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VOL. XLiVHI. NO. 14,864. PORTLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, JULY. 20, .1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. (PORTLAND GIRL FIRES FATAL SHOT NOTED FINANCIER LOSES HIS GRIP NO PROSPECT OF WAR, SAYS O'BRIEN AMBASSADOR TO JAP AX RIDI CULES HOBSON'S speeches;. AT KILLED ON BEACH TO ELECT Y LESLIE CARTER UNABLE TO CARE FOR HIS OWN ESTATE. MISS MAt'DE MALLOT CRl'SHED . UNDER A ROLLING LOG. NEEDED STORM BREWING IN SPORTS OS BRYAN DEPARTMENT MMOWIIS David Conelli Kills Mrs. Dolly Sharp. THEN TURNS GUN ON RIVAL Delmar Peterkin at Hospital With Mortal Wounds. SLAYER TAKES OWN LIFE Crowd Chases Italian to Ills Own Room, Where He Fires Bullet Into Brain Tragedy on Third Street. David Conelli, an Italian, 27 years of aire, last night shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Dolly Sharp and Delmar Peterkfn, her companion, at the Awahnee apart ment house. 207 Third street. The wo man died later, and Peterkin cannot re cover. Fleeing from the place of his crime, Conelli was pursued for four blocks by a crowd of a thousand or more men, wo men and children, who shouted and Jeered at him, trying vainly to stop him. He finally sought to elude his pursuers by running: Into the residence of Clifford Leonard. 328 Salmon street, where he was rooming. Murderer Kills Himself. Bolting Into his room, Conelli locked the door, hastily scribbled two notes, then sent a bullet through his own brain, ex piring immediately. The man and woman whom Conelli shot were taken to St. Vincents Hospital, where the woman died an hour later. The man lingered, but surgeons express no hope for his recovery. There are' no living witnesses to the tragedy. Many heard the shots, but the only ones who saw the frenzied young Italian Are the shots were his victims, and he was alone In his room when he ended his own life. The woman was shot four times and Peterkin five times. Conelli had living apartments at the home of C. M. Leonard. 338 Salmon street, and the woman occupied a suite at the Awahnee apartment-house on Third street. Those who know them say they have been on familiar terms for months, and that he was Intensely Jealous of her. Last week they vLMted Seaside, returning Friday. Tragedy Follows Quarrel. Evidently they quarreled on their re turn, for they did not see each other un til yesterday, when the shooting occurred. Conelli could not resist his desire to see his sweetheart again and called at her apartments early in the afternoon. She was out and his failure to see her mad dened him. He called again, and still there was no answer to his knock. At 6 o'clock Cornell called for the third time, and by that time his anger had reached the danger point. There was still no answer to his call, and he wrote a short, angry note and placed It under her door. Leaves Note for Victim. "Dolly," It said, "I have come again and again, and still yo uare away. Stay at home. D. C." He must have suspected the woman and must have thoroughly made up his mind what he would do. He walked the streets for a time, and at 8 o'clock called again. He started down the hallway leading to her room and there he saw hcer. And with her was a man, the two in close and earnest con versation. Eleven Shots Are Fired. Mrs. Sharp started when she saw Corelll, and, likely fearing him, tried to enter her door. But he did not wait. As soon as he saw her he opened Are. He emptied one revolver and drew an other from his pocket. The woman screamed at the first shot and fell upon the floor. Her companipn. Peter kin. also fell, and the rain of leaden (Concluded en Page 2.) AMERICAN FOOTBALL . .., i Members of Chicago Man's Family Ask Court to Appoint Con i servator for Property. CHICAGO. July 19. (Special-) A con servator for the estate of Leslie Carter, ex-president of the Alley "L" Hallroad and one of the most prominent financiers of Chicago, has been applied for In the court of Judge Cutting. Probate J,udge of Cook County. The application was made necessary, according to members of the family, because of Mr, Carter's long Ill ness, which has incapacitated him for the task of properly caring for his vast in- General warns Klefer, Who Brings Flsnres to Show That Nothtna; Short of Revolnttoa Can Defeat Taft. teres ts. For the past eight months he has been In a serious condition. A great deal of mystery has been pre served relative to the cause of