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SHELL HITS
CITY STREET
Workmen Hear Whizz
as It Goes Over Their
Heads Found in
Basements :
'Monster Bullet, of Kind Used to
Carry Line From Vessel to the
' ,i Shore, Lands at Fifteenth and
Pettygrove Streets About the
Noon Hour Today.
, A huge lt-pound ':T steel ..'projectile,
presumably flred from on of the ship
in the harbor, landed on a oement aide,
walk at Fifteenth . and ' Pettygrove
' etreets at noon today, glanoed acroas
, the street where it tore a hola throuah
a picket fence and after plowing- its
war through the frame foundation of
a - vacant dwelling . house at 1S
Fifteenth street, lodged in the base
menL - .
No one was injured by the monster
.bullet, though a half dosen workmen
on a scaffold of the two-story MoCraken
warehouse at Fifteenth and Pettygrove
streets barely escaped destruction. The
. ball went singing Just a short distance
above their heads. . .j.,
KUJ Worker Hear hall. .
' , Attached to the proJecUle In ita flight
was a small wire some six feet in length
at the other end of which was tied a
' small piece of rope which had evidently
been broken off. The wire was broken
loose from the projectile when it struck
the pavement, but H caused a peculiar
ly dangerous sound' as It whlssed
through the air close to the workmen
on the ecnffold.
Employes it the planing ". mill of
George Ainslne Co.. Sixteenth and
Pettygrove streets, heard the noise and
. commotion following the flight of the
projectile as it smashed through 1 the
fence and foundation of the dwelling
bouse at tit Fifteenth street, and ran to
the plaoe to learn the cause, . .
Weighs Eighteen roe ads..
. The projectile is steel, weighing' II
: pounds. It is It inches in length and
' J1 Inches in diameter.; It tore a hole
three Inches deep and several Inohee
1 in length In the concrete sidewalk aa
it struck and glanced aoroes the street
Fortunately, no one was in ita path. It
tore a large gap in the fence, tearing
away several paillnga and tor a hole
(Continued on Page Two.)
BUILD RAILROAD
EUREKA TO COOS
Southern Pacific and Santa Fe
Dunce Extension of Joint
Line Which Will Give Coast
'x ' - S "
Route to San Francisco. , ;, '
. ' (Joernst Special Berries.)
' Ban Francisco, April SO. Whsn the
: directors and nominal stockholders of
the Northwestern Paclflo met yesterday
in Secretary Wllllcutt's office in the
' Flood building and voted .to mortgage
the property for 136,000,000 and sell
in New York,, it wss merely a formality
In obedience to the orders of President
, E. H. Herrlman of the Southern Pacific
. end President Ripley of "h Santa Fe,
i mho are1' the real controlling owners -of
.'the property snd its proposed extensions.
' The Important fact to the people to
. be served by this road la that Ita owner
. Intend to make a comprehensive exten
sion Into new territory end that the
suspiciously large valuation on which
the bonds sre to be Issued. Is based on
;. the Joint reports of the Southern Pacific
-and Sunta Fe engineers as to the value
- of the completed system which la to be
' conetmctod with the proceeds ef the
' bofli'SU. -. "' J .' - ';:
-a-"Tt Is.' not often that Chief Engineer
Hood of the Southern Pacific admits
' sny plans that are not already puhllo
' Information, but today he declared that
the company's engineers had run sur
veys to Kureka up along the coaat to
Marshfleld o Coos bay and that men
were out re-collecting th data of those
; surveys, as the records were destroyed
.. in the big Are.
; Hood 'also announced that a line was
being built weatwsrd from Drain, on
the Shasta route, to Winchester bay,
' about 10 miles north of Marshfleld, to
' which a Southern Pact (la extension la
.' also being built.
Theaa proposed roads and surveys. In
dicating the connection between Eureka
end Marshfleld, are admitted to be a
' part of the plan of extension in addl-
tlon to the building of th lOS-mlle gnp
' between Wlllltta and Pepperwood on
the rim from Tlburan to Kureka. These
now lines will add 400 miles to the
jvorth western's trackage.
