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"'IN PORTLAND AND III OnEGO.'l fiEARLV EVERYCODY READS THE JOUn.'IAL"TIIArS THE VERDICT AND MORE AND MORE PEOPLE READ IT ALL THE TIME. DO.YTYOlii ! II ADVERTISE III THE DAILY JOURNAL FOR THE BEST RESULTS Tha Weather Bbowera tonight or Friday; southerly wlnda. , JOURNAL CIRCULATION TKSTE1UMT WAS 30,501 VOL. VII. NO. 187.' PORTLAND, i OREGON,. FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER; 9, ,1808. -TWENTY PAGES.,' PRICE ' TWO - CENTS . rwt . ' ' " ' ' ' ' .-A ". ' ' ' '"' ! .: 1 i ' i . i . 1 WITNESSES: CULLED BlMDSMINED defense Seeks to Prove That TheresWas fcegulari i;; Assist V Prosecution Alleged " Conver : satidns Before Jurors to Be Aired. TO IDENTIFY : MD PISTOL COM Weaving of the circumstantial thread upon which the state hopea to convict Edward H. Martin of be murder of Nathan Wolff waa begun In earnest in the circuit court this morning. Before the noon re cess today two acquaintances of Mar tin had ; testified that the .blood stained: overcoat found in South Portland- with a gun stolen from the Wolff pawnshop closely resembles an overcoat worn by Martin before the murder. ' The owner of the stolen gun was also produced and identified, it These , were the chief points of the state's' evidence, "so far as to connect . Martin with the crime. Several de tectives were called to complete the proof concerning the death of Wolff and the disordered condition of things in the pawnshop on the night of ,the murder. . u f , r. ' Another feature .'of , the morning was- an effort y;thejdefense to present tes-J ...timony. to.- snow. Jtnar jjetectivea.. jrnc and Hellyer ftufted ln;;;when sine jury went to view 'thw acene of tha tragedy yesterday afternoon. It is claimed by the; defense that these officer without authority talked to the jurors or in the presence of the Jurors, explaining; where tha "body lav and how the ehop looked the night of the murder. Their allegod misconduct ls-to"be- made One of the points of the defense in a tight for a new trial if Martin should be convicted. ' " " Kartia xs Stolid.' .if Keenly observant of everything that transpired, y Martin eat - beside his at torneys this morning;. One by, one he saw the bloody ax and its broken handle, "the . stained handkerchief, the f un with the. -blood on it. the collar alrlT saturated . with - Nathan .Wolff's lifeblood and the overcoat said to be Jils that carries a crimson coloring; all over its front, paraded In front of him' and shown to the Jury.- Ing the exhibit tl The more horrify- the greater the Interest that Martin took in it. bending- half over the table at times to obtain a closer view of the mute accusers.- When the collar was passed to the attorneys ror examination aaarun spent some time inspecting- It., apparently searching to make out the nau-oDmer afed laundry , marks and brand. And When the ax,; with some of Wolff's hair still clinging- to its biaae. was nanaea toa witness ior. examination,. Martin s eyes followed it : closely until after it was returned to its Dlace. ' Innocent or guilty, his wonderful nerve in- the ' presenoe - of ' the horrible reminders of the crime is allae remark able. One would think from observing his conduct that he is making- a study of the case, as a spectator might. He Is not a man of emotions, and his coun tenance, never bears a shadow. When some statement is made that might l seem favorable to him as showing- slight discrepancies In the testimony of the i state, ne sometimes tins nis eyeorows and smiles. . At other times he makes notes, which he evidently hopes will be i or use to Dis attorneys later on. During a brief recess he turned to where his wife sat. First he . shook handiiwKh, her,' and her .'' sister then kissed her the first time that he has made jiny . enow -of affection for her since the trial hpirnn. When he came in early. 1n tb;e morning he- had "merely spoken to her and smiled. t; Miss i Griffin,' 'Mr.'