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5V T1 I T mm 64 Pages III!-! f Ik P ill S I 1 ?jfi I Pages! to 12 PRICE FIVE CENTS. HURRY RAILROAD ON FLORIDA COAST FLAGLER TO BRIDGE - OCEAX BETWEEN" LIXE OF KEYS. EVEN UP SCORES WITH ROOSEVELT GOTHAM LAWYER SPORT OF FATES FURIOUS FIGHTING BY SUFFRAGETTES HUGE CONTRACT WON BY-TAMMANY ITALIAN c u ROOT DENIES HE ,iHrniP!iW"(?P S" GIVES IP KEMXAXT OF FOR TUNE AND II.VS $3 LEFT. Ml'RPItY'S FKIEXDS TO BOLD , BIG TERMINALS. -7 ITTT 77 ttt a. otTtttiTvv sttvuav lUOTfVTXO. nECEMREU G. 1908. VOL. AWII. U. " "" ' ' " " ; CORNS TOOK ANY MONEY Points to His Humble Home as Evidence. HEALTH AND SPIRIT BROKEN Blames Gordon for Downfall. Betrayed, He Says. INQUIRY NO WHITEWASH 3Ioiiibers of Washington Bar Asso ciation Determined lo Sjft Scan dal to Bottom Investigation Will It'oiittnuc In Secret. SEATTLE. Wash.. Dec. 5. (Special.) Breaking his nil. nrc for the first time einee his resignation from the Supreme Court bench of the State of Washington, former Justice Milo A. Root toiiay stated tliat the troubles with which he has be come Involved and which led to his resig nation, were brought about through trust ing a friend whom he had known for 20 years or more. "But let ne say firit," said Mr. Root. "I am not corrupt. I did not receive a BinKle penny. I did not ask for a cent and what has been done has been done honestly and above-board. I do not care to fay that Jude Gordon took my loners to the Great Northern Railway and capi talized them for any amount. All I know about that is what friends of mine have told me." Broken in Spirit and Fortune. Judge Root Is a broken-hearted man. Not only that, but he is sick and almost penniless. "I don't want to talk about this case," he said. "The Bar Association is now Investigating and it Is not a matter that I should talk about. I will be vindicated. I have no doubt. I have done nothing dishonest and if I had received the thou sands of dollars which it Iw claimed I have received, there Certainly should be some evidence of It here." Judge Root called attention to his sur roundings, pointed to the furniture in' liis house, and said: I'sed Salary to Fay Debts. "This furniture you see about the house. Is not fully paid for. I am paying for it now on the installment plan and even as I am for my home. I have lived economically and have attempted to pay off debts that I incurred during the crash In 1S93. Every month I have laid aside at least $25 for this purpose and some times I have laid aside $100. Last week when I received my last salary warrant from the state, I took part of that to pay off old debts, knowing that it was the last cent I could reasonably hope to se cure for some time. Not only that, but I have been forced to sell part of my law library to meet expenses." Lives lu Humble Quarter of City. Judge Root's friends say he feels more keenly than anyone imagines the fate that lias befallen him. One of the'young est members of the Washington State Supreme Court, he is now prematurely dged and his voice chokes with emotion es he unfolds the reasons for resigning from tue bench. 'judge Root lives in a neighborhood wtiere there are more workingmen's homes than there are fashionable resi dences. Even the street in front of his bouse is not graded. From the car line occupying almost an hour from the center of Seattle to his home, his resi dence is reached over a muddy trail and broken planks. There Is no evidence of luxury at his home. His house is fur nished more like a provident laboring man's home than that of a man who is accused of having received thousands of dollars from corporations for favorable decisions Denies Gordon Wrote Decision. ;It la untrue that Judge Gordon wrote the decision In the Harris vs. Great Northern decision, which has been at tributed to him," declared Judge Root. (Concluded on Page B.) - That'll Hold Him for Awhile." Work Suspended by Peonage Charge Will Be Rushed Unique and Costly Project. NEW YORK, Dec. 5. (Special.) Of ficial announcement has 6een made that the Florida East Coast Railway will now be rushed to completion -within a rear. More than 2000 workmen have been hurried to the work and more are rapidly being employed for this, the nn.t nnvnl rnilrnflfl construction CVfT undertaken. Not a stroke of work has