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A DOG AID2D A VOI.IAIJ KJ SAVn.'G TWO LIVES INTH2 SUNDAY JOUitFi GOOD CVEHinG . : (life) f' f 7 Journal Circulation f" Fair tonight and Saturday; east- . , ; - ?S:NSv;0 ' ' ' KZS W" ' j VOL. V, NO. 233. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, ' FEBRUARY ,! 15, 1907. TWENTY, PAGES, PRICE TWO CENTS. f!iAJ&wM.B&5 . " J' 1 mm 1 , : 1 r r WEAW - TIMBERS - : OTHOUT WARMING "i 1 ww-ssessaBWswsBBeBBwBSBsasswaw. .j,. - . 4 f Balch's Gulch Near Is the Scene of the Accident Plucky Young Society. Woman Climbs Down Steep Bank to . Aid in the, WorR Of ReSCUe ;1 ...:.. .lii Til lajureo, . T. J. JEWELL, badly bruised. -, H. B. Purdln died at :02 o'clock. K. THOMPSON back lnjurod; arm broken; probably fatal. ' 7 GEORGE BROWN, bruises andoon taelona. - . - -. ,- - J. HOLDS WORTH, bruiaod. 1 , ' ' ' Fhr bridge carpenter, of whom one will probably die, were seriously Injured thla morning by th collapse of a, bride that la bains; erect! by the Lafa Penoa company acrosa Balcb'a guloh near rty-flrat and Thurman street. . - ICIght men were at- work upon, tha . superstructure at the time. J. E. Be- atty, one of the number, was at tha edge of tha bridge when It collapsed. He china; to a huge girder stretched i in mid-air and ' escaped injury.. He climbed from his perilous position am alone be ran tha work of rescuing hla wounded comrades from tha wreckage. Tha men who were caught were bu ' rled beneath a great pile of glrdera and heavy timbers. They fell Into tha bed of the creek whloh flows beneath tha . bridge. " :' ,."' "- ' ' - . ; Other' workman who aacaped Injury c.uiekly went to tha rescue of tha men and aided in dragging them from the debris. . Tha scaffolding on which tha , men wera working- at tha time of tha aoctdentvwaa 18 feat high. i ' Miss Maud HowelU who- Uvea on Wil lamette Heights, near thar arena or tha accident ' One of tho uninjured -ear pentera rnshed Into her home In order SALVATIOIJ ARIilYp BARRACKS FALL Old Building Now Used as Paper ,j Warehouse Tumbles Into the "Ea$t"Slde; Gulch Structure 1 Completely Demolished. V , ) . With a crash that waa heard ever tha whole central east aide, the old Salva tion Army barracks on Eaat Oak street, near Eaat lxth. fell Into-the slough at thst point last-n(cht, eomp!etely de molishing the structure. At aooui i:io o'clock the aooldent ooourred and those living near tha place, unable to explain tha noise, thought that tha Chinese had been forced off Second street and wera continuing their New Tear'a activities on orand avenue with renewed energy. No one waa near the building at the time ee that ne one-waa, injured. It waa utilised only for atoring paper. There wera 78 bales of old paper in tha building ready to be shipped -to tha aper nulls ana about Is Dales mora paper tnet nan not yet gone to tha mllL ' An old press was also thrown to the bottom of the slough but will be recovered without much damage being done to it A buggy stored In tha bulld- Ing waa ruined. , " ; , The structure was about 40 by 40 feet and stood high up on piling. It has been standing there for It years. The j (direct cause, however, waa tha fact that -the Pacific Bridge company Is. putting 1n a big fill on Eaat Onk between Eaat 'Sixth and Orand avenue. Thla fill re cently caved In on tha south side, the earth falling toward the old building. She Discovered Gold i Long before John Marshall saw the yellow metal gleam amid the golden' lands of California, a woman who lived for years In Oregon- had found gold 'near Sutter's fort. , The fear of the greed of the Mexico ns kept her from getting the reward of her discovery, which General Fremont 1 T pooh-poohed. Her story, and that or an Oregon woman who. won a Car- 2 negle medal, will appear In The Sunday Journal,- These are but two of the msny features that will make the next Issue of The Sunday Journal Interesting to a vast number of people. - .. . ( .W The Journal' special departments are the best on the roast, and all the news of the world that la worth reading la found In its columns. J Among tha good things that are made to make young and old laugh are J the Comics, which everybody knows are the best In the country. The entire edition of last Sunday's