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VOL. XLVIII yO. 14,822.
POKTLAXD. OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1908.
FLEET VANGUARD
FEARS FOR SHIP
WITH 1600 SOULS
GANNON BLUFFED
PARADISE COLONY
OF SIMPLE LIFE
BRUTAL CRIME
BIG CONTRACT LET
FOR STEEL RAILS
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HOLDUP
BY
STARTLES
OF
STEAMER VADEItLAXD REPORT
ED SrXK IX XORTH SCA.
SOCIALIST PLAXS A VTOPIAX
HOME IX MEXICO.
ILLINOIS CEXTRAL TO EXPEND
$1,450,000.
RAIN
REACHES
HARBOR
CHICAGO
MAN
PARIS
WORK
BOYS
Two War Vessels Drop
Anchor Here.
ARRIVE FOR ROSE FESTIVAL
Charleston and Yorktown the
First to Come.
SWINBURNE IN COMMAND
Xoisy Welcome Given Cruiser and
Gunboat Torpedo-Boat Squadron
Is En Route Up the Coast
and Is Expected Soon.
The cruiser Charleston and the gun
boat Yorktown entered Portland har
bor et 0:30 o'clock Sunday morning.
The Charleston Is anchored Just north
of the Steel bridge, -while the York
town cast anchor a few rods eouth of
the lama structure.
The torpedo-boats Perry. Petrel,
Farraput. Davis and Fox are ex
pected to join the Charleston and
Yorktown today.
Visitors will he received aboard the
Charleston and Yorktown between the
hours of 1 and 4:30 P. M. dally.
Accompanied by a chorus of whistles
from excursion steamers and factories lin
ing the waterfront and the exchange of
Ealutes with foreign vessels lying in the
harbor, the cruiser Charleston. i Admiral
Swinburne's flagship, and the gunboat
Yoiktown, majestically entered Portland
harbor at 9:30 yesterday morning and
dropped anchor near the Steel Bridge.
The Charleston and the Yorktown will ba
Joined, probably today, by Ave torpedo
boats, consisting of the Perry. Preble,
Fox, Farragut and Davis. These for
midable agents "f naval warfare were to
have reached Portland yesterday, but
while enroute up the Pacific Coast were
obliged to seek shelter at Eureka and
Coos Bay because of heavy northwest
winds. The fleet Includes a total of about
1200 men, and will remain the guest of
the city during the Rose Festival this
week. Admiral Swinburne is in command
of the squadron.
Spectacle Is Inspiring.
The spectacle of the entrance of the
Charleston and Yorktown in the harbor
yesterday was an inspiring one to the
hundreds of spectators on the river banks.
The Charleston was the first to reach the
city, dropping her anchor in midstream
Just north of the Steel Bridge. Ten min
utes later the Yorktown arrived, passing
through the Steel Bridge and anchoring
Just opposite the old Southern Pacific
docks, a few rods south of the bridge.
As the Yorktowh passed the Charleston,
the colors were dipped, the marines and
Jackles on the cruiser stood at "present
arms," while the officers stood a salute
and the band on the quarterdeck played
"The Star-Spangled Banner." The sight
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1 CROWDS BOARIlNU TiLE CRUISER CHARLESTON.
AYliile Lloyds' Office at Paris Does
Not Confirm News, Report Is .
Said to Be Reliable. .
PARIS, May 31. A special dispatch
to the Petit Journal from Brussels says
that it is rumored the Red Star steam
er Vaderland has been wrecked in the
North Sea in a dense fog. There are
1600 passengers aboard.
Lloyd's does not confirm this news,
which, however, comes from what is
usually considered a most reliable
source. There were three collisions in
the North Sea today, and passengers
on the Dover-Ostend mail packet de
clare that they saw a vessel cast away
on the Goodwin Sands.
' NEW YORK, May 31. No official con
firmation could be obtained tonight in
this city of the report of the wrecking
of the steamer Vaderland in the North
Sea. The officers of the International
Mercantile Marine, which controls the
Red Star Line, and the offices of the Red
Star Line Company were closed.
