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THE DAILY JOURNALS Sold on the Streets AT" O PCMTO A PADVTHERE IS NO NECESSITY to pay more M I Z. OC.IM I O J vUr T THE NEWSBOYS WILL MAKE tho CHANGK USE THE JOURNAL FOR BEST RESULTS Order Sunday Ads Early Today The Weather Fair tonight and Sunday; northwest winds. VOL. VII. NO. 128. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1. 1908. TWO SECTIONS 18 PAGES. JOURNAL CIRCULATION YESTERDAY VAS 30,429 PRICE TWO CFNT? taxih atd wrwg ffl THREATEN D ESITOKTON 0 COAST TO WN MARSHFIELD CITIZENS BATTLE WITH FLAMES Ferndale and North Bend in Imminent Danger Families Forced to Move Ukiah, California, Also Surrounded by Blazing Trees. PORTLAND FULTON AND CENTER OF TRADE (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Marshfield. Or.. Aug. 1. Ton thousand people, hemmed In on all Bides except one, the Pacific ocean bv raclnsr walls of flames, are facing death today. Driven by ter rific winds a forest fire, unparalleled In the country's history, approaches at frightful speed the comparatively small, partially cleared spot known as the peninsula of Coos Bay, upon which are situated in successive order the towns of Marshfield, Fern dale, North Bend and Empire. The flames are. yet some hours distant, but already houses, stores and mills have fallen prey to the flying brands of fire which the cyclonic winds are dropping on the peninsula In ever Increasing num bers. Scores of families are leaving the'ir dwellings to go, they know not where. t The property loss to date will easily reach 76,r00. It Is Impossible to se cure a detailed list. From the mayor of the city, E. E. Straw, down to the lowliest laborer, all are fighting shoul der to Shoulder ioaay -agaljnet the lm penHlng holocaust. The heaf 6.nd smoke re almost unbearable. Unless the un expected happens the cities will be blotted out by fire tonight. There seems no avenue of escape, ex cept the ocean. This Is four miles to the westward. But even there the ag ony of hundreds of women and little children will only be lengthened. The timber line stretches down almost to the water's edge. In a short time the breakers will be converted Into a hiss ing cauldron of burning brands. A. Rafael' Ye jar, Local Chil ian Consul, Appointed to Same Post for Peru South America to Draw Supplies From This Coast. T'KIAH THREATENED BY ONE OF MANY CALIFORNIA FIRES (Tnlted Pros Leased Wire.) Redding, CaJ., Aug. 1. Reports today from the path of the great forest fire raging In this section of the state say that the flames cannot be checked until thev reacli Fitt river, which forms a natural barrier. The blaze started yesterday morning on the east side of the river near the mouth of Chum creek and a strong wind soon fanned the flames to a fury. Several farm houses in the path of the fire have been destroyed. The rangers have pressed every avail able man Into service. The heat here Is almost unbearable. Clouds of smoke almost obscure the sun and the air Is very sultry. Most of the telephone lines Into the hills are burned, so It is Impossible to learn the exact extent of the fire. Dissatisfied With Unsatis factory Shipments by At lantic Seaboard Port land to Become Headquarters for Large Trade. CAKE RUNUP. TRUCE FLAG Temporarily, That Is State Chairman Patted on Back, Told He Is a Good Fellow, at Same Time Requested to Allow Others to Help. Fulton Adherents Send Cake Wire Asking Him to Al low Committee to En gineer Campaign Work Peace Still A tar Off. Firt Abotit nkkersflold. Bftkersfleld. Cal., Aug. 1. Forest fires Started Friday n flernnnn k . electrical storm are reported today to be beyond control. Lightning struck In (Continued on Page Two.) NEW ERA FOR OREGON LIVESTOCK GROWERS OPENS IN PORTLAND Portland Is to become an important factor in South American trade. Dis satisfied with slow and unsatisfactory shipments from New York and New Or leans via Panama and Colon, the gov ernments of Peru and Chile have np- '1 Out at Seventeenth and Vaughn streets today' history was made in the progress of Portland as a packing cen ter. H Is the site of the old I'nlon stockyards, and the occasion was the Initial transactions In livestock under the brokerage system, which exists In all the big packing centers In the coun try. While the Inauguration of the new system of livestock trading was carried forward without excitement, the Irst trading of the day under the new ruling pushed Portland that much farthec HEW RECORD FOR STAMP SHIES Increase Over Correspond ing Month Last Year Jlore Than 6 Ter Cent. the line of livestock su stain p sales at the Portland postofflce for July this year show an Increase of more than per cent over the sales of the corresponding month of 1907.