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Pages 1 to 12 ! v tt t ' " ! PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. OL. A.AA 11. - -' - ' . i : 1 . -Z ( I nmin tump apipm I iipi nnr rum nnpfl TAFT WILL WIN BY BIG MAJORITY Forecast Shows 295 Out of 483 Elec toral Votes. BRYAN'S DEFEAT ASSURED Only Landslide Can Carry New York for Democratic Na tional Ticket. INDIANA SAFE FOR TAFT Will Carry Ohio in Spite of Dis affected Elements. . MARYLAND IS DOUBTFUL Chicago Tribune Shows Taffs Elec tion Practical Certainty, After Conceding Bryan Solid South and Several Doubtful States. FORECAST BY STATES. t T.ft. California 10' North Dakota. 4 f Connetllcut ... 7 Ohio S3 t Delaware .... 3; Or.gnn 4 t Illinois 27 ( Pennsylvania ..34 f Indiana Rhode Island.. 4 Iowa 13! South Dakota.. 4 t Kansas 1. rtah 3 Main Vermont 4 Massachusetts w ashlnston a a I Ml.hlitan 14 W. Virginia... T 1 I Minnesota ...II WI-onsln IS I I N. Hampshire. 41 Idaho . 3 I . New Jersey., .li' . J New York S'V Total 29S J Brran. f Colorado .V Mississippi 10 7 t Kentucky ...til N. Carolina ...12 T Missouri !' okluhoma 7 7 Ne-ada 3, S. Carolina 9 T Tennessee ....12' Texas IS J Vlrslnia I2j Wyoming 3 Alabama 11 Maryland 8 ! Arkansas .... ' Montana 3 Klo-ida . Nebraska 8 i;eorirl l-'l e 4 Loulsana l Total 1SS 4 t in the above table states usually J I classed as doubtful are Included Id a t the Bryan column. t 1 ..... . ........ .......... 4 CHICAGO. Oct. 24. (Special.) William Howard Taft 295; William Jennings Brran. 1S8. This Is the forecast of the rots in the electoral college by the Chicago Tribune, after a careful study of the conditions In each state and considered In the light of the private predictions of the leaders In each of the political parties. It shows that the Tote given the mar tyred McKlnley In 1900 will be practically repeated a week from next Tuesday. A tudy of the political map of eight years ago compered with the present outlook reveals few changes probable. With but ealne days left tn the battle that has been waged for the last four months, it is ardly probable that there will be any large change in' the situation that will ,cause any considerable change In the .minds of the voters. As regards the -Presidential ticket, the voters have made their decisions. In some of the Stats and Congressional districts there may be some variations that may not be foreseen at the present time. But the battle Is won (Concluded en Page 4.) t "Ha a Air Bnalaeaa Eaverleaeef nts, Slrt b.t I've Gat m Lo ef Valsmbl Theories. BABY GIRL FINDS GREAT SURPRISE GOES TO VISIT AtXT AND FINDS MISSING MOTHER. Daughter's Arrival Also Surprises Woman, Whose Second Hus band Welcomes Her. SAN BERNARDINO. Cal., Oct 24. (Special.) Catherine .Weir, five years old. traveled alone from St. Louis to Chlno, supposing she was coming to her aunt, only to surprise Mrs. Dan Durkee, Jr.; who had not expected her. and In turn to be surprised In dis covering Mrs. Durkee was really her mother, whom she had never known. Five years ago Catherine was given by her mother, newly made a widow, to St Louis neighbors, who reared her in tho belief that they were her parents., Mrs. Weir came to San Ber nardino recently, wedding Dan Durkee. a son of wealthy Chlno Valley people. Mr. Durkee insisting that his bride's daughter Join them. The St Louis family fF.Iled to notify Mrs. Durkee of the daughter's departure, but the little one came through safely, though mak ing two train changes. Arriving at Chlno, she was met by no one, and she only knew her mother as "Auntie Welr." Mrs. Mark Rose remembered the bride's name before her marriage to Mr. Durkee and in tuitively linked the two, taking the child to the Durkee home, when the two surprises developed. WOOLWINE STEPS DOWN Los Angeles Prosecutor Stirs Up Trouble, Then Resigns. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Oct. 14. Thomas L. Woolwlne, city prosecutor, whose charges of vice protection against Mayor Harper and members of the Po lice Commission have resulted In a grand Jury Investigation which is still on, a half score of damage suits for libel, totaling in amount more than 1500.000. and a long-drawn-out heated political controversy, today announced his voluntary retirement from office. Ho had previously been removed as Deputy District Attorney by District Attorney Fredericks, following Wool wlne's efforts to bring his charges be fore the grand Jury. Woolwlne, in his letter of resignation, bitterly scores Fredericks, whom he accuses of block ing his efTorts at uncovering crime- KILLS HERDERS AND SHEEP New Mexico Blizzard Covers Range With Deep Snow. SANTA FE. N. M.. Oct 24. Twenty thousand sheep, grazing on the Cum bres Mountain Range, In Rio Arelba County. 