Evening Roseburg review., July 21, 1905, Image 1

oseburg Review.
Vol. VIII.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1905.
No. 85.
Evening
Iff TRIAL IS I
Second JurylSecured in Will
iamson Case.
CHARGED WITH LAND FRAUD
Further Details of Closing of First
Trial and Jury's Disagree
ment Made Known.
Special to Evening Review.
Portland, July, 21. The re-trlal
of the Williamson-Van Gesner-Blggs
land frauds ca3 was taken up vigorous
ly before Judge DeHaven today, and by
three o'clock p. m. the following jury
men bad been secured:
Jas. Green, farmer, Sweet Home.
L. A. Rose, farmer, Jackson Co.
R. B. Collins,. farmer, Hillsboro.
A. W. Porter, blacksmith, Oregon
City.
John Mock, farmer, Multnomah Co.
S. A. Tharp, farmer, Benton Co.
Henry Keen, farmer, Marlon Co. -J.
B. Lewis, merchant, Cottage
Grove.
W. D. Barclay, Benton Co.
George Kirk, Lane Co.
M. S. Adams, carpenter, Dayton.
AUOUT THE DISAGREEMENT
Thursday's Portland Telegram says:
After being closeted together for 4(i
hours and taking 42 ballots, in which
the vote was ten for conviction and two
for acquittnl, the jury in the Wllliain-son-Gesner-Blggs
case reported to
Judge De Haven in the United States
Circuit Court at 1 o'clock that it could
not agree. Judge De Haven asked
ach juror individually whether there
was any hope of an agreement, to which
each responded that there was not.
The Court then ordered the clerk to
nter an order of dismissal.
The jurors looked tired and worn af
ter a vigil of two nights and a stretcD
of 40 hours of confinement in one small
room. Many of them looked sleepy
and cross. On entering the courtroom
Judge De Haven asked tbe jury if it
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had arrived at a verdict. Foieman
Hinkle said it had not, and that there
appeared no prospect that one would
be reached. Judge De Haven asked if
tbe jury understood that it could find
one defendant Innocent, and the jury
said it did.
W. 0. Cook then addressed the court ,
saying that tbe jury had balloted many
times with the same result, that each
man had taken a part in the discussion,
and that it was evident that no verdict
could be reached.
O. H. Flook, a farmer, of Olalla,
Douglas County, and G. O. Walker, of
Walker, Lane County, are the two jur
ors who persistently refused to vote for
the guilt of the defendants in the Wil-liamson-Gesner-Biggs
case, causing
dibf :reement of tbe jury and retrial.
It O-iid they offered to vote guilty
against Gesner and Biggs if the other
jurors would declare Congressman
Williamson innocent, but this the ma
jority would not do. Walker is a con
stituent of State Senator R. A. Booth,
while Flook is a constituent of Binger
Hermann. Both are said to be person
al friends of Hermann.
Congressman J. N. Williamson, his
partner in the sheep business, Dr. Van .
Gesner, and former United States '
Commissioner Marlon R. Biggs were
indicted on a charge of suborning per-1
jury by inducing fraudulent land en
tries in order that additional sheep
range might be secured by them. The
trial lasted nearly two weeks and ex-1
cited great interest. It is believed the
second trial will be more expeditious.
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Progress of the War.
Special to Evening Review.
Tokio, July 21. A dispatch from
Otaru says the Russians were defeated
at Daline. They were 500 strong with
six field guns and three machine guns,
and offered a desperate resistance.
INHABITANTS FLEEING.
Copenhagen, July 21. St. Peters
burg advices from Manchuria say a
Japanese warship has been sighted
near Nikolalevsk, at the mouth of the
Amoor river.
Many of the inhabitants of Niko
laievsk and Vladivostok have fled to
Khabarovsk.
economic suicide.
St. Petersburg, 1 July,21.-'m""
Nbvoe Vreraya today p
alleged Japanese I
bidding th
DISASTER ON GUNBOAT.
Boiler Bursts on the Bennington, Kill
ing Nearly Forty.
Special to Evening Review.
San Diego, July 21. A boiler on
the U. S. gunboat Bennington, now in
the harbor here, exploded today kill
ing between 30 and 40 of the officers
and men.
READY FOR THE FIGHT.
San Francisco, July21. Both Brilt
and Sullivan are down to weight and
ready for tonight's fistic contest. The
betting is 10 to 4 In Britt's favor.
Hoi Wave is Broken.
New York, July 20. The wave of
intense beat which held the city in its
grasp for more than a week, causing
nearly 200 deaths, several times that
number of Berious prostrations and suf
fering to millions, has been thoroughly
broken by the light rainfall and wind
of yesterday. Fully 20 hours after cool
weather brought relief, 21 deaths were
reported today. All these fatalities
occurred after the cool weather had
exerted its Bavlng influences for at
least 12 hours and death in nearly ev
ery instance was due to exhaustiob
from tbe heat that prevailed early in
the week. The temperature today was
from 7 to 10 degress lower than yester
day, and tbe humidity was so reduced
as to make the day gratefully cool. At
2 o'clock the official temperature was
80, humidity 39. The hot wave has
now passed oil' into the Atlantic.
