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Fair tonight and Tuesday;
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FULL JURY
Twelve Men Are Soon
Pjcked tOfHear. Jrial
j of Defe hdan 1 1 6 n th e
Charge; of Perjury.
Trial Is Important Qecaus of
Bearing It Ha on Other Cases
v- Dealing VVith More Prosperous
.- of Alleged Land Fraud Kings
; Hendricks Is Spectator. '
, -' jrmry la iratooa OaM.' . ..'
Thurston Buxton,-- f armr. For-
-Mt Orov..'Washlnirfon county.
4 - William Gunning.' farmer, Uo-t
i KinnvtUa, Yamhill county...
Philip A.- Oimvaa, ftrmtr, Lib.-
arml, CUckamaa county. , " - v
,' A. Henry Knudaen car eonduo-
tor, Portland. . i-- t, , :
Thomaa Boyle; farmer, Marah-"
1ind. Columbia county. '
A Elmer Piaoa, farmer, Oreaon :
i City. ,-'V - . ' " 4
e.. 'Brlee Wnaon. mechanic Olen- '
wood. Washington county, e I
-oa .CsMwrtwahsiB. rssnhaafeOl
Carlton, TamhlU eounty.
e Beth Rla-s., farmer. Crowley, !
Polk- county. , ;
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Arthur a. Kyrk. . pressman,
Oreton City. . , . , 7 ,
M. , E. Kandla, farmer, High
land, Clackamas county, - --
J. B.; Jack. ' meonaat, Orecoa
City. :,-Vi;:t -, a,.,.,.'.
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Charles. A. "Watson, the least -prosperous
of all the Wheeler county folk
Indicted for land frauds, appeared for
trial this morning In tha federal court,
over which Judge Hunt Is now presid
ing. Hs filed and proved up on a home
stead claim . that formed part of tha
chain of fence which enabled tha Butte
Creek Land, Livestock tt Lumber com
pany to Include .In Its big pasture- more
than lS.OOt sores of government land.
'At the-time -of final' proof, Watson,
Clarence R Zachary and Coe D, Barnard
swore that all he requirements of the
homestead law had been- compiled with,
and the result wss that all three were
IndlcteVI tor perjury, r , : ' -
The trial -of Wwtaan prsetdea that of
Zachary and Barnard, and la Important
not only because of its bearing on
those eases; but because Watson and
his. claim will bob up again when tha
government tries former United States
Commissioner Hamilton H. Hendricks,
Clarence R. -Zachary. Wlnlow W. Stel
wer and others for conspiring to main
tain the big fence. All three of the men
mentioned realise what the trial of Wat
son means. - They were Interested list
eners In .court ... this morning. Hen
drlcksr Just emerged from a court, ex
perience that branded him as a sub
orner of perjury, picked out -a good seat
behind tha railing and .took, a keen interest-in
all the proceedings. The de
fendant had filed before Hendricks, al
though his final proof was made before
TTnlted States .Commissioner. James' 8.
Btewsrt.
-Watson Is much younger than Hen
dricks, being about S. if one la ' to
Judge from his looks. ' He has roughed
It mora than little,, has. ridden, the
rang and his fsce bears the tan of
aun and wind. ' AS for bla clothes, they
are weather-beaten and frayed. He
looks poverty-stricken,, but Judge Ben
nett, the sttorney of Hendricks, the
king, anrf 'of Zanhary. the king's right
hand man, ls defwding tilm.' Wstson
stood by -tha Botto Creek company and
now the company is atandUig by hlra..
United Statea Attorney William C
Bristol took sole chaage of the ease for
tha government. . Tha examination of
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KANSAS-GIT?-DRIFTS
INTO BANKRUPTCY ON '
WAVE OF PROHIBITION
(Jnoraal Special gtrrtee.) V
' Kansas City. Aug. t Drifting toyard
bankruptcy at the rata of tLOM'. dayv
.$21,000 a week, or lf.0K.000 a year, la the
fata of Kansas City. Kansas, a common
wealth of 16,000 people, and the largest
city of the .Sunnower 'state. This con
dition was brought about by the en
forcement of the prohibition law. after
the appointment of Assistant Attornsy
"General TTlckMt-three "months -ago.
. Previous to Trlrkett'a appointment, no
city inKsnaas snjoyed such prosperity
aa Kansas City. The poller; fire, atreet
and other departments compared .favor
ably with a city of twice Its else. Now
the police force has been cut In two. the
..flre.drpartment reduced, and the 'atreet
department practically abolished. v And
wresterly
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Commandant' at -Fort
rWalar,WallayaiRe
vengedf for Servant
. Leaving His Wife v
Captain Howard Refuses .to Al
low- Girl to Work ". for 8ubor
dinate Officer , After . ignoring
Plea to Accept Employment In
His Home Inquiry Probable.
