The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, December 19, 1906, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text'so -4 GOOD EVENING Journal Circulation - . THE WEATHER. Yesterday Raiu tonightrTWrldijrnafrTfar outhweit wind. 1 r -VOL. V. NO. 247. V; PORTLAND, , OREGON. . WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19 l606. TWENTY PAGES. PRICE TWO cents. SSJivSV.S. LABOR UER BEES Fh R GEM ERA I S TEiKE FEDERATION T0 R iB ; Noted Unipn Leaders Now on Their. Way to Portland to Direct the Strike . : Electrical Workers Continue Ac tive Preparations- to Go. Out - and Tie Up All Power Houses , - Leaders and Company Of ficials Talk of Situation. V - The power of Portlands labor union, aa well M the strength or two International organisa tions, hava been swung behind the striking carmen wltbln tba last 14 moura. ; Tonight, the Federated Trades council will meet to take action looking; toward the-active sup port of the strikers. Delegates to this council freeljr predict that this support, will go to tha extent eren of calling a general etrlke-of all tha Portland anions. Nilmerpus "hlojiaveliniQgfidi. a Tine sat he - punishment for . 4 members, caught riding on , tba cars, ,. ... i t c 4 -Tha striking carmen were cheered " this aXternoon by .the news that Richard Cornelius, tha most noted carmen'a organiser In the , west, will be With them s Friday - night . to direct their fight. W. B Burton, . another well known organiser, la ached d uled to arrive tomorrow night. A noted Electrical Workers' or 4 . ganlser, M. J. Sullivan, la ex ; sympathetic strike - which tha electricians are planning for tha next two days. e ' Ueanwhlla, tha cars are run- 4 nlng on nearly tha regular schedule, and Manager Fuller e declares that there is no strike. Portland labor loaders today declared themselves in favor of a general strike to force recognition of the demands of tna anion carmen. Tha question of em ploying thin drsstio means of ending the dispute will be taken up at a special called meeting of tha Federated Trades and Labor council tonight. Meanwhile lh electricians employed by tha Port land Railway, Light Power company are actively preparing -to-tie tip the op - rating plants of the company. It was announced today that International Vice-President M. J. Sullivan of the 1. II. E. W. la expected to arrive ' to night from Ban Francisco to direct the xympathetlo walkout of tha electrical workers. Secretary McKenney of tha Carmen's union received two telegrams late this afternoon from Richard Cornelius, president of the Carmen's International for tha Pacific coast district. Tha first telegram contained the information that International Vioe President W. B. Burton had left for Portland to lend his organising power, backed by ample (Continued on Page Six.) E LETTERS TO JSANTA VIA , "THE JOURNAL Youngsters Write Mr. Claus Through The'1 Journal's Col umns, Knowing That He Will Y See Their Letters Because The' Journal Is His Paper. Santa Claus la alill coming and as long as he Is on his way and has not yet been seen, children all over the country will be sending him letters of Instruction. But little boys snd girls, ' you should remember thnt Santa Claus has so many children to provide for that ' he wants to know early what you want. After he has left the north pole the letters may not catch him at all, and that would be an awful thing. But maybe Santa will see The Journal . even ' if ha doesn't get your letters In ""tlmef so he will "find , out that wsy what you want moat. Here are' two more 'letters for Ssnta Claus to read: "Dear Santl Claus I want a rubber cape snd a weggen mr nem Is Louis Kevin 1H mora, strlt Arleta Oregon. . I am 7 years old art no to Arleta school." -r (Continued, oa I'age 01x.. QO! - f f V ,' 1 B. F. Boynton. Whoe Trial for Ptr jury Is Now in " Progress Photo by Browning-. General Manager Fuller ; Makes Statement 'That the Regular -Schedule Wilf Be Maintained on Nearly All the Lines. All street, cars will vbe' run. tonight with the posnlble exception of tha atcel bridge ".lines running, to Albins,- and aa effort will bo made to maintain the regular service np to 1J:S0, as near to the . schedule as la poaalbla, General Manager Fuller makes the statement that the. service will not be interrupted unless ..extraordinary conditions prevail and promises the company- wilt do its utmost to take care of all- passengers Curing the afternoon and evening in or der that the people.' may do their de layed Christmaa ahopplng. - ' in the opinion nr. Hr, Fuller there will be no -further1 InterrupUon of the car lines from tbla time on. Relying on the control . which the police, are now holding over . the attuatlon.' the company will proceed with the opera tion of its cars paying no Attention to the efforts of the opposition to in terfere with them.. It-la not expected that there will . be mora disturbance than waa noted last night when the cars were partially operated,' and It is hoped that all .unpleasantness will be absent - ' Bmployee Will Bo Dropped. . While the officials of the company will