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--r - 1 ' GOOD 'MORNING Journal Circulation V 'is THE WEATHER. ' Sunday, rala or mow; easterly winds. " . Yesterday .f (iWZQi VOL. IIL NO. 41 PORTLAND. OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 6. 1907 FIVE SECTIONS FIFTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Whim 5n 771 A fT t : I v I If. .1 ' llftUVWlM.' Ii r-xv! i s in ii nj j i I i i '- i n i Ti OrWrTT .T7;TTTT77.TATfT7 TiTrVT -i - V A V W V lukjj iiiiiyiy ijiiiiiju jj L V wo SHIP'S DISTRESS SHOWN ' BY WASH ASHORE OF DECK CARGO OF LUMBER Hope Still Entertained if hat: VesseJ Is vafe - andrSjdingESoufhward lighthouse : KeepersiReport Seeing No' Distress" Sg , nals During.Storm in Which ! Steamer -Is . supposed rto Have. (Meant Kewa br Longest Leased Win.) '. Waddall Baach. Jan. , 6. The sea wavea tta grim talea with uncertain and unfinished hand. It la a -half -told, in- complata story, ending In uncertainty and black-foreboding that the wavea have niahad up on tha beach 10 miles below tha ltrht at PI aeon point. When tha receding tide stranded (our Ufa rafta of the, Paclflo Mail ataame Citv of Panama It left a. ahuddertng suggestion of an ocean tragedy, but It la only a suggestion, wnicn, . tnougn creating- a fear of wrack and disaster, till, leaves room for hope .. v ',; y . - Gum Washed Ashore. 'An unconfirmed report states that tha vessel was sighted fr at aea off Pigeon point, about -TO milns - south of Ban Francisco. , Tha reporV la not verified. That tha vessel hoa bean In serious "troubled however, md" way -nowneed hurried assistance " ta known fry the washing aahora during the day of thou aanda of railroad ties and lumber which made ip the ' decklosd. - It baa been thought Smong ahlp men'' that when the dock load ''waa carried 'off by the storm which prevailed when the steamer Ban Tranplim. It must also nave Jf carried away the life rafts. Th la ao- - counts for tha water erackera and rones -fan ad en ell. the rafu .baAheydrlf ted ''"aahora.. ' '' Prom aunrlae to "sunset today the : watchers' along tha atretch' of white sand that breaks tha monotony of rock bound coast at thla place, scanned tha foaming euraea for something that would bring finality to and oonjectura. But If they expected that tha aea would " give up Its dead or, that a broken apar or matt would coma to shore to t el Lot wreck and disaster' they . waited, and watched in vain. " . ' Bamalna Beap Xyatery. " The sun set this evening and no haw " chapter had been added to. tha tnuta thought, uncertain tale that drifted ' aahora yeaterday. The fiotaam from tha . City of Panama now lyjng here on tha beach Includes four Ufa rafta. two water WITHOUT A SOU Impresario Tramp r, for s Days ' Through New York Looking f for Friends, but Finds Noiie-f- Penniless' and Without Means to Buy Even a Spuare Meal. MANAGER GRAU - rrVMLiktri' Press by Special Leased Wire.) ' ' Kaw Tork, Jan. 6. Robert Urau, lm- ' praaarto and theatrical manager, whoaa mysterious diaappearanoa for two weeks t gava rise to rumor that ha was either dead - or mentaJty . unbalanced, today '' communicated with bis friend Freeman T naaln. . Ma said ha had been wan- daring around New , xotk ' curing tne ' i. "V 1 u. wrote; -. .- . .. ,4I'bi still In aw Tork - and allva. Tou don't know what I have suffered during tha last " two , weeks. I have wandered tha bualneaa section of tha aity looking for friends, but found none. - I have tried to And many paopla who . era under obll gallon to ma, aa I wanted to gat soma money. The result of It ' all left ma a miserable wrack, pennl- - leas, without even enough to pay- for - a meal. I aent all I had M 85 to my dear Wife for Christmas. I will tale phone you tomorrow and arrange to "I immi maim aum wuimi w uviu port my family ae I hava during tha Inst years.- I will endeavor to pay those who have bean kind to my family during my absence. I hope they hava - fared batter than I hava. Despite tha knocks I hava received In this big - city ft New Tork, I hava one thing . to ba thankful for -I am in New Tork." Bernstein sail that (irau had met ra mm. m snw - $mi foundered : casks, - three cana filled - with ahlp bls- oult, portions of broken oars, skids and a Strip of a .Ufa Doat lettered "Bom Mo. S." i . i - Thero la nothing to indlcata whether thla wreckage was wrenched from its fastenings In a storm that left tha steamer otherwise unscathed, or weather It- denbtea tha) ateamer haa foundered with all,handa The life rafu were washed ashore at two different points en Waddeu beach. They drifted in with the tlda In pairs. , Tha first two landed north of tha mouth of Waddell creek where , they i were recovered by Peter Clark, an employe of tha Ocean. Shore railway. . The other two were picked up at m point three mires further south by, John M. Swlnford, a farfner of thla region. All were marked "City of Pair a ma." and were, mora oxliss .damagedj. Tbr of tha rafta are metallic Ufa rafta and one Is made , of tula.