(Special , Dlspctrh Jo Tae JoaraaL)
Walla Walla, Wash- Auc i. B.
cauae 'ahe refuaed to work li t aarrant
for Mre. H. P. . Howard, wife Of the
actlnr commandant. Captain Howard of
the Fourteenth caralry, at Fort Walla
Walla, and " Inalated on reUlnlna- im-
filoyment a maid to the wife of Lleu
enaat Holcomb, MUa Bva Belter, a IT-
yoar-oiq inr. was oraarea to Ieare the
military reservation. -at v o'clock yaa
terday evenlnf. -.. ,.,..,. .
The order. Issued by Captain Howard
as aotlna eonuaandant. exlllna the airL
is aeeinea one or the most remarkable
ooeurrencea ever made publla In army
circles. ,' If yports be true there Is
likely ta be an inquiry set ott foot by
the war department at .Washington.
with uia further possibility of a. suit
for damagM being instituted by Miss
Beller'a people. , , . ..' .. (
Bva Beller, whose home is In Free-
water, Ore iron, was employed as a 'do
I meaUo la the family of Captain How
I ard. She became 111 and returned to
her., home. Later, . when ' convaleseent.
she was visited by Mrs. Howard two or
three times, and when requested to re
turn aa a servant. Miss Beller refused.
' Later the girl returned to the post to
work aa maid for Mrs. Holcomb, wife
of Lieutenant. Holoorob,' Than it was
that the ire of the -commandant was
aroused.' ' ' 1 ' :.
-The captata, after the regiment left
for American Lake, was detailed to re
main behind as commandant of the fort
In charge of the 10 men and a lieutenant
oa duty there. It was through this de
tail to superior command that the of
ficer was enabled to write the following
letter and order, directed to Lieutenant
Holcomb, his subordinate:
"Sir: You are directed to report to
this office in wrltlnjf at once whether
jniss iivi nfiitr u in me employ oi
yourself, or any member of -. your
family, temporarily or otherwise, or re
siding with. your family, temporarily or
otherwise. ...
. "This girt wlU not be allowed to work
or reside at this poaf." . - .
In reply to this letter and order.
Lieutenant Holcomb wrote his superior
officer that "Miss Eva Beller is em
ployed by myself and" wife as maid and
we have always found her character
above reproach. - Miss Beller claims that
Mrs. H. P. Howard has visited her home
In Free water, during the past, three
weeks and has tried to Induce ber to
return to work for her. Miss Beller re
fused and Mrs. Howard told, her she
could not work In the post and that she
would be kept ff the post by her hus
band's orders. Mrs.. Lieutenant - Hol
comb will vouch for . the character of
the girl aa being beyond reproach. -
In reply to this letter, the foUowIng
mating order was Issued: 1
. "Reply returned. This girl left her
former employer, temporarily while III,
promising to. return when able. ' Her
former employer-Jiaa expected her re
turn and her place Is vacant. , .
"By returning to this post to' work
for another employer she has 'violated
bar agreement.
"Servants In this post will not be al
lowed to- shift In this manner from one
employer to another except with the full
consent of the formsr employer; other
wise disputes and. . contentions arise
(Continued on Page Two.)
that la not the worst, for present em
ployee of , the Qlty find themselves unable
U cat their pay checks. - - ,
Until three months ago no effort was
made to enforce . the prohibition law.
Saloons were not licensed, but each
saloonkeeper paid regularly Into the city
treasury a fins ranging from 120 to HO a
month, according to the location of his
place of bualness. From t0 "Joints." aa
they . were termed,, the cltyreeelved
enough Income to put It on "easy street"
With tha abolishment of tha Joints and
the strict enforcement -of the -prohibition
law, the city la in such straits that re
trenchment In every -department has be
come necessary, but even with, the pres
ent reductions a huge deficit la acnim
dialing daily,. .The city at present la la
debt o the amount of $4,171,000. . ,
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UNCLE 3AM HU3TLEO TWO NO TAB
Secret of Standard OU'a
OIL KING GIVES ALL QUIET ON TRACKS 1Y
i ip Tn i nun thf HFWh hp iwnHFn
1 1 III III! I 1 1 1 t II n ' H 1 1 S 1 1 1 frt-tf-t I - Pc
rr-sWIfc. W laWIIM , 1,1 I ass II las M I Wis IIIVI ft. IS '
Rockefeller Says That Great
f and Good Country Was Built
Upon Foundation Laid by
-- the Truthful Puritans. ,
. Jearaal apaelal Serrlee.) ., .. .
