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TH IRT Y-SEVENTH YEAR.
SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1014.
nris.r- nvn ON TRAINS AND NBW1
iRlt. I yJ BTAND8. riVB CINIL
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Complete Destruction of Water-Pierce Holdings at Tampico
Reported Warehouse of German Corporation Also De
, stroyed by Fire Situation in Regard to Foreign Property
Very Serious Federal Gunboats Said to Have Razed
Some Structures Great Battle Is Raging and Conflicting
Reports Are Sent Out. ' ;
Vnshingt5n, April l, Complete do-
atruction of the Waters-Pierre property
iit Tampico Ky Mexican rebels was re
ported in a dispatch received by the
Btnte department -tlit j-. The loss is
estimated at Sun.OoU. The report
Huid:
"Wireless report indicate that tlio ,
Hituation in regard to foreign property
is complicated and serious, 'ihe W titers
Fierce refinery was occupied by tho
rebels for two davs and r.s a conse
quence it was under the fire of fed
oral gunboats. I'be loss of the cntiroinnd Paris. l!cr, when he took Juare",
priperty-is feared. The warehouses of
the Agenda Commercial company, r.
Oern-nn property, were burned.
"The loss to the Waters-Pierce prop
erty will exceed $5'.O,O0O.','
Hear of Federal Victory.
Very Cruz, Mex. April !. Federal
omriais here today protested to havj;
received news of a federal- victorv at
Tampico. Admiral Fletcher's advic.ei,
. .
However, were to the eflect that th?
buttle was still progressing.
. Admiral Mayo reported that tlio
federal gunboat Zaragoa had jv.ir.ed
tlie Vera Cruz in aheiliiig tho rebel
positions but neither side had gained
any material advantage. V He said a
Hlorm which was ragi-r.g made the em
barkation ct refugees difficult and
dangerous nnd he was advising them
ii gainst taking to the' battleships tfnlil
v the situation becomes more critical.
Reports were current among fedoials
- en shore, he added, that the American
warships were supplying arms to the
rebels.
Spanish Refugees Arrive?
Juarez, April 9 One hundred and
fifty more Spanish refugees from Tor
reon arrived hero today, aivl wc;t
, promptly passed along to El Peso.
They were absolutely destitute, ahough
up to the time of torreon 's fell "most
' of them were at lenst wed to do, and
Nome wcrf wealthy.
One hi-Rdred carloads of cotton,
WOMAN IS KILLED AND TWO
OTHERS HURT IN ACCIDENT
Stockton. Cnl.. Anril fi W A
A
Suead, a prominent business man
Kansas City, and Mrs. W. B. Blakely
are exneeted todav tn recover fi-nm in.
juries received in an automobile acci
dent in which Snead's wife was killed
on the lower Sacramento road, just-j
outside this city late yesterday.
The party was en rout to bacrnmen
to meet Mrs. Biakeley's husband. Pass
ing nnotljer automobile, S?nead was
forced to leave the pavement, and, in I
."(tempting to regain it, the machine!
hkidded, and turned completely. The '
three ocjnpants were pinnel beneath it!
oud it took five 'minutes to releace
them. Mrs. Snead was crushed to death,
Mrs. Blakely suffered internal injur- f
ies and Pneail was jeverely cut aud '
bruised. This was the third death on i
this stretch of road within the past
few weeks.
"Y'-'iZ head ' U a chronic disease with
i:nny a man who wears a small hat.
Los
Angeles, Cel., April 0.
With
an uuiiientitied Spanish 1
beauty as the prize, Joe Tas and j
fr Pico Barico fought a knife duel in 4 j
, a dark hallway in the Mexican '
quarter early today and when the
" clicking of the steel had ceased
and the lights were flashed on,
Paz lay dying from a deep gash '
in his neck. f
. Barico ran from the building,
snatched liat fiom the head of
a man who was passing, and tle-1 i
down an alloy..
