.-v - ml tun vunu' . This ' aft.rsoos '4 tlM. ikmm twlHi Tutr, partly e!.dyi nittuit ta Berth. wind. . . ,. . , i. 1 J v VOL. II. NO. 35. 'A i ; n ; iC 'POBTiyi), qbeg6n., MONPAY, eveig, apkil 20; 1903.. T ft -1 P journal Mil PBICE FIVE CENTS. JUGGLERY WITH COUNTY Piiiiiiiuii s ASSETS " iyi AECES TAXPAYERS UNEASY COURT FAVORS. MERGER Trust Permitted To Pay Dividends; Despite Former Order. Decree Against Combine Amended Jby U S. Judge AND SWIFT IS CUP DEFENDER, YACHT: RELIANCE Action Not Final But Taken Pending An Expected Appeal (Journal Special Service) IT, PAVL, April 80-Tbs TTnlted tat Court of Appeals has modified the iter against th Vorthm Paciflo Merger and now p.rmlts th Seearitlse Company to pay dividends on It stock la May. Th news had a marked effect oa tooka oa Wall street. Th decision oraatad a great nrprlae. 1 1 1 I i ST. PAUL. April 20. Judy. Sanborn of the United States Court of Appeals, after heaving argument, ruled that th Northern Securities might pay May dividends- May 1, holding that the Federal Court by injunction prevented the ilerger from voting stock of the North ern tactile The Great Northern has a sufficient Bold on the concern. It la held that the injunction against the dividend was auxiliary and could be modified by the Court. The -decree permits th. stockholders of the Northern Securities to exchange its mock for the stock of railways for which It was issued. If the UupSeme Court affirms thla decree the stock holders In the Securities Company can make an exchange and draw dividends from the companies. If the Supreme Court reverse the decree, the parties can draw from the Securities Company. Retention of dividends by the railway companies while the appeal Is pending would not enhance or speed the enforce ment of any legal right of the United States, while it might Inflict unneces sary loss and Injury upon stockholders who are Justly entitled to receive these dividends as soon as earned. Immediately after the decision the Northern Securities Company filed an appeal, and following an order of the court, gave bonds of 160,000. Every point made by the railway attorneys was ustained.- Judg-e Explains. Judge 8anbyva,ji-n)ateil his position at length. HeWrf the defendants had not street tne court to suspend the en tire Injunction, but only- the portion Which restrained the payment of divi dends pending an appeal, Inasmuch such dividends do not belong to the United States, which brought suit. "The purpose of the goverrfVent was to eniorce tne law against an illegal oomoinatton in restraint of trade. Dur Inr lha iunnaiuv r9 th. . i eminent Is protected by that portion of w injunction wmcn forbids acquisition or young or any stock of these two rail way companies. The appeal In this case Will probably be determined by the 8u preme Court about November. It la not perceived how the retention r payment or dividends during the pend ancy of the appeal can Injuriously affect any right of. the United States in this litigation, and the only question la whe ther the dividends shall be piled up In the treasuries of the railway companies r paid the stockholders to whom they legally belong, and who must ultimately receive them, which ever way the final decision In the case may be. Effect la Wall Street. NSW TORK. April 20. Securities Stock Jumped from H to 19 tmmedl- Hly when news of the St. Paul suspen- 'on of injunction permitting Msy dlvl- nHsl was nnnnunxurl Wall m nw surprised. : . - ' :;Vx ; -.-i:' ,. ,' . 'V.-;.viM,- v.- ' . . w -v ' 7.--.'- !". v ::r mi . i i 'ml , " k. MiM 'iv ; ?rt mv.'