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FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES llouraa! CIRCULATION IS OVER 4000 DAILY FORTIETH YEAR NO. 27 SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTB ENGLISH LOSSES FOR JANUARY ABE VERY HEAVY Over Thirty Thousand Killed, ! Wounded and Taken Prisoner BERLIN REPORT CLAIMS ALL ATTACKS REPULSED French and Russians, How- ever, Report Successful Attacks Lou. ost 1: tilled The on, -Ian. 31, .."1 offioeri Enj IU( iii January. total was r.mioim the official easualtv IU1 lull figures of killed, The around" fflcially ril anil missing, as stated wore: Killed Wounded Miss Officer.. 410 818 Men.... I L89S 17.140 8,92 Totali 12,314 17,764 Berlin, ia Savville wire! .In 31 storming of several Russian positions in a forest on the east bank of the Riv er Aa (Riga front) ami repulse o coun ter attacks, was reported in today's of ficial itatemeat. .More than nine hundred Russian sol , I i its were captured, with 1 1 officers and 13 machine guns. The statement said Russian forces, nfter two strong attacks, succeeded en a third assault in entering into "the I'oint I' A j i p mi of Herman positions south of the Valeputna road, on I'rinee Leopold's front. The attacks were pre eeded by a violent fire of artillery. Repulse of strong reconnoitering de tachments by Turkish outposts near the Danube was reported from Field Mar sha Von Mackenson's front in Rumania From the Macedonian front the state ment reported several Italian prisoners, bronchi in from a raid by German re- connaissance parties on the ( 'eras Bend. I Mine Blockade Worries Rotterdam, Jan. 31. Newspapers and shippers generally are unperturbed over the new British mine blockade. Some even considered it advantageous, as likely to render more .difficult the pa trols of the Dutch coast by German submarines and torpedo boats. The Nieuwe Rotterdarosche Courant today declared: England is absolutely right in at tempting to protect against the subma rines, If she succeeds In reducing the peril many neutrals will be thankful. The above dispatch, which passed throafh London and the British censor-, is the lirBt definite reference to the "danger" specified in a recent British oficfial announcement of a new "danger .one" in the North sea as a mine blockade. Say French Repulsed Berlin, via Savville wireless. Oeifeat of French attacks part of the German position! Ian. 31. against on the Lorraine front near Lerntrey, wis an nounced in today s official statement. The attacks were preceded by a violent artillery duel. for the most part the statement said limiting activity on the western front (Uontinued on page two.) - ABE MARTIN Mrs. Tipton Bud has niie workin' an' one is a L ' a mighty fine thing not t" know much. pphews, km ihen : S BONE DRY" ALAt "4 Washington, Jan. 3IAt senate today passed the A I. "bone (by" bwMMHob bill The bill not imly prohi the manufacture "'"I fair intoxicating liquor in Ala; Init will not penal! it to kipped into tee territory. T Think Monrpe Doctrine Extension Would Cause Doctrine to l ose Its Force By Charles T. Stewart. (Tinted Press staff correspondent.) Buenos Aires Jan- 81. Frank belief that i lu extension by America of the Monroe doctrine policy to all nations as Suggested' by President Wilson's senate speeeh would cause thai doctrine to lose icerican ron e and character was (pressed in a signed editorial today oy orgs Mitre, editor of La Nacion, Smith America's leading newspaper. Mitre is recognized as one of the most brilliant of South American analysisti and pttbliclsts. The "threatened hypertrophy of the Monroe duel line's principles is not jnew," Mitre declared, bnl lins "hither- to linked authoritative sanction," i "In the past." the editorial SOU- : 1 lanes, "the tendency of the doctrine ': has been I" maintain and strengthen the democracy of the Americas by keep 'fcjing them apart from the ambitions of J I European powers. Because it has been ; concretely based on u geographical fact. -'s!('od knows how manv npctites it has ale . , . , ' 1 thwarted, "A realliaiie, could not have been more erreetive. rrouaotv Mouth America has not fallen into European hands -imply because of the doctrine. But if il. is universalized the principle is bound to lose its American force and character." 