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VOL. II. NO. 41.
PORTLAND; PBEGON, r SUNDAY : MORNING, DECEMBER .24, ,1903. SIX , SECTIONS SIXTY-EIGHT P, AGES. .
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Senator Says He Will Bury Personal Animpsities ; to Advance Oregon's Interests
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President t to Be Unmolested; in i Choice He
; H as ; N ade for - Federal Positions Now
Pending Before the Senate.
GEARIN APPROVES TO COURSE .
; WHIStCOlLEAGUEl IPURS'UlNG
1 In Matter of Death of
ton Makes Statement That While Desiring
to Observe Custom He Could Not.
(Waahlnctoa Barf of Tb. Journal.)
Washington, D. C. Dec. 23. Peace
now exists between President Roose
velt and Oregon's senatorial delegation
In congress. Senator Fulton will, not
Oppose the confirmation of 'nominations
-'which have been mid. by thr president
. for federal positions In Oregon and
which are now pending before the senate
.committees on judiciary ' and public
lands. . '-I '.-
Senator Oearln approves of the course
.Ms colleague Intends to pursue In refer
Mice -to these nominations and 'Will Join
' In approving them. He states that the
appointments. In his opinion, are proper
and that lie will support them. Several
days ago Senator Fulton had a very
pleasant conference with the president,
at which the two chiefs agreed to bury
the hatchet and scalping knife and
figuratively smoked the pipe of peace.
Both made concessions, for the presi
dent knew that Fulton could tie up his
appointments for a good long time, if
not indefinitely, and Fulton knew the
riresldent could deal muA grief In mak
ng future, appointments and both rec
ognised the apparent uselessness of con
tinuing such a condition of warfare.
'' Admires la Qualities. '
The president. It is known, admires
the qualities of independence possessed
by Tu I ton, which ate. akin to his own
characteristics, ai(d it was not very
hard for the two men to get together.
Senator Fulton authorises the publics-,
tion of the following etatement of his
position In this inatter end of his course
in the senate in reference to the death
of the late Benakor Mitchell:
"In "all probability I shall not oppose
the confirmation of any nominations
sent in by the president. Whatever
might be my personal preferences or
wishes, I feel thst It Is my duty to
pursue that couree which will best en
able me to advance the Interests of the
people of Oregon. They are not con
cerned as to which particular applicant
KLONDIKE TREASURE SHIP STRIKES
Oil SPIRE MID MS
Is Hopelessly Wrecked, but Her Passengers and Crew Are Re
ported Safe She Is Supposed to Have Missed
, Her Course
(Special Dispatch by Leased Wire tn Tb Journal)
' Seattle, Dec. 23. The Alaska Commer
cial company's steamer Portland, once
famous under - the name llaytlen Re
public as an opium smuggler and later
as a treasure carrier, has met disaster
in northern waters. She wil" wrecked
on Spire Island, nine miles south of
'ketchlkah. Alaska, the . night of De
cember 20. The vessel will no. doubt
be a total loss. Her passengers and
crew were all saved and are supposed
to be now at Ketchikan. If not bound
for this por(. on the steamers Alkl and
Santa Clara, both of which are return
ing to Seattle, the former from Lynn
canal and the latter from Seward and
Vlades. That the Portland Is hopelessly
wrecked may be Inferred from a cable
gram received today by the local man-
' agement of the Alaska Commercial com
pany from Captain C E. Llndqulst, mas
ter of the vessel, reading as follows:
"Portland is ashore hard and fast.
Chances of getting her off extremely
doubtful. She Is full of water and her
keel gone. Will you or the, under
wrltere send some one to take ohargeT"
- The messsge wss dated Ketchikan. De
cember it. From that port II waa sent
by steamer to Juneau, the nearest point
of cable communication. The time she
met dlssster le not given by Captain
Llndqulst. though snothec message re
ceived from Clark Davis, a passenger
on the Portland from Seward, by his
son. a resident of this city, states that
the vessel waa. wrecked the night ofj
December 10. -
At this time "only conjecture can be
given as to the number of passengers,
but the total number of people aboard,
including the crew, was' probably not
'short of 100, as It Is known thst the
vessel hsd 19 passengers on leaving
Seward.
At. Vlades, her next port of fall, she
Is supposed to have ten oa ia p sax
HOT OPPOSE
litis
Senator Mitchell, Ful
shall be appointed to a given office. To
engage in a contest over the confirma
tion is to interfere; with my work In
other directions. The state ia without
Its representation while its needs are
many. Hence, even were. I disposed to
oppose confirmation of eny of the
nominees I would not be serving the
people of Oregon best by engaging in
any such 'controversy under existing
conditions.
- Wo rrictiOB Xzlsts.
