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Show The Herald-Republic- Receives the an Utah's Greatest Vol. in tt. No. 5?. A " Newspaper and Advertising Medium Inter-Mounta- Kevs Service Hour Report of the Associated Press, the Only Reliable Twenty-Fou- r T CT T" 'XT Premium Coupon 1 T) I VKATIIEU It's on Page 11 and Tufudar. Tuwoay. Mondiiy partly cloudy j colder -- " iIM J aj 1 ,J t i Ml W i3 fcaaaf till ml fun j Slum I li.J 111 7E7 J u i J Salt Lake Herald. PRICE FIVE CENTS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1916 Republican. TO Lr J j A'ol. Ini 11 R t IS. 173. No. 63. T 1 ft 'BIG VICTORIES' VILLA FLEEING; REWARD IS OFFERED FOR 1 Fire Woman BRITISH. IT C TAVAI RY LURE RECRUITS TRAIN ROBBER'S CAPTURE Heroine; Five APPEAL AIR RAID Others Perish HOT ON HEELS TO VILLA BAND BANDIT TRACED Jm Kfm VTl A f 1 X (top) MATTHEW onRAUT10 train that was Bandit Pierces 'Lines Thrown Peons Flock to Outlaw Chief's About Him by Carranza Standard When He Reports Club San Antonio Country Troops and Escapes Into Hills Capture of Washington and Destroyed by Flames; Many Where Ammunition Is Hidden Wilson's Flight to Canada Jump Off Roof; Society PRECED Germans Destroy Three Planes Over Northern Schleswig and Make Prisoners of Five Officers; Two Teuton Patrol Vessels Sent to the Bottom Leaders Have Close Escapes OUTLAW CHIEF G0ZMAN ANTONIO, March SAX persons lost their lives day in the burning 26. early T0RRE0N MENACED BY REINFORCED BANDITS IS KILLED IN BATTLE Six f the fashionable h The dead are: Mi:. AND Mi!S. J. H. WAL.TIIAM, San Berlin Claims No Damage Was Antonio. JUIGK J. K. WKHB, San Antonio. Done in Aerial Attack on HOMER JONES, San Antonio. Shed Base, as But Few MP.?. MACO STEWART. Galveston. club. HELEN COCREtJ. moid at the The fire had lis origin in a collection of paint stored In the basement of the three-storframe clubhouse. It a stairway leading to spread quickly to the first floor and rapidly communicated to the other two floors above. About fifteen guests asleep In the building had narrow escapesjmany jumping from the second story windows so quick was the spread of the flames. Mrs. Stewart, who was spending her first night at the club as the guest of Mrs.' Cora Ogden. nad escaped from th burning building, but with Homer Jones started back to rescue Judg Webb, whose hearing was affected and who they fenred would not hear the alarm. The three were caught in the dense smoke and went to their death together. The flames were discovered by th steward of the- club, who went into the grill shortly after a number of guests had left the first floor for their apartments upstairs. The steward attempted to quench the flames with fire This proved Insufficient, extinguishers. so h summoned the guests, who still were awake and who aided In alarming the others in tho building. A number of guests at the club escaped by jumping from the. roof. Mrs. Earl Gfford was slightly hurt when he fell in leaping to the ground. Th club and Its contents were valued at J45.O00 with $35,000 Insurance. The six charred bodies, burned beyond" recognition, were taken from th ruins today. Identification having been established by dentistry work and Jewelry worn by tho victims. Search for bodies began at dawn. Th building burned like tinder and was consumed in less than an hour. Lom Half n Million. Houston, March 26. Loss estimated at more than 1500,000 was caused her today by fire, which started In the cotton sheds of the Missouri. Kansas & Texas railway and spread to nearly a dozen other buildings and forty freight cars. A total of 4090 bales of cotton was destroyed, Anderson, Clayton & Co. being th heaviest losers. Members of the firm said they lost 1204.900 In burned cotton. F. W. Hettman & Co. lost $200,000 In th destruction of their warehouse stocked with hardware. Th railroad's loss was 1100,000, Including sh'ds and equipments. Bombs Were Dropped; Light Battle Cruisers Convoy Flyers LONDON'. y REPORTS March -- 0. Three aeroplane which took on German airship part in a rni.l yesheds in Schleswicr-HoUfvi- n Two German ar miin. terday and a wrre easels patrl have i to believed British destroyer been lost. DenDispatches from Ksjber$r. mark, to th Berlinke Tidende says Renter's Copvnhasen correspondent between reports a srTeat r.aval battle some fleets British and the German HcrhUhip three miles off the Oraady at midday today. The dispatch adds that Tor.dern In has been bombarded by five aeroplanes. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company frtm Copenhagen eays the German armd trawlers aunk by the British cutslde Plt harbor were named Uraunschwel g and Otto Rudolf. The following1 official statement was tsnued tonight: "An attack by British seaplanes was delivered yesterday morning on German airship sheds In Schleswig-llol-steieastward of the Island of Sylt. The eeaplanes were convoyed to their rendezvous close to the German coast by an escorting force of light cruisers and destroyers under Commodore n. Tyr-whltu- s. "Three of th ap'.ans which took part In the attack aro missing. The destroyer Medxisa was In collision with the destroyer Lavrock and it is feared that In the stormy weather which prevailed last night th Medusa may have been lost, hut no misgivings are felt Two an to the safety of the crew. German armed patrol vessels were sunk by our destroyers. re"So detailed report has yet beenmesDanish but from press ceived, sages It would appear that this operation, which was carried out within the enemy's waters, achieved its object." Th Lavrock. 2f) feet long, was built in 1914 and displaced 33 tons. She was armed with three four-Inc- h guns and two torpedo tubes. Her normal complement was 100 men. The latest avallabl British navy records give n aeronnuflr estai;Hshrnnts In northern Schleswig. "Not I""ss than thre of them, amnng which was a fighting aerop!ane. were defensive service forcl down by theIsland nf Sylt. Th' on and about t Inmates of the marhlries. who were are fo'ir ttngllsh cffl-ter- s nude prisoners, noncomrnlssfoned offlcer. and one In th-"Itomt s were only thro-.vof th Hoyer water g?.t- -. No clam.is was done." A Irvldrtia1 Fmlty March 2i A tke dinchter f'fuladelphla, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frnrtet. F.owe Parre hre t!ay. Sh is the second k randdughter of President named Hleanor Wilson, and will be Sayre's moth-- r. Sayre for Mrs. Mother nnd child wer reporte ! tonizht as doing well. Mrs. Sayre. has tr this city visiting her aunt. Mrs. A. W. Howe, a sister of th President, for several weeks. The President wired his congratulations. Ax-so- n n Search for Man Who Held Up North- Oregon Short Line bound Near Roy Sunday P0ST0FFICE Have Not Been Heard From 1)KVKIX)PMETS. Itoy train bandit eludes capture, nlthoush bloodhound In Put upon his trail. All-dhunt Sunday falls to WITHHELD IS March 26. upon which President Wilson will decide whether the sinking of the steamship Englishman and the damaging by an explosion of the channel steamer Sussex were the result of acts in violation of international law is being gathered from every available source by consular representatives of the United States in England and France. Tangible evidence of some kind' momentarily was expected by thai' state donart nionf Dispatches already received indicate that several Americans were injured or, killed on die Sussex in the disaster.: aboard the Knglishinan and who were not to be among the said in dlspati-herescued still arc unaccounted for. Only one dispatch of importance concerning the explosion which damaged the Sussex was received by the state department during the day. This contained an affidavit made in London at the United States embassy by two American survivors, Edward S. Huxley and Francis K. Drake of New York. Both swore that the explosion occurred "without the slightest warning" and of th they credited the commander Sussex as saying that he saw the w.ike of a torpedo betore it struck his ves- WASHINGTON, man-hun- s T ED by i posse a sad-eye- d bloodhound, a of sheriffs and their deputies, railway special agents, detectives and policemen followed for many hours yesterday the trail of the lone bandit, who held up Oregon Short Line No. 1 early yesterday led Tracks morninjr. through orchards and plowed fields and into marshes and over ditches in Weber and Davis counties, in the general direction of Salt Lake. Late in the afternoon the scent became extinct after it had been followed for more