The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, February 24, 1907, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text";Ttx-r- - -1 - GOOD MORNING Journal Circulation ; if . j r t m tv mw m i . THE WEATHER. 8howers; southerly winds. VOL. XIX. NO. 50. Ptto Brandes Steps in .Front of Trucks Before the Motorman Can Stop ;: ' . X . Was on His Way Home and Stopped tqXyisitlFrjend jn Front of Whose Door Fatal Ac ; cldent Occurred Last Even- in :'': '-v."; Whsn within a faw feet of tha home tt tha friend ha wm on his War to visit. Otto Brandes, a tnaohlnlst In tha employ of . tha Portland - Iron' works. Jumped from tha raar of a moving ' streetcar at Eleventh and Qllaan street, ' at - o'clock last night, - and as ha "wane around tha back of It to. eroaa to -. bis friend's house ha was-struck down and erushed beneath, tha wheels of an other car coming from tha oppoalta dt .' .. rection. r . . . , An ambulance was summoned and Brandes was taken to St. Vincent's hos pital, where ha died aa hour later. The remains were removed to Flnley's un dertaking rooms and an Inquest will be held Monday." r Brandes bad left his plaoa of employ ment only a few minutes before. At tajHie corner of Eleventh ' and OUaan I Treta there Is a grocery - store con ducted by F.'Antich, and with tha lat ster Brandes frequently visited. Aa tbe - eeatbound ear on which ho was riding lowed up at - the corner, Brandes Jumped off tba rear platform,, turned .hack to cross to the north aide of the street and had reached a point midway ' between the rails whan a westbound car struck him. . Tha noise of tha car ' on which ha was riding had prevented him from hearing tha second, and ha tapped unheeding In tha face of death. Body Ooec trade Oar.., ' Brandos was struck dowa - to the ground and his bod passed under tha foreward trucks, tha wheels catching tils body and dragging It a distance of S feet before Motorman Hall could bring the oar to a stop, which ha did qulokly by applying , tha emergency v brakes. . - . . -- With the asststaae of Conductor H. K. Taft and several -of tha passengers, 1 Prandes was removed from his place In nt of tha trucks where the wneeia In shoving him forward had ripped hla clothing and torn great gashes In his faoa and body. Tha injured man waa laid on the curbing and his head rested In the motorman's lap until an ambu lance could bo summoned to carry him t the hospital. ' ' . While ha lay there suffering Intense ,- agony be gave his name and addreea ' and told where hla relatives could be found. Even on tha way to tha hos- pltai h retained eonaolouaneas and i told tha officers who accompanied hlra t "how" tha accident had happened. He complained of intense pains In his cheat, ' and It was Internal Injuries which a short time afterward resulted In his death, although he remained eonsolous (Continued on Pag Tan.) Young, Night Clerk ' at the Hotel Carleton Confesses to Theft of Casket of Jewels , . and Exonerates Friend k mm aiiMaAta to a sss I ill 1 1 1 ST axsJhlnatloii for over four hours, Al . - . . . .1 Jt 1.1 i Meyer, in. u-cMPuju , uuiu. tor tha theft of a casket of Jewelry from tha apartments of Mrs. Ben Ely at the Hotel Carleton, Thirteenth and Alder - streets, mads a full confession to Do- teotlves Jones and Ttcbenor lata yes ' ' terday afternoon. Meyer admitted his ' guilt and entirely exonerated J. H. Mar . tin. an employe of a local Jewelry house, from complicity la the crime. Fro mthe time of his arrasc, Mayer Stoutly maintained ho had found tha Jewel chest in a vacant room In the hotel where ha was employed aa a night dark, and that tha only artiels-of ' .value found In the casket waa snake ' ring. This, he declared, ha bad thrown ' Into tha river. , , , According to the confession mads to Dstectlves Jones and Tlchenor yester 200 LIVES LOST IN. WRECK OF STEAMER : (FaMlsher - Special taM Wire.) Vienna, Fab. tl. A dlapatch ra . calved by tha Nue Trie Preaaa . states that the Austrian steamer Imperltrlx, carrying i crew of 110 and upwards of 10 pasaengera, has been wrecked oft the coast of tha Islaiul of t'rete and a ma jority of lia passengers and craw drowned. ' . ' ' The eect extent o the ctsstrorh la sot rt knows or is Uis Point of tha ME Hi! 175000M Postmaster MintoThus Answers Question of Officials-as-rto-the Population ; Treasury Department Seeks In formation tas J to! Crowth ' of Portland as J New federal - Building Is Planned- What the Stamp Sales Show. In response to Inquiries received from the treasury department at Washington relative to local stamp aalea and tha cltya population, Postmaster Mlnto has furnlahed tha government with figures, baaed on tha postal recelpte