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48 PAGES PAGES 1 TO 12 VOL. XXV-XO. 34. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. "v v iii ii 11 i a i . ill i : 3 k m TERRORISTS WRECK ME OFSTOLYPIfl i Awful Slaughter of Officials and Serv ants of Premier. STOLYPIN SLIGHTLY HURT Twenty-Seven Persons Killed, Including Premier's Daugh ter and Two Terrorists. BLOOD COVERS EVERYTHING Bombthrowers Gain Entrance to Villa in Disguise. REVENGE FOR REPRESSION Bomb Concealed in Vase Was Meant for Trepoff Originally, and Con taiued Explosive Used to Kill Czar Alexander II. KILLED BY EXPLOSION. Premier Stolypln's daughter, aged 16 years. General Zamatln, Premier's personal secretary. M. Khoraoft", ex-Governor of Fenxa Province. Colonel FodorofT, chief or Premier' guard. Count Chamberlain Davldoff. Chamberlain Voornln. Aide Doubapsoff. Prince Nakashtdge. Police Officer Konnuzelf. Four women. . . .Two children. Several auardfl. Several servants. Wounded. Stolypln's S-year-old son. Two of the Terrorists. About 30 others. T. PETERSBURG. Aug. 25. Twenty f . ven persona are dead and more than 30 w.iunded as the result of a dastardly at tempt this afternoon to assassinate Pre mier 9tolypin with a bomb while he was holding a public reception at his country house on Aptekasey Island. The Premier was slightly wounded on the lace and neck by flying splinters. Among the dead are the Premier's 15-year-old daughter, who had both legs broken by the explosion, and subsequent ly succumbed to her injuries. General Zamatln, the Premier's personal secre tary; M. Kiosvoff, ex-Governor of the Province of Penza; Colonel Fodoroff, chief of the Premier's personal guard; Court Chamberlain Davldoff, Chamberlain Voornln, Aid Doubassolt, Prince Nakash Idge, Police Officer Konunzeff, several guards, several servants, lour women and two children. The wounded include M. Solypln's J-year-old son, who is seriously if not fatally injured, and a number of persons prominent In the society and official world. Awful Effect of Explosion. Of the four conspirators who engineered the outrage, two were killed with their victims, while the third, who acted as coachman for the party, and the fourth. WILL, THERE BE ENOUGH O. turn on the hose An metamorphose That sweet-smelling rose. We'll not interpose. For we're trying to close An offended nose. who remained inside the carriage, were badly wounded and are now in the St. Peter and St. Paul fortress. Whether the assassins who entered the crowded reception hall threw the bomb or accidentally dropped it probably will never be known, as all the immediate eye witnesses were killed. The tremendous force of the- explosion absolutely blew out the front of the Premier's residence and carried away the ceilings above and the floors beneath and the walla of the adjoining rooms. Premier's Lucky Escape. People were literally blown to pieces. Those who were not killed Instantly were horribly mangled and the others were prostrated by the shocks. The Premier's escape was miraculous, for only a mo ment before the explosion took place he had stepped inside his study at the rear of the salon to speak to Prince Shakov eky. Although he was but slightly In jured, he is completely prostrated by the calamity. Dripping Flesh Everywhere. The havoc wrought by the explosion is Indescribable. Bodies were so torn or mangled as to make identification impos sible, some of them, headless, armless or legless, lying among the .blood-dripping wreckage. Pieces of flesh and clothing Premier Stolypln of Knsnia, target of terrorists' bomb. clung to the shattered rafter overhead and some lodged In the branches of the elm traes which border the roadway sep arating the Premier's residence from the river. When the Associated Press this evening succeeded in securing permission to pass the . cavalry guarding the ap proaches to the house, the dead and wounded already had been removed to a neighboring hospital; by the light of flar ing torches the police still were picking out from the wreckage bits of flesh and placing them in boxes for transportation In ambulances to tho morgue. At the hospital the frantic attendants tried to arrange the shattered bodies into some