BUILEJ TEiE. PORTAGE ROAD. AND GIVE' AN' UNIMPEDED OUTLET TO THE INLAND Et-IFIZ ' ' .......... ... . . I Good Morning ' The Weather: " Sunday.' fair '"and .. ... slightly warmer; northerly wind. ' CIRCULATION OP THE JOURNAL YESTERDAY 15.850 : A, vol. I J no. 20. PORTLAND.; OREGON, ; SUNDAY . MORNING. ; JULYr 31. 1904. a. '-.." . . I PRICE FIVE CENTS. H1BHBSP ;'li9 OTlPiai. PACKERS ADMIT THAT Str l Arrangements for Long Struggle ' Nearly" Six Hundred Strike-Breakers Escorted Out of Yards by Union Off idalsDeterred From Leaving EarliefThrough Fear. : ? Chicago, July k. Arrangement wer made today by th trlker at tha tock ' yard for a lone struggle with the pack. era. , ... - . . - " ' " ' A strike committee, consisting of three representatives 01 me ruicnw viiu, j Chicago -Federation of Lsibor and each of tha 23 allied trades engaged In m sym- .. bathetic strike, was appointee 10 conauci the struggle.-, v . j- ; Flvs relief stations Will be 'doing busi ness by Monday night ' ' The packer admit that tha and or tha strike is not In sight but they believe there will be a break within -10 days. International President Michael Donnelly of the Butcher Workmen left for Omaha tonight. He will ajso visit Kansas City mnA 17- ft ct 'Tula K.fitr. fatTimlrv MUha. L-Hnv K. I A th.t th. luUk ; were In a bad way and that tha striker ; war aura to .win. ... ; ,T Bseorl trlk Breakers Oat. . Nearly too strike - breakers wera ea- . corted out of tha yards today by union . orrKMais. me atria er-w-n aaiu uui they had beemtold by -tha packers that they would ba killed- If ' tbey left the . yards, ana tnat tney naa remaaneo i work aevera days lonirer than they de sired because of that Information. atf a enniinlrscv orlsrlnatina: With tha packers which had for Its object for Independent ' plants.. " Tha Allied trades aiao- Instructed the,.. livestock handlers to remain at work on the arround that ' a trlk by them would sld tha packers In their fight against tha Independent packer. . " -Horner D.. Call, 'International "ecr tary of tha Butcher Workmen will have charge' of the strike during; President jKjnnelly'a absence lnJhe west. r v , anrUta Offleiala Ooaflaant. ' . they war never so confident of vic im) ,ity iu ; niiAnnen rnctc fin ' (Sperlsl Pfcpatoh te The JenraaL) Hood River. July 10. A pleasant bit of romance, - In which Mlsa . Mlnnl Schungel, who was last year principal of the Hood River publte schools, plsys a leading role, ' cornea In a story from Lawrence, Kan. ' C, Hoka Slmpaon of Lawrence, so the story goes, ha been acquainted for a number of years with Mis Bchungel. Mr. Simpson 1 now a school teacher In tha Philippines.--Lately he decided ha wanted to marry Miss Bchungel, anO accordingly wrote to her, proposing the marriage, and asking for a reply, "yes" a. " h rah1. After ahnrt rfelltwnra. tkn tha young lady sent a "yes," for which Mr. , Simpson paid tlO. Miss Bchungel will leave her home In .Kansss-August 1, and upon reach ing Manila, will ha met by Mr. Simp son, and they will be married there. They will then go to their home at Santa Maria. Ilocos Bur province, where Mr. Simpson Is superintendent of the school system. . POTTER WILL STEP jOUT.SEPTEMBER 30 (flperUl Dispatch to The Jonrnsl.) -. Salem, Or., July 10. Supt. T. W. Pot ter of tha Chemawa Indian training - school ha been notified that his resig nation, would take affect on. September SO, at which tlma.b.la successor would be on band. T" . . It la reported that William A, Jones, Vntted States commissioner of Indian affairs, now in San Francisco, haa re signed. . . ...j . ,' ALEUTIAN ISLES ARE DELIGHTFUL (Speelst Dispatch by Leased Wire te Tk Jooroal) Washington. July 10. Tha navy de partment haa official report from tha Aleutian Island which upset all ths theories about tha dlaoomfort of Ufa In tha far north and that It I a barren region. -Soma time ago the United States sent Lieutenant Chamber on an expedition to tha Aleutian Islands to Investigate with reference to estab lishing a coaling station there Mr. Chambers sends in a report, according f which Kl'ika 1 laland at leaat Is ss