The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, November 07, 1905, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI , ... GOOD EYE1IIHG Journal Circulation THE WEATHER. Yesterday Fair and warmer; Vednesd17 cloudy; north to eat winds. ' VOL. IV. NO. 211. v City Mayor Weaver . Vigorously Suppresses Disorder, by the Arrest of Every " JneLat Polling Plas. Republican Leadas Attempts of Gang 4 - Trains With Repeaters Held JUp, rhiladelphia, Nov. 7. tTwo murders already, and-200 prisoners -j-f-in cells held incommunicado early this mormnr.'rnark the beginning : of what promises to be the bloodiest election' day in the history of Philadelphia. V.'-'.v.r7-'" Al 1 i n format ion xegardiu g lhemuxd ersJan dlarrcst. sji OL-dcnici at thei city -ha.lL- Sheriff Miles . - protection of the city to the mayor. -2 ": 'r : . .; , ; ;J ! City party leaders are condemning the actions of special police ' lonctu sworn in' by' the mayor," of 12 OP ward a prominent old soldier nttmidatmga Gtpartyoler,J .anft ihrnwn intri" ielf uttli npimus In another ward a man was arrested for,8aying that he had lost - his naturalization papers; Every rvotef -was challenged and forced -ter prove hisligibUitytdVdte. - . : V, .-r'.1". .J . ""TlIaTCbr'Master Samuel "CTIaioney, Magistrate 'ames Fealey, 1 ex-Lieutenant of Police James Carey ,-Republican leadersrhaVe been ,arrested. Friends are unable to learn where they have been taken. So far a dozen polling places have been closed and election officers have appealed to the courts (pr protection, . - .r 'lilririr .Vi In one place the booths ,were wrecked.., 'All the. disorder is in the wards where the Republicans are conceded .to be in the majority. Whenriot calls are turned in.Ahe' police appear 'and arrest every ; one at-the. polls..":'',; "J'2 ' ' . j '4 'j is.v': ' ''"; v - Mayor Weaver, ; it; is ; reported, has stopped at Wilmington a train loaded with repeaters en route to this city. 2- 1 Sheriff J. L. Miles, who is Republican leader in the thirteenth ard:andrxhairman DLtheityf ommittee, lannounced Jast-night that he would swear in.; 1,000 .deputy, sheriffs in" order, to protect electors. - The statement1 was met by a' proclamation from Mayor Wev'r in which Miles was denounced as a lawbreaker and warned to keep his hands off the polls. . ,:r ' " QUIET AT NEW.YORK;. H EAVYVOTEPOLtED Ideal Weather Brings Out Full Registered Vote A Few Arrests Are Made but No Serious Disturbances Mar the Day " ' . ; -Hearst Sanguine of Success. v ' " ( 1 t (Jmnt SparUI'SerTle.) ' New Tork. Nov. 7. A wave of revolt g-alnnt boaa rule aeenvi to have awept - throueh the courttfy; Aid It la aafe to any. that today'e election, will live oon- - ' clua'iva evidence that the ciUaena, Irre ' ' epecttve of party - affiliation, are thor oughly disgusted with bosalam and the political corruption which Invariably goea hand In hand with boss rule, and are determined to put an end to graft- . ; lnar and other forme of corruption In municipal end etate mattere. The 'fight In New York la a three-cornered one, with an Important aide Issue In con nection with the candidacy of Mr. Je rome for the district attorneyship. Both the Republlcana and the Indo. - pendente, who are supporting Hearst, " the aponaor of municipal ownership, are making a determined fight against Mo . Clellan, -the - Tammany candidate for fnayes But- tha flghf a"at alone agalnat Charlee T. Murphy, theeader of Tammany, - but also against B. 13. Odell. Jr., the head of tha Republican LABOR TURNS OUT. t Valoas Viae fcvery Kaa That Work a - All Are Oat foe fJokmita. - .' , " floarssl Sperlal Smite. I J ' V "an Franclaco, Nov. 7. A clear, eun ahlny day la bringing out a large vote --- In the munlrlpal contest. At t o'clock 10 - per eent of the vote had been raat. Fine weather eondltlone are favorable to the fusion ticket, but Bchmlt Workers are more la evidence at .the polls. The trailea council declared today a holiday and will fine all men who work today. . Thla Insures almost