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PORTLAND; ' OREGON, SATURDAY" EVENING; MAY 21, 1004. .
PRICE FIVE CENTS. '
sffliiW Wttmi ISII11HING THE LIFE GUT
llW10MMND y DEdlRMliHE REV. 0R. EDGAR P.
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j . INTHE QRIP OF VICE "
I ' ' . - . . ' '' - i ' : I
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HILL
Pastor Tells How .Vice Is
Fostered and Cornip ( ; ,
v Hon Fattens; v r
Japanese Boldly:ExamIoe
Port Arthur's Nar
row Portal.
BOGATYR RUMORED LOST
UNDER FALSE. COLORS
Gamblers, Saloon Box, Deluded Mayor,
Partisan Politics and the Ortjjonlaa
Poor Fingers and Tbnmb of the : .
!' " Hand t City's Tfiroat.:v::;
Russian Statements,-London
Correspondent Declares Cruiser
. Was Destroyed Tokfo
Has News.
Bt Petrbur, '-lyj Jli-It U',f-
' porttd hr ,toUr --that' thi- JapajiM
t nT beAn repulsed and drlrn way
J iron lor-rwr oi jrort Annur.
General StoeaMi rallied out to proUot
' a train brisking t ammnnltliof .and
kirtnlah with Japanee troopa followed.
. I Tea Japaneae lota was haary;
L Tha. train' arrived aafelv.
. Oaiwrat HJuropiattla today reporta that
, ; fn a aKirmiso at ran jiuana; Chen the
; Japanaaa wr;jlrrfi 0t d onlr ;tw
coaaackf .woundea..on tha .Buaalan aid.
f' i PtrlaV 'May ll-,Th , Tanra t
: Feteraburf joorreaDondeiit A Mate that
Btoaela aortlaul caauaiUaa'.of
i 1.099 to ilia Japanese and tttath Rua-
piana loat 160 naan. f ,
Toao'
Approaoliaa
(Journal Special Serrtee.)
'Toklo, May 21. Admiral Togo reporta
that the Japaneae funboata and torpedo
boat deatroyera jreaterday decided to rlak
the flrt of - the' enemy and examine aa
cloeely aa poeelble the entrance to Port
Arthur, with a view of learnlaf. If poa-
. aibie, tne conciuona or tne harbor en
tranee.i ; ,
The fleet therefore reconnoltefed
toward the port, ateamlng cloae In to the
T harbor entrances flrlnr ar trwentBut
little . Oamage waa auatained from the
. a no re oatieriea, aespite a not croaanre
which waa poured Into the warahlpa. No
caauaiuea reaultea.
" 'Togo makes no statement aa to wheth
7 er the desired information va Secured
. or not
This report accounta for a meaabge
- received here rrom Chefoo to the effect
that a heavy cannonade had been beaed
: off the port yesteraay. .which was aup.
poaed to Indicate a serious engagement
DBCXiAXXS OOATT IVOp. IP
ftondom Oorreapondan Contradicts Bus-j
tian Official ItatemeaV
... (Jonrnal Special Barrtee.)
FEAR
THE
MAYOR
MAY
VETO
BILL
Friends of : Orduiance! Prohibiting Saloon Boxes
3i I lavor Denied Makincr Anv - Pledges.
Advocates of the measure prohibiting
boxes lh saloons -and restaurants, which
waa. drafted yesterday ..by Councilman
London, May 21. Deaplte the fact that rFlegel and published In The Journal,
- the general staff of the Ruaalan army In
St Petersburg yesterday laaued a de-
s nlal that the Ruaalan cruiser Bogatyr
' had 4keen wrecked at the entrance to
Vladivostok harbor, the uorrespondent of
the St James , Oasette today declares
: that such Is the case.
The correspondent says the Bogattyr
rounded as she was returning to ahel-
teif. and that.aU. efforts to. get. her. off
were unsuccessful. According to his
aaeertloA. the Russians, jflndlng that ttn
. let! "speedy action wr taken, the Jap
anese would probably capture the cruis
er, fired the pOwder magaalne and de
stroyed the vessel. .N ? ; ii
a From V.Toklp comes a dispatch which
Is fn ' a measure confirmatory ' of this
statement w . ? v.
