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n f fir-' Fair today with north west e r 1 7 winds. u It;:: ksf VOL. VIII- NO. 43. TORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY HORNING, MARCH 3, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENT: China Faces Repetition of Boxer Uprising---Powers Rush Troopsto Peking Uncle Sam Warns Americans in !J ' UNITED SlMESmmTS IMBIUTY 70 PROTECT Itll TOffiiraiEES; DANGER IS SEEtj Ambassadors of Other Coun tries Summoned and In- v formed of Action. Taken by American Government. (By the InterMttou! Sews Sertee.V K Washington. March .-,- Admitting that It is not able toprotect the lives of American citizens in Mexico or to guarantee the safety of their property tinder the State of anarchy that now ex tuts without physical intervention, the United States today cabled to Ambassa dor Wilson at Mexico City to warn, all Americans to leave the danger stones without delay. ,' .. ? ' The ambassador is charged with ths ' duty of ascertaining the, particular lo calities in which it is not safe for Amer icans to remain. ' - ' Foreign JSlnlatsrs Called. ; Following this cablegram the presi dent summoned the ambassadora of France. Germany. Great pritain - and pain to, the state deportment where they were informed by Huntington Wil Fon. acting secretary of state, of the action taken by the government. -By this act the administration specifically admits that not only Is It unable to pro tect the lives of its own citizens, but that it will not be responsible for the - safety of lives or property of cltlucns of other nations now In Mlco. .. Th oresldent thus puts the issue di rectly up to congress. ..Either he nius ...v..l. In a ml trOODS OVf till Mexican border and restore order by force of arms, or th Monroe doctrine . v . .konHnnsd a an active force and other nations be permitted to step In and protect tneir own ciuaeun. VU' W - v ' - Upon leaving the w Ae department the four ambassadors v icniy w i.. Aaum nt ) iituation in Mexico ; as relates to the United States, to their own governments. At least inree 01 uie four governments whose citizens are thus left without -protection by the United Ftates are undoubtedly even now consid ering the necessity of Interfering on teei" own behalf. ' - ; . It was V-lnted out here today that the situation in Mexico is not one of a single force rebelling against a gov ernment but a condition of complete an archy in which no one is responsible to anybody else. . " ' . ' Able to Meet Situation. That the United States Is fully able to meet th situation and resoro order U..I.A tt f.ncri-BHa will c-lve nroner authority, is Illustrated by the fact that i tha ntfr TnohllA armv In IlUt, w " . readiness to move, but that a plan of campaign nas neen compiciea vy mo army war college in Washington. ; Coincidsnt with his instructions to Ambassador Wilson, President Taf t Is sued a proclamation to all citizens of the United States now In Mexico or con templating a visit to that country, warning them against participation In the disturbances there. , "It will be observed," said ' Acting (Secretary Huntington Wilson, "that the proclamation 1s not a declaration ,of neu trality, nor Is It In any way a recogni tion of a state Of belligerency In Mex ico. It Is merely an admonition and warning to all persons within the Juris diction of the United States and to American citizens generally to obey carefully and strictly the laws of the United States and to: hold themselves wholly aloof from all participation of whatever kind In th present disturb ances in Mexico." Instruction to Wilson. ' The Instruction from the department f stato to Ambassador Wilsofris: "You are now in your discretion to Inform Amerioans that the " embassy . deems It your duty to advise them to withdraw from any particular localities where conditions or prospects, of law lessness so threaten personal safety as to "make withdrawal the part of com mon prudence, specifying localities, if any, from which withdrawals may at any time seem advisable and stating that In any " such cases consuls may take such