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GOOD EVENING sl il'ntvrfrinisc Journal Circulation THE WEATHER. Rain j tonight and Thursday; southerly winds. VOL. V. NO. 234. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, EVENING, JANUARY 80, 1907. FOURTEEN PAGES. PRICE ' TWO CENTS. ' OK T1AWS A WD T1 BTAalio. IJVS Ci.Hl sw... iu in I I A'. ... fJJ I tx jTTpor tin LUIS Streets More Danger - o u s-N ow-Th an Ever BecauseTiny Strands Cannot Be Seen- Two Horses Killed This Morning 'Live Wire Fells Woman o ' the Ground, Leaving Vivid , Scar Upon Her Forehead Other Accidents. ' Th danger, from broken' live wire are considered even greater today than Inc the tee tornv first broke loo. It 1 being more difficult to detect them now that they heva been freed from the thick ..'.crystal ... coating and In many places partly covered by mud. v.T.hre horses were knocked down this morning by coming In contact with live "iresT" 'anJTTwo of Them" were "kffled'by the shock. Theythlrd recovered after having been stunned for. abouf IS mln utes. -. This horse oolongs to the' Coveil Manufacturing company. Willi . twin i driven along Kant Eleventh streot the animal's head touched a telephone wire hanging over the eleotrlc trolley wire of the Q- W. P. system. ThT- horse dropped Instantly, but after having laid wbout It minutes recovered and ap peered uninjured, , C The two horses- killed belonged to ' Fuhr tJrts.. dairymen. They cam In contact with si -telephone wlrs hanging over the lower AlMna trolley wire at the Intersection 'bf Larrshee and Broad way streets. . The wire bung ta the ground, so that- after having knocked one down It fell on the other with sim ilar "effect In trying to get up the horses got seveiral shocks, each being accompanied with big blue flashes. -Be Careful, Everybody. - '- Eye-witnesses say the horses strug gled for about 10 minutes before they -finally-. expired.- - A lineman finally ar rived on ' the scene and removed the death-dealing wire. The driver valued the team at about $300. . The house from which the tele phone wire led was scorched and would probably have caught fire had the wire not melted In twain. People cannot be too careful in walk about even In the very business C. portion of the city, because the wires are sill working loose and there la no telling when one of the thousands of telephone lfhes will fall over tha trolley wires. In many places) lut night tele phone wires were spitting flashes of fir In places where It was supposed the cur rant had been out off and only the - flashes probably saved people from walking onto them In the dark. Mrs. Annie C. Robinson of S31 Tenth : street, narrowly escaped electrocution i Monday evening while going from her home to catch a street car on Eleventh - street. - Near the corner of "Market a telephone wire hit her on the forehead with the result that she dropped to the walk, stunned. 8b recovered suffi ciently to get on the car, but found a acar on her forehead and part of her dress scorched. It was on of the nar rewest escapes reported eo far. - School teachers hav been cautioning their pupils to beware of the wires, and perhaps but for thla fact not a few chil dren would hav forfeited their lives for being Inquisitive or vnobservlng. . IV la generally considered miraculous -a.-d Indeed, fortunate that a number of se rious oleasters have not occurred la view of the awful wreck to the electric systems. . WIRES DOWN EVERYWHERE Country East of Portland Shut Oft . From Electric Current. ' All the' country east of what may be termed the east side proper Is covered rlth a network of broken - telegraph telephone wires, making It Impoa- slble to get In from tha country or out of the city, except by foot over : fields and fences. -..." ' The Base Lin road presents a most striking picture of total wreck, for-on each side of It are masses of entangled wires, while across the road poles bro kea off In many places have fallen In a way to suggest that- a load of giant cord wood sticks have been spilled from va passing wsgon. Cross trees are scat tered In a bewildering manner and the - large force of ' men now engaged In clearing the road will' be busy for