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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDXESPAY, OCTOBER 3, 1017. EVERY LEADER IN RUSSIA SUSPECTED Populace Gene Mad and Kai ser's Agents Work in Open Without Being Molested. MEN FREED TURN TYRANTS Mrs. Rhota Cliilde Dorr Gives First liand Information of Danger That Entente Nations Face From Vntrustworthy Ally. Continued From TMrt Page.1 armies. Why should we conceal the fact? The German people know that their armies are reaping the harvest fields in the rich black earth of south ern Russia. Why shouldn't our people know it? They will have to know it a little later when famine begins to grip Petrograd. The Germans know that the murdering of officers and the massacre of loyal soldiers is still go In k on. We ought to know it, too. There are several reasons why the whole truth has not yet been written about the Russian revolution. It can not be written or cabled from Russia. It cannot be carried out in the form of be discovered by the average person notes or photographs. It cannot even who goes to Russia, because the aver age visitor lives at the expensive Hotel d'Europe, never goes out except in a drosky, and meets only Russians of social position to whom he has letters of Introduction, and who naturally try to give him the impression that the troubled state of affairs is merely tem porary. The visitor usually knows no Rus sian and cannot read the newspapers. There are two good Krench newspa pers published in Petrograd, but the average American traveler is as igno rant of French as of Russian. Even If he could read all the daily papers, i however, he would not get very much information.. The press censorship is as rigid and as tyrannical today as In the heyday of the autocracy, only a different kind of news is suppressed. Railroad Are Demoralized. One of the modest demands put forth by the Tavarishi (comrades) when I was in Petrograd was for a requisition of all the white print paper in the market, the paper to be distributed equally among all newspa pers, large and small. The object, candidly stated, was to diminish the size and the circulation of the "bour geois" papers. A great deal of news, as we regard news, never gets into the papers at all, r is compressed into very small space. For example there have been a number of terrible railroad accidents on the Iiussian roads lately. Most of these you never hear of unless some one you know happens to be killed or injured. Sometimes a bare announcement of a great fatality is permitted. Thus an express train between Moscow and . Petrograd was recently wrecked, 40 persons being killed and more than 70 Injured. This wreck got a whole para graph in the newspapers, with no list of the dead and injured and no ex planation of the cause. The fact is that the railroads are in a condition of com plete demoralization and the only won der is that more wrecks do not occur. An acquaintance or mine in Moscow, the wife of a Colonel in the British army, was anxious to go to Petrograd to meet her husband, who was expected there on his way from the front. My friend's father, who is the managing head of a large Moscow business con cern, tried to prevail on her to wait for her husband to reach her there, but she was anxious to see him at the earliest moment and insisted on her tickets be ing purchased. The day after she was to have gone her father called on me and told me of his intense relief at re ceiving, an hour before train time, a telegram from the Colonel saying that he would be in Moscow the next morn ing. Traveler In Grave Danger. "And what do you think happened to that train my daughter was to have taken?" he asked. It was the regular night express to Petrograd. correspond ing somewhat to the Congressional Limited between Xew York and Wash ington. A few miles out of Moscow a differ ence arose between the engineer and the stoker, and in order to settle it they stopped the train and had a fight. One of the men hit the other on the head with a monkey wrench, injuring him pretty- badly.' Authority of some kind stepped in and arrested the as sailant. The engine cab was blood stained, and the authority unhitched the engine and sent it back to Moscow as evidence. The train all this time, with its hundreds of passengers, stood on the tracks waiting for a new engine and crew, and if it was not run into and wrecked It was because it was lucky. About the middle of August an Amer ican correspondent traveled on that same express train from Petrograd to Moscow. The night was warm, and as the Russian occupants of his carriage had the usual constitutional objection to raised windows, he insisted on leav ing the door of the compartment open. In the middle of the night a band of soldiers boarded the train and went into