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VOL. V. NO. 174.
PORTLAND. OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 88. 1906 FOURTEEN PAGES.
PRICE TWO CENTS. Ann'SS
HEARST'S NOMINATION SEEMS CERTAINTY
BOOM FOR
PUBLISHER
STRONGEST
Murphy and Tammany
Out for Journalist
and Albany Swings
" a I
into Line Also
Old Line Democrats Rally
Around Jerome's Standard for
Finish Fight Short Session
Held Today Effort to Shut
Out Bryan Resolutions.
(Journal 8wLl SMlee.
Buffalo, Sept. 25. The Democratic
atate convention waa called to order at
noon In order to nominate a full atate
ticket. Iewla Nixon, for a abort time
leader of Tammany hall, waa made tem
porary chairman, being agreed upon by
all factions.
This morning's neamion of the con-
Yfntion laated JO minutes. It waa ener
getic, but not enthusiastic. All the
energy waa atored for the big fight
tomorrow which has develjpc I Into1 a
contest between Hearst and Jerome. Old
line Democrats have swung around to
Jerome and are going to fight Hearst to
the limit. .The new chairman of the
atate committee will be either Pat Me
A bee of Albany c WUllam Connors of
Krle. , . . ilsTx!
Kearst Boom anrong.
All night And this morning the hit
Car fight owing waged between Hearst
supporters and the anti-Hearst men
raged with no prospect of peace. Hearst
aeema to hare the upper hand and his
up-state friends, with Murphy, to be in
control of th" convention.
The Hearst boom was stronger ' than
ever whan the convention convened.
(Cont'i
nued on Page Two.)
COLONIST TRAVEL IS HEAVY
Railroad Officials Say Records of Previous
Years Are Broken by Traffic From East
ern Points to Oregon and Idaho
Returns from the sale of tickets In
the 10(1 colonist movement which began
with the first of September are being
received by the general passenger offtco
of the O. It N. Co. The figures show
that colonist travel from the eastern
states to Oregon Is about 100 per vent
heavier than for the asm weeks of the
colonist movement last year. There is
also a tremendous increase in first-class
travel over ail previous years excepting
the exposition season,
i New people to reside In Oregon are
arriving via the Union Pacific system
at the rate of more than lit daily, and
the volume Is Increasing every week.
It Is believed that for the 00-day period
in which the low rates from the east
apply, there will be upward of 10,000
Veople brought to Oregon and Idaho by
the I'nlon Pacific system alone, besides
several, thousand who wlH come through
by the Hill roads. The Northern Pacific
colonist travel thla fall Is said to he
heavier than at any previous time In Its
history, and the Increase over last year
Is estimated to be at least SI per cent.
No actual figures have yet been com
piled showing the ticket receipts.
MRS. ASTOR FEARS POISONING PLOTS
Leader of New York's Smart Set Suffers From Hallucinations
and Delusions -Evidently Breaking Down Mentally
Has House Surrounded by Watchmen.
rjoarnil special Service.)
.Newport. R. t, Sept. S6 Mrs. Wlll
taan Astor, leader of the four hundred,
who ems brought here 111 a week ago
laat Saturday from Boston. Is In, a seri
ous condition. She Is constantly watched
aver night and day by trained nurses,
her daudjlter and woman companion
and servants, and even the outside of
I the home Is guarded by a watchman
pn account of a hallucination from
which she suffers.
Mrs. Astor fears kidnaping and
poisoning plots, and while under de
lusions will not leave the house un
less attended by her daughter, Mrs
Rats;, her companion. Miss Slmrock, and
Hade, her personal servant. She also
insists upon her nurses end servants
tasting all food brought to her before
she will consent to eat it, for. faar
she will be poisoned.
The vagaries of Mrs. Astor In her
present mental state have caused much
WARSHIPS
AND TROOPS
SENT CUBA
PresidentOrders 1,000
Marines and More
Battleships to Go to
Restore Quiet
Taft Discouraged Over Palma's
Refusal to Agree Upon Terms
Arranged With Rebels and
Convinced That Troops Should
Be Ready for Emergency.
