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Newspaper Page TextV THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 177 1908. ' THREE TIMBER SEEKERS HAVE NOT RETIIRNEI MUSICIANS DEAF SECT'Y BEIISOII III GOOD HEALTH Exaggerated Story That the Official Is in Critical Condition Denied. MOREIVORK,SAYS DEPUTY NORTH TOBAITOPEAl TOLD BY TRACKS With a Young Girl's Body in a Pond at the End of the Trail. BATE INCREASE 1 w- I ii ion Declines to Recon sider ()rj)heiun . Scale Managers Will Stand. Explanation Given for Enor mous Increase of Cost of Assessors' Office. Officials of Eijrht Eastern Hallways to Meet at Sar anac Lake Tomorrow. TALE Of TRAGEDY COIIFEREIICE Oil i f I "I Youthful Locator Confesses to the Mur der of One Man, and Sheriff Stevens Finds Watch and Pocketbook of Vic tim Where They Were Thrown in the. Bushes in Marquam Gulch. If I he Oipheum opens tonight with- Kxaggc rated reports hicamt current out an orchestra, every I hem re and i today that Secretary Of Htate Frank dime show In the city will have nnth- ' tJensoa! la In a critical condition. Ilia life lug belter t.i offer In th musical line ' depending upon the reault of an opera all wliuei limn a piano This was Early In July Wi.l'cr M Johnson. M-year-old llmbe: io.aior b-k a !" of nix men lull Washington . uuiai to show them timber ianJ. J. J- FNch.T. a curio dealer at Sixth sited ' turned within a few days. Later, 11. I.. Talk, an old soldier of Ieimis. Kan.. allowed up. Last niRht Johnfon signed hi.. m,s fractured and ti e top of the ; .. i ! v a blown off .' liiis..Ti ; uur.R w !fc -it.. I t heir little 1.. . lia'. " it room In the Saietn lodging i... g. ni JiiS's I'roiit Mioi t. Mm. Jolm-.-oii Is a young :lrl not more than IN; x . -in old Sh, .-veins to have been1 st aimed l.j the 1 ra Kt-il . When she was unreel iijioii till nfternoon iit h meet ing of tlie various theatrical managers f the i lly. Musician engaged at the lielllg, llrt- lur, I.vih. Grand. Star mid Hungslow unit nt 1'iilm'n innl Lewis' dimo shows ! iin.l nlkelodcons a well. have been atM'ii nntli'o thut their mi vices will not ! hi needed, two weeks from Inst Thurs jditv. "I'll I a was done at that time In anticipation of trouble over the Oi phcutn opening. I ho iiiiuui musicians had no fixed i. (,-. fn u t hunt re ot llie urpntiiini ' .1 l - mt U.n"! ITpan.,1.,.. for cancer of the stomach, 'but these reports appear to be utterly unfounded At the office of the secretary of state In Salem It la stated In the most em phatic terms fhat Mr. Benson Is In his usiihI health; that he Is In Ban Fran cIsco for k brief vacation, and that there is not the slightest cause for the sensational story that Is In clrcuia tlon. 8. A. Koser, deputy In Mr. Benson's office, said tills afternoon "Mr. Kenson went to an Francisco S confession admitting that he had mm li. ii this morning she was holdinn th niti'sliiK baby In her arms Heated on .11: .f tl :,liii-lllt rty. , dered Elmer Perdue. The other tlnee have plelely. Whether an Investigation will reveal that the missing iiieinb. rs of Johnsons tartv met with Perdue s fate or nm mi n iinmnde bed In the midst of squalor onruslwn. pin stared at the floor liber answered not at nil or in iS 1 1 a 1 1 i i M. nobody can tell but It is the b. lief ot i Will Knows Nothing-. ' Jlv huslmi d told me nothing of his dn;!-. bhc Paid. "1 don t know what to think. I don't know whether It's not. lie was a good husband when thev were usked to put partly for a vacation and partly to con suit a physician mere in regara 10 a sllirht affection Of his nose which has been troubling htm ror aome months. His family ale at Gardner. Or., and there Is not the least foundation for any rumor that he la to undergo a serious operation or that his life Is In any dan ger. "Pome time ago he underwent the ittv no more trsn inai. i u..