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: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
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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.
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(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 ' " '
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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
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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
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Government Officials Partners in
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vviumiiMU lmiiu rnrtuu rnuvm
IS STRUCK IN FACE
BY THOUSAND-POUND
; WEIGHT AND LIVES
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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
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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
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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
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MAYOR LANE SIGHS
CHINESE GIN HILLS
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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,
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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)
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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