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N I 78 Pages I (Hi TTfK Pages 1 to 18 -I 1 YV VOL. XXXI-XO. 40. PORTLAND, . OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. jiM - r ' .' i i v .- i i i i AMERICAN FORCES Four Marines Dead in Fight With Rebels. GENERAL ZELEDON IS KILLED Warship's Men Acquit Them selves Gallantly in Action. 'IMPREGNABLE' HILL TAKEN Conflict Expected to Bring Dispute in Congress to Climax, but De partment of State Is Ready With Precedents. WASHINGTON. Oct B. In a gallant assault. American marines and blue jackets yesterday drqve the Nicar aguan revolutionary leader. General Zeledon, and his forces from Coyotepe and Barraneans hills, near Masaya, after 37 minutes of fighting, but In the action four privates of the United States Marine Corps were killed and several were wounded. Cayotepe Bill is noted In Central American warfare as impregnable. It was never captured by assault until the Americans took it. The victory of the Americans opened the way for the Nlcaraguan govern ment troops to assault the town of Masaya; which they took from the revolutionists, and Its starving In habitants were relieved. The revolutionist losses were heavy, while the government force lost 100 killed and 200 wounded. , General Zeledon Killed. General Zeledon, the rebel, escaped, but later was cornered and killed by a troop of Federal cavalry. One thousand American marines and ' bluejackets, under Lieutenant - Colonel Charles G. Long, are moving on the City ' of Leon, the remaining rebel stronghold. - The American marines killed were: Private Ralph Victor Bobbett, Nevada, 'Mo.; Private Charles Hays Durham, Junction "City," Ky.: Private Clarence Henry McGill. Portland, Me.; Private Harry Pollard, Medway, Mass. The Americans most severely - wounded were: Second Lieutenant George W. Martin, Company C, First Battalion, Winter Hill, Mass.: Ser geant A. P. Sherburne, Georgetown, Mass.; Private . William Harvey, en listed at Boston; Private Alfred Lun der, enlisted at Fargo, N. D. (his ' brother.; David Lunder, lives at Baker, Mont.); T. P. Captain, ordinary sea man of the cruiser California. , The Navy Department cannot Iden tify Captain and has asked Rear Ad miral Southerland for Information. , Admiral Extols II U Men. Admiral Southerland in reporting the battle to the Navy Department, said: "The department and the country hav everv reason to be Droud of the officers, marines and bluejackets who I were engaged In this action." Admiral Southerland's dispatches made It plain that the defeat of the rebels was complete. Zeledon, a Nlcar aguan and formerly supporter of Zelaya, fled toward the. Costa Rlcan boundary for escape. A band of Fed ' eral cavalrymen discovered him some distance from Masaya and gave fight. When the- defeated him and his fol lowers, he was found fatally wounded and died later. s The shedding of American blood in Central America is expected to bring to a climax in Congress the dispute over the right of this Government to Intervene In Nicaragua. Less than a month ago Acting Sec- (Concluded pn Pag 2.) 11 IN NICARAGUA r WFM . i 2i-i . JsU: . Jffe-7 fksSk Arx 7 v : pmmmmmmMpmmmmmmmmmmuM B-fmmBmmmmm FAIR HAIRED ESKIMO. KNOWN TO OFFICER EXPLORER STEFAXSSOVS RE PORTS CONFIRMED. Captain Tuttle Recalls That Whaler Ballene, Stationed, at Banksland, Was Boarded by Blondes. SEATTLE, Wash.. Oct. 5. (Special.) Captain Francis Tuttle. of the United States Revenue Service, retired, says that the report of explorer Stefansson that he found tribes of blonds Eskimos In Banksland Is not the first time that these unusual people have been re ported. . He says the story of these people has been told and re-told among the old-time whaling men, but obtained little credence. Captain Tuttle says that In the early 90s, the whaler Ballene. Captain Bert Williams, wintered at Banksland end that members of a strange tribe of people, many of whom were blondes, came out to the Ballene and some went aboard. From where Captain Williams wintered he could see a burning moun tain of coal. The natives led him to a place where he was able to secure enough of this fuel to coal bis ship during the Winter. Captain Tuttle believes that Captain Williams was the man of whom the one tribe of natives told Stefansson: Cap tain Williams story at that time was placed in the same class with similar reports that had gone the rounds of the North. ENTRY REFUSED TO PRINCE Spanish Pretender's Son Is Detained at Ellis Island. NEW YORK, Oct. 6. Powerful In fluences, It is said, worked today for the release of Prince Ludovie Plgnatelll d'Aragon, son of the Spanish pretend er, who chafed and fretted today at