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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. ,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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"That is a' thing which the po-
tell you about." Thus does the board of
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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 ; -
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EVANS FUSES
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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 "
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