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Medford Mail Tribune WMMwrnnm SECOND EDITION WEATHER L.'- ji ' Mat. JM, .Mln. If, ln .IU Korfr fifth Yr. Nliv T- "ih Tear. MKHKOIID OI.'KdON, WI'.NNKsDAY. MWKClf 2'2, lOffi NO. MO wmmmmmmmmmt A wi TROOPS AT CHIHUAHUA JOIN VILLA Unconfirmed Report States That General Hcircrn ami 2000 Men at Chihuahua Have Declared War on United States and Support of Villa Pershing Close to Villa and His Dantlits-Aviator Willis Safe- Railroad Problem Bothers Invad ers. KI. I'AHO. Tex., Mtuch 22.--An unconfirmed rumor ranched licit1 to day 1 lint 2000 CniTttiir.it troow unr risniiiiiK Cliiliunliini luivo pMiiiscd the enue or Villu. The ir-pott ciimo from two sources, lint mi official huro would any tluit Hit1 ndvic.es had jiono beyond tlio rumor slake. II waa pointed mil, however, f lint more (linn liiilf I lit CliiliiinliHii ttitrtimui wo COIIipn-ICll of I'firilHT fill III WJ'lN III' Villu. It Wits conceded tluit xiicli ail addition to his rnvM miclit Imw .hi immediate el'foet upon (he cniiiiiii plllllH. i SAN' ANTONIO, Tex., .Man-It 22. General Horrern, commander fit Chi- iliuiilitin, ik reported to have revolted nLTiinst tlu ('arm 11211 "overnniunl. dc- claiiiit; himself at wur npiinst t In Hinted Slides nml promising lii mip poit to Villa, ucenrdinjc to inl'onnn tion received hi re t'toin a source re garded iih reliable, llcrrpru's strength in tlui oily of CliiliiialiiHi wax placed nl 2000 men. lie linil Jiooit relieved of eoniniund liy Cnr rnuxu nucording to information. here, his revolt oeourring alter he hud hceii ndiefed. i Pershing N'cm-s Villa WASHINGTON, lnnh 22. Lat est otlieinl advices from I lie Ameri can expedition in .Mexico say that (lOiicral I 'entiling nml hi men are clone to Villa nml hi bandits. All dI(-HitchcH told of the cn-oieraiio.ii of the Cnrntnan soldiers in the hnu dit chase. )epite unofficial ivMirtn of un settled conditions in the interior of Mexico anil almig tit? holder, Secio fnry linker Knid that, although llio situation, was fraught with many poihilities, (o dale there lied been no unfavorable dcvcflopnienK. In response to n repict I'roiu Gen eral r'iiulon, additioaul troos are (Contlnu6uon lt nno) EAST NASHVILLE TENNESSEE AFIRE; NAKI1VII.LK, Trim . M.irdi 2-'. A fire which started In a mii.iII dwell ing near the corner of Sixth and .Main street thU afternoon, driven by a high wind, is sweeping southeast through liast N'unhvlllo. Hoiitog for two bloekn r on fire. The fire deiMitinants havo not been aulo to control it. .' ISaat Niwhrlllii U Inrioly n roil donce tertioR and ninny of the hornet there are frame. Over hrlok and frame ueuaea aiiko, however, the flamea awept like an avalanche. The home of the Utile Staters of the Poor, an inatitutlon for the aged, waa one of the flrat building to go. The oc ouiHinti were gotten out without in jury. Aid ha been nuked of other el t Jos. The wind la blowing a gale. At four o'clock the fire had burn oil a atrip three block wide and a mile long. UuihIwmIi of families are bomeleae. TJk local Heather station held out no hope for an abatement or the gale that waa d riving the flames forward In tbelr course of de struction. The Indications are the fire will not be stopped unlit It reaches the Cumberland river. Kverr available wagoit and automobile has been aent to tin- n.inHiiorliood to ht-lp famlller ",. Hi. n ytupert) to places of eafei A battalion of militia kg beon ordered o,ut to peoteet property aid the polic :r.2T'.