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Newspaper Page Textt . , .. ' i v- GOOD EVEIIIIIG Journal Circulation yesterday 0(0 0 V .urn. anniH m i x . x. a t vvxi it a. i i is N trday Was 1 ' Fair ; tonlf ht Sunday - '- warmer; northerly winds. , , VOL.',Vf NO. 142. ' Th above rtmarkabU photograph DEMH m Seaport Half Destroyed by FlamesHiindreds Reported to, Havi Perishecl Sjantiago Said.to Have'Sufferea,; polis- All Coast and Inland aged-Hundred Thousand Refugees W'' V..U Nw Tork. Aug. If. (Bulletin.) A de UyixJ dlapatfh from 8nUngo, Chile, ay that the earthquake there , has oauaed areat loa. , ' . .. -" " ' fJoarail BpkUI New ' York, ; Aua. . H. Intermlttefit hocka continue to add : horror to th'e altuatloh at Valparaiso and terror to the refufwe. 'Tirrm which - etarted ttmne dlately .after the earthquake. atlli race ' unchecked, consuming hundredwof -the helplaM ykstlma who lie burled In the rains, -j .'s . i: t: jV'V--K' - It Is iatlll Impossible to Wlroater Ui deadL The survivors . have many of them fled Into the hills. "Keports are reaching; Valparaiso of damass throuah ont the country, .and It Is feared, that Santiago has suffered worse than. Val paraiso. .. ...-... .;x. v.-r Ores 100,000 Befngees. . '. h , A; hundred thousand homeless people ' are wandering halt erased by the calani Ity suffering, from exposure and "from hunger, f. The rail read lliie throughout ? the country rtr blocked by caved tun nel and twisted. rails,; . Death and" de ' structlon are reported .from nil fides. . Many landslides are reported both In, the ; city and country.'- ?: i'. , f. :,: ' , , West; Duvall ft C?o. received a" cable direct from - Valparaiso this morning Stating ' "Tonn nearly JestrOyed.- par ticulars when shaking eases,'w ' A London 'cablegram states' that the i Pactf lo Qteamshlp company has received a message from- lt of floes In the ruined city reporting heavy'' loss of life .'and ANARCHISTS . PLAN TO KILL ALL KISGS OF EUROPE: ; ; Money Wrongfully Diverted Ffom Russian c Revolutionists ; - ' 1 by Twrrorittt.' :,t" i: , ; ti : .. r...,, '..'i ... , - ,..; ' . itnantl Special Bertlee.) .-. f . New Tork. Aog. It. A special to the v Journal from London says: "Reynolds' newspaper asserts a plot has been dis covered to assasslnats King Alfonso - . while attending the Cowes regatta. Two notorious . Spanish anarchists were found at Cowes and the- polios bsnlshed them without .arrest, fearing to alarm H the royalties asaembled." i , - . .- Reynolds' newspaper further says a fresh and nomprehenslve plot' has been f hatched to kill all the klnga of Europe, j It asserted that ths anarchist are sup ; plied with, nbundant funds,' money hav ing been diverted t them wrongfully ) from the Russian revolutionary fund, . fair , and ' v PORTLAND," PANORAMA OF THE CITY OF VALPARAISO, CHILE, DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE. AND FIRE of tht ruined scsport and metropolis MD D Immense damage to property In Val paraiso.. The. message, says the com pany's offices were partly wrecked but floating, property , -was undamaged. ' ' ; J . ;.:' - : 0y XsJf Bsffteoyss, ''Another Xondon firm has been noti fied .that. -two r squares of the finest buildings wars completely -wrecked and that several -avenues weredestroyed. Another firm ' was notified that ' busi ness was being resumed. ?. . .' A cablegram from Berlin ststes that a dlapateh haa' been 'received there by a bank saying that Valparaiso has been half destroyed and that th flames are caging - frem -Almendral to Bellavlsta street. . The ' letter, is lined with resi dences and business, warehouses, , A private telegram received at Berlin SayS that Iqulque is unharmed by th earthquake.'