Jfouimaf G OOP EVENING, WHAT DID THE WOOOUE BUQ SAY ? Tonight and Tuesday, fair; west erly winds. warm VOL. III. NO. 146. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 88, 1804. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND WELCOMES DELEGATES TO MINING CONGRESS WHILE OREGON OFFERS THEM VAST OPPORTUNITIES CONGRESS : CONVENES Annual Assembly of the Nation's Mine Operators Begins Work. FACES BIG -PROBLEMS Chief One Is How to Secure Federal Aid Hard light Promised Over location of Headquarters- The Day's Program. Tomorrow the real business of the congress will be taken up, when the, resolutions committee t Is ready to report. Action la re- (farded probable then on the de partment of mines and minerals, and H la barely possiblethat the experiment stations discussed before will be recommended or discountenanced. ' As several topic assigned the speakers have immediate and vital bearing upon the mining Industry, some of the remarks delivered may give 4 birth to near resolutions and recommendation on the part 'of 4 tn congress, especially the 4 speech of Senator J. H. Mitchell In regard to a branch mint In Portland. It la not regarded protMuie ihat the meeting place tor the following year nor selec tion of permanent headquarters will be taken up until nearer th close of the congress. From every state in the Union, where mining Is an Industry, came the dele gates who gathered thla morning for the seventh annual session of the Amer ican Mining "congress. Which convened In th big banner-decked drill hall of th Third Regiment armory. From Mon tana and from far-away Maine, front California and Colorado and Utah and nd a score of other states came enthusiastic delegations, all bent upon the common purpose of advancing the mining Interest of the continent. Th scene when the congress was called to order by President J. H. Rich ards was a brilliant one. Flag of all nation draped th walla of the hall, th tars and stripes predominating, and the platform was adorned with a profusion of flower and foliage. Immediately in front of the platform aat the delegates, each decorated with his badge of mem bership and each wearing in hi button hole a beautiful rose, presented by the women of the Portland Rose associa tion. Mlval Delegation. Conspicuous among th delegate were the representatives from Salt Lake and Denver, warm rival In tff contest to se cure the permanent headquarter of the congress for their respective cities, and th enthusiastic boomer from Bl Paso, who are making a determined fight to capture th congress of 1906. Salt Lake's delegates are wearing a badge which 1 Itself an excellent campaign argument, depicting their city as th natural, geographical center of the min ing interest of th country, and In scribed with the record of Utah' min eral output In 1202. piatinctlv badge are also worn by the delegate from Texaa and from Colorado. Back of Hh delegates and In the gal lery were seated the spectators and the rear of the hall wa occupied with di versified exhibits largely from tint rich Junius uwim in ui Ruuiiiern isrogon. A feature of the program was th music of th Royal Italian band, which gen erously gave It services for th occas ion. Today' program was devoted almost entirely to addreases, which are pre- BBKBBBBSBBI HTlSJ xjJSjMSalTsflS? BBBQ ' iii8 uil ' ill? ' wfm PSH j W 2 JaftSA 4 Wi JtSBT-tkDll JL WiMFASr BB7 -Bnaal BBB .assess bbbbbbbb3 ' art. aiiiipasfc aanTiBaHB bb 1iWbitbbiLi anrnnrin rJM jv beb BaanaBBrv. "M pT J Tfl jgfl W&a, f IMBjj lnBBsaaaea-MnjH IIVjPr'" SBBtirflWB ath. 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Thla mean that the press will print 32 complete pages with a sing Impression, that it will print 24.000 complete 18-page papers every hour and that It will print In all the color employed by any of the great Sunday newspapers of the United States. This magnificent machine I the pro duct of R. Hoe & Co.' great New Tork establishment. It 'is known aa a quad ruple, straight-line Hoe perfecting press. It stand 144 feet shove the floor level and extends three feet below the level of the press room floor, thus giv ing It an actual altitude of 17 H feet. It la' 20 feet in length and require SO-horse-power to drive it at speed. It consist of more than 20,000 separate pieces and to see them scattered about In what seems the