' .... it. -A OOP itVENINCr. , ' '' Tonight and Tuesday, t. " . ariy winds. . ' ., VOL. III. NO. ' 87. I Japanese and Russian Maneuvers for Posi tion Nearly Ended. BATTLE MAY NOW BE ON Cossacks Rout and Annihilate Japan- esc Reconnoifering Detach ment, Besprinkling jrYallcy With Dead. (Journal 8pcll Brrlc.) St. Petersburg, June 27. Dispatches from" Tatcheklao state that both the Japanese and Russian maneuvers for position are about concluded and that a great battle mar be even now In progress. Sharp firing was heard In the hills all day yesterday and at intervals in the evening the detonations sounded as though heavier pieces were being used at intervals. AH day Sunday Russian troops In great numbers marched to the front, although the weather has,aaln turned oppressively, am ana Tina mou are, in many Instances, nearly ready for the hospitals owing to the ravages of heat and dysentery. For the last fortnight all battles that ,liave been fought are as but skirmishes when) compared with the battle which will Inevitably come. These engage ments have been a mere part In the maneuvering and have taken place only when It was necessary to establish a position. ' Wat Offloe Mlaaft. ';. The war office remains silent regard Ing the loss , of any battleship tn the ' recent naval operatlons,at Port Arthur. Z" and" In Ita public' utterances 'mentions i i. . the movement of the fleet from the har bor as . "a sortie." - It Is believed by those who have -been advised of the Japanese victory that It has been largely overestimated by the Tokio reports and that if a heavy en gagement actually occurred, the Japan' ese losses must have been heavier than stated. Cossacks Defeat Japanese. Advices from Mukden give further de tails of an engagement, which took place June 26, In which Cossacks defeated a body of Japanese, Inflicting heavy losses. The Japanese detachment was one that had been sent out reconnolterlng from General Kurokl's right Wing and had advanced beyond the line of sup port. The CoBsacks. of which there were several troops, encountered the Japanese, drove them to retreat and chased them for a distance of 12 miles, annihilating the force. So fierce was the Cossack onslaught that on the return up a Valley, wherein the fighting had taken place, the ground was besprinkled with bodies of Jap anese who had been cut down or lanced by the horsemen. The.Cossack losses were comparatively small, numbering barely a score of men killed and a similar- number wounded. "A ' BIB BT THOTTSAJTCS. Japanese Reports Show That Disease XU1 as Many as Do Bullets. ; (Jocrnal Spatial Sendee.) Rome, June 27. A dispatch received today from the Llbero's Tokio corre spondent gives the resume of an of . flclal statement made by the Japanese government In which the assertion Is made that the loss of deaths from dis ease In both the armies of Russia and Japan equal those In actual fighting. The Japanese losses are for the greater part due to typhoid fever and' pneumo nia. The change of climate Is said V affect the Japanese soldiers most rapid ly and many who are taken 111 with pneumonia diaht, an Incredibly short time, fever Is in V measure blamed to the carelessness of the soldiers them selves, who despite the warnings of their medical officers, persist in that strain of fatalism that makes them dls regard all instructions for their, own safety. According to the Japanese report the Russian losses are due largely to dys entery. Through a certain portion of the country .traversed, by the Russian troops there are Innumerable .streams containing mineral and vegetable mat ter causing the disease, wnicn is aggra vated bv the heat The renort Issued by the government aays that all possible precautions for sanitation and sanitary metnoas or liv ing are being urged by the Japanese ornoers m the hope that the troops may be taught the value of extreme care while campaigning. a.ooo unres bimoted. (Journal Special Serylce.) Tien Tsln, June 87. Two thousand Russian mines about kwang Tung have thus far been destroyed. WANTS STANDARD. OIL COMPANY DISSOLVED : J ; (Journal Special BerTlce.) Trenton, , N. J.. . June 27.. 