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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1910. ROOSEVELT FAILS TO SAVE COBG BILL New York Assembly Rejects Amended Plan for Direct Nominations. ISSUE BECOMES PERSONAL Supporters of Measure, Even to Gov ernor Hughes, in Background In Long, Hard Fight Victory Won fcy Party Leaders. ALBANY. N. T-, July 1. Theodore Rocwevelt was beaten decisively yester day. Whatever may be the final outcome of his first adventure in politics sinhe his retirement' from the White House, he met absolute defeat at the hands of the Republican organization in the Assembly. The Cobb direct nomination bill ai killed in the Assembly yesterday after a long hard fight. The final count stood 80 to 63 in favor of accepting the adverse report of the committee -which had the bill in charge. The Republicans in the Senate held a. conference, but only 23 Senators attended. They voted to make a party measure of the Cobb bill, with the amend ments proposed by Lloyd C. Griscom, chairman of the New York County Re publican Committee and favored by Colo nel Roosevelt, but it takes 26 votes to pass a bill in the Senate. Senate Votes to Adjourn. Then the Senate went in executive ses sion and after a long debate voted 24 to 33 to adjourn until today. There is talk of another special ses sion. The Assembly yesterday voted to adjourn at 2 o'clock today, and if the Senate concurs Governor Hughes may call the Legislature back into special session. Roosevelt was the potent figure In yes terday's contest. Four years ago and also two years ago he whipped the Republi can state convention into line, forcing it to accept Hughes as the nominee for Governor. The supreme question yester day was whether he would bo able again to compel the Republican organization to follow his bidding. It was a clean-cut issue between the ex-President and the organization lead ers, and the leaders won. From the moment Colonel Roosevelt sent his telegram to Mr. Griscom, urging the passage of the bill, things hummed. The situation suddenly became of Na tional significance. The question was whether Roosevelt of Sagamore Hill was as mighty as Roosevelt of Washington. Those who had supported the Cobb measure, including even Governor Hughes, slipped into the background. Governor Hughes returned from Boston last night and sat late in the executive chamber. He has nothing to say. Debate Continues Late. At the caucus last night, in addition to making- the Cobb bill a party measure, it was decided not to concur in the Assembly adjournment resolution. When the resolution was read later in the Senate. Senator Grattan moved to concur. This started a lively de bate, which continued until long after midnight. "It matters not to me," Senator Grattan said, "whether it is a President or an ex-President, or a Governor who attempts to dictate to this Legislature. As a member I am responsible for ray own acts and I don't propose to take any man's orders. This move to put over the resolution is in the hope that we may set another telegram. We all know that our distinguished ex- President told England how to manage Egypt, informed the Pope what he should do, and instructed mothers as to the proper way of rearing; their families." Senator Davenport championed Colo nel Roosevelt's action in indorsing- the Cobb bill and scored Senator Grattan for his attack upon the ex-President-He referred to the Albany Legislature as the "mouthpiece of a political Nero who is fiddling just outside the. cham ber while Rome burns." In - conclusion the Senator said: "We are dancing on the coffin of the Republican party." The debate waged for hours, until finally the advocates of early adjourn ment carried their point. A few min utes later the Senate adjourned until H o'clock today. KOOSKVELT DENIES REPORT Colonel Has Not Said Only Hughes Can Save New York. NAHANT, Mass.. July 1. A vigorous declaration that he had not Injected him self into the New York State political situation to the extent of attempting to persuade Governor Hughes to make a third Gubernatorial campaign, was made today by Colonel Roosevelt, following hi3 visit to President Taft at Beverly. The attention of, the ex-President was called to the statement In a morning paper that he had said the Governor was the only man who could cave New York State to the Republican party. When the Colonel had read the clipping he asked if the publication was intended as a Joke, and said emphatically: "It is wholly untrue. Utterly prepos terous. I never said any such thing. There is not a word of truth in it." Further than making this statement. Colonel Roosevelt refused to talk poli tics. The