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GOOD EVEHIHG Journal Circulation i i' ! n YDAI i r i f i 4S INT Yesterday 5) (OR(D THE WEATHER. Falr toalght -ad Wednesday, con tinued cold; fresh northeast breeze. VOL. V. NO. 264. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 8, 1907. SIXTEEN PAGES. price two cents. ffsy;,$rcS WWAM (CHjUJG LOBBIES FOR HARRIMAN SPEAKERS BEFORE OREGON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY' PmSMMSLRM WW HUgn W ' - " - - V , mm mran mm BY Dr. P. E. Johnson Vic tim ot Brutal Thugs. Suicide Theory Is t ; : nounced by Police ..." ' ' - , ' ' i i - . ' - la their effort to run down the murderous- thugs who .assaulted 'Dr.P, E. Johnson on the Ford street bridge, on the Portland height Jl-e, last night, battered him Into insensibility with bludgeon, and. after rifling Ms pockets, ; hurled him Jnto the dixsy depths below, detectives are searching Ioranttpen 'face silver watch, which is missing. ' The - waleh may povaonaot the strongest clues in unraveling the mya tery surrounding last night's fiendish crime.- It wss worn by Dr. Johnson when he started on his fatal trip across the bridge. W hen the body wss found .at the bottom of the narrow canyon be neath, the watch was missing. . It had been -detached from the chain, and on its finding hones of apprehending the mttr . dexers are being built.. t :" van la WatokT 'i-----r- . On the back . of the watch was In scribed the monogram. 'P. ,- J." In-, ' side the baukcaa was inscribed, "Dr. ' P. E. Johnson. Tuxedo Park, N. It - is- a -stop wntwicncrTy it-pecuiur shape and positive marks of Identifies tlon will. If found, aid greatly in estab lishing the identity or the murderers. I'p to a late hour this afternoon no other clue had been discovered, though .every detective in the city baa been working on the case under Inspector I liruln. -;: waflt was shortly after T o'clock last sirht that Dr. Johnson left his wife In - their apartments at the Nortonls, Four teenth and Washington streets, to mske the. trip to Portland Heights. -Possessed -of a premonition of evil, aha per- -uaded - Mm - to leave hi ; Jewelry and money at home, but was denied permis sion to accompany him. "I would never give up to a highway man," he said, "but 1p appease your , fears I'll leave ' my witch and money ' at home.". ... '.,'.'.' '. .'J, , Were Two "Ttmepieoea. JJ " ' He always wore two wstches, but en starting .out last njght left his gold watch at home. Ha carried with him " the small open-face sliver watch and a small sum of money. He Walked np the ..hill to the reatdence of W. C. Alvord. JOS King street. Ha went Inside and talked fur a tlme-wlth Mr. and Mrs. Alvord. where h was again warned of the possibility of holdups. Ha- waa going to , the residence of Dr. A. C Panton, Terrace road, a short - distance beyond the Ford street bridge, he said. But he also-said that he would take a car on reaching the bridge. ' Leavlng the. Alvord residence, about 7:16, he walked -to . Ford street and turned south. Nearing the bridge there wan no car in sight and he continued : the trip on foot. - It was' only a short distance to his destination. Boon ha came upon the bridge, which -j,r- . (Continued on Page Two.) ',. IADER DROWNED IN RIVER Steps Between Two Barges in Darkness and A Is Swept Down Wi llamette Before At- ; tempt at Rescue Can Be Made That Lewla E. Meader was drowned Saturday night at the Northern Pacific bridge under conatruetlon across the Willamette near tha dfydoek. ha been - established by the round-up, mad of the . men employed on- the bridge. . . Tb unfortunate man, a. carpenter helper, wtepped between two barges in 'the darkness and was Swept down stream before any concerted attempt at rescue could . be made by his com panions. No one at the bridge knew ' who had been drowned, though it was ' U..I rtn. Af , h mam kmA Almmwm. . pesred from the barges. Header could , aot wlm a stroke. -Snndsy a partial accounting of the men employed waa madn. Meader had fulled to return to hla home at Willie tMMitevard and Dwlght street. University ' rsrk. Te-iterdsy all the other men em , ployed were accounted for, and it be-, mm apparent that Meader. who is still missing, was the man who fell from the barge. , - . - . HlGHWMMEMi : - Body of Dr. Johnson Falls Distance Nearly : Equal to .Height of Wells-Fargo Building .80 terrific was the Impact with which Dr. Johnson body ntruck 7 the trosen macadam 'a few feet north of the car track in Canyon road that practically every bone in his body was broken. -' As he waa .hurled over the railing of the Ford street bridge by the tbugs who had stmclr snd robbed him, his body shot downward a distance equal to that from the eaves of the - new - 11-story Wlle- e, buU11na to the ' rround. 