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A 5fr? Full Leased Wire Dispatches Today's News Printed Today vV f I 05 ON TRAINS AND KEW8 PRICE TWO CENTS stand3, nvE cents i THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON; SATURDAY, MAT 2, 1911 II III jfA W II I I jlYT IIAtAi W 'w-i - V-, .fcP I - ORDERS ISSUED TO DISARM CIVILIANS IN STRIKE Z Regular Troops Will Take Up Collection and Give Receipts in Return. BOTH PARTIES ARE GLAD TO SEE ARMY Two Strikebreakers Cremated in Fire Which Destroyed Residence. Washington, May 2. President Y.'ii sou today ordered the complete dis arantcnt of all civilians iu the Colorado strike districts. The order was issued through Secre tary of War Garrison, who issued u proclamation summoning everyone ia Ithe strike zone who possesses a run or mmmiuitiou to surrender them to the federal troops there. N The proclamation was couched in im perative military language. Jt was taken to apply to strikers and miiio guards but not to the militia. The! actual wording was: "All persons not j belonging to the military forces." Receipts were promised for the aruiSj find munition surrendered and tliiSj mid ammunition surrendered nnd this plied that they would ever be returned.! It was stated that a time limit will be set within which the order nmt be complied with and places will be desig nated where the regulars will receive weapons and munitions. Two Miners Lose Lives. Denver, Colo,, Hay 2. Advices le ceived here shortly before noon by Governor Amnions said that Judson Snow and Bob Doggett were cremattd early today in a tire which destroy-! two frame buildings at Oak (.reel:, in lioutt county. Snow and Doggett were employed as strikebreakers. Commenting ou the proclamation from Washington ordering all Colorado civilians to lay down their" arns, 'Frank Grove, one of the operators' at torneys, said: "Secretary Garrison's proclamation was very welcome. We offered to dis arm -the guards yesterday. We have never wauted to kill anybody." District President John McLennan of the United Mine Workers of Ameri ca Raid: "We are more tha.n pleased with the proclamation. We have always con tended that if the guards were unarmed wo would never need any arms. We are ready to surrender all of our weapons "when the guards are." - Square Deal Promised. Trinidad, Colo., May 2. "Xow we'll get a square deal," was an expression . frequently heard here today. ' Striking coal miners and representa tives of the owners alike use it. One of the most hopeful things about the (situation was that both sdies seemod (Continued on page 2.) II REFUGEES FORC FLEE WITHOUT FUEI acrjrs"-r-r - " . San Diego, Cal., May 2. Amazed j because the people of the United j States are displaying so little excite ment over the Mexican situation and severe in their criticism of the govern-' ment for its failure to rush troops in to Mexico, the 259 American refugees1 who arrived here yesterday from Giia-' (ialajara were either seeking employ-, ment in San Diego today .or leaving for cities where they have relatives or friends. ! It was the busiest day in the his- j tory of the San Diego chapter of the American National Ked Cross. Few of; the refugees, who were driven hurried- i ly out of Gnadatajira and forced to leave their homes and business inter-. - oi-ts, had money upon" their arrival liere. The Hed'Cruss at once volun teered to furnish transportation to all who cared to leave the city am! to find work for those who preferred to; stay. ! "We are financially ruined," said one refugee after another at the Red Cross headquarters. "They have tak en everything we had in the world, except our lives. Ov.r hands are tied.: We can do uothing. I'ccle Sam olone can help us. He can go into Mexico' nd force the Mexicans to return, our homes ami money." In a corner of the room a score of little children, juven-le refugees, were huddle, 1 together. One of those who applied for transportation today wi J. II. Kipp. who owned th. largest hardware store in Western Mexico, ranviug an $).nOO stock. "They came into my t and gave m an hour and a half to get out of West's Memory Shames Records DRY STATISTICS STORED AWAY FOB TEN YEAES CALLED TO MIND WHEN QUESTIONED. Governor