The Oregon daily journal., August 10, 1906, Image 1

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J- GOOD GVEKIIIG ; " ( .'-MWf Journal Circuit
VOL. V.' NO. 139.
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-K'fv':: AHE IDS STATEMENT.OF
M
iiCTLY II017 VALUABLE
PUBLIC FRANCHISES ARE
Directs Letter to Auditor Devlin Declaring
'Companies Operating Unr Tranchises
" Granted Before -Charter
Affected the Same as Those Operating
Under Later Priviliges : ' :
Acting under a provision of th city
charter, Mayor Lan ha undertaken to
compel every holder of a publio rran
ehlee In Portland to file -with the elty
auditor quarterly reports of all receipts
and. expenditures.' If the mayor suc
ceeds In his effort the people of Port
land will at least have an opportunity to
Judge accurately of the value of these
franchises and of the profits which hare
resulted to the holders. Up to the pres
ent time the provision of the charter un
der which the mayor Is proceeding; has
been practically a dead letter, -no .effort
baring been made hitherto to enforce It.
, Among the corporations which will be
compelled.' If the mayor's interpretation
f the charter la correct, to giro such
accounting f their profits are the Port
land Railway, Light at Power company,
the - ga . company, th.iaJ?njrni
panlea, the Southern Paclnc, tne . WIN
lunette Valley Traction god, the United
Railways company.
.' There'll no quest I on that holder of
franchises granted since : the present
charter Went Into effect can be com
pelled to make a Quarterly accounting
to the city. Thonly doubt la a to
holders of franchise whloh wore- en
acted prior to . the enactment wf the
present charter. The question Involved
Is of the greatest consequence to the
public-as well as to the corporations
concerned, .and the -"action taken by
Mayor Lan promises to precipitate. a
great legal struggle. s rv-
As the Initial step In the oampalgn
Mayor Lane addressed the following let
ter this morning to City Auditor Per
lln: : i ,.'- - ; -.'-.c .
"Thomas CV Devlin, City Auditor
Tar Sir: Section tt of the charter of
the city of Portland provide that every
grantee or bolder of a franchise 'from
the city rendering service to bo paid for
wholly or In part by the users of such
service shall keen, full and' -accurate
bonks -of account,-make quarterly re
ports In writing to the auditor, further
requiring such reports to contain an ac
curate statement In summarised form
and detail of receipts and expenditures,
and statement of assets and debts and
such other Information as the- audltOT
may require. .
. "From an examination of this section
1 am of the opinion that these require-1
ments apply as well to holders of fran
chise granted before thf enactment of
the, charter' a to those after, and beg
to suggest, therefore, that you will
have the hearty cooperation of the exec
utive branch of the city government in
securing from the holders of all fran
chise now 'operating In the city de
tailed statements In such' form as may
fully exhibit the facts which the public
hare an Interest In knowing. ' v
"Kindly adrlee me of uch , step.
you take In the matter and call upon me
freely for: any assistance. I can rend en
Very truly. ' HARRY LANE, Mayor.- ,
Question Considered Before. ,..
The matter " was . brought up ' under
Judge William' administration. -The
mayor, the auditor and the city attor
ney put their heads togtthev to see
whether the charter provision could be
N e wr H am psh i re Fire of Manchester,;? N." H.,
Suspends Busipess on Pacific Coast to Let '4
X v Conditions' Readjust .TKemselves. ; :
(learasl tperlsl serrlc.)
' San Francisco, Aug. 10. The agent
of' the . New Hsmpshlr Fire Insurance
company of Manchester, New Hamp
shire, stated today that th company's
suspension on the Psclfle coast was due
, to the desire to let unsettled conditions
readjust themsefves before taking any
further liability. - The statement say
that ' the company's Ban Francisco
liabilities will be settled for about
It Is not thought by the officials of
the company that they will be attached,
as was the property In New Tork yes
k , tenia r of the Transatlantic company of
Hamburg, the trust fund on deposit
.. with the New Tork Insurance superln-
Undent, - amounting to ovsr ftOO.OOO,
"having been attached by ,the policy
holder ; j , "
', At a meeting of the stockholders of
, the California Insurance company - It
was formally resolved to pay all losses
THE PEOPLE
made to apply to companies to whom
franchises granted before the passage of
the new charter as well as to those after
the charter went Into effect. T r '
Judge William decided that section
It of the charter did not give the auditor
the right to make, such a demand upon
the street railway companies and others,
who were operating under franchises
passed under the new charter. - After a
number of conference : between these
officials and members of the executive
board the matter was dropped.
