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VOL. L.-XO. 15,477. PORTLAND. OK KSON, TUESDAY, JULY 5, . 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JUSTICE FULLER GALLED BY DEATH WHITE WOMEN AND ' BLACK MIX IN JAIL CLEVER JOHNSON : DOWNS JEFFRIES NEGRO IS WONDER, RICKARD DECLARES "JEFFRIES COULDN'T : HIT," , PROMOTER'S STATEMENT. FISTIC DRAMA IS POIGNANT TRAGEDY BEACH BATHER IS LOST NEAR SHORE RAGE RIOTS BREAK OUT AFTER FIGHT JOHNSON'S VICTORV CAUSES XEAU-RIOT IX CITY JAIIu ELMER MEIER, OF VANCOUVER, DROWNS AT GEAR HART, End Comes Suddenly at Summer Home. HEART FAILURE ACTS QUICKLY Daughter and Friend Are at Jurist's Bedside. . CHIEF JUSTICE 22 YEARS After Attending Church According to Custom, Justice Fuller Re tired, Apparently ' in ' Good Health Was 7 8 Years Old. BAR IT ARBOR. Me.. July 4. Melville W. Fuller. Chief Justice of the United. States Supreme Court, died suddenly of heart failure at his Summer home in Sorrento, Ave miles from Bar Harbor, at 6 o'clock this moraine-. The end came as peacefully as it was unexpected. Just as the sun was rising In the dawn of the Independence day anniversary of the Nation he had served for 22 years as Chief Justice, the noted Jurist quietly breathed his last. At his bedside when death came were his daughter. Mrs. Nathaniel Francis, and Rev. James E. Freeman, who was visiting at. the Summer cottage as a guest. Yesterday Justice Fuller had attended church in the morning, as was his Sun day custom, and when he retired last night he was to every appearance In his customary health. There had been no premonitory symptoms' of any kind of Illness. Of late the Chief Justice had apparently been in unusually good health. Chief Justice Fuller was 73 years of age and had sat at the head ofhe United States Supreme bench since his tppointment by President Grover Cleve land In 1888, 22 years ago. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College. The date for the funeral has not been set. The funeral services will be held In Sorrento, but the Chief Jus tice will be buried in Chicago. For many years Justice Fuller had pent his Summers at Sorrento, which Is a Summer colony, situated on French man's Bay. His cottage there he had named "Mainstay." FULLER THIRD IX SERVICE Only Two Previous Chief Justices on Bench Longer. WASHINGTON'. D. C. July 4. Only two Chief Justices of the Supreme Court have served longer in that high office than Chief Justice Fuller. They were Chief Justice Marshall, who pre sided over the court for 34 years, and Chief Justice Taney, who was head of the Supreme bench for 28 years. Chief Justice Fuller served 22 years. Melville W. Fuller was born in Maine on February 11. 1833, and up to the time of his nomination by President Grover Cleveland as Chief Justice, he was little known except to members of the legal profession. At Bowdoin College he had made an enviable record In scholarship, and won all the prizes in elocution, and for a year he attended the Harvard, law school. He first be ban to practice law in his native city of Augusta. After practicing for some years with more or less success, he be came an associate editor of a Demo cratic paper called the Age. In the meantime he had also gone in for poli tics, and was elected president of the ,- City Council and City Solicitor. Not long after this he left August with its limited opportunities and went to Chi cago. , Ills Introduction to Fame. Trom 1856 to 1S88 he lived in" Chi cago, but attracted little attention out side his immediate circles of friends and associates at the bar until he un dertook the defense of Bishop Henry on a charge of heresy. His knowledge of ecclesiastical history and procedure astonished those who conducted the ' case, and his argument of the cause of the bishop before the Supreme Court of Illinois Is referred to still as a for ensic effort seldom, if ever, surpassed In that court. He was a delegate to the National conventions of the Democratic party in 1864, 1872, 1876 and 1880. The Maine boy who had gone West accomplished much, however, notwith standing his quiet life. He had laid the foundations for a deep understand ing of the commercial laws of the country, and along thts line he had performed services for clients that were . estimated to have netted him an an nual income of J30.000. These accom plishments led the Republican Senators from Illinois to urge on the Democratic President the appointment of Mr. Full er as the successor of Chief Justice Waite. Appointment Was Contested. The nomination of Mr. Fuller, then 55 years old. was followed by a memorable contest in the Senate. The judiciary com mittee, with its Republican majority, to which the nomination was sent April 