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

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Newspaper Page TextGOOD L10RIIIIIG ' .,- ' THE WEATHER. ,' Increasing cloudiness, with slightly; lower . temperature. 1 Southeasterly' winds. v..- -:: ' v- - VOL. II. NO. 22. PORTLAND; OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER EE.1 ISCSv FOUR SECTIONS FORTY PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE MAZE OF GRAFT .J I" - SSI I 1 J I . j. .. UoMC OHM i .. . ii y i era? 2' ' 'i " ' ' W '' ' ":V-'- . '"v'.' t';--,--"i Kv:,.,;,;,;,:,'--: ; .V-: Cementing of Ties That Biad ..'Inland Empire to Portland t Accomplished by , ?; ' ; j 'Excursion. ' CORDIALLY WELCOMED ; BY PEOPLE OF COLFAX Speeches Made by Representatives of City and Tourists Travelers ' Be come ' Acquainted With . Country ' and Each Other Entire Region Is . Tributary to This Port, : ' . (Special Dwpstrej to The Jaemil.) .... Colfax. Waal-, Oct 2 b The Portland business man's tour of Inland Empire towns closed with a visit to Colfax this afternoon, and tonight, the special train .' Is speeding toward Portland on . Its homeward ' Journey. The trip has been decided success and doubtless, much ' rood to Portland's business Interests j. will result , It remained for Colfasv the county seat of Whttman county, , Washington, the last town visited, to give one of the most enthuslastlo receptions of' the entire tour and the visitors were, de lighted with the reception hers as at all other points visited. - The special reached Colfax at l:t ' o'clock this afternoon and the train was sidetracked. The excursionists marched to the county courthouse," ted .by. the re-;- ceptlon committee. . - W. J. Davenport, mayor of Colfax and cashier of the Bank of . Colfax made ' an address of welcome, to which Oov- . ernor Chamberlain responded. Mayor Davenport was born at SUvorton, Ore gon, and is a oousln of Homer Daven port He has lived tn Colfax l years, but Is still an Oregonian at heart He spoks of the pleasant - business - rela tionship existing between Portland and V Colfax for the third of a century and the remarkable xrowttr thus brought about He said: . , -For IS years after the settlement ; here. Portland was ths starting point for both freight and passengers. The building of th .transcontinental lines has greatly modified conditions, bu the faot remains that the Columbia river Is . the key to the situation, and the. great bulk of the traffic must still seek- the , Portland outlet From points 6 miles west of Colfax, a loaded car can prac tically carry' Itself to Portland by Ms own momentum. The question U not how many cars can an engine haul from -Whitman county to Portland, but how. many it can hold back on a down grade, it la estimated that from two thirds to three fourths of our wheat goes to its market t'a tne t-oiumoi-u north bank line Is completed from . Kennewlck to Portland, who can say but practically all our heavy traffic will go there? It remains for Portland to say whether the products shall' be handled in Portland or pass to the sound cities. A 40-foot channel In the Columbia river would decide the question and that "will and must come.' " Caamberlala's Beepoase. Governor Chamberlain made a happy "response. He declared that Portland Is not Jealous of - Seattle, Tacoma. Or Spokane, as it feels that it has a "cinch on the trade of this country, the only practical route to the sea being down the Columbia river.". (Applause) . He declared: . " "This trip was not made merely for business, for we feel that business must oome to us. but we come here for pleas. ' tire and to get better acquainted with you. We feel that as we have your trade and our business" Interests sre mutual, we must come here and rub elbows with you and put our feet under your tables and accept your hospital ity." ' ' He declared that the flower of Port land business Interests was represented ; by this excursion, which contained rep- (Continued on Page Four.) DROPPING OF TAGGART SCANDAL IS PROTESTED BY ARMY OFFICERS Pigeoh-Holing by General Chaffee of Sensational Charges Are Condemned Want No Dreyfus Case in America- De mand Punishment for (RpwUl Dlapatek by Uastd Wire te The Joaiaal) . Washington, Oct U. Oeneral