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TirDE: CD OS TH8 WEAYHER. 'Tonight eaa taaday, partly elou4y: mat U aorta wiads. G2NALL firoiii VOL. I. NO. 239. THE HUNDREDS OF YOUNG WOMEN M . . is ' Managers of Large Establishments Com plain of Action of Vicious Solicitors Who Sell the Tickets. Pitiful Tale of How One Girl Met Her Downfall Through the Vice-Whole City Honeycombed With the Dens of the Fiends Citizens Denounce System, HUITDHEDS OT TOUlTO GIRLS IK TKXB OITT ABE IW THE HABIT OT PLAYIKO CHINESE LOTTERY Girls with homes and girls without them; girls with good positions and those less fortunate there are who have formed the habit of thua dallying- with destruction. Bran girls who work In the stores of tha city are addicted to the vice. , Wot In one lnstanoe, nut In many, is this deplorable state of affairs known to exist. Managers of store and or the larg-e sorts of business houses where yotros; women are employed have no hesitation in saying- that the prac tice is common, and on more than one oocaslon the agents of these plague spots have by these same managers been thrown bodily Into the street, after being warned that cold lead would be the sure result of any further attempts to debauch the women working In those establishments. &) - Clamoring- with the expectancy of add- lng American gold to their already large accumulations, heathens sit and deal out I Blips of cheap brown paper with heathen hieroglyphics thereon, which only oncu in a hundred years will win or can win. Theso sons of Asia beat tom-toms to t clay images when all business is over '"for "the day, anil then coOnt the sitver ami gold taken from victims Inveigled lnxo.tlieir games of tli.uuie. Such Is the pottery business carried on in Portland --vjiy day. ... . .Last night the Christian elngws of the Volunteers of AmcfrUa stood at Burn side and Second streets. "KeBcue the perishing," came from a chorus of a score of voices. Just across the street a Chinrnan opened his door and peered into tn murky darkness. Ha said: "Mo resclu, me slave all. Illjr blissness; heap muchy. No amnky ensey e quay, but belly much ticket 'sold. No win allee, but sameo all timee." l'aro for the dying," camo a response from the volunteers. "Afe care allee tlmee. Lottlcry care ellee tlmee. Blisness velly good in Port land." As the Chinaman finished two women passed into his door. They squandered TC cents on two lottery tickets. Todnv they won nothing, and so it goes all down the line. A DEADLY MENACE. Pernicious as the practice of the Chin ese lotteries Is, even when housed so that only a certain class can patronize them, it becomes one of the most menacing- evils a city can endure, when the agents of the. games are allowed to enter the sacred precincts of virtue and re sHctabllity. Ilut it Is done. It is being done every day. Stores and houses and Institutions where young men and women are em ployed are the preys of agents of these , nefarious scheme's.. The workers are- ,, asked to buy ticEets. Any price "will do'. from ten, cents to . Hig returns are THE MAYOR ORDERS A GAMBLING RAID Every Gambling House in the City Was Pulled by the Police Early This Afternoon. Every Chinese lottery In the city Is to be pnt out of business and strenuous days have come for the Portland sporting' men, for today Mayor Williams personally ordered a raid on every gambling- house in the city and saw that his orders were carried out to the letter. . T Chl8f of poUoe aesltatsd not, but at once sent out squads of detectives and policemen to do the work. And the work was done In such a way as Portland has never seen before. The Portland Club on Tifth street, the Gem Club on Sixth, Erlckson's, Blasier's, and scores of the plague spots of Chinatown were raided instanter and men were posted in each to see that no further violations of the law occur. "e Shortly after noon today Police Com missioner Mopre received Instruction from Ofciei.- Mlfeterr. V. "Viose -op ev.-t y .smbllng house in the city. Ho took a squad' of four' policemen and went to the Portland Club and entered the gamb ling rooms. No one was playing and no rrests were made. A trip was then made to the Gem. where the same condi tions prevailed. The North End was then Visited. The news of the proposed visit of the officers had been telephoned, and nothing was doing at any of the places when the officers arrived.' In allof the -principal places an officer was stationed to prevent any further violations of tho law. . Mayor Williams when interviewed this afternoon said: "I became convinced that unlawful Karnes were being conducted In the city -edntrary to" m y instructionis; T " TiaV'e" ordered a close-up of all this form of Vice, and Chief McLauchl&n will see that It is carried out." At