West's luck is as good as his memory, and that is phenomenal in some respects. The governor has a fashion, or habit, of storing little gems of thought, especially on finance and politics, away in 'his think tank, and je has also developed the faculty of calling these littlo things to mind just when he needs them. This was illustrated in Portland Friday, when he spoke before the Jackson Club of that city. Incidentally ho spoke of Mr. Johns boing interested ju a lum ber company in eastern Oregon, and he Btated that this company had pur chased from the state a tract of land in eastern Oregon, paying one-third of the price down, and after cutting the timber off it, allowed it to re vert to the state. This morning this statement was questioned, and an examination of the books in the land office failed to show any index of such a transaction, but the governor backed his memory against the index, and insisted there was -such a transaction, and even named the section in which the land lay. Getting the book of records of the year, he threw it down on the .-1.1.. V.nl. ,.A,,n,l n . tlia nnrTf limit! UUtl I HQ uuun i'I'cuui i ." I'ft i he wanted. There it was staring upf at him from the page Tie opened the 1 book nt, and the povornor's memory I was a winner. The land was 100 acres in scctioTi 10, townbliip 10 south of range o'i oast. The record also showed that, the lands were sold to the com pany in which Mr. Johns was inter ested in 1S93, that 8 whs paid, and that tho entry wan cancelled 10 fears Inter with no other payments having ! been made, and the timber had been cut off. DEPUTIES TURN IN REPORTS TO COUNTY ASSESSOR WEST - "Report:', from the various deputy, as-: aessors of Marion county are being re- j ceived by Hen F. West, county assess-; or. J. lit. Watson and L. E. Henuies, ! of Tumor, both deputy nssessors, have i completed the work in their districts . and turned in their roturns jtliis. niorm ; ing. r.. van iuys, oi AuniBvuie, . was in the city yesterday and report- ed that he would have his district ; completed by tho first of next week. George Beach, of Woodbnrn, reported i hi district yesterday. The following aio yet to report: A. E. Adkins, of Seotts Mills; K. K. Matten, of East of j Snlcm; George Keedi, of Stayton;! Frank Kaylor, of alarian; .Matthew Gibfion, of Sublimity. OREGON SALT LAKES ARE STILL IN DEMAND FOit LEASE Albert and Summer lakos, in eastern Oregon, are still in demand. This morning State Treasurer Kay, a mem ber of tho board, received an offer for a lease of the lakes, which doubles the amount heretofore offered for their use. John II. Haak, of Portland, proposes to pay the state $2,000,000 for tho right to remove the sale from the lakes, the payments to be 25 per cent of the profits which are "guar anteed ' ' to give the state not less than $50,000 a year. . The lease to run 40 years. The guarantee, however, is of the warm ozone character, and no chock or other tangible thing accom panied the offer. Guadalajara,' said Kipp. "It meant death if I didn't. . They "dido 1 even givo me time to get a few dollars to gether. I don't know that I will ever go back." The opinion is strong here among the refugees' that the 75 Americans who could not be notified in time to catch the train from Guadalajara are deal. Their feeling against the Am ericans was so strong when the train pulled out that the refugees here are certain that the Mexicans would -not have stoped at murder. The refugees had expected to find the people in the United States wild ly excited over Mexicnn conditions, but in this they were disappointed. Many of them insisted that there have lieeu thousands of outrages below the line, any one of which would justify war. TENNIS CLUB ORGANIZED. As the season for indoor athletic games is over, the business men of the city, who have been holding a series of biff-ar.d-volleyball games, yester day evening organized a tennis asso ciation. Plans for the summer searon weie diseutsed. The following offi corn were cle.ted: President, Li D. Iiowcll; vice-president. J. B. Yonng: secretary, K. M. Hoffnell. These of ficers will constitute an executive committeo to co-oiate with Physical Director Gingrich to promote the gen eral welfare