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".- 1 GOOD EVENING Journal Circulation Yesterday 7M A THE WEATHER. Fair tonight "and Sunday; north easterly wlndt. " VOL. NO. 293. ailroads-to Make-the , Last Desperate Effort to Kill the Measure With Davey's Aid Representatives Jones, King and - Holt Approved by Davey to - Make Minority Report and . Oppose Everything ' Except Elective Board. ' ' In th desperate struggl to defeat th- Chapln-. railroad - commission bill now pending- Id the legislature. - It la plain that the treat onslaught of the railroad force le to be niad In the t house. Indication point to the passage - of the bill by the senate, but the reeult -n thr bouse la stilt in doubt- Polled tn their attacks upon other provisions of tne Dill, the railroad lobbyists are now - centering- their energies upon the ef fort to deprive the governor of the ap- polntment Of the commissioners. In . thl. effort Speaker Davey -Is In open and active cooperation with the rail . roads'.--"". -.---.- -.,,..-. jt Tet oa Bill Koaday. Railroad commission day will come . on Monday In the .lower breach of the legislature. The senate has made the Chapln bill a special order for 11 o'clock Tuesday morning-, and ' th house will up the same bill under SDeclal order-at I: JO Monday afternoon., . . The Joint - railroad committee, -after three - weeks of consideration, decided that the Chapln bill, prepared by the ' transportation commltteen of the Port ., land chamber of eommeree Is the most complete measure before the legisla ture, and has chosen It as the measure to be passed upon by the two- house. Three men out of the ten composing the joint committee bar made strenu ous, opposition to the bllL Thesa three are Jones ,of ypolk and Lincoln, King and Holt, all members of the bouse. .The other seven Coffey, chairman of ' the house committee; Wright, chairman of the senate committee; Edwards, Mll ler of Linn and Marlon.. Bingham, Bow orman and, Nottingham are agreed In, supporting the' bill in Its present, form. Davey la. Leag-ne "With Others. j The threat Is made, with the acquies cence and approval of Speaker Davey. . that there will be a minority report from Ski I bs three representatives, Jones, Holt tjttud King. They have led the fight t Aa-AlTiMt th hill tnr nureW nartliiait mi. sons that they are opposed to the pro vision giving the governor the appoint ment of the commission. Jones, how , ever, has the added reason of pique en- rendered because the reclDrocal demur . rage section of the bilT wl drawn adong i similar lines to a measure drawn by him ' and because bis messure was orpwded to the wall by the Chapln bill be has stbaan Jealous of It from Its sppearanca In the house. Bpeaker Davey opposl ' tlon to the Chspln bill la generally cred ited to Intense partisanship and a per - sonal dislike of Governor Chamberlain. Bpeaker Dictates Mora. 1 The opposition of Davey and the three minority member of the railroad com mittee Is being massed against the bill ' on account of the change made by the committee at the last meeting, giving . two commissioner a term of office ex tending - to 1IJ4 and on until lol. When- the amendment was adopted the three minority' members went to Davey for advlo and he told them to oppose It, to oppose the former compromise - jrlTlnrwo-rromtnlstonerrtintir"190 '., and one until 1919. and to oppose the ! original provision of the bill giving the (Continued on Pag Flvs.) JAM SAFE DOOR SHARD AND TIGHT Thieves Enter Store of Council man Kellaher and Now the Vault Cannot Be Opened Nickels Their Only Booty. " '"Thieves entered the grocery -tor of D Kellaher . Co., 1J7 Grand avenue, last night by prying an Iron bar from a window at th rear of the store, but secured little loot beyond the contents of th telephone box. However, they so damsged the safe "In attempting to open It that It has thus far deded the safe expert's efforts to swing open th .. doora NothlnC-wa left to indicate how many or Who - wer In th attempted robbery and Councilman Kellnher states that all he knows is that when h ar rived at the store at 1:30 o'clock this morning h found th dial knocked off a the sf.fa. If there were any