tne complete vote of organised labor for the Union Labor candidate. - . . . Voting machlnea are In use -all ever the ciey for the first tlme.f It Is reported voters are having trouble manipulating machine caualng some delay In regla taring rote a Bo far the election Is very.oulet. -There la only one arrest for disturbance. -..There la.no change in Ihe betting, fff-hmits Is still the fa vorite at Odds of 19 to t, - , Jails Are Filled With Hundreds of Prisoners Who Are Held Incommunicado 7 to Rule Are Thwarted ;.: .Ttrf f rr-- swore in no deputies, and left the whom there are about 2,Q00. In was arrested on the chi-e .of machine, and Louie PV Haf fen, the-po litical dictator of the Bronx. It U a fight, against boea 'ruta In. general and Tammany In particular. J A heavy vote la being eaat early. The day la Ideal. It la probable that there are aweaat sio.eoo registered - voters. The early morning waa quiet and free from - disturbance. The first assault waa made on the eaat side. No arrests were made, A politician waa the first one arrested for violation of the election law. ....... ... In one precinct In the Bowery t vot's were cast In the first 20 mlnutea. Eight thousand police : were , on duty. The hntttng continues :two to one on Mo- Clellan, and on Jtrome two t one. Hearst's managers claim hla majority will be el.000. They claim Manhattan and the Bronx by 10.000. Brooklyn by 0.000, Queena by 1,000, Richmond by 1.000. . s t Tammany nanVgi'vea out no figures but both - Murphy and MoClallaa ere confident of aucceae. ,-"." SHOOTING IN LOUISVILLE.' Kaa Is Saet aad Othere Beataa ejea eeat right U rrogTese. ' (JoariMl SpeMal arvw . ' Louisville, Ky.. Nov. L At a voting precinct thle noon. Dr. Bullitt wae ehot, hi eon Oeorge and Colonel George B. Reyburn were badly beaten. Members of the fusion - party reported that a general fight wee In progress. . PRESIDENT VOTES. Bxeeetlve aa eeretary Jeaney te Oyster Bay te Oast Ballot. . ... . fji gpeeiai tm 'je.l - ' - Oyster Bay., Nov., 7. The president came horn to vote today. Neighbors gathered at the ataflnn to greet him. lie waa met by a Tarrlage fronv Bag, more Hill and taken to the polltng piare, ta blocks away, He grasped the hands , - - 1 ' ' ,1 . Continued on Tage Twe-i PORTLAND. OREGON. TUESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER ;::: Vk $$! ;;.;:-7-: 1 MurphyThe world Is mlnffrthemayor is - mine, - 0REG0NIAN MMAaKMaDE $60 BY I ASKS 550,000 FOR Actor Sues Edna Wallace Hopper -.' for Breach of Promise v S ays She Proposed. 4 " -(JOunul SMtk-.) Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 7. Edna Wallace Hopper, who plays In thla city thla week, la named as defendant "tn a sen aational breach of promise suit brought by James O. Morton. Papera In the suit were eerved when ahe arrived In Buf falo. . .Morton Is an actor but doer not give hie stage' name. It la said -that-" for aome time past he has been trying to get Miss Hopper to. make good and be come his wife and baa . ao far failed. He did not give . up: hope until Mies Hopper left New: York city on her present tour...--. --r-r- j 1 At that time. It Is alleged, ahe at ted In firm tonea that ahe had no Intention of marrying Morton. '. , ' -' It Is charged In the complaint -' that Mlaa Hopper waa the one whd proposed marriage. Morton demands $50,000 damages for being jilted by. Mlaa Hop per.. t ;- -... . BRITISH SQUADRON ; SAILS FOR NEWJ0RK j;i rf '.- f .: : - ' (Jeeraal Special Hmtn. - Norfolk, Va.. Nov, 7.The 'British squadron, under command of' . Prince Louis, accompanied by the American fleete " under Admirals 'Evana and Brownaon aalled thla afternoon for New York, where - a reception will be given the prince, his offloera and men. , FOREST FIRES SWEEP , : CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS 1 Joaraal Special Servles.) ": ' ." ' Watsonvllle, .Nov. 7. Fiercely raging flree are sweeping the ' timbered moun tains northwest of this city. Lumber campa are endangered In the - foothills and some have been saved only by back firing. Chittenden station, southeast of the elty, reports LOW acres of graalng land ablate.