THE JOURNAL CARRIED BURJNG THE WEEK ENDING YESTERDAY 10,139 INCHES OF PAID ADVERTISING, LIOUC - THAN ANY PORTLAND PAPER CARRIED IN ANY WEEK BEFORE IN REGULAR ISSUES GOODiVEHIHG JournaljCirculalion THE WEATHER. Rain and warmer tonight; Tuesday rain"; southerly wind.' ' VOL. V. NO. '221. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY " EVENING,; NOVEMBER 19. 1906. TVELVE PAGES.. PRICE TWO CENTS. on Tsnfs ahv mrwm ITAJibe, nvc CUtTft WARRANT IS ISSUED FOR HISARREST L S. Cook Is Sought I by Officials on Charge of Embezzlement and Forgery - Former Superintendent of State Portage Road Acused of Rob bing State by Means of Padded-Payrolls . and - Other- In genious Devices. ; L. 8. Cook. UU superintendent of the stats portage rood at Celllo, is being aoualit by-th -Wasco county - authori ties with a warrant charging Mm with - mbesxlement - and forgery.- Issued by District Attorney Menefee of The Dalles, at the request of State Land Agent Oswald west of Salem. . -.The warrant ooroes as the result- of aa investigation ordered by the state board, which sent West and S. A. Kroser of the secretary of state's orrics to re. lllo on Saturday last to Investigate the office of the portage road superintend ent and take such action as they thought - beet. Steele Smith has been appointed superintendent of the portage road by the state board, and will assume bis po- sltloa as soon as the of floe has . been checked up and ,.as aooounta of Cook straightened out. W. Stewart, who ' until recently h ""bsen.", employed aa engineer on the Portage road, was Instrumental In start- - Ing the Investigation of Mr.JJoos. s or flee. He recently Informed the . stste board that he bad not received the full amount of his elalms for June, July or August after having been awarded them by the stats board In return for his services, .-: ' Troabte of XBff Standing. For some time trouble has been brew lng at the Portaxe road. Superintend ent Frank Smith of the Open River ss "socTatlonndgpefTntenaenToosrtaTrr been at loggerheads and'wwra: on tne road "has been practically . at a stand' till. Hints : repeatedly- came to the ; state board that all was not as it should be In the office of Superintendent Cook and allegations of Incompetence, dis- ( honesty and graft were repeatedly made. The state " board, however, ' considered the rumors and allegations to be the re . suit of jealous gosatp and paid no at' tentlon to them, but upheld Mr. Cook In his work. This attitude was maintained i until last week, when Engineer Btewart told hW atoryr wmn Saturday-the in ' vestfgatlon was started. . Superintendent Smith of the Open . River, association was directed to as sume charge of . Cook's office by the stats board at the same time that Mr. "West and Mr. Kroser were sent to Ce- '. lllo. He reached the place ahead of the two men from Salem, but was refused admittance to the office by Cook. Kro ser, however, took charge upon his ar rival and began checking up the books. especially the freight transactions of the ofttue. ' Payroll Poaad Padded. Mr. ', West began an investigation of the disbursements :of the offlcs and found that the payroll had been padded by Cook; from month to month. The system employed hy Cook was Ingen ious. When he sent In his payroll to the state board he did It by voucher, setting forth the time each man was employed and the wage paid per day. Thesi vouchers apt passed upon by the state board and paid by warrants on the state treasury, the claimant receipting (Continued on Page Two.) LOST! Rewards Offered LOST Wednesday Trains. between Third rn4 Clay sad Sixth and Vontsosiery, sttnlr arrk furs, a rmititi, wlit head en eaia side; reward. 