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A , A. ii A 1 1 ' f ! ; r night - v. 1::.:.t f r Tuesday f Southwest " xvest VOL. XI. NO. 9. Inland Empire Excursionists in r-ir If i t ' t ! ! . : .-'W,.;-.y-Wl..l...."M.ll ( .l-m.T Jiff"" I'll .111. ! !, P- ,, , I...M- l. -I-...... ""'I"-" II..,.!!...!.. . I.y l n ... . .11 W.. P- -.. M, ! V . 238 REPHPIES 0F.26 IDAHO , . ESCAPED CONVICTS TIRED AND HAPPY BULLETS 0E "44'S" AMn UAQUlMPTnM PnilHTICC JlDDniC PI AQU WITH DflQQC. CYPIIDinMIQTQ QimntD PHIIDPH nnu tfnuilHiuiuii UUUlillLO nlUVlVL ulhoii iiiiii i uuol, lauuuoiuiuuiu unni uiiuiiuii AT PORMJD BY BREAKFAST TIKE; 2 DEAD. 1 CAUGHT EEI1I1M 1ID0K, WALLS Fifty Autos Await Guests Who Are Whirled Away to Com : 4 merqial; Club : for;Morning MealSee Beauties of City . this Afternoon and Will Be Dined at Commercial Club " Tonight Will Visit Livestock. Show Tomorrow. - - OtMturi to Portland- 4 "Just as the waters that make 4 fertile our fields . and orchards . 4 trickle down the ravines to ferm-.-4 the streams that swell tides of 4 4 harbor, so also, do our livestock. V 4 herds and grain products con- . 4 'tribute to your commercial de- velopment and today our people e to the number Of 238 and repre- sentlng 88 of the central Idaho s) and adjacent eastern Washing- ton communities, , followed the course of least resistance to join 4 with Portland. In the Important Industrial exposition now being held. ' 1 .. . " - ' "In Portland we recognize the commercial center of the north- : west and the people, of our com- 4 ' munltles are proud to be a fac- tor in this--development The- pioneers to our territory came from , your fertile Willamette " valley and many of, the members of our party carry the webbed trademark of Oregon. , , - "In. the personnel of lour party ; is found a . representative of every resource of the eight coun ties Included In the Idaho- 4 Washington Development league, i 4 4 the organization which joined 4 4 with' the Northwest Livestock 4 4 association tn the preparations 4 4 for the trip. It is an entire ter- 4 4 rltory with Us varied Industries 4 4 that is seeking a closer relation- ' 4 4 ship with Portland and Portland 4 4 institutions." 4 From Develop- 4 .4 ment League's Herald, printed 4 4 -aboard train.; " '"" " '' 4 . - ' '4 "Most enthusiastic was the . greeting that tho great inland empir excursion ists extended to Portland upon their ar rival this morning in iheir special train over the Northern Paciflo from Lewis ton, Idaho. : In words from the heart they reached out the hand of good fel lowship and it was as heartily gTasped by the committee delegated , by . the Portland Commercial club to meet them 'jM greet them. - , , , . v Today the great inland empire visitors are Portland's guests of honoK with the freedom of the city. Tonight they will be dined at the Commerciafclub and to morrow they will spend: the day at the Pacific northwest stock show at the . Portland union stockyards. This after- noon they ate being shown the city and its beauties from a. corps of automobiles furnished by public spirited oltltons and business firms. . , Greatest of Specials. It is a gala day for Portland, be .cause the "northwest livestock special' operated under the auspices of the I dabo-Washington Development league, with headquarters at Lewieton, Idaho, id the largest special of . Its kind that ever rolled over rails on the .western coast. Never was an excursion party more representative than that in Port Il(r10dayr and rorT&nd win ad"ifsbesl t? show Its appreciation of this remark abiy progressive spirit on the part of the people of the inland empire, for t . t. ir. to ' 4 . Nhlch the Rose City is the logical gate- way. The excursion " train rolled" into ' the North Bank depot at precisely 8:30 a. m., as scheduled, and it was met by a large delegation ' of representative Portland men, headed by C. W. Hodson, former president of the Portland Commercial club, as chairman of the reception com mittee; C. C.. Chapman, manager of the club's promotion committee, and others. They had with-them and at their dis posal 60 handsome automobiles, and In these the visitors wero sped to the club, where a sumptuous breakfast awaited them. ,-; ''- , , . t-,; . I Speechmaklnf Foitpoaed. , ' It was planned to top off the spread with a few light speeches, but that part of the program was postponed till this evening, as the visitors were anxious to see the city, many of them being well acquainted here, and others being anx ious to become acquainted. Headquarters were established at (Continued on Page Five.) OF Forty Richmond Detectives, as Many , Deputies, 'Tightening About Stronghold of Bandits (United Pre Letics wint.v . IlHIsvllle, Va., March 18. Forty de tectives from Richmond and as many more deputy sheriffs and farmers to day surrounded the Alien gang of out laws 4n Devil's Den, a natural fortress In the Blue Ridge mountains, 13 miles from here. ; ' The cordon of officers and men is gradually tightening about the stronghold- and it i la believed Impossible for the bandits to escape. Threa United States revenue agents, who know , well each of the 18 men composing the out law clan, led the posse to the mountain pass. At dawn today smoke was seen curling up from Devil's Eon, Indicating that the bandits were preparing break fast Mountaineers arriving here this aft ernoon brought a report that SIdna Ed wards,1 nephew -of Sid Allen, leader of the bandits, had been captured and that part of the posse was returning to HUlsvllle with hlmi Edwards is said to ava been badly"" wounded. v United States Deputy Marshal Paddls plana to go to the homes of the bamilts in. .the .Blue. Rldgmuwta("w awti cwn f Iscate all "moonshine" whiskey that the outlaws may have concealed there. (Continued on Page Four.) CORDON OFFK DRAWS ABOUT ALLEN GANG IN DEVILS DEN , PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH Special Train of One Is Shot to Pieces and v Other .Kills; Himself When Hope Is Gone; Rancher Is billed. . (Halted Preu Leued Wire. Lincoln, Neb., March 18. Hemmed hi on four sides by sheriffs posses, fugi tive convicts Gray and Dowd this after noon lost their lives in a battle near Gretna. Convict Morley was captured alive, although badly wounded. ' y Joy Blount, a farmer, whom the des peradoes compelled to drive them across the country, was accidentally shot and killed by a deputy sheriff. The convicts made their last stand in a school house, three miles southeast of Gretna. . Two of four posses whleh had left Lincoln earlier in the day on a special train were close on their heels, and the convicts forced Blount at the point of a gun to lash his horses into a dead run. Reaching the school house barely a minute before the posses ar rived, the convicts barricaded the doors and opened fire on the officers. For half an . hour the battle raged fast and furious. The posse poured a galling fire of bullets into the windows and Convict Gray was literally shot to pieces. , V . Realizing that a further stand was hopeless. Convict Dowd fled to a corn field. ' He refused to surrender but fired & bullet through his own head as the posse closed In on . htm. The of ficers then stormed the school building and found Morley lying tn a heap. He had been badly: wounded and offered but slight reslstence. ' 1 L 0 n I W LW-0.-r.- WM BLOWS UP San ! Antonio Police , Suspect " Somo Outside Cause of Bringing About Explosion, San Antonio, Tex., March 18. Four teen persons are known to be dead as a result of an explosion of a locomotive In the Southern Pacific yards here to day. Parts of some of the bodies were blown-several hundred feet" -. Southern Paciflo officials admit-that 14 were killed. Otber estimates place the number or dead t as high as and 80. V.'''" s ay. ''yy-y s The shopmen employed In the South em Pacific yards where the explosion occurred are mostly strikebreakers. The cause of the accident has not .been an certalned and it is -charged that dyna mite Is responsible.' ' The machine' and cooper shop and a portion of the roundhouse in which the engine was standing were .wrecked, a number of other engines lr the building were1 wnatMiefl, Thp eiplodet' lwoniotl was demolished,' the bSller Jacket Weighing half a ton, being blown a block (Continued on Page FourJ 141 30 K LED WHEN LOCO mot wr nr vv - AU-L- ; - y -i y s h LLUES J? r-'i dTVTS. Record Size Anive Todays, Guests of City and Glad to Rest After Busy Round of Entertainment in the Bay City; Singers Entertain Sun day Night. (Staff "Correspondence.) Aboard Oregon First Special, Eugene, Or March 18. As different from the San Franclsco-bound excursionists of last week as protracted-noise from sus tained silence is the home-speeding party on the special today. .The exceed ing rapidity of Bay City entertainment that "laid claim to nearly all of each 24 hours has left the California invad ers. In that frame of mind when rest seems of al things most desirable. r; Auout 80 01 tne original party left San Francisco for Portland a little be fore noon yesterday. They were accom panied to the Oakland Mole by Chair man wiuiam 1. eesnon, 01 in enter tainment committee, Senator Milton L. Schmltt Lewis Levy and others. . Every on crowded to the windows and rear platform that they -anight be in range of the moving picture machine as the train pulled out of Oakland. With faces set Portland ward, Interest in the doings of