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; PORTLANDr-ORECONT'WEnNESDAY-EVENINCr: NOVEMBER 21, 1908. SIXTEEN " PAGES.
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STREET SCENES IN SEATTLE
PRESIBEIM
HILL RAILROAD LINES TO
FOR i fl
C lever Postal Scheme
UrrelrtBedlnPo
By Inspector of the
Department
U: C. Hulin arid Woman He
Calls His Wife Said to Have
Made Profit of Two Hundred
Dollars Daily by Their Shrewd
Work. ' .
What la thought will develop into on
. Vat tha Inoat extensive postoffloe frauds
"ever ninearthed In' Portland was made
' publlo today with tba arrest of Mr. and
Mre. .N. O. Hulin, 127 East Fifteenth
, f street, on the charge of using tha gov
. ernment malls for fraudulent purposes.
, That the parties are Interested In other
; schemes to defraud Is believed by E. C
Clement, poetoffice Inspector, who fer
. feted out the scheme which resulted In
i the arrests. :'. -
Hulin is supposed to have made $200
' . a day out of his scheme, which is one
; of the oldest known to postal authorl
. -ties and la famous for. tha number, of
. victims-It has caught The plan la to
send out postal card from one of tba
two offices which the schemer main
tains telling the person receiving tha
card Of a "valuable, unique and pleas
, ant method of obtaining money." The
: card aeta forth that for a consideration
Hulin will send tha prospective sucker
t full directions fo carrying on tha busl-
; : esa.v.-: -r -: . , -.
. In return for: his 10 oents the sender
.- 'receives It postal cards bearing about
the same information, which, llulln had
- on his card. "W ith the cards, which are
to be sent to prospective persons seek
ing an easy road- to. wealth. Is. the tn-'-
formation tha't If the receiver doea not
, ' know a sufficient number of persons to
' : whom cards can be sent, a list of names
- wUl be furnished by the Pscif la Letter
Bureau, which Hulin maintained at his
' home on Fifteenth street, at the nOmi-
nalchargaflfBjlL icenta a hundred or
14.60 a thousand. ,
' Wnala trkm.tr,
,- After the person has received, 'the
cards and the list of names he la sun-
- posed to ba on a fala way to prosper
ity. . All he has to do to consummate
(Continued, on Page Two.) .
PIIAflTOLl SHIP :
MAY PROVE TO
BE
.8eenOffColumbla River In
Early Morning, She Suddenly
i Puts Out to Sea Again and Is
Swallowed Vp Jn Mist Which
Envelops Coast.
a 9
a At S o'clock this afternoon tha
bark aupposed to ba tha Ivarna
; was seen 10 miles to tha west of
. tha Columbia river lightship
chasing tha pilot schooner which
'. haa been cruising off tha bar
4 all morning. A pilot will prob
4 ably board her thla afternoon
and aa soon aa tha bar becomea
a little smoother one of tha tuga
will ba sent . out after tha
. .. strangely : . maneuvering , wind-
. Jajnmer. A. - . ' -.
, X four-maated British bark la ballast
waa aeen off the mouth of the Colum
bla river thla morning and It la be-
. lleved that aha Is tha missing Ivarna
Ona of tha tuga started for ner, but. the
bar waa too rough and ao had to teturn
to Aatoria. In tha meantime tha bark
put out to sea again and by noon had
disappeared ilka a phantom ship.
The lookout at North Head made tha
- report of tha bark a presence at once
to District Forecaater Edward A. Beals
of the weather bureau, and all possible
details were secured In order to if pos
sible make certain as to tha vessel's
identity, The captain of tha bark for
soma reaaon did not'dlaplay his signal
flags and it is impossible for ths look,
out to read tha name. Tha bark waa
five milea from the station at one time
and had ths -skipper taken tha trouble
to display his slgnsls.sll worry for the
safety of the Iverna would probably
now ba over. -District Forecaster Beals
wired the lookout at North Head to
signal tha bark to rtva her name next
time she appears within reach of the
glasses.', i '
Did JTot Oet mot. ; -Tha
pilot boat was outside this morn
ing in tha vicinity of the bark, but the
lookout la of the opinion that the wind
Jammer was still without a pilot when
she stood out to sea. The wind was
,.; iContlnnad on Pga two.