According to the Toklo report the ves
'sel went ashore at the Vladivostok har
' bor entrance., No mention Is made , of
her subseauent destruction. ,t '
The latter feature la doubted by the
military writers of several publications
here, who point out that the grounding
of the vessel would not render either
her, capture or destruction a' necessity
unless attendant conditions were singu
lar. r-t ?.v ..11 - . V
They Incline to the belief that had the
Bogatyr merely i grounded,' her Officers
andrew would', have stood to their
guns and could nave madeas effective
use .of .them . under ordinary circum
stances as have. the .'crippled warships
In Port -Arthur, i These latter have been
prominent ln the' defense of the harbor,
although so badly damaged tbat they are
or neve Dean? unable to go to sea. f
1 4.
A
xoMMijn rxaxt mvbuMl
Clash Xetweee Troops Cereral ct Oar's
Its Wojiaoed One Korean XUled.
- .;.u.; (Janraal' Soedal- Barrice.1
. SeonV May Jl.The Japanese consul
; at Gen Sari reports that a collision has
taken place between Russian and Korean
troops, at Kankow, ; the center of the
nonnern - iong .nag aisturoances. ' ' uno
, KOrtan e-was'kUled tiand several Rus
sians were-wounded.ii-';j-if.n. .
' It' , is - feared that ; this Is but . a pre
liminary , to many ' more serious con-fllctBt-asUe-feeling,.slnce
the- issuance
of the Imperial edict annulling all trea
ties with Russia, has been growing
(Continued on Page Two.).
have been alarmed by . the - repeated ru
mors current at the city ball -that
Mayor Williams would - veto the bill
after it has been passed by the council
at Its .meeting to be held June 1. , .
Friends of the ordinance - have been 1
told that the failure of . the saloon In
terests and restaurant men to make
vigorous protest against the ordinance
was due to the, belief .on their part that
Mayor Williams would administer
knockout blow to .rthf measure 'm' the
eve 01 tne jtieotion.t ana mat it wouw
be allowed to auletly and lnoonaplou
ously. pass Into the realm of. things
mat - were rafter the votes: had r bn
counted on election 4lay.
i Naturally, the belief ott the part of
the enemies Of the saloon box hast put
the question yp to the mayor in , a i way
w urnnf Hum mai (enuaman some ex
pression of opinion ss. Jto his attitudv
The statement that some of the mayor's
political followers, had "tipped it oiTVto
the saloon men that the. chief executive
would' veto the measure' is denied bv
Mayor. WUlUimS. aJe -declared today to
a Journal reporter that no man j had
any : auinoruy .,10 -anticipate nis - action
in dealing, with . any ordinance that
might come before Whfni i as mayor of
tne cy ui roruana. juoroorer, tjnayor
WlUlame aald that he was In' favor of
any measure-wnicn wouia tena to-aimm
lsh vice and crime In this city..- and
that he .was not personally .friendly to
me satoon oox..-. ...... . ,- : ... ,
June! the anti-box ordinance aa , pub
UsKad-dn The Journal last evening will
be
brought - before the. -council ;t backed
by the Ulauor license committee and the
cltliens' committee.- It is stated by the
majority- off oounciimen that the ordl
nance will paas The. cbl?f effort of th
active advocates of the measure will
be to have this, ordinance . signed by
Mayor Williams herore ejection day -
. MmnJJbt the leaders la the IcamDalrn
against the. boxes , have . not - understood
the sudden change of f ront.exeouted by
several members -of, thecouncll. who at
first - strenuously opposed , the anti-box
ordinance or anyJ legislatlont looking; to
this end.! ;To explain their sudden advo
cacy or. tacit assent' the reformers "have
been looking for reasons and the may
or's veto has been regarded- as the chief
caue...ThlB Is now denied by . the mayor.
who states that he? doer not favor, the
boxes himself. . t - -r; --i
' Though , unwilling .to state definitely
wnat ma action would be Mayor wil
llama thla morning' did announce that he
would not object to aignlng an ordi
nance abolishing the saloon boxes. -The
mayor also branded as false any state
men t to the effect ' that he had pledged
himself, to vetp the anti-box ordinance
after it; had passef the council.
The kaVofs Statenieht. '
rtI can't say what action I-will take
on the ordinance," said the -mayor, "un
til It comes before,, me and as It has not
been reported by the committee to the
council, has not been considered or
passed by the council, and has not been
brought before me in any way, , it le
premature for me to announce my. opin
ion of It or what I will do. It may be
changed to a considerable extent and It
may : be different in many ways when
Lpassed by the council. , I never wish
xo oe premature in passing judgment on
an ordinance before It is passed by the
council, and this should be no excep
tion.
