All the News that's Fit to Print
THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
Manhunt Follows and Two
Mexicans Are Wounded,
One Fatally.
THIRD CAUGHT IN
HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT
Bloodhounds Aid in Getting
Fourth and There Is Talk
of Lynching.
UNITED I'HESa LEASED Willi.
I'eoria, 111., March 13. Engineer Ar
thur Fisher wan shot and killed by four
Mexican bandits early today at Mauliuj
near here, -when he refused to earry
them through the town on a Chicago &
.Northwestern freight train. The Mexi
cans had been accused of merchandise
thefts and feared arrest at Mauliua if
the train stopped there.
Members of the train crew telephoned
details of the killing to Princetun, and
a posse encountered the bandits near
Sheffield. Two of the Mexicans were
wounded, one fatally.
The third bandit was captured after
.a hand-to-hand encounter.
Lynching is threatened.
Wounded Man Dies.
One of the wounded Moxicans died
this afternoon, and the fourth was cap
tured six miles from Matilius. He sur
rendered when his ammunition gave out.
DEADLOCK OVER UNEMPLOYED
CONTINUES IN CALIFORNIA
UNITED l'llESS LEASED WIIU.
Sacrunicnto, Cal., March 13. "We
will spend one million for defense, but (
not a cent for tribute." District Attor-
ncy Wachliorst, of Suernnionto county,
"Yolo county will not spend a fivo
cent piece to move these nieil out."
.Sheriff Mqnroe, of Yolo county.
These statements from the officers of
the two counties involved over the hand
ling of the unemployed army of about
1000 men ramped on the river bank op
posite Sacramento, expressed tho situa
tion today.
IS
E TOLD AT ST.
LOUIS INQUEST
UNITED MESS IXASED WIRE.
St. Louis, Mo., March 13. With 23
.-orpscs recovered from tho ruins of the
liurued Missouri club building, and eight
more, it is believed, still buried in the
debris, Coroner I'adderg this morning
begun an inquest.
Paul Kloeris. clerk In a store near the
lANY
ENG NEER
KILLED BY
4 BANDITS
club house, was tho first witness. His or tne P01" na1 bccn overlooked,
storv was a somewhat queer one. UPon nteriB8 th bRth T00m thpy
"I was just leaving the store when , found th tiU WBr,n boIy of Koki'
the fire was discovered," he said. "As hanging from the water pipe. An nn
I stepped from the door three men and , efrt was made to bring the
hr crirU left th club bllildinff and . JuP D"ck t0 llfS
" B - -
tompiI the street, tnlkiiiff excitcdlv.
"Then I hrird one of the cirls Dlead-
log with her escort to re-enter the club
house. Tlease go back,' she said. Do;the cord " he P'P nd
me a
back.
favor. Go back. We must go
"So one of the men returned to tho
entrance, stopped and looked in, but
none of the party re-entered, I thought
the girls meant that one of their party
bad been left in the building. I didn't
know why they wanted the men to re
turn." Women were supposed to leave the
club house at 12:30 a. m., when the cafe
closed.
Don't sit around and wait for op-
portunity to knock. Keep the door.
ajar.
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Girls Lose Jobs
and Bank Savings
SOME TALE OF WRECKING S1EGEL
STORE BUT COOLER HEADS PER
SUADE GIRLS TO ABANDON
IDEA.
UNITED PBE8S LEASED WIBI.J
New York, March 13. A near riot oc
curred here today in the Siogel depart
ment store in 14th street, when the
salesgirls realized they were to lose not
only their positions but their savings
deposited in the defunct Siegol bank as
well,
"Let's wreck the store," cried one
girl, and others joined with the inten
tion of putting the threat into effect.
Cooler heads, however, persuaded the
girls to abandon the idea. The trouble
followed the appearance of Mrs. L.
Matteson, an employe, who had just re
turned from Europe, and learned for the
first time of the bank's failure.
"I've been robbed," she said. "All
the money I had in the world, $2300,
has been stolen. "
More than 1000 employes will lose
their places tomorrow by the court or
der closing the store.
Investigation among the clerks is said
to have shown that some deposited
their savings with the Siegel bank, that
they might indicate their loyalty to the
firm. Others believed it might be the
means of holding their jobs in slack
times, when the force was likely to be
reduced.
E THIEF IS
PACIFIC
UNITED PRESS LBA8EP Willi!.
Venice ('.; March 13. Walter Brua
dnge, wanted at llngstoff, Arizona, to
aimwer to a charge of honso stealing,
wiih arrested tody in the Pacific ocean.
