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TOIAY-S SUNDAY JQlJRlL i magazine and a newspaper, and, moreover, an The Journal, Portland, ! OregonPlease send me The Jourr.-l ' 1 further notice, and I will pay you IS cents per week for same, tj mcll CO cents' month..'. ,- 4 V ,; , -' M , - t. (- . ; '.;., "m?" .. ...... -f '": V v- Address...,.;,...,.-..,, .....;,......,. good will and good feeling from JOURNAL J 1 mw,m Vvn A 9 M tl - . . family in Oregon, ' The Daily and Sunday Journal has 125,000 readeraver 25.0W news paper workers are contributors to Its' columns.. It Is a newspaper of the masses, imbued with a lots of eaualitr and iusticel It welcomes the reader to ita "rtnlir aervice and fworacrs to j ins juuiWAb ismuy, uw largest newspaper II -...... a. ll . f i. ' i. j i, . , ( . . . .. ..... ... . . .. ii jvh ci mem nu ana inu uuiwnci your ncignoor, too, 10 wy it,. rut tn tne coupon and mail p The Journal. J 1 y i ,' . i i , i i . i '.' , r - ' 1 ii i. ix. mi L i ijixi .r 1 1 1' i ijiiiut 1 1 1 1 1 . , . ,-, -. - , ; i ", ', . . . j . Trr: VOL. III. NO. 5. V PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL - 15 :1906.FOUR SECTIONS FORTY-EIGHT PAGES , .1 . i- PRICE FIVE CENTS. I GOOD MORNING W (1 TrtSrtW jSSfcsT fiftMS!ilW ferniil Circulation- I MB SPREADS KATO M Overheated Gun Tiring of 330 at Target Practice ---Lieutenant Who Was Killed Said to Have Be w to Blame - - (8p:Ut DUpteh by'Lmwd WIN to Th feoraal) WaahlDKton, April' 14. -8t mm .were , Instantly killed and wounded- jr- frduy on the battleship" Kearaarge off Culebra, Cubs.' On -the eame lati--the fatal ltth. and almost precisely la the 7 same manner. SS men were burled Into ' eternity In the turrets and the ma- aalnca- of . Iwittleehlp Mlsaouri two ; years "'' ' ' . . - Three bags of sunpowder.' eacb con taltiln. It la estimated, 11 pounds -of powder, blew up at the same moment In the forward -turret of the Kearsarse. ; Lieutenant Hudgins, turret, officer, and five of bis man, grouped about the big j 13-lncD 79-ton guns in tnt turret, were instantly killed. Twenty others were painfully hurt ' ,.t -. . . - Ob AaalTarsary ef Tragedy. The ship was oft Culebra in the aft' " ernoon of yesterday when the explosion , in the forward turret ended all thoughts of further-target praotloe for the sea ' son. That It should have happened on a Friday, on the thirteenth of the month, and two years to a day later than that which killed so many of the Missouri's crew, added not a UtUe Interest to the ' .'catastrophe. ; . - Here is the nary'a record of the men who died as a result of Injuries due to - the . explosion and were buried ' at Quanta namo: Peter Norburg. gunner's mate, third class, residence New York; next of kin Margaret Norburg. mother, , Band avail, ' Sweden. ' . '' I -" Theodore Naeglick, seaman, residence , Ellsabetbh. New Jersey; next of ktn Louts Graff, - guardian, 8t Elisabeth avenue, Elisabeth. New Jersey.- ' Anton -C-Tbornton, Ordinary seemnn. residence New York; next of kin Ellas Thorton, father, Wyckoff avenue. Lower Broadway, New York. ' Julius Alfred Koester, turret captain, first class, residence Chicago; next . of kin John Peterson, uncle, Sit ' West Huron street. Chicago. , Ellis Homer Athey, seaman, residence Parkeraburg, West Virginia; next of kin W. E., Athey, father, 1006 Twenty-first street. Parkeraburg. west Virginia.' . William King, ordinary seaman, who was probably fatally hurt, lives in , Appleton City, Missouri.- His next of kin Is Mrs. Alios Cox. t The news of the disaster which oc curred at the end of the long and arduous ...practice drills of the North Atlantio squadron in the Caribbean sea, . came like a blow today to the navy department tn--the-orm-of--eablegTan-f rem Hear. Admiral Robley V. Evans, commander of the squadron. ; It was dated at Calmanera, a little cable station at the " mouth ' of . Ouantanamo . bay in Cuba, where the dead were being laid away -even as the department was digesting the mesgqr news of the catastrophe.- That -the dead are being Interred In "Calmanera is taken to mean that the bodies were too greatly mutilated " to admit of their being shipped to their - bomes. - ' i '" .;. , '- .- Oaptela WlaalowHl Message. Admiral Evans' cablegram was supple mented by one front Captain Wlnslow ' of the Kearaarge. .reading as follows-. -. "Calmanera, April 13. 190S To the -. Secretary of the Navy, Washington On April 13, about l:lt p. m. shortly after completing target practice of Kearsargs forward turret.! while the powder was going below, three sections of a 11-tnch charge were Ignited, wiiarge of powder In other loft just below and one section ' inside. U-lncb remained intact. Cause not yet determined.. Matter being in. vestlgated. . Ueutena. 