"I am willing to say. however. . that
1 win second any error, tne council may
make to suppress vice or immorality In
tne city and an ordinance that will, In
my. judgment effect this object will not
bo vetoed by me. , .
'It ; baa been intimated to- ; me thai
several : reports nave gone iortn to tne
effect that I have pledged myself to veto
the anti-box ordinance. 'All such re
ports are untrue, t nav not told any
one now , I would act - on the .ordinance
and will not until the measure-comes
before me ss mayor."
The mayor was asked If an ordinance
that abolished saloon boxes Would be
objectionable to him. ' '----
"Certainly not" he replied, "as I said
before, . I will not oppose any action of
the council that I think tends to lessen
vice in Portland, 'but what I may do with
any: particular ordinance Is something' I
can not tell 'until such an ordinance has
at least been brought before the coun
cil." 1 : s ;.v. v5 i -
MANY MEET DEATH
IN WATER SPOUT
Cache la Poudre Valley In Southern
! Colorado : and Wyoming Devastated
-Scores of People Missing.
1 JAPAjrxgii xoma oomosinr. i
Victoria, B C. May It The steamer
Hyades which arrived this morning
brings' the news that- residents' of' Jap
anese cities sre having a-greater feeling
of security, since the blockading of . the
entrance to Port Arthur's harbor,' and
have, removed -the mines frOm Kobe harr
bor and also withdrawn the general re
strictions on shipping - entering : ; that
(Joornal -Special Serrtee.)
Denver, Col., May 21. Meager re
ports from the' Cache la poudre valley,
in southern Colorado and southern Wy
emlngr this morning show that th
waterspouts Friday afternoon did Im
mense damage. Four lives are known
to have been lost and scores are miss
lnav At Cheyenne four bodies were, re
covered Kdlthv Bproul, Archie, Charles
and Henry , Clayton all children. The
Cache. la. Poudre river. widened, from SO
feet to . nearly a -mile, , and - scores of
frame ' houses -Jn the .Russian settlement
at 'the'sugar factory were carried away.
The railroads report k numerous serious
washouts, f- f j '
Communication with Fort Collins was
resumed at noon' today. In the first
reports the losses were underestimated.
One man lost his life at Fort Collins.
All the headgates of the Irrigation
ditches and miles of the irrigation ca
nala were washed out and It is feared
they cannot 'be repaired v In time to Irri
gate this, year's crops, thus making the
total losses aggregate 2,ooo,ooo. All
bridges are washed out for . several
miles of track on the Colorado South
erns No word has been received from
Tlmnath, Uvermore, Bellevue or 1-a
Porte, all of which were reported under
three' to four feet of water last night'
It is believed the casually list will be
largely Increased. . - ,
. .The rtver.., runs through one of tin
most .'thickly settled farming districts
of the state, f A large portion of the
agricultural lands, along the devastated
section are Irrigated from It and a num
ber of reservoirs have been constructed.
for the purpose of storinguts water.
Huhdreds of bead of live.; stock have
been drowned : and . the damage to the
beet and - vegetable crop Is enormous;
The water system of the City of Fort
Collins badlv inlured and Irrigation
ditches ere practically destroyed.
MINISTER KILLS
SON WITH A RAIL
Strikes Boy Down with Insane Fury After Quar
rel Jail Threatened by Hob Officers Pre
pare for Desperate Resistance
' (Journal Special Serrice.)
Owenaboro, Ky- May- 2t Rev. . Nor
man Armour, who murdered his sop by
striking him with a fence rail, was ar
rested this morning.
The jail is now heavily guarded,
the farmers at Sacramento threaten a
lynching. Armour Is cool and says he
Is willing to take the law's penalty. The
killing resulted from the minister's un
governable and apparently insane tem
per. The boy refused to quit work in
the field when ordered to do so by Ar
mour and a quarrel followed. The
farmer, who is" a man heretofore re
spected, but known to have a violent
temper, undertook to punish the boy,
when the younger man defended him
self, with much vigor. The minister,
outdone, seized a piece of fence rail
'and -rained' blows .upon the boy's head
until the latter. lay dead at his feet -4
It Is the belief of those who are
friendly to the preacher that he Is sub
ject to Spells' of "temporary- Insanity, as
this Is said to have been no Isolated
case- where his temper has taken an
almost maniacal tendency.
