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PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1914 TWO SECTIONS 16 PAGES, PRICE TWO CENTS. gJ&f&fP 5S?S VOL. XII. NO, 300. ROCK CRUSHER IS IN DYNAMITED SOUTH PORTLAND Seventy Sticks of 'High Ex plosive, Detonated at o'clock This a. m., Machinery to Bits. Rip PERPETRATOR LEAVES NO CLUES BEHIND HIM Job Done by Expert in Use of Giant Powder; Motive Is Mystery. this city, age. He Portland With a roar thnt could be ioard all over South Portland, n rocV crusher belonging to the Iortland Quarry com r.anv at th. heail of Sixth street, was Mown Into kindling wood and scrap Iron at 3 o'clock this morning by the Insertion of "0 sticks of dynamite in the Jaws of the crusher. Ths explo sion was carefully planned, the whole Job - Knowing the handiwork of one versed In explosives. No motive can be ascribed for the net and no clue was left aa to the Identity of the perpetrator. . The crusher stood on one side of Marqusm gulch aiwW had been crush ing ruck t the rate of 50 yards a day steadily since last summer. Q. W. M-clnUre, superintendent of the com pany, 13 at a loss to" ascribe a reason for this act. Work of crushing will be halted for u month at least until a new crusher can be installed arid' 12 .men arc thrown out of work. The crusher was valut d at $750. Tho dynamite was stolen from the company's own powder house, located near the crusher, t lie .fuse being sup- piled by whoever caused the explo sion, as the company ..has been using butteries only to .set oTf charges. The explosive was set in the con verging Juwb of the crusher, the blast ripping them apart and throwing earth, timbers and steel into a con fused mass. Wiiure the crusher once stood Is now but a hole in the ground. There Is but one house In the im medliUo vicinity of the plant. ; This was Shaken but suffered no serious injury!. Six span of horses belonging to tljis Portland Quarry company, quartered In a building near the de molished crusher, escaped uninjured. Though th police were on trie scene Pioneer Wholesale Grocer Dies Today , . i John Klosterman Came Here 40 Team Ago by Way of Isthmus of Panama. Was Native of Prussia, - John Klostefman, pioneer (wholesale grocer, died this morning in of ailments incident to old was 78 years old. Mr. Klosterman arrived in more than 40 years ago, by -Way of the Isthmus of Panama. He established a store at Profit and Ash str Henry Hewitt, an insurance man. Later he went into the same; business at Front and Couch streets with his brother, A. G. Klosterman. ' He came to this country from Prus sia, where he was born, landing at New York and starting almost at once for Oregon. He left a widow, Sophie Wolfe Klosterman, daughter f the. late Captain John Wolfe, and two children, J. H. Klosterman and Kemna Mary Klosterman. The funeral wi!U be held Monday at 9 o'clock from the Pro Cathedral at Fifteenth and Couch streets. Interment will be at River view cemetery. j Armstrong Case j Goes Over Until Tuesday 3 PASSENGERS ON RA N KILLED GIT FIGHTING ROBBER Gang of Three Masked Men Enters Seattle-Vancouver, B. C, Train Near Belling ham, Shoot Three Victims. TRIO ESCAPE, SECURING SMALL SUM OF MONEY Passengers Shot While Re sisting One of Bandits, Who Used Automatic. Knives and Pencil in Man's Stomach He Complained of Pains in Hla Legs; Autopsy Snowed Collection of Hard ware, Including Open Knife. San Francisco, Feb. 21. The somer saulting of a pencil during the night in his stomach caused the. death at the city and county hospital today of James Clark, a one-legged pencil ped dler. An autopsy showed that Clark's instdes were lined with hardware. In his stomach were: One metal handled knife with a large blade opened. The blade was 4 Inches long. A piece o metal, 2 14 Inches long and inch wide, with a sharp point at each end. A' piece of wood, wrapped with raw hide, apparently a revolver cleaner. An unsharpened lead pencil, ,8 inches long, with the rubber and metal parts intact. A piece of whipstock 7 Inches long. When Clark was hroueht to the hos pital he' complained of pains " in his legs, but said nothing about his stom ach. Inability of One of Defense's Lawyers Leads to Order of Continuance: Mo tion for Dismissal Is Heard. Owing to the inability of one of the counsel for the defense to be present the trial of A. P. Armstrong, county school superintendent and former civil service commissioner, was ' continued today gy Circuit Judge Kavanaugh to Tuesday. : When court adjourned Friday argu ment was being heard on the motion of the defense to dismiss the charg? on the ground that the offense alleged if any had been committed, Was against the city and not the, state It is- charged in this indictment that Mr. Armstrong, while a member of the City Civil Service Commission fur nished secret and special Information regarding an examination for a police captain to Robert H. Craddock and J. F. Keller, two applicants for appoint ment. Robert Armstrong, a brother, is ac cused of aiding and abetting. Long Lost Diamond in Chicken's Crop Mis. Bryant of Clatskanie Is Pleasant ly surprised wzulo Preparing- for imv tlraco or too persons responsible. The! demolition of the crusher will sci Inui-dy Impair 'the work of tbet com pany, as It had recently eniereq into several contracts for rock. Work of 'installing a new crusher will begin at oficc. ; The plant Is located on the side of Msniuam gulch, a short distance from the rock pile used recently by the. ojiy to turnish work for the un employed. "Wlillc It is finite a setback to our work, "I1 sid Superintendent Mclntire this tnoinlng, "I am most thankful that !( one whs hurt hy the explosion. This n the Kccniid mysterious act of destruction In the gulch during the past year. Hn oil tank belonging to another contractor being fired some time ngo. Last night's Job was cleverly mid expertly executed and whoever did It! was familiar with . explosives, t am i utterly unable to find a reason for nr Husband's Birthday. Clatskanie, Or., Feb. 21. About eiglit months ago Mrs. Robert Bryant lost a diamond setting out of a iHrig. Long search for the missing gem proved un availing. A few days ago, on the oc- r thi. :ni..HLoii flvri minutes after itjeasion of her husband s birthday, as tt.Tv were ttnabte to 'fTndTshS "Was preparing a-Tow! Tor dinner. she foun-a the of the fowl. r Only Two Oregon Banks Holding Out Out of 84 National Banks in This State 8a Have come Into New Sys tem; Monday to Be Pinal Date. (Washington I'.urean of Tlie Lfoiirnnl. ) . Washington, - Feb. 21. Klhty-two of the eight-four national banjks of Or.e gon have applied for membership in the federal reserve system.' Monday is the final limit within which banks must apply or decide to slay out of the system. (United Press Lease! Wtre. P.clungham, Wash., Feb. 21. Four suspects were arrested today in con nection with the killing of three pas sengurs in the holGup last night of Great Northern train No. 358 near Samish, 15 miles south of this city Two of the suspects were taken into custody at Alger and two at Sedro Woolley. Officers in charge of the posses which comprise half a hundred men, say that other arrests are ex pected' before? this evening. Great Northern aetectives arrived in the city this morning and are direct ing the hunt. They have checked the number of passengers and tickets and announce that only two bandits took part in the robbery. Their investiga. tion has led them to the belief that both men took part in the killing of the three passengers. Posses from all parts of the north west are scouring the woods in the vicinity of Alger. A pack of blood hounds was sent from the state re formatory at noon to take up the search. Shortly before noon it was reported that a motorboat entered Chuckanut yesterday and that it had disappeared during the nightj The authorities are following up this clue in the belief that the outlaws escaped to one of the San Juan islands. Three passengers were shot when they tried to resist one of the trio. The robbers entered the day coach from the smoking car as the train was nearing Samlish station, nine miles south of Uellingham. They obtained a small amount of money from women passengers before they leaped from the coach and disappeared In the woods. The dead men iare: THOMAS S. WADS WORTH, Cana dian Pacific conductor, Vancouver, ROBERT L. IEE, Bremerton, Wash., time clerk navy yard for 10 years, 38 years old. His parents live in Acker- land, Kan. i 1 11. E. ADKJSdN, Vancouver, B. C, traveling man for Vancouver Tire & Rubber Co. The bodies are held in the local morgue awaiting word from relatives. The railroad tracks for five miles Short Shrift for Villa's Emissaries Federal Commander of To it eon Said to Have Spurned Offer of $2,000,000 to Evacuate the City. Mexico, City, Feb. 21. Government