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VOL. VIII. NO. 37. PORTLAND, , OREGON' SUNDAY MORNING," DECEMBER 10, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS U1E HOPE-FOR 1- ENTOMp MEN: 3 BODIES FOUND m 1 r'j - Fate of 225 Miners Imprisoned in Tennessee Coal Shaft Is Still I Unknown; Work-, of Rescue Remains Impossible cause tirixtisiowri,.. ' NOYET DETERMINED Same, District' Visited by Dis easier,, in;-1 ywvynen lor Persons Lost "Lives. I zi, , -,'.' . - v. Cr (B the Interoitloaa! Newi Serviee.) X Knoxvllle, Tenn., Dec. 8 For the sec- , ona time in ao years a great mine dla v aster hie made the Knoxvllle colliery district echo with the sobs and walls of women and children relatives of the men whose lives were' snuffed out in a flash as they worked. : Two hundred and twenty-five men perhaps more, perhaps a few less are entombed In the, cross mountain mine near Brlcevllle. The possibility that any s alive ii so slight that It was practically ad mitted at midnight that not one of the men will escape, An explosion of blasting powder or coal dust rocked the earth today with in a rew minutes arter the shift had gone to work. . Three of the men, fortunately late to - their work, were in the passageway leading to the working pit two miles Into the bowels of the earth. They heard the crash and turning, fled for their lives. Of the 'many who descend ed, they are the -only ones who came out slive. . HorrorsfHcken, they crawled to the surface and gave , the alarm. In an hour rescue parties were organised and started into the shaft. ' Xesona Parties Powerless. But the rescue parties were Impotent. Almost as ' soon as they descended a cloud of smoke trickled from the mouth of the cavern.. .A few seconds later it became a thick black pillar and the re . coers choking and blinded, rushed to 4 the air. i. ''.. ."- , , When the rescuers succeeded In extln-gu-lsMng the flames, gas prevented their The explosion is believed to have oc curred two miles front the opening and about 100 feet befow the surface. Alt of the men who wore in the mine were working within a few hundred feet ,of the hole and it is posslblo . they were killed at the ftist blast. If any survived, fire damp would have choked out their lives before now. The only hope now expressed is that the explosion caved in a part of the-roof and blocked the passage way between a few of the miners and the deadly firs. The gfeat air fans were kept pump ing at top speed throughout the day and night in the hope that someone was alive and might, with proper air, be rescued. Rescue parties time after time at tempted to descend into the workings K but were driven back. Once the body of na miner was rouna. it was Drought to the surface and Identified as that of Lee Paulson. Lato tonight two more bodies were rocovered. They were found within a quarter of a mile of the mine entrance and both were badly mangled, indicat ing that death had been due to the ex plosion. Aside from the gas, the entombed men are walled in bv thousands nf tons nf V slate and coal which were scattered iJoose from tha walls by the force of Ate explosion. As news of the disaster spread through out the Brlcevllle district men left their pasts in other workings and hast ened to Join the rescuers. Women, wild eyed and disheveled, ran shrieking to the mouth of the pit and attempted to enter. Scopes of men dragged them back and with rude ef forts tried to cheer them.. Entrance Impossible for Says. With the coming of . the federal res cue car number seven tonight, it was learned that It may be days before the mouth of the shaft is sufficiently cleared of smoke and the deadly damp to make possible an entrance. Before then, it is feared, the men and boys who may have been saved from Instant death will have starved to death. '; w .;,, The federal rescue crew was power less. It could make no headway in the smoke filled pit and the announcement that nothing could be done was re- reived with a long tremulous sob from the crowd of hysterical men and women who surrounded the opening. Whether the explosion cams from I oal dust or blasting powder is a mys- Lrtery.. Within the last three Weeks the . . . . . . . - . . . mine naa neon inspected Dy a leuerm Inspector and an inspector for an in surance ".company which insured the lives of the miners, and pronounced safe. 13. F. Hetmaker, inspector for the cross Mountain system of mines went Into the shaft yesterday and pronounced it perfectly safe. . The Cross Mountain mine is one of a chain owned by ths -Knoxvllle Iron com pany, and has been in operation more then Z0 years. - , . ' , The mining district near here has a traglo history! Not 19 years ago, on the