The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, June 06, 1907, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHUGH : 6NEli,!-ltfl r?n7k v'-.v7" -llJfc k ; fF YOU make your "Want" Ads the rest tll ni , li r imj 7, i' timely, Journal readers will do The Weather- Fair . tonight; ,Frt, day, fair and warmer. " s " " vol.. ;yi, ko. 70, : V'Tf$f Journal Circulation V j :! '77 t l!i PORTLAND, OREGON, ' THURSDAY ; EVENING. JUNE , 6, 1907. TWENTY i PAGES. ; ',777 PRICE TWO 7CENTS..S'i 0 DAY ll! 1 J . ill )lf . . -a G I i 0 I 1 I i 1 1e II m if i i I sen Public Thomas Reagan Tells of the Mayor's Assault on French Restaurants Says That He Was Instructed to Vote Against Them. 7 " ,7 Vivisection of Soul of Murderer . Defendant Maintains His Confident. Attitude in the Courtroom "While 3Ien-Tell v Story of His Misdeeds as City Executive. Revolting in " (Journal Special service.) 1 San Francisco, June (.This la ladles' day at the Scnmlta trial. , Little groups of women dotted the, audience end iol- lowed the' testimony of the wltneeaee ' with careful" to tereet and -smiles of ap , preclatlon when the opposing attorney " claahed la wordy conflict , By la o'vlock every bench In 'the courtroom filled, the crowd again standing in the . aisles and Mayo Schmltt waa ,aur TAmAA W fiiafull euota f attorney a. 'V Jiv visa ju.tmi m - w , f 1 . - Charlaa Skelly. secretary of the police commission, wae-k nrst wKnwi. Hie testimony was nothing more than j a i dreary recital - of the records of the "restaurants were Demi aitacaea oy ro lice Commissioners Hutton end Reagan. Thomaa Reagan-was recalled -to-re-ume the etory of the mayor" assault iiDtm the restaurants. - He eaid ,th mayor told him to vote -against ' French restaurant licensee, which J,i -told tne mayor." aaia ,.- wmi nna Extreme ft -V ell be I had heard that $28,000 been . n- kurh O'Neill Special Commlasloner for Denver Poet ana uragon journal. Boise, Idaho, June . It le the aecond day of the publlo vivisection of Harry Orchard Now that the flret horror of the episode has worn; yon begin to feel Inhuman, . but unhUman aoma Quality that la outside the game of life. Con vlcuon ty confession may be a neces sary thing In unusual cues, but It Is raised by French restaurants with which I extravagantly loathsome, a method that to eecure licenses... ii mjr wi. m civilisation resents. na wouia lnveaiiKwv" m - mtllrfi . . . . . 1 . . n UAt. .in .ft : ciayS'iaier nv w - licenses and said I should vote for the Orchard is altogether resentful. And this publlo confession of Harry It is licenses. He said I houid vote r In eoms sort a legal impropriety. . tbem on political grounds, as many rich , ind-nt ft.. r. ntrnm of French reauu-1 suiaes you as maeceni exposure or tne soul. - It teems a thing that should be ninni wra nntrona of French rentau ranfs and would be angry If they were closed. I told the mayor that ne had made me close them , anyhow, . and I . could not vote for them. ' I saw the mayor at hie home next Sunday. He asked me to come and re- ceivea me coraiaiiy. no iw mj h and coat end led me downstairs. Com missioner Drinkhouse came in, and then the mayor opened the subject of the chairmanship of the police board. He worked himself Into a terrible passion and accused me of opposing hie candl ' date for the chairmanship. He' eaid he had7 a notion instantly to domand-y resignation. Drinkhouse said he could have his. I said he could not have mine. Then things calmed down. , "fretty . soon Muei appearcu. i in done privately behind closed doors. To carry U oa-publicly before the sweat lng, panting crowd In this courtroom, blood-hunrrv with the horror nf thit Utmg. aeems crude, bruui, disgusting. Kay Be Deliberately X.ylsg. Orchard mav be deliberately and ram fully lying, for some deep purpoee of nis own. ir mat oe so mere never was such, a-liar atnoa Adam left the garden. He may be a man possessed. work-ins' 1 under tha . lmDulaa of soma Btranra brain lesion., laborlnsr under a