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i. . .TmrrnTil rirrtrlntrnn GOOD MORNING . TUE WEATHER. . Rain and snow with no marked change' In ""temperature; easterly winds. , VOL. III. NO. 47. - .. PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAV MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1907 AFIVE SECTIONS-FIFTY-SIX PAXES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JURY Fill ti! HOT GUILTY krl oldsYo u th V as I nsan e TRelTHeTiredTatai Shot Only Two Votes Taken by Jurors Prisoner Will Be Kept , In Jail - Temporarily and Sent to Asy ' lum for - Safe Keeping and Treatment Verdict Very 4 Popular With People (flpeetal PIj paten to' Tlx JonrnaLJ " " Tacoma. Wash., Feb. 1.- "Not guilty. Cheater Thompson. Is Insane. : He killed Judge George Meade' Emory of Seattle while under the torment of inaane de- lualons that controlled hie movements and directed the fatal bullet" That Is the verdict' of the 12 men 'who for el got week have listened to the testimony and arguments In the Thompson murder trial. '' f The prisoner will be' kept " In "Jan .temporarily. He will he sent to an asylum for safe keeping and treatment w wva u the neeesarystepscan be -taken. The 'ease 'went to the "Jury about t o'clock. At 10 o'clock tonight it re turned the verdict "Not guilty , by ' reason of Insanity." " ' - - '. .-Onlv two ballots were taken, one at TVuf o'clock, resulting 11 to I for acquittal, Tmd the ether at 10 o'clock, when the Jury was unanimous.- ..- - - Judge . Thompson, the defendant's father, and the attorneys for th da fense expressed their satisfaction at the verdict, while the -attorneys - for the state vanished as toon as the. verdict was read. The defendant shewed .not the slightest Interest In the matter. The -, verdict was . a popular one, sa waa shown at one of the theatres. When, the result was thrown -on a screen the entlro audience eheered for several enlnutee. , ' Closing- riM and Instruction. . Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh Oc cupied the morning and part nf the aft ernoon In a final plea for the convic tion of the- prisoner. " . Judge Snell's instructions to the Jury were lengthy and It was dusk when the Jury retired. Mr. Mackintosh's argu ment; as compared with Will 1L Thomp son's plea, was short, formal and cold. he Thompson trial Is tne.mosi noiea mluul suit ever rled In Washing ton and far and 'away the moat notabls feature of the trial was the plea to the Jury made by WU1 H. Thompson for the life of his son. . The speech tasted two and a half daye, closing shortly before midnight last night, and the great crowds who heard It will never forget the thrilling passages, the pontic ut 1 terancee the dramatle fervor and the heartbreaking sentences as they fell ' .from his llpe. - . , - " ' Thompson's Memorable Appeal. , vllr. Thompson possesses a memory " that passes understanding. ' He had memorised nothing In advance. . He used ' no notea Often he quoted line after - line of testimony heard weeks ago. with- - out reference to the transcript. Ills f el low attorneys had outlined the method to he follow. ln arguJrg the case, making many pages of elaborate analy sis and notation for his use, yet he did not refer to the notes. It all came to hjrn spontaneously 4nd with no 'delay, lis speaks with great rapidity, yet his 'words are clean cut. It waa expected that at the end he would make a brilliant oratorical ap peals but ho kept his word to the Jury that he would ao far aa hi could repress (Continued on Pago Eight) All Records for High iipimHniiE phis Partially Submerged Thousands . of Acres Across River Under Water : .. ,sh.H1l.hr rrm bv Si Memphis, Feb. i With the crest of ths flood only a few houre away from Memphis and all records for high water broken during the day, the situation to night Is dangerous. Any- moment th levee at Holy Bush Is expected to break, entailing tremendous damage In Arkansas and putting all railroads west from Memphis out of commission,- The 8t Francis lsvee officials with a large force of men are working night and dsy agslnat fearful odds. At the best only s few lnohes more ef water can be withstood. ' i In North Memphis several blocks are flooded as a- result of a failure ef re taining walls to hold the water backed up In the Bayou Oayoae. . Nearly 1.000 people have bn forced out of their k bom's. Their furniture has been taken In charge by the Installment house and - ths owners will loss heavily as a re ' suit . There Is little ectual suffering ao far, however. The local situation today was aggra