The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, March 15, 1907, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text-r-ilOTIiSIX OIJIZ. OF rUOC'iL D2LIGITFUL SONGS .VITH NEXT SUNDAY'S jouaiL..., . Al V I i y fVAw l K. A -t i . IT .w V-f (A X k A MA A. A All II rjpnE JOURHAL has a larger , paid cfrcvhtlon than any daily. paper in Portland or in Oregon Journal Circulation Yesterday )) I i , The Weather Occasional rain to- - .' atghjt and Saturday. - t ... 9 I VOL. VI. NO. 9. PORTLAND. OREGON. FRIDAY . EVENING, MARCH 15 1907-TWENTY PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. OW TXAIXS WD m HAHD4 ma o&ats rm MIJMW f ilia am m -s- -4B a j -x. m x .aw- x r . . 'w. -. "Sw a va m , .av at -H. i i Ml i PMH(G Morgan Crowd Said Jo ; Have, Gobbled Up the v Southern Pacific in ? Stock Panic. Standard . Oil "Said Ito Have 'Turned on Harrlman'to Crush y.- Him -Seems J Certain Some Big $ Change .Has , Been .Ef V: fected Panic Over.. , X , -r- - V New Torn. March II. Lets tbia after noon It la reported sn Wail street that the J- P. Morgan interests have secured ' control of the Union Partita and ' that 'the Standard Oil Interests hare turned on Harrlman to crush him. About the same time It was rumored that Hill had gobbled the Southern PaoUto snd was . rlrfln. jMh foal a9 lh. wawa mbiiIIIi. Yattm the turn or the tide. The reports . caused a flurry and a lively scramble for Information, it seems osrtaln,bow sver...thet some big coup In Union. Pa -crtlo has toeen affected. - 'St.- Paul and Northern-Paclne.' stock ' showed renewed strength this afternoon on the report that HU1 had declared his "Tiifiiitfoh' of getting into the fray If other attack waa made upon his inter ests. Aj ' .-.. j st The fact that Union Pacific opened up ever- 4 a, share In the initial trade this morning a against the cloelag of yesterday, la given aa confirming the report. f - - - - s. . , , ate Unload Stock. '"'.-'- v It la known in financial circles -that John W. dates sold - enormous blocks of Union ; Pacific at the start of to day's session, and brokers known to be acting lfcr the Morgan crowd eagek- 'nIVher figure.; Monster blocks of Read ing were- aleo thrown on the -market' at the start of today's trading, and thla, too, waa purehased by broker friendly to Morgan and his crew. .-. 1 BnUa Oontrol Bltaatlea. , ' The opening of Reading this mora Ing waa tie higher than yeaterdaya oloae, and thla Inlused strength into the general market, with the result that the entire llat opened with an advance ranging from 1 to IS points, advances 'ore and point being quite common, j t - Oomfldeaee Beeiored. -j After wide fluctuations of values dur ing the first hour,-confidence waa ap parently, restored. The belief la cur rent - that the market . convulalona lopped with yesterday's sensational .break. ' - - ) Probably - the most- prominent fea ture In the optimistic ton of the mar : kettle the announcement of the clear ling sheets that all brokars hare been 'passed and that there will be ho fall yrea resulting from the crash. This waa combined with the announcement that the Rothschilds ef Liondon had pledged it bem selves to support the market I All along the llnd this afternoon the tendency was upward. London closed 'weak and threatened the bear effect here.. Another London failure was ra rted this afternoon. . The abeenee of failures was regarded M - i ' (Continued on Page Two.) Executive Says-That PSEIT TO STAND I . -it-. . "f - ;i 1 .i ' . Is Happening to the Mock Market It Will (Not Influenced His Actidifs" in the" Leasts ; . (Joaraal . Special Barries.) . Washington, Maroh ll Railroad fagnatee McCrea, Newman, Mellen and jlughltl are struggling between pride :nd fear, boptpg that th president will H a'confercno while th bear are awing tocka to piece In Wall street. The president Is Indifferent to the tuatlon. and Is reported to have said: 9 do not care what Is happening to e stock msrket. My course 1 not to r Influenced one way or another by 'J flobtuaUona In railway shares." The magnatea want a conference, but n't war.t to humble themselves to k for vth Interview. - The presldsnt rs: , "I'll see anybody who wanta to see me he ha bualnsss transactions, whether I a railroad president or a hod-car- kr" -. .