VOL. XLIX.-XO. 15,050. PORTLAND, OREGOX, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1909. rRICE FIVE CEXTS
EXTOfl SESSION OR
TAFT PLANNING
TO VISIT PORTLAND
RIOT Hi PILLAGE
TERRORIZE OMAHA
YOUNG NEPHEWOF
INDIAN AMUCK IN
CINCINNATI DEPOT
F
ROOSEVELT KILLED
ir HARBOR BILL
PRESIDENT TO TOUR PACIFIC
COAST AND ALASKA.
STEWART ROBINSON FALLS
FATALLY STABS WOMAN"; CUTS
TWO MEN.
FROM WINDOW.
WORLD VOYAGE OF
FLEET ENDS TODA
OREGON
0
NO IMPROVEMENTS
Ships Ready for Review
by President.
TWENTY BATTLESHIPS IN LINE
Greatest Number Ever Assem
bled Under Flag at Once.
VISITORS CHOKE NORFOLK
Admiral Sperry Orders Xo Wireless
Messages liecelred, to Disappoint
ment of Wives and Sweethearts
of Eetnrnlng Officers.
PROGRAMME FOR FLEETS
RECEPTION TODAY.
9 A. M. Mayflower, with Presi
dent Roosevelt, arrives at reviewing
ground.
10 A. M- Fleet panes Into Chesa
peake Bay.
Jt A. M. Fleet panel In review
before President's yacht.
12 it. Fleet anchor off Old
Point pier.
2 P. M. Fleet officers received by
President on board Mayflower.
3 P. M. President makes rounds
of battleships.
8 P. M Admiral Sperry and fleet
officers banqueted by Navy League.
FORT MONROE. Va., Feb. 21. The re
turning; battleship fleet reached the
southern drillgrounds 50 miles off the
Virginia capes early today and the. bat
tleship Connecticut was In constant wire
less communication throughout the. after
noon. The fleet will remain on the
ground until a o'clock tomorrow morning.
getting under way at that hour in ord"
to make the capes by 10 o'clock and begin
passing the Mayflower at the tail of the
Horseshoe In Chesapeake Bay one hour
later.
The weather was well-nigh perfect oft
the coast today and the battleships during
their breathing spell at the drillgrounds
will be polished and painted afresh tor
the review tomorrow, which will go down
In history as one of the most notable in
the annals of the American Navy.
3Iost Ships Under Flag afc Once.
The number of vessels In the line that
will file by the Mayflower will not be so
great as at other reviews, but never be
fore has the President personally visited
so many of the ships as he plana to do
tomorrow. The review will be notable
also In that it will bring together the
greatest number of battleships ever as
sembled under the American flag.
There will be 21 first-class battleships in
the Imposing column, two more than at
review In San Francisco harbor last May.
In anticipation of tomorrow's pageant,
the waters off here tonight are filled with
brilliantly-lighted yachts and many
classes of Government vessels.
Word was received tonight that the
President .and his party on board the
Mayflower are well on their way down
the Potomac The Dolphin is en route
from Washington with the members of
the House and Senate naval committees
on board. A specially chartered steamer
Is bringing another party of more than
100 members of Congress. From Balti
more. Richmond a,nd New Tork veritable
fleets of excursion boats are coming.
Norfolk Choked AVith Visitors.
Rear-Admiral Sperry reported the ar
rival of his fleet and the welcoming
squadron under command of Rear-Admiral
Arnold to the Navy Department
this morning as soon as the 25 ships of
the Joint command were brought to a
standstill at the ocean drillgrounds.
Both Norfolk and Old Point Comfort
were fairly choked with excursionists and
visitors and the hotels were crowded. The
repair ship Panther, a converted cruiser
commanded by Commander Valentine S.
Nelson, steamed in today, the third of
the auxiliaries of the fleet to make home.
A homeward-bound pennant of red
streamed behind as she entered the capes
and proceeded to an anchorage almost
directly off the Government pier. The,
Panther has been ready at an times to
make any repairs to the fleet. Fitted
with forges and all the equipment of a
modern station ashore, the presence of
this floating machine shop has lent a
feeling of security to every commanding
officer in the fleet.
Yankton Brings Pay.
