Jacksonville post., June 27, 1908, Image 1

VOL.
II.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form lor Our
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
JAC KSONVILLE, JACKSON
SHAH AGAIN MASTER.
Persian Nationalists Driven From Par­
liament Buildings.
Teheran, June 24.—After a bloody
fight, which was waged around the
Parliament building, the city was
comparatively quiet last night, al­
though the Cossacks were camped in
the streets and squares.
Cossacks and soldiers early in the
morning surrounded the Parliament
building and demanded that a num­
ber of persons whose arrest the shah
had ordered be forthwith handed over
to them. The parliament refused to
comply with this demand, and shots
were fired at the troops, several sol­
diers being killed.
Orders were issued from military
headquarters that the parliament
building be bombarded, and the bom­
bardment commenced soon after 10
o'clock. While this was in progress
bombs were thrown fiom the Parlia­
ment building and the mosque build­
ing, disabling one of the guns and
wounding the gunners. Eventually
the halls of parliament were cleared,
but not before many persons had been
killed and wounded. The bombard­
ment continued until 3 o'clock in the
afternoon, when it suddenly ceased.
In the meantime the troops attacked
the political clubs in that neighbor
hood and numerous residences of
of members of parliament, in which
work they were aided by the popu­
lace.
The number of casualties is tin
known, but it will be very large. The
parliament buildings are practically in
ruins. The firing was confined to
Parliament Square, the other parts
of the city being comparatively quiet.
Large numbers of leading national­
ists, including priests and members
of parliament, have been placed under
arrest.
OFFICIAL RETURNS.
OPENING LAKE MINES.
LargestJ Plurality for Congressman
Ever Recorded.
Salem__ The official returns from the
recent election give Chamberlain a plu­
rality of 1,522 over Cake
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for United
”
States senator. While the official can-
vass has not been made, Secretary of
State Benson has tabulated the figures
from the different counties, and the
result is definitely known. There are
some of the abstracts yet to be cor-
reeted by the county clerks before the
official canvass can be made. The of­
ficial returns gave Chamberlain a gain
of 100 votes in Crook county, as com
pared with unofficial reports.
The total number of ballots cast was
in the neighborhood of 115,000, the ex­
act number not being reported L>y all
counties. Since there are some voters
who do not mark their ballots as to all
offices, it is not possible to determine
from the number of votes for any office
the total number of votes cast. The
largest vote was that for senator, which
was as follows:
Stockmen Let Go of Claims and De-
velopment Begins.
Lakeview—It is now more than
two years since the first discoveries of
gold were made in this section, but
still ti)i mine has been opened up.
Most of the good prospects are owned
by sheepmen and ranchers, who are
not familiar with mining, and have
held out)) their claims, expecting that
sonic one would make a rich strike
anil that they could then dispose of
their possessions at a big price Since
this has not been the case, some of
them are letting go now, and the
properties are passing into the hands
of practical mining men. This spring
a number of capitalists and men of
experience in mining have visited this
.section, and some of them have se­
cured either leases or options on some
of the best claims both at New Pine
Creek and at Plush. One of the big­
gest deals was consummated a few
days ago. when a group of claims in
the Pine Creek district was leased for
Amos I Prohibition) ............................. 3,787 a term of years, and the payment
Cake (Republican) .............................. 50,899
Chamberlain (Democratic) ............. 52,421 made was $4000 in cash.
Cooper (Socialist) ................................
Total
5,267
.......................................................... 112,374
Party strength is computed according
to the vote on congressman, and by
this test it is found that the Republican
plurality in the state is 38,762, llawley
having a plurality of 17,048 in the first
district and Ellis a plurality of 21,714
in the second district. This is by far
the largest plurality ever recorded for
congressman in either district. The
plurality, however, is about 4000 short
of the plurality for Roosevelt over
Parker four years ago. The vote on
senator by counties is as follows:
•
Cooper, J. C.
Boe. • .............
C h a m b e rla in .
G. E . (D em .)
( R e p .) ..............
