OIIDIIR THE JOURrJAL, ONLY FFTBErr CSrJTS A VE2K DY CARRIER, AND THUS SECURE THE SUI3DAY JOTJ.U ! THE BEST SUNDAY PAPER,. AND THE I.1USIC SUPPLEMENT WHICH IS A PART OF IT. 1 ... i THE JOURNAL Is the only papen . bi Portland. that tells its cir culation every day year in and year ovt . - . Th Weather vEain tonight and Tuesday; aoutherljy wlnda. Journal Circulation Sunday Was .VOL. V. NO. 306. PORTLAND, OREGON MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY ' 25, 1807. FOURTEEN PAGES.; PRICE TWO CENTS. ew Taanrs ijro vrwt XAJiba. j iv j cian MID " - S iiiii mj mm I: Creditors' MeetingTo- ; : day in Portland K. A ROAD A CAUSED v L. Sabin Will Prob- ' a L f . r fj a f j , . .. , , a 1 . President Hat Consented to Ap pointment Rnancing of the United Railways - Engrossed His Attention and Construc- . Hon Work Was Delayed, tripped of It reawureea by alleged snlstnanagement of the - eona traction contract of the Drr ! n-Cooe bay z ten don ef the Southern Paclflo railroad. the C JB. Loss company will go Into tb ' of a receiver. The company Is one of the oldest and noet prominent cona traction companies on the Pactfle coast. Liabilities are about 147.000, and It is said they ere more than ex .- eeeded by the assets. - '' A receivership has been consented te br C . Lose as a last resort to ret the complicated affairs of the company at vrain airaignienea ouu uwim iw me ' engrossing nature of business attending the financing- of the United Hallways ' company. Loss let his business at Drain gat out of his control, and the Drain construction work was thousands of dot lare In arrears before ha was aware of ; the condition of affairs there. . Creditors Meet Today. '- Suspecting Irregularities in the hand ling of the accounts. Loss took, imme diate aetlon to set possession of the books, bat 'has not yet succeeded in doing so, although they are today under surveillance of a detective ana tne I " bookkeeper in his employ. In a room in lJfutt hotel at Drain. A meeting of the r- ... . . i i .l. . . . craoitor is oeiug neia uus wnniwn in Portland and a receiver will be asked for. It Is probable that Robert L. Sabln, secreury of the Merchants Protective association, will be agreed upon. On a claim of the Honeyman Hard ware company, one of the creditors, an attachment was sued out today at Drain, and the ease will be taken Into - - the federal court A. C Emmons, of the : law firm of A C Emmons and R. W. Emmons, Portland, and Stalker A Rio of Roseburg. have charge of the case for Mr. Loss and a number of the Port land creditors, and Mr. Rice has gone to Drain to take personal direction of , matters there, : Conspiracy Alleged. . ' ' There ties grown up at Drain without , my knowledge a conspiracy to oust the Loss eompany from . the construction contract' there. I am to blame for al lowing it, but I have been tied down to the work of getting the United Railways company on a sound basis,'' . said Mr. Loss. "Until a few days ago I did not real. Ise the condition affairs at Drain were In. I have put Into that work 160,000 ' besides the money that has been paid by the railroad company on the contract. Under Its provisions, the company with holds tf per cent of the money due ss i the work progresses. There Is enough . of these funds now due to, take care of sll accounts for labor. The plant and livestock ha a value of about !&, Coo, and will be sufficient to cover other claims, If the, matter 1 handled prop riy. . . :. - ommlseary Baa Waetefally. "The only subcontractors who have any money coming to them are Sween ey Cole and Thomas Owens. The , amount due from th railroad company will mors than pay Sweeney , Cole. As for Owens, he owes tho.C. E. Loss company' flt.OOO, anu In addition he ' assumed an indebtednees of f 11,000 .on (Continued en Psge Two.) The Week's Record ', Fo? the week ending February 24 The Journal and the Oregon Ian Tan a "neck to neck" race in the volume of advertising carried in their daily and Sunday issue. The Journal "crotsed the wire" only 10 iaches ahead of the Oregonian, while defeating the Tele gram by 2141 inches. The record tor th week vaa at follows: 1 - , ; Journal. Oregonian. Telegram. , ; '." 7 Issues. 7 Issue. 