The Oregon daily journal., October 09, 1906, Image 1

The Journal Exceeids Its Portland Contemporaries in Circulation and Growth of Btisiness-They Do Not Like It-Can You Blame T
GOOD EVENING
Journal Circulation
THE WEATHER.
25,628
Yesterday
Was
Fair tonight; Wednesday increas
ing; doudineas, followed by snoopers
and cooler; south to east winds.
VOL. V. NO. 186.
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1906. SIXTEEN PAGES.
PRICE TWO CENTS.
FIRST AUTHENTIC PHOTOGRAPH OF, MURDERED MAN.
MURDER OF
UNABLE TO
LOAD SHIP
Force Issue and Lose
Because Stevedores
Refuse to Work on
the Docks
Order Ship Genevieve Molinos
Loaded at On o'Clook, but
Longshoremen Fall to Appear
on Scan and Work Is Unable
to Proceed. 1
this si
tmlaphoapd to Maaaffcr W. X. Scott of
bs ffttrnn'T floe tfcat he had tailed to
mOl a crew of. sorosioa kmgsbere
men. All plans for Baffin win; tka load
tsar ware thereafter immediately gim
np. Captain Brows proartaee to have a
' ape riaij to begin the leasing of tha
Mottoes ay f o'clock tomorrow monlsf.
S PoriluiKtjK axa.ln exporters discovered
today thst It la not a easy to find non
union stevedores as It la to get non
union grain handlers.
It was suddenly decided to force the
issue with the strikers and begin load
lac the French ahlp Genevieve Molinos
this afternoon at 1 o'clock. Brown &
MCab , the stevedoring firm, was no
tified to have s kany of atevodorea
ready to begin lauding the ship at that
Urns, but when 1 o'clock arrived pa
atevodorea were la eight.
: wptain of. Detective Brula and eight
ntcmbere of the police tores had bean
detalltd te iruord against violence at the
dock, but the squad of blueooAU found
nothing for. theru to do They ware not
evn given tha plaaAre of eeeing Inex
perienced men trying te Shunt the
wblsaing wheat Backs In the proper di
rection when they came Hying down the
chute 4o the bold.
The Genevieve Moliaoa haa bean lying
at the Oceanic dock for aeveral days,
butj until thla morning It waa not
thoXtght. even by the stevedoring firm,
that there would be an attempt to load
her before the flrat of next weak. The
British ship Allerton had been placed
flrat oa the Hat and the ahlp Nerledc
second- But Balfour, Guthrie Co. de
cided to force the laawe today and all
arrangenieffts were made to begin load
ins her at 1 o'clock all except the lit
tle deUil of finding the necessary labor.
i i
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POISONER IS SLOWLY DIG
Jane Toppan Starving Herself to Death Haunt
ed by Fear of Phantoms of Her Thirty ,
fine Victims and Tortured by Remorse
(Jssiasl Special Sereies.)
Tension. Maes. Oct . A wrack of
the smiling, bumtm New England nurse
af four yeera.ego. when aba was ad-
Judged maaaeV Jane Toppan, poisoner of
tl hiiasan beings. Ilea at the point of
Taunton Insane asylum.
ef starvation and the fear
as of her victims, born
id tortured by her Bor-
paat.
for the flrat time since the notorious
poisoner waa committed to tha asylum
the official seal of silence waa broken
today, when Dr. John P. Brown, head
of the Institution, made a atalement
through his assistant. Or. Goes. He
eatd:
'During the last year Jane Toppan
haa failed. From a healthy woman she
haa faded to a mere skeleton. Her
weight la now little more than 60 pounds
and death may come at any time She
I troubled with hallucinations and re
fuses food, so that are have to resort to
artificial feeding. There fca no hope for
her,"
Jane Toppan la dying a alow death of
aelf-atarvstlon. under the delusion that
death la the
aba u earing
ADOLPH WEBER'S WILL
LEAVES ALL PROPERTY
MOTHER'S
Mearaal Special Servant.)
Auburn. Cel., Oat . Fred S. Stevens
has Bled a petition In the superior court
far the probate of the will of Adolph
Weber, murderer of hts father, mother,
brother aad etater, who waa executed
at Folsora state prison oa September
tt.
The petition states that tha value of
the estate la $1,700. which Includes the
old Weber home, which Weber gave to
Fred rteohenmake during hie confine
ment here The estate waa originally
worth something over $70,000. Weber
deeded a small piece of property some
Urns ago to Mlee Frances Snowdea, a
Executive Gives Notice
That Chineso-Cannot
Guard Fantan Games
fn That Fashion
They Interfere With the Fir De
partment and Would Endanger
Live in Caa of Fire, He Says,
and Then Smiles in Knowing
Manner.
