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BUYS LAND
AL TERMINALS?
Believed to Have Invested About $l,500,
000 in North Portland Warehouse Dis-
; trict Within Past Few Weeks Deals
Made Through Secret Agents. ,
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Extraordinary . activity in North
Portland .warehouse property and re
ports of numerous sales in the tier
m , in-.Ali1, an1
. or . DIOCKS DCIWWU ,
Thirteenth streets, extending from
Hoyt street to the river, has given
rise to the rumor tnat the Harriman
rstom has Trlrtnallv concluded the
purchase of this entire tier' of blocks
at a price . said to be in . the neigh
borhood of f 1 ,5 0 0, 0 0 (U r ; r -
VHou rnmora are current aa to the
marnltucle or the deal, but there Is no
difference f opinion ' to the pur
chase, the prevailing- belief being- that
the Harriman nystn haa duplicated the
feat of the Hill intret and aecured
fuiiuilil well tin in the heart of the
city.
That a large number of quarter a In
this tier of blocks have changed hands
In the runt few weeks Is an admitted
fact, one broker having negotiated the
aale of h dozen parcels since November
J, while numerous transactions in these
Mocks .have been md by other agents
in the pant, two months. ..
However, it Is denied by the Portland
real estate representative of the Harri-
- . v 'v
man Interests, Charles K. Henry, that
his people are buying any more property
in the warehouse district. When asked
about the rumor this morning Mr. Hen
ry flatly denied that he was operating
lor uie Harriman system in tne exten
sive realty deals recently put through
In the North . Portland .warehouse dis
trict. '. . '- . . -. - ;" .
Sales in the tier of blocks between
Swelfth and Thirteenth. north from
ovL have been of almost : dally oc
currence for weeks : past. ' la those
transactions that have been made pub
lic ' the'total consideration will- amo-.'lt
to 1 considerably . over $500,000, - whWe.
shore time oDtions have been- given rrn
a large amount of this property. , Two
sales in this district, the total area
equalling almost a' block, warp made
yesterday. The Zam estate sold the
half block'":on Hoyt street, between
Twelfth and Thirteenth, and John Kier-
nan disposed of two parcels in the block
Dounaeu ny -rweirm. inineenm, reity
arove and Overton streets.
The unusual activity in the tier of
DincKa enioinina; xne ' property or t tne
Morth nanK road, nas convinced DroKers
and . sneculators . in -that district that
something more than mere purchasing
warehouse sites Is going on, and many
of them believe that the heavy buying
Is In ttie interest of toe .Harriman eye
terns. . ! -
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AViigpii: Roads and, Railways f. Destroyed $ in f Southern
, Italy; Rendering Relief Difficult Volcano - on ' ,
.Island of StrombolMs ?in Eruption.;
Rome, Dec. SO. At .least -20 cities In
southern Italy and Sicily. are in flames.
, Another earthquake shock was felt to
day at Palermo, . but it did little dam
age. .''' ,f:
General Foccla de Caasato. haa begun
burning . the bodies ' in the. streets of
Messina to prevent plague. This has to
be done under guard of soldiers to pre
vent cititens from Interfering.
All wagon roads and railroads Into
the stricken city have been destroyed
and the only direct means of communi
cation Is by water or oiyfoot.
The Volcano on the island of Strom
boll, north of Sicily, became active dur
ing the day and sent up great volumes
of smoke. .-
: The misery of the wretched refugees
in several of the most seriously affected
districts was Increased by chilling hail
storms that beat down on the wounded
lying unprotected on the ground. .
The devastated region In Calabria and
Sliily is believed to cover 6000 square
miles. It extends from the neighbor
hood of ' Monteleone throughout the
southern half of Calabria, and in Sicily
from Messina to a , point well beyond
Catallssetta far Into the interior of the
island.
- General -De Cnssato, In charge of the
troops at Messina and ' temporarily - a
practical-dictator, requested more sol
diers and expressed the advisability of
asking other countries to send troops.
The Messina situation Is almost beyond
control. The survivors are almost in
sane and the dead are everywhere. Only
the most rigid action and the most fear
less steps will savethe, .city from
pestilence, which threatens to visit It
as. the final chapter of its terrible misfortunes.
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LOVED: AIRSHIP :
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los Angeles .Woman Gets
DivorceHusband Ad- ,
mits the Charge,,
. (CM ted Pres Xeased Wire.)