- Most of the Increase was In the retail de partment, showing that more Individuals made' purchases than during the same month of last year. The sales for June also shoved a material Increase which was likewise In the retail department. The total sales of stamp for the month closing yesterday amounted to I5S.I11.I8. making an Increase of fs . slfl.Of tree? ths. business of the month o July of the year before. The retail business ihis year alone aggregated t,0J8.0. The stamp windows will be kept open until midnight. Reglnnjng October 1 Several additional clerks allowed by the Department soma 'uoie ago WUI go to work at that time. ahead In premacy. To the livestock grower this day wnuHdhiv: I""'", bp-,nn'" when K S k1 , a rP?' r"mpetltive market v.. .."s, iimr ana sneep and bv the way, Portland Is the onlflivestock F.vs'tem V'e(PaClflP coast "here such fr.J. ,T l8.ln J01"- While today's transactions In the stockyards were of a nominal nature owing to the shnrt time the trade has had to prepare ?o the event the new system was glv-en a fair trial and was found to be far from wanting. Heretofore it has been the rule at all Pacific coast points for each packing house to send out Its own reDresentu. t ves to the cattle. hog and sfecTset tlons to buy the stock. Under this sys tem there was scarcely any eompcti- nun. nmipm mil not knnw ..i.., the real market was unless they chanced ujmmi a iMiNBiy nmi pine times out of ficjuuu-eu ana aiu not dare give them the full price limits that weTe " i, V , . i . . next ranch. Beginning today nil the packers will have their buyers at the and each will Inspect the various arrivals each day and each will try to outbid the other J.'.', f ,,i . iT cnoicer holding mis iu w.t-n result in the producer -..v. .ii mi me trarric will bear. Vntll the new stockyards on the peninsula are completed the various livestock brokers will have their hea'i quartersn temporarily at the old yards, corner Seventeenth and Vaughn streets where quarters have been arranged liXuJn.fr0m. 8ctl- Tsco'ma: Belllngharo and other Puget snnn.f points besides Pwlft A cf Swam schlld A Sulsburger and other Portland killers will make their headquarters. Buyers for the various pnekin houses e ng gradually recalled and before oe entirely delight and i - 4 it " s 1 V , feiwt,i.,iwiwilfiwriiViiiitnrm)atj--i'Wiir.iiittj A. R. Vojar, Consnl for Chili and Pern. long the ojd system will anoiisnea murn to the profit of the producers pointed a consul for this city and will endeavor to have nil shipments from the United States to Callao, Valparaiso and other South American west coaat ports made from Portland. Lumber, shingles and flour In partic ular are wanted by South American merchants of the 1'nlted States. In ex change thev have hides, nitrate of sodi, medicinal herbs and precious metals. Mining and forming machinery are needed. The vast quantities of manu facture,! articles which the. west nasi countries now have to seek In Kurope could bo more cheaply and satisfactorily shipped from Portland. It is believed, and an effort Is to be made to encour age merchants to operate their own lines to and from Valparaiso and Cal lao. New Consul Appointed. Professor A. Rafael Vejar. who has been noting consul for Chile In Port land, has Ju?t been appointed consul fori Peru hy President l.eguia. and Port- I land becomes the llrst Peruvian consu- ! late north of Snn Franrisco. Senor ! Vejar visited Portland during the fair I on a Apeclal commission for the Mexl- , ran mvemraent Later he made a re- port to the South American republics on the growing