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Newspaper Page TextGOOD EVENING Journal Circuhticn , THB WEATHER. Rain tonight and Wednesday; fresh . , southerly winds. . , . ' ; ,,,; VOL. V. NO. 243. ' PORTLAND,- OREGON. ."TUESDAY, 41 EVENING, " DECEMBER 18, 1006. EIGHTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. ' TaIUvJVw Tr ''vs--..r rrTi m f n r i O irn r in onn on n-rr V:.-7' " ''.''r ' . . lmm9mmmtmmm ' ' -:' ACCUSED OF ELECTION FRAUDS " I '.V;X" -V''. . . ri s s s s a s bbsibbbb i . r i ii ni tiiki ni ' i i wju iiijMUMin..iiii .i . i a m a ea w a a a s-a a a f I t - . - i r .. : i ii.iiiii.iiiii.iii .11 I n s a if R ii in in ii r l.iiii 1 : . . i i 1 1 f i u i lull ifl - . hi in nun hi nuuiiLUUitf li ; miiwiilii UlUU1LU III il m nnhiinrirn ' I rin mi inm I . w. .- r"w www'"";; :f ... ! Uni ILL I Ull BYC0R1PAHY I STRIKE C.I8S.P. .- ' ' ,,..,.;;..) ;,. .-. v ... ; : : : ' 1 ... . I - . & 111! - J. - "- . r m I. II I I I Strikers Lose :Therr Positions and. Others Wait fbmthelAx- to 1 Descend ':f- - Th tt t nllway emeUIa umhm tlwt thy will max u ttnp opr M Mra tlit. rralnff em two 11m. iMat, sad ether. U tbe polio are ekl to protest the crews from dear of aa - am nit aad taj-nry. scaaagwr raUe rale. aa hope la the pablio mlad, hat aa?. se ' expeet ruoh eoadttloa. a. eslsted last ; airht la order to avoid dlaappolatBaeat. I OhlC of JPollo arltaaoaeher ha. aaade epeolal piaaa tor the proteotloa of the orew. aad traTeUaa pabllo from later .' fereaee or lajary. Chalrmaa Xeabo of ' the atrlke eonualttea aay. the etrlldac employ, will mahe erarr eaeable of' fort possible to prevent the saalataaaaoe L. the alfat srahedaie. , $ Strett. railway offtdisls have assuthed , the ecf rcsslv In the atraftle between vine cirmitn ana un comptnr.. it was learned hte nwrnilnir-that- 3 -mew-wore discharged and ibotr ' name dropped ; from the compsny s roster-of employes : at the Bavler street barn last night, and : acoordlna to General Manager F, I. Kul- ler laer win aot oe reinstatea. - v are 'plenty of men waiting for a chance 'to -run the company's -crs: no-matter how.manr old employes are droppod from the -service,. while electrical work- era sufficient to keep the power sta tions running are being held In read! nee. to keep the circuit flowing through the trolley wire. In the event that the electrical workera ault. , :.. General Manager Fuller' la confident that the. trouble la ever and that from now oo the Interruption to the service will be slight. Mr. Fuller saya he feels that the public la with the company in It. contention - and he again reiterates his statement thst not more than t& per cent : of the employes ' of the: company knew that any strike wa. planned until 'the cars were held tip on Washington street by the atrtke committee. 'Practically .the regular number of cars and the regular service Is being maintained by the company today, said Mr. Fuller this morning. "All the cars war aent out from the ISast Ankeny and the .O. W. P, barns' this morning on aohedul .time. I have not had definite report, from the other barns, but I understand. that practically 15 per cent of the car. are running on every line. - .-' .: - "(Con tinned on Page Two.) CAUSEOFfM POETIC EFFORTS Intpirtd Bards Rush Into Print . to Tell of the Woes of Walking Inflicted by the; Present Un ; pleasantness Between Com ; pany and Employes.1 ,fi Tha streetcar strike has inspired a great many "poems," ranging from the tinkling Jingle f newspaper -vers to the alleged ode of Homerte tone. One of the 'best of these Is entitled "A La ment," written by 11. J. Praeger of Itl Williams avenue. - The verse follows: Oh! Manager Fuller.' If yon only knew The - trials and trouble, you're puttlpg me to,, , . , - - r , A. mile upon mile of deep mud I walk through, ' My dear Mr- Manager Fuller... , . ' -' .,,- . , Oht Manager Fuller, It', such a te-do, Just because the poor carmen want one little aou, . And ' the people kit aay - that It's now up to you; . Twenty-three, Mr. Manager Fuller. .i - . . , . . Oh! Manager Fuller, good Mr. t-eabo, ' Oh! hearken I pray to this sad tale of Woe," ,' "Fof Its hefT'on tho public and that you - . must know, ., I. . - And believe me, oht Manager Fuller, v v-7 : v :,'J r-' ' ; l--. , . ' . 