Jearaal Special Barrier.)
Washington. Sept. 26. Upon the re
quest of Secretary Taft, the president
has ordered more ships and 1,000 more
marines to be' sent to Cuba.
All marines now aboard the North
Atlantic fleet of battleships, numbering
450, are ordered to leave for Cuba, im
mediately. 8U hundred from the At
lantic coast stations will follow in a
few days. It is intimated that Sacra
tary Taft nas warned the president that
hla mission Is likely to fall. Small
ships are scarce, so it ia likely the bat
tleships will hive to go.
The war department waa in close
communication with Oyster Bay this
moraine and It la believed the preat
dent haa ordered the department to
have the troops ready for emergency
The- 'battleship Texair emd ' OUwsfs
Brooklyn and Prairie will go to Cuba
and the Columbia win also probably
go upon her return from Panama with
Secretary Root.
Reports from Havana state that Taft
la discouraged owing to the reported re
fusal of President Pslma to agree upon
the terms that Taft arranged yesterday
with the rebels. There la trouble In
Havana over the nailing of new elec-
( Continued on Page Two.)
The sale of colonist tickets in the
east began August 27. and will con
tinue to October. SI. The people began
arriving In Oregon the first week In
September. From the first week's re
port the Increase was rspjd and It Is
now seen that the influx of settlers will
be enormous. The O. B. N. records
for the two weeks ending September
16 show an Increase of mere than St
per cent for each week over the preced
ing week, and thla ,ratto of Increase Is
said to have kept up. The figures for
the two weeks named showed that
1,27 colonists arrived.
Potrland got tSS. points south of
Portland. 140; Hood River. 16; The
Dalles, 13; Biggs, 4: Echo, I; Pendleton.
26; IaOrande. S; Elgin, 7; Union, S;
Baker City. SI; Milton, 7; Walla Walla,
16; Dayton.' I; Pomeroy, t- Astoria. S;
Arlington, S; Heppner, la Rlparla, 1;
Lewlaton. 1: Colfax. 6: PuBman, 6: Wi
nona. 1; Oakdale, 1;' Moscow, 6; Farm
Ington. 2; Tekoa, 2; Wardner, 6; Wal
lace. 20; Fairfield. S; Mosler. . Shanlko,
1. There were in the same period 111
(Continued on Page Three.)
than unBuly excite her by opposing her
wishes, She Is hunrbred In them until
she either forgets her plana or la satis
fied that her Instructions have been
obeyed.
Only a couple evenings past Mrs.
Astor conceived the Idea that It was
necessary for her to go to New Tork
Immediately on Important business, and.
when she would not yield to persuasion
to postpone the trip a closed carriage
was ordered, and with her daughter,
Mlaa Slmrock and a iraln mi.
Hade on the box seat with the coach
man, airs. Astor wss driven from her
home, ostensibly to go to the railroad
station. - .
Instead, the carriage was driven
Nbnut the streets of' Newport for two
hours and then back to Beechwood. her
magnificent 'aetata on Bellevue avenue.
Mrs. Astor hart forgotten her nlan fns
going to New Tork and was well sat
isfied with the drive.
THE
Kriyr ti ret us mw m-
Bang! Bang)
Business Men Would Prove Oregonian a Traitor
"LET US TAKE CENSUS" THEY SAY
RUSSIAN PATRIOT
SENDS DYNAMITE
BOMB TO SCHIFF
Revenge for Helping Czar in
Financial Matters Cause of
Attempted Outrage Boy
Finds Package Which Was
Sent Through Mail.
UJearaal Speatal Service.)
Philadelphia. Sept. SS.A very practi
cal and deadly Infernal maohtne -sent by
Russian patriots, so the secret service
people say. to Jacob Bchlff of the firm
of Kuhn. Loeb A Co. of New York In re
venge for loans msde by that Arm to the
Russian government, wss seised last
night by a police Inspector.
