Full Leased Wire Dispatches Today's News Printed Today THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR ALBM, OREOOH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1911 If BECOMES ill ORIS GNU This Is the Report, But the Rumor Though Persistent Is Unconfirmed STARTING TUESDAY BATTLE STILL RAGES Ime of Battle Extends Clear Through Belgium; Brussels Reported Abandoned BriiMflK, A(. 1!'. The Miy.lpiiiciit with the Germans nliij the entire Belgian front had assuiticl the prnpor tionn of a (rern'ral battle today. The Cieruiaiis were attiudiinjj the llel jian Oil t jjost i at Lmiivini' Hi',! pnotlu'r trussle ivas In progress south of hero. It d believed thi' kaiser's troops nera approaching llruscls. 'Mm can lormiliiig was distinctly hrnrd in tlio city. Toere wa a rijid censorsliip. It was known however, that the (ieriniiii army of the Jlense hail elicited a junction with the first army of the Moselle, nnd that the to were advancing, the in fantry eiitreni'hiiig as it lame. The war office here nas without news (torn Liege but believed the forts there cre still holding out. BATTLE 9 ROUND CENTERS BRUSSELS OTHER WAR NEWS Persistent but unconfirmed reports were current today that the Germans had taken Brussels. It was, at any rate, certain that a general battle raged along the line drawn through central Belgium from the Holland to the Luxemburg frontier. The fighting centered before Brussels and Waterloo. That if it had not already fallen the Belgian capital was likely to fall soon, was generally agreed. The allies were confident the Germans would never reach the French frontier. Namur was also the object of a German attack. The Liege forts were variously reported still holding out, dynamited by their defenders and taken by the Ger mans. The French war office reported Gallic troops pouring into Alsace-Lorraine by three routes, taking town after town and driving before them the German soldiers who were expected to make their first stand at Strassburg. The German account was that their advance through Belgium had just begun, and that the Alsace-Lorraine fighting was not important. Russian advices were that the Czar was pushing 70,000 men into Germany and Austria already, and that the Aus trians had suffered a defeat and heavy losses in a five hours fight. The German Object. Bnuwls, Aii(f. 1".-As toilav's bat tie! between the thdginns nnil ' (ierinans! progressed the coiivii-tii.ii grows upon j the military experts that the Hermans ! , weiryniK to ureal! tlirouuli the allies' raltr, lit their army in, two. hurst Hmmrt the flap am) irinke irrhnn-for the French frontier. Troops were being "Minted In tremendous strcii"th to mir) the assault. 'Say Forts Have Fallen. ; Wlon, A,,K. I),.s,,tp ot(Vml it was persistently reported tV n tb,t th LifK fu't . Other acrnuntH were that their tf'tmu had dynamited them after the Omain artillery had so badlv wrecked ttai that they were no longer defensi- , Fram BrmseU eame the assertion that . Ust .eeonnts the forts were hold- feline lin T ; At fl'Hllt of the BW.'S.r."1' f '-'tiers of derstood a , IT? m " was Mm til? "'. v believe? ,,l'tS hw" le. lare,t ,ht? Pointed out .'"i". "itnl' ful1 "' betwe a 'hi 0,11,1 "tai 'vo the -ark " V ,hR the lat-BritUh ridbe P Wipved to be I " 'Wrtneasof ,hfreln,'lilnR g to! 'ffitoZf -Progress ."tth'Belfi a; Jh.!.,e"ti'n Mated, Mtfetory..Pa" Palt"" considered It1""' M defbi, T'l that the t'e ' C 1 ah,"ll"1",'l the! War. nMI eircultit..,! n-:.ii.. f'Ced'rLr":111. b,,t of , l'gwo plan ;i?Vl(1 defended Mi8ht,Aj,riveiof idj "le kad "as kuown n eStefr'Morti-! The Oormans elaimed they had occu pied M Intra, Kiissinn Poland. Tlio Servians declared they had driv en out the lust Austrian invader. Germany was said to be negotiating for the transfer of Kiao Chau direct to China, leaving Japanese out of the Uanattctjoji. . At th. eanio time the knlser was appealing again to Italy for aid, representing that Japan's ulti matum constituted an attack on tho fatherland. Italy, however, was understood to be determined to romain neutral. Turkey anil Bulgaria nlso gave fresh assurances of their neutrality. There was unimportant, desultory na val fighting in the North sea, but the main fleets remained inactive, the Ger mans under Heligoand'e guns and the British watching for a chance to strike at them. 0 rimi STAND AVOIDED WAR Great Pressure Brought to Bear on Him to Send Troopg to Mexico City, But He Could Not Be Budged. ' Washington, Aug. 19. Just how close the United States came to being