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VOL. VI. NO. 7.
, PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1907.- SIXTEEN PAGES.
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I. W. W. Regards This
As Critical Point in
Advance Among -the
Unions of West. ;
Western . Federation : of Miners,
Member of Alliance, Donates
. Twenty . Thousand and the
j" Strikers Now Say . They Can
Hold Out Indefinitely, v
Twenty thousand dollars will be spent
by th Western Federation of Miners
to' ibAtsV.the Portlan4mlll laborers In
their strike. Information to this effect
was received at strike. headquarters to
day and the hearts of the organisers
overflowed with gladness.
The Western Federation of Miners Is
the strongest sfegie division of unlon
iiits affllUted with the Industrial Work
era of the World. Hariris Its center In
XCo'oredo, It extends-to every mining
I' slate In the west, being- especially strong
In Colorado, Nevada and . Arizona. - Its
membership runs into the tena of thou
sands and though It has been through
the moat desperate battles ever engaged
In by a body of worklngmen in the weet
' era hemisphere, It la nevertheless a
powerful organisation and Its treasury
is wU supplied with fund a
Others Will Send Support,
Several -of the' organisers now In
Portland, among them Fred Heslewood
a member of the general executive board
of the Industrial Workers of the World,
(ami out of the ranks of the Western
Federation , of - Miners. The general
headquarters of the Western Federation
In Colorado have kept in close touch
with the situation here, and early thla
week the executive board decided to put
the sura of $20,000 at the disposal of
I IS" Portland mlllworkem. .
LaWIilIe the local strike leaders express
that It Is only a minor fraction of the
financial support of which they have
been assured. Offers of assistance,
they say, are coming In from every sec
tion of the United States,- especially the
west, and that they can hold out in
definitely. .... r. .
.; All Byes oa Fortland. . ' -(
The system of organisation of the
I W. W. la such that when one local
gets into trouble all the other locals in
existence fly to its assistance. -"An In
Jury to one Is an Injury to all," la the
slogan. ' Craft lines are not allowed to
give rise to petty jealousies and the
whole strength of the national body Is
concentrated at one point in a surpris
ing! short time.
'. Another reason for "the "exceedingly
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UPOri HARRimAfi
Election of Stuyvesant Fish by
Could Forecasts Bitter Strug.
' gle Between Two Great Rail-
road Systems.
I ILL WAGE WAR
J (Journal "perl si Service.)
New Tork. March It. Stuyvesant
Fish's election at St Louis as a direc
tor of Gould's Missouri Paclflo railroad
and his probable appointment as head
of all the Gould roads is Interpreted In
Wall street as the opening of the great
est railroad war ever fought In this
country: ' ' ' ' " -
Fish Is the biggest enemy E. II. Mar
rlman has In the financial world, and
his alliance with .Qeorge Gould at a
time when the railroad rivalry between
Ilarrlman and Gould in the west Is al
ready bitter la believed to mark the be
ginning of a struggle for supremacy
which will Involve millions and affect
the traffio situation from ceast to coast.
It is likely to- be a fight to the finish.
Aside from a desire for retaliation on
the part of Gould for the freeslng out
ef the Gould lines by Harrlman after
his acquisition of the Southern Pacific,
there la an Intense hatred between Har
rlman and Flab which will be Injected
to every phase of the fight. Hani
men's removal of Fish from the Illinois
Central Is said to have been largely Im
pelled by a desire for personal revenge.
It was voluntarily that Harrlman pub
licly accused Fish during the recent
hearing of the Interstate commerce
commission here of juggling the Illinois
Central funds and. grossly mismanaging
the .road. Now tnat Fish Is In a place
of power among the antl-ITarrtmsn
forces with the prospect of still greater
wsy, ft I anll'-lpsted that he will use
it to rv ba k iinrrimnn whenever an
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SHOT THREE MEN LAST
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Peter Garrets.