- un miun . --.. - - - - - - - wh romm.iiil.ai.d to the Musicians' his nosa and received benefit from it ni,.n with the rvsult that a meeting but when the treatment was suspended ....... .i.i. ,,.iii r,p iii. nurnose for. a time the trouble was renewed. of reconsidering the rpheuni price lint. He decided to consult a San Francisco Hut It ns nt rt onsldored. and unless I physician) while on this vacation trip ,, tv..Mii.r U urilllliied for IhlS Brier- rum miumm iiu uuuui. iiii imi In an or. I.esu.i ot 10 men the noaru or .1 ri'i'lm" K"1 logejher and fixed Miliu ms at $!.'. pet week for side rnusLcluns, the leaders salary to be fixed by the maniiKOinont and himself. Ti e Grand Star and other houses t.liiyinK two performances a day are niivint li'T a week for side men, Hnd the Mtilieiiin ninnauerH declare they will Hut 1 knew nothing of this thing- Johnson told the sheriff that his wife knew nothing of tr.o cane and that he had told no one else of II ilo.s not boliuve that Mrs both Fischer amir Park that the othe were murdered by Johnson for tin It money. Owe of them, a prosperous-appearing pawmin limn, is Known to imsi 'had ii considerable amoui.t of money on his person at the time he was last wen. The two others were Swedes and their names are unknown. -Johnson- was arrested by Phertff George C. Hancock of Washington coun ty while eating omner m me loh, ,..1sp ,,f Kr 1;Ls flrs, ,r.,i Illtttion as restaurant at Grand and Haivthoi at i t r, y f rom Fischer the Portland avenues last night. He was taken t sfattoWrr't.o' liaT"1)een one oT'john- tne county Jan ana alter a tnree-nouis s,,,,'s original partv. Fischer wrote cross-examination by Sheriff Stevens ,i. rifr B...i i.,id him that lie thought itne niis.-ing mlllman might ha'e h.en the iersn whose bodv had been found. noon by the tmaiil oi uirecioia. inc pheum artists will have to appear minus the Hi'coini.unlnient of the strings, reeds, drums and brass. The tin at re managers, according to a The sheriff statement given out this afternoon, will Johnson was stand united to the last .men in saving given rise to the story that he is suf ferlng from cancer. "The story is not true. Mr. Benson la in his usual health and spirits and such false reports about him are un warranted." Inquiry In other quarters elicited sim ilar statements from friends who are awar" or wnal had liappeneo. it 1H uie i i inieun. in;... .ia,.., j - familiar with Mr R.ninn'i rnnriltlnn nt said, howev,,, that he had planned to. higher scale than the. cheaper houses, j ""' r wltn Mr "enson s condition of , . . - i. . ,. i. I -T-li.... I Ku I I l,a n 1 1 1, 1 1 P W ill hpll r W ITU I ,i. at iea nir aiitiiKU uiis weva. Since the disVov. ! - of Purdue's bad- i 1- decomposed hodv In the woods nar . Huxton f iieriff ianeo k of Washlng ' ton counlv luig. ben working on the and Deputies lonard and Wood made a confession In which he said that Ic had Shot Perdue, in self-defense, had dragged the body several hundred feet through the "brush and hidden it by heaping it with brush and rolling a loi upon it. Rifled Body of Victim. Before taking the body from the hnnsi I he sheriff wrote back a.sklng lor a description of the millman and sending one of the recovered nod. Fischer and Park recognized the description of 1 the height of the body and or a ring found on one of the fingers which nia.ln it certain that the dead man was Per- i due. Ife said he rifled the pockets, taking J13a In money and a watch and pocketbook Running Down Murderer. ith. tSTT 1LUlBo,thlnKS he Pockets ( wm, hj ag garter. Unnco, k be- VLlSh.b,?i,,ereH't r.",''1 1 K l!'e "rk of tracing down Johnson, find these things last night and led the. Uu..- ih,.v well ami wan M on eriff to Marquam gulch, near the ,..,.,,. ' ( .,,-, ..,,. ,k,. na crossing, of First .street. it was too , Johnson on the street! fol- dark to find them last night but Sheriff Ktevens and l'eputy Slierirr Leonard searched the gulch this morning and lo cated the pocketbook and knife In a clump of blackberries bushes. He also '.found the rifle which Johnson used to shoot Perdue and which bad been re turned to its owner in Portland. lowed her for a while and then asked the assistance of Sheriff Stevens. Deputies Leonard and Wood were put on the case and watched Mrs. Johnson. They found that at flrt he had been living at Harrison Court, at Fifth and Harrison. Thev learned that although he had been