140 miles north of here, are reported to have perished In the blix ard which has raged in that section during the last three days. The storm Is the worst In years, and snow Is from Ave to ten feet deep. Be sides the great loss of sheep, six herd ers are missing and It Is believed they were also frozen to death. NO SPEECH AT CHICAGO Loch Denies Rumor of Presidential Address Next Saturday. WASHINGTON. Oct 34. Both Secre tary Loeb and Chairman Bennet, of the Republican Speakers' Bureau In New York, who was a White House caller today, made the positive statement that President Roosevelt had no engagement to speak In Chicago- before the Marquette Club next Saturday night. , Mr. Bennet added that the President had no intention of speaking In New York. TAFT COIN GOES BEGGING No Takers for $20,000 on Ohloan at 10 to 4. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct 24. (Special.) There has been very little betting here on the National election except tn the way of hats, etc. At Oorbett's poolrooms It has been announced that there Is $30.- 000 up to bet on Taft at odds of 10 to 4, but no one has appeared to take any of this money. These odds are - regarded as fair, since It Is the general impression here that Taft will go In with a large majority. THE CAMPAIGN AFFORDS Worrtee About the Presidential Dlsraltr. STUBBORN GAME FOUGHT TO TIE Navy and Harvard Each Score Six. MIDDIES MAKE FIRST GOAL Touchdown Comes Seven . Minutes After Start. CRIMSON TIES ON FLUKE Xourse Recovers Ball and Makes 60-Yard Dash Across Line. Fierce Contest In Driz zling Rain. YESTERDAY'S GAMES. . At New Haven Yale, 38; Wash ington and Jefferson, 0. At West Point. K. Y. Wert Point, 6; Colgate, a. At Ithaca. N. Y. Cornell. 9; Uni versity of Vermont. 0. At Eranston, 111. Northwestern. 44; Belt-It. 4. At Ogden Salt Lake High, IB; Ogden High. . At Columbus Michigan, 10; Ohio State. 6. At Sloux City Iowa, 10; Mornlng slde. 0. At Logan. Utah Colorado State School of Mines, 23; Utah Agricul tural College, 4. At Reno Goldfleld High School, 6; Reno High School, 0. At Ogden Salt Lake, 15; Og den, 9. At Lincoln, Neb. Nebraska, 8; Haskell,. 0. AiNNAPOLIS. lid., Oct. 24. The Navy and Harvard football teams played each other to a standstill' at the Navy Acad emy this afternoon, the final score being 6 to S. From the standpoint of good football of a variegated sort the Mid shipmen outplayed their opponents. When the first half "ended there had been a battle royal, resulting in the Blue and Gold crossing the Crimson line within seven minutes after play com menced. Harvard had not scored, nor had she been dangerous tothe hitherto uncrossed naval goal line. The Crimson's score was made about the middle of the second half, and was on a fluke. J. T. Doughty Nourse, from his place In the center of the Harvard line, got out and dashed away with a recovered ball on a 60-yard run to the goat Game Played In Rain. Tbero was a drizzling rain, which fell at Intervals during the contest It was 2:44 P. M. when Captain Burr kicked off to Lange, almost under the Navy goal posts. The Navy punted almost at once and the Midshipmen had the pigskin In mldfield. Almost before the Harvard men knew what was happening the Mid shipmen had worked a forward pass f.om Lange to Reiff Snyder. Before the Blue and Gold was downed he had landed the leather deep in Har vard territory. Immediately the same signal was given and the same play was repeated. This time Reiff Snyder caught the pigskin Just as he was cross ing the Harvard goal line. He was not touched until he had trotted squarely behind the. goal posts. Captain North croft kicked a clean goal. Nourse Makes Great Run. Only seven minutes had elapsed since the ball was put Into play. The remain der of the half was largely a punting duel. In which Dalton. the Navy half back, who is considered the find of the season, held his own with Burr. Har vard oame back for the second half dogged and determined, and began to try to bore holes in the Navy line and for the first time, the Crimson backs were able to make something like con- (Continued on Page 5.) HARRY MURPHY AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE A LITTLE HILARIOUS OVER ITS Theory Bad Praetloa. HITS ROCKS, SINKS; 20 OF CREW PERISH BARK LOCH FIXLAS LOST OFF TASMANIAX COAST. Driven Ashore In Gale, Vessel Goes to Pieces and Only Four Sail ors Reach Shore Alive. VICTORIA, B. C, Oct. 24. Additional particulars of the loss of the large bark Loch Finlas was received by the Aorangl yesterday. The bark was lost near Foster's Island near Cape Portland on the Tasmanlan coast and 20 of the crew were drowned. The vessel was first noticed by the crew of the steamer Wybl-a, when the bark was bound towards Foster's Is land. On Saturday.