delightful a place a the land, of flow rrs. . Here la a part of what Lieutenant Chambers said: "A great cliange In physical . charac 1 tory: that tha reports that the strikers would appeal to President Roosevelt to step In and aettl tha strike, war In dignantly denied by President Donnelly and other labor leaders. Tha real object of those responsible for tha report was to Injure our causa," said President Donnelly. ' Rattons.. for over 1,000 families, were distributed today by tha union commis sary department. The system promise, to solve thi 'question of living until tha strike .Is over. Mora' stores wilt, be established In all strike cities as needed.), , " BaUaf Tun. Zntaet. Tha relief fund subscribed by. various unions, which amounta to over 1 1.000 already. Is almost .Intact, most ' the supplies bavins; been donated by friends of union labor. . f. . fitlf fdnlng of meat prlcea ' continued today. In many small shops prices were still higher, but In tha larger down-town markets tha Saturday aoale remained practically tha aama as that rr. nnn TATXOsT VXKIOT7S. EatLra oUoa roro Called to Slap arse muma -rw-.;.v.-- (Speelxi Clipeteb to The loarntl.) "'. St. Joseph.' Mo.. July to. Following assaults' mad at noon today on Walter Saunders, manager of the Morris plant, and Charles Beard, his head cattle buyer. In1 which both wera beaten Into lnaenslbl!-' tty. . Chief . of Police Francis sent the entire police force of the city. to Boutb St.- Joseph. " : '.''. ' IJL-'..,,. u. . . Tha rioting T followed ' "an attempt to tka a large body of strike breakers, who had arrived on an' early train, to to Karris plant. Tnnnedlataly-aftetMhe arrival of tha police tha rioter were charged and after a forlous resistance were dispersed. ' , POOR SEATTLE WOMAN -INHERITS A FORTUNE - (Kpedal Dispatch to The Journal. Seattle, July I J. A strange move of fortune anas mad a mllllonalra of Mrs. J. V. Dlxson, keeper of tha pantry In a large Seattle hotel, and later In charge of a Seattle florist's . branch' store in Tacoma. Working for small wages ever sine she was II years old, Mrs. Dlxson has spent a hard Ufa and la paat SO.. She married at. 18 a poor man In Aua tralla and was estranged - from " her brother. A month ago her brother died and left her his entire fortune. Thirty-five thousand pounds are on the way here for her from Melbourne and ah la heir to a I1S0.0 Ufa In surance policy, two big ranchea, two gold mines In Australia, a big coal mine, three hotels, on In Melbourne and two InBVdney, a famous race track near Mel bourne, and a big aton building in that city. . ..- ... .... ; . i , ; ,, CRUISERS RELEASED FROM EASTERN DUTY (Bwdal Pispstck by teased Wire to The Journal) Waahlngton, July (0. Admiral Bar ker cables that the Kearsarge, Alabama, Illinois, lows. Main and Missouri left Flume, Hungary, thla morning, bound for Gibraltar, where they will take on coal and provision and proceed across ths Atlantic to tha United states either for Hampton Roads or New Tork. .. The cruiser Mayflower baa returned to Trieste, Austria, whera she will re main for several weeks. The length of her stay will depend upon tha con dition of tha sick officers and .men of the fleet now -under treatment in ths local hospital. terlsttes ha bean noted In the- .month the expedition ha been here. The enow completely covered tha hill at tha time of our arrival, but It haa now disap peared from ths high mountain peaks and tha hills' are very green from the moss and tundra that has sprunsAUp. Risks harbor valley, having a south ern exposure. ,1 far In advene of the other parts of tha Island In this' respect, and spring flowers are very plentiful here. Oardena have) been made by tha men and sowed with early garden truck. The trout are plentiful in nearly all tha streams, cod snd flounder In tha har bor and adjacent waters. Snipe are quit numerous and a few edible ducks ar obtained." , - - ' -:;y v:V;;:.-. tfKv V :''-7 --1 - .V r. : ' V ' : I : r,l sv-y; y.y .i -yy - - r m J. 1 . 4 i i , sv; . ; , - yr:y';y7 yy. y.