Feeling In the neighborhood of the
crime is particularly high, aa th
preacher, by his open attacks on certain
realdents of ' the locality, has ' created
many enemies, and the district Is in
habited by a people many of whom are
prone to lynchings on almost any prov
ocation. Officers declare they will protect the
prisoner to the last no matter how large
or. desperate the mob may be that at
tempts .violence, - and have Increased
the force guarding the prisoner.
CBOW TAUBT nOOBSS.
Wall of JTate Caught People XJke Bats
jA': : $tk a 'Trap. - :r
. (Jocm! Specitl. Servlee.) '
Cheyenne, Wyo.i ', Mayr21; The Crow
valley Is flooded. . The bodies of Charles
and .Archie -Clayton have been- ; found.
Harry Clayton,. who: was given 'up for
dead, has. recovered. Two Fort Bus-
sell batterymen are missing. 1 An un
known woman and baby' were seen to
float away and many others' are miss
fng. i,t.AAwatt -of water many feet' high
came' down . the1 valley and caught the
people like rats In a trap. ; The loas to
railroad and ranch property; la heavy.
POLAR EXPEDITION
SENDS IN A REPORT
(Journal Special Berries.)
Copenhagen, May 21. The Norwegian
expedition In quest of the north pole,
which sailed June last his arrived at
DalrVmple. ,
Captain ' Ammundsen reports thst
Erlckson's Queensland expedition arrived
on' the west' coast after fearful hard-
shins, the men beins: worn and ehtacl
ated and having subsisted on their dogs
for many days. - 1 - -
MITCHELliWANTS.TO,
HEAR BANCROFT CASE
jtWashlagtoa Boreas ef Tb JooraaL)
Washington' May. 21. Before leaving
yesterday ' senator Mitchell wrote to
PostmastsrrGeneral Payne . requesting
that final action in the case of Postmas
ter ' Bancroft at. Portland 1e Dostponed
until after his return to the capital on
June H ; i '&r T
aVATTXTiglfTF 138JITUOg.T WOmnUKJL
'-'-I. (Joaraat Special 8errlc. ; ' . ' :
New'-Tork. - May 21. The batUeshlp
Kentucky returned" trov the China sta
tion today. ' , , ,
DEATH ENDS FORT'S
POLITICAL AMBITION
.(Journal Specitl Service.)
Springfield, 111., May 21. Robert B.
Fort, state senator and candidate for
lieutenant governor before the Republic
can state convention, died this morning
In the hospital.' He was ill while the
convention was in progress.
Although his' name was seldom men
tioned in the . gubernatorial deadlock he
was nevertheless a decided factor in the
fight
SHAW PAYS NINE '
. MILLIONS TO MORGAN
' e (Joornal 8pecUl Srrle.) :'";?':"?
Washington. May- 21. A check for 1 9.-
00,000. being the- remainder of the J0,-
voo.000 - to oe - paia tne Manama canal
concession, wss handed to Morgan's rep
resentative . by Treasurer a' Shaw this
morning.--'..' -.--t w:--,, ii"i(..-;.v
ssatx rorxsHxs
CABOTSAi.
(Joornal SpeHal Service.) '
V Berlin, May 21. Duke Paul Frederick
of Mecklenberg,. uncle of the reigning
grand duke,, waa found dead thi morn
ing after a night's' carousal incident to
a dinner given by his corps.
BT BBV. 2B. ZDOAB P. XZX.IW
Paste ef the Pint Presbytertaa Ohureb.
Te the People of Portland:. Vice la
gripping the throat of this fair city and '
its clutch is tightening every day. - The -
hand, by means of which It maintains -
Its hold is a normal though a 'Vicious
one, and has four fingers and a thumb. .
.1. . .- The Plrst Plager. ; '' '
The first finger of, the hand that ' le
stifling this fair city Is the gamblers'
trust. Bolder and bolder the gamblers -
have become, until today,' they dominate '.
the city. Three years ago. when some -
one ventured to suggest that gambling
be licensed In Portland,, an old sport
said emobatlcallr: lt mlaht be done in
a rolling camp, but never In Portland." .
How. Is irtodayr -It Js "true gambling ls
not licensed. But the situation is even
worse. Without so much as giving the
people a chance to decide,' the gamblers
hava.been clvan omnlet onnlrnl Wh.n
a bill was Introduced at the last legisla
ture,, making gambling a . felony, the
gamblers calmly walked in,., stole the
bill and went away, laughing, ; .When
the new mayor began his administra
tion by stoutly Insisting that he wouid
enforce the laws, the. gam blefa made -a -few
hypnotic passes before the men
whom ' the people" had hailed as their
champion.' when. behold f be stood forth
as the. Spokesman of the gamblers and '
hurled defiance -at -the very ones mho
had- yielded themselves so .trustfully to I
his leaderahlp. ,. , , k
In' other cltieSi gamblers are . treated
as outlaws. Within ten days the
Knights of -Pythias, who- have always
been regarder-as mosfJlberal in ad--
mlttlng new members, have decided that
suph men shall not be admitted to their
order. In Portland gamblers are ' re
garded as public benefactors,-through
whom the city's-revenues are raised Xur
the purpose, of repairing . the . engtn, .
houses and getting the streets In readi
ness for the Lewis and Clark fair. In
each gambling house a policeman In full -
uniform may be found, .whose salary Is
paid, not by the city, but by the gam
bler themselves, and whose consequent .
buslncss-is not to enforce-the law at
all, but to see that the. gamblers have '
a free hand In their benevolent plan of
getting their victims -money into cir
culation. , --'. t-f- '
Only one other step is necessary to
complete the grim humor of the altua- -
tlon. Let the gamblers also assume the
pay of the other members of the police.. .
force and let the monthly fines be suf- -
flclently Increased to cover the amounts
paid to the chief and the mayor.', v
The Seoond Plnget. -
Second finger,7 the saloon box. Thoae.
who are Interested in making Portland a
better city are constantly assailed with -the
taunt that they do not know what
they are talking about, and that Port- - -
land is a .bet tar city today . lhan It has
been for .years. For several weeks,
therefore, a quiet careful, investigation ;.v
has been carried on;'A "specimen lncl- "
dent may be enlightening. On a recent
Sunday evening one of the watchers 00- . ,
served two young men and a glrl pause
Just, outside the side entrance of a cer
tain saloon. ' The young men started In. " , .
but the girl refused to gov -A consults- -tlon
. followed;, . Then .one of the young
men took theglrl by the arm and tried '
to pull tier In, but she jerked away. An- .
other long conference took place.; After
considerable persuasion the girl accom-' 1 , .
panied the young men Into a saloon box.
A half -hour passed by, when the three .
reappeared and went straight to a
rooming-house, where they occupied the '
same room. A aubsequent investiga
tion brought to light the jact that the
girl was without friends and hundreds -of
miles from home, v ! i t . v
"But that waa an Isolated case," some
one says. - Was itt I myself stationed '
a man on a certain corner which com
mands a view of; t we side entrances of
uImhi and h counted 20ff Beoole an
taring, those two places In one evening,
and half of ' them were young women.
That same night another man .visited
20 saloons, not In tne north end.' but in '
the heart of the city, and at, every place ,
were found young women lolling around
for trade.;;. Within a week a physician .
began sneering at a, member-: ef th
Municipal league-because-of Hie puritan
leal ideas, and then within five minutes . -acknowledged,
that at the time he was
treating three young girls In their early .
teena. for diseases-contracted In saloon -
boxes, a A police officer, with consider-. 1
able heat, told mo the other day that the 4'
city was never more orderly than now,
and gave as his reason for saying so
that while licentiousness is something
frirfitfuL: nevertheless 60 colored pros- -
tttutes, who also "robbed their- victims,
had been driven out or town. Accora
Ins? to this loglcvlf the one Item of rob- .-,
bery eould be eliminated, this would be .
a model place, even though our daugh
ters should ait Become nanuie u
boys roueaf -! .-..
. "The Thfrd Tlnger.
TStrd Una-er. A deluded mayor. I
have not the heart to speak of the aM
man. who shortly must appear before
God's Judgment scat to give account f
the deeds done in tne nony. Am 11
not. except to say tnis; xonn.-r in f -
attle a king has come to hla throne. (.; t
XContlnued on lags 'luie.)
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