ft
FULL LEASED
: WIRE DISPATCHES
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:
CIRCULATION IS
OVER 4000 DAILY
FORTIETH YEAR NO. 2
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1917
PRICE TWO CENTS
ON TRAINS AND NhWS
STANDS FIVE CENTS
WILL BE NO CLASH
ii ARIZONA OVER
GOVERNOR'S JOB
Campbell Republican Has
. Certificate of Election
from Secretary
APPEALS TO COURTS
AND RELIES ON THE LAW
Says it Will Be Ref robing
for State To Have Cover-,
nor Obey the Law"
Phoenix, Ariz.. Jan. 2.-Today Ari-
svnia litis two governors, two executive
offices and will Boon have two sniffs of
appointive stale effieers. This situation
will continue until Thursday at least,
for attorneys for Governor-Meet torn
Campbell ami Governor George W. P.
Hunt reached an agrcclucut today that
vie application to tic supreme court for
x peremptory writ to oust Hum will 110L
be made before Thursday. "
This morning Campbell made a fresh
demand for the executive office. This
v. us refused. Now ( 'ampbell is prepar-
iitg to open liis offices iu a capital cor
j: dor or elsewhere.
In the meantime all business of the
eate is deadlocked. Arizona's war
rants will not be recognized and two
sots of officials will seek to perform
the same duties.
Home of the officials appointed by
Hunt are 'arranging to have their or
I'iccs occupied day and night to prevent
Campbell 's men from getting into the
vaults and records. '
Attention is now turning to the logls
lature, which "convene Monday. An at
tempt will be made to secure an ad
journment for six weeks, it was said
today, and this will precipitate a new
battle. Hunt, it Is Claimed, will control
the lower house. The senate is strongly
niti-Hunt.
Malcolm Frozer, of KT Iaso, has been
appointed private secretary by Camp
bell. A heavy guard was maintained
around the capitol last night, but there
w as no trouble.
Campbell's Statement.
Phoenix, Ari., Jan. 2. No violence
v. ill be sanctioned by Tom Campbell,
v ho receive) .'SO majority on the face of
official returns for governor of Arizona,
in his efforts to oust George V. p.
Hunt from physical possession of the
governor's office. In an exclusive
Btatement to the United Press today, ho
declared he would proceed according to
law as "a refreshing example for Un
people of the state to have a governor
who obeys the law."
Campbell's statement follows:
(By Tom Campbell ) '
"Having- received a certificate o.
election from the secretary of state as
governor of Arizona according to law
end having pualificd I am proceeding
to administer the affairs of that Office,
notwithstanding ..the refusal of my
predecessor to deliver the mere physica'l
possession of the governor's quartern
at. the capitol and the records of the
office.
'There were two courses open to me
vir.; iv occupy tno ottice by force or to
p;peai to the courts.
"I have chosen tho latter course be
cause I bCTieve that it will be a refresh-
nag example tor the people of the state
l" have a governor who obeys the law.
i am opening an office in the busi
ness district and shall there continue U
discharge the duties of the office to
v men j nave been chosen bv the
Tilford Moots has modeled a
nardy doughnut that 'U be tested out
at th ' depot t 'day. l.-.ue Bud U at
'i '.me again t' stay after acceptin' a
3 .ue position in one o' th ' largest estib
lisluneats in th' middle west.
people
(Continued on page three.)
If
i
S:m Francisco, Jan. 2. It
cost- t).:;r,(i00 to kill n soldier
ami $;!.K00 to wound one in the
European war according to Gen
eral Ai. Fekuta of the .lapanc
imjr, who was in San Franci-.o
today on his way liack to Japan
after visiting all the fighting
fronts in huropc. These tig-
regj he said, were compileil in
iris and 1'etrograd.
General Ftikuta is one of
. 'n's Youngest generals, and
!
!
l
I
. ith General Kuroki in the
Japanese war, where he
A 3t aft M M
He Accepts But She Does Not
Show Up Working Girl
Oifers Help
Oakland. Oat, Jan. 2. William Mor
t i hut. who offered to veil himself for
$200 to repay a loan to a friend who
needed the money, and received a leap
year proposal with the offer of a $1,000
dot from a wealthy widow, has received
another offer.
Miss Caroline l'ebenik. a domestic has
written Mortimer that she will give him
$10 a month out of her salary until he
(spays the dent.
