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' CIRCULATION IS OVER 4000 DAILY .. . Sfc ic sjc ; FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES fty TniRTY-EIGHTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1916 PRICE TWO CENTS riv WAT I II II ir . W 1 1 II It II .II II li . Brft &fi JilM M itin inHiTit'lII-Il II ' i It I II II 1 1 11 II ... II II 11.81. II MANY .! LLISTA LEADERS SHOT1 1Y CARR ANZISTAS Several Generals Have Already Faced Firing Squad, Including Rivas, Almeida, Rouriguez Valles and Cisneros Body of Rouriguez Exhibited In Market Place at Juarez As Evidence That Bandits Will Be Summarily Punished Prompt Action of Carranza Tends to Allay Feeling El Paso, Texas, Jan. 17 The Mexican de facto govern ment today gave grim evidence of its intention to punish all bandits, including the Santa Ysabel marauders who last week slew 18 Americans. The evidence was the distorted corpse of General Rouriguez. The body of the Villista chieftain, shot down by a Carranzista firing squad, was exhibited in the yard of the Juarez customs house, across the border from here. On it was a placard announcing that the enemies of the de facto government would meet a like fate. This fate has already been meted out to several of Villa's leaders. Generals Rivas and Almeida were slain at Madera, with Rouriguez, while at Casas Grandes General Manuel Valles, Villa's official executioner, Gen eral Enrigue Cisneros and eight followers were lined up before a rifle squad and shot. Three refugee trains are heading for the border to day, heavily guarded by Carranza soldiers. British sub jects are quitting northern Mexico, along with Americans, as they have been warned so to do by British Ambassador Sir Cecil Spring-Rice at Washington. Bitterness over the Sana Ysabel massacre continues here unabated. Thousands attended the funerals of Wat son and McHatton, two of the victims. American soldiers stood at salute as Watson's young son, dressed in the uni form of a military school attended. 'American soldiers' sympathy with the agitation for in tervention was shown in rioting Saturday night at Fort Hancock. Afer a number of Mexicans were "cleaned out," however, the trouble subsided. Washington, .Tun. 17. Feeling over llm Hiiura Yfnbi'l massacres of eighteen Americans Inst week was allayed today liv tiie tone of (loneral CnrranM's as surances to Consul Hilliiwiu placing tlie murderers "outside the pnlo or the law." This decree, pronii.iiig sharp action, practically authorizes anyone to idioot down tho bandits at sight. At the saino lime, C.irrnnzn's appeal for consideration of the difficulty con fronting him in controlling the bandit, found sympathetic response In official circles. ' T.iis plvn is expected to gain wipport for the administration ia its course of giving Currnnzn a chance to demonstrate his power to pnnbh mar fniders .uul to prevent future massa cres. Neither the senate nor house foreign committee will lake up Mexican reso lutions, many of which, directly pro pose intervention, until late this week. I in Wednesday, the sennto hopes to consider the nomination of Henry t Fletcher as nmln?.-ndor to Mexico. Thisj i:inv be the signal for some anti-admin- i:.tr.ition speeches, but administration Howlers look for speedy action never tnelcss, The state department plain then to reply to .Senator Tails re-wln-lions asking for the .administration 's rr-nsons for recognizing I'ariuira. Refugee.! At Monteroy. Washington, .Ian. I" .V special tr.iinj riming (Hi Americans' mid foreigners, connected with the l'onoiua Miningl company at Mc.pini arrived nt Mentor ev, Consul llniina today wired the state department. A number of Americans f rom Tnlhu:ilil hnve reached I.er.lo and ll'orreon. At the latter place, the Car ninzisln garrison has been re-enforced. Doubt as to the safety of Vice Con- K Abe Martin ttev. Wiley Tnnger wtif struck by ft light ear 0' pop'lar brand yister day. Kothin' but ft big dinner'll git a:nio families t get her. sol Coon of PurnnRO was removed by receipt of v message from him saying that F. O. Kmorson,"for whom the de partment was inquiring, is safe. Consul Edward's Statement. Washington, Jan. 17. Consul Ed wards at Juarez sent a message to tin- state department today saying ho ii.ul asked tho Cnrrnnzista authorities for nrntect.Inn nf Americans in the ''Cusi'' mining district. Secretary of State Lansing domed Hint lie Imd given lui wards .in order to tako this action. iuhvnrds said he had told newspaper men that ho hnd obtained Carranza