IvERNA
WITH TAFT
Secretary's Suspen
sion of Order Dis
charging the Negro
Troops Rebuked. ;
Friction Between Executive and
Cabinet Officer May Resultiri
' . Retirement of Latter From
" Public Life Many" Protests
Fail to Move Roosevelt.
' (Journal I pedal Service.)
"Washington, Nov. II. A dispatch waa
received from the prealdent this morn
ing In which the executive atated that
he .would not suspend tha order for
the 'dismissal of negro soldiers, unless
new facta were Blscovered worth, ca
bling to him.. Ha states thst his ac
tion waa taken after due deliberation,
and that the only matter to which he
can pay head is the presentation of facts
proving the old report wholly or partly
untrue or clearly implicating some Indi
vidual. , i . , v
. This , morning . Secretary Taft . an
nounced that immediately .upon his re
turn to Washington, learning that the
president had refused to reconsider his
order, dismissing , the negro troops, he
had ordered the execution of the order
without delay. . All reports and specula
tion to the contrary are unfounded.
,. .. . ""' . Quarrel la ospo. ;
' ' Secretary Taft acted on his own voli
tion when he suspended the order of the
president directing the discharge with-
Twenty-fifth infantry- for declining to
divulge tha names of soiaiCTs who ah 61
up the town of Brownsville, Texas, and
killed a white man. .There U likely to
oe irwum duiwooij uu presioent anq
tha secretary, over - this action. . The
president will now ba obliged to make an
explanation..
When the secretary returned - to 'the
city rrora Ala western trip be found a
great number of protests . against the
president's action. These protests came
from all parts of the country and were
so eraphatle and uumeiuua tnaTHe-tofiR
them under earnest consideration. - He
did not attempt to revoke the order of
the president,, of course, but held it up
until the. president, could, ba communi-
(Continued on Page Two.
STEALS TO GET
MOHEY TO PAY
HIS ROOM RENT
Philip.Birkett.ln Jail for Taking
Revolvers . From Honeyman
Company's Store and Pawn,
jng -ThemRelatives- Refuse
to Help Him In His Trouble.
"I had no money to pay my board
until pay-day, and I waa tod proud, to
ask my parents for it. so I tola."
. Such la tha explanation made today
by Philip Blrkett, a l-yesr-old son of
a respected famtiy-ot British Columbia
and a nephew of W. O. Smith, head of
an engraving firm of this city, in de
fense of his crime of stealing firearms
from tha atora of his employers, the
Honeyman Hardware company.
Philip Blrkett Is ths son of Frank
Blrkett. a retired gunsmith of Vancou
ver, British Columbia. Leas than two
months, ago PhlUp came to. thla oUy.4n
search of work. Ha had a good home;
but, aa his uncle put it, ha wanted ' to
live In a bigger city. As a friend of
tha family. A. J. Wlntera, head of the
sporting department of tue Honeyman
Hardware company, , found a Job for
ths. boy In the Alder street store.
Toung Blrkett went to work on October
1 st tto a month: but, of course, pay
ment waa not to -a In advance.
, Philip rented a room tt III Third
(Continued on Page Two.)
PITTSBURG PHIL'S
MOTHER ELOPES
(Journal Special rrlr.)
"Pittsburg. Nov. II. Pittsburg enjoys
another aensa'tlon since it has become
publlo that Mrs. Ellsa Downing, mothsr
of ths late famous turf plunger, "Pitts
burg Phil," has eloped at Toungstown,
Ohio, with Thomas Woods, a wealthy re-
W IiimI Mn . . W
The. elopement , and marriage took
place last Wednesday, but -did not bet-
come public at once. Both contracting
parties are about yeara of age, and
thla Is the - third marriage venture of
tbt moUier or "fit t burg PhlV' , , , . , ,
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IIIHUL'
TO WRECK TRAIN
? WITH 0 Yd AMITE
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Twenty Sticks of Giant Powder
Placed on Track of Hood, River
; Railroad Train Passed Over,
f but No Explosion Resulted as
Dynamite, Was Frozen. -
(Stxctel OUpateh te JJe Iorl.l ,
"'Hood Riven Or Nov.' 21. A big sen
sation waa produced here when Charlea
T, Early, superintendent , of the Mt.
