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PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1908. TWENTY PAGES.
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CHAMBERLAIN POLICE
BACK FRO!
CAPITAL ,
Governor Says Our Products
and Ideas Are Sought by
People of East Work of
livers and Harbors Con-
grcss.
DEAF
TO PLEAS OF
Oregon is In the eye of the east,
according to the story told by Governor
George K. Chamberlain who returned
this morning from a two weeks- trip
to Washington. D. C, where he at
tended the National Conservation con
gress, the Rivers and Harbors congress
and the Houthern Development congress.
being a guest Rt tho latter rather thHii
an active participant.
Oregon Is the wont talked of slate In
the union and ftamls high in the opinion
of eastera pooplo, tln governor said.
:The time has passed when no notice
Is taken of this state by the big men
of the far eastern commonwealths and
Oregon products and Oregon Ideas are
now sought atier at every nana.
Oregon's Biff Apples.
Oregon apples, the governor says,
have wold recently lor as high as $15
a. box In the JNew York markets while
their display, has attracted streams of
spectators that blocked the passageways
in tne stores wnere iney cangreRMva
commenting on the superior appearance
of the far western fruit.
But apples are not the only thing
of which Oregon may bo proud. The
work of the state and Its public tnen
on questions of national importance has
et the mark for men, of the east to
follow. " In the recent Conservation
congress Oregon was the onlv state in
the union which presetiTert a printed and
Illustrated report of the natural re
sources of the state and this report was
one of tho features of the Conservation
congress. Oregon delegates to the con
gress struck the keynote in their dis
cussions of the conservation question
and thereby elicited the admiration and
the applause of the president, of Mr.
Tft and of all those who had the
great movement and its success at heart.
Improvement Work.
River and harbor improvement work
needed In Oregon will also be gffcen an
equal footing with those projects being'
urged by other states, the governor re
ports, and from the expressions of Rep
resentative iturton, chairman of the
rivers and harbors committee of con-
(Contlnued on Page Thirteen.)
BRIDGE
BONDS
10
BE SOLD SOOfl
dity Auditor Fixes January
27 as Date for Disposal
of $450,000 Issue.
Robbed of Their Little Hoard
' When Trunk Is Looted,
Pretty Business College
Students Get Cold Comfort
From Authorities.
Bridge bonds to the amount of $450,
000 will be sold January .17 and the pro
ceeds placed in the city treasury to be
used in the construction of the Madison
street bridge. City Auditor Barbur
made this announcement today.' He has
asked City Attorney-Kavanaugh to pre
pare the official advertisement for
bids on the bonds 'and the legal notices
In the city paper will be printed to
morrow or the next day.
It Is expected as Soon as the bond
issue is disposed of- that the city at
torney will begin condemnation pro
ceedings against ' the Portland Rail
way, Light & 'Poorer company,' wrlch
has refused to come to an agreement
with the council as to the annual rental
to be paid by It for the use of the new
bridge. The structure will . be then
closed ana. torn down to make way for
the new one, whleh will be- erected im
mediately unless the, streetcar corpora
tion enjoins the city from forcing it to
v&cfitc
Advertisements for. bids on $450,000
worth of park bonds and $250,000 worth
of water bone's to be sold December 28.
are now running in the official paper.
Ieft destitute because their room was
robbed some time yesterday, two pretty
little German girls, about 17 years- of
age, are v today living off their last 25
cent piece and tomorrow, unless help
from some source comes, will be with
out food.
The girls are students at the Eclectic
Business college In the Worcester
building and room In the Kureka room
ing house at First and Market. Their
father is dead and their mother works
for her living in Chehalls, Wash. Mon
day she sent them $125, all she had,
with which they might complete their
business course, pay for their room and
food and buy what clothing they need
ed. With the money came a letter say
ing that it was all the mother had and
that she, could send no more.
The money was placed in a trunk, the
gins explain, which was locked, ana
yesterday morning they went to school.
On returning they .found their trunk in
a room, occupied by Italians, across the
hall. It had been forced open and the
money was gone, -rnreo Italians who
lived In the room were also gone. An-
next to them and whom they suspect ol
me orime, disappeared tnis morning.
me ponce had promised to be on
hand early today, for It was thought
that if the suspect returned home last
night he would follow his usual cus
tom of leaving the house about 8:J0
this morning. About 12 o'clock last
mgnt fte came home and the young wo
men notified the police, who, thev say.
told then 'that there was no use of
arresting the man r.t that hour of
the night. An officer would be sent
up In the morning, they were told, but
this morning there was no policeman
to be found and when the Italian, who
gave his name to the landlady as In
jolo Constance, left the house, one of
the gliis followed him for two blocks
in the hope that they might meet an
officer, but they saw none and Con
stance got away by dodging Into a
rooming house on Front street.
