Till Issue of JOURNAL CIRCULATION ' YESTERDAY WAS ' The Sunday Journal , , Com , Comprise , v-y. 6Sections-68Pages . The weatherFair; colder; with' " heavy frost; ' northerly, wind. . .V VOL. VI. . NO. 49. PORTLAND,' OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. -If- LAG LEADERS OFFER TO ABIDE A RAIN Claiming Irresistible Strength Those in Charge of Sympa thetic Strike Move in Behalf , of, Striking Carmen. EIGHT DEAD PLAYED H III f : DEATH'S SHADOW 125,000 UNION MEN - OUT; MORE GOING Opponents Say Only 35,000 Out and Many of Those Will Retujn. . 4 Strike leaders, claiming 125,000 4 4 men already out and that Other 4 4 thousands will be on strike Mon- 4 day, tonight submit a proposal for arbitration of .the Issue be- 4 tween the carmen and the tran-4 4 sit company. 4 4 City officials assort only 35,- 4 4 000 men out tonight and that 4 4 many will return Monday: . 4 4 Ten thousand i policemen, reg- 4 4 ulars and specials doing strike 4 4 duty. 4 4 First general strike ever called 4 4 In an .American city. 4 , 4 Strike leaders threaten 'to call 4 4 nation-wide walkout If defeated 4 4 here. 4 Scores of minor disorders re- 4 4 ported tonight 4 4 One motonnan, with Iron bar, 4 4 fights off mob until rescued by 4 4 police. .4 4 Independence Square.- mass 4 4 meeting not allowed by police. 4 4 Strikers parade around square 41 4 to city ball and thence to labor 4 4 headquarters. 4 4 Society women plead with 4 4 leaders not to call out shirtwaist 4 4 workers, whq are just recover- 4 4 Ina from recent strike.. 4 4 4 . 4 (United Press Learnd Wlrt.i Philadelphia, Pa.. Marco a. At 1 O'clock this (Sunday) , morning- the wjollos report "all quiet." xiw street! -f hats been practically deserted for an. hour and the police reserves at tola time hare for the most part been withdrawn. There have been no farther disorders than those reported earlier In the even tng. It was announced this morning that a special meeting of ' the , United Business Ken's association has been called for this afternoon to take action looking toward the adjustment of the general strike. Death Roll Mounts as Details Come From Rogers Pass, 1 Where Rescuers Attack Slide "70 Feet in Depth." ; , AM APPEAL ' FOR ''PARTY HARMONY" 2S VICTIMS WHITE MEN; 7 ; FIVE BODIES RECOVERED A 4 Scene of Disaster in Midst of an Icy Inferno Passenger Trains Safe. Philadelphia, March 5. Preceding the announcement with the claim that 125.- 000 workers are now out on strike and t ha t the number will be greatly aug mented next Monday, the "committee of ten," In charge of the general strike In this city, tonight Issued a formal state ment and proposal for a board of arbi tration which would have power to set tle the present disorder: "The situation at the close of the first day of the general strike Is mighty gratifying to us. While we have not been able to get the reports of more than 300 unlona in" the city, we have received reports "from something like J 60 organizations which show that more than 125.000 men and women are out. 'For tomorrow wo have called upon different organisations to hold meetings In their respective headquarters, where they will be addressed by different speakers. Up to the present time this (Continued on Page Eleven.) MARIS NAT WTHDRAWN Warships Will Probably Leave Nicaragua in April No In tervention by Knox. Washington, .March 6. The question of withdrawing the Itoited States ma rlnes from Nicaragua where they haVe been since the outbreak of disturbances there, was taken tip by the navy de-t partment today. If the plan, does not conflict with that of the state depart ment, they will leave Nicaragua late In April or before the rainy season No action has been taken fty the' state department on" the suggestion for In tervention received from the revolu tionary leaders and none will be taken until the request has come from the Madrlz government as well. .. , - An election must be .held before Sec retary Knox wUl restore diplomatic re lations. , LEBANON PAPER MILLS INSTALL OIL BURNERS Spedal T! natch to The Journal, Lebanon, Or., March 6. The Lebanon par'er mills have installed oil burners In the engine rooms, and the big boilers hereafter will be heated by oil fuel in' stead of wood. The first