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WORKID
STAY AWAY
FROM MILLS
After' Daybreak Meet
ing Pickets Go 0rj
Watch, But Precau-
ItionsAre Useless - v
Wlllowners Deny That.They Had
"Any Intention of Opening
Plants for the Present, and
' Repair Work Is Carried On in
. the Meantime. "
' XJsUverlss of from an elty
; Mills will kegia tomorrow morning-, so
' It m aataoritetlvel stated lege thla
! afteneoav, -, Taie will practically -meea
; ' that M fag 4 Its effects upon the build
', lag trades gad. v bonding ptojeota - are
r eeaeerasd, the mill workers atrlka la a
tblag of tea past, . i ... ,.
, An alleyed-plan to resume operations
tn fire of the Portland tnlUa thl mora
lug waa not' carried out on account of
- tha unwillingness of the atrlkera to re-
" turn to work. - Numerous employee of
' tha five mills In queatlon moat of
them akllled workmen aaaert that dur
ing tha past threo daya tha mill ows
" era hare mad ovorturea to them .and
have tried to get them to return to
. their . Joba. . '. .... . - -
The mllle which are reported aa hav
. Ing planned te open thla morning are
-these of the Portland Lumber company
and ef the Standard, Union. Multnomah
- and Oregon box and lumber companlee.
The atrlkera who were approached el
' lege they were offered II a day mere
'.than their former wag a, the Increase
"" to remain In effect for two .. weeks,
'' Com aay that agents of tha .company
made the offer toy telephone and other
r aaaert rthatthe. offer waa made- by
"letter. ,'"" i. :'
: arlj Kornlii; Meetfng. -
. That the atrlke leadera th amative
firmly telleTed that an attempt would
be made to etart tha mills this morn
ing la evidenced by the fact that last
night they peetod a notice for a meet
ing to be held at headquarter thla
" morning at':IO o'clock. At :10 sev
eral hundred atrlkera were on hand.
They were divided Into squads, ' each
squad being assigned to a mill.
Krery mill In the city, waa aur
rounded with pickets In. tha expecUtlon
that an Attempt would be made to etart
. tha plants. . Nobody .wllleng to work
appeared and -after a few houre the
ptcketa dlaperaed. A. aawyer formerly
' employed by the . Standard Box - and
Lumber company aaya that aa lata aa
o'clock thla morning ho waa called
up by telephone and waa asked to re
turn to work. .';.
; Say Itrtkere enaad Stat. '
It la also reported that an attempt
' waa made to start the St. Johna veneer
. factory but that the men refused to go
to work. The atrlkera are culte Jubi
lant' over . what 'they consider to be
eomethlng of a victory. They aay that
' tha experience of thla morning proven
that the rank and file will stand firm.
There waa aome fear expressed among
the leadera that' the coming, of tha
discharged loggera to town might com
plicate matters, but today members of
the atrlke committee are confident that
- tha loaaere will not act as atrlke
breakers. They report that tha loggera i
an the other nana are enrolling nounj
(Continued on Page Four.)
EDICT OF
THAT
People Have Lost 'Confidence iff Hbnestyjmd
Ability of Captains ot
Deal Is Demanded
. ' Iearaai SasHa! wma.l
New Tork, starch ll.-The Sun. which
fa owned by J. Plerpont Morgan and reo
ognlied; as a Well street organ, on Ha
financial page today aaya:
"It la manifest now tha tha speolflo
causa of tha recent disturbance tn tha
market eentera around Influences eon
nected with the activity la the railway
and financial world of Edward H. Harrl
man and the great apeeulattona ta Union
Paolfio and Southern Paclflo common
aharea In tha closing part of last sum
mer. "When the process ef obtaining money
for new railway work became a matter
of hardship, and the feeling of distrust
of a certain sort of financiers that had
become engendered by the Insurance
Investigation was blown Into new and
greater Ufa by -testimony given at the
Interstate commerce commission's Inves
tigation of the Harrtman management,
' a collapse In the stork market slmost
Inevitably followed. The Inquiry most
frequently made In the financial dis
trict st this moment Is aa to ths exact
pert plaved In sll this by Harrtman,
"Pld Harrtman and ths ether 'apltal-
GIRL IS FOUND
DEAD IN ROAD
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r klsa 'Emma Nicholson.