! Martin's sister, was regarded in -the early atagea of the case as a proDams witness ior tne state. Shortly- after the aeosation eaaswj My Martin s arrest ' ane disappeared, bat l the defense has all the time said: she I would- return for the trial. - It- is now i evident that if she Is a wiinesa.fo' tha state at all-It will te Tor the. defense.. She sits, byithe aide of -Mrs. . Martin. both of .them ' -oulet observers of the I courtroom .scenes. ; t yt . - , First ; mention of the ' overcoat sup posed - to. have been owned ' by Martin and planted " with a stolen gun in soutn t-oruana, wnere it was round on the -night. timonv identified . . the run pawned with Wolff. Then A, W. Allen, a retail druggist at gixte-emn; ana warsnau streets, waa I rr-T . - - Jjl rynii - iifi'aiiiiiifititiii-riferti'Wiisyiskiiii i'iiii mfi i i m u rniinninisir mi i mi siiMirniiisiiisiissiiin '-, J JAIL Willi; ESCAPE BUttn HOLE 10 TURKISH FORTS FIRE John Bowers; Charged With Attempted , Murder : and Arthur Clark, Jjarccnfst, Break Out of . Oregon City . County Prison. Edward It. Martin, From Photograph Taken st'tho Xine ofttw Arre,t, " ; i" -Z - : ' '.. WW I TRUSTS 111 THE RIGHT .w1S6.a Eelies onVill of -theEeople - vuy . giva i Tf 1 I O Wi n Til aJ T Till I A f f poraiions 0 (Continued on Page Three.) inicfiTunpic it aznt rcmtiHiiLif i nun FORM FAIR Management Plans to Erect Buildings and Secure liocationr (Special Dlspatck to Hie lonraat) s Pendleton, Or.. Oct. 9. Permanent buildings will house the Umatilla- Morrow district fair next year if the present plana are prosecuted. Although the management as yet has mad no plana .for future fairs, it is understood that the men who at pres ent control the destinies of the associa tion favor permanent buildings and that If the problems of transportation are solved ' and they continue in manage ment the fair next year will be better both in , the character and the bousing or the displays. In case of acquiring permanent build ings the association will lace the nrob lem of transportation. It haa been sug gested that If the lnterurban road comes through by next year ana a location can be secured within a reasonable distance or town wnere Duiidings ror the ex hibits can be erected and a track, pre ferably a mile track, can be built that a stork company be organised and un dertake the work. Another plan is to secure simply a location for buildings and maintain the same pleasant social arrangements that have- made the fair a auceess under present conaiuona in case this scheme Is adopted it has been recommended that the lota belonging to the ERB CASE TAKES SHAPE OF PLOT - (United Press : Leased,' Wire. kin' Jollet, IlU.Oct. 9. Ina speech. here' today ' William i J. Bryan expressed -hia confidence, tha.tw-f'righf wlll;,triuniph'ri in the present campaign and said: v ,i1 i am sure mat tne wiu or tne . peo-, pie will 'overcome the ' wishes ' of the. corporations, which desire the - election of Judge Taft to-the presidency."? " Bryan wen over the main . Issues of publlcan platform and the manner-, in Theory That Wife and Her ths campaign s ha. '-. ' 1 been conducted. . Sister .schemed to Get Property and Kill. Former Governor David R.f Francis of Missouri Is accompanying Bryan on His tour or tne- state. city belonging near the water pumping station be se- curru ior uie purpon. (Halted Press teased Wire.) Philadelphia, Oct. 9. New light is thrown' today on the traglo killing of Captain 'J. C Erfr in his country home near Media by the finding of his army revolver with' an empty cylinder and clean barrel. -In hia room. A box of 38- callber cartridges, fitting the weapon. were found under a dresser in the room of Mrs. Erb. The theory of the police is that the cartridges were removed to prevent Erb using the weapon in self- defense. Philadelphia. Oct. 9. clans say that Mrs. J, The Jail phjl- who) tried to hanr herself to a bedDost in tne Media jail yesteraay. win re. cover and be able to stand trial for the murder of her husband, of which she and her sister. Mrs. Katherlne Belsel, stand accused. The two women are accused of nlnt- tins to Xet Krb's nroDertv in his wife's name and of then trying to kill him with slow poison. - Failing- in this, say the police, they lured him to a lonely place and ahot him. Mra Erb is said to have twisted her underskirt, into a rone yesterday and attempted to strangle herself to death. The timely Interference of Jail nanas savea ner me. BIG WATER TANIv AT . TOMBSTONE DYNAMITED (United Press LesssJ Wire.) Tombstone. Arts., -Oct 9.