daily jou::::al ig - . - - . i T f r i i i . v .tIU i W W 41 i. .-r.f?7 Jc-r-l 5 ees'.tj cr 13 etr.ia a f;r D-:!y End Cur.y Jour-r-1. ty csrri -r, c '.'vcrf L . The weather Occasional rain to night and Tuesday. jniPi'M rrnw yi:stfi;day was i x nf- v,i7 . Ms --: X- -: bVsm. m is f), . i i VOL. IX. NO. 187. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1910. SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE' TWO CENTS. S?? cY,V : m -t V t rAi; 1 ij a ! Mi U I I v 1 1 3 J- ! I i -N t i 1 f ! I i V ? iLT ii j Li L Li v, aQSS) '- - s s .1- . - i - - 1 1 ? : ; . . upat l! -OL-iU) nil j) i - IjlL-u-wy.lL ir i AtlY BELIEVE DEATH LIST WILL fire Zone Eighty Miles' Long and Thirty . Miles Wide Is . Spreading in Ail Directions; Losses Reach Millions ' STATE OF MINNESOTA . SENDS RESCUE TRAINS " Town In Manitoba Threatened Ujy Encroaching -Elames; r Many Missing. " ' ; (XTnlted Prm Lewd W!r.l War Road, Minn.. Oct 10. Th de struction of Graceton, Swift, Roosevelt v and Cedar Spur by a great forest fire that Is rushing ' upon War Road j from the southwest today. It Is predicted, will bring the total of dead in the fire gone up to 750. ; Couriers report that-scores : of lumt.ermen were caught by the flames and killed, and that the bodies of many may never be recovered. "Others esti mate that the . death list will reach looo. ' V '-'f;t' .h, ; The fire sone is 80 miles long; ; ex tending from Gravel. Pit Spur to StraU ton, Ont.,' and SO miles wide between Red Lake, . Minn., find Lake ' of the Woodsy It .Ms reported that tha flrt la spreading In-all directions. ' -' The .state of Minnesota is mustering "Its fire fighters nd -rushing them to the scene 1 on special trains as rapidly as rood and 1 supplies can be furnished. ".The Rat. Portasre. Lumber. company's rnlU, valued, at 1350,000. and also 10,. 000,000 feet of lumber at the stave mills of the ASrstern Canada. Flour mills., to gether with 60' homes, nere destroyed At Ralnjf Jliver tha fire burned from the International bridge to Sixth Street (Continued on Pair a Five.) Work of Confiscation of Church Property Begins and Agents lUnable JolRestmialfiabble; v Murder and Outrage, Report. . V (United trH Teased WIte.) Lisbon, Oct 10. Tha arrest of monks and nuns throughout Portugal continued today, accompanied by looting and sacri lege on the part of the uncontrolled mobs. The government is at a loss for a jjlace to send the priests condemned to exile. The republican agents have confiscated church property, but are unablS"to prevent looting. Priests and nuns, ft Is reported, have been subjected to Indignities and many are said to have been slain. Cardinal Netto, former patriarch of Lisbon, has been released. Bishop De Vasconoellos of Beja . was escorted across the frontier Into Spain. The Marquis De.Ohmbel, head of the Jesuits In Portugal, is under arrest - Children In parochial, monastery and oonvent schools have been returned to . their homes. v The government' Is trtdng every ef fort to protect monastio and conventual buildings. ... The United States cruiser Pes Moines and the British cruiser Venus arrived today. n id MOBS 111 ATTACKS f lilSTEE COMMIT EXCESSES MA MBS ii m i lAKES OUTDOOR EXHIBIT OFii UDE STATUE OF DAUGHTER: OLIGE SENT TO DRAPE HUE -'Washington, Oct. 10. 'Tt Is the duty of' th pollcato protect art that Is ex posed to "thd rigors of this weather." With these words Chlof of Police Syl vester today- ordered -the draping1 of ths life size nude, female statue which stands. In the. grounds of' Mrs. Albert Clifford Barney's fashionable mansion In Massachusetts avenue. The statue, -which recently - arrived from Paris. , is modeled, after. Miss r?a- ta41aBaxfta.UMghtai -oi . Mra Jaxnsy. Thrf. statue was created In the - Paris studio of Miss Alice Barney, another daughter. It was' shipped to this coun- try to be placed inside the Barney man sion, but when It was found to be- so large that it could not he takn through . the doors It was placed In the grounds In full -view. of-passersby, -- - I One Hundred Residents of Beaudette Unaccounted