Violent' Bombardment Waged than ten miles, in which there was in Region of Malancourt; much backtracking, and the posse entered into a conference, at which atArtillery Is Active. to bandit the trail tempts further were abandoned. March 26. The violent Verdun Fight Is Unabated in Northwest " General Superintendent W. A. Whitney of the Oregon Short Line announced that the railway company would pay $1000 reward for the arrest or information leading to 'he arrest of the bandit. Posters giving' announcement of this reward were printed yesterday. M. M. Two postoffice inspectors, ChristianWarren of Ogden and C. sen of Salt Lake, were working on the case all day. They say they have not learned the value of the thirty-on- e registered packages carried away. Wan n 'Gentleman.' Railway officials in Ogden are sending out the Information that the ban- a dit was of the "gentleman" type, man who used good Knglish and spoke When the smoothly yet distinctly. robber climbed Into the engine cab and demanded that the engineer throw up his hands, the engineer said: "That would leave the locomotive without control." "Well, perhaps you had better stop the train first." the bandit replied with what the engineer took for a chuckle. While the majority of the local police officers and sheriff's deputies are of the opinion the work was done by an experienced man. there are some here of the opinion that perhaps on Page 12.) M-- . some-(Continu- Guard Slain by Convict With Case Knife Prison well-guarde- 1 liirtw'iirmi.tiiiHttirtttA MEN AT WORK - rt d i"ie.. Neither countnor ntnte has offered reward yet. Salt Lake police not taking: oft. ficial part In the Trainmen say robber Ha gentleman of nervet his identitr hnrd to learn an diKi!e vrns perfeet., Amount stolen not yet known. Postal Inspector still trying to determine value of loot. to be Officials believe nold-ti- p work of eiperleneed man. n; I I trap him. Trailing taction Riven up for night after ten ml let I covered. Orfson Short Line official) offer rewnrd of SjlOOo for capture. today, temporarily northern Chihuahua to Durango and Coahuila, where the Villistas appear to be gathering strength to such an extent that Torreon is seriously threatened. No direct word from Ton-eohas been received here for two days, but dispatches from Monterey.. report an extremely grave situation. some-Ther- Ii4 Professor Baldwin, Wife and Daughter, Who Were Aboard Sussex, Reported Safe; Four Americans on the Englishman ay at least, from gt ; SU.XDA Y'S n re-Po- ..if" DECISION March 2( Interest in EEthePASO, Mexican situation shifted ANTONIO, March 2b Villa has escaped from vicinity of the Mexican troops that had checked hini near Namiquipa, and three columns of American cavalry arn pursuing him. The American troops are almost 250 miles south of the border. This informaThe remaining women and children of tion was contained in a detailed re- the American colony at Torreon, sent port bv (Seneral Pershing that out of that city by the Hrltish vice reached p;enernl Funston here today. consul, Patrick O'Hea, who has taken General Funston forwarded the of American Interests following to Washington without making charge the departure of the Tiittei States public any but the essential facts. have arrived nt Monterey. consul, Colonel Iodd Is commanding the adwero- - four In number and They are hard vanced columns that riding anof a of conditions brought 'story after Villa and his men. and General archy existing in the distrn between F'ershing bas divided his forces so as Torreon and Monet rey. A box car was to provide supporting columns along all the accommodation they could the thinly stretched line of communiand almost throughout the entire, jourbase cation from his most advanced were subjected to a running ney nt FA Valle. From El Vail another fire they from bands of mountel Villistas, line is being maintained back to Casas who raced alongside the train exchangOrandes, from where communication ing volleys with the Carranza guard with the border Is maintained. e supplied by Gen. Ignacio Ramo?. The General Ttrshlng himself Is and children crouched between south of Casas Grandes direct- awomen barricade of trunks which double ing the vork of holding together his