YOUNG GIRL: IS
UOODS AiiD DIES
Pretty. Seventeen-Year-Old Em
ma Nicholson, While Hurrying
to Party ! Along Dark . Road
Near Beaverton, Drops Dead
From Heart Failure. ,
Fright," which brought' an an attack of
heat failure, la believed to have been
the eausa of ' the 'death of pretty IT-year-old
Emma Nicholson, whoso body
waa found at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning beside the road a mile norm ef
the Beaverton station.' Reaching
Beaverton long after dark ' aha had
started for the Johnson home, which Is
a half, hour's walk from the depot. The
country rourift about-la wooded and It la
believed, that,- while, hurrying along tha
dark road,' she, became 'unduly, nervous
and excited from fright, her condition
resulting In a stroke of heart failure
and death. ;.'. '
Miss Nicholson had been tn Portland
nth her elder alater, Carrie Nicholson,
visiting friends during the week. : The
latter stayed In the city to attend - a
part7 Saturday night and the younger
girl took the train for home.- Later
In the evening aha boarded the train at
Shattuek atation to go to Beaverton,
where a party, waa to be given at the
Johnson home. The young girl's par
ante are well-known residents of Oar
den Home..
" The body waa found by Harvey Lea,
Sunday morning, and from the. muddy
and disarranged condition of tha cloth
Ing It was apparent tha young woman
had struggled after falling In tha road.
Coroner Brow waa summoned from
HUlaboro, together with .a phralclan.
The latter, after making an examine,
tlon, gave aa his opinion that death
waa due to heart failure, superinduced
by a highly nervous state.
The remains wars taken to the fam
ily homo by the. father,- Otto Nicholson,
yesterday afternoon, where the funeral
will be held tomorrow. .
' ' . ' ' V .
' ;, w Steam re An'. Wrecked.
' '.'" (Journal SpecUl ;Srrtct.) . "
" London, March - II. The passenger
steamer'' Suevto" la" golhg to.plecee on
Brandy, rocks where she struck laat
nlgbC 'The passengers were saved.
Hamburg, March II.- The4" eteamer
Novlsslsk 4a aahora at Beachy Head In
a dangeroua poaltlon. . . '
FRIGHTENED
WALL STREET IS
HARRIMAN MUST GO
Industry-and New,
lata with him Interested la Union Pa
clflo put their holdlnga of stocks on the
market aa' faat aa they eould Immedi
ately after the. announcement of Union
Paclflo and Southern Paclflo dividends,
or were they canght la a trap of their
own making and found themselves In
the present panlo loaded with securities
lust like the ordinary small Wall atreet
gamblers The prevailing opinion
seem a to be thet It la the latter named
suggestion thst Is reasonable.
t "What the future atock market may
do la beyond any man's telling, but
there are certain thlnga that ahould
happen tn tha near future If we are
going to have a market. In which the
people can make inveatmenta with
eafety. In the first place, Edward H.
Harrtman and men like him In the finan
cial world must go. -
"Peoeple have lost .confidence once
end for alt In the honesty and ability
of thene men. They believe that If they
are boneat they have ' Buffered them
selves to cherish . such perfectly mon
strous Ideas of acquisition and domina
tion In ths rallaray world aa to make
them absolutely unsafe 'persons to eon
duct 'great business enterprises.' i .
ROCK PILE
Refuse - to Work at
Quarry Unless Eight
; Hours Is Made the
iLabotlimitlii
Chief Guard Hurries to Portland
to Confer With County Com.
missioners. Who. Decide That
' ' He Who Refuses to Work Will
Also Not Eat. fc' V' .
