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Newspaper Page Text, """ " " 1,1 '" , rw .. i -i . 'u ' ' 1 1 . -.. ' ' l Journal Circvhliorv Yesterday Was -;;.-.-t,:.:- VOL. III. 0. 37. PORTLAND,OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1906. FIVE SECTIONS FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IN LUST FOR HUMAN BLOOD good MORHiuG uiTn UtJEARHED IIJCREKNT "7HAL1G GAPTAIN KILLS FOUR -:-J. v.. C ' . " . h. , ' 4 m ,, , i . I . I I ' n 1 II ! 1 Judge Sears Applies Punishment - During Sensational Scene in Circuit Court Attorney' Henry H. McGinn n fined .. 1160 and District Attorney John Man . ning was severely ' censured by Pre ' - elding Judge Sears In the suite -circuit 4gart yesterday afternoon for contempt of court growing out of the remarks addressed to the court by the two at torneys yesterday morning. ' McGinn's fine was first fixed at $25. , but upon his requesting that $2S be added, and that he desired to repeat ' his statement. Judge Sears added $75. making the fine $100. McGinn then made. a. remark personal to the court and another $50 was added to his pen alty. Plstrlot Attorney Manning apol- oglsed for criticising the court.-" ' When court convened yesterday morn- Ing Attorney McGinn denounced ' the district attorney as a scoundrel, charged htm .with instigating the rec ommendation of the grand jury that McGinn be proceeded against for oon- t -tempt of court for his uninvited en -trance into 4he grand Jurj.xoom on No vember 12. referred to Manning as "Mr, Pacing Both "Ways. and said ' "if he continues in the way he has been doing, .'Selling justice as cord wood la sold, he 'twill buy the new Wells-Fmrgo building within a year." .. - - The district attorney appeared in the courtroom some time after McGinn had left it, and said that he was sorry that McGinn had been permitted. to make bis remarks; that he - thought the court would not have permitted the district t tonyns-lash ; Attorney Mck Glnn for five minutes, and that McGinn "' ought to have been told to alt down. m Judge Oirea Wanda ' ' Judge Sears retorted by telling Die trictAttorneyMannrng thattbe court ; had been Insulted three times by him. and that the court probably knew as much of ethics and proper procedure as the district attorney. In the" afternoon "Judge Sears Issued the following order. .. Adjudging- both In contempt of court:. ; "It appearing to the court that two . members of the bar of this court, Messrs. Henry B. McGinn... and John Manning, nave, in the presence of the court and of the bar assembled, com ported themselves In an Improper man-' ner; the former by applying opprobri . ous epithets to the latter in hla ab - senoe, wben nothing waa pending be fore the court to which eucb language . related, nor any. cause wherein an ap-. ' plication for any order of the court was requested or desired: and the latter by thrice denouncing the conduct of the court In the premises, after- the court , bad. expressly, prohibited such language. : (Continued on Pag Eight) Marine Architect Says Fleet' Are Extremely :-;VTr;vT7 Lack of That every one of .the numerous small passenger steamers plying on Pucet sound,wtth-one -exception, la- Hatha to me same rate as,the Dlx and with the same awful losa of life In caae of acci dent la. the opinion of Fred A. Ball In, the. marine architect who la drawing ' the plana for the boat that la to take the plaoa of the DIx. , ... "I have heard of only one of the mosquito fleet that la bulkheaded," aald Mr. Ballln laat evening. "The DIx waa unusually cranky, to be sure, but the other steamera would hava aunk Just about aa rapidly, aa only on has bulk heads to keep the water from rushing Jn and filling the entire hull. ' "Why, we have palaces on the Colum Ma and Willamette in comparison with the steamers running . out of Seattle. Tha conditions that prevail there wouldn't be tolerated hare, ' "The . law la to blame. . It requires that every seagoing vessel carrying paa sengers shall have at least three water tight bulkheads. But this regulation doea not apply to ateamera on aounde and rivera. yea, there should be such a regulation applying to the river ateamere here, too.- I "The Puget sound steamera run over '(00 and 1,000 feet of water, and It la the same aa the ocean jas far aa danger of sinking la concerned! They certainly should be required to nave bulkheads." The Port Blakely Mill company, lea see of the DIx, was aware of the un euttnblllty of tha DIx. and asked Mr. Itallin to visit the- corporation offlcera for a, consultation on plana for a boat to take hw place. JJe wag delayed by WILL SINK LIKE CAS -V ;; . 