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TO THE JOfJEIVAJL. FAIV1IIJV OF READERS, 130,000 Strong, and the Rest of the Human Family, too, Wherever and Whoever They IVIay Be, A MERRY, IXIERRCHRliSTlVIA Be sure to call ear- J ly tomorrow wiin your ads for Sun day's Journal. : The Weather Rain . tonight and Saturday; southwesterly winds. . I I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 'AS I i- J 1 T r A ! V I --iA -T TrTyls Y If I I 1 X T 1 I K 1 V --: I I - - II , - . -- ! . " '. '. .. ' ' ' 1 ' JOURNAL CIRCULATION YESTERDAY WAS : 31,202 VOL. Vlj. NO. 254. PORTljfrJD, OREGON, FRIOAY 1 EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1908. -FOURTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS ' " n 41,18 Am "rw" !fc TRY TO PICTURE FISHER SANTA GLAUS AGGRIEVED POLITICIAN M mm fidfc JU Si ZOIJE House Committee to Visit Uncle Sam's Isthmian Possessions and Thence to Frame Self-Rule Act -Zone on Military Basis. Will iDoltcd Press Leased Wlre. Washington, Dec 2S. That the real object- or -tne visit' or ma uuua iiurr lata rammcrca committee to the Pan- . m i..nni nn during the holiday recess Js to get data for the formation of a gov ernment for the sone la the statement of one of the government officials. It la ae rtjiri that the son, which is now a sort of duchy under President Roosevelt, will be given a government of Us own. Under the present system, which has grown up under the Spooner act and the various appropriation bills that have passed, former Senator Blackburn Is really governor of the canal zone by rea son of his designation for that service while he is a member of the canal com mission. ' The members of the houso committee make an especial stuay or me some t mm nlicateri croblem of the rela- nn Tlti'nH- between the American ad ministration of the sons and the republic or Panama. t y. , Two schemes have been proposed for the government of the sone. One Is the federal district plan, like that in force in the District of Columbia with its own code of laws and governed entirely by a commission appointed by congress and with no franchise and no legislative body of its own. The other Is similar to that In force In the Philippine Islands, which Includes an executive commission and an elective assembly. The first schema Is regarded mm mnra fenaihle. hnraiiKe. most of the In habitants of the sone are either clt liens of the . republic of Panama or cltisena of the United Suites, retaining their legal residence at home. It 'is regarded as certain that the governmental plan that will finally be adopted, therefore, will be a patriarchal nn to be administered by authorities appointed by the president but under the strict supervision of congress. This will be a compromise between the two plana suggested. ' . - There Is considerable opposition f to any plan that will make It necessary for congress to legislate for any more fed eral districts. The District of Columbia is regarded as occupying more of the time of the national law makers than a city wiwl oou.uuv iimauiu&nia) jusimen, and it Is desired that Panama, with Its complication of jurisdiction and respon sibilities snail not pecome anotner our rten nn onnsrresa. One thing Is certain, the government will be primarily one that can be in stantly adapted to military conditions and win De approximately military in character, because of the necessity for the United States to be In a position to defend the canal at a minute's notice , if the occasion should arise. . It Is rec ognised that the government must have at its command the machinery for mill, tary operations not only in case of de fense against possible outside attack but also to quell Internal disorders.. . The house committee -recognizes that its work Is entirely, without precedent ana me suojeci win can ioru consider able debate after the committee makes a report. - A ' AS WOULD-BE ASSASSII Attorneys for Defense In Finch Case Again Shift Position Now Planning to Prove Plot to Kill Their Client Existed. "Do you wish, then, to be under stood as swearing that after Ralph B. Fisher had twice called you up to invite you to his of f lep, after you had apparently enlisted his sympa thy by telling of your reduced cir cumstances, and you had been led to believe that he would sign your petition, that you went to his office and opened the door, spoke to him in the most kindly manner, and that a few moments later without any apparent reason he hurled his no tarial seal at you and brought you to your knees?" "Tea." "How long were you In Fisher's of.. flea before he threw the oeal?' t waa nnlv . short Interval. I would not attempt to say how long It was, but It was