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Jfouimaf OOD EVENING. warm ma - a iru ncau ni if M'Ewen's Story of ThocnM " W. Lawaon of Boston to THE SUNDAY JOURNAL Tonight and Tuudtr. partly cloudy, probably showers; coolar tonight; easterly winds. VOL. IIL NO. 226V PORTLAND, OREGON. MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 88, 1904 TWELVE PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE JOURNAL'S EXPOSE OF INCENDIARY PLOT WHICH MENACED LIVES LEADS TO ARRESTS AND CONFESSION 1" gl I iWi I I II II i J FIRE BUGS WERE PAID Man Hired to Burn Fifth Street Lodging House Makes Confession. INCENDIARIES IN THE HANDS OF THE POLICE A. B. Coon and Barney Miller Said to Have Offered the Bribe A Journal Expose. Through the quick action taken by Fire Chief Campbell, whan ha learned Saturday night that the fire at 268 Fifth street mi due to an Incendiary, and the rood work Of Detectives Hartman. Kerrigan and Snow, three man have been placed under arreat and a charge of arson lodged against them. J. B. Bachelor, one of the lmprlaoned men. has made a complete confession, Implicating A. B. Coon, a saloon-keeper, who had the house leased, and Barney Miller, a hostler, who waa fined laat week by Police Judge Hogue for chas ing n. Patterson with a hatchet In this confeaalon Bachelor aaaerts that Coon asked him to set Are to the house two weeka afro, promising him ISO. and laat Friday Informed him that everything had beer placed In readiness for the crime. Bachelor took Miller Into hia confidence Saturday evening and the latter, so he says, suggested that they go to the house at onoe and sat fire to It in order to get the "piece of money " The room in which the fire occurred waa occupied until laat Thursday by 3. Needham and wife. On that day trey were removed to a room on the north side of the house, and Mr. Coon took her two children and went to Albany. When the fire had been extinguished by the department Saturday evening no Investigation waa made as to the cause and Chief Campbell s men oin not report to him how It had originated. The evi dences of araon were dleeovered by a Journal reporter, and Chief Campbell was roused out of his bed at 1 s. m. As soon aa he had aeen the broken lamp, the oil poured around the room, the kindling placed In a commode drawer and plied In a dreaser, heard that four gas jets had been turned on unllghted In order to produce an ex plosion snd listened to the charge of Mrs. Marie Fouchet that Coon had of fered her 150 two weeks ago If She would start a fire on the lower floor, he immediately began a aearching investi gation. . Fred Westenfelder, the owner f the house, who lives at 30 Madiaon street, wss routed out of bed and. informed of what had happened. He at once told the chief that he believed Coon was. re sponsible for the previous attempt to burn the house. Coon was himself In terviewed by Chief Campbell, when he returned from his saloon at West Park and Burnslde etreete. Arrest the Incendiary. Early yesterday morning Chief Camp bell went to Chief of Police Hunt and laid the facta before him. Detective Hartman waa detailed on the case. In a short time he had found a man whom Bachelor had approached several days ago with the idea of getting an accom plice to assist him in the commission 6t the crime. Bachelor at that time, this man Informed Hartman, told him Coon waa willing to pay ISO If the work W"cUng6on this Information, Coon and Miller were arrested, afa wall as Bach elor while the Informant waa alao taken Into custody aa a "bluff." By prearranged agreement the Informant, in the hearing of Bachelor, pretended to get "shaky" and declared ha waa not go ing to go to the penitentiary for another man s crlmo He than started to tell the detect Ivea about the case. In the meantime Dateotlve Hartman had called In Detectlvea Snow and Ker rigan to assist him In the case. In fact the latter detectlvea took Coon to the 'station. They were present when the Informant started to make what ap peared to be a confession. At this junc- (Continued on Page Two.) PLUNGE OF A STREET CAR IS DISASTROUS . (Joeraal special Berries.) Bt. Louis. Mo. Nov. li. Charles T. Warnock was Instantly killed and II other paaaengers Injured in a street car accident that occurred on Fourteenth and