vated by the practical failure-ef -the ga.s supply, owing to the water filtering ! into tlitt mains) From early In the morning nniii Mte n the eftf-rnoon the ' gas supply, wa cut olt and the nws- 1,000,000 FORREPAIRSj Battleship Is Ordered Modernized to. Meet Probable Attack By "Japanese; Squadron President Calls Newspaper Men . In and Lectures Them Upon V Minimizing Trouble With the Mikado Executive Confident of Settling Alleged War Alone. PaUtebers rreu tf Special Leaaed Win.) Washington. Feb. 2. ' Piesldent Roosevelt Is -urging - newspaper - corr- spondents to do all In their jower. to, minimize the -talk of a probable war r between the United States and - Japan, i He is explaining In detail the mctnoa by. which be expects to avoid any fur ther irritation between the two govern ments. He expresses the utmost con fidence in his' ability to bring the Ran Francisco school authorltlea to his way of -thinking. He therefore feels no hesitancy In asking the corrVspondantn to dony .ua"C the situation is serious or acute. The president had a special audience thle afternoon with the correspondents of thr-re nriK'PT" hl,'h " "f1 supporters of his administration.- To the members of the party he expressed his positive belief that when the San Francisco authorities take up the ques tion with him he will hsve no serious trouble In getting them to agree to the withdrawal of the order barring Japanese pupils 4 from the public school -of -their city. "".""7 - Mutual Xxoinilo. The president's plan for a final ett tlement of the coolie labor problem. In which It Is aald the Japanese amba sador hear..ly coincide,. Involves the Issuance .of an' Imperial edict and couioil to the present commercial treaty. ' The edict will forbid Japanese 'sub jects leaving the empire for the 'United State1 It may appeal lo the patriotism of the Japanese in declaring that their services are more necessary to ths gov ernment at home and In Manchuria. The proposed codicil to the existing commercial - treaty will deal entirely wltn the exclusion of Japaneso 'coolies from thle country and the barring ef American workmen from Japan. .The remainder o the treaty will be left un disturbed. . .. i-i....-iro Mope la Xxelusio Xw. , It was made evident by the president's utterances this afterVioon that he does not believe anything can he accom plished by legislation looking' to Japa nese exclusion. .. HeXhlnka a long pe riod of time would be required for the passage of a bill through congress. He also believes that It-would be ettended with the delivery ef so many Inflamma tory epeecheg as to render this course dangerous. He considers a treaty the. only prac ticable method of settling the question. This argument will constitute one of hla strong points In presenting his views to the San Francisco delegation. Ha will assure them that the California delegation in congress cannot render any assistance by urging axcluston leg islation, but that .he alone can procure relief through the medium of an Im perial edict and a codicil to the commer cial treaty now In operation. ' ; . , " . Klllloa foe the Oregon. , The concerted eaaertlone from all ad ministration officials, that absolutely nothing Is being done looking to prep aratl.m for war were made somewhat (Continued on Page Eight) Water Eroken Mem papers appeared under great dlffioultlea Plumbers blow pipes were called Into use to kesp the metal bet In the lino types. Even at that much of the type waa aet by hand. i . Along the river, above and below, tn Arkansas and Mississippi, the situation la critical and guarda are petroling the levees night and dny. .The boats srs bringing In many refugeee dally. Rains have partly undone the work-of build ing up the weak spots. At Vlcksburg about ISO. convicts have been sent up the , river to fight the flOOd. ' . yt The river has risen .1 feet In the past 14 hours. Water we.it over the North Helena levee thle morning ti this does not effect Helena.- - All the available forosa of the Illinois Central were placed today at ths dis posal of the flood fighters and possible sufferers. Tonight the gunge at Memphis shows 40.1 feet two-tentbs above the record. Not more than two-tenths more 1s ex pected and -troub!sts anticipated from' the frt thst thn levees-will not be able to stand thst height for more than a few hours, while there Is no hope for relief under three Je, s, . . A 1 ,.;.;' Suspected of Many Grimes in Vicinity of Portland TOUGH GANG NOW HEjM PRISON Frank Wane Is Supposed to Be the Leader of. Them i - i .w" .",. nnjT i hm w"T k. "va - a 1 1 a . i a. - fF.le .