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J ' Mi, VOL. II. NO. 155. rOBTLAND, OBEGON, MONDAY -EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7; 1903. PKICE FIVE CENTS. EVELT TALK TO 100,000 PEOPLE AT SYRACU LABOR DAY LZJjri Tonight and Tuesday fair; prob- fe) ' l J ' II A 1 II I M ' '" ' - ?TSSi 3 - aOJ S SE ON: THE NATION'S GOOD Mb us TRIM WORLD Throughout ; the State and United States Craftsmen Join In. Commemorating Toilers' Day of Rest Governor Chamberlain Delivers an Address at Salem - General Participation. im . I THEFTS NO GALA DAY IN OLD STATE OF NEW YORK I SPEECHES TO CROWDS AT HAWTHORNE PARK (Journal Special 8ervl. Byracdse, N.' T Sept. 7. The pres ence of President Roosevelt, the open- Desplte the' threatening clouds large crowds assembled this morning at Haw thorne park and the baseball grounds. lng of the New York state fair and the where Labor day Is being observed with celebration of Labor day combined to- exercises appropriate to the occasion. day to draw to Syracuse one of the largest crowds In the history of tha cjty. The railroad officials estimate that no less than 76,600 visitors had ar-, rived in the city before 1 o'clock this afternoon, the hour at which the presi dent delivered the opening address at Many of tlte business houses did not open their doors this morning and at noon practically all of them were closed. Since there was no parade the celebration has not been so much in evidence as that of last year, but it was participated in by perhaps as many people. Nearly all the union men, their families and many others were on the grounds the greater the state fair. President Roosevelt came to Syracuse part "of the day. from his home at Oyster Bay In the pri- Starting at 10 o'clock Brown's band vate car of President TruesJale of the I Parde1 11 toe PflnclPl streets of the Lackawanna road, and arrived at 8:30 city. discoursing stirring airs and ad--o'clock.' At the station he was met by verUsing the event. Before its tour had the state fair commission and m dttrns" been, completed the streetcar running reception committee. The president was to th Bw,t SWe were ued 10 thelr tul1 capacity: Byjioon Hawthorne park and the adjoining baseball grounds were comfortably filled with pleasure-seekers. The main event this morning was a baseball game between nines from the leatherworkers and the broommakers' unions. Two Addresses. At 1:30 this afternoon. B. . Pague prominent Portland attorney; delivered an address, taking up the subject of unionism as It appears from a business t once driven to the reviewing stand, before Jfhlch soon passed the biggest procession of any kind ever witnessed i-j ' .this city. Former Senator Frank His cock acted as host to the president,' antf luncheon was served at the Hiscock resi dence. Shortly before noon the. chief executive was taken to the state fair grounds by special train, and In the presence of more than 100,000 people he delivered the following address, which LI. l . ,, . , ............... , -ft""' - - .... y me preliminary and professional point of view. He keynote to the coming Campaign: stated that labor had Just as much right in speaking on Labor day at Uie an- to organise as capital, and there was nual fair of the New York Stale Agrt- no doubt that unionism had been the cultural Association, it Is natural to main factor in contributing to the eleva- keep especially in mind tha tWo bodies tlon of the American, worklngman. As who compose the majority of our peo- lon unionism was conducted upon pie and upon whose welfare depends the B?u"2 " T1?"'', T", PrlnCl" , . ' , pies he prophesied that the laboring man welfare of the entire state. If c rcum- wouId t0 advance, and in the stancesareBttchthatthrift.nergy,lndus- ,ame proportion the cltiienshlp of the irj uu iureunu(ni enaoie me rarmer, 1 country to improve. tne tiller or the soil, on the one hand, and Harry Rogers of Multnomah Typo- the wageworker on the other, to keep graphical union' followed with a short themselves, their wives and their chll- address. Mr, Rogers Is a- pleasing dren in reasonable comfort, then the "Peaker and held the close attention of state Is well off. and we can be assured fne a a . w,a",w ""- u .v. , .7 Ism had advanced from an Insignificant that the other classes in the community weakng untu lt nad become one of the : . . , pruBper. un me oinr I mo8t potent organisations in the world. nana, ir mere is in tne long run a lack The time, he said, had come when It or prosperity among the two classes behooved its members to exercise good named, then all other prosperity is sure Judgment and to proceed with caution. to be more seeming than real. It has He cautioned the rank and ftle of unions been our profound srood fortune as a na- " moaeration in tneir aemanas ana tlon that hitherto, disregarding -wtcep' tlonal periods of depression atid the normal and Inevitable fluctuations, there has been on the whole, from the .begin to retain public approval. One of the leading features this after noon was the baseball' game between the ironworkers and woodworkers. Committee la Charge. The committee fnbm the Federated Trades Council having the celebration- In and In the condition Of the man WhO by men: J W Ooles. enrnentera- i.nlnn- w his manual skni and labor supports him- MacClark, gralnhandlers" union; A. R. sen ana his ramus; and endeavors to Lawton, typographical union; M. A. bring up his children o that they may Trummer, tailors' . unions L; D. Reed. nlng. of our government to tha present day, a progressive betterment alike in the condition of the tiller of the soil be at least as well off as and If pos sible better off than he himself has been. There are. of course, exceptions, but as a whole the standard of living j among the farmers of our country has risen f rorn generation to generation. and the wealth represented on the farms plasterers' union; Grant McDonald, preps mens union;- Ed Jones, teamdrivers' Onion; J. B. Lorch, leatherworkers union; Charles Grassman, carpenters union;- H. Q. Parsons, cigarmakers' union; William Heal Is, electrical work ers' union; J. W. Warner, sheet metal workers' union; C. H. Oram, teamdrlv- has steadily increased, while the wages ers' union;' Harry Ourr, bricklayers' of labor have likewise risen, both as re-I union, and J. K. Stanton, retail clerks' garas the actual money paid and as re- union. gards th purchasing power. which that! ThB members of the committee are money represents. ) " tfutt,nS 'forth every effort to make the Side by side with this increase In the r'T'L lne parK JLln" a"ernoon 'ana f.Zr! .n P4 ! did Platform has been erected and all tiller of the soil has gone on a great through that vicinity will.be lighted up. Increase Jn the prosperity among the bv meana ht ChineaA intm RnM" business men and among certain classes orchestra will furnish: the music, of professional men; and the prosperity Showers Spoil Celebration. o mese men n oeen paruy tne cause , The ghowery weather indications this and partly the consequence of the pros-J morning bids fair to spoil the Labor day perity of farmer andwageworker. It celebrations in this city. The car- cannot be too often repeated that In this I pent ers' picnic is scheduled for. Glad- country, in the long run, we all of m P. wmcn m a mne ana a nair tend to go up fr go down together,- If m town, uw .it s not proDabie mat h. -,iik) i. n.i. ! mrg cruwu win cuance a weninB v u - , iur ine nui ui guinif. ine Anirana average farmer and the average business park, and this 4a" nearly a mile from ih .yi- ... , ''.' ; 'V ; -,v.r.r"" :. J, v ' J . .. ..; rx-fZ.; , ut:, - . ; I .'L-i'-iiuisiifciBi i' M,..4.$itt$.xJf ii n ii rtaWiin''' 'i iiiii'"' -"l1fr ' ' PATROLMAN RIDES 0 AIM' A IE Total Stealings of the County Boodlers Will Far Exceed This Sum, and Evidence Has Been Found That the Fraud Began as Far Back as 1898 Penal ties Systematically Stolen. AFFAIRS IN TURKEY NY CONTINUE GLOO COJTSTAHTIHOFI.E A CITT OF XX- PECTAKCT, 1ST WHOSB H ARB OB, WAESHIPS OF STBOHO HTATI0H3 COITSTANTLT FATBOtt : 70 IH STOB SAFETY. man re all alike well off,- It. the aver age shrinks, here' is not oim of these .classes which will not feel the shrink age. Of course, there-are always some men who are not affected' by good times. Just as there arj some man who are not town. In fact jthere-ls no indication that any good-sized crowd will be In town today, x , . Even Prisoners Oct a Holiday. "Archie Ray and all the other prison ers it workont the rookplle were given affected By bad times, .But, . speaking j 'day's rest-by the, county eourt today.' broadly, it is true that if prosperity rcme reiurnea xo nis auues as super conjes, all of us