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r ,! I Vv y f " II GOOD EVE UlUG v , .Tps ytzaxiiss. " '' . T," Fair tonight tad .Wednesday ; north V-west wind. V V 3 I Was :. .. .. . ' VOL. ' V. .NO. 1C3. PORTLAND,1 OREGON TUESDAY EVENING. JULY 1Q. , 1P06. FOURTEEN PAGES., PRICE TWO, CENTS. KaTT'cITS or U. r OREGON COAST d2 EASTERN ALREADY HAS SURVEYORS IN THE FIELD ' I L I I 1 9 MAD AND GENE MB DIRECT LI McMihnville Citizens Hold Mass Meeting to Discuss Project With Road's Promoters ? Company It . Securing Fran hlses and Right of Way Line -Will Jlun East Through Eu l gene and Over Cascades to Connection With Big Road. -, The Oregon Coast & Eaitefn"Rail way company will build a valley line from fortland to Eugene, to give a direct route to the east. Preliminary work of the company has reached a stage where its plans are becoming apparent.-and W. J. Witsey, executive V, head of the compdny-tn Oregon, to- ' day officially admitted that plans are being perfected for a yalley route, via JUciMinnviUe on tome nearby point. t A large meeting bf citizens at M- l Minnvllle last evening was attended by .Mr. Wilsey, who made a statement of what the company is ready to do in 'Texcharure for a riht of way. s Mayor Mason presided, and leading citizens. , manifested a lively interest in tne pro ject. A delegation from Sheridan was in attendance, and was enthu siastic for the railroad proposition. 2 Committee- were appointed - to , take up right of way matters with the Ore-j 'gon Coast & Eastern eompany;, ; ; Protects the People. f . ? It was brought out that Mr. 'Wilsey 'has not traded on any of the fran chises that have been secured by' him i in the two years he has been working on the Oregon Coast & Eastern pror ject, and that every right of way con tractis placed in escrow in the Se curity Savings and Trust bank of Portland, to be cancelled and returned -to the people in event that the rail road is not built i according i4o-con- . tract , '- . - -.. The company Displaced three sur veying parties in the field, under well knpwn engineers,, to lpftt t rMw of the road in the valley and along the coast From the movements of these parties it appears that the road . will be built from Portland to Til lamook, via the . Wilson river, , and . south via Toledo to Coos bay and Eureka. The line will , run east through Eugene and over the Cascade mountains to a connection with some transcontinental line, the name of which is not yet divulged." The jjalley line will diverge from the Tillamook line at some point west of Portland, v and extend south through or near McMinnville, and on to Eugene,' probably via Corvallis. Surveyors at Work. : V ? ' V, : The Tillamook route is being sur veyed byar party : under Engineer Ralph Hunt-: Theaurvevjacom- "pleted through the most difficult por- tion of the route. It shows that, con trary to published statements from a (Contlnuad on Page, Throe.) . RAILROADS .SajlpBIStrikaDqerNotStop Building San Francisco Lumber Coming in Jo the , ' Stricken City by Oyer land Routel; r''" -' "(Joereel Iperlel SrrW.) -'- San Francleoo, July 10. The fact that a tleup on tha waterfront haa eurtelled the aupply has made the ahlppera turn . their attention to the railroad for their aupply of building material from ' the . foreata along their routes. Sine the strike tha Southern Paolfle freight department' report that the shipping ' of lumber has Increased . more than three time tha amount ' before the strike. Mot of tha lumber oome from the big mllla in the aouthern prt of -Oregon and the HWthern part of Cali fornia. . ; i .-, .. - ! The lumber aupply in the city la re , eelvltig but little help from the echoon era and It la thought that all the large dealer who have order that muat be dellvered-will reeort to the railroad and lumber aupplv of the elty-wlll eonv In over rail until the sailors and 'eaipownere see fit to settle their dim- His Highness Sa Ajl Row, Maharaja of Baroda. WT. VISIT HISRErillS SEAnLE RECOVERED Cook's. Agent, Thinks, Caekwar ; of -1 B aroda ' ..Considers " : , - ScottU Organs 'ln- 7 . 