THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SUNDAY
MORNING. DECEMBER 4, 190C
GAMBLERS BLAMING
THE PORTLAND CLUB
They Say the Men Who Conducted that Illegal Institution Sought
to Run the Town and Its Politics and that the Hon
est People Objected.
LAW ABIDING CITIZENS WERE PUSHED TO ONE SIDE
Declare that the Ambition of the Grants, Soloman and Sullivan
Hat Caused a Revulsion of Sentiment that Has
Made Portland a Permanently Closed Town.
It' this way." Mid a gambler yester
day who knows Portland like a book
he learned In childhood and Is personally
acquainted with every gumblcr of any
consequence' on the coast. "'Public
Kambling la sure dead In this village. I
was like the rest of the bunch and It took
me some time to 'tumble.' But It Is
It's plain as Mount Hood on a bright day.
Blame the Portland Club.
"The cause of public gambling bring
closed for food In this town la the Port
land club. That sounds queer, but every
gambler In town will admit It and Insist
upon It. except, of course, those who
were dlrectely interested In the club.
- "It wasn't these 'reformers' that threw
the caff Into us. They never accomplish
much without assistance. And the as
sistance came from us. Crusaders and
reformers rant and rave and raise all
kinds of noise, but usually when the wind
has died down and the thins is over
you'll find things about as they were
before the stampede. It takes something
stronger, more powerful and deeper than
the ravings of professional reformers to
stop gambling In a city like Portland,
which half been a wide-open town since
the first sailor landed here.
"Sheriff Ward didn't do It. JPAjtPJsX
bf a sheriff Isn't great enough to ac
complish that, even if the man who holds
the office Is as determined as death to
stop It. One man couldn't stop gambling
In Portland, nor could two. District At
torney Manning didn't, for It has been
repeatedly charged, and with good
reason, that he and the sheriff did not
work In harmony to stop It.
Fnbllo Sentiment Bid It.
"Newspapers did not do It. So there
must have been some other cause. Tou
-must go deeper than tb.e superficial rea
sons that have been assigned. Any on
who knows will admit that the combined
and co-operated efforts of the reformers,
the sheriff, district attorney and news
papers and all thaother Influences that
have figured In the case could not have
stopped gambling as effectually as It has
been done.
"It was public resentment at the tyran
nical policy of the Portland club. Every
aamtaier In Portland, except the Port
land club people, will tell you the same
thing. If Pete and Jack Grant. Nate Solo
mon and I.arry Sullivan had contented
themselves with runnlngagambllng-house
and had not tried to run the city of Port
land, gambling would be open today In
this city. It was that open policy of
theirs to butt In and try to dictate to
respectable people how their city should
be run that made the respectable people
"-They had a' big gambllng-houss
the tnggest In the city. They had every
CHARGES AGAINST
ACTING DETECTIVE
Hellyer Accused of Maltreating
Member of Chief Hunt's
Army of Vagrants.
MAN REFUSED TO MOVE
AS OFFICER DIRECTED
Searching Investigation Will Be
Made Into Affair by Head
of Department.
Tn a complaint lodged with the police
yesterday afternoon Acting Detective
Hellyer Is accused of maltreating a mem
ber of the "vag" army of Chief Hunt, a
battalion of which Is sent out from the
police station every morning. It Is said
that Hellyer became Incensed at the man
because he did not move In the direction
Indicated after they had reached the oar
tracks, a block and a half the other stde
of the Burnslde-street bridge, and after
striking the man a number of times
kicked him while he was picking up his
hat
The assault Is said to have occurred
yesterday morning shortly after the
"vag" brigade had reached the point
where its members separate, to take auch
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game that has been devised to separ
ate people from their money. They had
the audacity to overlook or rather Ig
nore the fact that they existed merely
by sufferance. They were tolerated
rather than countenanced, and might
have gone on Indefinitely had not their
braseh nerve asserted Itself too dar
ingly. Meddled la Politics.
