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VOL. VII. NO. 271.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1909. EIGHTEEN PAGES,
PRICE TWO CENTS. &J5$f
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Every Evidence That Powers Behind the
Interests' Are Trying to Make Legis
lators Violate Their Pledges to the
People Who Elected Them.
"To hell with the pledges.. I am
a party man." That is the spirit of
the opposition to the election of
Governor Chamberlain to the United
States senate. That Is the expres
sion of ono of the leaders of the op
position expressed at Salem, in the
capitol building yesterday.
Today the last desperate efforts
are being made to cook up some plan
or scheme by which the defeat of
Chamberlain may be accomplished.
Ornisby Mctlarg of Chicago Is In the
city, at the Portland hotel. There also
is ;. Clyde Fulton. Ralph Williams,
national committeeman. Is In attend
ance. J. H. Brown Is on the ground,
doing what ho may. Associated with
them are Senator Beach, Senator Cof
fev, Senator Hurt. John C. MeCuo and
others who are willing to do what they
can to dol'cict Governor Chamberlain
and throw the senatorial struggle back
Into the legislature with all ItB ac-r-rtmpanylntr
seimesj of 'disorder and leg
islative debauchery..
Antia Meet.
It has been noted that the opposition
to the election of Governor 'Chamberlain
met In secret session at the Willamette
hotel Iff Salem, Where It was 'decided
to stand together, last nl?rht Retain a
secret conference was held at the Im
perial hotel which .wan attended by
Senator H.irt. Kepresentatlva MoCue,
Halph Williams, Senator Coffey, J. H.
Brown, -Clyde Fulton and McIIarg. The
transactions of that meeting are bein
carefully guarded from any but the
select inner circle. This morning Ful
ton and JlcHars are preparing a circu
lar letter, which it is evidently in
tended shall be distributed between this
time and the date for the senatorial
election on Tuesday next.
It la being represented that McHarg
Is in Oregon at this time as a repre
Bcnativo of Hitchcock arid of the ad
ministration. Already the administra
tion has repudiated the plans of the
Fulton program and has stated pub
llclv that Chamberlain should bo elected
by the legislature, raft has ac'ciulesced
in this position and Illtcheock, though
reluctant and bound to Pulton, has
been whipped into line, up to this time.
Mysterious Missive.
It Is surmised that this letter which
is being prepared so carefully Is the
mysterious missive cent out, by com
mon report, from Hitchcock to Clyde
Kulton, setting out his ideas on the
senatorial situation In Oregon. This
will all become apparent in due course
of time.
McHarg at the hotel this morning,
was discreet and silent. He has nothing
to talk about, he said. He did not
know that he was going to Ralem the
first of the week. In fact he cMd not
know much of anything, apparently,
but was Just a nica quiet, asthetlc look
ing young 'man, whose appearance be
lled the evident fact that he is here In
Oregon at this time to assist in the ef
fort to debauch the legislature of the
state.
Once before Mr. McHarg was in Ore
gon. That was during the presidential
campaign when he came to the state In
the Interests of Senator Fulton. At that
time he urged those opposed to Fulton
to "get in line" as Fulton was the only
man who eould give them any recog
nition, or place, or profit in return for
their support. He Is back at this time
on the same mission.
Srolvlnr Demands.
Th chief attention of th antl
Chamberlain men now seems to be di
rected towards svolving a demand that
the governor resign, or promise to do
so, immediately. upon his election as
senator by the legislature. By this plan
the opposition shows its weakness, !n
that they practically admit their In
ability to defeat Chamberlain but ask
as a favor that he agree to step down
and out in order to aid them in their
political plans.
This movement is clearly in violation
(Continued on Page Four.)
FAST TRAIN HITS
IIDAT1
Los Angeles Flyer in Col
lision in Fog Sit Chicago
Workman Killed.
(United Press Leased Wire.)
Chicago, Jan. 14. One workman was
Villed and five others badly hurt when
the Los Angeles flyer on the North
western railroad crashed into the rear
of an accommodation train in this city.
The passengers In the flyer were shaken
but none was hurt. The collision took
place In a heavy fog.
SILK TRAIN It
CANADA FIRED
Four Cars of a Million Dol
lar String1' Consumed;
Due to Collision.