Mr. Car ter's Illness. It was announced at first that It was caused by gas poisoning, but just how the poisoning occurred was never explained. Dr. H. B. Favlll, one of the attending physicians, declared it was a case of accidental gas poisoning, but neither the family nor the physician ever divulged details of the accident. Leslie Carter's estate Is estimated to be worth at least J3.O00.fl0O. It is mostly in securities, but among his possessions are several pieces of valuable Chicago real estate. CRUISER REACHES COLON American Warship Des Moines Anchors in Venezuelan Waters. COLON, July 19. The United States cruiser Des Moines arrive dhere today from Guantanamo. Lieutenant-Colonel Cole, commander of the American marines on the Isthmus of Panama, recently received orders from Washington to have 150 marines ready for immediate field service. It was believed the intention was to dispatch these ma rines to Honduras on the cruiser Des Moines. BIG PARADE IN - QUEBEC Formal Opening of Tri-Oentennial " xerclses In Canadian City. ' QUEBEC, July 19. The formal opening of the week's exercises began today with a monster parade of the- Young French Canadians who assembled at the foot of Champlain's monument. Earlier in the day Lord Roberts, ac companied by Earl Grey, the Governor- General, attended the Anglican Cathedral, while a special service was given at the Catholic Basilica in honor of the Duke of Norfolk, . head of the English Catholics, and the officers of the French warships. Quiet Day at Oyster Bay. ' .OTSTER BAT. July 19. President Roose velt spent today quietly at his home here. In the morning Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt. and their son Archie attended church in the village, coming into Oyster (Bay from Sagamore Hill .in an automobile. A com pany of boys in uniform, part of a New York church organjsation, now In camp in Lloyd's Neck, formed In back of the driveway to the church and stood at at tention as the President approached. Mr. Roosevelt saluted, stopped his machine and greeted the boys pleasantly. .. .......T I " V I -iv ' -' t GAME IJT PROGRESS DVR1G MULTNOMAH CLUB'S ANNUAL LOW' JINKS-' ,. .i.i. ........... t . ........ How General Kiefer Figures Results. ONLY SURE OF SOLID SOUTH Strong Republican Sentiment Even in Border States. TAFT CAN LOSE NEW YORK Could Win Without Empire State. Old - Time Politician Estmates That Democrate Candidate Can't Get Over 19 6 Electoral Votes. SPRINGFIELD. O., July 19. (Special.) "Nothing short of a tremendous poli tical revolution can defeat 'William H. Taft for the Presidency," says General J. Warren KielTer, who has a Nation-wide reputation or his figures and estimates. The veteran Congressman, who has studied politics at first hand for the last 50 years, says it would take a miracle to land William J. Bryan In the White House. He concedes Bryan 16 states at the outset as follows: - Alabama, Arkan sas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisi ana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina. Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, controlling 169 electoral .votes. Of these, 131 will be chosen from 11 southern states with practically no contest. Contest in Border States. General Kiefer looks for vigorous con tests in Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada and Oklahoma, and says the Republicans have a reasonable chance in all of these states. In the doubtful list, with 29 electoral votes he places. Colorado, Delaware, Idaho. Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, an litah, .vHe-,says there Is no certainty that any one of these will choose Bryan electors. Cutting out Montana and Utah, the doubtful ones lean strongly to the Republican column. General Kiefer ex pects Nebraska to go Republican, but it Is put in the doubtful column to make the case stronger. Of the remaining 23 states, with 286 electors, general Kiefer says all are posi tively Republican. Giving Mr. Bryan the solid South, Nevada and Oklahoma and adding the 29 electral votes of the doubt ful states for good measure, General Kiefer says he would only muster 169 electoral votes, or -44 short of enough to send him to Washington. If he can give 15 of the doubtful votes, he will only have 184 electoral votes and will remain at Fairview for another four years. Taft Could Let New York Go. On the other hand, General Kiefer shows that Taft could lose all the so called doubtful