5 Joeer h , W Orame, gun empire. : was sent to the Maryland In a very critical state about t p. m. The following have since died:- Lieutenant Hudgins, turret of ficer; Peter Norburg. gunner's mate; Theodore Naegllok, seaman; ' Anton C. Thornton, ordinary seaman: Julius A. Koester, turret captain (first class); El- t Us H. Athey, seaman. ) . , "The .following were dangerously In- jnred by the accident, recovery doubtful; ' W. King, ordinary seaman. "Will bury dead as Ouantanamo. ' Ves sel uninjured. . . ; 7 (Signed) rWtOW.' , Seooad Aooldeat of the Clad. ' ' Wlnnlow'a dlnpatch gave little more tii ea t s of what had occurred,1 1 CROWDED May Have Caused Pounds of Powder for Disaster. It did not tell the full story of the ex plosion that, 'in the narrow -confines of the forward turret, - had sent six men to instant death and bad mutilated ota ers-so that they had to- be carried forth by their comrades when the smoke cleared- away. - - -w--' Further unofficial details of the acci dent obtained late today helpeeTTd Toohd out the story of thla lamentable hap pening, the second of its kind ' on the Kearaarge. - . .. A . . . .The KearsargS, with the -other ships of the North Atlantic squadron, had for weeks been engaged In one of the most arduous practice drills during the -winter cruise In the Carribbeaa - sea. It was ' toward the end of the quarterly target practice. Near the close of their practice, when records had been made by many of the gunners, snd when the crew of the KeaTearge bad kept well Into line with, the others,' showing the work of the double superimposed turret ship to be not one. whit behind the oth ers, . this accident .occurred. -i China Ovovaeated. Ths Missouri's crew added not a little interest i to the catastrophe. The Kearsarge, according to the best Infor mation obtainable, had been engaged In target practice with her big 11-inoh guns to determine their carrying power In -sending the 1,100-pound projectiles they carry. " To test tha stability of the turrets It Is said that the eight-inch guns In the upper turrets snd the two lUnch guns in the tower one bad sev eral times . been ' fired simultaneously. Thla was easily done, for the touch of an electric button was able to discharge them all at the same Instant., The tur rets fairly shoot with the vibration caused ' bjrthls - shock of these t dis charges. - ' - - - Wkea tas Bxploaloa Ooos-rred. - It was when the gun crew in the lower turret were about to load one of the 11-Inch guns that 1 the explosion happened. To load the shell of one of these guns required liO pounds of gun powder, . This powder. Tor convenience. Is carried In bags of 110 pounds each. It la brought up from the me ratines below through . the floor or deck of the turret ' on a hoist . that conveniently holds the bags. In this case It la said that the 110-pound bags had been sent to the upper turret snd Lieutenant Hudgins signaled to lower some powder bags to load the gun. : . At the same time the second lt-lnch gun. it Is declared, waa so heated that the fieutenant decided "lb" draw the charge from the shell which had Deen placed within the breech and let the gun .Continued on Page Two,) THE G LOR IO US M ESS AG E ' OF Archbishop Alexander Christie writes In thS Csthollo Centlnel) ';' ; -''. "Easter ,ls a Chrlatian festival, com memorating the resurrection of Christ from the dead. in the - economy - ef Christianity the fact of Christ's resur rection holds the essential place which St PauL aasfgns It In his preaching to ths Oenttles. If Christ be not risen again, then Is our preaching vain, and your faith Is also vain.' According to ths explicit declarations" of the same apostle, belief In the resurrection Is an Integral and Indispensable portion of ths Christian creed. - Tor If thou con teas with' thy mouth ths Lord Jesus, and believe. Iti thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou Shalt be saved.' . ' ;. ' "The opponents of revealed religion have practically accepted St. Paul's esti mate of ths Importance of ths resur rection In ths edifice of Christian Ialth, for while they are not unanimous as to the manner of ttack, they are general ly agreed that tbie basic truth must be got rid of. . And In this they ere not Unreasonable. The denial 'of UU Li (il l I II .: fi. 1 11 . n.11,11.111111 I I I I 1 ' II v - f l t U WWW I I ' tl V tl : I- .f U ,M ara V s. Mil U If I ! : ' ". X uiu u . .... - '. 