The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, March 17, 1907, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text' TI1IL-SUNDAY JOURNAL -VIIiL. OFFZLRPmZES FOR-TIiE-MOST-BEAUTIFUL-VOMAU- III 0:V-L J . This Iseme of The Sunday Journal ' , Comprises 5 Sections 2 Pcges The Weather-8hower. .Winds shifting to Southerly. VOL. IVl NO. . X. PORTLAND, s OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1907. P.RICE FIVE CENTS. iim f rPir ftuniMvMmi . MW?Mm Journal c,rcubtion ' i , . . .. i .-.. N ea r IyE ye ry;P I an r i ri " City Is Expected to ; Resume Work Within Short Time v . Strike Cfommlttee' Wlil Not At , , tempt to Extend , Tie-Up of - Sawmills to Other Cities, and ! It Now Ready to Receive V Proposal From Managers. 7 1 Information from aoaroM strongly prs luntd to bo athentla la to the of tact that aU or nearly all of tho Portland mills will attempt to resume oporattona before the and of the preeent week. Tho reports are to the of fast that two of tho smaller mills will opsu on Tues day or Wednesday and that tho re mainder wm bo sot to work again , a day or two late. The mill owners bell ere that a large majority of tho striker - will respond with alacrity to a -call to return to their job. The places of tho rest they are planning to fill with workmen who bar come to town since the beginning ot the trouble. Ona employment agent alone la said to hare promised to furnish several hundred workmen to help start tho wheels of the lumber Industry to run- u WB VUW I ' Ooafldanos Bostosod. ' " ' ( ' Since the Federated Trades , Council mtm nA aaalnat-'aha In- .--duatrlai-V'.arkera' Qt-Jths. W?rldtho, mill owners neve aeraiy ovea mw .w ceal -their elation. - They feel that the worst of the strike la over and that tt cannot last more than few daya longs. This feeling Is shared by the business men, tho real sstato fraternity and. tho publlo generally.- - ,-..- . "Publlo confldsnoo that normal ' condi tions will be resumed soon Is shown y tbo qutcksolng of the rent sstato mar ket. . The demand for suburban lots, for example, fell off suddenly at the begin ning of the strike, but yesterday the movement became aoroud again, Satur day s sales were heavier than for many days previous. Tho feeling that the mlllowners will attempt to resume business Is prevalent Lmong the strikers and strike leaders also. The Strikers press committee gave out the Information last night that the mlllowners had been offering their old men tl a day above the regular wage fA Id. flrat two Mkl If thev would ; come back and help start the mills to running. It was wnainra am um v . (Continued on Page Ten.) lYOMSSlOTIiCTlES Visits Cigar Store and 0rdes Gritzmacher to Arrest Nickel-Eaters Which Go Into the Patrol Wagon. "Eight silent salesmen,", the euphon ious title bestowed by VPUtachen Wlckham, cigar dealers at 101 Washing ton street, on the resurrected slot ma chlnea Installed in the place since early Saturday morning, were confiscated last night by Mayor Harry Lane and Chief Grltsmaehar. The card machines were carted to police headquarters In the patrol wagon and are now safe under lock and key In the chiefa .private f. flee. f The spectacular affair. In which the u i i .v mMfttolnalltv aa i uivl vxwuw-v - rSertod his prerogatives as a policeman. I occurred about o"elock last evening and. attracted great excitemeni.on wmw Ington street. Shortly before that hour Mayor Lane notified Chief Orltsmacber to meet him at Third and Washington streets on sn Important matter. The head of the police department., wonder ing what , the nature of the pressing business oould be, mad haste to rerfbh the meeting place at the hour named. Haehlnoa Trader Arrest. ' The'mayor' Informed his subordinate that when he Interred the alot machlnee several months ago he did not.oontem plato that they would over bo galvan RUSSIANS WILL HANG ; 300.000 TERRORISES TO SUPPRESS REVOLT (PoblUhwV Press by Special teased Wfce.) . St Peterrsburg. Matcb It "Presl dent Thiers of francs shot 10,000 com munards In one day and ended the com mune; Ws will hsng 100,000 revolu tlonlsta," declared an official in ths service of the esar at Tsarkoo-Selo this morning. . ' The country, owing to tho excited state of the popular mind, ls In a dan gerous condition. Xle government hat iififlS rment of Expert to Examine the City's Books Is Unnecessary arid Irregular As1 George T. Black Would Be Practically Under Supervis Ion of Auditor It Would Re- v fleet on .That Official, .Says Mayor In -Message.' ; ' - "Not approved." wars