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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
EIGHT CHINESE ARE
VICTIMS OF TONG WAR
An OminOus Quiet Prevails
But Outbreak Due at
Any Time

San Francisco. Mar. with eight
Chinese dead in the tong war which
broke out in a half dozen California
cities Monday, an ominous quiet brood
ed over the various Chinatowns today.
For So hours no shooting has been re-
ported in San Francisco, Oakland, San
Jose or Stockton, where Chinese tong
men were shot down III the streets Mon
day But the police were not deceived
by this condition and expressed the be-
lief that it is merely the lull before q
new storm which they fear will burst at
any time.
The "allies" headed by the Bing
Kong tong, have won all the victories so
far in the new war. The eight men
who have been slain so far were all
members of the Hop Sing or Suey Sing
tongs, who are combined to fight the
Bing Kong allies That the Hop Sings
and Suey Sings are not idle was the
confident statement of the police. These
tOngs are unquestionably instructing
their gunner through the secret chan
rels which only Chinese know. They
are waiting TO strike back and when
they do, the blow will undoubtedly come
as swiftly and will be as deadly as that
which fell upon Monday.
The list of dead was brought TO eight
today when dispatches announced the
staying of Guey, member of the Suey
Sings at Gridley, Cal, last night. He
vas shot down by two Chinese who van.
ished as quietly as they appeared
The streets and alleys of San Fran
cisco's Chinatown were almost deserted
today. The atmosphere of hostility and
suspicion was there and veteran police
men fear another outbreak of hostilities
before night.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
FIFTEEN A|RSH|PS
ARE SHOT DOWN
ON WESTERN FR6ls77
Severe Engagements Report
ed On the SOnlme and at
Verdum
RUSSIAN CRUISER HITS
Mine, BUT IS NOT SUNK
British Troops Almost Within
Firing Distance at
Bagdad

Berlin via Sayville wireless, Mar. I.
Fifteen hostile acroplanes were shot
down by German forces ON the western
front, today's official statement de.
cared.
''On the Searpe, both sides of the
Ancrc, on the Somme, on the east bank
of the Meuse and in Chamnagne,' the
statement said, "there was lively artil.
lery activity yesterday. There were re-
peated engagements of reconnoiteping
detachments with trench garrisons.
In the evening the French attack
ed northeast of Verdun against our new
positions in the Caurieres wood, but
were repused with fire. Bright wealth.
er favored the flyers and in numerous
air combats Is hostile machines were
shot down. We lost one aeroplane
Eastern war theatre: Between the
Baltic and the Black sea the cold wealth.
cr is lessening In some sectors the
fire was hveler but infantry activity
remained small.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
BY william Philip simms,

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
With the British Armies in France.
March 7.-One reason why the Ger
mans retrcated along the Anere was
because they were fast becoming gar
rison Of gibbering lunatics. Their posi-
ti0n had become more hideous than
the scuppers of hell. Mud-bottomless
in places-and the eeaseless pounding
Of the British guns had turned their
positions into stencil pits too horrible
for human nerves to stand.
The United Press correspondent was
the first American permitted to pene-
trate across the ground evacuated by
the Germans as far as Thilloy towards
Bapaume.
Madame Tussaud s wax works cham
Der of horrors was as cheerful as a
May day compared with this field of
terrors, painfully pictured at each
step. ! zig-zagged around stagnate
cesspools and interlocking shell craters
in which the water was the exact
color Of blood. This might have been
due to chemicals in the high explosives
which rent the holes, or the nature OF
the ground itself.
Bodies Everywhere.
found myself stepping on German
bodies which Uttered the region. They
were in all Imaginable conditions and
positions-some times piled several
deep. | saw arms sticking full length
out of the mud that concealed all else
Of the bodies to which they were at
taehed There were legs, feet, halt
bodies-or heads alone-protruding
Some lay face downward, some were
prone on their backs, exactly as II
asleep.
At another place, on a pile several
deep, lay a boyish officer, fair as 9
girl, with his arms thrown back anc
his blue eyes staring to the sky. His
sandy hair had been brushed bach
modishly by the rain.
Imagine scenes like this covering
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
Defense is Weak.

