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72 Paes Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXVIII NO. 23. PORTLAXD, OREGON, SUNDAY 3IORXING, JUNE 6, 1900 PRICE FIVE CENTS. GR1DGEDR0PSWITH TRAlHs 17 ABEHURT AIRSHIP DROPS PILOT, SAILS AWAY STRANGE ADVENTURE OP OXE LEGGED AVIATOR. FESTIVAL MUG TO TAKE UP SCEPTER CHICAGO SUBWAYS JKVll Dfll IPV Til I PURE FOOD LAWS FIVE MURDERED lii SLAUGHTER HOUSE Crazed Employe Runs Amuck With Knife. TO COST FORTUNE U S MlRr NFiini iu iuliui iu, appi icn to cnnic m i uiuu iv uuuiVO BE CONCILIATORY PRACTICALLY EIGHT . PLAXS SUBMITTED TO CITY. LIBRARIAN" PROPOSES TO LA BEL INACCURATE WORKS. Crashes 40 Feet Down to River Below. WRECK NEAR COTTAGE GROVE Trestle on Oregon & South eastern Falls. SOME SERIOUSLY INJURED Knglne Stays on Track, but Tender and AH Other Cars Drop Engi neer Ostrander in Worst Con dition Rescues Are Made. COTTACE GUOVE. Or.. June 5. ( Spe cial.) ffhtn on the middle of Kern bridge, spanning Row River. on the Oregon & Southeastern, a mixed train crashed through and fell, all but the engine. 40 feet Into the stream below' at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. Seven teen passengers were hurt, all of them more or less seriously. All the available surgeons from Cot tage drove have been rushed to the scenn of the accident by special train, nd the report from the wreck is that, while all the passengers are still alive, it is believed several are fatally hurt. The list of injured follows: List of Injured. William Ostrander, engineer, ribs broken and head hurt. r". H. Hall, timber buyer, leg broken. Judge W. B. Foster, timber buyer, leg broken. Price Kogers, leg broken, hurt in ternally. L. Haney, hip injured and hurt in ternally. J. B. Protzman, auditor of the road, legs and hands cut. Mrs. M. P. Oaroutte, back hurt. Mrs. Garouttd'8 boy, legs hurt. Claud Kime, 11 years old, hand cut. Noah Forrester, bruised on head. Leslie V lcks, face cut and bruised. Albert Stocks, bruised on body. Brother of Albert Stocks, also bruised. Gld T. Ellis, traveling salesman, leg and face cut. Daisy Gross, body bruised. Mrs. Foster, slightly hurt. Mrs. Houthworth, slightly hurt. Fireman Swims Out of River. John Ooates, the fireman, went down with the train, fell in the river, 6 warn out, hurried to the nearest telephone and phoned for assistance and all the avail able doctors.' The work train had Just arrived and having steam up, a relief train was hurried to the scene. The wrecked train was due here at 5 o'clock and the engine had Just cleared the bridge when the center span gave way. The activity of Engineer William Ostrander saved the engine from piling on top of the "other cars in the ravine. Ostrander set the brakes and the train parted at the tender, twisting the rods and the engineer Was spriously injured by the reversing lever. The tender now rests on top the coach, 12 feet of which is under water. The Garoutte boy pulled Claud Kime out of the watery thus saving him from drowninjf. R. W. MoRby, a farmer living near the scene, saw the train go down. He had a horse near by and rushed with all pos sible speed to the scene. He Portland Man Hurt. Gld T. Kilis is the only passenger from Portland on the wrecked train. He represents tne K. C. Atkins Co., and his residence is Stuart Station on the Mount Scott line. He says be is badly bruised but not seriously, and will reach home tomorrow. At 8 o'clock the timbers In the fallen bridge caught fire. A train crew was hurried from here, but the flames had gained such headway that all hope of saving the structure had to be aban doned. The fire burned the timbers support ing the engine on the track, and It toppled over on top of the mass of wreckage beneath. THE CITY Some other thing- than roars arrow Apf Just now round here, en, Joet Zellers Drives Damaged Craft to Earth, Slides Down Rope and Ship Sails Away. EAST ST. LOUIS, III., June 5. (Spe cial.) A castaway'In the skies through the breaking of his guide rope, which formed his only connection with the earth, and later an aeronaut on the ground, with, his ship floating away through space, pursued on the ground by an automobile, Claude M. Zellers, a one-legged Inventor, tonight contribut ed new pages to the- history- of aero nautics. In a machine of no type known to aeronautics, invented by William Smith, a cattle-dealer, and described as the largest aeroplane in the world, Zellers flew from East St. Louis this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. ' When 100' feet' up the guide rope became entangled' in an apple tree and snapped, leaving the aviator a castaway. He sailed 40 -miles in a zlgzas" course and succeeded- in making a hazardous -landing- at- Bell ville. 