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Beckage
Five-Story Structure at
Long Beachj Califor
nia, Crashes Down,
Burying Occupants.
Blxble Hotel, Just" Completed,
Tumbles, Down With Guests
y and Employes Four Bodies
. . Recovered an Hour Later
.Only One Identified.
doers' IpscUl Servtael
Long Beach, Not. I. With resound
ing crashes two sections of tba new
flv-story Blpi hotel, a fin hoatelry
of thla city, which waa but recently
erected, -collapsed tma morning., carry-,
lng from It to It paraona to death and
doing property damage amounting to
approximately $360,000, while a large
number of paraona- received more or
leas serious Injury. -.-
At 10:10 o'clock this morning - but
four bodlea had been reoovered from the
mine and but on of thse Identified,
that of William Hartle of Long Beach.
Two Of the remaining dead are uniden
tified Mexicans. ' -.
With tit warning - thla ' morning at
:4( o'clock, the center eectlon of the
great biiok atruoture collapaed and
eank to the' ground a total 'wreck, car
rying la the ruins a large number of
people, the total at noon not being as
certained, but It la known, however, that
from It to gueeta of the boatelry
wer burled la the rulna. and aa but
fw have been rescued alive from the
debris, It la feared that the flat of dead
will greatly exceed tble number.
, Seooad Seotloa Collapses. - ' -
An hour after the wreck of the center
aeotlon of the hotel the weat wing
crashed to the ground. Became of the
wrecking of the center eectlon at the
earlier hour there waa no toaa or lira
.
(Continued on Page Two.) , 1 Continued on Page Two.) ' .
Vancouver Officer Shoots o Stop Fleeing
Man, Bullet Strikes Stone, Glances and :
Plows Hole Through Runaway.
......
' ' (Saeslal tMssatah a The -sail
Tanoouver. Wash.. Nov. a. Melvin
Simmons, private In eompaay H. Four
teenth Infantry, la la the hospital hare
with a Jagged bullet hoi In hla back
because the lure of Illicit gold waa
-stronger than, hla fear of capture by
the of Boers of the fourteenth infantry,
who wer looking for htm aa a deserter,
lie was shot last night at 1 o'clock
while attempting to escape from Night
foiioeman seenst, wno naa arresiea
htm at a resort where he la said to
have placed his young bride two months
' Simmons was a private In company
H when It went to American Lake, but
' while encamped there deserted and came
back to Portland, where he has been In
hiding from the officers of the army.
Before he went to American Lake, how.
Over, he had won by the glamor of hla
- soldiery the heart of a young Portland
girl whose head had been turned by hla
court to her. She was. a girl of good
family and the. attentions of the aol
dler wer not pleasing to her parenta,
but the marrlag took place in spit of
(ejection and the bride was left In Port
land to wait for the return of . Kim
mens after h troTe came back from
their aummer outing.
Btmmona came back before tha outing
waa over aa a hunted man sought by
his former comrades for desertion.' : He
remained In Portland with his wife for
l The Worlds -
Problems
The great commoner knows,' and
m ' will write of them and give the
" " ;:7I' " : ' solution in : ; w
The -Sunday Journal
MEWATER
. .-. eBWawawawaMaBgawawae.
Car Company Cuts
Melon for Stockhold
ers I m me nse Prof
its Are Piled
sV,'
Concern Grows From a Million
and a Quarter Capitalization
but Public Reaps No Reduc
tionsLincoln jto Retire as
t President l;-"-:v"
: (Joeraal Special Service.)
Chicago, Not, .To grow from a con
cern capitalised ' at fl.lSO.OOO to on
capitalised at 1100,000.000 within a few
decades largely through suooesslv la
sue of watered stock to abaorb the
tremenduooa -surplus -oooataatly piled
up la the proud record of the Pullman
company. - During this period - not a
alngle reduction In rates has been made
to the traveling public, . who are still
compelled to pay by tlpa the salaries of
the porters employed by the company.
Railroad farea have been reduced dor.
Ing this period, and tha boot at eon
atruotion and equipment reduced, bat
patrons of -Pullman care are forced to
pay the same ratea as they did 10 years
ago. though, travel has Increased, enor
mously, t . .-... as.
Unooln BstresV
- At the caucus of the directors of the
Pullman company today Robert T. Lin
coin, president alac the death of George
M. Pullman, announced hla Intention of
retiring. Lincoln Is anxious to relieve
himself of the multifarious duti
aected with tha position. - t .
