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Newspaper Page Textio f:.:g c? ice miy . joiotjal ; is. t:o . asms, fzi ccpy- GOOD EVENING T THE WEATHE3L", 7 Occasional rain, cooler tonight; Tuesday occaaional rain. , . VOL. V. NO. 215. - ' f LIIPfMI'l I.IFV--H II II UVVf IflY IT' HI W rx II II I Ylll DM U Mi Mil LX II Ml I Ml V U AH Hi H n IT B If I LOSE LIVES- ouniifeliWiii ; M:IJMATILLA: IS-; nu iiiiihiiii ii nrxnniirn i r 11 . i i,v a i - lw it ui iisv iihm Fast Express Train on Baltimore -and Ohio Is Wrecked on Curve Near Suman, Indiana First Section of Passenger Fails " . to t. Display Signal i Showing , That Another Followed It - ; f Many : Slowly i Tortured by TlFirelWhile ; , . (Josraal Opeeial aerlee. v A Laporte. Ind., Nov. 11. From lateat report It Is believed that fully 40 peo ple lost thslr Uvea, most of them being burned to death .whll- pinned helpless la the debris, as a result of a heed-on ' collision between an Immigrant train, : running as the second aeotlon of the Baltimore aV Ohio express, and a freight em a curve near Suman, this morning. - Kooning at a high rata of speed, the Immigrant train dashed onto the curre ear Suman, when suddenly there loomed a heavy' freight train' directly ahead. The engineers of both trains promptly .reversed their engines, but tt . (Continued on Page Two.) SOLO PEAIiUTS OuCE, KOiV C. W. Morse's Ambition Is to Own All Ships That Fly ; " American Flag. ; ; - (Joeraal Special Service 1 ' ' New York, Nor. II. Unleaa hla plana mlacarry Charlee W. Morse will be the master of .American marina and fore most flgura la the maritime world with la two years. - Today Morse has a con trol Of per cent of all the steamships - that, fly the American flag. ' Hla ambl tloa is to control every American steam- ehlp line In the Atlantio coaatwlae trade. In all he now controls tl steam .res' aels. Total displacement of hla fleet foots up to 111,46) tone. If Moras geta all the lines he la after he will' have a fleet of more than 109 ocean Steamship, with a displacement of more taan 600.000 tona. . ' Morse Is one of the most remarkable financiers In the United States. . He started at an early age selling candy and peanuts on an excursion steamer, and now controls corporations with an aggregate capital of 1315,000,000. These Include It banks and trust companies, three Insurance ecompanlea and IT big corporations capitalised at millions. Morse's wife waa formerly Mlaa Clem, ence Cowlea of Saa Francisco, , For the Week " The following la the advertising Portland,, for the week ending with 'Journal, Inches. . 4,435 .794 " Six week 'days. Local Display Foreign ...... ........ Classified '. . . ... Display Real Estater. iTi: 1,352 98- ' V,43.v 1,984 147 '440 687 34 Readers ...... SUNDAY. ' Local Display Foreign ,.i..r Claisined ; . . .......... Display Real Estate... Readers . . . ..,........ Total Sor Week. 9,994 ' For the week ending with the 11th Instant, Ths Journal, in seven Isanea, carried mora advertising than the Oregontan did In seven lasuee, by 147 tnohea. Not much more to be sure, but it la' eomethlng to excel "The Only' even a little bit The excess of Ths Journal's volume of adver tising over that of the Telegram, the evening edition of the Oreaonlan. waa 1,411 Inches, quite a bunch, to say the least. But the evening Issue of the Oregontan haa aoma exouee for belnr In the tail end of the procession In the fact that It la not a "U1L Dial rAJm," being published only Hi days In the week. - The Journal, In addition, exceeds the trust newspapers In dIly circu lation, having a larger VAXD CXBVtr&ATXOaT than either of them, both In ' Portland and the state of Oregon, by 1,000 to t.OOO copies. . ' The pressure of advertising on The Sunday Journal's columns is em barrassing, advertising to the extent of 10 columns, or more, being refused last Saturday night for lack of apaoa la the next morning's Issue. There-' fore, advertisers should take notice and have eopy In for ada In that leeue prior to It o'clock, noon, Saturday to Insure Insertion and good position. Last Sunday's Journal broke the record for volume ef advertising aa well aa for the number of coplee sold and circulated. , The amount of white paper oonsumed In that one edition was 17.141 pounds, or .Just lit pounds less than nine tona. THAT'S OOIJra SOH3I . ' . J. . O. F. Murray Jr. Demands That Lincoln