Deputy Sheriffs Sweezy and Ander
soll fomi(j Brundago sauntoriug nlon'
tlin hn.ril .nM. Ir fln,i thn
chuse became hot ho skipped into tho
surf and headed for the open sea. Tho
officers overhauled him at the break
er line and after a bit of fast sub
marine work, brought him ashore,
lirundago denied the charge.
LIFE BY HANK IN
S. Kokimo, a Japanese patient nt the
asylum, committed suicide this morn'
Ing by hanging, himself by his shoe
string to a water pipe In one of the
bath rooms in the Institution.
The attendants were tofting tho pa
tients out for a walk this morning and
the Jap sneaked into the bath room.
After the band had been escorted out
of the building, attendants, as usual,
. ""bod h ut if ny
Kokima had taken tho strings out of
i hi' "lloe"' 1,10,10 a roPe
of them, and
, P on tied one end of
the other
around his neck and jiimed off.
Kokima was committed from Multno-
n,n tnum.v "on"1 lwo K0'
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WOMAN IS DROWNED.
UXITED PSESS LEASED Willi.)
Centralia, Wash., March 13. When
their boat upset in the Skookumchuck
river, Clifford Cruson, Mrs. Frank
Swisher and a Mrs. Wilson, whose
home is in San Jose, Cab, were thrown
Into the water. Mrs. Swisher wan
swept Into deep water by the swift
current and was drowned. The other
reached shore la safety.
IS
E'S
EM
Thinks It Comes at Peculiarly
(Unfortunate Time for Ad
ministration. WILSON DOES NOT AGREE
Considers Monroe Doctrine to Mean
Today Just What It Always Did,
He Makes It Plain.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIIIE. '
Washington, March 13. Though he
did not say much about it President
Wilson was plainly troubled today by
the controversy over the speech in Lou
don Wednesday night by United Statos
Ambassador Walter It. Page, in which
tha latter was quoted as tolling his hear
ers the Monroe doctrine meant merely
that the United States "would prefer
that no European government gain
more land in the new world."
It was known that the president be
lieved Page was attempting no more
than a pleasantry intended to make his
English audience undorstand that Amer
icans appreciate their friendliness. Nev
ertheless it was said the executive
thinks that the incident came at a pe
euliary unfortunate time ,his foreign
policy being under so heavy an attack.
Stands By Monro Doctrine.
Personally he made it clear to visit
ors that he considered the Monroe doc
trine to mean today just what it has
always been interpreted as moaning.
Page's statement that "it added
greatly to the pleasure of tho United
States in building the Panama canal to
know that the British would profit
most by its use," was also looked upoi
ny lite president as simply as a polite
expression without any doep meaning,
At the same time, it was known that
opponents of tho repeal of American
shipping exemption from canal tolls
meant to make uttoranco the text of
their argument that the administration
is truckling to England.
Views Better Left Unsaid.
Unquestionably according to men in
tho administration's confidence. U19
president would have been much better
satisfied if rage had not expressed him
self as ho did.
Secretary of State Bryan refused to
discuss tho incident until he received
Ambassador Page's own report of his
speech. Since ho spoko exteinpornneour.
ly and no stenographic record of tho
sjieech was mado, it wins explained that
it might be; Impossiblo to reprodueo his
exact words but an account of their
purport and general purpose was looked
for as soon as a mail can cross tin
Atlantic.
May Take Up Resolution.
Tho house of roprosentntiees was et
peeted to take up today the resolution
introduced lato yesterday by Congress
man Murray, calling as did Senator
Chamberlain's resolution in the uppor
branch, for tho text ot the Page speech
and the information on which he based
his remark thut "the British would
profit most" by the use of the Panama
canal.
GOES TO DALLAS
C. M. Wilson, who rccentlv filed his
declaration of intention to become a
candidate for county recorder, has with
drawn from tho race. He stated yester-,
day that his declaration was filed more
In tho form of a juke than anything!
else, and that he is not going to aspire
for nomination,
Mr. Wilson hns formed a partnership
with Oscar Hayter, the Dalles lawyer,
and will move to the Polk county seat
within a short time. He has been a
clerk in the state Insurance department,
nd has many friends in this rity who
will regret to learn of his Intention to
leave.
Everybody
BALEM, OREGON, FEIDAT, MAECH 13,
civ
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JUJUJUJl ill
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TWO BVJJPPER HOUSE
Veiled References of Premier
to Possible Trouble Have
No Effect.
GRAFT SCANDAL FACTOR
Exposures Aided Anti-Tax Element
Greatly in Defeating Extension
Program of Government.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WISE.
Tokio, Mafch 13. To the tune of ve
hement protests from Premier Yamum
oto, the upper house of the Japanese
parliament today roduced the naval es
timates from $80,000,00 to $45,000,000.
