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a GOOD MORIIIIIG Fair, easterly wind.. VOL. III. NO. -33. v PORTLAND,' OREGON. SUNDAY.. MORNING, 'DECEMBER 2. 1908 FIVE ; SECTIONS FIFTY-SIX PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. j SKB) AlI!Fh " IiDAlQ- OTIC I MA STORE Lift U vlMIL, vurfl SHOT FIRED - WHEN OWNER WES DASH East . Side Grocery Is Scene of Sensational Robbery ' by Bold Highwaymen Proprietor and Customers Are Forced to Stand Against Wall While They Are Searched for Valuables and Cash Box Is Rifled by Thieves.- ; . Two masked highwaymen robbed the grocery store of A. Knutson en th Eaet aide laat night and held up flv men, proprietor, employee and customer of the place. They netted $160 and In ad' dltlon - earrled away two . valuable watches. ' The robber did not make their haul Without a ahow of resistance being of fered them. Walter Millar,, one of the victims, wae alow in facing the back wall at the command and he waa struck a staggering blow on the aid of the head with a revolver. Knutson, the pro prietor, took k long chance and ran out a back door. A revolver shot narrowly missed his head, pierced the- wall and founilts way through the upper floor te IBS rOOI. . ,i- , v:, . , . r - Ths -Knutson grocery la situated at Belmont and East Twenty-ninth streets At e:5 last night the proprietor, B. H. Button. Walter Miliaria tX Vanoe and Ray Bean were gathered about the store In the back of the room. Sud denly two masked men ran In by the front door, and ooveiing the crowd with a revolver each, cried with an oath: "Thruw up ournaaahaBns up. 'aces to the wall. If one of yon move. we U put you in hell before you know It". .. ",' - f ' -;- ,V . '.I. On Xta Struck. . V "" The 'men Quickly- obeyed orders, all but Miller, who was glad to obey after lie had received a welt en the aid of the head. The ' strangers were we'll dressed in dark suite and each wore a black silk handkerchief ; over his face, holes having been cut for the eyes. The smaller mas handed his pistol to his pal and emptied the till. , Exactly how much the till contained Knutaon did not know, but he thinks it was over lieo. .:. . - . .. , . " . , ...... After rifling the till the smaller rob ber went through the pockets of their rive" victims. Sutton lost a gold-filled watch and 124 In cash. Vane lost 121, Bean 14 and Knutson a gold watch. Miller had 12.60 In bis pockets. He was the last In the line, and the outlawwas about to rob blm vln Knutson, who stood beside -a rear door, suddenly pushed It open and ran' out through 'a (Continued on Pag Blx.) NEWS RECEIVED or siviir.ii ram . TIRAH'S DEATH Founder of Local . Swaml Ram Society Drowned While Bath- Jng Jrt-the SacretRhrerGan- ges at Gurhwal -Impressive Funeral Rites. Advice : hav been received from ladla - that Bwaml Ram Tlrah, - who founded the Swaml Ram - society in Portland three rears ago. waa drowned while bathing la the sacred river Oange at Gurhwal. . Swaml Ram Tlrah wae earned away py a strong current. Searching parties war at one organ ised and the body was recovered. Indian pomp and ceremony marked the funeral rites. .Courts adjourned on the day of tb funeral and, the entire prevtno mourned. The deceased was a high priest and known all over India as a great man.. Though but IT -years f age, n was a man or marked ability, having held the position of professor of mathematics at the British nnrversltv at Punjab for soma time. About tare years ago he came to the United State to organis a mov roent to brlk down the system of easts India. His efforts were soecsssfol la this lty and In other parts of the Icowntry. . -. - - - In Portland he organised the Bwaml now deceejiei waa first president, judge Lionel R, Webster Is now president of tb society, - A memorial meeting will t.e held tomorrow evening at the reel- lenc ef Mrs. CK N. Denny, Sixteenth red Montgomery streets. Where the Uwaml Rasa eoclety wa first, organised. ACCUSED OF LAND FRAUDS 1 v Senator Waxren. TRAIN ROBBERr LOOTS EXPRESS OH COTTOn BELT Messenger Is Thrown Out of Car : and Probably Fatally Injured - Desperate ' Struggle Pre- ceded Robbery All Valuables r; In Sight Taken by Thief. Tezarkana, Arlu Dao. 1. The Paclfhj Express company's car attached to the r Concm Tfetr passenrer-trarnf aue ners si 7:2 tomgnt was robbed 11 miles south... of here .. atj.li o'clockand Express Messenger W. A. Frissl waa probably fatally Injured. The last seen of the messenger waa at Red Water, which I 17 Dalles out from here. - when three miles out from Red -Water the porter went Into the ex press ear . and found the -: measenger missing. He gave the alarm and a search waa at one Instituted. The car showed there had been a des perate