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PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH .20, 1904.
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General
REVIEW 1
JJelieves Conflict Will Be
Long Cut Russia Is
Sure to
CEN. ALEX1EFF IS WISE
Recalls Valorous Deeds of Men' Who
Now Are at Head of Russia's '
Army Praises Cossack: .
- - - vp Cavalry Dash.
Copyriffht Hearst If ews Service.
By
Leased Wire to Ths Journal.
wrlt-
tan by Paul VUliers.
Paris,- March 19. General Voyron.
member of the council of war of France
who was commander in chief of the
French troops during the war with
: China, has expressed his views of the
vuiuiuo ui uia cvuu-i auanene war.
"I place the responsibility, for the
war in the far east on the Japanese peo
ple," he said, "and sincerely regret the
. fact that these two powers,- who a few
years ago were fighting side by side
in China, have not been able to settle
their differences in a successful man
ner. , ." .. . .,. . ,
"The war could undoubtedly have been
.avoided If Japan. less tolerant had
naked France to act as a friendly ar
bitrator, France's double position as
ancient military Instructor of the Japa
nese and ally of Russia would have
enabled our government to render a
Just decision. , '
"It Is most difficult to predict the du
ration the war. As a friend of Ru
tin I am happy to know that the damage
clone to the Russian ships at Port Ar
thur by-the unjust attack of the Japa
nese has been repaired, 'and sincerely
hope that . the two squadrons of the
Russian navy may succeed in uniting.
"On land also it is necessary that the
Russian forces become one good unit,
obeying the commands of one chief." It
; will then. I think, be comparatively easy
to drive the Japanese out of Korea. ' i
, AlexlelTs Move Is "VTise. v
"I consider the move- of Admiral Al
ex left in making Harbin the. headquar
ters of the Russian forces a very wise
one, as this will aid in the concentration
of the troops, j The Cossacks will prove
themselves very dangerous to the Japa
nese and should be able to destroy the
lines of communication, i
"I know personally how the Japanese
must dread these rough riders, which
filled them with admiration by their dar
ing feats of horsemanship during, the
war In China.
"The war may last a long time, but I
have not the slightest doubt that In the
'end the Japanese will have serious cause
to regret having tackled the Russian
"bear. '
"I wish to call your attention to this
little list of acts carried out with sue
cess by the men whose tiames are now
prominent as Russian leaders. From
this "you will see very plainly that the
Japanese hate no novice in the-art of
vwar to contend witn.
. - . Makaroff Is burUnguished. ;
"Admiral Makaroff, whose strong per
sonality made itself felt every moment
he guarded in Port Arthur, is 66 years
of a s:e.
"lie distinguished himself greatly dur
ina the war with Turkey In 1878 and
for his bravery was presented with
golden sword by Ciar Alexander ill.
who shortly afterward made, him his
Ide de caraD,
"Later he fought under General
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WILL INVESTIGATE
JUDGE BROWN'S ACTS
. . .
: (Washington Bureau of The Journal.)
, Washington, March 19. -Mel- :
villa' C. Brown, United States dls-
. trict judge for the lirst division
district of Alaska, has requested'
v the department of Justice to make -
an early investigation of the
charges which hava been filed -
against him. r-
. The department will send a spe-
iai agent to Alaska as ' soon
as practicable to make the lnves-
' tlgatlon. At the present time -
O the department has no agent
4 availaDle for this duty, but ex-!
pecta within a montn to detail
either' Special Agent Finch , or
Langnam. ' ' .
The charges against Judge
' Brown are not regarded as serl-,,
ous by the department of Justice,
- but an Investigation will be made
in Justice to tne accused,' whose
-- friends are of the opinion that;
' the' charges ' are made- for the
purpose of defeating .his reap-
pointment and because he has
'ueen severe on- the gambling ele-
'. ment In his district.
KAISER I!
criticise;
Blamed From All Sides
for His Acts Which Dis
please Reichstag. r
.C-L.Jj - i.t V:-'4 4-:'-
Copyright Hearst Hews rvlce. By
leased wire to -The Journal.
- (By Malcolm Clark.) 1 .
Berlin, March 19. It. has been a win
ter full of excitement for the Kaiser,
and even if his health were as good as
it is offlcally stated to be, he would
have every reason to take a temporary
vacation.' His every act, no matter of
what nature, has been criticised to the
very limits of tne strength of all Ger
man laws. ..'
From one side he has been accused of
fostering ill-feeling between Germany
and Russia, from . another of making
Germany "perform bootblack service for
the csar." " . 1
Officers of noble blood have criti
cised him tor stopping their practice of
terrorizing privates and non-commissioned
officers and showing all-feeling
against officers of lower extraction.
Officers of less noble blood have ac
cused him of showing a too-marked
preference for aristocratic names and
for the men, staff and officers In the
general service and have only shown and
have sahly. what they think of his
many crnthges in their uniform.
But the Reichstag has given him the
hardest blow, which could not be parried
because there is no law to gag the
members of that body, who take full
advantage of their liberty of speech.