(Cnlted PreM Leased Wire.)
Vancouver, B. C, Jnn. 14 A Cana
dian Pacific silk train with a c.uko
valued at $1, 000.000 which arrived bv
the Empress of China, was run into liv
a fast freight while standing on a sid
ing II miles east of Swift Current last
night. Brakemen Porter and Mount of
Medicine Hat were killed and Engineer
Deacon seriously, injured. An error of
the brakeman iri not closing the switch
after the train had taken the siding
caused the accident. . The train Immedi
ately caught fire and four cats with val
uable freight wero totally destroyed.
The silk was goin.g in bond to New
York.
SEE LANDS
OF A NOBLE
Game Preserve of Marquis
of Bute Invaded by 500
Unemployed Act Accel
erates Movement to Abol
ish This 3fonstrosity.
(United Press Ltased Wlre.l
Cardiff, Jan. 14. Five hundred un
employed worltingmen unable to se
cure work, their families and them
selves facing starvation, invaded the
great baronial estate of the Marquis of
Bute today and began digging the land
preparatory to planting crops. The au
thorities were summoned but were pow
erless without warrants. While the
workingtnen continued laying out their
fields und little farms on the great
hunting preserve of the Butes, the ar
rstocratlo marquis departed to seek wajv
rants for their arrest.
The worklngmen, hearing of the pur
pose of the marqujs' departure, pro
cured weapons. They declared they
would resist forcible ejection, saying
they would rather die quickly at the
hands ot the police than slowly of star
vation. Th Bute hunting preserve comprises
thousands of acres of fertile lands, roll
ing and partly wooded, ideal for farms.
Socialists have demanded that the
hunting preserves be thrown open to the
people for cultivation, claiming they
would furnlSh comfortable support for
the families -of all unemployed men in
the empire.
With the Increasing Buffering from
lack of work, the demands of the agita
tors have grown louder and more In
sistent, until the workingnien, roused to
desperation, have committed trespass,
to secure sustenance for themselves and
their little ones.
That the action taken by law abid
ing but desperate men was precipitated
by the Indiscretion of the nobility is
the opinion of the authorities. Recent
ly a hunting party was organized on
the Bute demesne and the sight of a
handful of gaily habited, well fed men
and women disporting over land that
would glvo themselves and their starv
ing families sustenance brought about
the invasion that threatens to end In
bloodshed.
Feeling that the plunee has been
taken and that a fight in the courts will
follow, emissaries have been sent post
haste to London to urge upon the house
of commons the necessity for support
ing a bill to throw open all the hunting
preserves In the United Kingdom to the
people.
The notion has been heretofore dis
cussed in a desultory way with a view
to weakening the power of the house of
lords. It is predicted here that today s
desperate action will bring tlio move
ment to a locus and force the matter
to an issue in parliament.
KERX DEFEATED:
SIIIVELY CHOSEN
(t'nlted Press Leased Wire.)
Indianapolis, Jan. 14. The senatorial
contest, was concluded when the Demo
cratic caucus at an earlv hour this
morning settled . firon Benjamin F.
Shively of South Bend as its choice.
The selection was made on the twentieth
ballot. Shively will succeed James
Hemenway, Republican. The chief op
ponent of Shively was John W. Kern,
defeated Democratic candidate for the
vice presidency of the United States.
Shively is a lawyer. He was born In
St. Joseph county, Indiana, March 20.
1857, and graduated from the law de-
?artment of Michigan, university in
SK6. He taught school and was en
gaged in newspaper work. He was
elected to the forty-eighth congress to
till 4 vacancy, and reelected to the
fiftieth. fifty-first and fifty-second
congress. He was Democratic nominee
for governor in 1896; anil received the
Democratic vote in the state legislature
for United States senator in 1903 and
1905. He is a trustee of the University
of Indiana.
t State Press and Senator-No Alternative I
GOES TO DEATH
IN ICY WATERS
Charles Midland Attempts to
Cross Willamette in
Frail Skiff.
FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE RUINS
AT MESSINA TO REACH PORTLAND
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BOlViB CORPS
TERROR TO
AUSTRIA
In IIerzeo;oviiia Bushwhack-.