20-miics from -where -he started.. Zellers was unable to stop his ma chinery, but pointed the nose of his craft toward the ground and allowed it to shoot down like a meteor until the end of the broken rope trailed on the ground. Juht as Zellers slid down the rope, a distance of 70 feet, it broke and the dirigible, its engines going full speed, soared into the sky without a piiot. Zellers pursued the bag for a time in an automobile, but could not keep up with t. POWER-PLANT WRECKED Explosion Causes' $300,000 Loss and Ties Up Trinidad. TRINIDAD, Colo., June 5. Virtually every branch of industry in this city and neighboring towns is at a standstill, as a result of the destruction of the new powerhouse of the Southern Colorado Power Company. An explosion in the transformer started a Are which wiped out the plant, causing a loss by reason of the destruction of the building and ma chinery alone of more than $300,000. The Are is nothing short of a calamity to Trinidad and dependent towns, as it cuts off the power which operates the lo cal and Interurban electric lines. lighting plant, newspapar . plants, foundries and factories. The- blow will be severely felt by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company and by the Victor Fuel Company and several small coal companies, all of which will have to cease operations in many localities. BLAST AWAY HUGE HILL Seven Tons of Dynamite to Jar Mile of Dirt Near Aberdeen. ABERDEEN", Wash., June 5. (Spe cial.) Everything- is in readiness for the firing- of the big blast that is ex pected to blow away a hill a mile long on the Satsop River, near Elma, on the grade of the Grays Harbor branch of the Union Pacific. The dynamite and powder will all be placed tonight in the caches that have been made in a tunnel in the hill, and the explosion will probably be timed for 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. All farmers have been warned, and all roads near the scene will be care fully guarded. It Is expected that about 100,000 yards of earth will be blown away, and that much of it will be thrown into the river, with the con sequent overflow of the stream. Seven tons of explosives will be used. AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS GO Spokane Fears Water Famine and Cuts Down on Water-Users. SPOKANE. Wash., June 5. (Spe cial.) All automatic lawn sprinklers In the city will be discontinued today. This is the order issued from the Mavnr'a office after a conference of th 1 Mayor and Water Commissioners. The order will be continued all Summer, and any one violating it will be subject to a fine. A limited time will be desig nated each day when lawns may be wa tered with hose held In the hand. This action has been taken to pre vent the unnecessary waste of water, and thus aid in preventing a water famine, which threatens the city un less drastic measures are used. CAMPAIGN SUGGESTS SOME THINGS FOR HARRY FrlfBdi, don't pursue the faithless light That hovers over swamps at ittarht. Reign of Roses Will Be gin Tomorrow. TAFT WILL USHER IN RULER All Portland Ready to Join in Annual Carnival. WEEK ONE OF SPLENDOR Millions of Choicest Blooms Will Be Displayed in Six Days Crowded With Gorgeous Pageants and Speed Events. Portland will cease to be a municipal ity at noon tomorrow and thenceforth during the full week, will be an abso lute monarchy completely and abjectly at the will of His Imperial Majesty, the Festival King. Mere earthly things will be forsaken that full homage may be paid the King of Roses who comes into his own in this his domain by right of conquest. The President of the United States in person, will deliver the city into the hands of the Festival .ruler. When the second-hand on Mr. Taffs watch, set according to Portland time, indicates the arrival of noon, the Nation's head will press a small button that will give a city across the continent Into the hands of the new and festive ruler. City to Sound Welcome. The touching of that button