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VOL. VIV NO. 21.
LANDSLIDE
WIPES OUT
TWO LIVES
Fatal Avalanche Buries
Workmen on 0.R.&N.
Straightening Line
Near Latourelle .
..' ' v. ; !
Entire Fore Digging Desperate-
ly to- Recover ; Body of C
Bozie, Hidden Under Tons of
Earth Rotars Body"' Not
Dug Oat in Time to Save Him
'"' . Two Ursa wara crushed out In a land
slide which occurred at 1:10 o'clock
- yeaterday afternoon on . nil weet of
V atourelle - Falls, where the .- PaolAo
Coaat Conatrnotlon -company;' haa a
- large force of man at work, cutting
down an embankment In ordar to
straighten th tracks of th (X B. A N.
railroad.'1- - ,---h -
?; O. Bona and X Rotar, wara buried In
tha avalaytehe of earth and rock. Ro-
' tar's had ni Mrtmrarad inalde of IB
I minutes. . Ha WM atlU breathing whetj
taken out of the elide, but-died aobn
- afterward. -, Boslo Blood farther under
4 tba overhanging embankment end waa
, covered with- many feat af aarth. ' Hla
body had not been recovered at noon
today, although nearly tha entire force
of workman waa enraged In abovellng
-,away tba maea ot aoll and rocka. under
I- which hla Ufa waa anuffed out.
Caaae"wft-cut War-tag.'
1 .'. Tor many, weeke past tha oonstruo-
tton company baa been engaged la) mk
! i Ing .flUa and ntUnr" away the high
blnf which have Impeded tho laying
1 of a atralght track along tha Colum-
: . bin. , a abort time ago a xoroe of work
meat waa moved toiLLatourelle Vails,
, where tha work of cutting back Into
tha huge embankment waa begun -and
! waa wall under way.
' V Boele and Rotar ateod cloaaat to tha
bluff yea tarda when tha elide with'
: out warning cam down . upon them.
, Hundrede of tone of aarth and rock
( cloaed up tha gap In which they wara
.standing, apread out to the tracks and
cot down tba telephone and' telegraph
"TI polea. A weet bound train waa delayed
'".-- minutes while tba tracks were being
cleared and wire - communication
. ; '' not eatabllahed until this morning.
on Slea Unconscious.
i "' A, soon- aa poaslbla after tba allda.
': the antlra foaoa of workmen waa put
to work shoveling tha aarth and rocaa
'In a desperate effort to reach their
. ; fellow workmen. Kotare body waa un-
i covered within a few minutes, but ha
'I waa unconscious and died without re
" gaining hla eensea. Still farther under
"' tha Immense body of aarth Ilea Bosle'a
body, which It la believed will be
' reached tbla afternoon.
I i, Coroner Flnley waa notified of tha
( accident and took an early morning
, train . for Letourelle Fall, where be
i will hold aa Inquest as aoon aa Bosle'a
I ' body ta recovered. Both the dead man
i . wara Austrlans without families or
! i . relatlvea la thla country so far aa
1 . known. Tha allda will delay tha work
of atralghtenlng tha tracks in tha vi
cinity of tha falla for a vera 1 day a
CARMEH DRAW
i OFF BOYCOTT
Striking Streetcar Employes Re
i" sclnd " Move Against 'Com
; 7 pany, but Instead Place the
Oaks on Unfair List. ) ".;
K- r.:--":..-. v. . -is '"-.
; Organised labor of Portland will not
Usee a general boycott on tha Portland
Railway, Light Power company. At
a apeclal meeting held laat night the
Carmen's union decided to withdraw Ita
petition asking tha Federated Tradee
council ta declare tha company and all
Its belonginga unfair. .
