The Oregon daily journal., October 24, 1906, Image 1

I JOURNAL AND THE JOURNAL IS WITH THE PEOPLE
VOL. V. NO. 199.
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24. 1908. FOURTEEN PAGES.
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DEEP GLOOM
PREVAILS ON
WATERFRONT
Chances for a Peaceful
Settlement of Grain
handlers' Strike Ajf
pear LessThan Before
Exporter' Uncompromising At
titude and Wanton Use of Fife,
arms by Strike-Breakers Cause
Strikers to Become Bitter To
ward Other Side,
The chance for arriving- at a peace
ful settlement of the gralnhandlers'
strike are gloomier -than ever today.
The uncompromising attitude of the
xportere on. the one hand and a wan
ton ute of firearm by the strikebreak
ers on the other have atlrred the bit
terneaa Into the striken' cap to the
dregs and there ta every reason to be
lieve that' the peace negotiations are at
an and. Tonight the gralnhandlers will
meet to decide whether to continue the
negotiations or to fight out their battle
to the last ditch.
The ultimatum of the strikers, pre
sented at yesterday morning's meeting
of the exporters, was turned down.
Late In the afternoon the exporters
held another meeting, at which they
made changes in the agreement and
sent It back to the gralnhandlers. The
amended agreement was considered this
morning by the executive board of the
Gralnhandlers' union and was anapt
mouaty rejected.
"I do not believe there Is a man In
the union who would be in favor f
ratifying the agreement aa It now
stands." said Business Agent Meiby
after the meeting. "If we signed It we
would be going hack to work under
worse conditions than we left. ' The
executive board Is ashamed to submit
It to the men. We cannot go back to
work without at least full recognition
of the union."
aveodlnnk PractHsny Unbreakable.
That the deadlock Is practically un
breakable ' la Indicated by a statement
made to The Journal this morning by
W. J. Burns, the spokesman of the Ex
porters' association.
"We consider the amended agreement
as our ultimatum. We will never agree
to unionising the weighers and sam
plers." Though the question of unionising
the weighers, samplers and machine
men Is the one upon which the locking
of horns occurs, a clause of the agree
ment that la even more distasteful to
(Continued on Page TWO.)
SNOW BLOCKADE
TIES UP TRAFFIC
IN THE ROCKIES
Eleven Hundred Passengers Alia
Snowbound in Colorado on
Rook Island All Union Pacific
Trains Unable to Move on Ac
count of Big Drifts.
(Journal "pedal Swvfee.)
Denver. Oct. 14. The Rock Island
railroad has sent a relief train bearing
food to 1,100 passengers snowbound on
three trains at Union, Colby and Oenoa.
There la plenty of coal and considerable
food Is aboard and the passengers are
in no danger. No freights are moving.
Bo uw plows are expected to open the
traffic soon.
All passenger trains on the Union
Pacific for two days have boon' tied up
at Cheyenne, Wyooalng. and Sidney. Ne
braska. HOC banks of snow have blown
over the tracks at those points and have
successfully resisted the efforts of the
snowplow. There Is no suffering
among the passengers. The blockade
will probably ha raised during the day.
The Burlington and the Colorado a
Southern toad are snowbound In east
ern Wyoming and western Nebraska.
Snow haa oaaaed falling In Colorado
and Wyoming. It covers the ground at
dspths varying from IS Inches to feet.
A gale la Mowing which Is drifting the
know badly. All railroad lines In the
two stataa are blockaded.
STREET RAILWAY TO
CARE FOR PEOPLE
resrsal apodal avrriev.l
Springfield. TIL, Oct. 14 The su
preme court today sustained the otty
ordinances of Chicago forcing the street
railways to furnish enough oars with
out overcrowding, maintaining a tem
perature of at least to degrees in the
cars and keeping the cars clean and
ventilated. The case , was brought to
ths supremo court on aa Injunction
grantaS by the circuit oouru
PRINCIPALS IN STRIKE
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Above Is W. J. Barns, publicity agent
of the exporters. Below is Russell
B. awll. attorney for the Grain-
' handlers.
GUM Jl TO DIE
FOR LAST TIME
FRIDAY NIGHT
Chinese of Portland Will Destroy
Evil Spirit in Streets of China
town No More After This Year
Feast of Spirits Occurs To
night. When Oum Jl. god of evil, expires
upon a flaming altar on Friday night
there will be aa. end of such heathen
celebrations In Portland. A decision to
that effect was reached Monday even
tag at a largely attended, meeting of
up-to-date orientals In Second street.