will set off a perfect bedlam of welcome from the thousands of loyal and willing- sub jects. For it will be circuited right into the Portland Fire Department and the gongs will begin striking throughout the city. The signal will be taken up immediately by scores of sirens and hundreds of bells throughout the city. i-ortiana, on the eve of her third an nual Rose Festival, is already putting on the finishing touches of her gala at tire. Streamers of pink and greed cover nearly all the big- buildings throughout the business district. The National colors are everywhere' and in many places the decorative designs have been planned with great care and put into execution with artistic skill. AH through today and tomorrow morn ing the work of decoration will con tinue and by noon the city will be ready. Levy to Fall on All. Thousands of amateur rosegrowers are anxiously watching their gardens and taking most solicitous care of their buds and blooms during these few remaining- hours. For the new ruler will demand a mighty tribute from his sub jects. Millions of choice roses and buds must be culled and delivered in honor of his reign. The levy is made on every man, woman and child who enjoys the bounty of the rose country and since most everyone grows roses the tribute will be farreaching. Stupendous In its entertainment fea tures will be the week of the festival reign. Such pomp and splendor and pageantry never marked the coming -of any monarch into his own. The good word has gone out far and near so that thousands of people are planning to come to regale themselves in the bounty and beauty of the festival spirit. Visitors Already Arriving. Visitors are already flocking into the city by scores. Those who are coming early are mostly relatives and friends of loyal subjects who wish to be on hand for home-coming- day and the reunions of friends and families that is set down for tomorrow, the first day of the Festival. Following the noisy welcome to the Festival Spirit at noon there will be a lull of several hours in the programme that the populace may adjust itself to the new conditions. Then, with the coming of night, the Festival activities will be on In earnest to continue through the week. Intervals being al- (Concluded on Page 8.) When candidates nrr Issue-lorn They search through files ere they were born. By Expenditure of $1,000,000 Traf fic Can Be Taken Care Of Until 1031 or 1D50. CHICAGO. June 5. (Special.) A complete system of subways for Chi cago will cost from J100.000.000 to $112, 000,000, and be able to transport from 506,960 to 529,120 passengers hourly, with seats for all; and with the present surface and elevated lines will -supply adequate transportation, until .1931. or. 1950, according to plans adopted. These are the conclusions of 'City Engineer Ericson and Subway Engineer R.-C- St. John, submitted today to Commissioner of Public Works Hanberg, in a supple mental report on subways. This report has four distinct plans for construction, with two variations of each, and with the exception of "col lating engineering details practically completes the city's report on tunnels for passenger' traffic in downtown' Chi cago. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 70 decrees; minimum, 40 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northwest winds. Rose Festival. Portland's Rose Festival, which opens to morrow, will be on area'.er scale than ever before. Section 1, pae 1. Order of formation is announced for open In festival pageant. Section 1, pajce 8. Fifteen thousand lights will be used In electrical parade. Section 1. page 8. , National. Ballinjrer refuses to send McFatridjre bark to t'matilla and will not reinstate wife. Section 1, page 3. President Taft abandons trip to Coast be , cause of wife's illness. Section 1. page 4. Senate disposes of cotton schedule, Aldrich winning, though assailed by Doltiver. Section J, page 2. Politic. MacVeagh explains Taffs policy at Chicago banquet. Section 1. page 1. Gibboney almost defeats Philadelphia Re publican machine for District Attorney nomination. Section 1, page 4. Dortmttlc. All sections to -Join in dedicating statue of General Stephen D. Lee. Section 1, page 3. Los Angeles librarian- labels Inaccurate books. Section 1, page 1. Chicago plans to spend $100,000,000 on subways. Section 1, page 1. Maniac in