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'ftIA, OREGON, THim&DAY. DECEMBER 6. 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME LXLN0.M3 INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION CblcagoProfcssoi's Speech on Socialism. V TRAFFIC IS DISCUSSED Roosevelt Compared to President Andrew JicKson by Promi nent Speaker. SOCIALISM PHILOSOPHY FAILS Mtn Wh AMI Thmwlv With 8c elallsm Admit That They Art Ml wr, and Want Society to Do What They Cannot CHICAGO, Deo, B. During an noaltloo of tho labor question, Prof. Laurence Laughlln of th Unlvemlty of Chicago told tba member of th Clt'tam Industrial Association of America, whose guest ha wa at a banquet Inut night, that aocUlltm la tha philosophy of failure. H da clared further that In allying them alva with . It men admitted salve fallurta, and kd orlly to do for thm what they had been un able to accomplish for thetnsalve. . Prof. Laughlln took up the labor question with ungloved hand and first made a plea for fair play In behalf of the employe. He aswted that bet ter eondltlona could be derived by r duct Ion of the tariff on raw materials and that thla would redound to the benefit of the employer and employe, affording better market ahrond and cheaper product for home consum Uon. Labor and capltat mutt work In conjunction. Other apeakera at the banquet were C. W. Post, president of the Associa tion, and J. W. Van Cleave, of St Louie. The latter, who reaponded to the toast. "The President of the Unit ed State," compared President Roose velt to President Andrew Jackson, He was extolled for hla conduct In steer ing a middle course In labor question and applying the law to "capitalistic trusts and labor trusts," In conclu sion, he said: , "Gentlemen, I do not renominate Theodore Roosevelt for President In 1908; he Is already re-nominated In the hearts of the American people." TANKS COMPLETED. Gas Tanks at Astoria, Long Island, Largest In tha World. NEW YORK, Pec. (I. The first of the great tanks "of the Consolidated Oas Company at Astoria, L. I., has been completed and Is now In opera tion. This marks the opening of the greatest gns plant In the world. There will be five other tanks of equal ca pacity when the system Is complet ed. Each tank has a cnpaclty of 15, 000,000 cubic feet, when alt six are In operation the plant can produce 70,000,000 cubic feet of gas. Each of the tanks cost In the neighborhood of $1,000,000. When fully extended the tanks are only 15 feet lower than the Flatlron building. Each holder Is 260 foet high and 800 feet In diameter, PRE8IDENT EXPLAINS. Message Did Not Infer That Military Fore Would Be Used, , WASHINGTON, (Deo. B.--The Cali fornia delegation has received what It considers a satisfactory assurance that President Roosevelt did not da- Ire to be understood as aaytng In 'V Japanese section of his message' . he would use military force A Ing the Japanese Into the yfrniii schools In which white ehlldrtn were taught, It Is suld to have been his purposa to convey the Idea that be would Us' military force to protect the Japanese against ' mob violence. Callfornlana take no exception at this Interpretation of the message, and agree that the chief executive should do everything In hi power to protect the Japanese a well as ail other for eigner against violence. ' The whole matter Is a Ban Francisco affair, aald Representative Kahn today.' It I proving to be a tempest In a teapot It will die out rapidly as soon a there la a general understanding why Cal ifornia take this position. Governor Pardee said today that he didn't think the President understands the situation out here. lie says be doe not think the right ot natural ization should be extended to the Jap anese. "We can," ha said, "gat over the school proposition very easily by applying the age limit." TRAIN DERAILED. OO DEN, Utah, Dec 5. Union Pa cific passenger train No. 4, eastbound, was derailed 140 mile east ot Og den thl morning. The entire train went Into the ditch, including two baggage, two sleepers, and two day coaches. Brakeman II. T. Marsh and three passenger were injured. , Sensational Development in Team' sters Strike In Chicago. TURNS STATES EVIDENCE Jeteoh 8chulU Wa Witness Before Investigating Committee and Gave Damaging Evldene Against Teamster' Union. CHICAGO, Dec. 6. Startling expo aurea of the methods employed In the teamster' atrlke which occurred in Chicago several months ago, were glv en in the trial