of the association. Mrs. Ijera Meek, of Arlington, Kan ra. is a Riit at the home of Mr, and Mrs. V. W. Moore. ED TO mm IN MEXICO CITY ARE HUERTAJO RESIGN General Carranza Still Refuses to Agree to Proposed Armistice. FEAR FELT' FOR 75 AMERICAN REFUGEES O'Shaughnessy Angered by Reports Is On His Way to Washington. Washington, May 2. The mediators between the United StnJtes anil MeTii.'O were hopeful today of a peaceful set tlement. General "Carranza still re fused to agreo to an armistice but it was stated this need not provent an agreement between Washington nnl Mexico City. At the same time that the powers' representatives in Wash ington were hinting at the desirability of eliminating the " Huerta must go" Item of President Wilson's demands, their representatives in Mexico City were urging tho dictator to resign. . Plans were made for a nntional fun eral for the Americans killed at Vera Cruz. Refugees at San Diego worn pressing for American armed intervv'i tiou am! expressing the opinion that 75 Americans who failed to catch the refugee train out of Guadalajara had been killed. Chargo d' Affaires O'Shaughnessy, angered by reports that President Wi! son had criticised the wn(v in which he handled his duties in Mexico, was on his way to the United States for on interview. Sir Lionel Carden, who is still acting as British miuister there though ho is under orders transferring bin to. Brazily'lias .- proved a surpris to the administration here. For some lime following Huerta 's assumption of the presidency he was unquestionably strongly ' anti-American in his views and seriously interfered with The suc cess of President Wilson'? Mexican policy. In tho prerent crises, however, he has seemed entirely to have changed his views and rendered tho United States valuable assistance at tho Mex ican capital. Huerta, however, was reported virH balky as to suggestions that he retire. He was. said to have maintained that his attitude has been perfect hv cor rect, that he apologized for the Tam pica incident, that the demand that he salute the flag was unwarranted, that he nevertheless acceded to it with a few modifications, that he has pro tected Americans and that there is no reason whv ho should yield further. Will Not Delay Plan. Brazilian Ambassador Da Gama as sured Secretary of State Bryan today .that even should General Carranza rc fuse to agree to an armistice in Mexi 1 co, the mediators do not consider that plans for an amicable settlement be ' tu-onn hA 'Tiirifn Ciiv nnrt Washington governments need be upset. He agreed that their work was yet in the pre liminary stage and admitted that they were delaying in the hope of hearing furhter and more favorably from Car ranza. Then he went into conference again with the other envoys. Secretary of State Bryan today an nounced that the danger of interna tional complications growing from the 4 threatened destruction of Tampico ail 'properties had been averted. lie snid nn.l f..l...l. y.ni arvr.-wt.l UC Jd la null i.'Kiaia net uui.i ug.u- to avoid damaging them. Official news that Estavo Ruiz had k... n r.r..l ...n.l Cnraicn minicitDi lit i uircu HljlVlllWll ............. . Mexico, succeeding Jose Rojas, re i signed at President Huerta's request ' was received here today at hte Spanish" j embassy, which is- reprseenting the I Mexican government in Washington ! during the cuspension of regular diplo- matic relations. Funeral S"ip Due Saturday, j New York, May 2 The funeral ship j Montana,, bringing the American bluo- jackets and marines killed at Vera i i'rnz. will sail from that port Monday j and is due here the Saturday following. J Services of a national character probablv will be arranged. Secretary ' of the Xavy Deniels has asked tho war ! departments co-operation and every martial honor will be shown to the I dead. A mammoth military and naval parade is planned in New York. -.. . , ! 1 Ml 1 1.