4S ; I VsWS II I II I "I if III "...T 4"f ' ' r' By , JSUan Hawthorne. -t. . t .1 (Special Dispatch by Leawd Wire to The Josrnal) Washington. April 14. President Roosevelt ; talked about" the "man with the muck rake" - tola afternoon at the laying of the corner-atone of the new office building of the bouse of repre sentatives.. Speaker Cannon and Rep resentative Hepburn of Iowa and Rep- reaentatlve Richardson of Tennessee were on the prpgram for addresses la advance of the president, but the Ma sonic '.ceremonies consumed ' SO' much time that all speeches except the presi dent's were cut out. ?' , . The members of the senate and bouse had reserved eests directly In front of the speaker's stand, and when the presi dent denounced what he called mua- allnglng by the newspapers and mSga. sine - writers the ssnators ana tne scores of White House and capital peo ple applauded. Platforms . hsd been erected In front of the new building and crowds of ladles with new Esstsr bonnets-were .grouped with the reservation for the members of - the house. ' Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth were In the small party of dignitaries on the official platform. The Marine and the Engineer Corps bands furnished the musio alternately with the Invocation and the ceremonials of the Masons, the Masonic quartet Bang as vera! Selections and Grand Master Brown of the District of Columbia lodge delivered. an addreaa after, the corner stone had, been lowered Into place. The gavel used by George Washing ton In laying the corner-stone of the capltol.' September IS. 17. was used again today by President- Roosevelt. resurrection of Jesus Christ Involves tha total rejection of Christianity. From the time of the' apostles down to our own day all preachers of, Christianity have-built upon the resurrection; and Christ himself. Impllclty appealed to It as the Incomparable "work which would forever Vindicate his character and his claims. Destroy this, temple, and la three daya I will raise It Up.' His en emies understood the Import of his prophetic words, for St. Msrk tells US that . The bhlef priests' and Pharisees raroe together to Pilate saying. Sir, ws have remembered that that seducer said while he was yet alive, "After three daya t will rise again.".' ' "That Christ literally fulfilled His own prophecy, and rose again from ths dead "on the third day la aa unassail able, historical fact. Ths risen Christ appeared many times. In many places and to many witnesses. --Those who beheld Him were not credulous enthusi asts, ths easy victims of fraud or hallu cinationthey were, on ' the contrary, honest. God-fearing men, possessed of those qualifications - which render any witness worthy . of respect sqd oonfl- ! dance." The conduct of 'Thomas typified 1 U VLUU f e i.J, - 'J i t - ' ' i;,.-: iff: ... . y,;ii - (....:;:; -,..1, J " J J 1f 4. '?,.',"k.v ll i ll I J- - 1 v .:-. -ir. Advocates a Centralization of Trust Control That Would .-' . ' Kill the Republic. ir. .. - Speaker Cannon.' who waa on the' pro gram ' for T an address,--followed the corner-stone laying, simply introducing the 'president, who read, bis- speech. : . Keaaing' to mobody. . Ths president's oration on the "Man With the Muckrake", will please neither his friends nor his enemies, f or 1 the former will seek 'in vain In It for vindi cation of Republican abuses In office and the latter will be disappointed because there Is In It so little substance for them to attack. It Is a thing of truisms, platitudes and copy-book maxima, suit-- able to a children's Sunday school class. but quite out of place as an address to men of the world, whose knowledge of life la derived .not from copy-books but from experience. Mr. Roosevelt's man with ' the muck rake la a man of straw; there is In the Journalism of the day ao such Industry as he portrays, and although now, as always, there la audible In streets and barrooms If you care, to listen to It a tone of cynical and skeptical comment on prominent men In business and In publio lire, there, is no more of It than there has alwaya been.'-.. What Is new in the situation Is the general awakening of men who- do not make barrooms their forum and -who .do r I. 4 , Archbishop Alexander Christie- llfflflEA HORROR ATTENDS THE -- FATAL THIRTEENTH The 13th pf the month Is a hoodoo for U. 8. battleships. April 13, 1904, 32 men Were killed as the result of ; an ex plosion In a turret of the Missouri April 13, 1906, six men. are killed and many injured by an explosion in a forward turret of the Kearsarge. .1 not open their mouths, to chance comers on street corners. . -'These are the men who have not hitherto believed that the conduct of private and publio business waa ao corrupt as had been alleged, but who have, now been convinced, even against their will, that more thaa has been revealed Is true, and who sternly demand that the evil be abated. -They have not gone abroad to aeek for evil, but It has been forced under their noses and they have - been obliged . either to succumb to It or to protest against It, What such men aa these