Hauled Over the Coals.
Emperor William 'will not soon for
get how he was hauled over the coals
during last week by a member of the
Reichstag, Dr. Mueller, who accused
(Continued on Page Seven.)
PEN
SUNDAY
PORTLAND AND VICINITY
HELD
Loss in City Will Aggregate, $15,000 Telegraph and Telephone Lines
Prostrated Many People Narrowly, Escape Injury One. Han . Hurt
. . . ..by Street Car Winds Reach ' High Velocity! ' : ",
The heaviest wind - and rain ..storm
In years past raged along the coast yes
terday afternoon and last night, the
area covered ' including the whole Pa
cific Northwest Portland was directly
in the storm belt and suffered damage
to property amounting probably to $10,
000 or $16,000. Trees were uprooted,
trolley wires blown down, telegraph
and telephone lines laid low, roofs
partly blown off houses, fences wrecked,
windows smashed and plaster cracked
in many houses. The big dredge Chi
nook dragged her anchors and tor pil
ing loose, while the steel bridge could
not be closed for. 80 minutes after It was
opened to let vessels through., , . ,
Only one bad accident was reported,
Samuel Weller of Albina being knocked
dbwn by a car in tha darkness at Ou
pont and Larrabee streets and severely
Injured. The wires of. both the West
ern Union and Postal Telegraph com
panies - are down south and north . and
communication is had only with the
east. Tha telephone service to the
suburban district is practically par
alyzed. . ;
- Telegraph tines Down.
AH the Western Union lines are down
south of Aurora, which is . about 40
trilles distant from Portland: The north
ern lines of the company were working
badly at a late hour last night and the
Astoria line was entirely out of serv
ice at 9 o'clock. The lines south went
out of commission about 1 o'clock In
the afternoon. . ' . .
The Postal Telegraph company re
ported that all -Its lines south and north
are down. . Tha San tranclsco service
ceased about 3 o'clock In the. afternoon
SNAPSHOTS TAKEN AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
IN BOREAS' GRASP
and the Seattle-Vancouver wires quit
working about five hours later. Serv
ice with the east is had only via Spo
kane, from which point - messages ' are
sent back to Vancouver and. from there
east. -
The trolley wire on the ' Willamette
heights line was blown down about t
o.'clock. - A tree was uprooted and cast
across the trolley at Seventeenth and
Jefferson but the wire sustained the
weight and did not break.
Accident at Albina.
Samuel Weller, who resides In Albina,
was . knocked down early last evening
while attempting to board a Lower Al
bina car and received an ugly gash on
the forehead. The injured man was
brought to the city . and Dr. Morrow
dressed the wound. - M
The arc light at Dupont and Laraboe
streets was blown down by the wind and
in the darkness, Weller attempted to
board an Incoming car. he missed his
footing and his head -struck the rail.
The force of the blow sent the man reel
ing Into' the mud. He managed to re
gain his feet and signal the next car.
Dr. Morrow said the wound Is not dan
gerous. Weller is a veteran of the
Spanish-American war -and served In
the Second Oregon - volunteers as a
trumpeter.
Street Lights Oo Out.
Owing to the number of trees blown
down throughout the city, J. R.
Thompson, mechanical engineer of the
Portland Electric company, ordered tho
power turned off on most of the arc
light circuits early last night. The Nob
Hill region, north of Washington street.
ft;
was In darkness and many other dis
tricts had to depend on incandescent
lights. The wires were torn down by
trees at Thirteenth and Hoyt and Fifth
and Mill streets. At the latter point two
trees were Uprooted in the yard of Mr.
Trowbridge. Several trees are down
on Fifth street, beyond Madison, while
a number of faeces in the same neigh
borhood were practically demolished. A
number of trees are also 'town on
Twelfth street, above Jackson. They
fell across electric light wires In many
places and caused the danger element
from fire to creep into a point where
shutting off the circuit became neces
sary as a precaution. In several - dis
tricts where new curbing Is being In
stalled poplar trees had their roots cut
off, making them easy , prey for the
storm god. .
"Owing to , the number of telephone
lines down we had to send 20 men out
to get reports," said Mr Thompson of
the electric company. "The telephone
service is practically paralyzed In the
outskirts. Our men are sending us In
reports of damage to property as fast as
they get the news." '
The "castle" of Hiler Stebblnger, as it
is termed, on Portland Heights, was
badly shaketvjip and several windows
broken.
A glass transparency In front of the
Portland restaurant was swung to and
fro so violently that a large pane dropped
out A gentleman and lady were pas
sing at the time and the glass struck on
the man's head, smashing into small
pieces.'' . : ' ,
Neither was hurt.
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FOR DISPOSITION
, OF RELEASED LANDS
. , ' -,
.. . -
(WmhlngtoB Bureau oi The Journil.)
