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5 IK TO SELL: REAL ESTATE .. . TO HIRE MORE HELP : V . ADVERTISE IN THE JOURNAL ..t ',.'Tb Weather Fair and slightly '4 colder, tonight; rain Wednesday. ' JOURNAL ClltOJIATION '-V.; r' lESTEKDAY . WAS ; " 29,400 V 1 - PORTLAND OREGdN, 'TUESDAY : EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1008.--SIXTEEN PAGES. VOL." VI. NO. 263. OOTrW- TXUCi TPMTfi I TKArj ATO jnrwi uu . ii v w .m ' ham Da, rive CUI1I . 10SS F LIFE. 111? BOVmSTOWM HPS GREATER . . TMM mmr. -reports. OF horror ESTIMATED . V, 1 " I ii I I ill' i i .111 I ' . ' " -v..'' I , I ' ' - i ' ' - - ' I ' " ' II HUNDRED RNDIFIEwmAD ARE INJURED mSEVENWEIVEi iiiSiiii5is BRUTALLY $11 FOR: HIS HEY Body of Engineer Kramer, Killed on Isthmus, Home for Burial. . Boyerstown, ta.,' Jan. 14. No one slept In this stricken town last 'stent. A call of horror was over the place, a terrible realization of the. awful calamity that had befallen the usually quiet little Tillage ' grew as the night hours wore away and as the rescue force delved In the ruins of the destroyed theatre and brought from them tbe charred ' corpses of the fire's victims. ';.. "Nearly 150 persons lost their lives. The first estimates of 100 . were thrown aside , this morning when a canvass of the town by the ' authorities showed that the early estimates of the dead would bo great y augmented when the list of yiose who. perished was accurately com piled. Among those who died was the unfortunate woman whose enter tainment was the card that brought the fated audience together in the ' death trap. . The bodies of 76 of the victims hav been . Identified. Investigation this morning- shows that the majority of tire 7 dead wore women and children. It Is estimated that at least 75 are on the list of Injured. All night long the ruins were searched for bodies, many of them being found in a mangled condition. It developed this morning, that the 'disaster was due principally to the panic that .followed th fraaollne explo- ! Ion, which was not serious in Itself, t wa loud enough, however, to atari a stampede among the women and ohll ' dren. , " - , - Jv--,,.-V'. :,tUts Iroquois Kxsfc f The disaster was a repetition of the Iroquois theatre fire, in Chicago, on a ' a smaller scale. Instantly following : the first rush the one small exit was Clogged with bodies. Those who tried : to leave through the main exit eneoun- tered this wall of human forms, heapod cme on top of the other, and over these :; the few remaining -survivors struggled toward tbe exit As the oanlc increased the heap grew. Tbe lives of those aenrest the floor were crushed out in a twinkling, under : the cruel heels of the panic stricken. Everywhere were the flames, and with them an overpowering volume of gas, which must have providentially ren- dered many fallen victims unconscious, and thus relieved their sufferings. No less terrible than the struggle at the theatre doors was the scene enacted beyond the footlights. The members of - the amateur theatrical company fled to . the stage entrance but a few of them remained and fought frantically to tlngulsh the biasing mass of oil where the footlights had been overturned and the lamps exploded. At the stage door (Special PUpttcb. to Tbt Journal.) Taooma, Wash., Jan. 14. The re mains of Philip Kramer, whose wife and two daughters live at Portland, ar rived today from the Panama canal country and will be burled here. Kramer was murdered in his bed at Paralso on the night of December 16, supposedly for his money, and a re ward of. 1600 has been oftered for the apprehension of hla. murderers. Accompanying the remains Is a re port by Lieutenant Colonel H. P. Hodges, of the United States corps of enciners. which in Dart la as fol lows: "The motive of the murder was evl dently robbery. The sum obtained was popslMy more than 1600 in bills and gold. Outside the house where Kramer was Killed while ne was asleep between 8 r. m., December 16. end a. m.. De cember 17, tbeie was found a pair of snoes ueionging 10 me guilty person. They were covered with arreajia and oil and - apparently belonged to some one who worked around machinery, boilers or steam engines. Kramer's hesd was cruanca as if irom a heavy blow, and he was . amarent v. killed intanlv wuiiv buuiiq aniuejj. i .rgr many years vramer naa a rnn out of this city as a. Northern Paciflo locnmQiive engineer. . , . j - the passageway was partly barred by stage property. The scenery caught fire and showers of burning cloth and paper fell from the flies upon the men and women who were crowded about the narrow exit Many were seen to fall to tne stase to tf tramDiea to aeam. The flames from the stage swept out ward and over the theatre as In the case of the Iroauois theatre fire. This hap pened as soon as the stage-door was opened by the players. Then the, house became 'a roaring mass of, flames from wnicn lew e sea pea. .. , Urs. Hayes Death. - Mrs.' Stella-' Mayes could have Saved her life If she bad not tried to save the lives of -the members of her comnany. whioti presented "Mary. Queen of , tbe Scots." She reached the open air in safety, but, returned to see if those be hind the scenes had escaped. ' The flames closed in on her and she nerished. . in removing the charred bodies this morning tne ponce ana iiremen roun'i the remains of a mother who had died with her baby still clasped to ber into a' crisp. Others were found with MfllOr TTaflll DpclflTPS TTntilA hands clasned in nraver: others with ""J"1 WCtlttlCS IlUSUie bones and Bkull crushed into a mass. - Had the women and children heeded the warning of the cooler heads in the audience, the horrible loss of life might have been avoided, but there was the usual panic and stampede which invar lahly follows: such a catastrophe. The flames spread rapidly and communlcatod to the other parts of the building. Men, women ' and children rushed for the many exits, and the weaker sex and the children were trampled and maimed In the maa rusb to gain the streets. COAST OFFERS pie to oar Fleet Would Have Easy Access to Country." BANKS TO t. . HE y a. - t. .t ... . -(.... '.,.. PMSMM TRYING TO PROVE THAW'S MSMITY Portland National Institu tions Hereafter Will Carry Between 35 and 40 Per Cent of Deposits Flurry Teaches Them Lesson. Change in Policy Will Great ly Strengthen Banks Throughout State Old Officers Beelected Today! at Numerous Elections. (Continued on Page Two.) TRAIN Heney AskPqstponement Until Tomorrow to AUow Tra- - n-wr DAAlrAW Orvnt i n 1- As?Ciiri4'n,rk4A nUAtnAl sv-a. T am J ' . Trials, to Beach Here From Frisco. , 4 f Because the Southern Paciflo train .from San Francisco was a half day late, as is usually the case, the opening of the trial, of John H. Hall etaL In the federal court was put over for another day this morning. .The reason the late ness of the train jptered so vitally intd tne lana case was . because Tracey c Becker of .Buffalo,. New York, who has been appointed a special assistant to the attorney general-and who, Is to assume charge of the land cases upon the de parture of Mr. Heney, was on th train and could not reach Portland until late tws arternoon. - . . ' Ir. Becker waS appointed some time asro to take charge of the arovernmental Investigation into the Southern Pacific land grant question ana was on bis way t the coast when he was-assigned to assist Mr. Heney In the Oregon ,land ? Everybody interested was in court this tnornlng - at 10 o'clock ready1 for the opening gun to be fired. Witnesses were on hand. Jurymen were packed in back of the ratling and a large share of the Portland bar was ranged around ready to See the fun. , Mr. Heney, however, spoiled- things by asking Judge Hunt to postpone the trial for another day. In making the request ho explained that Mr. Becker had been assigned to th cases which woflld be pending after Mr. Heney was compelled to abandon v the Oregon field In favor of his work In San Fra"nolsoo. - - "Mr. Becker," said Mr Heney, "has been assigned to assist me in this ase now pending, and he is to take charge of those cases which will come after l leave me city. Mr. Becker Is not . quainted with the customs and practices of the Oregon court and is very anxious to be present at the opening of this case In order that he may note the proce dure. If he Is not her he will know nothing of the customs of the court when it comes to the commencement of the next case, of which he will have ensrge. He is on tne aeiayea tram and win not be nere until late this after After some discussion Judge Hunt rranted the request with the warning. however,, that the attorneys would prob ably have to pay for it by longer ses sions until the lost time had been made up. ' The case will be really begun In tfte morning, according to Mr. Heney, who said after tne adjournment or court that he was glad of a day's postponement in order to allow him additional, time in which to shape up his. evidence in the pending case. The first thing to come un when court convenes will be -the argument or tne motion or John Hall ror a separate trial ana tne Dies or abatement filed by P. P. Mays, asking that the indictment be quashed on the ground that George Oustln, one of tbe grand jurymen returning the indictment was not a citizen of the United States. SSMBW DUNNE REFUSES TO AGREE TO IM&NITY ABRAHAM RUEF i United Bras Leased Wire.) San Francisco, Jan.. I. Judge Dunne this morning flatly refused to sign any agreement to. grant Abraham Ruef Im munity.' ('.', ' ' r In a long and stormy conference this morning ' between the Judge and Dis trict, Attorney Langdon, In which 4 the entire matter, of granting Rucf Im munity, was thoroughly gone into, JMinne "positively declared to District Attorney Langdon -that 'tinder no clr- cumsiances wiiaia ne enter into private 'agreement With even the trict attornev'a ntttnm nt with.- Rn, grant the latter Immunity. He informed the district attorney that If there were to be any 'motion or agreements that they must be made In open court In the same manner that any other legal busi ness coming "before the court Is at tended tO. : - ' -' .. : ' The refusal of Judge Dunne tot sign a written contratt or to enter intd by private agreement with the district at torney's office came as a great blow to Ruef. who bas been demanding im munity ever since the appellate- court banded down Its Schmlit decision,. ' (United Press Leased Wire.) Los Angeles, Jan. 14.- That this city is In a perilous military position was the declaration made by Major W. G. Haan of tbe United States artillery at a banquet of the Engineers' and Archi tects' association of Southern Califor nia at the Hollenbeck hotel last night Major Haan is a member of the board of officers which la looking into the land defenses of the cities on the coast and also of the land defenses of the seacoast fortifications. For the army, the defense of Los Angeles offers a peculiarly difficult proposition,; he said. "The trouble is, you nave no protection against the land ing of troops from invading ships. If our navy should lose control of the sea the enemy could land troops wher ever it saw fit There seem to be many landing places. "Jt is a great question in our minds if this board should not go ahead of their instructions and I shall certainly recommend in my report to the war de partment that this city be included in the plans for the national defense. "I Jiave corns from the Puget sound cities and the defenses there are not all to be desired. There is too much good anchorage; too many fine har - "No one can make a study of our coast defenses without feeling , that there is danger of an awful disaster. The situation- Is, however, improving." In annual reports of officers of Ore gon national banks today there was heard a new note as to banking policy. The national banks of Portland, in par ticular, will hereafter carry larger cash reserves than In previous years- Al though the money stringency did not cause serious embarrassment, its ex perlences were lessons that .will serve to . further strengthen Oregon national banks In time of stress. The govern ment requirement of. a 25 per eent re serve will be disregarded as a minimum, and the ' banks - will, from this time, carry nearer SS or 40 oer cent of their deposits in casn. Old Officers Beelected. National bank elections, as nrovlded by law, are held on the second Tuesday in January or eacn year, ice national banks of Portland held their annual meetings today. In each case excentlnc mat oi tne Aiercnants national tne old stair of officers and directors was elected. The stockholders annual meeting of the Merchants will be held tbia evening at i.av ociocK. me presidents report will be received and it is thought no other business will be transacted, but the meeting will adjourn to a later date. pending the consummation of arrange ments, by which it is hoped to reopen the Dank. The First National held Its annual meeting at 11 o'clock in the office of the president. The stock was largely represented, and tne election resulted in continuing all tbe old directors and of ficers, wbo are: president, A. l. Mills; cashier, J. W. Newkirk. These two men and James F. Failing, Henry Connor. Jacob Kamra and H. L. Corbet t form the directory. The bank has a capital stock of 500,000 and surplus and undivided profits of 11.123.041. Its deposits ex ceed 112,000,000. Other Zleotlons Held. At the United States National stockholders reelected the old officers and directors, as follows: President, J. C. Alusworth; vice-president, R. Lea Barnes: .cashier. R. W. Schmeer; assist ant cashiers, A. M. Wright and W. A. Holt. The directors are JT C. Ainswortn. 1. W. Hellman. president Wells-Fargo National bank and Union Trust com KrffiM- J-spilr -WMM Iff -VK JCpj$M&W0j - " ',. .'f'y I; HARRY K. THAW, THE PRISONER, 8TANFOREI WHITE, THE VICTIM, AND MRS.. HARRY 1 THAW, "THE WOMAN IN THE CASE." - ' 1 MY FOR TITLES qiicago Congressman Pro- poses rax oi une yuaner of Fortune on Heiresses Who Buy Husbands From European Nobility. (United Press Leased Wire.) Washington, D. C. Jan. 14. The enormous fortunes transferred : to Europe as the result of Internationa marriages through the great dowries brought to - titled foreigners by Amer- the I lean heiressas has been taken notice of oy .Representative oaoato oi vnicago. He refers to Uhe great fortunes taken to Europe by Consuelo Vanderbllt, Anna Goujd and the prospective fortunes that will go with Miss Vanderbllt when she. marries her Austrian nobleman and the fortune that will be carried by Theo- -a a?u ii.. T.. A am uin?-ci!ff'X-i-ffi T Provide for such a tax he Intro- duced the following bill yesterday CHOLERA BREAKS OUT IN ISLANDS Forty-Three Deaths in Four Days at Sourpe of Manila's Water Supply. (United Pren Lensed Win.) Manila. Jan. '.,14. Forty-three deaths In four days is the: result of an out break of cholera in the Marlquina val ley, the source of Manila's water sup ply. New cases are being hourly reported-. .The fatalities eTive been con fined to the natives. but several Ameri cans have been stricken. - LANDS TAKEN FBOM BLUE MOUNTAINS 1 (United Pren Leased Wire.) i Washington. i D. C. Jan. 14. Tha president has eliminated 131,14 acres from tha Blue Mountains National for est reserve on recommendation of the forestry service, Decause it is not val uable for timber. The greater Dart is open, for grating lands. . South Carolina Legislature, i v v- i rjn1WK Prrma Leawd Wtra.) V '' Columbia. SC, Jan. 14.--The ceneral assembly of South Carolina convened In annual session today with the nrosDeot of an unusually busy session.-The prin cipal matters to be dealt' with In the new measures to be- Introduced and act ed upon are prohibition, railroad rates. taxation ana compulsory eaucauoa, ; nrsildent California Wine association: Georee E. Chamberlain, governor of Orearon: Rufus Mallory. D. W. Wake- AM. u 1. Mm-lnav and R. Lea Barnes. The Bankers' and Lumbermen's bank will hold its annual meeting of stock holders next Tuesday. The bank is not a nuttnnfil hnnlf hut conducts ItS DUSl n aim rlnnnlv n Inn ir national banking lines, as Us stockholders' list is largely mode up of national bankers. In order not to conflict with the meeting date for national bank officers, its meeting was .fixed for next week. The official nA.i nf th Wankers' and Lumber men's bank will show an increase of 50 per cent in the number of its depositors treasurer Section 1; That all gifts, dowries, settlements er -advances of money or property or both made in consideration or In contemplation of marriage, whether paid or delivered or Intended to be paid or delivered, before or after, tne actual solemnization or any such marriage by any . citizen or subject of the' l.'nited States of America to any person otner man a suDject or citizen of the United States of America, shall be subject to a tax of 25 per cent of tne total amount- or any sucn girts. dowry, settlement or advances, and snail - oe paid into , the United States Slayer of Stanford White Appears to be Greatly De pressed i Had St. Vitus Dance When a Boy, and Members of Fam ily Crazy in the last six months. CALHOUN CASE WIL BE SET NEXT MONDAY Section . The department of the treasury Is hereby authorized to adopt such resolutions or measures to levy any sdeh tax upon such settlement or dowries according to the provisions of this act. The bill shall be In force after its passage. F0I1D LT0I1 BANK SOLVENT (ftntted Presa Leased Wire.) San Francisco, Jan. 14. The trial of Patrick Calhoun, accused of bribing su pervisors to pass the overhead trolley franchise, was again postponed today at the request of the prosecution, the case being set for Monday, but District Attorney Langdon could not state posi tively when It would actually be called ror trial. After court adjourned tangdon and Calhoun's attorneys held an exceedingly heated conrerence, ai wniun uanguun n - , -, 11 . promised to give 6alhoun and the otb- DOUbtful CollCCtlOnS Are Not er United JUUiroiu ucicuuauis b uw Inite date for the opening of their trial tomorrow, afternoon. The conference was the result of the prosecution this morning to nave tne cases continued until next Monaay. When the cases were last set the pros ecution promised the defense that in all Put Among Assets by ; State Examiners. New York, Jan. 14. The Hamilton bank lias' been found' solvent by the examiners of the state department of banking and it will be reopened Janu ary 20. The examination of the bank has been in progress for a -week, lu this examination neither the $50,000 xnxcST TT TTTO TTnTirrl I wnicn grew out or the sale of the JlOiVxliN HJ-O JllTill I Providence Savings Life Assurance so ciety-nor - tne. izvu.uuu loans to f. Augustus Helnse and bis brother were probability it would b. ready to give- a definite answer as to wnen tne cases would actually come to trial by this morning. 1 ' ' ROOSEVELT- UPHOLDS , (TTnlted Press Ld Wire.) Washington D. C Jan. 14. Arthur Flsk has been renominated postmaster of San Francisco by President Roose velt, according' to an -announcement made 1 today by " Postmaster-General Meyer. The United States senate will not be asked to confirm the nomination, however, until certain chances ithat will be made against Flsk have been dls- osed of. Congressman Kahn of Csli- Dut. among the assets. rue oank win nave on nana si.soa, 000 when it reopens.?, v., . I 1 ' 1 " " . " Taf t to Speak Tonight. Washington, Jan. H.Spcretarv Taft has cone to Philadelphia, where he is to be the guest of bonorl tonight at . the fourth annual banquet of the Ohio so ciety In- that city. The affair, will takt ornia iSvStrongly ooDosing any action. I tilace at the Bellevne-Stratford and will tending- toward Fisk's renominatlon. be attended by many . prominent guests. (TTnlid Press rJeased Wire.) New Tork, Jan. 14. John R. T. Deemar, who has been the Thaw family physician for many years, was the first witness called by tbe defense tbis morning when the trial of Harry Thaw was resumed. ' There (were a few spec tatora In court when tfiie physician took tbe stand. ) Harry Thaw entered! the room witb a depressed look even more pronounced than the one he wore 'yesterday. Eve lyn Thaw was an early? caller, but-with other witnesses she wits excluded from the courtroom. i The proceedings were not opened nnf tfl 10:10 o'clock, becasse of the fact that Justice Dowlins; was delayed in n blockade in the subwan. " Dr. Deemar - was questioned by At torney Littleton. The -witness said he bad known Harry Thawi since his birth and that when he was a child he was nervous and the victim of the St. Vitus dance.- He declared tbat Henrv v. Copeley, brother of Mrs. i William Thaw, wan an imrjecue six years oerore bis death. -District Attorney Jerome objected Vigorously when Littletbn asked rr Deemar concerning John) Ross, son of wrs. nmwi sister. Jerome inought the Ross family was not .closely enough related to Harry Thaw to' make any dif ference. Littleton argued that Ire bad a right to bring In any allegations of insanity affecting even the farthest removed rel atives. Justice Dowling rtled that the question must be prefaced, with an In quiry as to whether there was Insanity In the Roes family. Thereupon, the" di rect examination ended abruptly. ' , Tells Abont Copoly. "Jerome cross-exanfined Deemar very closely about the exact mental condition of Henry Copely. The physician re plied that CoDely could not work anil that He was supported by money given blm bv Mrs. '-nnw. i 'f- Dr. William W. F.' Butler of Roanok. Virginia, was the next witness; While acting; lln the capacity of assistant phy sician oi tne v irginia state nosrmai ror the insane at Satunton In 1S8S he at tended Horace Thaw, son of the -first Mra Thaw. When he was questioned about the condition of Horace Thaw much squabbling followed between Je rome and Littleton. v i ' Olil mm Immunity for Euef Compact That Prosecutor Does Not Care to TalkAbout--Scowls Wlien Shown lies sare. ' ' ' ' t" i ! ' (Continued on Page Two.) Francis J. Heney only acowlefl.-' It waa:t tbe . landf raud cases . tbat made hla (brow furrow like, a gridiron It was Uuef!-; -. . . ' "Mr. Hepey," timorously .inquired sn Interviewer, . fhero ,rla a , dispatch - that says:".!: . ,: -J. -X') ,, P(-'A t''S Mr. Heney frowned again and reached for the bit of Western .Unionism,'-" ; "Complete .' Immunity . V baa been granted Abe' Ruef ") read Mr. : Heney, making- .the furrows on 1 his , caput look like a rail fence.' "by ; District ' Attor ney H. -Langdon and .Detective Burns, unless . Mro Rudolph Spreckels and Francis JX Heney, object" .s... - . -' "t ; have nothing to say." replied Mr. Heney another scowl nd . "But . hers ia mora nf. th Aln.t.ii tbat says" . persisted the Interviewer. 4t have nothing to sav lnternmt.,i Mr. Heney, still frowning. "Bat", "I have1 nothing to say" unwind nr Heney.- , ,, - - Kut, ah put"- - ' .'. Nothine to siv." v ruffleii : f Heney. . , "Ruef is Koine" ' 1 "1 have nothing to say." replied Mr. Heney, banging onto his Ifrontlspiocs ripples. -. - , , ; . That ended It Mr. Heney' was an noyed and when he went Into court he was still making his brow look like the bftrs , behind which he would like to place Schmits. , Here was the disturbing tnessag: "i "clsco, - Cal . Jan. 14.J-Com-plctejmmiinity .has been promised to Aba Ruef by District Attorney William H. Langdon, ind unless Rudolph Spreckels and Francis J, Heney objeVt to .. Having it 'extended, sleeping pow ders will be In .creat demand amon? men of millions Id San Franctsco when the absolute nature of the contract be comes known. ' Neither ; Heney nor ' Spreckels wan ?mi9,?nt'"'''where- apsdon and Detective William J Burns of t ho Kraft prosecu tion conferred with;Ruei! but the in terpretation of the result of the con- it"enessWa lm8. Beneri11 ln U n" ' ; i There was only one thin? that thev could not .reconcile with this gnr.ii accepted result and, that was the atti tude of Heney toward Ruef. . (Continued on Page Three.) IDAHO AN SHOOTS UP HOME IN TEMPORARY INSANE PIT OF RAGE , (SpeeUl Diinatcb to The lovrnid. Spokane, ."Wash,,; Jan. lt.While In a fit of supposed T temporary C Irwanity. Henry, Bey than, an employe of a lumber company at Lane, Idaho, shot and killod bis slster-ln-lawl Miss Rboda Norton, then turning the gun on his wife lired and missed her. then be. thinking her dead because she fell to the floor, blew his brains out . No reason is known for Ma s quietly - entered the room uui . asked for his revolver. Kit wi' him he didn't nee.l it. .11 i mil! i bepun shuolinn without f.irih.r llW. ' llf Wnnrr t:y fr.. with blnv.wife or r, -latlnti. .! dustrlous etirt !'''' yuun 4 was nl likeJ fit Lji, 1 f