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CITY EDITION It' All Here and ie All True THE WEATHER Tonight and Tuesday fair and warmer. Westerly winds. Maximum Temperatures Sunday: Portland 6H New Orleans 84 Chicago 76 New York 72 Los Angeles 66 St Paul 5 f. NEW TODAY "Tinker Bob" stories for children, and the first of a aeries of new fashion hints and pictures. These will be dally features of The Jour nal feature pages. , VrtT WTTT NO 17S Sntered Becond-cUts Mttr VUi. AV1H. XMU. HO portoffic, Portland. Onto PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1919. - 1XTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS OW TRAINS ND MtWS STANDS FIVI OS NTS BURGLARS AIM IH SAFE Casino Theatre Box Office Is Robbed by Thieves Who Make Escape in Automobile; No Clue Thieves Break Windows in Vari ous Establishments and Make Away With Valuable Articles. Increasing boldness of burglars was reflected today In numerous po lice reports, ranging from the theft of a safe to breaking and clearing of several downtown store windows. All city detectives who can be spared itre at work in an effort to stop the rapidly increasing wave of robberies. So great is the variety of captured goods held for owners' identification that the city detective bureau resem bles a second-hand general merchan dise establishment. Bold thieves earLy this morning kicked in a Third Btreet jewelry store window and stole a safe from the Casino theatre containing Saturday ami Sunday re ceipts of the Casino and Burnslde the atres. Inspectors Cahill and .Hill are now working on sltm clues. Driving up to lite Casino theatre, Fourth and Burnside. shortly after 2 a. m., two men jimmied the door of the cashier's cage in front of the building, placed the safe, containing $43", and speeded .away. The robbery was dis covered by a Janitor-watchman employed by the Casino and a theatre across' the street when he returned to the Casino a few minutes after 2 .30 a. m. A Mr. Fay, living at the Phillips hotel nearby, reported to police this morning that he saw two men with a car at the time the robbery was commltteed, and although he thought at the time their actions were suspicious, did not see the theft. Police estimate a loss of $250 ort rings and watches stolen from' Louis Gll brlde's Jewelry store, 173 Third street The window had been kicked in and 20 rings and eight watches ..taken. Gil bride carried no burglar insurance and did not have the watch numbers re corded. JT. Peterson. 454 East Forty-ninth street, reported the loss of a quantity of Jewelry sometime Saturday night. The articles stolen include a lady's gold watch, a gold locket, a lavaliere set with pearls. and sapphires, a gold watch fob, a long gold chain and three Tiffany lings. Inspectors Hyde and Abbott were 'assigned to the case. J. U. Joseph, Seventy-seventh street and Sixty-eighth avenue 'Southeast, re ports that his home was entered Satur day night. In their report to the captain of the department. Inspectors Hyde and Abbott stated that the lost articles in- (Concluded oft Pge Four. Column FiTe) BETHLEHEM STEEL Plant Officials Admit Some of Mills Are Crippled; Some Plants Gain; Order Rules. Pittsburg. Pa., Sept. 29. (I. N. S.) Substantial gains appear to have been made by the steel interests over the week-end. The gains principally were made through the Western Pennsylvania district, where several mills in Do iiora, New Castl. McKeesport and Pittsburg proper, which had been forced to. close last week, resumed operations today. At other points in the district, notably in the steel cities of Homestead, Du quesne, Braddock, Brackenrldge and others,' vhe operations never have ceased, the mills reported greatly in creased forces today with production equaling "its pre-strlke rate. The strike was extended to the Beth lehem plants. Reports indicate that numbers of employes went out at the principal plants of the company, but that sufficient employes remained to con tinue operations In all departments. Outside of Pennsylvania there was lit tle change in the strike situation. Youngstown remained closed down. L'MON OFFICIALS CLAIM BETHLEHEM PLANTS DARK Pittsburg, Fa., Sept 29. (L N. S.) "Bethlehem Is closed down," said a tele gram received ,at strike headquarters here today fromUnlon officials in charge of the walkout at the Bethlehem plants. "Our reports show that the walkout was a success.'" said William 2. Foster, eastern director of the strike. Oregon Man Honored By Farm Congress Kansas City, Mo.. Sept. 29.