'i :-' ;V T :.-.v, CAR STRIKE IS . , ' nan iovuo uut in : - ; .; Sympathy With Car- ; f ; men and Tie Up All , Repair Work ; 4 W. L, Trulling er, Secretary of Electricians Union That Favors Sympa- ' . . .'thetic Strike.' " : SwitcTTTammed onflHigh .Trestle: on Van- tSpechl DlipiU-h le .The' Jonl. ' Vanoouver,' Wash., .IJee. 18. rKepeaied1 efforts. have 'been' made' by unknown Tvernons to-wreck cars' of the Portland Vancouver electrlo line and hurl them off the high trestle running for a long distance over the mud flats of the .Co lumbia slouch. ' The fall would be over SO feet In many places, and such an ac cident would mean toss of life. , .-- - Yesterday three -unknown men re moved a fish plate from the-track at the switch near : Ferrell'e crossing a short distance from the north end of the bridge.'' The rail, were lammed' to one aide, with the result that when the first car came along It waa derailed and blocked the trark for the remainder of the day The- car waa a Merchants' ex press car loaded with 25 ton. of freight. hich made tno tack or-replacing it on the track very alow and difficult work Owing to the? efforts which have been TWO AMERICANS IN -T0KIO FIGHT JOB OF 100 JAPS ' With . Bare Fists Marines Give Battle to Mob Until Res- " cued by Police. , . (Jeareal Special Berries ' .. . -. San Francisco. Uec H.Wlth bare fist. Sergeant Lloyd Darrell of the United States marines and a private fought a mob of about 100 Japanese in the city of Toklo and for over 0 min utes succeeded in keeping them at bay. Those who witnessed the affair were unable to say what , the outcome would have been but some of the -Japanese police arrived en the scene and ae- sisted the Americans.- , ... Darreil-haa arrived ncr on the. liner Nippon Mann. He would not discuss the fight, but some of the passengers were witnesses uf . the affair, and from them the story was obtained. Darrell Is a sergeant, and wa. a mem ber of the, guard at the United nutes marine hospital at Yokohama. .With a private he was. visiting Toklo, and re fused to pay the exorbitant demand, of some rickshaw man. - ;t The . Japa attacked the . American. and In a snort time were assisted by a mon of about 100 little brown men.. The Americans knocked down a dos- en of the mikado's subjects.. When they camp too faat tha American, tried their feet occasionally, and with satisfactory effect. ( ' .... . . - The-battle vim for about ta miii. utes, and the American were it 111 hold ing xneir own. when the Japanese police arrived. The American, reached the . rauway sieiion wimout further trouble, I BILLAK'S PLEA- IS NOT. r ': 'GUILTt.OF P0IS0NINQ Chicago.-T)ec. It. Herman HIII.W the aliegej poisoner it tho" Vraal family, pleaded not guilty today. The1 case wa. continued to December J7..-. , ! made to i wreck ; care, people 'Of Van couver have 'become afraid -to take the trip to Portland unless It. Is absolutely necessary. ' -Until the track waa tam pered with, tie - regular - service waa -maintained on ; the ' Vancouver line, a. all. of-the; employes are old meo-who stood by the company- and -did not strike. t-The effort made to wreck the trains, and the fact that young hoodlums-gathered along the tracks a. soon as It was dark and burled missiles of all kinds at the cara and crewa, caused the t company to aitcontlnue the service after dark. ' . , , The wreck of the ear , on the trestle yesterday-caused a-large. tralnload of people to wade in the mud. in some places knee deep, ' In order to, ret to their . destinations. Some of the tratflo between the two cities, is being done on the river while a number of vehicle. have been pressed Into service. EARLY REPORT ON THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL Jearsal Special Servfce.) ' - , .Washington, D. C Dee. II. The) riv er, and harbora committee today agreed to take up the rough draft of the river, and harbpr. bill December tl and make an early report . .. s : The house committee on banking; and currency today agreed to a, S -per cent tax on credit currency. . ' President Transmits Secretary :MetcaJfs Report on Japanese Situation at San Francisco ; '''"f;-' N to Congress. !'