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RA1LR0ADSTRIKE SSLm
rUn o HUUKuAY IN PERSIAN DRIVE
nrnmnniTiinrmr , .
DtblltoaAIUKUAT
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Brotherhoods Hold Conference Thurs
day With Railroad Managers and if
Agreement Fails, Progressive Se
ries of Strikes Begin Assure
President of Co-operation.
NEW YOKE, March IX Informa
tion received by the national confer
ence committee, composed of mana
gers of the great railway systems ami
made public, today indicates that the
four employes' brotherhoods have
completed arrangements for a pro
gressive series of strikes to begin at
0 o'clock eastern time, on Saturday
night, if the conference on the eight
hour question held here Thursday
fails to reach n satisfactory agree
ment.
The proposed strike agreement, ac
cording to this information, is us t'ol
lows :
'Saturday. (! l). m.. call out nil
trainmen in freight service on the
New York Central. Baltimore and
Ohio, Erie, Atlantic coast line, South
era railroad, Louisville and Nashville
.Hid Seaboard Airline.
lrogressivc Strike.
"Such an order would involve -10,-
000 men. '
'Mondiiv March lfi, C p. m. call out
(he freight trainmen on the la-high
Yallcv, Lackawanna, Jersey City,
l'cnnsvlvania. Lomr Island, Maine
Central, Delaware and Hudson, Kead
insr and all other roads in the south
eastern territory or extending to New
York.
"Tuesday, March 20, 0 p. m., call
out nil the freight trainmen in the
northwestern group, including; the llili
roads and all those centering at Chi
cago. "Chicago, March 21, (! p. m. if the
railroads still refuse to grant the
men's terms, extend the strike to all
other freight trainmen and call out
the passenger trainmen on every road
in (he country."
President Notified.
WASHINGTON, March 13. The
railroad brotherhoods on March 7
wrote President Wilson, it became
known today, formally notifying him
of the conference with the railroad
representatives scheduled for March
15. In this letter the brotherhood
lenders declared they were "hopelul
of making satisfactory adjustment of
questions pending with the railroads.
.The brotherhood representatives
also informed President Wilson that
if while they. were negotiating with
the railroads the nation became in
volved in war they would co-operate
to the fullest extent with the govern
ment. Neither President Wilson nor Sec
retary Wilson of the department of
labor had official Information today
regarding the intention of the broth
erhoods to strike unless a satisfactory
Arrangement was reached at Thurs
day's conference. ,
Investigation Itegnn.
An Investigation was begun through
governmental agencies however.
It was stated that there was little
of a definite character today the
government could do until the out
come of the meeting In New York
Thursday Is known.
At the direction of President Wil
son, Secretary Wilson of the depart
ment of labor will keep in close touch
with the conference in New York and
should it fail the government will
then consider further steps.
Government officials regarded It
as inconceivable that there should be
a natlon-wldo railroad strike at this
time and while no plans have been
mapped out It was generally taken
for granted that the president will
use his ulu.Dct efforts to prevent such
a strike.
TO SEARCH STEAMERS
Kl'REKA, Cal., March 13.-
Steamship companies announced
here today that all passengers and
members of crews on steamships
leavine Eureka for Coos Bay, Ore
gon, might expect to be searched for
contraband liquor at Coos Bay. Find
ing of whiskey aboard steamers ar
riving at Portland, it was said,
brought about the search order.
LONDON, March 13. Brit-
Ish cavalry from Bagdad has oc-
cupled Kazimaln, on the Tferis
river, five miles above Bagdad,
it was officially announced to-
day. The occupation took place
on March 11.
WITNESSES IELL
OF BILLINGSLEY'S
CALLS ON GILL
SHATI.E. Wash.. March 13. The
government this morning placed wit
.
nesses on tile stand In the so-called
whiskey graft trial to corroborate the
testimony of Logan Blllingsley, con
fessed liquor seller and principal wit
ness against Mayor Hiram C. Gill.
The mayor, Chief of Police Becking-
hnm, former Sheriff Robert T.
Hodge and City Detectives Peyser,
Poolman, Doom and McLennan are
charged with conspiracy to violate
the federal laws by importation of li
quor into the state of Washington.
II. G. Allen, formerly a clerk at the
apartment house where Logan Bll
lingsley lives, testified that Logan
Blllingsley called the residence of
.Major v.,... at o coca iuk nr.si-
mas morning, and Mrs. Gill answered
the telephone. Blllingsley asked for
the mayor. The witness did not lis
ten to the conversation. This testi
mony was corroborative of Billings-
loy's statement that on his return
from San Francisco he called the may
or by telephone and the mayor re
fused to talk with him.