BLOOD, LUST Id
BRAIN; GARRETZ
.SHOOTS THREE
Two Victims, Anton Grobs and
' James Higley, Are'. Expected
r- to Die Assailant; Captured
, rjby Officers .Through Strange
.Chain of Circumstances. "-'
Craaed by overindulgence in strong
drink, brooding 'over fancied or real
grievances, and consumed . by an un
controllable lust for Mood. Peter Gar
rets, 91 years of age, formerly an em
ploye of the- Multnomah box factory,
started out on a campaign of murder
last night, with the result that Anton
Grohs, proprietor of a saloon, at lis
Water street, and James Higley,' of 707
Macadam - road,.- lie mor.ally wounded
at the Oood Samsrftan hospital, while
John Uavln. residing at the foot of
Clay street, is nursing a, serious bullet
wound 'In the left shoulder. .,
.The .shooting occurred t In front 'of
Grohs' saloon, at 7:30 p. m., and SH
hours later the youthful desperado was
apprehended -under- exciting circum
stances on North Third street by Ser
gnant Baty and Detective John F. Price,
f Carried loaded Pistols.
iWlten arrested Garrets was found in
nosseSsion of two fully loaded revolv
ers, and It was only the prompt aotton
of. the offloers In disarming him that
the youh was prevented from adding
otner victims to his list. ' ' v
The . prisoner ' maintains . a surly si
lence and' the . police are working on
the theory ' thaU.a woman Is Involved
in the; case." 'Pending the -result of the
wounds of the two men la the hospi
tal Garrets will be held on a charge of
assault ' with a deadly - weapon. As
Qrohs death Is regarded r ss only a
question of hours, and Hlgley's chances
for recovery are exceedingly 'doubtful.
Garrets stands to the "ahadow, of the
gallows. ' . : I
. The feature of the case which is pus
ling the authorities la the motive, for
the Crimea - Garrets has been a patron
of Grohs' resort for some timefand was
Indebted to the saloonman for a liquor
bill contracted ' during the past few
months. . yesterday he visited the . re
sort ' somewhat under the influence of
liquor and the dealer, ascertaining that
the young fellow was in possession of
considerable money, made a demand for
.the amount due. Garrets refused to psy
and thereupon Grohs ordered him from
the place, wltb the admonition not to re
turn. , , . ,-;
' In Wait Outside Door. -
Garrets took his departure, but put
In an appearance soon after 7 o'clock
last night' Grohs again- told him : to
leave the place and the youth went out
through the rear door of the establish
ment - A few minutes later Grohs re
moved his ooat and vest preparatory to
relieving the bartender, Charles Mader.
and stepped out on the sidewalk. , Gar
rets, who apparently had been lying In
wait at the comer of the building, im
mediately opened fire otvjha saloonman
with a -Ss-callber revolver of cheap
make and Grohs received a bullet In the
abdomen. - ' -
Staggering Into; the saloon, Grohs ex
claimed that he had been ' shot, and
James' Htgley and John v Gavin, who
were in the place, started out to secure
the services of a physician. As Higley
reached 'the street Oarrets again
brought his weapon Into action and the
former also received a' bullet - in . the
abdomen. His murderous spirit i now
thoroughly aroused, Oarrets biased
away again and a leaden missile struck
Gavin near the left shoulder.
Wefat-to Worth Portland.
'By thl time the eg. tire neighborhood
had been aroused by the fusillade and
the police were notified by telephone.
Garrets after the shooting ran south on
Wster street, and then turned west on
Market. Gavin, accompanied by Charles
Mader, hurried to the drug store at
First and Madlsnn streets and called Iv.
Lloyd Irvine. After having a temporary
dressing applied to his arm, Oavla re
turned to the aaloon.
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I!i
ILL STREET
I
Panic Hits Stock Ma
ket and .Securities
-Tumble to Low Rec
ord Prices at Once'
Harrimah and Hill Railroads
' Suffer Heavily Deluge of
Frightened Liquidation Carries
List Down, Sweeping Traders
Off Their Feet. 4 - v
' ' (Joorasl Special arrles. -t
New Tork March H With a sud
den reversal of form after the strength
shown during the paat - few day the
stock market went, to pieces this after
noon when ' one of . the most severe
breaks of recent rears was resumed
with, a suddeness that swept the traders!
orr uieir leet -t., .
Prices tumbled from 1 to It per oent
In the active list and t lire w the market
Into complete demoralisation. Coinci
dental with ' the erash came: tbe an
nouncement that the president had
called a special meeting of the cabinet
No one seems .to, be. able to tell where
the . trouble Ilea.,. In the-street the de
cline is attributed partly to the panic in
Berlin, where overapeculatlon In Indus
trial stocks is given as a eanse .
"Urilon Paclflo -reached new 'Bottom
at 148, Southern Paclflo went down to
11. Reading dropped .10. Hill stocks
fell to a new low record. Great North
ern dropping to 141. -Northern Pacific
to . 12S, Northern-Oregon to 5. Steel
Common at first - inclined to - resist,
broke at 47614, three polnta drop. .
