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2b It 111 VOL.. VLI-XO. 17,394. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, " 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS, RAILROADS AGAINST R0UMANIA NEAR TO JOINING ENTENTE LUMBERMEN' PLAN TO REBUILD EUROPE IDAHO MINE ROBBER GETS $2180 IN GOLD MANAGER'S " AUTO HALTED BV MASKED DESPERADO. HI IIR WHFAT I FflPfi CENTRALIA CAPTAIN SMALL BOYS PROVE - . ACCUSES COLONEL THOROUGHFARE FOR RUSSIAN TROOPS IS EXPECTED. SLANDER CHARGE FILED OVER ESCAPE OF PRISONER. GRANTING DEMAND IDAHO MURDERERS u i Stand for Arbitration Seems Firm. WILSON EMPHASIZES PLEA President Talks "as One Citi zen to Another." REPLY BEING CONSIDERED spokesman for Employers Say Posi tion Is That Principle Greater Than Immediate Issues Is at Stake. WASHINGTON, . Aug. 21. As one American citizen to another,. President Wilson today appealed to each of tbe executives of the country's principal railroads on gTounds of patriotism to accept his plan for averting the threat ened disaster of a Nation-wide strike. He emphasized the necessity for keeping- the railroads in service as a part of the National defense and to make pos sible preparation for meeting condi tions that will exist after the European war. On leaving the "White House the rail road presidents, augmented during the day by arrivals from the West, held conferences at which sentiment was said to be against agreeing to the President's proposal in its platform. Counter' Proposal If oped For. Hope was expressed, however, that some satisfactory counter proposition might be advanced, and it was decided to turn over to a commitlee the task of drafting a final reply to the Pres ident. With more than 60 men, most of them with their own ideas about what ought to be done, the executives found it difficult to "get down to brats tacks," as one of them expressed it. Another meeting will be held to morrow, and every effort will be made to reach a decision promptly. The railroad heads still insist that President Wilson is asking them to sacrifice the principle of arbitration. , Elisha Lee, chairman of the National conference committee of railways, is. ".. sued a statement tonight in which he said: "That the railroads should grant, un - der threat of a National strike, a $50,000,000. wa ge preferment to a small minority of their employes, without a hearing before a public tribunal, is in conceivable in a democracy like ours. All questions at issue wages, hours, costs, operating conditions are sub merged by the greater issue: Shall ar bitration be abandoned in the settle ment of industrial disputes?" Appeal Made to Public Opinion. The statement suggests, ' however, that the railroads stand ready to take whatever action, the people and .the country desire. It concludes: "The weight of public opinion must determine these issues. We cannot be lieve that it Is the calm judgment of tbe country that we should t-acrifice the principle of arbitration in indus-j trial atspuies unaer a inreat id tie up the commerce of the country." While "the officials were listening to President Wilson and, later conferring "at their hotel, the general committee of 640 representatives of the employes, who already have accepted the Presi dent's plan, held a perfunctory meet ing and marked time awaiting the de cision of the employers. They said they would wait until President Wil son dismissed them, but stood ready to V vail a srike should the negotiations fail. ' ' President Addresses Employers. Although a few of the railroad ex ecutives invited had not arrived to " day it was decided that, those already in Washington were representative, and, therefore, the President called them to the White House and earnest ly urged that his plan of settlement be ratified. "I will not allow passion to come into my thoughts in this solemn mat ter," he said.