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Newspaper Page Text;p Arvr;:2WT -'.in 7; the -Sunday; j c: . ... a. 4 A A., A. A. 5m GOOD EVOi;ilG THE WEATHER, Possible showers tonight, ; cooler; ' Sunday partly . cloudy and cooler; ' 'south shifting to west winds. Journal CfrcmlitioiV . X -AT . Yesterday Was VOL V. NO. 124. Portland; Oregon. Saturday evening; july 28. iec3.-sixteen ' pages.'" PRICE TWO CENTS. : 8Xe?m?eE3 IS- fM7 tin 111 II CITY ATTORNEY OF MEDFORD SENTENCED AND INCARCERATED IN COUNTY JAIL l V " . . 2 HOG 1 AND . U V I I ;': BawL'-W-aid sv ' m mm mm .... tm m a a. A iViT IS ISSUED Bond for Four Thousand Dollars Is Signed by H Eugene Blazier and John Grant, Friends of H McKinley While He Was Treading the Prim- rose.: Path Marie . : Not Guilty to Indictment ; ' ; Martin O. Hose, city attorney of Mad ford, la now serving tlma In the Mult nomah county Jail. Ha waa aentenced thla morning- by Judsa Hunt to four months' imprisonment and 1100 Una aa tha penalty for conspiracy to suborn perJury,;The . decree went on ithe racorda . shortly before... 10 o'clock. Deputy. ' MarahVl Backer . ascortad the prisoner to taa county jail and - within an hour Hose had begun to serve his sententm. '': :: r ." Before Hose learned his fata Harry NW. Miller and Frank E. Klncart. who Pleaded anility to tha crime for which , Hose and Charlea Niokell were tried 1 and convicted, etood up and ware each ' eenteneed te a year's Imprisonment at - hard labor on McNeil's island. Tomor ' row or Moaday 'Uotted SUtea Maranal ' Reed will vend the pair to their place of ' , eoafloement and than ail but one of the ; four oonaplratora will be .Warda of the .government. Charles Mlckell. tha lone ,. exception, has decided to. make a Ssbt 'J'1 on appeal.' JtX present he la oat ..on , bonds, having been granted a 10-dars' 1 B f V a BMIUM m. mutinn n maw trim I Judge TalkS U efendaata.' i H Tha aentedclng Of the "Emmlttsburg" ' land gwinaia oKeadere we preceded la each instance by a few words of kindly advice Miller, called tha "guiding mind w of the conspiracy," waa. told that hta '.. offenae wee not only-very eerltros,- but ' ana which from lta very inception waa ' doomed to ' detection and ttonsequent ( humiliation and disgrace. . The court commended ' Miller for confeaalng and . telling tha truth on" the stand. nd aald that there wss no reason to take away all hope from evjoh a man by extreme severity. - -.; n ., "I perfer to err on tha aide of mercy." -'-said Judge Hunt, and with that he - eentenoed Miller to a yeara hard labor aa McNall'a laland. i Klnoart . came next ' Ha waa advised to make a man of himself after ha left prison. Credit wag. given him: for eon-, feaalng his guilt, - and the sentence . meted out wag the same -as - that of MUler.- ' ' ' called. Special Assistant Attorney Oen--' oral Heney, who - had conducted . the proeeoatlon, arose and aald that Dr. K. .' A. J. McKensle had Informed him that Hoge's present condition of health la not auch as to enable him to with ' . stand Imprisonment without danger of Injury and decline. The Illness ' waa , only temporary, but tha difficulty in ' a tha way of poatponement of sentence lay In tha Tact that Hoge could give no .' bond. X Short sentence would satisfy ", the law. . Xeaey ooreg Hog. ,.. It It were not for hla health." added Prosecutor Heney, 1 would urge that he be given tha maximum of punish ment, aa he la an attorney-at-law, one t whose sworn duty . ahould have, pre- vented, him from advising persons to offend, against tha government-" Hoga told of hla present condition of health, aald . that hla mother and her two brothers died of consumption, that . hla mother waa bedridden It or II f , years and that 'for .10 of thoaa years I . ha looked after her.. ' . v Judge Hunt remarked that It did not . take a physician to see that Hoga waa i a man of delicate health. "I fear long Imprisonment, would Im Prisoner-Antagonizes Attorneys to Despair to Be to Pose in l- ;. 