The girl is the side support of an
aged mother, hut ia willing to divide
her earnings with Mortimer.
The wealthy widow, who gave her ad
dress a.) Halfinoon Bay, has failed to
unite :ili.e, save by mail. Mortimer ac
cepted her proposal of marriage, promis
ing lo make her "one of the best bua
anils she ever had. hut- she has not
yet come forward.
Mortimer today notified all the prom
inent men's organizations in the city
there was a man for sale in their midst
for tile sum of ' $200.
Supreme Court to Say
Whether We Are At
WarJrVith Mexico
Columbus, 0 Jan. 2. (By United
I'ress) Tho Ohio supreme Court to
morrow is to decide whether' the
United States is "actually at war with
Mexico.
The court will hear the mandamus
suit of Adjutant General Edward S.
Bryant to compel State Auditor A. V.
Paiiahoy t pay him full ''war time"
(Continued on oase eix.)
,.:
HIGH COST OF KILLING
DEPARTMENT LEAKS
STAR T WIND S TORM
AMONG CONGRESSMEN
Washington Jan. 2. A storm of
charges and counter charges regarding
the reported "leak" from the sttite de-
ptutment to Wall street of advance in-
formation of the president's " peace
notes" broke in both houses this after
noon. Chairman Henry of the house rules
committee announced ho would not call
his committee together for the investi
gation demanded in the resolution de
manded of Itepresentative Wood.
In the senate Senator Stone of the
foreign relations committee formally de
nied charges in newspapers that he had
benefitted from a "leak." He branded
Thomas W. Lawson as a "disgusting
ass.' ' He blamed the ' ' present system
of civil service" for leaks he said he
knew existed.
Members Are Sore.
Representative Henry introduced in
the house his resolution which would
give congress drastic powers to regulate
the New York stock exchange. He this
action immediately following a long
conference with Thomas W. Lawson,
who claims insiders made $00,000,000
in the "peace message. "
Coincident with Henry's action, re-
lublican members of the committee, led
IV Keoresentative Campbell, Kansas.
openly denounced the "one man confer
ence" between Henry and Lawson.
Campbell issued a formal statement
declaring "Lawson should be given a
chance -to tell hi-s facts to the whole
committee or be shown up."
If necessary we could subpoena every
brokerage house in New York City and
get at the root of this thing," he said.
' ' We demand a complete aad public ex
posit ion at once."
Lawson and Henry differed sharply in
their views of their conference.
They Both Talk.
"Henry has enough information now
to investigate the whole damned busi
ness, the peace note leak and . Wall
street generally, " said Lawson. "There
has been nothing given me, eveu up
preaching the information I desire or
that would warrant calling together the
rnles eommittee," said Henry in a form
al statement.
"Lawson haa not furnished me with
c singlo name."
"Mr. Henry had enough information
GERMAN FEELING
WAR MUST GO TO
Fl
Reiection of Offer Without
Learning Terms, Is Insan
ity, Says Editor
IT IS WAR TO THE LAST
OUNCE OF HUMAN BLOOD
Unanimous Decision Was
Must Continue Till One
Side Exhausted
By Carl W. Ackennau.
I UaitCd J'ress staff correspondent.)
Berlin, Jan. 2. Berlin's peace hopes
are dispersed. Now it is war to the last
ounce of human blood. The allies' note
is not deserving of a written rejoinder.
Munimi'it up, mat is the i-iertin prosaj
and it tvpifies the opinion of the mitl
in the street.
There is apparently a unanimous de
cision that Germany's only answer to
the allies' rejoinder of perfve must be by
force of arms under Bindenburg 's lend-
ership.
Privately the editors of Berlin news
papers are even more bitter in their
denunciation of the entente's course
than their printed statements. On New-
Year's night they were all at theii
desks writing editorials. One of then1
editors, the man writing the "leader1'
for the Lokal Anzeiger was asked wha
Germane would do.
"Hold out," he flashed back. "II
is insanity for Europe to bleed to death
but the allies refuse peace. Only one
reply can come and that from our armies-
Let Hir.denburg answer."
The German public read the full text
of the note on Tuesday. The dissipa
tion of the three weeks peace hopes
therefore did net occur, nnf il after cele
bration of New Years. This year's rclo.
bration was every bit as gay as last
year.
