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I lift" iilrlMiHHiT .' i ifSSl at ill I 'i flu. VOL. XLVI.-XO. 14,482. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8,. 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 0 CARS FROM THE STREETS San Francisco Scene of Bloody Conflict With Strikers ONE DEAD, THIRTEEN HURT Strikebreakers Defend Them selves With Shower of Bullets. MOB'S FRENZIED PURSUIT Police Show Sympathy by Ar resting Guards. ANOTHER ATTEMPT TODAY I'nltetl Railroads Accuse Police of Threat to Shoot Strikebreakers. Governor Is Xot Ready to Call Out the Militia. DEAD AND IXJIRED IN RIOTS. SAN' FRANCISCO. May 7. Following- Is a list of the killed and Injured In the streetcar riots at the Central Emergency-Hospital: DEAD: James Walsh.' INJURED: Thrtmas White, lacerated scalp. Police Officer Harry ipauer, shot through shoulder. F. Joy. laceration of cheek. J. Krohner. shot In shoulder. William Slattery, contusion of foot and head. J. Arena, contusion of knee. A. C. Jahn. shot in throat. N. Leieh. shot through chejrt. N. Granville, laceration of face. G. A. McXaughton, shot In fore head. Tom Buchanan, shot in abdomen; mill die. C. v. Forrester, contusion of face. Detective Sergeant Bell, shot In chest. A: Falm. shot in neck; may die. SAN FRANC1SOC. May 7. Rioting by streetcar strikers and their friends and repeated fusillades of bullets from strike breakers today marked the first attempt to run ears on the United Railroads since the strike began. The movement of a freight car from one barn was the signal for obstruction of the track by a mob and for a shower of missiles aimed at those who operated the car. After running only half a block, the car was taken back to the bam. Brickbats and Bullets Fly. Having thus made a test, the company at 2:30 P. M. sent a string of seven pas senger cars out of the Turk and Fill more street barns, manned by armed strikebreakers. Their, appearance was the eignal for renewed rioting. Brickbats, paving stones and all manner of missiles were hurled at the cars by a pursuing . mob of several thousands. One of the guards on the cars retaliated with a shot, which hit its mark. The assault on the cars became more furious and the guards retaliated with several fusillades, which caused the death of one man, wounded one fatally and 13 less seriously. After running a few blocks, the cars were returned to the barn and the at tempt to operate the lines was aban doned for the day. Police Action Ineffective. The police did little to check the law lessness. They attempted to dissuade the mob from violence, but only two of them used force and they did H so effectively that they cleared the way for the cars for the time being. The police arrested 13 of the strikebreakers for shooting, but made no arrests among the mob. That the many bloody events of today may be repeated with even more tragtc results was the fear expressed tonight, 'when It was made known ahat the United Railroad's programme for Wednesday In cludes another attempt to resume the operation of Its system. This attempt, according to General Manager Mullalley, will be made some time In the forenoon. He declined to state at what hour or . to discuss the company's plans in this respect. Police to Shoot Strikebreakers. Mr. Mullally said that, when attorneys for the United Railroads visited the Cen tral Police Station this evening to re quest the admittance to bail of the strike breakers under arrest for shooting strikers and their sympathizers. Chief of Police Dinan said: "Tomorrow I shall arm the police with -lfles. If any strfkebreakera start any shooting from the cars, they will be shot In turn by the police." "I can hardly credit this statement," added Mr. Mullally. "but it comes to me direct and authentically." Thirteen strikebreakers were arrested. Three of them were releasd on bail and the remainder were held awaiting devel opments. First Death From Shooting. James Walsh, one of the strike sympa thizers, who was shot this afternoon from one of the attacked cars, died at the Central Emergency Hospital tonight. No hope Is held out for the recovery of Tom Buchanan, one of the strikers. He also is at the Central Emergency Hospi tal. . A bullet penetrated his abdomen and punctured the intestines 22 times. President Calhoun tonight, at his home, stated that he has in view no appeal to the Governor for state troops, "That," he said, "is not a task for me to per form." Mr. Calhoun issued a statement to the J f , "i! rwV -III 1 1 I -'"V - I'M James N. (iillett. Governor of Cali fornia, who Threatens to lie Mi litia to Suppress San Francisco Riots. people of San Francisco, passing up to their verdict the merits of the contro versy in its new and tragic developments of today. BRICKBATS MET. BY BILLETS Howling Mob Pursues Cars and the Strikebreakers Shoot. SAN FRANCISCO. May 7. The strike of the 1700 union motormen and con ductors of the United Railroads devel oped this afternoon in a riot In which more than a score of persons were se verely, some fatally, wounded, and otfiers more or less injured. At 2:30 the company made its first attempt to