-. Thla action waa taken on tha advice
of tha unlon'a attorney, w. n. nouarry,
who solnted out tha hardship and uf-
ferina- that would naturally folloWfrom
an ax tensive boycott. In lieu of tba
general boycott, the carmen decided to
ask the council ta place a boycott on tba
company a reoraatlon grounaa. xne uaka
Tl aeant Oommnnloatlom. -
- A communication embodying tha
changed policy of tho Carmen's union
will be presented to tha central body
tonight It reaaa aa iouows:
Itiarch 'It thla union In an official
communication to your body requeated
that tha Portland Railway. Light A
Power company be placed on tho unfair
Hat Thla action was not taken by
the Carmen's union until after long
and grave conalderation, well knowing
that If tha carmen should aak tha trade
unions of , tha city of Portland to take
this aUo that the same would be
granted, and also being fully aware of
tha eijOCf sues an ci 07 mir nuu
orable body would have upon the busl
tiepe industries and the labor movement
of th city of Portland. We are fully
(ConUnuad on Pi Two.)
CASS FACES
mm
Los Angeles Home.Tel
ephdne: Official Told
Story to Grand Jury
Different Frorh Others
. i-
Oakland District Attorney Takes
; Up Investigation J and VVill
Probe Telephone Franchises
There-Heney and Burns Will
: Furnish Information.; --.''-
' ' fftaraal BpeeM Berviea) ' ' i (; '
San Pranelaco,' March !. Becaaae ha
told a different atory on two occaalona
before "the grand Jury than had been
eatabllahed before them by tba teatl
mony bf all tha other wttneaaea who had
been called. President Case of tha Loa
Angelea Home Telephone company may
bar tndloted for perjury - - Ue as been
before tha grand Jury twtee, and on both
occaalona looked pale and worried whan
ha emerged. ......,.,
'" - Prlsoai Poon 'Aa) Yawning. '
Tho grand Jury haa entered on the
final stags of tha investigation of the
telephone graft In San Francisco, and
within tha next few days several more
Indictments will be : returned. When
thla part of tho case ta dosed It la
likely that tha gaa rata scandal will
occupy tha attention of the grand . Jury
for eome time. - There were no graft
serum ttona developed 'by"tha"aatIniony
given Jfiefore tha' grand Jury yesterday.
bur enothes vjitik in the chain of evl
ttenoa which - may send Louis Glass,
former vteepreslden"f -4h Weio
Telephone company, to tha penitentiary
for tha part ha played in bribing tha
19 supervisors, waa supplied -.by Oeorge
Beanaton; head bookkeeper Of tho tela
phone company. ' v . f ,
- Tha first witneae called before tha
grand Jury waa A. B. Caea. president of
tho Los Angeles Home Telephone com
pany, , whose teatl mony On the previous
day was far from - aatiafaatory. - Tha
object of calling Cass again waa to give
him opportunity .to correct tha state
ments be had mads in direct contradic
tion of tha facta eatabllahed before the
grand Jury In connection .with tho Home
Telephone bribery, , ,
Stay' Taoe "Perjury Charge.
' Cass waa still obdurate. When he
emerged from tha inquisitorial eham-
bera ha was pale and worried. He
rushed . away, absolutely - refusing to
make any atatement Haney . la not
through with him yet and ha atanda In
danger bf an Indictment for perjury.'
Cass knows tha souree of tha Home
Telephone bribe fund and tha authori
ty by which It waa placed. Tha moat
Important wltneas- of tha afternoon waa
Oeorge Beanaton. head bookkeeper of
tha Paclflo Telephone company. Ha
teatlfled that on 'the day in February
when Halsey paid tha bribe money to
tha supervisors In the Mills building ha
had made out a check for the amount of
tba 10 bribes, aggregating 150,000, act
ing under tha ordera of Vice-President
Louis Glass, and had noted tba expendi
ture In the books.
This testimony waa corroborated by
tha atatlstlclaa of tha company, John A.