-Senator ' Ar thur Capper of Kansas was elected president of the International Farm congress-at a business session here. Dr. Ricquard Lyman, Utah ; Valentine Wrinklcr, Manitoba. Sask.. and Lou, I. ISweet, Colorado, were elected vice presi dents, and L. A. Nares of California, W. It. King, Oregon ; Louis Hill. Mmne " acta, and Kurt Greenewald, honorary vie presldeut. , MILLS OPERATING Former Baroness Renounces Title To Regain Money; Returns to U. S. Philadelphia Girl Comes Home to Obtain Divorce From Husband Who Was Aide to Kaiser. By Karl H. Toa Wlegand Berlin, Sept. 29. Baroness Boecklin von Boecklinau, formerly Gertrude j Berwlnd of Philadelphia, Is reported I to be the first American girl who has decided to give up her German hus- j band for her American fortune, seized during the war by jlhe United States custodian of alien property. According to a letter from Switzer land, the baroness is reported to be about to sail for the United States with her son. She is said to have ap plied for a passport for the purpose of getting a divorce and her passport was promptly granted, it is said. WAS AIDE, TO KAISER Baron Boecklin von Boecklinau. her husband, is an intimate friend of Prince Max von Baden. He was a captain in the Prussian guard and was severely wounded in the battle of the Marne. Later he was attached to the kaiser's headquarters, but his blind loyalty was more or less superceded by his liberal political tendencies and the fact that he has an Irish mother and an American wife. Baroness von Nagel, whose husband, a lieutenant general, was killed in the fighting with Sparticides at Munich, is said to have been notified that auto matically with her husband's death, she recovered her American citizenship and that her seized property in America will be restored to her upon her re turn to the United States. She was Mabel Dillon. DIVORCE NECESSARY The fact that the government of the United 'States will only return seized fortunes to American girls married to German, Austrian or Hungarian hus bands upon proper proofs that their husbands are dead or that they are divorced, is bitterly denounced by some of the American princesses, countesses arrfl baronesses .who dp not want to divorce their husbands, particularly in cases where divorce is forbidden. BIG LONDON STRIKE IS Government's Efforts to Operate Trains Proves Partly Suc cessful During Day. By Ed L. Keen London. Sept. 29. (U. P.) Great Britain, a nation without transporta tion, expected today that the next 48 hogrs would prove the most critical period of the railway strike. Today and tomorrow, it was believed, would show whether the walkout would be broken soon or whether the nation would have to face a long siege. While all the strikers readily accepted the opnprtunity for a week-end holiday, it was believed today that many of them were becoming disheartened over the public's hostility and were likely to re sume work. The government's efforts to operate a skeleton service were partly successful today on both local and long distance lines. The trains were manned by vol unteers and loyal employes who are not members of the union. The boat train, running from London to Folkestone; departed on time. The completeness of the government's plans has surprised the strikers. The most disquieting feature of the situation today was the possibility of a sympathetic strike by the transport fed eration, which will meet tonight. It Is feared action may be taken to join the dock workers' unions in a general walk out. The seamen and firemen's union, vot ing against a strike, has declared it will remain loyal to the government and "defeat the endeavors of the Bolshevik! and hotheads of the-industrial world." Arrangements for the distribution of food are proceeding smoothly, an offi cial statement issued from Downing street declared. It was said immediate use would be made of offers for service which were pouring in from all parts of the country- ' Sailings Are Suspended Washington, Sept. 29. (U. P.) Sail ing of all shipping board vessels for United Kingdom ports have been or dered suspended because of the British railway strike, the shipping board an nounced today. Housewives Will Push Organization Plans on Tuesday Adoption of a constitution and election of officers of the new "Housewives' council," the organization which origi nated in the weekly housewives' mass meetings at Library hall, will be the purpose of the final Informal meeting at that place at 2 :30 o'clock, Tuesday after noon. All Portland women are invited to join the new organization, which purposes to study economic and political questions of interest to women, make investigations, and use its influence for reform. Housewives are urged by 'Mrs. J. F. Chapman, chairman of the mass meet ings, not only to attend this meeting but also a meeting of the Market Producers' association at 10 o'clock, Tuesday morn ing, at Library hall. A discussion of public market condi tions will follow addresses by Mayor George L. Baker and Mrs. F. O. ,North rup. chairman of the women's market investigation committee. APPROACHES cms PRESIDENT IS IA6LE TO SLEEPI Dr. Grayson at Bedside. All Night; Slumber Does Not Overtake Patient Until Noon Today. Every Ounce of