sev- eral daya The wire are being cut and tha poles throwa to on aid tern- ; porarlty, - - - In the vicinity of East Fiftieth street the network of wires extendi over the entire country and horsemen or team re unable to get through without tak - Ing tha risk of being stricken dowa sny time by the electrlo current. Several live wires war ' discovered . yesterday afternoon In the streets running north and south, paralleling the foot of the hill, and had it not been for warnings . given by the people In that vicinity some fatalities would probably hav occurred there. A horse was killed on on of the streets by stepping on a llv wire. ' flmoot Car for February. (Journal Special genie. ) Washington. D. C, Jan. It). The sen ste this afternoon, on request of Senator Utirrows, chairmen of the committee on privilege irnd election, decided to take a ret on the Smoot sua February 19 at 4 p. m. RESIGNS AS GOVERNOR r 1 V Governor Swettehhani of Jamaica is reported by London papers to have ". tendered his resignation as the re sult of ordering; Admiral Davis to 1 leave, .w . BUT FEW FRAUDS IN LAflD tEUTRIES Montana Senator Defends' En . trymen on Public - Landed " Only One Out of a Hundred Entries Fraudulent. ' r ; (JniKBil Mnrrlal Service.) Washington, ' D. C.,. Jan. 10. Senator Carter of Montana attacked Secretary Hitchcock this afternoon because of the tatter's order that no patent to land be lasued until examination by a special agent onth ground showed fun com pliance with the law. ... "This order of tno secretary," said Senator Carter, "expressed his final es timate of the- honor and Integrity of all .wttlcrs on the piibllo domain and all others seeking -title to public lands. It- 1 without precedent In the history of any government, save aa applied to individuals suspected of treasonable in- tenuous. ' - .- - - . v.. -There -naa been a . continual howl from the Interior department, leading to the belle that the west Is full of thieves. Charges hav been made 'In discriminately against fifteen millions of people. When the facts are ascer tained we find only one out of every hundred entries At .public, land has been fraudulent.' . i BAND OF ANARCHISTS :'J:: CAPTURED IN CHICAGO Journal Special SerrleaTt f Chicago. Jan. 0. The police today arrested George Stein and Henry Braus and found In their possession anarchist ic articles, pistols, sketches of. fortifi cations, diagrams of, European palaces and picture of potentate-adi- prim ministers abroad .and or Frealdent Roosevelt. . . ' , This capture leads- the police to be lieve they have, caught members of an anarchist band that la planning whole sals destruction In this and other coun tries. j, .- ' SENATOR filULKEY TAKES; HIS SEA! .- - "T.. - -' ' , . , . -'' Senate, Passes. Resolution Pay ing Senator Gearin for Past Services and New" Senator Receives; Congratulations. 7; (Waahlngtea' Sanaa sf The JearaaL Washington, Jan.. SO. The senate passed a resolution today providing for the payment of -fll.il, out senator Oearln for ' services - aa senator from January 2t, the data bis successor waa elected, until ' January If, :the date bis duties ended. - Senator Mulkerr credential were pre sented In the senate this morning and be waa sworn In and took hla seat, re ceiving the eongratulatlona of many senators who know him personally. Mulkey will call on the president to morrow with Senator Fulton. . . Ppeaklng today, he said: r " "I am deeply sensible of the honor the people of Oregon have conferred upon me. I am enterlngiupon my duties with a profound eonsclonsness of the reepon- slbllltles or th position." - He has selected Barry Bulkley as his secretary. . ' , :. .w Senator Mulkey said today that en finding that arrangement were con cluded for allowing th Bristol case to stand without further commute aotlon. he 1 disposed to aoquleac In th ar rangement aa being th best solution of tb ess nnder th circumstances. The credentials - of Senator .. Bourn were presented In th senate. -Hear Alaskan Appeals. (Jnnraal Bpeelal gervlee t ' Washington. Jan. Si). Hons ' has passed th bill providing for th beat ing of appeal from th district court of Alaska by th court of appeata-for tha ninth