-, ' - .." .' . - - - . In. Ma Interviews with the members the Interatste com mar oe commlealon. a president Is fortifying hlmeelf with mrd to all the faota that body has i :losd during It, various InvesUga- FLOOD Dynamite Used to Stop Spread ot Flames r Twenty Millions ; Is . High, Water Damage Most Important Business Dis t trict Submerged Streets : Ordinartfy Thronging, Arteries of Traffic Plied by Only a Few ' SkiffsLarge. Loss of Life. (Joaraal " Special Srrk. Pittsburg, Pa., March !. Fir at Mt. Washington, suburb of Pittsburg, de stroyed seven ' business house- this morning, B 1:80 four dwellings also had been destroyed. On account of the flood there was no water pressure, and the firemen were unable to compete with the flames. - v At :4I dynamite waa nsed la an ef fort to atop the spread of the flamea. Several house war blown up. No water waa available from any aouroa. all .the wella .and cistern .'having .been .ax hausted. , The fire waa under control at noon. ..The loss 'from the fire 1 esti mated at 1 300.000..--- . t-. SMrer STow ranter. The flood reached its . crest at t o'clock this morning, having reached the highest stage ever known her. Ten square mile of the down town district are completely aubmergo. The ' - loe gorges at Paiker and Preoport broke last night, and the-- bridge between Pittsburg and Allegheny is now threat ened by- th Ice-pack. Since o'clock this morning the water ha been reced ing at the rate of an inch an hour. ; while Policeman whitman waa at tempting a rescue in a skiff, the boat capatsed and he was drowned. ' . i Poarteea Xro Xdfe., . Within th past It hours 14 fatalities due to the flood have been - recorded. Th damage caused by the flood I esti mated at ItO.eOO.OOO. The damage In the coke . region at Connelsvtlle Is placed at 12.000,000, and more than 100,000 men are out of employment. - Many of the principal business streets of Pittsburg are flooded with several feet of water. Conditions are th worst every known here. Quest at th Colo nial.' Lincoln and 'Anderson hotels are compelled to . use skiffs to gst away from.tpelr Quarters. Tm city ha been divided Into dis trict for the relief of the flood suffer ers. Seven thousand loaves of bread. great quantltlee of ham and coffee and 1,000 bushels of coal were ordered thla morning and are. being , distributed among th noraeleca. SCUUoa to Saauure. Twsnty-thre men and 1J women and children were rescued by th polio thla morning from ' th second stories of houiie that were In Imminent dana-er of collapse. Hundreds -of people are' ms- rooned in the city, and hotels and rea- tadranta are overrun with people wh re unable to reach their home. Street car and telephone servlo 1 dsmorai Ised la many part of th city. . Th most Important district I sub merged. . Btraets ordinarily thronging (Continued on page Two.) -He Doesn't Care What tlons. Ions. In this way he, WU1 be able to neet them, argument 1 with argument meet : mem. argument ' with uiummt Th president, it is kaown. takes the safe position assumed when he sent hi meeeage to eongreaa laet December and called attention to th fact that "during th last llv months," within which ths new law is operative, "the railroads hsvs shown Increased earnings snd some ef them unusual dividend." This, the president