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- . pnPTi.Avn nnTsiJXDAY MORNING, NOVE3IBER 21, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. XXVIII. U. ii. . ' STEAME RBORNED PASSENGERS SAFE Flames BurstOut on St. Croix Off Coast. ALL ON BOARD REACH SHORE Panic Averted With Difficulty by Cool Officers. VESSEL ROARING FUflNACE A Lut Boat leaves. Flames Wrap All Sides Passengers and Crew Encamped In Canyon Till Help Arrives. LOS ANGBLES. Nov. 20. The pas senger steamer St. Croix, of the North Pacific Steamship Company, turned to the water', edge tonight at a point three miles off Point Duma and 18 miles north of Santa Monloa and the Uvea of the 82 passengers aboard and those of the crew of 36 were saved by the heroic action of the officers and crew, and ths fact that the sea was ca3m at the time of the disaster. All of those on board escaped on lifeboat, and rafts, and were safely landed at Point Duma on a little beach. They are camped tonight In the Zunl canyon back of the point. Difficulty In Saving Uvea. The fire started In the second cabin while dinner was being served, and Jrad made such headway before It was discovered that the greatest difficulty was experienced In launching the boats and IKerafta and placing passengers . safely aboard them. A panic among- the passengers was averted by the prompt action of the officers and crew, who gave the pas sengers nojrhance to save their per final belongings. J-lret Officer F. Mill. Immediately after the landing of the passengers at Point Duma, made his way overland to Maltbu ranch and there secured an automobile and came to Santa Monica, arriving at 11 o'clock tonight and bringing the first authentic Informa tion of the landing of th,e passengers. Hull Seen Burning Fiercely. At o'clock, while the hull of the St. Croix was burning firecely. the steamship City of Topeka passed wlth Ing a short distance of her. but, being unable to discover any signs of life aboard, proceeded on her course to ' Redondo and gave out the first report of the disaster. The St. Croix left San Pedro at Iff o'clock this morning bound for San Fran c'co direct. She carried no freight and her passenger list of S3 was an exceeding ly light one. She was proceeding in good time at the moment tha fire was discovered. Ship Is Roaring Furnace. Its origin Is unknown. A member of the crew discovered the flames Issuing from the windows and gave the alarm. Much excitement ensued and a panic was Im minent when the officers commanded the passengers to go forward and remain on the main deck. Meanwhile the lifeboats and liferafts were lowered and the pas sengers placed In them. First Officer Mills states that, as the last boat containing members of the crew t left the St. Croix, the flames burst forth ; from all sides, and the Iron hull became ' a roaring furnace. ' Camped In Desolate Canyon. The passengers', the majority of whom are women, must remain In the desolate Zunl canyon until daylight, when relief, which has been sei from this city, will reach them and arrangements be made for bringing them here. Ten days ago an explosion took place In the boiler-room of .the St. Croix, and Chief Engineer Day was scalded to death. The belief is that an explosion in the engine-room oclow the second cabin caused the fire of today. Charles C. Claggett, a traveling sales- (Concluded on Fax 4.) '.' ' , Mthi.' , died L-t Week. To Be Pt On Tomorrow. ' GrowlnaT Too Fast. V S. Pok HI. No.. In. Plnchot for Pre.ld.ntt Effect of Bssaetrs Bom. Somewhat Motbetttfc Kliea iMmw we. ...... . ... .............. ' WRONGGIRLNEARLY MARRIED TO YOUTH MAX STOPS MARRIAGE CERE MONT JUST IX TIME. Judge Is About -to Marry Hlra to Wrong Girl When He Loudly Protests. ' EELLINGHAM. Wash.. Nov. 20.-(pe-clal.) "Hey. there, stop, stop it, that isn't the woman I want to marry at all. That's her sister. The other one's going to be mv wife." So shouted Albert Dlerlck today when Judge E. p. Hardin, of the' .'Whatcom County Superior Court, attempted to tie the nuptial knot with Dlerlck and Nora Soderbom, as principals. The Judge was so startled that his judicial dignity- was Jolted a. heavy setback. "What's that; what's thafV he de manded, "her name is on the license. She must be tha one." " Don't care." said Dlerlck. "I won't marry her. That s flat enough. Can't make me. cither." The mistake happened when Dlerlck. Lucy Soderbom, the bride-to-be. and her sister, Nora, went to obtain the license. The whole bridal party was considerably fussed, and the Deputy Recorder had difficulty In separating principals and witness. He finally guessed wrong, and the Judge, following the license, had the couple all but married when the groom protested hotly. The mistake was recti fied and the ceremony proceeded as orig inally planned by Jhe contracting partlca MARSHFIELD MAN MISSING Brakeman With $80 It Is Feared May Have Been Killed. MARSHFIELD. Or., Nov. (Special.) Harry McDonald, a brakeman on the Southern Pacific, whose run Is out of this place, is strangely missing, and the po lloe fear he may have