charge of abandoned effects as may be possible under the circum stances. " : ' ..;' "The department Is sending a copy of this telegram to all consular officers in Mexico for their information and for the information of Americans in their districts. (Signed) "HUNTINGTON WILSON.". "ON TO MEXICO CITY'' IS CRY OF 4000 REBEL TROOPERS, IN JUAREZ ' (United Pr I.eal Wire.) ; El . Paao, Texas, March 2, Four thousand Mexican rebels are under arms In Juarez tonight and the slogan Is "On to Mexico City." The movement of Vasquistas upon Chihuahua Is looked upon now as of minor importance. Chi . huahua is already practically Vis quistas, and has only. 400 rurales to reBlBt the rebel hosts.' t has lost its Wol, too, according to advice -tonight,' mhftf'yrwwr ' travrnrftnattr returnea to prlvnte life and to the oper etlon of 1ts silver mine noar Chihuahua, rancho Villa.-the former bandit, wh'-i has -xm m!i In the fU-'.-. vli It j ' ORDERED ' -..: V . ' V - t A ' V ' i V r .. J V ' 'i r..v. 1 Jlenry L. .Wilson, United States Ambassador to Jlerlco. i F;. JELLISOfl FAF.iILY IS SHOVI h!oi!;er and iler Four ChllJrch Victims of Cyanide of Po tassium, Slept on Straw. ' (Salem tSurenn of The JourtmLl Salem, Or., March 2. The death of Mrs. L. F, Jettison and her four chll dren, all poisoned by the mother, re vealed a terrible struggle for existence that shocked all Salem today. Living in a tent In the floor of which were great1 holes and cracks, with no stove except a dilapidated sheet Iron heater, sleeping on straw placed on dry goods boxes, with scarcely' enough to ett to keep soul- and body together, tho poor woman took what she thought was the only way out or ner misery. " ..:; Much has been learned today to in dlcate that her mind had been made up for some time to seek this way out of her trouble. The condition in which the bodies . were found this morning by Chief of Pollco Hamilton and Coroner A, M. Clough Bhow that the plans were carried out "With precision, : Mother Dresses for Burial, Her children, Harlan, aged IS; Epsy, aired 10 r Maude, aged .7; and Raymond, aged 2, were tucked in the makeshift beds, dressed in their nignr ciotnes. The two boys were lying on loose straw thrown, on a large- box with, a thin covering over and under them, and the two glrla, were in bed With the mother, who was fully dressed in a dark col ored dress, with a white lace collar and Idee at the cuffs. A brooch was fastened at the throat. , The oldest son, Russell,' aged 17," left his mother January 17, after she had tied him cp and given him a flogging with a strap. , The two did not get along , well together, and aha often whipped him. After Russell left she became ; 111 with . worry. nd with her efforts to- earn, alone a livelihood for herself and her children. v History of Her Marrlayes. .' . Throe, times Mrs. Jelllson, who was 42 years .old, had been married, and each time divorced. Her first husband was Elmer Storey, the marriage taking placeln Ohio, .wher tha couple lived. One son.-Russell, was born to them. Her hext marriage venture was with Charles Jelllson, in Kansas," The old est three of tha four poisoned were his children. ' ' ' , After getting a divorce from Jelllson, she came to Oregon nd lived at Dun dee awhile, "then moved to Monmouth, where she was living when she married John Swanson, a little more than two yeas ago. She lived with him three months on a ranch near Lebanon. Leav ing him, she brought her family to Sa lem. The baby was bis child. , Dreadful Straggle to Live. ; She began life here by doing any work she could get,: taking in washing and cleaning house. She lived on the outskirta , of the city 1 near , Sooth Twelfth street, and there She- became a close Mend of Ms. W. J. Pratt, who tells a harrowing story .of the woman's struggle to live and keep her family to- fethar.""'