morning of May 19, 1902, the ter rible Fratersvllle disaster snuffed out at one stroke the.llves of 197 men and boys. , ' '.'t, :" Most of these were billed in the ex plosion. " Others escaped that only' to be killed by mine damp and die of starvation. Rescuers . who made their way lntoythe workings a week after the explosion found one chamber of hor rors after another. ' Already a large relief fund has been started and an appeal made for ' food and clothing for the families of the men in the mine. With winter upon them, many 'are without enough' money to last for more than a few days and it Is feared famine will add to the horror of the situation. - Several thousand dol lars has . been subscribed la Knoxvllle alone !'. 11 s Dynamiters on Way FEDERAL 0FFHM.S ARE OFFERED FULL 11 One Df Tfiose Deeply Involved in Dynamite Conspiracy Offers Confession in Re turn for Immunity. . (United Preen Leased Wire. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec 9. With the hand of the. United States government closing in on the reputed "Inner circle" of the McNamara dynamiting conspir acy, Interest here tonight centered ' in the semi-official information that one of the alleged "higher-ups" had made overtures to the federal officials rela tive to a full statement .of the activi ties of John J. and James B. Mc Namara. It is asserted that not only have the federal ' authorities been offered a com plete verbal statement detailing a car nival of crime, but that documents, re puted to contain damaging evidence against a number of prominent ibor leaders, have been proffered, in ex change for immunity for the Informer. Season for Visit Seen. The visit of United States District Attorney Charles W. Miller, in charge of the local . federal investigation, to Washington yesterday and his confer ence with department of Justice - offi cials, is believed to have been in con nection with the alleged offer of the one "higher up." No decision in the matter, it is learned tonight, has been arrived at by the federal officials.' J. A. G.Badorf of ths National Erec tors' association, who is now in Indian apolis, in connection with 'the federal probe, refused to comment on the1 prob ability of one of the "Inside circles" making an important statement to the authorities. . t Protracted secret conferences In the (Continued on Page Ten.) HIS M OF CRIES Tired and Ruffled Governors Tfiindled About Western Executives, Somewhat Stirred by Charges of Ala bama. Executive That Western Legislation Was Destructive and Advertising Questionable. (By the Iaternational News Service.) Philadelphia, Deo. 9. The western governors and their party have been the guests of the Philadelphia Commercial club today. They reached Philadelphia about noon, somewhat the worse for the wear of last night's dinner at Bal timore, a function which lasted until 1 o'clock with nearly four hours of solid and liquid oratory. Their feelings were slightly ruffled, by the plain speaking of Governor O'Neal of Alabama, who took occasion to re peat with emphasis his address to, the governors at the Spring Lake conference In the course of which he spoke with much asperity of the destructive meth ods of western legislation, criticising the western laeas of progresslveness and Intimated that the western states used questionable methods In advertis ing their section and deprecating other parts of the country. The westerners felt that the introduc tion of a discourse of a political na ture was a breach of etiquette at a func tion supposed to be purely social and that the governor of Alabama exceeded his privileges in using the opportunity to harangue critically other guests and harp on his lde of sectional conduct or misconduct. There was little or no opportunity for the resentful governors to reply to the Western Governors and Official Party "HUe. -ft ' ' )Wl ' V- ' I 1-1 Governor Oswald West of Oregon Is ".I,'.' 1 ' "Sell-Out" . . , ... .... ,' to Prison JOURNEY TO CELLS; ach" Handcuffed to Deputy Sheriff, Brothers Start on Trip to San Quentin That Is to Swallow Them for Years. (By tlx Interaitloaal Nw. Service.! Los Angeles, Dec. 9. Under heavy guard, irr a special car attached to a Southern Pacific passenger train. John Joseph McNamara and his younger brother, James B. McNamara. left to night for Oakland. From there they will be taken on a special boat tomorrow to San Quentin penitentiary. The McNamaras will reach the prison soma time tomorrow morning and will be taken in by the prison authorities. The formality of booking them may not be completed until Monday, as prisoners are usually not received at the prison on Sunday. Ken Spirited Away. The men were taken away with great