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Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Fair Tonight nml Sunday. Max. OH, Min. 4B, Iliun. SO. n I rnriv-flfth Ycnr. Dully- Tenth Ycnr. Captain Asserts Torpedo Came In the Night Liner Carried Americans Life Loss Estimates Placed at Twenty Canadian Troops Aboard May Have Struck Mine. H Hit MX, Sunt. C Tho German ruL nilnilty hns ns yet no Information re garding thu Hesperian case. Ql'KENSTOWN, Sopt. 0, .")::).T p. in. --Cnptnin Mniu of the Hesperian tnmlc the Htntcmcnt today (lint the esel hud been torpedoed nml Hint no warning wns given. LONDON, Sept. 0, 1:22 p. in. A mc-sago Inter in the day from Consul Frost In tlie Amoricun embassy said, the total loss of life might ronch twenty. According t information telegraphed liv -Mr. Frost, tlio Hos ii'iuui went down at 0:11 o'uloek at n point not far from tlio scene of tlie explosion, all tlio.su on hoaid at the time being rebelled. Ql'KKNSTOWN, Sept. (1. Mr. Hamilton, u sulnon piissuugor, de scribing his o.xpciieiioua, said: "No warning was given liofoio the (orjiedo wan fired. Suddenly a limit Mvnin cried, 'Snhmarine on thu st.ir hoard Imiw!' Almost simultaneously the toipcdo strtiuk. "I entered a limit with fifty others. The bout took tlio water wifely, but seemed to leak badly. It wan neces sary to detail two men of the crow to bail constantly. The women huhaved will and there wan no appreciable panic aboard tlio steamer. We wore in tin1 boat about two bourn hefoto rescued." Among tlio sncond-olnas pnsson rer wcie iiuiro than 100 women and children. It is reported bore that a sailing vcel was torMiilocd about the biime time as the Ilopciiuu. LONDON, Sept. O.-Tho Allan line steamer HexpeUau sunk at H:l" o'clock this morning within a lew it'll-- ot (jiicciifetowu, after Captain Mum and a volunteer rescue paity of twenty-five had niailo a brave fight to bring the crippled ship into port. Dunne; the nivlit the Hesperian feet tied "-riuliiallv by the head. Daylight -bowed the deck awash and the liner about to take the liual plunge Th' captain and cuw were taken oft bv rescue boats ami landed latnv nt Queetistown by tlio steamer Kmp- Ils, Tue sinking of tlio Hesperian in dcip water probably will prevent an investigation to determine whether the disaster from a submarine's tor pedo or from n mine. Passengers and enw nssoit positively that tlio vos--cl w.is struck bv a torpedo, bat tint lur no statement bus been obtained Jroin anyone who wuv u subiunriuo or a torpedo. The American embassy i receiv ing iiMirts from Wesley Frost, the Ann 1 1' an con-ul at QueciMown, on the nui-tion whether warning was (Continued on rage Four.) S ritW'ISCO, Sent G-Thous-mulK pf representatives of oreaniicd labor from the cities around San Francisco bay, the interior valles and eveu more distant parts of the state, were la San Francisco today to Join n a. celebration of Labor Day nt the I'anama-Paelric exposition. The orator of the day wag Frank I Walsh, chairman of the federal lomiuUsion on industrial relatione. For the fire Mine in many yenra the Sail Kraaclwo Building Tradee i o.innl and the San KranrUco J.ae-or l ,ih w n uiilliil 111 their telf !t-)Kn. KAISER 11$ Pill Nn WARNINR 111 f Al LSTRI AN FNVHY HESPERIAN SANK ADMITS ACTION f I Is BRITISH COAST TO CURB ALLIES , Mi CALIFORNIA UNIONS HONOR LABOR DAY Duniba Frankly Says He Took Part In Plan to Cripple Munition Pro ductionDual Citizenship Involved by Latest War Tangle Urged Fel-low-Countrymen to Quit Work. WASHINGTON, Sept. C Tlio white house and tlio stato department woro 8llont today on the public statement of Ambassador Dumba ot Austria thnt ho had taken purt In n move ment to curtail production of war materials In tho United States by re minding Austro-llungarlun subjects that they woro violating tlio criminal codo of tholr native laud by accepting employment In tlio munition plnnts. Tlio stato department had Dumba's notlco that bo was coming to Wash ington to see Secretary Lansing. Tlio ambassador's frank statement of bis activities, however, was re ceived with