The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, October 29, 1905, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text, . - '-, . J good morihitg" H (1 llsto H -. Partly cloudy; winds rhoetiy north-' VV ' 7- ' V ' ' ' '' " ' y r Jdurniii Circiliticn j Yesterday P. ' 7Ti f VOL.' II. fNO: .33. : PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 1SC3. POUR , SECTIONS FORTY-FOUR PAGES. - i - - PRICE. FIVE CENTS. Russian ; Government Tottering Under Pressure of Revolt Witte Not Yet Clothed ' - - : ... .- 'M ' 1 Wife wm:, Trepoff, Converted to Liberal Faith, Fails to En force WarningsStudents at OdessxPro 7v claim Revolatioii--Ministers Confer. . X (Copyright Hnnt Kews service, by i Wire to The JoeroeL) , .v London, Oct 22; 8t Petersburg dls 1 patches tonight Indicate that Csar Nicholas government la trembling dun- dar tha praaaura of the. revolutionists, . and In tha opinion of many conaerva . . tlva obaarvara must fall ara lfeng AVItte, it la now thought cornea too lata and '.,'. Ma announcement tonight In tha ofll . clal organ - that ha - had not yet bean riven the-approval of the emperor, though ha (Witte) had been wrestling - with hla majesty at Peterhof for the t: paat two daya, has given tha maasea the . Impression that the csar la determined not to grant the. liberal form of gov ernment and tha guarantee of the per ; sonat rights, aa Insisted -upon by Witte. Trepoff Cnang-ea Treat. -. The moat significant development of the day showing how tottering ' la the ' foundation of the government la tha ap- j parent conversion of General. Trepoff, at the head of the St: Petersburg military forces, td tha ' liberal faith of , Witte. -General Trepoff heretofore has wielded the Iron hand, assailing tha revolution v lata with unrelenting fury, cruahing them , upon tha sllgh test s show ' of resistance. ' Now his attitude la that of Issuing warn. Inga, , the revolutionists assembling In ' fact under hla vary, nose with a. disre gard for Trepoff'a warnings that bodea IU for Emperor Nicholas' government ', While Trepoffa soldiers and troops are patrolling, the fjreetj. of St peters ' . burg tonight. 7Wlr challenges are- not taken very seriously by the crowds who have - approached the sentry line t eur rounding the bivouacs of the military: ' The revolutionists declarer Trer)off' la not sura of the power Of tha csar to back him Up In tha present trouble, hence hla faint attempt to disperse- the ,- mobs which practically ' have the Rue- , elan cauital tonight In a state of siege. Army Is posertlng. . a ' . , - Trepoffs attitude baa spread through- t. out tha empire and la accepted aa the first sign of the army deserting the . imperial standard. V The masses are un '..' der the Impression that the government ia bankrupt and with the army practi . eally on tha ave of abandoning tha csar, bis fall la inevitable. , ' The spirit of unrest has spread with '-' alarming rapidity throughout the em- J pi re, and tonight reports from Moscow, Warsaw, Riga and Rostov-on-Don are , of the most Inflammatory character. -, A provisional government haa been set up at Moscow so aent- has the situs - . pion become. Every one la on a strike and tha one cry is 'Mown with the gov - ernment," In the large towna In south- ern Russia every home- has been ordered eloaed at S o'clock and troops are patrol ling the streets. Aa with Bt Peteraburg, the electric light wires have been cut and the lighting system put out . of commission, and the only light to be " had la that from campfires of the-soldiers in tha streets, Everywhere the feeling pervades that the reign of Nicholas is nearing an and.- . ; Mattay ea Warships. - Reports- from Odessa indicate that mutiny aboard Russian men-of-war la again imminent. The Catharine II haa '' put Into port in a, state that haa aroused ' grave suspicion aa to the fidelity of hen WILL BE HIGHEST IN S:'ii:ALL:;PO RT LAN M$ Wells, Fargo & Co. Decide to Add.. Two Stories and Make Building ; r- Twelve Stories High, Modern, Light, Fireproof, V'-'"U;';. iXandsome ,'and Safe. ' " '.r'' - Within a year Portland will bava a 12-story -of floe building, If everything develops as planned. The executive committee of Wells, T-vrgo as Co. has ordered that t,'J new building which la being erected at Sixth and Onk streets , be made two stories higher than orlgl- , nally was contemplated. - Plans and specifications are about complete for a 1 2-story structure, and work on It Is to be rushed with as great speed as the structural material can be delivered. ' B. WtMet Morris, St.. architect, of New York. - who designed the building and Is in charge of work, has reached . Portland to give -preliminary arrange ments a finishing touch. Ho will re main here lo daya or two weeks, by which time the plans will be completed, and thereafter h.a duty will