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SECOND
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WEATHER
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AT BRYANJEXAS
Commercial Club Wires Half of Pop
ulation Unaccounted for Esti
mates of Drowned Short of Truth
hy Hundreds News Delayed.
Estimate of a Thousand Dead e-
llevcd Too Small Great Property
Damage Throughout District.
POUT WOIITII, Tn Doc.
N. -A (tor nnititltiK I ho survl
vnrn of tint tloodswcpl Urates
river valley, thu Commercial
club nl llrnii, To x tin, tele
graphed hero this nrtoriinon
Hint, out of n population of
12,000, thorn were mUsIng
nix thousand.
IIOIJHTON, Tex., Dec. s. i:mi-iiinti-n
of tlio number drowned In tho
floods which swept Central mid
Kotithrrn Tonxn taut week wero be
lieved hero Icitlny to have fallen nhorl
of Hid truth perhaps by hundred.
Tho mint iilnrmliiK message was
from Hran, whence tho locnl com
mercial rluli, which hml been Inves
IlKntliiK tho llrnzo river valley nit.
tinllon, telegraphed that half tho voi
le) papulation of 12,000 was miss
Inc. That COOO linil perished In tho
Urates valley nlouo wti not believed,
hut that tho number of victim ran
IiIkIi Into tho hundreds was gravel
fin roil.
At Iflit 10(H) DtNiil
Much of tho submerged country In
cluded rural districts from which ac
rurnto Information wan not quickly
obtainable, explaining why todny'n
alarming Information was no slow
In reiirhliiK tho outside woril.
It wna beginning to he believed,
too, tlmt tho number or deaths In
thn valleys of tho Colorado and Trite
Uy river, nml of their smaller tri
butaries waa vastly larger than was
supposed earlier.
Tho guess, made In aomo quarters
early today, that n total of 1000 had
perished, wan' generally thntiKht nt
thu time It waa made, to bo an enor
mous, exaggeration. This nfternoon
tho rommon vluw wna that It would
bo found far too Htunll,
Larger numbers of tho victim,
caught llko trapped rata In tho up
per stories or on tho roofa of their
homea, In troca or on comparatively
high Kround, muat linvu wntched In
npony whllo tho water roio slowly,
Inch by Inch, nnd finally nwopt them
"way to death,
(Continued on puga I.)
197 PASSENGERS
RESCUED AT SEA
ll.MiTI.MOHK, .Mil., Dee. 8.
Wireless dispatches received horo to
iluy Hlnteil llm Htciiiiiar Qiiurnmoi-u
liiul rescued 107 passengers from mi
ni her Hlciiinor which win burning "t
KOII.
Tlio Quornmoro kiiIIciI for hivor
pool Friday. Willi oilier vessels it
caught wirolitHH fulls for assistance
tit 'J o'clock Sunday morning, mid
rcuohod llio burning vessel two hottrn
Inter. At tirst it wiih renin ted tlmt
llio burning Hlonmer wns Hid Mnllory
liner ltio (Irumlo, hut officials, of tlio
company denied tlio report. They
Hiiid tlio ltio Grande did not curry
liny piiBHCiiKi'rs,
AeeoriliiiK to thu wireli'hH, tlio pan
bc'iikiuh wero lowered in tho lifeliontu
nml worn Irinsforron to llio Quern
moru without excitement or piuiio,
Tlio rcKoito wan initio r()0 miles eant
of Diamoml hIioiiIh, and wltiln a
boulhwcht Rain wan lilnwiiif;,
Tho wircloHB jrnvo tho iiiiino of the
Ijiirnlnj? vchhcI iih tho ltiuj,'rnnd. No
niii'Ii Hliip h lihlod, howoyur, so it wau
preHiinicil n mlHtahe hail been made
ill llio iiumg,
0 0 REPORTED
MISSUOOD
FROM
BURNING
P
U-Jff
into
INSANITY
NY
QUESTION RAISED
Unfrocked Priest and Confessed Mur
derer and Counterfeiter Before Bar
of Justice Insists He Is Sane and
Admits All Accusations.
Former Immaculate Clergyman Piti
able Sight, With Pasty Face, Sun
ken Eyes and Stubble Beard.
Ni:V VOIJIC, Dec. H. -IIiiiih
Schmidt, unfrocked prlent mid con
foHHcd murderer nml coiiuterlVitcr,
unit to (rial today for the killinc of
IiIh Hwcethratt, Anna Aumuller, a
pretty Oenmiii uirl, who hud once
worked in a reelory where Schmhlt
lived n curate.