tend to share more or !2ten??nt of th co?r houw. lawn, and less therein, and that if adversity comes ,e ff put t0 tworlt lm"rovta each of-us to a greater or extent The usual holiday rush at the posff xeeis im wiuion. unronunateiy, in office today was notice ole by its ab this world the Innocent frequently find sence. The stream of people at the de themselves obliged to pay some of the livery ' windows was small .and there penalty for the misdeeds of the guilty; and so. If hard times come, whether they be due to our own fault or to our mis fortune, whether they be due to soma burst of speculative frenxy that , has caused a. portion of the business" world to lose its head a loss which no legis lation can possibly supply -or whether they be due to any Jack, of 'wisdom In Uell by the wayside and became-lntoxl' a portion of the world of labor. In each I eated. Chief f Police, Hunt extended - "r - r r-i I mercy to a irge number and released - v---. .-o- " mem 4ulvt mey uau suoerea up were very few visitors at the stamp windows. . n ' 1 . Some Prisoners Keleaaed. Being a legal holiday there wag no session of the police court this morn ing and as a result offenders arrested Saturday afternoon and since, then will have to wait until tomorrow. - - Taking pity on some of those who ConstariTinople, Sept. 7. Beginning with another week, the outlook for tran quility is no better. From Adrlanople come reports that yesterday many in- suits, even ' outrages, were offered to missionaries, N.Q specific case is rn ported, but generalities . express a de plorable 'condition of affairs. It is be lieved that unless- the powers 4nty.o!e, a wholesale massacre of Christian worilets , will result. Particularly are . Ameficans-pslgnaleil out, far - the reason, it Is bCUevd, to draw the government' tn-4ntorcesisio.i in Turkish affairs. . All day yesterday a -quietude pre vailed In fhiB .eastern city,-not com mon. Grim warships "of four nations kept a constant patrol of the harbor. Dispatch boats ran every few minutes between them and the legations "of-their respective goVernments. - In cafes and on street cbrners groups were seen dis cussing only the subject of impending war. ( v From Admiral Cotton. Washington. t. C.,' Bent. 7. A more cheerful light Is shed on the"TjurKlah situation today by the cablegram re ceived this morning from Beirut,, wider date of September- 4. Admiral "Cotton sends 'the following dispatch , to ' the navy department: " r ;;;T"' ; t. "Vice-Consul Magelsscn was shot at but uninjured. The Turkish officials informed the .consul that four men had been arrested on suspicion of being the assailants. I cabled Friday to the American minister at Constantinople, reporting the arrival of my squadron, and he replied that he had nothing to communicate. I have strengthened the American representative's position to the pronounced recognition of ' them. The American consul and vice-cojisul accompanied me in my cable on the Turkish government, and the Turkish general, and were present at their call on the Brooklyn. The. Turkish offlcials were, very cordial. The Turkish ad mlral is here. The , following Turkish warships are here: One small -gunboat and one armored cruiser. The usual courtesies were exchanged. T hnvo pnn. ferred with the consul freely and will There was a genuine bear hunt have conferences with other prominent Sast Portland early this morning American citizens Sunday and Mondaitywm I shall request a full statement in writ ing on, the situation.- The presence of the American squadron inspires with confidence and security all foreigners ana christians. .., - . MOROCCO NATIVES ATTACK A CONVOY (Journal Speofal Service.) Paris, Sept. 7. A dispatch from Mo rocco today says that the French con voy, which wm recently attacked by natives at Klmangus. klorocco, lost 37 killed and 47 wounded. STARVING RUSSIANS - SEEK AID BY FORCE (Journal Special Service.) uaessa, jje.pt. TvAdvlces st Dreaa riots in-. jiorosBan anrtf SgiWtere throughout Persia continue.: ; People are ktiztw relloved. by the Russian consul. RUNAWAY BEAR HAMMEESLEY FOBSAKSS ' EXS HOBS TO STRADDLE A TAME GINWAMOIT WHICH HAD ESCAPED rKOM ITS EAST PORTLAND HOME. The Investigation of the county tax acandal naturally divides Itself Into two branches. One relates to the settle ment or compromise of taxes through the medium of