Journal was d out within a few hours after it waa. off the press;. to be sure of getting thejiext Issue, Willamette Heights to can assistance by telephone and In that way aha learned' of tha wreck. - Baolaty Olrl Bandafaa Wonads. , Itatleas she rushed down . the pre cipitous .embankment- ta the-scene and rendered -valuable aid to tha Injured. She bandaged the ' wounda of tha men aa they wera dragged from beneath the timbers.. .....i . --r - The accident was cauqad by tha acci dental falling of a pony bent, which was being raised from the ground. The bent fell upon a Joint of the scaffolding on which tha men were working. - Tha scaffold gave way immediately and tha men were hurled -o-tha-craak bad be. low. The head of one of tha viotlms struck upon a huge boulder on the bank of the creek. However, be escaped fatal Injuries. iv ;. " ' Trestle Over IT arrow Qorga. ' Tha trestle upon which the men wera working la being bnllt-aeuss the nir row gorge known aa Balch's -gulch. Large beams and girders had been areoted and tha superstructure waa be ing placed In position by a gang of workmen under Superintendent w. R. Burna. - Tha beams and bents . were raised by means of a pulley and rope. r A bent waa beina raised this morn ing whan the rope slipped from one end of it and It crashed down upon the scaf fold on which the men wore at work. On tha scaffold were Bridge Carpenters Tom J. Jewell, II. B. Purdln, E. Thomp son, George Brown and J. Holdaworth. (Continued on Page Two.) PORTLAND GIRL GETS HONOR . - IS THE; EAST Miss I Marguerite v Hume Made Member of the Alphaocley. rr'Pf Smith College.!- ' , (7eerasl SpeeUI mrvtee.) Northampton. Mwa rb.-15. Among the atudenta first taken Into tha famous Alpha society the leading society of BmltB eollege aophomores. Is Miss Mar guerite Hums, of Portland, Oregon, tha only . neopblte from : tha Paolflo coaat. Miss IIuaa Is daughter of Mra W. T. Hume,-, who Is Spending the winter In southern California. ..The family has long been prominent here, and Mrs. Hume . waa a daughter . of Alexander Hamilton, one of the best-known figures In Portland's early history: Miss Hume Is a Portland academy graduate of year before last, and went atralght to Smith collage. ' . It is said that her standing In her entrance examinations to Bmlthee4 lege helped materially in giving tha academy the prestige that it holds In the eastern school In regard to the ad mittance of Its graduates. . Miss Hume la extremely popular .with the young people In Portland. , r- '!:,:, MRS: BRADLEY WILL . . -BE . TRIED FOR MURDER ,u:ri--' r (Jnornsl fprlsl Berries.) Washington. Feb. It. The grand Jury today Indicted' for murder In the first degree Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, who snot ex-8cnator Brown of Utah on De cember In the Hotel Balelgh. e I 1 tSIDES CountyCommissioners Spare No; Words 'in J Denouncing Beutgen 'Bill "a Rank" MoVe"" " ; Passage of Measure -Would Re verse Will of People and Cause Financial Loss and Injury to : AIIResidentsof . Multnomah "Countyr- Both County Commission era Ugbtner and Barnes aide ' with County Judge Webster in tha view tha latter takes of the Beutgen bill, whose provisions de prive the court of nearly all Ita powers in the administration of county business affaire, and ere emphatlo la their de nunciation of the move to overthrow the management which haa accomplished ao much for Multnomah county. Com missioner "WT T.7 Llghtner said this morning: "It Is a gross mistake, and if thla bill should becoete a law the county will be done an Injustice and a financial In Jury. ,; The tremendous amount of work accomplished., the economies practiced "and the aavlttg ' of thousands to the county will be completely overthrown. -' Seeleeted. oa Kerltav':.,: ' - -"Judge Webster was reelected, end by the way, the only Judge to aerve a sec ond term In the history of Multnomah county,- purely on merit. The work of his administration spoke for him and tha people , decided for themselves. - Now comes a bill In ths legislature to reverse the will of tfle people, and it Is hot only totally wrong In its conception, but a blow at tha financial construction which la saving thousands to the. taxpayera." - Commissioner Barnes waa equally de cisive In hla