Whitney Marry His i ; ; Sister-v-Whitney. Re-. it r . fuses and Is Killed. ' V ,"i'v -V..'' Avenger of hla aister'a honor, O. T. Murray Jr. pt St Johns went to the home of Mrs. A. M. Porter. I0 East Harrison atreet, at an early hour this morning, called her . brother, 'Lincoln Whitney, to the door and ehot him three times, inflicting wounds from which he died within a few minutes. The murderer fld east to Grand avenue, where he "boarded a car and came down town. . He then Jiuriied to the office of Sheriff Stevens . In . the oourt houae. .' k t. "I killed a man and want to give my aelf up., he said as he entered the of flee. . "Here a my gun." ' ftlrl Wttaeaaea Crime. : Murray waa accompanied to hla vic tim's home by his mother and ' alster,' Mary Murray, who claims to nave oeen wrone-ed bv the man who was els in. They went together to, the Porter home and called Whitney to the door. "We have coma to aee If you will consent to marry my sister' announced Murray. "The time has , come when you must dO' am, for, they ebjlrt must have a name." " . v.:. 4 v . . Whitney stood lrresolutei In the dflor-way.-" Besid him waa hla little niece, Clara Barnea, II years eld. Ahe-tugged mrano! of cimis - DISCUSSED A6AIH -,; Coldwin Smith Says Our Sister "7 of Snows May Be Adopted' ?V by Uncle Sam. '' (Joaraal flpeetal ServlM.J 4 . Philadelphia. Nov. . 11. The : North American prints an Interview in his home at Toronto with Ooldwln Smith, publicist, crltlo and historian. In which Smith said: - -The annexation of Canada to the United States will probably come but none can say how soon or In juet what way. " A , "Great Britain has ; withdrawn' her military from the Dominion and not long ago a Canadian minister of Justice said, 'in eotoot, that Canada would be safe under the Monroe doctlne. But sup pose Great Britain were to go to war with soma other nation and ' that na tion decided to attack Canada, could Great Britain defend 'It agalnat the enemy T Would, the United statea de fend Itf Simply as a neighborly act and having done, so . would .America withdraw and hand It over to Great Britain aaalnf" - "And do you ' eonslder the form of government of the united states aest for Canadar Smith waa asked. ' "I cannot aay that I . eonslder your present form of government beat fpr yourselves," ha replied. - ' Nov. 11 record of tmriree dally paper of Sunday, November Uth s ; Oregonian, Telegram, Inches. . Inches. 3.452 1,268- t 1,521 : 205 5,907 : 904 ; 1,110 : 578 .u 39 57 ,''-- j ew. V V - 9,847 8,538 1,793 438 " 637 ; 448 PORTLAND. - OREGON. MONDAY' EVENING, NOVEMBER illlll at his elbow,' urging him to coma Into the housa '... Tou must coma with ua now to 4he courthouse and get a license." said the mother. Still : the young man-atood hea Itatlng at the doorway. . while hlaUlttle niece tugged pleadingly at hla elbow, He made no : response, ' but closed the door. "" '-. 4 ' Murray, hla mother and alster walked slowly away, talking excitedly Among themselvea. They went east for a block to' Union avenue, where they paused and Murray spoke vehemently to the women. Than he turned abruptly and started back . toward the Porter resi dence. The two "women watched him for a moment before they also turned hurriedly and walked toward, the car Una They turned frequently to look back aa they went -'. ' Ooee Back tje aBOL " Murray walked boldly to th door and knocked again. Whitney appeared . al most Instantly and at hla aide waa his little niece. He stepped out on me porch, while Murray stood near the gate two feet away. - . ' "I've come back to tell you that you mini marrv her now Or I will kill you. Chooaa quickly." . - whitnav atnod Irresolutely on the porch, .hla eyea caat down. Hla hands twltcnea nervously, out n mu nu r Dly. . His little niece still clung 16 his elbow... ' . Murray auddenly drew a revolver k .nlr., mwtA rmnmnA tir Thm 1 1 u l J , 1 1 v.v w. . v.n 1 1 " m.m-a Wfiltn.i lAft ahouldffr. ahatterlng the bone. Mra Porter, who had remained in tne room, ruanea oui and aeiaed the hand which held the aside and quickly freed, his hand from her grasp. . , s. . . . Trlee to Oet Away. . twii'nv, turaul and started to re treat- Into the houaa - The little girl tried to. aia mm. ikkj). jj iiuhis . V ' .. . r' ' " t'- Sidney Sloan Has Brilliant;Array6f Attorneys Jrying'to iSave Him From HHe -Gallows V for iHis Brutal Crime' . 