In -the opinion of some prominent at'
torneya. however, the conclusion reached
by Judge Williams was a mistaken one.
and It la said that the charter provision
eaa bo enforced against every holder of
a public franchise In Portland.' t
- Sine the franchise was granted the
Honrs Telephone couipauj, however, tt
has been taken up again, a tt was seen
the . charter provision, would apply, di
rectly to this corporation. There can be
no question but that- tha Home Tele
phono company will be obliged to make
reports of its receipts and expenditure.
. This wut lr apply to .tne united
Railway and Willamette Valley Traction
companies,
legal Tigbt
,A to the other companies, they will
undoubtedly oppose legal objections and
pass the matter up to the courts for an
opinion as to the meaning of the c bar
ter section.
' Following Is the section under which
Mayor Lane has taken the initiative:
flection . aTvery grantee or holder
of a franchise from the city 'rendering
service to bo paid for wholly or in part
by the users of such servlo shall keep
full and correct books of account and
make stated -quarterly report in writ
Ing tor the auditor, which shall contain
an accurate statement in summarised
form, as wall as In detail, of all
celpts from all sources, and all ex
penditures for all purposes, - together
with a full statement of aU-assets and
debts, as well as such other information
as to the costs and profits of said serv
ice and the flnanolal condition of such
grantee aa the auditor may require.
Such -reports shall be public records and
a summary thereof shaUbe printed aa
a - part- of th artauar report of the
mayor, and the auditor may Inspect or
examine,, or. cause to be - Inspected . or
examined, at all reasonable hours, any
and alt books -of account and vouchers
of such grantee.- Such books of account
shall be kept and such reports mad in
accordance with forms and methods pre
scribed by the auditor, and. so far as
practicable,' shall - be. uniform : for all
grantees snd holders of franchises.
Every failure or neglect on the part of
the grantee or holder of a franchise
under this charter to keep books of ac
count or to make reports under this sec
tion, shall authorise, tha city to declare
a - forfeiture of touch - franchise; and
every such failure or neglect shall also
be deemed a misdemeanor and the coun
cil of the city of Portland may- by ordi
nance provide", for ' the punishment - of
every such violation, failure or negleot.
(Continued on Peg Two. )
In full." Ths company resumed active
business 1 than a year before the
conflagration and had not accumulated
sufficient sssets to cover the liabilities,
which confronted It In the burned dis
trict x . ;
Ths directors, however, determined
that the - stockholders should be as
sessed sufficiently to make up the en
tire amount needed. The stockholders
ratified this action. Five assessments
ntuat be levied. Two have already been
ordered. Claims against v th 'company
aggregate l.ltl.00. It was unani
mously sgreed to pay on a dollar for
dollar baste, Including those losses
whloh are more or less traceable to the
earthquake.
Of the net losses, amounting- to t.i
121.000.. 71l,s has already been paid
on the basis of 100 cents on the dollar.
Many of th stockholders are among
th prominent bankers and merchant of
8aa Francisco, v,, . ,' ,.. ,
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, "AUGUST
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WILL START A
FIGHT AGAIUST
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W
0IL1E HOVELS
LavvCProhibiting -:Thelr. Sal to
Be Enforced by Portland Au
: thoritiee Statute - Place
; Stringent Restrictions on Traf
fic of Literature of Crime.
. Section llll, Bellinger a Cot-
ton's Code "If any person sells,
lends, gives away, or shows, or .
. has in his possession with the
e- intent to sell, or give away. or.4
to.'abow, xr .advertises or otner- 4
k . wise orrers ror loan, girt, aai. .
4 or' distribution, .to any -minor
4 child, 'any book, pamphlet,- maga- ' A
. dne. newspaper, or other printed -4
paper devoted to the publication. 4)
i or principally made up of crtml-
e--counts or criminal deeds or plo- d
d - tures, and stories or deeds . or
.bloodshed, lust, or crime;' or-If
4 . say. person exhibit upon any,-
.street or . highway, or-ln-any-,
e .other 'place. within the viewof
any minor child, any book, maga-,- '
alna, newspaper, writing, paper, 4
e ploture. drawing, photograph, - or e
- other rartlola or- articles within e
e i the descriptions of articles -men-
. tloned in the Bret and second 4
subdivisions of -this . section, or 4
anyof them, upon - eonvlotlon w
thereof he shall be punished by 4
.imprisonment In the penitentiary
not lea than on year nor more '
than three year, or by a fine not ' e
4 -less -than I500-. nor . mora, thn4)
11.(00.'