.-. -v-'. on Terge of Panlo..
Wall street staggered on the verge of
panlo as millions of quoted values were
swept away In a deluge of frightened
liquidation that carried nearly 1,000,000
shares across the floor of tbe New Tork
Stock exchange.
The feature of the day's demoralisa
tion was . heavy selling by leaders , In
h.gh fl-tance. . Such confusion reigns
that It wUl be difficult to get tbe Vaeled
Interests to keep-faith In an agreement
to atop the selling. .
Hundreds of bankers are facing loss
of tbe bulk of their fortune through
pool operations. Hundreds of wealthy
men In all parts of Aha country have
tasted ruin and moat' start life anew.
They are concealing their injuries, but
the loss on stocks quoted In Well street
amounts to more than f 1,000,000,000 In
the last eight months, and that loss has
fallen on a smaller number of investors
than ever before made up a Wall street
nubllo. " . , .-
. It Is a rich man's panlo. The mas si
(Continued on Page Two.)
BE INVESTIGATOR
Needed No Assistance From
Secretary Hitchcock. ' and
Took Umbrage at Suggestion
i ;' of Clerk McGee.
.IWsshlRctoa Boress of Tea Ion rail, t
. Washington, March II- W. J. McGee
who 'was contest clerk in the special
service division under Btnger Hermann
aa commissioner, today gave? testimony
shewing that Hermann took umbrage at
his suggestion thsk the famous. Hoi
singer report of the Oregon-California
land frauds -ought to be sent to Secre
tary Hitchcock. -
"Tlemann -ald he was commissioner
and would Conduct his' own Investiga
tion." said McGee. . The report eame to
the land office November II, ItOI, and
came to my deak-th next day Tbe
same evening. I read the report to Her
mann., He asked me what I thouit.t
of It ... ! "
I said the report should go to Hltch
oeekthat if Holslnger's statements
were 'true, one of the most gigantic
frauds ever perpetrated In the history
of, the' land office was being carried on
In the west Henrmnn seemed to take
umbrage st that and said he was the
commissioner and would conduct his
own. Investigation. I left the report
over night with Assistant Commissioner
Richards and obtslned It next day. At I
O'clock Hermann sent for it" ' . ..
Worthlngton took McGee through a
long cross-examination, striving to show
that Hermann' had disposed of the Hol-
alnger matter In the same way aa all !
rfthers. It was brousht out that strained
relations between Hermann and Hitch
cock; had existed for some time.
. Schneider, who supplied Information
ta the governmAil In the Benson-Hyde
ln'nd fraud cases, waa the first witness
called thla afternoon. Schneider also
Is under lndlctmer. .. . , ,-, .'.
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AWAY
HERDAfll. WOULD
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ABE HUMMEL, INDICTED LAWYER,
NOW; ON STAND IN THAW CASE
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FRAUD CASES WILL
SOOII BE HEARD
Mays,' Sorenson and Jones Are
. Expected to Receive Senten
:. ces Important Witnesses for
Government Arriving.' , ' . -
Oregon's land-fraud mill will begin
to grind on Monday next if-the expecta
tions In government circles hold good,
and during the session of the court It
Is probable that ' F. P. Mays, George
8orenson and W. H. Jones, convicted of
conspiracy to defraud the government
will receive their sentences.
United States Circuit Judge William
B. Gilbert Is expected to reach the city
from San Francisco Saturday next
United States restrict Judge William
H. Hunt of Montana la also due to ar
rive before Mondsy, and msy come In
company with Judge Gilbert - When
they do come the long dormant ma
chinery of the court will begin to turn
and st this session final results are ex
pected.' 4 '
The bills of exceptions In the easee
of Clarenoe Zeehary, Cos D. Bam hard
and H. H. Hendricks are watting to be
passed upon and must be considered by
the trial judge. For this res son Judge
Hunt must come to Portland- before
these eases ean be further disposed of.
(Continued on Page Two.)
CHAMBERLAIN. AIDS
That the state land board la preparing
to nse drastic measures to force the
Columbia. Southern Irrigating company
in western Crook oounty, which aettlere
charge Is guilty of many viola tlona of
Ita contract, to lUinil IIS axreeroeni ui
forfeit all of Irs rights, Is the sseertlon
made Jbjr Governor Chamberlain.