resume the operation of its system by sending out seven passenger ,cars manned by between so and 40 strike breakers wearing the uniform of car Inspectors and each carrying a thirty eight calibre revolver strapped around his waist outside of his coat. The start was made from the company's barns at Turk arid Fillmore streets, wnere a crowd variously estimated at from 3000 to 3000 men and boys was congregated. Twenty-seven policemen. Ave mounted officers and several sergeants under the command of Captain Moony were on patrol guard. First Shot Enrages Mob. The appearance of the cars in Fill more street, from which they were switched into Turk street, was the sig nal for an immense outburst of jeers and hoots. Before the cars had gone one block they were made the targets of showers of stones and bricks. In a few moments every pane of glass had been smashed and several of the armed operatives had been struck, cut and bruised.' At Turk and Buchanan streets an especially, fierce attack was made on the foremost car. A guard on the rear' platform answered the flying stones with a pistol shot. " The bullet struck one of' the-union sympa thizers in. the arm. . . ' '" This " happening transformed the crowds -into a. wild mob and thencefor ward for 12 blocks a pitched battle was fought. " The strikers and their friends, aided by hundreds of. youth ful hoodlums, kept .up a running shower of missies; the guards on. board the cars responded- with - fusillade after fusillade of pistol shots.- Eight men received bullet wounds, some, of . which will prove fatal, among these'thus In jured being a detective sergeant and a patrolman., . . . . , . Guards Arrested; More Shooting. Finally a dozen or more of the guards were taken under arrest by squads of reserves from the central station and a union crowd boarded the rear-most car and started it back to the barn. Arriving there, the strikers charged that revolver fire was opened on them from the barns. In this encounter sev eral more men were shot. A non-union man threw the switch at the corner of Turk and Fillmore and the derailed car shot into the sidewalk, maiming two men whose names have not been learned. In the stampede that followed scores of women and children on the outskirts of the mob in Fillmore street were hurled to -the pavement and trampled upon. The appearance of relief squads to re-enforce Captain Moony's men re sulted about 4:30 o'clock in the partial dispersing of the crowds. A current rumor has it that Superin tendent Chapman, who spent the fore noon and eHrly afternoon at the Fill-more-street barns, was seen about 6 o'clock driving rapidly away on Golden Gate avenue In an automobile that was dashed with blood. There is as yet no confirmation of the rumor that Mr. Chap man was wounded. At the Central Emergency Hospital at Golden Gate avenue and Gough street is gathered a large crowd of union men and their friends waiting eagerly for the messages that drift out from moment to tConcluded on Page 6.) T OF COL Old Line Democrats in Open Revolt. OPPOSED. TO AlS DOCTRINES Southern Senators in Confer ence at Washington. JUDGE GRAY POSSIBILITY Propose to Put .Ultra-Radicals In a Party by Themselves and With Jeffersonian Leader Go Before Country on State Rights. WASHINGTON, May 7. (Special.) A senatorial syndicate having for its object "the control of the next Democratic Na tional convention is in process of forma tion. William J. Bryan might call it a conspiracy, because It is decidedly anti Bryan in character, while the work pre paratory to launching the movement that Is contemplated has been conducted with well-guarded secrecy. Something tangi ble, however. Is likely to transpire in connection with the movement within a very few days, when the country will be let into some of the details. Mr. Bryan's federalistlc tendencies have supplied the excuse for positive action, which conservative leaders of the Demo cratic party, have long awaited. Recent ly there have been a good many confer ences looking to concerted, effective ef fort. Several Democratic Senators, of pronounced states rights and old line ten dencies, have lingered in Washington since the adjournment of Congress or have found it convenient to drop in at the capital on some kind of business.. Now the secret is out. According to authoritative Information tonight a com pact organization has been practically effected already, and the general move ment throughout the country only awaits formal statements from some of the leaders. An initial statement from one of the most influential minority members of the Senate may "be 'expected some time this week. Want to Sidetrack Bryan. The frantic desire of the Eastern con servative Democrats to sidetrack Mr. Bryan and Bryanism was shown most forcibly at the recent Jefferson Day din ner in New York. This open manifesta tion, however, was less important from the real political standpoint than the movement to perfect a thorough working organization among the party leaders in Congress, which takes in those from the South In particular. . It previously has been explained how certain Senators planned to start