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ft Full Leased Wire Dispatches Today News Printed Today THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR 8ALEM, OREGON, FBIDAY, JULY 21, 1911 Olf TBAINS AND NBW STAND 3, nVH CENY8 PRICE TWO CENTS M T F Takes Advantage of Russia's Labor Troubles to For mulate Demand ALL EUROPE MAY BE DRAWN INTO WAR Servia Given Until Saturday Night to Answer and Answer Right Berlin, July 24. A "world war" unless Servia complies with the de mands Austria has mnde upon it, was. boing predicted todny by diplomats and military men here. The Austrian ultimatum was a sequel to the recent assassinntion of Archduke Kraneis Ferdinand, Emperor Francis Joseph's heir, by a Servian student at Herajevo, Bosnia province. It was freely asserted at the time that the killing was the result of a fot hntohed at Belgrade by a Pan Hervian organization . with extensive ramifications in Austria, which has a largo Servian population in its south eastern provinces. It was expected immediately after the assassination that Austria would demand an explanation from the Ser vian government. It delayed so long, however, that it began to be believed the emperor was afraid he would preci pitate a revolt of his own Servian sub jects if he assumed a belligerent tone. Late Thursday the Vienna foreign office suddenly spoke. .Servia was tilled on, not only to punish those con concerned in the assassination plot against Francis Ferdinand, but to sup press at once the Pan-Servian move ment. An answer was required by 6 p. m. Saturday. Assembles War Vessels. The nature of the demands made and the tone of the note caused amaze ment in official Germany. It was believed Servia would shape its course in accordance with the ad vice of its powerful friend, Russia, (should the czar refuse to aid the smaller country, it was agreed it would have to yield. But it was deemed far from certain that he would refuse. In the event of Russian interference between Austria and Servia it was con ceded on all hands that Germany would inevitably be drawn into the affair, as Austria's ally. France and England nre allied with Russia and might be expected to be involved next. Italy, os the ally of Germany and Austria, presumably would follow. Austrinn monitors were gathering on the Danube today at Semlin, Hungary, opposite Belgrade, the Servian capital. It was reported that Baron Hoetzen dorf, chief of the Austrian army gener al staff, had ordered seven cjrps of troops held in readiness to invade Ser via at a moment s notice. A partial censorship had been de clared at Vienna. It was stated here that the Austrian government acted independently In framing its note to Servia, Germany not having been consulted. Though ta ken by surprise, Germany, however, ap proved Austria's action. German officers absent from their commands were ordered to prepare to rejoin them immediately. From the foreign office the follow ing statement wa. issued: "If war should be declared, Ger many will do everything possible to localize the conflict and confine it to Austria and Servia, Germany keeping its hands off, but should another pow r seek to interfere, Germany will promptly 'fulfill its duty as Austria's ully." "The Austrian note," said the Ber liner Zeitung, "comes as a startling, glaring lightning flash through a I breathless, fearful cloud resting over KiirniM. It dnzzlintf snark. imnrt from Kurope. Its dazzling sparks spurt every side. "Our hearts are standing still and a terrible crash which will shake the world is awaited. "It was not a diplomatic note that Austria sent. It was almost a declara tion of war. i "Between the lines of the Austrian demand spring forth in flaming red letters mobilization orders. "It was the general staff which apnke. ' ' The I.okal Anzeigrf warned Russia not to interfere between Austria and fervia. "The Austrian note," it said, "was harsh but just. Servia must com j.ry with the demands made or perish." The market here broke from 2 to 3 joints as a result of the war scar?. Russian petroleum fell 18 points. Quan- t'ties of securities were unloaded. Notifies the World. Paris, July 24. Austria notified all DEMANDS THE PUNISHMENT 0 PICE'S B INS HOT WAVE SWEEPS THE MIDDLE STATES Middle West Welters and Many Prostra tions Are Reported Philadelphia Breaks Its Record. Chicago, July 24. A wave of in tense heat that set new records for the year in some places spread over the United States yesterday. In Chicago the mercury climbed to 100 and it was the hottest day of the year here. In St. Louis street kiosks registered 110 degrees and many prostrations were reported there. Oklahoma and Missouri also reported many prostrations. Guthrie, Okla., for the sixth consecutive day, showed the mercury reaching 102 degrees. Fort Scott and Great Bend, Kan., re ported maximums of 103. Gritlloy, Kan., recorded 102, with four prostrations. At Atchison, where the mercury reach ed 100, several prostrations occurred. Kansas City had the third hottest day of the season, with a temperature of 97.' Only one prostration was re ported. Philadelphia, July 24. The warmest July 23 in the history of the local weather bureau was experienced here today, when the thermometer registered more than 9G degrees. It also was the hottost day this year. Until today the hottest July 23 was in 1883, when the mercury registered 92. Hot Spell Broken. Chicago, July 24. The backbone of