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arEPFORD. otcegon, Thursday, .iuly i, 1915
NO. 87
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NO IIMIlftl COMPLICATIONS T0 FOLLOW SINKING OF BRITISH STEA
SUNKEN LINER IP REFUSED IE WEN OF Ni AS WAR HEMS! DURBOROUGK PHOTOGRAPHS ffl
FAILED TO Sff DROWNING MEN " TfeHgQWiK CM
WHEN ORDEIED BY SUBMARINE f ' JzMmaXM$i Hf
Steamer Armenian Refused Obey
Submarine's Orders VcssUniler
Control of British Admiray-No
Complications Probable, a Vessel
Sunk Under Rules of Law.
WASHINGTON, .lulv J.Secro.
tury Laiisinj; nnnoiiniTd liny tlint
until ninro 'nmjilctc rrpurts d licen
rooi'ivcd from Ambassador n?c nt
Loudon on thu lorM;iloiiif; f the
Dritisli liner Ariiioiiian, in wh Sev
ern 1 Americans lost tlieir lis Mini
day, tlio United States wonllnke no
action.
I.ali"l newR dispatelies sm Av
onmontli, detailing tliat tlie rmcniiin
made efforts to escape nr bcitif;
ordered to stop, caused okiaU to
lielieve tlie sinkintf of tin' wl wax
in aceordancu with interniinn law
and that the I'nited State luiil no
reason to take up the sipot with
(Jermany, except to verilMhronnl
the admiralty at Berlin tluttnils of
the Armenian's reported roliiiieo.
ItcfiisctI to Hal
Vnder thu rules of iniiational
law, it was pointed out tl the Ar
menian, which flew the Di-li flat;,
as well as any neutral viol, could
lie sunk for rcfiiMiir In oh a warn
inj to halt and submit tiit and
search or captuie. mcricans
nlioard such a ship losu portion of
their government when tliTel of
i'crs i exist u nee.
Ambassador I'ap repnl that
the Armenian was entrap in "ml
miralty liuiiiehM," but t iiiglion
of bow far the vessel wiumlor con
trol of the Uritisb goviinent by
charter or nthonviso seed to bo
overshailowcd in the min of offic
ials here, by Hid icpoitiro-iitanee
to capture.
There was a relaxaticof tension
in ofticial (punters bv t riew that
the Armenian apparentl.i rosist
ing capture.
Ijuv Is Sol Or
The law on thu ipiusti of char
ter is not clear, but aciwls indi
cated it would not be imlution of
American neutrality laxfor an un
armed irminpoil carryin oiiru" '
munitions or supplies fn Iwlligereiit
government to sail frothu I'nited
States and that it nf hl been
definitely determined vllior bellig
erent cruioer on encitering such
a vessel well' to treat S'''P "f
var or a defcnseleM in'liiintmnn.
Consul Armstrong iJirifitol, wlm
sent iirM word of tho-trin'tion of
the steamer, ye.stordan'poited to
Ambassndor Page todilimt twenty
one of the twenty-niniwii 'st with
the Armenian worn A'ritfnns. Ie
gae no additional n"4! nlthoiigh
jiiTNious lints ineliidu'ly twenty
Ameiicaus.
All .MemlM-i-s Crew
The amhassador's patch gaw
no additional ilelaiU" Jhich the
slate department eouhaje consid
cration of the ease. '"d that as
the Armenian earned1 pn-ngers,
pn amiably all Aiiici'HH who per
jshed were iiiembers ,l10 irew.
WITH A EVOLVER
SANTA BAiniAH'--t J
Tom Miller, n cigar r" l)orU'rt W
ed two persons tod ""' wounded
a third betoro he v eupturod. The
dead are:
Pert linker, an e f the ci
gar store, mid Clmltow,,nl R
gru woman.
The wounded moW bootblael?
named Smith, who"5 felmt by .Mil
ler nttor linker han kl,ltMl-
Miller, aprentllV1ute1 open
ed lire on linker j& ,,Kr or.
He then shot Smitfienvr,I !
mg his way to the ? of the How
ard wouiau.
