I JOURNAL AND THE JOURNAL IS WITH THE PEOPLE VOL. V. NO. 199. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24. 1908. FOURTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. &S55r3 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 srflslKfes. 'ft s-aialflstk BftHHBfl& sfsfr h 1 HI 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 (Continued oa Page Two.) 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 (Continued en Page Two. 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. READ THIS! ANT HOT that wants' a position with at atari. Address. W1IB 110, esre Journal AND THIS! WANTED aTaperienced bookkeeper tor poult ion n werrantiu elder: moat writs a food hsnd end he aeesrate t ferares. Address L ST, care Journal. AND THIS! WANTED A rerseetssle lady as keeper for I; no onjerttsa to 1 or S ehttrn. Hewlett. 26 J-root at . corner Mad Won. Then tarn to tk Pages, Jf yes IsesUeaooos era iatsrestsd la tko many wants of tko Olaaalsoa advertisers ; sad if roe taluk yea ere as te teem aayhew--4aere bj I llso there interest ysa. Others have feaad tkla prottsMs. sad sssM ssake this a Voalsaal Why sat Y O U! wfwawawawawaaaH I 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