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... Tni?TT x-n ni?K(:n TTTFSTV4Y. SEPTEMBER 6, 1910. PKICE FIVE CENTS. VOL.. L.-0. lo.ol. - - - ' ' BALKAN SITUATION TWO PATIENTS TRY LABOR DAY IDEAL; GREAT M OPENS BEFORE i 000 FOLK HEARST REACHING FOR NOMINATION T. R. GALLED GDVERNOHS CLASH OVER BALLINGER GROWING CRITICAL NEW'CANCER CURE' DR. OILMAN'S FIRST AMERICAN TEST IS SCCCESSFTL. BK GREEK-BtXGARIAX TRIEXDSHIP DISTURBS TURKEY. BITTER FIGHT BEGIXS IN CHI CAGO FOU PARTY CONTROL. - -1 i v i I CROWDS IMMENSE SHABBY CRANK Conservation Session Grows Lively. HAY AND STUBBS HAVE WORDS Fiery Kansan's Slur Arouses Ire of Washingtonian. MONUMENT FOR PINCHOT "When Muhh. aj lie Would kick Balllngcr Out or Ofrice If Hf Could. Ha; .lump to De fence of Hip scrrctarj. FT. FAIL Kept. .1. The ImmfnM rrowd that heard rrllrnt Tail de liver one of the best speeches of his nrfr before the ConservatlonCnngresa here today mlnnl hearing im very pointed remarku In the afternoon by Ciovernor S tubus, of Kansas. The KanMi executive pulled hta ieevr up to jrlre his arms full swing, loosened his necktie to give play to Ma vocal or scans and proceeded to remark that If be had the power ho would kirk Secretary Balllnger out of office. As be made this assertion he glared at the epectators rho had not followed the President to the State Fair Grounds and then surveyed the other Governors who were on the platform. Hay Defend Balllnger. letter, in private. Governor May. of Washington, took occasion to Inform Governor Stubbs that he considered Secretary Balllnger as white a man as the T'nlted State ran boast 'The people of this country should erect a monument to Glfford Pinchot." began Governor Ftuhbs. "He deserves: It for savins; ttw coal lands of the coun-J try If for nothing else. I don t know shy It Is that corporations and others th-4t want to steal power altos and tim ber want control of natural resources tested In State Legislatures. Kick Him Out." Says Stubb. Anyway. I don't take any stock In this Balllniter Idea, of running things. If I were President of the 1'nlted States I would kirk him out of office In a min ute. "I'd like to aomo of these Alaska oal thieves. I'd put them where they belong. The mUtant Governor of Kansas added that President Taft In his address had raid some true things and said, "I want to give him credit for It." SlubhV Ire Aroused. This brief but pointed address, deliv ered In vitriolic style, was called forth by remarks of Governor Nonis. of Mon tana, who. In advocating state control of natural resources, declared that Mon tana had begun the conservation of her resources before, the Federal Government exer began to think of It. "Isn t It a fact. Governor Morris." demanded Governor Stubbs, "fiat the "National Government had led In the de ielopmenl of Irrigation In the West?" "Yes. in the last three or four years." rame the answer. KanMn Praise IMncliot. Mr. Morris would bnve made further answer, but Governor Stubbs was again addressing the audience. "Yes. In the lait tksree or four years! Why. the movement only got started then, when Theodore Roosevelt and Glfford Pinchot got busy. The Nation ought to erect a monument to them." The Kansan at this point smiled as If amused at his own heat and said more calmly: "I didn't come here to make a speech. I kind of forgot myself. My Intention . was to Introduce Governor Vesaey. of South Dakota." 145 at Afternoon Session. The Introduction was then made. The auditorium, which seats 10.000 persons, was filled to hear President Taft. but the attendance at the afternoon session waa meager to a distressing degree. By actual count there were 144 men and 101 women (.resent. This waa part ly due to the fact that the greater part of the crowd followed the President to the Mate Fair Grounds, and partly to the wording of the programme. The programme scheduled a "Conference of Governors." and addresses by them. Most people took the word "conference" to mean that the Governors would meet prlvVtely and make speeches to them oelves. Ila C'alli Mulihe. Governor Stubbs actid as chairman of the session. When the meeting was over. Governor Hay walked down the aisle with him. "I want to say. Governor Stubbs. that you're no whiter man than Richard A. Balllnger." observed the Washington trader. To this Mr. Stubba made no reply, and Land Commissioner Ross, also of Washington. Joined Mr. Hay. . "t want to add." said Mr. Ross, "that Mr. Balllnger la as white a man as Roosevelt ever had In hla Cabinet that's what we think of Mr. Balllnger out In Washington." "I said what I thought about Ballln cer. and I'll say what I please about him." answered Governor Stubbs. Other Governor present w-ere Gover- Oakland Surgeon's Method, Devel oped In Philippines Government Aitl Him in Work. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 5. (Special.) Suffering no ill effects from tha "cancer cure operation." one of two patlonta submitting to the new oper ation is resting easily at the hospital and the other at home. Before a score of prominent surgeons." Dr. P. K. Oil man. In the first American test of the remarkable cancer cure devised by him self, made plain his theory for the cure of cancer by operating on a woman at the Southern Pacific Hospital. The operation lasted three hours, during which tlmo the malignant growth was removed and the patient Inoculated with serum from the growth. Another patient with a less advanced growth submitted to the "cure" and waa taken home. ' lr. Gilman was horn in Oakland, educated at Stanford and Johns Hop kins Medical College, practiced In Philadelphia, then entered the Govern ment service. It was, while In the Philippines that he was able to test his "cure" on 10 cases. Klghleen of those oprrated on recovered and are apparently cured. After spending two weeks here tr watch the case at Southern Pacific Hos pital. Dr. Gilman will demonstrate his method In Baltimore. New Tork and In Havana, where the British Royal Cancer Institute has Invited him to come. The Federal Government Is do ing everything possible to advance the untiring efTorts of Dr. Gilman to eradi cate the dread scourge from the world, and has voted $400,000 for the hospital of which he Is the head. AGATE GIVES T. R. PICTURE Sell wood Man Find Remarkable Portrait on Stone. John W". Campbell, an old resident of Scllwood. who has been gathering rare minerals and agates for the past 10 years. baa found an agate which bears a striking picture of ex-Presldcnt Rooecvelt. well definled In the delicate coloring of tho stone. Mr. Campbell had the face, of ttje stone polished, which brings out tho face of the ex-Presldcnt. The eye-glasses are there and the teoth are prominent, togother with the chin. The only thing missing ! the big stick, but Mr. Campbell that with a little more polisjhtng and a little stretching of the Imagination, the big stick can be found in the picture. Mr. Campbell docs not pretend to explain how the features of the ex-President came to be photo graphed on the face of the agate, and regards the matter as a mere froak of nature. Mr. Campbell has In his collection a beautiful agate which has the face and form of an Indian woman, clearly donned. VESSELS COLLIDE AT SEA Tapajos Badly Damaged; Other Boat Disappears in Eog. NEW TORK. Sept. 6. With her deck wept clear of lifeboats and rigging and her starboard rail and upper structure raked fore and aft, the Brazilian steamer Tapajos today put Into port, bringing a tale of collision at ea and of the mys terious disappearance of the vessel caus ing It. The Tapajos left New Yorlt yesterday, bound for Brazilian ports, and when pro ceeding under a reduced head of steam about 3i miles southeast of Scotland Ught, suddenly came upon an unknown four-masted schooner bearing down on bcr through the fog. Immediately after the collision the evhooner drifted astern of the Tapajos and was lost to sight In the fog. CHURCH DROPS MINISTER Missouri Clergyman, I'nder Prison Sentence, Dismissed. PLATTSBURG. Mo.. Sept. 6. The Rev. Clyde Gow, former pastor of a Lincoln County Methodist Episcopal Church. South, was today dismissed from the church on charges made against him by Miss Elizabeth Glea son. a school teacherj who died two years ago as ti e result of an operation. Gow Is now under sentence of four years In the penitentiary on the charges made by Miss Gleason. The minister's case has been under consideration by the church for nearly three years. He waa found guilty at a former trial and ordered expelled. He appealed to the General Cornell and was given a second trial, which closed today. GAYNOR WALKS SIX MILES (New York