0 DID THIS MEAN PITTO CK ? THE PLUTOCRAT JUST TO THINK THAT IT'S THROUGH - " THE FRUGALITY. INDUSTRY AND LOVE OF HOME OF '.; XHE SMALL" HOUSEHOLDER THAT I - GET MY- ENOR MOUS WEALTH. .' ' ;';.;V; - : ; , , ','', i f . Reproduced ?OVwad soma power fIo,.'no ourael's $i ithers ae ue WEALTHY WIDOW OFFERS TO LEAD lYfiCHIfJG PARTY Woman Resolved That Chester Gillette Received His Just De sertsfor the! Murder of His Sweetheart-EIectric Chair Is Too Good for Him, She Says; (Special Dtoeetca by Letetd Wire te The Joeroall Herkimer, N...Y., Nov. . It. Still re solved that Chester Gillette receives his deserts for the alleged murder- of his sweetheart. "Billy" Brown. Mrs. Mar guerite Hubbard, a wealthy widow and hotel proprietress of this city, declared again today that If Cheater Gillette does (Continued on Page Two.) All Boats of Mosquito Dangerous Through : Bulkheads : tha flood, on the Northern Pacific Una and reached Seattle Sunday night Just half an-hour-after-the Dix had ptiitod out on her laat -trip. In tha collision with tha Jeahle that night 49 paaaengera were lost ' Had Mr. BaJlln'a train been on time he would almost certainly have been on board when th accident oo curred. ' II ia possible that the board of au pervlslng Inspectors, which meets in Washington, D. C, next month, will make a change In the regulations aa to bulkheads for passenger steamers. Tha fate of tha DIx, which filled' and sank almost In the - twinkling of an rye, will be held up se-an example of the need of revision. . "They are all liable to fill and go down like gas pipes," said Mr. Ballln of tha Puget aound ateamera. As soon aa Ballln had consulted with tha managers of the Port;Blakcry Mill company he waa commissioned to draw plana and speclflcationa for a ateamer to ke the DIx'a place. He la now en gaged In his Portland offtoa In doing tthli work. The new. boat will be. 130 feet long aa compared with the 100 feet of tha Dix and will be 12 H feet beam Inatead of If. Triple expansion engines are expected to .generate 700 horsepower. ' ' . The DIx waa so rranfcjt that aha had to carry. 1( tone of lead ballaat. Tha Inspectors refused her a license until this ballaat waa put in. Her paaaenger limit waa comparatively low. The new boat will have a passenger capacity of 26 against the DIx'a 16o, and can also carry, i to (9-oua of freight, ' From' the Utttl of KonrnVt 30. 1908. the ififtie gl't n CALVE'S BLIND MAN SAID TO BE EUGENE HIGGfNS New York's Richest Bachelor, y. Millionaire Clubman and Ath- lete Enamored of Actress, but He' Is Not Blind Is Amateur Champion of the Foils.1 (Special Dtepab by leaWWire te Tbe loorael) Paris, Nov. J4.The Petit Parlslen declares the "blind man" whom Mme. Calve will 'marry is-Eugene Hlgglns, millionaire, athlete, clubman and "New York's richest bachelor." t . Mme. Calve la in Marseilles, where the steara yacht Taruna, owned by Mr. Hlgglns. la lying ready for a cruise through the Mediterranean. . According to her own statements, she has been preparing to spend tbe winter aboard the, yacht of the man she is to wed, if at tbe end of the cruise she eras convinced thaahe loved him. It waa reported that he was totally blind. rne rent pension, which has been particularly interested in the remark able romance, announces almost posi tively that the unknown nance of the singer is Mr. Hlgglns. How total blindness could have been attributed to Mr. Higsins is inconceivable, as he is one of the clearest sighted gentlemen spoken of in this country, polo player. (Continued on Page Four.) The railroad oommUaion . bill, drafted by tha Portland chamber of commerce, will meet with hearty support on the part of O over nor Chamberlain, who believes In a railroad commission and who will suggest to the legislature In his messnge that a commission- be cre sted and that it be given power effec tively to regulate and control the rail roads and correct abuses under which Oregon has been -suffering for the many yea re now past-' - - - It la the opinion of tha governor that should a commission law, be enacted, and he Is hopeful that the legislature will aea the necessity for. such action, the chief executive of tha state ahould be held responsible for' the doings of the commission and thst he should hava the power to aummararlly remove any member of the commission who. for any reason led him to believe that the Interests of the people were not being safeguarded. ' , "The result pf such 'an appointment, with such powers, would In an ensuing election centralise the railroad and antl railroad fight upon one person on the whole ticket, and It would then be left for the people themselves to determine whether, they desired a nan who would favor a commission vested with full power of were opposed to Its crea tion. Ia oUiar worda, it woulj oe CHAMBERLAIN FAVORS COMMISSION FEEDS HfTrl And Yet the Owner of The Oregonian Cries "Plutocrat at Other Portland Citizens ' County Records Show How Mil . lionaire Pittock Gained His