. t f 7 , , .T" . : GOOD EVENING THE WEATHER. Fair tonight and Tuesday; variable - winds, mostly, southeasterly. ,s Journal Circulation U. U U VOL. IV. NO. 216. PORTLAND. , OREGON, MONDAY "EVENING, . NOVEMBER 13, 1905.TWELVE PAGES. PRICE -TWO -CENTS. ow thaiki a no rrwa - iaw. - fiv crar Journal's Expose of Real Situation Rouses Shorts, Who Had Planned to Rob Growers ; ' . 1 . ' ' : ; " i ' ' .' " ' 1 r . .. " ; - .. . r" . rr ULHLLIlu HUI DIFFEIEC "What Are You Going to Do About It?" Say Agents of Hop Profit Fed , Trust Magnates.; Nevertheless It Appears old Thousands of Bales Years in Advance ; Hay Be Caught, : ; Oregon choice hops, lOVs cents ? a pound. . '''' . . Freight ' and . commissions to New rTork, t cents. -; - ' v -,. .: ' ''Total to bring Oregon hops to New York. 1H cents. "... Prime hops selling In. New York at to . and J! cents.'- - ' i Choice bops selling In New. York at cents. . -y. v---- : Commissions paid In NewYork, one : half rant. ' ," '"'...-: 1 TotHl cost New York hops, S3 cents.'" : ( Difference rn price between Oregos .hops and New . York hope in the lattet 'market, rents. .' .- -V.-'" :- Quality Oregon hops,- best-in the - World. 1 Quail ty New2XorkJopseryQorM ordinary. - ..,-. ...'-.... ,.,-' Shorts 1n the hop market are getting cared The expose by The Journal of , the ItlgB prices ruling In tne New Tors ' market, compared with the low . price In Portland, is having Ha effect Deal - era tried for a while to nay that these -prices "were tncorrectnd -that hope were selling In New York at 15 cents They have changed their mlnda. , "Hops are selling at trft -cents - a pound in New York," renyirked a dealet , yesterday, "but that la not here nor there. We can buy all we- want at lea becaush the growers will not hold. - See ing thst ' growers are crasy to lose money we might aa well try to dros the quotations." " ? Unable longer ; to keep' secret ' the prices ruling for hops In the New York market, the dealers now admit the trots of the recent remarks of The Journal, but add, "What are you . going te 4 about itr", r v - . - It la known positively that two thirds 'of the Oregon crop of hops haa been sold ' Short by various dealers for terms rang ing from three to five years, the lattei salea being the most frequent. Dealers' are figuring on a remarkably heavy pro duction of hops In this state during the next few years In order to make , themselves wealthy at . the expense of ; the prgdjicejs, Millions for Dealers. - - ' mtt " na- woum nappen tne grower of the Pacific coaat ahould not produce - a good crop during the coming seasont Would tle leaJers then, have the whip nanlr vtouia may om in poenion la dictate to the" growers what price te accept for their hard labor? How many years must they work for nothing so that the shorts cftn become fattened? 1 Millions of dollars will be gathered ' In by the dealers In hops this season. This money will not be earned by hard work, but. by grinding the producer. ' These dealers sold hops that had not yet been produced or did not belong s to ' them. - Illegal methods . were used In many Instsnces. . ... . , Have you ever heard of Swarts, th big eastern' hop bear? No. Well his trading In this country Is put through : by other dealers. Perhaps you are ac SEATTLE ERECTS TABLETS TO MARK HISTORIC" SPOTS OF lEARLY DAYS . Puget Sound Metropolis; Celebrates Fifty-Fourth Birthday ; With ' T' " u Point and . i - - f Other Spota in the City. (Bptctit Plapsteh te Tbe JoomnU) Seattle, WKh., Nev. la. This city Is today celebrating Its 4th birthday, be "cause on November 1J, 1861, there landed at AIM point from the little schooner r3xacL Captain Folger, the col ony . that speedily developed -Into -the city of Seattle. During the forenoon six historic tablets were unveiled at different point of the city and In th ( afternoon a-almllnr ceremony will be . performed on a granite- shaft at Alkl point. The. monuments and tablets have been erected under the auspices of the two ' historical societies of the state who . have charge of today's celebration. The tablets mark events In the. city's history.'