The Oregon daily journal., July 18, 1906, Image 1

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VOL. V. NO. 115.
Appears Before Judge
- Hunt and Declares He
Is Too III to. Face
. Trial of Case : T : '
Court Render. Decision on De-
murrer In Booth Case, Sweep-
- Ing Aside Contention of De
fendant That He Did Not Vio
late' United States Statute. '
Martin O. Hot, whoa efforts ' to
- obtain , a postponement on tb plan of
, lllneM has delayed tho flrat of ttao nw
.series of land fraud trials, cam Into
court this morning and lost no Uma In
expressing deslr to gat out again.
Prior to Hose's plan for a. continuance
which la yet to bo passed upon, Judge
' Hflnt randarcd a comprehensive daclalon
on the damurrar of Jamas Henry Booth.
former receiver of the Roseburar land
offlce;-Thr-rourt-wspt.ralde3ooth,si
contention that a1 icoelTcr can accept
, compensation far advance ' Information
f a cancellation of land entries with
out violating the taw. v
Shortly - before court convened this
moraine Hog, who had made a night
. Journey from Medford, came 1 crouched
rer a cane and walking alowly. . Prior
to his appearance he had. made an effort
to find Charles F. Lord in order to en-
k-aa-e htm as counsel. Lord la himself 1
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u.iuus inuivuiisuLiui 1U VOX 171111 B W1LQ a
government omoer In the discharge of
his duty.. The government offlcer ra
t erred to Is Francis Jr Hanay and the
. partlcnlar-dnty on which he was an
(gaged at tho time Lord was Indicted
was the prosoaution of land fraud eases.
' ; At last accounts Uoge had been unable
to get Into communication with lord.
."; Whan Special Assistant Attorney-
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I H IS
IHIOIbL 7SlysL
lity Water Department and Investiga-.
-tion May Cause Heads to Fall ,
- 'A quiet but thorough InvesUgaUon of
- various . matters connected ' with the
water "department Is being made by
- Mayor Lane and R. B, iJtmion of tha
'' water board. '
J One result of this Inquiry may be
: a request for the resignations of Frank
T. Dodga, superintendent of the 'water
: department, and D. D. Clarke, Its an-
gtnear.
It is also probable that If matters go
that far there will be a reorganisation
' of the water board, who are nominally
the directors of the-department
The mayor has heard criticism of the
' department every day for the past few
weeks, particularly sines' the water
famine became severs. Never ' before
have the people of the city had as much
. complaint against tho water department
! as this year, .r -.,. - - . .
While this Is "baaed, primarily upon
': the fact of the soarotty of water la sav
' oral localities, there are also other com
plaints heard. One Is that a person en
terlng tho water office to register a le
, gltlmate complaint of the water service
, receives little attention. The office sys
tem In vogue has often been crttlolsed
by business men. : tl
At the last meeting the water board
DIVORCE MAY FOLLOW
MRS. LESLIE GARTER S
UNHAPPY HONEYMOON
r (Jaorsat aaaalat Sasrlca.) i
New Tork, July II. Almost, erased
with rage and excltenWnt Mrs.. Leslie
Carter .Payne 'caused aa unpleasant
scene today at Belasco's theatre, where
she went looking for Manager Belaseo.
She became so violent that she Jammed
tier aim threw, a dnotandwhen she
lert tne place her arm waa ewatnea in
bandages.
Belaseo ' was not in, and, according
to reports, he Is likely not to bo In
when Mrs. Leslie Carter Psyna. calls
In the future, According to friends of
both parti's the break is complete, and
the art f sua will nover jrnln h -nmter
lelasco's management lie fs consld
,
fair ' uai
:
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ommmow, mm to. make,
L
PER DIEr.l
Low Cost of Sustaining
lire Sufferers in San
Francisco From Re
lief Stations ;
Refugees Fed at Company Kltch
ens Cost ThirteenDollars and
,.aHalf a Month, and Those to
Whom Raw i Food Was Sup
plied Cost a Dollar Twenty.
- Oaenal apadal Swrtea.l ; .
San Francisco, July It. Four cents
a day for , raw food was the allowance
per capita made to those drawing sup
plies from Relief Station No. 414 dur
ing June. Superintendent Russell Dunn
of that station In hia report for June
goea Into tho facta and Cruras unapar-
Those receiving food supplies were
divided Into two elaaeaa refugees fed
TTlesTaonomanrTrttcTiBstrTr
capita of ..13,60 ana- those given- raw
foodstuffs at the cost of tl.to a month
each, or e eenta a day. Mr. Dunn shows
that those receiving raw material re
ceived par capita, a trifle over- two
ounoes of meat a day, Mas than half
an ounce of flour, less than five ounoes
of all flour and cereal products, (0 white
beans. 40 coffee 4erriea, one-quarter- of
one prune, one ana one-half teaspoons
of sugar and amost one-half of an ounce
ox cneese, at a total oaiiy cost or
cents." 1 -
"I beg to respectfully suggest," says
nr.. minju"that ins quantity ex cheese
might be reduced and" that of prunes
Incnsaaed. . Prunes cost lass per pound
than cheese, but probably it Is best to
consider the matter of Individual taste,
with which econorffloa considerations
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I HIMVIIII IMVMV lllV4IIM(r
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the fact was unexpectedly deduoed than
one of the pumps of the Palatine pump
ing station on tho Willamette haa been
clogged with sand for four years snd
hss "been utterly-useless during'-that
time.. This station hss been maintained
as an. emergency aupply In cast of con
flagration or other reason for unusual
demand.. Notwithstanding many rumors
to tho contrary, no - water has bean
pumped from the Willamette Into the
city mains at the Palatine station, and
river wstor hss not been mixed with
that from Bull Run.
.As to Superintendent Dodge and En
gineer Clarke, the principal criticism has
been that they have been in their present
positions sines tho department was or
ganised, and have not kept np with the
march of time. The system Is managed
almost exactly aa It was when tho city
had a population of 40,900 people. It la
said. . . ; : ,- v ...
It Is frankly stated that had the dis
tribution system been Improved and 'en
larged as tho city grew there would
have been no water famine this summer,
and that ware this remedied tho water
now brought to the city would be eusf)
eient and there would be no need of a
popular demand for a second ' pips line
from Bull Run. '
erlng Virginia Harned as her successor.
Mrs. Certr-Payne's recent marriage
waa tho final straw In a 'series of
troubles -recently between' the actress
and her manager. Her Intimate friend
ship with Norma Munro Is said to- have
greatly displeased Belaseo. -
Tho actress' marriage Is regarded as
unfortunate and there are reports that
she will seas a 41
husband, Leslie Carter, of Chlcogn la
also reported to be contemplating suit to
arcs her. to stop using the name of
Leslie Carter, to which It. is said she
has -no legal right' lit view of then
and various ether , announcements Mrs.
Leslie Carter Payne's honeymoon , la
proving vary unhappy. " 1 . ' "
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tsssss" as w m u ' i v. rr
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY
MANAGER FULLER UNTIL
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I ' IP,
-V" '.' Mr."and'Mrs.-Aocu-tus' J.iHrtj. Z,r,: )) LIm
Sister of Accused Woman Wrote Addresses.
iCoach man's: Love M issivesSeh ton ithe.
Stationery Borrowed by Her Servant 3 ? :
(Special tHspates te Tae oerBsl)
Pittsburg, July !! Sanaatlona com
dally In the divorce case of Augustus
turer, against his wife, Mary S. HartJ.
Since the arrest of Hartje, his chum,
John H. Welahons. a wealthy business
man, and. . Clifford . Hooe,, . tho negro
coachman, the office of tho district at
torney has been busy running down the
details of tha huge conspiracy to ruin
the reputation and fair name or Mrs.
Hartje.: "
Sister Stand.
-.Miss Ida Soott this morning-proved
t star witness for . her .sister, Mrs.
Hartje.- today." Miss Scott in addition
to asserting that sho wrote the address
on the only envelop produced thus far
by the Ubellant, picked out a number of
letters figuring in the case as having
been written on stationery belonging
either to herself or one of her sisters,
and swore that Annie Luts, her maid.
had been given this kind of letter paper
and that Annie wrote letters frequently,
Pale and trembling, Augustus. Hartje
Is nd more than a shadow of his former
self. Whatever his present trouble has
cost him in money,, his rrienas grsveiy
fear that tefor the ess Is over It may
cost htm his life. Still he Is putting up
a good front In spite of the overwhelm
ing odds sgalhst which he Is righting
Fusil Agalast SUrtJ. '
Attorneys for Hartje complain that
public prejudice has Injured the chances
of their client When Hartje flrat filed
his suit for divorce ho named Clifford
Hooe. his former nea-ro coachman, as
corespondent. Hooc'a statement of hla
relations with Mrs. Hartje was revolt
ing In the extreme, and arter- it waa
mad ha broke down -and confessed that
he had perjured himself, that every word
of It was a He. snd that h had been
promised a large sum of money to make
the statement . ' . .