secrecy. They left the Jail in a big automobile shortly before the train left and were put aboard their special car, which was the last on the train some distance out of the city. Sheriff Hammel, who wanted the men to be taken away with the least possi ble ostentation, persuaded the news papermen to seek cover shortly before the men left. The trip will be made over the so called "Valley line," which runs through the Interior towns of the state, and only the last few- miles of the journey, through a-thlnly settled locality outside of Oakland will be made during daylight hours.: In this way the sheriff hopes to avoid the crowds; which it was feared would congregate at the , station should it bo known that the dynamiters were oa their was to prison. The men were kept In. separate state (Continued on Page Ten.) gentleman from Alabama and after sleeping over the incident they ex pressed their satisfaction that It had been permitted to pass unnoticed and unanswered. Except for a short breakfast address by Governor West in reply to a speech cf welcome from Governor Pennlwell, the day was devoid of speechmaking, always excepting the back platform re marks of Colvln Brown of California, whose description of the attractions of the coming Panama-Pacific exposition excited the citizens of Chester. The afternoon at Philadelphia was given over to motoring and sightsee ing, the entire party first calling on Mayor Blenkenfcurg at the city hall and later taking a boat for a ride down the Delaware and a visit to the navy yard at League island. The Manufacturers' -club gave ttw governors an informal dinner tonight. Following the dinner a large public re ception was held and the governors were presented to and welcomed by a large, element of Philadelphia's society. , Most gratifying to many of the west erners in the governors' party is the In creasing Interest in the exhibitions. Tho crowds thst went through these cars at Baltimore yesterday were largely in excess of any previous record of the trip. 1 seen In the second row, next to the . , t Rochester, Nevr l'orkr " SPECIAL CAR USED Quaker Cily vubst - ROCKEFRHR? E TO Oil King and Ills , Alms-Giver Tarn Down Bid of Representative Stan ley to Appear Before Steel Inves tigators to Deny Memtts' Story. New York, Dec. . John D. Rockefel ler and Frederick T. Gates today de clined the Invitation of Chairman Stan ley of the congressional investigating. committee, W appear berore it if they cared to make a statement concerning the testimony recently given by Leon. Idas and Alfred Merrltt. Mr. Rockefel ler's letter of declination follows: "Pocantlco Hills, N. Y.. Dec. 9. Hon. Augustus O. 8tanley, chairman of the committee on Investigation of the Unit ed States Steel Corporation Washington: , "Dear, Sir: The narration of Leonldas and Alfred Merrltt before your commit tee was In substance the repetition of statements made by them In a contro versy closed by them 16 years ago. The statements were false. They were so de clared by me at the time in sworn tes timony and upon cross examination. Denial Generally Published. "Before your Invitation I had repeat ed my denial in a statement generally published in the press. Their own signed retraction is before you. (Continued on Page Four.) oft Eastern. Tour right end. " ' The picture was taken GATES MOT RESPECTFULLY DELI EXPLAIN ;pf;fore? Christmas -y Real Included In Gridiron's Jests December Dinner of Famous Washington Club, Attended by Many Distinguished Guests, Occasion of Unusual Sallies of Wit Upon, Nation's Leaders. (Br tbe International News Berries.) Washington, Deo. . Verse: "Round the table are officers fair; President and congress all are there. Look them over, you insurgent horde, And take them all If you have the sword." This touching parody of Whlttier's 'Barbara Frletchle" gave the keynote to the December dinner of the Gridiron club the famous organization repre senting the affairs of the nation, at the New Wlllard hotel tonight. The red banner of Insurgency was flung to the breeze and every skit and gibe was supercharged with the spirit of revolt against present conditions, po. lltlcal, social and presidential. Nothing was too sacred to escape the irony and wit of the actors who played on the miniature stage and the chorisr ters who chanted to the tune of popu lar airs the grievances of the common people and the glowing promises of re formers. 