bis confinement at Ellis Island. The cables were piled with messages to establish or discredit the contention that he was expelled from France for running a gambling house and is therefore ineli gible to enter the United States; also that he tried to kill himself and was likely to become a public charge. A special board of inquiry will in vestigate his -case. L R. ALDERMAN INJURED Motorcycle Strikes Rock and Edu cator Suffers Broken Leg. LAKEVIEW. Or.Toct. 5. (Special.) As he was speeding along at a fast clip on his motorcycle, near here today. Superintendent of Public Instruction Alderman hit a rock while dodging an. other In the road, with th result that tonight he is suffering from a broken leg. Mr. Alderman had been here attend ing the Teachers Institute, and was nearlng -Albert Lake, en route to Burns, to attend the Harney County in stitute. He was brought back to Lake- view. Mr. Alderman will leave for Salem Monday via Sacramento. ITALY TO PAY INDEMNITY Temporal Sovereignty Over Tripoli One of Conditions of Peace. LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Oct. 5. The Turco-Italian peace treaty awaiting ratification provides for Turkish recog nition of Italian sovereignty in Tripoli, according to the Lausanne Gazette. The Italian government, it is said, is to pay an Indemnity to Turkey and is also to recognize the religious author ity of the Khallf over the Mussulmans of Tripoli. EXPLOSIVE USED ARTFULLY Cracksmen Blow Safe Without Dis turbing Night Watchman. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5. Cracks men entered the San Francisco offices of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York early- today, blew the safe and got away with be tween $2000 and $2500 in cash, besides a quantity of checks and commercial paper. Hi BIG JACK" ZELIG, L Becker Trial Witness Killed in Open. SLAYER CAUGHT RED HANDED Fruit Dealer Says He Fired in . Revenge for Holdup. TROLLEY CAR CRIME SCENE Police Have Report That 3 lan Who Was Involved In Rosenthal's Death Was Lured to Spot Let ters From Gunmen Found. NEW YORK, Oct 5. ''Big Jack" Zellg was shot and killed tonight. The East Side gang leader and prospective witness In the trial of Police Lieuten ant Charles Becker for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, which begins Monday, was seated In a Second-avenue open trolley car when Phillip Davidson, who says he Is a fruit dealer, jumped on the running-board and fired the fatal shot. J Davidson leaped from the car and ran away, but was caught,, weapon In hand. He admitted the shooting and declared It was for revenge, the police say.- According to the prisoner Zellg had held him up at the point of a re volver late today In an East Side hall way and robbed him of $400. Story of Trap Being Investigated. The police were at a loss whether to believe Davidson's story and at a late hour reports that Zelig had been lured to the scene of the shooting by a telephone message were being In vestigated. Patrons of a Second-avenue restau rant, some distance away, told that Zellg, who was In that neighborhood earlier In the evening, had received a telephone call from someone who made an appointment to meet him at Four teenth street and Second avenue. Zellg Jumped on a car. the story , ran, and a few moments later word flashed back to the restaurant that he had been shot Woman Detained at Hospital. Zellg. mortally wounded, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, but before the ambulance reached that institution he was dead. On his body the police sayr only $2.34 was found, although a well dressed woman, whose Identity was not learned, visited the Bellevue morgue not long after Zelig's death, and asked the authorities to turn over to her $500, which she said Zellg had In his pos session when he was shot. - The woman was detained by the morgue authorities. The police also de tained .Hyman Glverth, an East Side resident, as a material witness. Glverth says he saw the shooting. Little Is known about Davidson. He told the police that he came to New York from Peeksklll, N. Y five or six days ago. He has been a fruit dealer. but is not now In any business. Only One Shot Fired. Only one shot was fired at Zelig. The bullet took effect back of the gang leader's right ear. Davidson explained at police headquarters that after he had been robbed he went to Jersey City, bought a revolver and, after mak ing several Ineffectual efforts to get his money back, chased Zellg aboard the car and shot him. District Attorney Whitman, who is to conduct the Becker trial, interested himself In the Zelig murder as soon as he was notified. He telephoned at once to police