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. . FilCM-MULE FERRY TO LI0D2R.N" C?JDGE: OVER VILLAMETTS-GTORY 'AND PICTURES IN, SUNDAY r r GOOD EVENING Journd Ciricuhtxcn - THE WEATHER. - Fair tonight and Saturday; north- ";; Yesterday Was , erly winds. , , . , . r; VOL. V. ( NO.; 231. PORTLAND OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1908. SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. Ow THAHTi AWD irrwi ciahss. rivx ctaia ' -fVj """""i -:- . " - il n rx rK : : " ' mmmmm mmmmmmmm governor mommBmiiRGE fliayT-. .. :V ALLEGED CONSPIRATORS -r- ""rM' pSpS L 1.' J,. - , TROUBLE TO 11 - Willi RUEF mms I Criminal Conspiracy Is and Large Damages Will Be De manded of Financiers Suit Will Throw Light on Tran action and Reveal Methods of Harriman to Block Independ ent Railroad Construction in " Pacific Northwest , ..' . fliifta for erlmTnai coneplraey, and .i .for civil damages Is the aura jf $JSS.000 are bains prepared by , II. Mejvllle " Walker against E. IL Harriman, Edward ' Reeorda, H. L. Plttock and other dlrec- tora of tha Portland, Nehalem 6 TUla , rnoqk . Railroad ' company.' Mr. - Walker la tha agent of tha London flnanciera ' who wera backing tha original company, - prior -to-4ta-acquleltlon-by tha Pacific Railroad & Navigation company, of which E. K. Lytle la nominally the head. A atory aooanUy printed In Th-jOTir nal regarding tha aelllng out to Harrl- - man tntereata of tha Portland. Nehnletn A Tillamook Railroad company by H. I Plttock. Colonel McCralcen and certain -attention In New. Tork and London, where tha road wii being financed at the time of its overthrow by tha Harrlman-Records-Plttock combination. H. Melville Walker, "ietsnt of tha London flnanciera who were backing the original company, haa made a atatement for publication, which la confirmed by William Raid, . aecratary of tha company, and docu ments In possession of local peraona. It la aald the Walker aulta will open tip tha entire transaction, and furnish a notable Instance of tha methods com monly employed by the Harriman Inter sta to block Independent railroad con struction In so-called "Harriman terri tory" on tha Paclflo coast v ' ' :' ' Wkat Walker Bar. "V ' " Tha following letter, received today by Tba Journal from Mr. Walker,', la eelf-explanatory: v v - "Nov. 16. To the .Editor of (Continued on Page Two.) MOST DEADLY OF EXPLOSIVES FOR AERIALWARSHIPS i c i ' Ju Aeroplane . Invented by - Wright ; Brothers to Be Equipped With TNewestr6yef7hhverifi6 """"of Government Chemists Es- : peclajly Adapted for Air'Shfps. t ; (Jeareal Uneeial' gerrta.! ". . '" Haw Tork. Nov, 10. A special to tha Journal from Washington aaya: Aerial warships, armed with exploslvea mora deadly than any previously known, will. It Is expected. Boon be in tha service of - tha United Btatee, Thla new weapon af deatruotlvaneae la the-discovery of thej government experts. - j : - Oaneral Crosier, chief of tha ordnance department aaya tha new explosive Am tha moat powerful the world ever , knew and la especially adapted for use In col?. Junction with aerial war anglnea. Cro tier aald: " '" .- 'It would appear that we ara on the threshold of practical and auoceaaful aerial navigation.'' . Crosier for tha past two years, aided ' by a ataff of experts working secretly, . haa been atudylng tha subject Ha aald . further: , - "It la now up' to the Wright brothers. . of Dayton Ohio, to aay whether or not tha government shall take their Inven . lion. They knew tha government's at titude and have Ita offer. Tha Wrlrbta ara carefully guarding their aeroplane Invention, although tba ITnlted Sutra ; government haa been kept Informed of progreea and Is so well- satisfied t haa taada Um a otter, . - - V - ThEVecutivVMust II! J I Cleared and the Price He Must i jl Pay Is Absolute Disunion With IM' : Ife-' K ' " ' 3 t V Above Ig H. L. Plttock, owner of tha ' Oregonian. bejow-ia - H.- Har- riman. . They are accuaed of having acted together In preventing the building of the proposed Tillamook railroad. BY RETURN TO 'STAGE CAREER ' ' aaiBBasBBBBBajiBBBjiBjBa ' Goldie' M6hr Wood, Widow of Millionaire Pittsburg Manu facturer, Evens Up With Aris tocratic ' Family by Second Theatrical Debut. ; . ,, (journal gpedal Berrlc.) - ; , JMttaburg, 'Nor.: 10. -A alurrlng re mark made by .'the grown daughter of her lata nrllltonalre fcuabani haa cauaed Gold la Mohr ' Wood - to ' return to tho etage Tha former chorus girl made her second theatrical debut at WUmlhg--ton,' - Delaware, last night,- and made good her. oft repeated threat to get even with tha members of tha Wood family, one of tha oldest and.. wealthJeat . In Pittsburg. When the lata Allen WooJL married Miss Mohr objection waa made "by the members of his family. A truce waa pa.t ehed lip, and . when Wool ami - tlTa bride paased through Pittsburg on their honeymoon trip through' tha woat, they wersr-graeted at -the. depot by several Other Woods. .