Los Angeles, i Cal., -'Deo, 30. Aft?r
charging. 4hatjher husband cared more
for his falrshlp i than he did for his
fireside, Stfrs. .Gertrude Trorobley is di
vorced i today from Warden 5 M. Trom
bley, an aviator now living at Isleton,
Sacramento county. r T. v .
The romance of the. airship and the
wife's Jealousy , which finally' resulted
In divorce dates 7 back to ' 1905, '. when
Trombley. built his 'first airship 'herd.
After his ! first successful flight the
aviator became so 'attached to .aeronautics-
that bis 'wife ' was 'neglected,
she alleges. ' ' '' -i; ' ' .
. : When Mrs. Trombley finally accused
her husband Of loving his airship bet
ter than his wife he frankly admitted
it, she said, and threatened to leave
her forever. ' . .-.
Boon afterward the aviator moved
to Isleton and his wife made desertion
and charge of noij-support her technical
grounds for divorce. . --
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USES TORCH Oil
council CREST
Incendiary Sets Fire to Jap
anese -Restaurant Build-
ing JVhich Is Destroyed.
-An unknown Incendiary ; applied the
torch to the Japanese restaurant build
ing on Council Crest early, this. morn
ing' and the entire building was consumed.-
The tall observatory tower did
not catch fire, although it is less than
100 feet from the restaurant, and the
wind,, which was almost a gale on the
crest, -was directly, towards the talj
structure.
Residents of the Council Crest .neigh
borhood heard several explosions about
5 'cloek this morning .- This-' Is be
lieved to have been caused by gaso
line left In the building. by the restaur
rant people at the close of the season,
and was the first intimation that a fire
was in progress, . . " , ? " 7 '
When It was first seen ".the entire
building was in flames and the whoJ
frame structure- was destroyed in a
very short time. As there - are no
water mains at this point, it was use
less for engine No. 15, the Portland
Heights apparatus, to make the climb
lip to the summit of the crest.
A. Duchamp, who controls the Coun
cil Crest park, says the loss will be
about $500, as the building was practi
cally .empt v. i t
The police are Investigating the case,
as every indication points to Incendiar
ism. The.-e have been several attempts
to burn, buildings on Council Crest .recently.-''-
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DEFENDANT AELOWEDS
. . TO INSPECT BOOKS
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' A 'motion to inspect the ' plaVntlff5
books in the suit of the Gilman Auction
6 Commission company aitainst the F.
S. Harmon end other, furniture dealers,
an outgrowth of the so called furniture
trust fight some time-go, was-allowed
bv Judge Wolverton tit the United States
circuit court this irornlng.? The plain
tiff hrrttlcht cull fnr trinlirafn dAmftSK.
Yeterday counsel for the defendant
enmnanv mHilc. application tor an orucr
of It he court i.11owlns inspection of . the
bocks of tlie plaintiff company.
The y Jury in the Finch case : re
turned a verdict of guilty of murde
in the ; first ' decree at 3 : 26 o'clock
this afternoon. Court convened at
2 p." m. for the afternoon and the
Jury was instructed. .' The case went
to the Jury at 2:58.
"At t - Q'clock ' this i afternoon . Judge
Bronaugh began . reading his Instruc
tions to ; the 12 men w-ho will ' de
cide whether or not Finch shall , die on
the gallows' for the murder of Raluli
B. Fisher.' More than half an hour was
occupied In the delivery of the court's
instructions, after' which 'the; Jurors
were taken to ttveir . room to deliberate
on a verdict. ,-,(! 1 '
The courtroom opinion is that the Jury
will be out only a short time. Some are
of the opinion that if any difference of
opinion develops- in the jury room it
will be as to. the degree of guilt, as be
tween the ' first and . second . degree.
Finch, outwardly at least, maintains a
cheerful attitude. " apparently buoyed up
bv hopes that his storv of self defenme
has : been accepted and tlat theijury
will And him not guilty. '
1 . . Brought Back to Tacts
The J 2 men trying .Finch were led
nut .of the. land of Kgy pi this- morning,
when .Deputy District Attorney J. i.
Fitzgerald began .the closing argument
for the state. '
'While Judge Bronaugh and ' the jury
nsve iiHteneu i" a wine range or ais
cursIou . while the attorneys ! for- Finch
orated. Fitzgerald quickly singled out
for dissection, the essentialrfacts of the
case, Accompanying, a lucid summing
up of'the testimony with stinging de
nunciation of Finch,' the prosecutor de
clared that the defense was cooked up
In two places th legal part.of it' at
the offices of hi lawyers, the evidence
part of It in tUe -county jail.