John B. Runnell of Chicago, who.!
It, years has been In tha legal depart'
tnent of - tba oompaay, and slno last
Ma Ita vice-president. Is alated to atep
In to Lincoln's shoes - . , . .
At the meeting of tha directors of
the Pullman, cow pan y a plan for One
distribution of tha surplus was adopted.
-A ,
a short time and at last persuaded her
to go to Vancouver , with htm. Once
there he placed her la the resort where
she has since remained. There he via
Had bar several times a, month to col
lect money.
The officers at tha barracks were told
of Slmmona acta and of his visits and
last night, knowing that he was la town,
asked the police to arrest him. Ha waa
found at th resort where he had placed
hla wife by Officers Becrtat and Caasa
way and placed under arreat.
While going down Mala street he sud
denly .etruck the officer randr sprang
away In tb darkness. Seorlst followed
and fired two shots to stop him and later
Bred a third ahot In tha ground. The
bullet, however, struck a atone ' and
glancing plowed a fearful hole, In the
small of Slmmona' back.
The wounded man was taken to the
poet hospital where 'he is being eared
for with but sllghrehanc of recovery.
No blame la placed upon Secrlat for the
shooting aa It was plainly accidental. "
Blmraona cornea of s well-known and
respected family of Owensburg. Ken
tucky. He left home when under age
and "enlisted n the e4mter army - la
ltot. being assigned to the volunteer In
fantry at Port Wayne. He waa honor
ably discharged In loot and at once re
enllaied. - entering the fourteenth In
fantry. W. J. Bryan Says
There Are Three
sWiBiJieAri'TT. x jit: "ffi.za,i.;i:a
Can You Guess
What They Are?
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A.' Richards, General Land Commissioner.
Resignation of Secretary Hitchcock and Land
Commission Caused by Failure to Prose
cute Union Pacific for Land Fraud
Meeraal Special Berries.)
Washington. Nov. . The retirement
of Secretary Hitchcock as head of the
department of the interior and of W. A.
Richards, former governor of Wyoming,
commissioner of the general : land of
fice, la believed to have been caused
dtrectly by revelations made In connec
tion with the coal-land frauds along
the. Union PaclflO railroad.
It developa that for three yeare the
Interior department had detailed Infor
mation concerning these . frauds, on
which It failed to act. Almost a year
ago a lengthy protest concerning these
conditions waa filed with Commissioner
Richards. i .
When the Interstate commerce com
mission began Investigating, Assistant
Commissioner Pollock ' of the . general
land office declared that All matters de
veloped by the commission had been
fully looked into, by the land office- and
nothing found to occasion criticism.
Other stories are afloat of the alleged
connection of the Harriman lines with
the Interior department and the general
land office. It has been charged that
nai i as parsiws wiff
aa r Bss anwer a w a rti a w w w sj ass ass .'
FORGIVEN FdR THEFT
(Speriat XHaseteh e Tee JsaresLl-
8 U vert on. Or., Nov. . John Wolfard
Jk Co., merchants of thla city, received
a letter from, a . former , Bllverton girl
who no w Jives.. at Dallas, in which she
aaya she was tempted to ' steal a salt
and pepper dish from thetr store eight
years ago while her mother waa shop
ping. "Recently ah has been converted
ah aaya, and by reading the bible has
been convinced that she ought to pay
for the stolen article and. ask forgive
ness. The- value of the dish waa 20
cents, but she lnclOeed 10 cents,--snd
humbty asks forgiveness, statmg that
ah la now living a different life. The
lady waa recently married to a preacher.
CHINESE WOMAN SUES
PATTERSON'S PAPERS
-f-
flearaal Special Service.)
Denver, Nov. . Mrs. Josle C Hung,
wife of a Chinese merchant has saed
the News -and Times for I2C.000 dam
agea. Senator Patterson is the. princi
pal owner of each paper .,
Mrs. Hung was born In Ban Francisco
of Chinese parents. The morning after
the election In connection with a story
about corrsllng the votes of the under
world the News published a picture of
District Attorney fitlteger escorting the
plaintiff to the polls. i v
POLITICAL STORM IS
THREATENING IN CUBA
(fewest Sneetel ServVe. 1 h
Hanava. Nov.. 0. A political storm Is
likely to break out at any moment. The
Liberals railed upon Oovernor Mgoon
today and demanded to know If the
Liberals can expect to 1 replace the
Moderates In office. Jf Magoon refuses
the Liberals will begin to annoy . the
government, which means that, the
American troops ; will . .bA scattered
tbAMiah la Island to maintain grdai,.
