"t v h t s(t k k FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES a I s u. -it-ittt rrrrvT T2 A OVER 4000 DAILY (hy PRICE TWO CENTS 8 fliBR THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1916 0 mmm y .-. i n i i i m il n ei h i w 11 u n ii ;i! ! 11 AMERICANS III USE Or RAILROAD ID SUPPLY ii Villa Is Reported Trapped Be tween American and Mexican Forces IT IS EXPECTED THOUGH HE WILL MAKE ESCAPE Rumored Americans Will Seize Railroad If Its Use Is Refused Them By E. T. Conkle. I Tinted Press staff correspondent.) td 1'aso, Texas, Mar. 2(1. Reported hemmed ill among the canyons of the iuenere mountains, Francisco Villa was believed to be surrounded today by several C'arranzista columns and" the American expedition closing down on him from the north. There are manv square miles of mountain nnd desert hi side the net, however, and his escape is considered likely. Aeroplanes may be used tu spy out Villa's hiding dace! Soaring over the peaks, they could pick him out below and wignnl his location to General J. J. Pershing's scouts. Villa is reported to have left a de tachment at the Hernandez ranch to hold off the American cavalry until he has a chance to hide in the Sierra Ma "Ires. Fighting between Americans and this Villista rear guard is expected daily. Americans, watching corn fed horses against tireless ponies, have made forced marches in an effort to overhaul 1 1 la and make him fight. In that move lay the first hope of cap ture. ' With the expedition penetrating into a barren interior country which nialv the usual method 01 provisioning nn army by automobile impractical, it was reported Washington had made a sec ond request for immediate permission to use the Mexico Northwestern rail road for military purposes. May Seize Railroad. . A sensational rmor was current that American troops would give the Juarez garrison IS minutes to surrender, and then seize the town ami control the rail road terminus there i'f permission to use the line were refused. General Garcia believes that Carran zn will probably grant the required privilege. He repented his assurances that Cnrranza wanted to co-operate with the Americans in everv wav pos sible. Cnrranzistns soldiers are, in fact, at tempting to drive Villa toward the (leurrero district. Troops from Chihua hua City, Guzman and Numiquipa arc closing in on him. The American van guard is crowding him from the north while his retreat across the Sierra Ma il res toward Sunora is believed cut off by eonstitiitionalist forces gunrding all passes. Pacing a certain fight if Villa is over taken, General Pershing ami Colonel Dodd led their columns over 100 miles of foreign country without a single sol dier killed. A few horses nnd mules perished from effects of their terrible trials nn the sesert. Negro Regiments Join Chase. Following this remarkable march, Oil oncl lodd is believed, to be 1.15 miles south of the bonier, near the fertile plains of American Mormon colonists. General Pershing's vanguard may have joined him. but the arrival of the main American infantry and artillery units nt Cnsns G ramies has not yet been re ported. Continued on Pairp T'lrenA ABE MARTIN J Among th' things that'll alias remain n. mystery t' th' average layman h how a Teller in his right mind bin resign a tn thousan' dollar job. Mr. Tdtor.l M"ots has a niece that neither smoke or diinki. I'VlllS i i i i t : l ! ! ' ! ei OM TAGGAtT 18 SENATOR Indianapolis, lad., Mar. 20. vernnr Ralston today ap u ted Tom Taggnrt, democrat tate leader, to succeed Cni States Senator Benjamin ely, deceased. believe in the presi s policies and will do my to siipiort them," said t, when informed of his meat. Fleet of Allies' Airships, 50 : In Number, Drop 10,000 Pounds of Bombs London, Mar. 20. In retaliation for Sunday's German air raid on the Ken tish coast. oO allied aeroplanes attack ed Zoebruge, Teuton submarine basc)j. and military works at Ilaultade, inflict-1 j. ing severe damage with high power' bombs, it was officially announced at tiie war office todav. The great allied sky fleet carried 10, 000 pounds of bombs. Kuch machine bore missiles weighing a total of 200! pound". These were mined down on!