-September 26, she seemed' to be in difficulty, and struck tho rock. A northwest gale was blow ing and a high sea running and the vessel appeared to be on the reef for about an hour. In halt an hour notn lng could be seen of the vessel, which had gone down. . Four Scandinavian survivors were landed In one of the ship's boats. The captain and mate did not leave the ship. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 62 degrees; minimum. 38 degrees. TODAY'S 'Fair; slightly warmer In East ern Oregon; northerly winds. Foreign. Dnke of Abruxzi shadowed by reporters, who expect secret departure for Amerlcs. Section 2, page 4. John E. Searles. ex-suaar king.' dies sud denly In London. Section 1. Page 2. atlonal. Fleet- sails from Yokohama with mutual expressions of. friendship. . Section 1, page A. Politics. Chicago Tribune's election forecast shows Taffs election sure, section x, page x. Chairman Mack predlcU Bryan"s election by S51 electoral -otes. Section 1, page 2. Hearst makes sensational disclosures of hrlherr of Pennsylvania officials and dictation of judicial appointments by Standard Oil Company. section u Page 1. Indiana turn ont eneenng multitudes to hear Taft. See section l. rage l. Bryan answer Taft'a argument on pros perity. Domestic. Charge of conspiracy in disposal of insane woman's estate. Section 1, page 3. Hyde and Schneider say Jury which con victed them was coerced. Section 1, page 2. Morse trial reveals recklesa borrowlngj from broken bank. Section 1. page 3. Child goes to visit aunt and llnda, mother. Section X. ps 1- Gambling element wins at Reno. Section 1, page X. Sports. Multnomah Club defeats Albany College 35- to 0. Section 2, page 2. Pootbal) teams are ready for season's big games. Section 4, page 7. Portland may be In two baseball league. Section 4, page 7. Bat Nelson will enter newspaper neld. Section 4, page 6- -Talk of forming "players league" is again heard.' Section 4, -page 6. Coast League score: Portland 5, Oakland 2; San Francisco 11. Los Angeles 4. Sec tion 2, page 2. Tie game of football between Harvard and Annapolis and between Pennsylvania and Carlisle. Section 1. pag3 1. Robertson wins automobile race for Van- derbllt cup. Section 2. page 8. Oregon defeats Willamette 15 to 0; other Northwest football scores. Section 2, page 2. Pacific- Coast. Washington Legislature, may be asked to dispense with tax commission. Section 6. page 6. Seattle men kills wife and two children, then turns gun on self. Section 1. page fl. Steamer riant, with 30 people aboard, in distress off Coos Bay. Section 1. page & Roseburg Development Congress demands state aid for railroads. Section 1. page 7. Commercial and Marine. Sample grain department will be added to Merchants Exchange. Section 4, page 9. Wheat- weak and dull at Chicago. Section 4, page 8- - Portland and Ylcralty. Portland business men, jobbers and manu facturers discuss probable effect on trade and industry if Bryan should be elected. Section 4. page 10. Bigamist pleads that he was hypnotized Into fifth marriage. Section 1. page 9. Oregon Railway A Navigation Company egaJn protests Its assessment. Section 2, page 12. Date of North Bank opening fixed for November 5. " Section 1, page 9. New clews found in St. John murder mystery. Section 1 page B. Brother of San Francisco telephone official suicide in Portland. Section 2, page 3. Busy week will close Republican campaign In Oregon. Section 2, page 12. Good start Is made on fund for next Rose Festival. Section 1, page S. Councllmen discuss amendment of Cellars saloon law. Section 3, page 10. Real estate business retarded by political campaign. Section 8, page 8. Building Is progressing steadily on East Side. Section 8. page 9. Onlr So-So Pllllns; for a Dinner . . PaU. INDIANA THRONGS CORDIAL TO TAFT Immense CrowdsGreet Him Everywhere. REACHES NEW YORK TODAY Tells Hoosiers Gompers' Talk Is Only Windjamming. OHIOAN DISSECTS BRYAN Kebraskan's Bank Guarantee Plan Held l"p as Evidence That Democratic Candidate Is Still an Unsound Theorist. GARY, Ind., Oct 24. The three days of W. H. Taft's Indiana campaign ended here tonight and the big Ohloan Is now speeding to New York, which is to be tho scene of his activities during the next week. He will reach that city late Sunday afternoon and go at once to tha home of his brother, Harry, for a rest until Monday. In the throngs which greeted Judge Taft from early morning until late to night. In the close attention paid to his utterances and in the cordiality and heartiness of the ovations, his