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f 60 Pages Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXVI. NO. 13. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. f FUND IS PLEDGED FOR NEW BUILDING Home for Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. Assured. JACOB KAMM GIVES $5000 Ten Others Subscribe $500 Each as Campaign Closes. GRAND TOTAL IS $355,861 Klnal Week's Effort of "Everybody Gives" Committee Most Notable of Campaign, Which Was Begun Last September. HOW IUXD HAS GROWN. The following figures record the growth of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. building- fund: September IS..... . BO.OOO October 8 222,223 January 9 230.000 February 10 240.000 March 25 260,000 March 30 355,881 Out of defeat has come victory- After twice failing to raise the $350,000 for the erection of a permanent home for the Young Men's and Young Women's Chris tlon Associations of Portland, the goal has been reached. With a whirlwind finish last night, the committee of 100 which started to obtain $90,000 in a single week, passed the mark that had been set. As a result of the "everybody gives" campaign and the campaigns that preceded it, sub scriptions have been signed for $365,861.65, for the purchase of a site and the erec tion of a handsome double building. The crowning subscription yesterday was $3000 from Jacob Kamm. Earlier in the day, Herman Wittenberg agreed to give $300 if nine others would join him with equal amounts. The executive com mittee. headed by Walter Goss, worked untiringly to secure these pledges and all had been contributed before the midnight ' hour, which was to mark the success or failure of the plan. Besides Mr. Witten berg, those who contributed $500 each were Mrs. Sylvester Farrell,- T. G. and R. S. Farrell, Meier & Frank Company, Olds, Wortman & King. J. N. Nickum. Muckle Bros.. Mrs. L E. Hamilton, Russell & Myth and Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Mann. Other large donations last night were I. N. Klelschner. $250: S. M. Mcars, $250, and Walter McKay. $250. Busy Scene at Y. 51. C. A. The scene at the Y. M. C. A. gym nasium last night when the work closed is without a parallel In the an nals of the city. All day the solicitors bad toiled with hardly pause for rest. To raise $25,000 in a single day was the task that they faced in the morn ing, and when they were called to gether at 10 o'clock last night there were not six present who knew that their object had been attained. They had pursued their work with unflinch ing determination, and hope beamed on every face: but there was also un expressed fear that they had fallen short and that the project on which they had set their hearts and f- which they had given unstlntingly of their time must be abandoned. Even then, they were ready if need be to go out on their rounds again and take the last desperate chance of rounding out the subscription in the two hours left them. First, the 31 committees reported the amounts that had been subscribed since B o'clock. One by one the totals were announced and each was received with a hearty cheer. But they well knew that the total was still too low. and there was strained attention and bated breath ing when Chairman Goss arose to give the report of the executive cwiitie Mr. Goss first complimented ' tfij tenjj Cam Blssrr Reach It f on their work and then referred to the offer of Mr. "Wittenberg. A load was lifted from the heart of every man pres ent when Mr. Goss said that the propo sition had been" taken up toy nine others and that in this way 3SOOO had been se cured. Cheers drowned the words of the speaker for several minutes, but it was still believed that the total had not been reached. ' "There is just one thins more, men," cried Mr. Goss, "Jacob Kamin gives $3000." Cheer After Cheer Shake the Hall. It was then that bedlam broke loose. Every man there realized that this dispelled the last doubt that the campaign was won. Cheer after cheer rang out and shook the hall. Hats and a perfect shower of empty subscription blanks filled the air, and the crowd of men resembled more than anything else the grandstand of the successful side at a football same. Bankers, business and professional men threw dignity to the winds and joined with those younger in the gen eral rejoicing. Before any resemblance of order bad been restored, the men who had done the work seized their leaders and bore CHAIRMAN OF THE V. M. C. "EVERYBODY GIVES" COMMITTEE. them around the room on their shoul ders. H. W. Stone, secretary of the association, and Mr. Goss were car ried from one end of the room to the other and finally deposited on a table with cries for a speech. "Everyone, has