VOL. XLVIII. JfO. 14,799
PORTLAND, " OREGON, , TUESDAY, 3IAY 5, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MONSTER
WAVE
UPSETS LIFEBOAT
Eleven of Kelton's Crew
Go Down.
SURVIVORS TAKEN ASHORE
lumber Steamer Tossed and
Torn by Wind and Waves.
WOW ANCHORED OFF SHORE
Newport Life-Saving Crew Rescues
Captain McKenna and Ten Men.
NeJLson, With Broken
Drifts Ashore on Wreckage.
NEWPORT, Or., May 4. Eleven of the
officers and crew of the steam schooner
Minnie E. Kelton, lumber laden, from
Aberdeen, Wash, to San Francisco, were
killed or drowned as result of a gale
Friday night
The steamer is lying at anchor, half
wrecked, about a mile off shore between
Yaquina Heads and Cape Foulweather,
Captain James McKenna and nine of
his crew were saved.
Dead and Missing.
The dead and missing (undoubtedly
dead) are:
. WALTER PETERSON, oiler.
BARNEY M. VEY, fireman.
SVEND PETERSON, steward.
R. W. LITTLE and GEORGE JOHN
SON, cabin boys.
A. ELOSOSSON, A. KOSKE, G. H.
JENSEN. O. R09KURST and F. JOHN
SON, members of crew.
C. R. LUND, chief engineer.
Ten Men Are Rescued.
Injured:
Andrew J. Neilson.
Saved:
Captain James McKenna, First Mate
M. Martin; Second Mate John Morten
son, First Assistant Engineer Jamas Car
ney, Oiler Walter . Hoffman, Firemen
John Howold and C. T, Hansen, Sailors
A. Anderson, W. Kaskesen and Andrew
J. Neilson.
Steamer Encounters Gale Friday.
Friday the Kelton ran into a strong
head wind, which increased as the day
proceeded, until by midnight it was blow
ing a hard gale. The vessel continually
shipped large volumes of water and la
bored heavily in the sea. The rough
weather continued until the vessel
reached a point eight miles southwest of
Yaquina, when the deckload shifted and
started the bulkhead of the fireroom, and
the vessel began filling from the bunkers
and engine-room to the hold. The pumps
proved unavailing against the inrush of
water.
Captain McKenna, realizing the serious
ness of his position, headed for the Co
lumbia River, but his fires were soon ex
tinguished. The Kelton filled rapidly and
was Boon wallowing around at the mercy
of wind and waves.
Lireboat Is Swamped.
When she had drifted north of Taqulna
Head the captain, seeing the hopeless
ness of his vessel's condition, ordered
the craft abandoned, and directed that
the lifeboat, which was large enough to
hold the entire crew, be lowered. While
engaged in clearing the lifeboat, the ves
sel suddenly shipped a tremendous sea
which swept overboard the deckload of
lumber, and with it the after deck-house,
both boats and 11 of the men. The
lifeboat was pitched onto the floating
lumber, one end hanging at a sharp
angle.
In climbing into the boat the men cap
sized her. They succeeded in righting
her again and about seven sailors
climbed in, leaving four others on the
wreckage. The captain ordered the boat
to pick these men up, but for some reason
the order was not obeyed. Within a few
minutes the lifeboat and the wreckage
with the unfortunates on board, drifted
away from the Kelton.
Seek Refuge In Rigging.
By this time the steamer had drifted
close to shore and Captain McKenna let
go his anchors in hopes they would hold
him off shore Shortly afterward a squal
shut out from view the lifeboat and the
men on the wreckage. None of them was
seen again until three o8 their bodies
were picked up on the beach Sunday.
Meantime the men remaining in the
Kelton took refuge in the rigging, but
fearing they would be swept overboard,
they crawled along the cargo booms and
In this precarious manner succeeded in
gaining the forecastle, where they re
mained until rescued Sunday afternoon.
They had neither water nor provisions
and suffered greatly from hunger, thirst
and exposure. During all this time sig
nals of distress had been flying, but failed
to attract the attention either of the
llfesaving station or passing vessels.
Farmer Carries First News.
