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w 11 'I k i Hi ilHff i SALEM, PRECOX. THUBSDAT, JUV 2, HOI) SYSTEM 17110 IS iPliitO APPLIED TO LED BY THE JAPES GBMlflR OTHERS GET FULL PARDONS GOVERNOR APPLIES THE AXE III INTEREST OF EGONOMY Sacramento, Cal., May 2. "Ninety-five per cent at least of the men In the various com- panles of the national guard in this state have signified to their officers their willlnenesa to Mexico In case of war," said Adjutant General Forbes today. "They will go only as organlza- tlons, and not as Individuals, however. Under the national law, they can be. transferred' sn Sav That lames' nicholiof in h r., u it from the 8ervlce of the tate to . UC1MUI d nuilu thatof tliel.nlte(, st Vwotnrvi OntirsnA Er.l. 1JWU:.U :u T r . .1- joiciu uauocu nuiuu wn.un, in mm. uausea Meat, and J I f m . Those Claiming to Be in the'. Governor's Confidence Say the Parole of Superintendent James is in Fact a Full Pardon I Tl. I M .... ana mat James "uoesn't Have to Come Back" They Al- Men Want to Go. . A Chance for Johnson. ' . - San Diego, Cal., May 2. In a letter to a friend here," "Sol- dler" Elder, heavyweight.' backed by Q. M. Anderson, mil- llonelre moving picture man, writes that his manager. Freddv. Bogan, has written Promoter McCarey, of Los Angeles, offer- 1ng to fight Elder against any heavyweight' In the world he- fore McCarey's Vernon club. Bo- gan Is especially anxious to match Elder with Sam Langford If any hitch arises tn the Lang- ford-Jeanette bout. Elder has won 68 fights without being de- feated, and won more than 40. of them by knockouts. 1LEC1 IMS A GUM TO SET 101 ill MM FOUODRY LOCATED IIEOE the Governor Had to Abandon System or James. Assigning as his reason economy and jou ought to see the governor stretch his neck, swan-like, and hear him sing a Bong on that subject Governor West Tuesday gave C. W. James, superintendent of the state prison, a leave of absence for a year, dismissed Chaplains Bauer and Father Moore, and also discharged Supervis ing Engineer Larrabee, Head Farmer W. J. White, Matron Curtis nnd em ployes of the brick yard. Warden Curtis will act as superin tendent, and also hold down the job of warden. White the governor put an order disposing of the whole bunch of them Into effect Tuesday, evider. y for the reason of staging the story with relation to It to his liking in the morning paper, and with a true Chris tian spirit, kissing the hand that smlteth him, he withheld the news from the evening papers, and turned It loose last night. To Dodge flinmlierluln. Whether James will accept this con dition of affairs, or resign, may be seen, but he will probably do the lat ter. That is probably what the gov ernor desired him to do In the first place, as it Is understood that the su perintendent has not been In harmony with his prison policy, and other new fangled Ideas the governor has with regard to this institution. To dlsmlim him outright, however, would bring down upon his head the disapproval of Senator Chamberlain, at whose In stance James was retained, and other friends, and it is asserted that he took the deficiency route to get rid of him, and then let the others go for appearances. James was drawing a salary of $2000 a year. Satins Rt the Spigot. Engineer Larrahee was" drawing $100 a month and room will be made for him at the penitentiary at making a tier of cellB, for which an appro priation was made last year.. Chap- IAYS CITY USTIEID ITS WATER oooiiora DAVENPORT SCESOVER Americans Safe. San Diego, Cal., May 2. De- daring that Americans are In no danger in Southern Mexico as long as the United States keens its hands off the Mexican sltua- tion, W. E. Waugh, trainmaster of the Tehauntepec and National . railroad, arrived here today on the freighter Arlzonan, Waugh said he found no hos- tlllty toward the Americans at any place in Mexico, and he be- lieved there was no need of send- ing a transport to the west coaBt for refugees. ' ' LOWEflOERG AND STEINER WOULD OPERATE PLANT WITH PAY ROLL OF $40,000 A YEAR (Continued on pa go 4.1 TROUBLE IS RENEWED AT fiOQUIAM united press leased wins Honuiam, Wash., Muy 2. Trouble In the mill men's strike broke out again last night with the kidnaping of Organizers Thorn and Biscay, of the Industrial Workers of the World. The men were located In Montesa no this morning with their clothes torn, and bearing marks of a Berere beating. Hoqulam citizen police are planning a vigilance committee In case the I. W. W. men attempt to return. In the meantime Mayor Ferguson, who la in sympathy with the strikers, U pursuing a rigid investigation, and two warrants are out already, one In volving, It is said, an ex-policeman. Thorn and Biscay were taken from their rooms at the Queens hotel about 10:30 by four men and rushed off by automobile. Biscay was struck over the head with a gun butt In the melee. MISSISSIPPI FL000 CREAKS ALL RECORDS v. MAYOR