Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1902)
; . VOL. I.v NO. .117.1 r -m - -'X : r v V PRICE VE ' CENTS.'" BRYAN SCORES ThE i REPUBy CAN PARTY Policed :Malce it Wari for ' a Man Who C; Qaims to Be J; Coleman Drayton : the New York Banker. K Registered at : nent Th noted rwindle'r who for yrt ha tM6il th nan of j; Coleman Drayton, the Ntw'TorK '-millionaire, was ordered ut of Portland thla afternoon by Chief Of Polio McIAuchlln..1 H raiaterd at The Imposter who calls himself Jk Coleman Drayton. the Portland Hotel ten day ago, under the nam of J. C. Drayton. There ar many here who know him and there leema to be no doubt that he. 1. the man who for years ha given the New York, banker great trouble by swindling- eople in all parts of the world, by passing a th capitalist The smooth fellow gave a banquet at the botel to a number of his Portland ac quaintance - the other night, but up to noon today the. bill had not been paid, either for the banquet or for the use of the. room, which he secured' buf seldom used, i - . '' , ; ' l' ' ';- It was a mystery why he slepl at ,the Calumet apartment ' house , on Seventh street, until today,' when it was found that he had a, woman, with him. She Is a New Yorker.' ''.'. . .''', :.( ' The prominent men to whom he was In troduced and to whom he gave the ban quet ' will ' be ' ffea,t)y . surprised to hear that when the clever talker failed to pay his bill he was escorted to the office of the Chief of Police ad told to pay his bill or suffer arrest and Imprisonment.. He promised" to settle ' his account this afternoon .and if he does, he will board the first , train going out, jnr In case he falls, he will sojourn at tM city prison. , TiEl IMPOSTOR'S IDENTITT. - Thl is the man who has pursued Mr. 3. Coleman Drayton in ' America and abroad, wao . carries his name and ' Im personates the millionaire who ' married Mis Astor In. 1879, The imposter runs up big bills In his name at fashionable ho tels and cut a wide swath from .Baden Baden' to-'. San -Francisco. By using Mr, Drayton's name he lived on the fat of the la.qd, had fast horses, played the.races like a lord and traveled with a baggage car full of trunks, parrot and- blooded dogs. The other day a tall, well dressed, dis tinguished looking1 man, with a com panion, biasing In silks and dlamonu. arrived at the Auditorium Annex Hotel, In Chicago, and registered, Coleman Drayton, New YoTk.V In a. Tew minutes it was ; whispered over the place, and be was pointed out as the millionaire from New York. ."; ..i-.;.-' . : ifc.'k.i'v' ,:' Th wealth and fashion of, the hotel were paying , respectful homage- to i the STILL IS MISSING ' v.j'" f''v'V-" ., C- ' , No -Definite News , of Tracy's Whereabouts ' -r'-' - ',-;..':-':.?. ' "s. '.- - ?....-" ' ' ' i - 1, -. . SEATTLE July .M.-Thr .hav 'been many rumors Tracy's reappearance, trot so tar none of th reporu have been the Portland Hotel, Banqueted Men, Bat Didn't Pay Up. trangerraftd lie moved about th estab lishment Hke a prince. BeauHfuI women envied- the subdued splendor of f'Mrsi Drayton Pari gown so deeply as to f orgnbat ther wa no f'Mrs. Drayton," ah having been', divorced- and married: again. to Mr. George Hatg. m Iondon.,' , While the guests were admiring th en gaging personality Of the man called "Drayton," they wer : urprlsed to see Detective William .