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VOL. V. NO. 35.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING,! APRIL 16, 1906. FOURTEEN PAGES.
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Forty tadrones Enter the Town Unobserved
and - Cut Down Headquarters Sentry f
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THEN RUSH THE
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Manila, April. i6.Forty ladrqnes. raided hc headquarters of
the constabulary in Malolos,, the
in Luzon, today, killed three of
and escaped with the loss of but
The brigands entered the
of thie morning' and were not discoverett" until they had reached the
headquarters, fronting the residence of Governor Sandico.' .
. At this point a scntrydicoyeredthcj,cbels: and jmmediatcly
cliallenged. ; The reply of ; the invaders was sl sudden "attack 'upon
hOFnfyTlvhoSeku1l7asptlSn
ladrones rushed up the stairs of the headquarters building and be
fore the defenders within, who were few in number, could assemble
they were overpowered
A detachment is in liot pursuitTif the fleeing-andrtsTTwho lost
one of their number in the struggle, that took, place in the building.
While a vigilant" walcTi'TiaTi'becn kept In an eJforVto guard against
surprises of this kind, the attack this morning came, in an entirely
unexpected manner, as it was not believed the rebels would venture
nMoiFsTronghtf
ing two score jwill "be t eitheVjcaptiircd or killed before they reach a
hiding-place. ' .V; , :'""'"Jf.;J;A 2L
GORKY VANISHES
FROM VIEW
Humiliation Incident to - Eject
ment From Hotels Causes
. Russian Much Pain.
SEEKS SECLUSION IN
OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN
Millionaire Socialist - Wilshire Dis
gnsted"WitrrreatrnentAcc6rded Visitor- Witte's Secret Emissaries
" Said to Be Active.
Uoarnsl Special Serrlee.)
New-Tork, f April It. Driven armost
to distraction by the humiliation heaped
"Tipon hlraittim comcellnd 16 leave hofel
after hotel berauae the woman with
hlm-wa ttot- his - wife. - Maxim Oorkr
has ;one lnjo-secluslon. It la under
stood he Is at the home of L. E. Miller
t Balnbridre avenue and Two Hun
dredth street.' The RhlneRndrr apart
ment hotel, on Fifth avenue, waa the
last hostelry to evict the couple. There
was a scene at the Rhlnelander, when
Frank Geraty, manaa-er of the eatab-
llshment, met the Russians upon their
return from s meeting at the Orand
Central late Isst nlicht. nnrf told them
-they must -vacate their lodsinss. Made-
' molselle Andrelva became hysterical and
"Oorky-.tnrwup his hands , in despair.
; H. daylord Wllahlre. the'' millionaire
Hocfallst, who has been entertaining-
Gorky, expressed himself as distrusted
..With th way Gorky Is being treated.-.
Geraty said: "They , got Into the
house In the .first place under false pre
tense. Ia Blanche, one of the owners
of the'tfayette-Brevoort, whom I later
learned had . evicted them," came to me
nd said he had a party of foreigners'
. he wished me to take care of. .He said
his hotel was crowded and it would be
a great favor IT I wOUM take'These peo-
. pie in. He did not mention any names,
and under the circumstance I agreed
-to take his guests. Later X learned
. their identity and had them leave.::. .
Discussing Gorky's vanishing act, the
"Journal says: r
"Russian police agents, acting Under
dlrect orders from Count Wltte in 8t.
Petersburg, are actively at work In New
York la. an effort to discredit Maxim
Gorky's labors on behalf .of the libera
tion ofThe' Russian people.' To schp
' their Intentions Gorky has succeeded
In mysteriously disappearing, and' for
the next few days he will remain In the
seclusion of a retreat opened to him In
the outskirts of the 'city, where, In com
pany with 'Mndhme Gorky,' his secre
tary and his adopted son, he will devote
hie leisure to literary work. tat de
mands his Immediate attention..
Mrs. Lerap Is Bead. -
t. Louis, April !. The widow of
William J. Lemp, the brewer, died to
day as the rnlt of the shock of her
noeband's suicide three years ago.
BUILDING
MORE IN ATTACK
i ng- m a n 1 1 a - - -
capital of the province of Bulacan,
ihe constabulary, captured 20 rifles
one of their number.
city unobserved in the early hours
ONE BLOCK IN 22
If you Run Your Automobile
Faster Than That You're
:tr . Breaking Law. - :
LIST OF OWNERS WHO T
- MUST FACE COURT
Test by Polic Yesterday Showed
That -Slowest-Chauf feurrof AIT
Went Sixteen Miles an Hour,
Double the Legal Limit.
