VOL.-III.NO.-15;
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BiiLY$70l( HORRORS PtMMD
GEM;
Douma Report Accuses Governor , of Province of Having In
jpORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY ..MORNING, JUNE 24, . 1906.FOUR SECTIQJNFQRTY.FOUR r PAGES.-
gated
AUTHORITIES
Military Act; With: the
Hooligans, Each So
dier: Instructed ; to
Kill Two Hebrews
Governor "Kister iand Other TOff-
dais Planned land Executed
: Outrage; Rowdies Not Aiding
: After. First Day Police and
Gendarmes Lead in Rioting
V , By Robert Crosier Long. ,
(Coanret, Uhik Maw Sentee, mj tiwl
; Wlr to Tit Joaraal.) ;
! St Psterstforg. June if. The Bialy
atok horrors from beginning to 'end are
the work of the oWa employee. , Hv.
Ing spent Thursday and Friday there
In further - Investigation I can arnrtn
that alt grades of officials up to 'Gov
' erribr Klster of Oreno province . are
guilty. The doums, report on Monday
"will confirm thla." Klster knew - the
massaare were planned days ahead. On
June 19 he received a Jewish deputation
who complained of Polls Office Shero-
snetleffs provocation. He answered:
"I have no light to dictate to the.
police their sentiment. - I . refuse to
stop the Pogrom If one shot Is fired."
The deputation answered: t
I "The peaceful will perish." ' (
Klster said:
"That .la nothing If revolutionists per-
i Ish, too." " - , . ? 1.
Troop Ordered 'to XtU. .
After . departing on the first day of
-the Pogrom, Klster did pot appear until
Saturday, two hour before the arrival
of t n " Doumalst. r Ther - Is -repeated
. evidence that the police boasted that
they would have the 'Pogrom. They
were aware of the arrival of seven pro
fesalonal Progromlst who stared at
the same hotel and registered their
t passports. -
Kolpatchof. the town magistrate,
swears that he recognised disguised gen
darmes leading the. hooligans. The au
thorities not only planned, , but also
"" executed the massacre. The hooligans
pluyed a minor role. On the first day
the hooligans and the troops acted to
gether. On ' the second day practically
' all the butchery-was done by the troops.
No single official, either officer or
policeman, tried to stop the slaughter.
(Continued on Pag Two.)
OIL KING AGITATED
BY
Rockefeller Says He Knows
Nothing About the Rebating
of the Standard.
(Copyright, Hearat Mews Berries, by
.. a Nwtre to TH sosraal.)
Conipelgne. June II. John D. Rock
feller was informed by the Hearst repre-1
sentative or. tn purpose or ins unueo
Btatea government to prosecute tn
Standard Oil officials as he came from
the lawn of hi chateau on hi bicycle
.this morning. He dismounted and ln-
-autred-the-detalls.- Calmly and without
a word he mounted the wheel, leaving
TJrrr Btggar and the eorspondent on
the path. He seemed agitated, and af
ter riding a hundred yards he a re
mounted again and rejoined the party.
Asked for a statement he said: - .--
-"I don't-think I had better-ay any
thing." -
la response to repeated requests by
.correspondents he said finally;
"I thought It was well known thet t
have had no connection, with the Stand
ard OH company for 11 year an that
I nave nor even neen ai us ornce lor
seven years. ' I do not know anything
about this proceeding;' I have no In
formation concerning any of the matter
"Will it make any changes In your
plans?", the correspondent askedi
"Absolutely none," he replied. - JT
shall return to New Tork on' the steamer
Amerlka. which sails on July 10, as I
originally planned, meantime you must
"brush up on shuffleboard for the trip
back." ..
"You understand that In a govern-
' m tnt piufeedlnr-srswhpoenai een be
served on you wnen the boat .yearnes
quarantine r' tha correspondent aSked.
"Oh, yes," he replied.
-j-Abi I to Infer from that," asked the
correspondent, - rthat you are . willing
to testify?" i -
That question. I will hwve to decide
when I reach New York." hr replied.
"I have never had any objection to ap
pearing In- court, but I dvhot-eMr why
I should be called -in matters which
other know much more about" .' ' i
PROSECUTION
. fkwWBsgV TT-. ' N-..ejsHssssBSBsjHgesM ,
: ''9
. TJ (strict Attomcw
District Attorney Manning Vigorous in Pro-rseculion'MEIection-SwindlersG
. Jury May Finish Work This Week ;
On week of vigorous investigation by
a fearless grand jury has convinced the
Hotel Sellwood colonisers ' and tbelr
sponsors . that, fraudulent voting In
Multnomah county la no longer a' Joke.
A week ago offenders met one another
on the street and - Inquired gleefully:
"When are you going to Salem?" Since
then a. score of Indictment have been
ran
Public Protest Is Followed by Per-,
sonal' Meeting Causing Sen-
sation at the .Capital
(Special IDispatch by Leased Wire to The Journal.) .
Washington, June 23.A bloody feud between Vice
President Fairbanks and Senator La Follette of Wiscon-
-ain raehoV4&-stage , of a senate arnsalion today, whi
the fighting senator practically accused the presiding of
ficer of flagrant discrimination against him.
' The quarrel dates back to the national "convention of -I904,'henthe
indianaorganizatTott, headed bjrrF.air1-;
banks, was a factor in excluding the La Follette delega
tion from'ithe convention. ..It hat had various develop
ments since then," ' ',,:.7':.-l'.'lr..Jr'.. .1.11,
Senator La Follette some days ago introduced a resolu-
tion' authorizing, the president to. withdraw from entry ,
coal, lignite and oil-bearing lands within the public do-V
main io prevent further monopoly of these commodities. -Today
he sought recognition repeatedly to call it up and '
the vice-president failed to see hlrru4-y v ' -
Finally, while La. Follette was o.nhis ?eet Senator Proc--,
to'r got up to call 'up the agricultural appropriation bill, '
in which the meat inspection provision is a feature. He
was recognized and immediately afterward- La Follette -mterrupted
saying he had been repeatedly trying to get
recognition, buthad failed, and asking unanimous- consent
to take up his resolution. . ' ,". - .A ':'
With'a tone of decided asperity he
considered his resolution fully 'as important as immediate' "
consideration of the agricultural bill. There was no ob-.
jection, which was equivalent to the
mous ronsent, but a few minutes, later,' following some .
desultof- remarks -by, other. senators,
turned to Senator Proctor and laid
Join If gnrrfng.
- i. t
voted. ' Others are pending, and now
that the hand of the law is soon to
reach out and gather In the men It baa
marked,' the-; possibility of a term In
prison has ceased to be' a subject of
mirth.
: District - Attorney - John Manning has
(Continued on Page Twelve.) L.
Senator Is Angry t
-at Unfair Treat
ment by Officer.
CALLS
remarked thatvhe "
granting of unani- '
the vice-president
the question was on '
. i I 1 ' . . , .1 .H"V.",'.vjWtPJ''
Jury Fincls the Womarj
- Guilty of Murder in
. First Degree for Hav
ing Slain Husband
Fifteen Ballots TaxerV to Deter
: mine Form of Punishment and
, Death Penalty Is Decided Upon
j---Accu8d" Bears UpSravety
and Refuses to Talk.-"
(Special blieatea by Leased Wire to The Joereall
, Stockton, Cel., June IS. "We, the
jury,' And Emily LeDoux guilty of mur
der in the first degree."
This was" the verdlot rendered at
t:4S o'clock tonight The defendant sat
.through the . third reading -of the ver-
aict Wltnoui evincing me siigniesi emo
tion except, a slight compression of the
Hps. Then she gave one glance at the
Jury, turned to her attorney and smiled
sadly. ' . " ' . ' -'
She was very pale. - Before she: was
taken back to' her prison cell she wss
asked If she eared to say anything.
She held her head proudly erect, smiled
and In a distinct tone said:
"I hardly ..kixrar. what to, say." Then
she hesitated a moment and ' Anally
said:- 'I'd rather say. nothing." i
Then ah was . led away, her; head
erect a before. :; , i
CroUty o lrt Ballot.
The court fixed July at 10 o'clock
as the date for passing Judgment The
courtroom wa. about half -full when the
verdict waa rendered and one-third of
thoae present were, women. .
tMxteen ballot were taken by the Jury.
Th-lrt-ballot-wa -unsvni mousl y f or
guilty of murder: In the first degree.
On the question of penalty,, the . other
It balloU were taken, i At first the
Jury was evenly divided, ' Six to six for
hanging or life Imprisonment ; - .
The vote gradually, decreased for life
Imprisonment' nd resulted at, 1:10
o'clock in a unanimous verdict,-of mur
der tn the first degree, which 'carries
with It the death penalty. There will
be an-appeaX r - -" ' -
The courtroom vii. crowded to suffo
cation all day. For the first time the
heat was so great that the court ordered
that the wlndowa be opened and the
gloom that ha hung like a pall over
this tragic drama of real life was light
ened. Defendant Cheerful.
