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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
SALEM, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1914.
Dnrrr nirA nruTs ON TRAINS AND NSjwa
IAA.1C A U V-tHlO. STANDS. FIVH CBN
PATROL OF ENTIRE TEXAS-MEXKQ -BORDER. PLAN
(ILLED AND
CIMOOTED
Outlaws Admitted to Lao Ho
Kow by Treacherous Offi
cial of Place.
Rear Admiral Fiske May
be Made Vice Admiral
AMERICAN PROPERTY
DESTROYED BY RAIDERS
Those Who Escape Tell of
Scenes of Dreadful Vio
lence During Visit.
UNITED FI1ES8 LEASED WIRB.l
Pekin, March 11. That Dr. T. Froy
laud, a Norwegian missionary, was
killed recently and much American and
British property destroyed or stolen by
!andits in a raid on Lao Ho Kow,
Hupch province, was the news brought
hero toduy by O. M. Sama, also of the
Lao IIo How Norwegian mission, who
escaped and made his way in the face
of great hardships and danger to the
capital.
The outlaws were admitted to the
town Sama said, through the conniv
ance of a treacherous official. There
were about 400 of them, and while they
remained scenes of dreadful violence
were enacted. Besides Dr. Froylnnd
many Chinese wero killed.
Buildings Plundered,
Among the buildings plundered and
burned were thoso belonging to tho
Asiatic I'etrolcum company, the Singer
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Wptti'Jffej!':!-','
Condition Made That Not
More Than 50 Should Go
to One Community.
LEADERS NOT FAVORABLE
Do Not Like Plan Very Well, But
Promise to Talk It Over Witli
Members of Their Band.
Scott's Ship Discovery
Goes into Anarctic Again
Rear-Admiral Bradley A. Fiske.
Washington, March 11. With the
creation of six vice-admirals for tho
United States navy, this country will
Sewing Machine company and British . not be out rnuked by officers of other
and American Tobacco companies.
On leaving, the bandits forced 2000
coolies to accompany them, carrying
the plunder. ,
navies during international difficulties
us has been the case in several recent
instances, particularly at Peru and
Vera Cruz, Mexico. Among the rear
admirals who are mentioned as prob
ablo vico-ailmirals is Bradley A. Fiske,
Ho is a member of the general board
at Washington.
DAMON HELD IN SAN
FRANCISCO FOR SLAVERY
UNITED PnESS I.SAHKD WICIt.l
Sam Frnncisco, March 11. Kdmond
II. Damon, a realty broker of Xew
York, accused of violating the Mnnu
white slace act, is in custody here today
of United States Marshal Houlihan,
having been brought from Los Ange
les last night. Ddinon is charged with
transporting two girls from Florida
to California for immoral purposes.
Damon told Marshal Houlihan that
be . is a nephew of Norton J. Doman
aud Myron Doman, of Seattle.
MINNESOTA TOWNS DRY.
1 united rnKsa I.IASKD WIMI.
St, raJul,.Minn., March 11. Sweep
ing prohibition is indicated today, as
far as the count of votes had pro
Admits Tramping
With Bad Band but
Denies He Killed
UNITED MERS I.IARKD Willi.)
Sacramento, Cal., March 11. Free
transportation to various points within
a radius of 50 miles ''om Sacramento
was offered the leaders of the unem
ployed army today by Attornoy A. W.
Armfield of Woodland, on behalf of the
Yolo county officials. The condition
was mado, however, that not more than
50 men will be sent to ono community.
The unemployed promised to have an
answer before the end of the afternoon.
Having been donie4 the privilogo of
sending the entire army on any one
train, the Yolo county officials and the
Sacramento authorities are attempting
to solve the unemployed situation by
breaking the army into email bonds and
sending them to soetions of the state
where work can possibly bo had oil
farms. Tho proposition did not appeal
to the leaders as uttractive, but they
promised to retire. SJid talk it over
among the men and give an answer in
a few hours.
