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t -7-71 H , - T' 'v- f r7 ."-'V11. " - Tin: 1IAILV JOUJINAL It JOURNAL CIRCULATION YESTERDAY WAS Two Cents a Copy Sunday Journal 5 cents; or IS rents a wrrk, tor Daily nd "Bund Jour da), by carrier, delivered. Th weatherJUJn or , enow to night and Wednesday; warmer. v VOL. VIII. NO. 237. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY ; EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1900. EIGHTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. ew nurss aw rrwj Takm tilt CkNIS SAGC-TO CONGRESS Ml ' ; ' '-. ; Mrs. Pankhurst While Exccutite Hints Broadly at Drastic Meas ures 'Nicaragua Will t Await News From Es trada. (Special Dfepatefc to 111 Jooraal.) -Washington. Deo. 7. Congress lis tened to President Taft' message today, and particular attention was given to that part of the document relating to th. Nlcaraguan situation. There was a g-ood slsed crowd In the galleries,' and the seala in both houses were well filled, few senators and representatives being; absent. ' ' Following- the reading of the message there was considerable discussion re garding the possibility of a special mes sage, such as the president Intimated he would soon send to congress regarding tha Nlcaraguan situation. The general belief was that' the president would not act hastlljr In the matter, but would "give the Estrada .jovernmenjt4.eyerrxAjp. fiSrtunfty tVmae"1to6d.' Reports were received early in the day that Estrada had Zelaya In his grasp, and only await ed action of the United States today to determine on ft decisive battle. The president's message contained about 30,000 words, and much of It deals with appropriations and matters bearing upon the business conduct of the coun try. It was well received here, and is regarded a a level headed and clean cut document, forceful but not sensational. I (Note The preeldtiuMsiiissiiilliims fWlltl' be found on page. 11.) ' J " Remarkable Color Effects Shown in Exliibit of State Horticultural .Society A - Hfc ST A . upening speccnes jjiaae at Annual Meeting: Today. Had an artist, an epicurean- and a plain business man viewed the state hor tlcultural society's exhibit of Oregon apples on the fifth floor of the Meier & Frank store this morning, eacn would bava been inspired to comments apropos of his vocation, The artist would have seen row upon row of color effects, rich reds and yel lows, warm and delightful, with back grounds of brown and white and green, Looking closer his aesthetic soul -would have stirred itself Into rebellion against the purely human limitation which would prevent reproduction of the del icate traoerles and timings. Orchard Company Buys 1000 Acres of Logged Off Land .'.'in '.Upper Hood River Val ley at Approximately $100 Per Acre. Lord John Morley, secretary of state for India,, who created a pro found Impression In his speech in the British house of lords in sup port of the budget. . He said a bnd The epicurean would have been given get was, not a question for a plebis- a vision of realized goodness; flavors I cite and that a referendum would lr?JLJ "t " important to prune .and-par.whn sea left -apnbssrf ti-iMnely, sense-iof-respon-taste blending Into perfectness sugar I siblllf y In the house of commons. mu uiu wiin me uiri;ioiiuo mum- i ha warned nia TP ii nnr mmMri or a "TOP OF THE WORLD" MAKES HIT AT OPENING (United Pnn tupd "Wlr. Denven, Colo., Dec. 7. Bailey and Austin began their first transconti nental tour last evening In, the "Top of the World," which was given at the Broadway theatre before one of the season's most fashionable audiences and scored heavily. The production is bril liant, the costuming lavish, while 'the timely story;' whlstleable music and clever conceits and extraordinary danc ing won repeated encores. A larger, handsomer or better drill ing chorus has . seldom been seen in Denver. Bailey and Austin are -com pared to Montgomery and Stone, but their work this evening proved them to be peers of all teams and their rapid work was greatly admired and com mented upon. LOCOMOTIVE WORKS table Oregon flavor these would have been his findings. Business lean's View. Wealth of crops to n transformed Into wealth of dollars would have ap pealed with power to the plain business man as features of distinction. He would have, said at once, that Oregon's fruit Is? to determine Oregon's future and advertise the Beaver State around bwrlrt to make this country partic ularly known as the apple's best home. He would have recognised Booner thart either, bis artistic or hungry compan ions the tenderness of culture, the care