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. ,
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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.
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