The en-Is, whose names are Fugena
and Ottllie Jenitsch, said this morning
that Constance attempted to enter their
room last Friday, but found the door
locked.
"His room is next to ours," said Eu-
frena, "and he must have heard us talk
ng about receiving the monev. When
we left home yesterday morning he was
still In his room and he Could easily
have heard us talking, for the transsom
between, the two rooms Is broken out
and we- can always hear him. I told ,my
sister to be sure and lock the trunk.
She did and we took the key to school
with us. When we came home last
night we found our trunk in room 12,
across the hall where three Italians
roomed, and now they have- disatineared.
This morning this man Constance dis
appeared and I am sure it was he who
took We money, for he tried: to get into
our room onoe before and he acted so
suspicious this morning. The landlady
says he works In the Dominleo saloon.1'
That they would have regained the
stolen articles had the police been on
hand this morning is the positive belief
of both of the girls. "A detective prom
ised us that he would be here sure,"
they said, "but when we called them up
last night they said they would come
this morning but they didn't."
"I followed Constance for two blocks
this morning," said the larger" of the
two, "but I losti track nf him when he
dodged into a rooming house on Front
street."
Constance is described as medium
build, dark complected, wearing a little
black mustache, a dark suit of clothes
and a soft hat
Besides the $125, two brooches, four
rings and two watchea are also missing.
MRS. AMEY DEKUM
LEAVES FOR HOME
WOULD 1
FORAKER BILL
IN
Lodge So Asserts in Defend
ing President in Browns
ville Case Foraker Says
Truth of the Case will
Shame Honest 3Ien.
(Soeclal Dispatch to The JonrnsM
Chicago, Doc. 16. Mrs. Amey Dekum,
alleged to .have been robhed of her sav
ings by Albert Carroll after she had
been lured to Chicago under promise
of marriage, left this morning en route
for Portland, Or., funds having been
provided by tho Young Women's Chris
tian Association of this city.
SCHEME TO IB THE DIG
Millionaire .Believes Crooks, Thinking Him in Mortal
Illness, Forged $300,000 in Notes, Expecting to
Collect of His Estate: Unquestioned.
(Catted rrrm teased Wlnl.t
Washington, Iee. 16. Senator " Henry
Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts today
came to the defense of President Roose
velt in tho Brownsville case In an d
d.ress in which he arraigned the meth
ods proposed by Senator Foraker.
Lodge said the Warner bill allowed
the president to rrenllst the men dis
charged at Brownsville and that the
Foraker bill made the reenllstment ob
ligatory under easily filled conditions.
He declared th!W the Foraker bill
would le ruinous to army discipline.
He -asserted that the president hBd the
right to discharge the men and that
congress has not power to rescind the
order.
"Congress may render such action
possible In the future, if it Is foolish
enough, lie said. .
"if you Impair the proper authority
of the commanding officer. ' said T.rwle
"you- make It impossible for effective
command. Such action would go far
toward converting the soldiers from the
army into a mob."
Ho declared that he believed the sol
ders undpubtedly did the shooting and
said he was supported In this by the
citizens' committee, the Penrose court
martial and a maSority of the senate
committee.
Lodge maintained that the greatest
misfortune to the negroes was the mak
ing of a race question out of the
Brownsvflle case. He said public sen
timent today seemed to have reached
the point where it was so strictly con
fined to the criminal question that the
victim and the crime are forgotten. He
asserted that this condition leads to
mobs and lynchlngs.
Foraker took issue with the presi
dent when be Introduced In the senate
yesterday an amendment to the bill pro
viding for the reenlistment of the ne
gro troops who were dishonorably dis
charged after the Brownsville affair.
Foraker's amendment proposed the es
tablishment of ..a military tribunal to
investigate tlio cases of the disgraced
soldiers. The measure was designed to
take the cases out of the hands of
the administration.
When Roosevelt's message was read
yesterday, after Foraker had introduced
his amendment, the senator made no
effort to conceal his disgust. He spoke
sarcastically or the work of the detec
tives and scoffed at their altered dis
coveries. In concluding his speech he
said that when the bottom of the case
had been reached "all honest men would
be ashamed of It."
