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Good Morntftg: -V" The Weather: Cloudy wlth. showers;. south to west winds. . . . . , CIRCULATION OP THB 01 Qvll JOURNAL YESTERDAY a aOQa - - x VOL. II. NO. 15. PORTLAND OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE . 25. 1905 FOUR SECTIONS THIRTY-SIX PAGES- PRICE FIVE CENTS. BOMB- ALL POLAND MEN, WOMEN AN : RIOTING AND THROWING, IHRPUGHOUT F Wholesale Killing in Lodz, Warsaw and Many ? r Other Cities. --Va-E X MAIMED AND WOUNDED JlNTERRED-WITH.DEAD r; Dynamite Bombs and Vitriol Aid - Workmen in Their Fight Be-: hind Barricades Against- the- Soldiery. (Special Dispatch by Leased Wirt to The Journal) Warsaw, June -I4.---TroopB are being rushed to Lods, - where, the police are unable to cope with the riots. Sixty thousand ' workingmen-'partliHpated In the strike, which has lost Ha economic nature and which la now a. vast political manifestation. One hundred and thirty people were killed outright. 41 died later In the hospitals, and .conservative. jtU liiaUaput the.wounded at 8.0WK - v The rioting has now spread to the i towno-f aantacau. roiancn - - n J .- .Bombs were hurled into the quarters -Vltriorwas poured 'from the roofs ot i the-h4tt-ipo their- header Rioting, and bomb tnrowing were started Jn'. Warsaw, the capital of Po- r: lanoVtonlght and -a. repetition- -in " lA4a massacre ia feared. rrightful Slanghtea SsgUs. : ' Dawn of Friday witneaaed the begin L-slng ,Jf the f rightful slaughter which has continued uninterruptedly since., On--Wednesday aeveral Social Demo- ,r!rats ware Jellied In a brush with the troops and their mates determined to ' revenge their doath. .- 'The feastof Cor pus Christ! was celebrloPAaWfchursday and the day passed "oft quietly enough, but. during the night workmen attacked the patrols and in the- flghttng- Which ensued two crtleers and seven Coasacka -were killed..-Then the Cossacks deter mined on revenge.' -At; dawn Friday ,a-J ,. procession of workmen was going ' through the met street of Lods, when suddenly " troop of Coasacka dashed Into the ranks and opened fire. The pre cession broke up in disorder. Jeavlna la'if ,- a dozen - killed and about 0 wounnea. on m gruunu. .1 no alarm apsead throughout the cTty and crowds , began to gather. Workmen armed with rifles, pistols and knives - rushed, from every house In the poorer quarters of .the city, and wherever the troops were rncgujpterejl a fight occurred. nmitui - eonstntetad. Barricades were hurriedly constructed swish quarter.. Men climbed -to the roofs of herases, cutting telegraph gnd telephone wire for me In obstruct ' lug the atreets and others cut down the poles and used them In strengthening " the barricades which had been construct ed and In building others. Wagons were seized -and overturned. Men with picks 1om up sections of streets ahd even used the paving stones In the work-of build ing the barricades oraaammunltlon In the battles with the troops which fol lowed. While this was going on. the author ities had called In all the-troops and marshaled them at the .barracks in 'an ticipation of what was te come. A mob of strikers advanced to one of these bar- rmck- and two bombs-were Hurled: 3ntd 1 nrmj .uiuim. , w.i. iitiini ..iiicu or Injured and then all restraint was - taken oft the troops who poured out of .their ..headquarters and began aweepfng . through the mala street. Not a living being was spared. Trampling down the persons - who stood in their pattey the Cossacks fired to right and left, mowing down men, wdmeir and'- children and galloping at full speed toward the line JLfit . barricades,... , - - ..r OhaTged nrginf Mobs. News of what was transpiring reach 4 Ing the worttngmen, who had not yet struck, they, tooriwent out and aeveral thousand more were added- to the dense crowds that faced the- troops.". Cossacks, i dragoons ' and. Infantry- charged the 1 dense, sti rgl ng tnobs" 1 1 me eftnr tlmft, ihnotlBg; smfr-ruttrngrthelr way-nhrough. ' When the barricades. Vere reached the mobs drew revolvers and rifles -and the k xharges of the Soldiers werv halted - by the volleys that were poured Into -their advancing ranks. Whert the ammunition of the rioters . waa. exhausted-- they east asl.de their firearms and began hurllngjthe paving J. stones at their oppressors.' . From the windows and roofs near by nil sort of -missiles were hurled at the troops. Women poured boiler or acaldlng wate- upon them and from points or vantnge vitriol was dashed Into , the faces . of , the csar's troopers.