MaUon. - The testimony of both these
employee is considered aa vital la tha
coming trial of Louis Glass and forma
an Important connecting ' link In tha
ehaln of evidence against him. All tha
teatlmony In tha . Home Telephone ease
fas tana tha direct responsibility for tha
bribery or tha supervisors and Mayor
Sohmlta and tha graft of Municipal Boas
Aba Ruaf upon a local firm of attorneys.
. , , Where tha Boodle Waa Kept. :
Tha bribe money haa bean' traced to
final deposit In tha United Statea Na
tional and ' Western National banks,
from whence tha supervisors" portion
at least waa withdrawn for delivery to
them. William J. ' Burns and Grand
Juror Gordon served grand Jury sub
poenaa upon William C. Murdoch Jr,
assistant cashier of tha Western National-bank
and Aaalatant Cashier
(Continued on Page Two.)
BE
HOI
GREAT
Frisco Laundry Workers Demand Increased
- Wages 'and Shorter Hours Threaten to
:;, vjv'v'C Strike April 'FirsVv'.-'''.V-
, (Jeeroal Bpedal Berrtee.) .
Ban rranclaco, Maroh I. If tha da
manda of tha Laundry Workers' union
for a new schedule of hours and wagea
on tha baala finally adopted at tha
meeting Wednesday night la pa related
In every big laundry In San Francisco
will clone down April U Thla course
was decided upon at tha meeting ot tha
laundry owners held laat night at which
the situation was thoroughly discussed.
The Laundry Workers union an
nounced that a general atrlka will be
called April t unlesa tha proposed
acheduls Is acceded to prior to - that
date. Employers declare that tha ralae
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FLOURIHG MILL
SfilEII
Overland ; Freight, Fjrst,, Roads
: Carrying Wheat Only If Quite
Coriverilent Idle Mills Mean
1 Ruin Meetings at Tacoma.
if'
" ' (Spse-l-ri-iMteb te The eamaL)
Tacoma, Was, . March Because
of the Inability of the railway lines rep
resenting tba . Hill- Interests to handle
tha wheat crop of eastern -Waahlngton
and to deliver It In eufnolent quantities
at points on Pu get. Bound to- keep- the
flouring mllla In operation,' mill owners
claim they are being drlvbn out of business-and
they have prepared to take
draatlo steps to force the railroads to
afford eome aort of relief.' - ' - ' 1
: Discrimination In favor of overland
freight is charged. It being tha claim
that the railroads are - sura of the
handling of tha crop of wheat w 1oh
la tributary to their lines and can only
be. handled over their lines.
Members of tha Washington State
Millers association are meeting In Ta
ooma today to map out a plan of cam
paign to compel the rallroada to furnish
oars to haul aufflclent wheat to keep
tha flour mllla of Tacoma and Seattle
In operation. Wedneeday tho mlUera
mat In Taooma and appointed a eommlt-
tContlnued on Page Twa)
demanded' la Impoealble; that tha pro
posed wage acala Is -exorbitant and
fatal to their bualnaea. and that rather
than accede to the demands of tba union
they will bring their buslneseea to aa
end. .
Under tha circumetancea San Fran
cisco slves promise of becoming the
hom of the great unwaahed. Laundry
owners declare that they are willing to
alsrn tha scale of lto. which la now
la use. They say that tha Increase de
manded In hours and wagea Is equiva
lent to to per cent and would not only
do away entirely with all profile, but
would make it Impossible to conduct
their aatabllahnrants without a ktea
j'l wj'f ' I IpZaI rinited StateS I ' I
I n --w-r. . -t 1 Ail-
All!
U WASHED
'scudo United StatcS
-Capt-in ; Boasted of
Conquests Made by
His Stolen Uniiorm.
MEAT CUTTER'S
: DOUBLE LIFE
Lured by Bright Uniforms, He
Impersonated Army, Officer
! After His Day's Work In Shop
-.Was Over.. "'"
(gpeelal tH-pat-a te Tee IWaat)
New York. March II. Wounded and
Buffering .n St Mary's hospital. Roman
Slmonaon la fighting for hla Ufa after
an attempt made by hlroaalf to end a
career of double living which haa few
equals In tha . history of New Tork.