.'-! ' , . (Journal Special Service.) . ' Washington, Dec. . H "I authorised and directed Secretary Metcalf to .tate that If there was. failure to protect persona ' and property,: then the entire power; of the federal government with in the limits of the constitution' would be Deed promptly ; and vigorously' to enforce -the observance -of our treaty, the , auprema law of the land;' which treaty gtatrsnteed to Japanese residents everywhere In the union full and per fect protection for their persona and property) and to this end everything In my power would be done, and all the force, of the tnitea mates, ootn eivu and military, which I could lawfully empiwy wu, . ' w. I nese are v"t -vu. aw m brief mesnags sent to concresa . by President Roosevelt today transmitting Secretary Metcalf. report. Th balance of the message is aa follows: - ..I Inclose herewith for your Informs .tlon Tth.flBBl.J'e Port made-, to.. m pe snnnJIy by Secretary Metcalf on the situation affecting the Japanese in San Flatwise. - The raport dtaU with three WOULD "Today electrlo linemen are planning a sympathetic atrlke, not only on the Portland llnea of - the . Portland Railway, ' Light ft Power company,-, but - on the ' Salem lines of that company also. Officers of local 125, Independent Brotherhood of Klec trlcal Workers, . are - in communication this afternoon with officers of the Sa lem anion for the purpose of arriving at a program looking to this end. The officers of local 125 have receiv ed word from their district eounoll that they may go ahead In the matter,, and they are doing no - with all poraible speed. If their plan, do hot go awry. ail the electricians tn the employ of the railway company will go on atrlke be fore the end of .the week, provided, of course, me etrme or th carmen I. not settled before that time. At a meetlnir held -la I, B, E.-Whll lSZ.Hecond street, last night the mem bers of local 1SS decided to support the striking carmen and steps were taken to .secure the cooperation of the other brotherhood Iocs hi whose" members are employed - by , the Borfjand -. Railway, Light and Power company. Local 123 consists entirely, of line men. All the linemen employed by tha railway company are asserted to be union men. and If their local should strike, the ' company would be wholly without repairing crewsi As the wires are constantly being repaired, a atrlke of the linemen -alone-would effect -a tie-up of the car system. The linemen,, however, expect the support of the other two brotherhood locals, whose members are. In the employ of the Portland Rail way, Light and Power company. Ono of these Is the Salem union, the other the union of power house men In this elty, known, aa local 117. , -. . . . - "Ooaf sreaoe Z. at aid. A committee of striking carmen con ferred with the linemen at the meeting held last night and, while most of the proceedings were kept secret, it waa an nounced that a complete understanding was arrived at between the parties .to the conference. It wa. thought best to have the ' action of the linemen in clude a demand for higher wagea for themselves. This plan wa. indorsed by the union and today the officer, of local 125 are In communication with the Salem linemen.. If the Balem linemen agree to the program the demands will rbe made upon the company at onoe and an attempt- will be made to get the power-house electricians to take a part In - the struggle.