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THE JOURNAL'S REPORT OF TijE DENVER CONVENTION WAS SO EXCELLENT, SO FULL, SO COMPLETE THAT ITS ESTEEMED CONTEMPORARY, THE EVENING TELA WAS CONVINCED OF IT, AS SHOWN BY THg QUESTION IT PROPOUNDED TO ITS REAPERS'IN ITS ISSUE OF YESTERDAY, AS FOLLOWS: 'HASN T THE TELA- MADE GOOD ITS PORMISE TO.GIVE THE BEST REPORT OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION?' IF IT HADN'T HONEST DOUBTS ABOUT IT, IT WOULDNOT BE ASKING ANY FOOL , QUESTIONS.- RESULTS JOURNAL CIRCULATION From Journal wants. Call early with your d for tomorrow' Journal. YESTERDAY WAS 30,525 Th weather Fair tonight and Sunday, continued warm. VOL. VII. NO. 108. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1908 TWO SECTIONS 18 PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. 8 "V c 5H 11 ..." .. . . CONFESSES 10 THEFTS Woman Used as Lure in Mcr chants Hotel Bobberies Admits She Planned How Guests Were to Jie Sj'stem- atically Fleeced. Admissions by Irene Boas, wif of til bellboy at the Merchants hotel, ma.de In the district attorney's office this morning show that an organized gwng of thieves has been carrying on a systematic soheme of robbery there for days. Will Coffer, a dishwasher, and John Boss, the bellboy, have been arrested on . a charge of robbing- Patrick Joyce on the strength of Mrs. Ross' confession. The niffht clerk, WllUs Horton, and tha proprietors, William Webar and son, William Weber Jr. of the hotel have not been implicated as yet in the rob beries, but they are under suspicion and will have to explain several peonllar ciroumstances. The rtlma.1 tn the situation hannenad this morning' when Patricia Kstejlall a 1'orto wean laoorer, was assaulted ny Horton with a stick or wood while ne was lvlna- In Mrs. Ross' room, where he had been enticed by that woman, on her own admission, after she and her hus band had agrd to rob him. She planned Bobbery. The -woman was the decoy. She does not deny that her husband took 125 from the Porto Riean. nor docs she ad mlt taking it herself, but she confesses to Dlanninir the robherv. After luring Estella to the room she ran down to tell Horton, the night clerk, that a man had gotten In ' and refused to leave. Horton then rushed up and with a stick of stove wood bat tered the laborer about the head. Estella ran out covered with blood and met Officer Tennant, who patrols that beat. The officer arrested Horton and Mrs. Ross this morning at 6:30 and brought them and Estella to the sta tion. It Is supposed that Ross took the money from Estella while his wife ran down for the night clerk. Hush Money passed. The most damaging part of the wo man's confession, however. Is that part j In which she says that uorrer robbed Patrick Joyce. the aged gardener. Thursday night and that her husband met Coffer in the hall coming from Joyce's room and made the dish washer divide with him to keep quiet. Horton's part in this affair is still unsatisfactor ily explained.- When Joyce "ran to the stairway In pursuit of the thief he found the night clerk and Rossi together with his trous ers between them. Eightv dollars was me amount reapea by tins roDnery. uerore Being- orougnt up to OF FOND WORDS FOR JOE FROM GRITZY MAKE GUESSING MATCH OF. COP CASE m ," iM " 1 - 1 1 ',, 1 .,, ' hi I 1 r - rT " :i - "v - ' 1 -" fs .v y . ; ' v ; - - - -i,M,rnmn nil.. - I nH.s J . n SMSMMt. . I II I 1 1 ST I J .1 I Mill T"- ! ' , IT 17 TT T!Sar Tt FT TTsa s?tj TT n TT tt ft eztts .itzs rr mi tuts- w nom. HUSH FUND. JOflNW AID A - WATER DEAL Joe Day, Tom Greene and Chief Gritzraachcr, principals in that clever little municipal farc entitled, "He loves me, he loves me not," or that's what a daisy said. BRYAN TO Kill HIS CHAIRMAN Will Act Next Week Siarns point to At wood Sul livan to Visit. the dis trict attorneys office Irene Ross was subjected to a grilling by Detectives Tichenor and Jnes and from the result of their investigation the detectives think the woman has been used as a lure tn more cases than one. The couple have only been in the employ of the Merchants hotel for the past week according to the statement of the younger Weber, one of the proprietors. The police say that Ross came into Tortland on the brake beams of a freight car only three weeks ago. Weber Questioned. William Weber Jr. was sharply ques tioned by District Attorney Cameron at the police station this morning but would not admit having any information rs to who is guilty of the robberies that have been pulled off with such sur prising frequency of late. He said he dirt not Deiieve his night clerk had any thing- to do with any of the tbefts and would voucn ror his honesty. He want ed to have the police believe that the ronnenei were made hy sneak thieves outside of the hotel force. The police force and the detectives are (Continued on Page Two.) IGXORED CItAXCES TO MAKE FORTUNE Tim 0"Ncll, one of Portland s pioneers, went to the county poor farm yesterday, overbur dened with weight of years and vicissitudes of" fortune. In his younger years he could have gained grreat wealth had he real lied the future value of real es tate. He tells of an offer 'made to sell him a lot at the corner of Fifth and Burnslde streets for 1100. That was In the '60's. O'Nell, like most of the others of that day, rould see no money In the proposition, and he refused to buy. - Nrw, became he fined Ki buy either this or some other "dirt rheap" property, he must depend on the- charity of the great county that he has seen stow from a small beginning to Its present wealth and power. CTNell came to Portland In Uej. That was 10 years after his an-lral In America from Ireland. He lacked educational advantages la his earlr years, and to this fact tie attributes his life failure. (Hrt New by Lonseat X A1 tine A Wire.) Denver, July 11. William J. Bryan in to pick his own campaign manager for his third campaign for the presi dency. The national committee has de cided to put the whole matter up to the candidate, and the members will make a pilgrimage to Lincoln next week to receive his instructions. The visit to Mr. Bryan will be made Tuesdav morning, tho committee leaving Den ver .Monday night. The data was fixed ny Mr. Hryan hlmseir and communi cated to the committee by his brother, Charles W. Bryan, at the meeting yes terday afternoon. Apparently Mr. Bryan desired the Irtervening three days to think --tha matter over ami cast ubout for a man who will fulfill his requirements as t-nmpnign manager. At eny rate, he kept two score of natlohiil committee men waiting to an anteroom at Denver when they wanted to scatter to their homes. ,. Pending Mr. Bryan's decision the committee reelected the old officers temporarily: Thomas TagKart, chair man; urey Woodson, secretary, and W. xi. u linen, treasurer. inure was no onnosition in tho rnm. imicpe io ie.nvinir ine selection of a cnairmnn-to Mr. Bryan. His own friends were enthusiastically, for such an ar rangement and those who did not like it thought as he ran the convention he might as well go through the whole ousiness and run the camiylgn.. When Sulliyan Sleets Bryan. It will be a touching sight when Sul livan nnu wminm j. meet on the lawn at Falrview. As Mr. Bryan will be the iioki. naiurauy ne will not have a per rectiv good brickbat concealed in his left hand when he extends th rlaht to Sullivan. And then, as Roaer will be a guest, u wouia pe considered un ethical for him to have a knife up his sleeve But It will be worth the price of admission to hear their conversation. The last fight the public remembers be tween them was of the long distance variety. The, warmest friends of the Nebras kan rire talking- stronplv In favor of "Atwof.d." and it fs taken for granted by the conservatives that there would not be such a boom unless thev had heard from Lincoln. Atwood Is one of Mr. Bryan's Intimates and Is reckoned one of the shrewdest members of the committee. The conservative members of the committee would- like to have Crev Woodson. . He- is. a Bryan man. all right, but he Is a conservative, too Three Sides of Question That Is Not Yet Satisfac torily Answered. Has Chief GrltumfTcher taken sides with the Jolly four detectives who have been dallying In the civil Service bal anqe for years and are still being weighed and found wanting? Has the police committee patted the wrong head? Has tho three cornered fight with the city on the smallest cor ner come to a point where all must get In line for a trlamrular AlDhonse and Oaston act with the common people for the third fall guy? So complicated has become this won- drously important question that the meek and lowly citizen does not know exactly where the police, the sleuths or the city are at. Ballys for Joe. And It was all brought about by th. testimony of Chief Gritzmacher yester day when ne rallied to tne rescue or 'Joe" Day. and declared him "a good detective. There were times when the doughty chief did not think Joe a "good oetective nor even a gooa renow. There were periods In Portland's his tory when the chief had to dodge Joe's polite vocabulary like a bum actor dodging a crop of over-ripe eggs. The Giitsmachian stand is therefore a con undrum that will have to be solved with a can-opener, with sincere hope that it will not prove, after all, that Joe was in the can. The action of the board in adminis tering a third kick to tho deposed detec tives will put an end to the long drawn out controversy of two years' standing In which the four men have been en deavoring to regain their places on the detective staff of the city at their own terms and as their own bosses. Decision of Board. The decision of the executive board was made late yesterday afternoon and was the result -of the hearing held by the police committee a couple of days ago when the four msn were cited to appear and show cause why thev had refused to report for duty in uniform after having: been so ordered by the chief of police. In the findings of tho- executlve board the reason for the dis missal of the four men was set forth In plain terms. It was pointed out that members of the police force are servants of the city, employed to render puMic service.. It was also noted that their direction and control must be vested in some centrnt head and that the charter gives this control to the executive board and the direct "command" to the chief of police. ?ow comes tne chler with a class A" credential fir Joe Dav. Has the chief told Day that he Is pilllna- to "command" him attain. or did his foot slip? BEFORE LUNATIC Lick Observatory Carpenter Chases Everybody Away and Stands Guard. Hood River Aroused Over Suit in Which Evans De clares Stock Used to Cor rupt Officials and Consum mate Purchase by City. Portland Trust Company Al leged to Have Handled Secret Fund of Li?ht Com pany Shady Transactions Disclosed. . KEI A POWER A: S BIG TAGGART (United Press Leiised Wire.) Ban Jose, Cal., July 11. Joseph Duff, until yesterday carpenter at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, was lodged in the county jail hye today to be examined for his sanity. He ran amuck yesterday and drove all the scientists from the Institution. The observatory was well filled with special students taking a course in as tronomv in connection with the summer session of the University of California and all were terrorized by the crazy man. After Duff had driven everyone away he Datrolled tne place, keeping; sruard over the priceless instruments that have made Lick ODservaiory ramous over tne entire world. H. E. Smith, a Stanford student, ran to a station halfway down the mountain and telephoned for the sheriff, who hastened to the scene in his automobile. FAT-FRY III FORM OF "PROSPERITY" Charges that $10,000 worth of Hood River Electric Light, Power & Water company stock Issued to the Portland Trust company as trustee has been used to corrupt and bribe various citizens, corporate officials and members of. tha Council of Hood River in favor of a pur chase of the Hood River Water com pany's plant by the city of Hood River have made a sensation in the apple town. In a suit filed last winter by N. C. Evans, one of the directors In the light company, whose details have Just been made public because of the Impending trial of the case next week, it la cnarirea that the $10,000 trustee fund transferred to the Portland Trust company was a secret one, consisting of 400 shares of caoital stock of the company, and was placed entirely in the hands of President H. F. Davidson of the light company to do with as he saw fit. Ft Is charged by Evans in his suit that the fund was merely a lobbying fund, that among those approached with an offer of the stock was E. L. Smith, who refused to accept it, and that 100 shares were transferred to E. H. Goff and 20 to Davidson himself. Directors' Doings Disclosed. Evans asks that the trust company bs forced to give an accounting of what happened to all of the (10,000 and that the outstanding shares be surrendered and cancelled. Incident ally he gives an account of what has transpired at the board meetings of both the light and water companies, which. If it Is true, reveals a career In high finance the like of which few I , ;"K;"-'fM Hearst Service Corre spondent Relates the Political History of Democratic Candidate 4oTm Worth Kern, vlee-prieslden-tlal nominee of the Democrats. From a photo tali en at Denver for North American Press Syndicate cliqnts. T STARVING PEOPLE Hlilll SOLDIERS Population of Tabriz in Piti ful Condition but Refuse to Accept Help. Writer Seems to Think; That Kern Is Most; Consistent and Grace ful of Losers. Notaries Commissioned. (Stlm Burvaa of Th Jnrnl I Salem. Or., July 11. Commissions as notaries have been issued to A J M?- Iianie, Rock ( reek; (ieora-e O. Blniniam. Salem:. L. B. Thomn. Dufur: M. J Con nor. George Tarwell and B. M Iximhrd. Portland, and H. Henderson. St. Johiit. 0. 0. P. Backers Propose Device to Do Work of Campaign Fund. GROWS INEQE11LAR FAVOR IT aVIrrn!n m Journn 1 thn huv nn fnmnp. row and what ymi think of lr country that are more complete, more Interesting; 10 all members of the family than the Sunday Morning Journal. Here are a few of the pleas ing articles it will contain: "When the Cradle Is Empty. Nations will Interest yo It you Dave chil dren. An article -on the hatch- New York, July 11. The Hearst man agers today claim that the corporations have agreed to work for the election of Taft by the contribution of "prosper ity" Instead of hard cash to the Repub lican campaign funds. According to Hearst's men. the "'In terests" have decided that it will be hard to account for eo large a fund as was expendd to securp the first elec tion of McKinley and they will take a different course. The Hearst men ey that mills will be started and shops opened all over the country, giving employment to over 3,000.000 people who will he told that the certainty of the election of Taft Is the real reason for the boom and It j wui De nimea ti.ai in tne event or his defeat depression will ensue, accord ing to the story. corporations have experienced even In these piping times. As defendants in the suit Evans names II. F. Pavidson, Elia May Dav idson, J. H. Ferguson, W. H. Chip ping, J. L. Henderson, E. II. Goff and the Portland Trust company of Ore- (Contlnued on Page Two.) Tabriz, July 11. Word was received here today that the shah has started reinforcements to Tabriz to aid the Cossacks in holdintr the starving peo ple in check. The situation here Is desperate. Khan's soldiers have at last been brought to a realization of coniil tlons prevailing, and now it is the peo ple, crazed hv hunger, that are the ag gressors in the Btruet fights that have been kept up since the capture of the citv Julv 3. The Russian consul last night sent word to ti.e shah that there was danger of the entire city being sacked unless reinforcements w:ere rushed at once to Tnliriz. "If the starving populace gets trie upper- hand." said the dispatch, "tne citv will De in ruins witmn ih noure. Conditions here are terrible beyond description. Tho soldiers have at last been brought to a realization of the misery of the people and are dividing their food, with the people wherever pos sible. The people, on the other hand, resist all attempts to help them and are fighting the soldiers at evry op portunity. It is understood that the shah's troops are bringing food here. ALFRED ALLEN CURTIS A NOTED PRELATE OF BALTIMORE IS DEAD (Hearst News by Longest Leased Wlre. Denver, July 11. Tom Taggart of Indiana has given to the Demo- " cratic party aa its candidate for tho. vice-presidency his personal friend and attorney, John W. Kern. Kern says he owes his nomination tu Taggart. taggart admits the soft impeachment, There ww a great effort to clrculata , the impression that the nomination was. Ja. deep surprise to Kern. Whatever th purpose was, it was deeper than tho faots, which stood out prominently. The deal was nuido when Taggart needed Kern's support to reelect htm national committeeman from Indiana last Tuesday. It was consummated bv a sleepless steef lng committee In tha early hours yesterday, and Kern was present in Charles W. Bryan's prlvat office at the Brown Palace hotel. Pres ent were the convention steering com mittee, Charles W. Bryan, Governor Haskell, Urey Woodson and Ollie James of Kentucky, Kern and John E. Lamb of Indiana and Taggart as the chalrmj-i or ine national committee. The mee' . ing lasted 35 minutes, arter which th members scattered aDout among thd leaders to pass the word. A few minutes before the convention assembled Roger Sullivan of Illinois an nounced himself for Kern. The latter was not present at the session. Kern as Taggart's Eavior. Kern has for many years been closely ' associated with. Taggart In Indiana Democratic politics. He is as strong . a-ian in the state as Taejrart himself and the balance of power has several times shifted between them. He an. peared for Taggart in the famous -easa of the state of Indiana against Taf gart's Frencii Lick Springs Hotel com pany, brought bv the. attornev-reneral of the state to revoke the company charter. The work of Kern and his as sistants defended the quo warranto case and saved Taggart's resort. "Loser" Named to Win. The convention Was called upon to nominate a winner." but when Kern was put on the ticket, -Bryan's- name was linked with one of the most con- ' slstent and graceful losers that Democ racy in all Its reversals has ever hela within its bosom". He was twic de feated for governor of Indiana, once defeated before the legislature, of which' (Continued on Page Two.) 