the heat wave which has scorched the middle west for. several days was bro ken at noon today by a thunder storm. The temporature here dropped ten de grees within an hour. Heavy rains also were reported from Iowa and Nebras ka points. . . the powers toilay of its demands on Servia. With the notification it sent a review of the circumstances attend ing Archduke Francis Ferdinand's as sassination, charging that Servian con spiracies were responsible for his death. Fierce Fighting at Capital Vienna, July 24. Terrific street fighting was reported in St. Petersburg today between cavalry and striking workmen.,: , , Companies of Cuirassiers were said to be galloping furiously through the streets, riding into and over every group they saw, using their sabres free ly, and wherever met with serious re sistance resorting to firearms. Quick firers had also been called in to service, according to Teliable ad vices, for use wherover the crowds were unusually threatening, and in a number of instances it was understood they had been used relentlessly. No figures were obtainable concern ing the number of casualties, but it is believed here they were very heavy. The crowds, on the other hand, from all accounts, had done great damage, Upsetting and demolishing streetcars, which the authorities were again ft tempting to run; smashing windows and looting shops and assaulting of f u cials who ventured out without strong guards. Similar conditions were reported in many other Russian cities. Stories were conflicting and very meagre owing to the censorship. The impression prevailed here that the sit uation was extremely grave. GERMANY IS ALARMED. Berlin, July 24. Austrian and Hun garian army reservists here received orders today from their commanders to be ready to report for duty with their regiments at one day's notice. SEEVIANS ARE DEFIANT. Belgrade, July 24. Belgrade was in a ftate of intense excitement today, following the presentation of Austria's note demanding the punishment of the Servians alleged to have been responsi ble for Archduke Francis Ferdinand's recent assassination aud the suppres sion of the Pan-Servian movement. All sorts of reports were in circula tion. One was that Premier Paschitscb had gone to St. Petersburg to learn what support the Belgrade government might expect from the czar. The conutry was in a definant, war like moo 1. STILL HOLD DECISION. Washington, July 24. The interstate commerce commission announced that no action might be expected today on the petition of eastern railroads' for j P"'0" to increase freight rates five cent- Many predicted that the long expected ruling would be given out tomorrow, . Yes, Cordelia, the drum major be longs to tne nantf even If he does give one the impression the band belongs The Weather Fair tonight and Saturday, westerly winds. SUMMElO GOVERNOR JOHNSON HOI IN THE COLLAR OVER STATEMENT Says the Chronicle and Otis' Los Angeles Times Are Both Liars TRYING TO CAPTURE THE STATE THAT WAY Says Story of His Falling Out With Roosevelt Has No . Shadow of Foundation Sacramento, Cnl., July 24. In reply to a published statement that he had broken with Colonel Roosevelt, Gover nor Johnson issued the following state ment today: "Do Young's San Francisco Chroni cle and Otis' Los Angeles Times pub lished simultaneously this morning a story purporting to emanate, from San Francisco concerning Colonel Roosevelt and myself. The story from beginning to end is absolutely and unqualifiedly false. There is not an atom or a sha dow of truth about it. "Every day, De Young, Otis and Spreckles deliberately manufacture falsehoods and publish them in their papers, knowing the publications to be false. I warned the people of the state some months ago of the employment of a man in Sacramento City, who is now the secretary and manager of the re publication organization there, whose employment was to manufacture stories detrimental to me for publication in the papers of Otis, De Young and Spreckles. This man is now simply carrying out his ends by such inalicius ly untrue publications as that appear ing this morning in the Chronicle and the Times. "The means by which De Young, Otis and Spreckles expect again to have California's government is plain. Their great papers and every little (Continued on page 3.) SOCIALIST SHOWS HIS LOVE FOR KING 'The King Is Destitute of Ability, and Had He Been Bom in the Banks of Workers Would be Corner Loafer." London, July 2f The Buckingham ralace conference jon the Irish home rule question was resumed at 11 a. m. today and lasted for 30 minutes. Speaker Lowther, of the house of commons, who bad presided; Sir Ed ward Carson, the anti-home rule leader, and Colonel Craig, his chief lieutenant, remained in conversation for 30 min utes after the other conferees had left. It was announced that Premier As quith would make a statement in the house of commons tonight concerning the conference's progress. The public was not generally hopeful that he would have an agreement to roport. Does Not Like Criticism. King George was understood to be mucn affected by irittcisms of his ret crence to the threat of civil war in the event of the conferee s failure to settle the homo rule controversy, made in the speech with which he greeted them when they first gathered at the pal ace. The most vitroilic attack yet made on his majesty appenred today in a labor paper under the signature of Iver