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Newspaper Page Texti That flew Easter Govn 177 be Ho Problem to the Woman : VJho Gets the Spring: Fashion llurpber of the Sunday Journal.- Out Ilext Sunday Moro Help Wanted ? EBusiness ior Sale ? - Heal Estate for Sale ? " Advertise in The Journal l The Woutherthowers tbnlgbt or '.Wednesday westerly winds. JOURNAL ; CIRCULATION 29,350 t -In VOL. VII. NO. 8. . : u.'m..- POfeTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY ? EVENING," MARCH 17, 1908. SIXTEEN; PAGES, ' 1 f ' i I. . i i PRICE TWO CENTS. liAtf?hP uEu ' - ''mmiMiBO&'mi . $:l&mBF IRE DiFfflTMfflT T IT HIP FL TP Tr TF EEf, BEAT ON OPPOSITION $ ESS SCORE! ST. PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATED BY LOYAL IRISHMEN OF PORTLAND Story That Admiral Evans Is too 111 to Continue in Service Confirmed by Secretary of Navy Admiral Thomas to Assume Control (United' Pre Lessed Wlrs.J Washington March 17. Secretary of the Navy Metcalf today confirmed the exclusive United Press assocla tlon's story sent yesterday to The Journal that Admiral Evans would retire from service on arrival of the battleship fleet at San Francisco and that the reason for the gallant old officer 's relinquishment Is that he la In very feeble- health. Admiral Evans himself made application for rtilUl in a letter to the secretary. Secretary Metcalf also said that after due consideration of the mat ter of command of the ships after Admiral Evans' retirement it was practically settled that Rear Admiral Thomas would take command. Report has It that a pretty story Is attached to the trip of Admiral Evans , from the Atlantic to the Pa cific with the greatest armada ever assembled under one command for 'so long a voyage, Evans has for many months been an acute sufferer j from rheumatism and while nis ener at this time, the present reckoning Is mat target practice win be over April 6. - A few days will then be devoted to preparation for the cruise. Between Magdalena Bay and San Franclnco, no favors will be shown In the matter of the time of the fleets Slav at anv oort It la the Intention of those In charge to make all the atop possible and to even y divide the llmo of the tav. The lukewarrnnes shown by the east in tne prosrress or the fleet is so am: Ingly contrasted hy the Intense Interest show; on tlio Pacific coast that it haa limnled new life into every man Jack oh the fleet. Every scrap of informa tion that can be withered in retard to the preparation for the reception of tho ship's men Is devoured with an avidity sharpened by long days away irom aome. Jack knows that when he comes ashore there will be "something doing." but ho cannot even halfway reckon the extent of tho great petrlotlc feeling his coming has aroused end the Inspiration that has aiven birth to tne welcome that awaits him. - Pw TaTor n tsrls.il. Officers scoff at the stories of the defectiveness of the ships and declare that tne Keuteraam ana other charges are entirely disproved. Even to a lay man it would seem mat tuis were so. Everything appeared to be In fine shape on the arrival of the rieet; the guns worked like a charm In preliminary tar get practice, and the engines wera.never better. As to armor belts, there appars to become aivisiun or opinion, but sup- getiO nature militated against his porters of Reuterdahl represent a very leaving acuve Bcrriuo uc tiren iun well that the time had come for him to allow some other hand to grasp the helm of the flagship. However, the admiral had one last request to make of the department; he desired beyond all things that he live to guide the greatest navy his country ever possessed to Its destination in the Pacific. The request was granted and now the grim old warrior h.as showed to the world that he is a navigator of extraordinary merit as well as a fighter, he is willing to rest upon his laurels and live the few remaining years of his life In comfort ashore. AMERICAN SAILORS PLEASED BY WARM WELCOME TO COAST (United Press Leased Wire.) , Magdalen Bay. March 17. Unless or ders to the contrary are received and nothing unusual occurs the fleet will leave this harbor not later than April 10 and will be In Ban 'Diego harbor on Anril 18. Willis nothing definite can be given ' return to the ships. It in ndmitted thero are noma defects in construction, but these aro not con sidered -serious -.enough to have caused all the agitation that has been aroused. Inspection of every ship In the fleet by quaunea representatives or tne united Press association confirmed the state ments of Chief Executive Officer In gersoll as tp the condition of the ships. Measurements were taken and observa tion made and It was found that none of the ships lacked coal, none of the armor belts were submerged, none of the great guns was flooded during the cruise, none of the engines had broken down, In any particular, and that the personnel of the fleet fore and aft was better than that of any similar fleet ever assembled under any flag. ... Tina Health Bscord. ' The mortality record of the fleet, naval surgeons say, has never been equalled. The percentage of deaths is so remarkably low as to cause amaze ment. With approximately 16,000 men on the ships, denied the regular living that is the portion of the landsman, en countering every variety of climatic con- omons, suosisting in great measure on tinned goods, there were but five deaths from natural causes on the 88-dav iour- ney, one- death being due to violence. Two deaths a month in a city of 15,000 would be considered remarkable, but this percentage Is more fractlonless man mat on the great fleet of warships Which Is looked UDon as something at- 'most Incredible. wholesale desertions when the fleet arrives In San Francisco and even be fore are more than likely, and extra pre cautions will be taken when shore leaves are given to see that the boys ICHIG1 STUDENTS JAILED Rioters Will Not Be Allowed to .Pay Fines but Must Re main Behind Bars Until They Repent Assault Mayor and Insult Col lege, rrofessors. (United Press Lrssed Wire.) s Ann Arbor, Mich., March 17. So aroused are the citizens of Ann Arbor over the outbreak 'of a mob of Uni versity of Michigan students last night that the council, sitting in extra ses , nlon today, recommended that the po lice Judge who will try the students Hires ted deal out only jail sentences and that the alternative of paying a fine be revoked. ' Twenty-three students who had re mained In jail all night appeared In police court today, but were not tried until they can be Identified, each hav ing, given a fictitious name. Mean wli i le they will be held in jail without ball. , . Last night's outbreak was the most rious in me history of the university. Police and a company of firemen-called to Rid them were overpowered. Profes sors were hooted down, and when Mayor Henderson attempted to telephone to the governor to ak that the militia be ordered out he was yanked from the tel ephone booth ahd told to "beat It" j law Jillk i ill h imtssmmsi iVXmW,i'MaW.tm-Ttil III I H H 1 III I'.lll . . f-r (VW .4-Vt W41 mmmmmmsrt it n ah t'vt; :ot,uj.3Z II III 111 II 1 1 X JJLi;-fcofr.'f wj&ymx . j i ii Hit l vn.y- a - III ill Mil 1 ' ' I 111 1 ; : : : laimnnBi nninnr BOURNE'S SELF SATISFIEDSHILE" President Says Oregon Sena tor Offends 'kirn With Third Term Talk. FATHER VORKE T Of CITY GUES EMMA GOLDMAN S WHILE TRYING TO SPEAK (United Press lsed Wire.) - ' i, Chicago, March 17. Chicago anarch ists are incensed today and are making renewed threats against the colics be cause- their leader. Emma- Goldman, was unceremoniously hustled off the stage of ... Worklngmen's , hall by the officers last night when she attempted to ad dress an audience of S00 "reds." . .' The men, most of whom were mem bers of the'Edelstadt group of anarch lsts, had assembled In the hall; oaten- Goldman arose to speak. f About 10 o'clock Miss slbly for a dance. Friends. I be nf vmi i Vun i,l.f began the. "Queen , of the Reds."' That "mends, 1 beg o far as she got. Policemen seemed to spring up out' of the floor. Twenty-five n'afn clothes men and 45 uniformed officers burst into the hall and were sweeping toward the' stage be- tore toe audience refused what was,! najjiienins- 1 jmiss Aoiaman was 'put out of the hall and the crdwd slowly dis persed, muttering Imprecations, and threats against Chief Shippy's Dolioe- men.- . ' 1 - . (Washington Buresa of, Tbt Journsl.lv " Washington, March 17. Senator Bourne's second elective term bureau Is likely to end before it commences opera tions. Bourne has an immense amount of material 'collected in the shape of cuts for cartoons and stereotype plates of Roosevelt articles and antl-Taft ar guments, but it is doubtful If any of these will ever be used. Roosevelt is roported to have put quietus on the Bourne bureau and as naving saw: . "Jonathan Bourne Is the only man try ing to reflect on my honesty of motive. Coining here with his . self-saUsfled urn lie, no misjudged nis man ana sun Insists that I am to run for president" EFFORT- TO PROTECT AMERICAN BUFFALO (United Press Leased Wire.) Washington, March 17. In an effort to afford ' greater protection to the American bison which Is rapidly becom ing extinct, Senator Dixon today Intro duced a bill proposing the purchase of 20 square miles of land, now a part of the Flathead . Indian reservation in Montana.-, The American Bisbn society promises to place a herd of pure stock on the track for breeding purposes. The bill provides for an appropriation of 40,0u0, $30,000 to be paid the Indians as an indemnity, and $10,000 to be used in the construction . of a fence. The last, census showed 2,047 bison In ex istence, 1,720. of which are In captivity. COURT ADJOURNS IN HONpR, OF HAILEY " j '' , ,' J' , ' i i .',,1 ' ' -fOnlted' Press teased Wire.), . - Salem Or . Kinrch 1 T Th mnrtma court swll' adjourn tomorrow in" respect m me irarary ox on. x. u. tuaiey, Fine program Arranged for Ceremony at the Armory Tonight. Gaelic greetings, gay green colors and glorious weather all combined and which has had a tendency to make St Patrick's day of 1908 one long to be remembered, were the features of the celebration today of the feast of Ireland's patron saint not only among the sons of the emerald isle In Portland but the whole city, the state, the country and the world at large as well. Almost with the rising of the sun thU morning hundreds were out with the bit of green in the lapel of their coats In observance of the day. Before noon the number had Increased Into thousands with,,. the little bits of green and by night nearly every person on the streets was wearing green in one shade or an other to show their honor and respect to the memory of SI. Patrick. Solemn high mass was celebrated at St Patrick's churoh at 10 o'clock this morning, Rev. E. P. Murphy officiating, and being assisted by his grace. Most Reverend Archbishop Christie. There was also a musical program by the church choir, the feature of which was Marco's "First Mass in G," under the direction of Miss Stanton. Father o'Hara spoke at St Patrick's church soon after 9 o'clock on the mem ory of St. Patrick himself.. Mass "was also observed at St Francis' church on the easttslde. ri' ;. The Rev. Peter C. Torke arrived this morn Ing," and l -the guest of-4h 4tyT and the especial guest of Archbishop Christie. Father , Torke will be i the principal speaker at. the entertainment this evening at the Armory... This will really be n event, of the yetsr, and all who possibly can do' so are arranging to attend. - - . . - - ins Mia Shaky Condition of. Crossing Likely to ThroW It Into River. Contlnuedm Fag Ftur.J V Increasing uneasiness Is felt for the safety of the Madison street' bridge, which sometime ago was found by The Journal to be weak. The small tug Hoo Hoo, hardly more than a ' pleasure launch, is unable to reduce: the big log jam now extending from the east shore to the draw. The Jam is receiving addi tions to its weight and. bulk every few moments, and is ' arrowlne srraduallv. Commissioner Lightner so far has been una Die to- secure, experienced loggers to break the. jam, but hopes to get tiddl tlonal help before the afternoon, is over. Weather Forecaster Beata svh the flood waters will. rise but siichtlv dur ing the next 21 hours, after which tliev will begin to subside: Some of the larger tributary streams are already falling, k. It la expected the rise in the lower stream will run out before the crest of tho flood from Albany arrives, so there i will be no danger of abnor mally high water at Portland. Uk is expected also that relief will come from the Columbia river. The nigh, water in that stream haa not yet reached the lower river. When the wa ters at the mouth of the Willamette be gin to Tle the current in the Wlllam ete .river at Portland will be reduced and the danger to the bridges and 'traf fic will be materially relieved, -r "It has been very difficult to get the right kind of men for the work of clearing away the Jam at the Madison bridge," said Mr. Lightner this morn-1 in?. . I uelleve tna lnmnn. Foulsen Co, should have come to our assistance before this with their force of tugs and able loggers. They have a gang at the Ull milt that could p short , time with the appliances they those logs out in a The logs belong to them have at hand. in lar;o part. rit-cannot- now be- fletermiiweVrwhen-l the bridge .will be, open or streetcar traffic. As the result of the tug Sam son drifting against the. west end of the bridge yesterday about noon vthe'' west end fails" about five Inches of being flush with the draw. The twisting of the r structure at various points, has (Continue' on Page Seven.) ; IS IlY A GASBAG Rev. Father Peter C. Yorkc Declares Graft Prosecu tion Has Tired San Fran cisco and Accomplished Nothing. Defends Action of State Su preme Court in Schmitz Case No Other Course for Justices to Pursue and Meets Peoples Approval. FOREIGNERS THREATENED BY HAYTIAHS Arrival of Battleships atPort ? Au Prince Starts Trmihln Among Blacks Meager News of Outbreak Is Re ceived at London. 4 Three similes used by Father Peter C. Yorke of Ban Francisco to express the 8an Francisco graft lnvestiga tions: The movement Is like the mule In that It has no pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. It is like the mountain that was la labor and brought forth a mouse What, is in this graft prosecution? It Is also what Is left In the balloon after it has been punctured a puff of hot air. Father Torke, the witty 'California priest and champion of the rights of labor, arrived In lrtland this morning, and in characteristic fashion expressed hia opinion of the' Schmitz and Ruef prosecutions in San Francisco, of Spe cial Prosecutor Francis J. Heney, of graft prosecutions in general and of various members or tne California bench. First and foremo Father Yorke la not a personal admirer of Francis J. Heney, "Oregon's vigorous prosecutor." Hi' hinted tnls mornitiK tiiat Heney might belong; in Oregon, not California, and that the people of the Golden state would not be greatly porturbed If there wre any prospect of tits being; recalled home. 'In addition he cnys that the most manly and dignified figure in all the graft Investigation and prosecution throughout has bten that ot ex-Mayor ffehmltz. For Abe Rut-f Father Yorke has ft contempt to express which would bankrupt the vocabulary of any but this resourceful Irishman. Two Much Agitation. "If tomorrow the whole graft and anti-graft would disappear from San Franclsqp tlicro would be' no effect made unon the city. That is the only Wav in which I can express the lnconsf- quentlalness of the whole proceeding. The movement is like the mule -it hos no pride of ancestry nor hope of pos terity, it is puruly extraneous not organic." He declared that so far as results wore concerned they would be like the mountain which was In labor and brought forth a ridiculous mouse. The movement had begun for purely poten tial reasons without any desire to bet ter the town morally or noclaIly. "I am very much surprised that the recent developments In the graft prose cution have mit reached Portland. Tho principals are now engaged in firing affidavits at one -another weighing from 60,000 to 80,000 words," said Father York. ' "The latest thing is that two very respectable Jewish rabbis have been brought into the question. Two rabbis. lUbbl Neito and Rabbi Kaplan, men whose standing in those parts are of the highest and 1'ing established, have made affidavit that Special Prose cutor Heney has declared to be rank perjury. He Intends to have them in dicted by a grand Jury. "Judge Dunne has also said of these reverend gentlemen that they we're ly ing boldfacedly to save their coreligion ist. So you mny imagine what a pretty mess there is in It now, especially as Abe Ruef is presenting almost every day a new affidavit giving the details of his life in the private jail and the man euvers of the graft prosecution to ob tain from him just that kind of testi mony -which would servo their purpose. "The bar of California, almost unan Imnuslv. and the vast majority of the people of California uphold the decis ion of the supreme court In' the Sohmltr case and resent bitterly the at tacks made upon the members of the War Vessel Fires Salute to Flag and Sound of Guns Arouses Naitves Offi cials of Hayti Angry at Powers for Sending Boats. (United Prtt Lrtiied Wirt.) London, March 17. A cablegram, to the foreign office received late this afternoon from the British con sul at Port Au Prince says that an anti-foreign outbreak has been started by the blacks. No details are given but the trouble is sup posed to have been precipitated by the. arrival of foxelea warships. (Continued on Page Four.) Port Au Prince, Hayti, March 17; Late this afternoon it was re ported that there was considerable dissatisfaction among the officials, of the Haytlan government over tho arrival of the warships. The .dem onstration is counted on to stir up much feeling among the blacks. All seems quiet at all of the legations except the French. Here the fear of ., a general massacre Is kept burning by the Insurrectionists housed there. An attempt to land marines from the French cruiser d'Estress upoa her arrival will be certain to pro voke trouble. . Last night when the Indefatigable arrived Bhe fired a salute to the Hay- tian flag. The sound of the firing was taken to indicate trouble and for half an hour there was a state of nnnlfl In CI 1 1 Vl A 1 t(X VkTt Oftfl ''V,. aUlV iU Ota bUO a9 MUVft fa u. . cipal streets. ' , v earing Crisis. , , Hayti is hovering on the brink of a crisis with France. - , , T,he administration of President Nord Alexis is resting on its arms until the arrival here of tho French crulsor D'Estrees. ' , - v No Interference will be brooked. '.-An attempt by the French commander to ; take a hand in the game of intrigue and revolt now being flayed here will bt certain to result an trouble. v, Americans and American interests are believed to be In no danger, but so . acuta has the situation- become from u diplomatic standpoint that Washington officials have ordered the cruiser ixs Moines, now at Guantanamo, , to pro- f ceed here at top speed. The United States funboat Eagle is now en rout ' here and iS expected to arrive today. ' Unbiased reports indicate today that while ueneral Lecont, the newly ap pointed minister of the interior, re- . sorted to drastic measures on Sunday, when he-authorized the shooting of ?i t 1 conspirators, he was in a measure jus tified by conditions.' Hatched Hew Plot. President Alexis, in the interests of peace, had offered freedom r to all tliej known conspirators against his govern ment, provided they would ; leave tho country quietly. The refugees were or dered to rendeavoua a the. French con- sulate. While there, those being de ported hatched a fresh ' plot for the overthrow of the Alexis government. General leconte caught tho consplra tors red-handed and dealt summarily with them. - General Firmin. who hatched the iIof. escaped Leeonte's men's rifles and in now believed to be, hiding in the French consulate. If it can be proved that i la there his surrender will be demand- (Continued on Page Seven.) FEDERATION'S STAND . MAY BE FAVORABLE TO BRYAN'S CAUSE (United Press Leued Wire.) . ' Washington, March 1?. WTiether tho stamp of approval will be placed offi cially upon William Jennings Bryan by the-. Amsrioan.-Faderfttlun-o-ljftbof- in event of his being a prudential candi date against William K. Tart la said to be the real object back of a meetinit here tomorrow of the executive, officer of the federation and delegates from all ine international unions. ostensibly the only objects to be con sidered r ar ways End means of relief from the recent and probably future ad verse decisions of ft tmprsm" emirt. It Is a tact, however, tht Mr, Iny.ui It looked upon by many member of tho -means" and it U ! th.it ... the present meeting a number of pr-jj.". slttoTia will be put to the yb'n : . . Which be will be stsncl to ii.i - , self. If his stand i (avnriti.1., i. doubtless rpcejvu the rtf,r-. 1 the federation which wtu i-n.f- Irrevocably oppose! to ft, ! the latter munula nn i i For f'0 lty ih i" umft ' Of the A. F. nf U t,t"t l..;t 5 ; with I'retit'ituit tloinn i .