-Pinkerton Walk nto the. tessellated bWWeS; pmtKii inspect tne with Detective ' Rapetto.' of fhe hotel. Mr. Pinkerton -had found his man nt last Word 5wa telejaphed to the real Mr. Drayton! in New York, who hurried to Chicago. and confronted the Imposter in the prqenc of Mr, Pinkerton and the hojel manager ' "? '' " ' KB HAD MONEY. Mr. Pinkerton asked the notel cashier not to honor his drafts, and produced one which he ; had ,. been carrying for some time a draft on which the Imposter Is said to have secured $500 of Mr. Charles Bush, president of the : New Orleans Jockey Club.' The young man paid the draft Instantly, and seemed to have loads i hnS(r, Drayton proceeded to crush blm by reciting his record, and-askea i1im"?fiS'Mdn1f gotf enough after his arreitvln EUrope for swindling v Ger man diamond merchant, under the pray-., ton name, , The result of this arrest was a trial and sentence to twtf and one-half years' imprisonment: After serving 12 months by extraordinary effort and strong rep resentations . of penitence, and probably the influence of his wealthy parents In America, uie man was pardoned. Since then the Plnkertons claim to have unearthed this record of a man correspon ding with him in every detail. On June 28, 1895, he masqueraded, It is claimed, under the name of Jackson Cummlng Davis, was arrested In San Francisco because of a, defective check, but again influence was brought to bear and he was discharged. On September U, 1895, he wa alleged tp have, defrauded W, A. Burge at Fort Scott, Kan., of $25, under the name of I, D. WUIlam. ' .On October' t, 1S9S, he was arrested. It ta alleged, in Kansas City under the liam'e of. 'Harry'.' Goldstein' for attempting to pas a defective cheek. Still again" his good luck' and magic influence secured discharge, It was after this that he turned up in Europe and wa attested for the Baden Baden affair. . COMES OF. GOOD FAMILY. And who 1 this gentlemanly looking man who-: has been so successful In per sonating a New York anker and gentle man of high social influence and affairs T His real name is withheld. It is a se cret, it is. said, because his family are of influence and high standing, because of his parents, brothers and sisters there Is a disposition to save them from the sham and disaster which would follow publication of his Identity. His father has mad powerful appeals, and put the facts In a cteat and' startling light, and offered to repay any amount of imoney for losses or injury .: inflicted; by - the young man. So the boy seems to have a gift of se curing aid 'and Escaping imprisonment to any serious extent even from his fam ily, who are made to suffer untold sor row because of their prodigal's acts. He was born In .Ohio of a well known and reputablei-family, is SS years old and frequent rao traofyi and sporting places where ths stakes ar high and the losses great He lives at the best hotels when he travels, and he has yet to dis cover anything too good for Iflm. He is a tall, slenderly built --MmahV- nearly six feet" high, and ..weighs 145 pounds. ' His complexion is dark, his hair a very dark brown and hlf eyes dark hazeL ' I ' His original .dream : In lif e was to be come what he icaUed. a ''journalist.'' He learned the arti of Interviewing people. verified by the officers and some, of them are known to be fakes. ' . The only story that may prov true la the one1 telling how Tracy appeared at a logging camp and had breakfast, ... Sheriff Cudihe Is, still on th hjint for the out law Snd Somtthlng definite Will be heard from him' soon. ' ' f , , ' "J; ANOTHER FALSE" ALARM. SALEM, July 84. The ,: men seen at Woodburn last night and believed to be Tracy, and two companions, 1 wer two hunters going to ''Southern' Oregon to hunt deer...; Th leader of the trid "an swered th description of TVacy In some particulars. The -men - wr en this morning by Levi Herren, a farmer living near th' Reform School, who knows Tracy-J - " ' - Proihi- and then introduced features on fet own account; and soon, 4t is said, 'became an accomplished poser, deceiver, .bogus check manufacturer and various other things common' tT -lordly adventures? - - TftB S A CLEVER FUOJTIVJ3. . ' A 'favorite scheme la to: double on nis tracks and baffle justice; to write to de frauded men in search of vengeance; say Lthat he