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VOL. XXV-NO. 50.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 16, 1906.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TIE OP All
Great Mob Rules Port
land Streets for
Hours.
Y ACTS OF VIOLENCE
Union Men and Sympathizers
Wreck Passenger
Coaches.
ASSAULT LOYAL EMPLOYES
Police Powerless to Protect
Company's Property.
RIOTERS IGNORE THEM
Officers Themselves Are Roughly
Handled Company Finally Aban- -dons
Attempt to Maintain Serv
ice Will Try Again Today.
r
MAYQR 1ANE OX THE SITUA
TION.
"It In too early for me to say
what measures will be taken to pre
serve order If the present conditions
continue paid Mayor lne In re
lation to the carmen's etrlke last -ntuht.
"TV shall do the bent we
can and all we can. That la all that
T can say.
"T believe that the police fnrre
would have hpn sufficient tomaJn
taln order tonight, had It received
notification of the strike In time.
The situation waa not comprehended
until It was too late to retain all of
the patrolmen on duty. So far as
I am aware there has been no
movement to swear In extra officers,
and I have neither heard of, nor
considered calling: out the National
, Guard. I cannot say what steps I
shall taVe until I have consulted
with Acting- Chief Gritsmacher."
I'ortlamVs streetcar system was al
most completely tied up last night at
8 o'clock by a strike, called by local
union 181, Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employes
of America. A few minutes before
that hour cars were stopped on Wash
ington street at the corner of Third
by tne strikers, and motormen and
conductors were persuaded to leave
their posts. Mobs collected and a riot
followed which continued until early
this morning-; Tha streetcar company
expects to run cars as usual today.
Men who persisted In remaining on
their cars were hooted, jeered, cajoled,
cursed and Anally pelted with rotten
eggs and clubs. In most cases per
suasion was successful and force was
not often resorted to. Windows of
cars were broken and trolley ropes
cut. Mobs stoned cars to drive con
ductors and motormen out and In cases
where the carmen climbed to the top
of the cars to hold the trolleys in
rUt. t I. What Owendolliie nroni
of Getting. H. 2 nd 3 Is the
Reality.
A S
place after the ropes were cut off, the
mob drove them ' from their elevated
positions with missiles of- all kinds.
Strang to- say few of the loyal em
ployes were even slightly 'hurt.
Police Wholly Powerless.
The police were wholly unable to
cope with the situation. . Occasional
arrests were made where, the offend
ers were reckjessly bold, but the
mobs that attacked cars defied all op
position. Officers .were hurried to the
scenes of disturbance, but . they were
far outnumbered and were unable to
do anything. In some cases the po
lice themselves were roughly handled
by the mobs.
Encouraged by their numbers, the
strikers and their sympathizers soon
had everything their own way. The
lawless sentiment ran high. Portland
has ne"er before witnessed a similar
demonstration of mob i rule and the
streetcar system, since the rails were
first iHld. has never suffered as it did
last night. The strikers wrecked cars
along Washington street from First to
Seventh, snd on -Fifth, Third, Second
and Morrison streets.
The strike came as a complete sur
prise not only to the Portland Rail-
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Interstate Commerce Cofnmlneloner
- Franklin K. lane, Who Will In
vestigate the Car Shortage
In the Northwest.
way. Light & .Power Company, but to
many of Its employes. . Leaders of the
union took Into their confidence only
those whom they could trust not 1 to
divulge their plans. The attempted
strike of the streetcar men last July
failed, say the union men, because the
officials of the company were fully ad
vised of the dlsaffections among Its
employes and had plenty of time to
prepare for trouble.
Objects of the Strike.
The objects sought by the strikers
are practically the same as those the
union was demanding at the time of
the last trouble, namely, recognition of
the union, the abolition of the photo
graph system for identification of em
ployes, and more pay.
The success of the strikers last night
wss due almost wholly to the strong
sympathy with them of all union men
In the city, represented by the Feder
ated Trades Council, and to the sup
port of the mob which gathered along
Washington street. Numbers gave
courage to those who led the demon
strations against the company and the
mob urged the leaders on to constant
ly greater acts of lawlessness.
The company used every effort for a
time to continuo the operation of cars,
but gave it up at about 9 o'clock, and
concentrated Its efforts on getting the
stalled cars back to the barns.