30, held up the appointment until July 20. Then the committee reported It to the- Senate without recommendation. For three hours that body debated in executive session whether to confirm or reject the nomination. The attack on Mr. Fuller was led by Senators Edmunds, Bvarts and Stewart. Senators Cullom and Farwell defended him. The reports that be had been a "copperhead" during the j Civil War, and that he did not possess I the requisite ability as & lawyer were . gone over. Finally, by a vote of 41 to 20, his nomi- , nation was confirmed. Since that day the entire court, as it then existed, has passed away with the single exception of Justice Harlan. Of (Concluded on Page 3.) "CuIIud Ladies" and White Ally Mix in Rattle Royal With Other Female Inmates. Two. women of color, one white wom an with' Ethiopian leanings and four Caucasian "ladles," mixed in a' battle royal in the women's quarters at the City Jail yesterday when they learned that Johnson had won the big fight. Energetic measures on the part of Matron Simirfons were necessary to part the combatants. . - Soon after the last bulletin from Re no was received, Mrs. Simmons went up to the women's quarters to attend to their supper. "Please, ma'am, Mrs. Simmons, who w-in de fight"? asked Toy Little, one of the negresses. "Johnson won In the loth round," replied the matron. Then Toy and Bessie Brown em braced each other' and did a dance of Joy in the corridor. They were Joined by Viola Clark, a white woman, who openly expressed . her preference for negroes over white and who has been touting the negro to win all along. The three did a witches' dance with many expressions of Joy and triumph. The white "ladies" were disgusted and expressed their sentiments. Mamie Jones said, "Ugh, think of" a white man lowering himself to take a licking from a nigger; I've a notion to go down and lick that big smoke myself." "I don't want no supper," said an other girl. "This makes me sick." Mrs. Simmons withdrew, and then the debate grew acrimonious In earnest. Mrs. Schmidt, the female Jim Casey of the prison, stood neutral and eyed the performance with disfavor. Switches, puffs, rats and bunches of wool mingled on the floor and scratohes appeared on the faces of the contestants. Hearing the riot, Mrs. Simmons rushed Into the corridor and suppressed the fighters, driving each to her cell, but that did not end the debate. For hours the women hurled epithets and taunts back and forth, the black triumphant, the white defiant. Prize fighting will be a matter tabooed here after In the women's department. FIRE WIPES OUT TOWN Business Section of Long Creek Is a Total Loss. HEPPNER, Or., July 4. (Special.) News was received here by telephone this morning of a fire in Long Creek, Grant County. It Is reported that all the busi ness houses on the south side of Main street burned to the ground last night and were a total lose. Among the buildings burned are the Long Creek Mercantile Company's gen eral merchandise store, livery barn. Thomas Means' saloon. Long Creek Drug Company's drugstore" and several residences. Newport Has Big Flagpole. NEWPORT, Or., July 4. (Specials- Newport displayed a large American flag today which could be seen many miles at sea. The abandoned wireless pole, 1 feet high, standing on a hiil in the city parK. Was used, and a flag 16 by 20 feet flew at its top. This is said by many to be the tallest flagpole along the shore of Oregon. PROMINENT ABOVE, tPiHOT OK .IIIHS(I MANAGER. BELOW SNAPSHOT ..:r. 4c':;?- J -jr.. '"' ' " .'"fT n km. J r v- TrrSA- ' -"4 ; n ' vXTv:Ci P lit f ? 3 Vf t -. K - II' wHI ' Crushing Defeat Fate of White Giant BLACK PROCLAIMED CHAMPION Big Fellow Knocked Down and Out in Fifteenth Round. GREAT FIGHT IS PATHETIC ' 1 After Sixth Round, It Is Plain to Thousands of Spectators That Boilermaker Failed to "Come Back," and End In Sight. BY HARRY B. . SMITH. RENO. Nev., July 4. (Special.) James J. Jeffries could not come back. We found that out this afternoon, in the blazing sun of Nevada, when the champion, the man who was once con sidered all-powerful and with none to dispute his right to the title, sank down before Jack Johnson, the most wonder ful big man that the prlzering has ever seen. It was In the fifteenth round of a contest as unequal as any I have ever seen, a fight In which there was but one winner from start to finish, that Johnson put on the finishing touches, and after knocking the helpless Jeffries down three times, settled most decis ively the question that brought some 14,000 spectators into Reno. It was pitiful in a way, this van quishing of the hope of the white race, the effort of a man to drag himself back into athletic condition in