Baker .....................
65
Benton ....................
Clackamas ..........
192
184
Clatsop ....................
90
Columbia ...............
156
Coos ..........................
83
Crook ......................
Curry ........................
87
Douglas .................
16
Gilliam ....................
49
Grant ........................
18
Harney ...................
157
Jackson ...................
Josephine ..............
57
57
Klamath .................
25
T-Jike .........................
198
Lane .........................
30
Lincoln ....................
133
Linn .........................
54
Malheur .................
294
Marion ....................
32
Morrow ..................
Multnomah
630
128
Polk
.....................
41
Sherman .................
Tillamook ............
37
167
Umatilla ...............
125
Union ......................
Wallowa ................
51
145
Wasco ......................
208
Washington ..........
26
XV heeler ................
201
Yamhill .................
Total .................... 3.787
C ake. H . M.
COUNTY.
NEW ROAD FILES ARTICLES.
Astoria, Seaside & Tillamook Line is
Incorporated.
Astoria —Articles of incorporation .of
the Astoria, Seaside & Tillamook Rail­
way company were filed in the county
clerks office here yesterday, by F. L.
Evans, E. Z. Ferguson, H. G. Van
Dusen and W. E. Buffum, as incorpor­
ators. The capital stock is $2,000.000,
divided into 200,000 shares of $10 each.
I he principal office of the company is
to be in Astoria, and, according to the
L’nited States Senator
articles its object is to construct and
operate an electric railroad and tele­
graph and telephone lines from Astoria
to Tillamook via Warrenton. Hammond
and Seaside. It is also authorized to
erect and maintain elevators, docks and
warehouses, and to operate steamers on
the Columbia and Willamette Rivers,
Tillamook Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
44 1,572 1,881 171
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Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy says that
during the past year new Christian
Science societies have been formed at
the rate of one every four and one-half
hours.
27,
1908
NO. 8.
CLOSE CALL FOR TAFT.
A m os, I. H.
Thee Rivers, Quebec, had a million
dollar fire.
The wrapping paper trust has pleaded
guilty, and each member was fined.
Eight persons died and scores were
prostrated from the heat in Chicago.
A second son has been born to King
Alfonso and Queen Victoria, of Spain.
It is claimed many cures have been
effected in a leper colony in Louisiana.
The bribery case against Tirey L.
Ford, of San Francisco, has been
dropped.
Hyde and Schneider were convicted of
land frauds, and Benson and Dirnond
acquitted.
Two men jumped from a speeding au­
tomobile in California, thinking it was
beyond control. Both were badly in­
jured.
Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, pro­
poses to raise one million dollars for
a Democratic campaign fund to elect
Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, presi­
ROOSEVELT IN HAYFIELDS.
dent, and W. J. Bryan, vice-president.
Mulai Hafid has reached the Moroccan
capital and proclaimed himself sultan. Goes Thence With Family to See Big
Yale-Harvard Boat Race.
Woman suffragists in London held
Oyster Bay, N. Y.. June 24.—The
the greatest demonstration ever seen
sun shone at Oyster Bay today, and
there.
the president 'made hay. During the
Taft says he would like
mowing Mr. Roosevelt was content
* ‘ good game of baseball; a
to supervise .the work, but tomorrow
blood.”
morning, when the crop that covers
W. J. Bryan says that “the anti in­ the hillside in front of the president’s
junction plank of the Republican plat- home has ripened, the chief executive
form, as finally adopted, is a transpar- will take a hand in the work. Mak­
ing hay is one of the yearly occupa­
ent fraud.”
tions engaged in by the president on
A collision of electric cars three miles his summer's vacation, and he enjoys
from Portland on the Mount Scott line it thoroughly.
badlv injured six persons, slightly in­
This morning he took a horseback
jured many more and wrecked two mo­ ride, in the heat of .the day he labored
tor cars.
in the field, and just before dinner
An accident to the Portland Railway lay low in a sturdy tree, the useful­
company generating plant a Cazadero ness of which, except as fuel, was
destroyed three dynamos, worth $30,000 past.
