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PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 8, 1907. SIXTEEN PAGES.
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Dr. P. E. Johnson Vic
tim ot Brutal Thugs.
Suicide Theory Is t ;
: nounced by Police
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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.
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Councilman George S. Shepherd, At
torney) . xor Boutnern facnic interests.--
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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
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(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
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- (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-
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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.
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not W4nt
herself ii
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