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G' x K'f a ' '' wjJ-. LLi-'. Eastern Mattaraj Artlsta In tha GOOD EVENIIIG ' I I - I III I U : .. W THE WKATHS2L. - , tab tonight; and Friday, T warm; north to east wind. - 7VOL: V. NO: 110. DREYFUS IS VINDICATED AD IDF French Officer Accused and ; Condemned for i Betraying Army: Secrets Declared -Hoi Guilty Decision Shows No Offense -Was CommittedWill Be : Long Tale of .Crime Moons! IdmUI lTi(i.r '.T'- TJPartarJuiy JJ.-rTh"bourt martial verdict of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, by jjghloh ha waa oondsransd, charged With batraylna' army acret, haa ba an. " Bulled by th. cassation court which r 7 viewed the ca , - A new trial la not vraerea. - , y, - Captain -Drayfua la restored to rank . and . it la rumored that . it haa already been decided to promote him to major and assign him to a command of hlfhar rank immediately. Drayfua was not present , when -the decision waa- an nounced, i His brother carried the news ta hlra. -r ' 'kr" ' A netr trial la-thoue;ht nnnecessary, because. the -decision ahows no offenee was committed. The decision waa or dered posted in all French communes r and, printed In , 100, newspapers to , be selected by Drayfua.. An extraordinary ' aesslon of the eablnet haa been called to consider action la regard to restora tion. x .- ... . : - . - . , For yeara Dreyfui and his troubles, which In tha eyes of many amounted .to a martyrdom, held tha center of tha : ataie of the civilised world. Today, even In Franoe," the Interest haa aim- mered down, lor the court's decision i Maa retarded aa a foregone conclusion. l,r-' ' .Wetea Thtno Aalna Xbew, From the beainnlna of the nroeeed- ! lnga against Drayfua three thing mili tated agaiaet the maav First there waa hia personality, whlek waa as dtoaarre- : able and unpleasant as ona oould pea alWy-f ind. He waa a man known -to be arrogant to hia Inferiors, ourt .to ' his equals and cringing to hia superiors. Physically unattractive, even. In eon- veraatlon hia manner had a military . brusqueneea which was extremely , un- t tmit nta oerenaera at the time or Ma trial have ceased to be hia friends. No man In .Franca hss sacrlfloed so much for Alfred Dreyfne-ae ex-Colonel Fioquart, yet Plcquart and Dreyfus are friends no longer. : No man worked harder for Dreyfus than M. Labor!, yet Laborl and Drayfua never meet, and Labor! refuses even to talk of Dreyfus except to reaffirm- - hie oft -expressed conviction that the man did not com mit tha crime for which he was accused. The second obstacle to 'Dreyfus' ac quittal, and tha moat formidable of the three, la the feeling among French sol diers that thatr superiors can do no wrong. - The. generals with Mercier at their head declared that they - knew Drayfua to be guilty, and once- that declaration had been made no evidence, no matter how conclusive,, could make a. trleawal of eBceia think lAUafwTsaT SMITZ ACCUSED MF GRAFT Police Commissioner Alleges I That Mayor .Wanted Him to Sell H u nd red Barrels - a;V-a (Jeureal pedal Serrlee.) - W -, Can Francisco, July II. Police Com? rntssloner Keagan has' Written, a letter to Mayor flchmlts In which he says emphatically! that he will not resign. He admlta being an Insuranoe broker, but asserts that he has never solicited Insurance from any person engaged n the sale of liquor. He aaya In part: "Tour honor will no doubt recollect .that on one occasion you . requested me to solicit not Insurance but whiskey. You may also remember one morning when behind locked doors In your -private - office you pleaded ao eloquently for me to join you in tha aale of whiskey, and the' profits. i per bar rel, were to be equally divided be- tween ua.. ; ' - "I at that time tried to lmpreaa upon BOTH MEN AND WOMEN CAN EXST WITHOUT STOMACH OR BRAINS n 1 (Jearaal Special Service.) - Chicago, July It. A man can live without a stomach. . 80 can a woman. Thia, It Is declared, la baaed Upon the authority of Dr. Carl Beck, head of the department of rfurgery In the North Chi cago hospital. .