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THE MORXTNG OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1916. MORMON SCOUTS LEADING COLUMN ROSEBURG RAILROADER WORKING ON BORDER AND FAC SIMILE OF ORDER TO HIS CREW- CONGRESS BILLS FOR SPEEDS DEFENSE Extra Stamps Today and J Use This Coupon Form ai2i Saturday With the Coupon vEL PASO & SOUTHWESTER SYSTEM 20 Extra -0 Bring this cou- 31 Train Order Ho T r a d' i n g IrTr? i I Stamps-en ;Svt? 'J7 Si(T. your f irst JliJ chsIi purchase c New, large stock of KEN NEY NEEDLE SHOWERS just in. Attach to any bath and double stamps on the balance of purfhese. Good on first tlireb floors today, March 17. Seventh and Tenth Cavalry Advance by Forced Marches on Villa Territory. House Agrees on.Ljmit to De bate and Senate Commit- tee Prepares Report. tub no tools needed. A per manent" fixture. New style turn-off top. The ideal bath for every member of the family. Complete S6.00 SPECIAL Ten Extra Stamps with every Kenney Shower bought Friday or Saturday. BANDITS ARE DISPERSING WILSON URGIN0 HASTE 4 J! ri 'I III Np i. .f Mm , : . Opr.; ;. fa ' in f'- Loader Said to Have Not More Than J 00 Men Willi Him, Some of- Thcm Wounded Kl Paso Hears Fantastic Rumors. ET PASO, Tex.. March 16. The Seventh and Tenth Cavalry, said to be advancing into Mexico by forced marches from Culberson's ranch, near Hachita, N. M., were nearinjr the Villa territory in the Casas Grandes region tonight, according to the most reliable information which could be obtained here. These troops are reported marching with the minimum of equipment and led by Mormon scants from the Mormon colonies at Colonia Dublan and Colonia Morales. From their point of depar ture the distance is 85 miles to Casas Orandes and the start was made early yesterday. If Villa intends to offer any organized resistance to his pur suers it might be possible for United States soldiers to come in contact with his outlying posts soon. Weather Conditions Ideal. The American expedition is penetrat ing Mexico under ideal weather condi tions. The hot season will not be reached for a month or six weeks and if the windmill wells, which dot part of the country through which the ex pedition is passing are not dried up the water supply situation should be re lieved. Clear moonlight nights make it possible to see after dark fer some distance. Definite information that the Mormon settlements, with their 600 American men, women and children, were safe and unmolested was brought here today by Daniel Hurst, son of P. II. Hurst, the Mormon bishop resident here. Mr. Hurst brought news understood to be of -'much military importance, which v was forwarded to General Pershing. Mr. Hurst refused to make public its nature or details. According to Mr. Hurst Villa has at most 400 men, some of whom are wounded. He said also that it was not believed in the Mormon colonies that the bandit chief had more than 500 men with him when he raided Columbus. Villa's Intentions Mystery. What the intentions of Villa are re mains a profound mystery today. Andres Garcia, the Carranza consul here, asserted today that from informa tion in his possession he was satisfied that Villa had disbanded most of his men and intended to take refuge in the heart of the Sierra Madres with only three or four trusted companions. "Thousands of men are not wanted to pursue Villa," said- Consul Garcia. "He has no intention of fighting any one, but will take refuge in the moun tains which he knows so well. He will be captured, I believe, when a price ia put on his head." Fresh troops have arrived at Juarez, but the Mexican authorities would give no information as to the number of men now in garrison today. Long trains loaded with flour and other pro visions crossed the Rio Grande from the American side today, but their destination was kept secret. Obregon Cause of Speculation. One subject of much speculation on both sides of the border is the exact meaning of the appointment of General Obregon as Minister of War. Opinions among Americans familiar with Mexico and its politics are sharply divided. One camp insists that Obregon's appoint ment means that the two Mexican leaders have reconciled their differ ences and that Obregon is intending to give his full support to the first chief. The other camp, which includes most of those who have a personal acquaint ance with Obregon, are equally confi dent that his appointment indicates that he is gaining the upper hand in governmental affairs and that a turn distinctly unfavorable to the United States may be looked for shortly in tha- policy of the de facto government. In the meantime. El Paso and all the rest of the northern and'western border continues to hear wild and fan tastic rumors, which can never be so fantastic as not to gain some believ ers. How .most of these rumors start is a