The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984, July 07, 1917, Image 2

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    THE
WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
COMPILED
FOR YOU
Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
A strike of 9000 coal minera of
Western Kentucky was called at a
mass meeting in Central City Saturday
night. The strike went into effect
Tuesday. Higher wages are demanded.
Announcement was made Tuesday
at the White House that President
Wilson does not expect to take a vaca­
tion this summer, but plans to remain
in Washington whether congress ad­
journs or not.
Colonel William S. Barker, of the
Salvation Army, left America Tuesday
for a port in France, where he will
take charge of all Salvation Army
operations among the overseas division
of American troops.
The French steamer Himalaya, of
the Messageries Maritimes, with 204
passengers and crew, has been sunk as
the result of an explosion in the Medi­
terranean. One hundred and seventy-
six persons were saved.
A concerted movement by American
composers and dramatists and leaders
of national civic and musical organiza­
tions, for the production of American
opera and other native music in the
English tongue has been formally
launched in New York.
Forty-seven deaths from intestinal
trouble have occurred in New Madrid
county, Missouri, in the last six weeks.
At least 100 persons, mostly children,
are ill with the disease. The number
of known deaths from the disease in
Southeastern Missouri now is 118.
The German authorities broke the
recent strike at the shipyards in Stet­
tin by the same means they used to
crush the April strike. They threat­
ened to muster the strikers as soldiers
and subject them to punishment meted
out to mutineers unless the men re­
sumed work.
The Reichstag this week will be
called on to approve a measure supple­
menting the budget for the current
fiscal year authorizing the chancellor
to mobilize a new war credit of 15,-
000,000,000 marks, bringing the total
appropriations for the war to 94,000,-
000,000 marks.
Registration of the country's house­
wives as members of the food admin­
istration was begun Monday by state
defense councils and the women’s com­
mittee of the National Council.
Dr.
Ray L. Wilbur, head of the adminis­
tration’s conservation [section, said it
was hoped enrollment would be con-
pleted within two weeks.
William H. Moody, former associate
■ justice of the Supreme court, died at
his home in Haverhill, Mass., at 1 a.
m, Monday.
Justice Moody retired
seven years ago because of ill health.
He was secretary of the Navy and at­
torney general in the cabinet of Presi­
dent Roosevelt, and was appointed to
the supreme bench in December, 1906.
135 HURT ON FOURTH
Six Deaths Reported, Compared With
Seven Last Year—653 Injured on
Corresponding Day in 1916.
Chicago—Fourth of July celebra­
tions seem to have taken another long
stride toward absolute sanity.
Re­
ports of casualties received from all
parts of the country up to a late hour
the Fourth are so far below the num­
ber received at the same hour last
year as to indicate that Independence
Day in 1917 will establish a remark-
able record.
Six deaths have been reported com­
pared with a total of seven for the
first night last year, and while that
number may be increased to the record
of 1916, it is the decrease in the num­
ber of injured which stands out as not­
able.
Only 135 persons injuerd, with just
a single case in Chicago, was the
wonderful answer to the campaign of
education for a sane Fourth celebra­
tion which has been conducted through-
out the counrty for a number of years.
Last year the injured list numbered
653.
Most encouraging are advices from a
number of points that during the year
ordinances or other regulations against
the sale and use of fireworks had been
put into effect, with the satisfactory
result that no lives were lost and few
persons had been hurt.
Reports of fatalities came from the
following points:
Los Angeles, Cal.—Ramon Castro,
10 years old, both arms blown off by
explosion of dynmite.
Endicott, Wash. — Aivona Schier­
man, 3 years old, burned to death when
firecrackers set fire to her dress.
Detroit, Mich.— Dorothy Lewis, 8
yeras old, fatally burned by fireworks.
Quincy, Ill.—One death due to pre­
mature explosion of a bomb.
CHINESE PRESIDENT FLEES
Refuge Found in Japanese Legation;
Was Reported Assassinated.
Tien Tsin—Li Yuan Hung, the Chi­
nese President, with two attendants,
escaped from the palace at 9 o’clock
Wednesday night and sought refuge in
the Japanese legation. The Japanese,
conisdering the urgency of the case,
granted him refuge.
No one is al­
lowed to interview the President.
HERMISTON
HERALD,
SELECTIVE DRAFT ‘
RULES EXEMPT FEW
Power Given Boards to Decide
on Each Case.