Hood railroad, offered a rewand of 'IS20
for tha arrest and. . conviction of tha
person or persons who attempted to
dynamite a - train on- that road -Saturday
night That the attempt was un
successful waa due aolely to .the fact
that the dynamite was frosen and did
hat eaplod
In all 20 sticks of powder were placed
on the track, five of them across tha
rail and the rest In bunches on either
side. r
--An examination of -the Bpot"whra
the powder was placed, showed that
tha train had run over two atlcka and
mashed them, tha broken off enda being
found on either aide of the rail.
As yet there is no clue to the would-
be wreckers, at least tha.- authorities
nave made' nothing public. --.
. The discovery of tba attempt at
wrecking was first., made known by a
carpenter who was , walking along . the
track to work and found the pile of
dynamite In a deep cut near what Is
known as Paaach'a bridge. Aa soon aa
poaslble he communicated with Super
intendent Early, who cautioned him to
keep quiet, and in company .with ao of
ficer . visited tha place to -investigate.
At the time the train passed over
ths big bunch eof dynamite tt was dark
and could not ba aeen and the train
men knew nothing about the attempt to
demolish the train. The train was a
mixed ona with a passenger coach at
tha rear ia which there were between
twenty and thirty passengers.
Tba Point-where.lhe powder waa
placed ia in a deep canyon and cannot
ba aeen' from tha surrounding country.
ROOSEVELT WELCOMED
BY PORTO RICANS
(Journal Special gtrvtee.1
Ponce, Porto Rico, Nov. 21. President
Roosevelt and party arrived . thla morn
ing. ' They were received at tha landing
at o clock by Governor wlnthrop and
other officials. The' town Is profusely
deoorated and crowded with people from
the aurrounding country. !,-...
Toolon Docks Baraad. ,
(Jntirnal Rpeelal ' frrin.l '
Tnulon. Nov. 21. The main Dortlon
"o the dockyards, great forge .and Iron
works,' where a number of foreign war
ahips are building, waa destroyed by Ore
this morning. The loss is several mil
lions. -The wsrships were saved. . v -
" Bishop Tiger! Dead.
. Uauroal Bptelal nertrm.t
Tulsa. I. T- Nov. 11 Bishop Tigert
of the M. E. Church ' South, of Louis
ville. Kentucky.1 died hero this morning
of totisilltls. He was '.takon 111 a week
ago and grew worse rspidly.
: The blushing bride of ft blamee the
whole thing on burglars. Bhe gave out
an Interview saying that since her home
was broken Into some time ago she .and
The hired girl had been nervous and
lonesome, and. so she and Mr. Woods
just wsnt to Youngstown and were
married.
"We had known esch other for a long
time snd 1 needed a protector from bur
glars," she seid, as ehofondly leaned on
the arm of her thtrdhusband. -
At his death f Pittsburg Phil's" moth
er earn lute about 1 1,0 9,0 00 -
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Witness Deepen
WHERE AND HOW PERRY LIVED
MAYOR WILL ASK COUNCIL
TO SUPPRESS KUiSANCE
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Says If Regulations Are Not En
forced That Body Will Be -4
to Blame.
Backed , by the written statement of
the city attorney that the council has
full control of the operation of trains
on Fourth street, Mayor Lane will tftls
sfternoon present to the council a cora-"-"-'tion
which demands "a yea or no
answer. ;
- i at this time,": writes the mayor,
"urge upon you agnln the necessity for
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WANTED
A SITUATION
WANTED Baalt loo wl reliable real
eauta firm by eiprld mas.'- ; Ad
' draea Box gf, dty. ., '
IP row want a carpenter er.tblBgltr eaU
ap pbooe Rellwood S29.
WANTKO-i-Br a ynna married mas, to
. 'tend bar; bave bad wm eiperlesce. Ad-
l no,- care journal.
1 WAXT to learn butchr baalneae; bad
anroa eiprrlonea. , Address, B M, care
Journal.
EXPERIKM'ED real eauta and lnTeatment
aaleamas frlvnea emplormant; good . ere
duDtlala. Addreas 11 29, ears Journal.
EPEntyrED Janitor wants a Job of So
. or bnlldln. Fbone Taciae 2244.
