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MICDFOHD. OKHCION, TUESDAY, NOVKMHKIt l, 1013.
NO. 104
BRYAN DENIES ULTIMATUM SENT MEXICO
FUT DEN AL OF
MEXCAN 0 Y
FROM SECRETARY
-
Official Wnslilnuton, However, Be
llevcs Some Sort of Communication
Sent Huerta Asklnu Retirement
President Refuses to Comment.
Rcliels Movlnji Upon Vera Cruz
Battleship Michigan Joins Cruiser
Censorship on Official News.
WASH INCHON', Nov. 4.-Tho
story wiih circulated In Washington
loilav (lint (In uilmiuintriilioii liml
served an iillimiitiini on President
Unci In f Mexico, demanding hi"
immediate retirement. It diil not rest
on official authority, Imt Hut source
of inforiiiation seemed good.
Secretary of Statu llrvnu denied It
aliaoluti'ly. Mi' tl il not way, how
tr, that no messagi) Itttil been sent
to llucrln. Hi' ilul not own nay tlint
llncrta's retirement Inn! not been !'
mamlcd. Hi' said only that no ulti
malum hail lii'i'ii mmiI. Tim diplo
matin word "iillimntiim" bus a cry
restricted definition.
0'Slmiij!tinrt)' Dental
A New York Evening Sun dispatch
from Mexico City unoti'il Charge
d'Affaires O'ShaugliMessv in it more
emphatic denial than llrvan'H.
0'SliiiughneHv denied having traim.
milted any "formal diplomutiu com
iniinientioii" t the, Mexican govern
liient. President Wilson, caught liy re.
porter at llnltimore on his wnv to
vole, at Princeton, would not discus
the Mexican situation nt all.
On tlm strength of the htorv ami
il MiriiiiiH denials, official Wash,
iiigloii llioiighl vuiioiis thing. The
most popular Holutioii mux that some
soil of a note wns sent to Huerta
asking hi rctiicmenl, Imt that may
hc it was not nn "ultimatum."
Ilrjnn anil O'SlmughiiesHy were
not iloiilitcil us individuals, only ait
iliplomatH.
Mexico City hail tho "utlimntum"
reMtrt and wan much cxcileil.
Tim Mexico City diplomatic corps
had an earnest talk with Huerta hint
night, hut would imt reveal today
xv hut wart discussed or what conclus
iou vvns reached,
KcIn'In Thtvalen Win Crur.
A hat lie wan expected shortly be
tween rebels moving on Vera Crur.
and federals seal out In meet them.
The icltclrt were rcxrlcd increasing
lv nclivo eNevvhcri) throughout Mex
ico. I'Yoiu outside, thu battleship Mich
igan ran inside Vera Our. harbor,
joining thu cruiser Tacoma, hut at
Washington it wiih Ktatcd Admiral
Fletcher had hecu ordered not to
shift IiIh nhipa pending fiirlher or
ders. Chairman llacou of the scuttle for-,
cigu rulatioiiH committee, talked with
llr.ynn nad Hinted later that the Mex
ican munition wit "coming to a
head."
Secretary of tlm Nnvv Daniels sub
inillcd to llryau and Itacon a slulc
incut of Amciica'H miMil strength in
Mexican waters.
It wiih staled that Hid war depart
ment could put fiOO.Olll) troops in llio
field on fdmrt notice.
Hi, Vim redoubled his ieeiititlons to
hiipprcHH Mexican iiuwh.
BY JEALOUS WOOER
CIIIOAOO, Nov. !. MrH. Samuel
Tito, an Itnllau, an yours old was
found unconscious In hur homo hero
today with a dozen knlfo wounds in
tho fnrn and body. Sho died on
rou to to u hospltnl.
A young Italian, who was booh to
eater thu house attor MrH. Tito's hue
hand departed for work thla morning,
wna nought by tho police. Ho was
hullovod to ho u disappointed ndmlror
or tho woman, Throo of Mrs, Tito's
chllilrcu naw tho man wield a long
kuiro lull woro urnild to scream for
help.