- "We are both acting as trustees of great interests. I am will ing to allow this matter to go to the great American Jury and let them as sume the responsibility. The rail roads' responsibility of failure will not rest with me. I wish you to consider the consequences as affecting the peo ple of the cities and countrysides of a failure to agree. The country cannot live if the means of keeping alive its vitality are interfered with. The lives and fortunes of 100,000,000 men, wom en and little ones -many of whom may die depend upon what may be done In this room. I appeal to you as one American citizen to another to avert this disaster. Arbitration Impossible, WUm Says. The President spoke in a more Inti mate fashion than he has in any of the previous conferences. He referred to the disastrous effect which a strike would have, "especially at this time when every ounce of American energy and initiative has to be mobolized to meet the extraordinary situation which "' will emerge out of the European war." Reiterating that it was impossible for him to bring about arbitration under present conditions, the Presi dent declared it was not necessary to discuss practical methods of avoid ing the strike. The war' had taught the country It could no longer remain isolated and that provinclally by the reason of its position affects the world. jCrn-nliifl Fa.- 6. Column 1.) Austro-German Ultimatum Believed in Preparation Situation Ke garded Gravely .in Berlin. AMSTERDAM, via London. Aug. 22. The Roumanian situation again is tak ing a leading- place in the war news. Dispatches from Berlin and Bucharest, via Berlin, describe the relations be tween Roumania and the Germanic allies as. extremely serious. Wolff bu reau, dispatches hint that an Austro German ultimatum is in preparation. The Kreuse Zeitung declared nego tiations that took place at Bucharest at the week-end between " the Russian military attaches and the Roumanian Secretary of War must be considered as proof that Roumania has Joined the entente. "It is supposed," says this newspaper, "that plans for . a Russian march through Roumanian territory were dis cussed. Of course, Germany would re gard such an arrangement as a casus belli." . , . Major Moraht says in the Tageblatt: "German and Austrian Ministers at Bucharest have pointed out the conse quences to Roumania of granting per mission to the Russians to march through Roumanian territory. Toward us Roumania must not play her ephinx tricks so far that one day, with shrugging shoulders, she will place be fore us un fait compli for which we have not been able to take proper counter measures." ' . The material' aid Roumania could give if she entered the war is impor tant. She has had between 500,000 and 600,000 troops mobilized for nearly a year and her army is reputed to be one of the best equipped and trained in Eu rope. Roumania may be in a position to deal a powerful blow at Bulgaria from the north in conjunction with the allies' drive from the south. It has been generally understood that Russia has been willing to concede the province of Bessarabia, the population of which is largely Roumanian, in re turn for Roumanian co-operation in the war. Bessarabia is 18,000 miles, quare and has a population of nearly 2.00Q.000. SPAIN INCREASES ARMY Officers to Be Provided Sufficient for 600,000 Reserves. MADRID, via Paris, Aug. 21. An in crease in the Spanish army to 180,000 men on peace footing is provided for in a military reorganization bill which soon will be presented to Parliament by the minister of war. General De Luque. This calls for an increase ovet the present force of 40,000 men. Under the new plan 68.000 men will be gar risoned in Morocco. The reserves of the active army will permit " rapid mobilization of 400,000 men. The project provides for officers sufficient for a reserve army of 600, 000. . PORTUGAL IS PREPARING Franco-British Commission Sent to Give Military Council. PARIS, Aug. 21. -In preparation for Portugal's active participation in the war, a Franco-British military mission will leave this city in a few days for Portugal.' The French government has designated Lieutenant-Colonel Paris, Major ,Grandin de L'Epervier and Lieu tenant Giraudox. The British government is sending Major-General Barmadiston and Lieu tenants Gough-Calthorpe and G. A. Robinson. These officers will co-oper ate with the Portuguese military au thorities. 3 BOILERS EXPLODE, KILL 8 t - Building; Wrecked and Debris Scat tered Hundreds of Yards. JACKSON, Tenn.. Aug. 21. Eight workmen were killed and 16 injured! here today when three boilers at the plant of the Harlan Morris Stave. Man ufacturing Company exploded, wreck ing the building and scattering debris over a radius of several hundred yards. It is believed that all of the injured will recover.