police? headquarters the chief said at 2 o'clock todar: "I r"v - v-'k ' - K.fxi.T) MAYOR . .'ORDERS ALL' GAMBLING promised, but they do not come. To prove the assertion, The Journal has Investigated, and is ready to make a statement that &o Chinese lottery Joints flourish in the City of Portland, anil tli.il the agents of these dens are today visit ing the credulous and taking from them money that perchance might better be used for other purposes.. " CLOW TELLS THE STORY.'' Charles ("low employed ut the South ern Pacific shoos Ir East Portland. A Very short ti no ago he worked ' in a large dcpartm-'iu -tre . ft u ..c'f the river. In reviewing the Chinese lot tery situation as it exists, he said this morning: "For nearly a year 1 was employed as .shipping clerk in one of the largest stores in Portland. At least 30 girls had posi tions there. Regularly each noontime an agent loi . Chinese lotteries would vlhlt the sfore and in dimes, quarters and half dollars contributed by girls and men. he would take from the place a neat sum. ONE GIRL'S DOWNFALL. "I know one young girl whose home Is in Albany, Ore. Her name I refuse to give, for I think she has recovered from her full. At any rate, this girl, only IS began buying Chinese tickets. She patron ized the game so freely that her small salary could not support her. Then she resorted to other means, and In company with the agent, whose name Is Roy Se grit, she visited places In the North End. and soon her respectability was gone. Ii all began by an insatiable desire to win money, where none could possibly he gained. HOW AGENTS SEEK THEIR PRKY. "llelng Interested." continued Mr. Clow, "I followed the steps of Segrlt, and fnucd that he and five others were engaged In canvassing department stores alone.. An other gang worked the East Side, and agents were frequent In some of the wholesale places wljere women are en gaged' as stenographers and typewriters. At the Studebaker Company's rei'iosl- gamesters of every description that their graft must cease. That form of vice ders this morning. Whether or not the ! city will regulate the gambling situation under the new charter I will be" here to see. At any rate, r will enforce the law as the public demands." So far every gambling house and lot tery joint has been closed, and instruc tions have been issued that not a card shall be turned, or a ticket written so long as the mayor says no. WHY MAYOR WILLIAMS ACTED. "I have heard rumors, but until I am. able to reorganize the police I cannot act. I believe that the worst form of gaming Is that which pervades private establishments, but I will not condemn until Ivhave absolute proof, and, also the power to amend the-vll. Continuing, tho mayor made the fol lowing statement for publication: ''I am not going to condemn the polica department today, but I will find out definitely whether graft obtains among I the officers of the department. I am 1 PORTLAND. OREGON. BY PORTLAND I tory on Fast Morrison street, an agent ' was thrown Into th" street by Assistant Manager Kim-aid. This was In.t three weeks ago. and so sunn as the fellow had , made known his business Mr. Kineaid reail th.- riot act and told the fellow, whose name Is Taylor, that If he ever ; came Into the establishment aain he Would In- shot " ; - ytxKxr.nvt kixrxxv talk's?' ;" j Mr. Kincatd said this morning: "It is true. T thiew rut a fellow several days ; ago. He came here about noon and b.' j fcuwv .BolU'lliiuf fur. Chinese lottery UiJi ' cts. My nttenttun w;rs called and I es" I coiled the f.iklr to the street." MR. HRANNICK. OF STI'DEHAKKR'S. Manager lira iinick. of the Studebaker j Company, said this morning: "Gambling t in its worst form is apparently the Chi-m-Kr lottery scheme. Agents of these ' dens do not stay at home. They go out on the public highways and Inveigle per i Fotus who would otherwise never know the i meaning of the word gambling. Such In I iiiuity." eontlnu-d Mr. Rrannlek. "Is the ; worst form of 111.' gambling proposition. ! Let the police cut out these Oriental ul I errs, who never can do a minute's good I to any community." SCORES OF THE DENS. Scattered about the city ore from 50 I to 7."i dens where hundreds of dollars are i taken each day in exchange for worth ! less Tottery tickets. 'Loaves of bread, and meat for children are not bought because the father, and perhaps the mother, wishes to risk a , c! ii r.ee. "Out of sal. Hies, sufficient to support homes of comfort, are taken many a dol lar as the days go by. When the rent eumes due. there Is a struggle, and a , thousand evening a's are scant in the I City of Pol l la nd. because, into the eof I fers of aliens have gone the dollars which I should have provided for their wants. I Then comes ba k the cry. "Rescue the . perishing." and Judge llogue says it ' can be done. ! firm In my position that the love of ; gambling should be corrected, and vigor- .