semblance of human form for identifica tion by weeping relatives outside. Bomb-Thrower Keduced to Pulp. The Terrorist who carried the explosive into the house was literally converted Into pulp by the force of the explosion.. Inside the gendarme coat which he had on was found the death sentence of Premier Stolypln that he had tried to execute. The police refuse to make public the contents of the document. The tragedy created a tremendous sen sation here, and extra editions of the newspapers were sold in the strets until midnight. In the clubs, where officials and officers were gathered, the most intenso indignation prevailed, and the prediction was freely made that the revolutionaries would pay- dearly . for such senseless crimes, and no doubt was entertained that their only effect would be to drive the government to more severe methods of repression. Revenge for Repression. From Information obtained from revo lutionary sources it is certain that the crime was committed by the fighting or ganization of the Social Revolutionists in retaliation for the war which the govern ment has been waging against them. Since M. Stolypln's accession to the Pre miership, over 1000 of their members have been arrested, 400 in St. Petersburg alone, and many of these have been deported. To fight this crusade the fighting organ ization, which is composed of a wing known as Matlmists, who believe in set ting up a purely Socialist state upon the ruins of the autocracy, has deliberately entered upon a duel with the government, such as that which characterized the famous fight of the Nihilists In" the late '70s, and which ended in the execution of Emperor Alexander II. At that time a (Concluded on Page 2.) WATER? n- . - Str' via THE ROAR OF THE CANNON. "I'm the early bird 'bout whom you've heard; I'm-your Uncle Joe who's going to show This Nation a thing or two, by Jlng. In the house that's white I reckon I'll light A cigar or two before I'm through. No "twenty-three" Is due for me. GATHER FORCES FOR BIG BUTTLE Guerrera arid Avalos Not Ready to Fight. BUESSES AT REBEL STRENGTH Insurgent Leader Prepares to Attack City. RECRUITING UP TO 5000 Palma Calls for Volunteers and Rushes Men to Pinar del Rio. Government Wins One Bat tle Town Joins Rebels. WHOLE TOWN JOINS REBELS HAVANA, Aug. 25. A dispatch re - reived here from Las Cruces, Santa Clara province, says the Mayor, the police, nearly all the Councllmen and officials of the town, together with all the rural guards stationed there, and 3t0 citizens have Joined the insurgents. Senator Frias, of Clenfuegoa, has re ceived a telegram, reporting a similar state of affairs at Trinidad. HAVANA, Aug. 25. Congressman Faustino Guerrera, who goes under the nickname of "Pino" Guerrera, and the men under him still constitute the strongest group in the revolutionary movement against the government, but neither Guerrera nor the government forces sent out against him seem yet to be ready to engage in a decisive fight for the mastery. The force under Guerrera is concentrat ing along the Bolondron hills, between San Juan de Martinez and Guanes in Pinar del Rio Province. In the mean while hundreds of families accounted to be the friends of Guerrera are peacefully working their rice and tobacco fields in that region. The inhabitants of the dis trict who have no belligerent inclina tions do not appear to care whether Guerrera or Colonel Avalos, the com mander, of the rural guard, -eventually prevails. Strength of Opposing Armies. Officers at Havana, while they decline to give details regarding the strength of the government forces now at San Juan de Martinez, intimate tonight that it is much larger than they have hitherto per mitted to be known. This is fully con firmed by the correspondent of the As sociated Press, who is with the govern ment troops. The correspondent tele graphs that Colonel Avalos has with him 250 artillerymen and that he is accom panied by Colonel Eacallao with 200 re cruits, 150 infantrymen and a few mount ed rural guards. General Rodriguez, commander of the rural guards, said tonight that the gov ernment would send reinforcements to Pinar del Rio tomorrow. Rodriguez says he is not aware of the exact