G OOD EVENING. The Circulation Of The Journal ' Yesterday Was W Tonight and Thursday, occasional rein; high southerly wind. VOL. III. NO. 248. PORTLAND. OREGON. WEDNESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 14. 1904 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LAND CASE POSTPONED AND GRAND JURY RECONVENED TO INDICT. IT IS SAID. SOME OF THE BIGGER SWINDLERS TRIAL OFF TILL APRIL Prosecution Has the Land Fraud Cases Put Over onReason Withheld. GRAND JURY CALLEQ TO MEET MONDAY To Indict Men Higher Jp Before Statute of Limitations For bids May Be the Purpose of Its Meeting. Dnc more the prosecution of the lnd fraud case, haa beep productive of a sensational surprise. To the utter amazement of the throng of witnesses and spectator who filled the federal eourtrom thin morning, expecting the Sk ramencement of the second trial of m A, D. Puter and hla co-defendants a,j government moved a continuance of thla and all other pending land fraud oaaea "for reasons which cann.it now be disclosed" until the April term of court, and the continuance was prompt ly granted. United States District Attorney John Hall then moved that the federal grand Jury be directed to reconvene next Mon day and an order to thla effect was The postponement of the land fraud prosecutions was wholly unexpected by the general public, and even the attor- reys for the defense had only an Inti mation of the government a purpose. Evidently the decision to ask a con tinuance was reached at the last mo ment for. active preparations for the trial have'heen In progress and a small army of wltneases had been subpoened. Borne of them were brought from - dis tant points, and only' a few days ago the governments attorneys declared their Intention of bringing the prosecu tions to an early conclusion. Grand Jury OgU Slgnlf loant. But though there will be no more land franf trials at thtt term of court. the government has not aoatea tne ener gy of ita efforts to bring to Justice those who were implicated In the steal ing of the public domain. The recon venlng of the grand jury at this time Is extremely significant. Many of the witnesses brought here to testify in the trlsl of Puter snd his confederates have been notified to appear before the grand Jury next week. It is well known that the government expects to secure the Indictment of persons who have hitherto escaped the clutches of the law, but who were deeply Involved In the frauds. In his address to the) Jury In the last ease tried Mr. Heney plainly intimated that evidence was to be submitted to the grand Jury against C. B. Loomla, formerly special agent of the land de partment, and 8. B. Ormsby. formerly superintendent of the forest reserve, both of whom gave false reports upon the fraudulent homestead entries In township 11-7. He also declared that George Borenson had been a party to the Puter conspiracy, in addition It la rumored that two members of the) stats legislature and some other persons welt known In the stats will be called. It Is quits possible that the postpone ment of the trial which was to have begun today is due to the necessity "of obtaining nsw Indictments before prose cution is barred by the statute of limita tions. It would be Impossible for the grand Jury to hold Its Investigations while the land-fraud trials are in prog ress, as either would demand the en tire attention of the government's at torneys. Court Proceeding-. Brief. The proceedings in court this morning- were very brief. Judge Bellinger had scarcely taken hla seat upon the bench when Assistant Attorney-Oeneral Heney arose and said: May It please the court, for reasons which the government does not wish to disclose, but which are regarded by the government as sufficient, we wish to ask a continuance of the conspiracy cass nd all other lend fraud cases for the term." (Continued on Page Two.) HUMBLE OIL FIELD TURNS TO VOLCANO (Jenraal Special Berries.) Houston, Tex.. Dec 14. The Humble II fields. 17 miles north of this city, are a total wreck, due to subterranean convulsions, which turned the deep wells Into veritable voloaaoes. Borne of the atones, mud and lava wsrs hurlsd 1.000 fset Into ths air and fell over a territory f a mile in all dlrsetlone. The d est mo tion of property Is almost total and will roach 660,000. People fled from the field when ths outbreak began, which was preceded by a terrible rumbling, and sought shslter as best they could from the rsln of stone and mud. Claude, of phosphorescent LAWSON BEATS 'EM Turns Rising Market and Puts Bulls to Rout on 'Change. CALLS GREENE'S BLUFF AND WINS A POINT Copper Magnate Changes Mind About Denouncing Lawson When Latter Proposes to Meet Him in Street. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) New York. Deo. 14. Thomas W. Law son turned the tide of the stock market today after a very desperate encounter with the Amalgamated-Standard Oil forces and the prices at the close show a loss. The following message, sent by Law son to President W. C. Oreens of the Greene Copper company, was ons of the principal factors In the movement of the market: 'To W. C. Greene, on board 10 a. m. train New York to Boston: "Tour wire that you would be at my State street office at S p. m. received. As you seem anxious to do your business In public I will meet you at the time named in State street In front of tbe Old Stats House and I herewith notify you that I will do all the denouncing that will be done. THOMAS VT. LAWSON." Thla message was handed to Presi dent Greene jus as he was said, to be on his way to the depot to take the train for Boston. As soon as he perused it he seemed to have changed his mind of making a hurried Journey to the old city and denouncing Lawson in nis own office. Oreene Chang.. Bis Mind. Mrs. Greene said: "I do not intend to make a fool of myself and will not be egged on by Lawson to go to him. I was hot when I ssid it. The episode is closed as far aa I am concerned" Am h reault of the heavy nuctuationa in the market of late the failure of the firm of C. Schumacher, an old institu tion, waa announced. The liabilities are not yet known. It Is said however, that Mr. Schumacher's firm was vsry long on the stock directly attacked by the Boston broker. tosses Today. The following table shows the losses at the close or the market toaay, as compared with that of yesterday: Today. Tues. loss. Amalgamated . 83 4' sj.s'M Atchison . Sugar Refining . Smelter Brooklyn Anaconda Rock I si., com . Rock Isl., pref.. St. Paul 77 . 67 . 6 . tl . 62 .166 . 16 .163 .128 . 61 .106 Erie Manhattan . Canadian Pac. . Katy. pref Missouri Pac. . . Pennsylvania . Southern Ry. . . So. Pacific .134 . 834 . 4V? .107 : 2S nlon Pac. com. Steel, com Ontario sV West The market this morning opened gen erally lower, but It soon transpired that the Amalgamated-Standard Oil Interests did not propose to allow the Lawson crowd to have their own way. Soon buying orders earns in in large umbers and there was a sharp advance all through the lists. Amalgamated opened nearly $1 higher at 65 and early went to . On the Influx of orders the stock touched Its high point but a few seconds after at . but the tide began to turn here and the price fluctuated badly from 64 to 66 and then back to 64 again. It finally steadied at 66. Near the close on Lawson telegrams and the selling by his friends the mar ket showed a sudden slump and all of the early advance was lost and more, too. Before tbe Standard Oil people could recover Lawson'. friends hsd smashed the price to 64. At this point there was general sell ing by everybody not in the combination and the market closed at the lowest (Continued on Page Five.) vapors enveloped the Held, giving It ths appearance of a whole town wrapped in flames. Detonatlona like the roar of cannon could be heard 10 miles away. Derricks were torn to atoms and ma chinery shattered Orsat fissures opened In the earth and from thsm mud and tapors Issued. Work wss In progrese at five wells yesterday morning when tbe upheaval came. The earth suddenly shook, sll the holes seemed to turn thomaetvee wrong side out snd ths deep wells .became veritable volcanoes. Pipes that were l.noo feet In the earth were hurled from the ground and twisted to fragments. . m 13" .DO 7Vi l.TS 87 .7V, 102 s no ' 33 Si 1.00 U 8H 1.00 U IK?', .7ti ' 16 .50 1S .7 $128 .1ZH 62 M 105 .12H 114 .60 33 .M 61V. !7Vi 106 100 174 .75 42 .26 as!asl!s!!!! " rilrti f. ??tMsesteMjV-' i '' ''jLSsifc - 'ih bSBbHHb? Two Scenes in Port Arthur, One Showing a Great Gun Ready for Action, the Other the Home of a Res ident Riddled by Japanese Shells. r . Ik - : fe ' ''fiiJ Raff III mmmT VZLZmM ni in iii m w"w mm i u I I iwn BsMuT Bu III HI t t 1 1 i av aKmm mmmrr ' ass brmt"; j -- a i . John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Who Has Under Orders from JAPAN ANNEXES SOUTH MANCHURIA Correspondent of Rome Paper Tells of Proclamation Issued by Oyama Heavy Reinforcements and Guns Are Being Sent to Port Arthur Assaults Are Apparently Abandoned. (Journal Special Ssrvlca.) Boms, Dec. 4. A Toklo dispatch an nounces that Field Marshal