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VOL. XIII. NO. 3. PORTLAND, OREGON, -THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 1914. EIGHTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO o Txaors in rrws RUM' , 7TTX . CUTS - ji, .PORTLAND. OREGON THURSDAY . RVEKIMfi: ' MARCH 12. t9 14. EIGHTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. bKicks and 2 ships Montgomery No. 1, Columbia No. 2, on East Side, Thou sands Tons of Wheat De stroyed; Steamers Cricket and Glenroy Damaged. SO, FAR AS IS KNOWN NO LIVES WERE LOST Spectacular Flames Attract Great Throngs of Specta tors to the Riverfront; One Man Is Injured, While Many Others Narrowly Escape. WlM the Tin Bid. Destroyed, at a conservative estimate, $784,700 worth of property. ; ? Completely destroyed Colum bia flock Mo. 2, and Montgom ery dock No, 1. Ruined,' with water. $375,000 worth of grain belonging; to Max Houser. Reduced the ateatner Cricket te a charred and blackened hulk, and turned her cargo of asphaltum, worth $11,000, Into moke. Berlouely damaged the su perstructure of the British steamer Olenroy and part of her cargo. Caused slight damage to the woodyerd of the Alblna Fuel Co. . f First Officer Sanders of the Olenroy Injured In attempt to : extinguish names. Columbia dock No. t and Montgom ery dock No. 1 were completely de troyed early this morning In the worst waterfront fire Portland has expert need In years. Grain valued at $175,000, .belonging IcafSl the docks, was reduced to a parched and soggy mass by fire and water. Four thousand barrels of asphaltum In the hold of the American steamer Cricket, valued at about $11,000, were totally consumed and the steamer badly damaged. Tha British steamer Glenroy of the 1 Ror J.lB w.Tllch..wa; mored of her bridge, deck and damaga to her tta rg. I Tha' total losses amount to about -1761,700. , ; .127 men, all told, leaped Into the river. Tha origin of the fire la as yet un- I Known, xt is believed to have started I in , grain cnaii storea at one or Co-1 oua combustion or from a lighted) tntt. nrr. trt. ,. spread over the whole length of the two One leu from Alblna nvnnu- tn 1 Harding street, four blocks, setting the two wooden docks into a great mass of names almost lnstantan eously. Policeman Discovers Blase. The first alarm was given by Offi cer Robert B. Snedden at 4:10 o'clock this morning, the policeman having een' a small blase between the steam er Glenroy and Columbia dock No lag dock farther up the river, while John Versteeg, a retired fireman. sleeping In the offices of the North western Door company, also gave an alarmby telephone. The whole waterfront was one mass of flames when the first apparatus of Fom ' alarms T n an wgound mirf Harbor Policeman J. D. Webster. Web Swall mS SeWfour?hUonehl. ir! d been picked up by Jaecke i . rival. Ten engines, five trucks and few minutes before at the west side the flreboat David Campbell were called out. -.a m . v... dock No. 3 and fastened by nine stout two inch ateel cables, was ln the very thick of the flames. Unable to fight the fire, her officers and crew number ing 49, made their escape by Jumping verboad into a scow. Thirty-two Chi nese sailers are being detained by the I United States immigration service. One Is Seriously Injured. F. L. Sanders, first officer of the Royal Mall steamer, is the only one to (Concluded on Page Four. Column One) FAVORABLE REPORT IS ilrrimM'jprk ta nnrpi V AU HUK itU UMrtU UP REPEAL OF TOLLS tn Rp PrPCrAnprl ac Qnnn W DC riCoOillcU ab OUUII . Dlware nnA UnrkAr Dill . ag.imcio anu liaiUUlO UIU (.-Passes Congress, Washington, March 12. With hardly a .note of objection, the house rules committee today authorised a favor able report on Congressman Adarnaoh's resolution for early consideration, by a special rule, of the Sims bill re pealing American shipping's exemption j from Panama canal tolls. ' The bill will be presented, said Chairman Henry of the rules commit iee, immediately after the rivers and harbors bill has been passed, either the latter part of next week or early ln the week fallowing. Jf wae Intimated that the usually curtailed debate on the adoption of the rule ' to make the repeal bill special privileged business, will be extended. WATERFRONT I ' '.fy ' : ' - - ; . : j - - ' i i : ; . ' . . ' . ' - - 't - ' .ii ' .... ... -f . . t :'i: zy $yy-yfr y:'y;cy-yy,yyyy :y --z - viv;; .luJUI'.', v-1 H t J l v, i?