Cleveland, Aug. t. la direct contra
diction of the allegation of ex-Secretary
of the Navy Long made at Plymouth
that'i the pilgrim ' .fathers were liars,
grafters and debauchees, John D. Rock
efeller said yesterday: . ,
"This Is a great and good country to
live In. . It la a powerful country, and
has grown to Its present position through
the strength of the few Puritan fathers
who 'first settled here.
' "It wss this spirit of the pilgrims'
love of truth, respect for It, desire for
right living, which laid the massive foun
dation for the United States. The Purl
tans ' made the beginning. We should
keep It as they Intended." N.
Notwithstanding ths fact that tha gov
ernment la hard on tha trail of Rocke
feller, and will, make extraordinary ef
forta to - Indict him at the Chicago In
vestigation this week, - the- richest man
in, the world expressed his unswerving
patriotlam and loyalty . In his sermon to
his Euclid ..Avenue , Baptist Sunday
school class yesterday morning. Ha was
In specially good humor, shook hands
with everybody and patted hla mora In
timate friends affectionately on the back.
The eulogy of the Puritans by the oil!
sing Is being compared with tha sensa
tional statements of ex-Secretary, Long
that these same men were rotten In
morals, that drunkenness, slander, bick
ering, licentiousness and even orlmee
against nature were common within the
first decade of Plymouth colony. Com
ment Is also' being made In thla connec
tion upon Long's statement that:
'"The- saints In. Plymouth colony .can
be. counted upon my fingers. Borne of
the very select were fslse to their trust,
falser by far than any president of a
modern- Insurance company.
"Their first ministry was a faeetloua-l
hypocrite and grossly Immoral, and ths
second wsa a cross between e erank and
an Idiot." . ' ...
There is a diversion of opinion ss lo
which of the great Americans' opinions
should bear ths greater : weight, that
of ex -Secretary Long or John P. -Rockefeller.
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Crimes Againrt. the" People Will Be
General Strike of Russian Work,
.men Postponed, St. Peters-
. burg Enjoys a Day's Rest
and Papers Are Issued.
(Jeanal Seeelal Service.)
8t- Petersburg, Aug.. t The strike
that was to mark tha downfall of the
Russian empire did not go Into effect
this morning.
Although! there are over 60,000 mete out
of work, the city la guleter today than
it has been In weeks, and the revolu
tionists appear to be disheartened be
cause of the news oomlng from the
provinces that the men who. were relied
upon to call their companions from their
labors. had either been tampered with
or had been frightened Into Inaction.
.It was thought there would be a gen
eral strike among the men who get out
the papers, and the cltlsens were sur-
( Continued on Page Two.)
MILLIONAIRE'S SON - '
ENLISTS AS SAILOR
(Journal Special Service.)
W Newport, . N. ... J., Aug. . J. ,,e
4 Raynor Welle, . son of William
d . Storra Wella. a. millionaire reel-
- dent f New-Tnrk-end Newportv
4 haa enlisted In the navy for four
years. He has not figured much
In society at Newport, preferring
to roam about and see the world.
"Apprentice Seaman Wells''- la
II years old and it was not nec
essary for him to get permis
sion from his parents to enter
the service. They were aa much
surprised as hla friends to learn
he bad taken the step. He enlist
ed a month ago In Mew York and
was transferred to -Newport na
val station a week ago.
A few years sgo young Wells
married Irene Bishop, a rhorus -e
art In - V. 1 1 j... n.n.il. A
girl In a music . halt on Broad-' w
way. Btje Is still on the stage. a
Wells Is an only) son. but he s w
three sisters, all prominent an-
'elelly In New-1rk-and-Newport.
lC3-FOURTEEN PAGES.
LEO INTO COURT j
Revealed in Chicago.
Well-founded Report Has, It
V That Southern i Pacific May
Take ha Trains Off :
Fourth Street Soon.
A well defined rumor Is eurrent to the
effect that the Southern Psclflo Railroad
company haa for some months past been
planning to relinquish ' voluntarily Its
Fourth street franchise, to tear up Its
tracks - and - seek - connections - from Its
west side line to the Union depot over
some other avenue farther removed
from the retail district of the elty.