This defense Stone IS opponents say,
however, is "weak and illogical. " They
declare the unwritten rules of the SEN
ate say the chairman of q committee
must do what the committee votes him
to do; that he violated the unwritten
rules when he threw up his hands-and
the bill-by asking Senator Hitchcock
to lead the battle for the armed neutral
ity measure They say that, whatever
his personal convictions, he should have
gone through with the fight.
Some Stone opponents today express
cd the theory that perhaps the foreign
relations chairman may have been in
fluenccd by the fact that the president
had not told him about the Zimmerman
Mexico-Japanese plot letter, or taken
him into the presidential-state depart
ment confidence where other secrets
were concerned.
Others, however, including some
cabinet members, said they "would
hardly say that They said they were
inclined to believe "Stone's consti-
tuency wanted him to do as he did,"
Claim No Ill Feelings.
"They very frankly declared they do
not believe there was any i'll feeling on
either side between Stone and the presi-
dent in the matter, in view of the close
personal and political relations that
are known to have existed, These men
said the president "even now, has no
i'll feeling for Stone; merely regretting
the grave error he made" and that they
did not look for the president to "take
any part in the house cleaning the SEN
ate may decide on. !"
While the fight against reelection
Of Stone to the foreign relations chair
manship undoubtedly win be bitter and
perhaps call forth condemnatory com
ment on the floor Of the senate, many
senators admitted today it may be fu-
tile. One of these said:
nYou know this seniority rule re-
garding chairmanships is like death and
taxes. Such changes as would be neces-
sary to supplant Stone would be revo-
lutionary in body that is fundamental
lly just the opposite"
Stone himself denied himself to ev'
eryone today. Even notes sent in tC
him, in the seclusion of his office, say
ing the country would like to hear hi
side of the case, failed to draw him out
He refused absolutely to see anyone.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
'' Position More Hideous
Than Scuppers of He'll"
Was Reason for Retreat

miles. Imagine every trace Of vegeta-
ton long since blasted away. Imagine
the earth powder-stained and churned
up from ten to sixty feet in depth.
imagine mud so bottomless that the
German prisoners claim their men
frequently were swallowed up whole in
attempting to cross after dark.
Left Where They Fell.
This is a territory the Germans left.
The German prisoners told us that
communication trenches had been
wiped out by the incessant British
fire and that mud, so that relief and
re-vietualling was difficult, most
dangerous. Men on such missions were
caught by the British machine guns
sweeping in the darkness and could not
be saved. 1t was impossible to save
those thus cut off by the destruction
of the communication trenches. The
dead were left where they fell.
Two attacks in November left scores
of dead Germans outside the trenches
They have remained there until now.
when the British are burying the re-
mains.
A Quagnire of Dead
Such was the sink hole occupied by
the Germans.
The scenes were too horrible for the
human nerves to withstand. They
make quite believable the stories OF
soldiers who became raving maniacs.
1t is quite possible that in the with
drawal Germany plans to use hel
troops elsewhere in big offensive
but the British are undisturbed.
One outstanding moral of the Ger
man retreat is wherever the Germans
stop their retirement their new posi-
tions can be reduced to the SAINT
hideous uncomfortable quagmire of cad
AYERS and muck, where crisped deat
hands clutch from the mud at th'
| kaiser's men and dead eyes stare a
them from the slime, defying ever
German discipline to hold live men il
tline.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
Wheeling Does Not Want
to Hear Bob LaFOHette

Wheeling, W Va, Mar. Wheeling
does not care to pay $500 to hear Sen
ator LaFollette give his lecture tomor-
row on Undermining Democracy"
Baekers of the lecture course, who an
nouneed the receipt of telegram from
LaFoilette today, declared he win come
unless his lecture is definitely cancelled
and suggested that he himself cancel the
engagement.
One hundred business men here re-
Gently telegro phed LaFollette condemn
ing his part in the filibuster against
the armed neutrality bill
Threats of violence against the sis
consin senator in ease he comes, have
been made by local people.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
By Lowell Mellett

