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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR
8ALEM, OREGON. SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1811..
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FIVE ARE KILLED AND
FIREFHAFSWEEPS
PINNED UNDER ENGINE BOY SLf
Engine Trying to Save Loaded Cars Is Ditched by Rails
Curled by Fierce Heat, and Fifteen Men Are,
Thrown Into the Seething Flames
SHRIEKING FOR HEP, BOY
WHILE MEN TRY
Efforts to Sever the Doomed Boys Leg With a Shovel Fail
on Account of the Heat, and His Pitiful Cries Only
Stop With Unconsciousness and Death
Taeoma, Wash., July 11. When the
flames that wiped out two lumber mills
at Bismarck, near here, had been sub
dued early today, .the charred bodios of
two men and a boy were removed from I
beneath a switch engine which was
wrecked while trying to pull loaded
lumber oars from the danger zoue. An
other man is fatally burned and. 14
vmicrs urn mnicriu ironi less serious
injuries. The property loss is placed at
$115,000.
The dead:
C. A. Wcftcott, switchman.
Karl Carpenter, traction company in
spector. Olenvcl Gabriel, aged 14.
Fatally injured:
W. A. Manneor, switchman.
The injured:
Melvin 0. Kongsli, switchman; Clay
ton Hilligoss, switchman; Joseph Curtis,
laborer; Joseph Kemp, locomotive en
gineer; Leonard Cass; Carl Sharp;
1'erey Claino; Emit Klynn, Steve Me
Imnough; Jerry Curtis; E. 8. Craw
ford, locomotive fireman; George Soule,
brakeman; Dan Sorenson, and H. E.
Arnold.
The fire started at 8 o'clock last
night from an unknown cause in the
dry kiln of the Comly Mill company.
The blaze was seen by the Comiv
watchman when it seemed no larger I
than s man's hat, but hardly had the
alarm been given before the fire burst
out through almost the entire plant.
SOLDIER BOYS LEAVE
FOR GEARHART MONDAY
Company M hoards the S. F. Train at 7
A. M., Joining the Companies From
Corvallis and Pallas.
"I am sorry I cannot bo with the
company any longer. I liked the work
and went after it for all there was in
it. I received much benefit from the
company and wish it ail kinds of suc
cess. V'ou can be assured that whei,
over Private Cordier is he will speak a
good word for the O. N. G. and espe
cially Company M."
That is the text of a letter received
by Captain Max Gehlar, commanding
Company M, from Clifford Cordier at
C'onnel, Washington, in asking for his
discharge from the organization. It
is also the tenor of a large number of
letters received by Captain Gehlhar
teliing of- the good the oompauy has
done the boys and how they like the
work, both during the winter and at
the encampments. One boy who is at
I'hiloniath now writes that he will make
every effort to be on hand for encamp
ment. When the 7 o'clock Southern Pacific
pulls out of the station next Monday
morning it' will carry about 50 of At
company boys for the annual national
guard encampment at Gearhart, which
will last for 10 days. There are a few
places left in the eompany and .it is
expected these will be tilled before the
company entrains. This" is practically
the last chalice for young men desiring
to go to the Frisco exposition at the ex
pense of tho company to join, as the
government requires at least a year's
enlistment previous to the trip to the
great 1913 fair. This plan of seeing
the fair is attracting a number of young
men, as it offers an opportunity tuat
would not otherwise be given.
Will -Pick Up Woodbura.
On the train will be the companies
The Weather
Probably
fa;r
tonight and Sun
day, cooler Sun
da v : westerly
FOURTEEN HURT IN
TACOMA HE
R YARD
II
SLOWLY ROASTS
IN VAIN TO RESCUE HIM
Throws 15 In Tire.
Entitling a gauntlet of flame to save
several loaded lumber ears from the
flame-swept mill yards, a switch en
gine belonging to tho Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul railroad jumped
the track when the warped rails bont
beneath the load. The locomitive was
thrown into a mass of seething flames
with 15 men aboard.'
