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V'-i" V--' ;..(iXi-.:-i..;.. , THE DAILY JOURNAL IS, TWO CENTS A COPY; JOURNAL" CIRCULATION ' ' ..-YESTEnDAVWA8 ..'.'--. Sundav Journal S cents: or IS cent a week, for Daily and Sunday jour- ' ' t)y' cr"er delivered. . The weather Fair, tonight and Thursday; northerly winds. VOL. IX. NO. 3. PORTLAND, OREGON. WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH 9, 1910 EIGHTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. ??iB.m eErJ : . , 1 7 1 ' ' F VOTE MM EIS F ACTIONISTAKEN H DESPITE PROTEST FROM CITIZENS Ordinance Passed Provides 100 Feet Each From Oregon and Adams Be Given to the Railroad. IF MAYOR SIGNS IT INVOKE REFERENDUM 0. R. & N. Co. May Offer City Right of Way for West Ap proach of Bridge. BOLD BRIBERY SCANDAL SEATTLE ADOPTS JljA W How They Voted. Councilmen who voted to grant the petition of the railroads In the face of a strong protest from ;oo east side property owners Annand. Beldlng. Cellars, Devlin, Driwcoll, Dunning, Menefee, Wal lace. H'atklna. Councilmen who voted agalnRt granting the petition In accord ance with the wishes of proper ty owners Baker, Concannon. Kills, Kubli, Lombard, Rushlight. The city council this morning by a vote of nin to six passed an ordinance granting the aetltion of the O. K. N. railroad company for th vacation- of ion fpet of Oregon street and ion feet of Adams street. The action of the council was taken after a petition slgnT nd by 900 business men and property owners of the East Side had been pre sented before the council by Judge I refuse the request of the company. Before the passage of the ordinance Councilman Rushlight introduced a reso lution calling upon, the 'mayor to ap point a spor-inl committee, to meet with the runway officials in an effort to s tie upon a satisfactory basis for n coin- promise between the railway and the city. Cellars Moved to Amend. Councilman Cellars moved to amend the resolution by stipulating that the ill JlZlM t T ":'V ." : 4 A 7 t j e uu-4 .-.- ... . ,, , ,,n in, I : " y - I Jj : i y J h - M l F MM 1 LAN Instead of 22 Councilmen, by Wards, City Will Elect Nine at Large, Three Each Year, by Non-Partisan Method. WIDE OPEN POLICY INDORSED WITH GILL Plurality Much Below Estimate Six Bond Issues, Aggre gating $3,700,000. (Continued on Page Two.) MOB LYNCHES DYING PREACHER Senator 3. 'P. Allds, ,. tlx jarcnHf d .in atfiMtlotial" nitfe,C lirjbery ; Investl ; Ration at Albany, N.j Yv', ytxo denies having ' accepted" money to amotlier legtolatlon j lnlmcal to the bridge tlnist.' BANDITS SHflpT ' WOMAN WHILE: ROBBING HOUSE RECONCILIATION IS PROBABLE SAY CUDAHYS'FRENDS Fights puel With Officer and Is Shot Mob Fears His Re covery From Wound. Greenwood. Miss. March !. Although ho was already nearly dead from a gun shot wound which he received last night In a duel with an officer, Parson Wal lace, a negro preacher, was lynched by a mob of white men shortly before noon today. The crowd, after an all .night vigii in the Jail yard, gained entrance Into the county jail, where the negro had been placed, and dragged him out side to his death. Wallace and a white officer fought a revolver duel when an attempt was made to arrest the black. Both raeeived seri ous wounds. Wallace was taken Into custody and hurried to the county Jail to save hfm. from a mob that soon con gregated. The whites refrained from violence last night when told that Wal lace would probably die from hla wounds. A death watch was maintained outside the Jail, however, and when it was learner today that Wallace had a chance to recover, the mob quickly re frumed, stormed the Jail and lynched him. The officer wounded In-the fight with Wallace will recover. Enter San Fernando, Cal., Home, Bind and Gag Man and Shoot When They Are Interrupted; Posses Pursue. Affection for Children Will Bring Couple Together; Lillis May Lsave Hospital Today, Say Doctors. (t'nltrii Pre I1 Wire.) Feattle, March 9. The day of party politics In Seattle is at an end If the new charter amendment carried by a wide margin in yesterday's election can end It. The new plan gives Seattle a semi Commission form of government. In future there will be nothing on the ballots to show the party with which the candidate 1s allied. Names will be placed on the ballots on the filing of petitions signed by 26 voters. A primary will he held two weeks before the general election, and the two highest candidates at the primary will have their names on thn ballots at the general election. The present system of ward council men was also abolished. Seattle will no longer have IS ward councilmen and four at large. In March, 1911, an eleo tlon will he held to elect nine council men at large, who will succeed ths present ?2 men. Each year three new councilmen will be elected and thr will retire. Six bond Issues, aggregating over J3, 