every one of the unlocked com partments, five in all. neatly and silent ly looting them of all bags and suit cases. The American correspondent lost everything ho possessed extra clothes, money, passport, papers. There was a Russian staff officer in that com partment and he lost even the clothes he traveled in. and was obliged to de scend in his pajamas. The conductor of the train admitted that he saw the robbery committed, that he raised no hand to prevent it, or even pressed the signal which would have stopped the train. ' "They would have killed me." he pleaded in extenuation. "Besides, it happens almost every night on a small or large scale." Facta Hard to Uet. There is only one way of getting at the facts of the Russian situation, and that is by living as the Russians do, associating with Russians, hearing their stories day by day of the tragedy of what has been called the bloodless revolution. This I did, as nearly as it was possible, from the end of May un til August 30 In Petrograd, Moscow and behind one of the fighting fronts. In Petrograd I lived in the Hotel Mllitaire, formerly the Astoria, the headquarters of Russian officers and of the numerous English, French and Roumanian officers on missions in Rus sia. This was the hotel where the bitterest lighting took place during the revolutionary days of February, 1917. The outside of the building is literally riddled with bullets, every window has had to be replaced, and the work of renovating the interior was still going on when I left. Under the window In my bedroom was a pool of dried blood as big as a saucer, and the carpet was stained with drops leading from the window to the stationary washbowl in the alcove dressing-room. Over the bed were two bullet holes. Since the revolution the Hotel Mlli taire has been a garrison, soldiers sleeping In several rooms on the ground floor and two sentimela standing day and night at the door and at the gate way leading into the service court- I do not know why. when I asked for a room, the manager gave it to me. Fine Quarter Obtained. Two other women writers had rooms there, but one was in a party which included American officers, and the other was introduced by an English officer attached to the British embassy. However, I took the room and was grateful, because whatever happened In Petrograd was quickly known In the hotel. Also it faced the square on which was located the Marie Palace, where the provisional government held many of its meetings, and where sev eral important congresses were held. Whenever the Bolshevikis broke loose this" square always saw some lighting. It was an excellent place for a corre spondent to live. I spent much of my time In the streets, listening, with the aid of an Interpreter, a young university girl, to the speeches which were continually being made up and down the Nevski Prospect, the Liteinaya and other prin cipal streets. I talked, through my in terpreter, with people who sat beside me on park benches, in trams, railroad trains and other public places. I met all the Russians I could, people of every walk of life, of every political faith. I spent days in factories. I talked with workers and with employ ers. I even met and talked with ad herents of the old regime. Free Romanon Interviewed. I talked for nearly an hour with the last Romanoff left in freedom, the Grand Duchess- Serge, sister of the ex-Empress, widow of the Emperor's uncle. I have gone, late at night, to a palace on the Grand Morskaia, where in strictest retirement lives the woman who has been charged with being the closest friend and ally of Rasputin, the one who, at his orders, Is said to have administered poison to the young Czarevitch. She told me some very in teresting things about Rasputin and the wealthy young Prince who shot him. The young Prince also told me some interesting things. I have traveled In a troop train two days and nights with a regiment of fighting women- "the Battalion of Death" and I lived with them in their barrack behind the fighting lines for nine days. I stayed with them until they -went into action, and I saw them afterward in the hospitals and heard their own stories of the battle into which they lhd thousands of reluctant men. I have talked with many soldiers and officers. Russia is sick. She is gorged on something she has never known before freedom; she is sick almost to die with excesses, and the leadership which would bring the panacea Is violently thrown aside because suspicion of any authority has bred the worst kind of license. Russia is insane; she is not even morally responsible for what she Is doing. Will she recover? Tes. But, God! what pain must she bear before she gets real freedom! MEXICANS ASK EXEMPTION Foreigners Object to Service in Vnitcel States Army. WASHINGTON. Oct. 