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Ui J'T BE.- MISLE.D--T- -Li p Ai LTI-:-;J C J -II I AL ' CO CT3 ' BUT - TTO - 'CILNTS ONr-THE"GTI GOOD EVEHIITG (( ! YuUs& f hfeuSX! mMfSfflP ' Circulation Rain and warmer tonight; Thursday V S "' ' ' S y- ' ' v.. i ; : Was if V i J V- rin; southerly winds. . N-O-X j ; JC , ' ' ; ' ' ' X '. , . VOL. IV. NO. 224, PORTLAND OREGON, , WEpNESDAY EVENING, . NOVEMBER. 22. 1905 SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. Aw tbatjts 4o irrws stands, v cuti P L Eastern, Oregon Man Elevated to the Supreme Bench to Serve Until January, 1907 we ETON'S SOCCESSO G0IERI1 10 FILLING l . - -AppbintHis Announced First Choice Fori the Position, an Ex-Mayor of Pendleton and . ; . .rormer District Attorney.. HENRY E. REED FOR v- , ! CLERK OF THE COURT -i Secretary of the Lewis and Clark Fair Prominently Mentioned for the Po ; sition Now Held by McKee, Whose ; , Successor Judge Wolverton . Will Appoint. '" ,V f : i finKfim(nCTrKrTW -Balera, Or. Nor. JI. Governor Oeorr . B, Chamberlain fhia morning appointed Thomaa a. Halley of Pendleton to a eat on - the supreme bench to All the vacancy reused by the appointment ot Chief Justice Wolverton to the fed ' oral Judgeship of Oregon, made vacant by the death of the late C. B. Bcl . ling.' ' .'-" ' 'The governor simply .announced that . ha had decided on- the appointment, of . Ilalley and that hla credentlala would be laaued aa aoon aa Julir' Wolverton realKneL - i . '! . Tlie appointment meeta with aroneral 1 approval here.-. ' -Jttatloa-JWolverton- expect to remain , on the atAte bench weelt- lotNrei1."'-''--'-1 fur at Jcast i two 1 Judge Wolverton's term of offloa x- plren In January.. 1107.' rija aucceaaor . will be elected at the coming June elec- ' tlon of 10. Halley consequently wilt hold offluo a little more, than a. year....... Thomaa Q. Halley waa born at 14k :. Grande, Union-county, Oregon, July II, Hat, of pioneer' parent. . Hla father, ' John Halley of Idaho, a native of Ten ' aehaoe, croaaed the plalna to Oregon ' City In H5S, and later aettled In aouth m Oregon, where he met and married Ioulaa M. Orlffin," a native' of Ken- - tuck'y. who came to Oregon with her father. Captain Burrel B. - Quiff In, In 1M.- - " ' ' .. ' When Mr. Halley, who la a third aon. was months old. he waa taken to Idaho with hla parent, but waa soon brought back to The Dalles,: where he ' 'lived while bla father was operntlng , atags Unas between Oregon and Idaho. . loiter bualnraa -, Intereats caused the Halley family to return to Idaho, and In Bolae, where the family home was es : tabliahad. Mr. Halley received his puh ' lie school education and preparation for "'t'HIlsga.'" Mia aialluiiB were spent upuu the ranches of hla father, who owned large numbers of horses und hIhmd, Begins aa It Clerk. . In the fall of i84 he entered tha taw office of Cox Minor at, Pendleton, Oregon, aa Uw atudent and clerk, where , he remained about a, year. ' At the end of this time he went east with M father, - then serving a second term ir. congreaa aa a delegate tryqi the terri tory pf Idaho,. ad entered Waahlngttn ,. and Lee university at xln-ton, Vlr , glnia, where he apent four years In the . collegiate and. law departments, grad uating from the latter In June, 1S8, ' with the degree of doctor of laws. Dur ing his college career he waa prominent . In the literary and aoclal life of the In- atitutlon, held many position of honor an trust and won many important cot- , lege honors. . i ' ' , . After graduation he' returned to- hla home In Idaho,: but was aoon requested . by Cox A Minor to reenter their office, and did so July 11. 18. Ha remained : with this firm until their removal to Portland, January 1, 180. In the fat) : of 1K he was' appointed by Chlefdus- Ilea Thayer clerk of the supreme court, ', of Oregon for- the eastern district, sad held the position for more than 'thres ' year. i . ' Mr. Halley waa married to Mlaa Ma ltd U Beach of Iowa, July IS, 1812. and they now have .two daughters, Oene " vleve and Elisabeth, to grace their - nleasant home overlooking the clty-ol - Pendleton,' on the north 'bank of .the 'Umatilla river! . - Defeated My TtUrnL - fr-r In August. 3S2, he was . appointed -floputy dlatrlct attorney for tha fllxth ..Judicial district. In Umatilla county, and about tha aam time formed m law partnership with Stephen - A. Iowl 1, under the firm name "otKal1ey r Iwell. Which continued until October. 