6 Issues. Local Display, lnchea ;..6688 4563 T . Foreign Display, lnchea 898 15T8 Classified and Real Estate, inches. 294 2 . 33T8 Readers, inches ................. ' 65 ' 64 Totala ... .' The circulation of The Daily-and Sunday Journal continues to rise steadily. One day last week (Saturday) the circulation was within 62 of 30,000 ccpiev "d every day during the week there, was an increase in the city circulation of The Journal, which is greater by at least 4000 coptrs than any other advertising medium circulat w i ing in tne same territory. HEILIG 1 REOPEN THE Theatre Is Again Under Consideration With Plans for Grill on Alder Street Local Capitalists- Look With Favor Upon Deal and Will Sub V scribe Two Hundred . Thou sand Dollars to Buy and. Im . prove Playhouse. If th plana of Calvin Helllg are car ried out, the sura of 1100,004 will be ex pended la ' ..purchasing the Marquam Grand theatre, with additional expendi tures, la providing elaborate lmpro' menta, and establishing a grill on Alder street. Immediately la the rear of the theatre. The plan provide for three entrance .to th theatre, the mala en trance on Morrison street and satrancea from both. Sixth and Seventh streets. Mr. . Helllg's , plans have been sub mitted to local capitalists and It 1 said that many are inclined to look favorably on the proposition. To ' those, who In vest a certain sum in the -venture, per manent seats In the theatre are to be given socordlsg to th terms of the plans that are now being considered. , , - Osaan WOllng to Sen. Whlls no option on the theatre has yet been secured. It Is said by those In a position to know that the owners are willing to sell the theatre for $200,000. The purchase of that part of the Mar quam building which front on Morri son street is not contemplated. If the deal is consummated It will involve only th purchase of th theatre. Includ ing entrances by way of Morrison. Sixth and Seventh streets and property in th rear or the theatre for th estab lishment of a grill. It Is Mr. Helllg' purpose. It Is said. to ralss th sum of 1100,000 largely by subscriptions Irora local capitalists. In ease a surncient number express their willingness to subscribe, an option on th theatre will be a ecu red and th plan carried out in detail.- The Investment, it is claimed, will bring good returns, and to tnose wno suoscrioe a certain amount there 1 offered th . extra Inducement of permanent seats In the theatre. i tie grui. according to th Diana la to be th feature of th Improvements. It will be located directly la th rear of th theatre, convenient to the patrons of ths house, and will be on of the most elegantly appointed dining places in tn west. It Is believed that th grill wUl aid materially in bringing re turns on tn investment, In connection with the plana of Mr. Helllg, It 1 said that S. Morton Cohen. wno is interested In the ownershln of th Helllg theatre on Washington street. Is desirous of using that playhouse for a new vaudeville circuit which he In tends to establish. In order to obtain possession of It, It Is said, he has of fered Mr. Helllg a large sum of money for th lease. So In the event of the return of the big attractions to the Marquam, the Helllg will be converted into a vaudeville house, according to the reported plana, DEATH FULFILLS THE GREWSOME PREDICTION Cleveland, Feb. tt. After predicting trtai tney wouia ai at tn same time. A N. Buell and James R. Curphey, com rades In the civil war, have passed away at Solon, Ohio. They enlisted at the first oall for volunteers by .President Lln ooln and after the war took up farming, vowing that as they had passed through th conflict unscathed they would die logemer. . , , . . 