All the News that's Fit to Print Everybody Reads the Daily Capital Journal the best ii fflflL 4fn '(! ftfnm i(f- rt ' r 11 1 neopaper ii P vhP y M n Afimk'itft i ifimwiY I theurgest r J5i. VJ4I WiM j circulation i -L-- vvyW -m f " 8ALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6 1913 I " ! T:rTr . ' ' 1 3 PRICE. TWO CENTS. o?.?Mis and mm I . mmnua, rum (JlOWtH. u j nnrpp in Min BARN i II HORSE I BURNED A. Livesley Hop Company Sustain! Loss of Several Thousand in Morning fOMAN SAVES COLT AT RISK OF LIFE ! arge Quantity of Machinery, Hay and Equipment Are Lost by Company. t 'tailing from au unknown origin, i destroyed the large barn, 80 tons "bay, a driving horse, three wagons several Bets of harness, besides it other pieces of farm machinery, icing to the T, A. Livesley Hop wny at S o clock this morning, at Soldiers Looting Canton Treasury Takes Possession of city After Oov- ernor Disappears and Murder Many Officers. (united rasas leased wibi.J Pekin, Aug. 6. Dispatches from Hongkong received today report rebel troops are rioting in Canton. Afr, Governor Chan disappeared, it is re ported, tue soldiers took possession of the city, sacked the treasury and mur dered many officers. CRUSHED TO DEATH. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. Oregon City, Or., Aug. 6. John Bn. sal, a veteran employe of the woolen nuns here, was crushed to death bv an elovator today. . He was 70 years old. BOARD OF CONTROL PUZZLED OVER LAW E IN TRY Two Peremptory Challenge! Are Morning Feature of Examiation. MAY GET JURY TODAY Believed Certain Jury Box Will Tt Permanently ruled for Trial Be fore Tonight Wilson Awaiting Lind's Arriva No Action in Mexican Situation Ex pected Until After Arirval of President's Envoy. Conflicting Sections as to Measures Relating to Office of State Printer Found. (j hop Thore is considerable discussion of hop farm, four miles southwest of I wiii hn ,ina iti, it ,, .,, ,, Duiuway s successor. The appointment rests with the governor, and ho is at his summer residence, Kcola Beach. Nothing will be done in the matter, however for a few days, but it is un derstood the govoruor has already de aided p I'm man for tho place. It" "was a.c iirst thought that there might be considerable trouble in con tinuing the work of tho office, on ac count of the multiplicity of laws, and thoir apparent lack of harmony. This is all straightened out, so far as the immediate conduction, nf tl.o nffi.a w fling establishment on the big hop concerned, but thore is considerable wi, I little colt would also have beeu .life, .... . . uiwkhuid ui ui'imuii as io mo iuw al ter January 1, 1915. Tho law of 1911 is now in effect it containing a pro vision that it should go into effect Jan uary 1, 1915, but that it should also be effective at onco should there be a va cancy from any cause. This law will govern until January 1, 1915. It pro vides that tho governor shall appoint a stato printer who shall have had at least 10 years experience in the print ing business, and fixes his salary at $4000 a year. He will hold office until January 1, 1915. Tho law also provides that in case of emergency tho stato printing may bo let by contract, that is, that tho work can bo done by anyone under tho direc tion of the stato printor. The law pass ed by the last legislature goes into ef fect January 1, 1915. Under it the state printer gets a salary of $1800 a year. What is worrying the board of con tral, which now has charge of the stato m-inting denartment. is the aniliiirnitv of tho law. Owing to tho fact that the maker of the law, tho proofreader, or someone else, failed to put any comma in a sentence, it can bo read in two ways that are decidedly antagonistic to each other. Under ono reading the nrnrlr urm.1.1 nrn.it inn 1 1 - ull l.nVA tn n ' ' 0(lo''k and at 8 'clock, or a done under contract, while under the ' ,eri Mrs. Simmons advised tho other it could be done by the stato or i'omtwnv it n, ..., ... .. , L . . j - . , ...... biiiiiio wus uurn- oy cumi-aci, auis uecuiue ui impur- I tance now, because under tho present f i 1,1 law