Strangely, too. the defendant wa
more than usually cheerful In appear
ance. Through the long closing argu
ment of District Attorney Charles W.
(Continued on Page Two.)
Publicly Objects
to His Action,
in Ignoring Him
&HT Amtlf, TIT
DOWN
I - -
I JL. l"
Hi - - a .--V .a'"' - j I
HI yiH'f.-t.-f-i' H
-r:i';: t .;, t; '
t ;' '- V.'1 :; ' .'! : -V ! ; ..'.
, .... v :.....'-:'i;vv,--:-,'?;'!' -r-: ; i
fir.' Emma
THEATRE P
Baker Audience Calmed
; in - Neighborhood Causes -Thousand Peo--1
pleto.iBecome Panic Stricken
-..One- woman screamed "Fire" and : a
pania at the Baker theatre was averted
yesterday afternoon only by the cool
ness of the . players and a majority of
the audience and by the prompt action
of-four .policemen In stopping an. In
cipient rush for the doors.
'-'The fire was tn the center of the same
block, but -the theatre was in no danger
at any moment. , ' r !
No one was Injursd in the scramble,
but . one woman, Mrs. F. J. Fellows, of
190 Fourteenth street fainted In the
extreme heat and excitement and had
to be carried to -the street
At 4:01 o'clock In the afternoon an
alarm waa turned In from Box No. el,
at Second and Taylor streets. The
apparatus at fir headquarters responded
Immediately the distance to the scene
being short. Knowing the alarm cam
from tha congested down-town district
where Ore lines are always necessary,
every policeman' wUhln reach came In
on the run. .
. Indiana Man Re
fuses to Recog
nize Statesman.
Feud Reaches Climax When Presid-
: i ng Officer :. Refuses to ; Hear
1 an From - Badger, State
,. the motion to take upthe agricultural, bill..: ' . '
At this La Follette .again protested that he had -asked
, ' unanimous consent and as there was no objection he as-
7 sumed it was granted.,' The'vicetpresident finally put once
. more, the request for -unanimous cnTenfTind thia time
" ScnatortiBgysridge and -CilfogcrTrtijected. r
Th-Wr5eonsin man subsided for the moment, but when
--th motion was put' on the agricultural bill he again arose.
yjM cannot get myself recognized in anvother way,"
he jxefaimed, "I will say what I have to.f ay-Qn.my reso
lution during the debate on .this measure." . T.
' The vice-president ruled that the motion to consider the
'-agricultural billiwas not debite. : ' T " 1' "'' '-.,-"
And again La Follette sat down.- Then. other senators
r arose, and, securing recognition, proceeded to debate.
La Follette, incensed; went to the desk and had a con
M vef sation with Fairbanks. It developed afterward that he
'was enfaririg further protests -against unfair treatment.
Fairbanks Insisted he was not unfair. . . La Follette. then
went to the official -reporters to say thaf he' wanted no
change made jn the record of the colloquy between him
self and the vice-president. He learned that the latter had
-Taked for this part of theTecord to make some change.
i-La FeliU declined to consent and . later in the day
I'
Vice-President Fairbanks sent for Senator La Follette and
.assured him-' that h had" been entirely wrong in assuming
ythat there was unfair treatment. " , ';: 1
' La Follette' went , away, declining to be satisfied.
, Whether ; he will later .discm the matter on the senate
iloor, as a' question of-privilege, is not known.' It wa
aid tpr his friends that he n;!.t i j so. ,' i
,.:.,A,.i.:.;,;;i,, .i'
t ' .1
r ('::J' i 'i 'Vv-rfV-'
; y , - -. v.. -', '..
L Doux.
by Actors When: Fire
The curtain had Juat gone up on the
third act of "When We Were Twenty.
one'' In the Baker theatre. 'Owing to the
heat outside, every door and window w
wide open.- JSvery 'sound in the street
could be beard In the playhouse.
".. . Crowd Beooae mghtened.
No attention waa paid to the fireball
close by, and but few turned their heeds
at the first clang of the gongs on the
apparatus. But when the sound of hur
rying people outside waa heard, and an
engine connected with the hydrant and
began to pump, it waa a severe strata
on the women in the theatre. The amok
from the engine outside poured la
through an . open door
- Then on of those scatter-brained per
sona who Usually appear at such tlmes
a woman In this Instance cried: "Fire!
you've got to hurry" from the foyer.
