Allies Land Troops to Begin Operations Against Dardanelles' Fortifications HARRISBURG ®IS§lS> TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 68 ■3IXLER MET DEATH THROUGH ACCIDENT Perry County Authorities Believe He Fell Down Stairs With Lighted Lamp HOLD INQUEST TOMORROW State Policeman Still at Scene of the Tragedy to Com plete Investigation Special to The Telegraph New Hloomfield. Pa.. March 2 4. —L«. Curtin Blxler died after falling down r flight of stairs in his home near Bix ler Monday morning and his body was charred when the lamp which he was carrying set tire to the building, is the opinion of District Attorney Walter W. Rice, of Perry county, and State Trooper Curtis E. Davies, who have been Investigating the case. Trooper Davies. however, is still at Blxler in an effort to clear tip several points which are not yet clear. To-morrow morning at 9 o'clock Squire Showers, of Sandy Hill, will conduct an inquest at the Blxler home merely in compliance with the law, according to the district attorney, and not in an effort to prove that the old man was murdered or committed sui cide. Witnesses, it is said, will show that Bixler met his death through an accident and not by foul play or by his own hands. Pell Hon 11 Stairs from the position of the charred remains the investigators have come to the conclusion that Bixler. arising shortly before 5 o'clock Monday morn ing. walked down the stairs to the first floor, carrying a lighted lamp. The supposition is that he tripped on one of the steps and fell and that he be came unconscious. The lamp set fire to the house furnishings and the old man is believed to have died without regaining consciousness. When the first floor of the house fell into the < ellar Bixlerg body fell with it and it was found at a point directly beneath "where the stairs to the second floor had been. Banked in Klnomfield Front authoritative sources to-day it was learned that Mr. Bixler never liad very much money in his home at nny time, lie is said to have do"-> his banking at New Bloomfield and that every few days he took monev there. According to the authorities, there is one point which still leaves some in ioubt as to whether the old man did commit suicide. It has been •Warned that Bixler had two wills and llinl the second was made out no later than a month ago. Some persons who It.cline to the suicide theory believe that Bixler made out the second will Jntendinc to end his life soon after. 1 ntil the authorities obtain possession of copies of the will this one point cannot be cleared. The remains of Bixler s bod v. a few charred bones, all of which could easily be placed in a two-quart jar, were brought here yesterdav and this afternoon they will be examined by physicians as a matter of form to prove whether they are the bones of a man or a woman. Xo arrange in €»ntß have yet been made for the funeral. Steals "Egg" Stove From Office; Wanted to Start Boardinghouse, He Says Hearing a noise in his office building in the rear of his home. 311 South Front street, Steelton, Elmer Fiese, u contractor, went to investigate. He found his office door open. Go ins down River alley he saw a for eigner carrying away the small "egg stove, with which his office was heat ed. In the street in front of him. the foreigner was rolling the stove pipe with his foot. Summoning chief of Police 11. P. I.ongnaker, Flefr arrested the mm who gave his name as Milas Vokapic' When asked what he wanted with the stove, according to Squire Gard ner, before whom he will be given a hearing to-morrow evening, Milas re plied. "Oh: I'm going to start a board inghouse down here." Whisky Posters Barred by Billboard Companies Chicago. March 24.- The Poster Ad vertising Company of the I'nited States and Canada has placed a ban on the advertising of whisky and other spirit uous liquors. Beer and wine are no* included. The action was taken at Palm Beach. Fla., March IC. at the semian nual meeting of the board of directors, but announcement was withheld. Herbert Dtiee, editor of a magazine published by the association, to-dav admitted that the action had been taken. The association has members in 4,000 cities of the United States and Canada. Xo new contracts will be en tered into after May 31 and so such advertisements will be posted after this year. THE WEATHER For Harrlshurgc »nd vtdnltj-i Fair tn-nlaht and Thursday; not mueb change In temperature. For Eastern I'ennavlvanlai Fair to-night nnd Thuradny; moder ate meat wlnda. River Ko Important ehannea will occur In jlver condition* for aeveral ilnya. A >'«gr of about 4.3 feet la Initl e.ited for Harrlabnrg Thiirmlav mornlng. General Conditions * general depreaalon from the Far >orthweat, now central over "Western Ontario, In connection with an area of klfh preaanre north of Movtna, baa caused snow In the Statea alone the northern border from Mlnneaotn to Montana! elsewhere fair weather haa prevailed, except over the Florida peninsula, where light rain haa fallen. Temperature) a a. m.. ,t«. Sunt niaes. fliO<l a. M.i aeta, SiJO p. m. Moon i Full moon, March 81, IlitflM a. m. Yenterdar'a Weather IHaheirt temperature, l.nweat temperature, UK. Mean temperature. 