The Red Star steamer Vaderland was
due to sail from Antwerp for New
York, May 30. According: to schedule
she would have reached Dover on Sun
day, from which port she would be re
ported on her arrival. Up to a late
hour Sunday night she had not been
reported.
WHOLE FAMILY DROWNS
On Outing to Celebrate Paying Orf
Mortgage on Home.
PHILADELPHIA, May 3L An entire
family, consisting of William Eidelman,
aged 38 years: his wife, Elizabeth, aged
38, and their two children, Anna, aged 17,
and William, aged 7, of West Pensauken,
N. J., were drowned in Pensauken Creek,
below Riverton, N. J., today by the cap
sizing of a small row boat. '- The family
was taking an outing party in celebra
tion of the fact that the father had Just
cleared off the mortgage on their home.
The bodies of the four were recovered
after several hours' grappling. Persons
who saw the boat before it was wrecked
say there were five or six persons in it,
but no trace of other bodies has been
found.
BARNEY 0LDFIELD INJURED
Car Skids and He and His "Wife Are
Thrown Out and Hurt.
LOWELL, Mass., May 31. While driv
ing a car on the Boulevard north of the
city, Barney Oldfield, of Toledo, Ohio, the
automobile racer, suffered an accident
late tonight, the car being overturned and
Mrs. Oldfield badly injured, while an
other occupant of the car, James O'Brien,
of Boston, suffered an ankle fracture.
Oldfield and Albert Allen, of Hartford,
Conn., and Dr. Park, of Andover, Mass.,
who were also in the car, escaped with
slight bruises.
FOOT OF SNOW IN NEVADA
Heaviest Storm Since Last AVlnter
Experienced at Ely.
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ELY, Nev., May 31. The heaviest snow or no.'" I 1 g I
storm since last Winter was experienced Uncle Joe is mt accustomed to being f : - . J '
here last night. Fully a foot of snow fell, talked to in this way. Finally he said: I A v , 4 vTgr f " fA
The storm was eeneral between Elv and "Yes- I want currency legislation, but s . ) . & ' h-v s F.1'a i . li 1
Currency Action Forced
by Banker Reynolds.
TAKES ALDRIGH IN TOW, TOO
Wintfy City Financier Brings
Uncle Joe to His Knees.
RAVES LIKE A MAD BULL
Speaker Permitted to Exhaust His
Sufpply of Profanity, Then He Is
Calmly Told to Get Down to
Business, Which He Does.
Walter tvellrnan In VThlcaito Record-Herald.
WASHINGTON, May 31. (Special.)
It was a Chicago man, a banker and
"not a politician, that saved the cur
rency bill. Now that Congress has
given the country a law enabling the
banks at any time to take out as much
currency as may be needed. It is Inter
ting to know Just how the currency
bill happened to have the breath of
life breathed into it. There came a mo
ment, it will be remembered, when the
conferees of the two houses were unable ,
to agree, and public announcement was
made that the bill was dead.
Just before this, Mr. Aldrich had tel
egraphed for a number of bankers to
come to see him. Among them was
George M. Reynolds, president of the
Continental National Bank, of Chicago.
Takes Aldrich In Hand.
Mr. Reynolds took Aldrich in hand
and talked to him in his direct, sledge
hammer way. He told Aldrich to drop
his narrow pride of authorship and to
go in to secure results something that
would help the country, regardless of
whose name it bore. Mr. Aldrich was
much impressed, and replied that he
was willing to go half way toward a
compromise. .
The bankers then called " upon the
Speaker of the House. Uncle Joe was in
bad humor. He was angry at the Senate,
at Aldrich, at the Fowler kickers in the
House and at pretty much everybody. He
walked up and down the room like a mad
bull in a pen and bellowed out his denun
ciations of the whole blooming outfit. Mr.
