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VOL. XLVI NO. 14,611.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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New York Democrats
Are Anti-Bryan.
ANYONE TO BEAT NEBRASKAN
Chanter's Boom Not Taken
Seriously in Empire State.
DAVID B. IS ACTIVE AGAIN
OldTlme "Leader Counted on to
Deliver Tp-State Vote for Con
servatives The Hearst Learne
Nominees Are Popular Men.
KBW YORK. Oct. . (Special.)
Mairtentuit-OoTenior Lewis Stuyvesant
Chanler, brought Into the limelight by
William Randolph Hearst, has repudi
ated the Independence League.
Attorney-General "William 3chuyler
Jackson, one of the selections of the
regular Democracy a year ago, has
spurned "Flngy" Conners, who discov
ered him, and Is now playing "second
business" In the new political party.
Chanler thinks the Democrats will
make him President; Jackson, more
modest, hopes to be the League's next
candidate for Governor, and probably
will be. So there you are.
The Chanler Presidential boom was
the direct reason why Jackson decided
to turn his back on his old friends. He
didn't see why the man from Dutchess
County should be promoted, and said
so.
Chanter's Hopes Must Fade.
"Don't you worry," "Flngy" Conners
Is reported to have said, to the Attorney-General.
"Chanler has a big drag
with the League bunch. Let him be
President this time, and you take Gov
ernor. Then some day you can suc
ceed him."
This failed to cheer Mr. Jackson up
to any great extent, and he brooded
considerably. As a result he appeared
at the Independence League convention
and made a red-hot speech that was
wlldy applauded. Mr. Chanler, on the
other hand, was conspicuous by his
absence from the Carnegie Hall gath
ering. And In consequence Mr. Chanler will
shortly be turned adrift by the Inde
pendence League and Mr. Jackson be
denied recognition by the Democratic
party.
All the same. It is the general belief
that Chanler has been "handed a lemon"
by the persons who have weaned
him from Hearst. He is not going to
be the nominee, and the chances of his
landing the delegation from his homo
state are growing less and lesa every
day.
There Is a movement on foot to give
New York's delegation to David R.
Francis, of St. Louis, and It has better
than an even prospect of success.
Murphy Forces Wabbly.
In the State Committee the other day
"Flngy" Conners and Charles F. Mur
phy demonstrated that they held con
trol by a mighty narrow margin.
On a vote to name a committee to
confer with the Republicans ao to a
union ticket for Justices of the Court
of Appeals, the Tammany-Buffalo com
bination could only muster 30 votes,
and there are 61 members of the com
mittee. Therefore, it Is seen that a loss of
five votes would put the combination
leaders down and out. s
Several of the memoera who voted
with Murphy and Conners were put In
office by William Randolph Hearst, and
on a direct show of strength oan be
counted on as against any Indorsement
of Chanler, who la decidedly persona
non grata with the Independence
Leaguers.
The Francis boom is In the hands
of the men who made Judge Parker
famous (or otherwise) In 1304. They
have money, knowledge of political
conditions and tireless energy.
David B. Hiil Tries His Hand.
1 David B. Hill, who has not been in
politics etnee 1904, has been Induced
to come out of retirement, and to take
charge of the up-state campaign. Al
ready he has seen a number of his
former lieutenants In the rural dis
tricts, and they have promised to gath
er in the delegates at the proper time.
"Pat" McCarren will turn over the
69 delegates from Brooklyn, and
"Packy" McCabe has the 12 from
Albany so trained that they eat out of
his hand. There are only 450 delegates
In all, and while the anti-Conner com
bination is not discussing the matter
publicly, they privately claim that the
fight Is already won.
The battle that is now being waged
Is mora of an anti-Bryan crusade than
anything else, but it Is also an antl
Chanler movement.
"Chanler was with Hearst last
year," declared one of McCarren's lieu
tenants today. "They say he is against
him now, but he is liable to drift back
again at any moment. Besides, he is
not of Presidential caliber and never
will be."
Just now the preferred candidate is
GROOM
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PRESIDENCY
Francis of Missouri, but it may be some
body else later.
Already the movement Is gaining head
way throughout the Hast, and it's projec
tors are claiming that Bryan will have
but a handful of delegates from this sec
tion of the country.-
Ex-Unlted States Senator Smith has
promised New Jersey, James M. Guffey
has agreed to turn over Pennsylvania,
and ex-United States Senator Kenney of
Delaware has thrown his delegation into
the pile.
