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' ' . : : : - " -f. -4 GoonioRiiniG Journd , Circulattoa THE WgATnSH. fj. .". 7" Sunday fair and wanner; northwest winds. ' ..' , ' :v. VOL. ' III. " NO. 14. ' PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING,. JUNE 17,';I83.F0UR ;' SECTIONS FORTY-FOUR,- PAGES, . PRICE FIVE CENTS. jBed Impossible to Stop Mob in Its Mad Career of Bloodshed-Outbreak Is Fe'ared Torch Put to Bialystok and Mur dering and Looting Continues Outrages Against Hebrews In Other Cities -Appalling Tor. ' tures for Victims of Frenxy. - (Copyright. Bant ' "ears Bwrlca. : by lm .Wire ta Jibs Jearsal.) '. . 8t' Petersburg, June 14. While riot ing; continued In Blalystok today , with renewed violence, the news spread - to other parts In the empire, and tonight the situation Is regarded as decidedly Bloomy. It Is reluctantly admitted that a general uprising la-feared. -. So immi nent la this peril, especially - In - the southern and southwestern provinces. rinat aii.tne infantry and army reserve men m mat. region are to b pur on a ' war footing. Flying brigades of Cos ' . sacks are to be mobilised. Similar prs - cautions are to be taken la ventral and ; northern Russia. j x While- the government is seeking to ;. minimise the slaughter tn Blalyatok. It la knowahoa -that the massacre there ' rival those m. Klshlnsff and that they J have been accompanied by the most ap- palling torture. 80 great -4a the anti- Semltle fury of the mob, that mere kill ing, f-iiff to. appease the butchers. j , aios runolak Tortore. ' ' "' Torture of the most fiendish nature adds to the horror of it alL Even the women and children ere subjected - to the most awful cruelties; Infanta have been burled from : windows-to be dashed to death in the streets below, where tnetrtodies- ars-left - to- be trampled " upon by the mob. women havs been ' brutally beaten to death after being ' subjected, to the most terrible inhumani ties. .Tr- -T-!r- Among the dead ' -are many whose ' skulls havs been beaten In with iron bars, eyes have been gouged out, limbs x, hswn from the bodies, while many hare been burned to death in tbeir homes. The wounded everywhere have been left " to perish miserably from lack of care. Others were suffocated or stran- gled slowly- while their torturers stood by and gloated.' - Nor- wers the- men alons-ln- pel pe ' tratlng these awful Crimea Women : urged on the rioters In many instances and took a prominent part in the death work. - - ' - V ' Bialystok Is ASama. - "v Tonight word cams that almost the entire city of Blaiystok, which was a ' thriving" place of 78.004 inhabitants a . few dsys ago. was In flames, and that ' the murdering and looting was going on with no sigi of diminution. .-. Troops have been hurried there, bnt --they are either powerless . or-Jndlffsr-' ent to check the carnage. ' (Continued on Fags Two.) SENATOR GOT INSURANCEtFEE Beveridge Paid Over-Five, by New York Life in Year of Election. . - Has Utmost Confidence in Perkins (KpMlal Dlipatrk by teased Wire to The Jeofail) t New York, June IT. Ths World today ssys: . ; ' s " . It was learned today that the New York Life Insurance company made a payment of I5.1M' for -"law expenses" to Alfred J. Beveridge In 18M. . . . ' - TTie TnUed Sta tea senator ; from -Jndli ana. who has taken sucn a conspicuous part In the fight to remedy the evils of - the packing-house Industry, was the - recipient of the big fee. - it Is known that - the Indiana senator la acquainted with ' George W. Perkins, former vloe-presl- dent of the - New York Life and the - partner of 1. P. Morgan. ReoenUy Sena- - tor- Beverldge paid a - visit to - ths of -" flees of Morgan at Co. and had a eon ' ferenoe with Mr. Perkins. x Whether It . related ( to insurances could not be learned. . .' The year (1898) that the New York Ufe made the payment of SS.104 to Bena- f . tor Beverldge was the same year that he was elected to the united States senate by the legislature of Indiana. Senator tieveiidge took his seat the following year. Recently Senator Beverldge - was asked to join a committee formed to protect ' the tntereat of the New , York Life policyholders. The senator declined, saying that he had-the utmost confidence In the present management of ths New York Ufe. v A Washington dlspatoh . states. . that Ntnstor A. J. Beverldge, discussing ths payment to him of J, JO I by the New OF DISCORD Open Break May Occur BetweenHouand ' President Oyer New --Packers': Law Committee Agrees to - Some Changes, Executive to Others -House Members Applaud Wadsworth f otSIurs at Roose vett and Will Sustain Hinv (Special Uspstes by Leased Wire to The Joaraal) Washington, Juns It Friction between rresiosnc Koosevait and pertain mem bers, of the house of . representatives on the beef packers bill Is likely to lead to an outbreak In open session. Many mem bers from the house have informally commended Chairman Wads worth's re ply to the criticisms of the bill by the chief executive, and other member are suggesting a compromise that, will be satisfactory -to the- White- House 00- that the bill pas b hurried through and the stress of words and exchange of letters be stopped. . The president today . re plied to wadsworth tn saustie language. Representatives of the Backers are fiercely- denouncing everybody who has hsd anything critical to say about Uim waaswortn . committee substitute. iu Sons . OoBcedes rolatsV This morning the majority of the eoi mittee who , stood with Wadsworth held a' short conference -and -decided to ac qutesos in some of the president's de mands, it was agreed - that the court review provision to which the president objected wlH be dropped, the -members holding that the provision la unnecessary. -Another agreement Is that the civil serv. ice waiver which was put In. the sub stitute -win olimmatedVlkei eU r moving another executive objection, Representattvo Davis of Minnesota is authority for , the statement that the president has changed his mind on the question' of who shall 'ner tho eoat -t Inspection at packing-town". The Mtn- nesotiaa was at the Whits' House this morning and subsequently said that the president had informed him that after thinking the matter over he had decided to favor the amendment making . the government pay tho cost. Senator Beverldge took occasion in the senats this afternoon to acknowledge - imuae on me - wnoie - question. The bill probably will not ret before the ' house before the middle of next week. Chairman Wadsworth is out of the city, and will return Monday. , . V 'Issue Becomes pot. ' . Ths tssus between the nresident end Chairman Wadsworth has become ex ceedingly hot. Speaker Cannon is In the middle of the fight for tho beef packers, and there are now indications, that the winter's love feast between ths White House and Cannon's bouse is to - be - violently. disrupted.- 1 Wsdsworth addressed Sharp agd un- - (Continued on Pago Two.) Thousand 5 Dollars' York Life Insurance company in 188. said: - ... . , - ., - "That wss my fas for fighting a big tax suit In Indiana for the New York Life. I was one of a number of law yers engaged and we fought ths suit through all ths courts. I do not re member whether or not it went to the supreme court, but I think It did.- It Involved the taking of a great deal of testimony and the preparation of briefs, appearances .In courts, etc. ' In addi tion to the. tax suit, I believe I acted as the attorney' for ths company in a small -suit in which a policy was in volved." ... (Speelsl Dlspstcs by Leased Wire te Tbe Jeorsal) Los Angeles, Juns 14. Too much seal In the accomplishment of their purpose has brought about the- arrest of . ths murderers of Joel Scheck, the young laundry-worker, who was allot to death as he rose up in bed to respond, to a call from his wlfs that burglars were In ths house about 1:W o'clock Wednesday mornmrfr-Scheck was shot twice. 13 1 her of the wounds would have been Instantly fatal. Both were powder, marked. These circumstances caused the detective, de partment to look askaocs .upon '.ths WIFE PLOTTED - ' .3;v';. "2: , 1 'v;;'- 1 l msL .1 1 T I J M. Z- aWH ft 1 I" 1 " : I WTW . iw' 11111 -snsW 1M stT , . . " ' J. f . NEW , EVIDENCE IS SECURED . IN ELECTION FRAUD CASES That Affidavits Were Prepared in : Bunches in voting of Gangs of One-Day : Residents Is 1 ;f; by Letter Written to The Evidence that ths agents "Of , the in terests responsible tor - ths election frauds in Bell wood precinct: prepared affidavits Jn bunchesln order. tof facil itate the voting of gangs of one-day residents' is unwittingly furnished by O. R. Crawford, who in a letter to The Journal denies that he was one of the Is men who registered at the Bell wood hotel the night before election. "I have not been at the Bellwood hotel with the exception of one week from March t to April 4." writes Mr. Craw ford from Bellwood. ' "Since that time t have been living at No. S84 Lexington avenue. I swore my vote in and voted considering that I had