---' - t VI v : f. ..'' -i-mr . VF! .-' - ' " - w e r ' 1 I I ": A r ' ... f ,,TlJ f .v .J 4k ' I III SELL PROPERTY : ' AHD QUIT PARIS Disheartened Over Her Failure, to Regain Her Social Prestige, I Boni's Erstwhild Spouse De- cides - to ; Leave the'- Scene of Her Many Troubles. ; (rnMlabers' Prm by- ftpectal Lesaed ' Wire.) Paris, Feb. X. Disheartened over, hqr failure to regain too position she once held In 'Paris "society," following her o tlon in divorcing her husband, Madame Anna Gould, formerly Countess Do Cas tellans, Is preparing to dispose of most of her .property In Parla and will re turn to the United Btatee Just ae soon as the courts will allow her to take ber children out of Franoe. Madame Oould has already sold her town bouse on tire Avenue Dubois end tn the future will spend most of. ber time, while In France, at her . Dee Mala palace." Since ' Madame Oould divorced her former husband French society has manifested an aversion to her, declar ing ahe had been too public In dragging Count Bon! through the mire of-divorce courts. Now that Madame Oould has lost her title, members of the samerlcaa society do not find her nearly aa Interesting aa ahe was before and they, too, have snubbed her. Nursing her sorrow, the orave utile American woman, however, la striving to hide her domestic troubles. She believes a - trip to ber native land will be a great benefit to her end will eall Just aa soon as permis sion Is given her to remove her eons from Franoe. ' , PRESIDENT INTERESTED JN RELIEF FOR CHINESE (PuMhneiV Press by Special Leased Wire. I wasnington, ren. i. c Becretarr Root in enclosing hla eontrlubtton of 1100, with a similar contribution from Presi dent Roosevelt-in aid - of 'the Chinese famine relief fund, has written a letter to the Christian Herald In which he eaya: . . The president has asked me to lay to you that he le much Interested In the work of raising funds for the benefit ef the sufferers of the present dreadful famine In China. He- hopee that you will meet the same success that you have had In similar sppealsjto th hu manity and liberality of our peopra." SMALL ROADS OWN 'Attempts are being made by certain controlled "Independent" railroad man agers to stampede the legislature by the statement that the enactment Of a reciprocal demurrage law would be the death knoll of the lumber Industry In Oregon. Orave smiles flicker In the facee of the lumber mill owners when they hear this. . Lumber mill men of Oregon seldom laugh any more. When they do, there Is no merriment tn It, but something ghastly and sinister. . They have bee listening to death knells of the lumber business for some time. The bell has been tolling with more or less regu larity, from Rogue river to the Clack amna, and from" Falls City to Cottage Orove." The janitor Is this week pulling the rope overeat thj mill of the Curtis Lumber company, where 100 employes have ben 'let out of their Johs. The UU eaya: "tto cars:" "Ko cur ...-. Top row, from left to right William Carter. Louis L. Smith, Arthur ' ? .'Toota". Bryant, William Clark,, Frank Kelly. Middle row James " Keeley, "William Sweeney, Frank,S. Runklns, James Rowland, Nick Killer.',. BottomfQ WrwFrak -WanerJotgAflaerson. " " .' ' "v " " r:esTrmen"areamdhg" !hose lodg-, Ing house by the police and some of whom were later taken Into custody by the federal authorltlea for the robbery of the Sellwood and St Johne poet offices. Of the men shown above only seven sre wanted for the robberies of the pbstofflces. , They era Frank Kelly, William Carter, John Anderson, Frank Wane, all ef whom have penitentiary records to their credit and Arthur "Toota" Bryant toule L Smith and Frank 8. Ranklns. . . - . . Captain Archie Turnbull. the member f the Portland fire department, who waa arrested theVame night that Wane was, Is the eighth member of the gang held by the federal authorltlea The plcturee of the other men tn the above group are common hoboes, sneak thieves and ber cars who were picked up In the lodging house.