--r fc" -" ,fc Vultiutti'i s to aait. BALE FANS fUUWES FIRST PHOTOGRAPH (iMflHFjjc, i fameas. BgaYss sPHHHRHIIBh9KbSQL.mA s aaBiimjrBjaaggjsgayjBSTTggs gaM37rTMn-.. i-fj uh i illnHlirut IBIHiH vjrf jjiW' jtf.w tIttBj sm FBS &VHHPMfljHyMHHHHHB igvtgss gsTBSBaHaMaOjaaBi sgBi R i "mM gBfis- gfr ntamWirfKvtKKBKiSiwKKi ''ft'4 & "in. , 'srr'..s w. One I'oltiniim, In ile-eit tilnt, CYCLONIC GALE DELUGES THREE Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin Suf fer Heavy Damaues Half a Dozen Lives Lost, Buildings Unroofed, Traffic Delayed Passenger Train Is Blown Off Track. CIIICAUO, .Mnreli 22. Northeast gales hearing rain, fleet, hail and snow, neeompwiiied hy froquont lirfit nitiK flaMheH, nwrpt over canteni In diana,' northern Illinois and soul hern Wii-eoiiHin toilay. The fitoim, which wit of unusual vlnlence, coh half n down lives, en lined many injuries and great prnn eity'daiimne. In I.uguuMH)rt Intild ine were unrooted nml the t'lvinif wriwknue eauneil tho only fatality reptfrtiNl. Sevetnl IllinoU cities stif I'eied severely, while ('Iticngo siistnin ed all the ill-effects of a bliward ex cept low teniM'rnture. Hallroad tninxjairtation wnt de lated or held up and shade tree upriHiled in nrioiw seetiofis of the city. .Marion, Iml., reorted a iwNentcf train on the Toledo, HI. I.ouiw & We--leru (Clover laf) railroad Idown fioin the track near that city lut mlit. Several perMins were injured, hut none killed, l'our ears were overturned ami a fifth was tilled danucrously. Tlirco l.ltfts Io.t IXMAXAl'OhlS, lua., Man-It 22. Three deathti, four hcrioux nd mora I han fifty minor iiijuiicx and extensive property ilumitite, resulted from tho wind storm winch Mtcpt northern Indiana lute la-t niuht. Silas Williams, 71, wa killed when hi home, near .lalnpa, Ind., col- (Continued on laat page) NO ILLNESS OCCURS U. s. I COLl'MIIL'S, X. M.. March 22 Nut a ingle ease of illness h been reported umong the American troop-. with (Jcneral I'ersbiuss exueditiou- ary column in Mexico, lieutenant Luloaei K. II. Cm, iu chaive of the bo hoaMtal here, asserted today. Army medical officials consider this rfnjsrkaUe shoviug, in viw of the temfic bent, the sand lunus of the dfert uud the disease which has fol-b-uud in tho wake of four years of civil war in Mexiwo, to which the sol diem hove bora exposed ia their march. It was asserted that much credit is due I be nreVeaiolive nteas- pp l.i.H Kv tit,, idi viiuu filT lilt- CXJxdltloji. MDDLE STATES OF AMERICAN IROOPS ON IHE MARCH INTO MEXICO IN PURSUIT OF GENERAL VILLA i .. A ill Miming attilleiy and water miuons BILL TO DOUBLE Cl.amlierlain Bill Acted on in Upper House While Lower House Debates Nationalization of State Militia Wilson Amendment Specifying Oaths Defeated. WASHINGTON, March ill. The sonata tmjay passed tho ClininljsrliUu bill to dOHble the number of cadets In tho West I'olnt military ncadoiuy. M'ASIIUN'OTON. .March S2. I)e bate on tho Hay army Increase hill was continued In tho house today with tho possibility of Its pnssago during tho day. Although this was "calendar Woditusday," the day was sot asldo to allow uninterrupted con sideration of the measure. Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the sounte military committee planuod to call tip his army bill toilay. The dobato In the house at onoe de veloped opposition to the proposal to put tho National Guard under fed eral control, Itepresentatlva Fields, democrat, of Kentucky, assorting that oniirt decisions showed the guard could not be federalized without a constitutional amendment. Representative Wilson, a commit' tee member, offered an amendment specifying outua of enllstuiout for of II core and men of the National Guard providing obligation to both the fed eral and state governments, the fed eral right to their services to precede that of the state. The Wilson amendment was reject ed without a division. Those who opposed It insisted that the bill al ready accomplished everything the amendment sought CONGRESS CALLED WASHINGTON, March a -After a conference with the ways and means committee democrats toilay, Majority Leader KUchln arranged for a democrats caucus next Krlday night to consider hurrying the gen eral legislative program. "If we will make all possible haslo w should be able to adjourn by June 1," said. Representative Italney of Illinois, ranking democrat of the committee. The speaker expressed surprise orer ba selection as a delegate to tho democratic national eonventton daeplte his opts letter declaring ho imhiM not aorro. He sold he had not tho eitfhtoat MUm that ho would bo bio i got avey from congress to attend the convention. AM A NA CAUCUS TO PEED h..w tL,a?-s4j -. t . j?.-s "i.. 1'm.zriXWitmm --' ' hM .'tiT?.'' liavc liirneil lliclc liail. to (lie Inltcil BtCKE OF REVOLT' PKK1NG, .March 22.--A fitnto department mandate U mtod tonight nnnounood tho abandonment ofjlho monarchy -and ro8ttiHptlonof the 'repub lic. Tho mandate says tho rev olution shows that the de mand for a inouarchlal form of government Is not unani mous nnd that tlterofore Yuan Shi Knl rejects the emperor ship and resume the presi dency. i -N BILL CALLS FOR TO WAKIIINCTOY Ma i ill 2.'. Sena tor Sheiiunti ( Jllium- tod.iv nitio iluceil a resolution in aulhoiise mid diivct the pn-idiiil at oucu to cull for oU.OOO volunteers fur wrviee in Mexico. Under the iiile, it lies on the table until tomorrow. ''I am afprehcnire that conitress does not fully appieeilj conditions on the Mexican bonier and iu Mex ico," kiiul Senutor Shenoun. "We huvs a few thousand Aiuericuii sol diers with their ol fleer in Mexico, I They soon will he hundreds of miles trom our houmlury. The .railways of Mexico are demoralised in service anil eiuinent. Truck- and bridges are easily detroyed. The tomiininica tions of the forces in pursuit of Villa may be out at unv hour. In eue of an emergency what lallitarv strength ui lw mobiliaed promptly and mass cd tor the supMrt or protection of our fur distant line advmiciujr into unknown territory I "I wih now lo warn those in au thority in the executive department that we are trifling with the lives of men, with the safety of our border states ami with our national honor more than some cew lo appreciate. "If it he Heglected, the delay then in a eriis will he a blunder and the kind of bluuder Unit is worse than a enme. I he ih'kI method of ing ourselves from disaster prepared before the disaetcr arrive. That is the pui-0 of this ivsolu tion." GEORGE W. BATES, BANKER OF PORTLAND, DEAD I'OKTLAN'D, 0., March 22. Oeo. W. lisle, president of the Lumber men's National bank ami prominently knowa in aorthweattfrn nnnnr-rtl t-ir- ele, died here todor. aced hi. !! had iiecid ror a ioag tune and re- 50.000 VOLUNTEERS FIGHT MEXffiO i iitl uu'li-rwiut, iiu operutiou. ' ,"'-. :r. "wtKi '.rt'jMW v ,. . - ,v;. j.... c- .3L.?fc m - . .,i.- "2rdXflrtiiA;j'.