Such a rumor gained currency here
about nine months ago. At that time
the local officials denied knowledge of
the proposed move. Nevertheless it is
said that careful Investigations looking
to this end hsve since been made, even
that the route" waa selected, the plans
drawn and preparations made to apply
to Portland's council for a new franc
chlse. These plena were all ready and
would- have been made publlo before
now had they not been destroyed with
the company's office building and other
property. ln the Ban -Franolsoo . eataa
trophe, " ,-''
Baaaor Be Ooaflrmea,
'. Today It waa Impossible to confirm
or .disprove the rumor In Portland on
account of the temporary abseeoe from
town of both General . Manager J. P.
O'Brien and the company's attorney, W.
D. yen ton. C. O. Sutherland, chief clerk,
oald that-Mr. -O'Brien would be baearlfl
town on Wednesday - and would prsb
ably make a etatement of the matter at
that time. Mr. ' Sutherland declined Re
make a statement himself, out ssld that
It was on -eeeount-of a --contemplated
move on the part of the Southern Paclflo
that the Vaughn ordinance wae held up
at the council meeting laat Wednesday
night
Mr. Sutherland eald that the members
of the council knew what the proposi
tion Is. When asked if the company in
tended -to-give -up-the- Fourth street
franchise he intimated that It did not
but Intended to apply for still another
Ifranchlse to Isy tracks over another
.
street to accommodate Ita Increasing
business.
Most of the councilman questioned
seemed to have but haiy ideas as to. the
plans of-the company in regard to the
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PRICE TWO
DOYS KILL
AGED HERO
Fifteen-YearrOId Des
pef adoes Murder Get
tysburg Veteran for
Thirty Cents
William Powell Slain by Escap
ing Reform School Youths Be
cause He Will Not Give Up Re
maining Pennies Victim Was
Seventy Years Old.
(Special Dlapatck to The Jeanal.)
Cottage drove, Or., Aug. (. Because
he refused to allow them to rob him of
his last $0 cents. William Powell, aged
7 years, a soldier of the Potomac and
a veteran of the battle of Gettysburg,
waa murdered near here laat night, by
two 1 -year-old boys, said to be es
capee from - the Waahington reform
school. The youths held the old man
"P at a railroad: bridge, one mile south
of Cottage Grove, about o'clock laat
night and upon hla refuaal to part with
his money shot him In the side. The
shot waa not fatal Instantly, the aged
veteran lingering through the night and
paeefg away at :$ o'clock this morn
ing.. The youthful murderers axe still
at large.
Powell, who was a tinner by trade.
burned out of hie home In San
Francisco at the time of the disaster.
He worked his way north, doing odd
Jobs of tinning and was on.-his way to
Portland, where he expected to find em
playmeat He was seated near a rail,
road bridge about a mile south of thla
place eating a lunch a farmer's wife had
given him when the - two boys ap
proached him and ordered him to throw
up his hands. He looked at hla diminu
tive assallanta and believing that they
were joking, toughed. Seeing that he
waa not going to comply with their de
mand the largest of the young despera
doee reached for a revolver, whieh he
wss wearing In hla belt, but he waa an
ticipated by hla smaller companion who
whipped out a gun from concealment in
his olothea and snot the aged man la the
aide.
When they 'saw the seriousness- of
their crime, the boys Immediately took
nigni. roweu managed to roach tha
nearest farmhouse ami tnit hi. etrr,
isses were immediately started out in
pursuit of the young murderers, but no
trace of them haa been found, since they
left Cora stock at 1 a. aa where they
were seen by villagers.
- - That the boys were not without some
funds la known by tha fact that when
they ate dinner at Watson's restaurant
It Cottage Grove, Sunday noon, they
had a silver dollar, a portion of which,
they spent for their meaL They were
reckless In flourishing their guns, and
when a brakeman put them off a train
at Saginaw, on the morning before the
tragedy, they drew a revolver on him.
The marshal of Cottage Grove ousted
them from town in the evening a short
time before they committed the murder,
and at the time they made threats
agslnst his life. No attention was paid
to them, every one considering . their
boasta of being "bad" much aa did their
victim, the talk of ohlldren.
Powell-has a brother In Seattle and a
ehlld In San Francisco. 7 Funeral ar-
ransremsnts will not be - made until
theae relatives are heard from.
BALL00NISTS TRY TO
- BREAK WORLD RE0RD
' Noank, Conn., Aug. a. -Roy Knaben-
shue and Dr. Thomas, who started from
New Tork laat night to break the Amer
ican ballooning record, landed here this
morning for breakfast. They were in
fine spirits and seemed confident they
had accomplished the feat ,
CLUB IS ORGANIZED
TO ASSIST GUPID IN
-His st: louis xvoRi r
' (Joaraal Special Serviee.)