The death of the boy, Glenvel Gab
riel, was shockingly terrible an 1 patho
tic in the extreme. His right hand and
foot were pinned beneath rear end on
the engine tender and in spite of the
frantic efforts of several men to rescue
him, he was slowly roasted to death
while shrieking for help. Men, with
coats wrapped about their heads to
protect them-' from the furious heat,
tried in vain to pull Glenvel from be
neath the heavy tender. When finally
the flames, had almost reached the
helpless boy, he lapped into uncon
sciousness. .While in this state, one of
the men secured a fireman's shovel
and attempted to , sever the doomed
lad's leg with, the rough implement and
thus release him. He was driven away
by the heat, however, and the boy's
charred body was found later when the
flames had partly subsided.
The fire swept the sawmills of the
Bismarck.Mill company and the Comly
Mill company, entirely destroying five
buildings and 3,000,000 feet of lumber,
covering 11 acres.
from Corvallis and Dallas. The Wood
burn company, which is a part of the
Third, or Valley battalion, will be pick
ed up on the way. At Portland the
battalion will join the troop train that
will roll down the Columbia river val
ley to the coast to Gearhart. It has
been planned to have the companies ar
rive early in the afternoon so that
camp may be made by daylight and
everyone settled.
- Captain Gehlhar says that if he
would ever have to go to Mexico he
would feel that it would be his duty to
spend the greater part of the time in
the company kitchen looking to the
mess. The. stomach of .the soldier Is
one of the most important assets of
making a successful campaign. "There
fore, he has made special arrangements
for M company's mess. He says there
will be no "bacon" permitted in the
camp. He expects to have the regular
soldiers give him the "horse laugh"
when he serves ".Force" or "food shot
from guns" for the soldiers'' breakfast
every morning just like he has at home.
Captain Gehlhar thinks he is wise in
this respect that he will not give the
boys a severe change of diet at camp.
It is planned to serve a Marion hotel
dinner at camp.
Last year M company's mess was th
envy of the officers and this year it is
expected it will be more so. Then bv
nanas and cream were served to the
men, while all kinds of clams, cheese,
and milk were on tap so that the
"rooky" and the "non-com" fared
like the brigadier general.
Captain Gehlhar has made arrange
ments with the post exchange of the
Twenty-first infantry, the regular
army men, by which he .will purchase
credit slips for 10 per cent less than
they cost and sell them to the boys
for the full pjce, thereby netting 10
per cent for t:ie company fund, which
money will be used in making the ra
tions better and more "plentiful.
"Repeater" is the nickname that
has been given to E. Hansen, a young
11 -year-old lad who will be taken
along to camp as the company's mascot.
He is a "shark" with the bugle and
is expected to make things lively.
CHICAGO SWELTEES.
Chicago, Jul- 11. Chicago was swel
tering in one of the hottest days of
the summer today. At 1 o'clock this
arternoon the thermometer stood at so
.and no relief was in sight.
THREE IN ST. LOTJI3.
' .St. Louis, July 11. Government ther
j mometers Jiere registered 100 and street
'thermometers 106 at 1 o'clock this aft
: ernoon. Three deaths from heat had
; been reported. The weather bureau
j held out no hope for cooler weather.
f COOKS
iwODLES, DARK EYES
AND CHINESE MUSIC
Elongated rood Served With Bright
Smiles and Deglutition Aided by
Phonographic Benderlng of Music (7)
Salem has a really romantic spot.
It is the little noodle house on Ferry
street where the three persous were
murdered last summer by someone who
is as yet unknown.
This little house, which was a popular
place under the management of Y. Ko
da, suffered considerably after the trag
edy, but is now in the hands of May
Wing Tye and her husband, who have
come here from Portland to conduct a
noodle house and Chinese restaurant.
Thoy were originally from San Fran
cisco, and have brought with them
from the Chinese quarters of those cit
ies the real Oriental flavor in fixing up
the little house on Ferry street.
' When one enters the door, expecting
to find the old dark room, he is agree
ably surprised to find the place consid
erably changed. The long tables have
given way to smaller ones, windows
have been cleaned, and new curtains
placed over them. The walls are
adorned with Chinese pictures, while-t
from the ceiling hangs two decidedly
Chinese ornaments, a sort of double
pyramid fastened by one point to the
ceiling. On the corners are hung var
ious colored streamers of paper, which
float about in the air.
