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VOL,. L.VI. NO. 17,531. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 4 CHILDREN SLAIN; FATHER ARRESTED HIGH ROUMANIANS DIE IN TRAIN WRECK ALL OREGON TROOPS ARE ORDERED HOME TWO RULERS ARE OF LIKE OPINION BONE DRY BILL IS COMING UP TODAY F. JENNING BADLY INJURED BY AUTO FOR RUNAWAY GIRL LOCOMOTIVE JUMPS TRACK AND CARS CATCH FIRE. KAISER AST AUSTRIAN EMPER OR BliAME ENEMIES FOR WAR. FURNITURE MAX IS CRUSHED WHEN HIS CAR UPSETS. HIGH BIRTH GLA MED y Brutal Crime Revealed at Auburn, Wash. BODIES FOUND IN BURNED BEDS Life Insurance Policies Taken Out on Quartet. LYNCHING IS THREATENED Prisoner Is Removed to Seattle. Bloody Hammer and Signs of Kerosene and Chloroform v Dl score red In Room. TACOMA. Wash., Jan. 28. (Special.) Four small children were brutally murdered at Auburn early today as they lay in their beds. The room and beds had been saturated with kero sene and then tlie house set on fire. Their father, S. A. Hewett, a North ern Pacific brakeman in the railroad yards at Auburn, was placed under ar rest by the King County Sheriff and taken to Seattle following the gather-1 ing of a crowd of nearly 1000 persons, among whom there was considerable talk of lynching. Father Gives Alarm. Hewett's story is that the four chll dren retired as usual to their beds last night, but during the night one was taken 111. He went to attend the little one, taking a kerosene lamp, which he left burning on a chair between their two beds. Being restless, he said he took a walk, returned later and fell Intn o alaor. v-m n,t,l.1. 1 awakened by flames crackling all about him. Unable to reach the children, he said he rushed to a neighbor's to give a fire alarm and then returned, and ",lu a S""" aoae lr,ea 10 Quencn tne Kxaminatlon of the children's charred I bodies the Coroner said, revealed the ...... uCC cruaueu in. while tha .mattresses on which they I wcro "lureira Willi uiooa. . I Blood-stained Hammer Fooad. Behind a little trundle bed on which lept the only girl of the four. Myrtle, aged 5, was found a blood-stained ham mer, and in the room an empty bottle ! labeled chloroform. Under the bed In which the three I boys lay was found a blood-stained pil- I low slip. agerioTXrVurLrand SSSE aged E, were found in one big bed. This morning the father handed to a neigruuur, c ra.nn jxlciu vray, an en velope containing the insurance poli cies which It is said he had taken out recently for his children and which had been saved from the lire. The insurance policies on the lives of the four children were issued April S. last year. Mrs. Hewett. the mother, left the family borne last Monday and was in Everett. By some unknown means she learned of the tragedy this morning. When Mrs. Hewett left home last Monday she took with her the youngest child of the family, 3 years old. Domestic Trouble Reported. Domestic trouble is believed to have been the cause of the separation. Mrs. Hewett is 28 years old, and Mr. Hewett is said to be about 40. Further circumstantial evidence un covered by the King County officials this afternoon shows that Alice Gove, a T-year-old- neighbor girl, -went to visit Myrtle Hewett last night, and while there remarked, "I smell coal oil." "Oh, yes. Myrtle la said to have re plied, according to the Gove girl, father poured kerosene all over the floor and the walls and the beds today. VICTIM'S MOTHER PROSTRATED Mrs. Hewett Charges Hnsband Drove Her From Home. , EVERETT, Wash.. Jan. 28. Mrs. S. A. Hewett. almost prostrated by the news of the death of her four children. Is here at the home of Mrs. Alice V. Mlnnick. Since leaving Auburn, a week ago, Mrs. Hewett, who Is very frail, has been employed as a domestic and has been staying at nights at Mrs. Minnick's home. . Mrs. Hewett said that she had been brutally treated by her husband and that he finally told her to get out of their home. He consented, she said, to her taking with her their youngest .child, which Is three years old and which Is here with her. She expects to go to Auburn to morrow. LAMBS CAN GET NO FEED Scarcity of Nourishment May Send Yearlings to $8 or $9 a Head. STOCKTON. Cal.. Jan. 28. (Special.) Owing to the lateness of green feed. half of the season's