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Full Leased Wire Dispatches Today s News Printed Today 5 01 If ' tt HI jfiftiSffff ' . r v -rr VWilfi-iaillllirTi THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1915. II LINER FALABA FALLS VICTIM TO misifiiiE Reported That 100 Perish In Rough Vaters Off Welsh Coast EIGHT BODIES RECOVERED Forty Passengers Included In Dead List-One Of Larg est Boats In Service ' ONE HUNDRED LOST. 1 London, March 29. Din- ' patches to the owners of the liner Falaba indicate that at leant 10(1 persons perished when sjt the vessel-was torpedoed by a German submarine off the const of Wales today. The dead in- sjt plinlc 40 passengers, 'tlies9 mcs- ngu iinlicatej. By VV. H. Forrest. Lomlon, March The first big liner to he sent to the bottom by a wiinurme tell victim to tho Gorman Wcta.le of Kiisliiiui today when the Wis, n Tlritish vessel making Afri 'itjoiis was sunk in the Atlantic off ncst rot of Wales, Wj nl' till, l'.iL.Un'u , ...., ovue.l. Tho vessel lia I a total of lwofcm 0 t,0,ltl, Tlu,v ns,,1H,( Y ,,u boots, but declared " submarine In,,,,,,),,,,, u ,(,o af '" lcr without uiving time for all to leave die vessel, Kjlilit persons, piieers un, ,e,. , ""' '"'"'"ally made, the fi,s . oinice,,,,.,,, , . thp J'"'"""1 'M '"id he sight. , t,P -reo the vessel off Milford Z . llu Sll,""iln"- appeared on ho snrface ,,, ,,.,., ,"' " l"-T her boat.,, i'r's'r "when tl I- i , ' rvivor, " id l,s ':"M,""-V "W-l. orders . ',i m"T"M !1,"vo and ' "Id he ln , ," ,,t,furn ,JOnt r'W ne,: ; I .'"-k the '"rifle . ,w ' . "'"'Me to Ret ""Wus, Tim lie i extremely ' pn "'T''' WM 'u' ""wre flr,sl '"N" '""'ere,) " i, vT1 nl'r' n" ""' "rlU,.' . "'"".r' The occupants h. "Ulcers (111 mnr.l 4 .J. f"'"r ,," mi'H- ,h,,ll'ov ',:,''''nvni'il' to re,ee 'he a d of i boatm, Xhey V '' up lnot of J'.""" i.":"wr"l,A"t off"ri,,, ' ''t I ., An a mnttor """"ul , ' "' AHer a lm,... '.""inline fmn v ,n,.i.i..i ... , -rr-rei . v;,i u" "'en null ;,,:,i""o!i ,,o"ro,,"r '' lie ere,,"! 7;' ' 'I that C.I member, i- Tki i , "" 'T' ro niin. PRICE TWO CENTS Berlin War Office Reports General Successes In Russian Campaign Berlin, vja wireless to Sayvillo, L. I., March 2I. The capture of more than 1,000 prisoners, repulse of tho Russians at all points at which they attempted offensive movements in Poland, and the capture of a position inside the Polish frontier was announced by the war office today. The German forces stormed and cap tured the Russian positions at TauroK gen, just over the border, it wus stated. The . forces which drove tho Russians from LanKnrjron and other East Prus sian towns made 300 of the invaders their prisoners. Along the railway from Kovno to Iusterburg, the Russiaus again threat ened an invasion of Gorman territory, the war office statement assorted. A German detachment met the advancing force near Pilvinki and repulsed it with heavy losses. Russian attacks in the region 0f Krnsnopol have broken down. In addition to 1000 prisoners taken as a result of this engagement it is declared the Germans captured five machinne gnus and tho horses of an eutirequadron of cavalry, included among the prisoners. Russian attacks northwest of Cierch uaof were ensilv rennl,tiwl lr.innv. ant engagements are reported along the nroiciu irum uunug rue lost zi hours. Minor conflicts are said to bo proceed ing in tho Argonne and in Lorraine. OH TSAUTB AMD YBWI STANDS riVH OBWTfl BIRDSEYE VIEW OF THE DARDANELLES, SHOWING WHERE THREE jUATTLESHIPS WERE STTNK TiY MINUS E T Officials Not Sure That Cables Are Not Again Fouled By Obstruction Honolulu, Munh 21). After three days of incessant dragging and Henrcli lug for the submarine 1M, submerged in the waters here with her crew, na val authorities were nut absolutely cer tain early today that they were tiny nearer recovering the vesnel than they were in Friday. With first hopes blasted by the dis covery Hint the' object to which the cables bad caught was only mi