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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1906)
THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 190(5. The Meier (Eb Frank Store Will Be Closed All Day Thursday Next on Account of Holiday Frank St re AEEOiieces for Tomorrow eier (Tuesday) amd Wednesday, Grand Fa Cloaks, Millinery, Laces, Trimmings, Silks, Dress Goods, Gloves, Neckwear, Men's Wear, Etc., Etc. The M 11 "Opening Days" Blankets and Comforters A stock unusually large and complete in every detail Warm Bed Coverings in oil grades Third Floor 1000 handsome Comforters filled with lanated cotton, silk oline covered, very best pat terns and colorings, in great assortment and splendid val ues as follows 72x72-inch at $1.35 Ea. 72x78-inch at $1.50 Ea. 72x84-inch at $2.00 Ea. Comforters to $7.50 Ea. Blankets! Blankets! Blankets! 42-pound White Wool Blankets on sale at, per pair $5.50 5- pound White Wool Blankets on sale at, per pair $6.50 6- pound White Wool Blankets, with colored borders; best ffr value in town at this special price, pair ; . . .S 5- pound extra fine White Wool Blankets at, per pair $7.50 6- pound extra fine White Wool Blankets, colored borders; TQ grand value at this low price, per pair )UJV Fine Wool Blankets, natural, gray, blue, brown and rank borders, 5 and 6-pound weight; best values in town at, pair $o.00 and $6.50 We are sole Portland agents for the celebrated "Pendleton" Indian Robes, Blankets and Couch Covers. Third Floor. . ,iiffiipiii School Apparel for Boys On the Second Floor "Hercules" Suits for boys, 4 to 16 years of age, best all round school suit on the market styles and materials the most serviceable; every garment splendidly tailored throughout; large assortment of patterns to select from; guaranteed all wool and shower 2 Oft proof, at the very low price of, suit 4p JW Boys' Knee Pants, from 50 up to, pair. .$1.50 Boys' Knickerbocker Trousers, pair, from..$X to $2 Boys' Blouse Waists, solid colors and fancies, at the ex ceptionally low price of, each 50 to $1.50 Boys' School Suits in fancy tweeds and cheviots, straight or bloomer trousers, great special values at the won derfully low price of, suit $3.50, $4.00 and 34.50 Boys' Rubber Coats, in light weight, all sizes, each $2.00 "Priestley's" Cravenette Raincoats for boys, dark grays, best styles, all sizes, great special value, each.. $5.00 Boys' Rubber Capes, made of pure rubber, good weight, snap buttons and axtra long, great value, each. .$2.00 "American Boy" free for 1 year with every purchase of boys' suit or overcoat to the amount of $5.00 or over at regular price. Second floor. "Nazareth" Knit Underwaists for boys and girls, 1 to 14 years of age ; most comfortable underwaist on 'the mar ket; 25c value on sale at the low price of 10 Great special values in Boys' School Shoes, all sizes. Bargain in Boys' and Girls' Hosiery for school wet.r. All sizes. Grand values for your choosing : Boys' Sweaters, Caps, Handkerchiefs, at low prices. Boys' Reefers and Overcoats, great variety, low prices. School Supplies At the Very Lowest Prices Faber's Best Erasers 4? Rulers, each 1S 4. 8 Pencil Boxes 4S 8, 19J Ink Writing Fluid, bottle 3t Pocket Knives, each 23 Fountain Pen Ink, bottle 8 Carbon Paper, best grade. 2 for 5c 25 dozen. Legal Pads, each 8 Drawing Pads, each 8 Blackboard Erasers, each 4J Pencil Sharpeners.. l,4t, 8 Lead Pencils, 1S 2 for 5. . .4 Waterproof School Bags 12 Book Straps 85 and 12 Steel Pens, per dozen 8t Penholders 2 for 5c 4S 8 7x11 Slates, each 10 M. & F. Pencil Tablets, each.. 4 Plain Pencil Tablets, each 8 Ink Tablets, ruled and unruled, at prices from 2 for 5 to 25 each. t Composition Books, eneh.3, 7 Students' Note Books3, 7, 9 Stenographers' 'Note Books 4, 8 Plain Flag Slate Pencils, dz. .3$ Wood-covered Slate Pencils... 1 White School Chalk, dz 10S 15 Colored Chalk Crayons. .4, 8 Colored Wax Crayons. .4, 8$ School Sponges 2 for 5 Fountain Pens...25 to $5 each Erasit Erasers, each.... 4 Laces and Embroideries Great special lot of Piatt Val. Laces from 4 to 6 inches wide, very pretty patterns, large assortment, val. to 85c yd....25 Piatt Val. Laces and Insertions, iy2 to 32 inches wide, very dainty designs, large assortment, values up to 60c a yard, on sale at this low price of each. 15 Great special lot of beautiful Venise and Baby Irish Laces, de signs for waist trimming, festoons, appliques and bands, white and cream, grand variety extraordinary, val. up to $4.50..