just after I started to plead with him to sign my petition. It was just a short Interval." -Ann h threw it backward at you?" "T. that is. it wds over and back. thtnit hia chair turned a little, and then he threw it, half over his shoul der." . Develops a aw xnevry. Tluu mentions, asked bv Arthur C. Spencer during the cross-examination of James A. Finch yesterday, with, the answers of the defendant, show that the attorney for the man accused of Ralph B.' Fisher's murder have devel opend a theory of the case that Is startling. k , Finch is to be pictured as the meek. unsuspecting "victim of a trap, as he once referred to himself yesterday. Ralph B. Fisher is to De representee as the malevolent, cunning, ireacner nus schemer, who enticed Finch to his office by words of kindness and the 'in spiration of false hopes. . f The defendant's lawyers have not yet openly charged that Fisher called Finch to his office to kill him, but their de fense, which has shifted' several times, Is now plainly tending in that direction. Yesterday afternoon the defense became suddenly anxious for admission in evi dence of one-of the 'unsigned threaten ing letters received by Fisher just be fore his death. - . When -the state first ' offered this letter in the earlier part of the case the defendant's attorney denounced It as an outrage and said the threatening missive was not a letter, but a "thing. It would be "cruelly unjust to let such a thing- as that go before an American Jury where a man is on trial for his life." he said. Yesterday this same lawyer Jumped at a chance to get the letter In evidence, and said the defense would offer It If the state did not. Season Can Be Ooassed. Tha' reaspn the defense wants this letter, which was shown to Finch and which he said he had never seen before, may be guessed without wide stretch of the imagination. It will be argued that Fisher became alarmed by receiv ing leiiers or tnis cnaracter, that fie (Continued on Page Two.) SHUT 1 lion in ms UTIIE SOCK That's mat the Wee Grand son of Colorado Mil v . lionaire Gets. . Colorado Springs. -Dec. 25. Just - a bagatelle of fl.OOO.OOO, Is the Christ mas " present dropped today Into the stocking of the month old son of Leo pold yers of London by his grand father, General W. J. Palmer,, the Color rado railroad builder. The Infant . millionaire was born In liondon while his grandfather was on the ocean coming come from Europe. - 80 overjoyed was the rich man with the news cabled to him thst he prompt ly settled fl.OOo.QOO on the chlldi the understanding being thst the Income on the gift shall- be used for the boV until he becomes of age, when ha shall receive the principals 4 J . . ; COLFAX PASTOR "COMES TO lift" J. E. Bradshaw Drops From Sight and Then Drops ' Back Again. (Special Dispatch to Tha Journal.) ; Spokane, Wash., Dec. 25. J. R. Brad shaw, a Baptist minister, has returned to his .horns at Colfax, Wash., after a month's mysterious absence. The fam ily thought him dead. The sheriff had offered $300 reward for the minister's body. ' - Bradshaw says he has been on a trip to Portland and Medford, Or., and Cali fornia: that he did not tell his famlLv because thev were opposed to the trip. . He-disappeared In, Spokane a month ago, after selling a carload of hay. SHORT AHSWEK Non-Union Fatally Wounds Union Printer WTio Rebukes Him. United Pwm Leased W1r. Chicago, Dec ti. "Merry Christmas," said Dell Doherty, a nonunion printer, to W. F. Getts, a union printer, whom he saw sitting in the lobby of the States hotel today. "Christmas would be merrier If you scabs would join the union," Getts Is said to have replied. , Stung by the retort, Doherty fa al leged to have' drawn a revolver Im mediately and fired one shot at the union man. Getts, with a fatal wound In his abdomen, fell to the floor without ut tering another word. His assailant was instantly placed under arrest and is now being held pending tha outcome of his victim's injures. MOLARS PULLED TO . CURE LOCKJAW (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) - Vineland. N. J.. Two SSA H Kti who was thrown to the ground when a 20 foot electric light pole on which he was at work snapped, has had a re markable experience in recovering. In tha fall some of his teeth were iaj-red ana otners naa tne lining Knocked out. When he was thought to be recovering his laws suddenly locked and remained so ror nine days. Medical skill was pusiled until a dentist suggested that the trouble was caused by an injury to the molars which affected the glands of me nectt. . K.oeta'8 moutn was Dried open little by little and corks placed be tween his front teeth until the dentist. Dr. F. 8. Walls