PORTLAND, OEEGOX, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
VOL. XLVI.-NO 14,539.
TWO SHOTS FIRED
IIT 11 FALLIER ES
President of France
Escapes Unhurt.
WOULD-BE ASSASSIN JAILED
insane Naval Reservist Thinks
He Has a Revelation.
FRENCH EXECUTIVE IS CALM
Attempt to Kill Him Is Made During
Return to Palace After Reviewing
Troops Before 250,000 Feople.
No One Is Injured.
PARIS, July 14. The national fete to
day was marred by a dastardly attempt
on the life of President Fallieres by Leon
MaMe, a naval reservist of Havre, who.
It Is believed. Is suffering from the mania
of persecution. Mallle fired two shots at
the President, but did not hit him. He
was at once placed under arrest.
On account of the activity of the antl
mllitarists, who tried to organize a dem
onstration against the army throughout
France today, exceptional precautions
were taken to safeguard President Fal
llerea. The attempt on his life occurred
on Avenue des Champs Elysee. while the
President was returning to the palace
from Long Champs, where he had re
viewed the garrison of Paris In the pres
ence of 250,000 enthusiastic people.
Fallieres Not Excited.
Premier Clemenceau and M. Lanes, the
President's secretary, were with the Pres
ident in his landau, which was escorted
by a squadron of cuirassiers. The car
riage had safely emerged from the Bols
de Boulogne, where the militarists had
been stationed with the Intention of hoot
ing the soldiers, and was descending the
broad Champs Elysee, amid the acclama
tions of the crowds thronging the side
walks, who were shouting "Vive Fal
lieres," "Vive 1'Armes," when, at the
corner of Lesueur street, Mallle, from
the curb, fired In quick succession two
shots point blank at the President. Mirac
ulously, no one was hit. President Fal
lieres was cool and collected when the
cortege stopped. The diplomats .who
were following the President's carriage
alighted from their carriage and hurried
to the side of M. Fallieres.
Snatched to Safety by Police.
Finding that nobody had been injured,
by the President's orders, the cortege
moved on. In the meantime two police
men seized Mallle, who made no resist
ance, but the police with difficulty pre
vented the Irate crowds from lynching the
prisoner, until a cordon of reserves came
up and conducted him to the station.
There Mallle refused to give any reasons
for his act, saying:
"The revelations I have are o grave
and serious that I will only , make them
before a. magistrate for transmission to
the chief of state. It Is a matter between
the government and me. I am the victim
of many villainies."
Some of the witnesses of the shooting
said that Mallle fired In the air. It Is
believed the man participated in the re
cent seamen's strike, and that his mind
has been unhinged by fancied grievances.
It Is believed also that he aided in the
revolutionary agitation of the general fed
eration of labor and the antl-mllltarlsts.
There is no reason to suspect a plot, as
Mallle only arrived here from Rouen last
right
Gives Rambling Statement.
Mallle appeared before an examining
magistrate tonight and the authorities
only succeeded In extracting from hlra
a rambling statement about family perse
cution directed against him. It was In
order to draw public attention to his
grievances, he said, that he fired the
shots. The prisoner terminated the ex
amination by announcing his intention to
give no further explanations, as he be
lieved the magistrate would do nothing
to remedy his wrongs.
President Fallieres has received numer
ous telegrams of congratulations from
the rulers of many countries on his lucky
escape.
Government Aroused to Action.
The attempt on the life of President
Fallieres probably will strengthen the
government's intention to put a stop to
the antl-mllitarlsts" propaganda, which Is
already demoralizing the army and be
coming a menace to the republic. Thirty
nine ringleaders were arrested today for
hissing soldiers, who were returning from
the review. Other arrests were made at
the Place de la Concorde, where the
League of Patriots held their annual
ceremony.
FAILURES OUTSIDE OF PARIS
Antl-Mllitarlst Demonstrations Fall
Flat Trouble at Toulon.
PARIS. July 14. Outside of Paris the
anti-militarist plans for a general dem
onstration today were a dismal failure,
but collisions between the police and the
workmen at Toulon and Montpeller were
directly due to their inspiration. At Brest,
the police were forced to occupy the labor
exchange In order to prevent trouble.
