THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 15, 1909. DELUGE DESCENDS TAKES' LIVES AND Cloudbursts in Chicago Cause of Three Drownings and Many Injuries. FLOOD FILLS BASEMENTS Motlx Find Clitld Dead In Two Fret of Water Baby Rolls Out of Bed Into Water Man Swept From Yacht, CHICAGO. Aug. 14. (Special.) Three lives were lost, many persons were Injured, houses were set on fire v lightning, and crops were damaged heavily today In the severeet storm that has swept Chicago and vicinity for months. The dfad: Michael Kinney. Jr.. one year old: rolled out of bed In the basement of the Finney home into two feet of water that had poured in and was drowned. Beatrice Kychlicki. 3 years old; drowned In two feet of water at her home. An unidentified man. 45 years old. tak-n from the lake. Children Drown In Basements. Manv children throughout the city, eKpecially in the poorer quarters, nar rowly escaped death. Mrs. Kychlicki had mled her daughter and. fearing that the little girl had become loot, notified th West Chicago-avenue po lice station. Having occasion later to go- Into the basement, which had been flooded, she found the child drowned. The Kinney child was tossing In his sleep curing the storm, which flooded the basement. When Mrs. Finney awoke she missed the baby. Then she discovered water in the rooms. For ten minutes the hysterical mother groped about in the water before she found the lifeless body of the infant. Man Swept From Yacht- The drouned man's name is believed to have ben B. U. Hill. A letter bear ing tnat name was found in a trousers pocket, but Uie the address had been effaced. The victim is believed to have beep hurled from a yacht by the storm. The Ktorm lasted four hours and the rainfall amounted to 3.30 inches. It crippled telephone and telegraph sys tems and blocked streetcar traffic. payment of lights used there and the like. Colonel McDonell received 15 cents a man a year and also a small per capita from each company for the purchase of sup plies not suplied by the Government, Usually the entire amount collected does not exceed $1500. indicating that (reports would have to be delayed for a long period to make a large defalcation possi ble. Officers of the Third. Regiment are reticent In conversing of Colonel 51c Donell's conduct as the regiment head, and no estimate of his alleged shortage is vouchsafed by any of them. In the evident enforced withdrawal of Colonel McDonell from the militia the Oregon National Guard drops a sor dier who rose from the ranks to the position of Colonel after 23 years" serv ice, all of which was passed in this state. Colonel McDonell served with honor as Captain of the Second Ore gon In the l-hilippines. and his long rec ord teems with merit, the investigation overhanging him now being the first blight of his military career. In the last election Colonel McDonell was a candidate for the nomination for Mayor and recently he was mentioned foremost among several for appoint ment as Chief of Police. He was elect ed Colonel of the Third Regiment three years ago. Who will replace Colonel McDonell in the high post he is about to vacate is a matter of conjecture, the law provid ing for votes by captains and field of ficers of the regiment to elect a colo nel. When Colonel McDonell first hint ed at his contemplated resignation he advised the captains of the Third Reg iment to keep the honor in their midst, and it Is understood the officers at that IS HILL VICTIM IN HOLDUP GAME? Harriman Believed to Be Seek ing Revenge for "Lemon" Secured in Seattle. GATE TO TACOMA BLOCKED Henry Hewitt Appeals to War De partment to Force High Bridge Over Visionary Manufactur ing Center on Slough. TACOMA. Wash.. Aug. 14. (Special.) Three-quarters of a mile of grading and 700 feet of second-hand rails, laid along the banks of Chambers Creek, from the GRANTS PASS PHOTOGRAPHER WEDS CORVALLIS YOUNG WOMAN. I - jX-. - . S- STRIKKRS IX FlXEKAIi PARADE S000 Escort Body of Dead Comrade to Cemetery. PITTSBURG. Aug. 14. "Steve" Hor vath. the striker who was killed during an attack on "Major" Smith, a negro, at McKees KocKS Thursday, was buried today. Three thousand strikers from the Pressed Steel Car Company's plant escorted the remains to Pittsburg from g.'hoenvllle. The parade today was the first ap pearance of the strikers on the streets In a body, and for fear of trouble the police restricted the emblems carried to American flags. Soldiers Guard Strikebreakers. FORT WILLIAM, Ont., Aug. 11. Fifty strikebreakers, who arrived here from Montreal late last night, started unloading boats under military protec tion at the Canadian Pacific docks this morning. The .Royal Canadian Mount ed Rifles are still patrolling the streets. It Is now asserted that 20 strikers were wounded In Wednesdays tight. The Minister of Labor Is expected Sunday or Monday, when an attempt Is to be made to arrive at a basis of settlement. TO HONOR CAPTAIN GRAY Memorial Tablet to Be Placed at Grays Harbor Entrance. ABERDEEN". Wash.. Aug. 14. (Spe cial.) To give proper recognition to the memory of Captain Robert Gray, who discovered and sailed Into Grays Harbor. May 11. 