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A RE YOU GOING AWAY? Have Journal Circulation The Journal follow you to give you all the news from home 27.817 Yesterday Was Th - Weatber Showen tonight and tomorrow; south to west wind) .VI' . " VOL. VI. NO. 131. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1807. -SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. o maim a in) rrwt TAMOS, mS CIKTt TTD ffilAl IF mWAIMDE 101 T iHM(E ASTORIA IS GAWRS IWECCA FOR HOPE SOON GAMBLERS TO REOPEN SULTAN OF MOROCCO, RAISULA AND MAP SHOWING NORTHEAST COAST OF AFRICA. Seaport at River's Mouth One ofCluB's Owners Ar- Has No Rivals in One Re- rives From Spokane and i spect From $20,000 to $25,000 Tainted Coin for the City. Immediately Strives "Fix Things" With Authorities. to the Orders Expected to Put the Gambling a Felony in Wash- Lid on This Week Crime ington, But Occasionally Legitimatized by Munici pal Connivance Fifty Games Running. Permitted by Officials Poolroom Followers Jubi lant Over Prospects. rwfrryr? vrrr.v;. y;T7,i ' ' - f V ' ' ' it's i A J ' 1 ' i'. Ill V'WiU r : iw , j CfTV;J j Ralsuli, the Bandit. (BpecUl Dispatch to Th Joornd.) Astoria. Or., Aui. 9. Astoria. U to- day the only city In the northwest where open gambling; la legitimated by municipal connivance. It la the only city In Oregon where It la tolerated In open defiance of aUte law. No effort haa been made by District Attorney Hedei to enforce the statutes, but the closing down of the Mllwaukie club haa juacea ine gamming fraternity In a flutter of excitement, and It la ezpeoted that ordera putting on the ltd will be re ceived before the waolr la ttntmh-A a .,. v.. . w m - I gate, one of the heavleat ownera o vi". r. 'ST" r occ. loF ra- club. biiikb mm wora a rove tne Knights of the green cloth out of the Rose City. uamoimg naa flourished like a green bay tree. Practically every saloon haa a gambling attachment, and In addition therm rA .aMkllH. v, i , ' , I k u TV 1 1 IU vuon L II uiuu uiurv. XI O I ' I buck ?th! rtfffiMihSh0-V Poolroom Id Bnokane almil anv old ll drop nU coln at mot to the MUwankle club of this city, b it POSITIONS Driven from Mllwaukie as a result of the agitation by newspapers and in In latera, proprietors of tne Country club, the huge gambling establishment that flourished unmolested for three years. are endeavoring to arrange for the opening of their Monte Carlo at Van couver, Washington. to T .Tl I J -1 a I a 1 .1 J ct. xt. xiuuvurKua nrnvcu 111 ruriunu j - TTT CI 9 this morning, and registered at the JUtlDOr Uut'SllUIl IS VCI VOtill GO-A-BEGGING Belvldere. with several others who are interested In the fate of the big eamb lino- club, he went to the city across the Columbia. Mr. Hlldebrand is north weatern representative of Colonel Apple- i me club. Hlldebrand lives in Spokane and haa Vw. A-k avnsstail lea tst In 'fi-kei aawAeo 1 days. He plana, It Is said, if possible out departments 01 tne cuy government to arrange wun tne oriiciaia or mat and few applications to taxe me exam uwn ib ion mw uuu more, no iw i-.tiona nrescr bed bV the Civil Ser- BLT I . .... 1B . but I vice commission, tne lanor question naa ous One With City Government. With over 100 vacancies in the varl any old game. Twenty Taoaaand. Tear. I Washington make gambling a felony and iBAatoriaT It la hard to anJwSr pJSK in Spokane. However, hi Is said to bln ,or lack of aopHo"1 Md aDiy 7f. Any aort of a resort offers an excuse. There are enough, at any rate, to pay from $20,000 to $25,000 annually Into the city coffera, for taint ed money forma the greatest source of the city a income. The supply varies ""i " "m iu uio season. At the pres ent time there are about 60 games that fSI V T". ?r t26 PeT month and about jio uicuBi-in-me-siot machines that pay 17.60 a quarter. And the chief of po lice doea the collecting. The last city audi tor-s report shows that over $20,000 was collected during the year from fines and forfelturea. The big gambling houses operate at all hours of the day and night under the elty a protection. Some of the largest of these are: Gambling assorts. The Chinook bar, Delaahmutt & Ford proprietors; Seafeldfs saloon; The Louvre, Charlee WlrkkSa. proprietor; Savoy, John Stevensom proprietor: An- l . rohnson. proprietor; Sunny. . Jroa- Proprietors- Sam ir saioon, jonn Kinney ErELiorf TBC, Charles Nelaeu j,.