I" THE DAILY JOURNAL IS TVJ0CEUT2IIC0PY JOURNAL CIRCUIATIOh : M YESTERDAY WAS V Sunday Journal 5 centsror IS cents, a week, for Dally and Sunday Jour nal, by carrier, -"delivered. The weather Occasional ra!U' to night and Tuesday; cooler tonight. VOL. . VIII. , NO. 278. .. PORTLAND, OREGON," MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1 24, f 1910. SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. ftU1 T ,17;-? ;f, z- " : : """" -:: ; " TM A l 1 J 'MA U 'wJftwmj 9 U ifL ', ' '' ' ; ' ' ' " J' ' ' , " " " ' "" " 'I' W- m,m ' '-' ) . m w ii W .in. ....i. . mi. n.i. ii-n ii . . m Ml. I I ... I I III) LONGERMAY Hi v Government Rcnews'Attacic on :Z 1 Trust Believed to HavoPut ;- ; Up Prices Begins With National Packing Co.' OFFICERS OF COMPANIES CALLED INTO COURT United States District Attorney Sims Will Force Individ ual Indictments. ,: X. . W.J--. i-W-i-, - "(United Preas Imn4 Wire.) ; . , Chicago, Jan. 14.- When the eye of an aroused people' are upon . them, the treat barons of the meat trust at be ing placed on the defensive today by the opening- of the second government 'at tack upon the alleged monopoly. Evl- dence believed to warrant criminal pro cedure against the trust Is ready to be - laid before the federal grand jury here at Its meeting this afternoon.' Thirty aubpoenaea for witnesses to ' appear before .the Inquisitors are in the hands of federal deputy marshals, who are serving the papers today. ' - United States District Attorney 81ms, leading the government's attack. , will begin, his arraignment of the packers, and his chief ' assistant, James Wll - keraon, will conduct the examination la . the grand Jury room. ' , . '. i ',. The .National. Packing company has been selected as the chief object of at tack.- A great number of the witnesses summoned .today, are officials and em ployes of that corporation. - ; .Sims Is armed with data secured by government 'agents who have been working more or- less secretly -In .fur therance f, criminal procedure- against the men suspected of being responsible for 1 the present, high prices . of meats through, illegal combinations ;ln re . stralnt of trade. !' J '' It is Intimated that 61ms win not at tempt to. secure' the Indictment of Individual-packers but will prohably at tempt to indict them collectively. It Is also said that Elms wUl submit evi dence upon which, he hopes for the In dictment of the National packing com pany as a corporation and of directors In other meat companies believed to be allied with, the National racking company. . '- v That the packers will refuse to tes tify before the grand Jury is Inferred by their refusal absolutely to discuss the Investigation and. by the action of their attorneys in not only declining to talk upon the subject but also counsel ing the packers to allenoe, Every attorney reputedly connected with the "trust- Is here and the pack-; rs will present a formidable legal ar ray In . the , forthcoming, struggle. . order to meet this. Prosecutor 81ms has engaged R. w. Medarls as special fed eral counsel to assist him.' - . Hope of relief from high prices -of meats through action against the pack ers, was somewhat mitigated by the statements of , J, Ogden Armour, who, though refusing to disonss the grand Jury investigation, commented freely ion a jtne hign meat proDienx. - "You can eliminate ; the - big packers from the situation, but the high prices will remain," said Armour. Trices are high because the laws of nature can not be changed. ' Increase production, and prices will falL" ' Armour declared that , the present state of the market did not suit the HA REACHES HIGHEST PORTLAND'S AUTO SHOW IN FULL BLAZE TONIGHT River Not Only' Breaks Banks Adopts Cfcambedala Resolu- and Floods Surface but Un- : ,tion of Irimriry Reaardlna . - . - - - - - i J', derground Ravages Const!