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rOHTLAND, OREQfrN. SATURDAY DVENINQ.--NOVEMBER 21. 1003.
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JOURNAL'S POPULARITY
Uniqjte Yet Overwhelmingly Convincing Test of
? the Relative Merits of the Three Newspapers
j . ;K Published in Portland.
GIVEN IN TRIAL OF MALCOLM A. MOODY
Of Seventeen Jurors From all Sections of Oregon
Ten First Saw Indictment in Journal, Five
in Telegram, .6 in Oregonian.
tn the recent trial of Maleoral
Moody there was an Interesting develop
ment which, -while It had no bearing- on
the oaatf itself, was a matter of a great
deal of surprise to many people In tha
large audience.
Aa It waa a federal caae tha Jury
panel w"as made up of men from all
over tha state. In all there were 17
men examined before a Jury in the case
waa aecured. Every one of theae 17
man waa questioned under oath. Each
one was 'asked tn what paper he had
read tha aecount of Mr. Moody's Indict
ment. Ten replied tlrat they had read
of It In Tha Journal. Ave had read of it
In the Telegram and alx In the Ore
gonlan. Four had read of it only In
The Journal of all Portland papers, two
had read It exclusively In the Oregonlan
and only one of the 17 had read it In the
Telegram to tha exclusion of the other
Portland papers. Out of the 17 three
men swore that they read only their
county papers, ao it appeara that out of
the 14 who read any Portland paper 10
of them read The Journal, five of them
tha Telegram and alx Of them the Ore
gonlan.
In order that there may be no mis
take aboHt this The"Journal haa gone to
the trouble to have tha atenographer's
notea transcribed, and herewith glvea
literally tha questlona and answers
bearing on thla point:
Zoa X.ewia, Tlrrt Juror Called.
Judge Flpea Mr. Lewis, have you
heard anything about thla case? A.
Nothing at all except what I have seen
In the newspapers.
Q. Nobody talked to you about It T
A. No.
Q. Tou have read In the newspapers
about HT A. A little, yea.
Q. Do you take the Morning Ore
gonlan and the Evening Telegram of
this cltyT A. I take the Telegram and
The Journal of this city.
Q. Do you read other papers through
out tha state T ' A. No.
O. K. Gable, Second Juror.
Q. Tou have heard me state the case
to Mr. Lewis. Have you heard anything
about HT A. Very little.
Q. Have you read anything about It?
A. Tes, I have read some. 1
Q. What paper did you read? A.
The Oregonlan and The Journal.
Q. Any other - paperaT A. No. I
think not.
Q. Where do you live? A. Colum
bia county St Helena.
2. A. Btinchtleld, Third Juror.'
Q. Where do you live? A. Gil Hani
county.
Q. Have you heard about thla case
or heard it talked about? A. Yes, air.
Q. Have you read about it? A. Yes,
sir; I read about It In Tha Journal, not
In the Oregonlan.
Q. That'a the evening paper here?
A. Yea, sir.
Q. Were there any articlea printed
in your county papers In regard to this
caae? A. Yea. air; I think there were
aome of the articlea that were in The
Journal printed In our county papers,
the Condon Tlmea and Globe.
J, Have you read the Telegram? A.
No, sir.
A. In Ooff. Fourth Juror.
Q. Where do you live? A. I live
pear Oakland, Douglas county.
Q. How long have you lived there?
A. About S3 or 34 years.
Q. Did you know that there waa such
a man in this state as Malcolm A.
Moody before thla Indictment waa found?
A. No. air.
Q. How long have you lived In Ore
gon? A. I have never been out of the
state. ,
Q. Then you were, born In Oregon?
A- Tes, air.
Q. Lived tn Douglas county all the
time? A.. Yea, air. ,
4. Do, you read thtrtgontanfKU
No, air.
Q. What papers do you read? A. Just
the county papara.
Q. What county papera? A. Tha Rose
burg Review.
Q. Do you read the Roseburg Plain
dealer? A. Yes. sir.
Q. Do you subscribe for any of thoae
papera? A. Juat the Review.
Q. Do you read any of the evening
papera of Portland? A. No, sir.