struggle. Everything was in disorder, the safe was open and blood was smeared on the floor and the walls or the car. It was evident that the robber bad entered the car after It left Red Water, had assaulted the messen ger and thrown him overboard and then rifled the car. The train cams on her and messages were sent to Red Water. A posse of officers was hurriedly made up and left for the seen of the robbery. ; , While another posse was getting ready to start In ' a speolsl train, a message from Red -Water stated that the messenger had been found. . He was lying by the track a mils north ef Red Wster. tvrered with blood. with an ugly wound on the bead aa If made by a blunt Instrument He waa atlll alive, but able to speak only In whispers. A train has left for Red Water to bring the Injured man bar. An anamination of the -rar show It was rifled of all vsluableelln eight, but It cannot be learned what the loss waa. Express company officials are reticent about giving out anv details of tb loss. The robbery took place at almost the Identical spot where a bold attack was made five years sgo. when the messen- Ser was bound and gassed and the safe ynamlted and all of Jta contents se cured.. - ' ' t Ids Ad Karrled. Washington, Dee. 1. Ml Constance C Ado, niece of Second Assistant Secre tary of Stats Alvln Adoe. and Mr. IreJertok S. Tyler, of an eld George town family, were married here today In St. Johns Episcopal church. --Assistant Paymastsr O. Montrose "Ade. of the navy, was best man. Miss L.ucy A See, eister of the bride was her attendant. Testerday Judge McGinn wss ad- Judged in contempt of court and waa fined 110. TM wnoi matter arose out of the libelous publication against Mr. Ladd la the Oregon lan and the fail ure of the grand Jury to Indict for the reason, aa It new infers, - mat tr. Scott wae protected by Mr. Manning. On the first day of Its session Judge 0 Contempt of McGinn broke into the grand Jury room because be believed Colonel Wood ought not to be there ss attorney for Mr. Ladd. The court held that Colo nel Wood had a right te be there. The fact la, the pebeeedlnge before grand Jury ar not a trial. They are on sided by law, and the state ts movd by the private prosecutor, la fact; but waiving this point. Judge McGinn should havs taken the matter before tb court Im mediately,, bad tb grand Jury-, sum moned before the eoart and aettled the point la aa orderly manner. Judge Mo Olrm, on Saturday, November 14. In open court before Judge Sears, presid ing, called Mr. Manning Mr. . Facing - '. IBS Special Agent Meyen dorff Makes State ment Regarding Wyo ming Land; Frauds Declares Charges Made by Wyoming Senator Are Ridic ; ulou8, Especially Story of At tempt at Suicide by Meyeii- dorff Relates Trouble. ... M A.t Meyendorf tapeblarnaganr-of the Interior .department, who bas been giving some damaging testimony before the interstate commerce commission la the Utah land fraud cases against the coal land tnlevea now under investiga tion or on trial mere, returned to Port land yesterday afternoon. Mr. Meyen dorff has come Into collision with Sen ator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming as a result of the testimony given at the hearing and the senator ha made some strong statements Impugning the mo tives of the government agent.-In an Interview last night Mr. Meyendorff re plied to some of the statements made by the Wyoming senator, alleging the Statements made to be ridiculous, in speaking of the controversy,. Mr. Meyen dorff said: " "My testimony before the Interstate oommerc commission at Bait LaUc City waa devoted to a description of the three Interviews I bad with Senator Francis B. Warren of Wyoming. Tb faot are all set out In an affidavit. The portions ef this affidavit that concern themselves with Senator Warren are the following: I met the senator-at ths Oxford ho tel In Denver some time In May or June, 1104. At that Interview Senator War ren made no direct reaueat - that I should not prosecute the Investigation from personal considerations, but be pointed out the danger of making an en emy of the Union Pacific Railroad com pany In Wyoming elections and stated that Senator Clark's reelection might be Jeopardised If the enmity of the Union Pacific Railroad company should be In curred. About three months after my Interview, with Mr. Warren I was transferred from Denver, Colorado, to Los -Angeles, California, a distance of above 1,200 miles from the state of Wyoming and away from tb seat of my operations. - . irJ Subpoenaed a Witness. . 'In October. 