headquarters that he would be there directly. Meanwhile, he re quested that the questioning of the prisoners be deferred until he arrived. (Continued on Page 3.) GANG EAGER 50T SOME LEADING EVENTS OF A BUSY WEEK ARE ILLUSTRATED BY CARTOONIST INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, W degrees; minimum, 40 degree. ( TODAY'S Fair; rortherly winds. Foreign. ' . Montenegrins' clash with Turks regarded aa opening- of war. Section 1, page JU - , National, ? Charles R. Crane to testify before Clapp committee Monday. Section 1. page 6. Four American- marines killed in battle In L Nicaragua. Section 1, page 1. . - . Politics. Senator Bourne enters race for re-election as independent candidate. Section 1, page 12. Idaho leader scores political activity of the Mormon Church. Section 8. page 10. Republican state committee prepares ex haustive review of record of Ben Selling. Section 1, page 12. i Munseys discovery of "plot" to embarrass Roosevelt absurd. - Section 1, page 5. Democrats counting heavily on West In coming election. Section 1 page 6. ltomestlc fealt Lake tazf chauffeur mysteriously killed; schoolmaster arrested. Section 1, page 2. McNamaru planned "echo" in East Imme diately after Los Angeles explosion. Sec tion 1 page 2. "Big Jack" Zellg. New York gang leader and prospective witness in Becker trial murdered. Section 1. page 1. Real Estate and Balldlng. Statistics testify to growth of city." Sec tion 4, Page 8. . - - ' Portland is premier of Western cities. Sec tion 4, page 8. Fifty-five miles of water mains laid since - last January. Section 4, page 8. Albany projects big Improvements. Section 4, page . Movement in farm lands continues heavy. Section 4, page 9. ' Automobiles and Roads. - Cross-Continent automobile line Is planned and discussed. Section 4. page 4. Motorists feel innkeepers are killing goose, that lays golden egg. Section 4, page 6. Truck makers seek uniform guarantee. Sec tion 4. page 7. Sports. Pacific Coast League results Oakland D. Portland 2; San Francisco 8.. Los An . geles 7;1 Sacramento . 4-1, ; Vernon 3-9. Section 2. page 2. Coast League leaders r maintain ' slugging honors. Section 2, page 2. Meek leads Northwestern League batters for season. Section 2, page 3. University of Oregon desirous of meeting O. A. C. anywhere. Section 2. page 5. Counterfeit tickets for world's series are circulated. Section 2, page 3. Washington High eleven defeats Pacific University 23-0. Section 2, page 5. Portland fans pick Red Sox to win. Sec tion 2. page 4. Hugh Fullerton picks Giant catchers as su- 1 perlor of those of Red Sox. Section 2, page 3. Beavers' failure to continue as drawing card costs McCredies thousands. Sec tion 2. page 5. i Big Eastern football teams put smaller col leges to rout. Section 2, page 6. California has new white hope. Section Z, page 4. Irving Vaughan writes on world series. Sec tion 1. page 4. Caleb Bragg wins grand prlx auto race; De - Palma Injured. Section 1, page 3. . Pacific Northwest. . Idaho ' makes big profit on surplus land funds. Section 1. page T. f Second tragedy from careless handling of firearms occurs in Camas. Section 1, page 9. Stefansson report of blonde Eskimo tribe is confirmed by Naval officer. .- Section 1. page 1. v ... ...... - W Fishing sloop capsizes and crew of five perish off Newport harbor. Section 1, page 1. Wife and daughter fight for life of lum berman Creech. Section 1. page L Colombia-Snake Rivers Waterways Associa tion placed on permanent basis. . Section 1, page 6. Commercial and Marine. Barley buying stimulated by advance at San Francisco. Section 2, page 17. Wheat weakened at Chicago by heavy Northwestern receipts. Section 2, page 17. New York banks cash loss during week over seven million. Section 2, page 17. Stock market recovers on more hopeful for eign news. Section 2, page 17. Two Japanese, escaped from quarantine, are recaptured. Section 2, page 6. Portland and Vicinity. Special train will run to Eugene October 15 for Electric Railway opening. Section 1, Page 17. First week shows Presbyterian Church house Is marked success. Section 2, page 18. September grand jury makes target of po lice department. Section 1, page 17. Port of Portland makes report showing ef ficiency of dredging department. Sec tion 1, page 13. Governor sets October 19 as "clean up" day. Section 1, page 7. Columbia River branch of Women's For eign Missionary Society of Methodist Episcopal Church hears reports and elects officers. Section 1. page 15. Judge Morrow to decide Tuesday on "short" charter mandamus hearing. Section 2, page 16. : Veterans of Civil War now in Oregon form organization. Section 1, page 16. Gresham