The Oregon daily journal., June 30, 1907, Page 1, Image 1

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VOL. IV. NO. 18.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE SO, 1807; .
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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Lieutenant Benedict of the
Fourteenth Infantry Mar
rics GcncTieve Ardell, a
Taudeville Actress, After
a Year's Courtship. : .
Brother Officers Indignant
. .and. Family of Groom An
. ryCupid's Victory 'Hay
1 Cost Youthful Follower of
. Hars His Shouldcr-Straps.
kIt w her vole. Ther U no. qu
tlon about It, thouah many claim-that
H wai her, peraonallty that won' tha
heart, and Jova ot the brave'youn oBl
car who "threw hi anabltlona to tha
wlnda and married her. '
Bha waa variety alnger.""At Hag-er'a
playhouse in Vancouver 'aha aanjr th
aonga that; won tha heart of tha gallant
young; officer, Tand thera.aoa met mm
- flrat. i It waa after ona of her aonga
that he aent hia card and when they
had visited- the restaurant 1 together
they felt as If th world had been un
true to them. She met lit in again,, and
then arin, and Friday they wera mar
ried. Ilia folKa are angry, hut what
- iMa urf She la his brlda. and
with her beelda- him ha will fc tna
''.world. - '" . ."
All Vancouver la talking about tha
, -wedding. At army barracks It la gossip,
and in town it la me lain 01 me vuiagn.
1 Hoth -tlie bride and groom are well
known there. , . .
Lleutonantr Bpnedict ' waa .born Fn
r.hoda Island. He joined the army at
AVest Point and waa ent to Vancouver
barrtu-ks a year ago. He la second lieu
tenant in tha. Fourteenth rcglmnt ot
Infantry, the raclt regiment of ' tna
Vancouver post. ,
':.-Tlma'a Wlnga war! walrMd. : : r
When ha arrived at Vancouver a'yoar
ago. time hung heavily on hia hand.
The post waa dull, there waa nothing
there that Interested him. Bo he visited
the town, and there was nothing la tha
.town. He went to . the theatre, - and
there ha saw a vision, a vision that en
thralled him and haa caused him to cast
& aafda all chances .of the future.'
. Miaa Ardell waa a alnger, a vaude
1 villa aingcr. , Genevleva Ardell waa her
nUge name and under the Sullivan &
Cohsldine circuit she made many en
gagement.,' Among her engagements
waa Hager"a theatre In Vancouver. 8h
was -doing a vaudeville turn there three
weeks ago. She sang,, and Jier voice
m,m nna of tha big features of th man-1
agement Mr. Hager, birth way, doea
. not get the eholceat of attractions and
w yen ona ooes coma wj lUMca
. ine mini ' , j. . .
' She i was singing When Lieutenant
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PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE THREE VJItMERS III THE SWID1W JOURUM'S DEMJTY QUEST
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JOM'&M&tl Vim$J5(PM. . .
GOVERI,lEi!T TO GRAPPLE
WITH PLUMBERS' TRUST
lndictmcntsLWi' Follow If It; Is.Found That the Sher-
man Anti-Trust Law Has Been Violated-Wash-
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'' inffton Firm a-Hember of . Local Combination.
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DAZZLED BY GOLDFIELD
TALES SWEDES BUY STOCK
Lavish . Entertainment of Alleged Swedish Hillionaire
, From Nevada Induces Hany of His Countrymen to ,
' ' Purchase Paper Believed to Be of No Value. ;. ;
JOIIISOO'S
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Authorities' :Believe They
' : Can ! Fasten Crime ; Upon:
.Wayne, Now in the Pcni
tentiary, and "Andersen,
Also in Custody
Portland , Heights Society
v (Women' Identified. Crimi
nals Months Ago as Hen:
TVho Prowled About Al
' vord Eesidence.
Frank Wayne, xprt safe
cracker and escaped convict, now
serving a nine-years sentenc
In th federal prison at McNeil's
laland for robbing th Scllwood
postofflc.