ex-President had a much quieter time today than yesterday that is. so far as the public is able to judge. After a night at the borne of Senator Lodge the Colonel remained in seclusion all morning, denying himself to all callers. At luncheon Representative and Mrs. Au gustus P. Gardner, the latter a daughter of Senator Lodge, and Mrs. William C Endicott were guests. Luncheon was hardly ended before Colonel Roosevelt and Senator Lodge started for Beverly to call on President Taft. The trip back to Nahant after the con ference was without incident, the auto reaching Senator Lodge's estate at 4:40 this afternoon. As it passed inside the grounds the gates were closed and two policemen forbade anyone to enter. Colonel Roosevelt will call tomorrow on Justice William H. Moody, of the United States Supreme Court, who is ill at a . private hospital at Brookline. He will return to New York later in the day. HUNTER RIDES BEARBACK Performance in Canebrake Rivals Those In Circuses. HELENA. Ark., Jun.. 1 A bareback performance which puts to shame all the equestrian efforts of Barnum & Bailey a rente fame, was pulled off by a party of timber inspectors during a tour) through the canebrake district of the lower section of this county, between White and Arkansas rivers. John E. Osbprn, of Greenburg, Ind.; J. J. . Peadro and John Livingston, of this city, and Major Wise, of Memphis, Lomprise the star and . cast of this re markable farce comedy. After spend ing a long and tireBome day investigat ing the section referred to tne party turned and retraced its steps toward camp. Dusk was fast approaching as they followed the zigzag path through the heavy brakes of cane. In approach ing a huge oak, around which the trail swung in two paths, Peadro followed the left trend, while the others of -the party, headed by Livingston, bore to the right. Livingston was walking rapidly slightly In advance of the other two and had just spanned the base of the towering oak, when, with head lowered and body swinging menacingly, a giant black bear crossed his path and disappeared In the tanglewood to his left. Peadro, who was 10 yards to the left of Livingston, and screened by the canebrake, knew nothing of bruin's proximity until with lumber ing feet the animal crashed through the cane to his right. Peadro states that he was too startled to intelligently plan a mode of defense, and accepted the first Impulse which came to him, which was to straddle the monster forest monarch squarely on the back. This position he retained until the bear, without once lift ing its head, plunged wildly off into the brake at his left, at last rudely dislodging his unwelcome burden. MANY PROTESTS FILED PREMIER NO. 1 FINISHES LONG GLIBDEX AUTO TOUR. Winner Will Not Be Determined Until .Saturday First Car In Has Best Road Score. CHICAGO, July 1. Premier No. 1 finished the long Glidden tour today with the best road score, but the win ner will not be determined until the technical committee of the American Automobile Association finishes Its ex amination of the cars. Premier No. 1 has been penalized nine points, while the Chalmers No. 6 stands second with 39 points road penalty. Several protests' were filed with the referee against Premier No. 1. The final announcement of the win ner probably will be made Saturday, as the technical committee will make an exhaustive examination of every part of the car before it will announce the to tal of technical penalties. Following Is the standing of the cars hat finished as contestants in the events: GILDDEN TROPHT. Points. Premier No. 1 9 Premier No. 2 TOO Chalmers No. 5. 3i Maxwell No. 7 fi Glide No. 10 1755 Cino No. 152 143 CHICAGO TROPHY. Points. Moline No. 100 12 Molina No. 101 47S Moline No. 102 62 Lexington No. 103 13S2 Maxwell No. 107 4U Two Cadillac cars, carrying- cadets from Northwestern Military Academy, made the entire run as non-competing cars. Four Chalmers cars, besides No. 6, also made the entire distance. WICKERSHAM IS NAMED ALASKA INSURGENTS TAKE THE FIELD AGAINST REGULARS. Convention Denounces Forest Policy and Corporate Influence in Territory's Affairs. JUNEAU, Alaska. July 1. James Wickersham was nominated to succeed himself as territorial delegate to Con gress by the "insurgent" Republican convention, which met here Thursday, representing the faction opposed to Na tional Committeeman L. P. Shackleford. Wickersham's nomination was made on the first ballot and was unanimous. His opponent is Ed S. Orr, of Valdez, who was nominated by the regular Re publican convention yesterday. The Dem ocrats have not named a candidate, but a committee selected at the convention held several weeks ago Is