The Oregon daily journal., December 23, 1906, Image 1

t
GooDxionimia.
- THE -SyEATIlKa,:
Rain; southerly wind. '
VOL. Ill, NO.x4I..
FH.1ST
Rescuers ReachJHicks
Near Midnight-Is in
Good: Condition and
Will Scion Recover.:
Cheers Greet Rescued Man All
Belle In Bakersfield Ring Wei
come, While Anvils Boom Is
s Little Worse for Terrible Ex-
' r perience How It Happened.
V
Bakersfield, CaU, Dee, Hlcks WU
taken from the mouth of '"the tunnel,
where X waa held from the time ef his,
... rescue In order that he might Vget'ac--customed
to tha pressure of the outside
air, to the hospital that had been ar
ranged at U o'clock. He was apparently
In even better spirits than when first
, taken out of hlsVUivlog grave,", and
wanted to go at once to hla home. The
doctors who -had seen him acre that he
is little the worse for .his terrible exper
ience and think that within, a couple of
days he will be all right, , 4 .- m ,'
"., (Pnblllhere Preee by Special Leaaee Wire.)
Bakersfield. CaL, Deo. 13. Entombed
In the bowels of the earth, beneath tons
of stone and dirt of a collapsed tunnel..
, L. B. Hicks, the miner who for IS days
faced death, was rescued this evening
by a fui of his fellow-miners who had
' worked Incessantly to save him'.
' Hicks was nearly erased, with . Joy
whea his rescuers drew his weakened
body from beneath the traracar, under
,' which" be- had been pinned since' the
tunnet fell In. )avhi him In -darkness
and the Dlaythina- of a mocking- death
Thn- hardened miners wept' as Hloka
Jlfted to thank them. , v '
Ouuide. crowd around the tuhnet
haft bad- heard the alcnaL Bakera
fleld waa In a frensy of Joy. Cannon
. boomed and the, bells In the churches
. tolled. Men and' women flocked ' to the
streets and there held parries of eon--aTatulatlon.
. .. ..
Cheers' Melted lata -Tea.' ;.f :. 'i
' Hlcks waa brought from bis peril
ous position at l:0 this arenln. when
his rescuers completed a scaf folding; to
prevent a fall of boulders and .dirt.
When the timbering had been, complftitd,
" Superintendent UcClure - of the mine
reached down and grasped the Impris
oned miner by the hand. Hlcka waa
drawn gently up through the openinc
and aa ha emerged from ' the hole, he
; waa grasped under the arms by. two
miners, -w,ho gently lifted him to- his
feet. . Hlcks swayed Ilka a drunken
. man.' The sputtering lights of tha min
ers' lamps half blinded him. And then
a realisation came to him that ha was
free. , . . v ' . '
' ." "Clod bless you alt for -standing by
me!" waa all that be could say. but it
was enough. There In the" caverns of
' tha earth grim-faced miners wept and
' an Intended cheer stuck In their throats.
Ir. St Inch field placed dark glasses over
Hicks' eyes, but the miner ' said ha
did not need them, as the light of tha
lamps did not bother him. .
sticks TeUs atlg gtory.
Hlcks' joy on his release waa almost
hysterical. He laughed and cried by
turns, and Dr. Stlnchfield,' fearing a
violent reaction, gave him a mild se
. dative. ' '-.'
"When the eAsh came." said Hlcks a
tha doctor, "T was working -with tha
' other men In tha tunnel. There was a
roar and a crash of stone and crunching
timbers, and then utter blackness. Pinned
beneath a tram car,' I heard the moans
of dying men. I tried to move and could
' not. I spoke- to my companions. - but
there was no answer; only the moans
of the wounded. 'Death came to tbem
and there was sllekce. , ' ..
Bream Worst. Than Waking Torture.
' "I tried to move mr len and fouui
' them gripped by boulders and aarthI
r
(Continued on Page Eleven,)
THAW
Girl Wife of White's Murderer Wins Love and
Admiration of Even , Hardened 'Trustiest
; by Ijer ActionsPrepares for Trial I :
' (rteamt Kaws by Lonceit I-eeeed Wire.)
