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II - J-v . M , a . m. 'ifc. i i I I .Jsk ' A. A A af A. . - V T A I II V j GObD'EVElUIlG.; Journal Circulation 'mm .' Fair and moderately cold tonight and Saturdays variable winds. ,. , : 9 PORTLAND, OREGON,, FRIDAY EVENING, ' DECEMBER 2, 1905, TWO SECTJONS-r PAGES,! VOL. IV. NO. 250. PRICE TWO 'CENTS.; VUinPcC . i,. Liira m m nee General Electric Decides on Improvement in Portland Involving Immense . Expenditure i . , i i i : . v 1 ' - . r , 1 . ,, ; i . ARMYJOinilJG Mill gS Russian Troops Openly Showing Sympathy1 With RevojMtion ists -Situation Increas-. ,7 . . In In Intensity. ' - " '- ..;,'. : , . . ;V V;i-., M0S0W IN CONTROL OF THE INSURGENTS Traffic Ceaiea Throughout Empire Except Those Operated by the Mil- . Itary Fatal Clashea Reported--Peaesnta Ravaging, Country, De stroying Everything.'. (Joernal Special SerTiee.t St Petersburg, Dec. 22. Many strlk leader have been arrested, but their places were Immediately taken by oth er, and the situation Is Increasing In . Intensity. The city was in darkness all " night The troops uncovered a each of arms and ammunition belonging- to . the revolutionists. 'The declaration of : martial law has not . affected, . the strikers. V ' ' ' .? " ,'. Revolutionists practically ... eontrol Moscow. " There have been a number of fatal Clashes' between th people snd th-troop en.vthe streets.:' All through J- th night -both at Moscow and St Ft .1 ersburg searchlight .war operated by j, the soldiers on. ths main streets... Mar tlal law has been proclaimed through- OUt Poland. ' ' 'i". j "At MSScavTlrobpsTir openly'ihowing .', sympathy for the strikers. . . Three per sons were killed this morning in a small jflot... rosty-sis)- mill . 'recently arrested,-, were released i yes terday to assist at' the 1ty works and promptly Joined the strikers. . " - . Peasants looting Z states. In the Orel district, landowners have , barricaded their houses.- but most all , of r them bavs been forced to surrender to the peasants on account of lack of ' provlslona Th peasant are destroy - lng everything they sen lay. their band . upon. Through tralas heavily guarded ere ' running Into St. Petersburg operated by ' the military. But the postal service Is . unreliable. The csar this morning sent to the mikado expressions of regret that . owing to Uia. disturbances It would be - Impossible for htm to srrange the pro . posed, oommerdsl treaty before March. The strike is In force throughout the entire empire and conditions are becom ing more and- mare alarming. Famine Is feared In the near future In th vari ous cities and -serious , rioting Is also , feared aa soon ss the masses begin to suffer from lack of food stuffs., ,"'1V Vnloalsts Aradngv ' ' i In Moscow snd Odesss the unions have declared In favor of an armed re ' volt and bomb and ammunition are being furnished strikers. At the latter 'place the troops have refused to, do ' police duty. It is impossible to move troop with th expedition necessary to ' be of Sse st point of danger. It is stated that the emperor has .. definitely decided to refuse to grant universal suffrage, although ths conn ' ell voted for It The workmen's coun cil ' Is Issuing Inflammatory proolama i tlohs calling upon ths people to rise. ' Many of the articles are dlreoted to th army,- which-1 Implored not to ' shed the blood of the nation. ' The Lithuanian Insurrection haj ex " tended . into th province of , Vitebsk, "''across the border. -from Livonia. At Kharoff 10,000 revolutionaries are uik der arms and troops are being concen . trated for th purpose of attacking the , city. . . ..- . i ' Oonld's Tsont Saf. ' '). '. (Jnaraal Special Bervle.) "." New York, Deo. 12. -Gould's "yacht, reported-a mlsatnr. Is now safe In th harbor at Nassau, Wast Indies. , . GEARIN HAKES HIS DEBUT If. SETiATE VVEARING PLAIH SACK SUIT New Senator .Refuses to Appear Borrowed Plumage and as ( HitTfrunk Is Delayed Violates' Precedent by Appearing In '' Traveling Clothes-r-Bucrovys. Makes Nq Objection, v "'f r i (Waakloctea Bursas ef The loarsa!. Washington, Dec, IJ.Another senat ! 