mystery, but they are generally credited to Villa sympathizers who wish to provoke trouble for the Car ranza government and stir up hostility toward it among Americans. Englneman Repeated I CONDUCTOR AND ENGI NEMAN MUST EACH HAVE A COPY OF THIS ORDER, at ?5?M "v Train Mds Tlms : RAID DETAILS TOLD Former Roseburg Man De scribes Columbus Fight. DRY lav; AIDS TAX IN POUR Half of Walla Walla Assessment Paid in First Vive Weeks. WALLA "WALLA, Wash., March 16. (Special.) More than half the money for Walla Walla County's taxes has been paid to the Treasurer in the first live weeks the books were open, a rec ord absolutely without a precedent here. That this is due in Urge part to prohibition is the belief of County Treasurer Guy Allen Turner, who de flared today that scores- of men and women who own small homes came in and took advantage of the rebate given to March 15. making the statement that it was the first time they had ever been able to do this. Hundreds who have been paying the first half of their taxes up by June 1 and the last half the f irt of December, have paid in full and taken the rebate. Over $r.00.000 has been paid. V 10 PENCII, At all dealers 17 different decrees for every known pur pose. Also two copying. SIB At all dealers The, VELVET 5c pencil is supreme in its class Americas Vni Pcbc3 Co., N. T. STREETS FULL OF DEAD Railroad Man on El Iaso & South western Expects Every Trip to He His Last. He Writes in Letter to Sister at Roseburg. ROSEBUnG, Or., March 16. (Spe cial.) iliss Lou Gilvin, of this city, to day received an interesting letter from! her brother, Harry Gilvin, who is em-, ployed as a brakeman on the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad. Mr. Gilvin left Rosoburg about three years ago and has since passed much of his time in the territory invaded by Villa and his bandits. A train order which Mr. Gilvin nclosed in his letter was dated at El Paso, western headquarters of the rail road on which he is employed, and reads as follows: "Keep strict lookout for burned bridg-es, damaged track or other obsta cles which may be placed on track by Mexican bandits between Hachita and Columbus." Letter Gives Details. The letter is self-explanatory and follows in detail: EL PJLSO. Texas. M&rch 11. 101S. Well. I'm Just leaving: town with, a -freight train for Hachita. New Mexico. I was out the IHh and 10th with a soldiers' train, looking for Villa and his bunch, who killed all thoue ' people in Columbus. That was sure some fisht. We all expected the night of the 9th to be our last night on earth, because we only had 229 soldiers with us. Villa has about 150W men. So it was Just driving us into a death trap. We arrived at Columbus at l::iO in the morning. The town was still burning. Tou could smell the human flesh of the bodies that were beinor burned. They had just burned -7 dead Mexicans before we Ot there. We stopped at Columbus several hours, waiting for a little daylight. We had or ders to run slow and look out .for tracks being torn up and burned bridges. Just be fore we prot ready to leave Columbus, the Major came to us and asked if we were armed. The conductor was the only one who had a gun. lie said: "Harry, you had better go back and cook up something." I said: "All right. Chances are it win De our last meal." On iny way back to the caboose the sol diers pulled a big bottle of booze on me. I took two big shots and started in to cook. By the time we started I was feeling fine. When the conductor and head man came back to eat I had an old flask in my hand and feaid : "Let 'em come; I'm armed." The MaJor Bald he expected an attack about 12 miles from Columbus, so had us turn out all the lights in he coaches, so Villa would think we were a freight train. Away w went in darkness with 29 men against 1300. But we failed to be harmed or to see anything of Villa, though heard of him being within five miles of us. The morning or the battle at coiumnus. we left there at 2 o clock and the first shot was fired at 2:45, striking the coach. Our clock stopped at 2:45. They killed most all of the business men of the town, seven United Htatea soldiers and a woman. They slipped In on the soldiers while they were asleeD. so It took them some time to get in action by killing about 150 Mexicans and chased the rest five miles into Mexico. Wounded Mexican Found. The streets of Columbus were full of dead the next morning. One of the soldiers told us that ha was lookinir over the dead and found one Mexicau that was only badly wounded. The Mexican began to pray that he was sick and to spare his life. The , soldier said: "I just reached down and got him by the hair of the head and pulled him up and blew his brains out." Fine dope. I could do the same way. myself. The way they are doing the Amer icans. They say old Villa has taken four or five American women along with them. There was a hotel man sick in bed at Co lumbus and they pulled him out of bed and killed him and they topk another man there and only wounded him and threw Jiim in the fire alive. I expert evory trip to be the last. I have a little over f'JOO in the State National Bank at VA IPaso which I think I'll transfer to First National Bank of Roseburg. Can't tell what time the big thing will come off In El Paso. They would go after he banks the first thing. Well I'm meeting a train up here. must close. Will say good-by to more. - r - ' - : -"'." :?:f-SfKi5 f ' i ' - f ' ' !