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--ll-cwnTWnnitiiiR-'R fl iCfrtiliv,' ' fcrlflcl I joiFMl.Circulitioa'"""" i0 pgp ' Occk'onaLXftiaii. aoutherly iada- JXgJ ...... '. T'1 rJ"'Trf ''? "X " ' ',' '" ' N ;' ' ' L ; '','' vol; II NO. 51. Call on - TO THREE Cham ber of Commerce JOve i 7 whelmingly Favor ' Letting ' Bridge at , Drydock. ' WHEELWRIGHT MUSTERS , ; ONLY TWO SUPPORTERS J. Coucb FUndcrj-IPtro1uct Rftolu- riitioni and W. B. Ayr,' J. P, Sharkey, A.- H. Devera, B. J. JJohen,'L, A Lewta, T. .D. Honeyman," W. H. Corbett-and W. Lr Boisa Support i s.; ii' ... s - : L - ' J Wherea -Th jhmbet( of "comnwrc wtlconMa th ntrnc of th -Northern Pacific md ml Northern Railway companies Into the city of Portland, Oregon, over (ha line of the Portland a: Seattle Railway company; and. -, Whereaa. . Such . Railway . eompanlea ahould be permitted to make auch pro. vlalona for entrance Into aald .city aa will permit them to handle in and out of the city bualneaa not only of .the present - but ala. of tie future;. Jiow. therefore, be It - ; T, 1 "ltaorvod.TTRftt In" fha 'Judcmeni of the chamber of cotnmerece, the Port of Portland ahould. without further delay. grant, to the Portland c Seattle Raii- wav 6mDny .ths rlgrht to bridge the Ji-cW lllaiiieUe ilver -at the 1U Btopoaedil tluit the determination aa to 'the height thereof and the character aod width of draw ahould fee left to the secretary of war., . And be It further ; - . heaolved, Tha auph pennlaalon should be aocompanlrd with a -provision, pr mlttlna of the.tiae of. such, bridge by other railway companies upon pay tnettfl of a reasonable compensation therefor, j With but three- dlssentlnar Votes a tKathrlna- at nearly 309 well-known- Porb- land-baalness men yesierqay arternoon adopted the above declaration. The reso- lutlon voiced the overwhelming senti ment of a called meeting of the Portland chamber of commerce held at 4 p, m. -Mn the auditorium of the chamber. It is said the aamo proportion of affirms tfvs votes would have, been the result had there been present 1,000 Instead of tu Portland bualneas men- . -l . - ' -"-i The meetlns- had been called by Vlce- Praaldent BdwarO Nrmbeglnnn response to a petition signed by 16 leading- ftrma represented m the chamber, for the pur pose of testing the sentiment, of the organisation ?' ,wltT ; reference t 1 a 'memorial that had beery adopted by the chamber's navigation - committee. This memorial,,;, liberally Interpreted. Vaa taken by many tterabers of the chamber 'aa an utterance hostile to the Portland at Seattle company's, proposed .bridge scross th Willamette river at the dry dock site. The members were not con- a charge that it was - being., used to further the opposition of the Harrlman Unes against ths Hilt roads now seeking entrance to Portland. v- - ; --: BepresenUUvs Ostterliag. ' , 'When the hour for calling the meet ing to order came the room was crowded with prominent- business men. Including representatives " of factories, lumber mills, wholesale houses, - retail Arms, banking h.ouaes and railroad companl-js. J. Couch Flanders started the ball by Introducing the aforementioned resolu tion and making a spe'ech In support of Its passage. He related briefly the history of Portland's. efforts to get di rect Unes eastward giving shorter routes than the present Una of ths Northern Pacific; told how ths project of .Mr. Hill on the north bank Was bo gun and bow glad Portland people were to realise the good news. He el ted the resulting activity of the real estate market and referred 'to the large pur chases of terminals snd rights of wsy by ths UUl companies, . which -have spent mors than- 11.000,000 for prop erty . to give them entrance Into ths city.', , (..! .'5 - ' . I' ll aald the brldge over'thWU. lumens" M VY m'ujit, f or engineering rea sons, be constructed at the place in the manner ttiat. the company proposed to build'ltr that-ttre- site selected was the beet for navigation Interests aa well as for th railroad companies; and that It ylous Impedl- ment to shipping." The proposed bridge, he said, would have an opening 60 feet wider than any other Bridge In -the cltj and It would be visible to navigators a distance" of ,000 feet up or down ths river. : -v ' - - Secretary of war to ssoids. The decision-of ths Port of Portland commtnalon. even after long-drawn con trovers) svae. the Questions - -raised against- th bridaw, would not- be bind ing, and th whole matter must ultl matsiy Be passed -npoir btha ecretury of war. he held.: -He said the Hill com panies had. early received a suggestion that their-railroads .should corns in over th steel bridge, and their engi neers had made an examination with a view to reconstructing and making that bridge a double-track structure, but to proposition had been found . Imprac ticable. Th companies were, h said, asking nothing unreasonable, and h be lieved it 1 proper for the chamber of commerce to assert Itself, and . say whether or Jiot it waa th desire of th city's business men that these railroads enter Portland,- Applause followed. his remarks. . ... . ... s ... . IT-' v mm Continued on I'ags Two.) Rorbf Portlands Journal Cirla In Hawaii, 'and Their :tParaley Miaa Ueavren, Miaa Croaaen, Miaa Naah.; fitting Mlai Madigan, Miaa King, Mr. Kekam, Miaa Probatcl,;....;;, . v,;,.- FtOnOM'J IIP CILDWEU. JAIL Dynamite la Stolen From Powder ?T;,Maairte, aV goje to' Use - , (- tn Prison Deliveries."; CNSPkATORS. FOILED BY CHANCE IN; PLANS lodging Orchard at , Hotel Instead 4 of Placing Him in Cell Prerenta pCarrying Out of - Plot Attack Feared on State Penitentiary. - (Hpedal Dispatch 'to The, Joans!. ) ' Boise. 'Idaho,' March I Information from a mysterious- source reached Sheriff Nichols at Caldwell tonight, that plana were made for blowing up ths county Jail at that place Thursday night. The only reason the plan was not curled, out was that Orchard was kept at ths hotel in place of being .lodged In Jail the night he stayed lir .Caldwell while giving his evidence before. the grand Jury- ; . ' The Jail is a crude structure, ' veneered with brick.' It has an iron .'roof. ' It Hands at ths outskirts of th town, with no buildings nearer than (00 feet from the two sides.. ..It was known that It would be Impossible for Orchard to relet his confession Innne day and that he would remain-. In -Caldwell over night,- being kept -In the same Jail t. hlch he occupied from the time of his. arrest until after th preliminary examination. ; . . 1 -:.. . Byaasntt Walls. ,'..' t "' Ths plan formed ws to plpsce a large quantity of. giant-powder- against-th rear wall of the building, exploding the same and destroying, ths jail and killing all the Inmates. , . . . .. The failure was caused by the officers" keeping Orchard at the Saratoga hotel, guarded br Detective Thtel and Special frw'r Warden Bmtlw-JpfonnaJlQnof iiw-yiui inn iKiiea racnta nm enemx through a telephone message, from what sourlb It was Impossible to obtain, the person doing ths talking hanging up tbe receiver after delivering the message. . Ths officer sent men to look for evi dence to verify th story, and found two 21-pouod boxes of dynamite, partly con cealed, about 10 yards from ths Jalt Underneath on of th boxes was a num ber of exploding .caps and about 10 feet of German fuse. Ths quantity of bow- Ing to atoms. -; t j ", 7 anelsm Bsploslvsa.. V-' . Th' powder, caps and fuse are of th same brand aa carried by th Teller Eastman Hardware company, whose magasln was broken Into one night thla week and II boxes of giant -powder, a quantity of caps and fuse taken.. No dealer, in Caldwell handles this explosive, which makes It certain that th -earn was sent to Caldwell from Boise. . Th belief is expressed in Boise among detective that efforts wilt be mads to blow up the penitentiary. It Is argued thst many others beside, the -inmates are guilty, of crimes :for whldt - Indict- -Continued on Pag Twelve.). Portland,"' Oregon; sund at -r morning, . march i,-. isoe. four ; skctions-forxv-four mm Mil : 3r , , i Eacorti Reading from left to right, thy 1 " , .) i 1,:. jynHPTW&H::rWTe-1?$!!'iP' y, 'aay,r.TJai J1- ' I LIS m Canyon County 100 SOUTH SEA ISLANDS DEVASTATED BY TIDAL WAVE AND HURRICANE Greatest Disastertrl Modern Times Twenty-Eight Thousand Persona Affected and It Is Feared . Six Thousand Perish (8pee!l Dtopalch bXMsed Wire te Th Journal) , 8a n Francisco, March 'I.- Tahiti and all ;th IsTsnds: of : tha. Society group were swept by a tremendous tidal wave on th nigh of February and th tidal a was followed by-on -of" th-moat disastrous hurricanes' ever ' known In th South. seas.. ;.-..,..-.-:.. , ..-.'; , Mor than . 100 islands were devas tated, th principal Island,' Tahiti, prob abVf suffering less In proportion to Its importance than any .of the dther.' and about (.000 persons . wer af fectedby the sreat disaster. Th. steamship Mariposa, , commanded by" Captain" Xwlesa.. brought "th news today, but It had sailed from Papeete before th, full extent of th disaster was known and there la only conjontsr as ' to ths damag don. . At Papeete thera. waaJltlleJioss .of Jlfe,.butalmoat th entire city- waa destroyed:.. Xslaads Washed Away. The smaller island ars of coral for matlon. with about feet of soil above sea level, at ths ' most. , Ther srs re ports that these islanca hav been cut down to the level of the -sea, and If this Is ths truth probably not less than .000 persons perished.. .The steamship Mariposa, called at some Of the Islands which had been wrecked but waa un able to discover any sign of remaining life: - -... Ther has been no such other tragedy In the South. sesa during modern times. The fctorm: did not limit Itself to Tahiti, hut raged also In the Leeward, the Faumntn snd ths other Islands around Tahiti. Th Leeward labuda suffered mostly from wind,' ir""fiD) Mo - are 5 Standing Miaa PhilUpa, Miaa i 2 ' ,V...t.v-.. ' (tl 1 . ' ' v : s1 1 Jail at CaldwelL Ovemhelms Society Croup - ed Tahiti in Ruins. taped Dispatch by Leased Wire te Tbe Jesrsst) 8s n Francisco, March . Th follow ing story of the, tidal wave and hurrl can that devastated th ' South Sea Islands In ths Tahiti region on Febru ary and il waa written by . F. Halloran, a newspaper man of this city, who has ben visiting th Islands and who. returned, today' on tb steamship Mariposa: -, .". '"' '. --'.'. "- On' February 7 th ' wind had "been blowing fitfully, all over th island of Tahiti and-by night the rain was fajt- tdlv. Papeete, th capital of th island and th largest town In an area ofiw.ooo sqiiaTW-tnttesr iain tn-north-western part of Tahiti protected by a coral reef and an. insids lagoon a mils In width from th wash of sea. Along Its waterfront on made ground ar th principal' public building and all th tores and shops. At-trio p. m. ths larrtng water was over the ouir and mtth doors) sf ths first street of ahop i and offices paralleling th shore. At. I o olock th water waa rolling through' th streets snd washing about In th first stories. It advanced steadily, doing more damag every hour, and by l:loT a. m.;- Febru ary had submerged that part of th town. It wss a great, warm wav 40 feet - high that a wept over the coral reef and rolled Inland. "It cam from th northwest. , W "1 . rapes Xs la Balsa. U "Fortunately ths wind started '. up aliput 1J. m. off a nor In a contrary direction and held back th water to a certain extent. , Had the -wind rome with the a aa It did In -other parts of iContlnued on rag Twe. . 0 .... Brown, Mias purtemanch, Miaa IIIEIIL1E OF'THEIR LIVES TTT Oregon Journal Girls Welcomed to Fair Hawaii and Enter-!-- ed HrVI ost Royally--11 WIN PRIZE IN PARADE 'WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY Territorial Officials and - Princes of " the Blood '.Exert -Themselves to -Make It Pleasant for the Fair Via itora. ' ; ' ' '' ' (Rpedal Oorrcspoedest of Tbe Joarnil.) Honolulu, Feb. '17 Th floral parade of the midwinter fiesta, took place yes- tarday on Washington's birthday.