. The prisoners at Kelly Butte went on
strike thla morning because their peti
tion to the county court, asking that
their heura of labor be limited to eight
hours a day, baa not been acted on. ,
With apparently no organisation ' or
leadership, the 61 prisoners, with the
exception of one- man, refused to go to
work this morning after they had eaten
their morning meal. :, The' method pur
sued by the prisoners was tha same aa
Is usually pursued in strikes. - When
the time came for work the men simply
lay on their oara, or ahovela, and re
fused to work, unless they be allowed
to quit at the end of eight houre.
Ooafera Wtta. Ooaar-jlaalosera.
' Chief Guard A. B. Brlgga hurried to
Portland -and notified the court of the
prisoners' action. ; He waa In consulta
tion with the county eommlaslonara
and at the end of the conference. Coun
ty Commissioner Llghtner gave out the
ultimatum that the prisoners would not
eat until they returned to work. What
affect thla wilt have upon the prisoners
except to make them hungry cannot be
foretold, bat the commissioners expect
the men to be beck at their work by
tomorrow morning. .
' Commissioner Llghtner. explained to
day that the men are supposed to
work about ten hours a lay, but that
the have been unable tedo thla . be
cause of the short days of winter. Later
In the year when the daya are longer
the men will be compelled to work ten
hours each day. ,
- smart Honrs lm Wis. tar. v "
. Chief Guard Brlgga aald today .'that
the men only averaged houra a day
for I ft daya In February. Thla waa
due to the fact that from one half day
to a whole-day la taken each week for
blasting purposes, at which time 'the
men are not allowed to work.
According to thla reckoning the men
have . labored - considerably-lees than
eight houra .a day. Whether they hare
or not, the county commissioners are
bound to make them do the work aa the
commissioners want It done. -
In' the meantime the strike haa gone
merrily on today. Tha men have 'done
no work, they have eaten no food aave
their breakfast, and the rap, rap, rap of
pick and ahovel haa not bees heard at
the quarry. .
DUNNE POSTPONES TRIAL
OF RUEF ANOTHER WEEK
San. Franotsco, March II. Judge
Dunne thla morning postponed Abraham
Ruefs trial untU March t. on which
date the supreme court of the Unite),
States ta expected to hand down a de
clelon on the writ of error granted to
Ruef by Judge Hebberd two weeka ago.
Tha poatponement waa granted at tha
requea, of the prosecution, which haa
forwarded the pepera In the ease with
a request that It be dismissed.
SOUL HAS HO WEIGHT v
' SAY EMINENT SCIENTISTS
Nikola TeslvDr. Isaao K. Funk.
and Professor Quackenboss
, Discuss Question. -
t fjeersal gneHa! gervlea.1 '
New Tork, March L Regarding the
proposition that the eoul . can be
weighed, Nikola Teela aaya:
"It la altogether too absurd for d!s
euaeloa that an aggregation of Impres
sions, thoughts and feelings having no
materiality and vaguely designated as
mind or soul should be substance aue
ceptlble of quantitative determination.
Tha change which takes place la- the
human body during the tranaltlon from
life to death la, however, a great sub
ject for sclentlflo. Investigation, .which
may possibly lead to Boras Important
results." . - .."
Tsala seya that a very alight general
deformation ot, the body twhen rigor
mortla aeta In would cauee a change In
atmosphsrlo weight sufficient to explain
the alteration In weight obeerved by
Massachusetts doctors. .
- Dr. Isaao K. Funk saya he doea not
(Contlnud en Page Four.)
BIG GAINS :
LAST WITH
Portland's Activity Is
Recognized in Report
of Construction News
of Chicago; C
Permission Given for Erection of
' Buildings Worth Eight Hun,
. dre'd and Eighty-Six Thousand
, Agaihst Three Hundred and
. Twenty-Eight Thousand.