forest reserves have been created at tb
Instance of the railroad so as to Include
large tracts of worthless Isnd owned by
the railroads, which received In -return
scrip for the land Included which could
be sold In the market or-exchanged for
good timber land elsewhere, i
An instance which aroused some com
meat at the time waa the creation of
tha Klamath forest reserve In northern
California. This reserve it was alleged,
while saving much valuable timber.
also included much land owned by the
Bouthern Pacific through Its grant of
alternate sections. This land was abso
lutely worthless, covered with brush or
barren, valueless for either timber or
grailng. By getting rid of the land,
which could not be sold or marketed,
the road would save the taxes demanded
by the state and secure good land In
exchange.
The intimation that - Ex-President
Fish of the Illinois Central Is going to
tell President Roosevelt what he "knows
of the Union Pacific frauda and also to
avenge himself against Harriman has
caused a sensation here,
STEAMER NANELI IS -TO
ADVERTISE CJJY
Uoaraal Special Service.) ' '
Los Angeles, Nov. . Steamer Nanell,
Just . purchased by the Independent
Steamship company of - this city, will
be the first vessel In the merchant ma
rtna service to advertise Los Angeles as
Its home port. In conjunction with an
other steamer It will ply between Los
Angeles and San Franolsco. . - ,
WOMAN DENIES SHE -.
IS SLAYER OF NEIMAN
Chicago, Nov. . Luclle McLeod Men
hard waa arraigned thla morning for
the murder of - William Nelmaa and
pleaded not guilty. The ease was con
tinued until Wednesday. .
All-day
SATURDAY
And as Late as Ten -o'Clock;
Saturday Night
Bring those little want ada for.
-ye great big Sunday - Journal -to
, The Journal bualneea office. Th
Journal will Insert In th classi
fied columns - '
ANY AD TOR
riFTEXN CLNTS
Providing It Is not over IS words
in length. Journal . wants snd
"don't wants" cost. . . .
' ZJBSS TaTAaT A. '
CLNT A WORD
"Bead Jovuraal OUseUeds.M
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B.P.
DO HOT LIE
Authority on Newspa
per Circulation Says
Journal Runs Ahead
of the Oregonian. :
Circulation of Journal Sworn to,
While Oregonian, Says Expert,
Has Not . Furnished Definite
and Satisfactory - Report Re
garding Number of Copies.
George P. RowelL the foremost au
thority In the United Statea on news
paper circulation, has lasued the Initial
number of a new publication. News
papers Worth - Counting, which con
tains soma Information of peculiar In
terest to the people of Portland and
Oregon. Official confirmation la given
of the fact that the circulation of the
Oregon Daily Journal baa outstripped
the circulation of the Oregonian. -
Newspapers Worth ' Counting states
that slno - 1101. th year ' when The
Journal waa started, . tb Oregonian
"has not furnished any definite and
aatlafactory report, but . has beea
credited -with a circulation of ."more
than 10.000."
In extraordinary . eontraat are the
guaranteed figures ef Th Journal's cir
culation, which averaged for 1S0&, II,-
tll. The comparison, does mot eover
Sao outtswO year, whiok has sand th
supreoutoy ' of no foanul still more
Saolsive, for tea ojiwslattom la now la
anosss of SS.00O,
- Following la the statement concern
ing the Oregonian: ' ,
'"Portland. Oregonian, morning, Sun
day and weekly:
"Copies printed: Tha dally edition of
thla paper had credit for aa average
Issue of 11.101 In lilt and It.tfl In
1001, sine which It haa net furnished
any definite and satisfactory report, but
has been credited with more than 10,000
very year slno. up to and Including
loos. ; . . . . .
The Sunday edition had credit for an
average Issue of J6.0U In 1SU and
1MST In 10J, since which It has not
furnished any definite and aatlafactory
report, but was credited with more than
10,000 every year since, up to and In
cluding UOi.
-The weekly edition had credit for
an average laau of 11,110 In lltt and
14.017 in 1101, alnoe which It naa not
furnlahed any definite and satisfactory
report, but was credited with more than
17.600 in l0t and 100a."