2. The Mexican Ambassador, Ignacio Bonillas, has made formal representations to the State Department against the drafting of Mexicans Into the National Army, par ticularly from the border states. EL. PASO, Tex.. Oct. 2. Twenty Mex ican citiezns drafted and certified by the local board here have been ex empted from military service. M. G. Seguin, Mexican Consul-General, said today. He said he had no difficulty in obtaining the release of his nationals as soon as their citizenship was established. ATIMEFORSTRONG NERVES Many people are worrying them selves sick over the high cost of living. War time with its excitement and hysteria is a trial to the strongest nerves. To those whose nervous sys tems are run down by overwork or worry, to those who are on the vera of neurasthenia, it is a time of danjrer. There is no tonic for the nerves that is not a tonic for every other part of the body. There is no form of debility that does not rob the nerves of nour ishment. The remedy therefore for nervous breakdown is a tonic that will build up the general health, revitalize the blood and enable it to carry to the fKves the elements that they need. Dr Williams' Pink Pills are an ideal ionic for this condition because they are non-alcoholic and neurasthenic patients should avoid alcoholic stimu lants. Thj Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.. :-';henectady, N. Y., has published a llttlq book on nervous disorders that contains a chapter on neurasthenia in which the symptoms are fully described and the correct treatment given. The booklet Is free on request. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by your own druggist'or will be sent by mall, postpaid, on receipt of price, BO cents per box. six boxes for (3.(0. GOVERNOR TO GO TO WAR Nebraska Executive Will Resign to Enter Military Service. LINCOLN. Neb., Oct. 2. Governor Keith Neville, of Nebraska, has been appointed as Colonel of the new Sev enth Regiment, Nebraska National Guard Reserves, and has stated that he will resign as Governor as soon as the regiment is called for service. Governor Neville, who Is 33 years old and the youngest Governor in the United States, had- six years at St: Johns Military School at Annapolis and served as a captain In the school regiment. He is known as one of the best shots in Nebraska. EYEGLASS REPAIRS AND EXPERT OPTICAL WORK SECOND FLOOR NEW VICTOR RECORDS FOR OCTOBER ON SALE ON THE MEZZANINE FLOOR I A Great Sale of SHEETS and PILLOW CASES Attention, Housewives, Hotel and Boarding House Keepers More than 15.000 sheets in this great sale, and it's by the best of good fortune that we can offer them to you at such low prices! About a year ago one of- the biggest manufacturers of sheets in the country took our order for ten cases of sheets, with our name on the label. Through some mistake they doubled the order, and we took the entire lot at a great concession in price. That's why we can offer these sheets at such low prices, and if you're wise you'll take advantage of this sale. There's no limit to the number of sheets sold, so hotels and boarding-houses can supply needs, and housewives should buy liberally. THESE ARE PRICED LOWER THAN TODAY'S WHOLESALE COST ! All Sizes Given Are Actual Sizes Before Hemming t I SHEETS at Wonderful I i Full Bleached Sheets Good sheets made with neat, hemmed a ends. Seamless. I 72xS0 inch, 79c " 81xS0 inch, 89c J Seamless 0 Sheets, 98c I A special price for an extra heavy seam less sheet, size 1x99 C Inches. COLONIAL SHEETS These are absolutely the best sheets on the market today at anywhere near the price! Of fine yarns, entirely free from dressing. A sheet for the critical house keeper. 72x90 inches, $1.15 81x90 inches, $1.25 81x99 inches, $1.35 ECONOMY SHEETS Made from extra fine sheeting, without dressing. Seamless. 72x90 inches, $1.00 81xS0 inches, $1.10 81x99 inches, $1.20 Savings Full Width Sheets - Made expressly for Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Good, heavy quality. Seamless. 81x90 inch, $1.05 81x99 inch, $1.15 Second Floor, Lipman, Wolfe &. Co. PILLOW. CASES, Too Pillow Cases 25c Made from extra fine quality muslin, neatly hemmed. A wonderful quality at this price. Size 45x36 Inches. Fruit of the Loom Pillow Cases 21c and 23c Every housekeeper will appreciate this Item. Nothing better made than Fruit of the Loom for real wear. Size 42x36 inches, 21c Size 45x36 inches, 23c Pillow Cases 28c Made from tubing, as suring perfectly smooth laundering. Excellent qual ity, free from dressing. 