The government Originally wanted
$95,000,000, but previous cutting had
trimmed its figures by $15,000,000. The
next step will be the estimates' submis-
sion to a conforonce committee repre
senting both uppor and lower houses.
Indications were that they would go
through in their latest form.
Should this happen it was considered
certain that Premier Yamamoto would
resign. In his argument he made re
peated veiled references to possible
complications with a foreign power, and
it was believed he had in mind the
United States, in connection with tho
California anti-alion .land law.
Graft Scandal Defeats Program.
The administration entered its naval
expansion program with a majority in
both houses of parliament. This being
the case, it seemed certain at first that
it would put its plan through, dospito
popular protests against the insreased
taxes it would have involved. The nav
al graft scandal broko just at tho phy
chologicnl moment, however, furnishing
tho tt.uti-tax element with such effec
tive ammunition that good political
judges bolievod that the government
would risk a revolution if it persisted
E WEDDI
UNITKD TllKHS I.RAHED WII1B.
Washington, March 13. Official
announcement of tho engagement
of Miss Eleanor Wilson, the presi
dent's daughter, to Secretary of
the Treasury William O. McAdoo
was expected hero today within
4H hours. It was understood that
an announcement was to have been
delayed for sumo time, but that
tho unofficial publicity already
given tho engagement hastoned it.
Secretary McAdoo attended a cab
inet meeting today but avoided re
porters and Miss Wilson received
no callers.
LOOK OUT I IT'S FRIDAY
AND IT'S THE THIRTEENTH.
I'XITEH I'llKBH IKASr.K Will. I
Now York, March 13, For tho second
time in the first three months of tho
yoar, 1914, this mundane sphero today
wus confronted with that hideous hoo
doo and ogre Mr. Friday thoThirtcenth.
There will be one more chance this yeur
for the hodoo to get in his dirty work
on Friday, November tho Thirteenth.
In 1013 there was but one Friday of iill
the ft2 which fell on the thirteenth of
the month. That was Friday, Juno
13. Noxt year, 1015, there will be
but one Frbliiy the Thirteenth, when
the date comes in August of that year.
The Weather
THE
( LEAVE UNCLE.
Tho Dickey Hir.l
says: Oregon, gen
erally fair excent
occasional rain in
northwest portion
tonight and Satur
day and souther
ly winds.
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Japanese Commissioners
Gather Facts in Mexico
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Official Commission from Japan and O attleahlp YoJcuma,
Mexico City, March 13. Activity on
the part of the Japanese in Mexican af
fairs has for some time interested the
stato department at Washington, While
little notice is Baid to have boon taken
of the jingo talk arising out of the
sending of arms to Moxico from Japan,
still it is regarded as certain that Wash
Useless Questions
Take Much Time
at Water Hearing
The Snlcin Water company investiga
tion drugs along slowly principally ow
ing to tho internilnulilo and exhaustleis
fountain of useless and nonseusicul
questions thut Kugincer llagnuah has
on tup. This shows that Mr, Haganuh
is a first class engineer for no man with
out a splendid reserve of interrogatories
with plans, specifications and bbio
prints, could possibly frame up so many
questions that hnvo no bearing on tho
case in question, or anything else, in
fact Mr, ilaganah is an Italicised inter
rogation point with its Iwur pompa
dourod and bristling like a fretful por
cupine. The morning wus given over
to him and the questions he asked on
suppositious matter were about the
whole thing. Tho investigation is for
the purpose of findim; out tho operating
expenses of tho compuny, but Mr. Hag-
oiiii Ii wants to know what these ex
penses would be if some other condl
tions were to arise, and he states every
noamlilc condition that might arise, f or
the purpose of this investigation all
that Is necessary to know Js the jitcsent
cost of oH-ratiug the plaut. The com
pany's bills would show thot. What
the cost of cloctrlcitv per month I'
could bo shown by the P. It. L. t V.
company's books, but this not satisfy
Mr. Ilngaunh. lie wnuts to know what
the cost might bo if things were dif
ferent, However he brought, out the fact th'it
tho P. K. L. 4 V. Co. charges tho
S.ileiu Water eonipuny five-sixths of 1
cent a kilowatt for power.