7owb1 Special Servlcs. ' ' New Tork, July IS.. As preparations for the trial of Harry Thaw proceed - tha chief feature af Interest IS tha blind obstinacy of the prisoner ' In antagon ising those who have hla welfare most "st heart and who are capable of serving him the best In the great struggle neces sary to save htm. from tha electric ehalr. Thla obstinacy may yet drive two aeparate forces of attorneys together to ' work harmoniously to a eommon leauae. . ..,-...- . It la learned that all hla lawyers have become Interested In tha discovery of a line of -defense entirely novel in tha criminal annate of the country. It la said there waa an old English esse which would furnish the necessary -.precedent. '- ' New Tork lawyers of standing Bay - Tnay Has placed himself In a posltloa I Ware McKinley Pleads peril your Ufa," ha added, addressing Hoga. ; .... - ; . The prisoner, clutching at' straw, said; eagerly that ha thought ha could raise a small amount of fine, somewhere near tha minimum,, if .that ware made his sentence. , Ha would have aald mora, but tha court .out him ahort, ' ;.: .-Hoga Zs erteaeat,-T--:: -r . Remarks on tha duty of lawyers pre ceded tha passing of sentence. -Judge Hunt spoke of the present being aa age of commercialism and that many think ing men were of .the opinion that this Instinct had caused a Quiescence, if not a decadence, in tha profession' of the law. It being a time 'When attorneys should apeak out clearly for the. right. It waa with pain .that ha waa confronted by an attorney who had proved recreant to hla duty. - Telling Hoge that It w solely 4ue to bis physical ' condition ftha light eewteae would be Imposed. judge nunc aaviaeo ma to go back to Mearord arter-he regains hla freedom and build a. new and setter reputation in the cemmunlty la which he was dis graced. Then Hogs'1 waa sentenced 4o serve fdur' months in' tha eounty jail and to 'pay a Una of rtsoo. 2 . A ' Utm, Hoga was in tha courtroom. She did not break' down at tha supreme mo ment, ' but her lips tightened and - her sufferings were written on her fao- i As rtoge naa no money, hla Sentence means that be will apenoT five months in .Jail. - The additional month - will enable him to go Into court and' take the pauper's oath,' thus compelling the government to release him without tha payment of tha fine. , . .... ; . . XoXSalars Sail rorfstted. Horace (3. McKlnley'a - name figured prominently In tha morning's court pro ceedings. On motion of Prosecutor Heney, tha bond of McKinley waa for feited In two land fraud eases. In one of which he waa . convicted, and a bench warrant waa Issued for hla arrest.' Mc Kinley la at present In Shanghai, China, safe from extradition. The bond la the caaa In which ha waa convicted la 94,000, -the sureties are sugene Blaster and John Grant, friends of McKinley while ha wag treading the primrose path. Maria ware McKinley, wife of the fugitive, . appeared In court, and by her attorney. Lou Tarpley, entered a plea of not guilty In case No. 1817, In which aha waa indicted Jointly with S. A. D. Puter, Horace Q. McKinley, Mr a. Emma Watson and several others. - At tha request of the . government severance Waa granted for Congressmen Blnger Hermann and J. N. Williamson in the Blue mountain reserve case. This is the case in which State Senator Frank lin Pierce Mays goes to trial August t. Proceedings against Hermann and Wil liamson were postponed until the next term of eourt. - . :.' w.t . ., CUT IN OIL FOLLOWS ' ROCKEFELLER'S RETURN (Joeraat Sperlsl Servlee.) Toledo, O., July 2 (.Coincident . with John D. Rockefeller's return a break of t centa In tha price of eaatern oU and centa in the price of western oil was posted by the Standard Oil eompany today. . . i . Friends and . Dfiyes ---Sole Notion Seems Theatrical ' Aspect of grave perlL Hla friends also realise thla and are greatly Worried, go far he personally has hot made a alngle sensible move toward hla awn defense. Hla aole notion