WAR LORD
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Earl Kitchener Goes
Down With Ship.
ON WAY TO RUSSIA
Warship Hampshire Car
rying Minister and Staff
Sunk by Mine or Tor
pedo All Lost.
London Admiral Jellicoe, com
mander of the British grand fleet, has
reported to the admiralty that the
British cruiser Hampshire, with Earl
Kitchener, British minister of war,
and his staff aboard, has been lost off
the West Orkneys. The Hampshire
was sunk either by a mine or a tor
pedo. Admiral Jellicoe reports there
is little hope that there were any sur
vivors. Earl Kitchener was on hiB way to
Russia. The names of the members
of Earl Kitchener's staff have not yet
been learned. Sir William Robertson,
chief of the imperial Btaff, is in Lon
don. Accompanying Earl Kitchener as hiB
staff were Hugh James O'Breine, for
mer councillor of the British embassy
at Petrogad, and former minister at
Sofia; 0. A. Fitzgerald, Earl Kitch
ener's private military secretary;
Brigadier General Ellershaw and Sir
Frederick Donaldon.
Admiral Jellicoe's report to the ad
miralty follows :
"I have to report with deep regret
that His Majesty's ship Hampshire,
Captain Herbert J. Savill, R. N., with
Lord Kitchener and his staff aboard,
was sunk Monday at about 8 p. m., to'
the west of the Orkneys either by a
mine or a torpedo.
"Four boats were seen by observers
on shore to leave the ship. The wind
was north, northwest and heavy seas
were running. Patrol vesselB and de
stroyers at once proceeded to the spot
and a party was Bent along the coast to
search, but only some bodies and a
capsized boat have been found. As
the whole shore has been searched
. from the seaward I greatly fear that
there is little hope of there being any
survivorB.
"No report has yet been received
from the search party on shore. H.
M. S. Hampshire was on her way to
Russia."
PRESIDENT CHINESE
REPUBLIC IS DEAD
Peking Vuun Shi Kai, president of
the Chinese republic, died Tuesday.
Premier Tunn Chi Jui immediately
advised Li Yuan Hung, the vice presi
dent, of his succession to the presi
dency. Yuan Shi Kai had been ill for sev
eral days with stomach trouble, which
was followed by a nervous breakdown.
Quiet prevails in the capital. The
death of the president apparently
solves the heated political problem.
Li Yuan Huiig'a succession to the
presidency meets the demands of the
leaders in the Southern provinces.
British Lose Lata Gains.
British Headquarters in France
The British and Germans are fighting
hard In the region of Ypres, where last
Saturday the Brtiish in hand-to-hand
encounters recaptured most of the
trenches the GermanB had taken from
them peviouBly in the sector from the
Ypres-Coniines canal to Hooge Point.
In the face of repeated attacks the
British have been unable to retain the
bulk of the recaptured ground, but still
are fighting strenuously to keep what
they have and to recapture what they
have lost.
$711,828 Awarded Indians.
Washington, D. C. Judgment
against the United States for $711,828
was rendered by the Court of Claims
in favor of tho Mtlle Lac tribe of
Chippewa Indians, Minnesota, in con
sideration of lands and timber taken
by the government, homesteaders and
the state of Minnesota. The judgment
is based on an award to the Indians of
credit for 31.G92 acres of land and
$202,318 on account of value of timber
cut from the lands with interest.
Pablo Lc-ei It Executed.
Chihuahua City, Mex. Pablo Lopez,
Villa a chief lieutenant In the raid up
on Columbus, N. M., Tuesday paid the
penalty for hia crimes. He faced
firing squad of constitutionalists sol
diers at Santa Rosa
Italian! Repulse Attack.
Rome Austrian attacks in the La-
garina valley, where a vigorous at
tempt was made to carry the import
ant Italian positions at Coni Zugna,
were repulsed with heavy losses, the
war office announces.
TORNADO IN ARKANSAS TAKES
DEATH TOIL OF FIFTY-NINE
Little Rock, Ark. Fifty-nine per
sons are reported killed and more than
100 injured in a series of tornadoes
which swept Arkansas Monday after
noon. All means of communication
are crippled and it is feared the list of
dead and injured will be greatly in
creased by later reports.
