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THE BIOKJSTMx OKEGOMAJT. FRIDAY. MAY 15, 1908.
JURY FIXES GUILT
ON JACK LA ROSE
Coroner's Inquest Results -in
Connecting Gaspipe Thug
With Neuman Murder.
MANNING TO FILE CHARGE
Witness Tells of Iamaging Admis
sions Made by Prisoner, and Po
lice Are Confident of Send
ing Him to Gallows.
THE JIRVS VEKDICT.
AVe. the Jury, And that Hyman
Neuman cam to his death from a
fiwtum of the kull at the Good
Samaritan lloopltal, on May 18. at
about 7:SO r. M., from the effects
of' an injury received May 12. 10O8,
at 11 o'clock A. M.. In his place of
business, corner of Second and Couch
trtreets. From the evidence laid be
fore the Jury, we believe that death
resulted from an assault upon the
deceased with a Ka.-llpe In the
hands of one Jack La Rose.
Jack La Rose, marine fireman and gas
jiipe thus, was connected with the murder
of Hyman Neuman by a Coroner's Jury
yesterday afternoon, and his conviction
of that crime is now regarded as certain.
lAn Information will be returned against
liim at once by District Attorney Man
Hint?. It is the present purpose of the
authorities to hurry the case to trial,
secure conviction in as short a time as
possible and introduce the youthful thug
to the hangman without the customary
delay of from six months to as many
years. No time should bo lost in mak
ing an example of l.a-Rose, the police
eay, and that sentiment seems to be
echoed by the public.
It took a Coroner's jury only a short
while to decide La Rose was Neuman's
murderer. The inquest was held a few
minutes after 11 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, an hour was .occupied in the ex
amination of witnesses and the jury was
out about 13 minutes.
Makes Show of Bravado.
1a Rose heard of this action with his
characteristic bravado and volley of pro
fanity. With a flourish of oaths he said
he didn't care Kvhat the Jury had done,
but his conduct belled his words, for he
began moving about excitedly in his cell
and presently climbed into his berth and
made a pretext at going to sleep.
Four witnesses were examined. City
Physician Ziegler, Detective Tlchenor.
Harry C. Young, a laborer, and E. 0
trow, a second-hand dealer. Their testi
mony was fitted together 'in convincing
fashion, however,, and there was. little.
If any, room for Aloubt as to La Rose's
Kullt at the conclusion of the inquest.
Young waa the most important witness.
He Jg tht. young man who was told Tues
day' fcy La Rose of the money to be had
handling a piece of gaspipe. The police
arrested him yesterday morning and held
film as a witness, lie will be kept In
custody until after the trial of La Rose.
La Rose and Young met In a saloon
Tuesday morning, after the murderer had
been released from the City Jail, where
he had been kept an unsuspected prisoner
on a charge of plain drunkenness. As
they left the saloon, La Rose suggested
going to breakfast, asking Young and a
saloon lounger named Fisher to go with
111 m.
Tells or VsinR Gaspipe.
"Come on, kid: 1 can get the money.
My little gaspipe gets me the money,'' is
the remark Young accredits to Im. Rose,
and he so testilled before the Jury.
Later. Young said. La Rose and he fell
to discussing the Wolff murder and the
attacks on Herman and Neuman. This
was after the Neuman assault. Young
suggested that a crazy man must 'be do
ing the work.
"If they get him, they'll find he ain't
so crazy, after all," was La Rose's com
ment on that theory. Young said.
Dr. Zieglcr told in detail of the Injury
which caused Neuman's death. He said
there was a fracture oi tue skull leading
to the base of tno brain and that a blow
from a blunt instrument had been deliv
ered with such force as to splinter the
skull and cause bits of Imno to press on
the brain. He said it was such an in
Jury as might have been caused by a
powerful blow on the head with a piece
of gaspipe.
Ostrow told of finding Neuman lying on
the floor of the Neuman second-hand
Ftore, after the assa'.lt. His attention
was called to Neuman by two circus em
ployes, who were gathering up posters,
and he went into the store to tind Neu
man conscious but seemingly not in his
right mind. Neuman told 1,1m he had
fallen and hurt his head, Ostrow said.
Three Assaults Similar.