New York, Dec. 22. Evelyn Neeblt
. Thaw has gone Into training, aa It wero,
to muster her strength and fortify her
nerves for the ordeal through which
she mint go next month, when her husband,-
Harry Kendall Thaw. Is placed
on trial for, the murder of . Stanford
White.
Few there are, however, who realise
the self-denial and actual physical
training that thla frail creature, who
until a few months sgo floated lightly
on the uppermost froth of the gsy life,
in the gayest. city In tha world, must
undergo. -.- , . ,
To thosa ' who " have been ' close 1 to
llsrty Thaw In his Imprisonment In toe
Tombs. Evelyn Neeblt Thaw has ap
pealed as a good wlf.. She npwtias tha
greatest respect not to ssy lava and
admiration,, of even the hardened keep
ers and "trnstles" at tha city prison.
. At tha trial of hef husband aha will
PORTLAND,
MSB.
AnEriglishlMrs, Storer
uses Hammer' upon
-Britain's Representa
tive inAmericai
Lady Susan Townley Complains
I TJiat Sir Mortirper Is Too Slow
t'Xn'y Pouring Tea 1-Dld - Not
Measure Up to Standard of
Society Fixed by Peeress.
T
. (Ileerat News by Leagest Leased Wire.) ,
'Washington,. Dec., 12 Social -Waah-Ington
has been humming with tha
story -tha very latest story that there
has . been , an English Mrs.' Btorer at
work In diplomat lo Washington, ' and
that ber social and. unofficial- activities
were really responsible for tha recall
of Sir Mortimer , Durand, British am
bassador. .
Lady . Suaan- Townley is tha woman
In the. caaa this time if Washington
gossip la not hopelessly awry and ahe
has stirred up a moat Interesting ket
tle of f lshi
' Lady Buaan, it appears, did not think
tha Durands were maintaining tha Brit
ish embassy at as high a social pitch
aa waa consistent with tha position of
his majesty's station -among tha rulera
She found Washington a town of rath
Among official folk, if truth be told,
did not impress her as quit wearing
their best clothes with ease),' but she
waa -table ' to forgive- them when aha
contemplated the ambasadorialfamly
from bar ewtiMsrrlfi England., . "
.' I Aaakaapaaoa To sUaw. : '
- Tar tha Durands, In Lady Buaan'a es
timation, were really -altogether too
slow even for Washington. They poured
tea hospitably enough, and Sir Mortimer
was entitled to soma recognition, for
by-rtho act-of-lntroduclng.cHckethere
he waa made popular -for a time. But
for. tha real eochity why Lady Durand
did not wfc-all measure .ut to the stand
ard fixed by this arbiter elegantUrum,
Lady Susan' Townley. She complained
abou, It all to- Dowing -street so the
story goes and the result- was the re
call of Sir Mortimer.. .
' The swagger and very correct Lady
Townley is the wife -of Walter Town
ley. ; who was councilor to' tha British
embassy here during tha season of 1J0S.
They went away from ' here- several
months ago to a South American post.
Lady Susan waa a-very discontented
woman while she was here. . She is a
daughter of tha Earl of Albemarle and
is aaid to be on close terms with Mrs.
George Keppel. the king's close friend.
Through ber " relations . with- the bocta
powers at tha English court. It Is In
timated. Lady Buaan Has been sbla to
convince the authorltlea that Sir Mor
timer . Is not quits tha right man for
tha Washington post, . , k
Bememaers fcady Susan, ' - ,
Washington well remembers tha social
activity of Lady Susan. Sha waa not
an aggressively handsome woman, but
ahe wore exceedingly good clothes and
wore them well, and there waa nothing
doing socially that waa too correct or
too fascinating for her to take part In
it Pouring tea waa altogether too mild
a form of entertainment to - comport
with her view of ambassadorial proprie
ty. She regarded the Durands aa good
enough folk of their kind, but they were
of tha English country genteel style
without enough social experience. - Lady
Durand's social experience abroad bad
been at tha Teheran and Madrid courts;
tha first tha moat retired court In tha
world aa concerned . women, save only
that of Constantinople; and tha second
tha atlf fest . Nobody at Madrid aver
asks a 'question; nobody la presumed to
be really entertaining. There la no so
ciety save In tke most formal fashion.