third day in the Hoosler state fully equalled the two which preceded it. Bryan a Theorist. To farmers, laborers and business men Judge Taft has held up the picture of Democratic rule and Democratic promises and compared It with the record of Re publican administrations and Intentions. He has Interpreted his labor decisions many times and- drawn the -conclusion that they havel redounded to the benefit and not to the detriment of organized labor. Mr. Gompers' declaration to the contrary, he characterized as windjam ming misrepresentation. , Mr. Bryan as a political leader has been directed to many audiences. The Ne braskan's plan for government guarantee of bank deposits has been held up as an evidence that the Democratic candidate "Is still a theorist, and an economically unsound one." The effect of the first Democratic tariff was pictured and the prices of products compared under that and the present tariff. Crowd Covers Six Acres. Judge aft has told the people of Indiana that he is willing to admit with Bryan that the present financial dis turbance was a Republican panic "What I am anxious to do, however," he added, "Is to continue It as a Re publican panic, for It will then develop Into prosperity, but If you put In the Democrats you will have a Democratic panic sure enough." Mr. Taft then explained that the panic was the result of too rapid growth and expansion. "And you never heard of a Democratic panic that was the result of prosperity." Beginning at 7:30 o'clock this' morn ing at Greenfield, Judge Taft made 17 speeches. Including hiB effort tonight at Gary. At South Bend a six-acre field was packed with people to greet him. The stand erected In the center of the park collapsed Just before Judge Taft reached it but no one was hurt Speaks From Auto. The candidate addressed the crowd from his automobile. Fort Wayne gave Mr. Taft a tribute of complete attention while he dis cussed the Issues from a stand at a Btreet corner. Senator Hemenway ex plained that Presidents McKtnley and Roosevelt had been treated badly here,, when campaigning, as had also Senator Hanna. James Lennon, who Introduced Mr. Taft at Elkhart Is the engineer who during the Ann Arbor strike became a victim of (Concluded on Page 8.) First Democrat Taft Weil Git 20,000 In Oreajoa. Second Democrat 30,0001 I Should Say Noti Lukj If lie Gets 18)89. RENO WIDE OPEN GAMBLING TOWN GREEX-CLOTH MEX DEFEAT MORAL CRUSADE. Majority of 566 Against Antls Ordi nanceEvil Looked Upon as State Question. RENO, Nev., Oct. 24. (Special.) Reno will rem lan a wide-open town for some time to come, according to the result of the city election held here today, when the gambling element won by a majority of 566 votes out of a total of about 3100 votes cast The election was on a city ordi nance to forbid the running of gambling games under license In the city of Reno. The ordinance was put to the city vote upon petition of the Anti-Gambling League, who made a red-hot fight at the polls. The league opened headquarters about two months ago and has worked diligently ever since, holding mass meetings and spreading literature broadcast and through the mails. The gambling fraternity worked quietly, but the result shows they worked effectively. The defeat of the or dinance is partly due to the feeling that gambling should be stopped throughout the state and not alone In Reno. The fight will be carried Into the Legls lature at the coming session. PLANS FOR GREATER NAVY President, in Message, Will Ask for Many Additions. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-(Speclal.)-The President will ask Congress in his an nual message. It Is said, to grant four battleships annually. He adheres to his belief that this is-necessary. The Presi dent will also urge additional appropria tions for the completion of a naval base at Pearl Harbor and of the Hawaiian coast defenses, and he will probably ask for Increased facilities at Mare Island for handling naval vessels. Another thing the President will ask Congress for Is adequate provision for equipping and de fending the naval base at Guantanamo, where the Navy Department has planned great yards. T.e location of. this naval depot is In the. vloinity of the Panama Canal and Is , regarded as of strategic Im portance. NEGRO JENKINS IS GUILTY Convicted and Sentenced for Murder of Mrs. Mary Morrison. BELLINGHAM, ' Wash.. Oct 25. A Special from New Westminster at 1 o'clock this morning says Jim Jenk ins, the negro accused of murdering Mrs. Mary Morrison, near Hazlemere, B. C, last Summer, was found guilty by-the jury at 12 o'clock last night and . sentenced by the court to be hanged. The Jury was out about five