Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, December 30, 1908, Image 1

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VOL. XLVIII. NO. 15,004. PORTLAND, PRECOX, WEDNESDAY, DECE31DER 30, 19Q3. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
EARTHQUAKE
HAS 100,000
VICTIMS
Messina and Reggio
Overwhelmed by
Great Convulsions.
WHOLE PROVINCES WASTED
Almost Entire Population
Reggio Exterminated in
Instant.
of
MANY TOURISTS PERISH
Sicilian Hotels Crowded With
Foreigners at Time.
KING AND QUEEN TO RELIEF
Hasten to Southern Italy on AVar-
shlp Pope Leads Subscriptions
With $200,00 0Forelj?n War
ships Hasten to Rescue.
THE KARTHQFAKR.
Dlaeaard nature oftentimes breaks
forth
In strange eruptions: oft the teemtnr
earth
la with a kind of chollc pinch'd and
vex'd
By the Imprisoning- of unruly wind
Within her womb: which, for en
largement striving,
Shakea the old beldame earth, and
topples down steeples, and
mott-a-rowa towers.
King- Henry IV. Scene 1. Act .
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ROME, Dec. 29. One hundred thousand
dead; Messina, on the Island of Sicily,
' and Reggio and a score of towns In
Southern Italy, overwhelmed; the entire
Calabrian region laid waste that is the
earthquake's record so far as at present
known. Reports are coming slowly Into
Rome on account of the most complete
destruction of lines of communication to
the stricken places.
The death total in Messina ranges
from 12,000 to 50.000; that of Reggio,
wnicn, witn its ad.acent villages num
bered 45,000 people. Includes almost the
entire population; at Pali. 1000 are report
ed dead; at Cassano, 1XX; at Cosenza,
oio, and half the population of Bagnara,
about 4000. The Monteleone region has
been devastated and Riposa. Semlnara,
gan Giovanni. Scllla, Lazzaro and Can
nltello and all other communes and vil
lages on the straits are in ruins.
The King and Queen of Italy are now
on their way to Messina, having sailed
to-night from Naples aboard the battle
ship Vittorio Emmanuele. The Pope has
shown the greatest distress at the ca
lamity and he himself was the first to
contribute a sum amounting to J200.000
to the relief of the afflicted. British.
French and Russian warships are- steam
ing toward the south and already several
of the ships of Great Britain and Russia
have performed heroic service in the
work of rescue.
It Is feared that many foreigners have
been killed, as a 'number of hotels at
Messina and doubtless all other places
were crowded with tourists. Little Is
known of the fate of the diplomatic rep
resentatives of the powers stationed at
these posts, although the Italian govern
ment Is using every effort to relieve the
anxiety felt on this account.
mere is the gravest danger that a
pestilence will follow the destruction
of the towns. On account of the vast
havoc wrought, bodies will lie unburled
for days and weeks. Those who escaped
death, many of whom are badly injured.
are making their way by the thousands
to the nearest place of refuge. Their
sufferings even now must be intense,
as they are without food or clothing.
Stunned at the magnitude of the cala
mity which has overtaken fellow-countrymen,
all Italy mourns tonight for the
stricken province of Calabria and the
Island of Sicily. Accustomed for centur
ies to earthquakes, Italy stands ever in
dread, but none was prepared for the
disaster which In the fraction of a minute
yesterday devastated cities and towns,
and caused the death of thousands.
Messina in Ruins and names.
Messina, whose tragic history has been
marked by tidal waves and war, and
which was the center of yesterday's ter-
restial maelstrom, was shaken to ruins.
Flashes hurst forth to complete the city's
destruction, and to burn alive untold
numbers helplessly pinioned toeneath fall
en walls and broken timbers. The Strait
of Messina was shaken and twisted by
the earthquake's trembling, for mariners
ROOSEVELT AND
HIS SON QUARREL
REPORT PRESIDENT OPPOSED
TEDDY'S XEW VOCATION'.
Embryo Carpet-Weaver Is Major on
Governor's Staff, but Can't Af
ford Gaudy Uniform.