13. Aormal temperature, to. GEIL SCON EASILY PACIFIES limns Four Piutes Hunted by Posse, Happy in Army Officer's Company MEN ARE NOT UNDER GUARD Good White Father Does Not Anticipate Any Further Trouble By rf.rsociattd Press Thompsons. Utah. March 24.—Seat ed at the head of the table, Brigadier General Hugh D. Scott, chief of staff of tho United States army, at the littlo hotel at Thompsons, served four docile and apparently happy Indians at din ner last night. Tho Indians who had been pursued by a posse headed by United States Marshal Nebelter for two weeks, surrendered to General Scott near Bluff last week. The In dians were Old Polk, chief of one of the divisions of the renegade Piutes; Tse-Ne-Gat, son of Old Polk, who is charged with murder; Old Posey, chief of the other division of renegades and a son of Posey. All of the Indians re ferred to General Scott in their Piute tongue as their Good White Father. Scott Tolls Story General Scott's story of the pacifica tion of the Indians follows: "We left Washington on March third to come here to attempt to settle a misunderstanding. With me were lieutenant Colonel Kobert E. L. Mi ch le, my aid-de-camp, and Trooper P. R. Randolph of the Fifth Cavalry, my orderly. We reached Thompsons on March 8. and went to Bluff, going by automobile, wagon, sleigh, horse back and on foot. At Bluff we learned that Polk and Posey and their Indians had gone to the Navajo mountain-!, some 125 miles west of Bluff. We stayed a day in Bluff nnd then went to Mexican Hat on the San Juan river, twenty-eight miles west of Bluff. | "We sent a friendly Piute, called I Jim's Boy, out to tell the Piutes that 1 wanted to see them. Some of them j came in near where we were camped, but it was not until the third day any i dared to come to the camp. "Posey and four other Indians then | came into camp. We talked a little ! through a Navajo intern*reter. It wasj [Continued on Page 12] BOYD MEMORIAL TO I " BE ERECTED SOI \ . I Bids on $50,000 Building Will Be Announced About April 1 Work on the John T. Boyd Mentor ! ial Building for men and boys, will be ; started within the next few weeks it j was announced this morning by the j building committee chairman, Thomas JT. Wierman. Plans and specifications for the | building, which will be constructed of reinforced concrete, were submitted by ' the architects last week and were j adopted. The Architects have now j sent them to live local and three out jof-town contractors, who made appli cations, and the bids received will be ; announced about April 1. The building will be erected front ling fifty feet in South street, opposite I the Pine Street Presbyterian Church, (and extending back 105 feet. The late ;John Y. Boyd provided fifty thousand ! dollars to cover the cost of buying the ground and the erection of the build i ing which will be equipped on the j order of the buildings of the Young Men's Christian Association, with the ! exception of rooms for lodging. A superintendent will be appointed j to take charge of the building as soon las it is completed. A gymnasium, i reading room and library, bowling | alleys, and other additions for recrea ' tion will be installed, i Members of the Pine street church I are on the committee of arrangements. I Thomas T. Wierman is chairman of j the committee. j NOTICE THE URUE 1)\Y? WIIY. DI.MAIN IS BACK | Edward R. Demain, local weather | forecaster, is back on the job after an j absence of six weeks. Mr. Demain I wits conlined to his home, 308 North | Second street, with pneumonia. C. J. Doherty, of Reading, who was in charge temporarily, returned to Read ing yesterday, lili STEM | SINKS 111 MIOTIC j Passengers and Crew Leave Vessel 1,300 Miles From New York By Assoeiatecr Fresit New York, March 24.—The Mallor.v • line owners of the American steamer Denver, received information to-day of the wireless message sent last night from the steamer St. Louis announc ing that the Denver's crew had been taken off and the Denver had been abandoned 1,300 miles east of New York. This informstion came in a wireless message from Captain Avery of the Denver. The message said that the Denver had been abandoned In a sink ing condition and Captain Avery and [Continued on Page 9.] GERMAN!