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"VJJY I LEAVE THE .STAGE TO ' DEeoOl F'VOW IMAflBlE ItalthenVant A 1 I-tKY ' li i m.u .Ads Jo noi concern You ler. .'"llUd Mr TTll if $ fl kPiEES, i IR M J M p3 1 IMF Joural Circulation v ' Saturday; .cooler; westerly wlndg. " ' ' X, -X-.'-'"-', XX': X ;r ; ..-'' , fei , FjX' " v; X-'.Xw -: X?- V.- X ' iX-V-'- 'X-'.-'X; XX XX VOL. VI. NO 74. PORTXAND,":ORKGOM4i FRIDAY. EVEN PRICE TWO CENTS. y , lmPcT.. jx'X X'XXX -'''i'-'itV.;'' v ! .V'. " CAPITALIST IS , : BADLY BEATEN l Superintendent ; Covey of Warm Springs Accused of Buling as Tyrant Beds Call for Assistance of Gov ernment Authorities. . Ollfl FOR BOND FIZZLE X X i Bespoisible for Auditor Failure to Print Election Notice in Official News paper "When He . Had Posted Proclamations. MASONIC SQUARE AND COMPASS' USED v TO FORCE VOTES FOR THOMAS C. DEVLIN HENRY ' J. CBOCKER, if 6ubjects Say Instructors Are Forced ' to Serve as Lack eys, at v Agency .rheir i i Property Bights Are Not M Bespected. BMKEfWIPS r HEriRY J. CROCKER Councilmen Assert That City Fathers ?Are in No --Way Responsible' .for- Neglect Apparent, as It Was Bou- tine Matter. x f 1 If y J- r-r- - P -in(j i ma jMiii npi llinpigjl in HI l III 1 1 l I II I I .1 1 II llll III! I J p-st Sard J X ' : v . , -- 1 . j. i a , . (Ipdl Dlpteb to Tkt Joonil.) . ' Madraa, Or, May It Uvlns In lux ury ana ea. aarrounded ' by laekeya and down-trodden ubjecta, Claud C. Covey, v auprintendnt of th Warm Bprlngs reservation, haa eiUbllshed - a I monarchy within. the Millionaire Is TBTashed by a Bailroad Man Until. He; Admits He Has Enough. if , ; ( w m m ft (Jonnul SpeUi terrlMit , ; San FrancUco. May Jl-Henry J. I f!rKkar. - clubman, merchant ' and mil borders of theliionair, . badly worsted in an n- aiaie or urejon a complete aa pi eounter wedneaday evenlni. with JB. a. the cmar of Ruiaia. if the allegations of Buchanan, a brakeman on the California the Indians on the reserve are- true, northwestern railroad., at JUtt -In 8o Kot only Is Cover charired- with ruUnc n0Ria county.-Bystanders say -Buohanas as a tyrant, but also with having wU- knocked Crocker down lour times and ! fully exposed school children to various wouid have continued to chastise hlro if diseases, threatening these children with Conductor James Johnson had not totsr- , death. ; keeping consumptives In school fered. Crocker admitted - that iis had rooms with healthy students, hiring in- enough- -', . t ! competent instructors with government . AccodIng, to Buchanan and- Johnson. 5 money snd forcing them to serve ss-his th fiKht waa'urgad and Insisted -upon neronal lackeys.. and , With trampling hv rwir htma.if. Tha Lifter waa a. ttlng.thsy have TOdre4 gropes t SL S.S gg. ITf? iiniirntHAfl t th hKnAm at th uoria- iL ITi Ws. k.e wk. 0 a prepared put thin wttji lrnorV ; i H tendent of their reservationtha chief s jKoar(jed. I :.- W$ ; J ,v , Oonaott:Jro ma.Vi s 4; .of thewarm BPr'M iavt ia , unintentionally Jostled Mr, Crock- .ConncUman - Vsughn Is one of the .united- in sffort to throw ,sff hi y, . . . , BacBanjlV yesfetflar. "-He fmembers of :ths wunctt', who takes L. . " " :l ': . . rZ turned on ma and angrily shout tneir auegea wren,. ""'t". " TT- ... vm. ' fhn h. 1annd .mi mrna D in l - r - w ' . rr z ' Lawyers, t politicians and councilman were emphatic this morning In placing on the shoulders t of City Auditor Thomas C, Devlin the larger part of the blamo for failure to. publish notice of the . election next . Monday and the con sequence additional expense to the tax payers for another special election. The council was scarcely considered a fac tor so far as - responsibility . for the gross negligence Is concerned.) It is pointed out that the city auditor as early as Mar csMsednotlcss of the election to be posted n Telegraph poles