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Newspaper Page TextGOOD EVENING. -.' -."v nra wjbatxzb. ' Tonight and Tuesday, fair; Winds mostly northerly,. ' , JUST Make a,'Not8 cf 7hz J ' Journal's Want Ada They J Work; While Yop Sleep 4 , . VOI. III. NO. 91. PORTLAND, ; OREGON, 3 MONDAY. EVENING JUNE,. 20. 1004.' ' PRICE FIVE CENTS. n rnrin xii ..- n v fV l ' . ' V i ' . ' rsJ ' ' '" V.,,: f '' t tmm TOBEFJ UK EI Mil ffa ' m-",' nC KEFUULILAN CON VENTIONS Ifil . . V lit : tii KjuDiican conrentlon at Chicago thla week u tfta thirteenth national fonvntion held I by '. party, C. '"5:. v-ri;-''. ' '';'..:'''.,,-;.' .-."v'-'. ; 'V'' . EPOfIT A Doubtful If Any Vote WiUj Be ! Ckst : ' Against Roosevelt's , Nomination- ; '. Platform Arouses Discussion. ' f Party Admits' Need;; of; Tariff Revisionr-Pbrto -.' Recognition-Vlowa Idea0 Seems Shelved! ; . - ' . i - ' ; that Th Republican party, held Its first conrentlon In 1S58. - It met flrat at Pfttahurr hnt ainnrnAti ta A Philadelphia Jun 17, where Fremont and Paton were choaen on' the flrat. ballot. -j Th Republican conren- lion oz nog met at cmcaa"0, and on th third ballot nominated Lincoln over Beward. hla chlet competitor, and Cameron, Chaae and Bates, th farorlte sons ot their .respective sutes. Hannibal Hamlin, of Main was named for Tlce-presldent over Casslus M Clay, who died only last year at hla homs In Kentucky.'. In 1864 the JRepubllcans met at Baltimore and nominated Lincoln and Johnson. Lincoln received all the ;votes In the convention except that of Missouri, which voted for General Granf T ; " ' ' - The convention of U7t tnetNn Philadelphia, and renominated President Grant, 'and the convention' four . years ago met In the same city and renominated McKlnley for president and named Theodore Rooaavalt for",' s vice-president M ";7 . I '. ".'.vt,-tt,-.',cAi - ,.,' '! t:,;."-i :',!' ; ; ; . .-;. J-s- . - Hayes was nominated at Cincinnati' la June, 117s, on the seventh ballot, over Blaine, Conklinf Vf Kew Tork, Hartranft of Pennsylvania, Jewell of Connecticut, , John Sherman of Ohio, Benjamin H. Brlstow of Kentucky, and tx-Governor .Morton' .of Indiana. i liUtX'' 'it ,""'"''' "'' -r' ' i !f The Republican convention in 1880 met In Chicago and was the I most Interestlni onl i that ever as- ' t sembled in the country. The contest for the nomination between Grant and Blaine, with John Sherman a ' ' formidable third in the race, was a most bitter one. General Garfield" was nominated on tha thirtv.ff ki . 'y Blaine and Logan were nominated at Chicago In the Republican, convention which met June t, 1884. Harrison was nominated at Chicago In 1888 and renominated at Minneapolis In 1881. The convention which named William McKlnley for the first time- met In St Louis In 1891 and the convention which renominated him was held at Philadelphia four years later. ; 1 f ' "'',-: 'If: '. '": v ? ' " ; -s 1 r The convention system of nominating; candidates seems to bavs originated In Pennsylvania, whira it was used as .early as'1788 In selecting state officers, and later in the choice of candidate for conrrW. Tokio Hears That VladI lyostok Squadron Has Been Engaged. HEAVY FIRING IS HEARD (Jfaral SpeeUl Srre.i Chicago, lit Jan 80. The stream of incoming delegations to the RepubUcan national convention set In with the early hours this morning and through the en tire day train after train unloaded its quota of hedged and buttoned enthus iasts. At the various down-town aoteis headonarters have. been opened zor the delee&tlona from ' nearly all of the states, "A few of the delegations' have been delayed, but all are expected to be on hand by this evening This morning inaugurated the serious work of the convention and . wltnaesed the beginning Of the real excitement at tending an event of such magnitude and importance. - pclegatlons and clubs: are oaradlng the streets and visitors ' are pouring in by thousands. All the clubs and hotels and moat of the business houses In the eentral section of the city are gaily decorated In honor of the