make no atatement regarding the total number of men who will lose, their, positions through having gone on strike la believed that approximately . v men will be dropped from the routers (Continued on Page Six.) Makes. First Move Toward Making All Prop erty Share Expense of Water Depart mentStep Toward Taxation First at eDS toward making all prop erty in the ciN pay its share of tha expenses cf the water department were taken by. the water board at a special meeting this morning. No definite plan waa "recommended. t)r. 8. K. Joseph! suggested a frontage tax on all property adjacent to a water main, -but other-members wanted fur ther time for decision. . , H. L). Wagnon. president of tha water Users' association. Which "Is crying for water rates to be raised by taxation, told Ahe board of the plan of his organi sation. ' To prevent a part of tha tremendous waste which baa been cutting down tha amount crf-watcr tT the average coti aumea. the board adopted a flat meter rate. It Is expected that the hydraullo elevators, one-of the very heaviest con sumers, will oeasa to use water power. The board doesn't core If tie elevators and the Northern Paclflo - Terminal company, the livrgest of all consumers. do drop off, the list. Water, haa been am I imiiiiii iini - llll 11 II I ' T a . " lllUHI UN ;jWTH- Construction of Swift Packing Houses on Peninsula Will Be Started Soon Captain. Foxr in .Charge of the Work, Has Reached Portland and Expects to .Have Hun- : dreds of Men Employed on tfie , Ground at an Early Pate. - Conetruetien woik will-be commenced within a few daya on the great packing niaa41to4e-built by-the Swifts at Ore gon slough, on' the main land, opposite Haydn island. Captain 8. watters Fox, who will be in charge of the work, has arrived in .the city, and la at the Port land hoteL Contracts have been let to Joseph Supple for a dredge, barges and pontoons, for opening a ship channel through the alough and filling adjacent lowlands. Tha Swift packing plant here will be the largest on the western - side of the continent, and the only complete pack ing plant in the world having the per fection of. transport ait Ion facilities the Portland plant will poKsessT Beside! three transcontinental railroads running their i cars into it, the plant will have docks at which -ocean-going ships may load cargoea of cured meats, and ail the by-products of a packing plant, for ship ment to tha orient, Alaska, Hawaii and South America.- Tha site acquired com priaea 3,000 acres, and has five miles of deep water frontage. ' Captain Fox. whose residence has been In Kansas City, will, with western Manager CJood, become a permanent res ident of Portland. , He la expected from tbla-time fuiwaid to rush preparations for the long, painstaking task that is ahead of him.. The company's opera tions her will be on a very largo scale. and much time and money wlU bava to be expended before it is ready to begin killing and shipping meat. The plant will coat mora than iz.ooo.ooo, and ita construction will probably . require the greater part of the new year. It is possible that tha coming autumn will witness the beginning of operations, al though months more will be necessary for carrying out -all the Improvements that are contemplated on the alts, auch aa filling lowlands, .dredging water waya, completing tha drainage system. snd railroad yards. Ultimately the plsnt will hava a daily capacity of 1,000 cattle, 4,000 sheep and 1.000 bogs, and will give work for between Z.ooo ana 1.000 employee. It will Include, besides the killing and packing departments. great stock yarda and feeding pern, a tannery, a aoap factory, a glue rectory. a fertilising factory, department or canned meata, and facilities for operat ing refrigerator ships and car. Will Supply tha Orient. ' The Portland plsnt will supply the demands of trade in tha orient. Alaska, South Pacific ports, and throughout the Pacific coaat and inter-mountain states. It will draw livestock from Oregon, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Colorado, and will stimulate tha grow ing of livestock greatly In these states. The plans of the, swifts nave been carefully guarded.- for . reaaona . best known to themselves, and up to this time but little authorised Information haa been riven out Having now secured all tha lands they require, the promot ers' hav turned their attention to the (Continued on. Page Six.) supplied them at a slight loss, tha-low ate being made years ago when more water waa brought to the oity than was actually needed. , - Mayor Submits Letter. Mayor Lane submitted to the beard a long letter In which he criticised the rates adopted by the board at tha last meeting, and raid ' while they were a move in tha right direction they did not go far -enough toward making Hie rates equitable for the average con sumer, who pays the greater proportion of tha expense of the department This letter closed as follows: 'The schedule of rates which "have been, enforced. In the past have been un just and have given rlsn to much dissatisfaction.