The collier Ajax also came in today.
The Yankton slipped in last Wednesday.
This busy dispatch-boat returned from
Washington today a veritable treasure
ship. In her strong room tonight are
gulden caples. double eagles and half
eagles to the amount of 1800.000, to be
used In paying off the officers and men
upon their arrival.
The naval yacht Sylph, one of the ves
sels placed at the disposal of the Pres
ident, arrived today to take out to the re
viewing ground tomorrow the wjves of
the Admirals and Captains of the fleet.
Mrs. Sperry. Mrs. Sohroeder, Mrs. Wain
wrlght and Mrs. Potter, nives of the
flag officers of the four divisions of the
fleet, are here and more than one-half of
the wives of the captains also will be
on board the Sylph tomorrow.
The naval yacht Oneida, assigned to
the militia of the District of Columbia.
Is here with General George IT. Harries,
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Alights From Train, Gives Curdling
Warwhoop, Dashes Down Plat
form With Knife.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 21. With an ear
splitting warwhoop, an' unidentified Nav
ajo Indian chief ran amuck In the Union
Station here today and before he could
be overpowered he had fatally stabbed
and cut Mrs. Anna Devord, of Hunting
ton, W. Va., and Max Meyers, of Cin
cinnati, and seriously wounded Joseph
W. Gordon, of Cambridge, 'ill.
The Indian, ,with four Sioux war
chiefs from Kansas, came 'in on a
crowded Chesapeake & Ohio train. As
the passengers alighted from the train
the Indian, with a yell, drew a long
dagger and started through the crowd,
slashing right and left.
Mrs. Devord was nearest him, walking
up the platform with a child in her arms.
The Indian buried the dagger in her
back and then slashed her across the
body and arms.
Disregarding the insensible form of his
victim, he next attacked Meyers, who
fell to the station platform, and then ran
toward Gordon.
As the Indian's blade penetrated the
clothing of his victim and entered the
flesh, passengers and station attaches,
who had stood rooted In thelr-tracks in
horror, made a concerted rush on the
madman.
Male passengers and station employes
hurled themselves upon the prostrate
Indian, who struggled desperately. The
dagger was knocked from his hand and
he was taken in charge by the police.
DOCTORS DESERT PATIENTS
With Nurses Go on Strike In Caracas
Hospitals.
NEW TORK, Feb. 21. The steamship
Prlnx William IV, which arrived nere
today from Venezuela, brought reports
of great distress at the hospitals at
Caracas.
A short time ago the physicians and
nurses in the hospitals went on strike
because the authorities had failed to fur
nish sufficient supplies of food and medi
cine. Three hundred patients In the
hospitals were starving. The passengers
of the Prln WJihelm IV Include 17.
Paulus Sannon, Haytien Minister to
Washington.
SIBERIA BURIED IN SNOW
Over 100 Dead and 000 Miles of
Railroad Are Blocked.
KIEV, European Russia. Feb. 21.
Terrible snowstorms have . prevailed
for the past week and 2,000 miles of
the tracks of the Southwestern Rail
way are blocked. '
LONDON, Feb. 21. A dispatch from
Odessa to a news bureau here, reports
that more than 100 lives have been
lost In the blizzard in Southwestern
Russia during the last? three days.
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Columbia River Gets
Largest Sum.
PRESENT WORK TO CONTINUE
Provision Also Made for Addi
tional Surveys in State.
SPECIAL LOBBIES FAIL
Presence Before Harbors Committee
of Various Persons Who Had
Come to Boost Falls to Help
Our Appropriations.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Feb. 21. The river and harbor bill
as framed by the House committee, and
reported to the House, made a lump ap
propriation for the maintenance of works
heretofore begun, but that lump sum, was
arrived at by compiling the various
amounts which. In the opinion of the Chief
of Engineers, will be necessary for the
preservation of works until .. July 1, 1910,
when it is expected another regular river
and harbor bill will become operative.
