The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, July 15, 1907, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVA RE YOU GOING AWAY? Have Journal Circulation The Journal follow . you to give you all the news from home t uigrcmHPiT : 21220 . 3 :. Sunday i.-:J;Waj , The Weather--Flr tonight; r to ; morrow fair, and .warmer ,V . , VOL. Vt'i O. 112. ' : PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY' 15, l0Q7 FOURTEEN PAGES. PRICE f TTlMTt TmAura rs ir-nn r .-? ..-..v.i, ' Jf-'A BOMB PLANTED FOB AMERICAN L viS : ' , V AMBASSADOB AT v CONSTANTINOPLE SeTenteenL jlen.;lnjurcd: fcy I ' Jetton bf Charge in the I ter. Turret ; of Georgia A : at Provincetowi Harbor This Morning. Son of Admiral (joodrich and Midshimnen Cruse and Goldwaite Among Those Who Are in Hospital Investigation Ordered. , tu JOHN G. A. LEISHMAN. (Journal Special Service.) Washington. Tulv 15. Seven- r m teen men were injured by an ex plosion in the upper aft turret of . the battleship Georgia today, eight of them seriously, and it is feared that several deaths will oc- :ur before night. The Georgia was lyinr at Provincetown, Massa chusetts, when the explosion oc curred, but has started for Bos ton where the injured men will be placed in a shore hospital. A board of naval officers has been ordered to investigate the cause si the accident. Lieutenant Goodrich, son of ...am a. are Knr Admiral (inorifltn: MldSnlO- I . r.u . j I .. . (Journal Spatial Servlea.1 man rauiKnerwiawj.ic .im Constantinople. July 16-Whet l. be- Midshipman jfohn T. Cruse are lieved to bay been an attempt to aa- amCng the injured. Theextent asainat American Ambassador John c. of their injuries is not stated in !. fu"a is summer It t,:w t,. K... homajia the Straits of Bosphorua, when the report which hat been made pl0(,e(!,unaer thboo-a, bjr Captain McKea to tn navy wrtcUnr one room and Injuring four flrinrtrriMlt I servaoun.. jar. Ltiinmin escaped It IS believed that the explosion No due baa been found of the per- . ;r;tin - Ptratoro f tha: outMe althouffb the was vttuavvi v .6.."v.. i autnonuaa nar xaxen in Portland Commercial Bodies Permit Chance to Garland and Banquet Vice-Presi dent of United States to Slip by Without Effort. If Second Man of the Union Passes Through City He Will Do So as Any Ordi nary Citizen May Visit Some Personal Friends. TURK TRIES 10 KILL LEISHMAN Bomb Is Exploded Under the Summer Home of United States Ambassador. charge in .the aft Wfret, al- ud the case with a will ana aeciare that they will run ,w. . . . A . . . I kifcm vim ukw y mat limn thnncrh that DOint has not been been advanoed la that a dlacharaed aer- . j -i.-r -an.a;n. f-T?a' I Ot w attempUnir to aecure revenge made clear in captain MCKae s upon th, ambaaador. it i not believed report. , The Georgia is a first class bat tleship and has been in commis sion one year. Captain McRae was assigned to her July 1 and expected to take formal command today, succeeding Captain Daven port, retired. . The Georgia was holding tar get practice m Cape Cod bay when the explosion occurred. The charge for an eight-inch gun was being lifted into 'place when it exploded from an unknown cause. Rear Admiral Brownson said: "I am shocked. I believed we bad adopted every precaution pos sible for preventing the ignition of charges of powder under such circumstances." h The navy department wires its Tkrrow , and orders everything j doHao take care ot the wounded SEVEN ARE KILLED BY BOMB AT ODESSA (JesriMl Spedrf Service.) London, July IS. Seven were killed aad many Injured by the explosion of a bomb In factory at Odeaaa. (Continued on Pare Two.) IKE SMITH IS l L LOSER h ran Governor Will Throw Away Six Thousand Dollars by Signing Name. (Journal peolal n-rloe.) Atlanta, Oa., July 16. Whan Gover nor Hoke Btatth afflxea hit algnature to a bill forbidding the manufacture or sale-of Intoxicating llquora In Geor gia be wUI deprive- hlmaelf of ,000, yet the governor will make the aacrlflo. for he pledged himself to approve the bill for state prohibition If enacted by the legislature. The governor wlU lose $1,000 bocanee under prohibition the bar of the Pied mont hotel, the finest hostelry In At lanta, will be closed. Piedmont la op erated by lessees, who pay the owners 1 100,000 a year. --The lease Is for a term of years and there Is a clause providing that in the event of prohibition the ren tal shall be less. Portland, the Rose City, noted for tbo hospitality of its cltlsens and Its gar landed guests of honor, Is going to allow the opportunity to bedeck the vice-president of the United States with wreaths and fill him with banauets to slip by ungrasped