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GOOD EVENING. . . . ... The Weather! .. : ' . v Tonight and Thursday,-occasional . . ' raift; southerly winds. : The Circulation of Tho Journal Yesterday Wns 14,215 9 s VOL. II. NO. 313. PORTLAND, OltJSGQy, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 9. 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IES HUNDREDS OF MILITIAMEN r HMCiMJbLD 1013 ' i . 1 ..... '. ' " . : ;.'.,'. .1: . :. , . 1 I ' BLACK 1 PROSPECT Springfield, Ohio, Mob Is Not Awed by 900 Soldiers. MANY HOUSES BURNED Judge Regards Mob Action as Direct . Affront and Will Summon Special . Grand Jury to Take Action Against Mob Leaders: (Journal Special Service.) Springfield. O., March 9 "The rest ,of the nigger dlvea ara going the aama j way thoaa did laat night," la heard on I every hand today. - All morning tha crowds that have been active for tha paat two days were gathering and, de--1 spite the presence ot nearly 1,000 mili tiamen, tha leading spirits of tha throng 'were not backward In expressing their 'intention of finishing tho destruction of tha negro quarter.. Of the 6,000 negroes who live in the city, but few ara seen,' Hundreds have (led- from tha city, leaving their pos aesalona behind, and those that remain have barricaded . their houses, armed themaelvea and wait for tha night'a de velopments, resolved to light If need be. Judge Mower atated thla morning that . a special grand Jury would - ba called immediately to prosecute the lynchers who ahot murderer Dixon In tha jailyard Monday" night. Tha judge takes tha action of tha mob as a personal blow and an evidence that the past adminis tration of Justice has not been suffi ciently strong to meet popular demands, and Is almost prostrated. Every Indication is that, despite the large number of mllltla here, tha night will bring forth startling developments. The mob la aa determined aa ever, and has now found bold leaders to push tha war agalnat tha negro quarter. A con flict between the aoldiers and tha cltl aens will doubtless add to the city's disturbed condition, with perhaps -serious results If tha mob persists in Its determinatlon-to deatroy all- traces -of the negro quarter. In response to threats made by ne groes that they would retaliate for the 'killing Of Murderer Dixon by dynamit ing the business blocks of ' the city, a mob of many hundred white men last night fired the negro quarter and ' de ' stroyed 20 small buildings. , t . During the afternoon the crowd gath ered, aa it had the day before, to pre- - pare for the revenging of the murder of Officer Collins; and the ' 'threat was frequently heard that the negroes who wanted to fire and blow up the city should be taught a lesson by their own methods. Learning of the crowd's de termination tha mayor, with tha sher iff, county attorney, and others, held a conference during the afternoon and de cided to ask militia aid of the gover nor. In response to a telegram Governor Herrlck telegraphed that six companies would be sent at once, - 'About 11:30 last night ; the 14 crowd gathered before the saloon owned by "Lea", Thomas In the center of tha ne gro quarter, and fired volley after vol ley Into tha building. Soon after names shot up from the rear of tha saloon and tha entire .negro row, which waa com posed of smalt wooden shacks, was quickly In flames. .The fire burned ua--cont rolled until an early : . hour thla morning, the crowd of 2.000 men keeping back the firemen from their work of 'rescue, but standing ready -to aid should the flames leave the path of shacks and imperil, any of the business blocks. ( At 6 o'clock this morning the mllltla companies began to arrive and the crowd : dispersed, apparently satisfied with ita night'a .work.; .The only : evidences of. riot that greeted the incoming soldiers were tha burned shacka and tha long, 'charred line of ruins along the railroad 'tracks.,. Tha crowd of mora than 2,000 ' cltlsens dispersed before daybreak and not a soul waa on the streets when the soldiers arrived. During the intense ex citement and wild acta of two nights not a person has been injured, so far aa known, except tha murderer, Dixon, who waa nhot in tha Jail yard Monday - night After two nights of stirring activity and ceaseless watching the policemen of the city and tha two local militia com panies are worn out and the advent of the six companies aent by tha governor was welcomed moat heartily by theae sleepy guards, who' for 49 hours have 'tried to subdue thousands of maddened men. . XXa VDWAXD APPXAXS. .' . (Journal HpecUl Sertlee.) ' . Tendon, March 9. King Edward, ac companied by the queen, attended tha Hunter society ahow in Agricultural hall today. The royal pair received en ovation. , It waa, t,he king's first appearance since liia severe attack, of the grip.