The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, June 22, 1905, Image 1

The Oregon daily journal., June 22, 1905, Image 1

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1905)

Page of 14 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (4.1 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Page of 14 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page TextPAY TWOCENTS'FOR THE. EVENING . JOURNAL ON TH E -STREETS-MORE JS TOO MUCH '.J,'' . 'I The Circulation . : .... Of The Journal OOD EVENING, . . . ' J , . ,- Tha Wathr. .' , Probably fair tonight; Friday falr,; warmer; wind mostly westerly. . Yesterday Was '7 . POTRLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING. JUNE u 22, 1905-FOURTEEN PAGES. VOL. IV. NO. 93. ; 2231 IlfGHEIiiSi Kr--. V r, . ' ' n - -1 r- i i - i - '.. ' i i i) ,i i ..i ' : t" : i " ii ' 1 ' " -. 1 , ' ' : 1 , " III I 1 14 J I I J'y. '" ' '-"'r tCwrliht, 10Ot by W. B. Hearst.) 1 b(J ' UmJIAM. HO Mitchell Notified That His Share ot Kribs'; Fee , v Was in Bank. LETTERS CONCERNING , . PATENTS INTRODUCED Prosecution in Land Fraud Cases Securing Very Full Statement From " Tanner - Richards -; , Goes . Home. Judge A. S., Tanner is today occupy-. Inf the center of the-staw in Mie trial . of Senator John H. . Mitchell. ' Called by the government as s witness against the friend and partner of , 16 years, whom he strove, to save from the law at terrible cost to himself. Judge Tan ner's testimony forms one of the most dramatic features of' the' ITlal. The evidence given this morning seems to - establish conclusively that one half the , .fees puld by Krlbs to the firm or Mitch- ell Tanner went to Mitchell. '"' He W on the stand dnrtnrn t-he morning session and was recalled ai - soon as court reconvened for the after Ttoon- 'Thu far his testimony has been t ronflned chiefly " to ft narration of the deoJingsoMhe Arm of Mitchell tt Tan ner wlttTFredericlt A. Kribs, and to-the Identification Of letters and telegrams . that passed between Mitchell and hlm 'self. Much -of this correspondence. Is . evidently . regarded by the government as extremely important sliowlng as It does the active efforts which were be lng made by Mitchell to expedite the 'patenting of the Kribs dahns. - The evidence thus far introduced hy the government, consisting of the testi mony of Kribs and Tanner and numer- ous letters, checks nna otner exmoiis, , ; is to- the effect that the Arm of Mitchell . Tanner was employed by Krlbs to expedite the patenting f-three separate Jou of timber clulma; that Mitchell was. Informed by Tanner of the arrange ments made and agreed to do his ut most to secure patents; that Kribs , paid certain inmiTii Tanner, for the services thus rendered, and that one hulf of these fees was paid to Mitchell by Tanner. ' . Aooounts is Eridenoe. " An Important feature of today's evi dence was the' Introduction of checks 1 books of account showing that-one. Iialf Of all Hi fw'pata by KUb." to thJ firm of Mitchell & Tanner was deposited ' to Mitchell's account In the Merchants' Kiuohar bank of this city. JL division , "Of fhe"het receipts was made by the ' partners at the beginning of each month, and It waa 'tanner s custom to 'deposit Mitchell's share In bank and ' then advise him of the fact,, sending - -duplicate deposit slip to show that the ' money was in bank. v .' - There Is no expectation that the case t will be concluded this week, although Its length is entirely uncertain. It--la '" not known whether much or little evl v dence will be Introduced by the defense. Former dovernor V. A. llphards, the commissioner of the oneral land office, who has been in Portland since Mon day, returned to Washington today, hav- Ing been notified that his. testimony would nt be jrat" land" later when the conspiracy cases ... ,are called, for It is thought that he will 1" . then be a necessarjr witness.. Tanner on ataad, ? judge Tanner was again tailed to the atrfnd when court opened this morning. The prosecution at once resumed the line of examination which jwaa In prog- reas yesterday afternoon, .seeking to bring out the details of the dealings-of Mitchell ft Tanner with Frederick A. v.ik. A imnnrtant feature of the" evl- w. the correspondence thatf- passed between Mitchell and Tanner rel ative to the Krlbs timber rIalmSt and numerous letters and telegrams were offered In evidence after being Identified by Judge Tanner. " ' : -'-,". A