LACHMUND ANXOUXCES THAT HE PBOPOSES TO HAVE THE CITY OWXIXO ITS OWN WATER PL A XT BY THE END OF HIS TERM AS MAYOR. Muyor Lachmund announces that he proposes tp Bolve the problem of nub. He ownership of a water plant for this city before the close of his terra as mayor of the Canltnl ntv j mlttee, composed of Aldermen Rlgdon, White and Pemberton, are working out a plan of acquiring the plant of the present company. The mayor and majority of the committee favor two engineers one for the city and one for the water company, and then let matters that cannot be agreed upon be settled In the courts. Mr. White iavors arbitration, taking the posi tion that the-water company is In coriorated, and that litigation would have to be carried on in the federal Died in New York Today After Brief Illness Was One of the World's Most Wfrfplv Known Cartoonists. HANNA $ BRAND HIS IDEA Horn at Sllverton, Thin County, In 1807 Was Jockey, Railroad Man, Fireman and Circus Clown Previous to He. coming; a Cartoonist Sever Went to Art School, Rut Got There Just the Sume, by Sheer Ability. THE IIOOOR SYSTEM IC3 7r They Have an Option on the State Penitentiary stove and Range Plant, and Will Locate It Here if Proper Site Can Be Secured and Some Necessary Aid Be Procured Board of Trade Takes Up the Matter and Hopes to Secure the In-dustry-.-Would Be a Boost for Salem and Add to "Made in Oregon" Goods. UNITED PRESS LEAHF.D Willi. New York, May 2. Homer Daven- portport, the noted cartoonist, died , , . . prison in his apartments here today following clewg a. uriei uiness. - . I - numer wamii u. Davenport Oregon, TWO DESPERATE COXVICTS BOTH WELL ARMED, ESCAPE FROM THE PEX AT EMPIRE - RE- MOYAL OF SUPERINTENDENT ANGERED THE PRISOXERS. UNITED PRIMS LEASED WIRE 1 Reno, Nev May 2. Heavily armed and mounted, Frank Webb and Jamns D. Lisle, escaped convicts from the prison farm of the state penitentiary are in flight somewthere In this vic inity today. The state police nnd prison guards are following un Webb and Lisle were luiiao, lm., may 2. ine west t it courts. Prendlnni p.rv .i ... main levee of the MIslBslppi river near, company, will submit a proposition here broke last night. The crevasse to the cltv Mondav. n ,ue.ta. . probably will be the worst In the flood the History of the lower MIsbIbhIddI. cltv and nn fnr 0 Floodwater, the highest on record, Is and if they cannot agree, to hire a rushing over parts of two tlilnklv third hv th.o .n..r.i. ISflY HAS SAILED FOR E riGLAHD pense with the city. DORR IS III DAD SHAPE AT THE HOSPITAL t'NUID PRESS LEASED WIRE New York, May 2. Although J. I Bruce Ismay, managing director of will come up here June 3. The date the. White Star line, owners of the,'" fixed by Justice Keogh today, af steamer Titanic, had denied only an tel "n argument on Thaw"! request for hour before the Bteamer Adriatic a J"ry trial. The court will decide on sailed that he would take passage . Saturday or Monday whether Thaw's settled parishes Relief Is being rushed to marooned families In the flooded territory north' or here. Food depots have been fixed at points convenient for distribution. Terrible conditions prevail In the Black river region. In many Instances parents apd their children have taken refuge on rafts, which they share with livestock. W. S. Simmons, who arrived from a trip over Concordia, Catajoula and Tenaa parishes, says all of these were under water with the exceptions of a few towns protected by levees. ' The Inhabitants are homeless and united peers lured wire ! destitute," he said. "Five thousand 1 Bl0CKtn. Cal., May 2. William A. white persons along, the Black river .Dorr a Stockton motorcycle dealer, are In a desperate fix. The govern-wno bBlnK hcld Pending the arrlv ment supplies received there are Inad- b1 of offl-e'' from Lynn, Moss,, where equate. .he Is wanted for the murder of George "Many families, expecting the flood,'15, MttrBh. a wealthy soap manufnetur- Imllf nftfl ..I .1.. .er. Vfll hrnncrhl l.nrA T...I..- ..tun, niiu n nun me WHIUT Came iretuiu .MUlKtt PlOIlOn they moved their household goods thlB morning on a writ of habeas cor- Ml.nnH n.u. . . . nil. TtlO ..!... . i thus are anennreu to ' i" i so wean that trees, and that Is the way thev are ne nR(1 to b carried Into the court living now." I room. Throughout the proceedings he sat with an Inane expression on his face, his lips moving continuously. The court ordered a continuance until Saturday morning, In order that on ufnflrtnnri at WH'il.. . . . lmm m sit,. .,..u o I 8 mrm a"01" " m foni the pen 18G7. and was reared on a farm there' ,lCntlulX Th,y took tw" " He urnn hi. u,v . Ilia ,. . roue the night. Webb the nation's great cartoonists without Hho,gun Rnd Uli,e ever having attended an nrt rhn,,l ""th Bre Wrie character.. ride That Wearisome Thaw Cane. UNITED PllltllS LEASED WIRE. White Plains, N. Y., May .2. Trial of the application of Harry K. Thaw for, the