-. The water, system of tnts city has come to be looked upon as a force which bore down unequally upon the people, and it haa come to be din. credited, If not hated by them. To many it haa seemed to be enshrouded with sa (Continued oa I'age Slx.A PARTICIPANTS ill at;'; ml " : timm : Jj :- .' '' '...'' ':- e . . . , . .' From Left to Right, Upper Ro - Judge Thomag F. Ryan. Oregon fohn- II. Scott.-Salai Missing Page PORTLAHQ HEADS LIST OF. CITIES SHOHING GAIN Construction News Places Rose City Ahead of Every Other . ' , Town in Country. , ; Portland beats the world In percent age of gain In building operations for the year ending November SO. In a summary Just' printed by Construction News,' the leading journal of Its kind. Portland. Oregon, heads the list of cities with a gain of 77 per cent over the pre ceding 11 months. . . The. Construction News gives a list of tt of . the leading cltiea that have shown large Increase in building per mits Issued, and amounts expended in building lmprnventnnts.The city stand ing next to Portland la Allegheny City. Pa., with a gain of 14 per cent No other city In Portland's class in . the Paclflo northwest appears in the list The gain this city ha made is the mora phenomenal In the- face of general de crease of SI per cent shorn n by the re ports from other cltiea-of the United States. ., CALIFORNIA, GROCERS TO . CUT INSURANCE TRUST (Joeraal Siwelsl Ser-lrs.l . Los Angeles, Dec. It. Tha retail gro cers of southern California are prepar ing to organize a mutual fire Insurance company of their own and - withdraw their millions of dollars' worth of Insur ance from tha old-time companies, and thus avoid the great increase in the cost of insurance which has come about since tbe Han Francisco . disaster. CAR SHORTAGE SPELLS CITRUS GROWERS' RUIN . (Journal Speeisl SerrleO' Los Angeles, Cal., Dec, 1. There Is a great shortage of refrigerator cars In southern California and S,b()0 ear loads of vegetables and citrus fruit are Imperiled. ' FIRE CHIEF BRADLEY HAS CHANCE TO LIVE flnarasl Ppeeisl 8me.t Marysvllle. CaL, Dec. 1 Fire Chief Bradley, who was injured in Monday nlght'a explosion, haa a bare chance to survive. The other victims, numbering nearly 60, are Improving. FARRINGT0N-TO BE JUDGE IN NEVADA 1 (Journal Speeisl Berle.)" '. Washington. IV t-, Jc. 1.-(The pres ident today nominated Kriward Farring. ton to be judge nf tha fodvral Judicial district of Nevada,. REED TURNS IN GOOD ROADS CONGRESS J ATS "VTv 111 I Judge Lionel R. Webster,, Portland; City. Lower Row Turner Oliver, of fhe Hotel Register Is Found AGAINST GIVES EVIDENCE FOR THE STATE - Iff PERJURY CASE .- SI I I! Mil. I I I V Register Page Introduced as Evi - dence of Fraud by the 4 -State. J. W. Reed, who was convicted In the circuit court last' week of colonising voters In Sellwood precinct at tha June election, took the stand this morning In tha circuit court aa a witness against B. F. Boynton, on trial 'for perjury, charged with having sworn falsely to affidavits that enabled employes of tha O. W. P. to vote in Sellwood. Another feature of the morning's pro ceedings was that the long-missing page torn from tha register of the Sellwood hotel shortly after the election waa pro duced. ln..vldenoe by tha state. This page bore the signatures of 20 men, many of them employea of the Oregon Water Power Railway- company, who had registered at the hotel on the even ing before the election and voted In Sell wood precinct on election day. The others were men who had been at work at tha Oaks under J. W. Reed. , Xow Page Waa Obtained. Former" Deputy Sheriff John Grussl produced the missing page. He said It (Continued on Page Six.) Throttled in Grip of Tight Money Squeeze, Tremendous Slump in Stocks Follows. Hill Roads (Joom.l SpeeUl Berries.) New Tork.fec. It. Throttled In the grip of a tight money-squeeze, stocks are slumping on wall street today, and virtually a rich man's panloia In prog ress. Millions hava already been lost and many traders forced to tba wall. . With calj money at 25 per cent and no! relief in sight, pool threw over thou annds of shares today , to Tighten their burden. ' The VanderblHs and Morgan rushed to tha aid of the situation, announcing at noon that all Interest payments on all tha funded debt of the Vanderbllt sys tems due January.l would .be paid at .The Standard Oil crowd' Is reported to hava taken sdvantage of the situa tion to pound the market and bring out looeely held stocks. , . With the announcement of a hundred million issue of Ht Paul, tha tradera and pool operators rushed to get out from under. . 