Reynolds watched and listened a few
minutes, and when the Speaker paused
to expectorate, the Chicago banker
sailed in.
Cannon Feels the Lash. '
"Now, Mr. Cannon," he began, "you
have used all the cusswords known to
the vocabulary of profanity. Suppose you
sit- down a little while and listen to us,
for we are going to be heard. You can't
bluff us. We know what the country
wants and we are here to tell you. It
won't take five minutes to settle this
whole business. Are you for a currency
bill or are you not? Just answer 'yes'
or no.' "
Uncle Joe is mt accustomed to being
talked to in this way. Finally he said:
"Yes. I want currency legislation, but
CHARLESTON KUt-IIING TO RESCfE OF
4 CLOSE-RANGE VIEW OF THE rRHSfe
Men, Women and Children Will Go
Naked, and Xcver Cut Hair
- or Beard.
NEW YORK, May 31. (Special.) A
"simple life paradise colony," where men,
women and children will go about naked,
and where the men are never to cut iheir
hair or beardsr will be started this Fall
near Vera Cruz, Mexico, by Gustaf H.
Ander, well known in Socialist and an
archistic circles. More than 50 persons
have become his followers a"nd have
promised to sail for the tropics when he
does. ' ' "
Mr. - Ander is spreading "simple life
thoughts" and "paradise breezes," giving
the plans for this unique colony through
out the country and expects by September
1 to collect at least 600 colonists whd' have
the same "free" ideas thftt he has.
"When we get down to Mexico we will
get'rld of all the clothes that we can,"
Mr. Ander said tonight. "Of course some
of us will hold on to a few bits naturally,
but before long, when we have all become
pure in heart, we will have no need
for even fig leaves."
COLLIDE
IN
CHANNEL
Steamer Queenswood Towed Into
Harbor Where She Sinks.
DOVER, May 31. A heavy fog in the
channel tonight, which has lasted for 24
hours, has bee.i responsible for several
collisions. The British . steamer. Queens
wood was towed Into thehjybor, having
been seriously damaged"rri a collision vith
the Spanish .steamer Bermeo. Before she
could be got to her moorings, the Queens
wood sank In the harbor. The Bermeo
began leaking badly. A portion of the
crew of the steamer Loanda, from Ham
burg for West Africa, who landed here
tonight, report being in collision with an
unknown steamer. The steamer Loanda
is said to be in a bad condition, and her
captain and the remainder of the crew
are standing still, waiting for assistance.
PLAGUE STILL ALARMS
Several New Cases at Ia Guayra
and Port Still Closed.
CARACAS, May 28. Notwithstanding
President. Castro's decree of May 23. in
which it was pet forth that because of
the absence of any new cases- of bu
borii plague at La Ouayra, the port
would be opened to traffic with the
interior on May 29, great alarm is felt
here for fear of the spread of the dis
ease. The plague still continues at
La Guayra, several cases being report
ed daily.'
WILLEMSTAD, May 31. A Dutch
steamer whien arrived here today
brought the information that the port
of La Guayra still remained closed on
account of the appearance of new cases
of plague.
IXl'R 31EN FROM OVERTURNED YACHT
' CROWDS OF VISITORS.
Artist and Mother-in-Law
Strangled.
WIFE BARELY ESCAPES DEATH
Three Men and Wnjan Do the
Deed, Then Loot Home.
TAKE MONEY AND JEWELS
Police Baffled In Search for Clew.
Thinks Woman Assassin AVas Her
Husband's Model Italian Sus
pect Is lender -Arrest.
PARIS, May 31. A double murder was
committed here during the early morn
ing hours, that for absolute brutality
would be hard to parallel in the annals
of the crimes of Paris. Adolphe Stein
heil,' a noted painter, a son of Louis
Charles Auguste Steinhell, one of the
most celebrated of French artists, and a
grand-nephew of Meissonrel, was
strangled to death in his home in the
Rue de Vaugirard. His wife's mother,
Mme. Japln, met a like fate. His wife
was gagged and bound to a bed and
heard her mother's dying struggles as
she fought for life with the murderers.