could apply his forceps to me moiars ana remove mem. The young man is now recovering rapidly. Shlpa in the Caribbean. (United Preaa Leased Wha.1 Washington. Dec. 26. The iravv de partment announced today the receipt of news inai me uoipnin naoiert tjuracao for La Guayra. TheDes Moins has ar rived at Curacao. Both ships have been hurried to Venesuela to represent the United States in case American interests may demand protection in the event of hostilities. : REH1RS PORTLAND Good Things for Rich and xPoor Crammed Stocking of Rose City Church Mil itant Does Noble Work for Needy. Did you hear the Jingle of the elelgh bells last night and the pat ter of reindeer hoofs? Perhaps you didn't, for a Portland Christmas wn't exactly suitable for sleighs. But that made no difference. There are other 4 methods of travel in this country, and Santa Claus got here somehow. And if the chimney was too small tor him to come down that way, he managed to get into the house soma other fashion. There is no doubt but that the Jolly old gentleman was here some time dur ing the night, for Portland's Christmas stocking was well filled. In fact. Indi cations are that the saint came direct from hla mysterious abode up In the frozen northland to Portland without making any stoDs on the wav. anH that consequently, Portland got the pick of all the good things he had in his pack. And the old gentleman must have put In a busy year alno- riirUima. i!n? making a supply of gifts calculated to gladden the hearts of his friends, big and little, who live In Oregon's metropolis. now Hot Kissed. Hot could a little thins Hk rain dampen the Christmas cheer. Of course a snow storm, would have made more of a picture book Christmas, but we aren't used to snow storms out here and we get along just as well without them. A foot of snow could not havn made Portland's Christmas any merrier. There weren't many people on the streets todav. but even thoM vhnm thi necessities of duty called out had Merry Lnrniraa wnunn on meir ices, and the expression was ready on the ends (Continued on Page Eleven.) IHITIAL TRIP OF HEW BOAT Steamer Inland Empire Carries 120 Tons of Freight for' Pasco and Kennewick Captain Edwin Baqgh ' man Sounds the First Starting Bell. . ALL DEAD Oil CiSTK 10R1G GRAPPLES President Attacked As He Dines As sailant Seizes By Beard, and Shoots- Bullet Passes Through Ear Wound Not Serious. (United Press Leased Wlre. Paris, Dec. 25. President Fallieres escaped death at the hands of a youth ful assassin today, by a hair's breadth. The vouni man fired at the Presi dent and the bullet passed through the president's ear. Inflicting a painful but not serious wound. The young would-be assassin gave the name of Mappls. The police say he admitted he was actuated Dy polit ical spite and wanted to kill the presi dent. Fallieres showed great presence of mind and betraved no sign of excite ment. He said the Injury was hardly worthy of mention. Tha nrnslrient was dining with a small Christmas party in a restaurant fSWOLSKY FfJR THE STATUS QUO Expresses Russian Friendli ness for Turkey, Be fore the Douma. (United rresa r.cd Wire.) St. Petersburg. Dec. 25. Foreign Minister Iswolsky, in a statement to thm, linumi todav. denied that he In dorsed the Austrian course of procedure in the late Balkans crisis. He recounted the numerous attempts that were made to rnmnlete an Austro-Russlan alli ance, all of which failed. Iswolsgy renearsea uie dbiksih sit uation. He expresseu the friendship of Russia toward Turkey and recom mended the passage of a resolution ask ing the government to sio in sirengin- enlng tne present aiaius quu in mo Balkans. Diplomats who listened to jswoisay declared that his . mild tone was in tended to hide the "war skeleton." The Austrian and uerman amoassa- dors-were not present. in the Palace d'Etolle. when Mappls suddenly aonroached and before any one could Interfere seixed Fallieres by his flowing beard. The restaurant was crowded with the holiday crjowd and the greatest excite mnnt prevailed. Women screamed and fatntedr , Fallieres and his assailant ' grappled and fell to the floor together, locked In an embrace. The cries of women attracted the gendarmes, who rushed Into the place ana seized Mappls. Both the president and the prisoner were bruised In the scuffle. Fallieres Immedlatelv left the restaurant. Rumors that the president had been assassinated or seriously wounded spread swlftlv throughout Paris. Mappis Is an insignificant politician. He is said to have made a complete con fession to the police as soon as he ar rived at the chambers of the prefect Premier Clemenceau confirmed the story of the attack upon