'When he struck the hard rock bed every ligament was torn asunder and hi body waa literally reduced to a pulp.. From the spot - where the body wa found It wa apparent that during Ita descent It missed by only a few Inches a network of several . aoaen . telegraph and telephone wires strung on' a pole overhead. In fact, the wires are ao nearly In a direct line above the plan where the body lay that it seems hardly posslbre the latter could nave escaped contact with them during it downward course. - Touad lying oa raoe, " The body was lying almost face down ward when . It wa first discovered by Motor-man Dorler and- Conductor Thatcher of the Jefferson street line, and until' taken In charge by Coroner Flnley a. few minutes later It wa be lieved that the doctor' body bad struck the ground face foremost A closer in vestigation, - however, showed that the doctor had struct?" the ground first upon his back and had bounded Into the air and tha the body In coming in contact with the ground a second time had turned nearly completely over. Every vertebra was . torn from Its socket and trashed And the back of the heed waa.,reduced to a pulp- a com pletely as If struck with a huge Iron mallet. The terrific force with which the back or the body had struck the ground broke every bone in the faoe and reduced the jaw to pllntera, - ' ITeariy All Boaes Broken. , ' Coroner 'Flnley said- thi - morning that with tha exception of a few email bone in the hands, every other bone In the body wa broken and fractured. There waa a deep cut on the top of the head which may have been made by a blow from a bludgeon In the hands of the robbers, or it may be-the result f tna raji into canyon road. The horrible mutilation of the body preclude the possibility of determining how the wound waa Inflicted. It Is likewise aa difficult to deter mine whether Dr. Johnson fought -with his assailant on the bridge before be ing thrown ever the ratling, but Indica tions found this morning .point to the conclusion that a struggle of some kind ensued when the doctor was stopped by the highwaymen, 1 -'.- When found In Canyon road, the doe tor" clothing waa covered with dirt, (Continued on Page Two.) A dragnet waa uaed yesterday for two or three hours, but the current wa ex. tremely swift at this point Saturday night on account of the high water, and there t ne certainty that the body will ever be recovered. . Meader came from Nebraska" a ahort time ago. He bought a lot In University Park, and with his yonng wife has been living in a tent upon it until he could save enough money to build m house. Just before quitting time Ssturdrfy evening a line had been pasned from the shore to the first easing of the bridge. Header, who wa separated from hla regular gang, wa one of th three men who undertook to pas it over - th barges. ..; A neighbor tried yesterday to learn from the superintendent of construc tion who w- the men nearest Meader when be IL The questioner was told it would be Impossible to get this In formation. No report of tha drowning has been made to the coroner" flics by those In charge of th bridge. S r I - 1' J Councilman George S. Shepherd, At torney) . xor Boutnern facnic interests.-- , , SHEPHERD GETS s FRANCHISE FOR - HARRIfilAIJ LINE President of Portland City Coun cil ; Appears Repeatedly as Gailraod Attorney Before Ka lama Council to Secure-Passage of Ordinance for Roadf" Spcll lttntch to The Joonnl.) Tvalama, Wash., Jan. ,47-George 8. Shepherd, president of ' the - Portland city council, aa attorney for the Hani man railroad Interested has succeeded In obtaining a franchise for the Oregon & Washington Railroad company, giving thla proposed branch of the Harrtman system tha right to occupy some of the principal street in Kalama. ' Mr.' Shepherd has proved a valuable lobbyist for Harrlman. aa there . had developed' considerable popular opposi tion to the terms of the franchise. The ordinance waa Introduced three months ago and frequent trips to Kalama were made by Mr. Shepherd. Councilman Schula headed the opposition to the franchise, voting againat it at every opportunity Mr. Shepherd finally forced the pass age, of the franchise over Mr. Schuls's head at the last council meeting. Only four councllmen were present, and three of them voted for the measure. The mayor lost no time," but affixed : his signature at once, and. the ordinance will be in force after Its publication. KILLS TWENTY PERSONS WITH D0SESDFTP0IS0N ; VJ.. - . . (Joaraai Special SerTlr.) ' Berlin, Jan. I. Wholesale murder by poisoning is ' the dreadful charge against a woman named Felge, of Qru nau, Silesia. . . .. The deaths of 10 different person are attributed to her, and nine bodlea have been disinterred to provide evi dence against her. The' murdered peo ple are mostly relatives whose deaths would benefit the accused, woman or other members of the family. The bodies of her stepmother and slater-in-law were found to contain . a great quantity of arsenic. t NAKED NATIVES SHIVER WITH COLD IN MANILA V (Joornal ffpedal Bertica.) ' tAfanlla, Jan. . A - cold wave 1 sweeping the Islands. The temperature la SS degrees, the lowest In the Islands' history. The native .