. , Charles Anderson, hurglar,
thug, ex-convlot. In the county
Jail awaiting trial for the rob
bery of th Sellwood postofflc
and shooting PqIIo Officer Bor
enson. '
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4S I1AILED DQl'JI
District Attorney Suddenly
-. Closes Up All Kinds of ;
uusmess iiuubcs. . . ft
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'' There l a city beyond the Columbia
where you can't buy ooie" today. In
von can't even buy clgarettea for
a atafe law la to go into eneci juy .
h.rrin their sale,, and an ODstreperoua
1' district attorney haa - Issued, an order
closing saloons toaay. , - . 1
The" order came late last night, a
urprlae such aa the quaint villagers of
?r.-r iiva rarelv exnerienced.'
T They thought It vWas to come next
Sunday, and never for . a moment
. oreamea wiat inumw ----
according to District Attorney Staple-tan-aloona
must close their doors to-
-iav and those who are thirsty must
e'-.i.l tn ha thimtv.
' Vancouver'. waa the hope bf PortlandJ
Until laat nigni. umer neiKiioynuwu
' towns announced the closing of their
grog shops last Sunday, but Vancouver
atood . game to the end and offered
liauid refreshments for all who dared
the trip." Saloon men-were jubilant; to-
' day would have brought aheckela , te
'' them.5 . 5- . i -
But dead is - hope4, 1 departed are , the
visions of prosperityi Vancouver la
"dry" today and luckv Is the man who
- can raise a drink. - Portland la "dry."
, Oregon City is "dry;" all contiguous
towns and suburbs are . "dry," -Van-
couver the last chance of. the thlraty,
w la "dry" and hope is dead.
Mr. Stapleton Issued the order last
night Chief of Police-Bateman carried
out the orders and salooninen are
despondent Mayor Ilsrvey joined in
the order and those who advoaate an
open town are puziled. Up to yester
day officials favored an open town,' and
the chanee of heart -is Inexplicable.
. - "It's fifty years I've lived here," said
a Vancouver resident last, night, "and
r never before have' I experienced such
a feeling. To think that tomorrow is
to: be "dry." Usually I ' buy a drink
when 1 want it, but to think that I
can't buy one tomorrow makes me feel
i lik departing." - ...,, ,,-.-.-, 1
'Acting unort th evldenc developed
during The ' Journafg ' expoaur of the
Portland Plumber' truat. government
authorities are planning an Investiga
tion of the - eombin which ; will later
lead to Indictments should It be oud
that; the Sherman antl-truet- law has
been-vlolaied.; ;?j '::X-& r"'f7
fAsaiatanf United S BUtes - Attorney
James 'Cole." who last month brought
about the Indictment of furnltura- deal
era and. the dissolution of the furniture
trust, is at' present considering th vl
dence airlnst the local Plumbing com
bine; and it is mora than likely that a
sweeping Investigation will result .-
The local plumbing combination does
hot stop at the boundariea of this state,
but Jts clutches reach oven to Yancou
ver," Washington, and drag In he Jarg-.
est plumbing .firm located there in, an
effort to', throttle legitimate competi
tion and, put 4h Independent matt down
and OUt . . .,.i.4'w-r. :.'. '' .:"'
..Z The Vancouver firm, own stock in XT- CJ T,k KT T? , aiining. stocg manipulators appear to
in i-pruana jumpers- jrroiociivs ucAt UUJluaj lUU JjO-WOI xca.u, 1 httv found Portland a proliflo field of
tnui voman in America
paper Which gives it license to levy a
which are divided monthly. It is per
mitted to bid for work Inside th city
limits of Portland, subject alwaya, how
ever, to the edicts or tn inner circle. .
-Onlv once durtnar The Journal's in
veatlgation waa there found a plumber
Will Bo announced.
operations of lata, Just now' consid
erable - excitement prevail in; Swedish
circles because of a number of th fair
sona and daughters ot- th north hav
ing been mad victims of what they
Th national beaut eueat will be de-lnow believe one of the meanest and
who admitted that he charged an ae-l olded the coming week: and next Sunday ltt??Le!!?bJ,,5V0??!?e5c.- meB-. .
aociation "bonua", . He admitted that he Th. wm ; Bre..nt lta readers I .l"lu. Jl"t.a?' I?,al?
tarknrl tha sum of 12 on avarv fixture I T " vu,"v ''' wuu sni-mignu papor
which -he sold out of his T store. . In with the (announcement of the winners certificates of mining stock for which
reality, the "bonus" charg is $5. and photographs of th woman adjudged i" PVi. JD"ril3r;n ln seller that
ion to
which
Vandor-
Daszled
promises
lash-
- This same: piumDer oeniea that tnei k..nr,,i in I a I ri" . " " '. . i
onu" raft' laat year and until a t w ri " V 1 "T T Sf-nf1' ney w,.u.laS po5"
m..tha ?r.i ... . i.r. i Watch for nxt Sundava Journal , M wallow In wealth th -llk of
tha .face of ,tlia "bonus" recalnta which l4Tha Jonrnkl waa tha laat of tha Is Ph'7 Rockefeller. Morgan - or i
Tha -Jonptial had nuhllahad. ihovlncl. . . . Dili COUia afford to Imagine. '
conclusively, that th graft wa placed L Bunaay P'Pers in ine unuea - i by sweet words, felg sounding
,t-th -n-riiraxamArf k. l enter tha contest and waa, tha last to I and delicious repasts at the m
read the published accounts. The Van
couver -firm ' denied that It !waa. asso-
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who has lived all of her life elnoe In
fancy in. the Willamette -valley, where
her mother still resides at Albany.
i Miss Ceneth- Robertson, daughter of
the late captain H. R. Kobertson, the
well-known lumberman, -was th win
ner of -the second prise- of 50 Miss
Robertson- la a well-known 'society girl
and for the paat 10 years haa -resided
wltb ner parents ln Portland..
. " ; I - To. -Write rat -. JonrnaL
Unwritten ;LameaHeets Appro Jury;: 6&p .-STtS
a ontuiiija iu j binuu w ivu uvi is cat cik cat 44
tn winner 01 me mira priae, iza.
-Miss Stuart is a milliner, by r trade
ana is empxoyea in a local store. She
is at present east, visiting -the James
town exposition, which she .will de
scribe -jor journal readers. ; 1
Miss -Parrish is employed in El. W.
-Thou shait M0frJ? ?"St0r,a,p,L5fIlar?.5? ?i" .??
announce ;its prise winners; The first TirwYiSZ, 55:
prls of 75 was won by. Vlra Stuart of want of fresh bait of the: moat allui I
Portland, a native of North Carolina, ing aind. . -,-.!
. On . of the victim, a woman, de
clares ; she will see the manipulators
punished if there is a law by which to
reach them and .aha has traced them
to Seattle. In a wire to a friend, and
also 'a victim of tha confidence game,
this woman says she has located the
"capitalist" and will endegvor to have
them brought to terms. ."
- About two months ago Charles Bro
berg, Mrs, Broberg. his wife, and Henry
Lindholm, an aged - minor and "cap
italist." hit Portland from the south,
having "blown In" from Nevada and
California, where they had "struck It"
lmmenaely ' rich. ' Mr. Broberg spent
money with a lavish hand for several
days among those he intended cultlvat
ing and .where he.: thought It would
bring the fattest returns before he
began1 to , discos . of .choice -.blocks of
stocx in the Nevada-California Chan
nel Mining company. - He had no stock
to sell,, but bis friend, dear old Mr,
At last the authorities hav what they
believe 4to be a positive clue to th
murderers Of Dr. Edward Johnson, who
was thrown from tha Ford street bridge
laat January, In the positive identifica
tion of Frank Wayn and Charles An
derson bV two well-known society
women of Portland Helghta, who eaw
the two men prowling around the resi
dence of W. C Alvord. 206 King street,
on the afternoon of the murder.
Tha . women were in th corridors of
tha noa toff Ice building when - Wayne.
Carter, Anderson and several there of
the gang were lanen mio Assistant
United States Attorney James Cole'a
nfft. ami nicked out Wavne and An
derson as the two men they saw about
Mrs. Alvord's house. Neither woman
hesitated a moment in Identifying tn
robbers. - s . - . - .
Tames) avre wifoneia.
Tor aaveral ' months the authorltlea)
have had this Information, but hav re
fuaed to reveal It heretofore, and even
at present refuse to give the names of
th women who Identified the men.
When asked ' about tha case. Deputy
District Attorney Qua C. Moaer refused
to give the namea of the iTomen, but
atated that ha had been Quietly at worlc
on the case and haa strong circumstan
tial -evidence against Wayn and An
derson, on which h xpecta to oonvlct
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. r Which Holds That Defendant Was Justified.- in , ? i
Slaying Youth : Who , Ruined Daughter. ;
By Julian Hawthorne.
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Houston, Va., June 1 28.Judge -,: Lov
ing -was acquitted of the. murder f "jOf
Theodore Estes this evening, one hour
after the case waa given into, tha hand
of tha - Jury. ; Vvv.,,:,";
sThe "unwritten law, Jnvoked In: hia
behalf - by ' Elizabeth Lovlflg, daughter
Of the accused man,, and pleaded before
theTlury wlthfervld eloquence by his
counsel. triumphed one mora, and the
slaver of - young ..Estes-" was showered
with congratulation as he walked from
the courtroom a rree man. ; !
Judee L.oving"DroKe oown ano wept
" After a day 6f 'oratory. In which
former State Senator W.- P. Barksdale,
Walton Moore and John J. Lee made
eloquent pleaa for the defense and Wood
Bouldin of Halifax closed for the prose
cution. 'the case was -given over. tOftbe
Jury-' at :4:4L o'clock."; , , ..-i' ;' .
...,-;... v. - a Appeals Chivalry.,
M: ' Strode ot the defense opened In
the morning with the apeech for Lov
ing. He appealed to the Virginia chiv
alry and . reverence for . womanhood,
which la to -an true , sons or tne sacred
soil dearer than life, itself: and he drew
a vivid picture .of ' the agony . of mind
of the defendant when he., was . con
fronted, with the certainty of the in
justice 'dona, to.-her, who had always
been the chief object of his love and
care. ' ; v .- '.- v
Mr.- Strode spoke with much -fervor. I
must remark that., the speeches, as far
as my experience of them goes, are
much roor slncer In 'ton and urgent
ln subatanc. than on hears In "New
York, southerners having a finer sens
than the lawyer of tha east - - - .
Mr.. Barksdale made a brief but emo-'
tlonal address, attempting to controvert
the suggestion . of- iir. iiarmon y ester-,
day-
-that God .has said : -
0. R. & N. Tunnel Franchise Refused 'in no Uncertain
Terms -Intimation, of "Joker"-ty Council Must i
Flock Solidly to! Rescue or 'Measure Js Lost'
' Mayor Lane's veto axe haa fallen upon
i i.m ti ' . . ,7:.-- . . i Ri.mnr .ann.-wiii write rar . .jnnrniii
ZmZSS!AnmAwm about photography as a sphere the tunnel franchise, ordinance grant
lowed by a JurFverdlct th O. R.- N-'a' right-of-way
murder tnjU degree. t P-nlnaula and.unles. city
,i - v. -. -T-j- . .-j-v . i airecuon oi me .various newapapers l '"
H culminated bv thanklnar Ood that I who have nartlclDated in th national 1 measure- 'will die tha death, of tha-da-
Virginians would always do murder in I contest, and will write of her- travels leanltatad - and the-com Dan y will ; have
the lnterestawof the sanctity of their for readers of The Sunday Journal, v Pl. . " ' T-: V
nomea, ana oj using sucn means as l T.tt winntH. - : 't ;; ,-'-. I HW - - 4 . -
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tn mayor in amxing; oiu t turaiu
iiiii thkt hi. iinr,i nn fmm an I In the national beauty
unenllchtened.asa down t th. t.rnt I lnt thi most beautiful .woman ln the I in no uncertain tenna. He broadly In
day..,, - v. ' . r tw " u U?-ritory aaajgned them, as followa:-In I tlmatea 'thaV there la ' a Joker ln-the
. m..- eyivaine, - wancnestar.
psnire; itnoas island, con-
that "a -VUrginlan gentleman can never
- Mr. Moore following on th same side, n!an
remarked in reference to his own real-
dence in a distant part of the state. New Hamp
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be wholl a stranger hfor . iin-flfl" (Continued n Pag Seven.)
Virglniana" - He applied himself chiefly
ordinance Which would seemingly grant
I tha common user clause demanded by
I mm out in reaiuy wouia kiv no out
side road the right to use th approaches
to attempting to remove , in, ground I ..-m n-mrrt -rr'rrt ' rrmn '- r
from beneath th testimony fatal to th EDGE RUNS HIS AUTO -contention
of the defense, riven h- tha I 'J ijkj iuw,u-,vlj
: MILE, A MINUTE FOR
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
contention of the defense, given by-the
matumy "w
timony wh
to - the tunnel thus shutting every cor-
The mayor further takea the ground
noratlon except th U. n.
tributaries from use of the
and Its
property.
Insanity expert for the prosecution, tet
timony wnicn provea mat Jjoving
really sane at the time he 'killed Estes.
-waa
He took advantage of the -exclusion -of
the collateral evidence to relate all. de
tails, of th event whioh are now gen
erally recognised aa untrue. ; - -, .... v ,
y Xdeallaee. Judg lVOTlnr. ;;
He painted -a .picture of a 'man1 typl
tna tha ordinance aa written grants
a perpetual franchise to tn v. a.
N, and he calls , attention to tn i ex
rarianm the nitv has met ln the Past
and Is now1 undergoing by reason of
similar granta ; He also argues- tnai
e (PnblhdMrs' Pnea hy gpaeial Leased Wlre 4) the interests of the"' city come before
l-tt m T ,"-rnIMa Sat'lt Is "t& SutT'of thyor : ind
e . the Uat bf his 24-hour endurance iSr -,.n . Mn.Mer thM. intereata
c1 J$ th, higheat-and noblest manhood I test at the greatest speed at!; before those of any other corporaUon
n I nia and., nar! a tan the tha aa I l a-
stained throughout his race, S. T. v e or inaauax. - TrT
Edge broke all records, covering e it r Ttatlng "what the proposed or
1,611 miles and 1,310 yarda Hia Idlnance provides writes as follows:
of Virginia, and declared that the au-
thor or the Hcariet letter" himself
never- deDlcted a situation so nrofound-
ly. tragic, aa that which confronted this
ex-Judge.' ex-Inebriate and shedder- of
his brother's .blood when his . daughter
made her communication ' to: him on
April 23 . last, r . -
Mr. Lee next spoke. lie proceeded -to
draw a horrible Picture of - woman's
condition, in the north as brought about
by their entrance into industrial pur
suits. Men of the north, - unlike the
gentlemen of the south, regard woman
-e
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slowest time was 60 miles', an'
hour, and . his average a trifle . e
under 60 milea. . The record waa
made over the ' new Brooklands
cement track; Edge covered the
first 100 miles In a trlfl over
86 mlnutea . - '
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Xntlniatloa of Joker.
'Thta franchise Or arant has a com
mon . user clause which . allows - other
railroad companies -to use the tunnel
UDon Dayment of a Just proportion of
the cost of the same, but nowhere pro
vide any. right -or access- or egress
fromf Said .tunnel. In other worda any
other railroad company, upon payment
of - ita proportion of the cost, of the
i I same,, can us the tunnel, providing It
can conjure up some means of getting
Into it, or out of It, which quite natur
ally It could not do unless it in some
way- aecurea a ngnt to us - the ap
proaches to such tunnel, whioh is the
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riKni. m ray - opinion, tnai soouia e
Insisted upon by the representatives of
tne city neiore tne grant is made.