WATERBURY, Conn., Dec. 29. XSpe
clal.) "Teddy" Roosevelt. Jr.. Is not
on good terms -with his father, accord
Ing to a story printed "on good author
lty" in today's Issue of the Waterbury
Republican. He accepted a position as
a carpet weaver In the Thompsonville
mill despite the objections of the Pres
ldent, and was informed when he left
home, so the story says, that he could
expect no assistance from that quarter.
The story is printed under the heading
"Major Teddy Saving Money for a Uni
form." It occupied a prominent place
on the front page.
"It leaked out today, the story
reads, "why young Roosevelt, of Gov
ernor George Lllley's staff has not ap
peared at numerous gatherings of that
party. He has been saving up his pen
nies to buy an expensive uniform and
has not yet accumulated the money,
After he has paid his board and
clothing out of his salary as a weaver
in the Thompsonville carpet mill, the
story goes on to say, he has very little
left. The uniforms worn at receptions
cannot be hought'for less than severa
hundred dollars, and "Teddy," Jr., the
story says, could not raise the "where
withal." It Is not true, the story says,
that the young fellow ate his Christ
mas turkey at the White House. He
went out of Connecticut so as not to
cause any suspicion, but never reached
Washington.
PRAYERS SAVED NEW YORK
So Says "Prophet" Spangler in Ex
plaining Why World Still Exists.
SEW YORK. Dec. 29. A special dis
patch to the World from York, Pa.
says that "Prophet" Lee J. Spangler,
who created mixed wonder, fear and
amusement at Nyack, N. Y.. by declar
ing that the world would -come to an end
at high noon Sunday last, then sud
di-nly disappeared, has arrived here and
s preparing to make more prophecies
when he recuperates. The dispatch adds
that Spangler denies that he ran away
from Nyack and said that If any war
rant had been issued there for his ar
rest he was Ignorant of It. He is cred
ited with making the following state
ment regarding the skepticism with
which some receive his prophecies:
"It only serves to show how few people
will be watching when the time does
come. God has only deferred tne end a
little longer. The real reason for thu
Is that New York ministers and people
learned through my prophecies that the
time had come and they all got down
oh their knee and prayed so hard that
thev saved the city like Nineveh, for the
time being."
REBEL WINS BOSTON BRIDE
Sarabia, Mexican Revolutionist,
Marries Rich Miss Trowbridge.
TUCSON. Ariz., Dec. 29. Manuel Sara
bia, an alleged member of the Mexican
revolutionist Junta, was married here
yesterday afternoon to Miss Elizabeth
Trowbridge, a wealthy Boston girl.
Sarabla's acquaintance with the young
woman commenced when she paid a visit
to the Los Angeles Jail, where he was
confined. Sarabia was transferred to
Tucson and she followed him here. Sara
bia is out on $1000 bail at present.
The bride visited Ixs Angeles with her
mother, the widow of a prominent hy
draulic engineer of Boston. She was at
tracted to Sarabia by her interest In So
cialism. FLEET ENTERS RED SEA
American Battleships More Than
Half Way Home Again.
SUEZ, Dec. 29. The American battle
ship fleet under Rear-Admiral Sperry,
passed Perim at the entrance to the Red
Sea at noon today. All on board the
fleet are well. The vessels are due here
the morning of January 3.
It is expected that they will make a
quick passage through the canal and then
will disperse to the various Mediterranean
ports, according to their Itinerary, with
the least possble delay. Christmas was
fittingly observed on board the IS ves
sels of the fleet.
ROB COUNTY TREASURER
Masked Men Get $5000 and Lock
Officer in Vault.
fWOONSOCKET. S. D., Dec. 29. County
Treasurer Michael Meier was held up in
his office last night by two masked men
and robbed of $5000 in cash. The rob
bers locked him in a vault, but the
door was not securely fastened and ha
wae able to escape and give an alarm.
The robbers escaped.
C0SGR0VE MUCH BETTER
Washington's Governor-Elect Able
to Be Vp and About.
PASO ROBLES. Cal.. Dec. 29. Soe-
clal.) Governor-elect Cosgrve shows re
markable Improvement. Yesterday after
noon he Interviewed friends In the sun
parlor and last evening he chatted with
the guests in the hotel lobby. His gen
eral condition is better than for many
months.
Anaconda Dividend Same.
NEW YORK. Dec. 29. The direc
tors of the Anaconda Copper Company
declared a quarterly dividend of 50 cents
per share to-day. This Is unchanged
from the last previous quarter.
i LOVED
AII5
E
Story of Hains' Grief
Told in Court.