believes, refutes th claim of the railways at the time that th new law would ruin them, and emphasise the fact that rate legislation, either by federal state government, a not th cauae of th present paqtcky conditions New work, March II. A conference la being held at an up-town hotel by Meeera. Newman, McCrea, Hughltt and Mellon to formulate plana for th visit to washlna-ton arranged by Morgan be fore his sailing to Europe for theee mn t meet the president to talk Over the railroad situation. They have been In eloi since It o'clock this morning. suisaieat Is expeoted this afternoon, FIRM . Mucr ftv I i-.e (SwttTHONkO'TI, , . AND UOVBk-T 1 If" INTEGRITY: f i ' . r PREFERS OEATH TO . BLINDNESS Grant Thompson, Inmate of the County Poor Farm,1 Ends: His . Ufa With a Razor When His , Eyesight Fails Him. Depressed and deranged at tho pros pect of continued and nopeieaa oiina ness. Grant Thompson, for some year th laundryman at th poor farm, com mined suicide this morning by cutting hi throat from ear to ear witn a rasor. Us waa. found by attendants stretched across a table In the laundry, where he had fallen, the rasor with which he bad killed hlmeelf by his aids. Th coroner wss notified and will hold an inquest this afternoon. Thompson had been an Inraat of th poor farm for the past "11 year er more and during a portion of th time was In charge of the laundry. Ha waa a man about 46 years of age and so far aa la known bad no relatives who can be found. i For some time past Thompson's eye Bight had been failing and for th last two or three months he had been prac tically blind. Recently he went to con sult an oculist and waa told that bis caae waa hopelese and that he would be totally blind In a abort time. Since th visit he had been growing gradu ally deranged, according to th employes of the Institution, and had been very despondent. ' i . It bad been Thompson a naoit to come to th sitting-room for his lunch, where h waa served on a tray by one of the attendants. Today be was missed at lnnch time - and upon search being In stituted was found in th laundry dead. ,: - y ' . felTTLE LAD CHOPS OFF v ry-BABY SISTER'S THUMB (Special Dtopatea to Tea Joornil.) ' TNllahorn. Or.. March IS. While playing with her brother, aged 4 years. th little iH-year-oid asugnter. or u. A. Mesalnger of South Hllleboro had her thumb cut. on yeaieraay wun an aa In the hands of th brother. The thumb was replaced by a Burgeon, Who hopea to savs It ; ' , . RUEF TAKES ANOTHER i TRY AT HABEAS CORPUS (ioaraal BpHl Service.) - " Ban rraaclsco, March 14. The su preme court tnls morning heard : the evldenoa end arguments on ths second petition for a writ of habeas enrpue filed yesterday on behalf of Abe Huef. The court took the matter under, ad Vlaerhent and remanded Ruaf to - th ouatody of Elisor Biggy until their de elBloa la handed down, - - : POOR JOHN I ... . a aT m m m . w a . - -..,. .Johavtook sao down to khi -nothor,- fct taoihort htm wothar; .' And wben be Introduced us to eaok other, -. ' . T-. ir Bli took off mil tho trinket "J bad- ojsv-i-..: "i the' kAdo'e very claae Invoatltratlon. v ":' , 6be grabbed mr puree, and dlamondi wlth latlon. . Then sbe eboutod "Ooi ,. v ,:-. : ; . ' v "V My ton needs your dought" : ;. ' f , y , - '. r-,:v Poorj John; poor Jobnl' ' i , . . OFFICERSs NAMED FOR ; NEW COUNTY. IN IDAHO i (SneeiaV Dlasetfh ta Tse'loeraal.t' " Botse, Ids-,, .March -14. Oovernor Ooodlng today appointed the following of fleers for th, new county. Of Bonner, in north Idaho, formed from Kooteneit County clerk and recoreerf Ignats ' Well of Band Point, sheriff. Edmund Douat'of Bonner's Ferry; ssseasor, .Prank U.' Luce of Newport, Washington-, probate Judge, Ooorge R.