expected to meet within a few days and pick a man to run against Wickersham and Orr. The insurgents adopted resolutions in dorsing Delegate Wickersham's acts in Congress, denouncing the Beverldge bill for the government of Alaska, protesting against the forest reserve policy in Alaska and the tielng up of coal lands and de manding a Federal investigation of the charges made jn Washington concerning the attempts of the Guggenheim vand other corporations to control and corrupt the. ballot and the courts of the territory. Shackleford, leader of the "regulars," was denounced as an "agent of the Inter ests seeking to control Alaska and a be trayer of the Republican party." APACHE IS GUILLOTINED Socialists,' Unable to Get Reprieve, Make Violent Demonstration. PARIS, July 1. Llbaeof, the apache, who killed a policeman several months ago, was guillotined at daylight today. The Socialists had attempted to get a reprieve for the assassin but failed. A violent manifestation by the revolution ary Socialists occurred at the scene of the execution. At the moment the blade fell, several of the crowd fired revolvers. The police charged with bayonets. A police captain was shot in the throat and several per sons were badly injured. Great crowds gathered in the boule vards fronting the prison to witness the execution but were kept back by heavy details of police. MRS. VANDERBILT FLIES Capitalist's Wife Goes Up in Clifford Harmon's Aeroplane. NEW YORK, July 1. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt went up with Clifford B. Harmon in his aeroplane at Mineola Thursday. The flight was cut short be cause spectators got in the way. Both he and Mrs. Vanderbilt were jarred in coming down, but otherwise uninjured. The shock loosened several bolts in the machine and slightly dam aged the rudder. Mrs. Vanderbilt, thrilled by the experi ence, walked Smilingly back across the field and joined the enthusiastic spec tators. The annual production of beer In Argentina Is estimated by Consul-General R. M. Bartle Tnan. of Buenos Aires, at 115.000,000 to 120. (Mto.OOO quaru. The spent malt from brew eries lc aold at about 86 cents per ixo pounds and fed to stock. The malt is chiefly im ported from Germany and Hungary. -The viritin forests of the Republic of Li beria contain thousands of elephants, and many hundred thousand pounds ot I.Iberian ivory are taken from the export trade- of the country because of the peculiar aborig inal conditions of the hinterland. I rvni npinpi u if id LArLUulUli luLLd 4; SHAKES TOWN Man Shoots Warehouse and Blast Carries Him and His Family to Death. DYNAMITE STORED AWAY Men Are Hurled Over High Building by Force of Charge Two of In jured Will Probably DieMany Windows Are Smashed. BOULDER, Mont.. July 1. (Special.) lng with his little 22-caliber re volver here last evening. George Hart took aim and fired at the blank wall of a warehouse, with the result that there was a terrific explosion, in which the marksman, his wife and daughter and one man were killed, two persons were seriously injured and many buildings in this city Jarred and shaken. The warehouse contained dynamite and the impact of the tiny bullet against the frame wall brought the worst catastrophe In the history of Boulder,. Three men were hurled over a high building. Two of them are dead. .The dead: ' GEORGE HART, of Boulder. MRS. GEORGE HART, his wife. BABT HART, their 2-year-old daughter. DAVID KERBY. The injured: Albert Taylor, serious. Miss Gladys Mifriln, of Butte, will die. William Robinson, serious. The explosion occurred about 6 o'clock And none of the dead realized what hap pened to them. A twinkling after the fatal bullet left Hart's gun he was sail ing through the air. to land, crunched and broken, many feet away. Life was not extinct in his body when he was picked up. but he was unconscious and died within a few minutes. His wife and their little daughter were also alive when found, but their Injuries were so horrible that they survived but a short time. They were torn and marred beyond recognition and died without regaining consciousness. Robinson and Kerby, like Hart, were thrown- high in the air and Kerby was dead when picked up. Taylor was near Robinson and Kerby when the blast came, but es caped from being killed outright. He was pinned underneath some small outbuildings and when fished out his back was found to be broken and his chest caved in. No hope is held out for his recovery. Miss Mifflin was visiting Tier sister, Mrs. Hart, She was pitifully lacerated and will probably die. The Hart home was located across slough from the warehouse where the explosive was stored. It was there that the blast caught