WOULD NOT BELIEVE GOSSIP
After Hearing of Scandals,
Hains Denied Them.
INVITED ANNIS TO DINNER
When Details Were Later Told Offi
ccr His Control Vanished and Ho
Acted Like Man Demented,
Says Colored Cook.
FLUSHING, N. P., Dec. 29. The marital
troubles of Captain Peter C. Hains, Jr.,
and his story of the estrangement with
his wife, Claudia Hains, came out in the
trial of Thornton J. Hins today, when
Samuel C. Reld, a Government building
inspector at North Chicago, related con
versations he had last June with Captain
Hains, making krown the causes that
led to the separation of the Captain and
his wife. The testimony of what Captain
Hains said was permitted by Justice
Crane as having a bearing on the mental
condition of the Army officer at that
time.
Mr. Reld stated that Captain Hains
told him that his wife had confessed that
she loved Annls. Captain Hains evinced
signs of great mental distress in the
uarration of his troubles, the witness
said.
Mr. Reld Is said by counsel for the de
fense to be a brother of Princess Kos
plglosl, of Rome, and comes ffom Ken
tucky. He Is a grandson of S. C. Reld,
who commanded the privateer General
Armstrong In the battle at Fayal, Azores,
during the War of 1S12.
Mr. Reid said:
Alarmed at Gossip.
"Captain Hains told me he went to
Fort Hamilton and found hte wife, who
wanted to know why he had returned
home. 'Why, Claudia, your reputation Is
t stake. I have come from the utter
ends of the earth to save you. I have
heard gossip of you and Annls,' the Cap
tain said. His wife told him that the
gossip was ridiculous."
Mr. Reld said that the Captain stated
that he Invited Annis to dinner to show
that he did not believe the gossip. Wit
ness said that Captain Hains said his
father told him there were things to be
Investigated and that he (Captain Hains)
again spoke to his wife and she replied:
I do love Billy Annls."
Mr. Reid testified further: "The Cap
tain said that his wife then told him all;
that she loved Billy Annls and not him.
1 'I could not understand it,' said
Captain Hains. "The night before she
gave me her caresses and told me that
it was not so.' "
'GEE! THAT OLD
SPORT'S SLOW! ','
MESS
t ANNUAL NUMBER OF WIDE I
t - INTEREST.
t A? a resume of the varied ac- I
tivities of the State, - the New
Year's Oreronian will be found
of great value. You will want
it for reference, for data will be
given that are valuable. This in
formation may be always avail
able if you keep the number. The
issue will mirror the industrial
progress of Oregon to a remark
able degree. It will show what
is being done, the great oppor
tunities that exist and what may
be accomplished in the years to
come. Avenues that are open to
the newcomer will be emphasized
and the edition is profusely il
lustrated.x You will want to send
copies of the New Year's num
ber away to your friends in the
East. The price is 5 cents a
copy and postage to any point
in the United States, Canada,
Mexico or the Insular Posses
sions' is 4 cents copy additional;
foreign countries, 7 cents.
DOLPH SET FREE AGAIN
Tennessee Man Released From Jail
After Much Red Tape Was Spun.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2D. Wil
liam A. Dolph, against whom an Indict
ment accusing him of embezzlement
from the Memphis, Tenn., lumber firm of
which he was a member, caused his ar
rest In this city, the sending of an officer
here from the East to take him back for
trial, and the institution extradition
proceedings, was discharged from cus
tody to-day and the case against
him dismissed by Police Judge Conlan
This was done on a motion made by his
attorney, Samuel Shortrldge, after It had
been shown that the Chief of Police of
Memphis had wired the police of this city
that the Indictment against Dolph here
had been dismissed.
SON OF NOTED NATURALIST
Actor Killed in Denver Came of Ex
cellent Family.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 29. Charles Cuv
ler Dury, Jr., who was shot and killed
by C. Burdette Bell In Denver yesterday,
was the son of Prof. Charles Dury of this
city, an ornithologist who has a na
tional reputation.. Prof. Dury Is taxi
dermist of the University of Cincinnati
and has- written many books on bird lore.
