A Little Ad in THE JOVRNAL Journal Circulation y Eriags Results Costi Only One Cent a Word. Yesterday Was The eatherr Showem tonight v i and Wednesday; southerly winds. ,VOL. VI. NO. 24. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING. APRIL 2. 1907. EIGHTEEN PAGES. riuwa i iu wcit . si ajibs. i ivz Ci.-ra TUT A flDT0)TTO TTTNTNTK mm i ill 1 1 j i a . a ' a a w a. je .a"', j sassssw. rm i i a av jsbv m. m m m a. aw amk mm 1W -. . - :...- let CAUSED BY Refusal ot Managers to Make Concessions Causes Unionists to Lose Patience' Commissioners Much Discour aged at Efforts to Adjust Mat tersSituation Is. the Same as at Starting , Point Noth Ing Gained for Peace. (Journal Special Brvlc. : Chicago, April J. At tha' "moment whan the railway situation seemed past th crucial point the radical lament In the unions' committee became active and at noon there la much uncertainty, Chief Qsrretson of the railroad con ductor said after a conference this morning: "We are. Just at the starting point. Xothlng has ibeen sained and nothing lost. The labor sldo has not receded an Inch from its . original position. The men'a patience will be exhausted priajty soon If the roads do not show a eptrlt of concession.' ; ' . Commissioners Knapp and Nelll are ' 'apparently - much discouraged. Tbey have been untiring- In their efforts te bring about a peaceful adjustment of the difficulty, since arriving at Chi chsto; Knapp and Neill bavs been Jn eon. ference with either the railroad men or the trainmen almost constantly and be lieved this .morning that the end ef the trouble waa in sight. - ,' :' . . .. . . The last offer made by the railroads was an Increase In wages of 10 per cent, and' a 10-hour day. , The trainmen had originally asked for a 15 per sent Increase In wages and a'nlne-beur. day. but finally receded to a It per cent In cresse In wages and a nine-hour day. At this point the roads snd men were unable to make any further progress snd arbitration waa asked. : The trainmen had" yielded the waer scale to the latlroad managers, "agree ing to a 10 ber cent Increase, but stood firm In - their demand for a nine-hour day for ine- kteomottve--firemen, he railroad managers remained 'I-m In their position that a 10-hour lay waa the best oomeeslon. they could snake In this retrard. . The obstinacy of the railroads in re fusing to sutede to-this request of their employes was the only obstacle In the way of an amicable settlement of the threatened strike. The trainmen I'xd so far yield d -everything , that tin J been yielded since Commissioners Knapp Mid Nelll undertook to arbitrate the diffr ancea betweon the railroads an-1 th? employes, an 1 thav feel that some c-n-eesalons fro n the railroads at this time are dus th-wv. ' SIR WILFRED LAURIER ' TO BE MADE A PEER - - (special M-neteb te Tke yesrseX) . Vancouver, B.. G. April J. A Mon treal paper says Lord , Strathcona will ..retire, from the. position ..of high cm- mlssioner lor iwuat aaa mat ir wu 7ffd Laurler Is to take his place and be rifJsed to the peerage tinder the title of Word Athabasca. . EDDY MILLIOHS 11 f III TRUST FUfJD Christian Science Leader Places Property In Hands of -Three Members of Church Who Will Act as Trustees. (ienreal Special errtee.t - Concord.. N. H., April t. Mrs, . Mary Baker Eddy has given -her millions into , the charge of three men who are prom- t Inent in the Christian., ffalenee church, , who will act as -truatae as long as ahe lives. The transfer was made on March ' i. but only became known this afternoon when the attorneys made a return to the suit in equity to compel the lead en, of the church to answer to charges of Anlamanagenient and mlsapproprlat- ' Ing Mrs. Eddy's property. By virtue of the ssslgnment the three trustees moved this afternoon for leave to Intervene and be substituted In place - of the so-called dear friends, Mary Baker .Olover, Qeorgs W. Baker and Mrs. Eddy's relatives. , The surprise had been promised by the defense and created a sensation. 'The transfer of property, both reel and personal, waa mads for the con sideration of tl. the trustees te control ' during- Mrs. Eddys lite, -. - President Rooeevelt. - r.lRS. BELLINGER, WIDOW OF THE JUDGE, IS DEAD Passes Away on Her Farm on the ' Columbia River, Though Receiving Friends in Portland "buta" Few" Days Before- Married Jurist in Early Life. Mrs. MargeryS. Bellinger, widow of the . late i Judge. Charles . B Bellinger. died 'at midnight -last night, -on the Bellinger farm, up the Columbia river. Dr.' Alice Chuman- was . In attendance. Mrs. Bellinger had been suffering for some time," but until the last few lsys Aid not. yield to her-Illness, and only a few days sgo . wss rtcelvlne;1' - her friends In Portland. Arrangements had not been made, this - mom In for the funeral. . ' Mrs. Bellinger '.'lived while at';home with her, youngest daughter, -Irs. W. J. Morrison, at 411' Holladav-avenue, bnt almost the entire winter had been spent . at her epuntry, residence, flnce the death of the udge. - much of her time had been"passd--there. ' Judge Bellinger of the United ttcles district court dies' May ' L!. -190S.