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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1909)
82 Pages Pages 1 to 12 VOL,. XXVIII NO. 13. PORTLAND. OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, 3IARCH 28, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SETTLE PORTLAND DISPUTE Hill and Harriman Agree on Terminals. B!G IMPROVMENTS TO COME Juicy Plum Promised Portland and Oregon. NO REAL FIGHT FOR YEARS Conference Results in Compact Sim ilar to Harrlman-Santa. Fe Deal. North Bank Road Was Disturbing Factor. SAX FRANCISCO, March 27. (Special.) "The Portland situation has been set tled." was the significant remark made by Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad, after his conference this afternoon at Burllngame -with Ed ward H. Harriman. 'And." added Hill "the Oregon people will understand what that means." The president of the Great Northern went on to explain that all disturbances have been done away with and that the terminal disputes have been amicably settled. The significance of his remark is undoubtedly the fact that Mr. Harriman and the Hills have entered Into a com pact that Is much akin to the relation ship existing; between the Southern Pa clflc and the Santa Fe in California. It is believed that the trouble that was en gendered chiefly by the building of the North Bank road has been explained away and that hereafter the two com panles will work with a friendly spirit In the Northwest, and possibly have Joined Issues even to a more consider able extent. Juicy Plum for Oregon. "Portland and Oregon will get a juicy plum" was the remark dropped In aside by one of the under officials who were hovering about the big magnates at the game. Just what he meant he did not explain, but Mr. Hill declared that thou sands of dollars would be spent In Ore gon. It Is hinted that the terminal facili ties will be largely improved. "There has been no real fight between the Hill and Harriman forces within the last nine years," said Louis W. Hill. Mr. Harriman was not specific, but ad mitted that the difficulties between hlm eelf and his northern rival were as good as settled. Yesterday was a sort of mil lennial dawn In the railroad world and, unless all signs fail, the expressions "Hill roads" and "Harriman system" will In the future have little meaning. The big fish seem to have swallowed all of the little ones and both the eater and the eaten are satisfied. Only Outsiders Talk of Scraps. "Why, my father went over the two lines In 1900," said Mr. Hill, enlarging upon the brotherly spirit which he had already spoken of. "The talk of scraps between them since has been mostly among outsiders and people who did not know." Mr. Hill nodded assent when the fact was mentioned that the war since the . construction of the North Bank railroad Into Portland, a piece of work which aroused the greatest Indignation among the Harriman people at that time, had been unaccompanied by any overt act. Mr. Hill spent the morning at the Fair mont and then went for a short talk with his subordinates at the office of the Great Northern. He travelled like a common citizen' of Burllngame, standing In the aisle most of the way and ap parently enjoying the evidence of pros perity of Bis father's one-time rival's road, as shown by the crowded condition of the car. Big red-bearded Mr. Hill Is the very anti-type of Mr. Harriman and In his Jovial good nature there Is to be found no trace of the other's caustic, satirical way of speaking. Much New Work at Portland. "What is known as the 'Portland situa tion' was settled this afternoon," Mr. Hill (Concluded on Pare 5.) R OS r--ti) : 1 , , . j HARRY MURPHY SEES FUN IN CURRENT EVENTS, AND DRAWS SOME PICTURES THEREON X 1 p 'jl Am Irrealatlbl Dfmnd. !. .-, , ' , C" He " HItChed Mke " Hund"d- J"d- R-ta la Need of - Pen.loo. Himself. U.solvea I 1 ........ - - - - - - - - - - . - - - , T t t , . , , . . , , r litii....... ...... COUNTY CHAIRMAN KILLED IN HOME S. C. POOLER, OF NEW MEXICO, IS ASSASSINATED. Shot Down Through. Window as He Is Heading Threats or Lynch- ing George Potter, Suspect. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., March 27. S. C. Pooler, chairman of the Democrat ic Central Committee of Taos County, and one of the most prominent Demo cratic politicians In New Mexico, was assassinated last night. George Potter Is under guard, sus pected of the crime. Pooler was shot down as he sat reading by a lamp in the parlor of his home at Taos, his slayer firing through the window. Many threats of lynching have been made against Potter by Pooler's friends, and Governor Curry has ordered Cap tain Fred Farnoff, of the Territorial Po lice, which Is at present in Raton, N. M., to hurry to Taos and take charge of Potter. Potter will be brought to the terri torial penitentiary tomorrow. GRAFT IN BUCKET SHOPS Startling Disclosures of Chicago Police Methods. CHICAGO, March 27. (Special.) Start ling Information in the bucKet-shop police scandal, revealed through the failure of Gus Nohe, was given today by a repre sentative of the Board of Trade who is cognizant of the details of the wholesale violation of the state law. According to the official record of the Board of Trade, Chief Shippy was In formed more than two months ago that a dosen or more bucket shops were doing business right under the nose of the po lice, and when tue Board of Trade man asked what the attitude of the depart ment would be, he was Informed by the chief that "the police are going right after them." The next thing heard by the Board of Trade representative came in the form of "squeals" from several of the bucket shop operators, who complained of being shaken down by the police, and the asser tion that Gus Nohe was acting as a "middleman" '-in procuring police protec tion. TIMBER BRINGS $700,000 Western Cooperage Company Buys ( Tract In Nehalem Valley. ASTORIA, Or., March 27. (Special.) Announcement was made today that the Street Lumber Company's tract of timber land, comprising slightly over 16,000 acres in the Nehalen Valley district, was sold recently on a contract to the Western Cooperage Company of Portland for a consideration of J700.000. Statement is also made that a deal is now pending for the sale of the same tract to the Standard Oil interests, the closing of the deal depending upon the result of the cr-ulse which is now in pro gress, a force of 22 cruisers and surveyors being engaged in making the cruise, and in running lines for proposed logging roads through that and adjacent tracts. TAFT HAS BLOODED STOCK Interested in Texas Sale at Record Breaking Price. EL PASO, M---sh 27. President Taft. who :s supposed to be a stock holder in the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, is interested in. the sale of B0 htgh-gi de and a number of cows to the Vera Crux Cattle Company of Mexico City. A-l tiie cattle came from tl -.ft at Gregory, Tex. It is jported a record-breaking price was obtained. EXPLOSION SHAKES J0LIET Kills Four, Fatally Injures Six at Steel Works. JOLIET. 111., March 27. Four peopl are supposed to have been killed and i others badly. If not fatnllv n-nunHot in an explosion at the plant of the Illinni Steel Company tonight. The whole city ten me shock of the explosion. The accident was caused by a slip No. 1 blast furnace, which forrd in heavy charge of gas Into the engine and boiler-room. The engine-room wa blown to pieces. i , DEADLY VOLLEY FIRED BY CREEKS Two Whites Killed, One Fatally Wounded. OKLAHOMA RUSHES TO ARMS Band of Outlaws Resists Ar rest of Chief. POSSES MARCH TO HICKORY Snake Clan of Creeks Determined In Defiance of Law Negroes Adopt ed Into Tribe Have Laid In Supply of Arms. OKLAHOMA CITY. Ok la Mnih 97 In a pitched battle at Hickory Ground, at o ciock this evenine between a. r.ru f Ave officers, sent to the home of Chltti Marjo, chief of the Snake clan of the Creek Indians, to serve a warrant on the chief and 20 Creek Indians of th Sn.i,. clan. Officers Edward Baum, of Checotah, ana Merman Odom, of Checotah. were killed, and Frank Swift WAS nrnha v fatally wounded. The men who did the snooting are some of the negroes, adopted members of the tribe, who re sisted a posse on Thursdav. .Merman Odom. son of Ine Sheriff nf Mcintosh County, and Edward Rnm City Marshall of Checotah, were killed outright. Swift dragged himself from me scene of the battle and was later picked up by William Carr. one of the escaping officers, and taken to Pierce a station one mile away. Frank Jones, anoiner or the posse who