VOL,. LVI.-NO. 17,266.
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, 31 ARCH 24, .1916.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
HERRERA TO RESIST
A i,i E R
CAN
ADVANCE
Carranza and Villa
Also Held Foes.
MEXICAN CHARGES BETRAYAL
First Chief Deserted for Per
mitting Invasion.
CONSUL DENIES REVOLT
D Tacto Government Agent Says He
Has Telegram From Herrera
1, Himself and Another From
V Carranza. Field Chief.
" F.L r.SO, Tel. March 23. Consul
Gircli made public tonlsht a llmrm
which be said he had received from
General Gavira. announcing; that the
Carransiataa had defeated Villa today
at Santa Gertrude, near Aaniiquipa.
According to the announcement.
Villa, after leaving; aeveral dead and
wounded In the field, abandoned lOO
horse and fled to El Oso.
EIj PASO, Tex., March 23. General
Luis Herrera baa revolted against Gen
eral Carranza and has declared that
he will resist with all his power the
entry of American troops Into Mexico,
but is still opposed to Villa, according
to reports from sources believed re
liable received here today.
The news of Ilerrera's defection
was considered sufficiently authentic
for General Bell to telegraph General,
Funston at San Antonio that he be
lieved It to be true.
Revolt Denied by Consul.
General Hell added to his message,
however, the emphatic denial of Her
Tera's reported revolt issued here to
day by Mexican Consul Andres Garcia,
which was supported by telegrams
eaid to have been received from Gen
eral Herrera himself and General
Gutierrez, Carranza's field chief.
General Herrera has been known as
a personal enemy of Villa. His pres
en position is said to be that the de
facto government has betrayed Mexican
interests in permitting the soldiers of
the United States to enter Mexican
territory and that this betrayal out
weighs whatever offenses Villa has
committed.
Fhysician Discredits Report.
Among arrivals here today from
Chihuahua City was Dr. J. O. H. Newby,
an American physician, who formerly
was chief surgeon to Carranza's army.
iJr. Newby said that he was no longer
officially connected with the army, but
that he was transacting some business
between the de facto government and
Washington. Jle insisted that the re
ports of Herrera's defection must be
untrue, as he knew the General well
and believed him absolutely loyal to
General Carranza.
Dr. Newby said General Gutierrez had
4000 men strung out between Chihua
hua and Santa Ana, the latter town
about 20 miles south of Namiquipa,
with which he believed he could pre
vent Villa from breaking through to
the south. He said, however, that
there were many desertions from the
Carranza army on account of the low
pay. The government soldiers, he said,
received two Mexican dollars a day,
worth about 5 cents - in American
money.
Task Held Almost Impossible.
According to the physician, the Amer
ican troops have an almost impossible
task to catch Villa if the bandit chief
ver reaches his haunts in the Sierra
Madre around Guerrero.
"I know that country well." he said,
"and with good reason. For 30 or 40
days I was hunted there by 300 to 600
Orozco soldiers who wanted to drive
me out of a mine I had. I was alone.
but they never had a chance. I had a
.rood rifle with a powerful telescopic
ight and I used to sit up there in
those mountains watching my pursuers
passing backward and forward. There
was never one that got within 800
yards that I did not wing. It
took 18 months for General Miles to
capture Geronimo and the Villa prob
lem is Geronimo over again, only mul
tiplied about 100 times."
Dr. Xewby said that up to three days
ago the people of Chihuahua City knew
nothing of the crossing of American
troops in Mexico.
ntPOKTS ri'ZZLE JTXSTOX
KcfuUs of State Department Inquiry
Awaited Anxiously.
SA.V ANTONIO. Tex.. March 23.
With a message from General Bell be
fore him confirming his report of yes
terday that General Luis Herrera had
revolted with 2000 men in Chihuahua,
and a collection of evidence at hand
from unofficial sources denying the
alleged revolt. General Funston was as
puzzled tonight as to the exact status
of affairs in Mexico as he was this
morning.
General Bell was the first to Inform
General Funston that Herrera was re
ported to have Joined Villa In his fight
against the United States. General
Funston instructed General Bell to in
vestigate the report and inform him of
developments. The laconic message
late today that he had "confirmed" his
report of yesterday was General Bell's
reply. He did not report additional
facts concerning the sew movement
(Concluded on Fsss 3.Columo I.)
