8 TIIE STJXDAT OREG OXIA5T, PdllTXAXU, JTJXT3 25, 1916. GO. M IS NATION'S FIRST TO MUSTER Salem Command Brings Na ; tional Distinction to Oregon, , According to Washington. ORDERS YET UNCERTAIN lieutenant 'Williams Is Detailed to Duty With Nebraska Guard, With Prospects of Getting , Higher Commission. ' OftEGONIAK NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, June 24. The three officers and 143 men of Company M, Third Oregon Infantry, comprise the first National Guard organization to be muutered into the service of the United State3, under the recent call of President Wil son, according to General A. L. Mills, chief of the military division. General Mills received telegraphic notification today that Company M had keen mustered in, but he was not ad vised as to when the remainder of the Oregon Guard will be mustered, nor has lie been advised by department head quarters at San Francisco whether this company will be sent to the border immediately, as a separate unit, or wait until further companies have been mustered in. I Officers -to Be RecommiMloned. General Mills further 'stated that un der the Hay bill, which passed -the House yesterday and is to pass the Benate Monday, all officers of the Na tional Guard who are mustered into the Kederal service will have to be com missioned by the President. No com missions, however, will be issued until the bill becomes a law, and. then only as the various officers are accepted with their troops. The issuance of 'commissions is expected to begin the middle of next week. Lieutenant Kenneth P. Williams, In fantry, who has been on duty as in structor of the Oregon National Guard, today was. detailed to temporary duty with the Nebraska National Guard, pending mobilization, with indications that he will be given a higher commis sion in that organization when it is mustered into the Federal service. Idaho Examiner Detailed. Lieutenant-Colonel Marshall Wood, retired, now living at Boise, today was ordered back to active duty and in structed, to conduct the physical ex amination of the Idaho National Guard, Incident to its muster into the Federal service. Colonel George B. Davis, recently re lieved of duty as quartermaster at Se attle, Is to be ordered before a court- martial because of charges brought against him alleging he has neglected to pay his personal debts. There is no charge of irregularity in connection With his military service. First Lieutenant Carl F. von dem Bussche, Fourteenth Infantry, at Fort Wright, also has been ordered to ap pear before a courtmartial, the. War Department declining to make public the charges on which he is to be tried. When seen last night. General J. Franklin Bell, commander of the West ern department, said in reference to the reported courtmartial of Colonel Davis, "(So far as I know. Colonel Davis has not been ordered before a court-martial." to have advised his government last night that the circumstances did not lend themselves to a mediation pro posal at this time. He came here yes terday from New Tork and saw diplo matic and State Department officials and returned to New York again late tonight. While the diplomatic status of the situation shifted and changed today with every hour, if rumors were to be credited, the steps of the War Depart ment to get ready continued. Oregon's Work Pleasing. Word came of the mustering into the Federal service of an Oregon National Guard company, the first unit of the state troops to be enrolled under Presi dent Wilson's call last Sunday. The War Department was gratified over the fact that 'it numbered three commis sioned officers and 143 men, or within seven men of the full -wartime complement. The effort to speed' up mobilization through the. Hay resolution adopted yesterday in the House met with delay in the Senate. The military committee reported on the measure, amended but still containing the draft and consoli dation sections, which are regarded as of vital importance. On account of a memorial session, however, the Senate did not act, and the authority the reso lution will confer cannot be granted now before Monday. The War Department awaita impa tiently the passage of the measure, MEXICANS ADVICE TOWARD AMERICANS Columns Approach Each Other and Border Thinks Clashes Are Inevitable. ORDER FOR ATTACK GIVEN Carranza. General Tells Troops to Strike If Vnlted States Cavalry men South of Border Falls to Retreat Immediately. EL PASO, Tex., June 24. Apprehen sion that battles . may be in progress tonight between American and Mexican troops in at least two places in Xorth- of Professor A. C Voelker, principal of the Baker High School, whose 11-year-old