1 precedent has been broken snd snother time-honored custom ruthlessly., violated by the new senator .from Oregon, who P had ths temerity to make his initial ap- pea ranee In th stately precincts ol,th ' upper house clad ' In th true garb of democratlo simplicity, the modern sack suit The circumstance, like the alleged ""Irregularity" In h(s credentials, was, In- . voluntary, yet It was an Innovation, and a startling one, and. has won th new 1 solon more-fam than a dosen speeches. Yesterday morning when preparing to r .", ...7-. Calls at ., White House, . Is Intro duced to Executive by Sen ator Fulton and" Receives 7 Warm Welcome. 5 v ':V :;; J ' SENATORS ALSO VISIT J I r WITH QUARTERMASTER Speak Word in , Interest of Oregon - Bidders Chaffc Declines Offer of New York " Police Commission : erahip Peirce to Be ; Minister' to " Norway.. : ." '.:.!.,'" -'.-v ."' ,'. . ;i Washhtoa Boreas of Th JoeraaL) Washington, Dec tz. Senator Oearln railed at the Whit Hon this morning accompanied by Senator Fulton and wss Introduced to President BoosevelC who received him with great cordiality. Th president expressed ha hop that sena tor Oearln would have a pleasant term of service In the . senate and that b would be anabled to accompiisn mucn good, for bis state. . Fulton and Oearln also called on th quartertnaster-gqtteral and urged that greater consideration be shown Oregon bidders for supplying forage for srmy us In the Philippines, They received ansurano that th .matter would , b given' attention!1 - " " '-. -" 1 -'" General Chaffee this morning declined Mayor McClellan's offer of a pollc commlaalonershlp In New Torfci -' It Is believed, that Corbln. after his retirement, will ak -election to cos gross Trow his nom oiatrict in tmio, and try to get the chairmanship of th committee on military affairs.,' ' , flolally anwownee ooa: that, Herbert D..pelre, assistant secretsry of stale, will be appointed minister to- Norway., Charles DenbyJ, jr., win succeed mm as assistant sec retary of state. v v;: Marlon Devrles, s member ; of the board of appraisers, has been appolntr ed president of the board by Secretary Shaw. Devrles Is an ex-member of con gress from California. - Senators Perkins and Flint called on the president today to urge the appoint ment of Truxton Beall of Bakersfleld, California, as American representative to the next 'Hague peace . conference. Beall was -formerly minister to Persia. MME. JOHANNA GADSKI : CONFRONTS A BURGLAR 1 ' Ooersal Bpedat Bervle. ) ' New Tork. Pec. 22. Alone In. her apartment at - ths Cambridge hotel Madams Gadakl, formerly a member of th Metropolitan opera company, was confronted st S o'clock this morning ty an armed burglar who threatened to shoot unless 'she -kept 'quiet. With s revolver leveled at -her chest ths singer's outcry, of fesr was stifled and she backed away from the Intruder Into an other room, closed the door and tele phoned the hotel clerk for help. Gadakt's retreat left clear th bur glar' pathway by th fire escape.. Down this the man clambered to the first floor of th balcony; from, which n dropped II feet to th sidewalk-amd escaped. Nothing was stolen. - ATTEMPT IS MADE TO -KILL PRESIDENT REYES ;,;r. ........ , , lloarsal Special Berrlca.) . ' v Washington, Deo. - 22. A cablegram to the stat department tat,that an attempt wa mad at Bogota yesterday to assassinate President Reyes, snd thst as a result many prominent men' have been arrested and will be. tried - by oourtmartlal. No details are given aa to the reason for th attempt, and much surprise is expressed by member of th Colombian legation here. . 'V.. make his debut in the senat Senator u sarin waa . greatly disturbed to find that his trunk had been delayed and would not reach th -capital for a day or two. All -he had n hand was the sack suit In which hetraveled. , Th ethics of th -senate require a frock or Princ Albert coat, and th senator waa at a loss what to do. On of hi friend offered to deck him ut In a regulation frock coat, but Senator Gear he preferred to violate senatorial prece dent rather than make his first appear ance In borrowed plumage. : A Senator Burrow mad no Objection to th senator's sack coat, v - . . isiaH . : i'i . . "WrWVUAs ; aArtfWll VV ' V f- 1 ', - I .i 1 - . j il I le-IIIITVIIia I III . 1 Mr.-E. H Oary,' The Rrst Baptist Church i to . Clear Rolls, Eliminating r?er - ' - haps One Hundred. 1, ; T- HELP FOR ALL SINCERE, STRUGGLING PERSONS But, 'When ; Persisting ; In Unchris- , titn induct, ; says o, He,, cnurcn 1 Cannot ; Uphold Action and They ' v '4JC e 1 " '- - .' ' .