Lynn officers, who have been . iiinauB usyium,ine road since April 26. mav hnvA on opportunity of being present. Dorr's attorneys contended that he was being held without warrant. The district for England today, he was a passen ger on that vessel when It left New York this afternoon. The Adriatic also carried Officers Lowe, Llghttoller, Boxhall and Pitt man of the Titanic, who testified In Washington before the senate Investi gating committee. fate shall rest with the court or Jury. Baker City will have a big Sunday school convention in May, 1913. It urely means It, and It is unfortu nate the date Is so remote. attorney has charged him with being n fugitive from Justice. County Health Oftlcer Frlodberger reported that Dorr had refused food, Both May Hmner Rna wa ,lr,ca"y " "'d way. On (united prue t .BARED wire i 11,8 recommendation the prisoner was Riverside, Cal., May 2. Mrs. Al-itukc" to the hospital and placed under ucrt Hessum, whose hUBband cut her.uara" 1'ending extradition throat with a razor and then Inflicted terrible wounds upon hlniBelf, will re cover according to her physicians statement today. Hes:um Is In a crlt Wants to be tioTrrnor I UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. Spokane, Wash., May 2 1 v Sit . . ... Loesier, one of the best known at cal condition but hai a chance for his torneys of Spokane today announced life. No motive for the cutting has his candidacy for governor of Wash been established. . ngton on the Democratic ticket. and with only a common school edu cation. Previous ro liis entry Into the car toonist rank on the Btaff of the San Francisco Kxamlner in 1892, Daven port had been a Jockey, a railroad fireman and a clown In a clrcim. Davenport was the originator of the Mark Hanna $-mark suit of clothes. and the giant figure of the trusts In 1899. Ills work caused a movement to pass an anti-cartoon bill In New York In 1897. Davenport was the author of "Dav enport's Cartoons," "The Helle of 811- verton'' and other short stories of Ore gon and "The Dollar or the Man." A notable feature of Dnvenport's life was his visit to Arabia, when he was granted permission by the Sultan to export 27 Arablnn horses, said to be the only genuine specimens In America, to this country. While crossing the desert he drew the only picture ever made of the sultan, and was made the desert brother of Akmut Haffez, the noted Heduoln. HIM SUICIDED RATHER THAN GO TO SCHOOL UNITED PRKRR IJIAHRU WIRE I .Vancouuver, 11. C., May 2. Rather than go to school, Krnest Clarke, a boy of fourteen, llvln" with his par ents at 148 Eight avenue, shot him self fatally, expiring Just at the hour when he should have been taking his place In his class this morning. According to statement of the Imy's father he had been told that he must go to school. He then took a loaded holgun and Inflicted such serious Injuries on himself that Dr. Murray, who was summoned Immediately, found It Impossible to save his life. The shooting took place at R:S0 this Horning, and half an hour later life wss extinct. More trouble Is feared at the state penitentiary, which has long been un der the honor system, as a result of the removal of Warden Buker and the appointment of George Cowing In his place. Baker first instituted the golden rule system at the prison, and tho convicts are Incensed at his re moval. Baker's term will end May 10. REALIZED HIS MOTHER HEEDED Tuesday night as Fred Palmer, clerk In the Inmirunce commission er's office at the state house, was on bin way home, pasHlni east along Chemekela Street, a man Htep'ned out from a dark place near Winter street and attempted to hold him up. The Would-be burglar did not display any weapon but. his commanding tones were enough to make Fred think he meant business. Fred bad been suf fering with an affliction of his feet and found walking dltncull, but as soon as he was accosted, he found that the wonderful effects of "Tl." were greatly exceeded. He forgot all about his sore feet and all his other troubles, remembering only his mother wanted him, struck a gait, thut had he kept It up 10 .minutes, would have made him put In his va cation walking back. He arrived home safely without stopping to look back, but upon entering the house. he ventured to look out Just in time to see the stranger pans under an electric light. -Messrs Lowenberg and Stelner, who have the option on the state pen itentiary stove and range plant, have submitted a proposition In writing to the Board of Trade, Indicating the kind of site they must have, 0f about. two acres, wltli railroad facilities In accommodate that Industry. Thev also Btate the size of the payroll that they will employ, aggregating from $35,000 to $40,000 a year, which they guaran tee to maintain for five years. The proposition was considered at a meet- erty of the old Lowenberg-Golng cor poration for caah for the creditors. It will cost the new owners about $5009, to move the plant about 50 carloads from the present site and Install the machinery. The manufacturers' com Silttae is receiving propositions for a Site from.'