merely be to see 'that they are executed, which will require a visit to Portland every two or three months. . .' ' - - ' rhoreturaljr Modern aalldlag. ' ' - Mr. Morris furnished an outline of , the more aaltent featurea of the great building last evening, which ahow that It la to be the moat thoroughly modern building1 ever erected in Portland. It will be a steel skeleton struoture, with foundations of concrete piers that are carried down- to gravel bed. The base ment will be' made absolutely water proof, the bottom being of two and one half fet of solid concrete, armored wtlh .cne-laoh rods to withstand the upward With Power. crew. , The - Potemkin.. la alao believed to have mutinied. Ninety thouaand soldiers en route to Btk Petersburg from tha far 'east, on whom the government Is counting much, tonight, it is reported, are' stalled In Blberia as the result of strike on the trans-Siberian railroad.-" ' .' ; ( . All crafts throughout the- empire, it Is stated,, have voted ' to continue the strike. , . - .;., ' . ' Bevort Iweeps Umpire. '" , The. fires of revolt are aweeptng the entire ' Russian empire. The day was fairly quiet at St. Petersburg where the railroad atrlka 'has cut off all communi cation . from the outside world. The food supply is almost exhausted and to night several fights are reported be tween moba and the police. Only can dles and. lampa Illuminate the city, the electric lights being extinguished- and the city in darkneaa. Fearing riota and disorders foreign residents are' fleeing and bualness is completely paralysed. At Moscow there is but little food on hand, water' ia nearly all gone, all fac tories Are closed and the city is cut off from the outside world, t Everything is in darkness tonight and the - rioters hold the city in a reign of terror. 1 -At Warsaw troops are camped In the street and - the' city is under martial law. Four thousand, terrorists marched through, the streets this afternoon spreading the order for a general strike. The Vienna railroad stations and tele graph offices were burned, the mrrrr IT Is almost helpless and the city is in the hands of the revolutionists. . Bleod Flows la aVrnta. " "The revolution las' teen' proclaimed through southern Russia where there- Is a universal atrlka - At Odessa the cos- sacks attacked a body of students and 100 of them were 'Injured, Including 17 girls, one of whom was killed. The price of food is increasing rapidly and cltlsens have .organised for , self -pro tec- At - Reval eight -persons were killed and 40 wounded by the police during the tiots today.- The city is. in darkness and mobs are looting stores and private property. Large sections of the "city have been ' burned and the flames are still; raging. , More troops are hourly arriving. . " .. At Kiel, the railroad strike is spread ing and bualneaa la at a standstill. The city Is in darkness.' At Cornel a bomb was thrown at the chief of polfce car riage and two Cossacks killed. -At Riga a" number of Cossacks were killed and many wounded in a. battle with ' the strikers. At Lods 80.000 strikers marched in parade today.- Martial law la maintained and traffic In business is stopped, -" . ' . -v, - apraada to lbarta. V ' At Ekaterinoalajr the strikers have defied the' police and all communication haa been cut off from the town. For eign residents ara fleeing In terror.' At Pablanca, Poland, there .was a bloody claah between troops and the people. Famine -is threatened at Skoplnd. At Tlflia bualness Is . paralysed by the strike. The Zemetvos have appealed to the government for more Cossacks. At Llbau all schools are closed. At Rom- (Continued on Page -Ten.)-. pressure of the water In flood season. This work will be of a character Insur ing the basement remaining dry . until the water rises so that It will flow over the curb of the sidewalk. , All steel work will be thoroughly and absolutely protected agalnat fire. All f the elevator machinery will be at ' the top of the building, so that should the basement become flooded throurh any medium, the working of the lifting plant will not be Interfered (With. ..,. ' , ,. ... v . Three Slga-Bpeed Blevators. - Three high-speed elevators wlU be In the building, all operating In the-same shaft, on of which will be of heavy carrying capacity. The elevator ahaft will be fireproof, and the atalrs will also W I) a fireproof tube, so that should fire break out In the contents of any room in the building It will be con fined strictly to that floor, because there will be no flue for It to run up in from one floor to another. The building will be equipped with a mall chute, and telephone and telegraph wires will be run Into each room of tha building. The entrance hallway will be In the center of the Sixth street front of the building, and will be IT feet wide. The three - elevators will be) placed oppo site this entrance, so that people enter ing or leaving the building will pass by the most direct route possible. - v. ' .