Wealth, Not by His pwn Ex- ertion, but by the Worlcof the Public. . u':-'T' While the Oregonian ,makes much use of the opprobrious term "pluto crat," the fact is that the man who owns a majority stock in that publi cation' and who controls its policy, Henry U. Pittock. Is the richest Indi vidual in Portland or even In the state of Oregon. Pittock came to the north west a poor boy when Portland was a mere village and his millions are more nearly a product Of "unearned incre ment" in their entirety than is tbe wealth of any other of Portland's capi talists. ' ' ' - -- The most valuable single piece of property -owned by Pittock exclusively is block 215, city of Portland, bounded by West Park, Tenth, Washington and Stark streets. . This - block Is assessed at 33:,2&0, of which S2.2&0 la for buildings'. . This assessment .' is less than half Its value, however, aa an option recently given proves. If the terms of the option are oarrled out the property "will be leased for years. tbe remnneratioa to be 130,000 a year and . the leesee to pay all the tames. Figuring on a basis of four per' cent, the Usual rate - under similar circum stances, thvalue of" the property would fcetTSO.000. : It to-safe to say that block 31 jcauli not. be bought for less thaa that price. How much of this wealth is unearned increment? Book A. page 137, of the Multnomah county assessment records, shows that Henry L. Pittock bought block JIB in 186S, just '60 years ago, for $300. By simple arithmetio we And that 1300 Is 1-2S00 part of 1750,000 and that therefore 2,4(8-2600 of the Wash ington street property of Mr. Pittock IS" composed of what h dainfully refers to aa unearned ' in crement." J.'1, 1'. Shabby Xottsea oa Talaable Xand. very body-knows the Pittock ' block on ' Washington street. ' Thny know it , by llu lone pair of shabby wooden houses and Its bristling of un kempt timber." It Is almost unique in one way. It Is a valuable down-town block which presents the appearance of a section of a deserted village. But for the two shabby house, every dollar of the 1760,000 value added to the original purchase price, has been added, not by the labor or enterprise of Henry l f it toe It, but by the labor end enterprise of tho public, which built a city around the block and thereby gave it value. While the value of Mr. Plttock'a in vestment has been created by the public. the taxes thereon have been paid by the public. Or rather, Pittock hat escaped an equitable tax by undervaluation of his property on the assessment rolls. During the past 10 yesrs the taxes col lected on the block averaged only $1,166 a year, or less than two-tenths of' one per cent of the present value. Refer ence to the public records will show that, in 1897, the block was assessed at only 234,015. The following year the assessor reduced the valuation by 16. The next year Pittock succeeded In se curing an assessment of only 123.1(5 or more" than $10,000 stlU less. In 1804 the bldck was assessed at 125.480. it waa Jumped to 142.420 in 101, stayed in the forty thousand column until 1906, when, upon the advent of Aasesnor B. IX Slgler, it was raised to $227,250. This year another raise waa made to $232,260, and even this is less than" half -the value of the property, aa shown by the option recently given. : - . (Continued on Page Four.) straight-out railroad and ' antl-rallroad fight. If occasion for It aver arose. "Aa to the powers tna cemmlnelon should have, they ahould be absolute," continued the governor, "possessing. In so far aa conatitutlonal provisions would permit, tbe same powers aa a court. "The Dill has been aubmitted to me," said tbe governor yesterday In speaking of the draft which haa been prepared by tha transportation committee, of the Portland chamber . of commerce. "I favor a railroad commission In .this state,", continued " tha governor, "with the responsibility' for Its appointment and for Its failure to act vested en tirely in the governor. o that ha will be held responsible tor Its action or non-action. In order that the responsi bility be vested In him he should, in my opinion, have, the summary power of removal, ao that If tha commission falls to act ha can nil the place. with men who will earry out hla wlahee. "The bill which haa. been prepared by a committee of the chamber of com merce haa been examined by ma and It aeema to me that it covera all the points necessary to regulate the operation of the railroads, within tbla atate." The governor then . came Out flat footed ..for the creation of a commission by taa' legislature au4 etateO. It a bis READY TOR THE, NEXT FIRE FIRE QEPT . JY. 