which ahow tha present population of Portland to be 176,000. Tha data and ntatlatlcs re quired of Mr. Mlnto are In Una with other Information' which tha govern ment la endeavoring to ascertain be fore eonatruction begins hers on the new federal building, whose plana are now drawing to maturity. The bill appropriating lt.000.000 for tha erection of a new government build Ing In Portland was Introduced soon after tha convening of congress ' laat December. Testerday Postmaster Mln to received a letter from tha treasury department In which a largo amount of Information and figures Is asked, and In anewar ha has given his eatlmatee on the -city's population. . They are oasea on the national oanaua of 100 In con nection with the yearly stamp saias; which run In proportion. : i- (, Tremendous Increase Showm. . In 100 Portland's population was enumerated at 00.000. The aama year tha stamp sales amounted v (luz.vvo. riurlnr the fiscal year of ltOe, . which ended on March' it, tha stamp sales amounted to IOS.000. Poatmaater Mlnto lops off MO.OOOfrom tha Utter figures, taking It for granted tnat muon additional business was transacted by strangers In the city attending the Lewis and Clark expoaltlon. and brings the normal city sale down to 1400.000. "That figure represents rtwioe xne business transacted six years ago," says Mr. Mints, "The population tnat. year was 00.000, and so In 100 it tnuet have been twtce as great, and to be on th safe side I put In my estimate at 17a, 000 for the year 10.- ' "The stamp sales for tne fiscal year or 1007, which ends March H, will be In ex cess of (660.000, so figuring from tha pop ulation basis of 1100 the figures are very close to being correct. Even the stamp sales recorded In this office do not cover all those used la the city, so that makes the population figures, I believe, alt tha more secure. , - - . sTfc-mp Fay for Purchases, ' For tnstaaoev the department stores,, mora than any other particular Una, are constantly enlarging their business, and their sales are increasing correspond ingly, but with the result that they re ceive aa enormous amount of atamps front man order customers out of town. Tbeao stamps of course are used by the (Continued on Page Sevan.) day. Meyer after committing tha crime, haunted by the fear of detection, walked to the center of tha Morrtaon street bridge during the noon hour, a couple of days after the theft and threw everything Into the Willamette. Mar tin, he says, had absolutely nothing to do with the crime or the disposition of the plunder. , ' From tha manner In which Meyer withstood the- "sweating" process of the polios for several days the officers arc lead to believe that ha bad been sub jected to the aama ordeal- before. Con vinced that tha prisoner was guilty De tectives Jones and Tlchenor decided to again croas-eaamtno Meyer, iflth ths re sult that they finally caused him to break down and eonfesa. v The case comes up In ths police court tomorrow, but It Is expected that Meyer will waive a preliminary hearing.''-' , . . foundering definitely known. It Is de clared, however, that tha steamer waa many miles out of her"ourse at the time the accident ocourrad. .Ths Imperltrlx waa, a vessel of 1,000 tons and was of somewhat recent' con struction. Bhe was In he regular ser yl(x of the Austrian Steam Navigation company, plylna between Trieste and Uotubay, vis the Buss oaaat .- Portland, Oregon, Sunday , morning, February. 24, 1907. tevelyn Nsblt Thaw, as Pos4 by FACES. mm Evelyn haw? M ust Make SensationaIl:DiscI6sures:-Inv6lvingrler V- HusbandA Story .Doubly Hard For Girl-Wife to Tell in Answer to Jerome's Prying: Questions ; (PaMtekers Press ky Special Uaaad Wire.) . New York. Fob. 21. Evelyn Neablt Thaw, when aha returns to the witness stand on Monday, will faoa tha hardest part of har ordeal Terrible aa was her plight In tha two days she has sat un der Jerome's probing. It will be nothing compared to. the .grilling she will receive next week. ' " And Jerome had said It will take him probably a day and a half longer to finish with her. . . Ho1 far In tha court's proceedings tha young wife's 'story dealt with bar wrongs at the' hands of Stanford -White and her confeaaton of sin, continued for months after her ' drugging-by Whlta Tha remainder of her trial will -be to explain in answer to Jerome's questions her relations with Barry Thaw In a period of nearly two years before their marriage, when they ware such Intimate friends. .That -there will ba aensattonal disclosures Involving both of them, no on who knows how Jerome's caeev la prepared, doubt a. ' And It Is ; a. story which will ba doubly hard for the girl wife to' telL Every disclosure sha makes Hearst Nswa ky Loegsst Leased Wire.) Tonopah, Nev Feb. 2 J. Ail records for plunging in gambling games were broken here when Abe Brown, part owner In the.' Tonopah club the famous gambling' resort of southern Nevada, loat 1300,000 in one alttlng. It Is doubt ful If ever such an enormous sum of money has been lost by one-man.