"No iron doors." aaya Mayer Lane te
the proprietors of the fantan games In
Chinatown.
This mean there will be no game
The mayor hasn't forbidden fantan.
Me haa simply decreed that the doors
shall no longer exlat a menace to the
Uvea of the. people Inside the buildings
and a an obstruction to firemen in oaae
of fire.
And without the doora there can be no
fantan.
Learning that the managers of to-odd
fantan Joints along Second street were
urenarlne for the season a ran of gam
bling. tha mayor, a few daya ago. asked
the police to see Juat what was being
done. .A report -was made to him that
the Chinese froth the canftVrleS along
the coast had not yet arrived la Port
land. These men. each with hie ' sack
of summer's earnings, are the victims
that walk Into the aet of their wily
countrymen who run the fantaa games
As tha. crop of "good things- ween' 1 1
ripe the 1osb gamblers were patiently
waiting.
. Ja the meantime they had cons ti muted
Iron-bound doors in the passageways
leading to the game layouts.
Therefore the mayor called upon Fire
Chief Campbell. Fire Marshal Robert
and Building Inspector Spencer to make
an Investigation. Their report haa Just
beo filed with the mayor, In part as
follows:
"A thorough Inspection was made of
! Joints along Second street. In the
neighborhood of te Iron-bound and
heavily barricaded doors exist In these
places. In two places heavy Iran grat
ings have been placed beneath skylights,
and In a third the street windows are
guarded by heavy Iran bars.
The hallways leading te the street
doors are very narrow and crooked
(Continued on Pass Two.)
her food la poisoned She persistently
refuses food, while suffering all the
tortures of a ravenous hunger which the
foroed artificial feeding to which she Is
subjected only stimulates. No dish her
keepers prepare can induce the prisoner
to taste It; and so she alts today, at
last face te face with her Nemesis, hag
gard and emaciated beyond recognition
Of her former self.
A perfectly normal and natural wom
an, mentally, physically and. apparently,
morally (for her beat friends never
dreamed of such a thing, though her
crlmee cover a period of 20 years), Jane
Toppan's outwardly placid life waa tern
Witb one great and secret and insatiable
passion the alow murder by poison of
those whom she loved beet. With the
exception of her foster sister afll of her
victims were either her patients or the
families of her natlenta. la her minis
trations about their sick bade aha in
variably grew fond of all her patients.
When the fondness reached the stage of
a deeper affection aha adopted the vary
paradoxical method1 of dosing them with
deleterious drugs to Impede their prog
ress toward speedy recovery.
cousin, and the rest baa been expended
In hla defence Following la a copy of
tka will, which la all written in Weber's
handwriting:
"Auburn. Cel.. July I, 1S4. I. Adolph
Weber, do hereby bequeath aad devlae
to Mrs. W. P. Scott of SoulsbyvUle.
Tuolumne county, California, all mr ae
tata, both real and personal, and I here
by revoke all former wills made by nee.
I appoint Fred S. Stevens my executor.
(Signed.) "ADOLPH WEBER
Mrs. Scott la an atmt of Weber, being
the sister of his mother. She visited
him lp the county Jail here about tha
time the wiU la dated.
' asj Bkv
jffl ak
W gomes
Leonard Bell, Snyder's Companion in Prison, Who Was With Him at
HiUsboro Shortly Before the Robbery of the Forest Grove Bank.
LONE BANDIT HOLDS UP AUIO
Daring Robbery of Motor Car by Highway
man Who Signals With Red Light and
Whacks Driver Over the Head
(Jonraat sheets! Sarriee.i
San Joae. Opt. f. The police of this
city received by telephone early thla
morning Information of a daring rob
bery of an automobile party by a single
highwayman on a country road near
Mountain View at midnight. The vic
tims of the bandit are believed to be Sea
Francisco men. although their names
or the number of their machine are not
yet known.
One of the men. who waa driving the
oar. waa beaten Into unconsciousness by
the robber who. after relieving the oc
cupants of the automobile of their valu
ables, made hla escape In the daakaess.
bile, which waa en root from San Fran-
ut c- n . . ... ... -
proached Mountain View, which la about
four miles thla aide of Palo Alto, a man
appeared in the road, frantically wav
ing a red light. Believing there was a
dangerous place In the road, and that
the man waa placed there to warn pee
aersby, the chauffeur brought the ma
Sloop Gjoa in Which Captain Amundsen Mads His F
wk ""'
chine to a atop. The man with the red
light approached the machine on the
right aide, and without warning struck
tha driver a heavy blow upon the bead
with a piece of pipe. The chauffeur was
rendered unconscious. The bandit then
demanded the money and valuables of
.those In the ear, and when he had re
ceived these he' disappeared into the
darkness of the surrounding country.
