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VOLV II. NO. 21.
PORTLAND,. OREGON,: SUNDAY UORrrtNO, AUGUST 6, 1SC3.-1 FOUR SECTIONS THIRTY-SIX PAGES.
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BHTOTMS
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Chamber of Commerce to Con
elder the Advisability of Hav
i Ing a New Enumeration of r
"v the City of Portland.
GLARING OMISSIONS 5
v IN COUNTING PEOPLE
Among the Argument Offered to
Justify Correcting the FalseIm-
pression Created as to Population
; Are That Realty Values Depend op
'. Number of Inhabitants. 7
0 Announcement tpat the chamber of
commerce would have the subject of a
recount of the city's population brought
, before It for official action was the
eource of .satisfaction to business men
who reallae the vital Importance of cor
recting the absurdities of the census
taken by the assessor, which assigns to
. Portland a population of- only .110.600.
Secretary E. C Qtltner of the chamber
stated last night that he would lay the
. subject before President w. p. Wheel-
' wricht and that It was not unlikely that
-'tlie latter would cll meeting of the
trustees to consider the census.
' . Ia the minds of the mass of business
wen there h been n doubt that the
i wmsslsl ersanlsatlons ef PerUaad
would take 'the neoesaar- steps- to se
cure a recount. ' " ' v
.. ''-Xs a visia ty. ' '
"It Is for such things that edmmef
clal -organisations exist." eald a promi
nent business man last night. "Matters
which are not within the authority of
officials must necessarily fall to the lot
of the commercial body; which Is eom-
' posed of . representative cltlseuk whose
Interests are sufficiently extensive - to
give them a keen concern for the good
. of the city, tt ts to be hoped that the
chamber of commerce will rise to the
demands of the occasion and rjerform
this very important duty." ,
The recount' that was made In ,
'when.U E. Ieacn. of the Polk Directory
company superintended the work and
discovered 14.M7 persona who had been
overlooked by the federal census-takers,
' adding 14 per cent to the government
figures on the population of Portland,
were so eminently satisfactory that there
- Is a general demand for a repetition of
the excellent work of that year.
According to several close eetlmstes
by experts on population the gain which
the true figures today would make over
those of Aesessor Sigier would be almost
exactly the same proportionally as when
Mr. Leach found Si per cent mora per
sons In 1190 than the federal census-
takers found. -. -
lew Bis; Xs ortla4T . .
It is a general belief that at least lit.
' 90S persons make Portland their perma
nent residence. The discussion appears
to have proceeded beyond the question
es to the Inadequacy of the assessor's
figures since through the agency of The
: Journal the test count wss made In the
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
RAIDED OY
ATPISTOL
Affrighted Players Dash From Gaming Tables, Believing They
f Are Victims of Hold-UpTandr Officers Quietly ArrejrtU W
: :;'rt'.V' ; th" Men In Charge of Establishment-" - t
Players at the Mllwaukie club last
evening made a hasty exit through the
nearest windowa under the Idea that a
band of highwaymen had descended on
them. Their fesrs of a -holdup were
modified, although their discomfiture wss
. not sbsted when It wss discovered that
the Intruders- with -ehlntng - revolvers
were deputy constables, and had called
-' to gather evldenee- conoerning the gam
' bllng gamea alleged to le In operation.
The-confusion v resulted becsuse the
'depurlee wore no uniforms and hsd
; neither stars nor warrants
.The first Intlmstlon the pleyers sround
the Ubles had that business wss meant
' wss when three trembling hands pushed
three heavy -revolvers under the noses
of the gsmekeepers snd ssmanded that
"they desist. They aid so with aiarclty
and for hslf an hour-breathless sm
blers were to be seen emerging from
distant brush coverts.' .
Ths raid- wae planned by Attorney, Beo
Irwin of Mttwsukte, who had secured
Information which enabled hint to swsar
out complaints chsrgrng the msnags
ment of the club with, conducting gsm
Mlns games. Armed with the warrants
Mr.-Irwin snd two other Mllwaukie eltl
tn, unknown "to thn management of
the 'H'',, e-" - ; te town marshsl
r - 1 ejected by
J. H. Brown of Shanghai Saya
- Ex Coneur le Fomenting
Hostility to ' America .
' - ' in China. .! . ;
ikiiiw nnrno niinrm
; I U r-UH I Men HI5 tNUS
Former Resident ' of Portland De
clares Boycott Schema Is Worked
Up by Ousted. Official at Wu Tin?