George M. Pearsons, an automobile
dealer, testified that he drove Logan
Blllingsley from the Planters hotel to
the city hall on August 30 last, the
day on which Logan llllllngsley al
leges ho gave Mayor Gill a bribe of
$ 1,000. Parsons swore that he sat
in his car an hour and a half outside
while Blllingsley was in the office
of the chief of police. Witness swore
he could see through the window into
the office. Blllingsley and a man In
uniform were In the office together
all the time. The defense examined
him particularly as to the officer in
uniform.
I
11KIJUX, March l.X The P.ritish
made an attack vesterdnv over a wide
front south of' Arras. Today's offi
ial announcement says the attack
tailed ami that heavy losses were in
flicted on the ltritish.
PARIS, March lit Several at
tacks were made by the Germans last
nijjht nnd all were repulsed, t tic wur
office announced today. A strong
Xlennan detachment which attempted
to advance (in the Corny road was
hocked. Another futile attempt was
made near I!eaulne-et-Chivy. Two
German attacks on 1 1 ill 18o nnd on
Kouvemont work on the Verdun front
were countered easily. The French
took 150 prisoners yesterday.
Durintr the nitdit the Germans bom
barded Soissons. The French suc
cessfully raided German trenches be
tween the Avre and the Aisne.
SEEK NEW RATES
S VLT LAKE CITY. March 11.
Charging that nuinv of the western
totes are lieinir discriminated airninst
in the matter of rates and that laws
enacted to regulate commerce nrej
being violated bv the railroads, J...
W. MrClure. secretary of the Nn-
tional Wool Growers association to-
day filed n protest with the inter-
state commerce commission u.vint
'i: public carriers of the L'ui'cd
Slates asking lor relief,
MEDFORD.
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TO SETTLE RATES
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Places Before Railroads Proposals
for Permanent Solution of Inter
Mountain Rate Cases Abolition of
Preferential Rates Proposed.
WASHINGTON, March 1:1. The
inter-state commerce commission ha
placed before all railroad concerned
proposals looking to the permanent
solution of the inter-mountain rate
cases. The phlti provides for Hie
abolition of preferential rales in ex
istence for many years on many ar
ticles of west-bound traus-coutinentul
freight to Pacific coast ports.
Existing rates on a wide range of
ei lilies trom eastern cities to
Piicitic coast ports are lound unrca
sonably low nnd adjustment would
be effected under the proposed plan:
j, raisin
through rules and pre
scribing proportional rales to inter
mediate points.
Water Comctitlon a Myth.
The railroads are given until April
2 to submit proposed changes in the
plan. The case will he argued before
the commission April 3 and 4 and will
then be taken under eunsiderution for
final decision.
Tentative finding;;, reached after
long and painstuking investigation in
elude t tie following:
"Existing water competition
foim, t( ,)e R ..i,,,,. la,,l(ir in llf.
n.Hng thu ratos ,,y rail buhveon At
lilMti. am, ,.ll(.ific coust tennilmU.
'Kates on commodities from cast
ern territories to Pacific, coast ter
minals lower than the rates on like
traffic to intermediate points are not
justified under existing conditions.
'Present rales on spet-'iied cum
modifies from all eastern defined ter
ritories to Pacific coast terminals are
found not unreasonably low nor to
have been induced by water eoinpc
titioii.
Kead just Interior Hates.
"The rates to Arizona, New Mexico,
Nevada, IHnh, Wyoming, Idaho, Colo
rado and Montana as well as to Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington
liouhl be adjusted at this time as
fully as now can be determined. The
facts do not admit of such a findin;
as is sought by the carriers, the coast
cities and the eastern shippers.
namely that present conditions justify
lower rates to the coast cities than
to intermediate points. Neither do
the facts altogether admit of sue
finding as is sought by the represen
tatives of the intennoiintain states
namely that nil of these rates to Pa
cific coast cities are reasonable and
fully remunerative. Some of the rate
are unreasonably low; many of the
rates, however, are not unreasonably
low.
"Hates from all eastern defined
territories to all points west of tli
Missouri river should be so udjuste
now that upon the return of wate
competition, which may necessitate
reductions in rates to the Pacif
coaet, the rates to intermediate point
need not be disturbed, except to tl
point to which rates may be affect
bv combination on the coast.