order to wrest back to his own race the title that he had relinquished. It was piti ful, yes; but the round after round of fighting In which Johnson handled the burly Jeffries as he pleased, the style in which he blocked every punch that the grizzly bear attempted to land, had prepared the crowd for the endlns that was bound to follow. Collapse Bound to Come. Jeffries' knock-out may not' have been so much the result of any single collapse as of the punching to which he was subjected and the collapse that was bound to come. As early as the sixth round It was evident to those of us who sat at the ringside that Jeffries was a beaten man and that it was only a question of how long Johnson would permit him to last. "Just one chancel Maybe he will land a punch that will settle Johnson," was the forlorn cry of the Californlan'a friends, but their plea was faint-hearted and never realized. It was a quick ending when it did come, quicker than most of us had (Concluded on Page 0. ) FIGURES IN WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE FOUGHT YESTERDAY. - ' ' mgxx.u . jr-3 : r f ...... .i.umi.... .ill. . J I A D T O CKIKNUS, TKX BICKARD, PROJiOTKH AND IIKPKRKi;, l AITOIIURILK WITH JOHiVSOV, (iKORKK LITTI.F, JOHXSOX'S SKI.K - AI.I.KIVKII OK JEFFRIES AM) WIKK, SNAPSHOT OK JEFFRIES, JACK. GLEASON, JOINT PROMOTER OK FIGHT AMI BEKGER, SPARRING PARTNER OK JEFFRIES. Referee Says First Knockdown Alone Lost Battle, Because Losing Man's Seconds Lifted Him. RENO, Nev. July 4. Tex Rickard said: "Jack Johnson is the most won derful fighter . that ever pulled on a glove. : He won as he pleased from Jeffries and was never In danger. I could not help but feel sorry for the big white man as he fell beneath the champion's blows. It was the most pitiable sight I ever saw. As a matter of . fact, I thought way down in my heart that Jeffries would be the win ner of the fight. "The fight was won . and lost when Jeffries went through the ropes the first time. This Is official." The other knockdown does not count. It" was this way: "Jeffries was brought to his .knees and .as he. arose, dazed,. Johnson hit him with a succession of lefts that sent ' him through the , ropes. As he lay there several of his seconds caught hold of him and helped him to his feet. Under the rules of the game, which I have read thoroughly, while . certain people were saying that I couldn't referee a- fight, this disqualified Jef fries and Johnson was the winner. "I thought the seconds were going to carry Jeffries to his corner. In stead, they shoved him into the ring again to be beaten further while I was doing all I could during the confusion to stop the fight. "Jeffries could not hit Johnson and Johnson could hit Jeffries whenever he pleased. Jeffries was not as good as the last time he fought." $10 HOGS NO MORE Chicago Packer Hopes for Lower Prices With Good Crops. CHICAGO, July 4. J. Ogden Armour, the packer, who returned yesterday from a two months' trip to Europe, does not believe that this country will see $10 hogs again. Speaking of meat prices he said: "If the West reaps a bountiful corn, wheat and oats crop this year we may hope for lower prices. The crop prob lem will have a big effect on the price of meats. If the crop of grain is . short the supply of cattle and hogs will be short. I have been away for eight weeks and know nothing concerning crop con ditions or the present cattle and hog supply, except from the general view I have gained from newspapers. I don't believe the country will see $10 hogs again.' Such prices are possible, how ever. "Hogs normally should range around $9. If the supply is good, it is possible that they should be priced under that figure. "Meat export business from the United States to England and Europe Is dead." continued Mr. Armour. "South America is furnishing the meat that Europe con sumes. This country cannot successfully compete with the country south of the equator. Cattle conditions there are as they were in the West 35 years ago. Cattle can be raised cheaper and as ship transportation ooets but little if any more than from the United States, they can be marketed at a much lower price. "As a cattle producer. South America is rapidly outdistancing the United States. The class of cattle is not good, but the meat is food and Is what Eu rope' wants." Three Blacks Hurt at Houston. HOUSTON. Tex.. July 4. Disturb ances broke out tonight on the an nouncement of Johnson's victory at Reno. Three negroes were badly hurt by white men inside of an hour. Po lice were called to quell several minor disturbances. Auditors Go Cheering, Leave in Gloom. NATURE'S CUNNING BAFFLING Belief That Jeffries Could Come Back Fools World. YOUTH GONE; SHELL LEFT Trainers Rub Off External Marks of , Time on ex-Champion, but Fans See Pathetic Demonstration That It Counts Nothing. 