"They meddled In politics. They
didn't stop at meddling, but even tam
pered with the rights of law-abiding
citizens. They succeeded st first. They
became a power. Politicians roust con
sult with them if hope of success were
entertained. And a despot never wield
ed his power more tyrannically than did
that bunch. They said what must be
dons In municipal affairs, and straight
way it was dons. Likewise they said
whnt must not be done, and. In truth.
It never happened.
'Colonel Applegats, than whom a
truer, more gentlemanly sport never
lived, desired to enter Portland. He
operates poolrooms throughout the coun
try. He Is ;i follower of the turf him
self, and not a mere wire-trailer. He
has money and owns farms and race
horses. The Portland duo promptly an
nounced that he should not open. They
would have uo, competition, tliey said.
And the mayor said so, too. It Is cer
tainly to In ugh. and laugh we all did
when we read his announcement,
" There Is already dne poolroom In this
city,' said our venerable pilot at the
ctly's wheel, "and I say there will be no
more. No outsiders shall corn In here
and start In opposition to our good old
home-grown Oregonlsns, who hsve been
the bone and sinew of this grand old
state and redeemed It from the foresta"
People Would Wot Stand It.
" "Bravo! Bravo!' we all shouted that
la. ws gamblers. 'There Is a man! No
upstarts, shall tell our mayor how to run
this town' Then we laughed to our
selves. "Finally the people took a tumbla
People as a rule are tolerant; they don't
butt In much, and you have to bump 'em
good and hard and often before they
raise a roar. They tolerated the Port
land club' bunch for a long time, then
began to get tired of It. They would
stsnd for msny of the iniquities of
Portland and say never a word, but when
that bunch of audacloua 'sports'. as
sumed to tell them law-ibidlng, httd
worktng cltlsens what to do in the way
of running their own city. It was going
lust a little too strong. The worm
turned. .
"Every gambler In Portland Is of the
same opinion now. For a long time we
didn't tumble, but don't ever think we
don't know now where to place the responsibility."
directions as they desirs In leaving the
city. It was witnessed by a number of
persons who were attracted to the spot
by what they thought a street fight.
i,.i,.h, .. v.u.hn unit Warrant Officer
Oolts were with Hellyer at the time.
For the last week Chler Hunt s "Kan
garoo court" has had all the business
U ......M ha alLnftMl M Th HHmW
of hoboes and petty troublers taken out
of the city prison eacn morning ana nnea
up at the desk to be surveyed by the
chief has averaged JO men. There were
17 In the battalion which was sent out
yesterday morning in charge of Ooltx,
Hellyer and Vaughn.
Acting Detective Hellyer has done ef
ficient work with Detective Vaughn In
gathering In hoboes and persons guilty
of misdemeanors. This Is the first tiros
that an accusation has been made
against him. Detective Vaughn says
Hellyer did not kick the man. The
prisoner applied epithets to Hellyer and
waa Intractable, which led to the trouble
between them.
Warrant Officer Oolts was a witness
of the affair, but says that he cannot
make any statement relative to what oc
irrd unless he Is called upon to do
so by the chief of police.
tam:
(Special Dispatch to The Journal I
Eugene. Or., Dec. J. John Maxwell, a
prominent farmer of Irving precinct, was
todny arrested for having sheep In his
possession afnicted with scabies without
notifying the county stock Inspector,
which Is In violation bf the law. Mux
well appeared before Justice of the Pence
Wlntermeler and waa fined $25 and costs
The arrest wss made at the lnstnnce of
County Stock Inspector A. O. Mathews,
who Is now making an active crusade
against violators of the law In this re
spect. He promises further arrests
soon
Diamonds
Open Evenings
During entire month
of December.
HARRIMAN DOESN'T
FEAR THE HILL LINE
Believes Size of New Oriental
Liners Will Prove Draw
back to Speed.