- - ; ; While Brown gambled away 1300.000 In less than I hours, he is actually loaer but -0309,000, ss he Is a one-third owner In the game In which he 'loat his fortune, and one-third 'f hla loss , Is bis winning as' pert proprietor.- The Tonopah gambling club la owned by Brown, Kennedy and George ' Wlng fleld, the millionaire 'owner of Gold fleld.x Thursday night Brown started In to play faro in hla own house and In a short time lost over $26,000. He wanted the limit taken off ef the game, but the dealers oould not agree to this with out the consent "Of the other two part ners In ths game. Accordingly George Wlngfleld was called up at Goldf laid " Edward O. Cooper Dead. (Pnbllfbm' Press-- by Spedalt- Leased Wire.) . New fork, Feb. Jl. -Edward C Coop er, vice-president of the Slegel Cooper company, Chicago and New Tork, died at bis home tonight of double pneu monia. He was II years old and ths eldest of -four brothers. His- widow was Miss May Allen Of Frankfort, In diana. - Ther- We no children. " ,j Importer Fonnd Dead. (Pnbllshere' Fts ht Spwlsl' Lssa4 Wire.) Cincinnati! i'b. 23. Hanson Hla. the Newport, h.autuok, reporter wbo bad LOSES :$300,000 IN A SITTING ' "-l v' '," -,' I ' BEAUTY AND THE BEAST I IIKU .U'.IJU..-.- m . J . I .Ml Stanford WhJts, Plctura That Has may ba tha causa of agony In tha Jury, thua rlaklng her huaband'a life. Know ing this, the ordeal Evelyn faces Is truly to be dreaded by her. only Sseapa.ia Smaaoy. ' And; there Is one possibility of escape for. her, and In that lias tba greatest dread of .her Ufa. Only the finding by a lunacy eommlaalon that Thaw. is In sane today will bring her tha relief she so much desires. But that would mean Matteawan Inaano asylum - for Thaw. So Evelyn will go ahead and tell all the eurlous prying Jerome may demand to know. And Jerome is amply . sup plied with Information - on which to baas questions whldh will. It Is said, reveal In as black colors aa . Evelyn pal i) tad Stanford . White, tha relations between Thaw and Evelyn. , ; These facta have been given him by Masts . FoUetta, tha former chorus- girl friend of Evelyn Thaw. - Revenge on Evelyn, for, having named her aa "the woman who mlabehaved so frequently," Is -responsible for this, and with such a motive there is not a detail of Eve Abe ' Brown, ; of Tonopah, Out Record Stake as Result" of Twenty 4 Hours' Continuous ', . Play In His Own Den. ; and. the aituatloa explained t to him. Wlngfleld told tho manager of the house to raise the limit to 15,000. The regula tion limit Is $50. : -' -t ; ; -Wlth- the limit off the fun began. Brown started In to bet 15.000 on a single card. ' Luck waa 'With him at first and la a short time hs was nearly tlOO.OOO ahead of ' the game, but for tune suddenly switched to the other' side of the faro layout and Brown lost heavily.- -- ... - According to the best reports the bat tle of 'dollars waged for 10 hours and Anally Brown had 1100.000 In markers been missing since laat Saturday morn ing, was found dead from exposure on the outaklrts of .Newport this evening. Hiss. was 15 years old. a graduate of Johns Hopkins university. He had had a good deal of domeatlo trouble recently. v ' . , ' . . . Shot Stealing CoaL. (PahlMMWs Pims ky ftpeelsl Lsesed Wire.) Cleveland. Feb. St. While sUailng coal. In an effort,' It Is alleged, to re store enough warmth to bis body so bs would not frees to death, Patrick Daly was shot and killed tonight In the yards of ths BaltlmoM-aV Ohio railroad by BAUroad Detective Juha FaUoa, . TERRIBLE ORDEAL five sections-sixty i Flursd Lkrgoly In tha Trial of Harry lyn's pas Ufa which la' at all dis creditable but will ba brought out. WU1 Vain Thaw Black. -; Jerome just - touched . on .this phase ef tha subject in his examination of Thursday. Ho forced Evelyn " to , ad mlt that shs and Thaw lived In com municating apartments at tha Grand Hotel and finally drew . out details of tuelr tour of Europe together, when tho girl's mother-waa left behind In Lon don, with Its corolary Information that Mrs, Nesblt, , her mother, -. had takeg steps to have Evelyn taken away from Thaw during this , trip, on ths ground that be kidnaped her. - Monday Jerome will take up In alab-ora-e details all. this time. Great streaa has beca laid by Lawyer Delmas on ths "honorable - court" . Thaw la claimed to bava paid Evelyn previous to their mar t ga. ' Jerome will attempt to show that this "honorable court" was any thing but that In fact Bo will. If pos sible, daub -Thaw 'with tha same paint brush with which Stanford White has been bespattered. . standing against, him In ths layout drawer. 