Tossed from such surroundings Into
tha frank, free, democratic Ufa of Wash-
(Coatmued en Page Eleven.
IN TRAINING
be tha most Important' witness. On ber
testimony alone tha fata of ber young
millionaire huabsnd may rest 8he
knows this. Sha la preparing herself
for tha crucial moment In her career.
Every one knows tha sort of Ufa
Evelyn Nesblt Thaw , lad before tha
tragedy of tha Madison Square garden
roof on that June evening. : Today no
nun of tha- strictest of orders leada a
llf of greater self-ssortflce than aha.
"I know that Harry will be able to
prove his right to freedom," sha says
dally to her questioners at tha Tombs. ,
- "With faith In this., I am willing to
gtva up anything and to dohverythlng
In my power to help him. Tea, I have
given up all that meant much, to' me be
fore. But t am gladto do it The past
Ufa aeems Ilka a dream to me. . I "feel
stronger every day because of my reg
ular program, I shall be well able ta
undergo tha .hours of ,'Harry'a . trial;
Aaver.
n-n r
II II I Hill
lVUI I M la W Sna '
OREGON. SVNDAY MORNING.VDECCMBER 23, lS03.
: ' p'
8 A jl j I l j
:1 P61ZjKiHZ&JWW
ASSESSOR SAYS
TAX LEVY WILL
:BE-T00 LARGE
Declarls Mayor's Estimate-for
. City Expenses During Coming
- Year Should Be Cut Hundred
and ' Sixty-Eight . " Thousand
1 Dollars at Least. '
That tha estimate In tha budget sub
mitted to tha coancU Wednesday, that
11.000.000 wonld ba needed for city ex
penses far tha coming year la at least
$118,000 too high Is tha opinion of Coun
ty Assessor B. D. Slglsk. .
"To raise tha - amount proposed for
expanses for tha city for tha coming
year would necessitate a levy of I mills,
which Is too high," declared Mr. Slglor
last night "Tha assessed valuation of
city property In round numbers la II Si,,
soo.ooo.-
' "It would seem that a levy of I mills
ought to yield . sufficient revenue for
this year. A l-mlll levy would amount
to $M2.000-leraae over the levy
of last year of 1150,000. That waa Jha
highest levy aver made In Portland. Last
year's) taxes for city expenses wars
$IJ.00d. In 104 .It was $($0,000; In
103, $418,000, and in 1102, $4$5.000.
The eat (mate of $1,000,000 la an Increase
of $311,000 over-lest year's levy.
"A t-mlll levy would surely ba suffi
cient. It - would give an Increase of
$116,000 for the year over last year.
That means an Increase In clty-expenaoa
of $13,S0O a month, or $418 'a day over
what they were last' year.
"Aside--from- this, -the Income -to-the
city from licenses and occupation taxes
Is constantly increasing. If there la
more than a, l-mlll levy, the expense
of tha city will be Increased in far
gseater rstlo thsa the Increase of-th
city itself." -
STRAUS REFUSES TO
ADVISE GEORGIANS
(rnMlahare Press by Special T-oaaeA Wire.)
Washington, Dec. 2$. Secretary of
Commerce and Labor Strauss today re
fused ta advise tha Georgia Immigration
soclatton as to its rights In Inducing
Immigration for work In tha industrial
bait In that state. . . -
Tha aecretary has been Instructed to
send the aasocistlon tha recent -opinion
of the department permitting tha South
Carolina authorltlea to encourage Immi
gration. 'The department" announces tha sec
retary, "will not gtva an opinion In any
hypothetical case and aa no law of the
federal Immigration statute haa been
violated, tha matter as fsr as tha gov
ernment la concerned will ba allowed to
1THHJ0LLYCHRISTMAS -SPIRIT
Cepyrlgbtr t0, y Amerhrt n-Joonul g i mXntf.