Tha weird, uncanny feature of the
annual harvest festival will not be
eliminated because local Celestials have
ceased to enjoy the frightful cremation
of the wicked god, but simply because,
as they -amy, "Him allee same harm
less." 80 rapid has been the growth of
American Influences! of Impious disbe
lief in the things that they have been
tautht for centuries that they no looser
fear tha anger of the grinning, black
visagod Aelty of evil.
But on Friday . night, the closing dt
the annual festivities. Oum Jl will
caaae to grin; red tongues or fire will
wrap themselves about him, licking the
gaudy plgroenta from hla wooden face
and he will die an Ignominious death, aa
he baa done each year for countless
Tonight there will be the feast of
spirits. All Chinatown haa prepared for
the occasion, and little rod lights will
burn at frequent Intervale along Sec
ond street from Yamhill to Pine street.
Beside the flaring tapers small quanti
ties of food will be placed to tempt the
Invisible spirits which hover In the
neighborhood.
The celebration or tne annual harvest
festival began yesterday. It will con
tinue with Its peculiar features until
Friday night when tha burning of Oum
Jl will be the sensational climax of the
performance. ,
On Monday night a meeting of (he
various tongs and companies which pre
nare for the annual celebration waa held
and the situation thoroughly discussed
by many prominent Chinamen. The
sum of II, 000 Is usually raised for the
purpose of defraying the expenses of
the celebration. At Monday night's
meeting, however, only half that amount
waa sjbsc! ibed. many refusing absolute
ly to contribute at all. it was general
ly agreed that the money was wasted
and that the celebration te a foolish,
uaeleas one.
Oam Jl not velly bllg man any
more." they aaw.
And Secaueo they no longer fear the
little god of evil they have decided to
expend no more money In appeasing hla
wrath. -
Objects to Oelrleh Win.
(Jnaresl Special Ssrvtcs.)
New Tor. Oct. Mrs, Herman
Oetrichs today riled objection, to the
probating of her husband's will here
on the. grounds that Oelrtoha waa a
resident of California.
TRUSTS FLY
TO
FOR SAFETY
Beef Trust Follows Ex
ample of Standard
Oil in. Becoming a
British Company
Sponsors Feel Superiority to
American Courts and Hereafter
Will Bring Casee Into Foreign
Jurisdictions Government
Watching Moves in Progress.
(Journal Special Service.)
Washington, Oct. 24. It Is given out
that the department of Justice has an
eye on a movement to organise an Eng
lish holding concern to own the Ameri
can beef truet and that it Is prepared
to make a fight on the scheme from the
beginning. The move Is taken seriously
here, for the reason that circumstantial
evidence haa been received from Chi
cago concerning the plana of the beef
magnates. Secretary Wilson gave ex
presslon that la representative of the
administration when he said today:
"My only InformaUon about the mat
ter Is from the newspapers. But we
have a bureau of corpora tiona especially
charged wrfh looking Into matters of
this kind : we have a department or jus
Mce, whose machinery la designed to be
used in Just such cases; we have our
own attorney-general to talk to the
grand Juries; we have a grand Jury to
listen and Indict: we have pew jurors
and we have penitentiaries. I don't
think I have anythlns more te say.
The trial of the Standard Oil- at Find
lay revealed the fact that the oil trust
had organised In England with the evi
dent Intention of avoiding penalties pro
vided Tor law-breaking American cor
porations In the United States. It la
evident that the beef truet is contem
plating a similar move.
BID en Situation.
Regarding the move of the Rocke
feller company, Judge James B. Dill,
author of "Dill on Corporations," framer
of the charters of more than 70S trusts,
who sacrificed a lucrative practice to
accept a 11,600 a year Judgeship be
cause he was sick of corporation crook
edness, says:
"Standard OH at mat shows that Its
sponsors think they sre superior to the
supreme court of the United States.
Hereafter the legal elds of the trust
question promisee to be carried to Eng
lish rather than national tribunals.
T fear the public at large does not
understand the real import of the newa
developed In the Standard Oil hearing
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ACTOR MEN GIVE
EARLY MORNING
SONG FESTIVAL
Patrolman Forres'Doesn't Like It,
However, and Removes the
Quartet to the Grim Bastile at
Second and Oak StreetsMay
Sing to Municipal Judge.