London, March. An the elements
of Sherlock Holmes detective story
were presented today when the crown
called to the bar the famous t'poison
plot quartet to answer TO the charge
of conspiring to murder Premier Lloyd
George and Minister Arthur Henderson
The four were Mrs Mary Wheeldon,
Miss Harriet Wheeldon and Mr.. ana
Mrs. Alfred Mason. They were arraign-
ed before Justice Low in Old Bailey
First Of the surprises in the case
came when dark skinned Mohamme-
dan, S. H. Ria, arose in court and en-
tered his appearance as counsel for the
defendants. For the crown, Attorney
General Sir F 4. Smith was in charge
of an array Of counsel.
Attorney General Smith, opening the
crown s case, bitterly denounced the
four defendants as "a desperate and
dangerous group, bitterly hostile to the
country and one which had done its
best to iniure the British in the pres
ent crisis.
Inspector Herbert Booth Of Scotland
Yard one Of the secret agents who sue
ceeded in establishing himself as con-
fident Of the Wheeldons, was the first
witness on behalf of the crown.He told
the whole amazing story of the poison
plot and the conspirators bitterness
against the government officials they
had marked out for slaughter 1t was
recital that might well have been
taken from the pages of famous
crime story-except that the crime was
never committed, because Of the vigil
AIr,.
Yard operatives.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
Would Take Chairmanship
of Committee on Foreign
Relations From Stone

Washington, Mar. IA bitter fight
against reelection of William j. Stone
to the chairmanship of the foreign rcla-
tions committee will be made by mem
bers of his own party, despite the here
tofore inviolable seniority rule that has
always prevailed in such matters.
One of the most prominent democratic
senators who was one Of the leaders in
the fight to rass the armed neutrality
measure, is authority for this state
ment However, he admits the fight has
as yet taken no definite shape.
The new senate cannot proceed to
business, it was pointed out, until com
mittees and ohairmanships have been
selected The democrats retain the ma
iority sufficient to control the organ
ization
A unique situation, however, exists in
the new senate. Senator Kern last Fri
day presented resolution, which was
adopted, continuing the senate commit
tees of the Sixty-fourth Cor last) con
gress during the present special session
of the senate.
In the midst of the rules fight yester-
daY Senator Owen held that lnasmuch
as the Sixty fourth congress died Sun
day, they could not in any way govern
or even suggest rules for the new SEN
ate.
Hitchcock May Get Place.
Owen pointed out that the 16 new
members had every right to demand a
caucus even during the special session
since they had no voice in the last ses-
sion.
At a democratic caucus held today, a
new steering committee will be named
This committee will reorganize the
senate of the Sixty-fifth congress Sen.
ator Hitchcock, who ranks next 10
Stone on the foreign relations commit
tee in seniority, will, it is confidently
believed, succeed Stone as chairman
should the fight on Stone develop the
strength necessary to oust him.
Luke warm supporters Of Senator
Stone defend him, saying that he die
his duty as chairman Of the committed
in reporting the armed neutrality bill
in getting Il out Of the committee ant
before the senate. They say that no
until the bill was before the senate di
Stone express his personal opinion an
leave the bill to the mercy of the fill
clustering few"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
Eight Burn to Death
In Early Morning Fire

Vancouver, B. c., March Eight
lives were lost yesterday when the
Coquahalla hotel at Hope, eight miles
east of Vancouver, burned. The build
ing was an old ramshaeklc frame strue-
ture. There were so people in the hotel
and 20 escaped in their night clothes,
some being forced to leap from upper
tories. The known dead are:
Z Tom Wilson. fruit inspector of Van
= yer; Bert Ready, a miner; William
eevor, a miner; Robert Campbell, a
nj y Thomas Taylor, lumberman. of
Va yer; Tom Kehoe, lumberman, Of
Van, z, er.
Ket sc and Palmer were owners of
the hotel which is total loss and un-
insured.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
MARTIN IS FLOOR LEADER.

