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Little Ai in TIIE JOURNAL Journal Circulation Drfags Results Costa Only 29,142 One Cent a Word. Yesterday i .. Was Th Weather Shower tonight and- Thursday; aoutherly wfhde. VOL. VI. NO. 19. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 87, 1907. SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. on nmi two sr-we. mm immoms m mmm Bumim GRAND JURY lOWPHIIIG GAS BRIBES Supervisors Took the . Money . for Making Higher Rate Effective to Gas Consumers-- f ' ;--:- : - - More Than One Man of High , Position' In Grave Anxiety as ' Result of Heney's Relentless r" Inquiry W. B. Bourn, Mil lionaire', Now Involved. - -Uearoal Special Service.) . ' Baa Francisco, March 17. There' la grave anxiety In tb taeart of mora than oBe man of high posltloa In Ban Fran ctaco today aa the relentleaa probe of lleney and Burna goes deeper Into the Kraft crankera .that are eating at the rltale of tbe city. Those whd are "high up" no longer reet lu eacurtty with ttia feeling that the a mail thieves they have used will not betray them. Each day witnesses who have a close and intimate knowledge of the bribery ' grow more r willing to tell their atorles to the grand jury ana nry. ; '- ' ' After oea Company. ... . xhe grand Jury today began the ln : veatlgstlon ef the bribery of the au pervlaors by the aa company. Super visor Gallagher. confeased that na pain ' the members of the board $70 each to vote for la, cent gea Instead of ft cent gaa. to. which they were pledged. ' Oe lagber' got tbe money from Abe Ruef . and tbe grand Jury thinks It can bow answer the question, who gave . ' the money to Ruef A confession has been made to the graft proaacutora revealing the name of the go-between who bandied tbe oor ' ruptlon fund of the gag trust Uia In dictment by the grand Jury la certain. - But beyond and above the go-between 'are men "of wealth and prominence Whom the Inveatlgators are reaching for. Moat nrerolnent of these Is William B. - Bourn, millionaire club man and former prealdent of the Ban Francisco das kUectrlo company. Bourn's namal haa been brought to the surfaco agalnxand ' again by the men who are delving Into the .depths of the gaa trust bribery. Ha la one of the olgheet up whom the prosecutors are after. It la frankly ad mitted by tbe Inveatlgators that no evi dence haa yet been secured connecting Bourn directly with the bribery of tbe supervisors. Bourn and Bchmlts are good,' friend a. f : ': '.- After Those WOgbw Tjn. .. Over half a dosen wltnessea have been examined by the grand Jury, the ma jority of them coming from Oakland, to throw light on the distribution of the 1100,000 that the, Home Telephone . . company brought . up from ' Los Aa (Continued en Page Two.) REFUSES 12,000 SILVER DOLLARS Rrst National Bank Declines a Big Deposit of Collector of Customs Because It Has to v Pay Freight to Sub-Treasury. " The First National bank yesterday re ' fused to accept some 111.000 In silver from the collector of customs of this port for dsposlt on the ground that It haa already all the silver It eaa handle, end that It ooata 14 to ship each 11.000 ' to the subtreaeury at Ban Francisco. ' Chlaf Deputy Collector Pike has wired ' the department In Washington for In structions aa to the disposition of the coin. - An answer la expected this after- ' noon. ' ' " Heretofore the collector of euatoms forwarded hie collectiona direct to the ubtreaaury, but . a few days ago In structions ware received from the chief ' of tbe department to deposit the collec tions in the national banks here. Mon day about ' 110,000 waa collected and about 111.000 of the money .turned over to the bank, waa In silver. 