done" nobly in this work," said Mr. Goss. "The commit tee of which I am chairman has raised $90,000. S. G. Reed was chair man of a committee that raised more than $200,000. I think we ought to hear from him." "Reed! Reed! Reed!" came the echo, and the chairman of the original committee was lifted to the table. Mr. Reed expressed the sentiments which were uppermost in everyone's mind, calling attention to the great good that the building will do. . He thanked all his co-workers, and especially praised the work of the "everybody gives" com. mittee. i ' Campaign Without Parallel. "No other such campaign was ever con ducted on the Pacific .Coast," said Mr. Stone. "Other cities have raised more, but they have done it by a few large contributions. This money has been given by rich and poor. Thousands of the sub scriptions are from those who work for small salaries and to whom each cent given means a sacrifice. We have - had the women with us in this movement: we have had the merchants with us, and we have had the press of the city with us in a way that deserves our most grateful thanks. And even more than that, we have had God with us. Pome may see in this success simply chance, but there are others who see a Divine Providence." John F. Carroll. W. M.. Ladd and Miss Constance MoCorkle, . secretary of the Y W. C A., were among the others who gave short speeches, and all were greeted in the same spirit of enthusiasm. By this time the total had' been added up and when it was announced by A. F. Flegcl, there was another burst of applause. Then the men departed, well satisfied with the day's work. .At noon yesterday there remained to be raised-$13,500. and at" nightfall only a comparatively small portion of this amount had been secured. It was then that the workers, who had (Concluded on Page 8.) HARRY MURPHY Real Yellow'" Jramh Exchange Easter i i jJZetf -- I ' ! f - I i f& . . v I I i : I : Walter A. Goss. RAILROAD STRIKE CRISIS TOMORROW Peace Prospects Not So Bright Just Now. RELATIONS ARE STRAINED Both Sides State Case Gov ernment Mediates. NEITHER WILLING TO YIELD Managers Say They Cannot Concede More Than 10 Per Cent- Wage Increase and May Withdraw Offer to Arbitrate. CHICAGO, March 30. (Special.) Monday will decide whether or not the entire West is to be tied up with the greatest railroad strike in history. Prospects for peace are not bright to night. "The railroad managers will have to jump hurdles," is the way some of the employes put the case, which means that they will make no concessions. Results of the Initial efforts of Pres ident Roosevelt's envoys to Chicago to settle peacefully ,the dispute between the railway trainmen and conductors and the 43 Western railroads involved, and to avoid a strike, today Indicated that the relations between managers and men arc becoming more and more strained, and that the probability of an early strike on the part of the 50,300 men is greater than it has been at any previous stage of the proceed ings. Both Sides State Case. .Chairman M. A. Knapp, of the Inter state Commerce Commission, and Com missioner of Labor Charles P. Neill re ceived a committee of managers and men 4 iv -their apartments at- the A'Jdi torluir. Hotel today. Representative of both sides stated their case with set Jaws, and announced their inten tion of not receding- from, the posi tions taken. Visions of all that part of the country between Chicago and the Pacific Coast and Canada and Mex ico in the throes of a great railroad strike arose in tho minds of the two Federal officials, and Mr. Neill ad mitted that the situation fls so delicate that he is not able to discuss it until all negotiations are concluded. Commissioners Neill and Knapp re ceived a special committee of railway general managers at 10 A. M. The man agers stated briefly a history of the con troversy from their standpoint, telling the commissioners that the roads had granted practically a 10 per cent wage in crease apd that the men are standing out for a further increase of 2 per cent and a decrease of the working day by one hour. These concessions, the managers said, they could not grant, and it is said even to have been intimated that they might withdraw their offer of arbitra tion. Managers Walt for News. At the conclusion of the 'interview, the managers left the apartments of the Washington officials and paced forth and back in the corridors of the hotel await ing some word of the progress of the de liberations within. At 11 A. M. Grand Chiefs Garretson and Moris&ey, representing the conduc tors and trainmen, entered into confer ence with the commissioners. No hint of what they were discussing could be ob tained. The