from the bullets which forces and cirecting so far as possible protected them wooden sides of the car. the Cavpierced Dodd. Colonel the operations of here Arrivals pave today from alry Is teing used along the lines acomwomen of new of the the details deflight El where Valle, municating with and children and of conditions in the tachment .f infantry is stationed. district where Canuto Reyes is upholdThre Aeroplanes I'sed. that ing the Vllllsta cause. They said mesThree aeroplanes are at El Valle and Reyes been encouraged by had will be used in scouting as soon as the sages from Villa, who reported great high winds that have been sweeping victories he said he had gained over that part of Mexico for almost a week both Carranza and the American colsubside, when, according to General umns, and asserted that he would soon Pershing, have made effective assistthe "Gringoes" over the border. ance by the aeroplanes Impossible. Of drive R. F. Crosby, a mining man, one of the eight machines that went into Mex- the arrivals, said that peons readily ico, two are still out of commission. believed the wildest stories put out by They were damaged in the flights fiom the Villistas. one of the most popular Columbus to Casas Grandes. fled had Wilson President that being Namithe of Details operations about to Canada and that Villa was about to (Continued on Tage 2.) occupy Washington. Itecroltn Gained. He described the condition of the country people as deplorable. There was an almost absolute dearth of employment and Reyes hed little difficulty In obtaining recruits by liberal promises of loot. As far as the pursuit of Villa is concerned, the absolute dearth for days of any definite, reliable news has caused much of the Interest In the chase to vanish Into a feeling of complete pessimism. This was deepened materially tonight by word from Columbus, passed by the censor, that General of a Pershing had littleto expectation his task and that speedy termination ROUTE OF THE ARMY, March 2ti, via courier to Columbus, N. M., he was preparing for a campaign of months' duration. 2f. Trains of Ttuto trucks, which rush the bulk of supplies to several one ripple of excitement in reOnly the front at the rate of fourteen miles an hour, form a new branch of the spect to the local situation stirred V'A service. They run in lines of ten to a dozen each and they keep on the Paso's Sunday calm. This was a reAmerican troops were premove day and nitrht. The organization of these trains has required quick port that cross to border at Fab?:is, paring work in Columbus. Their operation across the sand hills and over the thirty miles east the of here. This report treacherous mo.n of Chihuahua has been full of thrills. Their tops are was spread abroad after It was learned General Hell had ordered a comalways visible r.bovc the pray and green chapparal, their bulk is impressive, that the Twenty-fourt- h pany Infantry to with combined who on the rifles ride of the guards ami their speed, top Fa bensof and a troop of cavalry had that of the loads, make them seem dangerous engines of offence. already arrived there to reinforce the While the great trucks have, to, for a man to lie down In. Long, dry troop which has been for some time on some extent, mastered the desert, the grass frequently hides all except the patrol duty. General Hell said that the dispatch of have been handy tops of these tents. lishter motorcycles work In northern The large base fnmps arc supplied the Infantry was Just an "ordinary speedy dispatch Chihuahua. For the first thirty miles with the usual conical brown army movement of troops, with no special of the road taken by th transports tents, but along the lines of communi- purpose," but the story of the projected In cation where Important patrol work crossing gathered new force when It p. habitation to be seen. thrre Is miles It passes must be done It Is not unusual to come was discovered that American scouts hud the first seventy-fiv- e villages. At their camp-fi- r within a few paces of a camp before been ordered to report to Captain Moses, ony two small at niaht alcng the road the discovering Ita presence. Few Mexi- commanding officer at Fnhens. CapAmerican soldiers sing Broadway