-:-: i .1 THE IN JETS ; OF BLAZING OIL - "MS-aaawai-Baf .. , B. J. Kelly I Is , Fatally ' Burmd ' by Casolloe Explosion While' Test : ln Fuel Apparatus; of .an Auto. . B. J. Kelly.' a mechanic employed In tha White automobile repair shop at the corner of Second and Salmon streets. was fatally ' (turned by an ex plosion of a gasoline tank used for test ln automobile - burner about. , 1:30 o'clock' last evening, v It waa only through the coolness and presence of mind of Walter B. Honeyman and bis fellow workmen in the shop that the man waa not Inatantly killed. He died at 10 o'clock at night at St, Vincent' hospital. v Mr. Kelly wii engaged In tha repair shops with Walter B. Honeyman. F. A. Dundee and R. B. 'Veitum .In repairing Mr. Honeyman's machine.. J. B Kelly, the Injured man's brother, who owns the shop, wss In ths of tic in tha store room. B. J. Kelly had been" testing a gasoline burner and for this purpose was using a small five-gallon Unk In which was about three quarta of gasoline. Ha had Juat flniahed making y the teat and thinking he bad extinguished the jet, withdrew the fittings. - Simultaneously an explosion occurred and tha next instant tha man- was en veloped In flames.' He had been stoop ing over the tank "and the oil ae It rushed from tha spout ' of tha tank poured In fiery jets all Over h la arms and breast with such violence ss to rend his clothing Into shred. Screaming with pain and with - the flames fed by the gasoline with which ha had become saturated, licking about hla body, ha ran into the front shop. Mr, Honeyman. and tha two workmen seised blanketa. from the automobile in the ftabla and wrapped them about the biasing man, extinguishing the flames. The men next turned their attention to the shop and left the victim of the explosion In e car of hi brother. The gasoline bad flowed Over the tools and tha room was a mas ' of ' flamea. Fortunately there . waa no Inflammable material near and they bad an abund ant supply of water with which tha fir waa soon extinguished. 1 J. - Dr. A. Tllser was summoned and gave the Injured man temporary relief. Dr. Richmond Kelly and Dr.. Aaron Tllser dressed his wounds and took him to Bt. Vincent's hospital. They found that Kelly, was frightfully burned. When the cloth's In which he wa wrapped were removed from ' his body, tha wkln and flesh peeled off. . His body was burned front snd bark from chin to knees. Mr. Kelly wa married and reaided at Woodatock. . , BZTOBT MATT BOI Ok TIIX. Astoria, Or., July 20 Reports from the lower river tonight say that a heavy run of flsh Is coming In On tha night flood. Receipt were somewhat Im proved today. ,'. , . - - J - -v.!.vv ' K':S- KEY TO OREGON' PROSPERITY, PARKER IS OPPOSED 19 Assures Senator Dubois That He Fa vors Plank In National Demo- cratlc Platform..-' (Special Dispatch byteased Wire to The JoarasI) Ktngaton. N. Y July SO. Mayor Mo Clellan. John Pierce, . John B. McDon ald and John Delaney reached ' Rosa mount on Pierce's yacht Sapphire at 1 o'clock, spent exactly 7 minute In Judge Parker' company and then re turned to New Tork. Seventeen of the t7 minutes wera given to a private con versation between Judge Parker and tha mayor. As he wa about to go, Mayor McClellan aald: . "It waa a delightful visit. I enjoyed renewing my aoqualntanc with) Judge Parker very much." . . . Judge Parker walked down to .the river, from whoso banks ha bad the party good-bye. Returning up tha hill to Rosemount, he salri ' . , "I waa very happy to meet Mayor McClellan again. - It gava me great pleasure to renew a most pleasant ac quaintance." . Meantlm 1 Senator '' Fred Dubois of Idaho had arrived ' juat - before trie mayor's party and was being .enter tained by the reporter In tha lodge. He bad missed tha train he bad in tended going to New York on because he wanted to speak to Judge Parker about ' th anti-Mormon plank. - Now was his time and he took It. He sug gested to him that ha say something positive . agatnst Mormonlsm, and pointed out th reason why such a declaration would help th Damocrata, not only In th west, but 'throughout tha country.. .. Mr. Dubois went away greatly pleased at ths manner with which Judge Parker had received hla suggestion.. Dislike Mormon lam. While Judge Parker gava him no promts, It is known, that he said to him that he indorsed heartily tb anti Mormon plank In the national platform. Thus It Is taken that soma reference will be msd to this moral Issue In his letter which he will read August 10. Mr. Dubois said tha - sub-committee ihat Is to Inquire into the Mormon question would eeaemb'le at Salt Lake City Immediately after election day after November. Why advantage 1 not taken of th dull summer days to further tha senate ' inquiry Into - the Smoot ease is not known.