The bound woman and the bodies of her
husband and her mother were found by
a man-servant who had risen to prepare
breakfast. Hearing groans coming from
Mme. Steinheil's sleeping apartment, he
entered and found her lying bound hand
and foot to the bed. A rag of cotton
wool, which she had succeeded in eject
ing from her mouth, lay on the floor. A
thin cord was around her throat.
Strangled by Whip Cords.
In the passage he found the painter
dead. He was resting on his knees and
the body was bent backward. He had
been strangled by a whipcord similar to
that, around his wife's neck; his fea
tures were blackened and his limbs were
already stiff. In another bedroom was
the body of Mme. Steinheil'g mother, Mme.
Japin. She also had been strangled and
the body fastened to the bed. Every
room In the house had been ransacked
and a large number of valuables stolen.
The servant at once gave the alarm
and Chief Detective Hamard and other
police Officers were soon on the spot. To
them the wife, who had so barely es-
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ATHAXON.
LEW OF THE FORWARD
Two Thousand Idle Men Will Be Set
to Work in Iron Mills at Bir- ,
niingham, Ala.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala,, May 31. (Special.)
Tangible evidence of generous propor
tions that prosperity is returning, is
given in the fact that the Illinois Cew
tral Railroad Company, in connection
with the opening yesterday of its new
line between Chicago, Birmingham and
Atlanta, has placed a contract for 5100
tons ' of steel rails to cost $1,450,000.
The contract goes to the Tennessee
Iron & Coal Company and is the largest
order since the financial depression set
in. Only one contract, that of the Penn
sylvania, takes rank with it.
The official announcement that the Il
linois Central has decided to lgnorte what
remains of the financial depression, is
likely to set the pace for other large
systems which have been withholding
similar orders until conditions are fully
normal.
This contract will enable the steel mills
here to open additional plants and give
immediate work to more than "two thou
sand skilled men who have been idle for
some time. In an indirect way it will
start the wave of prosperity over the
entire South, putting a large amount of
money into Immediate circulation and
stimulating all sorts of business.
FATHER AND CHILD KILLED
Hun Down by Train on Bridge.
Three Boys Escape.
LODI, Cal., May 31. Henry Scott and
bis 10-year-old daughter were instantly
' killed this morning by train No. 3 on
the railroad bridge near town. Scott was
enjoying a Sunday walk with his daugh
ter and three boys. They were overtaken
by the train in the middle of the bridge.
The boys escaped to the foot bridge but
Scott stayed to extricate the girl's foot,
which was fast between the ties.
She was extricated Just as the train
ran them down." Both were killed in
stantly. BOYS QUARREL; GUN USED
Lad of 14 Under Arrest for Shooting
Companion in Stomach.
L03 ANGELES, Cal.. May 31. Clayton
Brandt, a 14-year-old boy. Is in custody
awaiting the result of an Injury sustained
today by William Colby, aged 13, who was
shot in the stomach by Brandt, while the
two boys were on a hunting trip. Ac
cording to the statement of the wounded
boy, he and Brandt quarreled over Col
by's desire to return home, and, after
some angry words, Brandt raised his rifle
and -fired. Colby walked two miles to a
telephone office, after being wounded, and
notified his mother.
DECK OF THE CHARLESTON.
Youthful Robbers Con
fess in Jail.
LAO OF 15 LEADS THE GANG
Eldest of Trio Tells Police He
Is 17 Years Old.
STORIES AGREE IN DETAILS
Young Highwaymen Handy Willi
Guns, and Passenger KeceiTes a
Wound Conductor Narrowly
Escapes a Bullet.
GREAT FAIXS, Mont.. May 31. Th
holdup last night of the northbound
Great Northern train at the stockyards,
about a mile and a half from this city,
was the work of three boys, who now
occupy cells in the City Jail.