As no newspapers were published -In
Paris this afternoon, the attempt on the
lite of President Falllerei was not gen
erally known and the festivities were not
interrupted. The theaters gave tkelr per
formances as usual.
At midnight the city was brilliantly il
luminated and street balls again were In
full swing.
Many towns in the south of France re
fused to celebrate today in accordance
with the decision not to participate in any
civic function until the grievances of the
people were redressed.
SINK THE SHIP TO SAVE HER
Vessel Takes Fire, Is Towed Into
Roadstead and Torpedoed.
ORAN, -Algeria, July 14v Fire broke
out today with such violence on board
the British steamer Canada, lying in
the harbor, that a destroyer towed her
out into the roadstead and torpedoed
her as the only means of saving her
President Fallieres, at Whom Two
Shots Were Fired In Paris Yester
day. from destruction. The Canada can be
raised without difficulty, as she lies
In shallow water.
SIX KILLED IN KK
OAR FILLED WITH NEGROES
CRUSHED TO KINDLING.
Light Passenger Coach Crumpled
Like Paper When It Hits
Steel Mall Car.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 14. A long
distance telephone message to the Jour
nal and Tribune from Johnson City,
Tenn., says:
Six persons met instant death and 20
were Injured when eastbound vestibule
No. 42 on the Southern railway collided
with a switch engine one mile west of
Johnson City at 7:30 o'clock tonight. The
switch engine was in charge of a host
ler, who, when he saw the fast passenger
train coming toward him, reversed his
engine and Jumped to safety.
Scarcely had he done so before the pas
senger crashed Into the light engine
with fearful force. The engine of the
passenger, baggage car and mail car and
second class coach were derailed and
overturned, but the switch engine was
not lifted from the rails and with full
head of steam started on a wild run,
which was not ended until a switch was
thrown for It and It was ditched at
Carnegie.
The lives of the mall clerks were saved
because of the fact that their car was of
heavy steel construction. This heavy car,
however, played havoc with the light
second-class coach behind, which was
entirely telescoped. The second-class
coach was occupied by George Moore,
white, labor agent for the Virginia &
Southwestern Railway, who was con
ducting a party of 20 negroes from' Ala
bama to North Carolina. . Moore was,
perhaps, fatally hurt and of the negroes,
six were killed outright antt all the
others maimed.
George Moore, labor agent, and F. Q.
Shlpe, mail clerk, were seriously Injured.
MISTAKE IN COPYING ORDERS
Telegraph Operator May Be Blamed
for Death of Six Negroes.
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 14. Word
received here tonight by the' Southern
Railway says that the deaths from the
wreck near Johnson City, Tenn., tonight
number from six to ten and that the
wreck was caused by the' telegraph oper
ator making, a mistake in copying the
train orders.
JAPAN TURNS THE TABLES
JAPANESE WORKMAN INSULTS
AMERICAN FLAG.
Deliberately Spits Upon It While
Working Fellow-Workmen Re
sent Action Roughly Handled.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 14. T. Tonl,
a Japanese employed as a wiper in the
Southern Pacific shops In this city, nar
rowly escaped serious injury at the bands
of an enraged mob of American work
men today. Yonl was wiping an engine
on which had been placed two small
American flags. While wiping the engine,
Yonl turned and deliberately spat upon
one of the flags. His action was seen
by another workman, who immediately
pulled Yonl from the engine to the ground,
at the same time acquainting the other
workmen in the building of Yoni's act. A
crowd quickly surrounded the Japanese
and be was being roughly handled, when
he managed to elude his assailants and
escaped.
Sir William Henry Perkins.
LONDON, July 14. Sir William Henry
Perkins died today, aged 69. He founded
the coal tar color Industry by the dis
covery of the Mauve dye in 1S&
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Was Granted Right to Execute
Notes for His Company.
CAR POOL PROVES FAILURE
Scheme Falls to Work In Practice.
Wall Street Is Agitated Over
Rumor That Fish Will Gain
Control of Illinois Central.
WASHINGTON, July 14. (Special.) The
Interstate Commerce Commission points
out a plain and direct method by which
a H. Harrlman, the railroad magnate,
can be placed in prison for merging the
Union and Central Pacific railroads. The
act of 1874 Is pointed out as the present
statute under which Mr. Harrlman may
be criminally reached. The - wording of
the law la quoted and a decision of the
United States Supreme Court given as a
precedent. There is no recommendation
made that procedlngs be instituted, as the
Department of Justice is supposed to take
action In such matters.