- ; - i i. Three -of the - rafts were equipped with , ours and boat hooks when .they came here. . In tha ' tula raft-aha oara are missing. , None of the davlcea ap pear to hava been occupied .or, used. Tha rowlocks were -undisturbed and tha cana containing the ahlp biacuita were made faat and are Intact. Only Jn tha broken oar blades) tha Ut -of ..a. lif eboafaalda and a.aevarod hawser Is there anything to Indicate that an effort waa made to use tha life- saving apparatus. . y .--.; ---r Watohars Vatrol tha Beach. : It Is Peter Clark who first discov arad tha wreckage bobbing In tha break. era. Ha waited until tha rafta. floated near shore and f. hen waded in and dragged tha gear to tha sand. ; Swln ford dragged tha remaining two rafta to land aliortly before sunset laat even ing, and later ha found the water oaaka. All tha rafts, including' a skid and pieces of painted block, hava bean haulei high and dry. A patrol of tha beach for several miles north and south of tha point a at - which, tha rafta - cams ashore waa established, today, but the tired watchers . returned ' with ampty hands when - tha day waa done. Th'a patrol will be kept up for several days, and tha big helghta and cover along thla coast will be explored In tha hope that some 11s;ht may be thrown on tha fate of the City of Panama. - - Unless tha waters s-tve up mora, tha fata of tha City of Panama may for ever be a mystery. From now on tha day will ba anxiously counted In the hope , that each aucoeedlng one may bring some word of tha safe arrival of tha steamer at Maaallan, bar ..port of call. , i - Saw Bin Boeksts.' Tha storm whistled and tha aea lashed to a fury on tha night of tha departure of tha City of Panama from San Fran Cisco, John Lind. keeper of tha light house at Pigeon Point stood in the high tower and watched tha elementa aa tbay fumed and raged. ' The wavea beat In foaming anger against tha lighthouse, and breakers thundered along tha coaat (Continued on Page Bight.) iPnbllsbers' press Sy i Bpeetsl Leased Wire.) Philadelphia, Jan. I. Because hla de mand for 16.000 to ba loaned on the pic tures of relativaa waa refused, Robert Steele, formerly a drug salesman of Oar. ner. Iowa threw a bomb la tha presi dent's office of the Fourth Street Na tional bank this morning, blowing Cash, ler William 7,. McLear and himself to fragments, killing a negro porter, seri ously Injuring 10 persona, wrecking the bank and creating a panlo In tha building and ill the densely populated neighbor hood. Immediately after the explosion there waa a bold attempt of crooks to enter tha bank and get away with hun dreds of thoueanda of dollars which lay scattered about tha floor. Before they could aucoeed, uninjured amployea and aquads of police rushed down from the olty ball and nearby stations, drove the men out and guarded every window and entrance. V Laden with rjtro-glyeertna, tha bomb exploded with auch terrlfio force that partltlona were reduced to splinters. Iron bars were broken and twjsted and tha bodlesof Jhose. wuiila , raJius et CRANK HURLS ANSWERS MAGAZINE ARTICLE 1 . . . . r ' ' : ' w V - Mri. Mary Baker G Eddy at tha Founder'of Christian 7t6 AttacsMade - by Story of a ' (Special Dispateh te The JsaraaL) Concord, N. II. Jan. ( Mrs. Mary Baker O. Eddy, head of tha Christian Sclenee church, has given out a signed statement revealing for tha 'Brat time many Incidents In bar Ufa. ' She goes into many detalla concerning tha death of her first husband, and for- tha flrat time reveals tha secret of her divorce from her second husband. Her motive In making this statement at tha present time la to prove to her followers and to tha world that aha has nothing in har Ufa aha wiahee to con ceal. . Incidentally aha takee pains to point out Inaccuracies la tha article concerning her now - being ' printed In McClura'a Magaslne,' - After drawing a pen picture of her father, Mrs. Eddy takee up the etate men t' that tha first It yeare of her Ufa ware passed 1r a lonely home and that her education ended! when she waa IS years of age. Sba says: .," All