--They are considered unimportant . , " CASE'GAIHSTGAHGCOMPLETE PreliminaryJ1earlng:of-the Alleged PostofAce " Robbers Will Be Held Monday Many : Witnesses . After a week of Investigation and In gutry, Jamea Cole, r assistant - United Btatee district attorns, haa completed hla casa against the gang arrested for complicity Inr the Sellwood end Bt Johne postofflce robberies and will have the men, In court Monday afternoon at I o'clock, when they will be given- their preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner . Edward McKee. There are eight men In the gang and all will be up before Commlsaloner Me Kee with the exception of Archie Turn bull, the captain of the fire department who waived bis preliminary hearing after making a confession or the crimes snd was released on furnishing ball In the sum of 11. BOO. ' .. Few criminal cases have eome np. in Portland In recent yearn that have at tracted Ins Interest snd attentlbn which Lines Operated as Feeders for Haniman l Under Traffic ' Agreement Benefited by Commission. . But If anything could make a lumber mill man laugh It would be the asser tion that the branch railroads of the state will he bankrupted by the operation- of a reciprocal demurrage law through which the main Hue would ab sorb all the little road's cars. The small roads that feed the main lines of ths Harriman systems never -had sny care, and nsver will have any, they aay. For example, the Astoria' Co lumbia River railroad baa lees Uiaa 109 Appear the postofflce eaaes have. The arrest of he gang waa made and a complete roundup of a band of desperate ertml nals wsa consummated by the federal officials after enough evidence had been gathered to convict the gang. It waa probably due to this assurance of con viction from Mr. Cole that made , the Interest so keen end lasting In the pub lic mrnd and never once since the men were taken Into custody haa that Inter est flagged. . , , fcong- Berlas ef Crimes. Another factor which has made the arrests so Important was due to the long continued series of holdups, rob beries and murders, which the polloe seemed unable to solve. After Wane and hla gang were aafely under lock and (Continued on Page Five.) FEW CARS freight oars all told. It hag added but three cars to Its equipment tn two years. Last year It got three new freight eare. let this road taps a coun try Immensely rich In timber -snd other resources. It Is the only rsll outlet for the lsrge lumber mltls. The Tongue Point Lumber compsny's mill attuated at Hume e Us line. Is one of the larg est snd most modorn lumber mills on thev Pacific, coast and recently Invested 11.000.000 In timber at Oak Point. , The Corvsllts A Eastern Is operating under a traffic agreement with the Southern Pacific and does not pretend to' furnish its own equipment for Inter state freight traffic. It his made no effort to gst. carslar -yeArsv WtU a mileage ef 142 miles, the C. aV E. rail road has but 101 cars of Its own, or sa averags of about two cars to the mile. UContluued on Page Klne.),. TO KILL RAILROAD mmmw bill Southern Pacific Political Agents iSent From.-Sajv Francisco -to Work at Salem Against Peo ' ples Interests Hill Assists in ' Fight on the Measure. . . , (Ilearat News by Longeet Leased Wire.) Ban Francisco, Feb. t. Feeling con fident that the legislature at Sacra mento will not do it any barm, ths Southern Paolflo, . through ' political age'nta, la watching quietly and cloaely some combinations In the Oregon and Nevada leglalaturea which It deems un friendly and Inimical. These agenta were In town for two days. Having got u.etr Instructions they are off to Salem and Caraon to accomplish their respee tlve Jobs. Harriman does not . want the Oregon legislature - to create a etate railway commission -and to paaa a reciprocal de murrage law. Neither does he want , the Nevada solons at Carson, to create a state rail way commission' and reduce the maxi mum passenger and freight rates which are now respectively 10 cents a mile and 20 cents a-ton per Tn lie. The lit 11 people are lending him support In Ore gon, where they have Interests. Herrii haa hla men at Balsm. assisting Hill's political emissaries. Victor H. Beckman, secretary of the Paclflo Coast Lumber. Manufacturers' association, and his associates are en couraging the Oregon legislators to i (Continued on . Psge Eight) ASSAM AStA I B B BSBtt t Lf A a ah DEATH Verdict on' Death' of James Ttacy, Stabbed C: in. Street Fight at Night "We, the Jury, find that the deceased, James Tracy, came to hie death at Bt. Vincent' hospital at t a. m., February 1, 107, from knife wounds In the chest. Inflicted by one of two persona un known, at Fourteenth snd Ollsan streets, on the morning of December IS, 10, during a scuffle." This la the verdict of the coroner's Jury. Tsn witnesses, testifying before a coroner1 j Jury yesterdsy afternoon, all telling substantially the ' eame atory relative to the manner In which Jamea Tracy received the wounds which re sulted In his death at St. Vincent's hospital yesterday morning, were un able to throw any additional light on a mystery which apparently baffles solu tion. It was shewn that the two men with whom James Keegsn and Tracy en gaged In combat were stock II y built one tall and the other short In stature; both wore long bluck " overcoats and were smooth, shaven; one of the men had. long black . curly - hair . and- the Other's I'hnetinn name wns rienrge. - Vtarced Hrnne Late at Bright Christian I-oUIk, a -driver ctnt'l'ved by the lirt'-v WVinhnrd Hrew'riir com pany, tesiiT-.