4944 816 1652 40 ,.9593 9583 T4S3 , .... HARMffi-FINANCIAL Tells Story of Great est Stock Specula tion in HistoryOf the World Wizard of Wall Street Relates Before Interstate Commerce Commission How He Cot Control of Transcontinental .' Systems." . Jooraal Special Berries.) New Tork. Feb. II. Edward Hi Har- rlmaa today told the Interstate com merce commission th story of th greatest . stock speculation In the his tory of th world. H talked of millions of dollars as little boy apeak of marbles: discussed the buying and selling ef railroads as the ordinary oltlsen talks of the pur chase ef a cigar, and daaaled all by the easy, confident way In which he re ferred to his manner of getting control ef great transcontinental transportation systems, . . - i c ; ', When the Interstate commerce com mission called Edward Henry Harrlman to tn stana it proDaoiy aid not know that this was th .fifty-ninth anniver sary of th -little wlsard' birthday.. It was lust If years ago, on February IS, IKS, that the man who now con trols over. 15,000 miles ef railroad with a total capitalisation of over $1,700,000, 000, Orst saw the light of day In the rectory of a little church at Hempstead, Long- Island, where his father was an Episcopalian minister. " - Young Harrlman entered WaTl street as a clerk la th sixties. In 1S70, when 13 yesrs of age, he was able to buy a eat on the New Tork stock exchange. In 1SSS he came actively Into the rail road field. In 1987 he became vice president of th Illinois Central railroad. The year 107 finds him tn control not only of the Illinois Central but the Union Pacific,- Southern Paclflo, Balti more It Ohio, Chicago A Alton. Kansas City Southern and other unnamed prop erties. Ana now the interstate com merce commission purpose to find out how-b did It. . Several of those who testimony Is desired are In Europe and It I thought tney will nrta it convenient to remain abroad until ths Investigation Is con cluded. Prominent- smong th ab sentees are Jamea StlUman and Charles A. Pea body, president of th Mutual Life Insurance eompany and a director In . both th Union Paclflo and Illinois (Continued on Page Nine.) HIS CRITICISM STIRS SUPERIORS General Grant Must Say What He Meant by Talking of Presl- .,..,,.. ....... 1 ' dents and Indicted Mayors- He Denies Whole Story. ; TnM.nal BMtftl lmlM.l Washington. D- C, Feb. IS. Major- General Frederick Dent Grant, com' mender of th department of th east, with headquarters at Governor Island, arrived last evening. It I expected he will go to th war. department today and explain to Secretary Root the re marks made Friday evening which seemed to reflect on President Roose velt. '. If General Grant does not volunteer an explanation he will be caned upon to make one. Oeneral Grant spoke at- tne wean- Ina-ton's birthday dinner of Mead post. Grand Army of th Republic, at Phila delphia, and whll ,th newspaper re port of hi remark differ to 1 some llttl extant a to th word h used, they agree In stating substantially that he expressed great regret because th president of the United States talked and argued with 'an Indicted mayor a to whether or not the United States oould or should carry out ths provisions of a treaty mad with another coun try. . ". . j 1 ' The general saM he did not believe such a thing could have happened be tween March 4. IMS, and March 4, 177, the period when his father Waa presi dent. ' Before coming here General Grant wrote to the New Tork papers that he had been misquoted, that he would not venture to criticise the commander-in- chief of the army, and that he admired and applauded what Roneevelt had done la daaiuig with. Mayor Schmita. LATEST PICTURE Harry Thaw Mad This" Sketch of His Wife While She Waa on '. . the Stand. VETO AX Kl LIS flfl Af J Y BILLS Johnson's Road and Perkins' Bird Slaughter Measures Vetoed by Governor, Wjio ,1s f; r- 7 Not" Done Yet IBy a Staff OaRespeaaeatt . Salem, Feb. 16. Decapitated laws sre th order ef th day at th state eapltoL Already Ave headless bills hav been filed away la th secretary of state's offlce,by the governor and the veto ax la still swinging. It la probable that as high a 10 bills will be vetoed before hi labor ceasa Govsraor Chamberlain has been bnsy sine Saturday noon delving Into the mass of bills and a big pile is forming for hi second consideration and possi ble disapproval. . Th bill appropriating $1,800 for th erection of an auditorium at Champoeg waa vetoed this morning; also Bever- ldge's loose-leaf ledger registration bill. Perkins bill allowing horticulturists to slaughter birds In orchards, end two bills dealing . with technical amend ment of law." - Th Johnson road bill, levying a tax amounting- to en annual appropriation