Major Doe Not Seem Ex hausted by Tramp in Sun. ST. JAMES. L. L Sept. 6. Mayor Gay nor walked six miles today in a broiling sun with the thermometer at 79 and the humidity at the same mark. He returned borne dusty and heated, but seemingly fresh. Neighbors with whom he talked think that It will be only a matter of a few weeks before he Is fully recovered. CHOLERA DEATHS EIGHT 14 New Cases in Scourge-Swept Dis trict in Italy. BARI. Italy. Sept. S. In the last : hours there were eight d-nths from cholera and 14 new cases of the disease. Huge Crowd ushers in Festival Week. RACES MOVE WITHOUT DELAY Blue-Blooded Beasts on Exhi . bitlon in Stock Show. WIND KEEPS AIRSHIP DOWN Aviator Will Not Trust Himself to Stlfr Breeze, but flight Will Be Tried Today Two Acci dents Thrill Spectators. TODAY'" riUMiRAMMF. AT LIVE STOCK HHOH'. I A. M. Opening of grounds and concert by T Caprln's band. :30 A. M.a-Judslna of Mock be gins at show stables. 1:00 P. M. Concert by band. 1:10 f. M. Races called. 4:00 P. M. Flight of Curtis bi plane. :00 P. M. Exhibition of broncho "busting." Portland made It clear that the In fttcrest of the populace la keeping pace with the growth of the livestock In dustry In Oregon and the Northwest, when 11.000 people flocked to the Coun try Club grounds for the opening of the third annual meet of the Portland Fair and Livestock Association, early yester day afternoon. The attendance was nearly double that of any one day In the meets of past years. And the show was worthy of the crowd. The pick of the Northwest llve Ftock. world waa at hand. In the tri umphal proceselon of blooded stock. It took no experienced eye to discern that the Northwest breeders have attained high ' ideals. The. procession was as Rplcndid In points, as clear cut. hlgh stepptng and auperb as a Bonheur- study. Wind Prevent Airship Flight. The opening programme held the tense Interest of the vast gathering. It was well arranged, there was a splendid va riety and the racing events were reeled off with snap and dispatch. There was not a single harrowing delay. The only hitch occurred at the end. whe nthe Cur tlss biplane couldn't be sent up on ac count of high wind. Two spectacular accidents sent thrills of excitement through the crowds In the racing events. In the third heat of the 2:30 trot. All Style, a brown stallion from California, ditched his driver. Dana Perkins, and made a wild dash around the track, striking the rail at several points and sending the crowd scurrying. Hunt Club Hitler Thrown. The racing sulkey was broken up but no other damage resulted. In the Port land Hunt Club relay race W. A. Greut ter was thrown while passing the pen nant In the second relay and was pain fully, though not seriously. Injured. That the opening day would be a tre mendous success such aa to assure Port land of remaining the center of . these yearly gatherlnga of Northwestern stook- ( Concluded on Pas 8.) " WHAT CAN A POOR SETTLER DO? Hearst-Harrison Alliance Accuses Committee of Attempt to Pack Convention. ' CHICAGO. Sept. 5. (Special.) White-robed iharmony. as she is pre siding over the destinies of the Demo cratic party in Cook County, appeared today - to have a knife, or perhaps a scythe, concealed In the flowing sleeves of her gown. , A bitter fight for the control of the party organization, with the forces of the present county committee on the one side and the Hearst-Harrison allies on the other has developed, and was tha principal ' topic of discussion among politicians. It has brought accusa tion and counter accusation and is acrid with vituperation and abuse. The county committee force admit that they desire to elect their candi dates for committeemen and retain their hold on the organization. They deny the charges made by the allies, however, that they have plotted to pack the county convention, or to hold it in a theater too small to accommodate the 110 delegates. They say that no plans for the convention have been out lined and that It Is not their purpose to refuse recognition to any regularly elected committeeman. These men charge that Harrison ha allied himself with the Hearstttcs In an effort to secure control of the or ganization In order that the state may be delivered to Hearst when he seeks the Presidential nomination two years hence. They say the same