-y y- yy'z y - ; y, , , 1 r:j .-JffiW: . : -2l rr t?r-yywy?yy i&v&zJl&m I FIVF OF RIIDNINC OTiMFR'Q PRFW 1 PAP fWS UA U III. I'UIMLvL iLV ' L II LlJllll LA U I . ' r . 1 &vtU l - . ,fvs r ' ' . " fMIIAUL UnillLOL IL0UULU riUIII ULHin b'Vyyyyyy : &'HimsJ: - ' Daring Work on Part of Rescuers Snatches Imperiled Men Away From What Appeared Puppy Among the Saved; Although their vessel was moored to Mnntmmarv dock No. 1 when this morning's disastrous fire broke out. Captain John Wehman of the -teamer v-ncKei ana nn crew imu w vu safety of the river elde. Five of the The others got away In the steamers lifeboat t f v, n wn iinii nv.r , . ,, v r,,i,-. drew Vardelle .and Thomas Burke. 1 ney re p J; ea - 7 osrT I'm uuau vno ium exhausted and was lifted with diffi culty from the water. The other , three were picked up by the crew of gasoline towboat Bessie, which reached the scene of the fire, with some logs in tow, a few moments before the harbor patrol boat arrived. All Accounted for. Captain Wehman said at noon, today that all of his men have been account ed for. For a while this morning it K"7 VaZZ.Z ZZ- by the harbor patrol boat were placed on board the gasoline boat Butterfly, moored near , the east side ; landing of the ferry "V. S. Mason. On board the harbor patrol boat were Night Engineer Harry Jeackel and landing of the ferry Mason, where he was signaling with his electric flash light as the harbor patrol boat came Blng Awxi he rtver ln charge of Engineer Jaeckel, JaeckeL who was alone on duty at the boat station at the foot of Stark street, lost no time In hastening to the fire. His first signal was the whistle of the flreboat David Campbell wher, It received the alarm. This, Jaeckel said, was about 4:15 a. m. Looking out over the river the highly illumi- nated sky Indicated the location of the blaze and m aDOujt seven minutes the harbor patrol boat was within sight of Patrolman Webster, who had also rushed to the river as soon as he saw the reflection of the fire in the sky, Harbor Patrolman R. N. THton was on tli east side of the river and was probably the first outsider to reach the scene of the fire after the watch man on Montgomery dock No. 1 turned in the first alarm. But even tnen th blaze was so fierce and the heat so Intense that it was extremely danger ous to reach- the steamer Glenroy, for which Tllton Immediately made, .in hopes of assisting the men on board of her. He reached her ln time to shout to the confused and frightened Chinese sailors and stokers to come L.hnranver th eanenlank. which nu already beginning to burn. There were 32 of them. ( were 32 of them, and Til ton aided the officers ln getting them all Bafely ashore. Several of them fell ln the scramble and were bruised and slight ly burned, but none was seriously ln- 1 Jured, First Officer Sanders of the Glen-' roy slipped and fell, and with a dis located shoulder he was taken ln the harbor patrol boat across the river 'to a Bed Cross ambulance and conveyed to the Good Samaritan hospital. The Chinese were taken first to the police station and later to the office of the United States Immigration serv. ice, 4 where they were detained until noon, when they were taken back to the Glenroy on the customs boat H. W. Scott and the harbor patrol boat. Puppy. Zs Kesened. : In rescuing the three of the Cricket's crew who had leaped overboard, the gasoline boat Bessie, owned by the St BLZE WHICH DESTROYED DOCKS AND "ATTACKED SHIPS REPLETE WITH MANY THRILLING to Be Certain Death; Pet All Men Are AccountedFor, Johns Towing company, got- into trou- Die wet ror a time threatened to re sult ln her destruction and the loss of every man aboard. A rope fouled the propeller and un able to move under her own power the oraft drifted towards the dock within reach of the . flames that swept far out over the river. Engineer Jaecket of the harbor patrol saw her predica ment quickly, however, and took her ln tow. . In doing so he had to run the engine and the steering wheel with ona hand while with the other he picked up and threw overboard huge sparks taat reii. in a shower all over the boat and threatened every minute to set her afire. A rescue that was accomplished in some way, but no one seems to know how, or when, was that of the little mascot, "Sweepstakes" on the Olen roy. "Sweepstakes" is a puppy only a couple of i months old. Some one stopped long enough