(Continued on Page Thirteen.). Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed NOT A DOLLAR IS OFFERED FOR POLICE" STOP HEW SHAW PLAY Anthony. ; Comstock Threatens . Arrest of. Players-risr FJay; wright Makes Answer. (Special Plnateh br teased Wire to The Journal) - New Haven, Oct 28. Mayor John P. Studley, acting -upon the complaint of a number of cltlsens,- whose Identity he refuses now to disclose, today ordered Chief of Police Wrenn to stop all per formances of Bernard Shaw's four-act serial study, . "Mrs.- Warren's Profes sion," which was to have had its sec ond presentation nere tonight, on -the ground that the play ia unfit for public performance. I With one accord today the press flays th - new - production. . - The , Evening Leader says of It: .i-. i t " "Let us open the doors and windows and have some fresh air.' says Mrs. Vlvle Warren, In Shaw's new play. If tha doors and windows of tha Hyperion theatre are opened and kept open ' all day the air-will still-remain -tainted. , , becldadly Too maw. . . . . " "The lesson T There Is no lesson of which any human being stands in tha slightest need. . The personages -are photographically truthful, but the whole fabric la unclean. It la a production tha -effect of which cannot in any way be good, and in many Instances it will be, In our opinion, distinctly bad, and becauae of Its badness it should be sup pressed." i The - Evening. Register says of "the play:- - As pnt on the stage. Tars, warren's Profession' can be catalogued as de cidedly raw too raw, no doubt, for eonventlonal good taste. . . "The New Haven audience upset sev eral of the tragic moments by laughing at the wrong time, which goee to show that the piece attracted curiosity-seekers aa well as Intelligent theatre-goers." The mayor s decision -following the first presentation of the play last night before a large audience, many of whom arose and protested during the action of the play., has caused a sensation. Every seat at the Hyperion theatre was sold out tonight and standing room tick ets only were to be had at a premium, ' Strong Moral Lesson. Arnold Daly, when- seen today, said i "1 do not think Mr. Shaw's play ap peals to the evil-minded, ' but should be taken aa It Is - a strong moral les son. - I don't anticipate any trouble In New York. If Mr. Comstock wants to shut us up I only ask that he come to aee the play, and he-will see that it Is not 0 file order of The Night Owls." . The opinion here Is that Mr. Daly was very daring to start such sn extreme (Continued on Page Thirteen.) (Special Dispatch by tee tad Wire to The Josrasl) - Halifax, N. 0.. Oct 22. Definite news haa been received here that the Dillon Wallace expedition .Into the heart of the unexplored Labrador country over the trail taken by .the unfortunate Leonldas Hubbard has failed and Wal lace himself la believed to have been lost The latest reports from the rival expedition - headed by Mr a. Hubbard, widow of the explorer, who died of star vation in. Labrador October 12. 1202, Indicate that it will "be successful. . ' The two expeditions left Halifax early In tha summer on widely different mis sions, the New - York lawyer Wallace announcing nls Intention oZ taking ap WALLACE ..i 1 dmmmfMk , - W and the Red Square of Moscow, yHiere a Revolutionary Government Ia State Commission Is Likely to Order Costly Palaces Wrecked V-lNo One Will Have Them. 1 ! ADMIN ISTRAT4MUUbUU..2 . MINES BUILDINGS CO 1 iT These Sell for Pittance No Bids for Oriental, Foreign, Agriculture, Transportation, Auditorium or Ore- ' ton or Tire Station Buildings. Out at the exposition grounds there stands a group of buildings that cost 2276,000 that can't be given away No one will offer as much as $1 for the magnificent structures, f r .. f. .-; Because they . can't be sold or given away, it la likely that a wrecking crew will demolish the vcosflr ' plies con structed by the state that have enter tained the world during the period of the exposition. The only exceptions are the Administration and Mlnea buildings. Efforts will be made at once 'to learn the coat of wrecking and the sum that may be realised, from ttoe sals of sal vage. A partial decision aa to the disposal of the buildings was reached yesterday at a ' meeting 'of ' the membera .of the state commission, neia in tne uregon building at the exposition grounds, for that purpose. - . raroaaaera rail to Appear. Advertisements have been published announcing that the various buildings were for sale. Every effort was ex erted to dispose of the remnants of the great fair, but purchasers failed to ap pear. Only two bide were received in answer to the advertisements. One was an offer