oil was brought In last Wefek, and the second shipment arrived Monday. It consisted of three oil tank cars, each car contain ing 12,400 gallons. Six thousand gallons will . be 'con eumed for each day's run The mills used from 12.000 to 16.000 cords of wood annually. The -oil will be less expansive (than wood, and the work of the firemen will be 'lessened. - J (United Prns Luwd Wl 1 Revelstoke, B, O., March 8. All avail able men on the Canadian Pacific rail road In this district, aided by willing volunteers sent by special from here are digging away, while the worst bliz zard os the season rage to rescue. If possible, any who may be alive under last night s avalanche. A moderate es tunate or the dead now Is 80. Ateast 25 of these are white men. Five bodies. tnose or two engineers, two brakemen and an assistant roadmaster, have been recovered near the overturned rotarles. while others are burled beneath 70 feet or packed snow. , .- j ne suae is a quarter or a, mile long ana nas practically .filled the valley where- the main line of the1 Canadian Pacific railroad from Calgary to Van couver runs. A Second and a Third Slide. The first avalanche eamo down, late last night. - Three crews were sent out to clear the line and these were joined by a masonry gang of white men num bering about 10. In th midst of the work, the distant rumble 'of a second avalanche was heard. But few escaped, for the sllfle rolled along the line, over taking many. When news of the dis aster reached Revelstoke scores of vol unteers rushed to the scene. The debris is hard to clear, as the weight of. the mixture of rook and big pines Is im mense. Most of the killed lived here, and the city is in mourning. It 1s the worst slide that has ever occurred on the Canadian Pacific railroad and the first that has occurred in this particular val ley. : Night brought no cessation of work, flares from the scene of action light ing up the vicinity in a weird and pic turesque manner. A third slide occurred to the east of the disaster Saturday, but the passen ger train escaped. Traffic is being worked south of the Crows Nest Pass line, making the Journey one day longer. Worked While Death Knell Sounded. The slides occurred one mile east qf Rogers' Pass and at the very summit of' the Selkirk mountains. The track had been buried yesterday afterndon by a small slide. Rain and sleet were fall ing:when the engine, aided by the flec tion men, started to clear the tracks. Although there were premonitions of danger Indicated by the crash and boom of avalanches on adjacent peaks, they stuck steadily to their task. At- pre cisely 12:30 this . morning, when half of the first slide had been removed, the second occurred. It started on the side of the canyon east of the point where the first slide took place, l.iousands of feet above a few roll ing imnchea of snow grew In volume and started on their, way of destruction. In a few seconds, with a tremendous roar, the avalanche leaped from slieir to shelf, uprooting nnd carrying with it a tangled mass of Ice, trees and huge boughs. There was no escape for the railway men. It piled on top of the first slide, burying the tracks for a quarter of a mile. Hundreds of thousands of tons of debris in the wake of the avalanche bounded off the huge heap and half filled the valley. Rescue Crws Surry Out. News 'of the disaster was flashed by a telegraph operator a mile distant. As , lV 1(S l . f . REPUBLICANS OFi 'foyhF- WS i OREGON INTEND 'TO'. ; ':A$iK''4$ft: N ! REPUDIATE STATEMENT r ftSr' j one:jhey INTEND TO 'if V'Vlk 3v " SUGGEST IN ASSEMBLY ' ' C tMrMT 'ik 1 OR CONVENTION CANDI- .' , V s S - .. " 1L L J5 mMSr 4$ir I anowicc-put-the " MWX Z---JZtZ " 4mX&im I. AWD AULWHO DECLARE I li v W '... , A S "... vVX r-'. V OREGON ELECTRIC GARFIELD DIVES 1 1 1NDICTMENTS inn iinnni niui fiir nnnnim rnn inr nrTiinurn nn 11 1 iiuiu unmtf. iul ULnv imv liiu hul uliiiumlii . uivi I iii in 1 n 11 11 1 VII 1 111 m u.miiv.a run unr nr i iiniiru. ... finUMUIllll Uf Hill IML I1LIIUUIIU I UU I MIIL IILIUI1MLM FINALLY LINKED LAND WIIHDA1L AGAINST!. HYDE GREAT EASTERN FIRMS DID FOR PIPE CONTRACT Agents of Corporations Whose Wealth Aggregates $2,000,- 000,000 Attracted by Port land's Plan to Lay