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4 '0 VOL. "LVI. NO. 17,2G3. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY. 31 ARCH 23, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THAMES LIGHTSHIP SUNK BY TORPEDO ARSY MEXICO Hi NEW DANGER TWO BEGIN 10-DAY WAIT TO GET LAND 35 BLOCKS BURNED IN EAST NASHVILLE NORTHWEST FARM . WAGE IS HIGHEST TRAGEDY ATTENDS ON FREAKY STORM OXLV MAST IS ABOVE SEA AT VESSEL'S STATION. MEN" TAKE PLACE fx LIXE TO SHARE IX SILETZ DRAWIXG. ' LABORERS GET 30 TO 4 0 PER CEXT MORE PAY. DERELICT WRECKED AT BRIGHTON BEACH " j i ! , Schooner Oakland Is Breaking Up. t Carranza Garrison Re ported Joining Villa, TRANSPORT QUESTION GRAVE Ability to Supply Pershing . Without Use of Railroad Doubted by Many. MEXICAN ACTS SUSPICIOUS Story of Severed . Wires May Have Been Ruse to Con ceal Real Purpose. rOLtMBrS. IV. VI.. March 22. (Paused fcy cfnMr.) General Lai Herrera. wn- rfl recently Carranu military itovrrnor f Cbihnahna. haa renounced Carranaa and announced In favor of Villa, talcing- the field In Western 'Chihuahua vrltk 2ono troops, according to reliable Information received here tonight. EL PASO, March 22. The silence which for two days has enveloped the Mexican situation, as far as any def inite news of the pursuit of Pancho Villa is concerned, grave fresh force today to the numerous reports from various sources of grave disaffection among the Carranza troops. On the border, at least, it is firmly believed that the soldiers 01 the first chief are far from giving any real co-operation to the American expedi tionary force. Revolt of Garrison Reported. It is admitted that General Car ranza and some of his lieutenants sin cerely desire to avoid friction with the United States, but it is not believed that the head of the de facto govern ment represents the attitude or senti ments of his army or fellow citizens. From several different sources a circumstantial report was received to day that the garrison at Chihuahua, supposed to number 2000 men,, had revolted and that their commander, General Luis Herrera, had declared in favor of Villa. Andre Garcia, the Carranza Consul here, branded this report as false, but in high official circles here it was. accepted as at least possible, in view of the fact that more than half of the Mexican troops at Chihuahua were former Villistas. Cutting of "Wires Doubted. Since yesterday morning General Gavira, at Juarez, has asserted that the wires along the northwestern railroad between Juarez and Casas Grandes have been cut and that con sequently he could give no informa tion in regard to the reported, battle at Namiquipa between the Carranza f orce3 and Villa forces. Americans here, especially refugees from Mexico, are frankly skeptical both as to the reported battle and the cut wires. They point out that severing communications is one of the most familiar ruses used by Mexican offi cials when they wish to withhold in formation, and that it is strange that the wires to Casas Grandes, a distance of only 130 miles, along a railroad, could not be repaired in two days. Pershing May Be Near Battle. That General Pershing and some of his forces are close to . Namiquipa seems reasonably certain, and if the bandit had received a serious check at the hands of the Carranzistas, a clash between his followers and the Ameri cans should be imminent. The fact that a Carranza victory would have been most certainly heralded far and wide by this time, instead of sup ' pressed, adds force to the contentions of the skeptics. Whatever is the eal situation in this section of the Sierra Madres, where Americans, Carranzistas and Villistas are operating, the main in terest here lies in the railroad situa tion. Even before the American Govern ment requested General Jarranza to permit the use of the Mexican rail roads for transportation of supplies, ominous rumors had reached here that ' General Funston was experiencing serious difficulty in forwarding sup plies to General Pershing's columns. These rumors have reached the stage now where they may be classed as definite information. Transportation Seriously Hampered. Arrivals frqm Columbus today re ported