-Barker of .Sand Point; treasurer. .Andrew Chrlstensen Af - Lac lede; county attorney., Peter Johnson ef Bend Point; superintendent or scnooia. John W. Ramsey of Hope; coroner, w, William Knapp of Sand Point; surveyor, John Kashley ' of " Barid " Point ; county commissioners. , .Victor .W.. Roth - of Clark s Fork,' J'ohn P. Dunne of Bonner's Ferry, and A. J. Clark or uranite. ." ; . ENORMOUS BUILDING TO : - RISE AT WALLA WALLA ' ' . r t WaDa Walla, Wash, 'March II. Aa soon aa a suitable location can be found the Gilbert Hunt Manufacturing company of this city will begin th erec tion of an immsnse brick and ateel building (00 feet long, under -whloh their Immense plant and ' foundry can be consolidated, Th present buildings on Wsst Main atreet will be abandoned when' the new atruotura. which will cost about $100,000, can be flnlshad. : BIG PRICE AND PROFIT FOR A ROUGH PASTURE i 1 Olenwood. Waslu March 11. Daniel Houchln ha sold 110 acres of land to Puhrtnan of Pendleton. Oregon, for 11.000. The oroDertv la about a mil of farm land en the h "m,ln" der being pasture land located on the brakea , of . the Palouse river. Three year ago Houchln bought thla property for lit an acre. . , Do You Know About The Srst steamboat on th Wlllam " tt rlTerT ' ' How homeless babe , are oared for In Portland t The world's moat wonderful blind mant , ' ; ",' . ' King toward' secretary , aiding, gold . swIndleraT . v Discovery of ShakeapaarWs earliest ;. portraitr - ; '. - ' . What. Parts -owe to an American girl, in buslnessT . All thsss subjects 'and many mor are told ' about In , th mammoth Sunday Journal. Are You Fond ofilusic? Th Sunday Journal , supplies this want also. -"Th Lily and th Rese" ts th tl of ths chsrmlng llttls aong gfren away next 8unday. '...'. r DIVORCE MILL SEPARATES 16 Odd Scenes While Judge Frazer j Is Granting Eight Divorces in ... Forty Minutes One Woman Thrown Out In Snow. . "-Judge 8ears -made . eight unhappy persona happy thla morning when he granted , them divorce from their matea, or mlamatee, aa on witness tes tified In on of th divorce ease. . Taken altogether. It waa a hetero geneous group . that had gathered In th courtroom when th court opened. Th plaintiffs and witnesses war from all walk of Ilf and ahowed a keea appreciation of th legal phraseology contained In .their b.lla of complaint. Especially wss this true In en case, where the plaintiff. Mrs. Helen Loosen, who sought a divorce on the ground of cruel and Inhuman treatment. In variably replied to questions as to the manner In which her husband, Charle Loeeeh treated her: "Cruelly and in humanly. He was always a cruel and inhuman to me, she added. Mr. Loesch was given th custody of her l-year-old son, Arthur, while the elder son. Ernest, was given Into the car of th father. Th couple were married July I, 1400. la Portland. - aQoked Xb4o Snow. It was "out In th rain and hall snd waa given a dlvorc from East on Q. oimay on th grounas or cruel and in human treatment. . Mrs. Olmey test! tied that' upon on occasion Olmey threw ber out Into th snow, also that he struck her, cuffed her and kicked her with hta foot. She also said that Olmey mortgaged the house furnlturs three year ago while she was working In the hop yard a, and that she had to use her. hard-earned money to pay off th mortgagee to breek the laetatraw of Mrs. 01meya patience' Olmey sold th furniture and went away. Judge Sears had, a little difficulty In understanding Mr. Olmoy when shs gave her name to; th stenographer, and Attorney A. R. Mendenhall explained that If was Regina, "Oh. queen," said Judge Seers In an Interrogatory tone, aa he translated the Latin title Into Enellnh. Mrs. Olney looked th pert hidden behind a large. . flowing white vel that would have been more appro priate for shrlde. , ',' X Just Oof Ttred, ' -' ' Mrs. Martha C. Rosco was