-- - ,: ' The monument at Alkl point will mark the landing place of the colonists and ; contain the names of the 11 adults and It children that comprised the colony. The inscriptions on the other tsblets ground ths city ars as follows: ' "Carson D. Boren built hero the llrst cshln home of white man In the cityof . Pesttle in Anrll4 lS2. It Was made of put cedar puncheon"" t n ill 0 E III PRICE That Shorts Who Have qualnted with Joe Harris of Balem. He Is the buyer of Bwarts. During the past season It Is said that this firm sold f uliy 100 00. bales of hops before they were produced. What price they were sold at can-only be guessed, but at that time other dealers were secur ing on an average or 19 cents a poun4 for other people's property t - this basis Bwarts. through Joe Harris , ot Salem, will net about 118.004 this sea- eon.. ;What have they done to secure this profit? ' , t.,.. .' Worm Starts to Turn. ': Then there is Llellenthal, another "One Or . thoae dealers that wax rich selling a crop that Is yet In the making: Con 'aervative dealers estimate that his flrnr-mrld -more--than 7.000 toatea of, Ore gon growers', bops before they had paid a cent for them, something like !!, 000 will be the net proflt for this work. Now, however, the worm seems to b turning. Growers re receiving a hall cent more for their hops now than pre Vlously and the shorts are beginning ,te run. r. 'v. y The exposure by. The Journal baa caused great alarm among sellers of hops which bsd not yet been grpwn, or belonged to other people, and they are oat In tne country today trying their utmost to fill their ordera.. By careful estimation It . la ascertained that be tween 06,000 and 76,000 bales of hops were sold by.loefU dealers nearly a year In advance of the time when they were to- be harvested. These bops, although not yet produced.- were - marketed - by large dealers .of the Paclflo coast . at prices ranging. from IS to 25 cents a pound. -4.; -; Conspiracy to Ormsk. " Karly In the year,' before the hop were out of the ground, there waa gen eral correspondence among the various short sellers by which it wss agreed to crush the growers if possible during the present season, because of the loss the shorts had suffered in the pear three years on account of. selling something that dlil nut belling ' TH' I1ISIH" At first some of the more humane of nrvnrniiKraen iwitjw iit. irwwna J4 -nJ ,fi p,ntB a pounfl toT ln.)r prMj, uctr Inasmuch as these sellers had received a considerably larger sum. ' Th other shores refused to 40 this and the result was that prices soon tumbled down o the' present figures. The heel of oppression has not yet been lifted by theae self-appointed executioners of the Oregon hopgrowers. They would tram ple them still further because conditions during the former three .years were such that the growers were able to de mand a proflt on their crop and secure It. ; - 1 Scared beyond reason, the grower are being driven like sheep to slaughter. Borne ealea ot the choicest, hops In the world were recently made, as low as sH cents a pound, At present quota (Continued on Page Two.) . "Henry 1 Tester built here the first steam sawmill on Puget sound In 1S52." "? "Arthur , A." Denny,' In his log cabin home on this spot, opened the first post office, of Seattle. August 17. 15.'. "On this spot the first school In Re sale wa taught by Mrs. Catherine P. Blaine In l5i." "Bite of the blockhouse 'fort to pro- tect the whites In, the Indian war of 1NS6.1. A etockade stretched from here to the smaller fort' at the Intersection of Mnln street and Occidental avenue." "Site of the smaller fort to protect the whites In the Indian war of 1I&&. A stockade stretched from here to the main blockhouse at the foot of Cherry street." , - Kach of the tablets will also contain this Inscription: - "This tablet wos erected by the Wash ington Cnlveralty State Historical so ciety. November 1. 