VILLA STOPS TRAIN
TO KILL AMERICANS
BANDIT CHIEF PERSONALLY
SEARCHES COACHES.
Force of 1500 Men Seen at Town
85 Miles From Flacc Where
Outlaw Was Said to Be.
EL. PASO. Tex.. March 23. Garcia
Flores, a Spanish merchant of the city
of Chihuahua, who arrived here to
night, said that Francisco Villa had
held up a train on which he was travel
ing at Moctezuma, 85 miles northeast
from Namlqulpa, where the Carranza
authorities have insisted the bandit
chief was located. Flores is well known
in business circles in El Paso.
"We were traveling north from
Chihuahua City," he said, "and were
ne.aring Moctezuma on Wednesday
when we encountered a large force of
men. mounted and on foot, surround
ing the station. There must have been
1500 in all.
"When we reached the station we
were amazed to see Pancho Villa him
self enter the train. We had supposed
he was many miles to the west. He
walked through every 'carriage, de
claring that he was searching for
Americans and that he would kill any
he found. 'I am not fighting Mexi
cans,' he announced, 'except the first
chief and those traitors with him who
have turned Mexico over to the Amer
icans.' "Villa stopped to chat with some
friends of his who were on the train.
He told them that General Herrera had
Joined him three days, ago with 2000
men, fully equipped and armed, who
had followed him from Chihuahua City.
He finally left the train without mo
lesting anyone, but he took some sup
plies which he said he needed badly.
RUSSIAN LOSS 2,542,639
Jeivisli Correspondent liases Fijrnrcs
on List Obtained Secretly.
NEW YORK. March 23. Losses in
the Russian army, killed, wounded and
missing, for one year, January 1 to
December 31, 1915, were 2,542,639, ac
cording to Boris S. Schumacher, a Jew
ish newspaper correspondent, who ar
rived here today from Petrograd via
Copenhagen on the steamship United
States.
Mr. Schumacher exhibited printed
lists of names which he said were of
ficial Russian reports of casualties and
which he said he secretly ' obtained
while in Petrograd.
LEGATION CLERK ARRESTED
Bulbars Accuse American of Bribing
Government Employe.
PARIS, March 23. A dispatch to the
Balkan agency from Bucharest todav
says the chief clerk of the American
legation at Sofia is reported to have
been arrested by the Bulgarian author
ities, accused of giving a present to
an employe for using greater haste
than ordinary in issuing passports.
The American Minister is said to
have protested energetically to the
Bulgarian government, insisting on the
clerk's immediate release.
DAY'S REGISTRATION IS 965
Total to Bate 10,17 6, of Which
28,793 Are Republicans.
To date 40.176 voters have registered
at the Courthouse. By April 18, 1914,
70,000 voters had registered. Only 23
more days remain for registering.
For a time last week the daily totals
exceeded 1000. Yesterday there were
965 names added.
The total registration is as follows:
Republican, 2S.793; Democrat. 8354; In
dependent, 14C9: Prohibitionist, 749;
Socialist, 475; Progressive, 3t8.
BIG TANKER IS ORDERED
American Steamer Costing $1,250.
000 to Be Built on Coast.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 23. Con
tracts for the construction of a steel
oil tanker steamer, costing $1,250,000,
which will fly the American flag on
the Pacific, were let. today to the Moore
& Scott Iron Works by the Hausteca
Petroleum Company of New York.
The vessel will be built in Oakland.
It will be 425 feet long, with a beam
of 57 feet and a depth of 34 feet. Con
tracts call for its completion in 15
months.
AIRCRAFT OFFERED ARMY
Aero Club Also Enlists Volunteers
for Service in Mexico.
NEW YORK, March 23. In a tele
gram sent to President Wilson today,
the Aero Club of America offered for
Army use in Mexico two high-powered
aeroplanes, which, the club says, ex
cel in every way the present army
flying' equipment.
The telegram also said the Aero Club
had already listed 19 licensed aviators
as volunteers for service in Mexico.
WILSON'S EYES TREATED
President Makes Secret Trip to
Philadelphia for Examination.