j and other , corwiouous .places and that ha should at that tims have prepared the .notice for publication. Moreover. the attention of his office was called to the required , notice ' for - publication I shortly following " the 'posting' of . the l ivv ctt. UAa crj , iAJU THOS, C. OEVLI . FACSIMILE ..OF. POSTAL CARD BEINOf SENT; THROUGH .THE MAIL IN DEVLIN'S INTEREST. LOST FOB SIX I!l I'J DAYS e'U pes i '(""".' " . .. - :.": I tnV wlti'hl men Ington, IX C with tha hopa of securing ,J?St!S- Mi.tKinii that- win lessen tneir i " . -- his ossn hand, l But Z Crocker left the train at emphatic in bis position that the oun-f Phfwfnw School" TlChpr fllld ca is In no-way ts Warns for the negll-l tta. VV"1 AV,l'-ilcl llu Are' soms action tnatv wiu jessen uieir wrongs as. they. sea tbem.--. .'.. , ' . Qhargss Against Oovsy. ;: . " Among, the, charges contained in the protest are the following: After and shoved him away. . : "I hooked him with my left Ha went to the platform for a few seconds, and I hit him. again when ha got up., .What next occurred Z don't remember exactly. 'Wandering Helplessly. (1) That aince.the; abolishment 'Of I except that I soaked him every time be the noaitlon of agent and the substltu Vtion of a bonded superintendent, they ; are ruled as though by -- tyrsnnlcal king, Who is apparently; noi even .uw got to his feet and finished by" landing him under the car.' gence apparent and that the city audi tor should have attended to the matter the. same as he has to various 6ther rou-j tins details which ha performs by virtue of his of Acs as clerk of tba council nf 'th Mtv uditir'a nttitm" t. .ttA I Vs ; (SpeeUI Dl.petct.to The JosraaL) this morning.. -Heretofore he has oer-1 Tacoma, Wash., May ll.After hav.- formed all other , detail duUes.: why rln gone through .six days of starvation shouldn't-he have. performed -this -one? I and suffering which . would have been The council haa worked for years un-l the death of most people,. Brent A, Llnd- Conductor Johnson1 arrived about that! dertha dlreaUn:of the -city-suditor aay and 1 lyear-old J-awrenca Mack, the time and pulled Buchanan away from Jec to reprimand, cloaked as he is under bla ,fofc cocker agreed that hav had had enough. . Johnson said: "And so ha went on his wa He a sight Both eyes were blacHnd, his nose was bleeding a small torrent and he was otherwise bruised." FOBAKEB IN TEXAS tM nlvll urvlM. (2) That positions of physician and . Mark smith, on the . reservation ihave been abolished by the superintendent, 1 on the grounds that there were no avaii ' able funds to ' mainUin these depart- tioT of m.ooJ is p'rovrded" for rhu p- TAB AND FEATHEB pose. That an Inspector, uavis, cams to make an investigation of this matter, but thatVnis idenUty was not made Known to anyone yVw- -u-, gt , May 81--x party of "nant- ' ..lt.M fBrownsvIHe citisens en routs to Waah- 1 i :r. in to testify before the senate com S) That tna ceauny . c" - mtttee which, is investigating the riots Kepi in acnooj unor u.u ""V"'- passed through here today. I R. Cow tions. the water PPly ," akn in,, a member of the delegation, aaya! jrora a reeervyir , Tf Senator Fdraker should ever go insscis ana annua-. ''"o"'"' I to Brownsvijle he would be tsrred and rvuir naa never ucou , the d resent sunerlntendent took charge. ,n '.rSTethy TSTHZ aBIEFKILLS; HUSBAND thTp'Wim pr pup.roT.pr ; AFTEB BBIDE'S DEATH . fcropnatea scnooi .luuua. , i ., , , i in routine matters, and this is only one of, numerous other details whloh, falls to his, iofe -, , Zellaasr's Opinion.' -iiongress for the salaries ov hmumwh farmers to teach the maians sgncui- ' tural pursuits is used in employing in competent men who are kept about the (Continued on Page Tour.) WESTERN UIIIOII Superintendents Summoned : From All Parts of Coun try to Meet Strike. ' Lal :..t"i f' llnutntt feixcUl gerviee.l . , New York, May SI. 3eneraJ superin tendents from the south, west and middle weft have been summoned to Mew zora by?esldent Clowry of the Western Ion Telegraph company. Three nave arrived and others are said to be on their wav. Sunerintendont Jaynes of Ran Francisco arrived today, and Super Intendent Levin of Atlanta, Georgia, and Superintendent T. P. Cook of the Cri- cago division havs been in New York for several days. - -Levin and Cook have been in dally conference with Clowry during the week, It is understood that plans to- meet a strike have been fairly weU outlined, and that the company will be in readi ness by June IS to rush a new. roree of telegraphers into main and branch Offices should the union decide to call a general strike. Western Union di rectors are. to meet June 11 to act on the demands of the union telegraphers. Clowry atlU says the company will not yield to union demands. President Small of the union says it, will insist on an eight-hour day; the abolition of the sliding acals of, wages and tha re instatement of the discharged union telegraphers hers and in otier cities. . ' Riverside, Cal., May 81. Mrs. Guy Gleason. a bride less than a year ago, died suddenly , at Corona last night A few Tiours" later, her husband in a frensy of grief suffered aMiemorrhage of the brain and died almost Instantly. ' '. , t ' ' " ' r rrrr school teacher and pupil who were lost in-the woods at Fairfax last Saturday, wars found yesterday near Carbonado. Since Saturday 1 evening the : two had nothing to eat- except one '.frog,' which was -eaten, raw.- "Both were- reduced to the' point' of cojlapae, and' the dog ac companying them- shows ; starvation. (Continued, on Page. Four.) -v Councilman Kallaher's opinion- of the matter runs parallel to that expressed by Councilman Vaughn. He holds f to the view that the council cannot be held responsible' for routine matters that under the provisions of the city charter fall clearly to the office of the city auditor. ' Similar expressions were; made by ootn politicians ana lawyer. Attorney Thomas G. Greene said: Tt is a fact lT,'inV, Trfion municipal affairs that the council has been guided in all matters of routine ) If good citizens! go -to thdj oils and Vote next Monday, is assured. here will (be no : stayati ior years pasi oy t-Jty Auaitor Devlin, lUUlllca UllUXiK'-'CVXill S' SUU Even in annual ' anpromiatlon bill Li. r-' " . r .t. 1 . ' i passed by the council was drawn up un- fporiCTS lor ; tncmacnine IS, iuditor: 1 suchmatTeV. a."W; sra part of hu duties whv should not the prepared1 td get but all : its' same classification, particularly In view'VOteS. or the express wording, or the city charter whicn empowers jum to act." . Bond Issues Invalidated. It is : foregone conclusion that , tin less a special ' election is : neld ; sub sequent to tha election , next Monday, DEFENSE HIS P01I1T 01! JDRV Objection ; of. Lawyers .. to ciass oi Talesmen uaiiea '.' Is Heeded by. (bur ; mm m be t FIRS LEGAL TEST '(Continued on Page Four.) H;C!ollins, Concrete Worker, Placed in Toils for Killing ' ; Conductor Ncyius Unable ? to Explain Where- abouts Night of Crime Blue Mask Found. It Collins, a concrete worker, was taken-into "custody at the -Barf hotel. Sixth and . Gllsan slreets, at 11:45 o'clock last night by Inspector Bruin, Captain Slover and ! Patrol Driver Graves., on - suspicion of being . the det perado 'Who murdered Conductor C. li Nevtus and, wounded Motorman B. L. Hull, during the holdup ot a. car on the Rose City Park branch of the East Ankeny line last Monday night.. A tem porary charge of vagrancy was filed against the prisoner, in order , to hold him pending further investigation. .