SELECTION MYSTERY
System by Which Choice Will Be Made
Will Be Made Only a Few Days
Before Starting, is Belief.
HERMISTON,
the members
forces.
of
all
OREGON.
other military
Regulations Based on Need.
"The regulations have been drawn
with a view to the needs and circum­
stances of the whole country, and pro­
vide a system which it is expected
will work with the least Inequality
and personal hardship. Any system of
selecting men for military service
whether voluntary or involuntary in
Its operation, necessarily selects some
men to bear the burden of danger and
sacrifice for the whole Nation. The
system here provided places all men of
military age upon an even plane, and
then, by a selection which neither
favors the one nor penalizes the other,
calls out the requisite number for
service.
“The successful operation of this
law and of these regulations depends
necessarily upon the loyalty, patriotism
and justice of the members of the
boards to whom Its operation la com­
mitted and I admonish every member
of every local board and of every dis­
trict board of review that their duty
to their country requires an Impartial
and fearless performance of the deli­
cate and difficult duties intrusted to
them. They should remember as to
each individual case presented to them
that they are called upon to adjudi­
cate the most sacred rights of the in­
dividual and to preserve untarnished
the honor of the Nation.
“Our armies at the front will be
strengthened and sustained if they be
composed of men free from any sense
of injustice In the mode of selection
and they will be Inspired to loftier
efforts In behalf of a country In which
the citizens called upon to perform high
public functions perform them with
justice, fearlessness and impartiality.”
WASHINGTON, July Ï— Preparation
for the mobilization of the first con­
tingent of 625,000 troops of the new
National Army advanced another step
today when President Wilson promul­
gated the regulations to govern ex­
emptions from military service.
Local and appeal exemption boards
already have been appointed and the
issuance of the regulations will permit
Officials Are Exempt.
them to organize immediately and pre­
pare for the concluding phases of the
Persons who muat be exempted or
task of getting the men under train­ discharged by the local board include:
Officers of the United States, of the
ing for duty In France.
states, territories and the District of
Exemption Is Last Step.
Columbia;
ministers of religion, stu­
In the order In which they must
come there are three steps in the or­ dents of divinity, persons in the mili­
tary or naval service of the United
ganization process of the National States,
of Germany, all other
Army as prescribed by Congress. They aliens, subjects
who have not taken out their
are registration, selection and exemp­ first papers;
county or municipal offi­
tion. The first step has been carried cers, custom house clerks, workmen In
through and approximately 10,000,000 Federal armories, arsenals . nd navy
men between 21 and 31 years of age yards, persons In the Federal service
have been registered. The regulations designated by the President for ex­
issued today cover in detail the opera­ emption, pilots, ‘ erchant marine sail­
tion of the third step, exemption.
ors, those with a status with respect to
Information concerning the second dependents which renders their exclu-
step In the series, however, still Is sion desirable (a married man with de­
lacking and officials are guarding pendent wife or child, son of a de­
closely the method by which selection pendent widow,
son
of a de­
is to be applied.
pendent, aged or infirm parent, or
brother
of
dependen,
orphan
child un­
Selection May Be by Number.
The exemption regulations announced der 16 years of age), those found mor­
and t.ny member of any
that the boards will be advised at the ally deficient,
recognized religious sect existing
selection process later, although none well
May
18,
1917,
whose
creed forbids par­
of the steps prescribed except the or­ ticipation In war and
whose religions
ganization of the boards can be carried convictions accord with the creed.
out until the selection machinery has
Claims for exemption because of de­
finished the names of the men whose pendents may be made by the man
fitness and desirability for Army serv­ himself, hl J wife or other dependents,
ice the boards are to judge. There Is or by a third party, who has person­
one hint, however, as to how the selec­ ally Investigated the case. The claim
tion machinery is to work.
made by the husband must be accom­
The local boards are directed upon panied by supporting affidavits signed
organization to take over from the reg­ by the wife and by the head of a fam­
istration precincts the cards and lists ily residing in the same territory. A
of the men registered on June 5, and claim by the wife or a third party must
as their first duty, to provide a serial be accompanied by two supporting af­
number for each registration card.
fidavits signed by heads of families.
This has given support to the belief
Similar rules govern claims on the
that the selection Is to be by number. grounds of other dependents.
Reports were current recently that the
District boards must decide appeal
selection drawing was to be made In cases within five days after the closing
Washington.
of proofs, and their decisions are final.
Presumably the process of selection
Certificates of exemption will not
will be announced only a short time necessarily be permanent.