Slmonson waa . taken to tha hospital
from .the 'central atation after ha had
been arraated for having attempted to
commit aulctde by shooting himself.
When arrested he waa aboutlng for help
and -begging for life, erased with tha
aetf-lnfllcted wound in hla aide. .
Slmonaon'a career" la a strange one.
Ha haa been posing aa an offloar of the
United States, and passing under toe
name of "Captain Slmonaon, U. 8. AV
haa frequented theatres, cafe and other
-v (Continued On Page Two.)
Are You a Walking ,
, Encyclopedia?
Do You Know
How Easter aggs came to be colored t
Tba queerest Easter celebration?
Tba moat talked ot subject la Amer
ica? . r,
Bngland'a war upon a glided nul-
aanoef '
How thousands proposed to A pretty
glrlf
Tha animal that Uvea on ailver thawT
Tha valet that loved a benkera wife T
The flrat great beauty oonteetT
What winning a newepajer beauty
oonteet meanat
Graft among mlaalonarleeT
Progreaa of Irrigation and Ita new
chleft
History of Industrial Workers of tba
- Worldt , - ,
Ton can find out aU about theee aub-
Jeota In , .
The Fascinating
Sunday Journal
A Delightful Melody In the
Husk Supplement
3r
CHICAGO GRAFT
STORY IS TOLD
City Has Systenr - by Which
Boodlers All Along the Line
Get Bonus as , Consideration
for Crooked Work.
(Jos real g-wetal Barvke.) ,
Chicago,' March II.. A -atory of cor
ruptlon on tha part of tha present city
administration In the use of tha po
lice department to license vlcloue law
breaking re aorta that ' almost baffles
belief waa told today-by a high polios
official, who aaya that ha knows tha
facta absolutely.
It la a atory of how 4.009 racetrack
handbooks - and poolrooms, 1,1 8 alot
machlnea In aaloona, and disorderly
reeosta harboring women without num
ber, there being 185 In tha Tweaty-eeo-ong
at rest district alone, contribute U
an enormoua graft fund of 1100,000.
It Is said that only about 140.000 of
thla reaches tba political campaign
fund after each man who forma a cog
In the collection machinery baa pulled
down hla ahara of tho awsg. Police
men and commanding officers them
selves have been levied upon according
to tha graded acala of tha contribu
tions, not merely once, but three times
thus far during tha campaign. . -
BAILER
. ... t - '
Umatilla Sheriff in Portland Recognizes Law
breaker Wanted by Walla WcIIa Autho
rities and Arrest Follows . '
Pagan Boot of Walla Walla, recently
Indicted for gambling la Walla Walla
county through evidence presented by
Prosecutor Otto B. Rupp, waa inter
cepted In thla city yeaterday by 8hertff
T. li. Taylor of Umatilla aounty and
landed In tha Multnomah ; county all
about I o'clock, laat night.
Bcett Immediately got basy after hla
erreat- with bla attorney,, who routed
Judge Sears out of his bed at an early
hour thla morning and aecured a writ
of habeaa ' eorpua compelling Sheriff
Taylor to appear In court thla afternoon
to show cause why vSoott should not bs
released. - Soot t set .up the allegation
that ha la being illegally, held because
Y.M.C.A. Money-Chas
ers Encouraged, B.ut
AIL Realize Much Is
Yet to Be Done i ;
; - . '
United States
National Bank
Gives One Thousand Dollars
and This. Swellsthe Day's
Receipts Still Twenty-Four
Thousand to lie Kaisea.
asp - v ----- -
em, stay with 'am and don't take 'No
for an answer and you will get tho
money," waa Mayor Lane's advice to
the T. ML C'A. aolloltora at tha noon
1ii-Ahnn todav. ' - - - ' ' - -
Tha mayor had been ' inrormea ma-
some of the men were fearful of final
reaulta and hla honor came down from
v.. -it itK a ln4 of cheer.