EI.PRRI.T lartr wants to take ebarx of
mothorlrM children, one or two; fuud of
children Addreas h Tt, tare JoornaL
yOE OTHES APFUOATIOlfl COS "FOBI.
TlOXg" , TTJR TO. THE OIA8SmXO
PAOEg AITO SEAS THESE f AOES DAILY
IF
TOO AEE LOOKtXO EOS A SETTES
rOUTIOV, ALWATi BEMEMSES! JOOk
AX WAVTS COST LEU THAM A
OXKT A WOSO ADD BftlKQ aignxxg
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Down Duwamiah Avenue. - Lower 1
Chickens on Roof.
My
LANDLADY DENIES
BEAVERTON STORY
Suspects Said to Have Lived at
Boarding House and to Have
-.T7 Spent Night Away. 1. Ill
- (Spadal Olapatra to Tba JoaraaLt
Hlllsboro, Or., Nov. 21. The officers
of (his county believe they are on the
track of additional evidence In the For
est Grove bank robbery case and the
murder of Carey D. Snyder. Up to the
departure of Mrs. Madge Snyder, widow
of the murdered man, for Kansas City,
Missouri, the officials declared their be.
lief In the guilt , of George Perry and
Leonard Bell, or Rogers, .but claimed
the .i evidence in their , possession was
not sufficient to- warrant arrests. Now
evldeuce -seems td be at hand disclosing
the actions of the suspects on ths night
of the murder. - ;
- Nothing could be learned of the ao
tlona or whereabouts of-Periy and- his
pal Immediately following tha bank rob
bery and up' to the night of the mur
der, a period of four days." To this
part of the case the officials turned
their attention 'and while ao engaged
Xleputy District Attorney B. B. Tongue
received the - following peculiar mes
sage from' Beaver ton:
"Come on first train; ask no ques
tions. EN8ION."
Mr. Tongue could not understand the
measage and feared that a joke might
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ENTIRE SHIP; FOR
ELOPING COUPLE
(Seeeial Dtapateb to The yoeraal.) '
New Tork. Novi 21. The French Una
steamahlp La Gascogne haa arrived
with probably the smallest cabin Hat
on record. Mr. arfd Mrs. J. A. Gibbons
of Philadelphia, a young eloping couple
juat returning from a wedding trip
abroad, had the entire cabin quarters
to themselves, besides occupying the
most spacious state room on the vessel,
and had at their beck and eaU It stew
ards gad. three stewardesses. Through-
Interstate Commerce Committee to Ascertain
THPracticaiTrffect of Merger on Country and
What the Relations Are Existing Between
' the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and
Burlington Systems Managed by One Man
doerul Ipeeial gervlce.l
Chicago, 'Nov. 2 L James 1. Hill and
the -three great- railways he dominates
are to be investigated by the interstate
commerce commission. What are the
rslations existing between ' tha Greet
Northern, the Norther Pacific and tha
Burlington aystemeT An effort win ba
made to And out. .
Picture Shows - Scene ' in - Riverside,
WARLIKE SPEECHES MADE
' Bf-CUBAN BEKERAL .
Threatens , Hostilities Unless
Americans Withdraw Prompt- -.
. .. lyasJPromlsedT"
(Journal Speelst Berrlce.) .
' Havana, Nor. Jl. General Loyaa del
Castillo is making Inflammatory speeches
against the Americans, declaring there
will be war unless they withdraw
promptly, aa they promised. '
Governor Ma goon ia shortly going en
a tour of the Island.
The Fourteenth battery of artillery
today returned from a practice 'march
through the province of Plnar del Rio,
making record time despite the muddy
roads and the floods. In aome districts
the troops were obliged to eae pontoons.
WORKMEfLKILLEDJlY-
: , COLLAPSED BUILDING
' Rochester, N. T., Nov. 21; Five were
killed and eight Injured in the oollapse
of a building In the course of erection
at Kodak park thla morning. Some of
the Injured, may die.
The collapsed building waa of con
crete and brick. The aupporte were re--"ved
and tha concrete being undrled
fell.- -.. ? r ... ( i
out the voyage, despite 'the Small par
senger list, thers was a punctilious ob
servance of all the ahtp'a social cere
monies, culminating wttk the "captain's
dinner" the lent night of the trip.