SEIZED Bl BRITISH
LONDON', March 1.1. The story
mysterious trunk which was
hoard the I-'redcrik YIIL the steamc
which brought Count Yon Bernstorff
from the United States to ('open
hagen, is given prominence by the K;
press. The trunk is said to ha
been consigned to Stockholm by the
Swedish minister to the United
Stales nnd to have borne the seal of
the Swedish consulate in New York,
The slorv savs that the trunk was
held at Halifax because its seals were
broken nnd that it will be sent to
r.nglniul by ft British warship. Alter
It reaches the iirtlsh capital It Will
w turned over to the Swedish In
tion, where its contents will be ex
amine.! in the presence of British of-
ficiuls.
The Express suirgests that the
trunk was opened between New York
nd Halifax to K-rniit Ihe insertion
of secret documents belonging to
(-'omit Von Bernstortt'.
PLAN
TO (MINTS
OREO OX, TUESDAY, MAROlf V 1017.
""SSvS STATES
AND PARTY ARRIVE nrAeroDnniAM
on AMFRir.AN win UlAolo DtLblAll
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DAYTON, Fla.. March 13.
When former Ambassador Go-
rard and party arrived here to-
day they were met by several
hundred citizens and winter rcs-
ldents headed by a band. Mr.
Gerard smilingly received the
noisy welcome.
YVASIllJNC.TOiW March 13. Com
pleto and definite) instructions to tho
armed guards" to be placed aboard
American nierchnnt craft bound
through the German submarine zones
have been completed by the navy de
partment and approved by Secretary
lanslng. They will be forwarded to
the navy personnel aboard the mer
chant craft whenever the ships which
are to lie armed are ready to sail.
The nature of the Instructions will
not be made public. They were care
fuly prepared by navy officials and
then submitted to Secretary Lansing,
at whose suggetsion some amendment
was made.
It Is planned not to broadcast the
orders generally through the naval
service but to furnish the officer In
co in and of the armed guard on each
ship with a copy when his vessel Is
ready to sail.
The navy department Is mnklng
every effort to suppress all informa
tion regarding armed ships such as
sailing dates, the equipment put
aboard by teh navy, the personnel
supplied to handle the guns or any
thing that might be of the slightest
valuo to an enemy. It was said offi
cially, howover, that no conflict of
jurisdiction between tho shipmaster
and the gun crows would arise.
SIGHTED AT SEA
NEW YOltK, March 1.1. An un
identified steamship assumed to be
entnte vesel hunting for possible
German raiders, was sighted off the
A.oro Islands on February 2 4 by tho
officers of tho Norwelglan steamship
Askild, which arrived here today
from Gibraltar.
The officers Bald the stranger, car
rying four masts and two funnels
and painted gray, did not interfere
with tho Askild after coming close
enough to determine her nationality.
A tank vesel which reached here
last week reported the presence of
what was believed to lie an armed
German merchant ship north of the
Azores.
ITITSItrifO, March 13-Kive bod
ies have been recovered antt fifteen
men arc still entombed in the mine
of the Henderson Coal company near
Canonburi.-, l'a., where two explo
sions occurred early this moniiiij;, ac
cording to officials of the Pitt-bur-.'
station of the bureau of mines late
today. The announcement was ba-cd
on the report of i). ,J. Parker, in
ehjiryfi ot the L'overniuenl s rescuers
at the mine.
CHINESE T0NG WAR
EXTENDS TO LA GRANDE
LA OKAXOK. Ore., March 1X
William Knji, a Hip Sin; Chinese tone;
man was killed in a toiler revolver
duel staged here today noon on the
street in front of the Ln (Irande post
office. His assailant, jHilii-e said,
dodtred through the crowd of HpeHn-(oi-n
and escaped through the Hip
Sinir headquarter-. A bvtander, Mrs.
fieoryc, tins struck but not seriously
wounded, by u glunciiig bullet.
RELIEF EFFORTS
Probable Early Withdrawal of All
American Participation in Aiding
Belgians Due to Germany's Tor
pedoing Relief Ships in Effort to
Break Up Relief Work.
WASHINGTON'. Mar . 13. Pro
bable early withdrawal of all Ameri
cans participation in llelglan relief,
including the withdrawal of Brand
Wliitlock, American minister, from
llrussels, as a result of the pressure
of tho German submnriiie campaign
was foreasteil today at the state de
partment. The official report on tho
submarining of tho relief ship Stor
stad Intensified the situation. Con
sul Frost ut (juoenstown reported us
follows:
Norwegian steamship Storstad
Buenos Aires, bound to Kotterdani
nine thousand tons maize, liolgian re
lief under English charter, sunk by
German submarine seventy miles to
west of Skellig, eleven thirty, a. m.
March 8. Submarine, first Bholled
ship from three miles for fifteen min
utes during which Storstad stopped
and hoisted nbouudant unmlstako
able Blgns llelglun relief errand.