have felt and seen, that has been reflected la the magaslnea and newspapers. In : whose pages Is . written down ths Indignation which they utter to one another. . Nothing could be more spontaneous than these writings; nothing could be written with a more sincere motive, upon sounder evidence, from a more genuine Impulse to purify and uplift the publio and business life of the com munity. The man with the muck rake loved his muck; but the writers and speakera who are attacking current frauds and abuses are doing so because they hate muck and love honesty and cleanliness. They are not the men with .the muck rakes. The men with the muck rakes are the corrupt and eelilsh money-get ters, who never look up from their sor did Industry to contemplate the things which money cannot buy; and the men who are In politics for gain and am bition only and who never lift their eyes to see the generous rewards of true statesmanship. In a word, it ' is the. men whom Joumalfsm is now at- (Continued on Page Two.) EASTER the attitude of all those who with hope less sorrow : mourned His death. 'Ex cept I shsll see In His hands the print of the nails, snd put my fingers Into the place of ths nail; and put my bands Into His side, I will not believe.' Ths testimony oC Mw fellow apostles did not shake the Incredulity of Thomas. It was only when Thomas beheld bis risen Savior with his own eyes 'and had examined His wounds with his own hand a, that he professed his faith In ths simple declaration 'My Lord and My God.' ,- . ' "-.'',"' ""It ts th reality nf .Christ's resnrreo. tloa which makes Easter Sunday a day of Joy and consolation. The Ignominy of ths crucifixion was effaced In the glory bf ths resurrection, and He who had taken (he form of a servant ap pears on Easter morn In the unequaled splendor Of the King of Kings. During His publio ministry. He had made sin gular claims He hsd preached extra-J ordinary doctrines, II had claimed un limited sway ever ths minds and hearts of men; He made Himself . the sole worthy object of man's faith and love. To Justify His demands. He produced Option Taken on Quarter Block ; at Fifth and Oak for. Com- . mercial Club Building - Money Coming In. COSTLY HOME IS NOW - PRACTICALLY ASSURED Bonds' Will Be Issued to Secure Funds for Erection of Six-Story i Block to Cost Quarter of Million Dollars, and There Is Every Indi cation They Will Be Subscribed. An option on the quarter block situ ated at . the northwest corner of Fifth and Oak streets was secured by the building committee of the Commercial club today, H7.S00 of the. $9,000 neces sary to purchase the site having been voluntarily subscribed, and the commit tee has commenced a canvaaa to raise a total sum of 1250,000 with which to buy ths property and build the club a six-story home. The option was secured today from J. IL and F. H. Page, th owners, who made a price to the club at a figure ' about 126,000 under ths market value; then subscribed 125,009 towards the building fund. - The option holds good long enough to give the club smple time to raise the entire amoun of Ita building fund before any actual purchase takes place. . . "We don't want to purchase property unless we can raise ths amount neces sary to build a home suoh as ws need. said President FWLeadbetter of the board of governors, "but Judging from the rapidity with whloh we bays already secured one fourth the entire sum needed without having sent any sub. scrlptlon list out or- put forth any ef forts st all. I am confident that we will have our bonds floated quickly and work may be begun on a new home that will ultimately belong to the club." - ' wiurioat Bonds, Tonight circulars were mailed by the secretary of the board of governors to each member of the club nptlfylng him that a building association of ths mem bers la to be organised, that It Is pro posed to float 1260,000 worth of ( per cent bonds for the purpose of taking up the option that haa been secured and building a handsome building In which the organisation may find a per manent borne that will be a credit to the city and the club. Monday morning the building committee 'will atart out with subscription lists and It aspects to soon hsvs ths necessary finances. Thirty-five per cent of the amount subscribed will be collected In 30 days and the balance will probably be col lected in three payments, so, so and to days after the date of ths first Install ment. '. , .'