7 . : ; - ,:'.- ' ' ' " . , I ' , ' -. V ', . (BpeHsl Dlseatoh to Tee Jearatl.) "Spokane, Waah., Nov. 11. Tb trial of Sidney Sloan charred with killing hia father. J. F. Sloan." opened thla morning In Judge Huneke'a oourt Toung Sloan entered ' the court room In the cuatody of Sheriff Doek and oc cupied a aee t with hla counsel. . The defenae will be Insanity. , ' ' - The atate la represented by Prose cuting Attorney Richard M. Barnhart and Deputy Fred . c i'ugn. me ae fens Is handled by Attorney F. C Robertson, who haa engaged th erv Ice - Of many physicians. It ia ex pected that the strongest aggregation of clttsena who aver figured In a mur der trial In a Spokane court room will be in attendance. The witnesses In clude society women and.glrla. educa tors, ministers, expert physicians ana trained nurse, school boy and girls. - The case will consume nor less tnan two weeka and perhaps a month, if the task of eecurlhs a Jury proves arduouer It" men have- been - notified to appear for Jury service. More .tnan I wttneasea will be called by th de BAD VOICE: HAMMERSTEKi; BAD FAITH: DE RESZKE ; Manager and Singer . Disagree and Basso Will Not Warble . in America. ' . Uoerasl Vperlsl ervtee.f New Tork, Nov. ll.--A cable to the Herald from Pari say Jean do Reaik will not appear In New Tork under the management of Hammersteln. D Reeske aaya: ' ' ' . : . "I contracted to alng In grand opera under the management of Hammerstatn, who, however, did not fulfill conditions In the contract and I have canceled the lama I am nogotlatlng for a eeriee of performancM la ts principal citie af it :j scld c:j tlvStzeuS la O -Pt 7-E XT J? fiiV JRi THE .KURDElly and tugging at him. ' Mr. Porter vainly tried to stay the hand of the avenger. Murray fired twice, the bullet enter ing hla .victlm'a back, one penetrating a vital apot Whitney-reeled and stag gered and fell prostrate In the door way. : The UU1 girl pulled nlm partly Inside and tried, to close the door. Mra Pra-tor ruaihad qulckly to hla side and fell f rantlo on the floor beside him.. The, murderer ran rapidly east on Harrison street, but paused at Interval to glance behind. I He ran toward the car line, but It la not known whether he Joined bla mother and sister wno waited for him ror a time.. . ' Gasping ' painfully . In the throea of death, Whitney raised himself on his elbow and made a valiant atruggle to rise. Falling he tried to crawl Into the room, but, quickly exhausted, he fell prone upon the floor, - while the little girl still tried vainly to draw him into the room." His sister; Mra POrter, waa frantic with grief. - ;, ' Mia Syinf Words. ''"":" . " ' Tm abot and dying, but I'd mrary her," he eatd brokenly.- They -were the last words he uttered. A. I Miller, a carpenter, and hla brother .James, who reside , at 18 Skld mor atreet heard the ahota and rushed Into the atreet Seeing the man fleeing rapidly east -on Harrison street after fense; one wttnesa ha already arrived from Boston. He formerly oonducted a school here which Sloan attended. Others have been summoned from Saa Francisco and southern California. - Th state will try to show that Sloan led a wild life, waa addicted to in toxicating llquore and that hla desires to poasees money might have led him to slay hla father. The theory of tb proeecutlon la that th crime waa com mitted by young Sloan In tne belief that hla father waa la possession of (00 and that robbery was the pur pose of the crime. Sidney Sloan will bo It year old a week from today. The crime waa com mitted August 17, when, It' la alleged, Sidney attacked his father -wtill the latter waa eating and struck him down with an ax. - After mutilating the body ha dragged It down a flight of stairs, placed It In a wheelbarrowt and left It oa a rubbish pile In an alley. Then he returned to the house and proceeded to-clean - op the--room, which - waa pattered' with blood. He 'res arrested th following day. ; - , Europe during the coming .winter.' At the conclusion of this engagement 1 msy possibly visit America, but under, no olrcumatancea will 1 alng under the management of Hammersteln." Hammersteln said last night It was Edouard de Reaeke who would be ml Ing from his. grand opera company. He also explained that the trouble reeulted from the fact that De Reazke'a voice waa In bad shape. Hammeratetn heard about tt and cablrd De Reexke that an leaa bla voice waa up to requtrvmenta he need not 'come. Then the basso gav out the Parle interview, i - - SUICIDE PACT ENDS r SUSPECTED MAN'S LIFE -. 