-.. All waa serene until tha daughter of tha bridegroom noticed that tha second Mrs. Wood , waa wearing Jewelry whlsh onca adorned tba millionaire a first wiie. She Indignantly exclaimed: "What! my mamma'a diamonda ' on that person V . ' "That peraon" at onoe announced that she would get even. She haa dona ao by dragging the name of Wood on tha stage. , ,. MARK TWAIN OBSERVES SEVENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY f Jon rati gpeelal eWvlea.t ' ' ' New Tork. , Nov. . 10. Samuel Clemens, whom all tha world knowa as Mark Twain, waa 71 yeara old today., At hta city- home in lower Fifth avenue (he laalso tho possessor of a country place at Tsrrytown, near tha atata of John D. Rockefeller, there waa an al most, contluuoua procksslon of me enr gera during the day, - bearing letters, telegrams and cablegrams of congratu lation and good , wishes. Tha veteran humorist la a( present, enjoying excel lent health and for a man who haa passed tha three score and ten mile poit on llfe'a Journey ha presents a re marknble picture of hale and alert ao- -' M order. Issued From Wav ' Uo I Z: tifJ KUJ )W7- ' iX S ' V-2. Or.-A ' V: vw , StX-. Fi saw"? ' (Joarsal gpeclal gerrlee.t Ban Francisco, Nov. SO. Mayor E. Bcbmlta and Abe Ruef. It la reported, ara to dissolve their political and graft partnership. The formal announcement of tha separation will not bo given out Immediately, but tne publtd will be made aware of the disunion of tha boo dks interests within the next two or three weeks. ' In the meantime tha pair will confer as usual and apparently "frame up" their defenaa In unison. But arTrTSOt-statrt-t-h J ill. be breaking up of the -unholy aJUaac autd Schmita will decide that Ituef la a wicked -fMurtnae- d - thart i-h- p- no longer afford to be associated with him. . Schmltg's adherents favor thla plan and state that they have all along ad vised the mayor that this waa tha only courae for htm to pursue If ba wished to save himself In this crisis. . It is reported that orders have been laaued from ' "way up" that Schmita must ba cleared and that- tha pries, he must pay for his escape will be abso PTaaiauuluu of hlmssjf and Ruef ' Partners la Boodle. This separation of partnera in boodle will npt ba so difficult of aocompliah ment, f"r hy v hp their differ ences and fallings out before. Follow-' Ing the banquet given Dr. Devlne of tha Red Croaa prior to his departure for tha east, and at which aoclal function Bchmlts waa made much of by some of .tie leading cttlxena participating, there waa a coolness between tha mayor and the "curly one." . Ruef objected to Schmlta'a moving In the new aphere, and it la aald that when the mayor did soma favors for corporate Interests without charge tha Bush atraet boss accused him of disloyalty. If aot of high treason. -. It la very plain that a change of heart on the part of Schmita haa taken ! place alnce ha arrived from New Tork. At first ha aald he would stand by Ruef till -the last, but In Bchmlta's apeech at Dreamland pavilion ha not only failed to give Ruef a clean bill of health In tha graft scandal, but made no reference whatever to hla "wicked (Continued on Page Eight) SAY ABE RUEFS Ifi UNION PARTY Prorqment Labor Advocate Gives , His Reasons Why Bossismand Corruption Will Not Dominate h Union-Labor Politics in State of Oregon. Ther will be no Abo Reufa In labor politic In Oregon. ' So aay union men who' wll figure prominently aa dele gates in tha union labor political con vention tonight i "By the very nature of thlnga, boaa lam and corruption can have no place In a bona fide labor party," aald P. Mo Donald, aeoretary of the Oregon State Federation of Labor and editor of the Labor Press, today. "On tha other band, boaalsm and corruption In tba old po litical partlea ara tha legitimate result of conditions which, shape tha career of those partlea. Both tha Republican and Democratic partlea are creaturea of cer. tain commercial interest Their organi sations are therefore business organisa tions and their tnethoda bualneaa math, ode.