- .Zj . ' "-1 :' . t Rev. i J. Whltcomb' Brougher,' D.; D., pastor; of the First BaptUt church, of Portland, will soon .recommend to ,the governing board that' a number of names b dropped from the' membership roll. Som of those who are to be -dismissed will go .without the pale(of the church, because they persist, In conduct con trary to that which. In the opinion of Dr. Brougher, Is to. b expected from consistent Christians. -. A report was In-circulation- that' H was. th intention of Dr. , Brougher,., to drop 100 members from the roll and would mak such a recommends t(on last night. Dr. Brougher said; ' ' - ''I did net make the report Jast night. as I had IntemVed. but , I will do so In th near future. - In ths cases of many, w will take uch sctfon merely becauae they hav gon from th city and we know nothing of them and hav not heard from them for yeara. Their name are on ths membership rolls, but they hav maintained no. active connection with the church, and In erasing jtbelr name we are simply clearing up th rolls so as to be able t show' a vitalised, working membership in th true sense of th word. -. - "Ho we ve,. it is . true that In some Instance the dismissals will be because we believe th members Involved have not desired to measure up to a reasonable standard of Christian living. ' I never would turn from a man who honestly strive to attain th Christian Ufa. 80 long a he keep on trying ! will give him. my, warm support and, earnest .as sistant. . .' .",'' ' "Bat, a everyone know, there ar persons who persist In a course contrary to the demands of-the sincere Christian and doe not ' InV hi heart Intend 1 he struggle against slnfuf ten I dencl. There Is a vast difference be tween th man who falls because of weakness, but who fights on Ilk th jt Continued on rag Four.2 BROUGHERTO DROP Who Was Redded Almost Immediately After Her Divorce. NEW ROMANCE OF STEEL TRUST Judge Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of th,e Board of Directors, .V Weds Mrs. Alex. S. Scott. FALLS IN LOVE WITH V WIFE OF POOR CLERK Wadding Takes Place Three Months - After Divorce and Former.Husband Sets Up ' in Business - for Himself , With" Ample . CapitaL' ' , " - ' f Jrmrnal Special -Bervlpe.) New York. Deo. t 22. .The Journal say 4: ' "The 'suppressed .'facts regarding ths romantlo; mhrrlage of Judge Elbert H. Gary, the. dominant force In the great- ateeltrtitrtrto-Mrs. Alex Steven son Scott have been .br4uhcto light It Js learned .that the,' wedding on De cember 1 100K- piace less man tnre month and a half after the final decree of divorce had been granted Mrs.'' Scott "The marriage ha been the main sub ject of conversation among picture dealer on Fifth avenu since the an nouncement was made, for the former husband of Mrs. Gary wa until a short time befor that a clerk In a picture an art Store. He Is now the head of an establishment, of his own. Incorporated with a capita of $10,000. "Gary 1 In many respects a more Im portant figure In the great financial world than President Corey, having been one of th foremost promoter of the steel trust He I chairman of th board of director of that corporation and Intimately connected with many of the strongest financial Institution snd trusts In th country. Ills present wife until four years sgo lived In compara tive obscurity s the wife of a clerk wbo-ecelved only a -modest salary. "Shortly after meeting Gary She" moved to the Hotel Seville, where she afterward became -tha wtf of Judge Gary and they took apartment at the Wsldorf-Astorls.- r v :. . I GOVERNOR PARDONS j V - ' ' AN, INNOCENT MAN (Jeersal Special Berrtre.) - ' Ssnramntv-air--IJt.The IoVrf enjorr toony paraanea 1 nomas neuy, serving a Ufa terra st San Quentln, con victed of a murder In Fresno county In 1800, , Fran Woods,, another convict. has confessed to th crime, , .. , ' Vl K .K. 1- ' KHEVVSTATEMEHTS WERE FALSE Insurance-Examiner Vanderpool Admits -Knowledge of M u- ' i tual's Chicanery. SAYS ALL. COMPANIES r RESORTED TO JUGGLING Witness States That New York Life ( Used Five Millions of Its Profits i( to' Check Off. Large Account of ' Agents' Balances. . (Journal Special Serrtce.J ,New . Tork, Dec 22. Stephen M. Smith, assistant treasurer, and Charles A. Preller, auditor of the Mutual Life Insurance company, were witnesses" Ifl th Insurance Investigation