oo caalon, . and when night Tails Chicago wUl be a blase of eleotrk: light Thous ands of electrlo lights have ben fes tooned along 8tate street from Madison to Van Buren straete and tonight ft will be tha most brilliantly 111 urn In tad spot In the city. - : ' ' As the visiting clubs arrived at tha various railroad stations ,K today they were met by committees or in uook County Republican lub, - the - Hamilton club and other Republican organisations ,-r Chicago and esoortad to tholr head' quarters, all of which had been selected in advance. Conspicuous among the Vis .King clubs are the famous Tippecanoe club of Cleveland, the Columbia club of Indlanapolla. the Amerlcus club of Pitts burg, and equally , well, known .political organisations from ' Denver, St - Louis, - Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Cincinnati. But falo, Philadelphia and other cities. An army of newspaper correspondents Is being cared for by the Press elub of Chl- cago. . , : r : X' t' Ooaveatlea San eady.' , J So far aa the arrangements of the convention, hall ' are 1 conoennad, every thing Is In reedlnesa for the fall of the gavel that. will call to order the .thir teenth aaHonal eonvention of the Repub lican party. Inside ' and out the Col- .lioum Is bright with flags and bunting, flags of : Immense proportions flying from all of the towers and minarets' that adorn the Wabash avenue facade of the , structure. f The . platform ; for the speakers and ettlcers of the convention INVESTIGATI ; THE pretty well uAderstood that the middle west will furnish Ihe man, - .' . - The convention will , consist' of 888 delegates. ; Of this - number 708 are under instructions to vote for the presi dent, and of the remaining 880 a large number are tactltly Instructed. A re markable fact is that not a ataxia del. gate u under instructions. to vote, for I rnrnnpf'x !rmrrr flncn Ikft Slinw any other candidate. ., . '. i -i -.7 1 wr . .4 SO DISASTER The states and territories which have solid delegations under instructions to vote for the president -are: . Alabama. 88; Alaska, 4 f Arisona. 8; Colorado, 10; Delaware, I; Florida, .10;' ' Hawaii, ; Idaho, i; Indian Territory. 4; Iowa 86; Maine. 18; Maryland, 14; Mississippi, 80; Montana, 4; Nevada, 4; New 'Mexico, ; North Dakota, 8; Oklahoma,-4; Oregon, 8; South Dakota. 8; South Carolina, 18; Utah, 4; Vermont 4; Washington, 10; and Wyoming, 4. v Of . the states and territories which have partly Instructed , delegations are: Arkansas, with 18 delegates, has t in structed; California Instructed 4 of Its 20; 4 of. the 14 delegates from Con necticut are Instructed; only 1 of the 84 delegates of Georgia are Instructed; Il linois has 84 delegates,- and 84 of these are instructed; all but of tha SO dele gates from Indiana are Instructed; Kan- 637 Bodies Recovered and More" Being Constantly Found. . . (Journal Special Berries.) -: . New Tork, June 80. Seven bodies. In eluding those of three women, three girls and a boy, victims of the Slocum disaster, were picked up at East River and Long Island aound before t o'clock this morning, which , makes a total of 4S7 . recovered up to date. . Bodies are today coming ashore every hour at dif ferent places, however, making the list a growing one. Of the bodies recovered I7S have been identified. . ' J ; . Thirty f unerale .took place this morn ing. The relief fund to date amounts to 884,000. . Of - this 818.000 has been ex pended on funerals and 810,000 has been sas, with 80 and Kentucky, with 88, have disbursed for- the temporary relief of onir x eacn that are not instructed: 10 1 ' mnww. Is at the eaafr end, of the .hall and ;dl. .rectly faces the main entrance, t ; r? A broad aisle eads the way from the entrance to the; platforsa. In, a? semi circle at the base of the platform-desks have been provided for members of the , presaf The platform for newspaper men is three feet above, the level of thereto - gate floor and the platform for speakers Ms four feet above this. -Provisions have been .made for seating" members of the . national committee on a platform pro vided for the presiding officer iand see retarles. ' At the rear of this, at an elevation of three feet Is still -another platform which will be reserved for the accommo- datlon of distinguished gueeta i' Dele , gates themselves will be accommodated with chairs on the floor of the hall r ' ranged lh the shape- of a fan so that all . delegates will face the presiding officer. The places to be occupied by the delega tions from the several states and ter- , rltories. ' including Porto Rico '. and Tfawall 'are-deaienated hv standarda The seats have been arranged Jh, such a manner as 10 ma no acorns ana egresa easy, and the exits; are sufficiently num erous to prevent any discomfort or - crowding of those who have business be fore the convention, - 7 1 - ' ,1 iS-X'f''- A koosevelt Ooaventloa.'' ' ' . -The Republican national .' convention Which Assembles In Chicago tomorrow may be truthfully termed a "Roosevelt v convention." ; It Is doubtful. if a dis--sentlng vote will be oast against 'the nomination of the president - The selec tion of the candidate' for vice-president will afford th only contest in the eon- vention and even this is not expected to be a very spirited proceeding. w Several sections of the country have put forth ' favorite eons,, for the honor, but It Is ot the 18 delegates from Louisiana are Instructed, and only 18 -of the 88 dele gate f rem ..... MiUMMchusettg ',are' 'In- atructed. "but the other SO are, vouched for aa friendly. ,'''- ' - -t ' Michigan sends 18 of .the IS derogates under Instructions, and of the total dele gation of It from Minnesota 80. are In structed; 88 delegates from Missouri ar Instructed, and that state Is entitled to 842 1 out of 14 are instructed. in Ne braska, and' 4 out of 8 In New Hamp shire t New Jersey did not Instruct at all., but- Indorsed ' Mr.f Roosevelt for nomination. - Of the 78 delegates from New Tork 84 are Instructed to vote for the president and 84 were elected with out " instructions. ' North Carolina in structed 14 out of 84, Ohio 84 out Of 44, and Pennsylvania 84 out Of 48. : ' ' All Of these states, however, 'indorsed the president So also did Rhode Island, which neglected to Instruct Its 8 dele gates. Tennessee Instructed 20 of Its 24, Texas Instructed 82 ot Its 84 'and Virginia 18 of its 84. Only S delegates of the 14. from West Virginia would be free to vote for any other candidate, and Of the 24 delegates of Wisconsin 18 am instructed. .? : 1 .-i j i' ' PUtform Zs rrepaxed. i Seldom If ver. before 4a the history of the Republican party has it pen pos sible to make so accurate a forecast of the platform in advance of the assem bling 'ef . the national convention as is the case this year.v A draft of the plat form was completed weeks ago. after a series " of White . House , - The ' relief committee- proposes the raising of an additional fund of 2126,000 to be used fortheretonot -a fund for the car of orphans and aged per sons, who are sufferers from the. disas ter.' -i.:..' r ' The coroner's Inquest to determine the responsibility for the accident be gan toaay. , store than zoo witnesses have been summoned, and the exhibits Include a number of decayed life pre servers, several lengths ofvcanvas hoe, together with water valves and sections ei tne sunapipes. j , 1 Joseph Cokely.a deckhand, ewors that during the 18 days he had been on the steamer he had never seen a fire drill , Flrat Mat Flanagan admitted that he had never been examined by government officials and was not licensed: He had been chief mat of the steadier for two years.';.:,---; v i "':'"v Additional : bodies - recovered todav bring the total this afternoon to 708, and. the, missing list still contains 800 names. At -4 , o'clock , 71 bodies bav been ' recovered for the day, , J v ; DROWNED IN ATTEMPT '' TO SAVE BOYS LIFE BANCROFT'S HAIL - - - ' ; -,; . , . . . ,. v. - . - , . . Postmaster , finds : Private letters Opened In His Office and Reports i n)Matterjtq Washington; ALL FOR FAFilILY; I FOR; CHARITY