.ri''- y-''V"'---''' 8 "Until Mrs. Jelllson got work at the Royal Cafeteria abfiut six months ago, alie told me she and her family HvoU on U a week," said Mrs. Pratt. "I know that for long .stretches at a time they had only two meals a day, and that these consisted of mush and milk, with- out sugar, in the morning and bread and milk at night." . ' . ' "She was a good neighbor and friend," continued Mrs. Pratt, "but- she"- had a terrible temper and had a great deal of trouble with her children.' She often told JUah8woul4.cpnaucrhernr die in the attempt." Eejius to fay He Debts. When .sb necurcd employnifint at the cut 'tiTia she moved Into a. small house eRIBLE POVERTY 0 IAFTERDEATI L'IKI'S EilElIS -mm upon MBS RULE Virtually Admit That New Jerseyman Will Go Into Bal t timore Convention With Plu rality If Not Majority. AGENTS OF OPPONENTS SAY DARK HORSE WILL APPEAR But Glimpse Into - History fof 1 Conventions Proves Loose-, ness' of Argument. " (Waablneto Bureia ef Tbt JoarnaLk ' . Washington, March 2.-That interests opposing WoodrowWllson virtually ad mit the New Jersey governor will go Into the Baltimore convention with a plurality, if not a majority of the votes, his supporters - say - i proved-bythe fact that the agents of these Interests are industriously spreading the report that even if Wilson gets a majority he cannot get the necessary two thirds vote required . by tha Democratic tra ditions and rules. . : ' . , - ' ; Some of these agents point out that Bland was defeated in' 1896 by Bryan, although the Mlssourlan had a majority on tha .first ballot. The buft answer to this statement, say friends of Gov ernor Wilson,' is that there were 768 votes In the Chicago convention. On tha first ballot Bland led with S35. less than ene third of the whole, and the next highest man was Bryan, with 119 votes. Bland's highest vote was on the third ballot, when he, received, 31 to Bryan's 219. No other candidate mus tered more t?iftn a hundred votes. On the fifth bRliot Bryan was, nominated- , ; ', Bugaboo Xa TJnfonnded. , Turthfr naly of th hMorv ff pn. litlcal coavCituou. &lii,o .... i ,. aboo about the two -thlti uie and Us deadlocks and dark horses -is unfounded. In the present Instate the wish is ap parently the father to the thought, since the most earnest talkers about the, dangers Of the two thirds rule are men who would like to sea a dark horse named. :":;-u ! .-'"V ':i'-'T No man who aver received a majority of the votes in a Democratle national convention ever failedto get the neces sary two thirds, witli one exception, Martin Van Buren in 44. Dark horses have been nominated by the Democratic convention only three times: Polk, In '44; Pierce, in '63, andSeymour, in '68. In tha other 17 of the twenty conven tions held by the Democrats since '82, the man with the, plurality at first has been nominated. Of course, the excep tion must bo made In the case Of Doug las' nomination,' made only after a bolt f Republicans - Have Three. . The Republican party has held only 14 conventions and from the first it has made nominations by a majority (Continued on Page Five.) r.,-lu.- V" ' i - " H" ft wtattfctt ;i :;, y . - 'k JJjJLv . faWss, MW NET EARNINGS; . . -J?' yuirjf . V - .. . ? :.'.""-. ' 1 . " ' ' V ' ' ' PORTLAND GAS S COKE . CI 10 BUILD PLANT j ' $3,000,000 Will Be Spent on New 'Institution To Be Built Near Linnton, - Announcement r was made from the offices of the Portland Gas & Cuke company last night that plans contem ptaunK no esiaonsnment or a new manufacturing plant to -cost I3.OO0.OO0 have Just been completed, and that the first ' unit will be finished before the end of the coming summer at a cost of $750,000. r- . 1 The' company has a spacious tract of 4Q acres contiguous to, the government mooring Just this side of Linnton.. A landscapa artist has been engaged at no little expense to design an artistic arrangement of building , for the new plant - f Instead -of being an eyesore, the whole will present a pleasing ap pearance, and one that will harmonize with the "city beautiful',', plans. It Is the intention of tha company to remove the , old plant at the foot of Ulisan street as rapidly as possible. The management hopes that this will Have been accomplished within three years and that all of the units of the new p"lant, as designed" thus far, will have been- installed. , : , "We have made iVrrangcmentaiwitb the port of Portland to fill in our prop erty up io ma DuiKhead on the river front." aald one' of the officials of the gas corporation last night,' "and we in tend to start on this, soon. v "Ths new plant, when completed, will have a total generating capacity of 10, 600,000 cubic feet per -day. That will bo exceeded Whenever the demand war rants an increase. We have made our plans to build as, tha growth of the city requires. We have plenty of room to expand in.