the county court, and the other, has to do with the systematic stealing by deputies In the county's era ploy. So far as the Inquiry Into the acts of the county court Is concerned. interest ncr-centers chiefly In the ques tion whether the recent decision . by Judge Cleland will be confirmed by the supreme court. If affirmed, lt will have the effect of setting aside all the ques tionable settlements In which the coun ty's assets were sacrificed. In the endeavor to fix the responsi bility for the boodling In the county clerk's office. The Journal has thus far unearthed and published the details of six different transactions In which pub lic funds were stolen. The total amount taken In these cases was ap proximately $2,000, but there Is ample reason to believe that this was but a fraction of the entire sum of which the county and the taxpayers were robbed. Petty thievery was carried on for months, if not for years, and the full extent of these peculations will never be known. . . In addition, there are-a number of instances in which the evi dence at hand points strongly to the conclusion that embezzlement was prac ticed on a large scale, and rigid Inves tigation is being made in the effort to learn the truth. . Six Cum of Theft. The six cases of theft, alseady pub lished and the dates when they took place are as follows: Qctober 22. 1900 Payment of J. F. Boothe S 100.00 March 9, 1901 Payment of J. C. Bayer 128.86 April 16. 1901 Payment of Portland Cracker Co. 250.00 April 18. 1901 Payment of Fisher, Thorsen & Co. J50.00 June 15, 1901 Payment of R. W. Wilbur l.OOfl.OO July 16. 1901 Payment of E. Shannon. .Ara't unknown To these must now be added the theft of a tax payment made by J. S. Polhe mus, December 17, 1898. He paid at the county clerk's office the sum Of $44.46, receiving a, receipt apparently regular in every respect. The receipt was written by W. G. Stimpson, and the money never reached the county. The receipt given to Mr. Polhemus bore the number "C 439," but the stub bear ing that number does not correspond in any other respect with the receipt. ' The stub records the payment of 184 on Oc tober 18, 1898. by the Bank of British Columbia, plainly an entirely different transaction. This stub is in uora seng- stake's handwriting. Apparently, when the bank made its payment, the entry was duly made on the stub, but. the receipt was not filled annual Maneuver - OF GERMAN ARMY out. An unnumbered counter, receipt may have been given. Two months) later, when Mr. Polhemus came la td pay his taxes, this same receipt wtiicb? was In the possession of Stimpson or some confederate, was filled, out and de- " llvered without making any stub entry whatever. As the cash book was made up from, the stubs, the payment, of course, did not appear and lt was aa easy matter to pocket the money. . . This case Is interesting as showing that the stealing of tax payments beganr as far back as 1898. It also serves t Illustrate 'the utter lack of checks in the county clerk's office and the ease with which frauds could be accom plished. The law requires the county; auditor to .check up the records -of tha county clerk, but this direction ha been virtually a dead latter. Until the) present Investigation by the expert George Black, there was no scrutiny of the accounts and the boodlers had little fear of detection.. The Case of Shannon. In the case of E. Shannon, noted "a one of the six Instances in which money was appropriated by the boodlers-, the details are not yet known. Shannon owed taxes amounting to 1364.20, and he petitioned the county court to can-, eel them on payment of $126, his plea being that on the alias writ the prop erty was described as block 80 Instead of block 6. East Portland. The petition was granted and taxes to the amount of $238.20 were wiped out The record , show that the property was originally properly described, but that the alias rlt was fraudulently altered by the In sertion of a cipher, thereby making an apparent misdescription. That this wa done' by some one in the county clerk's office there "can be little doubt. That lt was not done for nothing i equally ; probable. But Shannon rafrses to tell what he actually paid, and the amount of the graft in this case Is' as yet un known. .f It will probably come to Ugh later. ' ' ' ' Systematlo Stealing. During the summer and fall of 1901 there was systematic stealing of th penalties on delinquent taxes. The leg islature had passed a law remitting pen- altiea in all cases where payment wa made before a. certain date, but man y . taxpayers failed to avail themselves S this law, and when they called later to pay their taxes the penalties were col-, lected. But Instead of turning these penalties into the county treasury, th ftyptfties who received them in many cases put the money in their ,own pock ets. The sums thus stolen were generally; small, but In the aggregate they amount ed to hundreds of dollars. The task ot running down these petty thefts is nec-v . essarily long and tedious, but lt is like ly to result in the discovery of some, at least, of Stlmpson's confederates. In in ih Patrolman Hammersley won a victory after a spirited contest with bruin. A message wKs sent to the police sta tion that a Cinnamon bear was creating havoc in the, back yard of 420 Grand avenue and theeervlces of the begt marksman Qft,,tis t was desired nt once. Officer Hammersley without fear or trepidation, hastened to the scene of the trouble anit he located brum up a tree. Unmindful of the danger the pa trolman shinned up the tree and tackled the ber among the branches. Bruin was of good size and he objected strenu ously to being taken from his perch. 'l.. ,11.... , V . V A 1 , .1 . mined to tackle. ' When the combatants came together a fierce struggle ensued. The officer hiuig to'hia ptey and in a few minutes bruin lost his hold and copper and bear came tumbling to the earth. Pluckily Ham mersley remained at the post of duty unmlndfur of the solar plelius blows and ducking, right and left swings for tbe head. At last Ilammersley succeeded in mounting the animal and Into bruin's thick: - hide, went the .policeman's Sharp This frightened the. bear1 which immediately made- m rush , for a safe refuge. He" dashed towards the. hoise. (Journal Special Service.) Halle. Sept 7. The annual German war maneuvers began two miles south of here this morning. One hundred thousand men participated. Including hundred squadrons of cavalry and a hundred battalions of artillery. The Kaiser is umpiring and arose at o'clock, and used alternately an auto mobile, and horse, while a captive bal loon was fixed near hint for his ready use. It is reported that during the movements the troops suffered greatly from excessive heat LETTERS FROM ATTORNEY VAUGHN MELBOURNE CRANK HAD TO BE JAILED -(Continued on Page S.J (Journal Special Serviced Melbourne, Sept. 7. .A man believed to be a crank was arrested today he was trying to ga'lo admittance to the palse to see Gov.-Gen. " Tennyson. He had a loaded revolver and resisted arrest, lie will be examined aa to his sanltft . .. ,t. A' r'-' SPANISH MERCHANTS SEEK FREIGHT TRADE (Journal Special SeMce. Madrid. Sept . 7. Commission -wer. chants representing .the chambers of commerce of all . prominent Spanish cities "have gone to,, South America to visit the entire continent in an endeaVor to extend Spanish' trad , FEELS OOVFXSSWT TEAT KB WILL. FREE THE SISTERS ACCUSED OF rorsoimra marttw ju. bowers, AX11 SO WRITES MOTHEB OFTSS ACCUSED. Attorney W. T. 'Vaughn of this city who was sent tSan Francisco by Mrs. Irljah Byars In an effort to clear he daughters. Mrs. Bowers and yrs. Sut ton, accused ' respectively a principal and accomplice In the alleged murder of Martin Bowers, Is still lh Sail Fran cisco and hard at Work. ; ; ' He writes dally and' sometimes ser feral, times a dayto the mother of tha two women . Only cheering message have come from him. He has ever . hope that' he. will eventually free both of the defendants. . ' Two letter were received b. Mrs. Byars, last Saturday and one today from the Portland attorney. The letters re mostly of a personal natur. ' In one ofi " the letters of Saturday he says: : "I am working very hard.on the" carfe, , and tontghtjjiave only about two hour in which te sleep.. I tarn only inhin " td you as W. T. Vaughn, and 'not as your ' attorney, when , I say that I believe that both of your daughters wi)tt be r!rel of the charge whlctriir atnynt t;? -ing over them. I now that -they -mi innocent, and am working hard t f prov-s what I really-believe f b" a fU t," Will Walt fa the Trial. Mr. Vaughn ays Jh.-t he. la -"!':if ' " stay In Saa Frrttiti.ti'o wni ffr i t