Another Story- Says 'Squadron' Sue : ceeded lo Gaining Entrance to - Port After Destroying the" Transports. ' ' Levi 2. teller's Will TlesIp Bis $30,- 000,000; Estate for at LeaiTiV ' Generation. As a result of alleged attempts to discover the nature of the correspond ence - or postmaster Bancroft bv 0Oun lng hla private mail, there may be sev eral reductions and perhaps discharge rrom the force of government employes In tha local poatomce. A report of the investigating proclivities of certain em ployes has been made by .Mr. Bancroft to department headauarters at Wash Ington. ,". - ' Details of this, the latest of Mr. Ban croft's troubles, are carefully withheld. rue postmaster himself refuses to die cuss the affair and other government em - (Special Dlipateb te The Jooraal.) ''' Washington, D. C., June 80. ' Th will of the late Levi Z. Letter was filed for probate' this mornina-. Hla widna and son ar named as executors with out bonds. No charitable or public be quests were mada The entire estate Is vaiuea at rrom 820,000,000 to 880,000, 000, and is tied up for at least a genera tion Jf Loiters. ' . : The - Widow receives -thronarhout her life a third of the net income from the estate In lieu of dowry.' Trustees are named to control the Investments and distribution of the income from a fund Llao Tang. June lO.-r-A general en gagement Is proceeding near Kla Chou. The first train bearing . wounded ' has passed her going north. , Joornal Special Service.) ; Tokio, June 20. Great excitement haa been experienced her today over ports relative to the Rusaian - Vladi vostok squadron. ' It la possible that battle is being fought; but If so. it is on which was. unexpected on th part f th Japanese fleet, ' - v ' Vice-Admiral Kamlmura, .In an offi cial dispatch this morning, sent expres sions of regret that he had been unable to encounter the Russian fleet notwlth standing continuous efforts made in the past few daya to discover it He lntl mated la this message bis belief that the Russiana had returned, to Vladlvoatok within the past 11 houra This afternoon there was a report unconfirmed, but generally believed to be true that Xamiraura had, after send ing his message, -overhauled the squad. ployes at the postofflce are equally retl-'l of 81.000,000 Independent of the settle-1 ron and given battle. According to this cent. ; , , w T : i mem, oi wnicn suo,ooo ia ror tn bene- It was learned by the postmaster sev-nc of his daughter the wife of . Lord erai weeks a so that an attamnt was l t-urson, vice regent or India. " i v K A 4 n cr martm ' K tArtofn AMAn 4 m 4k I ' ' v m n ,i ' n ii m ssj i.O,ce o discover the nature of cerUin IIYVED'' fl 1 VIC C a ll C TA i ftorrespondence he was carrying on. A j ILU VtX V IO I tXlLO 11 t Buuiner vx jeuera, it ia saia. aaa oeen APPEAR IN BOER CASE .V-:f' j.-'U- y;,s'-. 1 ' (Joernal RpeeUt service.) New Tork. June 20 Gen. . 8a Pearson, formerly of the Boer arm v. and Cornelius Vanderhought who were arrested a month ago charged with writing a threatening letter-to former Assistant- Secretary of the Interior wenater iMvls. had1 their bail dla- I would rather have It kept quiet for charged this morning' owing to the in- opened and Carefully sealed, before they reached the postmaster's desk. The work of reseallng the envelopes how ever, was not done cleverly enough to avoid detection and Mr. Bancroft's sus picions were aroused. Quiet efforts to detect the identity , of the Inquisitive government employe. It is said, reaulted In their discover' and a report to Wash ington officials.