- This, according to members of local 125, will not be a dif ficult matter. If the ppwer-houa elec tricians refuse, however, to give- their support to the carmen, members of local (Continued on Page Two.) USE ARMY FOR THE JAPS '7 Preaident Roosevelt. Ay , B. F. Boynton, Street Railway Official ..Y' U'-- y Brovrnint...;. '.':'. '.'X-v - 'r'.v'" t S V ''M ' ... " ' aaMMiMMMMPaMsiiJ ' 7' 'l : ' j ' SellwoodElectionFraud Defendant Goes-to v Trial Bef dreJudgQ ? Frazer 'on Charge of ; Having ;Gommto When tha circuit court adjourned ' at noon, today 13 men . had been accepted to act aa Jurors at the trial .of B. F. Boynton on-a. charge of perjury grow ing out of the . alleged Sellwood eleo tlon ' frauds. The last Juror - waa ac cepted a few minutes-before 11 o'clock, and Deputy District .Attorney Ous C Moser made a brier statement of what he prosecution expect, to prov against Boynton. ' The Jurors who were 'accepted and worn are Alfred L. Beebe, retired busi- man, Portland M.Ot - Banf leld - of - the Banfleld-Veyaey . Fuel.i company. Port-1-uid;. James Anderson, brick manufac turer. Portland; W. A. Curry, contrac tor, Portland; J. F. KerfJ-, merchant, Portland; W. Fullerton. huckster, Port lnd; W. W. Frailer, laborer. Portland: Otto Salinger, retired clear dealer, Port Itnd; J. Gorman, retired watchman, Portland; 11. J. - Hayes, restaurant pro preltor, Portland; C J. Jacobs of the Jacob. 8hirt .company, Portland, and B. F. Kyle, housemover, Montavllla. The regular panel of. Juror, was ex haaated shortly after noon yesterday and a special venire of 25 men wa. or dered. ; Nine Jurors -had been accepted when court adjourned at t o'clock. The special ventre waa exhausted at 11 o'clock this morning snd 11 Jurors had been accepted. The remaining Juror waa Selected from veniremen from the recti- Authorized . Statement That Both Civil and Military 'Forces ', ' Would Be Used Against - ;,'".;;:'- .',' Bay City. ' mattsr. of .Controversy first, the exclu sion lot the Japenese children from the San Francisco schools;- aeoond, the boy cotting of - Japanese restaurants, and. third, arts Of violence committed against the Japanese.- - ' . . ST' Adnat faptU. -.A. to. the first matter, I call your esperlaf. attention ' to the very .mall numbei" of Japanese children who at tend sqfaooL-to the testimony as to the brightness, cleanliness, and good : be havior of these Japanese children In the. aohoola. and to the fact that, owing to their being scattered through out ! city, the requirement for them all. iv to to ' one special, school is impoetyile of - fulfilment and- means that .tiiey cannot have school facilities. Let ' e point out further-thaO there would, W no objection whatever to ex otndlng 'from the school, any Japanese on .the -ore of -aga It is obviously not.fleslrabl thst young men should go to adMool with children. The only point tawah eswhiafaat-iha.U-.hil4jev .thesa aelvea The. number of Japanese chil .(Continued on Pag NlnaJ, Now on. Trial for Per jury .--Photo ler panel who bad been excused In Judge' Cleland'a court." . , C. Shepherd. ,who was the first juror accepted yesterday morning, ' waa per emptorily excused by the district, at torney yesterday afternoon aa soon a. he learned that Shepherd had been em ployed by the O. W. P. When asked concerning bis ; occupation, 8hepherd said he had been a farmer and fruit grower for . 16 years. - At a trial In Judge Oantenbeln'. court Shepherd had stated that be wa. occasionally , emr ployed on the O. W. P. rights of way. The .attention -of the district attorney was called to this by a court employe late In the afternoon and Shepherd was peremptorily challenged. . Attorney for the defense objected atrenuoualy to Shepherd being excuaed, but their objection, were-overruled by Judge Fraser, and' Shepherd wa. di rected to atand aside. ... . . All the Juror, were queatloned close ly a. to whether they were acquainted with Boynton or any of the 11 other men who were Indicted-for participa tion in the Sellwood affair. None of the Jurors accepted knew, any - of the men, a list of whom was read to them by the district attorney. ,, ' ' - C. J. Jacob, stated, that his father. Lew la Jacobs, had been Injured by a street car some years ago and had been successful In a ault against the com pany for , damages for personal in juries. He .aid that the ault had made no lasting Impression on him and would not lnflueno him tn his verdict, though he remembered that Boynton had ap peared for the company at the trial, ffe waa accepted after a long examina tion. Testimony for the prosecution la being offered this afternoon. . . ' HERMANN TRIAL-OPENS . 