The , property on which
yon; Aave ongr "Aatf your
eye may oe advertised .
for rent or tor $ale today.
Rain tonight
nd tomorrow; ' 1
with-:wlarfi. '
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tumidity 79.
VOL; XII. "NO. 252. ,
, ' PORTLAND,- OREGON, SATURDAY, EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1913.-THREE SECTIONS-26 PAGES.
PRICE TWO CENTS." gjE!&MPSEl
MO. MORE! OEIINJG KEPT AWAKE NIGHTS!
STRAiN TOO MUCH FOR
SECRETARYOFTREASURY
A
MOVER CLAIMS HE
WAS SHOT WHiLE
WOMAN WITH A BROOIVI
YOli 22 yS$,
SENTENCED TO DIE
MORETHAN MATCH FOR
BURGLAR
WITH
BEING DEPORTED
A,'.1 . 1 , " ','..!'".' '-v'
Head of Western j Federation
of Miners Alleges Members
of Citizens' Alliance Shot
and Beat Him Last Night.
CLAIMS 150 MEN TOOK
. PART IN DEPORTATION
Union Official on His Way to
Chicago Hospital for
Treatment.
Milwaukee, Deo. 27. Claiming to be
Buffering from a bullet wound ln; hia
ahoulder and one In hia bead. President
Charlea II Moyer of the WeaUrn Fed
eration or Miners, arrived here today. .
He was directly from the Michigan
copper country, whence he said he wi
expenea last mgm arter oeinj anoi aua
beaten, he asserted, by members of tho.
Citiaena' Alliance, an organisation
formed with the purpose of maintain
ing order In the copper region during
the pending miners' strike.
"Hell's about to pop in the copper
country," Moyer announced, as he
stepped from his train. "The miners
are thirsting for revenge, but I hope to
return in time to prevent them from
doing anything to Injure their cause."
Baj acted Offer of Money,
Asked concerning the attack on him
and his expulsion. Moyer continued:
"Organiser Tanner and I were in our
room in the Scott hotel at Hancock.
"Sheriff Cruze called. He demanded
that we accept for the federation the
funds the citizens' alliance' had collected
for the families of the Christmas eve
fire victims.
"I reolled that the strikers themselves
had raised $6000 arid this was suffi
cient; while we were grateful for the
proffer, we could not accept the money.
"Cruise left
"FIVe minutes later the mine whistles
began to blow as if they were a prear
ranged signal. As they blew 1(0 mem
bers of the citizens' alliance invaded
our room.
"We were seized and held by some of
the men, while others danced in front of
us, striking us frequently In the face
and kicking our. bodies. 'v 4.
"Finally abmaorie stepped behind me
, and shot me. 1 fainted when the bullet
efttered my back.
"When 1 recovered consciousness we
were being passed from one man to an
other down the hotel stairs. As they
passed us alpng each one struck us.
Seat to B, S. station. .
"Between lines of dancing, shouting,
members of the Citizens' alliance we,
were passed along In this way to the
railroad station. There their fury abated
somewhat through .fatigue, I guess.
((Joutluded on l'tif Five. Column Three )
INVESTIGATION FAILS
TO PROVE STORY OF
Miners' First Account Was
That Three Men Conducted
the Deportation,
(United Prw. I fined Wtre.t , I
Calumet, Midi., Dec. J7. Sheriff
Cruxe of Houghton county issued a posi
tive denial today that President Moyer
of the Western Federation of Miners
was assaulted, shot and expelled from
the copper country. The whole affair,
he declared, was a "frame-up" to gain
sympathy. He had investigated care
fully, he said, and had failed to sub
stantiate the mine leader's story.
Moyer's account, however, was gen
erally believed here by the strikers. The
deportation, it was said at union head
quarters, was planned two weeks ago
and It was asserted that two previous
attempts had been made and failed.
'.' Moyer had gone to Hancock, It was
' said, to meet members of the Citizens'
alllancy, an organization formed to keep
order in the copper country but one to
which the strikers have been very hos
.tlle, concerning tho federatlonlsts re
fusal to accept contributions from a
j committee, formed largelyof alliance
members, to families of ViPtJms of the
Christmas eve fire panio Mre, in which
75 lives were lost. f
Moyer Blamed for Trouble.