American Ambassador Gerard has no:
yet received the official text of the re
ply for transmission to the German for
eign office.
Tiduy's newspaper editorials reflect
ed the bitterness of the writers. None
ought to be surprised at the action of
the entente nations in reacting peace
proposals, said the Lokal Anzeiger,
' ' but it is surprising that 10 men should
(Continued on page three.)
to convince any intelligent man and
. Mr, Henry is exceptionally intelligent
that an investigation ought to be
made," said Lawson. "I looked for
1 developments this afternoon or tonior-
'Lawson thoroughly enioved himself.
He smiled, smoked and swore freely and
then went downstairs to walk in front
of movie machines.
"If it is true that any public official
has or did use anv secret information
as has been alleged, to further his own
personal interests, he is an unscrupul
ous scoundrel," said Stone. "If any
man in legislativg life did it. which I
believe impossible, he ought to be dis
missed from office.
'I do not know if there is anv
foundation under these sensational re
ports. But I do know that confidential
communications to the state department
and foreign governments have by some
means found their way into the hands
of men not authorized to receive them.
"This could only have happened
through the infidelity of employes of
the state department.
I rear the betrayal of public confi
dence is due to the present civil service
system. I would have most trusted men
in those positions, regardless of their
civil service examinations.
"The remark by Mr. Lawson that in t
case this investigation was pushed it
would be impossible to secure a quorum
in either the senate or house, would lead
one to suppose that there was not an
honest man in either branches of con
gress. "It disguests me that a creature of
this low type would make such a state
ment." Admits There Are Leaks.
Washington, Jan. 2- Admitting that
"secrets have found their way out oH
the state department," Senator Stone,
chairman of the foreign relations com
mittee today blamed the "present sys
tem of civil service" for snch leaks.
Stone, from the floor, referred caus
tically to Thomas K. Lawsou as a "low
creature" and a "disgusting ass. " Ris
ing to a point of personal privilege,
Stone read copies of a newspaper clip-
GOMPLETE
RISK
(Continued on paga six.)
VALDEZ WIPED
OFF THE MAP
-
(Srecial United Press Bulletin)
Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 2.
Valdez is doomed to destruc
tion by fire. Use business
section of the city has al
ready been swept away in a
mass of flames.
The fire started in the businessMgpe
Uon ..shortly ..before 3 o'clock1 this
morning. The blaze has been fanned
all, day by a heavy easterly wind. The
weather is clear and cold and every
hope of saving the town has been
abandoned. The big warehouses where
the ..food supplies arc stored ..are
threatened. Seattle firms have al
ready been notified to rush relief
roods north at once.
. Seattle Bushes Supplies
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 2. Word of the
Valdez fire was no sooner received in
Seattle than plans were under way to
dispatch a relief ship immediately to
the stiicken Alaskan city.
The steamship Mariposa of the Alas
ka Steamship company line postponed
sailing for several hours to take addi
tional supplies for the relief of possi
ble sufferers by fire in Valdez,
LESTER IS DISCOURAGED
San Francisco, Jan. 2. It will take
503 years to make a complete surrey of
the waters of Alaska, California, Wash
ington and Oregon, according to esti
mates made by Superintendent E. Lester
Jones of the I'nited States coast and
geodetic surveys. The estimates are
baaed on progress with the present fa
cilities. ,
It will take .13.1 years to complete the
survey of Alaska, and 170 years to chart
the waters of Washington, Oregon and
California.
i
VILLA'S BANDITS
Twenty-Five Killed In Battle
and 125 Prisoners Stood
Up and Shot
VILLA WILL ATTACK
CHIHUAHUA, SHORTLY
United States Officials Esti
mate His Army at 12,000
Murguia May Skip
$ $ $ $
A MEXICAN STOBY
Kl Paso, Texas, Jan. 2. De
feat of a division of Villistas
numbering six! hundred men
with a loss of twenty five dead
and the capture ami execution
of one hundred and forty pris
oners by Mexican government
troops at Torrcros yesterday,
was officially announced at the
Mexican consulate here today.
A large quantity of ammunition
and supplies, part of the loot
taken from Chihuahua City a
month ago by Villa, was re
captured, a bulletin from Gen
eral Murguia, Carrnnzis'.a com
mander at Chihuahua City, stat
ed. Torreros is in the Guerrero
district, about 170 miles south
of General Pershing's outposts.