The Construction Newa of Chicago, -a
paper devoted- almost exclusively to
building operations 1 In ' the United
States, In Its summary forjjutldlng per
mits taken out during - the month of
February - In : the leading cities, gives
Portland especially prominent mention,
and aaya editorially:
"Portland, Oregon, la making a phe
nomenal record In the way of building
Improvements and much of the credit
for the recent development of thla won
derful city la due to the enthusiasm of
the Portland Commercial club. During
February permits wars taken out for
the construction of 271 buildings. In
volving a total estimated - coat', ot
$88,6I, against til buildings, aggre
gating In cost $SIS,m for the corre
sponding month a year ago, an increase
of 7 buildings and 1661.241 over the
corresponding month a year ago.
Many riaa'mealdeaoea. ' ' ''
"In thla tarae total there were only
three large buildings; two of these were
176.009 eachv.-jnlrtt freight aheda of ths
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
railroads. The other waa a hotel to cost
1100.000. The rest was made up of the
better grade of residences and the av
erage cost as determined by the permits
wss In the neighborhood of s,zoo.
,The Chicago publication also prints
a list Of I of the leading cities of the
United States, showing the Increase end
decrease of building operatlona tn each.
At the bottom of the list It saya:
Phenomenal Showing.
Tha eltlea are about equally divided
aa to galna aad losses. . Tha principal
gains are in tha Paclflo coast and the
smaller Interior cities, while the big
cities show heavy decreases. ..Portland,
Oregon, makea a phenomenal showing.
permits having been taken out for the
construction or .171 buildings at an
estimated cost of 1881.139, agalnat til
buildings. Involving ,1128,118. for the
oame month a year ago, aa Increase
of 170 per cent"
LINN COUNTY'S NEW -TAXPAYING
RECORD
(Special Dtovetefe ta The Jo real.)
Albany, Or., March II. The tax col
lections In Linn county up to and In
clusive of March 15, reached a total df
8114,04117, the highest ever reached In
the history of the county at the time
of closing the allowance of the rebate.
The roU for ItOI aggregated !2!l,4t.8S.
A balance la left ra the roll to collect
of 8 4 l.07.0f. Altogether the work of
collecting the taxes hss been carried
along very expeditiously and a very
small proportion will remain for col
lection after the first Monday In April,
the time when a penalty ia added and
Interest exacted from delinquents;
WIRELESS SPANS
THE CONTINENT
Navy. Wireless Experts Succeed
In Transmitting Messages
From Florida to California
Can Cover Any Distance.
tJoanal leeds! Service.) "
Washington. D. C. March 1L Wiro-
less telegraph axperta of the navy de
partment are highly elated ever their
success In transmitting wireless mas
sagea from Peneacola, Florida, to Port
Lome, California, distance of over
1.000 miles. This Is the greatest dis
tance aver covered on thla aide of the
world and Is said to be the longeet
distance a wlreleea message was ever
transmitted across the land. .
' Practically all prevloua long distance
wl rale ea records have been made' by
transmitting meesagea across the sea,
aa for Instance from Newfoundland to
England. Between Florida and Cali
fornia two high mountain rangea, the
Rocktee and the Sierra Nevada Inter
vene. ' Frequent messages ''have, been
cent by the navy - department between
battleships and the shore, for ehort distances,-
but never before hss an effort
been made to apanv the continent."
Captain Qualtrough, who la In charge
ef the wireless station at the Washing
ton navy yard, aaya- that their aucoeat
Indicates that any-distance can . ulti
mately be covered by wireless, and he
looks forward confidently to - the day
when a wireless message can be trans
mitted around the world. ' ,
COURT SCENE IN TRIAL
OF BOSS ABRAHAM RUEF
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a.. aS.jjn
' , ' Ruef . la foreground,' bla , attorney Earn tier Bhbrtridge, to left.
The - trial! haa teen , cotttlnued unt II f March 26., ' ; .;.,
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E. JrMaxwell-Decides to Co h t r i b u t e H i s Pre
cious Buckskin Sack,' as Highwayman's y
-" -s : Revolver Is ! Near His Face .