A fourth youth who admits having
assisted in planning the holdup, lut
who took no active part, is also a pris
oner. The quartet have made a com
plete confession to the police.
The names of the four boys are: Al
bert Hatch, aged 15; William Kandall,
asrd 17; Harry Rheams, aged 15, and
Giorge Cresswell, aged 16.
lied by Lad of 15.
According to the story told by Randall.
Rheams and Crewwell, the hold-up was
planned and carried out under the gener
alship of Hatch, the youngest of the
four, whd Is said to have turned the
switch, ordered the engineer to back up
and to have gone through the passenger
coaches with the conductor, forcing the
latter at the point of a gun to collect
from the passengers. According to the
other boys, it was also Hatch who shot
William Eempsey and narrowly missed
shooting Conductor Jack Hayes.
Vantcd to .Repeat Trick.
Rheams stated that Hatch, after .hey
had left the scene of the hold-up, pro
posed that they cross Sun River to the
Montana Central line and hold up pas
senger train No. 236 from Butte, which
was due In two or three hours. Because
he demurred, Rheams states. Hatch drew
his revolver and threatened to kill him.'
He was dissuaded from the second at
tempt at train robbery by the two youths
who were with him.
The stories told by the boys, with the
exception of Hatch, agreed in the main
details. They state that the hold-up was
planned two nights before. It being de
cided to rob the train the first dark night.
NEGRO MURDERER LYNCHED
Taken From Cell After Confession
and Riddled With Bullets.
DIXON, Ky.. May 31. The race riot
which occurred March 14 at Providence,
a village near here, had a sequel early
this morning In the lynching of Jake
McDowell, a negro who had confessed to
being one of a party of negroes who
killed one traveling man and wounded
another.
The lynchers, ten in number, over
powered the Jailer, and compelled him
to open McDowell's celt. Mounting the
negro on an extra horse the party pro
ceeded out of town. The negro waa
afterwards found dead by the roadside,
having been stabbed and shot twice.
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CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, ftS
degrees; minimum, 40.
TODAY'S Cloudy, with probably ahowers;
southwest winds.
Foreign.
Artist and mother-fn-Iaw murdered In "homa
in Paris. Page 1.
Steamer Vaderland and 1600 people re
ported lost in North Sea. Page 1.
National.
Chicago banker !rlnjra Aldrich and Cannon
to time and secures currency legislation.
Page l.
PoliticnI.
Local option campaign In Clackamas County
has been hard-fouRht. Page G.
Domrnt ic.
Dr. Koch. German eintit. visit leper set
tlement on Molokal Inland. Page 2.
Illinois Central lets J l,4."rO,0V contract for
steel rails. Page 1.
Radical Socialist colony planned for Mex
ico. Pa (re 1.
Great Falls train robbery work of small
boys, who confess in jail. Page 1.
Ranchers travel hundred miles to hear
Bryan talk. Page 3.
Yaquis show wflllngnes to end JiO-yeur
.war. Page 3.
Currency commission organizes for work.
Page 3.
Grover Cleveland returns to Princeton homo.
Page 3.
H ports.
Portland defeats San Francisco, 2 to 1.
Page 7
Multnomah baseball team will plav Uni
versity of Oregon here today. Page 6.
Portland and Vicinity.
Cruiser Charleston and gunboat Yorktown
arrive In harbor to remain during Fes
tival. Page 1.
Pacific Coast advertising men will consider
reorganization at convention, which
opens today. Page 15.
Polling places and hours of voting today.
Page 4.
Rose Festival will open today, with arrival
of Rex Oregonus. page 11.
Theodore A. Bell visits Portland. Page 3.
Prohibition discussed In city pulpits. Page 10.
New building project marks extension of
warehouse district. Page lj.
Attorney A. W. Ianrty makes answer to
charges filed against him in the L-and
Department. Page .
Firwt Spiritual Society upholds Harrison D
Barrett. Page 6.
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