In volved in a war with Mexico as re cently as a fortnight ago has boon re vealed by some high officials of the government. When General Carranza abruptly re jected the overtures of the peace en voys sent by Provisional President 'ailmjal ami at the same timo ignored the diplomatic efforts of the American Ciovcrnmont to bring about a peaceful entry of the constitutionalists into Mexico City ,drn9tic measures 'were urged on President Wilson. Many members of tho cabinet it is said a majority argued in favor of sending troops from Vera Cm to the Mexican capital to prevent the anarchy that was then expected to follow from the fail ure of the Carhajal government and the constitutionalists to rrach an agree ment. The president, however, firmly re sisted all pressure, arguing that the sending of American troops to the city uu a mission or oraer would prob ably mean war with the approaching constitutionalists. A few days later actual overtures came from the Carbajal government in an indirect way to the effect that if American troops would come to pre serve order thoy would not be op posed, but assisted. These assurances, according to official messages here, were given by Minister Lnjan, of Car bajal Is cabinet, with the authority, it is said, of Senor Carbajal. Other prom ises were made. The United States was to receive a coaling station in Magdalena Bay, the Chamiseal claims were to be adjusted, and many other Mings of interest to the United States were to be arranged. The president rejected all approaches ot this character, believing the consti tutionalists themselves would maintain order when they reached the city. He Rave his attention Instead to the pos sib e split in the north between Villa and Carranza and Anj hi. off. The Weather 1 Pl6-SwiM.Hk , Fair tonight and Thursday; northwest windg. to harmonise the leaders so that a pro visional government recognized by all factions might be set up. To carry out this purpose, the Presi dent sent a personal frioud, Paul Pul ler, a New York lawyer, to see both Villa and Carranza. ar. Fuller saw the president and Mr. Bryan secretly in Washington, and has just arrived at Villa's headquarters, where he is co operating with George C. Carothers, American consular agent, in urging Villa to join with Carranza in main taining peace in Mexico. ft BASEBALL TODAY Jit American League. First game R. H. E. Chicago 1 6 0 Boston 3 8 0 Benze and Nchulk; Leonard and Car rigan. . E. H. E. Detroit 6 10 2 Philadelphia 7 9 2 Dauss, Cavit and Stanage; Bressler and Schang. Pennock replaced Bress ler. Bush replaced Pennock. Boehler replaced Cavit. Williams replaced Boehler. Oldham replaced Williams. R. H. E. Cleveland ....5 9 2 New York 7 U 2 Steen and Egan; Brown and Sweeny. Second game E. H. E. Chicago 1 9 1 Boston 4 8 1 Scott and Schalk; Wood and Cady. R. H. E. St. Louis 8 11 2 Washington 5 11 4 nn.m T-,,r ON TBAINS AND NEW mu uni STAKES, nVB CENT! J . 1 GERMAN RETIR E 'BUT CONTESTING . EACH STEP OFWAY French Claim They Are Forc ing Germans Back AH Along the Line FIGHTING IS FIERCE AND LOSSES HEAVY Germans Said to be Falling Back on Strasburg; the French Highly Elated Paris, Aug. 19.-K)perating north fro ine nwiss frontier, east throuirh the LIEGE FORTS FATE STILL IN DOUBT RUMORS FILL AIR Rotterdam, Aug. 19. Much conflict in ascertaining the fate of the Liege forts. The wireless press service sanctioned by the German government asserted the Germans had taken them and were preparing them for their own defense. Another story was that they were still holding out as late, at any rate, as Monday. Belgian advices were that the forts apeared to be still held by the Belgian garrisons, as nothing had been heard by the war ministry of their having fallen. A fourth version was that the Belgians dynamited and abandoned them. The German account was that the forts were easily from" Nanc'the' trench1"1 B0ut!'8a9t! reduced when artillery was brought to bear on them, and thenciermanya back toaay across Aisace? i that the appearance of delay at the outset was due to the fact that the first German force to reach them was a com paratively small and not fully prepared body of troops which was rushed to the front on the strength of infor mation that French officers were instructing the Belgians concerning their guns, an alleged violation of neutrality. The actual German advance, it was declared, was just beginning. The fighting in Alsace-Lorraine, it was asserted, had not been important. POPE PI I DEAD WORR I OVER T E E Lorraine, the war office here an nouueed. Everywhere, it was stated, the kaisou troops were in retreat. They made no attempt to defend Banrburg, according to a general staff bulletin, and experts bclioved their plan was to make thoir tight at otrasliurg. Colmar, between Strasbure and Mul- hauson, which the French captured shortly after they entered Alsace and later evacuated, was also re-occutiied by them. Though the Germans wero retiring, they were fighting, it was admitted. and heavy losses wore reported on both sides. The German wounded were beins abandoned and the French were caring for them, a message from the front stated. One of the kaiser's sons was quoted as having declared in an address to the troops: "The Trench- aro savages. Strike hard and furnish them with ex amples of the sort of warfare they like best to wage." OFFICERS COMING FOR VICTOR INNES Governor Colquitt, of Texas, sent a telegram to Governor West this morn ing, stating that officers v.itli requis ition papers were on the way to Ore gon to take Victor E. limes into cus tody. Governor West called up Sheriff Parker of Lane county and urged that officer to hold the prisoner at all haz ards until the Texas officials arrived. The tenor Governor Colquitt's tele gram would indicate that innes was badly wanted in Texas to njiswer to the charges preferred in that state. Governor Colquitt is a man of decided views and will be remembered as the man who offered to take a troop of 30 Texas rangers and clean out both warring factions in Mexico. WILL TALK ABOUT RIVERS AND HARBORS the Columbia river jetty, the harbor work on Coos Bay, at YnquinH, hold up tho purchase of the locks :it tho Wil Inmotto Falls at Oregon City, and also hold np other improvements on tho rivers of tho coast. The Corvullii G.wtto-Times has the Afflicted With Bronchial Ca tarrh, Condition for Some Time Dangerous MENTAL TROUBLE WAS CAUSE OF COLLAPSE Doctors Say He Died Practi cally of Broken Heart Over Conflict He!)! . 4 STORY OF HIS LIFE. nine years as a ,-! following to say concerning !ho visit J paid to that yty by i artnlu Devcnny: I "It costs ten cents a biithel (o ciiriy Captain Davenny, of Washington, Try lug to Stir Up the Public to the Tm- vortance of River ind Harbor Sill, Jl costs ten cents a hiitnel to cnriy wneat ny rail from Uhicngo to New Captain Wilson L. Davenny, field i lYork a distance of 1,000 miles. It secretary of the National Rivers and 8t9 eonts rci bushel to carry wheat of 3,000 miles. "in other wonU it costs oni-t nth Weilman and Agne.w; Harper, Shaw, xentley and Ainsmith. National League. R. H. E. New York Ill 0 Pittsburg 5 13 0 Demaree, Fromme and MeLean; Coo per and Coleman. Wilse replaced Fromme. McQuillen replaced Cooper. R. II. A. Brooklyn 6 9 0 Chicago 0 8 3 Atchison and McC'arty; vaughn and Bresnahan. Federal. R. BT. E. Pittsburg 3 7 1 Indianapolis 2 6 3 Camnitz and Berry; Falkenberg and vitally interested. quarters in Washington, D. C, who has been traveling over the Pacific coast in an effort to arouse interest in the passage of the rivers and harbors bill that is now before congress, is in Salem for a few days.- Arrangements were made at a luncheon given him at the Marion Hotel at noon for a meeting to be held in the commercial club audi torium Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at which time he will talk on "National Waterways and their Development." Members of the board of governors and prominent business men were pros ent at the luncheon at the Marion. They received the Captain cordially and ex pressed themselves as anxious to co operate in the endeavor to secure the passage or tho rivers ana .Minors Dili. It is believed that it will be wol! worth thB while of any citizen to come out to the meeting tomorrow night nud hoar what Captain Davenny has to say re garding the importance of the djvelop ment of the rivers and harbors of the country. Ho is said to be an excellent speaker and to have something good to say. During his trip on the Pacific f onst Captain Davenny has jpuken in Los Angoles before the directorate of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, visited the Los Angeles Harbor commis sion, visited Marshfield, Coquille, Flor ence, Eugene, Newport, Albany, and is now in this city. He is endeavoring to bring home to tho people of the coast the importance of their waterways and to have them bring pressure to bear on their congressmen in ord'ir to secure the passage of the rivers and harbors bill. In this bill that is now pending before congress, he