MARRIED
CORNELIUS BOREN. At the borne
of the bride at Kiddle, Oregon, July
20, 1005, R. H. Cornelius and Mamie
E. Boren.
They came to Roseburg last night,
and from here go to Jefferson, thence to
Portland. Tbey will reside at Dlllard,
where Mr. Cornelius Is S. P. R. R.
agent.
Fresh orabs at Mosier's.
Enjoy a nice fresh cracked crab at
Mosier's restaurant.
G. R. Linser sutfered a stroke of par
alysis Thursday afternoon. He has
not yet recovered consciousness except
for a few minutes at a time. Three
days ago a light stroke was felt by the
unfortunate man but the last made his
entire right side useless as well as the
vocal organs.
In the court of Justice John LoDg
this morning, John Krohn, of Cleve
land, was acquitted of the charge of
forgery, as the evidence was insullt
cient to warrant holding him to ap
p :ar before the Circuit Court. John
Thnm vus hecomplaiulng witness,
A
Defiance of Courts as Well
as Individuals. '
HOW CAN IT BE OVERCOME
Moral Integrity of Nation as Well as
Wellfare of People is
Involved.
One of the appalling disclosures
made by Mr. Charles Edward Russell
in the final installment of "The Great
est Trust in the World," in Every
body's Magazine for August, is the
following:
"Water is a great matter in Packing-
town. Now in Chicago, the city owns
and operates the water supply. Large
users of water are supplied through
meters and pay according to the
amount they consume. For a long
time the small sums paid for water by
tbe packing-houses bad aroused annual
comment. In 1000 the uninformed
public broke out into such general
clamov about the obvious leakage that
I the city authorities (somewhat belated
ly, ono would think) began an Investi
gation. Men with pickaxes and spades
uncovered the public mains about
Packingtown. Befuro long thoy had
discovered that every considerable
packing-house had secret connections
with the water supply. There wete
pipes of various sizes, three inch and
four inch, six inch and eight inch, each
leading from the city's conduits to the
works of some packing company. In
Borne cases tunnels had been driven un
der the streets to the mains, and tups
inserted. In one caso tbe malnB them
selves had been diverted from the
highway through the works, and on
these city-owned pipos one firm bad
I planted three great pumps, busily en
gaged in drawing water. And for all
this Bupply thus surreptitiously ob
tained the packers paid not a cent.
) "Great indignation followed when the
public learned the real reason for the
short water supply, and the packers'
small payments to the water fund.
j "But hero a very curlouB circum
stance was to be observed. Die chief
' offenders wore tho greatest houses.
In the cases of the small packers, the
' city excavators relentlessly bared the
i whole of the illegal connections; in the '
'cases of the Swift and Armour
Ipanies, the work Invariant'-'
the line of the Swift.
--fir. -'
row
sions; a mystical spell seemed to dwell
there always. Some persons protested
and complained; thoy might as well
have raved against the wind. It was
easily possible to excavate on all other
soil; on Swift or Armour ground neith
er strongth nor skill could make an
Impression. What excavating bad
been done outside of this maglo circle
showed plainly enough where the wa
ter pipes led; the last link of legal evi
dence that would have convlnoed a
court was always (in these cases) miss
ing. The illegal pipes re
mained as before; also tbe pumps, in
good working order. The diverted city
mains were not restored to their prop
er positions; the fraudulent connec
tions continued to perform their useful
functions, the thieving taps were not
discontinued, summer after summer
the Water Department repeats its
frantlo warnings, and tests recently
made with a pitometer showed that the
water stealings in Packingtown amount
to one billion gallons a year.
"Strange? Not in the least. Any
other condition would be strange.
Tbe great packing-houses are, and al-
was have been, independent of and su
perior to law. If they were amenable
to law, could tbey continue to dose
products of theirs with preservative
chemicals injurious to health? How
are they able to dodge the statutes
governing underbilling and inspec
tion? How do they avoid paying the
State of New York the millions they
owe it for butterlne penalties? How
did they manage to emerge unharmed
from the terrible "embalmed beef"
revelations of the Spanish war? How
did thoy escape prosecution when moro
American soldiers fell before their
deadly beef than wore hit by all tbe
Spanish guns? How did they control
the government on that occasion? How
have thoy controlled it so often since?
The Standard Oil, Is of course, a very
efficient Trust. But you have not
known even tbe Standard Oil Company
to exercise a power like to this.
For the Beef Trust and its evils
"there Is no remody," he says, "unless
we are willing to look upon the issue as
OBSontially an issue of morals and not of
business. We Bhall have to come to a
state of mind in which we oppose such
combination as this, not because it
compels us to lose dollars, but because
It is fundamentally at.! eternally
wrong, because it means bigh treasoKKSJj
to tbe Ropubllc and all tbe Reply,
stands for. Until we are wllll'''
admit that what is involved b
principal vital to human llb'.W'
progress, and until we are j'
make sacrifices for that?1'
to stand for It J"-""'
personal loss f
cry out,e? . .
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