that the transportation serv- (.Concluded on Fag 3, Column 3.) German Submarines Lay Mines in Vicinity,. Too, and JIany Disasters Result. LONDON, March 22. The Galloper lightship, at the mouth of the Thames, has been torpedoed and sunk, accord ing to Lloyds report. Thi Galloper lightship was one of four vessels marking the limits of the famous Goodwin Sands at the entrance to the Straits of Dover in the North Sea, and a few miles from' the Kentish coast of England. The other lightships are the North Goodwin, the East Good win and the Kentish Knock. A London dispatch of March 8 said that, according to British naval cir cles, German submarines had been busy laying anchored mines between the mouth of the Thames and the Gal loper lightship. Many disasters have occurred In the last few months in this neighborhood. The Dutch steamer Amstelland, from Buenos Aires for Amsterdam, reports, according to a Reuter dispatch from Vmuiden. that she set her course for the Galloper lightship, but found on the spot only a mast above the surface of the sea. , 39,211 REGISTER SO FAR Mark Is 3 0,0 0 0 Below Total That Should lie Reached in 2 3 Days. Registrations are still more than 30, 000 short of the total which should be attained In 23 days from now. The books close on April 18 for the pri maries. The registration bureau, on the first floor of the Courthouse, near the north west entrance, is kept open until 6 o'clock every night to allow all work ers who cannot get away from busi ness before 5 o'clock to register be fore going home. The total number of voters register ing yesterday was 994, of which num ber 547 were men and 447 were women. The registrations, segregated by party affiliations, are as follows for the year: Republican. 28.085; Demo crat. 8179: Independent. 136S; Trohl bitionist, 390: Socialist, 463; Progress ive, 390. The total for the season last night was 39.211. EL PASO NEWS CENSORED General Bell Forbids Dispatches Re garding Preparations. EL PASO. Tfx., March 22. General George Bell. Jr., tonight applied the censorship to news dispatches over com mercial wires out of El Paso, which, he said, were of an "incendiary character." General Bell eaid that he did not in tend to have information of "prepara tions' he was making given out in advance of their execution. The Gen eral added he was investigating reports that the Carranza garrison at Juarez, across the river from Kl Paso, had de serted to the Villa cause. CZAR MAY CONSERVE MEAT Bill to "Prohibit Sale Two Days "Weekly to Be Offered. PETROGRAD. March 22. The Rus sian Ministry Office will shortly In troduce a bill In the "Duma prohibiting.-throughout Russia the killing of livestock . on Tuesdays and Thursdays and fixing the number of cattle that may be slaughtered on other days. The bill will provide for prohibition of the sale of all kir.ds of meat in markets, restaurants and hotels on Wednesdays and Fridays and for the closing of butcher shops on those days. WOMAN AFIRE SAVES BABE Three Seriously Burned "When Stove Explodes at North Yakima. NORTH YAKIMA, "Wash.. March 23. James Miller was probably fatally burned, his wife and Thomas Castle were seriously burned today by a fire that destroyed the Miller home here. The three Miller children, the eldest 4 years, were carried to safety. Miller threw oil on a smouldering fire and an explosion followed. Mrs. Miller, with her clothing on fire, rescued one of her children and Castle carried out the other two. CITY TO TRAIN BOY PUPILS IIolKkon to Inaugurate Miltlary Course Immediately. I IOBOKEX, N. J.. March 22. Military training of boys in the public schools here will begin immediately, it was an nounced today, when the City Commis sioners voted an appropriation of $5000 to defray the Initial expense of pur chasing uniforms, guns and other equipment. Two officers of the New Jersey Na tional Guard were appointed to Instruct the 500 hoys who will comprise the first oorps organization. DOLLAR IS WORTH 2 CENTS Carranza Money Takes Slump on San Antonio Market. SAN ANTONIO. Tex., March 22. The value of the Carranza drllar fell to 2 cents in American money on the San Antonio market today. This is the lowest