1S9S, when Mr. Lowell waa appointed circuit judge of the Blxth Judicial dla : trlct, upon the . resignation of Judge James" AT Fee.- lit then formed a part " herailo" .With Judge Fee, Charlea H. Carter and John U Austin,- wfth offices In Pendleton and Union. Un,lon county, Oregon. ' Since the dissolution of 'this firm hs practiced with Judge John J. Ballery, now deceaaed, and later the . firm of Halley Iowell waa reestab lished.. '" In the spring of U9 he wss nomi nated on the Democratic ticket Mr th ; office of circuit Judge, but was defeated . by hi former, partner. Judge Lowell, , and In the spring of Itoe hs wss homl , nated try hla party for dlatrlct attorney ' and waa elected over his former part - Iter. Judge Fee, Throughout these eon testa, although defeated by one friend (Continued on rage Two. )t PROMPT 10 ACT VACANCY 1 .1 . I Snapshot of Rpfrf H HCWji tfi a view of the interior of the Pullman trip through the louthwest with hia father' mother and wife at. a coat ' 'of four thouaand dollar to the policy holders. yzy.lS '.S CAR SHORTAGE THREATENS TO RUIN - MHAilYlPORTLAnD Lumber Companies Ask for Thirty Cars and Get Two to four- -.' ' Men' Laid Off and Some Plants Run ' but 'i One -'' Shift ' .''.t ''-'-J,' Need of Belt Line Emphasized. . ' A car shortage that la almost ruinous to many Industries' Is prevalent fl the PaclAo northwest. , Its effect In some quarter of Portland Is like a blight on business. ' It Is estimated that today Portland's productive Industries could and would load 1.000 cara mora than can be scoured from the railroad for shipment of Portland product to points within the city's trade territory and that aa . a reault of the handicap thouaand of dollar are being lost to tha city's business . men' and to- the worklngmen who are directly affected In one way or another. ' - The-shortage appears to be growing worse dally and there Is no definite prow pee i for Tellef. " , Manufacturers, rommlsslpa men, fuel dealers and all kinds of heavy producers of ,tonnfli are discouraged and bitter ly criticise jne rauroao companies, ror lack of foresight and failure to pro vide adequate shipping facilities. , . Oonattry'a Orewtk the Oaaee. The prime cauae of the caf ahortage Is attributed to tha Immense growth ot the country In the last year. But those who have watched the conditions year after year any the rallroada In Oregon have been ntmentsbly short of equip ment for the' last five year,, nd that while Mr: Ha'rrlman haa been advised of the- situation - he ;ha -Ignored the need- of the' people. " A large .milling firm; In Portland makes the' statement that three -years ago It was driven out of tho trada in California becauae It could Hot get care : for shipping Ita product after It had at heavy expena worked up. Inrge trad In that terri tory. ; Ita, California trade had to. M entirely abandoned and other' manufac turera got In and took the buslnesa.; r . ... v' j""''''" n tHnintl I il', 'ml' car in which, he made a junketing ' "Since that' time "we ha ve succeeded In recovering our California trade,'-' said the manager, "and-today we are . get ting fairly good - treatment ' from ' the Southern Pacific , company.' ' . ; "..''t.'. Conn try Merehast sMffer. J At i. Interior , pdlnts, ' the shortage 'is felt -In smaller measure, by each - com munity, but .in ...the. aggregate , an- Im mense tonnage is awaiting Itstrlbstton, and the effect of the stagnatlonlia-felt In Portland business offices where4h mail from country customer! refcetved. Many country merchant write: v "Owing to failure to move crop, the farmer In this neighborhood, are .short Of" money," and we -would like to have further accommodation on oiir-aecount with you." : -j, -""Theiir ahbrtage fi In.Pnrtland by hlppers of heavy com modities, and particularly of non-pertah-able. good, .