the president. Mappls' friends admit that he was the aggressor In the struggle with the president. l nev explain inai ne sui fers from acute neurasthenia and as sert that he was in the midst of an at tack when he assailed tha president. Mappls was employed as a waiter In the restaurant, where the president was dining at the time of the attack. MISSION BELL TOLLS ' AFTER 50 YEARS (United Preaa Leased Wtre.V Oakland. Dec. 25. The pealing Of an old mission bell, whose tongue has been silent for 0 years, was the unique ceremony that opened Christmas at St. John's Catholic mission at San Leandro today. The bell was hung last week sr.d dedicated on Sunday by Bishop Da Silva. a relative of the late king of Portugal. It was over 100 years ago that the bell was brought to this country-from Cadis by Don Francisco de Valdes and presented to DOn Luis Peralta. one of the old Spanish families which once owned nearly all of Alameda county. It was hung in San Leandro church and tolled for all the services of the mis sion fathers for half a century, being replaced after the civil war by a modern bell GUARANTEE 0 F DEPOSITS T State Grange Will Lead Fight for Orton Bill in Legislature This Winter To Be independent of Other Legislation. State guaranty of bank denosits ill be one of the big questions to come before the next session of the legislature. . Already s bill has been roughly drafted by A, W. Orton', representative from Multnomah county, and has been submitted ta the banking committee of the Ore gon state grange.. The measure has been gone over carefully and' a sec ond draft of the measure has been prepared." This is now being sent to the different local granges throughout the state for ; their Bug-, gestion and approval. The bill will be prepared In .time, for the opening of the legislature; and will be . backed by the state grange, which, will make the enactment of the law on of the chief objects during the coming session. i , It has been decided to .' confine the provisions to the question of bank guaranty aione, leaving otner amend- ba menis or tne existmv other bills. This will be done In order banking law to While Preparing. Overnight for the Day'? Festivities Wealthy Chicagoan Opens Gas Jet Man, Wife and Little Girls Asphyxiated. (Special Dispatch to The Journal. ) Roosevelt, Wash., Dec.. " IS The steamer Inland Empire - of the Open River Transportation company - made her maiden trip between . Celilo Falls, Ppseb and Kennewick yesterday, carry. Ing 120 tons for the two latter, places. On the trip were Captain Riggs master of the" . new boat: Chlif Engineer C Kellogg, who has Installed the machin ery and is in charge ofjthe engine room; Arthur I Wylie, general agent for the company; and Dorsey B. Smith, genera) manager. ,. Captain Edwin Baughman, for 50 years the veteran captain of the upper Columbia, river, was invited by Oeneral Manager Smith to make the Initial trip, and it was he who sounded the first bell on the Inland Empire to Chief En gineer, Kellogg. , Captain Baughman claims the boat Is the best nn tha river. On completion of the steamer Pel llo Falls, about March 1, regular Portland Low.1s.Vb i service will be established. f "" .1 (United Press Leased Wira.V Chicago. Dec. 25. While filling the stockings which his daughters had hung on , a gas jet In their home ' lata last night, Morris Lukeman or his wife ac cidentally turned on the gas and when Christmas dawned all four members of the family were .dead. Lukeman. who was a wealthv grocer. had planned an elaborate celebration for his -family. Hia wife had ordered and superintended the arrangements for a rich Christmas dinner. The two little flrls, Anne, IS years old, and Lillian, 5. had purchased presents for their parents. The tragedy was discovered early this morning by Isidore Hansen, a milkman. When n entered the hallway of the home' ha detected the - odor of gas. Hastily investigating hs entered the room Ailed with gaa and saw the forms of the two little girls in the bed with the overloaded stockings hanging above them. The next room was found full of gas also and in It' were the father and mother, dead In their beds, i - Hansen immediately threw , open the windows and doors and summoned assistance.