-' - -1 I Harry Gilvin. coast can be relayed quickly Co Key West and Arlington. The State Department denied that other American Consuls than Consul Williams, at Torreon,. were leaving their posts. Williams, they said, merely represented that he was leaving because of rumors. He did not specify the con ditions which he viewed as alarming. Consul Changres Hi Mind. One other Consul at first reported he would leave, but later changed his mind, saying the situation had cleared. No reply has yet come from General Carranza to the American note an nouncing the acceptance of his proposal for reciprocal action on the border. The fact that his troops evidently are co-operating with the American col umns is viewed as answer enough in itself for the time being:. The inter national forces are forming a huge steel ring about the bandits' lair, slow ly closing in from all sides. Reports from the scores of recruiting agencies reopened yesterday through out the country began to filter into the War Department today. By the end of the week Adjutant-General McCain ex pects to have figures available on the number of applicants accepted. Not more than one man in five usually proves acceptable. When the depots turn in their first five-day report, how ever, a clear indication will be avail able as to the time it will take to en list the 20,000 men Congress has voted to add to the- Army immediately. DEATH MARK Oil DOORS MEXICAV SIGX ASD SYMBOL. BE LIEVED CHDB TO HAIDERS, so all once HARRY. SNIPERS FIRE ON TROOPS fContlnued From First PaR.) bandits' movements. Consular advices today continued to report grenerai quietness. loreat Reported In Tampion. . Officials displayed some concern over the situation in the Tampico district. however, where there are signs of UB' rest. The battleship Kentucky was or dered back to Vera Cruz from New Orleans, Secretary Daniels explaining that Navy vessels now on the Mexican coast did not have radio equipment powerful 'enough to insure uninter rupted communication with Washing ton. With the Kentucky at Vera Cruz reports from pmaJJer; xepsela aloas the Noted Chicago Surgeon Reports Signs Are X'ainted on Rancbkousea and . Trains KIred On. EL PASO. Tex.. March IS. Dr. Charles C. Young, formerly chief eye and ear surgeon at the Cook County Hospital, Chicago, reported here today that the Mexican flag above a sign of death had been printed on the door of his ranchhouse at Belen, Tex., 17 miles southeast of here, last night. Dr. loung said he had started an investigation to find out if any similar signs had been painted on the dbors of other Americans in his neighbor hood, as he believed the work misrht have been done by a "Junta" to mark certain Americans for death at the hands of raiders from Mexico. For the last two night, he said, trains passing through Belen have been fired on from the shelter of the underbrush along the border. He added that there were a number of Mexicans in the vicinity of Belen who were bitterly hostile to Americans. Two applications have been made by the residents to Washington for military protection DIVIDED FORCES ENCAMP (Continued From First Page.) ment of 700,000 rounds, will be deliv ered tomorrow to General P. Klias Calles, Military Governor of Sonora, by the local customs officials. The cartridges are to be used by the de tachment of Carranza soldiers led by Colonel Dato Campbell, ex-commander of the Mexican garrison at Agua Pri era, in aiding United States troops to capture Francisco Villa and his ban dits. The ammunition, which has been held up here by customs officials since Sun day, was released late today by orders from Washington.' This action in aid ing the de facto troops to obtain car tridges, it was declared by Ives Le levier, Mexican Consul here, would be of material benefit in assuring many residents of Sonora that the United Lstates intended no aggressive action against the Mexican government. Otlier legislation, Including -Water Tower, Fails to Give Way Be fore Syecping Reorganiza tion of Army and Javy. WASHINGTON, March 16. Sweeping aside, Intervening issues,1 Congress set the stage today for prompt action on the National defense measures urgently pressed by President Wilson since the session began. The House voted unanimously