* REMOVE BATTERIES By tarlaleH Pru.i lAtndon, March il4, 9.45 A. M.—Offi cial announcement has been made In Petrograd, say* the correspondent of Reuter's telegram company that the Germans since Sunday have removed all but four of their heavy batteries from before OMowetz. HARRISBURG. PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1915. FIRST PICTURES OF DEDICATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA 1 k BUILDING AT THE EXPOSITION TAKEN FOR THE TELEGRAPH) > '\ '■ .. . t jr v ! || -1 ' ' JMHE ■"""-* agm,, «*• WBQB& V**" The etching allows scenes from the dedication of the Pennsylvania Building- at the Panama-Pacific Imposition at ■Sail Francisco. At the tnp is seen the crowd at the dedication ceremonies at the loggia of the building March IS Helow participants In the ceremonies are shown. Chairman Tustin is delivering the address of welcome to the great crowd gathered In the loggia and gardens. DAUPHIN SETTLES INCURRED BY A J. H. Smith, Witness in Swallow Capitol Case of 18 Years Ago, Re lieves Treasurer Bailey of $1 1.60 and a Sigh Dauphin county squared an IS-year old debt of 111.«0 to-day. County Treasurer A. li. Bailey, who cashed the warrant, heaved a figura tive sigh of relief that another old bill had been paid as ho stamped the voucher, for, so far as known, the eleven-sixty represented the last ex pense for mileage and witness fees in cured in the famous libel suit brought against the Rev. Dr. Silas C. Swallow in 1897 which grew out of the min ister's charges that followed the burn ing of the old State Capitol. The claimant was J. H. Smith, of STILL HAVE HOPES OF GETTING HART BUCK Fifth St. M. E. Sends Protest to Bishop Burt; Ridge Avenue Also Indignant The llev. Edwin A. Pyles, of Pine Street Metliodist Church, Williams port. who will exchange pulpits with the Rev. B. H. Hart, of Fifth Street Church, according to the decision of Bishop Burt at the recent conference at Shamoktn. is well known in this neighborhood, having served his first, charge at West Fairview, about eighteen years ago. While preaching there he married Miss Klizabeth Sylbania Martin, daugh ter of Senator Frank Martin. Since [Continued on Page I I.] W*NTS EXPRESSIDBS " Oil ROID PROBLEM H. I. Wilson Introduces Resolu tions in House; Hopes to Bring Out Views Resolutions declarinc it to be tha sense of the House of Representative.? that the State main highways system be kept as originally outlined and as subsequently increased and directing the State HlgYiway Department to be gin work as soon as possible on re- [Continued on Page 9] You Can Sell Soap in South America; War Cuts Off Supply Hoa|i manufacturer* Iri Hsnisbui'K and vicinity have been notified by the H&rrlsburg Chamber of Commerce of a bis; market for toilet soaps In South America. The Bureau of Industries at Washington, D, through K, A. Brant, assistant. chief, notified Secre tary B. L. McColgln. Previous to the Ruropenn war. South America was supplied with toilet soap from Eu rope. . . , . , Wayne Junction, who had been sub peuaed by the Commonwealth for the Swallow trial in March quarter ses sions 1897. He had been allowed $1 per day for five days' services as a witness nnd sH.fiO mileage. Time and again he had written the State au thorities concerning his dues, Mr. Smith said this morning but it ap peared that all traces of the missing l">i 11 were lost. The other day, he said, much to his amazement, he got the voucher and as he was in the city this morning he bethought himself of the check and decided to get the money. RETIRED IFTER 32 YEARS OE SERVICE Lieut. Charles P. Meek, Widely known Guardsman, Relieved With Rank of Captain After serving thirty-two years in the infantry and cavalry branches of the [.National Guard of Pennsylvania. Lieu tenant Charles P. Meek, adjutant of the Second Squadron, First regiment of cavalry, has, at his own request, been relieved from active duty and placed on the Retired List of Officers, as an nounced from the Adjutant General's office to-day He is retired with the rank of cap tain by reason of having been commis sioned in that grade as commander of [Continued on Page 7.] MR IRKS SITES FOR LIGHTS OH WILL Park Supt. Inspects River Front and Obtains Data For Neces sary Ordinance Preliminary step?, incident to the lighting of the River Front wall, were | taken to-day by City Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor, when he inspected ! the entire length of the city's "front i steps" with Assistant Superintendent i Hoffert and a representative of the ; electric light company. 