'wait i HQ for An ALARM BUYS $300,000 RANCH WITH BUT iiiLioiiEy Young Man Claiming to Be Son of Jacob Schiff of New York ' ; Flies High in Texas, Throws ' Money to Street Gamins, but . Soon Comes to Grief. (Special Dtepatdi by Lesatd Wire (o The Jonrnal) Oalveslon. lex., noy. i. A young man claiming to be Jacob Bchlff Jr., aon-oT- MrUtorortra- Behlff- of jJew If or ia in jail at Victoria, Texas, charged with obtaining money under false pre tenses. He had bought a 10,000-acre ranch for $300,000, paid (260 cash snd exeouted drafts and notes to the full amount before It was discovered he waa an impoater. He arrived at Victoria three daya ago and apent money lavishly, throwing halves and quarters to atreet gamins. He talked of railroad and land projects and had the townsfolk doing him great honor, displaying bonds and financial documents he found merchants anxloua to cash his checks, ranging from (26. to (100. He waa away in the country In specting more ranch property wnen ad vices from New York announced some thing was wrong. When confronted with the charges the young man awore hla father, Jacob Schiff, ' had not ap proved of . hla Texaa tTreestmenta--eiid waatilaylng a tnex on mm. xie sent a wire to Jacob Schiff telling bint of hla plight and requesting him to de posit (60.000 to his account in the Ger man National bank.' The reply stated that Mr. Schiff had no son in Texas. The young man had several hundred dollars In cash when he reached Vic toria. His wardrobe is extravagant and be la well educated. I : ' Oanadian Strikers SUot. Hamilton. ' Ortt, Nov. 24. Several persona were .Injured in collisions be? tween rioters and the police and aoldlers here tonight. Several streetcars were demolished by the striking streetcar men and their . aympathlaera. intention to auggeat and support such an action. . "I Intend to recommend the creation of a commission In my message to the legislature." ha said, "and I am of the optnlon that a bill wl11 Pass substan tially In the form of the one to which I have alluded. "I believe that with such a commis sion, vested With such powers, the ques tion of the car shortage and generally of equipment could be. speedily regu lated and that discriminatory ratea could be practically abolished. "Complaints are continually coming to ma from various parte of the state of failure on the part of the railroad companlea to furnish care even for per ishable property. Taker an Instance. Yesterday I received a letter from a gentleman on tha Una of a railroad run ning Into Portland, and not a very great distance from the city, charging that ho had Invested money In pota to that necessitated the use of 20 cars for their removal to market, - The writer further complained that although ha had repeatedly appealed for cara .ha had thus far been furnished with only one, and. that there were no prospects for" more. Other complaints along the same Una continually reach me, and this la ona of tha aerloua evils which an efficient railroad commission ' can yro ceea to. racuiaia." , , 250 New York Jouniml. lillLLIOIIAIRE Or ALASKA ADMITS HE1S EX-CQUVICT E. T. Barnett, Wealtty Miner and Founder of Fairbanks, Owner of Townsite and For . mer Mayor, Sent to Salem y :L Penitentiary From Portalnd. (Journal Special Service.) Seattle. Nov. 24. E, T. Barnett, mil lionaire mining man of Alaska, founder I of Fairbanks, owner of the townsite of Fairbanks, former mayor of 'that "city, and the largest stockholder and tllrect lng spirit in the Fairbanks banking company, ia an ex-convict Tbla afternoon, while on the witness stand In -Judge Griffin's' department of the- superior court, under oath when pressed on cross-examination, . Barnett admitted that he had been confined In the Oregon state penitentiary at Salem, Oregon, to serve four years sentence upon conviction of larceny by bailee, a felony. The. atory of the crime for which Barnett waa sentenced to serve four years in the Oregon penitentiary Is tersely" told' in the Paciflo Reporter. (Continued on Page Four.). ADVOCATES TRIAL IWARRlAGES Mrs. Marie Rose Resler Says That Ninety Five Per Cent of Parents Are Moral Im beciles Unfitto - (Special Dfepetrh tn- Leased Wire to The Journal) New York. Nov. 24. 'Alter my daughters reached the age .of 6 years cautioned them against sitting upon the lap of any man excepting their father, and would not allow them to be k tesed, I- poHovo-wery mother ahould take a like -precaution. - . 'I believe that tne atate snoum es tablish a bureau for tha information of wive-and mothers so that they can be tauxht how ' to bring up their chlldre.i amid moral surroundings. 'I believe bpth a man and a woman can find out in rive years wnetner or not they are aulted to each other, and If not, separate. "I believe that the destiny of this great country resta with - the women. The sooner the women are given a fran chise the sooner will a moral uplifting begin. .. ' ' ' "I have found that" 95 per cenf of parents are moral- Imbeciles and unfit to bring up their children In a proper moral atate." ' Mrs. Maria Rosa Resler, who says aha ia the first person to advocate a trial marriage, and says of Mrs. Herbert Parsons' book on trial marriages: ' ' la He Pet Theory. "Mrs. Parsons la high born, and aa I understand It haa no children. How doea ahe know of any solution of .the trial marriage ay stem 7" In her book called "How to enjoy matrimony, or the monegamlo mar riage law amended by tha trial expira tion clause," which waa published la 100, Mrs. Reeler said ahe hat advo cated the trial marriage and 'had been working faithfully fo attain .that end. Mrs. Resler says she Is of noble Au strian family, la wall known la woaton'a l4MlgeBsaaa OF Bullets and Poison to Satisfy Blood Lust, and Witness Maroon ed on Arctic Isle (Special Dispatch o: The Jooraal.) Seattle, Nor. 24. Tales of murderous 1 cruelty and lust for blood of a Saa .: Francisco whaling captain ' hava been ' brought to this city by George Johnson, ; eye-witness to - two of tha murders, ' who was marooned on tho desolate 81- . berisn coast to die that he might never be able to testify against his chief, : Four murders are In tbe count against Captain Charles Kllnkenberg. maater of the Han Francisco steam schooner Olga, and who for aometlme.was also maater of. the steam schooner Charles Hanson. These charges were -filed, this after noon with United States District At-' torney Potter Charles Sullivan, who will turn the papers in the case over to District Attorney Hoyt of Nome, .who Is In the city to prosecute two other ; whaling captains, Newth and Bod fish. ' - One man shot dead while sleeping la hla bunk, another potaoned after he had been chained up to die by the Inhuman captain, and two men set adrift on an Ice floe during anof f shoro gala com'-, J, plete e? tale of one year's blood lust of -a savage but cowardly shipmaster. Af Ada vita to this fact were filed with 'At- -torney Sullivan this afternoon and will be taken up as soon aa Attorney Hoyt can , communicate with the Alaskan au- . thoritlea Meanwhile the man who la ' accuaed of all these crimes is spending the winter with his wife at Point Bar row, tho northernmost point of tho United States' possessions. ' Marooned Witness. . As from a voice from the dead to tho cowardly nnrraerer.- KlllikeTibergT-will come this story to give . him fresh. haunting fear that his despicable crimes will yet find him out When he shot down hla chief englneer Pa-ulD. Jackson, aa he lay aiiTeep,huralng two . bullet wounds- that the- eaptatn had In fllcted a month before; when he sent two hapless fellows to their death on, an ice floe; when he still further les sened the host of witnesses against his cruel murder of Jackson by poisoning poor Mitchell, a great peace must have come to him when he learned that tha principal witness against the four mur- , ders, George Johnson, colored, was ma rooned on the far off Siberian coast "But like a nemesis, George Johnson. steward of the Olga, haa returned to civilisation and to the country where laws exist that will not be satisfied until the brutal Dane had paid the pen alty of his blood-letting with his own life. " " r (Continued on Page Four.) Bring - Up Children club circles and .waa. instrumental. In agitating the movement againat Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, excluding him from tha United Statea . senate. - . Her husband was a well-known German au thor. Mra. Realer talked Interestingly of her pev theory of trial marriage.- "The country today la besot with a huge problem the divorce problem. - A solution to this very grave question must be arrived at and it ia only a question of time. The only way tha problem will be aolved la through tho agency of htgh-mlnded . women. - WeaJ a rraaobiee. "A woman must hava a franchise. They must be able to vote. I When a woman can go into a voting booth and vote on tho question of the day, then will be the time this country will bo highly civilised. The day must, soon come. .., . . . "The . unhapplnes's tf I parent acta upon the nature of the child,'' contln- ued Mra Resler. . "Wh should a child aeo hla parents eternally at daggere . points? Is it not better for the pervtita snd ' children that the former should separate? How mny broken hearts, how many broken minds, have been the outcome of a marriage hateful to bota husband and wife? "A trial expiration rtnue amended to the monogsmlo marriage U, pre- , claiming to hold In legal wedlock men and women annuity secure as husband and wife for severs! year, and at the expiration f that time simply be an nulled or continued if suitably matd. Is the only way to sbolvh dijrce sn-1 solve thst prnWent.' r Mrs. Kesler says. In eemlushut, fbt she thought no family was cuwtl unlwee I1j' bad to children, V ?