. ers Kill Emperor's Men
From A m bush - People
Maddened by Insolent and
Brutal Soldiery. -
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Tho lower picture taken from a photograph which was made four days after the Messina disaster.
The upper picture is of relief tents near the ruins of Messina. From a photograph taken at Messina.
'From the Coos Bay Harbor (Republican).
This paper advocated the nomination of Charles W. Fulton as
the senatorial candidate on the Republican ticket, in the primaries.
When H. M. Cak defeated him for the nomination it, like the ma- J
jority of Republican. papers, accepted the decision of the party (?)
and sustained Cake in his fight against Chamberlain. But the people
of Oregon under Statement No. 1 decided that George E. Chamber-
lain shall be the next senator from this state and to that, end have
elected a legislature, the majority ot whom are pledged to vote for
our worthy governor for that position. Again jwe bow to the will of
the people. - ' , '
There i no alternatiVe. The majority of the legislature is pledged
to its constituents to vote for Chamberlain and vote for Chamberlain
they must, or quietly bubble through the surface of the sea of oblivion
forever. A man who violates his pledge to the people who elected
him is.dead, not only politcally but as a man.among men.. He may J
have been- a double dyed scoundrel all his days, his word m busmess
may be as lightly made and quickly broken as the creations of a
2 child's bubble blower, but if he violates this pledge all men will for- J
ever point the finger of scorn at him, he. will be down and out.
i ' The condemnation of the public is not 'a thing to be. lightly J
X valued, and that legislator'who has pledged his- constituents, to vote.
for Chamberlain for, senator and then casts, his. ballot for another T
X 'will receive this condemnation in its fullest measure. . . . , '! . ; J
Spfclal Dlspatrh to TTie Journal.
Oregon City. Jan. U Charles Mid
land, a foreman in mill A of tlie Willam
ette i'nper plan', was drowned about 9
o'clock this morning while crossing the
Willamette riv. r -bilow the falls.
lie was In a light skiff rowing to
ward this city The boat struck against
a large cake of floating Ice, causing it
to upset. Midland sank before aid
eouM reach him. The boat was found
on the river bank near Oreenpolnt.
A large force is now out searching
for th body. He leaves his wife and
one child at Canemah. His father, Cap
tain Midland, is a well known resident
of this city.
WHICH
E VICTIMS
Duke di Litta Will Take
Half and Call Himself
a Philanthropist.
LEAP FROM FIRE 10 SHOW
From tturning Copeland Hotel, Topekn, Kan., 150 (iue.sts
Flee in Early Morning A. W. Smith, Politi
cal Leader, Fatally Injured.
ow
(CnltM Press Lfiwd Wire.)
Paris, Jan. 14. The Duke dl IJtta, an
Italian nobleman and owner of vast
estates along the Miakka river In Flor
ida, will throw open Ids lands for colo
nization to families made destitute
by the eariquake in southern Italy.
The only condition named by tho duke
Is that-each -.family shall take .two
farm, cultivating .one for themselves
and fails other for him." , . . . .
Topcka. Kan. Jan. 14. Thirty per
sons are injured. jnUuding A. W. Smith
of Mcr'herson. former Kcpubllcan p':
lirrni torial candiilute. who. It is be
lieved will die. sis' a result of a fire
which sutted the Copelp.nd h'H,-l, a
four story brick structure, early to
day. The property Ions if very heavy
ami as yet cannot bo closely estimate!1
There' were 150 fruests in the hotel
Many of them Jumped from the win
dows' when the alarm was Kie:i at t
a'clock, as egress by the stairs ar.i
elevators had been cut off by the
flames.
Most of the injured were hurt by
falling on the pavements as the fiie
men had not bad time to arrange lite
nets. They were clad only in thir
nipht clothes and fowr took lime to
throw any of their belongings out of the
windows before they jumped.
Tb hotel was a political headquar
ters here and many prominent persons
from all parts of the slate were In the
building at the time ot the fire.
Smith, who was unconscious wha
rescued, fas taken to a hospital, w hero
it is suiil iheie is no hope of his re
cover. Th" bitter cold added to the suffer
ing of the injured and caused the fire
men gnrit difficulty in fighting the
flames. The whole town was aroused
by the fire and a great crowd gath
ered in spite of the early hour.