Bo many complaints have, recently
been made to the police about chauffeurs
I running, .thelt; automobiles In the city
limits faster than the speed, allowed by
ordThanee and so much trouble has been
had In securing convictions when " ar
rests were mad that Sergeant Batjr
and Mounted Patrolman Keller by. In
struction of Captain MoOre perfected a
system by which positive evidence could
be' secured. - . - -
As the result at their labor IS com
plaints were filed In the police court
this morning by Sergeant Bat jr and war
rants of arrest are to be Issued and
served this afternoon. A number of the
most prominent business men In the city
I are accused ot either violating the -ordi
nance themselves or of permitting It to
be violated with their machines. -
The ordinance provides that within
the city limits automobiles shall not
Lbe driven at a .higher rate than eight
Philles an hour. The policemen made a
mathematical calculation and found that
eight miles nn hour would be at .the
rate of a mile in 7H mlnutes.Eac!j
block, with one crossing, covers a dis
tance of 20 feet , There are 6,289 feet
in a mile, and dividing this by S60
gives about 20 block anil crossings to
the,. "Tie. IT 2d blocks, or a mile may be
covered In 1 minutes, or 460 seconds,
one block may be covered in A twenti
eth of that time, or about tm seconds.
..After, making this calculation the two
policemen, wearing plain clothes, re
paired to a spot on Washington street,
near Nineteenth, -where automobiles are
to be seen whining along day and night
They measured off the. required dis
tance and then equipped themselves
with a stbp watch. They discovered that
the-tuickeet time in whrctth-tJstance
was covered was a trifle under six sec
onds and the longeat .time taken urn
about 11 seeonds, t "7- -
This shows that the man who took
the longest to cover the distance with
his machine went twice as . fast as al
lowed by ordinance, or at . the rate of
IS . miles an hour. - The'' fastest Auto
mobile covered the spare at the rate of
to miles an hour, the speed of an ordi
nary railway train: A collision while
traveling at thla rate of apeed would
have been disastrous.
The following la a list of automobiles
Continued on Page Two.)
SECONDS
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Ruins of the
BUSINESS BLOCK MAY
RUINS
"I'm Only Sorry They
the Owner's- Comment He Will figure on
Jacob Kamm has" under" consideration
the'jnCtter of erecting a modern fire
proof building on the corner of First
and Washington streets, the scene of the
fire Saturday night. While he 111
make no deflnife statement ort the. SUb-
Jeothe said -this morning that he ln
tended to learn just what sort of struc-
tore would beTnnet useful on thst site;
"About the' only thing I am sorry
Tor:" saidWr7TCamrrITfs'
Afir""&fr Itim'tiTTs' JKST thftrrTlnirT- tpnrtlnff hnnlirtn nil nr-thf
men did not permit the" old building to
be entirely destroyed. I have not been
down there to look at the ruins a yet
but I understand there is not enough
left to make repairs. If everything had
been wiped out by the fire it would not
have been necessary for me to clear the
debris Off the site. I waa pleased to
learn, however, that the firemen got
those horsea out to places of safety."
When asked If he Intended to rebuild
MrT' Kamm "Bald that he undoubtedly
would Just as soon as he. could decide
what sort of building would be most de
sirable to erect at that point. In fact
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BfNERAL-H. C. CORBIN-f OR
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL
President- Roosevelt Nominates
Him for Highest Post of
V . - Honor in the Army.
Ooarntl RprcUl Service.)
Washington, April It, -President
Roosevelt 4o3ay nominated General H.
C, Ccrbln to be lieutenant-general.
AdJiitanUGeneral Henry Clark -Cot-bin
of the V'nlted States army was born
In Clermont county, Ohio, September 1J5,
1M2. He. was reared. on a farm and
his early education was secured -in tRe
country jind town schools In the v'
lt,y t-f -the t arm'" wlver' he" ITved. A fter
completing the common school course
,he took two years ln a private acad-
emy.v He was ambitious am) chose the
law as a profession. , He studied It. dur
ing IStt and '1861. ' But his career In
this line was cut short by the outbreak
of the civil war. " He enlisted -In the
union krm'y at the age. of. Ji years, se
curing the rank of aecoiui lieutenant In
the Seventy-ninth Ohio volunteers. ,v
He was With the Army ot the Cumber
rand until the close of the war, rising
through aTTIfie ranks If om that In which
he enlisted to that of brevet brigadier-.
