The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, October 26, 1905, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textli . 71 i I -2 . -v ' . . ' ! . .v. , -rr rr-z u GOOD EVENING .. '"-j-v THE WEATHER.; ,:, C j' 1 , ' ' '- I '-; .; Fair tonight with light frost; Fri . day fair; northerly winda. ; Journal Circitlcn Yesterday Was .' VQL. IV. NO. 201. PORTLAND, OREGON, . THURSDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 28, 1905. SIXTEEN P AGEJL PRICE TWO CENTS SyaSOTn'r. mm OFFICERS OF THE LAW SWOOP DOWN UPON JAPANESE . - 111 R-j f I I Ik I f- I 1 V f in L. II II I a II k. I I 1 A I J I J I j V I 1 1 I J I I JP Jf lllfJf I I- I . P JJK . it it w . mi I k : -av - . it li ir if ST" am a vt s am w a"" - . ' . . i jss- t-. isaw i -w ' ' ' ' . . ' '. ' ' ' 1 " ."' ' . ,,11 .1 ., , I H.,1 , II. ' JAPCL0SWERV 0UsSLE BV Word and Two Deputies Arrest Those Conducting Drawing of : Japanese Art Admirers' C 'C Society at Fair. ;: FIGHT IS : NARROWLY AVERTED BY ARRESTS Angry Women Preparing " to Mob , Clerks When Officers AppearFair Officials Condemned for Indorsing : Scheme Which Had Been Pro nounced Fake by Leading Orientals - " 8hrlff 1 Word with two ' deputies . swooped dowh upon the little Japanese booth In Twenty-sixth street, opposite the main entrance to the exposition rounds, thia morning and, with the ar ' rest of three clerks,, atopped the opera tions or the Society or Japanese Art Ad' mlrera. There were about SO women In the place when the raid was made this morn Ins. They wept and pleaded that their names be withheld by the sherirr and that they might eacape arrest. . How ever, they consented to testify against the promoters of the lottery scheme that has separated thouannds of Port land's prominent cltlsens from -TSrlous email sums. . - ,, -" One woman offered to give the sheriff , her .chances In the lottery game If she were. not. arreatea. .jt.nomer utmui; pleaded that her husband had always ob ' Jected to her seeking liches through .. such schemes snd It would cause her end les trouble If he .knew she was present when the raid was msde. ; ' ; Tsoee Asssstsa. t: . . - Three' Japanese, clerks' were arrested by the sheriff and his deputies. They gave the names of 8. Haljash, T.'Aka wsch snd T. Matsuda. Warrants are belnc prepared for the errest of the pro moters of the society, who will be taken- tnto custody this afternoon. Efforts are belag made by the of ficers to And who is really responsible for the operation of the lottery. The clerks were simply employes and the promoters sr ijelieved to have been set Ing In the interest of others who for various reasons refused to permit the 'use of their names In the transaction. In that connection severe criticism Is being made against . certain fair of flclala who are said to have assisted In the manipulation. Denunciation of John A. Wakefield, director of concessions, is severe. - . . ' "If It hadn't been for thst letter Mr. ; (Continued oar Page Four.) . - RATE GONVEHTION RAILROAD ..lEIl Delegates to Regular Convention Compelled to Sign Pledge Sup porting President Roosevelt's Policy Corporation . 'Supporters Start Rump Convention. (leorasl Special Brrrlr. ) Chicago. Oct. S. The rival railroad . rate regulation conventions met today. Owing to rumors that the railroads would try to packr the convention and , adopt a policy in opposition to that of ' the administration, all delegates were asked to sign a pledge binding them selvea to support Roosevelt's recommen dations. The "revolutionists" or rail road wing, headed by F. C Klesel. went to the regular convention, but were re fused seats unless they bound them selves to pledges This they- declined to do, snd Klesel ltd his followers from Stelnwsy hall to the Auditorium annex. ' where a rump convention was organised. Several thousand delegates from all parts of the I'nlon. representing com mercial and industrial organisations, ' forming ths regular convention, were welcomed by Mayor Dunne and listened to addresses by R. W. Illgby of the Na tional Wholesale Dealers'' sssoclntlon of Nsw York, and C. E. T. .Campbell, former railway commissioner of Iowa. E. P. Bacon of Milwaukee, who called MANY NEGROES SEEK PRISON THAT BLEACHES THEM WHITE (Jnarsst Speelal Bervtce.) Macon. Mo,. Oct.