THAT MYSTERIOUSiMAN WITHitfHE JOURI JAIL'S : 05O. .WILI .'BE FOUND. :S ATURD AY. ILVEI Hi I 4 - t OOP EVENING. . i jsr i 1 1 v x ' j , . t '.JLL OFTKE JOURNAL ' . .;"'1 . , I c ( vrrrcpniv , , ' night and, Friday; southerly wind. 1 5 V.i VOL. IIL N05Sl" Portland, Oregon, Thursday; evening, april u. woi PRICE' FIVE CENTS. III km Vvv::.;vv-:-: f:. - -:" "'.""'.V' ' V : T ' ' ! I W1 I nniWTA V ' Now Believed That TaDanese Toroedo Carried Its ; Call to Death Instead dfiFloatirig i , Boat Fought Jo the Grim and '::s lkiM:.('mM'f:Sb ? , FurthCfH: lwspRepbrted. : That " ri-1 Sl Peteraburir. Aoril been fought off Portv Arthur. But the first reports minimized the disaster. , , f T i.The official death list of those who were lost In the sinking of the Petropavlovsk shows that 41 officers and 751 men were sacrificed. ' Nor is this all of the day's calamities.. , . . . - It is. officially admitted today that the Russian, battleship 'Pobedia, one of the prides of his imperial majesty's navy, was struck by a Japanese shot and sustained great damage, an . almost fatal hole being torn rashni : crew were saved, u The usual at the time of the disaster, dispatch carriei the additional inlormatioii mat tne Kxissun torpeao dobc vw. wu lurrounaca ana aunjc dt jiduich war vcsacia iuiu mat uui m w u ' - Anxiety is marked at the war bureau today, which leads to the surmise that even this tremendous casualty list and blow to Russian arms may not yet be fully given out It is unquestionably, true that the bureau yesterday gave out its information in piecemeal, hoping thus to temper the public to the shock. , There is a .report current here today, which in the minds of the people lends dignity to 'death! It ia to the effect that the Petropavlovsk :went to the bottom not through contact with a floating Russian mine, -, ; "1lef heard that the war department is concealing this news with the hope of minimizing the Japanese skill In naval warfare, .y ' :? ' i'"'' ' if''.'J"-:'l v nn vrrv hanA ' "TTavb w tien told Trained news-. r: paper men here believe the details are being withheld and tnat tne possiouiues are mac m a- i - dltion to the losses stated it will sooner or later be known that the entering wedge, has been driven nresarinff the. downfall The atealthv. adroit and out doubt riven wav to one boxer who has measured his antagonist's defense, Japan is now planning to strike blow after blow with lightning-like rapidity, hoping tooverwhelmingly crush opposition and score a knockout V UJ .. 1 f -.r'-i .r Today Russia shares this apprehension and with trembling tensity awaits a further on- slaught It may become the desperate defiance of despair. (Journal BmcUI Sarrlea.) St Petersburg-, AprU 14. Thla city, th ciDltaL not onlr In power but In pomp, of tha great Ruaalan empire, to day present cut a aesoiaia appearance A driving atQrm prevails and burls-Us chips of. ice and sleety sno Into tha pallid faces of a people whose bearing depicts sadness. . a In marked oontreat with yesterday, " there Is no retinue of seekers after news following an officer whose . Sphinx-like -lips refuse to Impart Information. Tha --worst la known.- t It spell defeat While yesterday those who have friends, relatives and loved ones in tne i-far- aeteriiavy-traggle4 -before the nrlm barred doors of the war omne seek ing news which would tell them that ' for the present their own had hot been hurled to death in the pltlleaa maw of war. today there is but a little cluster of anxious ones waiting In apathetlo sil ence for further details. " "" " Officials Am TmjrlaldUur. Not mora stern ana unyielding are those sentinels who, fur-muffled and heavily booted, pace steadily backward ' and forward in front of the Imperial r palace ' gates, than the grim officials who answer Inquiries at the offices of the ministry. ' The ominous . silence of the north, which seema bore and bred Into i these children of the 'I4ttle Father, broods over all, declining com fort to the stricken. Information to the anxious and hope for the terrorised. . Courageous as these people , be, the shock of yesterday's reverses seems for the time to have whipped frtcn them the fighting spirit which Impelled their fierce forefathers to struggle on When con quered ftTW Tnslrmed. The sense of desolation oomes not from streets deserted, but from the very air, which seems poignant with ;the ' moanlngs of unrest Not from deserted streets, because even the terrors of the v storm have not driven and debarred the v people from seeking further news. , The early, morning newspapers hmurht details of the catastrophe. The 1 enlightened hastened to buy them, while PEOPLE FEARA CARMEN'S STRIKE (Special Dispatch to The Jottraal.) " San. ( Francisco,, -April 1-t-W. Ei Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railroad Employes, ' arrived in this City late last night on the overduo overland train and was met -upon arrival by President Cornelius and two member of the executive beard of Kjthe carmen'- union.. .wr ry The local union leader . then spent - several hours going oven the situation with Mr. Mahon, Whose visit 1 expected to have 'a very Important bearing on the action of the local union. - According to the laws of the national : association, a ' strike ' cannot be called until the local union secures the consent 9t the parent organisation. :, -. ' i Tourhal Soecial Service.) 14 - Tha news todav brines official confirmation of the rumors i : -.rUmm nr.tt.lif '. Viia rlttf . laf mvnro in her side. reticence is maintained renrdlng but it is Dresumable that the loss but pierced by a Japanese torpedo. of, the Port Arthur stronghold. aooarentlv inactive nolicv on the of immense belligerency. It is the Ignorant parted with their pennies and besought passersby to read them aloud to . them. Unlike tha American newspapers, which In times Ilka these would publish lists of dead and wounded, the Russian press today carrlea no In formation on these points that are so vital to the many. Tha papers unanimously deplore the disaster and try to excuse Makaroff and the other officers by recalling tne coi llalon between the English battleships Victoria and Camperdown during man euvera In the Mediterranean a few years ago, In which nearly tha entire crew of the viotoria was lost Strange asrlt- marsen1.th -press, without exception, takes no heed of the unofficial report and private dispatches to tha effect that the petropavlovsk was sunk, not by a Russian mine, but by a Japanese torpedo. : It may be that the officials tactfully decline this news, be lleving that . such information might strike terror of the Japanese prowess Into the hearts of those who yet may be but "food for cannon." - This, too, notwithstanding tha fact that from al most around the world oomes the report of a Japanese admiral to the effect that death waa dealt in batUe by a torpedo, not a mine. ? ' ; ( v , '' :iy In .official circles tha - hope is ex pressed that the catastrophe will react to the benefit of the Russian fighters, adding rags to courage, i ' mnsslaa Officers Take Oath. It' Is cited that Russian officers have taken a solemn ..oath, in case the for tunes of war favor their side and en able them to capture Admiral Urlu, they will bang him. - This is the revengeful spirit that bears in mind the sinking of the Variag off Chemulpo, which the Rus sians persist In declaring an unwarrant ed and cowardly act . A solemn requiem mass was said to day noon for Vice-Admiral Makaroff and tha members of his crew at the celebrat ed Admiralty chapel. Almost before it had commenced, the official report of the loaa of lire in the sinking of the tor pedo-boat Vestrashnl , added to the scop Mr. Mahon nfuei to discuss the local situation, until he (s thoroughly familiar with It, but those who are posted state that there is scarcely any doubt but that a strike wlU M called within . a short time. This statement is borne out by every action of. the employes, who appear to b trying to gain time.,; As matters stand.; the railroad com pany official ar continually introduc ing green band, who ar instructed by company bosses, for the purpose of being ready for the strike that they believe will com not later than May ' It Is said on" every hand her that should the strike be ordered it ia sure to spread to many other vocation and trades. 'j.'rV;.