Kl Paso, Tcxrs, Jan. 2. A Villista
army of five thousand men is within
striking distance of Chihuahua City to
day, according to reports made to Unit
ed States department authorities. Na
tive refuges declare that residents of
the northern capital anticipate an at
tack while the movements of General
Murguia 's forces pointed to an evac
uation if the government troops were
outnumbered.
In Juarez persistent reports are in
circulation today that General Jose
Salar, Villa's chief lieutenant, is at
tacking Chihuahua City from the south.
Military officials here scouted reports
of an attack upon the city, but admit
ted that fighting was in progress south
of the capital where a column ot t ar
ranzistaa was attempting to stop the
MUHGUIA HEPOKTS
WHIPPING ODD OF
(Continued on page three.)
GENERAL MANGIN, LEADER OF ATTACK
WHICH REWON FORT DOUAUMONT
li "4
The picture shows the victor of Port
Douanmont, General Mangin, who com
manded the infantry attack in the great
French offensive at Verdun. General
Mangia played a great part in Prench
success before Verdun. He was intrust
ed by General Petrain with the com
mand of the infantry attack. Under
ARMIES RETREAT
More Than 1300 Prisoners
and Much War Material
Captured
GERMANS MAKE GAINS
IN DOBRUDJA SECTION
Bulgars Take 1,500 Prison
ers and Many Guns
Quiet in Wes.t
"Berlin, via Sayville wireless, Jan. 8
Storming and capture of height posi
tions around Soveva and in the Susita
valley; repulse of RussoRumanian ad
vances: throwing back of the enemy on
both sides of the Oitoiz valley and cap
ture of the much disputed height of Mt.
Faltucanu were all reported from thej
eastern front in today's ofiicial state-1
meat.
Russian raiding detachments south of
Riga, southwest of Duenaburg and west
of Stanislaus were also repulsed. Along
the valleys leading from the Berek
in on a 1 a t n s tn tfie iM'roth. ttie tieruian ar-
tacks throw the enemy further buck, ac-
cordiinr to the Btatement.
Three hundred prisoners were brought
I
t Qener ai Wi a is g i n
RUSSO-RUMANiAN
ON EASTERN FRONT
in from the Susita valley action. c(j of $25,000,000, another stride to-
The Ninth army is sharply pretalngUtardi preparedness.
the enemy and defeating bis rear
guards, forcing the Russians to further
retreat, the statement said.
"From the west and south German-
nstro-Huiigariun troops are approach
ing the bridgehead positions near eoca-
sini and Fuudeni.
More than L.'iOO prisoners and war
material remained in the hands of the
indefatigible pursuers.
Between the Huzatil (ttuznu; river
and the Danube, the enemy maintains
the bridgehead.
Fast of Braila in Uobrmtja, Herman-
Bulgarian troops captured tenaciously
defended Russian positions and threw
them back to Maciu. In the engage
ment the Pomeranian reserve infantry
regiment number nine distinguished it
self." Monk Reported Dead.
London. Jan- 2. For the third time in
two years, the death of the Monk Greg
ory Rasputin was rejiorted today. Spe
cial dispatches from Fetrograd asserted
1 ..-lav that the monk, who is supposed to
I"
(Continued on page aix.)
him, besides reserves, were three divi
sions, comprising men from various
parts of France, a colonial contingent
and a battalion of Senegalese. The re
capture of Fort DouauBtoat was the
great achievement of the dny." General
; Mangin has been commander of colonial
, troops in the French army.
BURGLAR'S HARD LUCK
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 2 When
a burglar who had s Olen an ov
ercoat with vaudeville theater
tickets in the pockets, tried to
got into tin- Palace Hip thea
tre last night, with his girl, he
was held by Doorkeeper G. G.
Nikell until the police arrived
It was Nickoll's coat the man
had on, and it was taken from
the doorkeeper's home the
night of November 29. The po
lice say the alleged burglar
c onfessed to tho (heft.
Is Getting Down to Work
That Requires a Whirl
wind Finish
(By I'nited Press.)
Washington, Jan. 2 The short
uion
f the Sixty-fourth
onij
i on
tl
last la
if
whirlwind i
I'm I
lowing a
review on
what ha
been
what
cotnplished
and something of
mains to no none.