They may
before it Is put Into operation. When be revoked with changing conditions or
that will be Is not known.
may be granted only for prescribed
September 1 has been the tentative periods.
date set for calling the 650,000 of the
first contingent to the colors for train-’
Ing. Progress with construction of the
16 divisional cantonments for the troops
will govern that action, however. It Is
now believed there will be no serious
Nine Killed When Car Plunges Over
delay.
The examination process will not
Twenty-foot Embankment Into
take a great deal of time. It is diffi­
cult to calculate the time the local
Niagara Falls Whirlpool.
boards will need In passing on the
cases that come before them.
San Francisco — A cablegram re­
ceived here Wednesday by the Chinese
World, a newspaper, stated that un­
confirmed rumors persisting in all sec­
tions of Pekin were that President Li
Yuan Hung had been assassinated and
that former high officials of the repub­
lic had declared allegiance to the mon­
archy.
A battle is in progress between
troops of the southern provinces, fight­
ing for the preservation of the repub­
lic, and the northern forces of the
young emperor, according to cable ad­
vices received by the Chinese Nation­
alists league. The first clash occurred
Tuesday, the officers of the league
announce, who say the source of its in­
Niagara Falls, N. Y.—A belt-line
Speed to Be Required.
formation is unquestionable.
The regulations provide, however, car on the Great Gorge route left the
According to the dispatches, the that decision in any Individual case
soldiers of President Li in the capital shall not be delayed more than three rails, plunged down a 20-foot embank­
days by the local boards. The whole ment and turned over in 10 feet of wa­
are steadliy gaining ground.
process probably can be carried through
ter on the edge of the Whirlpool Rap­
in less than 30 days.
Tokio—General Chang Hsun, says a
There were no surprises In the exam­ ids at 3:30 p. m. Sunday.
dispatch from Pekin, asked Baron Ha­ ination regulations. The task of pass­
Nine persons are known to be dead,
yashi, the Japanese minister, on June ing upon the individual cases Is left
to the local boards. While the two persons known to have been on the
22, whether Japan would support a entirely
President i eserves the right to desig­
movement for a restoration of the nate industries necessary for the pub­ car have not been seen since the acci­
lic good, the question of whether re­ dent and probably are dead, an indefi­
monarchy in China.
Baron Hayashi replied that Japan tention of any individual engaged in nite number, estimated at from two to
these Industries is essential is left to
would adhere to its policy of non- the boards.
ten, are reported missing and more
interference. Should the restoration
than a score are in hospitals, suffering
Officers Being Trained.
appear to succeed, it is believed it may
While these steps are being carried from injuries in the accident.
precipitai a decisive struggle between out to get together the men of the
A washout, due to recent heavy
National Army, the War Department rains, was the cause of the disaster
the northern and southern provinces.
The opinion has been expressed here is making progress with the even more which occurred just below the canti­
About 250 rioting negroes in East that should serious disorders arise. difficult task of finding officers for
the forces.
lever bridge, and 60 feet below the
St. Louis, Monday morning, every Japan and the allies might be forced to
Part of these will come from the 16 point where the smooth water of the
man armed either with a rifle or revol­ take protective action.
officers' training camps. The first 10,-
000 of the 40,000 men at the camps upper reaches of the Niagara river
ver, virtually took possession of the
will be selected for commissions in break into turbulent waters of the
“Black Belt,’’ killed one policeman
the first increment of the new Army, Whirlpool Rapids. There were more
Bank Robbers Captured.
and seriously wounded other.
With­
and that la less than half the number than 50 persons on board, according to
Conde, S. D.—Two masked bandits, of officers necessary.
out a word of warning the negroes
The War Department today approved general estimates.
one
of whom was badly wounded in a
opened Are on a police department au­
recommendations of commanders of
The car was running at a speed of
tomobile in which the officers were running fight with a posse led by the regular regiments, which will commis­
20 miles an hour.
Less than half a
riding and raked the car with bullets. town marshal, were captured here sion 3000 or more regular non-commis­
minute elapsed from the time the mo­
Thursday afternoon, after they had sioned officers to be captains in the torman felt the first sway until the
The steamship Humboldt arrived at entered the local bank and obtained first 635,000 contingent of the Na­
Army.
It Is understood that car was bottomside up on the edge of
Seattle from Southeastern Alaska between $6000 and $7000. The money tional
more than 50 men from each regiment,
Thursday with $400,000 of gold bullion was recovered.
in addition to those now at the officers' the rushing rapids.
