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VOL. XL VI.-NO. 14,366. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, DECE3IBER 24, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IS PUT IN HOSPITAL Rides Horseback to Clean Quarters. RESCUERS ARE CELEBRATING Long-Entombed Man Is in Grateful Mood. TELLS OF EXPERIENCES Two of His Companions, . Caught Above Him, Mere Choked to Death After Struggling Mis erably for Several Hours. BAKERSFIELD. Cal., Dec. 23. (Spe cial.) In less than 12 hours after being released from his tomb In the caved-ln nhaft at Camp No. 1 of the Edison Elec tric Company In the Kern River Canyon, where he waa confined for 154 days, Lindsay II. Hleks this morning mounted a saddle horse and rode to the hospital of Camp No. 2, a mile and a half from the scene of the disaster. He will spend Christmas at the hospital as the guest of Dr. Stinchfield, the physician to whom the praise for the remarkable physical condition Hicks was found in when rescued Is due. After Christmas Hicks believes that he will have regained his strength sufficient ly to allow him to leave the care of the physician, but Dr. Stinchfield has sug gested that a week at least be spent there. Miners Are Celebrating Event. Hicks lies in the Edison Company Hos rltal, forgetting In the luxury of his white bed the resistlessness of the couch of granite and pillow of steel on which he suffered for days locked In the earth. With that unbounded enthusiasm of vic tory that only miners can know and with that enthusiasm stimulated by the cheer of the season, the 40 men who fought the fight for him and won are making Bakersfield ring with theif hilarity. The temperature of the rescued man was normal, but his pulse, 100, was a trifle high,' due to the intense excitement under which he was laboring. Hicks was kept In the tunnel more than an hour before being taken to the hilltop, 200 feet above. When Dr. Stinchfield decided to depart. Hicks raised himself to his feet and protested against anybody coming to his assistance. Knees a Little W eak. "Why, man, I am all right; my knees are a little weak: that's all." But Hicks was weaker than he believed, and the doctor's assistants, George Knox and Harry Linville, assisted by miner George A. Wilson, aided the rescued man. The walk to the hilltop Is a perilous one, over a narrow and steep winding path, but Hicks did not burden his supporters. "I don't believe that man rested more than five pounds pressure on my ahoul der," said Linville today. Hicks smiled as he heard the sounds of celebration today. "They certainly ap pear to be glad," he said. "I guess If I was down there I could have a great time tonight. I used to drink whisky, too, but now that Is over. I tell you, I had plenty of time to think while In that hole, and I have made some pretty strong resolutions, and I Intend to follow them. Yes, sir; I have been a pretty lucky man." Sees the Hand of God. "You bet you have Hicks, old man," Joined In Superintendent Frank Miller, It has been by the grace of God." "I know It has, Mr. Miller; I know it was God who saved me. From the very moment I was swallowed in I saw that God was protecting me and I knew he would save me. I have not been a crank on religion and I am not one now, but Just as sure as you are born I know it was God who saved me. "Everything goesto prove It. The way I was knocked into the cavity, the way the pipe reached me, the rescue every thing goes to prove it. Of course the men did great work and I only wish that It could be within my power to thank them. But if God had not been on my side I know they would have never suc- ceeaea. l am grateful and I am not going to hell if praying will keep me from it." Hicks was as chipper as a lark today. Dust Choked Two Companions. "The only fear I had when I found I was closed in was that I might suf fer from the lack of air when the timbers crashed in and a cloud of dust filled the space and nearly suf focated me. This dust. In my opinion, caused the death of two men. above me. I heard them struggling franti cally for about three hours and I know that their death was caused by strang ulation. "Soon I got a whiff of good, cool ozone, however, and then I felt all right. Of course, it was a long, hard drill, but I knew they were doing everything In their power for me' and the only thing I could do was to be patient and wait. I knew they would get me and all It .took was time. ' "It would seem hard at times, and yet many of the most pleasant minutes of my life were passed In that cavity down there. I enjoyed the conversa tion through toe pipe, the music fur nished by the phonograph and the MINER KS many funny stories and tales that were sent down to me. Tobacco HJs Stafr of Life. "The tobacco was my staff of life. I don't know what .1 would have done without It. Every piece of It I'chewed I made last as long as I could, and when no more could be gotten out of It I swallowed