songs.n cans have ventured atd night into the tain Moses denied any Intention of movroad. ing his men across the Rio Grande. out of sight and hearing of any Mexi-sj- vicinity of the Three who were discovered Tuesday Mayor Tom Iea of Kl Pnso addressed observer. Few of the thousands of troops en- night near a large camp mounted a telegram tonight to Senator W. 12. horses and galloped away aa a patrol Rorah at Washington, denying that tering Mexico saw any Mexicans until anyone in VA Paso wanted Intervention supposed hid- approached them. they were cloc to Villa's men most should overworked If Mexicans The the for Intervention's seke, but said that Evrn along ing plare. cross the mountainous ridges, which military road are the camp cooks. At the government should be prepared for bound both sides of the road, they all hours of the night pack trains and any emergency along the border. The wo-ilsome with as many mayor also addressed a telegram to scarcely ever catch sight of th automobile trains, men as went Into this for the aboard, watch for Congressman W. R. Smith at Washingarmy Americans, fifty hungry chase stripped for speed. Usually the signs of a roadside ramp. When one Is ton In which he urged that preparation only sheltering of the soldiers are the sighted they yell for the ccok to make should be made along the border to meet any possible conditions. field "dog tents," Just large enough coffee. y WASHINGTON WAITING OFFICIAL INFORMATION v nn.inii 4- - SAN . Hunt Prosecuted by Posses; Whole District in Vicinity Combed, but Only False. Clews Are Followed All-da- fr dtf-trt- rt GRANDPA .reond f .ritnddnofihter Is Added This information came in a message to the minister of war, General Obregon, who was informed that the campaign against the Villistas was being waged with the ntmost vigor. ON ruir WILSOprAGA'lN ecuted. Motor Trains on Move Day and Night Bringing Food to Soldiers Berlin. March .23. Not less than three British hydroplanes, among them a were brought down ftrhtlng aeroplane, by German guns on and about the toliy island of Sylt. during an air raid on northern Schleswig. according to a official communication Issued Crman which tonight, two follows:which were "From ship', by a sniadron, and a flotilla of destroyer, five Knllh ?irt-- 1 yesterday hydroaeroplane nn aarnlnst the Ger-nu- n attack for nmrnlns: s Del Rio, Tex., March 26. Increased uneasiness was felt in this section today, when it was learned positively that nearly one thousand Mexican soldiers have congregated at a dozen places within thirty miles of the border. Three hundred soldiers of the Twenty-fourt- h infantry arrived here today for patrol duty. AUTO TRUCKS RUSH U. S. SUPPLIES OVER DESERT destroyer Medusa. n Queretaro. Mexico, March 26. Gen. Pedro Oozman and twtnty-tw- o others, all members of Villa's band, were killed in battle today in the neighborhood of Laguna and Dinamita. In this action between government forces and bandits, ten prisoners also were taken and summarily ex- Sailing Vessel Near Sussex After Explosion, but Slinks Away Disregarding Marine Law and Tradition by Failing to Assist Steamer in Distress go TEN PRISONERS EXECUTED EL PASO'S MAYOR STIRRED - Fchteswig-HolMel- n OF SALT LAKE American Women and Children So Far Proves Fruitless in Flee When Situation and Coahuila Becomes BLOODHOUND ON TRAIL Grave Train Is Fired Upon FINALLY LOSES SCENT Du-ran- as-- 1 sistant. INDIRECTION to- General Pershing Says Stamina San Antonio Country club. Five of and Spirit of American Solthe victims were quests at the club, of was the scene last night diers Is Excellent Under Tryseveral week-en- d bringing parties, ENGLISH DESTROYER ing Conditions Met on Desert together a large number of persons business and social in prominent LOST, LONDON FEARS circles of the southwest. AWAIT DETAILED held up, and Arthur Root, his S t Kans., March LKAVKXWORTH, Turner, a guard in tho federal prison here, was stabbed to death by Kobert F. .Stroud, a convict, in the prison mess hall at noon today. ' With 1500 prisoners looking on, Stroud plunged a case knife Into the of ficer's heart. Stroud was disarmed without resistance. There was no disturbance among the convicts. Stroud was transferred here from the federal prison at McNeil Island on Puget Sound. He was tervlng a sentence for assaulting a guard. 