'The gold was' accepted hut the silver returned. Prealdent A. I Mills of Jthe First Na tlohal bank eays that the silver was re fuaed on ths ground stated above, aa it would be impossible to find space for It In the bank vaulta at present. Ha ex plains that enras years ago a law was passed providing free transportation for allver from the treasury but no provis ion waa made for ita return. Hence It e is up to eome one to pay the freight In this Instance the bank does not feel Inclined to do ,oo. . . The average monthly collection by the collector -of custom l 171.00. but this month It is much In excess of that mount because of ths csrgo of the rrlntiil liner Arabia, which alone brings more than 1100,000. TRftlRlL RliiiWUGH Repairs onSouthern Pacific Nearly. Done and PassengersLong Delayed Can Start Harriman Line Officials Make the Surprising Announcement That Rule of Interstate Com merce Commission Forbids Sending People by Ogden. - Contrary to all expects tlona, the Southern Pacific company announced to day that It will prebably be In shape to carry passengers between Portland and Baa Francisco tomorrow. One by one the gape where waahouts and - elides paralysed traffic have been closed up. and tomorrow only one serious break will remainthat at Castello. Tbe over land trains will meet on each side ef this washout and transfer passenger and malL The Castello washout is between 81ms and Dunamuir. It Is not the worst on ths line, but It wss the last one that therepair- gang- coald-.reaehaftar.lhe California, flood a auealded. Several nun dttd feet of track' was carried out. to gether with a bridge. The repair gangs are now at work driving piling and con structing a temporary treetle overne break. It will be completed by Friday of this week, end the company expects to run ther Overland trains through be tween - Portland : and Ban Francisco without change on that date. No through tickets will fee cold until the local passenger department, la certain that the train service can be given and transfer made at Caatello. It 'Is ex pected that . poaltive advices to -that effect will be received tomorrow.' ' Ogden Boats Forbid dem. ' ' Aa amaalng statement has been made by the passenger department of .the Southern Pacific relative , to the appli cation of an interstate commerce com mission ruling on the carrying of pas sengers by a rout different from thst provided on the ticket In went of floods and ether disasters. . . It is stated In positive terms by the Southern Pacific company that the commission' ruling prevents ths, carrying of Portland-Ban Franciaco paaaengera via Ogden. For the flrat three daye efter the floods put ths Southern Pacific com pany out of commlsalon ' between Baa Franelsoo and Portland, all passengers with through tickets la their poesesslon were carried without extra charge between- Portland and Ban Franeteco, rta the Ogden 'route, notwithstanding . tbe fact that It la aeveral hundred mltoo farther, and the - fare via Ogdea Is tsf.10, aa agalnat 110 far on ths direct line 'from Portland to Baa Francisco. (Continued on Page Two.) POLITICS Ofl 1 DUTY FORBIDDEN City Employes Must Keep Their Hands Off In th Approaching , Municipal ' Struggle, , Decides Civil Service Commission. 1 Policemen And flretnea moat not, un der an order made by the olvll service commission this morning,' sates so ao tlvely Into the oomlng campaign aa to neglect their dutlee. Under the char ter no person may Use his authority to Influence or coerce the political action of any other, person or body, or to af fect lor to Interfere with any nomina tion, appointment or election to public office. Thle prevision,, ao It was re ported to tbe commission, haa bean vio lated by member at the two depart, menta, , ; ' . The men may have ' been talking while off duty,- said Commtsslonsr Blaln wbsn the report earns up. "Is It with in our power to suppress their speech when they have ended -their days WorkT 1 think not," said . Commissioner Brewster. ; That la my opinion," said Chairmen Willis. "If the men talk politics and neglect their duties we should dis charge them." . VI f city offlclala try to Influence their employee It would be our bualneea to enforce the provisions of ths charter,- rejoined . Mr. Brewster. -We . . should not have to turn detectives to discover a crime. That work belongs to tbe po lice. Dirty politics would not be prac ticed by our two leading candidates for lbs mayoralty,' meaning Mayor Lane and City Auditor Devlin. The commission decided that If there are any flagrant violations of the char ter ths offender wilt he dismissed from tbe service at enoe. . . VICTIM OF rOetW SEiiTRIES III BUILDING LOOBY Detectives on Duty Day and NTgrrtat"Entrance 61 Lumber Exchange -Watching for Some One to Enter or Leave. For aeven daye and nights 'two men in relays have stood sentinel In ths lobby of th Lumbermen's Exchange building, and closely acrutlnlsed th facea . of very person who entered or left the building. The myatery at laat got upon the nervea of the tenants, add today one of the owners, T. Scott Brooke, de manded an explanation. The roan oa watch at th time of the Interview de clined 'to state bis mission, but said It was necessary that hs should wait there for a certain person to eome to, the building. Ha was allowed to remain. 