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5TT 9 JOURNAL WANT ADS BRLXQ THE BLST KLSULTS JOURNAL: CIRCULATION REAL ESTATE FOR SALE? ; ADVERTISE IX THE JOURNAL riSTEIlDAT WAS The Weather Showers tonight or, Tuesday; westerly winds. - VOL. VII, NO. 10, , . PORTLAND, - OREGON, MONDAY; EVENINO, -MARCH 80,- 10OSV-FOURTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. ; tZtStFlAV l 350 ZD mwm I i I I l r 1 U w i v va .1 -i v x .' '. , t i v x ' i i i i I I y I I 1 1 I . ....... At ... . 1 ....... . . ' , T ! ' . ' . I ...... ... . .." '. i 1 . ' ' 11 fZZLE OF GUN BLOWS TO PIECES Accident on Board Battle y ship Missouri During Tar V get PracticeNo Member J of Crew Hurt Inquiry -Ordered. i First Accident Since Fleet 1 1 Left Atlantic SideCause :! of Explosion Not Made i;" Known Wireless Makes if. Report. if ' (United Prttt Letted Wire.) Washington, March 30. A mes- l sage receked at the navy department ; from Magdalena Bay today states : that the muzzle of a six-inch broad side gun on the battleship Missouri blew out while at target practice on Saturday, tearing away one halt of the gun. ' The members of the gun crew es caped without injury. The oause of the accident is not given. A board of inquiry has been ordered to make kn investigation. ' V This la the first accident of a se rious nature that has occurred on any of the ships of Evans' fleet since they sailed away from Hampton Roads last December and while It is re gretted that the wonderful record made on the long voyage should have been marred, department officials are rejoicing over the fact that no body was Injured, FOR VETERANS OF Tiir niifiihr nun f H I.AillXr HAH mil uniuuL unit Hawley Gets Favorable Ee- ' port on Bill to Allow $$ 4 m t! ifri.ou per mem. j ' (WAiblnftoo Barea of Th Joarnil.) tlve Hawley of Oregon, got a favor able report today of hla bill to pay certain volunteers In the Cayu-e Indian .V of 1847 and 1848. $1.50 a day for me im in-y .orvru,' u inuwD in the files of the war department The maximum appropriated by the bill la Jl,600 - Beneficiaries of. the bill are ohn Minto, Charles Bolds, Ellen Hackett .widow of John C. Haokett; Missouri A. Cornelius, widow of Thomas (X Cornelius: Mary J. Kei-ur, widow of John a. Keisur: Amanaa k. Keese, widow of Wllllard K. Reese; Mary H. Carnahan, widow of Hiram Carnanan; Polly C. Bautler, widow of Isaac Baut ler and Sarah EJ. Schantz, widow of v C. Schanta. "NO.ONE.TO LOVE ME, ; ; NONE TO CARESS " 1 p V ffWTItlWl' COM! Theory of Officers Is That O.A.Bailey Was Killed by Ex-Employe of the Wells Fargo Express Company L'ovard for Capture. Believe 3Iurdered 3fan Was Struck Down by Ac quaintance Whom He Be friended and Allowed to Bide in Car. W DYiU Ten Thousand ; Dollars Of fered for Arrest of Man Who Blew Up Home of Bulkley Wells at Pandora Last Saturday. . (United PrM Leued Wirt.) Denver, Col., March 80. A reward Cf $10,000 was offered for the capture and conviction of the persons guilty of dynamiting? the home of General Bulkley Wells last Saturday morning, It Is believed that the money Is being put up by the wealthy members of the Mlneowners' association, who fear similar fates. Members of the Western Federation of Miners soout the theory that the dynamiting was done- by members of ineir organisation ana attriDuce it 10 we us' personal enemies. GEKMAN EEP0BTEBS' STRIKE IS ENDED LILLFY CALLS FOR-THE BOOKS Congressman Bequests Ex- ; pert to Decide Charges Against Submarine do. (United Prats Leed Wlre.l Washington, March 80. When the congressional investigation of charges against the Electric Boat company is jesumed tomorrow, Representative Lil le y will demand, the . right to put ex pert accountants on the books of the accused concarn. ; s Durlnsr the past week various sub committees' have been "engaged 'In ex amining the letters and papers bear ing on tne inveBugaiioo ana wnicq cur iihmftted bv the navy deDart- Sment. It,ls thought they will be ready J to report ' when the hearing is resumed: I T'i'resentatlve Lllley charges that the Jectrio Boat company (UBjd Improper fiiethods In influencing legislation Xav orable to it. : ,'. ' Postoffice Lost $800. -" (Spec!l Dlwatcb to Tbs 4oaratt.) : Aberdeen, Wash., March" 80. It has been found that the men who robbed the postoffice here last Monday night got away with over $800, instead of $600, s at first DBiievea. - morning ox im po to the (K. It-l believed that some Information of value !s bean aiscoverea oy ia aeiac- ortance has been given, out in regard progress- maae in rini on track of . the burglars, nut it is (United Pres Leased Wire.) Berlin. March $0. Chancellor Prince Von Bulow has settled the "reporters' strike" In th German relchstag. Herr Groeber has said he was sorry he called the press representatives "wine" and everybody except Herr Groeber. is satisfied. Chancellor Von Bulow's colonial speecn was all ready and he wanted to make H without loss of- time. He carea a good deal more, however, about having the country know what he said man ne aia xor tne relchstag' s . views. do no Drought au kinds of pressure io oear on centrist jueaaer uroeoer to force an apology to the press and the latter finally succumbed. The apology Was rend, the nswananr . mctn rAnnrtAri ii saiiaiaccoriiy ana me reporters re turned to work. LEGACY MIGHT BEVEAL DEGENERACY (United ?nu Leased Wirt.) Paris, March 30. The French acad emy has turned down the $20,000 leg acy left In the will of Miss LeClere, a New York woman of French parentage, who specified that the money was to be devoted to the ' morallsation of the women of the French streets. The reason assigned by the. academy officials of this is that the acceptance of the money would be the. acknowl edgment of the existence of a national outrage and condition of degeneracy. (United Prats Ltat Wirt.) Kansas City, Mo., March 30. Of ficers today visited the home of O. A. Bailey, the Wells-Fargo express mes senger who was murdered In his car on the Santa Fe train No. 15 yester day when the train was near New ton, Kansas. They sought from the murdered man's bride a list of his railroad acquaintances who are now out of employment. Bailey was. cut down with a hatchet and about $1,000 stolen from the company's safe. ' JTJhe officers are. conjrtnce4.that the muraer oi me messenger, wno was AnarCHISl iieriiDian V V 111 J5e I of the express safe was the work of Taken to Bedside of Dying a "ro mn' m0E than probably v o n.iKMMnnsr nvlnr tn rha Tamil. Crank Bingham Is De- iarity of the man who did the job with the safes, keys and markings of the pacckages. Nothing in the car or the safes was disturbed except the money and jewelry packages. The officers are convinced that Bailey was befriending some ac- f . i 1 1 t . f LI .f - 1 LI. (United Pratt Letted Wirt.) quainiance vy ieiiiuS uim nuw iu uid New Toric March so.Foiiowin the car ana mat tne miter wnen tne mes- arrest of Alexander Berkman today, the senger s oacK was turned, nit mm In the head with tne messenger s own hatchet, took the safe keys from the dead man's pocket, and after effecting the robbery leaped from the train at Newton. The officials refuse to state what the robbery amounted to but it is believed the sum was large. A reward of $1,000 has been offered for the capture of the murderer. PAYS PENALTY FOR HIS HEARTLESS DEED Paul Morton Says Invest ments of Company Are Made Where Insurance Is Placed Oregon Reserves Amount to $1,500,000. Chester Gillette Electrocuted at Auburn Prison Sad Life Story of Grace Brown, dered by Young Fiend Ilarriman Lines Not Likely to Immediately Resume (toast Work, He Says Country Improves Rapidly rom Recent Panic. HER A WIffl Paul Morton, president of the Eault- TVim T ifa nf (Ivnoa Mvnxxm able Life association. 1. In Portia to -"" "l m learn what he can about the city and and Incidents That Led tO siaie as a neld for the life Insurance business, and for the investment of lier Meeting' Willi (ill cTrg to"th,yponcy follow by" ht.1 lette-Tlie Murder Story concern. He Is reorganizing the Eqult- i nnil uhl.'a Pnrll.n n, i I 111 -LTClaj.1. - . ...... u m-j t wtu win in crease Its forces and Inject fresh stimu lus to keep pace with the growth of the city and state. . mj. Morton, arrived this morning on belated. Southern Paclllc train from clared by Reds to Be an Enemy. New York police expect to fasten the responsibility for Saturday's bomb out rage on New York anarchists. Berkman is the man who served 16 years In the Pennsylvania prison for his attempt to assassinate Henry C. Frlck, the steel magnate, and who later at tained Ditlonal notoriety as the com mon,, law husband of Emma Goldman. He Is now editing an anarchist news paper tn New York. Berkman will be taken before Silver stein, the young man who threw the bomb Saturday, and whose death was reported Dy tne Beuevue nospltal offi cials. The man Is still alive today, though totally blind, minus one arm. one toot, and with his body so full of fragments of the bomb that the doctors sy he cannot live. It Is hoped that Sllversteln will be able to Identify Berk man Dy tne latters voice. A card on tne corno tnrowers person bore Berk man's name and it la the theory of the ponce mat tne youtn received his Inspl ration ror esaturaavs act from the an. arnhtat leadar. 1 Today the anarchists and socialists are clamoring for the resignation of commissioner ttinvnam. Thev insist Saturday's trouble was the result of an attemttt bv tne Douce to aDDlv St. Pe tersburg tactics to New York men. Vio lent speeches in hair a dozen balls yes. terday denounced the -attempt to stifle rree speecn,. ana declarations were )srd on every side that, a renetltlon of uenerai ingr.;im s tactics or Saturday wouia result in . runner oiooasnea. ARC NEW FEAR FOR KAISER'S HEALTH (United PrtM Letted Wire.) . Berlin, March 80. New fear that the kaiser Is suffering from the recurrence of the throat malady la being; entertained because of the elaborate preparations that have been made for bis stay at uorru. . ..- The latest trio to the Mediterranean taken by the German ruler was ordered by his physician, who. it was renorted at the time, told htm that his throat trouble was caused by a cancer. Whether or not th same trouble has recurred is not publicly Known, but It Is a fact that his physicians advised mm to mane an extended trip. "S PROTEST : DOESN'T WEIGH LIKE OF DE SAG AN (Calttd Pwes Leased Wlraj Ktw York. March SO. Manama Annn Gould, will, it is positively stated to day, defy her, brother George Gould's advice and marry Prince De Sagan within a month, . either . ln New York or Paris.- She' wlU ' give 'her brother three days . in which to sanction the marriage. If be sanctions It the Wed- 1 dins will eour- lnNsw Torfc- ,I ;ba -V withholds hie; approval the ceremony will be performed abroad. Prince De Sagan and Mme. Gould dined together at the Hotel Gotham last evening, and the prince appeared to be wholly unaffected . by the cable dls- atch from Europe saying ' that the arquls De Castellane, father of Count Boni, had called him a reckless prodigal,-already $6,000,000 in debt and ad ding, that the door of every honest man ' in France' .was him. - closed against TS1ST LEAVE COUNTRY Bureau of Immigration a Los Angeles Prepares to Deport Undesirables. PVmiy r.. lill Dramatic as well as pathetic 4 story unfolded In Gillette -mur- 4 der trial machinations of the dr boy With tho green eyes. Paul Morton, Who Is Visiting Port- land. (United Frets Letted Wire.) Lot Angeles, Cal., March SO. Foreign born prisoners In Jail In Los Angeles are today facing deportation. H, Clendennlng, a representative of the bureau of immigration. Is here conduct ing an investigation which Is under stood to be part of a vast national movement to clean out the Reds. The government la known to havn changed Its idea radically within a short time in regard to anarchists, and.lt Is the understanding that the worst types of this element In the local Jan will oe aeportea. .. California Pioneer Dead. ;: (United Press Leased Wire.) San Francisco,. March SO David Oliver, one of the eldest ..Pioneers ,f aiuornia, vwjio. arnvea in Ban irran gleco, JuiyrlJ, is4, is dead at a private mayiia in uaaiana, agea v years. PENNSY. DISCHARGES FOREIGN LABORERS 1 mmmimM. PltUburg. Pa- March SO An . 4 order Issued by the Pennsyl- e '.vanla railroad to discharge all . foreigners and employ none but 4 4 American cltlsens la the future naa caused a . stir here. The , order affects only laborers, as e the office forces : and the me- chanical k departments have al- ready been filled exclusively by ' 4 4 . English speaking people., . . 4 , ; Tha : - Pennsylvania ,r' system, , 'when operating to Its full ca-.: ? pacity. employs about 110,000 4 ; persons. '!. , '.tB ...M.Ji. .. -, .J.T...i , . 4 Ban tranclsco. it was 10:30 o'clock wnrn no nnisnea oreakiast at the Port land hotel, and by tliat time a score of men were waiting to see the head of " oi ine worm s largest financial ut tiiuuuuni. Business ilea Tialt Presldsnt. a committee headed by T. B. Wilcox, and Including Tom Richardson and J. Ainswortn, invited him to take luiiuiieun ai mo Arlington ciuD and dine at the Commercial club. He accepted both Invitations. At 1 o'clock this aiiernoon ne met nut a dosen friends pf Mr. Wilcox at the Arlington club and took part In an informal discussion of the financial situation, and other mat ters more personal and social. This evening at the Commercial club he will be the guest of honor at a larger function, and will meet the busi ness men generally and hear what they think about Portland and Oregon as an Industrial and development proposition. . iaikcu ht -xiie journal to ivinnrm a report to the effect that the Equitable will invest a large amount of money durinir the next lew years In Oroirnn securities, ne said: , Flans fox. Investment, "The Dollcv Jf the Eaultabla U tn In. vest Its money where the insurance Is placed., .. Our total reserves Irr OreroU amount Bow to approximately $1,600,00, and our total Investments tin the state approximate tho same amount. In other Grace Brown lived 20 years, and the world beyond her own narrow circle. had not the slightest Interest In her ex istence. No words could exaggerate this Indifference. Grace Brown lived 20 years, a far mer's daughter who became a worker In a little factory town, one of 0 or 70 girls In one of the many thousands of factories. Among- the millions of humble workers who earn their breud by their hands, none was more obscure than she. Grace Brown died. The world that cared nothing about her living became concerned In her death, or rather in the manner of it. Had she died from what the law la nleased to cull naturaPcauses the world would have been as Indiffer ent to her dying as it was to her living. But she was believed to hnve been mur dered; wherefore, the world took cog nisance of it. Newspapers of large circulation nave found that murder has commercial value when exnloited at news. These printed much about h death of the young girL. The law and the reporters, moving swiftly, had disclosed to the world that Grace Brown had a sweet heart a man with little green eyes Chester Gillette, who had lived some 2S obscure, unimportant years.- who was placed under arrest, charged with mur dering her. It was spread broadcast that the girl was facing the deepest dis grace she could have endured. A XiOto Somanee. In the Herkimer courtroom, before a atiMaHim.klnff erswd, was read a love romance, such as the world has not known In a thousand years, because the reatest love romances are ounea n i CONFESSES HIS CUE On Eve of Execution the "Boy With the Green Eyes" Admits, Haying Murdered His Former Sweetheart. (United Press Letted Wire.) - Auburn, N. T'., March 30. Chester Gillette, the young slayer of, Grace . Brown, the sweetheart whom he be trayed and deserted, paid tfc penalty i of his act in the death chamber at the state prison here this morning. , Almost with his last breath the) boy confessed to the Rev. Henry Mc Illvarey, his spiritual advisor, and to Prison Chaplain Herrlck that ' he was guilty of the crime. Rev. Mclllravey refused . to . give the details of the confession which was an oral one, but he admitted that It bore out practically every contention of the prosecution during Hie trial. ,! As the youtn rat strapped in the chair he callod tl-e Rev. Mclllravey to his side, and the executioners steppel back. . v . "Tell mother I am prepared to meet my God." he said In a calm voice. "And that not a stable art now stands b' tween me and him. Tell her I hava'no ; hard feelings against anyone, but am omy inieo witn sorrow ror the pain. (Continued on Page Two.) S reatest love romances are uuneu n earts of those who live them. The love of Juliet, of Helolse, of Gulnevlre, of Francesca cannot move one as do the letters of a K'rl or zu, tn ," daughter, who became a factory worker, who knew nothing of the world save what she read in books In the letters the girl bared her soul to the Little Green Eyas, thinking only they would ever se them, the LUtle Green Eyes that looked upon her unmoved bv pity when she drowned before them; letters that are like to go sounding through ik. iit.i at inn? as women shall love and men shall have hearts to feel. That you may neiier unurBinni hub j,o.o in ih humblest setlinx ever elven a areat tragedy, let me give a few , essential facts with this warning: ir rou are ReeKlng a taie mat can nxcue a o.hi. imnirfnntion into moral platitudes. h .inn- nf Rnto Brown is not for you. Thre be voung girls, wearied of the hard, starved life of the farm, who seek ih. rift to earn a better llvlnsr. who are enamoured of the life there, and In the feeling of new-found Independence, forxet the stricter, sterner virtues. Grace Brown was of different stuff. Brown's Simple Xome. , If you seek the country over for one Of those homes that are the backbone of these United States, you will hardly (Continued on Page Four.) BATTLESHIPS FORSIOSDOOWAGER; ILLINOIS TARS WIN (United Press Lei Wire.) -Winsted, Conn.. March 80-A race be tween the battleships Illinois and In diana, with $ 10.000 wagered by the two crews on the result, occurred off the Lower California coast while the two ships were steaming along that shore, according to a. letter written by Edward iicveign, a -mem Der or tne crew or the Ulnola. to his brother. Joseph of Man- cheater., . ... J . - .. v .ai me ena ox me contest, wnian was three . mile event, the Illinois was ahead of her rival by a narrow margin. uisreoy winning ins Dig Dei. r The rivalry between the crews of the Indiana and the Minnesota led ' to the race. . While the Minnesota and Indiana were v steaming along "the east coast of South America a race was started be tween them and the Indiana won. - The crew of the latter ship immediately an nounced that i it was the champion of the fleet, v.-, - ' v . vk. t.-.- The ' boys of " the ? IlHnoIs, " confident that their battleship could outclass the Indiana. In a speed contest, challenged it and $10,000 was wagered by both sides, with the result that the Illinois anguish and sorrow I have brought' upon her and others. Good bye.1 ---- Gillette entered the death 'house at 6:12 a. m. His face was ashen,-but be " oliowed no sign of emotion and walked . uuuBMiw 10 too cnair, settling down In -a comfortable posture with Just the faintest trace of a sigh of relief. - ows Xla Head.;.. : .v- f ". He was attended by two elerrymen, and after the preliminaries had been arranged Chaplain Herrlck recited the Twenty-third Psalm. Glllette-sat quietly With bowed hnA anH m ttm n ' elusion made his statement to the Rev. Mclllravey. The cap was adjusted. Thi switch was turned and a seven and a ' half amnftra nirnnt t t caa t.- v1lt JT wa-a. v nvuus. my one contact was made, and at :20 Prison Physician Gerlh pronounced the boy dead. During the execuUon the father.' mother, two sisters and a brother of Gillette were waiting at the Salvation ' Army headquarters.. When informed that it was all over, Mrs. Gillette, who has spent months in a vain endeavor to save her son. uttered a sharp cry and ' .forward in her husbands arms in a State of comoleta - enllanaa u- dltlon is critical and she Is today In the FollOWlno- an offinial -nnmt the body of the executed youth will be tuJ?.f,d?ver t0 hJm Prent 'or burial. - Gillette passed a calm nivht in yersaUon with his sulrltual advisers and In the preparation of a statement whloa was Siven out by th nrlann ro 1- day. It reads: Yalley of Death, . J 'I am entering the shadow of 5 the' valley of death,' and It is my desire to do everything to remove the slightest deubt .of my finding Christ1 f My one ?2: sr. in mis saa moment Is that I diri life oould ments left me that would draw youn men to him. I would deem It the rrait- vrei in tnis saa moment Is that I ""A,1? him preeminence Jn my while I had the opportunity. If i only say something In these few est orivueae ever arranfa in rnhd1C amTnsf &?i vlotory0;.''0- M',k:.i-,one,my atLna.flle,alw ,'n"1 tatement was given out by the Rev. Mclllravey Mfowr ' P Hrr1?lt which was h-ialJ'S" reltIon with Chester Gillette, we deem , it un wise to make any deUUed statement t what we- learned' fromour talks . with him. but we simply wish to say for the benent of the public mind, that no legal ' mistake was imad in the carry in x out of the ends of JusUce." "y oul And so ends the pitiful tragedy of a pallid, cowering youth, and a- slnmle iVwtrr.v1f.1 who. ,0T"d unwisely t ut Wiih.pt.ht,. eonstancy a story in r U life that might, have corne from te Imaginative pen of a Hawthorne. ' The story or the miir., Br.'?w?' ?p B'm ''Brown, her M n 1 called her,; by Chester OHlatt-. f. lonely Btg Moose lake, under th- tio. lnf,PnJl". ef. the AClrondacks. wa tu..l ' coldblooded.. Oanmtex of fanner. The. dauarhter nf a ... -BUlie" ABrown tired of tt i of country routine, and went j c (Continued on Ti I r 1 7f it.