Fitzgerald assailed Finch's attorneys
with merciless metaphor. . He - referred
to - them as-, "satellites", and described
Iord as a phonograph, grinding out the
records that .were prepared for him by
Finch. ; . '
:'I wonder. whether James A.1 Finch ' Is
haunted at 'night by those agonizing
sounds -of Ralph B.- Fisher's voFce, - try
ing to scream out when he- was shot
down in hlM chair? Miss Burkhart says
these were the most terrible sounds she
ever heard, and I wonder-whether they
are haunting Finch now. '
Tlaon.Xs Oamored. ' . '
5 As'FIUgerald turned with fiery look
upon ' the defendant. Finoh. maintained
his composure. During .most of - the
prosecutor's burning address he busied
himself writing or reading parts of the
typewritten testimony, glancing up onlv
now and then furtively. That some of
the scorching words were sinking in was
indicated by (the averted gaze of ' the
accused man, who did not look at' the
Jury .and - the speaker w as he has on
Other days. . ...' .1 i - . .
With tears stealing down her face at
times, the aged mother of Finch sat
just Inside 'the railing of the courtroom
and1 listened to all that the prosecutor
had to say while her son was arraigned
as a cold blooded .murderer. - - '
The defense took numerous exceptions
to the remarks 1 of the nrosecutor and
several times disputed his accuracy, but
Fitzgerald proved that memory. - was
best. -,.- '- ; !
"His Insanity defense wat in infernal
lie,'' -shouted Fitsgerald.- "and this self
defense Is an Infernal lle.It was cooked
up by as bad a gang of villains in the
county jail r. ever went 'unhung." -
Fitzgerald's raps" at Finch's lawyers
and the apt way in which . he replied
to their Interruptions this morning ap
parently greatly pleased the spectators
wno crowaea tne courtroom uu mveii
times had to be called to order when
the prosecutor landed a telling blow on
his les-al antagonists, who were Intent
on confusing and provoking htm by fre
quent Interruption. - ,!
Sally,. Amuses CrtwL .
'? The -crowd waa particularly amused
when -Fitzgerald told of the different
theories of . Lord . and Holcomb as to
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Thirty-Four, Thousand of Its
Population " Dead Town
Is Entirely Engulfed by
Sea Only Small Propor
tion of People Saved.
' (Special PUpatch to The Jotiroil.)
.' Rome, . Dec. 30. The utter de
struction of the city of Reggio, which
was entirely destroyed by" a tidal
wave and which is now slowly, sink
ing into the sea, and the death of all
but :abont 1000 of its. 35, 000 inhabi
tants is but an. item of the appalling
calamity which f has overwheimea
southern Italy and , Sicily , and
brought death to 150,000 people and
destitution to hundreds of thousands
more? " -" ' . .
. Regglo is gone, utterly, according
to the report' brought to this city by
the captain of a company of carbi
neers who arrived from the loBt.city
today. . . . j , -,. .,, .
' ,-J-.;twa llagnUed.
"The town was tiot swallowed, by the
earth, as- was - reported,"'' the CHptnui
says.; "but waa entirely engulfed bv tho
seas, which rolled In a mighty wall 0
water and swept over the . whole city,
Not a building waa left standing. Vir
tually the entire population, of 36.006
met death instantly. I do not think that
over a few hundred people . escaped
alive. When the water receded it -whs
found that the lower part of the. city
was rapidly settling, and it is feared
that, the land upon which the Beggio
is situated .will-drop Into. the. sea.'.' ,
To. the death and devastation of the
earthquake itself have, been . added the
horrors of fire, famine, pestilence and
robbery. In many of the-ruined cities
the devastated districts, . according to
reports received .here today by the min
ister of marine, fires are-raglng,- con
suming the -wrecked buildings, the
bodies of the dead and many of the
wounded who have not yet been taken
out of the ruins. At Messina, It is be
lieved, the flames have already done
their worst, and . are now under control
by the soldiers, -.j
Ononis Bob Bodies'
But to add to the horror df the sanc
tion . ghouls are at work robbing tho
bodies of the dead and dying and rob
bing the wrecked buildings. The so;
diers have orders to shoot down any
man - caught looting, and many, have
been killed, but-ao avaricious are the
fiends that' in -many Instances they
seem t be entirely unaware of or un
mindful of the danger of Instant deaijt
from the rifles of the soldiers. All ef
forts and rigid enforcement of the law
at Messina have failed to bring about
much semblance of order.- .., , - x
Disease caused by exposure, exham
tfon and fright haa already broken out
In the earthquake district., and dis
patches from Messina and others of tun
wrecked cities state that pneumonia an l
meningitis are prevalent -In -therefugee
camps. On account of the countless un
buried bodies it. , la feared that pes
tilence wil add Its ' horrors to the
frightful (conditions that already pr
valL f .;.
rood Supply Inadequate.
' And the food supply is entirely Inade
quate, . and . there is danger that hun
dreds of the helpless . refugees . will
starve to death before relief can read
them. 1 The terror stricken victims -of
the catastrophe who escaped with, their
lives sre scattered for miles 'In every
direction from the ruined cities.
Tralnloads of, refugees, nearly all of
whom 'are fearfully wounded, are ar
riving at various points today. Many
others died on the way. The. trains are
loaded at . a- point IS miles from Mes
sina, wmcn la tne nearest approacn. to
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Already ; 42 ijhjured iMen
. Rescued-More Dead to
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; May bury, ,.W Va, Dec 30". Kleven
more bodies weres taken from ' Lick
uranch mine this arternoon, makrng a
total of 23 .known dead. Tn .of th
wounded taken out cannot ' possibly ' re
cover. , , :. i ,! '. .
Mayburyt W.Va., Dec. 30.The bodies
of -12 miners were . taken early today
from the Lice .Branch -Collieries com
pany's mine at' Lick 'Branch; near' here.
Forty-two Injured , men - were rescued
during; the morning and it is believed
that nearly -100 .miners are. still en
tombed. The disaster resulted from an
explosion Tuesday., afternoon and , offi
cials of the company are endeavoring to
ascertain Its cause.
The company employs ,400 men. .but
many of them had left, work when the
explosion occurred. In addition to the
dead and Injured, it is not believed that
more than 100 men -were, in .the work
ings. --' - .' - , - j.
The mine officials are trying by every
means to prevent information from be
coming public.. At neon they admitted
that 30 men were burled in. the debris
and all are. believed to be dead.
KING AND QUEFA-AT
SCENE OFrDISASTER
Making the Trip to Top of Mt. Vesuvius.
. Specitl Dispatch, fo The Joamal.)
Palermo. Sicily. DeN 30.
Queen Helenas and King Victor 4
Emmanuel arrived at, the ruined
city of ilesslna ' today. " Cnder
the direction ' of - the.' latter an
or'ganizotl plan, "of escu work is
being perfected. L Trains, of sup-:
piles are' arriving, and' hundreds
of men and women have volun- 4)
4 teered to assist In caring for the 4p
refugees.;-! - j-' - -" ;
The. arrival, of; the two -.royal '
personages ,was illie occasion of
a pathetic demonstration. -Scores ,
of half crasedkmirvlvors flocked
about tbcm 'some. tryjngto kiss
their ,' garments., others praying -
to. them fqr protection." Queen
Helena Is o the verge of nerv-
ous .prostration, but refuses to
4 1 leave her hisband.; , ?' ;
4 ' On hundWd ', thousand ".men, '
.women and, children .are 'en-
4 camped on the hillsides outside
4 the city. From their , elevation '
a they' can' look; down', upon , the
ilving Jp'viTchreithar. they' once
called "home. j ' ' '
4p . It, Is. beUeved that by tonior-
rOW thpfYufi nfjrgrlnff for the
living and the fia 'will be be-
a gun on a fairly! well organized
4 scale. ' ' '-'
Starvation Adds to Misery of Survivprs
. rriMessina is rLompletely Wrecked
Relief-Work Appears; to:Lacfc ,Qrgan-
izhtiohV Woman Tells Experience.