It is understood that Senator Joseph W.
Bailey of Texas is in a positidl to turn
over a number of anti-Bryan delegates
from various Southern States, and that
the crusade Is now well under way.
Charles F. Murphy and the Independ
ence League have finally come to the
parting of the ways. Murphy was will
ing to Indorse Hearst or anybody else for
President if, In return, the League would
unite on a union ticket for county and
judicial offices. "
There seemed a good chance of this up
to a few days before the convention met.
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David R. FranHs, Ex-Governor of
Missouri, whom New York Demo
crats Are Booming- for President.
Then delegates from various sections of
the state entered violent protest to any
more deals with Tammany. .
Hearst Breaks With Tammany.
They claimed that their local organiza
tions had been practically wrecked by the
peculiar political tactics displayed last
Fall, and that "the only way to get the
people back is to be sincere and go It
alone."
Which explains why the Hearst men
named a Btralght out Judiciary ticket of
their own, and also served notice that
they wouldn't fuse with Democrats or
Republicans In any of the cities or coun
ties. It is admitted that the League has
named a strong ticket for Justices of the
Court of Appeals.
Reuben R. Lyon, one of the candidates,
has always been a straight out Democrat.
He Is a man of standing in Steuben
County, and has many loyal friends.
His associate John T. McDonough is
equally popular. Elected as Secretary of
State on the same ticket which carried
In Theodore Roosevelt for Governor, he
served four years with credit.
Roosevelt and McDonough were great
friends, and when the former became
President, he named his old associate as
one of the judges on the Supreme Court
of the Philippines. Mr. McDonough
served there for some time and then re
signed because he didn't like the climate.
League Nominees Popular.
The candidate was an lronmoulder in
his youth, and Is now an honorary mem
ber of nearly every labor union In the
state. He is very popular with the or
ganized workers and is. bound to pull a
good-sized vote. If friends mean ballots.
The Hearst people claim that Lyon and
McDonough will be elected, but what they
really hope Is to poll from 50,000 to 100,000
votes In the state. w
Such a demonstration they believe
would go far toward convincing the Dem
ocracy that they will have no chance of
victory unless they yield to the wishes,
demands and commands of William Ran
dolph Hearst.
CALL BR VAX TO WISCONSIN
Democrats of Badger State Hope to
Wrest Control From Republicans.
MILWAUKEE, Wis.. Oct. 6. (Spe
cial.) Democrats of this state are
massing- their strength for one more
Bupreme effort to wrest the common
wealth from Republican control. With
this end In view they have Invited In
William J. Bryan, the man who cost
them the state In 1896, In the hope that
he can help win back what he was
the cause of losing. Mr. Bryan is to
speak at 12 cities in an effort to ouse
the Democrats to some sort of political
fervor. The slump began In 1898,
when-fhegoldDemocrats "stampeded
In such numbers that Wisconsin gave
McKlnley 100,000 plurality. In 1900
McKlnley again swept the state, and
in 1904 Roosevelt carried the state by
133,000, only three counties standing by
the Democratic colors. The result of
these cross currents has been to leave
the Democracy without organization
and almost without representation in
the Legislature or elsewhere. Now
there seems to be hope that the La
Follette sentiment has honeycombed
the Republican ranks and that the
Democrats stand a chance of reassem
bling their scattered forces.
TIRING OF HIGH PROTECTION
Secretary of American Tariff League
Surprised at Public Sentiment.
WASHINGTON, Oct 6. (Special.)
William F. Wakeman, of New Tork,
secretary of the American Protective
Tariff League and one of the most
ardent of stand-patters, has seen a
light in the great West.
"I was greatly surprised on a trip
jConoluaed on Pace 8.)
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BURIED
IH MOLTEN METAL
Frightful Explosion in
Steel Plant.
FOUR DEAD, SOORE WILL DIE
Eyes Put Out and Limbs of
Men Burned to Crisp.
LITERALLY COOKED ALIVE
Honsea Nearby Shaken as by Earth
quake and the Whole Populace
Rushes to Scene .Appalling
Accident in Butler, Pa.
BTJTLER, Fa., Oct. . An explosion
caused by the upsetting of the metal
pot In the No. 1 cupola of the Standard
Steel Company today caused the death
of four men, fatally injured 20 and
seriously hurt 20 others. Nearly all
the men were foreigners. The large
wheel plant was demolished, causing a
loss estimated at $100,000. The dead:
NICK DORNA.