WASHINGTON. March 23. President
Wilson was back in Washington tonight-
after a brief visit to- Philadel
phia to have his eyes examined.
The President was seen by a com
paratively small number of people In
Philadelphia because his plans had
been kept secret. After seeing the
ooculist, he called on his sister. Mrs.
Ann Sows,
ARMY MEN EXPECT
CALL FOB MILITIA
Presidio Thinks Order
Is Imminent
COAST ARTILLERY IS WAITING
Men May Be Sent to Front in
Mexico as Infantry.
FEW REGULARS REMAINING
Only 18 Companies of Mobile Troops
licft in Western Department.
Headquarters Looking for
Orders to Move South.
PAN FRANCISCO. March 23. (Spe
cial.) All members of the National
Guard of the states included In 'the
Western Department are likely to be
called into active service at an hour's
notice, it was rumored at the Presidio
today.
The militia force in this department
numbers 583 officers and 8796 men.
It is unofficially understood that It
may be only a matter of days before
the organized militia from all parts of
the United States will be called on to
serve with the colors. Under the ex
isting militia law the guardsmen must
so anywhere within the borders of the
United States that they' are ordered to
go, but they may not be sent outside
the United States until they are mus
tered into Federal service.
Coast Artillery May He Sent.
Coast Artillery troops of the regu
lar Army may be sent to the Mexican
border as infantry, leaving the Coast
Artillery reserve to safeguard Pacific
Coast fortifications. It is believed,
however, that the regular Coast artil
lerymen will not go to the front un
less in case of great emergency, but
there is still a chance that they will
be called to the border.
There today remain in the Western
Department only 18 companies of mo
bile troops. Four of these companies
are in Alaska. It is expected that
within 24 hours all the companies, other
than those in Alaska, will be ordered
couth. The troops that will be the
first to uo are the fiye remaining com
panies of the Twenty-first Infantry at
Vancouver barracks and the eight com
panies of the Fourteenth Infantry at
Fort Lawton and Fort George Wright,
Washington.
Hospital Corps Kxpecia Orders.
Orders are expected here at any
moment to entrain Field Hospital Com
pany No. 2 and Field Ambulance No. 2
from the Presidio of Monterey to the
border line. The cooks' and bakers'
school at Monterey is expecting orders'
to go south.
Army officers here believe that it
will be merely a matter of days before
word comes to recruit volunteers for
Mexican duty.
These are only a few of the local de
velopments in the Mexican situation
(Concluded on Pare '1. Column 1.)
ONE OF THOSE
IRVIN S. COBB TO COVER
WILLARD-MORAN FIGHT
FOR THE OREGO
NIAN. Irvin S. Cobb, one of the
ablest descriptive writers in
America, as well as one of the
most celebrated, will cover the
Willard-Moran fight in New
York next Saturday night for
The Oregonian.
Mr. Cobb has been engaged
by a large Eastern syndicate to
paint a word picture of the
world's championship battle for
a select number of American,
newspapers. In Portland The
Oregonian will be the only pa
per to publish this splendid fea
ture. Mr. Cobb will have a
place at the ringside and will
file his story on the telegraph
wire there. In his own inimit
able style he will describe the
fight and accompanying scenes
fully and completely.
Mri' Cobb is the correspond-'
ent who, when the European
conflict broke out, hastened by
.steamer to the coast of France
and thence "went to war in a
taxicab." Some of the articles
he wrote at the front appeared
in The Oregonian. Others were
published in the Saturday
Evening Post, to which he is
still a regular contributor.
- In addition to Mr. Cobb's arti
cle The Oregonian will publish
a full and accurate account of
the fight to be furnished by the
Associated Press, which has
made adequate arrangements
for covering the great event. A
ringside description of the fight
by rounds will be included in
this report and there will be
other features. Nothing will be
omitted which may contribute
toward -making complete The
Oregonian's covering of the big
sporting event of the year.
SECOND RAIDER IS FELLED
- .
Only - Two German. Planes Escape
After Attack on Kent.
LONDON, March 23. Advices received
from Dover by the press association
say that a second German seaplane was
brought down after the raid made by
four German aeroplanes over the Kent
coast last Sunday.