numerical strength of Guerrera's force, but he does not believe it totals anything like 2000 men. He apparently is confident that the present campaign will result In disaster to Guerrera. Guerrera Recruiting Men. The Associated Press Is informed by the Mayor of San Juan de Martinez and other reliable persons that Guerrera has at present between 2000 and 240O men.' He Is recruiting more, with the intention of attacking Pinar del Rio when his force is 6000 strong. Advices received from a correspondent of the Associated Press at San Juan do aMrtlnez declare that the troops under Colonel Avalos are loyal to the govern ment and confident of victory. Employes of the railroad reported that the government forces had marched out to meet the enemy, but it was subsequent ly learned that they were only maneuver ing. Everything is quiet at San Juan de Martinez tonight. The government troops there are awaiting orders. Colonel Avalos EVENTS OF THE WEEK CONSIDERED IN CARICATURE AND THE GOOD OLD SUMMER Men are wanted At ood pay Picking hops an' Forking hay, . . But to labor None will essay. has resorted to the town of Pinar del Rio to spend the night and arrange for the disposition? of other troops. Government Wins Battle. Up to the present time the government has not suffered a reverse of any conse quence, and today it chronicled further victories. The principal of these came as a result of an attack by 150 mounted- rural guards under Major Gomez upon Reln oso's band of 200 insurgents at Cascajal, near Santa Rosa. This engagement came at the end of a three days' pursuit of the enemy. A forced march brought the gov ernment troops suddenly upon, the revolu tionists. After the first exchange of shots the rural guards chased the enemy, who (Concluded on Page 3.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TODAY'S Fair and slightly warmer; north west wind. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 83 deg.; minimum, 6$ dec Russia. Terrorists in attempt to kill Premier blow up his house and kill and Injure many. Page 1. Premier's daughter killed and baby Injured. Page 1. Two bomb throwers killed and other badly injured. Page 1. Many prominent officials among the dead. Page 1. Police killed in Polish city by bomb. Page 1. Revolution in Cuba. Opposing forces gather for battle in Pinar del Rio. Page 1. Guerrera recruiting and Palma shipping arms, and ammunition from New York. Page 1. Liberal pay offered volunteers by Palma. Page l. Rebels suffer severe defeat. Page 1. Whole town joins rebels. Page 1. United States hopes to avoid Intervention, but suHpects foreigners of backing rebels. Page 13. Foreign. British Prinrewi threatens to elope with lover to whom King objects. Page 13. French and Italians criticise Drago doc trine. Page 8. Chilean Government organises relief at Val paraiso. Page 3. Politics. Progressive alliance In Chicago roasts Hearst. Page 1. f Huge gathering will welcome Bryan. Page 2. Secretary Wilson says Roosevelt will not run again. Page 18. Fairbanks lunches with Booker Washington. Page 4. Domestic. Public opinion on spelling reform. Page 3. Wrecked Milwaukee-Avenue Bank t be re organized. Page 8. Workmen killed by cave-in at Chicago. Page 5. Sports. Gans refuses to fight with Slier as referee; Jeffries' opinion of the fight. Page 18. Go between wins hotel stakes at Saratoga Page 18. Gans-Nelson fight to be real contest for lightweight championship. Page 16. Portland beats Oakland 5 to 1. Page 16. J. J. Byrnes wins long-distance swimming race from Oregon City to The Oaks. Page 8. Over 100 persons entered in Trvlngton tennis tourney, breaking Northwest record. Page 9. Pacific Coast. John Ti. Wilson is arranging for a fight to a finish with Senator Ankeny. Page 1. Columbia River Salmon pack Is less than that of last Spring, Page 5. Conconully, Wwh., bride on wedding tour while husband stays In tail. Page 4. Southern Pacific buys the California North ern and will extend line to Eugene. Page 4. Cave-In at the Bonanza mino Results In the death of two miners. Pnge 4. Captain Calne. of Seattle, resists arrest for running down man with automobile. Page 5. San Francisco carmeri will strike this morn ing. Page 3. Commercial and Marine. Local trade In fresn produce never larger. Page 35. Bull movement in stock market continues. Page 35. Chicago wheat market outet. Page 35. Cash loss by New York banks less than ex pected. Page 35. Harrlman line to bid for large portion of wheat trade in San Francisco. Page 10. New open river steamer to be called Relief instead of Columbia. Page 10. Columbia and Astec to be put on the regu lar Oregon-California run by the San Francisco A Portland Steamship Com pany. Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. Boy desperadoes attempt hold-up near cen ter of city and both are captured. Page 24. C. E. S. Wood lays bare alleged scheme of Franklin Pierce Mays to get two town ships of wagon grant land Into Blue Mountain forest reserve for scripplng purposes. Page S. Torrena law for registration of land tlHes coming Into more general use In Oregon. Page 32. State Fair Association officials tell magni tude of exposition this Fall and explain why all Oregon should support it. Page 11. Real estate and building active In Port land. Page 32. Secretary Rosenberg, of Fishermen's Union, protests against Illegal fishing by traps and flshwheels. Page 33. Baby show at Tho Oaks. Page 11. Jealous negress slashes her rival. Page 0. Features and Departments. Editorial. Page 6. Church announcements. Page S3. Classified advertisements. Pagea 18-23. First mansion erected In Oregon. Page 88. Making Bad Boys Good by Surgery. Page 48. Courting death for mere pleasure. Page 3d. Judge Williams' recollectiona. Page 45. The Chump, the dog and the white duck trousers. Page 41. Ln a Japanese monastery- Page 42. r athuilca fin the rich, man's salvation. Pa cr 40. Mr. Devery In Paris. Page 44. A perfect Oregon trout stream. Page 30. Social. Page 26. Seaside Note. Pages 30-31. Dramatic. Page 28. Bock reviews. Page 34. TIME. THE SUCKER. Every minute One Is born. Jn Seattle They are shorn, Evening, night an' , Noon an' morn. WILSON HAS NOT QUIT THE GAME Shrewd Move of Vet eran Politician. GIVES UP PERSONAL AMBITION Forces to Be Marshalled for Battle With Senator Ankeny. PALMER HAS PULLED OUT Withdrawal of the Only Pro-Wilson Candidate for the Washington legislature Gives Leader a Free Hand. , SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 25. (Special.) Ex-United States Senator John L. Wil son's amplification of his Tacoma decla ration that he had retired from politics has given , his Chamber of Commerce speech the interpretation that old poli ticians accorded It, and the one that Wil son probably intended that it should have. In speaking before the King Coun ty Republican Club this week he declared that he had renounced all future am bition for public office. Without this statement there remained tho possibility of interpreting the Tacoma speech to mean that Wilson wanted the state to believe he had abandoned all interest in Washington politics. There could be nothing further from the actual situation. Neither Wilson nor his friends will deny that he is extremely anxious to de feat United States Senator Levi Ankeny for re-election. Wilson has declared posi tively and clearly that he does not re gard Ankeny as a man qualified for the position, and politicians know that there Is behind this a political antagonism that dates further back than the Wilson elec tion to the United Stutes Senate in 1895. Elimination Did Not Transpire. Wilson said after Ankeny's own elec tion in 1903 that ho regarded the out come of that fight as the elimination of Ankeny from Washington politics. The Senatorial result did not have that effect, and Wilson is Just as keen now as he was then to aid the removal of the Walla Walla man from political affaire. The clear definition of Wilson's an nouncement as given by himself, indi cates a pretty shrewd political move. If Wilson undertook to defeat Ankeny with a candidacy of his own, he would call up all the opposition that has been stirred in the past against him. If he fights1 with some other candidate he may avoid this and strengthen the battle of opposition. Politicians credit Wilson with support of R. H. McCormick, the timber king of Tacoma. 