873 Sixth at. 10 T On Williams art., between SeUwood od llrMlllen ata.j lady's until (old watch. Keward at S2t lumbar luxenaace. Tel. WoeOlawa IDA. - U)8T WATCH 410 REWARD. Laat Mnnriay, ledy's (old eloerd-faeed watch and chatalalne pin, Waltham wnrka, 1 diamond chine In raar. ,81 North Sixth s. I kao Mala 1440. LOST Ons mink for, bmn satla Using: kt Friday areolar' between I'rattymaa tnrs to IBM Belmont, Mount Tabor. Re. LOUT roller la New fork Life la name of R. Aoitereon, Return to New lork Lit office. a LOST A seise spsertttnity Is set mains tne laalflen sea la The Jeansl. . FOUND The assoa why JenrnaJ sUaaifMs the stoat nepuaui "Ooet laas tliai oast a ward. ' rir a rontlnnailon e tnen - "Utata" tnrn to the elaeelflee: sages sad watrft tbr.e pet-re dally. HIS RflONEV; THEN DIES Man Who Made Fortune in Alaska Drinks Acid in a Portland Lodg- - ing- House Digs Ten Thousand From Nome GoUT Fields, Spends It, and Takes His Own Life in Fit of .'. "Remorse . Leaves No, - Letter of Explanation. After squandering $10,000 which he had dug out of .the Nome gold fields, J. N. McLeod," who-ls - said to-have wealthy parents In Prince Edward Island, ended his life In Portland this morning by swallowing- two ounces of carbolic acid, Out of work and money, and suffer ing from the dread hallucinations of delirium tremens, McLeod arrived In town, last night from Tacoma. In com' pany with. J. P. Llttlefleld, who was also once a Nome miner. The two en gaged a room together at the Lewis and Clark house, at Sixth and Irving streets, Llttlefleld awoke at 7:45 this morning to find his companion gone. . He arose and-a few minutes later met McLeod on the comer below, handed him a dollar and told him to I o and get his break. fast - With this dollar McLeod hurried to a. drug . store, bought a - five-ounce bottle of acid, then returned ' (o the Lewis and Clark house and paid the landlady the night s rent. - Partner Plods Body. Ascending to his room on the third floor. McLeott -slipped - tiff hie shoes, lay down on the bed and poured nearly half Ihe burning contents of the bottle down his throat. He made no outcry, and his death struggle was heard by no one. . It was left to- Ills partner to dis cover the body when he returned to the room at, tt;4U. When" Llttlefleld opened the door and saw McLeod lying face upward on the bed he ' suspected nothing HI. In the dim light he could see the glint of the glased eyes and thought they were look ins; at htm. McLeod had not been feel ing well the night before.- ' "How are you feeling this morning any better?" asked Llttlefleld. Then he turned on the elnrtrla bulb and saw that his friend was. dead. Spent Bis Fortune. Llttlefleld says that he met McLeod about two- yar ago-when the-latter arrived from Alaska, after a successful season's work.. The suicide quickly blew in his money and last summer he worked In logging camps In Washing-, ton, joining the Royal Loggers' asso ciation. Llttlflfleld met him again in Seattle a week ago. McLeod bad been on a long spree and his friend paid his fare to. Tacoma and then to Portland. The two were planning to ship aa la borers to Arizona,, but McLeod .was down-hearted and had, during the spree. was after him trying to kill htm. "The Orange men are after me. I'm no Orangeman, nor Catholic. My folks fBtrlsbyteTlBn8,iorcrodto-1ils friend, as they were, on their way "to Portland Jest night. . The dead man was 41 years of age. He left no message to explain why he committed the deed. Coroner FIndley arrived soon after the discovery of the body and took charge of It He will try to get Into communication with the dead man's parents, who are said to be well-to-do peoplau of . Kerwell, Prince Edward Island. , WHITE R1BB0NERS GREETED BY LIQUOR DEALER Extraordinary EpiSbde Disturbs " Ranks " of World's Woman's Christain Temperance Union (Jonrsal BDaelat Sarvtco.) -Boston. Nov, !. Trouble Is brewing In white ribbon circles because of a re markable episode at the World's Wom an s Christian Temperance union con vention recently held In this city, when woman who is a Joint holder of a liquor license was selected by the na tional president of the Woman's Relief corps to present sisterly greetings and banket of roses to the tempersnce ordr. The woman who presented ths roses is Mrs. Lue Stuart Wadsworth, Junior vice-commander of the Massachusetts Woman's Relief corps. Bhe was dele gated to the duty by Mrs. Carrie K. BparkHnTOf -fit.'