(Special Dispatch by Leased Wire to The Jornl)
San Francisco, Dec. . Pacific Mall
and Occidental & Oriental steamship of
ficials are not at all disturbed over the
faot that both of James J. Hill's two
mammoth steamships, the Minnesota ami
Dakota, will soon be saUtng regularly
between Seattle and the orient In con
nection with his Oreat Northern railway.
The Minnesota IS to make her first
trip from Seattle December 28 next
The Dakota la about .completed at the
New London, Conn., shipyards, and ere
long will be sent around 8outh America
to this coast. Both of these steamers
are CSS feet long, 73 feet 8 inches on the
beam, and B( feet 1 Inch deep from deck
to keel, and have a displacement of 31.
000 tons, a cargo capacity of 30,000 tons,
and a passenger capacity of - firet
class passengers, 68lnterraedlate end
2,400 In the steerage. Each .vessel car
ries an elaborate refrigerator plant
which Is capable of keeping cool 1,853
tons at perishable freight.
The Hsrrlman steamship combine at
this port, with modern vessels like the
Korea; Siberia, Mongolia and Manchuria,
Is considered' by Harrlman and his asso
ciates as strong enough to hold for Sain
Francisco the lion's share of the freight
and passenger traffic between this coast
Lnd all oriental ports against Hill's new
steamers and their ally, the Japanese
line, Nippon Yusen Kalsha.
The Harrlman people think the great
slse of the Minnesota and Dakota will
prove a drawback to them in the long
run In the way of quick, efficient serv
ice. LOVE FOR A WOMAN
CAUSES BLOODY DUEL
(Special rcspstch by Leased Wire to The Joornsl)
Bedding, Cat, Dec. 3. Because he
I ... i h nam w,,man T.miifl Rath, an
f employe at Ore Mountain copper com-
pany'.i smelter at ksswick, ana wsanssj
Eberhardt, cook at the company's mill,
engaged in a bloody duel last night at 11
O'clock. As a result of the duel Bber
hardt is lying at the point of death in
the copper company's hospital at Kes
wick, and Bath Ras been arrested on a
charge of attempted murder. ,
T a V. u,i Vh.rhorilt ar.ra both Infatu
ated with a Spanish woman called Itosa.
She favored fcibernarai, out nua quicwy
hinted that the men should decide by
their prowess as fighters who should
win her. Last night the men met at
Dalghlsch's saloon, on the main street
In Keswick. Bath was armed with a
lara-e dlrk-knlfe. Eberhardt was -un
armed, but later he secured a heavy
stick of stovewood, snd the comoatams
entered the fray. Eberhardt knocked
Rath down, but they were separated.
Later. Bath felled his opponent and
stabbed him six tlmea Twice he sent
the knife into the back of the prostrate
-.w twlx. into his bark, once
Into ths forehead and once Into his ab
domen. Bath would have finished nis victim
had nnt aid come to Eberhardt Rath
fled, but was caught today.
BRAKEMAN'S ILL-TIMED
SIGNAL KILLS TWO MEN
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
Drummond. Mont., Dec. 3. When ex-
tra train 1320. west, in charge of Con
ductor Frank Zlerbel pulled Into Drum
mond today about 13 o clock, he ana tne
head brakeman. R. R. Chesbrough, cut
off four car and started to do some
switching In the yard here. They backed
In on the house track, where they round
a bad car. wnicn iney prooeeaea ia
chain UP. While they were working un
der 'the car the rear brakeman came
up, and not knowing anything of the bad
order of the car, gave the signal to the
engineer to "back up," which he did,
catching Conductor Zlerbel and Brake
man Chesbrough between the cars and
crushing them so that Chesbrough died
In about IS minutes snd ziernei lu min
utes later.
CLUB CHARGES GRAFT, .
COUNCIL STRIKES BACK
(Rpeclal DUpstch to The Jourail.)