a cam paign with tthe next session of Congress, to control the making of the National WAN MORE B RYAN platform of their party In 1908, regardless of the personality of the candidate select ed to head the . ticket. They accepted Bryan as Inevitable, so far as the nomi nation was concerned, but they thought they could guide the party In its declara tion of principles for the campaign. - A brief lapse of time has shown-the -in-, consistency of any scheme, such as has been . proposed originally. It has become clear that if Bryan 7 be the nominee he Will, to all intents and purposes dictate the, . platform on which he will stand. Therefore, in spite of the undeniable hold of Bryan upon the rank and file of the party, it seems to have been determined to go in for full control.-' Gray Favored Candidate. Some of the plans of the Senatorial syn dicate are merely tentative, but at this time the candidate favored for the Presi dential nomination is' Judge Gray, of Dela ware. Unless something unforseen hap pens, it is believed that Judge; Gray will be the sure-enough conservative Demo cratic candidate for presentation to the National convention. The ultra-radicals will be told to join Hearst's Independence League, and if the ultra-conservatives have their full way, William J. Bryan will be read put of the party as effectually as he told Democrats he would drive them from the party if they did not profess allegiance to the initiative and referendum doctrine. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. ' ygt.-wpDA TP "Maximum temperature, 65 decrees; minimum, 48. TOUATS Fair and warmer; westerl winds. San Franclitco Riot. Attempt to run cars provokes hostilities and strikebreakers shoot with deadly effect. Page 1. Police show favor to strikers and will ar rest all who carry arms today. Page t. Governor Gillett will call out militia If police fall to keep peace. Page 1. Labor Council moves to settle all strikes. Page 9. Foreign. . Irish Council bill Introduced In Parliament.. Page 2. Russian Socialists to hold convention In England. Page 8. National. , German-American tarifT agreement debated n Reichstag. Page 8 Pol 11 Irs. Conservative Democrats move to defeat -Bryan. Page 1. Domestic. Hot chase after trainrobbers in Montana. Page 4. Judge Beatty replies to Senator Borah's at tack. Page 3. H ask in tells of veterans of ante-bellum Con gress. Page 5. Factfiie Coast. Maniac kills six persons in San Francisco. Page 4. Miners' Federation lawyer pays last visit to Boise prisoners. Page 3. President nends secret service men to watch Haywood trial. Page 3. Portland men learn facts about Hood River- Page 6. John Riplinger, prominent Seattle politician. fugitive from Justice. Page 1. Portland business men given royal welcome , in Eastern Oregon. Page 1. Snorts. ..... . -" 0"BrttnBurnf P',Jriw1l aitf place In Los Angeles ton1 f. Page 7. Commercif and Marine. Another decline In hid prices. Page 15. Chicago wheat market, rervous. Page 15. No support given stock market. Page 15. Steamer- Maori King puts Into San Diego with mutinous passengers. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Lan forcej plan' to depose Thomas from chairmanship Z Central Committee, Page 10. f Portland Woman's Union closeB year of suc- cesbful work. Page 12. Portland apssamcr.t will probably reach -valuation of $200,000,000. Page 7. Official canvass shows that Mayor Lane was renominated by votes of his own party. Page 10. Ironworkers and carmen fight battle on streetcar. Page 10. -Rabbi Jonah Wise Impugns motives of Industrial Peace Association. Page 16. JUST MY SIZE ! " DAY IS SPENT in UNION BusinessMenSeeMuch of Eastern Oregon. GOOD SPEECHES ARE HEARD Splendid Reception Tendered by Baker City People. WILL REACH BOISE TODAY After Seeing Metropolis of the Gem State, Portland Party 'Will Start for Home Thursday Greetings T Are Very Cordial. BAKER CITT. Or.. May 7. (Special.) In Union and Baker Counties today the Portland excursionists received warm greetings. At Elgin, Imbler, La Grande, Hot Lake. North Powder, Haines and Baker City. Tonight's reception in Elks Hall hy citizens of this growing place was the best attended and one of the most satisfactory of the Journey. To morrow evening the Portland men wljl reach Boise, when they will depart toward -home Thursday afternoon. At tonight's meeting the visitors were welcomed by Mayor C. A. Johns and City Attorney Charles F. Hyde. Responses were marie by T. W. B. London, chairman of the party, for the day, and assistant manager of Balfour, Guthrie & Co.; W. E. Williams, of the Continental Fire In surance Co.; W. M. Cake and Tom Rich ardson. The occasion was enlivened by frequent music of the White Swan brass band, one of Baker City's objects of pride. The visitors had ridden over the city af ter arrival and beheld its many evidences of thrift and growth, so that their speak ers were well loaded with appreciative sentiments. Then words were uttered with frequent applause. Their addresses were the best yet spoken on the trip. Learn Much In Baker City. Mayor Johns . acted as leader of the Baker City residents in becoming