a' wttnees for Mrs. -Olmey and testified that she bed see Olmey com , up th stairs "wben he was so drunk that he couldn't come up or down." .The Olmeya were married at , Crookaton. Mlnneeota. In 1891. Olmey has been In the aaylum at Solera several ttravs due. It Is said, to excessive drinking. WIFE': Evelyn Thaw Recalled to Testify Regarding Affidavit Made Before Her Attorney. Jerome's Alienists All Pronounce Thaw' Sane When He Fired the Fatal Shot Farce of Ex pert Testimony and. Hypo- - thetical Questions." Maareal geeeli - New Tork. Maroh 1 Evelyn Nesblt Thaw-was recalled- to the wltneaa stand -thla afternoon In rebuttal of the testimony given by Attorney Abe Hum meL Hummel testified that he had not been employed by Evelyn as her attor ney at the time be said aha told htm Thaw . had beaten her ; because she would not alga charges against Stan ford Whit after ahe had told Thaw the charges ware not true, Evelyn waa recalled for th purpose of proving that she had employed Hum mel as bsr attorney. Evelyn looked sad and seemed worried. The thread of th- caae wee taken rp-where it was dropped when th -Stata began th in traduction of evidence "by ex porta, it now reverted to th Introduction of th affidavit of Bvelya mads at Hummal's dictation, f - -, ' . - Quibbling between Jerom and ' DV1- raaaover qusstlona I b asked Evelyn finally ended by . th court' ruling la favor ef Delraas. Evelyn then testified that Hummel waa acting aa her attor ns y. .,r-. . i Hummel was reoalleeV The court ruled that Evelyn In testifying In re gard to har conference with 'Hummel Involuntarily waived her' privilege and could not now Interpose It. - Delmas fought ever Inch of objection to Jerome's queetlon asking Hummel If Evelyn told him that Thaw begged her to swear- to documents charging White with betraying her. He was ovsrruled and Hummel anawered that the girl had. in affect, so told him. . Sxperts Xav Toning, . Dr. Austin B. Flint took th stand at th opening of . th Thaw trial thla morning. He waa excused temporarily and Dr.. William Hlrsch qualified -aa n experts Dr. . Hlrsch testified that the person described In the hypothetical question- knew the nature and quality of hla act when he slew th ether named ta the question. Jerome attacked Dr. Evans, who Su va need- the "brain, atorra" - thsory-for Thaw. Jerome aaked Hlrsch what scl sntlflo man ejnderstood " by - "brain storm." The witness said: "Among . scientific men there 1 no such thing as toraln storm.' " Dalmas objected to this llns of testi mony and a long wrangls followed. Jerome cited the oaa given by Evans aa hla' authority- and Hlrsch ssld Mi esse -cited by Bvaas and the one de scribed In th hypothetical queetlon were no more - silk than a oaa of (Continued on Page Two) SLOT MACHINES III ACTIOiJ - , , .1. . : - - v - ' ' ' - 'BMBXBBXBBKeKeXCBBXwaaBXe Cigar Firm Put Nickel Devourers on Their : Counters, but Say They Are Not i for Gambling Purposes. . ;f sE!ght nlckel-ln-the-slot maohlne. tagged a "sslesmen," mad their ap pea ran oe on ' the ' eountere of th Wltt achen A Wlckham Cigar, company, tot Washington street, this morning, and the little boxes on which the baa were placed ' early - In the winter are again clacking doflanca to the authority that banished thane. ' Other retail dealers la the buetoeee section of the city are watching with no llttls Interest th outcome of the teet which thla firm ha atarted. ' The boxes bad no sooner been placed on the oViuater than Al Wlckham was visited by a. police offloer, who carried the In formation concerning the nickel eaters to Chief Oiitimacher. ' The latter aa yet has not decided whether anything will be done to again banish ths devlcee. To Ohaaoe Bo See. Al Wlckham' said this morning that the boxes were not to be used by the firm an a -win er loe basis.