45x36 inches. FULL SIZE SATIN BED SPREADS, $4.75 Real wonders for $4.75! There's a wide range of beautiful patterns to choose from, too. Second Floor Lipman. Wolfe & Co. A Temonstrator of MINERVA YARNS ' The Aristocrats of the Yarn Family is here to show the women of Portland the very newest and most beautiful models that have been made from Minerva Yarns. New examples of every sort of wool work. Plan to come here during this interesting demon stration you will be sure to get many new ideas. Just. Received New Shipments of Minerva Vicuna, Silk Mixes and Heatherdown Yarns Fifth Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Straight From New York Come New TRIMMED HATS At $5 Such as we have never seen before at so low a price! They are of hatters plush and velvet in the newest shapes and trimmings; styles that have never been shown in this city before. You'll be as delighted and surprised as can be when you see what a world of smartness and dash they carry in the tilt of their brims and the shape of their crowns. Third Floor Lipman, Wolfe 6 Co. A SPECIAL SALE OF BABY'S BLANKETS ". Wednesday Specials in NOTIONS Steel Laid Cutting Shears Seconds: with straight or bent handles; 6 to 8 -inch length; with good cutting edge 69c Embroidery and Trimming Scissors Sec onds; just the thing for the work basket; 3'2 to 6-inch length 39c India Bundle Tape Assorted widths; 12 pieces in bundle; white only 10c Fancy White Bias Seam Tape Six-yard pieces .10c Main Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Baby's Beacon Blankets 50c Size 30x40 inches; in pink or blue, with delicate flower designs in white. Very special for one day only. Other blankets for wee babies cribs, 75c. Baby's Double Crib Blankets, $1.00 Of softest, warmest white ; trimmed with stripes and stitched edge, in pink or blue. Heavy Crib Blankets, $1.50 Double blankets of pink or blue; edged with silk. Others at $1.65, with extra wide silk edge; all white; pink or blue. Wool Filled Blankets, $1.98 to $2.95 Fourth Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. You'll Be Needing New and Warm BLANKETS & COMFORTERS and we have complete assortments of every kind to supply your needs. All of reliable quality at lowest prices. Good Wool Blankets White, gray and fancy plaid wool blankets. fuN size and weight, at $4.95, $5.95, $7.50 pair. Superior White Blankets at $9.50, $11.00, $13.50, $16.50 Cotton Fleece Blankets Winter weight cotton fleece blankets, firmly woven, light, warm and mothproof; with pretty fancy striped borders, at 95c, $1.35, $1.75, $2.00, $2.50, $2.75 pair. New Silkoline Covered Comforters Comforters of good size and weights. In desir able colors $1.73, $2.25, $2.95, $3.50. Mull Top Silk Bordered Comforters $5.75, $7.50 Fifth Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. "Merchamiiso c?c Merit Only" Have You Seen Them? The N ew Costume VELVETS Sapphire, Navy Blue, Beetroot, Taupe, Plum, Myrtle and Black You'll find them lovely beyond comparison, and lasting and serviceable, too. And we've priced them very moderately, as you'll find when you've shopped 'round. They're 44 inches wide $4.50 a yard. Second Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. o OH t. r:s word denied German Paper Has New Ver sion of Venezuela Matter. DEAD MAN'S WORD QUOTED KINGD0N GOULD PROMOTED VVealthy Private of Naltonal Army Is Made First Sergeant. CAMP DIX, Wrightstown. X. J., Oct. 2. Kinkdon Gould, a private in the National Army, has received his first promotion, according to an official an nouncement today, which states that he is to be named as a member of the headquarters company. - The appoint ment will carry with it the rank of first sergeant. Eventually he will be come a Lieutenant. Raymond Belmont, of New Tork. in the same company, was made a Second Lieutenant. Both men will be under the comamnd of Captain Woolworth, of New York. Rehearing Denied Billings. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 2. A peti tion for a rehearing of the appeal of Warren K. Billings, convicted of mur der as the result of a bomb explosion here, for a new trial, was denied by the District Court of Appeals here today. Contradiction Relates to Time Amer ica Demanded Arbitration and -Backed Demand With Order to Dewey to Prepare to Sail. AMSTERDAM. Oct. 2. In connection with Theodore Roosevelt's recent speech at a luncheon in Chicago, in which he related for the first time the details of secret conferences in 1902 between himself and the German Am bassador in connection with Germany's proposed occupation of Venezuela, the Frankfurter Zeitung publishes what It asserts is the German Foreign Office record of a conversation on the South American situation on February 18, 1903. between President Roosevelt and the late Baron Speck von Sternburg, the German Ambassador. In his conversation President Roose velt Is quoted as having said he thought the best guarantee for the ameliora tion of South American conditions would be the establishment of a Ger man state in South Brazil. Colonel Roosevelt in his