- But it Is Inferred thst If tha Inquisitorial body make Its pilgrimage to Utah and be gin the taking of testimony before election, such action might be detri mental to good politic. Speaking of the political conditions of the west. Mr. Dubola said , that the temocrary had better than1 a fighting rhnne In flvej Of tb state west of the misiinTivnr. . inm were Ne braska, whlc'i ho is ura th party will! 4 (Continued ov Pag Nina) rm :rj xy-.y. ; , -. v -y: -yye GREATEST BAHLE OF MODERN TIMES Reports In London Indicate a Big Battle In Which Nearly Quarter . - .-.Million Men. Are Engaged. . (Coprrlgkt, Heent' News Service, by Leased Wire to The Journal.) . London. July SO. -Report from th far mat dated last night and delayed In transmission indicate that the greatest battle of tha war I In progrea at Haicheng between tha combined armies of . General Oku and General : Nodsu against General Kuropatkin. The Japan ese engaged number 120,000 men with more than 150 gups. Kurobatkln ha 100.000 man in striking distance with ISO gun. Thi tha greatest number of men ever engaged In battle within modem times, ' with th possible .exception of on or two fight of th Franco-Prussian war. If Kuropatkin ' is , beaten, Russia' head In Manchuria la gone. The result of tb fight may settle th war. Oyama. the greatest soldier of Japan, I In personal command at Port Arthur. Four hundred Japanese guns have been trained on that city and, there haa besa four day continuous bombardment. ASSATTXiT OV 0T ABTXTJB. Tokia Believe That Attack Took Hao a Paws.' .':. - I (Copyright, Resrst News Service, tsd . Wire to Th JoaraaL Toklo, July 10 Up to this time no news of th fighting about Port Artttur or Haicheng ha been given Out of ficially. No official new ha reached her telling of Japaneaa victories. ' At Port Arthur the final assault on the Inner defenses of the fortress wss begun at dawn thla morning, the .Jap anese In tha three day fighting which preceded th assault having taken all th outer line of defenses to the east and silenced th Russian batteries on th In ner forts. . ' , Marahal Oyama conducted the opera tion In peraon and General Noil, at hi urgent request, waa granted the priv ilege of leading the assault In person. ' 1 Th latest advtcea from th front left before th fate of the aaaault was known but no doubt la felt her but that Port Arthur will be under the Japanese flag within a few days and the Port Arthur fleet will b destroyed. The result of th fighting st Haicheng also Is' in doubt so far aa the newa la concerned, but it la known that the wbola Japanese army south of that point ha been n gaged In th assault upon It. eet X Imperilled. '-. The Russian Vladivostok Squadron ha gone north, preaumably to Its base. If it attempts to make , tha passage through the Tsugsrt Straits. It Is likely to meet with trouble. (Continued on Pag Three.)- APOSTLES DOWNFALL "Joshua" Creffieid Ar rives Half Dead to Face Trial. 'yy- HAD NARROW ESCAPES Several Corvallls Mobs Thirsted for BIsLlfe Hejs Happy to Find 7 Safety? Behind Bars of y County Jail.