circuit at San Francisco, Port land or Seattle. Baytng AaatraUaa CoaL' ijonrsal Special Service, t U Omaha. Jan. S It Is stated her that the Hxrrlman lines are buying roal st 11 In Australia. " Several steamers are now en route to Sao Fran cisco.",. " j-. RAID H DEi! OF HIE ROBBERGMIG Officers This After--noon Searched-tbe "House -.of "Toots" ry ah t-- Band Terrorized Neighborhood . for Years, .Threatening to Bum , the ; Home of Anyone ' Who Informed the Authorities of Guilt - - - "Search la being made this afternoon of the Toots" Bryant house, half a mile east of Montavlila, and near the Baae Um road, by Captain' of Detectives Bruin, a postal Inspector and two police detectives, and It ta believed that when the work of the officers . Is completed sumclentV evidence will hav . been found to Implicate Bryant mor fully as a partner in the crimen ef the 14 men already arrested for numerous poet- ornc roooeries and holdup. - Captain of Police Bruin has ordered tb arrest of an expressman- who fol lowed th officers aa far as the and of th Mount Tabor car line thla morn ing. The latter will be taken Into cus tody as soon as found as it-Is believed It Is he who has been transporting th goods,' alleged to have been stolen, from the down-town district to the Bryant horn. ' ( - '. , nnnder by Wagon load. Load after load of packages and sac. fuls of goods, th nature of which is yet unknown, hav been taken to th Bryant house for several months Chat Th neighbors Arst noticed that- tb ex pressman waa busily enxaaed , hauling goods to th ptac many week go. in fact, -srnre- t!e- LtHm ' aird tnartffair the house ha been a storage place for ton of stuff which tb postal offlolals and police believe was stolen by th gang la which Bryant baa been an ac tive fae tor. . Captain Bruin left central station at t:S0 o'clock this -mOrnlng in company with tW officers When they left tne lit. Tabor car , at . Thirty-ninth street th ezpressmsn, whose name has not been learned, walked alowly behind th party. He was still a short distance in the rear when th officer reached th end of the line, and aa soon as he saw them, turn - towards the Bryant home he turned and hastened towards town. , . - . v . . , , - Tho officers went to th Bryant house immediately and this afternoon mad a diligent -search of th premises. - rr Throats -inrvt6marz For many week past neighbors of the Brvant horn hav feeen suspicious of the actions of It Inmate. In fact, threats made by the woman who"noi aa Bryant' wlf that some of her neig tibor might lose their homes, have completely terrorised th and they hav watched her closely. Th fact that when W. W. Beardsley, his wife and a girl were bound with ropes in their bouse a few weeks an. he said that b knew who the robbers wer but did not dare tell their names, I ooncluslv evidence of the fear with wnicn th gang was held In tha natch. bo r hood. . Mrs. Bryant la order tW get on good terms with, the neighbor who hav shunned her. has repeatedly offered them sides of bacon, bat thee hav been. , re fused because It was felt -that they had been stolen. . For daya and week paat th expressman has taken loads of good night and day to the Bryant home. , '' -"Woman Is Arrested. '; V '' -glnc Bryant's arrest a few days ago, however, there bag been " an entire change of p gram. Ooods hav bean taken from th houas and It Is supposed hav been cached aom place - down town. It Is believed that tb good fonnd in Bryant' saloon when a search waa mad a vfew days after hi anffcr wer taken from the Montavlila hoJso. ' Captain Bruin arrested Helen Bryant this afternoon and brought her down town, where she will be cross-examined by th federal authorities in an effort to elicit soma information from her re garding Bryant's connection with the gang arrested In th Front street lodg ing house and which Archl Turnbult, esptaln In tha Ore department. Impli cated In hla confession in th 8llwood and 81 Johns postofflc robberies.;.., -.. THUGS LOSING NERVE .7 " Lannahaa TrUs Authorities) of An- . dersoa and Wane. Jo (Red) Lannshan, a bartender at Tom Fallon's reaort on Second street, confessed today to Assistant United States District Attorney James Cole