. This 'Is the first news from Iqulque.' '?.. .: ' ;-.. -(. . But ' little - Insurance . was ' carried by Asnerlcan '-companies . In Chile.' - It - Is thought ' that .' If th'- nre ,rollowed ths quake Kngllsh companies are hit hard, t r- x. , wens nmm Bspoxtad. . '. ' . A Washington' dispatch states that the stats . department and ) the Chilean lega tion 6a account of the lack of communi cation believe ,'that : the Valparaiso .'dis aster. Is. worse: than .reported. None of the' several-cables landing st-Valparaiso appear to be. working .well. Fear, that subterranean force -might- work, danger on th Panama' canal has . been 'allayed by "Proessof Hayes." who asys . that there' 1 no -such danger. . He ay that the isckbone of. North America ends be fore Panama Is reached'.' It turns .off son th, and goes off into the, west., j. j f ' A Hamburg' cable states that the North: Oerman bahk today received from its-correspondent' th Bank of Chile and Oermany- at i Valparaiso, the : followlna dispatch,' "All well. " Bank building only iigntiy aamageo. : Many nouses de stroyed by fire. Unable-to state estent of damage. . Bank closed." , r - '5 . Oabls asMg Talkav. ' ' i i " Manager Robertson of th Central ft South Amerlcsn Telegrsph com pen y to day said that be was not la s position to give but (h report his oompany had received from their operators at Val psrslso and other point slong th Chil ean coast. -.- i -1 esn tell you that there has been s fearful earthquake," he said, "and parts of the city ar on fire.- What report we have received up to date are In the rorm oi message to private individuals, and these we are not permitted to give to the public- Our. operators there are so busy and the confusion is so great that we cannot expect them to make full reports upon condition there for soma time to come. .,..,, - - ' -"Communication wss 'restored by our operator In Chile .yesterday, sad new our wire Is. working perfectly.. Beyond - ..(Continued on. pags Two.), ML OREGON, SATURDAY- EVENING, AUGUST . 18, 1906. of Chile allowing the entire region ESTRUCTIOM PMTS OF CHILE New York, Aug.' 18.-Private '.. advices received from J - Valparaiso this morning, state, that the; city is nearly de T : stroyedyr-The quakes still continue Lwhile the flames are T rapdily consuming the ruins. I teen burned.? ' From Almendral .tjames nave swept ana JuenovyHDorfsumtfig- the residences x. arid business warehouses vvtiich 'Una. -thV latter thoroughfare.': t .-Little news is being received from the stricken city," op- i erators; saylhgpartipulars will S oease.; According to all refjorts there has been a heavy X' loss of. life.afid an immense- damage to property, not only in X Valpafaiso but : In" r Santiago rancaguat wxi i rcniianuv anu vuiK,u,.aio ropuriou tu do in . ruins.- V- '"T , .,.:,.;". 'f loating property Is reported undamaged, as no tidal wave has followed the auake, aocordinsr to the measrre cable- , grams received. ; :" '.- .'''. V 4 Official Announcement Jrom Vancouver to v structed at Once After ; weeks of quiet work by vevora snd riaht-of-way men. It la offl-I ROAD dally announced that a railroad will bs built from, Vancouver toiHwaco. Thelf survey has been completed snd filed, and Hghts 'of 'way, ar' rapidly bslng ao- qulred. Ths Columbia .Valley and Wat lula Paclflo Railroad companies, repre senting 'the Union Paclflo and' ths Chi cagA, . Milwaukee ft St. Paul, are back of ths project. ''' 4 iTbe dlstsnce of the new line will be 120 miles. . Construction will,. It is es timated. . cost about MO.OOA pec, mil. Th survey follows-closely, the north bank of th Columbia' river. . Gray's bay IS' cmased straight, over a . trestle.- At Frankfort ths road- will , touch -a fine harbor,-, with . deep, water.; although It Is said to be 'doubtful if there will' be much use for. harbor, faollltlea at tl)lsl point.,".:-A -r . '...-ivi. ( , '".. ' Irbrvayors Bsgte Wss.--- . , The line passes .through th Fort Co lumbia' military ' reservation. At' th Ilwaco end ot the route the company' attorney a have Instituted - condemnation proceedings for aboot i miles of right of ' way.