escaped, boarded a train at Pierce and went to Checotah early In the evenina- hour. lng some details of the battle. - Twenty Rifles Speak. The officers, havlns- heard thnt v.. Indians and negroes were again peace able after the battle of Thursday morn ing approached the cabin of Hurlnn near Hickory Ground, without fear of irouDie. as they were in the act of en tering the chief's yard. 20 guns were leveled upon them from as many men in the house and around the corners. Odom and Baum fell dead, and Swift was seriously wounded. Jones ran a few yards and hid himself in a clump of trees until the Indians disappeared. Then he returned to the bodies of bis comrades. Finding them dead, he hur ried to Pierce. , General Call to Arms. Within 30 minutes after the report of the battle reached Checotah, a hundred men were armed. Every available gun and practically all the ammunition in town was taken. In an hour 50 men were marching toward Hickory Ground. When the news reached Muskogee officers immediately issued a call for men, and a short time later a posse of B0 was ready to march. From Henrietta and Weleetka men will also go tonight to Pierce, the place selected for mobilization. At 11 o'clock tonight Adjutant-General Frank Canton, of the Oklahoma National Guard has wired Colonel Roy Hoffman, of Chandler Immediately to call four com panies of the state guard for mobilization. Companies at Oklahoma City, Chandler, Muskogee and Durant probably will de part for Henrietta tonight. A dispatch Irora Checotah says the Snake Indians have been purchasing rifles and ammunition there for a long time and that they are . supplied with powder and lead enough to last for two days. , Harjo's Band Outlaws. Harjo, who has so often within the iast two years expressed his displeasure at the restraints of law and who has often, called his men into council for threaten, ing officers of the law, is believed- to have determined to make a final stand In behalf of his ideas of liberty. His band has been outlaws for years. It required the services of United States officers and the threat to call for the state militia to quell - his band last Fall during a ses sion' of the council at Hickory Ground. When Sheriff Odom received from the Conclu3el on pare. 4.) r l SPRING FASHIONS HEBE. I The Oregonian issues today a X Spring and Summer Fashion t Supplement of 16 pages. It con I taius the latest designs and mod J els for every manner of dress ? tor women and men. The styles are correct and up to date throughout, since they bear the stamp of approval from the peo ple who know in every ' depart ment of dress, footwear, and other apparel. Great care has been exercised to see that the varioas articles are authoritative and complete, .and that the cuts are from the latest models. The Oregonian. recommends careful and thorough perusal of the sup plement by every woman inter ested in fashions and all wom en are and by men, too, who will find much instruction and information therein for. them selves. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. ST degrees; minimum. 44 degrees. TODAY'S Showers; southerly winds. Foreign. Austria demands abandonment of Servian claims. Section 1. page 4. France and Britain predict Castro will make trouble for United States. Section 1. page S. Rational. House decides on long sessions to complete tariff debate. - Section 1. page 8. Taft adopts plan to restrict expenses of Government. Section 1. Page 3. Politics. Roy K. West dark horse to break Illinois vw....w.iii ucmuluch. section j.. page i . . Domestic. Calkins newspaper syndicate In. California falls. Section 1. page 3. Harriman refuses to discuss rumors that nut naiiaitar auwes to lieutenants Section 1. nn K Hill and Harriman settle Portland terminal a.iu yiumiEc j vi 1 1: jjium to ura gon. Section 1, page 1. Mrs. Boyle, kidnaper, makes desperate at tempt to leap from train. Section 1 case 2. - Important discovery of process for use of Roosevelt invited to Rhodesia, but cannot spare time. Section 1. page 8. Great Increase In colonist traffic over Hal ritnan lines. Section X. page 3. Rebellious Creek Indians and negroes kill ' ' w i""l"J vuunu one deputy m battle. Section 1. rage 1. Employes of San Francisco graft prose cution confess selling papers to