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THE "MORSISG OREGONIAX. FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1910. TAFT REJOICES AT HiRDING'SVICTORY Wireless Brings Him News While Cruising Off the Coast of Maine. NOMINEE FINE CAMPAIGNER Only Surpassed in Ohio by Foraker, Says TaftPresident Would Have Helped Garfield IT Chosen. Glad Cox Was Beaten. BIDDLEFOKD POOL. Me.. July 28. Wirelfs telegraphy carried to President Taft the news of the nomination of War ren G. Harding, as the Republican candi date for Governor of Ohio. Mr. Taft spent all but the early morn ing hours at sea. If he had planned the cruise with any special purpose of being difficult of access on nominating day of the Ohio convention. 1 he could not have devised a better schedule. To add to the difficulty in reaching him, the wireless on board the Mayflower worked badly. The President finally came ashore here at 5 o'clock. Mr. Taft seemed pleased over the out come in Ohio. He has a high estimate of Mr. Harding' and said that, with the pos sible exception of ex-Senator Foraker, he regarded Mr. Harding as the best cam paigner in Ohio. Would Have Helped Garfield. Both in conversation with the Ohio leaders and in written communication the President expressly stated that, if Mr. Garfield ehould be the nominee, he would tender him his hearty support. Mr. Taft related in this connection an Incident of last February, when Mr. Harding called on him at the White House In Washington. Mr. Harding said h had come to the President because he had heard Mr. Taft had decided to support Mr. Garfield for the nomination. The President replied that the report was entirely without foundation. He said he was not interfering In the Ohio situation any way and would not. 'Then," said Mr. Harding enthusiasti cally. "I will be the next Governor of Ohio." Glad Cox Was Beaten. Friends of the Administration say that cine feature of the Ohio situation which jiartlf-ularly pleased the President was the .fact that the Cox faction did not succeed in controlling the convention. The President's yacht remained in Cas co Bay until well into the forenoon yesterday. Landing from the Mayflow r's launch in a little float here yes terday, the President was met by an enormous crowd, which weighted the float down to such an extent that his feet got quite wet. Some of the people were hurried ashore from the float and then the other members of the party landed. Mr. Taft will sail Rt 10 o'clock this morning for Beverly. FREIGHT. TRAIN IN DITCH Spreading Ralls Cause of Wreck on Xorlhern Pacific. WALLA WALLA, Wash., July 28. (Special.) Northern Pacific freight train No. 896, In charge of Engineer Crosby, went Into a ditch a mile an a half west of here this evening, when it hit spread rails.' The engine and six cars were derailed, but no one was hurt. Passengers on the Incoming and out bound passenger trains were carried to the wreck, where they walked around and changed trains. Pullman passengers bound for Spokane and Seattle were kept in this city. The officials expect to have the wreck cleared tomorrow. "BOAK POLICY IS BAD" Lender of Insurgent 3Iove Tells of War's Origin. "The failure to make good to the head consul and his board of managers is. tersely stated, the reason for the insur gency movement among the Woodmen." When asked point blank last night at the Seward Hotel the purpose and in tent of the "Insurgent" uprising In the order of the Woodmen, that was the way John H. Foley, past head consul and loader of the movement, repyed. With Mr. Foley is associated J. P. Transue, also of Los Angeles and Speak er of the House of Representatives of California. Mr. Transue has been acting cis Mr. Foley's aid in the uprising. "I believe the policies they have in augurated and the policies they are pur ruing are bad for the order," continued Mr. Foley. "This is an insurgent move ment, it is true, but it is, in no sense, an overthrow movement. Wo have and liad no insurgent candidates. We want the best man for the office. V are neither for nor against the administration off I cers, but against the policies they are pursuing. "We are not against Boak, the man, but against the Boak policy, which has been bad for the order. "The order was founded by Falkenburg In 1890. who depended on the membership to push the order. Boak does not de Vend on the membership, he depends on his paid organization. 