1 1 Aaked what the nature of hla secret waa, ha replied that It was a business matter,, and that It could not be. told without thwarting - the purpoa " for which th vigil Is -being kept up. lie said there waa no woman in ths case. He admitted that he Is connected with ths A. P. Brown detective agency.' Hs Is a tall, slender men. and wears speo taiss, through which hs fixes a piercing gase upon everyone that comes through ths main doora.. He goee oa duty at T:l a- m., and la relieved about aa hour by a shorter man. who stays on' watch while ths slim one. goes to breakfast At the noon hour the shorter man comas back and " relieves -hie companion for luncheon. The vigil ends about I o'clock p. av for the day. In converaation this morning with T. Scott Brooke, the detective stated that th tenants of ths building need feel ao alarm, aa the person for whom he la waiting la not quartered la th build ing, and that hi business Is aot of special concern to anyone employed la the atruetura, . PORTLAND MAN PRESIDES AT KANSAS CONFERENCE Emporia. Ken. March IT. The annual meeting of tbe southeastern . Kansas conference of the Methodist Episcopal chyrch began here today with aa at tendance ef about 110 minister and a number of other visitor, Bishop David H. Moore, of Portland. Oregon, la the preeidlag officer. A number of promi nent divine will be heard during th sessions, which are to last four daye. . Oregon's Most Beautiful Women TS your sweetheart A - in the world 7 If yours, isn t, then some other fellow's sweetheart is. We believe she lives in Oregon. Help us ' Send her picture to'thej Beauty Lditor of the Journal, to take part in the Great Beauty Contest. We have undertaken to prove to the world that its most beautiful woman lives in Oregon. ,,!-'.-.:.' MASKED THUG " i e a m -aBaaaaaw m m m mm r. bbbbk. am a i wf-ivi ivy ii . . - - - i " ,vl830ER-YEARllLUd GERMANY SEEKS SLICE OF PERSIA American Diplomat Leaves jto ; Inspect Bagdad Railroad and Report on Kaiser's Political :-. Activity. ': : y (Joarnal Iprrlal srrtea. ' Constantinople, March 17. Under ln etructlone from 'Washington, P. A. Jay, secretary of tbe American embassy, will leave soon for Bagdad, la Aalatlo Tar key, to lnapect the Bagdad railway, which wee aealgned to connect the Med iterranean aea with the Persian gulf. : The .work Is being done by th Ger mans. Jay will Inspect the rood and report on the kaiser's political activity to Waahlngton. . ' London. March 17. It Is believed hare that Oermanya deelgna'bn the Persian gulf through the Bagdad railway will aoon threaten the world's peace, and that Jay's mission Is more Important than one of Inspection. It Is thou'ght that ths president wants Information at first hand of ths progress of event which promise to become of vital Impor tance. ..'....... LARGER COURT ROOM ; FOR THE M OYER CASE Boise, ' Ida- March IT. An effort I being-made to eecure the courtroom In the federal building In which to try the Mover. Haywood end Pettlbone esses. Ths oounty courthouse Is too small to accommodate th large attendance that la certain. eeeeeee the v prettiest woman i AND SCENE OF INGS Mrs. Phillips, Divorce Plaintiff, Testifies That She Had to. ; Spray Fruit Trees and Plow the Ground. Mra. Elisabeth T. Phnilp ' teatlflad this morning In her ault for divorce from Charlee J. PhlUlpa that ahe sawed. cut and spilt a carload of wood, when ah waa . living with ' bar , husband on their farm at Th . Dallea, adding that It seemed es If It took 10 years to com plete ths taak. Mrs.' Philllpe testified further that shs had dons most of ths work to support ths family and that Phillips has not earned more than f 10 In 1 years. t . . Ths ooupl were married at Spring field. Illinois, April 11, 1814, and moved tor The Dalles) teo years later. . From that time on Philllpe waa aasoctated In business with his brothers. They con tinued to live In harmony for several years, according to Mra. Phillips, wbsn th husband bagan accusing her of in fidelity. From that time on th family waa In poverty and living unhappily, so Mrs.. Phillips testified, but trylna- to keep up a eemblanoe of happiness for the benefit of ths outside world. .. , ' Kezaoved to Pertlaad. ;. Latter Mrs. Phillip and her husband's brother, R. B. Phillips, cam to Portland to live with th defendant daughter, Mr. Husbands. About tbls Urns, from Mra. Phillips' testimony.