The. cupidity or a negro Doy, iavia
Campbell, who saw the package lying
under a letter-box at Chestnut hill,
where a few minutes before a foreign
looking man had left ft, properly ad
dressed and stamped, led to the dis
covery of the plot.
me ooy suppea in, ('kk uuuvr
his arm as soon as the man had dis
appeared and ran away with It to hla
home. There his mother removed the
covering and saw a few grains of powder
inside. She quickly took the box to
Superintendent Knight of the Chestnut
Hill poe toffies.
Knight, his suspicions aroused by
the appearance of the package ad
dressed to such -a man as -Schlff. In
the handa of a negress, cut .A hole In
the bottom of the box. Powder fell out
and Knight rushing to the telephone.
called oneafter another the secret serv-'
Ice. the postoffl.ee inspectors and the
central police.' All responded and the
box was taken to headquarters, im
mersed In water and opened.
Death-dealing guncntton. powder.
hamf-molded slugs and buckshot msde
up the Innocent little oblong box which
It was then discovered had been sent
under the guise of a "Hebrew New
Tsars Greeting." The mechanism of
the engine of destruction wss con
structed with such cunning that a single
pall at a tempting string' which was
tied around the box would have ex
ploded ' the powder Inside, scattering
slugs and shot and killed Inatantly the
owner.
That It was the deliberate attempt of
some Russian enarchlsr to kill the New
Tork banker the postal Inspectors and
secret service men who are hot oil the
trail aa 'la absolutely serial.
OLD VILLAGE BLACKSMITH
Bang! docs the Hunrner on
WOULD REVEAL
TRUE FIGURES
Proposal to Take Independent
Census Meets With Instant
' and Popular Approval.
"Let the business men of Portland,.
the various commercial organisations
and every; one who takes an Interest in
the city combine and take an accurate
and complete census of Portland's popu
lation. Is the suggestion of D. Cham
bers, optometrist, 1S9 Seventh atreet.
Tho proposal has met with hearty and
Instantaneous encouragement on the part
of business men and residents of Port
land generally. In that way a fair and
Impartial census can be taken. It Is
claimed, and an further controversy as
to the number of inhabitants of Portland
may be avoided.
Tb editorial In the Oregonian esti
mating this city's population at 120,000
Is the severest knock Portland! has ever
received. In the opinion of Mr. Cham
bers. It destroys whatever beneficial
effects the extensive and expensive ad
vertising by the various commercial or
ganisations may ' have accomplished, he
believes.
"In order to determine accurately and
Anally what the actual population of
Portland Is, I think It would be a good
Idea if a canvass were made by the
bualneas me," he said. "Every one
who takes an lntereat In the city would
aid In every way possible to obtain tb
correct figures and the conclusion would
bo accepted not only by Portland ene
mies, but by the world.
"It Is a serious blow to Portland that
one of her newspapers should place
auch an estimate on her population.
Newspapers are generally supposed to
"boost' the cltfos in which they ere
published, and such an article will be
sersed upon by those who are trying to
knock' Portland.
; "They will' argue, and plausibly, tbst
If 4 newspaper dorrn't claim any more
than 120,000 the city certainly hasn't
that large a population. But the most
casual observer would estimate Urn
city's population at nearer 600,000 than
At those figures. The cost of such a
canvass as I suggest would not be
large, and indeed would be trivial com
pared with the results."
Business Men indorse Is.
Mr. Chambers' proposal haa been gen
erally Indorsed by business men of
Portland, who reset the mud bath
gIVen the city by the editorial of Its
traitor newspaper. Such misrepresen
tations, they declare, have done the
elty irreparable damage.
Indicating the wonderful growth of
thd city snd ths wilful misrepresenta
tlona of the Oregonian the receipts of
the elty water department sre cited In
the
(Continued on PSmo Two.)
SHOP.
Anvil.
FAT ACTRESS TO
BECOME COUSIN
TO THE KAISER
Prince Joachim, of Prussia to Wed
Marie Sulzer, a Stout and Far
From Pretty Variety 8tar
Emperor Is Furious Over Match
and Will Punish Relative.