- are suffering, having no clothes for o low a tempera ture. ' LARRY SULLIVAN GRANTED B TO: BY NU MERO U S CREDITORS (Journal Sperlal Service.) Snn Francisco, Jan. . At a meeting held here to pass upon the differences between the Sullivan Trust . company and the local -stock brokers, the affairs of the Sullivan company were gone over and an arrangement entirely satisfac tory to the brokera made, ' The com pany baa engaged to pay all brokers, dollar for .dollar, and will continue in business. . An extension of time wss granted to the. Sullivan people, and they gav ad ditional security a pledge of future payment. An expert accountant, who has been working on the books of the wKUfaigr lor Uue days, read a financial IS HELD UP Senate" Postpones Ac tion Confirming Gar field and Shaw's Sue--cessor in Treasury Senator sOverman Defends ; States - Rights and Decries Tendency Towards Central ization Manifested Recently In Proposed Legislation. (Joerul Special Service.) Washington, D. C, Jan. . At. the re quest of Senator Teller and Daniel the senate today held up tha ntmlnationa of Q. B Cortelyou and Harry A. Garfield for secretaries of the tressury and In terior. The only excuse given was that they do not take office until March 4, and there waa ne hurry to confirm the nominations." . . . . - Senator' Overman this, niornlng d- fended states rlehts In the senare. ; in ill.i.ii..lnt th. l.niliii.T rf ttm t..1il government to override ine pterogaUvea of the people, he said that federal reg ulation of child labor, the admission of negroes or orientals to whitt schools, and other proposed legislation was en tirely outs.ld(.lasrovtnce vf-tha na tion! government, lie sat'l that local conditions mUSfbe met, and ;'ert uji.n by ptoile of localities aff j ed, and that the interference of the, federal gov ernment In" trying to osnrp the- power of states, was unwarranted. He de clared that the people would not stand it, and that the progreas toward cen tralisation tmul be stepped.- AGGIE MEYERS TO GET LONGER LEASE OF LIFE rf" rjoornat Special Service.) Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. I. The gov rnor today asked the attorney-general or an opinion aa to whether It was necessary for him to grant a respite o Aggie Meyers, or If the appeal to he aupreme court would act a -a re ptte. He granted Frank Hot t man. Mrs. Meyers' accomplice, aa additional SO day this morning. ACCUSED MAY DIE ON WAY TO TRIAL . . . - (Joernsl Bpeclal Service.) Hamburg. Germany, .Jan.' $. Profes sor Carl Han of Waahlngton will prob ably never be tried on the charge of murdering his mother-in-law at Baden Baden. The officers say they will be surprised if be survive the trip to the scene. He Is a nervous wreck, . ' JOHNSONS RULE IN THE GOPHER STATE (Joornal flpeetal fcMira.) St. Paul. Jan. (. There 1 consider able Johnson In the public eye In Min nesota today. Governor John D. John son will send his message to the legis lature tomorrow. H. P. Johnaon was today elected speaker of the hmme, ajid Adolph E..L. Johnson chief clerk. MORE WITNESSES IN WALeSHJANK CASE IJotrraal Speelal Service.) Chicago, Jan. . F. J. Corning and T. W. Miller, directors of the ' Peoria Gaa company, and A. W. Nast and Benton Ellis were witnesses today before the federal grand Jur that Is examining th failure of Ui Walsh banks. It Is un derstood that gas and coal stock In which these men were Interested were found among tha asset of the Chicago National bank. ADJU ST T Additional. Security Given as Pledge of Future Payment of . Liability Company to Re main in Business. statement of the company's asset and liabilities. Everybody connected with th discus sion dorllne to give any figures, but on broker said that the liabilities were larger than anybody, dreamed of. An- "...'