states and 43 votes of the 2S5 classed) as certain for htm and still be elected. New York and Wyoming could be dropped out and Taft still win. If only 14 of the doubtful 29 should go to Taft, ho could still lose New York, Indi ana and Wyoming, or states with a like number of electors (67) and win. General Kiefer says there is every pros pect that the 169 votes credited to Bryan will be reduced, rather than that any will fall from the 285 credited to Taft. So the General says it will require a poli tical revolution to give Bryan 198 elec toral votes and a miracle to elect him. MACHINES TCPICK HOPS Horst Company at Bohemia, Cal., Adopts Xew Invention. REDDING, Cal., July 19. Machines will take the place of hop pickers in the Horst Company's yards at Bohemia, Te hama County. Last year between 250 and 300 pickers were employed during the harvest. This year equally large crops will be harvested by five hop picking ma chines and a few men. American Diplomat, - W,ho Has . Studied Conditions ' Carefully, Calls Such Talk Nonsense. CHICAGO. July It (Special.) "Sheer nonsense. " Those were the two words In which Thomas J. O'Brien, American Ambassador to Japan, today summarized his opinion of the talk of war between this country and that. He reiterated the same words in giving his opinion of the speech of Captain Rich mond Pearson Hobson before the reso lutions committee of the Democratic National Convention at Denver, In Thomas J. O' Kricn, Ambassador to Japan, Who Says War Talk la Sheer Nob sense. which the hero of the Merrlmac fore casted a dire and deadly conflict be tween Americans and the little brown men before many years. -Mr. O'Brien, who has been Ambassa dor for the past year, but who has given close and detailed study to Japa nese conditions and to Japanese feel ing, differs radically from Captain Hob son. He also differs fnom the rank and file of theorists who declare that "War must come sooner or later between America.nd Japan and probably soon er." INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 92 d'greee; minimum, 66 degrees. TODAY'S Fair: probably not quite so warm; winds mostly northerly. Domestic. Ambassador O'Brien says talk of war with Japan is nonsense. Page 1. President calls conference of Navy Depart ment Bureau Chitfs; storm brewing over battleship armaments. Page 1. Leslie Carter. Chicago financier, loses grip on business affairs; Page 1. Bartender kilts Mexican Deputy Sheriff; countrymen thirst for vengeance. Page 2. Politics. Democrats have no hope of Carrying New York. Page 1. . Hitchcock alms to unite Western States -for Taft and Sherman. ' Page 2. General Kiefer figures that It will require miracle to elect Bryan. Page 1. Sports. Tennis players plp.n tourney at - North . Beach. Page American team, despite many handicaps, determined .to win Olympic games. Page 9- - Oakland and San Francisco break even. Page 9. ' Pacific Coast.- Maude M allot. Portland girl, ' accidentally killed at Ilwaco. Page 1. Nurses roughly handle masculine invader of hospital dormitory. Page 2. Absconder Walker, broken in health now on his way home to stand trial. Page 3. Portland and Vicinity. Jealous man murders woman, mount rail and kills himself. Page 1. Multnomah Club' holds annual Jinks on Lewis River. ..Page 1. Weather yesterday equaled two former hot test days of year. Page 5. . John Bauer drowns in Columbia Slough in sight of friends powerless to rescue him. Page 13. Whitney Boise declines to make statement In own behalf until he examines charges against him. Page 7. Taft-Sherman rally will be held at the Baker Theater tonight. . Page 2. Catholic institute will begin session today. Page 8. Country Club must house many people on grounds. Page 7. Real estate and building active. Page 13. J V I I i j Ancient Methods May , Feel Big Stick. NEW BATTLESHIP ASSAILED Roosevelt Demands Truth Concerning North Dakota. CALLS FOR CONFERENCE Bureau Chiefs and Leading Naval Authorities Meet at Newport Wednesday Fossils In High . Positions May Lose Jobs. WASHINGTON. July 19.