for Two Thousand Crowd Upon One Train-r-Special Sent .to Stricken Section ' : (TTnlted Pros Iid Wire.) Winnipeg, Man., "Oct. 10. Seven towns, Beaudette, Spooner, Graceton, Pitt; Cedar Spur, Swift and Roose-, velt, have been wiped out by forest aft pap"n arfl re- ported : to hat perished and ; the death roll may total a thouBand. Fir ty houses and two mills .were burned at - Rainy River.; Several hundred persons are homeless. . ;, Lumbermen declare tha loss of stand ing timber will txtal many iniUlons. ; , At least 100, residents of Beaudette ar still unaccounted for this afternoon. Most of the homesteaders In .tbe.flreJ district are missing and It Is feadl they have perished by, fire In the Iso lated country, between War Road and Rainy River. - j.:.,. Two! special trains which passed this section last night narrowly, escaped der Btructlon. Physicians ax hurrying Into- ths Stricken section from all nearby towns. While Beaudette burned 2000 persons gathered to board a special train. . The train was pitifully Mnadequats to carry all who sought to escape and scores of men fought to board the cars. . Women and children had been, sent out earlier in tha day and the .men, were left to fight the fire. It was simply a recurrence of the "survival of the fit teat." and those who failed to board the train ran along after it until they were overUkua .by ,tba. flamre, and .cremated.. ' - - -ffJMtfi Ptmw Lrarad Wtre.l Rainy. River, Ont., Oct.4' 10. Seventy persons are dead. 2000 are missing and frantic appeals for help are coming from the fire swept forest areas surrounding Beaudette.;, Spooner i and Pitt. Sixty bodies have been recovered. The esti mates of the total dead range from 200 to boo. . . ;.i vA majority of the missing are belief ed to have taken refuge ln Isolated vil lages, whlph cannot be reached by wire. J.B.'SCHGEOF : POLITICAL IDEAS Direct Primary That Indirectly Didn't, Look Good to Him Now Directly Gains His Sup port. Condon, Or., Oct. 10, Many people her are amused at Jay Bowerman's sudden professions of friendship for the direct jirlmary, and at his statements of how he will uphold that measure if elected governor . For years ha has been known in his home town as a hater of the direct primary, Statement No, I and the Initiative and referendum. He has poked fun at all of them, ridi culed ; them v and denounced them, - He has jeered at them as populletia and haa at all times endeavored to make all the sentiment he could against them. His sudden assurances of wliafhe would do If elected governor are regarded as a huge Joke by many here who have heard his attacks on the direct primary, Statement No. I and the Initiative and referendum. Thousands flocked to the gates op posite the mansion today , td get a glimpse of tha statue. Even the sight seeing automobiles detoured from their regular routes and -1 pointed out ths statue to -the visitors as a special at traction. ' I,-. . :, ... . ., .-' ,. .... The statue is of pure Carrara marble and critics pronounce It real work of art Japs Launch Large Destroyer. Xflk ia,,. Oct... X 0 X h-larget- torpede boat destroyer -In the Japanese navy was launched today at the Maizura naval .station. Tha new vessel was named the Umikase. It'has 1150 tone displacement and a speed of S3 knots an hour. The launching ceremony was witnessed by' a large crowd, Including tna crown pvinca , , - Ths towns of War Road, Minn.," and Sprague, Man., are threatened with de struction.. Fires are within seven miles of Sprague'and 20 miles from War Road. The Canadian Northern railway has dispatched-special trains' bearing firs apraratuh' and fire fighters in.lhfldlrec-. tion' of War Road, which is reported surround d by flames. : ' , Heavy rinanclal XjOSS, .- Ths total monetary loss thus far"ls estimated at 12,000,000. Cut and stand ing timber, telegraph poles and railroad tracks have been v burned In . the t fire sone. . . ' , , t ' - On searching party has returned, bringing the nine bodies of. the Boten family, consisting of father, mother and seven children. - They had gone only a shrt distance from their home when overtaken by the fire. - George Wpwer, Charles Baker and Patrick O'Mara, who wera missing, hav turned -up Wower and Baker got to the. Rapid river ahead of the fire.