Chaffee's pigeon-holing, of the charges In the Tag gart ease hssralaed. a howl of protest throughout the army and many officials of prominence have, it is asserted, so plainly stated their views of the matter that the Army and Navy Journal has felt emboldened to cry, "Let this be no treyfus; we do not wast "an . American Dreyfus." . - ! ' . jure Is the editorial It finds general favor In the army. . "The Taggart case has subjected the army to so much criticism that It Is only Just that we should call attention to the fact that publlo opinion In' the army hears that the most unpardonable of all offenses Is that of. leading astray the wife of a brother officer. "The statute of limitations does not run sgalnst publlo opinion, and this will punish, as a whip of scorpion, any offi cer proved guilty of tble detestable and cowardly, act. Three officers wre declared by the Judi. in hi dec:, '.i U lis Ta&art Deranged Woman Puts Her Child to Bed, Turns on Gas and Dies Kneeling in Prayer ' : v at the Bedside. ' BRIBES BOY WITH CAKE " INTO SLEEP OF DEATH Both Found Pead by Other Children ' When They Return for Lunch By Mother' .Side Was a Certificate ol - Her First Communion and Conies- . , -it '' aion and a Religious Picture. (Special tnspatck by Leased Wire to The Journal) New York. Oct L Mentally de ranged slnos the death of her husband, a year, ago, one. ot the .oldest' clock makers la the city, Mrs. Carolina Decher, 40 years of age, today undressed her son Joseph, 1I years old, put hint-to bed,-turned 'On the gas, pulled down the shades at the wmaowa and knelt by the aids, of .the bed sad awaited death. Her home was at the rear of the fourth floor of an apartment house at 1101 Third avenue Two - hours later her son, Bernard, after pounding on the door of the apart ment on returning home for luncheon from a store in the neighborhood where ue is vmpioyva. Durai iu ma uuur ioa found, hts .mother, dead, stretched out on the floor by the side of the bed. His little brother was also dead. By the aide 'Of her . dead, .son the mother - had placed the certificate of her first com munion and ' confession. Issued in Ger many ia-117. and in his hand she had placed, .a. .Catholic plctua bearing a colored picture of St Matthews, which bore the following -quotation: ."He that shall teach shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Blessed Ibertus Magnus." , ' . Vote to ate Zteughte. - Standing e ana Jnat eberarlter own bead ss she lay en the floor, was little glass- covered mahogany cabinet containing a green wax cross which had been placed on the casket pf her hus band, on the table er tns dining-room of the little apartment the mother had left a note to her daughter. Emily, aged 14. who also Is employed in a cigar fac tory. - It was as follows: "Dear Emily: I have taken Joseph. Tou and Bernard can take care of your selvesk I am at fault ' My children are Innocent of any wrong-doing. My son Bernard la. a good boy and earns an honest living. ! dearly- love my boy josie end cannot leave him behind. -1 am taking .all upon my own responsi bility, -v- MOTHER." The mother had undressed pertly be fore turning on the gas. According to neighbors the mother went to the street to find her little son at 11 o'clock. She took him to a bakeshop and bought square of a cake of a sort of ' which he was fond and half a dosen crullers. Together they returned to their home. - On the table by the side of the note wss found the remnants of the cake and a f sw of the crullers. . :,. . Bribed Soa With Cake. ' It Is believed by the police that the mother bribed the little fellow with the cake to undress snd go to' bed snd that she waited until he was asleep before she' opened the gas Jet . . After he had -taken one horrified glance at the bodies,. Bernard Decher rushed out of the house and found Po liceman Bauer et the East Sixty-seventh street station. An ambulance call to the Presbyterian hospital was sent in but the surgeon could do nothing. While the horror-stricken son was absent his sis ter reached the 'house. On his return they thew themselves over the bodies of their mother end brother. The police men in charge had to lift them from the bodies. . - ." Her son, Bernard, half erased with