105.'" There are many other places to be marked In the future, but these six will make a. fine beginning and will stand ae constant rmlndera ' of .the struggles, dangers snd triumphs ot the ploneera., WASHItlGTOH WILL LEIID A HAIID Conressmehlo Attendlmpor tant Meeting in Interest of " Columbia Jetty. ; JONES AND ANKENY FOR, ALSO FRENCH OF IDAHO At Conference Tomorrow Plans Will Be Made fori Carrying on an Or ganized Campaign at National Capi tal for River Appropriation.' , , " An Important conference will be held" In Portland tomorrow on the ' subject gt-JlXiJtmiXlatlnilfi Pr3Jrijonj;ress for continuing .work . on the Columbia river Jettjr andihaelllo canal. ? The meeting . will 1 be attended by trustees and members of the transportation com mittee of the Portland chamber of com merce. Congressman 'Wesley L. Jones of North- Yakima and Senator Ankeny of Walla Walla. J It Is said ' the Washington members sre deeply Interested in ths effort to secure appropriations, and that the en tire Paclflo northweat delegation la a unit on 4he subject. Hurton L French of Idaho wrote to the transportation committee expressing -regret that he could hot attend. .He aald he was In full sympathy with the-object of the meeting. " - ; ': .,,-.......--', The conference will be held at 2:S0 o'clock at the rooms of the chamber of commerce. It is- expected plans i will be completed for carrying on an organ ised campaign at Washington to con vince congressmen and senators of the absolute need1 of money,1 and show them that a Cessation ot w;irk. ot this time wouin entail-great mss 10 tne govern ment by destruction of the Improvement now under way. -f - -- CHILD OF SIX SHOOTS : ' BABY SISTER OF THREE (Josrtnl Sret Serrlee.1 Florence, Colo., Nov. 1-3. By' the se- cldental dlnnharge of a revolver tn the hands -of hie- brother, George Tonao. aged S years, Lena Tonso. aged I years. wus shot through the right lung todsy on their father's ranch near here. Th ball passed out at the shoulder blade The child is In a critical condition and owing te the location of the wound her recovery, la coneldcred doubt fuL ' CARS BUILT OF' GLASS FOR PIKErS PEAK TRAVEL tJoorsal Special Secrioa.) .. '" Colorado- Springs,. Colo.. . Nov. II.- President B.-lls-of ths Manltou & Pike's Peak, railroad - hns- ordered new pas senger -cars for his road built entirely of glass. The ends are to be rounded and the cars sumptuously .furnished. This will afford an uninterrupted view of the scenery "along the' line, from all portions of the Interior. . . . . SIXTY-EIGHT KILLED (N DRIEF0NTEIN MINE .IJmrnl speelai HeTTlee. Johannesburg, Nov. 1 J. A vertical shaft in tin DrlefonU In mine collapsed today. One .white man and fi natives- were kills. . t f . " 1 : o yff . JZ Photgraph and diagram showing how the authorities declare Stuart Pier , Son, the 16-year-old , student, met his death, and a photograph of the boy taken shortly before his de ath.- ' . . .- .i 'y-, FUND FOR THE UNFORTUNATE t: NOW REACHES $8,000 Total1 for Sufferers Now Expected to Be Nearly Twice That Sum ' PoCountrymeAXiyjfti to Relieve -Suffering Thanks to the liberal response of the Russian Jews at a mass meeting yes terday, and the efforts of , Christina ministers of tbls city during their' regu lar Sunday services, Portland's fund for the relief or-the-' Jewish sufferers In Russia had passed the tt.OOO mark to day at noon. That It will, within three days, be Increased to 113.000 is the san guine expectation of the committee. The Christians will be represented In this total by. about 11,600. - There were scenes at the meeting of Russian Jews without parallel In this section of the country. Men and women wept and hugged their . children more tightly an the frightful story of perse cution waa told and retold by the speak ers, and although vthere was not a wealthy -man In the congregation, the sum of 12,000 waa collected..