-79 PUTER TO WRITE BOOK PRISON King of Oregon Land Sharks Will Tell Inside Facts of Giant Swindles. NEWSPAPER MAN TO HELP From Actual Experience Covering a Period of 2 5 Years, Puter Will Give to World Story In All Its Glaring Details. From the dark and forbidding recesses of his cell In the Multnomah County Jail, S. A. D. Puter, king of the Oregon land-fraud operators. Is to tell In book form the story of his part In the looting of the public domain, covering a period of fully a quarter of a century all over the Pacific Coast. Yesterday Puter sent for Horace Stev ens, a reporter of The Oregonlan, who has had much to do with reporting tha land-fraud trials for this paper, and to whom he Imparted the secret of his am bition. Arrangements were entered into whereby the local newspaper man Is to collaborate with the distinguished land shark In giving to the world a full and complete history of land-fraud operations on the Pacific Coast from the date of their earliest Inception down to the pres ent time, which Puter characterizes as the beginning of the end of Illegal trans actions in this connection. Discussing the situation yesterday, he said: "There are three well-defined periods of fraudulent land operations In this Western country, extending through a course of many years, and I have been an active participant in them all. They have arisen Just as any other spasmodic effort has come to the surface, and then receded, carrying men high in official po sition with them down to degradation and dishonor, leaving them high and dry on the treacherous shores of puolic opinion. "This is the last grand stand of the land thieves, and now 1 - am prepared to tell the story to the- world in all its glaring details, because . I feel that it is a topic that possesses much human in terest, without counting the moral senti ment involved in the issue." The work will be replete with illustra tions covering many of the dramatic episodes Incident to the various trials that have brought such unpleasant no toriety to this state, and photographs of all the prominent actors will adorn its pages. Puter was particularly anxious that a steel engraving of Francis J. Heney should be the frontispiece. The other pictures will represent William J. Burns, the celebrated Government detec tive, from whom Puter made his sensa tional escape In Boston last March, and who figured conspicuously in working up the cases ' against all the land-fraud operators In Oregon: Horace G. McKin ley. who married Marie Ware, after wards deserting her and eloping to the Orient with "Little Egypt"; Mrs. Emma L- Watson, who has heretofore steadfast ly refused to allow any photograph of herself to be given out: Dan W. Tarpley, Blnger Hermann. ex-Commissioner of the General Land Office; Irvin Rittenhouse, private secretary to Heney: Thomas B. Neuhausen. Special Inspector of the De partment of the Interior: United States Attorney Bristol. Senator Mitchell, F. A. Hyde, John A. Benson, Judge Hunt, who has presided in most of the cases; J. N. Williamson, Congressman; George Soren son, F. P. Mays, State Senator, who was recently convicted by a Jury In the Fed eral Court for his connection with the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve frauds; John H. Hall, ex-United States District Attorney, who was removed from office ty President Roosevelt for alleged com plicity In the land-frauds, besides a host of others more or less in the limelight at different stages of the investigations that were ordered by Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock with a view of sup pressing the Illegal transactions. Puter was born in Trinity County, Cal., 60 years ago and was reared among the redwood forests of Humboldt County, where he had excellent opportunity for' studying the varying conditions of back woods life. It Is said that no person in the country has a better knowledge of timber than he, or of the laws relating to the acquisition of the public domain, and it has often been hinted that if he had directed the same amount of energy to legitimate pursuits that has charac terized his efforts in Btealing land from the Government, he would now be in the millionaire class Instead of basking in the heated atmosphere of a dungeon. It is expected that the book will be ready for publication about the first of the year. GETS LEAVE OF ABSENCE Government Shows Its Appreciation of Inspector Xeuhausen's Services. Thomas B. Neuhausen, special in spector of the Department of the Inte rior, who has been largely Instrumental in securing- the evidence used by the Government to convict those tried un der Indictment for land frauds, yester day received a telegram from Secre tary Hitchcock granting him 30 days' leave of absence. Inspector Neuhausen has labored hard to gather testimony that would strengthen the cases against the defendants, and that his efforts were appreciated is indicated by the long vacation allowed him. In view of the fact, however, that the trial of the Butte Creek Land, Live stock & Lumber Company case will occupy the attention ,of the Federal