-. r- -.v - ---'.: A za 7-' ' 5t e?K v y-fr-r:,.7 7-7 -.i;K SEVEN DEAD IN WRECK Trains Pile Up Causing Frightful Disaster vi in NewYork, " IJIore Than a Score Are Seriously Injured in Collision. ! i No prettier yacht was ever launched In A me r loan waters than tlie' new cup defprntef. Reliance. r Her builders and the men who are to. operate the yacht In the races for the America's au?. are confident that she is the swift est thing that ever toyed with the wind and sped over water to be -victor in a race. . ' r.;;'-7- Sir: Thomas ' Llpton may succeed In his ambition to gain the-America's cup, but New 'York, yachtsmen who have studied the new defender are as confident in the merits of the Reliance as they were two years ago In those of the Columbia, ' Vi-M? ' ; . . .... . t',fH;rj.. . , . , . Passenger Crashed Into Rear End of Freight Train. NUT 1(115 ms opinions Manufacturer Again At tacks Unionism. (Journal Special Service.) INDIANAPOLIS. April 20. President Parry Of the Manufacturers' Association, arrived . here yesterday, lie says: "We do not propose to have the United States placed In the clutches of the- dreary, obstinate and vicious sort of trades union Um which has England by the throat. Hanna certainly made a true expression when he said the trades unionists of this country need Ameri canising. "The movement in this country to day." continued Parry, "is in the hands of foreigners of strong Socialistic and anarchistic tendencies, and their lead ers are doing everything in their power to start a rebellion against the United States government." "11" Bill Notorious Imposter Is Nabbed in London. (Journal Special Service.) LONDON, April 20. The self-styled "Prince Athrobold Stuart de Modena," who on December 17 last married former Countess Russell, was today arrested charged with assuming a false name. His real name, the police allege. Is William Brown. He created a furore when he first arrived In London, and was considered a - great matrimonial catch. He lived with his' bride twelve days and then disappeared. 1 10 I No Excuse Given Men by Coal Operators. . LAD WES III FLAME. , V.. ' i .. - (Journal Special Service.) SAN FRANCISCO, April 20. Albert Foster, a nine-year-old boy. was-burned to death last night. He took matches to bed with him to play with, and the fatality resulted. LEATHER STRIKE OVER. S0UBREIIE MbSUiG. (Journal Special Service.) SAN FRANCISCO, April 20. The great strike of the leather workers of California has come to a conclusion after more than a year of fighting. The work ers secured an additional raise in wages. STRANGE RELIGIOUS FRENZY OF OLSON Claiming to be possessed of the spirit of Ood, John Peter Olson, one of Rev. A, Ik Wilson's Pentecostal converts, ran shouting through the streets of Alblna for more than an hour yesterday evening. The man kept up his strange demonstrations until weariness of the flesh deprived aim of power to continue. Several hundred people witnessed the man's strange behavior. . J When Olson became exhausted and retired, i Rev. Wilson harangued the crowd, declaring him to be possessed of the Holy Spirit and claim ing the event as a direct manifestation of Divine WilL JJti ring Rev. Wil son's remarks, Olson, gasping and trembling, stood- by and continued to shout at intervals. s--'r - - John Peter Olson Is a Swede laborer who several weeks ago became a convert, but not until yesterday did religious frensytnake Itself" fully manifest. Rev. Wilson is a well known Portland evangelist. He- belongs to no denomination, simply speaking in the interests of Christianity, preaching the second coming of Christ and eternal "fire for the wicked. He is conducting services at the Pentecostal Mimion In Alblna and It was In front of this that yesterday's demonstration' occurred. J . During the period of his strange alleged association with the spirit world Olson rah about from place to place, pawing, the' earth like a wild animal; tossing his. arms; shouting unintelligible words; frothing at the mouth, and tearing his hair. Perspiration rolled from him in tiny streams. No etort was made to restrain htm. . .. ..v. 7.. (Journal Special Service.) SAN FRANCISCO, April 20: Miss Claudia Rodgers. the pretty and dashing souhrette with the Republio Theatre, has disappeared and neither her mother nor the theatre management know of her Whereabouts. - Miss Rodgers has met with great suc cess during the last few years, and she would be a. great loss ' o the theatrical profession. She was formerly connected with. Fisher's Theatre, and when the Republio Theatre was opened . and the management was bringing together strong cast, Miss Rodgers was picked from a large number or applicants. CRAMPS EMBARRASSED. (Journal Special Service.) MAHONING CITY. Pa., April 20. As a sequel to the refu.mil of the men to work nine hours on Saturday last a lockout was Inaugurated this mornlni and threatens to develop Into another general anthracite coal strike. Thirty thousand men and boys are Idle today as a result of the new order, which went lnfb effect this morning. The mines involved are those of the Philadelphia & Reading. - No explanation accompanied theorder. The men were simply told "There is no work for-you." And with this they were forced to be content. (Journal Special Service.) NEW YORK. April 20. Seven lives were crushed out ami more than a score of persons were seriously Injured In a train smashup on the lirle road this morning near Kedhouse. A passenger train running at full speed crashed Into the rear end of a freight train. The freight had been de layed In making a siding and It Is said that the usual slgnnlH were not dis played lrl time to warn the oncoming passenger train of Its danger. The disaster occurred at I o'clock this morning, and the engineer could not see the obstacle In the path of the train un til he found his locomotive plowing Its. way through the freight. The cars were piled up In an Inde scribable mass of wood and Iron. Many of . the passengers were pinioned In the wreckage and died before surgical aid could reach them. .Two sleeping cars caught fire and sev eral of the passengers were burned alive In the cars. Tax Certificates Given Away in Ex change" for Paper Known To Be , Absolutely Worthless. " Over $7,000 of the County's Assets Sacrificed in One Transaction with-; .-. out Receiving Any Consideration. Extraordinary Illustration of the Meth-: ods Which Prevailed in the Board of Commissioners. BARREL MYSTERY PARTLY SOLVED Victim Is Identified as a Resident of Buffalo. ' ' (Journal Special Service.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 20. The famous shipbuilding firm of Cramp & 8on - was recently near to bankruptcy. The- house was involved in a fight with the newly formed trust, and In this contest were worsted. Finances were forthcoming, however, and the firm has been reorganised. GOOD FOR KANSAS. (Journal Special Service.) TOPEKA. Kan.. April JO. If the State Board of Agriculture's predictions as contained in its report today come true. aM records for' s wheat crop will be eclipsed. The heaviest acreage ever planted In the state Is due Jhls year. ROYALTY IS NERVOUS. PARIS. April 10 A dispatch from Servia today says the bodyguard of the Royal Palace at Belgrade ha been strongly re-lnforced as 4k coup de main is feared. J S. P. GETS CONTRACT; SAN ' FRANCISCO, April ' ; 20. The Southern Pacific has secured the contract for the. transportation of uroope fey-rail over a number of oompetlng lines. - CONVICTS FIGHT FATAL DU& (Journal Special Service.) SALT LAKE. April 20. 1C. W. Ham llton and Will Brown, convicts in the Utah state prinon. fought a. battle to the death inside the penitentiary walls this morning. One was armed with an iron bar and the other with a knife. Hamll ton was stabbed In the side and Brown's head was spilt open. Both will die. SILVER MINE IN MARYLAND (Journal Special Service.) CUMBERLAND, Md.. April 20. While workmen were opening fireclay banks sliver In considerable quantities was unearthed here. Assays which have been made declare the mineral to be a rich vein. The mine is In the heart of the coal regions. GLASGOW FAVORS FRANCE (Journal Special Service.) GLASGOW. April The Chamber of Commerce this morning adopted enthus iastic resolutions favoring a' Commercial treaty of peace between Great Britain and France. This action is significant as indicating the pronouncedf change in public sentiment towurd France. PASSENGER DIES SUDDENLY (Journal Special Service.) DUN8MUIR. April 20 N. Nebricht a passenger on the Oregon Express, left the train at this point yesterday' and disappeared. His dead body was subse quently! found In the rlver.Thsrs is no clue to the. manner of hls death, ' ' HOWARD CROSS-EXAMINED. -. ' .. V ;w ' . Journal Special Service) -FRANKFORT. Ky.. April 20. Howard was 'cross-examined this morning, i but nothing was discovered beyond what he bad slrsadjr told. ' ... . -;.'"7r" (Journal Special Service.) NEW YORK. April 20 The mystery connected with the finding of an un known man. murdered, In a barrel on a business street of this city last week Is pnrtly cleared up. The victim has been Identified, but the police are still at a loss to account for the tragedy or to name the crlmlnnl. This morning Inspector McCloskey an nounced that the victim had been iden tified as Manduenla Benedltto, of Buf falo, N. Y. The remains were fully Identified by the man's brother-in-law. He was aged 43 years. He was married and his wife had been at a loss to account for his disappearance. How he got to New York and why, and the manner of his death are as deep mysteries as ever. The victim's brother-in-law Is serving time In Sing Sing for counterfeiting. An Italian detective went to the prison yesterday and showed him a photograph of the murdered man, which was In stantly recognized by the convict. ADVANCE ENTRIES AT OAKLAND OAKLAND RACK TRACK. April 20. The orer-nlgbt atrle. for tomorrow's race. .r. follow ; Flrt r.oe. Futurity t'ourae, tellliif, maiden I-j-nr-oldn: Wl Turrlsao KW14S7 Mow 10S Wi Tbe Owl 115 44X7 MoroVnte 10S KMX) Tawm 114M4 Maud Muller .. Wt M79 W'lulfred W .. 99 1 4ft 11 Vounu Marlow.112 51W Br.uuu 1U 4242 fhllaerauH KM 4.(0 Theodore L ...1O4 4I20 SumiMoa P loa 4024 Alu U Iltii367 Kelu del T...H'4 4424 Medwan 112! Sherry loe ijecond race, half mile, purw, 2-jear-olda: 4330 Will t4! Louis Ue 101 4023 8t. tteorse. Jr.U2 45M Lilible Candid. 41o4 4U1T Forvat Hre ..1U1'40U6 Toltvc 104 !. lr. Howell . . . . 1 12 4!k7 ( apt. Foraee ..107 ('. Max net loi ;Kiz Lour Laurl. ,.H 4S Ouasw UU-I 1OH 4017 Strlre. 109 4S92 8. U frank ,.10lt423 Soflta 104 Third race, one nille, Belling: 422 YelW)Wtone.. .107'4Jo8 Mlasloa 104 IVi.ttijy Muntia 109 1o3 4."iM2 I'lrate Maid 107 10.T4.V.' Hoadatroiif ...".103 10S'4IB!U Kondo 109 10,4()O4 Melkartb 103 101) 4026 K.ilrnCor tf l2;4tU2 Albert Knrifht.lua Fourth rare, three quurteri, handicap: 4007 E. M. Brattalo. 97 4664 The Major 92 462S Assie Mx ... 02 4.'o Sad Sam lot Headwater llW 42a Kemiwurth 122 1025 Moeufito K6 4340 Urruuu Kom...1o4 4!9 Hoal Kogue ..106:4621 Tb. Kretter ...103 Fifth rac. thirteen alxteentu., aelllnft: -i 4620 Bvroota 1134610 Fatado ..109 tuw 0v. Dewey.... 1U9 4AM8 sir ..liia 4620 Windward . . . 1 1 !-. I Maxim ..luS 4612 Nuzst Ill 4iz ttukin Hill ....113 4023 Pat Morrimy.llT4Wtl M. F. Tarpy..lutt 4Mil uu C!lewdra.l';4usc imnn w inn 4589 6. W. TraBrn.l03i Baawnat loM 462T Spindle 1US4378 Ln FUh.rmaa.lll Sixth twee, sails sad MnDty yard. selUng: 4614 Tlaooa 10 Ira. 91 4614 Sloping Child. 1"2 53 Salver 86 4S1T Uontau. P .... 96 427 Ada H ........102 4613 Kan Lutioo ..i 97;4iT Mnlesaa 90 4664 Uudaoa ) Lodeatar lul lctUoa WeaUM' etoody, track faat . . , 4AU8 llalustta 4867 Bob iUuor 4589 Kalul'f 4610 H.iutwr ... 4671 Urand 8 . 4589 Alloxan ... 4622 Wllaa . The publication In these columns on Saturday of a summary of, the report of the expert who has been Investigat ing the books of the County Clerk's office, was necessarily incomplete. Nu merous cases were then presented lllus trative of the extraordinary mlsman agement of the county's affairs diglng the six years covered by the expert's report, but many transactions noted by him were omitted. One of these was so remarkable that It deserves the at tention of every taxpayer In the county. Already the taxpayers are growing un easy over the disclosures. Ample evidence has already been pre sented to show that the'eounty's assets were recklessly sacrificed In the settle ments of delinquent taxes, but all of