4 , George Rica this morning filed a diu in cnancery Tor the dlssolu 4 tlon of the 'Standard QU com ; T?any, ' the ' New Jersey corpora ' - tion, as" being Illegal under the anti-trust act., . fair; north ; MULTI-MURDERER' BURNESS (lonraal Bpedil Berrlce.) New Tork, June 27. Frank Purness was put to death In the electric chair at Osslnlng prison early today. In many ways the execution was on of the most remarkably that has even taken place In the state. Burness refused to receive spiritual consolation on the ground that he had nothing to be consoled for, and that he was In no wise responsible for his Crimea He eagerly awaited the hour of his execution this morning and ro quested that he be allowed to make the death march unattended. With no companion he almost ran to the death chair, so eager was he to have It over with. ; Seating himself In .the chair he FLOOD GUESS OFF, FARMERS LOSE; SPRING For several years past a feature, of the weather bureau reports for Oregon has been an estimate of the probable rise of the Columbia and Willamette rivers, published about April 1 of each year. According to Edward A. Beals, Wie local forecast official. It Is doubtful whether these estimates . will be con tinued affer this year. ' . - The height of the annual rise depends primarily upon the rapidity with which the snow melts In the mountains, and this In turn Is governed by the warmth of the weather. Under normal - condi tions If spring temperature the weather bureau has only to ascertain the amount of snow tha has fallen In the moun tains to estimate, with very great ac curacy, the probable extent of thetspring flood In the rivers. With a given depth of snow In the mountains there must be a certain rise In the rivers, nrovidert the snow melts at a normal rate. But If the temperature in April and May shows any. considerable departure from the normal, or If there should- be al ternations of heat and cold so that the thawing of the snow Is Interrupted, the calculations .of the weather bureau will be upset and its estimates of the rise of the rivers will be falsified. These estimates have been published about April 1, while the height, of the spring rise is usually reached in the latter part Of May or In June. - , "I have come to the conclusion that it Is of little use to try to predict the extent of the spring floods," said Mr. Beals this" morning. "We fell down badly this year. In our March report we predicted that, with normal tempera tures In April and May, the flood crest at Portland, would be 26 feet The max imum high water - mark reached was only 20.8 feet. But our estimate was made, of course, .Upon the assumption that the spring weather would b nor mal, and In this we were disappointed. After the snows began to melt the river rose to a height of 20.8 feet, then be came -stationary there, owing to a sud den cold apell in the mountains, which kont' the river at that leveh for about three weeks. The result was that thei vrl ( 3 PORTLAND, OREGON,- MONDAY. EVENING. I 1 - I ,:.:;.:; I . I ;t? I I mMmmm&iPtmmxM& urn' o-5i ,x' r-ii yl:i' 3 ;)'.: , rvrf';f , V V ir . j --! ')--' 1 v ..;: !T7T"K''-- Xf ( , c J i Jr - S. ' i ' 14 - .- FRANK BURIVESS EXECUTED IN smiled cheerfully at the witnesses as though merely posing for a photograph and seemed to look forward to tils death with -great satisfaction. .Four distinct shocks were necessary to produce death, the last being continued for an'Unusual length of time. There was none to claim, his body, which was Immediately taken to the convict vaults and burled In. Quick lime. The specific crime for which Burness paid the death penalty was murder of a sea captain In the port of Now York last fall. In addition to this murder Burness confessed at his trial that he had killed more than half a dozen persons during the last 10 years. Burness was a sailor, and his crimes, so he declared, were committed in vari MISLEADS FORECASTER snow melted away very, gradually. A larger volume of snow has gone out this year than usual, but it melted In such a way as to give less flood. Last year, with Jess snow in the mountains, the flood crest at Portland was 24 feet, or more than three feet higher than this year. ' "The jjnusually .warm weather In April t of . this year started the snow down and the rivers began to rise. Then came the change to colder weather and the rise was suddenly checked. We could not foresee such a departure from the usual -.weather,, and so our predic tion, prqved to b mistaken. . "There vie another factor which we have to consider in making these esti mates. The Snake and the tipper Co lumbia both rise in the spring for, the same cause the, melting of the moun tain snows and if the flood erects on both reach the Junction of the rivers simultaneously, It means tmuch higher water on the lower . Columbia than otherwise. Ordinarily the Snake river crest passes the cresti before the crest on the upper Columbia comes down, for the .reason that the orainage area of the Snake is farther to the south, and so more subject to warm weather. But when high water Is reached- simultan eously on both rivers. theh we get our highest water- on the lower mer. "I have about .concluded "that here after I will make no more predictions as to the height the ve-wtlt-rireach, but will content myselt with giving the public the Information we gather as to the amount of snow in the moun tains. People can - then Jo their own guessing for themselves.!V , Mr. Beals" has been' in'harge of the local weather office since 1900. and has published five forecasts of spring floods. In three- years, when normal conditions . prevailed, his forecasts proved remarkably ..accurate. - In two years, when the melting of the snows In the mountains wa Interrupted by unseasonable cohl. the height of the floods was much less than he predicted. : In . 1900 Mr.. Beals made 'only the general prediction that the river'would not reach a, dangerous sjage at Port-, GtSSINING ous' parts of Spain. China and other parts of the world. where his ship called Upon his conviction here he pleaded with the authorities to let him be exe. cuted as speedily as possible. He de clared that It would be dangeroaa, to the community to allow him at large. as he was totally unable to control hi passion for murder when his temper was aroused. 1 At his trial Burness confessed his crimes to assist In expediting the pro ceedings. Then his lawyer, who had been appointed by the state, appealed the case, which drew from Burness a letter to the governor, In which he asked that this be overruled, as It was "the work of a scheming lawyer to get more fees, he said. - land, and this was fully . verified, -the hlirh-water mark belnir 17.8. In 1901, with an estimate of 20, feet, the flood crest was 20.8 feet, sn extremely close approxmatlon. In 1902 the estimate was 26 feet, - the snowfall that winter having been unusually heavy; but ow ing ,to alternate hot and cold weather In .April and May the snow melted very gradually and the flood crest was but 90.8 feet. In 1903 the prediction was 24 feet, and . that was precisely the limit reached at high water. The dis crepancy this year has already been mentioned. - Last .year Mr. Bals was the recipient of several hundred letters from ranchers. fishermen and others, congratulating him upon the accuracy of his forecast. Naturally there has been some criticism this year. Ranchers and farmers along the lowlands bordering the Willamette and the Columbia are most affected by the annual floods and to them it Is of great importance to determine as ex actly as possible the height to which the water will rise. Mr. Beals proposes to continue to gather every spring data ss to the amount of snow In the mountains, and this Information will be made pub lic, but without any attempt to estimate the extent of the spring floods. '. Of course the dallyl reports which are issued during Jthe period of high water will be continued, and these give esti mates of the rise or fall of the rivers for a period of three or four days to The weath'er bureau's information as to4he amount of snow in the mountains Is drawn chiefly from two sources. The first Is the reports of forest rangers and other persons-stationed in the moun tains, who Inform the bureau i eacn month as to the amount of anowj that has fallen, and whether It Is above $r be low the normal precipitation. The sec ond source of information is the regular monthly reports of the weather stations at Helena, Kallspel. Spokane. Walla Walla. Baker City, Iwiston, Boise and Poca tell o. The precipitation at these stations Is a fair . Indication , of that throughout the mountains tmm JUNE 27. 