conference lasted for more than two hours. The union officials said before the meeting that they would not recede a point from their position and positively would not submit the differ rences to arbitration. At the conclusion of the sessions Mr. Neill said: "At this stage of the proceedings, there is nothing that I can make public. It is probable that there will be nothing to give out until all of our negotiations here FINDS IN THE WEEK'S POfrTLRND .1 . i J7.r " "II I la fairs ko Eggs. Is It Loaded have been concluded. We are trying to settle the controversy by peaceful methods and avoid what will be one of the most serious strikes in our history, if it is allowed to take place. - The entire question may resolve itself . Into a dis cussion of the application of the Erdmann law by .which arbitration may be en forced by the Federal Government." A joint conference, it was satd tonight, would be held tomorrow between the op posing interests in the presence of the Government officials and the belief was expressed by men on both sides of the controversy that a way out of the diffi culty would be found.' THE DAY'S DEATH RECORD Former Harper's Editor. REDLiANDS, Cal., March, 30. William Penn Rogers, for a quarter of a century a resident of this valley, and formerly an associate editor of Harper's Weekly, died suddenly in his apartments in this city to day, aged 63 years. Well-Known Coal Importer. SAN RAFAEL, Cal., March 30. George Fritch, one of the largest importers In San Francisco of coal from the Northern mines, died here yesterday. He was a na tive of England, 78 years old. - Brigadier-General Comba. SAN FRANCISCO, March 30. Brigadier General Richard Comba, U. S. A., retired, died at the Presidio yesterday. He was retired from service In 1901. He was born in Ireland in 1843. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 67 degrees; minimum, 47. TODAY'S Showers; southerly winds. Graft In San Francisco. Pacific States Telephone directors place . blame on Glass. Page 1. Ruef accuses prosecutors of conspiracy and threatens to prosecute them. Pase 1. Schmitz' denies attempt to get Supervisors to resign. Page 1. Foreign. Roumanian revolt suppressed with whole sale slaughter. Page 14. Clemencean replies to attacks growing out of Montagntni documents. Page 3. Gossip of European capitals. Page 33. Hondurian rebels choose candidate for President. Page 2. National. Government confident Hague conference will succeed. Page 3. Ballinger reorganizes field forces of Land Office. Page 14. Secretary Taft warmly welcomed on Isth mus. Page 14. Roosevelt may tell railroad policy at open ing of Jamestown Fair. Page 8. Polities Fiercest municipal campaign in history of Chicago. Page 1. Taft's brother accepts Forakera chal lenges for decision at primaries. Page 2. Hearst dodges arrest by not going to Chi cago, page 1. Doraesilr. ( Crisis In railroad strike situation wilt be reached tomorrow. Page 1. Thaw stands lunacy examination well and Jerome fcreta time to call experts. Page 2. H ask in on value of American birds. Page 35. Mow Ryan and Knene got revenge on Har rlman. Page 42. James J. Hill says improvements of wa terways would not be inimical to rail roads. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Campaign for Y. M. C. A.-Y. W. C. A. $350, OOO building fund a success. Page 1. John B. Coffey to get labor party's indorse ment for Mayoralty. Page 8. Sheriff Stevens Investigating slot machine gambling in county. Page 1 1. Harrlman buying land for term inals at Young's Bay on Coast of Oregon. Page 9. Loggers Association fails to reach agree ment to continue shut-down of camps ; many will reopen. Page 11. ' City campaign closes at St. Johns. Page 8. Spencer fund for Investigation of graft In Portland; 20,000 promised. Page 10. Henry W. Goode, president Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company, critically ill with pneumonia at Atlantic City, X. J. Page 24. Fear of industrial depression not borne out by bank statement. Page 10. March breaks record for real estate trans actions. Page 30. Commercial and Marine. Oniongrowers profit by conditions In San Francisco. Page 43. What higher on bug damage reports. Page 43. ... . Money will be easier in "Wall street. Page 42. Flour exports for March exceed any. other month of season. Page 42. Pacific Coast. Xeep Interest manifested in Eugena city election; municipal ownership the Issue. Page 5- Boise men indicted for land frauds cry statute of limitations, page 5. Western Oregon sheepmen will form organi sation. Page 4. OCCURRENCES A FEW 'Boat , mi. lHlBTicftrJi 1 FIERCEST FIGHT IN CITY'S HISTORY Murder; Libel, Abuse in Chicago. TRACTION IS PRINCIPAL ISSUE