and unimproved. Aatoria the city by the aea where the cool sea breeses blow has ordered ChVles War ren Fairbanks "a xoud cold lemonade" and passed him on to Seaside where the fatted calf la awaiting him. Portland, however, has no calf to kill. Mr. Fair banks reached Goebel this morning and was taken from there direct to Astoria and thenee on to Seaside without com ing to Portland. It Mr. Fairbanks cornea to Portland, so far as we know, he will come as any other man would, quieUy and without ostentation," say members of the Com mercial club which in the memory of man has never before allowed a distin guished cltlsen to escape its banquet board and reception committee. "It was generally understood that the delegates who attended the dinner at Seaside would take the vice-president in tow and bring him back to Portland but no official action has been taken by the club." "I have not heard a thing about his coming officially," said JT B. Laber. secretary or too roruana Doara organizations might be able to trade. lltlcal Gf E0ROIA SOCIETY. LEADER WON' BY TOBACCO MAGNATE ( (& - '.?'.-?.: -A :. 4 f " iff- V ''r' i f is TV v 7 ' ri" II I . 1 ' 1 fit f 1 2, iinj '- N 1 t 4- t ' sA L 4 ' v , : ,,r vi4?o'- y.'jA. V a.,.v, iT' Haywood Defense Claims Evidence That ; Grandfa ther and Uncle Kavcd of Fearful But Imaginary. Criminality. " Orchard Admi& UnclIn sane, Hanged Himself Willis Dewey Names Lead er of Bunker Hill Mob-f- Farce in the Trial 1 1 "That is a' thing which the po- tell you about." Thus does the board of ID 19 New Association Elects Officers and Commences Service to Papers Formerly Patrons of Scripps-McBae, v Publishers and Scripps News. trade for rot the chance. "The Commercial club arenerally does those things," saiA Secretary Giltner of re a chamber or commerce. 'The cham ber has taken no action looking to the entertainment or Mr. Fairbanks. Ana so each organisation intimates that It Is not its brother's keeper. No politician knows anything about the advent of the distinguished visitor and officeholder. "I have not heard anything about any program of enter tainment." Is the universal sentiment and expression of every one asked. The last time Mr. Fairbanks was In Portland was when the Lewis and Clark Exposition was opened to the publio and at that time he came aa the official representative of President Roosevelt. Then he was the guest of the late Henry W. Goods, president of the Exposition. It may be that when Mr. Fairbanks slips Into town In his private car, ho will tarry a spell aa the guest of soma personal friend and that so tarrying some unorriciai courtesies win do ex tended to him, but no provision has been made for a publio recognition of his presence In the city or the state. He will leave for the south aa auletlv aa he came, oeanng io wreatns ana near inr no plaudits of assembled throngs fading and growing faint In the dis tance. " w -'-'mi i - - -uni in ismii limit r rthii MRS. WILLIAM INMAN. PHOfJE OFFICIAL THROWN III JAIL Vice-President Zimmer Be- fuses to Tell What He Knows About Glass. (Journal Special Serrlee.) Ban Francisco, July H. K. J. Zimmer, vlca-president and ' former auditor of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, was sentenced to five day In jail this morning. Zimmer wag found guilty Of contempt of court because ha refused to testify against Louis Glass whenealled 'to tho witness and. Olaas is being tried on a charge of having brlDed ci aralnst thapt Telephone for a franchise In San Fraa- ciir- y auDervlsora to vote against the appllqaOon of the Homo i-Zlmmer was called to the stand and uestloned about his knowledge of the transaction. He refused to answer the questions put to mm by the graft prose cutors ana was sentencea to rive aays in fan. xn ouimi' lanunce id. court ordered that Zimmer be kept prisoner until ha answered the questions put to him1 by tho prosecution. - 1 .The trial of Mayor Schmltx on the four remaining extortion Indictments, was today set for August 10, (Joarnal Special Serrlee.) New Tork, July 15. Completion of the consolidation . whereby tho Publishers' Press, Scrlpps-McRae Press and Scripps News association becomes one concern under the name of the United Press as sociation, waa officially announced this morning.' Officers of thet new com pany have been selected as follows: John Vandercook. - president; Max Balthaaar, Oliver Herahman and Andrew McLean, vice-presidents; H. B. Clark. chairman of the board of directors.' Wires are now being strung along the' Pacific coast by the hew press as sociation, which will furnish leased wire service , to papers between San Diego and Seattle. The