- All four victims, however, had been dead some time. . Under the pillow . of each little girl were found two packages neatly wrap- (Continued on Page Eleven.) iHvfvtHMMMMfMIMHHvHTWMMMMMMj Voice of the Press A State on Trial j From the Philadelphia North American (Rep.). $ In the distant state of Qregon a contest is in progress of far more i than local significance. A systematic and persistent effort is being Z made to bring about a breach of faith with the people, which would j shame and discredit the Republican party not only in Oregon, but ,1 throughout the country. By legislation, approved by popular vote, that state adopted a plan which virtually provides for the direct election of United States sen ators. By that arrangement, candidates for the legislature give their pledges to vote for the senatorial candidate who receives the great est number of popular votes at the polls. The people of Oregon have been heart and soul in favor . of pro gressive Republicanism and the policies of Roosevelt and. Taft. But the Republican party in the state has been, dominated by a corrupt, unscrupulous, reactionary machine. There have been few more nffensive recent examples of misrepresentation than was of fered in the course of Senator Fulton, training continually with the Aldrich-Cannon clique in congress. " He paid the price when he was beaten by the leader .oflanother faction in the party primary. But the people of Oregon still were not satisfied. They looked beyond faction and beyond party to find a man they could wholly trust. It is a Republican state! It voted overwhelmingly for Taft. It elected a Republican legislature. But it elected those legislators bonnd in solemn obligation to choose as senator a Democrat George E, Chamberlain, the choice of the people for that office as he had 'been made theif choice for governor by Republican, votes in opposi tion to the ruling ring. , The duty of every Republican legislator so pledged is plain. As honest men like Bourne point out, the Republican is a traitor to his party who fails, in this instance, to vote for a Democrat. Ytt the strongest possible pressure is 'being brought to bear upon those legislators to perpetrate the treachery of supporting a leader of the machine the criminally absurd reasoning being that because the people suported Taft and defeated the men who had fought all that Taft advocates and represents, one of those ejiemies should s be returned to the senate instead of the man expressly chosen by the " popular vote. , , , , For a word of protest against the "prostitution of Republicanism J by a gang to go to any other state from Pennsylvania may seem too much like satan rebuking sin. But it is fair-warning to the men of Oreiron that they would do' even ureater dishonor to the oartv hv i defeating Chamberlain than would be wrought by the reelection of a ! rcnro , i . that tha guaranty Dlan mav not he am. barrassed or hampered by some objec tionable clause or provision rolnllnir in other bank leglslatfon. i iThe main purpose and intent of ths law is set out in the first two sections of the proposed bill, which set the.tim for the law to become operative and prescribe the manner of the operation of tha law. , These sections ara aa follows: Tsxt of the juiL-: . Section,!, Ninety days after th passage and approval of this act.' the board of bank commissioners shall lew against the capital stock of each and every bank organized, and existing un der the laws of this state, an assess ment of 1 per cent of the bank's aver age deposits, which shall consist of in dividual deposits subject to check, time certificates, cashier's' checks outstand-'. Ing, and in fact all moneys deposited in each bank, less the deposits of tln - (Continued on Page Five.) - MILLER ID LUX HOLDINGS SOLD Enormous .Values , in Lands lind Livestock Are In volved in theDeal. (Cnlted Pre Learnd Wtrv.l San Francisco. Dec. 25. Negotiations are under way today confirming the r Forted sale of the vast holringa of tha amous firm of Miller & Imx in CaliforT nla, Nevada, Oregon and Id ho. - It- is rumored that a den I of-in magnitude of (20.000,000 will be mad between Henry Miller and the heirs if the late Charles- W. Lux, w her by Hit firm of Liggett & Myers, a firm of Ht. Louis capitalists, will lake over 30. 000 acres of oil-bear In g land and thoi. sands of acres of agricultural land In the San Joaquin vallov. together with valuable water and power rUhta. alt be. developed ror colonisation pirifae. and the CudahyS at Omaha and ft wealthy German-Americans of Kt. UuU and other eastern cities -'will -take t(. 180.000 head of ? cattle, together win. the slaughtering, cold storns nd rtii r plants, and the graslng hinds it On gon, Nevada and Idaho. t Miller & Xux Wilt retain cinsi-d -rn?,!.-property 4n this state, tngh tt,' Mii.t of the firm's immenxe hnMiug v'i t disposed of in this glniitir I I ts alt negotiations nl ! t.fr.i.gi.t i , a termination In Jannxry. Mea-iwhlle the wl'oin -nn i op in the vmirtM Ui!jik!i i which la Involved tins .!ir -( i , (ihfhloll I.HX I'l.ll'f, ! ficUry ur.-k-C t!i i-u W -...