A party of HfJrooklyn Baglos
will paw through "if0"1 tomorrow
nfternooa In thiornlBg a upeoial
l.earlnr 10 wtn of the Knights
of Ccliuubui of '"S6 " Pas
.thrcugij
NEGRO RUHMK
Destroyer Ran Close to Perishing 'HiPIH wKww IPpBHB -wkA-lf 'Nilnt4 - HL Jl !
Victims, But Made No Effort to HL&llift fc f 'WBKf 1' J ? J$P
Rescue Them Eleven Americans dBKH' ! 'WSBmMKBmf l r A vxSlf "7 Vi
Members of Crew, Balance Were ', H9Ls. I ' I ifijS; J I k5f
Muleteers Vain Effort at Escape. fHHHi oSf HSJMhHi'V IMtmL I M ,V
LONDON, duly l.-Capt. Triekey
of thu Aimcniau, in an interview to
day, said that he only surrendered to
the (ionium submarine when the
freighter was afire in three places
and after the ship's engines had been
pul out of action and a dorcu mem
bers of the crew had been killed by
shrapnel fire. Most of the members
of the crew who perished, Captain
Triekey said, were Americans.
CARDIFF, Wales, .Inly 1. Sur
ivors of tlie sunken Armenian say
that the German submarine ran close
lo the drowning men thrown into thu
water hy a cnpsizitij; boat, hut that
no effort was made to rescue them.
AVONMODTIF, Kng., .Inly 1.
Then; wero eleven Americans among
the nineteen members of the crew who
lost their lives in thu sinking of thu
I.eylnnd line freight steamer Anneii
inn hy the German subnmrinu U-:i8
off Trevose Head, Cornwall, on Mon
day. Some memburs of the cietv
wcru killed outright when thu Gur
man torpedo struttk thu ship.
When sunk by thu Gennaii Hiibma.
line Ihc Armenian was carrying a
cargo of 1122 mules from Newport
News to Avonmouth, the animals to
he used bv tlio French armies in Bel
gium and France. The vessel had
a crew of 72 men and carried J)(l men
as muleteers.
rushed lo (lio Limit.
The Mihmuriiio was first sighted
by the man at thu wheel, and though
the ship was pushed to the limit, thu
mosquito eiaft rapidly overhauled her
and commuiiccd shelling. Thu Ar
menian's efforts to keep her stem to
the submarine were futile.
Thu faster vessel ciieled the
freighter and the German comman
der, speaking through a megaphone,
crdered the Armenian's captain to
surrender or he would sink thu ship.
The skipper of (he Leyland liner
struggled hard to evade the undersea
boat, but the latter dropped a shell
through a skylight into thu (steamer's
cngiiicrooin, putting the engines out
of action. Thi' Annenian then sur
leudored. Mulo Tenders ICscajsj
Lifeboats were lowcicd and thu
crew and some seventy mule tenders,
nearly nil Americans, hcnunhlutl into
then..
As one of thu boats was being low
ered a shell from the submarine, cut
the falls of thu boat. The occupants
were spilled into the wator and pre
sumably were downed.
Five boats loaded with survivors
got away. The submarine then fired
two torpedoes into thu Armenian and
the vessel sank within thirty minute-.
The surviors rowed around in the
boats till Tuesday morning, when a
team trawler landed them at Avon
mouth. THAW TRANSCRIPTS
TO BE PROCURED
NKW YORK, Julv 1. Transcripts
of tho tofttimony given in Harry Iv.
Thaw's two triuU for killing Stan-
lord Will 1 1' In iirrivii Hull lu rn ii .
sauo, wcru in thu possesion of
stato'fc attorney today, and prepara
tion uini iiueu inudu to read 1 1 tiers l
extract, in his sunitv trial now in
IiroL'ross. Itoadmy thu ovideneo "iven
by Mii.. Mary Coploy Thaw, lu
mother, in the second trial wa eou
tinuud today. Mr. Tlmw in tho ?sir-
uon ot nor fcttiry road to tiia ur
told Of liar sun's imriv lifn. hi. in .
eentrio aetions jut piiur to tUt kill-
iiur of Wbitn n ml nP tkn iiwauilv
taint which affected some of Tuaw'i
relatives,
easiiiiw c H? Joi . f y v mjiiiH K
wfe.. . saHRvr .rv ; ,f imf-,s
NUNVsTPAPCK
ASSN.