-'.' s - :' ' ' . ' I - III h i ri ' i li r " ASKS FOR IrlORE TIME TO PLEAD His Demeanor Is Fearless Ira Brown, Accused With Him, Arraigned and Will Plead To morrowBrown "More Re- sentful of Arrest but Silent. (Special Dtatwteh te The Joaraai) Baker City, Or.. Jan. S. Although thi afternoon wa set by the court as th time for .the entering of a plea -by-Ales-' ander Wlddowaon, accused of the mur der of bis former , friend, Wlllard Moody, the defendant' attorney. Judge Samuel White, moved the court that hi time be. extended, and the motion wa allowed. Wlddowson will plead to the charge or murder in the first degree witnin the next 48 hours. Deputy- srrerrrr-ca nneammved t Baker City late last night bringing Ira Brown, the Pine hotel keeper. Jointly charged with tha murder with Wlddow son, to the county jail. Brown remains silent on the subject of bis arrest and cannot be persuaded to make a state ment of his - esse. H ls--aomewhat morose and take ' his Imprisonment much more to heart than doea Wlddow son, who has been confident of regaining hla freedom' when hla case cornea to trial, - ever since his Incarceration. Brown waa arraigned this afternoon and given until tomorrow to enter hi plea. Both Are Aocosed. The Indictment drawn against Wld dowson and Brown charges them Joint ly with the murder of Wlllard Moody at Pine on September U, 1908. Accord ing to the terms of the indictment each of the two men la accused of murdering Moody, It being recited that they held the gun with which the murder was committed. The Information filed againat Wld dowaon and Brown by District Attorney Lomax la the result of hla examination of a number of witnesses who have appeared before him during the past few weeks. The' names of these witnesses are given on the information aa fol lows: H. H.. Moody, U H. Onrdnef. R. W. Dickson, - Mrs. Fannie Colea, Joa Clinton, D. K. Reed. Rollle Brown. Mrs. Lillian Whlttaker.'Dr. Roy C McDanlel, Dr. V. 8. laon and Belle La Vaughn. Wlddowson's sttltude In the court room wss unflinching. He did not fal ter In manner nor speech and his whole beating was that of a man not afraid. USING TELEPHONES TO -CONVERT SINNERS , (Journal Special Berries.) Bloomlngton, Ills., Jan. (.Five hun dred telephones are connected every evening with a receiver alongside the DulDlt of the Methodist church In New ponsett, where revival services are be ing conducted. . Neignconng town ana farmers of th district avail themaelves of the opportunity to listen to sermon. The roads are so bad from the-open winter that transportation into town Is almost Impossible. The reports of a number of conver sions by telephone are coming in. ROUBL E other remarked that the company made such a showing ot securities that' there waa no doubting the aolvency.- - The company waa granted 0. to er 120 day to get on Ita feet. In the meantime, the stocks bought on the order of the company, drafts of hlch were protested, lie in escrow In the'bank a security, the company to place In th bank one stmra for sal of stock for every share of orders that has not he-n paid. If at the end of lie days they have not protected thetrv protested drafts, the stock placed ln1he hunk as security will become th property of the brokers, - s-i- svihw J E. L. Smith- (lEl'l GOVERNOR Chancellor Buchtel Takes Oath of Office in Trinity, Methodist . Church Abolishes Inaugural Ball Recommends Railroad RnmmiMion, (Journal gneclal Service.) Denver. Jan. 8. Henry .A. Buchtel, chancellor of the University of Denver, Methodist Episcopal minister, waj Inaugurated governor of Colorado today in Trinity M. E. church. . The ceremonies-had .the appearance of a minis terial function. An inaugural parade preceded the inauguraUT here will be no Inaugural ball, but a reception to night at the capitoL. In hla message Governor Bwetitel Lrecommends a. railroad commission to regulate rates, giving tha roads just consideration and having authority to permit special ratea to aid new Indus tries. He wants the Influence of the lobbyist minimised, school teachers paid more and favora the employment or convict labor. ; : , 1 : 2''".. The governor" says that ha will pay mora attention to the silent pleadings of the common people than to all. the pleadings of those always seeking some thing from the state. SALT LAKE JURY . PROBING COAL FRAUDS Joaraai Speelal erdce.t Bait Lake, Utah. Jan. I. The grand jury I again investigating alleged land rrauds. A government suit to recover S.54 acres of land In Carbon county, alleged to have been fraudulently ac quired by the lata 8. P Mllner and the Carbon County Land company, baa been commenced. ': The ground was taken up as agricul tural land, and tb government alleges that it eoal land- Pater N. Campbell of Springfield, Massachusetts, who holds a S2&.000 mortgage on the prop erty of th land company, - la made a party to the suit -' - ROOSEVELT EXPECTED TO VISIT FILIPINOS ' (Journal gpeelal Berrlea.) i Manila. Jan. 8. The Filipinos expect Secretary Taft and President Roosevelt to visit the Islands next October. The press is enthusiastic over the prospect. The elections will be held