Court next month, Mr. Neuhausen will arrange his leave of absence so as to take a portion now and the rest after the trial. MAYOR WILL USE HIS VETO TODAY Defeat of 0. R. & N. Company's East Third Street Fran chise Assured. DIRECT PROMISE GIVEN Chief Executive Informs President of ' Initiative One Hundred of His Intention May Pass Over Veto. Mayor Lane will today veto the ordi nance granting to the O. R. & N. Co. a franchise to lay tracks on East Third street, according to a statement made by hm to Francis I. McKenna, president of the Initiative One Hundred. Mr. Mc Kenna stated yesterday that he had con sulted with the city's chief executive and had received assurances that the measure which has met with such general opposi tion because of its stipulations will be returned to the Council disapproved. The announcement that the Mayor la to veto the franchise does not come as a surprise. He has repeatedly expressed criticism of the franchise as drawn up. MILWAUKIE EDITOR "ROASTS" THRIFT OF SCHOOL BOARD Charges That Directors Do Not Use Local Paper for Ad vertisingv and That Teachers Are Underpaid. ANTED A Janitor for the Mil- waukie School at once. The salary is $25 per month." When Philip Strelb, chairman of the board of directors of the Milwaukle school district, posted the foregoing no tice In the Mllwaukie Postoffice, he did not dream that an uproar would follow, and that the directors would receive a grilling from the local paper. But the thunderbolt fell Saturday, when the Bee, the little sheet printed by Charles Bal lard, appeared Saturday morning. Mr. Bal lard returned home last week from the St. Vincent's Hospital, where he had his left eye removed, but if he escapes with out losing the other eye this week he will be lucky. Judging from the uproar his "roast" of the school board caused. The article is as follows: W notice from a placard posted up in the poatofflce that the Board of School Di rectors wants a Janitor. They didn't adver tise it In the Bee, because that would have cost them 15 cents. Perhaps, too, they didn't want to advertise to t'ne world that they had. a forty dollar job that they wanted some body to do for twenty-live dollars. We have a very economical Board of Directors. If we were swearing men we would say too d d economical. We pay more money to a man to set type for ui than the district pays to the man who should take the lead in moulding the characters of the children of the community: For instance: We had a fine teacher here three years ago. Professor L. A. Read. His home was here. His inter ests were here. He was a good man and he was a good teacher and so far as we have heard there were no complaints against him, yet they let a little backwoods town like Park Place take him away from us because they were willing to pay him something like what bis services were worth. We know nothing about the present principal of our schools. We trust we have a good man. but we will venture this assertion, that if he Is worth anything at all he will not stay here two years, for some little country school like Concord or Wlllsburg will offer him $10 a month more than he is getting here, and Mllwaukie will let him go. and put up with a cheaper grade. We will see vtitt we cill. The community has taken sides for and against the Bee. A prominent resident, who does not think it safe to come out in the open, said: "That is the best thing I have seen for a long time. It is the exact truth about our school board, I am ashamed to admit. Professor Read, one of the best edu cators In the state, was lost because the board would not pay him a reasonable salary. They paid him "$60 for one year and then $65 for another year. He want ed $75 and would have stayed for $70, but the board thought they had him tight, as he had bought a home in Mllwaukie, but Park Place offered him $80, and he pulled out and sold his home. Miss Emma Ruegg, who followed him, was brought out from the East without knowing what her qualifications were. It happened that she was a capable teacher. Our school board will have to do better." "I do think it a great shame and out rage that such a thing should appear In our home paper," declared Mrs. Maggie Johnson, ' clerk of the district, who took up the cudgel for the directors with some" earnestness. "It is the board's business to get a Janitor for $25 a month if it can, and If not the directors will pay more. And furthermore, this district pays as good salaries as any district in 'the county outside of Oregon City probably. We pay our present principal $75 per month. I deny that Professor Seymour is a cheap man. He received $80 before he came to Mllwaukie, and came here for the reason he wanted to be near Portland. We pay our grade teachers $55 per month. Miss Ruegg, who succeeded