Hardie. socialist and independent n. ember of parliament, who declared that the king hold the conference in the interest of robelhous, reactionary Ulsterites, adding: "The king is destitute of even or dinary ability. Born in the ranks of workers, his most likely fate would have been that of a street comer loafer." The premior's announcement was re-; garded with extreme gravity. After a prolonged and desperate par liamentary Btrugglo the anti-home rul ers had agreed to accept tho bill on con dition of the exemption of the Ulster counties. The home rulers agreed to this proposition with the qualification that Counties Tyrone and Fermaugh, which, though part of Ulster, have large Catholic populations, be excepted and brought under the bill's operation. It was on this point that the two factions split. With the Ulsterites swearing rebel lion if an attempt to l'orce home rule on tht-ui should be made, Klnj George finally summoned conference of to leaders of the different parties at Buck ingham palace in the hope of affecting a compromise. The conference was not popular either with politicians or with the people, the general view being that the question was one to be settled in open parlia ment and not at a secret meeting in the royal palace. Tho king, too, was accused of iuterfcrring in a political (Continued on page 2.) Gbe Xaet Gum of tbe TOeeU VILU1 IS III m STRONG AS ALL THE OTHERS Is Recruiting to Make His Army Equal to Any Car ranza Can Assemble HIS FIRST REALLY SUSPICIOUS MOVE Looks as Though He Intended to Make Northern Mexico a Separate Government Chihuahua City, Mex., July 24. In stead of behaving as if ho considered the fighting over, General Villa had scores of recruiting offices in the field todny, apparently engaged in bringing his forces up to a strength equalling those of all tho other constitutionalist divisions combined. Special induce ments were boiug offerod to prospec tive recruits. Many persons were afraid Villa was preparing to make troublo if General Carranza failed to comply with all de mands he might mako. Some even pre dicted he would revolt before the occu pation of Mexico City. It was announced at the ouartel gen eral that tho Villistas would go to Querctaro and thonco to Mexico City August 1. Villa was expected here to night. 1 Frenchmen who arrived today from Zacatecas said Villa was not personally to blame for the execution there of two Christian brothers, French priests. They placed- th' rospoiwibility on Gen erals Urbina and C'hao. The French government was investigating. Troops Take Possession. El Paso, Texas, July 24. A private message received here today from Gen eral Obregon said constitutionalist troops occupied Manzanillo and Colima today after the two cities had been (Continued from page 3.) -- BIG FOREST FIRE NEAR TILLAMOOK Starts From Spark From Donkey Engine and Soon Gets Beyond Control Front Nearly a Mile Long. Portland, Ore., July 24. The first serious green timber lire of the year in Oregon was reported raging south and east of Cochran, at the summit of the coast range along the line of the Pacific Railway & Navigation line to Tillamook, and six miles west of Tim ber. A report from Timber shortly before noon stated that a spark from a don key engine ignited the dry slashings aud that the fire had swept beyond control into the green timber. The fire-fighters, of whom there are a large number, have stopped the fire's prog ress south and west, but It was still raging steadily to the southeast. Al though the loss thus far has not been grer.t, the fire is extremely menacing, as it is burning in the heavy timber to the south of tho railroad. The fire front was Buid to be al most a mile across. A SUFFRAGETTE PETITION. London, July 24. Edith Fitsgernld and Lady Berkeley, prominent suffra gettes, were arrested today trying to get into Birmingham palace with a pe tition framed by Mrs. r.'mmelino rank- hurst for King George. In it, it was set forth that the suffragettes certain ly were no worse rebels than the Ulster men and that the latter had received most considerate treatment from tho government; the suffragettes demanded the same thing. COURT ESTABLISHED TO PREVENT DIYORCES Chicago, July 24. For tho first timo in history, a court created solely to fight the divorce evil opened its doors here toduy with Judge Torrison in charge. It is known as the Chicago divorce-prevention bureau of the muni cipal court. Discussing the proposed activities of tho new bureau, Judge Torrison said: "In many cases a frank discussion will mate grvat woes seem temporary vexations. My assistants and I will welcome all who feel that they are at the parting of the ways. I have seen many cases where friendly counsel and a sober view of the future might have brought about a new understanding." HOGUE FOUND GUILTY WILL NOT APPEAL San Francisco, July 24. There was no imlicution today of any intention on the part of James Hogue, the ex railrtad conductor who was wounded almost to death and captured whilo at tempting to hold up a Southern Pa cific passenger train in San Francisco's outskirts last May, or appealing rrom the verdict of guilty returned against htm late Thursday. Hoguo who testified that ho mado his criminal attempt, the first or career, because, on account of his age, ho could not secure work and' would not see his wife and children starve to death, seemed dazed by his position and awaited seuteneo in apparent