'Boak and busi ness' Is his slogan. Falkenburg laid es pecial stress on the fraternal features the real strength of any organization; Boak talks about the dollars. Under Falkenburg the order showed a progres sive growth, under Boak It has been re duced in membership. "The man may be doing his. best, but It Is poor at that." . "The trouble is," said Mr. Transue. "that Boak has no personality, no mag netism. He is a cold business man and that does not appeal 'to the members. Falkenburg was magnetic and genial. He was trusted and liked. So strong is the movement against Boak that were all the members here in convention, he would be thrown out by a tremendous majority." Mr. Foley continued: "It is no credit to Boak that the dollars are accumulating, although he takes praise for it. His administration. In that respect, have but followed the recom mendations made by Falkenburg. And. it must be remembered, it is by thes mem bers the li pilars have to be raised. "Boak is hHted and feared even by his associates. He has enormous power and he uses it to aggrandize and perpetuate Ills office. His own board were ready to throw him down today; they did not dare. You see what happened 'to Nelson, the ex-hcad sentry. Just a minor office, but Nelson happened to vote by his con science and against the board. He was promptly dltchad. "Snodgrass was the one head officer who had unquestionably made good, but he did not train with the administration urongly enough. The result? Weil, it was finis for Mr. Snodgrass. Snod grass made money for the order, at least $5 for every dollar he was paid. "The insurgent movement is growing. Soon it will embrace the. membership of the entire order. "The administration has failed to make good on its promises. At Seattle it prom ised that If the poll tax was increased it would come here with a balance pre pared to . pay expenses. It is in debt and money will have to be borrowed." Mr. Foley said that the officers were in a majority from Colorado and Cali fornia. He was asked about the Canton matter, to which he alluded in his epeech before the session. He said that in March last year the city of Canton, N. C. advertised 50.C0 bonds for sale at par. These were bought by a concern and afterwards sold to the order at J119.S8 a share. They were 6 per cent bonds, but at the high premium they would return but 4 per cent. Admitting the officers were right in be lieving thie a good Investment, he said, why was it that three months later, when a new issue of $35,000 was issued at par the order did not purchase them when it had funds for investment? Mr. Foley said the insurgents insisted that all funds should be invested in Pacific Coast territory and that the clerks of all camps should be advised to bring suitable bonds to the notice of the board of management. Instead, he said, no clerk was ever asked for sugges tions and the greater part of the fund invested in other centers, where It did the West no good, whereas it was West ern money and should be retained on the Coast. THOMSON NOTE START BANK - WRECKER SCR1BER FORGED HIS NAME FIRST. Ex-Receiver of Land Office Must Appear In Court and Show Why He Should Not Pay Judgment. Behind the note Asa B. Thomson, ex Receiver of the La Grande Land Office, gave to the Farmers & Traders National Bank at La Grande before its collapse and the judgment for $9821.86 Walter Niedner, receiver of the bank, obtained against Thomson, Is the first chapter of the fa.Il of J. W. Scriber, recently con victed of wrecking the bank. Thomson and Scriber were interested In a timber deal and Thomson borrowed $6000 on his personal note, which was de posited in the bank. Before payment of the note, the La Grande Land Office was Investigated and. not wishing to be dis covered in the timber deal. Thomson persuaded Guy McCullock. assistant cash ier of . the bank, to give up the note. Scriber was absent at the time, and when McCullock asked the cashier if he had done right, he was told that he had made a serious error. The note was then demanded of Thomson, who refused to surrender it. Later, when the bank was threatened with an investigation, Scriber forged a note and Thomson's name, and de posited it as security for the loan. The plan worked so smoothly that it is said to have given Scriber an incentive to forge other notes, and the dishonest practice grew as financial juggling be came more necessary to conceal the manipulation of funds, till the bank failed. Receiver Niedner demanded the note of Thomson, but the latter refused to surrender it. The receiver then brought suit for possession and recovered judg ment for the face of the note, interest and costs. amounting to $9821.86. Thomson has not paid the Judgment. Yesterday Gorge Tt. Biddle filed an affidavit in the Federal Court, setting out his belief that Thomson has suffi cient property subject to execution to pay the judgment. Witn the affidavit, Niedner's