delusion of flagellation, that . demands the sacrifice or his owif Olfe an4 tha lives of other men. He may be telling ' Mn. mi ... whbv an nlffars. Ruf I the truth, the Dlaln. aDD&lllnr. lncon said. Tom.' meaning me, we will note oelvable truth, and 1 he Is doing that, for tha French restaurants.' "No, we won't,, said the mayor.' MISSION DESTROYED TW MOB OF CHINESE n,or eearchlng, more surgical Jt ' X1 MJlf "1 VA1-lu,-lu,-'-iJj seems like the public dissection Of a then he is submitting himself ta a nub. Ho torture that you almost feel no civ- uized people enouid be a party to. ' It strikes you as much more horrl.e than the publlo hangings, the. old public burnings at the stake. . It is more sub- W'. Th.nrhnl. June . A mission at Kain' cm in ne province oi cnecnuan, einiuai on the border of Thibet, was destroyed by -a moo tonay. ffiOICTED OflES MUST PAS Furniture Dealers Under the Law's Ban Given Untile ' Monday to Beach Court. Unless the men who were indicted la the alleged furniture trust appear In court Monday morning at 10 o'clock Assistant United States Attorney James Cola will ask that bench warrants . be servedjon the defendant as ordered bg"5age Charles E. v Wolverton ; yes- T miimi ' fnr rinlnr this la to anvA time In reading tne indictment wblun la a voluminous affair of 64 pagesVlO of which are single spaced. . Mr. -Cole's Idea is to have the defendants appear In groups and if they insist upon the reading of the document it wllF be read once., It Is estimated that It will re quire the clerk about an hour and a half to read the legal Instrument.. To tead It to each .defendant would re outre about 270 hours or 64 court days. Several of the indicted men hava al ready appeared at Mr. Coles office to learn the disposition of their cues, one of whom was J. Goldstein, who stated that he was no longer in the furniture business, having sold out his store on Front street about a month 'ago. - In regard to the stories that have been circulated einoe the return of the indictment to the effect thst certain onea who were Indicted did not belong to the trust, Mr. Cole refused to say anything save to remark that the grand Jury must have had evidence against the parties, else they would not have been Included in the list. , - 1 living man done slowly. - . Sndoranoe Marvelous, And tha . endurance of the man Is marvelous, It is foolish to say that" he aoes not . xeei tne oraeai, mat ne aoes not feel every.- question .and - every an swer scraping,1 at his nerves. For six long heart-rending hours yesterday he sat in the high witness chair, reciting ous tones. - ;.....,.. Hawley, who wee examining htm, was exhausted under tne strain Dy o ciock and could go on no longer. Borah be came as rreen a.nd nauseated as a sea' sick man, Richardson's faoe was white and lined and strained. Darrow looked as though he had almost- Deen Dee ten Into Insensibility. - But Orchard, submitting willingly to Sudiic torture, went on ana on Tina an. enuding his soul In level tones until he seemed to stand before us a naked man who had patiently peeled the flesh - . Woman Watca Xlm Closely, Mrs. 'Steve Adame ' and Mrs. George Pettlbone sat to the lett of the jury, sneering at him publicly. Haywood's wife watched him with an expression less face, seeming to feel no emotion oi anv kind. .- The. retrain" of the trla does not seem to ne arrecrmg ner at an. Haywood listened to him with his Jaws clenched, his face pulsing i with color, his eyes glaring.