slaughter-house at Somervllle, Mass., kills five men and wounds four, two of them fatally. Section 1, page I. Ambassador Jusserand presents medal from France, to , San Francisco. Section 1. page 4. . " , . . Sport. .' Northwestern League scores: AberBeen 6, rornand o; Seattle 3, Tacoma 3; Van couver 1-3. Spokane 3-4. Section S, page 3. Washington High School victor In lnter scholantle track meet. . Section 2. page 2. Course in perfect rondltiort for auto road race next Saturday. Section 3, page 8. Oregon athletes make notable showing on track and field. Section 3, page 10. McCredie again has luck with team on home lot. Section 3. page P. Coast League scores: Portland 1. Vernon 4; San Francisco 12. Los Angeles 1; Sac ramento 3, Oakland 1. Section 2, page 2. Balloons start from Indianapolis on distance and endurance race. Section 1. page 4. Illinois wins Intercollegiate track meet at Chicago, Stanford second. Section 1. page 6. Pacific Northwest. Marquam man blows up family, killing self, wife and daughter, fatally Injuring an other. Section 1, page 6. Train crashes through bridge on O. & S. E. and 17 are hurt. Section 1, page 1. Raging Columbia damages docks at Van couver. Section 1, page 6. Cumbersome method of Washington's legis lative appropriations described. Section 3, page 10. Union Pacific expects to run into Seattle by July 'l. Section 1, page 7. Huge irrigation project - involving 200.000 acres in Malheur County starts. Section 1, page 1. Aberdeen strike closes down lumber camps. Section 1, page 4. King County Sheriff In row with Commis sioners. Section 1. page 6. Real Kstate and Building. Values in Portland very reasonable com pared with other cities. Section 4, page 6. Bufld'nar permits for past five days of June amount to $109,340- Section 4, pas T. Big carbarns are under construction at Sell wood. Section 4, page 8. Third and Washington corner cleared for skyscraper. Section 4, page 9. Portland and Vicinity. President McCrea. of Pennsylvania Railroad system, discusses Pacific Coast railways. Section 2, Page 12. Dan Kellaher withdraws from Mayoralty race. Section 1, page 10. Grocers end convention, choosing Spring field, 111., as next convention city. Sec tion 2, page 12. Court orders Lane to buy tire engine or show cauw t or reiusai. jeciion A, page 12. Mayor again declares Ellis G. Hughes had HRrcBraeni wnn Diaaer on paving. Sec tion 3, page 12. Committees complete plans for welcome of the Oregon Pioneer Association here June 11. Section 1. page Mazamas will scale Mount Baker soon. Sec tion 3, page 11. Woodmen of World to hold memorial serv ices today. Section 4, page 10. Important Masonic gathering to be held this week. Section 4, tage 10. Seventeen cups offered for scholars par ticipating in Gast Side children's parade. Section 4, page 7. MURPHY TO DRAW PICTURES ABOUT; AND INCIDENTALLY, HE DROPS INTO VERSE. The man who votes perhaps will say That both these chaps are In his way.; Stands by Principles and Promises. WILL RESPECT RIGHTS OF ALL Roosevelt Policies Safe, but Other Issues Are Up. REVISE TARIFF DOWNWARD MacVeagh, In Defining Taft's Poli cies, Says That Does Not Mean Down and Out, but People Will Be Satisfied. CHICAGO. June fi. Fmnblin u..v...t, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secre tary jjicKinson, of the War Department, were guests of honor at , . the Chicago Commercial Club tonight. In ,,:s "Peecn Mr. MacVeagh outlined the characteristics of the Taft administration and emphasized the fact that it would be as distinguishable from the Roosevelt Ad ministration as Roosevelt's was from McKInley's. Mr. MacVeagh said In part: "This Administration will be concilia tory, if you do not ask it to give up a principle or to go back on Its promise. Neither of these things will it do. It will stand by its principles and it will stand by its policies." Keep President as Leader. In the mind of Mr. MacVeagh, the lead ing and controlling note of th nro.ct Administration was a determlned.tendency toward regularity of decision and of pro- v i ure. President Taft.. he said, would admin ister his office within constituted boun daries. The effect of this, he declared, would be to keep the President the leader of the party organization. Mr. Taft, ho said, was the man of progress. He referred to the President's defer ence and respect for the formal