At least four persons were killed
and half a dozen others were injured
seriously in a tornado which swept
across Garland county and through the
southwest portion of Hot Springs, Ark.
The electric light and power plant
there was put out of commission and
the city was without lights of car
service.
The storm came from the southwest,
touching the city first in the vicinity
of Oaklawn. There a Methodist church
was blown down. Then the wind
crushed a few frame buildings across
from the Oaklawn track entrance.
Farther on several small houses
were lifted and crumpled until the
wind reached the Majestic park, which
is the Spring training home of the
Boston Americans. That was swept
clean.
Then the electric power plant was
struck and damaged. From that point
northeast, where many homes were
damaged and much property was lost.
The dead thus far reported are as
follows:
Judsonia, White county, 25 known
dead and 50 injured.
Heber Springs, 18 dead.
De Lark, Dallas county, 4 dead.
Cabot, White county, 5 dead.
Hot SpringB, 4 dead.
Morrillton, 1 dead.
Greenland Washington county, 2
dead.
North Arkansas appears to have
suffered most severely although the
storm was general throughout the
state.
At Judsonia one-third of the town
was said to have been swept away,
Twenty-five bodies and 50 injured al
ready had been taken from the ruins,
Senate Is Accused of Violating
Parliamentary Law of Adjournment
Washington, D. C. Members of the
house were much exercised Tuesday
over what they insisted waB a viola
tion by the senate of the constitution
al provision that neither house shall
adjourn for more than three days at a
time without the consent of the other.
The senate adjourned Saturday until
noon lhursday, the leaders counting
that a three-day recess because of the
intervening Sunday. Republican
Leader Mann, supported by Represent
ative Garret, of Tennessee, and other
house parliamentarians, brought the
matter formally to the attention of
Speaker Clark, and the Speaker agreed
that a bad precedent had been Bet.
Later Democrat senators suggested
informally that the house dispose of
the situation by adopting a resolution
consenting to a four-day adjournment.
It was said this might be done.
Force on Greece Urged.
Petrograd The Russian press urges
the entente powers to bring pressure
ot bear on Greece because of the an
tagnostic attitude of that country,
Something of a sensation has been
caused by the articles, especially those
in the Bourse Gazette, expressing the
opinion that the king of Greece "would
do well to take a rest of some duration
at some place better for his health
than Athens."
The other papers denounce "the po
litical felony" of Greece toward the
entente. The Novoe Vremya declares
the measures taken at Saloniki as in
sufficient and calls upon the entente
powers to take necessary steps at
Piraeus and Athens.
Goethals Ready to Rest.
Washington, D. C. Major General
George W. Goethals, governor of the
Canal Zone, conferred with Secretary
Baker, and is understood to have reit
erated his desire to retire to private
life. Secretary Baker declined to dis
cuss that feature of the conference,
He probably will present the General's
request to President Wilson within a
few days. General Goethals expressed
satisfaction with the condition of the
canal, telling the secretary that ade
quate precautions had been taken to
guard against recurrence of slides.
Tornadoes Kill 107.
Kansas City Death lists in the
storm-swept sections of Arkansas,
Missouri, Mississippi and Illinois grew
hourly as belated reports were re
ceived from communtiies which suf
fered in a series of tornadoes Monday
night and early Tuesday. The deaths
of 107 persons had been reported, a
number of other persons were unac
counted for, and believed dead, and
several hundred had been injured, of
whom some will die. .
Treason Laid to Mexican.
Chihuahua City, Mex. A Mexican,
giving his name as Luis Sanchez Mena,
was arrested by military authorities
here on a charge of attempting to ob
tain promises from other Mexicans to
aid Americans in the event of Ameri
can intervention. Military authorities
say Mena confessed and that he is be
ing held for trial by court-martial.
Uruguay Will Send Help.
Montevideo, Uruguay The Uru
guayan government will dispatch the
small steamship Institutopesca to the
rescue of the Shackleton expedition.
WORLD'S DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
from All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS INANUTSHEU
Live News Items of AH Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
One hundred and eight precincts out
of a total of 2297 in the state of Iowa
give for suffrage 8069, against, 11,062.
