The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, March 11, 1907, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTII2 P;?cr c! GREATEST CL-- culation is THE Paper for Advertisers. THE Jounul LEADS In Circvhlion. . ' V The Weather Showers tonight and Tuesday; southerly winds. VOL. VI. NO. 5. IS SOLD BY CITY WIS Supply Always ' Short ! and Tie-Up Is Soon Felt by All Classes ' of Contractors IflNM fey tha BMka. - . Worker In tba building trade ' 'who BWjr oon b forced out of work ar subdivided aa follows: Carpentera .... t.009 Bricklayer-.............. too Painters TOO' Plasterers jj tJLxt . 0 lAtbers ..; .-f,J00 Cemept -workers....,..;... too Tinners -100 : Eleotrio wlrers .........t. J 00 - Helper 1.00 . . : . Total T.I00 O. 9. Matt, state UJtoi ooimlssl oaer, U eloseted wltk tba eseoatlre Uttoe of tke strikers ta tfca Sanurtda alreet fcMauarters of IMI.W. W. at 1 o'clock thte afteraoom.. Xt la supposed ke is aiaouaslaff aiWtratloa of tbe That every earpenter. plasterer, paint er ana a targe majority ox me onca . larera' and cement workers in Portland will be idle within the nest ten days as a result of the sawmill workers' strike Is the declaration made today by mem bers of the master builders association of this city. - - Hundreds af carpenters will be laid off today, and by the end of the week only a very few will still be at work. Plasterers apd painters will not be so quickly affected by the strike as the carpenters and It Is probable that their work will continue for two weeks yet. . Tteap'a Qotok Bffeet. '"-'a - Blieklayara and oement workers will be th last of the building mechanics to feel the effects of the strike. . .. For the past year-, the building eon tractors have literally lived from hand to mouth In the matter of obtaining betiding material and especially has this (Continued oa Page Two.) Aa alarming condition of affairs, m the manner of handling gasoline by the various garage throughout th city ha com4 to light as the result of an In vestigation of th fir which gutted the establishment conducted by Rudolph Becker at Lownedale and Alder streets vesterdav nornlnl. In- which six valu- ibc machines were partially destroyed. I ' Tflat Becker disregarded tha provis ions of tha city ordinance prohibiting the storing of over 100 gallons of gaso line or hydrocarbon liquids in any wooden building Is evidenced by the fact that In the structure at th tlm of th fir war two drums containing over 100 gallons of gasoline each, in ad dition to a galvanised iron tank holding about SO gallons of th combustible. I Zavestlgatioa Xad. The revelation relative to th dis regard of the law In this 'case, whereby the flr risks in th locality were made extremely hazardous, r will no doubt ILaVVVLaMfc 1-&UU1111 U ; ''''V''' 'u,y,,Vu "-'v-' " uxxi u. ' iiu LuiiiuLii iiuuu mui , : oirrsn : ; r : " , , ' i v ' , rK .tw .11 a. I "V 1 i rr -- . . - i a ". a a a mm mm i f a a a a. a mm mmm mm mm i GASOLINE LAW IS HUMAN SOUL FOUND TO WEIGH AN OUNCE V-Bttej physicians of high profeestonal 1 'ending who have been experimenting or six years to determine whether or ot the human soul Is an actual ma rial thing today announced their con tusion that the soul really exists, snd imt, furthermore, it has weight which i ascertainable by scales. The difference between the weight Of tie live human body and tha body a moment after death, or when tba soul quit it, was found to be from bait 1 i.: 4 Un," .'1. M A ' ":LnTiirr, r- I ir-ncnnr . S LOSE I ininiw ennn ! .)' , I "V ve w. viuauii a a a vaaiuuv VI' . - a I W TV k mwivi w wag. use-wav - vi aVa M asa v . . UUIIIIII Illlllll i 1 Willi UUUII Whole Columbia River Affected 4 and Ovyners "Call a Conference lor Next Wednesday v ; Their market cut off by the clostnf of the Portland lumber mills, the log ging firms of this city and along the Columbia river are preparing for an Indefinite shut-down of their camps. '. Ons thousand man now at work In the logging camps will be thrown out of employment - and many dependent Industries will, seriously suffer. ; A prominent- logger .stated -this; morning that the busiest Season of tha year was just' about to begin and that the tie-up could not-ha re come at a more Inopportune time All signs point to a complete paralysis or Oregon's magnt f leant lumber industry during aa least a considerable- portion of the season of 1907- ' v ' A meeting having In contemplation the closing of every logging' camp along the Columbia liver'aa been called for next Wedoeeday. - The eommlttee sign ing tha call consists of R. 8. Collins. O. J. Byerly. R. 