without money when he DISSENSION Oil W D Y ' Johnsons only motive for the murder Kinrte,i oui on his locating trln .appears to have been robbery, although i j,e had paid Fischer and Park's ex he states in his confession that he and penses on their trip and had spent a Perdue quarreled a,nd that Perdue good deal tf money since the Fourth of reached for his revolver, circumstances I July. Then thev lound that he had point strongly to the young tlmberman j moved to the Salem bouse near Front having attacked his client while he was i and Madison streets and had later gone asleep, stunned him with .1 Munt weapon to the enst side. and then shot him. When the body of Yesterday afternoon Sheriff Hancock Perdue was found several weeks ago the' was in Portland and met Mrs Johnson. They trust that the public will bear with i hem nn.i he satisfied ith the runs and trills on a piano, the manipulator of which, the union musicians promise, wfil have to he nonunion. I'mier the union rules It will be impossible for the plano Jil4Jers to retain their positions. At the meeting' of the musicians this morning George I.. Baker, presi dent of v the theatre managers' associa tion, explained that It would be a los ing proposition for the urpheuon circuit to include Portland and for that reason he thought the musicians should be as lenient as possible. The musicians, however, contend that every business is more or less of a losing proposition from the start and they can see no better reason why they should reduce the valie- of their services since it was not likely that the performers would quote the Orphcum special rates be cause of Portland being now on the circuit. Possibly ft meeting win oe neiu mis' fi-if.a Pi- ni Afternoon bv the contesting parties and c. .'', ,.'.,,. a truce declared to permit of further! San Francisco. Aug. 17. According to negotiations, although the theatrical j William B. Jack, one of the members of managers declare that they will not the amateur 'crew that sailed the yawl arbitrate or recede from the posit on ,., . - ., already announced. So far as they nr0 Gwendolyn II from flan Pedro to Hono concer'ned they seem to be. willing to lulu on the trans-Pacific, yacht race and try the piano 'on 'its merits and fix the hater from Honolulu to Hllo, the little n'bomimolanwin be thrown '1 will have some rough weather be out of employment unless the notices fore she gets to Pugct sound on the re cancelling their engagements be abro- j turn voyage. Jack, who arrived here Kitedj j today on the Pacific MaiP'Tiner Man- j i churiu says Captain Redferfr Is respon- followed her across the Madison I s"" ior ranoi ion oi luuimv Member of Crew Charges Captain Kedferd AVith Swellhead. Unusual growth of population Iti Mult nomah county, the Increase of building and the number of personal taxpayers are given by "Deputy County Assessor North as chief factors for the great Increase In the cost of conducting tne assessor's office for the last few years. He expresses the opinion that the a"-) sessor's work has grown In greater pro portion than the work of other county offices, with which comparison was made In the Sunday Journal. In explanation of the $4,700 Jump In the cost of the office for the first six months over the last six months of 1007, Deputy North asserts that a greater roportion or tne worn naa oeen aone urlng tne first hair or the year man usual. The record of coat for five years past shows that the expense has al ways been greatest In the second half. but Mr. North has hopes that the last six . months of 1008 will not be so heavy as the first six. A big force of field deputies on personal tax work was put in tne field earlier than usual, ne says. Mr. North also explains that the cost of checking t p Improvements has great ly grown. He says that plats for the use of the Sheriffs office force have 3IRS. KYLE IiETUKNS TO CAPITAL far"? $ i ' , --jie .i.l:.; J.J? V i'f ' - iT ; I : .' " t$! jM i i ..... . ! "S ' 14 kll ' - jr"K :iK I '-' . eJoA 1 i y f- cv. ,.v t-- w 'I f- -1 '.. . ... I - ...4 - it ..... i - T "J I ... i -t, V'A't j V :t-V S.'T V .