points out that Oregon is it :ne Din siioui'i Pope Pius X wa9 born at Riese, near Venice, June 2, 1835, Ho studied at Riese, Troviso ami Padua. Ho was ordained a priest in 1858. Ho served curate. In 1807 ho was appointed priest of the parish of Sulzano. In 1875 he becamo chancellor of his diocese. He became Vicar Capitular In 1S77. In 1881 he was created bishop of Mantun. In 18!K! ho became cardinal and patriarch of Venice. He was elected pope August 9, 1903. Raridan. I fail to pass it would tio up tho work on War News Told in Paragraphs as much to carry freight by water as it does by rail. "Captain Davenny talked for more than an hour, and every minute of his talk was instructive,, entertaining, and thoroughly enjoyable. By comparative figures he Bhowod clearly the value of open waterways wherever they may be and at the same time demonstrated that all interests are gainers and none losers." Captain Davenny was a member of the staff of the Now York Tribuno end I was one of tho founders of the United Spanish War Veterans, and the founder and publisher of the Spanish War Re view. He has been on the Pacific Coast since January having come to at tend the meeting of the Inland Water ways Congress at San Francisco. CHEAP LAND LIST GROWING STEADILY LONDON, Aug. 19. British warships have captured 200 German merchant vessels since the war broke out, the admirality announced today. The prizes' total tonnage was placed at $1, 000,000 and -their value at $300,000,000, including their cargoes. . ANTWERP, Aug. 19. A German aeroplane wds forced to descend at Dinant today and its pilot was killed, while a passenger who accompanied him, a German major, was captured by the French. The Belgians' French allies were de fending Dinant. They had a hot engagement Tuesday with Germans who tried to cross the Meuse there, repulsing the later by a heavy artillery fire and inflicting ser ious losses. LONDON, Aug. 19 Information was received from Berlin today that the Germans . claimed, to have occupied Mlawa, in Russian Poland. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 19. The German cruisers Goeben and Breslau, re-christened with Turkish names, were manned today with Ottoman crews. ROTTERDAM, Aug. 19. Lieutenant De Moranville, son of the commander in chief of the Belgian forces in arms against the Germans, wandered acci dentally into Dutch territory today and was disarmed and interned for the rest of the war. LONDON, Aug. 19. Fresh assurances that Turkey and Bulgaria would remain neutral were received today by the British foreign office. The foreign of fice thought the two governments were speaking in good faith, and believed if it was true, as reported, that Turkish troops were crossing Bulgarian territory toward Greece, they would be recalled. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. The Jap anese embassy here announced today that the Japanese minister at Stockholm had cabled that the mikado's ultimatum to Germany had been received at tht foreign office ii Berlin. - gunboat Vaterland was announced to day in a cable received here from Nan kin. It was said the warship would be interned until the end of the war. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 10. Russia wna oettinir into action rauidlv todav. Invasion of the Austria provinces of j h.avo been listed already by tho promo Galicia and Bukovina was progressing' tion department of the Salem commer- According to a statement of Fred 9. Bynon, secretary of tho Willamette Valley Exposition association, which organization is collecting the exhibits by which Marion county will bo repre sented at tho Panama-Pacific exposi tion, the county will have some exhi bits of canned fruit, vegetalbes and hops that will be second to none. Mrs. Sam Foster, who has taken prizes re peatedly for the excellence of her can ned fruits, is conning the material as it is received and already the exhibit shows up fine. Secretary Bynon is working hard to get the finest and best fruits, vege tables and Hops together that was ever placed on exhibition. Thoso three items are what Marion county has pledged itsolf to furnish. Other coun ties of the valley will furnish wool, grains, grasses, dairy products, etc. Air. Bynon states that any person hav ing unusually attractive fruit or veg etables on hand should immediately get in touch with him, as he is after the best the country enn produce. Bynon, with a laconic smile, remark ed that he had not "canned" many hops yet. He will preserve this crop in alcohol. Over 