-24. A. new horror has developed from the distressing con ditions In the local Jail, known as "the ruins." It bleaches negroes white. When he first detected this Sheriff Graves smiled a out ha doesa't see the Joke now. He has get a full house of Senegsmbtans. ostensibly held for erapshootlng. but In reality tsklng treat ment for complexion. tVhea "frog-lye" Dafa was 'rslesssd, ":; ' Ten Oshkosh -Men . Fall Into Hands of 4. W. Carnder and W. H. McCfossen i : Timber Deal. in DECEIVED BY FALSE BLAZINGS ON TREES United States Takes a Hand, Investi- ' gating the Operations of the Pair in Southern Oregon Worthiest . Tracts Sold as Valuable Timber Land.' I ' ; Ten residents of Oshkosn. Wisconsin, Who came to Oregon two weeks ago expecting to gather In rich timber lands for. a fraction of their value, have re turned to their homes, sadder, wiser snd poorer by over 13,000. They were the easy victims of a ring of timber sharks who are actively carrying on their fraudulent operations, apparently undeterred by the recent prosecutions and convictions In the federal courts. J. W. Gardner and W. H. McCrossen, timber locators of jthls flty.. were the prime .movers In the bunko , game . by which the easterners -were bitten, snd H. Hartshelm of Oehkoeh shared in -the loot, although he was afterward forced to 'disgorge. ' Gardner1 .and McCrossen are old. hands at the game, and leas than a year ago they .were Indicted for violation of the land .la wetland bt hi pleaded guilty, escaping with a fins. 1 'V Bog-as Blaalags. The frauds were accomplished by meana of falsa "witness trees", biased by the swindlers on valuable timber lands. Selecting some . quarter section of heavily timbered land they wovld blase on a . tree the description of an ' Un claimed quarter section, and the btase would' then be carefully smeared with dirt to give If the appearance of age. The would-be timber owners were then brought out. shown the false description on the biased tree and then taken 'to the nearest land office, where they - filed their claims. ,' The. land they had seen wss of course heavily timbered, but the land described In their filings might not have so much as a sapling on It- . The authorities are In possession of evidence thst Gardner and McCrossen have been operating on an extensive scale, and the latter la now la southern Oregon with a party of nine, who are expecting him to locate them on valu able timber lands. Within the past three or four weeks a number of per sons In this city .have been approached (Continued on Page Two.) SPLITS IN TWO. FORCED OUT ' the meeting, opened the session snd de livered an address. In which hs ex plained the object of the meeting and the Importance of Its action In Impress ing congress with the necessity of pass ing laws extending the power .of the interstate commerce commission. In ac cordance with the recommendation con tained In President Roosevelt's message to congress. . In his last annual message President Roosevelt -recommended: ' 'The Inter state commerce commission should be vested with the power, where a given rate has been challenged snd. after a full hearing found to be unreasonable, to decide, subject , to Judicial review, what shall be the reasonable rate to take. Its place; the ruling of the com mission taking effect Immediately, and to obtain unless and until It la reversed by the court of review." , r The conference will seek to"' a roues publlo Interest In the movement and to exert sufficient pressure upon congress to bring about the passage . of the de sired laws. , ,- the Macon officer looked at the man- ha wsa parting with, sad rr the first time observed that the mulatto sad lightened so as to make his race In deaht The sheriff then noticed that Lacy Williams had turned distinctly pale, under no more exciting casa than darkneoat, ' . .When the news got down to the cool ramps, southland negroes began plead ing guilty to erapshootlng oven before they were questioned. The sheriff let li coma In. and then eloaod -tie shop, - Three Views of Richard A. McCurdy, President of Mutual Life, Who Has Appointed W. H- Truesdale, E. B. Morris and J. W. Auchinclosa 1 16 Investigate His Company' Affairs. , SIX LIVES LOST HOTEL FIRE Flimsy Lodging House at Little ' Rock Coes Up in Flames ' Early This Morning. MANY ROOMERS INJURED i LEAPING FROM WINDOWS All Who Escaped Were Clad Only in Their Night Clothes Three' Bodies Recovered Burned Beyond Recog nition. - J . 1 (Jooroal BpecUl Berrlce.) J Hot Springs. Ark, Oct. 24. At least six persons perished in a fire 1 which early this morning destroyed the Pacific House, a cheap lodging-house, snd tt Is believed that several others met death In the flames.' - Six bodies' have been re covered and the charred embers have not yet cooled sufficiently to allow thor ough search. .' Th firs broke out from an unknown cause, supposed no bs defective wiring, st S o'clock snd the flimsy structure wss a massjof flames before the fire de partment arrived. Several heroic res cues were mae, of lodgers who had been overcome by. smoke, 'by the firemen. 