MRS, MIZNER GETS DIVORCE 3 KILLED, 20 JHURT IN jWREGR BANK DEPOSITORS MEET
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VOL. IV. NO. 24.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNINO, AUGUST 25, 1007.
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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.
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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
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