-v - v- - .. V. f W!' -lii;'y:i L ' He followed her across bridgi to the London coffee house, where Johnson was waiting for her. Here Hancock arrested Johnson and took him over to the county Jail. For three hours Sheriff Stevens cross examined Johnson, trying to trap him. Johnson told a perfectly straight story, said he had gone out with the party, had showed them the, timber land and had gone back as far as Forest Grove w th t'i rclue. wncre ne naa leu nun. ,l. -i..4i . c t-. Then the sheriff compared some of his ; , before the start of the trans- Pacific race from San Francisco, July vessel will get across the ocean with out muoh trouble. Jack left the Gwendolyn II at Hllo after she had made the race down from Hllo, after an altercation with Captain Redfern, In which Jack received a cut over the eye with a belaying pin. He has his head in a bandage from his ex perience. According to ma story, tne trouble on statements with others, wound the sus nect no and Kot a confession within a few minutes. Murdered in Cabin. Johnson slated that ho and Terdue spent the night of July 3 in the little; cabin near where Perdue' 8 body was afterward discovered by a farmer's I bov. He said that berore Perdue got , ! up' in the morning they had a quarrel 1 ......... H. ullnvln over monev nm. i.-i .1. . ' I'liio ni'.ftiiifi that Johnson had tricked him into tak-' lug up the wrong claim, and that. Per- 1 fue reached behind his bed to secure ark's revolver. Then Johnson reached lor his rifle and shot Pm due dead. He rifled the pockets, dragged the body by. the feet to a little gi.!rh, secreted it I and then isvide his wuj back to Port- : 'land by a roundabout p-ine. There was no remorse in Johnson's I manner after having told the story, and i he seemed ..relieved to have 1; ,,ff his mind. He Mnn taken to liillshnro this ; morning on the 7:1," trait, l.y Sheriff. I J Iuncock. , ! Very Hltle is known r. f perdue. John-1 ! son's victim. It is fald that lie was a j young man who had com,, to Portland ! from Spokane, but that his home was 1 In North Carolina. The sheriff is trv j lug to locate his relatives , r friends.' Johnson Is the smi of " 'haries M. I Johnson who kept a saloon jn Cornelius for some years. He has been a Ri.ionn- Keeper, nartenuer ami tinnier locator. : with no fixed homo. Ills wife Is. a I daughter of Itller Thomas of Xehalern. ; She expects to go back her parents. 4. He alleges that Captain Redfern at tacked Ed Russell, one of the members of the crew, who is a cripple, and ho Interfered. Redfern's attitude resulted In a state of mutiny on board the yawl, says Jack, but this was carefully hidden both on the Pacific coast and in Hono lulu. Jack arrived on board the Gwendolyn at the last minute on the day she sailed from Hllo and was attacked bv Red fern. After the fight. Jack left the yawl und Captain Redfern started back to Puget sound with only Dean and Fred Johnson and Ed Russell to help him sail the vessel. "Unless Dean Johnson makes up his mind to appoint Redfern absolute cap tain of the boat and to defer to him in everything, there will surely be trouble before the Gwendolyn II reaches Puget sound," says Jack today. "Redfern Is put out because Dean Johnson got aome of the cremt ror navigating tne yacnt across the Pacific." been made by a deputy In the assessor's office, and joints out that the cost of tne ooara or equalisation is cnargea to the assessor's office, because that is the handiest nlaoe to charge It. This apparently does not affect the compara tive figures given in the Sunday Journal as the cost of equalisation has been charged to the assessor since 1905. Mr. North states that when there Is bo exemption on personal property the cost of the office Is Increased about threefold while the work is being done. Every man has to he assessed. If he has only 15 worth. This also has little application to the criticism now being directed at the assessor's office, for the reason that in the time from 1904 down to the present time there was only one year when there was an exemption on personal property. That was in 1906, when every head of a family was enti tled to