- The aasertlonoUhe aurgeoirwia-liroughr out by the re cent remarlas of Professor John Mason Tyler of Amherst college In a lecture at the University1 of, 'Chicago.- , Professor. Tyler, .said: . "A man can ' 't rcr .:J C li c? Wzz'.zt cr.i fir A3 tf rz;-li. ",Tha Cccnsnr.: V."U Ca Ir.U.iitxi h r.r.v3 tVfcs It Ccsta to . O Cii:;c; r.:..T to C Vcri-rrrj C:ya cni Crfa In tha tur.r:.zt tai Ctarlea: Pd.'lzr.s In What Cryan Saye of Far pt Rembrjui CaJiSratlon In HcIIand; Cslra In RecrultlnjCtat'rn; and Everybody and His W.fe In ttany Other Features IlNj - ! continued - TO Promoted to Majority Against Captain r iv 1 The third misfortune for the man waa the resemblance of hia handwriting to that of Baterhasy. It la a practical impossibility, to distinguish tha writing of one from that of the other, and even now, when Eaterhasy haa oonfessed that It waa he who wrote the Incriminating bordereau experts In handwriting- are still at i daggers' points upon the ques tion, BertlUon declaring that Drayfua wrote it, while Qober and others are oonvlneed that It waa written by Es- terhaay. '. Alfred Dreyfus, captain of ' the gen eral staff, was in the spring of 18 ar rested - under' moat - dramatio clrcum stances for having; sold secrets of na tional defense to Germany and 'Italy; he was stripped of the Insignia of hia rank, and hia sword waa broken publicly In the presence of a crowd which stood and cursed him . for bis treachery, "and would have lynohed the traitor had It been, within their power. After the grim ceremony in the court yard of tha Ecola MUltalre In Paris In 11 ft, Alfred Drey fua. captain no longer. waa subjected to four yaara of torture at Devil's island. v ,:... ;. rv . arurde and Forgery. : - t It 1 was a record that need have shamed no mediaeval torturer, and men and. women both paled at tha thought that auch- things orald - have been,' and that a man, guilty ev Innocent, oould have been made ta suffer them. - - . Dreyfus was brought "home In 111 and retired. Upon evidence since proved perjured ha was adjudged "guilty, but with extenuating, circumstances. There la no and to tha long tale of murder, forgery and crime . of every kind connected with the Dreyfus' case. Insanity, too, haa Just claimed Its part. of Dreyfus' aceusera. la insane. . . Henry confessed that he had forged a damning document against his former comrade, and, after. his confeasion and arrest, waa either murdered In the fort of Mont Valerlea or committed suicide In hia cell there. Colonel Plcquart had several narrow escapes from death, be cause hia chief a, considered that hia evi dence at tn . nrst trial, wnion waa borne out In everr detail at the second one, waa of a nature' not only to insure Dreyf as aoqulttal, eut their own-disgrace. Itemercler-Plcard, a apy, whoee evidence was favorable to Drayfua, waa found strangled, and there hava been within the last . 1 years Innumerable tragedies, among them the averted one by which Xaltre Labor! all but loat his Ufa by aa assassin t ouiiei down at Rennea. . : ' - ' . CItinuedoirFalgeYwT your nonofthat such a thing would be dishonest and disgraceful., end .further that a 'certain firm bad no atandlng and aay dealing with It would be Im proper and reeented by every ' other wholesale dealer. Time, the Western National bank and several deluded saloon-keepers hava proven,my assertions true. "My reason for referring to thla mat ter Is to show your honor that I am opposed -to soliciting insurance or whiskey. After my refusal to sell 100 barrels of whiskey per week at a profit to jna of $2& each I knew your honor waa displsased with me and I en deavored to pay' strict attention to my durlaa." " - - s Tho latter alao hints that the mayor haa a 'persbnsl Interest in' many dis reputable houses. , i - Jive comfortably without brains. but no man ever existed without a digestive system.". - Dr. Beck aaya; "Parsons - without stomachs not only can live, but do live, and we have a notable instanoe of thla fact In Chicago.. Six years ago I removed- tha stomach of Mrs-.