- ' ' v ' . Maddened by the burning fluid the V Cossacks proceeded to theTr" Work with added frensy and throughout the1 entire "seven miles of the maid street was - heard the gallop of the trooper., the erack of the carbine end the geaansof the iQjured and dying. ' " . Dead JTumber ' Saadreds. With the coming of . night, the "Cos '.sacks began the work of carrying off ' the dead, while those who had the cour age to venture out did as well as posal , tie ths work of caring for the wounded (Continued on Page Two. . '.XMi-l- ' IDEA SPREADS. : . ;;, '':'r: -S'.: UGLY RUUORS OYER PAHAHA CORTRACJS Certain Contractors Said to Havf Been Furnished Advance - Information." ' BIDS FOR DREDGING BRING WALLACE HOME Probable.That Contracts Will Be Readvertised Conference . . I for" ; Monday. .. (Bpeelal Dtapsteh bf tesstd Wlr to The Josnial) New Torkv June 24. The fanama tainsi n thA hid it for. dTdainff. with' th flngar of Freiilrient RooaeveitupQn thai controliing key. ' and t. Secretary T" mjtted to me tonip;ht that he hustling to-straighten out,-what hatF 111 cc? l? tomgni. mat, ne been described as "bad mess," has thought in armistice, WOUld be resulted In a condition of - arrairs so stringent that a conference between the secretary of war and JohnF. Wallace, chief engineer of the commission and chairman of the engineering. commlUee; haa been arranged to take place In New York. . Rumors of the gravest nature are afloat and it was stated today by a man In high confidence of the. govern ment that the blda for dredging would be thrown out and the ' contract advertised. ..Theodore P. Bhonts, the -cently elected president of the commis sion.-will bln- theclty ... on Monday, when another conference.. Will be held. It wlH"rmn -be-decided whe - full meeting of the commission shall , be called to conelderthe question of ac cepting ofrejectlng ;thstatdaof cm' tractors that were opened In Washing ton on June IB. , oo Short Tims Allotted. "" Contractors throughdut the breadth of the land have complained thaj; the' time allotment of six weeks lnwhlcfPto submit their estimates -wasaltogether too short and Resident Roosevelt Is said to have so regarded the situation. The even more serious charge is made that certain" .contractors were permitted to have advance Information and that for a full year they had agents at work In the -Panama, district working out the problem that. contractors relying upon the appearance Of the- advertisements had but six weeks to cope with. The sudden departure of Chief -Engi neer Wa41rce .from the Isthmus and his contemplated "conference-in New York tomorrow, with Secretary Taft has also given rise to grave conjectures, U even having been Intimated that he Intends to resign his posit loiv on the commission. This rumor was "afloat in Washington three days ago ; Taft X, eaves for Coafereaoe. It Is suthorltatlvely statedrTrTaf , Mr. Walluce's return to the "fnlted Brakes was not ordered by, the. government, but orr the "other hanl he telegraphed for permission to cOme. stating that. per. aonal - business "necessitated it This sudden determination . on the part . of Air. waiiaca necessiiaiea a cnange in all the st-rsngementS"- that- hsd been made, as a meeting of the eommlsslrtri had' been, called on the Isthumus for July ,1, end at the same-time, caused some inxlot among k Washington- of flclsls. Secretary Taft took the earliest opportunity to learn what prompted the enlef engineer to hssten here and then arranged for the conference. The secre tary left Washington for New York this evening. ., . -. '- , CZAR WILL THROUGH U.S. tSpeclal Dlspateb br Leased Wire to The loarul) . By James MaoOrath. VVafffiington, -June -?4,fr-The French : embassy has ."received from " Paris" , the announcement that the czar has signified that he willwithin the next 48 hours, ask formally -fori- an " armistice through-the American ambassa dor at1 St- Petersburg. Coinci dent with' "this announcement President Roosevelt has-received from Minister- Meyer a long cablegram,. doubtless advising him of theVsatitentcntion on the part of the czar. Arrib sserand ad- MAXIM GORKY WRITES OF THE. RUSSIAN MOB Says --Cultivated - Class"eT Are Cowardly Slaves and Respon-: -visible for Bloody; Blot. (Coprrlfht. HetnC "News RerTlee, b Ltasel Wire te The Journal. ) St Petersburg, June H. Writing for. ths American oa:.theBuWoctofib,e Russian mob, Maxim Oorky, the famous Russlnn "author who was sent 'to prison ton hie -utterances during the S teeter -but riot, says: . -, "Who bean the-blame of theet;hase crjmee. which- will remain on us "like a bloody blot ror ages;- it wouiq -oe Unjust and too simple to condemn the mobs, Cultivated society: In Russia Is