general. He was mustered out of the
volunteer service and , enlisted in . the
regulate.rmx a a second. Ileuteunt0f lhe
Seventeenth irnltcd States Infantry May,
ltS." He was promotpit to the rank of
captain 4n lit! and served 10 years o
the " plains of Kansas, New Mexico,
Arliona -and -Texas. - "
In Msrrh. 1(77, he wa detailed for
duty at the White House ami served as
secretary f the- famous tMttlngr" Bwtl
rommts.iloh.s- Ha was with . Pr-sldnt
Garfield at the time - the latter was
shot and was also at his bedside when
he died. H was, appointed major and
assistant adjiitsnt-general -l -1xQ and
has since served In that department, be
ing promoted, to the grad of brigadier
general. " . t
. lit recognition of hi services snd the
psrt he took in the wsr with Spain, con
gress conferred unon him the rsnk of
major-general... Later he was made
quartermaster-general of the army anei j
served In that rapacity until he wa de- !
tailed to take charge of the division of I
the srmv In th Plilllnnlnpe "
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Kamm Building, at First and Washington Streets.
OF THE KAMM CORNER
Didn't Let the Place
putting up a, substantial business block
at that point for. the past 10 years, but
kept postponing action, from time to
time, 1- Th tire, however, hv esld would
bring the matter to a quicker conclu
sion thrni"anttcipted: t, -
That lrtt Is valUHhie," he "Kplsined
"I have refused an offer of SlOO.OOU for
ft-.-Bttfett-tB too near-th-rtver io-roake-a
gcm hotel ailte. . Kxprrtenco has shown
fltles are situated several blocks from
the water.- At present Portland appears
to be growing at a greater rate to the
north and west than In other directions.
But very soon the hills on the- west
side will be reached and the city will
then begin to expand to the east and
south. The business district, in my
opinion, will ,not get very far from Its
present location.
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Burn to the Ground,"
Building, But Has
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"For that reason the property on First
and ..Washington will al ways be .valuable
for a business block. But I Intend to
make Inquiries and learn what the busl
nesa Interests demand That would-make
a splendid loi'stlon for jt bank, as it Is
right in the midst. of the financial center
0 tha cjty. A five or six-story modern
building made absolutely fire-proof will
--tio- less than- S 1 id.WUd. i-'-or-euch-
I "u,lu'" " " -annual
reniaof l,000. So you see on those
teiais It would be a very poor Invest
ment" ,- - - - , --
ilr. Kamm said that a fo years ago
he built a modern fire-proof block In San
Krauclsco. There waa" a great demand
for such a building there then. Whether
such a building would pay In Portland
he -was not prepared to say. -but ex
pected to rind out. , He said Ye had great
flth In Portland's future snd believed
that ft would rnirmnfh-rargcT-cWy.- He
Is a little Inclined to fearr however, that
the many large buildings going up will
h the means nt forcing down rents, ,
NEGROES EXHORTED TO. ARM
AND RESIST LYNCHERS
Colored Clergy of Chicago to
" Demand of Roosevelt That
He-Take Action. .
.. . tJoimT gpeclirgemee
Chicago, evprll 1. Indignation that
expressed Itself In demands for retalia
tion and revenge swept the colored pop
ulation of Chicago yesterday, when the
stories of the Missouri lynching were
read In "the morning.-
As a result of denunciations from the
pulpits, the whole matter of lynching
nd tha pmilwhnientof the ringleaders
of the mob will be laid at once before
I'resldent Roosevelt. A demnnd will
be made upon the president that the
crime be Investigated and that Justice
be speedily visited on the guilty. There
werefrank prediction In seversi pul
pits St negro churches that unless the
fate" of Missouri negroes was avenged
there would he bloodshed In more than
one southern city.
Colored congregations have been tolil
that the 'time has come for negroes to
arm themselves agninst' such crimes as
that-c-ommmed At fprtngttetrtrend that
they should shoot to kill. The leader-!
ship of the movement to appeal directly
to President. Roosevelt was taken by
the colored clergy ot this city. .
HUGE AVALANCHE IS-
PIERCED BY A TUNNEL
(Joornal Special Service.) '
. Kllvrton. Col.. April 14.
ntyi more
WlverlOn Is ifi. touch -with the world.