Mrs. Hart, the baby and Miss Mifflin. Many persons throughout the city re ceived various injuries fom falling glass, toppling furniture and walls. None of them is regarded as fatally injured. There was not a whole pane of glass on Main street after the accident and windows throughout the city were crashed in. The local electric light plant,' which was only a few hundred feet from the raxed warehouse, was put out of com mission when the blow-up came, and the work of aiding the Injured and caring for the dead -was carried on with the aid ,of coal oil lamps and torches. A fire followed the explosion, but prompt work on the part of the fire de partment prevented the flames from spreading. The warehouse w-as owned by the Graves Mercantile Company and it was not generally known - that dyna mite formed a part ot Its stores. Hart recently came here from Butte and was employed on the-new school buildings here, as were Kerby and Robin son. PITTMAN MAY BE RELEASED Est rati a AYonld Exchange Colonel for American Taken by Madriz. BLUEFIELD9, July 1. General Estrada, the leader of the provisional forces, has made an offer to the Madriz commander to exchange Colonel Sala manca, captured In the engagement at Pearl Lagoon, for William Pittman, the American engineer. In the hands of the enemy at Bluefields Bluff. Salamanca was formerly Governor of Greytown and has great Influence in Nicaraguan political affairs. He was in command of the Madriz forces at Pearl Lagoon. General Estrada In making the offer for the exchange, is not only anxious to release Pittman from his dangerous position, but wishes to demon strate his friendly feeling for the United States. Advices from Greytown say that Dr. Irias is sending all his men to San Carlos to protect that place from an attack by General Mena. HOME BANK IS NOT SECURE Old Woman Robbed for Second Time In Six Months. HTJSUM, Wash., July 1. (Special.) ' For the second time within six months a robbery has bfen committed at the ranch of Mrs. Rosander Hendryx. two miles north of here. Mrs. Hendryx is 76 years old and does not believe in banks, therefore conceals her money and valuables about the house. She hid 95 In an old mat tress last Friday and Tuesday evening the entire deposit, besides a check for J14 and valuable papers, was gone. Mrs. Hendryx has been conducting a 120-acre ranch alone for the past three years and seldom keeps hired help. Last fall a 15 year-old boy stole 50 that was concealed about the house in a money sack. He was captured and sent to the reform school. There is no clue to the last robbery. SCHIFF OFF FOR ALASKA Sails on Chartered Steamer With Party of Guests. SEATTLE, July 1. Jacob H. Schiff, of New York, and a party of guests, sailed for Alaska tonight on the steam ship Ramona, chartered as a private yacht for the cruise. The party will disembark at Skagway and go to Fairbanks via the White Pass route and the Yukon River. From Fair banks they will go on down the Yukon to St. Michael and Nome, where the Ra mona will meet them. The Ramona will steam from Noma around the Aleutian Islands to Cordova, stopping at Valdes and Seward and other points of Interest en route. The tour will consume five weeks. . j e Addition ( , :; 4- k with Character t 1 fe; 1 m.--.-.. t-iliJJJ , .?l''- '"" r-V .-lll.IU' "!-..TiHIIMMMU, It has set a standard by which all future high-class resi dence additions will be judged. Portland's Most Beautiful Residence Park Look over any other high-class residence property in town. It is not like Laurelhurst. You will say this. Everybody who sees Laurelhurst and then visits some other residence section says it. Why? Because Laurelhurst is different. It has the location. It has the rare natural advantages. It is being more highly improved than any other residence section. It is more highly restricted. It has a beautiful public park incite center. Ita boulevards are wide and attractively laid out, quite different from the stiff, straight streets so common to other residence additions. It has all these and then has excellent ear service on any of four different lines. These are features of Laurelhurst. They are the prime factors which have made values in the neighborhood of Laurel hurst advance, and they are the prime factors in a movement toward the beautifying of this section and the creating of very high values in Laurelhurst. See this property. Come out Sunday. Get your feet upon the ground and walk about. See the tremendous improve ment work which is transforming this land into a magnificentrcsidence park. Take Rose City Park or Montavilla cars to Laurelhurst. Both these lines run "to and through the property. Take Sunnyside