Salone Hoskins, a lodger in the 1
building, saw the men meet in the j
narrow hallway and spring at ea !
other's throats. He stood spell- j,
bonnj while they struggled, claim-. 4
injj later that he was rigid from
terror and unable to interfere-. -
seized by General Villa at Torreon,
were duo here today. The cotton in to
ue Miippeii iu iiverpuoi mm sum lor
the rebel government's benefit. 1
Why Ha Looted Banks. j
A long telegram was received from
Villa, to be forwarded to President
Wilson, in which tho rebel general
seeks to justify his seizure of Torreon
uaiiKs. v. nen ne was in lorreon a of railroad systems, still we go on
year ago, he explained, he had 2,U0I,- .building railroads for there can bo no
000 gold in rebel funds, $"i00,000 of dovclqpineut without them. Many ir
which he deposited in these banks, ligation enterprises have failed and
talcing iiratts on Aew lork, London
Torreon was held by the federals and
the banks, according to the telegram,
stopped payment on the draft?, weak
euing Villa's credit, and making it
harder for him to procuro munitions.
The banks shipped their money to
pianos of safety before General elas-
co, the federal commander, evacuated
put. tney nau mucn more man
enough assets, . which they couU not
i.- v;nn'u t-.iiii nun .
move, to cover Villa's $00,0UO.
Fiorce Fighting Goes On.
Los Angeles, Cl., April 9. Fierce
fighting is going on at Tampico on
,uo .uCi,c cVi, K
a wire.ess message picked up by a sta-
tiou here ami purporting to come from
a ship off tho Mexican port. The mes-
sage said that the rebels were forcing
tho fedora's to the inner fortifications
of the town
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Will Censor . Dispatches
Mexico City, April 9. Newspaper
correspondents here were formally
notified today that all their dispatcher
will be censored hereafter.
Want Bryan to Do Something.
Washington, April 9. Further rep
resentations were being made to Gen
eral Cahranza today, .Secretary of State
Bryan said, concerning the deporta
tion of Spajiiards from Torreon. Spain million acres of desert land into pro
having requested it, the state depart-, ductive fields; has made ninny happy
nmnf iu 4rvinff trt nrrfliKTA fr.r thpir w- linnies. fltlil nililpit frrpnt. wnnlth 'tho
j t,irn. - At" present they are on the
" XT . 1 It. 1 1 1 j. T.t II- 1. .n t
.Jti - niwu lilies uanus m -""i
, "uely destitute.
Pictures Illustrating
Trouble in
w jf--)1 a&Wj ' ilv.N -rt.
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No. L Typical parade of protest- against home rule In Belfast No. 2.
Sir Edward Cirscn, leader of the TJnioi. lata. No. 3. Type of British artillery.
WEST SAYS IT IS
UP TO STATES Tl
E l PROJECTS
Declares Post-Mortems Over
Carey Tracts Are Not in
Order Now.
OUTLINES PLAN TO
GET THINGS GOING
Declares Conference Should
Not Adjourn Until Some
Action is Taken.
Denver, Colo!, April 9. The follow
ing address was made hero today by
Governor West, beforo tlio irrigation
conference:
' ' Our mission hero today is not to
hoKl post morteins over defunct Car?"
Art projects, but to breath th.) breath
of life into t hc-m and if we expert to
acco'iipiisn any good m Tins convenuou
wo must keep this ever in mind.
"lu every walk of life we find fnil-
ures far more failures than successes
Banks fail, yet wo know they lire pro-
ductivo of good and a public necessity
Many have failures in the promotion
other failures are bound to follow, yet
the movement will go forward; now
projects will not only bo promoted, but
tho failures of yesterday- will Be ma le
successes tomorrow, with a result that
vast areas now lyin waste will be
turned into productive fields.