Pepin etreets at 7:20 o'clock thla morning. In addition to the II mora seriously injured, many of whom were taken to the hospitals, at least 10 others were badly bruised or cut in the smaahup. Tha accident waa caused by the break ing of a brake chain which liberated a trolley car ooming down the grade on tha Bellfontaih line. Tha ear was crowded to lta utmost and many of FIGHTING AT MUKDEN Japanese Assume Offen sive but Are Held by Russian Artillery. JAPANESE LOSES IN ATTACK ON PORT ARTHUR Such Is Report Sent from Tokio by Correspondent of Rome Paper Says Attack Was a Partial Success. (Journal Special Barries.) St Petersburg, Nov. 28. (Bulletin.) Russia haa accepted the invitation of the United Statea to conclude an arbitration treaty on the Mnea of the French-Ameri can treaty. ( Mnal Special Service. ) -' St. Petersburg, Nov. 28. Gen. Kuro- patkln reports today aa follows: An offensive movement begun by the Japanese near Kaanlchan on Saturday continued till 4 o'clock that afternoon. The fighting waa lndecialve, though the Japanese advance waa stayed by the Russian fire. "Although fighting haa continued dur ing a great part of three days, the spirit of the man continue excellent. , "No reports have been received of any fighting- laat night. " There la a general, feeling here now that the tide haa actually turned in fayor of the Russian arms, and a quiet Jubilation at the present status is shown In all classes. The fact tht Port Arthur still stands fast, although an attack of the utmost ferocity is supposed to have been made upon it by the Japanese, strengthens the hop That Stoessal will be able to hold the position until relieved by the Baltic fleet. The movements of the fleet In lta eastward progress are' now more noted than any other war newa, and the marine office Issues regular bulletins showing Its position. Today the ministry of marine pub lished a table and' predictions which added to Russian confidence in no mean measure. The table represents that Russia's strength In the far eaat will be, on the arrival of the Baltic fleet, 48 vessels of war. Japan's effective strength Is given as 25 vessela. The statement concludes by saying that with such a preponderance of metal, victory is assured even though the Japanese are valiant and war-tried veterans. Another subject for gossip here la in the transportation problem, which la shown to have aome rather unexpected evils. Lose 350 Cars. A dispatch from Moscow says: "It' Is reported hero that ISO carloads of provisions and clothing shipped to private consignees and officers In Man churia have disappeared en route! The newspapers here are demanding a rem edy for existing evils In the transporta tion department." It la believed poaalble here that the shipments may have been com mandeered en route, as It seems im probable that such wholesale thefts could have been committed. One thing particularly noticeable in the shipments of these daya Is the large quantity of electrical appliances, in which the Ruaslana seem to be having the advantage. Not only are more lights being shipped, but full planta for power. In this connection, and ahowlng the deadly part played by electricity In the campaign, a letter from a newspaper correspondent at Mukden and who haa been through the Llao Tang operations, proves particularly interesting: Electricity Terrible Weapon. , "At Ltao Yang," says the writer, "all the way round the Russian defences were atretched electric wires with high- pressure currents. In some cases they were fixed among the barbed wire en tanglements in such a way that it waa Impossible to distinguish whether the wire waa "alive" or not. The effect of these wires waa terrible. 