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MRS, MIZNER GETS DIVORCE 3 KILLED, 20 JHURT IN jWREGR BANK DEPOSITORS MEET Pi ' This Issue of The Sunday Journal Oosaprlseo Sections 52 Pages Journal Circulation 28.800 Yesterday Was The Weather Probably showors today; southwest wind. VOL. IV. NO. 24. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNINO, AUGUST 25, 1007. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ' ar a . m a & eat i. - juwr w s a a. a a a a mm KILL HPLMON ICCLLS 5 AND WJDBH ; : J ; i : . r T HREE ILED IN com Dispatcher's Mistake Causes Wreck of Fast Passenger Trains Near Tulsa Many Passengers Are Injured m Smashed Coaches. STEM'S STORY OF THE OREGON LAND FRAUDS TELLS OF HE RMANNa REMOVAL FROM OFFICE "Westbound Frisco Express Is Rammed by Eastbound Train on Long Curve Fou Miles East of Indian Ter- ritory Town Yesterday. (United Prea by Special Leases' Wtm) Tulsa. I. T.. Auc. IV Running at high speed, westbound Frisco fast pu senger train No. 497. due her at 2:25 x. m. and eastbound passenger train rxo. 422. due here at 2:66, collided at a long curve, four miles west of her this aft' ernoon. Three persons ar known to hero bom killed and a scor Injured. Th dead Christ Bents. Monett Missouri, west bound engineer. W. C. Snook, Conway, Missouri, an Injured fireman, who was being taken t a nospiuu.- George Angers, Oklahoma, City, fire man, accompanying BnooK. The Injured: James Saner, Monett, Missouri, fire man. V. B. Hill, Monett, Missouri, end necr. W J. walker. St. Joseph. Missouri W. B. Iiaumgarten. Bt Louis, Mis souri. M- A. Coe. Monett, express messenger. K. A. Shipley, Kansas city. T T m.nlAl Till.. V. M. Blake, St. Louis, express mes senger. Will Randolph, mall clerk. Frank Burford, Tulsa. r. T. Staker. Oklahoma City. W. O. Tucker, Coffeyvllle, Kansas. Mrs Millie Henderson, Coffeyvllle, Kansas. Walter Bovlard, Bapulpa, Indian Ter ritory. . . . Mrs. oarret Bnetow. uxianama uny. R. W. Bums, Pittsburg, Pennsylva nia. C. E. Cook, Red Fork. The dead were removed to their homes and the Injured brought to the hospital here. The trains were loaded with passengers, but the dead were all trainmen. The accident was due to the mistake of a dispatcher. NAVY YARD EXPLOSION TTTTTT?T?Q nPTTDTJiT? MT7AT "THE WYOMING PUSH" SENATOR C. D. CLARK. SENATOR F. B. WARREN. i m?sm ht 4l V VT- C7 I BATTLE OF 1 STATES Oregon Versus Wyoming In Struggle for Control of Land Office Exposures of Graft and How They Came to Be Made. "TEE OREGON BUNCIT SENATOR CHARLES W. FULTON.THE LATE SENATOR MITCHELL. RICHARDS, EX-COMMIS-BIONER LAND OFFICE. STRIKERS' FIGHT IS FAR FROM BEING SETTLED Arrival of President Small in New York Will Make Con ditions More Aggressive Railroads Will Not Force Operators to Handle Non-Union Messages. (Portion of artrcle by Lincoln Steffena In the September American Magazine.) This country owes as much to Ethan Allen Hitchcock as It does to the an cestor after whom he was named. The debt may no .er be paid. Mr. Hitchcock Is not a popular figure. Undemocratic), uncommunicative. Independent, he was In office no respecter of persons. To the president a crooked senator is a senator; Mr. Roosevelt plays the game. To his ex-secretary of the Interior, a crooked senator Is a crook. H cannot play the game. Ancient Order of anfl draft. Mr. Hitchcock whs not expected, nor did he Intend to perform this great serv ice. Outside of the grafters, few men knew that there was an orranlsed sys tem of land grabbing. Who realised that the great captlna of pioneers who Minnesota had perfected methods by had "cleared" Michigan, Wisconsin and til s 'p''," m i lu V My BINOER HERMANN, EX-CONGRESSMAN. (United Press by Special Leased Wire.) Norfolk. Va., Aug. Ji-LJtU hop la L entertained tonight for th recovery of two of th three men Injured today In explosion of an air compressor used lnTMplllna" torpedoes In the power house eJh Norfolk navy yard. Th accnUnt occurred while ordnance officers were testing the air compressor. I A heavy sheet of armor plate placed as la protection In case of accident was blown 100 feet. JOUWSMDS ARE APPLAUDED Depositors of Defunct Bank Agree to "Lend a Help ing Hand." At a largely attended meeting of de positor of the defunct Oregon Trust & Savings bank at the Empire theatre last night the suggestion or The Journal