tho board is authorized to pur chase a plant, if it sees fit bo to do. It does not fool disposed to purchase a nlnnt if it cannot use it longer than the 1" months remaining in which tho present law is effective, but if tho plant can be used when the new law goes into effect it might, and probably would do bo. There will be no difficulty as to fundi, the Icpislnturn last winter hav ing appropriated 52.500 for public I printing, $.'12,500 for purchaso of paper and supplies and $3.,000 for printing election pamphlets. This money is available for carrying on the work of the department. There was the sum of $20,000 appropriated for I . Tt io n.n LnK rt IP tiv, llie pU.CIMMU Ui tt pium. io j.iu.-u.u ' Jt'ave- that for the present there will bo no fSIORIA TO ISSm- TtnMTia l'-''hase of a plant, at least, not until I ISSUE BNDS. (he athoritiM Io,at0 the place where I !rM,T. Mint cnmiiis should be inerted X,., A 6 Two hundred ,:-' 'lOllars worth k .1. ... .u w, uuuus wuvue lthouph the total amount of damage Jilting iron; tiiu blaze lias not been rmined as yet, it is known to be ral thousand dollar. Tho entire ofthe barn and a large run-way fined nmj. :'etcatly harvested oats ifctch hay and the company's bug ,; wjagons and many sets of har tim destroyed by the flames. Woman Saves Colt liit for tho valiant efforts ou the of -Mrs. C. J. Simmons, who. with husband, conducts tho principal ling establishment ou the big hop ii, a little colt would also have been 1. Mrs. Simmons, who resides fetal hundred yards from the stable, the first one to notice the flames smoke bursting from the structure. fan to the burn aud, after risking life in an effort to save the horse. h was burned, succeeded in drag- : lughly valued colt to safety. Simmons mado several attempts to 'the other animal, but owing to the in the run way catching fire, was 'le to reach it. i doing all she could to Bave I was possible, Mrs. Simmons tele- ''I to the T. A. Livesley company and advised them that the lmrn I'tirning. The company immediato- 't aiil to Mr. Simtllrkiiu lint tlin had then gotten so far along that 'TOrt tO Klllielrl. .1 nrn.,1.1 !,, fruitless. ' Origin a Mystery, ther Mrs. Simmons nor the mem- 0( the hflli firm or nl.t. f afternoon just how the blaze ori jH Mr. Simmons left the place 7 m 'Horning fr Salem, to pur f fl'lies for the board i off hoiiaa j far as can be ascertained, no one 'Wn near the barn until it was ""'eloped in a blaze by Mrs. Sim 1 Mr. Simmons left for Snlom i'ompKny that the stable was burn- f united rnsss lbasid wibi I Washington, Aug. 6. President Wil son is "marking time" in the Mexican situation until the arrival in tho Marl. can capital of John Lind, his special emissary. Despite, the declaration of Provisionta President Huerta that any interference by the United States would be regarded as an insult. Preai dent Wilson still is confident that peace in Mexico can be established by mediation. Members of the senate foreicn rela. Hons committee donied today that they were angered because Lind was named to go to Mexico City, mslstinir that the entire committee was consulted hofn he was named. Officials of the state department declared they had received no informs tion regarding the reported imnrisnn ment of five Americans employed by the Pearson interests in Chihuahua City by federal troops. Secretary Bry. au is investigating the report. 1 BE SENT HOME : trxiTED rnr.ss ..eased wrM.l !'", Mich.. A,, o , a t'manding the state troops, is today to remove a part of his I ,n the CUiper mining district, Mt an order to that effect ;;"noon frm Governor Ferris. t' lt of Houston county is I K UUII deputilfi tn nl.l ,,.,. in guarding the mines ON1TID FBISS U.SSD WlBl J San Fnanciaco, Au. 6. Two ner- omptory challenges, one by the defense and one by the prosecution, were the first incidents of note he tndn when tho white slave trial of Maurv T. Diggs of Sacramento was resumed be fore United States Judge Van Fleet. ''Challenged for bias," stood against F. F. Harper, by the defense, and against Frank Lewis by the prosecu tion. Both were allowed