Curs Sent to Barns.
In this work toe men who remained
loyal to the company were : successful
and by 10:30 o'clock the streets were
clear of cars, and the service was en
tirely suspended, except on the Ore
gon Water Power & Railway Com
pnn.vfs lines, over which cars were run
all evening, save between 8:30 and
9:30 o'clock, when crowds at First and
Alder cut trolley ropes and blocked
the service. After 8:30 cars were op
erated to First and Madison from ail
points on the O. W. P. system on the
East Side.
Cars on . the other city lines were
not put Into commission again last
r.ight after being taken to the barns.
Many were so badly wrecked that they
Concluded on Page- 2.)
HARRY MURPHY CATCHES A FEW
If Yon Contemplate Shoplnn n The Hnnhaiut of HI Wife Is Handy
Hull of Armor Would Help dumr. This Souon.
.
CHICAGO
DECIDES
PRICE OF LINES
Definite Step Toward
Public Ownership.
WILL END TRACTION MUDDLE
Value of Property Finally Fixed
at $50,000,000.
WILL DIVIDE NET EARNINGS
Companies Accept City's Offer as
Basis for Rehabilitation of
Lines Indiana Cities Have
Enough of Ownership.
CHICAGO. Dec. 15. (Special.) Follow
ing years of bickering, political wire
pulling and execrable transportation ser
vice, CTilcago is to enter on an era of
better conditions of travel on her sur
face car-lines. The street railway con
troversy is virtually wiped off the slate.
The Council committee on local trans
portation and the representatives of -the
Chicago Vnion Traction and Chicago
City Railway companies came to a sud
den agreement today and within a few
days the City Council will be asked
to pass an ordinance which the commit
tee has unanimously agreed upon.
Final Offer of Companies
The committee, consisting of aldermen
of various political persuasions, of men
who believe in and who oppose munici
pal ownership, was able to vote the
traction muddle out without spluttering,
inuendo or harangue.
The settlement came on the heels of a
morning session devoted to the valuations
that should be given to the properties
of the two companies. The Union Trac-?
tkm Compny, through General Counsel
W. W. Gurley, argued for a higher esti
mate, and the City Rajlway Company,
through K. R. Bliss, asked that pave
ment' costs be held in the account.
President Mitten then talked briefly,
saying the company he represented
would agree to a division of the net re
ceipts, share and share alike, or 50 per
cent Co the city and 50 per cent to the
companies. v
An executive session was called, the
traction lawyers and newspaper repre
sentatives were excluded and the com
mittee, with Mayor Dunne 'present, and
advised by Special Counsel Walter I
Fisher, discussed the companies' offers.
The announced conditions of the com
mittee were:
That the committee would value the
properties of the Union Traction Com
pany at $29,000,000.
That it would value the properties of
the Chicago City Railway Company at
$1,000,000.
That under no circumstances would it
give more than $00,000,000 for the posses
sions of both companies.
That, instead of 50 per cent of the net
earnings, each the demand of the com
panies or 60 per cent for the city and 40
per cent to the companies," it would split
the difference and accept 55 per cent for
the city and allow 45 per cent to the
companies.
It would allow, for the present, 5 per
cent brokerage on new (borrowed) money
and 10 per cent for construction profits.
Until the city Is able to buy, the com
panies will continue to operate on streets
now occupied and such extensions as may
be agreed upon.
INDIANA TOWNS HAVE ENOUGH
Will Ask State for Belief From Mu
nicipal Ownership.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 15. (Spe
cial.) Indiana cities and towns have. haC
Whre
their ample fill of municipal ownership
and the General Assembly will bristle
with bills to place municipal plants of all
sorts under control of the state.
In places where municipal ownership
has been , secured under specious prom
ises by "reformers," the peoplo have
found that the principal object of the
"reformers" was to provide themselves
and their friends with fat positions and
opportunities to spend money in a man
ner that would wreck a private concern
in a month. Many cities have been bond
ed beyond the legal limit and the rate is.
unusually high where these experiments
have been tried.
In spite of this expenditure of money,
the service is much poorer than it for
merly was under private ownership.
HILL GIVES UP HIS PLAN
Northern Pacific Stock Issue Proves
Abandonment.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15. (Spe.-lal.)