'Brown, wanted to play 150,000 more but the dealer thought Brown had loat enough and persuaded the gambler to quit. ,- - .- , Brown was as cool aa a cucumber after he had loat hla fortune. . He arose from the table, sauntered "to the bar, where he took a drink, and bidding his friends good night, went off to bed. Brown was around town today Just tha same aa ever. He refused .to talk of hla loas and exerted his Influence to keep the story out of the local papers. Kennedy, ths partner of Wlngfleld and Brown,' came over from Ooldnald yes terday morning to arrange for the set tlement of Brown's debt with the de f bated gambler. While not known posi tively. It . is generally reported that Brown gave '11,000 shares of the 'fa mous Mohawk mine and some other stock to liquidate hla 1100.000 stock of markers. The price at which the. Mo hawk stock was takan over was aald to be 117 per share. .--u. ..... Explosion In Subway. -, New York. Feb. tl. In aa explosion In a compressed air compartment of the Belmont tunnel 100 feet under tbe Bant rlvar'thla afternoon, on man waa killed and two others serloualy Injured. Twen ty others were cut and bruised. John Johnson, -at the-brad of a gang of 10 men, struck his pick' Into tho wall.' It struck a "lost" -stlclcwf dynamite and an ezplosioa followed, killing Johnson. Tbe laborers were thrown Into a panle and fought I with each other to eacape, Harry Douglas and Alex Thompson were both injured. They were taken to the 4 company's hospital. L . v . , ' I KMcruay : ... w pages. TheWashingtonTimes Says Sweeping Re ductions Will Be Out come of Hearing Railroad Lines Will Appeal Case to Highest Court Ruling Will , Revolutionize Industry In the Country and Radical Changes ! In Traffic Will Follow. ' (WsshiBgteS Bareaa at Tba Journal.) -' Waahlngton, P. C, Fab. IS. The Washington Times today says there Is little doubt that ths Interstate com merce commission will decide tho Spo kane case by making a awaeplng reduc tion In rates to Spokane, wholly or In part In agreement with tha contention of the Spokan Chamber of Commerce. The great railroads will then carry the case Into the courts for a ruling as to ths legality of the commission's action, thua giving an opportunity to deter mine the extent of the authority vest ed In- the commission, under the new rate law, to reduce rates.. . The Times differentiates between the commission's authority to lower, one given rate and Us authority to lower all rates to the given point, aa asked for by tha Spokane commercial body. - -. It la underatood the president; and the commission believe that the new law's provtaton for . expediting such oaaea In the iuDrems tsourt wlU enable a final decision to be made In time for further action In the sixtieth congress lav. tha event that It Is found, that the law neds amendment: 4 Tha Times elalma that If the court da- etdea this ease adversely to the govern ment, which insane adversely to the in terstate commerce commission, Presl dent Roosevelt will . recommend aa amendment empowering the commission to make such reductions. . The Times continues: v r , "If rates to' Spokane from ths sast oan be reduced from 10 to 40 per cent, or at all, by the blanket order of tha eom mlaalon. than rates can be reduced all over the United States where the sams state of things obtains. If Spokane wins In Its contention, then every , city and town In the territory betaveen tbe Mis souri river and ths Cascade mountains may be expected to ask the same reduction.- , "Similar oases will bo brought to ths commission in tho saatern half of ths country. "la a word, ths wnoie question aa to ths scops of ths rats law hangs on ths Spokane controversy." - Ths rail road a are taxing a oeep in terest In ths Spokane ease, understand ing that a decision favorable to that city-means radical - ehangea In traffic oondltlona every where from new lorx to the Pacific coast. A dosen roads are represented In the array of legal counsel In the ease, some of tbe most eminent lawyers ef tha na tion being among them. (Continued on Page Sevan.) i SPOKANE TO PRESIDENT WIN BATTLE CRITICISED ; . T. - r - -, ,, '. - ' CHILD GROUnP UNDERWHEELS . ,. , - i . ... i :.,;'. i II ' . ' . . Four-Year-Old Eddie Barger Trots Ahead of ; , Mother and Is frightfully Injured by Streetcar on Morrison Bridge - Eluding the vigilance of his mother, while crossing