Senator Foraker yesterday afternoon
introduced a resolution In the senate
calling for a statement of the expenses
incurred by Herbert J. Browne, Captain
W. G. Baldwin and other agents of the
war department who were detailed to
investigate the Brownsville riot.
SENATE ASKS WAR
DEPARTMENT FOR
SLEUTH RECORDS
ACRES OF FESTERING FILTH;
HOME OF COUNTLESS RATS
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Hedps of Putrefying Animal
and Vegetable Matter
Threaten Plague.
Washington, Dec. 16. A resolution
introduced by Senator Foraker of Ohio
calling on the' war department to pro
duce all Information It possesses re
garding the employment of detectives
who shadiTwed the negro soldiers sup
posed to have been the ringleaders In
the Brownsville. Texas, riot, was adopt
ed by the senate today.
Contrary to general .expectation there
was no discussion of the measure.
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' iCslud Prcw Lessefl Wlre.l ,
- San Francisco, Dec. 16. James A.
Murray, a Montana millionaire, is in' this
city trying to find out who are ' the
men who are believed by hint to have
forged his name indorsing ' promissory
notes aggregating $300,000. He expects
to unearth enough information to make
an ' ugly scandal, as he Is cunf ident
that the alleged -swindle could notHiave
been englneeRed without the aid or con
nivance of snme bank or bankers,
Murra'v believes tha notes were pre
pared several months -ago at a "time
when he was ill and not expected, to live
long.. Her savs ho knows of cas who.ro
promissory noies vro to have been
kept secret until after the death of a
well known capitalist, when.; with no
body to dispute the authenticity of the
signatures or Indorsements, they would
have been cashed without difficulty. In
that instance the capitalist - heard of
the attempted swindle and made a fight
which eventually brought : tho crooks
to Justice. -v,' -
Iurray Is president .of the America
Savings Bank & Trust company, Seattle
vice president of the National Bank of
the Republic, Salt Irfike, and. Interested
heavily in financial projects' In Mon
tana. -;..',. - -
He fears that the paper that he Is
now repudiating may be"scatiered wide
ly sd that Innocent parties my pw be
holding it to their own loss and his em
barrassnietit. '
Ten Passengers Killed.
(Unltfd Press Leased Wire.)
Limoges, France, Dec. 16. Ten pas
sengers killed and a score hurt, some of
them fatally, is the record of a disas
trous collision today between a passen
ger train and a freight train in a tun
nel near this city. A mistake 1n signals
is said to have been the cause of the
accident. s
DEEP WATER III
TILLAMOOK BAY
'
Hawley Introduces Measure
for Repairs and Improvements.
"(Washington Bureau of The Journal.)
Washington, Dec. 16. Representative
Hawley of Oregon today introduced a
bill to appropriate $10,000 for repairing
dykes at Tillamook bay and $5000" an
nually for the maintenance of Work at
Tillamook bay, directing the secretary
of war to order a survey for an 'esti
mate of the cost Of channels, respect
ively IS and 20. feet dep t mean low
tide at the bar of Tillamook bay, cor
responding depth to be maintained in
the bay and In the slough to Tillamook
city. .
Senator Clapb of Minnesota, chairman
of the Indian affairs ' committee, has
f reps red a bill to authorize tha secre
ary of the '.nterlor.to build two bridge
and n roidway on the Warm Springs
re.er."itioi In Oregon, tolls to bs col-'ect'-id
if necessrvry. .
Four acres and a half of festering
filth and pollution; a stench that mounts
to high heaven: nauseating heaps of
animal ana vegetable putrefaction, cov
ered in the summer time with millions
of green flies, carrying disease and de
cay into the homes of. Portland; a broad.
shallow body ot water strewn wun
floating boxes, barrels, boards, spoiled
vegetables and dead things and. when
tne weatner is not, covered wnn a mini
green scum; a little brick building wltl
two sets of broken down furnaces strlv
lng Ineffectually to consume a small
Dart of this refuse of a great city
and rats, rats everywhere, thousands
rt them arlcklv. diseased ulcered rats
such is Portland s gamage crematory
and its surrounding?.
A reDorter for The Journal visited
this plague spot within the borders of
the city yesterday. One could Imagine
without much effort that he was walk
ing about on solid masses of disease
germs. It Is doubtful If anything like
the place can be found within the bor
ders of any other city of the United
States. The only wonder Is that half
the people of Portland are not 111 from
the emanations from this mass of pol
lution. Foreman Gives Facts.
