ffik SIT! ii ImsA Ji f1 9 (t jji jc jfc " FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES CIRCULATION IS OVER 4000 DAILY 4 THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1916 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWk STANDS FIVE CENT- o 1 WW I X n naif Mil 12 aiit r i r ! 1! n AIM I II II 1 1 1 1 - "TV fii I II mint if li I 1 1 I I K r - . i mm mm mi uui uiu ( y) . n COLONY OF AMERICANS . rpc iL) . -7 I'-. sO , , k I . TV i r.i. . ' A Said To Be On His Way to Massacre Trainload of 500 Mormons Fleeing From Ca cas Grandes-Carranza Sends : Troops to Protect Them But They Will Arrive Too Late American Troops Expected To Be On Their Job In 1 Mexico by Monday-Funston Will Strike Hard f By H. D. Jacobs El Paso, Texas, March 11. General Francisco Villa's plan to massacre American Mormons fleeing from Mexico to the United States has been foiled, Carranza Consul Garcia informed the United Press today. Carranzistas, Garcia declared, have halted all trains on the Mexican and Northwestern line by which the Mor mons were traveling, pending the result of Villa's new movements. The exact whereabouts of the Mormon party is unknown, but Garcia is confident they will now escape the trap. The Carranzistas had positive information that Villa planned to intercept the Mormons at Guzman and mas sacre all, men, women and children. He left La Ascension at daybreak, it was reported, heading for Guzman with '.00 followers. No steps toward executing President Wilson's orders to smash Villa are apparent yet. The censorship is evi dently in effect. Brigadier General Pershing stated at 9:H0 a. m. today that he knew nothing of any contem plated movements. Pershing said the war department's instructions were going direct to General Funston. It was reliably learned several garrisons have been ordered from Wyoming to the border. Officials refused to reveal which regiments are affected or where they are going. By H. D. Jacobs. I I'nited Press staff correspondent.) ! F.I Paso, Texns, Mar. 11. While I'ni-! led States troops are expected to enter J Mexico at half a dozen places before ; Monday to avenge the attack on Colum-J Brigadier General John J. Pershing luis, N. M., and the Santa Ysabel nias-iand Colonel Herbert Slociun. in com stncre, the border was gripped with an maud of the I'nited States troops on awful fear today. j the border, expect to receive marching The greatest slaughter of American orders today, colonists in Mexico's history is report-1 Troopers, privates and non-commis-ed to lie the object or General Fran-1 sioned officers of the Fourth cavalry cisco Villa's rush toward n train of and the Twentieth infantry today Mormons due this afternoon nt Guzman, crowded telegraph offices, ' sending nil miles southwest of here. Warned of the proposed American cnmpnign of extermination against him, A'illa is reported determined to strike the "gringoes" another terrific blow before retiring to the mountains of western Chihuahua where he hopes to escape vengeance A special train bearing ."00 Mormon i refugees from Casas (irandes and adia cent colonies is en route here. They left their homes after hnving been re peatedly warned of flic danger of re maining, in view of Villn's therahs. Two thousand Carranzista troops loft f'hiliunhua City on 10 trains Fiidav nft-:a rriinon to protect the Mormons. They must first go to Juarez on the line of the National railway, and tlien proceed souuiwnrd tiy way of the -Mexico Xorih- western line, on which the colon tni veling. ts are ' Aid Cannot Reach Them. American and Mexican officials con- cede there is no chance of the Car-1 ,""" Ao A"H'"cans were mo ranzistns intercepting Villa, who wn-s I s . .. Inst reported nt I.a Ascension. ?.C, miles I 1 he rignlness of the American patrol northwest of Guzman, with 200 l,,i I around Columbus, X. M., is indicated bv its. These :;00 form only a sort of per- minnl body guard, however. The total number of Villistas in Chihuahua is known to be nearly -l.OllO. General Bertani, in command of n Carranzista column several hundred He Aba Martin It must be tryin' t' come out of a wa'-oi nickel the ater an' gfo i nt ' a cold home these dark winter days. T' git along well a feller ought t' be at lea-! a hea l taller than his trouble?. dlfo Ml .. I i -strong is reported 50 miles west of Villa s headquarters, but there is no of hi m overtaking the rebel Villa is known to have fresh chance chief. horses. He travels light and fast. orders and messages of fnrcwell to rela tives and friends. They are greatly pleased at the prospect of real action after years of routine work on the border. All the men are apparentlv in good trim for the campaign. The Carranzistas are apparentlv pre paring to nni the -.merican forces. General Sallos, veteran Carranzista war nor, lias distributed his men strategical ly ready for the fighting, Calle's, as military governor of Sonora, telegraph ed Provisional President Carranza in forming him that the A niericane wprr about to invade. Carranza in replv sent brief message expressing rccrrer Thai tue I nited Mates had found such action necessary. American Ranches Raided. American ranches in -Mexico smith nf Osborn Junction. Ariz., have been raid. ed, livestock killed and property dam aged, supposedly by Carrauzi.-ta soldiers Wn0 hail Keen drinking, according to re fa,,t ihat u Mexican who failed to l halt at command was shor and killr.,1 1. ' a sentry yesterday. Columbus was restless all night, ex pecting another attack. It is believed i that warning of the American punitive , expedition reached Villa, however and that reports that he was reluming to attack Columbus again were baseless. Army men deplore the publicity which has been given their plan of campaign against Villn. They believe tnis publicity prevented the m from mir. prisiny bim. All talk here is of the hunt for Villn 1 ,0,1!"',""'s Ilursllt ot to aDove-mention-Xoitf is positive when it will begin! j 0,1 f"r',,s- It is believed the main movement of' "The above lamentable incident is troops will not start before Mondnv ' similar to the incursions which wore General Pershing has received no tn-!ml"'p fo states of Sonora and ('In formation giving hint of when the ! huahiia by Indians from the reserva smash is to be launched. He said nil Hons of the government of the I'nited communications with regard to the in-i nsion Had apparently been betni.nn ' Secretary of War Baker and General Funston. i To Start From Several Points. Pershing's officers admitted, how- ever, Ihat they believed the invasion would lie started simultaneously frm Kl Paso, Columbus. Dnii'dn. ' Fnrrlna ' lass, Texas, and nernans Hrr.wnav with the purpose of making a clean sweep of all bandits. j Pershing has sent a detnehment to pursue a Mexican wagon train moving; westward along the horder with sev eral hundred thousand rounds of am munition ilia had cached near Chilnia : hua a Mexican settlement on the Am-'the erican -dite the border armv men suit. If the Villistas approach to save this wagon train, admit a clash would re- ! The prdice are rounding uri n!l form (Continued on Pass Xine.) "I I 'I' f vV t fit. n ; VJ W si I I I 1 H JV";' i:7 ! fl I : ' r I s t j T y 3 1' I i x Left, General Zapata. Top to bot tom, right: Felix Diaz, Gen. Pablo Gonzales and General Carranza. CARRANZA WILL MAKE NO OBJECTIONS TO IT SAYS HIS SECRETARY Washington, Mar. 11. General Car ranza does not definitely approve or disapprove of the American expedition into Mexico after Villa, according to a message from his foreign minister, Jes us Acune, received here today. Car ranza in this message suggested a w ingness for Americans to enter Mexico: in case the Columbus attack "should unfortunateily be repeated" elsewhere The communication follows: In due reply to vour courteous note! dated yesterday and transmitted today through Mr. John . Belt, 1 have the honor to inform you that having brought the above note to the atten - tiou of the first chief of the constitu tional army and depository of the exe cutive power of Mexico, ho has directed me lo say to you, to the end that you may in turn transmit it to the depart ment of state of the American govern ment, that he learned with regret of the lamentable incident which occurred in; "JKSUS AC'I'NA, the town of Columbus, N. M., on ac-1 "Secretary in charge of the depart -count of the assault it suffered 'from' ment of foreign affairs. " the bandits led by Francisco Villa. The message was addressed to Consul "That although there has been a com-; Silliman an 1 was dated Guadalajara, petent number of forces in the state of , March 10. Chihuahua to re-establish order and af ford protection to nationals and for eigners, ever since rrnnefsco ilia ap ! peared in the mountains of the above ; state, at the request of the governor of the state and of the constitutionalist : consul in hi Paso. Texas, the first chief i ordered the timely departure of 2. SOU ! men commnnded by general T.uls C.ui-j ! tierrez with instructions to actively I riursue the bandits who had lust crossed. the line into American territory, which they nnclouhteilly ill. I. compelled bv the stato. Incursions into the slate of sonora occurred more or less about t lie VPOr 1 SsO, when Geronimo, the Indian day holiday. The market rlosed quiet- chief, who died not many years ago in 'er, but far from the earlier low dices Fort Mount. Ala., led a numerous horde i prevailed. anil invaded apart of the north of thej " statl' bt Sonora, committing many mur-l den and depredations on lite and prop- ertv of Mexican families, until after a long and tenacious chase hy Americanist and Mexican forces the band of male factors was annihilated and its chief was captured. "The incursions into Chihuahua, led bv the Indian chief Victorin, command ing about ROO Indians, took place be tween the years 1S1 and ISSli Then bands of marauders committing also j many crimes went into the country as far as the village of icfnlochic. or Tres f'mtillos, very near the capital of Chi ( lii ahua. and during the first formal en counter between them and Mexican l fores, after hnving lo?t their chief. 'th"y were dispersed. "On these two occasions, through an agreement between the governments of the United States and Mexico, it was decided that tiie armed forces of one and the other country might freeh cross from the territory of one to th other in pursuit of and for the pur- pose of punishing the above-mentioned bands of marauders. ' Recalling the.e incidents and the good results for both countries on ac- count of the above agreement, the irov- I eminent presided over by the first chief ! addresses the government of the United ' States reotiesting the necessary pernii jsion for Mexican forces to cross into American territory if the incursion which took place in Columbus should unfortunately be repented in nny other part of the boundary line. The Mexican government would appreciate a prompt and favorable reply from the govern- ment of the United States. Markets Fluctuate with German and Mexican News (Copyright lOUi by the New York Kv I eninir l'crst 1 X,.- yurk, Mar. II. The sinking of the Silius and, Carranza 's reply to the A mi.rii'ti n funiniuwumoiit th.i r..it,i i . States troops would enter Mexica served to alternately influence the mnr- Ret today. Mie first caused a sham re- action. This was halted when all Aincr-j icans weie reported rescued. There wnsi a slight recovery when Carranza 's nt- tittide was made known. His attitude was interpreted as being favorable. The Silius case was recognized as opening up enough lormnlabi possibilities tolsibly i dictate a ncsiianr attitude over the Sun - )(c WILD MAN CAPTURED Oregon City, Ore., Mar. 11. After terrorizing people near Kelso and Poring for nearly a month, Daniel Clifford, aged 2t, t "the wild man of Kelso," is in jail here today. In a brief lueid interval he said he had relatives in Massachusetts. Clif ford r oann-d the woods stark naked, for weeks during ex- trcnicly cold weather. Deputy sheriffs, t.rmed with a suit case full of cbitlie". captured him yesterday. He has lived on roots. BRITISH P OFFERS INSULT TO F Passengers of American Lin er China Tell of Latest English Outrage GERMAN PASSENGERS TAKEN FROM VESSEL Act Same As If Germans i Had Been Taken From American Territory San Francisco, Mar. 11. The inside story of how the British cruiser Laurea tic fired on und held up the American liner China on the high seas out of Shanghai was brought to port by pas sengers on the American vessel today. They said the British ship first fired two blanks mil then a real shell at the American boat; then boarded her and dragged OS German men passengers from the arms of their wives, carrying them prisoners of war to Jheir cruiser. Captain Frank Frazier of the liner China sid his lips had been sealed by Washington on the affair. 1 1 o has been instructed to appear before Col lector of Port Davis and tell the story of the British raid. The captain's ver sion of the affair Will (lieu be sent to the president. When the liner China docked her rails were lined by weeping Germ in and children. They said their husbands and fathers had been torn from their arms by the British .seamen. Mrs. W. Nchulter, a German woman whoso husband, was , taken prisoner said: "We were scvenl hundred miles out of Shanghai when the British cruiser appeareil. She ran us down and tired two blanks at the American boat. The American kept on until tho British ship tired a real shell over the deck. "Then a boat lonl of British came toward us. The officers and men were bristling with guns and swords. Cap tain Frazier of the American boat told them to disarm before they came aboard. But they would not hear iiini." "The passengers were lined up on deck ind searched. The German men were dragged out of the ranks. The British hustled them down the gang plunk to the boat and took them to their cruiser. They said the Germans were spies and that they were raiding the American ship on orders from F.ng lanil. I Americans On Vessel Were Saved No Warning of Attack Was Given Washington, Mar. 11. Dispatches to day said the Norwegian steamer Silius, torpedoed ill Havre Roads, was the fin vessel carrying Americans reported sunk without warning since the kaiser's decree of submurine warfare against armed merchantmen became effective. Three of the crew were drowned. The Americans were saved. Immediately upon receipt of dis patches describing the sinking, it was stated unofficially that tho 1'niti" States would hold to strict account I he nation whose submnrino made the at tack, provided later messages confirm ed the original meager messiige. it is nciieved the suomarino was f!.,n Secretary Lansing will not ..t fn,.iM nt;i h. t.n .r.m,,ii tails. p,ef0re proceeding Lansing must have affidavits 'from passengers and crew showing " bevond a reasonable doubt " that the Silius was torpedoed. The affidnviu. it U i.in,t r.,.. get here lietore a week or 10 1 dnvs, That the Silius was unarmed is ac cepted as fact, as she was a neiitrnl merchantman. Officials said this might make the case more serious than any i yet confronted by the government dur Jjt ; ing the submarine disputes. No power has ever hinted that non sis j combatants, whether neutral or belliger- ent, have no right to trnvel on neutral sis ; vessels. Kven if the submarine made (sure of the passengers safety, America !j would not be satisfied, it was stated I authoritatively. If the attitude of President Wilson and Secretary Lansing, as frequently j expressed in notes to the central pow- j ers. has not changed and officials t grimly declare it has not America ! must insist on an immediate disavow ; nl, reparation and condign punishment nil for the olfendiiig submarine command l (Continued on Page Eight.) GERMAN THRUST PLACES INCH LINE IN DANGER Five Miles of Front West of Meuse Imperiled Germans Sacrifice Lives With Recklessness In Attempting M3e Advance On Forges Road Fierce Bayonet Fighting la Streets of Vaux Germans Develop New Attack at Rheims Gain Two-Thirds of a Mile By Charles P. Stewart (United States Staff Correspondent.) London, March 11. Continuing their onslaughts on Verdun, the Germans suddenly broke out with a new of fensive during the night, according to the official com muniques. Six miles west of Verdun they unexpectedly attacked Rheims, 100 miles northeast of Paris, where there has been no infantry fighting of any importance for months. On a front of 1400 yards the Germans smashed through to a depth of nearly two-thirds of a mile, it was claimed by Berlin. More than 700 prisoners were taken, together with machine guns and trench bomb throwers. Paris failed to confirm the reported German gains. The French war office stated all German attacks had been hurled back. In their announcement the French described artillery battling around Verdun and admitted the Germans had captured a few houses east of the church in the village of Vaux. Hand to hand infantry fighting continues on both banks of the Meuse. Berlin declared all French troops had been ousted from the Corbeaux and Cumieres woods. Paris denied this, asserting counter attacks had driven the Germans from those positions. London, Mar. 11. A sudden German thrust into Corbc.uix woods has imper illed the French on a five mile front west of tho Meuse, according to dis patches received here today. The ticrinnns annexing vermin are renorted wastinir lives recklessly in an attempt to advance one mile to tho I'orges-Cuinieres road, success in tnis move would force General doff re's men to ev.icuuto their trenches on tlooso Hill and around Hethincoui t. Latest Paris advices admitted a Ger man gain, but declared tho Teutons were driven from their captured posi tions by counter attacks. A cross fire from Ciooso Hill and Dead M ins Hill was brought to bear on tiie Teutons. This same fire earlier this week forced the Germans to relinquish gains in Verdun forest after a loss of 0,0110 men. Around ' Doiiaiimout, Vaux and Fort De Vaux the battle drew more intense yesterd.iy. Reports are contradictory, however, icgarding the results. Zouaves, Tun os and Senegaleso fought like demons in the streets of Vaux. Charging from house to house, they rushed the Germans from town at tin; points of their bayonets. "These troops," Paris reported, "drove their bayonets home with an overarm plunging stroke. It was en tirely unlike the method ot llritisli ana Fre.ich inf iiitrynien, who usually thrust upward The French-African soldiers raised their rides above their heads ... , . i,., ,;,!, ,!,,.:, cii ... I 1. ...... ,.l.t .1,.,.,.. .UI li,..,, full ....... weight behind each blow, forcing tho This sentiment I found unanimou. bayonets entirely through their oppon- today in a visit to the great Leipzig cuts' bodies. commercial exposition, to leiirn the at "The Germans suffered even more titudo of the people toward submarine heavily from French artillery ami ma- warfare and the German American con chine guns. Vet when General Von trovcrsies. Giiretskv Cnrnitz's troops wero being Leipzig's opinion is of the greutest swept whole companies at . timo into eternity, the kaiser's press bureau an nounced they had captured the fortress and village of Vaux, Tho French Version. Paris, Mar. II. A few- houses in tho village of Vaux were captured by Ger- i i..,.. i ...i ;,. ii, ..i r, wilh great strength during the night, it tween what President Wilson doe was officiillv announced today. All and what the American people want assaults against Fort De Vaux were re- him to lo. They count President Wil piilsed. on ns an enemy and tho Amcricau Fighting was most severe on tho t'cp'o as their "passive friends, west bank of the Meuse, near the east-. Loading Leipzig business men told cm border of Corbeaux forest. I tho United Press very frankly today "After a bombardment, German in- funtrv charged between Trovon mil lllerry Ail Hue," said the coinininiqiio. ;"They were repulsed. In successful 'counter attacks, we drove Germans from communication trenches they had ! occupied southeast of Uethincourt. I "Fast of the Meuse Die Gerninni iniade desperate efforts all night to cap- turo Fort De V lux and the village of Vuux. They seized a few houses east of the ciiuicli, but elsewhere wero re pulsed. "In the Woevre district the cannon ade continued between Hix ami Fort Moulunville. G niiau works near Km berinenil, Lorraine, were damaged by our fire." French Loss 2.500,000. lierlin, Mar. 11. French losses up to the beginning of March totalled '.'."iiiii.ooo it was semi offiei illy claimed today. Turks Still Fall Back. Pctroirrnil, Mar. 11. Trebizond will be surrendered by the Turks with littlo !nr no resistance, Tiflis dispatches do- dared today. Hig guns in the harbor district have oomi dismantled ana ail vain ibles have been removed. Tho Russian van guard is within a day's march of the city. Tho Slav fleet is harassing retreating Turks, shelling roads vfcich skirt the snore. Herman ntlac.ks east of Kozlov b.v been heavily repulsed, according to di- notches from the front. The Hermans are reported active an aiong me ironr, particularly near Itiga. Russian artil lery materially afsisted in breaking up strong assaults. Germans Make Gains. Berlin, Mar. 11. Hy making an un expected .lttaclt near Rheims tho Ger mans penetrated French lines nearly two thirds of a mile on a 1400 yard front southwest of the Villeux woods, it was announced officially today. In the fighting around Rheims th Germans captured 7:17 men, 12 muchino guns and 13 mine throwers, tho state ment asserted. Commercial Interests Indorse Submarine War By Carl W. Ackerman (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Ijcipzig, Germany, March II. Pig; commercial interests of Germany, though desiring to avoid a break with Am- f.lvor n ,, vi(?or01s waged since the beginning of tho sub hasi . . i. .I, ,- UK';U nilire Ulf IMLIMMIHU ui iiu ".. valuo because of the great business in terests centered here which gave to the world the "made in Germnny" phrase. Hut it has been formed for the most part on inaccurate Knglish press report of what is going on at Washington. Tho result is that the people of Leip zig believo there is a difference be- they desire a cont.nuunco of good relations with the United States not be- cause of the relations themselves, hut because Americin intervention might prolong Germany '-j (ask of winning the war. j They added, just ns frankly, that the submarine war must be pushed, despite all objections. TIIE WEATHER Z Oregon: night and To-S'lii- day fair; wind genenilly westerly ICOrVjE. roo