really much worse than the people who are goaded by their Sad Uf and-hlinded and -enthralled by.. the nrtjfclal dark ness creaiw buvui tncin. . ; . "The cultivate clsisses aj- Lf crowd of-cowardly-alavesr without feeling of personal dlgnVtr. ready to accept every lie to saA'e their; ease and comfort;1 ai weak and lawless element, .without conscience and shame. ; In ! spite of If elegant exterior. Cultivated ,soclety Is not leas guilty of- the disgraceful, and horrible deeds than the actual murderers. Its 'guilt consists in tntthey rtbt only do not protect the victims of these-f fairs, but they . generally rejoice when murders have, been oommltted. .' It Is this class tnat Is responsible for the bad 'conditions In Russia today. .for theMCIehlneff and other horrors. Bliame-Tn thclf wicked heads." Ths Boss of Sorrow. (Special DtipatcU bj Iaed Wire to TBs Joernall London. June ,24. A "new rose has been .developed1 by a poor shoelace peddlar . named -Dennle Jeplev,- - It Is perfectly black In, color and has .been Cljrlstened the rose, of Sorrow. " - Talnable Package Stoles. - Albuquerque,' N. M., June 24. Last night at Bolen a relatered package con taining 12,000, sent from the Bolen Na tional bank to the First National bank of this city, was stolen from, a mail peucit, ' 1 . i accomplished witWrr a few days, and that the news within the past 12 hours had given hopethat the parieurs had been very much far ther advanced toward .completion than it had been during the whole of the preceding week. The sig nificance of this" remark is very important; for it bespeaks an op timistic view regarding ther,situa tion that , has-, been . absent . here this. weelca -- Iff the czar has given even an intimation that he will ask an ar- mistir. "" it means that the mo men trthaV Japan learns tnis-offi4 cially, through the regular diplo matic channels and ..President Roosevelt, it will grant the re- CHILD LIVES TO WALK WITH A BROKEN NECK rsy ' : -. v,' : Little Girl, Escapes Death in a irFalL That Breaks Her - - Spinal Column. i (Special Dispatch brLeised Wire te The Journal . New York, June 24. Despite the faft that her neck la broken' and that she hasi-esoaped- drsth by t the , narrowest margin, Edna Mauaer, years old. Is athome wlthroore . thaiwa lighting Shance for complete recovery. The phy telans at the Bellevus dispensary state that It Is one of , the most remarkable cases that has ever" ben-brought to thetrittetttlm. The pressu.r of the broken spinal col umn against the spinal cord is so great that her head Is drawn back and her face thitiet upward, but since she gained conscious'ness--after the accident her condition has apparent! been almost normal In other respcts-i- . ' While welkin down stairs, the child .tripped and fell headlong to the bottom. At the hospltar Edtta-asKea ner moiner to be- allowed to walk. To the amase-" ment of the physicians the little girl tripped along to- the .car that was to take, her home. She limped slightly, for ths broken spinal column had slightly, affected one foot with paralysis, but be yond this and the backward , tilt of her head she exhibited no signs of her In jury. r. -r.-,. '. 1 ' - - Canal jsngiaeei to afee,. f (Special UUgstch f Ueae4 Wire to The Jeanal) Washington, D. C.. June 14. The president has Issued a call for the Isth mian - canal board of consulting engi neers. France, Italy and CTylmany will be 1 represented on the board, as will Great Britain and America. . : . 011 Onsh Struck. (Special Diapatcfe by teased Wire te The Journal) Fresno; Cal., June t4.-A gusher was struck today In a Coalings oil well and a stream of oil a foot In diameter and lift feet high burst from 'the well.-car. rylng -caslngs and pipe Una. Peopl In ths vlclnjtx fled for Uielr Uves, .. . .; 7 jguesat once, pending the recep tion within 48 hours of tttcterms bf f the.4armistice -tha Russia wants, Japan willithprr" either grant it .upon the terms"s"uggested or- will dissent "and tender the terms upon whiclt.it willsfgn the armistice. - What Japan wants," said Min ister Takahira tome on several occasions, "is first tohave an earnest assurance from, the czar that" he really means to sue for peace and that 'he will not use the peace conferenccTas a cloak to-defeat- our plans xfbattle either by delaying us in their X5Ctitio-or--getting'-tis-4o quit our ositiorjsjn the field.". ' VESUVIUS ROCKS 4-WITH EXPLOSIONS Volcano In Eruption Railroad Is Closed and Inhabitants -.