that everybody lend a helping hand to ward raisins a fund to restore th con fidence of the country in Oregon and Oregon institutions waa loudly ap plauded when the editorial which ap- eared in rnursaay s juurnu unaer me o, "i.nj a Helnina- Hand." waa read by O. M. Hirscfc. y Mr. Hirscn loiiowea oroseiy aiung me lrlt of the editorial ana remarkea that (Bunt News by Longest Leased Wire.) New York. Aug. 24. That the strike of th commercial telegraphers will be- corn more aggressive with the arrival of National President S. J. Small from Chicago tomorrow Is the declaration of local leaders. They are not yet ready to place hope In Immediate arbitration. In spite of the faot that big labor men froia various parts of the country will follow Mr. Small to this city Monday. Samuel Oompers will head the ?eace delegation which oomes for a con erence. John Mitchell was said today to be on his way from Indianapolis to aid In the work of arbitration. Charles P. Nelll is ready to come at any time. Whether or not .there will be a peaoe conference Monday afternoon will be decided after Mr. Small has looked over the local situation. It Is possible that the labor men will endeavor to secure a hearing from President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. The feature of the strike today waa the initial appearance of Fair Play, the strikers' organ. It is a neatly printed paper, and sold readily wherever of fered. B. Brooks of the Western Union, In a statement today, said: "I want to say with emphasis that so far aa we are concerned the strike la over. While there are men among the strikers I should like to see return to our operat ing rooms for their value as experts, there Is not one whom we would make any special effort to get back. "A wrong Impression has gone forth that we are fighting organized labor. We are not. We gave the operators run permission to join any organiza tion they wished so long aa they did not Inject It into our affairs. "But we will not deal, howeVer, with any committee of a union. No officer of this company will recognize or even see Mr. Small If he cornea to New York. The Western Union is carrying on its business in a normal condition and without overworking a slnsrle member of its operative staff." This comment called forth an out burst from Chief Strategist Russell, wh said: "We know what the Western Union did when the telegraphers' union parsed a resolution that its members should not operate gambling wires. They nut nonunion men on the wires and continued to give active assistance to the gambling element. (Continued on Page Eleven.) S IS DIG which they were stripping and "fencing in" for themselves Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Callror nla? Not Mr. Hitchcock. Who Imag ined that this corruption had extended from the petty land offices to county and state officials, thence to legisla tures and governors and finally to con gressmen and United States senators who. In turn, "stood in with all the representatives at Washington of all th "protected" businesses which get privileges out or the. government; and that these all worked together until they were controlling the judicial, leg islative and the executive branches, not only of states and territories, but of th federal government! Work of a Priest. Mr. Hitchcock let th ring Investigate and when men iixe uinger Hermann himself, the head of the land office and an ex-congressman from Oregon, where the land business was understood when such men reported again and again that there waa absolutely nothing In any of the complaints, Mr. Secretary Hitch cock lost all patience with "letter writ ers," "yellow journalists" and cranks. There was a priest, for example, the Rev. Joseph Schell of Tillamook coun ty, Oregon, who saw some poor parish ioners of his ousted by fraud from their claims. He followed the agents of the gang to the bank of the banker in whose Interest they were working and thence to the office of th federal land agents. Priest Was Tireless. rather Schell gathered facts, records, evldenoe, which Secretary Hitchcock's prosecutors told me they wished they had had. This tireless priest reported his faots to the local land offices, to the United States district attorney, to the Interior Department at Washington, and to the newspapers. He knocked