- TheTomb- Stone consolidated Mines company, has employed detectives' to discover; who dynamited the 16,000-gallon water tank that supplied the rallL The town was ahaken yesterday '.by the explosion and several mill employes narrowly escaped death. The pipeline. 'from the tank -to the mill was destroyed... A reward of $260 for the srrest and conviction of the dynamiters haa been offered. Although the officials attrib ute the act to a disgruntled employe they cannot fix the blame, as there has been no trouble .with any of the workmen recently. IIEIOJORDEATII ; OF SWEETHEART G'uy.4 Rasor Suspected Shooting Ora. Lee at WadsworthV Ohio. - .(Halted Press Leased Wtrs. ) (Special DUpsteh to Tb Joaraal. Oregon ( City, Oct. 9. When Janitor Nehren entered the' courthouse at an (early hour this morning- he found that two prisoners had effected their escape last night. The prisoners were John Bowers', held for,, trial for an attempt to kill his wife, at ' Gladstone, a few weeks ago. and Arthur Clark, serving a six months' sentence for;' larceny of a lot of tools from a woodcutter's camp a month ago. The' prisoners had burned their way out during' the night. t :, , A Tttln Celling. . The jail ,1s In the basement of the courthouse. The walls iof the Jail are of rock, the floor of concrete and over head, celled with matched celling lum ber. Through this, ceiling, which- Is oniy an incn ttnoK tne escaped- prisoners burned a no about a, loot squaratWllh a -rei not poKer. . . ,, j , ... .. . Through this .the men. crawled , then Dv thn same nrocess. burned an opening a foot Pfpiare t.irough the floor ot tne conrtnouso -aoout a root aoove the cUSifc au4,4atat. tbm- aasaeor,a -ef- Xeavs by Oourthons Soot, ! After era wMnsr throuxh the- two open ings, into the .assessor s off Ice was an easy 1 tasK, - and -th ball- door of the courthouse -being fastened by an ordin ary -latch lock, it was no trouble to walk out Into the street and disaonear There were five prisoners in the Jail at the time of the break. Matt JanclgaJ. held for trial for the murder of . Mary Hcnmrexer, two montns ago; f. j. Wil son, charged with criminal assault: John Wallace, serving time for petit lar ceny, ana cowers ana jiarx. Bowers and Clark occupied one cell, Wifson and waiiace occupiea a ceu across the hall and jancigaj occupiea tne -steel cage. Had It been otherwise, the Jail might have been without an occupant this morning. , , - ... Misses Ethl and Letba Jackson, two clerks in the assessor's office, were at nrnfir Tn.r. v,nm - ia u n-rtinntf m.. t i. . With a bul- and heard the noise underneath but ON l-LAu Abdul Hamid Sultan of Turkey of Wadsworth, Ohio, Oct. 9. let' wound in the temple; the body of I thinking it to be caused by wood-rats, Ora Lee, 20 years old, was found on which Infest the building, they paid no uiBrwuBioQ iwu mits soutnwest ox town earlv-todav. There were no ev dences of a struaalo. the limbs havim been (Straightened out and the clothing cartttuuy arrangwi. Beside 'thai girl's body lay her sult- casa ' no weapon was found by the orrtcers who" seftrched tha Sheriff Hutchinson later vicinity. arrested finv Rasor, 25-years of age,,, on suspicion. Rasor 'was engaged to, marry Miss Lee. The. girl left her home last night at 7:90 o'clock-to ao to Klttman. a near by .town. i MAX KILLED Itf f r, TRACTIOX SMASIIUP ! BRYAH'S FINAL SPEAKING DATES jr.-- . . . (Cnlted Press tested Wire.) iraverhilV Maas Oct.,9.V-With a ter rifle crash a ,vestlbuled.Oeorgetown car of j,-he ! Boston i Northwestern Electric road was struck by' a work car at the foot' of ; a steep hill near here today, killing one-man instantly, iniurlna- an. other fatally, end wounding a score of passengers. The. rear of the George town car waa smashed bv the Imoact and the work car telescoped the passen ger coach for half its length. The motormsn of the work car claims that the slippery rails made the brakes i Ineffective and scarcely affected the! Will Oose Night Before Election at Omaha, With Grand Rally. (United Press Leased Wire.) New York. Oct. 9. The final speaking dates of Bryan's campaign were an nounced at headquarters here today. He will speak at . Madison .Square Garden, October 2; Brooklyn, October 2; Syra cuse, October 23; Burralo, October 30 Chicago, October 81. Bryan will make his fin si address of the campaign at Omaha on the night before election and it Is understood that i' las.; ':r.r:vrv,( i&teM 7 ' Imm 'if' v PBiijfl.r tii'i lit 7- , COURT General Situation in Bal kans More Serious and Complicating Than Ever Before. ?; England Sends Fleet to Lemnps SfafpstMob4. olizing Austria Defiant (Catted Press Issed WlM.) Vienna, Oct. 9. The Turkish, forts at Constantinople hate fired . on a vessel on the atraits of the Bosphorus that was flying the new '. Bulgarian flag of independence, according to a message just receired here. The gen eral, situation la far more serious than eer before. - A declaration of w ar. 'bet ween ''Austria-And. Sef via la expected any tnoment . Russia's fleet in the Black Sea Is mobilizing. Brit ish ships naVe- been ordered to ateatn m mediately to Leranoa, a Turkish dependency. w-At general' breaking away of the Turkish, empire is Immi nent and the complications. confront ing the powers beepme more tangled every, hour; i . v . .' . - v '. - , t , , (United -Press eaaed Wire" vOlympia, Wash., J Oct.' 9. The larg psaudiencoeverpreaent '"at the su preme court attended, the, session Jtoday Beginning at 10 o'clock arguments be gan on the four'attacks upon the direct primary law. -.They will be concluded late this afternoon; -when the: court will retire ,'fbr consultation and will proba bly follow -the usual custom and take the questions under advisement. The -date when the decision will be rendered rests entirely with- the court. It may "be wlthln24 hours' and It may Lije as many months. Alliuun ilia vanuiuaico iricsriu st inn hearing were .M. .E. Hay and W. P. Bell, both directly Interested in the outcome. St. Petersburg1, Oct.-9. Fearing that Austria .contemplates, taking advantage of the situation in Scrvla as an oppor tunity' for further extension of its ter ritory. Gear Nicholas today ordered the mobilization of the Black sea fleet, .It Is rumored hefe that a plan has been conceived by which Bulgaria, act ing in conjunction with Austria, will endeavor to seize part of Macedonia. If any such step as that. Is attempted Russia undoubtedly will be drawn actu ally Into the situation TnnHon Oct. 9. England today : ordered the battleships Glory and Prlnc of Wales and the cruisers Diana and Lancaster to proceed at once from Malta to the island of Lemnos which is a Turkish'-: possession, - and. IS Jocated in the Grecian archipelago, r.ngiana is taking- this action on the representation - of Turkey that only the presence ot Knsllsh warships can calm the Turkish population and prevent tile destruction of the empire. . v - f London. Oct. 9. England today aban doned hope of ' avoiding war in tne Balkana and it seems certain that noa- (Contlnued on Pag Six.) w ORDIfjANCt momentum of his car on its flight down I rlan for a big cetrbratfon that night tun iivtjiiv, r under way. DO IT NOW, OR IT MAY BE TOO LATE Scott Brooke Bujs Quarter Block at Corner of Twelfth and Washington for $135,000 Highest J Price Yet Taid for Bcal Estate in That Section. ' ' , t"ppr Washjngtoa' street rcafty es- tabllshed a aew record for high prices tkia ' morning, when Thomas 8c tt Broeke paid Illt.M for a