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Newspaper Page Text- - ... ftV THC AMBITIOUS MAN Is constantly o th tookoat fo some thing' oett.': Journal halo wanted as ff a many chances (or advancement M1P T3CXM. ' -.:-.-' . ..... .... Tbe weather Bhowert and cooler COAST TEMPER AT UHES HA At jt oiM ..i. ...... aa" eattl ....... . i. .,,,,, 4 pokaae ,,,,, 44 Xarshflald 44 TMia , , . , , ao . rortiAad ,irt-rrt . t r a tonlihfi showers Saturday. ; i'.; : Portland, "Oregon. I-Friday evening, april 21, 1911. twenty-four pages. 1 -, vol: x;;;no.4o. PRICE two cents . ViRHM'ZlZ ill 1BI WPSK IIWMCK JMfi . ,,f . , , . .' - ' . .' ' ' ' " .' 1 11 . 11 1 ' 11 1 ' i, . I ,. HBEE O'CLOCItIS TIME SET BY MADERO FOR A JUST WHAT HES BEEN LOOKING FOR COUNCIL OF WAR ! HELD IN MORNING PLANS FORFIGH T Unless President Diaz Accepts Terms Sent Him Assault on City Will Be Begun on Schedule Time. (United rrM Leased Wirt.) SI Paso, Ttiu, April 81. At I O'clock, who the armistice bet' a th rebels aad Xexloa federal expired, th 1 Tumetoa Bhowod ao flUpoiltloa to at tk Tnaroi koforo alclitfalL . 1 Po, Tex, April tl. Movement ( by 800 rebpla from tho hlll toward Juarei at noon today marked what ia believed ' to be the beginning of evolu tlona preceding; the attack or. Juaros, s which wai elated for 3 o'clock. There waa a council of war at Ma dero'a headquarters this morning when the rebel board of strategy presented a detailed plan of battle which waa con sidered and accepted by the Inaurrecto leaders. There Is errey reason to believe that ' Madero's guns will open on the City the moment. the time set for the expiration of his ultimatum to Dias arrives. ,v ' j"' OMsxal Oroaoo Anestsd. - . . Indication of the feeling in El Paso was given hers last night when Gen eral .FasquaJ Orozco croased the Amer ican -line and - dined with his body-, guard at the Hotel Sheldon.. Agents of the United States-department of Jae- tlc Intervened, detained Oroscn anil threatened to arrest hlra and his fol- . lowers ' No sooner did news of the action of v the American officials circulate through out the. town than a largo tnpb gathered In front ot tho hotel and threatened a riot if Orosco were Jailed. The gov ernment agents at once 'conferred with the El Paso city officials and decided to send Orozco- back across tho line. He , and his bodyguard were, escorted to the International bridge with tho mob fol lowing and cheering the departing .rebel jeaaer. Vp to the Federals, Before leaving General Orozco said: "I have no Information other thnri that the attack on Juares will com mence on scheduled time. We have asked Navararro to surrender and he has refused. Wo have also asked , him to .fight outside the 'city In order to r prevent our ouiieis tuning in i raso, V It is now up to the federals." Senora Madero, wife of the provision al president, arrived today from San An tonio, and he will remain In El Paso until the revolt Is ended, . Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the Polar ex- filoref, visited Madero's carnp this morn ng. : : . , , Diaz Makes Formal With drawal of Offensive Pas sages in Note Sent Yester day; No Offense Intended. (Catted Praa LaaJ Wlr. Washington. April 21. Mexico City dfspatches received here today say that President Dlas has ordered the release cf the Amerlca-n prisoners. Lawrence Converse and Edwin Blatt. from the cuartel at Juares as the result of a plea by Converse's father. i. Mexico City.. April II. Assurances from Foreign Minister Do la Barr that no offense was meant by the tenor of the Dlas reply to President Taft's note, woreformally made hero today to Amer ican Ambassador Wilson. De La Barra also formally withdrew tho charge that American troops had crossed tho border and disarmed Mexican federal soldiers, as well as ttie accusation that Captain Qauiot of the American forces, had lm properly trespassed on Mexican soil dur ing tho battle of Agua Prieta. This action . waa takon after an in. tervttw with Ambassador Wilson who asked De la Barra If his note