8. Farrell, Bollls Alger and James W uckle. Tha call was is sued today and reads ss follows: ' ' "Owing to tha fact that the greater portion, or all. of the saw - mills in Portland and on tha Columbia river are now. or will probably be, idle for an Indefinite time, it waa thought advis able to call a meeting of the loggers adjacent to the Columbia river in con templation of shutting down their camps until tha mills resume work. "By all the camp running full ca pacity for . SO or (0 or 0 days, and all the - mtlhj refusing to purchase logs, a necessary surplus of logs would cause a stagnation in- tha demand and price later,, and a oonaequent material loss to th loggers. It i therefore not only necessary but Imperative that a full at tendance of logger be present mt this meeting, which is called for t p. i on Wednesday, March IS, in Chamber of Commerce halL second floor Cham' ber of Commerce building, Portland Or egon, . - . - "Should any ' of - your neighbors or friends who are loggers be not advised by a similar notice, pleas eonsider it your -duty to Immediately Inform them." . , cause a - thorough investigation ' to be made by ' th flr department officials. It la expected that a special ordinaaoa regulating automobile garages, the man ner in which they shall be construe ted and th methods of 'handling gasoline will be passed by the city council. In 'the oil room in which the firs started in Becker's garage ' there was stored - in addition to th gasoline a hogshead of lubricating oil, a can of kerosene, several small receptacles hold ing drippings and a quantity of cotton waste. In view of th highly Inflam mable character of these materials th theory of spontaneous eotnboetloa la. ad vanced as the1 cause of .th Ore. , , . JTe Permit Isawad. . : "Walter R. Roberta, asalstant flr mar shal and head of th underwriter's in spection bureau, visited tha scene of th fir this morning. When Interviewed ' (Continued aa Pag Two.) aa ouno ta on punoe, and to this, it is said, there oan be no other solution except that It la th weight of the hu man soul. Dr. Duncan MecDougmll of Haverhill, on af th experimenting physicians, gave the statement, which waa made public. He bellevee In neither spiritual Ism nor psyoblo phenomena, and aays the experiments wer mad entirely oa aclanurlo lines. ' ' Among others aasoclated with him are Dr. Syroul of Haverhill and Dr. Orant Of Lawrence. l:iy - Yv;o Pcca Ycctcnhy, Rcfpiirinj; PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING,; MARCH : Number of men out. 1.000. . Number of mills closed, II. Logging Arms ' call meeting . with view of closing all camps ' along Columbia river. One thou sand men will be thereby thrown out of employment. - Building contractors predict that strike will put 7.100 build ing trades workmen out of a Job Inside of two weeks. Freight handlers' union 'passes resolutions of sympathy for strikers. ; .'' .. v MAGAZINE STORY OF MRS. EDDY IS AGAIN VERIFIED Aged SJster-In-Law of Scientist ; Leader Says That Latter Cave Away v Her Son-Received Hundred-Dollar Check From Frye, Ignpring Appeals. ; rrrjearsal"'seelal BerrWV Tllton, N. March 11-Mra. Martha U. Baker, th aged sister-lnrlaw of Mrs- Mary Baker O. Eddy.: says .Chjietlaa Bclenoe leaders have been vlatttng those who may have knowledge of lira Eddy's lit history, for th purpose of refuting ir possible the story about her which is being published by s New Tork maga- aine. airs. Baser waa visited by Alfred Farlow and Irving C TomUnson of the Christian Bclenoe "cabinet", in January. 8he says: ' "I could only, tell them that Mrs. Eddy's father was not exactly th sort of man th magaslne pictured, but that in statements concerning Mrs. Eddy, her peculiar temperament and her atraage attitude toward her son were true. . 8h gave ber son away to Mr. Chaaey willingly.- 8h would have given him away before .but for her own mother, who cared for the child and aald little George ahould not be riven away. It seems to m that Mr. Eddy must believe there Is no onsVllvs who oan refute her statements." . . Mrs. Baker says this visit from Jfej. low. and Tomllnson wee followed soon after with the receipt by Mrs. Beker ox a enecg ror iioo signed by Calvin Fry. Mrs. Eddy's fobtman-secretarv. During 10 years prior to this Mr Eddy, had ignored Mrs. Baker, the latter says, and had refused to aid her when III and In such need that ah had to mortgage her house. ; TROUBLE BREWIBG FOR ; : ' IK YERKES-HIZNER Young ' Husband of Traction ; Magnate's Widow Returns ' to New York. (Jnaraal bpkU Service.) " New Tork, March 