As it slipped down the 20-foot in­
from mining camps along the Yukon.
camps, will be commissioned
The men are said to be "Mike” Mc­ training
cline from the tracks to the edge of
Furs valued at $180,000 also were Bride and Louis Miles, who have lived for the period of the war.
Regalar to Be la Command.
the river, screaming men and women
brought.
here about a year.
A trained and experienced regular fought to escape and some of them
The
owner
of
an
automobile
which
officer
will
command
each
regiment
of
A small contingent of the United |
National Army. To aid him he will were able to get free, but were unable
States Flying Corps arrived in Eng­ the bandits had commandeered was the
have several other regular officers ex­ to obtain a footing on the steep bank.
found
tied
to
a
tree
outside
of
town.
land
Wednesday
wearing civilian
perienced In particular lines such as
There was a mad scramble in the
his adjutant, at least one Major, his shallow water between the wrecked
clothes with blue silk armlets, bearing
ordance and quartermaster officers,
Cossacks Endorse Duma.
in white letters "United States Flying
From the
and some others. The remainder of the car and the river bank.
Petrograd The All Russia Congress officers will come from the reserve riverside the bodies of at least two of
Corps.’’
of Cossacks has adopted a resolution lists, the training camps, or the ranks the passengers were seen to be caught
Two conscientious objectors to con­ opposing the dissolution of the Duma, of the regular service.
The President Issued the following in the swifter waters, and were car­
scription, Frank J. Otto, Jr., and which it declared would be a violation
ried down to the whirlpool.
Stephen Stanley, of Philadelphia, have of the fundamental laws of Russia. statement today: '
'"The regulations which I am today
Members of the National guard regi­
been sentenced in the United States | The congress declared that the state of causing to be promulgated, pursuant to
ment, who were on guard at the
court to serve a year in prison for wil­ autonomy proclaimed by the inhabit­ the direction of the selective service
covering the remaining steps of bridge, saw the accident and were the
fully failing to register on June 5.
ants of Ukraine is a menace to the law,
the plan for calling into the service of first to the rescue. The soldiers slid
union
of
the
Russian
state.
The
con
­
the United States qualified men from down the bank into the river and
Admiral Frederick von Tirpitz, for­
those who have registered: those se­ worked in water up to their waists
mer German minister of marine, has | gress offered its support to the govern­ lected.
as the result of this process, to
arrived at St Blaise, in the Black | ment in any action taken relating to constitute, with the regular Army, the getting injured passengers free from
the
Ukraine.
National Guard and the Navy, the the wreckage and passing them up the
Forest. He is suffering seriously from
fighting forces of the Nation, all of bank, where an emergency car had
diabetes. Von Tirpitz has been Ger­
which forcea are under the terms of
Railroad
Earnings
Gain.
many’s chief advocate of unrestricted ¡
the law placed in a position of equal been placed to carry them to the Ni-
Washington, D. C.—May reporta to right, dignity and responsibility with agara Falls hospital.
submarine warfare.
the Interstate Commerce commission
Jesse Williamson, of Philadelphia. | from 72 of the 186 principal railroads
Greece Calls Two Classes.
Mexicans Get Rations.
pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of | of the country show an increase in
Athena—It is stated in reliable quar­
Naco, Aris — Some 4000 Mexicans,
about $600,000 from the Pennsylvania | earnings for May, 1916. The net rev­ ters that the classes of 1916 and 1917 former employes of the Cananea Cop­
enues for May this year were $48,134,-
company for the insurance of lives and 746; last year, $46,981,930.
have been called to the colors, as they per company at Cananea, Sonora, are
granting of annuities to ita clients, I
normally would be, and probably will being supplied with free rations from
while serving as secretary of the com-1
Aliens’ Guns Confiscated.
be tent to Saloniki for training.
No the camp store, the stock of which has
pany.
Salt Lake City—Five hundred guns other classes will be called out at pres- been confiscated by the local authori­
President Wilson has directed the were confiscated from the alien resi­ ent. Administrative control by repres­ ties there. Each man is being given
dents of Salt Lake county outside of entatives of the entente allies of var­ goods to the value of $1.25, Mexican
Federal Trade commission to make an
Salt Lake City Wednesday by 1S5 ious services will be withdrawn within money, daily. It is estimated the stock
investigation into production costs of members of the “home guard." serv­ the next week, except in cases of tele­ on hand will last about 10 days. Mex-
steel and lumber, the two principal ing as deputy sheriffs.