- The lumber mills and man ufacturers' of all kinds of 'Wooden, iron and similar product suffer most. The lumber mills are- getting only on tenth the number .of .car, they need.,. OnJ mill aa, a .result ha laid off 1J men, another. Is running on three quarter time., a. third will shut down if . the pressure ' 1 not , relieved, aa .the - com pany's great yard rapidly are becoming congeated. : - ; r Qo Wont Instead, of Thirty. v Today the Inman-Poulsen Lumber company railed for 10 cars for Immedi ate loading ano got orrty two from the Southern 1'aclAc snd two from the O. R. A N. romimny.i The Eastern A West ern Lumber company tnked for 10 Vers sod- got two. : The other lumber mills ACeatlnuea cn', Pag .Two.), -; MUTIIIV Oil BOARD IIUWM Chinese . Crew Demand's :r More ' Chow Money, Is Refused ; ;Vf ' an'd, Rebels, v ' . ' ,r.l SAILORS. HURLED TO DECK r - BY MOUNTAINOUS WAVES Captain Saya That in Japan the Pop-; ulace,' Angry Because of "Peace, Burned ' Reeidences of : Komura'a Secretaries and Chaied Them,'"' ! ' A. revolt of a' Chinese crew, 'which had to be subdued with aworda and runs: cyclones . showing . as strong wind -.a have, ever been, recorded aboard, ship on . the Pacific ocean; salkirs. thrown! to the deck and hurt, by the mountainous waves: burning of the .houses , Which shlTtered the, sweethearts of; Bsron Ko mura of the 'peace conferencej'fllgftf of the damscla' to Shanghai these, are a. few of the Incidents related by the offi cers, of. the steamship Numantla, which reached port ! yesterday; morning! from the o'rlent. " - 1 Had It not been for tne prompt action of First Officer Peters; the steamer would have been without' sailors' soon after 'her arrival at MoJI. The men be came angry when they found -out 'that the steamer was not going through to Hongkong- aa hitherto had been-the cus tom. - - ..--,,. " -; - ? . ;. "Chow Money"' for Supplies. ; It seems ' that . the Chinese had been allotted "chow ' money". wUii which : to purchase sufficient amount of supplies to 'last .them the. round, try. ; . . When told to . make' these . purchases at Moji. as the vessel would not go to China, the seamen demanded more "chow money." They declared that provisions cost more "In Japan, and. said that It they " were not given more funds they would -not 'Work.-'--- '' ' c, When sn effort waa made' to . reason with the Mongolians,', thwy congregated on tha deok and.ahowed fight. Flrat Of f icer Petera had a sword banging on the- wall of hi room, one he had used when serving in the German navy,. Seis ing this weapon, he qulcklyunsheathed It and knocked one of the belligerents over th side nf the ship. -"Then striking right and .left, he soon scattered ,th rioter. ' . -. r . -, , " Flo to Kill OfHoers. V I ' It IsTbelleved tlhe defeated saflorsthen carefully laid a plot to murler the offl cera. Atrany rates onV'of" them, slipped quietly up to a cot on which Third Offi cer Outsche was faat asleed and pointed a loaded, revolver at bla head.-- Peters aaw the would-be assassin, however, ,nd before he could pull the trigger sent him sprawling with his. sword, .autsche then swokr, grabbed the gun and tapped the Chinaman over the head with It. From that time on. there was nothing furthef said1 about "chow money" and very-4Hor returnedrtt hie labor. r Twov day out jrtom ; Yokohama. --th Numantla ran into the tall eml of a Avrlimfl which mjut Kr latu har.l ft nit roll freely.' Later on ah waa Stitkl by a second Cyclone, which the officers describe as one of the most severe they ever experienced. The lastruments used, and they are the beet made, could not measure the wind velocity. , The . wind . Continued -on Page 's Ten.) .j ; TO RECOVER LAUD LIATIUA Government After Land Fraud- ulently; Acquired by. Hyde, t Benson and Clark. ' PROPERTY COT BY TIPS FROM LAND OFFICE CLERKS Long . Liat of , Defendants, Moat of 'Whom .We're Innocent Purchasers ' Property Now Owned by K. O. -Warner inri J K. Smith rtmiinii ' (Special ' Dltpttrk te The Jnarnsl.t , Pendleton, Or., Nov. J 2. P. A. Clark. deputy ,UnIted State marshal,, today served a complaint. Issued by Attorney fJeneral Moody upon B. A. Rugg. K. O. Warner the .First National bank, T. C. Taylor,, trustee to C. B. Wade: the J. E. Btnfth rLiveStocx company, all of Pen dleton, In -an action to annul title to land secured by these parties purchased from Benson-Hyde agents, who In the flrat' place located thla land through a tip by. land-office clerk In Washington and- who' have confessed to the government.-;! '. . . J , ; ... i The complaint name, th following participants, all being Innocent., pur chaser excepting Hyde and Benson and Clark,- being served limply to establish the chain of title to the land: Fred erick A. Hyde, John A. Benson, W. A. Clark, B. ' Wade, E. A. Rugg, Flrat National bank. Pendleton: K. O. Warner, TC. Taylor, trustee Wade; J. E. Smith Livestock company. ". . t Clark aold land -to C. B.