1 - The butldlng'-weVUotally destroyed to gether with the belongings of 35 lodg ers. Among those of the Identified dead are: ''-.. - R. I Mann, railroad conductor, Den ver. Harry Bradley, waiter. Hot Springs. Mrs. Msck and her Infant son. Three bodies will probsbly never be Identified. They are burned, to a crisp. The hotel kept no register. ' The room ers In the second, story Jumped snd sev eral were badly Injured. " Fred Owerson was dangerously burned. All who t-senped were clad only tn night clothing snd were housed in the city Jail where raiment was donated by cltlsens. An Inquest Is sitting this after noon. ; ' . ; "; BRUTAL FOOTBALL IS . TABOO, SAYS ELIOT (Joaraal gpsdsl gerricaj . , Boston, Mass., Oct." 3. President Eliot of Harvard has demanded that brutality and unnecessary roughness cease In the football games played by the,' Harvard teams or thst football It self be eliminated. At the Tale-Harvard game next month. Eliot will sit on the side lines and criticise the play. . . 1'pow "slugging." kneeing," face slap ping or polling hair, he .will forthwith recommend Utat the corporation of Har vard cease to participate in Intercol legiate football. The corporation could undoubtedly so vote, and football, with Harvard left out, would receive a stun ning. If not a knockout blow. ' President Eliot la Da warm friend of football.1 His reports"' ere' frequently hostile, but he has yielded to publlcj opinion. In the present resolve he Is backed by President Rnosevett and In fluential members of the faculty and - 7 - . 1 FR0I.1 Sl'IIIiG CAUSES DEATH Son of W. J. Cook Dies Suddenly a Week' After . Being Thrown From Flying Dutchman - .injuries are' Fatal For Days No Serious Result Wai Ex- pected .From - Accident and End Came as Great Shock to the Boy's Mother. - " ' Thrown from a "flying Dutchman," the crude form of whirling swing which boys construct by means of a plonk and a stump, James F. Cook, a 12-year-old lad. lies dead at the family home on Kllllngsworth avenue. He waa a son of W. J. Cook, a well-known railroad promoter, who arrived home this morn ing from eastern Oregon on the first train after receipt of the news of his son's death. - i The accident occurred a week ago, on the grounds of the school attended by young Cook.- With other boys, hs waa playing with the swing, when he was thrown to the ground with considerable violence, alighting on hla head and shoulders. He was able to walk to his home, several blocks distant. For a week he continued to be out every day, but was not welL A doctor wss called last Tuesday afternoon, as tha boy seemed to be growing worse. .An ex amination did not reveal any more 'se rious Injuries than a dislocated shoulder and a bruise On tha head. That night the lad waa suddenly stricken with in tense pains internally, and died before morning. Hla death In attributed to in temal Injuries received by the fall from the swing.' Ths funeral will be held tomorrow morning, with services st -IS o'clock at St. Mary's church, and Interment at Rivsrview cemetery... ' Bus slam fStoeks 9rov ' ( Jsarul Ssertal 8rl. ' New York, Oct 2. Russian strike news caused Russian stocks to have a serious drop on the Parts Boorse today. In London. Russian imperial ' fours dropped a point to 2. ' ' ' IT SUITS YOUR TASTE ; . THE'SUNDAY JOURNAL ' . ; r r ; -, , - , S Ton "can't buy a magaslns that covers any Wider Held than' a) S the 'handsomely Illustrated color,' section of The Sunday. Journal., If you cure for -good ' fiction ; e) e you've got the best on the tnar-- e k't there,.. If yow have as Idea. .of building's home, the opinion.', e) 4 nl in expert architect ' with , e plans complete.drawn to scale,. e ready for the builder-are there. ' , along with exact nsures ss to ; 4 cost. If yon have any children1 4 you can get three pages of the het runny pictures .ever turned out the same handsome colored 4 pictures you buy for s dollar or so In book form sjt Christmas.. .mm - "S sm i aswn isn IS. -in. si an i i. n l i.a .as WHEAT; PIT SCENE 10f FLURRY Indications Are That Price Be of '.Year Ago 4Will; ... . Exceeded. ' RUSSIA'S TROUBLES PARTLY RESPONSIBLE Strike Has Stopped All Grain Ship ments From . Czar's ' Domains for Present and Winter Win ' Soon Close Ports for Many Months. : . i , (Speelal Dtsfwtch to The Joaraal.) Chicago, Oct, 2. Lost year waa a memorable period In the memory- of wheat traders, but If ths indications of today count for aoght history will re- pest itself snd' then go tha pace of a year ago one better.