of Cornelius B. Shea and hla fellow labor leaders in the criminal court today, -when Joseph Schults, the alleged alugger, who, with Albert Young, turned, state! evidence, waa on the witness stand for the state. Schult declared that Shea had told him to break the legs and arm of the atrlke breakers, and to especially at tack the negro strike breakers. When this means of bringing about decided ijosillts d,Id not wortc satisfactorily! Schults asserted that Shea had ordered hired pickets to throw eggs filled with acids at the horses being driven by the' non-union men. The case Is at tracting considerable attention and the developments today created a sen sation In this city. MATCHES EXPLODE. Eight Women 8eriously Burned in In dianapolis. " INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 5. In a fire that started from an explosion of thousand of paper matches at the factory of F. A. Rnthbun & Co.4, West Indianapolis, eight women were burned, four of them seriously. The others wore palnullyj burned . In jured In their frantic efforts to escape from the building. The most serious ly Injured are: Helen Stapp, badly burned about the head, face and arms, She was also hurt by jumping from a second-story window. -. ' ' ' ' Hattle Breelove, burned about face, arms and head. , ' ' , ' Lizzie Richards, burned about face, arms and back, also hurt by Jumping. Myrtle Stapp, burned about the face, head and arms. ' ' .'. ; Several other girl were , slightly hurt STARTLING EXPOSE ?1I irrrnii ILINUN DISASTER Impossible to Estimate tk Number Killed .., STEADY RAIN FALLING Causes Largs Dam to Give Way Precipitating Flood on the Town. CASUALTIES MOST FOREIGNERS Owing to Disabled Wire, It Is Impo slble to Ascertain the Extent of Damage Don or the Num ber Drowned, I SOLOMONV1LLE, Dec. I. A a re ult of thirty hour' teady rainfall over Southern Arizona, the mining town of Clifton, with eight thousand population, wa swept away by a ter rlflo flood and hundreds of people have fled to the mountain for safety. Owing to the disabled wires, the de tails and particular are hard to get, but It is known that the death Hat reaches eighteen and doubtless will be much larger when full reports are re ceived. t ... ' ... ' The greater portion of the popula tlon are Mexican and Italians, who live In squalid hut, all of which are now inundated, being on the flats of the town. The town I built In three sections, Chase Creek, and North and South Clifton. The catastrophe com menced with the breaking of a,, big reservoir In the mountain above the town, precipitating a vast flood upon Chase Creek section of the town. The principal street of the town is near the bed of the creek and was com pletely destroyed It was there that most of the fatalities occurred, as the flood came In, breast on, and engulfed the people without warning. The dead are mostly forelgnera, whose names could not be learned. Two Americans are known to have perished. North and South Clifton are swept by a cur rent of the San Francisco river. ' ' A dlBDatch from El Paso states that no Iralns are running, a the bridges are either washed out or so badly damaged as to make thera unsafe. The river is receding tonight and the weather has cleared. No further dam age It apprehended. ; , , ; According to a dispatch received tonight from El Paso, the loss at Clif ton ii appalling. North Clifton Is bad ly wrecked, nearly all the residences In that section of the town were de stroyed or damaged. . So many hotels and restaurants have been destroyed that It is almost impossible to find a plftce to eat or sleep, but there will be .no shortage ' of food, as most of the stores escaped the flood. FROM MISSOURI. Rockefeller and Cohorts Do Not Un . derstand Indictments. FINDLAT, O , Dec. 5. Late today the attorneys for the Standard Oil Com pany of Ohio, filed in the court! of common pleas, motions to quash the Indictments against John D. , Rocke feller, the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, J.' M. Roberts and H. P. Mo Intoch, officers of the Standard Oil Company. It la stated In the motions that the indictments are uncertain and Indefinite and do not charge an offense in such a. manner as enables the de fendants to ascertain the character of the charges against them. The three defendants named in the motion, other than Rockefeller, will appear In court and plead Friday. Rockefeller will be allowed to plead through his Attor ney. UNITED 8TATES