aeema to be to poae and give hla wretched predicament aa spectacular and theatrical an aspect aa possible. . Thaw's conduct is auch that ha might be auspected of being the victim of cheap fiction were It not certain he baa had no time In hla bstterfly career for fooling of any kind.. - The district attorney has found i a motive for tha murder of Stanford White anj la confident of convicting Thaw of murder In tha first degree. In a sensational Inveetlgatlon at Pitts burg Howard Nesblt, brother of Evelyn Nesblt Thaw, denounoed hla bister. . He says aha waa always atageatruek and be came aa sot ass despite beg mother. STATE BOUNDAIIY COMMISSION Reading-from left to right;' bottom row Commissioner H. C. Reynolds, for Oregon Commissioner C C Dalton, for Washington; Assistant At- torney-General K C Macdonald, coupsel for . Washington; garrison Allen, district attorney of Clatsop county snd counsel for Oregon. Top ; . , row United States ' Senator . C W, Fulton, counsel for Oregon; Attorney-General A. M. Crawford, counsel ' for Oregon; Robert . S.' Tsylor, ' V shorthand reporter of tho supreme court; Consulting Engineer Q. B. Heagardt, counsel for Washington. ' CHARLES BOCK IS SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS Surprised When Judge Canten beln i Announce.' Sentence- Makes Lotif Statement to the Court Saying Hie Preliminary Hearing Was farcical. "F Judge Oantenbaln In tha circuit eourt thla. morning sentenced Charlea Bock, secretary of the Bailor' a union to six years in tne penitentiary. - Bock r waa convicted by a Jury about a month ago of assault with a dangerous weapon on Walter Safer, a member, of- the non union crew of ' the steam ' schooner Johan Poulsen, during tha attack on them on tha night of June It, which Bock la aald to have led. When Judge Oantenbaln asked Bock If ho baa anytiung to aay wny no anouia not be sentenced,-Book said: - ? " ; "I have this to aay, your, honor. This la tha flrat time la my Ufa of 17 years that I-have ever, been before a- oeurt to bo sentenced. I maintain my Innocence, and I Tolled upon my . at torneys - to - prove my innocence and acquit me. . "The method of Identifying mo la the municipal eourt waa something acanda lous. My trial, until, it reached thla court, waa .a farce... The witnesses contradicted . themaelvea in every - case and it aeema . to ma that they ahowed that they bad- been trained what to aay. But that la for your honor to decide. ' 1 think it la . a point. In my favor 'that the only revolver that I have aver had was not brought hero aa evidence. 1, had kept thla revolver In . my desk, and tba, detectives would have testified that' It had not been t fired '. for two years.- New evidence' hag been found which would - prove , that . I waa , not present at the time this assault oc curred,' and It should have obtained me a new trial, which was denied ma. The fact -that I-. - , ' Hera Judge"- Oantenbaln broke In on Bock's carefully prepared address and told him that he waa going too far, that tha only question was whether Bock could give any reason why he should not be sentenced, or If ha could aay anything that would cause tha eourt to be more lenient. . Book aaldt '"' "No, I will leave everything to my at torneys." . - '!.... v ' Bzpeoted lighter Seateaee. ' ' ' Judge Oantenbaln then announced that the penalty waa from ala months to ten years in the penitentiary, and that tha aentenoe would bo six years. - The (Continued on Pago Two.) eeeeeeeeew i I'OI OF 17. C.T. II. :S0O DEATH KKELL i OF IHE PEEK-A-BOO i (Jearaal Special Settles.) v Los Angeles, July tt. -"Peek-a-boo - waists and dtaphanoua clothing must go. The Loa An geles Women's Christian Tem perance Union has so decreed. Members of the local union . j have declared themaelvea une quivocally upon the subjeot. , . .. Tha death knell of the dainty, , alluring peek-a-boo . waist and , , dinging, diaphanous skirt, waa sounded at a, meeting of the: ' union held at the First Meth odlst Xplacopal church. Tha ' aeanoe waa aa extraordinary : one. Every member present ap, ' peered, aaclted over the Issue, and by a rising vote .the offl ' elal stamp of disapproval was placed upon waists with allur ing aparturea. , - 1 . , wvMvmvMmftmme StiSeeeyaae.;y TRIAL OF AH HEHE Dramatic Scene in . Court When Talk of Pris 2 onerWithlte ;inCral:IssJo!d--Do6tor-for-Defense States It f Was Impossible to . -.. v. -.