These figures indicate that since The
Journal entered the field the Oregonian
has lost la . circulation aa follows:
Dally, (,000; Sunday. 14,000; weekly.
0,100. '
Not In contrast th growth of The
Journal: . . . - u
"Portland, Oregon, Journal, evening,
Sunday and semi-weekly: .-
"Copies printed daily: Mil In l0t;
11.104 In 1004: 11,010 In llOf.
"(The Journal's circulation la now la
excess of 10,000.)
"Sunday: U.81T m l04j 11,014 In
100S. ' . .
"Semi-weekly: 1.400 : In ,1004; l,lf
In 100. ' - . - , . ' :. ...
This paper u one er tae oompaxs.
tlvelr few that veatmr to aaaka nao of
tha Directory Oaaraates Star, of which
wsblaaae wwald think or availing
hlaaself were ae not absolately oestaia
that the aecmraey of the figures that
post the odltloaa he lasses would
staad ont-bright and else In th taoe
of the aaost aeaaoalma laveetlgatioa."
LONE BANDIT ROBS V
TRAIN FOR SMALL SUM
(Josrsal Special Serrke.1
Slater. Ma, Nov. 0. A lone robber
awakened th sleeping passengers ea
route from St. Louie to Kansas City in
Blue Cut laet night, working hurriedly.
and took only -what-hls vtcttms offered,
about l0. He left the train by a fly
ing leap near' Mexico, Th train
stopped, but no trace or tne inter was
found- . '
ROBBER KILLS WIDOW -
AND ELUDES OFFICERS
'
Jesraal Bpwtal Sre.J
T . K-t t Pa Nov. . S. afra.
Catherine Stauffer. a widow, was found
murdered In bed with a bullet hole la
her head thla morning. - tier., grana
.kiMMm - .w.k.tuH bv . vnhher.
h trit to chloroform them, but es
caped before help arrived. ,f
SECRETARY TAFT IS
AT FORT SHERIDAN
ttearsel SpeeUt ImWi.)
Chlcagn, Nov. 0. Secretary of V'r
Taft 'Visited Fort Sheridan today. '1
ohjeet of hla visit waa not dtvn'
but It la supposed to be In conn
with proposed improvtmonta.
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WIDOW TO WED AGAIN
JT" - - ' I ' ' i f '
fcsna m aW it MSaaSiilll rslialli-fiSs I
Mrs. HermAn Oclrkhi.
r.lRS. OELRICHS
OOIi TO r.lARRY
Engagement of Fair and Wealthy
Widow to Moncure Robinson,
I' Popular Member of Newport's
" Smart Set Rumored-Friends
. of Both Deny Stones Current.
llnnil Sikwtml bnlM l .
' Newport, R. I., Nov. . Rumor' has
been current In society circles here
for some dsys past that the announce
ment of the engagement of Mrs
Theresa Oelrlcha to Moncure Robinson,
on of th moat popular men members
of the "smart set," who Is also well
known aa a successful real eststa op
erator In. New York and Baltimore, Is
soon to be made. .....
Mrs. Oelrichs and Mr. Robinson have
been seen together a great deal since
the return of the widow, from - Ban
Francisco, where she went to settle the
dispute over the estate of her late hus
band. .
Friends of both Interested persona,
however, declare there la absolutely no
basts . for the report that an engage
ment Is nkely to be announced. These
persons say that Mr a. Oelrichs Is quite
satisfied to continue enjoying the free
dom of widowhood, while th former
Baltimore clubman Is determined to ad
here to hla bachelor existence, although
he finds the fair widow a. charming
companion.' , ,
RICH CLUBfilAll
MATTHEWS' GHOST WALKING
ErstwhiIePpnticaI Leader Seeking to Become
) Czar of the Legislature Again With i
Hodson as Prime Minister.
"Jack" Matthews, arising from the
tangled-debris of hla one ali-powerfui
political machine. Is quietly, working
band In hand and shoulder to shoulder
with C. W. Hodson, senator from Co
lumbia. Multnomah ' and Washington
counties, with Ike Patterson- and . Ike
Manning, the es-collectot'a satellite, and
with, others of his tried and true friends
In an effort to organise tho next legis
lature with Hodson In the chair of
president of the senate and some good
and doolie man across the hall to rule
the actions of the house. Behind the
movement are lined up In aolld ranks
the railroad Interests, corporations that
have franchisee to be gusrded or id be
granted, and grasping folk who abhor
Income tax. gross earnlnga, aaaeaamenta
and other little folblea of the common
people -which would ptaoe the-equality
of government and taxation In . more
direct ratio to the ability to pay.