1 The data that was collected will be i used by Commissioner Taylor In pre paring an ordinance which he expects to introduce In council, within the next week or two, authorizing the placing 'of fifty-four electric standards at SOS j foot, intervals along the wall. With the exception of the tinpavcj [Continued on Pace #.] T7NEMPIX)YEI> MINERS PARADE Hy Associated I'res t Murcla, Spain. March 24. - With •cries of "give us bread! Give us work!' ten thousand miners thrown out of employment by the closing of mines as the result of the war paraded the streets of the city yesterday. I DESCRIBES OPENING OF PEiA. BUILDING Harrisburg Boy, Student in Cali fornia, Tells of Dedicatory Exercises at Exposition In a letter to the Telegraph Herman I'. Aliiier, Jr., a Harris burg boy. studying at Poland Stan ford' University. describes the dedi cation of the Pennsylvania build ing at the Panama-Pacific Inter national Kxposition, held March 18. His letter follows: By Herman P. Miller, Jr. Within the great colonnade sepa rating the two wings of Pennsylvania's handsome red brick pavilion the dedi catory exercises were held in the pres ence of a big crowd of former resi dents of Pennsylvania. The audience sal out in the sunlight of the court while the speakers used the coknnade arcade for a rostrum. Tener Speaks The principal speaker was John K. Tener. former Governor, lie was in troduced by Senator Ernest L. Tustin, of Philadelphia, chairman of the dedi catory committee, who pointed out that Pennsylvania, mindful of the as sistance of sister states in the Centen nial of 1876, had determined to par ticipate generously in the Panama- Pacific Exposition. He proved that, she had done so by sending as many exhibitors as California'itself and was occupying space in the exhibit palaces totaling 100,000 square feet. Former Governor Tener was greeted with a cheer. Pie first thanked Call ! fornia for the. hospitality given his { party during their former trip to se lect a site for the building. He pointed | out any number of important, his- I torical events important to California which had occurred in Pennsylvania and were participated In by Pennsyl j vanlans, notable among them being [Continued on Page 91 'QUESTION OF PAVING ERODE ST. 11l COURTS Residents Between Maclay and Division Declare They Are Liable For Only Half of Assessment The question of whether owners of j property abutting on North Front street between Maclay and Division streets are liable for the payment of the cost of paving the highway for the full width now rests with the Dau phin county courts. Argument was heard this morning by President Judge Kunkel and Addi tional Law Judge McCafrell, when City Solicitor D. S. Seltz presented the city's side of the case and George R. Bar [ Continued on Page 9] TWO MORE MAKE DENIALS • By Associated Press Washington, March 24.—The Senate ship pureha.se bill lobby committee 1 to-day examined Earl H. Mayo, prcsi- j dent of the Press Service Company of! Xew York, and Courtland Smith, presi dent of the American Press Associa-i 1 tion. and denied that they had been j employed by anyone to distribute any •uch matter concerning the ship pur chase bill. 14 PAGES ALLIES UNO TROOPS TO BEGIN NEW OPERATIONS AGAINST DARDANELLES Dispatches From Athens Say General Assault Will Be Made on Land and Sea as Soon as Additional War ships Arrive to Reinforce Fleet; Rome Newspaper Says Chamber of Deputies Is Convinced Italy Must Now Act Energetically The expected land attack on the Dardanelles fortifications in conjunc tion with the operations of the allied fleet probably will be inaugurated soon. It is reported from Athens that troops conveyed to the Dardanelles on trans ports were landed yesterday on the Gallipoli peninsula and that the gen eral attack by land and sea will be made on the arrival of the French and British warships now on the way to reinforce the fleet. Bombardment of the Turkish forts is said to have been resumed yesterday. It is announced officially at Petro grad that the Germans in Northern Poland have virtually abandoned their attempt to capture Ossoweta, the for tress on which the invaders centered their efforts to break through the Russian change of defenses. It is said that all but four heavy German bat teries have been withdrawn from Os- Bowetz after having failed in their efforts to reduce the Russian forts. Italy May Soon Join Dispatches from Austrian sources state that war with Italy is now re garded by Austria-Hungary as prob able. According to these advices, large j numbers of