suggestive bit of evidence related to an erasure and alteration In the day book kept in the office of Mitchell Tanner.. Judge Tanner teatlfled that In February, 190J, Krlbs employed the firm . to expedite the patenting of some SO timber claims, of which the .first too in the name of 8. A. D. ruter.. Tne - claims wwra therefore delgnte-4n n idaybook aa, the J'8. -A-IX- Puter -llat. j)ut ai -November, wflen PUter. was on . trial. Tanner concluded that It would -not. look-well lo have Ptiter s nsme on the firm's books and the entry was ac- - cordlngly changed so as to read "Second ' lieu list." This alteration Is apparently regatd'd by the prosecution as Indica tive of fear, even berore Mitcneus indictment, that he might be implicated ' In the land frauds." -. Judge Tanner was first examined this morning as to the agreement mane with Kribs In February. 1902, whereby, the firm of Mitchell Tanner was employed to expedite the patenting of the so-called ''Puter H"t" cf claims, this being the iContliiued on Put Two.) ommm a bribe,? ELLIOTT. INSISTS Ex-City Engineer Testifies on-Oath 'Vjhat-; Councilman , Rumelin," T ld Him There Was Part lars for Him to Direct evidence was offered this morn ing In the bribery esse against Council man C: E. Rumelln that, he offered to William d Elliott, on June 24, l04.-a bribe a share of 15,000- which was to be-divided among three or four men If he would report adversely 'toi ,-the WashingtoJuore,j:aittia4 tSJ.Ul bid of J. J. Maney MMWweii, h Uamiiin aulch Front street bridge. Ex-City. Engineer Elliott and his chief deputy. Scoggln, were the-two star wl es for the. state of Oregon, and th iold their stories and .gave ...I.. v iiMnlli with .perfect agree ment Mi There was no coninoi in ikim testimony. . They testified that Rumelln went to the office of Mr. Elliott on June 36, 1904; thatJie was anxious .to havs the Maney bid got out of the way, and that he said there was soqie way In which It should be done: , The evidence of Elliott ana ocoggm was direct and exact as to dates and details of all sorts. Mr. Elliott s state ment In substsnce was: . . "In the forenoon of June 25, 1904, Mr. Rumelln called at my office In the city hall and asked me If there was not some w.y in which . Maney a ma . coum "knocked out. I toia mm m was In accordanca with plans and speci fications which I myself had drawn for the executive board, that It was regular and must be reported On favorably. BaaaeUa Was Insistent, Witness Said. ""Rumelln . called several times .. mat morning and was" very-anxious to have the Maney bid got -out or tne way. wruaat van time to do ae he asked, and at about noon Rumelin, Scoggln and walked d.own the street togeiner, Scoggln and i I being accustomed to go to lunch "at that time. When we reached thacdrner of. Fifth and ' Morriaon treats, Rumelin said e wanted to see m for a minute, and Scoggln went on across, the- street. Rumelln then said there wna I5.00D in it for US If -WS knocked out' the Maneybld, and that he and I would get our share of the money, which waa to- be divided among three or four men. I flatly refused to do anything of the kind, and I then crossed the street to Scoggln; told him aDout Rumelln s offer, and Instructed him to mske out the report as soon as we reached the office again, which he flld. ' : TP zr-.' . -"Scoggln was presertfat one time whan the matter was ; brought up by Rumelln. We wrote the report . to the executive board as soon as we got to the office after lunch and recommended the acceptance of the Maney oia lor o,iii for tha Marquam gulch bridge." - ' Try to Xmpeaoh Blllott. ' C. Ev 4E Wood, eroas - questioning El liott, asked him If he entertained hostile feelings toward Mr. Rumelln, and El liott anawered that he did. Mr. Wood then brought out facts relating to the conversation .reported to have been (carried on between Elliott and Howard Whiting and Sydney ' Bmlthri in which Elliott said be would rt "get yjm" ,wlta of Five Thousarfd Dol BeatManey Bid. Rumelln. The defense then attempted to establish that Elliott resented Rume lln's action In Introducing In the' council a resolution : for investigation of the Tanner cieek sewer, which resulted In the resignation of Elliott from' tha city engineer's office. . . V At this point the defense . tried to nniottiu.. witness, by drawing from hlm"Hli fact that he is under Indictment for obtain ing money from the 'city on. falae