NEAR PANIC IN
CITY OF HO
FOLLOW!! Ill
Report of Ultimatum Causes Wild
Excitement In Capital Huerta Re
fuses to Talk O'Shauuhnessy's
Denial Allays Commotion.
Diplomatic Corps Call on Dictator-
Nature of Interview a Secret-
Rebels More Active.
MKXICO CITY, Nov. , CharRo
il'AffntreH O'HhfuiKhucHiy of tho
Amurlrnn lci;ntlon Imrc lamod a do
nlnl today of tho report thnt he. had
nerved I'n'ilileut Huerta with nn ul
tlmiitiitu from Vnhliinton, demand
liiK Huerta'i Immedlnle retirement.
I'ntll U'HhatiKhneiKy was heard
from both forclKnnrn and Muxlcans In
thu clt)'. IncliidliiK Hucrta's cloieit
frlondN, had ncceptud the report as
true and there nn Inteniio excite
meut, thoiiKh Huerta hlmiolf Maid
nothliiK.
U'KhauRhtieiiNy'H Rtntctncnl ro
storud compnrutlvu calm.
Xenr I'anlc I'n'vnlln
MCXICO CITY, Nov. i.- A nonr
panic provatled hero today when It
hccaiuo Kcuorally known that tho
American i;oviruiuent had demanded
I'renldvni Hmirtn'a iuiuivdlato rutlro
uient. Mexican officialdom wai wild with
incitement. Huurtn's frlcndx ad
nillleil thnt their lender wa In nn
awkward puidtlon. If ho defied tho
United .Stnten, ho realised, It was that
Intervention probably would follow.
No effort 'was mado to conceal tho
fact that ho wan dciperntoly aftxlous
to axold It. Many, however, ho
llnved Interxentlou Innvltnblo In any
rate, They woro convinced that tho
country could not agree on an one to
Mucrced him and that flKhtliiK would
ko on, In tho abciiro of American In
terference, with him either In or out
of offlro.
Diplomat ('nit
A deputation of mouthers of tho
diplomatic corpn, led by tho KukIUIi,
Creiirh and Kpaulsli iiilnlsters called
on thu proiddont last night hut would
not reveal today tho nature or out
come of their Interview with htm.
Huerta retimed alto to mako n btnto
incut. Tho rebels woro reported Increas
ingly active In tho states o( Vera
Crux, Chihuahua and olHowhero.
WALSH LEADS BOSTON
BIRD SMALL I0WNS
IIOHTON, Nov. 4, ltoturns from
Hi! out of 'J25 Hoston precincts In
tho gubernatorial election follew:
David I. Wnlsh, doniocrnt, 2,4C4;
Chas. Huninor Illrd, progroflnlvo,
8700; A. 1'. (lardner, ropubllcan,
G3lf; 1'ohs, liidcpondont, 1.100,
Domocrats predlctoJ WniNli'H elec
tion by n plurality of 00,000.
Hetnrim lorclvod hero from tho
first dozen Iowpb roporthift follew:
lllrd, 1375; llardiior, 10 it'.; Walth,
1010; l-'osi, :05.
Tho vote lart yoor In theso same
towns was:
lllrd, mi; Walker, 1104, mid
I-'obb, C0.
OF FEDERATION MEETS
SKATTU:, Nov. 4. With tho oxo
cutlvo bonrd of tho railway depart
ment of tho American Kodorntlon of
Labor In bcbhIoii hero today, tho pre
liminary work for tho big labor con
vention which opoiiH lioro Nov, 10,
vih comniourod today.
Secretary of Labor Wilson, Presi
dent Clompers of tho American Fed
eration of Labor, aim W. Mltcholl,
Ciiiuk MurilBon uud uhnut 100 dulo
gates arc ejected hero (ouglit,
A VOTE
POLLED EARLY N
N FW OK ffl
Many Charges of Fraud Mad
Tammany Gunmen Enliven Election
by Gann Battle In Which One Man
Is Killed McCall Defeated.
Sulzer Claims Victory Betting Is
Lluht and In Favor of Mitchell
Fuslonlsts Claim Entire Ticket.
