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C- fREDERIG J MIASKINS LEtTERS ARE DAIIY f UR . . This Xasns of ; ; , The Sunday 'Journal Comprises 'A JOURNAL CIRCULATION YESTERDAY, WiS 32,135 6 Sections-- 72 Pages 7 lTha ,WeatherProbabljr howeri, warmer; wind mostly southerly.' i- is I VOL. V. NO. 52. PORTLAND. OREGON. SUNDAY ' MORNING, APRIL 4, 1909., PRICE FIVE CENTt IU1 ' T 1 f 1 " r- rCV JXs ; j w w u u w v 0 0 N HI n lit 1 CITY it)ms Twenty liiocks m Ashes and Fire'Isk Spread ing -Thousands of People fjre Homeless. I ' -,' f (United Press Luted Wlr.) ( Dallas, , Texas, , April 3 . Fira 'Hch has spread to the entire south . stctlon of Fort Worth,-32 miles west M this city, proke out this after noon , and despite the combined tt forts of fire departments from snr- rounaing- cuius, wun me water press ure : practically played out. Is still raging, but is under control. The loss has already passed into millions of dollars and continues to grow larger. One Death Is Reported. A stiff wind la blowing with such fury that the flames, leap wildly ".from building to building and street to street. causing the area of burning buildings to grow larger every minute. As Jht fire-lias "advanced the heat became 0 Intense that "the firemen have been forced to retreat. The advance of the fire has been so fast that in a large number of ease hundreds of feel , of hose lines have been burned be for the firemen were able to remove them from the path of the flames. Thousands of homeless' people have been forced to seek shelter wherever they were able to find It. while they have seen their homes born, without being able to save tneir Deiangings. Many Blocks Sum. Many whole blocks have been burned over in .the sections between Jennings avenue and the Houston -St .Texas Cen tral railroad tracks and, according , to late reports received here,- the fire ' is spreading across the railroad. tracKs. The fire is said to have been started by a cigarette dropped into a pile of firtw oy iwo email poya. ine rire. im mediately sprang up, communicating to omer buildings in tne neighborhood And from there to adjoining -blocks! until practically the entire south section of the city lies a mass of heated embers. Up to 3 o'clock the .loss had been es timated at $3,000,000. but since that time the flames have greatly Increased that estimate. The union ' depot has been burned as have also the Texas A Pacific roundhouses; Sawyer's groc- . ery, McCor'gan's wholesale . grocery, Waplea & Platttv's wholesale grocery, National Biscuit company's building, Broadway Presbyterian church. Broad way Baptist church and about 690 residences.- i ; xwenty shoocs son. - . V district has been devastated and along. T" Jlaln street seven . blocks nave been I 'swept by the flames. Then eastward. j Glenwood, a suburb containing many beautiful homes. Is reported burning. - The White sanitarium was burned. In the building at the time was a crip- piea patient, necause or nis condition MRS. MOORE DECLARES SHE : HAS BEEN LEFT: DESTITUTE m illliiliiSIllV I SUIT Builder of Marshfield-Myrtle Point Kailroad Sues to Re cover $155,832 Damages Espee and Spreckels Com panies iNamed. fr -i Ik The Coos Bay. Boseburg & Eastern railroad has long been known to be a subsidiary of the ' Southern Pacific Rallraod com pany's line of steamships Into. Coos bay. The purpose Of the Ha rriman Interests In acquiring . 4 . It was to effectually throttle the coal, lumber, dairy and other shipping business out of the rich Coos and Coqullle river valley countries. The road was brought-' into prominence some mouths ago, when complaints of alleged excessive freight charges were 'made against it to the state railroad commlKsion. It is the .only railroad In the Coos bay country. (Special DliDatcb to The Xuurntl.) ' Marshfleld, Or., April 3.-Just as he wa toleava. on Ue stwuneji Breakwa ter for, Portland today C. J. MiUIs was served with 'a demand for the Coos Bay.' Kosebure & Eastern Railroad A Navigation h company's property, of which he Is : ceneral onanaa-er. The railroad Is' one which runs from Marsh- field to Myrtle Point. It has 27 miles of track and is owned by the Southern Pacific company. The demand is a part of the legal action which b&s been started by R. A. Graham, t We builder of the road, to recover possession of the property and to obtain damages, which he alleges "are due him. Attorney T. S. Minot is acting for uraiiam, wno is now in san Francisco carrying on some railroad contracts. Two suits for damages have been start- HERMIT .OF ROCUE RIVER SAYS ENEMIES CONSPIRE PAYNE GEI -5 Error in Estimates Said to Have Created New Deficit Which Lawmakers Wil I Have 3Iuch Difficulty in Straightening Out. rif:;;;;:llliiiK'-" Hill I 1 A hi v tusk 'vim 0' Washington. April J. What 4 congress did today: ' House In committee of the whole many speeches were made on the , 4 general subject of the ;. tariff. - 4 Speeches on the same line con- tinued at the night session. .' ' Senate , , : 4 The senate met in session, but ' " Informally. The members of that ; body are operating on houee members to the . end - that 'the - Payne bill-may be defeated.. ' . Cliarles Page, the Hermit of Rogue River, (Continued on Jage Eleven.) Mrs. Elsie Moore, Who Sues' Husband in Hospital for Divorce. lis was unable to escape and was forced o remain In the building and watch the flames as they quickly ate -their way around him. , (When the Forth, Worth fire depart ment saw that It would be unable to rope with the flames, a call for aid was sent to this city. Within to minutes sfter the call was received. Fire Chief Ma gee of the local department, had an engine company consisting of a fire en gine and a hose wagon with 3000 feet or extra nose and a company of 13 men en board a special train on the Texas & Pacific railroad and was speeding to- w.ra ne ourninc cuy. xne train left xmm city at 2 o'clock and arrived In (Continued on Page Eleven.) HaveYouReadlha VJant Ad Section o f Today's Journal Am Adrertise for lU MP a Advertise for J)Q situations aa AdTrrtlse farnlsheO - 0J foonia to r'ent PftA Adrertlse real estate for 0OJ al AA Advertise bsuiiaes Of Advertise bcaae for Advertise flats for! 0 rent aa AdrcrUse hoiKkepta( Chi fMW lor rent llor Want Ads ia Ts Joaraal than tnr other Portland paper Tftere ha Rezsori WllllUT OVER Pretty, petite Mrs. Elsie Moore., about whose blood 'head 'have lowered -troublous clouds of- tragedy and' blasted ref inance, has. awakened from the 'hysteria n to wmcti sne was thrown by the shoot ing of her druggist husband, to find herself without money or means of sup port... She. -Is 'destitute. - - ft - -v..- - With Jesse C - Moore, aaalnst whom she yesterday filed action for divorce, lying In the. Good Samaritan hospital struck down by -a-bullet from; the re volver of her aged-mother, Mrs.' Amelia Wood,' who is herself in. St. Vincent's hospital surrerlng from severe scalp wounds and bruises inflicted by the man, Mrs. Moore is preparing to' Wage single handed a battle , for a' livelihood for herself and little son. . . - -. "I am without money, but, X can find work," she said, bravely. . "There, is always honest work for honest women." The few persons who really ' knew the circumstance of the ease were not surprised at the divorce action com menced in the circuit court yesterday .by the 21-year-old wife of the druggist. Days ago she put her case before City Attorney J. P. Kavanaugh. . . Friday morning the wife -ahd -husband were lo have met and attempted a set tlement. Both were satisfied that a separation was the only solution. He was willing 'for her to have 4-year-old Alton; the only child, for a time, and said : he would furnish a flat and - give her- 940 a month.: She -asks now the custody. of the boy and 160 a month ali mony. He offered no objection to the presence of, the mother-in-law. Mr. Kavanaugh, unable because of press of work, to attend properly to her case, -yesterday asked Mrs. Moore to se- kuib j anomer attorney. sne retained John F. Logan and John H. Stevenson, who filed the -complaint. No statements were made yesterday by counsel beyond What has already been printed. 13-year-old mother of Mrs. Moore, was resting easily; She will be In fit con dition' to leave the hospital - within a few days.. Moore's, condition was favorable last night. Dr. louis Shane, who has been attending him, 'believes no danger to ex ist. Probing for the bullet have been unsuccessful. - Moore does not seem .greatly alarmed at the two charges of assault with Intent to kill, placed against him by his wife. No one has yet put up the 110.000 bond-required of him. - Tuesday th custody of the child will be- settled He ia -now a m of - th juvenue court, but Is with his mother. From what - can - be learned. Moore. through his attorneva. will mdImi th possession or tbe boy. Charles Page,- the gold miner from Josephine county, who-loves to call himself "The Conqueror" because he succeeded during many months in keep ing all Intruders away from nis claim, a sandv bar on Rogue river, through fear of his unerring marksmanship,, is now in the Multnomah' county ; jail Planning means whereby' he. can, bring o justice the men whom he declares have conspired ' against him. . -Yesterday he said that these men believed he had money burled, and wanted him out of the way while they search for the treasure. - Some of the officers who have been connected with Page's arrest believe that his mind Is deranged, the result of 20 years' hermit life nearly 60 miles from Gllace. the nearest-town. Others think the old man has really , been im posed upon and that the administration of justice will finally bring others to face serious charges. It Is related of Page that one day three men came to the river bank near (Heant News by Lengest Leased Wire.) ' Washington. , April 8." Discovery to day of a seeming-jerror n estimating- the revenues to be derived unqer tna rates of the Payne bill make that meas- ur annarentlv utterly inadequate u meet the running expenditures of th . government. The error is auegeato foot up to atotal of 45,00e.00g' Tne error It mu expiaunn:. ' in living his bill before, the house. Chairman Payne explained .that each year th.jrt is an average or rrom two to eignt per cni - in jiiti"'"u" that are' not expended; tn other words. that from : I20.000.00W lO-18U.UUO.uuu or uio wiiiii.r aiiu itrubxcueg iu mtmi. liid i .nr., vaan ia ndvM AXMndMi Mfl mere- claim as their own. Page had been la-1 fore can be accounted as additional uwiuuaiy wanijinjc uui Law HtLllu ana l fnp tha diif.fntfl t n or vmf. getting about II worth of gold from I . t .u. Mr ivam-a. nhiiniuii each cubic, yard he washed. For some p. rna estimates the annual unexpended time, so absorbed was he In his work. I t fiv mr rant, whti-h he did-not-notice the., interlopers' pres- SK.9oo.ooo.ooo furnished him with the ence. .vvnenne.ai uu tin. .Now vou. fellers got to do a little I - swlramln' stunt." he said auietly when I Estimating further that he would so. he faced them.- the gun held at ready, f cure 17.000,000 from a tax -on tea, the Onf or 'the .three began to argue, when I chairman or tne ways ana means com- Diuig! a bullet whistiea near nis coat mlttee oresentea an array or rigures tail. None of them waited for further that Just about seemed to show that persuasion.- but started to run. rney bis bill voum rurnisn pieniy or reve- Dlunaed into the water and struck out nue to carry the government through. across the. stream, being encouraged in I Now comes the discovery that Instead appropriations oetng tne treasury at trie heads entirely too close ror comfort. close of each vear. all appropriations Jfage is -understood to nave declared I are available for three years arter th i ne wanted- notmng rrom any man Dut close of the fiscal year ror wnicn they to be let alone, that the claim was his, I are made, in order that payments on. wnat it produced was nis ana ne would I continuing contracts may tte met. in lay down his life, if necessary, to do-1 some cases, such, as for fortifications. progress by the angry buzzing of shots I of unexpended from the Winchester, which passed their I turned back into fend his rights. MAYOR LANE IS LEADER III RACE deceives Ojie Third of 330 Votes Cast in The Jour- : nal Contest a 1 s Mow the Oaadldates Mayor Harry Lane.... Dr. J. R. Wetherbee. . . Louis O. Clarke Ben- Belling....... c! HJ Hunt-. A. a Rushlight.. Dsn Kenaher '. Joaesh Simon George McMillan Charles IC McDonnell.. R. t, -Sabln.V ..... 'A. Scholl . .iu I my II II 1 It t Mayor Lena Is sttll la the lead In The Journals straw vote for aayer. with exactly ane third er all the votes east to his credit out ef a total ef SI. I p to last n'cht be k-4 reeoived lit ef the IM.' Ir..J. R Wett- Is " frid with SI votee: Ijtmi . lsrbe tbtnl with 27. an0 eeneter Ben i fig iarh wth-l. Tttm vote as it iw stands Is ee fol- LIIIE' FOREIIERS" ARE POTTO DIE i ' . . ... - President Weds . Secretory and Issues Affinity Edict Oregon Members. (Spwbl Dlspates te Tke JmtuI.I Boston. Mass.. April I. The disrup tion of the "Live Forever" club. , which has its headquarters tiers. and Is an rgaaiaatiea-er peoptwtti various parts of the country who - assert they will nt"r aie. is preaietea pecause or an edict from the . leader and prWert, Marry Gase, that all must scientifically wed. or as. a oonsequeooe ef remaining unmarried, must die. of the mrabr ship roll of the society-the following names appear: H. R. XIneald. ti East Milts afreet. Eufs. Or, and Mrs. Biancaa Brown, tcho. Oreroa. - The revolt hae bsea given form by a number ef Boston -women of oram inencew who cbUta their leader hai eon loo fr (iwMMt Ua -fvty-criiw Mies iaat marnaf te essential ror --oreg eternal Lfe. bat declares that the itnin must be a onion of affto tiea. He-alw- tells jut - how, ai -r tbe happy marriage la caKnlnated. the wly wd anust live, and t-it te where hla forwierly . ardent followers f14 their prlftripal nbfrirn. Whew 1h 1Jv Forever" elub was ! th h1fhth of It's prerHtT. rr nt fl to Itt with Ho aw-re-terr, X im Mitdrod Be"n. They w-e wjarri4i and went to Furopo mm a wod- Inconceivable Ghoulishness Displayed by Gang That Levied on the Father of Harold Moon Detective Knows Guilty 3Ian. (Cnlttd rreas Leased Wlre.l Chicago. April 3. A woman was the ringleader of the gang, that attempted to blackmail Lumann Moon of Flint Mich., whose son Harold was found drowned in Thread pond at Flint today. Thla la the belief expressed by detec tives who hsve worked the case on the theory that the boy was kidnaped. The only thing that prevented the black mailers from carrying out their plans, which Included the paying by Moon of 1590 at Delavan. Wis., was the sudden finding of Harold Moons corpse. Dete-tlvew Charleeworth. who aceom pan led Moon to Delavan In response to a letter from the blackmailer last nlrht. and who says he can Identify tbe man wbo took tne decoy letter rrom the mouth of a cannon la the town park there. Is moot certain In his belief that a woman Is Involved lnthe affair. He bases this mainly on tne letter which Moon received from the blackmailers and which declares the soy had been kidnaped. trotter Solas Maay Claoa. The letter ordered Mooa to place lit In the cannon at Dalavaa, Wlav The letter was - written oa cheap oarer, but one side Is two pages long. The first sheet or the paper is also and the aeo. ood , yellow. I elective Charles worth aald the haadwrttlng was plainly that of a woman. The writing is aucn that the dertieo bellve tbev can easily trace tne writer, i ae te-r. genorally, would show that sme reronn of edoca- rtno Mr iKfr. atdo tStm tat ef proper .capitalisation a4 puwetoa tioa. which was probably a deliberate om salon. - The jeovelooo la wWc the letter was found was slapped lo the srpor left hood oomev. This dtertore f runs the general wav -of otampleg Vtr-a fear eerre a a Airlher rlwe toward I b ftBO Ing ef is w1ter ' irilm to 1"Iti:t f irlMort tho ler wee oai)d two e war fie irm at r r-. a tw aitetino e-f t p- poetrnao wNo ni:rM tko iwetl at that CHICAGO FACES LABOR CRISIS Freight and Grocery - 3Ien, Teamsters and Seamen Are Involved. (United Press Leased Wire.) Chicago, April 3. A mass meeting of the Federation of Labor is called for Sunday to act on the strikes whlch threaten to involve a large number of Chicago's workers. Tbe decision of the frelghthandlera today not to strike un til members of the Merchants' exchange have an opportunity to accept or re ject the ultimatum of . that union to the wholesale grocers, averted a general strike in railroad freight houses. The men Insisted on going out to aid the striking clerks but their - officers kept them In line. - The men declared they would not resume work Monday if any more freight were received for ship ment from the 11 big truck firm's. The strike of grocery employee does not include snore thsn ISOtf men but the threatened walkout of tbe freight handlers would throw out (0OS more and involve -21.000 teamsters affiliat ed with thecn. The situation Is grave enough to cause serious apprehension In business circles. The last teamsters' strike cost Chi cago millions of- dollars In trade. For months . eftarwerda- ttut courts - were clogged with eeoeo- arising oat 'of the strike. Too teamsters have not for gotten tbe lesson but the addition , of maay new radical members makes it difficult for their leaders to hold theta la check. P. J. Flaaaery. national president of th freight handlers, and their national council will confer with ho Associated Building Trades and otb-r unions to morrow and-arre thit tbe teamsters take only conservstlve action. They wlii alee try to prevent the freight- wawrt rruni uauig nasiy anion. or ir : s pos TRIAL AT HAIID Charged With Murdering Her Husband, Nephew of the Admiral. Butireo ajeata tnat anieeo a settlement of the grocery employe' dtepste la made by Moneay Bight the etriVe will eitend. At tomorrows toettng lake oeamea 111 submit thtr demanda te th fed eration for laderoement. Tt"T ask a ware Increase ef 12 per rent, shorter hours and a closed ehen. .Tney Insist lhe em4M beir r arrie4 no- free natlgsuoa op-a. Tte nH ewn ere nay Ihrw ul not coiwode those e tact w-a . - - A r ef 1B ntrfSers sttarlinf street (United Pre Leased Wire.) Lyons. N. Y., April 3 The trial of Mrs. George K. Sampson of Macedon for murder, which ill open here Mon dav, will be the most sensational- ever held. In western New York. She has strenuously protested her Innocense, The community is divided in' opinion and reeling runs nign. The killing. of Harry Sampson, hus band of the accused woman and nephew of the late Rear Admiral Sampson, took place November l, isos. in a larmnouse near the hamlet of Macedon, this county. The night preceding the couple had quarreled aa a result of th husband claiming his wife had met a strange man at Rochester. The. next morning the quarrel was renewed and the othef tnmatee of , the house heard a shot. Rushing Into the room they found young Sampson lying .lead on th floor with his rifle alongside his body. Mrs. Samp son declared he had taken down the rifle from the wall and shot himself because she refused to forgive him for making what she termed unfounded charges agilnst her character. At the coroner's Inquest Dr. Hamil ton, who examined the body, swore the wound in the heart was of such-a -nature tfcat It .oeuld not. have been self inflicted, sod Mrs Sampson was' ar rested. She waa indicted for murder In the first degree. rivers and harbors, the . appropriations are available indefinitely. In fact, it Is asserted by treasury authorities thin afternoon that by the time the accounts for a given year are finally closed, two or three years after the appropriation -has been made, not only Is the appro- r prlation fully expended, but frequently . there Is a deficit. In view of this con dition of affairs.' it will be seen that $45,000,000 velvet on which Mr.- Payne -banked goes glimmering'. Treasury Account. ' An examination of the treasury ac count for a series of years showed -these figures: For the fiscal year ending June SO, 1904. there was expended 19.8 per cent ' of all appropriations; for the fiscal year 1905, 102 per cent plus; for thn fiscal year 1906. 8.09 per cent This gives an average for the. three years , of 99.8 per cent now expended and there was still enough matter under the con tinuing appropriations up to and above 100 per cent for those three years. , For the fiscal year 1907. there has already been spent over per cent, and the accounts still to be paid for , that year are estimated to absorb the balance remaining. Likewise for 190H, although only 87 per cent has been -spent, it is expected that the entire amount will be drawn out. Thla dls-r covery has started. Je experts at work -on the figures. If details sre aa they are represented ' It means a swamping of the- tariff hUl with the Inheritance tax and an Income ' tax as well, abeolutely- necessary t meet the expenditure of th govern- T -nint. - v " - - ' ' f - . Kemev Duties. ,--.-- The ways snd" means cotamltfeo to- day decided to remove the duty from coffee and tea It alo derided that the present countervailing dutinn on . oil Standard Oil ohould -remain where, - ther were, . There will be no rhanra lit th drawback provision under which 'rhe Standard (Ml company makes Its money. ' There are to be.no changes in . the . glove and hosiery nrhedutea -If ih present bill makes gloves and stnrklncs , dearer to tre wearer. It is to stand li th Payne bill. ' Pavnc refuses lo discuss rha sAnoet- that he bad underestimated receipts as- iCoetlnsed oa Page Tne I 1 WHO IS YOUR CHOICE FOR MAYOR ? f Voters of Portland are invited to Ml out the accompany ing couporf and mail it to the Editor of Trie Journal, Name your choice fDT;mayor7TiaTnatter -whether he be a -Republican--or Democrat." 1 - - .-..- ' VOTE ONLY ONCE. " c - . . . yiy. choice for tnajor of Tortland for the rnm'n; tern 19 t . ;,; (ignl rteaoet-a rte M tr ftieceo thto af- T CCentJnoed a Page Elerve) t (f.'ootinaed oo Part Xvvwa.) vw-ts on Pr C5Tw.i terr or and lrjrt 2k 1 rn. i t