-, ,. '..L . ; V-,,; fcf BEirr JtTJSBIAH AITKOWT. v.':, Washington, March 9 -War depart- merit Uim mm w y, that permission has been refused byf, Russia to hnvo Amrican military at Urlits tvltli the .army.. ft "lib THE RUSSIAN CRUISER President of Mormons Ad mits Sealing for Eter nity Was Done , " (Journal Special Bervle.) v Washington, March " . President Smith waa called to the witness stand again thla morning and questioned about an Interview .in -the DeseretNews . of December t, 1S02, In (whlch ha is quoted as advocating the election of Smoot to tha senate. He admitted the accuracy of the report. :. Ha. was examined, as.-to Benjamin Clough . Jr., president .of the faculty of tha Brlgham Toung academy, and admitted that Clou Kb. waa a polyg amlat, but said he did not know his wives. Smoot Is a trustee of the acad emy. 'When asked whether he had' seen statements published . that Abraham Cannon had married Lillian Hamlin as late as 1896, Smith said he paid no at tention to that charge.; because it had come from a newspaper viciously bitter toward the church. v - j From- the same source -he had .seen tha statement in which. Cannon claimed ha was entitled to take Lillian Hamlin as a plural wife because ahe was be trothed to "his dead brother. He had seen tha statement printed that Apostle George Teasdale took a plural wife since 190. As head of, tha church he had not felt called upon to investigate, it being the duty of the- bishops to -investigate the moral character of. offi cial members of the church. ... Senator Dubois asked whether Lillian , Hamlin had. a child named Cannon and whether aha claimed for that child a share of the Cannon estate, and tha witness said it could not be proven by hlm The chairman asked If the sealing for eternity had ever - been performed , be tween two living mortals. Smith said ha had heard of such instances.. When asked whether ha had received revelations since he became president that were sustained by the church. Smith said no man could receive revelations at will; he had the Impression of , the spirit upon hia mind many times. . Senator Hoar aaked . how he recon ciled his statement that It was not sup poaable an officer of the church would perform plural marriages with the fact. that some of these are still living with plural wives. Smith said: v v K "We have . felt that not only public opinion, but the state construction of general conditions in Utah would more or leas justify us In pursuing the course we did in regard to plural marriages, and I don t believe any of our officers would violate that sacrament. ' I think I will say now ' that putting questions that ern to Imply in a atrong sense the incon sistency, and delusion of religious faith of the wltnesa must not be taken to Im ply my opinion, one way or the other as to the relation or that faith to the right of the people who, hold It to send one of their number to the United States senate, provided such' a person has tfbt violated the law himself or associated with an organization whose purpose is to violate it." ; . " . Washington. March t. After the testi mony given b'y Mrs.'Kennedy and, Mr. Worthtngton the senate committee on privileges and elections, that .la prying into the true status of Mormonlsm, yes terday 'afternoon took , the teatimony of V. M. Lyman. . Lyman is the preai- 'Ifiit of the twelve apostles ymd In di rect line of succession "to the place .(Continued on raja Twp.) -CUf MINED TO WIPE; ml i i, i -, - ,, .i,- j , , i, THE; v 5 Z THAT WON DISTINCTION ' BY HOW JAPANESE-AND RUSSIAN FORCES ARE NOW ARRAYED Latest Dispatches Reviewed Reports of Honday Attack on fort Arthur Seem;Gm Land Forces' Being ; Concentrated and ; Battle ; with ..Advancing Japanese Hosts ' Is Imminent . (Spteiat Dispatch to The Journil) London. March . As gathered, from fragmentary - dispatches that ara per mitted to pass tha military censor in the far east, tha. present - situation at the seat of , war -is: Japan's naval .opera tions appear to be centered In an at tempt to deatroy the Russian Vladivos tok squadron (If thla has not . already been done as is claimed In Toklo), while at the same time keeping tha csar's Port Arthur fleet .."bottled" up In the Liao Tung harbor. Catting oft the Vladivts tok squadron from its home .port waa tha result of clever strategy on 'f the part Of Toklo tacticians, who deceived the enemy into the belief that all the Japanese -ships; were operating ' oft ' the western coaat of' Korea. Considering himself in no danger, the Russian Com mander put, out of the Siberian harbor for his' second cruise along the- coast of Japan , In. search of .prises. .''While one Japanese squadron, by making a wide, detour, .got between the Russian ships and their 'home port,- another. Is said to be'hurrylng northwardito either destroy themu or . dTTye. them into, the first squadron, which - Is , waiting, at the entrance of Ussuri bay, near Vladi vostok. Thus hemmed In by two num erically stronger squadrons, tha Russian Ships seem- doomed to, destruction. ? The RUSSIANS NEED '' ROAD THEMSELVES (Bpeelal Dispatch to The Jonrnsl.) . . " San Francisco, March " .