It ie said a British airman who was
crossing the Channel in a new aero
plane saw the raid in progress, and
joining in the chase of the Germans
succeeded in bringing down one of
their machines.
Hungary Kxteuds Its Active List.
LONDON, March 23. Men of the Hun
garian landsturm born in 1868 and
1869 and also the men belonging to the
classes of 1S65 and 1897, who hitherto
have been employed in making mate
rials of war. now are dismissed from
this service and ordered to join the
army on April 5. according to a Reuter
dispatch from Zurich.
OCCASIONS WHEN A FELLOW NEEDS A FRIEND.
nicnpon
SON-IN-LAW IS HELD
New York Dentist
Cow1
DUAL LIFE IS CONFESSED
Affinity Is Sought; Suspect
Drugs Himself Too.
VICTIM'S WIFE DEAD, ALSO
Grand llapids Pair Die Within Few
Weeks and Cause of Million
aire's Death -Revealed by
Mysterious Telegram.
NEW YORK, March 23. In a stupor
from self-administered drugs, Dr. Ar
thur Warren Waite, a dentist and well
known as a tennis player, was In the
custody of detectives tonight and will
be charged with the murder here on
March 12 of his father-in-law, John E,
Peck, a millionaire drug manufacturer
of Grand Rapids. Mich., as soon as he
can be taken Into court.
With the arrest of Dr. .Waite, the
District Attorney's office believes it
has uncovered what will prove one of
the most remarkable cases in many
years.
Estate of $1,300,000 Left.
Mr. Peck, who is reputed to have left
an estate valued at about $1,500,000
and his wife, died within six weeks
while visiting their daughter and her
husband at their Riverside Drive apart
ments here. By the will of Mr. Peck,
his estate was equally divided between
Mrs. Waite and Percy Peck, of Grand
Rapids, his son. Mrs. Waite now Is
seriously ill at, Grand Rapids. District
Attorney Swann said today he had
learned she has been instructed by
Dr. Waite to make a will In his favor.
When detectives went to the Waite
apartment today, they found the young
dentist in bed, apparently in great pain.
Dr. A. A. Moore, the physician who at
tended Mr. . Peck v.-hile he was here,
declared Dr. Waite was suffering from
overdoses of narcotics.
Three Different Drusa Found.
Considerable quantities of three dif
ferent drugs were found in the den
tist's clothing, and he said he had
taken some of each kind, beginning
yesterday morning. Asked how much
he had taken, he replied: "Plenty."
District Attorney Swann went to the
house with a stenographer to take a
statement from the dentist but Dr.
Waite was in a stupor. Dr. Moore said
his patient probably would be able to
go to court tomorrow. In the mean
time. Dr. Waite will be closely guarded.
The arrest of Dr. Waite was ordered
today after an investigation by Dis
trict Attorney Swann, based on the re
sult of an autopsy on Mr. Peck's body,
which revealed strong symptoms of
poisoning-- The case was placed in the
hands of the grand jury today after
Dora Heiler. a negro maid at Dr.
(Concluded on Paso 4. column 4.
DOG TEAMS RUSH
STRIKE MEDIATORS
AliASKA RAILWAY ARBITRATORS
HURRY TO CAMP.
600 Disaffected Laborers on Govern
ment Road Continue Work i
Pending Wage Settlement.
SEWARD, Alaska.. March 23. J. A.
Moffet. B. M. Squires and Hywell
Davies, members of the Mediation and
Conciliation Commission, appointed by
the Department of Labor to settle the
wage dispute between the Alaska En
gineering Commission and workmen em
ployed on, the construction of the Gov
ernment railroad, arrived today from
Seattle.
Chairman Moffet said the Commis
sion would leave over the trail for
Anchorage tomorrow. Three of the
best racing dog teams at Anchorage
have been sent to convey the Com
missioners from the end of Mile 34 to
the construction camp. The Commis
sion conferred today with R. J. Weir,
engineer in charge of the Government
work here.
The labor trouble at Anchorage be
gan February 7. when 60 track layers
quit because their demand for increased
pay from 37 cents an hour to 50
cents an hour was rejected. A fed
eral labor union was organized at An
chorage. with more than 600 members.
and a general strike called to enforce
a minimum wage of 60 cents an hour.