-(SpeciaU-Prospects are bright for a- row In the Navy Department soon that will make the Reuterdahl - Capps - Converse up heaval of last Spring loo'i exceedingly tame by comparison. The disturbance is expected Wednesday, when the Presi dent and the distinguished gathering of naval officers will meet at the Navy war college at Newport. Criticisms of the new battleship North Dakota will be taken up. The President is determined to go to the bottom of. the matter. If ships are being constructed along wrong 'lines, he intends to call a halt on further work along these lines and the clash of bureaus that will ensue in that event will be aug mented by the crashing of big stick on ancient customs. Elaborate precautions are being taken to keep the public in ignorance of the dis cussion. Armed sentries will surround the war college during the conference and no outsiders will be permitted to enter. , In this way it is hoped to avoid the pub licity that was given the criticism of Henry Reuterdahl, the marine artist, that the armor plate on the present battles ships is badly placed. Practically all chiefs of naval bureaus and several offi cers on the retired list have been sum moned to attend the meeting. Real Cause of Conference... ; The first topic to be taken up, and the real cause for the calling ' of" the con ference, is the report of Commander Key to the President in which, he makes sweeping criticisms of the armored cruiser North Dakota, a sister ship of the Delaware. These criticsms have been kept a profound secret, even from naval officers. " Plans for the North Dakota and Delaware were drawn some time ago and submitted to the Fifty-ninth Con gress for approval. It was on these plans in a ' general way that the session just adjourned appropriated funds for the construction of two new all-big-gun bat tleships, to be called the Florida and Utah. As it - is the : President's intention to have the two ships that Congress auth orized as powerful and efficient as they can be made, he will insist that if they are to be built along the same general lines as the ..North Dakota and Dela ware, he must be shown that they are recognized an first class. If there is any difference of opinion among the bureau chiefs, he wants to know it before work progresses too for. While, as has been said, the contents of Commander Key's disturbing report have not been made public by the President, It is accepted as true that one of the chief criticisms made relates to arma ment. The manner In which the ten- 12 lnch guns were mounted was a matter of discussion at the time the plans were drawn. The bureau of ordinance at that time declined to permit any Interference with Its plans. It would surprise few people who know the facts, if the President, in view of all the circumstances, were to abolish the present naval board of construction and substitute for It a board of design with wholly different membership. There is no doubt that this plan would meet with most violent opposition from influential quarters, both within and without the ser vice. Armed with his constitutional auth ority as Commander In Chief of the Navy, (Concluded on page 2.) MULTNOMAH CLUB MEMBERS SWIMMING IN Meets Tragic Death at Ilwaco While Playing In Sand With Party of Children. V II.WACO, Wash., July 1. (Spe cial.) While playing on the sand at Long Beach this afternoon, Maude Mallot, the 15-year-old daughter of C. T. Mallot, of 961 Williams avenue, Portland, was crushed to death by a log which rolled down upon her from a caving sand bank. Several smaller children were with the girl at the time. A little daughter of Mrs. Crandall, of Long Beach, was j.lWMjmji..jMiimjw m I L'fS , s 1, J Hhmile rrsis" Mallott, " Child V Crushed to Death Under Lost . Beach.: - the first to give the alarm.' MrsT Cran dall. at 'whose home-Miss Mallott was visiting, hurried, to the. scene, and finding no help at hand summoned Dr. Paul from Ilwaco. ' The weight of the log ihad crushed out the- girl's -life, and she was dead when the physician arrived. Miss Mallott and the Crandall chil dren had dressed to go bathing in the surf,, and .were playing in the sand dunes near the water shortly after 3 o'clock. Several of the -children were collected about a large log, which dur ing some' storm the tide had" thrown up high, on the-.beach. In 'some: man ner the" log . was dislodged from its bed in the loose sand, and Miss Mallott was caught beneath it. It is believed - she was stunned and fatally crushed the moment the log struck her, as tljere was no evidence of a struggle. When - the distracted mother . received the news of her- daughter's fate by long distance telephone she swooned into the arms of ' a neighbor, who happened to be calling. , When later seen by a report er, Mrs. Mallot said: "Maudie left home Saturday afternoon In the care of Jefferson