- tute-Terriole Menace. J, Proceedings, If Any, Look ing to Forfeiture of Grant. DANGER OF PESflLENCE ADDED TO HORROR LIST TWO YEARS TO ACT i 1 , r AND NOTHING DONE Drift Jam at Bridge -Threatens Agent Townsend Awaits Fur- Worst of All Struc tures in Peril..' ther; Instructions Wick ; . crsham Too Busy, V fW.nMisctoe Boreea ef The Jnonul 1 ' (CaittA Prsi tetMd Wtre.) Paris, Jan. 94 The Seine today la 10 I Inches above its previous highest water I berlaln offered this . morning, and the mark, reached -In 1S7C. The volume of I senate passed, a resolution calling on I water it is carrying is much greater I the attorney general for information I than In that year. In view, of the fact I as to what has been done by the depart V 1 X i i ,- Li ua ? L that the channel ha bean deepened an additional 11 feet within the past to years.1. ' The retaining walls along the banks are In serious danger of collapse. Tn many places they , have ; been under mined and several caves bavs already resulted. . .-. s- v PorUons of the street J fronting the enamber of ' deputies collapsed today. ment of Justice In obeying the command conveyed by, congress two years ago to Institute suits to procure forfeiture of the Southern Pacifio grant lands la Oregon. Senator Chamberlain spoke briefly, citing trie urgent need of set- I tllng the legal questions raised In con nection with 'the litigation involved. "Nearly; two years have 'elapsed, he aid, "yet nothing has been, acoom- V NATIONAL POLICY FOR WATERWAYS .IS K1ULATE0 Commission Decries : Legisla Won "That ."Assumes ) Rail 'roads - Proof , Against Di rect Laws. :'.-.-r:' V' ' CONTINUING' CONTRACT SYSTEM RECOMMENDED Interfi or of the Armory, taken this morning,' before all the exhibits had bfen. placed In position. barring ttafflo from the thoroughfare. pHshed JTy the department of Justice, The basement of the great- building was far aa the public la Informed. It Is flooded? ' , - , . an important matter, not only to the -,-The Place Bt.' iflchael and -the under- people of Oregon, but to the people of ground stallon of the Orleans railway unitea utates. , i,ne amount in- were partially filled with water shortly solved In one of these land grants at before noon.-.The barricaded windows tn leMt ceeded 1.000,000 acres, and of the station crashed Inward beneath th amount patented by the govern. the force of the flood and a murky de luge seetnea into toe tunnel, i. The city's great railroad' station. Gare d'Orsa, was abandoned when the authorities decided further occupancy The morgue, one of the hlstorle bniM. inga, of the city, made famous by writ. ers of many nationalities,, la tn danger o ooitapse. ; JPearlng that the Street under which the Orleans . railway tunnel extends would cave In, the police today ordered I law required that lands be sold to se tt-blockaded. ; Gendarmes are ruardlns I tual settlers at not more than 11.50 an iiab ment to the land grant company prior to 1801 was 1,800,000 acres." Department Should . Bs "Beady. Senator Chamberlain cited the appear- attorney-general, before the commute my UrCer. 01 tTeS flenuLOVett request for a resolution authorizing the Institution of suits. The senator said he assumed the department of Justice was therefore ready to prosecute them. Senator Chamberlain cited that the of Railroad: System, Ameri can Express Co. Will Super ; sede Competitor," ; SupersedlntT the Paclflo Express oom- (Contlnued on Page .Four.) M Smest Two Missouri Pacific Robbers Supposed to Be in. Custody. (United Press Leased vTire.l Jefferson, City, Mo., Jan. 24. Sus pected f , being members of the quartet of bandits that held up the Missouri Pacific express near Eureka, Mo., last Saturday and escaped after looting the 1 mail car and attempting unsuccessfully . to crack a safe In the express car, two men were arrested' here today. They were,, partially identified by members or tne train's crew. , ' . Teachers to 'Meet at South Bend. .. ' ' ' (Special DUpttch te Tb Jourael.) - South Bend, Jan. 2. The twentieth ,. convention session of, the Paclfio County Teachers' Institute will convene in this city this evening, when a re ception will be given to the visiting teachers and instructors 'by the teach ers of the South Bend public- schools. The actual work of the Institute will begin, .on Tuesday morning1 and will oloee -on; Friday Afternoon. "-The in structors will be Assistant State Super intendent j...iMi . Ijjyhue, . of Olympia; Professor EL O Slss'on. : Professor IS. L. Daggy and Miss Isabella Austin, all of the University of Washington, ' Seattle. County Superintendent Mies Lottie Bode will be Institute conductor." . ' . acre and no more than 180 acres to one person, .yet that 615,000 acres had been sold In larger lots and at higher prices than- eras permitted