.Tames J. Hill has finally abandoned
his plan for the merger of therBurllng
ton with the Great Northern, and that
railroad will hereafter remain In the
Joint control, as heretofore, of Great
Northern and Norhern Pacific. The
legal obstacles to the plan Mr. Hill be
lieves to be insurmountable. He was
threatened with proceedings by the
United States Government and by Mi
several states from which- tho three
companies have charters.
Mr. Hill's idea was originally to have
the Great Northern control the Bur
lington as a free asset, and to pay
over a large sunt in cash of Northern
Pacific stockholders in payment for
their equity in the property. -The
Northern Pacific stock-issue announce
ment, made public yesterday is a con
fession of the defeat of Mr. Hill's
projects.
Alaska Miner Frozen to Dentli.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Dee. 15. (Special.)--A
Nome special says: Jack Egan. a pioneer
of Alaska and a well-known-mining man,
was found today in a clump of willows on
Snake River frozen to death.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
Tha M a her.
YESTRRDAT'R Maximum temperature, 43
degrees; minimum, 3S.
TOlAV S Itafn," southerly winds.
Foreign.
fope compares American with Krench re
ligious -liberty. Page 8.
Mexican Minister gives reasons for Govern
ment ownership of railroads. Page 8.
Terrorists try , to kill Admiral jDoubassoff.
Page 8.
Gossip of European capitals. Page 33.
National.
Foreigners barred from Panama canal con
tract. Page 4.
Admiral Dewey proposes building more bat
tleships. Page 4. ,
Launching of battleship Montana. Page 8.
Politics.. v
Railroad president denounces Rooelt for
criticising Judges. Page
' Domestic. r
IntRrsftata Commission to investigate car
shortage on Pacific Coast. Page 1.
Negro convicts rev1t in Mississippi. Page 8.
Chicago arranges terms for municipal own
ership of carlines. Page 1.
Cardinal Gibbons defends Leopold's govern
ment ot Congo Ktatei Page 1.
Chauffeur marries millionaire's daughter he
taught to run auto. Page 8-
Mrs. Bradley talks of relations with Sen
ator Brown. Page 4.
Hill abandons Great Northern-Burlington
merger. Pag 1.
Not'd So:irhcrner shot dead by brothers of
his bride. Page 4.
Sport.
Folger and Boot win bicycle race. Page S.
American crews barred from Henley re
gatta. Page 8.
Nevada becomes Mecca for hungry prize
fighters and their managers. Page 36.
Football season of 1006 reviewed by Referee.
Page 36.
Portland and VMnlty.
Movement of Washington and Sixth-street
property week's feature in .real estate
market. Page 1(5.
John Barrett. United States Minister to Co
lombia, here en route to ban Francisco.
Page 8.
Tax levy in cltv limits will be .715 mills, or
13.3. Page 24.
Jewish Rabbi plaintiff In $10,000 suit for
slander. Page 32.
Mayor vetoes Mount Hood Railway Com
pany's franchise sale. Page lt.
Attorney Muir advises lumbermen's mans
meeting that reciprocal demurrage law
would be valid. Page 8.
, Commercial and Marine.
Upward tendency In hop markft. Pagp 38.
Slack demand for wheat at Chicago. Page
38.
Gains In stock prices hold. Page 16. .
Surplus reserve of New York banks nearly
restored. Page 10.
Ship Glenerlcht arrives In at Astoria.
Page 16.
Pacific Coast.
Chester Thompson sits unmoved during the
testimony of the doctors at ths Emory
murder trial. Page 14.
Principal bills to come before the next ses
sion of the Washington Legislature.
Page 14.
Report of the Washington Railroad Com
mission In the investigation Into cost of
railroads. ' Page 5.
British Columbia woman lays claim to the
throne of China, Page 15.
Spokane will use fair appropriation as club
to get new freight rates. Page 14.
FLEETING GLIMPSES
Extremes Meet.
This Ts a Pnnpett
Remote.
LEARN THE CAUSE
OF CAR SHORTAGE
Commissioner Lane
Coming to Coast.
WHOLE NORTHWEST SUFFERS
Will Begin at Minneapolis and
Work West.