- r. ; ; - tspedal Dkeatah te Tke learasLr -r Tillamook, Or, July 1 1. Dramatio te the- extreme was tha testimony Intro duced la the trial of Abram Hembree, charged with murdering hla wife and daughter Ora, than cremating tha re mains - in the - flames of hla burning houaa, when the story of tha prisoner's talk with his two little eons, over the coffin of their dead mother and sister, waa told "thla morning. A hush fell over the crowded oourtroom during the recital of the tale, only broken by the stifled aoba of the women who crowded the building. ' . : Summoning hla two tittle sona to htm Hembree seated them beside, the box within which reposed the charred re mains of Mrs. Hembree and her daugh ter, Ora. 1 Taking a seat on 'the other side of the coffin the man, now charged with murder, talked long and seriously to hta boys. He told them -to-slways guard - their actions and., that their fu ture would largely depend upon their start In life. "Remember, my sons," ha said, .whereyer you are, and what- nwni . Af A DA ME, YOU CRN SME: MONEY 1 By reading tha fashion notea In The Sunday Journal. j.Thsy are prepared -1 byqxperte and tell what la latest and best In wearing apparel how to' ' buy and how to make It. . And tha visit of many a- doctor can. be . &Ia- penaed with by reading tha health hints. Tha suggestions on how to pre . ' serve beauty are valuable. These are a few of the thlnga that make The ' Sunday Journal tha best paper on .the coast. There- are many : others. too, Jn the 44 pagea of matter especially prepared to Instruot and enter- ' ' tain every member of the household from the boy or girl who delights In the tfunnlcs" to the head of the home, who will find food for thought In C SV 8. Wood'a "Democracy of W..J. Bryan." ( , - The SUNDRY lOORNAL LEADS AMERICAN OFFICER KILLED BY FRENCHMEN (Jeersal Special Service.) Chefoo. July IS. Lieutenant Clarence England, of tha United flutes cruiser Chattanooga,, waa wounded yea terday morning by a bullet from the French cruiser Dupetlt, and died last evening. The French squadron wag en gaged In small arm practice as the Chattanooga passed enroute outside for target practice, England . waa . on tne bridge. Several . bullete struck the Chattanooga's sides which signalled the French vessel to stop .firing; Before the signal waa understood England wss struck In tha back by a ricochet bullet. England waa a native of Arkansas. . . ., TRAIN DASHES ON WRECK BUT NO ONE IS INJURED (Journal SpecUt Servlee.) " Greonsburg, Pa., July 28. -The Penn sylvania railroad's 11-hour train, west bound, dashed Into a freight wreck while running at (0 mllee an hour this morning. The engine left the track, but all the oars remained on the rails. No one was Injured. The atop of Engineer Corson la pronounced by railroaders aa the moat remarkable ever made. ' The pilot plunged Into the wreck, scattering It far and wide. The aldea of tha- cars were scratched and the handrails bent The train lost three and one half hours and than proceeded weetward at full speed to paake up, for lost time. FOR OREGON AND Identify Bones Found aver you. do, your mother win alwaya - . sea you. Tou must be good boys." " ' ' .