Staff Photographer Daiborough
snapshots a German housewife dig
ging in her garden with her young
sou as a helper, and thu baby !osing
thu job. Thu father is at the front.
Says Duihorough in a letter to the
editer: "It is a common sight in
Gu.'.nnny now to see the wife tilling
thu soil while the husband is at thu
front fighting. Kver inch of avail-
EVELYN THAW
MAI.ONK, N. Y., July 1. Kvolyn
Ncsblt Tlmw has reftmed to honor tlio
Rtilipoonii Bervud on hor yesterday,
Biimmonlng lier to Now York to testi
fy at tlio Jury proceedings to tlotor
mlno tlio sanity of hor IiiihIiiiikI Harry
K. Thaw.
Mrs. Thaw, It beraino known today,
told William J. McGuIro, the state's
process server, that sho was In poor
health and feared for hr life should
nho bo compelled to undergo tlio or
deal on tlio wltnosB stand to which
sho thoiifiht sho would ho suhjectod
In crosH examination hy Thaw's
counsel.
Sho said that sho would furnish a
doctor's certificate If required to do
so hy tlio court.
NKW YORK, July 1. Deputy At
torney Oonoral Hockor, stato nttornoy
In thu Thaw caso, whon Informed that
Kvolyn Ncsblt Thaw had rofusod to
como to Now York, doellnod to com
ment on hor action, It was under
stood that whiitevor action U taken
In tho matter will ho doturmlned hy
the court.
OF
IS
SEATTLE, Wa-h, Julv L A. S.
Ruth of Olympia, W-h., lor twelw
yours a member of the Washington
stute ieuato, and iwit of that tuao its
provident, died today at San Miguel,
Cal. Hu waa, until stneken bv ill
ness a few .eais ago, h leader in
state polities and widt'lv Known
tluoiighoiit the P.iiitu- noithwcst.
BRYAN LEAVES LINCOLN
FOR THE EXPOSITION
LINCOLN, NVb.. Julv 1. William
Jennings iiraii. lorua-r secretary of
statu, aecwuiiHtuied by Mi, llryau,
ttnlay Ufi (or San Krawwo, where
he will trfifor an Mdrw uext -Men
uay, - .
R ES T Y
T
HUSBAND
able ground is under cultivation and
thu outlook is for a banner eric this
year.'1 In oval above is a Duiboroimh
photograph of Miss Greta liiililim.- of
I)useldorf. When bur brother was
called to thu firinj; lino she took his
place is a street car conductor. Later,
liecausu of her efficient'- she was
promoted to the position of assist
ant terminal suocrintciidenl. He"
ENI
COltNLSH, X. II., July 1. Presi
dent Wilson has instructed the state
department to make a full investiga
tion of the sinking of the Leyluud
line steamship Armenia by a Germmi
submarine and to keep him complete
ly informed of all dovulopmenla. He
was in constant touch with Washing
ton through tho forenoon.
Tho first news received hoio of the
dost met inn of (bo Armenian with the
loa of American lives created the
impression that sho was not a mer
chant vessel in the sense refened to
in the American notes to Germany
concerning submarine warfare, and
this view appeared to he borne out by
tho statement of the British admir
alty today Hint (he Armenian was en
gaged in admiralty business.
President Wilson declined to com
ment on the incident mid will uwuit
further information before deciding
on the courxo of tho American gov
ernment. Ho was from tho stait
eager to learn whether tho Armenian
was under charter to the British gov
ernment and what was tho status of
tho American inula tenders who were
lost. Soerotury lousing is oxpoi-ti'd
to inform him of tho international
law features involved that ho uiixht
correctly judge thu kcnoubiiuss of the
situation.
It was doelarcd nuthoritativWx
that for the present I'loaidunt Wil
son hud no thouglit'of hurrying back
to Washington ahead of his sched
ule. The itiM'stigatioit will oecup.v
secral das, it is exp ted.
DAY AT EXPOSITION
SAN FRANCISCO, July J. -Woodrow
Wilaou day at thu I'auamu
Pacifiu oxMaitiun wan to ho obttened
today with oxoreiae of muit and
sks-he in the Court of tho Uuiverae.