Oyama has issued a proclamation provisionally an nexing southern Manchuria to Japan. Ths dispatch also states that 6,000 Japaneae troops have been, landed at Pigeon bay to reinforce the Japanese attacking army at Port Arthur. The reinforcements are supplied with a num ber of quick-firing guns and new trench ing machinery. Those facts, the correspondent says, can be taken to mean but one thing and that la that Stoessei's resistance Is proving much mors effective then wss expected st tho time of the taking of 201-Meter hill. It was then freely pre dicted that tho stronghold would In IU entirety be In tho possession of the Japaneae before the end of the week. The repeated losses sustained by the Japanese In their attacks have led to a more cautious plan, aa shown by the qusntltles of trenching tools sent for ward It Is not believed here In Toklo that another general assault may bo ex pected for many days, and perhaps weeks. The Russian Baltic neat has been so divided In ita sailing to ths far east that tho Japanese are confident that Togo will bo able to meet tho dif ferent squadrons ss they come and .an nihilate them with comparative ease. MORE RIOTS. , Bevolationi.te Bold tho Police at Bay for Two Days. (Journal Special ServFee.) I. Pitsrsburg, Deo. 14. It Is gener Gone to Europe for His Health His Physician. ally admitted here that revolutionists promise great trouble should ths war continue. The reservists are constant ly receiving revolutionary prlntsd mat ter, snd wherever drafts are being made Ill-feeling Is shown against ths officers The latest revolt Is reported from Odessa, where on Monday the police sur roundsd a house occupied by IS revolu tionists led try a girl 16 years of age. The girl shot at a police lieutenant from a window and the house waa bar ricaded. A slegs wss begun which con tinued for 46 hours, snd ended In a hand-to-hand fight Seven of tho conspirators wars killed. Including the girl, eleven conspirators wounded, two police killed and nine po lice woundsd. Many stops srs being taken to mol lify the countrymen, and most of ths provincial authorities directing tho dis tribution of alimony to tho families of men serving in the wsr havs decided to regulate the positions of tho Urge number of houssholds where there is' no legal msrrlaga owing t the Busalan orthodox church refusing to perform the ceremony unless both parties aro of that communfon, and to their being no civil marriage In Russia. In place of ths marriage osrtincate the Zemt.voe srs accept log a written declaration announcing ths partis bound to each other, and prepared to proceed to full marriage ss soon ss the law per mits. The step was found necessary, ss many families physically resisted th tsklng of their men to the wsr until their claim to support wss recognised.' Many Jews who hsve been taken to (Continued OB Page Five.) TEARS TINGE THE SMOOT HEARING Former Wife of Mormon Apostle, Now Dead, Tells of His Plural Marriage. AGAINST HEff PROTE8T HE IGNORED MANIFESTO Gave as Reason that Woman Was Engaged to His Brother Who Had Died. (Journal Special Service.) Washington, Dec. 14. With tears streaming down her faoe, Mrs. Fred Ellis, a former wife of Abrsm Cannon, an apostle of ths Mormon church, now deceased, told the senate committee In the Sraoot hearing this morning of the plural marriage of her husband to Miss Lillian Hamlin after the Issuance of the manifesto prohibiting polygamy, and against the protest of the wltneas. At ths time of this marriage, the wit ness said. Cannon had three wives living. He gave as a reason for the last mar riage that Lillian Hamlin had been en gaged to hla brother, then deceased. Tho witness said aho thought Joseph F. Smith performed the marriage, as ho went away with tho couple. The couple returned about July 6, 18H6. Cannon was 111 and died three weeks later. Shortly before death he confessed hs had married Miss Hamlin. Wltneas ssid he knew he had broksn ths law of the church. "I think It killed him." she added, sobbing. PIGEONS ARE BARRED FOR CARRYING OPIUM i J. .uma I Special s,w , Ssn Rafael. Cel.. Dec. 14. Pigeons srs classed as contraband at Ban Quen tln. Guard Edward Watson did not know this, hence he Is now wandering somewhere In search of a new Job. Wat son passed two live squabs through the lower gats to a convict and Warden Tompkins, upon hearing of ths affair, called Wataon forward, and explaining that even squabs might be full of "dope," gave him Ma walking papers. Tho affair haa created much ooment and la .taken to mean that San Que n tin