He claimed this promise had not been
kept; that In il he -had received less
than g00'from Hartje. ' It was ths
naming of tha "negro aecoriondnt
which aroused public Indignation against
Hartje. v ' .. . - .-
The expense Of the ess has neon enor
mous. Today it was declared ot the
best of authority that John F. Scott
who la a wealthy man, has spent his
entire fortune In the fight for his daugh
ter's name..:.. ' - ':. '.-
"Defeat of All Wossaaaood."
"I will spend every dollar I bar tn
the world, not for the sake of my daugh
ter, but for the sake 'of American wom
anhood," Mr. Scott declare. He IS mak
detectives by the soore and . exports ot
national - and- International reputation
have been secured. - No expense has been
spared. ' ' '
"Thin la not a ngnt ror tne nonor rr
my own family aldne, said Mr. Scott
"Evrv father of every woman in Amor-
Jc 1 iatereated U It, It is th most
bp aw- w & . w .v n ...
X MEN
damnable eonaplrsey ever conceived to
deatroy th nam of a woman by a maa
who has tired of her. I'm willing to
my old age to defend American woman
hood."
Clifford" Hoo was " employed by
Hartje as a coachman In 101. and up
until 1104, when be was discharged for
drunkennesa o Thomas Malin followed
Hooe In Hartje" s employ and remain
In.th stables until th Hartjee went'l
to Europe In June, 1106, when h also
went across th ocean to visit his pa
rents In Ireland. -"- .. t i
'. lAt Mar Stnssaad. . , ''"? T
" Immediately after the return of tha
Hartjee from Europe, In th late aura
tner of 1(01, Mrs. Hartje left her hus
band's horns and refuaed to 'return to
htm, going to the horn of her father,
John F. Scott ,HartJ sent his brother,
Edward Hartje, and a Mrs. 81oum to
plead with, hla wife to return. They
mad several efforts to indue her to
go back to her home,' but ah refused,
and the dtvore action .waa finally de
cided upon, . after aha had announced
ah proposed suing har-j husband for
divorce. ,.- -i.. ' r. '
; -At. this time Hooe was employed by
an east end contractor, driving a dirt
wagon. ' It Is alleged that Welahons,
who IS a friend of Hartje and one of
the moat prominent and wealthy bual
nesa men of th east end,, hunted -Hon
up and gav him a position In his store
as a porter. After some time Welahons,
according to th story related by Hooe,
ocean engaging mm in conversation
about Mrs. Hartje, and finally secure 1
a statement from him to tha effect that
ho had been Intimate - with her.- He
declares that he was offered 1100 If he
would mak ; affidavit to- that- effect
and was told b would get It. 000 if l
would help HartJ get his divorce. Hooe
agreed. . '.
Dot S8 oo for Story.
In all Hooe received a little over J0,
according to his story, for making the
affidavit Th money was sent him at
various times while he was away. Ap
pllcatlpna for money orders for money
forwarded to him from the Plttaburg
postofllc will. It Is said, play an Im
portant part In th trial of thla ease.
Tom Madlne, th ex-coachman to
whom HartJ alleges his wife wrote the
sensational letters. In his testimony In
th divorce ease sprung two sensations.
On of these was that Hartje offered
Him 11,100 if he would shoot a man
named Smith, Hartje, Madlne said, de
clared Smith had tried to wrong HartJ
alnc theJJUantja4isgel
-mttoTflySrrThe"other statement was to the effect
that Hartje had offered him $3,000 If ha
would .swear that he had seen Gross
MseConnell and Mrs, HartJ enter a
house together. . He bad answered that
he could not do so truthfully.
Th witness hinted at forgery when
Continued sa Pag Two.)
18, 1606. FOURTEEN PAGES.
DEMANDS OF COMPANY
eeeeee
e "If the company will go Into p
d . oonference . With the eommlttee .
S from the union It will avert aU
a danger of a strike. If the com- e
d kpany persists In refusing to do , 4
P .this, I cannot see how a strike
e can be avoided. There will anre- e
e ly be a strike." International e
a organiser uurion ot ute rn.rwt.i- w
ttm ; aar workers' union. .
e . The above stetamant sets forth
e the' condition of affairs In the e
e streetcar men's controversy to-
e day.'
PREACHER LEAVES PULPIT
TO THRASH A ; HAH
Calls Member of Congregation j
Jar and Fight Ensues When
Compliment Is Returned.; .
(tarsal Sseetal Sarvlee.)
. Marlon. Ind., July II. Rev. Joseph
Best, who haa been conducting a series
of revival meetings In this city, cansed
a sensation and panto at th services
last , night by denouncing a stranger as
a liar and then, when th victim Of his
wrath resented It, gav him a drubbing.
Th stranger, who was an elderly maa
and well-appearing, was giving his re
ligious experience when b mad a re
mark to which th minister dissented.
In .very plain' words h told th speaker
that he waa a Har. Th stranger re
plied, "You're another,", and with that
Best left the pulpit and dealt ' the
speaker a blow In th fac.
The two men clinched and struggled
In sight of ths congregation and It was
plain that Best waa doing a good Job of
trouncing whew members of tn church
Interfered snd separated th combat
ants. Beat returned to th pulpit and
flnlsbsd his sermon. : ,
MYSTERIOUSLY KILLED
ON RIVER STEAMBOAT
" . ' (tarsal apettai gerries.)
Sari Francisco,. July II. Tha police
are probing th mysterious murder of
Jscob O. Johnson, a. well-to-do resident
of Stockton, whoa .body waa . found
floating In th bay Sunday. Whan John
son's body waa recovered Sn open knife
was found clasped In th right hand and
a tell-tale wound on th. back- of his
head por evidence of th manner In
which he met hia death. A key to state
room 14 on a river steamer was among
the . Items of property f6unl in his
possession. ,
Johnson left this city Saturday night
on ths stesmer T. C. Walker for Stock
ton. No trouble occurred en the boat
so far as the officers know. .Th dis
covery of th bodywas not reported
here until late Tuesday night ' ; , .- ,
KANAKAS INDUCED TO - S
: ; DESERT SHIPOWNERS
(Joema! Special gsirfcs I .
Saa Frsnolsco. July- II. Th second
attempt of th United Shipping Si Trans.
pollution association to Import strike
breakers from ths - Hawaiian Islands
L failed this morning when th sailors'
union .pickets induced la Kanakas, ar
riving last night en th liner Alameda
from Honolulu to desert, ; . ;
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PRICE two;
up mis mbne
FIRM S IN r THE IR
STRIKE 10 STRIKE WILL
OCCUR IF CAUSE LOSS
HE DELAYS TO C0H1Y
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Unless Union Is Invited
to a-Conference By
NoonTomorrow.lVIen
Will Walk Out ' ,
- Th atraetcar men did not StrTka to
day. - Instead at their meeting last
night they decided to glv tb company
until tomorrow noon to reconsider Its
determination not to treat with th
anion. If by tomorrow noon an invita
tion for a conference is not received
from General Manager Fuller a meeting
of ths men will be called for tomorrow
night snd In-all probability, a strike
will b declared.
From all Indlcatlona today a strike
is unavoidable. President Fuller stated
larnqTisimsdtsTTnanarTBar'etsmpftny
would not recede from Its position. Op
th other band. International Organiser
Burton mad th positive ' statement
that- If th company persists In refus
Ing to deal with the union, there will b
a etrlk. . If neither aide backs down
within th next 10 hours there can be
but on result
Unionists Will Support Strikers.
The action of the streetcar men .will
andoubtedly be supported by the whole
body of unionists affiliated with, the
Portland Federated Trades council. -The
executive board of th central body will
hold a special meeting tonight for the
purpose of indorsing th- fight of the
streetcar men. It Is expected that this
Indorsement will be unanimous. It will
mean that practically all of tb unionists
In th olty will glv their moral a up-
port to a strike and will glv financial
aid In addition if auob a thing becomes
necessary In tb course of the battle.
Predictions are freely made that th
two local of tb Independent. Brother-
(Contlnued on Page Two.)
COSTS ROGERS $1,500,001!
Standard Oil MagnaterMust Pay for Frenzied
J Finance i n the Boston Gas Scandal
. With Addicks.
(tarsal Special service.)
Boston, July II. In ths United Btatee
court here today George Kharton Pep
per, receiver of tha Bay State Gas com
pany, in hla suit against H. H. Rogers,
the Standard OH magnate, won a victory
by which Rogers will be compelled to
pay Into th coffers of the defunct gas
company 11,100,000. Th case haa been
pending for som tims and Thomas W.
Lawson, In hia story -of - "Frenzied
Finance" gave considerable prominence
to It -J. Ed war Addicks, ths gas pro
moter, tried to make a consolidation of
the gas companies In and around Boston
and for this purpose secured a charter
for th Bay Stat Gas company, which
apparently has a very elaatlo charter,
for Lawson claimed in his story that
Addicks had Issued more stock ander
the charter than any other company In
th country bad ever Issued.
After getting his merger, under way.
Addicks got Into financial "straits and
Rogers, through the Influence of Law
eon, who was then working with Ad
dicks, csm to ths assistance of th gas
promoter. 'By a system or "Frensled
THAW FAMILY WILL
HARRY FROM EVELYN
(Jonraal I per 1.1 terries.)
New Tork, July II It haa developed
that Harry Thaw is constantly-under
strict' espionage tn th Tomb Two
truetys" are ae!BedtncJjFor
a was uii ot trese nas seen a
well-knowa alienist disguised as a
trusty. ,
This alienist Is retained by th dis
trict attorney and has been making re
ports regularly to him. In every report
his conclusion Is the same he thinks
Thaw Is a lunatle. ,
Dispatches from rittsbiira? say It 1s
learned from a most authorlts'tv source
that a s.-'. ' r " I V . L-
CENTS. : UgJl&TEZl
If Power Plants ; Lie
dle Corporation Vill
Lose Thousands of
Dollars Daily;
A tleup of th Portland , street rail
wsy systsm, which 'seems very prob
able, will mean an enormous loss of
money dally to th Intereata Involved,
as well as extreme inconvenience and
loss of time for th public It 1 Said
th Portland Railway, Light 4k Power
company today, with ita enormous capi
talisation and bonded debt, la not In ee
strong a position to withstand a atrlfc-
ss th same properties were two years
ago, when th companies had Individual
Identities and their fix ad chsrges wets ;
comparatively ' light. ... .
It is estimated that th fixed charges
ot th merger company,.- -tnctudlnr H -tereet,
taxes. Insurance on property,
bridge rentals and aeoeesary salaries
nd wages during a strike, will aggr-
gate upwara or i,uo oaiiy. with tb
street railways Idle tb power plants
would b rendered to a great extent uri
remunerative, although th city eleotrlo
lighting contracts of th old Portland '
General Electrlo company would, much.
more then take-care -of tb expense.-
and fixed charges of that branch of th .
buslnass. Loss of wsges to ths strik
ers and to other employes who would
b mad Idle by a etrlke would amount '
to more than 12,00 a day. - . ,
' - Bevanue of Corporation,
It la believed th gross revenues of
the .New Tork and Philadelphia arndi-
cat now owning th Portland Railway
company, tn o. w. v. co. and tb
Portland General Electrlo company
amount to between 11,000 and 110.000 a ..
(Continued on Pag Two,
Finance- It was claimed that Rogers!
sueceeded In m8 manipulating th gf
companies that be profited to th extent
of 13,000.000 or more. After Mr, Pepper
waa mad receiver h started to mak
ail those who profited by th Juggling
of Bay BUt Gas to disgorge their ill-gotten-
gains. Among tho agalnat
whom suit waa brought was Lawson.
and It waa Claimed that he had received
something 11k M.000.000. but that suit
was settled for a much smaller amount,
as Lawson established, according to his
story, that he did not share tn th
wholesale . profit taking tn Bay Stat
Gas, but that Rogers reaped th golden
barveat - -
Suit wss also brought against Roger
to disgorge, with the result that th
court today ordered tb master of Stand
ard Oil to return to th Bay Stat Gaa
company on half of th amount a Is
alleged to have profited by th sal of
th different gaa companies In Addicks
merger, which la 11,100,000. This money
will b need In paying off th bond
holders snd ethar creel tors, who have
suffered losses running Into many millions.
DIVORCE. OF
tween Thaw's mother and Evelyn Keshlt
Thaw.' The mother blames her dauah-ter-ln-law
for th tragedy. No siatnr
what Thaw's fat may be, that of h.s
Kvelrn Neahlt Thaw moat In f
care for heraelf. The puree nf the 1
estate Is no longer access 'a tt
and she will be obi' 1 l f
theatrical engagem-t.
Throush a r.
ynuns Mrs. 1h
nf Thsw'e f " '
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