Every state in the Union is repre
sented among the 1700 men who have
arrived at the first Plattsburg, N. Y.,
camp of military instruction.
Only the signature of President Wil
son is now lacking to complete the
final enactment of the Oregon and Cal
ifornia land-grant law, the house hav
ing ratified the conference report.
The suit brought by George J. Gould
and other trustees of the estate of Jay
Gould to recover $1,741,000 from the
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
railway was dismissed by Federal
Judge Hand.
The Hawley Pulp & Paper company,
of Oregon City, announces a change in
its mills from the two-shift to the
three-shift plan. More than 60 more
men will be employed under the new
arrangement.
Russian forces have won great suc
cesses along the tront trom the 1'ripet
marshes to the Roumanian frontier,
according to an official announcement
from Petrograd. It is stated that the
Russians took 13,000 prisoners.
The U. S. Supreme court interpreted
the Harrison Federal Drug Act of
1914, making it unlawful for any per
son not registered under the law to
have opium in his possession, as apply
ing only to those who deal in the drug
and not to those who use it.
Possible danger that the present
Btrike of the Butte Workingmen's
Union might spread to the mines was
dissipated when the electricians in the
employ of the mining companies met
and determined not to go out in sym
pathy with the smaller unions of the
city under any circumstances.
The British destroyer Acasta, which
the Germans reported they had sunk,
has arrived at a northeast coast port
under tow of another deBtroyer. The
shell which put her out of action, after
she had been in the thick of the fight
ing for 40 minutes, exploded in the
engine-room, killing five men.
The U. S. Supreme court holds that
interurban electric cars, crossing state
lines, are amenable to the safety ap
pliance act, although they move for a
part of the route in a city service.
Conviction of the Spokane & Inland
Empire Railroad company, operating
from Spokane to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho,
for failure to comply with the act, was
upheld and a $1500 fine imposed.
A Reuter dispatch form Zurich says
that members of the German Land
sturm, class of 1917, who are living
abroad, have been ordered to return
home immediately. The Landsturm
is a home defense force whicli in
cludes, in addition to trained soldiers
between the ages of 39 and 45, all
those between the ages of 17 and 39
who have received no military train
ing. Progress toward the completion of
the new automobile consolidation,
which embraces the Willys-Overland,
the Hudson and the Chalmers automo
bile companies, as well as allied con
cerns, including the Autolite company,
was announced Wednesday. The new
company, probably will bear the cor
porate title of the American Motors
company, with $70,000,000 of pre
ferred stock.
A Berlin dispatch to the Copenhagen
Politiken says that the court which
conducted the preliminary examination
of Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the Socialist
leader, decided that he should be pun
ished for treason.
The Cologne Volka Zeitung says it is
reported, although not confirmed, that
King Victor Emmanuel and his special
staff have departed from the Italian
general headquarters at Udine on ac
count of the Austrian offensive and re
tired to Venice.
Pierre Dreyfus, son of Commandant
Alfred Dreyfus, of the famous "Drey
fus Affair, " who has been serving on
the Verdun front as second lieutenant
in the artillery, has just been cited in
the orders of the day for having "par
ticularly distinguished himself during
the violent engagements of February
26, 27 and 28" in the battle of Verdun.
lwenty persona were killed or
wounded in an outbreak at Maracaibo,
Venezuela, against General Garcia,
who has been appointed president of
the state of Zulta.
The planting of 600 acres of land in
the Sutherlin, Ore., district to Bugar
beets has been completed and the
growing crop is considered one of the
best prospects In the Northwest
Mrs. Josiah Evans Cow lea, of Los
Angeles, has been elected president of
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs by a large majority, defeating
Mrs. Samuel B. Sneath, of Tiffin, O.
FOR PREPAREDNESS
Chicago Has 130,214 People in Line
In Behalf of Defense.
PORTLAND HAS BIG SHOWING
Other Cities Also Indulge in Monster
Celebrations to Give Emphasis
to National Welfare Call.
Chicago The greatest parade ever
held in Chicago ended Saturday night
after 130,214 persons, one-sixth of
whom were women, had filed through
the streets in the preparedness demon
stration. The parade was 111 hours
in passing. More than 1,000,000 per
sons are estimated to have witnessed
it. The night division was made up
largely of militia organizations, which
included all branches of the army and
navy service.