game was tried In New York. BLACK HAND MARKS FAMILY Italian Child Sounds Alarm I y Run ning Through Streets. REGGIO. Italy. Sept. 5. To the ven geance of the Klack Hand Society of New York la ascribed the revolting mur der, early today, of Policeman Rovolino, his wife and five children in the little village of Ilcllero. which lies eight miles south of Reggio on the Strait of Mes sina. At I o'clock this morning, some of the townspeople of HMloro were awakened by the terrific shrieks of a child, and rushing to tho cottage occupied by the Rovolino family, found the 3-year-old daughter of the policeman with her throat cut before the open door of her home, screaming plteoualy. Tenderly picking up little chits', the villagers i-itrWdiier inside the hoirrfe where they were horrified to find the other members of her family lying dead, all having been terribly mutilated by blows from an ax. WARSHIPS SAIL FOR CHILE American Cruisers to Take Part in Centennial Celebration. CHIMBOTK. Peru. Sept. 5. The first division of the I.'nited States Pacific fleet, under command of Rear-Admiral Giles B. Harber. which stopped here on the way to take part in the Chilean centennial celebration, sailed today for Valparaiso. The squadron consists of the Cali fornia. Colorado, Pennsylvania and the Washington. BLEACHER FALLS, BOY DEAD Four Injured When Stand at Boston Hall Game Drops. BOSTON, Sept. 5. The collapse here, during an amateur baseball game, of an ojd bleacher stand carried down more than 200 persons, including many women and girls. One boy waa killed and four were In Jurel. . Morris Sweet. 11 years old,, of Rosbury. died a few minutes after reaching a hospital. Portland Parade Is 32 Blocks Long. 3250 PERSONS TAKE PART Short on Music, Spectacle Is Long on Participants. CHILD IS UNION'S MASCOT One Member of Tllelayers and Help ers Organization Carries Off spring In Procession Bar bers Ride in Autos. - The people of Portland who cam their bread by honest toil could not have asked for a more Ideal Labor day. The fine weather was well improved, aa the crowds at the Livestock Show, the baseball games, the theaters, and on trolley trips to nearby towns attested. But the fea ture of the day was Portland's labor parade. Headed by a cordon of police, and by a band of 31 pieces from the local musicians' union, the parade moved from the corner of Park and Burnslde streets promptly at 2:30 o'clock In the afternoon, and for two hours passed In array before the thousands who had gathered to witness the saectacle. The parade was a long one, covering 32 blocks, and taking 43 minutes to pass a given point. By actual count 3150 persona participated in the pageant. Twenly flve local unions were represented. Painters Make Display. Tho International F, itherhood of Painters local union No. 0 followed the musicians, carrying a banner nearly a block long which Informed the public that all signs used in the parade were painted by the union, and that a mass meeting of organized women clerks will be held on Thursday nTght,' September 8. On the banner was painted a fuc-simile of the painters' union card. "Without exception the luborera partici pating in the parade were in neat attire, the painters and other unions being dressed in white. Each of the painters carried over his shoulder a yard-stick. Many of those who took part in the parade had In their hats cards bearing the works. "Eight hours for machinists." Following the painters came the bridge and structural ironworkers, each man dressed In brand new overalls. Then came the two carpenters' unions, locals No. M and 808. The electrical workers, who followed, were more neatly dressed than any of those In the parade, although they were not In uniform. Child Is Mascot. One member of the tllelayers' and helpers' union carried a little child during a part, at leas, of the parade. He was applauded as he passed. The machinists carried a long banner advocating their cause of an eight-hour day. Twenty automobiles had been secured by the barbers, and many members of tills union rode. The women, members of the United Garment-Workers of America, also rode, their vehicles being decorated with the National colors. The parade passed along Park. Morri- Concluded on Pane 12.) King George's Defenseless Positfon and Intervention of Powers 3fay Insure