank Wattle. 1S1I Terry street, stabbed in the back of neck; nut se rious. Walter Taber. S:i years old, :!4ll North Thirty-ninth street, slabbed hi -hind ear. Louis Coberg, 3 4 years old. 1S2I Six tieth avenue South, stabbed In the back. J. M. Peterson, of the Standard Hotel, stabbed in the back of the neck. I u fret Ion la Km red. Carl Krickaon, manager of the Spear Creek Mining Company of Dawson, who is visiting Peterson and Mopping at the Standard Hotel, slashed in t tic back of the neck. The bludu was dirty and physicians say the wounds of the vic tims may become infected. At the City Jail Vaklch refused to talk. His sanity will bo examined. The "war college" was In usual dis cussion when Yakich suddenly turned away and, according to E. H. l.angdoii, 2232 Harvard avenue North, muttered In a low tone. Yakich said: "I'm going to kill every (lermuii here." Ceberg. the first victim, was leading the war bulletins when Yakich drove the knife blade into his back. I)ulor Snvea Man'a l.lfe. Yakich turned to Homer and Jabbed the knife blade into his head. Domer fell against the curb and was picked up in a semi-conscious condition and carried to tho office of It. E. C. Ne ville, who prevented the man from bleeding to death by taking li stitches in Ills head. The maniac tried to slab K. l-idwards, Domer's brother-in-law, who ducked and escaped. Yakich next drove tho knife into Krlckson's neck and repeal ed on J. M. Peterson. Darting about tho crowd to escape interference, Yakich attacked Wattle and stabbed him In tho neck. Tim last victim was Taber. Traffic Policeman Bilodeau ran to the crowd and seized Yakich, who made a swing at hini with his knife. The policeman grappled, finally tear ing the weapon from hla hands and handcuffing him. FALL FROM BED KILLS GIRL .Mother Finds liuhy Dead Avlien She Imestiffutcs Long sleep. IHIYAD. Wash., Feb. 1'4. (Special l Mrs. James Howard, of Doty, found her little daughter dead yesterday morning from injuries sustained tho night beforo when the child fell from her bed. Since tho baby had not com plained of tho fall, the injuries were not thought to bo serious. Yesterday the mother noticed tho child was sleeping unusually long and, on investigation, found her dead. BOY D!FS AFTER BOXING Friendly Opponent In School Sp;tr ring Match Frostriite. CINCINNATI. Feb. 2!. During friendly sparrlne; bout between Will iam Hildebrandt and August Nalsel. both 14 years of a,;e, at tile Thirteenth District School here, HiVlebrandt was struck on the Jaw. He did a f e .v min ute's later. r The Nalsel if -.is grief was so Kient that he was i d in the t are of a physician. M ' UNIVERSITY ARMORY BURNS Field Guns and KiflcH of I'lirduei rudets Destroyed. LAFAYETTE. Ind., F-b. 24. The three-inch field gimn of Unttery II of Purdue Tniversity, 1200 Krag rifles and 7u00 rounds of ammunition of the Pur due Cadet Corps were destroyed by fire, at a loss of $20,000 when tho Purdue Armory burned here today. The cause of tho fire has not been determined. MANIAC (Concluded on Page 5, Column 1.) form of exchequer or war bonds. i ,1