in the flight from the burning vessel to bring him ashore and turn htm over to the harbor patrol boat. In it he was brought to the Stark street station where he at once made himself perfectly at home. How he was rescued, or who . happened to think of the little dog, seems to be a mystery bat may never be solved. $40,000 Awaits His RerMarrying Wife Darwin Tate Will Beeelve That Trom Grandmother's Estate Provided He Weds Woman Who Divorced Elm. Los Angeles, March 12. If Darwin Tate re-marries the wife: that divorced him within two years he can collect $40,000 from the estate of hi3 grand mother, who died recently In Milwau kee. Word that such a provision was contained I in the will reached here to day. Mrs. Tate divorced her husband three weeks ago, alleging that he had shown attention to another woman. Mrs. Tate ' Is a sister of Mrs. Orval Overall, wife of the former big league baseball pitcher. Bryan and Garrison Argue Copperfield At Luncheon for Governor West, For mex Upholds,, tatter Decries Use of Militia In Closing Saloons. Washington, March 12. When Gov ernor. West was here he lunched with Secretary of State Bryan, Secretary of War, .Garrison and Secretary of Labor Wilson of the cabinet. Garrison, strongly dissented from West's action In closing the Copper- neia saloons. , . Bryan stoutly and vigorously ap proved his course. In the Joint debate between Garrison and Bryan. West could not get a word in edgewise. This rincident leaked out today. - POOR LAWYERS IN FRISCO . San Francisco, March 12. "Not a lawyer in this town knows how to examine witnesses in the probate de partment complained . Superior Judge Coffey from the bench today, "and i I never found an. appraisal yet in which the appraisers ' appraised correctly. Harvard law college is almost as bad as Hastings. i ?j vj Top American steamer Cricket, beached and on flro on east side of river, between Oceanic dock and fire boat, David Campbell, ia action. Bottom British steamer Glenroy of Royal Mail line, at ruins of Colombia Dock No. 2. ' E MORE THAN HALF OF $754,000 FIRE LOSS Docks and Vessels Fare Bad ly; Much Grain Is Found Unhurt by Flames, Estimated Tire loss. Grain stored in Colum bia No. 2 dock, owned by M. H. Houser (fully covered by In surance) $375,000 Coasting steamer Cricket, cargo and boat (partially cov ered) 175,000 Columbia No. 2 dock, owned by Lewis es tate (fully covered) . 80,000 Royal Mall steamer Glenroy 50,000 Montgomery dock No. 1, owned by Montgom ery estate and leased to 0.-W. R. & N. Co., (insurance $20,000) . . 40,000 Freight in Montgomery dock, owned by O.-W. R. & N. Co. (not In sured) Alblna Fuel Co. wood dock (not Insured) . . Alblna Ferry Hotel, 30.000 3,000 1,600 100 1,00 (partially insured) Montgomery dock No. 2 insured) New Ferry Hotel (not -insured) ' ........... Total ,..3754,700 The total fire loss, according to close estimates - made - by owners and' man agements of the estates that suffered from ' the dock conflagration today. was $754,700. This figure includes every item from the $376,000 estimated loss sustained by. Max H. Houser as a result of the destruction of 12,000 tons of grain in .the two dockk and covered by insurance, down to the $100 damage done to tne New Ferrv hotel, across- the street north from the Al blna Fuel company's wood dock. Over half of this loss-is. covered , by insurance, according ' to the statement of owners." ... , .. - Lose of $175,000 waa-austalned . by the coaating steam schooner, Cricket of (Concluded on Page roar. Column Three) NSURANC COVERS $257,700,000 for British Warships Germany's feeleotlon of Churchill's Proposed. "2f aval Holiday" Brings 915,000,000 increase Over test Tear. London, March 12. Such a warship building program as even England had hardly expected was laid before the house of ' commons by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill this afternoon," His estimate provided for four new dreadnaufhts, four cruisers, 12 de stroyers, submarines and -vast stores of . munitions. . The . appropriation de sired to cover the construction of the proposed new vessels was $257,700,000, an increase over last year's naval al lowance of $15,000,000. The ambltlousness of the admiralty's program was ine resuu maimy oi Germany's rejection of Churchill's pro posal of a "naval holiday." McCreery Restored by Court s Order San Fxanclsoo Millionaire Sportsman Declared Competent and