hv tbn ennrf Still another man, George Walcon, was taken from the temporarily passed pan el. Walcon was permanently excused becauso of illness. Examiuation of new talesmen was then taken up, and Marshall C. Harris. president of the American Drodging company of San Francisco, and married was temporarily passed. He was quick ly followed into the box by J. B. Grim wood, a real estate man of Palo Alto, married, and by Henry Nolson, retired. iNelson is 72 years old. and br far the oldest man on the venire. O. W. Becker was the next venire man called for examiuation. It is be lieved certain that the jury box will bo permanently filled before night. Prejudiced Against Act. Views against the lattitude of the Mann white stave traffic act prohibit ing the transportation of women for immoral purposes from one state to another, as is alleged in the Diggs Caminetti Indictments, the two cirls involved being Marsha Warrington aud Lola 2Joms, young Sacramento society girls, was brought out for the first time. Three of the nrosneetive inrv- men expressed pronounced prejudice ngainst tho enforcement of the aot. ex cept as it was directed against com mercialized vice. They were promptly excused. D. T. Brilliant, a iewelrv wholesaler. was tho first talesman to be challenged on this score, when he declared that ho entertained a decided bias, one of his former employes having been convicted under the Mann act. Says Conviction Unjust. IIT .1 ... . . . ' i iniiiK me conviction was mi inst." , f ., .... v ,. , , xumeiiiuice tnat mig it make it d f- he sa,d, "and it would take more posi-, fi,It for him lo . h" t,vo proof and a greater abundance of Mr- GnH,B bonk, will be ,;,, , evidence ,n a case such a, this than in .,,, 0erman nd J fl" 1 a, ordinary case to prove guilt, as far as he seems to he hrml,t ni I am concerned." I lm Y w f ohmTV" TO tr. tt t t i , . ' " "u,l"t, conrain some vcrv in- William H. LaBoytonux, a club man, test-m , up,,! mn m-Knowieugemenr tnat he "should not bo verv sympathetic with a law that terms it white slavery for a man to take a woman from one state to another to become his mistress." wn promptly challenged by Special Prose cutor Sullivan for the government. May Eely on Prejudice. The defense, to some extent at least, ndieated that it would relv on this Edward Geist Accompanied by Boy of at), Is Writing Book on Lo calities He Visits. ' Edward Geist, accompanied by Jose Dionisio Tax, the latter a boy of" about 18, arrived in the citv veatenlnv n,i will be hero for a day more. Mr. Goist is inning a nttie uike not entirely for exercise, but for the mirnose nf wr!H a book or scries of books on the sub- joct of Gorman societies, business and pursuits of Germans COnernllv in nil the countries visited by him. Ho is traveling on foot and has been fiv years reaching Salem. He started from Buonos Ayres, and expects to walk across the continent, going to Port land from here, thence to Spokane and to New York He has already walked 19,000 miles, and his trip "will end when New York is reached. Ho has five or six books filled with statements fiom local people that ho has visited their city, and was at the stato house this morning to get Secretary Oleott's verification of the fact tlmV l, m. here. Jose Dionisoro Yax, tho young' gen tlemnn with him, is from Guatemala, province of Totonienpan, and is of a darK Drown comploxion, and has a cast HUNDREDS DF CATTLE ARE KILLED BY BRUSH FIRES OE CALIFORNIA Thousands of Stands of Bees Destroyed and Ten Miles Devastated. NEAR STANDING TIMBER Flames Shift Toward San Jacinto Mountains, and Fire Fighters Are Bushed to That Section. UMIItD miss LEASED WIRE. Riverside, Cal Aug. 6. Heavy loss to cattle raisers and apiarists is re ported today as the result of the brush tiros that are Bweepiug the mountains south of Hemet. According to latest verified renorts. more than 10 square miles have been devastated. Several hundred head of cattle are reported lost and thousands of stands of bees consumed. No ranch houses, the reports sav. have been destroyed, although many are m the path of the