- - ut wnen or chard named Haywood" he turned and looked at him deliberately, with level, unwinking eyes. He looked In the same way at Mrs. Haywood and Mrs, Pettl hflna and Mrs Mover. He was aa little disturbed by the intent stare of Rich ardson as he was by the fierce eyes of Peter Breen. He talked to Hawley Just as he had talked to me When I aaw him three weeks aro In Warden Whitney's offlce at the penitentiary, - ne recitea his crimes quite impersonally. . Vo xratallty la Tolae.' " When he snoke of the exploding of a bomb or -the shooting -of a man there waa.no color Tot brutality" in his1 voice. They seemed to be only common me chanical . operations. ' He waa told to fire a bomb or pull a trigger and the rice wae named and be did the work, 'he orlce. considering the work, was never high.' Five hundred dollars", for assassinating two Important-men in the middle west, where wages-are hiah. Is almost as low a price as the blood money -of a Paris cut-throat. Orchard did not seem at ail bitter about that. wmmii mi i miii ii in miun t, .iiiennyim i m ' m win wjhuiiiiiw, mmt npwM.n.n"mlW";iJ 1 nnau wt"i p i mian .i j vi.min j- ' r i r i -1 -r 3 . -rv J y jl i . ' " ' 1 HOME LB -OF FORMER GOVERNOR -FRANK 8TEUKENBERO - IN , CALD WELL. JDAH0, BHOV r j jj,V: TORN BY; BOMB SET OFF BT .ORCHARD.' ..'V ' ',' L BHOWINQ SOLE ELEGT1DH-U0TE VERY SMALL U Semi-Official Totals of Elec iiori Show Light Vote and Heavy Eegistration. ' ? :STIMATED FIGtJEES FOE CITY ABE 16,970 Figures Quoted Are of Course Ap proximate, but When the Official Count la Made Final Result Will Not Be Very Materially Changed. (Continued on Page Two.) Semi-official totals of the recent mu nicipal election, using the total mayor alty vote cast for the four candidates a baala from "which . to .,. calmilate, show that-a relatively small vote-was polled on Monday last Throughout tne city as a whole only 8 per cent of the total registered vote, as shown by the registration books, 'was checked off at the polls. Oa the east side 70 per cent of the registered voters got to the polls while on the west side the aver age Is lower with 68 per cent of the total registration;' -' These figures are of course approxi mate for the k reason that some votes weae. sworn tn during the day. and (Continued on Page Two.) OPERATORS ASK j . HURT'S HP Telegraphers Do Not Appeal H to Him as President, but .Want Citizen Help. ; '""" (Joarntl' Special Brlee.) New York. June (.President 8mall of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America has sent a copy of the state ment of grievances of the telegraphers against the Western Union company to President Roosevelt, not as president of the United States,, but as the most prominent and Influential citlsen In the country. Before lie did this he con sulted with some of the other officers of the unloa . .. V. ' Union leaders say that the telegraph service Is a "quasi public" institution. and, therefore , the . publlo has aAdlrect interest in Abe matter. As President Roosevelt brought about a settlement of the coal strikes, they think he might avert a strike of the telegraphers. ... STEIKEKS TRYING TO 0 DESTROY COPPEB MINE Toklo. June 6. Matsuvana dlsoatches say the strike of miners at the Besshl copper mine are -using dynamite freely. The, telephone station was destroyed and the clerk burned to death. It Is re ported that the strikers -Intend to ' de stroy the entire mine. "Troops hava been sent to the scene. ,. .. ., i iiiipuira Many t- ;, X .. ...... M ' ttempts to Bynam Enemies railing Orchard Is to i fa 16 iifli two Wives, After Long Mar ' ried , Life, Declare They Are Left to Provide for Theif Families as Best They May. f Chauncey Butler, the Father j oi beyen unidrcn; and u E. Wood, Father of Three, Prosecuted Under the Law; itecently Passed. v : fjtnrnal tseeial avrvke.), fv,. Boise, Idaho, June . It Wae a com plete battery of legal guns thst assem bled about ' the ; defense . table when Harry Orchard resumed the . stand in the Haywood murder - trial today. Orchard was brought In from Hawley's offlce surrounded by a heavy guard of armed men. . . ;..,-' ' . ,'. ; ' ,; He was at once escorted to the stand and resumed his story.' He declared he knew. J. Wolf, who wee collector for Pettlbone, and that the latter sent him a registered letter rrom uenver con taining money. Orchard declared he got his information about Bradley from a servant girl named Bell employed by Disguised aa Soldi. , He left Ban Francisco two weeks after the Bradley explosion and got W Don- ver nerore cnristmas. e ais- guised himself as a soldier and wore smoked classes. Pettlbone told him he had done a fair lob on Bradley, but should have killed him. T Orchard went to Adams' house, where aula. So aa o AtoW the Former h?rain?'n Sf!J! .i'V 1 reached Denver, and declared the latter said Bradley was maimed and'Vould be living example ot wnat happens to ne toia mm ne couia nave THROUGH BLUFF 0R. & N. Desires to Secure Direct Entrance to Union Depot Across Bridge. A ' ' ' NEGOTIATIONS OPENED . WITH LAND OWNERS "J...-tX ' ' 'ifi ii in ii 4.1.''-; Road Deslrea to Bring Heaviest Traf fic In Future Around the Fealn Hard Pull. In order to secure direct entrance to the Union depot across the Steel bridge for Its trains operated over tha belt line around the peninsula,, the O. R. at N. Us planning to construct tunnel through the bluff north of the east end of the ; bridge. , Negotiations were opened some time ago with, the owners of the land extending for more than 1,000 feet 'north of the east end of the bridge looking towards securing either me iuii ownersnip or tne property or the right of way for the tunnel. ; . The O. R. A V. is in a nenullav ttotil- tlon in reaard to the-operation -of its train , seeking, entrance to the depot from tha , east- side, lines. All trains wanted,- but must (Continued on Page Two.) ORCHARD'S STORY IS LOOSE Murderer's Confession in Haywood Trial Does Not Coincide '-With Facts Regarding Blowing Up of the Independence Depot Cripple Creek Miner Says the Men . , ,:, .'.' Guilty of the Outrage Were Not Wanted. v - f. "This Orchard story in, the papers does not hold water,", said VJ. C Btan hope. a Cripple Creek mining man at the Oregon hotel en his way to Alaska. "I was in Cripple Creek the ' time that Independence; depot was blown up. It is a tosa up which side, did It. ..There are two stories, one about aa good as the other But one thing, or, rather two. are sure: the. depot was blow , up, and no one even to this day knows WhO;dld 'The. miners say-they were holding a convention in Denver at- a time of great political importance, ' ..Violence, of any kind, would ruin their cause "Just then. Ana at the worst time ror tne r eaera t ion of Miners the depot was blown up. AIbo that If, It had been the Intention to kill people that by delay in the mat ter three , minutes over ,400 - could have beer, killed Just as well as the 14 who were. - r .-...','. -. "They allege that the other - side. knowing that the mine would turn out its force In-a. few minute to take the train and. that the train was-nearly due, believing that the depot was clear of people lust then but would be 'crowded In a few minutes, blew it up for polit ical effect, not thinking to barm, any One. , H (,,-,. :t""J:'y.: TraU waa "fcata. vj.- 'Bot.omt course ther must come, very near it and lagr; the blame, on Uie-Xedr, eratton, aa it would be of no importance to blow up some Isolated ahafthouse ot nor con sequence. . To threaten the lives of several hundreds . by what appeared to be a safe margin would arouse pub lic opinion, defeat the political plans of tne Federation, ana get tne troops into cripple creek,-. thing the mmeowners wanted and tne f ederation, aid not. "But the train was three minutes late and the mine turned out its graveyard shirt- five : minutes earlier than ' usual. The result was there were about 40 men I on the depot platform that no one knew about, nor calculated on. v And -these men were blown .up," I being killed. "On the other hand, the mine owners say the -Federation had blown up other places, and that many ot the men .killed and Injured on, that platform - were Masons, - and that ther "mine owners i control 1 of the situation '; were also Masons and: friends, of -the -murdered men.-- ' That mine owners should blow Up -fellow Masons and friends la not to be thought of, of course. i...; ! redaratiom Offered Biff Xeward, '- "But -this does not necessarily, throw sure' blame . on - .the Federation.-' That could occur, aa the Federation claimed, by t the mistake of the train being late and the mine letting out its men Ave minutes . earlier, than uaual. . The . sta tion was blown up Just ea the headlight appeared round the , curve a mile or more away, as If it was to be the slif naL Then, too, the Federation offored 19,009 cash reward with, no restriction , xor evtdenoe about the outrage. The ""weiue aoiierea no, reward, and as they-had absolute control of the police machinery, made no adequate efforts to unearth the matter. . r , , Lri power did not want the men who mow up xnat aepot. Also it was gen erally understood, that at the time either the Plnkertons or the United States secret service men Could have got the niurnnmrM wunin . an wnag- , ,i .. ) "So here , you -have ihalf a dosen- on one side and six on the other. The most nnuionaDie explanation seems to be an accident eomewhere. as neither side waa such men. all the money he keep out of sight. new Tederetion officials. ; ' During his stay in Denver he saw Haywood and Pettlbone fortnightly at the former's residence, and the tatter's store. Thev wanted him to helo assas sinate-Judge Oabbert of the supreme court, who had declined to release Moyer, who' was arrested in Tellurlde. He and Adams hung about the Oabbert house with shotamna for a time., but did not see him. Thev then unsuccess fully tried to kin Governor feaDoay, According to Orchard . the latter waa desired killed by Haywood, who said if Peabody was again seated as governor organised labor , would have to . leave Colorado. ' i : , :. '-V :'''; - . 1 Tried to KOI Ooddard. Havlna-' failed with Oabbert. Hay wood asked Orchard to try to kill Su preme Judge Ooddard. :. The latter re fused 1o do anything for the release of an impnaonm, miner. ' piwih : b month ' watching the Ooddard house wlth Adams, hootna: for a chance to shoot through tha window, but failed. tie went to Canon City in April tn order to try again to am uovernor-reaooay, who had resigned his office. He said he went there on a Joint order of Moyer, Haywood and Pettlbone. Moyer told him there must be no mistake and he must set him out of the way this time. Haywood, he swore, told him, to make sure of killing Peabody. - - -. PMtthnna eus-aested he et a DOSltlon as agent of the Mutual Life Insurance company, which would give him entre to tne tr eaooay nome. ne eppiiea xor the Job . and , gave -the-: leaders of the federation as reference., . He was given a contract ' : ' Hi went at once to Canod City and decided' he ' couia easuy oiow up x-ea- body, as the latter sat oy a winaow in th front of his house every evening;. He took a room a block away from the Peabody- house. . j-t:..;-i:,j.,j: Attempt .to K1U veabody. tt Arlama. - and -c- Steve Ackerman leaa oomtt vi iwwunr, gmni Two prosecutions of husbands charged with failing to support their famUlea have been instituted In the county court under the law passed by the last legis lature, which became effective May IS. On complaints sworn to by their wives, C. E. Wood and Chauncey Butler have been ' accused, by Information filed ' in the county court by the district attor ney, of "refusing, without iUst or suffi cient cause, to " support his wife and Children." -I'.' ;,- -;i"';'. J;.'-. - ' Butler baa been married , 21 yearf n. 1th, father of seven children, while Wood, who has been married 1 yearn, ban three children. The chare tMlhli Rittl.M ft.w T..ll.. Butler, gives the names and ages ef the children as follows.' Florence, a red 20: Oscar, aged 17: Adeline, aged Z; Hat- aged , and William, aged 1 years. -Mrs. Thereaia Wood iwnrt , t the charge against C. S. Wood and rives the names of her children as;. Wes ley, aged IS; Walter, aged le, and Mar vin, aged 9 years. - Arrested in a Saloon. Bench ' warrants were issued br Cir cuit Judge Cleland for both men. and the bail of each was fixed at lino. Deputy Sheriff Proebstel arrested Wood mis morning in a saioon at tnxth and Irving streets. Wood is aa able-bodied man. about 45 years of ace. and is em. ployed as a teamster. He says he has lived with his family Up to today, and left home this morning to go to work st the usual time. , , , . Under the terms of the new law the offense of faillne- to- aucnort la mi. demeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county tall from od to II months.- Imprisonment- is inevitable) upon conviction, aa tha act nrnvlHa m other penalty. During the term of im prisonment tne convicted man is to work at the Kelly butte rockptle, and the county nays his famllv. 11.60 mr day for . hie services..-s .-. Court Zas BscrrUon. It Is provided, -however, that that courte have dscretlon to release the Im prisoned man on nrobatlon. unon oon dttion that he pay a certain sum weekly ior , ne support o -inis iamiiy. . The Drobatioa mav h nvoknd at mv timA . by the court, and the husband sent back to the rock pile for sentence. Both the county and circuit courts have juris diction over prosecutions ' under this) suit mud, a caps and acid and put it under the aide walk at e.aDOt -which -Peabodv-crossed helped snd both injured by the outrage. I daily. The stretched a wire from the Buj Orchard's story, and confession that! bomb to a doorway a block, away. a.v uiu a uunv nui coinciue wiin, tae l ,veryininr wa win... Mww..v--v . - AS tne governor um muhi iwu coal wagons came along and were on .the wire -when the- governor :, reached the spot- The bomb could not be exploded, Thev took, the bomb and reported their failure to ' Pettlbone. who said It was ton hnd. Thev made a couple of other attempts to shoot Peabody and Gabbert, but failed. , . ; ,-, ; -Thev also tried, at .Haywood's , In- ti,,.,i to assassinate Frank llarne. prenlJent cf the Colorado Fuel & Iron compHny. They hung around his house, but falied to see him.. A frail of Iloffatt. -' ! Hiyworvl told him that DnVt.l Vf'-iU. the bis Denver f -piuicior. I m the en i Ire ff.ni!w!i t,i i'-e i i .,,..- an.l a;-',"? 1: i I-.n- r' ' I r, ( ' f - ' '- . ) actual .facts of the situation. y Sobbed Haywood of rower. 'The last, man to want that ilannt blown tip at that, time was Haywood. It robbed him ofprectioally all his po- uueu puwer id wiornuo ior SlotltBI afterward and turned - public - opinion against him and the Federation so bit terly that the convention, was- a failure where before the explosion ha threat. ened to sweep the State. ; . , - .. . I have no use tor the. Federattnn nf Miners, and think them a bad lot. but this man - Orchard i not telllna- the truth, as I and practically all Cripple Crek on both aides know It." "At the time of the explosion the Denver papers stated that bloodhounds took the scent from the place where the trj was sprune- and' traced it tf t lie, Tinker ton headquarter," Mrs. Congar Drops Dead. i . - (Tovrntl BpeHal Service.) " Lafayette, Ind., June . Mrs. ; Helen Cougar, ' lecturer, and writer, aged - 68, dropped dead this morning. : PEANUT VEIJOOR ' HAD TWO WIVES Dead Poixiorn Man Leaves Two Women, Each Claim- ing to Be Legal "JVidow. (Joemal tDeetal San let.) San Bernardino, June (.Mrs. Nathan Kennedy of - Chicago ; has brought suit against the publlo administrator of Riv erside, and Mrs. Nathan, A. Kennedy of Riverside to set aside Kennedy's last 11L She claims she is his legal widow. Mrs. Kennedy No. 1 charges her allegsd husband with bigamy and unfolds a pe culiar story. , Kennedy waa for years a character about Riverside, : selling peanuts and popcorn,.: once a year be experted the municipal books and also the books of several leading merchants. Not one of the man's numerous ac quaintances or friend knew Ma jivt, that he wa once a prosperou Im-..!- man in Chicago, ma 6nc(r,i wir i-, Chicago eays they were marrif.-I tit Vsl- paralso, Indiana, in 1!T", , - , aUvance-i him jj!) to : i ( i resi, tuHt he 1 1, f- ,, i . i lie" 1th, rnmi tn i i- .-: !: still i ' 1 I in rma mi-.l ' ., -t .i- I . , - -i t -if ..-- V' ',! .'- t . --.'-.-:.