officials -announced here today - that General Villa, the rebel commander, had offered General Velasco, the fed eral commander at Torreon, $2,000,000 if he would evacuate tne city. It was reported that Villa sent two emissaries to Torreon and that General Velasco executed both. NOT MUCH TIME FOR HOUSEWORK WITH SUCH A LARGE FAMILY! Villa Will Direct Attack. Chihuahua City, Mexico, Feb. 21 Though he said he would wait here for the arrival of more artillery, General Villa left today for Escalon to tak personal charge of an attack on Tor reon, scheduled for tomorrow or Mon day; Letter to Coroner ' Confesses to Suicide J. D. Boblnson, Salesman, 681 East Burnslde Street, Sends Ncte Saying He Has Jumped Off Bridge. A note signed by J. D. Robinson, 681 East Burnside street, was received by the coroner this morning by mail, an nouncing that the writer had committed suicide by jumping off the O.-W. R. & N. railway bridge. Inquiry at the ad dress shows that! Robinson had been away from home two days. The message, r,ea"ds: J"To the. Coro 'tier- T 'leave this1 worV3"on account of financial troubles and nothing else. I am going to jump off the middle of the steel bridge. J. D. Robinson, 681 East Burnslde street. P. S. Kindly break the news to my wife and fam ily." The message is written on sta tionery from the Oregon hotel and is dated February 20. Robinson is a salesman. BENTON LEGALLY. TRIED, SAYS I). S. (Concluded on I'Bge Two, Column Five) SALMON PROPAGATION AND PROTECTION ARE TO BE PROVIDED FOR Bill for $50,000 for Fish Cul tural Depots Along Colum bia. to Be Introduced, i . i ( Washing Ion lluriin of Tl Journal.) Washington. Feb. 21. Protection for the saiinon of Oregon which in som.; local Itiies are relited to be rapidly ieirealn Is provided in a bill to be introduced by Representative Ilawlcy. The bill appropriates $30,000 to es tablish lish cultural stations at places ulong tbe Columbia liver to bo erected by tlierl.'nlted States bureau of fish tiles. Kept -seiitativo, llavvley consulted the United States lisli commissioner for information on the problem of salmon propagation and received a letter stat ing thrit a pcrriwiient station with a permanent personnel Is not what is t. ceded.. The need, tie said, is for a liuinlxri of fish cultural depots where - the eulniori ran be protected until they tench finger length. Salmon turned Hose younger, the letter says, are like ly to become prey of other fish. The tomhilwsioner is confident that if his 'plan oi replenishing the supply is carried out there will be .no cause for worry for the' future, of the industry. Senate Ratifies 7 . Foreign Treaties Arbitration Agreements With England, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Por tugal and Switzerland Are Approved. Washington, Feb. 21 Arbitration treaties with Spain, Kngland. Norway. Sweden, Portugal. Switzerland and lttaly were ratified today by the senate. LIVED SIX MONTHS WITH BROKEN NECK LOS ANGELES CUT OFF BY FLOODS FROM ALL RAIL OR WIRE TAXPAYERS CONSIDER TAX ASSESSMENTS ON ACCESS Hundreds of Homes Aban doned Because of High Water, Wireless "Talks," Pendleton, Or., Feb. 21. After living for more than six months with a hroken neck, Frank Iunton, Canyon City stockman, died yesterday in this city. Dunton. while watching some children playing in his j barn, en deavored to show them some tricks on a trapeze. He fell td tho floor, striking on his head, ami fracturing tna sixtn ana sovenm verieorae. Since then he has been entirely paralyzed. years old. I So Kntrjnien Cnn Work. Washington, Fe'v 21. Re'presenta tive Sinnott introduced ax bill today which allows enlrymen to divide into two periods the five months of each jjear which they are allowed to -pend away from their homesteads. 'This would enable them to take advantage of work In the logging camps in the winter and in harvest fields in sum- . mcr. He was 4 2 BANK CLEARINGS SHOW INCREASE OVER 1912 Portland bank clearings for the cur rent week show the largest Increase of any like period since January 1. the gain amounting to more than $2,800, 000 or 30 per cent over ihe clearings for the same week in 19J3. The fig ures in detail are: 1913, i$9, 481,925. 