privileges of Congress, adding: "And what is more significant and in teresting at . present Is not the actual non-interference, but rather the fine dis position shown to respect all rights and to meet everybody half way in the hope and Interest of a homogenous party of progress a disposition which can only be interpreted as statesmanlike action and which it would be a fatal mistake to con sider as a change of actual policy or purpose." As to the Roosevelt policies, Mr. Mac Veagh said that they were as safe in the hands of the present administration as they were in the hands of the last. "We are not hearing much about them," he said, "but that Is partly because the President has his own way of arriving at results and because other Issues are now associated with them in the activities at Washington, issues that before left to the Roosevelt policies the whole stage." Revision Will Satisfy People. Upon the question of tariff Mr. Mac Veagh predicted that- the revision would be such that the people would accept. The demand for tariff revision, he in sisted, was not for a radical and not for an impracticable reduction, because everybody understood that the Repub lican party stood for and would continue to stand for protection. 'What the people expect," he continued, "is what the protectionist Republican party promised in its last year's platform, as interpreted by its candidate for the Presidency, and while it is talking against the wind to argue that the revision ex pected is not a revision down, it would be equally futile to say that the revision down was promised to be a revision down and out." C. P. R. Hurries Cut-off. MONTREAL, June 5. It was announced today that the work on the new connect ing link on the Canadian Pacific Railway between Thief River and Duluth, which will connect the Canadian-Soo lines with the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic, tut ting about 300 miles off the present short line between the Atlantic and Pacific, Is being pushed. This Is a worthy pair we think; As for most others let 'em sink. Lummls, of Los Angeles, Brands Literary Falsehood, and Others Back Him. LOS ANGELES, June S. (Special.) Public Librarian Charles F. Lummls has framed an intellectual pure food law for library use, and hereafter will paste "poison labels" In all inaccurate or "tainted" library books. He contends that, if it is important for people to know when they are drinking acids that would eat nails when they think ttiey are consuming "strawberry flavors." it is. also im portant that they should know they are reading only pipe dreams and romances when they believe they are absorbing, solid history; that the public should be warned against wormy science and polluted history as well as against bad sausage. Mr. Lummls has asked 75 of the lead ing libraries for their opinion with a view to co-operation, and the replies of most of these are favorable, Indicat ing that the scheme will become Na tional in scope. Among the works Mr. Lummls will label "inaccurate" is the Encyclopedia Britannica. JEERS FOR ELECTION BILL Wisconsin Measure Provokes Mirth and Much Disgust. MADISON. Wis.. June 6. (Special.) There -are Jeering and scoffing and not a little laughing at the election bill which the Senate committee has seen fit to recommend for passage. Tn effect, the measure has a tendency to scare politicians off the road to jobs. It pro vides that no meals, liquor, . tobacco, cigars or cigarettes or even lodging, can be given by a candidate to electors while a candidate is running for of fice, relatives not even being free from this provision, and in addition toall this the candidate and his business manager must file at' the end of each week during the campaign a detailed statement of their expenses and no candidate or manager may receive or expend vmore than $500 In one week. PACKERS IN LAW'S GRIP Pay $2000 line, but Liable to $695,000 More. TOPEKA. Kan., June 5. That the Cuba Packing Company had paid $2000 to the Government, this being the amount due under the Indictments' secured against the company for alleged violation of the in ternal revenue laws, was announced by United States District Attorney H. G. Bone. Indictments on 695 counts were pending against the' company. The company was charged with putting a one-fourth cent revenue stamp on oleomargarine that re quired a 