SENATORS. Conferene Held in Da Moines to Dis cuss Question. : - , ... . ' . . ..... ."' f . MM .'I'.. DEB MOINES, Doc. 6. The United State enatorial conference which convened here today, expect to adopt resolutions urging the various tat legislatures which meet thl winter to demand congress to call a consti tutional convention at which it is pro posed to amend the constitution so poea to amcna me cgnuni' Eleven state were represented In the conference when it openod here to day. BRYAN WILL COME. Expected to Visit Portland In Near Future. POTLAND. Dec. 5. "Many thanks for your telegram. Cannot answer yet; will see later. W. J. BRYAN." Tti foregoing dispatch from Will' lam J. Bryan, dated at Lincoln, Neb. and received here late yesterday by Alex Sweek, chairman of the Demo cratlc state central committee, ex plain the situation on the proposed vlait of Mr. Bryaai to Portland thla winter and the big reception planned in his honor by the Democrats of Or egon. Senator Foraker Demanded Inv meiate Investigation. BANKING LAW IS AMENDED New Law Permit National Bank to Make Loan on Real Estate Se curity and Wa Passed Two to One. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. A brief session of the Senate today resulted In the Introduction of many billa, res olutlons, petitions and memorial and the Tecelpt of a number ot commuql cations frdm thei iexdcutlve d(epaft ment i Senator Foraker insistence upon the immediate action of the ne gro soldier of the 25th Infantry, de veloped a discussion, but resulted In postponing aotion until tomorrow, The House today, waiting on the re port of the appropriation bills, began the legislative" grind by passing three measures. One was Incorporating the national German alliance; authorising the secretary of the treasury to du plicate gold certificates In lieu of those lost or destroyed and the bill amende lng the banking laws permitting bank ing associations to make loans on real estate as security and limiting ;, the amount of such loans. The banking bill has been one of the West's fa vorite measures and the leaders in the House from that section lined up gen erally in favor of legislation which, it was asserted, would go far toward popularizing the national banks. Op ponents of the bill, Democrats ano Republicans, insisted that real prop erty was not proper security for loans even though a limit was placed on the loans. The advocates of the measure were too strong, however, and the bill was passed by a vote of two to one. MALCOLM NOMINATED. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. The Presi dent today sent to the Senate the fol lowing nominations: i Member of the Philippine Commis sion and Secretary of Public Instruc tion in the Philippine Islands, W. Mor- gan Shunter, District of Columbia," Collector of Customs, District of Willamette, Or., Philip S. Malcolm. SECOND DAY SESSION BROWNSVILLE OWE Report of Taft on Dis charge of Negroes., , , .4 PRESIDENT IS UPHELD Some Men May Be Innocent, But Others Known to Be Guilty. PUNISHMENT WAS JUSTIFIED Discharging the Soldiers Would B Wholly Inadequate Punishment for Those Guilty of Murder With ' holding Evidence, v WASHINGTON, Dec." 6. An extract from the report of Secretary Taft re lating to the Brownsville outrage was made public today. Secretory ( Taft Justifies the discharge of the negro soldiers, saying that while some of the men may have been wholly innocent, neither knowing the guilty men or any of the circumstances which will aid lit their detection, although thla can not be true of very man, a it is presumed, nearly every member of the three companies Is cognizant of the crime and the Identity of the per petrator. Secretary Taft says that the action of President Roosevelt was the only means of ridding the mill tary service of a band of would-be murder of women and children and the actual murder of one man i the cause for the discharge of the entire battalion. ' ' ' Secretary Taft says it Is a mistake to suppose that the order is the pun ishment of either the guilty or inno cent The discharge, he says, .would be utterly inadequate to the punish ment for those guilty of murder or of withholding evidence which would disclose the perpetrators of such a crime. He says the word "punish ment" is an unfortunate misnomer. This dismissal Is not V punishment, however great the hardship. , The sec retary enumerates the different forms of discharge from the army as "hon orable," "without