The parade began at 9 o'clock in the
morning and did not conclude until
nearly midnight.
All day long and far into the night
the marchers, massed from curb to
curb, rolled like a tide through the
streets. It was as if the great sky
scrapers were the banks of a river and
the marching thousands, each person
with an American flag, the water mov
ing between them.
Major General T. H. Barry, com
mander of the Central department, U.
S. A., who sat in the reviewing stand,
declared it to be the greatest and most
inspiring spectacle he had ever wit
nessed. The demonstration impressed by its
bulk, and by the absence, to a large
extent, of the hilarity accompanying
most parades. There were no floats,
no comic costumes and little of the
holiday spirit apparent. The airs
played by the bands either were pat
riotic or military.
Portland Has 15,000 in Line.
Portland Prepare! This was the
unquestioned sentiment of what is
variously estimated at between 15,000
and 20,000 citizens who marched
through Portland's streets Saturday
night, their Bhoulders squared, their
heads up, alert and ready, facing the
duties of today with confidence and
courage.
It was one of the biggest parades
ever held in Portland. It required one
hour and five minutes to pass a given
point.
On this basis it is estimated that
the number in line was approximately
15,000. This was the figure of Judge
C. U. Gantenbein, chairman of the
committee on arrangements, who saw
the entire lines pass in review.
Other unofficial estimates placed the
number at as high as 20,000.
The marching column called atten
tion to a world on fire, and drew all
eyes to the lamentable fact that Amer
ica is living in a house immeasurably
far from being fire-proof.
The flags that fluttered everywhere
waved the messaged to prepare, to
guard the country from every possible
ill, and they roused in the watching
thousands the spirit of the occasion.
School Girls Form Living Flag.
Providence, R. I. Rhode Island men
and women 52,522 strong marched here
Saturday in a preparedness parade.
The procession was nearly Beven hours
in passing the reviewing stand. A
feature was a living flag, composed of
1560 schoolgirls.
17,000 Parade in Rain.
Hartford, Conn. Men and women,
estimated in number at fully 17,000,
marched here Saturday afternoon in a
"preparedness parade, " Rain fell at
frequent intervals, but the 16 divisions
swung steadily along, taking nearly
two and a half hours to pass a given
point.
60,000 in St. Louis Demonstration.
St. Louis More than 50,000 St.
Louisiana marched through the streets
here Saturday ' to demonstrate the
city's overwhelming favor toward Na
toinal preparedness.
10,000 March at Salt Lake,
.Salt Lake City The "preparedness"
parade here Saturday afternoon
brought out a body of marchers es
timated at more than 10,000.
6000 Parade at Lima.
Lima, O. Six thousand prepared
ness advocates marched in a parade
here Saturday. Every marcher car
ried a flag.
5000 in Parade at Springfield, O.
Springfield, O. City and county
officials led a preparedness parade in
which 5000 persons participated here
Saturday.
Mail Rifled of $4000,
Roundup, Mont A pouch containing
registered mail was cut open and rifled
of between $4000 and $5000 in curren
cy in the Milwaukee depot in Roundup
Thursday night, according to informa
tion given out by postal authorities.
The cache is said to have consisted of
bank remittances and postal funds
from Klein to the depositary at Hel
ena. The registered packages were
inclosed in an ordinary first-class mail
pouch. The robbery was not discov
ered until the clerk on the train opened
the pouch to sort its contents.
BRITISH CLAIM GERMANY'S LOSS
IN NAVAL FIGHT WAS HEAVIER
London The British admiralty Mon
day issued a statement saying there
was the strongest ground for the be
lief that the British navy in the bat
tle with the Germans off Jutland last
week had accounted for a total of 18
German men-of-war, and that there
was nothing to add to or substract
from the original announcement of the
British losses.
The statement gave the German
losses as two batttleships, two dread
naught battle cruisers, four light
cruisers, nine torpedo boat destroyers
and a submarine.