utmost confusion and from that confusion to see the machine Itself evolved aa accurate and unerring as the machine Itself does its allotted work, Is to give a profound opinion not only of the capacity of the men who pro duce the machine but of th man who assembles the parts and puts them to gether. There are 17 big printing cylinder and all the correlative devlcea and 72 conrpoattlon rollers for the dis tribution of the Ink In a single hour's run the great press eats up 100 pounds of Ink; 1,200 pounds of stereotype metal la required dally to supply It with casts of printing plates. In one hour's run It prints, cujjs, paste, fold and deliver SS 1-3 mile of paper 32 inches wide. The machln worked without a Jar or hltcb from the moment.lt wa set up. Tbe work of setting up the machine was don by Paul Exanoff. who cam here directly from the Hoe faotory In New Tork for that purpose. Everything pro ceeded Ilk clockwork under hi super vision and the result 1 everything that could be desired. Th big machine, which I incompara bly the 'finest In Oregon, Is now ready for Inspection. It may be aeen on the Yamhill side of The Journal building, where hundreds have already Inspected It and' where the public Is cordially In vited to see It In motion. PACKERS' STRIKE GROWS DEADLY (Continued on Page Two.) SHIP MINNESOTA IS GIVEN A RECEPTION X . (Joaraal Special gerrlet.) New Tork Aug 22. A large number of person prominent In the world of commerce were guet today of the Great North ern Steamship company aboard th new steamship Minnesota, which arrived last night from th yard at New London. Conn. After the ship had been In spected a Ittncheon wa served which was followed by several short addresses extolling the enterprise of the company and Ita president, James J. Hill. Th Minnesota Is the largest Ameri-ran-trallt vessel afloat and will ply between Seattle, Taroma and the far east. T O (Joaraal Special Service.) Chicago, Aug. 22. In th discovery this morning of the' body of a working man, with his head beaten to a pulp, on the prairie near the stockyards, the po lice believe they have found a victim of strike violence. Fearing worse violence than hereto fore, the police this morning strength ened their line In the strike district and adopted stringent measures. Thomas Stroker, business agent of the Meat Cutters union, wa arrested while en deavoring to prevent non-union men from entering the yards. Practically every striker went on duty as a picket today, all working under a thoroughly organised plan; to combat this plsn a similar organisation of po lice was effected. It Is estimated that fully 1.000 strike breaker who went out Saturday failed to return this morning. MILLION HEAD (Journal Special Service.) Washington. 'Aug. 22. Th effect of the packlnghouae strike Is shown In the comparative report of livestock for July of thi year and last. The five principal western markets aa reported to the de partment of commerce and labor, show a decrease In July under last year's re ceipts of 1.065.696 head. POLICE BELIEVE MORSE IS DEAD From Latest Evidence Officers Are Convinced That Thugs Killed and Robbed Him Wednesday. ROOSEVELT EMULATES PARKER BY SWIMMING (Journal Special Service.) Oyster Bay. Aug. 22. President Roosevelt iand his clerical force resumed their routine work thla morning and th executive offices were opened at an early hour. The president and Secretary Loeb ground out a large number of let ter) after which the prealdent played tennis with hi boy. Thi afternoon he took a swim after which he worked a little on hi letter of acceptance and then went horseback riding with Mrs. Roosevelt. CONGRESS Or NEOBOES. Moumel Special Service.) Natche. Ml.. Aug. 22. Tho Negro Voting People' Christian Edu cational Congrea. which wa launched In Atlanta two year ago with an at tendance of 1.600, began a week's ses sion In this city today. Th object of the organisation I to follow out Booker Washington's teachings by en couraging the young members of the rac to high Ideala of right living, so cially, merally, religiously and In dustrially. SCHUMANN-HEINK HAS APPENDICITIS ATTACK Jrtraal Special Service.) Saratoga. N. T., Aug. 22. Sickness compelled Mme. 8chumann-Hlnk to cancel a concert engagement at th town hall here last night. She was confined to her room In th Orand Union hotel uttering