Dury was 25 years old, and before
leaving this city was regarded as an
amateur actor of ability. He was mar
ried four years ago and left with his
wife for Denver two years ago.
Bell, who is charged with the shooting
of Dury. was married In Cincinnati two
years ago.
MAY HAVE BEEN MURDERED
Clerk of Colorado AYoodmcn Dead
Under Suspicious Circumstances.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Dec. 29.
Charles P. Essick, the aged clerk of
Pikes' Peak Camp No. 5, Woodmen of
the World of Colorado Springs, was found
dead in his bed this morning. The trag
edy at first was supposed to be the re
sult of having brooded over the confine
ment of his son. Charles Essick, a boy
scarcely out of his teens, who was sen
tenced to a life term In the penitentiary
In 1905 for the murder of Frank Scott,
a prominent real estate man, whom he
shot and killed In this city early in that
year. Later, however, it was intimated
that he might have been murdered.
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TARIFF FRAMERS
TALK ABOUT POTS
Take Up Second Sec-
tionofScheduleWork.
SUGGEST CHANGE IN VALUING
v-
In Order to Prevent Perjury
New Plan Is Offered.
FEW INCREASES ARE ASKED
Some Reductions Wanted by Im
porters, and Other Cringes De
sired Include Duty on Fire
Clays and Crude Gypsum.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. The tariff
framers todav becan work on schedule B
of the tariff law, which deals with earths
earthenware and glasasvare. The changes
sought in this schedule apply particularly
to the tariff on pottery and the testimony
of the witnesses who appeared before the
committee when the subject was under
consideration, was very Interesting. A
suggestion to change the method of col
lecting ad valorem duty on an article
which Is being seriously considered by
the committee, was brought out during
the discussion on pottery.
While Jerome Jones, of Boston,
Mass., was on the stand, Chairman
Payne explained a plan to collect ad
valorem duties based on the wholesale
selling price of the article in the
United States, instead of on the sale
price at the place of manufacture
abroad. The object of the suggested
change is to avoid undervaluations,
which result In a loss of revenue to the
Government.
Appeals for Honesty.
Mr. Payne explained that the whole
sale market price here can be easily
obtained.
"The Government calls your people be
fore the appraisers," he said, to the im
porter on the witness-stand, "and puts
them under oath as to what the whole
sale price Is, and if your competitors
should make a false oath they would be
amenable to the law oi the United States
for perjury; but as it is now, there is no
one to call before the- Board of Apprais
ers who knows the actual market price
abroad. We cannot eend' and get these
witnesses here. If we take their state
ments we cannot punish them if they
make false ones."
Two Increases Asked.
The manufacturers of pottery in this
country asked for few Increases in the
present duties, but urged the commit
tee to protect them In some way
against undervaluations on the pot
tery and china Imported from abroad.
Reductions in the duties on pottery
were asked for by the Importers. Other
changes In the schedule on earths and
earthenware which have been asked
for are Increased duties on firebrick,
clays, crude gypsum, and that manu
factured pumice stone be placed on the
free list. There have been several re
quests to place gypsum on the free
list, where it formerly was.
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BAY STATE TRIES
FOR CABINET JOB
WANTS MEYER OR WEEKS IX
TAFT'S CABINET.
Senate Will Insist Hitchcock Resign
Chairmanship and Crane Crges
Meyer Be Retained.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. (Special.)
Repeated assertions by President-elect
Taft that only one member of his
forthcoming Cabinet has been selected
to date, and the positive Information
from leaders of the Senate that Frank
H. Hitchcock 'will not be confirmed by
that body for a Cabinet position until
he has resigned his post 93 chairman
of the Republican National Committee,
have led Massachusetts political lead
ers to re-enter the field on both of the
other Cabinet possibilities from that
state.
Tremendous pressure is being exert
ed by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and
his friends . to have George von 1.
Meyer, the present Postmaster-General,
either retained in that position or
made Secretary of the Treasury or Sec
retary of the Navy. Representative
John -IV. Weeks, of the same state, is,
it is understood, being pressed with
equal vigor by friends of Senator Mur
ray Crane for Secretary of the Navy.
Mr. Weeks is a graduate of Annapolis
and present commander of the Massa
chusetts naval militia, as well as
power in the House of Representatives.