1792, is the aim of the members of Robert Gray Chapter, I. A. R.. of this city and Hoqulam. A fund has been created to purchase a bronze tablet, which will be placed on a lone spruce tree which guards as a sentinel the entrance to the harbor at the north point. This tree, which is about four feet in circumference, is mentioned by Captain Gray in his log book, and is still standing . and well preserved. The tree is used by mariners as a guide In entering the channel, and the Government has made arrangements for Its preservation. O. A. I"amon. owner of the land on which the tree stands, will give a number of acres to be used as a park. Dn May 11 next the members of Rob ert Gray Chapter will place the tablet with Interesting ceremonies. It Is also proposed by members of the chapter to create a fund for a bronze monu ment to be erected In Hoquiam or Aberdeen. 5IR. AD MRS. A. T. LEWIS. MRS. I.KWIS W AS FORMERLY MISS ANNA M. Ql ICK GRANTS PAPS. Or.. Aug. 14. (Special.) Among the popular Summer weddings In Grants Pass Is that of A. T. Lewis, of this city, who on August 4, was married to Miss Anna M. Quick, of Corvallls, Or. The bride Is the daughter of D. O. Quick, of Halsey, Or. The groom Is one of the leading photographer? of this palce. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis will be at home to their friends ifter September 1. time decided to vole as one for Captain Baker as Colonel McDoncll's successor. THEIR LOVE HOPELESS CHIKCH FORBIDS PRINCE AND PRINCESS TO WED. M'DONELL QUITS REGIMENT (Continued From Frst Pa.. tert the Interests of the state if there Is a shortage. An Investigation of an officers accounts before the end of the quarter Is out of the ordinary." "Do you fear there is a shortage In the accounts of Colonel McDonell?" he in asked. "I do not want to answer that Ques tion," he replied. Flnzer Cites His Reasons. Tressed for a definite reason for the Investigation of the manner In whlcm Colonel McDonell conducted his office. General Finzer said: "Captains of the Third Regiment have complained to me of the loose manner of Colonel McDonell In hand ling the regimental fund and the Colo nel has admitted to me. himself, that he has been criminally negligent In keeping his accounts." While the order directing the Inves tigation of the financial affairs of Colonel McDonell as the immediate ranking officer of the Third Regi ment Is In effect Immediately, the real scanning of accounts will not b. gin until August 23. Three days later, the probing Interest directs. Colonel McDonell will be required to turn over all Government funds to In spector Jackson in the Armory. Regimental Fund Small. That a great shortage, if any mt all ei lts. cannot be charged against Colonel McDonell is evident by the small amount whi.-h nually comprises the regimental tuod. A4id Uou of tna Armory, Clementine, of Belgium, and Victor Napoleon I'nhappy Royal Lovers. BRL'SSEI.LS. Belgium. Aug. 14. (Spe cial.) Young, beautiful. immensely wealthy and an heiress to the throne, the Princess Clementine of Belgium is. perhaps", the most unhappy young woman in all the European royal set. She is desperately in love with Prince Victor Napoleon, eldest son of Jerome Bona parte, but their marriage ' is positively prohibited by both the church' and state. Prince Victor's morganatic wife, touched by tlie great love between the couple, offered to surrender her rights and relinquish all acquaintance with the Prince, but this did not avail. Politi cians, chiefly of the church, adopted the meanest sort of warfare to prevent any posslbillty of the marriage. Vgly rumors were circulated, spies set on the young people and they were constantly harassed. Even against these orders, the King might have been won over, as the public generally was with the lovers, but the Archbishop of Malines raised such a ter rific row, threatening to excommunicate everybody connected with it if the mar riage were permitted, that the couple have now abandoned hope. GIRLS TO LIVE IN TEMPLE Famous French Structure to Bo Du plicated at Southern School. L09 ANGBLKS. Cal.. Aug. 14. (Espe cial.) The Temple of love at the Petit Trianon, near Paris, made famous by the residence there of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Is to be reproduced at Oneonta. on the Pasadena Short Line of the Pacific Electric Railway. It will be the residence, for the Juniors of Hunting ton Hall, the sclwol for girls which now occupied a building