MANY WITNESSES CALLED
Whole Commission Will Recommend
4
Remedy in Spring Meanwhile
Dakotans freeze
Lack of Coal.
for
OREGpNIAN' NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Dec. IB. Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Lane will visit
the Pacific Northwest early in January
to make personal investigation of the
car shortage. Although the Commission
is unofficially advised of difficulties ex
perienced by Oregon and Washington
shippers. It has had no official com
plaint from that section. The commer
cial interests of Seattle are now pre
paring a case against the railroads,
particularly as regards lumber, and the
Washington Railroad Commission is
gathering data to be submitted to Mr.
Lane. No complaints have been re
ceived from Portland, Tacoma, Spokane
or other important shipping centers.
Mr. Lane hopes to receive the assist
ance of Interested parties while mak
ing the investigation, . for his report
will form a . basis of future actions
by the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion. "
Will Dig to the Bottom.
The exact dates on which Mr. Lane will
hold hearings in Portland and other
Northwestern cities have not yet been
tir.d. ,.He will leave Washington the first
week In January and probably begin his
inquiry In Idaho, working west through
Spokane to Seattle and Tacoma and
thence to Portland. Whether he will visit
other Oregon cities is yet to be decided.
lie is determined, however, to go to
the bottom of the car shortage in so far
as it affects these three states, and will
devote all the time necessary to make
his investigation complete. Opportunity
will be given all shippers who have suf
fered because of lack of adequate transportation-
facilities to put in their com
plaints. .At Boise the coal shortage will prob
ably occupy most of the time, for Mr.
Lane will endeavor to ascertain to what
extent the present shortage of coal Is
due to inadequate transportation facili
ties. The same will be true at Spokane
and in Central Washington. Seattle's
chief cur.ylaint, so far as known, comes
from lumber shippers, who assert that
they have been unable to market their
product because the railroads have given
preference to higher classes of freight.
Cannot Decide I' mil Spring.
The investigation, however, will cover
not only the complaints of lumbermen and
people who have been injured by the
coal shortage, but the complaints of far
mers whose grain and fruit have spoiled
because of their inability to get It to
market
At Minneapolis, where Mr. Lane be
gins an investigation of the car shortage
on Monday, subpenas have been issued
for responsible railroad officials and for
prominent shippers whose interests have
been - affected, and others having Knowl
edge of tha subject will be permitted to
testify. The same course will probably
be followed in the Northwest, so that Mr.
I.ane can get at the facts from the stand
point of both shippers and railroads.
When his report is made, the Interstate
Commerce Commission will sit as a body
OF THE MERRY CHRISTMAS SEASON
Not Altogether From Now on tha Tonng Sherlock
Will Be Bnsy Looking for the
Bidden Present.
and consider the evidence with a view to
outlining some plan of relief.. However,
It will be well into Spring before the sub
ject will be in shape for such action.
Haviug lived a long time in the North
west, Mr. Lane is somewhat familiar
with conditions In that section. He does
not understand why complaints of car
shortage have riot been made to the Com
mission by the people, of Washington.
Oregon and Idaho, but hopes to receive
their hearty co-operation when he goes
there on his official mission. Two spe
cial agents are new gathering informal
tion in Washington, the State Railroad
Commission is engaged on the same mis
sion and the commercial interests of Se
attle are preparing a complaint, all of
which will be considered during the in
vestigation in that state. If like data can
be gathere in Oregon and Idaho, it will
aid materially when hearings begin.
RAILROADS BLAME WEATHER
Presidents of Companies Say lolng
Best They Can.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 15. The ' tele
gram sent yesterday by the Interstate
Commerce Commission to the presi
dents of various railway systems call-
' w ft i ;
i Lr. - i J ,&mwvtt )i i mini - J t
Mayor Edward F. Dunne, of Chlcmo,
Who Has Closed Deal to Bur 4
Street Railways. t
ing their attention to complaints of
car shortage and failure to transport
the necessities of life brought replies
today from Vice-President Pennington,
of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault
Ste. Marie Railway: George B. Harris,
president o- the -Ohtngo. Burlington
& Wuincy Railroad, and Marvin Hugh
Itt, of the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway. None of the answers, how
ever, are from the railroad companies
supplying the territory where the
Shortage of fuel Is stated to exist.
Mr. Pennington telegraphed:
"There is no blockade of freight or
shortage of cars on our lines west of
Minneapolis except what is due to bad
blizzards in, the last few days."