- The damage la heavy. , . Mrs. Ohadwtok's Flea Tata. Cincinnati, . Nov. - 7--The federnl eourt of eppfals today denied the ap peal of Cassia Chadwlrk for remission of her le-yeer sentence.' The lower court Is usUUnetf J ' JILTiriG BEING PUBLIC SPIRITED gear's Intereston Fund Would Amount to Five Hundred and Sixty Dollars. ' : -' FIVE HUNDRED WAS scorns contribution A Little Arithmetic Docs the Rest I It ' Now ' Appears That ' Man ,Who Got Contract in Preference to Port' land Men Was Unable to Fill It. Readsre of the morning paper today were Informed that that newspsper sub scribed $ 500 toward the monument to be erected In honor of the Becond Oregon volunteera who died in the Philippines. Readers of The Journal had learned prevloualy that Treasurer H. W. Scott of the general commute kepi, in his possession for a year or more iM.ooe without depositing It to draw Interest. - A year'a interest at 4 per cent, which banks will pay on time deposits, would be 1660, or . I0 In excess of the euro given by the morning paper. . ' r The foregoing computation was made by members of the Woodmen -order who have objected to the manner tn whlcn the treasurer handled the publlo funds that were intrusted to him. "Who would not Ilk to be a monu ment fund treaaurerT" aald one of the Woodmen. .. . ... . ... .-- - ? Marble workers of . Portland today read with amazement the official state ment of -Chairman' and Treasurer H.. W Beott in the morning paper that H. O. Wrlght,-eontraotorr who agreed to fur nish the granite work for the monument, had been unable to fill the contract and that the committee had been compelled to take It out of hla banda and deal di rectly, with the Vermont .- quarrlea at Bar re.- - - - "Two( yeare ago." said a member ofa (Continued on Page Thirteen.) .... . It. ELECTIOn -RETURNS Will be shown at The Journal office tonight,' cor- ner of Fifth and Yamhill streets. , If you want the results Come around to The Journal corner. , Y . 4 7,. 1905. SIXTEEN PAGES. OiM BAY AT everything is miner- THINK WAITER MET DEATH III FIRE Body of William Johnson May M . Be Buried in Ruins of Mt. ..' V- Hood Hotel. , 'Investigation by the police ha cauaed them' to reachthe conoluslon that the black and shapeleaa mass of ruins mark Ing- the alta. of the Mount Hood hotel, near the fair grounds, covers the boay of William Johnson, who waa employed at the hostelry aa waiter. Kvery cir cumstance points to the fact that John son was caught In the fire trap and per lahed. . ' The police have believed from the time of the fire until now tfrat arson wae committed. " Joseph ' gchmldt, ' the proprietor, was taken by Detective Hart man before District Attorney "Manning, sitting as a grand Jury, and with his son was a iked to furnish a statement to Chief Oritsmacher at the police sta tion. Afrer a close investigation" of the clrcumatancee the authorities were un able to find anything which would Jus tify, their suspicion that Schmidt I la any way responsible for the burning of the structure, and It Is understood that Insurance agents have consented to pay their pollclea. V -.. .No that- -man 4 auppoeed te have perished In the flames, however, police attention again haa been directed to the fire, and If -.their theory provestrus, detectives will be eet at work by In spector Brula In an effort to fathom the mystery. -.- - ' Johnson was about 10 year old and had been employed ee waiter at the hotel from a abort 'time after It was opened until it . waa rased by flamea He occupied a room near the northwest corner, un the second- floor. Nothing hsa been seen or heard of him since the night the' structure was burned. Resi dent of the vicinity, at the ttm ex pressed the opinion that he had met hie death in the names t -- -- During the laat fewdaya persons living near the mass Of rtrlna have been annoyed by the? odor of decaying flesh, emanating from the ruins, and yester day the odor became almost unbearable. Several complaints were made to . the police. Patrolman Roberta waa as signed to make an investigation by Sergeant Baty of the ITpahur. street sta tion,, and a report waa handed Chief Oritsmacher thla morning to the effect that In all probability Johnson perished In the flamea, . Continued on rag "our.) PRICE ' TWO Carl Hurford and Bride of Two , Months Die in Newberg Home Under ;Very Peculiar ; Circumstances.