Moot of the graph and censorship, which will be Jess authorities are encouraging the
materials that will he required for the guns were taken from the mining continued with the co-operation of idle workmen to leave Cananea, and
great merchant fleet to be built for the camps where the population of foreign­ Greek officers. Colonel Negro posts is circulars have been posted announcing
expected to arrive at Saloniki soon.
that free transportation.
government. !
ers is greatest.
TROLLEY INTO RAPIDS
PARADE CAUSES RIOT
Socialist Marchers’ Ranks Broken by
Men in Uniform in Boston—Fist
Battles Are Numerous.
Boston—Riotous scenes attended a
Socialist parade Sunday which was an­
nounced as a peace demonstration.
The ranks of the marchers were
broken by self-orgnaized squads of uni­
formed soldiers and sailors, red flags
and banners bearing Socialist mottoes
were trampled on, and literature and
furnishings in the Socialist headquar­
ters in Park Square were thrown into
the streets and burned.
Police reserves stopped the rioting
after it had been in progress an hour
and a half. Many arrests were made.
The police took into custody some of
the participants in hundreds of fist
fights that were waged on the Common
and in the line of the parade, while
agents of the Federal department of
Justice, under direction of Assistant
United States Attorney Goldberg, ar­
rested a number of persons who were
alleged to have made unpatriotic re-
marks. None of the soldiers and sail­
ors who figured in the disturbance was
arrested.
The procession consisted of hunrdeds
of men and women, many of whom
carried babies. Most of the marchers
carried small red flags with white cen­
ters, emblematic of the peace demon­
stration, and there were large banners
bearing inscriptions, some of which
read:
“Russia has a six-hour day. Why
not America?” and “Liberty loan, a
first mprgtage on labor.”
A large
American flag was at the head of the
procession.
Half a hundred men in the uniform
of naval reservists, national Guard, ar­
rested some men. Marines and Cana­
dian “kilties” intercepted the procès-'
sion at the corner of West and Tre­
mont streets, and again at the corner
of Winter and Tremont streets.
23 STATES MADE BONE-DRY
Reed Amendment Gives Prohibitionists
Greatest Victory in History.
Wahintgon, D. C. — Twenty-three
states became bone-dry Saturday mid-
night, the effective hour of the Reed
amendment prohibiting shipment of
liquor into dry territory where its
manufacture or sale is prohibited.
Eleven other states are partially affec­
ted by the legislation, which has been
hailed by temperance advocates as the
greatest single step toward abolition
of the liquor traffic in the nation’s his­
tory.
The law bars from prohibition areas
all mail matter containing advertise­
ments or solicitations for orders for
intoxicants.
Justice and postoffice department
officials have made extensive prepara­
tions for enforcement of the statute.
No ruling has been made regarding the
status of medicines containing alcohol
and that question may be among the
first to be passed on by the courts un­
der the legislation.
The language of the anti-shipment
section is very comprehensive, impos­
ing a fine of $1000 and imprisonment
for six months, or both, on any person
who shall “order, purchase or cause
intoxicating liquors to be transported
in interstate commerce except for sci­
entific, sacramental or mechanical pur­
poses into any state or territory, the
laws of which state or territory pro­
hibits the manufacture or sale therein
of intoxicating liquors for beverage
purposes.”
The same penalties are prescribed
for violations of the anti-advertising
section. For a second offense in eith­
er case the penalty is made one year’s
imprisonment.
Following are the states wholly
affected by the act: Alabama, Ari­
zona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia,
Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Missis­
sippi, Nebraska,
North Carolina,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virgin­
ia, Washington and West Virginia.
Food Bill May Be Delayed.
Washington, D. C. — A formidabe
midsummer legislative program with
food, prohibition and revenue and ma­
jor measures, still confronts congress
in its war session, which began three
months ago July 2.
With business congested in the sen­
ate and the house marking time in re­
cess, senate leaders hoped Saturday to
make rapid progress on the food con­
trol bill, with its provision prohibiting
the manufacture of distilled spirits
and send it to conference by the end
of the week.
Two Pro-Germans Expelled.
Mexico City—R. Zubaran, former
Mexican minister to Germany and
former representative of the constitu­
tional government in Washington, now
a leader of the Mexican senate, and
Jesus Ureta, best-known orator in the
country and one of the leaders in the
house of deputies, were expelled from
the Constitutional Liberal party, which
has a majority in congress.