- Disagreement XJkely. From tha lineup of the case at pres ent It la generally believed that tha Jury Will fall to reach a verdict. Some of tha men hearing tha caaa. It la be lieved, will eonsldsr the evidence, whloh la purely circumstantial, as Inade quate to warrant the conviction of the accused man. - Others will contend. It la aald, that they would do wrong In acquitting him. Under these conditions It la thought, a new trial will be neces sary. . The state closed Its. ease at 4 o'clock yeaterday afternoon, confining Itself to tha mere phyaloal effect of tha flre and the finding of. the bodlea. No attempt waa made to prove a motive and the principal feature - depended upon for conviction was tne . absence of the skulls when the bodies were found and tha finding of pleoea of skull bones and aa artificial tooth In front of the stove. One point, alao, upon which. particular (Continued on Page Two.) .. tVtVWTVtVVVVVtVVVVVVVVV $25,000 FOR WEEK'S i; ATTENDANCE OX FIELD i; (Jo rut Special Service.) Chicago, July 2. Dr. Frank . BlUlnga. who attended Marshall - Field in hla last lllnees, today presented -a claim against tha estate for I2S.000 for hla serv ices. As he attended Mr. Field) but aeven days. It la believed to be.- the largest fee aver charged by a physician In the United States, whsre no surg ical operation waa performed. There la no likelihood. It la aald, " of tha claim being -collected. - . Dr. Janeway of New Tork, who also attended Mr. Field, has not presented hla claim. There waa no reference made tnr tha statement filed of ex penses 'during tha physician's stay In. New Tork, and It la supposed these are Included In the bills rendered by tha man agement of tha hotel at whloh Field died. . 1 ' WASHINGTON BLAME HILL FOR San - Francisco , Paper - Accuses , Magnate of Deliberately Try h ; Ing to Prevent Rebuilding : by -aJemgrloeHft-OKJer-r-to ' Build : Up Seattle.. . ':C: San . Francisco,' 'uly IS. The aminer says this morning: E "The merclless,pltllesa. gouging -of me sincaen city os Ban r'ranclsco by me jumoer trust involves a deeper and mora widespread wrong than the mere robbing of a wounded community. The lumber trust of J,he northwest is domin ated by the Weyerhaeuser Lumber com pany of St. PauL . "Weyerhaeuser, the creature of James 3. Hill, Is a timber king whose domain runs from Wisconsin to - Oregon - and Washington, la hardly worth while. Now the greater part of the Weyer- hauser lands are stolen absolutely from the government, whether through land grants, through the railroads, or under Hen rights. .But thla la a matter foreign to the present situation. "The dlsaater that overwhelmed Ssn Francisco waa an opportunity, or Hill. niu witn nia ureal nonnern. North ern Paclflo and Burlington roads waa a hereditary roe to tiarriman and the lines he oontrola. . Tha. Southern Pacific Vnlon Paclflo and Oregon Short Line, Hart1 man roads, are tributary to San Francisco. Hill la camped on Puget sound. Ha la worklns- to make hla shops 'terminals 'of ' tha great Paclflo trade, Hla. aim la to make Seattle the metropolis of tha west . .- A f build n Seattle. It la la Seattle that hla great orential steamers dock, and hla transcontinental roads have their terminals, and Weyer haeuser ia hla creature and timber agent. Nobody is fighting his battle. In 1100 weyernaeuser purcnaaea every acre of timber land west of the Cascades owned by the v Northern Paolflo and Hill roada.' Thla purchase Involves- over a million - acres. - They established headquarters in Tacoma and speedily with their enormous resources, the backing of HID and his allied rail roads, and their control of freight rates, they dominated the cutting and ship ping of all timber west . of the Mississippi and north of St. Louis. ' Control fcamber Market,' " They make and unmake timber prices and railroad rates. They determine what timber shell be cut, where M ahould be shipped, and what It should be sawed for. They sell timber la tha Puget aound district for a price en tirely Incommensurate with the prices asked In San Francisco. , (Continued on Page Two.) GOUGING HUIIIED CITYOn Llir.lBER HATEBORMSriLIONS Harriman Drains Treasury of Union Pacific to Consummate Big Secret Deal for Control -of Stock of Other Roads - (Joora.l Speelat Ber!,.) ' "1 New Tork, July It. It became known on Wall street that tha Union Pacific railroad borrowed recently 110.000,000 and that thla la', but one of several In stances of . heavy borrow rtlge by tha company In tha laat few months. What Wall street wanta to know la wnat the money la used for and why It la neaea sary for tha Harriman Intereata to bor row at-ell. a - the general belief waa that the treas ury of tho Vnlon Paolflo railroad was not only wall filled but there was money 10 spare, . POLICE AID ' j i. 1 ; ' '' J' III P1YSTERY Mysterious Death, Lost Will,- Large Fortune and Pretty Widow In volved in Case Letter to - Chief Critamacher From Woman in Muskegon Michigan, Sets Police Depart- . meht' Working to Solve Baf fling Mystery. A. A mysterious death. A loat will. . '.. A large fortune. A pretty, young widow. A police Investigation,- " These are the features of a caaa now engaging the attention of the authori ties In this city end tha developmenta give promise of. laying bare a story aa myaterioua and baffling aa the most sensational tales listed in the memolra of tha redoubtable Sherlock Holmes. In yeeterdey'e- maH Chief of Police" Orltsmacher aaceived the following let ter and, acting upon the appeal from the writer, detailed a detective to make an investigation: "Muskegon, Mloh., July It. To tba Chief of Police Will you please find out for me If an old. gentleman by: the name of Levi R. Charlea died ii Port land at a- hotel by the name of Abblng ton nearly two years ago? He died about the middle of November,. 104. somewhere - in Portland, and--1 under stand that ha left hla valuable papera with the manager. Now, thla la very Important to me, as I am hla niece. Milton Raines waa hla half brother. and he had no will, ao he must have left It to my father s care. I am hla daugh ter, Attle Raines Beck. My married name la now Beck. . Please look after thla at once, aa there la a fortune for me, aa my father la now dead and ha waa hla nearest relative. I am alao a young widow, without any near friends, and when you write me I can Identify myself, aa all tha bank a and bualneaa men of Muskegon, Michigan, know ma from 1181. .... "I hope you will attend to It at once and let me know, aa tha money la In Wichita now, but wa want tha papera ' if possible.. Please answer at onoe. "I might give a description of my uncle, Levi It. Charlea He waa lesa than medium height and had been an Invalid for several years, traveling for hla health.- From what I understand he was only at thla hotel a very ahort time, possibly not more than a day or two. Ha lived many years In Kansas and accumulated a large estate. He waa In age about tt years, white hair and mustache. It baa coma to aa In a mysterious way about hla death. "MRS. AT.TIE BECK, "Soo. Block, Muskegon, Mich," Ho Death .Bntry Feaad. ' Tho mortuary records of Portland eon- tain no entry of the death of Charlea and aa far aa can be ascertained by the police there la not a hotel In tha city bearing' the name Abblngton. Whether the misting man died under aa assumed name and now occupies a pauper's grave or waa the victim of a foul murder, . are queationa that may be aoived by fur- .. ther inveetlgatlon. " i 1 . Mrs. Beck will be communicated with 1 and asked to give further detatls aa to tha source of her Information of tha . death. She recites the fact in tha let ter that the knowledge of the demlse of her relative waa communicated to her In a myaterioua manner and if a crime haa been committed, thla lnfor- . matlon may prove to be a valuable clue. ' Harrtman'a erltlca are ' Inclined to auggeet that bis reeerit heavy purchaeea Of Illinois Central stock and the St" of several other leading rallrnads In t e west which could be made tributary to the Vnlon Pantile might explain t e disposition . made of the millions t t have been borrowed and the mllli. t more supposed to be in the eonr- i treasury) 'thef It tndlcaled recer phases by Harriman of much 1 slse than any he had' tin' hitherto and that It ia belnt f secretly because af the txe terestg lavciveX