- In . a big eomerclal enterprise, though there may ba 1.000 stockholders. If one man owna the majority of stock ha absolutely oontrola tha corporation. So It la in tha Republican and Demo cratic partlea. . One man With- a mil lion dollars baa mora. to aay aa to the policy of tha party than any ona million". men witn only one oonar apiece. "Now union labor la organised In an entirely different way. Tha majority CANNOT FIGURE ' iCeaU&ued oa Pf a eifbt - a. k. i - m pe" s-asyx.a-"ai , s rr yrsji .1 ' 1 1 ' " - frit , 1 1 1 " ----- - -----f ... Government Officials Partners in .. ! O-!. f "! r...f-Jf iinmnnin i a n 1 rA - r--sr a 1 n ia i r 1 ini v 1 1 111 1 iii 1 . 1 f 1 in 1 1 1 j 11 1 1 1 11 ji j 1 1 1 f I iii vviumiiMU lmiiu rnrtuu rnuvm IS STRUCK IN FACE BY THOUSAND-POUND ; WEIGHT AND LIVES i Axel Landeen Has Countenance Horribly Mashed but Will Re cover Almost Miracle That His Life Was Not Crushed out....:-'-:. y..;:- . , Axel Landeen, a lineman... of tha Pa clflo Sta tea Telephone eV Telegraph com pany, waa struck In tha face this morn ing by a falling l.ouo-pound weight traveling at the rate of 10 feet a aecond, and Uvea to tell the atory.'- Landeen waa employed with two men who ara putting in a telephone system for the Imperial hotel.1 and while work ing about the elevator shaft, waa atruck In the face by" the counterbalance as-It was coming down. Hla face waa badly imashad and part, of bis noes waa torn off byha ponderous mass of Iron and lead. " That Landeen waa not killed Ig con sidered ' a miracle by hia fellow em ployes. He waa atandlng on a step- ladder wnicn waa leaning against the elevator ahaft on tho fifth floor whan tha elevator atarted up to get another (Continued on Page Eight.) - f . 1 THIS YOU : r - -- - - : HITCHCOCK. TAKES CHARGE OF INQUIRY Clews Lead Directly Into Gen eral Land Commissioner's . Office at Capital. - - ! (Joarsal Special Senrtee. - ' Washington, Nov.- 10. There will be plenty time between now and March 4, when he retires from tha Interior de partment, for Secretary Hitchcock to throw a flood of light upon tho opera. tlona of tha corrupt ring which haa been stealing coal , landa In Wyoming and other western atatea from tha govern ment In the Intereat of varloue railroad corporations. Tha facta developed by tha Interstate commerce commission and by tha In vestigation which haa been going on hero under tha personal supervision of Secretary 1 Hitchcock have established the existence of the frauds beyond a ahadow of doubt. Tho railroads em ployed "dummies", to enter these lands. an J one questl6nbPfOTa ttiapai tiuent now Is how to fix tha responsibility, be- could not have been oommltted in thla particular way without collusion on the part of tha whole atrlng of government officials. Hermans la Scandal. Present Indications "are .that tha cluea originally developed In Wyoming, Colorado and, Utah lead more or lesa -(Continued on Page Eight) THE best featuresnews and literary and pictorial to be had in the country will be printed in The Sunday Jour - nal. The comics are funny, the stories are good, the music is sweet and the. news' is true. Jefferson Myers tells the story of the Dismal Swamp in Vir ginia. ' Coal Swindles ' 1 MAYOR LANE SIGHS CHINESE GIN HILLS . ., - . . y :- i Attorney Mark O'Neill Says He .Will Take Matter Into federal " Court, as Law Violates Inter . national Treaty Between the . ' United States and China. Mayor Lane thla morning algned tha ordinance revoking tba licenses of the Ova Chinese gtn mills. Notloa to cloaa will ba aervad upon tba proprietors thla afternoon. If tha Chinese refuse to -take back tha money for tha unexpired por tion of their fees aad decline to give up their llcenete they will ba arrested. Mark O'Neill, wno haa acted aa at- torney for tha Chinese boforo-e- cil committee on liquor license, aaya be will tomorrow or Monday-file a petltlos In tha federal court asking for a writ of habeas corpua. Ha declares that tha action of tha council In ordering closed tha placea of bualneaa ot every Cblneee In Portland engaged In tha retail liquor trafflo can be successfully com batted to eourt. ' .