"Also there Is no time limit set n nnn
the life of the grant so far as I can
ascertain, It being a perpetual fran
chise with no restriction,, -of -which
grants tnis city nas nan experience. In
le past, and la now having, m. -
t-;pr,-;:itauitMt- of ; citrM ::piu
' "The'' cltva interests 'demand that aa
few bridsea. tunnels and cuts thmnirii
over and under its property be made as
possible, and in the event that another
rauroan snouia come to tne citv ordi.
nary . foresight suggests that, th pro
vision for the same be made as soon as
ossiDie. 11 in city through Us agents
tad taken such a view of - the matter
when th deep eut across the peninsula,
now In - process of construction, waa
suggested It would not have been neces
sary to. deface that section-of the city
with the deep gash which Is both de
structive to its beauty and; its useful
ness, nor -would the present grant have
been , asked for. i s , ;......
"Also It would hav rendered' It nn-
neeessary to construct the bridge across
the Willamette river, which is now be
ing erected and which when completed
will forever be a bar to navigation and
add to-the cost of every shipment ironi
this port ln the future, to the detriment
of the community.
"The interests or tne people are greater
than -are those of any corporation, and
however; rnuch 1 any particular company
may have suffered at the hands of a
more astute or canny rival In It efforts
to secure terminal facilities, the tact
remains that we are but the agents of
the people, and our duty 4 to them alone
4nd to none other. -
iiAlun jUAN ilayor.
Mr. Moser's theory of the murder fits
in strongly with a statement made by
Wayne to the effect that he came to
Portland for the purpose of robbing a
bank. The deputy district attorney be
lieves that Wayne and Anderson shad
owed Mr. Alvord's house ln the hop
of catching Mr. Alvord and robbing)
him. When they saw Dr. Johnson
leave the house tn the dark and g
(Continued on Page Eight)
T.10TIIER DRUDGED
Margaret 'Aiken Deman&j
..Rock Pile for Spend-
; thrift.
MotherrrayeTagalnat son Is tha
latest development of the non-support
law by 'which men who do not provide
for their families may be Imprisoned at
the Kelly Butte ; rockpile while tha
county pays $1.60 a day to the depend
ent wife or children. , -VMr
,Margaret Aiken yesterday aft
ernoon swore to a complaint chartrin
that her son, Andrew Aiken, haa t.ui. 1
to support his three children. Ac ni-1-Ing
to tho story told by Mrs. Ahu n t-
Deputy Sheriff Jt-H. Jones, hi-r sum's
wife had left him and their inrre c i.
dren. "When, his wife left A ikon too
h. .iiiiiirtn to his mother. ni lu...
at 634 Seventh afreet.
Mrs. Aiken aaya she Is a poor --
scarcely able to support hers.li-. n i
the burden of caring for her sr '
dren is too great She aald sh.e 1 .1.1
her ann If he did not Support tli r
dren she would resort to tho tm
law, and that ne tnreatenej tum
would a-o to Tacoma and lnv iifr f
the chtkiren behind if she ati...- u, 1 t
auch thing.
Aiken had no opportunity to v ' t
to Tacoma. however, for l'M'"'v
Boatty arrested him on a l.-m i
within half en hour ettr tn
was file.1. He la now lx-in r
county jU in d-:"lt of J
Aiken s i I he r-vt 1 . . n -n! '.
logging catr.p. l i ri'.'uer . '
a lineman, i-rnrloy i ,y tl t
company. -rr,i, s jj a 1 -.
dren are: 1 rv, S(i 1 ?; v .
6; Viobert. -I I y. .
W. II. Sai., o-l, a nv -
restwij on. a ni-. ' t
to by bia if". I i .
r-'- t y i
given j c ... i i