- -t :.. f The .crude petroleum which la used for the manufacture of pas will be stored in special tanks which will be filled from tank eteamern at our own do"lt.We b'ava jalready obtained a fran cjilse from the county to pipe tha-product along tha county iroad.- r ' - - . -"As soon as the first unit Is In oper ation tMs year the gas will bo pumped fP it't tbPt,""'-i4..,tber j,0).. 1 ; .'i'.'V lilh. .cao 'be wtMd iiit-iv ,.il van tageously' from that liicatlon - thfu from th present one. The new plant will bo so built as to of 'i'er tha leapt possible nuisance, equipped, as it will be, with the most modern of machinery for purifying the smoke and filtering tha lamp black by-product" LITERARY LIGHTS HONOR WILLIAM DEAN HQWELLS New Tork, March 2. Men and women who have written reams of "copy" to en tertain and educate America gathered tonight at Sherry's and did honor to William Dean Howells, admittedly . the greatest of them all, who yesterday cel ebrated his seventy-fifth birthday anni versary. : Colonel George W, Harvey was host and President ,Taft was the special guest. . - ,; Others present were- real literary "lights," including Hamilton W. Mable. Winston Churohill, Basil King, Wllllasi Allen White,, Augustus Thomas," James Barnes, Ida M. . Tarbell and Carolyn Wells. " FEEDING TITO PET STARVATION LEEKS AS ENGLAND FACES A GREAT CI 11 Hand-to-Mouth Country Now Realizes How She Will Be ' Placed. If Coap Strike Is Prolonged." ' MINE NATIONALIZATION " CRY IN SOME QUARTERS Vigorous Measures of Coercion Are Demanded by Others and Army Held Ready. , . By William T. Stead. : (Br tbe lotrroatlontl News Servtft.) London, March .Great Britain stands today on tha very edge of hell. Ona million coal miners, representing tha whole body of workmen engaged In coat ininingr hava-strnck -and. riTthsy refuse to go back to work until their demands are conceded, and if those de mands are not conceded, the country will-be plunged Into civil war. . Not civil war of theory kind, in which two armed forces appeal 'to Jha arbitra ment of arms as to which shall rule, but civil war of a tar kind civil war in which the sole arbit er wm do starvation atarvation en dured, not by the combatants alone, or even in chief, but the starvation of a nation. , Starvation is a far, more cruel arbiter than war? V;!'?- (..-;.',.:' , Karratton Knows o Law. , War has its laws; starvation knows non Is now being realised for tha first time- in our highly complex hand to mouth clvlllxatlon'ln this mod ern society of ours, which is as dell eata as the works of a watoh, it is in th? power cf a single-deternrftied tradea omqn to convert a whole nation of civil ise men into an anarchlstio multitude of. wild beasts ravenina for i Bine' the. world began there never has been a nation of 40.000.ooo that uvea so annoiuteiy rrom hand to mouth as the British nation. from hand to mouth, relying with, im pliit faith upon the continuous smooth working of the vast system of railroads, steamships and. banks, unit th. which kept tha whole system going with av roguiaruy or tno planets, whs coal. ;,-.?,- rrospeci u England, s Our Cities would ha In riarknaaa wlWl out ooal; th sewage of London could not m disposed oi without coal; our manufacturing Industries wnnM alysed, outside the purely agricultural aistncis, every one would be reduced to - absolute lack of food : and drink, light and warmth without coal, and to day, ' because 1,000,000 miners refuse to go to work except on their own terms, thin-disaster la threatening the whni nation" - - Ministers, appalled at the prospect of (Continued on Page Five.) New