- . " v ivo uipj 1 1 JVC" schemes will be eliminated from the City I of Portland. I wish to say that I am j not able at this time to determine how far the police aro corrupt. I know that there are good and honest men in the department. I am diligently trying to find out the good from the bafl, and wheh I do, the maintenance of thv crook ed Swift be an Impossibility. I only de sire1 to know the officer that has taken bribes to Suppress exposures, and his position is worthless to him, "The discipline of the department rests with the chief of police," was suggested to Mayor Williams. "That is true." replied the chief ex ecutive, "but at this time I am nit . I able to.JleU what accusations are based on fact, and those which are not. Tne new charier will , give me power to re organize my whole police department. When the time comes mothers, wives, sis- ters and sweethearts will know the places their loved ones frequent; that is, if there are any places to' seek. SATUB PAY EYENING. 'S MQUITOUS CHINESE LOTTERIES of "it n ; Mrs. Hollister Talks of Her Visit-West Kindly Greetings and Receptions ' All Along the Route From Detroit. Mrs. Lillian M. Hollister. supreme com mander of the Ladles of the Maccabees, came into Portland this morning from the Sound, and leaves Sunday night for her next appointment at Salt l ake. It Is over a year and a half since Mrs Hol lister was last In Portland: then she was busy with convention work, and had only time to take the short drive to the City Park. Her Ideas of Portland scenery are rather ague. but with a whole Sunday to devote this year she ought to be able to curry away a much better Idea. Mrs. Ilollister's trip is to extend over a month two weeks of the tune having already pa-sscd. Beginning in Chicago, where bi candidates were waiting to be initiated, she has held two and some times three meetings a day in our prom inent Western cities. In l.atte there are two hives and these were nady with Ua icpresc'H Hive ladles. A big public meet ing was one of tho features of tills stop. blizzard raged all the. way through the thttWmaitiK'hlid aeinJTefl her IMfceVHat.' In fact she . just reached 'i'aeoma as th candidates were marching into the in Hinting hall. In Helena was another class of HO. Spokane was ready with On. ttie day there winding up with a well at tended reception at the hotel. Seattle's candidates reached 175 ami now Port land Is to have an institute this after noon and a grand installation ceremony this evening. GETS A HEARTY WELCOME. One of the pleasanlist features of , the trip, Mrs. Hollister sas. has been the warm reception given her all along the line. At almost every station I.ady Mac cabhees were ready with a hearty hand shake, a bunch of choice (lowers, or some little gift that promised to add to her comfort or enjoyment. Her collection of souvenir spoons "has grown beyond her fondest hopes. At one prominent point some of the younger members of the order made up a dainty basket of fruit and took down to the train on which she was expected. The porter anxiously asked. "Who Is this Mrs Hollister." and then, evlng tne bn-.k.-t approvingly, of- ' ,. , ,. ..e h found. "Oh, no you don't," they said, and calmly settled down 'to wait the o. ....i, oik,..-, o- t loog or short, until the right train eauie In. And so. as Mrs. Hollister puis u. "With wrecks ahead ami wrei-K- behind." she has reached Portland at la-f. MKS. HOLI.1S l'i:i: ;:N T HI'SIASTIC. She spoke met en! Inslastlenlly of her work. The I ndy Maccabees are the sixth largest fraternity benefit society In America. With hives, they have luT.O'lu members, in Ml of the states, and territories. v .''" r. presents the life benefits and ft.::. ::;. Ilu- sum paid out during the past la year in death and dis ability cerlitiiates often the sum reaches Jl.olni a dav. while last year, ex actly $:i7i.uiu left i!i. treasury for this cause. An average of 3n liivrx a month are or ganized over the country. Three thous and members were taken in last month, and with the present applications on hand, the number this month ought to be at least 4.000. Oregon is not behind with Its 50 hives and l.r,i'i; members. There has been J3H.700 paid in death benefits In this state alone. Portland has 200 mem bers of her own. pno tioally 330, for 75 are to go in tonight. Mrs. Hollister Is not alone. Dr. Ella J. Fielield, the distri. t medical examiner for nine of the Wi stern states, and the state commander of Washington, Mrs. Martha A. Stewart, are of the party. Mrs. Hollister lias another and most Important office whi. li she ably fills, that of treasurer to the National Council of Women. Seventeen organizations of women are represented under this head. Far from finding the constant travel and frequent installations tiring, she calls It her vacation tour. She Joins literary work to her other labors. Just now she Is interested In a new book of parlia mentary law the present rules of order used by the I-a.ly Maccabees Is her work. v, MEXICO'S MONEY. . NEW YORK. Pec. V.. Great Interest Is taken here in the money situations in -Mexico. The government therp Is said to be In favor of adopting the gold stan dard, but the farmers and miners op pose the plan, as they fear wages will Increase if it is put Into execution. STILL FEAR. NEW YORK. Dec. 13.