Only ono ipiehtioii wiih at iMic
wiih Kehiniill mute or n luniiticT He
admitted hiixim; killed the ut, dix-
memberiiic her body and hnvini; Hunk
her nianulcd eorpnn in tho river.
He htmxclf itihUled he wiih nite
and refiioi'd to consult with the at
torney npiHiiuted for him by the
court. With hi pimtv face, hiinken
oven, thick' fitubhh) of heard, hIoui-Ii-iiiK
liptrn and dirty, unkempt dri-KH,
iiio lormeriv immaculiile youiiK
cerj;man wan a half terrific look
inc and half pitiubla sight.
Two hundred candidateH for jury
duty were in the courtroom. It wiih
expected Hid ompnuelliui; of a jur
would lake a week'.
Tracing tlio Crime
A woman'iitorio win found tied In a
pillow p an tho Jcnuy aldo of tho
IIiiiUoii on Hoptembcr r. A faint
leaf-ihaped marl: on onn ahouldor af
forded Rcant Idea that thn vlcllm'a
Identity over would bo unearthed. A
few daa later tho lower part of tho
torao from tho wulut to tho thlgha
waa found In a almllar pillow nl lp
which boro the trade mark of Itobln-aou-ltoKera
Co., and tho number (0.
The company had madn but twclvo of
thcKo pillow all tf. They had been
old to n retailor iiamvd Saclm, who
ftirnlnlted tho jmllco with thu uamcN
of thoKo to whom ho had no Id them.
One of tho purchaser waa found to
lnio hoiiKUl nlno two pillow, a chair,
bedHprliiKM nnd n white enameled bed
which had been moved to a four
room apartment at 08 Ilradhunt
avenue, which had boon leaned In tho
tin mo of HniiH Schmidt. In tho mcan
tlmo an autopny had allowed tho
woman had been aubjectcd to a
criminal operation and tho motive of
tho crlmo waa thereby known. For
flvo daya nnd nluhla tho Ilradhurat
avonuo apartment waa watched and
thou tho pollen hroko Into It.
I'lil-HVellliiK .Mjstrry
Thoro wiih no doubt tho crlmo had
been committed there, for (ho i'lneo
waa amcarcil with blood, lletldcs
tho furulturo, wuro n packet of let
torn iiddrcaaed to Anna Aumuollor
unit two trunkB. A coat Iiuiik In tho
closet with a letter to Anna Aumuol
lor, and n photograph of linns
Schmidt In th0 pocket. In tho bath
room wero n butcher kulfo and u
lart;o earpontar'a Haw. In tho let
torn worn contained tho addresses of
three nlncca whero tho K'rl hud
worked. Oao of tlioso was Ht.
.loHoph's Itectory. Tho police wont to
tho other plncou flrat. Knthor
Hchmldt met thorn ut tho door of
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DOPEO NEEDLE FEARED
NI3W YORK, Doc. 8. Miss IIcbbIc
McCnnn, ngod 21), who dlsappuarod
from her homo horo liiHt Friday, wns
HoiiRht today hy the Now York pollco.
Sho In tho ilaiiRlitor of llohort U. Mc
Cann, u wholesale Rrocor.
A yomiR man acquaintance last
huw tho Rlrl In Wall Stroot. Sho
scarcely ropllod to lila grootliiB. MUs
McCanu Is a Sunday school teacher
lu Ht. Mark's Kplacopnl church, Flat
hiiBh, nml la much Interested In Bot
Moment work,
Approhonslon was folt concerning
her nnfoty aa a result of recent re
portH that many white ulavo cade In
horo are wielding neodlea dipped In
hyoBclno, u powerful drug.
MEDFORD.
. 8 . -
WAR REIGNS IN
From Mohawk to Baltic Strikers and
Sympathizers Battling With Dep
uties and Strikebreakers At Some
Points Firing Almost Incessant.
Six Killed in Battle Sunday Long
Roll of Fatalities Feared Gover
nor Refuses to Act.
CAI.UMKT, Mich., Dec. 8. Ileal
war relKiicd today In tho JllchlKnn
copiier mluo atrlko dUtrlct.
hltn end of tho affected region,
From Mohawk to Ilaltlc, at oppo
atrlkura and their aympathlzora, wero
bnttlliiK with deputies, itrlkobreak
era and poca of cltltuna. At ooinc
point flrliiR wan almoal Incnatant.