- ? ( Mine-Torpedo flitter End. to Trembling Fear . of , Pott " Arthur's ; f that nnrtentioui battle had . will exceed 50 lives. Murmurs are De ginning to part of the Japanese has with therefore predicted that, like a of the requiem and mad the oocaslon even more sorrowful. The csar arrived early and waa fol lowed br almost all the government of flclals and army and navy officers In the city. His majesty looked pale and wan and plainly showed the effects of sleepless nights and worried cays. Me sat with bowed head during the service and seemed in constant prayer. Bis de meanor was that of a man pitifully stricken to the heart Xfoke Cytfl on Jeave. The Grand Duke Boris has been or dered to bring hi brother, the Grand Duke Cyril, home, as soon as the lat ler'a wounds will permit his making the long and tiresome railway journey. A telegram was received from Cyril this morning stating that he Is suffer ing from severe burns on the face and neck and contusions of the knees. He added In the message that but two min utes elapsed between the explosion and the sinking of the ship. This Is one point wMch had not been covered in any of the previous dispatches. CyrlL as On of the few survivor of the wreck, promise to be lionised when he returns to the capital, as, unuxe many other members of the nobility, he enjoys a certain amount of popularity! among the common people, and is de scribed as a "good fellow." Fort Arthur Depressed. Private dispatches received here from Port Arthur show a remarkable loss of heart among the defending . forces of the city. Russian superstition has taken the series of events as a direct algn that Ood Is against them, and refuse to take heart from the courageous bearing of their superior officers. They will probably continue to ngnt lth the dogged resistance which . la characteristic of the race, but It will no longer be with that spirit which has been the glory of Russian arms for many centuries and has maae tne nerce aaen of the Cossack famous since the days of-Napoleon. j- One dispatch in pessimistic vein ex- r (Continued on Page Eight) Who Is the tha number of men aboard Where will he com from, that mysterlou man with The Journal' 60 who on Saturday evening peiween th hour of S and 7 o'clock will be found on Washington street between Third and Sixth?., ..r- N6body iS6wi--6rveir TneTrornaX H may come out of Olds, Wortman . King, he may com out of Llpman & Wolfe's or Feldenhelmer' or any other lace sbetween the point named. All that Ii known is that he surely will come out; that he will. walk tip or down tha street;; that h will. tay within the y boundaries named; that he will have- the money on b's person and that bo will-give it to the individual who asks him the question and makes thf reply he seeks. '.';,. m "" Indeed for the real pleasure of th thing this is all that It I necessary - for . anybody to know. , This . 4, , everybody now know; it l all that anybody knows, for everybody will have precisely the same 'ehanc to 41 .win th money.; " ' . -' ; ' l'X;.,. ... "'7 T J'if?3i ii" iM &it I I Th whole thing is intended for the benefit of the whole public, with favorltlsm' to no one and an equal 4. . chance for everybody, Therefore, be 'on hand Saturday may be tb lucky person to capture Dread f AX U iMS I- A TICKET On Which Occurrad Taatardar Mia Moat MIDSHIPMAN W. E. T. NEWMAN. Hotel Nord, St. Peters burg, Destroyed Cas ualties Concealed. (Journal Bped.l Service.) St Petersburg, April 14. The people of this capital from peasant to peer were thrown Into a high state of excitement by the dynamite outrage which occurred In the palatial Hotel Nord thla morning. Bo carefully have the details or tne ar fair been kent secret by the police that It cannot be ascertained how many lives were lost nor the real cause of the ter rific ; explosion which practically de stroyed the hotel bulldinar. It la known, however, that in one Of the rooms, of the building the son of Generol Kaxerkoff was sleep, at the time of the outrage, and that part of his body were afterward found In the debris of the wrecked house. So urgent are the authorities In en deavoring to keep the traglo matter quiet that every newspaper In the city was forbidden mentioning the matter. The edict came'too late, as several pa pers had already Issued their papers in the street The proprietors were com pelled to call back every number that could be found. Three dispatches had also been sent abroad in Europe giving only a brief ac count of the disaster. These were later denied by government officials, but the fact remains that the building was blown up by dynamite this morning and that several If not two-score of lives were lost. (Continued on Page Eight) Man .With the Money? ' ' '. .evening' and look for 'the man, for it th $50. BATTLESHIP MISSOURI. Shoklnr Cataatropha to tha U. S. Nary An Appalling Catastrophe Aboard U.. S. Battle-; CM ship Missouri. 