- lis wss ons of the best known figures in Oregon history. Ha came hen as a boy of 8. crossing ths plains with his "father end - grandfather. He studied law at Willamette university, earnftag his own way through college, and later studied with Judca B. F. Honham of Balenv. He was -admitted to the bir In 1861. practiced law In Salem, edited two papers there, edited the Albany Democrat, represented Benton coujitv in the leglslsture, founded and. edited the Portland News, later the Portland Tele gram: was elerk of ths supreme court till appointed to fill a vacancy on the bench of the criminal court, wVa part ner at law with John M. Geartn, later Joining the firm of Dolph, Bellinger, Mallory and Simon, and. tn 1)3, was appointed by President Cleveland Jud- of the United States district court. In place of Judge Dead y, deceaaed. Mrs. Bellinger, who was Margery S. Johnson, waa born In Ohio In 1S6S. Mb crossed ths plains with her father, James Johnson, and settled on a farm In Linn county, where she married C B. Bellinger In his early life. Seven children . were born to thorn, of whom four .are living In Portland Mrs. Law rence H. Knapp, Mrs. - W. J. Mortis in. Emmet and Howard Bellinger. . ., VANCOUVER CARPENTERS AND PAINTERS STRIKE ' ,' , (Sperlal -Dtaeateft te The IwU) Vancouver, B. C, April I. One thou sand carpenters In Vancouver have gone on atrlke. - The trouble arose over the contractors refuatng to advance wages from fa.KO to I4.S0 a day. The painters1 srs also out.- For the past two years ths scale of. wages has been 40 cents an' hour and, the open shop. ' At a meeting:,, the painters de cided not O work till h0 cents an hour and the closed shop were granted.- I ' ".-''' BEGGE&CRSH, $200,000 President " Made Agree ment With the Railroad Magnate Promising to Retire Depew . Roosevelt Denies Statement As Falsehood And Places Harriman In His List of Liars ' (Journal Special Serviced "New Tork. AprU J. The World to day prints a letter written la Decem ber, 10, by E. II. Harriman to Sid ney Webster, a millionaire attorney of New Yorkv In which tit railway mag pate - tells how. -at President Roose velt's request he raised 1200.000 In the campaign of ISO, which helped the Re publicans to carry New York state. Of this amount Harriman says he gave $50,000 himself. Harriman - said ' the agreement . he reached with the president before he undertook the task was that Depew was to be taken out of the race for senator and given a post abroad probably that of ambassador to France. This agree ment, Harriman says, the president later repudiated. '.l..'.. oosevel reared Democrats. - Harriman In his letter wrote: "About week before election in the autumn of 1004. when it looked certain that the stats ticket would go Democratic and It was - doubtful aa to Roosevelt himself, he (the president sent m a request to go to Washington to confer upon political conditions in New York piled. Roosevelt told me he understood the campaign could not successfully ba carried on without sufficient money and asked If I would help them In raising ths necessary - funds, asv tho national committee, under the control of Chairman Cortelyou. had -utterly failed In obtaining . them, and ; there waa a large amonnt due from . them to the New York state committee. . Bend Depew te Parts.. 1 explained to him that I under stood thst the 'difficulty here was mainly caused by the upstate leaders being unwilling to support Depew for reelection as- senator; that it hs (De pew) could be taken care of in some way I thought matters could be ad justed and the different contending el ements - In the party - be brought yinto a close alliance again. We talked over what could be done -for Depew, and finally ba agreed that If It were found necessary he would appoint Depew am bassador at Paris. - ."With the full belief that he (Roose velt) would keep this agreement, I cams back to New York and sent for Treasurer Bliss, who told me that I waa their last hope, that they had ex hausted every other resource. - In his presence I called up an Intimate friend ot Depew and told blra that It was necessary In order to carry New York state thst $100,000 should be raised at once and If he would help I would sub scribe $50,000. "After, a few words over the tele phone' the gentleman said he would let me know, which he did. probably In three or four hours, with the result that the -whole amount. including -jny sub-1 scrlptlon, has been raised. ' One Xnndred Thousand Votes, 'vhecks were given to Treasurer Bliss, SWING RETAIL DISTRICT TO U P PER MO R R ISON IS Al M OF PROPERTY-OWNERS The trend ef ths first class retail dis trict of Portland for all time hinges. It la said, upon action to be taken with in the next few days by . owners of property adjacent to the Pennoyer block, bounded by Morrison, Wsst Park. Aider and Tenth streets. 'If the $$00,000 building to be erected by the Trustee company on thla site shsll become s great department store it will have a paramount Influence on the drift of retail trade, but should ths building be devoted to general tenancy the result would not be ths same. ' Three Ayplicatlome. Rumors ' to the effect that a - large department store from Chicago-either Marshall-Field or some equally heavy financial concern would occupy ths proposed new building on the Plttock block, ore not confirmed by. J. Whyte Fvnnsv who Is negotiating the deal.- Mr. Evanssald todny thst hs waa not ready to announce the names of ths people with whom negotiations are being car ried on, as there ere three sppllcatlons for ths lesse, snd It bas not yet been decided whether to accept a hotel and theater, an -office building or ths pro posed department store and office build ing combined. MS FM TO CARRY Fifty Thousand Votes Turned by Money in New YorK, Asserts the Financier v ; e A Deliberate Vntrntk, , ' Journal special service. ' e . Washington, April 2. Presl- , 4 - dent Roosevelt this afternoon gave the lie to the assertions In e ' the alleged Harrlman-Webster ' 4 letter, making publlo copies of letters the president wrote 'to e Congressman Sherman of New York i last summer. In one of e these letters the president said: "I understand you to say that ' e Ilarrlmnn alleged that I made e) a promise (referring to Depew aa ambassador to France) at the time when he hnd come to see me in Washington when I re- quested him to raise a 1250,000 fund for the presidential cam- . palgn then on. - "Any such a statement is a de- e liberate and wilful untruth -by e rights ' should be characterized w by a shorter, more nglter word. I never requested Harriman to e raise a dollar for ths presidential e campaign in 1904." ' who took them to Chairman Cortelyou. Thla amount enabled the New York state committee to continue Ita work, with the result that at least 60.000 votea were turned in the city of New York alone, making, a difference of 100,000 votea in the general result. . "Some time in December, 1904, on my way from Virginia . to New York, I stopped and had a short talk with tha president. He then told me that he did not think It necessary to appoint Depew ambassador to Paris, as had been agreed, and, tn fact, that he favored him for the senate. I bad not expected that he was tha one to decide as to what would be necessary but he arrogated tha. to 'himself, and I. of course, could say. nothing further." jKarrlmaa Admits Writing- St. -The publication of Haniman's letter reveals a peculiar, situation. Harriman says the letter was furnished to the press by- a former employe named Hill. and Insists It Is about aa Imperfect ss a poor stenographer could get from old -Harriman warned the World that the letter must not be printed, but when be found he could not stop It he telephoned the American a "release", on the letter for that paper's nse. Harriman admitted writing the letter, but said, "I went further," according to the ..orld's reporter, "than ths copy you have. You only have a part of It. - That letter. If printed, will do ' Irreparable harm. It Is going to react on the per son who prints It. It falls short of ths. marlTalmed at"-The letter created a stir in Wall street today. The significance' of ' the statements made by Harriman Is that It places ths When asked this morning concern ing disposition of tha Pennoyer block Mr. Evans said the final closing of a department store lease for this prop erty swalts the favorable ' action of surrounding property owners. - It has been desired by a number . of . these owners to extend the retail district to thst block and for the purpose ef en couraging the proposition they have started a subscription to defray soms portion of the expense of removal and establishing of a great retail concern. Other owners' , of adjoining property are said to be lagging with the idea that the required amount wtll be raised without their aid. It Is said the building will be given over to general tenancy In ths event 'that the sub script lolK sum does not reach approxi mately $50,000. Tenancy Only Question. A - (0-year lease of the ground hss been finally' closed by Mr. Evans, and tha required bond for $100,000 baa been signed, with W. D. Wood snd the Trus tee Beourlttes Company of Connecticut ns sureties. Theea papera wtll be filed within ths next day or aa Ths suo cessful consummation of ths deal In building, with a foundation sufficient sures ths construction ef a five-story I WEW YORK Fifth of Amount Was Subscribed by Magnate in Presence of the Executive president In a bad light In having called Judge Alton B. Parker a liar In the au tumn of -.04, Just before election day, for having' charged ths Republican party with having solicited campaign gii.es from trusts and corporations. That tnese campaign contributions were so licited and - accepted was afterward proved In ths Insurance Investigation. Ths Harriman letter Is a vindication of Judge Parker's charges. PLEASES PRESIDENT Itoosf vrlt Considers Himself Lucky In Being Attacked Again. , (Journal Special Berrtet.) Washington, April 1. There were In dications early this morning that.' ths president would have something to say soon on ths Harriman letter. . 