It. "The milk was great, and certainly worked wonders with me. When I went in the tunnel I weighed 150 pounds. Last night I tipped the scales at 1494. I really believe my stomach is larger than ever before, I drank ao much milk.. It reached the right spot. "The milk was fine God bless that cowl and I now weigh only half a pound less than when I went In. I now Weigh 149 ',4 pounds." Hicks then told of many incidents . t r"i. VI 4k. & K -f t T ,i ,ft-t -i ' ni Archbishop Ireland, Who Gives His i Views on Separation of Church and I State In I-rance. I that occurred while he was in the cave. Rarely a day passed that he did not have many unpleasant encounters with the hordes of rats that Infested the caved-in section of the shaft. They would scamper about his head, and it was not an uncommon thing for him to hit them with his hand. Many scampered over his body, butfrom the nonchalant manner in wbichjfcli spoke they did not seem to worry- him. Of the dead bodies, he said two are above an three below the place he occupied. Died an Awful Death. "The poor fellows below never knew what struck them, but those above had an awful death." he said. Hicks will rest for a-few days. He has not decided whether to go back to work here or accept an engagement in a vaude ville circuit at $500 a month. . The remarkable condition of Hicks was a great surprise to Dr. Stinchfield. The doctor said: "I found that his tempertaure was nor mal just after the rescue and his pulse a trifle high, which was undoubtedly due to the excitement under which the miner was laboring. His face Is free from any lines or furrows and to look at him you could not see any difference from an ordi nary workingman who Just had done a day's work in a shaft. He Is weak In the legs and knees and his legs are sore, caused by sitting in one position unable to move. What little nervousness he dis plays will vanish just as soon as he grows stronger." Search for the Dead. At Edison Camp today work In clear ing out the caved-in drift began, and it will take from four to six weeks before this Is completed. The bodies of the aead miners will be taken from the drift as they are reached. A large number of the townspeople drove to the camp, expecting to view the scene of the remarkable adventure, but the miners had vanished, and orders pre vented outsiders from going to the top of the hill. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTKRDAT'S Maximum temperature, 49 degrees; minimum, 45. TODAY'S Probably fair; light variable winds. Foreign. Integrity of the Republic Is first in the minds of the citizens of France. - Page 1. Playing crirket by the Samoans has been regulated by the German Governor. Page 8. Steamer Strathcona burns off coast of Nora Scotia; no lives are lost. Page 2. James Bryce the first plain citizen to rep resent Great Britain at Washington. Page 1. Earthquake of three hours' length recorded on European seismographs. Page S. Domestic. Nine people killed and 27 injured in a train tv reck, at Enderlin, N. D. Page 1. Firemen on Atlantic system of the Southern Pacific go out on strike. Page 8. New York Jews are divided in opinion on the observation of Christmas. .Page 2. National. President It osevelt calls on citizens of the United States to give to starving Chinese. Pago 3. Trade of the United States with Porto Rico has increased amazingly. Page 3. Political. Piatt may retire from the Senate and Elihu Root be appointed in his place, .fage x. raclHc Coast. Miner Hicks, rescued from Edison tunnel, is in good health and spirits. Page 1. Exclusion League at San Francisco de nounces President Roosevelt's message on the Japanese situation. Page 4. Southern Pacific is supplying cars for Valley shipments in larger number than for some time. Page 4. Portland and Vicinity. Senator Hart, of Baker, may support Haines for Presidency of SVnate. Page 12. If Rum Hall loses Seattle baseball franchise he will probably be succeeded by D. E. IHigdate. Pase 32. A. John Francis declares there Is no prob ability of war with Japan. Page 14. Daily and Food Commissioner Bailey re sents attempt of Health Board to abolish his office. Page 8. M. T. Nolan makes exhaustive statement of his side of controversy with Malcolm A. Moody regarding The Dalles Land Office. Page 8. William H. Taft brought from Alberta for trial on forgery charge. Page 14. H. D. Wagnon says Portland people are made slaves by present water system. Page 14. Rev. Hiram Vrocman, of Swedenborgian Church, gives spiritual Christmas tree. Page V. FRENCH G IS THE MONARCHY Cry of Peril to Republic Sways the Masses. IMPLICIT FAITH IN THE STATE Even Good Catholics Forget Their Teachings. OLIGARCHY RULES NATION Archbishop Ireland Declares People of France Have Not Yet Awak ened to Fact That They Are No Longer Subjects. ST. PAUL., Dec. 23. Archbishop Ire land In his sermon at the cathedral this morning spoke on the topic, "Church and State In France." He said In part: Let