been done on the -oad since the Gov ernment, more than one year ngo, brought charges th?t the men employed were held in bondage by a system of peonage. The Government's suit has just been thrown out of court by Judge Hough of the United States Circuit Court, and as a result Mr. Flagler has decided that the line, which wi'l connect Key West with Miami, shall be completed. Be fore work was stopped 84 miles of the road between Miami and Knighfs Key were completed and in operation. Vice President Parrott, who now is In New York on business connected with the extension, which is Jumping over a stretch of 30 miles of open ocean and over 30 miles more of submerged keys and lagoons, is authority for the state ment that trains will be running its lull length within a year. This pioject, which is belnit financed by Mr. Flagler personally, will cost an average o: lH.00- a mile, while the ,..i. rii., rial monev it-nu'ircd for docks. channeling, car floats and equipment will bring the total cost approximates to $30,000,000. half of which has already been expended. DISAPPEARSJAMTH JEWELS Fresno Woman Accused of Abusing Hostess's Kindness. FRESNO. Cal.. Dec. 5. Special.) A v..,i.i ,-,hhrv wns broucht to light to day, when Mrs. Hattie Jones was placeJ ,,,(.- .rrnt at Santa Barbara lor ine alleged theft of diamonds and Jewelry valued at SHOO. Tt i stated that Mrs. Jones, represent ing herself to be In trouble, gained the confidence of Mrs. F. C. Haslam, a n..iMv woman of this city, and was al lowed to stop at the Haslam house, Mrs. Haslam having known her In Santa Bar bara. During a conversation. Mrs. Joies brought up the subject of Mrs. Haslam's having Just purchased some valuable Jewelry and was shown the gems. Mrs. Jones left the next evening. The jcw.-ls disappeared also. . BATTLE FOR WHITE GIRL Two Japanese Indulge In Fight for Love of Ma'iden. i LOS ANGELES. Dec. 5 Two Japanese fought for the love of a white girl in the Nippon Restaurant. 129 East' Second street, today, and one of them shot :he other four times. Inflicting serious wounds. RInzo Kashara. employed as a domestic at Redlands. fired the shots at Raku Takahasl,' a waiter In the Nippon. The girl lives in San Bernardino. where Takahasl was formerly proprietor of a restaurant, and Kashara was employed by him as a. waiter. Kashara is said to have come here purposely to slay his rival. Enter ing the restaurant this morning he cried out, "1 am Kashara! I am Kashara:" and opened fire. He Is now In jail. LONG TUNNEL COMPLETED Final Bore Is Made In Hole Through Sierra Mountains. SALT LAKE CITY. Dec 5. The final bore In the Spring Garden tunnel of the Western Pacific Railroad, the Gould extension to the Pacific Coast, was made yesterday when fresh air passed through the entire length of 7306 feet. This I the famous Beckwith Pass tun nel, and 27 months have' been spent In boring It and constructing the difficult loop approaches on the western side of the Sierras. The completion of the tunnel makes possible the crossing of the Sierras by the Western Pacific at a maximum height of 5019 feet and the completion of the entire road with a maximum grade of 'less than one per cent. HARRY MURPHY'S FACILE PEN-FINDS SUBJECTS "Guess I'll Go $oth."- Congress May Have Lively Session. FORAKER WILL PAY RESPECTS Unburden Opinions on Hearst and President. FIGHT ON CANNON DROPPED Taft Will Withhold Programme Till Inaugurated House Rules May Be Changed Semite to Vote on Postal Savings Banks. WASHINGTON. Dec. (Special.) Indications are that the COth Congress, which assembles in its second session on Monday, will bp disposed to pass little legislation before the inaugura tion of Wiliiam H. Taft on March 4 and that Mr. Taft, himself pledged to carry on the Roosevelt policies, will be practically compelled, for fear of enibanasing President Roosevelt. to withhold his own programme until he becomes President himself. In the meantime Mr. Roosevelt Is expected to thunder against Congress in the hope that he may be able to force through some of the legislation which he lias repeatedly recommended. May Even l'l Old Scores. Upon the eve of the last Roosevelt sess'ion the atmosphere is surcharged with possibilities which may chnnge the situation, involving Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Taft and