"If in your opinion, based on your
opinion, based on your experience as
an engineer and your understanding
of the rules by which engineers arrive
at the avemge rates at which estimates
for work of tho character under cou
sbleration, and keeping in mind the fact
that electricity Is not always the samo
price being minted to diffor by the
Daily Capital Journal
DDIPr Ttr
mvs. inu
H
ington is fully informed of Japan's
friendly attitude toward the Hucrta
government. An official commission
from Japan has recently been In Mox
ico investigating conditions. The Jap
anese bnttleship Yuluima is stationed
on the western coast of Mexico. There
are 3,000 Japs in Mexico.
relevant variations of tho load, especial
ly in tho winter mouths, when, owing to
I he greater demand tor oloctrlo powor
and tho desiro of the electric powur
companies to sell moro of thoir powor In
tho nn in in tr than in tho said winter
months, keeping in mind also that if
the price of lubor wus greater at some
seasons of tho year than beforo tho
Uiril'f laws were changed and tho period
of unemployment was forced on th
country, and presuming that one of til.)
moons of Jupiter should be accused by
tho grand jury of being a member of
somo of the rings of Saturn and was Id
addition to this represented as being
more than half full it the time, what
in your opinion stated without refer
ence to the overload or tho contractors
profits, and estimating Hint the work
would be done by the company by em
ploying dny lubor at the usual prices,
niid not taking into account tho present
over-supply of labor and consequent
lower than the average prices, what
would bo your answer f to how much
this work might have cost, or at least
what would the difforence have been
' that and the regular estimated
price and If so, how much and when, to
tho best of your knowledge and bollo',
I would It have boon possible under
the circumstances ut that price er
lesst"
Now, Mr. llagnuah did not ask this
quest inu, but it Is about the only nn?
of tho kind he overlooked and ho ma
tu It o nilvnntage of the hunch and use it
tomorrow.
As the story of what was done this
inn ruing it will do as well to repent
what Mr. Ilaganah nlly did osk, for
his questions were equally relevant and
had about as much bearing on tho case
Occasionally one of the commissioners
broke in and Interrupted the current of
(Continued on page 8.)
rriiTe ON THAINS AND NIWi
1 0. STANDS. FIVB CEN1E.
1 1
Moving Subjects From Chihua
hua and Juarez to Prevent
Trouble. ,
VILLA AND CARRANZA
HOSTILE TO JAPANESE
Feared They Might Kill One of
Them and Then Japan
Would Have to Act. ,
UNITED PRESS LEASED WI11E.
1 Paso, Texas, March 13. That 27
Mexican fedoral filibusters and 18 reb
els had been killed in a desperate fight
on the Mexican sido of the border op
posite Malpals, N. M., was the infor
mation received today by United State
army officers here. There were no de
tails. ' "
Why Japanese Are Moving.
Washington, March 13, Japan i
moving its subjects from Chihuahua
City and Juarez to Caloxlco not to make)
trouble for the United Statos, but to
prevent it.
This was made plain here today by
government officials who hall been def
initely informed of Japanese Ambas-
ndor ( hinda's reason for requesting per
mission to sond the party through th
United States.
Japan having recognized Presideut
Huerta and being on friendly terms
with him, flenerul Carranza and Villa
nre hostile to tho Japanese, it was ex
plained. This being tho enso, Ambassador
(liiinlo was afraid Villa or some of a is
fiery subordinates might kill one of
them, compelling the Tokio government
to deniund immediate reparation and
embarrassing both Japan and tho Uni
ted States.
At both tho white house and the state
department it was said nothing was
known of the note Moxicnn Foreign Min
ister Kojns professed to bo expecting
from Secretary of State Bryan, re-es-btblishing
tho ombaigo on the transfer
of arum from the United States Into
Mexico. At the Moxlcau embassy, it
was said, however, that Itojas had "Hid
best authority" for expecting the note.
righting at Tamplco,
Vora Cruz, Mox., March 13. Contin
ued fighting was reported today be
tween Tampico's federal outposts ami
the rebels bofore that city. It was said
the Tampico hospitals were full oC
wounded.
lluerta Drafts Soldiers.
Mexico City, March 13. President
Huerta was drafting soldiers wholesaUn
today. His method was Informal. Hist
press gangs simply seized whoover the
saw in the streets men of wealth and!
Influence, of courso, excepted and.
turned them over to dnil sergeants.
Noither ago nor youth wus spared.
Provided he was strong ouough to lug a
rifle, no boy wus too young, and no man.
too old to bo snfo if a press gang com
nered him.
Nine hundred convicts from the local
prisoners were among the conscripts.
Aiming them wero ninny desperate crim
inals, Huerta has been much worried lately
by the Zapatistas' activities in the vi
cinity of Cuernasaca. All the men he
can spare from the local garrison have
been sent northward. It was, therefore,
to raise a fon-o to deal with the Cuerna
saca rebels that he is now pushing con
scription so energetically.
Mnports were current of brisk fight
ing about Torreon, but nothing definite
was known.
RATTIE
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JAPAN BUT
SEEKING!
AID ROW
(Continued on page four.)