This ac­
tion was attributed to the pro-German
sentiments of the men.
$10,000,000 lent Britain.
Washington, D. C. — The Treasury
department has placed an additional
$10,000,000 to it the credit of England,
making total loans to Great Britain
for war purposes of $560,000,000.
This makes a total to the allies of
$7,018,000.000.
Paris—An official announcement waa
made Monday night that the armored
cruiser Kleber had struck a mine off
Point St. Mathieu on Wednesday and
sunk.
RUSSIANS START
NEW OFFENSIVE
War Minister Kerensky Leads to
Victory in Person.
TAKE 10,000 CAPTIVE
I
Turks ‘Also Are Defeated and Routed
in Caucasus by Cavalry — News
is Great Joy to Russians.
Petrograd—Russia has resumed the
offensive. More than 10,000 prisoners,
many guns and other articles of war
material and several strongly fortified
Austro-German positions in Galicia
prove it. They bear testimony to the
mighty smash delivered July 1, the
precise time set for an offensive by
War Minister Kerensky several weeks
ago in a communication to the United
States government.
The Brilliant Russian advance, the
news of which has pent a wave of re­
joicing through the entire country,
was led by War Minitser Kerensky in
person.
For the last four days the war min­
ister has been continuously at the
front, spending every effort to urge
the troops to advance. He finally rode
to the front-line trenches, and, placing
himself at the head of the troops, gave
the order to advance.
The spectacle of the popular war
minister on the firing line accomplish­
ed what oratory had failed to do, and
the Rusisan line swept forward into
the German trenches.
The heretofore lethargic, monstrous
army punished the forces of the enemy
kaisers most severely.
The attacks
were as vicious as the recent frater­
nizing with the foe had been fool­
hardy.
The Turks, too, felt the strength of
the reorganized arms of the revolu­
tionary army. The Ottomans, in the
Caucasus, were routed, and at last
reports from headquarters Russian
cavalry was pursuing them unmerci­
fully.
The Turkish stronghold of
Kalamirivan, southeast of Lake Deri­
bar, was stormed and the village of
Engidja, north of the lake, was occu­
pied.
A
NEGROES BUMNEO
BY ENRAGED MOB
Many Others Shot Fleeing East
St. Louis Flames.
East St. Louis, Ill. — Fires were
burning in five sections of East St.
Lious at 1 o’clock Tuesday morning
and at least 20 dead negro bodies and
crowded hospitals testified to the ter­
ror that reigned here while mob after
mob swept the streets seeking negroes
whom they might slay.
Five negro sections of the city were
fired by mobs, terrorized negroes fled
from their burning homes only to meet
bullets from guns of the rioters, four
other negroes were shot by snipers and
two were lynched.
One white man was killed by a negro
sniper, and before the burning began
four nergoes and one white man were
killed. This included the detective
sergeant, whose death at the hands of
a negro mob late Sunday night was the
direct cause of the outbreak Monday
afternoon and Monday night.
Estimates of the number of dead run
up to 100 and higher, but these esti­
mates are purely conjectural. The ex­
act number slaughtered probably will
never be known, as it is thought that
many bodies were consumed in the
flames.
Adjutant General Frank S. Dickson
arrived shortly after midnight and
took charge of the situation.
He said
the troops would be distributed in
small groups throughout the city and
that they would be instructed to dis­
perse every gathering of persons for
any purpose whatever.
Body is Found in Basement.
Seattle—The body of S. S. Klumph,
a painter, aged 40, dead from knife
wounds, was found Wednesday morn­
ing in an unused basement at 112 Bell
street. North Seattle.
The police ar­
rested Maud Hallock, 33, who lives
nearby. The police say the appearance
of the body indicated that Klumph had
been killed in a rear room of the Hal­
lock house, and his body dragged across
a courtyard to the basement where it
was found. In Mrs. Hallock’s apart­
ment the police found George Brown,
a clerk, aged 39, who was arrested.
Dog Gone. Constable Sued.
Roseburg, Ore. Constable Howard
Church Tuesday had his first roundup
with the new state dog license law,
when Roy Bellows, a prominent Rose-
burg merchant, refused to pay the li­
cense and sued to replevin his dog and
recover $50 damages. The complaint
charges that the law is unconstitu­
tional and provides for double taxation,
as doga ars personal property and sub­
ject to tax. The ease will probably be
taken to the Supreme court.