or Mount Tabor cars to East 39th street and walk four short blocks north. Or call at our office and we will be pleased to show you the property in our automo biles. Phone us what day and hour you would like to make the trip. . . JEFFRIES IS BEST Fitz So Declares, but Makes ' No Prediction. MISQUOTED, HE DECLARES Shorter and XJglier Word Applied by ' ex-Champion to Interviewer Who Quoted Him in John- i son's Favor. Bob Fitzsimmons, former heavyweight; champion of the world and the man who made James J. Jeffries the fighter he was when he retired, arrived in Portland at a late hour Thursday night and left for San Francisco on the morning train. "Fighting Bob" is accompanied by his wife, who was Julia May Gifford, an actress, and is on his way to Reno, Nev., to write his Impressions of the big fight for the New York World. On his arrival in Portland Fitz was informed that he had been quoted as fa voring the chances of Jack Johnson against James J. Jeffries in the coming fight on tho Fourth of July, and the fa mous Australian waxed highly Indignant when shown a press clipping containing an interview purporting to have come from him. Fitz says he has never been interviewed on the fight and that he does not care to be interviewed, for the rea son that he is under contract to write the story of the big battle as he sees it for the New York World. However, in order to correct any wrong impression that may have been spread by the print ing of the alleged interview, he made the following 6tatement: "I. think Jim Jeffries is the biggest and best fighter that ever donned a glove, and I don't hesitate to say so.' I have never picked Johnson to beat Jeffries, and whoever said eo lied. I have never even intimated as much and no man has e. license to so quote me. I am not peddling tales of what I think of the big flht, for I am to write my views of it for a New York paper, and all Inter views such as was printed about my picking Johnson to win are false. "If anything I do favor Jeff, but as I have been away from America for nine months I do not know of the exact con dition of either man. However, Jeff is the fighter of tho two, and I made him such. Johnson is a defensive fighter, and ought to make a great showing, for he is strong, husky and agile, but he is not the aggressive chap that Jeffries is, and I have met both of them and know them. I think it is going to be the great est ring battle that has occured In years, and anybody who tells you Bob Fltzsim mons has picked Jack Johnson to win is either crazy or a fool. You. can make this as strong as you like." After spending a few hours in Port land Mr. and Mrs. Fitzsimmons left on the overland for San Francisco, and from that point they will journey to Reno, Sunday. Both expressed great pleasure In again returning to America, and mar velled at the growth of both Portland and Seattle, for it Is several years since they visited the Northwest. Fitzsimmons and his wife will return to Portland next month, as they are scheduled for a vaudeville tour of th-- Northwest, and Portland is one of the towns where they are booked to appear. - MISSING GIRL IS SLAIN BODY OF MISS AXXA WEXDLER PICKED UP IX RIVER. Dent in Forehead Convinces Osage City (Mo.) Authorities That Woman Was Murdered. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., July 1. body of Miss Anna Wendler, "of Osage City, Mo., who disappeared Tuesday, was found In the Missouri River by fisher men last night, at a point five mi,Ies west of Osage City. A heavy dent in her forehead, evidently made by a blunt In strument, strengthens the opinion of the county officers that she was murdered. Miss Wendler left here Sunday to visit neighbors and had apparently started on the way back when she met death. A basket, her shoes and a parasol were found on the river bank about two miles from Osage City this morning. Alongside of them were a pipe and a package of tobacco. Whether she was killed at the place where her effects were found and car ried up the river in a boat, or made to 'sSiL walk to the scene of her death, are theories being investigated by the Cor oner. . Farmers and residents of Osage City are searching for the murderer, who may be lynched if caught. John Wendler, father of the girl, last night offered a reward of $500 for the apprehension of the murderer or mur derers, o Hanging of Boston Quakers. Boston Post. Bearing on the controversy as to wheth Not For The Careless Smoker Van Dyck Quality" Cigars are not madefor the man who buys rfgars haphazard. Their appeal is to the lover of good Havana tobacco to " the man who appreciates the best. 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