Professor Read, was a first-class teacher, yet even better than Mr. Read in some respects." The school will open this morning with Professor Seymour as principal. He has three assistants. There are four rooms In the building, and the attendance last year ran up to 160. Clerk Johnson reports that 30 have been added to the roll since the former census was taken. Members of the board are not inclined to be dis turbed over the "roast" Editor Ballard gave them and may not give It any offi cial notice. However, the matter will probably be made an ."issue" In the com- especially last week, when he was in con sultation with a delegation of East Side property-owners, but his statement to Mr. McKenna is his first direct intima tion of the course he will pursue. Mayor Lane must act on the ordinance today it being the tenth day after its passage by the Council. Otherwise the measure would become a law without his signature. The other two courses open are for him to sign the ordinance or veto it. and It Is now certain that the latter action is to be taken. Ever since the East Third-street fran chise was drawn up, there has been wide spread and determined opposition to the measure. Practically the only direct support It has received has come from the East Side Improvement Association, which is composed largely of property owners along the route of the proposed line, and from the Portland Realty Board which passed resolutions Indorsing the ordinance, and also sent a delegation to call upon the Mayor with the East Side property-owners. Opposition to the franchise originated with the Initiative One Hundred, but has since been taken up by other organiza tions. The other bodies which have gone on record as of opinion that the granting of the franchise would be against the best interests of the city are the Federated Trades Council, the Mount Tabor Im provement Association and the Monta villa Board of Trade. Each of these or ganizations has importuned the Mayor to veto the ordinance. Opposition to the franchise has been especially pronounced because of the omission of a common-user clause and of any provision giving the city a right to purchase the line if It is found desirable to do so. As East Third street is generally regarded as altogether the most feasible entrance to the city now unoccupied by any line, it Is held that with these two clauses omitted the franchise would be a bar to any otner company which wanted to enter Portland during the 25 years' duration of the or dinance. In addition to this there has been a remonstrance against the ordinance be cause the only compensation provided for the city Is the nominal consideration of $50 a year. Under Its terms the company would also he required to make a 20-foot fill for its track, but this is regarded as simply a return to property owners along the route by having street improvements made for them which in the natural course of affairs would be paid for by a levy upon the abutting property. May Seek Compromise. It is probable that when the measure Is returned to the Council an attempt will be made to induce the O. R. & N. officials to consent to the addition of the common-user and purchase clauses. It is doubtful if the 12 votes necessary to pass the measure, as drawn up at present, over the Mayor's head could be secured in the face of the opposition which has arisen. Mr. McKenna is of the opinion that not more than eight Councllmen, at most, will vote for the passage of the ordinance if it comes up again without change. "In case the franchise is passed as it now stands over the veto of Mayor Lane, the Initiative One Hundred will put form every effort to secure its defeat on a referendum vote of the people," said Mr. McKenna last evening. "I do not believe that there is the least doubt but that the franchise would be overwhelmingly beaten if it comes up for a popular vote. Many have already come to me volun tarily and offered to circulate petitions to bring the franchise up at the next municipal election In case the Council passes It. "About the only persons who are work ing for its passage, besides the railroad company, are the owners of East Third street property, who are anxious to have their realty improved without cost to themselves." . Discuss Edgar A. Poe. "Life and Character of Edgar A. Poe," is an unusual subject for a farmers' or ganization to discuss, hut the Mllwaukie Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, devoted nearly two hours to it Saturday, and with profit. It was under the charge of Mrs. Mary Getchell. lecturer. The dis cussion opened with a paper by Mrs. Casto, on the "characteristics" of the poet. She gave a glimpse of his weird and erratic life. Mrs. Maggie Johnson read and commented with intelligence on "The Raven." Her reading was