NICHOLAS BLOTAH.
JOHN VERBEM.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN.
Injured Suffering Greatly.
The condition of the 40 men Injured
Is pitiable. Although still alive, the
features of a majority are mutilated
beyond recognition. The hot metal
was showered over them, causing hor
rible injuries. Arms, fingers and ears
were torn off, and the eyes of a num
ber of men were burned , out. Several
men are in the hospital with their legs
burned Into a crisp. ,
The explosion was caused by the up
setting of a metal pot In the cupola,
which contained 6000 pounds of molten
metal, ready for casting. A span in
the pot broke, allowing the liquid Iron
to' spill over the wet sand. An explo
sion followed so quickly that not one
of the workmen In the building had a
chance to eecape.
Covered With Molten Metal.
Streams of the burning metal poured
out on the workmen, some of whom
were engulfed and literally cooked.
Twenty men near the cupola had every
shred of clothing blown off by the ex
plosion. Many were burled under the
wreckage, and were not rescued for an
hour after the catastrophe.
Buildings In the city from the force
of the explosion shivered as If shaken -by
an earthquake, and people rushed
from their homes panic-stricken.
When flames shot from the burning
car works, 1000 people rushed to the
scene, blocking the streets and jnter
ferlng with fire companies and ambu
lances. Through lack of room, many
of the Injured were compelled to He
naked for an hour on cots in the
streetcars, before reaching the hos
pital. At the gate of the car plant men and
women struggled frantically to gain
admission, and were kept out only by
the assistance of a force of policemen.
In the crush many women were In
jured and their cres of pain and an
guish could be heard blocks away.
Valuable Property Destroyed.
The car-wheel plant was finished last
year, at a cost of $200,000. The wrecked
cupola alone cost $30,000. The car
works proper, costing $3,000,000, was In
danger of destruction, but the Fire De
partment soon had the blaze under
control.
BRUTAL MURDER OF CHILD
POLICE MAKE TWO ARRESTS
OS SCSPICIOX.
Little Girl Was Taken Into Brush,
Where She Was Hit In Hrtd
With Hatchet.
CAMDEN. N. J-, Oct. 6. The murder
of 9-year-old Ethel Nevins, or Marx, of
Fast Camden whose mutilated body was
found In ,a thicket not far from her
home yesterday, is a complete mystery,
though the police today arrested August
Dongas, of Philadelphia. In connection
with the case. He is held for examina
tion together with Joseph Wood, 16 years
old, who was arrested last night.
Dongas was arrested after he had
been acting queerly near the spot where
the body of the child was found. He
burst Into tears when taken in hand by
the police. The detectives say they have
witnesses who saw him near the scene of
the crime on Thursday afternoon when
the little girl disappeared. Dongas de
clares he was in Philadelphia.
Wood was arrested primarily because
Mrs. Harry Marx, mother of the murdered
girl, was wont to leave htm in charge of
her children while she was on a shopping
tour, and Fithel had said she was afraid
of him. He denies knowledge of the
crime.
Since his arrest the police say they
have found a witness who saw him on
Thursday In the brush near where the
body was found, armed with a hatchet.
An autopsy performed by County Physi
cian Jones today shows that the child's
head had been cleft with a hatchet. Her
Jaw had been broken on the left side and
EVENTS OF COMING WEEK.
President Goes After Bear.
The President will spend the week
hunting bears In the Louisiana cane
brake; Secretary of War , Taft will
arrive at Manila to take part In the
opening of the first Philippine Legis
lature, and Secretary of State Root
will continue his tour of Mexico.
Church Convention.
The governing bodies of two great
religious denominations will meet
during the week, the general con
ference of the Episcopal Church con
vening at Richmond. Va,, and the
council of the Congregational Church
of the United States In Cleveland.
Cotton growers and spinners will
hold & large convention at Atlanta.
Among the delegates will be 150
Europeans.
Meetings of Railroad Boards.
The annual meetings of the North
ern Pacific and the Union Paclflo .
railroad companies will be held on
Tuesday, the. former In New Tork,
and the latter In Salt Lake City.
Insurance Men on Carpet. m.