20,000 acres of chean lands cial club, and every day brings more letters giving acreage to be listed. The movement that has been started to list tho cheap lands for the benefit of im- imnraiitB is meeting witn lavor, as those who are looking for places ap preciate what is being done and those who have the lands to sell are glad of the co-operation. It is the plan of the department in order to find as much of this cceap land as possible to go over the assess ment rolls of the county assessor and VENICE. Auff. 15. Austrian com- secure names, addresses, mmntitv nf mandcrs in the field aeainst Servia : land, and the value at which it is held. have received orders to carry Servian Then letters will be written to the on a targe scale, seventy thousand Russians were already across the fron tier and marching into the enemies country by several routes. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. The Unit ed State consul at Antwerp cabled Secretary of State Bryan today that King Albert of Belgium, with the Bel gian princesses, and members of the cabinet, had arrived there from Brussels. ROME, Aug. ,19. Disarmament by the Chinese authorities of the German day, prisoners on all military trains, to be executed if the Servian troops make at: tempts at train wrecking, according to a message received from Serajevo to- owners explaining the scheme of listing ana enueavor to get them to list with the club. Large acreages are found in this manner that otherwise would not be known. - Rome, Aug. 19. Pope Pius X. died today. The pope lapsed into uncon sciousness at noon, just after the last sacrament had been administered to him. Tho physicians administered oxygen to keep him alivo until the arrival at his bedsido of the officials which the church rites require to bo at the pon tiff's bedsido at the end. At 1:30 p. m. the doctors said tha patient's condition was desperate. His fever increased and he was very weak. The physicians could do nothing, and tho sufferer sank steadily until tha moment of his death. "Until the moment of his death," as soon as it was' realized how hopeless his condition was, orders had been giv en that the blessed sacrament be ex posed, and rusii cables were sent to Catholic dignitaries directing prayera for the supreme pontiff. His sister, Maria, to whom he was devotedly attached and who has lived with him or near to him for tho past 20 years to attend his wants, was with him at the end. Though in failing hoalth for a long timo, his ense has been considered ser ious for but a few days. Yesterday, however, Doctors Amici and Marchiafava admitted his condi tion was grave. Early today it waa said he was threatened with pneumonia. How imminent was his danger was not realized even then, until the actual an nouncement of his death was made. His Holiness was described as afflict ed with bronchial catarrh and gout when first taken ill. It was recognized by his doctors, however, that mental perturbation over? the European war had more to do with his breakdown than his physical ail ments, though grave as thoy were. Ho died practically of a broken heart as a result of the conflict. He fainted when told that hostili ties actually had begun. One of hia last acts before it was realized how close he was to death was to issue tha following exhortation to the world: "At this moment, when nearly the whole of Europe is being drugged into the vortex of a most terrible war, with its present dangers and miseries and the consequences to follow, the very thought of which must strike everyone with grief and horror, we, whoso caro is the life and welfare of so many citi zens and peoples, cannot but be deeply moved and our heart wrung with tha bitterest sorrow. "And in tho midst of this universal confusion and peril, we feel and know that both fatherly love and apostolio ministry demand of us that we should with all earnestness turn the thoughts of Christendom thither, 'whence comes tho help,' to Christ, the Prince of Peace and the most powerful mediator be tween God and man. "We charge, therefore, the Catholics of the whole world to approach the throne of grace and mercy, each and all of them, and more especially the clergy, whose duty furthermore it will bo to make in every parish, as their bishops shall direct, public supplica tions so that the merciful God may, of his children and speedily remove the of 1iis children and spedily remoe the evil causes of war, giving to them who rule to think the thoughts of peace and (Continued on page 8.)