1904. Society Leader Fails to iteiurn rrom tanoe Trip, W CLUE IS DISCOVERED Empty Canoe, Coat and Hat Are Alone Recovered He Is Alleged to Have Been Involved in financial Trouble. Mounted police snd headquarters de tectlves are today scouring the woods on Ross Island In the Willamette river and following up every possible clue In an endeavor to unravel the deep mys tery surrounding the disappearance of Maurice C Cheai a well known young man or mis cuy wno weni out canoeing ...... , . . , last night at 7:30 o'clock and whose w 4UU,,U W11" lurr ". "i water in its bottom this morning. In It were found the coat and hat of the missing man. At 1:30 this afternoon I C. CHEAL paddle was found near Hog Island. ,n(j tne argument that she should re Searching parties will scour Ross and turn to the society of her own race Hog islands for the missing man. The police have three. theories. The first is that Cheal, being hard pressed financially, committed suicide; the sec- ona tnat ne improvised tne ruse to lead his friends to think he either drowned "We are In dire distress at the fear or committed suicide, but Is In reality ful condition, but have agreed that alive and in flight. The third is that he was accidentally drowned. Cheal was accused of shortage in his mnunii in the afflr-n of KYnnir r Woolsey, shlph. merchant. This morning at 6 o'clock the canoe ... rmA ), wnrbm.n . nnn. tlon camp of the Oregon Water Power fwajr today; Is with his nit and Un aYJUUway . company on the .east. shore vhm,l -.iU!n .bJS i! of the river above tha Inman-Poulsen touched the heart M tha othr am tUmh.f mill .nH .a. tiirn. . r - - nrowd or vounff men who are at nrea. ent living In an old boathouse near there. - ' r. " """'"V WL me r-acinc uiscuu company, iook cnarge fL !h.MJL0' .iK0!," J.J?. .V" ' r ,TI, ' Police Bailey was notified. An Invest!- gallon was Immediately etarted. T"a om-aA vara at tha iinitmrfv rtf Ta ma A ssv via! nua .aav jrAwav. ua. wuaaai,H Holland, a timber man, who loaned It to Cheal, he being a warm friend. Ca halin, who took pains to examine it carefully, says there was three Inches of water in the bottom in whirl, the coat and hat lay. In one of the pockets a letter with Cheal's name was found. leading to the Identity of the man who used the canoe. With this much to work on the officers took up the case. Arnold R. Rothwell, state manager for Oregon and Idaho for Jthe Mutual Bene fit Life Insurance company, was opt canoeing on the river with Cheal yes terday, but they took the canoe to the Portland Rowing clubs boathouse In the afternoon and left It. Later Cheal went out aiohe. He has never been seej since, to the knowledge of his Port land friends. Cheal was In partnership with H. O, Stlckney. 622 Chamber of. Commerce building. In the brokerage business. To- Que(m wilhelmina. The public's appre day Mr. Stlckney stated that so far as hAgl0n is not allayed by the issuance of Sd75i.r.nct unless he" met with an accident. However. It is known thut the alleged shortage at Woolseys offlco came to a crisis Saturday. At that time Cheal promised to make goo the Amn.mt ..vnr h waa in a nosltion to do so now. He formerly worked In a confidential capacity for Woolsey. but left there six months ago to enter the offlca of Mr. Stlcknev. "Mr. Cheal- was an expert swimmer and oarsman," said Mr. Stlckney, "and how he could drown Is more than I can see. Still, "he might have met with an accident. He had no reason to commit suicide or to flee the country. His habits were regulnr, he was happily married, so far as I know, snd every thing was going well. He and I have been rooming together at tne notei PBrtland. his wife and little daughter helna- at Dresent In Seattle with her parents. He has never Intimated any- I charge of boodllng against him by Or thing to me that would lead me to the cult Attorney Folk. He will received a belief that he was nnanoiany em- barrassed." Chief of Police Hunt was notified this morning early that Cheal was worrying about money matters, and in addition to dispatching Mounted Patrolmen White and Smart to scour the Island for Cheal's body, detailed Headquarters De tective Welner to Investigate the .finan cial part of the case. Cheal was an athlete, being a member of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club. He was a canoe and swimming enthusiast and yesterday