Guardian Xrfes Management of Properties. San Francisco, March 12. Walter A. McCreery, broker, sportsman and mil Jionaire, was legally restored. to com potency today. The decision was ren dered by Judge Dunne, acting for Judge Graham, who was HL ' Judge Graham (declared McCreery Incompetent ln August, 1912. H. H. McPlke," who was appointed his guar dlan, took him to live on a ranch ln San Bernardino county. From there he made a sensational escape . a ..few months ago, turning up in England. There he established his competency. so far as the Britlkh courts were con cerned, i Friend Parts With Wilson on Tolls Senator Martina of Hew Jersey, Presi. - dent's Confidant, ays Xt Would Be Utile Short of Imbecility ,to K treat. Washington,. March 12. Advocates of 'Panama tolls repeal were almost swept off: their feet today when Sen ator Martina of New Jersey, the presi dent's closest friend, and whom the president 'made a i senator, came out against repeal. "For my part," he said. "I -feel that it would be little ehort of imbecility to retreat from the position we have taken.- ' BRAZIL SENDS MORE TROOPS TO CAERA TO QUELL INSURRECTION Daily . Fights Occurring Be tween Blacks and. Whites and With Strikers, (United fnt Leaaed Wire.) Rio De Janlero, March 12. Strong reinforcement was ordered by the war office today of the troops in the state of Ceara. where it was admitted the anti-government revolt was reach-' ing revolutionary proportions. The disorders are partly racial, part ly Industrial and partly political. They undoubtedly began with a series of strikes, which spread until they In volved practically the state's working population. Fights between blacks and whites and between government troops and strikers are occurring daily and there has been considerable loss of life. The situation here was comparative ly quiet today, although martial law prevailed, and a number of suspected anti-government agitators were In prison. Mutilator of Venus Removed Shrieking Prosecutor Bonbts (Unity of Btlss Mary Biohardaon, who Xs Sentenced to Biz Months at Hard Xbor. London, March 12. Sentenced to six months' imprisonment at hard labor, Miss Mary Richardson, who mutilated Velasquez "Venus" ln the National gallery with a meat ax, waa carried from the court room today . shrieking that she would be glad to be martyred as a -proteet against the slow murder of Mrs. Fankhurst. Her plea was guilty. She already has declared a hunger strike. The prosecutor ex pressed some doubts of her sanity. SLIDE BLOCKS S. P. LINE ' Redding, Cal March 12. 'A lanJ slide, four miles north . of Dunamuir, blocked the Shasta: route of the South ern Pacific railroad from 9 o'clock last evening until 8:30 this morning, when a track around the slide was complet ed. The northbound 'Shasta -Limited and the Portland Express were held all night at Dunamuir. . INCIDENT the Portland Flouring mills, and VILLA TO DROP BOMBS Tl OUT Rebels. Will Use Aeroplanes in Attacking F He Announces, in AHqlinn rarnl PU.. in niiuiiii& i ouciqi viiyi (Dslted Preu Leaaed Wire.) ii. uenerai NTO REN HUERTA AIDS FOREIGNERS Villa having announced . his Intention The outlaws' dleregaJ of foreigners" of sending aviators aloft to drop H? and interests greatly incensed bombs Into Torreon. President Huerta President Yuan, who aaisuced the inter sent orders today to the garrison's ested diplomats here !hat the losers commandant-to furnish facilities for would be recompensed, and gave orders foreigners to leave Immediately. It for th "tost energetic military meas was understood that he acted on a re- urea, Intimating, it was understood, quest from Washington. . that trouble i would follow for his re Fighting was ln progress In Tor- sponsible subordinate) ii unless condl- . reon's vicinity, but the .wires having tions speedily improve; been cut. few details were known. 1 " ' ' United States Charge d' Affaires Astor Weddlnglprll 80. - , ?i.t?f XYKtZF.1?1. T HuerU Staatsburg, N. T., Maijeh 1 2-1 1 was l1im8.eilhai 3.002 rebeI! ha cPt" announced that Vlncent?Astor and Miss ..J."? "e 1 orreon district, as well as two passenger trains and one freight in the same dis trict. 