Secretary Loeb announced last
each, in about three minutes, besides
about $20,000 damage to turbines and night that the ! president did not ex-
pect to meet Mr.
1
power house.
Taft at New Lon-
don.
A Washington man has applied for noon At 1 o’clock tomorrow after
leave of absence from his homestead on Miss the president, Mrs. Roosevelt.
account of the numerous rattlesnakes. board Ethel Quentin apd Archie will
the Mayflower for New Lon-
He expects to be away helping neigh­ don.
The Mayflower will arrive in
bors during harvest and dares not leave
the Thames Thursday morning. As
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his family alone.
the Mayflower is too large a craft to
James Cantillon, a professional ball navigate the river, the passengers in
player of Marinette, Wis., who was to­ tl he morning will
"• transfer
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Z., . Sylph,
to the
tally blind, regained his sight at Belle­ which will precede the Mayflower ■ to
vue Hospital during a fit of hysterics, the mouth of the Thames.
which followed the surgeon's announce-
nient to him that his case was con
missionaries ; besieged .
sidered hopeless.
A Jap spy has been caught with Kurds in Persia“Strike Terror to
complete plans of New York forts.
American^ Residents.
St. Petersburg, June 24.—The Novre
The Prohibition party is raising the
biggest campaign fund in its history. Vientya today published a dispatch
from a correspondent who has just
Crops in southern Minnesota were completed a perilous trip from Tab­
badly damaged by a wind and hail riz, Persia, to Urumiah. through a
storm.
country swarming with pillaging
Taft has not yet selected a chair­ Kurds. He declares that Urumiah is
man for the Republican national com­ now completely surrounded by Kurds,
who are ravaging the villages on all
mittee.
sides up to the gates of the town. The
More than 50 New York militiamen sound of firing is constantly heard.
gave out from the heat and over­
The missionaries at Urumiah have
exertion of a five-mile march.
held a meeting and sent out to their
A New York man plans to propel respective countries a statement of
and control an immense balloon with the critical position in which they find
a 45-horse power automobile engine themselves.
suspended from the balloon.
Turkish regular troops are close
_ _ L bat-
__
A man committed suicide by throw­ behind the raiding Kurds. Two
ing himself in front of a New York taiions of infantry, two squadrons of
subway train, almost causing a panic cavalry and a battery of artillery have
among the crowd who witnessed the occupied villages three miles from
Urumiah. and six days ago one bat­
act.
talion of infantry and five batteries
The jury in the Hyde-Benson case of the Sixth division of cavalry went
is still unable to reach an agreement. into camp in the region around Suj-
Bryan feels sure of the Democratic bulant to settle the dispute between
nomination, figuring out 116 votes Turkey and Persia.
more than enough to win.
It is declared at the foreign office
Virgil Gavin, who played ball with here that Russia has made continual
the Chicago Nationals and New York representations to the porte about
the situation, but without result up
Giants, is dead.
to the present time. Russia has not
The first steamers frjjm Seattle this yet decided upon any more aggressive
season have reached Nome, after a steps.
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hard battle with the ice.
Cholera Among Troops.
Races will be held next year under
Manila. June 24. — Cholera has
the auspices of the U. S. Signal Service
between balloons and'aeroplanes.
broken out among the troops at Camp
Gregg The scouts and one civilian
Denver police were enjoined from have died from the disease, and the
interfering with race track gambling, camp has been placed under quaran­
and bookmaking is carried on freely.
tine regulations. Lieutenant Jones,
The American auto has overtaken of the First Cavalry, and Lieutenant
and passed the German machine in the Muldoon, of the Philippine scouts,
New Yorkto-Paris race.
They are have been stricken. The situation
with regard to the cholera outbreak
now crossing Siberia.
in the province of Pangasinan, on the
James J. Hill says the crop prospects island of Luzon, is very serious
for the year are good, and as the crop Ninety-three cases have been reported
will not' be an unusually large one, it in the last 24 hours, 60 of which have
will bring good prices.
proved fatal.