E- CMfeiSTXAS PICTURE WT.Tl.tp
RlVCNlFROM HOME." 3N&tfNC4
WITH
r
IS CAPTURED AT BUFFALO
Georee A. Witzhoff. GreatesfBigamist in the
, - World, a Real Bluebeard, With a -Spouse
in .Every :City, Arrested Courted Women
y to Marry Them, Get Their Money and Desert
' Bearst News by teogeat teased Wire.) '
' Buffalo. Deo. II. The greatest biga
mist In tha world, ' a man who la ac
cused of having mora than 100 wives
and who has eonfeasad to marrying II
women and robbing most of . them of
all ther savings, sometimes but a few
hundred and sometimes many thous
ands, la In custody here tonight It la
believed. He- haa been sought-for all
over the worldf ."' .
Tha- notorious George A." Wltshoft
who baa married more women than any
other man In the world, twice aa many
aa tha Infamous Johann-Uoch, who was
executed in Chicago for ' murdering
soma 'of his victims, haa at last been
caught and will have to pay tha penalty
for tha scoree of broken hearts ba has
oaused.
- , Search for Xls wives.
The prisoner, tha police have known
aa Charles John Anderson, tha name
under - which. Witshof f married aoma
of - bis victims, and' hla acctiaer. r Mrs.
Adela Wagsr of this .city, baa repeated
ly Identified plcturea of Wltahoff aa
tha mair who married her and robbed
her of thousands Of dollars befora der
sorting her four years ago.
It Is now plsnned to notify tha police
of . averv cltv In. the United Slates
where Wltahoff consummated his biga
mous marriages and to hsva aa 'many
of tha wives coma to Buffalo aa possi
ble for tha purpose of identifying him.
Since sha was so sadly deceived and
robbed. Mrs. Wsgar has thought of but
little else and it waa - only after she
had been given an. opportunity to see
him during tha past few daya while he
waa under eurvelllnnce- that tba arrest
waa decided on. The moment aha saw
him aha declared that be waa (ha man
sha married aa Charles John Anderson,
and that- he wss-undoubtedly tha, man
who had married Mrs. Jennie Thurston
of "Loganaport, Indiana: Mrs. Randall
Miller, Miss Sophia Toucher, Mrs.
Ernest Tinner -ami more other women
than sha could recount--' v
Is Oetla Tklref Degvse. "
,THe Mentlflcatlon Of -Anderson as tha
real AVltsholfr haa' not been completed
as yet, but tn doteettvee -who okugfit
him and caused bis arrest tonight say
they are-absolutely certain that he-la
ths man. For hours this afternoon and
tonight -Chief of Folic Regan haa had
Anderson. In. his private', room . putting
- FdUR' SECTIONSFORTY-EIGHT
IQJ -
t I-whcrc:
f - WOkF"
VX SAHTjajLLW HKH tASrKs fecRf;
him through tha third degree and he
hopes to get from him a confession
that ha la Wltahoff. If ha succeeds the
neceaatty of bringing acore at woman
from their homes to this olty wilt dis
appear. With tha necessity eliminated,
however. It la certain that many of the
wives who are bttter agalnat him will
coma to aid In tha prosecution. '
Tha facta were laid before tha police
today by the chief of tha Watts de
tective agency : and ' they appeared so
convincing that the man was arreeted
on a warrant which was secured against
"Anderson' about three years ago. The
detectives have either made one of tba
greatest captures of recent, years or a
grievous error baa been committed 'that
will-bo hard to explain. -
. Wltshofrs career Is perhapa tha most
remarkable - that any human being has
ever . nao. ins marriages extend rrom
or coast to the Ovher. and from Can
ada to Mexico. Sometimes there were
two marriages- In a week, and frequent
ly ha stopped In tha midst of one mar
riage ceremony to lay plana for anoth
er, immediately- after manylng one
woman ha has actually taken her to an
advertising office, where he would In
sert an advertteement In soma, publica
tion designed to catch v the eya of aoma
woman who might ba hla next victim.