of $1,200 for the, Administra tion building, made by a resident of Pittsburg, who owns lots In the vicinity of the fair grounds and proposes to con vert the building into an apartment house after removing it to his property. The offer waa promptly accepted. - At yesterday's meeting an offer ' of $600 waa made by J. A. Martin of this city for tha Mines buiming. .. The. offer was eagerly grasped and poasesslon will be given at once. The building will be usd by Mr. Martin for warehouse pur poses. ,:,,. - Various plans for disposing of the re maining buildings were discussed at yes terday's meeting. It waa finally decided to ascertain the cost of wreckage and the amount which might ; be realised from the sale of lumber. 'Accordingly J. 11. Albert, chairman of the building committee, waa authorised to advertise for bids. i , " ' 1 ' ... 2riaaee Bevert to Stato. The plumbing fixtures and fire appa ratus In all the buildings; will revert to the state. . Those In the Administration and Mlnea buildings were not included In the aalra, NTbe fixtures and apparatus (Continued on Page Thirteen.) IS LOST IN the work of his friend Hubbard, of finding the Necaupee Islands and ex. ploring the country In the Interests of science. Mrs. - Hubbard did not at tempt to conceal her purpose of Inves tigating the conditions 'under which her husband met his death after. Wal lace bad left him to seek for aid. .A. R. Burgess, custom-house officer of Rlgolette, Labrador, who is In Halifax today, aald: . ' "Wallace's expedition I believe a fail ure, and possibly every member of his party may meet the fate that overtook peor Hubbard. "On the other hand it seems as If Mrs. Ilubburd and. her . party ; have reached ,000 ,?..."v,;.... ........ v.; to; ...4 Has Spent Ten MiHions, Less Than a Million of ft - on the Canal. 'v (SpeeUI DUpatck fcy Leased Wire to The Journal) - Washington. D,C Oct 22. The Pan ama canal ' commission is nearly bank rupt, and It la asserted that when con gress eonvenes it will be asked to pass at once an emergency appropriation bill to tide thet commission over a crista There is at present in the coffers of the commission 20,000, not enough money to meet the running expenses, salaries. etc or tne omoers for two more months, and the extra appropriation will have to be had at once or the Offices wll nave to be closed - - ' - a Already the commission ' has mani 210,000,000.1- From a perusal of the re port that was made publlo todav aa tn uie anairs or me canai: it appears that but a small fraction, less than 21.000, 000, has gone to digging , the ditch. It Is announced, however, bv Judm Bishop,' the special press agent of the canal commission, that - a . sunblemen- tary statement is being prepared for aubmisalon to congress- which will bring the record' of the expenditures down to October 1. "There have been a good many heavy payments made since the "end of the fiscal year, said Bishop. "By January there will be nothing left, and we shall have to ask congress for an emergency appropriation Just aa soon aa it meets. The monthly expenses on the isthmus have averaged about 2420,000: The work of sanitation on the isthmus has taken a lot of money. Partial payments have been made on some large contracts, and the two big steamships purchased for the Panama, Steamship Una at .a cost of 21,200,000 form a big item." The financial report of the commis sion, mads publlo today, covers all of the operations or the commission from June 22,. 102. to June top 1605. The largest item of expenditure was that of material, supplies and equipment, 21.027,74.(4. - The next largest was canal construction, 224,22,21. . . According to the report, tha work of administration alone baa . cost the gov ernment 2222,274.27 in the three years named. " ' " ' '" -'".- The expenses of the offices of the chief engineer ara stated to have been 21tl.S06.22. . Chairman 8honts today denied that lie and Secretary Taft are at variance over canal affairs. ' ' : Benjasnla Onllea Bead.' ' ' (Special Dispatch by Leased Wire to The learasl) Pittsburg. Oct 2. Benjamin Cullen, a former well-known theatre manager of California, is dead here. LABRADOR their destination. ' When f came away from., Northwest river she waa at Un gava. bay,. 2M miles distant, and . 172 miles from Lake Michemachlx, her. ob jective point-' - -..'.'. ' Mr. Burgess ' met three . of Wal ace's company at Rlgolette. The party, ,they said, was lost lor 27 daya when the In dian guides refused to go farther and re turned with' Richards and Rtaaton ' to the coast while Wallace pushed on lb the hope of reaching George' e Rrver,-a Hudson Bay post taking food sufficient tor three weeks. -..