1 Lambert of Kmporia. a prominent
attorney, Is missing, and his friends
are extremely apprehensive.
Former (Jovernor (4. W. Glick was
carried down a ladder from the third
floor and escaped without injury.
The heavy snow which had drifted
about the hotel, served to break tho
force of the fall of many of those who
jumped from the windows.
BEATRICE MILLS IS
NOW THE WIFE OF
EARL OF QRANARO
(Srcll Dispatch to The Journal.
New York, Jan. 14, Miss Beatrice
Mills, daughter of Mr. and Vs- Onden
Mills, was the-first international bride
of the year today, when her marriage
to tlm Eari of Granard took place in
the large ballroom of the Mills city
residence, at Sixty-ninth and Fifth
avenue. The wedding was a notable
Incident in social circle, for the guest
list included -the most notable names
In New York society.
The bride had v as lier four little
bridesmaids. Miss F.llln Markay, Miss
Alice Astor, Miss Grace Vnnderbilt, and
Miss Kdith Taylor the children fI Mrs.
Clarence Mackav,. Mrs.- John Jacob As
tor, Mrs. Cornelius Vandorbtlt and Mrs.
Moses Taylor. . ,-
The- Earl of Granard wax attended
by his .brother, the Honorable Donuld.
Forbes,, as best man. The' ushers were:
Ogdeii Livingston Mills, brother of the
iMiut. "iisui'ii xveiu, moii ui .Ainoassaaor
and Mrs. Whitelaw Reld and a cousin
of the bride; Henry Carnegie Phlpps.
who married the bride's sister a Itttle
over a year ago; Charles D. Wetmorc-,
and Frederick H. L., Botts.
A large reception - followed the wed
ding ceremony.- Prominent among those
were: J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Ohoat. Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick W. Vanderbtlt. Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Maokar, Mr. and Mrs. Thea
dore Havemever, Mr. and Mrs. William
Douglas Sloanr, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
C IMilpps, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbiit. Mr. and Mrs. Mows Taylor,
and Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor
The bride of today Is one . of v the
(Continued on Page Four.)
LADSGO HUNTING;
1 DEAD, 1 FROZEH
Train of Calamities Follow
ing Fink Family Has
Sai Culmination.
(Special Plupatch to The Jiriiat.",
Chehalis, Wasiu Jan. 14 Word was
received here today that the searching
parties who have been looking-for Willie
and Henry Fink, 11 and 21 yeirs old
respectively, since Monday, had found
them. One was dead. The other was
so badly frozen that doctors say his
feet and bands will have to be ampu
tated. The boys live near Alpha, a small
town IS miles soutiieast of this city.
They went hunting last Saturday. They
did not return Saturday night nor Sun
day, but their parents thought nothing
of the matter, as they supposed the
boys had stopped with some neighbors.
When they did not return Tuesday,
Mrs. Fink became alarmed and notified
some of the neighbors. Searching par
ties were organised. The searchers had
about given up hope when tho two lads
were found Tuesday.
Henry, the older brother, said that
after his little brother had succumbed
to the cold, he carried the dead body
in the direction of what he thought was
home, until he was exhausted and had
to give up.
The-Fink family has been singularly
unfortunate. About a year ago the hus
band went insane and was sent to the
asylum.- Last spring one of the daugh
ters was accidentally shot in the shoul
der and almost died. A year ago Inst
fall the Fink house caught fire and'Was
burned, with all Its conteuts.
(TnHed Frens Leaaed Tl'Jre.l
Belgrade. Jan. 14. Wholesale slaugh
ter of Austrian troops has begun In
Herzegovina by a bomb corps of 20,000
men, divided into parties of 20 each
and scattered over the entire province.
The campaign started about the first
of tho year and is now rapidly assum
ing the proportions of genuine warfare.
The Austrian government and military
authorities in the. field are. sparing no;
effort to prevent the news from be
coming known. Men actually In the
field, however, send reports that fights
are taliing place dally, with heavy cas
ualties. "
Individually, of cmirso, the engage
mtmtH are small, which makes it easier
for the Austrian government to sup
press the news, hut considering tfiat
they are now raging over an area of
3500 squaT-e miles, the total showing
is tormidable.
The rebel bands consist' largely of
native Herzegovinians, with a . heavy
sprinkling of Servians, Montenegrans
nnd Roumanians, with a few Russians
and Turks. ,,
Bomb Good at, 35 Tarda.
The corps was organized almost Im
mediately after the annexation of Bos
nia and Herzegovina by Austria and"
was carried on under the nose of the
Austrian army of occupation, which the
Vienna government is reenforcing con
tinually. The rebels are excellently equipped,
each man having five bombs and two
rifles, the extra weapons being pro
vided for use in arming the entire
populace, which the rebels hope will
soon be in a state of general revolution.
The bombs are of a new pattern.
They are about tho size of an egg .
and- can be thrown accurately 35 yards.
Their destructive power is terrific. De
pending wholly on siwtden attacks ami
assaults from ambush, the rebels ex
pect to wear put their stronger oppon
ents. ,,, .. .
How heavily th Austrians are suf
fering cannot .he told definitely. Them
in never a fight in which a few ira
not killed or wounded and altogether
the number of their casualties must
have reached a largo figure. To the
captured guerrillas they give no quar
ter, but shoot or cat them down or
nang tnem to the nearest tree, without
even the formality of a drumhead
courtmartial.
Troops Billeted oa 'PtopU.
The towns swarm with Austrian
troops, who, billeted upon the inhabi
tants, behave almost uniformly with
the utmost brutality, keeping their un
willing hosts anxious for their own
lives and especially frightened for the
safety of their wives and daughters.
The entire country la under martial
law and there is no appeal from tha
injustice of many of the military decis
ions. In the roughness with which thev .
treat the people, the rank and file are in
variably upheld bv their officers. . , -
The effectiveness with which the
news has been bfttled uo and kept
away from the outside world is aston
ishing. The censorship" Is so strict that
(Continue on Page Four.)
OREGON TIMBER
LIDS ACTIVE
Wisconsin Man Invests $1,
000.000 In Tillamook
Tract. u '
LOS ANGELES JOBBERS':
C031PLAIXT IS HEARD
(lulled Pres Leased Wire.)
Los Angeles, Jan. .14; The hearing
of the Los Angeles jobbers" protect
against the $J. 50 switching' charge
made by tha Southern rPacfic. 'the Salt
Lake 'and the' Santa Fe railroads com
menced here today before Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Franklin K.
Lane of San Francisco. .
That there is considerable activity
in timber lands is made evident "by tlm
number of large transactions just
closed in different parts of the state.
Some of them, involve large amounts,
the consideration in one case being not
less than $1,000,000.
The fl.0OO.o0A -deal ni consummate ! -a
few days ago after long negotia
tions. The land is In Tillamook county
and the tract contains 14,00t acre.
heavilv timbered. It waa sold bv th
Danahcr & Klodgett Interests to W. .
Slattery of Wisconsin and will be held
by him -as an investment. The pur
chaser is said to consider the nrl
Said small compared with what tlm.
er wlli be worth in a few years.
W. C Slattery bought another tr.iet
of timber of 4,009 acres in the ';: tn
river country for f.2i.aoft. . L. ii. j,....
fee a prominent timber man of n i,
city is interested with Mr. Platter' t i
thl deal. The land is estimated 1 .
contain 260.000,000 fet. . It o lit'.
mostly Irom small noiders.
H. B. Jones, W. C. tiatterv nn.t ),
F. Fox have bought j trait i, ,
Mackenzie - river dixtiict coot .ii.ti
30,000,09 feet. -Ti e const b i 1 1 ,,, , .
this case ha not Iwi ann'mi-.-- i
land was bought from smii
The WiclilstiMlrKoti l.i.i-
pany has bnught a t t u( i
from AV. C. Flam-rv in i ,
ty, paylrg $tmi.o,e, i,,r ,t. , ,.
volving $ Jou.Ciiiti is id tn ii..- i
country. It nein s-t t, t
1. , ,
nas ien paid iiu n i, r
. Tlmbermeti r f it
Oregon ttmM r w ill ?
more activity the i-ot-in..
ever before an 5 at. f 1 .
vul-ies.