-if!j;-w.'w."T' Stales ami face ttie Ncclnu I'amllt, I'anrlio Villa anil Kivat ailvcntiiret I PARIS.TEXASF1RE Three Known Dead Arc Mission, as Result of Blaze That Destroys Bus iness and residence sections df l I Paris Dvnamltc Used Freely to Destroy Menacing. Ruins. I'.MtlS, Texas, March 2!. Throe : persons are known dead and one Is : nilssiux and Is bellovod to hare per- mmm ML r.isiiM in the tiro winch destroyed allV" puuncation or storiua that AinbaH- ! tho business suction and a greator I part of tho residential dlstrlot of I I'arls last night. A statement Is- isiied hy .Mayor .McCulstlon placed tho loss at between JS.OOO.OOO mid 10, ! noo.ooo. It Is ostlmiitod that S000 pnopln are homoless. Tho dead: 1 JOHN gTltAl'll, burned In his home. i MltS. W. J. UAH. in, SO years old, died from frlKht Cnldentirioil negro, found btiruod In his home. Missing: Mrs. A. G. I'mil, an aged woman, whoso homo was htirnod, and who has not been seen slnuo bufuro the fire. i Only Tlilisl or Clly Left The firo wilted nut about the entire business district, destroyed from I r00 to 1000 homes ami can sod a loss estimated at from two and a half to three and a half million dollars. (About one-third of the city was uh- touched by the flames. Confirm- tlon was Impossible of rumors that from ten to thirty persona had lost their lives. Klres were still burning Iu some sections st daybrnak. llrk-k walls, blaekeued by heavy smoke, and extending Into the air fire and six stories, were btiing raxed by dynamite, with a sarety tone roped off, that passorsby might not he en dangered by falling walls. The work of dynamiting the build ings commenced early today. One by one the buildings which cost from 1100,000 to 1100,000 already gut toil by the flames, tumbled with a rosr to add to the debris in the streets Iu the business section thero are (Contluued on last psge) HSOCIALISI LEADS IN is to be i .MI1.W Al'lvKK, Mareb 22. Dauiel P. Hoau, social democratic candidate, leads Mayor Gerhard A. liadlug, non- partisan, for the mayoralty Honilna - tlon In yesterdays primary by 6ST votes, aoeodlng to Nearly complete J rrttii-ns u4v Their two . aiidldatso ul11 PP- wthn iu tn eioetlon ' I'rii I. - t - mm - -vf. ,." .j.ji4iaW EFFORT DENIED BY PRESIDENT Publication That Ambassador Had Reported That Germany Was About to Make a Move for Peace Augers Wilson Story Officially Branded as False. WASHINGTON, March JJ. 1'roe- ldont Wilson was tepreeentod at thq ( white house today as being resentful' wdor Qerard liad report (Ml Germany t wns about to make a wov for ponco. Tho publlshod roports woro oharao- terlxed as being based on Inferences, Tills statement was Issued: "'resident Wilson, 'through Sacra tnry Tumulty, today authorized n do Dial of stories appearing In papers to the effect that tho purpose of Am basandor Gerard's remaining In llor- : ii ii was to await (lermsny proposal for pea oo. Thero Is no Justification fur that liiforonco being drawn." J'lihlic IKmlal Issued Yostorday the stato department took notlre of the publication by de nying that Germany had Intimated to the ''tilled States that the tltno was ripe for the United States as tho largest neutral to renew Its friendly "'flees for peace or that the United 'States had been Informed that Mr. I Gerard had been requested to post- 1" his vacation because of neudliig peace negotiations. Unofficial reports reaching here 'd today that the ambassador c tually has postponed his vacation but gave no reason. The state department today again took cognisance of the report and the following statement was issued: (Continued on Page Tour) PRAIRIES ABLAZE TOPBK.V, Ksii , Murrh 22. --Prairie fires were burning in a doseu western ICausos counties early today. Although no loes of life has been ra IKirted many bouses have beeu caught In the fast moving flames and pasture lands have betm reduced to vast reaches of black stubble. JJodge City