Energy Burned Out, Attending Physician Or ders Period of Complete Rest. Washington, Sept. 29. (I. N. S.) "The president passed a restless night, but is sleeping this morning. (Signed) "GRAYSON." This bulletin was issued by Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, the presi dent's personal physician, at 11:10 today. It Is understood that the president got virtually no sleep during the night, and Dr. Grayson was with him constantly. President Wilson has "burned out every ounce of energy" and must have complete rest and quiet until he gets it back, it was stated at the White House today. Secretary Tumulty announced that he has cancelled all of the president's pend ing engagements, and that all questions, large and email, that have been facing the president will be shelved until it is assured he is strong enough to cope with them. It is also likely that he will leave Washington for a time, so that he may get the complete rest which is believed to be essential to his recovery. The president's illness will not inter fere with the plans for the industrial conference between representatives of capital, labor, agriculture and the pub lic, scheduled for October 6, it was stated. Whether the president would be able to take an active part in the meet ing would depend upon developments. White House officials said. It was also announced that King Al bert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium would not be guests of the White House until after their return on October 25 from a tour of the country. Bundled in a heavy overcoat. Presi dent Wilson, accompanied by Mrs. Wil son and Miss Margaret Wilson, left the White House shortly before 3 o'clock for an auto ride. The trip was taken by order of Admiral Grayson, who "said fresh air was one of the chief est needs (Concluded on Pae Four. Column Three) TELEPHONE CULL ; Long Distance Message From St. Joseph, Mo., to Wife in Port land Jail Furnishes Clue. A long distance telephone mes- I . T 1- ' - e, xivjji oi. uuetrpii, iiu,, to two women in the Portland city Jafl has brought about the arrest in the Mis souri city of three men suspected of robbing a safe in Walter Kalunka's store in Astoria of approximately $10,000 on August 15: The women are Bessie Tate and Mrs. Anna Sherman and the men are Frank Weger, alias Barnard, alias Burnett ; Klmer Clergy, alias James Tate, hus band of one Of the women, and Al Meadows. ' Arrested on suspicion that they might know of the robbery the women are being held as witnesses but charges of being accessories will be placed against them, according to the police. A re volver taken from the store was found in their possession. The women let the men know of their plight and the latter became so anxious about their welfare the long distance call followed. This gave the authorities a tip which resulted In Ihe arrests, ac cording to word from St. Joseph to the local Burns detective agency office and to Police Inspectors Leonard and Hell yer, who worked on the case. It is said the St. Joseph officials recovered $4000 in Liberty bonds and money. Much of the money and securities stolen belonged to foreign born resi dents of Astoria and vicinity, who had deposited it with Kalunka for safe keeping, having little faith In ordinary banks. From the Astoria store the men are charged with the theft of $3600 In $20 bills, $1800 in $1 bills. $1000 in Liberty loan bonds and other securities. Tong War Which Was Scheduled for Today Fails to Take . Place A Chinese tong war, which was scheduled to start at 2 o'clock this after noon, had produced none of the thrilling action of previous factional differences at the hour set, as far as the police could determine. A member of the Hop Sing clique is in the city jail, held under a complaint sworn to by a Blng Kong-Bow Leong tongman. who was the victim of the fan tan holdup Sunday night in which $700 was confiscated from the gam by an Oriental highwayman. That fact is held by the police to be responsible, for the alleged tong war threats. PROVED UNDOING Arctic Explorer Adrift Upon Ice Floe 184 Days in Quest of Siberia Remarkable Experience Related by Adventurer Who Was Stef "ansson's Chief in North. - Portland weather is just like that of the Arctiq, ventured Storker T. Storkersen today, as he sauntered out of the Multnomah hotel. "Cpol, but not cold. And not too warm," the Arctic explorer and chief assistant of Vilhjalmur 'stef fansson, said on the occasion of his return to the United States after 11 years in the Far North. "The high cost of living is high. But I guess I'll have to stand it." Storkersen is in Portland today, vis iting his brother, Simon Storkersen, 1062 Sixteenth street north. In 10 days he plans to go to New York to Interest capitalists in financing the reindeer in dustry in Northern Canada. WOULD DRIFT TO SIBERIA Floating around on an ice floe for six