price quoted since the rrioney became recognized by local banks. The highest price was 10 cents, paid immediately after the Carranza de facto government was recognized by the United States. SAGINAW TAKES OFF CREW Steamer, Conveys Rescued Men to Seattle. CARGO IS COMING ASHORE Craft Sails From Coquille River for ban I'ranciseo and Is Blown. About 200 "'Miles North and Out of Course. BAY CITY, Or., March 22. (Special.) The abandoned lumber schooner Oak land, of San Francisco, went ashore on the sand beach about one and one half miles north of Brighton Beach, about 8:30 tonight. The vessel immediately began to break up. Quantities of railroad ties from her cargo began floating ashore shortly after the vessel struck. Crowds rushed to the beach, trying in the darkness to view the wreck, which was seen to be impending as the vessel drifted inshore this evening. The three-masted schooner 'Oakland, lumber laden, from the Coquille ' River for San Francisco, sailed on March 19. Tuesday the steamer Saginaw, from Redondo to Seattle, took off the crew of the water-logged vessel. The Oak land became a derelict In a position described as 25 degrees 18 minutes north; 124 degrees 38 minutes west, ac cording to information sent' by the coast guard putter Snohomish to the Merchants' Exchange. The Saginaw passed in at Cape Flat tery at 9:30 yesterday morning, having on board the seven members of the Oakland's crew. The Oakland was a vessel of 418 gross tons, built in San Krancieco in 1902. She is owned by the Fyfe Lum ber Cornpany, of Kan Francisco. The abandoned Oakland was sighted by Captain Farley, of the coast guard service, 6ft Tillamook this morning, and was passed by the steamer Beaver en route to Portland. The Port of Portland tug Oneonta left Astoria later In the day in an endeavor to pick up the Oakland. The fact that the veasel'was sighted 10 miles west of Tillamook Bay three days after she left the Coquille River indicates that she, had been blown about 200 miles north and out of her course. DISTRESSED CRAFT PICKED VP Schooner Lindauer Is in Tow of Steamer Adeline Smith. MARSH FIELD. Or., March 22. (Spe cial.) The steam schooner G. C. Lin dauer, which sailed on March 19, was picked up in distress between mid night and 4 o'clock this morning by the steamer Adeline Smith, en route (Concluded on rage Column 2.) J. -D. Guiss and J. D. Shaffer to Play Crlbbage arid Sleep on Floor Until April 1. Alan's proverbial desire for land was amply exemplified yesterday, when two men took their places before the-doors of the - United States Land Office In the Worcester building to await the drawings for 'allotments on the Siletz Indian reservation on April 1. J. D. Guiss, of 1105 East Yamhill street, is the first man in line. He took his place yesterday noon. J. E. Shaffer, of 2187 Eugene street, arrived at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and promptly lined up behind Mr. Guiss. The two men remained in their places all last night, .contenting themselves until midnight playing crlb bage. Then Mr. Guiss had a cot brought in and went to sleep. The other man rolled up in a pair of blankets and stretched himself in apparent comfort upon the floor. Mr. Guiss will be relieved at inter vals by his wife. Mr. Schaffer. has arranged for a man to relieve him oc casionally. A third man was at the office yes terday, saying that he expects to file. He left late in the morning, thinking, apparently, that he had plenty of time. He is expected back today. The Government proposes to throw open 16,000 acres of the Sileta lands which were withdrawn from entry about five years ago. It is said that less than half that area is fit for set tlement. Each applicant is entitled to file on a quarter section, 160 acres. The drawing vM take place at 9 o'clock op Saturday morning, April 1. PHILIPPINE EXPORTS GAIN Total or Xearly $54,000,000 Is Showing for Past Year. WASHINGTON", March 22. The Philippines export trade increased about $5,300,000 during 1915, reaching a total of nearly $54,000,000 for the calendar year, according to figures given out today by the insular bureau. War prices for sugar and the recovery of cocoanut and hemp