The first intelligence of the wreck was
brought to .Yaquina Bay Llfesaving Sta
tion about noon Sunday by Paul Chatter
ton, a farmer living near the scene of
the wreck.
A lifeboat was sent up the Coast to the
Kelton and a aurfman with signalling ap
paratus went along shore to the craft.
The lifeboat took off the remaining
members of the crew and landed them
safely about two miles above the wreck.
Search was then made for those of the
tailors who might have been, washed ,
ashore. The boat was found a short
distance further north with one man lying
dead In the bottom of It A half mile
further up the beach another body was
found, and a third body was found in a
mass of wrackage near the second one.
Nellson's Thrilling Experience.
A. J. Neilson, one of the men who had
been abandoned on the wreckage, man
aged to save his life after undergoing a
horrible experience. When the wreckage
struck the beach Saturday night, the
breakers piled the lumber on top of the
unfortunate sailors. Neilson, with his Iegr
broken above the ankle, managed to ex
tricate himself from the grinding mass.
and reached the shore about 9 o'clock at
night. As he was washed away from the
wreckage he heard the agonized screams
of his companions above the roar of the
pounding surf as they were being crushed
to death.
With, broken bones protruding through
the flesh and enduring fearful agony, the
man lay there all night. Sunday morn
ing he attempted to crawl along the beach,
Ex-Senator J. F. Dry den, of lw
Jerney, Chosen Chairman of
State Republican Convention.
when he was discovered by the children
of Andrew Wisnewskl, a farmer. Wlsnew
sM carried Neilson to his home and came
to this place for a physician.
Chief Engineer Lund was last seen in
his cabin a moment before it was washed
overboard. He is believed to have been
killed.
The steam schooner Washington early
today ran in near the Kelton and ap
parently made an effort to take her in
tow.
MAY CALL STRIKE TODAY
Cleveland Street-Carmen Present I I
. timatum to New Company.
CLEVELAND. O., May 4. In an ulti
matum tonight the motormen and con
ductors of the Municipal Street Rail
way Company gave President Dupont
until 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon
to appoint an arbitrator for the com
pany, one of three to be named In an
effort to adjudicate the streetcar trou
bles. Failing at that hour to have named
his man, the union says it will de
clare a strike to enforce the men's de
mands for recognition of a contract en
tered into by the old Cleveland Electric
Company, taken over by the Munici
pal, calling for an Increase of 2 cents
an hour In pay, free transportation and
other concessions.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 65
degrees; minimum, 48 degrees.
TODAY'S Partly cloudy. with possibly
showers; south to west winds.
Foreign.
Widespread revolutionary conspiracy dis
covered in India.. Pare o.
National.
Eoum "ReimbMcan caucus may a-Ki on
compromise currency bill, fage z.
House appropriates money to investigate
natural resources. Page B.
Debate on Brownsville riot rn Senate.
Page 3.
Buit of discharged negro soldier argued in
- J, . If
L.'- c- . 1
United States Court. Page S.
Publishers pile up evidence of workings of
paper trust. Page 11. ,
Pontic.
Hearst League to run Hisgen for President.
Page 8.
Ohio Democratic convention will have tight
on nomination for Senator. Pacre 4.
New Idea men cause deadlock among New
Jersey Republicans. Page 4.
Domestic
Thaw's removal to Jail ordered pending In
sanity inquiry. Page 2.
Eastern railroads to raise all freight rates.
Page 1.
Union Pacific to issue bonds for building ex
tensions. Page 1.
Pacific Coast.
Two more Parkside bribers turn atats'a evi
dence against Ruef. Page 1.
Northwestern people going to see fleet meet
at Oregonlan Information Bureau.
Page 1
McMonagle, accused Portland swindler,
caught m Los Angeea Page lO.
Whole block of buildings burned In San
Francisco. Page 4.
Automobile runs down whole company of
soldiers In Oakland. Page IB.
Sports.
Annual P. N. A. games to be held in
Portland June 6. Page 12.
Fred Siedow, coffee salesman, tries to mur
der divorced wife. Page 13.
Will of Simon Blumauer disposes of $275,
000 estate. Page IS.
Coast League season In Portland opens to
tday. Page 12.