At 1 O'cloi k today the first ruin pulled
Into the city, for 21 days. The train
passed through a novel Ice tunnel four
miles below town. This tunnel is bored
Ihrhiigh the remains of the great ava
lanche, which packed on the tra-k so
solidly (hat the blorksde breakers war.
compelled to bore through It. The mon
ster mass Is 56 feet high, 100 yards long
and ISO yards wide. Trains will prob
ably continue 1o pass, through this tun
nel ' until Well Inte the summer. Six
freight double headers followed, bring
ing In HI cars of merchandise. Hlx cof
fins and 10 barrels of whiskey were the
first articles unloaded.
ROBBER IDS
HIS LIFE
E. B. Evans, Caught Attempting
' to Rob Safe of Friend to
V Make Up Shortage.'Kills
Himself.
DANGEROUSLY WOUNDSt'"-'
" " NEIGHBOR AND WIFE
RespedtedZInsuranceMan la Iowa
. Town Confronted in Act of Looting
Safe Makca Murderoua Aaaault on
Ita Owner and Then Shoota Him
rieif Dead.' - '"' T
1 -(JoarftsV-'Bpeeisl Service.) .
Waterloo, Iowa, April li. Discovered
while attempting to force the safe In
the home of rtiadtah Smrth,- E. B. Ev.
ana. ao Insurance man, murderously aa-
snulted SmlHt--end4he-4tte s wife, se-
riously7 Injuring them and then, shot
himself, inflicting a wound from which
he died a few hours-afterward.
Kvnns was at the head of tha Mutual
Life Insurance company's affairs in this
city and It is alleged that there Is a
shortage IrTTiIw accounts oT IMOO"."' It
Is charged that tha attempt of Rvan
to -force the safe in tha home of the
Smiths was an" effort to secure funds
with which to cover the shortage. ,.
Caught at Bobbery.
Smith and Evans were welt acquaint
ed "trnd when the former and his. wife
confronted the Insurance man In the
act of breaking into the Vault Kvans
made no excuses,' but Immediately at
tacked the couple. A terrible struggle
ensued and, although having the better
or"tha"tlght,liavtngtadly-hurtr the man
and woman. Kvans , suddenly stopped,
t!rw a revolver and fired a bullet into
his bodyrUe ixptred a short time later.
It s not thnugh.tl.thatthe Injuries of
8mlth or his wife will prove fatal.
iCvuns was well known. and was re
garded, as. a. successful man from the
manner In which the affairs -of the com
pany of which he was the leading spirit
In this -vicinity were conducted. - What
has led up to the alleged shortuge, in
which It Is said a big sura of money
not accounted for is laid to the door of
Evans, la not yet known. , He was not
known to speculate and friends say that
they can give no reaaon for his need
of money, as his -salary was commen
surate with the position he held. It is
believed That he stood sponsor for some
friends whose identity . la . not. known,
using' funds of the company, and when
tha time arrived In which Evans was
compelled to make air accounting the
money was hot "forthcoming.-'' Driven
to desperation, he apparently became
mentally deranged and; knowing that
Bmlth had money in his safe, Evans evidently-
essayed-the-rede of -burgla,
which-ended In assault and Injury tlf
bis friend and his own death. .
WALSH'S HEARING OFF
fOR MAYBE SIX WEEKS
(Joarasl Special Service
Chicago. April U. John R. Walsh's
preliminary hearing on the charge of
Illegal - practices - as- presidentof the
Chicago National bank was today post
poned again until May j.
Examiner Morrison announced that
the Investigation of Walsh"s books would
retiulre at least six weeks. Thers can
Pbe no hearuig until that work Is done.
and continuations from time, to time
will be necessary... . ,,...:..'
ENJOINS FURNAS FROM "
SIGNING UP ARID LAND
(Special Plsnatcb to Tt ournt.)
Pendleton. XJr.: April it The Max
well Irrlaatlon "company of Hermls-ton
has served an, Injunctlhn- on l -AV.- D.
Furnas to prevent him from signing up
arid land valued at tit. 000 with the
government for the t'matllla, Irrigation
project. -The. Maxwell .company claims
It had a prior contract with Furnas.
The innd la located In, the vicinity of
jlexmlston. :...,..-.. ...
LACK OF BUSINESS CAUSES MANY
SALOONS TO CLOSE THEIR DOORS
There are fewer, saloons. In Portland
.by , 40 at the,. present time, than there
wer January 1.' according te-the-feo-
ords of the city license inspecting de
partment. Tnla remarkable decrease In
the number of grog, shops Is. said to be
due to la a of business. Many of the
places which have closed doors during
It lis past quarter are located In the resi
dence districts. The proprietors claim
that they were unable tit make enough
to pay the license fee of $ 1 Ik a jarter
and meet other expenses.