E. G. Bethel, the English editor ar­
rested for seditious utterances at
Seoul, has apologized for the publica­
tion. and says he was misinformed.
COUNTY, OREGON, ,J I NE
38
1,071 1.063
2,132 2,666 258
887 1,24 5 236
732 203
898
1,505 1.386 412
936 107
684
3o
263
190
1,903 1,892 234
448
24
453
653
64
699
395
58
466
1,702 2,182 261
949 215
908
669
87
725
4 50
31
383
2,981 2,322 339
530
82
482
1.940 2,339 232
55
610
791
3.309 3,235 163
631
491
79
12,176 13,243 793
1.305 1,468 135
20
354
4 42
4 17 105
54 4
2.071 1,777 155
1,550 l,l<7 183
908
801
87
1,700 1.64 3 137
1,91 1 1,778 120
390
327
11
1,698 1,565 134
50,899 52,421 5.267
UMATILLA DAM FINISHED.
Water Soon Ready for 20,000 Acres
of Arid Land.
Hermiston.—The dam of the Uma­
tilla project is practically complete and
the distribution is nearing completion
as rapidly as men and teams can do the
work. In a few w’eeks nearly all the
men who have been employed on the
project will have departed and one of
the largest and best irrigation schemes
in the northwest will be in shape to
water 20,000 acres of arid land. J. T.
Whistler, chief engineer on the project,
has already left for Portland, where he
will open an office, having resigned his
position with the United States recla­
mation service.
D. C. Henny, supervising engineer
for the reclamation service, has stated
that he expects Secretary James R.
Garfield here to visit the project about
July 15. He will doubtless make a
tour of inspection of the various proj­
ects and his visit here w’ill doubtless
result in helpful suggestions to the set­
tlers. He will be the guest of the
board of directors of the Water Users’
association while here.
Josephine County Going Dry.
Grants Pass.—Judge Jewell, of'the
Josephine county court, has ordered
that all saloons be closed ill Josephine
county on and after July 1. The liquor
dealers have been notified, and so far
as now appears no objections wi'l hr
made to the order The 10 saloons of
this city, and nearly all the country
and mining camp saloons of the out
side precincts arc already preparing
to close. The goods on hand are b<
ing disposed of as rapidlv as the
thirsty will buy, and it'is evident that
after July 1 tfiere will be very little
liquor on hand in this county.
Fruit Inspector Busy.
Marshfield.—M. G. Pohl, fruit in-
spector for Cdos county, has finished I his
work of inspecting orchards for the sea-
■
son. He reports that he has visited 11*4
different orchards and inspected 96.968
fruit trees. In many instances improve­
ments were demanded by the inspector
Eleven'Die From Heat.
and complied with by the owners, and
Chicago. June 24.—Eleven deaths the condition of the orchards in the
due to heat prostration or allied county is said to be first class.
causes were recorded in Chicago
to­
igo to-
Fair at The Dalles.
day. The thermometer again
_ __ climbed
.limbed
to above 90, but late this afternoon
The Dalles — The mid - summer
a shift in the wind brought relief, and meeting of the State Horticultural
it is believed that the torrid wave has Society and Cherry Fair will be held
broken.
at The Dalles on June 30, July 1 and 2.
Breaking of Piston Rod on Engine
Nearly Wrecks Train.
Dennison, O., June 23.—Secretary
Taft had a narrow escape tonight
from being involved in a serious
wreck on the Pennsylvania Flyer,
which was carrying him east
Prompt action of the towerman in
a signal station a third of a mile east
of Coshocton, and of the engineer
of the flyer, alone averted what might
have been a dreadful accident.
As the train was speeding along at
the rate of 50 miles an hour, the pis­
ton rod on the left side of the loco­
motive broke short off. Almost in­
stantly the cylinder of the engine was
cracked by the unmanageable rod.