of 1200,000. is on ths table awaiting dissection, and may lose It head. The normal school bill, granting appropria tions to Monmouth and Drain, is receiv ing serious consideration on account of flagrant violation of the methods of legal procedure In securing Its passage on Friday and Saturday morning. Hod son's bill, giving Irrigation companies power to sell water to persons not un der the special project covered by the papers of Incorporation, 1 being consid ered and may be vetoed. . The veto of Champoeg appropriation. which was a bill urged by the State Historical society to mark the historical spot where the Oregon pioneers decided to remain under American dominion, was based on the ground that the amount named la insufficient for the purpose proposed end would simply mesa the foundstlon for a much larger request two years hence. Way Xs Was T steed. Bevertdge' bill waa vetoed because It , would serve to confuse officials throughout -th atat. - It simply served to legalise method already In vogue In aiultnomah county and would entail ad- MOORHEADS UNITED AT LOVED ONE'S TOMB (Journal Sow-la I Bervlce.) Pittsburg. Feb. 51. John Moorhead. th millionaire Iron manufacturer, baa forgiven hi -son, John Alston Moor head, th former halfback on the Tale football team, who 10 months ago. eloped with ths French maid, Marie, whom his mother had Imported from Parts. Ths reconciliation wss the direct re sult of the death of Miss Ann "Cather ine Moorhead, aged 17, who was killed In the Bronx wreck- on th New 'York Central railroad a week ago. When the elder Moorhead returned from New. Tork with the body of his daughter lest Monday a conference be tween father and son resulted In a rec onciliation. Two weflts agb young Moorhead waa elected athletlo director of the Western University of Pennsylvania at a salary of 11,100 a year. Th ability of th young man to make his own way la said to hav don much to (often th anger ef his father. . r v GREAT M'CORMICK IN HUMBLE GEORGE'S PLACE (Jtarnal ipH! Berrlre.) ' Paris, Feb. H. For many years the portrait of George Wsshlngton occupied conspicuous place In th American embassy here and wa seen and known by many vlsltora It ha been replaced! by a large portrait of Ambassador Mc Cormlck. presented by him to the em bassy en the eve of his departure from Parle. , , ; , . OF EVELJOHAW. dltionai expense without resulting fh any particular good. No complaint has been mads as to the registration law not working well. Th governor ends hi veto message with the statement: v "Repeated efforts hav been made fo tinker with the election law and I am of th opinion that they ought to be dlscountensnceU and disapproved. Perkins' - -bird slaughter bill was vetoed on the ground that ths object sought Is covered In the existing law. giving orcnaraists authority to kill birds that are destroying fruit Strong protests sgalnat th bill from all sec tions of the state Influenced the gov ernor's veto, In addition to the legal objection. The bl prohibiting th killing of lk from now until September 1107, was vetoed because It amended ' th oode which had been amended at the special session of 1101. The Hart bill licensing peddlers was also vetoed because th same law waa enacted in 1901. ; ... ' ' A Queer Slaoovery. .' S B. i, whereby appropriations were made for the Drain and Monmouth nor mal schools, wss passed illegally In the house of representative. Th bill waa Introduced In th senate by Loughary and "provided for Monmouth only. It waa amended In the house to provide 127,000 for Drain and Friday night was put on Its final passage. When the bill was being put through the Bouse, Speaker Davey made a mistake In tally ing and announced that the bill had 11 votes snd had passed. Next morning It was discovered that only 10 votes In the affirmative had been east and on vote waa lacking to carry th bill through. Representative King m brought over to vote for the bill and he was allowed to do so and th bill was declared passed without the vet of th previous evening being reconsld- Lered. . As Speaker Davey had announced the result Friday night It Is stated that II was illegal to permit King to change his vote without a formal reconsidera tion of the bllL This was not don. WIFE MURDERER GETS OFF WITH LIFE TERM (Joornal ftBeetal aarvlea.i " ' : Los Angeles, Feb. 15. Anton Besold, convicted of murdering his wlfetwas sentenced to life Imprisonment this morning. Besold took his wife to lonely spot In a canyon near her and shot her to death. The woman wa a consumptive. Three days .after the mur der Besold married another woman. Th murderer and his victim formerly lived . VIIIIIIIIMU t, Bailing IVII y' RELIEF OF SETTLERS ON INDIAN LANDS TWaahlnsto Urns ef The JoerasLt. - Washington, Feb. It.