700,000, carried by gncd majorities, Seattle, also declared for k wide open town and elected Hiram C. Gill mayor by tho plurality of lsOO to 2000, Instead of the predicted 7000 to 10,000. GUI's majority over William H. Moore, Demo cratic candidate, will not be more than 2600, Judging from returns at 10 o'clock this morning. Gill carried all th downtown wards and many of the residence districts. Moore carried the Ninth, Tenth, Elev enth and possibly the Eighth wards. The Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth are still doubtful; Gill carried the remain der. While GUI has won, Republican sup porters have lost thousands of dollars on the election. Gill was so strong a fa vorite that few wagers were made on the bare result, but on the majority. Thousands were put up in a dozen sa loons that the Gill majority would bo from 5000 to 10,000, and that Gill would carry every ward In the city. i The slogan of the Republican cam paign In the last few days of the cam- "BLACK HAND" DEVASTATION 'ft iiiii M 1 ) il f Ell a i tit H . ir , . . . . ' -fjr i u r J GENERAL STRIKE I EXHIBITS MARKED SIGNSOFCOLLAPSE :,e-"V' . ":nS? t' .r m'-- .1. .;: x : t j '.. ! If v. ",Mtmit i"C!tk'i I 1 1 p: rt.:.;.-. V At IS Havoc, wrought by bonib thrown down hhnney' of house In New Tork's turbulent eat side district after the owner had failed to-respond to related demands of "Blaek ;' Handera.'' ' . . ' DEFALCATION OF IIOIII DATQR DUEZ IS FOUR MILLION? (Continued on Page Three.) HOUSE WATCHDOG (t'nlted Preiis lised Wire ) San Fernando, Cal., March ?. Armed deputies are combing the San Fernando valley today for two bandits who bound and gagged T. F. Garvey and fired two bullets Into the head of Mrs. Henry C. Stephens at the Stephens home in this city. They were searching the house for money when neighbors of the Ste phens family, who heard the .shots, ar rived. The men, who were masked, fled through a back door and escaped. The sheriff's office at Ios Angeles was no tified, and In less than an hour a posse with two bloodhounds was on the ban dits' trail. Mrs. Stephens Is said to be In a seri ous condition. One bullet fractured her jaw and lodged behind her right ear, while the second Inflicted a painful scalp wound. ' Garvey. who boarded with the St phens family, was reading a' newspaper in his front room when the thugs en- (Contlnued on Pago Three.) BAKER WILL BUILD $70,000 STOCK THEATRE AT NTH Al MORRISON STREETS George 1,. Baker announced this morning that he will build a $70,000 theatre building at the corner of Elev enth and Morrison streets, the build ing to ho ready for the opening of the fall show season, .September 1. Councilman Baker's new playhouse will be the home of the Baker Stock company, which will often the 1910-11 season the flrsf week In September, with Izetta Jewel in the leading role. Plans for the proposed Jbiutldlng have been sketched by Whldden & Iewls. It will cover an area -.of 100x100 feet and ' will be three stories in height. The seating capacity of the theatre Will be 1400. There wilt b a parquet and bal cony, but no gallery. '" ' The stage will be 30xRO feet, one of the largest on the Pacific coast. A fea ture of the building will be the 80 foot exit on Eleventh street, afforded by the arrangement of the walls facing on that street Doors will fold outward on the ground floor for that width. Councilman Baker applied for per mission from the council today to -alter nd remodel the brick building of Jhe United Carriage company at Eleventh and .Morrison streets. This building wH form a part of the new theatre, which will be of brick and reinforced concrete throughout and of fireproof construction. The council granted Mr. taker's request (Special DIsDfttcb to The Jorcrnl.t ; Kansas City, Mo., March 9. With Mr. and Mrs. "Jack" Cudahy both declaring that a divorce or separation Is out of the question, friends of the couple are strong In the belief that after the pres ent affair blows over the couple will he come reconciled. .The friends bnse this belief largely upon the affection each has for the four children. Besides, both are , Catholics, and divorce- is frowned upon by the church. The Cudahys have a fine stock farm a few miles from Kansas City, and their friends believe they will move to It, and forgive and forget. Close friends assert that' there is nothing more serious in Mrs. Ciidahy's conduct than Indiscre tion, and they declare that the husband Is to blame to some extent for neglect ing his family. His close friends say this neglect was due to' his wife's con duct. Cudahy and Jere Ullls, the banker whom Cudahy attacked, continue to maintain silence, except for Mr. Cudahy s denial of any intention to sue. Lillis is recovering rapidly, and will probably be taken to his home from the hospital, to day. While only his closest friends have seen him. It Is strongly asserted that Lillis' injuries will not cause him in convenience. The most painful of them Is 'a swelling where he was kicked or struck with the electric searchlight, which Mr. Cudahy carried. OF THE TREASURY Took Little Piece of State's Money to Speculate on the Bourse, and That Called for More Confesses All. ARKANSAN PUTS EXPLORER PEARY IN COOK CLASS Representative Macon Resists Reward and Honor Proposi tions Says Rapid Transit Records Are Incredible. At Same Time State Federa tion of Labor Resolves in Favor of Strike of All Unions in United States. STRIKEBREAKER OUTRAGE REACTS ON PERPETRATORS Ten Per Cent of Baldwin Men Out; Strikers Claim All Gompers Inactive. (t'nftril Pra Leawd Wtra.l Philadelphia. March 9. Twelve hun dred workmen employed by the Baldwin Locomotive works struck this afternoon. The company employs 12,000 men. The union leaders hero are elated over the walkout, as the works were conduct ed on "open shop" principles. The leaders declare that by nightfall they will have every man out of th works. The Baldwin officials dispute thl claim. Washington. March 9. It was learned this afternoon that Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, will go to Philadelphia, on hla return from Chicago. Whether or not he will take charge of the strike in Philadelphia depends upon develop ments. There Is a persistent rumor that the Federation officials have decided to call strikes of streetcar employes In four or five other big cities, but this cannot be confirmed.' ' Philadelphia. March 9. Only th radical of union leaders and follower today- wtt nor- concede Vnnt the great general strike here Is a failure. Throughout the city It W popularly acknowledged that the sympathetic strike designed to force the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company to arbitrate dif ferences with its striking carmen has not proved successful. , ' .. The primary causes of failure are api parently the disinclination of conserva tive unions to violate trade contracts. and tl prevalence of the open shop system here. Labor organizations like the , Typo graphical union insisted that their (Continued on Page Thirteen.) NICARAGUANSSEND Hence Prospect Not so Bright for Portland Postoffice as It Should Be. WILHELMINA WILL RUN TO COOS BAY (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Toledo, Or., March 9. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Lincoln Coun ty transportation company these offi cers were elected: Lewis Montgomery, of Portland, president; F. C. Savage, of Portland, vice president; William Scarth, of Toledo, secretary and treas urer; William Scarth, Toledo; George Tyler and Leo Williams, of Newport, Lewis Montgomery and F. C. Savage, of Portland, directors. The company will take over at once the power schooner Wllhelmlna, which Is of HO tons capacity, 85 feet long, and 20 foot beam, and draws seven and a half feet of Water loaded. She has twin screws, 150 horsepower engines and car ries sails. She will be put on the run from Port land to Yaqulna. Alsea and Coos Bay. Captain George TvUr win h master. (Washington Bureau of "Tbe Journal.) Washington. March 9. Little hope remains that Portland and Astoria will get the new public buildings they so much need. The Bourne bill giving Portland $1,500,000 for a new site and building passed the senate, but the house will pass no public buildings bill this session, so that there will he "nothing doing'' at that end of the capltol and the Oregon towns must wait another year. Ho Fork This Session. The Henate often passes single build ing bills, hut the house either passes none, or makes up a general public buildings bill and this Is the measure popularly known as "the pork barrel." Congressman Tawney being asked If such a bill would be brought In this year, answered: "Tell the Journal, 'No pork this ses sion.' " ABOUT APRIL 15 HALLEY'S COMET TO BE IN SIGHT AGAIN :( t'nlted I'resa Leased Wire.) w Oakland. Cal., March 9.-.--For the next month Halley's comet 4 will be invisible to the astrono- mers who have been watching approach of the celestial wan- derer for several weeks. Pro- fessor Charles Burckhalter. the astronomer In charge of the tel- 4 escope of the Chabot observa- tory, stated today that the comet would be visible again about April 15. The reason why the comet has suddenly disappeared is because it has entered the zone where Its light is lost in the sun's rays. It Will be much more brilliant when It Is seen 4 again, and It will be nearer the earth. (t'nlted Presa Leased Wire.) Paris, March 9. The alleged defalca tions of Edmund Dues, who was cm ployed as a government liquidator In sale of confiscated chnrch property, are growing, according to the government officials who are Investigating his past activities. They estimate that Duel embezzled $2,1100,000, instead of half that sum, and that there Is a possibility that he stole $4,000,000 from the gov ernment. In his cell Dues Is said -to have con fessed to the charge of embezzlement. He -isserted that' he lost" all the money In speculations on the bourse. According to his story, he first em bezzled a jSinall amount from the money under his( control, but the laxity of tho government In watching the liquidators emboldened him to take large sums. j II" expressed surprise because his j shortage had not been discovered soon er The authorities are Investigating with the view of ascertaining whethet others connected with the sale of $200,000,000 worth of church property are not im plicated with Duez. Following the passage of a law sep arating the state and church and au thorizing ttie confiscation of church property in France, in irtO.1, Duez was anpolnted as u liquidator. Later he was connected with the liquidation of the Misericords missionaries, the Plopus fathers, Marlanists. Oblates, Oratorlans, Redemptionlsta and the Ladles of St. Maur. M. Lo, Marquis, who liquidated the af filrs of '.he Panama Canal company, has been appointed to succeed Duez In completing the liquidation of the properties. Washington, March 0. The house sub-committee on naval affairs voted unanimously today not to take any ac tion upon the various measures which have been introduced for the purpose of rewarding and honoring Commander Robert K. Peary for his discovery of trie North Pole, until actual proofs of his discovery are submitted. This action followed a critical analy sis of Peary's .narrative of his expedi tion In which Representative Macon of Arkansas "put Peary In the Dr. Cook class." Macon declared that a careful sur vey of Peary's story showed that it was a mere record of the number of miles traveled per day. He stamped the narrative as a stretch of imagina tion. He declared. "In J Vary's travels from Cape Co lumbia to the point where Captain Bartlett left hi in and returned. he covered an average of 9. OK miles per day. That is not so good as the aver- APPEAJJO U. S. Revolutionary Leaders Would Elect President and Bar-' Madriz and Estrada. (Continued on Page Two.) (Cnttad Press Leased Wlr. , Washington, March 9. Nlcaragusn revolutionary leaders today forwarded a request to the United States govern ment for Intervention. The communica tion was sent through the government representative r.t Bluefields. The follow ing conditions were set forth In the request, to govern the Washington offi cials In their attempt to restore order should the 1'nlted States decide to In tervene. That a Nlcaraguan be chosen pro visional president and that, neither President Madriz nor General Estrada should be selected. That a free election he held soon, at which neither Madriz nur Estrada should, be a candidate. That the revolutionist movement bo recognized as u.-irranted by Justice and the rights of nan. That the good offices of the United States be used to establish peace and . to guarantee a fair election. ELECT DELEGATES TO STATE GRANGE MEETING (Special Dispatch to Tba Journal.) Independence, Or., March 9.--Delegates from Mono and Oak Grove Granges met In this city yesterday and elected rep resentatives to the convention of the State Grange at Oregon City, which is to take place the second Tuesday In May. The delegates who met here were E. N. Staate. Frank ,Lnnghery and Mrs. Ike Simpson of Mono Grange and A. R. Allen. Finlay BTlgar and I. M. Robertson of Oak Grove Grange. Polk county will be represented1 at the state grange con vention by Frank Ianghery. Alternate was elected in the person of A. R. Allen..: ENGINE I FOUR I YARD BURIED UNDER SLIDE; 62 BODIES AT ILLITO (rn!td Press Lea.1 W1rc. Field, B. t'.. March 9. Another aval anche descended late yesterday In this vlciuity. It originated in a field high up on the mountain and fortunately came down a small gully, but it caught and burled a switch engine jit t.he.t2nd of the yard. It was found the engine was 50 feet under the snow. Three men were In the cab. Engineer M'.Rae, Fireman Lauderman and Yard Foreman Malnprlze. , The latter managed to scramble through the 'front window to where the snow had, melted around the dome. Then he dug his way up and out Aswltchman who was standing it the end of the tender was then found tj 1e missing, but Mulnprize remenibvred where he had seen him last, and directed, the large party of diggers. , After an hour they found the unfortunate man, sitting upright, packed" tight In snoa, and unconscious from the pain of broken leg. fourteen more bodies have been 'dis covered In the slide at Rogers Puna, bringing the total hip to 38. The official -death list is still 63, but men who saw the unfortunate g.tngs lea?) RevHatoke .declare the jtfeatU ' roji ' will, . fee jnueij "heavier. . s v:: -:.;Vr -tV Wellington, tth.f . March A t .' of H2 bodies hav been recovered. T, (Continued on its Three ) 14 - - ' I