natural and not strained for effect. N. James read "The Bells," and other selections. Miss Kate Casto gave a short paper on Poe's poetry. This programme was In line with the recommendation of the ex ectutive commltee and to encourage lit rany research and tasto among farmers. JAPANESE KILLED IN BLOODY AFFRAY Orientals Fight Battle With ' Knives in North End Restaurant. ONE SUCCUMBS TO WOUNDS S. Morlyama Almost Cut to Pieces. II. Mlya Is Perhaps Mortally Wounded Other Partici pants Escape. . One Japanese was killed and another probably fatally wounded last night In a stabbing affray at 43 North Second street, corner of Couch. S. Morlyama and H. Mlya were the principals. Morl yama died while being taken to the hospital, and Mlya lies In a critical condition at St. Vincent's Hospital. Nine Japanese were mixed up in the trouble, according to the best Informa tion the police were able to obtain laBt night. Mlya was one of a drinking party in the Second-street restaurant which is oonduoted by T. Aokl. Morl yama is said to have entered and de manded $50 of Mlya and upon being refused drew a knife and attacked the other Oriental. Everyone In the room, except two women, are said to have taken part in the cutting but none was captured except the two principals, who were too badly wounded to escape. When the police were notified of the trouble Sergeant Baty and Acting De tective Smith were sent to the res taurant, where they found every evi dence of a fierce fight. The small side room In the front of the building, where the brawl had occurred, was a com plete wreck. Morlyama, apparently dead, was lying in a pool of blood on the floor, while broken chairs and dishes showed that the struggle had lasted some time. Blood was spattered over everything, but all o the Japanese except Morlyama had disappeared. Upon investigation Mlya was found In a back room of the same building, facing on Couch street, where he had been spir ited by his friends in hope of keeping him from the authorities. He was so bad ly wounded, however, that he would prob ably soon have bled to death had he not been taken to the hospital and medical assistance given him. v Other Participants Escape. A thorough search was made by the detectives and police in hopes of finding the others engaged in the affair, but without results. At first it was thought that one or more of the others might also he wounded, but this theory was abandoned. They had successfully made their escape, however, and no trace could be found of them nor would any of their countrymen tell their whereabouts or give their names to the police, al maintaining silence, or claiming that they did not know anything about the affair. A peculiar circumstance Is that the knives used had been so successfully hidden that they could not be found al though every part of the building was gone over. As nearly as can be learned from the conflicting stories of the Japanese who live in the vicinity, there were six men and two women in the room at the time Morlyama entered. The men were all laborers who had Just returned from the canneries in Alaska and were spending money freely when Morlyama demanded $50 from Mlya. The latter gave him $5 and upon his refusal to give more money, Morlyama whipped out a long knife and began to slash him. The other people in the room rushed out and what happened afterwards will only be known to Mlya If he survives his terrible Injuries and cares to tell. According to another version there were only two men In the room-besides Morl yama, Mlya and another man who could not be found. Morlyama Almost Hacked to Pieces. Morlyama's head was cut In numerous places and one of his arms was nearly severed from the body. It was seen when the officers entered the room that he could not live. He hardly breathed when he was put on a stretcher and carried to the patrol wagon. He was started for St. Vincent's Hospital but died before reaching there. After Morlyama was taken away to the hospital the officers were led to an other entrance on Couch street, a few doors around the corner from the res taurant, and there on a wooden bench, half naked, lay Mlya with a long gash in his chest and numerous wounds in his head. The floor there too was cov ered with blood and the man was un conscious. He breathed heavily and blood was freely flowing from his many wounds. , The witnesses declared that after tha stabbing took place on Second street they took Mlya out of the room and placed him on the bench in the place where he was found by the officers, while Morlyama was left in the lodging-house on Second street. They explained that fact with the statement that Mlya was a respectable Japanese, while Morriyama was nothing but a Japanese highbinder. All the Inmates of the lodging-house seem to be