these transactions are cast In the shade by tht action of the County Commis sioners In June. 1901, recorded In vol ume 22 of their journal, page I6. The Commiasloaers first entered into an agreement to exchange about $4,000 of tax sale eertinostea, owned by tke county, for aa equal amount of war rants waloh wore known to bs abso lutely worthless and had been declared Invalid by decree of court. And then, as If this were not bad enough, aa addi tional $3,000 of tax sals sertifloatee wars surrendered to tke holds ef tne worth lees warrants, in 'excess of the amount originally agreed upon, and without any consideration waatever. Gave Away County's Assets. There Is nothing in the records or In the expert's report to indicate that the slightest fraud or imposition was prac ticed upon the commissioners in this truly remarkable transaction. On the contrary the worthless character of the warrants was set forth In the very pe tition upon which the action of the Board was based. The Commissioners simply gave away $4,000 of tax salo certificates standing In the name of Multnomah County In exchange for a lot of waste paper, and then in a second upasm of generosity added $3,000 more of certificates to their original sift. Inasmuch as the county had pre viously expended over 9M0O to estab lish the la validity of these warrants, the total loss to the taxpayers by the whole transaction was over $8,000. History of the Case. The details of this case are given briefly In the expert s report. During the year ls4 the then County Clerk issued about $6,000 of rood warrants based on forged time checks. The forgeries were discovered, one of the men implicated was sent to the state penitentiary for five years, and by de cree of the Circuit Court entered Feb ruary 16, 1897, the warrants were de clared Invalid. This decree was the result of a suit brought by A. H. Maegley to enjoin pay ment of the warrants, the county having entered Into a contract with him whereby he was to receive payments equivalent to $0 per .cent of all the forged warrants which he caused to be jiu (rendered, or adjudged Invalid. The Circuit Court declared that these war rants to the amount of $4,068.75 were Invalid, and Maegley was accordingly Jl.2lJ.12. That appeared to end the matter. The county had been swindled into Issuing the warrants upon forged time checks, but at an expense of twelve hundred dollars the warrants had been Judicially declared void, and those of the tax payers who paid any attention to the matter doubtless supposed that it was closed. Worthless Warrants Beappear. But. the warrants, though thus pro nounced Invalid, were still outstanding; -and after a lapse of four years the holder presented a petition to the Coun ty Commissioners asking that he bs ' permitted to unload his worthless seourl ties upon the oounty, and that the scanty . give him In exchange aa equal amount. . dollar for dollar, of tax sals oerttltoaUS which It owned. - The motto of (he Commissioners la dealing with all petitioners was appar ently, "Ask and ye shall receive." Tbs petition was granted and an order wss entered directing that tax certificates ' to the amount of $4,062.74 be assigned to the petitioner, upon surrender of the warrants. The certificates were to bs . assigned at their face value, without the addition of any penalties. But when It came to carrying the or der into effect, even Its liberal terms were exceeded. Tax sale certificates to the amount of $7,218.42. or $1.14.7 In excess of the amount agreed upon, and 1 in excess of the warrants surrendered, were generously turned over to the ps- ' tit loner. This transaction was consummated during the term of office of W. ML Oaks, , as County Judge, and William Bnowers ' and 3. Ch Mack, as County Commission . ers. Multnomah County acquired by1 the exchange a lot of waste paper, whicn could not have been unloaded en an other buyer In the country. . , ,f;,rt laTlnor Irregularities. . - The expert notes as a minor feature of this case the fact that soma