pre tenses, and then sprung "on the state a question Which laid a foundation for further Impeachment by asking 'him If he had an interest In the Tanner creek sewer profits. Elliott (fated positively that he bad no such Interest, and . de nied that he knew of any such represen tation, to the Oregon Savings bank . by E. W. Riper. . . Wo lgpmlaeg Hade to glllott. ""The' obvious Intention of the question was made plain when the defense put on the staifcf- L O. Ralston, of the bank, who sw0re that in his office at the banking hpuse E. W. - Rlner totahim that Elliott had a one third Interest In the Tanner creek sewer, which he would pledge as security for a loan which Rt (Continued on Page Two. THEFSIR-IS - The Lewis and Clark exposition Is ahead of Its schedule. - , It has had -a larger attendance. In proportion to tho population of Port land and vicinity, than ,any other ex position ever held In America. As the end of the first month draws near the officials themselves are acarce ly able to believe the flgmj"pread be fore . them for comparison. They dem onstrate that the fair Is on a paying basis right now, with Ita three heaviest months still to come. - Colonel Henry E. Posch, director of exhibits, has taken tha trouble to prepare- statements' as- to the attendance at Portland compared with, that of other fairs he has visited. Tho results are astonishing. The , computation shows that for the first month the attendance at. the Lewis and Clark show . lo 200 per cent grester than was the attend ance at any previous exposition, consid ering the populatlon-wlthln a radius of 500 miles. Tho dally attendance here thus far has averaged something like 11,000, ranging Sf rom 7,000 to nearly ,. 40,000, passes Included. -" . " Oolng back to Chicago, for the first four weeks the attendance ran between 19,(24 and 20.921. except on one special day, when the total fa,eJ.0OO. This Included passes,, im at - least 40. pet cent of tho admlsslong were free. t ' . . t . i ,- ,- ' .' ' HAi T-ERRORIo I S KILL CROWS RAPIDLY Has Increased Nearly, Thirty 77 Five Per Cent Within ""-.;.; "' a Year.- ; 1 i BUSINESS NOT EXPOSITION 1 EXPLAINS-THE GROWTH Immense Influx ... of Settlers " Shown by Postoffice'Rush ;r ;H Mall clerka on -alns running into Portland on tho Oregon Railroad & Nav igation company and Southern Pacific are nearly overwhelmed by the flood of letters flowing In this - direction, and with only fix new carriers and 10 new clerka In the, local postof flee' the forco Is taxed to its capacity to care for the 14 7- per cent increase ' that ' has taken place In the laat year. On the Northern Pacific the Increase Is heavy also, al though not so great as on the other two roads. '. ' '- : ' Three months go,": said Postmaster Mlnto, "we took up the matter wlth the department, and secured more help, but slnoe that time the- Increaae has been so great that more assistance is now M I (Continued on Page Two.) At Omaha's exposition the attendanc for the first six weeks never waa higher than 2.000 " on any day, and onco it touched the modest total of 2,600, a fig ure that-Is' as yet unknown to Portland's project. - ' . .. At Buffalo, the first month's dally attendance was between 8.000 and 25.000, and Chsrleston shows only 1,000 to 2,00 fOr the same length of time. -' Even St. Louis had an attendance one aaydurtnrtholrt-montl ot l.97t, , and only on two days did the attend ance In the first month surpass 82,26. "In looking over my scrap book." said Colonel ' Dosch, "I was astonished ' to lesrn how well this fair la, being pat- ronlied. Our -percentage of passea Is smaller than it any previous exposi tion not over 8'0 per cent of the ad missions.' while at Chicago and St Louis there were dsys when (0 per cent of. the total admissions were free. Considering the population of Portland and tha sur rounding country, our attendance Is 200 per cent greater than that of any other fair. - . ' - "Buffalo . la1 thecenter of a popula tion of '40,000,000 people, within 800 miles, but. Us record Is nothing com pared with' ours. Omaha was the only fair which succeeded financially, and the reason was that tha people of that local ity were loyal to. the project, it was almost Impossible to find a. man who lid not havs stock la It, and everybody. PMffiG CHIEF OF POLICE Russian Official Blown Up by Bomb Hundreds - Killed in Cau- casus Race War Between Tartars and Armenians Linievitch Foretells Complete Disaster.: f . . , j "(onratl Special Berrlct.) - St. Peteraburg,. June 22. A dispatch from. Cxenstochow says that the' chief of police was mortally wounded today by the .explosion of a bomb thrown a him by a-Terrorist. Tha assailant la unknown and escaped. - - - ' Renorts from Erlwan dlntrlct state Trie racd ' Waf between Tartara" gild Ai- hienlans has broken out afresh and 2S0 casualties occurred m tne rioting terdays" Tr.i6paSare powerless to ' pr serve orderT'"' It Is stated on high authority that the greatest uneaalneas Is felt -In military circles on account of the movement of Japanese troops through KoTea.