tbe eaat end of the Mor rison street bridge at 4 o'clock yester day afternoon, 4-year-old Eddie Barger of 123 H Union-avenue, ran directly in the path of east-bound car No. 41 of the Montavllla line and before the heavy coach ecu hi - be brought to a stop the child was dragged a distance of IT -feet. The little fellow was quickly removed from beneath the ponderous wheels of the car and tenderly carried to the side walk. Tha patrol wagon was called and the Injured child removed with all speed to St. Vincent's hospital, where he now lies In an unconscious condition." : Although suffering Intensely from his Injuries ths boy did not loss conscious ness before reaching (he hospital and DIME NOVEL HERO HIDING IN THE BRUSH DEFYING OFFICERS (SaseUl Plspatck la The fearaaL) ', Oregon City. . Or, Feb. . Gwynne Green, 14 years old and an 'Inveterate reader of heap -detective, "Stories. - Is In hldtng on the west side of tha Wil lamette river,, armed with two revolv ers, asserting that ha will not be' Ar rested. - rate This, at least. Is the atnrv told by his former chum, the son ot VA l'i dorf. Young Ciicun, it 1 1, t-M I' i . l PRICE FIVE CENTS. General Laments Mode of Operations Fol lowed by Teddy in Japanese Matter ; Liable to Court-Martial for Re marks About Superior Officer Sorry to See Executive Stoop to Consult With an In dicted Mayor. (Hearst News by Loosest Leased Wire.) ' Waahlngton. D. C Feb. tS. The mode of procedure of President Roosevelt in reaching an amicable settlement of the Japanese dispute In California, was crit icised laat night by. General Fred IX Grant, who waa a gueat of the members of George G. Meade Post No. 1, at their Waahlngton's birthday anniversary eels- - bration at the Union League. Philadel phia. ,:.;.,:,. ; . ,. , : "l 'have not felt very happy during the past few days." said General Grant, "since I heard that our president had to enter Into negotlatlona with aa In dicted mayor of a western city on the' question of treat yrlghta. between us snd a foreign country. - . . "The United States waa really form ed and cemented at Appomattox," said -General Grant In leading up to the re ference to the Japanese crisis. "Pre vious to that It waa not a nation, but more confederation of states. Now It can - walk abroad aa one of the ' great powers of the earth and maintain the poaltton which It .won through the lose of much life. - - - . Sorrowful Witness. v . 1 recall with pride the meaaage which was sent by England to Canada many years ago that tha mother coun try could not be looked to for aid. be cause she could not cope with Grant and his millions of trained fighters. It Is with sorrow that I now see a presi dent has had to argue with an Indicted mayor as to whether the United States could not carry out the - provlslona of the treaty made with another country. I don't think that such, a thing could have happened March 4, ISO and March 4. ' 1877." ' ' Officials at Waahlngton believe that If the language attributed t& General Grant is proven to be an acourate trans cript of what the general said, hs will be court -martlaled. The army regulations specifically pro vide for the dismissal of a soldier criti cising the president or such other pun ishment ss ths court martial may pre scribe. . Article nineteen la as follows: Liable to Court llartlal. "Any army officer ' who ' uses con temptuous or disrespectful " words against the president, the vice presi dent, the congress of the United States, . or the chief magistrate or legislature or any of the United States In which he is quartered, shall be dismissed from the service, or otherwiss punished ss the court martial may decide. Any ' soldier who so offends shall be pun- (Contlnued on Page Seven.) t to Patrolman Endlcett. who held him t his arms, ths child pleaded -plteoualy ta be taken to Ms boms and mamma. Mr a. Barger and her child were walk- ' ing along the aouth side of tha Morri son street bridge and when at a point about S00 feet from the eaat and of the ' draw started -serosa the street railway tracks. The draw had been open for some time and aa a consequence several cars had been stalled, on both ends of the bridge. As the woman and boy erossed the wagon deck the little fellow was slightly lu advance of his mother, -, About this time the Montavllla car run ning at a high rate of apeed waa ap proaching, but neither Mrs. Barger or.. (Continued on Page Tea) hiding for several days and when some of hla former eomrad'-a pprrtu..l to Induce him to return hmu a shot n ftrsd at them. Young Hatdnrf vi l , , - r i to Greon for sevei -i - , - , home and flrn t' not bo arro.-i ! hn bs-1 a ..i'.. I A i -r - s i--.i i, l t r ;