- In tbls offering the most s poverty-stricken of the assemblage .objecta of- charity themselves were given credit, for their mites. . ;.,-.,., , .V ... , Talmud Thora synagogue waa crowded to its wulls when lVesldcnt Adolnhe Wolfe requested Dr. Bloch to open the meeting with prayer, r Mr. Wblfe briefly stated the.. -object of . the . meeting, urging the necessity of prompt action. Isaac Swett followed with an eloquent appeal for aid In the cause, . . : aleagta Are Achlag. . . "We Jews are waiting with aching and breaking hearts,'' suld he, "to hear front-dear- ones. .'0d knows, how many we will hear froaav-agnln. We know too well that some ef us will soon weep In greater anguish for loved ones that are no more. We know enough -now to con-vlrw-e us t hut -th unnumbered tliou- Lsands In Russia are walling and weep ing for their children, for their babies butchered walling for brothers, -weeping for sisters. Ten thousand children Id Odessa, are orphans today their par ents killed by murderous beasts.- , "The dead are gone; we can do- noth ing for them. But these men and women suffering', untold tortnres.of the mind, with -heart bleeding for lost ones these men and women have nothing to eat they are starving they have no cloth ing they are fretting they .have no pltce to lay their, heads they are home lesst We can help them. We can glvs tnem food, and clothing, snd shelter. , , t ' All Most Otve. . Mcn'a"nd women, what will we do tit them? ' OlveT Yes: this day all must Xlve. 'Every day wfc give what we Can spare today we .must, .give, what wc ordinarily cannot spare. We ni u it gl far bcnnd our mransl -'The Jew who does not glre today Is ashaatcd beforu Uod and tnaol STUDENT PUNISHED FOR TELLING UPON HAZERS . : : ' loantsl Special BerTlee. ' Gambler, O., Nov.- ll.---Be- cause he gave the authorities information regarding the death of Stuart Plerson, the Kenyon college, student, -who was 'tied by hasers to the railroad track and killed, James JB. McGarvey, a atudent, wi. - fourid bound, gigged and . unconscious lying on the floor of hts room last e night. A . note pinned to his clothing read: . "This will do fdV this time, but if we come again it will be for worse." ' - - - t - .- A. ring sna a sman wnuvni w money was taken. . but 1 other money was untouched. -, Stuart Plerson met his death on the night of October 7. He 4 waa beina Initiated Into a col- e lege fraternity, ' irrRussfar : Tor the sake of God, for the sake of. the suffering, homeless mothers and fathers, for those stricken orphans, give, give and give enough." After this appeal, Ben Selling arose snd ststed that he would add 10 per cent to the total colected at the meet ing. With this the congregation, down to tne poorest among them, waa ready to empty its pockets in ths cause. ,' - D. Soils Cohen spoke along the line sdopted by Mr. Swett and Dr. A. Abra hanison of Ahaval flholom followed, and Dr. A. Shapo of Talmud Thora addressed a touching memorlam in Hebrew to the memories of the massacred.. ' This fell with Intense sympathetic effect on the congregation. The people wept, not silently, but aloud, sa the rabbi chantod the death prayer. All Bask to aire. ' The collection of donations then be gan, snd the response was so. general thst three men were required to restrain the crowd that surged toward the treas urer's table. There were 140 separate contributions. Including Mr. Selling's bonus of 10 per cent, and the total was exactly 13,000. Notable among the con tributions was $110 from A. Fleishman and $100 from J. ShemanskLltwas observed that members of the faith who are practically supported by the relief society came forward with sums' rang ing from tl to ti in order to do' which they will deprive themselves of necessi ties for weeks to come. . Once during the meeting the contri butions lagged. Someone suggested thst erery-person-who had -contributed In crease his offering. Three minutes Inter sn additional 1 100 was on tho books. Then It was- suggested that men donate in the nnmea of their children. They In cluded grandchildren, snd . the total grew and grew. One man who had given SIS John Dellar by name afterward gave 15 each for his seven- children. The Spirit of charity had seised these ChWdrcn-of the Ghetto snd they were art lag ss nobly as the widow .of the mite. i - ' Christian Cbnroheg lislp. Meanwhile, there waa activity among the Christian Worshippers. In practi cally nil of the chnrches yestesday he pastors called for contributions to the Jewish relief "Tdrid 'and approximately Se will be. tnrnctr ,over -to Treasurer Ben Selling as a 'result. 