ERBS TRIED FOR MURDER
Widow and Sister Charged With
Slaying Captain Erb.
MEDIA, Pa., Dec. 29. Mrs. M. Florence
Erb and her sister, Mrs. Catherine Beisel,
were placed on trial in the Delaware
County Court here, today, -charged with
the murder of Mrs. Erb's husband. Cap
tain J. Clayton Efb, at his country home,
"Red Gables," near Village Green, on the
night of October 6.
Caotain Erb.- who was secretary to
Israel W. Dunham, the Republican lead
er, of Philadelphia, and who was a well
known National Guardsman, was sho
during a quarrel in which Mrs. Erb and
Mrs. Beisel DartlciDated. Mrs. Beisel is
charged with having fired the shot tha
killed the Captain, but both she and Mrs,
Erb have been Jointly and separately in
dieted on a charge of murder.
Mrs. Beisel admitted firing the shots,
hut declared she did so in salt-defense
and that will .be her plea.
Since the shooting Mrs. Beisel has been
in latl. hut Mrs. Erb has fceen out on
bail, having secured her release on na
be-as corpus. Mrs. Erb was wen Known
to patrons of horse shows, where she rods
and was recoenized as a clever horse
woman.
DISASTER IN COAL MINE
Betwen 40 and 6 0 Men tteporieu
to Be Imprisoned.
ROANOKE. Vn., Dec. 29. Meager re
nmta of a coal mine disaster at j,ick
Branch, Virginia, reached here tonight.
Between 40 and SO men are said to have
heen imprisoned and up to 6 o'clock tins
evening rescuing parties have been un
able to get into the shaft because of the
fire and smoke.
Lick Branch Is the name of a coal
mine in operation on the Pocahontas divi
sion of the Norfolk and Western Rail
road. It is without commercial teiegrapn
facilities.
A message received at 10 o'clock at the
general offices of the Norfolk & Western
Railway in this city says that 14 men
have been taken out of the mine ana
that four of this number are dead. It is
practically settled that 50 miners were
at work in the mine when the explosion
occurred and that there yet remain 36
In the death pit. The rescue work is
very slow. The damage to the mine is
reported to be great. The cause of the
explosion has not yet been determined.
REFERS DEATH TO COURT
St. Louis Business Man a Suicide
Rather Than Face Charges.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 29. David F. Ma
loney, a wealthy business man and
prominent in eiub life, killed himself
here today. Maloney's suburban home
was destroyed by fire last Sunday and
the fire is said to have been of Incen
diary origin. While viewing the ruins
of the place. Mr. Malonev was arrested
on complaint of his father-in-law, F. E.
Nelsen, a real estate dealer. Maloney
was to have been tried on January 6.
ORPHAN WEDS CHINAMAN
Beautiful Southern Girl Violates
Mississippi Laws.
MERIDIAN, Miss., Dec. 29. Miss Ollle
Patton, granddaughter of the late W. S.
Patton, a Confederate General and past
grand master of the Mississippi Masons,
it developed today, married a Chinaman
here last Sunday. The marriage violates
the state law forbidding intermarriage
between whites and persons of negro or
Mongolian blood. MUs Patton is young
and beautiful and an orphan.
DEPRIVE NEGROES OF VOTE
Leading Oklahoma Democrats Pre
pare Bill to Disfranchise.
MUSKOGEE, Okla., Dec. 29. Several
of the leading Democrats of Oklahoma
met here this afternoon for the pur
pose of preparing a bill to be intro
duced in the Legislature next week to
disfrancnise the negro. Governor Has
kell was represented by J. E. Wyand,
of Muskogee. .
FOURTEEN YEARS
RUEF'S SENTENCE
Maximum Term Given
Deposed Boss.
TAKES HIS MEDICINE QUIETLY
Lawyers Use Technicalities In
Effort at Delay.
NOTICE OF APPEAL GIVEN
Transfer to Penitentiary Delayed
Till Final Decision Climax of
Long Struggle Marked by
Several Dramatic Events.
SAN FRANCISCO, Doc. 29 Fourteen
years in the penitentiary, the maximum.
Is the sentence meted out today tn Abra
ham Rtief. who for four years directed
the political destinies of San Francisco
as adviser of the administration of Eu
gene E. Schmitz, Mayor of the city.