Chinese Republic Totters K ? r. I K K at r. at K Foreign Intervention Is Certain , n : n n n t - t s - .; . Peking Plundered by Soldiers j Yuan Shi Kai, president of Chinese r. Ikpablie, - who is - helpless- la the 'face of uprising. . ry "Don't Want Your-Moneyf It's i: Blood.: Money," Cries Con gressmanrDramatica!lyv i- By the Internntionai News RivTlec'.) Washington, March 2, -Grabbing a $S bill from a hat that was being passed around for the benefit of tha wan and haggard child textile strikers from Law rence, who appeared before the house committee pn rule today, Representa tive Berger," Socialist, hurled ft into the face of its donor, J. II. Cox, a mill owner of .Lawrence.' ." ?.'"' 1 "' "We don't writ your money; it's blood money,'" - cried, , Berger, dramatically. "We'll take care of our own without help." -' Instantly Cox and It. J. McCartney, a banker from" Lawrence," made a dash for Berger. Adult strikers hurried to the aid of Berger, but members of the com mittee, and several lawyers jumped be tween them and prevented a physical clash. '.;..-.'," '' ,: " Trouble Is Averted. ' With tense and angry visage, the bankers on one side and the Socialist and strikers on the other, stood face to face.1 scarcely two feet between tnem. Then, with, features relaxed but ; his eyes still dancing witn rage, uox ieti the room. . ; ' j ' :-': - In' the same room In which omy a mdnth or so ago Andrew Carnegie com plained bitterly because he had been paid onlv 320,00O,0OO for his property bv the sfeel corporation; where Judge Gary confided to a committee from con gress that the steel trusf had $75,000, 000 in unsh always ready to-meet on emergencyj child strikers in the mills at Lawrence laid 'bare their scars to pitying congressmen today, ' 1 Presented by Representative Berger as an exhibit of what "one of . the most highly protected Industries In America does to human . life by which it is served," 13 sallow cheeked, thin lipped, hollow eyed, poorly clad children and tlx adults maTched up Pennsylvania avenue and filed solemnly Into the capl- tel;'".- ': . - ' ' ''.'-r : In the room where attendants hurried in wait noon the smallest wish of Car negie, Gary and Schwab, nobody had arranged for the comfort of these "ex hibits," and they stood along the wall until Representative .Henry, accompa nied by his own little son of 8, took pity on their plight. ' ': "Get chalra for tnese cnuurcn, - ewm- mandel. Judge Henry. "Arrange, them any war'you want and take your time," he added to Mr. Berger, - - . i . Pleads for Investigation. Rfifore the -witnesses began Chairman Wilson of the committee onjabof plead ed for a fedeval investigation on ine ground that in refusing to permit chil dren to leave' Lawrence -several days ago the state authorities had violated the federal law. . , '-.: ' "There should be no power on the part of the state.1' argued Mr. Wilson, "to prevent these children being sent out of Massachusetts unless they .were to become a public charge. There was no such allegation in this case." ' ; ' -v- "Wasn't that the t pretext In this tiiser inquire Itepresentativo Hardwlck of Georgia. : ' ': - '' " "Tha pretext was," Mr, Wilson replied, "that these children were being sent out of the state without the consent of their parents. In other words, that they were being kidnaped. If that were true this action would be indefensible and the state law would cover the case. But it was' not true in any particular." : "But aren't they in destitute circum stances?' SHked Judge Henry, u-.v-v -.r All Are Restitute. . 