- When the train from CorvaJlUarrived at Fourth amTYamhlll atreeta at 0:30 o'clock last night, a man, pal, thin and so exhausted ' that he wa borne by two sturdy men, was. escorted-from a coach and through a crowd of a thou sand people to a aaloon. Ha was Ed mund, self-styled "Joshua," Creffieid, "or? ganlzer and- leader of tha Holy Roller sect and they who supported his trem- rbllng form were Chief Deputy Sheriff Wells of Corvallls and Detective Hart man of th Portland police department Anticipating an attempt to mob th Holy Roller leader, Chief of Polio Huntdlspatched a number, of plalu clothes men, heavily armed, to meat th prisoner. But, although tha crowd that greeted tha arrival of tha train waa large and tha people craned their neck In-an effort to catch a -glimpse of the notorious "prophet," thsr was no attempt to do him violence. . ' ' , . : ' . X Tory Weak. Crefflsld was seated In a rear -room of th aaloon, pending th arrival of a patrol wagon from police neaaquar ters. Aftar spending thre months In a pit but little longer or wider than hi small form, end having .undergone not . only Intense mental agony but actual hunger for no one knows Just bow long during his stay under the Hurt residence at Corvallls, ha wss so weak h could sot alt upright la tb chair. Jw-hw.-' : i .- After sitting or, rather reclining. In the chair for half a minute. Creffleld raised nla pale, blue ayes feebly, and to Detective Hartman said: . ---V , "Please get ma a drink -of water. . .-A .refreshing glassful was brought him, - and he drained if- Raising . th glaaa, h said In volca scarcely audi ble: , '. -'. ..- ;. . .;' .' ... : Thank yon." f - ' "Being tha leader of a religious sect I not much fun. is UT" ssKeoi a by etanden . but Creffleld . did not even look no. '. ' ' " ' "You are pretty faint and 'weak, ain't ouT" inquired another.' A mere nod-of hla bead wa the only answer. . ' - Tha patrol wagon arrived at that mo ment and th prisoner waa bom to It and taken at drat to the city jail, but returned Immediately to the county prison, where ha waa placed In a cell. All he asked for waa a drink of water, and renueeted to be left alone. H fell asleep quickly, and remained asleep. He waa in a state of complete couapso, both mentally and phyaically. Perhaps for the first time In three month,- lnc he fled from Portland after being charged with a criminal offense, he felt his Ufa wit aafa. and it ,1a believed that by Monday he will ba able to be examined a to hla sanity. .' Apostls's lumr Ssoap. . . . Creffleld wa saved from . certain death- st tb hands of tha mob at Cor vallls Isst night only by the pleadings of hi father-in-law, O. V. Hurt," de clared Detective Hartman last night. "Although he had broken up Mr. Hurt's horn, driven Mrs. Hurt to Inssnlty and blighted the Uvea of tha entire family. Mr Hurt last night and early this morning, when attempts were mad to take the prisoner by fore, begged th member of thav mob to calm them selves and allow the law to take Ks course. They finally desisted. -"Tha last attempt to taka -Crefflwd from the county jail wss mad at J o'clock in tha morning," continued De tective Hartman." Deputy Sheriff Wells and an armed force of guards stood i the mob off. B. K. Starr, wh- preferred the charge, now pending here sgalnet th prisoner, was at Corvallls during the excitement. All those in terested In the ess will come to this city to be present her at tha investiga tions. . . 1 "Two mob . gathered to asaault the train and take Creffleld. - I learned of A (Continued " on Page Seven.) BIG FIGHT (fpeclsl nispateh byLet'sed Wire to The Jmrol Boston, Mass.. .July .10. Thomas F, Iawson says: "The principal object of my Amalga mated) campaign I hearing comple tion. ' "Barring accident th present con trollers of Amalgamated will retire Ph favor of men who will run th Amalga mated propertlea for buslnees and busi ness only. "The Jlefnse properties will be 6wne1 by the Amalgamated and will atand at txlr prices tp ths public surprisingly low prices. There -will be Tin Increase of stocH 9t creation of ' Indebtedness through of . the Merchant Marine Commission Are -' Guests at Banquet ; TELL OF THEIR AIMS III-Advhed Criticism From. local . Source Meets With Vigorous De- : , nunclation on the Part of --the Visitors- Many of Portland' representative clt lsens gathered last evening at the Conr merclal club for th reception tendered th members of the merchant " marine commission. - Tb occasion was mada especially interesting by. th addresses of th commissioners, who explained at length' the purpose of their investiga tion and tha urgent need of govern ment aid in tha upbuilding, of American ahlpplngv v .i - r .. The speaker ware unanlmou In ex pressing their strong disapproval of an editorial published yesterday morning In the Oregonlan. 