Increase of lambs In the Coast Range mountains will be lost, according to sheep men. The ewes are unable to get nourishment and there Is not enough mill for the lambs. Last year Iambs sold from 84. SO to 85 and already this year con tracts have been made at S6 a head. It is believed that the prices will go higher. Mutton yearlings sold at 88 and it a head, More Than 100 Prominent Men Are Among Victims Senate Is Trans ferred Prom Jassy to Kherson. BERLIN, Jan. 27. via Sayvllle, N. T Jan. 28. More than 100 Roumanians of high rank lost their lives in a train wreck near the Roumanian station of Tshura, according to & dispatch said by the Overseas Neva Agency to have been printed In the Russkl Slovo. The locomotive of a train carrying the Rou manians to Russia Jumped the track and the cars tooic fire. It is reported from the same source that 45.000 Roumanian refugees have already settled in the Russian province of Poltava and that a large number of others continue to arrive. Among the prominent Roumanians said to have ar rived in Russia are G. Cantacuzene, Minister of Justice; M. Constantinesco. Minister of the Interior, and Take Jonescu. minister without portfolio.. The Roumanian Senate and the Rou manian National Bank are reported to have been transferred from Jassy to Kherson. MILWAUKEE NOT GIVEN UP San Diego Man Says He'll Cruiser Up for $350,000. Get Another effort is to be made to salvage the United States cruiser Mil waukee, ashore near the mouth of Eureka harbor, according to advices received from San Francisco. The Navy Department, the advices declare, through Mare Island officials. has asked for bids for salvaging the ves sel "as a whole.' The activity is said to be the result of an offer made by John T. Flynn, of San Diego, who represented he could salve the cruiser at a cost of $350,000. His plan was to dump rock-laden barges to seaward In order to stop the breakers and then remove me vessel by means of a cofferdam. OLD FLAGS IN PORTLAND First Regiment Colors Are Returned to General Beebe. sAT.vu rv .Tan rsnci&l -Old f, of tne First ReKment, Infantry, , ,, , -..iri .1 s,.m L Portand anQ today Secretary Olcott ,.ecf lvpd notification' of, their receipt , :J o1 rhIr1 N Tr,' nresw j. , latl form from ucui. J 1. m. that regiment. The flags sent include one American silk flag and one blue silk flag, regi mental standard, comprising the colors formerly used by the regiment. They were transferred by authority of a res- olution recently adopted by the Legis lature. KING'S TRAIN IMPERILED Attempt Made to Cause Death of Alfonso in Spain. MADRID, Jan. 28. An attempt was made today to wreck a train on which King Alfonso was a passenger. The royal train was preceded by a freight train, the engineer of which saw an obstacle on the track and removed it. Neither the royal train nor the freight suffered any damage. The spot chosen, near Granada. An dalusla. was a particularly favorable one. as the road here begins to run down grade. The police have arrested two men, on one of whom was found code letters from Barcelona. MEXICANS' REFUGE CLOSED Guatemala to' Permit Extradition of Plotters Against Carranza. SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Jan. 28. Guate mala has declared her Intention of strictly enforcing the neutrality laws. and as the first act toward this end President Estrada Cabrera ordered the arrest of General Luis Medina Barron. said to be one of the leading Generals supporting Felix Dlaa In operations against the de facto government of Mexico, according to information here. President Cabrera also declared his Intention of permitting the extradition of all former followers of Huerta now living In Guatemala. GREEN AND ORANGE BLEND Botfi Colors Seen at Reception Canadian Rangers. to ARMAGH. Ireland. Jan. 28. The Orange and the Green united here to day in welcoming the Duchess of Con naught's Own Canadian rangers, green and yellow favors, respectively the emblems of the Catholics and Orange men, being blended perhaps for the first time since the battle of the Boyne. The visiting soldiers attended in par ties, respectively, the Catholic cathe dral and the Protestant cathedral. MUNICH BARS BLOOMERS Military Forbids Women to Wear Men's Clothes