Eighteen defendants who formerly
were officials of Insurance companies
are expected to appear In the crim
inal courts in New Tork on Monday
to answer tb 61 Indictments growing
out of tl'e life ineurance investigation.
there were several cuts over tha eyes.
In the opinion of the physician the child
had been maltreated after she had been
felled bv a blow on the head.
Harry 'Mam, stepfather of the mur
dered girl, is also held hy the police,
pending an Investigation Into the family
history. The father of the girl Is Frank
Nevins, whose home is in Cayuga
County, near Ithaca, X. T.
ROBBERS liftE RICH HAUL
STEAL HAIiF-MILLIOX IX CASH
AXD KILL, SHERIFF.
Alabama Bandits Evade Capture In
Confusion and Escape on
a Handcar.
i SEDDON, Ala., Oct. 6. (Special.)
Four masked robbers looted the First
National Bank of this town last night,
shot and killed Sheriff John "Williams
and escaped on a handcar, north-bound
on the Southern Railway. It is said
the amount taken Is $575,250. The
robbery and the killing of Sheriff Wil
liams caused Intense excitement and a
posse started on the trail of the bandits
soon after the crimes were committed.
The robbers were discovered at work
about 10 o'clock, when a man passing
the bank happened to peer through
one of the darkened windows. Hastily
giving the alarm he ran to notify
Sheriff Williams. The official reached
the bank Just as the'robbers, evidently
scenting discovery, were about to leave.
The Sheriff called upon them to halt.
Before he could locate them in the
darkness, they opened flre upon him
and he was instantly killed. The crowd
which had gathered was panic-stricken
and in the confusion the bandits es
caped, running through the street with
their booty and firing as they ran.
Running north to the railway yards of
the Southern Railway, they procured a
handcar, ran It down a heavy grade
and escaped.
CIGAR MAN SHOT DEAD
Falls Dead With Bullet In Head
While Resisting Arrest.
NEW TORK, Oct 6. Isaac Jaffa. Jun
ior member of the firm of Jaffe & Co.,
cigar manufacturers, of Brooklyn, was
shot and instantly killed tonight by Pa
trolman Shuttleworth In Saratoga Park.
Williamsburg. The patrolman was locked
up, charged with homicide. He said the
shooting was accidental. He Bald that
about 12 young men were annoying peo
ple in the park and among them was
Jaffe. He placed Jaffa under arrest and
was starting to the station with him,
when some friends of the prisoner came
to his rescue. They kicked him and
beat him, the policeman says. In the
fight Jaffe broke away and ran across the
lawn. Shuttleworth drew his revolver and
fired, he asserts. In the air. Jaffa
dropped dead with a bullet In his brain.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
TODAY'S Cloudy, with possibly rain; cool
er. Southwest winds.
TESTER DATS Maximum temperature, TS
degrees; minimum, DO degrees.
Foreign.
Negotiations for release of Calfl Sir Henry
McLean soon to be concluded. Page 8.
Antl-Semltlo outrages reported in Odessa.
Pagu 3.
National.
Japanese Immigration becoming serious
problem for United States. Page 3.
Domestic.
Workmen burled alive In molten metal by
explosion in steel plant. Page 1.
Roosevelt spends' day in camp preparing for
bear hunt. Page 3.
Politic.
New Tork Democrats will boom ex -Governor
Francis for Presidency. Page 1.
Politicians puzzle over Roosevelt's silence
regarding third term talk. Page &
Pacific Coast.
Little hope of capturing Brown's assassins.
Page 1.
McLaughlin Institute dedicated at Oregon
City. Page 1.
Tree of seedless and corelees pears discovered
in Hood River orchard. Page .
S porta.
Portland breaks even on last two games of
season in Oakland.. Page 7.
Gossip about the situation in the North
west League. Page 6.
Portland and Vicinity.
Dr. B rougher, taking plot against Mayor
Lane for subject, flays slanderers. Page
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Manager Low It. of Golden Eagle, returns
from East, where be effected a settle
ment of 40 cents on the dollar with
Eastern creditors. - Page 14.
Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway lectures on
hypnotism. Page 6.
Plans for Rose Festival canvass.. Page 10.
Dr. Laphara preaches. Page 10.
Dr. Benjamin Young preaches first sermon
at Tay lor Street M EL Church. Page 10.
FRUITLESS HIT
FDR MURDERERS
Officers Get No Clew of
Brown's Assassins.
LEFT BAKER, IT IS THOUGHT
Row Among Detectives Ham
pers Search for Criminals.