Methodist delegates leave for general con
ference. Pago. 10.
Portland and Vicinity.
Senator Fulton opens headquarters in Port
land to work for Cake and Taft. Page li.
Police certain they know slayer of Nathan
Wolff; alias warrant issued; bloody shirt
gives clew. Page 7.
Defeated Republican primary candidates
give banquet to winners. Page 10.
Local option elections to be held In IB Ore
gon counties next month. Page 10.
ADD SPORT
Commercial and Marine.
Higher commission basis In local egg mar
ket. Page 17.
Chicago wheat prices advance steadily,
page 17.
Reaction in stock market. Page 17.
Steamer Bailey. Gatzert wins hot race to
The Dalles from C'has. R. Spencer by
u minutes. Pace IS.
GErJ ERALir. CHEASE
OF RATES PLANNED
Eastern Roads Are After
More Revenue.
RAISE AVERAGES ID PER GENT
Will Cause Upsetting of Rate
' Basis of 17 Years.-
HARD FIGHT TO BE MADE
Shippers Will Contest Fiercely.
Both Class and Commodity Rates
With Few Exceptions to Be
Raised Revenue Swelled.
CHICAGO, May 4. (Special.) General
advances in freight rates In "official clas
sification" territory, including all the dis
trict east of the Mississippi River to the
Atlantic seaboard and north from the
Ohio River to the Canadian border,, have
been decided upon by railroads in that
territory. " '
This means increased revenue, exceeding
$100,000,000 annually, but the movement
must first stand a determined fight by all
the shippers. Many conferences have
been hold and the railroad presidents ex
pect fierce opposition. They argue that
the fairness of the country will not permit
them to lose $400,000,000 annually, and that
they must Increase rates or decrease
wagei,
Increase Averages 10 Per Cent.
July 1 there will be an advance In all
class" rates, and August 1 all but four
of the commodity rates will be boosted.
The average will be 10 per cent. Tills
will be the first advance in rates of this
character In the history of the country,
and it will disturb the rate adjustment
throughout the entire country, upsetting
a rate basis which has existed for 17
years.
This movement, it is understood, pre
cedes similar action on the part of all
railroads "In the Uniled State. In fact.
the Southeastern roads already have de
cided, it is claimed, to follow the lead
of the Eastern lines. Western lines have
had no voice In the matter, but they must
acquiesce in the plan, owing to the geo
graphical division of territory for rate
making purposes.
Few Commodities Escape.
The territory described is the key to the
entire situation. It originates more than
two-thirds of all the tonnage carried by
all the roads, and roads in this territory
enjoy more than one-half of the local
revenue of 11 lines in the United States.
The only commodities to escape the in
creased rates are wheat, flour, packing
house by-products and dressed beef. Upon
dressed beef and packinghouse products
the railroads are practically estopped be
cause of a contract which the Pere Mar
quette made with the packers three years
ago to maintain the present rates to the
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seaboard upon condition of receiving a
certain specified portion of the tonnage.
The grain and flour rates are advanced
every Winter and are reduced every
Spring because of the competition of the
lakes which controls this traffic
Increase of Class Rates,
The official classification divides alt pro
ducts transported into six classes and
into scores of commodities. The class
rates, on which not to exceed 30 per cent
of the business is done, will be increased
between Chicago and New. York as fol
lows: Marat class, from 75 to 85 cents;
second class, from 65 to 74 cents; third
class, from 50 to 67 cents; fourth class,
from 35 to 40 rPTlf" flfth Hnnq -from in
to 33 cents, and sixth class, from 25 to 27
cents. The increase in the commodity
rates, on which the great .bulk of the
traffic moves, -will be on an average of 2
cents per luo pounds. .
Roads Which Have Agreed.
The railroads which have agreed to
this general increase Include the Penn
sylvania and the New York Central lines
and have a total mileage of about 60,000
miles. According to .the Interstate Com
merce Commission's atatlstical nvirt
these roads earned in 1906 approximately
$1,200,000 out of a total gross earnings of
j.uuu.uuu tor all railroads.
If the proposed increases have' the de
sired effect it is not impossible that the
revenue of these railroads will be swelled
by $120,000,000 annually.