1 At Trinity 'KpWnpal church. Dr. A -A': Morrison delivered a atlrrlng address on the nnhJiK-t of th Any. and shout MA was subscribed by Ills congregation. -lr. Contnucd eu Page Five. 4 JEVS READY TO USE LABOIiJUDILEE $5,000,000 IS HELD Assertion Is Made the Harriman Interests Would Spend This ...-;'-' to Foil Municipal Belt : ' Line Plan. .. . CLAIMED COMPANY PLANS BELT LINE OF ITS OWN $y This Meant . It Would Control Situation Absolutely, Say Experts Scheme Might Be Balked by Emi nent Domain Provision of City .Charter, Says Councilman Vaughn. Five million dollars Is available In the treasury of the Harriman system to prevent the proposed construction of a belt line along Front street and - the waterfront on the weat side.'" Which would be controlled by the municipality, and to give all transportation lines In gress Tipon equal terms. Three realty sales have been made al ready through the agency of . C. K. Henry," aggregating 1168,000. - and the Harriman system is the real purchaser. These purchases are the McCraken dock at the foot of Davis street for ITS. Oft. the Willamette Boiler works dock across Da vis-street -f r the MoCracken--prop-4 erty for $60,000 and the 21 b; 10 feet adjoining the - Enmond - hotel running from Front street to the meander line of the'TWer, Which, brought J,000.. J. C. Alhsworth owned the McCraken dDck. It Is claimed that he had valued it at $60,000, but that, so anxious Were the Harriman" agents-to -procure title tb it) that they paid an- advance of; 60 per cenu . - - - Qnartea MilUoti Already. It Is claimed that already $260,000 In cash has been sent to J. W. Morrow, and that the three purchases announced were msdo from this fund. However, municipal authorities hold that not even such tactics 'can prevent the -consummation of the belt line pro ject, for the charter confers the right of eminent domain on the city council, investing that body with the power to condemn property for all municipal and public uses. Councilman W. T. Vaughn, who la a lawyer, holds that the city'a right of eminent domain applies to the belt Una project, and,, In aupport of bla contention, he quotea the charter as fOllOWS: ' 1 ' , ..1 Coamcil Can Ooadesam. "I believe that the city council may condemn property for the use of the belt line, and my authority for 'the' as- rtlnn. Is aaetlnn g nf ths .Ch.rfr. whtcrr,tndeflntng the powers .-of the council, says that it may purchase or acquire by eminent domain, receive and hold property, both real and personal, within or without the said city, for mu nicipal purposes." . - "And again In section 73, subdivision 0, Is found this language: - "To purchase or acquire by condem nation such property, real and persons!, as may be needed for public purposes.' "Undoubtedly, this confers upon the city the power through the council to condemn property for the use of the belt line as proposed, and effectually blocks the plans of obatructton that may be formed -by any person .or corpora tion." . . T-, - It Is known that the Harriman sys tem wsnts a belt line of its own along tne west J'ortland waterfront, and that a number of deals are pending for prop- (Continued on Page Two.) REVOLUTION alOESPITECZiSlPIIOCLliMTlOl Troops Being Rushed to Scene of Revolt and Much Bloodshed j Feared AH Traffic to Be Stopped by Strikers Be - ." .tween Waraaw and St. Petersburg, y V - ' 'ft. (Joeroal Bpaclat Strvtes.) . ' L-Petersburg. Nov.' 11. News from Wrrnaw la to the effect " that desntte ths proclamation that martial law haa been proclaimed throughout Poland and the declaration ef the government thst there would be no consideration of the demands of autonomy and that Poland must remain within the empire, the re volt continues. Today the railroads are closely guarded end desultory firing is repnrteo. Reslment after regiment of . tronna are being rushed 1 special trains to put down the revolt and ft Is feared that bloodshed and massacre that have not been, witnessed in many years win result. The government's , mnnlfento served notice upon the Polish; Nation- sitsta that -while the government fully Intends to observe the nitlonsl rights ef Poland, the ancletat kingdom is now hcoonle Hn'liireg'rxr pHrt tf Ihe' Jt'iKnnm cmt-lre and nu' attempt to wrest pohh autonomv from the emperor 'H1 ie con-i.l-r-d hi) a-'t of revolt. 