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THE' PRICE Qt THE DAILY JOURNAL IS TWO CENTS A COPY OA' THE STREETS and AT THE'.OFFICE USE THE JOURNAL . ' JOURNAL CIRCULATION YESTERDAY WAS '" 30,314 FOR BEST RESULTS ORDER -TOtTR IBATITRDAT AND BUNDAY AD3 TODAT. . , , The Weather Fair tonight n Saturday; northwest winds. , ' VOL. VII. NO. 125. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1908. SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. OW TRAIJtS AND wirwt lAvsa. rivs cm ii. mnm WilF v v uu u 1 w M' " i ,11 i i f v .J . i ii " Pit PllOfTf "WEAR IE BRINGS LOCAL IB HOURS I BIG DEAL WITH THUGS Portland and Astoria Cap i t a 1 i sts Tn rchase 134 Acres on Peninsula Ad joining Swift Townsite Be Manufacturing District Brings Total of Real Estate Transactions During Past Three Weeks to More Than $1,500.000 Traet to Be Platted at Once. Portland and Astoria capitalists to day completed a deal for the purchase of 134 acres of land on the peninsula adjoining tho Swift townsite for up ward of $100,000. This deal brings the total of large real estate transfers made during the past three week to more than a mil lion and a half dollars.. Included In this Mat are the Seventeenth and Couch street high school site, involving $100, 000, the mt.,000 Mellndu heights deal. T. B. Wilcox's purchase of a corner at Seventh and Stark for $160,000 and at Sixth and Washington for $250,000, the sale of corners at First and Main and Fourth and Ankeny for Jilo.000 and $85, 000, respectively, and the purchase of the Columbia building for $210,000. The peninsula property purchased this morning Is tract number 5 In the Lewia Dove donation land cfaim and extends from Bryant street, on the south, across the slough to Mud lake and from Mis sissippi avenue on the west to Congress street on the east. The deal was nego tiate.! by T. T. Strublo. the Columbia Trust company purchasing in behalf of a syndicate or 1'ortland and Atsorla capitalists. On three sides of the tract are the Swift holdings, forming one of the most advantageous building sites on the peninsula. It is the belief of tin- pur chasers that all that part of the penin sula bordering upon Columbia slough with Its low water channel of 2.1 fe will t.eeome a manufacturing district and the lots adjoining the Swift tract will lie held for that purpose. The rest of the tract will lie platted at once and the streets graded and Improved and water pipe laid. Work of clearing the land will begin Monday, the beginning of work on the Bwlft plant this morning having In duced the purchasers of the tract to put their land Into shape Immediately. The completion of the Columbia and Willamette bridges and of the north bank's road across the peninsula hns given the long expected Impetus to the peninsula's boom. Shousetown, Pa., Girl Seized by Brutal Trio, Held Vap tive and Afterward Pe tti rned to Home in Dying Condition. OREGON WILL CELEBRATE ADVENT OF HILLS NORTH BANK RAILROAD v EXPECT BRYAN WILL RETALIATE HO TARIFF GASPIPE BIG BILL TAFTS OF THE FUTURE Twenty Namesake Letters in One Day Show There Will Be a Legion. Missing From Home for Day During Which Time She Suffered Many Cruelties Company Aroused Over Outrage. INDICTMENTS AGAINST BRIGHTON RACE MEN (United Preaa Lenswl Wtre.i New Tork, July 31. The Kings coun ty grant Jury today returned Indict ments against the Brighton Heach Rac ing association and William A. Kge mann, Chris J Fitzgerald and John C. Cavanaugh, officials of the association, charging them with conspiracy to violate the new anti-race track gambling law. The law. passed at the last legislature, provides that upon conviction anyone guilty of a violation must bo sentenced to serve a year In 1a'l, with no alterna tive of a fine. The racing Interests have been maklifg a persistent fight on the new law and It now appears that It will have the often threatened test. The grand jury also handed to the court a presentment setting forth that the anti-race track gambling law Is lin ing violated flagrant !y every day at the tracks about New York and that there, is not sufficient effort at interference