'BY REX BEACH. (Special service, copyright. 1910. by Georj? Matthew Adams. Registered in Canada. All rights reserved.) RENO, Nev., July 4. (Special.) To day saw a tragedy. A tremendous, crushing, anti-climax has happened and we are dazed. Some 15.000 of us 'went out and broiled ourselves in the sun to see a great prizefight, and while it was great from the point of a 'spectacle and from the courage displayed, it was in reality no fight at all. It was a pitiful, pitiful tragedy. Time had outwitted the keenest of us and in stead of the Jeffries we had known and had come to think was still among us, we saw but the shell of a 'man, fair to the eye and awejnspirlng in his shape, to be sure, but empty of youth's vigor. Spark Is Dead. The spark had died. The years had done their work. No fierceness of will, no giant determination could fan it to a flame again and so he lost. Time had cunningly hidden her 'work and no man was gifted with the sight to see the cold ashes that lay where once a" flame had flickered. It was a cruel lesson, marking as it did the inevitable march of years and age and the waste of a godlike heritage. - - While in . actual point of days, there was little difference in the two, the ne gro had maintained his youth through a life of exercise and physical care, while the white man had grown heavy in idle ness. Black Is Marvel. It is doubtful If even In his best days, Jeffries could have won, for thfe African through all the combat showed a mar velous speed and aggressiveness that only occasional moments in his previous fight had hinted at. He demonstrated further that his race has acquired full stature as men. Whether they will ever breed brains to match his muscles Is yet to be proved. But his heart, his yellow streak, of which so much had been said, it was not there. He fought carefully. (Concluded on Pace 8.) Young Man, Who Was Good Swim mer, Is Believed to Have Become Exhausted. GBARHART, Or., July 4. (Special.) Elmer Meier, 1514 C street. Van couver, Wash., was drowned at 3 o'clock this afternoon while surf bath ing In, front of the Moore Kotel. He was a good swimmer and was among 50 bathers at the time he went down It Is thought the drowning was due either to heart failure, or to exhaus tion caused by the swimmer's attempts to reach the shore after going too far out.- Meier was employed by MacSween Brothers, contractors, of Vancouver, who accompanied him here to spend the Fourth. He was with Dan MacSween and J. Howels bathing near Moore pier. His companions became chilled and returned to the bathhouse, but Meier wanted one more plunge In the surf. When his com panions came out of the bathhouse the body had been carried to shore. Mrs. Wocklund, one of the bathers, stumbled over the body while wading out by aid of the life line. All attempts at resuscitation were In vain. Mr. Meier was 24 years old, and leaves a wife living in Vancouver. The body will be sent to Vancouver today by Coroner Gillbaugh. INSECTS TO BE DISPLAYED Campaign of Education on Disease- Breeders Is Begun. NEW YORK, July 4. The New York Zoological Society, with the assistance of Director Hornaday and Curator Dlt mars, of the Bronx Zoo, has started a campaign . to teach residents of New York the importance of taking proper precautions against disease-spreading insects and to instruct them in the economic value of certain other insects. A large collection has been gathered and in a few weeks it will be complete. A cabinet containing the insects which prey on the giant locust will be put in the collections and the placards will explain the significance of the two species. Eight or 10 luminous beetles from South America are also on the way to the zoo. But the most Important part of the insect collect'on will con sist of glass cases and tanks containing the larvae of those insects which breed in stagnant pools and which are a menace to health. There will also be cases containing other Insect larvae which breed In decaying matter around the grounds of country houses and be side each of the cases will be others containing either the larvae or the ma ture Insects which devour the injurious insects. CAR MATERIAL IS ORDERED St. Louis Firm Places Business Willi Eugene Mills. EUGENE, Or., July 4. (Special.) The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, with headquarters here. has been awarded a contract by the American Car & Foundry Company., of St. Louis, for more than 40.000,000 feet of car material to be used by the Harriman lines. This will construct about 10,000 cars. SCORE DIE IN OHIO WRECK Passenger