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JJilf Road Will Open Exten
sivc Offices in Portland
Within Next 10 Days-
President Forrest. Comes
Here From Spokane.
Line From Pasco to Vancou
ver Open January 1 Fin
ishing Work on Bridges
and Spokane Line Is Be
ing Hushed.
-President Cx M. Levey.
General superintendent F. 8. Forrest
General freight and passenger agent
H. M. Adams.
Aanlatant Q. P. A. Ralph Jenkins.
Counsel Jamea Kerr.
Within the next 1Q days headquarters
of operating and commercial depart
ments of the north banR road, known
aa the Portland A Seattle railroad, will
be opened In, Portland. Temporary of
fice will be In the union atatlnn of the
Northern Pacific Terminal company.
Afterward the Hill railroads will ae
eure a large group of office In aome
prominent orrice building and lue pas
senger and freight departments of the
Northern Pacific and all i.epartments or
the Portland Seattle will be conven-
lently located for eigne. cooperation
Vorrett Cornea mil
Ths first north bank official to ap
pear on the scene will be F. 8. Forrest,
who hss been appointed general super
intendent, relieving Marcus Talbot of
Portland, general manager of the Regu
lator steamboat line, who has been act
ing superintendent of the railroad. Mr.
Forrest has been a division superintend
ent of the Great Northern and located
(Continued on Page Two.)
CHICAGO STARTS
WAR Oil SATAII
Five Hundred Churches!
'Will Hold Revival Meet
ings Every Night.
(United Press Leased Wirt.)
Chicago, Dec. 7. Churches today de
clared war on Satan and decided on
plans for the biggest commission ever
undertaken against the hosts of sin,
Jn the history of the world. Every
night of the month of January the
ramparts of hades will be bombarded
from 600 Chicago churches simultane
ously. The laymen's eangelloal coun
cil will direct the assault and will or
ganize the meetings, assign the preach
ers, take care of the advertising and
raise the necessary funds."
All the sermons In the various
Churches will be devoted to subjects
calculated to win the hearers to religion.
During the month the council will have
committees at the doors of the churches
to welcome all strangers.
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UNCLE SAM NAVAL DICTATOR It lies within 1 the power of the
United States to say Just how large the battleships- of the world
may be.
THE PAST AT ROSE FARM Some historical . chapters from ona of
the show places of Oregon.
ENGLAND'S VIEW OF THE TANKEE The pompous Britain gives
his idea of getting ahead of the American hustler.
OLDEST P08TMASTER IS OUT -Rural free delivery carrier - ousts
man who licked stamps 64 years.
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WINTER BEAUTIES' FOR THE BEAUTIFUL Do you know how much
time and worry haa been spent on those beautiful flowers your "dear"
has Just sent youT '
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TAKAHIRA.
CONTROL JAPS
Aoki Returning to Assist
n . .7 a t :
itovernmenx m rnuiun
New American Treaty.
(United Press Leased Wire.)
Washington, D. C, Pec. 7. Colncl
tfent with Viscount Aokl's summons to
Toklo comes information Indicating that
Japan Iniista upon coming to a definite
understanding Jin the Immigration uues-
lort and strongly urges an entirely new
Immigration treaty with the unnea
States as the remedy.
Thomas J. O'Brien. American ambas
sador to Japan, has informed ine staie
department that It should begin study
ing the conditions and the Japanese de
mands with a view to framing "some
now agreement.
Thin indicates that Japan's efforts
to check Immigration are n failure:
that Japan docs not wish to be humil
iated by having different phase of the
present agreement threshed out In con
gress, and that the Toklo government
Insists) upon some new agreement which
will be satisfactory to both rations.
Viscount Aokl's return is closely con
nected with the solution of these ques
tions. LOSEJlfS HEAD
Lieutenant Governor of
British Columbia to Be
Ousted for Aiding Japs.
(United Press Ltiwd Wire.)
Vancouver. B. C. Dec. 7. MacKenxle
King, deputy minister of labor, left
Vancouver yesterday for the south en
route to Ottawa to lay his report before
the government. . On behalf of the im
migration commission he has been con
ducting the inquiry for several weeks
It Is regarded as certain that Lieutenant-Governor
Dunsmulr "11 b
niic.l nr.on to resign as the result of
his name being 'attached to an agree
ment with the Canada Nippon company
for the supply of 600 Japanese laborers
to the Wellington Colliery company, of
Which he is presuient. .
King- Oscar Is Dying.
4' (I'Blted Pros Lented Wlre.l
Stockholm, Deo. -7. Pastor Primarlus.
head of the church In Sweden, has
been urgently summoned to King; US-
car's bedside. Hla majesty s aeatn is
momentarily expected.
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MIKADO CAHHOT
DUflSriR
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SAD SCENES
ARE FOUR HUNDRED
NOT SO, SAYS
BOHIE
Attorney - General Denies
That He Had Attempted
to Disqualify W. C. Bris
tol in Land Frauds Prose
cutions in Oregon.
(Wasbloftoa Bureau of The Journal.)
Washington, Dec. 7. A ttorney -Gen
eral Bonaparte denies In unqualified
terms that he haa ever issued any state
ment to any one to the effect that he
Intended to or would appoint a special
prosecutor to take charge- of the Oregon
land fraud trials because I'nltcd States
District Attorney W. C. Bristol of Port
land had been connected professionally
with some of the defendants now await
ing trial.
Ths attorney-general was shown a
copy of the press dispatch which had
been published throughout the country
In which the attorney-general was given
a the authority for the statement that
Mr. Bristol would be supplanted bv an
other man specially appointed to take
charge of the Oregon cases. The reason
for the action, so the alleged dispatch
stated, was that Mr. Bristol had been
professionally connected with certain
of ths land fraud defendants waiting
trial.
There Is absolutely no authority for
that statement," said Attorney-General
Bonaparte when he had read the state
ment. "I never made any such state
ment or authorised any one to infr
that I would take auch action. The
tatement Is entirely groundless."
It Is supposed here that the story
nrunr from some source unfriendly to
District Attorney Bristol and that the
fact of his having at one time been coll
ected with the legal department of the
Harrlman lines In Oregon during which
time he had charge of much of the land
title work of the company had been
sed ad a handle upon which to base th
mini l. 11 llinj i ll II K Itr Blilt-
ments made, that Mr. Bristol will take
o part In the proaecution of the gov
ernment's case against the Southern
Pacific's land grants because of his
prior work done for the railroad com
pany, juoge BecKer or Buffalo has
been appointed to assume the active
charge of these cases should they bo
brought.
SPOKANE BANKS TO
RECALL THEIR PAPER
(ttpeclsl DMpktch to The J no -nil.)
Spokane, Wash., Dec. 7. Spokane
banks will soon begin to recall their
clearing house checks. K. T. Coman,
chairman of the clearing house com
mittee, said:
"We will not redeem the entire
000,000 of checks at once, but will start
at the rate of $100,000 per week. Later
we probably will give out the coin
faster. We have In the banks now more
ready cash than ever before in the his
tory of the city. The total cash on
hand and cash owing us Is J'i,0Sl,893.67.
JOAQUIN MILLER TO'
VISIT THE HOLY LAND
(United Preai Leased Wire.)
San. .Jose. Cal., Dee. 7. Joaquin Mil
ler, the "Poet of the Sierras," an
nounces that he is about to start on a
trip, to Europe and Asia. During Ms
trip he will visit places made sacred
by bible history and will see Mecca,
Babylon, the Holy Land, and the his
toric points of interest of the old
world.
FOR OLD CRIME
Prisoner at Georgetown
Will Be Sent to Omaha
to Answer for Murder.
(United Press Leased Wire.)
Seattle, Wash.. Dec. 7. Joe Williams,
colored, now, serving a sentence of six
months in the county jail. for threat
ening to kill his wife and. his mother-in-law
at Georgetown last August, will
be taken back to Omaha to answer to
the charge of murder committed there
15 years ago.
J. J. Donahue, the Omaha chief of po
lice, wired yesterday that Williams' pic
ture had been identified as that of
the man wanted,' and that the priaonet
would be sent for.
Fifteen years ago. It Is alleged. Wil
liams administered poison to the pa
rents, two- sisters and a brother of his
first wife, Mr.' and Mrs. E. Ewing. Edna,
Ida and Albert Ewlng. Albert died
from the effects of the poison, and the
other four recovered. Williams is al
leged to have fled from-Omaha before
the officers could arrest htm, and noth
ing mope was heard of him .until his
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WANTED
arrest at Georgetown. . f '
AT SHAFTS
125 BODIES
Brave Rescuers Driven Back
by Poisonous Gases That
Pour From Fainnount's
Death Pits Only Five
EscajM?.
(United rrem Lifd Wirt.)
Monongah, Dec. 7 This was a
sad .day in Monongah. The gas
filled mines at Falrmount are giv
ing up their dead. Hundreds of
grief-stricken relatives watch the
rescue gangs at work and it la a
pathetic scene when the widows and
the orphans wander down the long
lines of shrowded corpses looking
for all that Is earthly of those who
were dear to tnein. l p to 10 o
clock this morning 125 bodies had
been removed from the death-pits.
The rescuers report that there arc
as many more in sight and that It
will be hours before tbev can be
reached as the foul gases of the
mine shafts overcome all who at
tempt to work too long In their
noisome fumes.
Most f the dead are in shaft S
where the poisonous nfter-damp if
strongest. In this shaft the workers
have beon put to work In half-hour
relays and two strong pumps are
used to clear the hole of vapors. The
rescuers are only fairly started here
and it will be nightfall before the
mass of bodies that is supposed to
be behind the cave-in Is reached.
The few survivors of the terrible
disaster tell graphic stories of the
explosion. In shaft 6 several men
were near the opening. Suddenly
there was a rumbling sound followed
by several distinct explosions. Four
or five men near the entrance knew
what had happened and started for
the tunnel entrance. Before they
reached it a terrific explosion oc
curred and the men were thrown
violently to the ground. Dazed
they got to their feet and managed
to reach the open air. Scores of
miners behind them, they say, were
caught in the cave-In and many
bodies were burled beneath the
masses of earth. Scores more were
shutoff from the fresh air and must
have been instantly overcome by the
poisonous gases which came througa
every vent in the rocks and all but
overcame the few fortunates whe
escaped by their having been In close
proximity to the mine entrances.
It was established today that
there were 425 men in tufinels G
and 8. There were many men in
other sections of the mine which
were not reached by the deadly fire
damp. Only five of the men In
shafts 6 and 8 escaped death, it is
reported.
SEAGULLS ATTACK
LINEMAN PERCHED
ON TOP OF POLE
d Hoqulam, Wash.,- Dee. 7. An 4
4 unusual adventure befell a line- d
man for the electric company one
d day this week as he was engaged .
in putting up carriers to string
4 a covered cable. As he was d
4 perched In his airy isolation, he
4 was discovered by a seagull, ' d
d which seetned to consider his be- 4
d Ing so far from the ground as an
4 Intrusion by squealing, and so
calling others of the tribe to his 4
d assistance. One followed anoth- d
er, until 100 or more of the birds d
4 had gathered, and all of them d
. began an attack on the man,
who was completely at their
mercy for a time. 4
d They swooped down upon him
d and beat htm with their wings
and tried to find a vulnerable
d place. d
4 Some men on the walk below
cheered for the. birds and made d
4 fun of their comrade's trouble, 4
4 and It was not until the lineman 4
4 got one end of the rope free that
he -was able to beat the birds off 4
and resume his occupation. . 4)
RECOVERED
DEAD MINERS
HIS BLUFF
Contempt of Danger While
Crossing Coos Bar in the
Alliance Was the Cause of
the Sweeping Away of B.
F. Pyott.
laughing at the enraged elements
and 'lefying the waves of old oceun cost
II. F. Pyott his life. As has been al
ready related, Pyott was swept from the
deck if the steamer Alliance by the
wave that nearly wrecked the vessel on
Coos hay btir, but not until tocrny were
the details of the drowning related by
on" who chanced to speak to the marj a
few moments before he wns swept over
the fide on tli."' crem of a tremendous
volume o- wnfr.
William Holxt. assistant steward on
the Alliance, xpokc to Pyott not more
than flv ii'inui.'s before he was lost.
The conversation will probably be
brought up nt the Investigation that be-
Klns before th inspectors next Monday
and will go a long way toward proving
that no cue but the man himself could
be blamed for the accident.
"My attention was drawn to Pyott
when he Iclrked an 11-year-old boy
aroumi tne.ijecK rear -iMi lw,
said Mr. Hoist, "and I asked him what
he r-iis dolnz.
" 'That kid was adopted by my wife,
ant' I kick him full of holes whenever
1 fcl like it. , he answered. ell. you
do'.'t kick him full of holes on the
Alliance," I told him. He gave me an
anu'V look, but paying no attention
thereto, 1 warned l.lni against remaining
oulslile wnlle eroding the l;ir.
Scorns Words of Warning.
" Yoii'r' bttr (to bnck Into your
cabin," I snld, 'or one of those breakers
might get you. Von can never trv) when
they roll on board.' At this ho became
indignent. laughed defiantly at tlio
waves, declaring they were nothing to
what he had ridden In a wee bit of a
fishbnat s
" 'Don't talk to me about waves,' he
went on. 'I have cronsed this bar
when you fellows wouldn't dare to look
at it.'
"He remained outside and the next
moment the wave came along and tore
him away from his wlfe.who tried to
hold him almost at the cost of her own
life. Pyott was a fisherman."
Mr. Hoist declares Captain Olson
was the coolest person on board even
In the most trying moments. He says
the young skipper neither ale nor slept
for four days, but sipped a small cup
of black coffee about every two hours.
The Alliance la still at Couch street
wharf waiting for a chance to get on
the drydock but she will probably be
lifted tomorrow. Captain Olson says
repairs can be made In a day or two.
A new propeller has been made and th
rudder is also ready to be shipped.
That the experience or the Alliance
was a serious one even In the minds of
some of the sailors, is evident from the
fact that three or four have chosen to
remain ashore awnile to rest up. One
or two have admitted that so far as
they are concerned, the longing for the
deep blue sea vanished with their last
experltnce. They say a man never real
izes how small he Is until left adrift
on a disabled vessel in a sea that threat
ens to swallow craft and all any
moment.
M 'CURDY BELIEVED
Tt) BE ON DEATH BED
(United I'reM Leimed Wlre.l
New York, Pec. 7. Former President
Mcl'urdy of the Mutual Life Insurance
oompanv and ms son are oom sick and
probably neither will recover, Is the
statement made today by Louis A. Thl-
baud, son-in-law or the rormer.
ROBBER GETS
CERTIFICATES
Defendant Declares That
His Haul Was Not Money
And He Is Innocent.
(United Press Ieased Wire.)
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 7. Have
clearing house certificates value In
court as legal money? Is It a felony
to rob a man of scrip? These ques
tions will be raised in the trial of
William Hoffman, a young man charged
with holding up John Yates in Ar
cadia and taking from htm S3 In scrip.
The Information was drawn i up and
Assistant District Attorney McComus
was Inadvertently told by Hoffman's
counsel that the point wlu be pressed:
that It Is rrot robbery to steal from a
man that which may have no value
technically.
The result win be the first criminal
court test of scrip as money ever made.
A (Judicial xinding mat scrip has no
Important bearing, as. many cases in
volving the substitute for legal, tender
are likely to be brought in the civil
courts throughout the country during
the present and other possible times
of financial stringency. . . - v
CALLS
COMMANDS TROOPS.
sr'Tr- " M Ira UUI1 1 Ll1 1 IUI1
C t 10 BE HELD
p?S" AT CHICAGO!
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GENERAL F. D. FUNSTON.
THREATENS TO
MURDER I0IJLD
Wild-Eyed Young Man De
clares lie Will Have Life
of .Millionaire.
(United rim Leited W'.r. )
New York, Dec. 7. A wild-eyed stock-lly-bullt
young man stood late Friday In
front of a bachelor apartment house on
West Forty-third street and, as ho
flourished an open clasp knife, shouted:
"I'm going to kill Howard fluold. I'll
have his blood. My wife Is In that
house and I'm going to see her. They
can't keep me away from, her."
'Slipping the open knife Into the
pocket of his coat, the man ran up the
steps snd pushed his way through the
vestibule. He took a bunch of keys
from his pocket and was about to fit
one Into the lock of an Inner door when
it opened and a man barred the way.
He pel xed the Intruder and threw him
down the steps. Almost before the man
had reached the sidewalk his assailant
had disappeared within, closing the
door
"I'll come back here again and blow
off Howard Goulds head." the man
muttered as he started toward Broad
way.
NIGHT RIDERS
RAID VILLAGE
Enemies of Tobacco Trust
Destroy Valuable Prop
erty at Hopkinsville.
(United Pmi Lemd Wire.)
Louisville, Dec. 7. "Night Riders"
raided Hopkinsville early today, de
stroying 1200,000 worth of property.
The riders burned the police and fire
headquarters, the telephone and tele
graph offices, a dozen tobacco ware
houses and demolished the office of the
Kentucklan, a newspaper that had been
condemned by the vandals.
The nitrlit riders are sworn enemies
of the tobacco trust. They ' raid plant
ers who sell to the trust and destroy
their tobacco.
LEE IS HELD FOR
MURDER OF MCCARTHY
(United Pret Leased Wire.)'
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 7. Dr. B.
V. Lee, who is in custody at the city
prison was charged by the police this
morning with the murder of Thomas
McCarthy, the private detective, who
died Thursday night from hemorrhage
of tho brain, the result of a wound
In the eye from the steel point of an
umbrella in the hands of Dr. Leo.
1 Lee has steadfastly refused to dis
cuss the quarrel between himself and
McCarthy but asserts that McCarthy
was armed and made threatening ges
tures toward his pocket before Lea
Jabbed him' In the eye with the um
brella. SEATTLE RESTAURANTS
ARE MINUS WAITERS
(United Press Leased Wire.)
Seattle. 'Wa9h., Dec. 7. The "union
waiters walked out of everv restaurant
and hotel this morning on account of the
restaurant Keepers irying io. enrorce the
seven-day per week schedule. ;
MURDERERS
. ON TRAGK WHILE
' OAR KILLS, THEM
(United Press Leased Wlre.l .
Genoa. Dec. 7. Giuseppe Quattrocchl
and wife brutally murdered their land
lord, Anthony Blanch!, bis wife and
nursing baby,1 and strangled three olde
cnuo.ren, and were themselves held by
a maddened mob in front of an electric
car and ground to bits today. .
ice wholesale butchery rouowea
nniurrMTinn
I.I 'JHh J I II
1 bums an SB
Windy City Is Selected byi
Republican National Com
mittee As Scene of Next.
Selection for the Presiden
tial Chair.
Senator Culberson of Texas
Will Probably 'Be 3Iade '
Chairman of Democrats If
Tom Taggart Hands inT
Resignation Thursday.
(United Press Lriaed Wire.)
Washington, Dec. 7. After a hard
fight in the Republican national com
mittee meeting hero this morning, Chi-'
cago was selected as the city for the) :
next Republican national convention.
The convention Is set for June It.
Two cities besides Chicago were die- ,
cussed by the committeemen. Kansas
City and Denver were both represented'
and their delegates made a hard fight
for them. The final vote showed Chi
cago, where the last convention was
held, to be far in the lead, however. The
vote stood Chicago 32 votes. Kansas
CltjU'tT Votes and-Den ver 4 votes.
Later In the day at the Democratla
headquarters there was a general opin-.
ion manifest that Senator Culberson of
Texas will be the next chairman of the
Democratic national committee. The
resignation of Thomas Taggart Is ex
pected at the meeting to be held Thurs
day and It is believed, by the ones who
profess to know, that the Texan will win
the honors very easily.
The election of Harry New of Indiana
as chairman of the Republican national
committee meets general approval of tht
politicians who have assembled In
Washington.
PETTIBONE GOES
III DOCK
Orchard Will Begin Tues
day Again to Re-tell His
Terrible Tale.
(Catted Press Leased Wire.) - -
Boise, Ida., Dec. 7. Following thsK
completion of the jury in the Pettibon
case late yesterday afternoon the at- '
torneys for the state began arranging;
for the Introduction of testimony Mon
day afternoon. The morning; session
Monday will be devoted to the opening
statement by James H. Hawley, chleC
prosecutor. ', i v y
The average age of the present Jury
Is 20 years younger than that which
tried and acquitted Haywood, 'and the,
state seems especially pleased that.
oung Dusiness men ana tradesmen ot .
lolse comprise the greater portion ot
the Jury. -"-
The- friends of the defense ara rrs.fl-'
fied that union labor ia represented In
the person of A. C, Boot, a member of
the typographical union for SO years. .
It is learned that the lono- Mnfrni
held between opposing counsel yesterday-
was on wie proposition or excusing bv
agreement J. H. Frailer, who graduated :
from the University, of Idaho . last
spring, but no agreement was reached,
and neither side exercised a peremptory
on htm. He Is the. youngest member i
of the Jury. William Stahl., pioneer
prospector. Is the, oldest ' , ' .
warry urcnara win begin telling, for
e second time, his ttorv of vhnTtnii. .
assassination next Tuesday, aceordln
to present plans of the prosecution.. It
will require but few witnesses to e- '
tablish-the corpus delicti, and aa soon
as this Is done Orchard will be called.
The health of Orchard continues to be
perfect, and he has gained considerable in -weight
since the Haywood trial. He has
expressed dread of . the coming ordeal,
and asserts that he would rather pay
the, penalty for his crimes now than
again to open the book of hi life to the
inspection of the world.
The state has Issued suhtwutnaa t
-witnesses In Canyon-county who will
lesury to trie racts concerning the kill
lag of ex-Governor Steunenberg.
HELD
trivial quarrel over rent. Ths mob fp
tured the fleeing coupK Hil ilm i in
with blood, and forced them i' ci;i,n i,
after, which they Pt toe.n t- d iii
under the trolley cr to prevent a m
cue by th polloe.
The wife watche-1 I - .-r.i
band hllJi ftrxi, n-i u
death. The. !.. t
were scatter-! ,i ..