in difference. Judge Dunne announced he would pass sentence Saturday. The jury was out but 14 minutes ami took but a single ballot. MOYER IS AGAIN ELECTED PRESIDENT Denver, Colo., July 24. Charles II. Mover was tolay unanimously re elected president of the Western Fed eration of Miners. Other officers chosen were: Ernest .Mills, secretary-treasurer. John Lowlier, Guy Miller, Yanco Tcrzieh and William Davidson, mem bers of the executive board. T. If. Tanner, J. ('. Williams, Joseph Cannon and James Shea, delegates to the American Federation of Labor convention. The gathering here will decide Tues day what action to take relative to tho situation nt Butte. BASEBALL TODAY Federal. B. II. K. St. Louis 0 5 1 Bnltiore 4 8 1 Crandall and Chapman; Conley aud Jucklitsch. R. II. E. Indianapolis 4 10 1 Pittsburg 5 10 2 Mullen nnd Texter; Burger and Ber ry. (12 innings.) First gume B. H. E. Kansas ( itv 8 10 1 Buffalo 3 7 3 Adams, Stone and Knzenroth, East erly; Schulz, Foru and Allen, Blair. B. II. E. Chicago '. 4 9 1 -.'0OM.vn ..... 5 12 2 Fisk aud Wilson; Lafitte and Owens. National. R. II. E. Philadelphia 2 4 1 uttsburg 3 9 1 Mayer and Killifer; McQuillen and Kafora. RUSSIAN SITUATION I GRAVE INDEED ALL Bl EN RED Movement Not Likely to Over throw the Government ! But Is Dangerous THE CZAR SITS ON POWDER MAGAZINE Starvation Wages and Shock ing Conditions Started Oil District Troubles London, July 24. Russia has been in the throes of a genuine revolutionary uprising for five days past, according to reliable advices, smuggled across the frontier and recoived here today by -wiro. Communication has been so thorough- ' ly disorganized and different sections of the country so completely cut off from one another that the revolution- ' ists themselves have not themselves a -very definite idea how successful they ' have been or the extent of the blood- -shd. In addition to the interruption of rail and wire communication, newspaper publication has been suspended by gov ernment order and any correspondent who attempted to send out actual news openly would, of course, speedily see the insido of a jail. How effective the censorship was could be judged from the fact that it ,'. was not until after bloody street fight ing had been in progress in at least ' a scoro of cities for three days that . even an inkling of anything wrong, reached the outside world. . , Conditions Shocking. Today's message brought the situa tion only up to about noon Thursday, aud what has happened sinc was not known except from the officially au thorized dispatches, which it was taken for granted were colored to suit the . government. The impression here was that while the uprising was unlikely to result in overturning the existing regime, it was so general as to prove that the govern ment was sitting over a magazine which might explodo at any minute. Ileginning with a series of strikes in the oil region about liaku, where the workmen have long been threatening troublo on account of their starvation pay and the shocking working condi tions, the disorders have had more or less an industrial character through out. Anti-government agitators have turned them to their own account, how- over, and quickly gave them the shape of a revolt against the czar. Tho guess was made that the killed already numbered well into the hun dreds. Tho wounded certainly have been far more numorous. Cossacks Are Brutal. The Cossacks wcro said to hnvc at tempted to rely at first on their sabres and the trampling hoofs of their horses in their fights with the strikers, but it was stated that in the later engage ments, alarmed by the desperate situa tion they faced, they fired freely into tho crowds. The strikers evidently were not very well armed but fought with clubs, , stones, knives, such tools of the various trades as could be converted into wea pons, and in some cases with pistols. It was reported also that in some places dynamite was effectively used. Several serious fires, too, were suid to have been started. It was admitted that casualties had been far more numerous among the strikers than in tho ranks of the troops. Large numbers of the latter, it was stated, Inn I been hurt, however, and there was also some loss of life among them. In the rural districts, where soldiers were not so rendily at hand, a reign of terror was reported among the gentry, a number of fine country mansions were understooil to have been looted and there were stories of tho killing of fam ilies here and there. Has All News Bottled. Stockholm, July 24. Except tuat President Poincare of France was known abruptly to have terminated his official visit in St. Petersburg on ac count of the Russian strike and to be on his way here, the Muscovite govern ment had tho news of its troubles com pletely bottled up today, so far at least as Sweden was concerned. Absolutely nothing definite had been heard concerning happenings of the past IS or 20 hours. Reports were cur rent that bloody fighting was still in progross in many cities, that many had been killed and wounded on both sides, and that chaos reigned throughout much of Russia. This news could not be verified, however. The belief here was that the czar faced one of the most serious situations of his entire reign. In Sweden, where the St. Petersburg governments suppos ed territorial ambitions are the subject of much apprehension, everyone wished success to the strikers,