the words that eomprissd us mesne go or Mayor um to tho council oommlttos on waya and means in relation to the employment of George T. Black as an expert In tho city auditor's department. . , Mr. Black had bean engaged as an expert on the advloe of a oomralttee of business men. to oxemino tne auditors books (at tho request of the auditor), but tbo mayor has refused to confirm his- appointment, -as -two experts -bad boon previously engaged by tho city. They wars Clark Buchanan, whose report Is now la dispute before the council committee on wsys and means. The text of tho veto message la as fol lows: ' - ' Books Already -tfxasalaed. , "I herewith return--' ordinance 1 No. lt.SOS not approved. This la an ordi nance which authorises ths mayor and auditor to ester Into a contract with George T. Black: to examine and report upon tho books snd reoordo of the auditor, .and-, tens surnre.br . lhsoity: , of Portland ;-. , - v ' In -respect to this ordlnaao 1 heve to say, that these books and records have already been examined by a firm of accountants presumably aa compe tent ax the one which this ordlnenee makes provision to employ, and there is no reason of a publlo nature whloh eel. a for a further expenditure of money for this purpose at this Urns. amending rrregalac "It might, also bo- nrged with some show of reason that aa examination and report upon tho books and records of a publlo official, where tho export who makes such examination and report doea so while acting directly ' under a coo tract, and necessarily under tho super vision of the Identical publlo official whose records Ls is to examine and re port upon, as la provided. In this ordi nance, would not be a very radical de parture from the employment of Mah official himself to make such examina tion and report upon hts own books and (Continued on Page Ten.) ised back to life. His calculations, however, had been upset by the action of Wittschen Wlckham, so ho con sidered It his bounden duty to at once take steps to suppress ths Insidious svll. Lane and Orltsmacber rpslred to the cigar store in question snd the mayor, after siting up ths row of nlckel-tn-tho-slot devices, ordered' the chief to stsrt the Confiscation gam a Grltsraacher In formed the owners of tho devices that the - machlnee were under arrest and hastened to summon the patrol wagon. Poseeeelon tho Offense. " According to the law, the mere pos session of gambling paraphernalia Is sufficient to constitute a crime, and the chief announces that he will swear to complaints Monday against tho two eigar dealera . ' ' The method under which they were running the machines waa xtreYnIy novel. Each devloe was labeled with a card reading "Salesman," and for all money played into tho machines goods equivalent In value were given. No prises were given for winning hands and the purpose of having the contriv ances tn the place was. according to ths proprietors, to merely promote trade. determined to use measures of the at- to yield In the fall of ItOt. , Tho same state pf arrairs exists now, out me government Is better prepared snd will fores acquiescence to Its demands. Steps to enforce order have begun. Many newspspers. have been confiscated.- Thero have been a number of executions and homes of . democratic members of tho douma have been raid- d. " , . t. ... .wv) " . ... ; "11 - St. 1 v & Unroll SHOOTS CHILDREfl AHD IS MURDERED " " '' ' : ' " j : . " ' " "" ""' Wealthy, Nevada MIneowner Opens Fire Upon Family With i Shotgun,' Wounds JTwoSons and I Killed by One of Them. (Haarst Wewe ey Lemtest teased Wire.) Carson City. Nov.. Maroh 10. Elsrldge O. Crowe, a wealthy mtneowner. at tempted to assaaslnato bis family 'to day and opened fire on his children with an automatic shotgun. Crowe Is dead, killed by his 17-year-old eon, Miltrn Crowe. IT, la lying at the point of death with two eharges of shot In his body, L and Fred crowe, aged ifi, is severely wounded from his father's shotgun. Crows was 6 years of ago and badfTnsy were addressed to Mj-a. Reno five children. He owned tho Lena Pino mines and worked them at Interval a Three days ago hs came to Carson City from his home, opposite the Bruns wick mill, on the . Carson river, and began to drink heavily and gamble. He returned home today and waa upbraided for his conduct by his wlfs and Bona Two young daughters were In the room, and Crows suddenly became, Infuriated, ran to tba other room,' and announced that ho would kill the whole family. Hs procured ths shotgun, while the girls ran screaming from