at IWIZNER SAYS DIVORCED SPOUSE IS FLAT BROKE Former 3Irs. Yerkes Said to Have Been Mulcted by False Friends Who Induced Her to Involve Her For tune in Endless Litigation. (Continued on Page Tiro.) Veteran Packer, Who With the Elder Armour Built Up the Chicago Yards, Is Suffering From American itis Brought on by Business Worries. in' h time had come for the people to ahow their stand in the, affair and ra vored each depositor lending his aid toward the movement. His remarks were loudly applauded and the executive committee which was afterward ap pointed decided to call upon C. S. Jack son, publisher of The Journal, and con fer with sain upon the best way to pro ceed. Jjr WjrTa the meeting waa enthusiastic a also conservative and frowned .vn tui attempts at radicalism, xnose f present were opposed to the action of I the four creditors who filed a petition Jn Involuntary bankruptcy against th bank In the United State district oourt, and will ask that it be withheld for th present. m The following were appointed to act with President J. L. Day and Secretary A. Richmond as members of th execu tive committee: O. M. Hlnch. Frank Mama Ma tc ji. umvaj (Bant News by Longest Leased Wire.) Chicago, Aug. 24. Nelson Morris Is critically 111 and lata tonight his con dltlon Is very grave and his chances of recovery ar very unfavorable. In his old wooden mansion at Indiana avenue and Twenty-fifth street th great packer lies, surrounded by a tender family group, constantly under watch of the nurses and th two doctors. His ailment la that destroyer that has prematurely claimed th lives of so many men of - commercial pursuits, "AmerlcanlUs." Aa physicians describe it, death is gradually drawing near through the thickening of th blood vessels about the -heart aggravated by an affection of the kidneys. The underlying cause la the too stren uous, life-long hours of ' close applica tion, the tension of tremendous busi ness 'cares, the need of rest and the never-ending battles .In the war for millions. - - All these elements, ' combined with the advanced age of the eminent pa tient he Is past sl yeare have dlsoour fteted tb.a BAraieUai moA tbej fceUm losing fight It thev are maktnr will be a bitter blow to Chicago's packing Industry the greatest In the world If "Old Nels" dies and his guid ing hand is stilled. With the possible exception of the elder Armour, Mr. Morris has done more than any other man to build up tne world-embracing organization, ana even In recent weeks, after he was strloken, his Influence has still swayed "the yards." Mr. Morris has not been at his office since June 1. At that time he became faint and was hurried to his home. Slnoe then he has been beyond his threshold several times, accompanied by nurses. Last week he grew gravely ill and was confined to his room. Tuesday he was too weak to arise from his bed. Tonight physicians doubted whether he would ever again stand erect That he will never be active in commerce ' is certain, despite' the hardy constitution, which lends a faint hope that he may linger several months upon the brink. Dr. Artnur Edwards, tne ramny pnyw sician, said: .. ' "it cannot be denied that Mr. Morns Is in critical danger of death.- but We hope to enable hha to live far many waning efc- DIVORCE GIVEN TO IRS. TRIGGS Man Who Classes Rockefel ler With Shakespeare Loses His Wife. (TJnfted Press by BpecUl Leased Wire.) Chicago, Aug. 24. Judge Chetlaln has decided to grant Mrs. Laura Starrette McAdoo-Trlggs a divorce from her hus band, Prof. Oscar L. Trlggs, the noted educator. Trlggs, who Is famous as a sensa tionalist, said, amontr other thinrs, that the genius of John D. Rockefeller equalled that of Shakespeare; com mented adversely on present-day Chris tianity, and disclaimed belief in the sacredness of the marriage tie. It was his conduct in pursuance of the latter theory which gave Mrs. Trlggs grounds tor divorce, bne is now in fans. Mlnette Fag&n, a young student of striking beauty, who Is described as the professor's "physical affinity," Is named as the co-respondent The testimony on which the divorce was granted was given by Herman Keuhn as . follows. "I entered Professor Trlggs room and found him sitting on a sofa disrobed. Some one waa lying on the sofa and a small pink foot was protruding from beneath the