flames and will be endangered before tomorrow unless the fire is controlled. Early today the flames shifted to ward the San Jacinto mountains, where there is much valuable standing timber. Fire fighters were rushed at once to that section. Recall Threat Against Rolph Head of San Francisco's Government Jolted for Failure to Stop Com mercialized Vice. UNITED PBB8S LEASED WIRE.1 San Francisco, Aug. 6. The Califor nia Federation for the Suppression of Vice signs a letter received today by Mayor Rolph intimating that a recall movement may be started aeainst him for his failure to take any Bteps to clean up the city. The federation announces that it im poses to close absolutely all open com mercialized vice; that liquor must be divorced from dance balls on or off tha Barbary Coast, The lotter declares that the social evil has increased under Rolph 's administration. TO SHOW SULZER HAD WALL STREET DEAL Effort Made to Connect Governor With Broker's Account Fails at Mal feasance Hearing, TYLER AND BRAIN ARE WINNERS IN TENNIS GAME MARKET CLOSES DULL. UNITED PRESS MUSED WIRE.) New York, Aug. fl. A good under tone marked the early trading in tho stock market today. New York Cen tral, Western Union, Beading, Hill, and Harrimau issues tiained about n nntnt hi. in , roue iwo. anadian Fa prejudice against the Mann act, as it oi,ic "P m"t of yesterday's loss. was revealed today, particularly when lrall.v of the advances were lost before Attorney Coghlan, interrogating for the nonn wh,,n trailing became dull. Bonds defense, protested the allowance of the wer0 t"n''y. The market closed dull. challenge in the case of Urillinnt. T The ground that the white slave act ' KUl1' APPOINTMENT. was Paed to prevent the transports-1 w V T" . w," 1 .. . . . 1 Washington, Aug. 0. n ted States tion of women for purposes nf com- ,. , , ,Y i-. . . . ,. , . . ' ' Senator Works, of Califom a, sa d to- n.emai.w.1 .re, n .eemeu apparent, ,,r lhf ,, u,, n ., ... " "". "n.,r. ii, joni- .'Tuties th t bv Ik. T,- . . . 1 ,L ,. 01 Atona commis I "mediately fr tho purpose of ""i7i, m"niciIl docks aud S?f.i '.loc1 harbor and mouth 'tol upon by the commission "ngthy i. LIND WILL SOON RETURN. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.) Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 6. John Lind, President Wilson's envoy to Mexico, wrote to a friend here that in nn rirciimstsnces would he accept the post of permanent ambassador to Mex ico. Lind said he expect to complete his work in Mexico a booq as possible, and then return to Washington. would be tho main reliance of the de fense attorneys. Young Girls Present For the first tfme a number of young girls, jauntjly attired, Iicctii drifting into the court room, craning forward eagerly in anticipation of senntional details, and canting surreptitious glances at Diggs and f'aminetti. When the afternoon session was re sumed at 2 o'clock, 11 men were in the jury box, subject to two peremptory challenges by the government and five by tho defense. The examination of T.ester Herrick, an accountant, and the twelfth temporary juror in the box, was taken up. Girls In Case Absent Neither of the girls Involved in the cases, nor any member of either de fendant's flmily ww irr the court room, save onlv the father of Diggs, who sat Impassively beide his indicted son. ocrntic leaders in the senate that the confirmation of the nomination of Thomas Fox, to be postmaster at Sac ramento, Cal., would be reconsidered. Works hns opposed Fox's appointment, and declared today that he would do everything in his power to prevent tho confirmation. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. lacoma, wasn., Aug. u. Show nc a surprising reversal of form, Joo Tyler and P. Brain, of Spokane, today de feated H. C. Evans and A. S. Milne, of Vancouver, in the international tonnis doubles. The scores wore fl-4. 9-7. 