Peace. VIENNA, Sept. 5. (Special.) The Australian government is watching wlh nervous tension the situation in the Balkans, seeing the possible devel opment of serious trouble In the Fall. Turkey Is impatient at the attitude of Greece on the Cretan question and may be provoked into taking sudden and stern measures, particularly as rumors are increasing respecting an under standing between Greece and Bulgaria. The latter government Is much In censed at Turkey's latest procedure in Macedonia In disarming the Bulgarian population, and probably would have taken some definite action had not Ministers of England. France, Russia, and Italy at Sofia given King Ferdi nand's Cabinet joint warning last week to keep quiet. Nevertheless, the situation is full of anxious uncertainty. The fact that Greece has neither arms nor money with which to wage war offers One strong guaranty of the maintenance of peace. MAN FLEES FIRE; DROWNS Victim Jumps From Burning Launch Into River; Is Unable to Swim. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Sept. 5. (Spe cial.) To escape burning to death, Ed. Campbell, engineer of a launch, jumped Into the Sacramento River a mile be low Isleton, this county, at 2 o'clock this morning and was drowned, as he was unable to swim. Talford Blanks, who was at the wheel ran the burning launch ashore and extlngushed the fire. The body of Campbell was not recov ered. Campbell and Blanks had made a trip to Rio Vista and were returning to Isleton when the gas in the launch was ignited by a lantern and exploded, set ting Campbell's clothing afire. Al though unable to swim, he plunged Into the river. The launch was running r.t full speed, and Blanks could not reach the engine to stop It because of the fire. He was not injured. Campbell was 45 years of age and leaves a wife, living near Isleton. ITALIAN TAKES REVENGE Released From Prison He Shoots , Hostile Witness Dead. , NEW YORK, Sept. 5. Domenlclo Scarpia. a Bayrldge cobbler, just out of Sing Sing prison, where be had served five years for stabbing a woman, walked Into a group of Bay rldge gossips today, shoved them gen tly aside and then shot the man he wanted, Feiipo Crenetto, through the heart. Crenetto's testimony had convicted him and during the trial Scarpia had warned him that he would return from prison to kill him. The police have no clew to his whereabouts. CLERKS REDUCE DEFICIT Co-opcratlon Saves Postal Service $11,000,000 in Year. SARATOGA. N. T., Sept. S. Through the energy and co-operation of the Post- office employes throughout the country a saving of $11,100,000 became possible in the Postoffice Department this year, ac cording to a statement by P. V. Degraw, Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, in an address before the United National Association of Postoffice Clerks, which began Its 11th annual convention here to day. Mr. De Grew assured the clerks that the department favored organization among its employes so long as the ob jects were conilned to the uplifting of the postal service and mutual benefit of the Government and workers. BOND ISSUEIS ENJOINED Denver Get Setback in Fight for Municipal Waterworks. DENVER. Sept. 6. In a decision hand ed down today in the Denver Water Company Fight. Federal Judge Rolert Lewis, while refusing to Interfere with the holding of the bond election tomor row, to vote JS.000.000 in bonds by the city, with which to build a new water plant, enjoined the Issuance of any such bonds even though the people voted for them, and granted the city and' Utilities Commission an appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The opinion was a temporary victory for the New York Trust Company and the Denver Union Water Company. MENACE TO SOIL . FOUND Britons Discover Micro-Organism Which Destroys Fertility. SHEFFIELD. England. Sept. 5. At today's meeting of the British Associ ation. Dr. Russell and Dr. Hutchinson, who have long been experimenting in soil fertility, announced the discovery of the micro-organism which destroys the bacteria essential to the fertility of the soil. A subsequent speaker declared that It was the most Important agricultural discovery made in. 50 years. FOUL TIP KILLS CATCHER Baseball Hits Youth Over Heart and Death Results. SAGINAW", Mich.. Sept. 5. Edward Ballard, 20 years old, was killed