-. ,;.;.; MYSTERY SURROUNDS TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Neighbor Hear .Shots Emanating From House and Upon Investiga , tion Find .Husband Dead in Bed - With Bullet : Hole Through Head and Wife's Lifeless Body on Floor. " (flpMUl Dbpatrh to Tin Joontl.) , Newbergr, Or., Nov.- -A. - tarrlbl trcdr ' waa enacted In this city thla momtnf rcsultlns In the death of Carl Hnrtord aatf . hla , wlfaabrlda,Oftwo month. Myatery aurrounda tha affair aa both war dead whn neighbors reached the acene of the ahootlns In the home of the Hurfords. Mra. Hurford had arisen and gone up town and had juat returned "."to thefr TiOneabont o'clock, whan nelfhbora heard two piatol abota. She came to the door and called for help and returned Inalde tha house. Before any- one reaehed the hon- mn- other sIiul was iieaid. TJpun arrival' T the home neighbors were confronted by a ghastly sight. Hurford waa found ly ing tn bed, life extinct with a bullet hole through. Ma head. Mrs Hurford "waa round dead on tne floor Tne piatol under her hand. No cauee la known for the act," as both Seemed happy in -their new home. The' mother of Hurford 1 pros trated. Mra! Hurford's parenta live In Missouri. The coroner has been sent for. 1 c .- -r ' - ..- AMERICAN MISSIONARIES IN DANGER OF DEATH . (Joeraal SpseUf Sti ilce. Washington. Nov.- T. American Con sul Lay at Canton. China, says that af fairs are unsettled . In. the province where the five missionaries were killed. The Chinee tried to burn the mission at Tang Take, and the missionaries are In danger of death by remaining. MIDSHIPMAN DIES AS. . RESULT OF FIST FIGHT fjearasl Bpeelal Service.) Annapolis, Nov. T. Midshipman James R. Branch of New Tork died .thla morn ing of injuries received In a flat fight with Midshipman Minor Merl west her, Jr. of Louisiana. - - . , Parrow Qalts Traetloa, (Joeraal Special Bervlce.) Chicago, Nov. . 7. Clarence Darrow, special traction attorney, resigned today. FIGURING BY RESIDENCES, PUD LEAVES SEATTLE WAY, WAY BEHIND . " Vm "T'T""-T""TT"TTT . ' ..".: 7...'-. . If Sound City Has Eighteen Thousand Residences and Portland , Twenty-Foul1 Thousand, What's the Matter With Seat-, tie's Arithmetic, and Where Do Her People Live?. Seattle ha,ll,00S residences, by ac tual count. -' , Portland has 14,0t residences, bx ac tual count. ..!.,. Seattle esUmates Its population at lto.soe. . By the same ratio, then, Portland na 149,800. . ' , ' ' But. Portland does not claim Xte.oov. population: It claim is ib&.uuu; ao mat. using th ratio or residences ae indi cated, the proportion to he worked out la as follows -j 1 Portland'a residences, 14. 409, are to Seattle's residences, IS, 000, aa Portland's population, 1IS.000, 1 to Seattle's popu lation, or 124.000. . , . Authority for th foregoing, la from Captain Todd, auperlntendent of circu lation for Foster KleltRr, who carry en the advertising and distributing busi ness In both cities.? . ' Ooaas WM OareraL. .' f ' IV, recently have made ..a careful count of residences her and St Seattle." said Captain Todd. -"This count la mad to ascertain, etly-how many-piece of advertising we must have to cover the cltleln th residence districts. Men are employed who are skilled in th work and who. may be relied upon. They have no Interest excepting to "retain the confidence of their employer. They are Instructed to count th actual number of reeldences, for certain large adver tiser went the residence district covered to th exclusion of the buelnea house "This connt resulted In 24.000 reel-den-ea for Portland and l.n0 for e attle. Tn this cltv we ptsce about 14. nni) pieces of matter nn th east side and 10,000 on th .west side. 5 CENTS. XiSiSaV! J. N. Teal Suggests, in Letter to Mayor Lane, That City Build Road for Common Use ; ; t v . of Carriers, L ; . 