attorneys asked the court to order Thomson to appear in court for examination as to his property Inter ests, and to restrain him from dispos ing of any of his property before the hearing. Judge Wolverton issued the order and set the hearing for August 8. JULIA IMTTO WED GENERAL'S GRAND-DAUGHTER ENGAGED TO E. C. KING. Her Father, Son of Civil War Hero and President, Makes Announce ment in East. SAN DIEGO, Cal July 28. (Special.) Word was received here last night from 17. S. Grant, Jr., who Is sojourn ing at Sand Lake, Mien., announcing the engagement of his eldest daughter. Miss Julia Dent Grant, to Edmund C. King, of Portland, Or. Miss Grant is now with her mother's relatives, the Chaffees, at Adrian. Ohio, where she has been visiting in company with her brother. V. S. Grant III, and her sister. Miss Fanny, since the return of the family from Europe some months ago. According to close friends of the Grant family who live in this city, the engagement is not much of a sur prise. Mr. Grant and Mr. King have been close friends for a number of years and it has been hinted on several occasions that Dan Cupid was getting along fairly well In his attack upon the heart of the pretty San Diego girl. In announcing his daughter's en gagement, Mr. Grant says that the ceremony probably will take place in the Fall. The details of the wedding, however, have not as yet been ar ranged. When seen last night at 706 Flan ders street, where he now resides, Mr. King declined to discuss his contem plated marriage, saying both he and Miss Grant are averse to "newspaper notoriety." He is about 32 years old, and sales manager for the Western Cooperage Company. He came to Port land about a year ago from Toledo, O. The couple have decided to be mar ried in the East, but definite arrange ments for the wedding have not vet been made. They will live In Portland. CHURCH TO SHOW PICTURES Theater Managers Protest Against X'se of Motion Machine. MERIDEN. Conn.. July 2 George M. Lauders, manufacturer and ex-Mayor of New Britain, has donated a moving picture machine to the South Congrega tional Church of that city. The Rev. H. A. Jump, the pastor, plans to give illus trated sermons each Sunday night. He asserts that some inducement is neces sary to get attendance at services in the Summer, and he proposes to give his auditors as good an entertainment as they can enjoy anywhere. it is reported that the theater man agers, who have been prevented by the police from giving Sunday night picture shows, will try to enjoin the church's pictures unless permitted to run their shows. Ythen automobile ririlnx became popular it was said hat the days of the tall :lk hat vrere numbered, but In I-ondon at lrast th shiny "topper- t making a fairlr auc ceaaful flint for existence. BALLfNGER TELLS OF WORK ON HAND 'I'm Not of Resigning Class,' Says Secretary at Smoker in Seattle. ZEALOTS CLOSED ALASKA Cabinet Member Tells of Great Things to Be Done In Develop ment of Territory Defamers Are Scorned. SEATTLE. July 28. "I am not of the resigning class," said Secretary of the Interior Ballinger, at the Arctic Club smoker given in his honor tonight. " "I was not born a resigner, and never in tend to stand in that class. I hope to be able to help the National Administration solve many of the important problems that confront it." The Secretary was greeted with great applause when he rose to speak, the smoker having been arranged as a dem onstration of the faith of the people of Seattle in their townsman. All the pre ceding speakers referred to the tribula tions through which Secretary Ballinger had passed and all eulogized him. Secretary of Agriculture Wilfion said the charges against Ballinger were due to spite and a desire to annoy him. He continued: "In your position of standing by an op pressed man I honor you with all my heart and soul." Secretary Ballinger said: "I am a progressive conservationist, not a standpatter, as so many of my enemies are. There are no National resources that will not be developed if useful for this as well as future generations. The demagogue, fanatic and zealot have closed Alaska tight. "It is the intention of the Government to open and develop Alaska, conserving all its resources at the same time. The ultra-conservationists have tried to roll boulders in my way; but the boulders will be removed. When the country be comes sane we shall be able to get leg islation to develop all the resources of Alaska. If Alaska, with its fertile val leys and mineral resources occupied the place on the map that Greenland does, would the Boston man tolerate the sort of conservation that we are applying to Alaska?"' The Secretary