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i i i .: I a I i ft j W - 4 I X w v si- a .. t - I " r. i . 7 J. .: r I ' i" . t, r . ', . E HI v As' ' ""'"''j ) V 5 'f 1 TLo vw ,;! r Kaia tonight Saturday. Soulherly tvir.ij. VOL. IX. NO. 23. m ;:i p'nniifV! lliti, LudllUii PR0DUCTS1IIEAST ., : t.t:. ... : : ...V : Show Wow Ceing Held in Pcrt . , land r.lay Be Sent to Various Cities to. Advertise State's - Big Industry. : CHAPMAN'S SUGGESTION . IS FOLLOWED BY ACTION Display Remains Until Tomor ; - row Night; Fred Apples for :: - Children. "Move th Oregon " Appla , show to Kansas pity," t proposed C C. Chpman, pobllcitjt manager or th commercial lub, speaking before! the Oregon State Horticultural Boclety this morning. "'Ijet the people In. the so called Vountry cities' see what, the, northwest produces. Enc'iraK th people who come through ' these gateways to the farming lands the nation to come on. 'to Oregon. v That, 1 seems to ma. will nake. the iOregor Arrle show serv ' feal utilitarian purpose. t ' ' I T ' T The proposition mot with Instant ap- proval. President Homer Atwell of the society sUted his belief In the effect iveness of ths suggestion. 'Secretary F. W. Power said it was sn Idea, b had , long wanted to ; see worked out Plans for putting t) suggestion Into feasible form w0le made, i ;i ,. -v-Mr. Chapman described "the plan to make Portland he place of the NaUonal Apple shoWiV Th show belonged by right of origination to Bpokana, be. said. Orogon wins the prizes, at the. show. Oregon gets another stated to toot her horn for, her. "Valuable advertising for Oregon is obtained free. Meantime the Oregon show; can be made the beBt in , the nation, h said.. He praised the ap pie growers, mentioning particularly the i nterpri; shown by the people of Med 1 f )rd. lie raid that Portland business ' Interests should give larger support to i th how; r-"-.?::':'-'--. 'rl. The apple show will not close tonight . 4 will not close until 10 o'cloct tomor- (Continued on Page 'Nineteen.) Illustrious Nobleman Claims Old Man Kilgallen Handed " v Him Smashed Face. , i - Chicago, Dee. S.-Jonn t de Beaufort, whose troubles 'with his , millionaire father-in-law, Michael Kilgallen, have been filling the , papers for the. paet month; , swore to a warrant .today for Kllgallon's arrest. - De Beaufortcharged that Kilgallen Inveigled blm Into his office on October 24, offered htm. money as an inducement to leave Chicago, and when he refused, because he did not wish to leave his sick wife, Kilgallen ."smashed his face.'? . ' De Beaufort said he wanted to see his wife,; and did not demand, money from hta fther-in-law,.;.-i"f ..r- - - De Benafott. encountered 'Kllgallen's ehanffenr today, and - afterwards as serted thai the chauffeur had assaulted him. . & : .;ffft :,f -t i ih YEGGS WORK AWAY AT SAFE THOUGH UNDER FIRE Garden City. Iowa, Dec. J. TeggmefC tmder the fire of a posso of dUrens, dynamited a safe at the Farmers Sav ings bank here today and fighting off their pursuers, escaped with $1800. Citizens, awakened by a shot fired . at a watchman, Joined 1 hi the attack npon the safe crackers. The robbers returned the fire and continued the work at the vault After the explosion .they Jumped Into a buggy and drove away i under a fusillade. posses " were organized and started in pursuit - COUNT BEAUFORT ' ' ' 3.l-"' - - ;-y SIEAB: WEST OFlfiCfl ' ilLL PAS if'. I 'I '.(Uaited Pre Leaaed Win.! - I Victoria. B. C, . Dec. 2 Tightly wedged on Pile point, False bay, San Juan Island, lies- the Alaska Steamship company's steamer Northwestern, which ran ashore at 2:46 o'clock this morning ' while on her way from Seattle to Nome ." with 28 passengers and the Christmas .ViallaVr. While In a precarious condition, .Jt is nouLihought she will be e total less A number of her plates have been pnnc . tured by the rocks and she la taking ' water, there being a considerable amount If it. In the forward hold. At the time. of the accident nearly ' all of the passengers wore asleep and when the vessel scraped -over the reef , and '. '. BfflE ABAEEEI CZARDOi.HVILLBE FOUGHT TO. BID Purpose of Norris of Nebraska, Who Led Anti-Cannon Fight Until Truce Ended It; Outline of Campaign. . ' - (Urtted Prf Leased Wlr.l " Washington, Dec 2. That the fight that was 'started at the last session of congress over the method of appoint ing the- committees -of the house of rep resentatives will be one of the battles of the coming eesslon is the belief of Congressman George W. Norris, the Ne braska. Insurgent leaderi who arrived to day to prepare for the struggle.