covers. It was too small to be a man's foot and was not a child's foot -The toes were small and pink. Professor Trlggs started up sud denly and I backed out of the room." Trlggs graduated from the University of Minnesota In 1889, obtained a po sition on a local newspaper and is said to have been discharged for comparing a aocieU woman wlta w.aU-f4 vw (Hearst News by Lonxett Leased Wire.) continued, New York, Aug. 24. Mary Adelaide Mlzner Is free to marry again should she desire to do so. Justice Guy In the supreme oourt today signed the final decree for the divorce from William Mlzner. She waa married to Mlzner shortly after the death of her husband. Charles T. Yerkes, the street railroad magnate, and within a few months sued Mlzner for an absolute divorce. She charged him with Improper conduct with a Woman whose name was not disclosed. A few hours after Mrs. Yerkes-Mlzner had been granted a final decree of di vorce, the man whom she married after Charles Yerkes' death made an astound ing statement that she Is In financial distress. Mlzner In his hotel In Forty ninth street said when he heard the news of the decree: "I am glad that It la all over and the trial Is ended. I am sorry for this woman, for I know that she Is In the hands of friends' who have fleeced her, forced her to the wall and caused her to depend upon the charity of others for her subsistence." "Just one third of the estate." he such as It was, was allot ted to Mrs. lerkea. But then came 'the menus wno have reduced this woman to the pitiful financial state In which she now finds herself. They coddled and cajoled her. They instilled Into her mind the Idea to relinquish her claim to this one third. "When Mrs. Yerkes acceded to the demands of these friends she found that sne had been mulcted. These sup posed kind-hearted persons who had In duced her to lay claim to one haf of an estate that was so tied up that te ll I us, nerve-racking litigation would be necessary to acquire any part of It ruinea nor. "As a result of the plotting done by inimo interested in ner aiiairs Mrs. Yerkes was unable to discover of just wnat tne estate consisted. She derived no income rrom it, and hence was com pelled, as I say, to practically throw her lire upon tne charity of relatives and friends. She has little money now. rr.i dui tune nope or getting much." Wed To Protect Her. Mlzner denied he had married Mrs. Yerkes from mercenary motives, sav ing her estate had been so tied un trrst no one anew wnat it consisted of and MEN PANIC AT BAY CITY Sound of Explosion Starts Riot at California Fruit Canrs' Plant and Wild Jnsh for Open Air Ensues,, ill JLLOUJf Vl feIyLX.J Waving Knives and Tearing at Each Other Like Wild Beasts, Italian Women Try to Escape From -What They Believe Is Quake. (Continued on Page Nine.) NEW SULTAN OE IK Fierce Struggle for Throne Expected "to Result From Mouley Hafiz Proclaiming Himself Ruler of Moors. Is Marching on Casa Blanca, (United Press by Special Leased Wire.) Tangier, Aug. 14. A fleroe struggle for the Moroccan throne is expected here aa a result of Mouley Hafts pro claiming himself sultan in Morocco City a week ago, according to advices brought here today. He was hailed as leader by his followers. The tribes of southern Morocoo are relying to the standard of Mouley Haflz nd it is expected Abdul Asia, the pres ent sultan will have a hard fifth t to hold his throne against hla determined relative In view of the support sure to be given the pretender by the dissatis fied tribesmen of the south. The proclaiming of Mouley Haflz as sultan was accomplished with great ceremony, todays advices state. A sa lute of lour guns marked his assump tion of the throne, there was a notable review of his army. Chieftains of half a dosen or the fiercest and most war like tribes immediately zald their hom age to their new sultan and promised their aid in ousting Abdul Aziz. v Mouley nans immediately rormea a court and announced Jabbao Curesk, pasha of Kasbah. as hla vizor. He an- J 1. I u lU- A .u ... . LI. Mvuuuav aw aiuOTNWva m wiiiiiisj turn brother, Mohammed, aa kellef of Fes. Mouley Haflz Is supposed to be now on his way VMth a strong, well-armed force to take command of th Moors besieging Casa Blanca. A fierce attack on the European armies there is ex pected on his arrival. An attack