Unnecessarily. MTJNICH. Bavaria, via London. Jan. IS. Munich's military authorities, the old-time enemies of too startling dress for women, have again stepped to the fore , and forbidden the "unnecessary wearing of men's clothing by women." This Is necessary because visitors at the resorts, and especially women not taking part in the Winter sports, had adopted bloomer and similar costumes, "even wearing them In church. News Telegraphed by Senator Chamberlain. EARLY START IS PREDICTED Major Wilson Expects Return by February 15. W0 UNITS AT CALEXICO Friends of Soldiers Asked to Give First Thought to Their Health and Not Risk Their Lives by Making Social Demands. All Oregon troops on the border ordered home." This telegram received yesterday afternoon from Senator George IS. Chamberlain, by Major W. W. Wilson, acting -Adjutant-General, is tha first announcement that has been made of the decision of the government to re call from the Mexican border the last of the Oregon contingent which was called out seven months ago. and which has been in continual service ever since. 'It is probable that we know here in Portland that the troops are com ing home before they kaow It them selves, for today being Sunday, the order -will not reach General Funston In all probability until Monday," said Major Wilson yesterday. Karly start Predicted. 'I do not know exactly when the troops will start for home, and have received nothing further than the telegram announcing that they have been ordered from the border. Cap tain White Informed me that Troop A. was ready to move on 24 hours notice. All will get started home probably before the end of the week and It Is safe to predict that they will be in Portland before the middle of February, possibly much sooner." There are at present on the border the troops in Battery A. and the cavalry of Troop A. In the battery there about 165 men and in .the troop about 104, according to Major Wilson. They are stationed at Calexico. The order that called them out was made on June 18 last, and they started for the border June 28, seven months ago yesterday. 4 Horses Will Be Returned. Returning to Oregon they will bring back with them 32 head of horses in the battery and an equal number in the troop, which will be turned over to the state for use in further mili tary drill in the future. They will bring back with them also, all equip ment that they have with them on the border. In view of the approaching return of the Oregon soldiers. Major Wilson (Concluded on Patje T, Column 2.) NO MEDITERRANEAN SUNSET f Msf?Y, you 4y Csu&e l THE&E VOol SLECY MY --lcic'0iri R,A6tnoitiB CLTHS BUT YA WJ VA DE-SI SAM?ock fS CANY GlY AfTo X-'TOsrA IVCR ,T SGKEEH buy noCHfESzA f OT) e; , , Compliments Exchanged and Confi dence Expressed That Central Powers Will Win Victory. . LONDON, Jan. 28 "Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary arrived Friday at German main headquarters to congrat ulate the German Emperor on the oc casion of his birthday. At the luncheon, which the German Empress, Prince Henry of Prussia and his son. Prince Waldemar, attended, the Austrian Emperor, in proposing tha health of the German Emperor, ac cording to a Reuter dispatch from Vienna, said: "I 'have made a point of appearing here today In order to convey to Tour Majesty, my dear friend and true ally, my warmest congratulations. For the third time Tour Majesty 'a celebrating his birthday in the war which our enemies forced upon us and for whose continuance they alone are responsi ble by rejecting our sincere offer of peace. "I epitomize my wishes in the call for long life to the German Emperor, King of Prussia." The German Emperor, replying, said: "I' express my warmest thanks to Tour Majesty as a true friend and ally for your visit and congratulations. Tour Majesty's presence here today Is a new and sublime proof to me that In Joy and sorrow. In dark hours as well as on sunny days. Your Majesty, aa well as your army and your people, feel themselves at one with me and my army and people in their un shakable purpose to bring the present war, with the help of the Almighty, to a happy and joyful conclusion for our peoples. "The refusal of our offer of peace will recoil on those who roughly re jected our slncero