Detective Tlchenor gave convincing tes
timony. Jle said the assaults on Neuman,
Herman and John Cliong, a Chinese
tailor, all occurring within 36 hours, were
of a similar nature and since La Rose
was admittedly guilty of the assault on
Chong, it was the logical conclusion he
did the other two and similar Jobs.
The officer said La Rose pawned a
watch with Charles Leondar, keeper of
a .North Knd saloon, after the Neuman
assault and that this watch corresponds
to a description contained in Neuman's
memorandum book, mus Indicating it was
stolen from the victim's store. Further
than this, the three assaults were made
with metal hearing a slight surface of
rust and that the weapon in each In
stance was wrapped up so as to conceal
its nature from the Intended victim. All
three victims were struck in the back
of the head without warning, the officer
added.
The Jury then retired and prepared its
verdict. The jury was made up of J. H.
McBrkie, A. B. Stuart. K. Boosengark,
J. M. Gilbert, P. J. Nickell and P. Hol
land. While satisfied that the evidence is suf
ficient for the ready conviction of La
Rose on A. phnrpo ef ftrcr , l ., ....... .1
the police do not intend letting the matter
rest and two officers are still working on
the case. It is not heliavori a ka,, n,an
was In any way involved with La Rose,
as the fellow roomed at the Workmen's
Home for a week and was not seen to as
sociate with any particular person dur
ing that time.
SAYS MAYOR IS CORRECT
Lane Kxpresses Appreciation of
Compliment From Josselyn. "
Mayor Lane deeply appreciates the fact
that President Josselyn. of the Portland
Railway, Light & Power Company, in a
communication to the Water Board, said
that the Mayor is correct in stating that
the corporation has" discovered and put
Into operation a system of preventing
electrolysis in water mains. At the meet
ing of the Water Board, held yesterday
morning, the Mayor so expressed him
self. President Josselyn's letter was read to
the Mayor" and members of the Water
Board by Superintendent Dodge. When
the latter reached the place where Mr.
Josselyn said the Mayor was correct in
asserting, in a recent letter, that the
company . had a system for removing
electrolysis, the Mayor spoke out:
"Thanks."
"For what?" asked a member of the
Board, in surprise.
"For one man who says I'm correct,"
replied Mayor Lane. "It has been so long
since I heard any one say that, I hardly
know what it means."
A good deal of trouble has resulted from
electric currents from the wires of the
railway corporation, which have damaged
the cast-iron pipes of the city's Water
Department. The Board recently took
up the matter, with a view to forcing the
company to remedy the situation. Mr.
Josselyn now declares the problem is
solved by a new system, which has been
put into operation here. However, the
Board will watch the matter closely hereafter.
TRAFFIC AGREEMENT ENDS
HAKRIMAX LINE REFUSES TO
ACCEPT HILX. FREIGHT.
Water Board Cannot Get Pipe De
livered on East Side Skinner
Explains the. Situation.
The City Water Board, at its meeting
yesterday morning, found itself in a diffi
cult position, because of what developed
to be the revocation of a traffic agree
ment between Harriman railroad inter
ests and the Northern Pacific. It was
discovered, by a peculiar means, that the
Harriman people will not permit their
local agents to transfer freight over cer
tain Harriman tracks in Portland, that
has been brought into this city over the
Hill line.
During the meeting of the Water
Board. Superintendent Dodge announced
that it would be necessary for the Board
to take some action on the matter of
having 1000 tons of steel pipe transferred
to the East Side. This pipe, which has
been ordered of a Chicago firm. Is soon
to be shipped to Portland. Mr. Dodge
explained that he had been notified by
the freight department of the Harriman
system here within the past few days
that the company would no longer make
transfer of freight shipped in over
Northern Pacific tracks.
"I had never before experienced this
difficulty," explained Mr. Dodge, "and I
asked the agent to embody his orders in
writing to the Board. He says that the
Harriman lines will no longer engage In
the switching of cars laden with freight
from the Northern Pacific or the tracks
of other competing companies. No. freight
save that routed by the Harriman lines,
he declares, will be transferred over its
tracks." .
After explaining the situation to Mayor
Lane and the Board, Mr. Dodge asked
for instructions as to the proper course
to pursue, saying that It is desirable to
have the stfT'l -pipes laid down on the
Ens Side, as It will be used in that
portion of the city.