The clear path to- criminal prosecution
of Mr. Harrlman is buried in the long
report submitted to the President by the
Interstate Commerce Commission and has
been generally overlooked. That this in
formation Is clearly Intended to point
out a method by which Mr. Harrlman
may be criminally prosecuted as an offi
cer of the company now "engaged In ope
rating either of said roads" is made self
evident by the Commission's previous
reference to Mr. Harrlman:
Harrlman Issued the Orders.
"We find that In 1902 Mr. Harrlman
was authorized to borrow such sums of
money as may be required for the uses
of this company and to execute, in the
name and on behalf of this company, a
note or notes for the amounts so bor
rowed. The investigation showed that in
practically all the graft transactions of
this company Mr. Harrlman, as chairman
of the executive committee, acted upon
his own initiative and his acta were sub
sequently ratified and approved by the
executive committee. It may fairly be
said, therefore, that the policies and pur
poses of the Union Pacific have been those
of Mr. Harrlman."
President Roosevelt will have another
conference with Attorney-General Bona
parte. Special Counsel Kellogg and the
members of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, during which the entire Har
rlman case will be discussed. This con
ference will take place at Oyster Bay,
but the time has not yet been fixed. What
If any prosecution against Harrlman or
the roads he controls is a question that
will be canvassed In great detail.
Did He Take Immunity Bath?
Notwithstanding the opinion of ' the
Commission regarding the prosecution of
Harrlman, there is still considerable
doubt as to whether he will be prosecuted
either criminally or In a civil suit. Harrl
man gave himself an immunity bath when
he testified regarding the operations of
bis roads.
CAR POOIi PROVES FAILURE
Clearlng-House Scheme All Right in
Theory, but Not In Practice.
CHICAGO, July 14. (SpecIaI.)-Another
great railway reform, of which tremen
dous good was expected, has failed and
will be relegated along with steel ties
and hollow brick arches in smokestacks.
The clearing-house,' or freight car pool,
which It had been hoped would prove a
radical remedy for .congestion and .car
famines, has been shown a failure after
a test of eight months. The Chicago &
Alton, Its chief sponsor, will withdraw
July 31. The St. Paul road and many
big Eastern systems already have with
drawn, and the roads still In the pool
have decided to abandon the project.
The main object of the clearing-house
was to prevent car-stealing and to insure
each road a member of the pool on Its
own rails, at all times, a number of cars
equal to Its own. This would have driven
the car thieves and borrowers to fur
nish their own cars, would have f creed
speedy unloading, cleared up long strings
of idle cars on sidings and given the
shippers quick service.
But the scheme, which was all right in
theory, failed, . because the American
Clearing-House Association lacked the
power to enforce penalities for infrac
tions of Its rules. Roads refuse to loan
their cars to other roads that need them
to move traffic quickly and condiltons
have lapsed back to the old order. An
other reason for failure was the refusal
of the reads to permit the clearing-house
to keep a record of all Interchanges of
cars and inflict the penalties for keeping
them too long or to collect the per diem
rental. The roads insisted upon keeping
these records themselves and making
their own collections.
The total number of freight cars in
service is slightly in excess of 2,000,000. If
they could be utilised where most needed,
it would be of vast benefit In breaking
blockade, . The roads in the clearinjc-
EVENTS OF COMINa WEEK
Many events of Interest are on the
cards for the coming week. Yama
moto, who has received many cour
tesies since .he arrived on these
shores, will continue his sight
seeing tour. The peace conference at
The Hague Is expected to pass upon
several questions which the friends
of the peace movement believe will
result, eventually In making great
navies unnecessary. . It Is likely that
negotiations will be commenced be
tween Italy, Austro-Hungary and
Russia during the week, looking to a
line of Joint action In the Balkans.
Karl Hau, at one time a professor
of Roman law at an American uni
versity, will be placed on trial at
Kahlsruhe next Wednesday, charged
with the murder of his mother-in-law.