This refusal the alliance members at
tributed to an assertion Moyer was said
to have made, to the effect that the
false flro alarm was given by a man
ported Hancock meeting, Moyer was
(Concluded on l'ae Kive, Column Vaur)
PENDLETON ASKS MORE
MONEY FOR BUILDING
(Wmblngtqn Bureau of The Journil.)
Washington, Do. 27. People at Pen
. dleton are urging that congress increase
; the appropriation for their publio build.
lag rrom iu.wuu to iisu.uup, ur tne
original sum, $8000 was spent for a site.
..Alley any in. vunuing unuuia accom
tvinrint noilfta A waII am thm nnit.
office. Representative Sinnott has seen
committee and is promised a hearing.
Should he be; able to convince the com
mittee that the building is a matter
ot urgency, as represented by the Pen
dleton business Interests, the oommlttee
may authorize the increase in the ap-
' proprlatlon . and allow the .; bill to go
through, although no omnibus buildings
bill la td be reported at this session.
IYER
SAYS SHERIFF
PACIFIC COAST TO GET
AT LEAST 1
E
Rudolph Spreckels" Mentioned
but Says He Won't Accept!
Hearings Scheduled.
, (United' Pren .eased Wire.)
Pas Christian, Miss., Dec. 27. Ru
dolph Bpreckels name was mentioned
today as a possibility for one of the
places on tho federal reserve board un
der the new currency law.
President Wilaon had not, however,
taken up the matter of selections for
the beard, though he expected to do so
soon. It was understood he would not
attempt to be bound by geographical
limitations in making the appointments,
but will take the best men, wherever
ho flnijs them. It was believed, how
ever, that the Pacific coast -would get
at le.ist one appointment and the south
another.
The president received 'a long letter
from Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
expressing surprise among other things
at tho luuh of bunks for membership
in the reserve institutions under the
new law.
Ah organizing, committeemen for the
new system, it was stated that Secre
taries McAdoo and Houston of the
treasury and agriculture departments
would visit several important cities
during February to investigate their va
rious claims for regional banks. Those
on the secretaries' itinerary were New
York. Boston. Chicago, Cincinnati,
Cleveland, St. IjOuIh, Denver, San Fran
cisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland,
Or., Houston, Atlanta and New Orleans.
Tho commandant of a Confederate
soldiers', home 20 miles from Pass
Christian invited the president last
night to visit the home. The veterans,
he said, were dying at the rate of about
one weekly, few, of them had ever seen
a president, and all would like to see
President Wilson. It wa understood
the chief executive probably would ac
cept the invitation.
Spreckels Wouldn't Accept.
San Francisco, Cal., Deo. 27. His at
tention called to reports that he might
be among President Wilson's selections
for a place on the federal reserve board
under the new' currency law, Rudolph
Spreckels said today h,e was a candidate
for no office and fould not accept ap
pointment to the federal reserve board
even if named.
ONE MORE DEATH AS
RESULT OF EPIDEMIC
CentrallaWash., Dec. 27. Miss Wini
fred Whitford, daughter of L. L. Whit
ford, an officer in Centjalla's labor coun
ell, died of typhoid fever Christmas aft
ernoon, making 11 fatalities as a result
of the present epidemic.
"Dr. Eugene Kelly, state health officer
who returned yesterday from Seattle,
says that but few new cases are being
reported. Dr. J. M. Schleicher, a Che
halls .physician, has been named deputy
health officer by the Lewis county com
missioners to assist Dr. G. L. Knlskern,
who recently succeeded Dr. H. L. Petit
as county health officer.
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ADAMS EXPRESS
GIVES
STOCKHOLDERS
NOTICE
OF CUT DIVIDENDS
For Years The Company Has
Paid Twelve Per Cent to
Holders of Stock.
(TTnlted Pru ImM Vln.l '
New York. Dec. 57. Tacit admission
of the xtent to which the parcel post
is cutting into its business was con
tained in a circular letter sent out by
the Adams Express company to its
stockholders today.