10-8. Evans and Milno were counted as al l-most sure winners. Brain and Tvlor played the better game and wore mas ters of the situation from the start. The first set was easy and thoy toyed with their opponents. Evans was way off his game and though Milno played well, he was not in the class of the Yankees. Tyler especially was in fino form and his vicious serves and drives did much to cinch tho match. The second and third sets wore close ly contested. In the last sot, Tyler by two beautiful drives broke through Mil no's service and tho match was won. SAYS ELECTION IN MEXICO WILL BE GREAT FARCE UNITED PRESS I.IMHUU WIRE. Snn Fi,iwiun A.... rt Tl. election to be held in Moxico October November 12. Richards also introduced io, to oioct a president to auecocd xiuerta win ue nothing more than a farce, was the declaration hero today of James G. Travels, a traveling sales man, who roturned from Moxico City on tho Pacific Mail steamer Acapulco. "When I loft Moxico two weoks nfo," said Travers, "Huorta was cred ited with saying there would bo throo enndidntes for president at the com ing election President Huerta. Gener al Huorta and Victoriano Huerta. In other words, Huerta Is going to see that he will bo tho only candidate, and that he will be elected." The Weather (Continued on page 8.) I (IS Pai-IT'CS The Dickey Bird says: Oregon, prob ably fair tonight i and Thiirsdav, Seals Blown up by Fish Warden Only Half Dozen Escape When Mlns at Tillamook Is Exploded and Tears Many to Ploces. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. Tillamook, Ore., Aug. (1 Fishermen along Tillamook bay arc jubilant at the success of tho first experiment made by the master fish warden of Oregon n blowing up the marauding seals that for years have been gobbling up the choicest salmon before they could get to the waiting nets. W. J. fitillwell, under Instructions from Master Fish Warden H. R. (,'lanton, has just pulled off tho first explosion, Mowing at least 150 seals into eternity, Stillwell put 150 pounds of powder in glass fruit pars and connected these by jars. The jars were buried in the sand where the seals are accustomed to un themselves. When great num ber of the animals gathered over the mine, Rtillwell pushed the button. "Hardly half s dozen escaped," said Stillwell today. "If nr did, they are a b re ant of Alaska bv this time, and still going. You couldn't get one back nnless you blindfolded him and dragged him in backwards." UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. Now Vork, Aug. 8. The Frawlev state legislative committee, invostimit ing various charges of malfeasance against Governor William Sulzer, made but littlo headway at today's session. Adjournment until tomorrow' was taken ntter an attempt to show that Sulzer had an account with Fuller and Grar. Wall Stroot brokers, during his cam paign for the governorship had fallen Hut. Frederick Caldwoll, on the witnoss stand, flatly refused to answer when asked if Sulzer had maintained an ac count with the Wall Street firm. Ho said the governor had had mail sent to tho office, and that ho had heard of "account No. 500." but refused to sav whether it belong to Sulzor. Alolvin Fuller, a member of the firm, also refusod to answor quostions. assort ng that his attorney had advised him that the committee had boon illegally appointed. The committee announced its intention of Booking a court order to force both Caldwoll and Fuller to answer questions. Attornoy Richards, for the commit- too, attacked the report of campaign contributions filed by Sulzor. Sulitor accounted for 48 contributions with re- loipts aggregating 5-IBO. Kichnrds in troduced deposit clips with tho Mutual Alliance Trust company purporting to Bhow that Sulzer had doposits thore ag gregating $12,000 from October 5 to LAD IS HIT ON HEAD BY RIFLESHOT Instant Death Would Have Followed Had He Been Struck an Inch Lower. GLANCES UPWARD THROUGH HIS HAT Wound Is Not Serious and Po lice Are Looking fr Per son Using Gun. 94 checks, alloged to have boon signod by tho governor, totalling $12,000. Richards insisted that chocks from Chairman William F. McCombs of tho Democratic National committee, Honry Morgenthau and John Lynn, totulling $2000, woro not included in Oovomor Sulzer 's list of contributions. Secretary to