It "is proper to say, however, that
reports of friction' and strained rela
tions between the president and me are
entirely incorrect That charge will be
sufficiently answered by quoting, .from
a letter written me some days ego In
which he refers to such reports . end
says:
" The reports Sa to friction between
you -and roe are entirely incorrect. You
are senator from Oregon and you Shall,
as a inatter of course, have ell the
proper consideration f ron m& This ap
plies 'to the question of "appointments
as much as to other matters, save that
owing to the peculiar conditions obtain
ing Oregon as regards offices under the
department of justice and the depart
ment of the interior, I have felt obliged
to act on my own responsibility in reference-
thereto.' ,
"As certain papers in Oregon have
criticised me for not offering a resolu
tion in respect to the memory of Sena
tor Mitchell, I feel justified In making
the following statement; . ... .
. Position Tery Delloate. .
1 am sure I deplore as deeply as any
person the misfortunes and death of
Senator Mitchell. That he had my sym
pathy throughout all his troubles I
never sought to disguise. ' When his
death occurred my position was one of
extreme delicacy. I was anxious that
there should ba paid to his memory by
me senate me usual remarks or respect
(Continued on Page Two.)
in Dense Fog.
more, Including io or it Tanana miners
Overland from Fairbanks to Vlades,
She nest made Ellamar. Kayak, Tukutat,
Juneau and Ketchikan, no doubt taking
a few from each of these porta
At Ellamar the Portland loaded 00
tons of gold and copper ore, the product
of the Ellamar' mine, owned by J. D.
Meenach, the millionaire mining man of
Alaska, and the John Lowber Walsh
estate of Philadelphia. This ore le con
signed to the- Taooma smelter.'
The vessel probably lost her way In
the fog, piling upon the projecting reef
from Spire Island, off the mouth of Ton
gass narrows, south snd west, lying In
the center of Revllla Cledo channel.
It is about too miles north of Seattle
and Is one of the hundreds of small
Islands dotting the Inside passage to
Lynn canal. ,
Among the passengers on the - Port
land was Clark Davis, a well known
business man of this city, who Is Inter
ested In oil fields to the westward. He
cabled today that the passengers were
all safe. He eays the veesel Is in bad
condition and is full of water.
The Portland sailed on her lst-voysr
north November 2 from Seattle. She
took a fair crowd of passengers and a
full cargo of general merchandise. She
sailed on her return voyage from Sew
ard December 12, called at Valdes, leav
ing that port December II. The vessel
waa next reported from Juneau, sailing
from that port December It at a. m.
Ketchikan le about 100 miles south of
Juneau. "
Several years sgo while making as
early sprinr foroed pass to Nome the
Portland was caught np, along with the
steamer Jesnle, by the Retiring aea Ice
and carried on Into the Arctic. Captain
Llndqulst wss her master at that time.
He managed to get her hack to Nome for
ibs. FourUi of, Jul celtbraUoot. ,
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After you had made a bonfire
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LEAVES HOME TO
FIND SANTA
Waif in Blue Overalls Runs
Away With Comrade to :
Find Christmas Saint.
""At the Children's home in South
Portland they have been talking about
Santa Claua for weeka ' Little waifs In
blue overalls have listened with open
mouths and, beaming eyes to the tales
about .(h wonderful old man from the
north, who com ee each' year' to make
good children happy.
Of the s:ore or more of tiny wards
none listened mo raptly or waited so
Impatiently the coming of the Christ
mas day . as little Johnnie Mlddleton,
who waa sent to the home because his
father is 111 and his mother cannot earn
enough to care for him.
The lad haa large blue eyes and has
seen ten summers. He wears overalls
and a grsy cap and has a lisping voice.
Last 'Christmas the magic driver of the
reindeer team was good to him and so
he heard the stories with almost fever
ish glee: He knew that the northland
king would visit him again this year,
be'satd, for -he had been as good as he
could be.
aTasve-fev-Baata Clans. .....
One day laat week be heard that Santa
Claus was actually down town In the
flesh. 'He asked all sorte of questions
and wondered how he should have come
so soon and how he could keep the
reindeer team Inside a store. The
more he thought the more pusxled he
became, and there came the shsdow of
a frown on his perplexed brow. Then
the frown vanished as quickly aa it had
come and In Ita place there came a
smile, but he refused to tell Its cause.