07; 1914, $12,298,950.33. Not only is the gain of 30 per cent the .largest of the year, but it Is one of the heaviest in creases ever reported by Clearing House. the Portland Coal Claimant Ask Patents. . "Washington, Feb. 21. A. C. Shaw of Portland, representing Oregon claim ants to 11 entries in the Bering coal field of Alaska, bad a hearing' today before Commissioner Tollman. The hearing: disclosed that the entries are ; free from taint of fraud and It Is be lieved patents will be issued. .lutlge Bean a Grandfather. Robert S. Bean. United States dis trict judge, became a grandfather to day when a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ormond E. Bean, 816 Multnomah street. The father Is an (architectural draftsman and the mother! was former ly Miss Eva Allen of Eugene. (I'nitpfi Press Leased Wire.) Los Angeles, Feb. 21. Four persons were known to ' have met death today In the storm which has been raging in southern California for the past 48 hours. The dead: R. W. Hamlin, drowned at Santa Barbara. J. C. Rockwell, drowned at Car pen teria. Miss Grace Sprague, drowned at Victorville. Gongales, a j Mexican, drowned In Los Angeles. Other reports! of fatalities were re ceived here, but up to 11 o'clock had not been verified. . , At least 50 homes along the Arroyo Seco between here and Pasadena, were washed away by the flood. Hundreds of persons were forced to leave their homes. All the bridges over the ' stream except two have been washed out. i Except for th!e wireless, Los Angeles was cut off from all outside communi cation, both byj rail and wire. Hun dreds of home have been abandoned within the city Business in Los Angeles throughout the day was at a standstill. Main street. Spring1 street and Broadway, the throe principal business streets of the city, were) inundated and impass able. Scores or basements were flooded and the loss from this source alone will run into thousands. Telegraph service and railroad traf fic were demoralized as a result of the three days of unprecedented rain fall. The only means of communica tion was by the Federal Wireless com pany. Street car service was at a stand still. The storm wrought havoc in six southern California counties. A ter rific storm also prevailed at sea. Hill Offers $30,000 for Train Robbers Louis Kill Say Hell Pay $15,000 Tor the First One Taken Dead or Alive: the Best For the Other Two. Seattle, Feb. 21. L. W. Hill, presi dent of the Great Northern railway, is in Seattle today, and his first official act here was to announce a reward of $30,000 for the apprehension, dead or alive, of the bandits who killed three passengers near Belllngham last night on the Seattle-Vancouver train. . Fifteen thousand dollars of th--? amount will be paid for the arrest and conviction of the bandit first captured. The remainder of the reward is subject to conditions in a circular issued by Hill announcing the reward. i SOURS UNHSYSTEM Plan Meets Approval of Many in Attendance at the Conference. GILW1AN OR STEVENS SLATED TO SUCCEED .JMJLJ m m Report Also Says W, D, Scott Will Direct Hill Lines in Oregon as Vice President. Theodore Fleeing From Caps Haitien Self-Proclaimed President of Haiti De feated hy Government Troops Out side City and Takes to Flight. Capo Ilaitien. Feb. 21. His army ciushingly defeated and driven into the city yetserday by government troops he had gone out to meet, Gen eral Davilar Theodore, rebel leader and self-proclaimed president, led his iren today in flight from Cape Hapten. The government forces then occupied the city. i 14 Life Savers Are Lost off Ireland Die in Surf Trying to Save Crew of Norwegian Schooner iMexlco Who Later Beaeh Shore in Safety. Queenstown, Ireland, Feb. 21. Four teen life savers perished in the surf today while attempting to rescue the crew of the Norwegian schooner Mex ico, ashore off the coast of Wexford The crew of the schooner was saved, but the vessel is rapidly breaking up in a heavy gale. Loses Jewels on j Train. Palm Beach, Fla.. Feb. 21. Mrs. Leonard Thomas, New Tork society woman, announced the loss of $30,000 worth of jewelry, on a rain coming from New York. j IMrorce After 36 Years. San Francisco, Feb. 21. -After 36 years of married life. Mrs. Mary Eg gers hasvbeen granted a idivorce from herlff cruelty. Fred Eggers on! grounds of Calaveras River High. Stockton. Cal-. Feb. 21. The Cala veras river rase to its highest point of the season! this morning when- it crested at 20.6feet at Bellota. It soon besan falling. The San Joaquin river and lower streams, fortunately, were low and will take care of the surplus water. The- Central California Traction com