-.-. , u, BBiuan, u. j. cummlng proprietor: Delashmiitt. n,rt.r a! f. fVf BMln hall, no saloon attached reenwold, proprietor; the "wi Bna numerous others. Chinese gambling dens and lotteries I"" w'dJ OP" with the same watchful y tharL,s glven to other Places amout town. There are private entrances to ""'"Vns ana gamDUng resorts 5I?i Lnof,ort mad8 " prevent women 5 i, 1"""ouun me resorts wAiere """iHOTq among me remale atten vxiib ui no uncommon occurrence. Stay pat Ua On. It la believed that n .avui uini icauria DDeraied under i!WwL of the city authorities reaches us nguwonannei in me city treasurer's office. The council of Astoria figures vii iii-. um ma m revenue upon Whlh It u.w tung oown expenses Or gov ivniuuusa on rage Two.) In the belief that his mission will successful. bo WIFE SERVANT IN I'll HER 01 HOUS Beautiful Mrs. Nagle Sues for Divorce Because An other Supplanted Her. (Journal Special Sirice.V Oakland. al., Aug. 6. Elizabeth J. Nagle, the beauuful young wife of J. X Nagle, manager of the Newcastle Fruit Growers' exchanre of Placer coun ty, member of the California Fruit Growers' exchange of Sacramento and prominent In the business world of the capital and San Francisco, has sued for divorce on the ground of cruelty. T The winsome bride of a vear charges that another woman has supplanted her in her husband's affections. The Inter loper, according to the complaint, is Mra. S. H. Qulnby, a woman of queenly beauty, to whom the alleged youthful mlatress was compeuea to now in the beautiful some in me looinms. was recently closed. The laws of I come to be a serious one with the muni make gambling a felony ana I in.i.t,r. flood nnaltlons are e-olna- a. in Spokane. However, he is said to I " .u.u... be planning the opening of a big re- I officials are at their wits' ends to pro- son a rew mues away in ujeur a Aiene i viae neip. In Idaho, Just across the boundary line f mrtm irmA KauMnr. imrnnun nf he club that officials of There are miles and miles of afreet fhe towns and counties may be moreMmProveftients to be surveyed. thou willing "to listen to reason" that, those or feet or water mams in oe mia j w..v.in.tnr. I hundreds of blocks to be patrolled and VI vichuii .iiu iiaauitii fcv,, v.v.w,vv t,. . . . - . , , . , . , Hlldehrand's trln to Vancouver was protected rrom nre. a nia wora requires guarded with the greatest secrecy but more men than are at present avail ...... hi. inuntinm wo. h. I able throuah el lei bl II t T. by poolroom followers, who are Jubilant wages are paia, a gooa buuui W - . .... ... . I.. ..I.in In Int n m I a. . a., nr Uln. Irt .IV. Dut even mis aoes noi seem 10 aiimci the men. Once passing an examination the applicant for a position is sure of it so long as his conduct Justifies keeping him and mere are no rresn siraw booses" to keep nagging the employes. Secretary McPherson stated this morning that although 60 laborers are wanted In the water department to lay water malna at $2.60 a day for eight hours' work and due notice had been given through the press, only two men appeared at the rooms of the commis sion tnls morning to maxe applications. This despite the fact that It was an nounced there would be no examinations of any kind connected with the offer. OtheT Taoandea Open. In addition to the 60 vacancies In the water department, 16 men are wanted In the police department at salaries of $90 per month. Men from FIFTY CARS RUN AWAY LEAP TRACK AND BURN (Journal 8pdal Ben lee.) San Bernardino. Aug. $. A Santa