To only one other boy-did he confide
hie secret, t He waa a larger boy and
much wiser. -To htm Johnnie told
what he had heard and asked his ad-
ACon.Uau.e4 oa Pace 24-1
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WOULDN'T IT
of all the life insurance grafters if Ryan arose from their ashes like
" .itjaryou?' ' W. . '
NUMBER OF MULTI-MILLIONAIRES MAY
BE DRIVEN INTO RETIREMENT
Reform Element In 'Insurance War Takes New Heart as Re
. suit of Exposure Before Committee McCall Returns
With Statement
(Special Dlapatch by Leased Wlrate The Journal)
New Tork, Dec. 23. As a result of the
exposure before the Armstrong Investi
gating committee of the Lawyers' Mort
gage stock scandal, which involves thi
men In the Mutual Life who forced the
election of Charles A. Peabody as pres
ident, the reform- element In the com
pany has taken new heart. 'If the pres-'
ent plan Is carried out, a .meeting or
the trustees, scheduled for next Wednes
day, will drive into retirement a num
ber of multi-mlllfonalres who for many
years have'Hieen conspicuous In the af
fairs of -the Mutual. The plan Is to
call upon every man to retire who took
as his Individual Investment the shares
of stock of the Lawyers'-Mortgage com
pany Intended for the Mutual Life. The
men Involved In this scandal and who
are expected to retire are; .
- Frederick Cromwell, temporary presi
dent of the Mutual, its treasurer and
member of the finance committee.
Richard A. McCurdy, former presi
dent, a trustee and member of the
finance ..committee
August D. Jullsrd, trustee and mem
ber of the-finance committee.
Qeorge O. Haven, trustee and member
Of the finance committee.
James N. ,'srvls, trustee and member
of the flnnnce committee.
Adrian Iselln. trustee snd member of
the' flnahce committee. '
Robert A. Orannla, first vice-presi
dent, trustee nnd member of the finance
committee. ..
The Lawyers' Mortgage stock deal.
though regarded as the most braien
transaction uncovered during the en.
tire Investigation of the Armstrong com
mittee, was said today by a man f urn 11
lar with what haa been going -on in the
MjUttuU UXe Jsr--rs to be ouljc one ot
MAKE YOU ' MAD
From Hamilton.
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CO or (0 grafting schemes of the same
kind. This in an tuld:
"Where oie foitune haa been etolen
in the Equitable 40 fortunes have been
stolen in the Mutual."
John C McCall, secretary of ths New
Tork Life Insurance company and son
of president John A. McCall, returned
from Europe, today on the steamer Le
Loral ne. Mr. McCall went to Paris to
see Andrew Hamilton, to whom the
New York Life Insurance company ad
vanced hundreda of thousands of dol
lars. Mr.. McCall's mission was either
to Induce Mr. Hamilton to return to the
United States and testify before the
legislative Insurance Investigating com
mittee or secure an accounting of the
money advanced. This accounting, is
to be given to the committee. Mr.
Hamilton sent a statement by Mr. . Mc
Call that his health being such that his
physician ordered him not to return at
present .
Concerning his tnjssloj
sura: ; . . . , . -
- "I have a report from Judge Hamilton
giving a detailed snd explicit state
ment of his matters and of the work
performed by him while in- charge ot
the legislative and legal bureau of the
New York Life Insurance company la
the United States and Canada daring
the past 10 years. I cannot give details
of his report until the document Is first
presented to the special committee ot
the board of trustees 4 recently ap
pointed. . With thes consent of the spe
cial committee I'shsll subsequently
present Judge Hamilton's Statement to
ths Insurance 'Investigating - committee.
I can give no other or further particu
lars of Judge Hamilton's, very volumi
nous statement Xor the reason stated. .
( I A "'ANT I
the fabled Phoenix? Wouldn't
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COUIJGILMEN EOR
BIG LEVY
Some Members Would See Rate
Fixed Nearer Six Mills Than
Five as Proposed.
Several members of the city council
will exert every influence In their power
to fix the tax levy for city purposes
at (. mills Instead of S.l mlle as the
majority of the ways and means com
mittee recommended, at the special
meeting of the city council Tuesday aft
ernoon.: ounctlmen Rushlight and Ben
nett, the' two members of ths commlttse
who held out for a S.t mill levy at the
meeting of the wsye and means commit
tee Friday afternoon, will eubmit a mi
nority report
It wae rumored around the city hall
yesterday that a majority of the city
councllmen had pledged themselves to
support the minority report but this
could not be substantiated. At any
rate Rushlight and' Bennett -will have
several supporters who have openly ex
pressed themselves favorable to a
higher tax than that recommended by the
majority of the committee. Council
man Kellaher hae ssld that he would
ar and- Councilman
Sharkey has openly declared for hla-h
taxation. The latter used his best ef
forts to persuade the eommlttee Friday
to make the levy S.8 mills Instead ot
1.1 mills.
Nearly one half of the proposed levy
has been made for the fire department.