TUe anthor of tho (Wy nct onft
of Ul0 ablrat mp , blic if(J
. . with vif'io w,...rfi ot, '
ers who looked upon the great America
jBlt nllti,ini hn 9n.1
! brush and" cactus, ho saw it checker-
. '
boarded with beautiful fields aud dot
ted with happy homes. He was not ouly
a man with a vision, but a man of
Bctioll as wcli Bs consorvativfl gtategma.
jt wa9 h() wno introduced and secured
,h(? 0 o mem wUA , h
f ,he catpst iml)ortance to lno WCHKt
,rHg ,0 nBdenltood in tll W8t.
f ,h , hin wh,ph
excita the interest of the leaders in tho
two houses of Congress when Senator
Carey proposed to tack Ilia irrigation
measure onto the suudrv civil bill was
jt3 nosible lenttth. lie was advised
that while such a method as he proposed
to secure its passage of his bill was a
littlo irregular yet to favor him they
would stand for it providing he would
ltl it down and mako it short. Thu
the. Carey a t-camo into being in 1S!U.
Carey Act Has Done Good.
"Tho Carey act has been productive
much good; it has turned over
j west. On the other hand many project.
(Continued on pago 3.)
Ulster, Ireland
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LODGE SUPPORTS
L
TOLLS DIFFICULTY
Republican Statesman Says
It Would Be Very Foolish
to Subsidize Ships.
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MURDER OF CITIZENS
FAILS TO EXCITE THEM
He Has Marveled at Indiffer
ence Displayed Over Re
cent Outrages.
Washingon, April O.C'omparing tho
outbursts of those' who have been Op
posing the "surrender of Panama can
al rights to Ajnx; defying lightening
that did not exist, Senator Henry Cab
at Lodge of Massachusetts advocate 1
today tho passage Jjy tho senate of tne
resolution providing for the repeal ot
the tolls exemption clause in the Pa in
ula canal bill. Lodge said he could not
loal with treaty questions in a partisan
or political spirit and told of support
ing President Cleveland and of oppos
ing a number of republican presidents
on treaty queitious.
'But Preside ut Cleveland s policy
in regard to tho Venezuela treaty,"
saiil Lodge, "involved serious issues
ami grave possibilities. It was not a
mcro declamation against anotl.er coun
try and a policy of importing danger
intended only to rau-o temper around
our polling booths.
JNo courage itotimrea,
'There is no particular courngo re
quired to insist upon passing our ships
through the canal without tho payment
of tolls. To incur no physical danger
by doing so and to hurl defiance at the
rest of tho world nnd-jr these conditions
lo doubt is a most agreeable pass time
to those who engage in it, and more
especially bo as it has the added at
traction of" being a perfectly safe
.unuf-emont. But it seems not wholly
satisfving as an armimeut.
The attitude ot Ajax defying the
lightening1 is not very inspiring if theiii
is no lighting to bo feared. Tho out
cry about exhibiting subserviency to
Knglaml or any otner. country because
tho administration may see fit to ask
for the repeal of the exemption clause
seems hardly worthy of consideration.
America is altogether too great aim
powerful to 1e subservient to anyone.
Murders unnecdea.
" As J have listened to some of the
roe'ent stirring declarations of our read
iness to face tho world in arms in de
fense of tolls exemption, about which
no country would think of fighting,
there have been moments when 1 nav-
marveled as I thought of the coolness
and indifference with which we have
contemplated the murder of more than
130 Americans, not many miles from
our own border. '
"Violated rights and unavenged and
almost unnoticed deaths of those mno
cent people have gone unheeded and
now we makn heroics about canal tolls
and whero there is no peril to anyone
It seems to be particularly out of
place."
Do Not Need Subsidy.
Lodge took tho position that exemp
tion, either for coastwise or foreign
trading ships, would not be a violation
of treaties in the strict leal sense. He
pointed out that from the high pinnacle
of international esteem reached by
America in 1!)(9 wo had become dif
trusted, and this fart, he said, was due
to a number of reasons. He argued that
this distrust would no further aggra
vated by doing a thing "so useless a
to subsidizing a class of ships which
don't need subsidy."