honor," and "dis honorable." . " ' "Discharge without hoor" Is where the men are dismissed for the good of the service, previous to the expira tion of their terms at which an hon orable discharge would be given. The secretary further says that the sug gestion that the battalion has been treated this way simply because the men are colored, hardly merits notice. The fact that; their color may have been the cause for the trouble In the first place may be true, but it forms no Justification for the plot to mur der' mersi, women c.ni children . .i "In a body of men," says the sec retary, "sworn to uphold the law en listed as Instruments of maintaining the supremacy of the law, no obliga tion of comradeship would prevent one from telling the truth and 1 detailing the circumstances that would lead to the conviction of his associates in murder, can be recognized by those In authority and charged with the re sponsibility of maintaining discipline In the army." SHIPPERS' MEETING. Enthusiastic Meeting to Disoust the Car Shortage, PORTLAND, Dec. 5. A special to the Oregonlan from Eugene says that the meeting held there today was at tended by prominent shipper from all part of the state to discus th present car shortage which exists In Oregon. Beside shipper a large per centage of the meeting were lumber dealers, and there were several mem bers of the state legislature and rep resentatives from the various railroads present. The assemblage adopted res olutions petitioning the legislature for the passage of a remedial aid and regulative measure, which shall em brace a reciprocal demurrage feature, thl rexolutlon declaring: "Being one of the most potent corrective and reg ulative measues yet devised to insure fair treatment to shippers." DYNAMITE EXPL08ION. House Shattered and Woman Has Nar- row Esoipa, CHEHALIS, Dec. 6. This morning at 6:30 o'clock the home of Mrs. John Spltzner, wife of the man who dyna mited the Yoder : home a few weeks ago, and then committed suicide in a sensational manner, wa badly shat tered by the explosion of a charge of dynamite, which had been placed In the cook stove. Every bit of glass ware In the house' was broken, the doors blown out and the furniture broken up. Mrs. Spltzner had Just gone into an other room to waken her four chil dren and all escaped injury. This I the first time the stove has been used since the Yoder incident, Mrs. Spltz ner having lived with a sister at Rochester ever since and having Just returned to her own home last night INCREASE IN WAGES Railroads Centering in Chicago to Increase Pay of Employees. IN EFFECT JANUARY FIRST Increase for Engineers, Firemen and Brakemen Will Be About Ten Per Cent Over Present Wages Paid by Company. 1 ' " CHICAGO, Dec. 5. -The Tribune to day ays: , The railways of Chicago contemplate making increases in' the wages of their employe in the immediate fu ture, which, In the aggregate, will make all increases made on the rail roads of the country In the recent past seem small by comparison. Advance are expected to be given between npw and January 1, which will make the combined Incomes of the 450,000 em ployes of the line from $25,000,000 to 130,000,000 greater fn . 1907.. than in 1906. . l The only thing that may prevent the proposed advances between now and the end of the ' year, Is inability of the railroads ; and their , tralnirien to reach an ; amlcable agreement The engineers, conductors, firemen,' brake men and other trainmen have asked both for ten per cent advances and for an 8-hour day. Railway officials indicate that they are willing to give the ten per cent increase, but that they are not will ing to grant the demand for an 8 hour day and their present disposition Is to withold the wage advance until the 8-hour day demand is "withdrawn. The trainmen will yield, they believe, after the ground for the denial of the 8-hour day is explained to them In conference, and then the wage ad vances will speedily follow. , i ; Railway operating officials say their reason for declining to grant an 8 hour day to trainmen Is that It would either make ; necessary ' wholesale changes In the arrangements of their divisions or heavily Increase their op erating expenses in other ways. EARTHQUAKE SHOCK. . KINGSTON, Island of St Vincent, Dec. 8. Prolonged earthquake shocks were felt here last night and lasted about eight seconds. The people are In a, panic. The island of Barbadoes and St. Lucia also felt the chock.