1 McCormick lost his Mayoralty fight in Tacoma last Spring, and will lose popu larity as the Weyerhaeuser Timber Com pany, McCormlck's corporation, embar rasses millownera. McCormack may be a means to an end, but he does not look now as the logical opponent of Ankeny, and Wilson is not apt to tie to a "dead one." His Senatorial candidate is not yet chosen. Wilson Long Before the Public. Politics in Washington without a Wil son candidacy is going to be something strange to old-timers. Wilson was in the Land Office at Spokane in the early days. He was the state's first candidate for Congressman and afterward spent 10 years in Congress, the last four In the Senate. He was a candidate for elec tion to the Senate in 1895, 1899, 1903 and 1905, being elected only in 1895. His influ ence In state politics has been felt since Washington was admitted. The announcement of E. B. Palmer's withdrawal from the fight for nomina tion as State Senator to succeed himself means the withdrawal of the only pro Wilson man attempting to get back into the Legislature, from this county, and clarifies the Wilson situation. Had Pal mer remained in the fight and been nomi nated there would have been more or less obligation on Wilson's part to support VERSE BY ARTIST MURPHY FUN IN CUBA. Kid with gun Seekln' fun, Gun went "oang!" angels sang. Moral's there, k beware. the County and Legislative ticket this Fall. .With Palmer out of the fight, Wil son Is absolutely free, . for the entire ticket will be Piles". Palmer's withdrawal is an admission of defeat and so explained by Palmer himself. He gives up the fight to Rob ert F. Booth, Assistant Attorney-General, indorsed by Senator Piles for the Senatorial nomination. Palmer takes occasion to announce that he has al ways supported Piles and would do so in the future, but he admits that he cannot be named to succeed himself. Humphrey Has the Say. Whether or not this will have a bearing on the new state committee organization is undetermined. Palmer is chairman of the state committee and may ask a re-election. The delegation from this county to the State Republi can convention will be delivered over to Congressman Will E. Humphrey and a re-election of Palmer as state committeeman rests entirely with Humphrey and not with Piles. The withdrawal of Palmer, following that of Dr. J. J. Smith, makes it ap parent that King County will have practically a new delegation in the State Legislature. Senator A, T. Van de Vanter is a candidate to succeed 1 I f t John L. WUwm. who says he will . never again run for of nee. himself, but is not making any fight. Ho will probably be defeated. W. G. Potts wants to succeed himself and as the fight now shapes up is pretty cer tain to be renominated. Aside from Potts, the Senatorial and House delegation will be composed al most entirely of new men. If Joe Lyons goes to the Senate, as now ap pears probable, he will move from the House to the Senate, a stranger in that body. So will Robert F. Booth. Frank Renick will be the only House member renominated. The King County Senatorial delega tion, will probably be: I. B. Knicker bocker, Ralph I). Nichols. F M. Will iams. Pliny L. Allen, George U. Piper, W. G. Potts, Joe Lyons and Robert F. Booth. As the Ticket Looks Now. Aside from Howard Taylor, of Eagle Gorge, the South District House ticket is undecided. General Tlbbetts, who was in the Houso four years ago, may be renominated from Issaquah in the Forty-first District. The Forty-first will probably choose G. Erickson. of Bothell, and A.'W. Preston, of Ballard. The city members are apt to be: Joe Griffith and Howard Hansen, Forty third Representative District; Claude Ramsey and William Holt or a labor union representative, Forty-fourth; Harry B. Jackson and Frank Renick, Forty-fifth; John H. Wholley and Hen ry W. Lung, Forty-sixth; Frank Jack son and Howard IL Sweeney, Forty seventb. This Hat may be changed in one or two instances to put a labor union candidate on the, ticket. In the For tieth, or South, District two more can didates beside Taylor will be named from Kent and Black Diamond. The Forty-first is undetermined. The Senatorial delegation is pretty well known in the state. Knickerbocker is chairman of the King County Repub lican Committee, a place ho