Ni:V YOIMC. Nov. -I. VotlriK wan
early and heavy hero today. Ity
noon 50 per cent of the rcgirdrntion
had been polled.
Then) were many nrreM for il
legal voting. A large prowirtiou of
those arretted were dichan;cd, how
ever. A coiihidcrahlo number were
prcHiimcd hy wntchers nt the pollt
to he attempting fraudx, nn a result
of miNtakcH hy the officials cheeking
tho rcgiVtratiou l. It was rliar
cd, ton, that some of the arrexts were
made in nn effort to prevent the
xictium from otini; hv loekiuir thru
up. Tho plan wiih rheekmated, if it
was really attempted, hv the arrain
mnit of the prisoners as fast ns they
wcro brought in.
Tiimnuiny niinmen
FiihinnislH romphiini'il that Ihc cc
oud nt-sembly dislriet was swnrriiini;
with Tammnny gunmen. Thero were,
in fact, several free fight, and dun
Foster was shot to death nt 10." Ih
street in n gan Imtlle, which it was
not certain, however, had nuythi'i?
to do with tho election.
John l'urrny Mitchell, tho fusion
nominee for tnnvor, voted nt 11:43.
Kdwnrd K. Mel'all, tho Tammnny
candidate, had preceded him hy nn
hour nml thrco-nunrtcrs. Ilolh e.x
prrsscil entire confidence of victory.
Imt the I'oiiseiisim of opinion wes
thnt McCall stood .no chance.
William Sulrer. demised govcrner
ninl a candidate for nsscmhlymnu on
tho progressive ticket, was activo in
the sixth district, where ho said he
was victorious.
AVenther Is Cloudy
Cloudy nml threatening xvenlhor
pn'vailcd for the cleelion. The early
(Contlnticd on page 2.)
TO
TALK ON MEXICO
ON IIOAIM) Till: PHKSIOKXT'S
SPKCIAL TRAIN, llalliinore, Md.,
Nov. !. President Wilson refused
hero today to discuss reports that
tho administration had scut nn ulti
matum to President Huerta of Mex
ico. Ho said ho was thinking only
about election, adding that ho was
hopeful of democratic xictorios in
several states.
Secretary Tumulty did not nccom
pnny tho chief executive, having
taken an cnrlier train to Jorsoy City.
His daughter, Klenuor, was with tho
president, hnwovor.
VERA CRUZ HARBOR,
If mora sorious trouble breaks out
in Mexico for instanco, if tho Unit
ed 'States is compelled to intervene
moht foreigners xvill probably fleo
tho country to escape attack nt tho
hands of tho natives, Most, of them,
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In the new hattlexhip Texas, wh(i.o.
trials off Rockland, Me., have inter-1
ested tho world, Uncle Sam has the!
greatest battleship afloat
Tho Texas is today the most pow-
crful battleship nfluit. The dit-tin-
gtiishing feature w the hatterv of
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General apathy m inked the refer
cniltim election in this city lodny, un
to 2 o'clock lint oiie'lenthof tho reg
istered vote being enst. Little inter
est U manifested. Few women have
voted, though this nftcnuxm is ex
pected to see an increase.
At tho city hall, North Central pre
cinct, out of 408, .72 had xoted, 0 be
ing women. In Southeast Medford,
'23 had voted at the same hour, S be
ing women. At Smith's hall, out of
:i"'2 registered, 4'2 had voted, four
being women. Country precincts were
Into in organising nml report n light
vote.
Ono Front street saloon posted a
sign tin tlio front door bearing tho
mild snrcasm, "Ju-t Another Flec
tion." Tho chief local interest centers in
Tammany's fight in New York and
tho result of the "wet-dry" vole in
Kaglo Point.
Saloons and hanks were closed nil
day.
MARYLAND ELECTS
HAIriMXlRK. Md., Nov. 1. All
indications at noon today pointed to
tho election of Rlair T.ce, a demo
crat, ns n United States senator
from Maryland. George Welling, the
lirocressivo candidate, is running far
behind. Tho successful enndid.i'o
will ho elected hy a direct vote.