-Wad,who sold to -others, all becoming parties te the suit of th government to revert title' ' ''- . ' . , .The amount of land In the complaint consists of tract of SO acres each, tim ber 'land, situated In the Blue moun tains, t'matllla county, now owned by K. Q. Warner and J. E. Smith Llveatock company, the last purchasers, who are likely to be losers, ' : " SAY-STEPFATHER V ' J. GOT THEIR PROPERTY (Wshlaglea ' Bams tt The-. JoarnsL) ;. , Salem. Nov. ' St. Judge Galloway yestTnsy-ftei iiimui divorced 'William from Matide Schafer on the ground that she had been guilty of fnr mlscuridnct, The suit of Mrs, Effie M. Reed of Portland and Miss Ann May Johnson of this city against O. O. Savage occu pied the rest of the day. The women allege that -Havsge. their stepfather ha defrauded them of their mother' estate valued at I17.50Q. Savage " I candidate for councilman on the Re publican ticket In Salem.; ,) SURVEYOR FALLS" FROM LE0GE-T0 INSTANT DEATH ' ;' V " " . I (Ksll rHonstrll tn Tte Jminwl.1 Vancouver, B. C, Nov, ai. John' P. Mitchell, aged tl years, a surveyor Kt Hector, on the Kicking Hors river, was wslklng slong e narrow ledce- tn the tnnimtnlna .when he fell t feet to the rocks below, being killed Instanlly, Gaga E. Tarbell Says That DU mlnlshing Dividends to Pol- . icy-Holders Was Due to .;V ...'. '; Extravagance. . : PRESENT INVESTIGATION - WILL CORRECT ABUSES Official of Equitable States That He ' Always Paid His Family's Ex penses - When They - Accompanied Him Rogers to Be Called Young . McCurdy as a Spender. ' (Jsanial SpeeM Sen let. New Tork. Nov. I J. Oage E. ' Tar- belL third vice-president of the Equlta-' bl Life Assurance society,, resumed the atand this morning In the legislative Insurance Investigation. He told fur ther details of , the employment of agenta by the Equitable. ' - .. Plxalalaklng PivlUpdr- Hughes asked Tarbell to account for the disappointment of pollcy-holdere In Vhe els of dividends at maturity. 1 Tar bell said that there were aevertl rea sons for small dividend, the ratea of Intereat had gone down from to' t per cent and cotnmlselons and expenaes had Increased, taxes on premium In differ ent states had doubled , and labor waa higher. Tartwll atated: ; ( ' "Then there have becn'extravagance In Insurance management which are partly responsible for the reduced divi dends. I thlnk-'the work of this com mittee will go a long way to correct thla extravagance." , Tarbell aald "that . he had alwaya urned In an Itemised account of all ex penaes and that he paid the expenses of. hi own family from hla peraonal fund when he took them with him on Inspection trips. Tarbell explained the agency, system of which he had charge. He stated that he had endeavored to Induce the Mutual Life and New York Life company to fight Inimical legislation by organising the pollcy-holdera on account of tha large expense under the present sys tem. . He explained .the system of fix ing commission on- various classes of policies and detailed the Increase of commissions with the Increase of com petition, i - ' - jSiOCmjhi a fianaa Yesterday afternoon James P. Apgar of Westchester stated that he could not remember what the . 1 1,000 payment, which was noted on one of hi cards, from Mr Hyde war for, and mid that he thought that he had called on th Insurance official to Intercede for a friend and left hi card - which he thought waa uaed aa a memorandum-' Mr. Hughee ha received a request from William S. Manning, who figured a "our cantankerous friend" In Depew's letters, that h be called to the stand. He state that he waa never employed by the Equitable.' , , ' i , Further development of farts In the Investigation of the Mutual Life may make It necesaary to place Henry- H. Rogers of . the Standard Oil company upon th stand aa a witness In th near future. Andrew J. Clunle, formerly In surance commissioner ef California, will soon go before the committee. It le expected that Robert H. McCur dy, general mttnager of the Mutual, will be recalled to1 explain ftnther hie trans continental palace car Jaunt, In which ha took, his entire 'family and their friends across - the' continent, and the Mutual' policy holders paid the bill. Young - McCurdy , previous testimony Vftowed plainly that thousand of dol lar hajj,ben spent by him in this man ner.' ; I .' ' - He told nnblushlngly of entertaining hla father,' mother and 11 wife -on these trlpa, which were charged to the Mutual