5j5 ' j I POTATOES AND ONIONS SOAR Portland. Or., Jan. 81. Ow ing t the car shortage, which prevented movement of potato and onion crops, the price of those commodities rose approx imately $1.25 a hundred pounds today. Growers get the benefit of the increase. Vf ! ANOTHER SEATTLE BANK CLOSES Seattle, Wash.. Jan. .il. The Ger man American Mercantile Hank failed to open its doors today. It was closed following the failure yesterday of the Northern Bank and Trust Company. Plot to Poison Lloyd George Creates Sensation in Britain By Ed L. Keen (United Press staff correspondent) London, Jan. 31. Arrest of four per sons charged witn conspiracy to pois on Premier David l.loyd-Geoi'ge became known today through arraignment of the quartet at Derby. The defenders called to the bar toils V wore .Mrs. Alice Wheelton, her daugh ter Harriet, and another daughter. Mrs.! j Winifred Mason, with Albert Mason, I husband of the laid named daughter. Mason is an export chemist and has I been known as a "C O." (cQHScienti-1 ions objector to war and service) as they 'are known in England. The women nrej I all supposed suffragettes. 1 The conspiracy was reported to Scot land Yard Saturday and was followed. I up by the secret service with character .istic efficiency and thoroughness, Chief ; Inspector jParker himself assuming charge. Mrs. Mason was arrested at South hampton, The other three alleged con spirators were taken In custody at Der Arthur Henderson ber of IJoyd-George also the object of i tin Isftbofitc riH'in win council, was boitOH attempt, it was later announced Publication of the charges against i ihe four persons arrested created an immediate sensation, coupled with gen eral indignation that antjlaiul's "man of the hour" should htie been the ob ! .ject of such a plot. The fact that the' chief inspector of Scotland Yard should I have assumed personal charge of the ! ease was regarded as evidence of the i gravity with which it was regarded. Although existence of the plot was1 discovered Saturday, no information concerning it became known to the pub nc uiiiii ine arrests uau ueen uiauc. After formal evidence of the plot had been outlined by the crown prose utor, - - - - ..,.. ..,.......! ed until Saturday. In presenting their names to the court, the crown prosecutor gave the names of the women as "Wheeldou. " The only evidence which the crown gave against the defendants was a for mal statement of the charges on whieh they hail been taken into custody. It is understood the erown has thir ty witnesses to support the charge of "conspiracy to murder." The cable dispatch telling of the po lice court hearing of the four alleged i.onspiiators is the first intimation to Jrea-n tms countrv ot an attempt on I the premier's life. I Whether dissatisfaction with war or 'suffrage issues prompted the alleged fi(5F VVM - K Gone 3 -riweus "(vnce AN HO.OiV STORY OF ALLEGED TORTURE INFLICTED BY Washington Hospital For In-; sane of Steilacoom Will Be Probed Olympia, Wash., Jan. SLj Stories of alleged tortures inflicted by attend ante on patients at the Western state i hospital for the insane at EoJt Stella- Icoom, told by former patients who have since been declared sane, have started ja sweeping investigation of the insti tution today by the senate committee on slale charitable institutions. Br, William N. Keller, Superintend ent of the hospital; lr. Prank D. Wilt, assistant superintendent, and an inmate attendant, Kate Knowlcs, nave been summoned to appear before the committee this afternoon. They are wanted to explain what they know of the death of Mrs. Leone ('. Peck in the institution on June 18 last, when, it is alleged, she was beat en, dragged by the hair and tortured (Continued on page six.) pint was not made apparent by the first ! dispatches passed by the censor. IJoyd I George has been a friend of the suff rage movement, however. I .News of the poison attempts comes, strangely enough, at the same time the committee on electoral reform. I'.ng lland issues its formal recommendations for extension of the franchise in some elections to all British women more than thirty or thirty five years of age. This announcement was made in London last night. It had long been expected such a Step would be taken. The recommendations, however, were entirely unsatisfactory to the , suffrage ; parlies in England, according to' a 'statement issued by Miss Sylvia Pank i hurst. She held a majority of women wage eansers were between ".1 and 80 years of age and it would be unfair to exclude them. Of late the militant suffragettes have ! I iirned their attention to vigorous agi- tation aeamst neace meetings and al leged office holders in England having a slight sympathy for the Germans. Viscount Gray, former foreign secre tary, and Viscount Haldane have been nartieulnrlv the obiects of their at tacks because of the suposed Germanic leanings of these statesmen, which, it is charged, leads them to deal leniently wrn prosecution or me war. IJoyd-George, because of his deter - initiation to wage tne war unrelenting - ly. has of this '('. jectors qnently from the first had th support class of suffragettes O.V or "conscientious ob against the war have fre been encountered in applica tion of the military conscript ion law i. -I nt tl... ,, -iv.. Ilnnlfu.o ... 