importance of Port land as a commercial and importing cen ter. His appointment as Joint consnl in Portland for the two Important coun tries of western South America is large ly the result of this report. H was at one time secretary to Cion- fContlnued on Page Two.) DOU'T MSS THE BASEBALL 'HEWS t Todsjr'a :t o'clock spirting g tra will bare a complete account of tb gam by Innmga. Late rle irraph and1 -local new In the : o'clock edition. Just lb paper to take borne with yoa. a It la a coca Pieta recorft of a say's srants.. , Pabatl fans art for the I II dork Jnornsi tuM. they know tt bis all tho fjtnts la tha game wblcti tby e1rto hava rorors et 4 THE HOCH AND THS PAPER - 5:50 O'CLOCK JOURNAL DEMOCRATS RALLY TONIGHT Will Meet at Baker Theatre to Ratify Nomination of W. J. Bryan Prominent Speakers Will Address the Meeting. Democrats of Oregon will ratify the nomination of William Jennings Bryan ror president tad of John Worta Kern for vlco-presldent at tke Bckr the atr tonight at o clock. Ex -United Sutes Beaator John M 3ar1n will be oim of tn speakers as will a M. Oar- land, Mlltoa A. .Millar sod a long list of other men prominent In the Demo cratic counsels of the state. Jwdre Thomas O'lsty wti) preside St tia eerlfg tnn1rit nd will Intrndoce tfs nkers end state the obtect f ttt.e tneetmg The ratification hee ben I under cons xlert tin for aooe tline and ! )snn to be hH In the Empire jthestre eyral am bat we post- I pord tauss of tts 4tata of Mrs. M. A. Miller, wife of the state committee man, who was to hsv bwn at that time one of the principal speakers and who will this eenlng deliver a short account of the Ienyr convention. Tns meeting tonight Is to be tke first gun of the brrsa campaign tn Oreann, sad It Is expected that the enthusiasm aroused at that time will grow aa thi campaign goes on until the November election, when the balance of rotis will swing In favor of the Democratic nom ine. The wisas meeting this neenlnr will be irecedd hy a meeting of the ezeeit ttve committee of rhs s'ate cent rt 1 com mittee held In the offices of tst Chairman Ale.week. in the Chamber ef Comsaarea Imil.llng at whtcn the place - or the eomlrg cairpalgn will be utiiaU and the actual work started. "Tlmeo Danaos et dona ferentes." Onco In tho long ago an aged man with a white beard said that sentence to a bunch of Trojans gathered together In a roiiin il of war. Literally trans lated it moans that If any band of friendly looking Greeks came along ni:d tried to give the residents of the old city of Troy a big wooden horse that sounded hollow, it would be well to tell them to skldoo before they came In side the gate. That was a long time ago, but today In Portlarrd, and Tn Oregon, friends of William M. Cake are thinking the same thought in strong and forceful English and Anglo Saxon. That is the way they . uV at. til Deuce compact and the whit4 winged dove which 6-pnator Fulton is supposed to have brought with him from tho City by the Sea. Hot Ousted, Bat Tho Information has been passed out that there is to be no breach of har mony In the ranks or work of the Be. publican state central committee. It Is tald that Senator Fulton has put the bridle on his energetic friends and has sent a snow white flag of true to State Chairman Cake, now In the east. It la explained that from now on all will be well. Mr. Cake Is to continue to be chairman of the state central com mlttee. There is to he no effort to oust him, but and here the Greek gift appears before the gate of the Cake cani.i Mr. Cake Is to allow a steering committee to take charge of the cam paign pending his return to Portland, as. the time, is short. Baldly stated the peace proposition made by the Fulton camp to State Chairman Cake Is this: "Mr. Cake, you are airlKht as chairman, and we will lot you be chairman, provided you let us appoint a committee to run the cam paign. You are a good state chairman, and it Is not wise to start anything jusr. now, but nevertheless will you please let us steer you through the strenuous days until the November election has come and gone." This sort of a proposition has been made to Chairman Cake, by wire, and his answer is being eagerly awaited here In Portland. The close friends of the chairman do not believe that he will accept such a proposition be.auve it will In effect mean his abdla:ii-n He would be a figurehead, ignored by the Fulton men, who would he in con trol of ti e .situation. Peace Still Afar Off. It Is not believed that the dove, of peace has any imminent intention of alighMng. In fact, some of those who have tiocn behind the plan to give Uio chairmanship of the state committee to State Senator S. C. Beach, after Mr. Cake has been resigned or retired, still contend that the plan will go through, basing their belief and hope on the supposition that Mr. Cake eunnot nr eep' Fulton's peace offering without practically abdicating his chairmanship. However, it comes out. to the .sj e -tator it looks as thoush should the lion (Fulton) lie down with the lamb u'akei. the lamb will be hidden In the interior recesses of the lion. The wav It now stands. If State Chairman Cake accepts the peace offering he will become n back number and a f igtirehejid. while If he stands nut for Independent action he will oe attacked at the coming meei Ing of the state central committee, and If possible either ousted or forced to resign. It may he that Harmony and the Iov.e can rinn a piaoe somewhere In the tnn- le to perch, hot those who sre watrh- tne panorama are straining their GIRL TRAMP IS UNMINDFUL OF THE PUBLIC'S CRITICISM U frV vi ; Hi WiH r I i;:v 'l-Afkr i g His 4ftij ' i ' i r y - - - -. '- " ' - INDORSED 11 if If H ' Four Negroes Pulled Up on the "Old Hanging Tree? at Russellville, Kj'., ; for Upholding a Negro Mur derer. - Farm Hand Killed Employer Because Discharged Res olution Passed by Negro Lodgemen Proves Their Death Warrant. Mnry !5'll Kscortod to the Police Station by Detective Inskeep. Mary Bell fairly danced for joy when she heard yesterday morning that an officer had come to Uosehurg to take her back to Portland. The (rirl. in years old, was tired of eloping, tired of living as a hobo, very tired of riding on the tops of swaying, rocking -r-srs nnd also" tired of Nathan Gage, the young man with whom she left Portland last Sunday. Gage, "8 years old and formerly em ployed On a river steamer, had given the girl a gold watch which he obtained from a voting woman by a trick, nnd hiul provided the overalls and derby hfit which she wore wtion toe bled on the pair scram top of southbound train the latter with its ornaments slwwlng plainly that It had also experienced some of the roughing side of hobo life. 9he whistle! and sang and was as happy as a child and If the weight .of (are was in her mind there was no ex ternal evidence. Arrested at Rnsehurg upon Informa tion that she .had run away from home. Mary Bell -tfts confined for a short time in the city Jail. Afterwards she was given in charge to Mrs. Collins who conducts a boarding-house In tho south ern Oregon town. "I don't seo why they arrested me," the girl declared. "I have done noth ing. The papers are telling a lot of lies about me. Headed for Frisco. 'One of the fellows I went down with (T"n!ted Press Leased Wlre.l Russellville, Ky.. Aug. l. The bodies of four negroes wero found suspended from the "old hanging tree" on ths Nashville pike at dawn today. The men were removed from the jail In this city la.st night by a mob of determined whites, who forced tho jailer to deliver the prisoners under threats of battering down the doors. The lynching was the result of ths murder of James Cunningham, a whits farmer, near Allensville. Kv., a "week ago, by Rufus Browder, a negro. Tha men banged last night belonged to . a lodge that adopted resolutions Indorsing tho murder. Browder probably , would have been ymrhed ii he had" not ' been removed quickly to Louisville for ....,. I ..