- Nor ris believe that the coming short ses sion will be one of the most Important In the history of the Insurgent move ment, and that on the victories to be won will depend largely the future of the progressives. . , . ;"Thja is to be' a session for Insur gency,", said NorrUr. 'The country is behind us. .In the !l)cT4w whenever the progressives supported-a" clean platform they won." , ' t The fight that is"' expected" to open the; Insurgent campaign will be'- over the appointment of committees of the house.. Just before the close -of the last session Norrls- lntreduced a reso lution for the appointment of a 'com mittee on cdmmlttees. , This committee was to be divided . according - to geo graphical divisions. : The committee In cludes. 20 members., f There' are 12 geo graphical . divisions for the majdrtty party and eight for the minority. - -The committee, has, power to vname all the other committees, including - that ' on rules, : ..r'.; i m f;. 'i The resolution providing for this clan I created ' a sensation . last Tear when it was, introduced, but It was not pushed because It was 'feared that It would mean a fleht on Cannon and a rally of regulars against ' Insurgents tha Would greatly prolong the session,' then about to close., . Since the close of the last congress Norris is said tq have done much "mis- siouarr- work-'!n favor of the Idea. : It Is: claimed Uiat.ther leading Insurgents nave nam eruisted;In he fight? and are ready tn hark thB.nlniS-.. T liunf-nnti Ut is hefleved, Vin endeayor to have the resolution adopted shortly after the session- begins, and to- hav th committee of the house named in accordance with the plan. . , J - , v; v increase Based on State Cen- sus.of 1908 Is v577,549 in 22 Months; Four' New Con " gressmen.. ' . . - ' 0nltt Prm Leased Wlts.l t Washington, Dec. 2--The population of the state of California Is 2.ST7.549, according to a bulletin given out by the census bureau today.. ; - , Calif ornla's Increase la 8?2.l9, or 80J per cent . Under the present apportion ment the state will receive four new congressmen. , - The population In 1900 was 1,485,053. The; 1910 figures, therefore,; show an Increase of 8J2.194 during the past de cade. 1 -" The census gathered by the state and made public on January 1, 108, placed California's population at, 1,800,000, which, if oorrect shows a gain In 22 months of E7t B49 The 1900 census, gave California the rsjns or twenty-nrst in the list of the states, thai other sta,tes in the million Claas being; North Carolina, 1.893.810. New , Jersey, ;x,8S3,69; Virginia, 1,864,. 154; Alabama, "1,828,897 Minnesota, 1,751494 and - Mississippi. 1.651.270. As the 1910 'census of these states ha Bf beenr announced, it is impos sible to-state the present rank of Call fornia, but it Is beUeved it has climbed up in .the Uat,:tfi''Ay':'::i:iM :t-?, The first census of California was taken in 1850, when the population was 92,597.- Late ; enumerations ' showed: ", ' Continued on Page Twelve.) CMJHA HAS 5 2.377.549PE0PLE: GAIN 60 PER CENT OUT URSE,IIUrjS0NR0CK5; Steffi-IB SAFETY everyone rushed to the deck. There was no panic, the officers assuring all, that there was, no danger. The passengers remained aboard until the Canadian, Pa clflc steamer Tees' arrived. The Northwestern left . Seattle last night under ' the command of Captain Croakey. ; She was traveling at a good speed.'- The night was perfectlj-cloar anff the sca'Was comparatively clear and smooth..', The fourth officer was on the bridge at the time of the -groundlnfr. The vessel was over a mile out of her course.- .'tUv t ,., Immediately after the Northwestern struck wireless messages were sent out for aid. . PORTLAND, OREGON, FRI 1 1 Ellf MIS : NOTUINGFORCITY Chief Executive's Opposition . to Sale of Bonds for Park Acreage Prevents Portland From Getting Land Cheap, ; MUST. SELC THEM FOR STREET IMPROVEMENTS Plans .for Kenilworth Parjc Set Aside" Because Funds - , , Lacking.- ' Mayfl? Blmotfs opposition to the sale of park . bonds for the ' acquisition of park acreage has hitherto prevented the city from securing beautifully-adapted tracts of land at .small cost compared to what the price of the tracts will be In future, , and At now seems that the maypr's economy has 'been wasted, for the bonds will have to. be sold anyway to pay for street Improvements abut ting - park property already owned by tne municipality. v t i Bupeiintendont K .T. Mlsche of the park department reported t the park board this morning that 135,000 is now owing for . street improvement . assess ments, and that' fully 2100,000 will be required next year for the same pur pose.: The board directed that as much pf the street assessments as conld be paid out .of this - year's park mainte nance appropriation should .be paid. Heretofore the cost of street Improve ments assessed to 'the park, department has "been so small that It was cared for b y . the; general fun dVr Iri f u ture, J ho w ever, each gepartmen wfll have to pay Its own, assesSnwBts the ';' general fund being already 'overburdened I ' J ' Superintendent Mlsche. filed plans for the dwelopment f the new Kenilworth par toaay, Duv-ice oara oeciaea io lay these plans , on the table for., the time belng,-1nasnuh as there is no ap propriation for the work. For the same reason action' on the request of the su perintendent that bids be advertised for In connection with the construction , of a proposed assemoly house at Sellwood park wa postponed. , i., j -1 .,' x CONVICTS GO FREE Acting' Governor Acts Con trary to Advice orProse-; r outing Attorney.;.;'. ; : Oscar Johnson, "Harry Benson and Chris Bunes, convict d April 8, 1909, Of holding up the City Hall buffet and rob bing the proprietor. A. M. Hyat, have been pardoned by Acting Governor Jay Bnwerraan.. The perdon was granted In i the .face of the fact ' that Judge ClelandV before whom the ease against the men was ; heard, - would make no recommendation for a pardon. ( s , It is a further fact that Deptrty Dis trict'. Attorney Page, who -;, prosecuted the men, wrote-a letter t-9 Bowerman, as go vernor( outlining . the evidence against the men, pointing out their "un doubted guilt and closing with the statement'; that he : could, see -no reason whatever for the issuance of a pardon. The Jury In the case was oat only 20 minutes. '.. .,.,. It is known In police and prison cir cles that Johnson and Benson, at least, are desperate men; that they have served time before and that they verge doee upon the habitual criminal. Bunes "Slide Artlole." Bunes is known as "a slick artJcle", who was sullen and unrepentant and hand and glove with the other men. (Continued on Page Seven.) s BOWERMAN LETS Three Robbers Who Escaped Long ; Sentences Cliria'Uunes. DAY' EVENING, DECEMBER REV. A! L. ARMSTRONG l K At r';. ; mnmm ' i . i 'tip, i t 'i Speculation ! Most ? Concerned ; With Attitude ! on ' Tariff- v Special Message of Interest .to West,- to' Follow; ; r ; (United free leased Wire.) Washington, Dec, 2. -Now that, the president's message . has , actually been completed and Its circulation by. the press associations ; has begun, there is much speculation among the politicians here as to what it may contain. Tbat the communication la long and that it has received the official approval of the Taft cabinet, la the only authentic in formation that .has been given out con cerning it, but 'there ' is ' considerable conjecture. The message was .finally completed and given out today. , . ; ' The president cbmpleted the message several days ago, but has k revised' it three times. ' His final labor on it was finished yesterday, Just before the re ception . wiucn mursea uiq oiiiciat "coming oaf, of his daughter Helen. ; The greatest speculation - among the politicians here i is , as to t the "probable reference to the tariff that the message may make. Tlie members Of the cabi net of , course, . know the ' president's policy and some of the house and sen ate leaders also .were consulted, i but all those who have in any way handled the) document are necessarily under the un spoken pledge of secrecy that binds in such eases, and by far the greater num ber of the congressmen who have gath ered to begin , the , work,; of the ' short session Monday ere still wondering Just what the document may contain. labors With Congressmen, - ; ' H The president will: give ! ops the rest of the time between now . and the open- tng of the session to the cumerons calU ers who have been besieging the execu tive offices for a week. The congress-. vCon tinned oo .Pigs Twenty-one.. ,V -! t : - ;.,;.,,..,r,;'v.c V Marry Benson. '.C.I"' .. -: ' ' ! ' ' '' . i '. - i . TAFTS ff SM S 1 c . '. r . t , ; ', T- I . ? t 1 . ... i i . ii ...... .' '. ;. .i-. r . . . 1 2; , 1910. TWENTY-FOUR Hrst, picture pablislied here of Iter. lAmsi L. , Armstrong, whose cold i bloodod mnrVler, together with his . y wife, aroused - the whole country 8ide In the vicinity of Dutch Neck, : N. J., where - the Her. . Armstrong had been jpastor of the First Pres i byterlaa church for forty-three i years. John' Sears, a half-breed, " who had been in the family stnoe ; :he was six months old, was "placed ' under , arrest charged ;wlth 4 the murder. ,t,Xhev impression Is that -j. the murderer had demanded mon rI ey "from Pastor' Arjnstrong, and . ' when it Was refused, Ixad shot him dead,' killing his wife, also, in or I der to insnre silence.' t. - t t NEW YORK WHOLESALERS REDUCE PRICES AND THE RETAILERS FOLLOW LEAD k (Unlt-d; Prew Lnued Wlr.l s '. -New ' York,, Dec' 2. Whole-' salerS today . ' reduced prices1 of ; meat 1 to 8 cents a pound, and r it', is predicted that the reduo y tions will' continue. Comparisons . show that, some meats ' have de-, dined C cents per pound in. six t weeks. ' Retailers -. also have' ' been? ; enabled . to reduce -. their prices .in accordance i with the ' ' decline M wholesale rates. 1 r Qscar Johnsoij PAGES. PRICE TWO I ElliUS SUi.iS 1 i iiiu MM Metropolitan Turf Associatlpn Shown by Its Books to Have Spert $300,000 Kill the Hughes Bills. (United Preta Lemed WIr New York. Dee. Tbe books of the Metropolitan ; Turf association, an or ganization of, race '. track, bookmakers, have disclosed . In court - that $300,000 was , pad out by - the organisation at tne time the anti-race ' track gambling bills -were pending in the state legisla ture, for "legal expenses." ' Every dollar collected and the names of the men to whom the money'Went, are now known to the legislative lnves tigatlng. committee. , , - The ; committee subpoenaed James J. Evans, the treas urer of the association. and directed mm to produce tne books, which he aid. Isadore J. , KresseL assistant counsel for the committee, examined the books. "Belmont said it should.be presumed that he did hot know of any fund raised to defeat the racing; bill," said Kressel, -yei we rounn mat tne racing associa tion paid over a quarter-bf a mllllon dollars, and, bookmakers 250,000 more, we wuj cau k. sturgis, treasurer of the Jockey club, and J.. J. Evans. treasurer of the Metropolitan Turf as sociation ana then learn how the money was spent apd. why it was spent ' -. i Struck in Head by Bar of Iron ' Well Known Sailor Loses an Eye and May Not Recover . From injuries. 1 '. , (Special Dlapatdi te.Tb JooraiLV . , - Astoria, OrH Dec.' 2.-i-Cap.taln Thomas Parker of the Ilwaco Railroad company's steamer Nahcotta, on Thursday after noon Jost the sight of his left eye and received other injuries. For a time his life was despaired Of, and e,ven yet Dr. Fulton is not positive that, the captain will survive' the :hochv " tis. .'..;' ;.. He was standing la the pilot house of his vessel, when she ' was unloading ajt the wharf here, when by some mishap the men turning the crank, of the wheel, which was lifting the cargo from the hold, missed, and the crank . gained alarming momentum, and sent a bar of iron flying straight to the pilot house The iron struck the sill of the window, and, glancing by, struck the captain full On Vie forehead, inflicting . .terrible wounds. . J - . - , ' ; , Despite the awful pain which he must have endured, Captain Parker walked to a carriage which had been summoned and was driven to the hospital, where his condition at an early hour this morn ing was, reported to be critical. Apart from the injury to his eye he received-a deep gash on the forehead and should he survive the injuries, he wll be marked for like. - 1 ' , , There Is no -more popular seafaring man In this city and messages of re grets from the leading;- cltlcens were received by his wife and family last night In all kinds of weather Parker has sailed the Nahcotta from this port for the past 30 years. James C. Dill Distinguished as Father of the Trusts; Made. ' ' Millions.' k :' (Cnlted rttss La aed Wlr.)i . Orange, N. J, Deo. 1 Judge James C. Dill, called the "father of the trusts," died here" today Judge D1U helped to Incorporate some of the biggest trusts In; the history of ( the country and he derived an Income estimated at $300,000 a year. " ,'"' . ,: The capital of the corporations that Dill: personally Organized totalled $793, OOO.OOQ. I to received a fee of $1,000,- 000 for organising the steel trust "Dill on Corporations" is the Title of a stan dard work on corporation law. ' In his younger days Judge DIU was a newspaper reporter. It is said . that during his work in connection with the Molly Magulre outrages in Pennsylyanla his train was blown up and he was one of four person wh:o escaped. Heath, t ELEVEN UNIONISTS AND - 1 FOUR RAPICALS ELECTED Pste'Tw-rTd"rnVT'w London, Dec. S.-Eleven unionists and four radicals were reelected members of parliament ! today., v Among these re elected were, Joseph Chamberlain, at Blrminghar4j ' Xrthur J. Balfour,, at London; : Joseph Hammord Banner, at Liverpool; Thomas Burt, r'-presc-ntlng the Morphe miners, and A. A. llawertli. South Manchester---- - CAPTAIN PARKER 0E3TR.HC0TTA "i A -'.7 vt- ?v. IS BADLY INJURED UDGE FAMED AS ORGANIZER CENTS. SiAl.. j iijt , t J i.iEXICAN UEOELS HBHCE COLOiiY i o. s. tie: Lineman Taps Wire and Inter cepts Order to Insurrcctcs " to, Move Upon Madera, h 'State of Chihuahua. : REBELS DISCLAIM EVIL i 'DESIGNS ON' THE TOW; Population in Terror, Neverthe less; Rebels Drilling in Dis- ' ' .trict. Adjacent.' ' 1. unltd Press Utmi Wlre.l .... . EI Paso. Te?fit8. rw. 9 t,i, Mexican revolutionists hae' been oj iered to attack tha.tmm n vi.i populated bv a colon v of a sens In the state of Chihuahua, is a re port, mai is causing considerable un easiness here. Although the rebels, who are drilling ..In. -.the nnlehhorhnnd n -Ml dera, have promised that they will not muiesi ine American colony,' refuget who arrived, hrre today say, that tl- people of ' Madera fear that an attaclt Is secretly- planned. U. Mallory Turner, a lineman working for the Pearson com- paqy, aasens tnac ne intercepted a m. saare. belnsr sent nver ' tu,' lng the Insurgent to attack Madera. vreaa or an auacK is also felt In the city of Chihuahua.; The merchants and, bankers there, apprehensive tint the rebels would sack the ? city shouM an attack be made, have shipped, larg j quantities of coin to the United States. iucn or it is now m JCi Paso.. Half a million dollars in Mexican rirrnv hi. arrived from Chihuahua during "the past Revoliitlonarv- vmnthlT.er hv. mr. rounded .the -Chlsos mine, near . Mara thon,,, Texas, The . mines . and, supplies are in danger. It la believed the sup- Mexico. - 1 ' ENFORCE Mi Councilman Curious to Know if ; It Is Necessary, for Private 1 Citizen - to " Take Initiative; -jWanfs Sidewalks Open. "I want to see if it is necessary, as I have been informed it is," said Council man Gay, Lombard,' of the health and police committee, this morning, "for a private citissen to swear out a war rant in 'order to have a law enforced. I am , of the opinion that the police should enforce all laws.' . Jn accordance .with a - suggestion :Of Councilman Lombard the committi-e adopted a resolution,; directing the chief of police to proceed at once to enforce ordinance No, ;7130, prohibiting the ob struction of sidewalks, and commanding the chief to report his compliance wit!i the order to the council. '. - The ordinance In question was intro duced by Councilman Vatklns last year and , it . has nevr ' been .enforced, al though there has been a great deal of comment upon the manner in which tho busy downtown streets are blockaded dally by the. large mercantile establish ments, which use the sidewalks bs ship ping and billing offices. . - , ' MEYER STAVES OFF . ; NAVY EXPENSE ACCOUNT Washington, Dec. 2. Secretary of th Navy Meyer claimed today that he hail saved $5,000,000 in the naval estimates for the next fiscal year, as - compared with the appropriations for 1811. pohgressmen, however,, declare that . the secretary's statement is misleading. -They assert that Meyer cut the ship building expenditures $10,000,000 but that the actual cost of maintenance of the navy was not decreased, but was increased $5,000,000. - They declare that the saving on shipbuilding swas not a real saving,: but merely a postponement of appropriations. that must eventually be made. 1 1 ,- Year's End Edition of The Journal Send copies to youx eastern fnends thit tV.oy may; bcapp:i:cl of opportunities in 3 .Portland - arvi in 'Orcrrcn. , pri :r ... p - ' , r PO m lo o