pany's line between Stockton and Lodi is out of commission and under water. The state hospital farm is again, under water today. ITbere have been no seri ous breaks along the rivers. Cutter Hunts for Vessel in Distress San Francisco, Peh 21. A wireiess message received here at 11 o'clock today from the Los Angeles office of the i'nlted Press said the revenue cut ter Manning was searching for the steamer Eureka, reported in distress off Port Harford. , Women Will Collect Taxes. Los Angeles, Cal.; Feb. 21. Los An geles has appointed eight women dep uty tax collectors, the city assessor believing that : the women will prove better collectors than men. More than 100 citizens, including the heaviest taxpayers of the city attended a conference called by Assessor Reed yesterday afternoon at the Central li brary building to consider 1914 assess ments bqs"?d on the Somers Unit Sys tem for standardizing realty values and heartily indorsed It. The meeting was the first of a series which the assessor will hold for the purpose of giving the people opportun ity to see how the Bystem works in actual operation and to ascertain what is the community's idea of actual ground values. After two hours of discussion of the relative value of the down-town busi ness blocks, tlie meeting adjourned and Walter K. Sweeting, expert land calcu lator, who had been explaining its operation, said: "And now, what do you think of the Somers system?" "Its the fairest and best we ever heard of," responded a dozen men al most in chorus. Second Meeting- Planned Encouraged by the Interest shown yesterday. Assessor Reed said today that he intends to hold a second public meeting, probably Tuesday afternoon. The district considered yesterday is in the heart of the city bounded by Oak and Alder and Third and Tenth streets. . ' Just before Mr. Reed called the meeting to prder and turned it over to Mr. Sweeting, he hung up a big map or the district on which was inked tenta tive values of the unit foot of property in the middle of each block. The unit foot in the system. Mr. Sweeting explained is a frontage of eround one foot wide and 100 feet deep, located in the central section of a block at a distance rrom any street corner or other influence that might affect Its value, other than that which obtains by reason of access to the life and business of a city throughout its own frontage. System Xs Accurate. '"When the value of a unit foot on ..h bWIa of a block Is fixed," said Mr. Sweeting, "the exercise of Judg ment of the value of the land is com plete, because the Somers system, which if flexible and exact,"provldes a method of applying that judgment accurately and scientifically to all the ground in that block." He then plunged into the work of ascertaining, the values which those present placed upon a unit foot of ground in the various downtown blocks. In this connection one of the remarkable . features of the meeting Was tnai ine tnnincnix emier ue- clared the tentative value already placed upon various blocks by the as sessor's office were right, or recom mended slight increases. In several instances they declared for lower valu ations on side streets and in- the sec tion below Fourth street. The concensus of opinion was that the south side of Washington street is more valuable than the north side, that Sixth street is to be preferred to Broadway at present, but that they soon will be equal; and that Alder Is coming to the front as a good thor oughfare for both business and of fices. One of fhe principal reductions sug- GRIN GOES FATE OF 3 IN HANDS OF VILLA GONSULATJUAREZ Found Guilty by CoUrtmartial on Charge of Complicity in Plot to Kill General Villa, Says Report. BRYAN GIVES COPY TO BRITISH AMBASSADOR Full Text of Result of Investi gation Is Not Made Public at This Time. British Friends of Benton Who Went to. Search for . Him Dissapear Also, (I'nlted Pren Svire.) Washington, Fet ,21. That William H. Benton, the British -! nhi cuted at Juares. MexIco.Von rhr of complicity in a plot 'to kill General Villa, the rebel leader, ;f was legally tried and convicted by a t-egularly con stituted court martial was the sub stance of the report telegraphed to Secretary of State Bryiin today- by United States Consul Edwards frbm the scene of the incident,;, The text bt the report was not made public. Kdwsrds had made a: thorough In vestigation, he said, and was convinced that Villa acted within hl.i right In. convening the court martial. The re port contained other information. Sec retary Bryan added, whjit'h could not be published at present. A copy of the report was given to Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Kl( the.Brltlsii ambassador, who cabled: It to London. It was not known here whether It wduld satisfy the British government, but Bryan was hopeful of averting a crisis. r' Concealment of officialdom's anxiety over the Benton tncldenj'at Juarez was attempted at the state department to day. KngJund, however. 