- '--' 'I have nothing to say In regard to th matter," said Mr. Bancroft. "And there has been enough of publicity con cerning the things that have transpired In this office. It certainly would not be ! of any assistance to those who are Implicated If I should give their names and It -wouldn't do me any good nor would be of any benefit to th service." WOMAN IS CORED BY AN INFURIATED COW ability of the complainant . to sppear. xne case is now aisraissea. ' The defendant declared that Davis was afraid to submit to crosa -examination as to the disposition of 240,000 In trusted to him by the Boer xovernment as Its agent during the war; QMDP QCtCDCI V HIIDT UWUUOLJULLl 11UIV IU IN B. SO. TRAIN WRECK among the ; party leaders.: and If any changes are made by the committee on resolutions they will minor character. After th usual expresalon . of . con fidence in. the eternal principles of the Republican . party,' the platform Will speouloally rcommend Theodore Rooee- velt-- tha BIBB. fAr hla fslthfnl Ahr. enc to the policies Of McKlnley' for Iris fearless discharge of "the duties of hla high office, for the Important part be played in . the crisis of the anthracite coal etrlke, and for representing the highest ' Ideals of American manhood. Th.pay admit the need , of tariff revision. Other . subjects the platform will touch concern the relations of thta government with foreign countries, to accomplish 'this administration's con nection with ' the construction of the Panama canal,; settlement of the ooal strike, relations of labor and capital and to the Porto Rtcan policies. , The chief mission of the Borto Rica delega tion is to secure a plank In favor of ex tending to. the Islander a recognition as cltisens and looking to ultimate state- hoodf ' r '' : -1 f'f ' : 1 : ?; ' "'( ' The platform show there will be Philippine plank promising soma aort of autonomy to the Filipinos, but that the conditions will be attacked demand- (Speclal Dispatch te Tbe Joornl.) ' Helena, Mont, June 20. While Ernest Rich and Anna Strong, sweethearts, were - -.v. i uul. wMiKiUK ai. , fvnui( incir saw conferences Harry Bullock, a boy of nine,, fall Into (Special Dlepatch to The JonraaL) Nes Perc. Ida., Juns 20. Mrs. David report the battle was In progress at the time the news was received. Your cor respondent can find no Official . con firmation Of thla report .' Still another story has reached her, originating at Shanghai., which says that German advices by wireless telegraphy to Tien-Tain tell of a bold mov where by the Russians have gained a victory. The Shanghai dispatch is aa follows: i ."German sdylces by wireless to Tien Tsln say the Russian Vladivostok squad ron of four cruisers entered Port Arthur in a fog last' night thoroughly outwit ting' the Japanese despite their, vigi lance, v On their trip the Russiana suc ceeded In destroying 14 Japanese trans ports," , , , -r ;-, L.:.,r -'- :v v , h.h No mention Is made of loss of life, names of transnorts or Where destroyed. Japanese officials' have heard nothing of the latter mov. It is not believed, par ticularly in view of Kamlmura's report From Shlmonosekl comes the news that heavy end continuous firing was heard off that port today, leading to the surmls that the Ruasian Vladivostok squadron had reappeared off the Korean straits and bean attacked by , the Jap anese squadron. , v ' i Thla is taken as In a measure con Mrtnatory of th general report that a battle is being waged. . i- : i 2kassiaa 3ss Xsavrv An official report received today from General OJu shows that-the Russian loss at Vafangow, or, as It is known to the C011I h1 ALL1B Company Seeks to Con trol 5000 Apartments During 1905 Fair. A MILLION IN SIGHT Nearly 700 Rooms Already Tied ; tp and Concern Expects to Thoroughly Cover the.' City Hay Sell , .. . ' Oat Its Right. . , the river. . : Rich essayed to Vescue him. but both be . of the most j were catfght In a whirlpool and drowned. t-'-,a;i I'iF' us ,i" I The bod lea were waahed down atream and have not been recovered. ; , Miss Strong has lost hr . reason be cause of the frightful scene and the mother of Rich Is on the rerge of in sanity. , . " PROF. TAILLANTIER SUCCEEDS GOODNOUGII . Uearaal Special srffce.Vv if li Vlncennea 'Ind.. June 2flA7ri.,' Puglv the wife of a well known rancher score of persons more or less injured, Japanese, Telissu. waa heavier than yet living near her, was probably fatally several f whom may die of their In- reported. Mri h an infuriated now lata venter- Juries, is the result of a fast