undisguised Burprlso In official circles. Tlio situation was regarded as ono of tlio most unusual and susccptlblo official developments ulnco tlio out break of the war. Secretary Lansing later in the day received u request ftuiii Ambassador Dmnbii for a conference and mitde an appointment to meet him nt thu Mute depattment tomorrow afternoon. It was understood here that the Aus tiiun iiiiiliiiHMiilor wished to offer ox plnnalion of dispatches which llrit isli officials found in custody of .lames K. J. Archibuld, an American nevswipcr correspondent, icgnrdiiig Amoiican wnr munitions factories. Ambassador Daiiiba, it is under- stood, will produce copies of the pa pers, which were directed to the for eign oftico ul Vienna. Officials hcio point out thnt there are absolutely no precedents for of ficial guidance. It is declared that unless existence of a conspiracy can bo shown it is doubtful whether nay statutory violation has beon involved. The question of the legality of ap proaching naturalized American citi zens by foicign nnibiissndors in tiuiu of wnr is said to involve the question of dual citizenship, which bus been a siibjejct of continuous controversy between the I'nitcd States and several of the great Kumponn power. This government never has been nble to in. dueo the French government to aban don its claim to join within French territory of poisons of French biith or descent even to the buuond gen eration. This government hub been obliged in many cases to rooognuo tbo Kuro pean doctrine that the individual and not tbo territory govern, beeauso it was not able to resist its applica tion, which would involve a broach of official relations with several of the grout Kuropean powers. Therefoie, some otticials cannot see tlio way clear to make strong legal protest against the action of the Austrian ambassador in adducing himself to his countrymen in the United State and warning thcni of tbo conse quences of the Austrian law. 10 1 IinilMX. Sent. C, via wlroloss to London The following official stato ment wag issued teday: We learn from Geneva that Ru manians residing In Switzerland bavo their regimental divisions." s MILITARY MEETINGS NEW YORK, Sept. 6. Instead ot parading today the Central Federated t'nion. the loon! organisation of the American federation of Labor, cele biaied i.nUor d b) a pit nlc and an atiti uiiUlr Uttuontt ration. MEDFORD. DABE HE GO p, '.'v .VW ' " ''J!S.y BUTIDtKWUOIP UtlKLUUtXJO K- SaK 'K ib Lav av dflLLLLLLLLLiBBHLBW 1 afl B 'tLv ym Lv' iaaV- H iaBllannhWnwBnaB. M -B- iantiV H E Ibk ibV PaaMMhVMHHHinnaaaMSrVIAiVI ! aBPPHBSnaBBaaBjyHBaBBuK H0k bbp BjaKAnnaHaaajr w H.? IPh j i aBVBDDhfi$JHHHHfiatiKHHHHHB Jt .m F i? w '1 BBBBBBZaBS9aveaBBaBBfS9Ba'9BBBlBaBBBBBnlBBp Tak nlr fail v 1 BKAViiaBntlnHllBBLBaBLnLLw jLB m? tMMtfMnwttN&tv f H hhha9flaffiw trlT vVhHahhkaaiBn HK w hl ' BiniBWi? l&iifavFsnBaiBaaaaBBnT flan w naB & nnaaaajKflP y v r . 2J?r'W( jBBBBBBBaBBb sBav w ' j? jr w ti aawx 'xpaVaWhK . hB E yft&fej&Jr vaunH f fe la T it Kt-, jHP Vflw BLn vs! .CaTtBiImiRW 5 Jk -. "jpiHi B 3Hfc 'WflLMflll. i imniBWlaVB ' ' John yi. Sla.vton, former governor of Georgia, who once saved Loo Frank from tbo fallows. Jle lull been warned to keep out of Oeorgin being threatened with mob violence if ho returns. Hy his side in thu picture is bis wife. Ibdh ere now in Calitornia. Shivtou declares he will go buck. His wifo refuses to com ment upon her husband's stutciacut, but ir -ists that it he does go back to their home stale she will try to bo nt his side every minute. RUSSIANS HOLD ' HIDES JUDGE SHOT BY TEUTONS UPON ; f ASSASSINS FOR EASTERN FRONT I m COURT DECISION Lead Invaders Into Swamps ami Re gain Lost Lcnncqada Bridgclicatl From Hindenburg Violent Artil lery Fire Upon Western Front Con tinues Without Lull. LONDON', Sept. (I. -fiisliting n both wings of the eastern front pro coeds with much gicutcr vigor than thu struggle in thu center, where (ho invaders appaiently arc liaiiif diffi culties in truckle wuium. In the south near thu (hiliciiwi border for tiiuo iliuttiiatcs, first ono side and then tlie other