act of conciliation. I sum up my thanks by calling: . " 'Long live the Emperor Charles.' SNOW BLOCKADE IS ENDED Union Pacific Trains Again Begin Moving in Wyoming. LARAMIE. Wyo., Jan. 28 Union Pa cific Railroad officials announced to night the worst enow blockade in the history of the road was ended. At 6 o'clock it was announced that one track near between Rock River and Hanna had been cleared and the move ment of trains had begun. More "than 20 trains, some of which left Chicago Tuesday, were held at Hanna and here. E. E. Calvin, president of the road, joined other prominent officials here today and engaged in the effort to re. lieve the situation. HATIEN EX-PRESIDENT DIES General Davilmar Theodore Victim of Complication of Maladies. NEW YORK. Jan. 28. News of the death of General Davilmar Theodore, once President of Haiti, was contained In private letters from Haiti, received here today. It was said that his death occurred In Port au Prince on January 13 from a complication of diseases. General Theodore overthrew the gov ernment of General Oreste Zamor In 1914, and was in turn forced to abdt cate the Presidency in November, 1915 He fled from Haiti, but returned afte American interYentlon. HAS ANYTHING ON THIS TEAR'S AUTOMOBILE SHOW FOR COLOR. Measure Special Order in Lower House. Dili... n a 1 V" a f m llfi U U I u 1 rAooAbt lo LIRtLT Senate Expected to Approve . .. I All Main rT0VI5IU'lS. QJHER LEGISLATION PENDS Rural Credits. Sterilization and State. Aid to Sectarian Institu tions Due for Action Snag Struck in Merger Schedule. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or.. Jan. 28. (Special.) The fourth week and sec ond half of this session of the Oregon Legislature begins tomorrow morning. Most of the Important legislation Is yet to be considered. The coming week probably will see final disposition of at least one of the big problems before this Leglsla ture. that of prohibition. The Ander son-Eddy bone-dry bill Is a special order of business on the House calen dar for 10:30 tomorrow morning. It will undoubtedly pass the House In short order, and will then be sent Immediately to the Senate. As this as already been considered measure h by the Joint House and Senate com mittee. It will go on the Senate calen dar in all probability, without the for mality of again referring It to the com mittee. Thus here Is every likelihood that by Thursday or Friday, at tha latest; It will be before the Senate on final pas sage. No senator so lar tms session i. . , , , J , 1 .I T" T..v . ...... ,t Is safe to predict that It will speedily be passed by that body. The chancea are It will not have a dssentlng vote. Few Wet Dr Left. - As it carries an emergencvelause. which will make It effective as soon aa signed by the Governor, the end of this week or the first of next week will probably find It the law of Oregon. There Is no serious opposition In the House to the emergency clause. Two or three members are basing their ob- jectlons on that ground, but have been tterly unable to get any others to sup- port them In their contentions. Speaker Stanf ield and leaders on the floor of the House have favored the emergency clause from the stc.rt. Gov- ernor Withy comb also has Insisted on It. and has openly denounced the whisky lobbyists who have opposed it. It is apparent that if the emergency clause la not retained, the whisky In terests will Invoke the referendum. This either would hold up the bill for two years or force a special election at a cost of $30,000 to 850,000. Copies of the amended bill have beets (Concluded on Pas 6, Column 1.) - ! -v IEyV Condition Is Considered Precarious. W. II. Pierce Sustains Bruises and Sprained Ankle. Fred Jennlng, president of the Port land Furniture Manufacturing Com- J . " o - ii...tj ngu. w, n I I .... . J ir IT p,erc of the San Marco Apartments- was nurt also oy me overturning vi Mr. Jenntngs automobile at East Twelfth and Holladay avenue at 9:13 'clock last nlht- iiiBtaiiM s&iuura woiie . . Jen nlng was making the tum from East Twelfth street into the avenue, and turned bottom sloe up. after ploughing up the turf for 10 feet into the park. Mr. Jennlng waa caught under the steering wheel, and his chest was crushed. He also sustained a hem orrhage from the chest Into the abdo men. Mr. Pierce was thrown clear of the machine, and landed on the sod. His ankle was sprained, and he is bruised severely. L. O. Lakln. 