The pessimism which prevailed as a
result of the admiraltiy's original
statement of losses, which is . consid
ered to have been needlessly candid
and conservative in underestimating
the extent of the German losses, as
compared with those of Great Britain,
has been greatly lessened by the latest
statement.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
rumors are current in Hamburg that
two additional German warships be
sides those announced in the German
communication the battleship West
falen and the battle cruiser Lutzowd
were sunk in battle. A wireless dis
patch received here Saturday from
Berlin said the German admiralty ad
mitted the loss of the Westfalen.
The admiralty statement declares
that the German losses in the fight
were not only relatively, but absolute
ly, greater than those of the British.
Maintaining its practice of caution,
the admiralty still refrains from giv
ing the names of the lost German
ships.
The official list of the casualties
among officers shows that hardly a
single officer of the line escaped from
the British cruisers sunk in the battle,
An additional casualty list of petty
officers shows that 43 of them were
saved from the Queen Mary, Invinci
ble, Fortune, Ardent and Shark. None
was saved from the Indefatigible, De
fense, Black Prince, Tipperary, Turbu
lent, Nomad or NeBtor.
Great Oriental Freight Cargo
and San Francisco Pier Burn
San Francisco Five thousand tons
of frieght from the Orient, which
were unloaded Sunday from the Shin-
yo Maru No. 2, a Japanese freighter,
and a concrete pier recently erected by
the state at the mouth of Islam Creek,
were destroyed in a spectacular blaze
of unknown origin here early Monday.
The Shinyo and the General Forbes,
another freighter, which were tied to
the pier, were slightly damaged before
they could be removed from the fire's
reach. Steamship men said the loss
would reach -close to $800,000.
The Shinyo arrived Wednesday, bJt
the cargo was not touched until Sun
day, when its owners granted the de
mands of the striking longshoremen.
The boat was emptied at 11 o'clock
Sunday night, three hours before the
fire started.
Two coal barges and several box
cars were also damaged. One of the
barges, the Melrose, the largest on the
bay, which was tied to the pier, drift
ed out into tne stream with her cargo
ablaze when her moorings burned. She
bumped another coal barge, which was
anchored off the pier. Both burned
freely until fire tugs flooded the coal,
Later the two broke loose and drifted
down the hay with their cargoes
smouldering. Tugs caught up with
them off the Ferry building.
Several narrowly escaped being
burned. Customs Lieutenant Patrick
Barrett and a pier watchman were on
the pier when the fire started. The
flames spread rapidly and drove the
two men aboard the Forbes.
When the fire broke out, Japanese
swarmed from the Shinyo'fl forecastle
and spread over the ship, seeking ref
uge. One jumped overboard, but hi;
mates hauled him back on a life pre
server.
From nearby cities and from far out
at sea the sheets of fire and the' glare
could be seen. The blaze was the
most spectacular and destructive that
has visited the local waterfont in
years.
Shackleton Relief Fixed.
London Plans for the relief of
Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackleton,
who, with several of his men, is ma
rooned in the Antarctic, were com
pleted at a meeting of a committee of
the Royal Geographical society. A
relief ship will sail from London by
August 1 for Weddell Sea by way of
Buenos Aires and the Falkland Islands.
The ship probably will follow the plan
of the Aurora, the auxiliary bark of
the Shackleton expedition, which
drifted from her moorings, and will be
fitted out in Buenos Aires.
Ice Sweeps Alaska Town.
Nome, Alaska Council City was al
most completely swept away by float
ing ice cakes from the Neukluk river
late Sunday. Many buildings in the
lower part of the town were demol
ished. The ice jammed in a canyon a
short distance below the settlement,
causing the water to back up, and, with
its burden of heavy ice, to flood the
streets. A blizzard raged here also,
and sluicing operations which began a
few days ago, were suspended.
Marines Are Reinforced.
San Diego, Cal. The Fourth regi
ment of Marines, stationed here, has
left for New Orleans, where it will
embark for Haiti and Santo Domingo
on the transport Hancock. It is un
derstood the Fourth regiment will sup
plement the marines already on duty
in the turbulent island republics.
GERMANS VICTORS
IN BIG SEA FIGHT
Fourteen British, Nine German Ships
Admitted to Have Been Sunk.