- i Agents 'ar going -oyer 'the line snd securing lights of way aa-fast as possible,' It la said' land speculators, having' got' Vlnd of the company's hv tent ions,- spread out In a phalansv along the rout and got told of every foot 'of land obtainable, and many are attempt ing to hold up the company for high prices, i Ths company' s gents ar of fering what they regard as fair prices, snd on1 refusal ore Instituting condem nation suits In th 'court, ' - i Bttvlaf Ta4 Stakaa.' '' '"Final grade stakes are being driven today on . the ' Brat aectlon east of Il waco. :. Th company has filed applica tion' In the Ilwaco city council for. a right , of way .on . Sprue , street . to M point near ths present depot of th Har rlman. line there. Down to th present time sgents of th company have rep resented, thst the Intention -was .only to build a road from Ilwaco to Frank fort, where a connection would be made with the O. R, ft N company' steamer Potter, which ha had Increasing trou ble' with sandbars at. Its present land ing st.Ilwaao.. The reel plans of the company has been carefully concealed snd wnffc baa been carried An as qui etly ss "possible, to avoid speculation In lend values along th north bank of U riyar, aad also U ooaosal tbe hmvs- ', i ,";" - ... . i , -: ' ' daaUted earthquake' and Over half the city has already toy Bellavista street the J be seot .'"When the shaking - and In other Chilean-cities, . : , y';. ;'' ' TO BE BUI Is Made That the Line Hvvaco Will be Con- v Surveyors Finished sur-lment from ths Hill railroad companies --It was aome time aao discovered bv Portland Seattle company that "Jj construction project was on foot by th Harrlman peopl , from Van. couver to Ilwaco. and preparations were st one made by the Hill people to meet It. Yesterday a party of surveyors rep resenting th Portland ft Seattle com pany arrived on th steamer Potter at Ilwaco, and today , ar busy running line In. the. vicinity., . There Is . no longer doubt that both' th Columbia Valley . and th Portland - ft . Seattle road will build to the ocean s edge, and their terminals will Include Ilwsco and all the beaches . on the north aide. - ; Ths-beach business Is. smsll in com parison with the output of freight ton nage from various Industries slong the north - bank. '.Ther are canneries, lum ber mi Us, -ah Ingle mills,, and cold stor age plants, the total output of which Is already considerable, y and vateadlly in creasing.' - . -. !,'.'"..,. i. .,' ;. j j r-rwmww W W "w'fS"sBjPSB Bjs ay p ss DO YOU KNOW .Where th world's apple-bearing , la grown In greatest profusion on belt' of land produces more .; found anywhere else on earth T , - Th Sunday journal. ' i. - ., DO YOU KNOW "Who Portland's most athletlo girl IsT She rides, plays tennis and -basketball, has sstonlshed the people by swimming the Willamette, and knows all the household- arts. Tou csn lesrn how she doe sll this In Th Sunday Journal. - J DO YOU KNOW That th wonders of ths old time are commonplace of th newT But on of th marvel till hold Ita place, and It I described and compared with things ws sll know by a clever writer In Ths Sun day Journal. ..",,''"..: v ' . '.' ' i -" V; ,'. DO. YOU KNOW . Thst th wonderful thing don by. so-called mind readers ar ' trlcksT - That mental 1 tlepathlat are nearly all fakers T If you don't know this, and ar interested In the matter, and car to know ..how th moat astonishing feat are accomplished, you , can get - some Interesting Information on the subject In The Sunday Journal. I eweefeeeeeiwefeeeeeeo4 - kT:t TWO SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO recently. : Along the bay ahore Coe Barnard Gets Two Years in Prison and Is Fined Two Thou :sand Dollars - Watson's Sentence Is Postponed Indefinitely and He ' Is Per mitted to Co on His Own Re- - cognizance -r- Hendflcks and Zachay Not Sentenced. ." ':-.