No more deatha wero reported, hut
tho orcn In which tho fighting wat
lu progress wa so cxti-mlvo and
now traveled so alowly that It was
feared definite new would allow a
lonR roll of fatalities.
Tho clash followed yesterday's kil
ling of strikebreaker In the Copper
Itango consolidated mine. Military
ami civil authorities blamed tuom-
bera of tho Western Federation of
Miners. I'nlon officials repudiated It
nnd toloRraphcd to Governor Fcrrla
asking for protection, which tho gor
cmor rofinxul, leaving tho situation
In thn hand of thn local authorities.
lliislncsa wna generally suspended
and'among non-combatant through
out the atrlko zone panic prevailed.
The outlook for mora serious trou
ble was most threatening.
STATES CAMINETTI
rOKThANI). Or., Dee. 8. A
warning Unit the United .States i in
danger of a Hindu invasion compar
able to the wonleru movement of tho
Jnpauoho nnd ChincHo unless the
Hindu are made an excluded class,
vtaH Koundcd by Anthony Caminetti,
comuiishioner cotiornl of immigration
of thn deparlment of labor, who
reached I'ortlaud lodny. Tho com
m'tHsinner Kcnoral irt on an official
tour of thu west inspecting station
of the department.
In addition (o the Hindu question
Caminetti is making u personal in
vestigation of the immigration phase
of the dread disease commonly call
ed hookworm.
''The Hindu question is iuo.se seri
ous, ' said Mr. Caminetti tmlay, "and
for economic reasons which nre well
known to all the people of this sec
tion of the country, they should be
kept out. Tho Hindu coolie class is
milking a movement from India to
oilier favorable climes. The l'acifio
coast is one of tho places to which
they desire to come. Tho department
recontly denied (he application for
udmillanco of sevenly-threo Hindus
in Scalllo; their appeals to the
courts of that district wero lost nnd
now through their nltorneys the case
is being uppcaled to the supremo
court of tho united Stales.
CONGRESS VOTES 10
WASHINGTON, Dee. 8. Hv nn
overwhelming majority the houso of
CALUMET
MN
ID
1U
INVASION
THREATENS
NATION
STOPBUILDINGWARSHIPS
representatives today adopted tbo
llonsloy resolution approving the sug
gestion made by First Lord of tho
Admiralty Winston Churchill of Eng
land, that the world powers suspend
naval construction for 0110 year.
The resolution aulhorixcd l'resi
dent Wilson to oo-opornto in tho ef
fort to persuade other nations to
join the agreement.
Forty-two states have fixed a min
imum number of hours ns a working
week for children,,
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OK KG OX, MONDAY, DKCJOMJJEIt 8, 19KI
A TYPICAL SOLDIER OF CARRANZA FORCES; AGED FOURTEEN
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GENERAL VILLA
SHOWS HOW TO
CUT LIVING COST
KU PASO, Texas, Dec. S. General
Villa today showed how to reduce tho
high cost of living.
Ho Issued a schedulo of food prices
which dealers woro ordered not to
exceed. If they did so, ho said he
would confiscate their stocks and
himself distribute them to tho
needy.
Tho prlco schedule varied some
what with localities. At Juarez au-1
most other places throughout rebel-
controlled Northorn Mexico, Villa
tried to put them on tbo basis "usual
in times of peace," At Chihuahua
City, however, ho said provisions
must bo Bold nt cost until tho res
tnbllshmctit of railroad communica
tion relieves tho present despcruto
situation.
ACT IS UPHELD
I'OItTLAND. Ore., Dec. S. In i
decision horo today Federal District
Judge Dean upheld the constitu
tionality of tho Wobh-Konyou act,
which prohibits the shipment of li
quor In n wot state to another which
is. dry.
Tho milt in which tho decision was
handed down waa filed by F. Zim
merman nnd company against tho O.
W. H. & N. company In which a
mandate wns uulced requiring tho
road, to accept shipments of liquor
consigned from Portland to lleyhurn,
Idaho. Tho mandate was refused.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Republi
can senators pievontod tho democra
tic loaders today from postponing
consideration of tho Alaska govern-mont-ownod
railroad bill.