Congress itself, including Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, of the House of Representatives. Theie is a bare possibility that there may be an attempt on the part of certain legis lators to even up old scores with Mr. Roosevelt before his retirement on March 4. In the meantime Mr. Taft will be busy Cabinet-making. Mr. Taft has declared that he will not take up thin matter seriously before February. Forakcr Will Unburden Soul. The postal savings .bank legislation, in which the Administration is deeply interested and to which the Republican party is pledged, comes up in the Senate for a vote on December 14. Two days later the Senate must vote on the Brownsville question, a contro versy which has developed considerable acrimony between the White House and Capitol Hill. Incidentally, it is Senator Foraker of Ohio who Ls the main oppon ent of the President on this question. He proposes before adjournment to deliver himself of a speech on the subject of the Hearst charges in the campaign and pay his respects to the President at the same time. If both of these matters pre cipitate a controversy, legislation is apt to be lost sight of. In the opinion of leg islators. Not Fight Cannon but Change Rule There is no question that the so-called Taft fight against the re-election of Spsaker Cannon has been Indefinitely postponed, if not abandoned altogether. The only way Mr. Taft can oust Mr. Cannon is to make an open attack on the leader of the House, which is a co-ordinate branch of the Government a pro cedure of doubtful policy. It is admitted that the defeat of Mr. Cannon might make a nasty situation in the Housi through the first two years of the Taft administration and might defeat its legis lative purposes. Already a large majority of Representa tives are pledged to support Mr. Cannon for re-election, many of whom are, at the same time, ready to join with their colleagues to revise the obnoxious rules under which the Speaker now dominates that body. This, it is believed generally, will be the ultimate solution of the diffi culty which led to unofficial talk of Taft opposition to the re-election of the Speaker. House leaders are trying to make vp (Concluded on Pane :t. ) Judjre Sen brook llnnils Down r De vi k ion. Bankrupted by Friend's Crime and Suicide. After Losing Family by Fire and Health by Shock. CHICAGO, Dec. 5. (Special.) After signing a draft for J29.00O at the Great Northern Hotel today and sending jt to New York to account for the loss brought upon him by the defalcation of a friend. C. Smith Williams, formerly one of New York's most prominent criminal lawyers, -vas left with only $3 as the remnant of a fortune of nearly $1,000,000 he had a year ago. The news of his friend's misapplica tion of the funds and the subsequent suicide came as a finale of a most re markable scries of misfortunes. Will iams accepts his reverses . philosoph ically and admits all essential details. ith. his wife and two children burned to death in their home, his own healh shattered by the shock, his law practice reduced almost to nothing as the result of disasters, and his fortune squandered heedlessly In traveling to find diversion from his grief, Williams had nothing left him but his share of his law firm's profits the last year he was in New York. I WD EX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YKSTKKIM Y'S Maximum temperature. W rturjrt s; minimi'in. lit U Rices. TODAY'S Fair; nnrtli-Titer ly wiiulF. 1'oreiRn. English siiffrHffCttns raise uproar at meet ing1 flf'dresi-ed by l-loyd-Georse. Section I. 1. Simon inters Port an Prime and will have A.-3fm'l'!y to ele.t President. Section 1. pap 0. Italian writer denounces Ameriraiis for rluiniin equality with ruyulty. Sec tion I, page 1. National. Cruiser Yankee sinks acaln day after being floated, t-eetlon i. page Congress begins session Monday and may even up with Koosevelt. Section 1, pae 1. Miles denounces Dingey tariff before House Committee. .Section t. page 4. PomeMtic. Big railroad contract given to Tammany rirm. Section 1. page 1. Flr.gler to rush work on Florida railrcad. yectiop 1. page 1. New York lawyer's scries of misfortunes ends in penury. Section 1. pae 1. Mining Congress votes for prevention of ex- pi onions :ind tax to compensate victims. Section t. page 2. Rear-Admiral Coghlan dead. Section 1. page J. k Supposed Knglish Lord disappear? in Chi cago, c-n vim? i-piikane wtie. and may be murdered.. Section I, pase 2. ruclflj Conrtt. Root deuie. he was corrupt: was betaye1 by ijninnt he i.aserts. ejection I. pase i. Urdy ef sulfide, believed to be Robert Mc Viekar, found near MilwauUle. Section 1. pfi$e 0. Plare hunters journey to Pato Robies to watch Ct.sgi o e s condition. Section 1, page 0. Central Rfilwy of Oregon announces pro ix ed extension. Srction 4, page 8. I'rion Pacific calls- for bids for construction of railway to Grays Harbor. Section 1, page 6. 