1aH I iii' i '"' ... . . " ,. r; : Tu. ' .. i.ni swear to a belief in the wrong or Kill ing fellow creatures, approaching the i,iif 1 T1"' combinations of suposed suffra- i 1.CIICS ami a conscientious oir ecioi in plot against Lloyd-George, is there fore a bizarre one, totally inexplicable on any grounds of general similarity in the apparent political and economic be liefs of the plotters. General Wood Admits He Was Unequal to Task - Washington, Jan. 31 Recalled by the senate imlitary committee for cro., Ore grilling by Senator Lee. Maryland, staunch national guard supporter. Ma jor General Leonard Wood today admit- f r . J Poer W J . -shw- - i-mk Auwmt -wpjif ---wm 1 vxv'yxnngn fMfrrsA 1 ' l-" 'S aW.H vfisf7ZX (Continued on page six.) DAYS FOS 77ESE STATESMEN AvnueLLei?, op i UP nv ICLEAY FISHING Ti imm m mm snrz Co ' KJ ty.f3) 131 " CONCERN WINS IN LOWER HOUSE TODAY 'Several Overland Trains Vote Was Tie On Roll Call' Reach San Francisco Far Until Representative Thomas Changed ROGUE RIVER COM PROMISE MET DEFEAT Senate Attends Strictly to Business did There Are Few Spseches Made The independent fishermen d Bogus river lost out this morning in their fight against the Maclea.v fishing monopoly and the house turned down the compromise fishing bill that was presented by the committee on fisheries as a substitute for the three fishing bills thai were designed to prohibit comemrcial fishing on that river by means of seines and set nets. The vote was close, in fact it was 0 tie- 28 for and 2H against, with two members ab sent and one excused until Representa tive Thomas, of Mcdford, who made the strong speech o'f the session so far, voted against the measure, making the vote 28 for and 2fl against. Those voting against the bill were Ashley, Barber. Brown, Brnwnell, Bur- dick. Callan, CartmiU, Childs, Clark. Corbett Cornelius, Fuller. Hodgen. A I Jones, Kubli, Maekny, Mann, Martin, Matthieu, Meek. Peck, Howe. Schimpff Small, Stephens, Stott, Thomas, Willett. and Speaker Stanfield. Those voting for it were Anderson, Bean. Belland. Bowman, Brand, Burton Dedinan, Union, Klmore, Goode, (lor- don. Gore. Griees. Sevmour Jones. Wal- ter B. Jones. I.aurgaard, Lafferty, ment in the peace maneuvers until at tor Lewis, Lunger, Mueller, Porter, Port- Germany's response to President Wil wood, Ritner, Sheldon, Staffrin, son's senate address announced in an Sweenev, Thompson, Tichenor. exclusive United Press dispatch from Excused Crandall; absent, Elgin and Berlin Monday is received here. Forbes. Specific questions have been BMW i More oratory was spilled this mom-1 during the last two weeks by the high ins on the fisiiing bill, which prohibits est authorities in the government. One fishing, except with hook and line, in Hnffiin river below Dovle 's rock, than! ! in the entire session so far. It LOO&eO as if the champions of tne iimepenueni fishermen, the men who are asking to be allowed to make a living in the wa - ters of the river and not be snucezed out by the monopoly using set nets and seines, were going to pull the measure through, but before the voting progress ea far it was evident mat tne .viaeieay j interests had been lobbying hard to kill ; the measure. Representative Belland, as chairman of the fisheries committee, took the floor in behalf of the bill. He said he believed the members knew just about how thev were going to vote but he de clared he thought it a good bill, for the , peopU' tad against the predatory inter- sts. Representative Tichenor took up the defense and said he a'so believed the members had made up their minds re garding tho bill. He said it was a local question and all the people of southern Oregon were in favor of it. Debate Becomes General Dr. Sweeney took up the cudgels and said the bill was n compromise on all the bills introduced and that it looked to the interest ot the commercial side and to the sportsmen 's side. It was I introduced to suit all those living on the river and is the nearest approach to ' neutral ground. Ine aim is not to in jure commercial fishing, he said the the people must conserve the resources of the state and make it attractive for investors. This bill, accordingly, came (Continued on rage six.) I Ak-TH-O MANY Cei STl LL " 1 1 j MAINTAIN. MOST IM NATUR6 BUZZARD IN Behind Schedule Denver, Colo., Jan. .11. The Inter mountain states are again n tihe grip of a severe blizzard today with heavy snow's and below zero weather reported at many points. Railroad traffic is greatly impeded. After a partial lifting of the block ade on the t'nipn Pacific line in Wyoming, hestvy snow drifts again tied up