President Wilson at hu aiuumer homo
in ComiaH, X'. H., daiimal to preaa a
button whiek would release an Amar
ioan flf aa the aigual for the open
mg of the ceieuiojjit) at 2 p. w.
PRESIDENT ORDERS
FULL INVESTIGATION
AM
N
chief work is to look to thu safety of
women mul children bourdiug curs
during the rush hours.
At the right, Durhorouidi hits 'ho
lographed Her Fxcellency Mario An
toinette Vim lime of Merlin, one of
the meat ladies of Germany, although
of Italian birth. Sho married a Ger
man nobleman. She is tod one of
the most popular women in Germany
AT MEXICO CITY
1'1'IJIILA, .Mexico, Thuradiiy, Juno
'J I, via Havana, July 1. Fighting for
possession of .Mexico City by tho
forcos of Ceneral Carranzn nnd Gen
oral Zapata ban been In progross for
eight tlnys. , tf
WASHINGTON, July I. Offlcora
of tho Zapata forces In Moxlco City
ilim'OKardlng orders of tho convention
government, nominally In control
thuro, aro eharKed with Inciting tho
niassoa to vlolonco, In dispatches car
ried from tho .Mexican capital Juno
25 to Vera Cruz hy courier and cabled
today to tho stato department. Tho
texts have not boon made public, but
thoy aro known to stato that tho In
subordination of "hoiuo Zapata offl
cora" Is making tho situation more
acute.
No prooct of rellof for tho starv
ing civil population of Moxlco City
la held out In tho dlepatchos. It In
declared that until tho railroad to
Vera Cruz Is reopened (hero can ho
no abatomeiit of tho suffering. Tho
convention officials, It Is stated, claim
to have rnpiilsed the Curranza forros
under Gnneral (iouzaloa. Apparently
whatever flKbtlug that lias taken
plaro lias been In tho morn romoto
suburbs, so distant from tho resldonro
and bunlaess sections that no doflnlto
knowlodRC of tho result has como to
the forelKiiors In tho city, who prob
ably do not venture Into tho fighting
zone,
OXNAItl), f'al , Julv 1 Enragod
by jealousy, William Wheeler, a Mo
nro, openod fire today on a negro
man and woman In a motor bus at
thu railroad station hero today and
killed C. 1!. Croxlor, the bus drlvor.
"Happy" Adams, a negro at whom
Wheeler was shooting, received u bul
let In the ehoet and may die. The
woman. Iluby Aduina, wu shot In tho
hack. Wheeler's tint shot penntruL
d CrwUttr'i heart. The Hr wan
arroite, f
CNN
GROWS
WORSECONFOUNDED
because sho bus tawen unou herself
the respousibilit- of looking alter tho
interests of German soldiers niado
blind in the war. She has founded a
school for them mid they get the most
modern surgical attention at her hos
pital. Oiieo a week sho gives the
blind soldiers in Merlin an outing mid
lunch. In the ucture she is seen cut
ting cake at one of these outings.
LOWER RATES IF"
T
THE EAST
WASHINGTON, July 1. Through
transcontinental caiload mid less
than carload commodity rates over
the Southern Pacific railroad to tho
Willamette valley and points south of
Portland, Or., made by adding to tlio
rates to Portland, the local class
rates from Portland to destination,
weru found unreasonable today by
the interstate commerce commission,
ami other rates were piesciibud.
PORTLAND, Or., July 1.-Aicop1
ing to Southern Pucifio freight truf
fio officials here, today's ruling o
the intorstulo commoroo comtiMsnion
on transcontinental commodity, rates
to points south of Portland is a fur
titer application of the ruling lucent
ly announced in thu Spokmia rati
ease. This was to tho effect thn
through rates to or from interior
points and the east should not o
eeed the eoaat teimiual rate plus i
rate not lo exceed 75 per eenl of th
local fir baiik-biiiil rate.