Fe freight train of fity loaded cars burned un last night near Hesperla. on the desert side of the San Bernardino moun tains, after leaping from the track at the end of a twelve-mile dash down the mountain side. As the train piled In a heap It carried with It all the tele graph lines, completely paralysing com munication with the scene. The engine had cut loose Tor water, when the brakes gave way, releasing the train. A number of trainmen were badly Injured. (Continued on Page Two.) 1) V? 9 ' J, 1 ,.i .'n I I .". r.' aw : s. .. .. , A.J ' I W a. a. i. f . t if -'I j't , : i , , m si i u i ; t it en ''t' TANGIER, v- v'i i5. . T7 itgS'.'f :afy a Mi mm Coast Line of Morocco. CITIZENS OF MILWAUKIE OPPOSED TO GAMBLING Solid Citizens and Taxpayers Go on Record Against Noto rious Club and Declare That Its Presence Has Been a Positive Detriment to Their City. Calvary Manse, Independence, Ore., Aug. 6. 1907 Editor Jour na The Journal deserves the thanks and congratulations of all good citizens for the glorious victory which It has helped to win over the forces of evil at Mllwaukie. Tours sincerely, J. A. P. McGAW, Acting Pastor Calvary Presby terian Church. FUEL AS A REGULAR CROP Fanner Will Ultimately Control Great Problem, Declares Secretary Wilson Supply of Heat, Light and Power From Alcohol Producing Plants. "Ultimately the farmer will control hlf own 'fuel problem by producing fuel as a regular crop on nis rarra, u clared James Wilson, secretary of ag riculture at the Portland hotel today. He will estimate each year Just how much fuel he will need and plant one or two acres of potatoes or other alcohol-producing plant. Tha fuel of the future will ba alcohol. The process of making it la aa simple as the old fash ioned farmer's method of making starch. From alcohol will be secured the house hold aupply of heat, light and power." jMoelved Callers Today. Thn secretary has so far recovered from hli Illness of yesterday as to be able to receive callers and this afternoon a committee of the Portland Commercial club took him out for a ride over the city. He was accompanied by Juds-e George H. Williams, whose term as attorney-general was contemporaneous with Mr. Wilson's service as a congress man from Iowa. Secretary Wilson Is suffering some what from the effects of a trip Into the forest reserve on Mount Rainier. He was threatened with lung fever on his irip io t-oruana, ana wnen ne reached here he was advised by his physicians to remain in absolute quiet until the fe ver passed away. Owing to this inci- aeni, ne tost tne two aays that he had planned to spend Investigating the for- ln Oregon with a view to measures for reformat. lion, ne saia: 'The people of the eastern states are up against high lumber prices that amount to a wooa ramine. The woods that you have here are the finest woods we know anything about. The govern ment maae me misiaxe of not protect ing or reproducing the trees of Wiscon sin, Michigan, Minnesota and other states, and it will not do to make th same mistake over again. The bills that nave Deen Durnea over among the for i Residents of Mllwaukie, those who own property and pay the taxes there, are going on record as having been and still being opposed to the operation or maintenance of the notorious Mllwaukie club. Today a resolution In the hands of J. W. Qrasle and others of the city Is being circulated for the signatures of substantial citizens of the little community. The resolution was authorized at a meeting of citizens held last night and la short and to the point It relates that whereas the public has been lead to believe through the publication of a petition signed by those not property owners that Mllwaukie was In favor of the maintenance of the club that there for the persons signing place them selves as unalterably opposed to the operation or maintenance of the club During the day a large number of the property owners signed the document, and