The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, November 15, 1906, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDR. STEPHEN S. VI5E BEGINS A SERIES OF INTERESTING LETTERS in SUNDAY'S JOUr.i.- - -GOOD BY EH I HG 7(j Journal Circulition --JUla md cooler tonight f Friday oc casional rain; .' strong aonthwtst breese, diminiahlng tonight VOL. V. NO. 218. "PORTLAND., OREGON, THURSDAY ;' EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, , 1906. TWENTY PAGES. PRICE ' TWO CENTS. U&SmAYSKS S All DE i .... , , ., " . " 1 i , i. , : t Mm TIE UP ALL RAILROAD -T--, ". 1 ' - . - . i.JiiiiM .1' i i t iu- - ! VAITAIE COUNTRY ALL STRERSItS OVERFLOW wmRmrowmsuBMERGEn ill Si : ' a . : .. For First Time in His tbry City $ Practic ally isolated by Flood and Slides -ff t ' NoFa through train will coma Into ", or so out of Portland for two or thro daya,' excepting tb California overland tralna that are trataafarrad over; the ' Corvallla Kaatern between Albany and Shallburn. For th flrat. time In th history of th rallroade entering , thla city every mala Una la - out and ' th city la practically isolated. ,Tele graph and telephone lines are aleo "down, and there la -no communication " ' between Portland and tb sound. Th rain that have been falling weat "' Of the ' Caaead range, coupled with ' flfoda from t mountain inowi melted by the chlnook .wind of th laat few - daya, have filled every mountain atream teVjUa-waafc. tap, and lav many cases -,. averflowed them. Thla morninff be tween t and .T o'clock the Northern , . Paelfle bridge aver tha Toutl fiver at fUequa went out. Sometime between he same hour a biff landslide moved .down the ' water-soaked mountainald ' at Dodaon'a station, four mllea weat . of Bonneville, and covered aeveral hun dred vards of the main- llnof the O. R."aV N. shutting iff train operation.' . Two overland train of tha O. R. at N. company due . In . Portland are allde- . bound at Bonneville.- Two northern Pa ... etfle through tralna are alao held there. Thla morning- General Manager J. P. "" O'Brien left In hie prtvat car for th ecene of th trouble. General Superin tendent Buckley and Division -Superln-tendent Campbell, who went east over the Una last night, ara at Bonneville, , but were unabl to get into telegraph ofnmunieaUon avlth Portland thla for, noon on account of the-carrying down of tha telegraph line by the slides. - It la probable that thla afternoon ar- rang ementa will be completed for trane- (Contlnued on Page Two.) HEAD CRUSHED -TO PULP WHEn PRESS SUPS Frederick Heinz Meets Sudden and Terrible Death at Printing Plant, of Deutsche Zeitung While Working in v Concrete Pit for New Press. ' - Frederick Helns of tlS Hood street, a cement worker In th employ of Hola t Krouee. contractors, wis Inetantly killed ; thla morning; while at work. His head v was crushed between th edge of a foundation pit that he was preparing for a biff printing press, and th aide of th press, which fell upon htm. Tha .accident happened, early thla . morning In tha : pressroom of th Deutsche Zeltung at Second and Salmon atreeta. Helna had Just commenced . work aqd waa down In tha concrete pit - to nnlsn, aom concrete -work. Two praamn were at work setting up th press and commenced to run tha 1,000' pound eastlnff forming the aide af thJ . press Into place over th foundation pit. when th gray iron slipped off the rollers, throwing th mass of Iron out '"of plumb and beyond th power of tb . workmen. Before Helns could move th heavy casting had fallen upon-hrm, catching ' hi head between It and th concrete edge of th pit and crushing It to t . pulp; tl waa at once removed from the pit. but never moved or spoke after being struck. The "body waa removed to the ' Hoi man undertaking establish ment and relatives notified, Helns waa . married but had no children. II waa about 40 yeara f age. ., An' Inquest on the body of Helns will be held tomorrow morning. - It 1 re- - ported that A. a. Webber, who had th contract for Installing the press, did not employ a single man experienced In handling heavy machinery, and that the t.iOO-pound base which crushed Helns' head waa handled In a careleaa manner. The Inqvest ha been called by Coroner 1 . Flnley to ascertain th truth f these reporta. ' , , aUanaUOB at a'elook. - Rain ceasing with - proapeota - 4 that worst is vr. Kvery . main Una of . railroad anlerlnff Portland out. ' e Only tralna entering; Portland ' are from south via CAD. e) . O. JR. N. blocked, by land- allda at Bonneville. , . northern.