"Continuance of the present dividend
rate." said the letter, among other
things, "probably will be unwarranted
hereafter." For years the company has
paid 12 pef aent.
The letter also reviewed the Increase
in the parcel post weight limit, the re
duction in rates and the reduction the
interstate commerce commission ordered
in express rates beginning February 1.
DEATH OF RAMPOUA
WAS NOT
Vatican Officials Deny Cardi
nal's Body Will Be Ex
humed. . . .
Rome, Dec 27. Search after search
having failed to reveal-any will left by
the late Cardinal Rampolla, the sus
picion began to bo voiced today that
th famous churchman did not die
naturally. Several newspapers even
called for the exhumation of tlio body
and an analysis of the stomach s con
tents. The civil authorities hesitated
to act. fearing to antagonize the
Vatican.
Cardinal Rampolla's death came as a
surprise to tho outside world, which
had not known he was ill. It was stat
ed In Vatican circles, however, that he
had been suffering for some time from
the after effects of a bad attack of
grippe.
It was known that he left a will hut
Just where it was deposited nobody
seemed to have learned. Still, it was
supposed it would be easy to find and
sonithlng of a sensation followed the
failure of the hunt.
Vatican officials and relatives and
Intimate friends of the late cardinal
were much, annoyed, however, by
rumors of anything mysterious in his
death. There was no question, they
said, concerning Its cause, it had been
duly certified by the ablest physicians
in Rome and the suggestion of the
body's exhumation for furthar Investi
gation was denounced as ridiculous.
Feelings NPedlcsisljr IInrrovol.
San Francisco, Dec. 27. Edwin
Thompson got a divorce because Mrs,
Thompson telephoned him that she was
going to take carbolic acid and then
failed to do so. Judge Mogan ruUd
that this constituted cruelty.
MYSTERIOUS
LEGALITY OF MUNICIPAL
COURT IS SUSTAINED
BY JUDGE
Decision Comes as Result of
Motion to Vacate Judgment
of Guilty.
'Portland's municipal court was upheld
yesterday afternoon by Circuit Judge
Kavanaugh, when he decided that tho
Implied powers of the charter legalized
that court. The decision was made in
the motion to vacate the Judgment of
guilty and sentence of 5 days Imposed
upon Grace Kdwards, when she appealed
from a ffrve day sentence for vagrancy
imposed by Municipal Judge Stevenson.
Thig decision is the first to go into
the merits of the allegation that the
court was illegal because te charter
does not provide foi Its existence, al
though it provides that the portion of
the old charter which makes provision
for the court shall be made an ordinance.
The same question was raised before
Circuit Judge Cleeton several days ago
in a liquor case on appeal, but Judge
Cleeton, while holding the court legal
for the purpose of t.ie trial, did not so
into the merits of the case, leaving that
for the suit Just decided, and releasing
the prisoner on bail.
Case Hay Be Appealed.
That the case will probably be ap
pealed to the state supreme court, anj?
if unfavorably decided, from there to
the United States supreme court, was
the statement of Attorney George Taz
well, who, with Attorney J. G. Richard
son, represented the Kdwards . woman.
Tazwell said that he had anticipated tho
adverse decision, but desired to carry
the case to a higher court Several oth
er attacks on the validity of the court
are- pending, and these will probably
awuit the outcome of the present case,
should It be appealed.
"1 believe the charter provides for
(Conolnded on I'e Right, folnmn Sl)
FINDS IT
IS NOT ALWAYS EASY
TO "BREAK" INTO JAIL
Fulfills Her Part of "Honor
Prisoner" Pledge and Then
Is Rebuffed by Warden,
iSpi-cUl In Tli Journal, i
Walla Walla, Wash., Dec. 27. When
Dr. Unda B. Harzard, fast specialist,
who was allowed to come unguarded
from Seattle to Walla Walla, under
sentence of fiotn two to 20 years In
state's prison, arrived at the priHoiji
here this morning, WardenV Drum re
fused to allow her to enter bVsuso her
commitment papers had notTjeen re
ceived. X
Dr. Hazsard says she Will remain i.i
the city until the papers arrive, and
she Is at liberty down town.
