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VOL. XLIIL KO. 13,212. PORTLAND, OREGON. THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS- WRITE US FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES OP BELTIN BElB'HIiBTERS FS ILL DIBS OF MiBBI WHS GOODYEAR RUBBER COMPANY B. II. rjSASE. T3 A.tD 75 PTRST STREET, RHEUMATISMS BY OESCHE'S Crystalline Rlicumatic-Linimcat. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR A FREE SAMPLE BOTTLE. BLUIMAU ER-FRAN K DRUG CO. "Whole-sale" Importing sad VJnwfHctBTiaK Dnsrliti. SHAW'S PURE smaWS BLUMAUER & HOCH 103 and 110 Fourth Street Sole Distributers tci Oregon ul Waahlngto.1. i. r. savxeb. rr. St. Charles Hotel CO, CKCOKTORXTED). FBOItT AND MORRISON STREETS PORTLAND, OREGON European Plan Rooms 50c to 51.59 - Ftrat-C.ass Restaurant In Connection HOTEL PERKINS Fifth and Washington Streets EUROPEAN PLAN Flnrf-Claas Cfccelc Reatanraxt OtuHltd With Hotel. JwTv WC CAST tT tn OUR PRODUCTS WILLAMETTE IRON PORTLAND OREGON U.S.A. FINEST OF I MANRARA'S BOUQUET ! CLEAR HAVANA CIGARS e o LANG & CO., DISTRIBUTERS PORTLAND, OR. LOGGING ENGINES SAW MILLS EDGERS, TRIMMERS, STEAM FEEDS, SAW MILL MACHINERY of All Kinds CALL Q C t-cn OlIIIUl U. TV013UI1 GERMANY INVESTIGATING Uut "Will Take Look to I.-nrn Facts About Caroline Affair. BERLIN". April 15. A semi-official state ment was given out to the German press today regarding the complaint of the American Board of Foreign Missions to the State Department at Washington on tba subject of the harsh treatment which a number of native students of the Amer ican missionary establishment on the IsianJ of Ruk of the Caroline group were rsb ted to by the captain of a German warstlp. who deported them to the Island cf Fenape, of the same group. Tf.e arrest of four pupils Is admitted, as Is tv.c.r transportation on board the Ger ir n rruiser Cormoran to Ponape. 1mm e-S:ate:- upon receipt of this news In Ber 1U an Investigation was ordered, but ow ing to the great distance of the Islands from here, the result of the Inquiry has cot yet bcn received. Hence It Is not pos sible to Judge the merits of the case. The statement further asserts that Ambassador T .wrier has not yet made representations In the matter to the Foreign Office. The latter assumes that the pupils have al rc-ady been liberated. Regardless of the German official ver rcon it Is understood that Secretary Hay's Inquiry In reference to the American boards comnUInt v. as lodged with the w,loi Office here yesterday. ISE President. FORTULXD, OREX30X. POSITIVELY CURED.. America's ORIGINAL MALT WHISKY Without a Rival Today MALT J. TnT. BLACf. Sec. tad Treaa. PORTLAND, OREGON Rkhih minis ...... ...une t. tUO per 4r Rooms Doutie .....,....1.00 to tt.00 per Car a rwrns-Family .kLM U tt-CO sr 4r & STEEL 'WoRKS T.ME ESMOND HOTEL OSCM AKCESSOH. Uturer. Front and Morrison Streets, PORTLAND - OREQON FREE 'BV3 TO AND PROM ALXi TRAINS. IUte European plan. 60c. .Sc. TXM. J1.M, COO per (lay. Sample rooms In connection. ALL ON US : kt Front and UUII VVUItVd Hall Streets FIND SOMETHING ROTTEN Experts on Metropolitan Street Rail- iv ny Company Report. NEW "FORK. April 15. Ex-District At torney Phllbln finished today his Invest! gallon of the charges made by William 1L Amory against the Metropolitan -Street Railway Company, and will ask the offi cers of the company for an explanation. Amorv charged that the Metropolitan was bankrupt and had been robbed of many millions. In hla report Mr. Phllbln does not make such charges. He characterizes that aialement as merely an expression of opinion on Amorys part, and says that nothing has been found by him to Justify it. "In the course of the Investigation." said Mr. Phllbln. we found many and serious discrepancies that call for an explanation. They are not or such a character that they could arise from a difference of opin ion. By that I mean that, where we find discrepancies In the cost of construction. It Is not due to the iact that one expert might say construction should cost QSO.- OTO a mile, while another might say . the same work should cost not more than $100,000 a mile. That element does not en ter Into the matter at all. It Is far more sarions than that" O.R.