Judgment was pronounced at the close
of a day devoted- to legal battle, wherein
the defense sought to Introduce many
reasons for a new trial. When Judne
William P. Lawlor had denied this anl
othpr motions involving delay, the de
fendant arose at the court's command
and stood unmoved through the recital
of Judgment. There was no demonstra
tion on the part of the spectators during
the proceedings in the courtroom, nor
later, when Ruef, having entered the
prison van in tile custody of a deputy
sheriff, started in the dusk on his long
ride to the County Jail.
Before the adjournment of court no
tice of appeal had been tiled on behalf
of the defendant and the court had
signed a writ of probable cause, which
will act as a stay of execution.
In a trial that was prolonged through
a period of nearly four months Ruef
was convicted, December lo, of bribing
John J. Furey, un cx-Supervisor, to fa
vor the award of an overhead trolley
franchise to the United Railroads. This
was one of 114 indictments returned
against Ruef by the Oliver grand jury,
which heard 16 Supervisors confess tho
acceptance of bribes in several matters
Involving public service corporations.
One of the many incidents that tended
to make the trial of Ruef remurkahlo
was the shooting of Assistant District
Attorney K. J. Heney by Morris Haas,
an ex-convict, whose past record was
exposed by the prosecutor after the.
would-be slayer had been accepted as a
member of the Jury. JIaas subsequently
committed suicide in the County JaiL.
BOYLE'S SHAMEFUL CONDUCT
Head of Education Board "Fired"'
for Associating With Schmitz.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29. President
Thomas F. Boyle, of the Board, of Edu
cation, was removed from oi'tice this
afternoon by Mayor Taylor for conduct
characterized by the latter as "bold, gross
Indiscretion and shameful," and "not to
be borne with tolerution by t lie Mayor
of San Francisco."
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The went Iter.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
41.1 degrees ; mijiimurn, ;;1. S.
TODAY'S Fair, northeasterly winds
Rurthquako in Italy.
Latest estimates of loss of lifu reach 100,010.
Page 1.
King and Queen hurry to scene and Pop
heads reiler futm with enormous sub
scription. Par 1.
American Red Cross stnrts relief movement
in every city. Page o.
American Consul al Messina and his wi fa
killed. Page 7.
Description of the scene of disaster. Page 1.
Record of historic earthquakes. Page 8.
National.
Senate may fnree Hitchcock to resign chair
manship ana Massachusetts wan is Cain
net place. Pa?e 1.
House committee discusses pottery tariff.
Pago 1.
Domestic.
U1I1 nf CLaus Spi-ockel filed. Pace, 2.
Kentucky rioters flee to Tennessee and ramp
In mountains. Page
Ruef sentenced for 14 years. Page 1.
Young Theodore Roosevelt ss hi to havs
ijuarreled with his father. 1'age 1.
Trial of Mrs. Erb and her st-ter begins.
Page 1.
Local."
National Guard Association discusses im
portant Legislative problems. Puge 14.
Port of Portland Conimi.HsIon plans to have
pilotage law anicnu;u. rage l if.
Lighting question has assumed serious
aspect. Pate 1 1.
Highest bid on record offered for Portland
Park bonds. Page 14.
lucitif; Northwest.
Defunct I-a Grande bank to pay first div
idend March L Page
Witnesses establish sanity of Caldwell when
he made peculiar will in Albany. Page -.
Meeting to frame watr code bill to be
held In Salem, January It. Page 5.
Supreme Court decides state bus no Wain
on $100, (MX) in fees collected by Dun
bar. Page 5.
Commercial and Marine.
Eastern eugar markets demoralized, crop
damaged In Argentina. Page l..
Strengthen wheat markets. Page 15.
Realizing sales cause decline in stock
prices. Page l,"i. -Balfour,
Guthrie & Co. charter Norwegian
steamship Selja for lumber to China,
Page 14.
Portland and Vicinity.
Finch trial does not go to jury. Page 11.
Two of O. R. &. N. train robbers plead
guilty and are sentenced. Page 9.
Methodist conference on missions is held.
Page 14.
Fight against McArthur for Speaker is or
ganized. Page 10.
Insurance companies expect to oppose or
ganized labor at next Lvgislati ve ses
sion. Page 10.
CConcluded oa i'M