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THE DAILY JOURNAL IS TV0 CENTS A COPY Sunday Journal 5 cents; or 15 ! cents a week, for 'Daily and Sunday Jour nal, by carrier, delivered, ., , , " ' The Weather Rain'and warmer. to n i Ldtu f 4ilJ3oH tfojjy wi n d s VOL. VIII. ' NO. 264: PORTLAND, OREGON? -FRIDAY f EVENING, JANUARY k7,;U810 TWENXy iPAGESj v pprri?. Twn rpNTs lIAJiDB .V ... CtKTS DtAl WIT ill . SPECIAL COU M 7-r 'M CORPORA! ROEtt ft .1 HEV CO U RT FOR IBE CASES fOfUPOISOB; ED; It ; President's Special v Message Recommends That Five Cir? cuit;j Judges ',. From, r Various Districts Be Appointed. : - ' jt AIMS TO FACILITATE ! INTERSTATE CAES ED U.S. BATTLESHIPS CAUGHT' IN THE ICE' ': i m i m Lilly Ridley Dies After Drinking k Solution; Bichloride of Mer- cury at House of Mrs. Elsie Kramer,' .167 West Parkv " Annual Sessions of Court May ;( ; Be Held in Washing ton. Di C. .. . ? ... . ; Washington, ..Jn. T.r-pn'"fh'"uWct . ' ef , IntersUte commerce la a special L message sent to-congress today, PresI dent .Taft, after calling attention to the , , (tot tntC a large numoer or oraers is , sued by Abe Interstate Commerce com ' t mission have been appealed from, says would not the proper -to attempt ' to deprive. any corporation, or tne.rign ?ofrevleW ty a' court ' of any order or 1 decres Which,: If undisturbed, would rob i it of . a reasonable return on its In j vestment or would subject It to bnr 1 dens that unjustly discriminate against '-It and la favor of 'other earners slmi T.larly situated. What, Is. of supreme Importance . is that the decision of such 'a' auestlon will be as speedy; as the nature of the circumstances "will ..ad - mlt and that a conformity of decision can be assured so as to bring abqui an effective,, systematic, scientific en- foroement of the commerce law rather than confJlttlnir decisions v ana uncer tulnty of 'final result.. For tuis.pur , noas .1 .4 recommend the. establishment f a court, of the." l'ilted States to-be fsomposed or va juascia, at'Hignaieu -ur lauch puiiMise from' amdngtlio' circuit judges of the United State.fo be'known t aa ;.tno ; umttu .' stau-r court-roi com ' merce, 1 which court' shall be . clothed wltlj original an axcluslvs ' jurlsdicttoa over tn louowing classes x cases i : Classes of Cases . to: Be Xteard. 4 "First All cases for enforcement Otherwise than by adjudication and, for . the .oolleotlon of penalty or - by the 'Infliction of criminal punishment of any order of the Interstate Commerce com . mission; other than . for , tha payment . of money. -. . ; . - "Second. AU cases brought to an- Join, set aside, annul or suspend, any k order or requirement of the' Interstate . t Commerce commission. ; T - I i "Third. Ail auch cases as under sec i tlon of ,tha act of February 1, 190S, known as the EJ kins' act are author lied to 'be maintained In a circuit court of the. United BUtes., ' i - "Fourth. ' All such ' mandamus ' pro . - ceedlngs aa, under : the provisions of section 20 or section 23, of the Inter ' state commerce law, are authorised to DR.. JOHNSON SAYS WAS , .fA'DISEASE OF, STOMACH" Drunken Man : Gives' Nurse 'Doped" Coffee While She : Works Over Patient.' ' - , . V - i I . , f .'MW'-'.."f ' , z. . , - ' , ' -J ' .... .. . i." f. .... ... ... . v-" ... i . c..:. . ."'.'.. .L ,.(.... .j . T. i? -, ''.,,.. t. --.... ,", -. -'- .. 4 (Continued on Page1 Five.) CARIBBEAN ISLE ROCKED BY QUAKE Four Terrific Shocks in Five Hours at Swan Island ' Commotion in Harbor. nnifl PrM tMHl WIra. ) Mobile. Ala.. Jan. 7. -Word reached this city today that a terrible earth quake shook ' Swan island, . 900 miles from here In the - Caribbean sea, on '' January 1. Captain Olsen of the fruit steamer Corlnto, which is in this- har bor, said that the island rocked, for half an hour.- Five shocks were felt fThe natives fled In terror to the beach .and begged the Corlnto's crew to take ' them aboard. - I" ' Aocordlngto Captain Olsen, the water In the . harbor fairly boiled when the , heaviest - tremor came. His ship was ' turned completely around, he said, by a whirlpool. ' Swan (eland ts the property of Cap . tain ,W. . C. Adaraa of Mobile. "Lilly Ridley, disease of the stomach." That, la the .way', the' death Certificate signed by Dr." E. D. Johnson, 'reads." XJlly Ridley, died from drinking : a solution of . bichloride of, mercury tab lets, at l7West Park street," That tell the real story of. the case, though not all of ,lt Incidentally . there is the I story 6f a drinking bout, of a reported quarrel with a 'sweetheart, of the sub- Sequent quaffing of a quantity of cor rosive . sublimate, and then death,' '. Quite Incidentally, again Is the report that, the nurse, sent - to -attend the I poisoned . woman Immediately ' after , her Illness . began, , was given drugged cof fee by a man In the house at 1I West! Park, ..that -.she saw. 'something, was wrong. . struggled to . her . borne and lapsed into unconsciousness, being found more' than an hour . afterwards by her sister, and . revived after a long series of efforts. .This is the first-time 'in I the. history Of the city, so far as known, whrre a . nurse has been molested in I this manner " . . , . " ' Coroner Is XaactlT. Ben ti.' Nordent the coroner, lias taken no official action in regard to the death of Miss Kidley,, , From the records there Can ; be- tloUiiiig Klt'a.uied ; to i howrtbat it was a case of suicide, or poisoning, ac cidental or otherwise. The funeral was scheduled -for-this afternoon t at ):S0 o'clock and by. noon the death certifi cate had not been signed-by, Dr. John son, though the death occurred at 1 :1 0 o clock Wednesday morning. Dr. Johnson explains the disease of) the stomach cause of death by saying I he did not sea the use of "any cook and bull story about poison and sweethearts getting into' the -paper to bring sorrow to an aged mother and father." Mrs. Elsie Kramer says she Is very I much shaken by the happening. , Lilly I Ridley, she says, has been a friend of ( hers for some time and has been at I her house on different occasions ..for I extensive periods. She has come and I gone and theast time had been there J:uht?r i T "t w; RIe? Governor and Railway Com- ROD'S LEUER CAUSESTUR1IL AMONG LIBERALS ' ". . " Ambassador Alleged, to Have Written to Sir Charles Wal pole, Protectionist Candidate for Parliament; r- - OFFICIAL'S RECALL . MAY BE DEMANDED Epistle Said to Have Claimed American Workmen Are ; Not Suffering. . . f ! . : v .; ii tuiiiunuu uuhl . i I II . ' "pumiir nnnniA riirifniinnTinr i n n l. n in, !iiit-i Hiii7 1 iii't- ' - m n. ii i ru v vr in n II I II I .11 II III I Hill 1 - I II II I I I llllll 11UI1U II LI .' i ubb viiviiinub . ii v' ii i - - . - - - . vn: 11 ."1 .1 ' v I : ;: I - a Ar ii iniiuin TUDtATtMv ; 1 W V fl MMHK . 1 1 llll H I I llii II I If H ! : II U IIIUUI nLflllllllllU n IllllUllbllVIWIIII' I III . ."")niiTir nini MiAin , IL -l .. "' 1 A u u jflun vv v ii ... llllll rHnHliiilii r I . . .a s s s a s sai if is. a wiw i! ii , the daughter be burled in Portland. (Continued on . Page Ten.) 11 MEMBERS OF FAMILY BURIED California People Poisoned by . Fruit Laid to RestOne More Fatality. ' . ' : United PreM leased Wire.) Sawtelle. CaL, Jan. 7. Seven hearses, bearing eight members of the Fernari des, Valdes, Reyes and Preclado fami lies,, who died from the effects of poi son after , a - family banquet on . New Tear'sr dry. left Sawtelle today for Santa Monica's Catholic church at Santa Monica, where the funeral services were heln. ... ..- ' . :" Iate this afternoon three members of the Garcia family, who died, two days after eating the poisoned food, will be burled. Services will be held at the same church and the burials will be at Woodlawn cemetery.. 1 1 ' ' One i more fatality has been added to (Continued on, Page Ten.) , COUNCIL COMMITTEE : WOULD INVESTIGATE STREETCAR SERVOE 4t t jl V i The health and police committee of the city .council this morning made a rec ommendation that a committee of three be appointed E to investigate the mu nicipal transportation service of the, city H with a wlew to improving conditions .complained of by various civic asssocla . ; tions of the city, and the public gener ally. t 'Councilman Rushlight asked the com mittee to recommend also the appoint ment of a. technical Expert to define just .what the word "service" means, and to ' say what shall constitute good service on the JGttet car lines of Portland. This request waa not heeded by the commit tee, but Mr. Hushlight will take the matter up later when the council meets next Wednesday.; : ; - The committee amended the ordinance i - ' 'r. ' . ' . prohibiting scows within - the harbor lines. . The amendment will . go before the councll,at Its next meeting for final action. It was submitted by Councilman Rushlight and aims to treat "the rich and poor alike," as ' that lawmaker ex presses the case. : If the council upholds the committee, houseboats will not be permitted to-: moor within . the harbor lines. . This means that the summer col ony that has annually established Itself between Ross Island and. Swan Island will have to move either up. ori down the river. , . ' The new billboard ordinance ': Intro duoed by Councilman Ellis was referred for further action.. The committee will hold a conference with the mayor .and leading bill poster companies of the city and will -report to the council next Week. mission Forbid Coal Confis cation ; by-the' Railroads Schools Are Closing. ; ' ; ' (Doited Press teased Wlre.1 Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 7, Threat' ened with a fuel famine, Iowa Is prac tlcally without protection from the bit ter cold ' that prevails throughout th-j state. , - ';.,' f . v. , ' Governor CarrolJ and s the . sUte rail road commissioners today Issued an or der to all railroads forbidding them to appropriate any coal in transit for their own use." The officials'- of practically every railroad operating within the state announced that they would comply With me order. ' . f. All classrooms at SlmDSOn eollecra at Indianola -were closed today-. ; because fuel was unavailable., College exercises (Continued on Page Ten.) PRiiral . BE PREVENTED Employers. Defy, Compositors t at Meeting and Men Prepare for .v struggle Nearly ? All t Shops-to Be' Non-unionized. A. Job printers ,are preparing to . strike for , higher wages.... Fifty., employers at meeting- last night voted welcome to ther strike and defiance ta the strikers. while live,; were in favor 'of " granting me raise." employers neciare they can non-uniomza tne- snaps with . profit to themselvesi 'v The printers, assert that there are not enourh . "unrnr" nHt.n west of the Rocky mountains 1 to meet th Portland - demand.- .'-ff .WhllA the Gutenberg club of -employing printers-was holding a ;"stahd pat session last night the ; press feeders' union was engaged - In- a session- as strenuous and aa defiant." Governed by hpe- that. at the last foment differ ences' may be adjusted, a . strike order (Continued. on Page Ten.) The United States battleships , in the . '.midst ol the, floating ice packs in i the North- river. Three launches at ;' tached to the vessels were rammed by ice during the cold snap and; so -: injured that they sank, leaving only a small margin of time for the men - on them to escape. .One of them is Vseen in ' the "foreground, i With the therrnometer just a little above the zero mark, the marine on guard, , as : shown, suffered severely. . ' (Vaitfi Pnn leased Wtra.) ' " London, Jan. 7. Efforts are , being made to learn . whether - Ambassador Reid authorised the publication , of , a leUer he wrote to 81r tharlcs Walpolo. a protectionist candidate for parliament mien tne protectiontats are using as campaign material' The Liberals are said to be behind the Investigation.' . It is reported .that if ' they succeed In proving that the contents of the letter were made' publlo under- the - ambassa dor's ' authorisation f they will charge Held "with s Interfering in English poli tics, and may take steps looking toward his recall. -- , f The letter : concerned ' Itself with the condition of,- America's unemployed. Reid Is .' said to Vv asserted i in it that the stories of their' suffering- un der the present economic, conditions in the United States are greatly exagger ated.- . ' . .'V' . k'-tt' ' The : letter deprecating ! the reported deplorable efft-ct' of protection on 1 the unemployed -irf America is said to have furnished Walpole and other English ProtectlonlHts much valuable1 material for tluiir KiiffUwh protection fight "Ambarfsnoor'-Retd i is f nrmite-tO' -:the " United Btatt's to attend the funeral of his father-in-law, the late D, O. RT lllst who died" rr California. -."' , r rZ, . '?f it 'fhAt Afn.rlMn' .mh.MV the ntst ment was. made - today that' thv letter waa (.written long .before i the ' precipita tion of .the present protection dlsousskm in i England and waa ' intended 'to-be merely a .personal. oommunlcatlon. - BLACKHANDGANG THREATENS LIFE OF PORTLAND MAH Blood . Thirsty Mafia,.',Whos3 Members Thought to Be Op erating, Extensively in This City,' Tells Vitti Vittil , GIVES MONEY TO ' 7 SAVE HIS LIFE Receives Letter Bearing Cross BonesBelieved Others of Italian Colony Threatened. Supplies Will Be Exhausted To morrow , When Many Fac tories ' and ; Public Buildings Be Closed. vii iw 1 1 v : -- - REACHES OUT FDR SALT LAKE ROUTE Black Hand outrages in the cast were brought near.; homo today, when Infor mation substantiating, reports of the re ceipts mafia letters .by ., prominent members Of the Italian colon v wn .h. talned. ' That members of n tcrn Black Hand gang are working In Port land was the admission of Vltto Vltti. Italian- proprietor of the grocery store at 194 Sheridan street. , ' - Vitti, wh was . ths recipient .of a Black Hand Mter more than six months ago, admitted that he had thrice paid money, the amounts ranging from 123 to f SO, to a representative of the mafia. In all, he. paid put more than $100. . .,, Bloody Crosses In ; tetter. 'When Vlttf i received the threatentnc letter, i scrawled : In Ink; on wrupDlns palmer, and decorated, with bloody. crosw. s and cradu drawings. of a hand he turned It over to tb detective btireau ,of thts police departnienti Detectives were a SlKned to th case, but prn imahl. i get any.ifle as to the identity of the let ter writer. i'. i i" ' . : :. V " Following' the .failure of the bollr to cllilKa .Intt n tlin 'VOiK-lf tin Vlttli alleged to -have ,Ttcrvd- a wc-' ond cnnmunicat!un.; In 'plalh laiitUit;j. ' e was-told what the miiUKiixJ i- titt.p.: C"ri:ess .'lie 'turned ove. $iuu he was Informed that his grocery store. overwhich ' he lives with, his .family, was. to be blown to atoms. V If he was not killed 'in ; the; explosion. ; the letter (Continued on Page Ten.) (United Press Leased Wire.)' Chicago, Jan. 7- The coal supply of this city la nearly exhausted and with traffic' demoralized ' because "of 'the re cent -. storms . there Is little . likelihood that further shipments will be received soon. , The suffering among the .poor Is growing. Relief measures undertaken by the various charitable organizations have only, partially allayed the Suffer ing,; because of 'the scarcity of fuel and the thigh -prices of provisions. The average household has not fuel enough to last over a rew aaya. The big con Burners', supplies will.be exhausted to morrow, which threatens to result, in cessation of manufacturing and the demoralisation of leotrio and steam traffic. . Many buildings are scheduled to close because of the lack, of heat and It is feared that-a wholesale . order for the temporary laying off of clerks arid of f ice men will follow. , , Owning 50 fj?er Cent of Stock, 1 Is Quietly Pickirig Up Small Blocks Rumor That Road Be Taken Over. '. ' i ' , i i BURGLAR BURIED; SPECIAL SESSION IN OHNEL OF CABINET ON . am a jajh a a BBBssi an mm si sssav - fINonU ArrAK Fails. to Return With Swag on Schedule Time Wife Notifies Police. :';(Ualted 'Preas Leased Wlxs.) New Tork, Jan. 7. Men are digging up. Ludlow street, in the heart 'of the down : town -section of the east side, in -an effort to find IsaacFingelstein.' the human -mole," who is. believed to be entombed, in ,& passage he- bored in. ajv effort to gain an underground entrance to a Jewelry store. If Finkel- teln is dead,;- he has ' been - smothered In a grave of his own making and is the victim of-his own greed., , After the excavators had worked sev eral hours, having found the course of his tunnel, 'Finkelstejn's wife confessed that he had told her of a plan to bur row under the street and rob the Zlrln- Bky lewslry sto.re, known as"Tiffany's of the East Side.", -- : - It is said that Jewelry ,. and Jewels worth more than 150,000 are stored In the Zlrinsky vaults. . ' , ; The; poll.ee learned or,.the' project of- th "human mole": when Flnitelatalii's brother-in-law reported, that he believed Flnklesteln had been burled alive under the street " Taft Stung by-Pinchot's Taunt Question as to Best Way to Fire the Forester House Acts on Resolution. (Onlted Press(. Leased' Wlra.) 1 Washington., Jan. 7. The. cabinet Js In special' session in the case of Ballin- gelj and Plnchot v'r4Pinchot will ; In all likelihood be discharged. . Washington, , Jan. ' 7. The Whole Investigation T had been, cooked up 'to , make 1 PlnUhot - chief defendant thus , obscuring' the' real -issue as t Balllnger. Pierce, 'Dennett j, and Boh warts, , when along came ' Pinchot'S letter,' admitting; all: facta freely, and Justifying - them . on the. ground ': that . tUolted Press Leased Wire.) New Tork, Jan. 7Wal street today refused to authenticate the report that tha Southern Pacific ' would absorb the San Pedro, " Los ' Angeles A , Salt Lake railroad when traffic . was restored and the . latter road rehabilitated after the recent floods in Nevada and California, that swept away 100 miles of track and roadbed. ''....lrv: , From an authoritative' source, how ever, came the word that, the Harriman system was quietly .'preparing to take over shares irom a. numoer or smaii stockholders. Inasmuch as the corpor ation Is said already to own SO per, cent of the Salt Lake road's stock issue, the move Is regarded here as the first step In the exercise of Southern Pacific con trol. v The nroiected route through the Ca- Jon pass In southern California to Dag gett will be put through as soon -as the main line Is repaired. On comple tion of this, it is rumored, the Harri man , Interests will take over- the man. agement of the Clark road.. AGAINST OLD BANK TO BE PAID IN FULL Receiver Howard .Will - Have 'Money Ready Tomorrow for . X Small Depositors in the De f funct Title Guarantee. Claims and interest aggregating about $166,000 will be paid depositors in tha Title Guarantee' & Trust company by Receiver' R. 8. "Howard : Jr..tomorrow, January 8. Six months interest on all unpaid claims, which , have been filed and approved,' will' be paid and all un paid claims up to and including $500 against tha failed i Institution will be liquidated by Receiver Howard.' Mr. Howard expects to be able to close up the' sale of the property at the southeast corner of Seventh and Alder : not- later than February 1. when a 20 per cent dividend will be declared on all -remaining accounts of record.. Tomorrow's dividend will reduce, the number of Unpaid claims to about 500, and the dividend-of February 1, will re duce the amount of the receiver's liabil ities to less than $750.000. - , Sine taking charge of the bank's af fairs, two years ago, -Receiver Howard has . reduced the - liabilities by more than $1,600,000, and expects before the expiration, of the time allowed by the court for winding up the affairs of thn Institution. July llll; that he will have paid every depositor's claim. ' OLD PENCIL VENDER GROUND TO PIECES UNDER CAR WHEELS (Continued on Page Fifteen.) O. F. Parker, alias, J- H- Blalte, a one armed pencil vender about 60 years of age, waa found "dead on tne car tracK of the Mt. Scott line, between Kern Park and Haselwlld this morning. In juries to "the bpdy and scattered brains, bits of clothing and a - portion of the skull indicated that the man had been dragged a considerable distance ' by a car, believed to have been the one leav ing the city about i a. m. The body was found by the passengers and crew of the' first Inbound car about 6 o'clock, Half of the head was torn away, mak ing Identification from the features dif ficult, and thn right leg waa broken In terday the man had called at the O. W. P.. office, for a small satchel containing pencils which1 he had left on the out bound car the night before, and, ultrn lng for It he inscribed the)' name of O, F; Parker, giving his address as Kern Park. - ' Conductors William -.Ward, In char: Of the last outbound car, about 1.20 t: morning, reported this afternoon Claim Agent Boynton of the car com--pany that the one-armed man was in his car and got off at Kern Park. T1 ; he was not k.ifle.d by that csr.-i'e t . ' was certain, because the man was 'm Ing on the depot platform as ' pujled out As the body was foijnd t. theifirst incoming car, the only c- eon34iiered plausible Is that . he rU two places. A card bearing the name of T'-Y ntaV waa found ftmnn..fh. thlnri scattered alona the track and It fur-1 was asleep on the track wh-n I fiished a dew upon which to work. Sub-1 outbound car came along-, or (L gsquently It was -discovered that yes- to board K. y- :-'' i "'