Washington, March 6. - Senator
Thomas S. Martin, Virginia, succeeds
Ex-senator Kern, Indiana, as demo.
craft floor leader.
Martin was chosen chairman Of the
democratic caucus that aet today.
The position carries the floor leader.
ship.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
DITCH
CUMM|NS AND GRONNA
Action TO Show Party Does
Not IndOrse Late
Fiibuster

Washington, March First official
rebuke by the senate to the "wilful
twelve" senators who blocked Presi
dent Wilson S plan for placing the Uni
ted States under an armed neutrality
was seen today when the republicans
in private caucus dropped from theii
steering committee Senators Cummins
and Gronna-two of the obstruction
lists.
The name of Senator Jones of Wash
ington, member of the committee dur
ing the last congress, who Efully dis
cussed" the address, consuming severa
hours on the final day of the session
ard who ''signed the round robin un
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
NEW RULE FRAMED
JOINT CONFERENCE

Washington, Mar. Tho SEN
ate joint conference rules com
mittee this afternoon agreed up
on two-thirds cloture rule.
This rule will be reported at
O'Clock to democratic and repub
lican eaueuses.
The rule provides that by
two-thirds vote of the senate de-
bate on any bill can be limited
to one hour by each senator.
The proposed rule is one the
president approves. 1t is said
that it will be accepted by the
republican caucus.
II will be presented to the
senate tomorrow.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
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MAY SEIZE SHIP YARDS

Washington, March THE
government will seize private
ship yards if a survey Of ship
building facilities does not
show that the building of war
ships can be speeded up under
present conditions.
Secretary Daniels announced
today that he would use the
powers granted under the new
naval bill If it became neees-
sary.
The secretary reached this
decision after comforting with
representatives of large ship
building companies yesterday.
The conference continued to-
day.
Daniels also discussed the
question OF labor with Secre-
tary Of Labor Wilson and Sam
uel Gompers, president of the
American Federation Of Labor.
The power to commander
yards can be exercised by proc
lamation of the president in
time Of war or national emer-
geney.
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
Warship Hit Mine.

Berlin, via Tuckertown wireless, Mar.
The Russian armored cruiser Rurik
of $4,000 tons, struck mine in Fin
land bay and was greatly damaged, the
official press bureau declared today,
quoting Stockholm reports.
The Russian authorities tried 20
conceal the disaster" the press bureau
asserted. "The Rurik was later docked
at Kronstadt"
The Rurik is a $4,000 ton armored
cruiser, completed in 1906, has length
of 529 feet and carrying Il crew of 900
men.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
British Near Ragdad.

London Mar. british troops have
approached almost within range of Bag
dad.
Official announcement from the Mes
Opotamian expeditionary force today de-
clared that on Monday British cavalry
engaged a Turkish rearguard at I.aji,
nine miles southeast Of Cesiphon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
Sunk 100000 Tons.

Berlin, via Sayville wireless, Mar. Z.
- From March ] to 8 reports of sub
marines have arrived indicating that
ships totalling 100000 gross tons have
been sunk" the official press bureau
announced today.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
PRAISED BY GERMANS

Amsterdam, March Sen
ators Stone and LaEollette are
Landed by the German press
comments as representatives
"of the best spirit in Amer
icaf' according to dispatches
received here today summarize
ing German editorial views Of
the senate filibuster.
As a whole the German press
regards the filibustering sena-
tors stand as proper in stem
ming Wilson's unreasoning
ambition and in voicing the
sober sentiment of the Amcri-
can people who "do not pro-
pose to join the insanity Of
war.
Bitter comment on President
Wilson s inaugural address was
made by the L0kal Anzeiger,
which dubbed the president as
a "meaglomaniac" and de-
clared his speech "desecrated'
the national capitol.
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Washington, Mar. T. The fight to
end filibustering was opened in the
senate this afternoon by Senator Walsh
of Montana, who declared:
"Traitors might find their way into
the halls of congress and by filibuster-
ing, hold the senate at bay while a
foreign foe thundered at our gates
"It is not inconceivable that filibust-
ers might be actuated by traitorous SEN
timents.
"The revolution had its Benedict
Arnold
"Ten members Of the senate were ex-
PEELED for treason in 1861.
"a vice-president has been indicted
for treason at one time in our his
tory.
I" "A member of this senate was once
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
MOVEMENT BEGUN
!. TO REMOVE STONE
FROM COMMITTEE
Cleveland Newspaper Insists
On This As Matter Of
Preparedness
REFERS TO HIM AS ONE
OF 'THE KAISERS DOZEN
His Remaining Chairman Of
Foreign Relations Com
mittee, Dangerous