- bsr husband became auspicious and made hla accusa tions. i The attorneys had a , stormy session In oourt this morning In which Judge Fraser refused to allow ths lawysrs In the case to examine the witnesses on ths few facta set forth In the com plaint - 'judge Fraser demanded that ths case be thrown wide open and all the facts introduced, threatening to con tinue th trial to a future date unless ths attomeya agreed to examine along these lines. As a result the plaintiff filed an amendment to the original com plaint. In which sh asked fot tha di vorce on the ground of eruel and Inhu man treatment, by a ayatematlo series of cruel and false accusations. Flowed aad preyed, ' The defense took exception to th action of th plaintiff and to all th testimony which may eome up ander the new ruling. '' ' Mr. Phillip waa th only witness examined tbto- morning end- testified that ahe had harnessed the horse, sprayed th fruit trees, helped build the fences, plowed and did many 'other thlnge eup poeed to he man' work, while, as ahe stated. Pnllllpe simply puttered around. When aaked by Attorney J. J.- John eon, Philllpe' ' attorney, whether shs Bed brought keepeskes to her husband when ahe returned from a trip to the city, ehe eald ehe bad brought him socks, rubber boots end a few other articles of wear. Mrs. Phillips said that aha had done her share of the work and her huaband'e too, and that aha had no words with which shs could express herself la telling what kind of man ber husband was. Mra. Philllpe testified thef when ehe was about to bring her dlvoree pro ceedings, Philllpe said: -Well, he (meenlng R. B. Phillips) has money, and If you' beat me In th divorce ease I will kill you both." - The couple had eight children horn to them, on of whom died In Infancy, while another la la the care of the ju venile court. ROBBERY RUNNING OUIETLY Situation ; Is Little 'Changed Though Strikers Claim to Have Taken Many Men Away From Operators! The situation In th lumber mill la little changed today. All the mill are running and though the etrlkera claim they have taken 40 men out of th Eastern te Western, IS out of tbe Stand ard and over id out of the Portland during the paat 14 hours, the owners deny this snd say, they are operating tiafaotorliy. . Several reports of assaults made oa strike-breakers by union pickets have corns In, but for ths beating of A. 8. Smlt, an employe of , the Eastern A Western, none have been authentically confirmed. Though, there are policemen and plain cloth"s detectives Jin. plenty abont every mill, no arrests have yet been msde. The pickets are still very sctlve and seem confident of bringing about another tleup. - The fact that tbe mill owners, oa ac count of ths . loss occasioned by the strike, hve agreed to hold out for a smal'er price on logs, has glvsn rise to a report that th logger will refuse to open their camps. Secretsry Farrall of the Loggers' association said today that a . deadlock between the mill ownera and the loggere le wholly Improbable and that a compromise will undoubtedly be erreotea. Toe loggere' executive com mittee is to - meet Saturday afternoon and a committee of the mill owner will prebably go Into conference with It at that ' time with a view to -coming to an amicable agreement. The mill own er want the price of log reduced fl per thousand feet. LID CLOSED TIGHTLY IN LOS ANGELES BY POLICE Greatest Tenderloin Raid In His tory of fcitjr Hundreds Are Imprisoned. , IJearaal gpMlsl aerrle.t Lo Angele. March IT. Following rumor that - th police eommUalon would put th lid down end make Lo Angele tho moat tightly Closed plso In ths west came the greatest tenderloin raid last night In the olty'a history, practically the whole . police force of