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YOU CANNOT AFFOItD TO BE WITHOUT THE V i i GREATEST NEWSPAPER "IN THESE PARTS. SUB'SGRIBEv;:TO THE JOURNAL; WITH THE SUPERB SATURDAY : MACAZINE,, FOR ONE WEEK, ONLY TEN Ci: yoi ii. , no." f8.- POUTLAND, OREGON. TnUKSDAY EVEKIKG.i JULY 2. 1003. PIUCE FIVE CENTS. DAY ."WHEOLLS " " Vff , ' '' , : l. ' ' " f I O Edition pi AUTOMOBI LE RAGE WON BY GERMAN4 AMID. THE GREATEST ENTHUSIASM One Hundred and Sixty Doomed Men Are. m Mines of Hanna With Not the Slightest. Hope or nescue, - . : Women and Children Congre gate About Mouth cf Slope inquiring ior ineir Loved Ones Will Not Leave, sperate Efforts Will Be Made y to Smother the Fires Bodies I n I uiit n r- i i i I necoverea win t$e tmoaimea at Once, ' ii t; 1 , f PS ntompk of Bp Undid Xaefclne Vi4 k.Wiatoa, AmarloM, Za th Ort Xntt national Anto Xom .ln lu la Zrla4 TkU WmL WILL NOT HOLD - JEWISH PETITION (Journal Special Service.) HANNA, Wyo.. Julr J. An official eanvaae of thla bereaved town waa made laat night and ahowa conclusively that mere are now 114 men atlll In the mine. All are undoubtedly dead. Thla number make a total dead of 167. Many bodlee which have been en countered will be broucht to "the aur face aa aoon aa the ajope la cleared, Heroic meaaurea have been taken In confine the Are to a few entries and tSXSfc cTTr o'f :c: President Says.that the Matter other explotlon. Two carload, of VV III Be Attended tO SO bOOn .w..:.w T J l.vniTnu laaie ll 0 lit.. A UV carpenter ahopa of the mlnea hive been turned Into a morrue. AH bodlea .0 far recovered are belnj embalmed. ficenea about the mouth of the slope beifar description. Women ami lIiI'.- dron are frantically looking for their hu.btnds. fathero and brothers. There are at leant 60 women who are fathered near the morgue today who have not left the actne since the fatal explosion waa reported, nearly 48 hours ago. They in i. ' as Proper Addresses have Been Supplied, Does Not f lace Much Faith in ReDort that Czar .Will Not Re ceive the : Important .' Com mumcation, Thousands Gather at Bally spann, Ireland, as Spectators of Great Automobile Races in Progress, Keenest Interest Is Demon strated by. Wealthy Backcs and Riders of- the. Big Ma chinesWeather Fine, THE BONDS OF NEW ROAD SANCTIONED f Journal ' Special 8ervlce.) otbter BAT. N. 'T July Presl dent Roosevelt will fcot dfscuaa the ques tlon of the Jewiah petition Intended to be sent to the Russian government r r 1 11 mii -r r n f 1 relative to the recent massacre vi ocm U.vh. L W ranSTer JUll .. .t Kl.hlnff. It learned from high authority that the Fresident aoes not place much , filth -In - the reports which vesterday were purported to have come from the Car; to -th effect that Russia would 'not consider th petition, neither would ahe consider a like com munlcatlon coming 'from any country seeking to Interfere with the internal affairs of Russia, The President haa answered all quea tlons on the subject by saying, that nothing official had come to this country Miles of Track to C.'ark On July 15, (Journal Special Service.) SALT LAKE. July 2. The stock holders of the San Pedro, Los Angelea V Salt Ik Railway have met and ap proved the form of the trust deed, rati fying the action of the directors in formlnar a bonded debt. The transfer v. v,. - . i , . . - - I U HVll UIO HLQIO l.Hv,,v Bv oi me iirtgon onon .Lain incuii ui S60 miles to Callentes, Nevada, it Is now said, will occur on July IS. The delay la owing to hitch In negotiations be tween Clark and Marriman. ACTRESS MAKES A RICH TRANSACTION oelved some communication from the Russian Government nothing could be said The petition in question Is held simply for a proper address to the Secretarx of State, and when' that la supplied it will be forwarded to the authorities of Russia, regardless ' of reported state ments that It will not be considered. Secretary Hay is responsible for the statement that the affairs of Russia will be handled with great diplomacy aa It a belleved-that- open1 lnterferencer-on the part of the United States with an- r .A. D..U PM r the United States with II nailUdUU VVUinail DUUKIII other country's administration of Its Property for a Song and Sold It for $12,000, - affairs would be a breach of Interna. tional law, and should the same breach be made by another government to this one. It would , not be overlooked for moment. (Journal Special Service.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 2. Lotta, the famous actrees, has sold property lo cated on Turk atreet. for $12,000. This real estate wad purchased by her mother 24 years ago for almost nothing. The old lady, though past 85 years of age, Is atlll hearty. . Lotta. has recenly con solidated her Eastern interests and now holds real property in Boston valued at more than $1, 000,000. ROYALTY WON RICH WAGER ON A RACE OFFICERS SEEKING MURDERER SMITH Biincess of Wales Staked -10.- Jm)00 Sovereigns Today and JE- -Luck CameHer Way, (Journal Special Service.) LONDON. July 2.-rThe Princess of Wales staked 10,000 sovereigns at New market today and won her wager. The race on which royalty was such a heavy bettor was carried off by dubbin's Ard patrick, with Cannon Up. Sheriff "of . Pierce County, Wash., Turns Out Force to Capture Fleeing Criminal. (Journal,-Special Service). TACOMA, Wash., July 2. Sheriff Den noim or fierce county has received, a description of a man named Smith, who killed C. A. Parsons at Centralla on Tuesday night, and. all deputies in the county have been notified to keep a lookout for the murderer. ; When ' last seen, Smith . was running toward the track of the' Gray's arbor .branch line, near Centralla, which runs at that point close to Skookutnchucle River. If Smith crossed the ' river ' hi ' course would ' be toward Tncoma. ; i , ; All of the leading boslness bonces of Portland will be -closed Saturday. Per sons desirous . of . .making , purchases should bear this In mind.. WILL CIRCLE GLOBE BY CABLE MESSEAQE - -1. Journal Special Service.) OTSTER BAT, July 2 Senator Beveridge took luncheon with Presl- , dent JRoosevelt today. Clarence Mackay. -who , was to be i present tele- phoned thaV he could not come on account of the rush of work he had In ' conneotioityith the completion of the Manila cable, and Informed the Prf?l dent that Je Philippine end had ueen landed In Manila Bay. , v Roosevelt, after . cabling Governor Taft . on the Fourth,' will send a -message, girdling the globe, V Clarence Mackay in New Torki City, eon aratulatina him. . ' It !a expected to require four-minutes; Inj tranamls -atom Th afcle-wtre have.-natallo-iiLoeb!-Bcaadinstru -' mtnts are-being placed there Viy.': .,Xr t :,' ;:; !-; f ' Fierce Contest Between Ger many,. France and England . Results in Victory for Former by Close Lead. INDIANA TOWN GETS SOAKING Cloudburst at Early Hour To day Washed Away -Bridges and Destroyed Much Prop erty at Peru, Ind. . ' Gheaatsay, wke rode for the Germans, woa the great . antomobUa race today amid the wildest enthusiasm. D.knyff reaohed the mark first, but Oenati.y re oelved time aliowanoe, beating the r ranchman by 10 mlatntea. The llnlah waa of . the greatest and most latense Interest. When the two leader came to the home mark they were running at a 70-mile pace. When Gtaaati.y r was deolared the efflolal wtnner there waa a great demon stration of the most enthuslaatlo order. The race was 870 miles. The actual time will be figured up late today. Water Was Six Feet Deep In the Streets and Railroad Grades Were Tom Out The Flood Receding, OFPRAUDS EMPLOYED Epplngers Resorted to Use Dummy Grain Weights Further Their Possession Dishonest Gain, of to of Detectives Working On Case at Porto Costa Warehouses Dis cover Such Fraud Devices Hidden Under Couch, Evidences of Double Practices Comine to Light Everv Dav Lead to Belief of Years of Swindle, SAN FRANCISCO. July 2. Develop ments of the most sensational character result from the detective work In stituted In the Eppinger warehouses at Port Costa, and which will ohange the character of the legal status In the Ep pinger case. Dummy weights were found concealed under a couch, by the use of which one would lose and another gain weight. The grain man who used them confessed complicity. There are matters coming to light daily which places the defunct firm In the most disagreeable position. It could not be Imagined that the Epplngers would resort to the many means of fraud that are popping up. It Is be lieved that the Arm has been dishonest for years. BALLTSPANN. Ireland, July 2. Ideal weather and brilliant sunshine and a cool breeie made today perfect for the great.' International automobile race. People gathered at the Dublin Station until . the je was a perfect Jam. Five mousana lougm ior seats, xne nrsi 'tralnload represented every country In the civilised world. By the time the race was under way over half a million spectators at the nearest railway station seven miles from the starting point. Cabmen reaped a harvest, charging as high as $10 a ride.. Hundreds camped about the course all night, being unable to : secure accommodations. The cars started at Intervals of seven minutes. The Start. They - all - obtained a ' good start ex cept Mooers and Wlnton, American rid ers. Mooers got rattled and lost eev eral seeonds trying to start with the brakes all set. The crowd laughed at his worrlment.' Wlnton's mishap was more serious. v Just before, the startle discovered that his carburator was broken and was unable to fix It before he. was officially declared started. With his chauffeur he tinkered with the ma chine, which was drawn, to one side of the : road. During; the repairing four cars wnizsea past, naving compieiea tne first circle. The English steward Bug gested the withdrawal ' of Winton, but the American refused. He finally started amid -great cheering, 40 minutes late. It. Is beyond probabilities that he will come 4 to the front. Some time after the race started the sky became threat ening. The first to fall-by the wayside was Stocks, English, at 'Castle Dermot. He ran-into a wire fence while turning a corner at half speed.. The front wheels of his machine were. smashed but re ports so far say he escaped serious in jury. Following this, came the Intelli gence that Jarrott, also English, met an accident. The first reports said that' he Buffered a . broken kneecap, but this proved to be untrue, aa he was not badly hurt. His car was completely smashed. He' tried to make a 'bad corner too fast and , his 1 car was overturned. Jarrott iid his chauffeur were thrown- to ' the ground and Baron Decarters, who was following, narrowly escaped a collision. The Baron stopped hlscar and assisted Jarrott to rise. The accident occurred near Strandbally. Edge, the holder of the cup, is the only Englishman left In the race. Oerman In the Lead. At 11 o'clock the official timekeeper stated that rough reckoning gave Gen atsy, a German, the lead uy three min utes. ' Genatsy had cleverly pushed past Edge, the Englishman, and . Foxhall Keene, the American sportsman, who is riding for the Germans, -Is' finding favor PERU, Ind.. July 1 A cloudburst oc curred here at 8 o'clock this morning, and all streams were overflowed in a few minutes. In North Peru the flood submerged the railways and six feet of water ran through the streets. In Elmwood, 250 families were either com peted to abandon their homes or are suffering from flooded dwellings. Rafts were hurriedly constructed and utilised by those not given time to remove their effects In other ways. All bridges and culverts on the Lake Erie & Western, between here and Eel River, are washed out, and the water is pouring through the railway cut like a great river. The flood is receding very slowly. The prop erty damage will be great. CANNED SALMON IS WRONGLY ACCUSED ELECTRIC STORM CAUSES DAMAGES Lightning Wrecked Two Houses at Wabash Last Night and Burned Up lelephone Exchange Fixtures, Six Inches of Rain Fe'fOver a LaFge Area and Brough Wreck and Ruin to Grain Standing' in Fiekta FIERCE HEAT IS Climatic Conditions Distressing l hat is rroot of the Super- loray ot xne weamer ot me Pacific Coast, Chicago Residents Struck Down On All Sides by Burning: Rays of Sun Eight Deitrs Before Noon. Dozens of Prostrations Re ported, Many of These Vic tims Being in a Serious Con ditionThe Third Day, (Journal Special Service.) CHICAGO, July I. The thermometer stood at (0 for the third conaecutlve time today and the oppressiveness was al most unbearable. The death list Is In creasing more rapidly than ever before. Yesterday's list of nine deaths and a dosen prostrations will be eclipsed to day. Up to noon eight deaths had been reported and dozens of prostrations, some serious, were also known of. RAILWAY CLERKS WANT MORE WAGES Say a If Demands Are Not Granted Genera! Strike Will Follow at Chicago, County Officials Declare Their . Intention to Probo the Tax, Scandal to the Bottom, De-V snitfl Stfltflrmfint tc Cnnlrnrv Organ of the Tax-Dodgers As- serted that Only In Specific Cases Would Suits Be Filed but This Is Flatly Denied, . Judge Webster States thatEf fort to Recover Will Be Made -in Every Case Where County; Appears to Have Causer ' ." as' a possible winner, on the first round he broke Relnerd for dlotance.- The ' Americans-, are, making a distress ingly poor showing; especially Mooers, who seems booked to cross s tne finish line last. Wlnton is doing fairly well, his gross time for the first round being 13:2!. Subtracting 40. minutes lost. tnkr hte-abt elghtlh-Tr-Gwefl-i-wes passed on-the first round by Qenatxx, Consignment from Portland Put to the Test at Salt Lake Is Found Pure, SALTLAKE, July J. The Salt Lake City Chemist, in response .to a com munication from Portland saying that two curs of embalmed canned salmon had been, shipped here, seised a large consignment and investigated. - Analysis proves the salmon to be perfectly pure and the chemist believes he Is the vic tim of a practical joke. OVERNIGHT ENTRIES Journal's List of Horses and Weights for Tomorrow's Races, SEATTLE, July 2. Tb. erernigat mtrle. for morrow ' men at Th Hetdow track ar. a. follow.: First race, four and on-hlf furlong., idl ing. 4-jer-old aod up: II. . .lOTITheron ... lOTIBaiseiMO , 1071 Montana .....lOOlCut. ..... 