Secretary Taft and National Com­
mitteeman Kellogg entered the din­
ing car and sat down to dinner after
the accident occurred without thought
of anything serious in connection
with the stopping and delay of
the train. The Secretary made no
comment on the incident when in-
formed of it. The engineer of the
locomotive explained that it was
merely good luck that averted a bad
accident.
"If the piston rod, after it broke,
had gone tinder the train," said he.
"we would have gone into the ditch,
as we were running 50 miles an hour,
and the derailment would have been
a serious matter. Fortunately the
broken rod landed six or eight inches
outside of the left rail. That saved
us.”
TURBINES RUN WILD.
Strange Accident Wrecks Cazadero
Power House.
Portland. June 23.—An accident to
the machinery at the Cazadero power
plant of the Portland Railway, Light
& Power Company early yesterday
morning caused the complete wreck­
ing of the station, entailing a loss of
$110,000. Flying pieces of hot metal
and burning insulation set fire to the
building, destroying inflammable parts
of the structure. Two operators who
were on duty at the time had a mirac­
ulous escape front instant death.
The three big water wheels “ran
away,” one after the other, the gen­
erators to which they were coupled
flying in pieces and wreckage from
each machine in turn disabled the
next water wheel. Huge parts of the
monster
dynamos
were
hurled
through the brick walls to the station
and through the iron roof.
Although the two operators on duty
were right in the midst of the flying
wreckage, they escaped without a
scratch.
Good Job Vacant.
Salem.—The election of Robert G.
Morrow to the office of circuit judge in
Multnomah county will create a vacancy
in the position of supreme court re­
porter, which Morrow has held for a
number of years. There arc already
four or five candidates for the place.
The supreme judges select the court re­
porter. His duty is to arrange copies
JAPAN WEAKENS.
of supreme court decisions for the
printer and to write syllabi to be pub­
lished at the head of the decisions. His Would End Chinese Boycott by Re-
mitting Indemnity.
compensation is $500 per volume, which
means about $750 per year. The work
San Francisco, June 23.—Sochita
does not interfere with private practice. Asano, president of the Toyo Risen
Kaisha Steamship Company, reputed
Warehouse for Canby.
to be the second wealthiest man ill
Canby.—Work has begun on the new Japan, ranking next to Baron Shi-
warehouse of W. H. Bair, and the new busawa, has arrived here en route to
building will be one of the best and New York on a financial mission.
Speaking of the boycott against
most complete warehouses in the valley.
The structure will be 50x100 feet in Japanese goods in China, Mr Asano
size, with concrete cellar, and two floors, said that Japanese trade had suffered
with paper-lined air spaces in the walls, severely because of the boycott re­
making the building frost-proof. This sulting from the Tatsu Marti affair,
makes four warehouses of this kind at but he did not expect it to continue
Canby, and makes Canby the best mar­ much longer.
The Chinese were feeling its reflex
ket along the Southern Pacific, in this
influence, and lie thought that finan­
vicinity.
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cial considerations would soon out­
weigh sentimental reasons.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
A different version is brought by
Thomas F. Millard, the author, who
Wheat—Track prices: Club, 88c per was a fellow passenger of Mr Asano
bushel; red Russian, 86c; bluestem, 90c; on the steamship Mongolia. Accord­
Valley, 88c.
ing to Mr. Millard, the boycott is
Millstuffs—Bran, $26 per ton; mid­ hurting Japauese trade so severely
dlings, $30.50; shorts, country, $28.50; that the government, through the
citv. $28; wheat and barley chop, merchants of the empire, called the
$27.50.
Chinese merchants in Japan together
Barley—Feed, $25 per ton; rolled, in order to make a proposal to end
the boycott by remitting the indem­
$27.50@28.50; brewing, $26.
Oats—No. 1 white, $27.50 per ton; nity exacted in the Tatsu Marti inci­
dent.
gray, $27.
Hay—Timothy, Willamette Valley,
Buried in Ancient State.
$17 per ton; Willamette Valley, ordi­
Honolulu, June 23 The funeral to­
nary. $15; Eastern Oregon, $18.50;
mixed, $16; clover, $14; alfalfa, $12; day of Prince David Kawananakoa.
who died recently in San Franisco,
alfalfa meal. $20»
Dressed Meatft—Hogs, fancy, 8c per and whose body was brought here on
pound; ordinary, 7c; large, 6c; veal, the steamship Manchuria, was one of
extra, 8c; ordinary, 6(/i)7c; heavy, 5c; the most imposing royal funerals evr
held in Hawaii. The ceremony was
mutton, fancy. 8(7/9e.
Butter—Extras. 25c per pound; fancy in accordance with the ancient II i
waiian usage in the case of chiefs
24c; choice, 20c; store. 16c.
The First regiment of the National
Eggs—Oregon, 17^r7/18Ac per dozen.
Cheese—Fancy cream twins, 13c per Guard of Hawaii, a detachment of the
pound; full cream triplets, 13c; full Twentieth infantry from Fort Shafter
cream Young Americas. 14c; cream ami marines and sailors from the
brick, 20c; Swiss block, 18c; limburger, battleships Maine, Alabama and St
Louis, now in the harbor, marched
20c.
Poultry—Mixed chickens, 11(77)1 l^c in the funeral procession.
per pound; fancy hens, 12c; roosters,
9c; fryers. J6(77)17c; broilers, 16(77)17c;
Plague in Port of Spain.
ducks, old, 15c; spring, 15(3)20Ae;
Port of Spain, June 23. Since June
geese, 8(77)9c; turkeys, alive, 16(77)18c,
for hens, 14(7^ 16c for gobblers; dressed, 15 there have been four new cases of
plague here, resulting in three deaths
17(77 19c.
Potatoes—Old Oregon, $1*77)1.10 per The fourth case is in the isolation
hundred; new California, 2(q)2|c per hospital Active measures are being
taken by the sanitary corps in de­
pound.
Fresh Fruits—Oranges, fancy, $3.25 stroying rats and cleaning up the
(7*3.75; lemons, $4(77)4.75; strawberries. city About 150 persons who came
50r(7r$1.25 per crate; grape fruit. $2.75 in contact with these cases are now
fa 3.25 per box; bananas. 5|(7i>6c per in the observation camp, but up to the
pound; cherries, $1(5)1.25 per box; present there is no sign of infection
gooseberries, 5c per pound; apricots among them. The medical authori
$1*77 1.25 per crate; cantaloupes, $2.75(77) ties take a very hopeful view of the
3.25; blackberries, $1(771.25 per crate; situation, and expect to be able to
poaches, 90c(7>$l per crate; plums, $1 eradicate the disease at an early date.
per crate.
Seventeen Condemned.
Onions—California rod. $1.65(77)1.75
per sack; Bermudas. $2 per crate; gar
St. Petersburg, June 23 —A man
lie, 15*7720/* par pound.
and won««.!, have been condemned to
Hops—1907, prime and choice, 5(<z)5|e death at Warsaw on the charge of
per pound; olds, 2(^2}c per pound.
being implicated in a recent attempt
Wool -Eastern Orogen, average best. to kill General Skallon, governor
6(oJ3%c per pound, according to general of Warsaw. Seventeen death
shrinkage; Valley, 10<6)12}e.
sentences wer announced today from
Mohair—Choice, 18(^18}c per pound. other towns and cities in Russia.
Roll of States Called by Meya
phone Anid Uproar.
ROOSEVELT STAMPEDE A FAILURE
Nominating Speech Made by Senator
Burton — Taft’s Name Starts
Whirlwind of Enthusiasm.
Chicago, June 19.--For president of
the United States, William H. Taft, of
Ohio.
Taft on the first ballot, Taft by 702
votes, Taft by the uiiauimous choice of
the convention.
Such is the reeoid of the culminating
day of the Republican national conven­
tion of 1908, effected amid scenes of tu­
multuous enthusiasm, and after a nerve-
racking continuous session lasting near­
ly eight hours. With the president
named anil the platform enunciated,
there remains only the nomination for
vice president to complete the momen­
tous work. Last night the whole city
was given over to wild exultation in
honor of the new candidate, whose
name goes echoing througli the country.