-' That waa a month ago. An experienced Indian hunter states that two men will never, at thla season of the year, -with winter soUlng In. reach Charge's River. .... ... . v, . T,; iff? wk&m Wm' Sergius Witte, on Whom the MURDERER IN BANK VAULT STOPS 200 After Slaying Two Prominent Citizens William : La Due Takes ' ' . Refuge in Steel Safe and Fires on Crowd-EIectricity "'.--. .... e . ,v . , ' - " - and Chloroform Used (Special Dispatch by Leasee Wire te The Joarnal) Vbenoa, lit, Uct XI. After killing two of the most prominent cltlsens of Chenoa, one- of them Mayor .Charles Nickel, William La Duo, a farmer, took lefuge -in the steel vault in the State bank, whero the shooting occurred, and held a crowd of 200 cltlsens at bay to day. ' He was finally routed and cap tured, when bales of chloroformed cot ton were stuffed into the vault . ..-' Currents of electricity were also ap plied to the vault before he was seised. L Due who was a brotber-ln-law of Mayor Nickel, and believed to be Insane, was found to be badly wounded. The dead: - -, v :. Charles Nickel, Mayor of Chenoa, and president of the State bank, . Hugh Jones, a wealthy retired farmer. who was in Nickel's nfflce- in the bank where La Duo entered; his body was dragged into the vault . The Injured. ,:V . ,f ' William La Due, the farmer who dfd the shooting, lives a mile and three quarters east of Chenoa. He separated from his wife four weeks ago. - W. T.-Ramsay, manager of the Tele phone Exchange, ahot through hat while leading cltlsens on the barricade; fore head grazed by bullet "-'-.. SIXTEEN MILLIONS - : "v. " v- FIVE DAYS' -PROFIT ': "' ' ' - 'V ''- (SpecUl Dispatch by Leased Wire te The Jearaal) New York, Oct 28. Market value of hla shares brt October 22, 2402,000.(00. Market Value of his shares on Oc tober 22, 2tl.SO0.0OO. Richer in five days, 212.200,000. r John D. Rockefeller. Is a lucky man. Just when It looked aa if the Increase in the price of oil would never cease, the Russian revolution cornea, along and helps him out. Because of the troubles In Russia, no oil is being exported from that country and the realisation of that fact has caused tha stock of the'Btand ardVOIl company to advance 10 points In the last week. Thla means that the capital stock of the company which amounts to 2100.000,000, has gone Up 250,000,000. In market value. The stock yesterday sold at (27. In May, mi, it sold at 242. but In the Northern Pacific s panic It dropped to 227. rallying to 776. . Blnce then It grad ually declined until, a short time ago, when It began to move up. , Up to the last outbreak In Russia, the stock had appreciated 210.000.000 . In value. - It la now worth 210.000,000 more than it was four months ago, Czar. Leans in Ruaaia'a Crisis.. in His Capture. .'V - R. J. Irwin, restaurant keeper,' she through. forehead; not fatal. Jacob , Michael, .bank clerk., shot through shoulder -of . coat; bullet, eut out through, skin only. .. ? . . Immediately after the-shooting 208 cltlsens, 'anned -with rifles, revolvers and shotguns, furnished by the hard-, ware stores, - began firing through the windows and doors' of "the bank build ing, and completely wrecked 1C -...,; For over two hours no one dared 'to enter the building. .La Due waa known to have three revolvers and ' 1,000 cartrldgea .-. " ' ,-' - . fit was not until. Sheriff Frank Ed wards of McLean county arrived from Blooralngton with - reinforcements ' that La Duo waa captured. ' He fought dee perately, although badly wounded, until, the handcuffs were snapped upon hla wrists, 'i ... -. j .'. Jones' body .was found lying in the vault Nickel fell dead with a bullet,1 through hla heart In the office tit the ' bank building. i..i . ' La Duo was secretary of the Living ston County Poultry and Pet Stock as sociation. He ia said to have blamed Nickel f or . the , separation- of - himself -and wife.. ':.'.-.; t , i " " . LOU DILLON,' QUEEN OF TROTTING TURF. RETIRES (gpertal Dispatch by Leased Wire te The JaaraeU New York. Oct 22. Lou Dillon, queea of the trotting turf, la to Join the class , of the matrons. . By her failure to race up to form thla year, Mr. Billings, her owner,- haa decided to give her bo more hard training and to abandon racing against the watch tn " an . attempt to lower her own world's record. - -' Next spring the trotting queen will be bred to the stallion John - A. Mo Kerron, who preceded her ea a holder of the amateur championship. Lou Dil lon's great year was In 1202. All horse men - recall her wonderful campaign. It began with a sensational mile at Cleveland along about 2:02. breaking the mile trotting record held by Cresceue. By no means the leaat of Lou Mllon'e achievement but one of which s e waa robbed through. a tech it leal it v. wee her mlle.ut 2:04 to a hlgh-whe,.. 1 sulky. . . Baas Be Own S area. a. Washington, Oct. 22 Bertha T the woman, who was alld to f nected with the cotton lee ' who was allowed to r- , runnier a crop, bureau cf 1 hew Jera. .