&N.TOBUILD To Extend System to Central Oregon. PORTLAND WINS A POINT T. B. Wilcox Successful Eastern Mission. m HARRIMAN GIVES HIS CONSENT He Has Ttto Alternatives, to Pur chase Columbia Southern Rail road or to Parallel the Line on n New Survey. "Am promised the road Into Central Oregon promptly and the details and plans are under consideration. I cab, do no more at present and am leaving for home today. Telegram rf T. B. Wilcox, who represented the Chamber ot Commerce Is a conference with E. II. Harriman. Tie O. R. A N. has two alterna tives: To acquire the Columbia Southern or to parallel that line over a'eurvey already made up the Des chates River. Railroad men believe that the latter plan will be adopted. NEW YORK. April lWSpedaljThe Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company will extend Its eystem Into Central Ore gon, guaranteeing to Portland merchants control of the trade of this rich section and making Its rapid development certain. This decision of the officers of the company has Just heen announced. The proposal to extend has been under consideration by the company for some time, but until today nothing definite has been given out that would reassure Port land Jobbers and wholesale men. The absolute promise of an extension has now been made. "Pnjiuro law MM-I ber ot Commerce, belongs the credit for securing this early announcement of the company's plans. If not the entire credit for putting through the deal. Mr. Wilcox has been In consultation with President H. H. Harriman, of the Union Pacific and chairman of the board ot director of the O. R. &. N.. relative to the exten slon for some time, and has cow departed for his home with the assurance that the company will do as Portland has desired. The details of the extension have not yet Toeen worked out, but these will be de cided upon Immediately. Construction work will be commenced soon. The New Tork dispatch is not definite In Its description of the plana of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company relative to the extension of the road into Central and Southern Oregon, but It Is explicit in its statement that the com pany will build promptly. This was con firmed yesterday by a dispatch from Mr. Wilcox. Efforts to communicate with Mr. T IIcox and Mr. Harriman were futile. Mr. Wilcox has left New Tork for Port land and cannot be reached at present Prior to his departure from New Tork Mr. Wilcox communicated with H. W. Scott, who was a member of the special Chamber of Commerce committee ap pointed to request the extension of the O. R. U N. in his dispatch to Mr. Scott Mr. Wilcox confirms the statement that the railroad will begin actual construction work soon, by the following declaration: 'Am promised the road into Central Oregon promptly and the details and plans are under consideration. I can do no more at present and am leaving for home today." Officers of the Oregon Railroad & Navt gatlon Company in Portland have not been fully advised regarding the plans of the company for Its extension, but there is no doubt in the minds of local officials that the road will be built immediately. Two Plans for Extension. The Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company has two plans for the construc tion of this extension which might be ac cepted. Either would accomplish the result sought and save the trade of the central portion of the state to Portland. cutting off, at the same time, all prob ability of an extension from California which would divert this trade to San Francisco, or from Idaho, which would send it to Boise or Salt Lake. The O. R. & N. can either acquire the Columbia Southern, over which there haa been a hitch in the proposals for a sale, or It can extend Its own system over a survey which has already been com pleted. The probabilities, Portland rail road men believe, are that the company will make Its own extension, though President Lytle. of the Columbia South ern. Is now in New Tork tn consultation with O. R. & N. officials. A matter that stands In the way of the sale of the Columbia & Southern to the O. R. & N. Is the valuation which the owners of the property place upon the road. The Columbia Southern Is a. small road running out of Biggs on the O. R. & N. as far Into Central Oregon as Shanlko. The road was originally constructed by the aid of the O. R. & N., which took up the company's bonds and made It possible tor ' the promoters to lay the rails for their line. The O. R. & N. still owns these bonds. The Columbia Southern has been anx ious either to sell tn the O. R. & N. er to extend Its system far into Southern Oregon, probably going as far as the California line. Not a great deal of work has been done along this line, bow- ever, tor the oomrama. soutnera tis Mocked in its programme by the fact that the O. R. St N. holds its bonds. The company has found ll practically Impos sible to extend' without issuing