not Americans be misled by words which have a totally different significance In their land from what Is allowed them In France. Separa tion of the church from the state in America means liberty and Justice; there it means servitude and oppres sion. "Speaking Friday last to .the cardi nals present in the Vatican, Pius X said of the French situation: 'We are ready to submit to separation from the state, but it must be a fair separa tion such as obtains in the United States, in Brazil, in Great Britain, In Holland and not a subjection. No Catholic in the United States makes objection to separation, for there sep aration means exactly what it pur ports to mean.' "Under advice from the head of the church the bishops of France refused) the associations offered by the law of separation. They acted from princi ple. In the interest of religion they could not approve such associations; they cannot by tolerating them appear to approve them. They are not rebels against the laws of the country. Ready to Welcome Prosecution. "The associations, as the Minister of Education, M. Brland, himself has de- ared, were not statutes binding upon tizens; they were privileges tendered i the church, which was free to ac- EVENTS OF COMING WEEK Congress Keeps Holidays. There will be no session of Con gress this week, owing to the ad journment over the holidays. Investigation of Railway Agreement. An Investigation of the Union Pa cific and Southern Pacific Railway situation, growing out of their com mon agreement - and concord, will be commenced by the Interstate Commerce Commission In New York City next Friday. It Is expected that E. H. Harriman will be one of the witnesses. Frank B. Kellogg and C. A. Severance, of St. Paul, have been retained by the Interstate Commerce Commission to conduct the Inquiry. It Is expected that hearings In this case will be held also In Chi cago, Kansas City, 8t. Louis, Den ver, Salt Lake City, Orr-nha and 8an Francisco, and that many officials and employes of the two systems will be examined. The Inquiry will probably not be completed before March 1. If deemed advisable the Information obtained would be re ferred to the Department of Justice. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion "regards the investigation as one of the mosr Important it has under taken for a long time. Scientists Meet In New "fork. Five hundred of the leading scien tists of America are expected to at tend the annual meeting of the As sociation for the Advancement of Science, which will b. held at Co lumbia University, New York City, beginning Thursday and continuing for one .week. The members of 11 affiliated societies for scientific re search are expected to attend the meetings also. Brltt-Fitzgerald Prizefight. A fight between James Britt and Willie Fitzgerald Is scheduled to take place at San Francisco on Fri day. t t cept or reject. She has rejected them. Pope and bishops knew well the con sequences that were to follow; the spirit of the government was not hid den from their eyes; t was an era of oppression; but If no other escape from persecution were possible than the ac ceptance of the law of associations, they were ready to welcome persecu tion. "It is a lamentable fact that there Is In France a party bent on the de struction of religion. The war is made on the Catholic Church because she in France represents religion. In reality, In Intent, and in fact, the war is against Christianity under any form, against religion of any kind, against the idea itself of a God reigning over men. The- spirit of Voltaire and the encyclopedists of the eighteenth cen tury never died out in France. It had an outburst of triumoh in the revo lution, when God was, declared non-t existent and infamy itself, denoted the Goddess of Reason, was uplifted to adoration upon the pillar of the cath edral of Paris. It slumbered a while under succeeding Imperial and royal refelmes; It has reawakened to new vigor in the freedom allowed to thought and speech by the present re public. "This party of lnfldels and atheists (Concluded on Page 2.) IS THE COAST CLEAR ? WRECKED TRAIN IS SET ON FIRE Rescuers Win in Race With the Flames. EIGHT PASSENGERS KILLED More Than a Score of Injured Taken From Splintered Cars. SMOKER IS TELESCOPED Soo Passenger Runs Into Switch En gine While Entering Yards at Enderlin, N. P., at High Kate of Speed. ST. PAUL, Deo. 23. A special to the Pioneer Press from Enderlin, N. D,. says: Loaded to Its full capacity with people f going to their homes In the Fast to spend the Christmas holidays, the south bound train on the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie crashed into a switch engine at the west end of the railroad yards at this place at 2:10 o'clock this morning. Eight men were killed outright and one since has died of his injuries. Twenty-seven were seriously Injured and it Is likely that the death list will be added to. All of the fatalities occurred in the