tho house. Milton, the oldest son. took his mother and concealed her behind the garden fence, and was within to yards of the gats when bis father emerged from tho door of the bouse wtth the shotgun In his hands, making (or the girls.' Crowe raised his gun and fired at Milton, rid dling hla right hand and arm. Milton fall, and as he did so' hla father poured another load of shot into his prostrate body. MUton turned over, ' and, leveling a pistol, fired at the ' old man, who was In the act of aiming at Fred, the young er son, but missed the frensied eld man. Fred feU with his left leg chattered -by a charge of shot. The old man turned hla attention on Milton, and as he rained hla shotgun to firs upon him again Mil ton fired twice, one' shot piercing Crowe's neck and ths other passing through his heart, ' Meeessesseev THE MOST BEl UTIFUL WOMA N IN THE WORLD : : -' V: r- ; The Oregon Sunday Journal accepts" the challenge Issued from Chicago to find an equal xr superior to the' prize winner heralded as the most beautiful woman in America, and will offer cash prises for photographs of the three i most, beautiful girls In the Pacific northwest. Philadelphia, Boston, New York. Buffalo, Pittsburg, San Francisco, St Louis, Milwaukee, and tjther cities to the. number? of a dosen have accepted Chicago's confident challenge, each sure of proving that the most attractive young woman known to the American continent belongs' to them exclusively.'; : .. " -7?': ;.; . ',; ;;V ;.rr. :-: : ' v " '1 ." '': ,The Oregon Journal believes that the loveliest type of beauty is the product of the Oregon country. In beauty as in- other things Oregon beats the world. The Sunday Journal has accepted the delicate obligation 'of presenting in this national , competition the claims iof Ore- X gon and vicinity and will ask Oregon girls. ---,r'' :- .-' . ' .':;,..";,"; " Full details of the contest, which will arouse interest throughout the nation, ' will be printed in next Sunday's Journal. - , :. ' . 't) r ';, '''' : ,-' THE. FLAG Of ERIN. Erin's flag;' fling its folds to the breeze, Let -it float o er the land, let it flasn o'er tne seas; . Lift it up; wave it high; 'tis as bright as of old, Not a stain on its green, not a blot on its gold. TiS the sunburst resplendent, far-flashing on high, r;- Erin's dark night is waning, her day-dawn is nigh. s : J.-'-' : : r i FATHER RYAN.' CLUE TO SLAYER Letters Received by Widow From Tennessee Written by Man ,r Who Traveled Through East ern Washington and "Lectured. mparts! Dtepeteh te.Tke JesrsaLI . - Spokane, Wash.. March H. The police have devtloped a new clue which may aid In tho solution .' of tho mystery which baa hung over the murder of Reno Hutchinson, formerly of Portland, and secretary of the Y. M. C A. et the time ho waa ahot down In one of the eeeldenee dlstrlots of Spokane last fall. A few daya ago letters were pub lished which purported to be from Rev. John Maaten hnd dated In Tennessee. Hutchinson and in vary endearing terms. An Informant here has told tho polios that tn the summer, of )05 he. waa run ning a atorcrltr thetBtg Bend oountry of eastern . Washington and, knew. a .man of that name and description who traveled through the country-aa a' minister and gave lectures. The police Are now work ing on this clue, as- It has been their theory over slnoe the murder that tho deed was done either by a crank or aa enemy of Hutchinson. The man who arvea.ths latest clue Is Fred L Hammersmith. - SANK WHILE SHOWING HOW TEAM COULD SWIM (Special, tHepateh t Ths JeersaL) Elberton. Waah., March II. A. Pcf fenroth, sgsd 10 yeara, was drowned In tho'Palouse 'river near the brewery Thursday ' evening. ' He had left town for his homo and aa he drove acroee the swollen river It so pleased the spectators to see hts team swim that hs turned around and undertook - to swim them beck to the. opposite slda While doing this the horses lost their footing - In the ' swift eurrsnt snd the men and team were 1 drowned. Tho body of Poffenreth has not yet been found. ' ... ' Poffenrotb came to the Palouse coun try about 10 years ago. a poor man and hsd, become wealthy raising wheat. - MHUTCHIPH aMMtMeeeeeeeeeMese: WILL BE FOUND . IN OREGON I its readers to assist it in the search. for the most! beautiful of eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewewe-d MATlSFlELa BEAT Thespian Pounded and Bruised v Emma Dunn 8o That She Quit In the Middle of an Act Suffered -From BralnrtorrrK. (Hearst Sews by tiaesst tsaset Wws.) New Tork. March 1. "Actor Rich