A Real Beauty.
One goes to a table and sits. At
onco a pretty Chinese woman, one of
the prettiest Chinese women probably
ever seen in Salem, shuffles out in her
Oriental sandals and in a quiet voice
says: "Noodle?" and one nods his head
in assent. Then she shuffles into au
adjacent room and gets a noodle, or
two, and takes it back to the kitchen
and cooks it in the hot water. Prob
ably, with a quiet, genial smile, she
comes to the table and sets the noodle
down.
Then from a doorway not hitherto no
ticed comes a man dressed in white
silk shirt, white trousers, etc., and sits
at a small table at the far end of the
room and starts a phonogrnph. At fir
one is startled by the discordant sounds,
the striking of gongs, and the chanting
of high-pitched voices. Then it dawns
that this is Chinese music, and it adds
greatly to the taste of the noodles.
Pieco after' piece he plays, giving the
dinner a short trip through the city of
Canton with its Oriental sounds.
Dark eyes that burn with the fire of
the Orient are set under a well shapeA
forehead of May Wing Tye, and she is
constantly watchful for the welfare of
the guest. Her hair is jet black and
she wears pretty jade earrings. Her
hair is worn low on the back of her
neck and clasped with a broad orientat
comb.
. And when one is through with trie
noodles and has sipped the tea and is
ready to go out the door, she calls
"Boodbve."
"nwarfc, Christian
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AT END OF
HIS STRING
Speedy Overthrow of Dictator
Is Predicted by All For
eign Representatives
CARRANZA IS SURE TO
REFUSE TO NEGOTIATE
English, French and Gennan
Marines Will Guard For
eigners in Mexico City
Washington, July 11. All hope had
been abandoned today that General
Carrauza would send representatives to
confer with the Huerta envoys who' at
tetnded tho American-Mexican peace
conference at Niagara Falls.
AU advices indicated that the rebels
were determined to fight it out rather
than to yield a single point in the way
of compromise, and considering the
rapid progress of their campaign and
their almost uniform successes, thore
wero many here who said they did not
consider this attitude unnatural.
Pending the arrival of Carrauza de
finite refusal to . negotiate with the
Huertistas, which was expected Mon
day or Tuesday, the "A. B. C." media
tors said they had no comment to make.
President Huerta ' speedy overthrow
wait predicted on all Ifltuus,..
B'or the protection of-. foreigners in
Mexico City all preparations, were com
pleted. Tho foreign colony would be
guarded, it was stated, by the English,
French and German marines already at
the Mexican capital. It was explained
that their strength was considered ade
quate and no American troops would
be sent there.
Secretary of State Bryan was lectur
ing in North Carolina today.
The Boalt Investigation.
Vera Cruz, Mck'.co, .July 11, Con
gressional investigation of the story
(Continued on page 10.
DOCTOR SAYS HE MUST
SAN FRANCISCO HAS
A SPECTACULAR BLAZE
Guests In Fort Hotel Get Busy Some
Remain, .Soma Faint, Some Skip In
Night Clothes, and Hotel Not Even
Singed.
Sau Francisco, July 11. Two build
ings were totally destroyed and two
others badly damaged by fire early to
day in the Fillmore street business dis
trict. The loss was estimated at
25,000.
The fire wag believed to have been
due to defective electric wires. Firemen
responded to three alarms before the
ize was brought under control.
The fire was a spectacular one. The
attention of firemen of a chemical en
gine was first attracted by the screams
of guests in tho Post Hotel, adjoining
both the chemical house and tho build
ing where the fire started. The flames
were soon shooting high in the air and
threatening to spread to adjoining
buildings. Guests at the hotel were
rushing into the street in their night
clothes and women were fainting in
the corridors. All got out, but the
httel was not damaged.
For an hour the firemen fought the
flames with eight engines, a chemical
and an aerial truck. They were helped
somewhat by a light rain and mist.
EDITOR AND BOMB EXPERT
BEFORE THE COMMISSIONER
San Francisco, July 11. Editor
Charles K. Fields of the Sunset Maga
zine, Robert Fowler, aviator, Ray A.
Duliem, photographer, and Riloy A.