- Representative Jones house bill passed the senate to day allowing settlers - adjoining the Couer d'Alene Indian reservation to take sufflolent lands to compensate them for the loss td them by following the bound ary line of the reservation as shown In surveys In the general land office here. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ' ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON (Jneraat Bp-rial Brrtp., Washington, D. C. Fab, 16. President Roosevelt arrived this afternoon. Ills train waa i hours snd 10 minute lata It waa first delayed by snow, snd then st ftolttmor a wreck necessitated switching the train from th Pennsyl vania to the Ilaltlmore ft Ohio tracks for th remainder of the Journey. m in hfii ( BOLD THUGS Mrs. Elvin Scares Away Burglars Who Poured Drug Upon Quiner's Bed Daring Gang Visits Room on East Washington Before Fam 1 ily Retires, Sprinkles Chloro form on Pillows and Returns Later to Obtain Loot. Chloroform wae employed by a pair of thuga last night In a desperate at tempt to gala possession of a well-filled wallet and a coatly diamond ring, the property of Jr W. Qulner and wife, who reside at 7 East Wsshlngton Street. V 1th an uplifted ax In her hands, Mrs. Nettle Elvin, wife of an electrician, held one of the robber at bay while she aroused the Qulnere to their dan ger by her warning cries. It wa th second attempt mad dur ing th past three weeke to rob the Qulner home. Qulner 1 a peddler, who la known habitually to carry several hundred dollars In his pocket, while Mrs. Qulner wears a diamond ring and makes no secret of the fact that she paid $117 for It Last night Quiner's purse contained something over $200. fni Dmara ea VUlowa. Slipping Into the Qulner bedroom by a side door while the husband, wife, a hired boy and th babe in arma war In th sitting room, th robber pour d a bottle of th sleep producing drug on th pillows and slipped out again. They retired across th slreet and waited in hiding behind a hedge, expecting that when the Qutners went to bef-they would be overcome by th chloroform. After th light In th sitting-room had been out a few minute, they re turned and. while on remained on watch on th sidewalk, the other as cended a street stairway to the second floor with the purpose of overpowering Mrs. Nettie Elvin, who waa alone In the rooms above. The fellow knocked lightly. "Who'a there f asked Mrs. Elvin. An Inarticu late mumble wa th reply. "Who are you and what do you wantT" asked the plucky woman, who husband wa away at work. Another mumble and' another knock were unanswered. Then suddenly the robber, evidently believing that the Qulner had succumbed to th affect of the chloroform, grabbed B board nd pounded furiously on th door In an attempt to smssn It down. Luckily, an az was in th corner. Grabbing It. Mr. Elvin held It aloft with the Intention of splitting open the first head that popped through the door. At the same time she screamed loudly for help. Qulner gave an answering call and at this th robber ran away. Beared by Folloemaa. Two policemen, LUIls and Howell, ar rived soon afterward. In time to give chase to a suspicious-looking character who was lounging on the nearest cor ner and who took to his heels th mo ment he saw the blu of th officers uniform. The failure of th robber to secure poaaeaslon of th coveted booty seems to hav been due In. part to their Igno rance of the us of chloroform. They (Continued on Pag Two.) GIRLS GRY FIRE AND CHURCH PANIC FOLLOWS Many Women and Children In jured in Mad Rush for Sacred Building In Chicago. IJoaraal Snedsl Barvlre.l "' Chicago, Feb. It. More than a acbr Of persons, chiefly