maintained a fire guard all last night on the edge- of the oity to check the flames which threatened from tho northwest. Six counties were afire lo the north and west of that place. Jlsrton county reported s small blaso. Volunteer fire fighter, worked all night ploughing- rire gusid furrows, oarry'nK water and ulng nt-ry other Possible method to stoM tho advance 'of the flumes. D A WESTERN KANSAS AUSTRIANS ABANDON CZERNOWITZ Russian Offensive Causes Evacuation of Gallclan Capital and Abandon ment by Turks of Erzlnjan Artil lery Pounding Away at Verdun, Preparing for Fresh Infantry At tacksRussian Warships Active in Black Sea. LONDON, Mni&li 22. Abandon nipul or CzemowilK, capital of Hnlr owina, ly the Atisttinns is reported in an unoffii-inl wireless difipntuli re ceived here todny front Ifotnu. LONDON, March 22. A Dnolinrost ilispttteh forwarded from AniHttmlnm by tho int ml Now snys tho TttrkK havo ovnenntPil Krzinjun, n forlrc. "f Asia Minor, J20 miles west ot I'r.eruni. J'otiith Week of IJaltlo LONDON, March 22. Tho bnttlo for Verdun, now well iu Ha fourth week, continues with intetiHlty, but nt present the infiiutrv is held "in lnli while the hijc ium prepare for fur ther (INhUllltS. The powerful (leruinii thrust west of the Meuse, which developed early this Week, halted when it rinh.l Din sinitlierii edo of Avoeotirt wqod. lint the activity or tho Clornian nrtillory iu this sector, which Paris reports to ilay particularly violent, Indicates that the German Intention probably is to make further determined at tempt to advnneo thin Important luiiKiiiar operation. The situation on the ixistiini html of the Meuso is niieliniijoul, but here, too, tho artillery fire eoiitlnueu in lenxw, pnrtieiilnily.nour Vnu.x nml Dnmlnup. I'ranrli Stittcniciit PAItlK. March 'lli No lnfnntrv attacks were mado on tho -Vcrduii front last night, the wur qffioo nn noiHiewl this nfteinoon. Tho Ger mans bombarded Miilniieoutl ltwivily and thero were nrtillory oxchniii'iw of. less intensity ea-t of tho Muiihe. The Htateiuent follows; "West f iu. Mimihc, Iho nrtillory (Continued on l.nst Page) RUSSIAN DRIVE T EOF I'l'TIKMIUAD. March 22. Tho Knsijian oierntioni on the northern front promise to develop into the most serious movement undertaken . by either side ia this theater of wnr since Field Mondial Von Illiulon burg'B cuiiiigu against Uvinsk luat Autumn. Takiug ndvuutuue of the Oonnim pre-occupation of Venltm, tho Hub sian staff decided to aiitjuipiito pos sible Oennaii plans for mi offouslvo m the Dvinek region by ggrios oC maneuvers which, if aueoooaftil, will not only make it iuipuaothlo for them to institute the udvanao they appar ently intended, but will forco thom out of the iHisitiuipt now hold. The Hitiou of the German forces tuke- the rorm of mi are, ejctQudlne into Kukiaii territori-, This ulign ment mukes the lino paitlenlnrly sus ceptible to rtankinsr nttiioks north mid south of Dvink. These, as offiolnfty uiiuouiiesil, have Instil), In the regiou of Lake N'nrooz, tho Ku.siaiw advuueud along a tuil-niilo front threntciiiuir the Vllnn railroad and (ieruian eouiinunieHtiou8 with Dvmsk. It is uiiofliciullv reported unit itiu movement wiw neeompnn eil hv maneuvers aeainst the nnrili. eru (lennuii lluuk in the neighborhood of r'ncdrii-hstadt. The cHi-i-t of those two attacks, if sin-f.sfidlv executed, would bo to -Mu. .. the Oermans from thylv e,v tciidid Mititiou beforo Dviiiik nml . onveii th prt-ent nro into n straight line from Frlodrialistudt to MO MPORTAN MOV YEAR tfviontsiaiii. 4,,. I ! t 1 M ff-!.! . anvaKUi