the home city revived, and it was a pleasing surprise when at Red Bluff, Cat, Saturday, Journals were distributed among the passengers bear Ins; the first excursion pictures, and reaching the train 12 hcirs before any other Portland paper. ' In the same way Sunday Journals were distributed at Weed at 10 o'clock Sunday night, six hours before uuiy other Portland paper was seen,-' yV--."y Last evening was spent in a quiet Sunday way about the piano in the ob servation car. John C. Montelth and Paul Wesslnger sang and Mrs. E. B. Piper played. - Then the whole com pany, sang 'Old- Kentucky-Horae"-nd "Sweet By and By. The carload of Eugene boosters whose song. "Oregon, .My Oregon.: captured the exposition city, were detached from the train at Eu,gene. The special is ex pected in. Portland at I o'clock this aft ernoon. ; -' GLOB mmted Pre lni VIki San . Francisco, March 18. With the unusual task of circumnavigating the globe in one year and winning the heart of an Irish maiden in 1 every port- en route, John O'Neill, qf Aberdeen, Wash., has today started on. his Journey. The, trip Is being made ; for a purse of $10,000 offered by August D. Riley; a wealthy merchant of Londonderry, Ire land.' ' . .Y. YY . .X O'Neill, who started penniless from this- city, must not beg, borrow or steal en Ifoute, and must return to Ban' Fran cisco on St Patrick's day, 1913, with 80 Irjsh hearts in his keeping. He may then collect the $10,000 atid return to accept whichever proposal Is most to O'Neill Is 25 year old, handsome and said to be plentifully equipped with th "blarney" which lift will find essen tial to the success of hla trip. E-CIRCLER UN COLLEENS HEARIS 13, 1812. EIGHTEEN PAGES. 7 Huntington, Or., M. E. Struc ture Is Riddled by Royster ers Early Sunday; Trustees Post Offer of $50 Reward. (Special to Ttie Journal.) Huntington, Or.,-March 18. A' wan ton and malicious attack was made on the Methodist Episcopal church at this place earryT Sunday morning, , a perfect fusllade of .44 caliber buljets smash ing the windows, splintering the folding doors that separate the main auditori um from the smaller rooms and passing through double walls, ruining the plas tering of .the building. .': . . yy ,y The church, which seats about 175 worshipers, is one of the best built churches m this district It is beauti fully finished in native woods and hard finish plastering. It has Just been renovated and retlnted. The attack was made soon after the closing of. the saloons. Soma of the shots passed clear through the building. This Is the second attack that has been made upon this property in the last few weeks, Yand at about the same time of night. It is presumed to be a protest against the action 'of the church people In the favoring of measures for a cleaner city and agajnst the wide open policy hitherto, tn vogue. ; . Sheriff Rand of Baker was Immedi ately reached and the city marshal noti fied. : The trustees have posted a re ward notice of $50 for information that will , lead to the arrest of the guilty parties.- ENGL! FIGHTING WAGE DRAWN 10 END STRIKE Lloyd-George ' Will Introduce 'Minimum Pay Measure in . Parliament 'Tomorrow, - - (United Pren Leased Wire.) , London,' March , 18. All England to day Is eagerly awaiting the fate' of the minimum wage bill which will be Intro. duced . into . parliament tomorrow by David, Lloyd-George, chancellor of the exchequer. - On, the outcome will hinge the life of the coal miners' strike, in volving more .haii a million men, which is causing untoio distress to mil ions. It is generally admitted that the lib erals will be f prced to muster their full strength to pass the measure. Mem bers of the labor party are fighting the bill tooth and nail, believing tho meas ure is intended as an opening wedge for the compulsory arbitration of all in dustrial disputes. The leaders of the strikers contend that their fight la al ready as good as won. maintaining that the owners will be forced to give up the struKgio before the end of the month1.1 1 """ " Premier Asqulth Is working hard for the bill and confidently expects it to he ratified by parliament before the end of the week.' . .t LABOR m Folfd f-".' f . . fcn i ranciC0 Portland F.oecnrg" . . . . . &Uis2Uieid . . PRICE TWO CENTS fv. yS I S.