Accusations have .come from' practi
cally every city In tha United States,
many of the English cities, from Can
ada, Mexico and Franca, where women
are sura' they have married hint The
various detective agenclea throughout
the -country who have kept track of blm
during the years of his astounding big
amies have, recorda that make It almost
certain thathe has almost a Hundred
wives, although, he confesses to only 12.
CLAI MS -THAT JEFFRI ES L
-,- -WILL FIGH1SQUIRES
, '.. t " '..
(FnMtaheri'.- rreaa r SpecUI teased1 Win
' Rhyollte..-Nev., Deo. 2J James J.
Jeffries is to fight BUI Squires, the
Australian heavyweight at Rhyoltte in
April. Matchmaker Frank Hklnner of
the' Rhyollto Athletlo club Is authority
for the atatement. He says be offered
the champion a $10,000, purse- and that
ba accepted It. ., ,,
PAqES.
RO DDE R BARON1
poucc now think
IS fcOfATCKV .
TWENTY iriJURED
Id COLLISIOff AT
Passenger and Freight . Meet
Head-pn -Track Torn Up and
Engine ' Demolished Wreck
age Catches Fire Injured Are
Tourists From East, v f
(Hearst Mew ay Leogeet Leaaed Wire.) '
Reno, Nev Dec. JX In a hadon col
lision between westbound express pas
senger train -number 20, from -Kansas
City, and . a freight thla afternoon at
Harney, 30 passengers ware Injured, sev
eral aertoualy, the engines being com
pletely demolished, and the track waa
torn up for a distance of 100 yards. Tha
wreck was cauaed by tha freight train
In charge of Kngtneer. Frank Carsons
and Conductor A. Bullla, which waa left
standing on tha -main line at Harney
while tha conductor went to the station
and tslegraphsd the 'dispatcher at Carlln
for more time to get in the clear. Car
son's Watch ' had stopped, -the official
(Continued on Page Eleven.)'
FIREMEN OF
HARHEY.IEIIADA
Three Jhousand, Men on Southern Pacific Go
Out at Four o'clock Sunday :Cbmpahy
; t ! Will Receive Nj i . -ight f
(Pabllesen' Free ky Special . Leeeeg Wire.)
Peoria. 111.. ' Deo. 21. From tha cf
flces of the Brotherhood- of Looomotlv
Firemen It - waa announced lata tonight
that a strike of all locomotive firemen
on tha Southern Pacific railway, which
will involve fully $.000 men, will be
called Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. -
rbllseri' Praes ky Msertat Leased Wire. I
Houston; Tex Deo. $2 A big strike
loom p on tba Southern Pact ft o, At
lantic System.. Vlra-Presldsnt Shea at
tha Brotherhood 'of Locomotive Fire
men iaeusd an ultimatum to tha rail
road that unless certain demands-' wera
granted the union firemen in the service
would descend from tha cab at noon
Sunday. ....
Vice-President Fay of tha company re
plied that ha waa unable lo comply
with the request and haa ar peeled to tha
Inter" :eommrca oomrai.-ts'.ca at
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Magazine Writer Tel Is
Enterprises Run by
Men ? With asty Re-
onlsJBsewherei
One Company With Which Port
land Man . Is Connected Haa .
Spent Five Millions In Adver
tising Bonanza Not Listed on -Any
Exchange Except 'Frisco,
i
ff . :. ... .. -i . ; , , . .;.,., -. t.
. (Hearst Kews by Leageat Leased Wire.) 1
8an Francisco, Dec S3. Tha Bulle
tin today says: Fresh from an Investi
gation of the wildcat mining schemes
of Ooldfleld, Tonopah and other Nevada,
cam pa, Lindsay Denlaon, assistant editor
or Kiagways, is now In thla city. Mr.