afternoon while visiting gentlemen friends at the Norton, asked them to take a ride on the river with him. They declined, for personal reasons. He was , married about one year ago, and has a daughter two months old. -He was one of tne most widely known young men In tha city. Hfls 30 years old. BY BURSTING PIPE 34 LABORERS DROWN , . - (Journal Special Service.) . " Kingston, Jamaica, June 27, f' The accidental flooding of a large pipe leading from the elec- trlcal plant to the river today resulted in the drowning of 34 men who wore cleaning the pipe. - Sixty-seven men were at". work 4 and only 18 were, saved. ; t MAYBcLLE 015 VILL NOT LEAVE BOARD V v.... ' infatuated Portland Girt Refuses Her. . , . iviotner s i eariui Colored Waiter Located in Spokane by She Resists All Pleadings to. Join Own Race-! Family to Take Maybelle Douglas, late cashier of the Portland hotel grill, has been found; Is living in Spokane; is beside the col- - f'd roan Edward F. Jones, to whom w" m"rrl ,a" WB"7 uT"r '"V"" " ... lu uu lau"" - : . " .vn lhl . i,v w j "ed father f J. Douglas, the broken .1 . t. . . I. U ,(..1111 VI , . 1IU K 1 . . t v. t .-I .. ,h Erir.n i.rla. fn,.nA ,.. rtanhf.r .ni ni.ii t,rJ fully with her to return to us, but she refused." said Mr. Doualas. at his home in Woodlnwn todav. "The Dravers and a nludlnn. the oromlse of a aood home were of no avail. "Our daughter said she had made the selection, that she was nappy and that she proposed to stand by. the choice she bad made there Is nothing for the family to do but face the conditions Wltta this succinct statement or me facts. Mr. - Douglas couia say no more. The condition of his mind can nest oe sppreciaieo oy me i I Northern mClDC ireigBl UeDOl H PlOyOS, OeCfUno lor ,:.. ... .,.rl th. iia nt thut AOnat. All """ r " - . i v. i- r.iinv wAnrwa i iv a mm a nil " U1" , i,,..a-hu has overwhelmed him. Mr. n,,ia. m Pnrt land and the snd word she brought to her husband and sons was foreshadowed ... , . ,.,,. whiK rama frnm Ki..,ii. T noi. t an Intimate atrl I J " . . friend a letter In which she confirmed the report of her marriage and said that 8h?. was IAmA h. th.f th. 1 I linn v,av- v v j will not continue In Spokane. He In f B i hBpr"ne JjL" tZ tltul thLc "!;,.! ",-hfce1.t.u(? of the woman who calls herself bis wife. that will have to work out for Itself. At the Umatilla lodging house. Main I avenue and Bernard street, where the ANXIOUS FOR HEALTH OF QUEEN WILIIELMINA (Journal Special Servloe.) The Hague, June 27. Grave anxiety aMln feir regarding the health of official bulletins intended to be of a re- assuring cnaracrer. It, is generally known thartne queen, since her arrival at Het Loo, has avoid- ed all fatiguing exercises, never walk- ina- a great distance or riding on horse back, and scarcely leaving mo inuueumic vicinity' of the custle, all of which is In striking contrast to the queens usual habits, ST. LOUIS B00DLER ADMITS HIS GUILT Journal SnecMt' Serrloe.) St. Louis, Mo.. June 27. Edmund Bursch, ex-member of the house of del eeates. nleaded guilty today to me) sentence or not less man nve years, BOOT AT TALE. (Journal Special Srxlce.) New Haven, Conn., June 27. The an nual commencement exercises at the Yale Law school were held today in Hendrl hall. The principal address was delivered by Elihu Root, formerly sec retary of war. FIRE DOES $25,000 . DAMAGE TO DRIARD (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Victoria, B, - O-., June 27,-r-FI re broke out at 9:30 last night In the Drlard hotel. a seven-story building, in the heart of the business portion of the city. - Tha firemen fought Until t o'clock this morn ing before tha fire was brought under control. ' " ;i The flames broke put In the basement, either in the engine-room or'in the quar ters used, as a Turkish-bath, establish ment It was Impossible for' tha fire men to enter on account of tha Immense volume of smoke. They oould only pour water in the direction in which tha fire manifested itself. In1; tha meantime smoke found ventilation through the flues, the elevator shaft and the stair ways and issued from the roof. ;.' It was Impossible to. tell whether the fir was following tha smoke and eating its way through tha partitions. At about ' IF YOU DIDVr READ . THE SUNDAY JOURNAL YESTERDAY "Y0U