-1 i Warned Away. : (Oopyrlght, flesrst Ksws "gerrlee; by. Leased Wire to The Journal. V -: Naples, June 14. Vesuvlua has started ,another reign of terror. Violent eruptions have followed, each other with an alarming Increase lrhirmhej;and rorce. ins preieci- nas - oraerea tne dwellers on the mountain to flee from their homes and take refuge at a safe distance. -.. ,.""i .r """ " : For days the railroad up the side ,of the -glgantlo-volcano.- has suspended operations. Tourists have been, warned not to attempt the ascent with' -guides, and everything Is being made ready for another outburst of lava of a most de structive character. Not since Septem. ber. 1904, has the mountain-which over whelmed ., .Pompeii and Herculaneum -presented such a dangerous appearance. At that-time eruptions were more fle atruetlv than any since ttlt.Tr; -The prefect expects that this eruption will be more terrible than that of last year. On September It, 1804. observe -tkms showed that in 11 hours there were 1,800 violent explosions and that masses of red-hot stone and boiling lava, -weighing many tone, were tossed out bf the crater like so many feathers. -V"" ' The lava flow st that time melted the Iron rails of the Fernlculsr- railroad and burned away many houses and huts. Vegetation within one-mile-ef "the crate Ofsappeared and (iany farms and vine yards were destroyed. ! Something- similar to this is now--going on. The tremors that prWede violent eruptions have been noticed for weeks, and receiit, expleeioha In the crater indicate that, a disastrous and terrible convullTOTr F" -nature Is preparing.,"-- . u y t. Becomes m Cataollo. ' : ,'; j (Special Diapatcfe by Uased Wire te Toe Joaraal) New York. June 14 Mrav Ruther ford, daughter pf.tevl P. Morton, has astonished her family and society by Joining ths Boms Csthou ehuroh, CRISIS MORE ACUTE French Reply on Moroccan Ques- tTon Is Distinctly Unsatisfac : tory to the Kaiser. ' " ENGLAND STRENGTHENS -FRANCE JN CONTENTION Panicky Feeling on Paris Bourse and Rentes Ready to Tum - ble. to Low Mark. (Copyrigbt, Bearst News Scrrlr. bf Leases wire to Tbe-Jonraal.) T Lpndon, June 14. It ' la evident that theiianco-German-erlalal8 : growing dangerously more, scute, . "trThe afternoon papers published alarm ist dispatches from Berlt 'to the effect that a closer study- of the French note on the Moroccan - conference shows It to be a distinctly unsatisfactory-docu ment. "tt Is contended that the note falls entirely to relieve the situation. The suggeatlonlhat France and Ger many -should come to a private under standing concerning Mooccd before submitting the general question to-an International conference, it is said, will surely be rejected-by Germany.., - The German emperor's out and out contention l-for the open-coor- polioy la Morocco and the correspondents aver that he will not for a moment consider a Franco-German partnership. -'..-. - The Increase of feeling is accentuated here by a suspicion amounting almost to a certainty that Knglnnd,in a cau tious way Is strengthening the hand of France In her contention with Germany. This helping hand of England, however. rrroes not atay-tfte-panlcky -feeling- onTthe Paris bourse and rentea..are ready to tumble TO -dangerously low figures, lf the feeling of nervousness is not allayed Instantly. . . : The publication-In the French papers of maps showing the; relative positions. and strength of the German and French armies along the-frontier is )o con- ptidereLa most unwise and aggravating thing under thr circumstances. , One Interesting and significant fact brought out by these maps end their accompanying statistics Is that Ger- msnf Virmv nn m. war tnntinw m nv.r, whelmlngly larger Lilian that , of France I lit Infantry INDIAN WOMAN DIES ' OF CRUEL BEATING - (Speelalt Dispatch ta The ooreal.t 7Ths Dalles, Jttns U. The -Indlatf sroman who was beaten by another In dian woman named Mary Aleck a few days ago-at8euferfs cannery died yes terday afternoon. "Mary was arrested and Charged with manslaughter by Jus tice Douthltt last evening snd In default of ball -was oommltted to Jail to await the action of the grand Jury at the next session -f the district court Womea rtghtlag Smooi, (Special Dispatch hr Leaa4 Wjre to The Jaoraal) New Tork, Jlune lt--The women's societies of the country, are making a most active campaign against the seat ing of Reed moot,, the senator from Utahr Huge petitions ar. being circu lated throughout the eastern states pro testing against 'sUlng HmOof, ana will b presented to the senate, . -Ju3ge Tanner Says He Bofe False Witness to Save Aged Senator NO IMMUNITY FOR - z-- GIVING TESTIMONY, Defense Will Seek to Show Thai ; "JohnL H." Mitchell JrVat Una- V fcrwarerThatiHe : Was Receivwr , ing Money From Kribs, . 1 Little remains "to cbmptete""th fo: ernment's. case against Senator John M. . Mitchell. -United Statea District At- toime heneyJnformedthe court yester- aayfternbon that the-presentation of evldencehy' the" prosecution "would ber--- concluded Monday morning Attorneys " for the. defense intimate that not mora than a day will be required to Introduce their evidence, so -that arguments to the Jury will probably begin either Tues day afternoon or - Wednesday morning, t larryKobertsdn,' Senator'-Mltchella " -former private secretary, will probably ' Da tne principal remaining - witness f ov"- the prosecution.. : . .. . ... I It Is' expected that . Senator Mitchell will he. the chief, witness In hla-Own be half.'' ' v-r'- By the evidence thus far presented the government has- established that" Fred-"--erlck A. Krlbs employed the firm . MltcheTl ""Tanner to expedite1 tha patenting of timber clatlhi In -which he ' j -was Interested;" that Senator-Mitchell actively exerted "himself to have, the patents Issued; that Krlbs paid to Tanner, several large sums of money. In payment for the-services rendered; that one-half ; the fees so paid were . deposited by Tanner to Mitchell's account; that the latter was advised of the deposits. The ( defense apparently has no expectation of , disputing these facts.; , , "' " Coateatlon of ths Defense. ' a Statemehts of counsel , for ' Benator Mitchell made in the opening address - to the Jury and at Various times since the trial began indicate Jhat the principal -defense will be the contention . that Mitchell had no knowledge-that he wag' getting pay for the services he Was ren- " derlng In expediting the -Krlbs claims. On this question of . knowledge, there- ' -r fore." the Issue of the . case in great measure depends. . ... 'Much, If not most, of the government's errdence-has-been drreoted ' toj p row ing that Mitchell was aware of Tha " - source of the uameys whtch -wera' de- poslted to" his account" from -month toT"T month. The-'correspondence between MItchetl and "hia-partner, Tanner, thw books of the Arm, the fact that In other Instances and for other clients Mitchell " wasperformlng services -before- the de-, partments at Washington -for .which ha"r was receiving fees, are all rallad on by . . ,. the1 prosectloa to prove that ths de. j fendant waawell aware that his work for Krlhs was -not-gratuitous. - Benator Mitchell's strenuous .efforts to destroy the incriminating evidence against him- ' .self and to fabricate, with the aid of judge Tanner, a plan of defease are regarded by the prosectlon as stronar corroborative proofs of both his guilt and),.- nis anoweoge. - -.... ... Thought Krlbs Was Tanner's Client,. 'Ther plan "df-the defense have aayet been only partly disclosed but It la avl. dent, that a strong effort will be. mai(e " to. snow, tnat Mitchell regarded Krlha - as the client not of the firm but of Tan- rrer-atoTir-Bnd-suppoed that ths fees paia.oy. Krlbs would be wholly retained" by Tanner. The fact that Mitchell per-: formed a large amount - of , business ' . gratuitously- tot cltisens of Oregon : l cited as a confirmation of th contention that he expected no compensation for the - services Tendered .Krlbs. .Tanner him- - -self. In. response to questions by "The de- fense, testified that he "wrote hundreds of letters to Mitchell for people front -whom he did -not get a cent." . Mitchell's -unbusinesslike habits. hl Alleged ignorancW of the details of- th firm s business and (he heavy demands on his time while lh"U ashlngion and hi , impaired health are all regarded by his , attorneys as strengthening their arsu- " ment. artn lending color to "the theory - that, he had no knowledge that he -Was getting pay for the services he was per formUia before the departments ' , To-, this question, -therefor. - of the '' defendaht's-knowredge of the payment -made-by Kribs, the testimony during the " , remaining day ' "of the trfSI will be 1 largely directed. . , r l'iit.l Tsaaer Shows Bmottoa. - .. -For' -a - moment i yesterday afternooit Judge- A. H, Tanner, the? government witness, spoke, with apparent feeling 1 against his erstwhile partner. Senator John II. Mitchell. But tt wag only fr a moment lie was goaded, thea by the senators attorneys in eroea-examfnation, ' taunted with his deliberate perjury t saVs the senator and ruthlessly lad oer snd over his deed-which came so ni bringing. bis son under indictment. f if perjury.. With a spirit . of resentment Senator Mitchell's .attorney dwelt up-.n this aspect of the rase. 'He left the trie presslon that -Tanner had de'llxtrat: Continued ea I-I