The chauffeur remained unconscious,
and the other two men. Ignorant of the
working of the machine, were hejnleaa
until a second automobile came along.
One of the occupants replaced the In
jured chauffeur and the car proceeded
on to San Joae. At Mountain View the
holdup waa reported te the police, aad
the information was telephoned oa to
San Joae.
(Josrael Special Herrles.)
St. l.ouia. Oct. t. The national con
vention of advertising men began a
three daya aaaalon today at the Plant
era' hotel
Voyage Through
- :
iws
Nome is
Carey If. Sjmder, When Arrested in
Kansas City for Highway Robbery
Three Years Ago.
STRIKERS ARE
INDIGNANT AT
EVENING PAPER
Condemn Sheet Which Printed
Sensational Fak Story of
Finding of Infernal Machine
and Alleged Attempt on Part
of Strikers to Blow Up Dock.
Portland union man In general and
the striking gralnhandlers In particular
are extremely Indignant today over an
attempt of a local evening newspaper to
fasten upon them the character of an
archists and bomb-throwers. In s flar
ing headline which reached across the
whole front page it waa announced yes
terday that electric bomb appliances
had been found by the police. In the
paragraphs which followed It waa al
leged that the police had found evi
dence which they believed revealed a
plot to blow up ahlps or docks. Ac
cording te the story, a striker bad made
a sensational escape from a saloon after
accidentally dropping a bundle which
waa afterward found to contain parts of
a horrible deeth-and-deet ruction -dealing
Infernal machine. -
The story waa a rank fake. The facts
are these: Lata last Sunday night a
working-man left a small bundle in the
toilet-room of a saloon run by Frank
Maya. The bartender found the bun
dle and telephoned the fact to the po
lice atation. Sergeant Jones happened
to be there. He walked down to the aa
loon and took possession of the bundle,
which was found to contain two articles
of apparel well known to workmen In
tha building trades. One waa a pro
tection for the knee and the other was
a protection for the stomach. , They
were made of ordinary tan denim and.
Instead of strings, pieces of wire were
used to fasten them to the body. Ab
solutely nothing more waa found in the
bundle, and there was aboslutely no
further evidence of any kind pointing
to a plot oa the part of anyone to blow
(Continued on Page Two.)
ths Northwest
Paaaage. City of
Officials Think They
Can Do It With Aid of
Mrs. Snyder and Kan
sas City Police
Allege That They Have Sur
rounded George Perry. Cousin
of Murdered Man, With Net of
Direct and Convincing Evi
dence. With the aid of Kansas City officers
snd Mrs. Mads Snyder, ' widow of Carey
M. Snyder, whose body waa found near
Hlllsboro last Monday, officials of
Washington county believe they are
about to solve the mystery connected
with the Forest Grove bank robbery and
the subsequent murder of Snyder.
In ferreting out the details of tha
Crimea tbey claim to have surrounded
George Perry, Snyder's cousin, with a
Set of evidence ao direct and convicting
that a warrant for hla arrest may be
laaued at any time. Parry waa living
at Snyder'a home at the time of the
bank robbery snd. iHaappssislirKi of
Snyder and ahared nls confidence as well
aa hla hospitality.
From Kansas City it waa learned to
day that on his return there Perry had
$i,ee ip. cash la hie possession. He
also had soma mineral samples which
be slelmefl to have purchased la Colo
rado. The aum of $,000 waa secured
by those who looted the Forest Grove
bank aad detectives declare that the
crime waa committed by two men, who
divided the booty.
It waa because of his attempt to "de
clare himself In" on the plunder that
Snyder met his death, officers declare
They are convinced that Snyder and his
wife had taken part in the original plans
of the robbery and have reason to be
lieve that Snyder waa "double crossed"
by the two men who successfully exe
cuted the daring plan -
Watt Knows to Folios.
Perry la well known to the police of
Kansas City. He waa once arrested with
Snyder on the charge of highway rob
bery, but waa acquitted. He apent aev
eral weeks at the. Snyder home during
the fall nf 1805. and with him wee a
brother of Mrs. Snyder. Snyder's
brother-in-law was known by the name
... i (Continued ea Page Two.)