O. Llstrom, Tilth. Juror.
Q. Where do you live? A. Sixteen
miles from Portland.
Q. Have you read about this caae? A.
Yes, slri In the Oregonlan.
M. a. Bdwards, Sixth Juror.
Q. Where do you reside? A At Dun
dee, Yamhill county.
Q. Have you read about this case
since It haa been brought? A. Yea, air,
I read that he was indicted In the Tele-
ram. . ,
Q. Do you read the Oregonlan? A.
No, air.
Q. Do you read any other Portland
papera? A. No. air.
X. B. Troutman, Seventh Juror.
Q. Where do you live? A In Linn
county, close to Albany.
Q. Have you read about thla caae?
A. A very little.
Q. In what paper, the Oregonlan?
A. No. sir. .
Q. Have you read the Portland Jour
nal? A. Yea, sir, 1 have read It some
Q. Have you read your own county
papers? A. No, sir.
SCRAMBLES
UP MOUNTAINS
(Continued on Paga Two.)
COLOMBIA MAKES
GIGANTIC BLUFF
Advices Received at; Washington State That Gen
s era! Reyes of Colombia Will Recommend
War-With United States,
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BY BOYS
School Children Capture
Man Supposed to Have
Chased Girls.
TAKEN TO POLICE COURT
Found to Be a Case of Mistaken
Identity-Thrilling Incident in
Which Principal and Janitor
of School Take Part.
MAN tn
ROASTING
COUNTRYMEN
Thirty-Five Unfortunate Laborers Are
Burned to Death in a Rickety Bunk
House-Others Will Pic;
A Score Who Had Escaped, Attempts to Return
ror iheir Money, and Slash With Knives
Those Trying to Gairi-iSafctyvY--: "
New York, Nov. .21. Miss Annie Peck, the nervy young woman who has
lust returned here, after an unauoceaaful attempt. to aoala (he highest peak In
the Andea, announce that she will try the Himalayas next year. Miss Peek
travels alone except the employment of guides." In her Andes -climbing ad
venture ahe descended 500 feet Into the bottom of an extinct crater In Peru'
and was the first woman to accomplish .the feat.
CHICAGO
STRIKE
NOT YET SETTLED
MATTES XAXQB ZH THB SAXAJTCS
XATLWAY OOMPAWT TAXX,U TO
BBFiT TO tATXST OVXBT0KEB -
EWE WED ACTIVITT EW MXXJnKVKa
cabs voir-xrvzoir KAV beateh.
(Jonraal Bpedal Serrlce.)
Washington, Nov. zi. Advipes re-
eelved from Panama today- tend to show
that the Colombian government la either
making a huge bluff or else la laboring
under misdirected seal In fostering the
Idea that ahe can retake the state of
Panama. '
It la given but In advices that Gen.
Reyes, probably tho greatest soldier In
Colombia, or. maybe South America, in
an interview last night at Colon made
the statement that if htsVisIt to Wash
ington meets with failure, he will rec
ommend that Colombia march, on the
.- new republic and endeavor to retake . it
' even though war to the death haa to be
waged with the United States.
' Gen. Reyes will propose to the state
department at Washington that Panama
re-enter into the Colombia- union and the
removal of the capital of thetatter from
Bogota to the city of Panama. He la
quoted as saying that he does not know
what will ' be the outcome of his visit,
but that in case of failure 100,006 Co
lombian soldiers will begin building
- roads on tha Una of march to the
Isthmus. '" .
Gen. Reyes aaya that hla government
cannot afford to lose the state arid ao
f tntenao is the feeling over Its loss that
a patriotic spirit prevails that cannot
ba swept under by promise or provision.
In the state department here there is
no seriousness attached to the report
that Colombia will engage in war with
the United States. The position of thla
government and that of the great pow
ers of Europe is one of full recogni
tion 51 tne new republic and wishes for
(Jonrnil Special Berries.)
Chicago, Nov. 21. Settlement of the
great car strike still hangs in the bal
ance. The street railway company up
to 3 o'clock this afternoon had failed
to reply to the latest overtures and
Instead renewed their activity in oper
ating their lines. Many of the .police
men guarding the lines have been with
drawn, although all. cars carry some
guards.