When consideration of tho mcasuro
was taken up, Senator Poludextor of
Washington Introduced a substitute
.bill. It provided for tho establish
ment. of Rovornmout-owncd steamship
lines connecting a government-owned
railroad with tho big transportation
syutonts, It also provided for tho
development of coal mines by tho
govornmout mid private capital, ,
WEBB-KENYON
SEATTLE WOMEN
T
El
SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. 8. -At n
mns8 niectiiig of Seattle housewives,
called by the West .Side Women's
Improvement club, in the Grand the
ater here todnv, the Washington Co
operative nssocintion was formed to
obtain the immediate lowering of
egg prices to the consumer, to main
tain or raise the prices to the nro
iluccr nnd to secure remedial legis
latiou on food prices. f
WJicn tbo women nt the mass
meeting resolved themselves into this
organization they individually
pledged themselves to abstain from
tho tiso of cold 6torngo eggs nt
price higher than 110 cents n dozen
nnd fresh eggs nt n price higher tbnn
15 cents.
There was n fair sprinkling of men
in the uudiencc, ono or two of which
headed u vigorous opposition to ev
ery step taken by the organiznlion,
and almost succeeded by dilatory
tnctics in defonting the resolution
pledging tho women to boycott .
The nnmo ndoptcd by the organiza
tion is intended to permit the mem
bership of men ns well as women.
SUIT 10 REPLEVIN
L
SALEM, Oro., Dec. 8. Suit to ro
plovln 8000 state school fund notes
from Stato Treasurer Kay will bo
filed into today by District Attornoy
Illngo In bohalt of tho stato. land
board. The notes aggreg&to over
ICOOO.OOO.
KIiiro alleges that tho notes aro
Illegally hold by tho stato treasurer,
saying that the law requires thorn to
bo 'in tho custody of tho stato laud
board. Ho sots forth that George
JJrown,' cjer.k ot tho board, mudo ap
plication ;pr mo notes to mo stato
treasuror, who rofusod to deliver
them to him. Kay holds that ho is
tho legal custodian ot tho notes.
CONSIDER SACRAMENTO
RIVER IMPROVEMENTS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. The
house rivers and hnrbnrs committee
began consideration this nfternoon
of proposed expenditures of $33,000,-
000 for tho improvement of the Sao
ramento river, in California. Mem
bers McClatehie nml Shiuii of the
California reclamation hoard asked
the committee to appropriate .f.'i.fitlu',.
000 and promised the state would
provide u similar uiuvunt.
COMBINE
0 LOWER
GG AND FOOD PRICE
WHyEWISONI)Efy$S
TALKING PEACE AID CAUSE OF
WITH CARRANZA WOMAN'S RIGHTS
Villa Said to Have Had Bitter Quar
rel With Carranza and to Have
Seceded From Cause Dictator Or
ders Protection of Foreigners.
Zapatistas Filtering Fast Into Cap
ital In Readiness for Outbreak
Fugitives Fail to Reach Border.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 8. Widely
believed rcjmrts that President Hu
ertn am General Carrnuza were talk
ing pence circulated today in Mexico
City.
Cnrrnnza nnd General Villa were
said to have had n bitter ounrrcl nnd
Villa wns thought likely o secede
from Cnrrnnza's cause.
In case of fighting in Mexico City,
Huertn ordered that foreigners mutt
not bo molested nn order meaning
he expected fighting, many thought.
Zapatistas, the dreaded southern
rebels, were reixirted filtering fast
into Mexico City, presumably in rend
inc for an outbreak there.
General Villn ordered northern
Mexican merchants to reduce prices
of provisions to n pence bnis or
less, or he would seize and distrib
ute their stocks.
Kxccpt n few bringing treasure
with them. Chihuahua City's fugi
tives had failed to reach the border,
nnd there wns much curiosity ns to
their fate.
It wns. rejwrted that the rebels had
cant it red Yxcuitlns; that the federal
had won nt Trinehcra nnd Huitzilus;
that federals were exjweling nil nt-
tack nl Amccn. nnd the rebels nt
Ojinngn, and that fighting wns in
progress nt Ozumbn.
AFTER
BON'S JOB
SAX FRANCISCO. Cal., Dec. 8.
Strong indication that John E. Kshle
mun, president of the state railroad
commission, will bo the progressive
candidate for governor of Califor
nin was seen horo today in a tune
fully guarded stutcment issued by
him. It also was generally accepted
ns meaning that Governor Johnson
soon will announce bis candidacy ;
succeed United States Senator Gc.