Immunity on $300 north of goods. in spite ot the exemption in i06. however the cost of the office Increased nearly $400 dver 1904, when there waaj no exemption, ana in inuo, wnen there was no exemption, It Increased about $1,200 over 1905. This shows that the exemption for the one year did not stop the increase of expense, or cause any large fluctuation. In 1905 some ad ditional expense was entailed bv the taking of the census, but this cost was not all Imposed on the assessor's office. As shown by the figures given in the Sunday Journal, the cost of the office of the assessor shows 199 per cent in crease for the first six months of the present year over the first six months of 1903, while In the offices of the sheriff, county clerk and tax collector the In crease has been about 60 per cent. Fig ures can be given showing that within this time there has been an enormous expansion in the business done in these offices, some departments in greater , .proportion than In the assessor's office, i In 1903 there were 3,148 pages In th j county tax roll. In 1907 there were : 4.148 pages, an Increase of about one- third, rtr 32.5 per cent. If the Increase in COTl III LI1C BBOCODMI n "(li-O r- IISU UCTCII j at the same ratio as in the offices with ' which comparison Is made, It would j have cost $8,264 to have conducted it ' for the last six months, instead of $16, 474.22. County Assessor Slgler Is out of the city on vacation, and Deputy North i spoke for the office today for this rea son. Mr. North said that he had Just been congratulating himself on getting the work In the office so far along, and he figures that the assessor has done unusually well this year. He says that he and many of the deputies have worked nights on extra time, free of cost to the county, and he is informed that Spokane, with haJf the population of Portland, spends $80,000 per year for Its county assessor. (United PreM Leased Wlrs.l Palmer. Mass., Aug. 17. With man's footprints as their only clue the detectives today are trying to solve the mystery about the murder of Faith Davis, a 15-year-old girl, whose body was found In a mlllpond here yester day. At first It was thought the girl had committed suicide, but a careful search revealed the footprints of a man ac conipanytng hers along an unfrequented road leading to the pona. There are Indications In the foot prints that the man forced the girl to accompany mm and s.scrai times tney apparently engaged In a struggle. Care ful Impressions aro being taken of the man's tracks. Th girl probably was mistreated and then drowned. CENTURY AND A HALF FOR NOVA SCOTIA (Special Dlapatch to Th Journal.! Halifax. N. 8 , Aug. 17. Todav ush ered In a week or ceieuration or great Interest to Nova Scotia In particular and to the Dominion In general. The celebration Is to mark the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the estab. Ushment of parliamentary government in Nova Scotia, and is at the same time an obaervance of the establishment of the first like government in the Brit Isli empire. Persons prominent In the off rla life or nearly all or the can adlan provinces are arriving here to take part in the ceienration. The celebration proper will begin Wednesday and continue through the remainder or tne wee. The unveti ing of a monument commemorating the event will be one of the features and thre will be Interesting historical ex ercises held In the Provincial building. BANK CHANGES ITS PLACE OF BUSINESS The Mount Scott bank has filed a certificate of change of place of busi ness from I'nlon. In Union county, to Lents. August Franke is president of the bank and J. C Law is secretary. The Union County bank, also of Un ion, has filed articles of Incorporation, with a capita! stock of $5,000. The in corporators are H. S.. F. N. and M. S. Iyers. (United Press Leasad Wlra.) Saranao Lake, N. y., Aug. IT. Of ficials of eight railways. Including the president and vice-president of the moat Important lines In the United States, re reported to be en route here today to attend a conference to bo held to morrow at the cottage of W, C. Brown, managing