statements. "To take away the powers of the county administration will mean taking so -many dollars out of each man's pockets, for under the, pro visions of the Beutgen bill, there would (Continued on Page Two.) NEPHEWMAYWED: HIS RICH AUNT Gossip Says H. E. Huntington Is -to Marry the Stately Widow of His Uncle, Collis i P., the Rail road Magnate. ' ' : . (Josrasl gpselsl Berries.) ' San Francisco, Feb. la. Intimate friends of Mrs. Coins P. Huntington who are In the confidence of the -widow of the late Southern Paolfio magnate say that before . many montha lapee wedding bells will ring for her again, and that her late husband's nephew, Henry E. Huntington, with whom she dtvtar ttie vasrTortuhe of her husband. will Dome bridegroom. . It la wel) known that Mrs. Collis P. Huntington always held her husband's favorite nephew In affectionate esteem, but that her attachment waa likely to culminate In a marriage ceremony was not. thought likely even by her closest friends. , ;' She haa made her home In the vicinity of New Tork ever alnca the death of Collie P. Huntington, where : she has been a prominent figure, -, She gained considerable notoriety two years ago when she waa victimised by the publishers of Fed and Fanotes; It waa reported that ahe contributed 110.000 to the promoters of that publi cation. - . " ' ' - : ' - Henry E. Huntington waa granted an Interlocutory decree of divorce from hla first wife, Mary Prentice Huntington, In this city last July. The final decree will not be handed down until August, and he la not free to jnarry until that time. Society gossip over tha teeoupa has been busy for soma time ttver the pros pective matrimonial alliances that were considered probable when the traction magnate of southern California should be at liberty to marry. 'According to a dispatch frorrf Los Angeles the rumo of, the tmsalble marrlaae of Mrs. Collis P. Huntington to tha nephew is not a new one. The story went the rounds of the tea tables and -clubs Some months ago after the granting of the Interlocutory decree of divorce, but was, categorically denied by both of the' Interested par tlea. In spite of these denials it ha not been effectually hushed. There la no consanguinity In. the rela tionship of Mrs. . Hnntlngton and her nephew which would be a bar to the union.- - , ' . There Is considerable disparity In their agc ,. . -.V A TU WEBSTER Airs. Herman Oelrichs, Cut Out of Husband's Willi Reported Engaged to Harry Bla ck. -I ' tt ... . t,t ' .-. j -.-..) 'r i , t -- ( v f. GOVERflGR S liVETTENHAM IS Opens Jamaica Legislature- and Forgets to Explain Trouble i With Admiral Davis. I " t(-r--"--'- (Joarnsl tneelel Her rice.) , Kingston,. Jamaica, Fab." 15. Oreat disappointment wsa felt here when Gov ernor 8wettenham In hla speech opening the legislature -failed to -explain tbe trouble with Admiral Davis . of the United States navy. Reeolutloha thank ing the Americana are being passed by residents at varloua places throughout the Island. , . . . . Resentment Is growing In ' conse quence of the impossible attitude as sumed by Governor Swettenham irt re gard to the public- loan- and all other matters, . - -..'- The general situation Is not Improved except that foodstuffs are plentiful. ' - The Kingston Gleaner, which la ap pealing In Ita -ususl alxe, severely con demns aa Incompetent bunglers, the governor -and the-colonial secretary. . Ths legislature has psssed a resolu tion asking for an Imperial loan aa well aa a grant. Governor Swettenham favors a grant and opposes a loan. TURKS MUTINY AND ' . TEN ARE DROWNED (Jurra.l gpeetal'BVrvlpe.) - t Sues, Feb. IS. As a Turkish trans port was passing through tha canal, the soldier mntlnle1 art made a desperate attack on the officers, who trained tbe guns on the men. , Three hundred soldier Jumped over board and ware fired on. ' Ten were hot and sank, bat the others reached sharer and are 'spread ever, the country,; j 1 " V'' ." ,4. I ,,, 't v. t 7 i 1 1 ,.j.v V v. s. " i.t 1 ME1E COURT BILL IS ; PASSED-OVER VETO Senate. Unanimously Enacts the asure That Governor Si Would Prove Too Costly. ' . (By-a Staff OwrespotMlent. ) Salem, Or., Feb.. lSL By . unanlmoua vote the Juvenile court bill waa passed In the senate over the governor's veto thla morning- :' The veto war returned yesterday afternoon and was made ' a special order ' today. 