Superintendent Daggett was not at
the crematory, but the foreman. Wil
liam Q. Helber, was, and he undertook
to show the reporter about the nlace.
One detects the odor long before the
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HANDS OP. AND
GUN Jl THEM
Game Watchman Drops One
Bank Robber but Is Rid
dled by Victim's Pals.
(United Press Leased Wire.)
Greenwich, Ohio, Dec. 16. With the
deftness of the most expert gun man
of the west. Marshal Wood early today
sent a bullet through the heart of a
bank robber who had him covered.
Four other members of the gang,. how
ever, fired on Wood, fatally wounding
him and kicked his body after he had
fallen. A bosse of over 200 men is in
pursuit' of the desperadoes, whose evi
dent plan to loot the principal local
bank was frustrated.
A nattempted bank robbery yester
day had put Wood on the alert. Just
before dawn he. saw a man skulking
about the entrance of the First Nation
al Farmers" bank. Wood approached
the pian and asked:
"What's your business here?"
Instantly four, other men, emerged
from shadows about the bank and cov
ered the marshal with their revolvers,
"Throw up your hands," commanded
the man Wood had , dlscoVeredt The
marshal had his hand on his revolver,
and as he raised his .hands as if to
obey he' fired at the man in front of
him.. The robber fell dead in his tracks.
The next Instant there was a volley
from the robbers and Wood fell. The
minjbrutally kicked bjs body, disfigur
ing him and leaving him .trampled In
lh dusf ; f i .
The firing aroused the town, and the
roHbers had scarcely made their way to
thijli horses before tUi. first members
of the posse were starting in pursuit-
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Two Examples of City Dump Piles That Breed pisease.
BOIil SPURNS
GOULD LUCRE
Stung by De Sagairs Taunt,
He Shows Him How
He'll Spite Ilim.
(United Press Leased Wire.l
Paris. Dec. 16. Count Boni de Castel
lans took a nw pose today as the
spurner of filthy money and the txalt
er of honor above all things material.
He magnanimously decided not to re
quire bis former wife to pay him all
inouy. All he wants is the custody of hU
children, in order that lie may rear
them in simplicity.
He desires above all things that the
children should be separated from their
mother and tier new husband, the Prince
De Sagan, because he believes they
hold that "money is everything and
that honor is nothing."
Bonl's new attitude was explained by
his counsel, who read a letter from him
at the resumption of the hearing of the
suit .for- custody of the children.
Today's renunciation makes It Impos
sible for Boni to ask for money from
Anna in the future. The letter was
written on December 12 and In it Boni
declares that after reading the argu
ments of the opposing counsel he be
came indignant at Prince De Sagan's
action in reproaching him for seeking
damages only and not caring for the
children."
Maitre Bonnet, counsel for Boni. re
suming today, declared he had absolute
proof of his charges against the De
Sagans. made in his former arguments.
He declared Anna' was a party to all
of Boni's extravagances, saying:
"'She was a Gould, with the charac
teristic Gould determination of doing
bnly what she pleased, until her char
acter was weakened ty contact with
l Sagan." . . ..
' Thirteen Miner Killed.
" i, U'Bltsd. Prcatt Lewd Wire.)
Vienna. .Dec." l.-r-Thirteen are known
to be dead 'and many entombed aa the
result' of . an - explosion In the Uomsn
coal mine 'Ar Reslcza today. -The
number of m-u In the mine at the time
of tha accident is -unknown.
SENATE FEUDS
A6AIIIST IIISUET
Adopts Aldrich Resolution
to Investigate the Se
cret Service.
Washington, Dec... IS. Senator Aid
rich of Rhode Island today introduced,
and the senate adopted, a resolution
looking toward the censuring of Presi
dent Roosevelt for his action in con
nection with tha employment of the se
cret ser'lee officers. The resolution re
fers the matter to the senate appro
priations 'committee and involves an in
vestigation of the whole secret service
organisation. It Is the outgrowth of
the presidents alleged insult to con
gress In his annual message.
SAY lEwHALL
SWINDLED
THE!
Iowa Pair Charge Banker
Advised the Sale of Lots
Which He Then Bought
in and Later Sold at a Big
Profit to Himself. .