11 " 1 " r -',-'; ' . (Jaornat f)(wlal rrce. " Owosso. Mich., Nov. 11. Brt Seely. who Is suspected of killing Edwin Fai rer, a farmer, who was ambushed, was found drsd la bed this morning bealde his dead wife, both having taken poison, viSantljr aa result of a sulold past 12f 1806 FOURTEEN PAGES. ' ' -' PRICE TWO . a. 'I I A ttrH leaving the Porter residence, they hur ried to the place. They ralaed the dying mam Min th. flnstr And tilared him on a lounge. Then they called Dr.' Beamann and Coroner Flnley Was nourieo. Murray boarded ' the first car for jinwn i Alivhtlnsr at Third ' and Morrison he walked quickly to the courthouse and inquired ror tne sheriffs nff tee. - Deputy Sheriff Harry Bulger waa in the office at the time and looked : up curiouely aa a' young man. excited and peraptring freely, en tered.'' ,...,.'. r-t -1m this the sheriff a : officer' he asked. . ' . ., '.-' "it la." renlled the deputy. "What can I do for your. Alvea wdmeelf TTo. "Nothing; I've come to give myself .. w k. tm VIIIajI a man who refused to marry my alster.. Hera's He drew from hla pocket a .l-caltbra Colt'a revolver, In which there were three empty ebambera He handed the eaWaisawaAea in ft h nfflar and etood waltlnc. He waa Immediately searched and re moved to th county Jail. Ther ha re peated hla aeeertiooB to Deputy District Attorney Moser. to whom he made a wvmo,A ,nri AtmiA Minfeaelon. ' Deputy Coroner Arthur L. Flnley ar rived at the acene of the crime soon after ha waa notified. The body was removed to the morgue and an Inqueat will be held at 7 o'clock 'this evening. Mr. Flnley Interrogated a number of persona- at the Porter residence with reference o the tragedy. Among the number were A. Z and Jamea Miller, George Bieloh and other nelghbora. ,Tlotla Was Touag. . , . Lincoln C. Whitney, the victim In this morning's tragedy, waa 11 years of age and resided at Hubbard, this atate. He arrived in Portland on Friday and waa visiting hla eleter.- MreA. M. Por ter, tto East Harrison street He had known the woman In the case for two yeara and feared that an attempt would be made to fore him to marry her, ao- (Continued on Page Two.) WILL JOIN THE DQWn AND OUTS AT TERM'S EHD Mr. Roosevelt Makes Final An nouncement of Determination , to Keep Out of Presidential Fight, Recalling Fate of Mr. Cleveland as a Reason. ! Unnrest gperlsl arlee. Wsshlngton, p. C, Nov. 1 l.Preel dent Roosevelt 1 being entirely elimi nated from the national contest two years hence by hla intimate friends here, who declare that prior to hla de parture for Panama he repeated hTfc firm determination not to be a candi date for reelection. Mr. Roosevelt's latest emphatic declination of another term waa made during a political eon-, ferenre at the White House. H made It plain and unequivocal that no combi nation of clreumaUnces could Indue him to become a candidate for reelec tion. - '" - Severar"Tqmlnent" public - men -wer present having called to spend the even ing, and the president's declaration came while they were apeaklng about the next Republican nominee. One of the visitors had alluded to the frequent suggestlona that Rooeevett would be the logical man to head the ticket and that elicited from him a candid atate ment concerning hla sentiment on th subject The president ssld that while he n preclated the compliment implied 1n the' proposal that he be a candidate to succeed himself, and realised that It waa made In good spirit, his decision to re tire' at the conclusion of his present term was irrevocable. Moreover. Insofar -ss fame was on cerned he we certain he could'achleve no more than he had already acquired, and then there was the chance that the popular esteem he now enjoyed might reach the vanishing point aa happened In the case of President Cleveland be fore he concluded his second term. The president stated that ha wa not ao poeseeacd of self-esteem aa to believe the policies he haa been pursuing oouM not bo carried to their logical conrlit elon by hi uccessor, whpsjvar may be. , ' Officials JVorK-on Jheory-Jhat Actual Contracts Existed Between Hen Un der ; Investigation by Federal Officers and Persons Vhom They Furnished with Funds to Commit Fraud rr. : Thst actual contraeta and tacit under standings to buy existed in many in stances between the men now under In vestigation by the federal land officers at Pendleton and the person whom they furnished with 'funds to purchase the land aa nrovided bv the Fulton act Of July, 101, la the theevV upon whtelvf the inquiry, reported exclusively In yes- terday'a Sunday 'Journal, Is now being pushed forward. : . ' - The land In question, which It Is sup posed waa taken for the benefit of W. J. Furnish, Colonel J. II. Raley, Tom Thompson, Frank Curl and John Crow, prominent residents of Umatilla coun ts, consists of between 40,000 and 10.. 000 aerea of government land left over from th tirat aale held by the govern. ment about 111, at the time when th Umatilla reservation waa diminished by act of congress. It waa land which, 4a IStl. was not thought to be worth much over ths estimate of -the government of from 11,11 up, but which waa proven by squatter possession and cultivation to be valuable as agricultural land and which in many Instance can not now be purchased for much less than 1100 an acre. :. "' . ' ;' - '' . ; ' Mow Flot Was Formed. The story told by some of those who filed upon the land, and who have either proved up or relinquished) according aa they were caught by the Investigation, la that the plot to corral the landa waa engineered some 10 years after the first sale. C. B. wade, now . notorious as the defaulting csshler of the First National bank ' of . Pendleton, whoaa sensational failure In 1004 startled the banking clr clea of the atate, la alao brought Into the present land trouble In an indirect manner by the Investigations. Along with him comes John Vert st that time an employe of the bank, who had much to do with looking after titles and mort gages for the Institution, and also Wil liam Rahe. Wade's fsrm manager, who waa well known In Pendleton. The number of people Induced to (lie on these claims, either - under a tacit contract to purchase or to lease for an extended term of years. Is estimated as high aa too by those who have been fol lowing the Investigation, though thla may Include a considerable number of people who entered upon the lands In good faith and who followed . the re quirements of the law as to residence and other technicalities. ' According to th story told the inves tigators by those who have filed on dif -: 'i.-.'-., ., ... - vfr-' ... '.'. e;'': ;'$i...'PH'tr ' '-iA ' " ",-r ';-::' ',v:' - ' V ' yi-y - ' v. ;.-.V,''... ., t ' 1 .l'.iV;,' 1 , W. J. rurnich, Whose Name I Mtntionti ia Cc: JU-i rr :i l.-.;'7. Journal Circulation CENTS. S ; g?"?, ferent claim. John vert ana wniiam Rahe approached a number ef persona, in some Instances women, all mora or less well known In Pendleton and vi cinity, and told them-that under tha Fill, in . nt th. l.nH. were MM tA u try at th government a estimated value of 11.25 or more, according to their Ion cation.- The two men represented that the lands would be a good Investment to any one, and further that ther were wealthy men In Pendleton who would advance tne sums necessary to secure title to th properties. . . tlons that the government waa not par ticular a to tha observance of aoma of the little technicalities of the land laws, that residence would not be necessary and that there would be no need for the claimants to loae apy tlma by filing prospective purchasers -were- also -grreit ta understand that tba land would b Continued on Page Two.) CANINE AERONAUT CAUSES SERIOUS ACCIDENT Dog Attached to Escaping Bal t loon Gets Tangled in Ropes, ' Which Are Cut. ' . (jearaai special newee.) Mount Verno'a. 111.. Nov. 11. Six by atandera were Injured, two seriously, In a balloon ascension here yesterday. A core of persons were knocked down aa the balloon shot up Into the air. Tha accident was caused by the top pling over of a heavy pole used to sup' port the balloon while It was being filled. - The pole, which ' waa tumbled Into tha crowd of bystanders, was up set . by a dog that Professor Wasson had tied to a small' parachute and at tached under the balloon, near hla own. The balloon ahot. upward at an angle and threw the dog Into tha network of ropea that supported tha pole. Ia hia confusion Professor Wesson cut ' loose the parachute carrying the dog before It waa 10 feet In the air and the animal fell yelping Into tha shouting throng. - V. v A'.