4 Sport.. Pnpe's defeat by Ketchel surprises fans. Section 4. page tt. Washington football team entitled to cham pionship. Portion 4, page (J. Multnomah win': from O. A. C In rootball contest. Section 2, page 2. . Plans made for local automobile show. Sec tion 4. page 7. ' Greet athletic meet to be held at Seattle next year. Section 4, page . Pearl Casey will manage Portland team in Northwestern League. Section I, page tt. Baseball war Impends In California. Sec tion 4. page 7. American League developed new stars. Sec tion 4, page 7. Commercial and Marine. Oregon onion-growers expect better market. Section 4. pege" i. Open manipulation in New York stock mar ket. Section 4, pase a. Further decrease in New York banks' sur plus reserve. Section 4. page 1). Tone of Eastern wheat markets heavy. Sec tion 4, page 9. Receipts from import duties show decrease; customs report for November. Section 4. page S. Real Estate and Building. Little room for cheap building on East Side. Section :t. page 10. Arfnoxatlon causes'boom in Mount Scott dis trict. Section .'L page 10. Investors looking to undeveloped tracts about Portland. Section 3, page S- Contracts let for bis building. Section 3 page S. Taylor-Street Church to celebrate sixtieth year. Section 1. page 10. y. ', c. A. w'H hold house-warmings in new home during coming week. Seat ion V,. page 3. Adjutant-General Finrer submits annual re port to Governor. Section :i, page 12. Portland and Vicinity. In veto message Mayor Lane declares any employment agent can furnish sailors. Section .'I, page . Bar Association pays tribute to Ralph B. Fisher. Section 3. page I). Elks hold annual memorial service. Section 2. page l!!. Royal Arch Masons have elaborate banquet. Section 1. page 9. State aid to be asked for sanitaria. Section 1. page 10. ' FOR AMUSEMENT AND :, L.I v'lul ( Wt 5 i i.l "l"siv yps" Can He Keep the Revisionist Out; Women Cause Uproar in London Meeting. RESIST EXPULSION AND YELL Chain Themselves to Seats, Groan and Cheer. DISPLAY PRISON CLOTHES Siglt of Broad Arrow .Provokes Din of Megaphones and Bells Uoyd- Gcore Promises Woman Suf frage Before Great While. LONDON. DfC. o. The guU between the suffragists and suf f rugettes. ' the latter bc-ins the term genera Hy use'd to describe the militant section of women agitators who believe in street riots and attacks on Cabinet ministers as the quickest means of attaining the ballot for their sex. was further widened this afternoon through a fierce demonstration by the .suffragcitt s at Albert Hall against David Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the iix chaquer. t The Chancellor vas addressing a suf frage meeting under the auspices' of the Women's Liberal Association. He had hardly got beyond announcing that he was present to make known the govern ment's intention regarding ' the problem of woman suffrage, when a great uproar broke-out. Strident voices from all parts of the hall shrieked, "We want deeds, not words." Chained to Seats', Women Fight. The .stewards of the hall and there were 350 on hand to deal with the anti cipated disturbance at once moved down the aisles to eject the women. They found the latter chained to their seats. There was a confused struggle, but rin uily the chains were cut and the suf fragettes expelled. I3ut the numbers of the disorderly seemed to increase rather than diminish. Some of the women were armed with whips and they repelled vigorously every attempt to eject them. There were tierce tussels every few moments in different parts of the hall and every time Mr. Lloyd-George made an attempt to speak his voice was drowned by mingled groans and cheers. Finally the Chancellor, who