vice-president of the Illinois Central. The conference was called for the purpose of solving the problem of a general advance In freight rates. Preparations for the conference were made very quietly and It was not until today that news of the proposed meet ing became generally known. NEIGHBORHOOD ROW AMICABLY SETTLED The case against George Pedelty, charged with an attempt to kill, was dismissed In the municipal court this morning and the plaintiff, E. B. Baby, was ordered to pay the coats of court, amounting to $5. Pedelty was arrested on a rh.rr that last Saturday afternoon he attacked Mrs. gaby. Her -husbanrl -'drew a'-revolver In an attempt to mak p.h.Iiv stop heating the woman, but he kept on. Mrs. Baby now claims, however, that she and Pedeltv hnd hsd a row and both had lost their tempers. Shs and her husband appeared before the court this morning and aaked to have the case dismissed, saying that Mrs. Saby was as much at fault as Pedeltv. fhe Sabys offered to nav the coats of court, and the Judge accordingly dis missed the case. YOUTH DIES OF WOUND FROM AN OLD TIST0L Martin Schoonover, the 1,7-year-old boy who was shot by his brother near Eprlngbrook Thursday morning, died In St. Vincent's hospital todav of his wound. The bullet had entered young Schoonover's groin and Injured ,hlni so that the surgeons were unable to save his life. Young Schoonover was shot while he and his brother were playing with an old revolver which thev sun- posed to be unloaded. It was rusty and had not been discharged for years. NEW EILERS MUSIC BUILDING DECLINES TO PAY FOR CHILD'S KEEP DAUGHTER TO CONTEST PRINCE DAVID'S WILL THUG HAY HAVE SHOT MILKMAN (Srerlil I Isrut-h to TtiB Jouranl ) Forest G-.-.e it. A'lg IT- I.ylrg r. p. pool of l.i- (if. I. ..!. n,.bert Woods (TnitKl Preaa Leased Wire.) Honolulu, Aug. 17. Much Interest Is centered here about the contest of the will of the late Prince David Kawana nakoa. who died about three months ago leaving a large estate. The great bulk of his property was left In the hands of John F. Colburn. an attorney who has charero of the Kaololanl estate. It Is now believed that Prince David's daughter. Princess Kawananakoa, will enter a contest. At the time his will was filed much comment was excited by the fal that the daughter was not made an heir to any portion of the estate c V. Ashford. also represent ing the Kaololanl estate, petitioned to have the will probated and It Is thought bv frieiv's of the prince that an effort Is being made to combine the two estates in one. s fol'.ll i n ; ng. t ! 1 at eight barn d, Je ( i r, e. e. ne:, r i ;n s ton The trian was In a It is t'h" se.-or.d t umn ' 'tin r y ! t 1 a t sensat of II of F,o 'KTITIOXS-FILED FOR MT. SCOTT FRANCHISE In 'a 1 1 is -i. Will to ll 'ii. ie earl , .v I r, K m Hie ! r t : nai inl:;j P der a.ct rior '. ei I had I , Denton D. Coffey, former county as sessor of Marlon county, was before Judge Webster in the county court this morning on a charge of non-support of his little daughter. The child Is liv ing with Its mother, who is cashier In a down town hotel. Mrs. Coffey was granted a divorce from Coffey In Feb ruary, 1 907, and he was then ordered to pay $10 per month for the, support of. tne -cnna. ne marriea again witnin a short time and has never paid anything as ordered by the court. Coffey did not take the stand in his own behalf, and the defense seemed to he directed to an effort to show that Mrs. Coffey Is able to take care of the child herself. Judge Webster will decide the matter tomorrow morning. Mrs. J. H. Llttlejohn gave a peppery account of her husband's conduct In falling to provide for herself and two children, 12 and 11 years of age. The testimony showed that they have had many Jars and have been living apart tdnee March. Their home has bn a scow at the foot of East Main street. : Llttlejohn asserted that he has been out of work much of the time and hag only been able to earn enough to sup- I port himself. r -1 Mi nn mi Y ' a Usm mWmm. r mm w h t mm i v$ mw w r " r s- f i h i ft-. w. ds W'o, isln tltlons asking the county court to k'a-' the application or H. S. Kelsay f.o a franchise for water and gas mains r "he Mount Scott district were filed w'th the court todav. The names of f'.'i residents of the Mount Scott ter t toiv are attached The hearing on the e .ft- has been set for 8.ntmS.r It remonstrances are being circulated In ! cabinet would not interfere with the bo-: d t 1 KKXTl'CKV XFi.I.'O SAVED KY JAIU " position to the Kelsay project and will I. presented later. MAGOOX TO TELL . T. R. ABOUT CUBA ' nltd Pre Pe.iM !r Kv A 1 7 , ,j - K a v. h v g 1 ,1 a I k .i l'vla old K 1 . ' - et, te I a .'