ICE TRUST
TO PUT UP
CITY PRICES
One Company Alone to
Deliver This Summer
And No Competition
. Seems Possible ,
Ice Delivery Company Formed to
. Handle the business of Prac
, tically All the Plants in Port
land Seventy Cents Per
. Hundred for Residences. '
An tee trust has been formed in Port
land. Prloea will advance and house
wives who last summer bought ice to
melt will : now have to - economise or
And ' themselves confronted wKh bills
that point to the bankrupt court -
But there will be plenty of Ice, so It
la , promised, and all . because of the
trust- Last summer ice was not in
frequently hard to get ' because the
drivers of th wagon were indifferent
' VOae Oompa&y vn XJallver." "
Thia summer everything; will be dif
ferent The lc .manufacturer . have
not merged - their interests, but they
have entered Into aa sareement with a
delivery Arm to handle the entire out
put of the various plants ao far aa the
local plants . ar. concerned, -Better
service ia promised, and It 1 believed
that It can be given, bat naturally
price -will be higher. They will revert
to the standard f two summer ago
(0. cents a hundred, .'for restaurants,
boarding houses and saloons; ,70 cents
par hundred on residence routes, and
IS a ton for meat markets, these .rates
to hold within reasonable, limits. Last
year Ice ' sold ' for ' ft a ton- flat during
the strike, but there, waa no service.
and often consumers would have been
glad to pay double the price. - -,-
The formation or the trust Is briefly
told, for it Is simply this: That, the
Crystal Ice A Storage . ' company, .. the
Portland - Artificial lee -company, and
the Independent Ice 4k Coal company,
without consolidating, have made an
arrangement with the Ice Delivery com
pany, a new- corporation, for the de
livery of their entire output The
Liberty Co l aV Ice company, by ami
cable arrangement will attend to the
distribution of the Front street plant
ef.W. N. Daniels, also proprietor of the
La arenas creamery Ice ..company, and
will deliver to for no other company. ;
, Sarlar to ape a. V '.
- Ia this way there will be no competi
tion In delivery and the independence of
the drivers of the ice wagons, . which
had become a feature for the maaufao-
( Continued On page Two.)
GOFFEY SCORED ALIUS
Labor Candidate tor Mayor Recently. Reslgned
-From Citizens' Alliance of WhicWHeWas:
J i ; f an Enthusiastic Member.1.;,
John B. - Coffey, labor candidate for
mayor resigned from membership la
the .Cittseno' alliance January ; I be
cause of his approaching entrance Into
municipal politics. This is the. state
ment made in political circles today and
la backed up by the authority ef differ
ent member of the alliance. 1
According to the atory now going th
rounds Mr. Coffey prior to the close
of last year waa an enthualastle mem
ber of the Citlsens alliance, which is
the chief foe of the labor unions In
Portland, It 'Is related that he ad
dressed a meeting of the alliance during-
one of th labor trouble period of
th past end, at that time denounced
the unions In no measured terms for
the etand taken by them In their con
tentions with the employers. -
During the Utter months of the year
Mr. Coffey grew less, enthuajsstlo and
PENROSE PROMISES ; i:
TO ' INDORSE TEDDY 1
AND ABANDON KNOX
flosnial ftneHal Kerr tee.)
Washington, April 10. President
Roosevelt's onslaught upon Senator Pen
rose, who was threatened with the loss
of his seat in the senate,', haa brought
Matt Quay's successor to time, and he
la reported to have promised that Penn
sylvania will Indorse - Roosevelt's . ad
ministration, and that ao Knox boom
Will he launched.
It is reported that Senator Crane of
BANK
CUPID CAPTURES
L.
Pugilist,' Actor and Lecturer Falls
, Victim to Neaithy.New Yoric
, WomanReward for Staying
. ; on Water Wagon Long Time.
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. . (earsal Raeend Servlea.) . '
New Tork, April 10. The.Wortd says:
John L. I Sullivan, the pugilist, aotor.
lecturer i and- tnonologulat. 1 aout to
claim a matrimonial prise aa his reward
for -a successful engagement of 111
weeks on board the water wagon; Aa
soon ae he gets a divorce from Annie
Bate. the- handsome .woman whom he
married In Providence. In 1811, John L.
will sign articles-of agreement' with a
wealthy. New 'Tork woman' who haa suf
ficient, confidence' In' that big fenow. to
share her -fortune with, him..- r
.Sullivan denies that he Is contemplat
ing a return engagement twlth-the par-,
son, Former Deputx Police. Commis
sioner ' James '.5 F. Mack, ; attorney for
John L. in- the divorce proceedings,' and
Frank- Hall manager, "of '. the .- former
champion fighter, admitted that John L.
waa about.toobe-marrieounut rerusea to
give the'name"oth1s prospectrve bride;
Sullivan-lived with, his first wife but
a ' short tlroe.. "When they agreed to
separate John L. gave' her ' a - bouse in
Boston and "went bla'Vay, ' '
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his Interest "flagged, according . to . the
story. .At the meeting during the first
part of January he severed his oonneo-
tlon with the alliance and began' to cul
tivate th union labor sld of th popu
lace. ..... - .. 't , - '. " x '. t
Immediately . afterAhe. close of the
legislative session his boom for -mayor
waa launched and haa been backed from
the first by the labor element
Whan asked this morning-whether or
not he had been a member of the citl
sens alliance and had resigned the flrst
of the year. Mr. Coffey became angry.
"Let the man who told you that come
down to my office and tell his stories
like a man," he aald to the questioner.
"Well, were you, a member, and .did
you realgnT" he was asked. ' -
"I say let the man1 who said it come
down hern. and tell , it to me," 'and the
'phone banged up and. grew- silent
Massachusetts and -Senator Keen of
New Jersey.' alleged to be' planning to
have (heir state convention take a fall
out of Roosevelt, will have some bombi
exploded under them unless, they! swing
into the administration line. This may
help te show why the third term talK
Is getting stronger, and from many
quarters Is heard advocacy that hitherto
had repudiated th doctrine, , , ' ,
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SULLIVAU
CLERK, STOLE, NEARLY A Ml
H: IGAUSE nOTHERTO
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Profile and tide view ot W- OiDoug-
la. MrtC' Douglaa.. ts . below.,- f
STOLE. 8800,000:
: WORTH OF BONDS
Assistant Loan Clerk Involved in
; Enormous : Theft of Bonds
From 'Company for Which He
WorkedWants No Bail.
" " (Jearaal' Special lervtoe.) ' .
New r Tork. , AprU 10. It developed
this. morning that more than 1800,000
in bonds were stolen' by William O.
Douglass, ' assistant loan dark of the
Trust Company of America. . from his
employers. One of his . associates ;ls
O. M. Dennett, a broker, who ' la under
arrest charged with having received,' a
large share of the booty. . . 4
A- third man supplies a mystery 'in
connection with the case. . He haa been
named to the prosecuting attorney and
the trust officials, but. they ' have re
fused to divulge the name. - It la aald
to be synonymous with high finance,
and a sensation is anticipated when the
name is given out - --
Douglasa waa arrested , by Oaklelgh
Thorns, president of the company.- after
a IS-hour chase across New Tork City,
la which he waa assisted by It of. the
company's employee Though Douglas
peculation reached nearly a million
dollars, there was no suspicion of , th
theft until the day preceding his arrest
when be went to lunch- early, and. failed
to return.
A hurried investigation disclosed the
fact that Douglass had'defaulted with a
considerable amount though the- com
pany officials at first 'refused to belter
that ' Douglas had . taken . more than
150,140. . i i v .
.When Douglass waa arrested, It hours
later, after a ehae- across ' New Tork
city,- he denied the thefu He was taken
to the police station, where he wee given
th third, degree before he confessed.
He said that he Itad stolen bonds worth
mors- than 1200,00 with which to en
gage In .speculation on the stock ex
change. .- - 1 --"Douglass'
wife waa with him when he
was arrested at the Hotel Portland, on
West Forty-seventh street ' Whon the
detectives told Douglass to get his hat
and , accompany them,' Mrs.-, Douglass
turned to him and exclaimed: -
Continued on , Pag Two.),
LLION
LOSE HER SUIT
Mrs. Smith's. Daughters Contra-
.dipt..Hr .Statements and the
'Judge Decides In Favor of the
Husband.' r :v - '
-Two young women gave testimony In
the circuit court this . morning which
resulted in ' a judgment ' of divorce
against their mother. In rendering hi
decision . Judge Oantenbein stated that
until , the two daughters took the stand
there waa doubt in his mlnd as to who
was 'the culpable ' party,' bnt" that the
stories 'of-the children tipped the scales
againkti their- mother.- - ' - .
The, case waa that of R.' B. Smith.
bettarT known' as "Buck"-Smith,- against
Mrs. -Rosetta -Smith.'-Mrs.- Smith con
tested i the sulk Jon' a.cposs-complalnt
and th auestion as to which would get
the divorcer depended upon -which could
lay the more blame-upon the other. ..'
- - Wife Alleged Cruelty.' ' . .
The plaintiff -alleged desertion and
hinted at misconduct between his wife
and". her ' son-in-law, Clarence Riley,
after the' separation of theSmltha, and
(Continued on Page Two.)
Reported in. New York
Bell .'Company- Has Swallowed Home
;.; Automatic- System in Portland -
it.'. 'nAf '(Jnanaal Bpeeial. Berries.) X
( New. York," April 10. Just as the mar
ket waa. closing' yesterday afternoon a
widely-circulated, report gained much
credence in I electric-circle and among
Lthe brokersr handling electric securities.
to the effect - that the long-looked for
coup: In : swallowing- -up- of -principal in
dependent telephone systems of the
eountvy,' Including the Home telephone,
th new-Portland, autoraatlo independ
ent company, and moat of the Independ
ent, systems on i the coast had finally
been accomplished -by Preeldent Frank
P. Fish ef the -American Telephone A
Telegraph company .In the Interest of
ths big Bell merger. -
This report could not be verified at
Fish's office by any one in authority.
Fish being out of th eity. However,
It. account for the .vast bond issue of
t4O.000.00O of convertible 4 per cent
bonds sold last month,, simultaneously
PLUNGER GATES TO
QUIT WALL STREET
AND LIVE IN FRANCE
(Jearaal " Rperlal gerrke.)
New Tork, April lO.-Jobn W. Gates,
th millionaire pbjnger. i and his son,
Charles O. Qateev are to : retire from
Wan street' Friends ssy; they have
toaaed an Immense hunting preserve In
France, for a number of yeara, and
Charles Gates Is desirous of living
abroad for some time,
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CLOSE 10
ROADS HEAR
IMPOST
Officiafs Plan to 'Drive
Vancouver Tender
loin Away From Their
Homeson Reservation
City Council Did Nothing Be-
. cause. It Is Rumored, Mem
bers ' Were Lage " Property
Owners in the Newly Created
White Chapel District. ; ; ?
The ordinarily quiet city of Vancouver
Washington, haa been plunged Into
furore of excitement ' because of the
order Issued by Colonel Woodbury, com
manding the. department of the Colum
bia, directing Captain Bradley, acting
judge-advocate, to close the Fifth street
road and Reserve street both of which
are- a part of the government reserva
tion, and are among the most, important
thoroughfare In the city. -
The cause of this action by the army
official 1 the presence of a recently
created tenderloin district facing on
Reserve street and directly oppoeite the
officers' quarters, where the midnight
orgies have proved oatremely distaste
ful to the oftioere and their families, .
- OowaeU al4 aVtaeavUem. -- --
Th army officials for some time past
have bean making an effort to have the
city council of Vancouver remove the
occupant of the district to a neigh
borhood more distant from the army
post Captain Bradley, who has the
matter in hand, baa repeatedly brought
the matter to the attention of Major
Harvey and . the members ef the city
oouncll, but so far hla urgent and re
peated requests have been laughed at
Failing In their efforts to receive any
satisfaction from th Vancouver au
thorities, the army officials took ths
mstter into their own hands, and acting
upon hla . own responsibility, Colonel
Woodbury issued the orders yesterday
which. If carried cut, ,-wlll result In
closing the two streets and seriously
Interfering with business life of the en
tire district below Fifth street Prop
erty owner assert that their property
will be reduced 0 per cent In value If
Fifth and Reserve streets ax closed to
traffic
- Kaaeorn for Xnaetloa. , -
Inaction on th part of th city" coun
cil to make any move toward removing
the obnoxloua district la laid to tne
fact that two prominent members of
the city leglslatlv body own a large
interest In th district in question from
which they derive a large revenue, one
member of th council converted hia old
(Continued on Page Two.)
Financial Cir.clesjThat
her and at. Boston. London, Parle and
Amsterdam. It account aa well for
the fact that the American Telephone
A Telegraph stock jumped from lis th
day before the bond sele on March X(.
to lit Saturday. Onlylt eharea were
traded in during- the week, .though It
ha on of th largest stock issue on
the market - - "
Confirmation of the reported consoli
dation eem to be afforded by the far-
reaching curtailment of new construc
tion work by the Bell Telephone com
pany, not only n - the Paclflo coast
but In the east The Western Blectrie
company of Chicago, which -manufac
tures all the telephones .ana .equipment
of the Bell company. Shut, down Its
works, last month, throwing 4.000 men
out of employment' Contemplated im
provements and extensions In a num-
(ConUnued en Page-Two.)