by either the authorities or the official of the racing association. The present ment criticises the police for not mak ing more vigorous attempts to enforce the law (United Press Leased Wire.) Pittsburg, July 31. Kidnaped and held captive for 24 hours In a lonely hut, where she was horribly mistreated. Clara Konter, aged IS. was mysterious ly returned to her homo in Shousetown, near here. In a dying condition today. The girl was found unconscious In her bed after , an all-night search for her. Clara did not return to her home last evening for dinner, and w'nen she failed to return later In the evening a search was Instituted for her. Inquiries elicited the information that none of her friends had seen her ull day and her parents were frantic. Officers were called in, the wnoie neighborhood was searched thoroughly, but with no result The parents re turned home heartbroken at an early hour and found their daughter In bed. unconscious and near death. When the girl regained consciousness she told her story to officers. She had been attacked by three men on the Street Thursday morning and carried awav In a cab. A gig was forced Into her mouth and a veil thrown over her head, so that she hail no chance to call out and did not know where sho was carried. The girl said sho was taken to a lonelv cabin, where she was subjected to cruelties. She hist nJl consciousness and knew nothing more until she awoke in bed. The whole of Shousetown is aroused over the news of the crime, and posses are searching for the lonely house, of which the girl coukl give but a imager description. SIXTY BOMBS Hi Halted Prem landed Wire.) Hot Springs. Va.. July 31. Although Los Anpcles can claim the first bnhy named nfur Taft, In the person of Wil liam Howard Taft I.enox, whose ar rival was simultaneous with the nomi nation of the former secretary of war ut tho Chicago convention, there are other William Howard Tafts. accord ing to letters received at Taft's head quarters here today. The mall brought the candidate no less than 20 letters to day announcing that fond mothers had named their children for him. After disposing of (iIh mnr.ninjf rot -resjionderioe Taft played golf with Sen ator Bourne of Oregon Senator riiiuiiic arrived hen. some weeks ago. announc ing that he had come for the special" purpose or playing goir witn tne presi dential candidate, and Taft gave him an opportunity to display his prowess in the game this morning. VISITS HUSBAND AT JAIL CELL Evelyn Thaw Indignant at Alleged 111 Treatment the Prisoner Is Receiving. CACHE IN MEXICO WILL NOTIFY vA ft A Si" 8 All fJiVlL. iforr ! ; m LSI t Tomato Cans, Scrap Iron and Dynamite 3Iingled in Deadly Proportions. it'nlted I're.I Leased Wire.) F.l Paso, Texas, July 31.- Sixty bombs Supposed To rie ine one reierieu in in the correspondence introduced as evi dence In Co trial of the alleged revo lutionists here, were discovered in a cache -today about four miles beyond the Klo (irande river from the city lim its of Kl I'asu, The (.ii-he, which was uncoered by' tho son of a go, it herder who was playing In the rocks, was lo cated near the point where the corners of New Mexico. Texas and Mexico touch. The bombs were made or to mato cans, carefully Yni'k"d with scrap iron and three stick" of dvnamlte. prop erly primed with fuse and percussion caps The authorities here believe that memlcrs nf the local revolutionary (and concealed the bombs when their alleged ringleaders were arrested, charged with violating the neutrality laws. WEYEIiHAEl'SER S.VVS HE IS NOT GUILTY (t atted Preis leased Wlrp.) roughkeepsle. X. Y., July 31. Kvelyn Thaw today paid her first visit to her husband, Harry Kendall Thaw, since the prisoner was removed from the sheriff's quarters to an ordinary cell. Kvelyn stood ;md talked to Harry through the bars. Sin- conversed with Thaw for ha;f an hour and whi n she came out she was furious al the treatment he is receiv ing. She ehnrges that the former friendship of Slu-rlff lnt,ert W. Chmlcr for the late Stanford White, whom Thaw killed, is the cause of the. present treat ment of the prisoner. "It Is outrageous to lock Harry up this way," she said. "It doesn't seem possible that Sheriff Chanler's friend ship for Mr. While could be carried tics fir ' I'iinnler has denio, repeatedly that liis fi ;.-n.shlj. for White had ativthing to do with his treatment of Thaw. He says Thaw Is the same as any other prisoner to him. ! -' ,f'r 1 1 1 V - I ' i f 11 'in I Report Is That He Will Make Attack on Inde pendence League. (raited Press Leaned Wire.) Lincoln. Neb.. July 31. William J. Bryan Is expected to make a sensa tional attack on the motives behind the Independence party, Immediately follow ing his formal notification of his nomi nation. The filing of an affidavit In Chicago Thursday by Joseph T. Marshall, the only Independence delegate from Ne braska, in which he alleges that Hearst packed the convention in the Interest of the Republicans, is said to be but forerunner of the revelations that tro expected from the Hcmocrutlc candidate at tiio start of the campaign. Bryan declined today to discuss tho report that Hearst had made him i n offer whereby Bryan would rece-ve Heafst's support' this year in return for Bryan's support of the Hearst aspir ations to the Democratic nomination In 1912. Contributions are pouring In at Kalr law from every section of the country. IF01.IF TAFT WINS Herman Ritter, Spoken of for Vice-President on the Democratic Ticket, Says Taft's Promises Would Be Blocked by Congress. THUGS TO SCAFFOLD . J. Hill, Who Will Soon Hare Hroiislit to Completion His Scheme for a orfh Bank Railroad OST IMPORTANT EVENT OF YEAR Commercial Bodies Prepare to Welcome New Line to Vast Empire. 6UGGEIIHEB I ALASKA POLITICS Interests Said to Be Plan ning to Control Terri torial Legislature. ' BRYAN AOG .12 Major Brown Announces Program for Ceremonies at Lincoln, Neb. (Tntted Pre Lessrd Wire ) Lincoln, Neb. July 31. Major Prown. chairman of the citizen's committee which will havo chartre of the Hrvan notification ceremonies on August 12, today announced the program as follows: All the commercial bodies of Port land are preparing Jp take an active part In the ceremonies at the comple tion of the north bank railroad, which will be about August 12. The Commer cial club, chamber of oommercn, board of trade and several of the local clubs will appoint special committees. The desire Is that the "first train day'' be made an event that util widely advertise the state, und In view of the tremendous Importance to the coinmon we.ilth that the formal opening of the road means all loyal people of Oregon are urged to make the day one of ceh bratlon, and Portland especially la spurred to see that the event Is given wide publicity. I At sunrise- A salute of 48 iins U'ol.otl IPalone's battery. by I In a program that the Portland cham ber of commerce is completing. James J Hill will be the central tlgure at a great dinner to celebrate the final com pletion of the north bank road Into this city, and the operation of train service over the entire lino from Kennewlck to Portland. The opening of this road menus that the commercial territory dircctlv dominated by Portland will j h-i-. e been enormously Increased, giving ithls city practically commercial con trol of the Pacific northwest. With the R. & N. Cd.'s system of m-re than l.SOu miles on one side of te Columbia river, and tho ccmll'ied lltos if the Great Northern. Northern merit and Catd'al pa-ks. 1 " itic n .i tfe Sj-M.-irie. I'ort.a-. l ,v 12 on ni. Lunch, on m honor of the ' '"e rail sd on -he opposite si. hi. the notification committee. water grades leading to Portland will 1 nil p m. Tb.. committee secern ' oommand the movement of tonnage of panled liv William J Tlrvan and Johnlthe entire Columbia river basin, an area T.V n I I 1 n I - a .' I- - ' in-.-- onii in a ini hi u 1 I' e0 a. m Pan i eon rts at Oovern- part In grounds from the through the eapitol Line uu notei. 2 P M - -Henry IV Clayton's speech notifying Bryan rf his nomination, to be followed Immediately by Bryan's ac ceptance oddrvss and a short speech by Kern. 4 SO p. m Informal receptions for Hrvan and Kerr aid the committee at the eapitol grounds. 6 3n p m PlrnT In horor nf th lommittee on Hrjan a lawn at Kalrvlew farm. fruited Pre. t."1 Wire 1 St. Paul. Minn.. July 31 - K P Wrver-j haeuser of this city, son of Frederick I Weyerhaeuser. the multi-millionaire lumber king, today absolutely denied that his father's Interests are In snv I way concerned with the reported $30".- 1 tifty.OOO merger of southern yellow pine' ) TL' Tf T T Af V concerns attacked bv the attorney eener-I ' ' J .'1-A.i als or three states Thursday. "What yellow pine Interests we have, bare not been mi-rjei nor will they be." said Weyerhaeuser today. "I don't know what the other pine men sre doing. I am sneaking for myself alone" CONFESSES ARSON (Continued on Pog Two ) FALLS HALF HUE FROfVI BALLOON TROFT DVINCt IN DESERT STREAMS! n .,,,.. I a-ol his (TritnM preea Wire I Pan Bernardino. Cal.. Julr 11. R- I ports received frrnti the deaert side of the Kan Bernardino mountain's todar sar that tons) of trout are dvirig In the pools left In the beds of streams, which have dried tip for the summer In creek at the L4tl Meils-re I hed-ster the fish are r? thick thst o-dock X-w and Sporting Kdl- j " " wr," Ke-rp Vonr Eyo Oppn for the- S:f Uofi of The Journal. Xewiboy for It. Pmsll antirals of the mountains have tnereo at the pool aittrtre nnnoc dtveurtnf the tnprisone-d trout. trnltefl Preoa Leao-d Wire ) Sacnmento. Cal.. July il Antonio P.eschmuth. half ewner tif the H-d-retia dance pavilion t Oak Park, upon which an inrend:ary sttemrt vni mane V ed- nlsht CT, f. -.) t.Klay that he trttr. Huedy blrej Kred A Jolse to fire t--e bull ling In order that tl.y mlett collect the Insurance Jolre was first cauaht by the officers nd r-onf.---1 lat nlrht Ree-t-rcuth blames his partner, KueJ-r, who has thus fsr refuse j to admit the crtme The buildtnc cost about 11.(00 aed tbe rwr-ei-s jiv-(i(.i) cttlQg it in- ired for more than Its value. Then Jolre was hire! for llu to touch It off Jnlre ntM failed rn the first attempt and re AemanJed Ie mm whlih was promise-l He et flra to the building H three plsee Wednesday nlrht but the eiaie was dl score red m4 extlcrusbd. William Oliver Victim of Parachute Jump at Van dercook Lake. (Cnlted Press Leased Wire. Denver, Col., July 31. A telegram re ceived here from Juneau. Alaska, makes the charge that the Gugge.nho.im inter ests are planning to force the election of an Alaskan delegate and control the Alaskan legislature. The message. which was made public today, was ad dressed to the Rocky Mountain .News, and was signed by The iJlspatch of Juneau and a number of Democrats of the territory. It alleges that the big mining con cern Is planning to uso irauuuieni means of training Its point and makes an appeal for assistance. It is understood that the case will be thorougly investigated and former (ioy ernnr Osborne of Wyoming bis an flounced his intention to look into the charges. OIL CASE AGAIN WITHIN 10 DAYS Federal Attorney Makes An nouncement as to Pro posed Action. (Putted Preea le.wd Wire.) Chicago, July 31. I'n'tcd States pa triot Attorney Sims announced todiy that the petition for the rehearing of the Standard Oil case before the t'nlt'id States circuit court would be filed with in tne next ten days. The petition will ask for a rehearing of the argument in the oaee In the hope that the circuit court can be induced to clipe Its re versal of the f jS.OOrt.aoo fine lmpos-d by Judge Larnlls on the Standard. IF TRI E. NEW VOIJK GETS OFF REAL EASY Leaders Have No Intention of .Modifying Trust or Tar iff Evils New York's Idle .Men Will Carry the State for Bryan. Herman Kidder's Opinions. That It was, and 1b, a Roose velt panic. That the trusts and the, tariff art twin evils. J "flint Taft would IjeypowerlesB to reform the tariff. ' That Cannon, Palie. Palxell and others would never permit tariff reform. That tho Republicans will promise tariff reform perpetu ally and never carry out their prom lacs. That there are enough Idle men in tho streets of Now York City to turn the results of the election in that staie. That one Judge should isue the temporary Injunction, wheth er It be permanent to be decided by another and before punish ment Is administered the case should be heard by three judges. Dabner and Sie-msen Shoot Through the Trap, at San Quentin Prison, Expiating; Brutal Murders and Other Crimes. . ' Siemsen Goes Whistling and " Dabner 3Iute Maudlin Statement Signed by the Butchers Hangman's Work Neat and Speedy. (Putted free I Wire.) Washington, July .tl At least 5. DO white persons In New York city are slaves to the opium habit, according to the statement made today by I 'r Wright, ore of the three representa tives of America on the International commissi. which Is Investigating the opium ttatfic throughout the world. He said 'he In vrstiKatons have led also to th estimate thst there are from doO to l,i 'O CJ 1-1--X-. rtsldetus of New York, wh are a idlct..,t to the druK The eorr.r: ission Intend to eitenl its activities to nil the main cities of t'.e country to determine the extent of the use of ilnifs in the Cnlted States. Herman Ridder, one of the best known and moht lnliuentlal German Americans In this country, publisher of the New York Ktaats-Zelt ung, men tioned prominently as a vice-presidential possibility on. tho Democratic ticket, who Is making his tlrsi visit to the Pacific coast. ha;:iK arrived at the Hotel Portland oterday after noon, says Hint tho greatest evils that tho people of the 1'nited States have to contend with today are the trusts and the question of tariff reform. Ho calls them the twin evils. people Tired of Promises. "In traveling about the country I find that the poop)., arc thoroughly tired of the tariff reform bv the Re publicans and that they are beginning tatudlv to reaiizo mat this brought about only by t!e election of n Democratic president and t lie election of a majority of tho De.-no, r ule parly In congress two years afterward," Mr. Ridder said this morning Mr. Ridder. by the way. Is particu larly stroiir on the tariff uuesiion. Ho says the tariff makes the trusts and that the trust magnates control con press. And lie speaks from personal eiperlences. I'or tine months last year Mr. Ridder was !: Washington do- tng everything In i is power to have the tariff on paper and woo, pulp re moved. Mr. Ridder " .1 ported M-'Kin- during both eli-ctloi.s Hut the tide has. turned now and the New York pub lisher Is doing t;.ryth!ng within his power to assist tho Democratic party find the Democratic -an-iidates to vic tory "Taft. If elected, would he powerless to reform 'he tariff, in aplte of all hi i 1 rer lii-s nn 1 In spite . f tho tariff i Continued on Pag- Two.) (I'nlted Press Leaned Wire.) San Quentin, Cal., July 31. Louis Dabner and John Siemssen, the Saa Francisco gaspipe thugs, were'; hanged simultaneously in Saa Qti6n tin prison at 32 seconds after 10 ' o'clock today. , Two hundred persons, the full number allowed by Warden ftoyle. saw the two bodies shoot through -the traps, ending the careers of the most daring and brutal murderers of recent times In this section of the state. The priest who converted both the murderers to the Catholic faith re mained in the cells praying with the doomed men until the warden appeared, shortly before 10 o'clock and made preparations for tho death march. I Everything was still in tho old fur niture factory, where the gallows tree stands. The preparations for the final carrying out of the law's decree werrt quickly made. Both the murderer watched the work of the prison guards stolidly. Their arms were strapped to their sides. Two rows of guards took position on either side of the condemned men, aim the death march began. Quick Job Made by Hangman. Led by the warden and the priest, tin- little procession made way across the narrow death room and through the door which opens directly in front of the gallows stairs. Slowly the doomed men and their guards mounted the stairs. Dabner and Siemsen trembled visibly as they faced tho curious crowtf beneath them. They had little chance to waver Almost instantly, as ther stepped upon the traps, guards quickly drew the black caps ovpr their heads. The hangman adjusted the nooses anl