great pain, and left for Nw Tork on a special car. Th house phy sician diagnosed the prima donna' Ill ness aa appendicitis. rjAXiroauriA state wax. (Journal Special Servlc.) Sacramento, Cai., Aug. 22. The an nual state fair of th California Ag ricultural society opened here today under auspices of a most favorable character. Many visitors are already here and the attendance promises to eclipse all records of former year. All departments are wall filled with exhibits which strikingly Illustrate th vaat Industrial and agricultural re sources of the slate. A good program of harneaa race will be pulled off la connection with the fair. The police believe that E. C Morse waa murdered by thug Wednesday night somewhere between Eaat Twenty eighth and Ollsan street and hi homo, on mile distant. Thla afternoon Dep uty City License Inspector Hutchinson snd ht brother, accompanied by aome friends, are scouring th brush along th road that leads through Ladd's field and to the Morse home. Information Imparted today by x Captaln of Police Cox la that he aaw Morse on an Ankeny street csr shortly after ( -o'clock Wednesday night, ac companied by a strange man. This roan Is believed by the police to have been one of :. pair of thugs who kitew (Continued on Page Five.) Mining Stock Quotations Hay be found daily on th mar ket page of Th Journal. In view of th large number of vis itors Interested la mining who are now la Portland, th Joar aal wishes to call attention to the ft that it pnbllahes dally th mining Stock report from fjoatoa. Colorado Spring and San rraaciaeo. Th quotations are printed oa page of today's lssne. AMERICA BECOMES FACTOR IN WAR (Journal Special Service.) Washington, Aug. 22. A dispatch to the state, department from Consul-Oen-eral Ooodnow at Shanghai, confirms the Scrlppa New association dispatches relative to th entrance of the harbor by an American war vessel, the Chauneey. and details the part played by that ves sel in preserving the neutrality of th port. According to the dispatches a Ja Dan es torpedo boat, stripped for action. sailed in threatening apparently to' at tack the Russian warships which had sought refugo therein. The Chauneey steamed In and placed herself between the Japanese torpedo host and the Astrbld. which' had been docked at docks belonging to a British company. Next to the dock are properties owned by Oerman, Dutch and American Interests and close by are the 21,-000,000 ware houses of the Standard OH company. No announcement as to the action of the Chauneey has been made, but It was unqueatlonably her Intention to o place herself that the immense American In terest should not be endangered by a battle without a protest. Had th Jap anese torpedo boat opened Are on the Askold the Standard Oil warehouses would almost certainly have been destroyed. The Russian consul still refuses to comply with the order that the Ruaslan warships must dismantle or leave the ha rbor. Acting Secretary of State Adee and Acting Secretary of the Navy Darling were at noon holding a conference on the subjects presented In the dispatch. CONSULS DISCUSS SITUATION. Aakold Cannot Leave Mar bor oa Account , Of low Water. (Journal Special Service.) Shanghai, Aug. 22. A meeting of th foreign consuls In the elty thla morn ing resulted ' In the preparation of a statement to establish the facta regard ing the Russian warships In the harbor. The consuls will hold another meeting thla afternoon, but no preliminary an nouncement haa come from them. The Tao Tal ha given th Askold and Orosovl until noon tomorrow to leave th port. No repair to the vessels will b permitted. The Aakold, however, cannot cross the bar thi week owing to low tide, which will naturally act as an unavoidable stay of departure. "ALT INDOESES AMERICA. (Joaraal Special Service.) Rome. Ana 22 it im .Mlnmin..t a day that th Italian squadron In the far eat nas neen ordered to co-operate wlcti America to maintain the neutrality. ,r China. The rnv.rnm.nl ku .HI- t .1 .i " - J iiiiiiii.rfl America's action In th. ah.niini i..i. dent, and believes that Jier prompt ac tion prevented the Japanese boat - mums: ie onensive against th help less Russian cruiser Askold. CONFESSES TO OLD MURDER ON DEATH BED i Journal Special Set ties.) CarbondaJe. 