SOUTHERN STORM HAS EFFECT
Causes Timber Operators to Withdraw From1
Oregon Development Fields With Their
Money and Save Southern Pine
The southern tornado la having unfa
vorable effects on Pacific northwest
timber In the earns degree that the San
Francisco earthquake affected the Port
land real estate market. From $4,000,
ooo to 15.000.000 that waa ready a week
ago for Investment In Ore gun timber
haa suddenly been withdrawn from the
Investment market by rich timber
owners who are heavy losers by the
southern storm
Southern pine, once down, rots quick
ly, and the only way to save It is to
Immediately tog out and saw it Into
lumber. This method will be adopted
by the owners of vast traces of yellow
pine that were laid flat on the ground
by the tomsdo in Louisiana and Mississippi-
Portable sawmills will be
rushed into the woods aad the Umber
will be aawad and shipped. The result
will, it Is said, be heavy overproduc
tion, a slutted market aad prices will
So to pot.
The storm struck a region along the
Mobile Ohio and the Gulf Ship
island railroads. In Harrison. Marion.
Green, Pike Washington. St. Tammany
and Tangipahoa parishes. Reports are
HOT SPRINGS PEOPLE
END PORTY YEARS OP
GAMBLING AT RESORT
J
Memphis,
of gsmbllng
Oct
to I
.Forty years
spectacular end
In Hot
today when
the City Imi
fnt
union of $S0 cltl-
.loaed 30
and gave
a battalion of gamesters a apecsfied time
te leave the city The assanar la which
gamblers were literally drammed out of
towa waa nassttfal la Che extreme
ni aguated ay aaeuaaad neglect of
their duty by the sworn oStoars of the
law By vSaasutlisa at the waken last
night tasasad a teal warning, bath
receloitraat eAetols end to the
that the rooms meat ha
alee, He sea waa paid to the wi
to I wem
Political Offenders to
Be Freed Tomorrow.
Builders Refused Ac
cess to Dynamite
Captain Jo Marti of the Cubarj
Artillery Mad Aid to Governor
of Island Explosives to B
Kept Under Government 8u
pervision.
(Jearaal fa I els!
Havana, Oct. . Secretary Taft prost
eiaimaq amnesty to an political
ers In Cuba to go is to erred
the thirty-eighth anniversary of
first bloodshed la Cuba's ten years wafll'
of Independence.
Siiiisaaij Taft haa ordered all TMSaSM
era aad miners to be refused aoaaaa tayi
their stocks of explosives, whtok
be kept under government sup
until ths Island is policed and all daa
of tricky Cubans using the exploel
for reborn owe purposes averted,
announced that he would appoint
tain torn Marti of the Cuban arts
hla aide.
The governors of all
oepting Santa Clara, report that the die'
bandment of both volunteers and Inaaie
gents Is complete, and Santa Cure re
porta good progress. These reports are
confirmed by messages to marine head
quarter s.
A It hough the American commission-
ers will leave Cuba this week, napaj
McCoy, the military aide to ths gov
ernor, will remain for another week to
familiarise Governor Magoon with the
situation.
The arrival of General jr. Franklin
Bell la awaited before the beginning of
the distribution of the troops.
OFFICERS BLAMED FOR
MUTINIES IN RUSSIA
(Joaraal Special
t Petersburg. Oct f. The commis
sions Investigating tha mutinies aft
Sveaborg and Kronstadt report that the"
uprisings were the result of tha Ineffi
ciency of the officers. There win bet'
wholesale cou rtmart lale. The men wear
ers of St. George's cross are found dla-i
loyal. Colonel Semanovakl will be trie!
on cnarges or tax aiacipnne of the
toff grenadiers, which he command a.
that on whole aectlona of yellow rrtnss
timber not a tree la left standing- ThSf
region is easily accessible to the Chi
cago market, and to gulf porta for ear
pert trade. Mllll mn that were to hare'
been invested in Oregon timber will be
held back, and a large amount of moneyi
Will be need to save the miles of fella'
timber.
John Blodgett. One of the wealthiest
tlmbermen in the south, waa a guaMk,
at the Portland hotel when the as say
came that he had bees hard hit by thai
southern cyclone. He dropped severs,
large timber deals here and departs'
the following day xor Louisiana. Greggv
Luce of Mobile, another large holder of.
southern timber, who had negotiations
under way for Oregon fir. toft for home
to make an effort to gave tsmspal tias
ber. His foremx.i wired that six parte
able mills had been optioned aad weep
ready to move into the track of the eye
etone.
Victor Thrane. of J. IX Laeey Oa
Chicago and New Orleans, left Port.
land last night for Seattle. It la
(Continued ea Fas Twe.)
and today the entire
of the
union, headed by a braes
to the city hall, police
court house and forced tl
and eity officiate to rat
lag along
arly.
To
to see thai It was i
the roll af drama sue
gamelere
in the union StatlOw M
I the fi I n .
Five head