A a result of th sensational' deeds
of .Thomas Reeves and Hugh Saxon, who
murdered aged William Powell near Cot-
tag Grove Sunday -evening, a crusade
1 to be inaugurated' In1 Portland against
the selling of "dime novels", by the va
rious bookstora and newsstands in this
city. u.
Both Reeves and Saxon d eels re that
they have ' been reading the "yellow
backs" for a year or more and .it wa
due to their Influence that they acquired
swdeslro for' glory as desperadoes and
started out. ' on ;;their careecof .crtma,
Tbelr exploits were of. less' than 41
hours' duration and they are now In jail
at- Eugene awaiting trial on th charge
of murder In the first degree. t
The district attorney's office and th
various ministers of the city will be the
prime movers In the crusade against th
ale of vlclou literature. TMy will be
-materially aasisted by tha dlsoovery (Hi
morning of a section of the eode of Ore
gon which strictly prohibits- th sale of
such books, imposing a penitentiary sen
tence upon those who ar guilty. .
- Law Will B BafOToed. -
From th district attorney's office to
day It Was announced that vigorous
action would be taken at once to, see that
the law with reference to the aale of
crimson literature I strictly enforced.
The matter will be thoroughly Inveatl
gated and prosecutions will be begun at
once. It I annotmeed.
Several ministers have Joined heartily
In tha. endeavor to rid the city of at
leaet one of the most destructive In
fluence for Portland's youths and will
preach upon the oubjaot Sunday. ,. They
have agreed not only to arouse a much
enthusiasm as polhle In the crusade,
but to render, personal asststsnoa. In
providing evidence against thou who
are a-ullty.
"I hare not nd an opportunity to go":
OFF FOR THE KLAMATH FALLS REGION
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- Portland Excursionist, at Depot
DEATH TRAP
IV jp..
fJIIOSI OF DUG
Wiiliam-Henry Hicks Bond Whoin Cold Blood
Murdered Charles Daly at Boise ? in Order
U to Possess LatteOr Wife, Pays Penalty of
the Crime Dead Within Six Minutes
(serial Usaatefe te Tse Imssl t
Boise, Ida-, Aug. 10. William Henry
Hloka Bond, who murdered In cold blood
Charles Daly, an employe of the - Bole
uas company, in th latter bom .on
the night. of October t, 10 4, paid. the
death penalty " at th penitentiary
grounda. at. 0:11 o'clock this morning.
But -St wltneaaea were, permitted- to be
present; Including representative of th
press, offlelala, counsel and religion
adviser. Adjutant Hawk of th Salvation
Army. .
At' fret' o'clock Warden Whitney went
to the cell of th condemned man and
read th death warrant. Bond stood in
the-door-of the cell - while the warrant
was -read. He looked extremely pale,
but - composed. He did not appear - to
hear tha words of the warden or realise
the Import until th clo, when a nerv
ou it witching at th ,-corner of hi
le ee
' 'sjf .' a '
; Ike :j olored Magfaziiie
Wlth th Sunday paper Is here to stay-not because of the color alone,
but becaua th high grade of art mployed to produce the .section h
' mad It necessary that ther should ,b a corresponding Improvement
"In th matter. Some of th best writers In the world ar contributing to
Th Sunday Journal' magaam.' Tolstoi and Bryan ar th leaders for
'. Sunday:' experts writ on politic, labor,, fashion, art, travel ana history.
'.Th "funnjea., whloh are a never-faling source of pleasure to old and
; young,' are funnier than ever .and, ea'n be found only in
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AUSTRIAir OFFICERS"
I' 0AMBLED OFF GIRLS i
-liieuonoiiiil
' -(Joeraal Sperlat gervke.)
New Tork,' Aug. 10. A cabl to T
th Sun from Berlin says: "A I
gambling caa la 'tha garrison i
town , of Diense, Lorraine. - will
come . up. , before . court-martial
August IT. ' This is a case In
1 whloh a number of Bavarian of
ficers. Including the son of Duke
Cart Theodore of Bavaria Is In-
volved. .'