has ' been duped by the bogus Drayton and he would like to know more of him. Such letters sent to Mr. Dray ton, for Instance, by strangers, with ref erences and high' sounding titles, -'would be traced to the one source the culprit himself. . In England, he had. a. lot of photO' graphs taken at one .of th most expen sive London establishments, but they reached the real Coleman Drayton, who thus secured a perfect picture of th rogue. : It appears' at the- had of this page, snd came from another gentleman who has been fleeced. While on a tour in Old Mexico, In 1897. the.aung'wmejreptaisfletl ,i fersa5titne In Usxas. . A nuili elklmllrktii Cole inDVVtoftheNel Xotit, mUKonalre, afrtSe klkiilray' twt up at the best hotel, . and was soon receiving calls from the solid men- of -the town" '1'he Texas banks, the Chamber- of Com merce and all the institutions j worth talking; about' lhfew theifjdiorf' wide open to the alleged Mri"Drfiy ton. To their astonishment It wa soon, discovered that he was the liveliest millionaire , seen In these parts In years, - He succumbed to the .charms of one Clara. Barklow, a woman of style and dash, Her establish ment, known as the "Reservation,' was run on an expensive scale, but to the al leged millionaire, who had ' lived abroad, such matters were nothing." ' ; , ( It was the beauty, the chic, the glo rious ayes and indescribable fascination of the young woman that landed "Mr. Drayton" In the seventh heaven of de light. Miss Barklow says they were mar-: ried In San Antonio, November 29, 1S97, by the Rev. Mr. Ulrlck, of the Lutheran Church there. 'r ..'fvf-''"' ': It is said that about" two. i years ago the woman scoured a dlvore..A year ago last June she received latter from a man still claiming to b J. Coleman Drayton. It wa dated Clveind,; Ohio, and asked her to meet hint in St Louis and accompany him to NwrYork. To this end he sent her $100, but' as her or dinary pin money was in thousand dollar , not'.. sh. dldnei J?.. .. $ She claims to have had? much corr; spoadence with the real James Coleman Drayton, of Wall street. Whether it was a plan, to entrap her by ths advwiturer masquerading under th asm aam Is yet to be known. - '?, '' ' Guilty of Assa3jS':-- Th trial of Edward Urfer occuplf d a larg part of th afternoon yesterday In th East Sid Justice Court Urfer was charged with having bsenwlth a gang of, boys who assaulted Harry VaU, sob of th postmaster of Psllstlne. while on his way horn on a Mcycl on - day last week. A number of witnesses teetifled to having heard the cries of th. assaulted boy and C, Milem told :of going to his rescue and the fleeing of young Urfrknd th gang. Vrfer was not represented by an attorney so th Justlc had to be both prosecutor and' also see that ths young man's Interests wer lookd after. Jus tic Seton said 'that It was a taeky thing for th defendant that a' mors sarlous oharg had -not been fll4 against Jnlm and after summing up the evidence found him guilty and Imposed a flno at $10. , v r Tksi Meal I rAl,maM rlsMauf a Mam a saw ve wivHiaiM v m j fviiy vm ivw York. ; (Serlpps-McRA Mews 'Association.) f BOSTON., ; Jly., William Jen's- ; nlngs .Bryan ' tody addressed the New England Democratic League f ' at Nantaske Beaph en "The Basis 4- of Harmony,"., Hp aald th Demo 4 .sratlo party,' mus have a control- ling purpose- unchanged by victory or defeat;., it must stand for ths t -f " purpose ' at all and every- f where, unmoved by threats of die-4- aster anduninfluenced by tempor-4- ry gain. ,H denounced the J(le-4- publican party for taking no iegis-4-f lativs step to curb the trust and 4 for more openly avowing Imperlal 4 Utic methods... -i 4: 4- 4 4 t 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Police .Don't;Know Who ) Slaughtered Joseph 'VCatino. SW YORKv-Vuiy ft.-The mutilated remains of -th tnanf found In a gunny sack., near th water's adga fn Brooklyn last night hayft.bee Identified as those of Joseph Catino, S Srocer, Vincent Tri es has been arreateg on the belief that he knows somsthlnciof the crime. - 7--" --- --- . wl The Gay -Captain Says fflaylYpfe ls Sore--- - 4i For t8crtpps-McRa News AociaUoti. . LONDON, July K-Capt.. Putnam Bradlee Strong arrived here today. He sailed from New. York under an alias. In mn Interview he declared Yohe's aBegatlsns against him were probably prompted . by. her dismay over his desertion of her , OFF TO GAY PARIS. NEW YORK. July 24.-May Yohe sailed today for . Paris She re fused to say what her intentions "were. 4 4 4 4 4- -f -f 4- 4 4- NEGROES A. - ) Speedly Justice Dealt Out by &ragedf MoB in .West Virginia; (Scrlpps-McRas News Association.) PHILIPL W. Va. July 24. Two ne groes, names unxnown, were laaen irom jail at Womelsdorf last night and lynched. One was shot, the other hanged. The lynching was the result of the. assassina tion of Chief of Pollc Wllmoth, of Elk Ins in whloh the mob' victim ar be lieved to have been Implicated. THE DALLES. (Journal Special Service.) THE DALLES, July 84. The loss of an eye by being struck wltii a stick la the affliction to be born by little Constance Sauter, the 7-ycar-oM son of Franklin Sauter, while playing in the orchard yes terday afternoon a branch struck him In the left eye, necessitating Its removal. Last Tuesday night M Catholic young men met William Weber, of Walla Walla, Supreme President for the Northwest, and organised themselves into a Young Men'a Institute with 29 charter members. The object of the institute i fraternal and benevolent, i ) ' i Shortly after noon Tuesday, Mrs, Lula Ward, wife of Ik Ward, died at her home on the hill ast of the old fair grounds.' Acorg Holllng arrived in the city frm Rosalia, Was., havliig- come down to se Mrs. Holllng, ho Is Visiting herparen 4r; and Mr. C. Phtrman '; ,t,; -A Miss Grace Hobsoir Is spending her two wks' vacation wlthOilss Clari BlythV at Hood' River.-: . . ;ik-; ..v Jy . Frank Seufert is entertaining two for' elgf .visitors from Europe, In' th persons ' ofj fcountKlevenhusea and" PrlnW Woj taiianskj. . They are acg salmon buyers' who purchase for their head firm in Ber lln.Oerm.ny , , , , GOTHAM MYSTERY STRONG IN LONDON LYNCHED Merchants Must : 'Fight Salt TrusC MEEWHELDT0MY Salt, Prices Cat in Two to Intimi date Importer War Is On. A drop of one-half In the price of salt Within a month 1 the startling disclosure mad by. the local market report today. This Is a . drive at the pocketbook of th wholsale merchants of this city, who hav purchased large quantities of this commodity in the Liverpool market, the first consignment of which arrived ' by the Sierra Estrella, now discharging car go her. Salt that formerly sold In this market Ct sfrom, $3. M to $8 per ton was elvatd ln priqerby the t salt trust, to from $2Z to $US :per ton. All- salt produc ers Of 4he;-country-were bought out,; In terest 'consolidated, and then the bulls In control started In to Increase prices to aiilf themselves ; 1 .' .." Stockmen and; meat packers of . the country iersilie rst , to, feci the clutch of ; the; salt, trust's Iryn hand; TIje. Ar mours, of Kansas City, notwithstanding salt wells were 'hi operation less than 109 miles fr6m their lacking establish ment, imported 200 car loads tt salt from abroad - Seattle was lext to try the ex periment, but the single ship's-cargo, or dered In that city Was purchased by the trust before the time of ft arrival. Fort land Is how "up asatrtat" the trust witn 9000 ton,' all told, ordered from beyond the ocean, '.aud the trust 1 meeting the Importations with such astounding reduc tions of valuer that local dealers stand aghast. This move on tl)o part of the trust is, of course. ' Intend! to intimidate the local