-v i JMt mtSIOEHT SNEERS AT.PE0ll.FS RULE : nriiniiiinrnj SOAPBOX' utnuuniiu :PRIMARVASOP Taft Asserts It Is Impossible ticipate injunctions of Government Constitution Is Foundation, "of the People, for the People, by a Repre sentative Part of the People" Takes Slap at Roosevelt. (Cnltrd Pr lafd Wrre.l -Boston, March 1$. The pet policies of the "peoples' power" movement were roasted to a brown turn by President Taft hene today in addresses before both houses of the Massachusetts legislature. He bitterly denounced what he termed the "soap box presidential .primary "as an "open avenue for fraud and violence" unless properly safeguarded. Discuss ing the recall of Judges, to which he Is unalterably c opposed, President Taft made a direct slap at Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, asserting the recall, of judi cial decisions would never do, adding that it was impossible for all the peo ple to directly participate in the func tions of government ' '' - - President Taft declared that the con stitution was the foundation of gov ernment, "of the people, for the people. by a representative part of the people." In this connection the president de plored the agitation now" existing against "the courts , and the constitu tion," and declared It was significant that Irresponsible assault upon either In Intemperate language or the baseless assumption of corruption,, bias, and In competency were made by those- whoso Influence with any part of the people "is a serious menace to en enduring govern ment.",.. . y . yy.y.. Popular Will Exalted, j;!. . Tho president said in part: 1 . f "One can easily discover a tendency tn modern,- politics to exalt above the written law and above the written con stitution what is called the' popular will. as If it were a higher law, to whtch-we must -admit allegiance, and toy obeying it, ignore or transgress statu tory and constitutional limitations. This heresy is not stated exactly in a form of ah 'assertion that Judges and others are to Ignore tho statutes and the con stitution, because of conflicting popular will; but it Is the more insidious propo sition that the plain, construction of the statutes or constitution is to be defeated and straIned,Y and. aty otherwise impos sible construction putUpon the language of the statute or constitution in defer Tourist Attractions The .Elks' Grand Lodge Reunion will bring thousands of addi tional visitors to-Portland this year. The Tenth Anniversary number of The Journal will explain In detail the elaborate entertain ment i--ned for this co-ven-tion in addition to the unusual attractions which Portland of fers the summer tourist. As this number will be limited, ' you are 4.,;ed to , order extra copies now, of your" carrier or -newsboy: Wednesday,: April 3 t 4i PV TS AIKS vr-i ; Livestock Show Ml j! l 4 ;! 1 I J for All People to Directly Par ence to what Is supposed to be the pop ular win. -v - Tha continued reiteration of ' the proposition, 'Let the people rule If it has any significance at all, is Intended ' to be a reflection on the government we have had to tha present time. I do not hesitate td say that the history of the last 135 years shows that the people have ruled, v . .- -' . . y Attack oa Judiciary. . . "The occasion for these remarks Is an attack on the Judiciary, and a proposal, by Judicial recall or the recall of judicial decisions, V to destroy Its r independence (Continued on Page Thirteen.) KELLAHER NAPilED BY MAYOR AS A MEMBER in President of " East ' Side Busi ness Men's Club' Takes the Place of H, L. Corbett. - Announcement of, the appointment of Dan-" Kellaher-to the- Portland " publlu docks . commission . was made from the mayor's office this morning, tl ap pointment having beerf filled out by Mayor Rushlight Saturday. Mr. Kella her will occupy the place' made vacant by th expiration of the term of Henry Ladd Corbett " . . y . , Y ' '. Ever Blnfcd Mr. Corbetfs term expire.! several months ago the mayor has been besought by various municipal organiza tions and by. widely variant interests t. give each 'the preferencei In filling th vacancy,' Six-or" seven candidates f-r the Jobs have been strongly Urged on th executive head of the city. The labor forces presented ' a strong petition on behalf of, one of their leaders. Ilallroa.l and other corporations brought pressure to bear . in the hope of securing a man favorable to them, Y . y The mayo Withstood all the preSMiire. however, and after thoroughly invesii gatlnir the situation decided on Mr. Kel laher as the man best fitted for tics place. Mr. Kellaher Is an enthusiast for publio docks. : He was largely in strumental In having an ordinunt'e In troduced In the city council atnctidinR the franchises of the Houtfiero racifi'' on the ast side water froht in oiclf'r t give other railroads the right to uau t!) tracks of the Espce. This ordlnnm-e I now pending In the council, and statu) a good chance of .being, ppKso.d.- Mr, Keltahef' yrwi4"wt-rf4r;-rt- Business jM"n'8 club, fortrifiiiy a member of the city -council, ami h:m : reented Multnomah county In th senate .. PRESIDB1T1AL OF DOCK CO 111