old anchor, work was being more vigor ously pursued today. Lieutenant Hmith, commander of the submarine division, wus reasonably suiv that the l'-4 hud renlly been bVnted as the result of dragging during the night. I'u tions of a submarine's su pi I' ftnieture were brought to the sur face. This increased the belief that the heavy hawsers dropped into the wa ter had actually gripped the I'M, but experts pointed out that these portions might have been merely torn away by chains in tho dragging process and that tho actual (position f the vessel remnlned to be determined. ' The last hope that Lieutenant Edes and his men might bo found alive van ished with the discovery yesterday that the dredger California was tugging at an old anchor. MYSTERIOUS FIRE GUTTED Bid SPOKANE BUILDING !r pre,:"; '"."''"''n.lietio,, of an "jr-Wrt ' 1 n '"'"'"I afelv M-iie- ;t!"r"J ,hot 'b,,,,' from ' P'1'1"''' P l "im,, '"ve been let. . d !""!" tiie i' 'I"" '''"'" :;, 'l1?V" " the ,k. f i nf , ; reported 'k. hn"'- The I ." "'""er Anuilla e,r "'!'' 'W of ,'i. At l- - t mi ni- " tk, ' ' the Palab.1 on, ,ur. larijest Hpokaiio, Wasii., iMureb 2W. A fire of mysterious origin early yesterday , J u r toil in, .Mohawk building, in the lieart of the business district, doing jdaiungo estimated at between 2llii,0m and irilllO.OUtl. There were several nar row escapes from the burning structure. The fire was urst discovered In the j l'lorence store, upstairs, and spread ; rapidly. The building, which was Due of the first Urge buildings constructed in Spokane, was nlmoxt gutted. The fire doors prevented the flames from spreading to the Fernwell and Monkery buildings adjoining, but cost ly stocks of clu' oing, jv.wtlry and office fixtures ill IIii'ho wi re ;rently damaged by water. Mrs, MeOuv, s dressitiker, bud a narrow escape from doi.lh. rilie was (sleeping on the fifth floor of the Mo hawk building when the fire broke out. VON KLUCK WOUNDED. Herliu, by wirele.w to Hnyvllle, L. I., March General Von Klnck has been slightly wuonded, the war office antiounceij today. The famous com mnnder was struck by bits of shrapnel while insiiectini advanced positions. It was stated. His condition is declared to be satisfactory. i IlililffltiSi flllfilpltljlli 7:. :ii! t -;-i! i; FRENCH REPORT NEW .'YALOVA' liffl-KWiiWi-T'iifc iSTsSSsiil'Wjii;!.''! KANGIRU :rtlfeii.:iE!:n:.:!i:::Si:ii!!!!l!S!iiH S! I Wi moos CAM k At El rit .--t. mm listiiSi JSr. as THE 0 A R D A N E L l,,B S r r ' . 1 .:f?: . ,Vhl"', '.liTibJ AMD'fn- , - - mmmm ) ,111111 .T:-:-:j:;:;.V,i- litiAwW TO m 'Ti .'wvT it IT l. H-.lMl.-ill ..:'J, li't'iliHIiiiilli 'TTv.r'T-.i--'"L:;zi J" vi j"t. 1 'J' 1 1 Tii "' I ''' 'iSStl f, IVI it' TlilTniiili 11 mm liiwai-'" At the cost of three battleships, tho liouvrt, the Irresistible und the Occ.in, the allied fleet has ndvi ed into the narrows of I lie Dardanelles and is reported to have silenced eight forts guarding the most important part of tlte channel. The attack was directed chiefly against the works lit Kephez, Ilainidieli, Chunnk and Killid liuhr The llaulois ami the Inflexible were bully damaged, SOUTH HIGH PAVIfIC VETERANS OF CO. CASES ARE DECIDED I SEC01D OREGON AGAINS T THE CITI Judge Galloway Holds That Many Happy Hours Passed Grading Should Be Appor tioned Pro Rata Mm" ' this . f ,h' : M- It Jh. hsrhor milesj northeast nt Kl Inliii hfiB.I I, l ...iimcl i lint the Kalaba was attnekfj bv submarine of the I'-'.'l type, as oa'lv a vessel of great cruising, radius could make the long trip for! operations in the Atlantic. Milford, Haven la north of the llristol channel.1 Kight passengers snd members of. the crew of the Fsltbs were drowned. The survivors were Ian Jed t Cardiff tniUr. j TIME TO CALL A HALT SAYS JUDGE ON BENCH City Will Take Immediate Ap peal From Decision to . Supreme Court Holding that the notices were de fective and that tho methods followed were indefinite und irreglar Judge Wil Hum Oullowny today decided the Houth High