' After a comparatively long period of
inactivity the "knights of tha highway?
have once more donned their masks aad
buckled on their revolvers preparatory
to reaping rich harvest from the be
lated pedestrians-of the city. Aa the
result of the operatlona of two daring
footpads laat night E. 3. Maxwell, mu
nicipal Inspector of sewers and side
walks, was robbed of $11 In gold. ' .
' The 'holdup occurred a. few minutes
before 10 p. m. at a point on tha South
ern ' Paclflo ' railroad t recks ' south'' of
Hamilton avenue. Maxwell, while on the
way to his residence, was stopped at the
muxsle of a revolver f large caliber,
tn the hands' of a young, well-dressed
and masked highwayman, ' and while
complying with the command of the
bandit to elevate hie hands waa relieved
of hla wallet by. the companion ot the
thug. ' ' t ,
" Standing wear Boaoara. '
"I had been carrying. the money In
a buckskin bag," said Maxwsll this
morning, "with the Intention of making
e deposit aa soon aa I accumulated 1200.
With no) thought of meeting a footpad
I walked along tha railroad .tracks on
f m
! The Record
The week ending March 17 instant wai a record breaker for ad
vertising. The three daily papers of Portland all carried more ad
vertising; for the week than ever before, ; The increase in real estate:
' advertising is the cause of it. The volume of advertising carried by
the papers was as follows:- . ',.
. t.. , . . ,r .'1 . " Journal. Oregonian, Telegram.
'. . 7 issues. 7. issues. : 6 issues. ,
Local Display, Inches ........... ..7. 6,288 ,
Foreign Display, inches 1,086
Classified and Real Estate, inches. ..3,919
Readers, inches 88
Totals '
' The present facilities of The Journal sre taxed to their limit to
take care of the advertising. The big, new press, the biggest press
in the Pacific Northwest, now in course of construction for The
Journal in the shops of R. Hoe 9l Company in New York, is needed
now, needed badly, but it will not be in operation until July. This
press would enable The Jonmal to handle 20,000 inches of advertising ,
a week and news and reading matter in proportion, instead of the
12,000 inches handled at present. Of late every week. The Journal
has been compelled to turn away advertising that was -offered at a
, late hour in the forenoon or on Saturday night just because of the
lack of. space in that particular issue of the paper at that particular
time. If the topy could be handed in at an earlier, hour, as much
in advance of the hour of publication ss. possible, it would greatly
convenience The -Journal as well as accommodate the advertiser, .
giving his ad better attention, better composition, as well as a bet
ter position in the paper. .Journal advertisers will confer a favor
by bearing this admonition in -mind.
my way homeward about Ave minutes
ta t o'clock.-
"When lust south of Hamilton eve
nue I noticed two men standing tn the
shadow of two box oara and was at
tracted by their peculiar actlona.. They
apparently were very . nervous and
aeemed to be healtatlnc about aome
thing. I continued on my way and
when paaalng them one of the fellowa
auddenly ahoved a gun tn my face and
ordered me to throw up my handa. -'.
"I loot no time In complying and and
denly feeling aome one at my back.
dropped my arma and reached back.
Tha fellow with the gun aald with an
oath. "Keep your bands up or Til blow
your bralna - out. Put 'era higher.
Higher still. I aay.' I did aa I waa bid
and the man at my back put hla hand In
the pocket where-' I kept my puree and
took the beg of money.-
"Then I waa told to hurry ' on and
make no-outcry. After walking a ehort
distance. I walked back' to' the place
where I was robbed but could find no
trace of the men. - .
- Maxwell reported the matter to the
(Continued on Page Two.)
.eov.oveooooat
for the Week
5,917
1,444
4,678
, es
...11,381 . 12,134 9,554
8.960
88S
' 2,685
54
PHOTO OF
ADMITTED
Plate ot Last Page of
Statement Made to
Hummel by Evelyn Is
Now Evidence ;
. 1 .v:
Detmas Objected to Admission
but Court Ruled Against Him
Eminent Alienists Present
.1 to Testify JThat Thaw Wat In
sane When He Shot White.