Upon the recommendation of Presi
dent Samuel Gompers. of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, the men went
back to work pending a settlement of
the wage dispute by the arbitration
commission.
CIRCUIT COURT THE HAGUE
International Strife Settled by Com'
mission of Lawyers.
V
"H m, so the international dispute
has come to The Hague for settlement,"
commented . Circuit Judge McGinn
when Attorneys C. T. Haas and Hurl-
burt & Layton appeared before him
and declared that the prospect of se
curing a neutral jury in the German
Italian disagreement was remote, and
suggested arbitration.
The attorneys formed a committee,
went into executive session and
emerged with a peace pact that was
signed by all parties and approved by
the court.
The German Publishing Company,
accused of trying to wreck L'ltalico,
agreed to pay claims of the plaintiff
company.
KETTLE COOKS CHILD
Curious Baby Places Mouth Over
Steam Spout Death Averted.
TACOMA, Wash., March 23. (Spe
cial.) Infant curiosity nearly caused
the death of Carl P. Klemme, Jr., 3
year-old son of Carl P. Klemme, a sur
veyor, who is in the hospital recover
ing from his investigation of the spout
of a tea kettle.
The' little fellow took advantage of
his mother's momentary absence from
the kitchen to stand tip-toe and put
his mouth over the spout of the steam
ing kettle. The inside of the child";
mouth and throat was cooked by the
steam and boiling water, so that
breathing was almost stopped and the
child nearly choked to death. Prompt
medical care saved his life.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The "Weaiheiv-
TEPTERDAT'S Maximum temperature 47
degrees; minimum, do decrees.
TODAY'S Partly cloudy and occasionally
threatening wcatner; westerly winds.
Mexico.
Arm y men expect call for militia soon.
Page 1.
Villa holds . up train to kill Americans.
Page 1.
General Herrera to oppose American in
vasion, fight Villa, too. Pace 1.
Iost Army aviator reduced on desert. Page 1
Vancouver battalion leaves this morning for
Mexican border. Page 6.
Border disturbed by rumored movements of
Mexican troops. Page 2.
Con press ready to authorize more troops
ior .Mexico on snort notice. Page J.
War.
Russians take three lines of German trenches
with bayonets. Page 4.
Moewe's commander jclves reminiscences of
raiding voyage. Page 4.
French position held precarious. Page 4.
Foreign.
Chinese republican army demands resigna
tion of Yuan Sh Kai. Page S.
National.
Army bill passes House, 402 to 2. Page S.
Plan to force cities to buy grant lands in
dicated In Hcuse. Page 6.
United States soon to define Its attitude
toward entire submarine question. Page o.
Domestic.
Millionaire's death from poison laid to son-in-law.
Page 1.
Sport.
Wlllard takes sport In hard training.
Page 14.
Bout h worth' plans 50 steals this season.
Page 14.
Beavers battle gingery six innings for
theater tickets. Page 14.
Pacific Northwest.
Rev. Mr. Trimble answers Commissioner'a
latest criticism. Page 7.
Enthusiasm greets railroad's party of agri
cultural experts. Page J.
Inauguration ceremonies begin at Pullman.
Page T.
Dog teams rush mediators to Alaska rail
way strike scene. Page 1.
Northwest f rultmen organize at Spokane.
Page 3.
Commercial and Marine.
Prohibition of hop imports into England
will injure American market Page 19.
Wheat declines at Chicago on renewed sub
marine activity. Page 19.
Mexican shares, especially oils, drop in
Wall street. Page 19.
Seamen's dilemma is placed up to Washing-
ington bureau. page is.
Norwegian bark Undfleld. from Portland,
sunk in war sone. Page 18.
Portland and Vicinity.
E. T. Gray, one of Mr. Daly's foremen. ;
charged with scores or offenses. Page 8.
Civil Service Board and Council agree on
modification or rules. Page . ,
Landseekers' line now numbers 13. Page 8. ',
Portland and Seattle Y. M. C. A. to com
pete for members. Page IS.
Opera season opens tonight. Page 11.
Governor Strong says Alaskan trade is
opea to Portland. Pag a 6.