guarantees of protection for Ameiicnns January II, after the Washington gov ernment ordered him to. Kramer Family Safe. Kl I'nso, Texas, Jan, J". A party of four has left Chihuahua City to rescue the Kiainer family at Maderi, who are now reported mile, though peisistent rumors lust week said one or more of them had been slain by bandits. Consul Confirms Report, Washington, Jan. 17. Collector of Customs Znck Cobb, of Kl I'nso, wired advices to the state department indi cating that Bert Kramer, reported mas sacred in iMndero, Mexico, is alive. May Settle Question of Interference With Trade Washington, J .in. 17. Kngland ami the I'nited States are prperiied to join issue over British Interference with American trade. Agitation in Loudon for an actual "nir tight" blockade in stead of tho "paper blockado" created by the oider in comic il promises to bring the dispute to n held. The state department said tdony that nn actual blockade would largely remove on.lee- ! Iium' ii i ,tn in llm lutit mid fill inl ni-l'iip- PI ' euce, but the administration has con- ui ill mil k' i-nf Hum) tn miilit dm nt-iliir III council lis creating A legal blockade. 11 hnglitml lulled to enforce un ec hini blfickhile with sufficient ship to niuke it "nir tight" however, shippers would still maintain their right to sell to Germany. Board to Investigate Submarine Explosion Washington, Jan. 17. Secretary of the Xnvv Daniels announced tod.iy he will appoint a board of the ablest na val experts to Investigate the whole submarine question after the probe In to the K-tt disaster nt lirooklyn is com pleted, lie declared the K-2 explosion Is a "tremendous argument" in f.ivor of the suggested nnvul laboratory for which he lias asked Congress to ap propriate 1)1,000,000. Jmiii for general equipment of sub marines with the new Kdison batteries have been halted. Officials s.iid that further experiments with them (will be mado beforo actual trials on vessels, Press and Public Alike Are Not Satisfied With Results Accomplished (By United States.) London, Jan. C (By mail.) llritish press and Britis'i public are saying un complimentary things iust now about British diplomacy. F.icotious remarks about American diplomacy, which from the earliest days of the dollnr brand down to those of the W. J. Bryan grape Juice variety were won't to filter! through the British press, have given placo to others which strike closer home. Kngland holds Knglish diplomacy responsible for tho situation in the Balk.ins. English diplomacy, it is charged, should havo won the support of both Turkey and Bulgaria, or at least, kept them neutral; while Greece should now bo an open ally. Having failed in all this, British diplomacy is in for a bitter scathing, (ierm.in di plomacy is admitted by some to have bested Knglish, notably in the case of Tnrkey. 1'or years Kngland had weild ed great influence at the Hublinio Porte. Yet it permitted the Germans to gradually gain the ascendency and at the Inst moment, when n proper dip lomatic effort on tho part of Kngland could still havo prevented, allowed Germany tho victory. This is only half the chnrge. Then, .is a result of this initial blunder, tiio question of a cam paign against tho Dardanelles was broached, it was again to tho Foreign Office and its diplomatic service that the nation turned for guidance. Down ing street is said to have been little informed on the subject. The Dar danelles blunder was committed. Open charges havo been made that at the moment tho supremo struggle was on at Constantinople to win or restrain the Turk, Kngland had in its embassy there .in ambassador and throe secre taries not a ono of whom knew Turk ish, Turk or Turkey. It is said tho em bassy had had ft chief interpreter, who did know Turkish and tho Turk. Mr. Kitzmnurieo know so much that he ac quired the sobriquet of "The Man Who Knows." When ho was on vacation, the Turkish .Minister., at London re quested the Foreign Offico not to let him returs. Tho foreign olf ico consent ed. In Bulgari.i tho situation has been considered even worse. October 1, the day Bulgaria- mobilised, Sir Udward tlrev nrosn in parliament to say that while so far as he knew Bulgaria had no hostile intentions, still if she did have, Kngland would bo forced to Act. During tho first 1-1 months Knglish and (I cumin diplomats had labored at Sofia to win the support of Bulgaria. At the end of that tuna Knglnnd's for eign ofl'ice did not show that it knew Bulgaria was tied hind and foot to Germany. Tho Knglish press has just pointed out that whilo C.nr Ferdinand was prosecuting supposedly sincere ne gotiations with the J: n t t o lie must have been laughing up his sleeve nt Knglnnd's simplicity. Two months before tho Bulgarian mobilization Kngl.ind changed minis ters nt Kofin. Tho ono recalled was Sir Max Ironsides. Also exasperating to English public opinion just now is tho failure of its diplomacy to secure more of Greece than "benevolent neutrality." The murder of Americans in Mexico stirs some people's ire to the point of wanting snmebodv else to iro down there and inflict adequate puuishi.-.ent. U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FORECASTS BUSINESS CONDITIONS; -FINDS PROSPECT FOR 1916 AT LEAST FAIR THROUGHOUT NATION V. S. Chamber .of Tho U. S. Chamber of Commerce his just sent out from its Washington headquarters tins map, Riving fore cast of business conditions la the Uni ted States during the first four months of 1910. The may was made after an mere in 1 conditions by the eipertl of the cbimbcr. IT asks an n ME in IMS , , ,! m irusnea, croKen ana nope less King Peter Surrenders Unconditionally LITTLE ARMY OF 50,000 FIGHTS DESPERATELY With No Help In Sisht From the Allies Resistance Becomes Hopeless Berlin, Jan. 17. Making tho first break in tho ranks of the allies, Mon tenegro has asked her enemy Austria for pence. Crushed and broken and threatened by comploto destruction bofore the hordes of Austria ns overrunning her, tho country has surrendered completely. Announcement of Montenegro's re quest for peaeo came today from Coun? Tis'za beforo the Hungarian parliament. "Farlinmcnt had, just finished the first order . of business when Count Tiszn asked permission to interrupt," said the dispatch detailing the peace news. "Ho informed parliament that the Montenegrin king and parliament had asked for Inauguration of peace negotiations. ' Tisza said that Austria domanded that Montenegro lay down her armB unconditionally and that King Nicholas had acceded to this proposal'. Negotia tions, he added, will begin immediately. rarliament burst forth in a joyous i demonstration nt these tidings, and the rejoicing was reflected in Budapest and Berlin. It is understood that King Nicholas has pone to Italy, "and 'probably nn Austrian will set on the throne that ho quit when the stress of war boeaine too serious for him longer to hold out. Tho peace proposals did not come as a surprise, for several dayB ago it was reported unofficially that Montenegro had asked for an nrmistic. At that time, Anstrians had swept victoriously into Oottinjo, capital of the little king dom. Subsequent engagements nro be lieved to have been fought between Austrians and Montenegrins irregular. Montenegro declared war on Austria August 7, M-, and on Germany August 12. Fcaco terniB will includo both coun tries. At the outset Montenegrins invaded Bosnia and Horzeovinn. They co-operated, too, with the Serbians. Despite tho fact that tho Montenegrins were poorly equipped and unable to make much progress, they held the small portion of invaded Austrian territory mitil recently. All the time their fighting was with tho ferocity of fanatics. Compared with the forces hurled against them lit various times, tho Montenegrins were scarcely more than a handful, and it is reported tliat at no time did they have an army of more i 1 1, a. i r.n nnn Tho crisis in Montenegro enme with INT T II VI Commerce Map.ahnwinjr. .pwmpertjor United Statee lnJ91, As will be seen, the localities having "good" prospocts (those unmarked) are the Atlantic and a large pirt of the southeastern states), those between the Mississippi and the Rockies and a part of California. Those where the pros pects are "fair" are marked with di agonal lines and tho only soctiou where MS.,? I M UV MjUt MUM VMIJ (WVBW V Completion The Hague, Jan. 17. A year's study may be necessary before the Ford peace program can bo. submitted to the belligerents, members of the party re maining for establishment of a per manent peace tribunal admitted today. Their information leads them to be lieve, that tho war will continue that land. It was reported that Rev. Vt. Aked, of San Francisco, will receive $25,000 for abandoning his pulpit while he is engaged in the tribunal work. Lenders of the exposition tried to g"t all delegates to sign the resolution at tacking President Wilson's prepared ness plan, bofore sailing, In the en suing wrangle, Beveral women were in tears, 1 Stock Market Halts; Price Range Very Narrow (Copyright 1916 by the New York Evening Post.) New York, Jan. 17. The stock market seemc.l to come to a dead halt today. Trading was reasonably active, but prices moved within the narrowest range, and the changes were mostly un important. From ono viewpoint, this is the natural and familiar sequel to s prolonged break Biich as tho industrial issues have sustained. In such a pro cess of readjustment, the downward movement reaches its speculative cul mination; then stocks which have fol lon the most violently recovered sharp ly under "covering by bears;" then even these recede again and the gen eral markets become dull, News that Montenegro had applied for Bopnrato peace was not unexpected; did not alter the general view toward tho war, and was hardly 1 'roflccted" in the market. Whether sentiment was influenced by England's new plan for a close blockade of Germany, and the possibility of consequently irritnting friction witn tne l nueu oiaies, it -would not be so easy to say. . , THE JANITOR REFUSED TO INTERFERE WITH JOB Snn Jobo, Cnl., Jan. 17. Frank Hill, a stranger, tired of life today. So, in the privacy of his quarters in a room ing house, he swung off for eternity at the end of a rope. Death didn't come calmly. Ho struggled. Tho janitor heard him, but mado no attempt to cut him down. Ho'd heard it. was illegal for nnyono but tho coroner to cut down n man who had hanged himself, ho to'.d tho police. Hill succeeded, with tho janitor's noninterference. tho culmination of tho Teutonic cam paign against Serbia. Austrian forces turned their attention to an invasion of tho littlo country, and within the past few weelis had Bwept victoriously over the entire state and into the capital, f'ettinje, after surmounting tho supposedly impregnuble difficulty Mount Lnwcen, key to f'ettinje. With this occupation, Monlenegro found herself facing extermination so decided not to continue the struggle. She was able to nsk the peace inasmuch as she hnd not signed the nliled trealy binding Kngland, France, Uussift and Italy not to conclude a separate pence. tho outlook is declared "poor" is s part of Washington nnd Oregon. This bears a striking contrast with the map showing com. litlons in ll'lfi, which only showed "good" conditions in a part of Iowa, Minnesota and in a pirt of Iowa, Minnesota and Houth Da kota of the southeast, and part of the Hocky mountain section was "poor." URKS ARE DEFEATED BY ALLIED FORCES London Advices Claim Successes In Important Struggles Ca Two of Asiatic Fronts Constantinople Admits Retreat -Venice Reports That Italy Will Not Enter Balkan Cam paign, Leaving Montenegro and Serbia to Be Completely Crushed-Snow Hold's Up, Operations of East Front r London, Jan. 17. Turkish foemen have been swept back in defeat by allied forces in important struggles on. two of the three Asiatic fronts. The Constantinople war office itself admitted today that advanced posts in the Arras and ,Id valleys of the Caucasus region had been forced to retire several miles; at the same time Secretary for India Chamberlain an nounced in the house of commons that General Aylmer'a relief expedition had again defeated the.Turks, capturing a Turkish position in. the. Kut-el-amara region. Petrograd reported that the Turkish soldiers had been, hurled back on a wide front, and Constantinople admitted this. The Russians are getting closer to Kermansah where a battle with a-Turko-Persian force is imminent. . Chamberlain announced that the Turks continue their retreat in the Kut-el-amara region. Rainy weather hind ers the expedition in pursuit of the retreating Turks, but it is believed that the siege of this town,, wjth the British, hemmed in on all sides, will be lifted shortly, as the relief forces are within a days march of Kut-el-amara's outer defenses . There is no news of the struggle on the third front in. Persia around Hamadan. ' . , . Word of the allied successes was received joyously here, for it was taken as the beginning of the collapse of. the Teutonic aims at a "place in the sun" in the east. Interest in the triple campaign overshadowed the news from other fronts, because of the vital possibilities there in, and by reason of the fact that the struggle is more bit ter than any other now progressing. London, Jan. 17. Turks, frocd for other service by tho British cbnndon ment of the Gallipoll peninsula, aro be ing rushed to Asia to meet onslaughts on threo fronts, according to Athens advices today. Tho operations in the East eclipse those in Kuropc, and spoed is essential as the British are gaining tho upper hand, according to reports. In MeBtopotamia, after varying for tunes, the Turks aro retreating on both n h. 'I'ltrriu anni ) I ivuirei-uiii ara. Meantime, tlenernl Aylinnr appears likely to Bccompnsn ins nniwiuu ui i lleving the hard-pressed British force nt Kut el nmnra. , nimiiltninniinlv. Grand Duko Nicholas on tho Caucasus front is trying to ram his wny through to Mesopotamia to join the British forces, while in Persia tho Germans, it is known, havo united with tho Turks in n bitter struggle near llamndnn, T....b ...wl TTiiuuinn official claims nro at odds in the matter of tho Caucasus engagement, but the Huiisinns apparent ly nro Having tne auvunuino in umi offensive. Constantinople admitted to day that the Turk ouviinco posis nuu retreated several miles, though Inst nit'lit 's statement claimed victories for the Turks. The London war offico announced lust night that the Turks lire retreating in the Kut-el-iimara vicinity. Tim trinlo ktrnirtle is destined to 1)0 of importance, for Germany long has lni.l ilrennis or nn empiro in mo eiiHi, uud if the battling now progressing is suceesstui lor tne nun's, mo iniiumt ambitions may be crushed for nil time. A subsequent official statement from tho war office today said General Ayl mer's forces had nicnln defeated tho Turks, rapturing a Turkish position. Italy Changes Flans. Vienna, Jan. 17. ltnly has abandon ed plans for participating in the llnlknn struggle, ami to this end, is preparing to evacuate Allmiiln, according to ad vices reaching here today. Moreover, the Herbs will be drinui from Albania, leaving the Montenegrins to be crushed between the Austriiins on the north and the Bulgnrs on the south, if the Monte negrins succeed in escaping from their native bind into Albnnin. Meantime General Koevess Is trying to cut off King Nicholas entire Monte negrin army. Beforo another month, Albania as well as Montenegro may be in Austrian hands. The Austrians lire approaching Antl vnrl, tho only seaport of Montenegro. Another force hns occupied I'odgeritr.n and is trying to close tho ring around tlm Montenegrins. The Italian decision to evacuate Al bania is reported to have been rwirhod after a lengthy conference among King Ictnr Lmmannel nnd his army ehlers. Tho king was said to have favored throwing a lnrger army Into Albania in an attempt to drive out the Austrians. hut the genernls opposed scattering of tho Italian forces, and Instead favored coacentratlon of the campaign alowr tlin Anstro-ltalian border.: The argued that if thov wero victorious la thlsi.rnm palgn, Italy could loose Austria's hold on Montenegro and Albania through tli ultimate peace conference. Civilians Are Killed. Berlin, by wireless to Hnyville, 1 1 Jan. 17. Sixteen civilians were fcineH or wounded at Lens by British artillery, according to official announcement to day. "Snowstorms," said the statement, "have impeded activity in Russia, and for tho most part tne engagements inere are only between patrols." English Buy Grata Bucharest, Jan. 17. An Knglish y dicnto today pnid .r0,000,000 la gnhl for 80,000 cars of grain It Is under stood that tho allies Intend to purchaso tho entire Rumanian grain surplus in conformity with their plan to "starve out Gormnny. " Turks In Itotroat. Constantinople, Jan. 17 The Turkish advunro posts in the Caucasus retreated sovornl miles before tho now Russian offensive it was officially admitted to day. Tho retirement of the Turks followed a week of successfully holding off Grand Puke Nicholas' superior forees. "Tho Kusuinns repeatedly attacked on both banks of the Arras river, suf fering henvily," suid tho statement. "In tho Arrns and Id valley districts, Turkish advnnco posts retired several miles." Intermittent artillery firing was re ported near Jvut-el nmnra. Agree to Armistice. Athens, dun. 17. Reports thnl Aus tria and Montenegro had agreed to ia armistice wero corroliorated today ia advices to newspapers here, but they wero unofficially ronhrincd. Austria FUos Protest. Viennn, Jan. 17. Austria protested today to the allied seizure of the Greek island of Corfu, in a note through Am erican Ambnssador l'enfield. Ask for Fence. Berlin, by wireless to Hnyville, I. T., Jan. 17. Montenegro hns asked Amtr'ui for peace, Count Tina Announced in the Hungarian parliament today, ac cording to dispatches. THE WEATHER . (ME. FOR JU ANT ,5ourH Oregon! Tonight and Tuesday ra or snow west, settled, prohahty snow east portion and wanner; ad easterly w 1 d s, reaching a gnl force near to too coast. . ' ' 3 1