'All the correspondents In Washington were waiting at the Whits House . for ths utterance. The president first went to the dentist. If the letter worried him he showed no signs, but smiled and spoke cherrlly and waived his - hand at the Tress gang. Returning from - the dentist's, the president attended the regular semi weekly . cabinet meeting. - After the meeting adjourned he made public the Sherman letters containing his denial of tha charges. After giving out the correspondence the president said: "I feel particularly fortunate In having been attacked with in the last few dsys by both ex-Senstor Burton snd Harriman." The president then authorised tha fol lowing statement: "After writing the letters to Con gressman Sherman the president wss assured that Harriman had not made the statement Sherman credited him with making. Inasmuch aa these ssms statements appear In the letter of Har riman now published, the president deems It proper that tha letters ha sent to . Sherman last October " shall now themselves be msde public." Becretsry Cortelyou. formerly chair man of the Republican national commit tee, refuaee to discuss ths matter. It was - suggested to Mr. Cortelvou that the one way to settle the many controversies resulting from the cam paign contributions Is to. publish ths list of subscribers In foil and thus end many disputes. So msny publlo, men who happened to differ from ths - president hsva been catalogued .aa liars of one sort and an other, .that the executive's denial haa lost much of Its force In the eyes of official Washington. Politicians are in clined to think there Is more or less truth In ths assertions msde in the Harrlmanrettsr. wh1clithyrthlnlt'WB puDiissea Decs use tns railroad magnate Is disappointed In not securing the pro- (Continued on .-Page Three.) for 10 stories, on ths Pennoyer block. Ths tenancy of .the building is now ths only question remaining to ba set tled, and the attitude of adjoining property-owners is being watched with con siderable Interest, as upon ths result will depend -very largely the. movement of retail business In Portland within ths next five or ten years. ' Sffeet on Bus la ess. - - The Evans lease of V the - Pennoyer block is for a term of 60 years, with a ground rental starting at ths sum "of $1,600 monthly and Increasing at the rate of $250 per month for each five year period. , The lease rental dates from July 1, 1907. snd from thst date to Its expiration Involves payments of upward of $1,000,000, Including the building, to the owners of the property. - Notice has been given present tenants on tha block to vacate, and within a few weeka ths removal or demolition of the present buildings will be com menced. The securing of a large de partment store for this block would re sult In Immediate conversion ef all the property from Fifth to Ninth street Into, a greet retail trade district and re. termlne practically for all time the di rection which the retail movement will take from Its present center. - v . : ' :, "B. H. Harriman. , : JOURNAL LEADS ILfffiS IN American Newspaper Annual, Published by N. W. Ayer & Son Shows That . the Ore gonian and Telegram Are Falling Behind; -. The American7 'Newspaper Annual published by N. W. Ayer Son, for 1907. Is Just from the press. Tha Ayer annual ' Is a recognised authority on newspaper circulations and advertising mediums. Ths issue for 1907, of course. contains information of all Oregon pa pera, and accords circulation ratings to most of them, at least to ths larger publications. ' To the Oregon Ian, . morning, Ayer ac cords a circulation rating of to, 000 and to its Sunday Issue 10,000 copies. To the Telegram, the Oregonlan's even ing Issue, Is given a circulation rating of 22,111. The Ayer publication gives The -Dally Journal credit for a proved, net raid circulation of Z4,8(, and to The Sunday Journal 20,133. The Jour nal had attained the circulation cred ited by Ayer' J A-nual more than jear ago, and It la surprising that the com pilers of that usual excellent and reli able publication go so fsr buck into the past for their figures. The fact of tha matter la that Tha Journal's circulation, both dally and Sunday, haa been more than 20.000 areraj:e. for six months past, and for March. 