street paving cases against the city. The judge held technically that the city had no jurisdiction in the mat ter as part of the notices rend "Mill street to Bush street" while others read "Mill (reek to Hush HI reel" l,ut above all His Honor held that it was time that the city be brought to a halt in per miscuous street puving methods and al low the people more opportunity to voice their remonstrances. The Houth High street improvement cases were brought ',gainst the city in three separate suits which were con solidated to save time. The plaintiffs wore Pan .1. Fry and Hettie K. Fry; Juliet M. Lord and Montague Lord, sail John A. Carson. Tlicdci'lsion of Judge Galloway means that in bis opinion the city win wrong! in not assessing the property owners pro ruta for the excavating and filling necessary to put the street on grade. The totul cost of the excavating and filling as per assessment ordnance as given by Judge Gnllowsy was 14, 7,10 for the entire street improvement ia question. This would be 2..17 per lineal foot. In the casn of Mrs. 1-ord, her assessment for lots 1, 111, 15, and 14 on the east side of block 13. was ID.I'.il. If apportioned pro rata It REEL CELEBRATE Around Festive Board Fight ing Battles Over Again It was a jolly, happy and rollicking bunch of Spanish wnr veterans which met at the armory in Woodbnrn on Saturday night to celebrate the second nn 1 1 1 1 u 1 reunion of Company M, Heennd Oregon volunteers and the 10th an niversary of the battlo of.Mnlabon, in which that company and the entire Oregon regiment took such a prominent part during the campaign in the Philippines, There were members of the old company in nttendunco, the guests of their senior commanding officer, Cap tain J. M. I'oorman, and, surrounding a table loaded down with everything i-nngiunble that is good to put and drink, the entire night was passed in the relating of both sad and amusing reminiscences and stories and Old Hoi was just peeping above the Knstern horizon when the party unwillingly dissembled niid took their several ways homeward the incidents of tho even ing to linger bmtC in their memories and to be recalled at the next meeting of Hie company members. "I am proud of you boys, not only because you were good soldiers be cause all Americans are good soldiers, they can't help but be, hut because you ore all good citizens. I was al ways proud of you, I am proud of you S9L0IER FEELS A MURDERER AS LUS T KILLING DIE (Continued from page Five.) (Continued on page two) The Weather Oregon: Hhnwers west tonight and Tuesday, showers east portion to night or Tuesday, winds mostly southerly. Slayer Looks to Comrades to Justify His Cold Blooded Slaughter HEAT OF BATTLE KILLS SPIRIT OF HUMANITY Sending Bullets Into Women's Hearts As Machine Guns Sweep Ranks BY PHIL EADER. (Cmvright, Hi ,1, by the I'nitod Press.) London, March 10. How it feels to kill a mail is something I cannot ade quately describe. There lire sumo mil lions of men in Luiope who have hud this feeling during Hie past half year, but I venture to sn.v that not one or th cm could faithfully detail his emo lions iipm first Inking a human life, After you see your victim drop, you first teel a sense of triumph. Then tho ages of training in the Ten Command nicnls come to the front, nod you feel like a murderer. Thin you who) to run around among your mates and tell them the circumstances of the killing and get them tn tell you that you did the right thing. My experience was like that. I was standing beside my lieutenant one day, He had fastened a small mirror to a twig and wus looking at the German trenches, when suddenly he exclaimed: "Get your gun! A I Iodic has come out of the trench." I tan down the trench, got my gun ami came back to the loophole. I was so excited 1 could hardly aim. Thririgh the bole I saw a German standing on the edge of his trench. He had been carrying a huge borrd and hsd rested It against bis bsek while he tried to light