cluimiutfucceHc. The main offensive, however, etill lius with tlio Austnuiis and (icrinuiis. On tbo mil tb Hunk Field Murhu Von HuiidQiiburK now holds the Ihina bridgohond at l'rielrichstudl, but liM lost hat nt LfiineqHilH, further down tlio river towurd Kiga. The battle in thnt region continue without de cisive result. Kuagia. bus corrected earlier re ports concerning the attempt of tha Gurmnne to muko a lauding at l'or nau, continuing JloHin's htutemeut that iiiktond of losing vessels as the result of attacks by the Kushiiiiis, the (lennans inteiitionullv sank guvoml small steiiiuors to block the entrance to thn Gulf of liiga. The deduction is mudu Unit the Germaiu fcansl the Russians would laud there suffic iently htrong force to threaten Field Marshal lliiidunbiirg's lull flunk. Saturday and Sunday alonif tin wcotetn front brouuht a continuation of thu vigorous bomliHrdmcut bv French artillerv nloiig the Lorntiue ironticr and m the nsgc-.. 'lids heavy artillery liulitm has continued tor nhuo-t u tnitmulit. OUT UPON STRIKE ALBANY. X. Y . Sept All of the SeO conductor and uotoniien on the Albany street car system went an strike today. Traffie cosmnI twwe diateiy and Charles Hewitt, general manager of the United Traction com pany ordered the barns locked. A dUj.ute oer the dUcnarge and fus-1 pensiuQ of men caused tUe trouble, j OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER G, 1915 BACK TO GEORGIA? WILL HIS WIFE LET HIM? A,At,. HLOOMINGTON, 111., Sept. 0. Sccretury Frank Jrorrison of tlu Amciicuii Feneration of Labor, in a Labor day s)ecch hmo today indorsed tlio recent so-called stuff report of tlio industrial relations commission with its findings on industrial And so cial conditions. "Thnt report," uid he, "states that a condition o.Uts in this country which inual in your opin ion nppunr us n incuuuo to our coun try. "A contented and efficient eitizon ship calls for a iiiiiiiiiiiiii unite that will support HHgn-oaruuni in seiiuiue eomfoit. "In dismissing niililnrisiu anil pre paredness, let it bo iiudumtoud that tbo labor movoinciil is not in favor of penco nt any price Our strikes in dicate there is a point of the lives of trade unionists whero they gird their loins for buttle rather than longer ac cept unbearable conditions. Stiikos indicate life, vigor and streuitth. Power to make effective protests against wrongs should bo encouraged. A nation's workers who do not pos sess this MJver can bo of little service to their country in its hour of need. "While uiiliturisiu and prepared ness are as opposite a (ho polos, let it bo understood that lubor is aleit to thu kind of prcpnroducM tbo steel trust, the coal burons, the railroad combines and allied interests favor. l.ahor sees the wolf of militarism oou ichIci! behind the little Ited Hiding -hood piotcnse of thoso mini rospon sihlu for Ludlow, who favor ('ob sacks in the vnrioiw sUtes. "Tho preurcdncs that the men dc mnnd is no dit'ieient Uihii a militar iiiu to object lonablo its champions are forced to rechrliten it. "Labor favors pruiaroiluos, and as thu lint step in tlml diroetion we demand that tho killing of AiHorica's heel iuhiiIuhhI iu thu shois, mills und miuea of our country be stoppoil. We stand aghast ut tku coiHio-stiHwn iintlefieldk of Kuiopo, but let us not towt that 30.UUU of our fellow eounlivnien eitgau-d ill gainful occu pations ure killed overy year; more tliiui this, there .im 700,000 wealth priMiueers injuretl and this only in cludes thoso wh-e injuries extend over a period of lour week-.." No Vatloan Festivity UOUK. Kept, fi, rig l'ans, .' 