this morn ing: - , ' ; 1 Vanderpool, chief examiner of th de partment, wa recalled and testified that he knew the Mutual was not making Te port'of It profits and losses from th sale of securities, but did not think it necessary to, report this condition of af fairs to th department Hughe suggested to Vanderpool that the Mutual' method of. making report concealed th marking down of book value of th company' real estat and th concealment of profits from the sals of securities. Witness said this waa true. He atated that other com panies resorted to similar juggling, and mentioned the New Tork Life aaAm of them, and said: 'In 190 the profits from ths saleof lecuiltles. f 6,000,000, was used to check off the large account of agents' bal ances, which th departments would not accept as assets. ' !, . . ..' CHALLENGERS FOLLOW r JURY INVESTIGATION . v i IJonrsal Special Berrlee.) ' Chicago, Dec. 22. Government detec tive spent th night Investigating tb records of veniremen accepted by th defendant n the packers case. Today Morrison peremptorily challenged three of them.-- ' - - ' 1 " "5 baas fruit Zaspeetor. (Special DlapateS t The Jnaraal.) Rugene, Or.. Dee. '22. Th Lane county commissioners' court haa sppoluted Dr II. F. McCornack county fruit Inspector.. SEEK SEATTLE $1 000,000 IS TEBALS TO BE SPEHT Milwaukee Has Option on Co lumbia and Puget Sound and Endeavors to Purchase Pa cific Coast Company.' , ; NORTH COAST TO BUY TAC0MA AND EASTERN Rival Roads Strive for .Needed Waterfront Facilities In Sound City President Williams . Makes an Offer for Lands, Docks, Mines and Steamers.' ' (Rpselal Dtapateh to Th VoaraaLf """ Seattle, Wash., Dec 22. On th best of suthorlty It Is reported that an op tion on the Tacoma eV Eastern railway is held by th North Coast Th Chi cago, Mllwauk oV St Paul ha taken an option on th Columbia Puget Sound. Both of th road ar negotiat ing for th purchase and control of th Paclflo Coast company. - - - - -President William on his present trip east will attempt to close th deal for the purchaa of ths lands, docks,. coal mines and steamships of the Paclflo Coast company. Neither road has suf ficient land In Seattle for terminal fa cilities. Th purchase of the Paoiflc Coast- company would give them teunt- nal faculties, water connection and a coal supply for th western end of th road. . . .... . . . , The North Coast ha had an option on th Tacoma A Eastern for months to close December . 21; It has been renewed th deal has been due to th contract of the Tacoma ft Eastern with th North am Pacific. Th contract run, for 21 year and prevents the Tacoma It East ern from making extensions to th Ta coma waterfront that would be neces sary for a transcontinental line. The Northern Paclflo In return furnishes cars for the Tacoma A Eastern. Th North Coast Is Investigating the effect of th contract If th road I bought Th. Milwaukee I believed to hav th advantage In th purchaa of the Paclflo Coast company. ... STOLE SEALSKIN COAT FROM . HIS BENEFACTRESS Husband's Best Friend Repays '. Many Kindnesses by Theft From Wife. (Special Spates te Tte Joaraal.) Seattle. Wash.. Dec 22. "I trusted him becaus h was my husband's best friend. He boarded at our house- and paid nothing. When he was sick I cared for him. This theft I his 'gratitude," said Mrs. W. 8. Toole-of 117 Sixth ave nu north, whan told this morning by Detectlv Adams that P. A. Bagey was the man who had stolen a sealskin coat valued at $250 from her home. 1 . Bagey, when arrested and - sweated, confessed. h had taken th coat which waa mad for a daughter of Mrs. Toole, iria had expressed It -rirlil "motherr-who lives In the country 20 miles outside- of San Francisco. ! - , -Telegram were at once sent to the California authorities asking that steps be taken to recover th coat - Bagey- Is 47 years old. Mrs. Toole's husband is a well-known mining, man and a rela tive of Governor Toole of Montana. Dia monds valued at more than 12,000 were overlooked. Two arrays at Snterprlsa (Special Dtapateb to Tb Joaraal.) "" Enterprise, Or., Dec. 22. Two survey hsv been made through Enterprise the last few days, one On tne south side of th Ws)lowartver; th other one on th north side of th river. Th survey ex tends to Joeeph. ' . .. :hurnaVsknm , Biggest Color Edition Ever Turned ;r Out by a Newspaper in Portland : IV Be Issued Next Sunday 1 "imd It Borne. : ': " ''..' ' ' . '-j-- f. :':A:; - ' ' ' ": Jtj contains mor"TnrofmatT6haDoutth "Stat, Its resources. Its op portunities for settlers than has sver befor been got together In similar spac and all In tabloid form easily digested.