-4 It is reported that Llnlevltch has Informed the csar that ha sees - no possible wsv of checking General Hoaegawa who landed In Korea at the head of a large detachment several .months sgo and Is now reported moving northward. If Hosegawa has succeeded In effecting' a Junction with Nogi, Llnlevltch has said that disaster Is Inevitable. Advices from the front state that Oyama has Llnlevltch alinot com pletely surrounded, having captured all the positions needed before final effort Is made to crush the Russian forces. iiib si3 v a va. aa cm oiibhuiiiwi "i-- pctd momentarily. was willing to pay admission- every day "This eternal begging and dickering for passes waa unknown. The result was that five days after the fair waa closed 76 per cent of the capital stock had been paid out of the treaaury and six weeks after the-close 92 H per cent had been refunded. The other TH per cent would have been forthcoming but for a suit which the corporation lost, at a boat of 940.000. - -"It delights me to see that the people of Portland are-Just ae loyal to thla fair as the people of Omaha were to theirs., It Is a pleasure to look at the crowds which throng the grounds dally. They are happy, well astlsfled and full of "pratsa'foT the exposition. Th ntan agement Is adhering closely to the line of economy... Kvery division la cutting down expenses wherever possible. The fair began with a olear balance sheet. - And It Is my opinion I am not unreasonably optlmlatle that this expo sition will pay Its stockholders their money back with IntereaC The figures show It. Therchas been no such record before," - - - ,Colonel Dosch Is not alone In his estl mate of the financial butcome of the enterprlae. President Qoode has been studying. .tab' with extreme Interest and Is overjoyed afthe showing thus far. - If ever the prediction .was warranted that the fair Is success, this is th time. . "" '"' TV Following the checking movement to the west the Japanese are now pushing forward along tha railroad and the Man. darln and Malnalkal roads, their front how stretching- distance of 16 miles north of Chantufu and east to- Taoma pass. The Russians) havs given up their advance positions without serious leslstante1. Tliey havs a number uf fi tifted positions before reaching the tiltU mate line of defense at Klrin and Chang Chung. - -": ROOSEVELT GETS LH. D. - - FOR MAKING SPEECH (Joarnat Special Servicer) ( , , WUllamstown, Mass., Jane 22. Presi dent Roosevelt recelved the degree of L. H. D. (doctor of human letters) from Williams college this morning and made an address. to - tho graduates. Joseph Choate'and Ellhu Root received the degree of LL.-D.- The president was up early at the home of Prealdent Hopkins, where he apent the - night. After breakfast he took a carriage ride about the village. A corted to - tha Congregational church, where . tha " commencement exercises wera held. At. the close of his address the president made a speech to the townspeople .Trom, a gtandjn; front of the church. ': Then ha hurried to a train and left -at 1:20 pfm. for Waahlngton. NO STAY FOR HOCH- , HE DIESJ0M0RR0W (Joertal SpecUl BwTlee.) Chicago, June 22. Following the re fusal of State's Attorney Healy to agree to arrangements giving Johann Hoch another week In which to raise funds to appeal hla ease, Governor Deneen. today withdrew the order for the stay, of execution and it is llkely-that Hocht - Will be hanged tomorrow.. Hla attorney and religious adviser are at Springfield to make a final appeal to the governor. Hoch la In a state of nervous, CQllapse aa tho result of the withdrawal of tha stay, of execution. .... . ..