Out of the total appropriation carried by
the bill, $S3o,000 will be expended on riv
ers and harbors of the Portland engi
neering district, and will be apportioned
as follows:
Mouth Columbia river (Jetty con
struction) $300,000
Mouth Columbia river (operation
dredge) 200.000
Columbia and Willamette, Portland
to sea 100.000
Upper Willamette and Yamhill 20,000
Columbia River, Vancouver to mouth
Willamette 5.000
Tillamook bay and bar 5.000
Snake River S.000
Total $S35.0O0
In addition to these appropriations, the
bill will authorize surveys of a number
of streams, with a view to ascertaining
the necessity for and cost of future Im
provement, provided commerce and local
conditions Justify; these surveys to form
the basis for appropriations In the next
river and harbor bill. The surveys In
Oregon are:
Columbia and Willamette, from Portland
to sea, with view of obtaining 30-foot
channel.
Willamette Falls, with view to deter
mining whether or not the Government
should acquire the canal and locks at
Oregon City, and if so, at what cost;
also to determine whether It Is more ad
visable to build new canal and locks, and
if so. on which side of the river.
Yaqulna Bay, from Taquina to Elk City.
Umpqua River bar.
Columbia River in front of Hood River.
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CRUISE, AND PORTRAITS OF
Believes Executive's Duties Are to
Gain Personal Knowledge of
His Country.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21. (Special.)
President-elect Taft is planning to-visit
Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Seattle and Alaska next Summer. If
he carries out hlB intention, he will
visit Denver, and attend there a meeting
of the Trans-Mississippi Congress; go to
the Alaska-Yukon Exposition in Seattle
and then proceed to Alaska.
In order to carry out other plans he
will have to do his Pacific Coast and
Alaska traveling during the last week
of July and all of August, and Btart
South In September.
While he Is on the Pacific Coast he
will in all probability . take in all the
towns and cities possible. The Pacific
Coast Is the only section of the coun
try which he has not already toured
pretty thoroughly.
Taft believes it to be the duty of the
President to travel as much as possible
and gain a personal knowledge of condi
tions in various parts of the country.
QUAKES FRIGHTEN SPAIN
Drive Out Worshipers Who Trample
"Women Under Foot.
. ALICANTE. Spain, Feb. 21. Severe
earth shocks were experienced this
morning throughout the whole district
of Elche. The first occurred about 4
A. M. The most serious, which came
while the people were In the village
church, caused a panic among the
congregation, . which rushed to the
doors, trampling underfoot a score or
more women and children. The fur
niture in the houses was overturned
and crockery and windows broken.
At Orevellente, a town of 10,000 in
habitants about 18 miles from Ali
cante, two severe shocks were felt
between 8 and 8:30 A. M. Houses
rocked and swayed at an alarming
angle and people ran to the country
side in terror. They are now camp
ing In the open fields.
BELLBOY HEIR TO $32,000
John Douglass, Former Polo Jockey;
Falls' Into Fortune, y
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21. John
Douglass, a 24-year-old bellboy employed
at the Manx Hotel in this city, has re
ceive word from a New Tork law firm
that he is named in the will of Colonel
G. H Warfleld. recently deceased, as the
Inheritor of $32,000. Douglass formerly
was a polo pony Jockey and rode for
Colonel Warfleld, who became attached
to the boy and kept him In mind when
drawing up his will. The lucky youth
says that he will travel in Europe for
a time.
Douglass' father is C. K. Douglass, an
attorney of Los Angeles. The son states
that he became estranged from his
parents following his marriage.to Helen
Sutherland, an actress. His wife com
mitted suicide In a Los Angeles hotel
last October.
COMMANDERS ON VARIOUS STAGES OF TRIP. AND OF PRESIDENT,
PAcrc
Scores Injured, Homes
: Burned or Wrecked.
MAN AND TWO BOYS ARE SHOT
Mob Assails Greeks to Avenge
Death of Policeman.
1000 PEOPLE TAKE PART
Rioters Accomplish Their Work Be
fore Police .Can Reach Scene.
Sheriff Calls Out Deputies.
More Men Needed.
"OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 21 Following a
harangue at a mass meeting in the.City
Hall, in South Omaha this afternoon, at
which two members of the State Legis
lature and an attorney were , the prin
cipal speakers, a wild mob of 800 to 1000
men started for the Greek quarter to
avenge the death of Patrolman Edward
Lowery, who was shot and killed Friday
night by a Greek whom he had placed
under arrest.