been made away with. When last seen. McDonald had about V0 In his pockets, which may have led to motives of robbery If. as the police 'think, he has met with an assault. Sev eral men have been arrested on suspicion of knowing something about his disap pearance. A report ha come in that McDonald was seen working In a logging camp, but little credence Is given to this, for he had not been discharged from the em ploy of the railroad. "SOCIALIST" SUPPRESSED Seattle Paper Held to Contain Inde cent Matter. SRATTL.H. Wash.. Nov. 20. The police today confiscated an entire edition of the Socialist, a weekly paper published by Dr. Hermon F. Titus, on the ground that it contained Indecent matter, objection being made to an article by Miss Agnes Thecla Fair, an Industrial Worker of the World, who was imprisoned at Spokane for hold ing street meetings. The article purported to describe indig nities to "WhtcU. prisoners were subjected by the Spokane police. A man who was selling the paper on the street was held In $500 ball for circulating forbidden litera ture. HAZING IS BORN IN SOME West Point Superintendent Com ments on Infraction of Last June. WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. Some cadets in every class at West Point Military Academy Just have It born in them to haze and that Is all there is to It. This practically is the conclusion H. I Scott, superintendent of the academy, has reached after years of experience there. The hazing of last June was the only serious infraction of the rules of disci pline at tha Academy during the year, according to Colonel Scott In a report to the War Department today, and yet that came after years of attempts to suppress it. BOURNE TO NAME RIDDLE Southern Oregon Man to Get Land Office Appointment. " ROSEBVRG. Or., Nov. 20. (Speclal. It was learned here tonight that Senator Bourne will recommend the appointment of George W. Riddle, of Riddles, as receiver of the Roseburg Iand Office, to succeed J. M. Lawrence, who recently resigned. HARRY MURPHY SHOWS UNDER THE 7 TAKEN OUT ALIVE Others Entombed in St. Paul Mine May Live. WATER IS SAVIOR OF SCORE One Among Living in Cavern Preached, Sang Hymn. SEARCH FOR DRINK LUCKY Mnle Alive In Depths, Superstition Stopping Its Slaughter Gloves, Tobacco, Prisoners' Food. Women S'ow Hopeful. CHERRY,. I1L, Nov. 20. The gamut from deepest despair to ahysterla of hope was run here today when 20 min ers entombed In the St. Paul mine for a week, almost to an hour, were brought to the surface alive. At midnight a small fire broke out In the mine, cutting off the rescue work. Fire apparatus was lowered and a stream of water turned into the mine. Up to midnight only 20 men have been brought to the surface. The story of their sufferings And the hero Ism of their resourceful leaders is one of the most thrilling In all the black history of mining disasters. Tent a Morgue. Dawn broke with the bearers of atretchers moving from the pit mouth to the tent which served as a morgue with bodies, swollen and scorched al most beyond human semblance. Forty of them had been brought up, and most of them Identified, when the mar velous report shot through the pros trate community: "They've found them alive! They've found them alive!" All thoughts were of the men who were alive. It took six hours to bring the survivors to the surface. Mean while a report spread that 70 or more men wereallve in a far reach of the mine, cut off from escape by a bank of black damp between their barricade and the main shaft. ' Only Two Helmets Left. But two oxygen helmets remained at the mine, and with this scant equipment two experts began a new exploration. At 9 o'clock P. M. they emerged, their oxy gen apparatus being exhausted and re ported no further living In that section. The women, with hope born afresh, re fused to believe anything but the best and haunted the mine far Into the flight, seizing at every straw of encouragement offered. From the top of the hoisting shaft to the sleeping cars drawn up on the sid ings was a distance of about 150 feet. Between the crowd, held back by militia, a passageway was formed. It was along this line that , the women, looking for loved ones, gazed into the faces of the survivors as they passed through. Babies Held to Peep. A woman here and there who fould not see, held up a child and cautioned It, "Look and see If you can see papa when they pass." The machinery stopped, the cage was up and a dozen torches made a dingy light on its passengers. There stood the rescuers, wearing shiny rubber coats .and white caps. Between them, wrapped In military blankets, they held the rescued men. some standing, others carried In arms. Slowly the procession moved. A burst of applause started from the crowd, but a raised hand from the militiamen brought silence. It was a critical moment. Mothers and wives stretched forth their arms, mur muring, "Billie," or "Frank," or "Oh, Andy, are you there? Speak to me, I am here." The blankets drawn over the heads of the men hid their faces and prevented identification