for a special rule under which the Army increase bill will be taken up at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning, with pass age by Saturday night In prospect. A 10-hour limit for general debate was fixed, despite the fact that the bill is the most far-reaching military meas ure ever favorably reported to the body. Senate Committee Ready. The . Senate military committee" com pleted its final review of the Senate Army increase bill and it was in the hands of the printer tonight. Senator Chamberlain, with the Administration's influence behind him, will insist thiit it be taken up promptly, displacing the water-pover bill now under con sideration, unless the latter reaches a vote in a few days. The Senate meas ure in some respects proposes an even more drastic change in military policy than is provided for in the House bill. Indications are that the Joint con ference committee, which will adjust the two bills and frame the final measure, will be at work within three weeks. The legislative framework of the Army increase project may be an accomplished fact within' another month. Naval Programme Progresses. While the naval programme has ap peared to progress more slowly, pos sibly it will be completed sooner than the Army projects. The increase bills for the Army, known as organization bills, are distinct from the appropria tion measures, which will provide money to carry ' out " the . authorized plans. These will have to be framed and passed after the passage of the organization bills.- ' The Navy bill, under hearing for months before the House committee, is composite, including the appropriations as well as the programme Hearlners will end about April 1 and the com pletion of the measure is expected to tane but a short time. The Senate naval committee will not hold hearings on the appropriation bill. It has before it now the nr- sonal reorganization measure carrying yjui. Dcuoiary uanieia plan for selec tive promotion. Wilson Urges Haste. The House acted today after Presi dent Wilson had summoned leaders and urged them to make haste with the defense programme as a duty to the Nation. Representative Burnett, who had right of way on the floor with the immigration bill, was induced to day to make way for the Army meas ure and the special rule went through with a rush. The immigration bill will be taken up next. - Although the rule adonted nnw only 10 hours of general debate, there probably will be extended discussion under the standing rule providing for five-minute speeches after the general to ciuscs. -jnis wey prevent i vote before next week, but evorv -r. fort will be made to dispose of the bill by Saturday night. The Senate committer mr?A novfroi changes in its bill on final review. As it will be reported tomorrow it will in clude a provisiom designating Postmas ters all over the country as recruiting seriLs. xne scneme was suggested bv Army officers. It contemplates paying a. ice ro rosimaeiera ror every recruit enroiiea inrougn tneir errorts and ac cepted for service. A fee for nrelimi nary physical examination by civilian doctors also win be provided. House and Senate Differ. The essential difference hclwrrn t, House, ana. Senate bills lies in the pro wsioiis as to the regular Armv. ine Jiouse measure proposes to add new organizations to the existing es tablishment to give it a total peace strength of 150,000 fighting troops. The proportions of artillery and cavalry to the whole Army would be changed to produce a well-balanced organization. ine senate bill provides for a sween ing reorganization of the regular Armv in all departments, as urged by, the w ar college in the plan of 1912. It pro- viues u. peace sirengin or 178.000. f first importance in both bills. Army officials declare, are the provis ions tor the organization of Federal volunteers after the Federalization of the National Guard to the utmost legal extent has been accomplished. The House bill would work out the project of building up a great citizen Army in peace times through extension of the Summer training camp plan. The Sen ate bill proposes to go directly at the task, giving the President wide author ity to organize regiments in every Con gressional district. . Details Left to Another BUI. Details of these proposals in both bills are left to the Army appropriation bill, which will follow. Both schemes, however, are directed toward a full test of the possibility of raising and training a citizen Army when no emer gency of war exists. The Senate bill would permit the Continental Army plan to be worked out virtually as it was proposed by ex-Secretary Garrison. ' The measures differ- slightly in the provisions as to Federalization of the National Guard. Both approach the task through militia pay provisions, however, and the limits of pay are Identical. The House bill fixes a mini mum force of 400,000 for the guard within five years, while the Senate bill places its figures at 250,000. 