1(04, I waa subpoenaed as a witness before the United States district court at Denver In another mat-, ter. On the evening I left Denver for New Tork and Washington, December t, 104, Senator Warren arrived In Denver and by appointment I met him at the Hotel Oxford, The senator then told nve that tb general land office at Washington, D. C, would not hurry the Wyoming coal land eases and that of course I would not hav to concern myself about them. "It Is the foregoing testimony which Senator ' Warrflt criticised In a newspaper-Interview sent out yesterday from Washington. If he has been cor rectly quoted, ho asserted that la writ ing to him I described myself as being an "Old soldier of the Civil war." - This statement never- was mad by me and It would have been absurd for anybody t bare made any declaration of that character. The records of the stats de partment ahow that it- wa In Hi that Abraham Lincoln obtained my releaso from exile la Siberia and that I did not arrive In this country until llll, a year after the cloee of the Civil war. --eTeLBedotJre4tlo,tl "Furthermore, I never solicited Sen ator Warren or any on else for ths po sition of a special agent In charge of a place In the consular service. Mr. (Continued en Page Four.) Court and Contempt Both-Waya, and said he peddled Justice as If It were cord wood, and ouC ef his corrupt galna would soon be rich enough to buy the Wells-Fargo building. Such lac guar from the Oregonlan's attorney was significant! Jode MeOInn refused to be silenced, and later was fined for contempt ' Out of this arose further disorder on the Monday following, and Judge McGinn Insulted Judge Sear on the bench. It was for this that he was fined yesterday. - ' The Journal deairea ts call attention to - what It deems the real rottenness disclosed in this whole matter. It has not one word of excuse for Judge Ms Otnn'a disorderly Intrusion Into the se cret aessloa of the grsnd Jury room. Such conduct If permitted, would re place law with- force and bullying.'- It haa not a- word of excuse for bis defl snc of the court on Saturday -and hla Insults en Monday. Had as - theee breaches ef order are, however, they ar the hasty outbreak of aa Impulsive and angevernabl temper. 'They are V.- V ' ,-:' ! ' - 1 . SCENE IN COURT WHEN 5,000-YEAR-OLD TURTLE CAPTURED Largest Creature of Its Klndjn Existence Pronounced by Sci entists to Be Oldest ' Living Creature Made Prisoner After Strenuous Battle. (Speelsl Dtspatca by Leased Wire te The JoaraaD Ban Francisco, Deo. 1. Naturalists are greatly Interested In lh. mammoth turtle which la - at present on the schooner Academy, and which waa cap tured near Oalapagoa Island, - off the coaat of Ecuador. Great enthualaam prevail In ' ths Academy of Sciences, and It la asld that the value of that one specimen la more than the entire cost of the expedition, It Is what la known ae a land turtle, and Captain Beck and the scientists who went on the expedition are cer tain that Its age is between 4.100 end 4.009 year. It Is the largest turtle over captured. It baa not been weighed up to to preeent time, but the weight Is glvsn. at 1.100 pound a The vessel will be entered at the eus-tom-house today and the turtle removed a aeon aa suitable quarters can be se cured. Captain Beck related the par- ttculara of the capture yesterday. The hugs turtle was seen near the Island. The captain -and two men put off In a boat and soon bad a rope around the body, and after considerable exertion It wss raised into the Boat It fought fiercely, and as It went to one side ef the boat Uv Immense weight gmaahed the aide and dipped on aide under the " water. The little craft eapslsed. While tDemen,wer"ndoavoTln; to save themselves from drowning and to regain the boat, ths monster swsm off In the sea , It was finally recaptured and taken on board ths schooner. their own cur by their very violence; they do not sap the vitals of Justice. But if Mr. Manning ran to the Ore gon la a hot with the news that Mr. Ladd was asking hint for Justice; Ifxh faced both ways In this matter, and haa and doe In other matters; If he prose cutes or prntects for hire or Influence here Is h canker in the commonwealth besld which Judge McOtnn's disorderly behavior becomes Insignificant. Judg McGinn, In his answer, say that be told Judg Seers prlvstely and confidentially that the Ladd cartoon waa libelous, and that he had so told an Oregonlan employe, and when Mr. Manning learned of- this from Judge Sear . he hastened to Mr. Scott end os Id: "I hav had trouble with The Journal people -bees us no true bill was found against you. bees use your Own s Homey admitted te Judge Bears that the publlcatrmr-was libelous." The Journal may say- parenthetically that It Is not true that Mrr Manning had any trotibl with It The Journal $ PlllOUE REVEIIGE 'II " filS OFiEX-HUSBAIIO; N-.