- Hansen and ahe la living, well and hearty today. Of course, it was nscessary to make certain Intestinal connectlona to sus taln tha Internal organism, but tha stomach waa entirely removed." - " 11 ' "' ' '' i - -'mm ii 'ii in. i i . ' .. i m - i i - .- - - . m m mmm .. i . i , ii . m.,, , . , , ' . , , , , r -e W A PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, EVENING, JULY From left to right, upper row Count --CaptaJn- Alfred Dreyfus r M. SAenir, -vice-president : of the French , senate. Lower row M. Demance, counsel for Dreyfus; Colonel Mau reL president of the Council of war; Commandant Br bset commas sioner f or the government. Beneath is a facsimile of the last page of . the Devil's Island diary kept by Captain Dreyfus for his wife, h, V 1 " MexicanMine-Owner Offere Foi tune to Anyone Who Will Cure Him of Dreaded Die--' ease, Leprosy. (Journal Specie! Service.) ' Galveston. Tex.. July It. James M. Brlngaa of Guaymaa, Mexico., one of the millionaire mine and ranch owners, who la -a native of Kentucky, offers his on tire fortune to any one who will .cure him of leprosy. ' He . Is bound for gurepo for the llilid time for treatment to check the dreaded disease, which has now eaten off his ringer tips. - He la M yeara of age and contracted the dlssaae five yeara ago. He haa apent more than $1,000,000 fighting leprosy -and haa a standing offer of 1. 000.000 In gold for hia cure..- Today he aaya he will make It SI.000.Q0e and even more, aa he will sacrifice hia en tire estate to be cleansed of the loath some affliction. ......... Brlngaa haa a wife, seven daushtars and a son. Ha made his money In mln mg in Mexico, wnere be has lived fee 0 yeara. He haa been under the treat, merit of It specialists of thia country and Europe. .- - ! - GARFIELD KEEPS BUSY-' . HAMMERING AT TRUSTS -- Joarosl Special gervlre.) Washington. July 11. Working on In the sweltering capital while 'tha ether officials are at the seaside' or : moun tains. Commissioner - Oarf teld - keeps pounding away at the trusts, to be ready with a special report if called upon by the president. Half a doten Inveatlaa- tlona of the principal Industries of the United States are In progress. ACTRESS DIES FROM-i! ,i.-J- EATING CANNED MEAT (searaet Speelsl Service . Denver. July 11. Mollie , Brown and Cleo Spruin, actresses of New Tork who are playing here, ate canned meat at lunch, , aa a result of which Miss Brown Is dead and. Miss Bpruln la vio lently 111. - TURKISH COLLECTORS MURDER PEASANTS (Jearaal SpeetM Servtee.) "- Tlflina, July 11. The Turkish- troops collecting taxes In . Turkish Armenia have been ' alaylng tha peasanta and ravae-ln thm rauntrv ettenlrlnv mm.. and deatroylng vlllagee. gorocity Ooaelave. (Jmirsel Sped t art Ice.) Santa Crut. July 11. The annual con clave of the Omega High School Soror ity la in aesslon at the High school building here, which will continue for three daya - Delegatee from California, Oregon and Washington are present. PRINCIPALS: IN. THE DREYFUS CASE i e t i Esterhairy, ;the confessed forger; Submarine" Volcano , Causes Huge Sea Which Badly Crip ples British Steamer Sir Richard Granville. (Jeenal Special Service.) New Tork, July 11. Struck by a tidal wava which la supposed to have bean produced by a submarine - earthquake, the British tramp steamer Sir Richard QrenvlUe waa almost engulfed Bunday afternoon 100 miles mmMt kmt,at hT, me ship reached the upper bav minus her smokestack, which -was washed overboard by the enormous wave. . Her lifeboats were amashed. her ventilators gone and the -main, deck a .complete wreck. One strange feature of tha wava waa that after the water on tho deck sub sided a piece of apar supposed to be the yardarm - of - some wrecked vessel, with many pieces of lumber, were found on tho main deck of the QrenvlUe. , The only explanation Captain Jones valunteered was that the submarine earthquake