7 .FOURTH OF FEBRUARY (Waaalnston Bmi of Tee JoaraaL) q Washington, Dec- 1ft., In the 4 District- of Columbia etoort this w 'morning, on motion of District Attorney Baker, February was 4) set as the date commencing the 4 hearing of the caae against W Congressman Blnger Hermann, 4 S and February 11 for - the Hyd - 4 w and Benson cases. 4) e TWO SALOON MEN MUST MOVE THEIR RESORTS -" 1 " ...... Because their-saloons are within feet of ptibllo schools, Minor Iewts, 415 Couch, and John Ltinsdorf. lflTS Corbett, must find new Incatlona and move within three month. They are within th foot limit by a narrow margin, but the liquor. Jtcenn committee of (he council yeaterdity afternoon held that the letter of the law muat be obeyed. The committee signed a numher of an Clicatlona Mom aaiowiimenr rrro.- arrnrd; Ing to Imw. muat ak the crnim-ll for a il.-enao at tho first nf enrh year whether they holJ a llctne alrm.ly or-not. Hill With. Full Treas ury Will Contest for .Traffic Control of n .-A ai.al -a ureal Morinwesx (Jeers! Special Sarviee.) Nw York, Dec, 18. Blocked In hnj plan for controlling the Chicago, ' Mil waukee and 8t. Paul railroad by a stock laau of 1100.000,000. E. H. Harri-man-Is expected to plunge th rail roads of the northwest Into a bitter war. ' That ia the opinion of Wall street today. It 1. predicted that hos tilities will commence soon. narrimu xougnt lor tne BC raui railroad and lost,. He bought thousand of share, of at. Paul stock. Th atoe ros by leap and bounds. ; With th 8V Paul tn Jiia -possession,-Harriman would have an outlet for the Union . , . . . , a . , . . ,. rmcmo into (jniuagoi ana larrainai xacn--ltlea that would ba worth millions to. hi. oad. - Harriman would then be In la..l' l.l.,LA! . , .u thereby throttling tha project ' that would In time be a strong competitor for coaat trade. . - W1H Jrow BoUeT acesV - 1 St Paul will now build to the coast Hill is worklnc to form a more nerfaet alliance between the Great Northern. Northern Paclflo and Burlington roade in order to be prepared for the fight that he hae told his closeat friend, la coming. With million, heaped up In the treasuries of the northwest roada by recent stock Issued,-the fight will be to an end where Hill and Harriman will ba locked In a financial death struggle for the railroad mastery of th great northwest Via f Stock Isea. . it .nanlnl mMt'nr nf the 9 directors of the St. Paul th following; financial plan waa authorised: - There, will be offered atockholder. of record December ), 1M.I17.100 preferred stock and 111,111,740- common - stock,, being 10 per cent of the present Issue of preferred and II per cent ef the pres ent issue of common stock. The object, of the Issue I. to cover the eetlmated cost of 17t.000.000 for a Paclflo eoesS line, loo mile, of branches and !lt,000v 000 for contingencies. Stock will be offered for subaortptloa at par. Foreign atockholder. will hare until Janaary 10 to pay th first in stallment The first Installment ef It (Continued On Page Two.) JUDGE'S SISTER ELEVATOR SHAFT Miss Lillie E. Gantenbein Ter ribly Injured and Has Narrow Escape From Instant Death in Hamilton Building Makes Effort to Save Herself. ' "" While entering th elevator in th Hamilton building, on Third street, be tween ' Washington and Alder, this morning. Mlsa Lillie E. Oantenbeln. sla ter of Judge C. U. Oantenbeln of the circuit -court narrowly escaped Instant death by being crushed between th ca- and tha celling of the first floor. She fell down the elevator shaft to th basement, a distance of 10 feet, at taining serious Injury to h-r skull ami a broken collar bone and Is now at Good Samaritan hospital In a precari ous condition. - Miss Oantenbeln is .tanogrnphar ta the office -of AdJutant-Om.erl rinser of tha Oregon NaMenal Ouar -wit of fice on the fourth floor. Khe entered the butldlna at :I0 o'clock tl.l nvirn- Ing and Stepped quicklv to the r-. Because of the pc..Hnr rnt.-.r., i of the bullrtln. -' ' - ' entrances. One. 1 those who enter a d"or on ' tnoee wti'i shove ,.e IS hurled Dunn ': -X: