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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 ... .
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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
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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,'
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Mo -
are 5 Standing Miaa PhilUpa, Miaa
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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. .
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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