350 Onests Are Present. Borne of the 850 guests present were President Taft, Speaker ,Champ Clark. Senators Moses T. Clapp and Albert K. Cummins. Secretary of the Interior Wal ter I Fisher; Philip I Ooldsborough, governor elect of Maryland; Governor Harmon of Ohio. Representatives Ollie James and W. & Humphrey, William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh, Representative W. B. Mc Klnley, Senator James A. O'Gorman, Sir Gilbert masker, Becretary of War Stlm son; Count J. II. Bernstorff, German ambassador; Attorney General Wicker sham; Renor Domtnlco de Qama, Bra zilian ambassador; Governor Joseph W. Folk and former Speaker Joseph G. Cannon. .The table, in the snaps or a gridiron. waThe8Ded with roses ana orcnias, whllehe walls were hung with south ern smilax. The festivities began at S o'clock, when Louis Garthe, elected president of the club, took the arm of President Taft and ld the way Into the bannnpt hall. At each plate was a souvenir book of "Mother Goose rhymes, wltn cartoons of crominent guests by Berryman. One' cartoon of the president showed Mr. Taft in sn aeroplane, with the verse: ' 'Tie for Taft. or Tariff so high, Which must be revised (In the sweet bre and bye)." A cartoon of Senator La Follette rep resented him playing with small presi dential boomlet and showing President Taft in the distance with a knife. The accompanying verse runs: . "L Is for La Follette, a whirlwind for talk. Whose presidential boom Taft hopes to balk." AM of the Republican and Democratic candidates for president came In for their share of the raps, cartoons being shown of Governors, Harmon and Wil son, Speaker Clark and others. Colonel Roosevelt was not forgotten, for there was a picture of him holding a big stick and sitting beneath a tree. Be neath the cartoon .was this rhyme: "There was a busy man who lived oq hill; , '', , , w ;..-''''' He lives there yet, but not always stilt On Tennessee Iron he says he was ''wise1 . . i y y 1 ' And he's-ths one who never told lies." After tb diners bad been given a hnce to look over tbe souvenir books and Near Are tney were asked to pay attention to ballots at their plates, labeled "For the progressive presidential primary." All were asked .to vote. Before they had a chance to vote, however, two men Impersonating Senators Bourne and La Follette entered and began to quarrel. It was then announced that 210 votes had been cast with the fol lowing result: dt. Harvey w. Wiley 161. James R Garfield 4, Senator Cummins 1 Senator Clapp 1, Senator Brlstow 1, Near Min ister to China Crane 84, Senator La ueue iuft, senator Bourne 23. When Dr. Wiley was declared elected. Sena tors Bourne and La Follette left, shout ing mat tney naa been cheated ooay, tne supreme i-uuri, i-mne in xor us snare of atten tion . early. After Dr. Wiley had been niavi i the presidential chair the supreme court louna useu completely reconstructed, having passed through the "recall." The new court was headed by "Bath house John" Cough lln as chief justice with Eugene Debs, "Hlnky Dink" Kepna Samuel Gompers. "Fingy" Conners" Charlie Murphy, Governor Stubbs of Kansas, ex-Senator Aldrlch and Theo dore Roosevelt as associate justices. When the attorney for the sugar trust sought to call the court's attention to the law, he was chlded by the chief justice with "Can that chatter; "we make our own laws." The trust was ordered to "pull apart." The steel trust was chara-ed with hv. Ing "gold-bricked T. R." although the Justice of that name violently protested that "tV.... AtA l.l . . . . . .. . . trust was sentenced to four hours" tri vate conference with Attorney General WIckersham. An appeal for an injunction to pre vent Bryan from running for the nresl- dency was denied by Justice Aldrlch, who said: "Oh, let him run. What difference does It make?" Attorney General WIckersham asked for an injunction to restrain Champ Clark from annexing Canada by Inviting Canada to annex Champ Clark. A petition to prevent Taft boomers (Continued on Page Four.) IDNIGHT PLUNGE IN L' (Sperial to The Journal.) Gearhart, Or Deo. 9. A plunge In the Pacific, ocean surf at midnight is a delight r as you like it now being enjoyed by a large number-of the lis Multnomah Amateur Athletic club ex cursionists, who came to Gearhart this afternoon. ;'' This remarkable manifesta tion of. the passion (for swimming fol lowed a .dance given at the Hotel Gear hart, by the club members. It was scheduled for the entire party to enter the surf hut a few lacked courage when the crucial, moment came. . ."'