from the crowd. Not receiving a reply, the women tore toward the sleeping cars, Imploring and begging anyone to give them good news. Overcome by appeals,, a rescuer called out the name of the man he was escort- ( Concluded on Page 10.) BURIED DAYS . . i t t DROUTH, 1910, IS1 LETTERING ON EGG KANSAS PHENOMENON STAR TLES SUNFLOWER STATE. Farmer's Wife In Republic County Finds Curiously Marked Egg In Chicken-House, TOPEKA Kan., Nov. 20. (Special.) The helpful hen, famed in Kansas song and story. Is responsible for a "pheno menon" that is stirring the state from the Missouri River to . the Colorado border. It Is all about an egg that was laid out in Republic County, June 11, of this year. Early in the forenoon of that day, Mrs. Ralph Fullen, wife of a prosperous farmer, as was her custom, responded to the daily cackle of Biddy, and went' out to the chicken-house to gather eggs. Imbedded In the shell of one were ominous characters which spelled out "Drought 1911." There is no doubt about the letters being outlined In the shell, for Mrs. Fullen has had numerous tests made and stands ready to pay $100 reward to any person who can, with paint or otherwise, duplicate the letters on the shell of the egg. Secretary Coburn wrote a letter request Ing the egg, and It Is now on exhibition In the State Agricultural Department. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Treat her. YESTERDAY' 3 Maximum temperature, 63 degrees; minimum. 44 degrees. TODAY'S Cloudy and probably showers; light southwest wind. t Domestic. Steamship St. Croix burns to water's edge off Point Duma; 135 reported lost. Section 1, page 1. Pennsylvania and New York Central sys tems prepare for titanic struggle. Section page. Submerged wreck thought to be Colonel Astor"s missing yacht. Section 1. page 2. Eusapia Palladino's Seances in New York disappoint scientists. Section 1 page 6. Federation of Labor unanimously re-elects Samuel Gompers. Section 1. page 4. Federal Circuit Court orders dissolution of Standard Oil Company. Section 1, page 1. Sport. ; Intercollegiate championship 1s kicked back to Yale. Harvard losing. 8 to 0. Section 2. page 2. Michigan defeats Minnesota in fast gridiron contest, 15 to S. Section 2, page 2. Interschoiastlc football season most sucoess - ful in Portlands history. . Section 2. page 2. - Walter McCredls believes Spokane only magnate who would stick In baseball war. Section -. page 2. Bids, for Jeffries-Johnson tight to be opened next week Section 4. page 6. Multnomah team will play Oregon "Aggies" here Thansglving day. election 4, page 4. Chemawa Indians defeat Hill Military Acad emy on gridiron, 12 to I. Section z, page 2. . Pacific Northwest. Huge Alaskan coal trust object of Cunning ham claimant shown at inquiry. Section 1. ' page 6. High water In Santlam carries out bridge pier. Section 1. page 6. Prosecution delays Ryan murder trial. Section 1, page 6. Grand Jury Indicts still more in Lewlston bank case. Section 1, page ft. Return of Captain at Vancouver causes every body to move, according- to custom. Sec tion 1. page 7. Hermit stockman found unconscious in Cas cades, entangled in halter. Section 1, nage 7. Congressman Hawley promises to clear out Clackamas napio. ana grve viuu Federal building. Section 1. page i. Rogue River Spitsenberga take first prise at slpoKane apple snow. - dwiiwii , Walla Walla ticket agent Is accused of de frauding railroad. Section 1. page 8. Otis Hamilton by new move may delay trial for. months. Section 1. page to. Oregon and Washington Lumber Manufac turing Association convenes at cottage Grove. Section 1. page 4. Commercial and Marine.' Heavy buying for iondon checks decline In hops. Section 3, page is.. Wheat closes easier at Chicago. Section 3, page I, Standard Oil decision leads to selling of stocks. Section 3. page 11. Small changes shown in New York bank statement. Section 3. page ll. Specifications published and bids asked for on repairs to urease cninoo. eection o. page 10 Fortland and Vicinity. In huge ehakoup of police. Captain Moore re lieves Baty as neaa or oetective.. Becuon 2. nags 12. Harrlman line manager denies boycott of Portland; three nrms only unaer can. ac tion 1. page 8. 'Joy ride" chauffeur acquitted of charge of larceny." Section 1, page. 8. Orders to studv Issued to National Guard officers. Section 2, page 12. Young girl harried over rough mountain roarts to hospital lor llie-evm umit,,.. 1 n... ft. General Manager O'Brien, of ' 8 P.. tells push club commute railway win nsinain neutral In Broadway bridge controversy. Section' 1. "page 8. Ordinance calling for cheap - lamp-posts on East Side vetoed Dy . ,'jaayor. wirjo o, page 12. Dr. Parson, of Beaver Falls, to assume charge . of Third hTesoyierian Luurco To day. - Section 3, page 12. Man strikes match, filling lamp, oil ex plodes, he is horribly burnea. section i, page 0. i PoVtland youth falls to Identify Port Defiance SUIClae tl ni lamer. dokuuii a. iu.bt Portland auto show in January promises to be a winner, section 4. page o. Portland automobile dealers hold annual elec- j tlon of ofneers. section page o. SPOTLIGHT SEVEN INTERESTING EVENTS OF CURRENT MOMENT OIL IS OUTLAW! Dissolution Ordered by - Federal Court. GOVERNMENT WINS VICTORY Dividends to Parent Company Restrained. EVASION IS PROHIBITED Contention That Combination Was Beneficent One Swept Aside. Case Will Be Appealed Di rect to Washington. ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 20. In an opinion written by Judge Walter H. Sanborn, of St. Paul, and concurred In by Judges Vandeventer, Hook and Adams, with a special concurring opinion by Tudge Hook, the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Missouri today handed down an opinion declaring the Standard Oil Company of New" Jersey an illegal com bination operating In restraint qf trade and ordered Its dissolution. The opinion was filed simultaneously In St Louis and in St. Paul. Government's Victory Sweeping. In this decision the Government of the United States gains a sweeping vic tory. According to Frank B. Kellogg, special prosecutor, the Government has won" every point for which It con tended. The decree filed by Judge Sanborn is comprehensive and enjoins the Stand ard Company, its directors, officers, agents, servants and employes from voting any stock: In any of the sub sidiary companies, and from exercising or attempting to exercise any control over the acts of these subsidiary com panies. The subsidiary companies are en joined .from declaring or paying any dividends to the Standard Company and from permitting the latter company to vote any stock in, or direct the policy of the subsidiary companies. But the defendants are not prohibit ed from distributing rateably" to the sharenolders of the principal company the shares to which they are equitably entitled in the stocks of the defendant corporations that are parties to the combination. Further Combination Prohibited. The defendants are enjoined from continuing or carrying into further ef fect the combination adjudged to be il legal and from entering into any like combination, the effect of which Is to restrain commerce in petroleum or to prolong the unlawful monopoly. The case will be appealed direct to the Supreme Court of the United States, the Judges who signed the decree are In effect the judges of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, although they were sitting for the purpose of trying this case as the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The decree becomes effective in 30 days, when no. doubt a stay will be granted for the purpose of an appeal. When the decree takes effect, unless a stay is granted, an injunction will issue restraining tne cttanuara um- pany from a runner ciuiuuain.u ui ts business under Its. present forma tion. Evasion Provided Aga'inst. It appears from the concurring opin ion written by Judge Hook that the company cannot do business under any other form with the object of stifling competition. He says on this subject that it is thought that with the end of the combination, the monopoly will naturally' disappear, but should it not do so and the members of the combina tion retire from It, except one who might perpetuate the monopoly by the aggregation of the physical properties and instrumentalities., it would constl- (Concluded on Page 2.) STANDARD DECLARED TAFT IS URGED TO RETAIN BIG STICK FliOGGIXG OF JLATIX3 CALLED DUTY TO UNIVERSE. . No Two Opinions, Says Londori Re view, Concerning Necessity for Discipline Near Isthmus. " LONDON. Nov. 20. (Special.) Noth ing could be more agreeable to Europe, so far as Central American affairs are concerned, than such a turn of events on the Nicaraguan coast? as would give Washington good grounds for drastic action. "It is to be'hoped," says the London Review, "that Mr. Roosevelt did not take the 'big stick" with him to'Afrlca, and that Tresldent Taft knows where to lay his hand on It. "There may be two opinions as to the expediency of , wielding it in Inter nal concerns, such as corporation ag gressiveness, like the Standard Oil, and corporation Iniquity, like the American Sugar. That is for the Washington Administration to say. "But if the United States is to en force the Monroe doctrine and main tain the hegemony of the western world, the plainest of plain duties to the rest of the Universe requires that the brawling Latin states near the Isthmus be flogged Into some sense of discipline." CUPID CHEATS PRISON CELL Friend Agrees to Wed Girl to Save ; Her From Disgrace. BELLINGHAM. Wash., Nov. 20. (Special.) In order to save Lena Sar lun from the penitentiary and to give her a home, protection and a name un stained by crime, Herbert Daniels, a friend of the girl, today obtained per mission from the Prosecuting Attorney to marry her, and after the ceremony she was released ffom jail, where she was held on a charge of forgery. The girl, who is only 17, was ar rested for attempting ' to pass three checks which she had stolen from the mall and the Indorsement of which she had forged. She asserted that she had contracted debts and that collection agents had hounded her to desperation. A felony charge was laid against her, but her friends pleaded so hard for her release that Daniel's offer to marry her wasHre -flnshlng stroke with . the Prosecutor, and the case against her was dismissed. The peculiar . ceremony was per formed with 'deputy sheriffs as wit nesses and the Judge who was to have tried her as the officiating Justice. SURVEYORS COMING NORTH Hill Crew Believed to Be Seeking Junction With "Western Pacific. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Nov. 20. (Special.) A crew of surveyors arrived here from the north today and left for Portland,, taking with them a complete surveying and camp outfit which had been used In their work in Central Ore gon. ' These surveyors admitted that they have been working in the interests of J. J. Hill, who contemplates extending a line down through Oregon to tap the Western Pacific In Northern California. The cold' weather and heavy snow in the mountains drove the surveyors out of the Oregon country, so they expect now to be ordered Into California, where work can be done this Winter. The head of the party frankly stat ed that they were opening the way for a new line through Oregon and Califor nia to San Francisco. HOQUIAM GETS MEETING Slate Labor Convention Will Convene on January 11. HOQUIAM, Wash., Nov. 20. (Special.) Pursuant to a call issued by Charles R. Case, president of the Washington State Federation of Labor, that body will hold Its ninth annual convention in this city beginning Tuesday, January 11. It is anti cipated that no less than 460 delegates will be present from the various locals, and that the session may continue for the larger portion of a week. It is understood here that the contempt eases against Gompers, Mitchell and Mor rison, and the recent adverse fJecision by the. Court of Appeals of the District ot Columbia against these men will be strongly censured. RAILROAD TITANS FOR BATTLE Two Great Systems to Fight for Traffic. MILLIONS SPENT IN CONFLICT New York Central Jealous of Encroaching Pennsylvania. OLD MEN ARE WEEDED OUT Nothing but Young Blood Wanted in Struggle for Supremacy That . Amazes Financial "World by Prodigality of Expenditure. NEW YORK, Nov. 20. (Special.) Railroad and financial circles are look ing forward to one of the severest struggles for , supremacy In railroad history, which Is scheduled to begin the moment the Pennsylvania Railroad opens Its new $100,000,000 terminal in the heart of New York City. The con flict is to be between this great sys tem and the New York Central lines, which hope to wrest the traffic su premacy from the system which a Thompson, a Cussatt, a McCrea and their predecessors have made almost a household word throughout the United States. The New York Central management is being groomed for the fight which seems inevitable and which will In a measure revolutionize the methods in vogue on the Pennsylvania for a gen eration. Conservatism Must Go. This does not meal that the Penn sylvania methods are considered obso lete, hut simply that strenuous ' ag gressiveness Is to take the place of conservatism because conservatism can no longer maintain the supremacy which hus been the Pennsylvania' boast for many years. In preparation for the struggle which both managements have realized is coming, money has been spent with a prodigality which hns astounded the financial circles of every center of the civilized world. In preparing the New York Central to rope with the Penn sylvania more than $100,000,000 has been expended and the finishing touches are being put on by an ex penditure this year of fully $80,000,000 in additional track facilities and In bet tering the present track and roadbed. Tunnel Fart of Battle. With the same end In view, the man agement of the Pennsylvania has ex pended close to $200,000,000, fully half of which was used in tunneling into the heart of New York, In buying val uable business property, tenring it down, and erecting in its stead one of the finest, If not the finest, passen ger station in the world. Naturally 'the preparation for such a struggle would extend to every de partment and every feature of the science of railroading. The effort has been on the pari of both managements to secure, first, the very best facilities in the way of track, roadbed, rolling stock, stations, power and terminals that money could buy. Young Men Replace Old. Having accomplished this. it was necessary for the owners of both prop erties" to see that the army of men and officers whose duty it will he to han dle these magnitlrent facilities shall be of the kind that will make the most of them. It was with this1 strug gle In view that Edward II. Harrtman, shortly before his death, caused the retirement of W. H. Newman solely with a view-of getting a younger and more energetic man, W. C. Brown, to take up the reins. Pennsylvania to Weed Out. In an even.- greater degree Is the official roster of the Pennsylvania to be gone over with the purpose of (Concluded on Page 2 ) ARM