- the seaplane station at Zeebrugge, ami; on the aerodrome At Houltade. jj. Accompanying the bomb thrower were 1" ''battle cruisers of the air" Heavily armored planes which formed a protective cordon aiound the smaller flyers as Ihey hurled fire and destruc tion on the enemy establishments be low. The admiralty announced every machine returned home safely. This is the first time that the allies have retaliated immediately after a raid on Kugland. It will be the ISrit islt policy every time hereafter. Lord Derby is reported to have come to that lltX'wilII UAflll ffF llliinrr !,, in, 1 Itiinld. (mi- nt nvlitlmi It u-u ro,. , 1 1 ,,.1 tlmH Winston Churchill, former first lord of : tne admiralty, recently declared that i the onlv wav iu sio' .i-iciiu rums would be to launch immediate counter attacks, and burn the German air cruis ers in their hangars. Eleven were killed and more thjn 30 injured in the German raid on Kent. The Kent raid was only one of a num ber which have been directed against Kngland by German machine from Zee brugge. Marion County Democrats Select Committeemen At the close of the get-together meet ing of the Marion county democrats, held at the court house Saturday after noon precinct committee men were ap pointed for a number of Marion eountv precincts. It was suggested that Grant, in one of tho most spectacular encount Corby or District Attorney Ringo be ! ers of the war. Four French and three placed in nomination for district attnr- j German aeroplanes were wrecked. ney but no definite action was taken. The name of F. A lieiiihnrt was also! London, Mar. 20. Fifty allied aero suggested for circuit judge as n running' planes have attacked Zeeburgge, a Ger mate for Judge Galloway. : man submarine base, and enemy works The following were elected precinct i committeemen: Wallanie Elder, Fast Stay ton; John F. Theodore, B. Bren tano, St. Paul; George W. Morley, North Salem; K. K, howell, Jefferson." A unanimous standing vote of hon or was given ,1. Shoemaker, of Jet- ferson, for his faithful attendance of ! democratic meetings in Marion county (luring the past 20 years. P L. Frazier, chairman of the Marion county demo cratic committee, presided nt the rally and William Fleming actd in his of ficial capacity as secretary. CHICKEN POX IN SCHOOL (Capital Journal pecial Service.) I Kaiser Bottom, Mar. 2o. Kaiser Hot I toni schools celebrated St. Patrick's i Day Friday with twelve new cases of chicken pox. If the epidemic continues the schools; Foiirche type last Saturday, it was of here will no doubt be compelled to tem-i ficially announced today in iVenna. pornrily suspend from smtrtnge of pu-l i pils. The malady is in a light form. I (Continued on Pago Eight.) WILL HELP CARRANZA HOLD HIS DOMINANT POSITION IN MEXICO By Robert J. Bender. (I'nited Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington, Mar. 20 President Wil--on will do nothing iu Mexico to em barrass Veimstiano Cnrranza. Wishes of toe de facto Bovernnient will be way pos strictly adhered to in everv sible, it was made plain it a ence today between the president and i eminent is entirely satisfied with the Counsellor Pull of the state depart-1 conduct of tho American expedition, merit. The president was informed that Car- If Cnrranza deems it inadvisable for'ranza had formally requested American Americans to use Mexican railroads for j troops to avoid occupying Mexican niilit iry purposes iu hunting Francisco towns, but orders to refrain from so' Villa, there will be no formal demand : doing had previously been issued by for such permission, and no attempt to American cnimanders. force it. The Americans will devise Government representatives reported I other methods of transporting troops; conditions on the border quiet. Tam Innd supplies. icn and Vera Cruz conditions were I President Wilson intends to do his ut-isnid to be "satisfactory." STRONG RUSSIAN ATTACK IS IDE T Vienna Admits Some Gains Were Made, But Not Im portant GERMANS PLACE LOSS IN ATTACK AT 20,000 Assault Made to Prevent Ger mans Sending More Troops to Verdun sj :! iz CROWN PRINCE TO QUIT London, Mar. 20. The Ger man erowu prince is about to relinquish command of the Lor raine army as a result of the