his plH. "Get him! Get him!" ssid the lieu- Troops Battle For Control of Snow Covered Slopes and Allies Win By William Philip Simms. Paris. March 2SI. Fresh victories have been gained by the Froneh troops uiiiiung ior eompieto control of tno snow-covered slopes about Hiirtniunns weilerkopf in Alsace, dispatches to tho war office announced today. In a savage assault on the main height, tho Germans wore driven from positions which they still held after the desperate fighting of last week. 8ix officors and 387 unwoundod men were captured, it wus announced. A number of wounded, abandoned by tho Germans when they wero driven out, oii uino iuuuo prisoners. As a result of tho ground gained in this region during tho fighting which has lasted since early last week, tho French guns now .command the low lands for miles. It was ol'ficiullv admitted tmlnv Mint. tho Germans have mndo some progress southeast of Verduu. German in fantry, it was stated, drovo Oio French from nositinns of tho trmichna ilmv ..... cupieu on rvaiuriiay. A Germnn guns of the A lull in tho fighting is roportod from iiueiuis, wcsiwiini to mo const, HOSTIL E SHELLS TO BE KEPT 01 NATIVE L I NEW ORDER U. S. Will See That Warring Mexicans Respect Neutrality Along Border AMERICAN TROOPS ARE SENT TO BROWNSVILLE i position was blown up by allied artillery near Ypres. I AL JONES 11 10 Fair Board Will Elect This Afternoon-Meredith May Take Washington Job (Continued on Page Mix.) The state fair board, In specinl meetinif assembled this afternoon, will elect W. Al Jones, of Joseph, Wallowa county, secretary of the board to sue cecd Frank Meredith, tho voto stand Iiil'. ns developed during a caucus up on the question during tho noon hour, three votes in favor of Jones to one for Meredith. Hecretnry Meredith wns not informed of tho decision of the board until after 2 o'clock this after noon, and, although no statement wns received from linn, it is presumed Mini he will accent the position of secretary of the Washington state fair board, which was tendered him some time ago and which offer he hus held under con sideration pending tho action of the Oregon fair board. As nt present consliluted the slulc fair board consists of .1. II. llooth, of Itnsoburii. president, N. K. West, nl I'lilou. Mrs. Kdilh To.ier Wentherred, of I'orllnnd, and W, II. Kavage, nf Cor vallis. Mr. Jones will resign to accept the secretaryship, and Governor Withy combo will select his successor im mediately. Aside from the election of secretary about the only business of importance to be transacted at today's meeting will lie final act ion upon the decision to build a cottage far head ouarters for superintendent of the live stock department, of the fair und lor men s rest rooms, wlilcli will cost about if.'I.IMMI. London, March 2!). (My Kd L. Keen) - Constantinople Is being shnken by the roar of hostile guns, Hussion shells are falling within 12 miles of the sullnn's palace and for the first time in history I ho Moslem capital has been bombarded from tho air, Iiispiitchcs from I'otrogriid as well as those from Italhnn capltnls today repnrli'il the Rus.iun fleet again shell ini the defenses of the llosphorus The bombardment was resumed Inst evening with tremendous force. As the same time Russian aviators clr clcl over I'ern, the residential section of I (iiislnntinople, dropping liomlis They are declared to have Inflicted heavy damage. Part of tho popula tion of the city is reported to have fled panic stricken toward tho Interior. MUTE WANDERS AWAT. Guidon F.ngleston, aged HI years, an inmate of the stntn sdiml for tho dent', left Mint Institution yesterdny morning about II o'clock after a slight alter cation with one of the other boys, anil has nut been seen since. His father, J. J. Ksgleston, resides St Clatskunie, near Astoria, and the officers nf the school are of the opinion that the boy has started out to walk home. He had no money ami did not know the roads about the