- - The arrest was made: upon. Informa tion by a "stool pigeon" to Patrol Driver Graves, who resides in the hotel The police admit that ' they have noth ing tangible upon which to formally charge Collins with - murder, i yet; point out' several suspicious circumstances that might tend to establish the prls oner's guilt. s -.!'. , .;.-....; Chief .among the reasons advanced by (Continued on Page Two.) STUDENT IS INSANE "OVER GRAFT INQUIRY r . San Jose.. May 81.- John IL .Bunyon, a Stanford university freshman, who is the son of' a wealthy fruitgrower, at Santa Ana, t is in - Red " Cross . hospital strapped to a seat, because of his in sane ravings v over ' the graft cases in San Francisco. ; According to his state ment, a speech of. Francis J. Heney bo- fore the students at the university, is respooslble for bis oondiUon. , i ;.. , Bunyon tried to fits dispatches to President Roosevelt, calling ' his atten tion to -tha "horrible dondltlon of af fairs." . The local telegraph offices held tha messages up. He seems' sane, on every subject except that of graft' Bunyon' is a mining engineer student and threatens td make bombs and de stroy. aU tna graftera, i," . . ) If you 1 favor Lane's- eleo tio.a , . . , . t0 HOT . - FAIL . 'TO'iVOTE. umeiin GIVES TEDDY OVATION President Greeted Along His Boute to Lansing Where He Speaks. , - (Journal gpeelal Service.) ' Lansing. Mich., May 31. Following a reception at the governor's office this morning,- at which the president com- pltmented the soldiers, he addressed the legislature. He said-he knew the dif ficulties, temptations ar.d responsiblll ties of legislators, having been a mem ber . in New York 'himself, and he thought conscientious work was loo lit- tlo appreciated by constituents. : r The president s trip from Fort Wayne was a continuous s ovation.; Eighteen stops - were made and , the - president promised the officials - of ' the i-vUlage sf Bpringport ' to stop three minutes returning this' evening. The,- Sprtngw porters aaked' this consideration,' "be- caus tha town is the home of Robert McClel lan,' a section foreman,1 who gave his ! bunk to the - president Hi the far wast once when ' the i president was hunting. The president c promised to stop f or-MeClellan's 'Sakevi- Leaving the 'state -bouse, the party went to luncheon, and then three miles to the- Agricultural-college,' where he addressed the graduating class. 'He will leave Xnslng' at t o'clock this after- (Special. Dlapateh to The JoarniL) . Boise, IdAho, May II. The new panel which filled the available space , in Judge Wood's court when the Haywood trial was resumed today was the best appearing yet summoned. Apparently the protest of the defenss had weight as farmers ho longer constltuts .the ma jority, .but there , was a goodly sprink ling of laboring - men, merchants .. and mechanics. - . .t . .The judge is trying to hold the -at torneys down to- necessary Questioning in 'order to complete the jury by Sat urday, night One quarter of the. . new panel applied to the court to be excused, alleging legal disqualifications, but Judce Wood ruled sternly against them and only a few succeeded in evading service. - . It ig . believed by both sides that tha jury will be sworn In Saturday and evi dence takliw begin next week.' That the prosecution is certain i of thia t is shown by the fact that telegraphic sum mons have been sent to all witnesses now outside the jurisdiction of the court to-be on hand - Monday morning. The sescion was devoted entirely to the examination of .talesmen snd -was not marked by any sensational develop ments : " j ' .!--,-. ,r - ... The first venireman called was J. Rob inson, with whom ' Frank ' Steunenberg boarded while governor Robinson said he- could give a fair Verdict, but had a trifling opinion of the case. .' Hs was finally accepted, subject to peremptory challenge. - The "defense peremptorily challenged Harmon Cox. ' LaborTOovulefu Support Family May Go to 4 . Bock Pile. ' Joe Ursi, an Italian laborer employed by the street railway company, will be the first roan to feel the weight of the new law providing that husbands who fail to support their families shall be sent tq the ' rockplle while the county pays his family 11.50 a day for his 'work there, if Mrs. TJrsl carries out the plans she formed this morning. Mrs. Ursi appeared in juvenile court rooms -this ' morning ; and ; complained that ' her husband had beaten her and then left; her on Wednesday because she had asked him for money with which to pay the rent and buy food, j Deputy District Attorney Adams was called in from another' courtroom and to him the woman told her story. She is Italian. cannot speak English and told of hsr troubles with the -aid of an interpreter. This la the third time Ursi has de serted her. she said, -and never since they were married, which was 12 yeara ago . in Italy, haa TJrsl supported her. She has had to do washing to make a living and buy clothes for herself and two , babies, one of whom Is 8 years old. I The. other Is but 4 years of age. Ursi works alii the time, said his Wife, but never; uses any of nis money on his family.. He spends it all on other women, leaving bis wife to make her way. as best she can. He is now employed 1 as a track! repairer on the Portland streetcar lines.. Mrs. Ursi says his -month's pay will be due on June 10. and ene wants it paid to neraeir. Deputy-' Adams,' explained ;" to the PIISIER Bev; Mr. Wingert of Port land Presbytery Suddenly Departs from .Tillamook, Fearing an Investigation, . and Leaving Unpaid BP' Among. Other, Things Miss . ing. Wearer of Cloth De frauded Parishioners and Failed to Pay Board of Two Months' Standing. : (Continued on : Page Two.) , A TRIAL FOB HAYWOOD Stories That Citizens of Idaho Are Thirsting for Gore Unturided--Ali Try toDodge Jury, Duty Socialists Demand Duncan's Punishment. By Hugh O'Neill. (Special Commissioner for . Denver Post snd Oregon- Journal.) Boise, Idaho, May SI. It'ls to laugh indeed and indeed it is. , We may have been thirsty In pretty Boise, for the weather is dusty and warming up, and we may have been weary with the wait ing, and the coming of the trial draa slowly, but we have had our gmuse- ment . v. The magacine highbrows from thtifar east are disappointed and given to sad ness, but they are learning to laugh, too. You see they had heard, snd e lleved, that Idaho was a most villain ous., state, given over, soul, ajid body, to, nothing but the "judicial murder" of these . Western - Federation ; leaders. They dreamed of Boise as the spot se lected, for their cruel undoing because Boise wss ready to out-Idaho Idaho. Its citisens were panung wlth the thirst for gore. They, were clamoring for (Continued on Page Two.) JUMPS IN FURNACE TO COMMIT SUICIDE t (Journal Bpecinl Service.) Cincinnati. May !. Either a most atrocious murder or a remarkable sui cide was revealed in tha furnace-room of the Ryan soap factory this morning when Engineer John McDermitt dragged the charred body of an unidentified man from the . fire. The ; flesh was burned from th. face and head and tba arms burned to stumps. MoDermitt .wag arrested. - u vag arrested. says be started tha Are snd went borne, scross the street, to-breakfast Hs re turned and found a strange coat and hart hanging by1 the door and saw a pair of legs protruuing from the furnace door. 4 The coronera Investigation diacloaed a fracture of the skull. The morgue superintendent saya that It is blchly improbable that' the 1todv wrs -.inker, from tl . furnnre this -'morulas', us It was rut L,;t rlei re :ilvtd. Fearing immediate sxoosure at tha hands of his brother ministers of tha Portland' Presbytery, Rev, A. E. Wingert-whs. is charged with all sorts of financial irregularities, was forced to decamp from Tillamook. Oregon, leav ing unpaid debts smountlng to several hundred dollars, including a two months' board bill, a tailor bill, a livery bltt and about 1260 -in small sums . borrowed from his confiding parlshoners. From documents in the hsnds of Rev. E. M. 8hsrp, stated clerk of the Port land presbytery.' it aoDeara that the Rev. Mr. Wlngert's operations in this state was -mere child's nlav mihimmiI with' bis performances when connected with the presbytery of Fort Dodge, lows.- While pastor of small church near Fort Dodge last July he is accused of having, sollected several . hundred dollars of church funds, borrowed small sums from his members and friends and disappeared, leaving a , wife and young babe. He turned up in Portland last. April,. And presented to the Port land presbytery a church letter from the Fort Dodge presbytery, apparently signed by the moderator and clerk, stating-, that ;' he. had. been honorably dis missed from that presbytery to tha Ore gon synoa.1 Being a man of pleasing address and unquestioned ability, Wingert wss at once recommended to the Presbyterian at Tillamook and was immediately en gaged as pastor.' After his departure for his new. charge, the officers of the Portland presbytery began to hear of numerous sums of money that he bad borrowed from local ministers during his brief stay in this city snd bis ap parent unwillingness to repay tha same. An investigation was , instituted by Rev. E. M. Sharp of tha Mount Tabor Presbyterian church, who wrote a letter of inquiry to the officers of tha Fort Dodge presbytery and received in reply tha information that the church letter presented by . Wingert to tha Portland presbytery was a forgery, that ha had . ' deserted his wife and child and bad : seriously - embarrassed his church, by appropriating about 100 . of church funds in addition to leaving a cloud of unpaid debts.- " The letter to Rev. Mr. 8harp also said that several of, Wlngerfi former par lshoners, whom hs had swindled, wera anxious to apprehend him and turn "him over to the officers ot tha law. The im mediate cause of Wingert'a flight from Tillamook ws a letter that hs bad re ceived front " Rev. E. M. Sharp, secre tary of the Portland Presbytery, sum moning him to Portland to explain the Iowa charges. - He replied to this letter by. postal, promising to be in Portland May . 21, but nothing has been heard from aim lnca,:-.v..;:.-''.;e..'::..... The Portland Presbyterian ministers are chagrined over Wingert'a : impost , tlon and are anxious that he be checked in his career. : Rev. E. M. Sharp gives the following description of Wingert! Height about 5 feet 8 inches. Weight 10 pounds, age about 3 S, brown eyes, dark hair and nearly all ot -his upper front teeth are gonev WALSH'S PAPER QUITS BUSINESS Chicago Chronicle Suspends PublicationlVever a Pay-, v : ing Proposition. Chicago, May 11. In an edltorlnt signed by . Horatio Seymour, editor of the Chicago Chronicle, announcement is made this morning mat tha paper sus pends with this issue snd Will not r appear. The announcement is bri.-f. and attributes suspension to the unprof itable business of continuing the puptr. The Chronicle began life It . years ami four days sgo as a Democratic orgnn. It bolted the. free silver erase, snd l.itor fought Hearstlsm . and other ,"tm," eventually landing in the Kputiii'--'i fold as a staunch Republican ad -, bringing . with it a following of con servative Democrats. The i'pr li owned by John R. Walsh, whose hs- recently failed, and who has sunk in , money in It , The Chronicle ihsslw v !' clean, ably-edited paper,- ;r r individuality, tout ev.-r j : fought the laiior n'- otherwise su; t tt't- r ! sll. 1 Icira ' : ritf rs i The r r f, a:l e; . VV: l M"'-'i' .... ; x:.