President Ilughitt, of the Chicago
Northwestern, said:
The Chicago & Northwestern Rail
way Company is not failing at this
time, nor has it at any time failed to
furnish cars and to move them with
reasonable promptness both for fuel
and other commodities, and if there
is suffering for lack of any commodity
at stations tributary to its lines, let
me assure you that It is not due to
our company's failure to discharge its
duty In this respect. I have during
the last three weeks been in frequent
communication with the Governor of
South Dakota on this question. The
reports this morning indicate a good
supply of fuel at stations On the line
of this company, especially in Minne
sota and South Dakota.
Senator Hansbrough, of North Da
kota, consulted the Commission today
and declared that the situation regard
ing fuel in his state is most deplora
ble, and that the public schools are
closing on account of a lack of fuel.
It is said at the Commission's office
that for a number of years at this
season there had been complaints of
a lack of cars, but that the situation
was never so acute as now.
HEARING AT MINNEAPOLIS.
Members of Commission Start Inves
tigation Monday.
MINNEAPOLIS. Dec. 16. Arrangements
(Concluded on Pag. 8.
"fay. Bo, If Them Toy Are
Made by a Trait If zS tor
l'onr." 4.
DEFENDS
RULER OF CONGO
Attacks Due to Religion
and Greed.
CALLS LEOPOLD HUMANE RULER
Says Stories of Barbarities
Are Exaggerated.
FACTS FROM MISSIONARIES
Prelat Says Religions Jealousy and
Commercial Rivalry Inspire At
tacks Intervention Would Be
Bullying Small Nation.
BATTIMORE. Dec. IS. (Special. A
declaration that the charges of atrocities
In the Congo Free Slale have been
greatly exaggerted and a defense of King
Leopold of. Belgium as a wise and hu
mane ruler were made today by Cardinfll
Gibbons. The Roman Catholic prelate
spoke In answer to tho statement mad
last night by Rev. Dr. IT. Gratton Guln
nes in a meeting of ministers In this city
that the Cardinal Is "the strong hand In
this country who prevented the Govern
ment from noticing the barbarities In the
Congo."
("I have observed," said Cardinal Gib
bons, "that an emlssisary of the Congo
Reform Association has made a personal
attack on me for my attitude in defend
ing King Leopold's Congo administration
against these unjustifiable attacks, and
I feel very grateful to the reverend
gentlemen who were good enough on that
occasion to get up and defend me. I note,
however, that even my defenders excused
me on the groundi of my Ignorance of the
question.
Calls Leopold lfuiuane, R.ulcrt..
"My position in the matter has always
been very clear. 1 have naturally means
of keeping in close touch with the situa
tion through our missionaries, who are on
the spot. There has been a great amount
of exaggeration in these stories of malad
ministration. The King Is a wise as well
as a humane ruler, and we hear through
missionary sources that whenever rases
of cruelty have occurred, as such things
will occur under every human govern
ment, the King has been prompt to
redress such abuses and to punish the of
fenders. His recent decrees granting the
natives additional land and ameliorating
the condition of the native laborers are
an added evidence of hfs desire to do
everything possible for the good of his
native subjects. I understand that these
new laws are now being put in opera
tion as rapidly as possible througout the
Congo State.
Evil Motives of Attacks.
"I fear this agitation against King Leo
pold's administration is animated partly
by religious Jealousy and partly by com
mercial rivalry. It is to be hoped that the
Individuals who are carrying it on will
not be successful In their efforts to induce
the great powers of the earth to inter
fere In the affairs of a small nation. The
Belgian nation is small, but the Belgians
are a brave people, and. as indicated by
the action of their Parliament yesterday,
they stand solidly by their King in sup
porting his African regime.
"In our schoolboy days the most odious
and contemptible creature we used to en
counter waa the bully who played th
tyrant toward the weak. But still more
Intolerable la a bullying nation that picks
a quarrel with a feeble nation with ths
base Intent of seizing her possessions,
playing the role that King Ahab enacted
toward Naboth.
"With tho attitude of the American Gov
ernment I do not concern myself. As I
said before, I have means of Information.
f Concluded on Fa. 8.)
Those Marked-Ttawn Shaving Seta
Are a Nlrw Gift for Your Gentle
man .Friend. Of tonne Yon Am
Not to Blame if Ha Call on
Yon Kex Oar lyooking Like This.