Other events of the week will" in
clude the appearance of. Lieutenant
Colonel Charles G. Ayres before a re
tiring board In New York City on
Wednesday. Colonel Ayres' appear
ance before a retiring board Is gen
erally looked upon as an outgrowth
of trouble between Mrs. Ayres and
the authorities at the Military Acad
emy at West Point, as a result of
which trouble Mrs. Ayres was de
nied the privilege of visiting the
grounds of the academy.
More than $100,000 will be spent In
entertaining the visiting Elks during
the week's stay in Philadelphia.
house; however, own less than half tne
total number of cars, If all had come in
and obeyed the rules, the scheme would
have been a success.
Small roads, unable to buy sufficient
rolling stock, will continue to pay 25 to
60 cents daily rental for cars with which
they will earn from $3 to $15 daily.
TO PUT FISH BACK IN POWER
Wall Street Agitated OTer Rumor
. Regarding Illinois Central.
NEW YORK, July 14. (Special.) Wall
street and financial circles are agitated
by persistent rumors that Stuyvesant
Fish may again secure control of the
Illinois Central: According to some of
the stories, he believes he may count
upon the support of President Harahan,
who. It is said, is displeased with E. H.
Harrlman for various reasons, the treat
ment of his brother and son being offered
as examples. Government attacks upon
the Union Pacific and other Harrlman
deals are also said to have alarmed fi
nanciers, who would be glad, it is said,
if the Illinois Central were returned to
its former conservative management.
All the rumors are in the air, and ho
one will be quoted, but they continue to
circulate. Something definite Is expected
at the meeting Wednesday, as an especial
effort is being made to bring In every
vote possible. Sensational developments,
according' to current stories, may be
looked for at the October meeting. It
Is known that Stuyvesant Fish has writ
ten Governor Deneen, of Illinois, to at
tend the meeting. Governor Deneen and
Stuyvesant Fish have always been close
friended
It Is said also that Harahan regrets
his past in deposing his lifelong friend
and benefactor, and .may decide to cast
hla influence and fortunes in with the
Fish faction. Cornelius Vanderbilt and
John Jacob Astor have not been so
friendly with Harriman as they were be
fore the Union Pacific crash last month.
HIGH H0N0RF0R ROOT
Will Live With President Daring His
Stay In Mexico.
MEXICO CITY, July 14. An unpre
cedented honor will be bestowed on
American Secretary of State Root and
Mrs. Root upon their coming visit to
Mexico as guests of the Mexican gov
ernment. While in the capital, Chapul
tehee Cartel, the Summer home of the
president of the republic, will be thrown
open to them. There they will make their
residence, which will also be the head
quarters of Secretary Root. It was
originally stated that the party will con
sist of Mr. and Mrs. Root, Miss Root and
a private secretary.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather. .
TODArS Fair and warmer; northwesterly
winds. .
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 8
degres; minimum temperature, CO de
grees. Foreign.
President Fallieres is target for two shots
fired by Insane man. Page 1. .
King Edward Is spending a very busy Bum
mer. Page 8. i
National.
Secretary Loeb excludes all visitors to the
, President. Page 2.
State Department has arranged for "Far
Eastern Bureau" of diplomacy. Page 2.
Railroad Commission has plan whereby
Harrlman can be landed In jail. Page 1.
Domwt io.
Dull days are these for stock speculators.
Page 9.
Quiet restored In Roanoke, where mob at
tacked Greek residents. Page 3.
Tucker's wife never really loved the army
officer. Page 2.
Baron Yamamato pleased with his recep
tion. Page 2.
Pacific Coast. .
Fred H. Magtll and wife closely confined In
San Diego Jail. Page 4.
Witness McGee. In Haywood trial. Is ar
rested In Spokane. Page 1.
What Japanese could do If thsy landed on
Oregon coast. Page 1.
Spokane wants Jones elected 8enator.
Page 4.
Appeals have been taken In all referendum
cases. Page 8.
Japanese spits on American flag. Page 1.
Sports.
St. Johns wins from Frakes by 8-2. Page 5.
Brewers defeat Trunkmakere on professional
grounds, 8-2. Page S.
Portland and Vicinity.
Conventions must be held next Spring by
both parties to nominate presidential
.electors and delegates to national con
ventions. Page 14.
