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PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY. JUNE 8, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. XLVI. XO. 14,196. TO STRONG AS FLOOD Surely Choice -of De mocracy'jn 1 908. ONLY ROOSEVELT CAN BEAT HIM Wattersor Calls on Gold Dem ocrats to Join. HEARST FACTION FIGHTING While One State After Another De clares for Kcbraskan, Hearst Controls the Congressional Campaign Committee. WASHINGTON. June r. (Special.) Elections, conventions and expressions from prominent men within the last few days have done much to shape the programme for the next National cam paign. William Jennings Bryan Is slated for the Democracy's candidate for the Presidency In 1908. Nothing except death will prevent the carrying out of the programme. As matters now stand, only one man can defeat Mr. Bryan at the polls two years hence. His name Is Roosevelt. Washington is settled In its convictions as to the situation and the foregoing statement represents Its views. The Bryan movement, after having been held In leash these many weeks, at last has been launched with great gus to. The action of the Indiana Demo cratic State Convention today, the In dorsement of Bryan in the resolutions adopted, is regarded here as of the greatest significance. Previously the Bryan propaganda had been given a prodigious shove by the Democratic organizations in Arkansas and South Dakota. But that isn't all. Ex-Governor David R. Francis, of Missouri, has sounded the battle cry v.i. ,M u. conserva tives. Mr. Francis, an ex-member of a Cleveland Caoinet. was with the Gold Democrats In 1896 and 1900. He Is back In line. So are the rest of the old Cleveland Democracy. Bryan Is to be the choice of the conservative Demo crats and he also will have behind him all his former following. When Mr. Bryan returns home In September from his tour of the world, ho will receive an ovation such as has been accorded to no American since General Grant's time. AVATTERSOX IS 017TC FOR BRYAN Declares Movement Will Nominate Him Before Convention. LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 7. (Special.) In tomorrow's Courier-Journal, under the caption, "Hurrah for Bryan," Henry WatterBon comes out flat-footedly for the Nebraska statesman, and says in an In terview hat the sound money wing of the Democratic party of 1896 will rally to his support. Mr. Watterson editorially says in part: "There Is good reason for the belief that long before the assembling of the National Democratic Convention of 1908 William Jennings Bryan will have been put in nomination by states enough In their separate and several conventions to leave to the larger body only the busi ness of confirming an already agreed candidate, the selecting of his yoke-mate and the building of a platform. The Nebraskan is at the best of his powers. If the party cannot be united upon him, upon whom else? Let States Name Bryan. "There Is a living hope among the Democratic rank and file that we can carry the next election, and a latent fear that the chance of doing so may be blighted by possible factionalism muddled by misleading influences, per haps by corrupt and corrupting influ ences. These Democrats refuse to take two bites at a cherry. Mr. Bryan la as good as he will be two years hence. They intend to say so. They do not Intend to wait. What he will most need will be moral support, and this they mean to heap up In sufficient measure and in advance.- As a consequence, each state, : ; l.v.st in the West and South, which !!!; -i convention tor any purpose from novi- onward, will follow the lead of Mis souri, i Arkansas and Indiana, naming him as the, standard-bearer for 1908. " " Free Silver Emotion. ''The people have lost tho. control of their Government, and they begin to feel It, to see it. to know it. The free silver emotion, for It was little else, was merely the manifestation of a distemper of whose real nature and extent in 1896 the country was not fully advised. Some thing ailed It. It cried aloud, and. In answer to its cry, various doctors ap peared, many of them empiricists, most of them strangers, but all of them 1ir-sJ ing a nostrum, which, as everybody o tt now to realize, was not a remedy atjll. If Mr. Bryan had been elected in 1896 and the free silver cure-all could have been tried, it would have brought no relief. On the contrary. It would have resulted in overwhelming disappointment and reaction. Indictment of Republicans. "The Republican party is a mammoth trust. It Is the greatest of all syndicates; it could not. If It would, mend any of the abuses which have grown up under RUSH BRYAN its ministration and which appear In every department of the political, com mercial and economic arena. It Is re sponsible for the conversion of the pub- 'iictrteliways to private uses, for the di- 1 ! , ... 1 IUC HI' " I I revenue" W'jjurposes of emolument, for .the consoliuatlon. of --all official power in a few hands at "Washington, the con centration '.of jail financial power to a few hands In a few mfcnv titers. . for the elimination of the spirit and sense of accountability from the party fabric, for the corruption of the very sources of the legal fabric in the Legislates and the electorate from one end of the land to the other. - Bryan" Has Earned Reward. "Mr. Bryan has served his probation and earned his reward. That in his per son stands an actual and visible victim of all that Is wicked and criminal in our policies, that with Increasing years and study and travel has come Increasing wisdom, that, in short, he can be trusted to take the helm and to steer lis away from the breakers of gang and graft politics, having its headquarters in the Republican steering committee of the Senate and in the Republican Speaker and his rules committee of the House such Is the meaning and portent of the Bryan boom and movement, which, upon the 'return of the native,' will at once receive an impetus and acceleration great enough to allay all doubt of its spontaneous and popular character. No Sores Nor Scores. "The Courier-Journal accepts the situ ation heartily. It is a Democrat, pure and simple. It nurses neither sores nor scores. Nothing has ever entered the head of it about Mr. Bryan which it did not long ago kick out at the heel, and It proposes to labor earnestly and unceas ingly to make his election an accom plished fact, entertaining the while the very liveliest and largest hope." FACTIONS FIGHT UNDER COVER Hearst Controls Congressional, Bryan National Committee. WASHINGTON. June 7. (Special.) If William Jennings Bryan and William R. Hearst are working together for the success, of the Democratic party, no evidence of that fact Is apparent in the present condition of the party as it approaches the coming Congressional elections. In fact, a leading Demo crat of the country is authority for the statement that the Democrats are now approaching a party feud which is worse than anything of the kind it has encountered before. Events of the past week make It plain that under the sur face grave trouble Is brewing and the Indications are that it will continue to brew with increasing energy until 1908, at lease. William R. Hearst has captured the Democratic Congressional . committee almost to a man. It is doubtful if one third of the present comriilttee is op posed to him. It is certain that the whole machinery from Chairman Griggs down Is for him for anything he wants. Almost every Hearst man in Congress is on the committee, which speaks for Itself In showing the smooth work done by the friends of the New Yorker. Mr. Bryan had no part In the capture and. as a matter of fact, his friends, headed by Thomas Taggart, of Indiana, chairman of the National com mittee, would give a great deal if they could upset It. The proferred co-operation of the Na tional committee with the - Congres sional committee, which was turned down flat by the latter in Washington this week, was a smooth scheme on the part of Taggart and a few of his friends to get in on the inside of the Hearst movement. The purpose was probably to put a peg In It at every opportunity. INDIANA SHOUTS FOR BRYAN Flatform Indorsing Him Received With Outburst of Cheers. INDIANAPOLIS, June 7. Democrats of Indiana today adopted a platform strong lv indorsing William J. Bryan for the Presidency, and selected a state ticket for all officers except Governor and Reporter of the Supreme Court. Benjamin r. Hhlvelev. of South Bend, former Repre- sentative In Congress from the Thir teenth Indiana District, was permanent chairman. In a stirring address on the origin of the graft epidemic, the speaker alluded to the case of United States Sen ator Mitchell, of Oregon. That which Is today eulogized and approved as -broad statesmanship and enlightened patriotism in Theodore Roosevelt was only , rw years ago denounced as reactionary. revolutionary and unpatriotic In "William Jen nings Bryan. The afterslght of the one is almost equal to me toresigni oi vne uuir. Mr. Shively said: . The use of governmental power for private purposes Is the beginning of what Is today called graft. Such n of governmental power creates a dlrtlnct class In the country, with Interests special and apart from the interests common to thetr fellow citizens. The bene ficiaries of governmental power unconsciously come to regard their own peculiar privileges as of paramount public concern. They come to countenance and even support other atauaea and mischiefs in Government so long as their own special advantages are conserved The result of this old system of farming out the rowers of Government has been to bring Into the Republic a confederacy of special privileges that la today contesting for supremacy with the American people. In exchange for the favors it has received and expects to receive, it has for many years capitalized the Republican organization, financed its conventions, secured the election of Its candidates, and required them to stand' pat after they were elected. The McCalls, McCurdys an-t Alexanders had witnessed the trust properties of Government turned over to private interests and power farmed out for selfish gains. They had wit nessed those functions which had been con ferred for beneficent purposes transformed into merchandise. They could not appropriate the great trust funds in their charge for political purposes without crime. The chairman and the treasurer of the National Republican Com mittee could not receive those funds without crime. Yet. because of the moral turpitude, born of persistent and successful merchandis ing in power, these men not only made this criminal use of trust funds, but openly ami unblushingly Justified It. Republican United States Senator Mitchell had witnessed the wrongful appropriation of the public property to private individuals un der the forms of law, and he and his associ ates attempted the wrongful appropriation without the form of law of 300,000 acres of the public land, and he died on his way to prison. A Republican United States Senator from Nebraska peddled out the postofflces of IConcludCo M J PACKERS PROVE WEILL 11 TARTAR Make Case' Worse. by : Their Questions. TELLS MORE OF WHAT OAW Accuses Friends of Beef Trust of Quibbling. FLOORS CAKED WITH FILTH President's Investigator Describes Scenes In Chicago Packing Houses Wilson Admits Loss of Foreign Trade. WASHINGTON, June 7. His charges against the meat packers were repeated and enlarged upon today by Charles P. Nelil, Commissioner of Labor, in his tes timony before the House committee on agriculture. He