RETURN DOGS TO SPOKANE
Swain Confident Men " Will Be
Captured, Imt Says It Will
Take Time Federation
Still Suspected.
Mil EtOPMiyre IN" D V" A MITE
MTJRPER.
BAKER CITT, Or., Oct. 6 Cap
tain Swain, ot Thlel detectives, will
probably be retained to conduct the
hunt for the assassins. Search In
Baker City has relaxed, since it is
believed the criminals have fled.
Swain aays the Brown murder Is
but a starter of blow-ups that are to
follow. He believes miners dyna
mited Brown because they thought
he betrayed them and because they
wanted to Intimidate Juries.
Clues thus far followed have
yielded little or no evidence.
Dan Allen, the suspect arrested In
Union, -will be released tomorrow.
At memorial service In honor of
Brown, anarchy is vigorously de
nounced. ' BAKER CITT, Or., Oct. . (Special.)
Scant hope remains of running down
the Brown dynamiters in this city or
of catching- them soon. Clues are
scarce and the murderers have not
been traced since they .fled from
Brown's house, except for occasional
vague symptoms of their presence,
each of which proved futile.
. Draper will go homo Monday - to
Spokane with his bloodhounds. Sheriff
Hand says the hunt must settle down
to a Ions, patient Quest for outcrop
pings. District Attorney Lomai says
the officers will have to watch for
the murderers In other parts of the
country. It is the common opinion that
the guilty men found Baker City too
dangerous and quit the town. Captain
Swain, of the detective force, saya the
criminals are not likely to be detected
without the lapse of considerable time.
"Whether Swain, of the Thiol detec
tives, will continue the head of the
hunt has not been determined, but It
Is likely ha will be. Idaho emissaries of
Governor Gooding, his secretary, C. E.
Elmer, and Sheriff Hodgln. of Ada Coun
ty, alarmed the local officers in making
charges against Swain, but the latter have
not accepted as truth the charge that
Swain is working for the Federation
of Miners. However, the charge was
made so sturdily by Idaho men that
Mayor Johns will probably go to Boise
to Investigate the proofs.
Swain Still Confident.
Swain says he thinks he can accom
plish results If Baker City will bar
out the Idaho enmities against him.
But he has a big job on his hands. If
he holds no more evidence than the
local officers, he has little or nothing
yet to work on.
After six days of sleuth work, every
body has been waiting for something
to turn up. But beyond the knowledge
that a kimono man and two confeder
ates were the murderers, all of whom
have been faintly described, nothing
has turned up. Local officers say they
have no cause to suspect Swain. D. L.
Clouse, Portland manager of the Thlel
detectives, arrived this morning to as
sist Swain. Early In the hunt the offi
cers and detectives ran up on several
clues which they thought would de
velop. But each one turned to naught.
"We are not going to get quick re
sults In this case," says Swain. "Evi
dence will come slowly. Even If we
knew exactly who the murderers are
it would be difficult to find them. They
are no longer In Baker City. Yet I
think I can accomplish results In de
tecting the assassins. There are sev
eral known matters of great impor
tance, which will aid us in finding the
criminals. Just what they are I wish
to keep secret at this time.
"But I must say the Federation of
Miners had two reasons for killing
Brown: First, because he betrayed that
organization, and second, because it
wished to terrorize and Intimidate oth
ers before the next trials. The Fed
eration murdered Steunenberg for the
same two reasons. Its members
thought Steunenberg betrayed them
after they voted for him for Governor
as a union man, when he stood In with
the law-and-order element. His death
Intimidated more than Governor Good
ing would admit.
Idaho People Badly Scared.
"Gooding told me the Federation
could not Intimidate anybody In South
ern Idaho. But It frightened him so
much that after he discovered marks
of plotters around his house one morn
ing he moved down town to the lead
ing hotel. He didn't even go back to
get hi clothes, and his wife came
away at once In a carriage. Terrorists J
&nuw lacy can scare people lit ouuiu
ern Idaho. There will be more blow
ups Just as sure as you and I are alive.
This country is sure to have lots of
terrorism. And It will have to use
drastic remedies.
"I am going to do things lri this case
if let alone. The prosecution methods
in Southern Idaho failed and they
should not be allowed to enter this
territory."
Dan Allen, arrested In Union as a
suspect, will be released Monday. He
is a rabid member of the Federation,
but his appearance does not tally with
that of any of the three murderers.