Assessor Slgler says county's assessment will
show great Increase over 1906. Page 8.
Rev. Herbert 8. Johnson declares King
Leopold sanctions unspeakable atrocities
In Congo country. Page 12.
Mazama start for Mount Jeferaoa today.
Page . ;
WITNESS PITCH
IS
illing to Go Back to
Boise.
END OF THE TRIAL IN SIGHT
Both Sides Have Laid Ground
for Address to Jury.
CASE COVERS 18 MURDERS
Prosecution Lays Them to Western
Federation, While Defense
Says Mlneowners Had
Them Committed.
McGee Under Arrest.
SPOKANE, July 14. Dr. I. I Me
Gee, against whom a charge of per
jury In testimony in the Haywood
case at Boise lies, was arrested this
afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Long
and will go back tomorrow morning.
Dr. McGee waived extradition. He
bad been visiting In Coeur d'Alene
City, but returned to Spokane when
he heard be was again wanted at
Boise.
BOISE, Idaho, July 14. The end of the
trial of William D. Haywood, secretary
and treasurer of the Western Federation
of Miners, charged, with conspiracy to
murder, is now within measurable
distance. The case will tomorrow
enter its tenth week of hearing before
Judge Fremont Wood In the District
Court of Ada County. Both sides have
rested, and the rebuttal has begun. Ev
idence has been Introduced in support of
the charge brought by the State of Idaho
that a conspiracy existed among high
officials of the Western Federation of
Miners to intimidate all- persons who ran
counter to the purposes of union labor
with a view to establishing members of
organized bodies of worklngmen as mas
ters of the situation, thus commencing
a political and industrial re-organlzatlon
which, having Its Initiative in the West,
should spread with irresistible force
throughout every section of the country.
Evidence has been Introduced to show
that in pursuance of this conspiracy, 18
men were murdered.
In defense of the man immediately con
cerned and of the officers of the Western
Federation of Miners who are charged
with participating in the plana for mur
der as a means to the desired end, evi
dence has been Introduced to show that
another and counter-conspiracy existed
among employers of labor In the West,
looking to the annihilation of the West
ern Federation of Miners in particular,
because the Federation represented the
cause of organized labor. Evidence has
been introduced to show that, in further
ance of the conspiracy among actual em
ployers and capitalists, 18 Innocent men
were killed, the Constitution of the Uni
ted States was violated and the con
spiracy culminated In the State of Idaho
becoming a party to an attempt to com
pass the death of the leaders of the
Western Federation of Miners, who are
now on trial.
Two Views of Orchard's Motive.
The State of Idaho has produced Harry
Orchard, who swears that be la the
actual murderer of tne 18 men whose
death la not disputed. He swears that
he was employed by William D. Hay
wood, Charles H. Moyer, the president
and others of the Western Federation
to murder for a price. The Western
Federation of Miners has produced wit
nesses to contradict the testimony of the
self-confessed murderer and other wit
nesses to show that if he murdered, he
murdered because he was employed by
detectives in the employ of owners of
mines and wealthy citizens of Colorado to
commit crimes that might be laid to the
door of the Western Federation of
Miners.
The State of Idaho, through Its repre
sentative counsel, will argue to the Jury
within the next two weeks that Orchard's
story Is true, and that there did exist
the widespread conspiracy to terrorize
what is called by the defendants In this
case "the capitalistic class."
The Western Federation of Miners,
through Its attorneys, will argue that Or
chard is a perjurer for reward the re
ward being Immunity from punishment
for the murder of ex-Governor Steunen
berg, and that a conspiracy now exists
on the part of the mlneowners and em
ployers of labor to discredit the Western
Federation of Miners, even though Hay
wood, Moyer and Pettlbone should hang
in pursuance of their plans. Two ar
guments on each side will be made.
The rebuttal for the state so far is be
ing directed against the witnesses pro
duced by the defense to discredit Or
chard. At the end of the first day of
rebuttal, a warrant was Issued for Dr.
I. L. McGee. who swore that he saw
Orchard In North Idaho at a time when
Orchard swore be was In Denever. Mc
Gee Is a prominent man living in the
Northern part of the state. Counsel for
the defense, as soon as they heard of the
warrant having been Issued, sent a tel
egram to McGee, In which, according to
Clarence Darrow, one of Haywood's
counsel, they urged him to come to Boise
at once.