-Trahi-Slbe-rian railway offlcials have, iaued a notice to . the public that . owing' to the war between Russia and Japan' that part of the road between Irkutsk in Siberia and Dalny' and Port Arthur, In Manchuria, haa been closed to - all but military trains. The International Sleeping Car company of Paris, which operates the paaaenger traina over the road, has is sued a similar notice. . Jules Clerfayt, general agent-of both companies on this coaat. Is in receipt of copies of these two notices. They are signed by T. W., Bedfern of 'Paris, one of the leading operating offlcials of the two companies. ... :v : . Irkutsk is. on -the western shore of Lake Baikal. Between the latter point 4 Look Out Fo tvvfff fttvtv vvv(tttt ttHWtntttttt H DASH OF THE NOVIIi. ..." V a!. Ya.h,-,u DARTING PROM PORT ARTHUR TO ENGAGE FIFTEEN JAPANESE WAR VESSELS. four cruisers of the Vladivostok squad ron the Rosslay, tha Gromobot, tha Rurik and the Bogatyr are among the finest in tha czar's navy, and their losa would ba an irreparable disaster. Tha Japanese : warships now, oft Vladivostok are. believed to be those. under the com mand of Rear Admiral Urlu, which de-; stroyed the Russian cruiser Varies; and the gunboat . Korleta .. at Chemulpo on the outbreak of the war. - J Japan's, preparations, for Viand cam paign ' are nearly completed. -All troopa senti to the western coast of Korea have debarked and . the .'first division -has-reached Ping Tang. - The others are Ad vancing as. rapldly'as bad. rqads and in clement weather - conditions will , per mit.' Meanwhile-the .landing of troopa on the eastern Korean ceast-In contin uing and these: are preceding westward., through almost, Impenetrable mountain defiles., to; effect a Juncture', with tha western army atPing. ,Yang.-. The two forces, are believed to-aggregate in -the neighborhood of 120.000 men. When all shall have reached their xendesvous at, Ping. Yang. a. general .advance, will "be ordered.! -Tokio. advices state that the combined forces, are expected to arrive at the-Yalu, 'river by March 16 ' .'Northwestern KoreaIs overrun1 by Cossacks. ..who have. been, busying them selves -with tha destruction of bridges) and Moscow and St.? Petersburg, 'Mr. Clerfayt is instructed to accept "freight and passengers as usual. - It is. his un derstanding1 that (between , the points mentioned Russian military trains1 ara not seriously, interfering with ' regular travel. - ;,- "xvssxajto ruirxzo. - Washington.; , March' 9.t-Navy, ' Chee Foo advices state that a large Japanese land force has, "Arrived at ,Fung Wang Chang and Taan..',, The points are so lo cated that It is1' believed the Japs ara on the Russian flank; and the naval at tack on, Port Arthur was merely di version' to attract Attention. , ; ' ITOftZVa XJT TBOUBIJI. INrlln. March 9. The Lokal Anielger asserts that Russia has refused permis sion to America to send- military attaches with the Russian forces in the field, while free permission to tne continental powers haa, been given. IT IS proposed to make THE SUNDAY JOURNAL, the publication , of which begins Sunday morning, r March 20, something different from anything here; tofore Jcnown in Portland; Beside the most noted con tributors in the United States, it will have its own leased .wire to get the livest, latest and best telegraphic and cable service that the world of news affords. Itvmit: Will Be OUT THE : ,j ,,,,. n t vt,v v ,W"M', ( 1 ' V. V-K. .n .W ...... W .I" ,: jo,. "-T"- nil-'- iiiiiIiiii and telegraph lines to obstruct the Jap anese advance. However, the Russians have shown, no disposition to make a atand, their outposts falling back atead tly before the Japanese. All heavy for tifying" by 'the' Russians" is being done oh the west bank of the. Yalu; and' It Is probable ,-that the "river will mark the line of serious resistance to the Japan ese. , The Russian army intrenched on the Yalu numbers probably 80,000 men. - Of the land operations In other direc tions much is left to conjecture.