This la no political campaign yon
are In." ha said. '''
Wi have to gat money sometimes
.,, .MtnU for a eamDSltm and we
get It Thla town will atand by you If
you do your aharo and never any aie.
The . reporte from the committees
vins? todav. Shortly be
fore tha men met things looked dark
for tha daya totals, but at tha laat
minute a 11.000 gift dropped out of
. - .... -OTnitiut Btatea Na-
vn viuuu ,
Uenal Bank, and eeveral smaller eb-
...i-ttA. that were, nioc iiDmwg iu
1- -n tha tntala- Tha total
ported at noon today raled alnce yea-teday.-waa
t,8l.40. This makea a
total af I0B.III.4O secured since laat
Monday morning, and leavea l-4.4M.00
to be raised by tomorrow at midnight,
; Xlg Tension Today.
v.11-.- that unlui 110.000 waa raised
and reported by noon today all waa at
stake, the hundred solicitors for tha
Everybody Oivea T. M. C. A. campaign,
tha executive committee and the busl
.... -l ha bava been boosting with
every ounce of their strength thla week,
started out this morning with an energy
that aurpaased every former effort AU
week the workera have been constantly
increasing the working tension, but to
day waa by far tha moat strenuous..
Just how much interest tneaa men are
taking to tha success of tha big earn-
1 , K ttiifiMui from tha faot that
many of thsm worked until late laat
night and others were a. 1- eariy -ma
morning. . .' i )''
Sight After -erybody. , :
It waa emphatically tha highways and
bywaya today. Every man of tha 100
understood that mere was aoouv ,
eo to be raised by midnight tomorrow
and that glfta aggregating 1100.000
hung In tha balance.
Tha "thin red Una or eros- e .enoea
,V.(. wnnminm from' tha OUtBkirta OT
Llnnton to tha River-law cemetery and
from Portland Heights to Russell villa
Committees worked tha waterfront
north of the stockyards, out beyond the
North Paolflo flouring mllla and at Mat
reporte wara onaaing a cnineee gsruener
down tha track toward Llnnton.
Spselal Plea-era Oo Poxth. 1 .
Never waa a dollar mora welcome In
Portland than thoea aecured today.
Every dollar - meant that tha critical
. - that much lass deadlv and
every dollar was applauded accordingly.
No railroad manager, waiting ior aw.uuv
men to go out on a atrlka watched the
iih.iiah -nw infti loaalv or mora anx
iously than did tba men at T. M. C A.
headquarters uua morning wno are iu
charge of tha antlra campaign. When
an obdurate giver would be tackled by
a committee and a bopeleaa report came
In to headquartere one ere two apeclal
men from tha central committee went
forth and generally succeeded in add-
. Anil - rm .
"It's un to the people of Portland who
bava not given, aaia waiter uoss mis
morning. ...
wa have Induced tha men who gave
generous subscriptions during former
(Continued on Page Two.)
III JAIL
Sheriff Taylor had no .warrant on which
to arrest htm.
Sheriff Taylor told about tba affair
thla morning: . .
' Mat Oamble Sera.
Soott 1b wanted In Walla Walla for
gambling, and a warrant la out for bla
arrest. I waa In Portland yeaterday on
the way to Pendleton from Salem where
I had taken a prisoner.. I saw Scott on
the street and telephoned to Sheriff
Havtland af Walla Walla, and aaked
whether ha atlll wanted Scott. He told
me to arreat hlra and hold him, which I
did. and I am now awaiting further In-
(Continued on Page Three.)
HOPE THAT
BE AVERTED
Believe -That There
Will Be No Strike If
Itlls Not Called ; Be
foce Monday
Trainmen -; Repeat That They
Will strike if Therr oemanas
Are Not Granted, but Say,V.;!l
Give Chance for Arbitration to
Settle Differences. V
f
Monnl Eoeelal Sarvlee.)