- Ixmtav president of the national body of the rellnf corps. It Is the custom of ths temperance union In national or world conventions to Invite congratulations from other organisa tions of women having religious or philanthropic purposes. It is snlT wr. Yvadswrth and her husband Jointly hold a first-class liquor license In this city, under the name of K. IS: Wadsworth A Co. Bhe aays sll the talk Is being made by people who are Jealous ff the honor conferred on her by Mrs. 'parkUn, DESreiC77!E 1MTEI?S I T ' ' "v-' 7 - c- T i - y r - , : t ' i ' ' . ' 1 fc ......v,.-..k -.( -nw.-Vfii iifTrVuftfffTrififr.r--'-'-- " w- lJ-if : :.. y . . ., .: : . ' .; ' , : ;. A . : , .- Boating ton The Meadows, Seattle's . " 1 ' ' " 4 , ' Famous Race Track. ' . I- - - ' - BOMB HY HAVE f ; -L PjLal" BEEN INTENDED FOR POPE PIUS Terrible Explosion Causes Panic in World's Most Beautiful Cathedral. Rome, and There Is No Clue to Perpetrators of Outrage. (Journal Special BwTlca.) Rome, Nov. -1. The history of the Cathollo church may be searched ' In vain for the record of an outrage that matches In Infamy tha one perpatrated In St. Peter's yesterday, when a bomb was exploded in the grandest edifice dedicated to religion in the world. The last mass had Just been finished; a canon, standing near the beautiful sltsr nf Rt retertU-nedwJ,th,Ullfted norms to bless tne communicants, when with a roar that echoed through the lofty arches like rumbling thunder, and which shook the. walls of the magnifi cent structure a bomb exploded.. ' The panic was Instantaneous, fearful. Women and children shrieked in terror; men dashed for the doors, shoving snd pushing- ss If chased by death; many people, paralysed by fear, threw them selves on their knees and prayed for help. Although the force of the explosion threw-the officiating- canon away from the altar, he was. the first to regain his presence of mind. ' Fear not! Do not stir!" he cried. "It is nothing but the noonday gun." But the terrorised people paid little heed to his words. A dense cloud of smoke burst from the very steps of the altar, and the thick, choking odor of powder drove out the sweet breath that had been exhaled from the censers. People Plffbi to Escape. As the worshipers rushed toward the exits, cTBajot angnlBh Krrjss on alt" sides, and it waf"bVileved that the fly ing missiles from the bomb had Injured manyJThpeorjlei.nearest the altar fought desperately to escape from smtd the smoke, and , their cries reached the street and caused the people outside to try to get In, where they stemmed the tide of fugitives and added to ths con fusion and dread. , The great else of the church was all that saved the thousands of worahlpeTs, who, finding they could hot press through the crowd -In front, scattered In sll 'directions and- made their way - to the various exits. But for five minutes the panic was fearful, and how all In that - vast cathedral escaped without fatal Injury Is beyond comprehension. When the smoke had slowly ascended, and had been lost amid ths loft? arches of 8C Peter's, calm was restored and the people sought the street In an orderly manner. Examination showed that no one had been seriously hurt snd then IhvesrigattoTr waar trmrte of the' cause of the explosion. The bomb. It was found, had been placed Inside a scaffolding erected for men who had been repairing the roof Just over the tomb of Clement XIII, ' prohably the jnost celebrated In the basilica, and which represents a figure of the pope' snd two lions; this group made the reputation of Canovae. The beautiful tomb was uninjured and the tesselated pavement on which the bomb had exploded whs but little damaged. The scaffold was burning, but thekflre was toon extinguished. Parts of the-bnmb shoiaed thst It was of crude make, and It la supposed that ths fuse must have been very long, as no one but the church dignitaries had been near the spot wbere it was found for some time before the erploslon. Ths Pops Prays for Miscreant. What adds to the horror of the out rage Is the thought that perhaps the bomb waa Intended for Tope I'lus X, who it had been stated waa In pray. At St. Peter's In ,r 7' f 'NV i 1 ' . .!.," .' ' . rr s ' 7k. iLh.TnL.iii vtrr vterdVroTrWi meenrtig tliii and -aftr-thor4 of the baslllcs to Ht. Peter. It was this announcement that took the great crowd to tha cathedral. At the laat moment his holiness was indisposed. The pope was In prayer when he heard the muffled found of the explo sion, which . caused him surprise, , bu( no alarm. He waa Informed of ths nut rage by Monsignor Mlsclabelll, sab- Continued aa . Jr"M " . : ' ' t i 1 J .. .... II i rf ' I aMn ni l lilISi Ken It an t a aJStatiia .,i,.-Jaa...i.t--yfaigt. Street STUPEFY Drugged Plumber, AwakesWith Throbbing Brain to ' Rnd Trunk Smashed'Open and All His Money , and Valuables Cone. With-his throat parched and swollen and his head aching from tha effects of a powerful anaesthetic administered by i liurglar. n. rnnatrrian, a plumber re- siding at SS North Park street, awoke this morning to find that during the ntjtht he had been robbed of all his most valuable possessions, . Chrlstman, upon arising, oould hot un derstand what made- him so dlsxy or caused ths soreness of his throat. In asmuch aa he had retired at a season able hour and In a perfectly normal con dition, until he glanced about his a pert inent. A cork from a medicine bottle. still bearing a faint odor of chloroform, and an open trunk with a broken lock, mutely testified to ths visit of a daring thief. Further examination showed that a diamond ring, a diamond stud, a gold watch snd fob, t SB in cash, a purse con taining several silver coins, a leather suitcase and all of his clothes were missing. Chrlstmsn, still visibly affected from tha feloniously administered drug, made tils way to police headquarters and re ported the sensational incident. De- tectlves were- Immediately detailed en the esse and are now searching for a suspects : Thief Heard by sTelrhbom. Unsuspecting tnat his life waa to be placed In Jeopardy and all his valuables stolen, before moraine;, Chrlstman re tired about 11 o'clock last'nlght. About I o'clock this mornlnj persons occupy ing adlolnlng rooms heard some one moving about In Chrlstman's room, but had no suspicion that s thief wu at work. The room In which the crime' was committed Is on the second floor of the house snd although the window was found to be open from the top this morning It Is. thought that the burglar ' effected an entrance through the door by- forcing ths lock with a pair of nippers. Chrlstman does not remembeV hear ing any unusual sounds after retiring. It Is the theory of the police that the crooks sfter silently opening the door. cautiously made his way to the bedside will! ruin vi v . " 11 , wm- aesthetlsed Chrlstman: I With, the occupant of the room thor oughly under the effects of ths drug, the thief then set about to gather his plunder without far of detection. That he did not work -hurriedly la evidenced by ttw fact that after taklnf tha Jewel ry the thief broke open the trunk and purloined ail of tha clothing it cor Ulnsd ; THIEF EMPtOYS CHLOROFORM TO - - ' ' v - ,,.,...,,... J . ....- I 1 Scene in South Psrk, Suburb, of Seattle. nn irriTP lilCli UDJCUIO 0F1TTACK1Y Eight Have Been Held Up by Highwaymen Within the Past Eight Days and Not One of Them Screamed or Fainted When Robbed. Ths ungallanlry of the Portland hold up man Is scandalous. Within the past eight days no fewer than eight women have been ths object Cf . thaattentlon; of holdup-men. Thftiatest reported n Mrs. B. A. Oraharwr wife of a solicitor who lives st West Park snd Tayloi streets, and Miss Srhlndler, whose horn Is at 4S5 CWy street. A werk ago last Saturday night Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Donald were stopped by a man with a gun on Tenth street and Mr Donald was relieved of $26. In stead of embarrassing the robber by screaming, Mrs. Donald put him at his ease by adjuring her husband not to make any trouble, and even by putting her own hands Into his pockets and rummaging around for cash to give to the footpad. It -was aiscoverea unlike their sisters of other cities, Port land women do not scream when held up. and then began a series of robberies of women only, or women accompanied by their husbands. n- Thur.rinv nlsht three women, Mrs. W. B. Prowel. M1ss Msbel Hodgers and Miss Harriett Waterhouse, wer held on the east side. Miss Waterheuse and Miss It6deis were held-p-Ai-ihe point of a pistol snd renevea oi m nmuu sum of money. A Ilttlsr earller-iw-the) evening a thief snatched a fold watch and chain from Mrs. Prowel and made off with It. Friday night a thug, who videntlv knew there were no men In the houso, tried to- force an entrance to the home of Mrs. X v. King on Missis sippi avenue. Mrs. King wss alone with her niece. Miss Alleen Tatom. and would undoubtedly have fared ill at the handa of the criminal had not she been quick-witted enoush to summon a male neighbor hy telephone. In no case) did any of the women scream. ' At li:J o'clock last night Mr. and Mrs. Oraham were scortlng Miss Schtndler to her boms. At Fourteenth and Clay struts a man stepped from ths shadows and ordered the trio to throw Up their hands. The women complied. lut Oraham leaped to' one al4e. Intending to grab a stone and Slve battle. Ths thug snappea tne piaioj m fac and 4ad- lt-notmlse4. fire iuuuct iwm iuiiiwj "u .. . . street, his show of reslstencs having saved Oraham a considerable sum of money he had upon his person. Ths women did not scream and would have been easy to handle had It not been for the resistance of Omhsm. Ths police were notified and half a doxen officers were sent to ths Scene, but there waa no Indication that the robber had Uure4 la Uie vloUdtx. ump.irri PORTLaNDTHLIGS FloodsSubside and the People Learn What the Worst Storm of a Decade Cost Them"" Losses Great, but Sufferers Are Hopeful, as They See Chance - to Get on Dry Land, Which Is ' Appearing Everywhere but at Arlington. (Special Dlanatch to Tbt Joornal.) Tax-oma, Nov. Not In the mem ory of the oldest Inuian on the Puyall up reservation has- there been a flood aj Jaa.sssr'ssl to compare with tha present disastrous freshets that- have tied up traffic and done incalculable damage to property and in many oases seriously endanger ed life In the river vajleyjstrjjq nia'e P"t th. -vnrennigTon: Astretch of water three or four miles wide extends east, and south of Tacoma, covering the entire rich Puyallup valley. The mills and factorleson the tide flats are ahut down on account of being Inundated. Great damage has been done in the valleys of ths Black. White, Stuck. Puyallup and Nlsqually rivers, where fatms were Inundated, horses and. cat tle In many Instances drowned, and houses flooded until many families es caped on .hastily Improvised rafts by narrowest margins. ., - . Ths course of the Puyallup i river changed in four different places near Tacoma, and cut wide channels through garden lands and rich farms. The same Is true of ths WWte. especially the Stack, and also the Nlsqually river. Three miles of ths Milwaukee rail road grade between here and Sumner lavs been badly damaged by ths floods, snd In some places ths embankments lavs been ..entirely obliterated. Six Miles of the tracks of the 8eattle-Ta-coma tnterurban electelo 11 ne between 'acoma and Sifmner are under from two to four feet of water. Culverts, trestles and In many cases ths tracks have been washed .away. Ths officials of the . road have announced that they (Continued on Page Two.) For the Week The following Is ths advertising Portland, for the week ending with j, Local Display . . . Foreign Classified . "Display Rear Estate Readers '.a... r s. -.- ........v.