Three large torpedoes were discov
ered on the tracks at the Seventy
seventh street barns and a non-union
conductor was beaten Into Insensibility
within a block of these , barns by . two
striking conductors whovwere arrested.
Local unions have been notified by the
Strikers that , notwithstanding all con
ferences the strike la still on.
The . counsel on both sides have ar
ranged for a meeting late. this afternoon.
Attorney Darrow for the-:, strikers .con
siders' that an agreement can be reached
by the committee before midnight.
COMPANY GIVES ITS
EMPLOYES STOCKS
.(Jpnrn.l Special -SerTlce.),,.
Chicago, 'Nov.5 21. Stock worth $7B0,-
000 has been distributed among, the ..em
ployes, of the MoCormlck Harvester
company by a newly-formed- combina
tion to all who .have been In the employ
nf tha MiTiriaTiT: fnr' flv fnn.Aiitf vm
years. The company's treasurer says It
Is not a profit-sharing acheme but a gift
outright.
A man who haa been conducting him
self In an unseemly manner near the
Couch school haa been annoying the
teachers and pupils for a few daya, and
yesterday waa almost caught. In fact,
Hana Knudaon waa apprehended by
Janitor James J. Drlsroll, but the evi
dence produced In court today showed
that he waa not the offender.
KnudsOn waa captured on the North
ern Pacific tracks by a crowd of 100
boys of the Couch school, and at the
head of his pursuers waa marched back
to the school and the patrol-wagon sum
moned. The culprit, who haa been making
himself' obnoxious about the school,
which. Is located on Seventeenth street
between Kearney and Lovejoy, was In
the vicinity about 1 o'clock yeaterday
afternoon. He is said to have followed
three little girls. They became fright
ened and started to run. The atranger
pursued, . keeping' them headed toward
twelver. one nnany got away, ana,
hurrying . back to the school, reported
to her teacher, who in turn notified
Principal Burnham. The principal sent
out the Janitor, and about 100 boys 01
Jhe school Joined the hunt.
For more than a mile the chase contin
ued.
The man was so frightened at the
sight of the determined posse that he
raced through the middle or the streets,
wading to his knees in the mud. Across
lots and over corners he ran until he
neared the railroad 'tracks and the river
about a mile from the achool. Finally
the party came upon Knudson whom
they suppoaed waa the object of the
chase and Janitor Drlacoll, who Is a spe
cial policeman, led Knudaon back to the
school. While the children thought he
waa the man the evidence waa not very
atrong and he was sent to the police station.
Knudson waa violently agitated. He
wept copiously at the police station and
strenuously denied having done any
thing wrong. After Chief of Police Hunt
had Interviewed him tie was sent xo.ine
office of District Attorney Manning.
The district attorney spent consiaer-
able time looking into the caae. He
concluded that Knudson was Innocent
and accordingly released him.
The testimony of the posse showea
that the guilty man wore a gray over
coat, while Knudaon's waa of another
color. Knudson also had no mud on
his shoes or trousers, as the other man
had after racing through the streets,
when arrested, and these facts caused
Mr. Manning to decide that the captors
had made a mistake.
Knudaon was formerly a sailor, waa
well dressed and of genteel appear
ance. He is 31 years of age.
(Jonraal Special Serrlea.)
Altoona, Pa., Nov. 21 A lira horror
seldom equaled occurred 18 miles from
here on the line of the Pennsylvania
railroad thla morning, when 36 laborers
were burned to death in a shanty and 18
others serloualy and fatally Injured.
At the time of the fire the cries of
the perishing could be heard a half
mile from tho acene. Fierce and bloody
fights marked the awful calamity and
probably a half dosen will die from
knife wounds. One hundred and fifty
Italians, employed on section work, oc
cupied a frame bunk houae bealde the
tracka. The building waa long and nar
row and the inhabitants at night occu
pied every available apace.
Hearly All Asleep.