These, measured by publu
interest
are the most important legislative tusk.s : Dlllt-lntSH today, without pomp and cere
accomplished by the Sixty-fourth con-'
cress
The army and navy lulls carrying!
i appropriations of gigantic sums, a long
I etcp towards preparedness.
lvstali ismnont ot lenerai reserve t
banks to eliminate danger of financial I
i panics.
Purchase of Danish West Todies at a
J-i'iliral t u rm loan
act, of great inter
est to farmers and intended to aid them
in wearing necessary Capital at a fair
rate of interest.
Federal good roads law, provides $75,
000,000 lo lie used in improving nation
al highways.
Federal trade commission, a "go-be
tween" in matters between the public
and corporations.
Workmen's compensation; ship pur
chase act, a movement toward a real
merchant marine. Child labor law.
Railway legislation looms up as the
biggest piece of unfinished business.
Strenuous efforts are beiag made to
rush the railway program through dur
ing the present short session of con
gress. The corrupt practices bill, providing
for publicity of campaign funds, is an
other important bill up for a speedy con
sideration.
The udgeship bill, which would re
lievo from service judges reaching the
ase of TTl after 10 years' service, und
who by reason of physical disability are
(Continued on tigge six.)
ALLIES iY MAKE
I
REPLY JO MSN
Turks To Be Ousted from
Europe, Dardanelles
Given to Russia
ALSACE AND LORRAINE
RETURNED TO FRANCE
Tyrol and stria to Italy, AH
Territory Restored and
"Reparation"
By Ed L. Keen,
(United Press Staff Corresondiint.)
London, Jan. 2. There was increas
ing belief today that in the reply of
President Wilson's note the allies
have (lie opportunity, as Oermaay's
indefinite peace proffer and reply to
America, to put Potsdam ut a disad
vantage. The allies' answer probably anoth
er identical note of the same char
acter as that to Germany will also be
issued from I'aris. England and
France, it was said, have already
agreed on a joint draft, which is now
before the other nations of the en
tente. On their approval the noto will
bn handed to American Ambassador
Sharp.
A course of plain speaking and a
clear statement of the terms on which
the anil's would consider peace nego
tiations is what the British press
hopes the note will indicate.
Kngland is convinced that the allies'
starvation blockade of Germany and
Germany's apprelumsiveiiees of de
feat on the west front next spring,
combined to inspire Berlin to sue for
peace. It is pointed out an unofficial
list of concessions which Teuton
diplomats in neutral countries have
suggested the identical charaetcr of
these suggestions indicating their
origin at Berlin waived much that
Germany would have demanded a year
ago.
What They Will Ask
In the joint reply to America the
allies will probably subscribe to Rus
sia's frank ambition to oust Turkey
from Kuropc and obtain the Dardan
elles as being collateral with the
Italian ambitions as to Tyrol and !s
tria and the French ambitions as to
the ''lost provinces" of Alsace and
Ijorraine. There is reason to behove
these hopes of the allies will be classi
fied under the category of " reparation
and guarantee.''
In many quarters it is held that in
reply to America the allien shonld
proceed even more carefully than ia
their answer to the German peace
terms. Some dissatisfaction was evi
dent in the choice of words employed
in the reply to Germany due to tho
fact that the Knglish translation from
tho French origkbl text showed a
number of weak " word. The
Manchester Guardian suggests the
text as published in Knglish, appar
ently indicates the note was original
ly written in Russian, translated into
French and then translated from
French into Knglish.
Farmer Controlled
Legislature Gets
Down to Business
Bismark, N. I)., Jan. 2. North Da-
I- l.nna. liKrittn t II re Lrnt down tO
It was a legislative session entirely
.Li., i nfl to, l bv a farmers political or-
',.:..,:.,.. tj,,,t had its birth in the
I idea of cooperative marketing of grain
without speculation.
From the Equity Cooperative ex
change, standing solely tor the open
unapeeulatlve food market, grew the
Farmers Non-Partisan league of North
Dakota. This organization stood for
stnte control of all elevators, non
speculative markets, and public owner
ship of public utilities. In two elec
tions it swept into the legislature suf
ficient members to control the law
making body.
M
TEE WEATHER
;
flE
Oregon: To
night and Wed
nesday rain west,
rain or snow east
portiou; gentle
southwest e r 1 y
w iuds.
THESE DEMANDS
5 PENT)