'JOURNAL WANT ADS BRING RESULTS LOST A YD FOUND Fear. This Is a story that Xnw fttrdg nr KTamath Iaae Cointry " lng grounds of Lower Ike. "'A Corner of the Garden " Short atorr by Maude Hvmers WILLIAM JENNINGS BRTAN AS HIS NEIGHBOpg jEE HIM Special home study article, splendidly lllustratr-d. of the imorratic candidate. "The Army From Within." life. Blaine Phllllpa. ei-prlvate, tells cf army : : x x LOST AT OAKF SATl'RDAT night, lady s golil watch: name In case. Jennie M. hulta. Return 1701 Baseline; Tabor 15. Reward. LOST-PuCKETBOoK WITH NOTES parable to A. Hartmsn, suitable reward for return to room 107 Sherlock bldg LoST Hl.ACK HORSE. WHITE FPOT on fore hip. FlnJtr plcaae phone Main -its fth t (fnited Ptpm I-esd Wlr.) Baltimore, Md., July 11 Alfred Al len Curtis, vlcar-general of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Baltimore, died at his home here to day of cancer of the Ftomach. He was 77 yPars old Rlshop Curtis was born In Somerset county. Maryland, July 4. 1831, and re ceived his early education In the schools there. He did not enter the Roman Catholic church until 1 S 72. having spent the 16 veara previous in the Protestant Epis copal ministry. He was ordained dea con of the Episcopal church In 18 56 and placed in charge of St. John s church at Worcter, Maiw. In 1S9 he was made a priest ami remained In the Episcopal ministry until 1S70. Going abroad two years Inter Pishop Curt.s was received into the Roman Catholic church by Pishop Henry New man of London. Cpon his return to the United States he entered the spmf Inarv nf St Salnice at Baltimore and was ordained priest December IS. 1871. j He was appomt-u assistant at trie hai tlmorn cathedral ' and private secretary to t he ' a-n-hbif hop, He isrvi-d in thatt capacity until November 16. 16. when he was appointed bishop of Wilming ton. He relened from t(:e bishopric January 13, lS'i. and June ;5 of the same year received the titular see of Echinus. He remained bishop, admin istrator of Wilmington until May I, 187, and was appointed ty Cardinal Gibbons as vlcar-Ki noral of Baltimore the following year. i- ! Li in "No Flare Like Ore iron for Scenery.' McAllister. Br Master Fish Warden H. C How American appliances "England 0" In for Electric Cooking" are becoming popular la the old touatrr. Two lees-si wVes, and special cable service b Hearst Syndicate and and Vsited rreaa. . -. . . Read the SLfxky Morning iocmal Tomorrow ON PORTLAND HEIGHTS.. n 22. Mack and white Dvinter doc. collar, no name, has eatra t on right bind foot; liberal reward. M aln H i i . ALL HELP WANTED. SITUATION WANTED, WANTED TO RENT. FOR RENT, AND I.OST AND FOUND CLASSIFIED AD ONE CENT PER WORD. THREE CNSFCVTIVK IN SERTIONS FOH THK PRICE OF TWO UNT'F.R OTHER CLARIFICATIONS t CENT A WH 'MD. fFVFV INSERTIONS FOR THE PRICE OF SIX. CHINESE GIRL SOLD AS SLAVE BY FATHER STRANGLES HERSELF Cota only 1 cnt a word, t S classified pace 12 and IS. (rnl-, rT Lea Wlr 1 Fan Francisco. July 11 Beautiful little Toy Ylnr's lifeless body lies In the morgue today because, at the ae of 17. she preferred death to a life of slavery. She was found last night hanging from the roof of the wire cage in which she was imprisoned, a tlkn scarf tied about her throat and wreaths of amok, from a hundred perfumed joaa-stW-ka curling fantastically about her bodr Wbea Lh Song, father f the child, tedd a trader In China that h was for sale. Toy Ting dreamt she would never submit to such a barrata Tben sbe cried, and wheti her father, un moved, comiMjtaed that aha otr her rew master, she pleaded and threatened. It waa all to no purpose, for two months ago she was brought to San Fran-leo and placed in a wire cage from whlor there was no escap. Hers was tlw story of manv ecother child of the orient, carefully raised that she anight be sacrificed to the avarice of a bea then parent Aftr ,securly fastening the door of the girl's prison last ntcht b-r mitrr crosaed the hay to visit Oakland a Chinatown. Realising that her oppor tunity had cwne. lltila Tor Ting; ar rayed herMlf ti her finest roa, Tarit ed acorn of hlrhlr cmled )os suck and tightly k nomas a silken about hr-r front ended bar life ef degradauoa la death. , . ' July 23d! Will You? t The day at The Oaks with tha Portland carmen. - Beat picnic of the season. Oood car servlca, giwxt mu sic and a thoroughly rood time. That tha funds ef the streetear men may be swelled and that a large number of public aervk- emplov' families may have a day of fun, the Journal makes this proposition: To all letter-carriera, any member of the police rand fire, drirtmir,ti and railway mall rlerka who are auiv. scrlbers So The Journal. The Journal will aupp'.r tirketa tu th r-irt i, f . ev-ry actual member cf hi fm' All that will t)c!ierT ta .1 - wi r be to call at the t IrcuUitcin Ir.ft. meot of The Journal' a -id to i ir hat carrier re-lpt an l yu wifi t given a tket fur cn rwmwr c your family. o t The tka on J-.i. ii .p-l enjoy a dav with tht atrfrirar n,r- BPd Fina It ei'val l f ,t A M olir cri J chr !(.' wr and make i.mm barr-r. ;i if, true lra.!f nation t,( ruf ti-t '"- pl the i-" i ,f a e-. f t..-. tltv. Jjlr II. WHt you T ttt.t'ft til. c-r. ml a.i. . , I