and Freight Trains Col lide at Middlctown. MIDDLETOWN, O., July 4. Nineteen persons were killed outright, three prob ably fatally hurt and half a dozen were seriously injured in a head-on collision between a freight and a passenger train on the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton Railroad here today. Of the killed, IS were passengers, the other victims being members of the pas senger train crew. Negresses Attack White Woman. FORT WORTH, Tex., July 4. Minor disturbances between whites and blacks broke out here following the announce ment of Johnson's victory over Jeffries this afternoon. The most serious at tack was made by two negresses with beer bottles on a white woman. mmmm Whites and Blacks in Deadly Struggle. NINE FATALITIES REPORTED J Results of Reno Contest Bring Out Threats of Negroes. , POLICE CALLED TO AID One White Man Mortally Wounded at Result or Vlash AVith Negroes. Color War Imminent Through out Entire Country. ST. LOUIS?, July 4. Rioting In a ngr section of St. Louis. Market street and Jefferson avenue, followed quickly upon the announcement that Jack Johnson wai the victor in the Iteno prizefight. The Eighth district police responded t a riot call, but were powerless to cop with the negroes, who were blocking traffic and making threats. A second call to the Central district brought out a score of policemen. Th negroes were clubbed into submission and dispersed. A third lynching in reported to have taken place at Charleston. Mo., whera two men were lynched Sunday. NEGROES BLOCKADE TRAFFIC Hold Up Streetcars and Insult Pas sengers After Reno Results, PITTSBURG. July 4. Less than half an hour after the declMon of the fight was announced here, three riot calls were sent into two police precincts in the Negro hill district. Streetcars were held up, and insulting epithets were hurled at the passengers. The police beat the crowds back with their clubs to permit the passage of the carp. CELEBRATION PROVES FATAL One Killed and Other Mortally Hurt In Rioting. MOUNDS. 111.. July 4. One man was killed and one mortally wounded tonight following an attempt by four negroes to shoot up the town in honor of Jack Johnson's victory at Reno today. A negro constable was killed when he attempted to place them under arrest. FURTHER RIOTS ARE FEARED Three Blacks Killed in Georgia and Country in Ferment. AUGUSTA, Ga., July 4. Resulting in the killing of three negroes, Uvaldla. a small town of South Georgia, was the scene late yesterday of a race riot which may result In further fatalities. So far no whites have been injured. POLICE CALLED TO STOP RIOTS Pueblo Whites Mix With Negroes at Steel Works. PUEBLO. Colo.. July 4. A riot be tween black and whites is reported In Bessemer, Pueblo's steel works suburb, as a result of the Johnson-Jeffries fight. Every police officer available has been pent to the scene. ALL LANDS REJECT SAILOR Man With Beri Berl Sent to and Fro Across Ocean. NBW YORK, July 4. Alfred Amund sen, said to be a relative of Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian Arctic ex plorer, is a man without a country. To make matters worse. Amundsen, who Is a sailor. Is suffering from berl berl and the immigration officers of Great Britain and the United States have been shunting him back and forth between this port and the Barbadoes. A special board of inquiry will now take up his ' case. Amundsen says he was born In Bos ton In 1877, but there Is no record of it, and his parents took him to Norway when he was two years old. He lived there until he was 14, when he ran away to sea. lie contracted berl berl on shipboard and was taken to a hos pital In Barbadoes. There It was learned he was a citizen of this coun try and he was sent to New York. He reached this port May 23 and was taken to Ellis Island. But he could not prove his birth In Boston, so lie was taken back to Barbadoes. There he was told he must either pay his way or go back to New York. So he came back. He Is willing to go back to Norway, but perhaps Norway also would not let him land. CARUSO REACHES PRISON Convict Is Tenor, but Not Singer of Monkey-House Fame. AUBURN. N. Y.. July 4. A great com motion was created in the administration building at Auburn Prison when word was passed that "Caruso, the tenor." had arrived and was being registered by Cleric Howe?. Guards, clerks and convict trusties flocked to the office to see the man. He proved to be Caruso and was a tenor, too, but his first name was Alfredo, not En rico, and he declared he had never been In the monkey-house. Moreover, his vocal efforts had been confined to the moving picture circuit. He came here from Utia on a sentence of one year and six months for abduction. JL