months doesn't even appeal to Storker sen, much as he likes the North. But by such an unique expedition his party dis covered that there is no permanent cur rent in the Beaufort sea and that Kee nanland is wrongly located on present maps. "We thought we would drift to Siberia when we boarded.an ice floe in Beaufort sea," Storkersen said this morning, "but 1S4 days later we discovered that we were only 55 miles from our starting point." Storkersen took four men with him when he boarded the floe. With three ether men, eight sleds and 80 dogs, he Faid goodbye to the support parties on April 8, 1918. They started from a point 130 miles north of Cross island in latitudf 73 :48 and drifted 800 miles. Their home, all the while, was an ice house half a mile from the edge of the floe, which was 15 miles long and seven miles wide. LIFE IS OSI OF MONOTONY "Our expedition was the first time ex plorers attempted drifting on ice." said the northerner. "It is monotonous drift ing about. We had absolutely nothing to do but take soundings and hustle fresh meat. Not much excitement in that, even if we did get six bears and 1'6 seals." A Norse seaman foi 19 years, Storker sen took to the north after he saw ihe Anglo-American polar expedition being outfitted in Victoria in iA06. He had been In Portland .many times. "I found the north to be ideal. S'.nce then I have spent all my time there, hunting, trapping, exploring. "It isn't cold in the North like many people imagine. The thermometer gets down low, but the cold is not penetrat ing. In the 13 years 1 have been North I find that the minimum temperature on the Arctic coast at latitude 70 north is 55 degrees below sero. In summer time the temperature gets to 40 degrees above on the Arctic coast. Of course, around McKenzIe it drops sometimes to 90 de grees below, but we don't mind so much. You see, the cold there isn't nearly as unpleasant as inland. REINDEER INDUSTRY LUBES "The reindeer industry, in which I am now trying to Interest Eastern capital ists, is very profitable. I'm investing all the money I have got. Reindeer is i an meal iooa. Storkersen joined Stefansson in 1914. anfl since 1916 has been second in com mand of their expedition. It was at Stefansson's instance Storkersen be gan the ice floe venture. He has the highest praise for his commander, and points. to the remarkable results attained even without proper Instruments. The Portland visitor is now writing a detailed report of his expedition to sup plement a preliminary report filed with the deputy minister , of naval service at Ottawa, Ontario, under date of January 12, 1919. DiU Will Explain Plumb Eailroad Plan At The Auditorium Opportunity to hear the Plumb plan of railroad operation explained will be given Portland peoeple Saturday, when C. C. Dill, ex-representative in congress from Washington, will speak at The Auditorium. Announcement that Dill was coming to Portland was received by H. W. Fleming, president of the Broth erhood of Railway Clerks, from the Plumb Plan league in Washington, D. C. Dill is coming to Oregon to appear be fore the Chamber of Commerce and Federation of Labor and will spend three days speaking in the state. He will likely visit Bend and other towns in the state. Milk Prices Advance On October 1 to 15 And 16 Cts. a Quart The price of milk Is going up October 1, according to decision both by produc ers and distributors. The producers will ask $3.90 a hundred pounds for milk delivered to the dealers and the dealers in turn will ask consumers 15 cents a quart in advance and 16 cents a quart on deferred accounts. On October 1, last year the price of milk, through rec ommendation of the Portland milk com mission, was increased to 14 14 and 15Vfc cents a quart, the producers receiving $3.85 a hundred pounds. 1 New Demands Facts; Hitchcock Opposes Washington. Sept 29. (U. P.) A res olution calling on the state department for "all facts" concerning the landtag of American marines in Dalmatia waa In troduced today by Senator New. Indi ana. Opposition to it consideration by Senator Hitchcock, administration leader, delayed action on it until tomorrow. COURTHOUSE WHICH OMAHA MOB SET FIRE TO THIS is the new $1,500,000 building which was practically sacked by rioters in the Nebraska metropolis late last night and this morning. Damage to the building is at least $250,000. The Douglas county jail is on the fifth floor of the structure, and when the flames spread the prisoners were taken to the roof. The negro who was sought by the mob was found on the fourth floor, to which mob leaders fought their way through flames and smoke. 