released part of a aunken vessel from tha bottom of tho ocean. Captain Jonea rigged a jury funnel of scantling and lumber. Tha Improvised funnel was a box-like affair eight feet serosa,, rising 10 feet above the deck. The sparka and flamea-from the fur- nacee nearly overpowered the men and a . bucket brigade had to. be stationed near the -funnel to prevent the snip rrom catcmng ore.; ., .. SOOTHER!) : PACIFIC F.1 L I IS BLOi'HDP Big Engine Explodes Near Ash land, Injuring the Engineer - and Frteman. . . (Special tHssetch te The JoerssL) Ashland. Or- July 1 Engine 111, one of the largest of the class recently put on thla division by the Southern Pacific company, exploded tbla morn ing .near tha normal school, two miles south of town, while acting as helper at the rear-end of a southbound regulsr freight train. Engineer E. O. Patrick and Fireman Eugene Holmes were both badly hurt from ateam, hot water and peppering with piecea of metal. The conductor, George Gillette, brought tha two -Injured men directly to Ashland to receive surgical aid. - Fragments of the engine ' were, scattered' over : the country by the" terrlflo explosion of the oil burner.-. The cause la unknown. Baptists Oases Bryan, ' -tJ""""!"!1!! Service.) Omaha, Neb., -July 11. Omaha, Neb- July 11. .The national . convention of the Baptlat Toung People's union began here thla morntng. - Twice Bryan's name waa mentioned and was given an ovation each time. . i . ,- . - 12, '.' 1&06. IXTEEN - PAGES. " , - "4 "v That Would Be Her Population If Her , People Figured aa v ' Widely aa" Seattle Peo- ; " pie Figure. Tba population of Portland la 161,1001 .' At least according to figures as they are juggled In Seattle. ' . . Tba lt0 sohool census -of ' Seattle abowa that there are ll.lt children between the agea of f and 11 years In the village on the sound. - The chamber of commercn at that - place advertises Its population at 101,000. The 100 school v census shows that there are M.ISt census children In Portland, plua 1.000 . (estimated . In tha. auburba an nexed during the past year), making a total of 14,000 oanaua children in the city on the Willamette. - - , What la tha populatloa of Portland T - It is 111.100, sticking just aa cloee to the truth aa our friends to the north. Census experts agree, you know, that tha ratio between the number of cenaus children and the. total population la just about the same in one plaoe aa another. Tom Richardson, manager of tho Port land Commercial club, . does not claim that Portland shelters If 1.100 souls. Where the high figures for Boexthr'a population were secured, only certain In visible powers and the Seattle census booster know. - For Portland Richard son accepts the estimate made -at the beginning of the year by the Polk Di rectory company of 101.10S. If thla la correct, Seattle's population, calculated on tha same ratio to Us school census, would be 117.151. Oh. how the mighty are fallen! Aa auggested in a local periodical, the man who told a story of walking across theCelumbta rivey op dry selmen,-. Uie nsn having oruna an tne water ror is miles upward from Its mouth. Is with out doubt the same Individual who fig ured the population of Seattle, THREE LIVES LOST IN WRECK ON SOUTHERN ' (Jearaal Special Service.) Petersburg, Ind., July 11. Three Uvea were lost and thousands of dollars worth of property destroyed In a wreck of a freight train on. the Southern rail- Brakeman Luther Capeheart, tha fire man - ana engineer, are dead, two other trainmen are expected to die -of thetr Injuries. ...... AGRARIAN STRIKE STOPS . HARVESTING IN RUSSIA (Joaraal Special Servtee.) Lods. July 11. The atrlke of the fac tory workmen . la . extending and the agrarian atrlke haa brought tha harvest to a complete standstill.