plantations from the disastrous typhoon of 1912 were ruling factors in the year's favorable returns. Eighty-five per cent of the year's im ports, which totaled $8,641,000. came from the United States. The cotton cloth sent from this country , to the Philippines was greater than that ex ported to any foreign country and ap proximately 16 per cent of the entire amount exported. RIVERS RISE AT BAKER Melting Snowfall Threatens Flood Conditions. - BAKER, Or., March 22. (Special.) Three inches of snow, which melted as it touched the ground this morning, started the water In rivers rising again today, after a drop last night. It is expected that the rivers will be flooded and from many parts of the vicinity reports are coming in of damage and danger to bridges. The York bridge, north of the city, has been washed out dud a steel bridge on Burnr River, near Durkee. is re ported in danger! Bridges over Willow Creek in the Ironsides district ore be ing washed out. -' Canyon Creek is spreading out of Its channel near Canj-on City and several other Grant County streams are break ing over the banks, OUR SCULPTORS AT WORK. ' Fire Rages in City for Several Hours. vV jjS LtcSS -4 1 1 1 1 1 1 Wi-UV I'lW'fi - Distant Cities Appealed To for Apparatus to Fight Flames. LOSS TOTALS $1,500,000 High Gale Spreads Conflagration and Governor Appeals to Seml MHItary Bodies to Help Mi litia One liil'e Lost. HEATT LOSS CAUSED BY FIRES 1ST MAJiY SECTIONS OF COCSTRY. East Nashville, Tenit., 35 blocks "destroyed; loss estimated at $1, 600,000. - Copper Hill, Tenn., chemical plant; loss $1,000,000. Paris, Tex. Three dead, one missing, 8000 homeless; loss from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000. PraJrie fires in Kansas and Missouri covered wide area and caused heavy damage. Augusta, Ga. Fire in business section destroys ten blocks; loss, $2,000,000. NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 22. A fire which started in a small dwelling near the corner of Sixth and Main streets this afternoon, driven by a high wind, swept southeast through East Nash ville, and at. 7 o'clock tonight 35 blocks had been destroyed, with a loss of prob ably $1,000,000. i At 7 o'clock the fire department an nounced the conflagration was under control. East Nashville is largely a. residence section and many of the homes there are .frame. - Over brick" and frame houses alike, however, the flames swept like an avalanche. The home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, an In stitution for the aged, was one of the first buildings to go. The occupants got out without injury. Aid was asked of other cities. The wind was blowing a gale. Hundreds Are Homeless. At 3 o'clock the fire had burned a strip three blocks wide and a mile long. Hundreds of families were homeless. The local weather station held out no hope for an abatement of the gale that was driving the flames forward in their course of destruction. The indications were that the fire would not be stopped until it reached the Cumberland. River. Every available wagon and automo bile was sent to the neighborhood to help families move their property to places of safety. , A battalion of militia was ordered out to protect property and the police de partment called for volunteers . to ' as- (1,'oncludfd on Pas Column 1.) ' .! , i! Average for Nation Is $21.26 Per Month and Board; in Far 'West em States, -$33.50. VREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash .on, March 22. Farm labor is bet ter paid In the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain states than In any other part of the Union, according to a compila tion of wages by the Department of Agriculture. Farm hands in the Far Western states receive 30 to 40 per cent more than do those the country over, and nearly double the wages paid on the Atlantic Coast. The average monthly 'wage of farm labor throughout the United States during 1915 was $21.26 per month, where board was furnished, and $30.15 without board. The average in the Far West was $33.50 with board and $48.31 without. In Oregon the monthly average wage with board during 1915 was $31.30, and without board $43.50. At harvest