'suited Him.' i ' "la thla -the fruit of their fine eot lS'ear, .,:' '":'''. ; J: So amid th Qaakwar of Baroda aftr raadlnf th account of him visit In the morning- Oregonlan and tta evening dl tlon. And atralghtway, aceordlng to Cook Co., the gaekwar gave orders to praparo for a start tonight' Instead of. waiting until tomorrow as had ban the plana. 1 Furtharatoret on account of tha printed account In which tha map haraja was ridiculed, according to Sea, the prince haa. decided hot to vialt Se attle, Tacoma, Vancouver and other northwestern cltles,.aa waa hie Inten tion. He wtlprooeed direct from Port land to Tellowaton Park. 1 " r The 'gaekwar ' la said to have been particularly dlapleaaed with the refer ence to ihlmaelf as a brown-aklnned eavage, and It waa at thla point In the perusal of the artlolea that he ejacu Uted lit dlaguat: - ' "la thla. the fruit of their fine- ool legear . - , 1 "It la toe bad.' aald Mr. See. "The prince and hla wife are tha moat nat ural people I have ever traveled with. They are plain, simple In their tastes and democratic -to a degree that la not followed by moat mllllonarrea. . "However, when ' hla hlghneaa read the article in the Telegram ha made ,up (Continued on . Page Three.) 1 i eulty and put the eoaat trad enee more In operation, ' . "Of course It U cheaper to bring lum ber Into the city by veaseia," aatd one of the railroad officiate. . ."No one la go ing to use- cars when they can get lum ber on achoonere. But one thing is cer tain, San Francisco, la going to rebuild, and It muat h- lumber and have It quickly. The ole city cannot afford to atand Idle- while there la a lot of talk whether the eallors eught to hare ft murea.anonUt -than foraaerly." . ; . - GEORGE ADE. IS NOT - - ;pAN CUPID'S VICTIM . ' " Unnmal StMrlal' SerirW I ' "' Indlananoil". Jnly 18. -It Is authorl' tatlvely denied that Lucy .Tag gart and George Ade are engaged. '."' SHIPS ( 1- Bones of lll-Fated Watchman Jaqua, Who Met Death in Oil - t Tank Explosion,' Taken ; to Crematory. X- pailful ef crumbling bones, all that la left of tha body or I B. Jaqua. waa carried, to the Portland crematory yes terday afternoon, and depoalted there. Little did the incoming passenger on a certain St.' Johna car think that the small bundle In the nand of a fellnw. passenger " contained a- human- body, burned to a cinder in a tank of flaming oil. The gruesome relics were conveyed to tha crematory by R. W. Glass, a Porte mouth grocer. They will not be fur ther reduced to be returned to the widow and placed upon her mantelpiece. In stead, they will remain In their present condition and will bo left in- the care of the crematory man for an indefinite time. Blnce the charred remains were awept together on the bottom of the wrecked tank the eyea of the widow have not gased upon them. ... s Unci ait to Save atenialiia, . The explosion and burning of the Union Oil company's tanks at Ports mouth occurred at midnight a week ago last-Saturday. It was known at once that tb nightwatchman, L. B, Jaqua, had 'perished In the holocaust, but on acconnt of the extreme beat which hov ered about the place it waa impossible to recover the body for fire daya. The burning oil licked tha big tank clean, all except at one little point' just below where the trap door had been, j When the - top of the tank was gona persons standing on tha bluff overlooking the big tank could see thla spot and could single oat what appeared to be a small pile of rubbish on; the tank floor. This waa .the mutilated akeleton of : I B. Jaqua. ' Not until last Thursday evening were the bonee removed. After the wrecking gang had left on Thursday evening R. W. Olasa and W. StowelL the head watchman, climbed Into the tank with a broom, and 10-quart pall. . They set the pall on the Iron floor and one at a time picked up the 100 or ao of human bones, that la, the bones which had not been reduced to nothingneaa. Carefully then, they awept the floor, to make aura of not. leaving behind any crumbling bits. Many of the larger bonee were almoat entirely consumed. "The largest place recovered was a- part of the upper law and face. Among the bones were found Jequa's watch, hla keys, Ms etl meas uring tape, the blades of his pocketknlf and the metal parte Of hla purse. : The Intensity of the heat may be Imagined when It Is learned that all of thee met al trinkets were found melted solid onto tha