that right, as I have been here continuously slnoe March IS, 10. and eaii stIU bs found at tho above address." The fact that Mr. Crawford lived at 184 Lexington avenue, which Is In Sell wood precinct, at the time of the elec tion throws new light on the methods of the conspirators. Mr. Crawford's affidavit gives his residence as the-Hotel Bellwood. - According to his own story this was not trite, yet he Swore to the amaavit, ana tna six property owners who vouched for hint took the following oath:- . v "We, the undersigned witnesses, do swear that our names and signatures are genuine: that we are each personally acquainted with the elector and his residence, as stated; that we believe all t.i. ...im.t. .r., ,kT. his other statements are true, and that we are each freeholders In the county." i - Wks turned Affidavit? -The six freeholders In this Instance wsrs B.T F". Boynton.- assistant superin tendent of ths Oregon Water Power and Railway company; O. Plass, secretary of the Mount Mood Brewing company; With Lover Whom She Admitted. to. the House to Play Burglar story of burglary and murder, on ex tremely well told, plausible atory, lack ing only in the detail that it gave no definite description of ths two men al leged to have done the shooting, told by SOs. Scheck before and at the In quest and caused her arrest on suspicion. In too, sweating process following the arrest the' police gained claw which might point te a motive, namely the fact that Mrs. Scheck had been friendly with Ernest O. Stackpole, a Supposedly Intimate friend of hnr husband. Stock-' pols wag Immediately nlaosd snder ar- 5 O.f- 1. W. P. Jacks and W. R. XHmmlck. both employes of the- CX W. - P.i- John Schneider, -foreman "of the Pelffer Brothers' Leather 'company, and A, E. hFrench, a barber employed in Bellwood, By consulting ths oath it will b seen that these 'six freeholders swore that Crawford's residence was ths Hotel Bellwood. " -t It is possible that Crawford did not scrutinise ths affidavit after soma kind friend had handed it to him. Evidently ths affidavits were prepared in advance, and one of the conspirators took it for granted that' Crawford was a member of the--hotel colony. It was .certainly easier and very much quicker to pre pare a handful of the documents at ons sitting than to maka them out ons at a time according to the tedious process approved by law. Doubtless, if bs has not already dons so, Mr. "Crawford will forgive his friends for an error which plainly -was due to haste. ' - - - The Belonged to the Band. i Whatevsr happened in Mr. Crawford's ease there was no mistaking where W. S. Collins, H. Meaaing. W. J. Bailey, M. L. Smith and Oscar Shear were to be voted from. These . Ave were surely members of the one-night band of colo nisers, for their names were on the page or the hotel register which was over looked by ths unknown man who tors 1"' u"17, JInL. I! I tTOt two-pages containing most of the names of the l who were sent to Sell wood to vote sgalnst pronlbltlo.Thess men gave their residence as the Hotel Sellwood and that oaths were fortified by ths oaths of six freeholders, some of whom vouched for sir' Ave. Among the freeholders who webt the limit wsrs B. F. Boynton' and WU P. Jacks of ths O. . TO MURDER rest and a search of his clothing turned op two blood-stained handkerchiefs, sf which hs could gtvs no explanation. Af ter investigation today the polios sgaln sweated Mrs. Scheck. It was cnargea tnai sns and stacspois - had conspired to kill Scheck and Stackpole' had dons ths shooting., Shs was told of ths flndlng'of Incriminating evidence aisVst her sccpmpl1r and finally brog down completely and confessed that she had gotten out of bed at 1:19 o'clock In ths morning, admitted Btackpols to the kitchen of her bouss and she-theo rs-. Order to Facilitate the Shown Unwittingly Journal r'r. W. P. and a Plass of ths Mount Hood Brewing company. V - ,. Boon ths whois story of fraud will come out - Ths grand Jury called by Judge Sears is - to be drawn Monday. Within 41 hours thereafter, possibly 14, the Jurors -will be ready 'for evidence, and then the affidavits now in tho cus tody of County Clerk Fields will bs pro &yfjl and Inspected. - Sellwood Is to be thvcenter of interest, for people are aaxSous to' know how Car the O. W. P. went in Its fight against prohibition and how much aid it was given by ths Oaks Amusement company, to which corpora tion it has leased ths Oaks. Indlotmsnts are expected to eome early in ths in vestigation and District Attorney John Manning promises vigorous prosecution of all cases. -. Other Precincts) trader stasplsion, - . Bellwood may not bs alone in furnish ing sensations. Ssvsral othsr precincts polled from 40 to f s affidavit votes, many of which are said to bs fraudulent, and theee also will be investigated. The liquor Interests are accused of being in strumental In the costing of numerous illegal ballots. In every precinct where prohibition was an issue no effort was spared to save ths saloons and tho affi davits of voters may afford clues that will prove of value in running down frauds. It is estimated that in all more than 1.000 affidavit, votes-were east tn ths eownty. -Sellwood slone oast.HV and there are It other precincts that took part in ths recent election. 'sYord BKakssJ Tw, AtSSsipSs. ' Charles P. Lord, who ones waa "dis trict attorney of Multnomah county, mads two attempts yesterday to. gain (Contlnnsd on Pigs Two.) Curiosity Aroused by . a Blood-Stained Rag Leads to Confession turned to bed and had colled hsr hus band. In order that Btackpols might shoot him as he- sat tip In ths bed. The plot. Mrs. Bcheck told ths polios, was arrangsd . between Stackpole and utsrseir Tuesasy erself Tuesday afternoon. - Bcheck. had become auspicious of his wlfs and Btackpols and they hod concluded to put mm oui ox me way. e- v . The plan was that Stackpole was tWen to burglarise the , house. Mrs. ., Scheck would hear him snd arouse her hue band. The plot worked well and the probabilities ars that ths plotters would ;. V :' : ACTS UPON Official Warning Sent Companies Trying to Dodge Obligations to Settle in Fullfe-r Concerns That Voted to Cut Payments " Twenty-Five Per Cent ta Be Driven From State andAdvertised to the Nation as Diehonett, T- (special DUpateh by Leased Wire te The Joaraal) - San Pranclsoo. June 14. In ths noma of ths elty of San Francisco and ths state of California, demand has been mads upon Insurance companies trying; to dodge their obligation for full asttle ment with ths people of San Francisco. Last night a telegram signed by Mayor Sohmlts and Governor Pardee was sent to ths homo offices of ths f 1 companies that voted last Tuesday in Oakland to cut all payments of losses IB per eent. The. exact oontents of this message are kept secret. butltlsKnown that ths notice is virtually an Ultimatum and a warning to ths concerns addressed that they must deal fairly and honestly with the. San Francisco publio or bo driven fros California and ruined before the world. " ... ;- There Is no doubt about ths official character of this telegram,- Before it was sent It waa submitted to Insurance Com missioner B. Myron Wolf and approved by him. Chat approval give it Its force, for ths commissioner, by Virtus of bis power of offices and bis connection with the commissioners of other states, can wreck forever any company that re fuses to pay dollar. . for dollar to its pollcyholdsrs. - -. ... - " ; t . Went to Xoass Offices, - It was learned that ths telegram went directly to the home offices in ths east or across ths Atlantic and that it did not deal with ths local managers at all. It was not sent to ths companies that havs sxprssssd ' a desire and a determination to pay in full. - - The adjusting bureau of ths insurance underwriters today announced that un der the new system of adjusting; claims Instituted lost Wednesdsy ths work of making ths adjustments Is being rapidly facilitated. During- ths last four days claims aggregating over 11.040,400 have been adjusted, and the companies inter ested In the risks given notice of the adjustments so made. . - - Ths adjusting bureau also announces that under the eeven day limit stipula tion the first risk falling duo for pay ment .will t mature - next Wednesday. Those companies sot paying promptly when thla time arrives will bs expelled from the adjusting bureau and the hon est paying companies will havs nothing mors to do with them. Thirty-five Sqmare Oonoerasv ' There are now thirty-five companies On ths dollar for dollar list Ths presi dent of the American of New Jersey telegraphed today the company's adjus- (Continued on Pago Thirteen.) MISS mm: fl rfl Daughter of Southern Pacific Magnate Gives Entertainment for Benefit of San Fran cisco Earthquake Sufferers . (Special Dlesatrh te The learns!.) San Francisco, Juns 14. M1sa Corne lls Harrlmaa, raised M.Uf.tT for the Son Francisco relief fund with sn en tertainment, and has deposited It with the Guaranty Trust company. where U draws per oent Intereet until the finance coin mH tee- needs it. - Mies Har rlman Is ths daughter of B. H. Herri man, the transportation king. This let ter was received from -Mies Harrlman: "Arden. Orangs County, New Tors; Juns 4, 1104.