ne bonds, and It was insisted these must cover the entire line. The O. R. & N. refused to permits Its bonds, based upon the shorter line, to be cheapened by an other Issue and this attitude of the larger road has held up the Columbia Southern's plans foran extension. miur urer (JommDia soatnern sue. Thi. proposal for 'a sale that has been under consideration Involved the ques tion ' of, railroad passenger and freight rates to such an extent that the two Interests have been unable in the past tq coma together). The Columbia Southern has insisted that after all fixed charges were paid It netted 8 per cent on the In vestment and'the officials of the company have- Insisted? upon a sale price based upon this showing. The Columbia Southern has the ad vantage of being a small road privileged to charge passenger rates of 1 cents per mile and freight rates proportionately large. The 0.,lt, & N., should it acquire tne property, would be compelled to re duce passenger rates to 3 cents and a corresponding- cat in freight tariffs would have to be me&e. Computing the earn ings ot the road on the basis of a reduc tion In-rates, officials of the O. R. & N. have held that it would be'lmposslble to make the road pay the dividends its own ers have claimed for It, and the larger system held that the sale price should be based upon this condition. In the negotiations which have been pending between the Columbia, Southern and the O. R. & N. there haa crept in the threat ot the Harriman system to' paral lei the smaller Une'a road, and also an Intimation that a line might be construct ed from either Payette, on the Oregon Short line, or Madeline, CaL, on the Nevada, California & Oregon Railroad. which Is a Southern Pacific feeder, into the Central and Southern Oregon ter ritory. Surreys' for .Parallel Line. The O. It. t N. has gone so far with Its proposal td- parallel the Columbia Southern, as. to order surveys for a line. leaving tho, main line at or near The Salles and .going up the Deschutes River Valley into. Central Oregon. From differ ent points in Central Oregon there have been proposals to extend in different di rections. The construction of this Jlne has been found to be entirely feasible and the officials ot the O. R. & N. are Inclined to concede hat the Columbia Southern could be built into the same ter ritory upon an advantageous plan. The threat . of the Nevada, California & Oregon Railroad to extend from Made line Into Oregon carried with It the decla ration of the -Columbia Southern that lta line would b continued to meet this system. Should the two smaller lines be able to carry out this plan, the district In woui,j gfyinU-rou gfvena -route almost direct Into San Francisco, and the construction ot the road would divert a very profitable trade from Portland to the California me tropolis. Another proposal for an ex tension from the Southern Pacific's line Into this disputed territory has also been discussed, but railroad men have never regarded the probability of Its actual construction very seriously. Another proposal that threatened Port land's Interest was tor the construction ot a branch ot the Oregon Short Line from Payette into Central Oregon. Such a line might have connected with an ex tension of the Columbia Southern and would have to be built south of the Blue 'Mountain district. But It would open up a country neither of the other plans would tap. O. 11. fc S. to Control Central Oregon, It Is evident from the reading of both the special dispatch from New Tork and Mr. Wilcox's telegram that the O. R. & N. has determined to do whatever rail road building Is attempted in Central and Southern Oregon. This determination means to Portland that no outside system will be permitted to Interfere with trade that naturally belongs to this city and indicates the complete success ot the plans ot the Chamber of Commerce. Central Oregon Is one ot the richest sections of country In the West, though at present it Is more of a shee and cattleralslng district than agricultural territory. With the coming of railroad facilities, however. It Is believed the country will be developed rapidly and the Influx of settlers, now scarcely felt in that district, will be a .potent factor In Its growth. The details of the extension. It Is ap parent, are to be settled at once. Within a comparatively short time it will be definitely known whether the O. R. & N inienas uj duiiq a line 01 Its own or whether It will extend the Columbia Southern. But one thing la certain and that Is that Central and Southern Oregon are