Wara Sdaoaaad. '.' -L "I.at na aea what) were tha frulta of thla lonely and unatlmulating axlat ence.' All my father's daughters were given ' an academto education, auf' flclently advanced .. so - that - they all taught school acceptably. : My brother Albert waa a distin guished lawyer. In addition to mr academic training I was privately tu tored by him., . , , , : : ,i ,,' , r- Reraniln tha alteration that all the family, 'excepting Albert, died of can cer,' I will aay that there waa never a f,lRS. EDDY R BOMB Robert Steele of Garner; Iowa; Wrecks Fourth Street National Bank : of Philadelphia Blowing -Cashjer and Himself to Pieces, Killing - Negro Porter, Injuring Sixteen Others and Creates Panic' 18 feet were torn 'terribly. Tha 'dead ara: '- y . Kia of Caanaltlas. . : ' W. Z. McLear, cashier of the Fourth Street National bank, home tn St, Da vids, blown to plecea. . ; " Robert 8teele, the bomb thrower, blown to plecea. . , . , 1 ,'' 'William S. Crumpp, IT years old, of SIT South Hutchinson street, negro mes senger for President Rushton. horribly manglAd; eyes-blown out, scalp nearly torn off and hla chest and arma cut Into ribbons. , k . ' ; Tha stoat serlpusH Jnjura4 Wa;.w, Tim) Sh4 Wrote "Science and Health EUEALS SECRETS Science Church Replies - Magazine. Her (Divorce r - death In my father's tamily caused by cancer. ' ;-- : "i'-' '- T" .' "McClura'a Magaslne ' aay a that the quarrels between Mary, a child of 10 years of age and her father, a gray haired man -of - sA-frecjuently-aet-tha house ' In an uproar,', and adda that these fits' were diagnosed by Dr. Ladd aa "hysteria mingled with bad temper.' "My mother often presented my dis position - aa ' exemplary for -her - other children to- Imitate, saying: - 'When do you aver set Mary, angryr Oltea aa Xxampla. ' :."' "'- ' :' 1 wJU relate tha following Incident, which occurred later, In life, aa illustra tive of my disposition: When I waa liv ing with Dr. Patterson at his country home In Rumny, New Hampshire, a girl, totally blind, knocked at the door and waa admitted. .. She begged to be allowed io remain wlth me, - and my tenderness and sympathy were such that I could not refuae her.'. Shortly after, however, my housekeeper said to me: - " If this girl stays with you I shall hava to leave; she troublea ao much.' "Notwithstanding that McClura'a Mag aslne aays: , 'Mary Baker completed her education when she , finished Smith's grammar and reached - long divialon In arithmetic,' I- was called by Rev. R. 8. Rust, D. D.,, principal of tha Methodist Conference . seminary , at Sanbornton bridge to aupply tha place. of his leading teacher 'during her temporary absence.". Regarding her, flrat marriage and tha (Continued on Paga Eight) Richard It Rushton, president of the bank, shocked and cut. , William Wright. II yeare old. ' J4 North Forty-third street, messenger at tha bank, fractured skull; will probab ly, die. . ., Eugene Mcllener, aaalatant of Mr. Mo Lea r, standing beside McLear whan the bomb waa thrown. Mcllener - waa thrown backwards and hla handa driven throus-h a sheet of plate glass. J. P. A. pfbach, an assistant to Sec one Vice-President Ferris,- badly cut about tha face and head by flying glass. . Harry. Brock, watchman, face aut and suffering lion gboeaW. HILL VANQUISHES HMRIMM Defeated in the courts by the Hill forces, the Harriman interests have conclud ed to withdraw from the field of battle on the north bank of the Columbia river. The work now under way will be abandoned and the forces of laborers and con tractors will be called in immediately. ' Approximately $350,000 expended on t grades and tunnels will river, ana ine jroruana cc ocaiuc jxaiiroaa company wui now nave smootn sail- Jnjnto Portland along the easy grade of the waterway of the Pacific coast. This sensational step is taken as the result of the supreme court of Washington ruTT'J ing against the Harriman interests in the Biddle condemnation suit, which orlg- ;inated4n-Klickitat county. ': t FIGHT OH IIORIH BAI1K Harriman Forces; Are Withdrawinrand Are Abandoning Expen sive Grades for Road Tha railroad battle ' waged for . the laat year : for poasesslon of tha north bank of tha Columbia river the great- eat warfare of ita kind aver known In the Paclflo northwest and one of tha moat memorable In history Is ended. Tha Harriman company, known as the Columbia Valley Railroad company,, la pulling off Ha construction forces, and within another week the laat camp will have been- dismantled. ".Tha victory Is HHl'a. j ",..