It Is expected that fully 76 per cent of the total freeholding class of the city will affix their signatures before the aav is over. Prominent people of Mllwaukie are re joiced over trie closure or the Mllwaukie club, ana take exception to the publica tion in a morning paper of statements to the contrary It Is denied that the club haa been a benefactor to the city or that It has been responsible for low taxes, civic Improvement or lawfulness. "No taxpayer In Mllwaukie ever de rived any benefit from the money fur nished the city by the Mllwaukie club," (Continued on Page Two.) WHITE WOMAN IS CHUl'S MATE Oriental Restaurant Owner Will Marry Pretty Widow in Washington. (Journal Special Berries.) Healdsburg, Cal., Aug. . This city Is greatly excited over the proposed mar rlace of Turn Chun, an Americanized Chinese, and Mrs. Gertrude Hlgglnson, a comely widow of 30 years. They left here today for Washington, where there Is no law to prevent them from marry ing. It Is said the couple never met until a few weeks ago. He has conducted a restaurant In this city for 10 years or more and haa accumulated considerable money. While en route to the coast on a huntlne trlD recently Turn mot his fate when he stopped at the widow's cottage for a drink. She invited him in and gave him tea Instead of water and as a result Turn returned home and began making ar rangements for the wedding. Mrs. Hlgglnson is an attractive wo man, wltn more man orainary imeui- enoe. She came nere irom uoiarieia, Nevada, where, she says, she haa rela tives. She made considerable money In stocks. She wears a fine diamond engagement ring and fancy Ivory brace let . . Their home naa Deen nttea up ana on their return from the north Mr. and Mrs. Turn Chun will go to housekeeping. MISTAKES WIFE FOR BURGLAR, KILLING HER (Journal Special Berries.) Atlanta. Ga.. Aug. 6. Mistaking his wife for a burglar. H. N. Krumbelz this morning shot and killed her in his own home. B01ARD TO! I MOROCCO French and Spanish War ships Uazo Casa Blanca When Moorish Troops Fire on Soldiers Who Were Landing. Five Officers and Six Sailors Fall During Skirmish Situation Grows More Ser ious 3Ioorish Leader Is Ordered to Surrender. Tanglera, Aug. . (Buletin.) Mors than 160 were killed outright and scores were wounded during the bombardment, A number of villages were fired, many being incinerated. The destruction of the land batteries is complete. One of the Moorish shells struck one of tha battleships, but no fatalities are reported. (Joarnil Speoiil Serrlre.) Tangier, Aug. S. French warships have bombarded Casa Blanca as a re sult of the Moorish tribesmen firing on troops which were landing to protect the French consulate. Many casualltlea are reported and the situation,, is the gravest since the beginning of the trouble. It la said the Moorish consul leader has been ordered to surrender to tha French consul under threat of the towa being razed by French guns. Later advices show that five French officers , and six sailors were Injured. Spanish warships have Joined tha French vessels in bombarding tha vil lages surrounding Casa Blanca. The bombardment was started by tha Galilee from the harbor. When the hells began breaking over the town the Moorish troops fell back allowing the French sailors to carry away the wounded. The French cruiser Dachu laga and the Spanish cruiser Don Al va rado Vazan have Joined the Galilee. Many dwellings have been shattered and large reinforcements of tribesmen from the outlaying districts were rushed to the city. The town began firing at the cruisers, but the Moorish com mander soon signified his desire to mediate. The Moors sought the pardon of the French admiral for firing at tha Bailors, but this was refused. Th French want absolute surrender of tha Moorish coinmander. SULTAN DESPOTIC RULER. OSLY Finding of Decomposed Body of Jack Leu, Missing Swiss Dairyman, Dangling From Tree Baffles Police the More in