floor of the tank. -. Ti -- Taken e Oreenasory. After being gathered Into the pall the remains were taken care of by- Mr. Olaea. The- wldow-dld-noy -wish to see them and they were taken to the cre matory yesterday. - The cause of tha exploalon and the reason for Jaqua'a being In the tank la still a matter of eoniecture. There seems little doubt, however,. tnat-Jaqua's death was the result of hi folty. Kvl. dantly he went to the tank at midnight (Continued ea Page Three.). Final Argument Waived by Defense Which Pre vents Closing Talk by Prosecution ' District Attorney Much Put Out by Being Shut Out From Sum- mlng UfCase Air-That Re- i mains for Court Is to Instruct ' the Jury and for It to Vote. (Special Mepateh te The Joaraal Seattle, July 10. Early thla afternoon the fata of George Mitchell, charged with murder In the first degree for kill ing Edmund? Cref field, leader of tha holy roller, will be In the handa of the II men sworn to try tha eaae according to the law and erldeno. All that re mains thla afternoon la for tha court to Inetruct tha Jury. The case ahould rcaoh&hajttry-hy-e o'clock at the 4eej 1 r A sensation waa sprung In the trial thla forenoon. After Prosecuting Attor ney Molntoah had finished hla cloalng argument- te tne jury, will H. Morris, repreaentlnc . Mitchell, announced that -th defense would waive all argument He also aeeerted that by hla waiver John F. Miller, the deputy prosecuting attorney, who . has carried tha chief weight of the case, was precluded from making an argument to the Jury a th last apeajter. jro .Argman U Oee. John FrMiller made a long argument tending to show that he had a light to make an argument to the Jury whether tha defense wished to do so or not. Th court, however, took an opposite view of th matter and, muoh to th disgust of Miller, who had prepared himself for an extended argument that It waa be lieved would ahatter Mitchell's case, held that Miller mould not make any argument , .. . , The attorneys In the defense were congratulated for their brilliant tactics. Miller la regarded aa a dangerous man to addreaa a Jury and tha defenae by their clever play cut him out - Shlpley of th defense, in ht opening statement went over everythina- that could be said In Mitchell's behalf and th tactlca that eutoutth chief deputy, aa . prosecuting , attorney from making a brilliant argument are re garded aa extremely clever. ' WT-'it11 TamaTi . ' ' Yesterday afternoon ended the testi mony in th case. Dr. Mllea, on of th foremost medical men In the city, testified In anawer to hypothetical ques tions that ha believed Mr. Mitchell waa insane -when he - fired - the shot that ended Creffleld'a life. Th prosecution waa unable to drive him from his posi tion. He declared that any man who believed that ha had a divine command from Ood and did aomathlng In pur suance of that auppoaed command was Insane. - -. . ' - On cross examination- he declared that he believed that Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon church; waa In sane when he said he had a command from Ood. ----- - - -. Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh in his argument pleaded with the Jury to bring in a verdict of murder In the flrat degree. He aald th prosecution wished for no compromise verdict In his clos ing words he said: "There ta too muoh of thla Insanity In .the world that eommencea when the eye takea eight along tha barrel a of the revolver and marks out a vital spot and ends when th bullet haa arrived at the end of lie mission of death.". MANILA POLICEMAN TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Washington, July 10." Michael J. Curran. a member of the Manila police force, has committed suicide by ahoot lng himself, aoeordirig to . official dla patche. Curran waa formerly sergeant In th Sixth cavalry, Hla home waa In Cripple Creek, Colorado. PNEUMATIC TUBES TO ' CABBYFRISCO MAIL (Joerasl Bpeetat Serrhe. Washington, July 10. Th postofflo department is losing no time In placing pneumatla tube service in various cities. Blda bar been asked for carrying the malla thua In San Franolsco., They muat be In by August tl. f C0STLY 0LD BATTLE"7 SHIPS SOLD CHEAP '' 'tjmrsal Special rlre. ' ' Portsmouth, England, July 10. Eighty British wrh1p, representing an out lay of- $50,000,000, condemned for present-day warfare, war sold today (or 1400,000. . . . 