on Casa Blanca may prove more than the trench and Spanish forces can meet SMUGGLING ARMS. (TTurttd Press by Special Leased Wire.) San Francisco, Aug. J 4. Five dead and two score Injured are the latest ftgures tonight as the result of the explosion of nltro-glycerlne today In the mixing house of the Dupont powder works at Sobrante, 18 miles north of Berkeley. Many of the Injured will die. In addition scores of persons were thrown Into a panic by the terrible le tonatlpn, and shock when three tons of the explosive went up, and were injured in surrounding towns. The first idea was that another earth quake had struck the community. The panlo this belief caused Is responsible for the Injuries of many. The mixing house, washhouse and acid separating house were wrecked. A moment later the debris from the building burst into flames. Three employes are said to1 have been burned to death In the separ ating house. Two of the dead, Richard Thompson and William D. Deane, were in the mixing room. Their bodies were shattered to bits and the pieces scat tered over a wide area. Frightful as was the scene at the plant, where 100 employes fled in wild confusion from the yet unrulned work house while the earth rocked and shook, more frightful was the frensied after math five minutes later here In Saa ' Francisco, when 609 i erased employes of the California Fruit Canners associa tion, mostly Italians, fought and lashed at each other with their frult eeilna; knives, men and women In one earful swirl, inspired by the mad fear hat the boilers in the basement had exploded and that they were all to be Incinerated if they did hot escape. An Appalling Disaster. The disaster will rank as one of the most appalling in the history of powder explosions In California. Absolutely without warning the nK tro-glycerlne separating house contain ing four tons of nltro-glycerlne, nloded at 18 minutes after 11 o'clock. Within the space of three minutes the mixing house, containing two tons of the high-power explosive, exploded. Blazing embers and brands, hurled high into the air, fell upon rained buildings and upon the grass in sur rounding fields. Within 10 minutes the plant was in flames and by night fijJl, despite the heroic efforts of scores) of volunteer firemen, the powder works) (Continued on Page Nine.) Assistance Being Sent Pretender by London Friends. (Pnlted Press by Special Leased Wire.) London, Aug. 14 Arms and ammuni tion are being smuggled here today from Tangier, destined for Moulev Haflz. whOf has proclaimed himself sultan in opposition to the reirnini monarch Asia, " It Is asserted that hundreds of rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition have been, landed along' the coast by smugglers. - One smuggler has been cap tured., according to . the Tangier . corre spondent of the Central. News - The French cruiser Du Chayala, he r ports, arrived there today, bringing In Continued, on Page NinO CAMERON IN LIE FOR SAlElCHAie Police Judge Is Whittling; His Sticks for the Governorship. From police judge to chief executive of Oregon. Such is the ambition of George J. Cameron, present municipal judge of the. Boss City, His friends have launched the boom throughout eastern and southern Oregon and Mr. Cameron says It "looks good to him."' The announced ambition of Judge Cameron to fUl the , executive . shoes now worn by George E. . Chamberlain comes as a surprise to the greater num ber of the people of the state perhaps, for the microbe of his malady has never before become visible to the naked eye. ' But Judge Cameron thinks he Is ra the running and in the lead of the bunch. "You know) how we go ; out after things," he said last night "I am not afraid of anything along the line." Judge Cameron ts a Republican an1 will make a strenuous effort to secure the nomination of his party. Hut bi l In hand with his republicanism is hi remembrance of the Scottish blot"! flow ing in his veins and this itself i one of the vote-getting agencies of (d v gubernatorial battle, --s- : , M . Already la eastern Ofr J. 1 southern part of the state rjn Is .f the Portland attorney and AuJ'VlJtTMt tellinr Of his fitnss for the lile. omSfb ithe .people'. H. '! l"rT of Scotch ancestry end tnw" ef ti.e Caledontan cluhs . throujtfc&.it '' are preaching Ji Carntr fi''ymft ir.l i J