Seattle. Wash., Dec. 3. At a meeting
of the Renton Hill Improvement club
for the purpose of discussing a pro
posed city hall bond issue, chsrges were
made by several speakers that some of
the councllmen were grafters, others In
competent and the whole body unbusi
nesslike snd unsafe to entrust with
IfiBO.noo for city hall purposes when
the expenditure of the money lay wholly
within the control of the members.
Late this afternoon the street com
mittee of the council held a special
meeting to consider the paving of a
large district, on Renton hill. In which
the 'city is ssked to contfibute 346.J00
toward street Intersections. The com
mittee was outspoken In view of the
fact that the club had charged the coun
cllmen with being grafters; that Renton
hill could not have any support from the
council In Improvement work. Without
the city's contribution the work can
not be done,
A. C& C. FELDENHEIMERo
Corner Third and Washington Streets
YOUNG WEBER IS
STILL A MYSTERY
All Evidence Tends to Show
That He Is the Man Who
Robbed Placer Bank.
FORCES NAME TO LETTER
OF RECOMMENDATION
Grand Jury Adjourns Until Mon
day Without Completing
Its Investigation.
(Special Dispatch tr Leased wire to The Journal)
Auburn. Cal., Deo. I. The authorities
here are now confident that they will be
able to connect Adolph Weber with the
Placer County bank robbery through the
testimony of Mrs. E. C Snowden. It
wss reliably learned this morning that
Mrs. Snowden had seen Julius Weber
with a pair of gingham overalls similar
to the ones whtoh the bank robber wore.
In fact, Mrs. Snowden has In the lining
of her skirt a portion of a pair worn
by Julius Weber some time ago. The
color had faded from the cloth, but It
can readily be seen that it was of the
same material as the trousers thrown
awav by the bank robber.
Mrs. Snowden said this morning that
the cloth In her skirt was formerly blue
end white check overalls. She had not
seen the overalls In the custody of the
sheriff, but from a description furnished
her, she says that they are of the same
color.
Mrs. Snowden will probably not see
the costume until she la called upon to
Identify It before the grand Jury. Sheriff
Keena believes that Mrs. Snowden's tes
timony would be stronger If she were
first called upon' to Identify ,the clothing
when she appears before the Jury.
i 01011 aa Important Point
It Mrs, Snowden reeugnl.es any of the
clothing thrown away by the bank rob
ber as having belonged to Adolpb Weber
or Julius Weber, this will be taken as
evidence that the boy Is guilty.
The sheriff's men exhausted every ef
fort to prove that the garments belonged
to Adolph Weber without success, until
they, questioned Mrs. Snowden. The
piece of cloth In Mra Snowden's dress
will prove the strongest evidence that
Adolph robbed the bank and may con
vict him of the crime. The boy's aunt
Is not willing to.say that Julius WebeT
d,ld or did not wear overalls similar to
those now In the custody of the sheriff.
She wants to see the garments first
"I want to see the clothes before I
make any statement," said Mrs. Snow
den, "then I will know If I ever saw any
of them before. It la barely possible
that I may recognise some article as
having belonger to the Webers. I wanted
to sea the bask robber's things the lsst
time I was In the court house, but some
how the thought slipped my mind at the
time. -Now I think that perhaps it
would be wiser to wait untn I am sent
for. That "Dolphy could have robbed
the bank never entered our minds before,
and we were as surprised as anyone
when we heard that he was suspected.
I don't think that the Webers ever sus
pected their boy any more than I did. I
don't believe that was the cause of the
murders.
Practically Confesses.
Adolph Weber, In a statement which
he attempted to give to the public ss
coming from Lincoln Merrow, making
practically an admission that be robbed
the Placer County bank on May 26.
Weber requested Merrow to make a
statement expressing his confidence In
the accused murderer, but the latter re
fused to do so. Thereupon Weber took
upon himself the task of making a state
ment for Merrow.