Pipe Line BJDS WILL BE OPENED TUESDAY AFTERNOON Lucky Bidder Will Have to Put Up Bond of $1,500,000 Line to Bull Run. General Freight and Passenger Agent of S., P. & S. R. R. Announces That Traffic Ar rangements Are Made. (Continued on Page Five.) Traffic arrangements were entered Into yesterday afternoon by the Spokane, I'oruana Seattle Railroad company and the Oregon Electric Railway, com pany. In a month or six weeks the North Bank road will be in position to compete with the Southern Taciflc for business In .the Willamette valley. The arrangement will afford the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific equal privileges. .Negotiations for such arrangements have been under way for some time Yesterday afternoon General Freight and Passenger Agent If. M. Adams of the S., P. & S. authorized the announce ment that negotiations had been sue cessfully" closed. The rates will be come effective immediately upon pub lication of the new tariff In four or five weeks. . Means Much to Valley. The arrangement will mean much to the Willamette valley, because It will give through transcontinental rates to and from points that heretofore were compelled to deal exclusively with the Southern Pacific. Especially beneficial (Continued on Page Four.) HILL EM PLOYS WESTERN PACIFIC SURVEYORS Full NORTH CALIFORNIA WORK (8oectl Dlnpatcb to Tba Journal.) San Francisco, March 6. Some of the former Western Pacific railroad sur veying force ' is being hired here to make surveys In northern California this year for the Hill railroad system. This means that James J. Hill is pre paring . to make railroad surveys in northeastern California In the counties of Plumas, Lassen and Modoc. ;John F. Stevens, the ' engineer In - charge of Hill's proposed Oregon Trunk railroad from a noint In the Columbia river south through central Oregon to Klam ath Falls, Is arranging to outfit a sur veying party in this city which, during next spring, summer and rail, win . run survey lines from a point on the West ern Paciric to numas county in tne Beckwith Pass country north to Klam ath Ealls., Or. Jt is at this point where the surveys from the north and those from the south will Join. Stevens has seen fit -to outfit a party from San Francisco because it is prac tically at hand for his purpose. He in tends to make. use of a part of the sur veying force the Western .Pacific used and which Is just breaking up. An agent of Stevens . has been' here for several weeks attending to business and has .made considerable progress with his plans. . These proposed surveys In northeastern California indicate that, Hill intends to tap the large timber holdings irt that part of California be longing to Thomas B. Walker, a lumber king of Minneapolis.- The Southern Pa ciflo has already survey lines for the same purpose. At Klamath Falls, Hill's new line will meet tm new San Francisco & Port land line of the Southern Pacific, which is already in operation from this city to Klamath Falls. So, if Hill finally does build Into Plumas county, his road will have connection with this cltv by both the Southern Pacific and Western Pacifjc. The presumption is that Hill will be given concessions by both of the other companies if that will prevent him, for some years at least, from push ing his line on down to the bay of San Francisco. .'. Held for Examination, Then Re stored if Not Available for 'Power Sites Pinchot Fin ishes His Testimony. (T'nlted Pitm Ined Wlre.1 Washington, March 6. Oiled by the "prosecution," former Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield appeared to day before the Balllnger-Pinchot inves tigating committee as a witness against his successor, and began his testimony upon which the Pinchnt conservation ists hope to establish their contentions mat secretary liaiunger proved un faithful to his truBt. Garfield's testimony had to do with policies and administrative details. There were no sensational charges. The questions today elicited a wealth of de tailed Information an to Garfield's with drawal of lands under the "super visory authority," and also as to his knowledge of the Alaskan coal situation. No Trick In the Withdrawals. "There was no subterfuge In with drawing these lands," the former secre tary said. "The idea was to prevent their being Illegally acquired under laws not applicable to that class of lands." He asserted that the policy was to withdraw large areas, examine, them, and then restore such aa were not avail able as power sites: He stated that the rough totals of lands withdrawn by him during the year he was secretary aggregated 1, 7S0.000 acres under the supervisory jMiwer, and Z,7BO,uoo unaer other forms of withdrawal. When the committee adjourned the witness was explaining the coal bill which Ballmger supported before a house committee. Pinchot Cross-Examination Ended. Senator Fletcher, discovering that the resolution creating the investigat- ng committee authorized an inquiry nto the forest service as well as the nterlor department, insisted on ques tioning Gifford Pinchot, former fores ter, as to the policy and administration f the forest service, discoursing on his favorite theme, Pinchot bccairte so interested that he talked in, the present tense, Just as if he hAd not been de- Two Indictments for Murder in First Degree; One for Man slaughter and Eight for As sault With Intent to (United rroni Leaaid Wlr.) Kansas City, Mo., March .r. Eleven different Indictments were returned against Dr. Bennett Clarke Hyde by the grand Jury tonight. Two Indictments were for murder in the first degree for the deathR of Colonel Thomas II. Swope and Chrisman Swope. One Indictment was for manslaughter In the death of Colonel Moss Hunter. Elirht seDnrate Indictments for assault with Intent to kill eight different member---of- the Swope household were returned. Dr. Hyde was indicted for attempting to kill with typhoid R-erms Miss Marga ret Swope, Miss Stella Swope, Miss Sarah Swope, MIrs Iucy Lee Swope, Nora Belle Diedon, a governess In the Swope home; Leonore Coprldge, a negro servant; Mlsa Georgia Compton, the dressmaker, and Miss Mildred Fox, daughter of S. Walter Fox and a friend of the Swope family. Indictments Cover All Charges. The Indictments cover the entire range of the charges against Dr. Hyde, Including the alleged poisoning with strychnine and the Introduction of ty- (Contlnued on Page Four.) Portland Is today the battleground of corporations representing an aggregate wealth or nearly 1 2,000.000,000. Repre sentatives of the United States Stoel company a million dollar concern; the American H rid ire company, the Now Jersey Steel werkn and more than 20 ouier pipe factories and steel plate mills of the United States, are here to tm present at the meeting of the city water board next Tuesday afternoon, when bids for the coiiHt ruetiun of the second pipe lino to Hull Run will be opened. rroni the present Indications the boaid will receive at leant 40 tenders for the furnishing of the ll.OoO tons of steel that will be ued In completing tne mammoth project. Competition Keen. "Competition for this Job Is the keen est i have ever known," said the ngent of a large eastern factory last night. "Not In recent years has so much In terest been aroufled among the various steel making copipunies of this country. The optning of the bids means the awarding of the largest single contract for riveted pipe,' with one exception, that of the Brooklyn railway tube, that bus ever been recorded. The magnitude of the contract can be imagined when It le pointed out that the successful bid der will have to put uo a bond for I1.B00.000. "The steel to be used in the H miles of pipe line to be constructed from Bull Run. lo. the- leseryolrs- w In process of construction on Mount Tabor will make 20 large trainlnads, figuring on the av erage capacity of freight cars. ' "The construction of this pipe line has ndvrrtised Portland among the cap italists of the east ns nothing else ever has. The Rose City is on ho map of the big manufacturing plants of the United States to stay." . Will Spend $1,600,000. Engineer D. D. Clarke of the city water board, with City Engineer R. H. Thomson of Seattle as consulting ex pert, drew up the plans for the pro posed addition to the water system. The estimates of 'the engineers cK.ll for an expenditure of $1,500,000, besides $447,000 which has already been set aside for the construction of the huge twin reservoirs on the slope of Mount Tabor. Engineer Clarke will be in di rect supervision of the construction work on the new pipe line. The money for the. second pipe line Is available from a bond Issue of $3,000, 000 voted by the people at the general election of 1907. Of this sum. the work already under way or contemplated will consume $2,000,000, leaving $1,000,000 for future use. . Bids are to be opened by the board at 4 o'clock' on the afternoon of March 8. Mayor Simon and tho board have prom ised to accelerate the construction of the reenforclng water system, and they will proceed with as much speed as the great importance of the project will warrant. No Time to Be Lost. After the bids are received consider able time will have to, be taken to tabu late them, but no time will be lost in making the award, as the board realizes that the bidders who are not successful will bo under a great expense. Every bid must be accompanied with a certified check for one tenth the amount of the bid. It will be readily seen, therefore, that if any one con- HAMILTON BIPLANE BEATS AUTOMOBILE IN EXCITING RACE Daring Aviator Flies Around One Mile Course in One Min ute in Presence of Big Crowd . . Made Famous Glide. FLIGHT OF EIGHT MILES IN JUST NINE MINUTES Will Race Against Auto and a Motorcycle Today Exhibi tion Great Success, i . . Hamilton's Beoorde Tester?. Flew around mlle-lonf race course In one minute. Made six laps of three-eighth mile track to F. C. Plummet five In Buick auto. Tim t min utes and 20 aeconds. Made sustained flight "of eight miles in nine minutes. Five times successfully mad world-famous Hamilton glide, topping engine in mid-air. Long est glide 20.2 seconds, from ele vation of 600 feet Authorities pronounce Hamil ton's control of aeroplanin making short curve durlrif the race wtth auto the greatest aver seen in history of aviation. Program for Today. Will attempt to reach greatest alti tude ever attained by heavier than air machine. Will make the Hamilton glide from height of more than 1000 feet. " Will race against automobile, and motorcycle. Will essay long distance cross coun try flight. Streetcar company announce arrange ments .for special cars on Rose City lino. O. R. ft N. wlir run trains every 0 minutes from l)nior depot. (Continued on Page Four.) (Continued on Page Four.) Fairbanks Guest of King Edward. (United Pre Lnied Wlre.l London, March 6. Forcer Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks and Mrs. Fairbanks were the guests of the Prince of Wales today at a luncheon given at Marlborough house. Flne-i the arrival of Mr. and Mrs Fai-bank in London recently-they have beet enter tained br King Edward and Hi? oueen and have been well received by the English nobility- , 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE BY HANGING; NO REASON (S-lal Dispatch to The Journa-I.) Dallas, Or., March 6. Word reached this city tonight that Mary West, the 14-year-old daughter of A. E. West, a farmer living at Hills, 10 miles west of Dallas, ' committed suicide by hanging. This morning the girl left home early. When tier mother went in search of her sh found, the girl's lifeless body hanging from the limb of a big oak.' The girl bad climbed onto one limb, tied a rope to another and thpn had made a loop ' around her neck. Her neck was broken by the fall. No reason is ascribed for. the girl's act. AEROPLANE COLLIDES WITH HORSE AND WOMEN SEVE FAINT DURING PANIC INJURED: Hamilton flew. Sweeping in master ful, graceful curves his aeroplane arose from the earth with a noise like that of a hundred"' partridges taking flight. With a sensation new to a northwest rowd the people looked, held their breaths and waited. The whir Cf the engine grew indistinct. The form of the driver was lost to view. Up against a white afternoon cloud with the sun shimmering on the planes the air ship was seen. The man was bird and the airs master. Hamilton,.,. with engine stopped, glided light as a . feather back to earth.' The flight was over. The people breathed again. Then. the applause burst forth and it wan deafening. It seemed an hour. The announcer, watch In hand, proclaimed the flight two minutes long. It was the beginning. Hamilton Bos Again. Hamilton," smiling confidently, arose again against the light afternoon breeze. Mere flying had become an accustomed thing. ... "What will he do now?" the crowd asked. The biplane gathered speed. It skim med over the earth lik a swallow then dipped with terrifying suddenness toward the upraised faces. Women " screamed, men dodged. Then they felt a rushing current of air and looked up again. Hamilton was again off against the clouds. Those who saw him pass, saw him smile in enjoyment of ., his Joke. ' Tho race course of the aviation meet . grounds is a mile long. It is a beau- (Continued on Page Four.) CONTINUE WAR ONBEEF TRUST Prosecutor Garven Has Case Ready for Supreme Court ' Judge Swayze. . : Wreck of Wenune Aeroiflane. . , Injured W. A. Owen. 10 East 4 Sixty-fourth street North; teeth knocked out, body bruised. 4 Dave Feldman, Washington High school student; slightly bruitid. VTHi Hutchinson, leg bruised. V. Carols, an Italian, leg ) broken. V H. W. Scott, electrical worker, 4 from Astoria; face badly ciit. Officer Rudolph; thrown from horse, slight bruises. A Walter E. Donnelly, driving 4 machine; slight bruises. 4 Several women fainted. Oth- 4 ers thrown to ground by police- man's runaway horse. About $50 4 damage done to Wemme aero- plane. Planes torn and wheels 4 mashed. Will be repaired and 4 4 ready for trial flights again to- 4 day. Wreck caused by crowding 4 In of abnormally curious -crowd. The last and' perhaps most excJUng feature of the aviation meet on th grounds of the Portland Fair Live stock association grounds yesterday was the wrecking of Henry Wemme's Curtlss biplane. Six were struck and injured when control of the machine was lost. Others were trampled under 'foot by the terrified crowd and a few were knocked down by the frightened horse of Police Officii Rudolph. Walter E. Donnelly attempted a flight, beginning from the west end of the 400 foot runway. Thousands of cur ious people had crowded down - on the field. With greatest difficulty a nar row lane was made through the close packed people. Gains Great Speed. ' The Wemme machine had gained great speed and was Just leaving the ground when the right plane struck a small boy, knocking him down. The machine swerved to the right, but was brought back to its course by Don nelly, when the left wing tip struck the horse of Officer Rudolph, who had been unable to get out of the road. In an Instant the aeroplane rose from the ground, then plunged directly down among the peopje. Its great speed made a serioiijp disaster seem inevitable. Donnelly was thrown from his seat, like a catapult. W. A. Owen was struck falr'in the mouth, then-knocked down and dragged, 'vill Hutchinson, a boy, was struck on the leg and the leg (Continued ov Page Four.) (United rress teased Wire.) Jersey City, N. J,, March It. New Jersey's fight against, tho beef trust is ; to bo pressed to a finish. ProsecutoP ' Garven, who obtained the Indictment of . five" big Chicago corporations and 21 of their chiefs, today completed tho case : that he will present to Supreme Court Judge Swayze. Ho will ask th,it the charter of the National Packing com pany be forfeited because the company has failed to produce the mtnutea of the directors' meetings for Inspection bv . the Jury. These minutest, It is alleged, have been spirited away to Chicago. Argument Tuesday, - - The argument will talte place in Tren- V ton Tuesday and It va muted tonight that the chief counsel for the packers will oppose any action, that they will contend that the minutes are wanted to . provide material f 0 ' a "flsiiing. ex cursion" and that the entire prorredlntr Is part of a plan to compel accused, men -to give1 testimony ngnihat, 'them selves, , .' . f.." Garven has been asked to fume to Washington next wctk to confer witfv Senator Lodge -and furnish, him w)it Information in his possession, ; ". rhtijr on the high cost of living."- Th Hu i- , son. county grand jury h not cmn. pleted its Investigation of th t'-M- warehouses but It was learned on hwii authority tonight thai the body tv;:l hand up a batch of indictments- n- ? week against" the storago men for vf - . latlon of th pure, food law In fcc;-!:; meats in storage that mtp unfit for hu man consumption- . ... v - a' r 3. b1