to be opened up Just as quickly as railroad constructors can lay the rails. LORIMER LOSES A POINT Supreme Court Says State Has Jurisdiction, la Contest. Jfo SPRINGFIELD. IlL. April li-The Su preme Court today denied the motion of Congressman William E. Lorlmer, ot Chicago, for leave to file a petition for a mandamus restraining the election of ficers ot the Sixth Congressional District from producing the billots In court for a recount or the votes In the contested election case of Durborrow vs. Lorlmer. The Supreme Court holds that the state courts have no Jurisdiction In the case. The Supreme Court today granted motion for a writ of habeas corpus, made Dy isaac r. roweiL clerk of the election. and Thomas Judge and William O. Mal loy. commissioners of election for the Sixth Congressional District, sentenced to Jail by Judge Hanecy for refusing to com ply with his Injunction restraining them from producing the ballots for a recount In accordance with a subflnal duces tecum. The writ was made returnable at once. and was rved Immediately on Sheriff Barrow, of Cook County. The 'case was set lor hearing for April 33. Germans to Study Farm In sr. WASHINGTON. April 15. Forty-six German agriculturalists, among their number being members of the nobility and scientists In the employ ot- the German government, who are to make a tour of the United States, are expected to arrive In New Yorir-on May 1. The party will travel by a Southern route to "California. up the Pacific Coast and return to the Atlantic through the Northern tier of states. The tour win occupy nearly two months. Manufacturers Will Unite Against Them. EXGESSES ARE DENOUNCED arroll D. Wright Defends Unions From Assaults. SPEAKS FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE National Association-Adopts Resolu tions on Labor Question, and De cides on Counter-Movement Reform In Currency Seeded. The National Association of Manu facturers turn decided to form associa--Uons to combat labor union. It heard rleas for the unions from Carroll D. Wrltbt and Mayor Jones, ot Toledo, O.. ?ut proceeded to adopt resolutions defining Its position on the labor questions and condemning the excesses of unions Resolauons were adopted demandlac laws for an elaitlo currency and claim ing credit for the creation ot the De partment ot Commerce and .Labor and the defeat of the slxst-hocr law. NEW ORLEANS. La.. April 13. The delegates to the convention of the Na tional Association ot Manufacturers de voted practically all ot the time of. both sessions today .to the discussion of the labor question. There was much differ ence of opinion as to the nature ot the attitude which the organization should .take toward trades unionism, and the debate at times became heated, but when the adoption of a declaration of principles was finally reached, the resolution em bodying It was accepted by a unanimous vote. An effort was made, led by D. A. Tompkins, of North Carolina, and Mayor BamuPl M-JonT9t. at Toledo. O, .Jonold the resolution for printing and further consideration, but the delegates demand ed immediate action, and the protest was overruled. The resolutions, which Presi dent Parry characterized as "the plat form ot the association," are as follows: Resolutions on Labor Question, "We, the members of the National As sociation of Manufacturers, United States ot America, tn convention assembled at New Orleans, do hereby declare the prin ciples which shall govern this convention in Its work in connection with the prob lems of labor: L Fair dealing Is the fundamental and basic principle on which relations between employes and employers should rest. "3. The National Association of Manu facturers Is not opposed to organizations ot labor as such, but It is unalterably opposed to boycotts, blacklists and other Illegal acts of Interference with the per sonal liberty of employer and employe. S- ro person should be refused employ ment or In any way discriminated' against on account of membership or non-member ship In any labor organization, and there should be no discrimination against or In terference with any employe who is not a member of a labor organization by mem bers tt such organization. "t. With due regard to contracts. It Is CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER VISITS VANCOUVER GENERAL A. W. GKEELY. General A. W. Greely. chlefslgnal officer of the United States Army, passed through Portland yesterday to Vancouver Barracks, where he will look Into the mntter ot the Alaska telegraph system of the Depart ment ot the Columbia. General