The matter being entirely new, the
members of the Board discussed the sit
uation for a time, and instructed Mr.
Dodge to write the Chicago firm, ex
plaining only that the Water Board
wants the order of pipe laid down on the
East Side.
"Just let the Chicago contractors know
where the goods are to be delivered, and
let them fight it out with the railroads,"
said Mayor Lane.
The Water Board, at its meeting, also
ordered $9000 worth of work done in the
City Park on the concrete water tun
nels. The Board also awarded a contract
for three eight-inch pressure valves to
the Crane Company, of Portland, for
JH96. and awarded to the Roe-Stevens
Manufacturing Company a contract for
120 sleeves and valves for $2550
APPLIES TO PRIVATE TRACKS
Still Many Places of General De
livery, Says Agent.
Assistant General Freight Agent Skin
ner, of the Harriman lines, said last
night that the track where delivery of
the pipe shipment was requested is on
the yard or working tracks on the
East Side, not a place of general de
livery, and one where no other com
pany has a right to expect delivery, as
the tracks are needed for operation
and cannot be used for unloading pur
poses. "We have many other places on the
East Side where we are willing to de
liver freight from any line," said Mr.
Skinner, "but we cannot furnish yard
or switching tracks for terminal pur
poses, and we have told the Northern
Pacific that cars would no longer be
spotted for unloading on our working
tracks In East Portland. They fully
understand this and, in fact, promised
some time ago, when a similar condi
tion was up, that if we would permit
them to unload at that time they would
not ask such a favor again. They
agreed to this and their cars were un
loaded. -
"Furthermore, we notified the city
some time ago, lest they make any
mistake in routing freight from the
East, that we would not make com
mon terminals for other roads out of
our private tracks, although we have
done this in special instances In favor
of the city in the past. It Is not the
custom anywhere in the country to
permit working tracks to be used by
foreign lines for unloading and it is
not allowed here."
NOT IN THE FUEL TRUST
Portland Fuel Company Refuses to
Be Absorbed.
PORTLAND, Or., May 14. (To the Edi
tor.) In The Oregonian of May 14 ap
peared an article under the heading "Fuel
Dealers to Form Big Trust," which stated
that
"The Portland Fuel Company,' the con
cern in which State Treasurer Steel is
the leading spirit. Is what Is considered
an Independent company. But the other
dealers figure that with the embarrass
ment that has come to Steel's company
through the failure of the Title Guaran
tee & Trust Company and his own threat
ened prosecution, the Portland Fuel Com
pany will be sold out, and then the fuel
barons can harmonizo It with the other
companies of the city."
Regarding Mr. Steel's connection with
the Portland Fuel Company, be it known
that during the three years since he be
came financially interested in it he has
not devoted so much as one week to the
conduct or management of its affairs.
As to the embarrassment this company
is laboring under and its inability to meet
its obligations, you are referred to those
who "were" our creditors at the time of
and since the failure of the Title Guaran
tee & Trust Company.
The Portland Fuel Company will be, and
has been, independent of any firm or com-i
bination of fuel dealers in the city, and
will not sell out or be sold out to any fuel
barons, trust or combination whatever,
but will still do business at the same old
stand, where all orders given will receive
prompt attention
PORTLAND FUEL COMPANY.
y J. E. Schooltiedd, Gen'l Mgr.
WATER BOARD AT
WARWITH COUNCIL
Refuses to Buy Fire Hydrants
With Money Apportioned
for the Purpose.
COMMUNICATION IS TABLED
Board Declines Also to Let Water
Department Employes Perform
Work of Changing Hydrants.
Petitions Acted On.
That the City Water Board will fight
the Council to the last ditch before com
plying with the order of the legislative
body to purchase "the necessary fire
hydrants." was again exemplified yester
day morning, when the members of the
Board "stood pat" and tabled a Council
communication on the subject, without
further ado. Water Superintendent Dodge
reported that there are 150 hydrants on
hand, and this furnished Mayor Lane and
the members of the Board with grounds
for delaying the purchase of more, al
though 1000 are badly needed, according
to the-written report of Chief Campbell,
of the Fire Department, which was read.