.'"';-'' It Is a commentary otv winter condi tions along Clatsop beach that the temperature-of air and water are nearly equal today, ' The water Is ii degrees! PA BY THE MU TNOmAH ANTI TRUST BILL IS TAKEN TO INDICATE 'T Measure Passed Aiming Blow at Tobacco Combination May Show Character of Legislation, to Be Expected. CHAMP CLARK PRESSIWtV COLLEAGUES TO HASTEN Speaker , Eager to Have All Community Matters Taken Up Without Delay. (By tbe International News Servtee.t Washington. D. C, Dec. 9. During the first week of its session the Democratic hnilM rva m V. 1 Ii almlnv a Mnar At the tobacco trust. This action may forecast the character of the legislation to be enacted, or at least discussed at the session which has now opened. The bill authorizes the census bureau to ascertain every six months the quao tlty of leaf tobacco held in storage ware, houses. It is in the interests of the tobacco growers and is designed to pre vent a corner or monopoly of leaf to bacco by the manufacturers. Pension BlU Thrown za. Following action on this bfU the Democratic leaders threw into the house the Sherwood Service .pension bill which mnti to vptprn n nf the Civil war rrnd. uated pensions up to 1 a day. This bill is to pass the house before tbe end of next week. After that will come a num ber of bills on the house calendar at local importance. , ' - The Important legislation will come t Chairmen Underwood announces he will be ready with some of tbe import ant tarur revision oius lmmeaiaieiy al ter the holidays. He will tiring forth the. wool, cotton and steel revision bills In the order named. He cannot tell un til he has seen, the president's message on wool and cotton tariffs what the Democratic bills will be. The general impression in the house' is that there will be litUe change if any in the, new bills to be presented by the Democrats of the ways and means, committee from the revision bills presented at the -ast Session,': :. ' '..': 'V ' --'''' ! . Wiara mnn iar jsohob. . Speaker Champ Clark is pressing for action by the Democrats on all matters to be supported by the Democrats at the coming" session of congress. He says there Is much to be done and be does not want the Democrats to bo charged with responsibility for failure to pass legislation desired by local com munities. The ways and means committee will meet the comfng week and take up work en all the important schedules of the tariff. An innovation will be that the speaker may attend the-sessions of the com mittee to give Its members the benefit of his judgment and experience on tariff legislation. For many years under Re publican control of the committee. Speaker Clark was the ranking Derao cratlc member and he has fought the Democratic fight for low tariffs in the house for years. Senate Marking Time. The senate has been marking lime during the past week and will continue to do so until the house shall have sent across some bills which the senate thinks worth its time to consider. Up to the present the senate has been busy considering nominations by the president and mulling over the presi dential message on the trusts and for eign affair's. Most of the committees of the house will get busy next week. The committee on Interstate and ' foreign commerce, Chairman Adamson, will leave from New York Sunday to Inspect the Panama canal. Thts committee will have charge of .the fixing .of the tolls and enacting the regulations governing the Panama sone. The members of the committee desire to see for themselves whether the progress of the canal warrants the claim that tolls should be established at this . time. Steel Inquiry to Go On. The Stanley steel Investigating com mittee will resume its hearings Mon day on the work of the steel corpora tion Investigation, and Andrew Carnegie Is expected to testify before the com-' mittee during the week. The committee on expenditures in the department of the interior will take up questions involving tne worn .um reclamatlon service and especially with reference to the construction of the Roosevelt dam in Arliona for the ir rigation of lands In that country. Col onel Roosevelt Is said to have urged this work to be done and it is now . charged that the Southern Pacific rail-4 road is the only beneficiary of the pro jects, which cost many millions and m . .1 l...M.A nf t in AAA AAA Kftnyl- by the government that the reclame- ' tlon service might not become bank" rupt - ,- . . .! F and the air this afternoon was S,A, neither uncomfortably cool, i according' to the M. A; A. C. standard.. ' ' . The special arrived at 5 o'clock this afternoon and half an hour after It was In, Arthur Cavil!, swimming In structor last year at th Multnomah club; J. Wesley IjidJ and Frank Wat kins went into the surf,' which seined even pleassntnr than at the annua! viui ' swim in 1910. A swim' by. everyliO'iv in the nnts. torlum was o ff-ature nf this :vrlnr s full program and 11 i";y ..tomorrow bathlnx tn the rintH'ihun nl in t.'m surf will be the oiUr. The Hir'1 I not Quite ho lane a hint y ir, hnt la having a dam.!' time in evtry rspsi.t, ... . . f DEMOCRATS TAKEN CLUB EXCURSIONISTS