-- Wower plunged into the water , and kept under as well as he could, but Is burned badly about the hip,, where his body was exposed above tha shallow Water, while the flames wero 5 passing : over. Baker dug out a trncb,,r in ths bank . hastily with his, har.ds-jjnd protected himself ' in front wlttt "a blanket He escaped with Tnlnor Injuries. O'Mara, seeing he would be unable to keep anead of the fire, went back to his log shack and started a fire on the edge of his clearing, which ad vanced sufficiently ,to protect him, al though. he.nrly s-M'Jooated. . Many Are Kissing. - "Of the Iowa men "out looking for homesteads, two of ths bodies have-been found. Their names cannot be ascer tained. .'V V;.J;,sw,!'f .W"'.?.. ' ' Charles Baker- eoonted 19 bodies on his way to town. These are all within a radius of six miles of Beaudette. How many will be found farther out cannot be ascertained. People are sending their families east on special trains made up : (Continued on Page Flve.1 : With Realization Comes Access of Repressive Jactics; First Reserves Called Out, as Test of Loyalty. - (United rress'ftMd Wire.) Madrid ,Vla Hendaye, Oot 10. With tha Increasing turbulence., throughout Bpaln and the greater activity of out side agents of ' the revolutionists who are successfully smuggling arms ' Into Barcelona, and the towns along the French border, the. Spanish government 4s. becoming " more repressive In- Its measures and all leaders ' admit today that an uprising Is imminent. The government called tha .first re serves to the colors today; It is be lieved this was dona to test the loyalty of -the troops, Many of the government leaders are, doubtful of the loyalty of tha army to King Alfonso, and the re publicans openly claim that the army will desert ths king when ths revolution begins. " - ' , -' f The Spanish republicans are fostering an Immediate uprising. Arsenals have beeh established In ecret places where, arms and ammunitions have been col lected. Circulars are found everywhere appealing to the Spaniards to attack the government and citing the success of tho Portugese revolutionists. , SECRETARY OF NAVY . VISITS PUGET SOUND :- (United Prert L&ed WirO SeatUa, Oct, 10. George Von " I Meyer, secretary of the navy, Is visiting tha Puget sound navy yard at Brem erton today Inspecting new work that has been accomplished at the station during the past summer and making a survey of repairs on ships now ln'dry dock. ' Secretary Meyer has pu himself on record on thl,i trip as favorjhg the pur chase of Pacific coaat coal for the use of vessels on this side of the continent, providing the coal can meet navy stand ard tests RULERS OF SPAIN KNOWREVOLUTION coNFROtrrs n .., ,,AkecLior. h,U.-Jiplaloaa)ftJlepraaanta.lPortugaUbav- txen offacaA-HS tive W. E, Humphrey's claim that , ths naval test' was unfair,' Secretary Meyer replied: . . - If It is, then It must be remedied. It would save the department half the cost of .coal Jf it couid be bought 'on the Pacific coast instead of . being brJ-jght around from tho Atlantic. GOES TO TRIAL FOR IIIS LIFE II W. P. Webb Manifests No Fear ; While' Jury Being Selected to 1 Try HinYon Charge of Mur dering W. A." Johnson. Upper picture Is that of V. IT." John son, whose body as fotfnd in trunk. Below Is a picture of Jesse P. Webb, on trial for the ipnrder. . W. P. Webb was today placed on trial for his life on a charge of murdering William A. Johnson on the ' afternoon pf June 20 last and Jamming ths re niAtnsiatO.a. trunk In a room of tha Grand Central hotel. - Defending the' prisoner are attorneys John C. McCne, Seneca Fouts and Ous C; Moser. Deputy DiBtrlct 'Attorneys Fitzgerald and Collier are handling tha (Continued on-Page Thirteen.) T With! High Credentials and f $100,000 in Pockets De ' tained at Ellis Island. "" (tioltrd Prera ldi Wlrw.l New York, Oct. 10. A rigid Investi gation of a, direct Insult offered-three Frenchmen who arrived hera on the steamer Madonna was begun today. Tho men are Ktlenne Boyer, president of the Marseilles Cement company; Jean Rau bard, his son-in-law, and Joseph Lude Vlch Michel. , , -. The authorities Will try to ascertain just why they were taken .to Kills Island at the request of two private detectives, although they had letters of. Introduc tion , to President Tsft, Colonel Roose velt and others, $30,000 in cash and let ters of credit for 170,000 mora.; ; The three men were' released from ths immigration headquarters, on Ellis la land within a few minutes after they landed there. Apologies wero made but they have taken the matter up withJthe. French consul and the investigation Is the result. Immigration authorities ffe fuse to discuss tha affair and others In volved are .equally reticent. ' MANUEL AND MOTHER s OFFERED ASYLUM IN -ENGLAND, IS REPORT 4 (Ualttd Frets Ltaxs Wlre.t .. Gibraltar, Oct. 10. Dom Man- sanV fiifiAn XfntVA AmliA A. 4 asylum ln"England and will de- part immediately, it is reported that Manuel is verging oa physl 4 cal breakdown- and is being treated by specialists who board' - ed the yacht Amelle; 10 iEFRFIIEN 0. R. I N. SITS. BOffl . I ALL CiKIlIIi Will Not Lease Docks Unless Guaranteed ''Independent Boats Will Not Be Allowed to Land; Refuses to Deliver Cars to Its Competitors. : - " Without railroad permission steam; ships cannot land and discharge cargo in Portland. Neither can they load for other: ports. . Owning nearly all the waterfront ths O, R. & N. company will not lease dock sites to any concern un less the lessee obligateTbtmslfto turn away all vessels that are. In anyr way, in competition with O. R. & N. busi ness. x; t '" .. hyS v. Such independent docks as are being operated are crowded for room to ban, die their own business., There la no storaga room .for cargoes of other than their own steamships. Few of these In dependent docks are extensive enough to permit a steamship. of large carrying capacity to tie up to them.. " '.':M The facts just "stated were ' made known this morning by a shipper inti mately familiar with the -extent to which railroads 'control the Portland waterfront. Hs had Just read : an edi torial utterance in a local morning pa per whereltj it was stated that Oceanlo dock, operated by Balfour, Guthrie & Co., and tho Pacific Coast Elevator,, op erated by the Portland Flouring mills', were Independent of the railroads. He pointed out that both-these' docks wera ereciea onk,vj. properly unuer long term leases, each lease containing th clause forbidding tha lessee to per mit the use of the dock to Independent lines. ,' Would Hot Furnish Cars, -C, E. CUrry, ; of the Northwestern WarehO'da pompany. Ohc 'Of the few Independent dock operators, said this morning that some time ago - he was compelled to have a mandate of the court issued to compel the O. R. & N. company - to 1 furnish him cars ; for In ferior shipping. ' Mr. Curry asserted that his Independent attitude toward the railroads had been the causa for their failure to furnish blm w.'lih-"--.i- In attempting tor extend the Bates & Chesebrough independent steamship Una to Portland fen. identical condition has confronted the owners, 'The Astec, They Are' Happy Lot of Chaps Who Know Hotel Employes by First, Names ancl Have Hearty Handshake. . ' "J. Rufus Wallingfords of tha pres ent day men who live by their wits are pouring into Portland," today said a real estate broker who drifts around town a good deal.. ' "I had occasion to visit two of the larger hotels today. ' I saw at ' least 10 of these later day schemers for I can spot them, having been - in tha game myself -at - each hostelry. vThey have been attracted by stories of Port land's prosperity and are gathering for the kllHng, "Our Walllngford of the present day is the man with the. unprofitable,. but lawful game. He keeps Just outside of the clutch of the law. He is a prosper ous looking, alert fellow, with a hearty handshake, and attractive manner and personality. Usually hs stays at one of the good hotels for one night, and makes that hostelry his hanging-out place henceforth. The fact that he has occu pied a room for one night entitles him to have his mall addressed in car of the hotel. If ha has much city corre spondence the fact that if is apparent that he II' living at a fl rat class hos telry helps his credit and Increases tils prestige, ' , , "He writes all his letters on the hotel notepaper, receives his visitors in th hotel lobby and entertains them there. He calls the employes , by their first names and knows " where to find the free telephone. This is our "petty graft Walllngford of today,, He is coming into Portland in swarms. Know him before-you do business with - him, and if you would buy goods from him use care." , V: . i :'; v--V. :; H0NDURAN SOLDIErT"" " , ' GUARDING THE MINES New Orleans, La., Oct 10. Honduran soldiers today guard the mining -properties in tha Interior, " according to a private message- received here, nd ths ViiiUd-auiea-gunboat ... Prln ton im wearing Amapala. s It is expected that the Princeton- will" land marines to re gain the properties,, - ; - , . The action 6f hasoldlerS was at the command of 'the commandant of Am apala. There, Is no evidence to connfet former President Bonllia with the pres ent trouble.! CliliEFOR laden with. 8000 tons of hardware to be used in stocking the new 11.000.000 plant of the Pacif io Hardware & Steel company, will not find a landing,' place when she arrives here' the latter part of the month. - The : railroads will . not sel belongs to ; tho independent line which is now going after business In which the railroads by j means of boat and steamship lines have hitherto had a monopoly. :';,-,.,.:. j. ; ' . May Crowd, Out Line. Some sort of emergency.arrangements must, be made In .order to permit1 the Asteo to discharge cargo, it Is said. In the meantime an -industry highly Im portant to the city will be handicapped in doing business here because of the unfavorable Conditions, and tho Bates & Chesebrough line-may be crowded out because of railroad competition and the lack of public -docks. , f Mr. , Curry. pointed out this .morning the great dirt erence In - storage rates between Portland where the docks all belong to railroads W privato Interests and San Francisco -where the docks are In public ownership-, - Storage room in San Francisco costs B'cnnts.a ton for three days: ForMhe-tsams length ofT,Biae the city limits at noon..'. When time In Portland storage room. If It ik procured at all, is at a minimum of S5 cents a ton. Tha weighing toll in San Francisco Is 10 eenta a ton... In Portland weighing is Included in the first charge At that, the rates are vastly greater In Portland,"" Jt Is "for thue-end other reasons that the shippers of ,the city, tho business Interests, tha. commercial bodies and the working men, declare that the Panama canal and the hide pendent lines operated between Atlantic knd Pacific ports, following tha canal's completion, will mean nothing to Port land, unless publio docks are built. ; ; Publio docks, vthey point cut, , wfll equalise- all terminal, cnarges, prevent discrimination against Independent lines, and provide for -bigger business which under present conditions Is kept away from tha city. . , . . ... Reported That President7 Will at Once Go to Isthmus to Investigate Personally Skin Game of the Interests, ;. Bevery, Mass., Oct 10.-Inf ormation that a combination bat been formed to work a big graft at the Panama canal has been received in Beverly, according to rumor.' The Information is guarded with tha utmost secrecy but the an nouncement that President Taft had re versed his decision not to visit Panama until next March, and would go at once, is taken to mean, that the .information Is creditable. .. According to- present plans President Taft will leave for Panama tha first week in November. It is said hs goes to learn of the' alleged graft combine at first hand. P' , " The supplying of coal to ships passing through -the car.al, at monopoly rates, la said to be one . of tha activities planned by tho combine, 1 HETLIIIG DEGISIO TAFT TO PANAMA ON RUMOR OF BIG GRAFTFRHEDOP AGAINST PORTLAND IS REPORT FHfli,i Fill - (I'lilted, Press Leiied Wire.) "San Francisco,; Oct 10. Th.decislon of President Thomas F. Graham, of the Coast league, in tha case of Gus Helling- of Portland,-the question of whose eligibility was raised by Manager Wol verton; of-the Oakland team, during the recent Portland-Oakland series in ' Port land, has been prepared and will be made public tomorrow afternoon. The general impression Is that the decision wWfr-ho- dverse te Portlandythat-the-f games In which Hetiing participated will be forfeited to Oakland, thus , giving that team the lead in the pennant race. Tha standing of th two teams in this event would be ss follows: Won. ,Lot. P. C. OaVland 109 83 ,51 Portland 97 76 .501 AMOK MEETS VITH ACCIDENT HEAR BEVERLY George Ely, Flying From Chi cago to New York for Big Prize, Has Poor Luck at Out set of Long Trip. HAD TO SPEND MOST - OF NIGHT REPAIRING Strikes Ground With Consider- Uable Force but Not Serious- , ly Injured. ' . r . (Uolttd Prett Leased Wire.) Chicago, Oct. 10. .Aviator George Ely, flying from Chicago to New York for a $30,000 prise, met with the second acci dent of the trip shortly after ascending today, -. and - narrowly escaped injury. Ely went aloft from ' the Beverly golf links, thla morning, after having spent most' of 'the night there repairing a starting wheel, which he broke at'dusk. Immediately after- ascending he cam down again, striking the ground wjth considerable force. .It was thought ho was Injured but he was unhurt and at once set about. repairing the machine. t Although it has" been nearly 24 hourl Inc. Flv hearan Ills flltfht. he was Still ha tried to resume his flight, from ti seeond stopping place, a mile and a halt, east .of the Beverly- club, his engine went dead. The accident which f Un caused him to alight was, tha breaking of one of his lifting planes,' RFTY-OIIEIIIERS ENTOMBED; LITTLE One Company Caught Mile and . Half From Entrance, Other a Mile Farther Away; Men for Most Part Foreigners. . United Prww Liwd WireT . Trinidad, . Colo., Oct. 10. Fifty-one miners are in a living tomb at Stark-, ville. with absolutely no hope for their rescue alive" save through a miracle. All night long the workers tolled In thu glare of acetyllne torches and electric lights to aid the Imprisoned men, but the rescuers, Imperiled by afterdamp, were compelled to abandon their places at daybreak to save their own lives. . While the men worked in the glare of "the flickering lights a temporary morgue was being prepared for the bodies, of tha men yet alive. Under the direction of the coroner of Las Animas county, deputies transformed a machino shop of the Colorado Fuel ft.-Iron Co.. owners of the mine, into a 1 charnel house, while ; women relatives of the entombed men watched the ghastly prep arations, apparently unable to compre hend their significance. Entombed Men In Two Bands. The men in the eastern wing of the' mine. Which was destroyed by an ex plosion, presumably of firedamp, Sat urday evening, aie in two blocknd-M chambers. One band has been locatM about-two and a half itilW fioiu Mi mouth of the mine and the other a mile farther on. There are six AmerWns and one negro among the doomed men. (Continued-on Paae Nine.) Graham refused to intimate what Ms decision will be but" hisactions slno the controversy, arose plainly inW that h believes that Wolverton'a pro test 'Is well-taken 'and, if .he no nothing remains but to '.'(J;lif"a '.!. games forfeited to tlwi Oakiari--!i Graham's decision, it Is bellevi, ui i based on the allegation that K'-nt -t a "contract Jumper," rather than t; n J;.waiUncUiblOa!-iliU'...-'. - of September IS. -That a decision adverse ( l orf .' i will raise a tremrnlaijs row U t gone conclusion,' Wnlii-r ih-Hc',:: : his uncle always have r-it li.itt t: IfornU mav-ii:y ' V - I' HlitjenHv hlt-i!ii!. I t- i.'..,.t f -.j Oil i ROPE FOR ESCAPE 4- X