-.Reports from Boston are to the effect that new cases of hoof and mouth disease have come to the attention of cattle Inspectors. There: Is still fear from the epidemic. GRISCOMB GETS ir. WASHINGTON. Dec. 13. There Is lit tle doubt that Lloyd Oriscomb, now min ister to Persia, will be appointed United States minister to Japan, to take the Dlc of Barrett, w.io has declined. DECEMBEK 13, 1902. BEING DEBASED . UPON CERTAIN TERMS THE BRITONS WOULD ARBITRATE 1 ' j . J 1 ', !'! 'I JT ' 4 . i if 1 X I v t 'If''-. , . MBS. LILLIAN mm pti Sees Effort to Test the Monroe Doctrine Has the United Stales Bern Forced to Abandon Policy of j Long Standing. i VALP.Wi.USO, Chile, Dec. 13. Great : Interest is taken here In the Venezuelan situation and the attitude of the 1'nited I States is being watched with Interest. It is realized that the combined attack upon Castro's government by two Euro pean powers Is simply an attempt to force j the hand of Roosevelt and see how far j he Is disposed to permit them to ko with- i out cHlliiiK a halt. It is. In short, an ef- i fort to bend the vaunted Monroe Doc trine to the point of breaking. The future of South America is involved In the out come. Tlilslsproven by the fact that the weak est nation in all the continent was ph k. d upon. Only i olomnia is in point oi. mili tary strength weaker than VcBuzuda. ', and there was reason to believe l.at the I'nited States would not permit-Interference there because of prospects for the Panama Canal. There Is a general feeling at European capitals that sincc'the I'lilte.! States be gan Its policy of expansion and readied into the (irlenf for the Philippines file Monroe Doctrine lias not so firm a hold as befoie. Vhether this is true remains to be seen. Chile has for years pursued the policy of strengthening her navy in order that It mtuht be siifflV'lentiy striifur to protect her coast and prevent a blockade- such as Is now being maintained. To carry out this plan she will shortly make additional appropriations for naval expenditures. Germany and England could not capture and destroy Chilean warships anil peace continue. MENACES BRAZIL. RIO TIK JANEIRO. Dec. 13. --Nothing In -years has stirred South America to the unity of feeling that Is resulting from ! the attack which has been made by Ger- . many and Great Britain upon Venezuela. It has caused a feeling to spring Into existence that a I'nited States of South America shn-nld tnf formed and is the only t actual course that can be pursued to ' give full and freo protection against . T.. ...... r r.uropean nu i'moini' iii. . "i i .iiioj. South America has had only her own petty disputes and grievances to trouble her. She has been under the protec tion of the North Arrvl-m rm-flon and n n PLACES -5 i r i, .j' - - .'. :...flf: .wsVWv;- ' ' .. M. HOLLISTXB. none dared to touch her with Injuring band. Now It Is feared this protection has been withdrawn and that an alliance for mutual protection or the formation of a single nation through the uniting or all the states is the only course left o;ien. ITO NEWS IM BEBLIH. HKKI.IN. Dec. 13. The foreign office has received no news from Venezuela since yesterday. A landing in force Is not considered probable, under any cir eumstanees. hs the naval commanders are authorized to blockade the coast only. Any proposition that Minister Howen nilKht make on behalf of Castro would be received in good spirit out of regard for America, but no proposition for arbitra tion has yet been received. TWO DEAD. POUT WORTH. Dec. J.'l Two men are dead ns the result of a train wreck on the Koek Island road at an early hour this morning, lioth men killed were railway employes. Not a passenger was hurt. A i broken rail was the cause. THE RENAMING OF THE CHIEF OF THE COUNCIL (AN INDIAN STORY.) "Who rules over the Great Council?" asked the Chief of the South tribe, taking a long pull at his Calumet. "O. Chief. I know not," answered Young-Man-Out-WItTi-an-Ax, U he figured the census report of the forty-first war-scalp district. It all happened In the camp of the great