10-cect stamp. The paying of the amount due does not end the case. however, as under the law the company is subject to a fine of from J10 to $1000 on each of the 695 counts. N. P. BLOCKS GATEWAY Temporary Injunction Granted Against Interstate Ruling. ST. PAUL, Minn., June 5. The United States Circuit Court, on behalf of the Northern Pacific Railroad, granted today a temporary injunction restraining the Interstate Commerce Commission from enforcing its order compelling the North ern Pacific to participate with the Har riman lines in through and Joint rates from Eastern points to Seattle, via Port land. The order was to have become effective July 1. In the temporary order issued today the court differs with the Commission as to whether there existed a reasonable or satisfactory rate prior to May 5, when the Commission handed down its decision. DEMAND FREEMAN RESIGN Orange Sons of Revolution Cannot Stand for Anarchist Friends. ORANGE. N. J- Juno 5 T3 i invited Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. anarchists, to a luncheon re cently given by fhe exclusive Mayflower Descendants' Society, Alden Freeman, of this place, has been aeked to resign from vyiiiiB vnapwr, eons or the Amer lean Revolution. vCRR 700N FOR TO 5 DAY MORNING.) We print this now, so not to mix Our festival with politics. FOUR WOUNDED: TWO FATALLY Somerville Packing-Plant in Shambles After Attack. 300 WORKERS IN PANIC Pig-Sticker, Maddened by Sight of " Blood, Turns to Man-Killing , After Days of Morosenesa. -Many Have Narrow Escape. SOMERVILLE, Mass, Junt K. John Murphy turned from pig-sticking te man-killing . in the North Packing Provision Company's slaughter-house) today, and driving his fellow-workmen before him. slew five of them and wounded four others. I Two of the wounded vera reported! later to be dying. - ; The dead: ,i : Hubert Smith, colored, Cambridge.. James Catro, colored, Cambridge. i Thomas Crowe, Cambridge. i Michael Janicus, Somervllle. '' Unidentified white man. The - unded: Dr. Daniel G. Hayes, Government in spector, of Waltbam. John Cheevus. Cambridge. John Lewis, Cambridge. John Patterson, Somerville. Hayes was terribly slashed, and ha and Cheevus were not expected te sur- vive. Man Evidently Demented. Murphy had been acting peculiarly for some days, but he returned from his dinner today apparently in a normal condition. One hour later he sprang ' at Dr. Hayes, brandishing his 15-inch, j razor-edge knife. He cut Dr. Hayes a . deep gash on the neck, stabbed him ' over the heart, and disemboweled him. The terrified workmen rushed for the door, but Murphy ran after them, slash ing right and left. Every man whom he struck went down. The crowd plunged downstairs, with Murphy in pursuit, and at every landing he cut somebody. On the second floor one of the work men, an Italian, seized a heavy bar of iron and felled Murphy, but he was quickly on his feet again and wounded another man. On the street floor he was given another heavy blow on the head, and his knife was wrenched from his hand. Two policemen came to as sist the workmen, and Murphy was given a terrible beating before he finally was overpowered. Was Giant In Stature. Murphy is 50 ye..rs old, weighs 200 pounds and was regarded as one of the strongest men In the plant. He had been employed at pig-killing; for some years by the North Company. Witnesses of the slaughter said to night that more than 300 employes were driven from the plant when Mur phy started on his wild rush through, the six floors and basement, and not a, few men escaped death by a narrow: margin. Greets Doctor as Friend. Dr. W. E. Clark, of West Somerville, a United States veterinary at the plant saw the attack on Dr. Hayes, and ' at Hayes" command hastened to find a, doctor. Murphy followed Clark, and I the latter ran into a side room. Mur phy followed, completely blocking the) doorway. A sudden ci.ange seemed to come over the lunatic for a minute, J and he stepped to one side with a 1 pleasant "Hello, doctor,", allowing Dr. . Clark to pass. Employes who worked nearest Mur phy said that he seemed to pay par ticular attention to his slaughtering knife recently, and had sharpened It much more frequently than was hi habit. Tonight Murphy Is in the padded cell (Concluded on Page 4 ) Well, sood-bye, Harry, thin parting's nd; Your ihow was rot-t ahem! not bad.