Scott, aerial bomb expert and author,
wero before United States Commission
er Krull today charged with revealing
secrets of tho United States defenses
at rritiama.
"1 can't see what offense we com
mitted," said Fields, "because noth
ing had been done in Naos Island but
the preliminary grading at tho time we
took the photgraphs and wrote tho
article which appeared in the Sunset
Magazine. There were neither guns
nor fortifications in evidence.
"All we wanted to (to was to stimu
late interest in a larger appropriation
for aerial defense."
"Colonel Goethnls not only gave his
permission," suid Aviator Fowler,
"but wished us good luck and said ho
hoped our photographs wmld turn nut
well. ' He said they would bo very in
teresting." Commissioner Krull postponed the
cases until August 10.
TRAIN HITd AUTO.
Vancouver, Wash, July 11. The cor
oner's jury today is investigating the
death of M. W. Turk, a retired farm
er, 75 years old, who was instantly
killed when his automobile wns struck
by a North Bank train at Washougnl.
Turk's wife was thrown clear of the
car and escaped injury. The automobile
was demolished.
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GO SLOW.
TROUBLE MAY BREAK OUT AT S
AT ANY HUT
E--75
TO
IMPORTED
DATE
Strikebreakers Landing from Steamer Are Guarded by
Private Detectives, and as They Marched to Hotel
a Dozen or More Sleuths Joined Them
LABOR UNIONS HOLD SPECIAL MEETINGS
, TO PREPARE FOR CONFLICT THEY FEEL IS ON
About 300 Unionists Are Out, But Leaders Predict Every
Union Man in City Will be on the Streets in a Few
Days-the Women Take a Hand
Htockton, Cal., July 11. The steamer
J. D. Peters from San Francisco
brought twelvo non-union men into
Stoekton at 7:30 this morning to be
used in the battle for tho open shop.
This brings the number of non union
men imported in the uast two davs on
to
, ine Hieamer i aptain weoer nav-
ing brought in 03 Fridav.
A fair sized crowd of union men
guthered at the wharf and watched the
coming of the strangers. The new men
wore guarded by private detectives.
Several uniformed policemen were at
hand. There was no disturbance.
In tho march of tho non-union men
up Weber avenue, the force of detec
tives who hail come with them ou the
t'teamer was augmented by about a
dozen sleuths who had men waiting on
the wharf.
An automobilo carrying five detec
tives kept abreast of tho little group
as it trudiig..! j.'.ong..
The men wero breakfasted at a placo
opposite the Htockton hotel, the head
quarters of the open shoppers.
The non-union men are being quar
tered rt two hotols, the Occidental and
tho II. 8., both on Center street. Tho
Occidental is owned by one of the lead
ing opponents of unionism, Frederick
Geotini.
Only Simmering Now,
The union men claim that forty of
tho men brought hero yestorday desert
ed last night saying they had been
brought in by misrepresentation.
Most of tho new comors wore brought
in to take the places of tho planing
mill workers who quit work Wednesday,
when askod to haudle unstamped lum
ber. The mills that cast out the union
stamp were Roberts and Clark Totton
CARROLL'S FATE IS
IN HANDS OF JURY
Carroll Tells Straight Forward Story
which Evidently Carried Weight with
the Jury and May Cause It To
Hang.
The instructions of the court to the
jury iu the case of William Le Roy
Carroll, charged with the murder of
Marshall John Zoller, of Gervais, were
concluded today at 2:15 and the jury
immediately retired to consider a ver
dist. Judgo Kelly instructed the jury
that a verdict of murder in tho first
degree, murder in the second degree, or
a verdict of manslaughter might bo re
turned in case they considered tho de
fendant guiK.v, or .in the event that
they considered him innocent a ver
dict of not guilty would be returned
which would acquit the prisoner.
The arguments were concluded 'this
morning at U':l.i. The opening argu
ments were mmle last night at 9
o'clock after the evidence was con
cluded. Carroll was the only witness
introduced by tho defense.
Carroll Tells His Story.