Republicans Claim Election of Busse for Mayor. HEARST DODGES PROCESS Stays Away From Chicago, Where Many Libel Suits Await Hlin. Law Enforcement and the Punishment of Criminals. CHICAGO. March 30. Special.) Chi cago will close tomorrow night the fiercest campaign in its history. It has been marked by the most bitter per sonalities and libel suits, already ag gregating $3,000,000, with more to follow. Men have been murdered in political ar guments, houses divided against them selves and the real issues lost trace of in the violent mud-slinging contest to which the campaign has degenerated. Issues of Campaign. Briefly, the Republicans stand for ac ceptance of the ordinances approved by the City Council, providing for immediate settlement of the traction problem. These provide for complete rehabilitation of all lines, such extensions as the city shall direct, profit-sharing, paving, sprinkling and permission for the city to buy at any time it is ready. The Democrats, whose campaign is be-" ing directed by W. R. Hearst, stand for rejection of the ordinances and municipal ownership that is, forcing traction com panies to accept whatever price the city decides to pay. If the ordinances are rejected,- -th companies will make no im provements, for their property stands to be confiscated any day, and the city is not in a position to buy the lines. Other live issues are elimination from the School Board of faddists, enforce ment of laws against gambling and other vices, war upon murderers and footpads, clean streets and the placing of bureaus in the hands of experienced men instead of theorists. Forecasts of Both Parties. There is the usual variation in the fore casts of the party leaders. John J. Han berg, chairman of the Republican com mittee, comes out today with a predic tion of the election of F. A. Busse as Mayor by a plurality of 40,000. His esti mate is based on a canvass of nearly all the 12S6 voting precincts of the city, a work in which 4500 picked men engaged. Voters were more than usually willing to say how they intended to cast their bal lots. Those in doubt were not considered. Outsiders who have seen the results of the poll declare the forecast- of Mr. Han berg is well borne out. William L. O'Connell, chairman of the Democratic Committee, estimates a plu rality of .15,000 to- 40,000 for Mayor Dunne, who was elected two years ago by 25,000 over John M. Harlan. Will Settle Traction Problem. Strong as is the Republican belief in the victory of Mr. Busse. it is even stronger that the traction settlement ordinan is, to which Mayor Dunne is op posed, will be approved by the people. The campaign for indorsement of these ordinances has been remarkably strong and party lines will be obliterated in the vote on them. The labor vote on the trac tion question Is hard to estimate satis factorily, but there is reason to believe it will be well divided for and against. Frederick Bode, president of the Citi zens' Nonpartisan Traction Settlement Association, is out tonight with a pre diction that the ordinance will carry by at least 60,000 majority. - . It Is now believed 350.000 votes will be cast out of the 390.000 registered. Eleventh- APPROPRIATE MEMENTOES FOR EASTER Hatched! hour betting favors Busse, but the odds are not big. HEARST EVADES LIBEL SUITS Does Not Go to Chicago, but May Yet Be Arrested. CHICAGO, March 30. (Special.) William R. Hearst did not arrive in Chicago today with his coterie of New Tork lawyers, as had been anticipated. Political leaders in all the camps were looking for him, and some of them were noticeably disappointed at their failure to locate him. It was declared at the office of the Chicago Examiner ' tonight that the editor was not in the city and was not expected to be here, so far as anyone at the office knew. This was an indi rect contradiction to the impression which had been given credence Friday night to the effect that the New York man was bound for Chicago for the closing hours of the campaign. It was the statement of one of the close friends of Fred A. Busse tonight that it was extremely probable that further civil suits would be Instituted Monday morning, with Mr. Hearst and the Hearst papers as defendants, the ground being the additional alleged W. R. Hearst, Who Haa Managed Mayor Dunne's Fight for He-Election. libel which appeared in the Hearst publications this . morning and this afternoon in editorials, cartoons and news columns. A hitch in the arrange ments ,.ilia.