"After fifteen minutes Interval sub
marine torpedoed Storstad without
warning from 4U0 yards, llelglan re
lief signals being prominently visible.
Ship carried neither gun nor wireless,
no Bhclling during abandonment
Submarine interviewed captain's boat
for all particulars, refusing request
for towage, then fired an additional
shell at torpedoed sinking ship, no lit
tempt to escape or resist. Weather
heavy, sea Btrong, east wind, dull
showory skies. Three hoata becamo
separated, captain's boat rescued by
patrol near Skolllgs. , After severe
battlo with seas, fourth engineer died
exposure and shock. Sole American
aboard, John Hoy Christian, 121
Mercer street, Seattle, saved, affida
vit taken. .Other two boats landed
Cnpirclveen at evening tenth. Have
telepgruplied consul Liverpool tuko
affidavits officers. Total deaths
three. This report also ambassador,
consul general."
Swiss Shnro in Work.
Arrangements have been mado for
some time for the replacement of
Americans by a joint Dutch-Spanish
commission, but as there are practi
cally no Spanish In Helglum, It Is
poslhlc that tho Swiss will sharo in
the work. Germany's unwillingness
to guarantee safety of relief snips
leads officials here to the belief that
sho Is trying to break up the relief
work.
-VVASHIXGTOX, March 13. Tho
senate was In BesMon six minuter) to
day and adjourned until tomorrow,
when it Is expected that the foreign
relations committee may bo ready to
recommend somo action on the Co
lomblan treaty.
Tho senate foreign relations com
mltteo today approved in modified
form the treaty with Colombia by
which the United Slates will pay that
republic $21,000,000 for the parti
tion of Panama, it will be pressed to
a vote In the present Rpeclal senate
session.
LOS ANGELES FIRE
l.OS AS'(li:i.i:S, Cnl., March 1.1.
Nine -rsons were injured anil L.M
were overcome hy t-inoke uuil lak- ii
to hospital Imlav in a siij-.'liicuinr
downtown lire llmi Mocked all IrnlTic
for liouis, ilestriiyed one end of u
five-sliiry Imililiin; and fiiniishcil the
scltine; for scores of rescues while
thousands api'laiulcil.
The daiiuiL-e probably will not ex-
c I .$rj.", 0(111, in-cording lo insurance
adjusters, hut for three hours prac
tically every lire company in the city
was nt the scene.
Scores of persons were eairicd
from Hie Occidental hotel down hid
ders and fire escapes, many of them
scantily clad. Sales frills from sur
roundinu' department stores anil from
tin- liurniii ImiiI'Iiiil' fainted and some
were overcome hy smoke.
Amony the injured were ciejit fire
men.
DF OFFICE WITH GUN
OLYMPIA, Wn., March 13.
An unknown armed man
chased Governor Krnest Lis-
ter out of liis office this after-
noon. Tho stranger holds
possession of the lofflco, while
tho sheriff and police guard all
tho doors and watch outsido.
MAIL IS SEIZED
IN AMERICAN SI
BY GREAT BRITAIN
NKYV YOltK, March 13. Mail cur
ried on nn American ship, the Klnn
diinl Oil tanker John Ih Arehbold
was removed by (lie ltritish authori
ties at Halifax, according to the of
ficers of the vessel, which arrived
here today from liurp'ii, Norway,
This is said to bo the first tinio that
a snip 1 1 vini' the. American Mug on
the Atlantic has been denied the priv
ilejre of transporting mail from a for
cin country either neutral or bellig
erent.
The John 1). Arehbuhl took out of
Hereon Hi) sucks of mail from Jsor
way, Denmark ami Sweden. The ve.s
sel followed Ihe custom of other neu
t ml ships by put liny; in at Halifax
instead of Kirkwall. There she wnw
detained three days, according to the
officers, ami all the mail taken off
for examination. The tanker resum
ed her vovnje without it.
Since the (lerman submarine, block
ade beiran no mails have reached here
nn Scandinavian or Dutch ships. The
He rjrens fjord and Kritianial'jord, the
only two Scandinavian passenger lin
ers to risk Ihe voynjre since February
1, sailed without passengers, caro or
mail.
Tl
rilll-ADKU'WA, March i:i.
Harry K. Thaw was today adjudged a
lunatic by Ihe common pleas court o
this city and under the law cannot be
taken to New York on requisition it
stand trial on charges of assaulting
Frederick (lump, Jr., a hih school
student at Kansas l ily, Mo. ihaw
will be kept in St. Maries hospita
here pending his removal to a Pciin
sylvan in aylum.
The court's action was based
Ihe report presented today by
lunacy com mission which voslerdnv
took the testimony of Thaw and hi
mother.