party that rules in the Oregon and which was mu upset by the report that politics were "doing" . that no good Injun wot of. 1 1 had rame to pass that the great council, known among the palefaces and the. palehearts of the party as the 'Jaclc Matthews Central Committee," had been without a chief for many moons) and was in imminent danger of disintegration. "Who has the paper, with Johnny-Not-Afraid-of-the-PolItlcal Toma hawk s signature, telling the tribes that he has become an emissary of the Great Father at Washington and has resigned the chairmanship?" asked the chief. Here It Is" repl'ed Young-Man-Out-With-ap-Ax. producing the follow! lug puzzling document, which reads: "I have turned the skin-side inside. And the Inside is turned outside. While the skinside is the outside, Y. -Then the outside is tho inside. , Ti j ... Just you turn the. skin-side. Inside Afterward the outside ins.ae' Then if you have got "close inside.-" You will not be on tho "outside." "What Is that?" asked the Chief, puffing largo clouds of smoke Into the gloomy atmosphere. "That Is a resignation." replied Young-Man-Out-With-an-Ax. "Which side of the Inside of the outside is It written on?" "On tha outside of the inside, either side Is opetative one's a blank and the other s a blankety blank." The Chief smoked on. "Now," pondered the Chief, "tell me why there is srppHcattotr - to- th" -great council that this two-sided warrior be known hereafter as Mah'-Who-Butts-ln-on-01her-Men's-Jobs?" S'rro iv Iw'ii'w h - r.f'i'd to let the Great Council alone and win not tell them that he Ms' or Isn't. He says he Isn't, yet he is and the gatherings of the tribe known as Pikers-Out-Wlth-a-PuW. hold conferences In the oftiee that the Great Father at Washington has said shall "oS f eseTVed tor The use of the plain: Iridtansi the good-Indians,- known as taxpayers." "Enough said." replied the Chief. I will have. a hand at najnltig this . man myself. Hereafter let him go by the cognomen of "Fellow-Who-Is--the-lrnknown - Center - of-Something-and - yet - is-the-Ruler-of-NothlnsT. ."Well, wouldn't that jar your Buffalo Robe." said the Young-Man-Out- , With-an-Ax. as- he walked leisurely PRICE FIVE CENTS. RAIDED Castro Must Post Guar anty of $30,000. Arbiter Shall Have Control Ovef Customs Houses Until Award Is Made Known CASTRO'S SEFX. CARACAS, Dec 13 In replying t the ultimatums of Germany and Qreat Britain President Castro, at the head . of the Tenesuelan government, rejected every term and declared his country was In a position to defend itself and would do so to the very last. There was not one sentence In Castro's reply which could be construed as an acceptance of the terms Imposed by the Anglo-German alliance. BEBLIIT, Deo. 13. It Is officially an nounced here that Venezuela's reply to the German ultimatum la a complete and defiant rejection of every point pro posed. Germany's policy has been out lined. LONDON, Sec. 13. The St. James Oasette learns that England would ac- ferences on the following- terms: Castro to deposit the sum of 930,000 as evidence of his good faith In the mat I ter. thla mm to ha forfaited in the avenS' I negotiations fall through or oome .to naught through fault of his. The arbiter to have oomplete control of the Venesuelan customs houses dur ing the term of arbitration, the proceeds to be held in reserve for the payment of whatever awards are mads. The attitude of Germany la this re gard u not knows. GEXKAjr DEHTAL. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. There 1s comment here on the denial by Germany of orders being given officers in charge of operations oft tho Venesuelan coast to sink the gunboats which were captured. Either the foreign powers have realised that a mistake has been made and seeK to disavow it, or the officers acted with out authority. The German court does not admit the Venezuelan warships have been sunk, This statement may be true, as all reports of the destruction of the ships have been meager. Many Amer ican correspondents have been dispatched! to the scene and within a wee It it la hoped everything worthy of being; given publicity will become known. It la ad mitted here that everything Is foggy now! and there Is much that is not clearly un derstood. There may have been clr cumstances which required that the) Venezuelan gunboats be scuttled. There) is no disposition to Judge this act hastily HEGOTIATIOWS EBDED. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. Aivin Smith T'nited States consul at Port of Spain, Trinidad, cables the state department that the Venezuelan legation there ha been closed. The importance of this dis patch lies in the indication that Vene- zuelu. has broken off diplomatic relations I with tireut Uritain. away. - ft f 'it- mm