1 . SHOULD BUY GUILD'S : " LAKE FOR ANCHORAGE This Will Be Necesaary If City Is td Become Great Market,' Says Mr Teal City ; Should Own Whole Waterfront, and Now Is the Best -' Time to Buy. -" : A , Joseph . N. . Teal ; has . addressee th mayor regarding a plan, of harbor im provement and terminal arrangement. It forecasts a time when Portland shall be an immense port, with a fleet of 111 ran "anil 1 1 nr graft . thring'"fr the channel to the sea. and when tha rail way : tonnage entering and departing from the city shall be on a par with that of the greateat cities of the world. Mr. Teal urgea that thla municipality begin Its-work along lines of eonfidenor-ao as to facilitate development of com merce In every way possible, and lnur unobstructed progress as the demand of the city and CQU"try. temtreepan-; "alon. " HiaTetter Xollowa: . . "Dr. Harry Lane, mayor of the city of Portland Dear Sir: Th pending appli cation for a'franchtse-for railway pur. pose oir Piont street bring up for rlous consideration certain project which will tn the near future be neces sary for thla clty'e development anr which I."TeIleve- are of- ufflcint-inM portanc to merit th moat serious con sideration at th hand of th city ad ministration. . . Mlghway on Waterfront Weeded. " 'Aa time goea on, the neceaslty fop easy Intercourse and exchange of traffld between the northern and southern por tions of the city will become- more ur gent and the need will be aerlously felt for aome highway along the waterfront to allow any road that may wlah to take advantage of the opportunity, to do business thereon. Instead, therefore, of -granting -franchises of thla character" of large present and prospective value, and In which the city share to but a v trifling amount (although the, value Is - -th result of It own growth), 'would It hot be better from every standpoint If the t'm given to perfecting thea grant for other be used in. instituting; and-earrying out some plan by which the city would retain all of the financial " benefit and every carrier get an op portunity to use the same at reasonable ratesT What I am about to suggest in baaed on my belief that Portland IS deatlned to be a city and that la the nearfuture. . 7 : City BhonU Keep Sighted T 'Aa a. general principle, I belleva-alt right and privilege owned by a com (Continued on Pag Four.) "These bouse do not Include any of the hotels, boarding-house or rooming- ' houses In the center, of the city! they are accurately the restdencea of each city, counted with; aa much . care es would b exhibited by a census-taker, perhaps 'more. " j . ;( S, t PUreetory rigare Xktw. "when th Polk directory people re cently claimed that there were 1(1.000 people In Portland when they took thel enumeration laat spring. I was disposed: ' to believe' that the ngurea war tui high; but now, that we have actually recounted th residences and estimated the remainder of th population la cen tral "portions of th city, we think w know that Portland alx month aftr th directory enumeration ha a population of at least 1S.00, that thla rlty hua the Puget sound 'tn.etropolla beaten 1 city- blocks: that '.Seattle hae about 126.000 people. - .' . "Another fact will teed te prove the rapid growth of Portland, --Ten yeer ago w could place only 10. Out) piece of advertising In this city In residem. ' Th Increaa la 14,00Sr-or 14 pr cent. Think of It an Increase f 14 per cent a yer on the average!" . Th population according to t!e fi. eral cenaus five years ago was ),( . It If oon"eded lltat the In- re nually has bn Urscr during 11. t few yeai than It whs rt nin lit 1 yeara of the pii ,. i". '' ' the Inevll.ilile i ' ' crtTin)v h' iff.- ! ' ft.4i f fn " i ' liiii) to-!'", " ' .1.