McGee was arrested in Spokane last
sight, He waived extradition and is ex
IDE
ARREST
pected to arrive In Boise some time to
morrow. A deputy sheriff of Spokane
will accompany him.
New Tack by Defense.
Tonight, the defense claims to have dls-
coverd new evidence to show that Or
chard's maternal grandfather was a ma
niac on the subject of crime and that he
formerly lived in Canada, and there are
other Intimations of possible delay.
Judge Fremont Wood, however, intimates
to the counsel that the case must be
concluded. He points out that by limit
ing the scope of the examinations of wit
nesses on both sides, the hearing might
bave been much shortened, but that he
was desirous of giving every opportunity
to counsel to develop their case In di
rect. Now, however, the situation is dif
ferent, and further delay would be an
injustice to the state, while the con-
r
Stuyvesant Fish, Whom Wall-Street
Fears Will Again Gain Control of
Illinois Central.
tlnued confinement of the Jury would
imperil the case.
The most novel feature of the case is
the confession of the witness, William
Dewey, who yesterday swore that he par
ticipated In . the riots in the Coeur
d'Alenes when two men were killed. In
making this- confession Dewey laid him
self open to arrest. Counsel for the state
expressed the opinion that Dewey will
not be prosecuted.
Among the men now in Boise as wit
nesses for the defense is W. F. Davis,
who was indicted by the grand Jury of
Shoshone County as a leader in the same
riot. He has been In the state for 30
days, and no effort has been made to
act on the Indictment.. It is pointed out
that thi Bunker Hill & Sullivan affair
occurred eight years ago and that it
might be extremely hard to make ' a
charge of murder He. The county went
to great expense at the same time of
the outbreak to prosecute those con
cerned. One man was convicted, but
was afterward pardoned. Some ten or
a dozen Indictments were found, and It
is said that the names of more than 200
of the participants in the riots are known
to the authorities and that many of them
have been residents of the State of
Idaho since the occurrences.
MOTHER-IN-LAW F100BE0
NEBRASKA SUPREME COURT
PROVES ITSELF BRAVE.
Rnlea Mother-ln-Law Has Xo Right
to Boss Daughter's Home Hus
band Still Comes Second.
OMAHA, Neb., July 14. (Special.) At
last, relief from the tyranny of the
mother-in-law Is In sight. Frer since the
second generation of man, the mother-in-law
has held the reins, with only tTle
Joke-writer to check her aggression. But
now cornea the Nebraska Supreme Court
to the rescue. With one stroke of the
pen, the mother-in-law la deposed. No
longer may she reign. Her word is mere
ly that of a stranger with no authority
in the home.
But where the downtrodden husband
oomes in is still an enigma; for the Su
preme Court in deposing the mother-in-law
places' the wife "on the throne. In
Nebraska, henceforth, the wife is mis
tress in her own home;4her mother-in-law
is subordinate. Minnie Brewer, of
Platte County, sued her husband, William
M. Brewer, . for maintenance. She de
clared he brought his mother to the
home and allowed the parent to boss the
wife. Conditions became so intolerable,
says the plaintiff, that she returned to
her own family and left her husband
to live with his mother. In its decision,
the Supreme Court is terse, and goes
straight to the point, saying:
Bvery wife Is entitled to a home to cor
respond with the circumstances and condi
tions of her husband, over which she shall
be permitted to preside as mistress. A wife
does not forfeit her right to maintenance by
refusing to live in a home with and under
control of the hushand's moth.r.
ST0ESSEL IS INDICTED
Charged With Cowardly Acts and
With Disobedience.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 15. The in
dictment Issued against Lleutenant-Gen-eral
Stoessel, the defender of Fort Ar
thur, which has Just been made public,
charges him, among other things, with
disregarding the order of the Commander-in-Chief
to hand over his command
at Port Arthur to Lieutenant-General
Smirnoff and quit the army.
It further charges him with sending
In an official report that he led the
troops in the excitement at KInchow,
while he remained at Port Arthur and
did not participate In the battle: of hav
ing decorated Lieutena-General Fock
for bravery In the battle of KInchow,
which Fock lost, and of offering to aban
don Port Arthur and other fortresses
when he had ample means of resistance.