Oregon Journal will be the only Portland paper served by the United Press. Final consolidation of the three great newa associations makes a solid .op position to the Associated Press. Form erly tnese three organisations nave worked together, but under .separate management From this time on; the same offlclers will reside over - the entire system and a matchless ' and un- rivaiiea service wut oe the result. . The United .Press 4s eaol tallied at IS10.000, the Incorporators being Ham ilton B. Clark, of Ban Francisco. Roy W. Howard, of New York, and C. Har per, of Cincinnati, lit. Clark was -president Of t,he Publishers' Press, Mr. Howard was day manager- of the -same organisation ana Mr. Harper was , at torney for the three associations. Since 1897, when the old. United Press went out of existence, after a lona- battle against- the . Associated ..Press the number of papers served by the three companies now combined, has been Increased to SOQ with additions be- i Inr made constantly. rights of tho former United to the Scripps or Publishers' companies and these are Included with the Separate privileges owned by the individual con cerns which have combined. Th as sociation Is a strong one and Its ser vice to afternoon: and Sunday morning papers, which it will ' deal with ex clusively, will be the best aver given the Pacific coast edP?essf wen? STUYVESANT FISH TO CONTROL ROAD AGAIN (Joarnal Special Service.) New Tork, July 15. Wall street and financial circles are agitated by per sistent rumors that Stuyvesant Fish may again secure control of the Illinois mTTTfl Cn"DTn?VATa A TUt i Central. According to some of the sto i VU D U XI y Six UxlO AKLl Tries he believes he may count upon the DROWNED IN PLATTE fsS; is- dKaYed with Ba,H. Harrl- . ' " I mnn fnr various rftunns. tha trejLtmant of him brother and son bains' offered aa MWUl DDffClll MmflLI I AYamnlA Cheyenne, Wyo July 16. Word has The government attacks upon the Un lust .Men received here of the drowning ion Pacific and other Harriman deals In : the Platte river of two surveyors! worunr on uie jsurnngton extension from Guernsey to Orin Junction. The men were trying to cross the river In a row boat, when the craft struck a counter current, capsislng It The names of the drowned men have not yet been obtained.: - SOUTHERN RUSSIA IS ; SWEPT BY TORNADO; (Joarnal Special garrlea.) rrOdessa, Russia, July 15. Famine and pesiuence are- reared in tne wake of a terrible storm which swept, southern Russia yesterday killing and injuring scores. In the government of Kherson. Oroleve and ' Beaearabt untold daman has been vtrought The entire region Will have to depend on other provinces for food, aa many cattle were destroyed. Eight persona wero killed bv llrhtnlmr id uown ana many casualties oocurri in other sections. Crops were ruined. are also aald to have alarmed the finan ciers, who would to glad, it Is said, K the Illinois Central were returned to Its former conservative manaa-ement All rumors are In the air and no one will be quoted, but they continue to cir culate. Something definite Is expected at the meeting Wednesday, as especial effort Is being made to bring In every vote possible. Sensational developments, according to current stories, may be looked for at the October meeting. It Is known that stuyvesant Fish has written or wired Governor Deenaa of Illinois to attend the meeting. TRUST 10 ID i James B. Duke and Mrs. William Inman SaH for Europe, Where It is Reported They Will Be Married Both Deny Rumor of Match. OMAHA IS FLOODED BY GREATEST RAIN IN HISTORY (Journal Special Service.) Omaha. - Neb.. July 15. Omaha and Mat urn NVhraalra were flooded Yester day and this morning by rainfall which broke all previous records of preclpita- Ltion. During the 14 hours ending at S o olodt thls morning 4i inches or rain fell In this section. ' , The storm has been a-eneral through' out , the upper Mississippi valley . and aside from -eastern Nebraska fell with greatest ' force around St PauL where g.08 Inches - were recorded during the name length of time. --.' - im excessive mouturg came aa um iinuea ror several days during the week past Sunday morning a terrific wind storm was followed by the down pour and cloud bursts have been num erous throughout the section west of here. ; -j- ; ... -. - All the rivers and streams In the prairie regions , have overflowed their tanks and It Is believed that consider, able damage has been done to farms and crops. Railroad and Aelegraphio com munication haa been cut at several points,, but how great' has - been the damage to ra4bdg xm not raported. : fJIELLfflgS President of New Yorl & New