-mo.roln. Ja. aaid. to have been responsible for the failure to file the suits before the closing of the court offices for the Saturday half holiday. It was repeatedly rumored tonight In circles of close friends of Postmas ter' Busse that criminal libel suits were under consideration, and that, if Mr. Hearst came to town, he would place himself in danger of arrest, not only through a capias ad responden dum in connection with the civil suits, but upon the criminal libel charge, if such proceedings are instituted. TACOMA WILL PLAY BALL Team to Practice at Walla Walla. First- Game With Spokane. SEATTLE, Wash- March 30. (Special.) At a special conference of the North western League managers to be held here next Tuesday or Wednesday, which was called for today, the late of the Tacoma franchise will be determined and. in the opinion of those who speak with author ity in this city, Tacoma will retain the franchise and baseball under league con trol will go in that city. Next week the players will report to Mike Lynch at Walla Walla for practice and the season will open with the Spo kane game at Tacoma on April 20. George S breeder will retain the management and franchise. ' One in . authority declared here tonight that "if Tacoma stands by Shreeder and gives him proper support and he desires to stay, nobody can take the Tacoma franchise from him." Continuing he said: "Shreeder has ignored the action of the league directors in attempting to transfer the Tacoma franchise without Tacoma'a consent, and he is going ahead with his park and will have it ready in time to open the season on schedule time. His team will report to Manager Mike Lynch at Walla Walla on Monday, and that Is all the evidence necessary that Tacoma is to have a team in the Northwestern League." t 1 1 1 1 i His Easter Egg Is a Lemon. ALL PUT BLAME ON GLASS Telephone Directors Knew of No Bribery. GLASS TRIES FOR IMMUNITY Knew Millionaires Would Make Him Scapegoat. RUEF PAID GOOD SALARY On Payroll of Company He Gar Double Cross Other Franchise Grafts This Week Ruef Raises the Cry of Conspiracy. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., March 20.- (Special.) This was millionaire day in the graft Investigation. Men repre senting fortunes of twenty millions save testimony before the errand. Jury. The day was one of the most eventful in the boodling exposures. The main point was the positive assertion of witnesses that Frank G. Drum, a director of the Pacific States Tele phone & Telegraph Company, director of the San Francisco Gas & Electric Company and representative of th Tevis estate, rented the rooms in the Mills building in which Theodore V. Haley, acting for the Pacific States Company, . bribed the members ol the Board of Supervisors. Drum knew why he rented the rooms. The prose cution regards him as an accessory. Next week its conclusions on this sub ject will be revealed. Drum is connected socially with the best families in San Francisco. He is very wealthy and powerful influences are behind him. Glass Vainly Seeks Immunity. Second in point of Interest was the effort of Louis Glass, a director and former general manager of the Pacific States Company, against whom nine. , indictments have been returned,' to gain admission to the grand Jury room' to tell all he knew in the hope that immunity would follow. Glass was denied admission to the room. The appearance of Glass at the door of the grand Jury room was the most dramatic incident, of the day. Glass had learned that, his fellow directors of the Pacific States Telephone Com pany had been summoned aa witnesses.' He knew what their testimony was to be. He knew that each one of the millionaires would get on the stand and say: "We know nothing of bribery. If such a sum was paid out by the com pany, Glass must have done it." The . indicted magnate knew that the ' matter was to be passed to him. All the responsibility was to be placed on his shoulders. Not Admitted to Grand Jury Room. With this knowledge. Glass made his attempt to get his statement before the grand jury. He hurried to the grand Jury headquarters before the session opened. On the way he met member of the Jury and shook them by the hand. At the door of the grand Jury room he met B. S. Pillsbury, a fellow director. They chatted a few moments and" then Glass sought to enter the grand jury room. He was checked and whispered anxiously with the door-keeper. His message was conveyed to Assistant Dis trict Attorney Heney, who was within. In a few moments the reply came that Glass could not be admitted. The indicted of ficial turned to leave the building. To newspaper men he said: - "Yes, I came for a definite purpose. I cannot tell you what it was." That was all he would say, but the truth was known. Glass' surmise proved, correct. The millionaire directors, Homer S. King, (Concluded on Page 2.) ME Frisco's Easter EgfTVhew! II i .1 rQ r