. ! ! and p-r- ips a ra. e is: ,r A rrowi rf lac rr'eh, m er urn . i .s.,,i -t t-. manded the ne?rn. Tr.p u ; them that he til Ie. n t.-i' hioted at hirn and snil I rink t hi; do. rt dour, .t i , rts'l'r the n an Tt -ren ;...r. t ' r. J,-, jior f. o , .T A '1 IT. . 1 t - 1 t ' f Cfc, 1 1 it, A do-en ti" n w . ; - " i ! s a e ! - - I ; e v Horxsby and reported th. 1 - 1 . : , ! I r N!t.-i P"ei! n e ::: ' r tre rgro. i ;n a r:' i . , .United Ifeaa IMnl Wire) Havana. Cuba, Aug. 1 7 Governor Maecion with Captain J A. Ryan of ! Fifteenth ravalrv. will leave tr- YOUNG TURK MADE lfTVTorrrii fTi if Portland is the home office arrd ead- MIN1SIEK Or UAI! 1"rltr for ,he filers music business. which of late years has grown Into what Is unquestionably the largest and fore (Unlted Praaa Leawd Wlra ) most ratall business In the United Constantinople. Aug. 17. Osman Nlz- HtAlea ITilera atoreK are located in CV- aml Pasha was today appointed by the ery important western Amrlcan city. aultan aa minister or war to succeed including San Francisco Redjeb Fasha. wno oieo yeaterday. Th in Portland the firm owna splendid new minister Is a member of the Young wholesale facilities at Thirteenth and Turk party. The leaders of the party Northrup streets situated on the rail announced today that the change In the road trarlts- besides Its retail estab lishment on Washington street, hut In ;th- liny City th entire business la con centrated In one building Before the big fire the fillers Interests in San Francisco were housed in the beautiful History building, on Market street. After the catastrophe temporary quarters were -"secured by t he firm on Van Ness avenue, along with nearly every other tan Francisco mercantile Institution Now a magnificent flght- atorv. firerronf. "C lass A building has Magnificent new building for the Eilers music business to be fot mally opened in San Francisco next month. The next largest concern of its kind in the Bay City could be comfortably con tained below the second floor of this building. reforms, aa was atated yesterday. GOVERNMENT TO BUY BALDWIN'S BALLOON (Till ted Praaa Leaad WL-a Washington. Aug. 17. It was an nounced here today that Captain Bald ins oingioie nanoon win r pur o-ua-ere t.-laj r rr, eel re.iH 't p-.r- 'r.d", kv i' -.r rfaninmeni to i'i.n ben comDletd for the firm on Market rrow fnr New York and will m n . arH that conrreaa will be aakeH ' t r street, between the two largest depart- ivster Bay at the Invitation of Pres- fioo.oen with which to build other air- mn' Mores In that city ahlpe of similar pattern. i n nuiining wuri ine nam- ri in The announcement by Major Squires bona, ar.d haa a frontage of SO feet and that Captain Baldwin's balloon has ful- l over 170 fet in depth The main floor filled all requirements netermined the contains a isrsa srea ior me mspinr or -.t Roosevelt, who wants to talk over unan situation with thm. (HL DIVIDEND SIX PER SHARE 'frtta Preaa Leaa1 Wlra t New York Aug 17 The standard Oil sale. lUd Man Caught With lawao. (Ualt4 Prias Leaawi Wtra.l Ix Angeles. CaJ.. Aua 17 M RuU. - , . - n la in rrlKrn riara f m m k - . mpanv oi Nw Jersey today declared Ing leen laas'el tijr a fallow count ri-- d'.!-ie-.l r.' m r.,r share1 for th miir. I man after ahoottng and probebi. fatally dnd was Ji 1 preceding quarter! ,dl vi- " iBtoo. D. C, After v.. TSIo Claims, $o ' Jloiwon. Mrs Kk Ux Cutoroe, rtlr R(: uml to . 'in ' v' " T.'k v. i Coual" ' Cm t . . jbnd . . Mr. iio. l-;orT.abv was . rr-at-l ., swred the r-'rtr loi f: t r v t:-.'