daughter, Evangeline, died yesterday from the disease, and whose other daughter is ill with it, is closely quarantined, and the adults and chil dren of the neighborhood are being watched for further appearance of the trouble. According to City Health Officer J. W. Hud the Voelker child was ill with diphtheria a week, and neighbors fre quented the house because the attend ing doctor had diagnosed it as ton silitia. As soon as the death and the conditions were reported Dr. Huff tele graphed State Health Officer Roberg to come, here and take charge, but word this afternoon from Portland said he was away arid could not be reached. ESKIMO CHASE GOES ON Effort Made to Get Men Wlio Killed American Explorers. REGINA. Sask, June It. A search of several years for the tribe or Eskimos reported to have murdered two Ameri can explorers. George Street and Henry Vincent Radford, thus far has failed of the accomplishment ol its object, ac cording to a report reaching here from Thelon, the Winter base of the expe dition of Royal Northwest Mounted Police which undertook to run down the Eskimos. Thelon is in the northern part of Keewatin province. The report, dated February 8 last, ln dicated that the searohers hoped to get SCOOT WARNS ADAIR Lem Spilisbury, Mormon, Tells of Battle. BOYD STYLED "OBSTINATE" Statement Made Through Mexican Officials Says Captain Wanted to Fight Negro Prisoners Placed in Penitentiary. CHIHUAHUA CITT. Mexico, June 24. In a statement made here today tnrougn Mexican officials, Lem. Spill bury, the Mormon scout with Pershing's expedition, who was captured, with other prisoners, at the battle of Carrl zal, says that he never dreamed when he left Casas Grandes in company with Captain Boyd that there would be any trouble, feeling confident that previous friendly relations would continue. Captain Morey and his men joined POSITIONS OF AMERICAN AND MEXICAN TROOPS IN REGION TO WHICH 145,000 MILITIA WILL GO- UCLPS I ""WUUHIt etwv. nmsTo a- rftfrrs .'"' FIGURES GIViiM ARK fUOil BKSY AVAILABLE ESTIMATES. (iEXEKAL Fl'XSTOX'S I'RESKNl' ruACE IS 6O,0 OO MEN. LAST RITES WILL BE SAID Isaao Darneille Will Ba Iiaid to Kest at Smithfield. EUGENE, Or, June 24. (Special.) Funeral services for the late Isaac Darneille. who came to Lane County in 1855. will be held In the Smithfield Christian Church, at Smithfield, tomor row afternoon. Mr. Darneille was born in Missouri In February, 1840. He married twice. He is survived by a widow and chil dren as follows: J. J. Darneille, of Harrisburg; W. W. Darneille, of Cor vallis; Mrs. George Goldson, of Cor vallls; Mrs, Elsie Goodman of Corvallis; Mrs. Clara Hembree, of Alvadore; Mrs. Stella Sprague, of Idaho; Mrs. Ethel Shroll, of Bandon; Mrs. Mary Darrow and Fred Darneille, of Junction City. chiefly because of its consolidation pro vision. It furnishes machinery .under which it could gather up and send to the front promptly, all guardsmen who qualify for Federal service, with out waiting for Incomplete companies to be recruited up to full strength. Days and perhaps weeks of delay in sending General Funston additional troops would be saved, it is estimated, under this plan. Another step toward preparedness for any emergency became known today. Arrangements are being perfected for diverting large shipments of machine guns and ammunition manufactured for certain of the allied European powers to the American army. They are urgently needed to equip fully the guard regiments. Agents of the allies have Informed the Government that their contracts in this country will be subordinated to the needs of the American Army. This will enable American contractors to turn over to the War Department such of their products as are needed with out making necessary any legal com mandeering steps. CRESSWELL PLANT TO OPEN Cannery to Handle Surplus Orders j From Eugene Association. ' EUGENE, Or.. June 84. (Special.) Preparations will be maie at once to reopen the Cresswell Fruit cannery, at Cresswell, according to an - an nouncement made today by J. O. Holt, manager of the Eugene Fruit Growers" Association, in Eugene. Mr. Holt said that the entire output of the Eugene cannery had been con tracted and that the Cresswell can nery 'will be operated for the purpose of handling surplus orders. The Eugene cannery now is operat ing on full capacity canning cherries. DISAVOWAL TO BE ASKED (Continued From First Pare.) ately retreat. Another battle at this time might precipiate general hostili ties. Rumors that the Carranza govern ment was seeking mediation through other Latin-American nations came from many quarters. No offers of mediation reached the State Department from any source. Administration officials hold that they have nothing to mediate. It -is gen erally regarded as unlikely that Presi dent Wilson would, agree to any pro posal that would result in tying the hands of General Funston in his ef forts to protect the border from ban dits. A mediation plan resting on i military status quo during negotia tions would prevent pursuit of raiders or any operations beyond the border to break up bandit organizations before they became dangerous. And it is for this purpose General Pershing's col umn has been maintained in its present position despite Carranza' a opposition. Mediation Oat of Question. Under these circumstances, it was Intimidated on high authority that ef forts toward preservation of peace con cerning the initiation of which the Minister of Salvador was authorized today to confer with his diplomatic colleagues, could go no further than an attempt to persuade General Car ranza to change his attitude toward the determination of the United States to protect its people and terriory. Ambassador Kaon, of Argentina, who was a leader in the movement to rec ognize the Carranza de facto govern ment during the Pan-American con ference as to Mexico, ja undyerstopd, ARCHITECTS WILL VIE DESIGNERS ENTER ASTORIA SCHOOI-PI-ASrWI3fO CONTEST. With Elimination to Seveo ef the Most Suitable' Plans, Final Selec tion Is to Be Made. ASTORIA, Or., June 24. (Special.) Twenty-nine architects from various cities in Oregon and Washington are to enter the contest to prepare plans and specifications of Astoria's proposed new grade school building. That was the report received today from Adviser Naramore, who has charge of the con test. The time for making entries ex pired last night. The contest is to be two-stage affair, and the first jury will consist of H. G. Beckwith and A, E, Doyle, architects of Portland, and O. A. Grout, assistant superintendent of schools at Portland. The competing architects are to sub mit preliminary plans, and the jury will meet two weeks from yesterday to examine them. The seven most suit able plans will be selected from those submitted, and the architects submit ting those seven will prepare completed plans and specifications to be placed before another jury two weeks later This second jury will consist of one architect and one layman, appointed by the Board, and one architect, se lected by those competing. The jury will select what it considers the three best plans, and cash prizes are to be awarded for these, but the entire seven sets of plans will be submitted to the School Board, which will make the final selection and award the contract. ern Chihuahua gripped the border to night. American columns were moving in the direction of San Antonio and Ojo Cali ente, while General Jacinto Trevino, commanding the Carranza army of the north, has ordered troops at adjacent points to attack them if they. do not retreat immediately. While information concerning these' movements reached here today from Chihuahua City, additional advices in dicated that General Trevino's scouts reported the approach of the Americans yesterday and that his orders were is sued immediately. With, a lapse of 24 ours, it is assumed here that it is probable that the opposing forces may nave met. Strength of Forces Unknown. Little was known here tonight as to the strength of tne American columns or their mission, but It was assumed that one of them might be a detach ment sent by General Pershing to res cue the survivors of the troops of the Tenth Cavalry engaged at CarrlzaL Army officers here also pointed out that the column headed for Ojo Caliente, about 30 miles southwest of Carrlzal, probably is composed of the troops sur viving the engagement there and the two squadrons of the Eleventh Cavalry ent to reinforce them. Mexican au thorities content themselves with as serting that the strength of the com mands dispatched to meet them is "adequate." A suggestion that the Carrlzal fight was but an Incident of what was planned to be a general attack upon the American expeditionary command was received here late today from Gen era! Pershing's headquarters. The re ports pointed out that only the palpable strength of the Americans deterred the Carranzlstas. Carransa Troops Re-AIlKned. Support is lent to this belief by the re-disposltion early in the week of all of the Carranza troops in Western Chi huahua. Military authorities here who are Inclined to place some credence in the report pointed out that at that time the semi-circular line of the Mexi cans which had stretched around Gen eral .Pershing a command for some weeks began to close in, evincing i distinctly hostile