grief, was refused permission to stay at home for the day. but had to remain at work. - Dishonoring Home. case, to have been guilty, of dishonoring the home of their brother officer. With out seeking to determine here the ques tion of guilt or Innocnce, It is obvious that high . positions and influential con nections should avail no mora to shield them than similar : circumstances did to shield Captain Oherlln M. Carter. "Now is the time to show that this Is no Dreyfus case, that when ths Judi cial decision Is In his favor. the men who wronged him and showed by-doing so that' they are unfit to be officers, will be as sternly prosecuted ss taggart would have been had the decision been adverse to hire. ... "The scandal has been done. It only remains to deal with ths matter so thor oughly, so promptly, soK effectively, as to be a notice to ths general public and to those who are restrained by obliga tions of morality or honor that ths army will not tolerate- such acta as those recited by -the Judge In the esse as basis for Vine decision. . "ia wT Hs honor for the honor able1 to shirk that duty la te dishonor the service an4 every, man la IU' HARRIftlAII WILL SPEND $700,000 FOR 30 STEEL BRIDGES IN OREGON : Modern Dock and Shop Machinery, Heavy Rails, Twelve Large Compound Locomotives and Oil Burning Equipment ' Figure in Improvements to Cost Millions.' 'j. ' X steel derrick and electrle conveyer of IS' tons -capacity on the new Alblna dock the first modern equipment of Its kind in the Pacific northwest an elec tric traveling crane in the new Alblna shops, . to new steel bridges between Portland and Ashland and new 10-pound rails ths entire - distance, heavy new steel bridges over all streams between Portland and Umatilla, 11 new monster compound looomotives similar to that exhibited at the exposition, oil burning equipment on all heavy locomotives run ning into Portlajid-i-theae are some of the great things on the list of improvements Involving large expenditures of money to be mnde by the Hariimaa lines with in the next IS months. Together with construction of the Rl- parla-Lewlatmr1ine, the new road from Drain to Marshneld, the exenslon from Elgin to Wallowa and completion of the large additions to the Alblna shop plant the Improvements named will call for expenditure of many millions of dol lars in Oregon bx the Harnman unes WIFE CAUSES LOSS BY FEAR OF HUSBAND'S INSANITY (Spedat Dlapatek by Leased Wire te The Joaraal) New York, Oct. Zl. "Jorssnire iu Wins st II to B." i But C E. Hungerford, a wealthy com mission merchant who had 140.000 to bet on the horse, was locked up In Belle rue before - he could put his money down. This is a story of how a wire s fear for her husband's sanity caused him to lose SHS.OOO. , This fear was based on the strange conduct of Mr. Hunger ford, who sat up all night Friday to study a , series or figures which looked strange te hts wife, who had , never before jeeni'.what la known on the racetrack" as the "dope sheet." When Mr. Hurfgerford oame down to breakfast today ha seemed ner vous ana exnausiea. out' loia win that he. had a tip which would put them on. "easy "street ror ine-resi 01 ineir lives, lis naa siuaiea n i ms"w told hee, and It was a "surs win." He GRAVE DANGER AS "OFFICIALS PROTECTING ASSASSIN (Special Dlapateh by Leased Wire to Toe Joeraal) Havana, uct. Auxnoniies ners nave been officially notified that there is grave danger of serious troubles In Clen fuegos, grpwlng out of ths killing of Congressman Enrique YUluendas. Many persons In town are seemingly convinced that the administration Is determined to protect thoes concerned In the desth of the Liberal leader, and the feeling grows more bitter as the tsklng of testimony progresses.' Senator Alfredo Zayas and Henreaentatlve Florenclo 'VllluendaS to day called on the secretary of the gov ernment,. Senor Freyre ds Andrande. to ask him 'to take steps for ths protection eX Uie attorns. x ths YUlueoaaa, par How Can the Poor Man in in ths closing months of 1I0S and the year 190f. : The ruling powers In the Harrlman companies some months ago -determined upon an .aggressive campaign in this state, and now have it fairly , Inaugu nate& The work was begun under General Manager