merchants, and. of course, a.a? courage th enterprise in w.u they have - engaged. And the purpose of tne combine may be achieved. At all events, thi, public Is ' reaping some benefit from the salt ' trust's -antagonism, yet hope' is expressed In many- quarters that th merchants of 'Portland may come out victorious In thpir battl "ith the' gi gantic octopus. ' Today at 10r-J the Wholesal Merchaiits' Association held a meeting at Its h. iuarters, and "for more Jhp, ftpVar the Hubjeot was discussed In Its various phase. The meeting was held behind closed door; and Its conclusions, if any? were arrived at, jvere Jjot given out for publication Th association, li ;Js under Stood, Is not prepared 0 make public at this time Its methods o - war are as this vould be giving away it amryrltlon to Its nemy, but,-thre is uu-.oiestifiir hut that the dealers will gWe li.c trut Uie fight of Us life for the business of this bailiwick. The contest will be spirited. It will a bitter light on both sides. , b- North Cost LimjteiLCol lided With a Freight Noninjuries , A the result of a collision Iast night at Sumner. Wash., between the North Coast Limited of the Northern Pacific and a freight backing td a swith, both locomo tives were hurled Into the ditch and the mail and baggage cars parted company with their truck,- The Northern Pacific officials In Port land were not advised as to? the collision and could give no Information. The of ficials of the Terminal Company were equally .a Ignorant ' The North' Coast Limited Is. due here at t a. m., but did not "get ,lh until f o'clock. No one was hurt In the collision, and the delay of two hour was caused by the wreckage, which' required that length of time to clear out of the .way. ' ' - ' Mitchell Indignant. 'y(8crlpp-McBi New -Association.) CHtCAGOT "July .-Preident Mitchell, of the. United Mine Workers, denounced Judge Jackson's decision as an outrage. H declare It to be In violation of all American principles and places the court above the constitution. He said an ap peal will be taken to the Supreme Court and to President Roosevelt. ! - Free Speech No More. (ScMpps-McRae News Association.) s-f!ARKERSBirRO, July M.-After read Ihsj his" decision Judge Jackson ordered the arrest of W. B. Wilson, secretary of the' MTne Workers, on the charge of vto- Iritsng the injunction by delivering a speeoh to the miners. Now is the TfmeV V' 1 3t, A j1 i TRAINS: WREGKED I : -e ' ' ' : MM -. - a '.-? m ' 'r The Decision of a the Back tfiracite Miners Strike. 5 ? Union Men He "Says, Must Not Attempt to bis- ; suadeSTThtelw From Working ' : xm0mt3 Sentences ' Mother Jones Scored Unmercifully .. (Scripps-McRa, News Association.) pARKERSBURd, WjS Yig July- 2i Unlted States District Judge' Jackson to dny Tjlnded down a decision' in the cases of Thomas Haggerty. .William Morgan, Bernard" Rice, Peter WllsortV 'William Blakeley, George Bacon, Thomas Laskau Ish, - Mother Jones. Albert1 Repak.i Jo. Roeskl, George Rosekl and Steve Teonlke, who are Hccvsed of violating hIS injunc tion restraining them from in any way Interfering with the working of the .an thracite miners In the Pennsylvania and. West, Virginia strike districts. ... Haggerty was sentenced to 90 days' imprisonment nnd Morgan, Rice, Wilson, Blakeley, Ba ron and Laskavlch to 60 days. The others will be sentenced later, but itjn believed Mother Jones will get oft with a heavy fine.. j . ?'