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, :R6nie;,pec. .30;- I'he total . n'urhber;of ' victims .of the, earthquakt
whichi Has devastated '.Calabria arid' Sicily, is-now' estimated at ; not
lessr.than I50,00., 'Theicalarnity iSithe most stupendous that .ever
fell upon'any divilized country in' the hisfory of -the world, with but;
one 'Cxceptiori--in"' japan. , The whole of Italy is absolutely stunned
at ; the:,hprr6r, 'and,; at; the, scene 'of - the disaster .the greater part of
the 1 people are- literally demented' with the , suddenness " and ;im-.
mensityrbf 'the ,blow-which;has. fallen 'upon-them: ' V " -
' i; vPopuiation wiped Out.:;-;? ;. ',: I
. . One. of the?survivors1s'ays'that!of,the,total population of '150,000
of ; the . once . beautiful city of Medsina only ; a t small proportion . es
caped deathV ' Thousands' are rstill -buried rin the-ruin v where they ,
are suffe'rijig slow deathltbjr torture. ' The flames ate .still' making
their fwa'sfoWly-and .inexorably over the devastated area,, and im-'
prisoned jhuman "beings,; unable to extricate themselves, are being
roasted to death.' Many others are dying of injuries," and thousands'
are-starving.-; ; . ' s 1 "' , v
The streets are filled .with. confused masses'of brick and. mortar,-,
beams '.tbrru from' the. buildings, furniture, 'chimneys '.and roofs.. 'l In.
many cases . the. streets appear as enormous crevasses twisted .'into
fantastic shapes. . ... . - -
' ' The Palazzati Ruined. ' .' , '"V"
-vi The celebrated Avenue Palazzati, which runs; along the sea front
from the. university to the postoffice, is utterly-impassable. -Alt
the public monuments that lined 'this great' thoroughfare have en
tirely disappeared, having.been swallowed by the gaping earth.
All the water mains, sewers' and gas
pipes of the city- have been destroyed,
and water and filth -are 'flooding the
torn and twisted streets.' Gas explo
sions are constantly occurring, result
ing In the breaking out of scores . of
small fires. - . .- ; -
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, BleOlaa guperstitioa. a
The rescuers had to contend with', a
superstition so' deeply rooted In ,the
Sicilian mind that In many cases ' In
jured men and women clung to the
crumbling , walls and refused to , let. go
their- holds 'and seek a safer position,
v Of 280 railway employes in the sta
tion -at Messina, only eight are known
to have survived. - ,'
The terrible power of the esrthquake
cannot be told in words. The. build
ings of Messlnar were iiot merely shxkcn
downr their .foundations-were llterallv
yanked from under them to one Hide or'
the' other untn - they toppled and , fell
In ruins alongside their , original sites.
A woman gave the following account
(Continued on Page Six.)
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DIES DECLARiriG
JAILER TO BLAME
Brutal .'Abuse: by Folice 0c
S : curs at Sound as Well '
' as in' Portland.
. (I'alted Fkii LetMd WIrO
8eattle Dec. JO. Declaring with his
Inst conscious words that thu blow
which lr.ld nim low was--struck bv aa
officer at the cltv jail. R C. Manning
died -at his homer shortly before- I
o'clock yesterday afternoon from 'injur,
ies received In the city prison Satur
day. Mxnnlng was arrected Christmas
night along, with a .-crowd of holiday
4-iebrators and was promptly 'rele.el
the next morning by Pol tee Judge Goi -irn.
He . appeared all right- when l:e
was In the police court, but Immediately
after going home. became, very 111. He
declared, that Uii the morning, win 11
Jniler ' Cfrnlnr Was distribmlng li,,i'-i-fssL
he hftfl asked another jit Her f ir tne
iM-iullnsa utin. th. t A li i h, n .1,
replv reenved a ldw on dm l .'til .mall
Ifcid him on the llixu uiicor.sv lun.
: OVER JB AIIIiA
Court Iioseryes TRght to, I)i
i4reet Custmly,0thenvie
V (CaltM Pr tutted Wli,
Paris, : Dec.;' 39. The Princes I
Sagan. fomerly Anna Guuld and Ute
Countess d . t'asteilane, has i the c-n-tody
'of herTthree clilldreiu . A i u: t
order was made today to that t-f.v .
The court uled -Hint 'Prim en , r i
s'hsll ' se.nl the tvm i.ldor cMM- .
a boardipg school, in O. i-i er j
youngest child i tr- f.,l;.,n i .
school wb'iit . Ut f .u U'-m t,:! i. i
year. " -
The COdrt reei--ed IK 'v ' ff
moving ilm chlidivii f., n ; i .
e itmiy whenever if i . ' i '
Is nnr'!-.v ot t'-i
i t i ' r : c 1 f.
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