'Aa the Japanese, armed with wlre- (Continued on Page Three.) those on board succeeded Ik Jumping before It gained headway. Reaching the atreet Intersection the car was derailed and plunged madly over the pavement until It finally struck a pile of steel and lumber heaped In the street for the construction work on a new building near tha street crossing So violent waa the Impact that the car ran upon the side of the heap and then overturned, rolling down tha aide and splintering lta woodwork, while those Inside were plied on top of each other, suffering broken limbs and wounda. Nearly all of those within the car reside In this city, many of them being employed In various downtown offices. Bsi!"iii Bws&jSr-Pv ' al sagSjpj SaVSJSJSaa Sa fc was ssCasri QBh JsH " 1 ivii'l Snll bHbI Jirlmgl V LsfWl T gafl SB wis BsVeV AjH WalWal BBl ' I EllHlll II araaManl H RI ' ft9 BBS -'BBBBBBBBBs! BPBwdSST! BaaL-X gfl BBBBBB BBsSaSBa 88" BBt StaT ' Ijj EJf gawaVi asssE. .jasssam '4Jj)j sra a AssT'SssBklalBaBa g!g BzBrll SJsBBBsa, sM ssaSB?. bbbl SBBjswBBCBrsssana&i- ' am BasnsaaaaYv-asBs BBtasaV gar . . HVjwsI H aw-ef"sJB 5 LssfTsI aasssssW3 f 'ga"JHBHBEBgjt jm Panam's Army- on Parade. This SOCIETY LEADER STIRS UP SCANDAL Mrs. Caseie Chadwick, Wife of Leading New York Doc tor, Denies Charges. CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER SAYS SHE'S A FORGER Declares Also That as Clairvoy and in Toledo, Ohio, She Smirched Reputation. (Journal Special Service.) New York. Nov. 28. Out of the suit brought by Herbert N. Newton of Brooklyn, Mass., to recover 1190,000 from Mrs. Cassis L. Chadwick, one of Cleveland's most prominent social lead ers, who is now prostrated .with grief aver the exposure, at the Holland house, In thla city, haa developed one of the most remarkable stories of modern tlmea. Agalnat Mrs. Chadwick, now the wife of one of the greatest pttysiclana of the country, la made the' charge that she secured a loan of 8190,000 on. a batch of securities she alleged to be temporar ily tied up In litigation. From the pub licity attached to the filing of the suit, however, has developed the life atory of the woman In the case, who la rep resented by tha Cleveland press aa hav ing been arrested for forgery, when she waa 21 and released In 1892. She met and married Dr. Chadwick seven years ago and since that time haa been a dis tinguished social loader, not onlr In Cleveland, but throughout the middle west. Tonight Mrs. Chadwick. through her son, Emll H. Chadwick, denied absolutely the stories being circulated concerning her. The Cleveland Preas set forth with force and directness the allegations that Mrs. Cnadwlck la none other than a former clairvoyant and fortune-teller, whoae career In Toledo smirched the reputations of men of prominence and whose departure waa regarded with thankfulness by many wlvea. The hear ing of the case promises a aenaatlon. The suit brought by Newton against Mrs. Cussle Chadwick has created a sen sation here. It ta alleged that aeveral other banks are Involved and have taken legal action to recover 8287,800, which was loaned Mrs. Chadwick. Incidentally the failure today of the Cltlsena' National Bank of Oberlln. Ohio. la attributed to large loans made to the same person. Newton alleges that Mrs. Chadwick secured a loan of $190,800 from him on the representation that she had $6:00, 000' In bonds and securities, held by Ira Reynolds of Cleveland, and that she had $600,000 due on a note signed by a man of national reputation that she could negotiate at any time. other plaintiffs In suits against Mrs. Chadwick sre the Kuclld Avenue Savings A Trust company of Cleveland, for $88.- 281; Savings Deposit Bank A Trust Co. of Elyrla, Ohio, for $16,000, and the American Exchange National bank, for $28,808. The suggestion of hypnotic Influence Is advanced by Newton'a attorneys In explanation of the woman's ability to secure large loans without security. JURY IN PATTERSON CASE IS DISCHARGED 4 Journal Special Service.) New York, Nov. 28. The Jury In the case of Nan Patterson waa discharged today by Judge Davis on account of tha serious Illness of Juror Dressier. On Oie motion of Prosecutor Rand, the Judge Issued a call for a nsw panel of talesmen to report for a new trial De Lrcmher I. Meanwhile Mlaa Patterson will remain in tha Tombs, Is a Photograph of a Typical Group WILL STOP SALE Of LIQUOR TO MINORS Crusade Started Against Many Saloonkeepers . Who Have Been Violating Law. BOYS TELL WHERE THEY HAVE BOUGHT WHISKY Shocking Condition of Affairs Made Public by Officers of Men's Resort. To prevent drunkenness among boys of the city and punish those who per sist In selling them liquor is the task to which a number of city officials and othera who have the Welfare of Port land's . youth at heart have addressed themselves. The crusade was Inaugu rated by A. C. Rae, In charge of the boys' department