-'3"'- . " The present flurry In the wheat pit ls due 'to various causes, the principal of these being .the internal troubles in the Russian empire atopplng all grain Strlpments from, that country 'for the season, for If the tie-up lasts but a short time it will bo of sufficient .duration, to keep supplies from , being . exported. After that tha elements will do tha rest. Winter Is fast getting Its clutch on the Russian ports and they will soon be icebound. ' This will stop shipments. Today's .wheat msrket In this city was sensational In the extreme. The bulla were helped In thatr work by the sensational - advances In Liverpool, the December option there showing a rise todsy of Td while the March option closed Id higher. In the local pit the cloae showed rise of 14 cents tn the December option. The most strength waa in tha latter options.., the rise In the May amounting to i cents snd on the July 1 cents. Miiwauseo snowed tne soma gain In both options. Armour hss been the principal op erator In the market and bis aids have been persistent buyers of the wheat on every sign-of a break m'tho price.- The' fact . that Germany and France have bought very heavily of wheat and flour tn the American markets of lata has been Sv great factor tn shaping the present tone here. Oriental demand for flour Is almost a record breaker and mills all ottv tha country ' are already filled to overflowing with erdera and fresh ones are being offered even sfter the market has hown a good-slsed ad vance In the price. j igateea lMvoreo (fatta, " . ' Tspatfc.1 Utapetrk Je The JssrMl.) Salem. Or.. Oct. , t. The , docket for Judge. Galloway'o court," which will-be convened In this- city next Monday, has been completed by foonty Clerk Roland. Eighteen of tha 0 esses srs divorce suits , . - ' . DISTANCE JOT IF Portland Merchants Could Get AlaskaTrade If They Wanted i It, Say Business Men ; Need Steamer Line; v WHOLESALE HOUSES HANDICAPPED NOW Unable to Compete With Seattle Be : cause Latter City, With Ship Run ning to Northland, Has Advantage ; Steamship Line .for Portland Urged by Leading Business Men. Portland Is the center of traffic In foodstuffs for ths whole Pacific coast. afld for alt practical business purposes Is as close -to "Alaska as any coast city of considerable sise, and still has -no steamship line oonectlng her with , the vast stretch of cosst country between Skagwsy and Nome. ' Some of the mer chants of this city are beginning to ask '"What is Portland going to do to get Into Alaska trade in the spring of l0r v;. ' Prom a small district about Noma I7.SOO.000 tn gold is being produced an nually. The greatest anthracite coal de posits In tha world lie In the Kayak, dis trict, and railroad ore now being pro jected from . the coast - Into, the coal fields Capitalist are preparing to de velop the great' -copper deposlta bock of Valdesv ,.Ai railroad under construction from Seward to the Interior shortly will carry a larga population into that dis trict, where perniarieht -mining interests ara being developed.. All these ports srs as close to Portland ss to Seattle. , - IMstsaoe Mo Barrier. The trade problem is not governed by distance. Were tn-. a vital factor the cltlea of Victoria, Vancouver and Ever ett, all transcontinental railroad ter minals, would forge shead of Seattle. "It la a question of business enter prise snd push," said a local steamship agent yesterday, discussing the situa tion. "If Portland buatneas men will support a steamship line they can get one. It will te necessary to go into the work In an organised way. snd pre pared to push .It st a loftstior the first few months. But the ultimate rewards In business with Alaska will be great" The last boat from Seattle for Nome this season left - 4.000 tons of freight lying on the Beetle docks, consigned to Noma merchants. Five ships left Beat tie within four days for Nome, and all of them were loaded to the limit The Portland agent of ths Pacific Coast Steamship company waa unable to . get space for a small shipment of 1,800 pounds of machinery. The - boat leav- Continued on Page , Seven.) ELLIOT F; SHEPARD FOR KILLING Nephew of Vanderbitt Found Guilty of Manslaughter In Parisian .. Court for RuVining Over Girl While Automobilino: r j Heavy Damages for Victim's Parents. f . (Jeerast Speelal Strvtes.) ,t . Paris Oct St. Elliot F. Shcpard. Jr.," k. American son of tha lata Colonel Elliot F. Shepard and grandson of the late William K. Vanderout, was louna guilty this morning on the charge of manslaughter, causing tha death on August" It of a 11-year-old gtrl. over whom Shepard's automobile ran. He was sentenced' to three months' Im prisonment without a respite snd ordered to psy a One. of 100 francs and costs., while an award of 20.000 francs was made in favor of tha child's par ents, this to be paid Jointly by Bhepard HUSBAND FINDS MISSING WIFE : f- IN HEADLESS BODY OF BRONX . (Jenrnal SperUl SerTW.) 