SUPERVISORS PLAN TO
CARRY C1TYTNSURANCE
Ban Francisco, Dec.- 27.1- The super
visors' finance committee today In
structed City Attorney Long to 'nvestt
gate the feasibility of having the mu
nicipality carry Its own Insurance under
the new employers' liability law. If a
policy is carried with a regular insui
ance company the cost will be' $60,000 fj
170.000 annually. . ; .
Governor at Seaside,
Salem, Or Dec. 27.- Governor -Wt
la still at -Seaside, where he expects to
remain until after New Years, .,
KAVANAU
HAZZARD
Mexican Plunges Through a
Bank Window to Escape At
tack of Woman Cashier,
Los Angeles, Dec. 27. Confronted by
an armed thief when she entered the
counting room of the Eagle Rock bank
today, Assistant Cashier Ada Carr
seized a broom and chased him Into the
street. A' sheriff's posse captured the
man an hour later in Sycamore canyo.i,
in the suburbs.
The burglar, who is a Mexican, had
broken Into the bank through a rear
window. He was crouching in fror.l
of the vault when Miss Carr arrived tu
open the bank for the duy. Thrusting
a revolver into the woman's face, the
man cried: "Throw up your hands."
Instead, Miss Carr seized a broom, and,
screaming for help, attacked the Mexi
can, knocking his gun from his hnnd
and belaboring him over the head as he
plunged in desperation through the win
dow. Citizens who had heard Miss Carr's
screams kept up the chase until they
were relieved by deputies from the shi
Iff'a office.
The Mexican gave his name as
Raphael Castelo and his age as 18 years.
He was Jailed pending the filing of a
charge against him.
FEIGNS REPENTANCE
TO PREYUPON GIRLS
Notorious Woman Arrested in
Rescue Home and Sent
to Jail.
(United Prm Leaned Wire.)
Los Angeles, Dec. 27. Said to have
feigned repentance to gain admittance
to the Hillcrest rescue home here to
prey upon fallen girls who had de
termined to lead honest lives, Edith
Vlckery, 46, alleged procuress and for
mer mistress of disreputable houses,
occupies a county Jail cell today, pend
ing the filing of formal charges against
her.
The woman appeared three day ago
at a mission maintained by the Nazs
rene church. Following the meeting,
which was attended by the girls of the
rescue home, she sobbed oitt a repent
ance and begged for admittance to the
home to begin life anew.
Late yesterday Matron Hllbech of the
home demanded of the police that they
arrest the woman. The matron asserted
that three of her girls had told herf"lo concerning any of the alleged lr-
trial Airs. vicKery was using every
means at her conynand to persuade
them to return to an evil life. She had
offered, the matron said, to "Jplaice
them" In San Francisco or send them
to the orient. Mrs. Vlckery refused to
comment on Mrs. Hilbech's charge.
T
Try to Sink Tug After Looting
Cars of Valuable Mer
chandise, (Tutted Prpi L9r Wtr.)
New York, Dec. 27. With four al
leged members of one of the boldest
robber bands with which It has ever had
to deal, the New York police were on
the trail today of the leader of the
gang who engineered about the strangest
and most daring robberies in criminal
annals. The loot was nothing less than
a big river tug and a barge with enJ
joaaen rreignt cars anoani, stolen from
the Kast River.
The robbery was discovered yesterday
when tho barge and its ten cars were
found adrift. The cars had been looted
of valuable merchandise. At the same
time the tug James Hradley was found
awash with Its Hen cocks open.
A watchmun saw five men board the
tug at Hoboken Christmas night. The
four men arrested were heard discuss
ing a robbery. These men are being ex
amined closely in efforts to trace the
robbery to them and to locate their
leader.
CITY CLEARS QUARTER
E
Geary Street Line in Bay City
Proves Great Financial
Success.