of the Men's Resort, Fourth and Burnslde streets. At 4 o'clock this afternoon a dozen boy a will accompany Mr. Rae to the office of the city attorney, wiser they will preaent evidence in the form of af fidavits and testimony that they have purchased liquor from a number of aa 1 'Km keepers. Warrants will be lasued for the arrest of those accused. Drunkenness among, boys from 12 years up haa grown ta alarming pro portions recently. On Thanksgiving day Juvenile drunkards were numerous In many parts of the city. In the north end there Is a gang of lads, the young est of whom Is 11 years old. who cele brated that day in a manner that could not be excelled by the most debauched toper. They began drinking late In the af ternoon. Some, however, aasert that they drank throughout the day. They con tinued their bacchanalian revels until far In the night, when they staggered hopeleasly about the streets until 2 and 8 o'clock In the morning. Several of them were taken to police headquarter drunk. One waa taken to the central station and confined until the effects of the whisky bad worn away. It la said that there are many sa loonkeepers who do not Inquire into th age of their customers when whisky or other Intoxicating drinks are to be sold. It ta asserted that In Alblna boys and young men who ahould be excluded from saloons by law on account of their age, openly drink In public bars and are served drinks at the tables In plain view. Complaints have been lodged with the police agalnat John Keller's place, 410 Ullsan street; the Full Meaaure house, on Sixth street near Washington: a aa- (Continued on Page Three. ) ONE OF THE HARDEST RAINFALLS ON RECORD 4 For two minutes yesterday mom- 4 4 ing District Forecaster Besls says 4 4 that rain fell at the rate of 1.1 4 Inches an hour. Had the down- 4 4 pour continued at thla rate for 24 4 e hours, three feet of wafer would 4 e have fallen on ePortland. ' For the 4 4 time It lasted H Is bellevd to have 4 4 been one of the hardeat rains on 4 4 record. It waa 9:11 when the 4 heavleat shower began, but two 4 4 minutes later It turned Into the 4 e old-fashioned. Oregon mist. The 4) e change Is all that prevented a e 4 deluge. e 4 The total precipitation during the d e 24 hours amounted to .SI of an 4 4 Inch, which Is not much greater 4 4 than results for s like period of a 4 time during tha Yalny season. 4 of the New Republic's Defenders. WILLING TO DIE FOR SON-IN-LAW Fatal Wounding of Mrs. Leona Demare in Wyoming Reveals a Startling Story. ASSAILANT THREW STONES WITH GREAT ACCURACY Disguised Himself ip Woman's Clothes, First Stoned and Then Shot Victim. (Journal Special Service. ) Cheyenne. Wyo., Nov. 28. What first startled the people of southwestern Wyoming aa the unusual murder of a woman by a woman, now develops into one of the foulest crimes ever com in it ted In the history of the atate, and at tha same time brings to light an exhibition of maternal love seldom equaled. Laat August Mrs. Leona De mars waa fatally wounded during a quarrel with a neighbor. Mrs. Nancy Richardson, at Lone Tree, In the ex treme southwest corner of Wyoming. over the possession of a water Irrigation ditch. Mrs. Demara died a few days ago In a Salt Lake hospital. Mrs. Rich ardson waa arrested and charged with murder. While she would neither deny nor affirm the charge It was generally supposed that ahe waa guilty. It now develops that ahe was prepared to pay the penalty of the crime, even with her life, in order to aava her son-in-law from the gallows. The officers' suspicions were arouaed by the story of the dying woman that her assailant threw stones at her with great accuracy. The arreat of George O. Renner, a son-in-law of Mra. Rich ardson, and a prominent ranchman, fol lowed. He haa confessed that he mur dered Mrs. Demars. The remarkable startling story Is reluctantly conftrmed by Mrs. Richardson, who ssys that Ren ner was disguised aa herself, wearing her clohes, and that he first stoned Mrs. Demars and then shot her. Mrs. Richardson was secreted In the sage brush snd witnessed the tragedy. She saya that Renner compelled her to ac company him. COL. FRANCISCO CHAVES SLAIN BY ASSASSIN (Journal Special Service.) Albuquerque, N. M., Nov. 28. Col. R. Francisco Chaves was assaaslnated at Plnos