Early this morning before the call for
breakfast had aounded, and w.nle most
of the mon were yet aaleep. Are broke
out In the center of the building, caused
by an overheated stove. Then there
was a mad ruah for the doora. The
means of egreaa were meager and the
frantic men in their endeavor to escape
from death jammed the doora and win
dows to sucban extent that it waa im
possible to gain aafetyi
Those who wera fortunate in gaining
the outside found themselva powerlesf
In their endeavors to extinguish tho
fierce burning blase.
Slashed With Xnlvaa, "
To add to the horror several from the
outalde attempted t6 return for their
money which they had received yester
day ac wages. These wretches drew
knives and slashed at tha frantlo men
who were Jammed In doora and win
dowa. Four men were killed outright
In thla manner.
Finally another crowd formed an at
tacking party, led by an American boss,
who had arrived on the scene, and with,
clubs, stones and knives beat back tha
score or more fiends who, in attempting'
to recover their money, had caused their
countrymen to be burned alive.
The action of the rescuing party came
too late, as the flam, hn ...
compllshed an almoat total destruction
of the shanty.
1 here were but two rionr. tn h
and wedged in these were 20 charred
bodies of the dead and dying.
Th injured were Bent to the hospital
here. The men who fought to re-enter
the burning place were driven to tha
woods and vengeance will overtake them
if the remaining band of Italians art
successful In finding them.
FEARS ENTERTAINED
FOR CLAUS SPRECKELS
San Franc Woo, - Nov. 21. Claua
Spreckles, the aged capitalist, suffered
two mild strokes of paralysis within
the last month and his condition Is at
present cauaing aome alarm In the
family. Col. John D. Spreckles. owner
of the Call, haa been with hla father
moat of the time during the past two
aaya. He is considered the wealthiest
man on the coast, and the bankers Bay
ne carries more ready cash than any
man in tne city. He was born in Ger
many and at one time kept a small
grocery store here.
GRAND RAPIDS HAS
BIG WATER SCANDAL
GYPSIES QUIT
LOWER ALBINA
Following the strict orders of the
police, the gypsies camped in Lower Al
blna pulled up their stakes this morn
ing .and during the day they left their
camp. This was gooa news 10 tne resi
dents of this portion of the city, for the
wanderers have proved a nuisance, while
their camp waa In an extremely filthy
condition. Where they will go is not
known, but they'inquired regarding the
way to Seattle.
UNIDENTIFIED MAY
BE CIIAS. BEGUIER
Charles Beguler Is believed to be the
name of the unidentified man lying at
the morgue, who waS found In the river
laat Sunday. Coroner Flnley haa found
the dead man'a trunk In Snyder's boarding-house
on North Fifth street, and this
nam waa found on It. From other clues
It Is thought he was a cook and came
from Seattle. Hla hat was bought In
Vancouver, B. C.
(Joornsl Siwelal Serrlce.)
Grand Rapids, Mich.. Nor. 21. Seven
teen warrants were issued this morning
in connection with tho city water deal.
Fourteen were aldermen, and former
aldermen were tha other three. Ex
Mayor Perry is accused "of accepting a
$3,000 bribe from State Senator Burns
and former Member of the Board of
Public Service Bissel. The other bribe
takers, the aldermen, were charged with
taking from 13,000 ...to 15,000 each-..
EABOEST XJ2TEB EAgHOBEP. I
v (Journal Special Service.) .
Belfaat. Nov. 21. The new White Star
liner Baltic, the largeat liner in tha
world, was launched today. The vessel
Is 720 feet long arid has a capacity of
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TBAJTSPOBT BBX2TOS BODIES.
(Journal Special Service.)
New York. Nov. 21. The trnnimnrt
Sumner arrived todav from Manila .n
brought among the prominent officers
Generals Davis and Chance, retired, and
162 bodies of soldiers.
COLOMBIA APPEALS.
Bogota, Nov, 21. Pesident Narro-
quin has issued an appeal to the Arnerl
can people, through the Scrlppa Newa
association, which says that Colombia
has been made the victim of unexpected
aggression and is in danger of losing the
best part of its territory.. The Ameri
can government which was always held
to be Its beat ally, haa prevented with
marines- the subjugation of the traitors.
