PRESIDENT CALLS
MILITIA TOR DUTY
Troops To Be Sent to Mexican Border
For Immediate Service.
WAR VESSELS ORDERED SOUTH
Carranza's Demand for Withdrawal
of Pershing's Expedition Brings
Crisis in Border Trouble.
Washington, D. C. Virtually the
entire mobile strength of the National
guard of all Btates and the District of
Columbia was ordered mustered into the
Federal service Sunday night by Presi
dent Wilson. About 100,000 men are
expected to respond to the call.
They will be mobilized immediately
for such service on the Mexican border
as may be assigned to them. General
Frederick Funston, commanding the
border forces, will designate the time
and place for movement of guardsmen
to the international line as the occa
sion shall require.
In announcing the orders Secretary
Baker said the state forces would be
employed only to guard the border,
and that no additional troop movements
into Mexico were contemplated except
in pursuit of raiders.
Simultaneously with the National
guard call, Secreary Daniels, of the
Navy deparment, ordered additional
war vessels to Mexican waters on both
coasts to safeguard American lives.
Within the last two weeks, however,
tension has been increasing steadily.
The crisis presented by General Car
ranza's note demanding the recall of
General Pershing's expeditionary force
has been followed by a virtual ultima
tum served on the American officer by
General Trevino, the Mexican com
mander in Chihuahua. To this was
added Sunday the possibility that
American and Mexican troops had,
clashed across the border from San
Benito, Texas.
Militia of Every State in Union
Called for Guard Duty on Border
Washington, D. C President Wil
son has called out the militia of every
state for service on the Mexican bor
der. In announcing the President's decis
ion late Sunday, Secretary Baker said
the militia would be sent to the border
whenever and as fully as General Fun
ston determines them to be needed.
Brigadier General Alfred Mills,
chief of the division of militia affairs,
estimated the minimum militia force
which would respond to the call as
100,000 men.
Oregon Guard Mobilizing.
Salem Immediate mobilization of
all the units of the Oregon National
guard was ordered Sunday night by
Governor Withycombe, who notified
Adjutant General. White to proceed
with mobilization upon receipt of an
urgent message from Secretary of War
Baker, requesting such action.
In hie message to the governor, the
Secretary declared that he was in
structed by the President to request
the mobilization of all the National
guards of the different states.
Washington Militia Gathering.
Seattle Adjutant General Maurice
Thompson, of the Washington National
guard, received orders early Sunday
night for the mobilization of the
Washington militia. The Washington
militia will mobilize at American
Lake, south of Tacoma.
Adjutant General Thompson imme
diately issued orders to the various
company commanders to aBBemble their
companies at their home stations and
to recruit to full war strength of 142
men for each company.
Idaho To Be Ready in Three Days.
Boise, Idaho Adjutant General P.
H. Crow said Idaho will mobilize 1000
guardsmen within three days. The men
are to be brought together at Boise.
Lieutenant Governor Taylor issued the
call for mobilization shortly before
midnight Sunday.
Mexico Asks Volunteers.
Chihuahua City, Mex. Fevered ef
forts to bring every unit of the Car
ranza army of the north to the great
est possible strength for service in the
event of hostilities with the United
States are being pushed here. A mes
sage from General Obregon, Mexican
minister of war, directed General Tre
vino, commanding the northern divis
ion, to urge patriotic citizens to volun
teer "to fight the American army, in
case of a rupture of relations," and to
prevent "the further raiding of Amer
ican territory by armed bandits."
War Declared In Redding,
Redding, Cal. About 60 Mexicans
who are employed on an irrigation
ditch construction gang near here en
gaged in a street fight with Beveral
Americans here Sunday night in the
restricted district. After the disturb
ance was quelled by the police, aided
by deputy sheriffs, IS Mexicans were
placed in jail, many of them severely
injured. Knives, stones, clubs and
fists were the weapons used by the
fighters. Six men were stabbed.
BACKDOWN IS SEEN ON PART
Of CARRANZA; CRISIS IS NEAR
Columbus, N. M. Carranzaista
troops and soldiers of General Persh
ing's expeditionary command south of
Namiquipa are on the verge of hostili
ties, according to reports from the
field Wednesday. A wireless dispatch
from Colonel D. C. Cabell, General
Pershing's chief of staff, said that the
attitude of the Carranzaistas was such
that American motor-truck supply
trains are in danger of being fired up
on. The Carranzaistas are said to have
mounted artillery in positions menac
ing the Americans and the dispatches
indicated that with the two commands
in close proximity the danger of a
clash is increasing.
El Paso, Tex. The border read the
latest notes to General Carranza and
then lapsed back into the expectant
waiting that has followed each crisis
in the Mexican situation.
Speculation centered on the first
chief's reception of the Lansing docu
ment. Much interest was taken in a
telegram received at the Mexican con
sulate from the official news bureau in
Mexico City. This message read :
"General Carranza, addressing a
patriotic crowd in Mexico City, de
clared there would be no war between
the United States and Mexico unless
the United States should send further
punitive expedition into Mexico."
In some quarters the telegram was
interpreted as forecasting a back-down
on the part of the first chief.
In military circles it is agreed that
the American defense against the
slightest Mexican aggression will be a
swift and sharply executed offensive.
Indications which piled up from var
ious Mexican townB along the border
point to the probability that if inter
vention in forced the first dash of
American regulars over the interna
tional boundary would meet with slight
resistance.
Men, women and children in these
centers are being ordered southward,
while merchants have been instructed
to move their goods to interior points.
There has been no preparation of
trenches or other fortifications.
In quarters which have been in pos
session of all the facts relative to do
mestic conditions in Mexico, it is as
serted that in the event of hostilities
the food situation in Mexico would be
come a prominent factor. Because of
shortage of rations and curtailed
transportation facilities it was said
that General Carranza would be unable
to maintain a force of 10,000 men at
any point for a period of three weeks,
and that there was not enough forage
to take care of a body of 8000 cavalry
for one week.
In view of this, it is believed the
Mexicans would have to operate in
comparatively Bmall detachments.
Enough rolling stock has been gath
ered in Juarez to transport the entire
garrison, if it becomes advisable to
move Bouth.
Mexicans Riddle American Flag
Over Consulate During Rioting
Douglas, Ariz. The American flag
flying over the hotel in which was sit
uated the office of American Consul W.
A. Julian at Cananea was made the
target of hundreds of Mexican bullets
during the anti-American demonstra
tion last Saturday night, according to
American refugees arriving here Wed
nesday. After daybreak, when the
demonstration ended, the emblem still
flaunted in the breeze.
Numerous bullets struck the hotel,
endangering the visitors, who were
nearly all Americana. The mob shout
ed maledictions against the "grin
goes." After filling the flag with holes the
mob directed its fire at the flagpole but
was unable to cut it.
About 650 Americans have reached
the border from Cananea. The refu
gees composed parctcially the Ameri
can population of the town. General
Calles announced that he had lifted the
embargo on Sonora telephone and tele
graph lines that American consular
representatives might send warnings
urging Americans to leave the state.
He specified, however, that all mess
ages must be written in Spanish.
Americans Rush to Ports.
Mexico City Many Americans left
Mexico City Wednesday in special cars
for Vera Cruz. Calls have been sent
to Guadalajara, Guantajo, Puebla and
other cities requestnig Americans to
come to the capital for the purpose of
taking trains for Vera Cruz or to reach
other coast ports directly if that be
possible. The Mexican foreign office
gave assurances that no obstacles would
be put in the way of Americans desir
ing to leave. Americans have been
treated with courtesy by officials of the
transportation system.
$2,300,000 I Overdue.
New York Madison Square Garden
Wednesday went into the hands of a
receiver. Proceedings to foreclose a
mortgage of $2,300,000 together with
back taxes and interest and other
charges amounting to about $58,500,
were begun last week by the New York
Life Insurance company. Supreme
Court Justice Giegerich has appointed
Edward E. McCall receiver. The pro
ceedings are reported to foreshadow a
sale of the property at auction.
Four Hospitals To Be Given.
Chicago Four base hospitals of 600
beds each and costing $160,000 will be
the contribution of the Chicago branch
of the American Red Cross in the
event of war with Mexico, according
to an announcement by the Red Cross
of Amcirca
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PLATFORM ADOPTED;
SESSION ADJOURNS
St. Louis The Democratic National
Convention finished its work Friday by
adopting the party platform exactly as
approved by President Wilson and sub
mitted by the resolutions committee,
including the planks on Americanism
and favornig woman suffrage, but not
until the harmony of its three days'
session had been rippled with a row
over the suffrage plank.
No voice was raised against the
declarations of the Amricanism plank.
At one time it looked as if the suffrage
plank had been lost, but after Senator
Walsh, of Montana, had told the con
vention that President Wilson himself
considered it vital to party success it
was voted into the platform, 888i to
181J. The whole platform then was
adopted without roll call.
As it went into the platform the
suffrage plank stands:
"We favor the extension of the
franchise to the women of thiB coun
try, state by state, on the same terms
as to the men."
The women suffrage leaders consid
ered it a much more favorable declara
tion than they got from the Republi
can convention at Chicago; they threw
all their force behind it and won the
support of the administration leaders,
who were found fighting' for them
when danger threatened.
Haggared and worn from an all
night session, the platform makers
were not ready with their report until
afternoon, when Senator Stone, sleep
less for more than 30 hours, took the
speaker's stand to read the document
gave over this task to Senator Walsh,
of Montana, and Senator Hollis, of
New Hampshire. They "spelled"
each other reading the long declara
tion. The fight on the suffrage plank was
in the air. Every body was keyed up
to it when at the conclusion of the
reading of the platform Martin Lomas
ney, of Boston, a delegate, claimed the
attention of the chair, it was thought
that he was opening the fight. It was
several minutes before the shouts of
approval and cries of disapproval could
be stilled sufficiently to hear that he
wanted to put the convention on record
as sympathizing with "the people of
Ireland."
"Raus mit him," roared a Baltimore
delegate and the convention hall
rocked with laughter.
The real fight broke immediately
after, however, when Governor Fer-
Army Messages Go First.
Portland, Ore. Civil business over
the telegraph wires must take second
place while the present movement of
troops to the border is under way, ac
cording to W. A. Robb, manager of the
Portland office of the Western Union,
"The service of the telegraph company
will be placed primarily at the disposal
of the government messages in this
case." he said, "and every facility
will be given to the rapid transmis
sion of dispatches involved in the
smooth handling of the movement of
the troops."
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THOMAS R. MARSHALL.
guson, of Texas, who headed the mi
nority report against the administra
tion plank, was given 30 minutes in
which to discuss it.
The plank offered by the minority
was this:
"The Democratic party has always
stood for the sovereignty of the sev
eral states in the control and regula
tion of elections. We reaffirm the
historic position of our party in this
regard and favor the continuance of
that wise provision of the federal con
stitution which vests in the several
states of the union the power to pre
scribe the qualifications of their elec
tors." German Newspaper Plant Is Burned.
Portland Fire gutted the two upper
stories of the building occupied by the
German Publishing company and the
Chicago Furniture company, at First
and Salmon streets at 6 o'clock Wed
nesday night, entailing a loss of ap
proximately $40,000. A. E. Kern,
publisher of the Deutsche Zeitung,
with offices in the building, Baid he
suspected incendiarism.
The German Publishing company
was the heaviest loser, almost the en
tire stock and machinery for publish
ing the daily German paper being de
stroyed. The loss to this firm is esti
mated at $20,000, 90 per cent insured.
Mr. Kern bases his theories of in
cendiarism on the fact that not more
than a week ago a small fire was dis
covered on the top floor at practically
the same time in the evening as the
one started Wednesady.
Living for Diplomats Grows.
Washington, D. C Secretary Lan
sing has asked congress for $75,000
for special allowances to diplomatic
officers in foreign capitals, reporting
that the cost of living had increased
200 per cent over normal times.
"Most of the diplomatic officers at
these capitals" said Secretary Lansing,
"are able to live at present only by
drawing substantially on their private
means and in many instances where
secretaries of embassies or legations
have no private means their continu
ance at these posts will be impossible."
AND MARSHALL
LOUIS.
CONVENTION ACTS
IN HARMONY
Coliseum, St. Louis President Wil
son and Vice President Marshall were
nominated by acclamation late Thurs
day night by the Democratic National
convention, the ticket being completed
four minutes before Friday.
Contrary to expectation, however,
the convention did not finish its work,
because the platform was not ready,
and it met again at 11 o'clock Friday
morning.
It was announced in the convention
that the sub-committee drafting the
platform had finished its work, but
that the entire resultions committee
was not assembled to pass upon it, and
it was not known when that could be'
done.
President Wilson's own plank,
charging conspiracy among some foreign-born
citizens for the benefit of
the foreign powers and denouncing any
political party which benefits and not
repudiating such a situation, was in
corporated in the platform just as the
President himself had sent it from
Washington. It was understood that
the President insisted that the plank
should be put in the platform in the
way he had drawn it.
There never was any doubt of Presi
dent Wilson's nomination, but there
was a possibility that some vice-presidential
booms might be brought out in
opposition to Vice President Marshall.
They melted away, however, when
the convention got in session, and as
soon as President Wilson's nomination
had been made a roaring chorus of ac
clamation, Senator Kern, who re-nominated
Mr. Marshall, cast aside a long
prepared speech and simply declared:
"I nominate Thomas Riley Marshall,
of Indiana, for vice president."
To President Wilson's nomination
there was only one dissenting vote,
Robert Emmett Burke, of Illinois, who
came to the convention declaring that
he was opposed to the President. His
vote technically made the President's
nomination 1091 to 1.
A striking incident of the session
was the action of the convention in
calling on William J. Bryan to speak.
This was done on the motion of Sena
tor Thompson, of Kansas, that the
rules be suspended and the ex-secretary
be permitted to take the plat
form. The motion was carried and
Mr. Bryan was escorted to the plat
form immediately.
He spoke 45 minutes, pledging his
support to the President.
$50,000,000 Loan Is Made.
Petrograd A $50,000,000 banking
credit was completed between repre
sentatives of five New York financial
houses and the Russian government.
The credit was secured by the deposit
by Russia In a local banlcto the order
of American banks of 15,000,000 ru
bles. In addition the American banks
received an option to purchase 100,
000,000 rubles in Russian government
5 per cent bonds at 94. The Ameri
can parties to the transaction are J. P.
Morgan & Co., and others.
WORLD'S DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELl
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Eighty thousand Austrians were cor
nered when Czernowitz was captured
and are threatened with capture.
French newspapers commenting on
the Mexican situation, declare that
France and England must support the
United States.
The call to arms issued throughout
the country swept Yale's baseball and
crew ranks and threatened to destroy
the Eli atheletic hopes beyond repairs.
The French losses around Verdun in
killed and wounded amount to approxi
mately 165,000 to date. These losses
have occurred on a front which is not
more than 13 miles in length.
General Pershing defied Carranza's
demand not to move troops in any di
rection except northward, when he or
dered two detachments of cavalry to
pursue Villa bandits Bouth and west
Tuesday.
According to reports there is rejoic
ing in Matamoros in the belief that a
small band of Mexicans compelled a
force of about 300 American soldiers
to recross from Mexico territory into
the United States Monday.
The Italian government has decided
to permit wives of Italians who have
become naturalized Americans and
have not returned to Italy for military
service to rejoin their husbands in
America. Heretofore this has been
forbidden.
Mexican refugees are enrolling at
their consulate in Havana to fight in
the event of war with the United
States. Minister Gonzales has in
formed the Cuban government that
United States warships will shortly
visit Havana. President Menocal has
signed a decree revoking all permits
for private wireless stations.
Loss of jobs and salaries of 1000
government clerks who are members of
the District of Columbia National
guard may result from the president's
call to the militia. Compelled to re
spond for duty or face courtmartial,
the government's clerks are between
two fires. Special legislation by con
gress or the issuance of an executive
order by the President is necessary to
protect them and their jobs.
The War department has received
many inquiries as to what immunities
would be granted married men who are
members of the National Guard.
While most officials were inclined to
believe that leaves should be granted
those who can show that their absence
from business would be a privation to
dependent families, it was pointed out
that each case must be presented sep
arately and would be decided on its
merits.
The news from Mexico is creating an
enormous stir in Madrid, owing to the
financial and sentimental interests en
gaged. King Alfonso has received a
cable from the large Spanish colony in
Mexico begging his mediation to pre
vent war between the United States
and Mexico, the consequences of which
would be serious to both parties. The
whole Spanish press supports the peti
tion that the king do the best he possi
bly can under the circumstances.
Vice Admiral Henry T. Mayo is in
command of the Atlantic fleet, suc
ceeding Admiral Frank F. Fletcher,
who goes to Washington to become a
member of the naval board. The cere
mony was held at the navy yard at
New York. The usual salutes and
ceremonies marked the change, which
took place on the deck of the Wyo
ming, flagship of the fleet. Rear Ad
miral Dewitt Coffman succeeds Admi
ral Mayo as vice admiral, commanding
the first division.
Fire destroyed 200 feet of the Bel
lingham & Northern Railway tunnel
half a mile east of Deming, WaBh., on
the branch line the company is con
structing between Goshen and Wel
come. The damage is estimated at
$40,000 and will delay opening the
new line at least 60 days. The timber
lining of the tunnel caught fire from
the sparks from a steam shovel which
was working inside removing a small
slide. Firemen were sent from Bel
lingham to assist in fighting the fire.
The Austrians have evacuated Czer
nowitz, capital of Bukowina, according
to dispatches to the semi-official Petro
grad News agency from Bukowina by
way of Bucharest
The fighting on the Austro-Italian
line in Tyrol seemingly has died down
in violence, only artillery duels and
small infantry engagements having
been reported. To the eaBt of Monf al
cone, which lies a short distance from
the head of the Gulf of Trieste, the
Italians have captured Austrian posi
tions and taken prisoner 498 officers
and men.