-1.1 Juemonai services aiw win uv uri'i in Chicago, Mobile and elsewhere the slain lived. LARGE CROWD GOES TO i ATTEND "FOUNDERS' DAY" There was a big crowd at tho Ore I gon Klectric depot this morning to take the limited for Wilsonville, where ithe train will be met by the up-river boat and passengers taken to Cham ' poeg to attend the celebration, the jlltb under the auspices of the pio- i Heers. anil tne iiii anniversary oi the famous meeting there.' The cele bration today will have special fea- turen in honor of the grand old pio j neer, F. X. Matthieu, who died last winter. There was a number went ; down on tbe earlier trains, and besides : these quite s number made the trip in I autos. Types of Mexican Arrayed I ; I , " " ' r r-'Jt ' vs . 1 Photos by American Treaa Assoclatloa N view of tbe activities of the Cnlted States against Mexico Interest Tes ters In tbe persutinul nud character of the Mexican soldiers. In the Illus tration a typlcnl group of Mexicans who fought under General Villa, the famous rebel lender, la shown. In tbe lower view ma; be seen a regl ment of Uiiertn'g federals on their way 194,134 Ready to Cast Ballots REGISTRATION TOR PRIMARIES THIS YEAR WILL EXCEED 1912 BY ABOUT 93,000. Secretary of Stato Olcott this morn ing issued a statement of registra tion up to May first. This shows tho total to be 194,132, and of these 110, 277 aro republicans, 51,000 democrats, 5,fi.')5 progressives, 9,319 prohibition ists, 5,365 socialists and 7,313, of no party affiliation. Marion linn a total of 11,583, and of theso there are republicans, 7,099; democrats, 2,074: progressives. 199 prohibitionists, 345; socialist, 240; auditive by Mr. Katclift'e. miscellaneous, 520. j The total registration before the' primaries two years ago was 131.8S0. i Mr. Kozer estimates the number still to come at about 25,000, 'which would make tho total about 20,000. BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED. Permits for new cottages that wile. ., . ' . . . . ,... ,,: . . ., - , -,,-A letter was read rro.n I ounty superin cost in the neighborhood- of (5,950 wero issued by tho city recorder this week. J. Pemherton will build a story and a half structure at 1455 South Commercial street, which is to cost $2,500, and W. II. 'iogors will put up a 2,250 one-story residence at 370 Richmond avenue. Mrs. E. Ostrandor has taken out a permit to erect a one story frame dwelling at 425 North Twentieth street, to cost $1,200. BOO FEDERALS ATTACK TROOPS GUARDING PLANT Vera Cruz, Mexico, May 2. Five hi.ndred federals, trying to cut the Vera Cruz water supply, attacked Am trica.j troops on the government plant thu cr'tcrnoon. General Funston rush ed a detachment from headquarters to reiufi rce them. How would it do to provide pen sions for voters who register! The Weather Oregon i Fair ton! ght and 8unkay; west erly winds. THIS Soldiers Against America B3 , through Mexico City. GOOD PROGRAM RENDERED AND ... VARIOUS SCHOOL PROBLEMS DISCUSSED. The Parojit-Tcac'iier association 'of Highland held a meeting at tho High land school Friday night, which was largely nttendod. Tho following pro gram was given: Song, Pour and Pif tit grade boys; song, Fourth and Fifth grade girhi and boys; prayer, Rev. Ervinc; song, Mrs. Jasper. Tbo program was followed by a de bate: "Kesolved, That Marion Coun ty Ought to Pass the $S50,000 Road Bond." The affirmative side was rep resented by Mr. Krvino and the nega- Mr. Scott was to have upheld thj affirmative side with Mr. Ervine, biit was not present, In his absonco Joseph Smith was ask- ed fill tne vacancy, but owing to some technical point his speech was-not rec ognized. The negative side won, at u-Kof won nntiaiilnroil liv mtnV tn ttll I an unfair decision, owing to the in correct reading of the resolve. A.n .l. kn.l Un ,rl.,An n tendent Smith regarding the proposed school trip to be made to the Oregon Agricultural school at Corvallis on May 16. i STRIKERS ON BROADWAY ERIDGE . SEND SHOWER OF MISSLE3 INTO LAUNCH. Portland, Or., May 2. A shower df rocks thrown from the Broadway bridge onto a launch load of non-union men being taken to work today was the first violence in the strike of long shoremen ngninst the American Ha waiian Steampship company because the recently organized freight checkers union has not been recognized, une i man was struck but only slightly in- , r"J1 TJ 7 .n,. . , . i....k ly satisfied with explanations of the jured. The non-unionists were brought i to work yesterday in tancaus but on l account of the threatening