4 t 1 ; AT LA GRANDE. Dr. Jamea Withycombe, Corvallis; La Grande; H. B. Thielaen, Salens, and SCOTCHTHIGHtANDERS THINK ANDY CARNEGIE IN : LEAGUE tYITH SATAN Iron Monger Supposed to Have Entered Into Compact to . v Destroy Religion.' " . (Jflaraal Special Barries.) London, Dec 19. -Andrew Carnegie's various . llberaltlea have evoked many censures but none so' severe as that now laid upon, htm, that ha is In league with Satan. ' This haa become tradition In soma of the remoter parts of the Hlghlanda and Hebrldgea. Andy, aa Carnegie., la uni versally called, according to tradition, has entered into a pact with tha. evil one to destroy the Scottish religion by spresdlng the use of ' musical Instru ments and man-made hymns. It Is aald that before returning to Ms native country he asked Satan how ha could best aid him. whether ha should make folks dance, build theatres in every parish, or teach - them to play cards. The fact that Carnegie presented Organs to msny churches in all parts of Scot land Is taken ss proof of the fulfill ment of a compact. Attacked 1 ' - The slump gathered momentum, after an early effort to bold up the market by large purchases of Reading. St ""I w WM,lt Point of panto all day. It lost 10 points yesterday aad fell off more today. m Great Northern and Northern Pacific were under fire. The Hill stocks have been uiuler attack for over a, week, and oday showed losses of SS points In Oreat Northern and 31 In Northern Pa cific, compared with the closing a week ago. The exchange floor waa filled with a mob of excited tradera all day. Stocks were tossed overboard without regard to price, and only short covering served to stay' tne decline. Out-of-town traders lost hundreds of thousands, being unahle to meet cal la for more margin. Great Northern i sold by the hun dreds of eharta, losing six points nr yentenlKy's -closing. The Ht. Paul "melon" is now iled a "lemon," t stock losing serea pol.its. BOYNTON S.Marcus of Emporium -Outfitting- Company Flees From City Leav ing Debts Behind ; Is Accused of Purchasing Jew elry, Not Paying for It and Taking It With Him Leaves the Gas Burning in His Resi- dence. '. 1 T - .'' s Excited, and angry creditors are va.ln-. ly trying to locate S. Marcus, a clever exponent of a peculiar system of high, finance, who suddenly fled tba city Sat urday night leaving Christmaa remem brances in tha shape of debts aggregat- . lng approximately 115,000. Sheriff's officers claim that ha aucceeded in es caping with at least SS.000 in cash. Marcus waa proprietor, promoter and general manager of tha Emporium Out fitting company, a large establishment on Williams avenue, Albina. With his wife, ha occupied a houae on Wllllama avenue, near Eugene atreet a short dls- . tance from the store. Locking up the store Hntirrd g y n t h 8-w etit oTaomahaatll packed trunks, suit cases and grips, and de parted, r Bo hurried ws his flight that he left the gas burning in nearly every room in the bouse and when the place waa 'entered by officers yesterday it waa still burning. Articles were thrown about the house In sucn confusion that it looked aa If it might hava been the scene of a carnival riot , Marcus was seen on the streets of Portland late Saturday night It is be lieved he left for Seattle on the North ern Paclflo train and from that plana crossed, Inle Quia da. His wife TorrmeKy" lived in Toronto, Creditors Will Hold Meeting. A meeting of creditors is to be held this afternoon to decide what steps will ' be taken. Several suits have already been started by individual credltora and criminal proceedings are likely. At tachment papers were served yesterday and an invoice of the stock of the Em porlum Outfitting company la being taken today. Marcus' career In Portland waa highly sensational. - It was generally believed. until the Investigation which followed his flight that he waa successful. Ita came hare from Ban Francises six months ago. Previous t that time ha was a whiskey drummer and is said to have had a few hundred dollars when ha decided to carry out his system by open ing a large store in Portland. Those with -whom he came In contact were led to believe that he had ample finan cial backing. His first place of bualnasa waa Bear the large plac which he -secured "two montha ago and in which he conducted his business until Saturday night. His creditors assert that be waa a wonder- -fully fluent . talker and by means of hla ability In that line obtained eredlt wherever and whenever he wanted It He stocked bis place with a large snp ply and employed IS clerks. Ha la said to have done a flourishing bualneaa aad It was generally believed that he waa (Continued on Page Six.) HEED HEW LAWS -TO REMEDY CAR SHORTAGE-EVIL Railroad Presidents Spend Too Much Timer Strutting About Hotels In Dress Suits Instead 6f Managing Their Systems Properly, Says Hansbrough. ' (Joeraal BperUl Berries ) Washington, D. C, Dec. It Senator Hansbrough today said: "If the rail road presidents of the country would spend more time managing their, roede. . and lesa atruttltig about awell hotels In areas suits, there would sot be en many shortages of cars, causing suffering srwl death in remote parts of the eountry. f bava lust left the while house after a conference with the president. Tte president said: , "'AH we can do ! to lnve'ti'e ar,i fix tbe reanonsihllltir. e '- ety with the preirnt iRf" state romraeroe crnm"' ' " powered to or.l. r ' tr-m ' t the country t' s-i... ..er .'ii i l. l. ihe ltjtl..n wi .l r. !i"t.l .. II- m' 1 pre.ent !-. nl ' , 4. ft ' I r( i l ''ft . n ? ' r i !.,'( f -r ' r a i . t .a to l ' y t .haa been : . f.: