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I s j S l l l j0Uml CfrCU htn " 1 REAL ESTATE IW sale? Adver Use in The JouniaL' Journal Ads Brfni lhc Best , RcsulU r -,j :,f : .. y. '" The weaithef Fair tonight and Friday; easterly wlada.. VOL. VI. NO. 193. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1907. EIGHTEEN PAGES. BRICE TWO CENTS. 8aiFteP 28 ' N HARMMftN MEALS' TO PHESS AND PUBLIC ' i I : : y MITE BELIEVES REPORTERS SHOULD RAILWAYS WILL REGULATE SETTLE IR01 WORKS FATE Steel King Will Decide on Future Folicy in San Francisco Within Next Three Bays Depression Is Simply Reaction. Declares Roads Are Suffering From Un just Agitation of Questions Unfairly Presented and From the Enforce s ment of Unjust and Discriminative Bmu-.iippoiiiti m n J vada Mines Declares H Laws. He Has Never Seen 31a n Who Would Tell Truth About That State. (United Press LhhiI Wlrs.) Chicago. Oct. 17. E. H. Harrlman to day appealed to the people of the United States, the newspapers and the press associations to see to It that the rail roads got fair play before the Inter state commerce commission. He sug gested that the newspaper and presa association peoplo hold a meeting to de vise regulations for the rallronds. 'The railroads," he said, "are suffer ing from unjust agitation of question unfairly presented them and from the enforcement of unjust and discrimina tive laws. "The court whore many of these In justices have been Inflicted la the In terstate commerce commission. Some of these Injustices make the railroad men sick at the stomach. A remedy can I be procured by the presa by asking the1 commission to consider the defense nnr! mnlalnt at the same time." Harrlman said that the roads realize that there must be governmental reg ulation, but that In the present agltat-d state of the public mind the roads are prevented rrom getting justice. When the fierce Flsh-Harriman fight for Illinois Central proxies was re sumed this morning the commission of three apponlted to examine the validity of the proxies was still in deadlock, and realizing that the deadlock Is hopeless for the present the stockholders ad journed until 8 o'clock this morning. During the examination Fish replied Hotly to nam man suggestion mat an questionable proxies be thrown out. as Fish claims- these. Later Fish pleaded for Justice. His lieutenants were work ing for proxies until daylight this morn ing. The Harrlmanites claim that Fish will not be able to control over 250,- 000 shares. FOR BETTER WATERFRONT Ordinance Placing the District Within Fire Limits Soon to Be Brought Before Council Stone Build ings arid Docks Would Be Built. (United Press Lassed Wire.) San Francisco, Oct. 17 Whether the Union Iron Works Is to be enlarged or closed will be determined by Charles M. Schwab, former president of the United States steel corporation, within the next three days. Schwab arrived last night from the east. Asked whether the present depression In finances Is temporary or likely to be serious, he replied : The prevailing Repression is simply a reaction. We are going ahead too fast. Now we have to go slow awhile There has been a boom, everything was carried to the breaking point, and pres ent conditions aro merely the reaction People have lost the confidence thaw had, and depression eusues." SchwTb Is an extensive owner of mining inter ests In Nevada. "I put more money into Nevada than any oilier man, ne said, nut i must say that I am bitterly disappointed In Nevada. I do not think that 1 have met a man who told the truth about Ne vada. Conflderce of eastern people In Nevada Is gone. Portland's waterfront, now not In cluded In the fire limits of the city. Is to be Incorporated within these limits as soon as It is possible for the city at torney. to draft the ordinance. He Is now working on the document and In all probability will have It ready for Introduction before the next meeting of the council. If the. ordinance Is passed, and it has been asked for by a number of the councilmen. It will put an end to the construction of wooden wharves and buildings along the waterfront and In sure fireproof and modern structures In the future. It will also Insure that all repairs and future additions to the present existing wharves and buildings along the waterfront be made In accord ance with the new ordinance and there fore as near fireproof as possible. In brief the passage of the proposed ordi nance Will put an end to wooden struc tures along th river front and will mean that ultimately the whole water frontage will be bounded by wharves of brick, stone or concrete and steel. The city attorney Is drafting the or dinance upon the request of a number of the members of the council and the health and fire board. At the present tlma the fire limits do not reach the wharf line along e river, but end at a varying distance of from 60 to 100 feet. This lakes in the buildings along front street In the majority of cases but does not embrace the long line of wharves and docks stretching up and down the river. Under the present ordinances In effect It Is possible for wharf and dock own ers to construct and maintain Immense wharves and buildings of wood, bullded upon piling reaching out into the river to the harbor line. All of the old docks and wharves of the city are of wood and are highly inflamable. so that should a fire be started in any one of them it would endanger the whole waterfront. Sopie of the most disastrous fires In the history of the city have been along the river's edge and It Is to put a stop to this great hacard that the new ordi nance is being drafted. The matter of requiring all owners of river front property to construct con crete seawalls along the harbor line has also been referred to the city attorney and ho Is now Investigating the subject to determine whether it rests In the power of the city to draft and enforce such an ordinance. ILL LUCK ONTO S AM WALL STREET EXCITED OVER STOCK sTUATION mm mm igj ft'? I . .. l ti&J Ill Mfew 111 ii -mm MUumntonH.. I I I II "WIHH i I II 1 rl i II I LF II W I I I ii i ii i i i ir H 1 l II 1 il I ?S II I w i ii i ii viif m i i H II w 1 ' f? I I it I II I ,51 II a ii I ii 1 1 if a I nil nn li. - u ARE ROLLING IN M I i ?, liSSJJT Money for Carnival. XV" V POLICE El MEDIANS INEYH George Best Is Arrested for Bigamy While Checking Trunks to Chicago Where He Hoped to Take Bride on Wedding Journey. Member of Kolb fc Dill Com pany Admits Escapade of Past but Declares His In carceration Is Job o Father-in-Law. tUnlted Prew Wirt.) San Francisco, Oct. 17. The honey moon or ueorge o. JJeat, an actor formerly connected with the Kolb and Dill company, was rudely nipped In the bud late Wednesday by detective! who arrested him at the ferry depot while he was attending to the checking of his trunks to Chicago. He was taken Into custody and locked up pending the ar rival of a warrant from Los Angeles charglrg him with bigamy. His bride of 10 days, a daughter of Facific Coast Company's Ves- Committees Take Big Strides sel Queen Nearly Sinks Toward Securing Needed at Bay City Dock. REFUSE TO WORK WITHOUT GRAFT Egyptian Officials Insist Upon Tips for Perform ing Eegular Duties. F0NT1ET IS UR1 DEAD (United Pre Leaicd Wire.) Alexandria, Oct. 17. Grafting on large scale has been discovered In the Egyptian government, and Socrates Bey Splro, the director of services, together with the chief of the staff, the Inspector of Alexandria harbor, the captain of the Port of Rosetta and numbers of other 'officials have been banished from EavDt. The " officials Involved have been found guilty of accepting bribes for every kind of service it has been in their power to render, xney wouia noi per form any of their duties without being bribed. They had a regular scale In op eration, ranging from a box of figs to (260. Foreign shipping masters are held re sponsible for the spread of the grafting system, they being anxious to evade harbor regulations. Investigations are continuing and are expected to involve at least 100 officials. B00SEVELT IS MAKING EXCUSES FOE HUNTING United Press Leased Wire.) . Stambonl, La,, Oct 17. Jake and Ralph Osborne, noted hunter, will join the Roosevelt party today or tomorrow. The failure thus far to catch a single bear Is said to be due to the bad be havior of the dovs and to the further fact that the party la too large. Governor Hanley Orders the Troops to Shoot Vandals for Looting Homes. (United Press Leased Wire.) Fontanet, Ind., Oct. 17. Fontanet I today burying its dead. The mourners gather under their tents where the fu neral .services are being held, while the militia holds off the curious. All day yesterday graves were dug in the little cemetery east of the city. The search for missing bodies was resumed today. Fresh bodies of militia have ar rived to assist in the work. Many Darts of bodies hrvvn been found In the dust around the boiler-house. The searchers would find skulls here and hands there. Alfred I. DuDont. vlce-Dresldent of the Dupont Powder company, arrived this morning to 'look after the comfort of the homeless. He has also started an Investigation into the explosion. Governor Hanly la angered bv renorta that bones dug from the debris by boys are oeing exniouea in terre Haute sa loons.. He has, ordered this work stopped and has given the soldiers In structions to shoot the vandals if nec essary. , SELECTING JURY FOB SECOND FOBD TRIAL (United Press Leased Wire.) San Francisco, Oct. 17. The work of selecting a Jury for' the second trial of Tirey L. Ford, accused of bribing su Dervlsors. be era n 'in - Judare Lawlnr's court this morning. (United Press Laed Wire.) San Francisco, Oct. 17. 111 luck seems to pursue the steamship Queen of the Pacific Coast Steamship company. During the years that the ship has been on the coast and Alaska trade she has met with a series of misfor tunes. The latest accident to the Queen occurred late Wednesday, when she nearly sank at the wharf while taking on cargo. The ship listed to starboard and water began to pour through one of the portholes astern. There were nearly 200 stevedores and worKir.en auuara me vessel, wnose lives were endangered. Thanks to tho Dres ftice of mind and quick action on the part of the station keeper. Oscar Nel son, who closed the porthole, the Inflow of water was stopped and all danger oi a calamity was averted. ASSASSINS MEXICAN 'S STEP Revolutionist Says Agents of Diaz Have Chased Him Over Country. (United Press Leased Wire.) Chicago, Oct. 17. Emilio Pampo, a Mexican revolutionist from Los Angeles, claims that agents of President Diaz sought to kill him last night by firing six shots at him while he was walking on the north side. He says he feigned death by falling and that his assailants Immediately fled. Pampo says he Is a university man and the son of a wealthys Mexican. He fled with J. Joregul, a revolutionist leader, from Mexico to escape arrest, going to Los Angeles, where he was shadowed by agents of Diaz. After ar riving in Chicago, PanTpo says the Mex ican government again told him he was marked for death. Pampo is being guarded at the police station. Contributions to the Rosa Festival fund are over $25,000 today and many more large pledges aro expected this afternoon -to help swell the total. At a meeting of the ways and means committee held in the offices of the association it was decided to reorganize all the committees who have not made at hast a partial report so that the work of completing the canvass for the xiiMi.iiiiu lunu may be gone on with out delay. The committee will hold Its next meeting Monday evening by which time roportK rrom all committees ure re quested to be In so the association may make public acknowledgement of the receipt of the amounts contributed or of pledges for amounts. Several large contributions came in to the ways and means committee this morning including Pledges of $300 from The Journal and pledges of $2,r0 each lrom the Oregonlan and the Telegram. (Continued on Page Two.) TWO MORE CASES OF PLAGUE ARE FOUND (United Press Leased Wire.) San Francisco, Oct. 17. The follow ing plague report was issued by the board of health today: Bince yesterday, 2 new susDected cases, 1 death. Totals to date, 69 verl- rien canes. 41 deaths. 11 dlsohaieed. 17 remaining, it suspects. THE W. Fleming, manager of the Amert can Type rounders company In l.os AngeleB, departed In tears with her rather on the afternoon train for tht south, weeping and swearing wndylniri constancy ana aevotion lor ner actor husband The warrant for Best s arrest was Is sued at the Instance of another wife who resided In Los Angeles. fieming saiii mat tils daughter. Ce Alia wlin la 90 f n .... n . I was married to Best 10 days ago in eanta Ana. one was stage struck, he said, and fell an easy prey to the fas- lnatlng manners of Best. He had dls pproved of the match but his objec tions were futile. rleming investigated Best s career arid said he had found a woman In Los Angeles who was tho fellow's wife. He prevailed upon her to have the warrant Issued for- Best's arrest for bigamy. Fleming asserts that Best hus still an other wife living, from whom he has not been legally separated. Best, at the city prison last evening said: "Thlo is a trumped-up charge. It will prove to be so as soon as the mat ter comes up In the courts of Los Angeles. To be perfectly frank. I lived with a woman named Anita Thompson for three years, but never married her. She is in Los Angeles, I believe, and I suppose that she has been approached to place these charges. I think that she married a man named Smith after I left her." CITY ONE OF 1 T Street Sweepings Dumped Into Gulch Near Which Are School, Churches and Hotels Residents Enter Complaints. Public Highway 'Used as ar Convenient Place to Un load Refuse of All Kinds Authorities Requested to Abate the Nuisance. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR. IT ISN'T A TRACT BUT A STOCK CERTIFICATE THAT OCCU PIES HIS ATTENTION. KINGS ARE DISTURBED Otto Heinze & Co. Ask for Re ceiverAugust Ileinze Reported Failed. (Special Plspntcb tn The Journal.) New York, Oct. 17. Wall street was n a flurry this morning over the re port that August Heinze had gone under. All the money kings are excited and cen tho nlacld Rockefellers, father and son, are said to bo unnerved by a situa- ion which appears to have been brought about to a certain extent by the Stand ard OH grip on securities and manlpula. lion or same. An informal statement was issued this morning by the Arm of Otto Heinze & o., which attempted to corner the coo per market, in which the firm declared itself perfectly solvent and willing to meet an or its legitimate obligations in full. It said, however, that rather than settle unjust claims, the firm preferred temporary suspension from the privi leges of the stock exchange. It Is stated that Arthur Heinze is no longer a member of the firm. F. Au gustus Heinze admitted this morning that he will tender his resignation as president of the Mercantile National bank at the directors' meeting today. He says he has not sold his United Copper stock. TACOMAROBBERSTAK E VICTIM OUT IN AUTO Carpenter Alleges He Lost Ninety Dollars After Be ing Knocked Out. EVERYBODY GIVES TO ROSE FESTIVAL FUND. New York. Oct. 1 7. Heinze announced that he had decided to resign after h conference with his attorneys. Ho said: "It is felt that owing to the copper fight now going on I should, in the in terest of the bunk, give the presidency to a man able to devote his attention exclusively to it." Considerable relief was felt on toe street this morning when the check sheets of the stock exchange clearing house went through. The stock exchange governing com" mittee today suspended for one year Max H. Sehulte, the board member of the Otto Heinze company. Heinze resigned the bank nreslde at noon, and Comptroller of Currency Ridgeley was offered the presidency No denial was made that the three (United Press Leased Wire.) Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 17. Sam Nelson, a carpenter, has complained to tne po lice that he was knocked unconscious, robbed of $90 and left lying on tho prairie, south of Tacoma, Tuesday night by Al Hanson and a woman companion, who had taken him out for an automo bile ride. The accused parties have been arrested. Nelson was around town spending money freely, when lie met the couple and the automobile trio was suggested. He says he did not recover conscious ness until Wednesday. Portland's city government, at least a part of it. is lending Itself to break ing down the public health. Bubonlo plague In San Francisco and the ten dency In all cities toward a spread of germ diseases Is a little thing that soma of Portland's paid servants care not a rap for. The city has a board of health, and It Is hoped by cheerfully inclined persons that this board will cause some one's arrest and punishment for viola tions of the common rules of health and decency. Dumplnir rotten aarbage. dirtv oaner. ashes, old clothing and greasy rags into gulches has become common practice, aml.Jiowr U- Is known that the street . sweeping department of tho city has been an anlooked for offender. Across the gulch at Chapman street near Tay lor Is a decrepit bridge from which tho department has been dumping refuse. So objectionable has the process of filllna in this gulch become that chil dren are being kept at home by their parents rather than allow them to studv amid tho foul miasmas caused by the mountain or garoage and street sweep- rigs. The irulch Is 40 or 50 feet below th . level of the streets In the neighborhood. t is owned by the King estate and by acob Kamm. A ramshackle old wooden : bridge carries Chapman street acrosa this gulch. For some time the city has been dumping the sweepings from the streets off the bridge, it beinir the hOD of the street cleaning department thai som aay it can get enough down to till p to tne level or the bridge, and thus void building a new span. Teacher Complains. At the corner of Chanman and Salmon treots Is the school and church of the German Kvangeiical Lutheran congrega- ion. Tne school is taught by Chrls lan Markworth. Although we are half a block from he gulch, the odors from the refuse dump are very objectionable," said the teactier. "several or yie parents have made complaints to us and the cltj about the disgraceful condition of th bridge and have kept their children out of school rather than have them sub-, lected to the foul odors arising; constant- ly from the dump. The parent of on of the pupils declares that her child had an attack of diphtheria resulting from exposure to the germs from th .' dump." Many members of the Zl'on German Lutheran church are also compelled to remain away from services, or take round-about way to get to church be cause of the garbage pile. Pastor Object. Rev. W. B. Behrens, pastor of th church, says that It Is very objection able at night and whenever It rains, - i The dew moistening the refuse and offal makes the stench rise to high - heaven. James Foley, one of the property own- : era In the neighborhood who lives at 1 .. Chapman and Taylor streets has com-. plained to the police department fol ; some assistance in the matter. He de- . clares that people will have to desert the neighborhood if the dumping process , is Kept up. In order to facilitate the work of th street cleaning department a portion ol the old bridge has been ripped up, ex posing the huge pile of offensive refuse, . (Continued on Page Two.) w L PAY SILL LICENSE Wholesale Liquor Dealers May Be Enabled to Avoid Pay. ment of Three Separate Taxes Strong Pro ..testfltd -by -firms? - ' (Continued on Page ?wo) Liquor dealers of Portland, doing a wholesale, retail and rectifying busness in the city, will be required to pay only the retail dealers license of $800 a year, if the investigations of City At torney Kavanaugh lead him to believe that he Is empowered to draft an 6rdl- nance requested by a special committee of the license committee of the council. A short time ago the question was rma as to wnetner or not nrms doing more than one kind of liquor business In the city wer liable to more than one .license, and it was decided that un der the existing ordinances a firm doing a wholesale business, a retail business and also a rectifying business was Habit to mree separate licenses, qrhrs decis ion, which la now in forc make It necessary for such a firm to pay .the retail 1irtA n f Kflft -n . fhM n;hnl,w sale license of f iao a year and the ! iR-a'. II..... '.Iff 4!A . ....m ' total annual charge of tl.ioa annually Strong protest was entered by a num ber of the firms affected by the decision and a special rommfttee consisting o Councilmen Cottell. Drlacoll and Wal lace was appointed by the liquor llcensi committee of the council to examine tin question and provide some solution foi It. After considering the propoidtloi this committee has requested the cltj attorney to draft mn ordlnanc provid ing that all firms doing such three, fold business shall be liable to but license and that the highest. - Jf this ordinance should be pn' V would mean that all such lirms wui be liable to a license fee of $o ally and no more. City Attornv J , anaugh in now considering the s-n ' of such n ordinance, and If i -"- Ion th irv is amnowMiil ' ' enforce such measure h it mid submit Jt to the " conifederatJAR The mu""r v ably ha brought up st "' '' '' lug of tint cuuni iL Vt'..