- IT I.nl,l 1...T- KfitV On I ti, t, of .h 9Unnr ear nil the'wav M mpt Portland about two weeks ago. fie ng eyes to see the place. KNOCKS 'HI OUT WITH DOPE SPRAY (Cnltra Press Lee4 Wlr. ) 6an Francisco, Aug. 1 The police are today looking for a gentleman bur glar who has been operating In the fashionable apart m-r.t h-uses of the city for the past mor'h l-v js'.rg chloro form to pjt his vrtT, to s.p before he separated ttiem fn n I. lr coin. Tbe robber operate by shooting l'bersl quantities of t'.e anaesthetic through the keyhole nd then making his haul without any fwr of unpleasant complication that might arise should the victim awake In the midst of tbe ope rut I on The robber went throuth four rooms at the Hotel )H t rojvol e Isst night ut ?ot only two tcbe nl IIS In gold or tils pejns He tn)ectrJ eMnref'irn through. f keysnles of several n ms that he iii noT enter, aerersl cf the goet tniss nothing rr "d tbe effects cf ths rog this morning. to Albany. There titty were ditched by an unkind brakeman who did not see tluit one of the hoboes was a girl dis guised In man's clothing. Beach Roseburg. By another train they reached Rose burg and here they stopped, nulte un aware that Roseburg is on the bad town list of the tramp brotherhood because all southbound trains leave there dur ing dayliuht. After that evening's ride to Albany. Marv Bell wanted to come back home. But she knew not how to beat her way alone, so there was nothing else to do hut go on to Roseburg with Gage. Sh.3 was glad when naf ana ine iwo iuin hoboes wl'h them were arresjed. She was not kept In Intl. but turned over to the care of a private family. Mary would have been In Roseburg vet if she had not helped herself to some articles of clothing when she left the home of Miss I,otto Gray, 449 Knst Yamhill street. She left her own home because her rnotlier would not allow her to marrv the young man of .her choice, a man other t'.ian Gneo, by the wav. Identity of Watch Owner. Gage had two women's watches when ;rrested at Rosehurc. for he h id forced Marv to return the watch be ha 1 given her in Portland. The police are anxious to learn the Identity of tbe young woman from whom Gage obtained the watch he gave Marv. and they are also curious shout the cither timepiece. He Is being held in Roseburg on a charge of vagrancy, which may be changed to larceny when the Portland police learn more about the watehe. Ietectivn Inskeep and Marv Pell ar rived in the citv last -.niiig The lar ceny case against ti . girl will not bo pressed, it Is unders -! "Why did I leav. home? Pecans" I can play the trombone and I watte! to get to Frisco an ! p'.av in th- orchestra, tnen travel around the c.-mtry They kept me too close in Portland" This Is the wav wavward Marv answered when questioned about l.er trip this morning. With her hair unkempt. whlt wnlst torn and roiled, face begrimed with dust and coal soot, Mary Istightngiv chatted, about hrelf with th- .-r--free non chalance of a typical fl v ! r ir1 .f ln 'juestloned about l,.T. If t ed to r trip ' from Pnrtlnnd to Rosehurc In a box cir. Blind to Offense. From her conversa; lo:. and actions, she Is as l11nd to the conss-r-iencoa of I wanted to go to Frisco. was going and that 1 could hobo It wich Mm. Another fellow went with us and a third joined us at Albany. We had a gay time of It, I tell you. "We were In Albany all day Sunday and bummed around town. I had enough grub to eat for a week and we got along all right. "At Roseburg the fellows had to go to jail and the officers sav they are to do hard labor for five days." The girl inugnert heartily at the recollection. "That's a good joke." she said. Down In Rnsehurg Mrs. f'olllns tried to Impress upon the girl the sorrow she nan brought tn her mother. " h, I'll settle dow n when T get to be aa old as mamma. 1 will tall her all about tt when I see her." Mrs. Collins took pity on th girl's shambling appearance when she was taken Into custody, and forthwith pur chased 10 yards of calico. Learned to Sew. "I'll make a nice new dresa of that." the girl declared "1 learned to sew In the reform school. They sent me up in the state of Washington. They had no business to. but they did " Later Mrs. Collins prevailed upon the girl to wait on table, hut lo r gay and Irresponsible manner whs a trifle too mi. eh for the quiet restaurant and Its se.;ate Donrcers. tine of the first cus tomers she waited on was a young man, who ordered coffee and hot cakes. "If you want hot cakes." said Mary, "you go roit in the kitchen and cook them the griddle is hot." The cus tomer took the girl at her word and cooked his own cakes, while Mnry Hell found uncontrolled amusement In his ef forts. I 'I did not lose mv job in the laundry. I a the papers f.i. declared the i;irl "I I just got tired and iiiit 1 an going to - he married to a man here ;n Portland atl-n of 1-abor, . r.,.T- .jt(.