'Oh; Mr. Chairman,' replied Mr. Wil son dramatically, "they are aM In desti tute circumstances. No children could be more destitute than .those that wore loft at home1 and the others hadthe consent of thelr parenta to go." .... SainU'iprT.tpri'fi,'wtiiT-rid-thn-he-ts f a skilled worker but at th "best was unable to tarn more than 110 ii-r wnek In the Lawrence mills, wefnowi his tew- BERGERFWS BACK prSeISea United States Troops and Oth ers Hastening to Stricken City Where Armed Mutiny . ' Prevailsfire Loss Large. (By the tDternaUMMl News fet-Hre.) Peking, March 3. (Sunday) -Martial law was proclaimed here ttla morning and at 2 o'clock comparative- auIetABrevailed- Thft - - .. - w wa lujjw of the Hankow railroad hare been dynamited, and . all tb telegraph wires are cut. All communication Is cut off. between this city and Han kow and Tien Tbln. The booming of cannon continues Incessantly from the direction of Feng Tan and the diatant cracking? of rifles tells of fighting in the suburbs. ; ' The ministers conferred on the situation at midnight but were pow erless to take any action. The Amer ican j minister, .Mr. Calhoun, stated that - the American troops called fronv Tie: Tsla -would arrive-at o'clock this morning, PeklDg,-Mnrefe2. Foreign inter vention to stop further bloodshed la this city was decided upon today and tonight foreign troops are hastening to the capital from every post with in a two days. Journty. , A detach ment of several hundred United States troops Is hurrying to the scene . from Tien Tsm and British, German, French. Japanese and Rus sian soldiers are on their . march from other points. .; , , Scores of Christian mlsslonariea have been : murdered by" the muti nous Chinese troops. A dlsputcli from Pao Ting Fu tells of the mas sacre of several French Catholic priests there this morning.'; AH" the available1 foreign forces are now concentrated at the foreign legations, la which are gathered a3 many foreign residents as there is room - for. EVrv h?atlnn la -Vivtc. tllng the bayonets of a heavy guard. Tha railmm 1 i .1... city will reach $25,000,000- - ' The foreign ministers met in confer ence this morning immediately after ttu receipt of a message from Tang Shoo Yl, personal representative of President Yuan Shi Kal, in which he officially set forth the gravity of the situation, and asked that the powers take action A T . ... n. jduanetio uaiuesnm nas siartpd Tor Ch Taku. at the mouth of the river Wei HO, SO miles southeast of Tien Tsin. to establish wireless communlfnttrm with the Italian station at Peking. r - Slotlng Zs Kesumed. 'Rioting continued throughout last night, and after a lull of two hours early this mornlnir broke out eein e o'clock. At, that hour a detachment of artillery, headed by a band, marched to tne, palace sor Duke Kuol Kslang. father of the empress dowamr. shollpil the palace and set It on fire. The palace was looted of ITOO.000 in money and ef most of its valuable furniture and art objects. The soldiers then instituted an orgy of rioting and jobbery. , ; Scores of .. private residences were burned, and hundreds of shops looted. Many of the terrified residents who had flocked to "the streets' were shot down -and decapitated. . Headless torsos are lying everywhere. Seemingly erased and' bereft, of ail reason by their own hid eous atrocities," the looters . are fighting among themselves. The city of Pao Tins; Fu presents a scene of utter devastation. The garri son there muttnlqd last night, and hun dreds of civilians were killed lii their homes. The soldier? swept , througti the streets, looting and firing every house nd store In their path, Large areas of the city are smouldering hra?a of debris, and still other sections are burning tonight. . i The ranks of the mutineers - were swelled by large numbers of the-recalcitrant -.troop in this city, who march.'.! tji pao-Ting Fu yesterday afternoon. Hearing of.. their departure,"-Yuan Kit! Kai ordered, them halted and klih d if necessary, - but they arrived In safety and joined the local garrison in the pillaging. The French Catholic rr'.i Were murdered . in . cold' - blood in tJi.i: mission. Another band of Peking mtiu., neers Went today to Feng Tai, 2v n-.n.: from this city, and. looted and burin-. 1 ,i large part of the oHy. -The womi -n ! children were all-gathered '.wltMu i; : British, military post, and .thus' t . tested. : Ptlll another pang of wt:.i- . proceed! to Yung i'ln l-'ii. turi'i e Lait .Cliuu end hnit.-i the cii j-aIii'oad,ii:.it!';a ...v ... . guarded ..vi.iiiii.. i .... ..'-... Z.l:l ef X'"; : TI.e. Jo"! of li. , ' ' 1 on I'pge'Mne.) . I Coil'. s Two.)