style. He pointed out the foremost position of Baker City as a shipping point on the O. R. & X., showed the phenomenal Increase in value of farm lands and cited that the banks have J2.O0O.OOO in deposits. He closed with an appeal for united action of all sections of the state and Portland.' Mr. ' Hyde made some trenchant but ood-natured thrusts at Portland for not having extended the right hand of fellow ship in the past as it should have done, attacked the. railroad for failure to pro vide adequate facilities and asked Port land's aid In compelling the railroad to better conditions. Mr. Cake responded. ' saying Portland has put out its right hand often, espe cially by taxing Itself for a channel to the sea. Tom Richardson put in an ad ditional word for Portland, saying- that It was doing everything it could to promote the interests of the Northwest country. He declared improvement of railroad fa cilities could be obtained in better ways than by attacking: the railroad. " All these remarks were uttered in best of good nature. ' Escorted to Town of Elgin. , Shortly before 7 o'clock this morn-V lng the excursion tral'i rolled into La Grande, on its way to Elgin, which is the present terminus of a branch line of the railroad toward Wallowa. At La Grande, a reception committee of the Commercial Club of that city was at the station despite the early hour, to welcome the visitors. Th. committee was invited aboard the train and rode to Elgin. The commit tee comprised G. M. Richey, postmaster of La Grande; J. W. Scriber, F. L. Myers, J. M. Berry, F. S. Bramwell, N. K. Davis, Walter M. Pierce, E. W. Davis and J. C. Henry. At Elgin the party was escorted to Sj 4.. ; Aniens tine Blireil Chief Secretary for Ireland, Who Proposes First Step Toward Home Rule. the Knights of Pythias hall, where It was welcomed by the Mayor, D. B. Hendricks, who made a brief and ap propriate address. The response in behalf of the visitors was made by Mr. London. Mr. London presented J. K. Gill, of Portland, who made an in viting speech in behalf of Portland, contrasting the progress of the present day with the primitive condi tions of 35 years ago, when he first visited Grande Ronde Valley. Great Changes in 35 Years. "When such wonderful things have taken place in' the last 35 years," said he, -"tan anybody foresee wJiat "will take place tn the next 357" ' Elgin is a large producer of lumber, and within a short radius are some 17 sawmills. Elgin contains two plan ing mills, owns Its own water plant, and is lighted by electricity. It is a shipping and selling point for the livestock and products of the Wallowa country," besides being a trade center for a large area of Grande Ronde Val ley, The railroad extension to Joseph, some 60 miles, has been promised by Harrlman, and gradlngs have been made for 40 miles toward Joseph. The rails out of Elgin have been laid five miles and men are continually work ing on rock outs for the road. Shortly after 9 o'clock the party started back toward La Grande. A brief stop was made at Imbler, where greetings were offered by P. H. Wes tenskow, L. M. Jensen, Walter String ham, L. A. Strlngham, W. E. Ander son Robert Lloyd and Leonard Billings. A sawmill is building at Imbler for 15,000 feet output a day. Large quan tities of "potatoes are shipped there. The town .has -about 200 population, and contains two merchandise stores. Visit the . Mormon Temple. On the return to La Grande the reception committee of that town led the party to the Commercial Club. There Walter M. Pierce made an ad dress of welcome, to which Mr. Lon don and F. E. Beach, of Portland, responded.- The Portland men next were 1ed to the new $40,000 Mormon tem ple uptown, " the best church In Ore gon, outside , of . Portland. As they approached, the Latter Day, Saints brass band struck up and led into the temple. " After listening to music of the band inside the large auditorium and encoring the musicians, the vis itors were welcomed by George Stod dard, Bishop' 6T""the'"La Grande ward, and W.. S.. Brownell, President of the Union- intake of the Church of Latter Day Saints. Responses were delivered by Mr. London, T. G. Hailey and Sen ator Fulton. President Bromwell made a fitting address and showed the llberalness of his church by saying that the temple was open for the use of any religious body desiring to come to La Grande, whatever its creed. He remarked that he and his associates expected to be loyal to the government of the state, to help build up La Grande, and to make Oregon their home as law-abiding citizens. Further music by the church choir and male quartette pleased the visitors so much that they applauded for. and obtained encores. Make Stop at Hot Lake. At the end of the music and speak ing the visitors gave three loud hur rahs for La Grande. The Portland men next inspected a new sawmill of the George Palmer Lumber Company. This mill of 125,000 feet capacity in 10 hours is completely modern, and will soon begin sawing logs, brought by rail. After leaving La Grande the party tarried some 25 minutes at Hot Lake, when Walter M. Pierce guided the members through the