. girl's f'ther Tie r'- cfni t-' r oiise snd tHid the ( tu.r, T '.e i . . r 'heard her arwiitii and raaha-i ir. ,r. j room la time to the regro as h ran. Hr Horn In W(h-l Edward M Hob- - in Rl hmcir.ej P. n.,n A Thun. Ci Grove ., a Wife Fian a Suit ! Orrel liarteeii T. ( Clark L, Par rax, 114 2 B'lront street. a nd 1 It. akcd rgKaa, Late JsfacltayMs, Trraanry Statement, it'iaitee PYvaa Lraaad Wlra I Washington. Aug 17. The treasury statement today shows: Receipts, $2 -014. SIS. disbursements, $1.11,0M. Stun hj BtMdartL From the St. Louis Post-Etpatch. C'nc a year RiandaM Oil awrvea e jbenirn purpose. wbn petroleum is ud J te kill off raoewltoee. The rest ef the L i.M . ' maiiire room. r.urf room. hV,r.nP TiT. list lHl'rm. tanlng-room. locien e n erma n lata last ntgnt. waa i h . i.iMkM,. .me of a dispute ow frd. After t'nT?J .rnA, '''fF' rrand and upright pianos, also the gen eral offlclea and various private offices for managers and officers of th firm. A commodious Talking Machine Iepirt ment la also to be found on this floor. wrilch la lo-ovlng s decided Innpvation. In that It la built sound-proof and en tlralr of plate glass ( n the mexsanlne floor Is found the malllnr rnom. r.lirg-room. stool end locjters for em- tlon. ete. wounding Robert Oercla The shooting which near .a-iM hut was held br Ber-.l lnfri. ma rr Iflc-nt fire and burglar-proof U.ilrin. n nm fit ahnm car..,,. mA vault hlrn with the aid ef a laaeo Arthhort ClleaL RIchaM Martin Jr has bgtin er1t is which will srive ample security to Uie rompeny's books and records. rfpon the rx floor Is the sxttna WKere most' ef the retail ptajre awlltng prorlded for the rariiaiB makes of tn- the rtrrult court against la y Ixmtnl i wrruinents carried In stock. A separate for 11.7111. aliased to he du t I rrlT baa nlmn heoai at aside for the fleas sn4 rcircaUor. for huildinsa I wonderful Welte Mlrnon, and fnr the it which It la a 1 )d Lombard Sirred par)aas fcleetrle Piano Hre are sjee a tbT the Sum aeecinsd. lai I art tha ailaaa a-MterjIl inn atlaa The third floor Is taken up by a large concert hall, and bv a small recital hall. The large concert hall la furnished with a stage .and permanent seats, and Is equipped with a self-playing Tubular Pneumatic Kimball Pipe Organ, a Con cert Grand Piano, a Wells self-playing home Orchestrion, and the Mlgnon Ar tist reproducing piano. The smaller re cital hall la arranged ao that it will serve as a piano display room when Tiot otherwise occupied. A hall Is also pro vided for the display of Orchestrions and Pipe Organs. The fourth floor Is devoted to the wholesale Piano and Organ department, and the firth floor is for storage. The remaining floors in the building have bean sublet to various commercial in terests. The entire Market street front age of the building wss arranged Into suites of magnificent private offices. The building la supplied with a mod ern passenger elevator on the Market street frontage, and a very large freight elevator on th rear, or Stepheneon street side, haa been Installed. All de livery and receiving Is handled from the Stephenson street, frontage, where also a sidewalk elevator Is connected with th basement, which Is ten feet In the clear, and 1 1 a large stse makes It an Im portant adjunct for the establishment. Here sre located the various repair de partments, varnlahlng-rooms. packlng rooma and reneral storage ouartera Evervthlng that Is up to date Is con tained In this building, and It Is both feard and hoped bv the Portland estab lishment that very shortly now the sales of tha Ban FYannotsco Institution will erai tbe enormous record that Port land has road and Is snaking. For many rear the -Portland establishment haa fswn far In the lead of all the other Ellera Houes In point of sales. This iwmilT obtained, which showed that k- otm or an in ri i,"ii .oi-iii.iiii nia r. r i r". If ic ; will K dona Hpeial rooms have berMOrtr last year the Etlers Piano Hue handled enrer 71 rer cut a rery si ml ft. raet Indication thst the puWIe renerally rex-ognfse the tos1tion ef tbe firm to fur nish ss It advertises, "the most Intrln etn piano value at the ieweat possible cye-t t he lm?T.".