A stnto legislature- also was elect
ed today as well as city and county
officors.
FROM WH ICH FOREIGNERS WILL
nil of those within tho territory sur
rounding Mexico City, xvill have to
tako tho tortuous railroad which car
ries them to Vera Ciuz. This photo
graph of the luulior was taken while
tho Ward Who steamship Morn
GENERA
APATHY
MMS
ELECTION
JACKSON
COUNTY
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ten fourtccn-lnch guns placed i.i fic
turrets, thrco forward and two uft,
nil on n central line so arranged ns,
to fire over one another. The. Texas
is eleven feci longer than nny battle-
ship in tho United Slates nuw, be -
ing 573 feet over nil. Her beam is
DIAZ PLANS TO
SAIL FOR EUROPE
TO ESCAPE HUERTA
HAVANA, Nov. .-General FelU
Dinr, xvho arrived hero Inst night on
the steamship Kspcrnnwi, said today
that he expected to take thc.nexl
boat for Kumiw, to remain uutitl con
ditions in Mexico arc such as to in
dicate that ho can ho of service tlwre.
He was insistent on lauding at
Vera Cruz and remaining there un
til nfter election, he said, in n state
ment issued Inst night, because, as
n candidate, ho wanted to fulfill "thu
requirements of the law governing
elections."
"My purpose, being accomplished,''
tho Mntcment added, "and as I did
not wish to bo involved in tho un
constitutional proceedings xvhicli n
certain to occur in Mexico, I xvn
compelled to Icnvo the country."
Dinr admitted that he xvas nfraid
to fall into Huerln's haiuN, slid down
a rope from his hotel xvindow, wn3
escorted by friends xvlth drawn re
volvers to tho American consulnte,
nml then to tho launch which took
him on hoard tho Wheeling, and hi
got him nxvov safely.
From tho Wlicclinf ho xvns trans
ferred on hoard tho Loui-iana, frora
llio Louisiana to tho Michigan and
from tho Michigan, at sea, to tho
Kspernnr.n.
Of the thirty-niuo friends who were
with him xvlien ho landed nt Vera
Crur, there rcmnined at libortv. he
snid, only Joso Sandoxnl nnd Ceeilo
Ocon, xvho escaped at the same time
as himself nnd landed with him hero.
MRS. LILLIAN STEVENS
RE-ELECTED BY W. C. T. U.
AS11VRY PARK, N. J., Nov. 4.
Mrs. Lillian Stevens today was unan
imously ro-eleeted president of tho
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, in annual convention here.
FLEE IN CASE OF WAR
Castle, which was recently held for
a few hours at tho command of
President Huerta and released when
President Wilson protested, was
thcie. She is shown far out, ready
to sail, k
SERVICE IN MEXICO
03 feel iJ'a indie', which will give
her almost fifteen feel l-)way in
passing through the Panama cnunl
locks. Her draught of 2St feet
will cnnblc her to enter nt least four
of the Atlantic nnvy yards and one
on the Pacific const.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4. District
Attorney John D. Frederick. virtu
ally admitted today thnt Ortio K.
MeMnnigal, self-coofcssed dynnmit-
I'er, has been liberated for good nnd
is now fleeing to some hiding place,
where ho will bo safe from the en
emies ho believes are following him.
McMnnignl left the county jail late
yesterday xvith Detective McLaren.
Later McLaren reapcnrcd alone.
The authorities were all very retic
ent and would not give out anything
definitely regnrdintr MeMnnigal, as
they say they want to "give him n
running stnrt."
It will not ho necessary for Mc
Mnnignl to bo in court when the
dynamite indictments against him
nro dismissed.
Fredericks wns evasive when first
questioned today and when asked
direetlv when MeMnnigal xvould be
back in jail, if he was to come back,
snid: "What's tho use of talking
about it He is far out of the
county nnd it xvould not bo humane
and just to tell whero ho is"
L
OF
OAKLAND. Cal., Nov. 4. Mrs.