' Before their thirst for blood had been
satisfied, more than 30 buildings were
burned, wrecked or badly damaged and
probably a score of persons injured, half
that number seriously. By heroic work
the police have prevented actual loss of
life. The rioting continued far into the
night.
Fifteen Arrests Made.
Governor Shallenberger was consulted
and expressed a willingness to call out
the troops if necessary. No such de
mand was made tonight, however. Fif
teen arrests had been made up to mid
night. The South Omaha police continued to
arrest 6tragglers until late in the night,
the station being filled to its capacity.
About 50 Greeks received medical atten
tion and were given quarters at the
police station for the night.
About 400 Greeks were removed to a
place of safety In South Omaha and are'
being guarded in a body. A similar
squad is being cared for in Omaha.
Boys Wounded by Shotgun.
Two injured boys are Frank Sweeney
and Joseph Gamble, each about 15 years
old, who received part of the contents of
a shotgun fired into the crowd by the
maddened Greeks. Charles Nestral, mem
ber of the- mob, was later wounded.
A crowd of perhaps 600 or 1000 quickly
gathered to augment the size of the mob,
and a general assault was begun on the
Greeks. It was centered at Twenty-sixth
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Young Man Was Sophomore at Har
, vard and Accident Occurred In
His Dormitory Room.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 21. Stewart
Douglas Robinson, 19 years old, a nephew
of President Roosevelt and a sophomore
at Harvard, fell from a window on the
sixth floor of Hampden Hall, a fash
ionable dormitory, today, and was in
stantly killed. His body was found at
6:30 this morning.
Robinson had attended a banquet of
the "A. D." club last night and it was
after mldrtight when he went to his
room. It is understood that he fell soon
after entering the room and struck his
head on' a piece of furniture. Som
friends who were with him left after he
had retired but before going raised the
window slightly. It is thought he went
to the window later, and becoming dizzy
pitched to his death.
Douglas. Robinson, of New York City,
arrived in Boston today and took charge
of the body of his son, which was taken
tonicht to New York. In the car with
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were two of th
dead vouth's brothers and a sister and
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., his cousin.
The news of his nephew's tragic death
did not reach President Roosevelt before
he had left on the Mayflower for Hamp
ton Roads, and be cannot learn of it till
his arrival there tomorrow.
CUPID IS LOSING HIS HOLD
Divorces in Canada Show Rapid In
crease In Recent Years.
OTTAWA, Ont., Feb. 21. (Special.)
One of the most noticeable features of
the Legislative programme at the presen
session of the Dominion Parliament is
a long list, for Canada, at least, of di
vorce applications awaiting hearing be
fore the Senate. . They are as many in
number as were granted during the 20
years after the confederation.
The average divorce application pre
sented to the Senate costs upward of
$1000 and this is a good deal more than
the aggrieved husband or wife can or
dinarily afford. Between 18S8 and 1900,
a period of 12 years, the number of di
vorces granted was 35, and at this ses
sion of Parliament, if all applications
are successful, the number will be 24.
FIGHT ON SPECIAL AGENTS
Western Congressmen Opposed to
$1,000,000 Appropriation.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
lngton, Feb. 21. If the House agrees to
the item in the sundry civil bill appropri
ating $1,000,000 for land office special
agents, a fight will be made by Western
Senators to reduce the appropriation to
$500,000 after the bill passes the House.
There Is a strong sentiment among
Western Senators adverse to Increasing
the special agent force, and it is alleged
that an outlay of $1,000,000 for
this work In one year would be gross
extravagance. If a determined fight is
made on this item it will probably be
reduced.
WHO WILL REVIEW FLEET.
'S &Vt- --S S; WILL BI1
r n m
Blunder Kills State In
stitutions Bill.
$350,000 ITEM MUST FAIL
Senate Fails to Concur in
House Amendments.
CONFERENCE AT CAPITOL
Governor Will Call Extra Session If
Members Shall Signify Desire to
Come Back for Day Without
Making State Expense.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 21. (Special.) A spe
cial session of the Oregon Legislature will
be necessary, or Senate bill No. 254, a
bill appropriating $350,000 for. improve
ments at state institutions will fall to
become a law. Owing to irregularities
the bill was not legally passed, and is in
valid. The special session, if called, will
merely pass the bill in the form in which
it was intended to be passed by the ses
sion just closed.