that Anderson, on of th men arrested for robbing th St. John and Bell wood poatofflces, hsd been in tb habit of visiting Fallon's . saloon In company with Frank Wan, the leader of the gang, sine some time , before th Christmas holidays. This is an Important piece of evi dence because It is directly opposite to that told by Anderson, who said that he did not know Wane; sad had never ssea him except on' on oocaaion. . . Lannahsn has pretended all along that he knew nothing about th move ments of th men, but from whst th authorities had gained from Anderson when he was sweated and from Turn bull, they hav been abl to add an other link to th chain of evidence that la being ud to Indue th members iCoaUnued on Pag fclgbV mm Temporary Derangement, Unwritten Law to. Be Plea New Venire Ordered SLOW PROGRESS MADE ' IS VORK OF SELECTING TRIAL JURY FOR THAW sat Upectal Bank's. y- . New York. Jan. SO.At the opening of the Thaw trial this morning Justice Fltsgerald anndunced he would no long er permit the -sketching et the prin cipals In the court room and, aakedOb artlsta present to leave Jday McKemle and Evelyn Thaw were the only members of the Thaw contin gent present at tha opening today. The absence of the others provoked tb us ual gossip that new dl (Terences had arisen In th family. ' . r. .' . i Previous to the opening. Thaw, In th prisoner's dock -.talked a few min ute with his wife and Miss McKenils. Harry C.J Brearley, an advertising agent, aged 30 and married, waa cho- AEIGEL OF DEATH BliKIGS 110 PEACE Millionaire Donner ; and '. Wife Watch Their Child's Life Ebb - Away 1 Without Speaking a Word or Becoming Reconciled (Jearsal gpeelal' serviee.) TNItahnre T' . Jan SO. Entirely Ignoring each other and without an ex change of words, MUllonair wuiiam n. n..u anit hla'- divorced wife. Mrs. Delia M. Donner, sat for four hours watching" nha Ufa of tnir s-yar-owi daughter... Margaret bb away. Th mother held th child as eh died and then tho ooupi parted in silenca '7Z' r wn Dnnner. wlthant a penny to hi name, wedded Margaret Hall a anatmn, nu vimi enough capital together to engage in the tin plate business and about IS year ago moved to thla oity.- From th day m (lis mniiii - - r- t beyond all expectatlona. : H waa elected D refllucm ox me umtw oi-vm wnipaoy, w . . . . . .. a enirn was nwiw ' .u - dumwh aim t""1 - - " property waa sold,, to th United Stat gtael corporation Donner received, It ea'Bta.. Sl.wv.wvv Mtm 11 1 . With her husband rated a a multi millionaire Mr. Donner became ambt- . - ,M.. In twwlatv hnnnM UVU W ' Mmm, ' " . rained hla homely taate and ' they grsuuany ui" .w ,j . , ,,v, rttolea of separation were signed. Mr. Donner went' to live t Cleveland. On December It last a decree of divorce was signed In her favor. On th asm Am ihAl tha law entirely divided the couple Margaret fell 11L NEWSPAPER FORCED TO ' USE WRAPPING PAPER (Jonrel Bpeelal Serrlee.l , Kensal. . D.. Jan. . Th Jorth Dakota . Stat Journal appear today printed on yellow wrapping paper, th freight bl'ickada preventing -. the hlp ment.of print paper,' It says next we-k It will print on pin siding If tb block ad oonUnttea. . ,' - , : (Continued on Page Nine.) '' ' ' :' '2 , ' jji ITS ' JfMSl ' : mmE r h M the) top ta Mrs! fStanford tVWte. wtdoW of th murdered grchltect. v V J 1 1-- ' In th-e smaU panel en tho left ta Clifford, VT. HartrJJ;e. Thaw'g per- vv ft I ; . ;-v gonal counseL Next to that Is a sketch of the prisoner'! mother, 1 ' iM.-V.Mrs.- William Thaw, and Lawyer Hartrldge. - ' DEFENSE (Neighbor of Former Chinese Interpreter Tells the Police Why He Suspects the' Death ; f Charles ji Has Charles Cummlngs. formr Chi nes Interpreter in th police rourt and receatly engaged in erawflahlng at Roe Island, been assassinated by some mur derous highbinder out Of motives of revenge? . .'' ' Joy Foster, an employ of th Star Sand company, an intimate friend of Cummlngs who mysteriously disap peared on th afternoon of - January 1, confided to th nolle thl morning bis suspicions that . th missing man has met with foul Dlay. and give it aa his opinion that aom Chinaman was hired to commit th muracr. Cummlngs who wss formerly em ployed as- th official Chine inter preter In th police court, waa. op to tb ttm of bis disappears noe, eking oat a livelihood a erawflaher on Eaat Roa Island. Ha dwelt alon In a scow and until last September. Foster was hi nearest neighbor. About t p. m. on New Tear's day CummlngtTcroesed"loth mainland and borrowed an umbrella from a- woman residing near , th Oak siding. He tated that h waa going to th city and would return later in tb day. From that time nothing has been seen or heard of him. ' ' "I knew Cummlngs . very wU and when I lived near him w often-practiced music togerhsr. - He wtr usually a vary reticent man, but told me on on FLEES TO AMERICA TO v ESCAPE SCANDAL STORY " (Joamat Rpeeiat Berries.) "Baltimore, Md.. Jan. - SS. Madam Marl Zteglef, lata of -fho Opera Comlqua In Prague, la In Baltimore, . th guest of Charles Maaopua- According to her husband, who ta with her, it was , to escape scandalous tongue that Madam eeVeseeeeeesseeesswwsees LA FOLLETTE ON RAIL . ROAD COMMISSION , ' ' . . . ' W "WhJteyer differences' of opinion may be fonnd among sup porters of a measure to regulate railway services and rates, aa to whether the commission should be elective or appointive, you will, -1 'apprehend, find no division among the opponents of such legis lation. One and all, they are quite certain to be unitedly in favor of an elective commission. While they .will, oppose , tho creation of any commission whatever,) long as such opposition can be sue- r..n V tv.n witK .r, nmnimitv' (rtr tha election w ccsBiuuy uiavic, j " i jwiH ev of the commission and in favor $' office." Message to legislature, SB vONGBG iCummings , ocraelon that he ; had troubl with a prominent Chinese merchant and hi son over the position of Chtnea intsr-f preter. He said thl merchant wanted th job for hi son. After resigning bis position he moved to Rob island, so h said, to get away from th Chines. . "The sre the only enemies he had, and I feel confident that some high binder wss employed to km him. His scow Is la a bad condition and I cam to e tha' nolle a to what action I could tak In caring for It. He ha never been beck to tb- houseboat, and a guitar which he loaned to tha. woman from whom he borrowed tha umbrella i still st her. house. - Cummlngs am not a drinking' maa and tor sore. reason never associated with any women. I know that he waa not financially embar rassed, as hs told an that hs bsd enough money to ran him through, the winter. I can assign no reason for bis Strang disappearance jpther'. than b has been killed by some one." -On Foster's statement detectives will be detailed to make an Investigation. Absolutely no trace of th missing man has been discovered sine be started for Portland' on. New Tear's day.. Foster called at the coroner's offlc today to Inspect the clothe taken 'Off th un known man who waa killed In the east sld yards, early, this month, but declares- that they -wer not tb garments worn by Cummlngs., . . "-,;. . Zlegler cam to. this country.'; . Little less thaq, two, years ago ah wsa shot by tha Jealous wlf or Prince Otto Wln dlsch Oracta. removed only two genera tion from the throne of Austria. When Madam Zlegler came out of the hospi tal, the echo of tn scandal became- un bearable and she decided - to com to America and give concerts. . She claims to hav been an innocent victim in the shooting affair. ' v j a - - of the shortest possible tenure of 1905. HEEDED FOR HARI1! SamueL Connell Tells ot Wrongs Suffered "By Shippers af Hands of. Rail ro adT rust 7 Wallace McCamant, Attorney for Subsidiary Company,. Appears tlfil a avs. s witn - nea- Tor omaii ;. Lines - Which He v FearsWia Be Ruined by Parent Concern. , (By s Staff Corresaowleat.t - Salem.