Guards Stay on Job.
Tho Yolo county supervisors, sheriff
and dUtrict attorney hoped to got por
mission from Sacramento to withdraw
the guards at the bridges loading into
this city but failed. They evou wont
so far as to bring an injunction suit
in the Sacramento county suporior court
and if they fail, finnlly to- break up
the aiinv, thev will proas the court
action.
The Oakland, Antioch and Kastern
railroad refused to carry the men iu
body to Bay Point, and tho Southern
Pacific declined to move all of them
together to any point. This turn prompt
ed the suggestion by tho Yolo 'author
ities to disintegrate the army.
Says Banding Is Bad Business.
"We will secure transportation for
j ' . ii.wr.r--e1'' ' , ;
RESULT 0
COLQUin'S
ATTITUDE
President Wilson Determined
to Head Off Further Raids
t Over Border.
VILLA CLAIMS BIG
VICTORY AT TORREON
Federal Forces Said to Have
Been Repulsed in Clash
in Suburbs.
Discovery after rotunt from Scott's Tragls death and Lieutenant Harbord.
London, March 11. Tho Discovory A, E. Harbord will command the ship
Bobert Scott's Antartic ship, is boing on tho now expedition, which is in a
fitted out for tho Stackhouse oxpodi- way a rival of the Shackleton Autart
tion this coming summer. Lieutenant ic trip.
UNITED rilRH LIMBED WIHB.)
Seattle, Wash., aMrch 11. Howard
Chirk, It) years old, was arrested here
today by Deputy Sheriff O. H. Wobber,
and is held for the Pierce county sheriff
on suspicion that he is one of the gang
that Saturday night near South Prairie
held up and shot Joseph Mack (or
Meghran) and Thomas Little, inflicting
pressed in yesterday's Minnesota town , woum,8 from whlch the fornl diedi
and village elections. Out of 05 pre
viously dry towns, only 17 went wot,
while the drys captured many wet ones.
Black Duck and other towns in the
uorthcrn part of the stMe, with large
working clnss population, voted dry.
Clark today admitted he was with
the others, but said they were looking
for work, and denied absolutely having
gnvo the address of a Tacomainan, who
s wus with them Saturday night
and who ho asserts will hear out his
statement of innocence, Officials today
would not say what the Tacom man's
name is.
Clark says they wore hiking from
Buckley to Puyallup looking for work.
He said thoy had been stopped twice by
deputy sheriffs iu Pierce county prior
to the affray Saturday night, but thoy
were allowed to go again after being
searched.
A grilling cross-examination failed to
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AUTO ROBE IN STREET
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More "Innocent
Purchasers" Will
Now Get Lands
united riiBss i.kasbd wiuR.l Hiiwloy act, persons claiming more
Portland, Or., March 11. More "in- than 1000 acres of grant liuid are al
nocent purchasers" aro expected to lowed to "come in" to show they did
come into United Skates court here not know that tho terms of tho grant
within a few days, following tho nil- worn being violated. Tho grant, exe
ing of Judgo K. 8. Dean yesterday that cutod in 18110, provided that the lands
15000 acres of richlv timbered land in bo sold to actual settlors nl 130-uere
tho Willamette vnlloy, part of the Ore- tracts at not more than $2.;"0 per aero.
had anything to do with the holdup. He change ( lark's story.
SPEER'S FATE UNDECIDED.
I'NITXD PHESS LEASED WITH.
Wahsington, March 11. The iub
committee of the house judiciary com
mittee was preparing its roport today
on its Investigation of the charges pre
ferred against United States Judge
Emery Hpeer of Georgia. Chairman
Webb said tho committee bad not yet
decided whether to recommend impeach
ment proceedings. The report will not
be completed for ten days.
BODY IDENTIFIED.
(UNITED rUESI LBASED WIRB.
St. Louis, Mo., March 11. Another
of tho ten corpses recovered thus far
from the ruins of the burned Missouri
Athletic club building was Identified at
the morgue today as that of Michael
Tlnimn.
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PHILLIPS APPROVED,
Washington, March 11. The senate
foreign relations committee today ap
proved the nomination of William Phil
lip to be third assistant secretary of
state.
State Senator Hal D. l'attou will
make the race for railroad commission
er at the coming election, He has nnt
filed his petition yet, but makes public
today his announcement. It is hardly
worth while saying anything about I'll
Patton to Salem peoplo, for he is a pa't
of the rlty, and every body knows him
He and the city are alike in some re
spects and that is that each came into
the world iiere and have been here ev r
dince. Another coincidence is thut
both were small when they first arrive!
and each has developed along the mn.n
line, one into a wide awake thrift."
city the other into a broad minded an I
energetic business man. A a sta'e
senator Mr. Patton did much gJod
work, some of the more important man
ures of the last session bearing his trade
mark and brand. Ho is a man of good
business judgment, quick to understand
and as swift to act, with a natural judi
cial mind tlwit is freo from projud'ci
and is peculiarly fitted to render just
and pipiitable decisions in matters per
taining to the commission ' work, I'e
has a wide acquaintance over tho state
and here in Selmn and through tho val
ley everybody knows and likes him. Ho
will make the race for the nomlnat on
decidedly interesting, and while he gu
up against a very strong man, he stunt's
as good a chance as anyone for getting
the ep'ial plum he is after.
BUSINESS HOUSES LOOTED.
UNITED rKCBS LEASED WIRB.)
Pasadena, Cal., March lla Practical
ly every business house In Lnmanda
Park, a suburb, was robbed early to
day. Durglars gained entrance to the
postoffice, the Santa F station, the
Lamanla Park grocery, a hardware
tore and a butcher shop, The com
bined loss in cash, however, was not
more than $100.
UNITED rilESS LEASED WIRE. J
Chicago, March 11, Suffering from
concussion of tho brain, Intermittently
delirious and In grave (lunger of death,
Miss Mayme Connors, a young milliner,
tried to tell detectives at Kniergcncy
huxpitul to'luy how It happened that she
was found, wrapped in an expensive
automobile robe, prostrate in the mid Ho
of a busy street early this morning.
"Two men took me automobile riding
with another girl lust night," she ssld,
"and something happened I don't ro
member what. The next I knew I was
in this hospital."
Once she named one of the automooil
1st but an instant afterward retracted
this part of her statement.
The police believed she was thrown
from a itpeedisg automobile.
gon & California railroad lund grant,
purchased from tho Southern Pacific
company, should bo forfeited to the
government.
Tho rillsbury Lumber compnny, a
Minnesota corporation, controlled by
tho flour milling interests, owned ,1000
acres of this forfciUngo, located In
Douglas and Coos counties. The For
ester Lumber company, an Oregon cor
poration, owned P500 acres iu Clacka
mas countv. Under the terms of tho
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIES.)
Washington, March 11. The war de- .
partment was strengthening the Amer
ican force of troops along the Mexican
border today.
Tho Seventh infantry was ordered in
that direction from Fort McPherson,
Ga., with two battalions of the Ninth,
from Fort Thomas Ky., and the Third
battalion of the same regiment from
Fort Boot, Ark.
Their instructions wore to join the
troops under Qenoral Bliss' command iu
Texns. The movement was surrounded
by much socrecy. The adjutant-general's
office doniod, in fact, that the
border force was boing strengthened,
but General Wood, chiof of staff, con
firmed it.
Fodoral Judgo Wolverton last year or
dorod the forfeiture of the grant be
cause It was shown that the rairoad hod
sold tho lands in much, larger tracts
some times as high as 410 an are, ami
of lato years had refused to Bell to
settlers at all,
About 4.1 innocent purchasers have
appllod under the Ilawlcy act, which
allows thorn to buy buck their holdings
from the government at -..10 per acre
within six months,
The Weather
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auaCTXITti
TO STUDY FOOD FISII.
UNITED PRESS LEAKED WIRB.
Senttle, Wash., March 11. An organ
isation to be known as the Pacific
Fisheries society, tho purpose of which
will bo the study of food fish of the
western coast, as well ns promotion of
the extension of tho fishing industry
on the Pacific const, will bo formed
hero today, A meeting to effect organ
ization will bo helil at tho Washington
hotel. Dr. K. Lester Jones, of the de
partment of fisheries, I'nited States
IDENT
The Dickey llinl
ays; Oregon, fair
tonight anil Thurs
d a v, easterly
Inds.
UNITED I'RKSS I EASED WIRE.)
Washington, March 11. President
Wilunn u.n.1 Nnoriitfirv rtf tint TntliSlirv
fish commission, will be in attendance. I to,hlV 0Vl,r tha ,it,;,
,' ' in which region.il reserve banks are to
be established under the new currency
SHOPLIFTER SEEKS TO DIE,
I,os Angeles, Cal., March 11. Offi
cials of a department store hero today
decided to forego prosecution of Mrs.
Jlfrtl.n Pukeshol'er, nge, fld, who tried
to leap from a fifth flour window when
she wus cuiiuht in the alleged theft of
a corset. The woman was seized by
the ankles by two plain clothes women
when she leaped through the window,
She dangled 70 feet above tho pave
ment, her skirts fluttering, until two
Inw, It was said the lit would be an
nounced In two weeks,
Financier In tho big cities are In
sisting thut the list bo given out Imme
diately, nsesrting the lclity Is causing
business stagnation. President Wilson
and Secrctiiric McAdon and Houston
are being flooded with letters ami tele
grams to this effect.
Letting him be the judge, Hi Gill
floorwalkers pulled her to safety. Then would doubtless make good his promise
bo fainted. I to be the best a.ayor Seattle ever bad.
May Head Off Colquitt.
Washington, March 11. Governor
Colquitt of Texas having been quoted
as defying tho federal government to
prevent him from sending rangers in
to Mexico to protect Amoricans there
or to avenge them in cases where their
persons or proK-rty have suffered, it
was understood here today- that Presi
lent Wilson was considering a United
States patrol of tho entire Toxns-Mexl-can
border, as insurance against any
overt actttit tho governor's order.
Senator Sheppard aud Congressman
(lamer of Texus were understood to
have told him Texnns generally would
welcome such a step. Colquitt was said
to have announced in a speech before
tho Texas Cnttlo Handlers' association
at Fort Worth that ho defied "any
authority on earth, Washington includ
ed, to prevent mo from protecting our ,
citizens along tho border."
He was quoted also as declaring:
"Von cin't expect United States'
soldiers1 to cross the border for murder
ers and thieves oh, no! Dut the Texaa
rangers ran do it."
Senator Sheppard assured the pres
ident that Colquitt misrepresents Tex
as public opinion concerning the Mexi
can situation, and showed him a stark
of telegrams from his constituent
commending the "watchful waiting"
policy.
From Senators Shlvely, of Indians,
and Iewls, of Illinois, the president re
ceived assurances aJso that no serious
Mexican debute was likely in the upper
house.
On tho whole, judging from consular
reports from border points, coudition
were thought to have Improved. Sec
retary Dryaii left on a short lecturing
trip.
Report Sent to Iluerta,
The report received from United
States Consul Garrett at Nuevo Laredo
concerning the death of Clemeuto V'er
giira, tho American citizen who was en
ticed Into Mexico and executed by fed
erals, was forwarded to Charge d' Af
faire O'Shaughnessy at Mexico 'ity
for submission to President Iluerta.
Gnrrett bhimed the federal command
er nt Nuevo Laredo and named the fed
eral soldier he considered resH)nsible
for the killing. Statement by eye wit
ueste of the tragedy were Included.
There wore no further development
today In the Denton case.
Commltts Will Vote.
The house foreign affairs committee
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