..'' The members of the building com mlttee and the board of governors are hlshly enthuslastlo over the bond scheme. They state that It Is a thor oughly business proposition; one that will not only give the club a building and site, but will afford the members an Investment thst will pay them and bring untold benefits to the city, state snd northwest. ... . .... . .... At a. meeting of the board or gover nors held Friday a committee composed of r. W. Leadbettsr. Hugh Mcduire and (Continued on Page Fourteen.) MORNING Ills divine credentials, snd His triumph over death was the flnsi proof that He was In truth the Son of God, the Teacher of heavenly doctrine, the Savior of a fallen world. 'V.'.v ., .-, ' ; "Looking back upon that eventful morning snd the significance of Its un paralleled event, we can gain 'strength for our conviction that Christianity Is more than worldly wisdom that Jesus Christ was more than man. '' The. world may refuse to accept the angel's mas sage, "He Is risen, he is not hers," but unbelief cannot shatter conclusive evi dence, and incredulity cannot invalidate the claim, of the risen Christ The chnrch of Christ is the unanswerable srgumsnt , for the resurrection, and If) centuries of Christianity have not beeh built upon a myth. If we seek a lesson on this great frlulvsl of the Christian year, let It find expression in that consoling, strengthening hore which St Paul held out to the Chris tians of his own day: 'For If thou con fess ' "i ?. r 'ith the Iord Join, and t ''! thut tlod ) Ht ml.-; ", f- -JU 1 be 1 BSIRCE OH STATUE Mob of Four Thousand Demolish County Jail at ' Sprlngfjeld, Missouri, and Swing Two '- Suspects Up. t SHERIFFS RESIDENCE . , COMPLETELY. WRECKED Now It Is Said Men JLynched Were Innocent Criminals .;. . Attacked , White Man in Buggy, Beat Him Senseless and Assaulted Woman Whose Escort He Was. (SpeeUI Dlipatcb by Leased Wire to Tas Joarnsl) Bprlngnsld. Mo, April 14. Two ne groes were hanged on tha statue of the ' Ooddess of Liberty In the publio square tonight by a. mob of 1.000 men and boys that broke Into the Greene county Jail. 'Horace Duncan and Jim Cope land, who were .accused of assaulting Mabel Edwards, were ths victims. The nsgrosa were arrested merely as suspects and after the lynching It. waa learned that they were not guilty. A mob . of about. 4,000 gathered on tha public aquare at o'clock, marched around ths square and to-the city JaJL ine negroes were not round there and the mob started for the county-iaiL There, Instead of trying to force an en trance to the Jail, proper, the mob bat tered and broke in the front of - the sheriff's . residence, smashed the furni ture, frightened into unconsciousness Mrs. Horner, the sheriff's wife, and an ally gained entrance to the lalL The -sheriff 's residence is completely - ruinea on the inside, the mob breaking every bit of furniture to be found. Not a window in the entire building haa, a whole light of glass In It . .1 ... Sheriff Horner and all bis deputies, to- - gather with Sheriff WUson Grain of Polk county and Deputy United Statea Marshal Sheldon. - did everything pos sible to keep the mob at bay, but to no avail. . ; . It waa after 11 o'clock when tha mob finally gained entrance to the cells Into which the two negroes hsd been thrust - As soon ss the two nevroea ' had been secured, they were started to the public square, ths mob howling: 'Hang .them!" .-J'Bura :. them!". "Kill . them!"' '- , - 7 '- Mabel Kd wards, whom ths negroes are said to have attacked, -came to the dry 1 last - Friday afternoon from Monett. She had secured employment' here snd wss driving with a friend last night . when they were atopped by two ne groes. Cooper, Miss Edwards' compan ion, waa beaten into onconsolousnese and ths girl waa dragged Into a wooded pasture, where she waa assaulted. : - The two negroes lynched were em ployed at : the , Pickwick stables here, and It-la positively stated by their em ployers that neither of : the negroes could have been at the scene of the as sault at the time it occurred. A T FIRE BURiiS JACOB KO'S PROPERTY Two-Story Frame Building at First and Washington Streets Gutted by Fire. - i "-.i ':.., : V's-'--"-' About midnight last night tire bn.kn out In the two-story frame building st First and Washington streets, owned by Jacob Kamm. Before the firemen, got control of the blase the building was thoroughly gutted and damage to the amount of 14,000 waa sustained by ths tenants and owner. .The heaviest loser . was Chris Tapser. who conducted a butcher ' shop on ths premises. Other sufferers were Tomlloson and Casnldtiy, harness and feed, and a sign painter named Zlrnglebel, who had rooms en the second floor.- The cause of the nre la not known. DEATH VALLEY SCOTT RELEASED FROM CUSTODY San Bernardino, Cel., April 14 Wat er Scott, who secured his first ' grmt Ight's rest according to his own st - mi-nt- because he was locked up In . county Jail last event"". w- r rom custody, it I t hearing on h ' t re Judge Outer. 1 1 this afternoon. Artuments f lint flil-J ' urt to ( nut or ' r