losses beyond the nlckle In th slot attach ment to th telephone and possibly a few cigars , he has not ' yet discovered them. In th IS years thst he has been In bustnesr on Grand avenue he says that the store baa been entered aa much as a doaen times, but little ha ever been Kecured. There wa no cash In th safe. HEADS EAST SIDE SCHOOL Principal H. H. Herd man. HIGH SCHOOL OH EAST SIDE Sixteen Teachers and Five Hun dred Students Will Begin the Second'Term In New Build ing Killingsworth, Avenue 1$ the Northern Boundary. Everything ' Is in readiness, for the opening of the east side high school, which will start the second semester of the year with boo first term student and with a force of It teachers, Monday morning. , . . . .. II. H. Herdman Is nrlnolnal and inu. able corps of teachers has been secured. All first term students from south of KUllngsworth avenu are requested to report In rooms J. i. t and 11 on next Monday morning and work will continue while the building 1 being finished. Considerable work la still to ha done before the large school building Is com- pietea, out several rooms have been fur. nlshed. enough to get started In and little inconvenience will be necessary before everything is running as smooth ly a It might be desired. Carefulness on the part of all will be required until the contractors are through. Mr. Herd- man' staff includes the following teach er: -Gertrude Wader, Cora Pat tee. Car. ollne Peterson, Ada Bechtel, Frau Bek ker. J. B. Bombrlght, E. P. Anderson. Wlnnlfred v Hayes, Eatelle Armltage. Lena Neland. C. L. Hoover, John Huff, S. H. Dodson, H. F. Went and 8. H. Mason. . . i SPOKANE CAR STRIKE AT SHOOTING STAGE Spokane, Waetu, . Feb. . Th strike of the motormen and conductors.pf the Washington Water it Power company la becoming serious. - Hundred of men. corner -threaten men who take the places of the strikers. Th police force I being doubled. . Only one shooting scrape has oc curred o far, but It, Is claimed that was not hi connection with the strike; M laborer shot at an Italian and the onlyi thing, that aaved bis life was that he had on five heavy woolen shirts. A 46 caliber1 bullet penetrated them over the heart, causing a slight flesh v wound. Th man who did th shooting escaped. OPMiDAY DESTROY HOUSE OF LORDS Liberal Party to Start on- Revolutionary -Prograrrv-.ncjuding-an . '-.'-; Organized Campaign for Doing Away With Peers of the Realm and Their (Jeeraal oeefal Wrtr.t - . 1 London, - Feb. . . Th . government' revolutionary- program, vaguely hinted st In Sir Henry Caraphell-Bannerman' summons to parliament. Is fully dis closed by the . sttomey-generaL' Sir John Lawsnn Welton. In a speech he made at South Leeds. It ' Is nothing less than a systematic - campaign . for the destruction of the house of lord a The house of lord, the attorney-general declared, was entirely out. of har mony with modern democratic institu tions, and tnust go down. Whether any thing of It would be left, and,' if so. In what form, they - could not yet deter mine. If the house of lords set Itself againft th national will. It would be like a heap of sand setting Itself against rising water. ALL the; i - ' Whatever la worth reading from found In Th Sunday Journal. T Its T facilities. Th Sunday Journal has Z th world' happenings, and nothing worth printing' la omitted. Z Th Sunday Jeumal'a eooiety pag ha all th evente of Interest In i th local field; Its. musla. literary, dramatle and art review - ar th beat;' to Its commercial department producer, buyer and seller look with full cwnfldence that th autement are accurate; In every depart- T ment It leads. Z ' .