This matter has long been a bone of
contention between the Water Board and
the Council, and in the meantime, dis
tricts that are declared by Chief Camp
oell to be imperilled for lack of hydrants,
have received no attention from either
body of the municipal government. The
Council appropriated $42,000 out of the
water fund to be used for the purchase
of hydrants, but the members of the
Board have declined to obey the orders
of the Council, asserting that the entire
fund should be used for improvement of
the supply service, and holding that the
hydrants should be bought with money
from the general fund.
In addition to its refusal to purchase
fire hydrants, the Water Board "respect
fully declined" yesterday morning to
grant the request of Chief Campbell to
'have Water Board employes take up old
hydrants that are being replaced with
new and larger ones. It was shown that
by this action, the hydrants could be
changed more cheaply, but the Board
members held that it is not a duty of
the Board to cars for hydrants after turn
ing them over to the Fire Department.
Therefore, the Fire Department must do
the work, even if it costs more, according
to the decision of the Board..
Petitions Acted Upon.
The Water Board was in session three
hours, during which it acted upon many
petitions, as follows:
Petition for 1000 feet of six-inch pipe,
Halsey street, from Twelfth street to
Sixteenth street, costing $1200, was
granted; on King street, from Williams
street to Davis street, for 360 feet of six
inch pipe, costing $730. was denied: on
Cora street, from Mllwaukle street to
East Eighth street, for 1130 feet of six
inch pipe, costing $1360, Was denied; on
East Washington street, from Thirty
sixth street to Thirty-seventh street, for
300 feet of six-inch pipe, costing $360, was
granted; on East Sixty-first street, from
West avenue to Stark street, for 330 feet
of six-inch pipe, costing $12.10, was
granted.
A petition for 1000 feet of eight-Inch pipe
on East Stark street, from East Eighth
street to East Twelfth street, was granted
in part. Owing to a fill that has but
recently been put in, a portion of which
has not thoroughly settled, . the Board
ordered the pipe laid from East Eighth
street to a point 10 feet east of East
Ninth street at once, the balance to be
laid when it is safe to do so.
Superintendent Dodge reoorted in favor
of granting an eight-inch main to re
lieve the urgent needs for water in the
Vernon district, and the Board granted
the petition of the Moore Investment
Company, the firm which originally laid
out the tract. According to figures fur
nished the Board by Mr. Dojge. two
years ago there were only 75 houses in
the district, as against 4S6 dwellings and
the public school building now.
Water First for Those Who Xeed It.
A petition from people living In the
Lincoln Park tract, asking for be'ter
water service, was referred to Superin
tendent Dodge for a report. Mayor Lane,
the presiding officer, yesterday announced
a rule to be followed by the Board. It
will be strictly those communities that
are in urgent need of water that will be
first looked after, he declared. No mains
are to be laid just to keep ahead of hard
surface pavements. Is his idea, and the
Board members seemed to agree with
him.
One such district, it was found, W em
braced in the territory running west from
West avenue. Mount Tabor; through
Sunnyside to a point on Hawthorne ave
nue, at about East Thirty-fifth street.
The Board ordered an Improvement in the
service there to cost $SS00, to be put in
Immediately. It Is said this will furnish
great relief to all residents in that
vicinity, especially in the Summer months.
NEW TRAIN SERVICE SOUTH
Revised .Schedule Will Benefit
Southern Oregon Cities.
Changes in the leaving time of South
ern Pacific train No. 13 will become ef
fective Sunday morning. No. 13, which
leaves now at 12, midnight, will get away
from the Union depot at 1:30 A. M., ar
riving at San Francisco at 12:28 P. M.,
instead of 11:28 A. M., as at present. This
train will cut down the running time 30
minutes, but will make all the stops the
train makes at present. Train No. 16 will
arrive at 7:30 o'clock, after Sunday, in
stead of 7:55 A. M. Other Southern Pa
cific trains will retain their present sched
ule, at least temporarily.
The new schedules will give the Rogue
River Valley the best service it has ever
had. Train No. 13 will leave Grants Pass
at 1:55 P. M.. Medford at 3:20 P. M-, nd
arrive at Ashland at 4 P. M. Train No.
