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.-'v-rs r GOOD EVE IJIHG Journd Circulation s I THE WEATHER. j j" ' Partly cloudy snd ; threatening to night) north to cast winds. - s' ..".'..V J ;,v., VOL. IV. NO. 162. .J, 4 PORTLAND', pREGON, MONDAY EVENINOrSEPTEMBER' , Hi 19051 TWELVeT-PAGES. - price two cents;. .Tlivn-f . k r. - , - '. . ' j I f . . : ; . : 1 . 1 I . 11 WORTIIERivI PACIFIC B EI0 : FORESTALLING ' . j . - .- . - - ..- - ' in . . ';' ' .' .;;....' ; ' 0F"L"CAR -Coach -Plunges '-from-Twitl in - Nwv York, Crashes Into a t Drug Store and Smashes 4 ,;;;:'::f7; to Splinters. .." TEN PASSENGERS DEAD TWENTY-FIVE INJURED Mtatake o( Switchman Hnrla Car i Loaded With People ; Going to ' iWork to Pavement Below, Killing ; Those in Iu Path and Maiming Many Other. ' T - - .T (Joorul SmcUI hrrlc.) . - Kew York. Sept. 11. For the nrt . . time in the history ot thta city a car from an, elevated railroad thia morning plunged ' from its trestle, leaping through the air JO feet with 1U cargo of human freight, -crashing Into a drug tore. below and smashing Into splinters ' on the pavement .Six were instantly -s killed, S eertodely z wounded, .four of whom died later, and a score, more or leas Injured. Several more deaths are momentarily expected. - '. r - . The disaster oocurred shortly before ; o'clock this morning at tbe, corner of ! Ninth;' avenue and Fifty-third street. The car was packed with workers en rout down towiw-.wVba wreoke.-eswa the third of a train. The two first coaches rounded the curve safely; but . the third, en account of an Improperly , set switch, broke from the train and left the structure. The fourth and fifth care remained on the track, the coupling snapping, saving many Uvea. . - The flying oar described a aeral-clrcle, : striking and. .smashing through' the . plate-glass front of the durg store be ; neath, recoiling and falling on Its roof ', pn the pavement, splintering to frag .. ments. . . r ' '" -v , Shrieks and groans filled ths air and - . the - scene : was heartrending ea the ' mangled bochea of the dead and dying ' were pulled front the debris by the large crowd of rescuers, who hastily gathered. The dead were carried to the morgue . and 4he Injured taken . to hospitals... Physicians hastehed to the scene and everything possible is being done for , the victims. . , ' . " 1 Nearly every one of the 40 or (0 board was Injured, either by the fall or by the flying., splinters- and glass. , Several customers In the wrecked drug store were also -wounded. . As soon as the injured and dead had ' been removed,, a large-force t meirwere ""put to work clearing up- the. wreckage : and- hy noon the debria was cleared ' away.'V-J ; '.. ; ; ' , ' . Th floor of the wrecked car was torn , out. the heavV trucks, tobogganed down over the passengers who had been hurled and strewn along -the Inclined . piano made toy parts of the car from the ' structure to the street, killing some and Injuring nearly all In Its path. .-..! . . C. A. Jackson, a switchman, has been . arrested, accused of having ' turned the switch after the first car paased. It Is . alleged that he had mistaken the Ninth '.avenue train for another and turned the switch for it to turn Into another street ' .He saw after the first ear passed that the train was going the wrong way and turned back the switch, causing the . !' wreck. . . ,'' A . '. X ' CITY'S BOOKS WILL BE EXPERTED AT ' MAYOR LANE'S IIISTI6ATI0II '.-;.' . ,.".' .. . ..v -' '.".". v. -. ' .':' "-'."?. ''' - -' ',- i;"'...-t '' " -'" . , -. .... - .. v- '.; ; i.-'v: "''' Every Account. arid Record of the Municipality Will Be Examined ; M at Once and Executive Says (regularities, 'If There "- ;C.v:r;i"!; re:Any, Will Be Punished- ;7 T'f-.'ft v :.- . . : . ui' v AecounUend ; records of every de- - partment in ttte cl government wlU be exported at the instigation of Mayor -lne. CTark Buchanan have been employed to do the work and will be gin operations thla week oh the books of the city treasurer or city auditor. -"1 am going .to have this -work done without fear, favor or prejndlce,H said Mayor Lane today. "I am doing this in order that I may know how the aeeounts stand, and that the people of the city may know how the affairs of the city era being conducted. When 1 leave this offioa I desire to know, and have the people know, that everything la regular, and In order that this maybe so,, we have to be sure we are right when we begin.'", . P Maydr Lane In employing men to ex pert the bonks la proceeding under tne authority given hire In section 1(3 of the' city , charter. Af tr tha report of th experts has been made the mayor will 'present It te the Council, and If any irregularities are found steps will be taken te punts'. the guilty.. The charter Bays: ' . ' -. : '?' ' -.''! - i "The mayor may at any; time, with or ' I . "f . ; - ' i. 1 ly-Will mm '' "-'c. ; . " " -'iv. ,' ".-: .: i . 'r.'-'.'r ' '.A-' '' ' '." '"' ' ' "... '-r ''' Oregon Methodist Conference " Will' See Many 1 Sweep r : 'ne5 Changes This V. -' - . . Year, v- ., : r " NEARLY ALL PROMINENT CHURCHES AFFECTED -- c'i :;t -'V ;'.; ; .'.. ;!; " ', For First Time Presiding Bishop Has Arranged; List of Appointments Weeks Before the Final Announce ; ment-rList of Those Who' Will En- - ter Hew-Worfc - 7--r--- When Bishob W. - T. i McDowell an nounced at a recent church banquet, at which 'the leading Methodlata of the city were gathered, that' the list of ap pointments for the Oregon conference of the Methodtet Episcopal church could be read right then if necessary, the statement occasioned a stir. The ap pointment of ministers In the. Methodist cnurch Is the political campaign of the denomination,- and the clergy and laity are intensely interested - In any state ments of an authoritative sort which show changes' in the method of pro cedure.''.' . ''-.; 'i '.-" o vi j : "During- the' aummer the bishop and the three 'presiding eldera held frequont meetings In this city, and .while several additional changes, will ha made before the dose of tb. conference;- which con venes at 'Albany September 1. the list Is already far advanced toward com pletion; this Is remarkable considering the many changes. to be made In the charges.- V-' !,)-. . v- .'' " ' Ths majority of the east side churches will hava new pastors next year, and fom statements made by Prealdlng El der E. Rockwell and the varloua min isters the following -changes may be an nounced aa most probable: . Changes la ast side Chuehea. ' ke'v. F. : It. Toung of Central church will leaver P.ev. C. A. Lewis of Bell- vood will be given a new field;' Rev. U. ri- jampoeii, supplying bl jonps, will 'change his pastorate; Rev.- C. E. Cllne of Woodstock will take up other work-Monte villa, Rev." Andrew Monroe, will be presented with another minister; Rev. 8. E. Menlnger, who for five yeare has served Mount Tabor, has announced that he will seek another field and lead ing membere are . aeeklng for a sue cessor; Rev. M. I Hardlngham' of Qreaham will In all likelihood be changed...' . . .'.' '.' ' Thanly-chTge In which It la car- tain there will be no change are Patton, Rev, Asa . Bleeth, pastor; Trinity, Rev. Harold Oberg; Woodlawn,' Rev. S. H. Dewart, and Sunnyslde, Rev. T. B. Ford. The majority of these charges are served by ministers who have only been assigned to their particular work during the paat year; and Iri such cases, unless decided dissatisfaction exists, no Changs Is -made, It being the policy . of the church to continue a minister for at least three years, ether things being equal.', - . t - ' . Centenary, Taylor street and Grace churches are the plume of the confer enca - Announcement concerning these s shrouded In mystery and no definite Information Is forthcoming; It Is stated, however, by ' ecclesiastical politicians that were the appointments for these (Continued on Page Two.) --..'...' without notice. Investigate In person or through one or more competent persons appointed pr him for the purpose, the offices and accounts of any department of the city or of any employe, and the official acta and conduct -mt any official or employe Inf-rhe -administrative- serv ice -of the city, and the mnney, securi ties and -property belonging to the city In the possession or. charge of such de partment, office or employe. For the purpose of ascertaining facta In connec tion with these examinations, the mayor shall have full power to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses, to administer oatha and to examine such persons as he shall deem necassary and to compel the production of books, pa pers and other evidence. Willful false swearing In such Investigations and ex amlnatlone shall be perjury and punlsh able aa such. The expense of any such investigation shall be paid out of the general fund In the eame manner as other claims against tho elty are -paid. The result of all such examination .and Investigations shall be reported-to the council and such -report filed with - the auditor." .--.' . " --. -t ..... ; -'-;- r ' "" '-' - 'J "- " , , ',''Ii.;.;,V;-: I - I I f "J ' ' "'. ' " r '5' ' ... I " I I '''A. : -vii. ; x :.: : i -) " I : h'vv . . . .' U , - "i h feVi . ... ! I fei At Newport's "p6pdlarityff 'ot ing contest Mrs.' JohnP acob Astor of 'New' York, whose , portrait is shown at the top, , ; . won the prize as ' the most ' 'popular matron, andMlss- . Cynthia Roche, whose face is ehown below, was declared the ' most popular girL Miss Roche .-- is in great demand for lunch eons, balls, tennis, beach .par L . ties and the thousand and. one diversions of Newport's smart set.-' ' . ' ".. . : - ;" .' ', ". 7 HE CHICKENS HAVE TO ROOST ON: 7 HE OREGOMAN The well-developed. case of obesity that presides over the editorial destinies bf the morning paper goes out of his way occasionally to make an .'unholy , exposure of himself in informing the public that , The Journal is ''Mr, Ladd's newspaper," or "a personal organ," or "the organ of plutocracy," the term applied ' depending upon the frame of hysterical mind. the "old man of the tower" is in at the time,::;.; ,';' :;,:;,'';:t " ' . This old man of fhe sea of, his 'own. editorial lashi ings knows full well that he is playing the. "villain '4 part;" that he is resorting to plain lying in' a vaift effir to stem the current of popular disapproval against him, with the hope that it will restore his declining influence and power in Oregon and that of the paper whose helm he has held for lo these many years. v He knows that Mr. Ladd as well as several other gentlemen, are stockholders in. The Journal; he knows that .control of this newspaper, 'both as. to, stockholding and. management,-rests with the undersigned, as -it has from the start, and that the .facts aVe .of record so that even the wayfaring , man, though a fool, may. read as "he runs. However, Jhis editor has-a-knavish n&-td serve and records himself accordingly. y.-li:, J-. -c-U .-. -i The" Journal as well as the ' public, ' doubtless, get considerable satisfaction from the fact that this editorial rhinoceros 1 admits' that '."after three years", his hide hits been punctured, his "armor dented", and his feelings raised to such a pitch of indignation that it is painful to. behold his snffering. . ; ?.. - , , . V Tms big, blustering,; blubbering fellow even cries out TWO MEN ARE ACCUSED ' . OF ROBBING A STORE "v;." '.'' ' " (Speelsl' Dlspstca te- The JosrssL) , Troutdale,' Or., Sept, ll.---Aaron Toa's general store waa ' robbed " lest night. Several email artlcls and tl In money were taken. Harry, Bennett end Claud Coon were a rested charged with the ertme. -r . ' - . ;f, $J- '''.;..;'':;":::''';.,:. -A:.. FIFTY-EIGHT DEATHS FROM ASIATIC CHOLERA .- , .'. ..'."-..-,"; , ' - ' (Jvsraat Bpeetai Ssrtiaa,t 1 1 Berlin, . dept. 11, sixteen--cholewe cases and six deaths were reported at noon, making a total of 10 cases and B deaths. ) Seven hew eases'- 'are ai Brornberg' with- , flve deaths sad -six eases and. two deaths at Marlerrwerdter. - j y . .",' ' ' ' ' ?' '-." elopi;:b ' girl iiiin.ii mil i i ' r IIUitULIIIILI IN BATTLE WITH POSSE Seventeen - Year - Old Maiden Runs Away With Lover and ' Father's Fine Horses, -:'. aoornal BpeeUI B-TWt.) ' Rifle, Col.. Sept. 1 l.-r-Broughfr. to bay by two members of the posse, Minnie Sewering, a girl horaethlef, teok refuge in a, mountain gorge snd fired . more than 10 shots at , her pursuers, com pelling them to.rett-eat Under cover ot darkness she escaped, and is preaumed to he in the mountains, near the stats line of Utah and Colorado, The girl is IT' yesrs old and the daughter of a wealthy ranchman." ' She eloped with Emll 8 tali 1 and the couple took six' horses with them. In less than two hours the girl's father organised a posse. ' ' ...'. v During- the flight.' with the posse In sight the girl became sepsrated from Stahl..' She had three-horses, with her. Her fathers desiring to kill Stahl. kept after him. and is reported to have Stahl surrounded. The girl Is ' plentifully supplied with ammunition, and although in an unsettled country,' .no fears are felt for her safety." - ' " : A rumor has reached the town that she : Is sulking the party led by her father wbtch is pursuing tier lover, COME HOME against the "vilification; vituperation, abuse, raillery and ridicule heaped upon him and his paper" by The Journal, and neve,rjgeems to realiie that "chickens have come home to roost,? for, in years gone by, this very man has out-h eroded Herod in this" respect, and where is the pityrnow for him? . . T ' ' (V'hat prominent man, may I ask, of this community, or. of the state, has escaped the editorial whip of this brutal and merciless driver? . .''.''"' ,". ' "This specimen of anti-lean speaks , of "toadeating, toadhunting and lickspittle," and wails in the next breath because the "Oregonian was not let alone." , Poor devil of mud, clay and wax, when will such a puerile spasm pass,, and the public be spared such an exhibition of blubbering!, j ' ' i ' I ," ' ' He also cries out against "capitalistic" greed, at the "organ of plutocracy"! In the light of the past and his attitude toward greed and plutocracy, tould this not make a wooden image shed crocodile tears?. . . The Journal is what it pretends to b$La "paper Tot the multitude; a paper without frills or furbelows," and it has to simply point to its work in this community, during the past three years as an evidence of its .sincerity and performance. It will continue as irhas begun; it will ever keep faith with the people, to whom alone it is under obligations for generous support, and if devotion to. the public cause calls, for it, it proposes to" pursue the good work f nailing this editorial "varmint's hide on the fence" until the' vaporings therefrom become less and less odoriferous, ' r r"-" " C. S. JACKSON. PANAMA ENGINEERS " LUNCH WITH PRESIDENT ' ' ' 1 (Jnarasl Speelsl Ssrrlee.) . -Oyster Bsy. Sept. 11. -The president Is today talking Isthmian affairs with the consulting engineers of the Pantma canal, who lunched with Ithe president A number of visitors, including forelan correspondents who had been In Ports mouth, called at Sagamore Ul - ' : ': ':.. - , v ;."' rrkinfiiKriiirs I ,. .'.,,';,... . . . . To Vancouver Are Hurried ; Eleven Can: of Material Which Bp S Put 'to Harriman Begins - Fight tfor:rParand:R.ght ;cf ' Way and C JL Levey Directs ;G)mpanys r 'ft ftp 1 ' - ' Wort in Person. - '- .Construction work was launched today by the Northern - Pacific Railway com pany on the north bank line from Van couver to Wallula Junction." . ';" "-' Thle sudden action was-forced by the movements of. the .Wallula. Pacific backed by the Oregon Railroad Navi gation' company, 'which is. making , a strenuous effort to acquire rights of way between Vancouver and , Cascade Locks, to connect with the old portage road there, which the O. R. ,N. owns and operates In a desultory faahlon to enable It to hold on to the franchise. 77 The Northern Pacific's action today was precipitated by the departure; of Senator E. M. ' Rands from Vancouver last Saturday to enter the flld as a right-of-way agent for the Wallula Pa cific. Late Saturday night a train ol 11 cars loaded "-with -. wheel scrapers teams and equipment for grade -work, Including a large quantity of giant pow der, was hurried to Vancouver. : The steamer Dalles City. of. the Regulator line, -now owned by the Northern '.Pa-, ctflc, was rushed to that, point and all night loading, from, the cars1 proceeded. (About - sunrise .- yesterday morning the steamer, containing four . carloads of equipment left for on river points. Ths 4 I cargo .was distributed along the North- 1 I W W W..kMn-l . A . T 1. '.':' ' Seereoy the Watchword. '' . J. So quickly and 'bo secretly was the maneuver aeeompliahea that ' employe of the Northern Pacific and the Regu lator line at Vancouver. had received no Intimation: of what was. going, to hap pen. Only one man the agent: of the Northern Pacific---was notified. When the Regulator Una 'agent went to him. ta demand-an Itemised bill of lading and the destination of the cargo 4o complete hie book record he was told to turn, the stuff over to tha boat captain and debit the Northern Pacific agent -with the proper tonnage and dismiss the subject from his mind. .. . ? ... . L - The fight for right of wsy on the north bank ' will be on all along the route from - Vancouver to the Cascades thla week. Both aides are throwing every, nan they can secure for engineer. lng work- Into the field. George W. Stapleton of Vancouver left today under orders from tha Wallula Paclflo to. as sist Senator Rands, in the right-of-way work among the farmers. .It is said ths Northern Pacific haa threesurveylng parties-Jtard at work' on this section ot. THOUSANDS MARCH IVAVifJG RED FLAGS ' HI CAUCASIAfl CITIES Crowds Surge Through Streets Shouting; Revolutionary SrT timents All Factory Workers In Warsaw on Strike as Pro-1 V test for Execution of Kaspshak -Troops Sent to Scens.- (Jearaal Speelsl Serrlce.t . St Petersburg, Sept 11. -Advices from Tiflls say that Oeneral Allhanoff haa been ordered to proceed to the dis trict of Kallss with Infantry and artil lery to restore order. 'It Is reported that S.O00 people marched thrpugh the villages In Oaurget district carrying red flaga and ahouting revolutionary senti ments. The government haa aent Ivan- hoff to Baku to Investigate conditions in the Caucusus. ' . 1 ' " Tslegrame-have been received from Baku Imploring assistance and supplies. aa ths Inhabitants are starving. ' Rioting still continues, but on a smaller scale. In the Zangesurskl district many Ar menian villages have been wiped out. PLASTER COUNTY " .. GAUDY v.- The merits of the Howl cigar, Hanx's 44 varieties and Ooo-Qoo gum will be soon told In bold and flaring letters that will glow from the piers of the bridges spanning the Willamette river. ' For this mode of rnltghenlng a surrerlhg public the county of Multnomah will receive the sum of 1300 a year. In spit of tha fact that the spirit of civic pride has been awakened In Port land and1 a. rruasde begun against bill boards and the defacing of buildings with signs, the commissioners have de cided that "the county needs the money."' Some months sgo1 the announcement was made that Multnomah county waa free from oeDt Attorney .Allen R. Joy last Friday morning offered the county lloa a year tar the use of tha piers for advertising purposes. Joy wished the commissioners to allow , him . to, make a contract fr the use of the nlera fcr' three yeara,' agreeing, to pay ln for the privileges, but it was derided to trylne new order or ininga ror one year. Tne piers sr now painted black, while the dra wrests i i'.. 7 v 'f- the . route,' and that lte ' right-of-way ', men are making .rapid progress. - , , ' Sti. Xrsrey Will Bttewk-Week. C- M." lvey, ' vice-president ' of the . Northern Pacific, ia directing the move ntent 1n person. . lie arrived at Tancou ver Satrday, but kept well out of sight. . He was ' accompanied by Constructing Engineer Bethel and A. O.' Avery of Ta--coma, chief counsel -for- the' Pacific, a viston. - The men avoided ' hotels and their presence was not generally known. Mr. I.evey has given the strictest orders to all agents of the Northern Pacific and the Regulator line that nothing shall be given Out concerning the movements of the company's men. It Is said the Regulator line's agent at Hood River was HiiniiHcu tuoay tvr uixenaing in rule or secrecy. ' , .-'. - . -. Another tralnload of grading equip ment Is hourly expected to arrive at Vancouver. Men are being recruited aa fast as possible for construction work. The company, is reversing the usual or derf letting contracts for tha grading - and bridge work. Engineer Bethel baa taken - personal charge, and the com- . pany's equipment Is being, used. - ' -1 no counirysiae na Deen tnrown into a state of feverish excitement. Parties of--rival railroad' surveyors are- fre quently met, and : men working for rights of way for the rival Intereata are., found negotiating on farms la etc-prexlmUy.-;ft-Sa eaw There to prolr blllty that, violent scenes will be "wh- . kessed if the opposing forces of surve ors meet 8une of the bloodiest fig1 in industrial enterprises have ocean . ' between railroad, forces In atrueclea 1 t possession of contested territory. ' . Bridge Tanooave end Skew's Xslaadl. ' Evidence Is plentiful all along tr route from - Wallula Junction to fc Johns that the Northern Pacific la about ' to throw the whole weight of Its con structing forces into the open field and lay' aside the cloak of. secrecy, under -v which It haa worked for ao long In lsy- ' lng' the elaborate -and carefully con sidered plana for Its" new. entrance .Into Portland. Accommodations for large numbers of men era being provided at various points. jOnt-th Washington side camping outfits are' being hurried , Into the field. ' . -',;' '-.. ' -.! - It- Is said the - long-expected bridge -construction between Vancouver; and. (Continued on Psge Two.) . and hundred's of Inhabitants massacred. The whole Tartar population la In re volt and haa been Joined by S.OOS Kurds and Persians from the Atlas river. - The crisis in Baku has passed and troops are pouring Into the field to suppress further rioting.- In the recent disorders over ao soldiers were killed. - As the result of the execution, Friday, of Kaspshak tha assassin, the workers of all factories In -Warsaw struck to day. Troops patrol tha streets. - Maay arrests have been made.'- 1 ; - Major-Oeneral Organovsky, quarter-.-master-general of L.in!evloh'e staff, has been hamed as plenipotentiary to ar range an armlstlc with Oeneral Fuku- -shlmA, the Japanese representative. -1 BRIDGES WITH & K SIGNS IS PROPOSAL . . '' . ' " are ; not painted. ' When aeked if Jof would be allowed to use the drawrests as backgrounds for his signs. County Judge Webster this morning . stated that he thought these were Included 1 the agreement. : "Piers are used for advertising pur poses In other cities, and why shouldn't we do itr said Judge Webster.. "Wk-n Mr.-Joy made his offer to the coram s sloners he .wanted a contract for a lo -period,, but It wa decided to anly t r It for a year.V The $200 that ths ni will receive for the Mm of the piers V be just like finding that mw r -The piers have been standing t t out bringing in-a cent -of t , . now tbey can be turned l.-.u I . , notr Already many cUlser " 1 J advancing the dvto Ir . 1 have complained rer . 1 sloners' actldn In t state that not only th bridge, tmt the r such a to almost r th Clvlo f rove