- In it th Oregon Journal -girls won - fresh laurels. : The young women, dressed In white, westing nstlve garlanda, drove in a gaily decorated tallyho. drawn by four prancing steeds. The conveyance waa decorated with millions of Ulma lela re lieved with green. First prlx for tally ho was given to the Journal girls. - Ths day was perfect.- The. sky. was lightly overcast with fleecy clouds, with glimpses of blue sky between.' The psrad Itself was a bewildering display of eolorS. - The people and th city war at their bet, Frora early morning there waa tooting - of horn and whirr of wheels a handsomely decorated vehicles went whirling up th street to ths place of assembly. A bevy of pa-a riders with flying 'skirts and rainbow colors would dash by and then would come a. yellow cloud of cowboys. ' Crowds' of barefoot ed children; gay-1 fiollday-duss, greet ed ths paraders with bussas and waving of flags.--. -. ' - v. ..aasBMr ta WtoWr. : . Th parade Started at' 10 o'clock at Tbomks Square and moved Into the busi ness quarter, past th hotel and along th resUenctsecaonZ:diCrth WalkUt road to ths grandstand at Kapiolanl park. ' Here the paraders lined up .and ths prises were awarded in the presence of all Honolulu- and th kaleidoscope of color' mad by th moving vehicles. Th parad was originally designed to illustrate to th world th summer and winter that prevails in Hawaii and to call attention to the fact that the Isl ands sr perennially flowering land. In LUha.'af rtmm at civilisation in Honolulu. The decorations showed artistic talent of a high order. Bat th crowning glory Of th parade-waa a revival of the pa-u horseback riding by th island ladles, the name, being derived from -tbe flowing divided skirts of th riders. Hawaiian women hav - discarded th sidesaddle from the beginning, and through the de signing of th pa-u skirt and wearing It In colors hav mad a eoatum high ly picturesque, . , . rorGaaders In Farad,".'.' "Ther wr mor than 50 Hawaiian girls horseback . In th parade. Their skirts were, of th brightest yellow 1 - ConUntid a Pager Eight.), IIA16 ' pages. lif BUS1ESS K Sit NeatSt Has $ 1 ,000 to Prove-That Its Circulatiori Ex-: "ceeds That df Eitfier Morning or Evening HQNESECAtmslALUHATJS -NEEDED-TOEAR-01JT.ITS-CLAIM- Figures Can't Lie, But Liars Figure in the ; the Result oL :Cutting Down Circulation It-Claimed Four weeks ago The-Journal printed a 'map of Portland and Its' suburbs in -which it laid out its 80 carrier districts,-desipiatinp in each one its-own exact-paidcirculation, the circulation l the Ore f gonian and -the -circulation of its Evening -Vermiform Appendix. -The net. result showed that The Journal had in this territory a circu- t lation exceeding that of the Appendix by 2,696 and of the Oregonian by 3,364. i At that time, to show its perfect good faith, it offered ta submit tr a jomt canvass of the" City by a committee ot three, -two to be chosen by Jihe parties in interest and the "third by these . two, The Journal to pay "all -the expenses in the event it failed to prove it had the largest paid carrier circulation in the city, and the journalistic twins to bear the expense if it' succeeded-in proving its statements. r-- ;L';:'; ''';-;':":'" : :TheOregoriIan for 'obvious reasons,rfailed to take advantage s of this fair offer,' while the Appendixr:orr the lolkwing-veninK appeared with a page of hysteria which was positively distressing . to sober-minded people and a source of shame and mortification to the decent employes of its own office. . On the third day when it had caught its breath it announced that it'prpposed to print a TaT)IewhIchJwouId drive all competition out of the .field.'-fr:.