attitude of the crowd of men about the Albers docks, it was deemed advisable to use a launch. The steamer Navajo was being un loaded today with a non-union crew and C. D. Kennedy, local agent of the American Hawaiian compnny hoped by working Sunday to have the ship ready for sea by Monday night. At the San Francisco and Portland Steamship company's dock, the other I comnany involved in the disagreement, the issue will be met late today with the arrival of the steamer Bear. Representatives of longshoremen have notified G. L. Blair, general man- aeer of the eomoany. that the caruo of the Bear will not be touched unless the checkers' union is recognized. Learns Identity . After 25 Years FLOYD 8. KERS&ATCE, SON OF MARION COUNTY FARMER, IS KNOWN AS GRIFFITH. Pendleton, Or., May S For 25 yeara Floyd S. Eerslake lived as Floyd Grif fith, under which . name ha married Hattio J. Taylor, a popular Fendleton girl, a fow months ago, only to learn ten tyg ago that hia mother had taken him when a baby from his fat h or, who is a wealthy farmer re siding near Salem, Or., and had given him the name of hia stepfather. Recent communication between ftither and son established the identity of the latter, which ho, had never had cause to ques tion. Young Mr. Kerslake then ob tained a new marriage license and a second marriage was performed. News of this leaked out today, friends who aided the pair admitting the proceed ings, which are verified by the mar riago license records in the office of the Umatilla county clork. ' The young Knrslnkes have gone to Snlcin to meet the father of the bride groom at the latter 's request, which was accompanied by a liberal chock to make sure of no delays. Mr. Kerslake, as Floyd Griffith, was omployed in a local music store. T COURT IS QUIET P. E. ft E. SAYS TAYLOR CARELESS LY BACKED INTO STREET CAR AND HURT HIMSELF. With both Judgo telly of Depart ment So. 1 and Judge Galloway of Depndtment No. 2 out of the city, the circuit' court for Marion county was a quiet placo today. No trials were on nnd no decrees rondcrcd. There is, however, plenty of --ork for tho judges when tltoy got back to thoir desks, nnd next weok the mill will be gin to grind again. A licentious t(S tho effect that the pluhuiLf in tho uuinBge suit" brought in thr circuit court or Marion min ty by J. W. Taylor against the Port land, Kugene and Eastern railway and the Arenz Construction company failed to look or listen for the approach of the company's car and that hd care lesfly backed his body against it are made in nn answer filed this morning by tho defendant compnny. The ans wer, lifter denying tho allegations made i'l the complaint, goes on to say that Taylor was in a position to see and hear the approach r cars and thnt hU injuries resulted from his own ne glect. The compnny states that tho rar was not going more than four miles per hour. N SMITH-LANGFORD BOUT CALLED OFF BY AUTHORITIES I.ondon, May" 2. As a result of tho intervention of tho home offico, the scheduled 20-round fighl hero June 30 between Gunboat Smith and Snm Lnng ford has been called off. The author ities interfered becauso of tho strong feeling hero ngninst a white man fight ing a negro owing to tho color ques tion being raised thereby. The fight may bo transferred to Paris. S 'S CODE San Francisco, May 2. Officials ol the Pacific Mail Steamship company wero gladder than they eould express today, of course, that thoir big liner, Siberia, was not a wreck off the south coast of Formosa. Their gladness was tempered, how ever, by some other emotions. They 'ipent a norverackirg day yesterday, and were quite conscious that the rel atives of the Siberia's passengers and of the members of its erow must have dona tho name thing. Reports of the liner's loss were not the kind of ad vertising thoy cared for, either. Moreovor, the mistake cost them a good many hundreds of dollars in ca ble tolls and for provisions for salvage and rescuo work. error. Jt they had Had the authority to arrange it, there was - no doubt there would have been a position open for a new wireless oierator at the Ogezakai station in Japan, whence the story of the Siberia's calls foe aid emanated. The explanation that tho operator