women and children. wer Injured In a panic yesterday morn ing at th Italian , Roman Catholic church Santa Marl Adolorata. Two llttl girl noticed th outpouring of steam and cried "First" In a few sec onds th church wss in an uproar. Exit was difficult because the church le on the second floor, ths ground being reached by a staircase on either side. with shsrp turns. Some of the panio strtcken ones decided that the qulckeat mode of eecape was through a window at th turn on. the eaat side, and scores of persons Jumped to the Peoria street sidewalk, a dlatann of seven feet. Sev eral of those who took the leap were Injured. Women and children were trampl-d under foot on the stairways and In th ehurch Itself. 1 h t tier Jima O-nibara, rrl.t of the chun h. sought to stay tn imimh Imi nr 11 hnpnj.il'l'X i CONTRADICTS SIATEII1I OF ITHEII Evelyn Nesbit Thaw . Denies Stories Told District Attorney Je- rome by Mrs.Holhnan Prosecutor Relentless in Probing Into the Life of the Girl, Who ' Maintains Her Composure and Struggles Desperately to Save Her Husband. ; , . (Jsaraal Special Service.) New Tork. Feb. it. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw trod again ths primrose path that had led her from Pittsburg to New Tork. to London, to the Dead Rat In Pari a. and to ths gay places of th continent where the only question asked Is: "Have you money T But her com panion along ths old path In which, there were many cruel thorns was dif ferent from any with whom she had made excursions In the past. District Attorney Jerome took her along the broad road, and made her tell of th "pleasures" snd -pastimes" that are to b found on It, th great whit way. '. 1 .,:...;, There was no Joy In th telling, but th crowd that gathered to not th proceeding In th Thaw cas hung on every word the unfortunate young wom an said, and seemed disappointed when details of th merry life were with held. . As soon as fh court routine waa over. Evelyn waa called to th stand. She looked better than on anv other day of the trial and the long rest ah naa enjoy ea aeemed to have given her new strength to bear the hot fire of cross-examination. - The lawyers on both sides appeared well pleased with their scenesv Jerome wa quick, accu rate In his - movements, Delmaa. sauv. pollabed and smiling waa alow, calm and dellberat. It waa persistently stated that Je rome would ask for th appointment of a lunacy commission before the day waa dona . Th sssertlon wsa mad that Jerom had mad a statement te this effect ' Jerome bo Oonflaaao. When he wss asked tf he would ask for th commission h said: 'I hav no confidence in this cas that X care to share with th at tome v of the other aid or with th people. 1 snail ao wnat seems best for th Inter ests of th peopla" ' (Continued on Page Two.) HERMAN.! LOSES MOTHER PDIIIT Judge Overrules Defense's Con : tention That Indictment Was' Brought in Bad , Faith and . That It Is Insufficient. - ' ' (Jeeroal Special Bentee.! . Washington.. Feb. 25. Judge Staf ford this morning overruled th defena in Its contention that th Blnger Her mann Indictment waa brought In bad faith and 1 Insufficient The court also decided that th government may Intro duce th evidence taken In the Blu mountain forest reserve conspiracy case, which apparently removes every obsta cle of Importance thu far Interposed by the defense, , Th tactics of th government sine th amended bill of particular wss l mltted lead to a somewhat different course than was at first Indicated. It I sxpocted the vast mass of evidence will open up many allegation Dr. Harry Retger, who . was Her mann's stenographer, tewtlfted this morning that he . destroyed the latter preasbooks which contained mostly pri vet letters, although, a number ef let. tera in th book were public. He alr some of the letters copied In the de stroyed books were sent out under gov ernment frank. The government ! If he ever heard Senator Mitchell auk In !farran.i's office that the lttr ,i. pedlte rand casea Retger said he dll not remember. J. T. Krldg-e. who is a mrr , t In Rosburg, and r r it i .., land office there fimn J . t i . Novemlr 1S"i", - - i many letters f . mn i - they hnii li'-'n 1' f w In r i i. .... . , -