1 Jlamat gneeial gMtlM.) Pensacola, Fla April 14. Deep sor row is felt in every nearx ana every home in this quiet city by the sea. Outln the sunut bay are anchored tha warshlos Texas, Brooklyn and Mia sour!. Flax are at half-mast and about the decks of the vessels men on duty walk with bowed heads. The Missouri, aboard which lie In cold death t officer and men of the American navy, rests In the berth far- therest from shore. She Is the cynosure for all eyes and the objective point of every discussion. Now and then can be seen a aispaicn boat piloted from the ship's white sides to either the Texas or the Brooklyn. At noon today a launch shot out from the port side of the Missouri, and came sneedllv to shore. . ADoara were near Admiral Baker of the squadron, and Caotain William 8. - Cowles, who com manded the Missouri yesterday when the terrible accident ocourred which brought such appalling death. Admiral Barker Talks. "I have ordered a board of Survey to Investigate, to the minutest detail, the cause of the disaster an4 the facts lead ing up to.it" said the admiral In an swer to a request" ror a statement. "Until the Inquiry la finished." con tlnued Admiral Barker, "I am not lb erty to- discuss the sad affair. With this, the two officers walked slowly up the pier and Into the city, where cipher telegrams were sent to the naval department at. Washington. At S o'clock this afternoon Lieutenant Hammer, the ordnance officer of th Mlsourt, came ashore and when inter viewed, said that In advance of an bi fida! report of an Investigating board he could only give to. the public such details as appeared on the surface im mediately after the accident and from superficial Inquiry today. - ' Lieutenant Hammer seemed overcome with emotion and , said that he did not believe that any fault could be attached to any officer on duty at the time of the accident Story of Death. , Continuing, he said: "Target prac tice had been in progress nearly an hour yesterday .afternoon.-' In Xaoc but three shells bad been fired and a fourth was in progress of being loaded. At tnat time mere were nve omeer lnthe turret and IB enlisted men. Nine men were employed in the handling room beneath the turret "In loading, it Is necessary to place the charges in the gun In three sections. It being a 12-inch gun that was being (Continued on Page Eight) ia' Just a likely as not that you ' . rm " ssssss. - . I Sine tha Daatructlon af - tha Jlalna. , MIDSHIPMAN" THOMAS" vARD7 3& COMING UP One Dock Is and Rivers Are Rising. Water began creeping over the street dock this morning, and by night it la expected that the lower floor will be completely, covered. - All the freight has been removed, and no damaa-e will result At the foot of Washington street the gauge shows the rise is 14.S -feet above -the low water mark, and at the rate the river Is rising It-is believed that several of -the lower floors of the docks will be flooded by tomorrow after noon. At least the occupants are pro viding for such: an emergency, and are lOBinaj no time, in removing an perisna- ble goods. .-' " ;.V. Harbormaster Ben Bigrlln 1 keeping In close touch with the situation, and is urging that every precautuVa be taken to guard against any damage being done by the flood. He was at all the docks this morning, but says that the prompt measures which are being taken to get the freight to places of safety will prob ably, mean that no great losses will be experienced.. He .report that some of the wood yards and other business firms are Inclined to disregard the city ordi nance providing that no rubbish of de bris is to be thrown Into the river. He cautioned them against the practice, re- (Contlnued on" Pag Eight) ROG K EiE IliERllS A ...... f .. Special DUpateh t The Joerttal) i San Francisco, April 14. At tbreauest of B. If. Harnman. H. E. Huntington has consented to serve a a director of tne eouinern racino itauroaa company and was so elected at the meeting of the company ..'stockholder - yesterday at Beeohmont1! Kentucky. . , The others directors chosen . were George" Jay , 3ould, W. D. Cornish, E. H. Harrlman. A.