81. I !-ratting Is rr"..iMl-iv f--t t--J : 1 i . i 'i-j jdi c di'-i-'-i 1 ' -1 a ii-- I ' Twenty-Fifth Annual Convention .-. of American Federation of Labor in Session at - Pittsburg. - "K . CONSERVATIVE ADDRESS , OF, PRESIDENT GOMPERS Radical Stand 'Advised Against Ad- mission of Chinese) Coolie Labor Government ' by ' Injunction Con demned Prosperous Condition of ' Organized Labor Shown. ' (Journal Special srrlos.l Pittsburg. Nov. 1$. The twenty-fifth annual convention of the American Fed eration of Labor, coincident with the -sliver jubilee of . the organisation, which was rounded In this city a quarter of a century ego,' Was opened here today. Samuel Qompers. the president of the federation, called the convention to or der and delivered the opening address. In which: he outlined the vartoua Im portant questions which are to be con sidered and acted -upon by the conven tion..' ... The. 1 number ., of delegates at tending the meeting Is about (00. "The representation is distributed on the";fdl-" lowing basis: - From -national or Inter national unions, -for less than 4,000 ' members, one delegate; for .0fia. .or more, two delegates; $.000 or more, three delegates;. 10,900 or more, four . delegate; 42.000 or more, five delegates: M,00a or more, six delegates, and so oit st. the same . ratio. From central la bor bodies snd state federations, and from local trade -unions, not having a national or International union, and from federal labor unions, -one delegate. - -"" '- Chinese Xxolusion. ' - Among the most Important matters which will come up for consideration In the convention are the questions in regard to the exclusion of Mongolian labor, the matter concerning tbe move- . ment among printers all over tbe coun- try in favor of an eight-hour, worklnar day and! the proposition of forming a f armers' union to be affiliated with the American Federation of Lrfibor. ' Jt is . stated on good authority that the con- ventlon will insist upon .the rigid en forcement of the laws excluding 'Chinese labor from tbls - country. It Is also stated that the movement in favor of an , eight-hour day for the printers will be warmly aupported by the federation. ' It is understood that determined Federation of, Labor to bring about the unionisation of the farmers of this country and their affiliation with the American Federation of Labor, for mu tual benefit and protection.,- In Wiscon sin snd Minnesota a number of Farmers' onions have been formed already, and, according to the statement ot the of ficials of the Federation, tbe affilia tion of theae farmers' unions with ths American Federation of Labor la merely a matter of time. The leaders of. the federation are highly enthusiastic over the prospect of an alliance of the city wageworkera with the farmhands and farmers all over the country.- The Western Farmers' unions have sent dele gates to the convention and It Is not ex pected that the proposition of Sn afftll atlon will meet with any serious oppo sition.'.'" .-. .;- ' (Continued on, Pago Two.) 1 ' roughs st Kevsky Frospekt who started sn attack on the Intellectuals. The strike leaders-have -drafted- an. appeal . calling on all rltlens to arm In defense of their homes and families. It wss decided to sgnln stop all traffic between Warsaw snd ft, Petersburg. All worfc men have been commanded not to work more than eight hourg a d-iv. beginning this morning and the situation Is gen erally graver. Riots sre f.-nred at Moscow, where (lis fashionable quarter Is deerted. Ait t-ta-ek on students and Jews Is feared to day. Jews are fleeing In terror hv the hun dreds from' southern ltuta town nn-l portions of Nlo.ileff. klHlilnrff sn1 Odesa sre trrHllr l-roni!.ii 1 Tl" . re 'bound for l-:ngi-ind nn-l ' ' For 'failure to ei'ir-"--" ' ' t ! Oenerat H-'l-'' !- " tr.Tit-" st Kr-n-i I-rini" POLAND CONTINUES