--7- ' WASHINGTON"TRUST: ; CHARGED CONSPIRACY -. . ... ' " -.. . - w "(Joaraal Special Service.) Washington. D. C, July 11. Tha fed eral grand jury today returned Indict menta agalnat a. local trustf Institution consisting of seven firms, charging- con spiracy In the restraint of trade. - FIFTY THOUSAND IN GOLD BRICKS IS STOLEN -4Jea Falrbanka, Alaska, July 11. Over 1(0,000 In gold bricks, which ware In the care of the Alaska Pacific Express company, . was stolen from Ahe steamer Ida May while ehe waa between Falr banka and Fort Gibbons. ' SIX KILLED EN ROUTE TO PLEASURE RESORT (Jearaal Special Service.) -London. July 12. nix, wire killed and many Injured today by 'the overturning of a , motor omnlbua an route to Brighton, tha famous aeaatde reeort. The motor upeet on Henderson hill. It la feared a number of tba Injured will die. Tleg--harg or aper; Cove. Or., July 11. Miss F. I. Rob erta, In former yeara adttor of- the Bteelvllle (Ma) Mirror, left on yea terday'a stsgs to take charge of the North Powder Newa, with a view to purchasing the plant. i i,., - ... ...... ... 1 I, ,1 1 Ran C'as; Women In tha Utsst -- ;-" Cff'fM" A ; ii LLL! .wVlwA-Y. Yesterday Was PRICE TWO His Attorney Declares Defendant's Act Was Immoral. ' Perhaps, But Not Illegal Argument Demurrer to Jn "' dictment -1 Made in United States Court by County Judge Webster Heney Replies on Behalf of Government, James Henry Booth, who took MOO for advance Information while receiver of the land offlca at Boacburg. doea not deny that he committed an Immoral act but Insists ha la Innocent of aa Illegal one. Thia admission waa drawn from hia attorney. County Judge L. Rr Web ster, during an argumsnt before Judge Huntijila morning on tha land fraud lndlotmsnt that la being prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Francis J. Heney. v.. . - Tha money taken by Booth came from Frederick A. Krlbba, wha haa managed to scrip about 100,000 sores of Oregon's finest timber lands.-eKribbs wanted- to get-first notice of the cancellation of land entries In order to claim moss land for. -hia masters. He first worked through James T, Bridies. . reglater-af the land office, To htm Krlbba paid a bonus of IS cents an acre for all tba land ha got. In the end there waa dispute over the amount due. Bridges figuring the bill at 17,00 and Krlbba refusing to pay more than 11,100. -- -Beeta Becomes Involved. ' . Meantime Booth was . busy - looking after tha land-grabbing Interests of the Booth-Kelly lumber company, of which corporation ha waa secretary. Krlbba went to Booth, offering him a lurap aum for adranua information. The lum ber company waa getting all It needed. there waa - room for more graft, and Booth accepted Kribb'a money with, the understanding that the lumber company should get the lands released In the vicinity1 of Its sawmills. Krlbba could have hia plok of the rest ' ' After 'that Frank Alley, an' attorney, aat la a room adjoining; Booth'a offloe with a deskful of scrip. Aa fast aa no tices of cancellation came in by mall ha reached Into one drawer or another and, acoordina-te whoee -tarn it was, ee ripped the released land for either Krlbba or tha lumber company. The ordinary cltlaen seeking to acquire a claim has no chance whatever. - When . - the fraude were exposed Bridges" punishment - was confined " to removal from office, but Booth waa In dicted. The leniency - extended to Bridges wee " be furnished the government valuable evi dence. - . . Now Booth comes to the front with a contention that the indictment agalnat (Continued on Page Two.) F S3 i Piatt, Odell and Quigg Combine to Wrest Control of the Empire State From . ' J (Jearaal Special Service.) New Tork. July 11. Through the mediation of Lemuel Ell Quigg. Senator Thorn aa Piatt and B. B. Odell. Jr., chair man of the republican stats committee, have been' reconciled . and formed an alliance to prevent President Roosevelt and Governor Hlgglns from gaining con trol of tha etate. Their program involves- the defeat of Herbert Parsons for reelection to the presidency bf the republican county convention- thecontrol - at - thedele gates to the etate convention, who are elected at tha primaries on September It, the defeat of Governor Hlgglna for renomlnation, If he should be a. candi SLAP ON THE NECK. CAUSES STRIKE OF 1.200 WORKING QIRLC (Jearaal (pedal Servtee.) New Tork, July 11. Because of r-e alap which a neckwear contractor says ho gava a girl In a "friendly scuffle" L200- girls, members oftha.Neekwea Maker's unkm.yhave. gone en a strike and declare they will force" ail neckwear contractora out of business, so that hereafter they will work directly for the' manufacturers. The strikere have been employed In If of the largeat neckr wear concerns In New York. Faster.