W GREAT BRITAIN
I)NION .March 1.1. Andrew Ilo
nar Law, chaoellor of tho exchequer,
stuted in the house of commons to
day that a Kuppiementury vote of
credit to meet hicrt aed unforsecn ex
penditure would bo moved on ThurH
day. When the last vote of credit
was passed It wmr expected that it
would carry over the present fiscal
yea r.
XKW YOliK, March i:t.-The de
cision of the roimn'Ul pleas court of
Philadelphia dcela rintf 1 Iarry Iv.
Thaw insane, wlneh it is believed
there will frustrate attempts to hrin
him to this cill for trial on charges
of assaulting Frederick (.Jump, Jr.,
will not deter Histrict Attorney
Swann, it wan lenrmyl here today,
from making application lo Governor
Brumbaugh for Thaw's extrudition,
NO. 301
CAPTAIN BOY-ED
GERMAN PLOTTER
HERFINDfSGUISE
Naval Attache Dismissed for Corj
spiring Against Munition Plants,
Seen in Philadelphia Supposed to
Be Brains of Mexican Plot Now
Supposed to Bo En Route to Mexico
nilLADKUMlIA, March 13.
Cnplaiu Hoy-Ed, former naval at
tacho of tho German embassy nt
Vnsliine;loii, was ill this city as rc
eenlly ns a week it wns admitted.
lulu today by Frank Ciiubarino, head
of Ihe I'hilndelpliia bureau of inves-
lipiliou of the smni;i,'lini; plot involv- .
inir the two interned Clennnn com-
luerco rniileYs of iho Philadelphia
nnvy yards for which five Philadel
pliiuns iucludiiifr three prominent Oer-mnn-Ainerienns
are under nrrest.
1'mJn.s of Conspiracy.
Captain Boy-Ed with Captain Von
Pnpen was dismissed from the coun
try hy President Wilson in Decem
ber, !)l.i, for nlli'frcd conspiracy.
lioy-Ed is behoved to liavo returned
to the United Slates on tho German
submarine merchantman Deutsehlnnd
or the U-5;l or a Gerninn submarine
hnvin-r its base on Ihe Mexican const,
lie is suspected of heine; the brains of
the stnue;e;liug plot under investiga
tion here. ' '
Cnplaiu Hoy-Ed's name is coupled
with Hint of Adelbert K. Fischer, said
to bo a relative of thu emperor
lliniufjh u morfraniilic marriiiKO, a re
serve officer of the German navy nnd
president of tho Sehulte-Koerlinp;
company, munulaetiirin machinists
of this citv. The concern nt different
limes has been a successful bidder on
American warship contracts.
jTuceu w) uirrs iioino.
It is staled that Garbiuo's men n
week iifio traced Hoy-I'M to the houso
of n yoiin;r womnii in this city to
whom he is said to have been engaged
at the lime of bis forced departure,
from this country. When the young
woman was questioned by (ho govern
ment nficnls us to her knowledge of
lloy-l'.ds whereabouts, sho declined
to nnswer.
Nothing can be learned of Boy-Ed's
present w'horcnboiits. Government
agents lire said lo be searching un
successfully for him. lie is said to
have been in disguise when last hero
and one theory advanced is that ho
is now on his way to Mexico.
NEW YOliK, March f:). Captain
Karl Boy-Ed sailed for Europe on De
cember 1!8, 111 15 on the Holland
American line liolterdam. Little has
been heard of Iris activities in Gor
iiiany since his departure. He sniled
under guarantees of safe conduct
from the ullied governments.
IN FOOD RIOTS
AMSTERDAM, March IX Serious
disturbances a ng the Gerninn
troops in the vicinity of Nninur and
Iluy arc reported by tho Teleerauf.
The paper says it is known Mint such
a large number of soldiers had been
imprisoned on charges of insubordi
nation that the prisons in the two
towns nre crowded to four or five
times their normnl eapaeily.
The Telegraaf also publishes an ac
count of furl her food riots in Bar
men in which the chief of police was
seriously wounded by the stonos oi
Ihe women riolers.
SUNK BY U-BOAT
WASIIIXfiTOX, March 13. Tho
sinking of the Ciinnrd non-pnssengcr
liner Folio with ouo American on
board was reported to tho state de
partment today in a preliminary dis
patch from Consul Frost ut Queens
town, ns follows:
"Ciinnrd non-passenger Folio sunk
off Watcrford, tenth. Survivors
landed Dungnrron. Single American,
boats' surgeon, W. J. Cure, NusU.
ville, Tcnu., saved uninjured.'