lot 19 by 1M oa the aoatbwast corner of Twelfth and 'Wajhlnrtoa. The price rtprsaO th vatae mf tbe grmindC alace tha uIMIt-ss m tbe corner are o4d woo1 S'rurlures and of bat little worth. Mr. Prfwas Konrht the pror-erty from' Oi si f Mum Rcbl Worrta - rw erne time pest tbe march f -lws has t-n tnling towards the west tVasMnstna ctret and rrnilr we Mtti r-s. hurt been fer moaey mark on tipper Waahmrton street and eatabllshea a new .acale of raluea for realty la that district.. This Is ell tha mora a beraoM Mr. Breoke, who has been on ef , tha prominent realty ssen of the city for a trumber of ysara,. Is recognised as being a saost careful and eonserratlre leetor. Another big real estate deal waa Com pleted this morning when J. A. Sheffield, as sgent, sold the - northeast -ovartor hlock an Ninth and Dart for Ili.W Themerty fs part of the anteta.ef the OTmon Trwst s Farinas bana. an4 wefle the rim of i n rmr k ma-le rohllo, it la arwirtAvt thst I'ren 4 iee either a-xuirM tha rrrj s r a wm wm r sz .w a m m bk i m a lJ' .T--1 6IT 6 ftumm wtrr bioeiT 1UU BALLOT BOX ineiea: - Ilf-llo, KaUtla, bare . .Paattk I haret llfrv- t trrHf - ' " ! . - una. . ha4 rer'-! Despite Protest of Building Inspector, Council Commit tee Eecommends Architect's Measure Apply ing to Apartment Houses. Acting directly against the advice of Building Inspector Dobson, the health and police committee of the council has recommended tbe passage of a new building- ordlnsnca presented for Us con sideration by tK U Williams, aa-archl-tect of Portland. In urging tbe passage of this ordinance Williams said it would encourage the erection of brick and other buildings outside the fire limits Instead of wooden structures. The architect said that under the pres ent building ordinance apartment bouses and those used for similar purposes can nni ot? duiii necause tne rost would Da more than the revenue would Justify. Williams asked that the requirements for wall thickness he cut down to at least nine Inches. The committee went hlra one better, and cut It to eight. Sobsoa Against Measure. Inspector Dohaon. who had been asked to appear before tha committee and state bis ideas with regard to the pro posed measure, informed the council man that be thought It a bad one and a dangerous experiment. He said that n other; city In tha country had a similar , ordinance. When masked If tha present wooden walls in use outside the fire limits were not more dangerous than the proposed reinforced brick walls h said no, and gave as hia reason that tha great weight of the brick or Hke mate rial if not made with great stability by sufficient thickneae would be an ever present menace In case of fire because , of the tendency to fall when weak ened. :' ' Mr rtnhMii aall however, that-the present ordinance couWl be remedied so . tn iMirli nt the construction of dwell ings and. other .baildlnga at a ent which would not be prohibitive. He aked J the commute to look Into the building ordinances Of other dtle end nt action at once on the tentative ordlnanra which they were considering. ' (Cestiauad oa Page 6la ' !! KtzbULIb : The fact that Journal aJretir get wht they want and h'0 they want it," proves The Journal to be an excellent ajvrruirr dtum, xThe retolts advertuers get are commensurate with the T' b- iitnj ri ipinr annooncemem, i ne reason any iu' " " . w when The JonrnI is twed ie simrJy because Tbe Joarnal is rral in the brimes nf Pnrilml n4 Ckrrann nwt thrtrfnifi-hlr than "T ( .'f J raeliurn..'4lt i not unusual ftr J-nimal advertisers to gt r'." h'f "e Tbe Jottmal reaches their own homes or places cl bttnei. It u t ofieoualJed local-circulation of The Joaraal that gives tre r'f f remits. ,f It. Daniel, Mam insertfd an ad in The Jn:rnt t!'tg ( to let. and ki his own words fce ens wmw t; , j 'v ' withdrew the- ad immedntf !r. The J t;ml g'te tS "? Jvrr rcli..M ti all its a J rn t . , I A. Sfrrn e r!;'.(. - . tuu i iij; uji-xr tjjU.ii'.t ta tie fetAiUi: Bt trirj la, f Lj JCT11 A?ia, I?'T -t