411 East Twenty-second street North; L. H. Peters. 292 East Fifteenth street, and Henry Myers, of the Flnley Undertaking Company, lift ed the automobile from Mr. Jennlng, and took him to his home at 521 East Hoyt street. Patrolmen Tully and Er- vln called the Ambulance Service Com pany and sent him to the Good Samari tan Hospital. He was attended by Dr. H. F. Ong, who pronounced his condl- i tlon precarious. Mr. Pierce was taken home, where Dr. J. F. Wood attended him. Mr. Jennlng was on his way home when the accident occurred. RADIO COVERS WIDE SPAN San D,eS Talks Wlth Melbourne, Arlington, Nome and Darlen. SAN DIEGO. Cal-, Jan. 28. The new naval radio station at Chollas Heights. which was formally opened Friday, gave a demonstration- of Its power to day when the operators on duty talked wlih Arlington, Va.. station, Darlcn. Panama, Nome. Alaska, and Honolulu. and overheard French operators at work on th laland of Papeete, in the South Pacific. They concluded by exchanging the time of day with operators at a radio station near Melbourne, Australia. GERMAN SUBMARINE LOST Crew Landed at Hammerfest and Will Be Liberated. LONDON. Jan. 28. The crew of 34 of a German submarine which foun dared off the Norwegian coast was I landed yesterday near Hammerfest, I Norway, by a Norwegian motorboat, ac cording to the announcement of the I Norwegian minister of marine, trans- I mltted by the Reuter correspondent at Chrlstlania. As the Germans were transported on a neutral boat they will be liberated. IrJUhA Or 1 UUAY o NEWS The Meather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 38 aejrffi ; minirarm, us agreea. TODAY'S Occasional snow; southwest 1 winds. Lefttalattxre. Bone dry bill special order of Duslneas for today. Pace 1. Law proposed for divorce of tax levyinr sad pending: do a lea. rag a. Governor W Ithycomba dislikes plan to merge War. British auxllliarr cruiser Laurentlc. 14.892 tons. sunk. Pass 4. Russians break German front In Moldavia. Pate 4. Belgian Minister says Germans themselves created necessity for deporting people. Fag 4. Foreign. More than 10O Roumanians of high rank killed In train wreck. Page X. Mexico. Mexicans in riot over American order re quiring them to bathe on entering coun try. Page 3. Villa may try to occupy territory abandoned by Pershing. Page S. National. Congress strikes snag over legislation. Pago 2. Iometle. Wholesale conspiracy between labor leaders and manufacturers In Chicago charged. Page 2. Roosevelt denounces Wilson for proposing peace without victory. Page T. Bports. Five Interscholastlc basketball games sched uled for week. Page 1Z. Del Baker satisfied with Coast League berth. Page 12. Hockey scoring record sure to be broken. Page 13. Boxing bouts are added attraction to Fri days wrestling matcn. nia u. Amateur lco hockey teams to play tonight. Pago 12. Marine. Capto gets away with big cargo for Bom bay. Page 13. , Pacific Northwest. Dry to finance Mayor GUI's defense. Page 6. Four children murdered at Auburn. Wash., and rattier is neia. rage i. Fraternity members at O. A. C not behind In class wora. rtn a. Portland and Vicinity. Sunshine, snow and rain chase each other around. Page a. Rev. W. G. K Mot. Jr.. dlacusses President's peace message. Page 10. Figures show heavier demands on Public Welfare Bureau In November. Page 10. Women's Union to- lar cornerstone of work ing girls' borne today. Page lo. All Oregon troops are ordered borne. Page 1- Amy Mlttlag. found hiding in barrel, said to be of noble lineage. Page 1. Visitor In Portland says Canal Zone Is pleas ant place. page v. Weatber report, data and forecast. Page IS. Smartly drerwed girls to Page S. Fred Jennlng badly hurt when auto over turns. Page 1. Madras-Culver county seat row Is up to Leglmlature. Page 0. Sunday auto show provwa successful. Page 5. Symphony orchestra concert Is musical' de light- Pag a. Fifty initiated Into Knights of Columbus lodge. Pag T. Amy Mitting, 13, Found in Barrel, With Dog. CHURCH CELLAR IS REFUGE Mother Says She Is Rightful Duchess of Buckingham. STORY WILDLY ROMANTIC Morganatic Wedding to Australian Youth Brings Down Wrath of Russian House Trail of Evil Not Vet Ended. For a day and two nights, little Amy Mitting. 