of the tax certificates turned over by the oounty were for taxes for 189$ and lttt, which Included tbe city levy and should not have been applied on any Indebtedness of the county, but this was Ignored by ths officials. The expert observes In the concluding portion of his report that, "Section 81811 of Bellinger St Cotton's Cods provide, for the redemption of property bought in by counties at tax sales, but no provis ion is made for the assignment of cer tificates. This matter was referred 19 special counsel, who rendered an opin ion that the law did not provide for ths assignment of certificates by the eounty. ' but that they were Jo be held subject ti redemption." The expert found that' In a number of cases certificates of sals owned by Multnomah County had been assigned for less than their face value. In soma cases, where taxes were delinquent for. prior years, the certificates of sals' were assigned, thereby barring the county"! claim for such prior years' taxes. , ax nxa xa onr a xsomnorai Officials Importuned Taxpayers. In summarising In Saturday's Issus oC ; . The Journal the expert's report upon the , methods that prevailed In the settlement -of delinquent taxes, mention should -have been made of his statement that ' ' "It Is generally known that taxpayers were importuned by officials with a wlsw to filing petitions and having taxes as duoed sa snggeeted or oonooetad trreg ... ularitles of assessment or sals, for s . . consideration. Also that petitions were drawn by officials In this office, a'pra. tlce which. It Is needless to say, ought to be prohibited." v The expert's report gives many IUus' tratlons of the looseness with - whlaa the books and records of the county " have been kept, and ho notes one strik ing instance whereby the omission of cipher In the assessment roll of 18tt the assessment of the Portland Railway ; Company dropped from $0,000, the val uation of the previous year, to- $8,000, ' '" mistake of $54,000 against the oounty. Carelessness and laxity la alerlcal ' work are a natural concomitant of th r prodigal wastefulness which marksd th 'v conduct of the county's business, TIRED OF LIFE AN AGED MAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Tired of life, with, its cares and irou' Us. Caspnr Ucnkle, an cseJ man. Jumped 0 feet from the steel bridge on Burnslde street into the Icy waters of the Willamette at 8:80 o'clock this morn ing. Only the gallant efforts of Walter Matthewson, second mate of the steamer Vulcan, and Richard L. Wilson, a deck hand, intervened to pluck him from the laws of death. Even as the brave men lifted his almost lifeless' form from a watery grave HenkJe begged, pitifully to be permitted to die. . He muttered that he was tired of life, and his one desire was death. When being pulled forth from the water he did his best to break away from his rescuers, .His head was Injured by contact with a floating plank In the river. - . - -v,-. After placing the wouia-b suicide on a barge st the Atnsworth tf.cn-. where fas was partially resuscitated by th efforts of his rescuers, he was removed to th police station in th patrol wtfon xA . physician was summoned. It was over an hour, however, before Assistant City ,: Physician Slocum arrived to lend assist ance to the sufferer, and only through , the persistent and determined work ot th station officers wss th spark of lif - kept up until medical aid oould be 4 ministered. . 7 ; : v, :,-!r -.ft i- iA7:: Whil th officers wars working rr his form the man kept moaning;, Iet me diet let me die!" All effort to bti his nam wore, fruitless, snd it was vt -dent that be intended keeping it secret, as not a scrap of paper et any deserts- tlon was found upon his person to iden tify him. ; j.i;w ' -.-: In th event of his death It Is W hy th- officers at th police station that It could largely be attributed to the fxct that for more than an hour he lay t'i a bare, bench in the city Jail. s-'""- x ; great pain from th cold and wt has two sons living on th 1 iti t . i