traffic, near Laramie last night, while a snowstorm is raging near Rock Bivter and with high winds blowing, idling the snow In huge drifts in the cuts. One thousand coal miners and a trainload of laborers from Omaha are assisting the snow plows today near Dookout and Rock River. Salt Lake City reported the worst snowstorm of the winter paralyzing all rtreel i ar traffic in the city. Two (Continued on pafi 'ix.) Conference of all Nations Necessary to A r range Peace By Robert J. Bender. (United Press staff correspondent.) Washington, Jan. 31. A conference of all nations will be necessary wi de termine arrangements for future world peace, according to official opinions ex nested here today. In view of this conviction, the piession has gained ground during Uat two weeks that when the presi mi Hie lent moves again it will be lorinally to gest such a conference, However, there will be no d 'I' of these replies, given yesterday "Those details (the form of , was: future guarantees ana menus empioico m iorcc mem;; woum unvc iu or ni out by some conference of nations. " 1 Chief interest, therefore, has centered in the time such a conference would oc- cur, whether actual negotiations for1 w ay, ending the present war are under while the belligerent nations are liscus- intr terms or atier a peace or nucl eonics. The president has repeatedly said in his speeches that "the, war must first end" before details can be worked out. On the other hand, it is the entente contention that the. war cannot end tin til all nations are actually guaranteed safety from future unwarranted aggres sion. Such a conference, it is held in these quarters, would have to be under way within four weeks or all belligerents will go forward to carry out the un precedents! preparation they have made for a tremendous spring campaign Peace then would be postponed until after the results of the campaign were determined. It is understood on high authority that a new outline of this government 's position on the armed merchantman question is in the process of ineuba tion. I'n official reports that Germany plans no unrestricted submarine war fare and intend to stay within the limit of activity established by this goverdnment were received with grati fication here, but no comment was forthcoming. The Swiss minister today requested and was granted an audience with I'resi ! i i NOT EATEN BY WOLVES I'ortlHiid, Or., Jan. ,'H. .lohn ttasasneraleyi supposed victim f timlier wolves, is safe and well today and it is now beliewd that the man killed near Wil low Hats last week was John Ilorando, a prospector. Hamniersley returned from a hunting trip late yesterday. When he reached Winier, in Jackson county, his appearance created great astonishment, in asmuch an everyone supposed him dead and oaten. His friends immediately communi cated with relatives here. Haiiiinersley, who is a govern ment hunter, will participate in the effort to identify the man slain by wolves. S) Mother Killed Family by Mistaking Arsenic for Flour Danforth, 111., Jan. 31. Mrs. O. J. MelatSi wife of a farmer living west of . Iieic. killed her four sons ami her grand i son by mistaking arsenic for pancake i flour. In the farm house today tire the I bodies of Theodore. Irving, Mtno and lied Meints, amis and Clarence MeifltS, , grandson, son of Sebo Meints. Discovering that her supply of pan ! cake flour was exhausted while she wuk ' preparing breakfast. Mrs. Meints re turned to the pantry an. I by mistake se cured a can of arsenic. Her husband did not partake of the poisoned cakes and ! Mrs. Meints, discovering that they were bitter ate none herself. Her discov ery Came too late, however, as all her sons and granilson had eaten Heart iiv. Two of them. Fred and Clarence, be came ill shortly before noon and died yesterday afternoon- Irving and Then dure died last night and Miuo, the last one to be kept alive by emergency treat ment administered by physhieaiis who hurried to the farm house, died today, With the exception of Clarence, the grandson, who is seven, all the dead were adults. Together with the.r t(h er they worked the large family farm. The mothef is grief stricken today and phvsicians fear the shock mav prove fatal. H c -f 10 BELOW AT LAPINE Bend, Or., Jan. 31. LaPine reported a temperature of 23 below zero today. In Bend the mefCory was down to Hi be low. Everv water pipe in town was frozen. On account of heavy snow to the southward, wagon and automobile travel in that direction has been suspended. l c : 5 denl Wilson for tomorrow. He declined t" state the purpose of his mission, but it in understood lo bear on peace devel- 'patents. Mother Driven Insane Commits Terrible Crime PateTSOn, N, J., JBn. .11. Derange-j men! through