Verdun offensive's failure, dis patches from Heme, Switzer land, declared today. The mes sages asserted this had been learned positively. By Charles P. Stewart. (United Press staff correspondent.) London, Mar. 20. Strong Russian at tacks on the Austrian and German fronts today shifted interest temporar ily from the waning battle at Verdun. Vienna's official communique admit ted a retirement near Vocieezko bridge- aU. At that point, alter a severe !'mbardment the Slavs charged, hurl- ""n(1 fTe" "lla-,, But elsewhere," said Vienna, "all attacks were repulsed." Berlin asserted that the Russians lost 20,000 meu assaulting Field Marshal Von Hindenburg 's forces pu a 05 mile front near Vilnn. A bombardment which continued all day before the Slav infantry appeared pmved ineffective against the Germai defenses, according to Berlin. A stream of fire from mass ed machine guns checked every at tempted charge. Petrograd was silent regarding the 'fighting there. It is be lieved the offensive was undertaken to prevent German troops being shifted to the western front. Developments of the past two days have increased the Parisian belief that the Germans arc preparing to abandon their offensive at Verdun. Aeroplanes were most nctive on the western front nil day Sunday. Two sky fleets clashed t Houltade, it wn-s officially announced todav. Great damnge was done by air bombs. German' Attacks Weakening. Paris, Mar. 20. Gcaman infantry at tacks against Pepper Heights were hurl- "1 back today's official war office communique asserted. Pepper Heights is four miles north of Verdun. Inter mittent artillery work around Vnux and a sharp exchange of shells at Kparges were also described. The Pepper Heights attack was made after a long bombardment, but the war office said it seemed to lack soirit. French guns easily checked it. West of the Mciise there wa3 severe cannon ading couth of Malaiioonrt. Sunk French Destroyer. Berlin, Mar. 20. An Austrian sub marine sank a French destroyed of the most to help Carranzn maintain his dominant position in Mexican affairs. While there has been no reply from f arranza with regard to use of his railroads, the delay has caused no con cern here. A favorable answer is ex- ! peeted. l Advices from Queret.tro, temporary Di) 65 HE FRQN confer-Mexican capital, said the de facto gov DELEGATE SAYS ROOT LOOMS UP STRONGEST Chicago, Mar. 20. Although the sub-committee on arrange- nicnta for the republican nation al convention meets here this uf teruojin, selection of a tempo rary clinirnil.il will probably bo postponed until the April ses sion. Franklin Murphy, delegate from New Jersey, said there was very little Roosevelt senti ment in the east. L'lihu Root, he declared, was apparently the strongest presidential possibil ity. Ef fobbed the Government of $500,000 On Roads Built Only On Paper Region, Sask., Mar. 20. Imaginary reports from imaginary supervisors, passed by real auditors of the roads de partment after being approved by lib eral officers, resulted in looting the do minion treasury of more than $50i is the sensational charge upon which several members of the legralature and cabinet officers will shortly go to trial. Most of the roads reported built were "north of Fifty-three" across bliz zard swept mountains. Tho phantom roads are in a territory which has never been surveyed and cir cumvent the laws of man, whose river banks are precipitous and where dog teams and sleighu must be lowered from a sheer 200 foot drop, over rock piles that would defy German 42 centimeter guns to dislodge. One report of the investigntors rends: "That is not all. The contractor is not there, nor here, nor anywhere else; he simply does not exist; he's a phan tom, the road is a phantom, the contract n phantom, the steam engines and grad ers are phantoms, all of the officials are phontoms, and he only real thing about it is that the real cash went out of the treasury- for months." Wiam Marks Killed by Fall ing Tree, in Home Three Miles From City Portland, Or.. Mar. 20. One man is dead today as the result of an electric al storm which struck Portland at six p. in. yesterday, doing considerable scattering damage. Tli ii tiilor and lightening