'it was known,, had made no new demands. For all that, it was recognized that the gravest danger existed yf "English popular Indignation forcing the Lon don government to demand a change : In America's passive to an active pol icy In Mexico. A against this. It ws. insisted both at thw state department and the executive offices that Presi dent Wilson would remain as strongly opposed as ever to intervention. The state department) had received no official information I f ' the disap pearance of two more Englishmen, Lawrence and Curtis, secretary.- Bry an enjoined silence upon his subor dinate. - v--:- l?- il-lt-'"- BENTON SLAIN lIlKE DOG, SAYS TELEGRAM READ IN U. S. SENATE L. C. Gllman, president of the 8. P, & S., the Oregon Trunk, Oregon Elec tric. United Railways, the Pacific & Eastern and SptJiane & Inland Empire lines,, and John F. Stevens, famous engineer and railroad builder and for merly president of the Hill lines In Oregon, are spoken of as probable successors to Carl R. Gray as presi dent of the Great Northern railway. Either of them is looked upon as the man for the position. Rumors to the effect that President Gray will leave tho Great Northern in the very near future to cast his lot with the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad as president have been re vived. It is said by those believed to be well posted on doings in the ralU road world that he will leave the Hill system May 1 to again become head of the Frisco system, the presidency of which he resigned about two years ago to become head of the Hill lines in this state, succeeding John F. Stevens. , Neither Mr. Gilman'nor Mr. Stevens are operating men in the strict i.-.ean-ing of the word, for Mr. Gilman is an attorney ana .Mr. htevens is known as an engineer whose desire Is to handle large construction and organizing prob lems. He was tin first government engineer on the Panama canal, and mapped out much of the work that has since been prosecuted to comple tion. However. It is believed here that when Mr. Gllman was sent to Portland from Seattle to (succeed Mr. Young, whose resignation came on short no tice, it was only in the nature of a temporary arrangement and that be will efther go to St. Paul as president of the Great Northern or in some other prominent capacity in connec tion requiring a man of his ability and experience. . It is said in the event Mr. Gilman Is elected president of the Great Northern, he will also retain the presidency of the lines of which he is now head, and that W. I). Scott, now general manager here, would be given the title of vice-president and general manager, so the lines In this district would be managed Dy him as chief local executive- Steamship Ashore; Part of Crew Missing (United Prea Leaned Wire.) El Paso, Texas, Feb. 21. With two more Englishmen and an Amerlcnn missing today in Juarez Interest cen tered In the fate of the trio of prob ably living men rather than In that cf William 11. Benton, who was gen erally, though not quite by everybody, given up as dead. The Britons were John Lawrence und a friend of the name of Curtis, who crossed from El Paso to Juarez Wednesday to look for Benton. When they too had failed to return by yes terday, etill another Englishman, Sam uel Stewart went in search of them. Stewart did not disappear. " Ha re ported last night that he hao made a thorough sarch of Juarez In company with an officer of General Villa's staff and found not a sign of the missing pair. Lawrence was chief engineer of the California Ievelopment company, nere on a vacation from Yuma; Curtis a ranch owner in New Mexico. American Imprisoned As Spy. The American was 6ustav : Hauch, arrested several days ago on the charge that he was a spy for the fed eral government. L'nlted States Con pijI Edwards saw him In prison earlier ir tin- we-k but was not allowed to talk with hint. Edwards' was assured th.