The governor stated this morning
that Attorney-General Crawford had
beer. Instructed by the board to act in
conjunction with the sttomeye appear
ing for the settlers snd to take any
steps necessary to force the company
to terms. . He said the company had
failed in many respects to live up to the
laws and regulations governing suoh
projects and that if the board had no
other recourse It would cancel the com
pany's contract with the state. , v
. ' Time to Aet Has Come.
"The article appearing In Ths Journal
yeeterday, relative to the chargea made
by the settlers. IS correct, asm uov
emor Chamberlain. "The state board
has been in a fight with the Columbia
Southern irrigating company for nearly
a year trying to force It to live up to
the terms of ite contract and the matter
Is at a point now where the attorney
general ha been Instructed to aoA . .
ONCE T.10RE RUEF
LOSES IH COURT
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Despite 'Promises to Contrary,
Obstructive Tactics . Are Re
sumed by Attorneys of ndict
ed Boss in Effort to Stay Trial
JoerasI Speetal terries.)
- Saa Francleco,' March -II. Contrary
to the promise made Tuesday by. Ruers
counsel, obstructive tactics were again
resorted to by them when the case was
called this morning. Immediately upon
the convening of court Heney filed the
affidavits of 'ntmself, Dunne and ; two
others in rebuttal of tbe affidavit Died
by Ruef charging Dunne with blaa end
perjury. Be ire Heney could read his
affidavits, counsel for Ruef attempted
to offer evidence to support Ruers ob
jection to the proceedings being con
tinued In Dunne's court on the ground
lack of jurisdiction. This' was over
rated end the counsel for- Ruef then
asked permission to file affidavits com
batting the affidavits died by Heney.
This motion also was denied. .
Although Ruef Is In luxurious quar
ters at the St Francis hotel, faels none
the leee a close prisoner. Only the
members of his family and lawyers are
permitted to speak to him. ' He Is aa
(Continued on Page Two.)
"X told the settlers at Laldlaw ast
June, when the land board was there
making an Investigation, that thetr com
plaints of wrongful treatment and that
the company wae not complying With
the act and regulations under which It
was operating, were correct, and they
were told to refuse further to make
paymente on their notes to the 'com
pany, or to even pay the Interest until
such time aa the state land board could
force the company to live up to the
law.
WOeon Defeated Bill.
"The State land board haa lacked cer
tain powers with which It could more
qukly bring suoh companies to terms,
snd in order to rectify the evil the
state Und board. In conjunction with
the state enaineer, prepared a bill
which was Introduced at the last ses
sion of the legislature, giving the
hoard more power In Just such a case
as now faces it . That bill was de
feated through the efforts of President
Wilson of the Columbia Sou thorn Irri
gating compnny and others."
Trouble between the Irrlsntlon rom
peny and the state land boari corns to
a head Inst June at the Initiative of
the set tiers, when tbe latter stated
BUYING
PHOTOS
OF GIBSOn GIRL
Lord Aberdaire Sends Pinkertons
.to Buy . Up - Pictures of
, . Camille Clifford Taken When
. She Was Poor Servant Girl.
- ' ' - IJovrasl Speelal Berries.) -
New - Tork. March It A - registered
package containing the last remaining
photographs of Camille Clifford, the
famous stage - beauty. In the servant's
dress which she wore before becoming
chorus girl, has Just been sent from
New Tork to her father-in-law, Lord
Aberdaire, whose son, ' Henry Lynd
hurst Bruce. Incurred the paternal
wrath when he married the actress In
England. lyord - Aberdaire appears to
have changed his mind . regarding her
and Is said to be now willing to pro
mote her recognition in society.
The photograph Is of a group of ser
vant girls, among them being the peer's
daughter-in-law. It was taken In the
Maine woods during an outing by an
Itinerant photographer, when Mrs.
Bruce waa employed by a rich Boston
family. , Her name then waa Camilla
Otterson. She came from Sweden.
Lord Aberdaire commissioned the Pln
kerton detective agency to secure for
him all existing copies of the photo
graphs and also the negative.
SETTLERS
their, grievances to the board at the
time of Ita Inspection tour. The set
tlers asserted at that time that the Ir
rigation system was wholly Inadequate
to cover the se ere ration, and that the
company had failed in many respects
to live up to- the lew or Its promisee.
' Wot sTaengh Water.