sworn to secrecy about the affair. Sergeant Baty and Acting Detec tive Smltl who took charge of the case together with Special Detective Maher, were unable to Induce the Japanese to deliver or point out the men who were in the room at the time the fight started. A strong suspicion exists that a .third Japanese, who cannot be found, is also Implicated In the cutting affair, and that all of the men in the room may have had a hand in the slaying of Morlyama. POLITEST IN THE WORLD Mayor Dunne Is to Teach City Ele vator Boys Their Manners. CHICAGO. Sept. 16. (Special.) As a step toward city ownership of street railways, Chicago is to have the politest elevator operators in the world in its public buildings. Mayor Dunne has ap pointed a master of ceremonies, whose duty it will be to see not only that ele vators are well handled, but that opera tors' manners are a model for all man kind. The step was taken by the munici pal ownership Mayor in answer to a much-quoted argument of the late Mar shall Field: "When Chicago is able to give a decent elevator service, in the city buildings," he said. "I will be willing to talk of municipal ownership of larger utilities. Not before." ELEVEN FISHBOATS LOST Canadian Government Sends Cruiser With Provisions for Shipwrecked. " ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 16. The gov ernment today dispatched the cruiser Fiona with provisions for the fishermen who were shipwrecked in the Strait of Belle Isle during Friday night's gale and later sought temporary relief with the keeper of the lighthouse on Belle Island. In all 11 fishing vessels were driven ashore and the 140 men, women and chil dren aboard barely escaped with their lives. The smacks with their sea son's catch are total losses. The Fiona will bring me fishermen here. Condemn Bulgarian Atrocities. CHICAGO. Sept. 16. Four thousand Greeks at a meeting here today de nounced atrocities recently perpetrat ed upon their countrymen in Bulgaria, contributing several thousand dollars to a relief fund and adopted resolu tions asking the people of the United States to aid in preventing a repeti tion of the cruelties. Copies of the res olutions are to be sent to President Roosevelt and the Ambassadors of the European powers at Washington. The resolutions adopted say that Bul garians six weeks ago destroyed the Greek city of Aghialos in Bulgaria and attempted to massacre its inhabitants. . Lightning Explodes Magazine. MONTFAUCON, France, Sept. 18. Lightning today exploded the powder .magazine at the Forth. Seven persona were killed and many Injured. YOUTHFUL THIEF ARRESTED CYRIL MENTH GIVES UP STOLEN ARTICLES. Benefactor Who Gave Him a Home Is Robbed of Money and Jewelry. Cyril Menth, a 16-year-old boy, was ar rested for. burglary yesterday by De tectives Inskeep and Jones. The lad is a probation charge of the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society and has been in trouble many times. His mother is dead and his father, a workingman, who resides at Portsmouth, is said not to look after the boy. Three years ago the hoy became so troublesome hat the father had him re manded to the society. He was sent to a farm near Oregon City, but had not been there long when he was detected stealing. He 'was sent back to the so ciety and confessed his guilt to Superin tendent Gardner and was brought be fore the Juvenile Court. Menth was sent to live with Mr. Han sen, the sexton of the Greenwood Ceme tery, whose house was robbed last Thurs day night. A purse containing $10. a watch and a quantity of jewelry disap peared. When the boy was arrested he confessed his guilt, gave up the money and the watch. Baying that he had given the jewelry to another boy but kept the watch to wear to school. The lad will be taken before Judse Frazer tomorrow and because of his for mer record will probably be sent to the Reform School. His two younger broth ers are both charges of the Juvenile Court and together with Cyril seem to have some bad streak of character. RACE RIOT AT FOUNDRY Four Macedonians Are Seriously In jured by Americans. GRANITE CITT, III., Sept. 16. -As the result of a race war between American and Macedonian employes of the Ameri can Steel Foundry last night, Chrlsto Tolo, a Macedonian, was shot in the back today and Is in a serious condition. It is said that 500 men took part In the general fight here last night, resulting from ill feeling that had been brewing for a long time between tha American and foreign employes. None of tha Americans was injured, but four for eigners were hurt. The Injured were: Stana Pedro, rib broken; Vassil Pedro, internally and left eye jabbed out; E. Fernando, scalp wounds; H. Kukankos. broken wrist. 231 MAKEIJ WASHINGTON ST, OF . 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