went on to say he had a duty to perform, to the people and to himself for which he was willing to make any sacrifice. "It is small concern to me what any man thinks as long as my conscience tells me I have done all I could do," he said. Secretary Ballinger will leave for Cali fornia next week to inspect irrigation projects. GENERAL STRIKE SEEN TEAMSTERS' TROUBLE MAY DE VELOP INTO BIG WALKOUT. At Meeting Tonight Definite Action May Be Taken for General Sympathetic Strike. A joint meeting of a committee from the Central Labor Council and a com mittee from the Teamsters' Union met Wednesday night in the Labor Temple to take up the question of issuing orders for a general strike, which, if carried out. will involve over 8000 men in the City of Portland. Forty-eight different labor organiza tions were represented at the meeting and from the enthusiasm displayed in support of the striking teamsters, labor leaders do not hesitate to admit that the situation looks serious. While no definite action was taken, the sentiment is strongly In sympathy with the teamsters and It Is thought that some definite action will be taken at a meeting which is scheduled- for tonight. Speaking of the situation William Daly, president of the Oregon Federation of Labor, said: "The bankers and merchants have taken such a decided stand against the advance asked by the Teamsters' Union that we feel that it is time for the various labor unions to take a hand in the matter. The -mere pittance of 25 cents a day asked for by the Teamsters' Union is all that stands in the way of a settlement of the present strike. While I am not ready to say that other unions of the city will go out on a sympathetic strike, I believe that unless the mer chants and business men of the city re treat from their decided stand against the labor unionsit will be necessary for us to take some strenuous measure to protect ourselves." 3,000,000 BAND UNDER WAY Farmers Plan Death Knell to Con gressmen Deaf to Cries. RALEIGH, N. C, July 28. Three mil lion farmers are to band together to at tempt the defeat of members of Congress and other officials deaf to the demands of agriculturists for laws advancing their interests, according to Charles S. Barrett, president of the Farmers' Union. Mr. Barrett said last night the organ ization was working on a list of such Legislators, which will be known as the -Doomsday Book," to be issued before November. BOY HUSBAND IS SUICIDE 1 5-Vear-Old Shoots Self" While Driv ing With Child-Wife. LEXINGTON. Ky.. July 28. While driving with his 15-year-old wife, from whom b,e had been estranged and only recently reconciled. Matthew Bond, also 15 years old, nephew of President Rich ard Crossfleld. of, Transylvania Univer sity, committed suicide yesterday bv shooting. The tragedy occurred on a road near Lawrenceburg, Ky. STENSLAND IS ARRESTED Son or Chicago Bank-Wrecker Is In Trouble. SPOKANE. WashTjuIy 2S.-(SpeciaI.-TUien Theodore Stensland. a prominent Spokane attorney and the son of Paul Stensland. convicted ex-president of the Avenue National Bank. Chicago, called at police station Wednesday and asked I " I.UIIV .-1.11. AUU XLaKCU to see his client. J. w Ranr iiuc.i forger. Captain Miles of the central sta tion placed the attorney under arrest, charged with technical embezzlement or larceny. Stensland had been' sought by the local police for 10 days. Although he had been visiting the station every day for the last week, conferring with his client, he had not been recognized. E. E. "Vogelson, who occupies the same office with Stens land, instigated the arrest and put the police on his trail again yesterday. After the lawyer emerged from the Police Chief's office with a signed order to see George, the captain suspected he was Stensland. , - "Is your name Theodore Stensland?" inquired Captain Miles. "It is," replied Stensland. "Well, you can't see your client this morning. You're under arrest." The complaint charges that Stensland has refused to tender payment of 23 which Vogelson declares- is due him on a lawsuit. Stensland asserts that he has offered payment to Vogelson but that It has been refused. The criminal action will be resisted on the grounds that any difference between Stensland and his former partner is of a civil nature. GERMAN FINANCE WILD BANK FAILS WITH LIABILITIES OF $12,500,000. Manager Uses Funds to Float Indus trial Companies His Ar rest Follows. DORTMUND. Germany. July 2S. The list of bank failures in Germany through excessive speculative operations has re ceived a striking addition in the insol vency of the Niederdeutsche Bank, against which bankruptcy proceedings were begun today. This action was preceded by the arrest of Herr Ohm, one of the directors and the chief manager of the bank, who came to grief through his attempts to found numerous industrial companies which were inadequately capitalized. The liabilities of the bank are placed at 112,500,000, while its capital Is 3,000,000. It is said that the depositors will lose the greater part of their money and the members of the board nearly the whole of their private fortunes. It Is reported Ohm owes the bank a huge sum, and that other arrests are lm pendingj The bank has branches in 10 Industrial towns In Western Germany. ALASKAN LAND SURVEYED Government Plans Subdivision of Agricultural Tracts in North. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, July 2-:. In addition to its other work in Alaska the United States Geolo gical Survey will make public land sur veys under plans approved by the Com missioner of the General Land Office. An appropriation for this work was made at the last session of Congress in an act which authorizes the Secretary of the In terior to make the surveys by means of the department's own employes instead of by contract with other surveyors, as heretofore. It Is believed that under the new system the work will be greatly ac celerated. The appropriation will be used for sub dividing the agricultural lands in Alas ka so that they may be taken up by homesteads. The work to be done this season will cover the arable lands around Fairbanks', where many homesteads have already been taken up. A standard par allel and prime meridian will be estab lished and. if time is available, some township lines will be run. The section lines will be run next season. These surveys will be made under the general direction of Alfred H. Brooks, in charge of the division of Alaskan mineral resources of the Geological Survey. R. H. Sargent will have direct charge of the field operations. He will be assisted by C. L. Nelson, W. N. Vance and S. G. Lunde. Mr. Sargent's . party, which sailed from Seattle for Skagway on July 6, Includes five or six other assistants, and additional men will be employed at Fairbanks, where horses and supplies will be purchased. The work will be carried on by three parties, each Including six to 12 men and six horses. After organizing the work at Fairbanks Mr. Sargent will go by trail to Valdez. He will make pre liminary examinations in the Copper River Valley for the purpose of prepar ing comprehensive plans for land sur veys in that region. Mr. Brooks will leave Washington about tomorrow for Knik and Cook Inlet, where he will make investigations on which to base land sur veys in that district. Later he will visit the Fairbanks parties. Under arrangements already made the superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey will send a party to Fairbanks to make determinations of latitude, longi tude and azimuth to which the proposed land surveys will be tied. DREAD DISEASE ATTACKS Engineer on Big Irrigation Froject Dies of Polio Myelitis. HERMISTON, Or., July 28. (Special.) W. R. Saxton, assistant engineer of the Hermiston irrigation project, died at Hot Lake at an early hour this morning from polio myelitis. Saxton has been,, con nected with the Reclamation Service in this city since the Inception of the Uma tilla project. He was popular with all and his sudden death comes as a severe shock. He had been sick but one week and went to the sanitarium last Thursday, presumably suffering from typhoid. Sax ton's parents live at Madison. Wis., and arrangements are being made to send the body to his old home. He was 28 years old, a member of the Masons and Elks. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and unmarried. During the preliminary work on the then proposed Umatilla project, Mr. Sax ton was the engineer who located the site for the big dam and reservoir cover ing 1700 acres. He also had active charge of a great deal of the construction work, not only of the dam, but of the entire project. TRAIN CANNOT KILL MAN Whole String of Cars Runs Over Him, but No Bones Are Broken. COTTAGE GROVE, Or.. July 28. (Spe cial.) Run over by an Oregon & South western tram two miles east of here at 5 o'clock this afternoon. William Heath. Jr., was picked up after the accident alive and with no bones broken. He sus tained" severe wounds on the head and internal hurts but has a chance of recov ery. The entire train passed over him. Heath was thrown from a carriage un der the cattleguard of the locomotive when the horse he was driving shied at the train. His mother, Mrs. William Heath, and his aunt were also thrown out. They sustained bruises but are not seriously hurt. The occupants