sanitarium at that place. At North Powder the cit izens gave an enthusiastic welcome with a brass band, and a speech by Mayor John R. McLaren. Responses were made by Mr. London and T. T. Burkhart- The next stop was at Haines, when the visitors Were greeted by Mayor David Wilcox. The train arrived at Baker . City shortly before 6 o'clock. j Hi RIPLINGER IS SHORT Prominent Seattle Man Wanted by Police. THINK HE IS IN HONDURAS Recent Nominee for Mayor Is a Fugitive From Justice. SPENT THE CITY'S FUNDS Becomes) Suddenly III After Defeaf at Polls, Pleads Poverty and Bor rows 3Ioney With Which to i Recuperate In California. ' S2D SEATTLE. May 7. (Special.) John Blp linger, ex-City Controller and eandldat. on the Republican ticket a little . more than a year ago for Mayor. 1 declared to be an embezzler. In ao far aa the city au thorities have been able to check up hl accounts, he was short 19850 when he left the Controller's office In March, 1906. The shortage will probaWy reach 20.000. For several months former associates in the Controllers office have known some thing was wrong. For an Indefinite period Harry W." Carroll, formerly accountant under Riplinger during most of the eight years he served as chief clerk and then Controller, has been certain Riplinger waa short in his accounts, and has relied Im plicitly upon a pledge Riplinger has made by letter and telegram to return to Seat tle. But today the storm broke when a tele- . gram came from Los Angeles that Indi cates Riplinger has gone to Honduras, where no extradition can reach him. The , facts were laid before the County Attor- f ney, and tonight a warrant was issued,' and the Sheriff Is telegraphing to all Im' portant American cities and to ; foreign ConsulB in South America the description of the . man whom his friends referred to here for years as "Old John Riplinger, as honest as the day is long.' ( . . Faint Hope of His Arrest. . Riplinger is supposed to have gone from Los Angeles April 1 to accept a position as foreman of a banana ranch In Hon- -duras. Though there is no extradition treaty with that country. County Attorney Mackintosh has a faint hope that the fact that Nicaragua is now in control of that country will allow him to have Rip linger returned. Mackintosh was one of Ripllnger's ; strongest supporters a year ago, but to-: night he had to wire the State Depart- j ment to know whether an extradition I drawn upon Nicaragua would be honored -by the Nicaraguan military officials in I Honduras. And Sheriff Smith, who al-1 lowed Riplinger to use his name and his j office a year ago in his political fight, had to sign a telegram asking the police of! every important American city and Hon-; durian consuls to capture Riplinger. Nicholas Riplinger, a brother, formerly employed in county offices here. . is sup-! posed to be with the former Comptroller, j The . embezzlement scheme of Pipilneri was simple. The practice in local street! improvement districts here has Deen hri I a contractor has practically completed j his work, to turn over to htm the enUre j series of local Improvement bonds, ac-' cepting his certified check in a sum suf-I ficient to protect the city against any loss. ' These checks are held by the Comptroller ' and the money is paid back when the ; work is Anally accepted. f Converted Checks Into Cash. Riplinger forgot to pay back an amjunt j now believed to be approximately $20,1V;. and known to be at least 18350. jUrrat & i Goetz. contractors on what was kr.nwn as the Renton Hill Job, involving nearly $050,000, were tied up in payments on a final $4500 by a tight made in court, by some of the property-owners. Thsy took the bond issue, but gave a certified check for. the $4600. The day before Riplinger left office he converted this Into money and this is the specific charge on which a- warrant was Issued tonight for his ar rest. The . Mayoralty election caused what amounted almost to a mental collapse tn Ripllnger's case. Possibly the worry over his financial condition caused It. but when Riplinger turned over his office a year ago he was a wreck. He pleaded to friends a need of rest and a claim that he waa penniless. A big merchant here advanced him $500 and told him to go to California. It developed tonight that after this money was received Riplinger was seen at a bank stowing away funds he had on deposit there, presumably the last $4500 taken. - Trip to California a Mystery. There has been & mystery about Riplin ger since he left here a year ago. He was supposed for a time to have been in a California sanitarium, then he was re ported in the mountains of Mexico. Ha was in that country prospecting for a time, but broke his leg and returned to Los Angeles. Then he fled presumably . to Honduras. Frequent letters recently . told of his impending return and about a month ago he wrote to a friend asking what chance he 'had if he sought a Mayoralty election next year. He dis appeared before an answer could be re turned. None of his friends can account for Rip llnger's manner of spending the shortage. He unquestionably spent thousands upon Concluded on Page 3-). J