Wells Saturday evening. While seated at the dinner table In the house of a friend he was shot thorugh a win dow. He was 71 years old. and terri torial superintendent of Instruction and historian for New Mexico. A political enemy Is suspected of his murder, aa Colonel Chaves waa a strong partisan and a Republican leader. RUSSIA SHOWS MORE LIBERALITY TO JEWS (Journal Special Service.) St. Petersburg. Nov. 28. It wss an nounced today that the sone In which Jews can buy real estate Is to be ex tend.!, Klghty political exiles at Arch angel have already been brought back by the new Interior minister. Sviatopolk Mtrsky. but 860 still remain there. 'a PI.UBAIJTT. (Jownal Special Service, i Oyster Bay. N. Y.. Nov. 28. Roosevelt received by 2(7 votes a greater plurality for president this year than did Mc- K Inl.y In 1800. In this, Naaaau county. The ornciai count gives itooseveit 2.111 plurality In thla county. MITCHELL'S LETTER IN Note Urging Rushing of Patents to Alleged Land Swindlers Admitted. ANOTHER HERMANN INSPECTOR'S REPORT Ormsby's Account of Fraud ulently Secured Land Backs Up Schemers Mrs. Wat son's Flight. Senator John H. Mitchells famous letter to Land Commissioner Hermann, "earnestly asking" that the granting of patents to Mrs. Emma Watson be ex pedited as much as possible, haa at laat been placed In evidence In the land fraud case on trial In the federal court here, In spite of the objections of the defense. With it the prosecution alao Introduced the affidavits made by Puter and Emma Watson In Washington, which afforded the excuse for rushing the fraudulent claims to patent. These papers were handed to Blnger Hermann for Identification when on tha wltneas stand laat week. Two hours before taking the stand Mr. Heoey saya Hermann admitted to htm that he re membered the documents and ha Identi fied the signatures. But no sooner had Hermann been sworn as a Witness than he waa suddenly stricken with a loss of memory which completely obliterated all recollection of the papers in question. This failure of the congressman's memory obliged the prosecution to bring from Washington other evidence of the authenticity of the papers, and thla waa supplied this morning by the testimony of Oeorge R. Ogden of the general land office. Mlaa Watson's Flight. The story of the flight and capture of Emma Watson formed another of the features of today's testimony. Wit nesses were placed on the stand thla afternoon who told In graphic detail of the efforts made by the woman of many aliases and many roles to elude the of ficer who was armed with a warrant for her arreat. Emma Watson waa ar rested In Chicago "by Captain Thomaa I. Porter, of the United States secret service, and was brought to Portland by Col. A. R. Oreene. 8. B. Ormaby. the second of the agents employed by Hermann to investigate tha pretended settlements In township 11-7, wss declared by Mr. Haney thla morn ing to have Joined in the conspiracy of the defendants, and to have aent back to Waahlngton a false report. "We shall show." aaid Mr. Heney. "that like C E. Loomis. the first In spector sent out to Investigate these entries. Ormby waa Induced by thea defendants to become a party to the conaplracy to accept and Incorporate In hla report affidavits which he knew to be false and fraudulent." Ormaby Backs Up Loomis. Ormsby's report waa a second edition of that forwarded by Loomis, six months' previously. Again the moving picture waa presented of Emma Porter, a Maud Muller of the mountains, living In pastoral simplicity upon the little clearing, wreated by her toll from the primeval forest. Her chickens, her cow. her strawberries and raspberries and blackberries, her struggles to main- tain herself and her mother and her sister by going out to service In the neighboring valley, all round a place in Ormsby's artistic tale. Frank H. Walgamot. the sturdy young settler whose stout heart was un daunted by hardships and who alter nately worked as a farmhand In the valley and ranged the mountains aa a trapper and hunter, waa likewise told by Ormsby with faithful adherence to all the fanciful details embodied in the report of his predecessor, Loomis. Mow the Defendants Took XV Emma Watson, even more strikingly attired than haa been her wont since the trial began, wearing