- Ths comic hav long been a popular feature of Th Sunday Jour nal, and they wtll continue t be th beet to be had In the country. For women there are page a of health and beauty hint, fashion and capi tal menus; for men, atorle of how to win uooea; for ' the young, games .and pussle and clever Action. - In The Sunday: J oiirnal ' PORTLAND. OREGON, SATURDAY FOR DEEP 60HIA LThreetates Decide to Unite in Efforts to lmproyetheWaterr ways to Interior Legislative Committees I: Plan Concerted Action in Securing Appropriations From ! Oregon, Washington and Idaho for Work on Snake and Branches. A clear waterway, navigable by large river steamers from th mouth of th Columbia to Wena tehee- and Lewlston le from today the slogan of united Ore gon. WaahlngMn and Idaho. Th money am D forthcoming from these states to supplement appropriations from the national government. - Thi is the policy outlined today at a meeting of repre sentatives of th three states, held at th room, of the Portland Commercial club. Th strongest spirit of eoote ration prevailed among the delegations, and there was perfect harmony of speech and sentiment, which will undoubtedly t roi lowed by equal harmony of ac tion. The meeting was termed an Inter state conference, and was th outcome of a proposal made some days ago by Senator Smith of th Oregon legislature. , XVaglsVMor Atteanlsg. Th following senators and represen tatives from Washington were in at tendance-? i. rt Steven son. pomeroyr Or-It. ConlngSiA. 'R- Easthara, E. EL Beard, W. P. Connaway, Lloyd Dubois, Vancouver; IE. K. ' Henderson, Fred M. Pauly, Walla Walla: Harry A. Rhodes, BpoKane; judge M. M. uodman, Dayton; W. B. Presby, Ooldendale. - From Ore gon: Asriub Brlx, Astoria; l.H. Bing ham, Kugene; P. W. Knowle. Dufur; C J. Smith. Pendleton; W. O. Cole, Pen dleton; and th commercial bodies of Portland were represented by. J. N. Tea, A. H. Devere. H. W. Cake and Tom Richardson. Colonel. R. W. Roeasler, chief engi neer for th government forces In the northwest, was present to furnish any Information th meeting might desire and offer suggestions a to how th state might cooperate with th gov ernment In river Improvement. Senator Stevenson presided. Benton Bowman of Salem, acting a treasurer, mad a atenograpbto report of th meet ing. , . ; ' moessleT atensws won. Colonel Roessler reviewed th work that has been don and th result ob tained on the . upper river. He ald there had been no precedent by which a working program between state and federar government xnuld b earrietroTit until th present rivers and harbor ap propriation bill was Introduced in con gress a. few day ago. This open th wa y. : 1 Th bill provide for $110,000 to be spent In Improving The chahherof "the Columbia between Oelllo and th mouth of th Snake river. Th secretary of war may use this sum, and "any other funds available." . The other funds may (Continued on Page Flv.) Hereditary Power. Defeat of reform and radical legisla tion by th peer I th cause of th fproposodTcampalgn. If bas become ap parent that all reform are to be blocked by th house of lords, which has ob stinately placed Itself on record as op posing measures which are responsible for recent return of liberals to power. ' Not only th educational and bom rule . program 1 obnoxious to th upper house, but many other measure championed by. th labor organisations, are regarded as almost anarchlatlo by th holder of hereditary title and estate. For som time past lib eral newspapers hav been clamoring for an organised campaign against the peers. Siee MMMMM NEWS - - every earner of th glob I already nrtvald nw-athrtng added another agency for. getting' EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, Ten-Story-BuildingJs Determined Upon by 'the Directors of The Portland Manager Bowers Renews Con tract for Term of Years, and Will Remain at the Head of the Famous Hostelry Other Improvements Soon. : '"" 7- An annex, a steel structure. 10 stories In height, thoroughly fireproof and modern In every detail, -la to be added to the Portland hotel-Construction on th new building will begin In th very near future. .'