smoking car, which was completely tele scoped by the baggage car, and only two of the occupants of this car escaped injury. The car was crowded and as the whistle had just sounded for Enderlin almost everyone was on his feet when the crash came, and the dead an3 wounded were piled into a great heap with the wreckage. A rescue party soon was formed and the work of taking out the dead and in jured was begun at once and continued throughout the night. The little hospital was soon crowded with the hurt and the hotels were converted into emergency hospitals, where the other injured were cared for. There are but four physicians In Enderlin and a special train with phy sicians and nurses was hastily made up at Valley City and rushed to the scene of the wreck. Stoves Set Wreckage Afire. The wreckage took Are from the over turned stoves used In heating the cars and there was a race between the rescu ers and the flames. By almost superhu- man efforts the rescuing party managed to fight off the flames until all of the dead and Injured had been removed from the wrecked cars, which then were al lowed to burn. Only a few passengers in the day coaches were Injured, and in the sleep ers, none of which left the track, there were no casualties. The train which was wrecked was the southbound accommodation, running be tween Moossejaw, Canada, and St. Paul. It Is due here at 11:45 P. M-, buf last night was nearly three hours late. The engineer was running his engine at a ffigh rate of speed in an endeavor to make up the lost time. A switch engine was shifting a cut of box cars In the western end of the yard and had Just pushed them on the siding as the accommodation train suddenly f ;LmJ'jju," u..--- . ""w Hun ."") ' ..'"I"'! i I 1 V r Ellhu Root, Who May Succeed Thomas C. Piatt In the United States Senate. swung into sight around the curve. The siding was not long enough to allow the box cars and the engine to clear the main track, and a headon collision oc curred between the switch engine and that of the passenger train. Locomotives Are Demolished. Both locomotives were practically de molished and the baggage cars crashed through the smoking car, telescoping It. One of the day coaches was also de railed, but only a few passengers in this coach were injured. The other day coaches and the sleeping cars did not leave -the track. It Is Impossible to learn who was at fault In the accident. It Is said that the switch engine had been given a portion of the running time of the passenger In which to shift cars in the yards, and it Is supposed that the passenger train had made up more of the 'ost time than had been anticipated by the crew of the switch engine. The Coroner this afternoon empaneled a Jury , and began at once an Investiga tion into the cause of the wreck. The engineer and firemen on both the switch and passenger engines, when they saw the collision was Inevitable, leaped and saved their lives. The Bead and Injured. Following is a list of the dead and In jured: CHARLES BACKUS, Bergen, N. D. N. J. VOLKER1NG, Anamoose, N. D. JOHN SATTERBL'RG, Anamoose, N. D. TONY GI.EEN. Velva. N. IX D. J. BERESFORD, Medicine Hat, Al berta. H. KOSENBAUM. Velva. N. D. W. J. DANIELBON, 8helbon, N. D. A. O. ANDERSON, Startbuck, Minn. NELS HANSON, Kenmore, N. 1). It has so far been impossible to secure a list of the injured in the wreck. Claim agents and other employes of the rail road have taken charge of the Injured, and absolutely refuse either to give out a list of those hurt or to permit news paper correspondents to secure the names In other ways. The newspaper men on the ground have entered a strong protest against this ac tion on the part of the railroad offi cials, but so far . It . has been without avail. BRYCE OEMS PEERAGE COMES TO WASHIXGTOX WITH OUT A TITLE. First Plain. Citizen to Represent ' Great Britain as Ambassador to the ' United States. ' LONDON, Dec. 23. James Bryce, it would appear, has declined a peera; but at any rate, according to the Dally Telegraph, he will go to the United States as British Ambassador without changing his name, and thus be the first plain citizen to represent his country at Washington, and, says the Chronicle, "Americans who know and honor him as James Bryce will esteem him all the more because he declined a title." The finding of a successor for Mr. Bryce as Chief Secretary for Ireland is giving Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-man considerable trouble. Judging from the many possible candidates named. According to the latest gossip, Lewis Harcourt, First Minister of Works, has declined the position. The comments of the Irish papers of all shades regarding Mr. Bryce's de parture are rather cool. They general ly regard Mr. Bryce as lacking in necessary sympathy and as having been a rather weak than a strong Irish Sec retary. Xo Preferences to Be Shown. TOKIO. Dec. 23. Dr. Goto, president of the Southern Manchurian Railway, says that the principle guiding the manage ment of the company forbids the grant ing of preferential treatment to persons' of any nationality, Japanese or other wise. King Oscar's Condition Unchanged. STOCKHOLM. Dec. 23. A bulletin Is sued tonight regarding the state of health of King Oscar says that his temperature on Saturday night was 99.2 and this morning 99.6. Otherwise bis condition re mains unchanged. ELIHU ROOT Mil GO TO THE SENATE Piatt Plans to Retire from Congress. TIME FIXED AT END OF SESSION Governor Hughes Would Ap point Present Secretary. APPROVED BY PRESIDENT Such Strong Opposition Has PeTe oped In Senate to Roosevelt's Plans That He Needs Strong Friends In That Body. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. (Special.) Thomas Collier Piatt is planning to re sign at the end of the present Congress and plans likewise are being laid to have Governor Hughes appoint Elihu Root to succeed him as United States Senator. The Piatt end of this story conies from close friends of the Senator and bears the stamp of an authentic statement. The Root feature is based on the knowledge of a movement that has been under very quiet consideration for a long time. It is probable this story will meet de nial from Senator Piatt. No matter what the Intentions of Senator Piatt may be, he does not care to have them made known until the time comes for him to act. New Yorkers who are deep in the Inside of political things apparently have understood for some weeks' that Senator Piatt would not serve out his term, which expires March 3, 1909, but for their own reasons most of them have been as anx ious as Mr. Piatt to keep matters quiet as long as possible. Scramble Would Result. An authorized announcement too far In advance might result in an unpleasant scramble that would complicate the carry ing out of a complete programme. Sec retary Root -has had the matter pressed upon him vigorously of late and there are many conditions that cause him to view a change of his sphere of public activity with much favor. President Roosevelt would feel deeply the loss of Mr. Root from his Cabinet, but he, too, sees rea sons in existing conditions why it would be wise for him to make the sacrifice. In the first place, the President is a New Yorker and wants to see the Empire State restored to its rightful position of influence In the United States Senate. Elihu Root, it Is conceded, would fill the bill in every way. Needs Friends in the Senate. . There are other considerations that weigh with the President. He has made up his mind not to be a candidate for renomination, so that Secretary Root's tenure of his present position would ex pire March 4, 1909. Moreover and this consideration balances to a great degree the loss that would be incurred by Secre tary Root's retirement from the Cabi netthe administration may need to strengthen its forces in the Senate. The new hostility. to the President that has developed in the Senate since the begin ning of the present session of Congress gives cause for heed. President Roosevelt will not be con tented to lie down and let things go by default just because he is to re tire from the White House when his present term is finished. He intends to be militant to the end and desires to round out his administration by completing his programme of policies. He realizes that systematized opposi tion In the Senate under the leadership of the able statesmen who seem de termined to tight him may play havoc with his plans. As his supporter in the Senate, Mr. Root would be a mighty power. Root Pressed by Friends. The understanding In administration circles that Piatt would retire before the expiration of his term has been so well developed that some time ago the President in conversation with New York friends Is said to have ex pressed his conclusion that the real trouble might be that Secretary Root might not care to go to the Senate. This was some time ago. More re cently Secretary Root has set to pon dering the situation through the Im portunities of close friends and It may be said that he appreciates the exigen cies that have been set forth above. More than this, the more personal side of the case has appealed to the Secretary of State. As a Senator he would not only be assured of a ca reer for many years to come, barring the accidents of politics, but he would have nine months of leisure every other year and In the years of long sessions of Congress, five or six months. His present duties call for practically constant attention. Secre tary Root's willingness to accept the toga would be the signal, it Is be lieved, for the other aspirants to stand aside. One of the current rumors has been that President Roosevelt would suc ceed Piatt in the Senate. The Presi dent Is not counting on this. Postal Service Strike Ends. VIENNA, Dec. 23. The "passive resist ance" strike of 25.000 employes of the. Austrian Postal Service, which waa be gun last Friday, hag ended.