In the heart of this county. Howard B. Huntington has set aside 21 acres for the use of the establish ment. In addition a senior hall will be erected on the high knoll adjoining the Hotel Raymond, and will be of the same style as that building. It is said that Hunting ton is financing the cluuige and that lie is anxious to have the most ambitious educational institution on the Coast. Miss Florence Housel, head of the school, insists, however. that she is solely responsible, and she says she will expect the pupils to live very simple and democratic lives. KILLS TO SAVE HER BABE Texas Woman Shoots Her Father to Protect Infant. DALLAS. Tr.. Auff. 14. To save the life of ner baby. Mrs. Belle Pistole de clares she was compelled to shoot her father. Ransom Rosa, to death in the familv home, 12 miles north of Dallas, riast nipht. Mrs. Pistole was brought before Criminal Judp Seay. who liber ated her on 11500 bonds. Ross was a prominent farmer, and was regarded as a model citizen, except at rare Intervals, when he would be under the Influence of intoxicants. He came to Pallas Thursday, and returned home Inflamed with liquor. The cry Ins; of hi!" little sick grandson in its mother's lap infuriated him. He de clared if the mother did not make the child cease crying- he would kill it. The mother failed to quiet the baby. Ross KOt a revolver. As he turned toward 4ier. Mrs. pistole firpd twice with n. revolver. The first bullet pierced her father's left side and the second Ills heart. Narrows of Pujtet Sound to the sight of a visionary steel plant is one strategic center of railroad lighting in the Pacific Northwest. Insignificant as this stretch actually is. from the standpoint of a railroad, it has already caused the War Department .sev eral uneasy hours, has stopped the building of the new Northern Pacific line into Tacom and Is said to be a lever by which Harriman hopes to get just about what he wants in Hill territory. In Tacoma this little line Is spoken of as "Henry Hewitt's railroad." It was laid in a great hurry some three months ago, the grading being done first as an extension of the Stjilacoom line of the Tacoma Railway & Power Company, and so attracting no particular notice, as this road has many npurs in this region that it uses for loading cordwood. The ties used in the 700 feet of track came from the St. Paul & Tacoma Mill, of which Mr. Hewitt is a director, and the rails used had been lying on the St. Paul & Tacoma docks for a long time Obstructive Tactics Km ployed. The first that railroad men knew of the power inherent in this apparent spur of a trolley line was when attorneys rep resenting Mr. Hewitt appealed to the War Department, and asked them not to grant the Northern Pacific the right to build a wooden trestle across the mouth of Chambers Creeki on the line of their new water-level approach to Ta coma, but to force the Hill line to erect Instead a draw-bridge with at least a 2i0-foot span, and with a height above mean high water of not less than 20 fe?t. After a time the War Department sent investigators to Tacoma, and several hearings were held. At these hearings Mr. Hewitt appeared, and said his rail road was to connect the shores of Puget Sound, on the Narrows side, with Ta coma, was to run up along Chambers Creek, and. connect with the new Harri man. Milwaukee and North Coast lines; and was tq tap a wonderful manufactur ing district that was to grow along this creek. Mr. Hewitt spoke of a ti.000.ui-) steel plant, J4.OCiO.000 towards which had already been subscribed, and mentioned also a paper mill to be built further up the creek. He said that It was the purpose of the promoters of this scheme to dredge out Chambers Creek to a width of from 500 to 700 feet, build docks along the shore, and make a protected har bor where shipping could tie up close to the proposed steel plant and other factories. That there was nearly an eight-foot rise and fall of the tide at this point did not aeem to worry Mr. Hewitt at all. Speculation Is Interesting. Further investigation of this condi tion of affairs has revealed some Inter esting developments. First and fore most is the well-founded report that the St. Paul & Tacoma Mill is going to sell Its- present holdings on the tide flats at Tacoma. and remove Its huge plant, the largest In the Northwest, to Nisqually Flats, on the Upper Sound, above Stellacoom. This report Is neith er denied nor confirmed by the officials of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Com pany, who control the mill. It is fur ther said, and also not denied, that the present mlllstte, covering several acres and adjoining the present Harriman holdings on the waterfront, is to be bought by the Harriman people and used to enlarge their terminal yards. In order to reach -this property