'condemning tha work of the commission aa a useless wastej of effort.- . . . ..,...".' ..'..'.. "I confess," said Senator Galllnger. the chairman of, the commission, "that I do not like It, that even before wa have had an opportunity to ba heard, wa should be represented by thi editor a engaged In a scheme to filch money from the national treasury." , Th applause that greeted this dec 1. In. - 111 t- .l V . V . , - w . . . . . . ' .v.wa,- when Congressman Minor said. In the course of hla remarks: - . "My1 attention had not""bett called to this editorial In the ' Oregonlan. but after bearing portion of It read by onr chairman I am satisfied he did not go too far In criticising' it. The fel low who wrote It needed hammering." Congressman Humphrey of Washing ton was equally outspoken In express ing hla resentment at the editorial crit icism of ' tha commission' work., and added:..;-! ' ' . ... - i am noi surproe1 , m .m n an utterance by tha Oregonlan. for it along the lino of a great many other article which . have appeared - In tha aama paper." V i '( Aotioa la aTeoessary. Senator . Galllnger waa tha first speaker of the evening, and waa Intro duced by Governor Chamberlain. After some complimentary references to Ore gon's representatives) st Wsshlngton snd n expression of the interest ha had fejt In tha development of tha atata ' and Its resources. Senator Galllnger dis cussed the - urgent necessity - of soma action which shall rehabilitate tha "Thla commission." he said.' "is earn estly desirous of getting all the Information-possible which ehall.ald In this work.' W do not expect to solva tha problem, but .we hop to Initiate reme dial legislation which shall eventually place tha United State in the for front' of maritime natlona, ' A wis man haa said: "Never have trouble with a woman or with a newspaper, and there for I -hesitate to speak or an editorial which appeared la a morning paper oC thla ctty and which ahowa an utter mis apprehension of this great aubject which we are Investigating." The speaker then proceeded to point out tha fallacy of tha arguments ad vanced In tha Oregonlan' adltorlal. "Thla editor." be said sarcastically, "baa ' solved in ' an hour tha problem which thla commission has been struff rllnar with for months, snd so fsr with out being able to solva It. If X believed that th upbuilding of our merrnani marina would result, as this editor de clares, in "making a new lot of Amer ican millionaires, created by th plunder at tha public' I would turn my steps homeward at once. . w nave an enor mou coastwise business, all dona by American ships, for the reason that congress exclude foreign ships from this trade. . If foreigners were sammea to this trad It would destroy every shipyard in tha United States, and turn thousands of men out of employment' Other Torm of Subsidy. .Senator Galllnger argued, at coma length that the millions expended for river and harbor Improvements sre in. affect a subsidy; that th protection ex tended to th lumber, wool and other Industrie la alao only a aubstdy; and that to bestow a subsidy upon ths mer chant marine of tha United Statea- J (Continued on Pag Three.) IS NEAR ITS END sucb ownerehlp, as they will ba paid tor from present cash surplus. "What la paid for Helnse s propertlea will go largely to two foreigners ,whi have financially becked the llalnte en terprise and who now hold the property ready for the deal's completion. - "When the deal la complete.! the pre. ent controllers of Amal-smatei will still be th owners of the I'nlted M'l Selling company, In connection itn other owners who wui'wnrttctr.t throngh consolidation of another m'l selling company. This rommliiUn-l selling company will he lv lung t!-m contracts, the sgnt of t', Ami' .. mated, proporltes but Ii; ju 1 '.s l ,.; . ' . . ;.i . .- i ' ,- I '