were follow ed by a furious gust of wind, which gave way to a deluge of rain. The wind uprooted a huge fir tree three miles east of Portland ami crashed it through the roof of the home o'f William Marks, a rancher. Marks was caught under the tree and killed. His wife and little daughter were only slightly injured. Lightening struck several houses, do ing minor damages. Streetcars in many parts of the city were stopped and pow er wires destroyed. Cloudbursts swept down on Milton and Stanfield in eastern Oregon, flood ing those two towns. Little permanent damage was caused. Woman Found Dead by Her Kitchen Stove San Francisco, Mar. 20. Mrs. Luck L. Coote, 112 years old, wife of C. II. Foote. of the I'liion Iron Works, was found dead today ih the kitchen of her home. Gas was streaming from the gas stove over which she hail cooked her husband 's meals. Miiis Kdith Castain, who found her body, and Foote, were examined by the police. Miss Castain told Captain Shea that Foote V wifo called at her apartment last night and demanded to see Foote. S:ie had been drinking, the young wom an dei-liwil. She urged Mrs. Foote to go home. F.itrly today Miss Castain called to see how Mrs. Foote was feel ing and found the body. Foote has been living away from his wife. lie said he moved because his wife took to drinking and they quarrel ed frequently. Japanese Recruits Wreck . English Newspaper Plant Vancouver, B. C, Mar. 20. F.xtra po lice g uarded the Japanese colony here last ,',ight to prevent further rioting which started Saturday night when a Japanese newspaper plant was wrecked by 100 or more Japanese recruits in the British nrmy. The Japanese were incensed over re ports in the newspapers that their uni forms would be here on the 17th. When iney mo nm i-ume. me uriciim goi even in their own peculiar stylo. ELECTRIC 1 T One Man Killed by Falling Tree Near Portland Church Spire Struck Awr cwrDTTAntATUDV rDUAT Iff AH AC WATCD UlUiill llrtLb Ul liniLlV j c n . w i . i Southeastern Washington1' T II Ci i T J to Regular Rivers Portland, Ore., Mar. 20 Two are dead and thousands of dollars worth of prop erty destroyed today us tho result of I ine eieciric siorm which swept por tions of Oregon and Washington late yesterday. A terrific gust of wind sent a huge fir tree crashing through the roof of tin home of William Marks, cast of Port- IR RECORDED FOR MANY E lanil. Marks was killed and his wife, Tho bodv of Vilardo was found dis and little daughter slightly injured. Tlu miemhercd and hidden in jute sacks af other fatality occurred in tho foothnlls of the Blue mountains in eastern Ore gon, where cloudbursts swept through several little valleys. Thomas Shumwell. a farmer, was carried away by a big wall of water. His body was found lodged in a clump ot tnrshes. Damage was greatest in southeastern Washington and eastern Oregon. Sev eral houses were carried away and fam ilies in the Blue Creek neighborhood were rescued by men on horseback. Wa ter ran through the streets of Milton, Stanfield. Weston, Dayton and oilier small towns. Oregon Electric Tied Up. Portland, Ore., Mar. 20. Traffic on the Oregon Klectric, was completely stopped for several hours today by the collapse of high tension lines. Stock Market Stagnant and Prices Dropping New York, Mar. 20. The New York Sun's finncial review today said: Further notable contradiction in mar ket activity as compared with the ses- 7' is I ... sun Inst week was attributed this morning to over Sunday discussion of an earlv peace. Business decreased rapidly after the first hour, and deal ings were largely professional. Activ ity at the outset centered on industrial specialties. Crucible steel, Mexican Pe- : troleum and a few others increased a j point or more. Steel was fnirly active! and fractionally higher, but it devel- j oped a heavy tendency which affected i the entire list. The reactionary tone of railway stocks was associated with J. P. Morgan's assertion that he ar ranged no loan for the allies based on American securities and thev can con tinue selling its holdings here. The re- action became more pronounced whenlnncse liner lenvn .Maru was held up Crucible Steel, American Car. Stude- f ive miles