for a quarter of an hour had been trying to get in a word, eat down, and the or ganist tried to Boothe the hysterical sis terhood by playing "What Can the Mat ter Be." but it was of no use, and pan demonium continued. Prison Garb Causes I'jironr. The uproar was at its height when a doz?n suffragettes who had been released recently from prison, divested themselves of their outer wraps and appeared in their jail garments. These clothes were liberally stamped with broad arrows. This exhibition acted on the ' sisterhood like a red rag on a hull. Megaphones and bells were brought into use and the noise bocame deafening. The stewardt; at length lost their tempers and, as they continued their work of throwing out the demonestrants. the clothing of many of the women was torn off their backs. Promises Suffrage to Women. At the end of half an hour of more the opposition became worn out and M. Lloyd-George was able to continue his speech with only occasional interruption. He assured hie audience, which numbered 8000, that there was a majority in the Cabinet and in the Liberal party in favor of woman's suffrage and that a suffrage clause would be included in the govern ment's franchise bill, which, however, could not Tie introduced until the eve of the dissolution of Parliament. The Chan cellor added that the time of dissolution had not yet arrived, though the end of this Parliament was not so distant as some people thought. Coloradans Take l"p Fight. DENVER, Colo., Doc. 5. Women prom- (Concluded on Pace 2.) ENTERTAINMENT IN THE Tint nil Yonr Life. hi :" : Will Electrify New Haven Boad, Build Station, Dig- Subway, AVith $5,000,000 Profit. NEW YORK, nc, 5. ("Special.) Consternation among politicians and contractors greeted the news today that the r:radley-Gaffney-Steers Company of Tammany contraciors had landed the contract for the S30. 000.000 improve ments of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. That corporation is to electrify its six-track line from New Rociielle to One Hundred and Twenty ninth street. A tunnel will be milt under the East River to Astoria, thence to Long Island City, with another East River tunnel and subway to the huge passenger sta tion to be erected on the block bounded by Fourth and Lexington avenues, Thirty-second and Thirty-third streets. The jol) will take at least ten yars to complete and Tammany men say that some one. is going to make more than $."i,000.000 out of it. The men composing the new firm are all cTose friends of Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany. A connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad will be mode in Long Is:and City. This will permit rasstnSers to pas's through New York for the West and Southwest without leaving the train and without the present ferry trip from Port Morris W. Jersey City. FP.OLIFIC MOTHER ADRIFT Gives Birth to Litters of Babies and Husband Deserts Her. CHICAGO, Dee. 5. (Special.) Mrs. Julia Ormshy, mother of quadruplets, triplets, twins, and one other child, has been again evicted from her home for non payment of rent. The owner of the prem ises at .".37 Root etrcet has forced her to vacate. Four times within the paM Vt months has she and her family been th? victim of the evicting process, and Mir inability to pay became so well known to land lords that she was forced to resort to the use of her maiden name in order to obtain accommodations of any sort. Turned into the street, she has wandered from house to hoime, living there until her money was exhausted. Her neigh bors have done all they could to assist her, and she now is being sheltered at the home of a friend at i-'A Forty-third t--treet. - The father' of the marvelous quartet, trio, duet and solo disappeared soon after he was ordered by a municipal judge to pay at least $3 a week for the support of his family. HE GREETS CHAMBERLAIN Koosevelt J)eelares for Acceptance of Kesult of Primary. OHEGONIAN NEWS Bl'RKAL', Wash ington. Dec. 5. "I am glad to see you. Governor Chamberlain, and Senatorto fce." said President Koosevelt this morn ing in greeting OrogorVs chief executive at the White House. Mr. Chamberlain had called to pay his respects, and with a number of other public, men was waiting in the Cabinet room for an opportunity to see the Presi dent, when Mr. Roosevelt entered. Ha walked deliberately up to Mr. Chamber lain, extanded his hand and greeted him as above quoted, adding: "The people of Oregon have expressed their choice for Senator. I stand by tiie will of the people, and 1 am for you for Senator." There is no likelihood Taft will come out with a statement adverse to Cham berlain. LETTER WRITTEN AS RUSE Airs. I.emp Admits Wanting to Trap Millionaire Brewer. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 5. Mrs. Lillian II. Lemp, who is suing her husband, a mil lionaire brewer, for divorce, filed a reply to his cross-bill here today. The docu ment recites, among other things, that a letter which Mr. Lemp cited was written by her "as a ruse to trap her husband." It was written to no one and intended for no one. Lemp's failure to comment on the letter, which was left in a drawer, gave her "no chance to carry out her in tention to upbraid him," the bill recites. EVENTS OF THE WEEK . .. fern ill -5 B h tt-'ft. w. v.- Vf All Swelled Up. Froths Over Elkins Abruzzi Altai r. DICTATES TERS TO ERICE Must Abandon Idea of Revisit ing America. FAMILY MUST STAY AWAY Writer in Italian Paper Says Pre tensions of American Million-" aires Slake Kurope LauU. Trouble in the Air. ROM E, Dec. 5. (Special.) "That these millionaire Americans, who are called kings of cotton, of lead, of rail ways, of oil and heaven knows what besides, take themselves seriously and divide their government Willi their snobbism into departments, with their Minister of Foreign Affairs, Home Af fairs, and so on, is simply a matter of laughter to Europeans who visit the United States." declared Vieo Mante gazza in an article on the Abruzzi-IOl-kins courtship, which has been copied and applauded by the whole Italian press. "But for heaven's sake, do not lot them come over to act the sovereign in Em ope. That is too much. All the more so because they believe their, money enables them to do as they like, and that their millions give them the right to treat as an equal each and every person. .Must t'ease to Be American. "It is not known positively yet whether the Duke of Abruzzi and Miss Elkins will marry or not. But if they do and if Miss Elkins should take the rank of Princess, she must certainly . abandon forever any idea of returning to Amer ica, even for a short visit. "And the Elkins family must renounce the right ef coming to. Italy, or, ut any rate, to that part of it where the court resides. Otherwise, they place not only themselves but others in an embar rassing position. For it certainly .would not be pleasing to Italians to have a royal Princess discussed in the journals nor to lvad telegraphic messages of the kind tliat were flying about some mouths ago, in which it was said that time oili cers of the American Navy are returning from China to dispute the hand of Miss Eiluns with the Duke of Abruzzi. F.lkius Aisli-I'.unipcati. "The Elkins family (which does not even belong to that group of faniili. s which have the qualifications of being, according to American siiobblsm, the highest aristocracy) has been always ex cessively anti-European.- The word may seem exaggerated to those v. ho do not know the habitual certain American Old World. Would yol Hmv on'.enipt with which circles speak of the Before American. "It would be annoying to of:lcers to have to present arms to the daughter of Mr. Elkir.s. and the ladies who hour historic names would be humiliated to how before an American become princess, so much f-o tliat it would be a matter of Olivine difficulty to find a holy of good blood willing to become maid of honor to I ho new duchess. "Supposing the marriage lak-s place, it is clear that a princess of American birth at ourcourt would have a ciifli eult position and. taking into account her family and education, it would be n,.Cessary for her relatives to keep them selves far distant from the royal circle." - . . To Frect Schools in China. r.ERLIN, Dec. 5. The colonial budget includes an original appropriation of iV'. t,iO. to bo followed by $.",2,000 annually, for the erection and maintenance at Tsing Tao, in the German territory of Kiao Chau, China, of schools for the Chinese natives, where instruction in technical matters will be given. .' 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