Carroll took the stand in his own
defense late yesterday afternoon. lie
said his nnnio was William Leroy Car
roll, ami that he was born and raised
in Lawrenceburg, Missouri. He told a
straightforward story without the lenst
hesitation ami spared himself none of
tho details. His story mado a good im
pression both upon the jury and spec
tators and his manner and frankness
gave an indication of truth despite tho
fact that the average court visitor holds
a prisoner guilty until proven inno
cent. 'nrroll said that he left homo when
IS years of age and for the last five
years had been working In one place
and another where common labor were
offered. His mother was dead, he said,
but his father, a machinist, was still
living in Lawrenccburg, where he own
ed property. When asked why he loft
home he said that he considered himself
old enough. Attorney Smith asked him
if his stepmother had anything to do
with bis going.
How He Met Hawley.
"I do not like to say anything
TQCKTON
STRIKE
and Brandt and the Stockton Lumber
company, employing all told 170 mill
men.
About 300 unionists aro out todav,
according to a etatoment from the Cen
tral Labor Council.
Among those affected are carpenters, 1
sheet metal workers, molders and
plumbers.
About forty shoet metal workers
quit work yesterday, refusing to han
dle unstamped metal.
About 150 workers in building trades
have quit because of violations of union
rules.
Preparing for Conflict
The majority of the unionists, how
evor, are still unmolested, though they
feel that they cannot tast long.
Union men have predicted that the
entire force of organized labor will bo
on the streets in a few days.,.
The headqunrters of the Central La
bor Council buzzed with excitement
Friday night. Threeai(s hold spe
cial of he International Union of Bar
ing conflict. These were addressed by '
J. B. Dalo, orgnnizer for the State Fed
eration of Labor; C. M. Feider, offi
cial of the Internaioiml Union of Bar
bers, and T. J. Vittai, business agent of
the Central Labor Council.
"We advised our people to make
haste slowly," said Dale. "When our
union rules are disregarded that is the
time to go out. As long as tho em
ployers give us union conditions we
will stay."
At an open mass meeting of the Wo
men's Union Label league held In the .
labor temple last night, the womon re
solved to make a more vigorous cam
paign to cut down tho profits of non
union merchants and added over 300
new members to their organization.
aoout that," lie replied.
Carroll said that after three years'
wandering he came to Washington, and
that he had worked in various railroad
camps and mines in the state of Wash
ington. Coming to Portland he started
down the valley in search of work, and
finally landed in Oregon City with a
man calling himself . George Hawley,
with whom he had traveled from Che
halis, Wash.
He said that they reached Gervais on
tho night of December 4, of last year,
about midnight, and set out iu search
of a place to sleep. While going down
an alley near tho depot he said they en
countered a dog, ami that his compan
ion, Hawley, fired two shots from a
rovolver at the dog.
"After Hawley shot at the dog, I
hurried out of there and near tho end
of the alley 1 met another man. Haw
ley was behind me at that time. The
man hailed us and I was e'xeited and
may have said something to him. I
am not sure what I said. Then the
man, who turned out to be the1 mar- ,
shal, fired, and one shot struck me in
the shoulder. I did not know how
badly I was hurt, and only wanted to
get out of there. 1 turned and went
down the alley the otaer way and
crawled through the fence. On the
other side I fell into a shallow ditch,
and as I was dazed I lay there for a
few minutes, about three minutes, I
think.
Came to Police Station.
When I came to again I saw nothing
of Hawley and have never seen him
i'inco. Then I wanted to see how badly
I was hurt and I left the town to get
siieltcr in some barn in the country. I
did not know that Hawley carried a
gun until wo were iu Oregon City. I
never carried one myself.
Carroll continued his story of how hs
boarded a freight trnin the next morn
ing and came on to Halem for medical '
attention. When I reached this city I
was directed to tho police station, and
there taken into custody by Mr. Need- '
ham. Sheriff Esch was at that time at .
Gervais. Sheriff Esch testified that
Carroll first told the officers that ho
received the pistol wound while climb
ing into a freight car at Fortland, but
when told that his story would not hold
water he replied:
"Well, why should I not tell tha
truth, I am not afraid."
He then told of his talks with the
prosecuting attorney and the officers
which were covered at the former trial.
BREAKERS
AI1D UNDER GUARD