- .. - x... .. Tha stake was tha only, water grade through tha Coast and Cascade rangsa from the aea to Jdano, excepting tea present Una of the O. R. V N. Co. oc cupying tha aouth bank of tha same river. For yeare . railroad managers with' transcontinental plana for tha fu ture looked with acquisitive gasa at tha north bank of tha Columbia. It waa tha dream of. President A. J. Earllng of the St. Paul, to poaseaa thla route for nIS Paclflo coast extension. . . . For years Hill and Harriman, joined together in a fight against tha Northern Paclflo, held the route, under an agree ment that provided for Joint construc tion of the llnew- - Then Hill broke away quietly, when be scented defeat for his Northern Securities merger., and before Harriman could divine hla secret pur pose crewa of englneera were driving final location atakes from Wallula gap to Caps Horn, and right-of-way aganta wara following cloaely upon thalr heals. From tha day Harriman discovered tha tntentlona of tha IIIU companlee tha fight haa raged, on tha grades. In tun nels and tn tha courts. The tatter hava proved' to ba Harrlman'a Waterloo. , . Xarrtman Xiosaaj la OowV - The moat powerful- agenoy In tha forefront of tha. struggle haa bean tha superior court at Vancouver, . with jurisdiction over tha larger part of tha contested ground. Thla court haa uni formly handed down decisions that were favorable to the contentions of the Hill companies. - Later tha supreme court of Washington confirmed these decisions to an extant to place . tha ' Portland Seattle, tha holding company of tha Hill north bank road. In " command of tha Situation.''"' - - The crucial teat came yeaterday tn a decision by tha supreme court of Wash Inton In a request for rehearing In 'thai Biddle condemnation -suit - in - Klickitat county. Biddle waa a land owaer against whom tha Portland 4V Seattle company brought, condemnation suits for rlaht of way. Tha lower court de cided against him and tha supreme court waa appealed to. . . -. , (Continued on Page Tan.) Halburt Smith, 14 years old. 131 Pow. ell street, Olouchester. N. X. employed at tha bank, eata and brulsee. -, Vwanty Bepealtors Injured. Thomaa Rutter, East Lanadala, Fa fractured skull and, cuta on body ) con dition aerloua, Joseph Barnholta, dark la foreign ex change department. . William MoCanney, 14 years old, Ger man town, fractured skull, broken arm and hand.- Frank Lebold, 11 yeare old. bank clerk. H. Mercer, 2 yeara old. bank clerk. Howaxd Brack, oaeaaengar. T . DENIED be a total loss, as had the money been dumped, into the issoono BE SEITLED Five Hundred Families -Are to Be Located-on Tract Recently Pur chased irf Oregon A great .colonisation undertaking Is being organised by tha new ownera of tha Oregon military , road land grant, who hava just paid tha Booth-Kelley company 1750,600 for lJ-mlle atrip extending from- tha summit of tha Cas cade range to the eastern boundary of the state. They expect to begin thla year by locating &00 families on tha atrip, and Increase tha number annually as the country' Is opened up and trans portation facilities secured.' .--.---.-"W hat Is the use of Mississippi valley farmers going to Canada to aettle. when agricultural landa fully aa good, and better climatlo conditions are to ba found hero In OregonT" la the leading question aaked In thalr- campaign for aettlers. -, Tha purchasers are tha Oregon Mili tary Land Orant company, of which tha following ara officers: rreaiaent, 11. A Hunter, Minneapolis; vice-presidents, A. CVMeQllvray; Dlckaison."North"Dakota. and C R. McHugh. Chicago; treasurer. Andrew E. Johnson, Minneapolis; secre tary, J. A, Hunter, Minneapolis. H. A. Toung and John A.. Young are In active charge qf tha organisation of the colo nisation plana, and tha Beaver Realty company, of thla city, will ba tha Port land headquartera of tha concern. , Capitalised s XUlloa, Tha company la capitalised at $1,89. 000, divided tnto 10,000 aharea or ijoo each. Tha plan of oolonlsatlon oontem platea the aelUng of etock that wlU ba taken In exchange for landa that are to ba eeleoted at tha convenience of tha purchasers. ' rtwinr te tha vaatness of the tract and tha time that would ba necessary for a purchaaer of any conalderable amount to make nia Miminnii, la regarded aa tha moat practical. It also glvea tha purchaser opportunity ta m.ir Ma Investment In advance of tha actual settlement of -a lands and aa cure whatever advantage may accrue rnm the increase or values aa colo nisation proceeds," said A. H. Toung. explaining the eompanjra purposes. "About 100.000 acrea of land are lrri- nki and 100.000 acres can ba rarmea successfully without Irrigation. Tha re mainder, about IOO.ooo acrea, is grastng land. There la no consiaeraDie quanuty of merchantable umber in tne tract. large part-of tha traot la level country. Tha aurvayora or tne military wagon road In making their way through tha state naturally selected tha route of easiest grades, consequently the coun try Is today accessible to transportation llnea and there ara preparatlona being made by tha Western Paolfle to build (Continued on Paga Eight.) ,:x: , T.