defense; Burns raids United Railroad offices, re covers papers, arrests officials. Section 1. page. 1., , Sports. California fans greatly Interested In open- . "...ci.on season, section 4. page 4. Portland team leaves San Luis for Los Angeles. Secttnn 1 in Multnomah's best athletes will -compete In track meet. Section 4. page 5. Coast league teams are In fine trim for riiiicb. ceciion 4. page 5 COa!welIy ef m, work Ti lth Oregon base ball team. Section A na trm A Tw5LW.r.'U!,nff matche" "I" Occur this week. AUmao0h.nl. e'U fe""''on to drive page 4 Vs-ncover Barracks. Section CtL!77j? SOIta out 6 to 2 game with Medford. Section 4. page 5 r".tootba,',1 "j1"1"'" 1 announced; Mult pe a. P y ln Eusene- Section 1. '""team lLM,DWt"' varsity baseball team at Eugene. Section 4. page 4. Pacific Northwest.' A"rLn'i b2de .wi" rrtira to elusion of farm on Puget Sound. Section 1. page 6 Heppner bank defrauded out of I12DO by 22? ltra.1;ger , who "ta ln on bogus deed. Section 1, page 7. Two Spokane police and thug wounded ln re- pagee,T ' outlaw escapes. Section 1. Move begun to reclaim 80.000 acres In Baker County. Section 1. page . W Demonstration train Is met with band at Walla Walla. Section 1. page 8. Albany plana for big revival. Section 1 page a. C. E. S. Wood and Harney Countv dele gate have wordy clash at Ontario 'con vention. Section 1. page 7 Train's race to save dying child Is In vain Section 1, page 1. Commercial and Marine. Visible supply of hops ln United States Section 3. page 9. Stock market lively and advancing. Section 3. page 9. Captain B. w. Olson recommended for .-.vuon , page s. Patten buys September wheat heavily Sec tion 3. page 9. SeVfonTpage'S"" " "" Portland and Vicinity. Dottle Hock, aged 15. bound and gagged at home on East Side by unknown assail ants. Section I. Page 1. "'an Kentucky Klick plana to put straight Tmr. cratlc ticket In field. Sectio 2 MT Portland lawyers sign petition to ' President Taft asking appointment of JustioeR n pSe 12" Federal Jude- Section 2, Eight thousand school children take out card'. for Poultry Association. Section S page 8 Historic Battery A holds annual 'banouet' Section 3. page 10. "mquet. Cashier Straus is indicted on charge of em bezzlement- Section A nan. i Large deal In North End property center of , "iqo , pae, 0 New houses are rising rapidly on East Side Section 4. page T. Building permits since first of year total S' 17f SU'f-t inn A na O Laying of new Bull Run pipeline will take GIRL BOUND AND GAGGED IN E Warned in Note to Ex pect Worse Fate. TWO MEN COMMIT GRIME Darkness Prevents the Victim From Seeing Them. SOLDIERS ARE SUSPECTED Father of Girl Thinks Deed "Was In Furtherance of Attempt to Stop Prosecution of Man Who Is Accused by Daughter. Miss Dottle Hock, afted 15 years, was attacked in her father's home, 392 East Sixth street, last night by two men, whose Identity she says she does not know. She was bound and gagged, but not otherwise harmed, and was left ly ing helpless until her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hock, returning from a trip down town some hours later, found and res cued her. At her bedside was found this note: "Marry your soldier friend, Charles E. Taylor," read the note, "or you will be made to suffer worse the next time. Be ware, we are coming back again if you do not marry your friend. From your enemies. ' Parents Not at Home. Miss Hock retired last night shortly af ter 9 o'clock and went to sleep almost Immediately,- according to her story. - Her father and mother went over to the West Side of the river to call on some friends and did not return until 11 o'clock. The girl was awakened about 10 o'clock, she says, by a hand held tightly over her mouth, so that she could not cry out. "When found later she was gagged by a towel tied tightly across her face and her feet were tied with a necktie belonging to her father. Her bands were tied with a rope. Her assailants did not utter a word while 1n the room, she says, and, al though it was dark, she could see they wore long overcoats and black slouch hats. Having tied her securely, the two men went away as Quietly as they came. Brother Heard Nothing. The E'rl's brother, Byron Hock, wa asleep ln the next room, but heard no noise and was not awakened. Mrs Hock returned home with her husband about 11 o'clock and upon entering the girl's room, found her lying bound and gaged. The girl Is a student at the Wash ington High School where her brother Byron, is also enrolled. He is a well known baseball pitcher in the Inter school games. Theory of Girl's Father. The assault is a sequel, it is be lieved by Mr. Hock, to a runaway es capade of the girl last week. She left home and went to Vancouver, where she was found ln the company of a soldier named Charles C. Taylor. She had been away from home aoout two days and when found the circumstances waranted placing both under arrest. The girl was released oh bail provide ed by her father, while Taylor, her lover, is held in the Clark County jail awaiting trial. This is the story known to both the girl's father and the Portland and Vancouver police. Mr. . Hock believes that comrades of Taylor committed last night's attack in an effort to force a marriage of the couple and thus save Taylor from prison. "I will not permit any such marriage," declared Mr. Hock last night. "I intend to push the prosecution of Taylor and land him ln the Penitentiary." Hock Had Been Warned. Mr. Hock says he was warned lately that something o this nature was likely to be tried by soldiers at Vancouver, ink lings of a plot having reached the Van couver police, who communicated their In formation to Mr. Hock. He has watched his daughter closely since that time, he says, but felt safe last night ln leaving the girl at home with her brother. ROM TRAIN'S RACE WITH DEATH ALL IN VAIN RECORD Rt3f MADE BETWEEN SPOKANE AND COLFAX, Special Aid for Child Dying of Men ingitis Arrives Too Late to Be Effective. COLFAX, Wash., March 27. (Special.) Miriam Walters, lt-year-old daughter of Rev. and Mrs. T. W. Walters, to save whose life a special car made record time over the Spokane & Inland-to Col fax, and for whom Postmaster Hartson. of Spokane, searched two malls for pre cious serum, died this evening, the serum arriving before the girl died, but too late to stop the inroads of the disease, cerebro spinal meningitis. When the child became 111 Tuesday, It was publicly announced her malady was mysterious, but consultations of physi cians soon disclosed the real nature of the Illness. A telegram to Dr. Heg, of Seattle, who alone possessed the serum. brought response that be had shipped It on the first mall. Postmaster Hartson, at Spokane, wait ed at the postofflce until late at night. The first mail from Seattle did not con tain the package, but search was made of a dozen sacks. The next mail brought the serum, which was rushed to a wait ing motor on the Spokane & Inland, and a wild rare to cheat death was begun. Record time was made between Spo kane and Colfax, a mile a minute being common on the straight stretches. STANDS BY ROYAL BROTHER Alexander of Servia Refuses to Supplant Crown Prince. BELGRADE, March 27. Prince Al exander, the second son of King Peter. Is taking an active part In smoothing over the difficulties that have sur rounded the Crown Prince, his brother George, since the latter's statement that he renounced all claim to the Serv ian throne. Alexander said: "I shall, under no circumstances, agree to take my brother's place. If he cannot be a good King,, neither can I. I will stick to my brother through thick and thin.' George must remain Crown Prince." At a meeting -of the Cabinet today, at which King Peter was present, the resig nation of Prince George as Crown Prince was accepted. The subject will come up before the National Assembly tomorrow, when in all probability Prince Alexander will be proclaimed his successor. FOUR WIVES CLAIM ESTATE Drachma n. Bard of Denmark, Leaves Valuable Property. COPENHAGEN. Denmark, March 27. (Special.) The entire estate of the late Holger Drachmann, poet and dramatist, has now been inventoried. aIn his villa at Skagen he left several big trunks packed with manuscripts, Including two Impor tant dramas and a large number of un published poems, many of them from America. It is believed that he was the most prollflc of any of the modern poets. While everybody, including Drachmann himself, thought he possessed nothing. It turns out that he really died wealthy There will, it appears, be great difficulty