It was all due to the fact that "The
College Widow" and "The Merry Wives
Of Windsor" had gone "Up York Stats"
to meet "The New Farther" and "The
Man From Mexico" had arrived unex
pectedly from "The Holy City" with
"The Ttdbeaux Zouaves." that ths Rl
alto Fhl,harmonlo society held their
first jpen air concert In front of the
Morrison street entrance of the Hotel
Portland at half paet 3 o'clock this
morning, with the result that four of
the star warblero of the organisation
landed In the city prison.
It was a most appreciative audience
that was in attendance at the gala event
nf the season. Among the prominent
local musicians were Mrs. Maria Cat,
ths notod soprano; Mr. Whiskers Mou
eer, the eminent baritone, and Mr.
Stray Dog, the popular yodler. As a
distinct Innovation the concert waa
alven In semi-darkness. This waa be
cause It has been demonstrated by scien
tific Investigation that In affairs of this
oharaeter the Ught waves have a ten
dency to mix with the musics t sound
wavea. thereby destroying harmony,
raaalng aa conductor.
Frank Fanning of the Lyric theatre
officiated as conductor and waa ably
aasistod by Oeorge a Trimble of the
Helllg. As the 10 members of ths so
ciety tripped en the sidewalk from the
wlnge of the hotel there waa a general
exclamation ef admiration from the
audience. The opening number waa
the "Htooongh Chorus" from the tune
ful comic opera. "The Black Bottle."
"That the voices of all the singers
were In good condition le attested by
the faet that Patrolman Fonea, who
ENGLAND
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HIGHEST SALARIED NEWSPAPER MAN IN THE WORLD.
Arthur Brisbane, Editor of the New
Righthand Man and
NEW YORKERS CHEER HEARST
Scenes of Mayoralty Campaign in Metropolis
a Year Ago Are Duplicated Hughes
Devotes Himself to Labor Vote
(Jeeraal Special Ssrriee,)
Hew York, Oct. 14. Thousands of
east-side rs welcomed William R. Hearst
last night at a series of enthusiastic
meetings which duplicated the scenes
of his campaign a rear ago.
Great crowds fllled the three big
balls and cheered the Independence
league and Democratic candidate from
the time he entered the meeting place.
Thousands more, unable to crowd Into
the halls, remained outside and added
to the din with outbursts of applause.
Mr. Hearst reiterated his promises
to spend every dollar that he haa to
have a fair conn: made of the ballots
cast at the mayoralty - election, which
was received with tremendous applause.
Indicating that the Hearst followers of
last year are still following his stand
ard and will make their strength felt
again In the votlnc on election day.
To break the ranks of labor, aa now
4
CURTIS FAMILY IS
FINED FOR ASSAULT
(Special Dispatch te Ths Journal 1
Albany, Or., Oct. J4. In the case of
the stats vs. the Curtis family of Hsl-
eey, ror assault on unauncey w imams
with intent to kin. two or tne ae
fendanta were discharged and the father
and two eons entered plena of guilty
and were fined Use.
A' Jury Is being! empaneled to try
Harry Beard of 8c lo for larceny by
bailee. With the disposition of this
case the work nf the session will be
practically ended.
STEAMER EAST0N IS
vr DESTROYED BY FIRE
(Joorasl Special Servles.l
South Norwolk, Conn.. Oct. 14 The
steamer Beaton waa burned this morn
ing to the water line and sunk at 4:11
three miles west of Eaton's Neck. The
steamer Puritan stood by with the
steamer Mlddleton, rescuing; the crew
and passengers.
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York Journal, Who Is W. R. Hearst's
Principal Advisor.
aligned for Hearst, haa become almost
the sole concern of the Hughes com
palgn. In a few apeechee the Repub
lican candidate nlurred over his cus
tomary personal ottacka on Mr. Hearst
and devoted himself almost exclusively
to his attachment to the cause of the
tollers In Mlddletown and Port Jervle.
He spoke largely te the men who work
with their hands, but In the smaller vil
lages aa hs traveled west, and at El
mlra, there ware few laborers in hla
audlehcea, yet nearly the whole stress
of his argument waa his desire to en
force the labor laws, his admiration
of the trades unions and the necessity
of protecting the workmen from selfish
employers.
The largest and moat enthusiastic
meeting of the flist day's tour of ths
southern counties wes here last night.
The attache on Mr. Hearst at this meet
ing were of the most virulent character.
SOCIALIST PAPER TO WIELD
MOCK RAKE VIGOROUSLY
V- 1 i- 1
Joseph Medill Patterson to Usa
Papar to Expose Wrongs
of Clrl Employes.