1 Ii mil h it iUhaM mk- Jwr1 CHINAMAN INJURED SPEEDERS ACCUSED Man Knocked Down as He Stepped Off Streetcar and May Be Fatally Hurt. Hit by a speeding automobile as he stepped from a street car at East Sixty-second and Glisan streets at midnight Monday, Leong Ban. a Chinese cook, is at St. Vincents hos pital so badly ' injured he may die. After an eight-hour search that in cluded all parts of the city by the entire emergency force, three youths are in jail, charged with the responsibility. Ban is unconscious and suffering from a fractured skull, a broken leg, a frac tured collar bone and two cracked ribs. In jail are Gatani Buzzelli. 20. 428 East Forty-fourth street, driver of the car ; Peter Buzzelli, his brother, aged 19 ; P. Frlede, 1391 East Carruthers street. Leong has been employed as a cook for three years at a home at 93 East Sixty-second street. According to a story of the accident told by Inspectors Cahill and Hill, who worked on the case, Gantani was driving the car, rented from the Lownsdale garage earlier In the evening. Speeding along, they did not see a Montavilla car stop to let the Chinaman alight, and ran over him, tossing him In the air. Frightened, Gatani applied more power to his car and speeded away. Several blocks away he stopped the car and, with Frlede, ran home. Peter Buzzelli, the .brother, took the car back to the Lownsdale garage. Peter telephoned another brother about the accident shortly after arrival home. The brother in turn called Friede's mother by telephone, and believing the police might be seeking the boys, she called detective headquarters. Friede refused to talk to Cahill and Hill. Gatani, driver of the car, finally confessed, according to police. Peter, employed at the Columbia River ship yards, was arrested this morning. Mackey Will Succeed Hindman (Resigned) As Deputy Attorney Lionel C. Mackey. Portland attorney, and captain of artillery with the 91st division in France, will succeed Charles C. Hindman, resigned, as deputy city attorney, City Attorney LaRoche an nounced this morning. Mr. Mackey practiced law for five years in Illinois prior to his removal to Oregon in 1909, and was a member of the firm of Mackey & Cooper for several years. He served as a member of the legislature from Multnomah county in the 1917 session. Portland Visit of Royalty Advanced Owing to President Wilson's illness. King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Bel gium will visit Portland on Sunday, October 12. four days ahead of the pre vious date set, according to present plans. A wire received by Mayor Ba ker this morning from William Phillips, assistant secretary of state, announced the change in plans, subject to approval of King Albert. Bibulous Speeders Fined and Jailed Judge Kossman fined P. Hcssong $100 ani sentenced him to 20 days in jail for driving his automobile while intox icated. John Rich was fined $50 and ! will spend 20 days in jail as a result of his conviction on a similar charge. Lsi?. It if 922 .1 . Shippers' Right to Reasonable Rate Is Violated, Says Brief The shipper's right to have his products carried to market at a rea sonable rate is being violated in the Pacific Northwest. It is up -to the Interstate Com merce commission to stop the viola tion and right the wrong. Transportation based on cost of service is urged in the Columbia basin rate case brief filed today with the Interstate Commerce commis sion by former Governor Oswald West, counsel for the Inland Empire Shippers' league. "Under the common law shippers had a right to have their'products carried to market at a reasonable rate," it is strongly asserted in the brief which, in effect, urges rf-cognition of the Columbia water grade In the grant of a rate which will be lower than that over the mountains to Puget Sound. "That rigrht has been confirmed by the act to regu late commerce. It has also been con firmed by the federal control act. Yet that right has been and is now being nullified by a policy of rate making which fixes for all roads serving a territory rates based upon the cost of service over the road with the highest operating cost. RIGHT SHOULD BE INVIOLATE "Shippers over the Itnes of the de fendants can not have this right to enjoy reasonable rates taken from them through the coming of r competing lines with higher operating costs. When these lines entered O-W. R. & terri tory they did so at their own risk and with a full understanding as to the rights of a shipper to demand and re ceive reasonable rates over the shortest and most favorable route to market." But one question is before the com merce commission, asserts former Gover nor West, and it is this : "Shall the shippers of grain and grain products from points In the Inland Em pire to Columbia river ports over tn? lines of the defendants be permitted to enjoy rates based upon cost of service over said lines, or shall they be com pelled, for all time to come, to pay rates based upon the cost of eervice over the northern lines with longer hauls and mountainous routes?" That the cost of service along the Co lumbia is less is also stated : "It has been clearly