Accordingly he wrote out a long state
ment, signed Merrow's name .to It, and
intended to pass It to a newspaper man.
Unfortunately the paper fell Into the
hands of the sheriff, and It Is now In
the possession of the officer. The state
ment signed with Lincoln's name by
Adolph, covers msny sheets of psper.
and an attempt was evidently made to
conceal the handwriting.
Lincoln Merrow was Immediately fur
nished with a typewritten copy of the
document and dlsclslmed being Its au
thor. Merrow was Indignant at the
prisoner, and then told Kenna that the
boy had once asked him to make a state
ment, but he did not care to be quoted
as saying that he believed that the boy
was lnocent when he thought that he
was guilty.
Adolph wrote a long letter to his
former friend, hoping to excuse himself
snd explain his duplicity. The letter
wss an eloquent appeal to the companion
of his schoolboy dsys to bo his friend in
adversity as he wss In ths good dsys
gone by. Merrow gave Weber a piece
of his mind when the latter asked Mer
row if be believed him guilty.
Sheriff Keena refuses to allow anyone
to see the statement written try Adolph
and signed with the name of his friend.
He hopes to use it as evidence against
Weber if the suspect Is ever tried for
the bank robbery, end he will not divulge
Its exact contents.
The statement In part Is known to be
about ss follows:
"Adolph snd I have been friends all
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of our Uvea I cannot believe that he
Is guilty of the murder of his- people,
ss he was too fond of his mother. They
were always happy together and I never
knew Dolphy to speak with anything
but the greatest respect of her. It Is
preposterous to suppose that he would
commit auch a deed, and I believe that
I can establish his Innocence. I shall
never think hire guilty uat,U he Is
proven so. .
"As to the bank robbery. I am sure
that the boy Is the guilty party. It was
a very clever trick, spd to ths boldness
IV. wl.l.K I, waa avactlted lS dU ItS
success. I think Adolph Is a very clever
fellow and quite capable or aoing mucn
a thing. I have no proof with which
to Justify this belief, but it seems more
probable that he robbed the bank than
that he murdered his people. I csnnot
see what motive there could be for his
doing such a thing. .
"I hope he will be cleared of both
crimes, though I must confess thst the
bank robbery esse looks pretty strong
against him.
Adolph Weber seems to realise now
how serious are the charges against
him. This faot becomes more evident
each day and the prisoner makes new
breaks whenever he Is Interviewed by
the sheriff or sny of his men. Yes
terday a prisoner was heard to complain
of ths hard sentence he had received
for a small offense. Adolph turned
quickly to him and said: "I'll serve
your sentence for you and take two
years to boot If you will exchange places
with me."
The prisoner then remarked that he
guessed that he would prefer to serve
his time, but Weber did not reply.
The grand Jury has adjourned until
Monday without finishing the Investiga
tion In the Weber murder case. The
Inquisition Is very searching, and It Is
expected that the grand Jury will finish
the murder case on Mondsy snd st ones
take up the bank robbery charge against
Weber.
BATTnT
(Special Dtasatrb to Ths Journal.)
Washington. Dec. 3., General Chaffee
today Issued orders for the Eighth bat
tery of artillery stationed at Vancouver
barracks to take a station by January
1 at Fort Russell, Wyo., where new
quarters have recently been completed.
Ven a man aln'd making a lot of
money he aln'd slso making a lot of
enemies.
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(Continued from Page One.)
the Chadwlck case of a document attest
ing to Mrs, Chadwlck's securities which
are supposed to be in the hands of
Treasurer Ira Reynolds of the Wade
Park bank. It has been ssld that it was
largely upon the strength of this attest
of securities that Mra. Chadwlck has
beep enabled to borrow millions of dol
lars. This Is a copy of It:
"Cleveland. Ohio. -May 23. 1M1. To
whom it may concern: I hereby certify
that I have in my possession five mil
lion dollars (35.009,000) In securities be
longing to Cassia L. Chadwlck, snd that
neither myself nor the Wade Park bank
nor any othsr person has any claim
upon them.
