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-
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WOULDNOT BE ASKING ANY FOOL , QUESTIONS.-
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VOL. VII. NO. 108.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1908 TWO SECTIONS 18 PAGES.
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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
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HUSH FUND. JOflNW
AID A
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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
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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 .
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