- The debarking of the Japanese troops south of New Chwang, withthe Intention of capturing - that ' town: and - advancing southward on the Ltao Tung penlnaula, for a land investment .of Port Arthur, has been vreported from various sources and probably; with truth. ' The-Japanese force that landed at Posslet Bay,. far up on the eastern coaat of Korea, was only a small, one, and its -object Is yet in doubt. - Russia is also landing'' troops on the northern" coast to protect 'that flank of .her army' on; the. Yalu. '-;It tis probable ' tlwt ; after disposing, ofl tho Russian VJadlvoatok squadron the Jap anese will begin a, la if d and-sea attack upon Vlkdivostok. 'Slmviltaneously' with the' investment of Port Arthur, while tb'eir : Korean .army atteropta "wrest the frontlea".fronu.the .foe. and. to across the Yalu for an invasion of Manchuria. AFFIRM REPORTiOF " : A. RECENT-BATTLE J London, March; 9.-r-A:. Toklo; dispatch reiterates the belief that the Japanese squadron has met' the Russian cruisers In the vlclnlty of, PolsettSi Bay. and gave battle, the result of which Is not made known. The purpose of the Japan ese ships in proceeding to Vladivostok Is not to bombard the town, but to lo cate Reltzenstein's ships, which are thought to have left the harbor. The Japanese squadron Is sufficiently strong to divide, one portion guarding the har bor and the other seeking , the Rus sians, , ."i (. .;'. rLAvs to rurAirozs. : Toklo, March 9. The elder statesmen will meet tomorrow to discuss financial ways and means to prosecute the war. : I t a- Worth While 1 1 112 1 t ttt 1 1 1 1 1 1 NEGRO QUARTER '( inn i' ' in 1 . 1 1 I in , W Hi. hi' - I mi . ' 1 1. ' : : . BWHfiJP It )' Leading Georgia States man Openly Supports ,the Journalist. : . (Special Dispstch to The JonrntL) Atlanta, Oa., March 9.Thomaa E. Watson, the historian,, who represented a Georgia district in congress, but who haa retired to private life, made public yesterday an pn letter In whjchhe sets forth athe . reasons why, If f he were In public life," he would support Congress man William Randolph Hearst for the presidency, -: ; ' ' This development Is in the nature of a great surprise and tha pollticlana are-in-tensely 'interested, for it waa thought that Mr.- Watson could not be tempted from the retirement in-which his fam ous works on, Napoleon and Thomas Jef ferson1 were prepared, -r - His popularity extends throughout the country, . Mr. Watson's letter. begins: - . ' :,; "Editor Atlanta News: , Were I In politics, I. should heartily ' approve and support -the candidacy of William Ran dolph Hearst because 'he haa. been for many years exerting all. the power of his millions aud his mental energy In favor of the principles of Jeffersonian Demooraey. ; , . , "I would support Mr. Hearst because be la a sound leader Inspired by the old spirit ot equal' rights to all and special privileges v to, none; because he favors the rights of the many, rather than the greed' of the few; because -ha 'does not represent sectionalism of any sort, but stands for tha common people of the en tire republic. ' . ,),.,, . - '. v Baa Ihowm AbUity. - "I would support him because he is young enough to ' cherish - a generous enthusiasm tor the publio-good t the same -time that be has demonstrated a capacity to suceed In the most trying affairs of practical life. "I would support Mm because hie wears no. man's collar and because he Is not the craven tool of any ring, syn dicate, corporation, trust or interest. "I would support him because he haa brains enongh to realise what this re public needs and pluck enough to do bat tle for his convictions. "A Democrat who knows what Democ racy is and ia loyal enough to atand by it la this day of decadence, I would give him the aid of my entire strength, be lieving that I would thus be doing tha highest publio service.". . ' 1 , .' JL Valued Opinio a. '.. . In commenting upon the above utter ance, the News saya in the same Issue: The Hon. Thomas E. Watson . is no longer a politician. No temptation ef office, no plea of the public haa been suf ficient to draw him from his brilliant and honorable retirement to engage in the personal ambltiona of politics. Ha haa made fame. He hoe achieved for tune by his brains and labor and he is today by general consent looked upon as. without a superior' among the think-j era and patriots of the state. . : j "But whether In retirement or In ao-i tlve service Tom Watson is still the great tribune of the common people of j Georgia. They- trust him and follow i him aa they do no other man, and Tom j Watson, the philosopher,, the scholar in! politics, the patriot In retirement, view-! line ail measures ami ail men from the j tranquility