in a baseball game yesterday at Wisner. A foul tip hit over the heart while he was catching. Startling Climax Ends Fargo Speech. IMPUDENT MAN HUSTLED AWAY Stranger Is Loath to Believe Outlook Pays for Trip. PHILISTINES SEE COLONEL E.t-PrcsiUcnt Indorses Cause of Labor Kislilly Presented and Urges Many Reforms for Pro tection of Toilers for Wages. FARGO, N. !.. Sept. 5. (Special.) Called a liar in public by a shabby crank, finding, many of the details of his local reception in the hands of men to whom be is politically opposed an.l one of whom served a term in jail while he was President, Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt's day In Fargo was a strenuous one and he left tho city to night with blood in his eye, for he waa advised a scheme was on foot in the Twin Cities to reject at the Conserva tion Congress at St. Paul the pollcle to which he and Gifford Pinchot stand committed. He has fully made up hii mind that if "progressive principles are to be indorsed, he has some pretty serious roughriding before him. Ever since he has been -In North Da kota, the colonel has been in the hands of Philistines. Both at Sioux Falls and at Fargo, the "standpatters" have been in the saddle in all the entertainment arrangements and tho things that they have done to him during the last two days have not been of a character cal culated to soothe his temper. McKenzlc Is Met. Today, when he woke up at the Wal dorf Hotel here, he found himself in the clutches of Alex McKenzie, the politician who served 18 months in a San Francisco jail for his connection with the Alaskan mine frauds: "Jim" Kennedy, McKenzle's first lieutenant, and Representative L B. Hanna, a pro nounced reactionary. A shabby crank appeared on thn scene just at the close of Colonel Rdosevelt's speech this afternoon. He did the altogether unique tiling of put ting the ex-Prcsident In his own Ana nias Club. The Colonel was coming down from the stand and he cllmbal on the railing and shouted: "Who's paying your expenses on this trip, Roosevelt?" "I don't think It is any of your busi ness, my friend." replied the Colone1, "but since you have asked the question publicly, I tell you that the Outlooic Magazine, with which I am connected, is doing it." "Is that so?" said the man, sarcasti cally. "Well, you're a liar. The peo ple of the United States are paying for this junket." Colonel Seizes Arm. As eh spoke the words. Colonel Roosevelt stepped forward quickly and seized his arm Just above the elbow. He explained later that he did not know who the man was or what his lnten tions were and that lie 'nad taken hold of his arm as a measure of self-protection. Although Colonel Roosevelt was the first to act. others ran quickly to ass lot him, and even before the man had finished his remarks, two men seized him. The Colonel did not release hi" grip until the stranger was moving rapidly from the stand. He was eject ed from the platform and swallowed up In the excited crowd. ROOSEVELT PRAISES LABOR Rain Docs Xot Dampen Enthusiasm of Audience. FARGO, N. D., Sept. 5. In an address here today before a great Labor day crowd in which were hundreds of mem bers of trade unions. Theodore Roosevelt spoke words of warm commendation of the Federal Judge who was presiding and had Introduced him, because the judge, by what he had said, had shown him self to be in sympathy with the laboring man. He referred to Judge C. F. Amidon. of the District of North Dakota, and his remarks were applauded vigorously by the crowd. Fargo's Iabor day celebration was al most spoiled by rain, which fell Inter mittently throughout the day. Introducing Colonel Roosevelt, Judge Amidon said that the people assembled there should not forget that, above all, the occasion was one for the laboring men, who were holding their annual celebration: Suggesting that laboring men suffer wrongs that might . be reached by legislation. Judge Amidon called especial attention to the failure of Congress to enact a law providing for compensation for laboring men when in jured, or for their families in the even of their death. Every government of' Europe, with the exception of Turkey, he said, had enacted such laws, eliminat ing from the question of compensation all matters of negligence on the part of Concluded on Page 2.) tCooclauad on pace 2-