10QiU.la.plna 1071 . four and one-half furlong.. ....109 ....10 ....ion ....107 ....107 "1 JContUiued o,a. Second." Page.).' TourUt N.non ....... Noua B Mrthror Judge Napton at. fneiipio. Second race, year-oMs: Geo. Dewey , Midway Annie Marie . Third race, Ore furlong.. and up: King Herald HOIAlta O Jobn H. Carr 1 10! Flgardon Jiora D lOS'Tom Mitchell BloSxlura 102! Saul ot Tartu. Monda 1101 Fourth race, on. mile, 8-jear-olda: JUijr. Voorhle. , . . .110Dlan,antl Ant'rew Ring 10SI Polanlu. .... j'rej'olu. iuzi , Th race, mil. and aiiteenth, selling, 4- r.arj'. and op: ftlm Tfrk lHlDarld 8 ... I lerj Pamoael ..1071 Legal Itaxlat illcknitiob ........ ilUMaJor Hooker Ixmtuater H2!Pouart Tnnti ..11U ... ptxth race, lx furlong., selling 4-mr-oldi and up: . ' lUrendna low Kitty Kelly 107 (HrarTolle.. .1121Tb. Prld. 108 Mountebank 10 Indication.--Weather cloudy, track faat. ; ENGLAND IS FRIENDLY WABASH, July 2. The heaviest electrical rainstorm ever known here occurred last night. The village of Rich Valley la from one to three feet under water, and the Wabash Railway Is practically out of business because of washouts. Two houses were demolished by ligtftnlng and the telephone exchange is not working because Its Instruments were burned out The crop loss will be heavy, as the rainfall was six inches over a large area. CONSTITUTION LOST GAFF IN YACHT RACE Compelled to Leave Course 10 ill i ti . r , a' ivnnuies Aner waning Gun Was Fired, .miMetlakntla 110 -1101P. E. gnaw 118 110 Don. -. 106 aelllng. 8-jear-old. ..102 ..102 ..104 ..110 ..105 ..110 ...111 ...10 ...111 ...114 iBELORAPEt JullKIng Edward Of rngland, replying to the notification of K'ng Peter's ascendancy of the throne. has seat an expression of good, will. , NEWPORT. July 2. The three big cup defender got out to the course early and Joked about for some time beforo the start today. At 12:30 the starting gun boomed and the racers got away well together, the Columbia leading slightly and the Re liance next, the Constitution being short distance to the bad. . ' The first incident was an accident to the Constitution, the strain on the bellying canvas proving too strong for her peak halliards, which parted, allow ing the gaff to spring. Slowly she swung off the course and was taken in tow by the tender Satellite. She headed for Bristol, where she will be repaired at Herreschoff's. The Columbia and Reliance kept well together and the fight for flnar honors was close rind spirited. Each yacht was eovered with a cloud of canvas and raced through the seas at a rate of speed which rapidly lessened the ex panse of water Intervening between her and the goal. STRANGLER'S PLEA THAT OF INSANITY Knapp's- Brother-in-Law Tes tifies that Prisoner Jo Id Him Crazy Talcs, HAMILTON, O., July 2. A brother-in-law of Knapp, the strangler testified this morning that the atrangler Is surely in sane. He says Knapp told him he was offered the mayorship of Hamilton, but that he was too ypyng.jo accept, jie also claimed to be a detective, and with a badge was authorized to arrest any one, TJournal Special Service. CHICAGO, July 1. The -nineteen "lo eals of the recently-formed Railway Clems union have demanded an in crease of from 5 to 26 per cent In wages and a 10-hour day. The clerks sav If mis aemana terminates in a strike they win do joinea oy tne freight handlers ana oiner union employes. ; KAISER llLIAl FEELS INSULTED Thinks that Imputations Re garding His-Inspection of the Kearsarge a Reflection On His Honor, Ambassador Tower WiH AdoI- ogize for Affront as Emperor was buest ot Navy During visit to-amp, BERLIN. July 2. Kaiser William is greatly annoyed at the insinuations In a dispatch from Washington received a few days ago intimating that he had ulterior motives In Inspecting the bat tleship Kearsarge at Kiel. The Em peror thinks it reflects on his personal henor. The Imputation is regarded throughout Germany as an outrage. It is reported that Ambassador Tower will apologize to the Kaiser for the in sult offered him. aa he was a guest of the American Navy while aboard the Kearsarge. ARRESTED FOR LARCENY L. K. Jerome, son of Special Deputy Jerome of the San Francisco Custom House, was arrested here this after noon by Detectives Kerrigan and Snow while in the act of selling eight spools of thread which he had stolen from Breyman St Company. Toung Jerome has been around this city for several days. Last night he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly, but was dis charged this morning. The summer vacation of the Circuit Court judges will Interrupt the legal proceedings Instituted by Multnomah County for the recovery of moneys lost '" through the tax aettlements and com- promises of a former county adminis tration. This does not mean, however. ' that there will be any relaxation In the effort to establish the county's rights. for other suits are in preparation and will be filed in due time. -The county - officials who have the matter In hand ' are emphatic In stating that they Intend to do their utmost to hasten the Invest)- :' gatlon of all the questionable trans- -actions which proved so costly to the . taxpayers of the county. A local morning contemporary, which has been closely Identified with the inter ests of the taxdodgers, haa drawn upon' Itself considerable criticism by the fol lowing statement: ' "In connection with the recent agitation concerning tax compromises. It is stated by persons In authority that It is not the intention of. . county officials to stir up and try to set aside generally compromises or settle ments of old taxes, but only to dispute settlements made after the case had been taken Into court and .legally adjudged In favor of the county. ; A very large number of compro- 1 mlses of old taxes were made for vari ous reasons, probably 2,000, covering -a period of two1 or three years, and tha County Court has no intention of trying to set them aalde, whether the former court acted rightfully or otherwise." It is emphatically declared by county officials that the scope of the present , 7 Investigation is not limited, aa indi cated by the foregoing statement. County Judge I R. Webster, when questioned upon the subject, said in . decided, tones: "No one had any authority to make such a statement In behalf or : the County Board, and It is entirely un founded. We do not propose to. limit- . our Inquiry to those cases where the- , county's claim had been adjudicated. , prior to the settlement with the former County Court. We shall take up every' case where it seems to us tkjn.t the com promise was unwarranted and that the county should have received the amount of its claim. We have brought suit first' , in those cases where the county's claim had been reinforced by Judgment'or de-' , crce, for In thoso cases It seems . mors certain the county should win. But, wo bavena lntemtloTrTf limiting.' otir In- . qulry to such cases. In cases -where, there wav o Judgment for tne county. . we must proceed upon the theory 'that j when the county holds claim for a. valid and subsisting tax. no order of the County Court setting aside the tax is valid. Many of the compromises mada , by the former board were undoubtedly r for rood and legal reasons and will not be disturbed, but wherever we find that these settlements were not Justified, wa shall do our best to recover the sum. due the county." ' COAL BOARD MEETS- , (Journal Special Service.) WILKESBARRE, July 2. The an thracite Conciliation Board met this , morning in secret session. The Schuyl ,, kill District will be the first ona con , idered. FILTH CAUSES. FEVER ' (Journal Special 8ervioe.) TOPEKA. July 2. Typhoid fever has broken out In North Topeka because of bad water. The flooded wells are under- igid quarantine. . WOMEN SHOULD READ THIS) A score "more" of manuscripts, submitted in companion tr , TTia Journal prizes, have been received by the Editor of the Women's Depart- ment and carefully read. Most of the articles deal with the technical makeup of a newspaper and a great many of them suggest methods that have long been in vogue In newspaper offices in other parts of the country. Many contain very original and valuable Ideas and are well' written and interesting. The contest will close on Wednesday of next week and the frige), winners will be announced in The Saturday Journal of July 11. - r The Journal wants tha opinion of the women on the sort of newspaper; that they think would be of moat Interest to readers in genoral and will" reward those who send in ' the best article. The" subject Is. "What Would I Do If I Were Editing a Newspaper4? , All manuscript must be ot 800 words or less and must be, signed by. competitors with full name and address must be given. Names will be withheld If writers desire. , ' 1 -' ' Originality will be considered rather than literary style. 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