- Jan. SO, In a nested debate before a Joint legislative eommlttee to consider arguments for and against a reciprocal demurrage, law, all the "in terests" seemed to be well represented excepting the Union Trust company of San Francisco, through which tha Pa cific Railway A Navigation company la ' receiving its construction fund..', While thai-railroad, company's attorney,.JWal- lace McCamant, waa'explalnlng In soul moving accents the methods by which the Southern Pacific would crush out -the Itfs of his littl railroad by the , operation of a reciprocal demurrage law, ther was nobody . present , from . th Union Trust company to wipe away the sympathetic teara of th legislators and comfort them with th sssuranc that the Pacific Railway Navigation company la the Southern Pacific's .own child, its youngest, prettiest baby, and In no danger of getting hurt by the par ent company. It seems to be the Harrlman program to try and fool the people by having its own branch lines masquerade as poor little Independent 'railroads tn danger of being -crashed If . any legislation In the Interest of the people is attempted. - . BaOroad Attorneys Argn. Tb skirmishing in railroad legisla tion haa corns to Sn end, and from now on th real battle la on with tb rail roada and their wealth on the one side and th people and their demands for Justice on the other. Last night In th senate chamber the Joint railroad com- tnittees of the houee ana senate listened to argument from men employed by the railroads to present meir csae and de feat legislation and from men interested In the enactment of taws beneficial to th great mas of th people aa opposed to any corporate interests or organisa tion of special privilege. For more than three hours the argu ment swept back and forth and at the end of that time Coffey of the house committee on railroads announced that the- public hearings of tn Joint commit tees bad come to an end and that from this time on th two ' bodies of men would wrestle with th task given them and attempt out. of the mass of the argument - presented . before . thm to com to som agreement In regard to legislation for tb correction of exlat- ' ing abase. - Wallac McCamant and Samuel Cou ncil of Portland. G. Clyde Fulton of' As toria. W. W. Cotton, X N. Teal and oth ers appeared before- th committee and argued for and agalnat th passage of the Chapin bill ter th creation of a railroad commission and' th enactment of reciprocal demurrage provisions for th regulation of trade. . Beany a Xarriiaam Breach, .. : ' Mr. McCamant - mad a good argu ment from hla standpoint, on full of points telling to th uninitiated. Aa th representative and paid attorney of th Pacific Railway Navigation company he pleaded for the "small roads, telling of the great damage which would be ' done to them should th Chapin blU bo paased, but in hi argument b did not how that th road be represented waa In reality an offshoot of the Harrlman systsm and In no danger of the dire con sequences predicted for It by bis re marks. -i ) Samuel Connell, a merchant and man ufacturer xf Portland, made tha moat telling argument of th evening, for be had In bis possession the records of actual experiences with tho railroads of tb state showing discrimination, 'rat sbuse and lack-ot wqntpmenr -which at th previous -session waa nut brought . out. Mr. Connell came third In th lit of apeakera, but be came first In the record of effectiveness. , He followed Mr. McCamant and Mr. Fulton, and when he had come to the point ha stayed there until the end. shea Ing that there waa need of railroad leglalatlon, mat there wag discrimination and rats abua and shortage of cars to carry th grow ing products Df th state) --to- the- mar ket which have been made for them during the paat few years. Tell ef kallroad Aba. - Whan Mr. Connell began his remark he promised the commute net to ram ble In his statements, as the ot h-r speakers bsd said tbey would do. lit said that h wa there not from (our tesy nor for pay, but because of strung Convictions born of experience whicu had cost htm money In the cnluct C bis business. . iiav caviled to the no' u-i of the commission an experience of hi bad In trade over the feiouttiern l'a 'n.i with California potts, lie aui.l n ..c some sis years sgo when the m'e . California was stricken with a i. ha had made coutraota to d-itv-r . , and other food products to ni'-r i there on a certain time, bt t- r , cars la which he bad e 1 1 r t t I chandls had been held up a l a . Una tot ucb a long time ttt. i . . , waa over befor ttiey r- ! l i tinatlona and thst be 'i.i.i I a ton on every ahtr.m'-iii i, Mr. Conaell then n cu union of th fint