- UPON GALAPAGOS MURDERED GIRL'S LETTERS KILLS HIMSELF rjllEII ROBBERY Farm Hand Who Turns Bank Robber . Points Gun at His Own Head .When He Sees Z ' -"..-"" .T.. eVL. ' '- - - Clerk Escape - and ' Realizes That His Identity Is Disclosed. (Speelal Dwpstea by Leased Wire te Tic Joornal) Bedna, Kan Deo. 1. J. W. Harris, a farm hand, attempted -to hold up -the bank bare yeaterday afternoon. On of the clerks escaped., whereupon, seeing that he was sura to be caught, - the would-be robber placed the revolver muxale behind hla right ear and blew his brains out He died about three hours later. When Harris went Into the bank no on was there except W. M. Olllen, the cehler, and Theodore Self, the olerk. It waa 1:19, half an hour before the regular closing time. Harris advanced to the cashier's win dow and drew a revolver. "Hold up your bands," he aald. . Both men did so. "Now you," indicating Self, "pull down ths window shades." Self drew on shade and then started toward the second, and Instead sprang through a door Into the atreet. The robber fired at him but missed. "When Self escaped," asld Cashier Olllen, "the robber stared vacantly at the door where he had disappeared, He did not move for half a minute. Then without a word or a look at me. he raised tb pistol till, the ' musale was near bis right ear and fired. He knew the gam was up when Self got out on the street." . ; nam liTwelTTihdwn inandabout Bedena and had worked aa a farm hand for a man named Baker. He waa not recognised until after he shot himself, aa ' he bad mad some effort at dis guise. for Law felt .'that ths lam conclusion of the grand Jury was s public misfortune, end 4t said eo. Events havs so proved It. Th Journal feel that' a atrong district - attorneys - fearless to enforce the law, could have shown th grand Jury that Its duty lay simply to decide whether the law bad been rfolated. But Mr. Manning bad no trouble what ever with Tb Journal. Th sworn answer of Judg McGinn practically says that Manning was pro tecting Mr. Scott, and Judge MoOlnn'a honest admission that the publication was a libel was very annoying. It also shows that Manning wanted Scott to feel the obligation. ... All this dovetails with Judge MrQ Inn's open a cessation that Mr. Manning peddles his great of fie aa If It were cord wood. Judge McGIrm haa said either too much or too little, and th puhll has-a right to demand that Mr: Manning protect his office, which Is the people's efflre, even tf he doe not car to protect bis food nam and) professional honor, . h-ISi-FAILURE TO GILLETTE WERE READ. Oil FORMER HE Advertises That She Wants to - Marry and the Unfortunate Woman Gets Answers by the Score - From All Sorts of ' Men. ',' " '. .' ' ' lady, 42, with ntee kmLwUn teauel " 1 smut unHr'OBJWT. tuirlmooy. Address Lei, cars woaroai. . Mrs. Virginia WIIsv of Gray's Cross. Ing on th Mount Scott line, haa been having days of tribulation as th re sult of ths above advertisement given to th Journal In her nam, but with out her knowledge. Also It is very probable that the two score of -love lorn . "good men" - who hav- answered th advertisement will wait In vain for th answer which they ar now hoping will cheer their daya with long-expected Joy. Incidentally th ex-husband of ths lady le enjoying - his mean practical Joke in seclusion. . aire. Wll,v mmm fmh m.AAA j a man named Rogers, whoss . present aoaresa is eitner Lnts or Orya Cross ing, no on seems to know which. For some - reason or another ths domestic dovs of peso did not roost upon th family toot and ths divorce court out th galling bonds and gave Mr a. Rog ers back th nam ef her former bus band,' Wilay. which nam la also born by a daughter, now llvlnf with her mother. ' . Kusbaad storage. ' Rogers, It seems, waa chagrined that hla wife should escape from his pro tection through tn loophole of th di vorce court and determined upon re venue. . Accordingly, he called a friend to bis assistance and with him aa an agent Inserted tb advertisement In th Journal, at th asm time sending word to Mr a Wiley that he had put the call for a futur partner in tb pafier over her nam. Mrs. Wiley waa much worried at th rewe. having had some experience with husbands and not wishing to choose her next one by such uncertain means. Disbelieving tha4 - man-would b so unkind, howsver, she paid no serious attention to th Information sent her by bar former husband until ah be gan to receive large numbers of let tsty,w,lth .ery saatlr-ferwaritoil 1 from th business office of the Journal, the she came to town and entered pro teat against ths advertisement which was taken from ths paper. But th atream of offers stlU keeps up. Even while th lady waa protest ing that she did not wsnt a mall or der husband a bashful and bewhlskered Individual deposited an envelop la th handa of the clerk at th window ad dressed to "L 41."