-.. SUNDAY. Local Display ... Foreign , Classified '. Display Real Estate Readers a 4 Total for Week - , Tbs Journal gained In the volume of advertising for last week aver ths week before or any week in its history. While Ths Journal mads this gain, the trust papers, ths Oregonian and Its evenlnf edition, the Telegram, suffered a toss. For last week, ending Sunday, ths 11th Inst, The Journal, In seven lauee, carried more advertising than the Oregonian In Its sevnft Issues, by 62 Inches. Ths week before The Journal advertising for the week exceeded ths Oregonlan's by only 147 Inches; this last week by IM inches. Ths sxceaa of Ths Journal's volume of advertising over that sf ths Telegram was 1.6J4 Inches for the last week. But the evening edition sf 'The Oregonian has an excuse In being In ths "hind end of the proceeston," In that It Is the "tall of ths Oreronlan' and ot.Iy published sit days ths week; Jtherefors, not being a full-fledged "dally paper" Utile can be es pected of It In this connection. - ' The Journsl having a la r Iter paid" circulation fnen etthar of the trt ' newspapers, both In Portland Snd ia Oregon, the advertiser Is nM.i to secure more returns from Ths Journal than, from either f the on er iri diums, anj the reeitlt Is The Journal's business Is nvresaln wit.1 1 a ; bounds,. thus obl'ftatlrig The Joirnn1 mors and mora to a rmi.-r. is? . forms nre of duty and further strensthenlns Its dt"rmiiU"n tt a whole people f.iuhfully and well. ' ' , DROWN IN In Clear, Calm Weather the Steamer Dix Is Rammed by Jeanie. randlSinks ' Boats In Plain View of Each Other and There Is No Fear of Disaster Until Little Packet Suddenly wings In Front" of the Big Steamer.. (Special DtspateB te Tke JoeraaU ' Seattle, Nov. 19. The little steeuner Dix, Captain P. Lermon. oollldod with the steamer Jeanla. Captain. Mason. an4 . aank in 100 fathoms a few miles north, of Alki point at 7 o'clock last eveains; and of the Dix's passengers and orew 4 are missing. Thirty-eight were rescued.' The Jeanie la a large steam sohooner : and carrted.no passengers. Bhe sus tained no damage and none of tha orew wss Injured. The Dix had Seattle pasaengers for Port Blakely. . The Dix sank as' if her bottom had been sheared from under her. . A dread ful panic among the passengers fol lowed the collision, but bad there been -no disorder the time granted the crew far eulng Uiem. off was all too abort. It waa a fine, still, clear night and" ths water was like a pooL The steam ers were running In sight of each other . on Hoes that In a short time would have -crossed." Captam Msion Slates that signals had been' given by the Jeanie and answered by the Dix.- Indeed the vessels, while not In danger of each, other, were so close that ths halt of voles could be understood from ons) by ths other. " It wss at this time. Captain Mason states, that he observed the Dix sud denly coming; on astern of ths Jeanie. He called to the mate, who was la tbs " pilot house, to know what he Intended. ial hard - to stavr- board and - the Dix started directly across the Jeanle's . bows. ' Captain Mason Instantly signaled "Back at full speed," but ths Jeanie could not be got back, in, time to escape the - lighter -steamer, which. Captain Mason says, I seemed to receive the blow about amid ships or possibly a little abaft, on the) starboard side. Ths shock seemed to him insufficient - to have damaged a pleasure boat. The Dix listed heavily to starboard, but righted; then seemed to rear on end, and so plunged to tha depths.' stern foremost. . , Jeaals atssonss Paeng-am. Ths Jennie, which had Just began te back away and was almost stationary at ths moment when the Dix struck, re mained in plaos until ail ths Dix's pas sengers who. oould swim had reached, her and had been hauled aboard by thai crew. . The Jeanie also lowered two Ufa- boats which erased about picking op all who had not sons down. Captain Lermon of tha Dix states that when his vessel struck he was be low collecting fareaas.was his duty,, aa the ship carried no purser. Heao he knows little about what caused tbs collision. Ho felt ths shock and rushed ort deck in timer to see the b"- f' Jaanie loom up over him. Bs (Continued on Face Nina.) , Ending Nov. 18 record of ths three dally papers sf Sunday, November II: Journal Oregonian Telegram Inches. Inches. Inches. 4,709 ' 5583 6,031 829 1,271 691 3583 1571 L509 192 50 1,750 537 639 304 : 20 9,615 . 1,380 JL509L127- 280 -- - 43 668 44 1,694 112 . 401 863 24 10,139 l ( 8,503 '.4 (