1L An Interview with Wilson Mlsner Is printed in one of th morning papers, in whloh be hints mysteriously that there may ba "great going on" this week unices there la a compliance with his wishes relative to his wife, formerly Mrs. Terkea, widow of th traction magnate. Mlsner has returned to New Tork after a prolonged absenos in the west, strong, confident and aa well dressed as aver, 1 A newspaper article brings It out that Mlsner on reaching this city did not to to his wife's residence, but put up at a hotel on Fifth avenue with a friend. It Is hinted that he is this friend's gueet and that bis - purse has become lees bulky than it waa when he left for San Francisco. .. ::'" WILLAMETTE HOTEL HAS NEW MANAGER i . ' - fftpeeta! Dlipeteb te Tee leereel.) . Salem. Or, March 1L Fred Fleh. for seven years chief clerk at the Willam ette hotel, today aasumed th manage ment of that hoetelry, tha lean on tha property having been turned over to him by J. Connor, th present manager, who will remove to Klamath Falls after a few months stay at Saa Diego, Cali fornia, . FARMERS HOLD MUCH OF LAST YEAR'S CROP (Jeoraal tpwlu Serrfc-s.) . Waahlngton, March 11. The agricul tural department this afternoon made th following crop announcement: Grain in farmers' hand on March 1. wheat; tOC.t44.000 buvhels; corn l.,000 bush els; oats, lUl. bushel. r : ot:: H r H M I -4 " . , f V a Admiral Lord Cbarlea Beracford. CO.lf.lAIIDER OE BRITISH NAVY : HEROOniGHT Admiral Beresford Is to Pass !' Through Portland on the Way Home After Settling Brother's Estate Claim Made by Col ored Nurse Upon Ranch. Admiral . Lord Charles. Beresford. commander of tha fighting fleet of His Majesty King Edward of Great Britain, will reach- Portland - tonight from Ban Francisco, oa bis way. to tha east. Apartments - have been reserved for th noted visitor, and he will spend a short tlm visiting th city before start ing, again on his Journey back ta his poet of duty. Lord Beresford is the commander of tne British navy, and la In th United State at this tlm engaged ia settling the estate of. his brother. Lord Delavol Beresford, who was killed in a railroad wreck in North Dakota soma time ago. Tha eetete consists of vsst ranches in Mexico, Texas and Canada. A romantic scandal cam to light at the death of' his ' brother, when Flora Wolf, a eolored nurse, took poaaeeelon f on of th. largest ranches in Mex loo, declaring herself to have been the common-law wife of th dead lord. Bh had been left 110,000 by th will, oetenalbly -for . having nursed th man through a severe attack of yellow fever. ARMED TROOPS APPEAR ; OFF HONDURAS COAST " (Joarael special Servtea.) Washington, D. C, March 1L Stat department today received th folow lng deapatches from Philip Brown, sec retary of the American legation - at Guatemala and Honduras: "The government of Honduras states that there are three steamer with armed foroea aboard ' off . th north coast near Cetba and an attack la ex pected.", ' t . Celba la the principal port of th north coast of Honduras. It Is believed that th gunboat Marietta at Blueflelds wUl be ordered to Celba. .. - .. t aaaaeeefceAae - - - - a f TVfTTTeVrVTfTTVrVfT WW If ff a. Thq Record for the Week For the week tndlng March 10, The Journal carried a heavfer volume o( advertising than the previous week, tha increase being nearly 1.000 inchts, and. besiofef. several hundred inches wa "turned way" because The Journal, could not ftnd (space for it The Sunday 'journal coneUted of five-section of 62 page, and yet all the advertising offered for that ist could not be accom modated. There was over 11 tons of white paper consumed in publiohing this one issue of The Journal. The advertising record Of the three papers for ths week was as follows: , - . t , l: Local Display, inches .......... Foreign Display, inches .... Classified and Real Estate, Inches Readers, inches - Totale I The excess of the .roluma carried by the Oregonian last week over The Journal was due to a tprciat issue of that paper on Mon day the. 4th inst carrying 13 pages more than is usual with it. The Telrgram, because of it having only six imues for the week, and its much smaller circulation than either , Tht Journal or the Oregonian. is almost distanced' in the newspaper race, snd will soon be considered Tul of tbe running, : 22105 Lbs. orW 11, 1907. FOURTEEN PAGES. - (7oeraeI aseelal Berrlea.) ' : Waahlngton, March 1L It waa stated at the White House today -that the recce appointment of W. C Bristol to be district at ' torney for Oregon would be made this afternoon or