LOST ARMY AIRMAN
RESCUED Oil DESERT
American Lieutenant Is
Foodless 24 Hours.
TANK FILLED; FLIGHT RESUMED
Officer Stays by Plane After
Gasoline Leaks Away.
MOTOR TRAIN FINDS HIM
I'll Get There This Time Say
Aviator, as He Hiscs and. Flies
Toward Casas Grandes AH
of Squad Now Safe.
COLUMBUS. X. M., March 23. Lieu
tenant Edfrar S. Gorrell. of the United
States Aero Corps, who has been
missing since last Sunday, was found
today three miles south of Ascencton
by a motor truck train under Lieu
tenant J. L. Tarkinson, Twentieth In
fantry, according to reports made to
night to military headquarters here.
Lieutenant Gorrell was uninjured,
but was out of gasoline and had lost
his way.
Lieutenant Gorrell had been alone
for 48 hours in the middle of a sand
swept, uninhabited plateau on the bor
ders of Lake Frederico, formerly used
for a watering place for stock, but suf
fered only slightly from exposure. His
plane was intact.
Gaitollue Leak In Caune.
All of the eight army aviators who
left Sunday to fly to Casas Grandes
have been accounted for.
The flyer said that shortly after the
start he lost sight of the other planes
and missed his way. After flying for
miles over the surrounding country in
an effort to determine his whereabouts
he was forced to alight on the plateau
because of a leaking fuel tank. The
gasoline oozed away and he was unable
to find the leak In the darkness.
There were no signs of human habi
tation and no vegetation on the height
except burned clumps of bunchgrass.
He finally made his way to a recently
abandoned American camping place on
the wagon trail about six miles south
east. There he placed a note telling
of his whereabouts and conditions on
a stick which he drove firmly in the
ground near the trail.
Man Koodleaa 24 Hours.
Being unwilling to leave his plan
unprotected, he made his way back to
the lake, with the realization that it
he attempted to find a village he prob
ably would wander in the hills at the
risk of- encountering banUits or wild
animals. He said he was confident that
his note would be found before the
three days' rations with which he was
supplied gave out.
When he was rescued he had been
without food for 21 hours and said that
ne- had about determined to attempt to
find his way to succor.
Aboard the trucks which reached him
were several barrels of gasoline, and,
with the aid of some tools obtained
from the truck men. Lieutenant Gorrell
soldered hi tank and resumed his
flight, which he predicted would end
in Casas Grandes in an hour. He left
the earth with a wave of the hand to
the soldiers on the truck train as he
shouted, "I'll get there this time, boys."
Death Regarded Possible.
The party from the motor found
Lieutenant Gorrell sitting under the
wing of hi plane in an attempt to
shade himself from the intense glare
of the sun.
"It was a long, lonesome wait," he
said. "One in which I could not help
but feel that I was face to face with
death. But I .was comforted by the
thoughts that some of the American
troops on their way to Casas Grandes
could not help but find my note. Tet,
there were times when 1 was about
ready to give up."
For several days aeroplane scouts
and cavalrymen from Casas Grandes
have been searching the hills of North
ern Chihuahua for some trace of Lieu
tenant Gorrell. or of his plane. When
he failed to report today Army men
practically gave up hope of his safety.
MR. DILL TREATED AS BABY
Representative Front 'Washington
Does Not Impress Mere Clerk.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wasl-
ington, March 23. Representative Dill,
of Washington, one of the "baby mem
bers" of the House of Representatives
meaning a first-termer appeared at
the National Press Club with other new
members at a baby night entertain
ment- When called on to speak, Mr.
Dill related some of his experiences as
a new member.
One day Mr. Dill had a matter to at
tend to at the Indian Office, and went
there in person. He was referred to
some mere clerk, who listened more or
less inattentively to what he had to say.
After Mr. Dill had made known his
wants, the clerk magnanimously said.
"All right; you go back and tell Repre
sentative Dill I will attend to this for
him."
Bootlegger Suspect Arrested.
SALEM, Or.. March 23. (Special.)
Frank Lyniss was arrested today by
Sheriff Esch on a farm tn miles north
of Salem. He la wanted by author
ities at South Bend, Wash., on a charge
of bootlegging. Lyniss recently time
here with his family from South Band.