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VOL. LVI XO. 17,530. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TROOPS CLASH If! ALL-DAY STRANGE HORSE IS OREGON PRODUCT SHIPYARD SITE OH EAST SIDE LEASED DETECTIVE BURNS. IS FOUND GUILTY SOUTHERN PACIFIC OFFICES TO MOVE SURVEY PROPOSES DISCOVERY OF SINGLE TOOTH COURT DENOUNCES ACT OF EN TERING PRIVATE OFFICE. QUARTERS IX YEOX BUILDING LEASED FOR 10 YEARS, EXMGHTEXS SCIENCE. GOLD WAVE MAKES ALL CHICAGO SHIVER nssssHHSaHsessn x Mercury Drops to Be low Zero in Night. BORDER REFORM PRISO V. Utah Cavalry Goes to Aid of Cowboys. FIRE OPENED ON AMERICANS Further Reinforcements Said to Have Been Sent. VILLA IS BEHIND PERSHING Bandit Forces Said to Have Occu pied Abandoned Outposts; Smug glers Prepare to Veil Opera te . tions In Withdrawal. TUCSON. Aria., Jan. .26. According to telephone advices from Justice of the Peace Hogaa at Arivaca, Ariz about 40 miles south of Tucson on the border, fighting has been in progress all day at a place called Stonehouse between Mexican troopers and Ameri can cowboys. According to the report, the trouble started when the cowboys attempted to drive their cattle away from the boundary line and the Mexicans opened fire. The Americans retreated and were reinforced by a part of E troop, Utah cavalry, who at once returned the fire of the Mexicans. Ko Americans Reported Killed. All Americans have assembled at Ned Hogan's house on the Arivaca Land & Cattle Company's ranch, it was reported tonight. Eighteen American troopers, with Plenty of ammunition, were dispatched at 5 o'clock to aid the troops already there. The fighting was started by the Mex icans, according to the American ver sion of the affair. The cowboys, re treating, kept up a running fire as they returned northward, 'and . the Utah cavalrymen went to the aid of the cow. boys. . . Mexican Troopers Are Scattered. Advices received tonight said ne fur ther trouble was expected, and that ample forces were at hand to protect the border. The Mexican cavalrymen, numbering 20, attacked In open forma tion, and toward the end of the melee had been pretty well scattered. The small raining camps in that part of the county are protected by em ployes. It was not ascertained whether or not there were any casualties among the Mexicans. The original force consisted of 14 troopers, reinforced by cowboys. At 7 o'clock it was reported that no Ameri cans had been killed. The scene of the fighting is three miles from the Montana mine at Ruby, Ariz. - ELi PASO. Tex., Jan. 26. Forces of Francisco Villa have occupied El Valle, Chihuahua, abandoned by General Per shing's outposts, according to appar ently reliable information received in Army circles. Villa Establishes Headquarters. It was said Villa had established headquarters at Madera and was pre paring to occupy Casas Grandes as soon as Pershing should abandon field head quarters at Colonia Dublan. Smugglers are planning to use the. Withdrawal of the American troops from Mexico as an excuse to smuggle Quantities of goods across the border without the payment of the export duty to the Carranza government, according to a Carranza official here. The plan is to use the troop move ments to veil the Illicit exportation of cattle, hides and other goods upon which export duties are levied. Major General Pershing has no knowledge of these smuggling operations, it was said today. No duty Is levied on the prop erty of the expeditionary forces. Refugee Coming Ont. , A passenger train was expected to leave Casas Grandes tomorrow for Juarez and will bring the remaining refugees from the El Valle and Colonia Dublan districts. After the departure of this refugee train, it is expected that the American troops will begin moving north from field headquarters. JUAREZ. Mex., Jan. 26. Fifteen hundred Carranza troops have been ordered from Chihuahua City to the Western District of Chihuahua to oc cupy El Valle (San Buena Ventura and the other outposts vacated by American expeditionary forces. A general movement of American ' troops from Colonia Dublan toward the border was predicted for tomorrow or Sunday by officers of General Murguia' staff late today. FALL KILLS AUTO THIEVES Two Youths Plunge Into Ravine in Stolen Seattle Car. SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 26. Andrew Bechtel and Lee R. Erland, each about 22 years old, who, according to the police, had been repeatedly accused of stealing automobiles, were found dead in a 30-foot ravine this side of th town of Bothell. 