- K. Vandeventer. Maxwali kvart. Charlea . Tweed, Edwin Haw ley, James H. Hyde, Otto IL. Kahn. D. a Mllla Winslow 8. Pierce, James Still man, James fipeyer and Jacob H. Schlff, 'rnia aireciorate snows ' tnat John IX Rockefeller. Kuhn, Loeb it Co. and the Bpeyera hold a predominant Influence In the financial management of the South em Pacific. . - ',.'- 'y 7 " , V Th mention of John D. Rockefeller's MIGHM Republicans Are Selecting Their, Standard - Bearers. HANY-DISTRICT, FIGHTS v ' I Interest Chiefly Centered la Caucuses Over Legislative and ''judicial Places-Will finish ; e ; JhelrWork Tonight -i;-':.ir & . - 2T? rT;;'';'-- For the purpose f nominating four presidential electors, on judge of the uprem court. ia-dalry and food, com missioner and selecting four delegate to th narloaal ceaventlosw th Repub lican state convention I in session in this city at the Empire theatre, ; . -' It. wa. practically agreed last-night that Judge Moore should be renominated without opposition- Harvey Beott and " w. b. Ayer were agreed on for dele . igajM to th national convention-1 " i 1hI Eddy was, according to th pro jVwjwfsiaee--chairman f ; thrronven " (ion. Aside from th contest Over the tat dairy and food commissioner, in terest has centered largely In th noml- . nation of member f th legislature, t clroultv Judges and , district 'attorney mad, in the district conventions at th -noon hour and after the adjournment In th afternoon. .Many of these contest were hotly waged...''-- -.v-.-v A bitter fight has developed over th ' nomination of district attorney in this county.' Sanderson Reed ha the sup- port of the machine and. th ha aroused tha -resentment of th other can- dldate , who . declare . that If Reed la , nominated they will smash the slate. .Thi mean that an active effort will be made to defeat C W. Hod son for Jqint senator and the feud will be car- , rled. into, the .campaign. ; 5 Reed. op- ponent say that if he I nominated, ' John Manning will receive enough Re publican votes to elect ' him - and that , ' Stott the Republican nomine for her- ' Iff, will also be knifed and that either Storey or the Democratic nomine for -sheriff will be elected. . Reed's nomination will also probably hav an effect on th Judicial nomlna- t - The Btoming Session. . Like a "well-oiled-machine, this Re publican state .convention, half an hour after it was called to order at, IS o'clock thlamornlng,in - the -Empire theatre, " -had named Its chairman and secretary and committees, and had adjourned to meet again at 1;S0 o'dook this -afternoon, at which time ' the 'Committee mad their report. It is the Intention . of the convention tq finish all busines by evening."' j..iX-.i-:-C:4-J-;U - Pursuant 'to an -agreement nached last? night the convention was called to order' by Harrison Allan of Astoria, secretary of the state central commit- . tea x Chairman Frank C , Baker was to' hav called th convention tb order, but . was absent because of rUuesr " t e The first order of . business-was th Selection of a chairman,4 and also ' in pursuance of an agreement reached last nlgbt B. L. Eddy of Tillamook county ' was placed 1 in nomination - by R. A. Booth, candidate for th nomination of Joint senator from 1 Lane, Douglas and -Josephine countiea No other nam was presented, and Mr. Eddy wa declared the unanimous choice of the convention. Mr. JSddy delivered a short speech of thank for the honor conferred and said the next ; matter In the order of busi ness was the selection of a secretary.' Harrison Allen of Astoria, also in pur suance f to previous . arrangementa was nominated for the honor by . W. i JU Boise of Multnomah; nd no nam waa placed" inoppoaiUon.ii.::s:,'fvjV':;::i (Continued on Fag Six.) nam in connectlon'wlthAh Southern Paclflo r company -calla from prominent financiers the expression that the truth, wa told in last Saturday' dispatches When It was stated that Rockefeller had his eye on the Northern Paciflai com. pany line.H.t- a -,; A prominent railroad official who 1 fn this city today, having traveled In his private car from New York City, sM4 when interviewed at the Palace hotel: f I cannot allow my name to be u l In this Important discussion, but I 1 lleve vlth many others that J"hi I, Rockefeller Intends to control a 1;; M Ing an individual terminus- on the i'n. t coast ; The strife on now b"iw?i Harrlman t al and the i:::i-: r; , i t tlon I believe will result 1 I '' Jumping Into the f ane nt t t Harrlman and gttiiig t 1 POWER