luncheon speech at Chicago said that in 1902, when Germany proposed a "temporary" occupation of Venezuela, he sent for the German Ambassador and told him that "this Venezuelan business has been going on long enough and I can not afford to let it get to a "point where it will cause trouble for this country." He asked the Ambassador what Ger many meant by temporary possession, and on the Ambassador replying that he did not feel at liberty to discuss such an important question, he de livered the following ultimatum: "Tell your government that in 10 days it must arbitrate the matter or I will send Dewey down there." The German Ambassador, according to Colonel Roosevelt, said he could not send such a message, saying he did not think the President knew what it would mean. President Roosevelt re plied that if it meant war Germany had chosen the one spot where she could not fight the United States. The Presi dent then ordered Admiral Dewey to be ready to sail on an hour's notice. The Ambassador visited President Roosevelt a week later and said he had not dared send the message, and the President told him that he had ordered Dewey to sail within 48 hours. The Ambassador said this would be an awful thing for the United States, but President Roosevelt retorted that it would be more awful for Germany. Within 36 hours the Ambassador again returned to the President and informed him that Germany would arbitrate. Wasco Farmer Is Army Captain. WASCO. Or., Oct. 2. (Special.) Captain Ryland O. Scott left this morn ing for Amertcan Lake answering his country's call. Captain Scott was in the officers' reserve corps most of the Summer at the Presidio. He leaves large farming interests near Wasco which will be looked after by his brother, Frank Scott. 45 IT "will do your eyes good to see the rosy appetites of those who lunch at the Portland. A good appetite is a good habit. Why not enjoy your luncheon here? v Lunch at the Portland Today 50c RAILROAD STOCKS LOW MINIMUM RECORDS OF MAXY YEARS PAST ARE REACHED. Rails Continue to Decline on Steady Offering Movement Embraces Reorganized Line Issues. NEW TORK. Oct. 2. New low records were made on the New Tork Stock Ex change by several important railroad stocks. The liquidation was attributed to foreign interests. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul com mon dropped to 51 Vi. its minimum quotation since 1S95. and the preferred dropped to 98, which Is considerably under Its low record for more than "0 years: Baltimore & Ohio, once a popular stock on the Berlin Bourse, fell to 60, its low record since 1900. New York Central at 74Vi registered its minimum for about 23 years. Rails continued to decline on steady offerings and the lack of support or public interest. St. Paul common fell to 50H, the preferred to 95ti, Balti more & Ohio 59i and New York Cen tral 73. The movement embraced many low priced or reorganized railroad issues In which recessions were no less severe. Huge Food Store Burned. STOCKHOLM, Oct. 2. More than 2000 tons of provisions, fodder, maize, oil cake and other supplies were de stroyed today by fire in storehouses near Stockholm. The loss, which amounts to more than 1,000,000 crowns, will be felt severely, particularly as it probably will be impossible to replace these materials under the existing im port restrictions. NUX, IRON, PEPSIN AND SARSAPARILLA The combination of two great medi cines. Hood's Sarsaparllla and Peptiron, by taking them in conjunction, one be fore eating and the other after, brings Into co-operation the above-named substances, best for the blood, nerves and digestive organs. This combination is especially rec mended In cases that are scrofulous, or rheumatic, anemic and nervous, or where the blood Is both impure and pale, deficient In iron one of the most common disease conditions of the pres ent day. In cases where a laxative is needed. Hood's Pills should be taken. They work in perfect harmony with Hood's Sarsaparllla and Peptiron, and are mild and efficient. Adv. At Your Service Eleven officers, one hun dred other employes, and our completely equipped banking institution. The consolidation of THE LUMBERMENS NATIONAL BANK with this bank increases our resources to $25,000,000.00 Liberty Loan Bonds Subscriptions Taken Here The United States National Bank Sixth' and Stark Sts. Portland, Oregon OFFICIALS! J. C. AINSWOR.TH. President F.. O. CRAWFORD, First Vice-President It. I.E. BARNES, Tlrr-PMnt H. B. AIVSWOR1H, Vlrr-Prmldrit It. w. KCHMKKR, Vice-President and Cashier A. I. TI CKER. Vice President A. M. UHIGH1. Vice-President W. A. HUM', Assistant C ashier P. S. DICK. Assistant Cashier U. DIKEUART, Assistant Cashier '. M. nvllLL.MJ, Assistant Cashier E. C. SAMMONS, Assistant Cashier Phons your want ad to The Orsgo- " -In 7'-" - . 3&