Believe Federation Did It.
Belief that Federation members set
the bomb still holds. Brown's dual re
lations with Federation men and the
Idaho prosecution suggests a plausible
motive for the crime. The State of
Idaho paid Brown only $40 in all, and
His Grace Archblshoo Alexander
Christie. Who Spoke at Dedication
of McLoujfhlln Institute Y ester
day. though he was a man of small means,
ho spent considerable money' and time
In Idaho, which he could ill-afford to
do. That he was pressed for money
before his death Is shown by the exist
ence of several unpaid bills in this city,
for which he asked longer time. The
question arises whether the Federation
really paid him money.
J. W. Lillard, uncle of Steve Adams,
says he paid Brown money to go to
Wallace and testify for Adams, and
le.aders of the Federation say Brown
was their friend. It is altogether prob
able that Brown's habit of signifying a
larger knowledge in detective matters
than he possessed and of representing
himself busy in detective work caused
the miners to doubt his fidelity and to
kill him.
JOHXS DENOUNCES ANARCHY
Baker City Mayor Delivers Address
at Brown Memorial Services.
BAKER CITT, Or.. Oct. 5. (Special.)
At union memorial service of Baker City
churches held tonight In honor of Harvey
K. Brown In Elks Hall, Mayor Johns
strongly denounced anarchy and assassin
ation and called for protectio not Ameri
can ' citizenship and government against
the vicious elements of alien countries.
Rev. Mr. Varney, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, said anarcay comes
from lax government in the home, poor
discipline In schools, lack of Justice in
courts and open town evils of saloon and
gambling, such as prevail in Baker City.
Rev. Jacob Finger, pastor of th First
Methodist Church, made a thrust at Till
man as an exponent of anarchy and a
& consequent demoralizer of the youth.
Rev. Finger was born In Russia and
charged the dynamiters as being destroy
ers of liberty for which he came to Amer
ica. Services were attended by perhaps 1KX
persons.
Bold Thrust at Officials.
Rev. Varney's address contained bold
oeneure of public officials who wink at
law-breaking saloons; gamblers and Sun
day violators and those "who shut their
eyes and shirk responsibility."
"When the very men who have sworn
to enforce the law break their oaths,"
said he, "oan our young men be expected
to have any very high ideals regarding
the Importance of enforcing the laws?"
Mayor Johns sat on the platform during
Varney'e address, but eald nothing In re
ply. His address was as follows:
I know not -what unseen forces may have
been the guiding- star of our Revolutionary
Fathers across the waters of the Atlantic,
but In my judgment that unseen force has
long- since lost its pure and lofty motives,
and that guiding- star has lost Its brilliant
lustre. The men who crossed the waters
and founded this nation -were made of
sterner stuff, or different bone and sinew,
and did not have the same' Ideas, the same
thoughts, motives, ambitions, objects and
purposes in life as those who now cross
these waters on the floating palaces of the
sea. r
To my mind this Is Indeed food for re
flection. France has ever been the distinct
race and nation of the French; Germany,
the empire of the Germans; Great Britain,
the nation of the British; Italy- the land of
the Italians; Austria. the home of the
Hungarian ; Russia, the land of the Rus
sians; Japan, the country of the Japanese,
and China the home of the Chinese. But
as Americans we are fast ceasing to be
our original primitive, and distinct class
and race of people. While it Is true that
In our inception as a nation, as a distinct
race, or class, we were not Americans, but
were composed of distinct races and classes
of several distinct nations; yet. It Is a fact
that those several distinct races and classes
had the same objects and purposes and
were Inspired by the same hopes and ambi
tions, and they became and were united
even unto death to accomplish those ob
jects, hopes, purposes and ambitions. Ev
erything near and dear, their homes and
firesides were laid waste on the field of
battle, and they laid down their lives that
those objects, purposes, hopes and ambitions
might live and should not perish from the
face of the earth. It was in th fierce
and long struggle that tried the souls of
men that a unity was wrought and a new
race was born. Its foundation was broad
And deep. It was just and loyal, pure and
noble. It Tiad an enlightened thought and
purpose, it had higher objects and aims
than any other race that has ever been
born." It was the American race, and the
American people, and gave birth to the
American Nation. No othT race was ever
bound together by such trials, hardships
and struggles. When so cemented and
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McLoughlin Institute Is
Dedicated.