Washington, March Secre- -
tary Hitchcock, has submitted to
congress the draft of a bill pro-
vidlng for the disposition -of
lands released from- temporary
withdrawal for lnclaslon in the
proposed forest reserves or with-
'.
drawn from the established re-
'. serves. -.... ;
. ' It provides that these lands
' shart become subject to settle-
' ment from date of the order of-
proclamation so releasing or -
eluding them, but shaHnot-be-
come subject to entry or selee- .
tion until 90 days after the date
of the. proclamation. The bill
provides that bona-flde settlers
shall have 80 days preference in
the right to make entry. .
The latter , clause will doubt-
less meet with the approval or .
all Interested in the new lands, '
according to the best belief of
those who have discussed tna
measure with Secretary Hitcn-
' COCk. ".,:..
Tl-CIAL
Congress Intends to Cur
tail Extravagent Ex-
jenditures.
8prll Dispatch by IMSed-WIre to The JoOxnaL
' Washington, March 19. The - house
committee on - interstate and foreign
commerce today asked tha treasuryde
partment to forward to congress "tEe
vouchers on which tha Isthmian canal
commission spent, in a little more than
29 months, $1,075,000.
Rear Admiral Walker was before tha
committee today and gave testimony.
Mr. Mann of the committee character
ized the methods of expenditures as auto
cratic The object of the hearing before
the commission is to see that there Is
soma businesslike method pursued In the
expenditures of any future moneys ap
propriated by the government tor tha
canal zone.
. The remarkable statement was made
before the commission today by Mr.
Mann that he did not believe that the
Bahal dam, so essential to the construc
tion of the Panama canal, could be built
Admiral Walker made tha statement
also that to construct a sea level canal
will require 20 years, but the present
scheme is for a lock canal. For this the
admiral Indicated that time and money
would be required. Tha manner of keep
ing the accounts was, however, the main
matter before the committee. The of
ficial record In tha senate shows that the
commission began to draw pay June
10. 1899. - '
" Tha commission made a statement em
bracing tha period from June 10, 1899,
to February 28, 1902. This evidently in
cludes three months more than the 29
months accounted for service and proba
bly means that after the 29th month the
commission kept its headquarters open
0 1 OR
mum
Republican County Con
vention, a Scene of
Turmoil.
MALARKEY HITS SLATE
Carey Snubbed Storey Bcatea for
Sheriff by J. M. Stott, Former
Deputy, Whom He Had Dis
missed Sfmon Roar.
.. . BepnhUo&n County Tlokat.
Sheriff James M. Stott
Assessor B. D. Slgler. "
County commissioner W. I XJghtnert
County- treasurer John M. Lewis I
renominated. -:. .
County school superintendent B. F.
Robinson; renominated. ; 1
Coroner J. P. Flnley; renominated. .
County surveyor' A. T. Richmond. "
Justices of the peace West adds.
William Raid; east side, Waldemar Bit
ton; Troutdale, J. S. Hudson; Mount Ta
bor, Bert E. Longenecker.
Constables West side, W. E. Jack
son; east side, A. D. Keenan; Troutdale,
II. Hornlsh; Mount Tabor, W. D. Buck-
ton. - .
State senators Dan J. Malarkey, F.
P. Mays, A. A. Courteney, Big SIchoL
State representatives W. M. Killings-
worth. A. A. Bailey, Thomas Crang. A.
J. Capron, S. B. Linthlcum, M. F. Hen
derson, W. R. Hudson. W. iT. Miiir, Mart
iaon Welch, Elmore E. Colwell, 8. M.
Mean, A, JU Mills.'
.The Republican' county convention
looked like an open . convention but it
wasn't However, the handful of Simon
men who thought they had pried it open
cut mora figure than was at first ex
pected. The Mitchell slate was badly
cracked by Dan J. Malarkey, who put
up so strong a fight for nomination for
state senator, that his name was finally
substituted for that of Dr. E. G. Clark.
only ten minutes before the list was sub
mitted to the convention.- Judge Carey,
the acknowledged head of .the party or
ganization, received a signal rebuff in
the defeat of I H. Maxwell for assessor,
for whose nomination Carey made a
personal plea from, the floor of the con
vention.. . : .
The machine carried things .with a
high hand. A. A. Courteney, tha chair
man, ruled with a rod of Iron and tha
protests of tha Simon delegates against
the methods of the programmers wera
summarily turned down.
"There must be no gag ' rule bei."
shouted W. S. Dunlway when tha chair
man refused to allow tha reading of tha
minority report of the committee on
order of business. "You are pledged to
an open convention," continued the min-
coat In his excitement and shook his fists
at the chairman. "I insist upon tha
reading of tha minority report. It may
be voted down, but give us a square -deal
and put It to vote." , ,
Simon Minority a r actor. .
"Cheers of approval resounded from
the Simon sympathizers In the gallery
and tha lobbies, and Judge H. IX.
Northup added his indignant protest; but
Chairman Courteney was deaf to all ob
jections . to tha pre-arranged program
and the Mitchell delegates were ap
parently with him to a man. The ma
jority report Of the committee was put
through with a 'storm of ayes.
But the Simon men had their revengo
later in the day's proceedings. Though
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