of unsririahneKS and repose, j sends tlm.'tigh the - news a mrtiw to Mils FOP.HEARST MAHHEV8 mm Old time Doss of Mitchell' Machine Reappears in' the Political Arena. ; CALL FOR CONVENTION! Republican Delegates W ill Assemble oa Saturday, March 19 Both the , Mitchell and Simon Men ' ' " . Claiming Victory. . Judge Carey doubtless intended his words to be taken In a Pickwickian, sense when he made the published state ment yesterday morning in the Ore-;- gonian that "Mr. W. F. Matthewa Is not a member ot the managing committee or of the Republican city and county central, committee, has never met with it and has nothing, - directly or indl- . racily,", to do with the management 'of the campaign." ' : Certainly f the statement cannot be taken literally, for If Jack Matthews had nothing to do with the campaign. Judge Carey would not have thought It neces sary to . spend all . of , last, evening In consultation with him, at Matthews' of fice in the poetofflce building, bafore is suing the call for the Republican county convention. . Such. a conference waa held and It waa attended by Charles A. Burk-, hard and other . active workers of the Mitchell faction, and It waa almost 11 o'clock when Judge Carey' final) ji left the building. When taken in a Pickwickian aense it . is easy to reconcile with the facta Judge Carey's assertion that "the attempt to drag hia (Matthewa') name into this campaign is utterly unwarranted" and that Matthews has "retired, from active connection with the politics of the , county." '.' ' , ; ?.-:? Sodglaf a Bugaboo. , Judge Carey explaina to the publio that 'the many hundred Republicans who have visited the Republican head quartera at 220. Sherlock building dar ing the campaign ara able to testify that Mr. Matthews has never been present there and that-he has taken no part in ; the contest now before our people." The cloud of witnesses thus summoned will be able to give the desired testimony i with a; clear conscience', for Ja.-k"Mat-thewa visits , have been to room 321. , Judge Carey's private office, which ad Jolna room 220, but enjoys a separate entranc from the hall. Those who have seen' Jack Matthewa in room 221 are "able to testify" that he has been (here. .': v The Mitchell managers 1 have been, keenly alive to the inadvlsabillty of al lowing the hand of Jack Matthewa to Lb seen in the manipulation of the cam-' paign. and therefore he haa been obliged to refrain from gathering with the faith ful in the outer office of the headquar ters. But. iff the mountain .could not come to Mahomet, Mahomet could go to the mountain, and it haa been eaay for the Mitchell leaders to attend the- nightly meetings in the office of Jack Matthews . in the poetofflce building. There the work of tha campaign haa been largely carried on. There the last conference was held before Issuing the call for the Republican county conven-' tion. which is made public today. Jack Matthewa. has been nominally deposed from his high position aa boss of Multnomah county and Judge Carey has been proclaimed aa tha manager-tn-chlef f the Mitchell campaign. But though the hand Is the hand of Carey, the voice bears a strange resemblance to the voice of Matthews. ., Apportionment Tlxed. The call for the Republican county convention, Issued after last night's con ference at Jack Matthewa' office, fixea Saturday. March 19, as tha date when it will meet. , It will be composed of 129 delegates, apportioned upon the basis ef one delegate for each,, 75 votes cast for Furnish In 1902 and one additional . delegate for each fraction of SS or over. Under this apportionment the west side of the city will have 50 delegates, the east side 41 and tha 'country pre-' cincts 37. ' ? ."' As the primaries will be held Wednes day of next week and the convention on Saturday, the interval between them Is very short . Nearly a month will elapse between tha primaries and the - Demo cratic, convention, which Is to be held, April 14.'" '.v i, r Bome of Simons adherents describe the apportionment ' of delegates an nounced by the central committee as a gerrymander, and It was,- of course. framed with a view to increasing the chances of victory for the Mitchell fac tion. Simon Republicans Insist, how ever, that they will win at the pri maries. They rxpcot to curry r"t majority uf the prerlmtM or t!,e -"t sldo of tha river, hut they .!!! t r it they have h nun fi harder P.-.-nt on I r,. east Slile. . They V, hn-it t ! ,1 1. (. Will capture, etmu'i !'!" m I t eost nml from t1." "niii'iy '- them, wit'i wfc'it thev it- t '-ii aide, h f--i !',. rn.ileifiM' I" I' :. .Mi.-!n-:i ' ii)l.iir. t ('.' ' C).Tli..( r, i.'l ir'--l! I'..)!' l '