fulness of packing, the science of pro duction, extended over long periods, re sultant from deep thought, which make the Oregon apple, the Oregon pear, or the Oregon prune the perfeot thing it Is. Let us hold ourt annual exhibit earlier; let us make It representative of all our fruits and nuts." pleaded President It C. Atwell of the society. during his annual address. Then he struck two predominant notes affecting rutures Doth of field and orchard. One, a leader, was his assertion that tha Oregon legislature makes a mistake to presume that an agricultural college is a farmers' school, where the stlrrlnsr of dirt and the-commingling of fer tilizer only, are properly made parts of the curriculum. Education for rsrmers. 'Let us have our young men who will farm or raise fruit given a lib eral education in., history and science as well. Make them all round edu cated men," he exhorted. fierce conflict fea ted, ' if the bill were de- PHOENIX FUNDS STILL MCI Sheldon's Thievery Will Not Embarrass Insurance Company. TFHrDT nVTFCI WAT V ATTT1 .. 1U" tuuugnine unitea to an araDl- Jjlili xjj j. Uij fixxji vu j. uon to put Oregon foremost among me Horticultural centers of the world. not only In apples but in every kind of fruit which finds' this climate con genial. More Serious thought and at tention; more ,; thorough preparation, fTTnltKit Pren Mgd Wir. Donruvuuujy, in. x. 16 4 cia huh jthe local branch of the American Loco motlve company went out. OA a strike today for higher wages. FIRST WARD BALL WILL HAVE TOGO (Continued on Page Two ) LOGGER IIS IN EIGHT WITH LION (United Prea Leased Wire.) New York, Dec. 7. :We find Phoenix Insurance company still in good financ ial condition with surplus of $2,000,000. Policy holders won't suffer," is the re port oh Sheldon's thieving. The branch office of the Phoenix denies -the report that Sheldon is dying. . It is admitted he has been 111 for a month at Green wich, Conn. He 'has not been told by State Insurance Superintendent Hotch klss of the sensational report, charging a shortage of from $500,000 to $1,600. 000 of the company's assets. Among the serious charges against. Sheldon are: Falsification of records in reports for 10 years'; assumption of full control of the. business and the resources of the company disregarding the rights of di rectors and the finance committee; main tenance of a speculative account with the company's money for h own bene fit;, loaning money to - state Insurance officials. ' The .charges are of a criminal nature, and have been placed In the bands of District ' Attorney " Jerome. Marking a'new era in the history of the Hood River valley, and coming as the first great step in the development of the upper region, 1000 acres of val uable logged-off land, lying on the line of the Hood River Railway company's six mile extension, have been sold by the Oregon Lumber company to the Bruner- Bone Orchard company, of Hood River, One hundred thousand dollars was the consideration, approximately. Almost Immediately work of clearing the land and cutting the tract up Into 20-acre plots will be begun. More than $125,000 will be spent to put the land In shape for the market. W. H. Eccles, president of the Hood tefday and this morning in Portland, gave out information as to the deal, which was consummated by him. He was a guest at the Hotel Oregon. According to Mr. Eccles, the clearing and marketing of the logged-off' land means the first step In the development of ho upper .Hood River valley, which is now tapped to an extent by ttye rail ways r which he is head. The land is regarded as some of the most .fertile In Th 'reglohl " Though acknowledged to be eauallv as fertile and prolific as the lower valley, the,upper Hood River valley reg'lon has long been held back by lack of transpor tation facilities. 'Bad wagon roads and no electric or steam lines on which to ship products have long held back the development of the upper region. News of the sale of the 1000-acre tract to the Bruner-Stone Orchard company. rouowing close upon the decision of owners of the Hood River Railway com pany to extend the line six miles fur ther up the valley without delay. Is the signal, declare residents of the vallev for rapid development of the vale. TIME HAS COME TO FEED FREEZING BIRDS 4 The. time has again come to feed the birds. It Is not often in Portland that it becomes nec- essary to feed the little wild 4 songsters, but now their natural food is under a mantle of snow, and ' unless crumbs and scraps from the table are thrown out for them they will all suffer, and .If the snow continues for a week thousands of, them will die. 4 Feed the birds yourself and tell 4 your neighbors to do the same. 4 No better opportunity will ever come to teach your children to 4 be kind to animals than now. Encourage the little folks to feed 4 the birds. IIS. .i-f. !l III.' ' '.; Jl III-' H : ... ill Wlil ' III IIT t I : ' ' ill I III I - , ' . i ' 111 III f n f" t Ill r "'v".;.;u SUCCESS FOR FUEL DEALERS 1910 AUTO E Local Dealers Get Together and Agree on Space and Decide to Make Forth coming Show 3fost Bril liant Affair. Mrs. Emnieline Pankhurst, the militant suffragette, who in a recent ,addres9 severely criticised this coun try because It threatened to send an expedition against Zelaya In reprisal for the execution of two Americans captured in the Insurgent army, but refused . to take any action against England for the imprisonment of Alice Paul, the Philadelphia girl, serving a term for throwing stones through the window of a hall in London, where the lord mayor's ban quet was being given. AN ASM IS BEATEH BY Success for the 1910 automobile show of the Portland Automobile club was guaranteed when 37 dealers of this city last night purchased $20,000 worth Of floor space in the Armory of the Ore gon National Guard for the purpose of exhibiting their cars during show week. The dealers came together with the greatest of good feeling, drew their space, paid for it, told of their Inten tions of making their exhibits the best ever and went away fully satisfied. This year's drawing presented a much larger floor space than last year owing to the addition of the gymnasium and ball room to the space used. Fifty thou sand square feet of floor space was sold last night for a total or $20,000, and In that space fully 160 automobiles of tue...latst..mtter. ,,auL .deslgnwJlA-b. shown. This year's show will undoubt edly be the greatest automobile show ever given on the Pacific coast 4 prospects th Brightest. "Last night's prospects showed up better than ever before," declared Man ager Will Llpman of the Portland Au tomobile club this morning. "Although I had expected to have a fine showing I had anticipated nothing so elaborate as was made last night. We have or dered decorations from the east with h "we plan on transrorming ine staid old Armory into a palace beauti ful and which will make it a most pleas ant place to spend an evening during the automobile show. "This showing of good fellowship among the dealers, me aeierminauoii which they manifest to go ahead with the exhibitions In the best possioie manner is encouraging Indeed and can not but result in making the show the most successful ever held on the coast. The main hall in which the most of the dealers had planned on exhibiting was particularly watched in the draw ing last night, with the result that much rivalry was aroused over the drawing. The . choice spaces . went to the White Motor Car company, the Studebaker company, F. A. Bennett; L. E. Crowe and Howard M. Covey of the Covey Motor Car company. The H. L. Keats Auto company drew the choice space In the hall room on the second floor. This space will bo shared with the Graham Motor Car company, the Metro politan Motor Car company and the Wil lamette Auto Supply company. The en trance hall will be the exhibiting space of the Chadwlck. Stearns. Mitchell and a number of accessor men. These Are the Exhibitors. Among the exhibitors at the show will be as follows: The Covejt Motor Car company. Cad dlllac and Pierce Arrow. Crowe Automobile company, Olds- moDiie, Thomas, Marmon, Overland, Velle. UNABLE TO DELIVER Orders for Wood and Coal Refused in 3Iany Cases Be cause of Inability to Get Teams Situation Worse Than Last Year. ' (Continued on Page Six.) WIFE IS STABBED Chicago Is More Determined Salem Man Uses Club in Noc- HUSBAND ACCUSED BUY A STAMP! THIS MEANS TOD Than Ever to End Dis graceful Political Orgy. fliBit! Frea Leaned Wire. - Chicago, Pea -Resolutions con demning the "First ward ball an an v nual orgy conducted by Alderman : "Hlr.ky Dlrvk'! McKenna and "Bath House John" Coughlirf, are being' circu lated today. McKenna and CoughUn were grilled last night by fellow mem bers of the board of aldermen. It was stated today that the opposi tion to the annual ball will likely prove mom effective than ever before. turnal Encounter With Mountain Denizen. (Speetnl riiDtcli t T6 Joitnuit.) Prlndle. Wastu, Dec. 7. His pluck and his dexterity In handling a club saved VaJdemar Hanson of Salem, Or., from death in an encounter with a huge mountain lion last night Hanson Is an employe' of the We 1st Logging com pany near 'here. He was coming Into camp when his attention was arrested by two fiery eyes. The animal leaped at the moment Hanson snatched up a ciun. Mrs. Frank 31. Dickerson Dies as Result of Myste rious Knife Wounds. ' (Bneelil O!-, atcb, to Tbe JoomiLV Detroit Mich., Dec. 7. Mrs. Frank M. Dickerson. 49 years old, was found stabbed to death last night In tbe door way of a combined store and flat build ing at 44 Baker street Her husband. charged with causing her death. Is In I Hanson sidestepped and the mountain I Grace hospital, suffering from probably " The famous First ward ball f Chi- cago has ror years . oeen uses as a "means of perpetuating a coutle of poli ticians as low aa ever disgraced a Ban Franclaco or sold out any ether city for tbe price of a stret railroad frn hie. Alderman McKenna is a saloonkeeper. He owns two saloons, on of which -be attempts to conduct as a respectable bouse and the other as a report for the of the First ward. Cooghltn Is a po litical manipulator who bs managed to l.arg an to bis "pulP tr making and an mk)r m political parasite In. ef roars. th rimt ward. Every year, with police eaartloa. th dlesrusttng "Firm ward tmil" has been prrvtftte t Wl Th last foectlAn f the hoodlnons and cmstoffa fiat lUnky CMtV and Bth Hvue John" wer al-la-ved t dlofrace tbtr city with, was rtortal ta t m of tb moat Im moral tow that a r:4 Tftruti Jlmrlniii city. gvsrV4 by pH police, ttrt ettKid rfv-ntKyr frr, t It i rt''t frcn tf- that l"lir9 hS rtr"14 t pvt ' frt A-m rn I'trkr I"fk, tis H.vk'f l-.t.kt anj ft ti-f a-53 raf'era lion missed its mark, landing a few feet behind htm. Before it bad recov ered Its poise Hanson bad beat-(t sev erai time ever tn head.. The Iron ran Into the wood a. Hanson and two loggers followed It for several yards and then returned to P. fatal self Inflicted knife wounds In the abdomen. SPOKAfl MnW IUILU XO MORE COASTIXO . OX THE SIDEWALKS L III FREIGHT AGAIN . a k. x. 7m 4 Buy a Red Cross stamp. Bay as many as you . can afford to boy, for It will be money well invested. Tour In terest will be paid in human live saved from th Inroads f th whit plague. Each day generous hearted Portland wo men, aa army of thetn. ar campaigning Th Hall street coaster tragedy . , . h i ney er rorury- ef Sunday algbt. ha caused ! MI Jtt llCfl CrCUS 111 IVl -1 ontpnans h deprtBant ir Vhlef of Folic Cox t laeue an- order ta all policemen to stop eoanttng trxlav on sidewalk. 4 The rhtf I deermied to hold 4 th Hall street dtsatr up as an ur p ) feefor th ppl ta em- a 4 phasis th danger oonrtl with rM-klew coeting. At tb 4yl him tlma hm Ms rwtpatbr with 4 the mall teeys and girls wit mt sate plaers. . Instnttv 1fn sre given to r""I-rra to 4 tlfTTr - t fiw - ruileg to It i - Yanls: 200 Frcfchthan dlers Recalled. ' - IVvil rVMs Lms4 WH ) Cpoban. Wash. Dec 7 All i bargoe vtrt lifted on the Xo-ibra Faelfle er- today and w have goo bark to work at th fre'gfctheeee. Flr Sr-Itnt kartell crews are work ing ill merchants . are relvisg ter-er-ndi. Tb rtrtklpr swtf tiweo ar waiting booths and th y ar gaining public at- teattA la soliciting la their ea for rwod. every Individual. Tb. crsaaders ar doing this at a acrtfto of time. -eerry and brain to-aid la etrangteg I humanity froaa tb tint wont bllef that toberclo1sts nooqirab), and that there ta T salvation far Its rle tlma ' 4cintlsta bar declared that warm. I good fwa sad pr"pr car of tb tm wrwlo preretij aad rre rommmpt ion. Now H n your pir and ktlf tUk HU DOHIO-OUTER FOUIIO III BOXCAR William Astor Dragon, Re turning From a Social Alfred Webb Lies for Week, Function in Xew Struck Down by Up Man. York, Hold- Sick, and Without Food or Fire. (SpwUI Ptarateh to Tb J norm LI New York. Dec. 7. William Astor Drayton, inn of J. Coleman Drayton, financier and nephew of Colonel John Jacob Astor, was beaten and robbed early today on East Fifty-seventh street when returning bom from a social af fair. He was found unconscious by a policeman. Drayton suffered ra tions of tbe scalp. His father said he did not know bow much tha robber took from his son. Toung Drayton Is a stu dent at Columbia university. PHOXE 31 EX READY TO (rnttrd PreM Leued Wlr.) Tacoma. Wash.. Dec. 7. After lying In a boxcar six days without food, Al fred Webb, a gasfltter, is slowly recov ing at me county nospital. Weon was discovered on a siding in the Northern Pacific yards in South Tacoma abou 4:60 yesterday afternoon by two boys. who opened tbe car In search of coal He was found In a corner of the car under a ragged blanket The boys sup- poaed him head and notified the police. Webb, who recently came here from Portland, said this morning that he crawled Into the car last Tuesday af ternoon because be waa ill and bad no place to go. He gave bis ag as IS and says be left England jtwo years ago. Loud, pressing and Insistent Is the demand for all kinds of fuel In Portland today. Every fuel dealer In the city Is swamped with orders, and many, of the larger wood and coal yards are refusing to book any more orders until such time as they can see daylight ahead m de livering what has already been sold. All kinds of wagons and teams have been pressed Into service by the fuel dealers In a desperate effort to supply regular customers and others who are entirely -out of fuel and who are apt to suffer unless their wants are Immediately sup plied. " Several of the large dealers ceased to take orders as early as noon last Satur day, and are still far behind In -delivering what was sold prior to that time. TtottXtiMrmvniTiKirVMr the fact that it came at least a month earlier than usual, is responsible , for hundreds of householders being caught without fuel or with only enough on hand to last but a day or so. Difficult to Deliver. ' One of the principal troubles that the fuel concerns have to deal with ,1s the fact that their delivering facilities are practically put in two, as two and of ten times, three team. have to be sent out with eyety Joad of .W-Ofld -or coal, and then It requires two or-three times as long to make the trip as one team and one teamster required before the snow came. One of the largest woodyards notif ied . its customers " today that no " more orders would! be taken. . but that wood could be had at the yard If the buyer would bring s team. The situation seems to be much worse than it was last January, when Portland was under a 15-inch blanket of snow for 10 days and everything was frozen tight YX-V Accept Small Orders. 4 "We had no such trouDle a year ago with sero weather and t . foot of snow as we are havingr now,' said Churchley Bros., the oldest fuel dealers in the city. ."Now the whole town seems to be out of fuel. We have not-taken an order since last Saturday except from people who are able to buy only a dollar's worth of wood or a sack of coal at a time. These people must be helped out and we are ' tryfng to supply as many of them as we can. Those people .who have wood, but always make it a point to order in weather line this we are re fusing to supply." ' , Want AU Kinds of meL Portland Fuel company We can't be . gin to fill the orders that are coming In. Both phones are ringing constantly and the people are calling for all klndi of fuel. It requires two teams t'o de- . liver one cord of wood, whereas under ordinary conditions one team is suffic ient for one and one-half cords. Independent Coal and Ice company (Continued on Page Six. TUG ' I S I TELL ABOUT MERGER MEDFORD IXYEXTOR JU.AIj U WK1UHTS r'ir fi-En j Tn t forge tb Bd Croa portal ralt4 Jefferson City. Mo, Dc. 7. It la ex pected tbat tfclmony la the Invest rga- i f th telephone merger In VO- oorl will 'begin tofor tb boildara Tb telephone officials hav offered t gtv private toatimooy at aay tin and lac 1gnted. BUSINESS MEX-WIX IX UXIOX ELIXTIOX falon, r, I w-r. 7. Tbe bitslaws wmm s ticket was et4 by a lara na r1ty er M'ar. The frt ratu fM" fetid that was er wlt- M-lford. Ur, Iec 7. Medford ha pnuible rival to Wilbur Wright and otbr conqserors f th air In th pr- on f Frank K. Hefferaaa. who has rnvet4 an appllaM far flying, wklch. If tha da Ins of tb toveator ar borne out by actual tta. will a-o far toward Mlvtg tb probla hk-k tinw ron fmnte tb navtrator of tbe a'.r. Heffrrin1 lira ' mW1) tln of tb ' arpJe atd , te pr-okiit, ' t--ltir a'ts'lwneet ir wM a -pr1 far tbo nfitT m it-n 4Hf f hii Iwrtrt a aT ;irna n- ; caee ef "--)r.t trt tx ?t-r or ' ' STOPS BULLET Pla.vs Innocent Bystander During a Figlit at Six Day Bike Race. ; ' . i (Special PUpatrfc to TW Juraal.l : New York. Dec. Two thousand on lookers at the six dsy bicycle race in Madison Square Garden were startled today by the report of a pistol shot from behind a tier of boxoa. Two mm had started a fight and in the raele which ensued a man in the crowd was shot.. The wounded man, whose Injuries ar not serious, is Christopher Brown, other- , wise known ss "Tug Wilson," a pugtl lat. He says he was Interested in the fight - between tbe ron and dees mot know who shot biro. Brt Keycs, a prli. fighter, formerly of Philadelphia, : taken Into custody by tfte polio. 1 denies having fired th snot . - ' ZELAYA FORCES 111 VICTORY Two Hundred of IMr.uh' Are Jleportrd Kil!cl in a Kami to Kami ii-ht. rg a i.. ' ( i t 'for rrs trx m lx 3 quart era. cards. e4 ta l -., parts of tr . . I