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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
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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-
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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
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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
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"Our Campaign Fund
People.
la From the