It was an open violation of the treaty
with America, and he is aura the people
will not permit this thing to remain to
mar the glorious traditions in order to
obtain by force what Colombia waswlll-
ing to grant through equitable ways.
He appeals to the national conscience of
the Americans, and In closing aays that
no . matter what action the Washington
government may take, the possession
of the property by the Americans will
be held to be a violation of the treaty. .
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TEXT OF GOVERNOR'S CALL
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Salem, Or., Nov. 21.-rGovernor Chamberlain today called for a special session of the legislature. The
following -Is the text of the call:
"I, George E. Chamberlain, by virtue of the authority in me vested aa governor of the state of Oregon,
do hereby direct the convening of the two houses of the legislative assembly of the state of Oregon in special 4
session at the state capitol, In Salem, on Monday, the 21st day of December, 1903. at 10 ociock a. m. or
said day, for the purpose of meeting the objections made by the supreme court to, and curing defects in,
an act entitled 'An act to provide a more efficient method for the assessment and collection of taxes, and to 4
amend sections 3057. 3060, 8082, 3084, 8085, 3090, 3098, 3106, 3107, 3112, 8ll and 8120 of Bellinger and Cotton's
annotated codes and statutes of Oregon,' passed by the legislative assembly of the state of Oregon at its
twenty-second regular session In 1908;
"All who shall at the time hereinbefore named be entitled to act as members of said legislative as- 4
sembly are hereby required to take notice. . 4,
' "Given under my hand and the great seal of the state of Oregon at the capltol in Salem, this 21st day
of November. D. 1903."
The governor also issued a, .writ, of special election for; the , Ninth and Nineteenth senatorial districts
to elect successors, to Senators Fulton and ,'vVUllamson. The special election -will be held in Clatsop county!'
the Nineteenth district, and Klamath," Lake, Crook arid Grant counties, of the Ninth district, Wednesday,
December le, 1903, to fill the unexpired terms. No special ejection Is called for Beaton , county to succeed
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GREAT MERGER IS
1 TO BE DISSOLVED
A Matter of National Importance. Announced by
James . Hill Northern Sureties Company
Will Surrender All Rights But One, : '
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(JnarVal Special Serrlce.)
Philadelphia, Nov. 21. Great surprise
was occasioned here today over what is
termed a matter of national importance,
James J. Hill, president of the Northern
Securities company, announces that the
merger of the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific railroads la dissolved
These roads will be operated in the near
future by independent officers.
The Philadelphia Record prints today
the following, complied from an inter
view with Mr. Hill, who was in the city
yesterday and last night:
"From an authority close to Mr. Hill.
it was learned that on the advice of
counsel It had ben decided to surrender
every right granted under the New Jer
sey corporation . law to the Northern
Securities company, excepting that of
purchasing auoh securities as the management-may
see fit to obtain from an
investment viewpoint.
"The right to vote the stock in the
Great Northern, tho Northern .: Pacific
and the Chicago," Burlington & Quinry
railway is to be renounced, as Is also
th right of the Securities concern to
have any voice Id the management ' Of
those railroads. The Securities com
pany Is to declare before the Federal
supreme court that each of those .big
railroads la to be 'continued under sep
arate managements,, there la to be no
community of interests agreement be'
tween them; In fact, they are to be
maintained as separate companies, and
each to have, individual management
and offices as before the merger under
the Securities company charter, which
was obtained in New Jersey on Novom
ber 10. 1901.
"The meaning to this la, according to
one of the attorneys for the Securities
company, that the Judgment of the rlr
cult court of appeals of April 3 last, de
claring the merger, void, is honored by
the company, and it merely desires to
have the supreme court pronounce It
lawful corporation, in that all possible :
objections alleged to conflict with th
United States anti-trust law have been
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PRISON MUTINEERS
ARE UP FOR MURDER
(Jgrnl Special Service.)' . ,
T .avsnwnrth Kan.. Nav. 51 Ht'teli
mutineers from the federar penitentiary
were taken" to Topeka. today to aland
trial for tho murder of. Guard WaMrtie.
Haven accomolicea were . recently trls-1
and sentenced for life. -