- The cause of the explo sion had not been determined tonight Officials of the company said late to day that all persons in the building at the time had been accounted for. CITY HAS 337 JITNEYS Some Provisionsof Regulation Or dinance Being Enforced. "Portland has 337 Jitneys, according to a report of the city license bureau compiled yesterday. This is a fewer number than were in the field a year ago, but is a larger number than was reported six months ago. Virtually all that is being" 'enforced of the jitney regulation ordinance is the provision requiring the taking out of a license, the payment of a fee of $2 a month and thMnspsction of the machines. PRIESTS' SLAYERS CAUGHT i . . Monnted .Police Capture Murderous -Eskimos In Arctic. OTTAWA. Ont. Aug. 21. News was received today from Nome. Alaska, that the Canadian Mounted Police have cap tured the two Eskimos who in Novem ber. 1913, in the copper mine country of the Arctic region are alleged to have murdered Fathers Leroux and Rounr. They are now at Herschell Island and will be brought out for trial. Plans Made for Expan sion of Markets. MOMENTOUS MEETING HELD Co-operation of Government Agencies Is' Sought. LEGISLATION IS , ADVISED Passage of Bill to Permit Trade Combinations Urged All Parts of War-Torn Area Show the Need ' of Materials CHICAGO. Aug. 22. (Special.) The Government will co-operate with the lumber manufacturers of the United States in sending abroad a corps of ex perts fo study the condition of Euro pean lumber markets with a view to a great expansion of the field of the American producer. This was decided today at one of the most important conferences ever held in American business history, for the conference marked the opening of steps for co-operation between the Nation's business man and the Government Itself for the extension of American trade abroad. , - Fmage of "Webb Bill Vmtd. . Part of the result of the conference will he the urging of the Immediate passage of the Webb bill, now pending in Congress, to remove any question of the legality of the organization by lum ber manufacturers and other groups of business men of foreign sales agencies to secure and distribute orders for American goods to be sent, to foreign countries. ' . ' ' The Government was represented, at today's conference by two members of the Federal Trade Commission. Will H. Parry and Joseph E. Davies; by head of the Forest Service. II. "S. Graves, and by the chief 6f the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Pr. E. E. Pratt. Dr. Wilson Compton, economist to the trade commission, was also present in an advisory oapacity. Scores of Lamberaei Present. -On the part of the lumbermen there were present some score of manufac turers and secretaries of lumber manu facturing organizations, including the National Manufacturers' Association, the Southern. Pine. California Redwood, West Coast. Northern Pine, Northern Hemlock and Hardwood and Gum Lum ber Associations. Before taking up the question of how to organize the American lumber Indus try to secure the great volume of for eign lumber "business that must come to the United States, even before the European war ends, detailed reports were given of the conditions abroad by the various interested organizations, as well as from governmental agencies. (Concluded on Page 4. Column 2.) J j Trip Without Guard Over Mountain Road Is DisVstrousi Posse Searches Wilderness. BOISE Idaho. Aug. 21. (Special.) A masked robber held up and relieved W. H. Estabrook, manager of the Boston-Idaho Gold Dredge Minins Com pany, of gold dust and nuggets valued at' $2180 this morning near Boise City in the Boise basin. The desperado made good his escape." ' 1 A posse has been organized and is threshing tho mountain wilderness for him. He Is described as five feet six or seven inches, tall, weight, about 130 pounds, with sandy whiskers and hair. .Mr. Estabrook was returning from one of the company's big dredges with the clean-up in gold and was speeding along the mountain .highway to his home at Pinehurst to deposit the gold in. the safe. The masked robber, stand ing in the. center of the highway, cov ered him witht a revolver. His com manf to "halt" and the leveled re volver, brought-the driver and his big oar " to ",a standstill. Cooly ordering Estabrook to hand over the gold, the robber took it, and then directed Esta brook to proceed ahead at full speed and not to look back. Then the robber disappeared in the "timber The Boston-Idaho Gold Dredge Com pany Is dredging the mountain streams for gold. It operates several dredges. Estabrook has handled gold valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars, but usually has a guard. He did not today. VILLA MAY BE DEAD AGAIN Mexican Consul at EI Paso lias New Report, but Doubts It. EL PASO, Aug. 21. A new report of the death of Villa was received here today by Andreas Garcia, Mexican Con sul. The report, emanating from San Geronimo, in Chihuahua, said that the bandit chieftain died of blood poisoning resulting from his wonnds at Talla mantes, near Parral, on July 9, and was buried near there. While the report was transmitted for what it was worth to. Mexico City, It received little credence at the local consulate. GERMAN YOUTHS CALLED? Swiss Report Says Boys of 1 7 Have Been Ordered to Olors.' PARIS, Aug. - 21. The Intransigeant publishes under - reserve & dispatch from . Lausanne to the effect that Ger many has 'ordered all youths of 17 to report Immediately - to recruiting bu reaus. This class in normal years would be called to the colors in 1919. SUPERVISION IS EXTENDED United States to Arrange Vndget System for San Domingo. WASHINGTON. Aug. 21. American supervision of Dominican finances soon is to be extended to Internal revenue as well as customs receipts. A budget system also is to be arranged. President Carvajal, it is understood, will accept the plan and recognition of hl erovrnment will follow. NOT YET. BUT SOON, IU;liKUFHhLU Eastern Oregon Will Not Sell Holdings. SPECULATION FEVER IS ON Umatilla to Flow With Coin of Realm, Say Bankers. BEST PRICES AIM OF ALL At Pendleton Grain Reaches High est Figure of Season, but Farm ers Fall to Let Go of Present Yield Baker Reports $1.10. PENDLETON Or. Aug. 21. (Special.) Wheat at S1.13 for club, reached the highest price of the season today. Although the market was 2 cents above the Saturday price there was very little wheat sold on the local mar ket. Most of the farmers refuse to sell on the rising market, although some who have held over two crops from former years have disposed of this and are holding their 1916 crop for speculation. With such high prices prevailing while the farmers still "have their wheat, there will be more money turned loose in Umatilla County than for many years, according to bankers. Generally when the strong prices are being offered most of the farmers have nothing to sell. t BAKER BUYERS CONFIDENT Wheat Jumps to $1.10, Barley $30 a Ton and $2 5 a Ton for Oats. BAKER, Or., Aug. 21. (Special.) Following the rapid rise In Portland, grain in this vicinity took a skyward trip today. Although an unusual advance In the I grain market was noted today, locally as well as in the larger markets. Baker milling and warehouse men were so confident of the continued strength of the market that they were eagerly of fering from J1.0S to $1.10 for wheat, with $30 a ton for barley and l- a ton for oats. "We'll take all we can get at these figures." one buyer declared today. The advance In the market Is regarded, not as a fluctuation, but as a defin itely Indicated upward trend. FARMERS CONTRACT AT $1 Season's Run on Thresher Outfits Started From XTnion. UNION, Or.. Aug. 21. (Special.) Six thresher outfits from here started on the season's run today. The crop in this vicinity will not be large this season owing to so much of the acre age being in Summer fallow. The ' majority of the farmers here already have contracted their grain at the $1 mark, although some received a little better prices. Row in Second Washington Infantry Involves Regimental Commander, Sergeant and Private. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Aug. 21. (Special.) Captain David Livingstone, commanding Company M. of Centralis, now on the border, has preferred charges alleging slander against Colonel Inglls, commanding the Second Wash ington Infantry, according to a tele gram received from Calexico, Cal., this morning. The. trouble is reported to have arisen over the escape of Private Ran dall, Company B, Second Washington Infantry, from the custody of a mili tary . guard. Sergeant Clifford Sayre and Private Johnson, of Company M. being on guard at the time. Randall Is said to be wanted by the Army for desertion, and also by civil authorities at San Diego for forgery. He was later recaptured at Imperial, 24 miles from Calexico, by Captain Livingstone. Ran dall was then in citizen's clothing. Sergeant Sayre and Private Johnson were under military arrest for permit ting the escape of Randall, according to the reports here, but Captain Living stone is said to have shouldered the entire responsibility, and effected the release of the soldiers. Major Llewellyn is reported to have taken Sergeant Sayre's statement, to be used in connection with Captain Liv ingstone's charges against the regi mental commander. LAD LEAPS TO SAFETY Thirty-Foot Jump From Bridge Is . Made When Train Nears. HOOD RIVER, Or., Aug. 31. (Spe cial.) As a result of a 30-foot leap this afternoon from the O.-W. R. & N. steel bridge crossing Hood River here, Russell, the 11-year-old son of Dr. E. L Scobee, is nursing a. bruised hip. a badly sprained wrist and a lacerated scalp. The boy with a companion, Harold Bailey, was on the bridge when a freight train approached. Young Bailey scampered to safety. Losing his pres ence of mind the Scobee lad leaped. If his fall had not been broken by shallow water his injuries might have been very serious or even fatal. FRENCH REMOVE CIVILIANS Villages Cleared Behind Front, Say Swiss Dispatches to Berlin. BERLIN. Aug. 21. (By wireless to Sayvllle. N. T.) Swiss dispatches to the Overseas News Agency report that the French have removed the civil population from towns and villages be hind the front . in the districts of Nancy, Luneville, Baccarat and Saint Die. The line indicated roughly parallels the French-German border between a point about 50 miles southeast of Ver dun. . .. , INDEX OF TODAYS NEWS Tbe Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. " ?4 degrees; minimum, 5 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and continued warm; north erly wind a Politics. Mr. TYurns says new EJurope after war . lll call for new America. Page 3. War. I Capture ot Ielps1c redoubt described. Pace 2- Official reports. Page 2. Roumania on verse of entering: war. Pace 1. Balkan offensive Is fully under way. Page 2. Meiloo. Kfpht Guard recruits enlist, but 13 depend ency discharges are ordered. Page 4. Secretary Baker says rail It la to remain while peril last. Page 4. National. Democratic revolt In Senate puts Immigra tion bill forward again. Pwge 3. Rallr.tad presidents em opposed to grant v ing demands without arbitration. Paget. Itomest l. American lumbermen plan to rebuild Europe. Page 1. Spokesman for railroads issues statement. Page. 6. Sport. Red Sox win while runners-up falter. Page 12. Cub rally defeats Dodgers. Pare IS. rtreakere teniils tournament opens. Page 12. Annual Coast l,eastm meeting promises sen. eational developments. Page 12. Gulsto to leave Portland for Cleveland a.t once on arrival here. P&ge 12. Pacific 'orthwewt. Dean of Women appointed for State Normal School. Page 7. ATI Coos Bay la In jubilee attire. Page 4. Central! Captain files slander charge against Colonel. Page 1. Masked desperado robs Idaho mine man ager of '-'18 In gold. Page 1. System at state prison in attacked by Governor Wlthycombe. Page ft. Pendleton market Jumps to $t.l2 for club wheat Pipe 1. Two small boys confess murder of Idaho professor. Page 1. Spokane rate order taken to Federal Court. Pase 11. Commercial and Marine. Wheat prices are cent higher at Interior points. Psge IT. Chicago wheat advances In face of heavy sales by Lonj5i. Page IT. Steel stock touches record price of PIS. Page IT. Opening prices on Alaska, salmon are an- nounced. Page 17. Striking longshoremen here await orders. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Portland favored In rate to Coos Bay point. Page 11. Woman !s bound over on charge of daylight burglary. Page 18. Settlement of bridge franchise question Is expected eoon. Page 9. . Red Tos bureau chief expect i American units again at front soon. Page 14. 10.000 attend opening day of au torn obi Is show. Page IS. Contract for Benson Polytechnic School awarded. Psge 5. Democrats name ticket of "non -part Inane. Page 7. Cot if living rises In five years. rase 38. Waather report, data a.ivd forecast. Pace 17. Professor Shot During Cabin Robbery. HAZARDOUS GETAWAY AMAZES Young Brothers, 11 and 12, Admit Many Crimes. PITY AND HORROR AROUSED Children. Deserted by Mother and Stepfather, Steal Horse, Wagon and Guns. Killing Owner Who Tries to Stop Them. TWIN' FALLS. Idaho. Aug. 21. (Special. 1 Harold uid T.vnn T i-iv. 1 "brothers, ages 12 and 11. respectively. are In custody here, charged by their own confession with the murder of Professor K. Thomas Hamill. & teacher from Carson. Sev, at his homestead 45 miles south of Twin Falls. Tuesday afternoon of last week. The story of the shooting; and the flight of the boys is almost unbelievable. They were apprehended near Buhl. 20 miles west. Sunday evening, six days after the murder. They had traveled about 120 miles with Ham Ill's horse and light wagon, sleeping in the sage brush, without bedding and thinly clad. They had with them sup plies which they had taken from Hamill's house, also eight guns and revolvers of various kinds. They had also stolen guns and other things from ranchers along the way. Boy Held at Inquest. At the Inquest this afternoon the verdict was that Hamill met his death from a bullet from a rifle In the hands of Lynn Lovelace. His elder brother Harold is held as Instigator and accessory. Neither the mother nor their stepfather, a man named Pennywell. can be located. The mother left. presumably for Boise, a 'month ago. leaving the chil dren In the care of their stepfather. Two weeks ago the stepfather, leaving the children In care of a neighbor, went away, presumably to Colorado. The boys confess to petty stealing for three years. They said they re cently stole, a gun and other articles from Hamill, who, on regaining . th stolen articles, warned the boys to keep away from his lace and Quit stealing or he would report tUm to the Sheriff. Trip Made to Steal. They returned to his cabin Tuesday to steal bis horse, wagon, provisions and gun. and go to their grandfather. V. M. Retherford, at Lebanon. Or.. They were loading up the supplies when Hamill returned. They barri caded themselves in Hamill's house, and as he approached ordered him to stay back. Apparently realizing the danger from the irresponsible boys. Hamill parleyed with them, telling them he was hungry. The older boy agreed to carry food to him, while the younger kept Hamill covered with Hamill's own gun, a 32-40 repeater, loaded with soft nosed bullets. When the boy approached Hamill seized him. got behind him, and ordered tbe smaller boy to drop the gun. "Shoot him." ordered the older boy. "I don't want to shoot him." replied Lynn. "Shoot him," again ordered the older boy, and the younger boy. not strong enough to put the gun to his shoulder, held it low, polntoj toward Hamill. and pulled the trigger. Iloy'a Arm Is Grated. Hamill was stooping low behind the older boy. The bullet passed througli the left sleeve of the boy, grazing his arm. and entered Hamill's right eye. According to the boys' confession. Hamill fell upon the older boy. who, with Hamill's blood on his clothing, crawled from beneath the dead man, and" with his brother, finished their preparations for flight. As described by officers who trailed them, the ride they mado was tho wild est and most hazardous conceivable. They traveled across the sage brush much of the way. They drove down into two canyons 400 feet deep. One was so steep the wagon tipped over. The boys, with surprising Ingenuity, righted the wagon by throwing a rope over the wagon to the lower wheel, then hitching the horse to the rope. They went many miles, then doubled back, causing the officers to lose the tralL ( ommnnllr Keela Horror. The pursuing 'officers, however, did not know they were trailing boy mur derers,, but thought perhaps they were trailing an Insane fiend. Meantime Probation Officer Ormsby was asked to watch for two small runaway boys, who, when he found them, found also In their possession Hamill's property. They are being held here awaitlns trial." A wave of pity for the homeless, forsaken children, and horror over tha terrible crime, has swept the com munity. Mr. 8lnnott Bark In Washington. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Aug. 21. Representative Sin not returned to Washington today from New York, where he was called by the sudden death of his two-year-old dauarhter. The child died from quick pneumonia, being Ul only two days.