tomorrow. Developments - in land efflc appointments for the efflc at Th Dalles, Oregon, are looked for at any tlm now. "Nothing ' doing yet," said Senator Bourne., HITCHCOCK WILL TESTIFY AGAINST Cats Secretary of the Tnterior to Make His First Appearance in Any Land-Fraud Case Judge 'TannerTestifiesThatHe and Mitchell "Fixed" Defendant tJearaal Bpeelel Berrie. . Washington. March XI. Th Her mann trial .brings a tans situation to morrow, when ex-aecretary ox tna in terior Ethan A. Hltcboock goes on the witness aland. Tha. goernaent not indicated what will be the nature of Hltoboock'a testimony, but Judging from the oours thus far pursued it is likely that it will go into the details calling for Hermann a resignation commissioner of tba general land offlo on account of Hermann's alleged seques tering report of special agenta of land frauds. This will ba th first tlm that Hitch cock, fan.sd aa a prosecutor of land looter, baa been on the stand since-tha cases began. Today Judge A. H. Tan ner, th ' lata Senator Mitchell' law partner, teatlned that he and Mitchell had oorreapondence with Hermann as commissioner, and that they received money for using their Influence with Hermann to induce him to sxpedite cer tain claims to patent, when Mitchell was ssnator. . , Milton J. McVsan. clerk of th agri cultural department, who handled tha correspondence, testified that Hermann recommended th creation of th Blue Mountain reeerve, transmitting th rec ords in tha cas with hi letter of rec ommendation, but falling to transmit to Hitchcock the protests against the reserve, which had been filed by Grant county people. George Soranaon was aro xamlnd by Attorney Worthlngton on ths fact of his Indictment and conviction. ROOSEVELT INFLUENCES ' CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY (Jeerael Bperlil Sm-Hm.) Bacramento, CaL. March 11. Th gov ernor transmitted to th assembly today a protest from Roosevelt against pass ing th anti-Japanese bill that ' went through th eenete Friday. Th pro test earn in in xorm oi a leiegram as follow: "The action af th legislature is un fortunate in Its effect upon my effort to eecure th exclusion of Japaneee la borers by friendly agreement. If con ttnued It will probably render th legis lation of congress lor that purpose in effeotiv. Flea eecure th suspension of further action until receipt of a let- tar from me. : Tha president' request was compiled with. , Three antl-Japanese measures war on th verg of discussion In as sembly, but all will be permitted to die In committee, '. Journal. Oregonian, Telegram. 7 Issues. , 1 1ssues. 6 Issues. . 5,785 5.20ft 6.55T 1,105 1,501 DOS 4.005 ' 5,218 2.06A T5 , ' -TO ;" 44 BINGER HERMANN ......11,060 . 13,001 8,659 w I in Pri:;iLv PRICE TWO Mrs. Holman Censured by Family for Her Treatment of Evelyn When a Girl ; : v (Joerntl tpeekl' Berrice.) Pittsburg, March 1L Th mother and two sisters ot W. Scott Nesblt, father of Mrs. Harry Kendall Thaw, have re pudiated Mrs. Charles J.' Holman. who was ths wife of W. Scott Nesblt and mother of Mrs. Thaw, la a most remark able statement. This statement waa written out at a family conference held at Miles City, Montana, most of the members -of the Nesblt family residing In that vicinity. Th statement. In .part. ioiiowei Th attitude which Wr. Charles J. Holman, mother of Mrs. Harry K. Thaw, has taken toward her daughter Evelyn la, to our mind a, most Inhuman. Tha evidence that ha been given at the trial reflects rery discreditably upon Mrs. Holman a character. "Doee she wleh to give th lmpree slon that aha, a woman In th twentieth century, having attained an age long paat maturity, was so Innocent, so un suspecting that ah thought money given th family waa given without any recompense whatever T , Doe she wish to make tha American people be lieve ah was Innocent enough to think men gave her money for nothing. - or simply because they wer friends? - "What girl could live the life that Evelyn Nesblt lived and com out un tarnlahedt Mothers, answer do you think your -dan ghtera could ; be placed in th same circumstances, mind you, with such sn example of a man aa Stanford Whit to teach them morality what was right and what waa wrong placed In his hands for protection, at th age of 10 years, pass through such a crisis and com through all right?" AIDED MRS. HOLMAN Craig WatbwortVa Connection With V '-'i '. Caao Ata-ed. ; (Jeerael Special Serrke.) London, March 11. An unofficial statement from tha American embassy gives what are claimed to be real facta (Continued on Page Two.) - r (joarnal pelal Servb-O