Chicago, March "No atrlka will bo
called until we give the government an
opportunity td mediate," declared Mana
gers Oarretaon and Morriasey thla
morning. - Later tha atrlke board rati
fied their leader's decision. Knapp and
Netll will arrive tomorrow ..The oon-
aervatlve stand of tbe union leaders naa
reassured tha public, who believe If tho
radicals oan bo restrained until Monday;
a atrlka will be averted. .
-. The -trainmen aaaert, nowe ar, mas
while they are willing that tha govern
ment officials ahould be given an op
portunity to mediate, - they want tha
mediation to be with tha railroad mana
gers, Morriasey said: '
. "It tha government offiotala can per
suade the - railroad people to accede to
our demands, tbe matter will aoon bo
adjuated amicably, but unleea thla la
done I-cannot see that anything can be
done to prevent a atrlka.
, -tVa iMUmM'a mmi til. will ltatan
to auggeationa from Knapp and NelU,
but, we v11) -ceo delay notion unreason
ably to allow them to arbitrate the
trouble.. Wo are not going to do any
thing hastily, . but tha trainman posi
tively will net accept tha laat proposi
tion of the rallroada" . .
-"More wages and better eondltlone of
employment are what we want." That
waa the anawer of tha representative ot
tha 10,000 organised railway employes
to the appeal for arbitration - by ' tha
railroad managers. ,
Neither the Interstate commerce) com
mission, national olvlo federation nor
any other agency, they say. can avert
tba greatest strike In railroad hlatorx
unlesa they can Induce tha railroad
managers to meat the demands of the
UIOU. X U - Haying
out and tha men declare it will not bo
Interrupted by any outalda Infraenoa.
Formal action looking to tho atrlke
has been taken.' Under the lawa of
the two organisations certain formali
ties have to bo compiled with before tha
atrlke order la Issued.. The labor ehlefs
are proceeding with tha utmost cautldn,
Tha 'railroad managers said they
would not attempt to operate trains in
tha event of a atrlka, though they atlll
refuse to believe that tha men seriously
Intend to atrlka. They think that when
the matter cornea to a eriaia tha men
will refuse to walk out, but will accept
tha oonceaslona offered by tha railroads
and stay with their trains.
COMMISSIONERS START
xrrai an A Hfltt Ira' fo ChlriajrO
-..-'. to Mediate.
(Jaeraat aparlal tei rm at
Washington, March II. M. A. Knapp.
chairman of tha Interstate commerce
commission. and Commissioner of
Labor Cbarlea P. Nell I left her todey
r.iMM n make naraonal afforta ti
settle the labor dtsputo between tha
10.000 trainmen and tha 40 western
roads which are threatened with a
atrikaT
TACOMA JARRED
BY Ei
Large Buildings Rock Percepti
bly -Trembling Felt in Fif-
teen - Mile Radius Two
" Shocks Felt.
'. '' (Rpectal M-rates te Tbe loereaL)
Tacoma, Wanh., March SI A eharff
earthouak - ahock occurred at T W
o'clock , thla morning. Newa from the.
aukurba ahowa that tne eartn tremor
were felt-generally within a radlua of
II miles of tba city.
There were two dlatlnot attacks, the
first being tha mora eevere, the acrom!
following about 10 second a later.
The ahocka were In the form of a
wave-like motion front the eouthnrt
to tha northwest, and on this account
the disturbance Is attributed to some
aelamlc trouble In Mount Halnier. M.mtr
people claim to have heard a rumMm
noise, which waa not noticed by oilii.
The ahocka eauead const. l-rai.le n ' t
la hotala and large bullilinga, v.1.1. t
rooked perceptibly.
The tarthouake waa 'not T 'f I
so far as can be laam-d. I 1 - r . 1 '
caster Jf-dward A Heals cf to
bureau haa no report on tne 1
The nffii'l here la not 'ini' I
tnatruraents recorllng s 1
IRTHOUAKE