A III mill levy for the fire depart
ment will produce a revenue of approxi
mately tm.000 or nearly $100,000 more
than waa appropriated for this depart
ment last year. .While property owners
throughout the city are seeking better
fire protection they are also opposed to
high taxation, but would prefer a
smaller levy end less Improvement In
ths fire department. ,
Continued, oa Pe Two,)a
GAIN AT THE
BARRICADES
Scenes of Ninety-Three in Pari
Re-Enacted In Moscow, -;
Where Mob and V ,
Troops Meet. y '
HAND TO HAND IN '
EVERY PART OF CITY
Twenty Thousand Troop Massed la
the Kremlin ifr Preparation for an
"Assault on Muscovy's Historic
Palace Revolutionists In Posses
sion of the Suburbs. '
(Copyright, Heant News fteirtce. bf
Wire to The Journal.) .
London, Dee. 24. A dispatch from
Moscow tells of desperate fighting be
tween the revolutionist and the troops.
Thousands are. reported to. have been
killed and the gendarmerie and Cos-"
sacks are eaid to have revolted. At this
hour (1 a. m.) the government claims
to ba maatfr of the situation. '"
Stores containing arms and weapons
of. every, description, have been pillaged
and 'the men have erected barricades
along the Sadovla. - r.; ' ,
The alrny has Isolated several : dls.
trlcts. thus preventing communication
between ..the revolutionists. . The army
Is expecting rocket signals from the
high places-of the city. The insurgents
are fighting desperately ,.frpm block to "
block, , using machine guns against
battery now cannonading thera. -'
BerotatloBlsts Betrayed. -
It is reported that the revolutionists
had arranged for an uprising early this '
afternoon, but that the governor-general
discovered their plans and. massed 10.000
troops at the Kremlin . to protect that ' '
historic palace, placing artillery brigades
at commanding points..
. This afternoon a body of workingraen,
carrying a red flag, was fired upon by
the troops. Since that Urns the righting
baa continued without Interruption. The "t
workmen rallied In the different squares,
which were attacked arid carried by the
army. At one point the workmen made
a - stout resistance, and held them off
for a time. ; - -
Over 100 militia were surrounded at . ,
a school. Two officers were killed and
10 soldiers wounded. The worklngmen
lest six killed and 14 wounded.
lubarba la Xaads of Hob.
The' suburban districts are reported In
the possession of the revolutionists, who
are making the policemen prisoners.
It ie reported that Llnlevltch haa tel
egraphed the government that half of
hie army, 250,000 men, have mutinied
and that he Is utterly powerless to pre- .
vent the excesses of the soldiers. The '
rioting Is occurring constantly and the
troops are defying all attempts to con
trol them, clamoring for a speedy re
turn, for payment of wages, for better -food
and warmer clothing.
Army Mutinies. ; .""lV-
- A dispatch from Moscow states that
the situation haa not been relieved.
Btrong guards patrol the streets and ma- '
chine guns are being shotted Into posi
tion. Troops surrounded a schoolhouse
where the workmen weremeet!ng and
fired blanks. The workmen returned '
the fire and the artillery opened and
forced surrender. Small conflicts In the
streets are numerous. J
, Only In "the- capital has the govern
ment got the situation comparatively
well in hand. A few factories are
working, the employes refusing to leave.
The city resembles an armed csmp. .
Cossacks patrolling all ' ths "principal
streets. At Intersections machine guns
have been placed and are ready for
action. - -
The Insurrection In the Baltic prov
inces has extended to Esthonla, where
the Russian officials have been driven -out.
The workmen and railroad em- '
ployee have Joined the strike. Every
thing Is closed at RevaX The Insurgents
have captured Frederlckstad and are .
besieging Kreusburg. The rebels have
also captured Oollngen, in the province' "
of Courland. ' i .
It is reported that thousands ef
Lithuanians have Invaded the Vitebsk
provlncs and are engaged In sacking
and burning the Russian and Polish es
tates. Revolutionists have expressed
the determination to-seise the St. Pe
tersburg A Warsaw railway and annex
Re Jit aea and Lutsln districts to the
Lithuanian repubtlo.
EX-SENATOR T. R. BARD
- INJURED IN RUNAWAY
Aperlal DlapeMi by Law4 Wire s The Jmreat) ,
Oxnard, Cel., Ixm;, , tt. Es-Senator
T. R. Hard suffered a severe fracture ef
the" left blp by being thrown from his
boggy while coming from his country
seal home, near fluenema, to the depot
here this morning. The senator, In com.
pany with hie daughter Anna, wae com
ing up to take the morning train f r
Berkeley, wlwrt they intended jlnli t
other members of ths snv?r'e t
at Christmas dinner, and. lining a I .
late In getting started, had r.l-rl t .
driver In speed the -m In oi.i r ' ,
catch'the train. Mlaa li.ir.l r . . .
Injured, save tut a Un miiivr ttv