10 jt. m. - There ws no feniivity ut in wii U'nn lodav, the auniverssry of the eonuiJili.in ut l'oe Iiensliet X, the miiI .1 ii 't wi-Linif to uuike the ue L'ttlvU via vi rcjijiclUg. CA ON SUBMARINE Mliotlo Island Jurist Murdered Near Providence, R. I. Falls Dead at Own Gate Woman Heard Venge ance Oath Given Italian Suspects Arrested by Police. PROVIDKNTK, If. L, Sept. (). Justice Willis S. Kuowlun of tho eighth judicial district wiih assassin tiled just after ho hud loft his bun galow iu N'oilh Scituuto to take a trolley car for I'rovideuco today. Ho received three bullet wounds, two in tho back and ono iu tho jaw. Tho attack occiinud about u hundred yards from tho house and apparently tho shots oame from bushes that lined thu village load leading to the ear lino. After having been wounded nt least once, tho justice turned back and hud nearly regained the gate opening into Ins plnuo when ho lull dead. Tho murder was witnessed by no ono o.xccpt tho assassins, who ok enped. Later the polico detained two moii on suspicion, lliey aro Italian Inborors and, according to the police, ono of tliuui carried a loaded lovol vcr. Tim body wns found by ICnowlos' lioiisokoopur, Mi. Warddull, who had run from the house when sho heard tho shots fired. As sho reached the lawn she says sho lit aid a man's voice with a foreign accent cry: "Now, judge, I've got )ou." She saw no (Continued on Page &.) OF LIST NOW SAFE QL'KICNSTOWX, Sept. 0. Tho Queonstown ngoncy of tho Allan lino announced today that forty-ftvo first elnss passengers on tho Jloaiiorluii, lit second class and 10S third class passengers had been neoountod for and that It could not soy at this tlmo how many wore missing. Tho number In the crew wag glvon as III, of whom there bavo boon ac counted for tM, not Including thoso who remained on the Hesperian until sho wen down. These figures, the agency says, are approximately correct. The w outlier last night wai rather bad, CARRANZA MAY AID CURBING OE MEXICAN GANGS Operate on Own Side While 4000 Reg ulars Under Funston Patrol Texa Side Americans Slain in Retalia tion for Posed Picture Postcards- Situation Quiet. UltOWNSVILLK, Tex.. Sc;v. . Tho disposition of troops iu tlie Hrowusvillu section continued today. Hy midweek thcro will ho -1000 men, cavnliy, infantry, artillery, signal and aero corps, in this district, which has 70 per cent Mexican population. Tho troops aro patrolling a terri tory licit rlv the sir.o of Muino, which contniiisi only one city, llrownsvillc. I low to distinguish between loyal and disloyal Mexican citizens is nu tin polvcil problem. Somo Americans lmvo como to he lievo oven that other nations are try ing to involve Mexico with the Unit cd .States or that Americans who wish intervention arc behind most of thu bandit outbreaks. In tho two months pinco the bandits began operations four American men have been murdered. Two lmvo been killed nt Sebastian by Mexicans who were personal enemies. It is now established that two Amoiicnns wcro killed partly iu re taliation for somo picture postcards which bavo been spread over nil northeast Mexico. These weio pic tures of Texas rangers on .horseback with ropes about tlie bodies of Home .Mexicans killed sovcral weeks ngo in thu fight nl Norias. The rangers did not drag the bodies. They only pos ed for the picturos to satisfy a pho tographer. Tho wide sale of these pictures produced bad feeling. WASHINGTON, Sept. fl. Major General Funston reported today that General Nafnretto, the Carran.a commander at M.itamoros, had again denied that Cnrranza troopcru were milling tho Moxicau border, and pro posed bringing more Cariunzu troops to thu Mexican side to suppress dis orders. Thu Carranza authorities lmvo suggested u conference to ar range joint action. General Funston's mosMigo includ ed tlio following rcpoit from Colonel Milliard at Brownsville; "t'nrrnuni consul slates (o mo that ho has today iu pitrsoii informed Nu faretto at MatnmonH of fuel thnt Americans and Carranza troops aro this morning facing each other near Mission and in danger of conflict ; that Nafnretto replied he would or der his troops to move buck from hunks of rivor nml thut any shoot ing from Mexican side would bo by mon other than his; that yesterday ono oiiustitiitiniinlifct officer was kill- tl and one civilian wounded in fight across liver at C nvazos, already re ported by Captain McCoy, "Constitutionalist consul staled that Friday afternoon while ni American aoroplano was iu llight here his vice-consul heard shots from the Mexican sido of tho liver, apparently directed nt tho