Endorse Chocks. A lotter Govornor Sulzer Is allegod to have writton to the Mutual Alliance Company, was introducod. It instruct ed tho bank that Sulzer had authorized Louis Sarocky, his privato secretary, to ondorso check in his name. Robert Simmons, of Honry Morgenthau & Co., identified a check fot, $1000 to Sulzer which Morgenthau had signed. It was included in Sulzer 's list of contributions. YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER GETS AWAY WITH PICTURES 1 UNITED PRESS IJIAEED WIS 1 San Francisco, Aug. fl. "Is the young man going to tako plc.turost" asked United States Judge Van Floot hero today in the court room where Maury I. Diggs, of Sacramento, is bo ing tried for whito slavery, as ho ad dressed a photographer with a camera nn his kneo. "No, your honor," innocently re plied tho camera man. "Ilo's not going to he has," chip ped in Attorney Dovlin, for tho defense, "and I demand tho confiscation of the picture." Tho judgo'B eyes twinkled. "Anything ho has now is his person al property," ho said, as the camera man edged to tho door. "But don't do it again." And tho camera man took It on the run. PEACE IN BALKANS. DNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.) London, Aug. 6. Bucharest dis patches to the Exchange Telegraph here tonight say that a peace agree ment has been reached In the Balkan states, and that the work of the con ference there 1 finished. While on his wav to tho hflmA nf ftfi and Mrs. George Johnson, who reside at 445 Meyers street, South Salem, Konnet Lewis, the 8-vear-old on nf Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Lewis, of Shaw, Oregon, was shot !.n the head this morning by some unknown party with a 22-calibre rifle. The bullot struck the boy in the forehead and glanced upward through his hat. Although the shot did not prove serious, young Lew is might have boon killed instantly had tho bullot struck him an Inch lower on the side of the head. Young Lewis has boon visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, and was return ing to the lutter's home by the way of Lafoll street when he was Bhot. Jnt where tho shot was fired has not boon ascertained by the police as yet,' but some one has violatod a citv ordinance. which provides a punishment for any one firing a gun in the city limits with out a permit from tho mayor. Narrow Escape. Tho small, but still deadlv bullet. hit Lewis just above his right eye. It glanced off his skull and went through his hat. Had the ball struck )ia ho in inch lower, it would have rwnetrated his brain, according to the police aud physicians making an investigation of tho wodnd. Acting Chiof of Police Welch stated today that a careful Investigation will be made .and every effort oxortod ind tho person who fired the shot to GIRL DROWNED IN DITCH. (DNITED FREna LEASED WIRE. J Fresuo, Cal., Aug. 0. Miss Nellie. Slinson, aged 81, was drowned In an ir rigation ditch hero early todav when alio was pinned bonenth an automobile which had turned turtle. With Miss Ethel Taylor, Guy Preston and Carl Pinnignn, Miss Stinson was returning from a danco when the accident hap pened, nor companion escaped with slight Injuries. GREAT BATTLE IS LASS SAYS HOUSE WILL PASS MEASURE UNITED PRESS LEASED WISE. Hongkong, Aug. 0. A hot battle iu progress at Canton is roortod In dis patches rocoived here today, which stato that Chinese government troops and southern rebels aro engaged is a desperate engagement Two divisions of tho government army, It is said, at tacked tho oast gate of the city. Virginian Predicts Currency Bill Will Get Majority in House by September 10. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRB. Washington, Aug. 6. Prediction that tho bouse would pass the administration currency bill by September 15 at the latest was mudo today by Representa tive Glass, of Virginia, chairman of tho house bauklng and currency com mittee, In chargo of the measure. Rep resentative Kagndale will open tho fight in the house Friday, advocating tw 'agricultural currencv nlan." Th enr. rency caucus Is sxpecUd to confine all next week. I