. different owners of prover ty, and some very" good offer er made. Among others, the Salem flour-' lng mills site 1b offered them on North Broadway. The Industry Is the largest that has ever been offered this city since. the woolen mills were tnh. lng of the executive committee, and lishod here, and for whlel. . h. was very favorably commented on by $25,000 was secured. Other commu all present. It was referred to the nltles mav bid fnr ti, mik,.. transportation .committee, composed ( Stove Works. The city of Medford of seven prominent citizens, of which laBt week put up a bonus of i2r. noft P. McCornitck is chairman. The for a cntlerv factor Th i,..... gentlem?n who propose to conduct this Industry also ask help to erect build ings, as all their capital wirt have to go Into the- plant, which is being-sold to them at assignee' sale for cash, George Jublta, of Portland, being the assignee, who Is closing out the prop- tuin committee Is considering a cash subscription to secure this plant for this city, and also to erect the neces sary buildings. All who havelnvesU- ' gated the matter are very favorably impressed with the proposition ot Messrs. Stelner and Lowenberg. IT A I.I A ' BATTLESHIP DRIVE OS THE ROCKS Constantinople, Muy 2. The Italian battleship Re I'mberto has been driv en on the rocks by a storm and sunk at a point near Quara, according to a dispatch received here today from MINERS REJECT OFFERS UNITED PRESS I.BARKD WIRE. New York, May 2. Flatly rejecting the proposed compromise agreement prepared by a . sub-committee, the Joint committee of th anthracite miners this aftornoon canned a urn. longatlon of the depute between the mine owners and tho miners. .The action of the miners commlttoe was taken after the compromise hnd beon accepted by the full committee of the operators. The sub-committee's report, which the Joint wage scale committee of operators and miners are considering this afternoon, Is unanimous, It suggeHts a new agreement iirovldlnK for the continuation, for a period of four years, of the terms and condi tions of the anthracite strike com mission's award, suppL-mented by the agreement entered Into subsequent to the award, excepting In the fol lowing aprtlculars: All employes are to get 10 per ront over the scale established by the strike commlsHiiin In i'ii:t ami u,. slldlug scale Is to be abolished by mutual consent; there shall be an enuiiBDie division of mine cars; the contract miner shall not pay bis em ployes leHs than the standard rate for that particular class of work; there shall be a grievance committee of miners from each mine tn rilui'nu. with the company all grievances re ferred to this company by the em ployes; if the mine committee falls to adjust the dispute, It may refer the matter to a conciliation board from tbnt particular mine district. Other terms of the proposed agree ment refer to the condition of the mines. NO EVENING PAPERS If CHICAGO Chicago, May 2. Seven bundled pressmen on the big city duilles stinrlf this morning. Learning that the othor evening pa pers were unable to publish. h Amerlcun withdrew Its edition, and the Chicago Dally Socialist waa the only paper issued In Chicago this afternoon. BASEBALL MAY CAl'NE THE STUDENTS' DEATH Sun Francisco, May 2. 8truck on the head by a baaehall, Peter Dawson, a young post-graduate student of Sa. cred Henrt college, and pitcher on the college team, today lies In a critical condition at St. Mary's hospital there. Daweon suffered a fractured skull and grave fears for bis recovery are entertained. The accident occurrel during a game between the Sacred Heart team and the blue Jackets from the training ship Pensocola. Scnlcnre This Afternoon. Corvallls, Or., May 2. Judge Ham ilton announced today that Instead of sentencing George and Charles Hum phrey, brother convlctd of the mur der of Mrs. Kllia Orllllth tomorrow morning as at first intended, he would i ..-v. uv,iU mni uemiiuu ior inai pass sentence on them this afternoon, had been mad. by Ruef's ,awm,. and . V """"""' " ence the latter finally agreed to a postpone had not ben pronounced, there Is no'm.m f th. hi. .. doubt but that It w... b. "hanging", nHZJZ THAT STORY OF ABE REDF'S STILL HELD DP UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. San Francisco, May 2. Following a lengthy technical argumen before the slate apiwllate court here today, Im mediate IsHiiance of a writ of mandate compelling Superior Judge Dunu to dismiss 80 indictments pending against Abe Ruof In his court wus today de nied. Ruof'i attorneys bused'thelr petltlim on the ground that Ruef had been re fused trial within the 60 days the law allow. Assistant District Attorney McNutt denied that a demand for trial TunH. mw Mcnuru win oi niauuuit.