Austrian troops are being sent to the Italian border, where elaborate preparations for defensive operations are under way. A Rome newspaper says that every member of the chamber of deputies is convinced Italy must act energetically even to the point of facing "a supreme struggle," to realize the nation's as pirations. AUSTRIAN* EN'tiIIXEERS BI.OW CP BUILDINGS IN' TRENT By Associated Press I Geneva. March 24. —An uncensored | dispatch to the Tribune from the Aus trian border says Austrian military en- Igineers have blown up with dynamite all the buildings between Sugans pass, In Trent, and Lake Guards, on the j Italian frontier which would be in the | line of artillery fire. The eastern part of the town of Revereto Is reported to I have been abandoned and all the huild |ings torn down. All persons suspected iof pro-Ttallan sympathies are said to Y'^^^^^BST^HRAl^uccessful'^^^'l 1 London, March 24, 4.28 P. M.—The British Admiralty m a this a ternoon i»aueu a s atement sa>i: g that A British air K % raid had been successfully carried out to-day on German \ J submarines At Hoboken, ti'ree miles outside of Antwerp. m I REPRESENTATIONS MAY BE MADE i V Washington, March 24. —Acting on advices from The i 9 Hague that the steamer ilfland, flying the flag of the Bel- M gian Kciief Commission, had been endangered by a bomb 1 K from a German aeroplane off the Dutch coast, Secretary J Bryan said to-day. the Siate Department was considering M makirrg representations co Eerlin.' I AMERICAN MISSIONARIES IN DANGER a Washington, March 24. American Consul F. W. J K Smith stationed at Ba<um, Russia, and who now is at Tiflis. J t informed the State Department to-day that American mis- 9 C sionarips and refugees were in danger at Urumiah, Persia, C where the Turkish consul Baghib Bey, at the head of 700 K Askaris, was recently reported to have led an uprisin; , C against the American mission. LOCAL OPTION HEARING APRIL 6 i Harrisburg The House Law and Order Committe* 1 , this afternoon selected April 6as the date for a hearing fo 1 and against the local option bill._ The committee set Apr! V 13 as a date on which all bills in its hand., not previously re- \ g ported shall be acted upon. The bill giving cities, boroughs a / and townships authority over billboard and all out-door jf advertising was referred out with an affirmative recommen ce dation. * Harrisburg After John O'Gerke, charged with feloneous entry finishes out the ten and a half years of his , fourteen-year penitentiary sentence ht will start all over a ! again to serve a two to four-year tarm. O'Gerke committed a his second felony while on parola. £ NEW ORDER TO CRUISERS : Washington, March 24.—A1l British cruisers, not only in American waters, but in the Caribbean, Pacific and South | I Atlantic, have been ordered to refrain from taking supplies i i from neutral countries in order- to avoid breaches of neu- i i trality. C IH/UU\IHUL ULLlibti m U'* 11 ** •'««»»»», ■»d >clllr I*. Tkunpava, StMltus. * ■ Rajard M. Taylor nod Naumi H. I'rimnrellrr, Cumberland. !V ♦ POSTSCRIPT. hitve been sent into the Interior to be interned. Allied Troops Landed on Gallipoli Peninsula By Associated Press London, March 24, 3.20 A. M.—A force of nllied troops was landed on the peninsula of Gallipoli yesterday from transports In the Gulf of Saros, according to a dispatch from Athens to the Daily Express. A general attack upon the forti fications of the Dardanelles is to be undertaken immediately on the arrival of further French and British war ships now on their way to join the at tacking squadron. j PLAN TO INCITE ATTACK FAILS By Associated Press Rome, March 24.—The Italian gov ernment is said to have refused a re quest made by Germany that a mission sent to Erythrea be permitted to con tinue its journey through that district into Abyssinia. Italy's refusal is re ported to have been based upon the belief that the object of the mission was to incite an attack by Abyssinian." upon British foroes in the Sudan. GERMAN* SUPPLIES SEIZED By Associated Press Geneva, March 24.—The Italian gov ernment ordered the seizure yesterday at Luino, near the Swiss frontier, of twenty-nine iw-ight cars containing graphite, sulphur and other supplies said to have been destined for the Krupp gun works at Essen, Germany. MANY FOREIGNERS IN FRANCE By Associated Press * Paris, March 24.—At fifty-eight con i centration camps in France there now are 7,500 German and 4,600 Austrian civilians, according to figures given the budget committee of the Chamber of Deputies by Minister of the Inter* i lor Malvy.
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