poverty, knowlodge of the fact that she was about to bring! another child into Ihe world, and WW roy over the condition of her husband,1 desperately ill of tuberculosis, to-! day believed by the police here, to j have caused Mrs. Anna Goldstein to! murder her baby boy, aged three. Mrs. Goldstein was arrested follow ing an indictment by the Stand jury. They found her with two children, halt! naked, crawling about the floor of a dingy shanty, while her husband on a soiled Dalle t, apparently in lay the last stages of tuberculosis. The woman was taken to the Passaic county jail, together with her children. They later were taken to an asylum. The father was to be taken to a hos pital today. The boy was killed by a kr.ifc thrust through his back. The blade was then plunged into his neck. His body was found by u neighbor. It was lying at the foot of the boseiuent steps Goldstein home. the Her Views of Life As a Married Woman New York, Jan. 31. Mrs Colic, ace 26. who thinks Esmeraldei it might have been just as well if I had mar ried a man who had a past and knew all about me," introduced her personal iew in her divorce suit here. After declaring she "married store," because her husband ' leaves the neighborhood store, opines that a woman needs this 1 ion : Two nights n week for iker. One night for dancing. One night for the theatre. "Two a. m." she says, " for married men to retire." The Leader stutes editorially that Weston is full of mad dogs with muzzles on. bridge or CONNOLLY FIRM RECEIVER WIRE GIVING STOCK IIP In Spite of Alleged Inside lip Connolly s Finn Lost $40,000 BROKER TESTIFIES GOSSIP RESPONSIBLE FOR TIP Telegraph Operator Will Be Asked To Tell Origin of Message LINKS IN THE LEAK CHAIN December 20, 11 a. m Secre tary of Slate Lansing confi dentialll informed reporters o'f the president's forthcoming note, which he said was not a peace message nor an offer of mediation, but dealt with Ques tions "in which the United Stales was interested if the war coal inues. ' ' December 20, 12:48 p. m. Chicago cm respondent; of B, V. Button & Co., New York, wired about the forthcoming note, de scribing it as " intended to pro mote per.ee prospects. " December 80, 1:11 p. m. Sut ton house wired that their Wash ington wire gave similar infor mation, which they were putting out to their clients. December 20. Missing link On be supplied today). F. A Connolly wired from Washing ton a message on which the above w"ns based, December 20. 1:5-1 p. m. Button house pul out note tip interpreting it as warning thai "neutral rights must mit. he further encroached upon." December 20, about 2 p. at, Ticker carried rumors. s ik ;c ?; ! sjs i'fi sji : By Carl D. Groat. i United Press staff correspondent.) New York. Jan. 31. George El'is, member of the M. F Batten t Ok brokerage house, was today summe-ied to res urn from Georgia to throw light on Ihe Hut ton leak message before the house note leak committee. Accounts of the Connolly 'firm, in which the president 's brother in-law is Interested, showed net losses of $40. 000 between December 0 and 23, Htitson testified. This testimony served In indicate that if j hi Connolly got "inside" toips he and clients did not benefit. Despite the inwardness of V. A. Con noDy'i Interpretation, wired from Washington t the E. P. Button 4. Co. brokerage house concerning the note on December 80, Connolly contends that he had no "inside information." More over, he denies thai R. W. Boiling, President Wilson's binther-in-lnw and member of '. . Connoly & Co., gavo him any line on flic message, and Boil ing himself denies any inside track GMSip Gave Him the "Tip." On Ihe other hand, Connolly claims "common gossip" ill Washington gavn him the news about the note, which E. Y. Button & Co. sprend on their wires the afternoon before publication of the document. Strangely enough, the Button version mentioned Ihe idea of a warning to bel ligerents not to encroach on neutral rights further. And, newspaper men, confidentially informed of the message nn the 20th, did not generally get this warning angle until the afternoon of December 21. when Secretary Lansing made his first "interpretation" of the note in his "verge of war" state ment. Button and Connolly were slated as today 's witnesses. Before the end of the week the com mittee expects to have several spectacu lar account rcords of Wall street plung ers before it. One well posted commit teeman said significantly today: "1 wouldn't be surprised if we get some 'very' interesting things be.fnro we 're done." (Continued on page twn.) . THE WEATHER Qregoa: Snow west, fair east portion tonight: Thursday prob ably snow and warmer; south easterly winds. I I I.IIIA tV Til i, drug "Mnrtit I rrc eidoml pmceoFj i I