' Fang's Instigation Minister Eager
for Repeal of Exclusion Law. -
i"v:-Ai-'.'?;:
China's vaunted boycott 1s the mer
cenary scheme of a traitorous American
clttsen, . an ex-consul In this nation s
service, which has been put afoot by the
crafty Wu Ting Fang, ex-minister of
China to. America, says J. K. Brown.
Mr. Brown is a PQj&and-man. as he
went to enme -in iuu xrom.uiis cuy.
He .went there-without, money,, having
Just bought the I A3, j Woodard. prop
erty at Mount Tabon .today ha is
wealthrv He did contract worsrzor tne
allied armies duWng the Boxer troubles
and latterly he has taken large con
tracts for provisioning parts of the Bus
sian troops. Mr. Brown represents ths
business, element, resides in aangnai
snd hasteenJnrtouchlthtoaIfejtl,,he,
Aslstlo coast through his contracting
work. He speaks emphatically, offers to
produoe evidence to support 'his' state
ments and saya that the alleged boycott
will not - trouble American . .commerce
materially.' ' ' '. -
Mas mssssss mare. ,
Mr. ' Brown has large ' Interests in
China, yet he does sot hesitate to de
nounce some of the work, that Is being
done there' against this, country, r He
thinks the boycott will be without avail.
as the ; principal and practically only
exports' received there sow are' flour,
lumber and . cigarettes. .These, . Mr.
Brown says, will be shipped despite any
alleged boycott and will be bought snd
consumed.'.' ".-,' " ' ; : '
"I went to China from' Portland In
ItOO.' I have lived in Tien-Tsln snd
Shanghai, doing s lumber snd flour busi
ness. My first . Important work was as
contractor for - the combined forces op
erating against the Chinese during the
Boxer troubles. For some time- I wss
engaged - contracting for the Russian
government, furnishing Its armies with
supplies. nd I spent It .days' within
the lines during the light at Mukden. ---
,!. ".') tkttiy Taxes ksrtod. -7Bt'
"I will briefly run ever conditions In
the orient to make the situation clear.
At ths time of the treaty ending ths
Boxer troubles a stipulation was made
In the treaty between the powers and
Chin to abolish "llnkin." "Llnkin" Is
a tax which la collected every few milee
when shipping - Into, the Interior r and
meets the shipper wherever he goes.
They levy that tax on both foreign and
home products, - In return for -the toss
China would sustain In doing sway with
this llnkin tax. It was agreed custom
(Continued on Page eleven.)
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DEPUTIES
Isaac Oratton, Tim De Bole, "Bush
Ready snd Peter St. Mary were arrested
by the deputies and taken before the
local Justice, who held an axtemporane
oua court In the- car barnr- The three
were placed under $100 bonds each,
which they, furnished, and were re
leased." The scorn or mere or players
were not molested. -
Ths Mllwaukie club-has tiad various
exciting Incidents In Its short career and
the action of ths volunteer deputies laat
evening was the climax. When the club
waa granted a license by the Mllwaukie
council It was positively Stated that no
gambling would be. permitted except
betting on the races, and that no regular
Monte Carlo devices would be tolerated.
The club waa raided by the Clackamaa
sheriff soma Weeks sgo and Oratton. and
Nense were bound over to the circuit
court on the charge of conducting a
nuisance under ths state law. The club
was permitted to run pending the final
hearing- of the case, but- the charge was
openly mads that gambling games were
operated In the place. The evidence se
cured last night by the deputies Is said
to be sufficient to , substantiate this
charge., . . , -v.
- The arresting party found two faro
games snd a roulette gams In operation
and eelsed the apparatus used In these
J-oldina; it, for. svldeacs-f .
sen i nassimeiniiin mi hpsiim.iwi i n.,p , -L'snKi s usi iss iiiiisiiii mi I i mm n i s ssj mi i a , -
LOOKING THROUGH THE WRONG END OF THE GLASSES.
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-'Vy yi-. , Centue-Taker How Portland Hae Shrunk! . 1 . '
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3 mmNS ma httpsf atwt aimfoph
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mother fai;hs ai;d three
tots perish 1,1 flalies
Rescues Baby but Is Overcome
- by Excitement and Children
. ire soon rnst neip v
(SperUI DtopsMh ky UeseS Wire to The Joaraal)
' Oakland, Cel., Aug. (.Flames and
smoke awakened from their dreams to
night three little children, Antonta, TaU
vanla and Alfred A Vila, aged s, 4 and I
years, respectively, as they' slept In s
room of their home. Helpless, the little
ones were roasted alive and nothing- but
their charred bodies were-, found whsa
the fire was extinguished. . . .. ?