4, New York. Oct 2. Ths hesdleas woman found tn the Bronx river by some boys waa Identified today by Gottlieb Muller of Morris Fsr ss thst or bis wife, Eva, who disappeared in April laat. Muller aald that on thst day hit wife sold to Andrew Schwermsnn, th policeman, a -truck farm In Williams bridge. ........ Muller,;hls wits snd rlchwermann went to the ha of record l.t JS'ew York City to have the deed to the ronerty trans ferred. After the V-'einess wsa com r 1 the men we t I is s; -n. where t lac -I . ' I tn ; L.. at . - '.. j i. . , ALL REVOLT St. Petersburg Has Appearance of a Beleaguered City Tre-! poff . Is pivern Su- . preme Command. ANARCHISTIC MEETINGS : ON WARSHIPS AND FORT Revolutionists Hold Meeting on Bat tleship Katherine Rioting, md . Street Fighting in Many Cities. Southern Russia in Open Defiance Chaos in Caucasus. ., ',. Chicago. Oct 2. (Bulletin) A Daily News special cable from St. Petersburg says that news comes from tha palace of Peterhof that - tha ' cxar haa signed a constitution granting liberty of the f press, freedom" of speech, freedom of worship snd equsl rights to; all cltlsens. Wltte has been appointed premier. It is expected that a manifesto will be pro mulgated today. If this does wrt-estab lish peace, martial law will .bo de clared throughout tha empire. At Sevastopol it is reported tha battle ship Patellmon, formerly the Kniaa Potemkln, has been destroyed by incen diaries. The Patellmon left laat night after the rest of the fleet had sailed, ' under direct, command of the minister of 'marine, supposedly to force Turkey to grant the demaiids of the powers for action , regarding Macedonian finances.. ! (Joorsst Special Servles.) ; St Petersburg. Oct 20. About 4.00S troops sre ready for emergency' at a moment'a notice, - Tha streets srs full of Idle men, though there have been no clashes yet The police have been in structed to engage In no controversies unless It Is absolutely necessary. Stu dents tried to create disorder, bat were unable to Incur tha enmity of' tha po lice. : Strikers sre in control st Kursk. They mads a demand on officials of tha local government to cease work snd the . officials obeyed. Such a surrender . on the part of Russian officials la without precedent It Is rumored thst tha cxar Is to grant a constitution and grant tha Industrial, but not political, demands and permit the freedom of the presa. (Joensl Special Sn-Tlre.) -St Petersburg. Oct St. This place) has ths appearance of a beleaguered city. General Trepolf commando. An Imperial order places upon him the responsibility for the safety of the city. ' Martial law has not been proclaimed. All ministers to day conferred with Trepoff. The . city la practically isolated. Tha tleup ta the interior is more complete thaa ever. The only trains operated ara those handled by the military. Tha emperor (Continued on- Pace Two.) , SENT TO PRISOH YOUNG GIRL snd the sutomobUe company,' by wtitctt he was employed. . . , The accident occurred on August 2. Shenant waa drlvlnsr t Hm ar In a auK- kurb of Paris and (truck and killed the girl. . Ex-Mlnlster Pol near re conducted the prosecution. - Me made, a acayitng at tack on the prisoner, which aroused some of tha audience to such sn extent that the president of ths court threat ened to clear the room. Witnesses swore st- ths tlms of the sccldent thst the car wss traveling 00 miles sn hour. . They assarted that the prisoner was fully aware of tha acci dent, but did not stop. men later west ta ths restaurant, but found that the womaa hod dleappaare.1. When , Muller lost saw her she hsd In her- possession s satchel eontslnltig the deeds to the four pieces of property which she owned, a beasbook asd a sum I of money. In the ni- 1 learned from Ms dan"'- ' Vernon that his w!.' i house that nt I "1 I there. Tht ' ' ' until her ! ' 4nriP-r v Is r- -hi. ' - i ; X.