13 years old, said to be tha daughter of English and Russian royal houses by a morganatlo marriage, crouched in Riding in the basement of Trinity Episcopal Church at North Nineteenth and Everett streets. She waa utterly without food, her bedcham ber was a barrel, and her only friend and companion was her spaniel dog. "Curly." since early Saturday when ah waa re- coverea at dawn yesterday by H. D. Neely, Janitor of Trinity Chi.rch, aa ha entered the basement. He peered in the barrel and saw the sleeping girl, her dark hair loosened and tangled about her face. "Excuse Me," She Begs. Oh. excuse me, mister." she begged as she awoke, "for I haven't any home." There were sundry scratchlngs and growls from another barrel, which Mr. Neely overturned. Forth bounded a shaggy black dog, and sprang affec tionately at his small mistress. "That's my dog. Curly." said the child. Yet the little girl who hid In the barrel Is a daughter of the Duchess of Buckingham, of England, who also Is the Princess KovalaskL. of Russia, ac cording to Amy's mother. Mrs. John Mitting. of 53 North Eighteenth street, who asserts that her marriage with Mitting Is a morganatic one and has left a trail of tragedy. In her petti coat, sewed up. is 360.000 in" European securities, good after the war is over. Mrs. Mitting says, aa a reminder that her reference to European prestige is I genuine. Mra. Baldwin Hears Story. "When Amy and her dog- were found. Mr. Neely took them to Trinity pariah- house, where he awakened his wife. who washed the grime from Amy's tar-trced face, and cooked breakfVst. ir8t food thc child hlwl eten 8lnc Friday evening, wnen sne stole away from home. At the direction of Acting-Captain Harvey Thatcher, the girl waa taken directly to the ofllces of the Women's Protective Division, though her own home is but a block from the sanctuary she found In Trinity Church basement. She was met by Mrs. Lola G. Baldwin and Miss Martha Randall, and told them the story of her escapade a stooped and frightened Cinderella, with wet eyes. 'Oh. I didn't dare go home," she ex plained, "for I knew they would give me a good licking. They always do when I stay out longer than five or 10 minutes. I must not go on the street, my mother says, and I must not mix with other girls." "Please don't send me back to them," the child pleaded. "Send me anywhere else. I'd sooner go to a home for chil dren. Can't you send me there?" Father Gives Consent, Meantime the father, John Mitting, who is an employe of the Jones Lumber Company, and an Australian, came to the police station. . Mrs. Baldwin told him of his daughter's objection to re turning, and suggested that the child be placed in a home. "That's all right, I guess," agreed Mitting. "Yes. I guess that'd be best Some place where they can keep her shut up and look after her. She's a good little girl, but she's given us a lot of trouble. Send hen to a home." The story that Amy Mitting told to Mrs. Baldwin and Miss Randall, ad mitting that the greater part of it had been related to her by her mother, bad already been told in the offices of the women's protective division by Mitting and his wife. Mitting speaks with the accept of England. He is slight and fair, and 38 years old. His wife talks in a half dozen tongues at once, volubly, rapid- flringly, with a smattering of English that serves to carry her story. She ges ticulates dramatically, and says she is of English, French and Russian blood. all royal-blue. ho is dark and plump. and SO years or more of age. Morganatic Marriage Related. This. then. Is the story of John Mit ting and his morganatic marriage, as brought forth when Amy Mitting was missed, and to which both husband and wife testify with vehemence: In young womanhood. Mrs. Mitting went to Australia- She was the right ful Duchess of Buckingham and Prin cess Kovalaski, of Russia, as well. Also the aristocratic blood of France com pleted her patent to high girth. She met John Mitting. an Australian youth, not then 15 years of age. They were wedded, despite this disparity, and (Concluded on Page 10. Column 1.)