in dividing the ertate, because the poet was married four times and all wives are living. The last one recently was married to a Norwegian merchant. CELIL0 BLIND PIG RAIDED Ii. E. Goodrich Fined $150 and Is Serving Time in Jail. THE DALLES. Or.. March 27 fSn.ii L.. E. Goodrich was fined $150 this after noon by justice of the Peace Douthlt a charge of selling liquor without a cense. Sheriff Chrisman arrested Good rich yesterday at Celilo on nnmiiM of G. A. Harth. Celllo is In Columbia pre clnct, which Is in dry territory. Good rich Is a prisoner ln the County Jail. i STICKNEY WILL RESIGN Has Been With Great Western Since Road Was Built. ST. PAUL, March 27. Samuel C. Stickney announced today that he will resign as general manager of the Chi cago Great Western Railroad ' April He has been with the road ever since It was built. His successor has not been announced. EVIDENCE STOLEN IN GRAFT CASES Langdon Raids Office of United Roads. HE FINDS IMPORTANT PAPERS Arrest of Conspirators Fol lowed by Search. ONE OF GANG CONFESSES! Discovery That Prosecution's Em ! ployes Are Bribed to Help Cal- houn Causes Arrest of . . His Officials. SAN FRANCISO, March 27. Follow- . ing the arrest of five men accused of I conspiring to secure confidential papers ! relating to the graft cases from tha j private office of District Attorney Lang- don. the office of Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railroads, as ! well as the cdjoining rooms occupied j by his legal staff and the general offices of the railroad company, were forcibly t entered and searched tonighr-by de-1 tectlves sent by the District Attorney's j office. Luther Brown, head of the rail- i road detectives, and James - Handlon, ; claim agent of the company, were ar- j rested on warrants charging them with. ; larceny, and a warrant Issued for the ' arrest of William M. Abbott, assistant general counsel for the company, on a ; charge of receiving stolen goods. Break Door and Search. The raid on the legal offices in the Balboa building was conducted by Police Detective Thomas Murphy and Assistant ' District Attorney Harrison. Accompanied ' by a dozen plain-clothes men of uie staff employed by - William J. Burns, special ' agent connected with the graft prosecu tion, they appeared before tha door.- Earl Rogers, of Calhoun's counsel in the brib- ' ery trial, answered their knock. He re- ' fused to admit them, alleging that the ' search warrant they presented was not entirely sufficient for the search. The detectives broke through the glass panel ln the door and entered the room, whers they searched every desk and box they found. Meanwhile, they had summoned aid from police headquarters, and 30 or more bluecoats jostled elbows with a couple of . dozen detectives and special agents in. the halls while the ransacking of the rooms proceeded. Search Every Desk and Safe. After the glass door had been shat- tered, Mr. Rogers and Stanley Moore, also of Calhoun's counsel, who, with several other attorneys, were ln the offices, made no turther objection. The policemen, detectives, newspapermen and sightseers who had made their way into the building, thronged the rooms, trampling the broken glass un- der foot. The searchers proceeded from . room to room, with some member of the railroad legal staff always on watch. beside them, and not a drawer or safe : was missed by the eyes of the detec- 1 tlves. ' At the Oak-street carbarn, where the) . general offices of the company are lo- cated, the search was equally systematic j As the combination to the safe could not i be obtained, the lock of the strong-box was forced and every paper inside looked, over. ' Stolen Papers Recovered. The first desk opened was that of Abbott and, according to the statements: made by Detective Burns late tonight, papers were found there which had been taken from his office. These were ths papers called for by the search warrants. At about the same time Raymond Burns, son of the detective, led a party to the office of Luther Brown in thoi Paine building and search under a ' war-i rant issued by Police Judge Deasy i said to have brought to light other of tha papers ' alleged to have been taken f ron the office of Mr. Burns and that of the District Attorney. All these papers wera