Crandall, a friend of ours, to take the steamer Potter to Long Beach. - She had not been feeling well, and we thought the sea air would do her good..'' She was to be gone about 10 days. It seems almost impossible that I shall never see my little child in life again. I. know everything happens for the best, but,' It Is terrible to think that in so short, a time such a dreadful thing could happen. My husband started for Long Beach as soon as we got the news, and when he had been gone a short time, word came that the body - would arrive here on the Potter Monday morning." Mr. Mallot was overtaken by telegraph and returned home . Sunday night. No definite arrangments for the child's funeral have been made as yet. It is expected that her school-girl friends will attend in a body, as a token of thefr love for the dead girL - rfiiiirinririVMiMiiiiiiinrimMinnttaMMwiiiiiiiia'iMrfAiiiiiiri LEWIS BITER, EAR LANDING, AT ANNUAL LOW JINKS. Club Has Great Outing on Lewis River. DAY WITHOUT DULL MOMENT Games and Practical Jokes in Endless Variety. TRIP ON STEAMER TEAL Decollete Garb Order of Day That Is Spent in Football, Baseball, Boxing and Eating Many Members Attend. r Ducking, sousing, swimming, singing, racing,, boxing, wrestling, shirt-pulling, dancing, eating and tfrlnklng. football and baseball were some of the 67 varieties of Jinks indulged in by 220 members of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, who yesterday set out at 9 A. M. for their an- nual water excursion and got back at 6:30 j o'clock as full of satisfaction as any , brigade of pleasure-seekers possibly could . be. The Jinks did not take place exclusively I at the landing place up Lewis River, as j advertised; they began about four min- j utes after the J. N. Teal left the Oak i street dock, got well under way going j down the Wllliamette, were in full blast j descending the Columbia and got ready j for the climax during the five-mile climb j up from the mouth of the Lewis. In the j secluded spot in western Clarke County, j where the Teal tied up, five hours, they ' continued unabated, and as for the com- r ing home well, there was no anti-climax ! anywhere yesterday. Wear Hot Weather Garb. , Costumes began to grow deshabille bs- j fore the clubmen were well out of the J city limits. Sundry palls of water that j came gently swishing from the upper deck onto the heads of those below served ; as gentle reminders early in the game that ) decollete garb was the proper thing. This ' was not an amateur firemen's hose con- test, but . it kept, up till the lack of fire j protection on the J. N. Tea! would have i staggered a Are insurance company. When the bucket brigade had finished 1 its fell work, impromptu stunts were j called for on the lower deck. Contin- i gents, whose methods savored dreadfully I of the strong-arm system, went in search I of unwilling performers the more unwill- ing the better. Hustled into the center ! of the human Coliseum, vigorous induce- i ments were applied to extract fancy dan- ' ces. Such was the effective character of ! these inducements that everything from I a Highland fling to a 'plain and unassum- ing clog dance was elicited, and the in ! formal variety show down beside the en- I gines had half the shipload standing in the parquet space before it ended. ' No Spectators to Bother. The scene of the gladiatorial contests, j the annual kingpin attraction of the low j' Jinks, is a most appropriate one. Thera was no house within a quarter of a mile, j ' There were passersby, gratification of whose curiosity might be followed by a shock. Occasional hardened farmhand from the fields of western Clarke saun tered along, but they were initiated in- stantly and kept. ; One of them drifted over from Wood land, two miles distant. He was detect ed at the ringside and was thrust for ward into instant prominence. He didn't want to wrestle, he said; he averred ho couldn't. In fact. He was assured h could and would and must. He pulled back like a calf within smell of the bane ful branding iron. Willing hands pushed and pulled him into the very forefront of the battle. Finally, one McKenzle low ered his head and ran for him. Th Woodland youth went up, feet first. Out of the capacious pocket of his overalls dropped a gun, blue-barrelled, well-filled, of evil omen. A momentary hush fell over the enthusiasts. No. the gun didn't go off, but no native was twisted any; (Concluded on Page T.) j;