The trip of Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons waa
practically the same na if La Gasoogns
had been a private yacht.
In the second cabin there was but
one passenger, Pierre Larraburu. who
became . dissatisfied with the steerage
accommodations and took .passage in
the seoond eablp, the first dar eat, . ,
Tha commission will seek to ascartaiit
what effect tha control of all these
lines by ana man haa had. and la hav
ing, upon rates in tha northwest, and
consequently upon the agricultural and
Industrial development of that section.
The result will ba to bring out fasts
regarding what haa taken place la tba
northwestern railroad world elnoe tba
decision of the United States supremo
court in the Northern Securities , oaaa
in iio, and to show what efforts the
decision haa produced and to what ex
tent Its intent haa been nullified. '
:..'acaHal Una Oomblaed. .'
The announcement of- tha commie-.
sion's intention to investigate tha Hill
lines, eoming so closely upon tha heels
of lta plana for an Inquiry into the Har- -rlman
lines, seems to indicate a purpose
on the part of tha Roosevelt adminis
tration to expose and attack the various
combinations of parallel railway lines
which have been effected within the last
several years. ---- -.-
In the Hill, aa In the Harrtmaa In
vestigation, the commission will act
under an amendment to the Interstate
commerce act passed in ISfl.
It was aimed In the Northern Securi
ties proceeding to prevent tha Burling
ton, Northern Paclflo and Greet North-,
arn from being so oomblned aa to pre
vent egecttve eompettUon la the north
west, .r. ..
-tv....u',...,nesision imiafled. - i- .
- Roosevelt and the eommlsaion feat .
that while the proceeding was success
ful tnthe courts ths effects. of the de
cision have been practically nullified. - t
. The three lines, with a total mileage
of 10,865, under HIJI's dominance, ere
perhaps even more closely allied than
they we re before the Northern Securi
ties decision. It has been reported rev
eently that Hill intended to merge them. -Even
as late as Monday it was said .
-4e 4es
Its identity, even Its name, but Preal
dent Harris flatly denied this.
There haa been complaint to the com- .
mission from - shippers that the effect -of
the present arrangement la to stifle
competition In the northwest.
HAS WILD RIDE
Hurricane Sends Rolling Stock
at Frightful Speed Over Co
lumbia River Extension and
Henry Austin Narrowly- Est
capes Mad Sea Waves.
Henry Austin, watchman on the Col
umbia river Jetty, had a wild ride fe
life on the night of November la that
be will never forget. It was moat sen
sational and ezceeda anything the moat
daring performer could ever conjure.
He did it Involuntarily and his escape
from death la deemed a miraola.
Austin waa guarding the government
property on the aix mile extension into
the sea and aa customary, slept In a
pile-driver ear en the t trestle work .
about half way from the mainland. The
wind bad been blowing with an awful
velocity -all ' nlght-fronr-the- southeast, '
when all of a sudden It veered around
to the west, caught the pile-driver car
and a tender car and started them at
a break-neck speed towarda ahore. How
the cars got eway is almost lncompre-
henslble, for they were not only se
cured with tackle but had all the'
brakes set and the wheels blocked.
They sped along in the dark and over
the boisterous water at the rate of
about a mile in three mtriutes, covering ,
the distance, of two and a half miles"
in exactly nine and a half minutes.
Auatln waa alone and helpless In his
car, but retained enough ; presence of
mind to notice the time. To him It
seemed like eternity, . for he thought -every
moment the car would leave the
tracka and leap Into the roaring sea.
The report of the strange happening
was made publlo today by Assistant
United States Engineer Gerald C. bag
nail, who haa charge of the J"tty work.
Mr. Bagnall returned from, Fort Stev
ens last night after having investigated
the matter and Inspected the Jetty to
sae If It had been damaged By the re
cent storms. Ths Jetty stood the
storms well, he state, and the runaway
cars were little damaged, eonalderlng
their wild trip. Watchman Auatln s
hair-raising axperlence, ss told to Mr.
Bagnall. Is as follows: , ,
agnail's Stray.
"The wind was soutlieaat all a' " t
until I o'clock In ths morning, when u
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