-- Whatever money Is plsved la them le returned to i the operator In rlgnrs or t'ibaoeo. There 1 n"t a si-Tntilnnrs of fum bling In tlie v i- l i i.l'-l we propose to use the rm : r !!. "If a man pute In o- . f ri I -t amouat t , t i. . Large Number of Op eratives Have Signi fied' Their; Willing-, ness to Go Back." ; Miliowners Ssv That Thev Are . . v N6t Anxious and Are Improv? Ing the Enforced Idleness by Putting. "Their Plants in Per- . feet Order. L'.'v;, : '.,' - Th opinion that th snd of th Bill men's strike not far distant la xr ly expressed today by person who have watched developmenta sine. Its Inception . two week ago. . MUlowner assert that many of their former em ploye have aaked to be taken back to work,, and there is a persistent rumor that some of the mills will resume op erations not later than the mlddls of next week. . ' -. .'.. . , "A large percentage of our men have Informed us' that they want to go back to work and are anxloua for the mill toa tart - up -again,-. said- President-W.. B.-Mackar of the North Pacific Lum ber company this morning. - "Ths fact la that only . about 10 per cent- of our. men struck. ' Some of. the rest were afraid ' to continue work for f ear of personal, violence.' . Others declared they' were satisfied with what they wore . getting and would ' be ready for business again aa soon as the trouble blew -over. -!- "I can't Bay when we will start up,, but w will do So as soon as enough of the .men Indie te that they ere ready to com . back. Ws don't propoe to make any fight to a tart th mllL W win not make any errorr to rorce th strikers, bnt will Just wait untU 'they are willing to take their Jobs again." . -JMoy Waiting Oamav John Poulsea of the Inman-Poulaen Lumber company, aaya th miliowners have concluded to play a waiting gain and let their plants lie Idle until th striker voluntarily return to work. Mr. Poulssn la spokesman for th mill owner" committee and h says ths pre vailing spirit at yesterday afternoon' committee meeting waa to 1st th law of nature take' Ha own course. The mtllmen. by the way, are holding almost daily conferences. "here L, nothing serious about thla strike,- said Mr. Foul sen. "Whenever a man feels Ilk quitting he can do so. kim si courss ns essi return to wora. whsn he gets ready. I believe a number of the men. will return soon, but if they don't other union men will com along . and tak their place. We stand ex actly where we stood when the strike waa called. There will . be no confer ence between th anuiowner and th striker and w have nothing to arbi trate. ; ST Ftaoe for snzlke. "There 1 no ns arguing and making assertions. One thing - certain la that our mill will never reemploy any ef the (Continued oa Page Two.) . . . . If the money went' dlreotry . over the counter. ' "W have inntalled th machine merely te Uvea up the trad and stim ulate business a little. A mat ean't gamble on. them If he want to, for h get back In trad Just th exert mount he puts Into the boa. Irrespec tive of th card showing. I don't see aa we ere violating any ordinances or regulation so long aa.we eondect them la this way.1 ... ' Oths Deal srs Wasshtag. A number ef ether tobacco dealer either refused te commit themselves regarding a resumption of general use of the maohtnee oa th new basis, or expreseed doubt as to whether they would be allowed to run. So far es In, qulry waa made, none slated they would., ettempt operatln again In the la m., dlate future. . unla the euthorltiec permitted the machlrfee to run on tie 'no win io loe" baale win. out mo lestation. Kmanuel Blpiel snll his t'"n I i 1 all Its mrhlii'i ! " ' - was plnre.l upofi i i. : r . fill Wh.-l hot 1 1 " a tlnif d mi ui. t' run m ! - 1., i r - . i . (Continued oa Peg Two,)