San Francisco, March 11 Th state supreme court this afternoon denied Ruefs application for a writ of pro hibition against Judge Dunne.,. This clears the way for the trial of the ease befor Dunne. . . . . . Ruef had a day In three courts to day, and befor th day legal skir mish is ovsr it is not unlikely that Ruef attorneys will hav gone Into stilly another oourt for sld In securing th release of their client and farther blocking hi trial on the charge of ex tortion. Th dsy's battle began In Judge Dunne's oourt As esrly as S o'clock a vast crowd gathered In snd about the courtroom, and at IS o'clock, tbe hour set for bringing Ruef before Judge Dunne, th courtroom wee packed. It im Impossible to comply with ' th court' order to cloee the doors to pre vent any mora from entering th room. i . I iiniw u V V ll L l l II Vinll I lu . REPUDIATED BHMI OFFICER KILLED BY - PUFFING OUT CHEST rftperial WapatcS 1 Tbe earsaLf London, March It. At an ' Inquest upon an old soldier -who died of heart failure th doctor who mad th post mortem examination ald hla ailment wag duo to'the "pernicious practice In th . British army of puffing out ths cheat" Such evidence had never been given In a ease of death before but It eppeers th doctor' views have el- ready been adopted by the army council, and puffed out chf.ia have h"n rI.. tnhed from the British nr . ,.r en nf flata existence ot at i : . CENTS. aw t a wo ?w STAMSS, f ITS CktUS Must Stick to Effect of Wife's Story Upon Thaw-Seeks toUpset Insanity Detense . iMersai special setvwe. New Tors, March llv It waa Ilk th beginning of a new trial, th open ing this morning of th eighth week in the Thaw case. Every one was alert and anxious to sea what cards Jerome had and .every on expected surprises. Thsw showed signs of anxiety. Th courtroom waa crowded and th cor ridor thronged. Two or three new face were tnslds the' railing who were " said to be new attentats for Jerome, their presence revealing hta Intention to overthrow Thaw's Insanity defense.' . Jerome Show XI XAad. ' ' Frederick W. Longfellow, . formsr counsel for Thaw, wss c -1 by Jerome aa tba first' witness In remittal. Beginning the examination of Long fellow. Jerome ouefttlnnsrf th wltna about the suit Ethel Thomas began' earainet Thw In .h. mlmim hau . whipped her. Thle was the suit brought by Abe Hummel, aa Ethel Thomas' attorney, but never pressed.' Delmaa challenged a question and Jerome in hla argument upon It ad missibility clearly .ahowed hla hand. He argued that he proposed to show that in uues Kveiyn told Thaw ot other girls being ruined by White and hla friends could not have upaet Thaw'a mind, because he had known of th cases recited by Evelyn before he bad heard ber own story. Jerome declared Information from lawsuits. Cleve atanawva by Jerome. District Attorney Jerome declared that the story Evelyn told Thaw could not have caused th "brain storm" which led to White' death. Jerome went Into details In hi argument, get ting before th Jury facts that couldn't have been brought out on the witness stand. Delmaa fought bard Insisting that Jerome waa making an effort to contra. diet Evelyn's teetlmony of what she bsd told Thaw, and it was therefor In admissible. The atorra was precipitated bv a seemingly littl question. (Continued oa Pag Two,) A few minute after W o'clock Ruef. In custody of Elisor Bibby and thro deputies, pushed their wsy through th mob snd proceeded immediately to th' sest set aside for him. The curly boss wore a arall and seemed to be bubbling over, with good humor. " He hailed the aewspsper men, eaying: .. ... "It It wasn't for m you fellows would hav been fired long ago." Heney began proceedings by moving that th 'writ of error to the auprem court of tn United States, granted br Hebbard, he quashed on the grot) ml that Hebbard lacked Jurisdiction and larked legal grounds for granting the writ It we contended that the writ . had been eecured by trickery. " Ruefs attorneys opposed the motion, contending thst as long as the mattr , wss befor th supreme court of Cali fornia on petition for a writ nf probU bitlon. Dunne had no jurisdiction. Cheet ont, stomachs rn." hue hen a familiar orler on the drill ground a'n'. the da re of Waterloo. Now it I .r forever. The old syatem of army gym. nestles has bxn etnlhd aril Bwedlah aacm Is to be IfMm i ' stead. The srmy conm-ll m:i'! t concerning tho Itt-it lh sn 1 f a . tm of di 111 ami found t' tt . mcilUal ofTlcrs tiriwi nimnc'l the Itritixii ii , 1 tlM'ift'Ht, UHK'1.M1(II 1". ! vrrl"h f't the vi r r tha H.H.'h v.'."i . com- 1 te C- i - i.