15 miles north of Seattle. Their bodies were pinned dow by an overturned automobile, which had been stolen during the night from 1 front of a downtown hotel in Seattle. The police said that Bechtel and Er .land had been in Police Court often In the last few years. Bechtel recently "completed serving six months In jail ' for stealing a motor car. Malheur County Man Finds Clew to Ijife of Miocene or Pliocene Periods of Antiquity. BERKELEY, CaL. Jan. 26. The dis covery of a single tooth of an extinct ancestor of the horse, of a species never before known, has furnished a. clew toward solving the geological history and time relations of .Oregon, Idaho and a vast area of the Great Basin region. Announcement of the discovery Is made by . Dr. John C. Merriam, of the Uni versity of California. This ancestor of the horse has bee named by Professor Merriam Sip parlon Anthonyl. In honor of A. W. Anthony, of Malheur County, Oregon, who discovered a single lower tooth in tertiary beds southwest of Ironside, at the base of the Blue Mountains. Pro fessor Merrian and Dr. J. P. Buwalda made a journey to Oregon to investi gate this new fossil-bearing formation. From study of the remains of this extinct horse and from the evidence of teeth of a mastodon and an - extinct rhinoceros they are led to believe this newly-found fossil-bearing region is of an age between the late tnlocene period and the middle of the pliocene period. That a . single tooth of an extinct horse should prove the animal of a dis tinct species and tell the age in which it lived Is a surprise to the layman. It is due to the fact that the folds and j crinklings of the enamel between the j deposits of cement in the tooth of a horse are of much complexity. They differ to a highly marked degree as between one species and another. This has enabled science to work out the evolution of the horse from a tiny doll pony no larger than the present day fox. BRITISH TRADE INCREASED Exports as Well as Imports Show Big Growth. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. The United Kingdom Increased both Its sales and purchases abroad in 1916. A Depart ment of Commerce tabulation today puts imports for the year at J4.619.000, 000 and exports at $2,940,000,000. This shows an increase of 11.4 per cent in purchases and of SI. 6 per cent in sales abroad. Imports of food, drink and tobacco during the year were valued at $2,041, 000,000, against $1,853,000,000 In 1915; raw materials, $1,639,000,000, against $1,394,000,000, and manufactured ar ticles. $921,000,000. Exports during the year were largely of .manufactured ar ticles. DEPOT TAXI RATES FIXED Council to Pass Ordinance for Pro tection of Visitors. For the protection of tourists and other visitors to the city, an ordinance to be passed by the City Council fixing the maximum rates for taxlcab service from one depot to another. The measure has been prepared by Com missioner Daly. The maximum rate would be 25 cents for each passenger traveling In either direction between the Union and North Bank stations, and 50 cents for each passenger traveling In either direction between these depots and the Jefferson street station. No extra charge will be permitted for carrying band bag gage. . SITTING BULL'S WIFE DEAD t Small Woman Fatally Burned Sav ing Her Shawl. FARGO. N. D., Jan. 26. Small "Worn an. former wire or bitting Jtsuu. is dead at the Fort Berthold Indian Res ervation in Western North Dakota from burns sustained when fire d& Etroyed her shack at Lucky Mound. According to the report. Small Wo man escaped from her burning dwel ling uninjured but returned to rescue an old shawl which she prized highly and her clothing caught fire. She was a native Mandan, 80 years old. At the time of her death she was the wife of a United States Indian scout. MRS. AXTELL TAKES POST Belllngham Member of Compensa tion Commission in Washington. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, Jan. 26. Mrs. F. C Ax nominated by the President as a mem nominated by the President as a mem ber of the Federal employes' compen sation commission, is in Washington attending the National Security League Conference. Mrs. Axtell will remain and take up her new official duties as soon as her nomination is confirmed by the Senate. She has formally accepted the appointment. l BULGARIA ALLF0R PEACE Minister Says Nation Is Jfot Waging War of Conquest. BERLIN, Jan. 26. (By wireless to Sayville, N. T.) Dr. Wadetf. Bulgarian Minister to Switzerland. Is quoted in a Berne dispatch to the Overseas News Agency to the effect that Bulgaria ap proves absolutely President Wilson's note to the belligerents. Dr. Wadeff declared Bulgaria was not waging war of conquest, and claimed merely territories which belonged to her in accordance with the principle of nationalists. v -. . f . ' " . i Four Blocks Taken by Supple Concern. TV0 BOATS UNDER CONTRACT Land Bounded by East Oak, Ash, First Streets and River.' ORIGINAL PLAN ABANDONED Motor-Driven. Wooden Vessels of 40OO Tons Each to Be Built for New York Concern and Work to Be Commenced at Once. It became known yesterday that terms of a lease had been agreed on whereby four blocks, bounded by East Oak and East Ash streets. East First street and the river, are to be utilized for a shipyard site In connection with the construction of deep-water vessels, the first of which are to be two car riers for the Gaston, Williams, .Wig- more Steamship Corporation of New York, which were contracted for at New Tork Tuesday to be built by Jo seph Supple. Fred A. Ballln and J. B. C Lockwood, of this city. Involved In the transaction are said to be two blocks on the waterfront owned by the Standard Lumber Com pany, another In which the Ladd es tate has title and the fourth la owned by the Standard Lumber Company In terests and Page & Son, each having an. undivided half. Street Vacation Needed. To prepare the property for ship building purposes, which means the building of ways on the waterfront with shops and assembling space in the rear, temporary vacation of streets now dividing the blocks will be neces sary and It is understood that matter will be placed before the Council. In view of the fact that the same action was taken to favor the Albina Engine & Machine "WorkST a few months ago, when Its site extending back from the old Montgomery dock property was se lected. it Is regarded as certain that no difficulty will be experienced. The two ships arranged for are to be the largest wooden carriers yet con tracted for on the Coast, being of 4000 tons deadweight capacity. While of wood, considerable steel will be used in strengthening them, including all steel bulwarks. They will be motor- driven, having twin screws with each engine being of 300 horsepower. Flrat Plan Abandoned. The first plan was to occupy a block at the foot of East Madison street, which Mr. Supple holds under lease from the Spokane. Portland & Seattle Railway Company, but the four blocks concerned In the new transaction are regarded as much more desirable be cause c , .added space. The north limit (Concluded on Page 5. Column 4.) i wanta INTRODUCE j r """7 goosI lady who is J I SSSi MY LOVED BV t ISSV Pi L STATE Sleuth Employed by J. P. Morgan to Trace "Iieak" Is Fined 9100 and Pays Under Protest. NEW TORK, Jan. 25. William J. Burns, private detective," was found guilty here today of surreptitiously en tering the law offices of Seymour & Seymour, -making copies of private papers and then publishing them. Burns was employed by J. P. Morgan & Co. to trace a "leak of Information about contracts for war supples for the en tente allies from the Morgan offices. In finding Burns guilty, the Justices of the Court of Special Sessions laid down the legal principle that no pri vate detective has the right to enter a man's office or dwelling and examine his private correspondence and papers. "It would be giving a private de- tective more power than a policeman.' said Justice Collins. "The law ' puts protection around a man's home. It would be a deplorable thing If in America a private house were not safe from being entered by private detec tives. " A fine of $100 with an alternative of 80 days In Jail was Imposed on Burns, who paid the fine at once under pro test. Martin Egan. publicity manager for J. P. Morgan & Co, at whose request Burns began his Investigation, was ac quitted on a similar charge and exon erated of any attempt to publish the correspondence obtained by Burns. NOISY SESSION IS FEARED Austria Pnts Off Calling Parliament, on Bint From Army. LONDON. Jan. 26. The agitation for an early summoning of the Austrian Parliament, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Vienna by way of Amsterdam, has been unsuc cessful and It has been decided not to convene the chambers "owing to un foreseen difficulties" until May. ?he government's reluctance to sum mon Parliament, .the dispatch adds. Is due to hints from army headquarters. which fears a noisy session. MEXICAN REFORMS LOST Revenne Argument . Kills Move to Bar Lirmor and Bullfights. QCERETARO, Mexico, Jan. 26. The proposal to prohibit in the constitu tion the manufacture and sale of pulque and alcoholic beverages, and that to prohibit "bullflghts and cockfights, was defeated today by the constitutional assembly. The main argument In opposition was the loss of revenue, it being stated that pulque alone produced 84,500,000 reve nue annually. QUAKE R0CKS MONTREAL Shock Lasts -IS Seconds and Causes Alarm in Tall Buildings. MONTREAL. Jan. 26. An earth shock, which continued for 15 seconds, rocked this district today. Buildings shook throughout the city, causing considerable alarm among office tenants in the business sections where high structures stand. WHERE HAVE I SEEN THAT FACE BEFORE? REST OF STATE IS COLDER Two Men Lose Feet, Another's Hand and Ear Frozen. TRAINS IN WEST BLOCKED Union Pacific Lines in Wyoming Temporarily Opened Early in Day, but Heavy Wind Fills Cuts Wltb Drifts Again. CHICAGO, Jan. 26. (Special.) A fresh cold wave came to Chicago In the night and citizens arose with shak ing limbs and blue noses this morning to find an official temperature of 4 degrees bejow zero. In the suburbs, away from the influence of the lake, temperatures ranged from 9 to- 12 be low zero. At one point the Government thermometer registered 15 below and all Northern Illinois shows an average of 10 below. Official forecasters say there Is no warm weather In sight and point to Minnesota, where 22 below zero is the prevailing figure, and Ontario points, where 46 below Indicates no relief from that direction. Wisconsin, Iowa, Ne braska and Michigan all show below zero weather and the only hope for moderation lies in strong steady winds for many hours from the south. Wave Confined, to North. Professor Mitchell. In .charge of the weather bureau here, says the present cold wave is confined to points north of the Missouri River. West and south of that stream the temperature Is mild for this time of year. Old-timers found some consolation and food for conversation Jn recalling the weather of 20 years ago, when the thermometer showed 18. below at about this season. However, there was scant comfort in this, for two men were picked up so badly frozen today they must undergo amputation of feet and one man will also lose one hand and an ear. Numerous and persistent calls came all day to various charitable societies for fuel and food. Chicago, so far, has been able to take better care than ever before cf its poor. One reason is that there are few idle men. -There is also plenty of work for all women and girls and the ranks of dependents are appreciably thinned as a result. Lake If aa Benlsn Influence. ijake Michigan so far this year has not frozen beyond the still water of the lagoons and breakwaters and the great body of water is a moderating influence on extremes of heat and cold. Lakes Superior and Erie are ss-id to be frozen practically across, which rnvani a long siege of cold In that region. j Removal From Wells Fargo Location Will Be on Marcli 1 Legal De partment Joins Other Staff. General offices of the Southern Pa cific Company In Portland are to be removed on March 1 from the Wells Fargo building to the Teon building. at Fifth and Alder streets. They will occupy the entire seventh and eighth floors of the .Teon building, which the railway company has taken under ten-year lease. The legal department. now in the Fenton building, will also remove to the new quarters. Although the news comes from an authoritative source, the official an nouncement probably will not be made until the return to Portland of J. H. Dyer, assistant general manager, who left last night for San Francisco. In his absence other Southern Pacific offi cials declined to discuss the change. The new quarters are regarded as particularly advantageous, as the Teon building Is only 100 feet from the fino new ticket office of the Southern Pa clfic at 131 Fourth street. This office Is -to have its formal opening tonight. The departure of the Southern Pa cific Company from the Wells-Fargo building marks the final step in the divorce of Its offices from those of the O.-W. R. & N. The two railroads have occupied the greater portion of the Wells-Fargo structure since It w completed In 1907. At that time the two lines were affiliated. . Since their separation each system has maintained Its own offices, but their presence in the same building has led to confusion. It Is said. MENU SENT TO MRS. WILSON President's Wife Asked to Try 25 Cent Diet for One Day. NEW TORK. Jan. 26. A. special menu for the White House was sent to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson today by Mrs. Eula Clary, publicity manager of the policemen's diet squad here, with the request that the food selected for three meals be tried for one day. as follows BREAKFAST. Oatmeal and milk Toa&t and butter Coffee Cost 7 cuta. LUNCHEON. Salmon croquettes with peas One date Bread an- btlt-.W- -' - - Tea Cost 8 cents. DINNER. Baked split peas Stuffed green peppers Whole wheat bread and butJur 11ced oranges and bananas Tea Cost 10 cents. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDATT-Maaimiim -emperature. 46 degrees; minimum. 40 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional rain; southwesterly winds. Legislature. Kindergarten for Portland passed by Legis lature. Face 6. Cl'.y Club proposes to safeguard Initiative. Paso 6. Merger of labor, accident and child wel fare work agreed on. Pace 7. Bitter fights set for next week at Olympla. Page U. Senate kills one bill, passes Id and 30 new ones appear. Page 7. Mexico. Mexican troops In clash with American troops and cowboys on border. Page X. National. Houiee passes rivers and Tiarbora bill. Page 4. t Domestic. Oregon cattleman surprise witness for prose cution In court case, rage 31. Cold wave suddenly descends on Chicago. Page i. Tooth of Oregon prehurtorlo horse found. Page 1. Widows' pension frauds uncovered In Mon tana. Page 4. Detective Burns eonvfetftd of abstracting papers from lawyer's office. Page 1. Sports. Spokane defeats Portland at hockey. Page 13. CConnell and Vledhof to wrestle here. Page 14. I Washington High defeats Bill Military five. 48 to 4. Page 14. , Pacific Northwest. Electrification of Milwaukee In West to cost many millions. Pago 5. New'prison and complete change In system advised in survey. Page 1. Taxpayers' League meets at Salem. Page 15. West Coast Lumbermen's Association meets at Tacoma. Page 2. Commercial aad Marine. Lower wheat prices stop selling -at country points. Page IV. Increase In Canadian crops estimate breaks wheat at Chicago. Page 19. New Tork stock market in professional con trol. Page 17. Harbor Commission seeks re-enactment of charter amendments. Page IS. Portland and Vicinity. Dr. C. J. Smith tells Realty Board state grain bureau Is needed. Page IS. -4 W. II. Paulhamns says railways fall la duty to settlers. Page IS. Woman University regent ridicules Legis lative attack. Page 8. Hardware dealers want legislation against trading stamps. Page 9. Colonel Dentler returns here as senior Inspector-Instructor of loth Mllltla Division. Page 9. Interstate bridge to be opened February 15. Page 18. Supposed wife and real widow settle Kutner estate contest. Page 12. Sbrinere pitch tents In Portland today. Page 12. Twenty-one schools to adopt Gary system. Fago 13. Stephen Carver to get Llnntoa Jitney fran chlse. Page 1L George- Gulstln. Court Interpreter, dies ef paralysis. Page 18. Proposed rate on glass containers fought by fmiunen. Page 16. County Hospital site provokes near-riot. Page 8. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 19. Supple concern leases four blocks on East Side for shipyard site. Page L Seventy-two Lincoln High School graduates get diplomas. Page 5. Oregon Democrats forced out Federal Jobs today. Page 4. Forty-three graduate from Washington Hlgb School. Page 6. Southern Pacific offices will move to Teon building. Page 1. Report Declares New Penitentiary Needed. FLAT TERMS ALSO FAYORED Sale of Products on Open Mar ket Is Suggested. MORE STUDY IS ADVISED Separation '; of Management Front That of Other Institutions, Diet That Is Better Balanced and Segregation Favored. MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS OF" PIHSON SURVEY COMMIS SION. An entirely new Penitentiary building, to be built of six unite, the cost payable by six annual levies. Repeal of the ' Indeterminate- sentence law and fixed sentences for all classes of crime. Removal of the warden and pa role officers from the State Pa role Board. The prison to be under super vision of a prison board of three members, . named by . the Gov ernor. Experimentation with the Mu tual Welfare League plan as used at Sing Sing Prison. Sale of prison-made goods on the open market In competition with free labor to solve the prob lem of prison idleness. Competent steward in charge to do away with sameness of diet now afflicting the convicts with gastritis. Segregation of first offenders on a basis of the high per cent of factors contributing to their de linquency. Establishment of a new medi cal department, with laboratories for blood tests. ' '9 Extension of penal farm work to make the Institution nearer self-supporting. ' Re-establishment of common school work under control of State Superintendent or Superin tendent of Marlon County schools. Use of one-man-to-the-cell sys tem for vice, with sterilization for the feeble-minded and cas tration for the Incorrigible. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 36. (Special.) Approximately 30 major recommenda tions, covering the criminal problem in all of its leading phases, were mad a In the report of the Penitentiary Sur vey Board, tiled with the State Board of Control today. The report offers suggestions which. If carried out. would result In practically revamping the en tire present system of dealing wltb crime and criminals. Members of the Penitentiary Survey Commission signing the report are V. W. Mulkey. chairman. Portland: E. E. Brodie. Oregon City, and L. J. "Wont worth. Portland. New Prison Recommended. The substance of the committee's recommendations la as follows: That plans and specifications for a new prison of reinforced concrete, fire proof construction be prepared; that It be built by prison labor; that It have the outside cell system; that It be built by units within six years and that it be financed by six annual tax levies. That cells be provided for all but trusties; that there be only one man to the cell and that trusties have dor mitory sleeping accommodations. Cell for Each Man Advised. That the first unit of the proposed new- prison include a cell house of 100 cells, to be used for lncorrlgiules and In addition thereto give each prisoner, by the use of the present penitentiary and the new cell house, a separate cell. A separate board for the manage ment of the penitentiary is recom mended. This board is to consist of three members to be arnbinted by the Governor for six-year terms and shall have full control of the penitentiary. Indeterminate Term Opposed It Is recommended that the present Indeterminate sentence law be repealed; that when a penitentiary sentence be Imposed it be a fixed one and that it be the maximum sentence now exist ing for each crime; that if the maxi mum is too high In some cases it ba reduced; that the parole board have power to recommend a parole in all cases, irrespective of former prison records, at any time after a prisoner has actually begun to serve his sen tence; that opinions of Judges and pros ecuting attorneys and a good prison record be not the sole test upon which, to recommend a parole Pardon Amendment Asked.' An amendment to the state constitu tion is suggested that shall separate the pardoning power of the Governor from the parole system and that the parole system bo constitutionally rec ognized. It Is recommended that the "parol (Concluded on Page 9. Column L - ,