The Indictment charges Lieutenant-Gen-Stoessel
on all counts.
Stoessel in all counts.
LAND FORGES ID
my WASTE CITIES
What Japan Might Do
But Will Not.
DEMAND TRIBUTE OF PORTLAND
Officers Say Enemy Would
Have Every Chance.
LITTLE DANGER THOUGH
Encampment Comes to an End To
day and Troops Will Be Paid Off
and Leave for Portland.
Review Without Hitch.
FORT STEVENS, Or., July. 14. (Staff
Correspondence.) The war period in
the instruction camp at the Columbia
River fortifications here is at an end.
Today has been given over to a series
of lectures by regular artillery officers
along technical lines. The men were
paid late in the afternoon and are pre
paring to break camp in the morning,
when they will leave for Portland and
their various home stations.
The Seaside camp devoted the day
to camp routine, drills being suspended.
This afternoon a grand parade and re
view was held, being witnessed by sev
eral hundred visitors from Seaside and
neighboring settlements. This com
mand will remain In camp until Tues
day. Soldiers Want to Stay.
So Interesting have the artillery in
structions proved at Fort Columbia and
Fort Stevens that the guardsmen, with
out exception, would like to remain
here a month. They have become in
terested in the operation of coast guns,
and In learning the art of holding one
of the Nation's strategic points against
invasion. The course of instructions
has been thorough, in view of the
short period in camp. The officers at
the Columbia River garrisons are with
out exception, experts In their work,
and no small part of the credit of
demonstrating the adaptability of vol
unteers for coast artillery, is due Col
onel Walker and his' officers. Without
expert regular officers to give them
adequate instructions the guardsmen,
of course, could have done nothing.
War With Japan Discussed.
In consequence of the artillery maneu
vers it Is now plain that Oregon would
be called on to help protect the mouth
of the Columbia In case of war. The
first regiment to take the field would not
go to the Philippines or other scenes of
action, as In the past. It would be
rushed to Forts Stevens, Columbia and
Canby. In fact; two regiments might
be called for from this state to handle
the hundred big guns at the three forts.
Such, there is no doubt, would be the
destination of Oregon's quota of troops
under a National call for volunteers.
Possible war with the Japanese con
tinues to be the subject of considerable
discussion in military circles, and con
cessions made by expert tacticians as to
the possibilities of invasion on the Coast
are rather alarming. These discussions
are purely informal and are held at the
campflres or behind the emplacements
during a lull In activities.
What Japan. Might Do.
That 100,000 Japanese could effect a
landing on the Pacific Coast and pro
ceed to levy tribute on the Northwest
country or the whole West, would hard
ly be admitted by the average patriotlo
citizen. Tet such, in the opinion of sev
eral military officers who should have'
some idea. Is the case. Of course, the
Japanese would have to avoid the Amer
ican Navy, either by defeating it, which
is not regarded as possible, or by land
ing before the Navy gets around the
Horn from the Atlantic. The Japanese,
It Is asserted, are organized, and have a
transport fleet of some 200 vessels. Or
ganizing the invading expedition, they
might land troops, say in the vicinity of
Seaside or at other points along the
coast, during a calm, where they could
establish a temporary base of supplies,
ami march inland unopposed.
Hurriedly organized volunteers would
be able to do nothing, it is said. Deer
hunters and well-meaning citizen sol
diery would only be In the way before
the advance of a well organized army.
Ambushing parties and valorous home
defenders would be picked off by expert
scouting parties and would never get
within five miles of the main division
of troops. Arriving In the vicinity of
Portland, the Invaders could suggest a
little fund for their benefit, of say J50.000
000, In 12 hours. Raising 1350,000 for a
new T. If. C. A. building in two months
would not be an Incident to raising a
few million dollars over night. Possibly
when a few well-directed projectiles
clipped a story or two off the more prom
inent buildings, the donations to such a
fund would become more liberal and
frequent.
, What Would Happen to Japan.
To keep any such force In the country
It would be necessary for Japan to have
the naval supremacy In the Pacific, which,
it very likely could not maintain.
American naval fighters are of a known
quantiy and quality, and it is contended
tha.t the little brown men of the Mikado's
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