January I there were apprnirtmstely
4Kg animate and retail Honor fnns in
the city. The list was checked this
morning and it was found that only 410
licenses had t-en taken "ut. Lt
PANICS TO BE
AVOIDED
Hereafter Every City School Will
Have a Fire Drill at Least'
Twice a Month and Full.
Reports Will Be Made.
EVERY-EMERGENCY:
TO BE ANTICIPATED
Former -Triala .Have Shown. That
Big Stmcturea Can Be Emptied in
- Minute, and Half After Alarm Gong
la Sounded and Every. Scholar Is
7 to Be Well Trained.'"; :'T "'f''
Fir drills will be held In each of the
publlo school buildings In this city one
every two weeks. This order has been,,
laaued to. tha principals by. City Buper
Intendent FranJt Rigler and will be
strlcfTy enfarced. J -' " 1 ' " " :
"Whenever a flf ririaiietd th principal
will Immediately notify the superin
tendents office, where a complete" rec
ord of the drills will be kept, Thla
plan haa been adopted for tha purpose
of preventing any laxity in holding fire
drills, on. thepa.rt 9f .any of. th prtn .
clpals.
' From trials which have been made It
takes but a ahnrt time to empty the
school buildings In this city, as the"
several wide exits and plana on which
the structures are built makes rapid
work posstbht DrtUa heh rn- the past -show
that in 'several of the "buildings
1 every pupil can be- gotten safely-uj
aide within one and a half mlnutea after
the lire gong sounds.
Different maneuvers will be practiced
at the drills, in order td familiarise the
children "with -almost every situation -tliat
might happen at .a fire, gome
times 4he elgnal will be given, for the .
use of all exits; at another time only
one exit, making tha pupila believe that .
the others are en fire. The proper
handling of the fire extinguishers by
the larger pupils will also be taught. .
-" tn a rnaJorlryof -the schools- fire
drills are held regularly but certain
principals are somewhat lax in this re
gard and the superintendent and school
board have arrived at the conclusion
that - an established system of drills .
will prove the most satisfactory. The
recent agitation for greater safety In
time of fire has brought about the de
termination of the school officials to -prepare
the children for any emergency.
CIGARETTE CAUSES rr
FATAL BURNS TO WOMAN
(Sneelal Dtioatck te Tke Journal. t
The Ita lies. Or.. A pril 1. Jane Ro
mero, a Spanish woman, living near The
Pallas.. X or half a century,, making her -home
with her daughter, .Mrs. Henry
Brune, five miles north of Grand
Dalles.. Washington,, retired to her room
last night to smoke a cigarette as wss
her usual custom before retiring and
got afire In some way. She wan badly
burned from her waist up., but her
daughter smothered th fire with blan- '
kets. Dr. Logan was .called and says
the ag-d woman will die.
UNION STOCK YARDS
. BUYS BIG FOSTER FARM
(Special Dtaoatcb te The Journal.) '
Pendleton, Or., April Id. The O. W.
Hunt farm at Foster, consisting of
1.500 acres of alfalfa and fruit land has
been sold for (175,000 to tha Union
Stockyards. company of Troutdale. The
tract la ona Of the finest in the north
west In - Includes - soma -of - th first
claims located east of the Cascade
mountains Irt the early SO's. - The new
owners will seed to 9 aeres of alfalfa
and 400 acre of barley.
Wkona Uneeaes Strike.
(Joaraal flpedal Bervtee.
Norfolk. Va., April U Four' thou
sand linemen and other electric work
ers of - the Bell Telephone company In :
seven southeastern states struck toda)
for an Increase of ?5 cents a day la
wagee...,;. 1 ; -
week the Iloensa inspectors made e par-,
rial canvass and found 30 saloens which
were not 'ouenT " ...C... ""Z.'iTVy"
.The result of the closing .of lbee
saloons la keenly felt tit- the enl lectio
of city licenses, and It mains' !.01
less revenue every quarter ftir the city.
Cnles some other plan is adopted ft
increase the revenue from sme other
source the city's finances will suffers
eonsldershlv.
About the first of the y-r ' '
a-acrsmhl" amt Hn'""
Itvin licenses. T'"f
mendons hualne
owrlllm.' - ! f
fie of 1 "
In