No special session has been called and
none will be unless 20 members of the
Senate and 40 members of the House
signify their willingness to come to Salem
for a special session without expense to
the state. This decision was reached at
conference tonight between Govern1
Chamberlain, President Bowerni
Speaker McArthur and Senator Kay.
Senator Kay has undertaken to get the
members to agree to come and believes
he can do so. President Bowerman will
not ask the members to come together
on this condition, though they say they
are willing to come themselves at their
own expense.
Replies by AVlre Asked.
"Every member of the Legislature who
is willing 'to come on that condition is
asked to wire the Governor at once that
he will be here," said Senator Kay this
evening. "The telegrams can be sent
collect,' as we have made arrangements
to have the charges paid. What we want
is immediate assurance that a quorum will
be present. Of course, we do not expect
those in remote districts to return if they
have gone to their homes."
The bill which the Legislature failed to
pass legally is Senate bill 254, by the ways
and means committee. It appropriates
$250,000 for a new wing, equipment, fire
protection, etc., at the asylum, $17,600 for
improvements at the Penitentiary; $TSO0
for improvements at the Blind School, $0",-
500 for new buildings at the Institution for
Feeble-Mlnded, $SO0O for the Soldiers'
Home and $4000 for the Reform richool.
How Error Occurred.
This bill passed the Senate as Intro
duced. The House amended one item of
the asylum appropriation by cutting out
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NDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TOD AY'S Occasional rain ; northwesterly
winds, becoming variable.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 48
degrees; minimum, 33 degrees.
.LeglKlutures.
Defect In appropriation bill for Improve
ment to state Institutions may result m
special session legislature.. , Pago 1.
Normal school hoard meets today to wrestle
with problem of continuing work or
schools; Monmouth and Ashland raisa
funds to continue work. i'age 5.
Appropriations exceed those of last session
oy over j,wv.uu. rage u.
'atlouil.
OreRon favored In harbor appropriation.
i'age 1.
Roosevelt uses figures to refute Senator
Hemen way's charges against the secret
service. Page it.
Fleet to end world voyage today. Page 1.
Taft may visit Portland and Alaska next
Summer. Page 1.
Five lawyers have been picked for Taft's
cabinet, page
Congress puttlnp on steam as end of ses
sion approaches. Page .
Mob In South Omaha attacks in revenge f-r
death of policeman ; one man and two
boys seriously wounded ; buildings
destroyed. I'age I.-
risis near in wheat corner. Page 2.
owa mob thirsts for blood of negro assail
ant, i'age 1.
ingles mystnry to b officially ended to
day on report of alienists. P:vge 4.
Senntor Clark at head of new powder plant
in cat norma to compi-io wun trust.
Page it. .
Nephew of President Roosevplt falls from
window ana. is Kinea. page i.
Navajo Indian runs amuck in Cincinnati,
tabbing lour people, i'age l,
Hports.
Old conflicts are eliminated by new gome
law. pago
Ole Johnson signs contract to piny with Mc-
t:reaie. i'age l.i.
Chicago still has hopes of Fielder Jonas'
return. Ho says, "Nothing to It," Page
World's record for 100 miles on circular
track broken in New Orleans auto races.
Page IX
pacific Xorthvrest.
Captain of nrlionnor Oakland resigns after
perilous trip lasting 47 days. Page 5.
Mother of Mr. Yocubets, who disappeared
from near Albany, can offer no explana
tion. Page 4.
Portland and Vicinity.
Washington's birthday will be observed to
day with appropriate ceremonies, page 8- .
Vice-Consul Nuniaro discusses Japanese
American conditions at First Congrega
tional Church, page 8.
"Waiter at Portland hotel arrested for serv
ing liquor on Sunday. ' Pago 14.
Judge Henry E. McCInn and Frederick V.
Holmnn discuss proposed city charter
from opposite viewpoints. Page 8.
Corner stone of new Evangelical church if
laid. Page g.
Symposium at White Tempi discusses
means for making a greater Portland.
Paee 14.
Woman turns on policeman who interferes
In family row. Page 14.