a rich sealskin coat and a hat of vivid crimson, wss so marked a contrast to the picture drawn by Hermann's agent that the courtroom (Continued on Pag Two.) HYPNOTIZED BOY ACTS AS A RABBIT ftnamal Special Service.) Duluth. Minn.. Nov. 28. William Burgson. a son of Adolph Burgson, a farmer residing near Fertile. Minn., la under a hypnotic spell and Imagine ke Is a rabbit, and the spell apparently cannot be broken, litirgson Is 11 years old. He sttended an entertainment at Fertile given by a traveling hypnotist, who advertised himself as Professor Isolde. Among the voluntatis who went upon the stage lo be hypnotised waa young Burgson. He waa aasHly hypno tised, and when In thla condition he waa toM that be waa a rabbit Latex BULLS ARE IN CONTROL Cause Big Advances in Issues to Which They Turn Attention. THE LAWS0N GROUP IS PRACTICALLY INACTIVE Principal Showing Made by Colorado Fuel A Iron, Which Rises Rap- idly. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) New York. Nov. 28. The bulls had almost undisputed away la tha stock market today and those. Issues which they turned their attention to showed remarkable advances. The Lawaon group Amalgamated Copper, Sugar Re fining and Pacific Mail were Inactive and did not have much effect on th market. The former, though, after a hard tussle with tha bears, showed a rise of 82ft cents. Sugar cloaed tl lower. " The principal ahowlng waa made by Colorado- Fuel A Iron, which waa sched uled for an advance today by almost every broker In the country. The mar ket opened with Fuel quoted at St. It rose rapidly throughout this session aud touched tha' high mark near tha end of the session at 68. an advance of i over the previous closing. At the close the market went point lower. Louisville & Nashville waa also A very strong feature and cloaed at 141 Vi. an advance of $1.26. ""' Illinois Central, the Junior Vanderbilt stock, opened at an advance at 163. By rapid stages the bulla forced thai buying, and the market touched 168 near ine ciose. out later reacted to 167. During the day It ahowed a remarkable rise of 84.87. Chicago A Nort h western had lta share of the bullishness and opened up $2 higher at 20:. Later in the day it waa forced up by heavy buying to '204, aa advance of 24.62. Peoples' Oaa rose 2 points after a very dull aesslon. It opened at 108 and touched 110 at the close. Its ad vance since Saturday amounted to $:-. What caused the general rise In tha market today remains much of a mys tery, but It is the general belief that the Amalgamated tnteresta have taken to other stocks and will boost them la order to hold their own valuea Intact. THREE MEN KILLED BY CAVING OF A SEWER (Jnwoal Special Ssrvtee.) , St Louis, Mo.. Nov. 28. Three men, Charles Melllch. Frank Bannlch and .John Boroeap. were killed by the caving of a sewer at King's Highway and Arse nal street today. Of the gang working at that point, five men were burled, but two were rescued from the sandy muck In which their comrades were ungulfed. The first reports went out were to the effect that "eive n"" ""n auiea, wnicn ., --'w and necessitated extra polio Unas to prevent Interference In tha work of ex cavation. FORMER MAYOR AMES IS PLACED ON TRIAL AGAIN (Journal Special Service.) Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 28. Former Mayor A. A. Ames waa placed on trial today on a charge of receiving a bribe from Beaale Lee. This Is the fifth trial to which the much-Indicted ex mayor haa been subjected. The former trials resulted In disagreements of the Juries, and if another disagreement re sults It appears probable that another trial will be ordered. It la believed to be the determination of the Judges of the district court to make a Jury dee d whether or not the former mayor is guilty or innocent. when the professor tried to bring the lad to hla senses he was unable to do so. He worked all night without success, then left for Minneapolis to get a nerva specialist, whom he said would restore th hoy's mind In Ite normal condition. The professor hss since not been aeea, and the father of the boy swears ven geance, wiiiinm squeeaa nae a raaan. but utters no otner shim, a difficulty that his parents into the konse at night. It the lad will die. as hla fast Th boy haw tie far if aaya.