--r'h:, 7 CUTS DOWN ITS OWN CLAIMS. :J : ; 0"' ZZTJasreTenTnglt "achieved this deadly act and nothing more inarto and-reposterous has lately been encompassed outside the domain -of ' "home for the feeble minded. - With sewer-rat cunning it divided y:. the city.. into' nine, districts, intentionally so cumbersome in size as : to .be perfectly valueless for details. But its own totals show a .-; ' cTaTrMdTifcuTation 1 in "the city proper of, 8,94.7 and in all outlying tributary. districts oM ,346, a total of 1093. .On February 3, in response to the original Journal map, it announced that its paid city circulation was 11,803. - It thus-appears f ronr-its. own i igures that in the brief space of a single month it has lost in Portland alone 1,510 paid subscribers,, all. of which shows that. La.-successfulliarl needs a long memory and that whoever handles figures should deal -I! in straight roods or keep a close tab on all his utterances. Or it may-be-perfectly-true-that it has actually lost 1,510 subscribers in' a month, for as the unsubstantial shadow and hysterical echo of its morning parent it can only make a pretense of independent exist ence so long as trie ligament which binds the Siamese twins is kept: out of sight. It may be possibje for part of Portland to stand one dose a day of the Oretronian, but a second dose with the kinder garten sewer attachment in the evening would revolt the stoutest stomach tand shake the firmest intellect. . v ) ( y, .: : CAUGHT IN THE ACT. a, : r f.' In addition to the so-caiIed'$nap it gives a list of Willamette valley towns with the. pretended circulation of The "Journal. In Corvallis it credits The Jolirnal with'40 subscribers -it has 60 in Astoria 125 instead of 174; in Eugene 85 instead of 155; in Oregon City 150 instead of 275; Vancouver 155 instead of 320; Salem 250 instead of 457, and" although the Vermiform will not bet (except on a jure thing), there isJfjl.OOOinJITk cisely "what Is heresaiL "In the past feur weeks, since the map was printed. The Journal's paid carrier circulation in Portland has: increased 235. . We haven t secured all. of the 1,500 which .the Vermiform has confessedly. lOst ; perhaps the Oregonian has got some of them. We hope Ao; -for it needs them. ' . -4 : -Map$ have now been published by-both sides, although the Ore gonian, of. course, dare not "make any showing of its actual paid circulation in the city, -But, as we have said, the maps have been published (with what fairness and completeness by both sides The Journal leaves it to fair-minded people to say , and herewith we renew our offer previously madeTboth'fo our morning contemporary and its- Vermifortrf attachment, andare themJtothjto.take, upjbe. gauntlet then and now thrown down to them. The time has come when the advertisers of Portland. want facts, not fiction, when they have ceased to relish bunko"and demand straight dealing, and the newspaper-which attempts to "get business by false pretenses -will . get the cold shoulder as it deserves. ; J r : : .. .. T... .' ; J SUNDAY CLOSING LAW ." (SpetMVl Dwpatea s Tb IsarasLV Walla Walla, Waeh., March .8a loonmen hav decided to make a test case of th Sunday closing law and thla morning ths Walla Walla Liquor Peal era association . instructed Prosecuting Attorney Wilson to Issuw warrants for ths proprietors of ths Roger tt Hoewelt company, who kept open last Sunday. Warrants wer served this afternoon snd ths defen-'ants released on US bond eai'h. Th act!rn of tlie saloon men will, deter a r of c -r confection ' -4 morrow 1 1 . PjRICE FIVE CENTS. r - Johns. RSON-SfUSNEERi AT SOCIALISTIC CREED (8reUl Wsesteb hy Ised Wlrs te Tbe Jwrsl) New York. March . R. W. Patter son, editor of the ChlMwro Tribune, father Of Joseph Patterson, who ha turned Socialist. Is Urtnf In thls cltr. Hs said that bis son was competent la draw his -own eonlu-'ona, but I 'v opinion cou'1 n't c s r" 1.' -ferenoe wl.h t.l . r ' 1 that svlf : 1 ' ' : 1 i tra of t . en. I I mh'f f I" 1 t ' ' ' f . r - - r i t I ' ' tilt