FATHER HILLEBHAND'S EFFORT
Works Hard to Erect Building
in Oregon City. ...
H0LMAN MAKES ADDRESS
Many Other Xoted Citizens In At
tendance on Dedicatory Exer
cises Archbishop Christie
Blesses the School Bnllding. -
OREGON CITT. Or., Oct . (Special,
Marking: tho completion of the nret
real monument to the memory of tr. 1
John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon, '
the Institute that bears his name was 1
today dedicated with fitting ceremony. !
In the presence of notable dlgnatarles
of the Catholic Church and prominent
citizens of the state. The institute was
opened for the reception of pupils one
week ago, and was inspected and ad
mired by hundreds of people of Ore
on City, Portland and valley towns.
The presence of Mrs. M.. L. Myrick, the
favorite granddaughter of McLoughlin,
and Hon. Frederick V. Holman. of Port,
land, the recognized historian of the
founder of Oregon City, was a picas,
lng feature of the affair.
This was a proud day for Kev. A.
Hillebrand, to whose untiring and in
defatigable efforts, the establishment of
the McLoughlin Institute is due. Only
one year ago he commenced the at
tempt to bring about proper recogni
tion of the man who lies sleeping in
a modest grave a few feet from
where he worshipped and not far
from the new building erected to his
memory. Father Hillebrand came to
Oregon City 19 years ago, when St.
John"s Parish was struggling for ex
istence. He succeeded Kev. James
Rauw, now vlcar-general of the di
ocese, and the man who laid the foun
dation for a Christian educational In
stitution In Oregon City.
Work of Father Hillebrand.
Tiie new pastor at once commenced
to build up the school and with the aid
of the good sisters of the Benedictine
Order, brought St. John's Parochial and
High School to a high degree of ef
ficiency. In this he was assisted by
the people of his parish, who have been
steadfast In their allegiance to the
church and Its work. It remained for
Father Hillebrand, however, to note the
absence of a monument to the memory
of McLoughlin, and he has seen his am
bition crowned with success.
Father hillebrand was born in 1859
at Brllon, Westphalia, Germany, the
youngest of seven cundren. His par
ents were of good old German stock
and they educated the boy, giving him
four years of elementary training af
ter which he took a classical course in
the gymnasium, studying nine years.
He then spent three years at the Uni
versity of Munster in the study of phi
losophy, philology and theology, later
attending the University of Louvaln,
Belgium. He was ordained in the
priesthood at the American college, at
Louvaln, and in June, 1885, he came to
Oregon with Bishop Junger, and was
appointed to the charge of missions,
traveling constantly In the wilds of
Eastern Oregon.
The Institute Building.
The McLoughlin Institute cost J11.00O
and is an imposing structure. The main
building is 64x48 feet, with an annex
60x26 feet. The height of the building
from the ground to the top of the cross
surmounting the cupola is 72 feet.
The basement is divided into two play
grounds and in the annex there are two
fuel and storage rooms and the fur
nace for heating the whole building.
On the second floor there are Hur
large study and recitation rooms, and
the principal's room, and on the third
floor the assembly hall, 63x38 feet, is
located. This room has a stage 17x16
feet and in the rear of the hall a gal
lery 16x38 feet, sloping towards the
stage. There are additional class
rooms In the annex on this floor. The
building has three entrances and the
architect Is Joseph Jacobberger, of
Portland.
The dedicatory ceremonies com
menced this morning with the cele
bration of solemn high mass in the
church by Rev. William McGee, as
sisted Tby Rev. A. Hillebrand, 'deacon
and Rev. Joseph Gallagher, subdeacon.
Rev. William O'Hara was master of
ceremonies. Most Rev. Archbishop
Christie preached the sermon, and was .
assisted by Right Rev. James Rauw,
V. G. The procession, headed by the
pupils of the school, then marched
to the institute, which was formally
blessed and dedicated by the Arch
bishop. Ceremonies Held Out of Doors.
The ceremonies were held out of
doors, where a platform had been
erected and balmy Autumn weather
prevailed. Besides the speakers, there
were seated on the platform Mr. and
Mrs. Casey, of Woodburn, who were
married in St. John's Church E5 years
ago, and who knew McLoughlin; mem-!
bers of Meade Post, Grand Army of the
(Concluded on Pass 2.)
HONOR MEMORY 0
FATHER OF OREGON
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