Mildred Drown faced Judge Samuels
of Oakland today at tho opontng of
her preliminary examination o.i tho
charge of murdering her husband
Archer Drown. Mrs. Marie Miller, of
whom It was alleged, Mrs. Drown was
ojalous, attended the hearing. She
wns prepared, according to tho pro
secution to testify that Down had
told her frequently of his present
ment that his wife woull uhoit him
down.
District Attorney W. II. L Illiio.
is conducting tho proaecutoii s caso.
Mrs, Drown Is repiesentod ty For
mer Judge A L. Frlclc.
FIELDER IN JERSEY
NKWAUK. N. J Nov. 4. Indica
tions nt noon horo woro that Jarnos
Fielder, tho democratic candidate for
governor was bolng heavily cut
throughout tho city, especially In tho
domocrntlo xvards, Many democrats,
It was said, were voting for Kdward
Stokes, tho ropubllcan candidate.
Kvorott Colby, tho progressive can
didate, It was reported, was runulng
xvell'ln the county,
M'iNIAL
GETS
FREEDOM PIE
HK
CONFESSIONS
POLICE REFUSE
TO
AT
Blueconts Surrender Badges When
Told to Run Cars Chief Reports
He Is Powerless No Settlement of
Strike in Sight.
Suit for Receiver Started Merch
ants Find Business Crippled, But
Refuse to Serve as Deputy Sheriffs
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind Nor. 4.
Called on Imperatively by President
Todd of tho strike-bound local trac
tion company this afternoon to pro
tect him In running cars, Chlor of
Police Hlland ordered 3 policemen to
do guard duty. Tho bluccoats
promptly refused and surrondorod
their badges. Tho chief was com
pelled to telephone Todd that ho was
powerless.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 4.
No settlement of the street car strike
here was In sight today. Tho com
pany would not so much as discuss
arbitration. The strikers rendered
confident by the completeness of tho
tie-up maintained an unyielding at
titude. .
Suit for Receiver Itcgun
Mayor Shank received a request
from company sources that tho pollco
be required to run tho cars. He re
futed it flatly, aovernor Ilalston
was still hesitating to act on the ad
tico given him by Agent Etholbort
Stewart of tho federal labor depart
ment that martial law bo doclared.
Tho casaualtlcs now Include throe.
Stowart was Infrequent communica
tion with Acting Secretary of Labor,
Louis F. Post, la Washington.
A suit, insplrod by tho Unionists,
for a receiver for tho traction com
pany will bo heard Thursday.
Tho company attempted, la tho
course of tho forenoon, to run a few
cars but gavo It up when tho pollco
refused to guard strike-breakers.
Merchants Uccoiivo "Hick"
Morchants were beginning to find
business seriously affected by tho
strlko and began to bring pressuro on
tho company to accept arbitration.
Fifty prominent cltizons, summoned
by tho shorlff for duty as special de
puties, replied that they could not
serve, ns they wcro 111.
Six hundred structural Ironworkers
and engineers struck this afternoon
In sympathy with tho street car men
and other sympathetic walkouts wcro
In prospect.
UTILE INTEREST IN
PORTLAND ELECTION
PORTLAND, Nov. 4. Yory llttlo
Interest was being taken In today's
special election. At ono o'clock only
a small percentage of tho registered
voters had cast tholr ballots. Un
less thoro Is heavy voting lato this
afternoon, indications xvero that tho
lightest voto In tho history of Mult
nomah county xvould bo cast. It is
difficult to forecast how tho voto on
the roferrod measures will rosult at
this hour. It was apparent, however,
that tho measure bonding Multnomah,
county for Jl.'JGO.OOO to aid in build
ing tho proposed intcr-stato brldgo
over tho Columbia river at Vancouver,
would carry safoly.
EARLY VOTING IN
PHILADELPHIA HEAVY
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. -4. Early
voting was heavier here today than
in years. Thirty per cent of the
electors had cast their ballots by 11
n. m. Thero wns much scratching.
Couucilmcn, n district attorney and
municipal nnd other judges were to
be chosen, . " to
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