over 100 men taking part, and every questionable place being "pulled." Twenty-nv wagons were employed m carrying women out of the disorderly placea of th town to th central eta t Ion aa faet a arrested and every house which bad character are known to fre quent le under close guard. Tbe clean up, which was quietly begun shortly be fore midnight, continued until daylight Places supposed to be immune. If not positively protected, were entered with out wsrning snd scores of the Inmates taken away and locked up. The new Ballerlno "crib" district waa lnolu.lM and every person was placed In Jnil Nearly 109 are behind th bars, a l charged with mtrinrv. Mayor Hn-r ! 1 " n 1 ml rtv. orders t t f " r i r not one did"' 1 i it m r looked or f ' ? I mlU.l to e WWIH Mrs. N. W. Rountree Is Victim of Thug While Her Husband Is Away From House I Hard Fingers on Throat Render ; Her " Almost Speechless Robber Hits Her With Pistol but Gets Little for Daring Call on Ella Street Home. Take theas and go, or I'll scream for help," aaid Mrs. Nell Rountree, as she unscrewed her diamond earrings and" handed them to a burglar , who stood' over her bed. " Mrs. Rountree Is th wlf of N. W. Rountree, of the real estate firm of Rountree 4c Diamond, 141 Stark etreet, and after being robbed ehe waa brutally choked and then a truck over the head with th butt of a revolver by a bur glar who broke Into the residence, 0 Ella street, at 1:10 o'clock last evening. Bendered sT early gpeeohl . Mrs. Rountree was th first society editor of Th Journal, writing under the pseudonym" of "limn .Alert." Bbe lie at her home today In a semi-conscious condition. Buffering lnteneely from the wounds Inflicted upon her per--f on. The left slds of her face Is .black and swollen from the frightful ' blow over the eye, and her throat la so badly swollen that speech this morning was ' almost Impossible. . Mr. Rountree left, hie residence In compear with his son, Robert, early In the evening. , He went to ths Alnsworth . dock with ths latter,, who took passsgo for Astoria on hla way to Nevada. Mr. Rountree walked home from th dock, reaching th hona about 1:4 o'clock. -- Kashas Mada Wife. ;.. Mr. Rountree said aa soon aa he opened ths front door and stepped Into the hall hla attention was arrested by a moaning sound. Hs listened a mo ment and heard the eame peculiar stifled cry. Intuitively be sprang up ths stairs and found his wife Id th -back bedroom, leaning out ths open win dow. In her half-conscioua condition she was attempting to cry an alarm to the occupants in the residence of Philip Feldman, who Uvea next door. Mrs. Rountree' clothing waa covered with blood, which waa streaming from a Jagged wound over th left eye. la the front bedroom, where-she had been attacked, the bedclothlng waa covered with blood and she hsd left a- bloody trail through ths hsll and Into the room Continued on Pag Two.) THAW JURY OFF UNTIL : MY Lunacy Commission Holds Se cret Session With Judge Fitz geraldThaw Goes Back to ' Jail. . t.---: i fjooraal peeiat tentre.) New . York. March II Tbe Thaw lunacy commission mst In court at 10:10 thla morning and were Invited Into Justice Fltsgerald' chambers. The Jury, lawyers-snd spectators) gathered In the courtroom to await proceeaings. It was - understood that Fltsgerald - called the commissioner together pri vately to give hem Instructions before going--Into court. Tho Jury upon open-, lng Of court was excused until Monday, when If the commission haa not reported they will be excused again. At the conclualon of a conference be tween the attomeya ' and th court. Judge Fltsgerald adjourned th sesnlnn until 11:10. Monday snd immediately re tired to his chambers, whre me com missioner awaited him. No announce ment waa mad in court aa to the In- tent Inns of tbe commission. Jerome ssld he had no'ldea what the first novo of ths comlmaalon would be. Counsel for Thaw notlfled the court tnai jtari Hdge would repreeent Thaw before the commission. . .Thaw was taken out of court hn the Jury retired. Hla wife, mother an.1 Inter' remained during the conference between the court and Ihe attorney, talking In a low vol-e. kvelva h.! signs of much weeping. H'Brten. ths heed of t - l mls.lin, we form'T' i of the appellsf York euprome r months K'i ' "1 Of t! ' r i