AST
Santa Monica, Cab, April 9.
With the trial dignified by for-
mal weightiness of a murder case,
Joe Kuderliu, 70 years old, was,
fr found guiltv ot slapping the wrist
of Mrs. Edith Patterson at an
election polling polling place. Ho
. was fined 9f-. They were both
electioneering for the same vote.
The Weather
The Dickev Bird
eays: Oregon, oc
casional rain west
f j, snuwers t-ant pur-
jiL Cation tonight and
in.
Ij t nday, southerly
gale - along the
WILSON IN CANA
fort t)0
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Mir-
Perform Caesarian
Operation on Elk
Horn Woman Here
A Caesarian operation, art operation I over the country roads for a distance
which is considered to be one of the ! of ei8ht miles, Mrs. Foda was uncon-iit-.
'. scions, and sho was tt'.ken to the Wil-
most delicate in medical historv, was . : ; : . .
lamette tauiOoruuu as soon as un
successfully performed at tho illsvin- sib'e.
ette sauitoriuin last evening by Dr E. rjr9. Fisher and Garnjobst began
E. Fisher and his assistant, Dr. Gam-' the operation while the woman was still
jobst upon Mrs. A. C. Koda, of Elkhorn. ; i" state of 'om ni1 succeeded in
.Probably there never was such a bri"l"inK a eiM inl the world alive
romarkablo operation performed here i al"1 wel1- The "'other ahjo survived,
in Salem beforo. Mrs. Roda, who has I and, according to last reports, is get
been confined for some time, left herti"g along ns well as could be expect
home at Elkhorn recentlv, and was ! e'b following such a serious aud dch
staying at the home of a rotative at I cato operation.
Gear station, eight miles east of Sa- Medical works have it that it is very
lent, when bfct evening she was sud-. seldom that both mother t-nd child live
dcnly attacked with convulsions. Br. after a Caesarian operation, but Ir.
Fisher was called, and h advised the i Fisher has made an exception to the
sufferer's relatives to send her to this, rule by saving both the lives ot the
c ity. H'poif arrival here, after jolting ' mother and infant, in this instance.
ow Caused -by
fife
m
Chicago, April 9. A quarrel over
woman's suffrage was believed by the
police today to have been responsible
for last night's murder of a man be
lieved to be William Woods, but com
monly known as " Woodsey, the man
from California."
In connection with the murder de
tectives are looking for James Fran
chee, nicknamed "Duffy, the Goat,"
who was with oods just before no
was killed. "
The killing occurred either in or
lust in front of Kov Jones' cafe, an
underworld resort on Wabash avenue.
According to waiters, Woods, Franchee
and am unidentified wonlan entered
the cafo together, sot down and short
ly began disputing the suffrage ques
tion, Woods espousing women's right to
vote, and r rancheo insisting tnat Micir
place was the home.
.Finally they left, Btiu wrangling,
and a minute later tho woman rushed .
H
ADJUTANT C. W. BROOKS, OF VOL
UNTEERS OF AMERICA, LURED
WOMAN INTO HI3 OFFICE AND
ATTACKED HER.
Seattle, Wash., April 9. An informa
tion was filed in superior court today,
charging assault against Adjutant C.
W. Brooks, of tho Volunteers of America
homl of tnp Theodora Ttcscue Home for
girls here, by Deputy Prosecuting At -
torney Crawford into, on com pun nt
of C. J. Gordon, of the Enterprise
Heating company. Gordon accuses
tho rescue worker of attacking his wife
in tho offices of the Volunteers iu the
Arcade building here last July
The Gordons at the time, according
to their story, lived in Portland. Airs.
Gordon was visiting here with her
mother and became acquainted with
Adjutant Brooks at meetings in con -
nection with tho 'iluntcer work, at
which tlio rescuing of wayward girls
was discussed.