'Senators ' Bailey, Nottingham, Malarkey, Kay of Marlon and Whealdon of Wasco spoke In favor of the bill. Mullt (Democrat) explained his vote for the bill, saying he believed It was a meritorious measure and hoped hla vote would not be considered an af front' to the governor. " - -' . ';; Te debate waa one-sided In favor of the bill, - which ' no - one opposed. . The governor gave as a reason for his veto that, tha expense on Multnomah county waa too gerat. - ,. SAYS HUSBAND DERIDED THE MATERNAL INSTINCT -v.- - i' - ; ' j y ':.: ''.' (Joaraal Seeclsl gerrtes.) San Francisco. Feb. 1. The trial of the divorce suit of Grace Hammond against Edward Hammond., tha wealthy mining man of Belllngham, Washing ton, has opened, here. Mrs. Hammond alleges cruelty. ; She testified her, hus band satd to her several months after their marriages "the maternal instinct lowera a person to the level f ths brute Only unreftnenV uneducated wo men have . maternal Jongltigs.". - Mrs. Hammond Is a singer of con. atdernble ability. She was onu a mem ber Of an operatlo company, ; ' Measure That CwrnorSiTdieS IS BETTER THA So Says Harry Thaw, Who Fears District Attorney' Will Have Him Declared Insane Death of Juror Bolton's Wife Has Bad . Effect on Stanford - White's - Slay erWho$ays There Will Be Other Funerals Connected Witrrthe Case. (Joorasl Special avmes.) New York, Feb. It "I would rather go to the electrio chair than to tha mad house.'' --i-- That- waa the determination renehed by Harry Thaw this morning. That he was serious was not doubted for a mo ment by his attorneys, who Bought to soothe him with the hope that the Jury would understand the difference be tween emotional and permanent Insanity, : V mM 1 111- hrgh,rt. un "Mrn- 1 ner s Juries sometimes say people com I mlt aulcMe while temporarily insane." I He found many thing to make his outlook very dark today. He professed to feel downcast because of the adjourn ment of the esse until Monday, owing to the bereavement or juror Bolton. Tbe-' audden - death of " Mrs. Bolton weighed on Thaw' a mind, and the fact that the Juror waa unable to be with hla wife in - her Jast moments seemed to worry the prisoner. "There will be more deaths connected with the" case' he is reported to have said- "From the beginning things have gone against me. ' , "I'm sorry for Bolton, but It la Just my luck." - - Thaw seems) afraid that District At torney Jerome, satisfied that the murder of White was committed aa a result of Insanity, and that the Insanity la not temporary, will call the lunacy commis sion together, atop' the trial and send him to an asylum for the Incurably de mented. - ' - It waa thla fact that caused Thaw to (Continued on Page Three.) CUTTING THE PIE IT Hold-Over Senators Organizing to Control the Offices and Legislation at the Next Ses- ' sion of the Oregon Legislature ' (Bf ' a Wtsff - OsrwiHiBdeiit.t " , Salens Or. Feb. 4. That a wedl- I acted movement is on foot to organise the holdover senators and a are on candidate - for president - of , the senate at the 1909 session Is asserted, by one of the leaders of the senate, who will be In the organisation if it is' effected. tl4n will hold together until the next session.' , ' . ; .-. Though the candidate that will be sup ported haa not yet .been determined on. It la generally understood that he will be chosen fromNMultnomah or Marlon counties, and that ha will be one of the following four senators: - Bailey or Beach of Multnomah, Smith or Kay of Marlon.' ;.-." ' .'-' - It I conceded that there will be a candidate from -Multnomah county, whether he be supported by the organ isation of the holdover senators, er run independently. It I argued that Multnomah -county's large - delegation demands consideration at tha hand of the ' other senators. This will apply the more forcibly If the reapportionment bill, which will give Multnomah county aa additional senator, passe the, sen ate. ' - -" j.- "." - .