111., Aug. 22. Advices re ceived In thi elty state that Alexander Jester, who wss tried in New London. Mo., in July 1200, for the murder of atl vray Oat, a brother bf John W. Dates, ha died at hi horn in th Indian Ter ritory and that prior to hi death he confessed to the murder. Th case was one of th most remark able In the annals of Amarlcan criminal history. Gilbert Oatea waa killed In Hulane lane, a lonely road In Andrlan county. Missouri, In January, 171. When killed he was traveling to meet Jester. As well A. Oatea started a search for Jester and overtook him Just a he wag entering hi Kansas home. He found Gilbert Oatea' entire outfit. Jes ter was arrested, taken to the Mexico. Mo.. Jail and wb.ll there escaped. No change will be made In th basis of tax valuations in this county for th current year. County Assessor C. K. McDonell ha definitely decided to ad here to th plan followed In the past, of making tax valuations upon th basis of 50 per cent of the market valu of th property. The' consequence of this decision la that the assessment roll of the city of Portland will be Increased this yeur only by the natural 'growth of value. and by the added tax on personal prop erty, resulting from the abolition of tax exemption by the last legislature. Th Increase from these two source will rata th city roll from t4t.000.00 to something over 151.000,000. Assessor McDonell' decision was reached after consultation with a large number of property-owner and official of th city and county. His original Idea was to raise the valuation of all property In the county from th present rate of 60 per cent of the market valu to 70 per cent There were strong rea sons In favor of such a change. Objec tion was made, however, that with an Increased valuation city taxes might be raised, and thla excited considerable un easiness among gome of th' larger property-owner. "I found, after consulting many tax payers," said th assessor, "that th consensus of opinion waa against any change in the basis of assessment. Taxpayers are generally satisfied that the present city council would not take advantage of an Increased Lroll ttrlWy nifnef are afraid tha,t the next council might not be so conservative. I am satlafU-d that th present council would act wisely In fixing the city levy, and I feel sure that If I had asked them for an assurance that th amount of th levy would not exceed a certain sum, at least a majority of th council men would have given It. But the un- . certainty as to the action of future city officials makes many taxpayer averse to any change In the assessment, and I have decided to be guided by their views. "Another thing that ha Influenced me 1 tbe fact that many small tax payer whoa personal property haa hitherto been exempt will have to pay taxes upon It this year. The law waa amended by the last legislature and the 2200 exemption of personal property waa? repealed. Many of these small property owners can 111 afford to pay heavier taxea, and they would probably be op posed to an Increase in Varus t tons, even If assured that it would bring no heavier olty taxea next year." Much of the assessment work haa al ready been done upon the supposition that value would be raised In accord ance with the plan originally enter tained by the assessor. It will be nec essary to rewrite a part of th roll, but Assessor McDonell says that this can be done without additional expense to the county. ut they IN BBUTISX COLUMBIA. Vancouver, B. C, Aug. 22. Destruc tive fire are still burning and It I esti mated In official sources that the loss to date will aggregate I2.S00.000. XOBBEBT. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Rathdrum, Idaho, Aug. 22. Mrs. May Dyer had 222 stolen from her bed while asleep laat night. The thief did not wake he, o quietly did he do hi work. SAYS MRS. BOTKIN SHOULD BE EXECUTED (Journal SpesM Snrvles.) San Francisco. Aug. 22.- della Botkln wa this morning 4 denied a new trial for the murder of Mr. John P. Dunning and waa 4 sentenced to life Imprisonment. i In passing sentence, the curt said the woman should have been sentenced to be hanged and 4. that the Jury erred In fixing th 4t punishment at imprisonment for Ufa While no announcement Bag . been made. It Is understood that . an attempt will be made to carry 4 th case to another trial In the federal court on th ground that a two state are Involved in th w 71