A bill of complaint against H TL
N'ewhali, president of the East filda
bank held up and robbed a week ago
of $14,onn by highwaymen, has ben
filed in the Fnited States circuit court
by 'A. B. Turner and Mary C. Turner
of Corning. Iowa, asking for Judgment
for $J!)00, the suit being tho outgrowth
of H rp 1 eMfntn trflnii!iitlnn lu-n tup.
ago. -
The property in iuestitm, lots S and 6,
block 81. is at tho northwest corner or
Stark street and I'nion avenue. Fast
Portland. The lots were formerly the
property of Turner, who, not being" a
resident of the state, had his Interests
here in the hands of Mtv Newhall.
The, complaints allege that early In
December, 1906, they corresponded with
the defendant with reference to .tho
value of the property on the east side,
ajnd that Mr. .Newhall wrot'v them, say
ing that he had had an offer of $2100
for the. two lots, The '.complaint states
further thatMr. JTrrrhTtTr gave It as his
opinion that the offer was a fair, honest
ana reasonaoie one. as property in mis
vicinity of the corner whs not in a dl'
trlct susceptible to the - rise in prices
of Portland real estate.
Bay Zimmerman Was fctnmmy. :..
Within a week or 1 0 . days the sal
was made, the Turners giving a war
ranty deed to the property to C. Zim
merman, the transaction being mada
entirely iiiruugn me jiiitKeiiini
Mr. Newhall. so the complainants state..
December 17, 1906, bv a warranty deed,
the. property was transferred by Zim
merman to Newhall for a consideration
given as $10. Zimmerman Is said to
have been a "dummy" in the transac-.
tion. . - -
December 29. 1906. a deed transferr
ing the property from the Turners to
Zimmerman and another shewing a
record of the two lots passing Into the
possession of Newhall, were filed with
the county clerk of Multnomaii county,
the bill alleges. - . r
For a consideration of $10,000, NW'
hall and his wife are alleged to have)
disposed of the two lots to R. T. Lin
ney within afew days after the other
transactions had been completed. - Ths
deed conveying the property from the
Newhalls . to Llnney was filed In th
county records January 2. 1907, so tha
complaint charges.
How Ask for 97,900.
Alleging that the value of the prop
erty had been misrepresented and aft
terward sold for considerable more than
tney received, the Turners ask for Judg
ment against the banker for $7,000.
w. v. Bristol is attorney ror tne
Iowa reonle. Mr. Newhall waa served
with the papers notifying him of tha
suit this morning. ",
A well known east side real estate
man says the two lots irt question ara
worth $20,000 today at a conservative
estimate. A similar corner only a.
block away sold for $15,000 only a few
weeks ago.
WRIGHT BREAKS
H
RECORDS
Ascends 296 Feet in Aero
plane at Leinans Per
fect Flight. -
tUnlted Preaa Leased Wire
Lemans, France, Dec. 16. The
bur Wright aeroplann ascended
WIN
to a
hetarht of 296 feet tins afternoon, break
lng all previous Itelsht records for aero.
planes. The demonstration by vvrlgh' :
at the height rvached was perfect In
every way. The Amcn- au nt meaav
In testing his mach'ne (Vr tomorrow ,s
cup trial.
; Voice of th Press- Is Astounding t
From 'the New York" Evening Suit. '
The 1903 returns from the voters of the United States "show more
clearly than they ever did that the American people, have learned
to declare their wishes and purposes at the poll wiri! distinctness and
emphasis. There can be no doubt, for example, that a majority oi
the people of Indiana wanted Taft for president. Shall tho congres
sional returns which changed the Moosier delegation from Pine
Republicans and four Democrats to II Democrat-j and four Repub
licans be npset therefore? How about Missouri, Minnesota, Oh i
arid other states which picked and chose among the Republican and
Democratic candidates? ' -i r 1 V- - ' -
As to the unsoundness of the Oregon argument in morals there
2 fiance no question whatever.;.. The choice of Chamberlain for sennt .r,
and tfie selection of candidates for the legislature- which was t--. r .t'fy
. it, were made in accordance with a primary. law which waHvdeij.;ncj
Jv fo effect practical election of United States senator by the voter
O of the state. That the primary law has nft 7 worked sa!if.iV..i ,
from the beginning ' does not mitigate for a moment the In I
J ' immorality of the proposal now mooted' tAiit ihe legiiilat'ire -r'.', t--
'astonishment at the condition' of public ifrlimfv.t
4, tolerate its projection even. '
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