aeroplane Ho re ported to General Nafarette, who said ho could not behevo tho shots were fired by his soldiers, ns ho nt that very hour hud them all assembled for n review in Matnmorns. Nafnretto made offer or Miggosliott that muro constitutionalist troops bo ordered to tho Matumoras district for tho tmr poso of oo-opornlitig from tho Mux jc an bido in stopping bandit disunion along thu river against tho American side LONDON, Sept. . Amciicuii se curities weie quiet, owing to the holi day, but prices advanced follow uig the fall iu exoliRiujo rates. I'. S. Steel, Krio and Chesapeake & Ohio were no i asiunall marked. IlotuU Were no $lecUJ , NO. 143 WARFARE F Harry Frcy Slips While Hunlino Deer on Lake Creek and Bullet Cuts Ar teryBleeds to Death Cries for Help Heard Dies Alone In Wilds Ilnrry Froy, carolakcr of the city intake on Lnko creek, wns found dead in the hills Saturday afternoon. An inquest wns held this morning by Coroner John A. Perl. Tho eoronor's jury rotumed n verdiot that Froy enmo to his death "accidentally, by a gunshot wound from his own wenp on." Froy bled to death from n bul let in the leg thnt severed both largo arteries and broke the bono of his leg. It was first thought that tho (lend man was bliot by n careless hunter' for it deer. Froy would bavo been Ul) years old today. Kvidcnco taken nt tho inquest this morning showed that tho victim slip ped on tho rooks while hunting ami that his rifle, a '25-35, wns discharg ed, tho bullet piercing tho leg. The body wns found Sunday morning af ter twenty-four hours nlono nncl wounded in tho hills, in sight of his home. Tho remains wero found by a rescuing party. The first to reach tho body was Frank Miuklor, n friend. Snturday morning Froy and Mink ler left about G o'clock for n hunt for deer. A party from tli'iR city com posed of I'd Mills, Louis Jenkins nml Charles Shadriek, all of this city, wcro cnnipcd near tho old ITunloy placo and left for n hunt about tho samo time Thoy met Minkler re turning ,nud ho asked than if they . had henrd Frey call. Thoy replied itt the negative. Tho Medford pnrty re turned lo their camp about 11 o'clock, Shadriek and Mills going fishing, nml JonkiiiH, nu 18-yonr-oM boy, taking a .22 rifle mid going squirrel hunting, lie walked down the road toward tho intake. Ku route he heard u cry from the woods, which he took to bo tho sound of a voice herding sheep. Ho reported this fact to MJuklcr nt the. intake, who said that unless Froy ro tumed soon ho would start on n hunt for him. When Mills and Shadriek returned from their fishing, Jenkins told them of henring tho cry. They hitched up their team and started for this city, telling Minkler of the inci dent of tho ory when thoy met him. Jenkins says he heard the cry several times, hut that it was indistinct and far away, Froy was nn experienced woodsman nml well iiuquniiitcd with tho neigh boring country, so no fear wns felt for his hafety. Lato in tho nftcrnoon n search was instituted ami continued Sunday morning, when ho fulled to retain. His failure to return nt night aroused fears for tho first tiuiu of his safety. Froy orawlcd half u milo from where the nooidont occurred in n des perate effort to reach aid. Tho nflo was found scvoral feet from tho body, and it is tho theory thnt Frey slipped and fell, ami that (Contlnuod on Page Tour) UltlSTOL, Kngland, Sept. 6. Tho 47th annuul trades' union congress, whloh Is expected to bo ono of tho most Important gatherings in British lubor history, hold Its first sossloa hero today. In his oponlng address, James An il row Seddon, tho chairman of tha congress discussed chlofly preblems: arising from tho war. Conscription, tho exploitation of food products, tho regulation of labor under war con ditions and femalo labor would, ho dcolarod, test tho nation to its foun dation, nnd demanded Immediate und unambiguous antwors. Ho urged tho congress to prepare for tho tlmo whon thero would be a resumption of world wide onoBess la tilt) CflniQgt between capital and, labor. HUN SBY AC HAS OM OWN UN B LABORITES BEN SESSIONS i jRJ G n !frk - .