- Mrs. Wiley hurried away In despair, leaving a bundle of letter behind her. Mr.. Wiley alleges that her former husband Inserted the advertisement In th paper solely to vea and annoy her and feels much aggrieved that such a practical Joke ahould hav been played upon her. MRS. ASTOR'S REIGN i OVER SOCIETY ENDED (geaetsl Itfepstr by Leased Wire te The Jneraat) New Tork. Deo. 1. Mrs. Astor's reign aa th arbiter of th "Four Hun dred" haa actually ended. Society now knows that what It has long anticipated haa corns to pass, and Mrs. Astor will never again appear ss tb hostess of any of the great- functions which for many years hav made ber famous. , She Is not at th opra thi year, and It la now understood that there will be no Aetor ball, the affair that hag always been heralded throughout th world, and f which titled foreign- era have frequently crossed ' the t aeovpt lnvttatlona. GILLETTE'S COMPLETED Youth Charged With Murder of His Svyeet heart Will Know Fate on Monday Final Arguments to Be Made end! Case Submitted to Jury a Prisoner Beginning to Show Effects of Strain Pathetic Letters Written by Dead Girl (Speelsl tMssetefc by Lessee Wire te The leer! Herkimer. N. T- Deo. 1 Chester OtU lette, charged with th murder ef hla sweetheart. "Billy" Brown, will nrahev. bly know his fat Monday. Evidence in tne- caa waa eompleted in a abort session today with th possible xcet tlon of on witness the def ens mar call Monday. Judgs Devendort Is In sistent tbat th ease will go to th lurv - on Monday. At toe close of today's see- ' ston bs . said h would bold a nltH session Monday If necessary. Judg Deveudorf instructed lawyer to file their- applications -for - changes ; la th ' juage s cnarg. up wnung.. Odds and ende of the testimony Dls- tiiot Attorney Ward wanted to bring together before closing ths prosecu tion's oas wer got . on record today. ' Monday the lawyere will make their -final arguments and th Judg will de liver his eharg to th Jury. - -.Vrlsoasf Show Strain. Now that th ease la nearlng th end. Gtllett Is beginning to show th offsets of ths strain. He stood his examina tion well, but when he left th court room tonight he seemed feverish and ntrvirvr r s ir frnm a rssllsatii that a decision In -hla case i near at ' hand. ..,-. v .. ' In view ef th mas of testimony It Is believed that final arguments will b long. Th- eharg of th court - upon th law and evidence and th verdict . of th Jury, will furnish th e losing chaptera In on of th moat remark able murder trial ever held in this -stat. . - . Th most dramatic scene la the oar room during the entire trial was wha the tetters written by th dead girl t ber faithless lover were read by th prosecutor. There was scarcely a dry eye In the room when the letter wer finished, and even th callous prisoner ' showed emotion. ' Upon thee letters the proseoutlan base Its case.-They show th hasrV (Continued en Pag Six.) THREATENS TO KILL IF SHE SEEKS DIVORCE But Effie Holt Begins Suit and Makes Her Husband's Threat , Part of Her Complaint Against HlmAIso Asks Injunction to Restrain Him. Threatening to kill his wife before) ah eould reach the eourthooa if sb Insisted on suing him for a divorce I on of the charges made against Hans Holt, by Effle Holt Mrs. Holt brought ths suit In spits of her husband'a blood. curdling threat,' though she saya shs Is afraid he will carry It Into execution, and asked the court for an injunction t restrain him from attempting It Holt . had served a aentsnc In fhs county Jail for beating his wife, aa cordlng to th complaint which . wa filed in the stat circuit court yester day. Immediately apnn his raises from Jail, any Mr. Holt th beating waa renewed, and when they . were In. th hopyard he beat ber so severely that stranger had to Interfere to savs her life. They were married In August 104. Mrs. Holt aaka to have her soald en name, Effle Brown, restored to her. . Another abused wife, whoss husband could not be stopped from besting be by a visit to tbe oily Jail Is Frswee L MoGrsw. ' She filed suit for s dlvere from lUnr M. MeOrsw In th circuit court yesterday, alleging that en Aug ust It MeOrsw beai her and wss sr rested .and taken to the elty Jail for th offenee. Sine then, says Mra Ma Oraw, her- hu'hand has beaten ber three times, Sh alleges thst on No vember 21 McOrew give her a blow that blackened both of her eyea and caused her much humiliation. They were married on March It, of this year. - Mrs. M -rsw a-h that se be allowed to resume her ml ln nsme, Trances L Wilson. John F. Log ( -pear as hr auoroty. t r