1 . , C Vii4 f.m X?X&'X 'M t. ' - I r i , ' - w . - . 1 Cheater Thompson, the Love-Craxed ."' ' Emory at BEATEN CHIEF Court Martial Clears - Admiral Rojestvensky for Surrender to Japanese but Finds. Officers Guilty. ' (Joerasl gpeelal Berrlee.) v. Kronatadt, July 10. Admiral Bojaet vnky waa acquitted after tha court martial, trying htm for eurrenderlng to Admiral Togo, had : deliberated ten hours." Th four offlcers of tha torpedo boat Bedovy. placed on trial with tha admiral, , were found guilty of pre meditatively surrendering th Bedovy. Ail wre eondemnedrtodatn6y' shoot- Ing. On account of extenuating clreum ataneaa tha rue wilt ttm Ir.wl A Mm. mut their sentences to dlamlsITThy will be deprived of certain rights usu ally pertaining to ex-offloera. , The offlcera Of th staff of Admiral Rojeatvenaky and the commander of the Bedovy make a pitiable exhibition la trying to shift tha responsibility for the surrender on each other. Admiral Rojeatvenaky. though he aald he waa dased and out of hla head all th time, made a manly plea of guilty be cause he took no, measures to prevent me surrenaer,- - . ' Dispatches say tha mutiny at Tanbow la not yet quelled and the loyal and muttnoua . troop face a battle. The mutineers, when attacked by the loyal troops, offered armed resistance before retreating to their barracks, where they are now barricaded. ACTRESS SEEKING FORTUNE Edna Wallace Hopper's Case to . Be' Presented British ' Privy ; Council in London. - (Juarsal Special terries.) New Tork. July 10. Edna Wallace Hopper eaae, in which ah seeks to In herit tha million or her stepfather. Alexander' tmnsmuir, is having a. hear ing before th British privj council in London this month. Edward P. Co Tne. her lawyer,- la now In London waiting an opportunity to present th case. Sir Char lee Tupper, formerly premier of Canada, who represent Mr. Dunsmulr, tn motner or in oeceoent, l also there. ; .. . , . Counsel for Mra. Hopper baaea hla hopee practlcany upon the one question of domicile. If they can convince the privy council that Dunsmulr - had a domicile tn California th eaae la won. DRUGGISTS STABT TO SESSION AT NEWPOBT (Special Dlsp.trh t The Journal.) Forest drove. Or., July 10. Today 100 membera of the State Pharmaceutical association paaaed through thla city en rout to Newport, where they will hold their annual convention thla week. -Tbey will- conclude their cessions there In time to return to Corvallis Friday and Friday evenmg a banquet will be ten dered L Hotel .Corvallis,- The- bout- on this ocraalon will be Professor C. M. McKelltpa, head of th pharmaceutical department, of . th Agricultural college. Youth Who Killed Judge C. Mead Seattle. ' " " TAINTED BEEF Secretary Wilson Permits : Sale of Tuberculous . Meat -.l.lf Infected Part le - -; Removed.' ' (Joaraal Spedsl Serrlee.) Chicago, July 10. Secretary of Agri culture Wilson says that pending a de cision upon the effect locally of Infected tuberculous meat be. will permit such meat to pas into market, aa tha gov ernment pathologist agree that th af fected part may be removed and th re mainder eaten without harm. He aaya that he a a not delded finarty-npoff th paaalng of diseased meat, but pending further Investigation It la doubtful if the practice will be continued. The secretary went to the yard early today to- continue hla inspection, begun yesterday. He found th packer cor recting aanltary arrangements according to hla suggestions. H aaya that aa long aa packera make etrenuoua effort toward bringing the planta up to gov ernment standard, there will be no quar rel. . Wilson apent moat of th day In con ference with insr-mtrs from other oltlee.