"(Signed) IRA REYNOLDS."
It Is one of the most extraordinary
features of this Chadwlck matter that
notwithstanding ths existence of this
attest Reynolds has refused to make
public the nature of these (3,000,000
worth of securities.
teal Magnate Warned.
Again today the name of Andrew Car
negie Is projected Into the great Chad
wlck mystery. This time It was not
merely a signature seen by a few and
guessed at by thousands, or a mysterious
visit to the lawyers who represent the
Kre.it ironmaster, but an actual member
of the Carnegie family who vistted the
Holland house and asked for Mra Chad
wlck. The man was W. Coleman Carnegie,
nephew of the steel king, and Inheritor
of a great share of the wealth of Thomas
Carnegie, Andrew's brother, and a man
of considerable Importance on his own ac
count He Is msrrled and Is a great fa
vorite of his uncle.
Carnegie refused to ssy anything
about ths reason of his appearance at the
Holland house, even after It had been
pointed out to him that the visit, coming
after Andrew Carnegie's repudiation of
any connection with the esse; would In
evitably cause renewed speculation.
It is now known that Mrs. Chad
wlck's two-visits to the office of Butler,
Jollne & Wynders were not voluntary,
but were In response to an imperative
request from that firm and It Is declared
that the two conferences of three hours
each took the shspe of a long cross
examination of Mrs. Chadwlck as to the
Jewelry
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Open Evenings
During entire month
of December.
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Seceae1 sad Herri Ml
PertUad, ere
AWARD
H AS BEEN
arfrkfeiN THE
circumstances surrounding her alleged
use of Andrew Carnegie's name.
Mm Troubles Increase.
Mra Chadwlck's troubles were added
to today when a deputy sheriff with an
attachment succeeded In entering hec
room, and served on her the paper that
forbids the removal of her trunks until
she satisfies a bill of Jl.3 57.B0. alleged
to be owed to Mme. Louise & Co.. the
modistes, who had returned to them
from a bank Mra Chadwlck's check for
that amount
Deputy Sheriff Rtnn says ha found
Mrs. Chadwlck lying on the bed. When
he spoke to her she appeared to be com
pletely unnerved. As shs is very deaf
Rlnn had to shout his errand to her.
He did not examine the contents of her
trunks snd bags.
Mra Chadwlck has six days in which
to answer the summons.
Will stay a Walla.
Carpenter, Mrs. Chadwlck's attorney,
aid hs did not aspect Mrs. Chadwlck
would leave New Tork tomorrow to go
to Cleveland and she will likely remain
here for several days yet. He laughed
at the proposition that she had any In
tention of going to Europe. With her
world of hypothetical millions appar
ently falling about her ears, with a
federal officer enthroned amid the golden
splendor of her drawing room In her
mansion In Cleveland, with a sheriff s
officer knocking at the door of her hotel
room and Informing her that her trunk
had been attached and that she must
hot attempt to remove even the least of
her personal possessions, Mra Chad
wlck Is still appsrently undaunted and
Insists that she wlu pay her debts and
be vindicated.
COLUMBIA THEATRE
LEASE TALK OF TOWN
President Jofin Cort of the North
western Theatrical association did not
arrive from Seattle yesterday afternoon
as was expected, and Manager Helllg
does not look for htm before Monday.
The talk of the town, theatrically,
yesterday was the lease of the Columbia
theatre. The lease Is made out In the
name of A. H. Ballard, the new mana
ger, and he will, so far as the business
management la concerned, direct the
destinies of the theatre and the stock
company. Hie backer, who was named
yesterday as Morris Wells, does not ap
pear In the document which changed ths
control of the house.
Our Optical Dept.
Is in charge of our expert
Consult him for a perfect
correction.