ard. Mansfield boat mo In tho play.' This Is ths reason given by Miss Emma Dunn, tbo clever Uttle aetreas who on Thursday night resigned ' her pert aa ths mother In Mr. Mansfield's produc tion of "Pare Oyer at ths New Am sterdam theatre, and walked, out In ths middle of ths performance, leaving her understudy to do tho death soens in tho last not. ' v In private Ufa Kiss Dunn, who Is very petlto and pretty, is ths wife of Harry Beresford. the comedian. She Uvea with her mother la this olty. She Is . there now, . recovering from many bruises. Today aha said: . , . , "Mr troubles have . been . similar to those of nearly every , other leading woman Mr. Mansfield over had who . M the least bit suooeesfuL He aomm not Ilka for his support to do any ..Mn Ha trie to do It all and If they , try to act and soma anywhere near It, ho resents It. "Mr. Mansfield did not seam to ap preciate my attempts to act Then be started In to sneering at me and repri manded mo before ths other members of the company. Ho used to toos me on the roof of the bouse In ths first act. I waa very light,- and he is ve strong, but It became hla habit to nee such violence that I waa covered with braises. At Cleveland he beat me very hard aa bo was hoisting me up on the roof. I waa 111 from tho blows snd a physician .told me that if I waa so treated again I would be permanently "Km soon ss tho curtain rang down 1 quit. I could not endure such brutal traatmsnt an longer. "Do you know.' conolnded little Miss Dunn, that I . really think Mr. Mans field . Is suffering . from a cold . or brainstorm and exasperated ago." PREITY ACTRESS CONFESS TO SHOOTING UP BROWNSVILLE Five Negroes Tell Part in1 Rioting Mexican Woman Cause ot Row That ; Ended; Fatally Sensational Admissions Made by Discharged Troopers That Solves Riddle of Disgraceful Affray Enraged They Fired Into Everything They Saw. (Besrst Sews ay Lease Leased Wire.) . Galveston, Tex, March It. By the confessions of f tvs negroes who be longed to the Twenty-fifth Infantry and were discharged . by President Rooee- volt for shooting np tho town of Brownevllle, Texas, on tho night of An fust 18, IsOt, an entirely new phase has been given the ease and la tho moat sensational thing that has coma to light in regard to .the affair whloh has at treated the attention of the whole coun try since the' outrageous"-work was dona ; - .. . i The five negroes arrived here today. and from what can bo learned late to night they made a clean breast of every thing and furnished testimony which will no doubt help, to clear up the case. Mow Began Over a Woman. , The discharged ' addiera ' bear each other out In the statement that a Mexl can woman waa-the primary cause of ths riot which coat ths life of one man. resulted in the shooting np of several houses, and eventvaUy the discharging of -the regiment. - n - . . They claim that one of the soldlera had taken up with a Mexican woman who lived In the dty ot Brownsville, somewhere near ths berracka, and whan he and others who had been going with tho woman found a white man In her house they became enraged and went to tho barracks and called for help to shoot up the town. ' They say that quits a number of sol diers responded and ' Immediately the shooting began. While hunting for the white man who had been caught with their friend, the Mexican woman. ' they took occasion to. fire their guns' snd eventuaUy became ao angered that they fired Into everything they aaw. . , STafro Soldiers Ooafesa.' . They hurried back . to tho barracks after the shooting had been done and from that hour . they have been abso lutely quiet about the affair. Their reason for finally giving their aids of (Continued on Fage Ten.) TO GET Property "Owners Indicate General Prosperity by Readiness to PayTwo Millions Al- .1' . '' ready neceivea That property-owners of Multnomah obuaty are Prosperous waa shown by tho way In whloh they have paid their taxea this yeas. When ths tlma ex pired Friday night, when taxpayers could secure a rebate of 1 per cent for paying their taxea by March 11, all but tloo.009 of tho lt.100,000 taxea duo the county had been paid Into the tax col lector's office. A. M. Moltsen, chief deputy In the office, said that taspayera have been mere prompt this year than ever before In the payment of taxes, and - when April 1, the- day taxpayers become do Unquent If they have not settled with the county comes sround, nearly kll of the taxes are expected to have been col lected. , " Queer Demands Stada, ' The average taxpayer la