time Oregon farm hands re ceived $2 per day with board, or $2.48 without, and at other seasons of the year were paid $1.41 with board, and $1.94 without. In Washington the monthly wage, with board, 'averaged $32.50 and with out board was $48. At harvest the daily wage was $2.35 with board and $2.80 without, while for the balance of the year laborers received $1.59 with board, or $2.16 without. In Idaho . the monthly wage, with board, during 1915, was $35.90 and without board $51. At harvest time the daily wage of farm hands was $2.21 with board and $2.68 without. During the remainder of the year the daily wage averaged $1.69 with board, and. $2.28 without board. BOY CONFESSES 12 FIRES New Vork Youth Explains He Was Rehearsing Firemen. NEW YORK, . March 22. George Gustow, 18 years old, a former student in the College of the City of New York, arrested here on a charge or arson, has admitted, the police said, that he set 12 fires in a residential section of the city, one of which was in the dormitory of a police station. He also sent in seven false alarms of fire, the authorities say he told them, "to rehearse the department, so that when the real big fire occurs you (the firemen) will be able to ren der good service to the city." NATIVE DAUGHTER DIES, 81 Mrs. Grcnnon, Born at Trading Post Near Spokane, Iles at Tacoma. ' TACOMA. Wash., March 22. Mrs. Genevieve Grennon, age 81, born at the Hudson. Bay Company's post near Spo kane, ' the daughter of - John Ploraon don, an employe of the Hudson Bay Company, died here last night. Her first husband was John Ross, son of Captain John Ross, of Victoria, B. C, where she lived 35 years, later coming to the Hudson Bay Company's post at Fort Nisqually and afterwards to her daughter, Mrs. Bernier, in Ta coma. DAILY CITY STATISTICS Th Weather. , TES rER DAY'S Maximum temperature, 52 degrees; m i n i r um , 4 1 J e (trees. TODAY'S Partly cloudy and occasionally threatening: weather; winds mostly west erly. Mexico. t Reported revolt of Carranza garrison aridn to dangers of American Army in Alcico. Page 1. Xew uprising fives Funston serious concern, rage 2. Wr. Austrian! abondon Bukowina capital. Page 4. British editors voice demand for more men for army. Page 4. Thames lightship sunk by torpedo. Page 1. National. House will pass Army increase bill today. Pagfl 2. North v est farm wage higher than else where. Page 1. Serrt'tarv Haker exposes inadequacy of Hay Army bill. Fasre 3. Domestic. Nine killed, many hurt in season's most freakish storm. Page 1. East Nashville swept by fire. Page 1. Sports. Guistn wins place as regular first baseman. Page 14. Willard completes training. Page 13. Talent nation-wide comes to aid of 1916 Beavers. Page 14. Montreal hockey team wins, 2 to 1. Page 34. O'Connell and Vance to settle old grudge in w resiling match. Page 14. Pacific .Northwest. Farmer Smith carries corn gospel to Napa- vine. Page 3, Sut herlln timber railroad may tap Coos Bay country. Page 5. Three drown near Astoria after battle with breakers. Page 7. Woman sobs in telling of Dodd Hollow killing. Page 5. Derelict schooner Oakland is wrecked at Brighton Beach, page 1. Commercial and Marine. Eastern mohair markets have firmer un dertone. Page 21. Wheat weakened at Chicago by fresh peace rumors, page 11. General recovery in Wall-street stocks. Page ' 21. Japanese shipowners plan trade center here. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. Miss Ann Swlnburn weds. Page 6. George W. Bates, president of Lumbermen's Bank and Portland Clearing-House, dies. Page 5. Manv respond to call for Oregon Spanish War Veterans' reunion. Page 22. Washington High School wins Vista House fund contest cup. Page 20. Chamber arranges open house April 7. Page 1. Miss Hazel . MMla Dolph engaged to wed Philadelphia financier's son. .Page 32. Judge Jones puts case of mother's blame for girl's fall up to hiarher court. Page 11. Dcpnty District Attorney : uses fist at vitrolic remark. Page 0. Lip man. Wolfe & Co. sues insurance com- sanies.