fair big attraction and well at tended. Section 1, page S- Pollce Chiefs stenographer and City Jail Matron indicted. Section 2, page 18. B. 6. Josselyn makes reply to charges by C. K. Henry. Section 4, page 1. . Charles H. Shields challenges W. S. U'Ren to debate on single tax. Section 1, page 5. - t Elks grand exalted ruler honors Gus Moser. of Portland. Section 2. page 6. ' WIFE AND DAUGHTER FIGHT FOR CREECH Women Pass Ordeal Without Weeping. SEARCHING QUESTIONS ASKED Defense Scores Heavily in Testimony of Day. EVIDENCE DENIALS MADE Mrs. Creech and! Sirs. Olga Brown Declare ' Husband and Father Never Said He Expected to Go to Walla Walla. : MONTESANO, Wash, Oct 5. (Spe cial.) Mrs. J. 8. Creech, wife of the wealthy lumberman, and her daughter, Mrs. Olga Brown, occupied the greater part of today on the witness stand and grave excellent testimony In the Inter est of their husband and father who Is on trial for the killing- of Detective Frank J. Welch, whom he shot In his own yard the night of June 3. Both women were on the witness stand more than four hours and under went a searching: cross-examination. Prosecutor" Campbell not sparing their feelings In bis direct questions. Both stood the ordeal well and not a tear was shed In the court, although it looked at times as if they would both break down under the searching Ques tions put to them. The women told practically the same story, especially the part concerning; the conversation which took place fol lowing the shooting, both disputing the testimony of the witnesses for the state as to remarks made . by Mr. Creech that he had shot a man and his wife was responsible for the act and that he expected "to pass the remainder of his days at Walla Walla." . Window Found Open. Both said that they had gone down town during the afternoon of June 3 and returned -noma- about S:30-o'ciock, when they found a window in the bed room had been opened and a stick of stovewood placed under the sash; The wood was removed and about 9:40 o'clock Mrs. Brown went into the room again and found the window bad been forced again and a small flat file placed under the sash. This worried them and they called up the police sta tion and asked to have an officer sent, preferably Mr. Kempter, but refused to tell the night sergeant, who took the call, what they wanted with an officer. Later, Detective Welch came to the door and told them that he was sent to investigate and went through the house and examined the window in question. He then stepped on the rear porch, "went Into the woodshed, made an examination of the premises, then went back in to the house and later went from the building: by the side door. Five minutes later they heard two shots, fired in quick succession, and threw open the door, when they recog nized their fathers voice. Mrs. Creech said. "What's the matter?" and the answer came back. "I have killed a man." He ordered them to get a phy sician and call the police, which they did. as Creech helped the wounded man from where he had fallen in the bushes to a place on the porch where Welch sank down from weakness, and Creech attempted to comfort his victim. Late Hour of Tragedy Set. Both women testified that they called the police office at 9:45 o'clock, and that Officer Welch did not come to the house until three-quarters of an hour (Concluded on Page 5.) SLOOP CAPSIZED; CREW OF 5 PERISH HEAVY SEA AT NEWPORT HAR BOR OVERTURNS CRAFT. Lack or Familiarity With South Spit Brings Disaster to Fishing Craft Pilgrim. NEWPORK, Or., Oct. 5. (Special.) Crossing over South Spit bar with a heavy sea rolling and a crew unfa miliar . with the harbor entrance, the fishing sloop Pilgrim capsized at S o'clock this evening and the crew of five men were lost. ' The missing are: Claud Toner, owner of the craft; J. W. Mckenzie, engineer; Tarl Telefson, master.' and Forest Wooster and Michael Henry aides. The life-saving crew here hastened to give assistance, with the launch Ollle but the little vessel turned turtle too quickly and dumped its human freight into the sea before any possible aid could have been given. It is practically certain that the crew was anything but familiar with the harbor approach or no attempt would have been made to cross in un der such a big sea breaking over the spit The vessel was carried along the beach for two miles south of the en trance. Up to a late hour tonight none of the five bodies had been recovered. The life-saving crew continues to pa trol the beach. , TITANIC WIDOW MARRIED Woman Who Ixst Husband In Wreck Takes Another. LOS ANGELES, Oct. E. (Special.) Mrs. Virginia McDowell Clark, widow of Walter Miller Clark, who lost his