offlclala havo discovered that "dope" la being smuggled Into tho prison by mean, of the pigeons sbout the prem ise.. There are hundreds of plgson. within snd without ths waits. It Is thought ths pigeons are sent out of the prison in boxes, and afterward made use of to carry opium back to ths prison. Pigeons have long been suspeoted of playing an Important part In smuggling opium Into the prison, and the action of Warden Tompkins In discharging Watson confirms tho suspicion. XSABXBO OB OBAXB BVA (Journal Special Barrio. ) Louisville. Kv. Deo. it -The Inter state commerce commlselon met here Ltoday to take up the charges of unjust -discrimination and undue prererenee in grain freight rates In favor of Louis ville on shipments to and, from points east, north and west of this city. Ths defendant roads are the 'Norfolk A West ern, Chesapeake A Ohio. Chloago Al ton, Big Four. Mobile as Ohio, Louisville sY Nashville, Southern, Illinois Central. Baltimore ft Ohio, Southwestern and the Pennsylvania. OAUrOBUtXA i Journal Spectal gal I lot. ) San Francisco. Doc. 14. An unusually heavy earthquake took place at 7 this morning and lsated several seconds, but there waa no damage. MITCHELL IS Succeeds Late Senator Hanna on lnteroceanic Canal Committee. SENATE LAYS TIMBER AND STONE BILL OVER Senate Committee Impeaches Judge Swayne Forter's Bill for Rainier Park Improve- merits Passes. (Washington Bureau of The Journal.) Washington, Dec. 14. At the opening of the senate today the announcement was made of committee changea to take effect December 16 and Senator Mitch ell of Oregon waa given the chairman ship of the lnteroceanic canal commit tee to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Seriator Hanna. tho former chairman. Senator Mitchell stated later that he is much .gratified at hla assignment as the chairman of the committee, and de nies emphatically that tl re has been any controversy In ths matter or fight by him to secure It. The committee Is an Important one In ita relation to the Pacific coast Interests and Panama canal affairs. The change gives Mitchell tho committee-room of the late Senator Banna and the patronage of a clerk and assist ant. Senator Alger succeeds him aa chairman of the committee on coast de fenses Senate raises BUI, The senate today passed Senator Fos ter's appropriating $26,000 to Improve the Rainier National park, $6,000 to erect additional suitable buildings at the New Dungeness lighthouse station and $6,000 for the Pattery point post light. Congressman Hermann toaay went De- fore the house river snd harbor com mittee in behalf of hla bill appropriat ing $100,000 for a dredge for use In Pa cific coast harbors. Hermann says the chance for favorable action la good. Timber and Stone Act. The house public land committee to day, by a vote of 10 to 4,- agreed to postpone the bill which passed the sen- ste to repeal the timber and stons act. Senator Fulton today recommended tho appointment as assistant paymaster of the navy, of Harry McConnell of Sa lem, at present private secretary to jus tics Moore. The appointment will un doubtedly be acted upon favorably. An other Oregon nomination today was that of Frank C. JsWett to be postmaster at Sumpter. Swayne Is Impeached. Perhaps the action of greatest" gen eral Interest in today's congressional proceedings was that taken In regard to the Impeachment of Judge Swayne of the northern district of Florida. Speaker Cannon of the house this morning sppolnted a committee of seven to draw up articles for the Im peachment of Swayne. and Palmer of Pennsylvania was made the chairman. The committee with Palmer at its bead appsared in the senate at 11:60 o'clock, was formally announced, and of ficially Impeached Swayne. President Frye assured the committee that the senate would take proper steps In the premises In duo time. The committee then withdrew. ASSASSur sEiOT3jrcr. (Journal Special gtrrtce. ) St. Petersburg. Dec. 14. Raioneff, who threw the bomb which killed Von Plehve, wss sentenced to pensl servi tude for life and hla accomplice. Slkortf aky, was given 20 years' Imprisonment. XTAXT SIOXTS T HE ATT Washington, Deo. 14. The arbitration treaty between the United States snd Italy waa stgnsd at the state department this morning. (Joaraal Special Berries.) Pueblo, Col.. Dec J 4. A apeclal from Grand Junction, Col., says that 26 in dictments for election frauds havs been found by the grand Jury. NAMED ETERNAL FLOWER BURBANK'S NEWEST (Joeraal Special Barrte..) San Francisco, Doe. 14. Luther Bur hank haa succeeded in