(Jeeraal Sports Service )
Chicago, Oct. 4 The muck rake
will be wielded with vigor by. the Chi
cago Dally Socialist, edited by Joseph
Medill Patterson, which makes Its ap
pearance Thursday. The first, sense
tlon will be a series of articles on girl
employes of department stores, how
much they get, how they spend It, their
temptations and hardships.
"We shall have telegraph service. "
said Patterson, "and follow the cam
paigns throughout the country pretty
closely. All the local news of Interest
we can get we shall print, but uninter
esting criminal news and scandsis we
shall avoid.
"In the local field we shall print:
Society news, noma what satirical; finan
cial news, treated from our own stand
point; political news, lots of It, also
from our own viewpoint: polios and di
vorce courts, nothing doing; etty hall
newe that other papers don't print;
women'a column; no tips on the races."
MORTUARY FUNDS ARE
DECLARED ASSESSABLE
(Joerssl Seeds! Berries.)
Springfield, 111. Oct. 24 The su
preme court today decided that mor
tuary and other funde of fraternal In
surance companies are ass useable and
declared the legislature could exempt
no property not specifically exempted by
plain language nf the constitution.
The court granted en Injunction re
straining the American Telephone a
Telegraph company from voting a took
it had acquired In the Kellogg Switch
board company, sustaining the conten
tion that euch action would permit
them to control the ewltch board bust-
to ths detriment of public policy
CONGRESSMAN HOAR'S
ILLNESS IS CRITICAL
(Journal Sperlal errleo.
Worcester. Mass.. Oct. 14. Congress
man Rockwell Hoar's Illness today la
critical. He haa neuralgia ot the head.
WOMEN
IH
FIGHT WITH
Riot Follows Trial of
Suffragists for Cre
ating Disturbance in
House of Parliament
Seize Officer and Lock Him In
Courtroom Reserves Turn
Tida of Battle Leaders Are
Sent to Prison for Two Months
on Refusal of Peace Bonds.
(lesraal Special Sorrlco.i
London. Oct. 14. The women suf
fragists who were arrested yeaterday
for rioting In storming the house of
parliament were the principals In re
newed disturbances this morning result
ing in a pitched battle with the police.
In which the latter were badly scratched
up and would have been routed had It
not been for the timely arrival of re
inforcements. Ten of the suffragists were arraigned
in court thle morning and bound over
to keep the peace for six months. Tha
women were disappointed aa they hoped
to pose In Jail aa martyrs. On account
of the disturbance they raised they
were literally thrown by the bailiffs
from the court Into the crowd outside.
Here the women attacked the police
man left In charge of them. After his
refusal to leave they took the key from
him and looked him in the court room.
Other office re had. a bard fight to regain
the key. The women began haranguing
the court outside. The policemen at
tacked had a tough Urns ot It, their
faces being badly ec retched and their
hair pulled. Finally Miss Parkhurst,
the leader or the suffragist movement,
waa arrested and the reserves forced
the mob to disperse.
Mies Parkhurst and the other salts
tors were then given two months' Im
prisonment for refusal to give bonds to
keep the peeoa. The women who
crowded the court room during the
proceedings cried "Shame, shame!" For
protesting against the decree Miss Park
hurst was sentenoed to two weeks ex
tra for contempt of court.
SUBTREASURY STEAL
IS SIXTY THOUSAND
Washington, Oct. 14. The treasury
officials expect arrests In connection
with the St. Louis subtreasury abort
age at any moment. It le said tha ac
countants havs already found soma one
haa abstracted over 140.000 and the
counting Is still progressing.
TIME BALL ON
CUSTOM HOUSE
TAKES A FALL
Service of Great Value to Ship
Captains Successfully Inaug
urated Ball Drops Exactly at
Noon Every Day Throughout
the Year.
The time ball Installed by the United
States hydrographtc office on top of the
Cuetom Houae building dropped at noon
today for the first time. It waa seen
from many parte of the city, but no ad
vance notice having been given, thoae
who watched for It ware, comparatively
Henceforth UM ball will drop
every day unices something goes wrong
with the mechanism releasing It.
The time baH .it Portland la the only
one on the Pacific attest at present, be
cause ot the service at San Francisco
having been suspended pending the re
construction of the tower at the Ferry
building.
The ball dropa here at 1! o'clock noon.