feaittmnr ' OJu says after, the battle the Japanese nay afternoon-. Mrs- Pugh, accompanied I & Ohio passenger train running through buried l,S14Ruaaiaaa found dead oa tha bv ber little t son.; while crossing the 1 open swucn ana colliding with a 1 r I frelsht train on a sldlns nmr hem ' " ' I IlnUhed. The mother of the calf euddenlr rushed I The cars were all new and the Con- vss report tnat tne wueaian our irucnon sucn -as v tender telescoplig almost impossible, The dining car suf fered th most damaa-e. The enrlneer of the freight train and the firemen of both trains ar amour tha several in. jured, on the woman and boy who were. unable to escape. Tha woman was gored and the boy was picked up on tha horns or tne mad dened animal and toased completely over a nearby fence. Singular to say the boy was uninjured. led. burned and carried away, from the battle-field many other dead, -and that I the casualties were appalling. OJu adds that none but non-commissioned officers wer found among th dead, which teada him to credit the native statement AMMONIA EXPLOSION ' INJURES FIVE GIRLS ' (Continued on Page Two.)'. A. JOHN T. SULLIVAN, ACTOR, FALLS DEAD ' fJoornal Special Service.) . ' '( "New York. June 20. John T.' Sullb van, th Idol ef the matinee- girl.?' dl vorced husband or Rose Coghlan, widely known in the- theatrical profes sion as art actor of ability, died her to - day of heart disease. He was 42 year of age . and was divorced from ; Rose .. Coghlan two ''weeks' ago. He was lead t lng man with Rose Coghlan in "Joce lyn".when he -married , t i. Sullivan had, been an actor for the r"t 25 years. In 'Portland he was a rT.nn-,1 f-'A"1 r' Tr:,"irn RtumcU of . I ' i , ' ' -r Vote, X -Casino company. ' v v now manager ef the playing at Baker'a , Said Mr.RusseU;."Sulltvn was at one time a member of Wallack's com pany and his aaroclates were - of the beet dramatic ability." v Four years ago, he appeared for the last time in Portland. It waa in a fare by John Stapleton, entitled "A Bache lor's Honeymoon." , f ,;-In the company with .which he came to Portland was Joseph Jefferson, Jr, son of the "Rip Van Winkle" Jefferson, Arthur Warde. a son of Prederlck Wards. 'was manager of the company the following year. Sullivan served In early life In th United Sutes army In the west , '' -' - , i . "' "-' (Journal Special Service.) ' ' - i Corvallla, Or..- June 20, Professor O. Talll antler, for several years teacher In tha Boston College of Music, succeeds Professor Mordaunt Goodnough as prin-i clpal of piano musio at the Oregon Agri cultural college here, r- . ' ' Professor Talllantier studied at Llep- slc, Germany, and cornea highly recom mended aa a first-clasa teacher. He ar- rtvea for the opening of the college. Professor Goodnouglr has accepted the prtnclpalshlp of the Western Academy of Music ' , .1 ' SCHOOL ELECTION 1 ; IS HELD TODAY An election is being held from 2 to 4 o'clock this afternoon for the purpose of electing one director ror the term-of five years . to - succeed ir. Wittenberg, the present incumbent- - Mr. Wittenberg was Induced by many friends to become a candidate for re-election. If there waa any serious opposition to -his re-election. secretly or otherwise the move probably fell flat & A special meeting of the school board will be held this evening to canvass the vote polled for director, and a regular meeting- will be held one week from to night. A special meeting of the school board waa also held this afternoon for the i purpose of electing a nurt of the corps of teachers to b -employed in the school during the coming year. ' Vr PXOSXXB DEAD. --.:'-, '.'-' I iSpecial Diapetcfe te Tba. Journal. 1 " Salem. Or, June 20. J. C Capllna-er, Marlon county pioneer f 1844, died Sunday at his home tour miles east ef ! Salem, aged 87 years.,,.