established by the evidence in these cases that the cost of service from points in the wheat belt of the Columbia river basin to Portland. Vancouver and Astoria is less than to Puget Sound. Therefore the rates to Portland, Vancouver and Astoria are either loo high or the rates to Puget Sound are too low. Complainant has a right to assume that the rates to Puget Sound are remunerative, for: DECISIONS CITED "(I) A carrier may not properly or lawfully engage in transportation at a rate less than the cost of the service, since to do bo would place an Improper and unlawful burden upon other traffic." Burnham, Hanna, Munger Co. v. C, R. I. ft; P. Ry. Co.. I I. C. C. 299-310. "(2) Carriers are under no obligation to establish less than reasonable rates for purpose of overcoming any disadvan tage suffered by reason of greater dis tance from source of supply." Vander-boom-Simson Lumber Co. v. fit L I. M. ft S. Ry. Co., 38 I. C. C, 432-437. West makes it clear in the brief that the Inland Empire shippers are not con cerned with the differences which have developed between cities since the peti tion for a rate based on cost of transpor tation was offered: XO COXCERX WITH DIFFERENCES "As a result of the filing of these- sev eral petitions for rate adjustments, dif ferences appear to have developed be tween the principal cities of the North west. In any such fight the complainant in this case has no concern. Its purpose in filing its petition was neither to build up nor tear down any particular city. It concedes to every city and every com munity the right to enjoy to the fullest I ft a'Sv. mm - 4. ' . t extent any and all benefits which may grow out of its natural advantages." The shippers' league brief reviews the facts that average '"distances -from the interior are shorter down the .Columbia than over the mountains to Puget Sound, and that cost of service is less, but the valley lines receive larger returns. That railroad officials worked hand- In glove ixing rates is asserted in a paragraph which reads: I'ROTECTIOX GIVEN N. P. When this case was being heard, wit nesses were repeatedly asked to point out a single instance where rate. cutting by a carrier had disturbed the grain rate structure in the Northwest. It couldn't he done. The early tariffs and traffic agreements show that the traffic offi cials of the N. P. and O. R. &. N. worked hand in glove in fixing rates. The prac tice has' since continued, and always with a view of protecting the revenues of the Northern Pacific." COSTLY ROUTE IS HAS18 Again: 'The testimony clearly shows that the Northern Pacific, with its long haul over a mountainous route, has been the key stone in the grain rate structure of he Northwest, and all lines have Joined in seeing it properly supported and pro tected. New and competing lines en tering the Northern Pacific territory were not permitted to become disturbing factors in rate making. The country did not profit through their shorter hauls and less costly service. These roads ac cepted the rates as they found them, and the public has continued, and will continue until given relief by this com mission, to pay rates based upon the cost of service over the most costly route of the Northern Pacific." INCONSISTENCIES POINTED OCT The inconsistency of the rate struc ture is shown in the Yakima instance: "Yakima, Wash.. . is a competitive point. It is served by the Northern Pa cific and the O-W. R. & N. It is 163 miles from Yakima to Seattle via the mountainous route of the Northern Pa cific. It is 313.6 miles from Yakima to Portland via the water grade route of the O-W. R. & N. The normal N. P. rate to Seattle is 12e. The normal O-W. R. & N. rate to Portland Is 15c. "The Northern Pacific hauls grain from Walla Walla to Seattle, a distance of 317 miles, at a "normal rate of 1340. This rate waa not made to meet com petition, but was fixed by the railroad corr.mlBSlon of Washington as a rea sonable rate for the distance and haul over the mountains. "The O-W. R. It N. makes joint rates with the Northern Pacific from Pendle ton to Seattle. The distance is 333 miles and the route passes over the Cascade mountains. The normal rate is 13 cents, or the same as Is charged by the O-W. R. N. for its haul to (Concluded on Pa Three, Column On) Alaskan Commission Contracts With Local Firms for Egg Supply For .the third consecutive time Port land has landed the government contract tb supplying the Alaskan 'engineering commission with its fresh egg supplies. Portland has demonstrated that not qfily is it able to sell eggs at lower prices than can Puget Sound, even after pay ing freight to that section, but can pay the producer just as much, if not more money. Local firms were today notified by thn Alaskan commission that they bad been awarded contracts for 350 cases of ergs to go forward early in the next mcnth to the N"orth. The