of the carriage did not notice the approach of the train and were almost upon the track when it whizzed down upon them. The carriage was com pletely wrecked. i Shirts Manhattan and Gluett Shirts $1 50 Shirts now . . $1.15 $2.00 Shirts now . $1.35 $3.00 Shirts now 2 . $1.95 Sam'l Rosenblatt & Go. Northwest Corner Third and Morrison BLAZE r J EARS OIL TANKS ECGEXE DEPARTMENT MAKES RAPID RUN TQ JUNCTION. Warehouse Fire Threatens Destruc tion of Town, but Damage Is Fl- -nally Limited to 910,00 0. JUNCTION CITY, Or., July 2S. (Spe cial.) A fire originating: In the J. A. Bushnell warehouse at 9:35 o'clock to night did $10,000 damage and threatened to destroy the town. The big warehouse suddenly burst into flames and the proximity of the oil tanks, one containing 10,000 barrels of oil, within 50 yards of trie lire and another contain ing 25,000 gallons' only 10 yards further away, caused great excitement. The Eugene fire department was summoned and the train carrying the apparatus made the trip of 115 miles in 17 minutes. Firebrands started eight or ten bta.zes on roofs of stores and houses', but they were extinguished before doing much damage. The Kugene department kept the fire confined to the warehouse and depot, one end of which was destroyed, along with the pumphouse and water lank. The loss on the warehouse ia $8000, with no insurance, and the railway company estimates its loss at more than $3004. The origin of the fire is unknown. NAVAL CAREER GIVEN UP Candidate at Annapolis Weds and Ends His Chances. ANNAPOLIS, Md., July Sri. (Special.) Smitten by Miss Leona Meade, whom he had met while boarding at the home of her mother at Annapolis, Alfred L. Bruce, of Childress, Tex., a candidate for the Naval Academy, was married at Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland. Saturday night, while reports from the entrance examinations, which he had completed here on the same day, had not been re ceived. Bruce was rather hopeless of having passed, but so were the large majority of the candidates who took the exami nations with him, and yet the report was made today that there was no reason to believe that there had been a greater percentage of failures than usual. Bruce is about 18 years old and his bride is about the same age. Thej hye not returned to Annapolis as yet, and his plans for the future are not known. Even if he 1ms passed his mental examinations for the Naval Academy his hopes for a naval career are at an end, as the rule that the midshipmen shall be celibates is absolute. Everything points to the fact that he deliberately chose to give- up his career, though he has been studying at one of the Annapolis preparatory schools for some time, making special preparations for bis examinations. For That Picnic Party Be Sore and Take Along a Box of cfefeT special Sale and Underwear onouider $2.00 Suits now $3.00 Suits now Hart Schaffner & Marx Summer Suits V4 Off Regular Price Concentrate Your Optic On the Grand Old City of Portland And Watch Her Line Up in the Open Shop Column Which Means Industrial Liberty and Progress In the meantime, do not overlook our midsummer Clearance Sale of Logging Engines, to make room on our shelves for our new line of Hylo-Gear Humboldt and Dnplex Yarders. All guaranteed to be strictly "Unfair" and free from "union label" blemishes. WILLAMETTE IRON & STEEL WORKS PORTLAND, OREGON', V. S. A. x Join the Edison Club ' Have Music in the Home Pay Only $1 a Week The greatest club plan offers, puts within the reach of all, one of these complete Edison Fhonograph Outfits, consisting of one large-size Edison Phonograph With powerful improved spring motor. Plays both two and four-minute records. Large new-styie horn, five two-minute, and five four-minute records, $39.25. Costs Club Members $5 to join, and the outfit is sent home at once. Then pay $1 weekly no interest. The Club is Now Forming Visit the store or write for particulars reESrding- club plan. re Factory Agesta for all makes of tnlklne ma chines and phonographs. Graves Music Co. HI Fourth TO SALEM. ..... . Calls to Salem completed same as local calls in Portland by our Two-Number Service. If you do not know telephone number of party wanted call "Information" and ascertain. The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company Beck Building, Seventh and Oak Streets. i . .., LETTERS OF CREDIT issued by this bank offer a safe and convenient method M-carrying funds for a trip anywhere in this country or abroad. They are, in themselves, a letter of intro duction to any banker and give the bearer standing md credit when among strangers. 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