Wnce tho alleged assault, letters are
said to have pussed between Brooks
and Mrs. Gordon in which ho referred
to the alleged affair "in his of f ices.
After securing tno letters and moving
to heattlc, .Mrs. liordon s nusnand tooK
the mat'ter up with officers hero. -
Tho Theodora h'.me was beinir built
at tho time and Mrs. Gordon was in -
terested in tho progres of the work,
she says, and she went with Adjutant
Brooks to look over tho buildine und
talk over plans for tho work of the
institution which is now housing girls
who have been bet raved by men.
On nnothes occasion she Bavs Brooks
mnde up n party to go to Mount Baker
park but that he was tno only one
who showed up. The trip was made
and while they were alone together
she accuses that the rescue worker told
her he loved her.
She repulsed his advances, she de
clared. An evening or two later,
Brooks asked Mrs. Gordon to attend an
important conference in his office the
next morning, that bis wife would also
bo there.
She agreed to meet him at tho con-
Terence and when sne arrived he was
alone in the office. When she en
tered, she declares, he locked the doors
and again told her of his undying love.
A struggle ensued, she stated, in which
she proved unable to ward Off bis pro
testations of affection.
She confessed to her husband and the
ourrra
M
Results
an's
Death
in rignin, exclain ii'jj; VJVotOscjy is
dying."
Tho waiters hurried out and found
him on the sidewalk, shot through the
heart. rancheo had already disap
peared, and the woman also vanished
under cover of the confusion.
The police accepted nil of this story
except the statement that tho shooting
occurred outside of the cafo. They
thought it likelier that it was inside,
and that the fact was misrepresented,
In order to save the establishment's
reputation as fnr ns possible. .
In Woods' pocket a letter was found
addrossed to Miss Bit-lie ' WUllace,
Kingsland apartment, 691 Turk street,
San Finncisijo, and signed W. W,
Woods had figured here as a San
Franciscajn, but San Francisco mi's
sages, hancd on information' secured
from Mis Wallace, indicated that he
was there only a short time, nibout a
month ago, and that he posed as a rich
Chicagoan.
TEN OTHER WOMEN IDENTIFY
PROMINENT BUSINES3 MAN
WHO WAS ROBBER DURING
NIGHT HOURS.
New York, April 9. Edward Men
del, a prominent business man, oi New
ark, N. J., was sentenced here today to
serve 18 years in Sing Sing prison. The
evidence showed ho had lived a "Dr.
!Jekill and Mr. Hyde" existence for
i years,
Mendel's wife and two children were
in court, and they collapsed when sen
tence wax pronounced. Mendel was
convicted on a charge of assault pre
ferred bv Mrs. Pauline Koetzlo They
! met several months ago, she said, at a
baniuet at the Woolwortn cato.
"After several drinks," fai'l Mrs,
Koetzle, "Mendel led me to tho rail-
j road yards and attempted to assault
me. lie was unsuccessful, but took my
riu(s and earrings and escaped.
District Attnrncv Whitney told the
Uourt that ten women had identified
I Mendel as a man who bad robbed
j them in a similar manner,
I jrSi Mendel declared Mendel was a
,0,,.i husband and a regular cliurcn
goer.
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EXCLUSION BILL GOES OVER
1 Washington, April t. Consideration
todav of the Asiatic bill before the
j house immigration committee was post
i imnv d because of tho absence of Chair
j man Burnett. It was expected that the
j committee will meet again Monday,
i when tho Pacific cocist members will
press Japanese exclusion legislation,
! along with proposed Hindu exclusion,
STIFF EARTHQUAKE SHOCK
ALARMS CALIFORNIA TOWN
Ifeeildsburg, Cab, April 9. Quito a
stiff earthquake shock was felt here
about 9:4.j a. m. today. Pcoplo rushed
into the streets and for a short time
, ,niethinir like a panic prevailed. The
i thock was confined, so far as could
be leaYued, to Healdsburg's immediate
i vicinit v.
warrant issued toduy resulted from
their statement of the ease to tho pro
secutor. Adjutant Brooks is prominent in the
work of rescuing wayward girls and
has held a good reputatioa here.