was In tended, to -4oM4bo United States into action. The Mexican ministers reply was paclflo In the extreme. Washington. April tl. Despite dis claimers by tho Mexican government of any wish to have 4 marina n live or property endangered by hostilities along the border, officials here today fear that If Madero attacks Juares at the expiration of the time set by him for Dlas to resign I o'clock mis arternoon there will bo a repetition of the Doug las incident, but with much mora seri ous consequences.' - - Although American troops have been ordered to prevent, so far as they can, all casualties on the American side, tho citizens of El' Paso threaten to take part in the fighting If Mexican bul lets cross tho line. General Wood has specifically ordered the American com manders to prevent any firing from this Side of the line, but it la doubted If in case the Mexicans wound anyone In El Paso, there is sufficient military force here to hold the townspeople., In telegrams to tho state department , tix ay tho Mexican foreign office with draw those portions of the Dlax reply to President Taft which gave offense here. It Is believed this part of Diaz answer was intended for homo consump tion in" Mexico and was inserted with tho full Intention that lt would be with drawn as soon as the Mexican people had had ah opportunity to digest the independent "play" made by their pres ident. ' 1 1 I1M " VSg" :k BYPRESIDEHTJAFT DEPOSITORS AT CALL VANCOUVER OR GRAND U y Demand Inquiry Whether Bank Examiner Mohundro Was Interested in Speculations Causing Wreck. COMMITTEE IS NAMED TO WAIT UPON JUDGE Receiver Kies' Report Shows No Likelihood of Even 25 Per Cent Dividend. ATTACK ON JUAREZ BLACK HAIER, VAST NEW FIELD SCHEDULED FOR 3 ANGER, SMASHES VILL BE OPENE IS AFTERNOON UP HIS GLASS EYE . BY STEAMER L N Rebel Leaders Declare Onlv Italian Prisoners in Caae Break Bates & Chesebrough Co. the Retirement of President Out in Frenzy, Weeping, Plans Monthly Schedule Be- Screaming, Hurling Threats at Government Prosecutor, Diaz or Surrender of City Will Prevent Bloodshed. , tween Portland and Phila delphia via Panama. 'United Ptwaa Lnieo Wire.) El Paso, April 21. That the crack of I (United Irns Leuad 'ivira.1 I Portland has proven so satisfactory a Vlteroo, naiy, April JSl. lenragea at rrr5blnr nort for the Bates II Ches rifles, the sputter of machine runs and bitter cross examination to which hrourfi line of steamers that the bis: the boom of cannon would wake the h hd bfen aubjected by Prosecutor independent line has arranged a month- echoes over Juares before aundown was :'. "" ly schedule of sailings between Port cn.ou nu utuiucr . nj and Philadelphia and New York Cuoccolo and his wife, extracted a glass vla Pfinm. which will be Increased to floor. 'I am being, persecuted," Eoposlto the general belief here today and El Paso with i nerves on edge anxiously awaited the coming of 8 o'clock, when, unless President Diss adbloated, or ?rrt .riitaier t0 h! Uhouted." "ThS poFaro det7rd .-.e - ' 4 Pledges Madvby Gay, Lombard. 4 ' To work for comniteslon form of government . . 4 To fight all special privileges 4) 4 and permits. . , 4) To assume responsibility for 4 his chief of police. - 1':- To roo out graft from police department. , . ' 4) 4) Favors Ellis amendment for . A competition In street paving, 4 4- uniting of city and county govern- -4 ments, new city Jail, municipal 4 garbage collection service, larger 4f salary for city engineer, munlcl- 4 pal street repair plant .. . . , Gay Lombard and J. E. Werleln, ean didates for the Republican nomination for mayor, drew a good sited audience to the Masonlo temple last flight to hear the first Joint discussion between them on tho city campaign. Lombard waa true to hjs promise that he would not Indulge In personalities, : and although Werleln'a talk seemed de- ; slimed to provoke -his opponent ' Lorn' bard said nothing unkind In response " to the thrusts of the city treasurer.. He did repeat his charges that tho present . city council Js unfit and the servant ; of special interests and Werleln, less emphatic, said the councilman ar do ing the best they know how, "but the r best they know how' la not very good.'' : .One if itha ,featureaof tho. meeting was. the applause given Lombard in his advocacy of . the commission form . of government " His dear cut declaration ,. against the charter as obsolete and in adequate wera cheered again and again". His atatement that every candidate for , mayor or the. council should be called to declare himself oh the commission Jforra was' vigorously applaflded. 