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At the outset of the war the open ocean, the pathway of all the nations, was in the North Sea and elsewhere strewn with contact mines, a flagrant infraction of the freedom of the seas of which some people .have been prating, a flagrant Infraction of neutral, rights, because the contact mine does ,not distinguish between the neutral and the belliger ent, between the" innocent and the guilty. . Words Alone Are Used. 'Where was the "championship of neutral rights which we unhesitatingly assumed' in October, 1915; where, oh. where? Eoho answers "where," and silence follows. American citizens have the right, established by centuries, to take passage and to ship their goods on belligerent merchantmen in time of war and under the rules which human ity has dictated, and to which all na tions have assented for centuries if captured by an enemy ship they are to be guarded and set free at the first opportunity. More than a hundred American men, women and children, rightfully on board the Lusitania, an unarmed merchantman, were sent to their death without warning, without notice, without visitation or search, and nothing has yet been done except to pour out words and carry on incon clusive negotiations for eight months.. "Not until February 25, when the President's note to Senator Stone ap peared, was any real step taken to pro tect Americans in their rights, and that step which the President then took in words boldly and clearly, but in words alone, came only because his own party in the House were clamoring for the public surrender of American rights in order to conciliate one bel ligerent and its voters. The Democratic party showed Itself to be worse than its own Administration. There is, it would seem, a point of humiliation at which the President stops, definitely, I trust, firmly I hope. There is no such point apparently to be found In the ac tion of the party to which he belongs. Invasion Result of Wavering. "Within a week Mexicans have In vaded the United States, attacked an American town and killed American citizens and American soldiers. This is the Inevitable result of our failure to protect Americans in their rights everywhere, by land and sea. I say to you, my fellow citizens, that those dead lie at our doors. As for the dead of the Lusitania and the Arabic and the Ancona and the rest, we have not had even the poor reparation of an apology, for I will not speak of money in con nection with our dead. Nothing like it has ever happened before in the his tory of the United States, and when we change the Government, as we shall change it on the fourth of next March, nothing like it, I believe, will ever hap pen asain. "We are told that the great cry of the Democratic party is to be that their President has kept the peace and that they welcome the issue which we have made. The virtue of keeping the peace depends altogether on how it is kept. The man who runs away and leaves his wife, or daughter, or sister, to be assaulted and outraged, keeps the peace nd is not worthy to cumber the earth. Tou can always keep the peace if you will submit to any wrong, to any out rage, to any oppression. "The peace of this country would have been far better kept, we should be ir far less danger of war today or of war when peace comes among the warring nations of Europe, if we had kept it without humiliation, kept it in honor and without fear. Humilia tion and neglect of the rights of the American citizen are not necessary for keeping the peace. We all want peace, we all are against war if it can pos sibly be avoided; but we shall insist, we Republicans at least, that American rights shall be protected at home and abrpad, in Mexico and on the seas. The citizen owes allegiance, owes every sacrifice, even the sacrifice of life, to his country: and the country owes to him, while he obeys her laws, protec tion in every right that he possesses." RAILROAD ISSUES 2 BOOKS Ono Is Pictorial Review and Second Tells of Walnut Culture. . Two publications that are intended to call attention to the advantages of Oregon have just been issued by the Southern Pacific Company for distri bution throughout the country. One is a revision of a. folder, en titled "Four Gateways to the Pacific Coast." issued by the Southern Pacific a year ago. The Shasta Route one of the four gateways leading through Portland is given adequate representa tion. Pictures of Portland and other important points in Oregon are shown. An interesting innovation is a scenic map of the Pacific Coast country. Another booklet of 48 pages just is sued by the Southern Pacific is devoted to walnut culture in Oregon. 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