-A. 8. Dominica, bank clerk. . Besides these there wara 10 mora de positors and employes who were cut and Injured by tha falling in, of tha big glaaa dome of tha bank building after the ex plosion. Nearly 100 police ara on guard to night around tha building while there ta another large force within., The vaults remain Intact. Most Baring Attempt. It waa at half past 11 o'clock that Steele entered the bank building. There was the usual Saturday rush of deposi tors and -all. about In that center ef banking and stock exchange activity, was tha hustle of the closing hour ef the half holiday. President Rushton was In hla office with John Bean, of Bean .Brothers, bankers. , Steele broke In on them and aald: 1 want 15,000. ltere'e my eecur lty." v- He pushed tn front of the astonished Rushton a smalt photograph album. He .... .(Continued, on Paga Ten. HUE DIG,, Laftin - Rand IPowder -Mill-FYnlnW With TemficJlorce-Near s a a asaai mj aa uu ' r Kenosha, Wisconsin (Publishers' Press by Special Leased Wtre-I Kenosha, Wis., Jan. .' 6. ilve men dead, five dying and ona missing la be lieved tonight to make up the list of vietima a? th. av,ta.ihm . . - m. atiernoon Of a. mlll at the Laflrn-Rand Powder works at Pleasant Prairie, thla county. Superintendent Ralph Anderson -la one of tha missing. Little doubt axlst ha and tha other missing- man wara Ut- rauy lorn io pieces. -r --- ---- , . The dead ara aa frirhtrurtv J u.ua.v4 aa to make Mnntiri.i i and the Injured, among whom deaths are expected . momentarily, are burned be yond tha-point of recognition. - The Instant closing of h gate of the plant and tha denial of admission ta tha Publlo haa mut. .nvthi.. w- ture of u Inmt Min im...n.i. deraon la. tha only- ona of tha vlctlma whose .name. .vn ia ...r.i.i. , It la possible that a complete search maw reveal atill other bodlea In tha debris and wrecked mill. , , " Juat how the explosion occurred la no known, a recent Injunction againat tha maintenance of tha plant In tha vicinity haa forced tha company to arrange for removal outside tha state, and men wara loading powder Into wagons today ton ahlpment to a new location. . The bust came without warning. Tha explosion waa not a loud one. but tha mill, a targe frame structure, rocked for an lnatant, went Into tha air and came down In thousands of pieces. Houses were shaken aa if by an earthquake and windows broken at Plaaaant Prairie. a half mile dlatant from tha plant. WHY WRECKS Oil B. &0 . 11IIE fiW Engineer Forced to Work Fifty Eight Hours ; In . Continuous ServlceC-UxIty of Manage ment Reported All Along the Ltne--Signa)s Disregarded. (PnMlshers Pens by gpeelal tB Wire. Washington, Jan. a. The formal Investigation by tha government and local authorities into tha causae of tha wreck on the Baltimore . Ohio near here last Sunday, haa already de veloped the following conditional - A laxity ef administration; an ap parent desire by superiors to avoid trouble with tha men; that aerloua breaches of the rules governing the block signal system are punWhed by ahort auspensions; that train dlsnntrh ers lose trains for five to ten mlnutmf that operators at the block town sometimes, neglect to report trait,-; that-the engineer of the train whi. u rushed past a dancer slcnal In I at the time of the accident been l hoi r , In continuous service, except two 1 -tervala of four houra each for el. that official clocks keep Irr--. time; that they are not uli.' l n, k, ... erally by englneera ami run l i . , , i that they sometimes run ' t- r. the signets in the blnhs t i . times dlaresarted by t ilini he haa reason t( l,;i,v ( , they era In error; lh.it it s t i mime ti nt slatntils can be i , the frt; that truln r ,. -. fallibility of opr,ao( -i, : ,j ,, up0 lhirn tt bring t ;i o f r that eni!ners rerive t,,. ,,fi!. ,--,t flratl-m f whet 1i I ( , . i men ren-.in In t' . - i i o -i Uoa of the rule. 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