-U thai, in toiriunj- ..!! I 1 BLIZ RAGING lil 4DeeDnows in Central - Oregon Cause Heavy Losses to Stockmen. No Hay in Sight From Twenty Inches to Three Feet of SnowCovers Plateau Between Blue and Cascade Mountains Feed Exhausted and Ruin Threatens. : (Special 'PUpatch to Ths Journal.) ir Shaniko, Or.,- Feb. 2. One of the worst blliznrds In the history of central Oregon, and one which. If It continues a few hours longer, will result In ths loss of thousands of head of stock and the tfnanctnl ruin . nf hnth aheen and cattlemen,- la sweeping front the Blue mountains across, the plateau lands of Crook county to the Cascades. At Bend snd throughout the western portion of the county a- much as 10 Inches of snow haa falton during the past 14 hours, snd at midnight tonight there waa no atgn of the storm's abating.-- At Howard. ' Crook county, .11, Inches have fallen during the day. and IS lnohes have fallen at Madras. Prine vllle and Post. Throughout the "desert" regions of the Interior, In which sre "gmBfffgfor th tntrtrsanns of seres ranirtnaf lend for the ahee and cattle. the average depth of anow is 12 Inches. Prtvea Jy .JEstUTlad. . The storm continues and the anow Is being driven Into huge drifts by - a strong east wind that shifts the dry. thick flakes from one Immense bank to the other. For hours throuKhout the Interior country today the enow fell so fast that It was Itnpoanlble to. see a distance greater than &0 feet. - The heavy fall of snow during the past 24 hours has come on top of a snow which fell only a few days ago. Prior to that time the mercury throughout Crook and southern Wssco counties for over week. ranged as low as It de-. greea below zero. With a moderation of the temperature, which was suffi cient to thaw ths froaen .ground, came the first heavy fall of snow. On top of this now la a fresh supply which, from Indications tonight, will Increase until' It equals the jwvere storm of IBS, when scores of stockmen were rurnedmnd-thousandg nf-head of atocst died on the ranges, the depth of snow being so deep and continuing for such, a -length of time that the animals starved to death aa they stood belly deep tn the banks which covered all th available feed. -To make the situation worse the enoss was covered with a thick crust- which made It impossible for the famlehed and weakened animals to break through to the grass beneath. , rear Terrible Lossaa. While feeding conditions In the ceo tral part of the state are much mora favorable than they were during the -winter mentioned, the gravest feare are entertained tonight concerning; stock conditions. It is certain that If the present snow remains on the ground for any length of time ths lose to cen tral Oregon will be appalling. ' The situation around Ohantko and t the southward is rendered serious on account of the scarcity of hay through out the country. ' The usual amount was pat up last season, but owing toi the extreme long dry weather In the fall and early winter, which dried op the grass.-feeding began earlier than ,1a customary and the aupply now ,1 nearly exhausted. ' (Continued on Page Ten.) at. 4s afV m V " Vk, III Bk. hla wife, Mr. and Mra Tracy and Jameg and Mra. Keegan. he had left the Eagles' ball Just before 1 a. m. Decem ber 2, 1004, and while on the way homeward had stopped at a snloon. lie said he left Keeican and Tracy and their wives at Thirteenth and Kland-ra street. At the time he and hla wire separated from the pnrty two m-i stsndlng on the ' eoraer of Thirteenth, and QUenn streets werr'yetllng loud) v. Dr. Louts Ruck testifies as to tl.s cause of death a demonstrated bv an autt.-sy performed yesterday. Trs"r, he eald. had partatten of considered e liquor while at home after leaving the hospital and tht Mra. Tracy and K;. gan and his wife all drank freely .1 r. Ing this time. Mrs. J. K. Ehhert. S04 OHsri ,im , who . resides directly above the .: , where the stabbing oo-nrr-il i - ; she hd been arou.-d bv a i. aid of the house end ni-m window e-tw a ninn r- -strt with siii ii i t. ' taltioi whs Trucy. In fn-il wr l-';n. ef ' ot.e of t '""i ' 1