(Joersal SDsetal service.)
Berlin, Sept. SB. A stout variety act
ress, who has been playing minor roles
in a cheap theatre here, fa to become a
cousin of the kaiser. Her name la
Marie Sulser and her fiance la Prince
Joachim of Prussia, second son of the
late Prince Albrecht. who died on Sep
tember IS of thla year.
Frmuleln Sulser Is 40 years of age.
extremely corpulent, and has a divorced
husband living. She Is one of the
heavyweight Women of the German
stage. Those who have seen her say
that she Is on the verge of positive
homeliness. . It Is hardly necessary to
say that the kaiser Is furious over tho
prospect of the marriage and la threat
ening all sorts of vengeance on the
head of tho couple.
Of course. Prince Joachim will be
banished from military and court cir
cles and will sacrifice much In the way
of money, still ho will have enough left
from his Inheritance to struggle along
on. First or ail he ia major in the
Grenadier guards, one of the crack mil
itary regiments of the German army.
This he will have to give up when he
weds, snd then all his court honors will
be - stripped from him without cere
mony. His father, late Prince Albrecht. In
an attempt to break off the match, of
which he knew before his death, re
duced Joachim's Inheritance to the
minimum under the law fixing tho
amount a son must receive. Conse
quently, the young man will receive
only $4,000,000 Instead of S,000.000.
MANCHURIA LIBEL
SUIT DISCONTINUED
I Jo rail Ssielal Servlet.)
Honolulu. Sept. SS The Manchuria
libel suit Is discontinued. The steam
ship company agreed to settle with the
owners of taw cabiesnlp Restorer at
New Tork.
PRINEVILLE
STOCKMAN
MURDERED
B. F. Zell Shot Down by
A. Shepard, Employe,
Who Is Placed Un
der Arrest
Assassin Arouses Rancher From
Bed, Calls to His Wife to As
sist Him in Tying Her Hus
band, Then Emptiee Win
chester Into Fleeing Man.
(fecial Dispatch to The Journal.)
Prlnevllle. Or.. Sept. 15. B. F. Zell,
40 years of age, one of the most promi
nent and respected stockralsers In this
locality, wa murdered yesterday morn
ing at 6 o'clock at his ranch, SO mllea
southeast of here, by A. Shepard, one of
his farm employes for several months
past.
Shepard was aleeplng In a barn near
the Zell house, and at an early hour
yesterday morning arose and went to
the house occupied by Zell and hla wife,
with a Winchester rifle and some rope.
Zell and his wife were in bed at the
Asks Wife to
to f
medlstely jumped
After gaining entrance
a band Zell Im
Torn bed and in some way made his es
cape from the room Into the yard, run
ning toward the barn, with Shepard In
close pursuit, firing repeatedly. Zell
ran through the barn, when Shepard
fired the fatal shot, hitting him In tho
back, death following Instantly.
Shepard was brought to Prlnevllle snd
lodged In tho county Jail by Sheriff Kl
klns. He at first maintained his lnno-
(Contlnued on Pago Three.)
MORE
Situation Worse in Atlanta Over a Thousand
Colored Men Under Arrest Governor
Orders More Troops Into the Field
(Journal Special Berries.)
Atlanta, Qa, Sept. SS. The situation
at Brownsville seems to be growing
worse. It was expected that martial
law would bo proclaimed before night.
The governor has been petitioned to
order out additional troops to assist In
maintaining order. He will send mors
troops, but will not declare martial
law.
Two negro prisoners at Brownsville
while trying to escape this morning
were killed An hour later a bicycle
patrolman waa attacked by negroes,
who were barricaded. The officer killed
two of them and tho rest fled.
All students of the Gammon negro
seminary at Brownsville wore arrested
this morning charged with complicity
in the sttacks on the officers In South
Atlanta last night when Patrolman
James I,. Heard was killed and half a
doxen other officers wounded. A num
ber of negroes were killed In the mid
night battle with policemen.
Sheriff Nalrns, realising that the
30 LASHES AND 50
Negro Receives Swiftest Sentence Ever Given by Delaware Court
Whipped With Cat-o-Nine-Taila Before a Vast
Crowd Until Skin Is Cut Open.
(pedal Iilipatch to Tke SenrasL)
Wilmington. Del.. Bopt. . Charles
Conleythaa paid partially the swiftest
sentence ever given-In a Delaware court.
Tho part he has not fulfilled he will
have 10 years to think shout, for Con-
lay. a big burly negro, eras sentenced
by Chief Justice Lore not only to 10
years' Imprisonment, but was given an
additional sentence of SO lashea on the
bare back with a cat-o-nine-tails.
Conloy's capture and sentence will go
On record as tho swiftest administra
tion of Delaware justice. As Mrs. Al
bert Kranklsh. a white woman, and her
daughter were returning from a farm
er's picnic near here they were attacked
by Conley. The negro attempted a
felonious aaaault on Mrs. Franklah. hut
before accomplishing his foul design
he. waa alarmed by the daughter s cries
and
Tl
at
HERRIN MAY
ATTEIflPI to
BOSS STATE
Whispered That Harri
man's Manipulator of
Political Interests Will
Get Busy in Oregon
May Do in Oregon What He Haa
Done in California in Way of
Lining Up Politicians on Behalf
Qf the Southern Pacific Rail
road. When will William F. Herrln. polit
ical manipulator for the ' Southern Pa
cific company in California, extend that
scope of his peculiar work to Oregon?
That, ho Is going tp take a hand in af
fairs up thla way Is doomed certain by
those politicians who always welcome
snythlng that makes a noise like a cor
poration. Herrln has gone to New Tork
to confer with E. H. Harrlman. and it
is stated on good authority that when
ho returns he will have full power to
do politico for tho Harrlman linos not
only In California, but In Oregon, Ne
vada, Art sons, and New Mexico. Rail
road henchmen say the story ia about
" '
hoard In Oregon. I
right," and they ought to know.
granted that the toot
hlstle is soon to bo
the question naturally
arises): When is the new order of
things to go Into effect? Judging by
present conditions the answer is that
Herrln will begin his work immediately
on return. Otherwise, he will not be In
a position to "protect" the company's
Interests at the next session of tho legis
lature, which begins In January. Gov
ernor Chamberlain la now trying to
force the' railroads to comply with a
(Continued on Pago Three.)
troops here are Insufficient to preserve)
order, has sworn In SI0 deputies and
asked the governor for arma. and equip
ment. Soldiers stationed at Brownsville,
near the negro seminary, are arrestlnsT
every armed negro found. Two hun
dred snd seventy-five Were taken early
this morning and the police quarters
are packed. Over 1,000 are under arrest.
Troops are stationed at the hardware
stores with Instructions to kill any on
attempting to break In and steal arm.
Women have been provided with arms
and are determined to protest them
selves. The governor says that ho won't de
clare martial law and says that he will
sand enough troops to prevent further
trouble as fast as they can be mobilised,
but the civil authoritlea can and must
control. He refused arms to deputies
and said that after he had stopped tho
lynching he would punish the lynchers.
Solicitor-General Hill said he would
prosecute the lynchers to the full ex
tent of the law.
YEARS III PRISON
At 10 o'clock he ws Indicts.
Twenty minutes later he waa tried and
before noon was convicted and sentenoaf
to 10 years In tho state workhesMs soar
10 lashes.
He waa removed to the workhouse to
commence his Imprisonment, and on tho
regular day he received the SO lashes
on the bare back. The whipping at
tracted an enormous crowd, over S.MWV.
persons seeking admission to see the)
negro brute punished. lu only a fear
were sdmltted by the warden, and tmonfr
these were sums women, Mrs. PranktaSj
and her daughter being among iheea.
Conley took his 10 lashes
most prisoners do, bat
den. who la a friend
Mrs. rrankisn. took
making every one ef
ai o -nine
It la
rlsoner
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