Huber Murder Case. With the finding of the badly de- befora Huberts murder, yet an alibi so est reserve inaugurating (Continued on Page Two.) KEEPS HIS PRISONERS FROM THE ROOKPILE THREE YEARS FOR C l MAID Soldier Sentenced to Prisqn . for Lying to Sweet- i ! heart Nurse. ' Elizabeth Nagle la a daughter of Ma jor Joseph Wilson, the veteran custom house office of San Francisco. She married Nagle last November.. The complaint says: Aim nut immediately after we were installed at Pinenurat my husband's at- titudfttoward me cnangea. During tha Jtn-yTnat I remained there my husband .f all attention to Mrs. Qulnby and I (h. fnnk chnrre of evervthlnr. I was never consulted. At meals I was rele gated to a subordinate place and Mra. Qulnby was supreme." , Mrs. Nagls finally left her husband pud tha dlvorc suit followed. Though sentenced to tha rock pile, several county prisoners are having an easy time idling in cells at the county JstI because Sheriff Stevens declines to send them to the rock pile. Ha aays he will wait: until tha supreme court haa passed on the referendum on the prison feeding bill, and ha learns -whether he la to receive 12 H cents a meal for feed, lnr the prisoners. Twice the county court haa made re quests of Stevens to sand convictad Erisoners to Kelly Butte. This morning tevens replied that there are several prisons! la tba county, JaU m bouM be on the rock pile, but that he would not send them out until the supreme court has passed on the appeal taken from Judge Galloway's decision. Later Stevens declared that though the appeal has been taken and the mat ter is now pending before the supreme court, the new law is in effect, and that it doea not permit him to turn over the prisoners to the guards at Kelly Butte. The nrovlslons of the new law. aside rrom tha 11 -cent meal vision is pro- 'Such sheriff shall work such pris oners at such places and for such time and in auch manner as the county, court may AlrecL , (Joornal Special Service.) Leavenworth, Kas., Aug. .--Privata James M. Pyne of the Sixteenth artil lery, was tried by court-martial and sentenced to three years In the mili tary penitentiary for breaking his prom Ise to marry and defrauding a girl of money... The girl Is an army nurse, whose name military authorities refuse to divulge. Pyne becanfe engaged to the girl, who lives away rrom home, ana represented that he had passed an examination for promotion to orricer, ana tnen ne Dor rowed money from her to fit her out In uniform. He borrowed It a second time, and ahortly before the date set for mar riage said he would lose the fortune left by his father If he married in five years. The court-martial found that Pyne'e conduct wae a disgrace to the .tniform and to tha prejudice of good order and military discipline. General Godfrav asorovad tha aentance today. -a. 1 composed body of Jack Leu, the missing Swiss dairyman, hanging to a tree on the McArthur farm, a mile east of New Bra, Oregon, Sunday morning, the mys tery surrounding the murder of Alex ander Huber on the Cornell road on tha night of July 16 la only Intensified. Instead of clearing up the assassina tion of Huber tha suicide of Leu only serves to ' further complicate matters. The news of Leu's end. although occa sioning considerable auprlae to the De tectives Baty and Hellyer, who have been assiduously working on the murder case, has furnished them another mys tery for solution as deep and inexplica ble as Huber's tragic death. Bnlolda Froved Alibi. Although suspicion naturally fell upon Leu aa th slayer of Huber, In view of the fact that the men had been engaged in a desperate fight in Gruetll'a saloon. Front and Yamhill streets, three days convincing and complete was proved by the suspect that the detectives were perforce compelled to admit that it would have been a physical impossibility for Leu to have been anywhere near the scene of the crime on the fatal night. Baffled by this