country, so the officers fear for the boy 's safety. Armies of Villa and Carranza Await Order for Final Bloody Clash Washington, March 2fl. Tho Unite! States government Intends to see that Americans are protected and its neu trality respected on the Moiiran. border. Three butteries of artillery wore to- day ordered to proceed to Rrownsvillo. Texas, to enforce tho demand made up on tno coniniiinilers or the Villista and Carran.ista armies that American lives) and property bo safeguarded during the, battlo between the Mexican factions) lit Matnmnrnn. Tho batteries were Ordered to pro ceed to Fort Ham Houston at Bun Antonio. At the same time a regiment of infantry at Texas City wns ordered equipped and held in readiness to pro ceed to Brownsville upon a moment's; notice, . ' These precautions were tuhon la spite of assurance which Hecrctiiry ltryan said luul been received from both sides that the fighting would not be permitted to cndungivr Americans. Jlutiimorns, which tho army of Oen oral Villa is endenvnriiig to take, Is) directly across the border from llrnvvnsville. Hold armies are threat ening to use heavy artillery In the battle. Htato department dispatches tndny confirmed the claims that the Vllllstas had suffered the heaviest losses to) date in the fighting at Malamnrns. Their losses totnl 2110 killed and 177 wounded. The losses of Mm f'nr rnn.istns are given ns only . oight killed nnd .'10 wounded, Heven wound o, have been taken to Hrownsvillfl, it wns stilted, A dispatch to the nnvy department today reported that quiet prevailed at M117.11I Ian. General Villa lins 100 field piocoi and many uimhine guns, reports rey ceived al tho war department stated. The Cnrrnir.istns hnvo twelve Or fif teen field pieces and nt least thirty niiichiuo guns, These have been mounted nnd nn attack by the Villiatnl is being awaited. Iho Villista cavalry Is now along the river while, the Infantry is neat Mn I n morns. The first squadron nf the Thlr4 Cuitcd Hlales cavalry, a machine, mm sipuiil and u bnltery of field artillery is now on duly along tho bonier for the protection nf Americans, It was) staled nt the ilepnrtmeut Villa hn been urged to make his attack iimin Miitiimoiiis (rum Hie west In order to) protect llrovvnsvllle from tho artillery fire, General Funslnn reported that Colonel Itloxsoii lu command at llrownsvllliv had been ordered not to permit any wounded Mexicans to cross) Iho border Into American territory un less the dictates of humanity com pelled such act Ion. An artillery battle, it wns airreeil nt tho war department, would certainly resuii in siieiis tailing on American soil mid possibly causing heavy dam age and loss of life. llrlllsh Ambassador Kpring-ltlco to lay also told Hecretnry ilrvan that he had received a message from the) llritish charge d' affaires in Mexico) City Hint the Carrauzlstna are about to drive Zapiitista.1 from the capital. This report Increased the concern ot officials as to tho gencrul situation ia Mexico. The reentry of the Car ranzistiis into the cnpltal, it is feared, would be followed by a reign of torror similar to Mint which cunio to an end only when Znpala and his men entnreil the city, At Mint 1 1 tno fiiniino was threatening Mexico City. The llritish ambassador asked flryi nn concerning arrangements for tho protection of foreigners In Mexico) City fearing that n battle for posses sion of the cnplln! would endanger the) lives of foreigners. The ambassador sai, that his news wns ovidently Inter Minn any received by the stale departs incut. Outposts Are Skirmishing. Ilrownsville, Texas, March 20. While, aernplnnes front the army of General Villa hovered over Mulamoras) nn recnnnoilerliig expeditions, outposts) of the Vllllstn and Carraar.istu armies were engaged in skirmished today. I'!ugagements between outposts eon stiluted practically the only fighting, during the day. although the general battle which is Impending Is recognised (Continued on page ill.)