The coming session of th legislature
will be one rich In Questions affecting
the railroads snd other public service
corporations. It will consider a railroad
commission, the anU-paas law, .insur
ance legialatlon. banking regulation and
a hundred other things, each and all of
MURDERER, ROBBER MID BIGAMIST'
Uearaal Sbm-IsI Serriee.l
San Francisco. Nov. 0. Information
that has reached police headquarters
baa removed all doubt as to the Identity
of John Slemaen, leader of the gasplp
murderers, and added another amaalng
chapter to the story of the browned
limbed criminal.
Blemsen'e right name Is August Dreler
and he is the son of Dreler, a wealthy
retired susar planter of the 1 1 1 r t of
? ' I. who now a fainlKnr f -re
' rrcls at I
- t-s
Mill
LINES TO BE
Commerce - Commis
sion Will Inquire. Into
Merger of Competing
Lines in' Northwest
O, R. & N. and Southern Pacifio
Should Not Be Under Same
Control Fish to Be Sum
moned to Tell Secrets in Re
venge for Being Ousted. ,
' (Journal Special Service.) .
Waahlngton, D. C. Nov. t. Btoyve-
sant Fish's removal from - th presi
dency of the Illinois Central railroad 4a
to be avenged by the government In a
way lie could hardly have anticipated.
As a result of the action of EL H. Harri
man in extending his control over this
line, the Inters tats commerce commis
sion has taken up for eonelderatlon the
queatlon of Investigating sit of the
Harriman railroad enternrl.es. It hi.
AtmiAA .A I.... .1
tlon early in the new year. - - r
This Investigation will be of aa
much Importance as was that which tne
commission made into the combination
of the Nc rthem Pacific and Great
Northern railroads, which, as the North
era Securities company, waa dissolved
by order of the supreme court finder
the. anti-trust law. .
' Besemalea Mill Merger. .
In one way, the action of Harriman
resembles that of J. P. Morgan and J.
T UI1I f .11.1., k . I i.-
with the Oreat Northern. Harriman
controls the Union Pacific, tho Southern
Pacific the Oregon Short Lin and tho
Oregon Kkilroad A Navigation eompaay..
which should be competing roads. In tb
Judgment of th members bf the com
mission, and now he haa the Illinois
Central and Baltimore as Ohio, which
makes him a big factor In determining
trans-continental rates.
The Investigation of the' Harriman In
terests - will - be taken up under th
amendment to the Interstate commerce
act. which passed congress In 1811.
So far as the commission haa con
sidered the matter. It has determined
that the inquiry will be particularly
Into relatione of the Oregon Short Line.
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. Th
(Continued on Pag Thro,)
which .will be of vital Interest to th
Iargecorpora.nohsT These Inlereata. as
in the past, desire the legislator to b
good to them and. In order that there
umy vw iiw uvuui, i is Btvtmrf tnai
they know something of the Inclina
tions of the men who compos tb offi
cial and committee list of th house
SHU mV n.lflt , . . '
" Aa other Bond Batata. ' , : -'
But 'there is another bond existing
between Mr. Matthews and Senator'
xioaswTi, mm potmen qui vj I nose wno
are watching the formation of th CO it, -bl
nation, and that la. the past history
of the state printing office. Mr. Mat-
thews. Senator Hodson and all of the ;
ramp would b very much pleased to
see the etate pnrchss a printing plant
ana mass niuu isuniway. ine state
printer-elect, simply a salaried officer.
as he seemed to desire during his cam-'
palgn. Mr. Dunlway said some unkind
things about the connection of Mr. Mat
thews and Mr. Whitney with the print
ing of rice and the money made sut
of It. - - .
, (Continued on Page Three.)
Hawaiian woman, and If Informsttoei In
th possession of the police Is correct
he Is a bigamist ss well as a bank
robber and mur lerer
Confronted with H'e ai!lcrl"rolnts Of
this Ihformsilon In tils cell. H.msen
admltt.-il thnt thV r tuvtti
"1 had lni- ' - 1 to kern my f ' ot
of thl. tlilnr." be in Id, "but a long a
th fuH on" b'-xWiriti.K ti li'iik out I
mav as .l miike iw .-rr. t at l..v t '
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