( r-' ' - - '- " There are five Democrat and 11 Re publican among the holdover aenatora, and both parties are expected to unite In the organisation. The plana are being laid with the expectation that the senate will be strongly Republican next session, aa it la now.' Should this prove to be the case,' the Democrat can not hope to. elect the president, and It Is Said there will be no reason for their refusing to Join . the organisation. It la stated that one of the five Demo crats will be the lesiler In the organisa tion. ; ' - .- ... : . The holdover senators are Bailey and Beach of- Multnomah; Caldwell of Tarn hill. Democratic; Cole of Morrow and I'msllllai ilart of . Bnkcr; Hedge of Clackamna, Demm-ratlei Johnson "or Benton; Kay and Smith of tyartnn; Mil ler of Li tin. Democratic, Miller of L,lnn (Continued, on. r . Thtee.) DEATH HOUSE C0L1ESS BEFORE BAKING E TREATY OF. Roosevelt Says He Will Call an Extra Session if Japanese, Bill' Is Not Passed Now While Californians Seem Satis fied With Provisions of Meas Jirgi Members of House an d Senateake"UiTibragear President's Manner. 4Joarasl Rpeclsl Hen lee.) Washington, Feb, It. . President Roosevelt Is determined to. secure for his View and purposes regarding Jap anese immigration, enactment into fed eral treaty and statute. He today noti fied his friends In the senate that he would call an extra eesslon If the Im migration bill bearing on the Japanese exclusion amendment were not passed at- this session. 4-i-.'- ; Ther president- thin-afternoon- will fo; Into what will probably be the final conference with Mayor Schmlts of Ban Frnncisce and hla Cullfomla colleagues. The -Californians express approval of" the amendment tr the Immigration bllL The filibuster by the Democrata In the senate 1 not on account of enmity to Japanese exclusion, but is the result of fear that the Republicana may try to force the whole bill through, on the strength of the seriousness of the pres ent Paclflo coast situation. The Democrat will undoubtedly make a bttter fight against any treaty that is proposed by Roosevelt.. The war haa , already begun and the opposing force will be led by Senator Tillman... - Pollticlana here say that the president has blundered In his attitude toward the proposed treaty, which he ha made . hla personal measure. By this action lie appear to have lost the, support of some of the men In whom he hss al- waya counted In the past to aid htm In anything he has undertaken. . " Many of the congressmen and sen ators say Mr, Roosevelt's "must . be done" attitude Is dlapleaslng to them. BUTTE NEWSLESS FOR 60 DAYS Publishers Demands Scorned by . Printing Crafts Printers Are Charged With Extortion and Incompetency by Publishers. . Butte, MonC Feb. II.Butt and Anaconda newapaper have eeesed publi cation, apparently, for the next SO or M day at least, and a grim struggle Is on now between the Butte Miner, the Butte Evening New,' the Buttn Inter-Mountain and the Anaconda Standard on the one side and the allied printing crafts on the Others - - - i In a statement addresftftft -r-tothe-printers and atcreotypers Inst evening the allied printing crafts were notified that following a settlement of the press men's strike, they could not return to work except under the old scale of May t, l0f. which meant cutting down of SO cents per dsy for each man. Radical changes of the typographical ' rule governing the setting of ada are' also demanded, one In particular re quiring the reaettlng of an ad where only a alight change la necessary. The printers Individually declare they will never abide by the terms offered by the publishers' association, and . the pub-. Ushers In their statement to the print ing trade declare they 'will, remain shut down until tbe unrnns see lit to accede to their demands. Newspaper are being rushed Into Butte by the thousands, copies selling tor 10 oents apluce. The publishers In their statement to the printing erafta declare "they have been the prey of the printing crafts, paying the highest wags of sny city In the United (Hates and receiving the most Incompetent help within the mem bership of the typographical union." The publishers wind up with the n serttun that unless ths union remedial the "outrageous conditions" the t-roli-btlltlea are there will, be no pup in' Butte for month to come. PHONES FORSAKEN Gtrla Out at Mtern MMna-i I' " "VrlnrlpnT fJttcg for Mrv lt, Butte. Mont.. Feb. IS-Th,. i IContlmie'l on t'"i 'l ' ILL F ORG ' I