" Trh' fact "aav com to
light.' Ball, for instance, were
given by the club at which the
guests war practically unclothe
and which. In caaea of last re
sort, women : gamblers were . the
take. There Is great excite
ment over the raee In military, art
'and theatrical , elrcle In aouth A
Oermsny." ,
10, 1C3.- SIXTEEN PAGES.
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Prior to Departar This Motziinc. t
SPRUNG 111
mouth and jerking of the muscles Indi
cated th strain under which he was
bearing the ordeal.
. Adjutant Hawk was than admitted to
the ' cell a 'few minutes to administer
consolation to the condemned man..-
' ICarok to OaOowa, ' -
At a few minutes past o'clock the
death' march to the gallows began. With
a-guard on either side Bond approached
and ascended to .the platform unaided.
hi nana ana rest were pinioned with
leather - strap buckled tightly ground
them. -Warden-Whitney asked if be had
anything to eay,"- In a Ann voice Bond
said:
Tarn guilty of the crime and de
serve punishment, but -not alone am I
guilty; don't tnlnk I am not brave; 1
(Continued on Psge Twelve.)
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Xlie Sunclay Journal
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NATIVE 170:.:EN ARE-.
STUBBED TO DEATH
BY-BERUAfi TROOPS
" (learaal Bpsetal gerrle.)
' ' Berlin. Aug. 10. Th Rheln
ohr Ztetung publlahe a lstter
. from a German soldier who Is
serving la '. South Africa, .; which
When scouting on evening our
I party, consisting of 14 men and
' an officer, captured five native
. women.' : It was not considered
advisable to shoot them, as there
were known to be too black In
th neighborhood.. .At last a sol
dier surge sted they be bayoneted.
..Tha officer -forthwith gave orders
to that effect and llv of u stood
-In front of the women and five
behind ' and stabbed them to
death." ) i- ;
PRICE TWO
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PLAN TO FIGHT
LUR TRUST
iaciTy
Capitalists Organize to Purchase
Output of Canadian Mill and
( Ship It to' Ruined City in Brrt
Ish; Steamers, Pay Duty; and
SeW It at Small Profit. ;
- 8pedsl Dispatch L The Jonraat) .
San Francisco. Aug. 10. Th tight
ening grip of . the lumber trust may be
reiaxea in Ban -Francisco, a number of
local capitalists have organised to fight
the . lumber gougers, - Th plan Is to
buy great quantities of lumber In Brit
lab Columbia, carry it to thla port In
British vessels, pay th duty and aell
it la open market at ar reasonable profit,
thus making money for the men who
will buck ,th trust' and at. th same
time confeVMng a k'M th people
of this city.-
Among th men reported as leader In
this syndicate are Thomas Magee, the
real estate dealer, and James D. Phelan,
banker and capitalist Phelan and Ma
ge are aotlv members of th relief
corporation, . which has already forced
the trust to redue prices from It to t
par thousand. Magee, as chairman of
the building committee, announced that
he would buy material for the proposed
homes for. refugees wherever- he could
get it the cheapest This threat ' so
frightened th trust - that it promptly
cut tha prices almost to what they were
a month after the fir. ..
Wall denying that h wa connected
with the syndicate organised to break
the lumber truat, Phelan said:
"Aa I understand It, the plan la to
contract for th entire output of a Brit
ish Columbia mllL The lumber will
then b carried to San Francisco la
British vessels, because the trust has
all ths American vessel cornered."
BIG
OCEAN LINER ,
; BROOKLYN ASHORE
New Tork. Aug. .10. A cabl meaaag
announces that : th liner-Brooklyn is
ashore in Port Asor Islands. -
Females; Not;Pr6duct ot; Idle, Rib, But Original
i Dominating forcejariUseless as a -
' .Vermiform
V
" . .-. ,
. (JMraU BpeHal BervM.t
fhlr.av iii i rt a rtmm a naa
belief on the part of erring man that
thsi first chanter of nenesla mv Kim
ascendancy over woman. Professor W.
I. Thoma of th chair of sociology at
th University of Chicago baa arisen to
explain that th rib story will not pass
muster,' but must, take It place along
With Jonart and the whale.