Itntli t'io Southern Pacific ami the
Oregon electric svlnii me atlucied
hy today's ruling,
BY A
E
LONDON, July. 1.-Premier As-
tputh announced m tho house of com
mons this afternoon Hint the British
naval mid military looses m killed,
wounded and missing in tho opera
tions aguiiiat the Dardanelles up to
May III ajgreKtld ;iB,(i:K') officer
mid men.
BECKER REPRIEVED
L JULY 26
ALUANY, July 1 liovernor Whit
man today run ted Charles Meeker,
tho former New York pel toe lieuten
ant wader enLata t doath, a ro
prleve until July ?,
SO
HERN
OREGON
FROM
AIR ARIHN
IMlfORS "RIFE
DF OFFENSIVE
BY THE ALLIES
French Credited With Intention of
Formidable Drive- .Supreme Ef
fort at Dardanelles, to Bo Made
German Attvanco Lays Warsaw
Now Open to Attack.
LONDON, Juli 1. While tho Aus-tro-Gennnn
armies continuo to pusli
the Russians buck over tho Giilitiiun
border in their own territory, there
are rumors in Loudon of contemplat
ed offensives b,y the entente allies.
The French aro trvrtiled with tho in
tention of making a formidable nt
tauk on account if thu enormous ex
penditure of artillery ammunition to
the north of Arras, where a persist
ent bomburduueiit bus been kept up
for Hie last fortnight, while the
Anglo-French forces on Hie Gallipoli
peninsula aro said to be on the point
of milking t supremo effort to cap
ture the nuiHsivu hill of Aehi llaba,
which ilouiinateH all thu country
south of thu Narrows of tho Dardan
elles. The recent gains claimed by the
British and French on tho southern
end of tho peninsula are considered
important because they indiealo an
appioaeh to the hill on three sides.
Warsaw Moro Ojkmi
On the eastern front every change
leaves Warsaw, the capital of Rus
sinu Poland, inoru open to the drive
which the Gcnnuns and Austro-Hiiu-garians
evidently nro making towanl
that city. . r.--
The Russian lines aro still boing
swung buck in northern Oulieia and
southern Poland in an apparent ef
fort by the Teutonio allies lo ulcar
tho way for a determined moo on
Warsaw.
The .Russians admit a continuation
of the enemy offensive between the
Bug ami the Vieprz. At the junc
tion of the latter river with the Vis
tula in Poland lies Ivaugorod, which
Russion, observers beliuvo is thu !m
nudiiit) objective ol tho Austro-Ger-rnnn
forcos in this region. Ivaugorod
N litllo more than fifty miles aouth
east from the Polish capital.
Holding on the Hug
Just at present tho chief Russian
holding power seems to he along (he
line of the western Bug and tho Gnila
Lipu, in Galicia. Petrograd also re
cords u repulse of mi attempt bv the
Teutons to cross the Dniester near
Halicz, indicating that the line of the
Dniester south of that place in till
well held by the Grand Duke Nich
olas' forces,
A Gorman attack by water on Win
dan, in Courtlaudi on the Baltic, just
south of the Gulf of Riga was re
pulsed hy the Russians, their official
statement suvs. Five cruisers and
many torpedo boats participated in
the attack and an attempt is declared
to have been made to laud troop
One of the torpedo boats was blown
up before the fleet retired.
On Western Front
III the west both sides have attack
ed in the Argomie forest and beyond
the Mcuse Hills without decisive ic
ult. The lighting of tho past lt!t
uighl has been without ponimnout
insult, except in tho Vosgos, when
the French huo consolidated flub
stautial gains.
Both armies along the Austro-Ital-iuu
front are displaying more activ
ity. The Italians claim a faonbU
outcome from actions in tho Tnmlino
district and the repulse of Autiiiui
attacks H Ion i.. the ono.
I
POLITICAL MEETINGS
SEATTLE. Wash.. Julv 1. Theo-
doie Roosevelt sends word that it
will he impossible for him to attend
hiiv dinner or function of nur kind
duriiur his approaching visit to at-
uc. up win arnvu ouc hi 111,111- imiij
IS and deiairt fur San FrancUiio
oh Wv in the Uiornim:. ProressiM
leadei-e hail ii)Auncd to call a -t'j
aonforeuM wntli RookOvoit, and UiU
wut be abandoned.
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