- . , (Jouraal Special Service.) Kansas City, Mo.. June 20. An ex plosion of an ammonia tank on the sec ond floor Of th Block Preserving com pany plant thla morning caused a par tial collapse ot the' structure. : . Viola Baker and Martha Fisher, girl employes, were probably fatally burned and three others were badiy hurt. i Several others had narrow escapes, as a portion of th semi-demolished struc ture fell but a few minutes after the injured were removed. ' DIRECTOR GOODE ' HOLD CONFERENCE RAISULI MAY SOON FREE HIS. CAPTIVES 7 ' (Journal Special Servlce.I Washington. June 80, Admiral Charf. wic cables rrom ; Tangier that the American, Perdicaris, and his Son-in-law I Cromwell Varley; who axe now held cao- nve iot a jargo ranaom oy n brigand, Ralsuli, will in all probability . be re leased tomorrow. ' ' Admiral Barkera souadron arrived at Gibraltar today from' Lisbon en route to i wx angier. SULTAN DECORATES AN AMERICAN WOMAN Says Fort Arthur 2lsldeaU Are Sot tarvlng and Can : Hold On. " ' : '(Jooraal Special Service.) ' . Indianapolis, June 80. Hector Puller, staff correspondent .of the Indianapolis News, cables his paper from Cbefoo to day as follows: . - "After spending Ave days in a Rus sian prison I was released, put aboard a Chinese junk and sent to this place. Tbe stories of starvation at Port Ar thur, spread by the Japanese, ar un true, as store and : supplies, ar con stantly arriving in' th besieged city from Chinese porta . - - "The Japanese blockade Is Ineffectlva The Port Arthur garrison consists of between,, 80.000 and 40,000 troops and (Continued on. Page .Two.) , , i . Flv thouaand room under one man agement for rent during th Lewis and Clatk fair, an averaae nroflt f tuo on each room, and a total cleanup of nearly 81.0e.00 this is th msgnidcent stake that Is being striven ror by the Lewi sad Clark accommodation bureau, a new corporation -with - baaquarter In - the Lewis - building on - Morrison , street. Judging from th progress made by the. company during the last 20 daya, it bids fair to accomplish its object, which virtually is to control the rooming priv ileges in rooming-houses ad . private residences during th fair. For four weeka the company haa had 40 solicitors at work from early morn ing, until 'utghtfall, securing Ironclad contracts with owners and lessees of private houaes . and rooming-houses. These con tract a secure to ths company the absolute control of tbe rooms speci fied In the contract, from the opening to the closing day of the fair. The con tract has been psssed upon by Ave of the best lawyers in the city, and their unanimous verdict, Is that the house holder who enters Into It had better carry out hla agreement' .rather than try to fight the case In court. During the 80 days in which the solicitors of the company have been at work they ' have closed between floO and 700 con tracts, and the work is proxreaslng rup- Idly. ' They work In s district boiind.-J by Twelfth street on tke west and Mont- avilla, Sunnyslde and Mt Tabor on tha east. They do not g beyond Thirty fourth street and they take no rooms that are further than two blocks from street car line. The 'district lying west of Twelfth street and contiguous to the fair ground has been sold by the local com pany to a St Louis concern. Thia con cern had Its sgents In this city some time ago and they have partly covered that district with their contracts, whit It are similar to those of the local com pany."--.' ' ,!. 'y Th local - company ia nnaer tne management of Clauds Nash, who has a suite of three well furnished orders in the Lewis building. His assistant. Mr. Heed, talked very frankly today concerning the business and objects of tha company.. He aald: , . . , Objects Xxplalaed. ' "This company was ' incorporated a month ago." During that time we have met with much opposition and over come many difficulties. -: . It has . been claimed . that we are attempting a cor ner on rooms. . We are operating alon the same lines that similar companies operated at. Buffalo,! Chicago and are now running at 8t. Louis. If we were not In the Held the St Louis company would come in here and x we : think it would do the same thing. only more profitably even than' we expect to oper ate. W' now have under contract be- ' tween six and seven hundred rooms, r aesrly ae many apartments a5 the Port land, the Imperial and tbe Perkins com bined.. About 200 of the rooms are In the center of th City, and the remainder are out further, some ss far as Monta vllla. Sunnyside and Mount Tabor. We secure these rooms on terms averaging about 14.35 a week. 4 Of course. It cost us several thousand dollars, to perfect our organisation, but we expect to raska an. average profit of from 8180 to 22'0 during the fair on each room. Our con tract is so worded that it makes no dif ference to us when the fair is held.' "We ar running only one big risk on the proposition,: and that Is fire ami strike. We fear a V great ore that might wipe out - the city, or a great strike next spring that would tie up the fair and make it impossible to have a fair, . These chances .we regard sert-. , ouaiy In the undertaking, for tha condt- . tions aeem to oe ripening toward timt kind of a result. -Large frame buildings that are being built in the, down-town district, together with the ; many fire trap that already existed there, mak (Continued on Page Two.) (Joarnal Epeclal Serriee.) , 4 jonatantinopie, June zu. The sultan- of Turkey haa decorated Miss Lefseh- man. daughter of the American minister with the Grand Cordon of the Chefacat FAIR - ' (Special Dtopatcv to The JoomaL) ' -Washington, June 20. Director-Gen eral Good e of the Lewis and Clark, fair and Compte Biron. to whom she is an- lof Portland this morning had a con- gaged, with a decoration of th second lerenca wnn mo puuains cwmram oiicisss OX Meiiaie. the government board concerning tne se MANNERS APPAL BRITON lection of a site for the government buildings, .Owing to the absence o-f Su pervising Architect Taylor the matter. went over until Wednesday. AT VAX2UBT POMS. sisnnan Vf at BOOSEVKX.T (Journal Special Service.) ti FhTIadelphia. June 20. At the "evac uation day" celebration at Valley-Forge President "KOosevelt delivered , an ad- dressto a large crowd yesterday after noon at-, the ' Washington Memorial chapeLf ; Attorney-General i Wayne Mae- Veagh also made a' brief .'speech. The president and. his party. 'consisting of Urn. Roosevelf Attorney-General Knox and wife, paid a visit to the first-house occupied- In this country by the natural ist, Audubon. WOBX&'B TAXB TTSTTOSS. (Special Dtapatch to Tbe Joarnal. 1 Y,'i . World's Fair Grounds. St Louis, June ze. Among the Oregon visitors at the fair -today- are tbe following: ' H. C. Sutherland.;; Mra. Richard C. Morris, Miss Eleanor Nottingham. C Lombard, W. B, Coane and Thomas K. Gray of Portland ; W. . May and Mr. and. Mra E. C. Ross, Of Salem; Mr. and Mra Jo seph Feltsner Of Grant Pass, and C- O. Redfleld. of Heppner. . fj:i, ' ,-., 1 v. .. . ISDcelal Dlsnatck to The JmnaLl : Moscow, June 20. Weird has been re ceived hero that if tha city of Moscow 111 provide a suitable sita that An drew Carnegie will donate 210,000 for the erection I a library. ' (Joarnal 8peclal Service ) , Manchester, .England, June 20. The Manchester Dispatch today prints an In terview In Which It quotes the state ments made by "a gentleman Who has Just returned from the American exposi tion now being held 1n St. Louis," in whteb the most appalling statement of condition in St. Louis are portrayed', "Visitors ln.the exposition city, vihioh Is on the frontlt-r," he says, ' dUai ; mt unaccountably.: The rol.ber 'anil mur derers are splendidly organiz-Ml and yly their trade without fear of cm i su a "The hotfls Of, St. Ixnls r ini-rei flimsy r:-" -"-h ns mlr'-.t i t- -ed In t' ',.-.,(' v ai e I . , . r' i i i ii r ,!s,.-f-, ; j.,. ':'-;;,; .-' serve the patrons, constantly chewing tobacco and expectorating .over . tne heads of the dlnera: It 1 but" fair ti say, though, that so great is thetr dex terity that accident seldom happen. "They do not accept protest wii i eriuantihlty and are violently abuslys at times, j One gentleman told m- ti-., t when he hud Kivcn, the .i,'-r h I . i f an AmPn, it, ivi!-; to r iv l ! t mi r nny the !!.-it C - f li.f i. i 1