-;, f.!;: r f r" ' w - w Journal Circulation CENTS. Councilman Annand Tells , Water Board That Thirst Makes e Break Laws Big Portion of District Which Haa - Been In City for Yeara Great- est 1 Sufferer From" Famine" . Another Pipe Line fo Bull Run Advocated. T r ; "I'll break 'the regulations of the water "board every time I hava a chance . If it la necessary to gat water. - We haven't got the water and we muat hava. It." , Councilman Annand made thla em phatic statement to tha water board at the meeting late yesterday afternoon, , "That sounds like a mutiny, and from a. councilman, too," r auggeatedMayor Lena-.;.. -- -" ' "I'm not here aa a member of the council but as a cltlaen In need of water. , We need It for sanitation and from danger .of fire." replied Mr. Annand warmly. - "An Inspector could arrest me and fifty of my neighbors any night tor using- water on lawns after hours." - The remarks of Mr. Annand aeem to express . the feeling of several thousand -people of the city who have suffered from a severe ahortaga of water thle month. , Meanwhlla the proposal for an addi tional pipe Una from Bull Run la being considered by the members of the. water board. . . -.' .. ' While there is Bone too much water In the big territory embracing-Mount Tabor and Montavllla recently annexed to the city the moet poignant Buffering haa been and la now being felt by cia- lnsids the city for years. Aza OettlaeT Be Water. 1 "We are paying water re tea and, are-- fling no water," waa the complaint heard several tlmea at tha meeting of the water board yesterday. Klghty-slx . residents of Vernon pre sented a signed petltioa - last week which was presented by J. A. Great of tt East Sixteenth atreet North. . it read aa follows: "The water board of the city of Portland -3en.tl em en This Is to ear- ' " tlfy that the underaigned eltiaans -of Vernon. aT part of the city of Portland, have been deprived of water almost tlmea without number, and especially ' at certain hours af the day, namely, during- the morning and evening, until tha climax was reached tho afternoon and evening of July 1, when no water. not even a eupfuU could be obtains from : untU ll:i o'clock. "The time haa eoma when ' peUenee ceases to be a vlrtuet and fpr the wel fare of our families and ourselves. (Continued on Page Two.) date and the reelection V Odell aa chairman of tha atate eeaml . The republican leaders bad been pre pared for a reconciliation between Piatt and Odell by the break between Flatt and" the president. Governor Hlggtns haa thrown hia In fluence to Rooaevelt and la working hard-building up a machine. to oppose the old bosses. Back of Odell are Hani man, Standard Oil and the. Wall atreet Influences who aeak to control both parties In tha empire state. Through Belmont and the representatives at the., "sine and safe" democracy. It la planned to keep control of democracy and pre vent the nomination of Hearst- in they are successful. Hearst will the race on hia Independent tloket. The Incident: which resulted fa t present strike occurred two weeks ' S when a contractor slapped one of t a lglrls and tore her shirtwaist. Ha I steted -ho acted only -tn-fimvtmt t girl thought otherwise and reported 1 affair to tha Neckwear Makers' v The body levied a Ana of : t; i 1 eon tractor. "I won't pay a cent." waa f ' tractor's ultlmstnm. when f the Una As a result C : EAST It GR ' t':::- '"' ' '' "' . " '' ' '' ":'''. j i,l . -. 1 I - ,.s