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Their retirement will be accomplished
by withdrawing from the stock broker
age firm of Charlea O. , Gate ft Co.,
which- has -11 members and ha three
seats In the stock exchange. The firm's
offices cover, almost an entire floor In
the Trinity buildlna, one of Uraodway a
big skyscrapers. Oates.A Co. tiave d.nte
a very larga btmlnesa since tl.e org&n
isaUon of tUe firm.
t'e s esat s
Jury Finds' Editor Not
Guilty After Taking
Seven Ballots Given
Freedom at Once
Defendant's Story That He Shot
Bob Estes to Keep From Being
: Robbed and Perhaps Murdered
Believed by Jurors, Who Dis
credit Prosecution's Theorye
', (Hpsetal Dispatch to Th Journal.)
Pendleton,' Or.,- April JO. John P. Mo. .
Menus, who was charged with the mur
der of Bob Bates on February a, was
cleared, the Jury bringing in a verdict
of not guilty at 1:15 thia morning, after
being out - since t o'clock last night
The case has been on trial In the clr-
cult court since Monday; April 12.
McManus, who la editor of the Pilot
Rock Record, ' told on the stand that
be killed Bob Estea at the Pullman,
saloon to keep Kates from 'robbing or
perhaps killing -him, -a Kates had his
hands In hla . pockets and . McManus
feared being sandbagged or killed by
Estea, aa he had boon robbed twice bo
fore, j . ; v. v- ' ' '"...-'
Th trial was a hard fought legal bnt.
tie in which District Attorney Phelps
and Samuel White of Baker City ap
peared for the' proearu tlon and Colonel
J. U. Baley and Judge Jamoa A. Fe
for the defense. . .- ' ,
;'. Defendant ftr'Free.'
. The prosecution tried to show that
the editor shot the wrong man and that
McManus had no right to shoot unlexs
his life was threatened. The defense
maintained that McManus was on ih
point of desperation from being burg
larised and bluffed by gamblers, who .
had been robbing him while Intoxicated.
McManus is already free and probably
will begin work on hla paper at Pilot
Rock Immediately. ...
Seven ballots . were taken before an
agreement was reached. It was agreed. -
by the jury not to divulge how the va
rious individuals voted, but the totala
were announced as follows:
First ballot Not guilty, : - man
slaughter, 4; murder second degree, i
blank. 1.
Second Not guilty, Si manslaughter.
Third Not guilty, T; manslaughter, E.
Fourth Not guilty, 7; manslaugh
ter, S.
. Fifth Not guilty : manslaughter.!.
Sixth Not guilty 10; manslaughter, 1.
Seventh Not guilty, IS.
. Aoqoittal a Surprise.
The acquittal of McManus Is a great
surprise to the people of Pendleton, al
though It meet with general satisfac
tion. . McManus had been a victim of.
drink for many years before going1 to
Pilot Rock, but for some time past had
been leading an upright life, Less than,
a year ago he fell In with evil com
panion and his old enemy once mora
got the upper hand. He waa making;
(Continued on Page TwexV
IfilPEACHfilEIlT OF'
Radicals Among Chicago Labor
- , Leaders - - Agitate '' Movement
Against . President- Charged
With Seeking , Subscriptions
, t Journal Special Berries.)
Chicago, April 10. Radicals among;
Chicago labor leaders -are agitating to
secure the presentation ' to the senate
next w.ater of a platform for the im
peachment of President Rooer-it.
Some leader with eoclullstlo Inolinn
tions are at th bead of the movem. t-f.
Whether the petition i filed with t t
senate depends upon the reception It n
given by the main labor bo.i'.e w
th committee completes the
tlona ,
The legal committee hna b.-n t Lin
ing for two weeks preparing the rl,r
to be considered. As a tmls are:
That the prpaldent eouKl.t, r"i--ivi- ! or
caused to be received and uvl f r
palgn expenses and the promo1 1 -m
hla own candidacy, I2&0.000 ronii:
by E. II. llarrltrun and otlx-i i .
entlng corporation,
That he vtolHted propr1l jlvx
Ing an opinion pr In. II. ! , I t
Haywood and pettibone.
That he , Is guilty of f , :
dllng in s'ate polltl. n.
That he efeedrd hU
seeking the (l. fwit of i ,
to aim.
A. "tliir rliarre frr . i .
1t'xve)t s CHl.hmt i- i i
gub nat'ii ',ul cen ; . . I , "
ROOSEVELT ASKED