WOMAN BECOMES PLUNGER
Plays the Races and Is Short $4000
in Accounts.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 4. Josephine
,L. Brown, cashier of E. Friedlander &
Sons lingerie establishment on Geary
street is under a grave charge. Her
employer swore to a warrant today ac
cusing: her of embezzlement. Although
the complaint states that the cashier
took only $20, Friedlander told Judge
Cabanlss that Miss Brown was short
In her accounts between $3000 and
$4300.
, Her bail was fixed at $2000 bonds
or $1000 cash. The merchant who ob
tained the warrant, declared that the
races had a Strong attraction for the
young woman and that she had become
quite a plunger.
OREGONIAN BUREAU AT SAN
FRANCISCO.
Oretron, Washing-ton and Idaho
People Please Register at Cali
fornia Building.
POR the convenience of its friends and
patrons in the Pacific Northwest,
The Oregonlan has established a free In
formation bureau at San Francisco, where
all visitors in that city from Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, during the fes
tivities in honor of the visiting battleship
ueei, wm He made welcome. The bureau
is located .in the Cali'rrrnla building, on
Union Square-, Ir? the .44-i 4-Of the down
town business district, r. d convenient to
any carltne leaving the Union Ferry.
The purpose of the bureau Is to keep a
register of visitors, furnish accurate in
formation concerning hotel accommoda
tions and points of interest to strangers,
afford a meeting place for Pacific North
west visitors and their friends and give
them facilities for receiving and dispatch
ing their mall.
The names of all visitors who register
will be telegraphed to Portland each day
and published In The Oregonlan. In this
way relatives and friends will be given
full information concerning visitors In
the Bay City.
The bureau is in charge of Arno Dosch,
formerly of Portland, who will do his ut
most to assist and make enjoyable the
visit of those who seek the aid of The
Oregonlan Information bureau.
Visitors to San Francisco from this sec
tion will avoid much discomfort and an
noying delay due to the overcrowded con
dition of the city, by registering at The
Oregonlan bureau Immediately on their
arrival.
J. B. JR. GOES TO CHICAGO
1
BRIBERS TESTIFY
TO PAYING RUEF
Evidence Puts Ex-Boss
in Tight Place..
PARKSIDE MEN GET IMMUNITY
Fee of $30,000 for Getting
Trolley Franchise.
WANTED ANOTHER $15,000
How "Honest Broker" In Official
Business Held Up .Real Estate
Syndicate Price Reduced
From $50,000 to $30,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4. The prosecu
tion this afternoon in the trial of Abra
ham Ruef, charged with offering a bribe
to Supervisor Jennings J. Phillips in con
nection with a trolley franchise for the
Parkside Realty Company, one of 117 in
dictments against him, dismissed the in
dictments against W. I. Brobeck and G.
H. Umbsen. who with J. E. Green were
jointly Indicted with Ruef 14 times in the
Parkside matter. This followed the action
last Friday of Assistant District Attorney
Francis J. Heney in dismissing the same
number of indictments against Green
after he had refused to testify on the
ground that he was a co-defendant.
Brobeck has already given his testimony
and Umbsen will follow Green on the
stand, testifying for the state now that
the indictments against him have been
dismissed.
Green, who is president of the Realty
Company, again took the stand this after
noon and told of employing Ruef as an
attorney for a fee of $30,000 to get a
franchise from the Board of Supervisors,
after other means to get the special com
mittee to which it had been referred to
take some action upon the application had
failed.
AVhy Franchise Wa9 Needed.
Henry Ach, chief counsel for Ruef,
brought out upon the cross-examination
of Green that the Parkside Company had
been organized to speculate in real estate
and exploit a tract of land south of
Golden Gate. Park of 106 blocks of 50 lots
each, purchased for $800,000, which was
to be graded, streets, sewers and water
put in and put on the market, the total
sales when all sold, aggregating $5,000,000.