. ' A decision to that effect was reached at a recent meeting of the 4ort -of di rectors of the hotel company and an Imouncement of the plans was made to-r day. In addition to th erection of a giant annex th plan Include elabor ate Improvement to th present build1 tag. Both the annex and th present' hotel building will be under the management of E C Bowers, the annex to b lo cated In doe proxunlty to the hotel. Th definite site, however, ha not been mad publlo. It la proposed by the directors to Include In th improve ments every modern convenience known t to Bowls. Meet atoaraaao. : " The various feature of th Improve ments hav been carefully planned and thoroughly . discussed. When the tm provetnent are completed th Portland hotel, according to th policy that Is to be carried out. will be able to supply any demand that might be 'mad of a modern hotel. Th construction of th annex wlU Include a ballroom; private dilnlng-rooma, a reataurant accommo dating soo person and other feature. It la said that when th Improvements are completed th Portland wlU be the moat up-to-date hotel outald of . New Xork city, x ' . , At th meeting of th board of di rector th resignation of Cyru A. Dolph as president wa accepted. He has served. In that position for many year. Harry Corbett wa elected presi- aent 10 snoceea jar. uolph. - ... H. C Bowers, to whoa management I du th success of th Portland, will remain at th head of the Institution. A contract with Mr. Bowers was re newed for a period of several year. Un der the term of th contract Mr. Bow ers I to remain In charge of th Port- land with a satisfactory Is crease In his tntereat In the bualnes. In pro v Freeeat Bnfldlng. Mr. Bower ha been manager of the Portland hotel for- IV years, -during each year. of -which It baa earned a profit for Tt owner. rt-w--tn-th year -of th great flood that awept this city that Mr. Bowera took charge and th busi ness has grown with each successive year. With the exception af 105. when the 'Lewis and Clark fair was held, the current year has been th most success ful in the history of th hotel. A number of improvement hav been added during the past year. Among them was the placing of hot and cold running water In every room tn the building and the addition of 10 more bath rooms, which ar of th moat lux urious type. Whew ... the- annex i completed th Portland will be equipped with 00 rooms and with tSO bath room. . VOTE FOR HEW People Have Chance in June as " Bill for Initiative Is Now Being Prepared for East Side Im . provement Association. Through' the Instrumentality of Thouaa Hlslop a bill providing for a new bridge, front. Madison street to Hawthorne avenu will be submitted to the vote of the people In June. At the request of Mr. Hlslop, who has been looking after the matter for th Kast Sid Improvement association, City Auditor Devlin has prepared a bill which. If approved by th people, will enable the oounoll to Issue and sell the necessary bonds and authorise th xe cutlv board 1 proceed with the con struction of the bridge. - . The bill will provide for th condem nation of all right and franchises over the present bridge and the making of new contracts whereby the earnings of the bridge from th railroads will be more then sufficient to pay the Inter est upon th entire new issue of bonds, and In tiro will provide a sinking fund also, ' I'nder th proposed Devlin law th revenue from the car company -operating over the Madleon tret brldgwll amount to 111.000 a year. Th revenue derived from th company for th us of th bridge now 1 nominal. . , FOlflSl 1907. TWO : SECTIONS 20 ' PAGES. V . PRICEV TWO Evelyn Cavendish-Bentinck Who VJeds Morgan's Jlephew " . " 4 - v , . 1 I. . rt V i V A , .4. RICHES HE THAN ilOBILITY Mrs. Ogden MIllsTNiece MiesWalterBurns Who Has So Many Millions That . Nobody n Cares How or Where He Got Them V Jorasl goeelal genteel London, Feb. I. Not for a very long time has a wedding created so mucn Interest in society ss that of Miss Evelyn Cavendish-Bentinck, . grand daughter of Mrs. Martin - Livingston of New York, and Walter Spenoer Morgan Burns, member of the London house of J. P. Morgan , aY Co., which took place today. ' Though Jt was the desire of the fam ilies of both the bride and bridegroom that th ceremony should b a qbtet one, the church -was crowded with; moat distinguished' gathering. Th popularity of both bride and bridegroom was shown by th great number and value of. their pre sent a A tiara said to have cost $40,004 wa only in of Mr. Bums' glflstohisbride Mrs. Livingston presented to her grand daughter a magnificent diamond collar. J.. Plerpont Morgan, uncle of the bridegroom, presented the bride with a splendid stomacher of brilliants of th first water,, designed la Paris. ""lagTtffloenteddliitrOirUk "Among Mr. Cavendish-Bentinck presents was a collar of brilliants set in a Greek pattern, with a clasp containing a magnificent emerald. Mr. and Mrs. Og den Mills, th bride's-uncle' and aunt, also gave her a collar' of uprb dia monds. The bride's father gav a magnificent table centerpiece of silver and a set of dessert dishes. Mr. I-ewis Harcourt brother-in-law of th bridegroom, gave WILLAMETTE FALLING FAST ' .ssBjaMeaBMBsajaassaBBasTBaBSBMsBsBMsBssaa '" '"-' v ' ' ' - River Subsiding at the Rate of Two Feet In Twenty-Four Hours ' Columbia Rising Slowly but Danger Over of High' V. " Water----Madison Bridge Cannot Open.: ; . s . . ' Th Willamette river 1 falling at th rata of about two feet In 14 hours, and, whll th Columbia I rising, there 1 no danger i of high water "on that ac count ' The lc gorge at Th Dalle I slowly breaking up. nd It - la believed that by Monday the waterwaye will again be clear.. Th Madison bridge draw cannot o opened as a result of the heavy atram to whlrb the struc ture was subjected last Thursday night when the freshet was at Its height, and shipping In the upper harbor Is. tempo rarily at a standstill. . Repair ar being made a rapidly as possible, however. . Dlstrct Forecaster ' Beals says the river will fall about Ibreei feet tomor row and by Monday It will be down to th l-fool mark. This will leave som - V WORKING GOLD MINE IN EMPORIUM RUINS AND MAKING IT RAY ' (Jnaraal "pecUl ervlea.) San Franclsc. Feb, . It la not gen tally known that th proprietor of th Bmporfum ar systematically work ing a gold mine In th ruins of th old store left by the big fire." A Telti of yellow tuffrunnrng through the. loca tion of the jewelry department'wa discovered- soon after th fir and for k 4 . ' v V ''v ' V t .- '' , t ". .. a great cheat of silver. - The Duchess of Devonshire's present (a an exquisite casket of Italian design, which she bought from a Spalnsh grandee not long ago. A brilliant and '? Interesting aa the wedding itself waa the reception and breakfast that folowed at the Cavendish- Bentinck house in Richmond terraoe. Th breakfast waa served at flv large, round tables, which were decorated with the family gold and silver plate. Th wedding oak wa of gorgeous design and waa decorated with dosena of little bells of solid allver awung on silver chains supporting by the sugar pillars. Mr. and Mrs. Burns wtll pass their honeymoon at Nunlham park, Oxford. th country place of th bridegroom's brother-in-law, Mr. Harcoun Xleoe of Mrs. Mills. The bride of today la a twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Cavendish' Bertlnck. Her mother was a, Miss Llv Ingston of New York and a sister of Mrs,.Ogden Mills. .jter.iatDert ueorg Cavendish-Bentinck. is head of the col lateral branch of the ducal house of Portland. ' His sister Is the erratic Lady Sykes. whose legal encounters with her elderly-and equally eoeentrlo husband. Strt Tatton Sykes, furnished no end of entertaining material for gossip a few years ago. Th brid herself Is very pretty, well educated, and a particularly charming (Continued on Pag Flva.) . of th lower dock Inundated at that tim so that It will probably be Tues day before the flood Is really over. 'No further damage hav been reported from points along. th Willamette. Merohanta having good stored along th water front saved thousand of dol lars' by the plendid reports and warn ings 1 Issued . by . th weather bureau. Relying upon th rflctency of th r vlca, they did not go to the expense of removing -, good from localltie which . th. water would hav reached had It risen' a few Inches more. Fore caster Beals estimated the rise to the Inch nearly 4 S hours in advance, and many merchants staked thousands of dollars worth of goods on th correct ness of his estimate.- They are now complimenting th service. several weeks. Pst two miners hav been developing It with the pan, after the manner of the day of 184$. Par tially molted jewelry,- contained In bushel of dirt and -ashes, le -being washed out by the amateur miner for a percentage of one-half, the other portion-going to the Kmporiem eotnpany, Th men say It Is good "pay dirt ' and tbaf they ar satisfied wit th profit. ' ' ' ft ; ' CENTS.' &IUirc!3- Delmas Says It Shows THultofWhifefs"CriF elty Error Gives -GroundsforiRetrial Effect of Evelyn's. Testimony on . Auditors and Prisoner Appar entShe Will Again Take the Stand on Monday and Finish Story of White's Pursuit. !: " (Journal S petti) -.( New York, Feb. . Harry K. Thaw's will Is to be Delmas" strong ' point ' toward substantiation of th defend- : ant' insanity.-' He hope to secure Je rome' consent to its Introduction Mon- day. "The will of Itself." said Delmas this morning, "Is sufficient evidence to show the effect of White' cruelties to Evelyn upon the mind of Thaw,- Mrs. Evelyn Thaw visited her husband GOOD PROOF OF IIIIIIIY this- mortflng for two hotrr: - Attorney -Qleaaoo and Pea body called and bad a hort conference. Charlea Owens, under a subpoena by - th state In th Thaw trial waa ar--rested today and reprimanded for In toxication and -dismissed. Owens 1 supposed ' to know th whereabouts of Nellie Leahy, formerly Evelyn' maid, whom Jerom la anxloua to bring Into V court. Owen said that he doe not know bar whereabout. - ' ' Oronad for Mew Trial. Three Justice of th supreme court wbose" names are withheld,-rrea-th opinion that Thaw 1 certain to gain a new trial, even if convicted this time.', on the grounds of a slight error. . Th error was made, they claim. In permit-' ting Evelyn to lean forward In th wit ness chair and whisper to th prosecu tor th name of the men and women jo stle knew who wer In th company with ; White, after At bad previously been : agreed between counsel that thesa -names would not be mentioned. ' Yesterday, again, Evelyn Neablt Thaw thrilled a packed courtroom with th . w . a. njki. eAM complishlng her downfall, sought to keep her in his clutches, put th poig- . nant distress which she caused In th minds and heart of th listener In tha . first day' testimony wss not provoked. Her audience was interested and sym- - pathetic and th gravity of her testi mony waa appreciated to th fun, but there wer no-such evidence of mo tions aa wer displayed on that day ' when man aa well a woinen felt a tightening of the throat, impulsively doubled up their hands and could not restrain their tears. Woader at Tlf-osssssloa- Some of the spectator in . court Thursday wondered how a slender, half -timid young woman could b aa col lected a ah was on th Stand when she related the most agonising parts of . her awful narrative, but they appre ciated yesterday th reason for her composed manner, .for they .themselves, stirred as they wer to th depths, re mained outwardly serene, although their pity for her and their horror at th oc currence of - which aha told had nn dergon no Chang or diminution. When h entered th courtroom Mr. Thaw showed few trace In face or manner of the trial which she had un dergone when sh revealed all th mis ery and degradation of her compara tively short life. When her name waa called tn a loud ton by the clerk sh -(Continued on Page Ftvev). . PLENTY OF POWER FOR STREETCARS Both Oregon City and North Portland Steam Plants Now Able to Furnish Requisite Cur rent for Trolleys and Lights. Full elect rio power from all of th generating plant of.th Portland Gen eral Electric company will be turned on thi afternoon and th car sorvlc. which ha been ao badly handicapped since th recent stiver thaw and subse quent blgh water, will be placed a sain oa regular schedule. During th past week th bulk of the trouble experienced In a shortage of current ha come from Oregon Cl'y. where the high v water compelled the plant to eloew-down. The Willamette fell there fir feet during the night and the plant again resumed opera tion this morning. ' Superintendent of Construction O. F. 0rke said the serv ice was gaining hourly and by this aft. rnoon would be op to the standard. Some trouble had also len emerU enoed at the Sher'ork avenue generat ing plant, where' both wood and i l i burned. The supply of th lnr exhausted and nt until luat r . ( It-replenished. With plentr nt I n I hand the plant tn rum.!r,r i , morning at its fullest . ,iv , other samTiitlns" tn'i"t k I i i operation aril h ew ' . , i further UU.'kuU la in r . i ..-..J. . i , . .: . . .u ..... "I. .'V ' I