1 . .Werleln defended the old charter. He, . ' Fledges leads by 3. B. Werleln. To prevent Increase in city tax levy. . ' '. ..." To locate garbage crematory outside city limits, v Favors equalisation of city hall salaries, division of city into 15 wards, wiping out pitfalls and dives, use of power by ex ecutive board to refuse execu tion tf extravagant contracts. Defends present charter, and says present city officials don't understand it, or know how to execute lt ; , rebels, Madero said the battle would begin. With dawn this mornlug scores of El Pasoans hastened to the Rio Grando, eager to see whether there had been any movement on the part of the fed erals or the rebels whose battle lines that I shall either die in prison or lose my other eye. At this stage Esposlto fainted and the hearing was adjourned. Following Esposlto's action in shat tering his glass eye, the cage in which tho Camorrlsts are confined resembled stretched through the hills west and I an insane asylum. Some of the prls- south of Juarts. No sign of activity oners wept and screamed at the top of b" whereby Port and wil have waa aoart hnwAvar anA all th.lr .nl.. arhtl. nthara haat IU DUr' fOniana Will naVO were that both sides wore quietly await-1 bars with' clenched fists, until tho !S tJ?J,.de0,l8ln " D,1 Wh,lh VU bl?0d Stre,UT,ed from thelr 'eJf ,nfl,cted "ew field forecast products there and bt-weekly service soon if the business of tho line In and out of Portland In creases at lt has In the past few months. In addition to the Atlantic coast service the Bates & Chesebrough line has completed traffic arrangements with the new Mississippi Valley Trans portation company, which Is to operate steamers and barges on the Mississippi river between St Louis and New Or leans and on the Ohio as far as Pitts- di rect service and through rates into th Mississippi valley, opening up a vast (SiavNl Diana trh to Tbe JnaraaLl Vancouver, Wash., April 21. The failure of the Commercial bank is to be Investigated by a special grand Jury which will also Inquire Into a rumored partnership between State Bank Exam iner Muhundro, President Phillips and Frank Aldrtch. It Is alleged that srec- uianons in wnicn these -men were In terested resulted ir failure, forcing the Danic to close. Three hundred depositors. In the de funct Commercial bank in mass moot ing this morning determined to ask the superior court to call a grand Jury to Investigate fully tho causes which led to the failure of the bank last Decem ber, when nearly 1500,000 In deposits waa tied up wth chances of more than two thirds clear loss. The meeting named a committee to wait on Judge McMaster at once and urge the calling of a grand jury with able counsel to go thopcmgnly tatay-tk feanfc- disaster; -1. rThe meeting was called for 10 o'clock. and by that hour 200 men and women had gathered In Elchenlaub's hall, with another 100 on the street The gather Ing was orderly, but a defiant air .was evident among the men who - led the discussion. Captain Aloe, one of the heaviest de positors, presided, and In taking the chair said: Urges Expose of too Tacts, "When tho bank was closed Examiner Mohundro told us that If tho bank was properly handled It would pay dollar for dollar. We knew lt was untrue, but we had no Idea, of tbe real conditions we have since uncovered. A heavy loss has been sdmltted and no one can now oven guess what the dividends will be. Our money is gone, and we are entitled to know who got It ' If criminal actions have been condoned, they should now bo exposed and lt Is the duty of this body to see that they are taken to tho courts. Wo have a duty to perform and we are ready to perform It Wo should employ tiie best attorneys In the country and get busy very soon. I have talked to a good many depositors and the consensus of opinion Is that we want to bo right, then go ahead. Wo must employ able men to investigate the whole trans action which led up to the closing of the tank. " , "There Is a strong Impression, formed by Information gathered at the bank, REVELATIONS OF El HUGACH CAUSE AMAZEMENT Was Taft Deceived or Did He ; Know What Would. Follow His Secret Withdrawal , of 12,800 Acres? ANYWAY, CLINCHED GRIP OF SYNDICATE ON ALASKA Coal, Harbors, Transportation, Put in Morgan-Guggenheim Power Forever. (Waahlaaton Bunas at The Jenrnal) . Washington, April 21. It looks nowl like the Morgan-Guggenheim Alaska syndicate has achieved an amaslng coup in view of tho executive order signed October 21, last. In which President Taft eliminated 12.S0O acres from tho Chug-ach- national forest on the southern coast of Alaska, and restored .them to entry. These lands had been withdrawn hr President Roosevelt and Ho along lh ' waterfront of Controller bay harbor. 20 mllea from the Bering coal fields where. In lie tho celebrated Cunningham coal claims. Already tho Morgaa-Guggen-heJm Interests were In eontrol of near ly all other harbors along the southern coast the terminals of tho Copper River and Northwestern railway at Cordova bay and at Resurrection bay. where the Alaska Northern, formerly tho Alaska central, bad terminals.' . The. syndicate olM-4JUo-jlrbot-facrjltfa at Skagi way oi in waits Pass and ..; Yukon, which road It controls. Onlr on har bor remained as the hope of tho doodIo that some Independent railway lnteraat might gain entrance, Into Alaska,:, and that was Controller .bay, a few mllea to the east from Cordova bay. : R. S. Ryan, president of tho Controller Railway A Navigation company, waa the lobbyist who apparently "nut lt hvr" for tho Morgan-Guggenheim Interests.' He spent about two years lobbying for tho elimination of the lands ' of , tho Chugach. forest which bordered upon (Continued on Pago Five.) SUPPOSED GIANT GRAB CONFIRMED (Continued on Page Sixteen.) the difficulty or turn loose the dogs or I cuts. war.' 1 prosecutor mancm was tne target Opinion here was general that Dlas for the epithets hurled by the alleged would not yield and. that the battle Camorrlsts. They were loud In their would be fought. Following the ref u- denunciation of the government and sal of General Navarro to surrender swore that others of the Camorra would avenge their sufferings. Efforts to quiet the prisoners failed and the court was compelled to order a recess. THRONE GOES OUT, ' CHAS. WILSON IN said the council is honest, hut does not know how to get at thing. The coun- cilmen do not know how to work under the charter, he said, or know tho ef fect of it In closing tho debate, after Lombard's time had explred.-he said ho would favor tho appointment of a com mittee, of 15 to investigate the question of a new .-charter; but he insisted tho commission form Is not an issue In the present- campaign. - ' . " T. J. Fording presided at the meet ing and presented the debaters. Werleln came nrst witn a so minuter allowance, Lombard following with 80 minutes and Werleln closing in ID minute more. Werleln began by saying ho would show Lomoard does not understand tho Bros ent - charter. In hi closlng-remarks werietn asked 7 -the commission form would do away with the executive board. tho police commission; tho park, board and other commissions, and seemed non plussed when affirmative answers were shouted In response. . .. . ... ; "Tho-executlcve board does not have to execute contract," he sold.: , "Tho r- eeutivo - board - may; -refuse to: xcute (Continued on Page Bixtoen.) without direct Instructions from Mexlcs City, tho American troops here today made every preparation to maintain a strong double cordon along the north bank of the river, close enough to lt to take In a part of the buildings on the American side. If tho troop can pre vent It not a single resident of El Paso will be allowed to pass this barrier. once the firing begins. In this way, It is hoped, tbe danger of casualties would be greatly reduced. . . ' ' The chief source of apprehension hero was that an attack might be made upon Jaures by tho rebel command ly ing towards Bauche. Should they opon bullets surely would fall in El Paso, 1flieT lleAC M lnSUr3nCe Ue and tne reeling, nere was so high mat , .a t . if any one was wounded, there was tbe DartFPent ASKeO 0V KOZer 4a n that rlflaa armilil K.ln I J tq-Tipeak from tfaomeTlcaHld-rta to-j : 10 " ReSI g n. There waa little fear that shells from! any of the Insurrecto cannon would fall northwest of Jaure. the big guns of 1,? tK" h rS the Madero force would throw their !? 5?!JbI hM!.i -Itl missile Into Juare with their lino of " 1" 1" . "X r ,. , " " aA that . . .ik E-i I r B. A. Kozor 'and it is learned that firo almost at right angle with Elrii..,. t.,i.. k- Pao and there Wa. not one chance in I ' ," V.a "1, vTr&ZZl hundred, of datnag being don hero May. Tn, r-gnatto,, of Throne came 1 : . ... .. . ii ma reaucBi pi sua superior, jar. jvi- When thO battIO Opens, It it doe Open. . Ma Thmnlv hi. ramnvnt tn ww ir cuiiu wM Mi)Bvu (9 wim t q i Koser alono. the nata west or Jjarei, espociauy r Thron oecured his position aa chief .noeaeraus-aOEuiaea w uito iwii,rk to tho- insurance commissioner th Open to meet their foes. In case I throuarh- the. InflueSce of Secretarv of they decided, however, to make theirl state Benson, who aa aovernor aoDoint. fight from behind theand bags and ttm- ed Koser insurance commissioner a his er barricade, of -tho town, the -danger j first official act after taking hi oath damage in i Faso would do tnuci of office. : Kozers term as insurance greater, for-In -the heat of conflict It I commissioner expires January , 1, 1 13, is imnrobable that either rebel or foe-1 whan hlsr aucceaaor will bo annointed hv eral, would litop to consider tho-Veel- j Ooremor West. The governor is at Ore- ng- to tho safety of tho grlngoe ln I gon City today and could, not be inter- El F 9 before turning hit rifle I09.S0, viewed regarding the resignation, v 1 greatly lowering the freight rates on Mississippi valley commodities to Portland. The reductions in freight rates from the Atlantic coast and the Mississippi valley to Portland are so material that they permit of Portland s greatly en larging Its distributing territory and place the manufacturing and Jobbing Interests of this city more strongly to the front than ever. r- Detail Arranged. H. 8. Bates of 8an Francisco, head of Bates & Chesebrough, was In Port land yesterday arranging details for the opening of an office for his firm In Portland, of which J. Ernest Lald- law will be In charge. The agency has opened temporary offices in the Lum bermen's building, but these will be en larged next week and a traffic manager will be sent from: San Francisco the first of May. to handle the traffic end of the business here. 'To rav mind there are Kolns? to be but two largo shipping and distributing ports on the Paclflo coast," said Mr. Bates yesterday? "Portland will be the distributing center for all of th north coast and San .Francisco for the south coast Wo are ' making our plans ac cordingly and as soon as possible will increasoth seraco putpf Portland. The merchants of this city have come to our aid In a way that is both sur prising and gratifying. We thought we would bo able .to secure some business in and out of Portland, but we had no thought that lt would grow as It has. Ail our vessels leaving New York and Philadelphia are 'securing full cargoes for this port - Shipments of. hardware and-lroir products have" been- partlcu larly heavy... At first we did not know what wo would do for. east bound ship ments, but a comparative rato of 40 cents per hundred oh lumber has solved the question for us without difficulty. The atoamer Rlvereid of our line is 4n Portland now and Jbas loaded with a full cargo of 1.300,000 feet for the Atlantlo ports. 4 Tho Stanley Dollar.' the MISSING BANKER IS FOUND IN MONTANA BrWICKERSHAM Delegate From Alaska Be lieves La , Foflett e : Inquiry Will Show Monopoly-Safely in Guggenheim Hands. ; 1 Remarks Made by Wife of F. N. Myers Lead to His Arrest. ortS.f lnuel (Continue on Pag Sixteen. F. N. Myers, missing president of the defunct Mount S'cott bank of Lents, and also a former official of th closed Italian-American bank .of Portland, is under arrest at Big Timber, Mont. ' A telegram to this effect was received this afternoon by District Attorney Cameron, who bad received a tip tnat Myers wa to be found near Big Timber. Myers has been living with a brother and had assumed the name of Frank Nevius. r..-.-. . . TT , The arrest wss made through Infor mation furnished to thexdiBtrlct attor ney by a man who overheard a conver satlon between Mrs. Myers, who still remains in Portland, and another woman. : .i . ''..' . This man also saw ' letter which Mrs. Myers handed to tho other woman. It was addressed to Frank Nevius at Big Timber. :- ... -.-, Myers,who has been missing for more than a month, will bo brought back to face the Indictment brought against him byvthe grand Jury. , . . Kaiser Has Acute Throat Trouble. Vienna, April 21.--Emperor William Is suffering from an acute attack of throat trouble and hi physicians today deemed it advisable to caneel all audi ences scheduled for th next SO day. The trouble .ao far ha. refused to re spond to treatment j - ; - Prisoner Releaso Confirmed, Washington. April Zl.Dlspatches re ceived by tho tato department con firmed th) report of the release of Con verse and Blatt by the Mexican authori ties at Juares,' Washington, April - 21. Discussing charges that an executive order signed by President Taft opening; to entry cer tain lands in the Chugach national for est has given the Morgan-Guggenheim-. syndicate a absolute control of tho Alaska coal lands a would tho patent ing of the Cunningham claims, and tho La Fol let te resolution asking an inves tigatlorof the entries under, tho order,: Delegate in Congress Jame Wlckersham of. Alaska today gave th . following Statement to the. United Press! - Br James Wlckersham. ; , (Copyrfght, 1811, by tho United Pres :, Association.) There are two possible outlets from the Berin" river eoal ' fields, wherein the so-called Cunningham group Is lo cated.. Th first for several . month ,: has been controlled by th Guggenhelms. ? It comprise a 90- mil haul around th 1 coast to Cordova Bay over-a. railroad tho Guggenhelms own. V; Tho other 1 " through Controller Bayk reached over lands .secured by the same Interests after, the president's order of October last " If the Investigation demanded br tho La Follette resolution discloses what is generally believed that both trout are owned by tho .Alaska syndicate s that syndicate has been placed in ex clusive eontrol of the only railroad and the only5 harbor over which: th coal from thl field can reach th market s. Such a monopoly would be more valu able than th Cunningham group Itself, since It would control tho marketing of alt coal and fix tho rates of trans portation and th price to the consumer. . On October; 12. 1910, th 'president withdrew 12,800 acre ; ot land, , com. manding n outlet on Controller hv, from th Chugach forest reserve. ThU land was Immediately claimed by tho interested In th; Controller Bay rail wayr In the last hours of th session, eonsreaaon March . psssed an art giv ing tho Controller Bay railroad a rljri.t of way through that IJ.SOO acres to t shores of Controller bay and the r!? to locate terminal and a deep -w--.-harbor. I. believe that the la r- -resolution Inquiry will -show t.at Alaska syndicate- inir.1 tun o - to the 12.SC0 aire- I.Vj r- '-- . tho -reservation as a m't-f..o onty harhor In I ik fr- v - great coal d-poesi.- caa c ..