- Page 17. Wetther report, data and forecast, rage 21. Oret'.n political gossip. Page 16. Nine Killed, Many In jured Near Chicago. LAKE IS RAISED THREE FEET Big Four Railroad Station Is Overturned. TRAFFIC IS DEMORALIZED AYorst Wcatlicr of Entire Season Is Ilcpnrtcd on Lake Michigan, but Steamers Kide Out Gale AYitliout Serious Damage. CHICAGO. March 22. (Special.) Nine persons were killed, scores seri ously injured, and half a hundred fam ilies made homeless by a freak storm which swept Chicago and vicinity this morning. Two men were killed in Chi cago, three men and a girl were killed in Indiana, and four men in Wisconsin. "Of all the weather freaks in my half-century's experience, this storm was the worst," said Captain Charles Garland, in command of the United States Coast Guard, stationed at Chi cago. Unusual and spectacular combina tions of vivid lightning and drivins sleet and snow were lost sight o in the tragic aftermath of the storm. Proprrij Loss Is .Million. The Weather Bureau reported con ditions the most unusual in its his tory. Within a radius of several hun dred miles from Chicago traffic was demoralized, houses and barns were blown down, telephone and telegraphic communication was disrupted and hu man lives were endangered. Troperty losnesr rail into millions of dollars. The injured were counted in hun dreds. Many will die. In addition to injuries . directly attributed to the storm, those resulting from traffic ac cidents reached an abnormally high figure.. The level of Lake Michigan was raised three feet and ice floes were hurled upon shore, causing much dam age. Traffic Is Demoralized. Traffic was demoralized. Interurban and streetcars were stopped as a heavy siect felled the a ires. The stormiest weather of the entire 1315-16 Winter season was reported on Lake Michigan, where a gale whipped up great wave which pounded the southern shore. Extra;, lookouts were posted at the coast guard station at the mouth of the river. Wavps were breaking high over the Government pier and several steamers making port reported rou?h times. The wind increased in velocity as the mprnjng advanced. At the coast guard stations at the mouth of the river, Surfman No. 3 estimated the wind was blowing from the northeast at the rflte of between 40 and 45 miles an hour. Steamnblpfi Ride Out Storm. ' Seven steamships operating from the port of Chicago rode safely through the storm. The wireless with which the ships are equipped kept Chicago offices in touch with each captain, it was announced. The, blizzard was preceded by heavy thunder storms last night and a deluging rainfall. The storm swept up from the southwestern gulf district, and had all the appearance of a Spring shower a month ahead of schedule. In the night, however, the tempera ture dropped rapidly and the rain changed to snow and sleet, while the wind rose to the proportions ot a tor nado. Trains covered with ice and sleet crept into their stations hours behind their schedules. The streetcar system was thrown, into an almost hopeless tangle -and elevated trains moved on greatly retarded schedules. Railway Station Overturned. Tho'full force of the wind, which reached a velocity of 45 miles an hour, was seen in uprooted trees and over turned buildings. In Beaverville, near Kankakee, 12 houses were blown down, the Big Four Railroad station was overturned and a. partly completed school building was wrecked. Four deaths were reported from Indiana where in places the storm be came a tornado. Wisconsin towns also suffered damage. The Calumet region also was storm-swept. In the southern part of Lake County the wind was cyclonic and swept down a mile if telegraph poles. NEW TRAININGJPLAN URGED Citizen Motorcycle Machine Gun Batteries Suggested. KNGLE WOOD, X. J., March 22. Or ganization of motorcycle machine gun batteries -by citizens Interested in military preparedness was advocated by Captain Johnson, aide to Major General Leonard Wood, in an address here tonight. He pointed out that there is no such organization in this country, in splto of the fact that such units have proved of, tremendous value in the present war, because of their ability to travel at the rate of 30 or 40 miles an hour. Captain Johnson said such an organi sation would be of great value to the punitive expedition in Mexico.