San Francisco, Dec 27. The public
works board decided that when the city
finishes its first year's operation of the
Clear y street carllne at mid-Sunday, Its
profits will have reached nearly 1250,
000. Officially Xained Mihvaukle.
(Whinfff(n Bureau "f The Jonnml.)
Washington. Dec. 27; The postoffice
department has announced formally to
day that the postoffice at Milwaukle,
Or., will be .henceforth known officially
a Milwaukie.
. : Carries Ten in Airship.
St. Petersburg, Dec, 27. -Aviator So
korsky, yesterday made a flight carYyi
log tea passengers and considerable- ballast.
DnWPQ QTCA RADnr
WTH
10 FREIGH
CARS
MILLION
1 " ;!.- 'jjT
William G. McAdoo.
Washington, Dec. 27. Seoretary of
the Treasury McAdoo did not go to hi
office today, remaining at home under
orders of his physician. Fearing a
breakdown as a result of worry over
the strain of reorganizing the country's
banking system along the lines of the
new currency law, McAdoo doctor or
dered him to take a complete rest.
NEW TURN EXPECTED
TO INVESTIGATION OF
Alleged Affidavit Said to Make
Serious Charges; Inspector
Resents Imputation.
Although Mayor Albea has secured
considerable Information concerning; al
leged Jnegularities in the handling of
liquor licenses, he took no action today.
He expects to have considerable more
material In hand by Monday when the
investigation is expected to take an en
tirely new turn.
While no direct charges have been
regularities it is known that the name
of Joseph Hutchinson, head of the city
license bureau, Is mentioned in an af
fidavit signed by Mrs. Hulda Levens,
proprietor of the Levens hotel grill,
which was recently denied a license.
This affidavit Is now in the hands of
the mayor. Mrs,- Levens alleges in the
affidavit that (100 was paid .o secure a
renewal of the liquor license for the
grill. Mention Is also made in the af
fidavit of taxicab trips to Hutchinson's
house.
Hutchinson denies all of the state
ments that have been made that there
were any Irregularities connected with
the handling of the liquor license,
(Concluded on Vign Eight. Column Four)
P. R.. L & P.'S
TO ADD PENALTY TO
BILLS IS QUESTIONED
Commissioner Daly Asks That
It Be Abolished, Even if No
Discount Is Allowed,
Questioning the right of the Port
land Railway, Light & Power company
to exact a five per cent penally from
ull conrtimers If tho bill for electric
light service Is not paid before a cer
tain date. Will If. Daly, commissioner
of public utilities, fuis addressed a let
ter to Franklin T. Griffith, president
of the company, asking him to abolish
the penalty system.
The letter sent this morning Is the
result of numerous complaints received
by Commissioner Daly made by cus
tomers of the Portland Railway, Light
& Power company. Those who have
complained contend that the company
has a right to grant a discount if bills
are paid before a certain d,ate, but no
right to exact a penalty If the bill is
not paid by the time It is due.
In the letter Commissioner Daly
stales that the penalty system Is an
tagonistic to the company's consumers
and should be abolished. The commu
nication concludes as follows:
"The company's right to exact such
a penalty is seriously questioned, but
leaving aside the question of legality,
can you not, in a spirit of equlty and
fairness, use your influence to abolish
this plan, and if the company does not
see fit to grant a discount, can it not
at least Btrike out the penalty 'clause
on its monthly bills?" ,
Commissioner Daly says thajt the
Northwestern Electric company, which
has recently filed a schedule of its' rates
with him. does not exact a penalty If
the bills are not paid before a certain
date and believes that the. Competing
company should do likewise. -
If the Portland Railway,. Light & Pow
er company ' does not take some action
on the request it la probable that the
city will tako steps to bave the penalty
system' abolished although Commission-)!
er Doly is noncommittal on this sub-
CITY LICENSE BUREAU
RIGHT
John Bostick Pleads Guilty to .
Murder of Passenger Agent
Montague on Sunset Ex
press December 1.
BRIDE RECOGNIZES ,
HIM IN SAN FRANCISCO
Youth Makes No Defense and
Expresses Sorrow for His
Crime.