Grerly has been In Seattle for the past few days making arrangements for the Seattle end cy the cable, which will be landed in tho next few months. After a short visit at "Vancouver headquarters, he will leave this evening for Washington. the right of the employe to -leave his em-' ploymtnt-whenever he ses fit, and It Is the rijht of the employer to discharge any mnploye when h sees fit, ."a. Employers must be free to employ their work people at wages mutually sat isfactory, without Interference or dicta tion on the part ot Individuals or organi zations not directly party to such con tracts. "t. The employers must be unmolested and unhampered In the management ot their business and in the use of any meth ods or systems of pay which arejust and equitable. I "7- Xo limitation should be placed upon t h nnnAHnnlflu a a - .a i--. any trade to which he or she may be adapted. "8. This association disapproves abso lutely of strikes and lockouts and favors art equitable adjustment of all differences between employers and employes. The National Association of Manu facturers pledges Itself to oppose any and all legislation not In accord with the fore Cutng declarations." Numerous other resolutions were adopt ed during the session, soon? them being one condemning tho convict labor sys tem: another commending the organiza tion of nonunion men, and another con demning radical unionists and favoring a general organization of employers In all branches of the trade. The mornlnjr session onen-A with An un dress on the labor question by Carroll D. n right, who was present as the repre sentative of President Roosevelt. Wright Defends Union. Mr. Wright said in part: - "Tho combination has In It all the. .ele ments of the corporation, for It 13 simply an enlarged corporation, embracing more elements, more factors", and therefore It is more powerful for good or evil than the corporation of a quarter of a century an, But it recognizes in lta development an enorc to aemocrauze industry. Like a great department store, It democratizes the handling ot goods and enables the purchaser to secure In one place all that he may need In his shopping tour. The great combination enables society to se cure Its commodities on a more stable basis than under the nrevlous methods. Its evils are those of management and not of constitution. These evils may be handled by law and by society. We need not fear them, for when the "combination does not seek the common good and does not accomplish by Its methods and Its machinery of production and distribution the welfare of society, society Itself will take care of the matter. It Is tfie result of the Idea of associated force and there fore under It Industry has secured greater power than It has ever received, "Conversely, the single worklngman. working by the elde of his employer, was his employer's personal associate, but as the employer developed Into the firm and the firm Into the corporation and the cor poration into the combination, the single worklngman has developed along side lines. He became the employe ot the firm with a larger number of Tellow workmen. Then he became the employe of the cor poration and the personal relation that previously existed was weakened or sev ered. Now be is grouped as the fellow employe of thousands and thousands un der the great combination, where he Is still farther removed in a pemnal way itrora ins. employer. -- HelaUon;oX"-Emplorr .and JEmpIaye. "Does this mean harm or does It mean good? The answer to this, question de pends entirely upon the attitude of the two parties In the new relation. ' "Capital may receive now and then an exorbitant Increase in the way of profits or of interest and wages may be raised or depressed artificially, but under all nor mal conditions the profits to capital and the remuneration to labor will be regu lated by positive economic laws; but these laws are more elastic than natural laws and hence disturbances, misunder standing and bitterness arise. On the whole, however, the remuneration to capi tal Is constantly decreasing and that to labor constantly Increasing. This Is the result so far 'as capital Is concerned of the accumulation ot wealth which may be turned Into active and productive capac ity and so far as wages arc concerned to I the Increased standard of living resulting ! from education and culture which fol I lows It, j "The growth of the eentlment underly I ing the principles ot Justice outlined be t longs more thoroughly to the present than to any preceding age and will over come the labor difficulties