. (Joanul Special Strrlce.t ,
" Hew Tork, March 18. -A large ernwt
waa on band at, the opening ,of tha
Thaw trial thla morning. ; Jerome en
tered carrying hla overcoat and . the
customary portfolio ef letters and pa
cers. ...
Doctora Pilgrim, president ef the
Tork state lunacy commission; Gregory,
head of the Insane department of Beile-
vue hnanltl. an4 vtitt.
of the government asylum at Washing
ton, appeared for the defense. Other
alienists for the defense are present,
prepared to swear that Thaw waa insaaa
when he killed White, to offset the tes
tlmcny of the state's experts. ,
vriinout calling any witnesses, Jerome
took up the fight for tha admission of
the Hummel . affidavit. He offered a
photographic plate of the last page, on
which appears Evelyn's signature. This
plate had been excluded laat week. Del
maa objected to. Ita Introduction' today,
but after a wrangle the court admitted
It as evidence,
' jerome men closed hla rebuttal and
the dAfMU h. . . . . 1 I .
' , Bvslya's Affidavit.
The court admitted the carbon copy
of the affidavit, after' an Impaaaloned
battle of oratory between Delmas and
Jerome. Delmas demanded that Evelyn
Thaw be called and the affidavit of
fered to her, before being given ea
evidence. The court aald that evident
ly aome of the affidavit ahould not go
to the Jury. Delmaa said that - he
wanted all to go or none to go. Jerome
then read the affidavit, aa follows:
"Supreme court.' city and county of
New Tork:
"Evelyn Nesblt, being . duly sworn.
and la aged is. Tor four months pre-
"" " june, i nave been at
Dr. Bull's hospital, where I was ope
rated upon in June' for appendicitis.
"I then went to Europe with my
mother at the request of Harry K.
Thaw. My mother and I had apart-'
menta at tha Hotel France and traveled
to' Boulogne, accompanied by Mr. Thaw.
Once Mr. Thaw returned to London
and mother and I remained at the hotel
three weeks. Thaw la writing a num
ber of lettera."
aad Wife. '
"Thaw returned to Boulogne, took
mother and myself back to Paris. left
two weeks after, going . to London.
Thaw lived In the aame hotel for a
while, then moved. I went with Thaw to
Amsterdam. I waa 111 the whole period.
"Thaw and I traveled to Dutch Hol
land and then to Munich. . We traveled
through Bavaria to Austrian Tyrol.
"During all thla .time Thaw aad I
were known aa man and wife .under the
name of Mr. and Mra. Dellls. After
five or six weeks Thaw rented a eastie
(Continued on Page Five)
Dm LOOP
rnn niiinn urnr
Hil( HtKt
Representatives of Big Japanese
Firm Want Vessels to Load to
Paclflo Coast With Nipponese
Products. " "
Japan, not content with the efforts ot
the Portland "merchanta to ahlp gooda
Into the empire of the mikado, la look
Ing towards doing a little shipping "n
Its own inlt.atlve. and for that purpose
two men, T. Shtota from Seattle stv!
R. Ohta of San Francisco, are at the
Oregon looking for ships to be char,
tared in this port.
The two men are representatives of
the firm of Mitsut at fa of Toko.
The firm hss branch offices In all the
leading commercial centers of the worm
end their coming to Portland means im
opening of a branch her.
. "It Is not the-Intention of mv firm
to' establleh a new steamship fmit .
but to charter other ehlps tn rur. i
merchsnslde between Portland, 1 "
and Seattle in America and Jpm.
will charter vessels here snl 1 '
to. Japan loaded with wheat, t -it
other manufactured Brvln-. . .
send them bn-fc n.vl.l wit !
ucts ef Japan."
The two g.T"-n-' ir'
this nornl" ei I
daya. It l -
Important I
fire ' '
m'