on January 10. Captain of - Detectives Evidence of Struggl AUGURATED DENVER CHURCH AT WORK OH SUICIDE THEORY Careful Examination ' Captain of Detective Bruin, who ha taken complete-charge of th Johnaon ens, clung steadfastly thi morning to a theory of suicide. Apparently the de tective force la working on thla theory. although the facta do not in any way substantiate the statements upon whtoh th police base their theory In an effort to work out a solution. Captain Bruin. a further investigation had been made snd before several material facta bad ' been brought to right. i Considerable stress is laid by the captain of th detective force upon the assertion that no highwayman would select a point on so well-lighted a bridge where there was streetcar travel every five minute. Last night the enf , service over th Ford stret bridge waa spHsmodlc, owing in ii In. t tnai t... powrr at tt-.e tlino of the miiriler w.i cut off. the onrs blocked and tlm 1--trlo lights In Vliit lielgliborhood were In toial dnrkness. Oilier pihits rIJ by the h4d of GOOD ROADS LEGISLATION IS INDORSED State-Federationor Labor Adopts Report of Commission and Convict Labor Bill Report Meets With Some Oppo sition at First, but Is Unan imously Indorsed After Letter of Forest Crove Banker Is ' Read. 1 ByAunanlmous vote thi morning the State Federation or'tABoTTTiaoptettTf the report of the good toads commls-' slon"and recommended the passage by th legislature of the convict labor bill. Before reoomroendation the bill met with attacka at the hands of delegates, snd Its adoption waa seriously threat- ened. When it was taken up the federa tion was inclined to accept It Just aa It ' was presented, but a letter from Stats Seuatoi Hi W. HalncattCFgrest Orove. upset the proceedings and made r the delegatea feel like giving Mr. Haines cause to make In the hall of th legta lature the -avowal he- made In hi com munication. ' .- ' . In substance, 'Mr. Haines s told the federation that he was not In favor of the good roads bill. He did not believe . the convict should be employed upon the state high ways. He thought th -penitentiary should be made a serr supporting institution, and the only way it could be made self-supporting was to allow tha convict to compete with free labor. ' i - Disregard, HalnesT J&atter.--'- : "Mr. Halnejp la a banker of Forest drove," said Reading -'Clerk W. E. Pltschka, after the reading of the letter. "He Is also a member of the leglulav. tare," dryly remarked Vice-President : H, G. Parsons, who presided In the ab sence of President Oram. " The letter was laid aside, and then M. H. Lorntsen of Astoria suggested that consideration be shown th convicts to an end that they might not be looked upou aa slave only. He proposed that In addition to th provisions .of th good rosds bill, each convict taken from the penitentiary for work upon tha roads ba paid 66 cent a day during th ' last month, of his confinement. ' Thi motion- was strongly opposed. As a member of the good roads commission.- R. A. Harris said It would cans " the defeat of the bill In the legislature. A private corporation Is paying the stato -SS cents per dsy for the labor ot a convict, and (f the state were to pa 4 the convict 60 cent a day and main- ' -tain him besides, th whol object of . he bill would be defeated. The object . of the bill waa to .make th peniten tiary a paying Institution, andet-tha- same time to make th convicts of uso to the stst. After the speech of Mr. Harris, th report was adopted. -. ;-r Bseolntloag Adopted Resolutions were Introduced fsvoring the following things: The establish ment of postal savings banks, free Lschool books, the abolishment of the poll tax by means of a referendum , vote, an eight-hour law to apply to all occupations in Oregon, the protection of the salmon-fishing Industry In th Columbia, against the law of In June? tlon and the national subsidy bill, and . Continued on Pag 1v, f Bruin Can Find No e on Bridge After a . the detecTfv force are that Tr. Jnhs son Wore no overcoat and that when he left home early in tha evening he left his- gold watch- and took a sliver one. Dr. Johnson had not been In th habit of wearing an overcoat. Ha was a very robust man an,l tnla.prnhahl y account for the fact that he did not wear an outside garment during the winter-. M re. Johnson end friend. atal that Df. Johnson prised his gold wai-ii highly, ss it was one formerly worn hr his father, and h li ft It at borne, aa hi did his money, bersuse of a .aminrs'l. ttona fear possessed by Mrs. J,.iinir that something might hnnr-en t him while on th street st Mr. Alvord slates get the Veys from V because he knew s iil. - 1 not W4nt herself ii In llxii oin s (i e' ' ' T