out of Yokohama by a Hrit baker, Baldwin and Mexican Petroleum : ish warship and eight Hindus woro iii'mr iitiii i ti ,j i u ii, hi (inline, j ii u iiai showed no pronounced rallies. KICKED BY MULE ("Capital Journal Special Service.) Kaiser Bottom, Mar. 20. Norman Hanks, tiie 15 year old son of .lames Dunks, of this id ico. was accidentlv kicked by one of his father's mules at his farm recover. here Thursday. The lad will REPORT SAYS VILLA IS GOING TO FAVORITE PLACE IN By E. T. vonkle. (I'nited Press -staff correspondent.) F,l Paso, Texas, Mar. 20. Indications today pointed to a long pursuit of Fran cisco Villa ,far into Mexico and the problem of supplying the American ex pedition with food and munitions was uppermost in the minds of army men. A few considered that withdrawal ot the expedition without capturing Villa was likely as nn alternative to forcibly taking Mexican rnilronds, defying Ven ustinno Carranzn and possibly preci pitating actual intervention, with r year's bloody warfare against all fac tions. In view of President Wilson's past favors to Carranzn, aiding him to de-lran.a trap. feat Villa at Agua Pricta by transport-1 When the pursuit extends below Oil ing de facto government troops through , liualniii City, supplying of the expedi I'nited States territory 'from F.agle Puss; Hon by wagons will no longer be prnc to Douglas, the desired permission tolticable. The use of railroads will be ship American military supplies by rail come imperative. and perhaps to send reinforcements to American Mormons, relieved by the General Pershjug over Mexican rail- presence of American troops, do not roads was confidently expected. (want to go to tho border. General There were renewed reports today , Pershing may order them to leave Mex that Villa is heading into the mnuii-jicc. With its burned bridge replaced, tains of DurniiL'O. He was born there, commiirucat ions over the Mexican j villistas under the command of Cener- 0ia ( niixtos, Contrctirns nd tieyes wnnncwcu. KILLED AMENDMENTS Washington, Mar. 20. By a rising vote of 153 to 82 the house today defeated Represen tative Kahn'a amendment to the Hay bill for a larger regu lar army. Kahn's amendment was in favor of making the mil itary forces 220,0110. This voto was considered overwhelming evidence of congressional oppo sition to a large standing army. Uli UilnUUL V . T I I 'I J 1 nsus 10 woman in jan Leau to Arrest for Murder r WCVCH ICCUO Seattle. Wash., Mar. 20. Jim Mar iano, Seattle market clerk charged Sat urday with the ghastly murder of li. Vilardn, 11 years ago in San Francisco, still proclaims ins innocence in tho city jail hero today. After two hours of grilling by Cap tain of Detectives Tennnnt, Mariano still denied that he is Pietro Torturici whose pictures hail been sent broadcast by tho San Francisco police. He said j he would willingly return to California tor trial. ter the murder, l ietrrt Torturici was charged with the crime in 1!I0," but was never captured. Mariano was arrested whilo at work in the Pike Place public market Sat urday bv Detectives t!i inrlii and Coch rane. He had been making frequent visits to the city nnd county jail to boo Mrs. G. Boozer, arrested February i!8 for shoplifting. A police department j telegram from Kiinsns Citv concerning I Mrs. Boozer said "her husband, Piotro Torturici was badlv wanted in San IVunciaro for miirdc Thirtv minutes later Mariano was in jail. Will Send Him Back. San Francisco, Mar. 20. Kxtradition papers for Jim Mariano, Seattle mar ket clerk, suspected of murdering B. Vilardn here 11 years ago, will be asked today by Captain of Detectives Patrick Shea, he announced. Shea believes Mariano is really Pietro Torturici, long suspected of the crime. ASTORIA RATE CASE. Washington, March 0. Northwestern railroads today petitioned the interstate com merce commission for a hew hearing if the Astoria rate cases. A recent decision ordered Astoria rates put on a par with railroad rates inland from Paget Sound points. BRITISH ANGER JAPS. Kan Francisco, March 20 The Jap- taken off, passengers declared today when they arrived on the vessel from the Orient. The net aroused the ire of tho Jap anese government, say the