Denlaon was formerly ona of tha crack
writers of tha New York Sun. and bis
work for Everybody's ' and other big .
magaxtnes haa attracted a great deal
of attention. -.. - .
Attention would ' ba mild word to
apply to tha notice which Mr. Denlaon
baa received since hla articles on Cold-'
field and Tonopah have appeared la
Rldgwayav' Ha want to Nevada, commit
sloned to tell tha bare truth as ha found
It, and. as always happens, tha truth
haa hurt a great many people and has
made tha writer tha object of Intense
hatred.
For. tba: legitimate ventures of Oold--Beld
and Tonopah, -Mr. Denlaon has
nothing , but tha highest praise. He
consider tha new gold fields tha richest .
and most promising in America, and aha
men who are developing them as repre
sentative of the beat business princi
ples tax this country. But for the ex
ploiters of wildcat schemes, Mr. Denlaon .
haa nothing good a say - ' - ' . 1
' ' :. Ada Attract Attention. ' . ' : .
"Thr anantionof-Mr.-Ridgway.-b-ssM
this morn log, when Interviewed at
tha - Hotel Jefferson, "was attracted by .
tha big advertisements , appearing " In
New York papera and magasines, and
offering Investors a chance to make as
high aa I-S per cent a month by buy
ing Certain Nevada mining stocks. Of
course, that meant money back In three
montba and untold wealth for tha rest
of your life. Mr. Rldgway had a, sus
picion that the ads were meant to catch
'suckers,' and ha sent ma out to Investi
gate. '"..'-
"I did not bother about mining prop
erties. I Juet started out to see what
kind of men were behind tha schemes
that were being mo extravagantly adver--tlsed
all over the country. Tha results
Justified our worst suspicions. . I found,
that one company, which haa already
spent $$,600,000 In advertising, consists
of four men. three of them with nasty '
records. On of them came from Port
land, where ha was engaged In all sorts
of. Illicit enterprises running, gambling
houses, protecting brothels, .shanghalng
and all that sort of thing. . The second
man In this company served a aentenoa
In Sing Sing for forgery In the third de
gree, and baa also been tn Auburn and
tha Elralra reformatory. Ha engaged
In tha. business of sailing tlpa an the
races until he got Into trouble with tha
postofflce officials. Then ba went to
Nevada and la finding the graft there
better than forgery or selling fake tips.
Tha other two men are better than
theee. one of them being an office
bolder' tn Nevada, but a very "weak
sister." ' ' . - 1
' ' Stocks slot Urki,
"When I ' began sending facta about
tbeae and other men, of ths aame class,
to tha eaat by telegraph, I found my
self In trouble. Somehow or other they
knew what I bad written a day after I
dispatched. It, and there waa talk of
running ma out of tha camp Tha senti
ment la against the wildcat men. how
ever and it was Anally decided that I
ahould not be moleeted.
JThesa . men who -a- luring "suckers'
(Continued on page Eleven.) .
4-
ESPEE STRIKE
Waahlrvten to aid ' blm In ths settle- -sent
cuha matter, which under the
Hepbnrn bill It haa power to do.
Tha -present attuatlon la a three-cornered
fight, tha result of a disagreement
beaween the engineers end firemen ss t
seniority. Tha engineers have an agree-ment-wtth
the company which the fire
men claim detrimental to their interest
and seeking, tha 'abrogation at tha eon
tract.' '. i ., ,
. Tha company claims It Is no poerlM.m ta
rneet tha demands, as It Is bound br the
agreement with the .. engineers, ft Is,
feared that' all holldar traffic en lb
Southern Paclflo will be eerioualy
tied up. ' " ' .
The Southern rstinoallrnart tn r
sent notices to sll uiw'i,ere t j
freight would le received fre.m ront,e. t.
Ing lines for Tea points In lw rf t ,
damanda presented br tte fir.,- . -tie
roarf. which were e . i
f ' . i by tre. ,
-I.;-''.''-