Calvin's direction, and the Q. R. A N. lines west of Pendleton were thoroughly .. rebuilt new steel bridges put in to replaco old culverts, and track straightened and ballasted. Next came the beginning of reconstruc tion on the Southern Pacific lines from Ashland northward. Old rails were taken up and 80-pound rails took their place as far north as West Fork. This work Is-to be pushed on to 'Portland, and under the direction of General Man ager J. P. O'Brien the large plans of the consolidated companies ars to reach full fruition. - .When It came to buying long-needed equipment and rolling stock Mr. Harrl man. sdopted the -most modern types. (Continued on. Page Two.)""1 OF FORTUNE left the house intending to bet at least 1 40.000 on Yorkshire Lad In the second race at Jamaica.' Mrs. Hungerford was on the verge of a nervous collapse when her husband left the house. She called - Michael J. Foley, a nurse ' who had . attended Mr. Hungerford during a recent -illness, sent him out to find her husband and have him arrested and taken to a hospital to have his mind examined. - , Foley followed Mr. Hungerford. saw him go Into a bank where he has an account and then followed him to sev eral Wall street offices, where he disap peared. At last he started for Jersey dty, where he keeps his auto. - At the ferry Foley had the prospective plunger arrested, telling Policeman Bishop that the man was temporarily deranged. Magistrate Finn sent Mr. Hungerford to Bellevue for examination.' Mrs. Hungerford believes her husband's con dition to be due to overwork. CUBANS SEE Ocularly ef Senor Manuel' Secadcs, coun sel for - Vllluendas. . , v The family of Senor Secedes, who has Just declined . the nomination for con gress, hss been repeatedly - threatened with desth. Senor Freyres said hs would give special orders to the rural guards to protect Senor 'Secades. The editor of a Havana newspaper. El Mundo, Which printed a long list of crimes, hss also received several threats of assassi nation. The revelations thus far have tended to inflame the populace, spreading the Idea that the authorities are determined lo suppress all facts not detrimental te the Liberal cause end will give coun teaa&oe te furtAer bloodshed, j- , ' " , . ;' A' Ary" the Middle Get Out Alive? BILLIONAIRE GRAFTERS PREPARING FOR ; GIGANTIC LEGAL BATTLE Insurance Investigation to Be Followed by 6truggfe to Keep the Loot-Crimes That May Be Charged Based on Admis- . sions Secured in the Insurance Inquiry. (SpeeUlIMspates by Leased Wire to The Joaraal) New York. Ot ItThe investigation of Insurance scandala by ths New .York legislature Is to be followed, by present Indications, by the most gigantic lrral battle the world has aver seen. O rafters whose united fortunes run Into the bil lions will, if plans do not miscarry, be defendants In suits brought by ths attorney-general and by the district at torney to force tbem to disgorge the vast sums stolen from the- premium payers. Millionaire perjurers will faoe Indictment for falsely testifying before the Investigating committee while . un der oath. ...... . i Y-i. Kaay Crimes Committed. The crimes with which the grafters of fortunes from Insurance funds may be charged are grand larceny, perjury, forgery, embesslement snd fraud.. All of these crimes have been testi fied to. or have been shown clearly In the testimony, produced st ths sessions of the investigating committee, ' It will be on thess charges that the multi-millionaires, the powers who . nils Wall PASSER OF WORTHLESS CHECKS IS CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS Detected last night In ths act of try. Ing to pass a worthless check for 172.60 on the Eastern Outfitting company after be had bunkoed another firm of 141.60, C Wilson wss placed under arrest by Acting Detective Scallen. On the way to the police station Wilson threw away three checks signed with the names of the proprietors of the Oregon- Brass foundry. They were recovered and will be held as evidence against him. AU are signed "A. J. Prter. Bros.." and are payable to. "Foreman C, Wilson." Wil son had I1S0 when arrested. Entering a Front street furniture store, Wilson bought furniture worth 1100. He agreed to psy 130 on his purchase and -make monthly payments of t20 for the rest He directed that ths furniture be sent to 153 Tenth street. Presenting a check on. the Portland Trust company for 17X60. hs wss given $42.60 In change. When the check was taken to the bank ! It was pronounced worthless. It had i SMALL FINDS ELOPING WIFE : . , - AFTER TWO YEARS' SEARCH (Special Dlapateh by Leased Wire to Toe JponaU . Point Richmond, Cat. Oct; 21 After searching mors than two frears for his wife . V B. Small of Oswego, Oregon, found her last night ip a hotel in Point Richmond with Frank Grant. - In the fight that resulted ho cut ths back of nts hsnd on Grant's teeth, four ot which he knocked out ef hla' mouth. . An U Inch pistol with which he had Intended to shoot Orant was taken from htm. Orxnt and Mrs.: Small were arrested on felony charges sworn to by Small and ars at present In Jail at Martinet. Small was srrested on a chares of bat tery, but was released on his own re cognisance. According to the story told by Snail, CI rant, known aa Frank Stlce, street snd ths financial destlnlss of this country, msy be tried. The - law holds that the directors of any Insurance company are the trustees and it is further held by the law. that ths trustees are prohibited from making money through funds held In their trus teeship. Under this law all pf ths di rectors of ths three big life insurance companies, the Equitable, New York Life and Mutual Life, are responsible for the money msde by themselves and their fellow-directors In syndicate deals in the purchases and sales of stocks and bonds of which they bold sn Interest 'The juggling by New York Life di rectors of the stock of ths New York Security A Trust company, by which It was boomed from fits a ahsre to 11,100 a share and then sold to the directors for IS00 a share. Is a case in point McCurdy and other directors and officials of the Mutual Ufa, In their dealings with ths Morristown Trust company, la snothsr case of ths same (Continued on Page Two.) ths name of ths Portland Wire A Steel works stamped on Its-face, was drawn In favor of ''Foreman C. Wilson,' snd purported to be signed by a member of the firm. - . . Wilson was held on a charge of pass ing, forged checks. He says he Is s cook and came here from Denver only two days ago. . Detective Hart man found In -Wilson's room at Itl Seventh street stamps and perforator used in preparing bogus checks as well as a bullseye lantern and a revolver- . - Wilson passed at the lodging-house under the name of Cramer but letters sent him from -the east, tend to ahow that hla.nsme is Arthur Le Osrde. A trunk, two telescope baskets and a suit esse wss crammed full of effects. Wilson admitted that - yesterday he passed a forged check on Gray's cloth ing store, Morrison street near Fourth, for 117.60. . - . ........ - I served a sentence In the Oregon peni tentiary for cattle stealing. In Au gust. 1101, Small saya, Orant Induced Mrs. Small te-leave .her husband and their four children. Small left horns In pursuit and has gone from one town te another. Yesterday he saw his wlfs In Oakland, but she saw him almost ss soon and dodged Into it millinery store and out through a side ceor eluding him. Mrs. Small, he says, sold an Interest In community property In Oawegn. with the result that title te the place is now Clouded. v Mrs. Small admitted that she had eloped fr" i Or-n with Orant but e cunM hf - l-y act-using her hus band ot : t ten - Says Editor of Oregonian, While ' Member of Water Board, Was Guilty of Practices V v ; - He Now Condemns. ' INCONSISTENCY OF f ; V PAPER IS PROVED ,..! t. - ! ' Oregonian a Year Ago Commended , Board for Letting Contract to the ; Oregon Iron : & Steel vCornpany' Resolutions ' Adopted Yesterday Reconsidering Former Action, ' ' ' Harvey W Scott, editor of the Ore gonlan. waa rebuked In scathing terms by Mayor Lane, at the meeting of the ' city water board yesterday afternoon. The mayor declared that Scott while- a member of the water board, had been . guilty of ths vsrjr practices which he has recently been condemning through the columns ef hts paper, and declaring Illegal. Extracts from the Oregonlaa) were read by the mayor, showing the In consistency, of its utterances. . ' At a recent meeting of the water board a contract for Iron pipe amounting te 1162.000 waa let to the Oregon Iron Steel company. W. M. Ladd. the presi dent of the "toTnpariy, was then a mem ber of the water board, . though he has : since, resigned.- The Oregonian' at- r tacked the water board on the ground that its action was illegal. In view of the charter provision that no city offi cial shall be Interested tn the letting of any city contract ' Mayor Lane severely criticised Harvey Scott saying that the editor had him self participated In- precisely similar acts by the water board when he waa a member. ..; w , ;.. :; , ' X1 . . OaOa Seett fcMomststeai - "I believe the criticism of the Ore- goalaa r-gard!g"the Interpretation of section 1S&. of the charter Is wsll taken.' said the mayor, "but In my mind Mr. Scott Is Inconsistent He was 'formerly a member of this water boatd and par ticipated In Just such contracts ss he is criticising -this board :for entering into". ... . i -,. . 7" T When Scott' wss a member' ef '.the ' water board the-present city charter waa not in' force, but a state law made It illegal for municipal officials to be Interested in city contracts. Neverthe- . less Scott sanctioned by hla vote a una . ber of contracts which were la violation of this law. Mayor Lane alluded te this, and aa a further Illustration of the ' editor's inconsistency; hs sdded: ' .' Semttaseat a Tsar Age. ". "A year ago Scott wrote an editorial commending the water board for award- ' Ing a contract for pipe to the Oregon Iron de Steel company of this city, when an eastern firm was the lowest bidder. This Is what he said: " The Oregonian . think that publlo opinion will sanction the award of wa ter pipe contracts to be filled in Pert land aa aaalnat the east. : A aood war not to build cities Is to send away for . things that can be mad at home. Cer tainly no exorbitant bid should be ae cepted, but quits aa certainly this is not necessary, even If fresh bids have to be called for. The matter of 7,90 to tt.OOe In wages Is not te be despised. Besides there is a principle to be ob served." .- . ., ... ,, ',. ' Xwyer Caen-red Xet-kL .. . The mayor said that tn view of sec tion 16 of the charter there had al ways been a question in his mind as to : the legality of awarding a contra ot tn the Oregon Iron Steel company, of which W. M. Ladd, -a member of the water board, waa president - He- had. taken up the matter with hla legal ad visers, snd one of the beet attorneys In the city had declared that the board- could award contracts to the. local firm. Acting on this advice the contract had been awarded, but the day following the action of the board the aams attorney had Informed him that he had arrived at the . conclusion, after studying the charter, that the action of the board was illegal. "Although there Is still a difference ot opinion among - the - members of this -board regarding this matter, continued, the mayor, "I am of the opinion that the sctlon of this body in awarding the contract for pipe to the Oregon Iron a " Steel - company , was illegal, notwith- . standing that Judge Williams, who was attorney general In Oram's cabinet de cided otherwise. I wish we had dona what we are doing today week ago. We might have avoided all this trouble." . ' Fetr-aer Aettoa Mselnded. - ' The sctlon of the former meeting In awarding the contract for $163,000 worth, of east Iron pips to the Oregon Iron Si 8teel company wss reconsidered ny unsnlmous vote on adoption ef ths fn lowing ' resolution. Introduced by Dr. Joseph 1: ...... . k ' ; v . "Whereas,. Doubt hss been e t upon the validity of a contract to tJVnlsh caat-lron pipe. If entered lnt.1, fc , h upon the vote of the board, October I. 1&. awarding the sams to live Ore- t Iron at Steel company, for the r- t that Mr. William M. Ladd waa then a member ef this board (though ha to -no part In tta deliberations nor dUi he . vote upon the question of award), snd wss at the same time a member of the corporation -whose bid was sreeptedj therefore. ; "Resolved. That the vote by whl"-h the contract te fprntnh rest-Iron pipe waa swsrded t-e -on I " A (.! ; company be. no r AU I , All bids for f tion of 0orr aediior waa i blda ff east! he decided 1 perror tn , . 'V I I.