- Th decision Is one of the most sw.eep Inir -ever handed down in an injunction ca,?nnd the miner agree that it la the most effective blow that .could be Struck DEFIES SULTAN A Filipino Rebel, Won't pbey His uuers Orders. ' STANDS OFF A WHOLE TRIBE American Soldiers ' Hold the Digni tary as a Hostage For His ' ' Men's Deeds. tScrlpps-McRae News Association.) MANILA. July 24. The Sultan of Bln adapan Is being held as a hostage by the American troops In Mindanao for the delivery to them of the Moros who at tacked two American soldiers last month. The Sultan has ordered his' followers to Ktve. the men up, but -only one came Into the American camp, where he confessed and . .died. The leader of the attack Is fortified In his house,, and defies the Sul tan's tulluwers to take him. ' NEW RAILROAD OPEN. The Great Northern makes official an nouncement of th opening of a new ex tension, "i miles long, upon which con struction wortf was begun last spring. The extension Is known as the Washing ton & Great'Northern, Vancouver, Vic toria and Eastern Railway, and Naviga tion Company, is now ready to accept freight shipments. The new line brapcWei off from. Marcus, , Wash., on the main line , of the Spokane Falls & Northern. This opens up a highway to and from the groat' Republic mining chstrict. I BATHINa 'SfMSS&l WOODARD I FRUIT Jar I dARDEJN I. CAPS SkSZ CLARKE - w- "Jf?, 35cts. (Q.CO. Do2.9c$2.4Sup Oreson shavino French Ice Cream Feather PNa Souvenir Brushes Tonlsht and Sunday n....M onmn Cardg IOC tO Caramel and Vanilla Dusters PONO $1.00 $4:00 FRENCH LEMON ICE lCUp $1.1 9 Up RAZORS , Our1 ANTON BERG, SWEDISH strictly hand made Reg.. $2.85, Special $2. 19 Dickenson's Witch Hazel, pt...iac Robertlne reduced to ......... ......ajc Moth Balls, pound............. 6c SUB-STATION POSTOFF1CE Banfield-Veysey Fuel Co. Get your order in early and ft Office: No. 60 , ORE. , PHONE. MAIN S ; COLUMBIA. VZf f -0 Virginia Judge. May of the Big- Ah- 5 i i ' ,1 "J t . - i" ' Y ' against thslr cause. Jackson-upholds ta righteousness of Injunctions and declares it i a mistaken Idea to suppose that the couyts of this country abuse this right. II Says the defendants In trying to ln ' due miners to quit work wer inflicting -great' damage and Injury on the employ- I era, and that such action on. their partv was IHegal and malicious. He denounced -the utterSnce of Mother 'Jones ari sn " outgrowth of th sentiments of those who . believe' In ''communism and anarchy, and1' ; maintained that the right' of th cltlsen to labor f r wages that h is satisfied ' wltb la a right protected by-law . Jl The open, deftarice of-bis Injunction by the defendants, he said, tends to promote? " -disorder which. If .permitted to go. un- , ' punished, would sooner or later' lead to anarchy. ' " ' . -j - Several paragraphs of th decision wer devoted to a criticism1 of Mother Jones whose efforts In behalf " of unionism, he ' declared, wer good womatw- entirely ' unworthy of a Loses Car by Fire Near; Arlington Nobody v Hurt : Condifctor Dunn, of th O. R. & N. Co,' ' No. 3 passenger train sent In a report to ' th office of Superintendent O'Brien re-;" gardtng th destruoUon by fire of a car on th company' Un between Ar- Lllngton and Willows on th Oregon divi ¬ sion. .- . The car In question belonged1 te BnSalO Bill' Wild West Show,' and' Is a total' loss. The fir broku at 1:$SL a. na from th Interior of th car.. The caus is tuvi known: ; From the meagre fact reported. It Is learned that th men who accompan- 7 led the car escaped with but scant attire, most of their clothing being destroyed. v ; The entire contents of the car were ds." stroyed and whU Th Journal cannot V give any figure as to th amount of th . actual loss, it must hav been consider- ' able. The ear was bound for Portland. The show employes wer accommodated b. yth O." R. & N. with a special ' car, ' and afterwards-cam to this city. WHEAT MARKET : , Chicago. Jhly Si Wheat 7$St8. ' n SAN ' FRANCISCO, July- M. Wheat, ' SYRINGES MARVEL WHIRLING SERAY , V- SAFETY v j Special v $3.19 ) POCKET KNIVES ' MANICURE SCISSORS SCISSORS OP ALL KINDS NOW OPEN DM OUR ANNEX. WOOD BUFFALO WILLIE i. ... ii xj- give your wood a chancy to tfry. : THIRD STREET, . pofiTLArw c?xcc:; . Wi. ' L .... . ;1"&'M V 1 S