development In a case, which at first Bight appeared to ne exceptionally easy of solution, the detectives had to formulate new theo ries, that so far have not led to the slightest clue, tending to throw any light on the crime. Leu dropped from sight a day after Huber was found lying dead on one Cornell road with two bullet, holes in his body. The disappearance was shrouded In mystery as deep as that surrounding the murder of Huber and despite a careful investigation no trace of Leu was found until his unrecognis able corpse was found swaying in tha breeze on an improvised giODet. The discovery or tne oody and the absolute evidence of suicide makes tha Rnler of Nine Million People Leads) an Isolated Life. Abdul Aziz Is only 26 years of ago. He has, strange to say, European blood ' in his veins, for his grandmother, on the side of his father, the Sultan Muley Hassan, was an Irish woman. She was the wife of a sergeant named Dennis McCarthy, who, after a liaison with an officer, ran away from Gibraltar, where her husband's regiment was atationed, reached Tangier, and eventually en tered the Imperial harem at Fes. whim she became the mother of Mulejr Has san, the late Sultan. . When he was 14 Muley Hassan die and the boy Abdul became the almost despotic ruler of 300,000 miles of terri tory, and probably 9,000,000 of turbulent Berbers. Moors, Arabs, and negroes. As soon as he was proclaimed sultan. (Continued on Page Two.) Fl SERUM TO i MEIG1TIS (Continued on Page Two.) SICK CHILD DEN I ED MEDICAL ATTENTION , . . ... ... Much concern has been aroused in f Officer Pohl yesterdayof the i fact that Sell wood because, of the refusal of J. I Hummaaton had refused to give his daughter medical attendance and ' Mrs Lola R. Baldwin visited tha-Hummaaton heme in an effort to persuade the girl's D. Hummaaton, said to ba a worshiper at the shrine of the Tangled Tongues, to call a physician to attend his 16' year-old daughter, who is ill with ty phoid favar. 1 Hummaaton is obstinate in his refusal lgnoors. for tha to call a physician, say tha neighbors. i ao notninar nut on ior ine girlts recovery. The home, 611 Llm and will street. Bellwobd, was quarantined some time ago whan tha typhoid waa first re ported. .4 V . . y ..report , jra mada to cit. tiuu K rents that earthly skill is sometimes neficlal in contagious diseases. " , xnougn Mummaaton la well able to re tain physician, ho persists in his re fusal to do mors than pray for til a daughter and this morning "on h sarin Mrs. Baldwin's aUtement,br. Pohl fc formed Mayor Lane of b, affalTan" asked hla advice in the matter Th mayor and thaIa.lth offlce"a .Uil poogiderlos plaa t gcUoa,, . Experiments Proye That, Remedy Is Discovered ' for Dread Disease. (Journal Special Berviee.) Cleveland, Ohio. Aug. 6 According ta private advicea 'received from New fork from Castalla. Ohio, the wealth of John J. Rockefeller, -Ivaa made pos sible tha euro of meningitis. Pr. Simon Flexner of New York. Jaa discovered a aerum, which will .euro- tha dread dis eases. Experiments ma) at datall have demonstrated the efflcienov of tha ' -aerum. -Vi -v , ': ,1 uiw.i nnuruow mscovery, . Ir. 8. Gorsuch of Caathiia, today. Not one of tho.,patlenjaveould- have possibly got WsILTa girl was, one of the first .attacked, and was almost deai when tha serum was applied. No one thought aha would recover. let now aha is getting well. - . W doctors have said nothing about tha matter, because of the fact that tha cases were of an oxprelmental nature. However, we have kept through Dr. Flexner , tn eonetant touch wii'i progress of patients, and feci t.' it -t. perlmanta hava demonstrated ar..M' that the aerum will cure tncnin One of tha worst dismw In ti ' ' calendar haa been comiufr.iJ. '' doubt" ' - - , , - Physicians say tlie s'rum ts on r-T the iiroverl of the a". " ;"' the saving of thon'ind vi I "" ' prcentai of k-ai(, In rr'"'"'1" ' ' .f.v :v t , . , ' . ' J ' ' ''1 ; '