-i ioi, pat oe win not marry ir.e aft-T 1 hav e h. n' hoboing, but I know he win jut HH soon as he has heard my side of the siorv." Hie murder caused great excitement1 among the whites, and race feeling' ran high. The negroes threatened to or- : ganise against the whites, and " at a meeting of a negro lodge resolutions ; Indorsing the killing of Cunningham were unanimously Adopted. When this became known the whites were infuriated. The four men said to have been the nrltrlnHfor of thn cam. lie said lie i lutlons were arrested and placed in lali on the charge of conspiracy. Ths whites determined that immediate sna summarv action was necessary, and ths mob was formed quietly, without any warning to the Jailer, who realized that it would be useless to resist. The ne groes were taken quietly to the "old hanging; tree," where many blacks have died, and were speedily executed. Ths mob then dispersed. Tho lynching of the four men has terrorized the negroes In this section, and it is not probable that there will bs any further trouble. Cunningham discharged Browder; " who had been employed on the farm; and the negro, resenting his dismissal, waited an opportunity and killed tht ' farmer In cold blood. . f I P I NTS CAHHOT SUCCEED Gompers Thinks New Party Has Small Chance of Winning. WEAK-HE Fir FOR THE DALLES FOLKS (Spcll pispno-h to Tt Journal The Pall-, nr. Aug i Within ten davn the Eastern Oregon Brewing com pany of this cltv will begin to supply the surrounding drv counties with "nenr beer," the non-alcoholic beverage slm llr In taste to beer. The new aroll- of I II. her hobo experiences as the bedraggle.1 1 ni-i are now being Installed, and the flowers which once adorned hi r hat. new product wfll socn be manufactured. x t 1 i I " IMPROVES EACH WEEK The Sunday Morning Journal Magazine keeps Its promises to furnish Interesting resillrg for sll Tomorrows Issue will contain "The Ideal Man and the Standard Horse aa the Government fWe Them " "First tVomsn to Pcele Mount ITrxvl This Tear" A Portland lady's experience as a Mauna "John Worth Krn s llimf and Political 1.1 f Ni question of his popul int x. "Fns'srd iom to Amerb a fr M-vll Tcrurg Mn s Christian Asso ciation -One of te B-autv Spots rf the World" Warders of Wallowa lake. "Poor (Hrls to Whom diplj Cair.e Wfh Mil'l'ns" Tounf women who have married wealthy rren. The City That la Officially In Baseball. ' Or.Iy city In ths world that l Rad stout It Hesvy-Wefg ,t Brigade Astonishes Kngl: i Athtes" All a boat ths American tnlet-s at fie Olympic. Many other special features and all the nws worth publishing. Comlr pria, worr-an page, children a pares and three-page spertlce section 'jusled by rone oa the Paifc cnaat. , Ask for the Sunday Morning Journal - - trnited Press leased Wire.) Washington. Aug. I. Samuel Oom per president of the American Fedr at! n of Iabor, tn an Interview today,; said: "I have been asked why I did not Wait until after the convention of the Inde pendence party before I urged the labor men to vote for a candidats for presi dent Without dlsparnglng that party. X think everyone will agree with me, tost It cannot he successful In .this cam paign." (iomperv said that In his opinion the ware-earners of the country will h, b-sl protected under the plat form of the lemocrntlc party, and (lyes that as his reason for supporting Bryan, wifHIuiid ! (ililllC BESIDES General Wanlell ''Is Nnrso and Keeper In Isolated 3Iountain Cabin. (t'artei Praas Li m I w re Plsw. Aria, An . L-'ar ri f wtf a. whffl have Nctm a racing r dnrs teaming that she ! 1': freecl lsvkt K. Warlflt l fa tln t4ay t a caton t a i side seer Twt'" leiwrii M M . 'M' ' . ! m . , e e lately or41 t - n , te nsalf. a - -, Hv-i st Tr- -.. e ' tkelr f f t f-.-"i rf l a A- r ' I - T