attitude. However. General Pershing also re disposed his troops, offsetting the Car- ranzista movement, presenting to them a compact, prepared fighting unit. The accepted belief is that Mexican leaders realized they could not hope, under such circumstances, to cope with the Americans and abandoned the general plan. General Felix Gomez, at Carrlzal however, in command of one section of the proposed advance, carried out what is believed to have been one of the pre arranged details. $2000 RAISED FOR FOURTH Pendleton. Gets Finances After an Hour and a Half's Work. PENDLETON, Or., June 24. (Spe cial.) In a campaign of an hour and a. half today between 20UO ana szouu was assured the finance committee for the fourth or July celebration nere The committee decided that there should be at least 20 citizens who would be willing to donate $30 each, and soon returned with the money. Pendleton has laid plans for one o the biggest celebrations in the North west. Members of the committee in charge of the celebration are Mayor Best. Lee Drake, Guy Matlock, Claude Penland. Carl Power, Willard Bond and Bert Jerard. A 8hakesieare Joke preceded the Shake- neera tercentenary in New York. When Hrbert Tree responded to a curtain call la "Henry the Eighth" some one la - the suaisnoe-enouea ' Autaor. uuwt,'i In touch with the tribe this Summer. They believed the Eskimos to be some where near Hudson Bay and about 600 miles north of Thelon. If the supposed murderers are arrest ed before the Fall it will be the Summer or Fall of 1917 before the expedition can get hack to civilization. Street and Radford were conducting exploration work In Northern Canada In 1812, when, according to word brought to civilization by an Eskimo, they were peared to death by tribesmen with whom they had an altercation. HUGHES READY FOR FRAY (Continued From Flrt Psge.) shaping themselves so that Colonel Roosevelt would soon .take an active part in the campaign to overthrow the Wilson administration. Mr. Whitman would not discuss thess conferences. Other callers today were Representa tive William B. McKlnley. of Illinois; Representative Snell, of Potsdam, N. T.; Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the Treasury; J. O. Hayes, of San Jose. Cal.. a member of the notification com mittee, and Matthew Hale, leader of the Progressive party forces In Boston. Joseph C. Butler, a steel manufac turer of Ohio, urged Mr. Hughes to open his campaign in that state. Gar field, McKlnley and Tatt had opened successful campaigns there, he told Mr. Hughes. Mr. Hughes left for his Summer home at Bridgehampton this afternoon. He will remain there until early in the week when he will return to New Tork for further conferences and prob ably will again meet Senator Harding and members of the steering com mittee of the National Committee. SAWMILL AT BANKS BURNS Eccles Company Suffers $40,000 Loss and 50 Men Lose Jobs. HDLLSBORO, Or, June 24. (Special.) The Eccles mill at Banks was com pletely destroyed In a fire which broke out near the planer at 1:30 this after noon. No fire-fighting apparatus was avail able and the finished lumber in the yards also burned. The loss is esti mated at 140.000. Fifty men were thrown out of work. The mill resumed operations - in March and has large contracts, prin cipally for mine timbers for Utah. The mill will probably be rebuilt at once. as the company has large holdings. BAKER FEARS EPIDEMIC Diphtheria Is Prevalent and State Health. Officer Can't Be Keached BAKER. Or, June 24. (Special.) That the state will not be able to take up at once the investigation of -the threatened diphtheria epidemic because a case was allowed to go unquaran tined, was the word received today from fortland, .Meanwhile, tat boms 'Weather Injurious to Berries. HOOD RIVER. Or June 24. (Spe claL) A continuation of the week's in termittent rain storms and sultry weather will cause damage to straw berry growers of the Mid-Columbia, While the rainy days last it is impossi ble to pack the fruit for table use. and the entire crop necessarily must go to canneries ao lower prices. It Is feared too, that the apple crop may sutler from fungus If the warm rains last. Myrtle Creek Boy Killed. ROSEBURG, Or., June 24. (Special.) Ira Miles, who conducts a garage at Myrtle Creek, received a telegram early today that hie son Roy. aged 14, w killed in an automobile accident last night near Red Bluff. Cal. Mrs. Miles and two sons were visiting with rela tives at Red Bluff -at the time of the accident. The body will be brought to Myrtle Creek for burial. Koseburg Man Is Injured.' ROSEBURG. Or.. June 24. (Special.) Walter Rondeau, member of the Roseburg