-"" V:;v : :. '.' ''. I'1 f;'K . . . .... , ,, . -Cos D. Barnard, two years on Mc Neil's Island and a fin of, 11,000. Charles A,, Watson, sentence ended nltely postponed, bondsmen exonerated and defendant permitted to go on his own recognisance. . i - Hamilton H. Hendricks and Clarence B. Zachary, sentence postponed until after the . trial of th Illegal fencing case. . , ;-, - All four of the-land-fraud offender named were up for sentence this morning in th federal court. Watson had been convicted of perjury lsvoonneotlon with the final proof on his homestead claim In Wheeler county.' Barnard and Zach ary had perjured themselves In swearing that be had complied -with th home stead law. Hendricks bad been found guilty of aubornlng George W. Hawk to . commit perjury ' before a federal grand Jury. Each came Into court ex pecting to b sentenced. Three of the four had friends, three of the four were men of prominence In Wheeler county. and the newspaper announcement that punishment wae to b meted -out .to them drew a crowd that filled every seal and mad the aisles. Impassable., 5 ' - ' Sceaa la Courtroom. " Hendricks sat at the lawyer's table looking older and far less self-reliant than when he came down from Fossil to be , tried. On one side of him Sat his counsel. Judge Bennett, of Ths Dalles, on the other his wife and little daugh ter, sharing" single chair. . Further up th table was a little Master Hendricks . (Continued on Page Two.) SSFVSJBBSjeBrsyfwVVTTVw W son la? Where th king of fruit and with th largest profit? 'Why and better " apples, ' than can' be Tou can learn-all about this In ,' . , LAND FRAUD DEFENDANT SENTENCED -.11 PAGES. w "PRICE TWO is44&&. cluster the warehouaea and buaineaa HORSES DIE 1 AGONY IN LAM NORTH END; FIRE ,. w.'.i,. V .' ' ' ' .. '' 'sssBsaBnaBas.MSSMsaasas-sss...HMM.SMa ' ' ' ' Early Morning Conflagration Wipes Out Half Block; and DamagesQuirnby Hotel--Livery Stable Burns Many Have Narrow Escapes - . . . . . . ' Nineteen valuable horses and , four pure-bred dog, were burned to death In a fir which swept over more than half a block before dawn this morning and entirely consumed.lt business houses, as weU as materially damaging several others. Ths money loss may be 150.- 000. :.: : " - ..'-.I The fir, which destroyed th south ern half of ths block bounded by Fourth, Fifth, Burnsld end Couch streets, broke out about 1:10 o'clock, and for th first quarter of an hoar the wild- set esclteraent prevailed. Th Uvea of 150 people were seriously - endangered and ther were a - number of hair breadth escapes, as well as at least one heroic rescue. Tho screaming of dying horses snd the howling" of the dogs could be heard above the cries of women and the shouts of men, lending a terrl bieness to ths occasion such as has sel dom been known at a Portland Are,-. . , , - ratrolaan Saves Xdves. .- - Th entlr rear section of th State bakery, a two-atory structure, at the corner of Fifth and Burnslde. was a mass or flames, when one of the pro prietors, Matschlner Brothers, discov ered that his wif and baby were-still In the' bunding. Th - stalrwsys were Cut off, but without a moment' loss of time Policeman wenitnrf nlecen a lailHep agalnat ths side of ft he building, broke through a window, , found .the woman and. child and, with , the flames curling sll about him, reached th ladder again and bore the pair safely to ths ground. Wltneases of this, bit of heroism say that If Wendorf -had been .five seconds slower both himself snd his charges would have fallen a prey to th Or and smoke. . ..-v ', : i '. - U v ,,. . 