- Paclflc and - Great e Northern paralysed by washouts - and sUdea. .' Willamette and Columbia rla- e tnff rapidly. : .. . , . 4 Small streams out of banka e Rivers In western Waahlngton" e 'on rampage. - Castle Rock and k other towna submerged. e Northern .Paelfla Toutlo river e bridge carried out.' 4 .' Drawbrldg near Kelso carried ':lu wire to Seattle, Tacoma, Astoria and northern , polqt e xrown. d Loggers and farmers ' sustain - heavy loeaee. . j. . a) BY HEAVY STORM Precipitation Already This fylonth Exceeds - Average and More ""Rain Is Predicted for the Re nalning Days of November- Seattle Getting Hers, Too.' Enough rain has already fallen alnc tha flrat of the month to exceed th average for the whole month by more than an Inch, Thla waa discovered by District Forecaster Beats thla morning waen- he went r-4-moq r -the -amount that fell during th night He waa sur prised to find exactly 1.11 Inches, all of which came down between th tiotrr ef ttO'olock laat night and o'clock this morning, when it practically quit rain ing. The heaviest - showers fell be tween I and 11:30 laat night, when, th clouda got fearfully'1 busy and just poured down, to. the great discomfiture of those who wcr out bunting; missing atreetcara.' . , - . Tha average , rainfall for. the antlr month of November la C.7S inches.- Al though only, half of the month ' has elapsed tha records at the weather bu reau show that 0.97 Inches, or very nearly 1 J nchea ha ve already fallen since th first of th month.' .Thus, should the wet weather continue, th month would, stand an excellent chance of getting down on tha record as tb wettest in the history of th city. No vember f waa tha wetteat day In th month, Th precipitation during those 14 hours an t.io inches, or about on tenth of an inch an hour. - ' , Mr. Beals aays it waa not very stormy last hlght, Tiotwtthstan11nr the state ments of those who mieeed th last car to the contrary, for the highest ve locity of tha wind was to miles an hour1 it 7 p. m. After that th wind grad ually died down to what a Bailor man would consider a ntc steady . breese, fine for fair sailing. . . - Kara Bala Tdlet4. - ' '' Although th sun came out for a few minute thla afternoon, Mr. Beala atlll predict more rain for tonight.- He bold out hop for a somewhat clearer day tomorrow, however, and tha strong southerly breese of today is expected to diminish towards evening. . Th recant ralna - have ' caused th Willamette to rise considerably .: and it will continue to encroach upon Its bank until Saturday, whan Mr.' Baals (Continued on Page Two.) Found " LOST Lmij't watch, Tuesday rrnln, ea Wblnftnn between Third ea aeventk . tt. inTttal "H. H. W." eaae. R. rnre I" tM. TbllL Beware. LOHT 1I' M wtteb aaa eerkpte wtta aame. setweea Merbaale and'MaDbatUa ..(.. ea Vnloa in sortb. itetura to am HHnhHa et. and reolve reweM. Uitt ticker apealel iwwerlag to bane if M"l eotlar act with blue etonn and .Ueeaae ta Ml.i. Reward U retwawd te - A. (irttber. 1M Tarb at. fcOST The peraua whe fnond the In-bet and ebala at the White Temple Suilar -. aiaht. Ortnber 2. alll pleaae retera ta an mtb at. . . : Toi'ND Hull of eallhnat. fat aame la : quire foot of Coluwbla et.. For eMitlesal "teat" sad "TaA" tara Is the OlaeaUed Fa-e ef this taper a always reataaiber If yea aver tad' amy tbhat, II eeatt wul aavertlee it U bM.e reader, a4 the briaff aheat te rlghtfe! 1. JOURNAL, PubUcity - Hits the Spot "BIAS fonVAL CtAJainiM. NOVEMBER RAH! RECORD SMASHED Lost FLEE FOR SAFETY TO Castle Rock ; Is Sub merged Men Busy Wth-Bpats Saying 9 Families From. Flood (gpedal tMipatrh te Tb JoarsaL) , Castle Rock, Wash., Nov. 16. At noon. The water is still rising and th town la nearly aubmerged. The atreeta and hotels are full of homeless people and It la thought that before night tha whole town will hav to go to th hill and leav their homes. , Men. ar busy with boats, saving- bouses and cattle and moving families. Two car loads of people ara blocked here. The Cowllts liver still continue - to rle at th rat of about two inchea an-' hour. -- Th - drawbridge between Kelso and Catlia went out at I o'clock thla morning. Tha bridge cost 118.000. It waa owned by a company consisting of Dr. R. F. Johnson of Caatl Rock, Dr. F. M. Bell. Dr. J. Ballard, Messrs. JT, M. Feldler, Martin trsen, 8. f. Beck and J. H. Robb. -I..;. '' Voutla aUver Brldff. Th drift ha been lodging" against tha pier for aeveral days but until laat night they were able to keep it reason. ably clear by using a donkey angina ThlaTnornlng 4" large raft of log struck tha bridge and tha pressure . was too great, la about ,30 . seconds it was down." ' ' i ..''. :.. - Th- Northern Paclflo bridge across th Toutl river, three milea north of Castle Rock, la out thla morning and no tralna ara moving, all wires are down and no communication with th north can be had. It la estimated that f 100,000 will no more than cover 'the loss of logs and shingle . bolts, aa the biff boom at tha mout:i of tha COwlltx broke yesterday and let all ffo Into the Columbia, The heavy' rain of laat night will caua th water to rise for another twelve houra Fooda aye -reported in th following river nortn of .here: Cowllts, Newau kura, Chanalia, Bkookum, Deachutea, xilsahally, Puyallup, Duwamlah, White, Cedar, Snohomish, Stlllaquamiah, Ska git and Nooksack. - . . SANTIAM VERY HIGH -' , ; . ' , f -' Jeffereoa Brldgework Swept Oat gas deraoa Bridge U Saag-er. -r (Special Dtapatek to Tha Jonreal.) Albany, Or., Nov. H. The Bantlanr Is three feet- higher than heretofore, and has waahed away the temporary work begun at, th Jefferson bride by th Southern Paclflo -in their endeavor to open trafflo between here and Portland. The Sanderson bridge la in danger and the Willamette river her Is higher than at any tlm this season. Rain have fallen Incessantly, and the whole country la a quagmire. WIND AT EUGENE r Tree aad Tenoea Blowm Bovra Sivar BOffavUttl) mala. (Special Dlapateh to The loeraal.) ICugen. Or., Nov. lt.-r-A heavy -wind storm occurred early thi morning, but no great damage resulted. Several windmills, trees and fence were blown down. Tha fiver la eight feet ' above low water mark, the hlgheet thla year, cauaed by the warm weather of tha past few daya melting tb snow In th mountain. But little- rain ha fallen here.- - COLUMBIA RISING V early Tour Ft Bis ta Past Twenty. Four Xoura at Taaooaver. (PpMlaU Dtroatrb to Tb Jneraal.) Vancouver, a l Nov. IS. .The Co lumbia rlvor at thi place I rlelng rap idly and Indications point to extremely hlsh water. In the paal 14 houra the river baa risen three feet seven Inch and It la still rising at the sain rapid rata. . V . . ,. . Much drift wood Is running end "rep-iris from the wrper river ar ta th effeet that th email streams emptying Into tha Columbia ar badly awollen and lit - many casea are out-, ef - their banka . The wind her blew at th rata of 10 to 31 milea an hour for several hours laat night. Femes along several of the county roads ara down and a few tele thon and telegraph pole ar reported down. Numerou croeaed wires caused considerable trouble with the telephone aervico, . , - if Fire at Oorey. ' (tpertal ptaprtrb te T( JeernaLt Corey, P., Nov. 15. Th Standard Chair Work at Union City burned to day aa -th loa (Tat 1J 0,009. '. -hv -J ; ,V l!:J '... .:C; :1 British Bark IveTna, From Photo by Daviea. ; ' k v , Th fact that a biff storm raged off th safety of th British bark Iverna, Government Begins: Trust UIT TO DISSOLVE 01 0nLYS80,00Q10E RELIEFFUND17AS GIViEN SUFFERERS Mayor's Office During Early Days . of Fire Turned Oyer" I Small 4-Amount of Money Received Thirty Thousand J'ostoffice Records Being Scanned. (Joaraal peetal ilee.t '-- i San Francisco, Nov.- IS. Th govern ment agents of the Secret Service di vision inspired by the "indorsement given by Roosevelt are atlll delving Into grsft alleged to have been worked 'on contribution from other atatea intend ed for sufferers from tha calamities of laat April A alight Idea of the magnitude of th labor the federal authorltlea hav un dertaken may M gained from a state ment that tba 'investigation will -- In volve th examination of the record of 10.000 poetofflce throughout th coun try, to trace money forwarded through theae office In small and considerable sums. In some Instances paper cur rency waa inclosed In envelopes and sent aa ordinary mall. Thla class of remittance la very, difficult to trace. Registered packages roatalnlns; bank notea were alao extensively used, and these are mora easily followed because of being delivered only on the receipt of the individual to whom tbey war forwarded.-... Money, order were an other form used in- remitting financial aid to San Francisco sufferers. Pack age and. order by xprae formed no Inconsiderable - part of the sums for warded from different parts of tha union la.th early daya of tha city's distress. - What . is being done by Roosevelt In lending the prestige of his name, the werght of his influence and tha assist ance of Heney and Burn to uncovering th local graft situation la due largely to th personal "solicitation of the presi dent's friends In California, among whom are Unlaed States Circuit Judge W. W, Morrow, Benjamin Ida Wheeler of the Stat unlverstty and Fairfax H. Whaelan, civic reformer. " The Tcordot the relief and - fled Cross committee make th following showing of early receipts of' relief: Received from enavor' Office directly, t'11.07: mayor'a office, through R. p. Jennings, 7.tiO; total, t80.7II.31. The charge la freely made by the mayor'a friends that i( any part of the relief fund la missing. Ex-Mayor Fris ian and the relief committee must x-pletn,,--. - ; , . COURT. WILL REVIEW V ICE TRUST DECISIONS ' 4 toorael prtat lewlee t - - Columbus, O., Nov. 11 The supreme court today accepted for review tht rase of three convicted Ire trust men. The cases will b heard later mr-on their merit by a full court, a consti tutional question being Involved . . " - --' - ' -v.-' OVERDUE SHIP IN GREAT STORM.: ii,iiii,,VMi.MU..jtii, ijji.iiM4uweiajjwi'.i'u. wi.im.miiw'.'"ia'.l - V J 'r h jyi; ; tha mouth of tha Columbia last night for which tha revenue cutter Thetis la PROSECUTIONS ST. LOUIS PROSECUTION r, John D. and William Rockefeller, Flagler Archibald, Rogers and ; Others Are Defendants. - Uearaal Bpectal 8rrk. St. IlBlaJKovJlgjr-Tiia-ffOyerpment today began - Ita battle agalnat tha Standard. Oa Company, orwhlch Jt baa been long marshaling it force, and Iliad paper today In United State cir cuit court -of . thla city by direction of Attorney-General Moody . to - have th glgantia trust dissolved. - In support ofJ the plea, tha government presenta an ar ray of. violations of th Sherman anti trust, law,- Including conspiracy, co ercion. Intimidation, rebating and other vicious acta and practice. .. It is the Intention of th president to make this proceeding the crowning achievement of - tha administration's "trust busting" accomplishments. , . - ! Ortaamal Freswatloaa. . ' ' John D. Rocekefeller, William Rocke feller, Henry H. Roger. Henry M. Flagler.. John D. Archibald, Oliver H. Payne and Charles M. Pratt ara all made defendant with th corporation. It la expected that criminal proaecu tton will follow todays action. The bill filed today reviews th history of th Standard "Oil company from 1170 to tha preneat. From tha time, accord ing to bill, when th concern waa a "simple conspiracy" to Ita formation aa a holding company under th law or New Jersey with a capital of over 1150.000.000. controlling mora than to, per cent of . the oil business in all' branches, - Including export, in th United Stat. - . . ' Th complaint alleges violations of tha lawa sine August thla year. It declare that contra ots have been pro cured through threats and Independents eliminated by force of giant strength. It specifies that tha design of tha Rock- (Continued on Pag Eleven.) w rrThefBestf Colord page, comic, special articles, news snd - round ..'''--' - - : .. , . , Among th beet of thfea"tura on Sunday will be sn article by L ; . DR. STEPHEN S. WISL On a aubject of national Interest. Thi la the first of a series of letters from one who le recognised aa a leading rabbi of tha country, . . , OTHLR FEATURES Include a capital lettsr from W. J. Bryan "On old world ffovernment; Mr.' Rills' article on "The America Missionary"; a fins piece of musla by Richmond F. Hoyt. "1 Met You' in My Dream; marvelou ghost stories told by a high church dignitary; what your hand tells of your fortune; fashions, society, music, tfte drama and snorts. , x2Hie 'Sunday Journal Leads All aaway" t -Vv V - ' ' increases the fear of shipping men for now aearchtng. . Nitroglycerine - Was to Be Em ployed to Spread . Death lAm6ngjCuardsaridLiberate X Nearly Two Hundred and Fifty Men In Stripes. (Special Dtepetck te The Joaraal) "Walla Walla. Wash.. Nov. , 15. Ac cording to' members of th special prison commission who were told the story at . tha ' penitentiary, tha prison officials a few daya ago unearthed a plot of three convict to blow up th guard' - quarter - with ; nitroglycerin. The exploalva waa stolen from tha Jut mill and It ; waa to be used to effect tha releaa of nearly 160 convicts aa they war being marched - from th prison to th Jut mill. Warden Klncald denies any knowl edge of th plot, but it ta believed that tha facta, are ' being suppressed. Ac cording to members of tha special com mission they were shown a can of ex plosive which had been concealed In a convict' cell and several place of iron bar intended to b used a weapona. Tha ringleaders expected to. throw the guarda into confusion by a treat x ploston when th break for liberty was to b made. One ringleader waa tricked Into- revealing tha plot by a guard who suspected omthlnff waa up. , , . X evolutionist Sare Mosey. (Jearaal geeelal Sarvlee.) Warsaw. - Nov. - 11. Revolutionists this morning attacked a railway .sta tion at Suchedonlow on th Ptatuia railway, killing fi gendarme on guard and atealllng.a large sum of money, smsshlng furniture, windows and cut ting wlrea All escaped. ... e e e e Everything features ar ta b s. v v : . .'". L OCTOPUS PLOT TO BLOlV OP STATE'S PRISON AT WALLA WALtA WILL GIVE TO STATE Ex-State Printer Baker J5aysHe Has Made; Xnough to- Afford Giving Present Made Fortune Out of Office and Will Tender State the Plant Gratis in Return for the Good- ness of the People In Electing Him.' - " " - -Frank C. Baker, ex-state printer of Oregon, will at tha coming session of the legislature make tha atata a present of hlsf printing plant at Salem, used by tha- state since lSt, when Baker waa elected state printer for th flrat time. He atatea In hla announcement of tha fact that he can well afford to make tha present to tha people since they by hi lection gave him the ' opportunity to make the value of the plant many time over. He says that for eight yeara during- his Incumbency of thtrXofftc ha made $25,000 a year net out -Of tha plant and that recently h offered WU-' Ua S. Iuniway, incoming atata, printer, $10,000 year for the atata printing and the offer waa refused. A Journal reporter caned upon Me. Baker today and aked If ha had read . last night's Journal carefully. -Why, certainly, I read it carefully very evening." waa the response. "And so my friend Dunlway la putting in auit abl material with which to do th state' printing. That's all right. Ha knows his " business. He doesn't-need -to solicit or even pay attention to sug gestions a to how to run a printing; of. fie." ' V "But what about your printlnff man ! teriala now la th state house known aa th stat printing; office plantr ha waa asked.. - -. - wm Make Stat Frent, "I have received an of far from tha Bancroft-Whitney company " of San Franclaoo to rent tha plant, and a far better offer than any propoaitlon Mr. Dunlway made me; but I have not ac cepted that (Company's offer. I am go-, lng to make the state of Oregon a pre ent.of that plant. Why notT la 1880. when elected state prtnter th flrat tlm I waa a clodhopper of a Journeyman t printer earning $25 a week at tha aaa. ' ' Vust think of $25 a week- when om- " F pared with $25,000 a year net, and tor eight years l "Is It worth $25,000 a year nowr Mr. Baker was asked. Ta ltt Why, Juat the other day X f fered Mr. Dunlway $20,000 a year for th office, conditioned, of course, on tha legislature not putting him on a salary. - H declined th offer, aaytnc - - - (Continued on Pag Two.) COUNTY ACCEDES TO REQUESTS OF RAILWAY PEOPLE County Judge and Commissiorv ers Grant Portland V Seattle Company Permission ta Run Road Across ' Two County - Roads on Peninsula. Permission to construct a doubt track . railway across Wtllamatt and Columbia boulavarda, county roads ea th penlnula."waa granted the Portland eV Seattle railway company ' yesterday afternoon by tba county oourt. - Tha railway company, In applying for -the right of way. stated that th road will cross Willamette boulevard awveral feet below Ita grade, but promised ta construct and maintain a safe and suit able bridge acroea ita track for tb convenience of wagon and foot paasen gera At Columbia boulevard th track will crosa tha road slightly above grade, . but tha company promises to raise tb -grade of th county road at th croealng and keep it In good condition. In the order granting the right of way, which waa algned by Juds Wb ster and Commissioner Bhrns a '. Lightner, the railway company 1 -dered to maintain the brMf on ette boulevard and k'-ep tl r Columbia boulevard l.i f Ject to the approval of n Thi means thul ) r alonera have scred-d ' th railroad ! 'n Ii deep cut across i i 1 r A-