if I): 1 GOOD EVENING -r- -a-r-i jr .--(. Journal Circulation THE WEATHER. Sunday Clearing and -cooler tonight; Tuea , day probably fair; westerly winds. Was VOL. V. NO. 35. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING,! APRIL 16, 1906. FOURTEEN PAGES. wiw. e-rAlina. mi nan r-TM (cjp ; ; NATIVES KILE AMERICAN - CONS 'WABLES;;:' i , Forty tadrones Enter the Town Unobserved and - Cut Down Headquarters Sentry f . - ; . Who Tries to Stop Them -' ; THEN RUSH THE KILLING TWO ; ; ;V;; i nce-Adjoin . , , . , t ' " (Jotrnul Spgt!at Sen 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 ?S'.'.'w. '' 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 MmcMtgAf 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 " I, , J s El.- ID 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. - V " ; ' s- .'I 11 II 11 11 I a. ..i . js..i m W m ... - I J f 1 -i r! - - H L'',;;"'j - '. Uti.tral 11. C. Corbin. ' '; J m&mm i !.'V-7 i V - u if it n REPLACE Burn to the Ground," Building, But Has rt "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