Los Angeles, Cal., Deo. J 7. John Bos
tick, "the El Monte bandit," pleaded
guilty in the superior oourt today to
the murder of Traveling; Passenger
Agent Horace B. Montague and was
sentenced to be hanged. ;
He will be taken to San Quenttn penl.
tentiary within 10 days. The death
penalty, according to the sentence
passed by Judge Gavin W. Craig, must
be inflicted within SO days.
Bostick was arraigned before Justice
Toung, held to the superior court and
brought to trial and sentenced to death
all within 15 minutes.
When the awrul words had fallen
from Judge Craig's lips, Bostlok bowed
his head and wept silently. He did not
utter a sound, end he shook hla bead
when the court asked If he wished to
speak.
The crime for which Bostick, who la
but 22 years old, must hang, was com
mitted on the night of December 1. He
boarded the Southern Pacific! Sunset
Express at Pomona, held up the passen
gers of the rear Pullman and shot and
killed Montague, who he thought was
about to resist
Bostick left the train at El Monte,
walked several miles to Oneonta, Park,
and boarded an electiio car for Los An
geles. The following day he went to
San Francisco, where he had been tir
ing with a young woman whose Identity
the police either have not nnoorered
or are Keeping secret.
Arthur Colen and hla bride, of San
Francisco, were responsible . for the ,
bandit's capture December Zl. The Co
lens, returning on .the express from
their wedding trip, were robbed by the
bandit While Christmas Shopping on
Mission street. In San- Franolsoo, they
saw Bostick. They lef t - the car and
trailed him for half an hour. When
he entered a billiard hall Mrs. Colen
watched the entrance while her hus
band telephoned the police, who made
the arrest
On a Los Angeles-bound train the fol-,
lowing day, Bostick confessed to Sheriff .
Hammel, of Los Angeles. He also con
fessed that he had robbed another train
at Richmond a few weeka before,
Since his arrest Bostick has refused
to tell his name, if it la not Bostick, or
to tell anything that might shed light
on his former home, the identity of his
parents and friends, or the girl with
whom he admitted he lived In San
Francisco. He haa declared repeated ly
that his greatest sorrow la for the
widow and two babies of the man he
killed.
E
T
Beaches Near Los Angeles
Swept, but Little More
Damage Done.
Los Angeles, Dec. 27. Although the
highest tides of the year swept the
beaches near Los Angeles today, ab
sence of wind or ground awell prevent
ed a repetition of the heavy damage
caused by. high seas yesterday. ' Hig'i
tide was passedsafely at 8:28 a. ra. "
At Venice, where yesterday's dam
age aggrecated 1150,000, hundreds of
persons watched the waves that were i
dashing 50 feet over the remaining por
tlons of the bulkheads. Several houses ,
were moved from the path of the tides
by donkey engines.
Santa Monica and Ocean Park were '
reported safe, although wavea . were '
dashing over the Nat Goodwin pier at j
Ocean Park.
The Standard Oil company's $400,004 .
pier at El Segundo was reported unsafe,
and no one was permitted on the atruo- '
tuie. Many supporting piles were torn ;
out during the night. , .
The small municipal wharf at Man- ,
hfittan- Beach was washed away. , It was
worth $1000,
No harm was done at Hermosa Beach '
and Redondo' Beach. The Pacific Light '
and Power company's pier at Playa Del
Rey was being swept by heavy seas, ,
but appeared to be holding the ground.. ,
The Direct Way
When you' go to a hotel' for
dinner and the waiter places
menu card on your table, do yoa'
disregard the card and go out In
the kitchen to ask the chef what
lie will. ierve for dinncrT j i.;
When you want a maUrese re
paired, carpenter work done, hats
. or plumes cleaned, a new pane of
glass put in,-trunks taken to the
depot, windows cleaned,, painting
or papering done, coal or wood
delivered, piano tuned, roof re-
paired', or rarpeta cleaned, do you
: walk around until you find the
' plaoeaf i They ' are all listed iu
The Journal Business Directory
every -day. Look up whatever
you need In the directory and
then us your phone, It saves
'you trouble and get the work
done.: without delay. Try it
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