Their mother, Mrs. -A, F. Avils, i the
onlyne who hsd m chance to save them,
fainted on the doorstep after carrying
to safety her little baby of a few weeks
old.' When other assistants 'arrived It
was Impossible to j fight a way through
the fire-and.. smoke,, although Antonio
A Vila, - father .of -the ; children. James
Carey, a fireman, and Special Polleeman
Manuel Damaral tried repeatedly. .
Mrs. Avlla was bathing her baby In
the kitchen by the light ef a coal-oil
lamp shortly before t o'clock tonight,
when the lamp . exploded. Mrs. Avlls
picked up her. baby and ran out of the
house. Shs Iniended to cry for help, lay
the little one down snd rush bach Into
the burning house to rescue her ether
three children, who were asleed In a
room adjoining the kitchen; but as she
stumbled, down the stairs In front of her
house she fainted from terror and ex
citement. She lay there for sometime,
until neighbors, sselng the flames, ran
to the rescue. ' ' -w
Canadian Troops at Boston. -
(Special DUpatcS l Leased Wire ts Tas Jesnal)
Boston. Aug.-V--The Dukw of Corn
wallla rifles arrived from Ottawa to
day en routs to Providence to celebrate
British day, , - - ' ' .
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W. W. Coe, Jr., Puts the Shot
: Forty:Nine s Feet and '
' h Inches at Stadium. :
Six
DEFEATS RALPH ROSE, ;
THE GIANT OF CHICAGO
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Youncster ' Came to Portland Pur--poscly
to Best 4 th International
Athletic ' Wonder Brilliant' , Am-
ateur Field Msct at Exposition.
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so
d Olympic A. C .Jt .
d M. A.-A. C Portland ..IS
' Milwaukee A. C. ........ . ..li
e James Mttchell. N. T. A. A. C. I
d . W. W, Coe. Jr.. unattached...'
d i T. M. C. A., Portland........ I
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magnificent amateur athletle field
and track day. at ths Lewis snd Clark
exposition waa characterised' by ' the
-breaking of the world's record fer the
K-pound shot put by W. W. Coe, defeat
ing Ralph Rose. Coe was not attached
to any club at the meeting. -Coe put
the shot 4 feet Inches. - Ths world's
record made In 1104 by Denis Korean
of Ireland, waa it feet 10 Inchea. The
Amateur Athletlo anion record waa held
by Balph Rose, who put the shot 4
feet 't inches st Bt Louts last August
ii. -; v - - :
Rose came to Portland with an Inter
national reputation. Coe followed Roes
to thlS elty. Coe was a former student
at Yale College, but did not complete his
academic work at that Institution. He
comes from an excellent fsmily and the
first wish of his parents haa always
been his. success and advancement. -His
, Continued on Page Eighty t
Russians Believe That They Have Only
Eastward March, and When Time
tempt
WORLD-WIDE SEARCH FOR
. FUGITIVE MAYOR ;
Idol of Paterson Voters Embez
zles Washerwoman's Earnings
- - and Flees Country .
(Special Dispatch by Usees Wire ts The loaroal)
- Paterson. N. J, Aug. I. Mrs. William
C Belcher, wife of the fugitive mayor
of .Psterson, . In sn Interview In the
Belcher homestead thla afternoon de
clared tt was her firm bellel that her
husband had either gone to Europe or
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A world-wide search was begun this
afternoon for Belcher. A circular bear
ing hla complete -description, together
with a picture from his latest photo
graph, was mailed to every chief of po
lice in the United States snd to the po
lice heads of every capital In the United
Btatae. ',...
This "reform mayor" and late Mol
of tltousanda of cltisena, known In Pat
arson for years aa "Honest Bill" Bel
cher, Is being sought on the common
criminal accusation of Mrs. Cecilia Ma
rino, a " washerwoman, whose l.ll In
savings' wss taken with the -missing
official. Ills peculations may exceed
(10.000. .
"This man." said District Attorney
Shaw of Paterson, "If reports sre true,
has led a long llfs Of crookedness, but
for some unfathomable reason he hae
never been brought to the bar of Jus
tice. -"We shall search thla country and
Europe for htm and If we get hint he
Will face Indictments which. If he la
convicted, will send him to prison for
the rest of his natural life." k -
- Baas lata Witt ft as,
" Louisiana. Mc Aug.' ' a. Marion
Warner of Leror. Illinois, wss shot snd
killed on a Chicago Alton train tort.y
by an unknown man who was Into
tt . f."i v.'."
1ST NEUTRMIiAIP
'JljjjiL-T: ., 'V '."''"' .':y;:''..' '.V-.?
to Regain Lost
Representatives of Belligerent ; Nations Gtzsp
Jands "in Presence of i President and Good .
' - Will Harks Initial Peace Ceremonies.
St. Petersburg. Aug. I. (Bulletin.)
The esar haa sent a long cipher message
to M. Wltte, containing his majesty's
final instructions.. ., . . , , r ,
(Special Dlepslek T Laaaed Wire The ?earan
New ' York, Aug. I. Crashing guns
echoed in continuous reverberations
from the hills of Oystsr Bay marked
the formal . meeting -today of ths peace
envoys of Russia and Japan In ths pres
ence of President Roosevelt on board
ths Mayflower.
From 'the white aides , of the United
States cruisers flashed out the red flare
of the charge, followed by wispy clouds
of gray amoks thst wsnt out over the
watere like great banners as the men
selected as peaoa. commissioners by ths
warring nations went over tne side of
the president's yacht and were' brought
together for the- first time sines their
arrival In this country.'
The deep significance of the dsya In
cidents was not obscured by lack of
national ceremony. The . affair wss
msde strikingly Impressfve and , the
gathering. In formal convention for the
first time of the peace commissioners
was given Its full 'Importance from
which aa far as the' outward show was
concerned. ' . , '
V ' Mseslair a Tormal Affair.
The actual meeting wss none ths less
to evade some strangely difficult mat
ters of precedence by- an air - of In
formality. It waa decided later that the
questions of precedence were of less im
portance than ' ui -preservation of a
strict formality -throughout and instsad
of the buffet luncheon which had been
arranged the envoys gsthered about the
table In the messroora of tne Mayflower
with all the pretenslousness of a White
Mouse affair. President Roosevelt was
clearly conscious of the seriousness' of
ths meeting of the envoys and hla one
objeot was to bring thee men together
with aa little ef restraint snd much of
good feeling aa poealbla. This he ac
complished, i
When the - envoys -left Oystsr Bay
latsr in' the afternoon they hsd estab
lished a basis of friendly understanding
which will do much toward breaking
down the first impression of hopeless
ness which ach aids had engendered
since reaching this country. ;
' !: What massla" Wffl ' BeV '
3. R. Prlngls of the Boston . Globe,
who la on friendly terms with ths mem
bers of the Russlsn legation, sends his
piper a statement - which he declares
may be considered authentlo regarding
the Muscovite attitude In the peace con
ference. "What Russia has lost by a resort to
arms," says Mr. Pringle, "she expects
to make up In the coming diplomatic
clash of witnesses st Portsmouth. That
Is the sentiment which has pervaded
the embaasy here and which still per
vades those of Its members Who remain.
The Russian embassy bare expects that
one of the eondlttona of the peace pact
will be a stiff indemnity which she will
eventually concede;- second. Russia ex
pects to , give .Saghalln Islsnd; third,
lbs great Issue will be on ths status of
UAGUJI GOBBLED BY STACDfJ
: 0 RES
Syndicate Secures Exclusive Rights to Marvelously Rich Gold
Fields and Takes Possession of Everything by Means
- 0f Twd Companies Capitalized Vry High.-i :, " :i U
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(Special Die patch by Lessed Wire te The Jearssl)
Nsw- Tork, Aug. (."-Standard OH haa
now grasped Nicaragua. Practically the
whole of -.the little Central American
republlo Is- now owned by a syndlcats
of Standard )M men associated with
some of the strongest financiers In New
Tork. ; ' '
Among those who sre primarily-interested
in the syndicate sre James 11.
Lockhart, the Standard Oil capitalist;
Alex V. reaoouy, one or Anarsw
negle's old partners i Thomas B. Rlttor.
the Pittsburg steel men; John R. Mo
Cune, a Pittsburg capitalist; Robert
lit cairn, an assistant to the president
of the Pennsylvania railroad; Dwlght
W. Pardee, secretary of the New Tork
Central lines, and L ). Reea of the New
Tork banking house of Zimmerman A
rorsshay. f
News of this -algantle undertaking
became public within the last few days
when the United Btatea government es
tablished a consulate st Port Detrlck.
Nicaragua, a little out of the way town
that haa hitherto bee I -own aa Cape
Oracles Adols. t it i lri:iner. for
merly enmmer
t at minefields.
.ii to the new
Nicaragua. . i
f
Been Hclted in Their
Comes Vill At
Laurels.
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Manchuria and hers Is where ths real
contest will eotne.. .
"Russia In fact will seek to have the
settlement so that In ease she wished,
and of course . she expect to do, the
status quo will be the asms sS before
she entered upon It. That is, tt will be
neutral territory snd not as Japan seeks
to have it officially made In the treaty
of peace, -virtually under a Japanese
protectorate, just aa it wss before the
wsr, to all intents and purposes; eesen
tlally Russian. - i . " r 1
t Only Salts fee Kasek.
'."The Russians believe that they have
only been baited in their eastern march.
They take their reverses with their
characteristic fatalism. In the ' lan
guage of pugilism, they are -now spar
ring for wind and time, and when the
opportune time come they will again
gird their loins and attempt ' to carry .
out what they believe to be their mani.
fast destiny in policy of Ivan the Ter
rible, that Is to sweep on to the Pa-'
clfic seaboard, and that successfully an
compllshed, to swarm down through
Af shanlatan into India. - '
"The money indemnity will not be so
much of a humiliation se the Russians
affect to believe that It Will be only
Unt Some day, they say, it will be
collected with Interest front the . pre
JlUBPtUuus 111 lis h a ssssjj Thsiiii i
fore the fight will not be prolonged over
the question of , Indemnity, v although
there will be a haggling ever the.
amount and the Sakhalin island as wsll
as the- position ef the Russians In re- -gard
to Manchuria. - ., . O "
"They want to be In a favorable po
sition to strike again when all la ready. -when
the trans-Siberian railroad has
been double or quadruple tracked and
rebuilt and up to and around Lake Bai
kal constructed so there will be no dif
ficulty In transDortina- troona n aun.
plies. Then Russia will be ready to try
cunuiusion again xor tna supremacy of
the east." ,.--.
Ignored few the STattvea.
Oyster Bay was divided inta tma. Mml
tlnct parties today those who realised
the Importance of the meeUns a thm
envoys and those who Ignored It. Those
wno nan launches or boats at their dis
posal spent ths day on tba water, tha
clusters of small craft aJxrat ths May.
flower, ths Taeoma, the , Chattanooga. '
the Galveston, the Slyph and the two
torpedo-boats adding- a gaiety and Hfe to
the scene which was unusual , in Oyster
Bsy. , - . . ' .
The other Inhabitants of the town ap
parently knew nothing of the drama be
Ing enacted on, the peaceful watere of
the bay and devoted themselves to ths
drowsy paatlmes of the village, the great
er part ef the population being engaged
In watching an amateur ball game.
The incldenta on board the Mayflower
were few and almple In order to avoid
complications of any sort, snd ths moat
significant occurrence Sf the day was
the-toast of President Roosevelt. At"
the conclusion of the luncheon PreaU
dent Roosevelt rose and proposed the
following toast: - t-
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
I
three years has been working gntlvsly
to gain control of the land. Develop
ment work wss carried ou very aulatly.
Shsfts were run. hundreds ef samples
of gold ore analysed and at last when
the capitalists bsck of the enterprise
aw wealth untold lay almost within
thslr grasp, the syndlcsts was organised
and a new millionaire maker for the al
lies of j Rockefeller was launched. , .
Ths United States A Nlcsrasua com
r--ipsny Is the name ef the parent concern.
It Is capltallssd st IO.soo,soo. It holos
the exclusive right to dig mines, to ex
plore for gold. silver and copper and
other minerals, oils, eosl and precious
stones and the sas of watere and tim
bers within the states Vf Cape Orselas
Ad toe, Jlnetosaand Segovia. tncKid'rr
the; slats of Kstellt now forming part of
the statss of JinetogS and Segovl .
This territory extande slmost the w
width of Nloeraeua from tH '
to ths Psclflo. Its area I
000.000 acres.
Sub'
great t
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rv tt
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