must have mistaken an "M. B. 8." call, which was simply the Siberia's private rignal to the Persia, another Pacific Mail liner, for "8. O, 8.," which means "save our ship," or i words to that effect, was all very well as far as it went. It did not account, ! however, for the Ogezakai atatioa's announcement that the message had ncen picaea op on ins.rormosan eoasi ; also and by thipt iu Formosan waters. ' Neither dird it make it clear how the oporator got the Siberia's position HIP STIFF GPPQSITIOM TO TO BE DEVELOPING Huerta's Cabinet Disrupted by . Difference of Opinion in Conflict. CIVIL OFFICERS AT ; VERA CRUZ RETIRED Farmers Near City Ask that American Lines be Extended ; in Country. Vera Cruz, Mex., May 2. Announce- -ment thnt-Foreign Minister Rojas has resigned irom Prosident Huerta's cabi net was taken here today as confirma tion of report that formidable opposi tion to the dictator is developing in Moxico City. It was understood that Rojas thought the American flng ought to be saluted nnd favored sending a commission to Washington to endeavor to settle bis country's difference with tho United States. Apparently ho was so insifct ent on this that he angered Huerta. At any rate, the latter asked for his resig nation yesterday afternoon. In accordance with Secretary of War Garrison's order, General Funston was in absolute charge here today, Civil Governor Kerr and tho other civil au thorities retiring. ' Tho Mexican city council last night suggested tho prohibition of bull fights and the signing of an order to that effect was Korr's last oft'iciul act. Farmers surrounding Vera C'ma have asked Fuuston to extend his lines as they have found the Americans excel lent customers fur their products rand want to - eantintie supplying thein but Ard harassed" by .''raipers'' except witlfln.' tho 'laouo under AmeruMM' eun, trol. -V ' Charge d' Affaires O'Shrtnrtnessy sailed for Galveston, today ou the ten der Yankton. Food Problem Seriou. Tho food problem was becoming sori ous here this afternoon. Even at tho hotels neither fruit, milk nor butter wero to bo had. It was suggested that supplies could bo shipped from Tampico if tho rebels enptured it but the fight ing thero was dragging. The Vera Crua bcuiks wore doing 'practically nothing. A rumor was current horn today that Mrs. Clara Bockmeyer, a Gorman: wo man, was niistnkou for an American and killed' in Mexico City April 27. The report was without confirmation ' and ninny disbelieved it. Evacuation 8tories Unfounded. El Paso, Texas, May 2. Reports that tho federals had set Saltillo on fire and evacuated it proved unfounded today. Stories of the evacuation were at tributed to tho transfer, said to have taken place, of a detachment of the garrison to reinforce the federal force (Continued on page two. irosumnbly a wrong position, too, for t was out of the regular course be 'wenn Nagasaki and Manila. All theso thingH the Pacific Mail officials wanted to know more about. They promised a thorough investiga tion. First announcement that tha Siberia was in distress was sent out from Oge zakai early Friday. Other signals were said to have followed until final ly the messages beenmo indistinct and finally ceased altogether. - The last news the Pacific Mail re ceived until kite in the afternoon ar rived at 11 a. m. Friday. Then there was an iutorvnl of si lence and agonized waiting. After throe in the afternoon there arrived a Corregidor Island message to the ef fect that a wireless had just been re ceived from tho Siberia saying there was nothing tho matter with the ves sel and that it would be in Manila on schedule time. . This message was communicated to the Pacific Mail's Snn Francisco of fice by the United Press, but officials there were still pessimistic. The mes sage might have been sent out-before the ship met disaster, they said. Late in tho evening thore arrived another message by way of Manila in which Captain Zeeder was quoted as saying the Siberia was iu no trouble what ever. At U:10 Saturday morning the last doubt was set at rest by the ship's actual arrival at Manila. A dozen ships were cruising about the south end of Formosa at the time looking for its wreck. , DICTATOR SAID An IS FOR SIS.