hours. The conviction was secured upon circumstantial evidence. Mrs. Morrison was attacked on the Great Northern tracks in company with her little daughter. After the brutal attack the negro cut her throat from ear to ear. The murder aroused the greatest excitement in this part of the country NO MORE BOXING MATCHES Bingham Puts Lid on Manly Art in New York Citj. NEW YORK, Oct 24. Pugiltsn,. which had been revived in a quiet way fill several years In this city, was, given a hard blow today when Police Commis sioner Bingham Issued an order to police Inspectors to stop every boxing bout scheduled for tonight and In the future within the city. ; The Commissioner's action is believed to have been influenced by the great amount of publicity given a recent fight between Packey McF!arland and Leach Cross. NICARAGUA IS LAID WASTE Town of Rio Grande Destroyed and Railroad Damaged. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Oct. 24. A great storm has prevailed throughout Nicaragua since yesterday morning. Heavy losses are reported, but, as all the telegraph and telephone communications have been Interrupted and the railroad badly damaged. It is impossible to state how far-reaching the storm has been. , Advices, however, say that the town ot Rio Grande, on the Atlantic Coast has been destroyed. CONSPICUOUS FEATURES Republican Coercion. HEARST EXPLODES HIS FINAL BOMBS Standard Oil Letters Sensational. ARCKBOLD AS JUDGE-MAKER Writes Governor Stone Whom to Appoint on Bench. WHOLESALE DEBAUCHERY El kin as Attorney-General or Penn sylvania Receives $15,000 From Octopus to Kill Proposed Legislation. NEW YORK, Oct 24. True to his promise that the final Standard Oil let ters he would read would open the eyes of the American people to the vicious in fluence of the Rockefeller octopus against the public good, and disregarding the threat conveyed to him that with more disclosures the whole Influence of the system would be used to orush him. Wil liam R. Hearst tonight read the most startling and sensational documents yet given out In his campaign work. In substance, letters read by Mr. Hearst from John D. Archbold to officials of Pennsylvania show beyond all reasonable doubt that Standard Oil placed Judges on both the Superior and Supreme Court benches of that state, and in addition, after the payment of J15.000 to Attorney General Elkin, of Pennsylvania, that offi cial was asked in plain terms to kill cer tain proposed statutes because they were Inimical to the Interests of Standard OIL Elkin is now, and has been since 1904, an associate Justice ot the Su preme Court of Pennsylvania. He was Attorney-General from 1899 to 1903, and it was while he held this office that he . accepted money from the oil octopus and used his Influence In consequence to ward off any legislation which might hamper the business of the Rockefeller monopoly. Implicates ex-Governor. During the same period Charles W. Stone was Governor of Pennsylvania. According to letters which the Chief Executive received and which were read tonight by Mr. Hearst, Stone was in direct touch and harmony with 26 Broadway. He was requested by letter to appoint certain men to the Superior Court of the state with the result that Judge Morrison and Judge Henderson, at Archbold's dictation, were appointed owing in part to their "familiarity with oil and gas." The reading of the letters caused the profoundest sensation of any incident of the campaign, and the New Yoik newspaper publisher was received with tumultuous applause, both when he ap peared on. the platform and at the con clusion of his remarks. The Standard Oil letters were read to night at two mass meetings, one in Brooklyn and the other at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. Thomas L. Hisgen, the party's Presidential nominee, John T. Graves, Vice - Presidential candidate; Clarence J. Shearn, candidate for Gov ernor, and other speakers preceded Mr. Hearst at the Carnegie Hall meeting.. Mr. Hisgen was delivering an address when Mr. Hearst walked from the wings onto the platform. Instantly there was a wild outburst of cheering, clapping of hands, and blowing of horns which com pletely drowned the voice of the Presi dential candidate. Mr. Hisgen grace fully gave way to the National chairman of the Independence Party and Mr. Hearst began reading the letters. Standard Oil Elections. At the Brooklyn meeting Mr. Hearst began his speech by saying that the Standard Oil Company has been largely instrumental In deciding every National election for the past 20 years, and then said : "Mr. Cleveland was supported by the (Concluded en Page 2.) 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