- Th new law 1 Interpreted by experta for th inspector. Wilson gave advice concerning (ta Inforcement. Much muat be left to the discretion of th In spector as to passing or rejecting In fected carcasses. - COLORED ICECREAM KILLS LITTLE GIRL (Special Dispatch te Hie JoeraeLt Day ton. Or July 10. Has!, the little 1-year-old daughter of F. O. Lyon, who lives near her, died yesterday morning. She waa taken aick on tha grounds hero July 4 after eating eolored Ice cream and tha physlclsna claim that 'It caused her death. .,'. SUPERVISE RAILROAD ACTS Interstate Commerce Commission Prepares to T; j ity in Accounting Methods ; ; r (Jcarnal Special grrvtca.) ' Washington, July 10. Henry C Ad- ama, ehlaf atatlaticlan of the Interstate commerce commission., haa . been sum moned from-th University of , Mich igan to meet with the commission on Thursday to consider plan for ..Inau gurating aa soon aa possible a system of supervision over the railroad acta au thorised by th new rate law. It la be ginning to be realised that thla featur of the . law . will give . the -commission large powers to prevent overeapltallaa tion and stock watering. The commission Intend to formulate rulea so that th accounting provision may b put Into full effect the country, over by January 1 and produce uni formity tn accounting ana reporting methods, bPTtlmrlnar with HOT." it I expected that the commission's next session will support Senator Urn- Toilette's demand for th appraisal ef rami HELD FOR HIS CUE Charged With':Murder in First Degree. Trial Not to Be Held, Until Next Autumn Youthful Slayer of Judge Emory Occupies the Same Cell With -Creffield's Murderer- and the Two Have Become Friends Youth Is the Most Cheerful. (Special Ulapatcb to Tb Journal ) ' Seattle. - Wash.. July 10. Chester Thompson Is. charged with murder in -the first degree by information filed tn the superior court tnls afternoon by Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh for klUlng Judge George Meada Emory. Tha ' young murderer, -who la & member of on of th most prominent famine In Seattle; will not be brought into court until September. The long summer month- h must spendlh a cell with otfao criminals, At present h t fined In the ' sam call with George Mitchell, who will probably . bear hla fate tonight. - s .- Mitchell and Thompson- have' beccmW good friends. Of th two men Mitchell la 'the .moat melancholy. ,. .Thompson acta Ilka a schoolboy on a lark, while Mitchell never throws off th anxiety that haa pressed Its Imprint on hla face since the day he waa arrested. Thompson's mother. In ignorance. ot her. aon'J criminal act,- I dying at the family mansion. Sh will not be told of her aon'e crime. Th mother of young: Thompson and tha Emory family hare been friends foe two decade. Knowledge of the crime It ta believed ' would make her and extremely bitter. Will H. Thompson, tha father of tha . boy, will be chief counsel tn hla defenae. He la the moat eloquent epeaker In tha tat. . Hla friends declare that th and of th trial will mark bta death. (iEV7 YORK BLACKMAILER IS -PARDONED FROrrPRISflr - i Author of ,Lw1r73aTvlrtmri Now on His Way to Alaska to Begin Life Anew, Try (Jsemal Special Berries.) Albany, July 10. Thomaa P. Wlckea, th New Tork lawyer and clubman, who I waa convicted of - attempted blackmail and sent to th penitentiary on Black- . well'a Inland, haa been pardoned by th governor and will 'begin Ufa anew in Alaska. He Is alreaoy on hia way . to th Paolflo eoaat. He attempted blackmail by writing a series of letter signed "Lewis Jarvla." Owing to hia own prominence and that of the men he annoyed the case at tracted much attention. , - The pardon waa secured largely through th effort of hla wife, who Is woman of much refinement. rolaoned by Stockyard Igeat. - Chicago. July 10. rive persons In dif ferent families hav been poisoned, th polio aay, by meat which tha butcher aaya he bought from th atockyarda and packer. railroad property. This would requfre a subordinate commission under th general direction of th Interstate om merce commission. It would cost prob ably fB.OOO.Ooe and take about two yeara. '- ' The interstate commerce eommlsslrm will visit th Pclflo eoaat In Septem ber. Tha visit will bear on the Glllee-pte-TlllmaD resolution directing en In quiry Into the relation of the railroads to il na, oil propertU.- Knapp Irtls an Investigation of the California ftlU la ncBKry to complete the investiga tion. The last meetingof - the Intersf'i commission will likely be on Thur. , when the meetings end fr the aum Oeneral Manager ivk of the vanla irties wt of nttkbr -v ant ' dependant coal operator f .A4 I of Waehlnaton will proh' t ( Witnesses bafore aoura- 7 v..