Cleveland, Ohio, March 7.-Clevc-
land newspapers have begun fight to
oust Senator William J. Stone, as
chairman of the foreign relations COM
mittee as preparedness measure.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer today,
referring to Stone as one of tthe
kaiser s dozen,n says:
As long as this senator from Mis-
sonri retains the committee chairman
ship America IS armor of defense n
gainst the aggressions of Germany will
be materially weakened. In times like
these it is highly important that
the man at the head of this committee
should be a senator single in devoting
to his own country, of stauneh loyalty
and unqucstioned integrity.
'Stone has failed. He can no longer
be trusted or respected To leave him
at the head Of this committee would
be like leaving the gate of our wall
open to the enemy.
The Plain Dealer then urges that the
other eleven senators be not forgot
| ten. -
The Cleveland Press started the
bombardment against Stone with a
stinging editorial yesterday, in which
Stone was referred to as the "haiser $
| FRIEND ,,
Gin this national crisis, said the
Press, this ehairmanship is second in
importance to the presidency u is a
terrible thing that it be occupied BY u
man of the character of 'GumshOe
Bill Stone-the kaiser s friend.n
Pictures of the twelve wilfnl men
were run alongside that of Benedict
| Arnold
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
Kansas Roasts the Dozen

Topeka, Kan, March IA concur
rent resolution, declaring reasonable
the filibuster in the United States SEN
ate led by Senator Lafollette and par
ticipatcd in by eleven "other wilful
men" against the armed neutrality
bill, will be acted upon by the Kansas
legislature today. There is no doubt OF
the resolution Is passage legislators
said
The resolution declares the fihbus-
ter has "placed the American people
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
French Raids Successful.

Paris, Mar French raids and sap
ping activities gained many German
prisoners, today's official statement de-
clared, while German attempts to pene-
with heavy losses.
French forces raided German
trenches and took prisoners between the
Disc and Aisne," the statement said.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
ONIONS TAKE DROP

Portland, Ore, Mar, 1T is no long
er mark of wealth to eat onions. Big
Australian importations sent the market
down from $40 to SO a hundred pounds
today
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
No More Daily Statements.

Rome, Mar Thereafter Italy will
adopt the plan of her allies and not
make public daily statements of sink
ings of vessels. At the end of each
week the government will announce to-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07

st. Louis, Mo-, March, 7.--SenatOr
William J. Stone was hard hit today in
resolutions passed by several democrat
ic ward organizations last night. He
was branded traitor and asked to
give an account Of his action in not
supporting President Wilson's armed
neutrality. Each organization endors-
cd an editorial printed in the Post IBIS
patch, which said in part:
''The lack Of cloture rule Is not
the only flaw in the organization of
the United States senate. There is am
other-there is 'Gumshoe Bill' Stone
at the head of the foreign relations
committee
Resignation from the ehairmanship
Of the foreign relations committee and
from the senate would be the most be-
coming act of Stones career If Stone
is not man enough to resign the chair
manship, he should be kicked out by
the patriotic majority
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07
EDISON MAY RESIGN

Annapolis, Md, Mar. =
Thomas A. Edison, chairman Of
the naval advisory board, may
resign if the naval experiment.
ing laboratory is not built at
Sandy Hook, il was reported
here today when the inventor
filed minority report with
Secretary of the Navy Daniels
favoring the New York site.
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-07

When your ship comes in maybe it
will be a freight car, and that will be
better still.