Hayen Delighted by Attack on Magnate. (Journal Special Service.) Boston, July 15. President Mellen of tho New Tork V New Haven railroad Is "dee-lighted" over the attack made on E. H. Harriman Inr the Interstate, com merce commission and declares that It could not be better If he had made It himself. In eoeaklng of the report presented to President Roosevelt -by the Interstate commerce commission Preslden (Mellen said that he heartily approved of every word of it that related to Harriman and declares that It expresses his views as doMlx ag IX kg had dictated It. , (Joarnal Spteial flerrlca.) New Tork, July 16. James B. Duke, the millionaire head of the so-called to bacco trust, an Mrs. William Inman, the beautiful society woman of Atlanta. Georgia, to whom he has been attentive for the past few months, are Included among the members of a party of so ciety folk booked to sail for Europe to day. Desplto the repeated denials from both Mr. Duke and Mrs. Inman It . Is generally believed among their friends that the pair have arranged for their weaaing to taxe piace aDroao, orowiuij within the next few weeks. Duke has furnished Plenty of sensa tions for society within the past .few 'ears. His suit tor divorce irom ois lrst wife, which waa begun alter' honeymoon of scarcely 10 months waa rooo tor mucn uuk ana tne report inai he is to wed aaln set the smart set agog. After .being .marrlea a rew months, uuxe was caiiea to Europe. On his return . he filed suit for divorce. Made Bualaass .Trip. - . Mr. Duke went to Europe for business solely. While he waa abroad, it .is al-leo-ed. certain Information . reached him by cable Involving the names of Hun toon and Mrs. Duke. It was said that the couple were seen at the . races, to gether, that they went automoblling and wero together at fashionable restau rants. Private detectives were called In bv Duke through this lawyers In- this city. - " - The suit coming so quickly on tho heels of the sudden and romantlo mar riage of Duke and his wife waa a great surprise. When- the couple were mar ried there wero not - half a dosen friends of Mr Duke that knew he was about to end his long years of bachelorhood. Secretly almost Mr. Duke and his secretary lsft Somervllle. New Jersey, on : the day prior to the marriage and went to the Hotel Walton, In Philadel phia,. Mrs. McCredy, as she was then, want to the Bellevue-Stratford In Phila delphia, and the next day went to the nome oz ner unoie. jLiewis J. seal, presi dent of the Consolidated stock exchange In Philadelphia, who lives at 117 Cooper street Camden. There the copule were married, with hardly a docen of their friends attending the simple ceremony. Camden was the birthplace of Mrs. Duke. She waa Miss William N. Fletcher. Honeymoon In Znrope. ' After the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Duke sailed for Europe on the Baltic and were abroad -until February. Then they set tled down to live at 11 West . Slxty- eignin; street. - Upon few places In tho United States has so much care and money .been spent tm on, the Duke estate, which Is about two miles from Somervllle, New Jersey. The estate has 2.000 acres of land In it and- villages and ancient landmarks have been removed to make It one of the finest estates , tn America. Of all this land a great park -has been made by the nnest landscape gardeners or tne won a. An artificial lake that cost 11,000,000 was . built In. one corner -of the . great property.- T Three hundred men, with 60 teams, worked for. three years to . improve the estate-. ' The mansion on tho property cost 11,600,000. Two millions more went Into the fittings. The paintings In the house are worth $1,000,000. Walks and drives that lead one through a wealth of landscape rivaling the tropics were laid out; and there was ror years such a lavish outpouring of wealth- on the property that it Is now a great show (Continued on Pago Two.) CUPID WILL FIGHT RAOE SUICIDE WITH - UNIONS AID - (Joarnal Special Servles.) Chicago, July 15. Trade unions as aids, to cupld and antagonists to raoe suicide was the novel Idea advocated at aa interstate ' conference of . women workers held In tho Bull house. . It was on of the first. three of- that character ever, held in America, two others being conducted simultaneously In Boston and Nw Tork. '.-.." " ' ' ;:.';' - Miss B. P. - Brecken rid ga.' assistant dean of women at University of Chicago, aspMurao. ag oua eg ua caamxuosa.ux ua Idea and made a strong plea tn favor Of labor unions giving dowrys to women : o in uiis "We believe in thlsjnarrian declared Miss Breckenrldge. Tt places moxriage question . upon . serious the. Bv John Nevlna. to the frqpt again today In the Hay . . wood murder trial and before tha Ion ended the Jury had considerably more light on happenings there, than has developed heretofore. However, en cannot refrain from wondering : just ' what all that Is being brought out bar . In this vile-smelling courtroom haa to do with tho guilty or innocence of Hay wood and his associates of the murder of former Governor Frank Stsunonbarg.'' The spectators had their inning this) morning, and their frequent guffaws -and open outbursts of laughter wos -.' disgraceful in the extreme and empfaa- alsed more than ever tho manifestly wide latitude granted In this locality to witnesses, lawyers and mere curiosity seekers. It would Indeed be hard for an outsider to realise that the nook of a man Is In danger, by tho Inside) pro- '' ceedlngs here. It Is to XAuga at Cheap wit. ' Counsel smile across the table at eacTl other, propound ridiculous interroga--tions to witnesses and then lean back. In their chairs with tha most salf-satls-fled of expressions to await tha result -of the cheapest of humor and tha out ward manifestation of approval from their Interested partisans. m. ML RaMnL an attorney from Mnha Springs, Colorado, waa tho chief witness todav. Orchard waa again on the stand, -but he Is no longer tho "Big Noise." la fact all Interest in Orchard seems to " have fallen off over since it became known that his "confession" had been , mails a literary prise and la being ped dled to a credulous publio at 10 oenta . per copy la a sensational "magaslne." Witness oa Stand Arguea Oaae, Sabine opposed Richardson In tha . prosecution of certain officers and mem bers of tho Federation accused of oon- spiracy in destroying tha transformer , house and attempting to blow up the Bun and Moon mine at Idaho Soring. And so tho questions and answers were '' along lamlltar lines. It developed that the men wero tried and acquitted. "But you know, and I know, they wero guilty," declared Sabine from tho ' tana, and though Richardson tried to ! have the answer stricken out It waa permitted to stand, ifrhen Richardson, checkmated by bringing out that union men deported from Idaho Springs had ' brought suits for damages and that tho . , t only case tried resulted tn a recovery. True, It waa less than 1200 and costs but still It waa a recovery. , , , Anything But tho XJg-fct. V,- And! so It went The jury, tho law- 1 yers and tho spectators lost sight of ' what Sabine waa called for. and that was that Lyto Gregory, the deteetivo killed brutally In the streets of Denver by Harry Orchard, had worked to con- v vict those federation men. of -conspiracy and arson and had failed. Anything to becloud , the real Issue -seems to be the latest motto, in. this trial, and it certainly is being adhered to. - urcnara wnue on tne stana impeached the evidence given by Max Mallch ni other witnesses, who , swore he knew Gracious, the Plnkerton detective, who became heed of the Olobeville smelter men's union and was familiar with his movements.- yi--;r .h--;- - Crime Is Orchard's Blood, ' t v , " He made one lnterentlnr mmiHim ' cross-examination. Yesterday Darrow received a letter declaring Orchard's maternal grandfather year;, kept chained to a cabin wall in -his home at Ontario. Canada, Insistent that be had committed a series of un believable crimes la Ireland. , and that his uncle committed suicide by hanging after having gone crazy through brood ; - V -. (Continued on Page Two.) EVANS FUSES I: mm lAITf basis. Unions have their death and sick benefits, and marrioge benefit or dowrv ..ff RSitto .b he must ' ht trV tt is a serious under takjng.Tmt at the same time a plan that Is favored by the organization to which she belongs, the experience she acQiilrca by blng a. unionist and -w (re-enrnr will enable -her to. rl the rjion-y srU!y titer she lar Admiral Declares the United , States Kas Best Fighting : ; Crews in WorldV - v (Joarnal Special ftwvtce.) . , "Washington, D. C," July . IS.-.-Resmi. lug the recent criticism of tho Atlantis fleet of the American navy. Rear Ad miral Robley D. Evans said today that he would match tt against any foreign fleet in the world either In peace or war. Continuing Along this line he said: - 1 v ' "From the chief commander down to the lowest petty officer, efforts are constantly being made to keep fhe flt ; Up to the lllgneac sianoara or ernciem-r. Battle plans are worked out lit J..n l and the aharge that the offlr of f navy aro .seni-ient in train in g i nn nm least rounaation. lantle fleet are prepare.! t.i petHlve dr'H Uh anyn-n if fiflr -t'fi-lin? jr U " f.f t,' 1j a s f ,K :