Woman, Insist th profsor, waa not
originally Intended as ' . mer. com
panion to man. - She did not spring into
being a th net product of a useless rib
to pleas her master, but ahe wa first
created a th master, the dominating
fore and the superior- before whloh
man appeared aa uselesa as vermiform
appendix, ...... . . . . .
CENTS. JiaSmlcLl
OFF TO GIVE
IT A a A a. D I B . a as a aa 8 ft a ssk a
rui ly Dullness iiien uo-;
part for Southern Ore
gonto Spend Vacation
Looking at Country
Will Be Royally Entertained by
Citizens of Klamath Falls-
Side Trips to Places-of Interest
Will Be Made and Trout Lured
From Klamath Lake. v
About 40 Portland business men left
over, tha Southern Pacific this morning
for Klamath Pans for a six dars out
Ing and Jolly good time. Th people
of Klamath Falle promise A hearty wel
come and the vacation will be spent in
fishing trip and excursion about tha '
country . . , , -.
Th party is personaHy conducted by
William McMurrar, general passenger
Mwt-Df-m 0.-R. N. and Boo them"
Paolfla - Among th name are those of
many men of wealth and commercial
prominence. Though It waa not in
tended to be strlotlv a stag party, no
wives were to be seen when the excur
sionists lined op for a photograph. .
a telegram was received last night
from Frank Ira White stating that atl
arrangement, -had been completed for
entertaining the vlaltor at Klamath
Fall a At Keno a committee from the
Klamath Palls chamber of commerce
will meet the train. Sunday there will
be an excursion to Klamath lake and on
Monday a trip to Merrill. Tues
day the party will return to Klamath
Falls. Fishing wlU be th attracttv
port of th. week.
Klamath lake Is said to be teeming
with fine trout and the Portlanders will
vie with one another In hooking th
beauties and then telling about thorn
afterward. Th party occupied two
Pullman car. -which war attached to
th regular :! morning train. - Re
turning they will arrive here August-10
at T:1S in th morning. Th special x
curslon rate, .however, will remain In
effect nine days longer and some of th
excursionists will stay th entire If
day. Some of those listed aa among
the party are: .
. Charlea H. McCrum. C Schwuerdt
man, a. Haymaker, C. C.-Chapman. T.
W. Lead better. H. I Plttock. W. C
Lawrence, S. W. Thompson. D. 8. He- .
ter, C. M. Idleman, A. J. Jonea. R. Mo
Murpfiy, M. D. Wisdom, W. D. Devalnar.
Mrs. Devainey, R. U ' Poutch, Mrs. '
Foutcn."D. M. - Hamilton, . T. O. Hagnev
F. E. Manchester. D. B. Mikl. C P.
Bishop, Torn Rlchardaon, A. A. Mora,
Annand, C M. HyKii. jenerson
Myers. Dr. E. B. Baker, H. N. Btarr,
a. B. Manler. C. K. Hdg. Thoma P.
Clark, W. N. Wynn. . J. P. Crowley.
J.- B.-Flnnegan - J. A.- Harrison,- Jar -
Smith. C. 8. Nicklln. J. T. Peters. Wil
liam McMurray, J, M. Scott W. M. Kll- '
llngaworth. R. F.i- Whltnay, Oeorge
Weatherbe. .. ;-' -.-
JOHNSON WINS VICTORS
IN STREETCAR FIGHT
''.;"' (Jnerasl flperlal Bervke.) .
Cleveland. Aug. 1. Judge Lawrence
today refused to grant an Injunction re
quiring Mayor Johnson to replace th
tracks of, the street railway he tor np. t
Appendix ' . r
There ar aotn startling things, Pre
feasor Thoma ay. ln th American
Journal of Hoclology. Oman first -meatlcatad
th animals, beginning with
man. Primeval man did not want tn
tay at horn. The middle and higher
claaaee have now reduced woman to
parasitism. Morality Is worked out In
the school of experience; It I mala.
Falling In love I really meditated tr
woman. Man doe th courting. t t
ah controls the process. Wan la t ,
ear mark for woman.
"Women who les.l fsst lives ft t
die; the "pare that kills' onlv s i
a- prorea ef evolution. Vvomn
have led faat Uvea make unrr
good wives. Education Is a r.
woman's secondary position,
Tha article bag cause J a t
Sit
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