-U the rebels had strong document al y evidem c j.gainst him. Yesterday, when relatives called at the prison with bedding and clothes for him, he was tone. Little satisfaction concern ing him could be obtained from the rebel officers, who would say only that "possibly he bl been transferred to another cuartal." Rumors wero re peatedly current that he had been s!vt but these the rebels emphatlcalyy de- nii-il todav. It was known definitely that rtrtKOTiertt were taken from Juares CI ihuahua City yesterday on General Villa's ppeclal train and Consul Ed wards thought it likely that Lawrence. Curtis and Ranch were among them. Otficials. however, retusen to say. Indlflerer.ce of Citizens. A maKs meeting held here last night ,'.n. nnre the rebels for Benton's killing was well attended but the city otficials asserted that nobody of much j business or.social prominence attend-J rrv,i i A.i i rf .rnie was attributed' Washington. Feb. 21 -"William II. Benton i.was murdered jke 'a dog by Generate Villa," rt-aj Senator Kail of New Mexico In the upper house here todayi from a telegram he had received from..'hHirman K. HI. Iiidley of the El Paso mass meeting lieldOaxt night as a sequel to Benton's death In Juarez. "It is almost certain isthat Villa did It personally," the telegram' continued, "There Is no evidence tost Benton ws the aggressor. Ecry;Ming indicates It wes a told blooued muiuer. Castillo Is the guest ot our govern ment. In safety ami vMthout punish ment. Villa Is boasting: of his crime, "Is there no protection anywhere? "El Paso Is full of retNd officers. The business af falls of,;? the srmy are openly uone here. 'j "Your thousands of' friends lier.i want to hear your vokl In (he cenate In behalf of the sentiment that 'watch ful waiting" Is a failure?" Full al.o read resolutions .to the same effect a lopted by the mass meeting, together with- a number of other telegrams be hid.. reCeLved criti cizing the "watchful waitinir" policy. It was tHtd jon official authorltv. however, that the administration wouM ' Ignore he El Ppho mreting. At tb state department It was- Intimated. In deed, that ex-Goverrior.!::Gejrge Curry of New Mexico, the hjef "Vpenker of the occasion, was playing politics. He Is admittedly ari;l-edm(.-Jntrallon. The state depa rtmenti;telegrsphcd to Consul Edwards st Juarez, to do. all In his power to rescues -Lawrejice and Curtis, the two Englishmen still in the re'beht' bands, presumably at Chi-, hnahua City. Secretary; Bryan's rela tions with Sir (Veil H-tring-Rlce. the British ambassador, w,-re seemingly very coriiai ana nir itecii expresses his appreciation at Bryan's bundling of so difficult a jdtuaion. 20 to (Concluded on Page Two, Cohima Two) Three Sailors from British Steamship Slverdale Bescned by Breeches Buoy; Search for Lifeboats. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 21. Three sailors were rescued by means of the breeches buoy early today from the British steamship Riverdale, which Is ashore north of Little Island. The remainder of the crew, numbering 20 men. left the vessel in lifeboats at daylight.. They are Being sought by the revenue cutter Onondaga. The Riverdale grounded In last night's gale. It was not possible to launch lifeboats in the heavy surf and blinding snow storm. The Onondaga also seeks the big schooner Kineo. which has been miss ing for several days and is now gener ally believed to have been lost with all on board. -. . ' ? Demand "Heal , Ttlon." London.. .Feb. 21. William II. Ben ton's death at Juarez, Mexico, either t General Villa's hands op at his orders, was the topic of strong' editorials and 'Com-lurlrd on Piige .t jiliimn Kir . . Ml .1.. -t . . . I . Jt . to two tilings Jirmiy, nu uuuui, ue spite Villa's assertion, that Benton really was dead; secondly, to the feel ing in some quarters that his trip vir tually was Fulcldal. That the rebel leader might have given out a false account of his visit or's execution, to keep other Investi gating foreigners away, was deemed probable enough- The visit Itself was deemed the htlght offolly in view of Villa's quick temper, well known to Benton, and to the fact that he has be- n fighting plots against his life for weeks. nlv yesterday Enrique Agulrre was executed at Juarez following Uls eon-j vlction by a court martial on "such a j charge. 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