5000 Men to Attack Torreon. Chihuahua City, Mexico,. March 12. General Villa was entraining 'troops and guns here today for Torreon. He had 38 cannon and 225 home-made j shells for each. of them. "We're all ready for Torreon, he told the, newspaper correspondents. "and If our gunners . are careful of their ammunition we have enough of It ' to blow the . town off the map. Of 6500 men hetre I shall take 5000 with me." ' To Increase Terns Rangers. Austin. Texas, March 12. That Gov ernor Colquitt intended to increase the force of Texas Rangers as a step tow ard better protection of the Mexican border, waa understood here today. 1 "Do you intend to consult with Pres ident Wilson concerning the proposed increase?" be was asked. "Washington has absolutely nothing to do with the Rangers." answered Col quitt. "I will consult none of the fed eral authorities." . .. DYER GOES TO ANNAPOLIS i ::: . . ' ' .-. ; -i WMattn Bareaa of The Joeraal.) ' '. Washington, March 12. Senator Chamberlain today designated, for ap pointment : as principal cadet at An napolis Naval academy Oeorge C. Dyer of 124 East Everett street, Portland. MAN ZA TAKES T, F Bryan's Letter, ?xplaining Why U. S. MustfSpeak for 'Foreign Countri Mollifies Rebel Commander. WILL PERMIT U.jS. TO GUARD ALL FOREIGNERS Strengthening of Border Pa trol Not Meant as an ; Act of WiK c (United Pi-ms Lcaa wire.) Washington. March l2.ReconaMar. - ation by General Carranaa of his re- rusal to negoUaU i wl'l the United. -States concerning any "hut Mexican- American affairs was Ikpected today,' 11 was Known that hfc'waa consider Ing Secretary of 8tatVBryan's letter xo mm explaining whys; the Washing- ton administration is ikt-remi earning the lives and Wjoperty of for. ' 'i'" omer man ;Amerlrana In Mexico. The secretart frankly re ferred to the general'aTdemand that tne powers deal with htn directly, as absurd. ' United States Consul 1 Slmnlrh ti. graphed from Nuevo Lij-edo that Car- i.ivcii mi i-i pr in a rriena. ly spirit and predlcted that hencefor ward the general wiUpermlt United States consuls In Mexl& to safeguard all foreigners, Regardless of their na tionality. Should he dq'ao, it was salt) one great source of possible compiles. , ons wouia oe cut orr. ?ji . Army officers here believed all th cavalry In the United States would be dispatched to the Milf in border soon. It had been definitely .decided not to disturb the regular aliy division atY Texas City, as It woulJlbe needed for a dash on Mexico. City :ln. case of In- t.rvtntlrtn r ' . . Administration officials continued to emphasize that the strengthening' of the border patrol was not meant as an act of wsr, but was ttnply to rea sure Texans living nearbe frontier. mat an imporiant ocv-iopment was Imminent In Mexico Cifiwaa reported, but details were lacklrjc and govern ment officials wera ska ileal. . ARE 4VI1SSING- FROM SACKED CiESE CITY Two English iWfcrneh Gone From Inland C$,na Mission at Lao Ho. Kofi. ( United Prean i Leaitll . Wlr;) London, March .13. Besides Dr. Froy- land, the Norwegian missionary known to have been killed by, ; bandits when they sacked Lao HO Kq; Hupeh prov ince, China, two young'jiromen Misses K and J. Black '4- attached to the English Inland -China ptlsslon at the same place, are mlsslnf, according to dispatches received by the Central News today, and It was if eared the out laws had killed them of carried them away as prisoners, j :' Troops Sent Afte- Bandits. Fekin. March 12. Ttfoope were on their way from her an from Hankow today to exterminate the bandits who looted and burned Lao lio Kow, Heuph province, recently; destroying much foreign property and killing, among other persons. Dr. T. Troyland. a Nor i weaian miasionarv. , Helen Huntington I wotld be married I Anm to tl. Business1 Chances Partner wanted in a blacksmith shop. Must be a gosd, live man. Ice cream perlor.VTrult. confec tionery and cigar business for sale. ' . ' Partner business. wanted i safe, cash Established dry geods and shoe ' business for sale, rsome trade. Location Is on main street of small eastern Oregon:: town. The commercial cj?b In a small town claims there '.it a splendid opening for a general store. Tou can have --d0 business cards printed for 55ft Lunch room; bakery, delicates sen, confectionery tojUruda One chair barber hop, eatah-' !shed location. $8. j ?j New fireproof atore building at Ic station at a-bargain. Partner wanted 1. a good pay ing lunch counter, il , These items Va War in the . Business Chance' c lumn of t day's Journal : Wanr "Ads. . The habit of following iTjls column Is profitable acquire It. SECOND THOUGH GROWS WOMEN MISSIONARIES s i Ir r