band and a well-known young man of this city, was seriously injured Thursday, when ne fell in the path of a truck operated by a local ' transfer company. One of the wheels passed partly over his body and it is believed he sustained internal injuries. Two Lewis Homes Burn. CENTRALIA, Wash.. June 24 (Spe cial.) During the absence of the family in vader, the residence of John Rlnne, in Winlock, was burned to the ground. The origin of the blaze is a mystery, The same night the home of George Anderson, located five miles east of Winlock, also was destroyed by a Ore that started from a stovepipe. Four Speeders Fined. v Four speeders arrested by Motor cycle Patrolman Frank Ervin were fined by Municipal Judge Langguth yesterday forenoon. They were: E. C Kling, fined 1S; Samoel Young, fl5 William A. Bchafer. $15, and W. C, Chamberlain, $16, . them en route and the statement quotes Spilisbury as saying that dur ing the conference with General Go mez he was opposed to Captain Boyd's "obstinacy," arguing that it would be best to retire until General Trevino at Chihuahua had passed on their request to uomez to be allowed to pass. Gomes explained, it w said, that an answer would come in three hours. Boyd Sought Fight. Is Alleged. The statement recounts a supposed opinion by Spilisbury that Captain Boyd was imbued with the idea that an action would bring- him- quick pro uviiuu. ana aiso mat the Mexicans wouio dsck down on a show of force. it credits the scout with havlnir argued with Lieutenant Adair on the evening before against moving into me arrizai territory in search of ban dits and also says he admits having importuned Captain Boyd at least to try to get around by some other road. it men gives spilisbury s story as fol lows: ine troops were about 200 yards part during the conference, rsm.in. Boyd and Morey and I advanoed half way to meet General Gomez. It was 20 minutes after we had returned to our respective lines and Rnvrt y, a given numerous orders to his men and tnose or uaptaln Morey. who were sta- Lionea some distance away, in line, be- lore jsoyd gave the order to advance. Who Fired First Shot Not Known. "The opposing sides were within ISO yards of each other Vhen the firing uesan. .oeitner tne negroes nor I know wno rired first. I remained behind. Troop C got as far as a dem ditrh where the Mexicans were placed. Prac tically all who lost their lives were there. Including Boyd and Adair. The Mexicans did heavy execution with a machine gun. and then, getting- around to a deep ditch in the rear, attacked tne Americans from that point. xno wnoie oi troop u was sur rounded, and not many seemed to get away. The horse holders bolted with a few of the mounts, but the remainder were bottled up and. captured. Captured Negro Wounded. WV bullet took off my hat and an other grazed my arm. One of the negroes who was captured is wounded. -In Jail here the negroes are bitter aoout oeing lea into what they call a eaaiaii. iney were entirely In the open, with natural defenses all around them, such as brush and ditches, of which the Mexicans naturaMv took ad vantage. The Mexicans engaged were about 250 in number." The statement concludes bv crediting Spilisbury with saying that in the first conference he told Lieutenant-Colonel JKlvas that II he personally were able to get word to General Pershing, he Deiievea ne couia avert the trouble that threatened and that he concluded, when he heard after the fisrht that ienerai uomei was killed, that he cer tainly would be shot Immediately. Captured H lx Prison. The 17 American negroes captured in the Carrlzal battle have been placed in tne penitentiary nere. There have bee no arrangements made for removing them to Juarez to be surrendered to th American authorities. Lem Spilisbury, the Mormon scout, captured at Carrizal, also Is In prison. The prisoners were assaulted by Mexi can civilians as they were being trans ferred from the train to the peniten tiary, but were landed safely behln the walla of the building and accord ing to the authorities are being well treated. The troopers brought here are: PrI vates Page. Peterson. N. Lloyd. W. Ward, Jones, Sockes, Marshall, Oliver, M. Donald. Williams, Given. Stone, Harris, Lee and Graham, of Troop H, and Hove and Alexander, of Troop It was officially announced today that none of the prisoners brought here will be hanged, that "not being the custom ol a civuisea country." . , Fire Wardens Meet at Kelso. KELSO, Wash., June 24. (Special.) The fire wardens of. Cowllts and ad- tmnin counties met in Kelso today. Fred E. Pape, of Olympla, State Fire Warden: J. C. 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