life In the Titanic disaster, was mar ried to Jack Tanner, a former Los An geles man. In New York on September 36 at the home of Howard McDowell, her cousin. Word of the wholly un expected wedding reached Mrs. Ada McDowell, her mother. In a letter re ceived today and the information was given Mr. and Mrs. J. Ross Clark, father and mother of Walter Clark. They, like Mrs. McDowell, were In com plete ignorance of the marriage. J. Ross Clark Is a brother of ex-Senator William A. Clark, of Montana Mrs. Clark left Los Angeles three weeks ago for the ostensible purpose of visiting In New York.. Since the Ti tanic disaster, when she underwent the harrowing experiences of being rowed away from the sinking ship while her brave young husband was waving her a cheery farewell, though he knew he was facing death,' she has been living In Los Angeles with her mother, trying to recover her health. SECRETARIES WILL SPEAK Knox and Fisher to Be In Seattle During Next Week. SEATTLE, Oct. 3. The Republican state central committee is arranging for a political meeting' In Seattle next Saturday to be addressed by Secretary of State Knox and Secretary of the Interior Fisher. The Cabinet officers will arrive from Honolulu on the cruiser Maryland next Friday. Cor respondence Is in progress with the National committee relative to assign ing Secretary Knox to address meet ings In Tacoma, Spokane and Portland. Senator La Follette, according to the Republican state committee, will make speeches for the Republican National ticket in ' Eastern Washington next week. VANDERBILT MAKES FLIGHT New Yorker as Passenger In Aero plane Goes Up 500 Feet. MINE OLA, N. Y., Oct 5. Cornelius Vanderbllt, who Is a Lieutenant-Colonel In the National Guard of New York, was a passenger with George W. Beatty when the aviator made a flight above Hempstead Plains this after noon. . They went up 600 feet. REYNOLDS. MONTENEGRINS CLASH WITH TURKS Frontier Guerds Kill 100; Others Retreat. ENTIRE. BRIGADE IS REPULSED Turkey Views Engagement as Beginning of Actual War. , NOTE IS SENT TO POWERS Reports That France and Russia Are Interesting Themselves In Pre- -serving Peace Received J With Attention. ill LONDON", Oct. a. A newa aa-enry dispatch from Fotcta, Bosnia, report that a Montenegrin brigade near Ne fertara attempted to cmh the Tarn River Into Novlbaznr, Turkish terri tory, on Thursday and was opposed by the Turklan frontier Euards. More than 100 Montenegrins were killed and the remainder returned to the Monte negrin shore. The commander, who was acting on his own responsibility, baa beea re called to Cetttnje. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. S. An en gagement has taken place at Therna, near the Montenegrin frontier, between Turks and Montenegrins. The Monte negrins were repulsed, according to a dispatch received here. The Turkish government, It Is understood, views this affray as practically the begin ning of hostilities. Assim Bey, ex-Mlnlster of Foreign Affairs, has gone to Roumanla to seek the support of that state in the Balkan difficulties. Turkey Addresm Powers. The following circular note has been addressed to the powers; "As the Ottoman government antici pated, the -verbal representations made by the powers to the Balkan states, al though vigorous, did not have the de sired effect. There is reason to believe that even If certain states were In clined to conform with the recommen dations of the powers, the fear of hav ing appeared to have - violated the agreement reached among them has prevented them from following their inclinations. Challenge Is Accepted. "On the other hand the popular ex citement which appears to be carrying away these countries can in their opin ion be subdued only by threatening ac tion on the part of the powers. This agitation naturally had a reaction on the Ottoman Empire, the inhabitants and army of which were already exas perated by the criminal and bloody machinations which have been proceed ing for years past, encouraged by neighboring states. "The Ottoman people, therefore, being ready to accept the latest challenge thrown down to It, is prepared to repel any attack on the security and dignity of the Empire. Early Decision Asked. , "The situation is, therefore, extreme ly grave and if the powers take too long to agree on the forcible measures which the circumstances dictate, hos tilities may be precipitated before in tervention can be effected. Wo must once more call the attention of the great powers to the dangerv and urge ,. the necessity of meeting it without a. moment's delay. "It is only because we desire to adhere to the pacific attitude of which we (Concluded on Pbk 6.)