- ""It la a violation of tho treaty of 1161 between the 'United States and China."' aald ha soon after tha mayor bad ap proved tha ordinance. ."That treaty guarantees to Chinese tha right to con duct buslnesa In thla country, and tha council haa violated It by ordering thaaa man to cloaa up when there waa no evidence against them before It. Aa tha liat includea all tha Chinese her in that bualneaa It aaema to be class legis lation. Aa auch It la unconstitutional. and tha federal court haa. Jurisdiction over auch matters." " ' It Is probable that tha police will cloaa tha Second street gtn ehops men tioned by name In the ordinance revok ing their lloenses. The claim of tha Chinese ts that the liquor they aell la the aame aa that aotd la many of tha "Mellcau man" saloons hare. From tha opening of the crusade against tha gin mills the wholesale liquor dealers nave taken a deep inter eat In tha flght Much of tha liquor so called eold by the Chinese Is "recti fied" by tha big local llrma and ther do not wish to lose the trade of the becond stmt MOoona, . WILL ACT FOR STATE Chamberlain to Appear Before, Congress on Behalf of : Oregon's Waterway Work. Will Talk to River and Harbor Committees and to Congress, Presenting the Needs 'of the State and Asking for ' Fed eral Aid, :--'.yV'";iyM'' y Ta do what ha -can toward f twain Oregon'a waterwaya. Governor Chamber. lain wilt leave tomorrow for Washing ton, District of Columbia, where ba wUI attend tha meeting of , tha National Rivera and Harbors oongreaa aad will later attempt to hold - oonferanoo with the rivers and harbors appropriation I committee of oongreaa and prove to both tha extreme need of geaerouo fed eral assistance toward tha completion or works now under way In thla aeotlon ot tho country. - Governor Chamberlain will, both b rore th congress an4 the committee, represent the state - aa a whole, not one aeotlon alone, and will urge especially before tha , rtvera and harbors committee tha. vital necessity for adequate appropriation to keep tha work alive on tha different government projects at tha mouth of tba Columbia. - at Celilo, along tha Willamette, at Cooe ' Bay and tha other-placea-needing " provement He will, however, hold out that tha Jetty work la of moat preaalng need, and that whatever alae la dona, or left unprovided for, thla work ahould continue and bo ao arranged that no fur- ther delay afil "Consequent retrogression la allowed. 1 WUI Bepraaant State at large. Governor Chamberlain goea to Wash ington aa a delegate frora the Portland - chamber of commerce In company with J. N. Teal and Philip Buahner, bnt he will also represent tha atata at largo, not -aa a delegate of any organisation, but as governor of Oregon. J. K. Randal, chairman of tha rtvara and harbors committee), haa wired an invitation to Governor Chamberlain t apeak before the congress on tha water ways of tha Paclflo ooaat. or some kin dred subject. Tha governor haa not as yet decided what hla apeclflo subject - will be, but ha will aocept tha Invita tion. 1 do not know, what Oregon'a dele-- gatlon will do or what plan It win. fol low when It reaches .Washington, for no opportunity haa been given for a con ference on. the subject," aald tha gov ernor thla morning. - "It ta aafa to any, -however, that each member will do what he can to ahow to tha oongreaa) (Continued on Page Eight) . III DEAL HOW Big Electric Company Said to Be Real Owners of United Rail- ays- Practically Certain V TharUne Wilt oen Be Bullr up the River. , . Negotlatlona for tha United Ratlwara company of Portland ara believed to have ahlfted with Weatlnghouse Inter eata In tha arena and that cone am la aald to ba tha real owners of tha stock heretofore thought to ba possessed br C E. Loss. F. Ii. Chureh of New Tork. an engineering expert connected with tha Weatlnghouee-Churob-Kerr company. haa been In tha city for a week making an exhaustive examination with a view to preparing aatlmatea for construction of trie lines, either for that concern or tha Sherman 4k Clark company, Los Angelea, prospective buyers. It la now practically certain that tha lines will a built , - Mr. Loss went to New Tork lat aummer. aa la now wall known, with tha Intention of financing the eyatenv wltn thJ Westlnghouse compsny, but It.wse reported that he failed tliroush the l fluenco of certala latereets anreaonlafie to tha carrying out of the tnited fall ways company's plana la and a J Portland. It la now all--! ( t Loea dlapoaed ' his " '. ' ! per ent of t! i stock of the vow , t houae Inter- v i IVESTiriGEIOUSE HAS FUS