St. Louie. Aug. t St. Louis haa a
matrimonial club whloh proposes to af
ford opportunity for young men and
women who want to get married to meet
personally the opposite ssx and choose
their life partners. Ths purpose of the
club may be shown. In the following ex
tract from a circular Inviting attendance
at the first picnic of the club next Sat
urday. ': It reads: " - ; - ! '
"Many young men or the west end.
. ma.h tlre M .hale
blessedness anI resolved to better their
conditions If they can, have organised
a 'club to be known as a Matrimonial
club. Ths object Is to give a series of
mstrtmoplsl picnics and balls., to .bring
ths young unmarried element of St.
Louis together tar congenial and friendly
gathering. . , ,. Vi ( ,
was 'jr-y:.-) '
CENTS. I ffiE2J.7CS
Government Officers
Will Have Aid From
DistncrAttorneys in
Many States . -
Testimony Offered In Cleveland
Case to Be Supplemented by
Evidence Showing Rockefeller
and Rodgers Had Favor That
Competitors Did Not Get. "
' (Joaraa! Special Berrtee.) 1
Chicago, Aug. $. Standard Oil seems
to be in the tolls at laat; tha United .
Statea government la determined to
punish the corporation for violation of
the federal laws and a special grand
Jury Is hearing the evidence, . This body
will make a aweeplnr investigation of
the Standard On company's methods Of
transporting 7 its 7 products. A large
amount of evldenoe has been gathered'
by the government's legal aide, under
the personal direction of Attorney-General
Moody and thia will be presented. !, .'
- Several important pieces of evidence'
have been added to that taken before -tbegnutd
Jury Cleveland s few waeas
ago. It la believed that the whole forms
a complete chain of evldenoe against
the Standard Oil company and some
of lta high offlotala wbioh the govern- .
ment prosecutors hope will lead to the
Indictments and prosecutions under the
anti-rebate law. The . proceeding 1U
be based upon deals be preen the oora-.
pany and railroads tor Aha handling of"
Ita products, and the char gee made for
the same aa compared . with the rate
fixed for Independent concerns. - There
will be also evidence concerning al
leged discrimination In the matter of
storage - charges in ' favor at the oil
company.
A number of high railroad effloiale
are among those who have been sub
poenaed to appear before the grand Jury,
and testify.
' Pioseontora la Ooafiimsa. ' "
There waa a conference of the press '
eutors thle morning before the evidence "
against the Standard Oil company waa
presented. In the gathering were J, J,
Bumvan, united Btates Olstrlot . attor
ney at Cleveland; Dlstrlot Attorney C
B. Morrison of Illinois, Ashlstant At- ,
torney-General . Pa gin. Assistant XMa
trtct Attorney Hanchett and District
Attorney Dyer of St Louis. A line of
campaign was agreed on and It waa
determined to have Judge Betbea swear
In the grand Jury thla. afternoon.
.The Cleveland case will be presented '
in its entirety, it is eald the evld
relates to storage charges which
never collected. Omission of whieh, It
Is charged, gave Standard Oil undue ad
vantage over competitors. .
The. star witness will probably ba
R. C Barlow, executive director of the
Chicago Commercial association and a
former, railroad official, who . waa enee
in the confidence of the Standard Oil,
but who la now an active opponent of
both the railroads and the oil company.
LINEMEN THREATEN ; 7 '
AND WIN THEIR P0INJ
(Jnernal SeeeM Berried) .1 '
San Francisco, Aug. . Linemen em
ployed by the San Francisco Gas A Etec
trio company, which supplies practically
all 'the lighting and electric power for
the-elty, notified the company thle
morning that If It supplied the United
Railroads, with one kilowatt above the
amount contracted for by the railroad
they would strike In sympathy with the
railroad's linemen. The company prom- .
laed to adhere etrtctly to Ita contract) '
"We realise that there are thousand
of good young women and men In thle
elty who would be only too glad to get
married and settle dowa If they emild
find suitable partners. We feel If this
vast army of young people can be
brought together with the right spirit It
will offer excellent .opportuni Ilea"
The plsn. novel as It Is. haa met -e
spproval of a large number of the ye
people of the city, and the Initial pit. i
of the strange club promlaee to be
of the most largely attended events i
held In St. Louis. ,
The forming of the club Is the sv'
Of discussion throughout the went t
and there la much speculation ae lo i
probable outcome of romances ' 1
spring up st ths meednga,
to be held for the avowed eur; :. t .
moling aaattUneaa
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