DIDN'T CET THE NEWS 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS. : . . . . tntreaty to uesert and Return Home Her Heartbroken Parent No Further Action. couple are living, they are surrounded by people who for the most part ' art transients. Meads Are Orlarad. When old-time guests of the Portland hotel spread their Journals at tha break fast table yesterday morning and'saW the account of the end of the young girl whom they bad learned to regard highly, there were tears. Ona man ami his aged wife, a man who Is among tha leading financiers of the city, were forced to leave the table whn they heard the facts; and later this man re marked that, to his knowledge tha young girl by the asking could have secured . the best positions open to women In Portland; could have secured any amount of cash had she been In need of financial aid, and could have found a welcome in some of the best homes in the city. "My wife and I have known Maybelle Douglas for a long time." said another gentleman at the Portland, "and she is the last person In tha world that w would have suspected of taking such a step. We had a wonderful influence with her, and once before when a young fNilte man of good family, but In our opinion-not good enough for her, was paying her attentions, we advised her and she quit bint. Perhaps I was the last person to- whom she aald good-bye. and in saying good-bye she repeated that aha waa golna- to visit her arand- father in Washington. Apparently her mind was weakened by the influence thrown over her by this negro. It is an affair so sad that neither my wife nor t nave oeen able to keep it out of Our thoughts." Oansed Sensation. . ' Confirmation of the marrlare from the family and Intimate fflends of Miss Douglas has caused a sensation today that is only second to the sensation caused by the facts gathered in connec tion with the case by The Journal Sat urday night, at which tlrna the young woman could not be found, and- on tha . Hps of all is the expression: Her parents are to be nitfed. What power could have driven her strong men-. tality to take such a step; and. now that she haa Jones, what will be her endT" EXPRESS MESSENGER ; SERIOUSLY INJURED - (Special Dispatch to The Journal. I I Grande, Or., June 37. News reached this city laat night that' Fred. Hamilton of La Grande, who waa ex press messenger Of .east-bound passen ger train No. 8, is partially paralysed at Huntington. When the train passed ' through Durkee, 12 miles this side of Huntington, ho started to throw oft ar- ' tides he ' had for that station. . Me' seised the hand rail on tha car 'when he threw the packages off. In some way the rait gave way and he was thrown from the car. Ha was taken to Hunt ngton, where his Injuries, were exam ined by the chief physician of the O. R. ft - N., Dr. McKensle, and tha local railroad physician at Huntington. They were unable to ascertain the extent of his injuries last night, but his . con dition is considered very serious, t . , ; 1 anotheTdisciple ,; SENT TO THE ASYLUM , . . ,j ''I,- (Special DUpatch to Tb Juarnal.) ' - ' Corvallis. Or.. '' June 27. Mrs, O. V.', Hurt,, one of the ardent disciples -of . -Apostle Creffleld, was taken to the asy lum at .Salem this aftemooitby Deputy Sheriff Henderson, r Her examination was held before Judge Walters this fore noon and aha was adjudged insane. Only ? one of the Holy Roller band la left, Mrs. . Hartley, and it is thought that she, too. will go Insane. 1 , 1 o'clock the smoke had sufficiently cleared below to allow entrance and the firemen waded nip-deep in water to fight the fire direct Tha fire wa confned to the basement and ground floor, which are practically 'destroyed. - The struc tural part of the building is uninjured. The Joss is probably about $25,00(1, In. eluding damage to tha- upper stories from smoke, ta Aif aruests eirBpet at the outbreak of tha flames, and short ly after their departure- tha place left In darkness by tha electric plant of the building being damaged, Tha guests baggag la being Tamot 1 today and ahowa littla damage axrpt t travelers' samples on the ground floor. recently took charge or th property, which la owned by Mrs. 1. punamxi and valued at about $1J,00, with in surance of 185,000. Tbt hotel will be re modeled at onct -;r-