passengers, and several notes have been exchanged with Loudon. The wasliip, passengers claimed, was ostensibly looking for Germans who had escaped from the concentration camps. They were not found. MOUNTAINS the remnants of the forces under Gen eral T'omns Oibinas and Benjamin Ar gumedo, are lurking there. On Way to Durango. Villa is reported in the Chihuahua mountain's, riding toward Durango. To an expedition as large as Pershing s the trails which Villa uses present an al most impregnable obstacle. Colonel Iodd's cavalrymen nre suid to bo (10 ilcs behind Villa, but fiO miles means two days marching in those mountains. Between Villa and his supposed goul at Durango, however, arc the Tara liuinar mountains, also one of his favor ite haunts. He is approaching them to- I day, and is not yet out of tho ar- Northwestern railroad have been re IIAI TRDDPS READY TO STRIKE 111 ;Army of 25,000 Waiting To Head Villa Off If He Goes Toward Sonora GOVERNOR IS ORDERED TO ASSIST AMERICANS General Calles Insists There i Has Been Peace In Mexico for Some Time ft Nogalea, Ariz., Mar. 20. Am ericans have been ordered to leave tho Altar district of So nora, 40 miles w.ost of here, on tho border, according to a tele phono message from O. B. Glover, receiver on tho Reproso ranch for the P. Tasteno com pany, a New York concern. Dan Phillips, rancher nt Altar, corroborated Glover's statement. They said that mani festos had been posted ordering tho American citizens to leave this district. Stories were be ing circulated, Glover said, that all the American troops enter ing Mexico had been annihilat ed. 55 j( jjc sjc jjc )c Sjc )c 3C 5jfi )C S By H. C. Boelune. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Douglas. Ariz., Mar. 20. Following unconfirmed reports reaching Agusi Priota that Francisco Villa was headed toward Sonora, Consul Ives Le Lcvier, rtpenking for De Facto Governor Calles, doclarcd Villa would meet with a warm welcome. "There nre 2",000 de facto troopn waiting 'Pancho' Villa in Sonora," ho said. "Villa met his Waterloo in Sonora, it will be remembered, losing a big army, all his artillery and was forced to become a bandit." Two thousand Mayo Indians, under Colonel Fierro are. preparing to leave- Agua Prictii lor tho honora-L.ninuanu , mountain passes through which the Vil- listas would have to pass to reacn Hon ors state. Tho Indians will travel light and aro equipped to make great speed over the rough mountainous coun try. Apparently trusting the Carranzistaj to guard the Konora-Chihuahiia line, tha United States troops hern made no move as a result of Auga Pricta infor mation. In an interview granted tho United Press today, General Flias I'. Calles, military governor of Sonora, declared tii.it his orders are to co-operate witll American troops in case an invasion la to Sonora is made necessary. Says Mexico 19 At Peace. Calles officially discredited all re ports of mutiny and insubordination on tho part of the soldiers under his com mand. When asked if the capture of Villa and his band would result in "peace in Mexico," General Calles, somewhat sur prised, replied through his interpreter that there is already peace in Mexico and has been since the recognition ot Carrnnza. Villa, he said, is nn outlaw, a thief, and so aro his followers. If it is the impression in some parts of the United Sttacs that Villa is a patriot and th friend of the poorer classes in Mexico, then the Americans are misinformed. Villa is a bandit nnd is being treated as such. Calles headquarters nre located in a building formerly occupied by a gener al store, nnd to all outward appearances .... :.. .. l .,.,,.,. l,,,t IK IllO Hiriicmiu in u ii"ii, ,vm,-i, b ... interior of the place has been trans formed into complete military quarters. Persistent rumors that Francisco Vil la had escaped the American trap and was safe in the Sierra Madres east ot Madera were unconfirmed today. It is known, however, that General Gutier rez scouts have lost track of him. Three hundred Sonora militiamen con- I ccntratcd at Agna Pricta will bt (TnntlniKU Pe Th' I THE WEATHER i hope rws is THE LAS7"oP Oregon: To night und Tues day occasional rain, southerly winds. fill HOUR'S NOTICE J