the new Harriman road will have to build a horseshoe curve across the tideflats some four blocks long In order to get down to grade from the level of Its line In the city, where It emerges from its tunnel north of the Northern Pa cific tracks. Story Goes Far Back. And In this. It Is said, lies the secret of the Chambers Creek mystery, the drawbridge, and the blocking of the new Hill entrance to the city from the south. The stofy goes back several years. And It is apparently borne out by circumstances. In 1906 the Union Pacific decided to build Into Tacoma, and to build over a new line from the old Oregon & Washington surrey. Con trary to usual Harriman practices, the work of purchasing a right of way Into Tacoma was placed in the hands of aeents in Seattle, instead of being handled from Hairiman headquarters. , SUBSTANTIAL CLAIMS This Company bases its claims to public pa tronage upon its con servative, yet modern, methods of caring for its business, and the. avoidance of all specu lative enterprises. Those having busi ness to be entrusted to such an institution will find it to their interest to consult us. We maintain four distinctive depart ments Commercial, Savings, . Trust and Real Estate, the last named exclusively on a commission basis. Your patronage is solicited. MERCHANTS SAVINGS & TRUST COMPANY 247 Washington Street Seattle was hen, and is now, strict ly Hill territory, and it is said that Hill officials determined that If they could not keep Harriman out of the Puget Sound country, they would at least cost him some money to get In. Hill agents therefore approached the Seattle agents of the Harriman line and told them that they had realized that the country was big enough for two roads, and that they thought the best route for the Union Pacific line into Tacoma would lie to the north of the Northern Pacific, down the Delin Street Gulch. 'Lemon," Said Stubbs. In the meantime two things happened, the North Coast road, the mystery of the Northwest, acquired holdings on the south side of the Delln-street gulch: and J. C. Slubbs. traffic director of the Harri man systems, came to Tacoma and looked over the new Union Pacific line. Mr. Stubbs is reported as having said things very uncomplimentary to tne Se attle agents who bought the Harriman route, and to have accused them of de liberately "double-crossing" the Union Pacific in favor of the Hill road. Be that as it may, Mr. Stubbs reported to headquarters that -the Union pacific route was a "lemon." that it ended up In the air. and that expensive bridges and long turnings would be required to get it down to its terminals on the tide-flats; and that the direct and logical route, without severe grades, with a short tun nel, and ending right on the Union Pa cific terminal holdings, lay down me south side of the ulch, already taken up by the North Coast. And very shortly after Mr. Stubbs made his report, 'Henry Hewitt suddenly dis covered the value of Chambers creek as a manufacturing center, and started the construction of his three-quarters of a mile of railroad. Harriman engineers surveyed the route and drew the maps, and turned them over to Hewitt's con tractors, 'n fact Harriman had sur veyed this, route long before his Seattle agents purchased the route to the north of the Northern Pacific. Wiseacres now say that Harriman has realized the deal handed him by his Seattle agents, and has determined to checkmate Hill for what he believes to be his part In the plan by blocking his Point Defiance route ffito the city. Hewitt Sa-ys Road Is His. Mr. Hewitt denies this. He told an Oregonian man last week that his road was absolutely 'independent, though he admitted that when it was finished it would have a "traffic agreement" with the Harriman road, as well as with others. Mr. Hewitt was also very posi tive that his J5.000.000 steel plant was not a "Watch Tacoma Grow" vision, in spite of the fact that the nearest iron ore is near Bellingham, and is of a very poor grade at that. - Northern Pacific officials, however, take a different view of the matter. They say that if the "War Department orders that drawbridge, as it is rumored they will, their Point Defiance Water-grade line will be Indefinitely postponed. And they laugh at the Idea of a manufactur ing district on Chambers Creek, which they call by a far less polite, sname. A big fortune await the man who redis covers the lost art of th5 Saracens, who made svrord blades go keen that they coid rut In two the best Sheffield blades of th present day Brown Your Hair With Mrs. Potter's Walnut Tint Hair Stain "You'd nerer think I ta4ned my balr, after I nse Mrs. Pottr Walnut-Tint Hair Stain. Tb Stain doem't hurt the batr as dyes do, bat make it mr oat nice and fluffy." 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