considered a curious sort of a being by "the Tax col lectors, and evidences In the forms of letters, ' "call-downs"" and stipulations bear them , out lq their opinion. The efforts of soms of tho taxpayers to beat the tax collector are not only amus ing, but often . take tho form ot the grotesqua One Tnsn wrote from 8t Johns that "hs was from Missouri and would have to bo shown," when hs re- PRESIDENT BOARD TO . ' INLAND (rstolhrtiara Frees by Speelel Leeeed Wire.) Washington. March 1 The 1 pres ident tonight announced the creation of an Inland waterwaya commission, with the following members: Chairman, Representative T. K. Bur ton, chairman of the committee on rtvera and harbera of the house of rep resentatives; Senator Francle O. New lende. Nevada; Senator William M, Warner. Mtnaourt: furmar rtorreuenia ttve John II. lirH'.il, Alnhum; Gen eral Alexander Ii - - , r:,i-f of en- ROUTS HIS OPPONENTS Magnate Still in Con trol of SystemThough by Small Majority Which May Be Upset Caught for Millions In Recent ' Slump, Harrlman Has Re - gained His Lost Position and Is Once Again In Control Through Aid of Standard Oil. - Reaiet Kews by leegest teased Wire.) . New Tork, March it. After being caught for millions In the recent slump tn ths stock market. E. It Harrlman, with characteristic alertness, regained ' hla loot position In 41 hours and la once again In command in Wall street. It -can be said without qualification that the reports of hla having loot eontrol of Union Pacific and Southern Paclno are without foundation, although it must be admitted that hla majority Is so snLsll that his" opponents are In a position to make trouble for him at any . time. Still, tue fact remains that Bar- -' rlman ls la control and has been able to recover moot or all of hla loases by -getting back Into the market early lit. the rise, - which- toUowod tho great slump. ' - , There' Is no questioning" the fact that ' Morgan and his associates have gath ered In' great blocks of Union Paeltto and Reeding stocks la the lest few daya brokers ' in Wall street say (OO.OOA j shares but It begins now to look ss if f most of tftiaa - come - from -wmatt-1 veetore In all parts of the world, who were frightened - Into unloading with cruel losses. Mr. Harrlman himself says ha - haa "not sold any - stock re cently and that he and bis associates stand closer together than aver. ' - v Carnegie Against Btarrlaaaa. , The escape 'of Mr. Harrlman from what looked yesterday like a Waterloo . la all ths more remarkable, for never before In the history of financial mar kets have so many powerful men allied themeelvea. In a pool aa In the attack on Harrlman. Andrew Carnegie waa called from his retirement and brought tana of millions tn cash aa ammuni tion.' John 8. Kennedy, white-haired and feeble In body, but a colossus In . high finance, was also brought Into tho battie. D. Willie Jatnee, tho quiet but mighty copper king, -carao also. J. H. Mlllbank. the money king, whoso power la known only to a few of the great ' (Continued on Pago Ton.) TAX REBATES Dy tne tounty mttted S4 cents ta make np for his pre vious shortcomings In tba payment of taxes. ' This man bad sent In half of his taaee mlnua per sent, which bo claimed as rebate . The rules do not allow a person who pays hla taxea on tho Installment plan to get the benefit of tho robata TThrn thla man received hla money order back -hla Ire got tho better et him ant ha . wrote to the office and told them In "classto Missouri" what he thought of the tax eollectore tn general and those In Portland tn particular. . Sfeg-gle MartU's lettsr. ' . " ' Another Interesting feature In US collecting tlma ls the annual letter f eora Maggie Martin of Spring Valley, Ennta ootny, County Weatford. Ireland. Mag gie always sends a letter along with, ber taxes, explaining what It Is for. . She usually ends her . missive with. "Please find one chilling and one penny to pay my taxea with." 1 ' Maggie Martin la not the only person tn foreign landa to contribute to the general wealth of Multnomah county. Others live In England, Germany, Spain, ' Italy, France, South America, Mexico (Continued on Page Four.) CREATES i SUPERVISE WATERWAYS glneere. U. S. A.: Dr. W. J. MeO! F. H. Newell, director reclamation servl'! Gtfford Plnchot. chief forestry burenn. snd Herbert Knox Smith, commission' r Of corporations. In his letter making this merit, the president si-,' i commission Is to pr" comprehensive plan I merit snd control . ' of the I'nlte'l f la "lnflnenre.1 of national i L a ' i.