The contentions of the settlers were
supported by Governor , Chamberlain,
who took the company , to task for Ha
delinquency and Ita failure to comply
with the law. Hie statements were cor
roborated by State Engineer John H.
Lewis, who. after examining the Irri
gating system, stated that there waa
barely sufficient water to, cover the
11.000 acres to which patent had been
granted, and the system of canals and
laterals then In vogue waa Inadequate.
According to his vlewe, the balance of j
ll.ooo acres m the segregation, a large
pnrt of which had then beeriawld, could
never be reclaimed by the company
owing to the Insufficiency of tlie water
supply, v
The cnmpnnv In renlv stntd ttit It
had under r' i.isi... a ef
stornne p'-! " ' . ' ' I'm yvf
ent time, II U . ; i I r it
bettered Its
II&L
Indicted Lawyer Placed
on Stand But Not
Allowed to Answer
Jerome's Queries ;
Entire Morning Spent In Wran
gling Over Legal Points In
volved Prosecutor Would
Prove That Evelyn Swore to
Beatings by Husband.
(JoerasI Special Berries.)
New Tork, March It. Abe Hummel
was- the first witness called this morn
ing. He waa excueed after a few mo
menta to allow James C Smith to return
to the' atand. ' Jerome waa Juat asking
Hummel If he had dictated the affidavit
In the presence of Evelyn, when Smith
arrived. Delates1 objection to the ques
tion naked Hummel was Interrupted by
Smith being called to the etand.
Smith waa unable to produce Jerome's
cablegram. An argument ensued on the
admission of Smith's testimony aa to the
contents of the cablegram from mem
ory. Delmss tactics Indicated aa in
tention to endeavor to have ' all ' of
Smith's testimony ruled out.
. Smith said he arrived In New Tork
on February II and visited tbe district
attorney" a office on February 1. He
waa then excused snd Hummel was re
called. Delmaa objected to everything
that Jerome proposed. -
Hummel testified that he had dictated
the statement in the presence of Evelyn.
Jerome nsksd If Evelyn bad told him
that Thaw was trying to injure White,
and send him to the penitentiary on
charges that White bad drugged her.
and betrayed her when she was IS years
old; that she 1iad told Thaw that thla
was untrue and that Thaw had beaten
her because she would not sign the ac
cusations against White. Delmaa msde
an effort- to exclude thia evidence. He
tried to show that the relation of at
torney and client existed between Hum
mel and Evelyn, but Hummel said be
bad acted for White only. .
Jerome made an eloquent plea ror the
admission of Hummel'a testimony snd
affidavit He Insisted that the contra
diction between tbe affidavit and Eve
lyn's testimony . on the witness-stand
were admissible as circumstantial evi
dence to prove that she never told Thaw
the story aa she related on the stand.
" What Jerome Seeks,
"If I am shown." - began Jerome,
"that Evelyn Thaw under oath denied
that White had drugged and ravished
her, and that Thaw tried to make her
wear to this and that ahe repulsed him
and he, angered by her refusal, beat
(Continued on Page Two.)
CRUEL FATE III
STORE FOR BRIDE
Raanttful California r.irl IATKa
as I 'st! as. r-rt.
mtirrieu wimase , rviusi tuner
.
; Leave Him or Co to China as
He Will Be Deported.
- (Joarsal Special flerrtee.)
Loa Angeles, March It. -Mrs. Frank
Chew Tee Lung, formerly Miss Emma
Culver, a beautiful Duarte girl, who
married a Chinese In aplte of the plead
ings of her mother, le faring a severe
ordeal. She will probably have to ehooee
between life In China, where a white
woman aa the mate of a Mongolian is
shown no more consideration than a dog,
or separating forever from her almond
eyed husband.
There seems no doubt that Lung wtll
be deported on a charge of being un
lawfully In the United State Lung
waa a student and Mlsa Culver a
teacher In, the Penlel mission in thla
city when they fell In love. He waa ar
rested about that time snd practically
convicted, but his attorney secured a
stay of sentence end continuance until
March II. The glrl'e relatives tried t
keep the two apart but Lung manr!
to secure ball and hastened to Aimi
querque. where Miss -Culver bad i
taken, and there ma.le her his brl-ie.
It Is rlalmed In ann.e (ill!, lei qMsrf .
that Lung brouaht the m.irrMon '
larrely In the hope tint f r I v
wife's sake the cun t .. n l
leniency snd set Mm ft I '
neya nho have ei!i t i l t
ly say tht-re Is in I t ?
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