Rife as traveling expenses, and. Under pressure from Mr. Hughe, confessed hat on one of these trip -hi wife took her maid along. ' , , , . Slat Horse Thief enteaoesU--(Bpteial Otepatrlt to The JnarmaL) Welser. Idaho, Nov. SI. The sixth of the gang of horse ' thieves. Ira Balrd. was today convicted and sentenced to four .year In the Idaho penitentiary at Boise. ' Samto sin tke Melon Patch He's one of the funniest little fellows you ever sJiw, and he is built to amtise the children. AThe little black hoy eat his watermelon and rolls his ejes snd just enjoys, himself. M this is only the first of scries of mechanical toys u lnVh Tty ; ; Journal is poinp'to (jive away1, bepnninfj next S in ! n . !'' the jtiost attractive mechanical cut-out t v . i t' -and yMi get it Free Vit1i 77.. 4 ' i Pugilistic - Naval Student Minor .Meriwether Answers to y Crime of" Manslaughter ' " ''for Finish Fight, THREE REAR ADMIRALS' C0URTMARTIAL MEMBERS Charges of Infringing Discipline and "Violating Naval Regulations Also ' r to Be Answered Fatal Battle Was j According to' Traditions and Lasted --Twenty-Two Rounds.'-- (taarsal Special Servlee.)r ' Annapolis. Md., Nov. 2S. Upon charges of manslaughter and conduct prejudicial "togo6ddrderrna 'dlflprm and -fo -violation In naval regulatlona . by en gaging la a. right with Mldshlpmt-i Jsmes R Branch, Jr., Mtdshlpmsn Miner- Meriwether of La Fayaette, Louisi ana, wss plsced on trial thla morning In the naval academy before the general' coartmartlal ordered by Secretary Bona parte. . Branch' death, two- day after the f lglrt, which occurred on November i, form th basis ef a manslaughter charge. The other charges are Incl- dantal to this. The tudge advocate i Captain Adolph Marks. -I He acted In the V aam capacity In the Maine Inquiry, The member of the courtmartlal are: Rear-Admlrala Ramssy, McCormick and Barker, retired. Captains Walnwrlght and Comly. Commander Staunton. Flak and Barry, Lieutenant-Command-era Clarke and Craven and Lieutenants Jackson, McLean and Conatetna. Staunton, was excused from serving because before he was ordered for trial duty he. was . heard .to say that he thought Meriwether should - be dis missed. The courtmartlal charge and speci fications were read to Meriwether.- He pleaded not guilty.. Jamea C. Vender-. carr of the second clsss testified thstt he was one of Branch' best friend. He ald: '. "I sst next to Meriwether at mesa , upon the arrival of the British rle-t ; Meriwether declared he was laying for 1 a chance to souk Branch. A day ,ater he announced that he had received a challenge. Branch had admitted nag- Il" Meriwether." Btory of the rig-M. Meriwether and Branch entered thai academy the aame year, but Meri wether was turned back because ef fall-j ure In his. studies. Ill-feeling devet-j oped , between the two young men. the) cause of which no one was able to telL As cadet officer Branch Inspected th' qusrters of the midshipmen of the sec ond class. On one of these tour ho' entered the room occupied by Meri wether and discovered a suit of civlllani attire In a laundry bag owned by Meri wether. Branch reported this to the au thorities In the academy and Meri wether received SO demerit, aa. It waa agalnat th rules. , -' - , After Meriwether received the IS de merits he called Branch a sneak and cowsrd, both of which are fighting worda at th scsdemy according to tn code of honor that prevail among mid shlpmen. - Branch and Meriwether re ported the Incident to theis respective classes snd Branch waa directed by hla classmen to challenge Meriwether te fight and Meriwether was Instructed; by hi class, to accept the challenge. ' TongM Twenty-Twe Beamda. Plana, for thai fight wer made and Cadet Lieutenants "ltch and Noyee p-r. mltted the two principals and thetr sec onds to absent themselves from supper. Fitch ;snd Noyes acted aa seconds and. two of the; midshipmen a timekeeper and 'referee. Th fight wa held tn on of. the room of Bancroft hall and wae fought. according to.. London prise ring rulea.wtth bare knuckles, every knock down constituting a round. - The- fight lasted SS rounds and both men were severely punished. The shoul der of Meriwether wss dlslocsted and hi ankle sprained.- Hi second forced hla shoulder back Into place and the two principal were ready to proceed with the contest until the 3t rounds should wj fought, when a lookout nottfied those (Continued1 on Pag Two.)