--a DISASTROUS WRECK . ON THE RIO GRANDE (Ineraal SpecUMei rice.) Orand Junction. Col.. June II. The Second section of No. . west-bound Den ver and Salt Lake. Rio Grande Western passenger train was wrecked at I o'clock this morning at Kin to, it muss west oi hero. .Five coaches were ditched and a loas of life is reported. Among the dead Sa Engineer Schrader OT this city. It la known that many passengers were Injured, and a relief train baa gone n the scene. ' ' . Twentieth Century Limit ed Jumps Track Run ning at Terrific Speed FLAMES ADD TO HORROR OF RAILROAD DISASTER Said to Be Work of Miscreant Who Opened Switch Theory - Is Advanced That Speedily. . Was Too Great. , (Journal Special gerrlee.) Cleveland. Ohio, Juno 22. Twenty-ona lives were lost according to lata reports In the wreck of tne i wenuem r r the Lka Shore railway at JdentAr at t:20 o'clock last night, and mora than a. score were mjunm record-breaklnir train which, while trav eling-at 70 miles an nour, siruwa m open switch in front of the Mentor ora tion and piungea wim - mentum Into a frelghtnousa sevcr dred"ieet distant and was transformed into a mass of wreckage wnicn cauauk fire.' : ' 1 i ' Few people In the forwsrd eomblna tlon car escaped death or Injury. Ret cuers fought the flames -to recover tha dead and auccor the Injured. The latter were taken to Cleveland on .a special train and removed to the hospitals. Railway officials say the awltch-was, misplaced by a miscreant With? tha dwi liberate Intention of wrocklngthe lim ited., . - . - i ... - .- r.. -Tho dead are: Thomas R. Morgan of tha Wellman Seaver Morgan , company, Clevaland burned to death. James H. Gibson, Chicago. -" Ray L. Rogers, New York. -L. M. Eyrick, Cleveland, . Ohio. - -- H. H. Wright, commercial traveler, Chicago, -I. R Bennett, patent attorney. Ns w. Tork: burned to death. -Earbaugh. Milwaukee; ' ' M. Walters, baggageman. Hamburg; New Torki scalded to deatn. W. D. Mickey, porter, Chicago. rtHenry T. Rlnes. barber buffet car. -J "FV J. Brant, trainman, Toledo." J. A. Bradley of Akron. Archibald P. Head. London. Charles H. Wellman, Cleveland. , , r Allen Tyler, engineer. . S. C Beckwlth. advertising agent, TftHi Yots--- - t- LJPiJAus,a tf Chicagoy presiaent ot H. C. Mecbilng, presiaeni or tna Wheeling Corrugated Iron company, New York, identlged in the "morgue bjr eyeglasaes. r"" Arthur L, Johnson,. Cleveland, Identic , fled at morgue. L. M. Erlck, manager Keith's theatre, . Cleveland, unaccounted for. . Two -of the three bodies at tho morgue are ao badly burned that It Is Impossible to determine their sex. J. H. Langdon of Chicago Is; in a critical condition and may die. Fireman R. A. Gorman of Norwalk la fatally Injured. The queetlon Is being asked, waa th limited traveling, so fast that she left 1 the track of ber own momentum? - FVr man Gorman told General Manager Mar--shall that both he and the engineer saw a white light on the switch. Railroad to show a whits light and be turned at the same time. Railroad officials have begun an InventigaUonVThere la a pos sibility that the -T-hour train will be discontinued aa a result; ,., , 'The train waa crowded, practically all Its .accommodations being taken when it -left tha city. It was behind time, and the greatest of speed was being made to make up (tha loat time. Traveling at a rate of more than a ! mile a minute, the heavy train -was hurled to ita doom wit ft a momentum that was appalling. . For a distance of 1 20 ysrds the engine ran on the rails, and then leaping from the track, turned on Ita aide. The heavy . tender was ' hurled entirely over the angina and was burled In the depot. - The combination ear waa hurled with terrlflo violence on top of the engine and tender -and hr ar-rooment --was an veloned in flamea. Tho Chicago sleeper, which was Imme diately behind the 'combination car, swung from the track and, eranhlng-tnto the depot, waa completely burled In tha wreck -of the. building. ' The violence of the craah was vsimh- that depot collapsed on top of the wrecked -reach. , The next 'sleeper following wss left' on the track behindhand tha other re. ma taxi upright on the raija. An 'Instant after the 'crash of lha wreck the boiler of the1 engine buret with terrlflo force, scattering fire ami , steam through the wreck In a manner . that made escape for. the helpless Inv A prisoned passengers, impossible. Vlce-Presldnnt Iirown ot . the I,aae Shore announced today that tha errl of per anna suspected of being In the plot. Which he declare reeiltel In t wrecking of the few York riyer at (.Continued va !'( Ta-e) - . r-r .t