14 will leave Ashland at 9:20 A. M., arriv
ing at Medford at 9:49 A. M., and Grants
Pass at 10:57 A. M. This will give those
desiring to do business In Grants Pass
almot three hours and in Medford Ave
hours and a half. This will allow suf
ficient time to do business at Jacksonville,
the county seat of Jackson County, close
connections being made at Medford with
the Rogue River Valley Railway for
Jacksonville. Under the present schedule,
complaints have been made by the resi
dents of the Rogue River Valley that
trains 15 and 13 were run too close to
gether. The revised schedule will give
them an ideal service.
The time of arrival at all Oregon sta
tions by train No. 13 under the new sched
ule, to be started Sunday morning, is as
follows; '
Oregon City, 2:14 A. M.; Woodburn, 2:53
A". M.; Salem, 3:31 A. M. ; Albany, 4:18 A.
M. ; Junction, 5:19 A. M. : Eugene, 5:44 A.
M.; Cottage Grove, 6:30 A. M. ; Drain,
7:15 A. M-: Oakland, 8:05 A. M. ; Roseburg,
8:45 A. M. ; Myrtle Creek. 9:51 A. M. ;
Riddle, 10:06 A. M.; Glendale, 11:53 A. M.;
Grants Pass. 1:5 P. M. ; Gold Hill, 2:36
P. M.; Medford. 3:20 P. M.; Ashland,
4 P. M.
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Another ; Reduction
FROM TODAY ON
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with modern shoe machinery. Our popular prices took Portland
by storm five years ago, but we are still reducing prices. We have
outgrown our store on Fourth and Yamhill Streets and now open
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LAST SPIKE DRIVEN
Extension of llwaco Railway
Completed to Meglers.
WILL CARRY BEACH TRAFFIC
Operation f Line, to Commence by
June 10, and Perhaps by First
of Month Expensive Work
in Construction.
The last spike was driven yesterday
in the extension of the llwaco Rail
road up the north bank of the Colum
bia River, from a point near llwaco to
Meglers. The extension joins the old
road to North Beach points from ll
waco and, like the older part of the
line, is of narrow gauge. Full length
ties are laid, however, providing for
the widening of the track to standard
gauge at any time.
The distance from the junction to
Meglers is 14 miles. Ballasting re
mains to be done and sidings are yet
to be built. This work will be done
when convenient. The road "will be
ready for operation not later than June
10, and probably by the first of the
month.
Construction of the new line was
difficult. For a large part of the dis
tance It runs through a low. swampy
country, where long fills were neces
sary to get a solid foundation for the
track. Rock cuts were numerous. The
work was expensive and the cost con
siderably exceeded the estimates.
A feature of the new line that may
appeal to a large class of Summer
travel is the "kissing tunnel," 980 feet
long, a short, distance from llwaco. The
management of the line promises that
trains will run slowly through this
tunnel so honeymoon couples will geU
the full benefit.
Work was started on the extension
over a year ago. Operations were sus
pended last Fall when construction
was stopped on the Harriman projects
In this territory, but activity on the
road was resumed so to have It ready
for the coming Summer. By the new
line a regular schedule can be main
tained from Portland by the Harriman
river steamers to connect with the ll
waco Railroad trains, something, that
has never been possible before be
cause steamers could land at llwaco,
the former terminus, only at high tide.
Sues to Foreclose $63,000 Mortgage.
Suit to foreclose a $63,000 mortgage
was begun yesterday by John S. Mc
Millan, when he filed suit in the Cir
cuit Court against the Portland De
velopment Company, the Portland Rail
way Company and the Cazadero Real
Estate Company. He alleges that on
June 14, 1907, two notes, for $36,000
and $26,000 respectively, were given in
his favor. The mortgage covers a large
amount of North Portland and Willam
ette Heights ' property. Besides the
amount of the mortgage. McMillan is
suing to recover 11286.87 which he says
he has paid in taxes on the property.
Conley Again Convicted.
Tom Conley was convicted yesterday
morning of tho second statutory
charge brought against him. A third
charge was dropped. A jury in Judge
Bronaugh's department of the Circuit
Court brought in the verdict about 11
o'clock. Conley was sentenced by
Judge Bronaugh to serve four years In
the penitentiary, and by Judge O'Day;
to serve a like term.
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