1 . .. Quests Flee From Motel. The Hotel Qulmby. a. three-story building at . the corner of Fourth and Couch, was sttacked by the fire on the south side. There, were 100 persons la the hotel guests, employes , and alt, but sll were saved by the quick work of th proprietor. Charles Broock, and the clerk. Charles Surface,- ssaisted by ' Po licemen Price, - Wendorf, . Sergeant Cola and Jailer James Anderson. Broock and Surface went from door to door of the hotel, kicking lustily and shouting for ,th guests to- turn , out. When Surface reached th top floor th smoke was so thick that he was com pelled to crawl ott bis hands snd knees to save himself from being overcome. He did not. falter, however, and all ef th guests escaped with most of their effects. The Qulmby hotel ' was not burned down. Only about 11 feet of the south end was destroyed snd all of th south half waa badly damaged by water. Large quantities of water, aad an ad verse -wind -were all that saved the Qulmby. Dome bagsag on th ground floor was destroyed. v - mcae With BlfSesJty. ' Whit th guests wer rushing from ths Qulmby hotel in their night clothes and while Mr. Matschlner and her child was being saved by Patrolman Wendorf, little, scene ef -the eerto-comlo sort was being enacted at - th corner of Fourth end Burnslde. 1 On the second floor was sltusted Btrayer'a North End mission, an institution . for the tempo rary car of the temporarily Inebriated. Every night it was the habit of th In mates of this Institution to go out. Into the highways and bywsys and gather In th staggering apologies for. humanity, lead them to th mission and there car for thm for th Bight 1 . . . 1 CENTS. E&FlgPgZl section, while on the hilla above 7 , Last night th mission accommodated about 10 drunka. - Many ef them had been aaleep only a few hours and nearly all wer still in advanced f tagea of in toxication. When the cry of flr rang out these fuddle-brained ' men ' wer awakened and rescued only after some difficulty. ' j. 'i . , . Tire! ' Fire! Hie said one, sitting up and looking dully about him. Hlo I thought' Fd drunk all ths fir ther was,' then fell back and reeumed bis noting. . . t , " Some of the lost sheep wer not so badly Intoxicated a others, and th leas) Intoxicated helped th more Intoxicated. Somettmea th latter thought they wer helping th former. Wben they reached the street they presented a pitiful sight, bleary eyed and in, rags, some of them shouting snd others blubbering tears In a form of drunken hysteria. ' The mis erable creature wer rescued none to soon. Unttsd-hnTiiTlnn.h.. i..w hm... .h.u.rfn. about 15 occupants, stood midway la th block on Fifth street. The proprietor's nam la A. Lee Lewis. The building waa badly damaged, and man and his wife. whose names could not be learned, wer nearly. overcome by th smoke, Hart's) livery- stable, midway ef th block .on Fifth s treat, was. totally de stroyed, together with 10 -horses, 1 4 ' dogs snd about a, soor of buss snd business wagons. Ther were it horses In the stable.. Several were, loosed sad ran out themselves end .several wer led out..- Tho screaming of the burning ' horses . gave, a blood-curdling touch to ths horrors of the conflagration, which, wer greater on account of th darkness. ' Dr. C. .E. Brown, the 'veterinary, lost a fine pacing, mar for -which, he had ' only, a few '. daya . before refused . I0. Th . Flelschmau k Yeast company . . lost ' three horses. Dr. .Brooks' lost a hora. the Crystal Ice company lost . on, as (Continued on Pag Two.) TAKES 253 RAHLESl'-KES . 1:1 a feu cm Dealer Agreed to Pay' a Dollar ft ' Foot ' and Pargaln Would Have Bankrupted Him. (Jearaal Special SerrWs.l Denver, Aug. 18. Harry Davis, a Denvr rattlesnake dealer, I a sadder and wiser snd. poorer man today. lie offered to pay S. F. Acre, manager of the Currier ranch. It miles southe".t of Orectey. 11 a foot fr ail th I . rattlesnakes he would deliver to 1. Acre knew where hundred of t reptile mad their home on the rar '. and started to bag them. With the -latanc of a friend he rnntured i I snakes in a few hours. The r' had s combined tensth of 1.890 I making the Job worth II.540. "Acren eould hsve rsntured tv" -. many "more, but dwldod to . e what the Denver man st' latter admitted thst if Acre 1 to his bares In it would t they compromises at J 1