- ' . " ' , If a help to the homeseeker, a help to Oregon and will bring people to the state. All thst Oregon need la to show what she has to offer th prospective settler snd he will come. .The facts ft re enough. Noth ing more is needed. Th Journal presents In HsJesjMrtyi what Oregon HaSpuTs Her wares on display, and If you will e that It h is t' ths easterner who wants to know Sbout Oregon you will lo him I ho X bltgsst favor In' your power, . Order today. - President. Goode, , Upon Return , From East, Announces Porta . land General Electrio Will , J ; Make Improvements. C. WILL RECONSTRUCT THE' CITY LIGHTING.SYSTEM Magnificent Office Building to Be : Erected, Jew and Modern Lamps ' to Be Installed and Plana Made to Make the Moat Elaborate Electrical System on the Pacific Coast- " - A 1200,000 office building, reconstruc tion of its lighting system In Portland and othar Improvement Involving an aggregate expenditure of $1,000,000 in this city within th next II months la. th plan of th Portland General Kleotrla company. This news waa officially given out today by President H. W. Goode, who haa just returned from , a six., weeks' trip in th eaat - "Work will be commenced on th nw office building Immediately after th firat of th year," he Bald. -The build' lng will be 100x100 feet and will eland on th site of the present substation at th corner of Seventh and Alder- streets. Th first story will be Si feat high and contain a modern electrical plant It Is our Intention to mak this a 'Show' plant ' ' .., Ths large room will b finished In whit tiling, and made as beautiful . in Its equipment, and decoration as a ma chinery plant, can well be made. Along th sidewalk, on both streets, th plana r for', large windows, to light th placfiharglv th public' a view "of an " up-to-date electrical plant Th build ing will rls four stories abov the floor containing th. plant, snd will be used for 'offices, showrooms and store room a Our present new quarters ar leased only for a year, and will b oc- cupied by th offlcos whll ths nm building 1 being constructed." -, stabstatiost to Pumlsh lowrw Th substation - now- occupying ths bullaing at ths corner of Seventh and Alder will be operated throughout ths construction work on th new building. Th present, walls will be taken down, but arrangements will be mad to shelter th plant Figuring th height pf th machinery-room at IS feet th building will havej a height of practi cally sight storisa, ' Th plans ar drawn and when carried oat on th seal of magnitude intended tb ground floor room and plant will. It 1 believed, be tb greatest electrical exhibit In opera tion on th Paclflo coast Reconstruction of th electrle light ing system la th city will be thorough: and very expensive. It will entail- lh construction of . other building. New and modern lamp will be erected, supplanting all th present lampa. The plan of lmprovementa and extent slons Include a pole line to Salem. This line will run from Oregon City and touch all adjacent town In th valley. A .contract ha been made for supplying current to the-local company at Salem, where th . present plant makes elec tricity by steam power. Th Salem plant was some weeks sgo sold by Welch Anderson to New Tork Inter ests represented bf Frank Robertson. Mr. Goods declined to state what th present interest ar behind th Salem plant It has been reported thst th stocKof "ther-Salem - Eleetrte-oomp ny passed Int possession ef th General Electric. . . -J-" : . That Oemsoltdattom Story. Regarding the recently reported con solidation of all large electrical Inter-" est on the Paclflo coast. President Goode said nothing' authoritative had been published., He did not deny all knowledge of such a project nut stated positively that th . Portland General Electrio had no connection with It, "Our company haa received no pro posal of any nature from such a com bine as reported. . I do not believe any Important: concern In th northwest la Interested in It. There may be such, a movement on foot In California, but It (Continued on Pag Seven.) , . '.. ' v- . If