- Treasurer of the Finance Committee -Sir: I L am writing- - tt tall yon that " by means of s entertainment given a little while HER HUSBAND havs sseaped suspicion snd arrsst but for ths thoroughness with ' which ths killing -waa done and. the failure of Stackpole to dispose of ths two blood stained handkerchiefs found on his per son when he was srreeted. .,- Ths theory of burglary was scouted by ths polios Immediately after they began work on ths esse. The thorough ness Sf ths work seemed to point to deliberate tnurj--motive ths ther tteelf and the 1 was (one ln 1 1 e vlrv fro f ' ' Bitterness and Spito Disturb Harmony' of All Branches of Law- : Makers at-Capital 1, Republicans and Democrats Are Angry Over Rate Bill, Cannon " Indignant Over Pure. Food Bill Tense Situation In House Over Packers' Bill. (Speelsl DUpeteh by Lssssd Whe te Tea Jesraslk Washington, June K. Veterans la congress say they cannot recall a time when there was mors bitterness and hard- feeling - In-congress - than - exists now. The present situation goes ths old Cleveland feud one better. Ths senate and house - are at each -others throats. Democrats and Republicans are rushing over ths railroad rats bill and calling each other hard names; many housa Rwpiihllrsns are furious - prssident over ths Wadsworth episode. Speaker Cannon la indignant and resent ful over mrsrepresentations ' as to his -attitude on the pure-food bill, and soma of his friends are wondering who is re sponslbls for them. . Taken at large ths situation on ths bill Is Just about as nasty as can be. Adjournment day, whloh earlier in ths , week seemed to SO Iw Sight, is remote. " Abssnt senators, and represents. U vwr. , who thought legislation -was "all but, toned up," as -Speaker Cannon says, are coming back to Washington and Ku- ropes n bookings are being canceled. Aldricb, Allison and the other "peel- -tiers' are bestirring then) selves, how ever, In efforts to-pour oil on ths troubled waters. . t- j '. . Bovs on Prssldsnt. - The senate and house ore becoming so . sensitive on the subject -of- alleged executive Interference in legislation that Republicans of prominence- ta- both, branches are becoming very . much, estranged from the president, while Democrats are fairly frothing at ths mouth. Speaker Cannon's friends were In a white heat of rags today over mis representations of the speaker's position toward ths pure food bill. Tho . ad-' ministration nswspaper organs ore say- Ing that ths speaker has been forced -to "yield" to the president and allow a rule- for- ths- purs - food bill. Ths speakar's friends say ths speaker has not been opposed to the pare food bill and told its prom seers weeks ago that if they could not get ths bill through, in duo order hs would help them get s rule. The president has not mads un usual sfforts to forward the- euro food bill nor to fores ths speaker to take action. Ths president, however, hsa mads most sarnest efforts to have the) speaker Jam through ' the immigration btl) under a rule so that the Lodge amendment as to a head tax and educa tional test should net " bs sx posed to s, separate vote in the house. He has) (Continued on Pago Thirteen.) ago soma -of my friends and myself raised ths amount f ll.16S.1T. which ws want so much to add to the relief fund of San Francisco. I havs placed It In, the Guaranty Trust company, and ant drawing J per tent Intereet onTi, but at " any time you-want It we will be very glad to forward tt to you. ws mrrnnrs so much that this sura may go a little way at least towards helping tbe suf ferers In San Francisco, for we did want to do something to help.' Hoping that our efforts- will surely be of some use, believe me, yours sincerely. 1CORNEUA HARRIMAJ." Rear Admiral Goodrich, commanding tho Paoitto squadron, sent a letter to tho finance committee stating that the n- cers and men of the battleship Rhol Island have reined 1409 for the,, needy people of Son Francisco.. , PORTLAND MAN IS - DRO'.y.'.'SD at astc:.:a (Special Oteeetr e Vke limit) : Astoria, Juns 14. Oeorse lirmlrl- ' a boat puller, fell from a pUtfv v the rear of Banborn's tn Vm i evenlnr and was drowned. . i parently In an Intoxlcst- 1 r and made no attempt ' t s thrown him. 1 .1 - . Irks' h" , , t c. to t ' - I