IATEST BATTLE IN HISTORY
l-Night Engagement in North Sea
Greatly Aided by Zeppelins
Casualties Reported High.
London Picking its way from its
base in the Kiel Canal, the German
high-sea fleet Wednesday afternoon
emerged into the North Sea, and, off
the coast of Jutland, engaged a British
fleet throughout the afternoon and
night in what probably was the great
est naval battle in the world's history
so far as tonnage engaged and tonnage
destroyed was concerned.
When the battle ended Great Britain
had lost the battle cruisers Queen
Mary, Indefatigable and Invincible,
the cruisers Defence, Black Prince and
Warrior and eight torpedo boat de
stroyers.
The German battleship Pommern
was sent to the bottom by a torpedo
and the cruiser Wiesbaden sunk by the
British gunfire. In addition several
German torpedo craft are missing and
the small cruiser Frauenlob was seen
badly listing and was believed to have
gone to the bottom.
These losses have all been admitted
by Great Britain and Germany.
Aside from Great Britain s conceded
losses, Germany says that the British
battleship Warsprite, BiBter ship of
the Queen Elizabeth, and one of the
largest and most powerful ships afloat,
had been sunk ; that the battleship
Marlborongh, a vessel of 25,000 tons,
had been hit by a torpedo, and a sub
marine had been destroyed.
Great Britain also added to Ger
many's acknowledged losses with the
claim that one dreadnaught of the Ger
mna Kaiser class vessels of 24,700
tons and carrying a complement of
1088 men had been attacked and de
stroyed by British torpedo craft; that
another battleship of the same class
was believed to have been sunk by
gunfire; that one battle cruiser had
been blown up and two others damaged
and that six destroyers and a subma
rine also had been sent to the bottom.
Great Britain's admitted loss in ton
nage was 114,810 for six battle cruis
ers and cruisers. That of Germany,
excluding the tonnage of the Wiesba
den, of which vessel there is no rec
ord, was 15,172.
That the casualties in the fighting
off Jutland were heavy is indicated by
the fact that of the crew of some 900
on board the Indefatigable only two
men are known to have been saved.
Six Zeppelins participated in the
naval engagement, according to a dis
patch from Copenhagen to the Daily
Mail. One of the dirigibles, the L-24,
was hit several times and badly dam
aged, the report says, but she was able
to reach the Schleswig coast. Several
of her men were wounded, and all of
her supplies had to be thrown over
board. The scene of the battle was in the
Eastern waters of the North Sea. It
is probable that the German fleet was
on one of the excursions into the North
Sea, which it has taken from time to
time during the war, and met, whether
or not by design, with the British
fleet4
Skager-Rak is an arm of the North
Sea between Norway and Denmark.
The point referred to in the official
German statement as Horn Riff prob
ably is the reef off the Horn, on the
southwestern extremity of Denmark
This would indicate that the battle
was fought off the coast of Denmark.
From the reef to Helgoland, the main
German naval base in the North Sea,
is about 1U0 miles.
A dispatch from Copenhagen de
clares it is generally Btated in Berlin
that the activity of the German fleet
was due to the energetic demands of
Emperor William to his brother, Ad
miral Prince Henry of Prussia, commander-in-chief
of the navy, and Ad
miral von Capelle, minister of the
navy, on the emperor's visit last week
to Wilhelmshaven.
Torpedo Boats First In Fight.
Copenhagen A Danish steamer re
ports that Wednesday afternoon, 120
miles off Hanstholm, it was stopped by
two British torpedo-boats to have its
papers examined. At the same mo
ment a large German fleet appeared,
and the British warships immediately
prepared for action. The German fleet
consisted of five large modern dread
naughts, eight cruisers and 20 torpedo
boats and destroyers. Suddenly they
began firing, and hundreds of shells
splashed around the torpedo boats,
without, however, hitting them.
Battle Aid to Peace.
Washington, D. C. Reports of the
naval engagement in the North Sea
aroused the greatest interest here, not
only in naval circles, but at the vari
ous belligerent embassies and amang
administration officials. It was freely
predicted that if the German fleet
demonstrated a real superiority, ship
for ship, the effects on the prospects
for peace would be considerable.
The particulars received here were
inadequate as a basis for judgment
J