has held for eight years. Nichols is president of the Young Men's Republican Club. Williams is outside representative for the Barber Asphalt Company. Allen was a member of the printing combine that put through the present state printing law in 1905 and then lost the appointment of State Printer. Piper is an ex-newspaper correspondent, bus iness manager and part owner of the Post-Intelllgencer and now in the real estate business here. Potts is now in the State Senate and (Concluded on Page NO DODGING. To get a subpena From Francis J. Heney. Presages a squeezing, A probing and teasing That's sure to disclose Every fact that one knows. REDHOT SHOT FOR HEARST LEAGUE Alliance Orators in . Vitriolic. Attack. REFUSE TO JOIN "PIRATES" Chicago Factions in Fight Over Consolidation. INCLUDES HIS LIEUTENANTS Candidate for Probate Judge Says It Two Organizations t'nlte) It Means Damnation for Oppo sition to New Yorker. CHICAGO. Aug. 25. (Special. 1 In a three-hour session the Progressive Alliance today poured its blistering scorn on the Hearst element that it Identify itself with the Independence League; Members of the alliance poured a stream of utterances that made the heat of the dog days appear by con trast a wave of the polar regions. Hearst himself was styled a "bolter," an "Impassive Individual," a "selfish weather-vane" whatever that means while his managers were given vari ous other titles, among them "pirate captains," "traitors"' and "political blacklegs." The proposition that drew the fire of the alliance was made at a meeting of the Hearst men last Monday, when a resolution was adopted Inviting the alliance to divorce Itself from Its name and to march under the banners of the Independence League. In brief, the proposal was that If the alliance would adopt the name of the league, the league In turn would be godfather to the alliance ticket. Western Starr, candidate of tho cllianco for Probate Judge, was the first to uncork the vials of wrath. Cut Out Hearst Bunch. "We ought to cut that Hea.'st bunch out." he said. "If the Hearst men were to come here nd say, 'We will give this alliance $200,000 if it will adopt our name,' we all know It would mean absolute and utter damnation for the alliance. We cannot recognize them without stultifying ourselves. To align ourselves with them would be to Insult ourselves and to cut loose from dig nity." , Dr. Axel Gustafson said: "I have an insight into the character and reputation of Hearst. He Is self-centered. He is an egotistical atom, a lump of selfish protoplasm. If he got Into office he would be under the domination of his favorites, and he would let them go to any length and do whatever they dictated. If he were put In the Presiden tial chair, 'Andy' Lawrence would be Sec retary of State." Thomas McElllgott had a few words to say, prefacing them with the remark that he was about to divulge "concealed hU tory." "Hearst tried to dominate the labor vote, then he tried to dominate the Demo cratic party, and now Is trying to control this alliance;" he began. "He has failed In each. HI lieutenants are not true." Not on the Square. "Hearst Is a bolter," shouted G. Nat Reeves. 'lie Is Independent because he couldn't control the convention. He Is not on the square in this movement, and It would be fatal for us to tie up with him." George C. Olcott said: "Suppose Hearst and Lawrence are pi rate captains, if we board their craft public sentiment will make them walk the plank: Public sentiment would hang them at the yardarm and we would get possession of the buccaneers' brlgantlne. I think we cught to throw out the grap pling hooks and board the vessel." "You can t trust them," said Mr. Starr. "Xot even their ' friends know how far the Hearst managers will keep faith. And if friends are suspicious, we ought to be skeptical." The Independence or Hearst I.eague held no meeting today. At present the managers are skirmishing about trying to get candidates enough to fill out the ticket. ,i WHO OWNS THE STREETS? Harry thinks it something awful. Something that is far from lawful. Piling boxes In the street. Building doors beneath our feet. Franchise-grabbers, free from care, Smile behind the curtain there.