K. Perkins, whose term expires next
year.
Asked flatly whether he would bo
n enndidato for governor, Hiileuiun
said:
"I have nlways been nnd always
will be behind Hiram Johnson for
anything lie want. If he wants to
run for senntor I will be back of
him for senator. Hut Governor John
son has not said what he intends to
do. Until ho says that, I eertninlv
could not say whether 1 intend to
run for the governorship. It all de
pends upon the stand Johnson
takes."
SAN FRANCISCO CALL
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SAN FKANCISCO, Cal.. Dec. 8.
Publisher F. W. KoIIocl' of the Call
confirmed today the purchase by the
tall 4'ubltshiug comimny of the Eve
ning Tost, llnth papers are being
issued today, but beginning tomor
row will ho published as ono under
the name of the Call and Post.
FRENCH STATESMEN
FIGHT DUEL; ONE WOUNDED
ROMR, Dec. 8. Following a dis
pute in tho chamber of deputies to
day, Deputy Gamboretlu, liberal, and
Deputy Do Felice-Gieffrida, social
ist, fought a rapier duel, and the for
mer was wounded.
I.1P.AU, Itiissiu, Dee. 8.1 I.iouteu
uut Mauschmidt fell with his hydro
aeroplane into llio sea and was
drowned,
ESHLEMAN
NO. 221
President Declines to Send Special
Votes for Women Message to Con
gress or to Incorporate Such Rec
ommendation in Regular Message.
Unless Congress Requests It, He
Could Not Recommend Creation of
a Special House Committee.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Faring a
big Huffrugist delegation, President
Wilson refused lodny to send n spe
cial message to congress urging that
women be enfranchised.
Hu declined also to incorporate
Mich a recommendation in ono of bis
regular mcungcs.
Until congress remiesls it, be lidd
ed, he could not recommend the crc-
ntinn of n specini house committee
to investigate the suffrage question.
The suffragette conference wn
picturesque. The committee march
ed to the white house in the face of
nu icy wind, determined to force the,
president to speak.
President Wilson stood in front of
his big desk and received the com
mittee. He appeared drawn nml
haggard ns n result of bin recent .ill
ness, but he shook hands cordially
with Dr. Annn Howard Shaw nnd
Mrs. Medill McConnlck nnd smiled
nt the other women in fhc delega
tion. ''We have made pilgrimages to tbo,
capital every year," said Pr. Shim,
"nnd wo always have been received
courteously. Yet all jspff rage vies-.
Mat ion has been buried In commit
tee." CELEBRATE P
HETCH HETCHY BILL
SAN FIIANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 8.
All San Francisco awaited today the
actual signing by President Wilson
of the I letch Hetchy bill, which pass
ed the senate lute Saturday by it
vole of -13 to 2o. Plans already have
started for a demonstration here
when tho flash from Washington tells;
that tho president's signature has
made tlio bill n law.
"Wo will have the system built ami
Ileteh Uetehv water flowing Into San
Francisco within five ,
years,' was (lie
promise today of City
Engineer
O'Shnugluicsay.
The bill gives the eity the right to
build a dam across tho mouth of thu
I letch Hetchy valley, which will pro"W"
vido a reservoir to hold 2-JK00000O,2 "
000 gallons of water; gives tbo city'
the right to flood the floor of tho,
valley, two-thirds of which the eity,
owns nml ulso gives Sau Frtincisco
rights of way nnd power rights val
ued at $13,000,000.
IN DR. CRAIG'S TRIAL
SIIKI.UYVILLK, Ind.. Doc. 8.
Counsol Tor Dr. Craig, charged with
tho murder o( Dr. Helen Knabe aukoi
tho court to Instruct tho Jury to ac
quit. The prosecution, It was as
sorted had tailed to make out a cuso.
Arguments on tho motion begau at
ouco.
Tho prosecutlou rested at 1:45
following tho conclusion of tho tes
timony of Mrs, Augusta Kuabo, Dr.,
Knabo's cousin, who was recalled for
cross examination. Miss Knabo was
so stricken with grief that she could1
hardly make herself understood.
Asked to Identify tho bloody pillow
found across her cousin's breant, she
hugged it in her arms, rocked hor
self to and fro and sobbed hysterloul-
Detectlvo Maxwell, who did most
of tho work of gathering evldnte
against .Craig,, gave his reasonor
believing tho prisoner guilty, "
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SAN FRANCISCO TO
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