prices paid by the government for delivery at Portland were from 68 Vi to 73 cents a dozen for frtsh stock. Savinar & Co., Swift Jfc Co. and Frye & Co. were the successful bidders here. OIHM FEABFIM. OF M IIS Negroes Break Into Hardware Store and Take 200 High Pow ered Rifles and Ammunition. Martial Law Follows Night of Ter ror; Mayor Mobbed Court House Burned; Negro Lynched. Omaha. Nob., Sept. 29. (I. X. Si.) A call for 1000 more troops wn made to Governor McKelvta today by acting .Mayor V. G. I'rc. In n telegram to the governor and to Sen ator Illtchooek, at Washington, Vro declared 15,000 negroes In Ouiahu are anned and ready to fight, lie said that there are probably 1500 rifles and revolvers In the hands or the mob, and that further violence Is threatened in the negro section. City authorities, Ure said, are unable to eoie with the situation, and he asked that 1000 troops be stationed permanently at Fort Crook. Chicago, Sept. 29. (I. N. S.) Major General Leonard Wood start ed Immediately for Omaha txln to take ehnrge of troops there, follow ing receipt of instructions from Nee. rotary Baker. lie will reach Omaha tomorrow morning. Omaha, Neb., Kept. 29. Omaha seems to be face to face with it bloody race war. The mob spirit Is rampant here today. Many jvhiten and many negroes have armed them selves, and a clash is imminent, de spite the presence of troops. This is all a result of rioting Sunday night, when Will Brown, a negro, iden tified by Mlsa Agnes Loeback. 19, as th man who had assaulted her Thursday night, was lynched and his body burned. Mayor Ed P. Smith was nearly hanged, the Xouglas county court house was burned, one man, Francis Clancy, 1. was shot and killed, and 39 other per sons were wounded. One more death, that of an unidentified man. was re ported this morning. According to a report reaching head quarters of Colonel Wuest. in command here, negroes raided a hardware and gun store during the night and took 200 high-powered rifles and a large quan tity of ammifnltlon. That a riot spirit still prevails la shown from numerous etrcct fights be tween whites and blacks. Troops at Twenty-fourth and Luke streets, in the heart of the negro dlstrk-t, were fired on by negroes Just before daybreak this morning. They returned the firs. No one was injured. A captured Oct main cannon, present ed to the city by the war department, was used by? the mob to batter down the courthouse door in last night's rioting. MAYOR IS BETTFIt Mayor Smith regained cotisciousneps this morning and was able to sit up. Physicians were at his bedside con stantly during the night. They sail the mayor had been badly beaten about the chest. In his delirium the mayor moaned continuously : "You shall not tak him." The mayor had no comment to mak thin morning on last night's riots. After he had been rescued by police, the enraged mob burned the mayor automobile. The city was placed under martial law shortly before midnight last night by orders from Major General Leonard Wood of Chicago. Sixteen hundred sol diers were patroling the streets this morning. 1000 of them arriving from Camp Dodge early today. Machtn . guns were placed In the negro district and in the vicinity of the courthouse, and soldiers seemed to have the situa tion well in hand. THOUSANDS CHEEK While thousands of men. women and children looked on and cheered. Brown was taken from the fourth floor of the burning court house after th smoke had all but overcome Sheriff Clark and his deputies, and taken to Eighteenth and Douglas streets, a rope put around his neck and he was hanged from a telephone pole. Th mob then riddled his body with bullets, cut it down and burned it. Mayor Smith almost suffered ti same fate when he defied the mob. His last words, mumbled while almoxt unconscious from the beatings he had received, and with the rope around his neck, were : "I'll give my life if necesary, but I'll not surrender the negro. I'm going to enforce the law." , COOLER HEADS SAVE MAYOR The mayor was seised by the' mob on Seventeenth street near the courthouse. He was hustled to Harney street and stopped at the foot Of a trolley pole on the cross arm of which waa a coll of rope. "Give us the key to the Jail." the mo demanded. "If we can't get the negro we will lynch you." . Cries of, "He's no better than the negro," and "He's a negro lover." came from the mob. "Oet th rope." someone shouted. "Let's string the mayor up." A loose end of the rope waa lowered and it was placed around the neck of th mayor. Appalled st the possibility of slaying the city's chief executive, cooler heads began shouting : "We won't stand for hanging the : mayor! That won't get us the nigger 1 Let him go: Tell him to get oul of here !" Their advice was heeded and the crowd began to move down Harnsy street.1 dragging the mayor with It. A ' few (Concluded oo Put Two, Column Tbr)