creating a beau tiful everlasting flower, whleh he con siders his greatest achievement in the floral line. It Is sn ever-blooming flower, one that, after It has been, plucked will remain radiant for all time, winter and summer alike. There Is a bouquet of these flowers In Burbank's library on Santa Rosa avenue. The flowers wore plucked In the Burbank garden a year ago and their blossoms have kept as bright snd i fresh ss If just nipped from ths plant, j Burbank srolvad the flower after oars- I PORTLAND IN A PLIGHT Light and Power Shut Off Because of Fire at Oswego. INCONVENIENCE WAS SLIGHT AND SHORT Dressing in the Dark, Failure to Find Toilet Articles, and Walk ing to Work Extent of Troubles. Portland took breakfast In the dark this morning, that is In those houses where the General Elect rlo company la depended upon to furnish light. An electrlo wire pole caught fire at Oswego at S o'clock this morning and played havoc with the city's forenoon, commer cially and otherwise. A blase which destroysd a lot of old buildings la tho village was wafted by the winds until it reached the pole, and within a short time one of the main wires was down. This thrsw the General Electrlo company's entire system out of commission and Portland was In dark ness and practically without street ear facilities until 10 o'clock firs hours after the accident occurred. The main power house of the General Electric company la located at Oregon City, and ths current la transmitted to Portland over a large system of wires. Only one of 16 wires was down, but the management was compelled to out out all on account of tho danger ths repair ing crew would encounter working1 among them alive. The break waa a bad one, a good deal of delicate splicing being necessary to bring the separated ends together. Locate tho leak. Secretary 8. G. Reed at ones started men to locate the break and remedy It, and then turned his attention to re lieving ths uncomfortable situation by temporary measures. AH the power In the steam plant on Twenty-first strsst was called for and distributed among the places which were fitted for that particular current. The arc lights In the business district wore kept alive and some of the street oar lines were able to run. Thanks to tho fact that the old City and Suburban and the Oregon Water Power and Railway enmpnmea have steam plants, the Waah Ington line was not delayed for a great length of time, and on tho east elds there was no line Inconvenienced untQ the bridge was reached. Tory Hard on Boomers. The larger hotels had their own plants to fall back upon, but as a rule the) rooming-houses were In total darkness, and the early risers had to feel around for their clothing and get Into It aa boat they could Many a man and woman ap peared at the office with uncombed hair and an unfilled stomach. They had walked down town. too. At the big department stores It was reported that leas than half tho em ployes were on time, the explanation being thai they had started from their homes at ths usual hour, but had boss)' unable to connect with a streetcar, and finally had to make a run for business. The Journal was without powsr to op erate Its hugs battery of linotype ma chines, which are run exclusively by electricity, until after 10 o'clock, and so cured the necessary current at that hour only after Secretary Reed had shut down the heights car line and converted tho power to the office. There was no serious accident as tho result of the disturbance, but the schooner Annie Larsen cams near run ning Into the Burnalde bridge and wrecking a span of the structure. Lumber-laden, and In tow of the tug Norman, shs waa coming up the river. The draw of the bridge waa covered with street cars, unable to move. The tug whis tled for the draw, but to comply with the signal wag Impossible, tbe front wheels of one car having stopped on the draw and the hind wheels on tho mainland section of the. bridge. It was a case of plunging the car Into tho river to move the draw. Meanwhile the) (Continued on Page Two.) ful crossing, ro-crosslng sad seleettss) from a hardy annual discovered la west central Australia. He has named It tk "Australian star" flower. The fragrance of the flower Is pecu liarly pleasing, the color a rose urliaasal .hade, sometimes approaching white. The flowers form In graceful clusters, which will their form and color In perfawtlon manently, no other flower Is hay way equaling It In grace and keeping quali ties Full-grown plants aro assail gfS foot high and the same serosa. If water la required to