It developed that the company had practi
cally guaranteed to purchasers that a
street railway would be built to the lots
that the Parkside Company had made
application to the United Railroads for an
extension of its lines, offering a subsidy
of more than $50,000. which was refused.
and that subsequently the realty corpora
tion offered $100,000 to any one who would
build a line to the tract. Green admitted
that the street railway waa absolutely
essential to the success of the scheme and
Mr. Ach directed his questions to show
inferentially that the fee asked by Ruef
was not at all large, considering the mag
nitude of the realty company's undertak
ing and the amount of money involved.
Green's cross-examination had not been
concluded when court adjourned until to
morrow. '
Ruef Demanded $50,000.
Under examination by Mr. Heney this
afternoon. Green told of the difficulties
encountered by the Parkside Company's
application for a trolley franchise. Mr.
Ach made a strong fight against the ad
mission of the evidence on the ground
that the declarations and acts ' of the
witness as an Individual without the
knowledge and approval of Ruef did not
bind the ' defendant. Mr. Ach kept up a
steady fire of "objected to on the ground
that it is incompetent, immaterial and
irrelevant," but with few exceptions he
was overruled by Judge Doollng.
Green testified to Ruef"s demand for a
fee of $50,000 if employed as an attorney
in getting the franchise from the Super
visors, the witness' refusal at first to
consider the proposition but of his sub-
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Judson Harmon, Probable Demo
orotic Candidate for Governor
of Ohio.
sequently instructing G. H. Umbsen to
employ Ruef when the latter came down
to $30,000. The witness was particular to
state that Ruef was employed as an at
torney and that the money given him was
a fee.
Would Only Pay on Delivery.
Green said Ruef at first asked to be
paid one-half when the resolution was
passed by the Board of Supervisors offer
ing the franchise for sale. This, how
ever, witness declined to do and sent word
to Ruef that he would be given no money
until the franchise was a valid document
This was finally agreed to by Ruef. Green
testified that he instructed Douglass Wat
son, secretary of the Realty Company,
to draw a check for $30,000, get currency
for it and leave It with Umbsen. This
was done.
"Why did you'ask for currency?" asked
Mr. Heney.
Extra Fee for Change of Route.
"Ruef wanted the money in currency,"
said Green.
Witness then related the transactions by
which Watson and Harry B. Umbsen
transferred to the Realty Company two
pieces of land for $30,000, which was re
transferred to them without considera
tion. The witness next testified to the desire
of the company to change the route for
the trolley line and to Ruef's demand for
an additional fee of $15,000. Ruef said it
would be difficult to persuade the Super
visors to change the route after already
having passed the resolution offering the
franchise for sale. Green stated that Ruef
refused to do anything more In the matter
unless he was paid $15,000 on his promised
fee, saying he had not received anything
so far for his services already rendered.
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HARRI3IAX WOUIvD CONTINUE
UNION PACIFIC WORK.
Says He Want9 to Provide In One
'.Mortgage for New Lines and Ex
tensions When They Are Built.
NEW YORK, May 4. E. H. Harrlman
announced today that the stockholders
of the Union Pacific Railroad Company
will be asked at their meeting at Salt
Lake tomorrow to authorize an issue
of $100,000,000 of bonds. He said that
$50,000,000 of this amount will be re
served for issue under strictly guar
anteed provisions for construction and
acquisition of new lines and additions.
Mr. Harrlman statement follows:
"The financial requirements of the
Union Pacific have been much ex
aggerated. The m-axlum amount needed
at this time to put the company in
funds does not exceed $25,000,000, but
we want to resume development and
put our people to work. In no event,
however, will over $50,000,000 of the
bonds be issued against properties now
owned. Instead of mortgaging new
lines as constructed or acquired and
thus haVlng separate mortgages on dif
ferent divisions it is deemed best to
provide in one mortgage for future ex
tensions and new lines. The meeting
is a preliminary step to put the com
pany in a position to take advantage
of the favorable opportunities to raise
additional capital to the best advan
tage."
TEST "COMMODITIES CLAUSE'
Railroads in Sympathy With Depart
ment to Try Hepburn Act.
WASHINGTON, May 4. Arrangements
are well under way for a test case of
the "commodities clause" of the Hep
burn act to be made unless a material
change takes place in the situation as
a result of legislation or other circum
stances. The railroads, which are most
interested in the matter, have shown.
according to statements at the Depart
ment of Justice, hearty -sympathy with
the purpose of the Attorney General, and
OREGON PEOPLE
BY THE HUNDRED
Special Trains Carry
Visitors to Fleet.
OREGONIAN BUREAU VERY BUSY
Information Booth Proves a
Great Help to Strangers.
REGISTER THEIR NAMES
Portland and Northwest People Are
Helped to Obtain Accommoda
tions and All Information
. Desired Is Furnished.
BY ARNO DOSCH.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4. (Special.)
The first of the special trains, bear
ing Oregon people to eee the fleet re-
f view in San Francisco, arrived this
morning with four hundred well-known
Portland people and two hundred from
other parts of Oregon, Washington and
Idaho. When the train unloaded at
Oakland Pier, there were so many
faces familiar to the streets of Port
land, It looked like a Seaside excur
sion train entering the Portland depot.
In anticipation of the crowd and the
others, which will arrive here In the
next few days, the Oregonlan Informa
tion Booth in California building, -Union
Square, Just opposite the St.
Francis Hotel, was open and ready to
care for the Northwest visitors. 'Many
of these came and registered and re
ceived helpful information regarding
places to stay. Others had telegraphed
for reservations and these are about
the last for whom there will be room
in. the big hotel. After today visitors
will be unable to obtain accommoda
tions for themselves and will be given
lists of addresses among which they
can choose for themselves.
Oregonlan Bureau Busy.
Of the many Northwest people who
registered at the Oregonlan Informa
tion Bureau, accommodations for most
were obtained at hotels, but toward the
end of the day it became necessary to
draw on the private houses, a list of
which had been obtained In advance for
the purpose. No one who came to the
booth went away without learning all
that he came to find out.
The matter of accommodations was
not all that was sought. Programmes
of events and the thousand and one
difficulties that confront strangers in
a city, were cared for there. Many
Northwest people returned to the booth
several times during the day, some
bringing other Northwest people to
register and others to be set right on
some difficulty that presented itself.
Something of the excitement that
prevails here even two days before the
fleet arrives can be imagined from the
fact that 50,000 people have reached
the city within the last 48 hours. The
Ferry building Is crowded all day long
and Market street is busier that at any
time before the fire. The city has never
had so active a time. A hundred spe
cial trains from points as far away as
Ogden are scheduled to arrive within
the next two days.
Great Crowds Expected.
Altogether 125.000 people are ex
pected to be here from distant places
and 200,900 from other points within
a hundred miles of the city.
What has most impressed visitors is
the fact the city is, with the excep
tion of gaps in the lines of buildings.
as much of a city as ever, and able to
care for the big crowd and answer
every want. The streetcar service is
standing the strain well as yet, and the
Southern Pacific has been able to
handle the excursionists.
The Oregonlan Information Bureau
on its first day of operation, proved
helpful to many and promises to be the
rendezvous, especially for Portland
people. On account of Its central lo
cation in the heart of the hotel district,
it is made constant use of. This morn
ing's train was met before it reached
the city by the Oregonlan special rep-
esentatlve, who hunted out all the)
Northwest people and invited them to
make the Information Bureau Booth a
convenience. Signs were also placed
in the Ferry building, at the big mining
and agricultural displays on the second
floor, directing Northwest people to
come to the information booth. All
trains bearing crowds who come to
see the fleet, will be met and similarly .
directed.
. Northwest People Register.
In the midst of the gay throng com
ing from the train walked State
Treasurer George A. Steel, very pale
and unsmiling. He was met by friends
and mixed but little with the crowd
during the journey.
F. C. Smithson, the Oregon sprinter.
was also on the train, prepared to
carry off some of the honors -in the
sprints and hurdles at (he big athletic
meet, which will be held here during
the fleet's stay.
Those who registered with the
Oregonian Information Bureau, are:
nun J. Malarkey s.ni wif. Sam
Herrinit and wife. James Mel. Wood
and wife. Frank Jtlrhet and wife.
Colonel E. Everett. H. V. Fries and
wife. Ernest Brandt. J. M. Ambrose. William
Van Rchuyver. J. W. Matthew. Sam BT Story.
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