before the spectators had realized what ' was taking place the warden raised h'e hand, the guards in the hidden box re leased the cords which operated the traps and Pfitzuer. Frlede and Munakata be Wt re avenged. of! One of tho men was pronounced dead at lu:14 oclock and the other at 10:16. . The warden permitted no one to leave the execution room until both were dead. Last Night of the Condemned. Dabner went to sleep at 10 o'clock and slept soundly all Inst night. Siemsen stayed up the greater part of the night, finishing a diary which he has kepi daring bis stay in the condemned cell, Hutli men arose at o'clock this mom. Ir.g. ate a hearty breakfast and were then srivn their civilian clothes. Dab ... tier again sought his Hlble. while 81em- i Continued on Page Two.) KEEP OFF GRASS, YELLS HARVARD of 'm ni. a ,.alf. j il n" Prew Le.wl Wtr l Jsrkson. Mich . Juiv J ; Wil Her 1p dead I i lay ax a euit cl ;miie feil (mm a b,'-. n i Oliver's e-er.slon at yesterday was witnessed by an slmlr I Irg throne. He esl'ed J.roO ft Into C0UI.T SETTLES CASE IN NOVEL MANNER Doesn't Want Knights Pythias to Camp on Franklin Field. trnltf l r-M tended Wlr ) Boston. July 31. Judge Bra ley In the. f preme court today denied a petition I resented by t1 Ha-vard Improvement I assi'i iatto-i asK nc r r an injunction to IRS. OSBHE ASKS FOR DIVORCE Long-Threatened Suit File4 Against Well - Known. W riter and Clubman. ; I the air and tnen cut - ' The trH umbreil fi i he had dropped f " f.. it fb-sf l sgin befote Ket'.lilrr Y. drr ed to throw h!rre f b -6 tre. but he was filllee tm rar'd ssid tnn-k the earth lb ifb force (Valt4 Ie wir ) CTruro, Julv ?1- Krsitlc !frlj It; (he Vm lancuare s-e "xing exchange! Vanderco.k take I today by air. and Mrs Patri k Hartlgan wr.Pe Uvey sre pi k'.r? up their t-e. lonflr.rs preparatory I fj! ur life npirt. Thnnoey the enrt ei1olnd tb Hr'i- it'nlied Pre. Le4 Wire.) San Francisco. July II The filing of n;. it for separate maintenance by Mrs I.loyd Osboume against her. hue band, son of Mrs. Robert Louie Steven son. a writer of uote, has created e eensatlon here The husband end wife, whoe troubles hare been the gossip ef literary circles for eeven yere. ere elt to l at daggers' points and It la like iv that Osbourne wlil contest the suit bjr filing an action for dlrorc. The osbourne were married In ftamoe. In m but they did not live tceetner rbi I the us.- of the city's park for the . ""' !-.. r ..L , 7. """ nual encampment of the Knights of .kI." .7- 'I'"? .1 i a'c:. w . l take r Lace hr '" v. eek Ho I i th l eit .11 a :so take place here, Intimated that a' Mrs. Stevenson was bulit ta the form similar rHIrg wouM follow a possible j "l. I, "lZL c, a effort.!"-...: .-'iL"' :-.'-w.-".T'. .... l,n:n K)eld romr.rl.,r:. ' . V""'. moiw I"" UUt he died within a few ir,-r.u'e .---, cane Trom srak ne to each otr fvr ie.3 to of en until two days. b' proTlde.) thst If th-v and .n then1 were anje to pack and sepaiste before its v..c!tv was thst time the Injun-CT would b- d's j solved. 'liver stte-npl- When the Hartigsrs p--nrd i" rr.;rt the lirb of , with their marital troubles Pitr'ck siid Bis wife made him tired, be talked eo hours. tloo. lsajetj tfce injunc- wrlt of mandamus in a similar effort. the which are to be used covers i n res and has been laid out on t'ciiir a tv rrtnclplen wl'h a view to. r - ' .nooo ,i ii ."'iv llirii j nv OI fi le r of the Knights of Pythias say that pr -per ssmtarv measures hare been tikn s"d that all pnewlble ohlectlon ebie feat ,re have been removed. The Harvard authorities are bitterly opr-eed to the m era be re of I We oreer ' iisinc the field and some ether fecal I act lea la uyenea ous of ber htsbaad s eevoti-m to t mether and the pair a iarreiei Osbourne traveled e te-mrely and seats the rtinrit that alra. atever.MMi o.l t.. witched her jh ami s trjrir.j ii k.j. nap the Oeboante eM.drea. APhrKjcti the aoupla fcsve r-et ee era ted foe aeve-i fere. r. -. -. . allesee In her sitt tt V hue e t fully ' leeert-1 tee t I "!. -, tor altmeT ttt -t !it- CalmrM Is at . r- r Ii l I ) Jtbat he i.'l eausteet tr.e V