The picture witbin the walls of the
vast amphitheater as the presidential
candidate was named was one truly
grand in its magnitude. In front, to
the right and left, below and above,
the billowing sea of humanity, restless
after hours of waiting and stirred from
one emotion to another, was in a fever
of expectancy for the culminating vote.
The favorite sons of other states had
been named, save Knox and La Follette,
and now on the rollcall came Ohio.
As the Buckeye state was reached,
the tall, gaunt form of Theodore E.
Burton, with student like face and se­
vere black, clerical garb, advanced to
the platform to nominate Ohio's candi­
date. He spoke fervently, with the
singing voice of an evangelist, which
.ent ringing through the great building.
The close of his speech of nomination
was the signal for the long pent up
feeling of the Taft legions. Instantly
the Ohio delegates were on their feet,
other Taft states following, while the
convention hosts in gallery and on floor
broke into a mad demonstration.
“Taft, Taft, W. 11. Taft,” came in a
roar from the Ohioans. Megaphones
seemed to spring from concealed places
and swell the Taft tumult into thunder.
A huge, blue silk banner bearing the
familiar features of the statesman sec­
retary was swung before the delegates,
awakening a fresh whirlwind of en­
thusiasm.
All semblance of order had been
abandoned, and the delegates were a
maelstrom of gesticulating men. The
guidons of the states were snatched
up by the Taft enthusiasts or horno
under by the storm of disorder. The
band was inaudible a mere whisper
above the deafening volume of sound.
For 10, 15, yes 20 minutes this uproar
was continued. It was a repetition of
the scene of Wednesday, when the name
of Roosevelt brought the convention
into a frenzy. But there is a limit to
the physical resources of throat and
lung, relays had not been established
and at last the tired voices died down
to a hoarse shout and subsided.
This lull now gave the opportunity
for th)' speech seconding Taft's nomina­
tion by George A. Knight, of Cali­
fornia, his big, round face beaming
forth on the sympathetic multitude and
his sph-ndid baritone voice going forth
like the tones of a great church organ.
California's tribute to Taft was brief
and fervid. Now there was another
lull in the Taft, movement, while the
remaining candidates were placed in
nomination.
The secretary was powerless to make
his call of states hoard above the deaf­
ening clamor. Seizing a megaphone, ho
shouted the roll of states: “Alabama,”
“Arkansas,” but his voice was swal­
lowed up in tHe mad uproar. Gradu­
ally. however, the curiosity of the mul­
titude conquered its enthusiasm and it
lapsed info silence to hear the result of
the call. A hush of expectancy hung
over the assembly ns the call proceeded.
Hasty summaries showed that Taft
was l far in advance. When New York
was reached the Taft column totaled
427. Ohio carried the Taft total to
511, or 20 more than enough to nomi-
nate. Still the call went on until the
final result was announce)! by Chair-
man Lodge:
“For Theodore Roosevelt, 3 votes;
for Joseph B. Foraker, of Ohio, 16
votes; for Charles W. Fairbanks, of
Indiana, 40 votes; for Joseph G. Can­
non. of Illinois. 58 votes; for Robert
La Follette, of Wisconsin. 25 votes; for
Charles E. Hughes, of New York. 67
votes; for Philander ('. Knox, of Penn­
sylvania. 68 votes, and for William II.
Taft, of Ohio, %)2 votes.’»
Noble Act of Roosevelt.
London, June 19. The news of See-
ri-tnrv Tuft's nomination was received
too kite for editorial comment in tho
morning papers, except the Times,
which says: “It is the greatest anil
mo«t striking nf all Roosevelt’s many
Victorios. Bv the unflinching exertion
of his personal will President Roosevelt
defeated th)* undoubted will of the Re­
publican party, and what is hardly lea*
certain, the will of the American peo­
ple. He has chosen to sacrifice his
personal ambition in his sense of duty
as a citizen. It is a noble act.”