1907, aver aged $.0 copies, a greater circulation than that of any daily paper In Port land or In Oregon. r MILLIONAIRE DUNLAP WEDS MANICURE GIRL Journal Special- Service.) New York. Anrll iTi. ,-AAt Milwaukee yesterday of William A. isummp, m, millionaire nat .manufac turer and owner of several - Nevada mines, and Miss Lavender- Jane Byera, a beautiful young woman formerly em. ployed In a New York manicure estab lishment. ' was the ri.u n qualntance "which began , hers only a law WYTCJIV sgu, Dunlspt who Is the son of the founder of a bia bat ,-wnrlr' mrA ... - . . , w iij wi n r i ones before, fell in love with urn eyers immeaiateir when he dropped Into the Broadway parlors lately to hare his nails polished. In s few days he proposed. Efforts had been mnda to keep the marriage arrangements secret, as a suit for breach of promise bruught by Miss Florence Pitt, is now pending against Dunlap. . - Hhrlllga Cotnmita ftulrMc. . ' IJnarnal Bpeeiil ar1.) Washington, April 2. Htephen flhel llga of Cleveland committed stilrld by shooting hjmaelf aboard the Hnl ttmore A Ohio train this morning. The body, wss taken to the morgue in this city. . , . - , , OREGON COUillKlf BUILIII FALLS INTO Front End ot a Brick Lodging House on First Street Near Columbia Collapses No One Is Injured, Although' Peter Matson Has to Leap From Bed Just in Time to See a Part of His Room Fall auiau With, a crash that could be heard for blocks, the front end of the three-story brick building at $04 First street col lapsed this morning, taking with it quantities of furniture snd leaving tha rooming-house of Mrs. Mary Kennedy demolished. No one was injured, though a domett teamsters were at work in tha excava tion adjoining and several persona were in the rooms that' were partly swept away when the collapse -came. Peter Matson, an occupant of tho rooming house, .was asleep In one of the front rooms and . escaped ,ln . time to avold being carried down in the debris. His bed was ' hurled Into the excavation, while his hat, which waa hanging on an opposite wall, la still hanging there. The opposite wall waa uninjured. ' Building Unsupported. Mrs. Kennedy, who conducted ths rooming-house, was In the hall con versing with a neighbor when the crash came.- Both women rushed quickly Into the street and escaped Injury. Other oc cupants of ths house also escaped. Tha collapse of the wall and front . snd of the building was ths result of excavation work being done by Mr. Shea, who is preparing te erect-a building for a plumbing shop at the southeast corner of First aid Columbia streets. Work men were excavating near the wall ot tha three-story brick building which ad joins on tho south. - - They had dug beneath the foundation of the wall and were preparing to place supports beneath It. It was while they were so sngaged that a portion of the wall collapsed, bringing with It the en tire front wall and a portion of the building. ' , - Odd Kbxturs of Debris. Large crowds were quickly attracted to view the scene. Into ths excavation had been thrown beds, chairs and other furniture, besides hats, trunks and vari ous articles of wearing apparel. Ropes were stretched by the polios about tha place to keep back the curious crowds. It was feared for a time that other por tions of the building might fall, but the remainder of the building Is still stand ing. - . ,-. - - - - - , Flare ot Pat tn. - "We were In no way responsible for the collapse." said J. T. Shea, "We are excavating to build - a four-story business block and Mr, Hawkins, who owns tho adjoining building, was to keep his wall In repair. Wa bad dug to a level of his wall and ha let the contract to Bingham McClelland to underpin it Their workmen started In, this mornl ng te do sor- "v "Instead of digging out a bole and putting the pier In at once, they part ly bulUrthe piers In two bolss snd then dug a third hole. It left the wall stsndlng practically on air, so it fell. If tho wall had been left as our work man left It last night It would hava re mained for an Indefinite period. JEROME RETHIuS THAW ALIEr.lSTS Seeks to Prove Thaw Insane by the Doctors Who testified In Thaw's Favor at the Trial Evelyn Present at Hearing. , . if. - i - . - (Jnaraat Spatial sarrtoe.t New York, April i. At the examina tion of Harry Thaw by the lunacy com mission this morning District Attornv Jerome sought to pn.re by the ali'-nioi who hnd testifier! on beliatf ct Ihiw that the prisoner Is now insane. A.l the doctors who hud testltlul nt t -trial that Thaw waa Inxane wrw-n I shot White were sulipoen1 bv J. -. to testify that Timw la Hill I, ... Jerome asserted to the commission i In hie opinion Thuw . brn n, all throitKh the trixl. The commission l"st t.4 t li ' tins down te tm l n, , on r,. - i morning. All tti pii.ni- i . the trial w'r on I ,i. l ant beslile J'islsli 1 ; w, man was prisr.t. 1 ery and Jlnnilt'-n. ' JConllrv; I