Instantly score of women began
(Continued -on Page Twelve.)
Al IS AVERTED
Ilfj
The Government Gets !
Power :.of Attorney"
From King' Pin of
Land Fraud Grafters
Safe Deposit Company Reluct
ant to Turn Over Property Lest
Prisoner Claim That He Was
Under Duress at the Time He .
Cave It Court Ruling Asked. I
(Special Dispatch by Leased Wire te Xhe iearsal)
Boston. Mass., June S3. 'With a .
power of attorney from Stephen A, D.
Puter, who la held a prisoner la Port- -lend,
Oregon, for swindling the govern
ment out of publio lands. Irving Rlt
tenhouse, agent of the department of '
the Interior, cam to Boston yesterday
to draw some seourllte which Puter'"
had deposited with the Union Safe
Deposit company.. . T
It appear that the oonapany I re-c'
luctant to honor Puter'a power of at-
tomey and turn over th property lest
Puter may later try to maintain that :
he waa under 'duress at the time he
gave It. Hence the matter was brought
to ths attention of Judge Dodge of the
United States district court , . -
No decision was reached, however, and
it Is probable that nothing will be don
foe a week or so, as Judge1 Dodge took
the matter under advisement. It will ,
not be knows until the box 1 opened
the nature or amount of the securltla.
" The foregoing dispatch verifies . the
story printed exclusively In The Journal
of Msy last, telling how S. D.
Puter . lost the Tea t" remsinlng. portion
of his ill-gotten gains. But for Secret
Service Agent William J. Burns the"
elusive Puter would have reta.lneUhoth
his money, and his liberty, much longer
than he did. It was Burns who trailed
the fugitive land thief to Boston. There
Puter fell Into the hands of hi Nemesis,
but, took A desperate chance and man
aged to escape. -His flight was so hasty
that he had to leave behind him his
money, which he had placed in a Boston
safs deposit vault.
- After Puter's escape Burn saw to It
that the fugitive did not recdver the
eoln that he had been forced to aban
don, and It waa through Information
(Continued on Pig TwoJ)
TYPHOON KILLS 12
OFF HEWYORK
Terrific. Windstorm and Water
spout Play Havoo With '
Shippinglin-Jiarbors. -1 -,
(SpeeiSI Dtopateh by Leased Wire to The Job mail .
New Tork, June JJ. Twelve sailors
are thought to have perished In four
vessels overturned by a terrlflo north--esst
gale and atorm which swept Lone:
Island.. and-BtatentIalsnrt," and whlih.
swooped across New Tork bay and the
New Jersey coast line this evening.
Suddenly at 1:19 o'olock. off Sandy"
Hook point, the waters pf Nsw York -bey
were torn' by a typhoon In whose
midst a giant waterspout, black a In
digo, (0 feet wide at its base, - reached
high into the air- and revolving to
tlmea to the minute, rushed upon a two
masted schooner from Red Bank, New ,
Jersey, three fishing sloops of the New
Tork A New Jersey - company and a
large mud scow.' all anchored In the
channel to tha eastward of Port Mon- ;
mouth. - .1.
The helpless" men aboard The' 'VVsseTT
were unable, to make a move for their
escspe. - The waterspout, spinning likt
some huge end hollow top, swallowed
one sloop after... the tother, seised upon
the schooner and eo"W. and after toss
ing them about like corks, turned them
turtle with their spars sticking tn the
bottom of the. bay. ' ,
Spectators In Port Monmouth, ' twrt
miles distant, declare "that for a distance
of one mile from Bendy Itook aeruas the
bay to where the vessels were anchored
ths sea and sky were blsck sat mldnlshi. ,
The waterspout encompassed the de- "
structlon o the-: veeaels in IS minutes'
time, and then broke with a thundering
crash. "
The storm had already worked terrlfto :
havoc at Coney Island, where the hail
storm had driven tenser thousands of
holkhtv visitors soresmlnr lo -shelter.
The typhoon sppesred to frm Jut orf
Sandy Hook point. On Mar.dy J!u.i
point th force ef the wind wss so -r- t
that, hundreds of mvi treen wre
from the sround by their rixrts, -number
of bulldkigs b I "
fpileral guVfniiriKit s I t i
were uiiinoffii.'' "Kev-r ' '
urti v m I on firu I .
v.V
v