CITY MUST
PAY POLICE .
is n
Decision of Judge Galloway is
in Favor Caines, Fiaher
and Sanders.
CITY SUES ITSELF
AND WINS AND LOSES
Queer Mixup Results From
Clajm as to Ineligibility
of Officers.
It will be conceded by anyone who
has hud a luwsuit that a man who
voluntarily gets into more of them than
ho can avoid, or takes more than his
share of one suit, has the instincts of
a pig.
Judged by this rule the far-famed
and ever-present Salem hog, pointed to
w'th becoming pride by all tho news
papers outside of the Capital City, nnd
most politicians when they do not get a
fat office, is again in evidence. Some
time ago tho city council in its un
wisdom, of which it seems to hare an
unlimited supply, passed an ordinance
requiring things that though on Ameri
can citizen might have all the qualifi
cations to fit him for the presidency
of tho United States, would not permit
him to hold the responsible position of
policeman in Salem. -The ordinance re
quired that to bo eligible to arrest a
bootlegger or pilot a drunk to tho sta- '
tion house, a man must have resided
threo joarft in Knlxm, and while it was
not stated in tho ordinance, must have
nlso voted about ''right,'' whatever
Ihat was. Last winter, throe police
men, Sanders, l'ishor and Gaines, were
named as policemen and their appoint
ment confirmed and ratified by the
council. Being so appointed thoy pro
ceeded to attend to the duties f theif
office, and attended to them so well .
that there was no complaint made.
Ahout this time "Peter Fogg," so to
speak, though that is not his name,
made the discovery, or thought he did.
that theso men had not resided throe
years in the city of Salem and therefore .
were not eligiblo to hold the office, and
were especially disqualified from draw
ing pay for such work ns they had
done. "Petor Fogg" got busy, nnd an
action was commenced, to enjoin the
city treasurer from paying these police
men any salary, TUe suit was brought
by the city of Salem against tho city
treasurer. That ought to be enough
law for the city to tackle in one caso,
but as stated, the city developed tho
characteristics of a hog. Acting on
behalf of tlio city treasurer tho city
city heroically came forward to pro
tect the treasurer and itself from itself.
Through City Attorney Page the city
demurred to its own complaint, saying
it had no cause ot action, and had no
standing in court. Judge Gallowny has
wrestled with some knotty problems
that would liavo mndo Solomon want
another kid to help him, out, but when
lie rnn against a "use where a dod-
gasted city sued itself to enjoin it
self from doing something that at the
samo time it came into court and al
leged that it had 'no right to do, and ;
prayerfully asked the judge to com
pel it to refrain from doing it to itself,
the judge was puzzled. Ho was com
pelled to give judgment in fnvor of
the city some way, and he did. He
sustained tho city's demurrer to its
own complaint, dismissed tho suit and
advised the city to let itself alone.
Tho city having sued itself and nlso
having come into curt and pstablis&ed
the fact that it had no right to do
80i P"t judgment ugainst itself for mak
ing a collective jackass of itself and
had tho costs taxed against itself as a
warning to make iU blamed fool self
behave. Anyway the city as defendant
won ngninst the city ns plaintiff and
made, itself ns plaintiff puy the costs.
In the meanwhile "Peter I'ngg" is
laying awake nights yonJering just
where he got off at. The policemen
continue to h;dd their jobs, tho city
must pay them their back salaries, nlso
tho costs of the cuso as stated and
there you are.
A woman's strength lies in h-jr weak
ness. E
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Stockholm, April 8. King Gus-
tave was successfully, operated on
today for stomach ulcers. His doc-
tors said he was doing well. The
operation was performod at the
Sophia hospital. During the king's
illness the crown price is acting as
regent.'
coast. '