12-ye- ar ed LONDON, northwest of Verdun in Malancourt continues, of the region while to the north of the fortress and in the Wcevhe region in the east intermittent cannonading is still in progress. No infantry attacks have been launched by the Germans except to the southeast of Fort Douaumont, where Berlin reports a hand to hand encounter with the advantage on the side of the Germans. The French in the Argonhe forest are keeping up their bombardment of German positions. Considerable artillery activity on the part of the French also has been shown in the Vosges. The explosion of a French mine in this region inflicted heavy losses on the French, according to Berlin. The German position was not impaired by the explosion. On the Russian front the Germans attempted offensives in the region of Jacobstadt, but were repulsed, while the Russians captured a German trench in the region of Dvinsk. Heavy fighting is still going on in the lake region southeast of Dvinsk. Here, Berlin says, the Russian attacks broken down. lines Storms In the Austro-Itallahave impeded operations but bombardments are continuing on the Isonzo front. h In the coastal region of the war theatre the Russians are progress against the making good Turks and also farther south in the Lake Van region have thrown their lines still further forward. A conference of the entente allies, of importance, will begin at Paris Monday. The premiers, various other high government officials, in cluding the British foreign secretary and secretary for war and the commanding generals of France, Great Britain and Italy, will take part In this conference, which will give the closest consideration to the military and political situation brought by the war. The Dutch ministry of marine says that examination of a piece of bronze metal found in a lifeboat of the Dutch steamer Tubantia recently s. nk induces the belief that It belonged to the air chamber of a torpedo. - Ilusso-Turkis- far-reachi- ng sel. Mlnkinjs Ship Seen. Another statement in the affidavits, officials seemed to consider significant had to do with a strange sailing vessel which hovered near the Sussex after the explosion and which in response to signals for assistance from the channel steamer sailed away and Press dispatches quotdisappeared. ing a Belgian army officer as saying the submarine probably had hidden behind the strange vessel, which apparently disregarded all the traditions and .laws of the sea in failing' to succor a vessel in distress, were read with interest. Prof. J. Mark Baldwin and his wife and daughter reported in press dispatches ns being missing, or Injured, were declared to be safe in a cablegram dated at Boulogne received from Professor Baldwin by J. A. Steerett, a Mr. Steerett, however, accepted as true press and official state department dispatches containing information that Miss Baldwin had been injured. He has cabled to his seriously father-in-lafor additional informason-in-la- w. w tion. Admlnlfttrntlon Waiting. Information regarding the Sussex so far received did not, high administration officials say, convince them that the vessel was the victim of submarine attack. One member of the cabinet who discussed the situation with the President said that reports at hand were by no means conclusive. The administration, while fully realizing the possibilities of the situation should the indication in press dispatches be borne out in the official reports, will take no decisive action (Continued on Page 2.) t"Clerk """" ---- ---- in Department Store rails Heir to $3,000,000 2G. March Harold 19 Richard "Clements, years old, J O a departin been who has working ment store here at a small salary, has been notified that he has inherited the $3,000,000 estate of his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Clements, who died at Louisville, Ky., last Wednesday. Young Clements is the son of uiements, iormeny Harry curiis president of the Denver Traction company, who 'died nine years ago. j.When Mr. Clenjents died he left the I bulk of his estate to his mother. enly a small allowance going to his son, young Clements said tonight. Q1EATTLE, " |