which harass the public Injure the workman and dam age capital. With the ethical spirit find- (Concluded on race B.) TOWN lli FRENZY Negro Lynched for Kill ing Policeman. OTHERNEGRGESDRIVEN OUT Infuriated Mob Takes Control of Joplin, Mo. OFFICERS OF LAW POWERLESS Daring Boy Captures Murderer Lawyer Pleads In Vain for Lavr N'-sroen Stoned and Expelled Their Houses Burned. Joplin Is an incorporated city in Ja rer County. Missouri, and has a copu lation ot 26.000. It Is the center ot the ztne and lead smelting Industry, the ore being mined In tbe adjacent mountains and smelted in the city. It has grown ranldlv in tbe lut 20 years, the ooonlatlon in 1SS0 bavins been cniy "000. JOPLIN, Mo.- April li An Infuriated mob took an unknown tramp negro from the city Jail tonight and hanged him to a telegraph pole at the corner of Second and Wall streets, two Mocks from the city Jail. The negro was charged with hav ing murdered Policeman Leslie, who waa shot dead last night In the Kansas City Southern Railway yard, while endeavor ing to arrest several negroes suspected of theft. Leslie had ordered several negroes who had taken refuge In a box car to Bur render, and when they failed to do so ha fired several vhots at the car. During tho shooting a negro slipped from the car, and, coming up behind the policeman, shot him through the head. About S o'clock this afternoon Lee Fnl lerton. 'aged 13, located the fugitive In e. slaughter-house Just east ot Joplin. The neffro was armed with a riflet and- defied arrest. Fulierton slipped Into the struc ture unobserved and crept up behind the negro. Suddenly he sprang at the unsus pecting fugitive, and. before resistance could be made, be had the negro on hla back with a knife at his throat The negro then .surrendered his rile) and. point ing the weapon at him. Fulierton marched blm -out of the building. With the assistance of another man the negro was brought to Joplin and placed In JalL l'lea for the Larr Unavailing. News of the capture spread rapidly, and the Jail was speedily surrounded by hun dreds of ' people. There were cries ot "Lynch him." and .City Attorney Decker mounted the Jail steps and made a strong plea In behalf "of law and order. This served temporarily to stay the- mob. (Concluded on Second Page.) CONTEXTS OP TODAY'S PAPER. National Affairs. More revelations on rostornce scandal. Pare 3. Discovery of Aculnaido'a order to kill Otis, rre 2. Why Porto Rico smugflers will not be prose cuted. Paae 11. Domestic. Manufacturers decide to organize, axalnst la bor unions. Face X. Xerro lynched at Joplin. Mo., and all negroes driven from town. Psre L Threatened strike on New Tork elevated roads, rate 12. Cullom's opinion on effect of merger decision. Page 2. Fierce jitorm damacts New York seashore resorts. Page 12. Murder ot Italian In New Tork traced to the Mafia. Paze 5. ForelKn. President Loubet given royals-welcome at Al giers, Page 3. Plan -.for European customs union axalnst America dead. Page 3. China rejects proposed treaty with United States. Page 3. Sports. Scores of Pacific Coast League: Oakland 3. Portland 2: San Francisco 8. Lo Angeles 0; Sacramento 16. Seattle 2. Scores of 'pacific National League: Spokane 4, Portland 1: Butte 8. San Franclscd 3; Seattls 10, Tatoma Helena 2, Los Angeles 0. Page 10. Portland Bench Show opens. Page 10. Racine season opens in New York and. St, Lonls. Page 10. Pacific Const. Mallcarrler held up in Clackamas County. rage -I. Girl attempts suicide at La Grande. Page i Projpeets rood for Montana appropriation. Page 4. Tons of salmon caught in the Columbia. Page 4. Benson reward has another claimant. Page 4. Validity of Initiative and referendum amend ment is questioned. Page 3. Commercial and Marine. Review of trade in local produce and lobbing markets. Pare 13. Covering by shorts the feature ot the Chicago wheat market. Page 13. Small volume ot t radius on New York Stock Exchange. Page IX Fancy Oregon potatoes in better demand at San Francisco. Page 13. Eleven lumber vessels In the river. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. O. R. & N. will build Into Central Oregon, Page 1. Swift & Co. mar establish meat-packing plant In Portland. Page 8. Council defers action on telephone .franchise. Page 14. Costume man sues L. D. Allen tor rent of Wliard ot the Nile" properties. Page 14, Both sides claim small victories la the strike. Page 14, Mis. D. A. Smith dies from bums recetred In explosion ot coal oil can. Page U. Ltwls and Clark committee will ask low rates from general passenger agents. Page U,