UOth meridian or Pacific Standard
time, which corresponds with I p. a
Oreeowloh Una It will prove of great
value to shipping because It will now
be possible for toe ship maaters to
regulate their chronometers to a cer
tainty, it will also be or much value
to the general public, for heretofore
there lute been no standard time avail
able without more or lees trouble for
the regulation of timepieces.
The ball Is connected with the Mare
Island navy yarJ observatory, where
the time le taken. It Is hoisted St ex
actly 11:61 an on the dot of 1 aa
electric current releasee the ban. It
dropa on a pole 40 feet In length and
falls Into a sort of box, the air pres
sure breaking tho fall gradually and
gently.
Work on the construction and Instal
lation of the time ball waa begua sev
eral months ago. It la said the con
tractor who undertook the Job loot
n it. 'a. ' i4
POLICEMEN
WOLVERTON
SITTING IN
HIGH COURT
On Duty in Circuit
Court of Appeals at
San Francisco, fac
ing Much Work
New State of Affairs May Result
in Further Delay of Land Fraud
Cases in Oregon No Judge
Available for Oregon District
Now.
Judge Charles B. Wojverton of the)
United States district court of Oregon,
who went to San Franicsco a short Una
ago to try the Insurance cases now
pending In .the United States district
court of that place, Is now dividing
his time between the Insurance cases
and the dutiee of Judge Morrow on tha
bench of the United Statee circuit court
of appeals. Thle change has been made
necessary by the retirement ot
Judge Hawley and the conse
quent rearrangement ot the work
between Judge Hunt and Judge
Wolverton, both of whom went
to San Francisco to relieve Judge Mor
row of hla duttee while he convalesced
from an affliction of the eyes.
The sickness of Judge Morrow had
serious effect upon the Oregon land
caaes, as It took Judge Wolverton from
hla place upon the bench of the Oregon
court and at the same time took Judge
Hunt away from hla task of hearing
land fraud trials In Portland. At the
time the transfer wa9 made It waa, eV'
peeled that Judge Wolverton wouft he
able to return to Portland about the 1st
of December, while Judge Hunt would
also be able to assume his dutlea here
about the same time. The new order
of things, however, throws doubt on
this and would seem to put the reopen
ing of the land cases still further In tha
distance.
Both Stay Be Delayed.
If Judge Wolverton haa to give the
Insurance cases only a portion of hla
attention It will be Impossible for him
to finish his work In Ban Francisco by
the first of next year, as he bed In
tended to do. Judge Hunt will perhhpel
be In the same difficulty. It Is proba
ble therefore that the land cases in
Oregon will take a back seat unless
Judge Gilbert Is able to rearrange tha
work of the Judges and either send
Judge Hunt or Judge Wolverton back tc
Portland or else transfer some other
federel Judge to Portland to hear the
casee.
According to United States DUtrioS
(Continued on Page Teal
COLORADO RIVER
IS TURNED FROM
SALTON SEA SINK
Rood Which Endangered Im
mense Area Is Forced Back
Into Old Channel at Cost to
Harriman System of Over MH
lion Dollars by New Dam.
(Journal Special gef-rtre.)
Imperial, Cat. Oct. 14. After a battti
tasting many months snd costing over
11.000,000, the Southern Pacific has suo
oeeded In turning the Colorado river
from Balton see beck into He old chan
nel to the Oulf of Mexico, which It left
two years ago. By thla great achieve
ment ' 135,000. coo in property and the
homes of 10,000 people were rsecued
from threetened Inundation.
The Colorado waters were being used
to Irrigate vakt trects of desert land
and two years ago, through bad engi
neering, the river bank broke end tha
entire flow ot the. stream diverted In
two tagnnsle to the bed of the sink,
where U has been steadily rising. The
elnk traversed the main line of the
Southern Pacific railroad sod five times
In two years the -nmpeny was obliged
to move Its track from encrneehlaa
water.
Harriman at last took a
Interest Ik ho matter and an
that the break must be closed at aa?
coal. Thl waa finally Mcrompitehed by
the 'mi ruction of a concrete dens
against which was built a strong breast.
work er root and I
rhe water
was raur net eeem
id -hs
yesterdsy snd soon the
be going "to the gulf
the entire flow Will
WAR BALLOONS WILL
BE TRIED BY ARUY
Jkarul aaootti Saavteal
Washington, Oet 4 - The gva
has decided ' expert ejeet w
balloons el Port Omaha)
phaot tor the aeaerauen