in " the aot which pany.ths "American Express company granted these lands to ; the railways, I will ' open of floes : April 1 - in Portland. which are' now owned by the Southern I Omaha, and all intermediate points on Pacific ' " Ithe Union Pacifio,' Oregon Short Line Towns end Waits on wlokersham.. .land the Oregon Railroad ft Navigation The department of justice will make I company.. -The. new contract with v the Tons of debris brought down the river no statement prior 1 to ' consideration I Hariiman system, whereby the Pacific by the floods have become - lodged being given to-the resolution, It is Express Is displaced-by the, aggreesive against the supportsforming a mlnla- known, however, that B. D. Towhsend, American Express gives the . second ture dam. At the ends of the bridge the who went from here to institute suits, largest express company In the United ODstrucuon is almost complete. lhas filed one case wit that nothing nasi states entrance to i-orwana. r Should the space between the two I been determined, and the-case pends. I Announcement was made from theno masses of drift be blocked, he swollen Townsend has been here several weeks leal Paclflo Express company offices to- the barricades, Drift at Brldgw rorms Baa. It Is feared this evening that the fa mous Alma bridge, the most beautiful structure ' that spans the Seine, ( may nave, to do aestroyea to prevent the en tire lower section of Paris from beeom Ing Inundated. - -s undated. waters of the river would, be forced Over the banks Into the city's streets. - After a thorough examination, en gineers today declare that the Eiffel tower was In no danger. , !'-; Tood Supplies Cut Off. Thousands of persons are homeless tonight. In the poorer sections of the City suffering Is Intense. : Bakers ' this evening Increased; the prlee -of -bread T" cent per" pound. Ow ing to the faot that those country dis tricts, . upon which " the city depends largely for It food supply, are Drae- tlcally cut off from communication, the provision supply Is running low.' It of meat and vegetables will be raised. awaiting further Instructions from At torney General - "Wlckersham, . who : has been busy with other matters and has found It Inconvenient to take up this matter. Inquiry shows that before the resolution of April, 1908,; was adopted the , government had had more ; than year for investigation in Oregon, so that when the resolution was adopted practically all material, facts were ai ready In hand and -It remained only to put-them In shape for, presentation in court. The understanding is that sev. eral suits - must be Instituted to carry out the terms of the resolution of .1908. (TTatted Press Lesaed Wire.l . ' Paris, Jan. 24. Two persons are re ported to have been drowned at a dosen (Continued on Page Four.) Harvard Wants Addie Joss, Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 24. fAddie Joss of Cleveland, the crack American league pitcher, today was offered the position as coach of the Harvard Baseball team. He asked permission, from Manager. Mo- Oulre to act -upon the offer. ; REVENGE OF FOILED ROBBERS THWARTED" IN NICK OF TIME (United Press teased Wire.) , Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 14. -Heroically refuslnar to reveal the combination of a safe to station robbers, George Burdette, a car tagger, was tied to the track and left to his fate early today. Burdette wag rescued by an aged negro, who narrowly escaped being, run down by a ocomotive that but for him would have killed Burdette. r w-r;' : Burdette. An tke employ of the Taxoo & MiBSlseippI Valley railroad, was alone in ' the station when two - white men entered. He found himself looking Into the muszle of a revolver and was ordered to tell the combination of the safe. Threats failed to move him. . Angered at his refusal the thugs car ried him to the track and tied him to the rails with his own belt, necktie and shirt Burdette remained In this posi tion for some time, knowing meanwhile that a train was due. .-Frequently he cried for help and struggled tb release himself, He became f rantlo. when he heard ; the - rumble of an approaching train 'TVi riarlrn... k... . n (..t.l.i. in tne glare or an engine's headllehft At about that time an Old negro Jani tor arrived at, the .scene. .. He, heard Burdette's orlee tor help and begad- a searcn. . just nerore the train came up he found Burdette and dragged him irom uie tracK.-i, - - . - ' Aitnougn surrenng rrom nervous collapse, Burdette was ible to give the autnoriiiea 'a nescritnion of the man. inu mey ' wui proo&Diy D9 captUMO. WEATHER GLEARS AND PAULHAN READY -.(United Press teased Wire.) .,. Tanforan Park, Cal., Jan. 24. With the sun . shining clear and no wind. every prospect for. successful flight by Louis paulhan, the famous French avia tor, was apparent, here today. , ' Storm clouds? which lowered On the .western sky at dawn moved to the southward and soon the sun was drying up the field,: soaked by yesterday's downpour. Paulhan directed the work of his as sistants In getting the aeroplane from Us shed and his animation betokened his delight at .the auspicious Weather, "It is for the people that ! am hap py,", declared , Paulhan today. '"They have been disappointed once and I am pleased that they ahall not be again turned away.' The -day la beautiful, I will excel myself -... . , day that after April h the Wells Fargo express company will separate from the Pacific Express, and , the two companies wilr .have, offices, together no longer. The "f American Express company will open Independent offices. For the first Continued on Page - Two.) BILL TO RELIEVE SILETZ SETTLERS Chamberlain Introduces Meas , urd Providing ifor.Rein- -'. statement. CMS FOR BIG . POWER SITES MBIT AWE AND OIL LANDS ' -'-.--''' : .-. .' . ' . .-..;itJ - v. : . .. : "' In: Spite v of; Many: Obstacles Every Detail Complete When Doors to Brilliant Event Open Airships Exhibited. (Wa.hUirton fiurean ht Th Jmrnil.v Washington, Jan. 24. Senator Chsm berlaln Introduced today a bill for the relief, of the Blleta settlers, orovldlnsr that no homestead be cancelled merely Decause or lnsurrioient residence or Cul tlvatlon when entry was made in rood faith, and that entries that have been cancelled be reinstated. on application. u no contest naa oeen instituted. The bill contains a strong clause nro. vlding for protection against fraudulent entry in the past or future. Bills were introduced, today to set asiae as a puono park Saddle mountain, In Oregon, for the purchase of portraits of Marshall. Taney., Chase and White. chief Justices of the supreme court of the United States. v COMIC SECTION W(LL . BE PRINTED WITH' , SATURDAY JOURNAL Answering . the . requests 4 of over iuuw suoscnoers, The jour- ' nal, will, beginning next Satur- 4 day. January 29, resume the;' is-' 4 . suance of the colored -' comic section, .with its regular Satur- nay eaiuon. - xva weeks ago the section , was cut off largely 4 to tea v tne vaiua or th Batur- 4 day comlo section - and to see - Whether the people of Portland really wanted both a Saturday and Sunday comic section. Over 1000 written and phone requests came Into the office asking that the section be resumed, and next - Saturday the section will again be Issued. The' Journal's policy -' 4' in the future will be to enlarge' CompleU-in-everV-detailr the eoond annual automobile show of the Portland Automobile club' will1 open tonight In the Armory building, -Tenth and Couch streets. The timeiy arrival of no, less than five carloads of , automobiles over the railroads last night has pleased the management through and through. As result the Portland Motor Car com pany, H. If, Keats Auto cohiDafty,T Max well agencyt Graham Utoniobile-eora-pany and the Mitchell agency will have completed exhibits. . 1 ' . t. ', , The past week has been one of aeat worry for the automqblle dealer. It was believed for a. while that the cars would not reach here before Thursday of this week. The railroads of the east were practically paralyzed and there seemed r to be no hope of getting the cars. No trace of many of them could be found. Last night, however, the cars started to arrive and five carloads of machines, including the Wlnton. Mitch ell, Pope-Hartford, Stevena-Duryea and Maxwell reached the city. The hoisting motor with which the cars have to be raised to the upper floors was put in place . and the Pope-Hartford and Stevens-Duryea cars hoisted to the ball room on the second floor of the Armory late this morning. - .',. - ' . . ' . Wre Starts In Oar. . .... An accident which came close 'to' de stroying the entire Mitchell exhibit Secretary Wants to Conserve ; . Energy of f Rivers and Oil Lands . .California Lands ' Taken From Entry. ; ' ; ? - TTnlted Pnn Leased Wire.l - Washington,' Jan. , 24. Secretary af the Interior Bellinger today withdrew frojn-entry on the ground that, they contain possible water power sites, 1T, 2S2 acres of public lands In Idaho: 2149 acrea along thfvWa)la Walla river In Oregon and 24,162 In Utah. . " ' V Aa probably containing oil deposits he also withdrew 147,887 acres of land InlCalifornla designated- undeiL the 1 en larged homestead act and 7320 acres In Montana. , , ' . , c Supports ;Theory ) of Federal ' Control of Water Powers " With Right to Tolls." (Continued, on Page Seven.) Poultry Show Needs Space. (Special Ptapateb to Tb. Journal. , Pendleton, Or Jan. 24. Promoters of the first annual Umatilla-Morrow poul try show are facing an unexpected dif ficulty, ; Entries have been pouring in so. rapidly that it is doubtful whether there will be room In the Smith-Crawford building for all. of the birds and at the same time afford space fori the spectators. On account of the , great number of exhibits, the three' day limit of the show will probably have to be extended in . order to" secure the scoring of all of the birds; Word has been re ceived, from Walla: Walla that exhibi tors at the poultry snow Just closed in that city have signified their 'intention of bringing In the neighborhood of 200 birds for entry in the show here. v TRIPLE ALLIANCE" WILL GIVE COAST THE BEST EASTERN PLAYS Plans which will revolutionise theat rical stock companies in the west, as well as 'other, portions of the country. culminated H about twov months ago In "the triple alliance," formed in New York by Geofge L. Baker of Portland. Frederick Belasco of San Francisco and Oliver Morosco, -: of . Los Angeles. Mr. Baker returned , from ; San Francisco yesterday, where final arrangements for the alliance were completed by the three managers. , 1.. :. Mr.' Baker , Is a little modest about taking" the credit for the idea, but it seems that he suggested it to Mr.-Morosco about a year ago, and In the mean time the plans have been maturing un til they are ready to be put into opera- popular stock prices. Such an. arrange ment will also keep the goof plays out of the hands of the cheap companies, for the companies to be Installed by the alliance will be -up to the high stand ard always maintained by these three managers. 'Another advantage will be found In the long contracts which can be made with the actors. A good man or wo man who would object to a year's con tract can be signed up for five Or six. i Thus, better people can be secured and can be changed about from company to company as it seems necessary. A preliminary season of the Baker Stock company will open at the Baker theatre some time In the early spring, 1 '" " (rutted Piwae Lued Wire.l v Washington, Jan. 24. The first def inite outline of the- governmental policy to be-followed in the improvement of the rivers and haroors of the tJnited Scutes was Indicated today when the National Waterways' commission, crej ated March t of last year, presented its preliminary report to congress. With the report la a discussion of the policy the commission recommends for dealing with the water power situation, and It. Is understood to express the latex t views of the administration on - this mooted question, a position somewhat different from that taken by President Taftln his conservation message. A severe denunciation of the stifling of water , transportation by rallroatis through reduced rates and the nurchiinc of competing water rou tea. is made by the commission. To the plea that the Improvement of . waterways . reduces rates by rail even if the waterways are not used, the commission says: Wot the might Way With Railroads. "The commission, while fully recog nising this fact cannot Indorse it as a desirable policy. It rests In the first place upon the transparent fallacy that the "railroads constitute an entrenched and uncontrollable monopoly which can not be reached by legislation or other orderly and legal methods." . As a remedy for this condition, the commission recommends ' that when a railroad rate is once reduced to meet water competition. It 'cannot, be raised unless, after a. hearing by the Interstate Commerbe commission. It should be found that the proposed new rate , rests on changed, conditions other than the elimination of water competition. The proposition to give the interstate commerce commission the power to fix minim um rates below which the railroad cannot go was condemned by the com mission,: but the majority,, of the com, mission recommended that the power be given when the rate cutting la. for the ' purpose of destroying .water competi tion. ' " - Canal Construction Opposed. The lack of reliable statistics on water transportation and condition ;of government reports, termed ehaotlc, are . condemned and It is recommended that a uniform system- of collecting ''sta tlstlcg be enforcedi'T .)-,.:.-.; Wi--'.,. The construction of canals is not en couraged because of the expense of ac quiring land and the immense cost of construction and the commission recom mends that natural waterways be used wherever available . ' v j. y - The commission condemns 'the con struction of any projects not authorized by th army engineers and defends th army, corps as-the best available foree for the Work,';H-i.'f ' j :.Vv; f'The commission would" recommend." says the report, "that hereafter the gen. eral policy be adopted of providing for (Continued . on Page Seven.) RANB MS HIS ELF John Gustaveson, Living Near Beaverton, Commits SuW cide in Cellar.. tlon. The first, move of the alliance r0?1" J""X'" or Apr u. ana at tne pres- will be the Invasion of Seattle. and Sp ma l'nmm lno r management is kane In September. S when ' first-class I S,utt,nff 2? special production of St. stock companies will be established in I Elmo, whlch will be seen at the-Baker both of those places. : As soon as these are " well under way, the alliance will move' further east,'" establishing its -com panics in Denver. Kansas City, New Or leans and various other advisable cities, until it will have, all told, about IS com panies under Its management - The first benefit of such - an organi sation will be to the public. . All of the late plays; will be . given them, at an earlier date and by . a better company, Fori' instance,- it does 1 not seem iadvlsT able to1 send some star on the road With his New' York success, and his plajs is released.., xnrougn' tne union of these three managers they will be able to buy the exclusive rights of . the play and l bring It at once to their -houses so th. 4 . people wUl be given the fresh- plays at in tne ; near zuture. mo definite an nouncement of the-' personnel. -of the new,Baker company has yet been made. , The new alliance Is carefully organ- izea ana oacxea oy large money, inter ests.' so that it- will be able to carry out all of , Its plans to the letter and give the people better and newer plays wnn mure competent actors and at popular prices. t . 1 - George R. AVasson. , . . Marahfleld. Or,'. - Jan. ti.Q.wrg R, Wesson, one of the oldest settlers of Coos county, died Saturday at his home on South slough. ' He was a native of New Brunswick and had lived on Coos bay ever since he cam around (he horn tn 1S52. . I' - ' tSpecial Diapatcn to Th Joornal.) ' " 1 Beaverton, , Or.j Jan. ?4. John Ous taveson, 5 years old, a wealthy rancher; living miles southwest of here, w found dead In the basement of his hmn yesterday, having committed suicide by hanging. The discovery of the sulcldo was made by; his wife,' who becoming alarmed because of his aosence, lnati Vuted a search. ? The. distance between the floor of the basement and the stringers 'was; not sufficient to alio a man to stand erect and to accomplish ; his purpose Gustaveson had tied ft clothesline around a stringer, and th-ti around his neck. and throwing Mm!'f in an almost kneeling position, died of slow strangulation. ;, . J Mr. Gustaveson came here last yr, purchased 100 acres of land and built a -motlern ' ranch house., costing et.'vtt $4000. 1 He was employed by th Jvir'h em pacific Hallway compny far mm than 40 years. He wss r-i:-iviig a Northern Pacific pennion (it i ; r month, v On his person were four ! checks, -drafts and rash to t!i.i m)""? - of over. $7000, The dreeei jft'te.t, ht Ides tee ranch, fine property In J rvl.-s Jt ton plai'e, 1'ortl.ml. i,. 1 "He leaves a wlf ttna f ,r j ! s : sons, Oscar, jonn ni t :.ti&,t-n. No cause i psfufnd f.r Vv A-s' :,. i