was subjected to a close cross-examination, especially by Chair man Wadsworth, the author of the bill to make the Government pay the cost of Inspection, and Mr. Lorimer. Republican boss, of Chicago, and he even accused these' gentlemen of quibbling and seeking to discredit him. He was championed by several members of the Committee, who resented the tone of some, of the ques tions. The effect of the questioning was only to emphasize the worst of Mr. NelU's charges. He described floors, black wun filth, which all the seas could not wash clean; he Identified diseases from which employes were suffering by the smell of the medicines they carried; he told again the story of the hog which slipped into the wrong place; he answered the state ment that girls were allowed to sit by saying they had nothing to sit upon; he gave a graphic word-picture of a man climbing with hands, knees and feet over a pile of meat; he denied that packing houses are open to the public: Before Mr. Neill testified, Thomas 11- son. representative of the packers, fin ished his testimony. He denied the pos sibility of passing on the cost of Inspec tion to the cattlemen, and predicted dis aster to the livestock Industry, as well as to the packers, from the loss of foreign trade. AVllson Objects to Expense. Aside from the objections he had point ed out yesterday to the Beverldge amend ment, Mr. Wilson said the only other se rious objection was the provision placing the cost of inspection on the packers. Be fore discussing this objection, Mr. Wilson was questioned closely by Representa tives Henry (Conn.) and Haskins (Vt.) about the sections intervening between those he found fault with last night and that regarding the cost of inspection. Have you been advised since we ad journed yesterday not to make further objections?" asked Haskins. 'No, sir; it so happens that most of the objections are in the first sections," re plied Mr. Wilson. As to cost Mr. Wilson said the packers were already under an expense aggregat ing Jl.000,000 a year for condemnation of animals. "Neither the raisers nor pro ducers bear any of the loss on condemned stock. It all falls on the packers," as serted Mr. Wilson. Might Pass Cost on to Cattlemen. Representative Scott (Kan.) suggested that it was generally understood the pack ers so controlled the meat market that they would be able to recoup themselves for the cost of inspection. "We could not," replied Mr. Wilson. "me large packers kill only 50 per cent of the meat supply of the country, and do not control the market." Mr. Henry suggested that the de linquencies of the packers had placed them in the present position, and inquired why should the packers object to paying If the Government is to "pull you out of the hole." Mr. Wilson objected to this view of the case. It was not the fault of the packers. The packers had sent men into every hamlet of the world to create a market. The packers were willing to comply with any new requirements, but they were now losing money on their English market and were carrying it to develop trade. "But we felt this to be an unjust burden and one we ought not to be called on to bear,1 he said. Disastrous to Foreign Trade. Chairman Wadsworth asked If any com plaint had ever been made as to the qual ity of the goods shipped abroad. "Well,"1 replied Mr. Wilson, "I could not say no to that question. Occasionally we have a case of goods sent back, but we always try to get hold of the goods that are the subject of complaint." "What Is the result on your foreign trade of the present agitation?" asked Mr. Wadsworth. "The result Is very disastrous," replied the witness. . "Our foreign demand for fresh meats and manufactured products has been practically cut in two. Our foreign com petitors are all making the most of this and are getting the benefit of agitation and we are standing the loss." "Naturally," suggested Mr. Wadsworth "If your foreign demand falls off your purchases of livestock will be less." "I do not Bee where we are to find mar kets if our foreign trade is cut off," an swered Mr. Wilson. "Well,'.' continued Mr. Wadsworth, "you will not have to buy the stock." "No, but cattleraisers are accustomed to ship their stock to Chicago and get their money' for them. If this should stop I don't see how we are to avoid a terrible calamity in the West." responded Mr. Wilson. If. he said, the packers are required to pay for this inspection, it would be a reasonable position for . the packers to take that they would not buy the stock that has been condemned. Under the Beverldge amendment, Mx Wilson said, "it would be possible for the Secretary of Agriculture to put an in spector at the elbow of every workman and charge the cost to the packers." Inspector at Each Man's Elbow. - Mr. Lorimer (Illinois) suggested that the Beverldge amendment would put out of business thousands of slaughterers doing an Interstate business, and would result In creating a "beef trust" in reality. Dr. Melvin, Chief of tne Bureau of Ani mal Industry, was asked incidentally to state the number of Government inspect ors in Chicago. He answered 77 veteri nary, 59 stock examiners and 55 taggers, making 181 in all. In the whole service he said there are 783. Mr. Henry, of Connecticut, compliment ed Mr. Wilson for the showing he had made, saying, "I do not mink the Chi cago packers made any mistake in the selection of the representative they did to plausibly present a somewhat dubious case." Nelll Refused to Make Deal. Mr. Neill was then put on the stand. He said he had worked in a Chicago packing house for six months, while liv ing in a university settlement. "You are a specialist along economic lines?" "Modesty forbids me to say," replied Mr. Neill. He said he was and had been for a year and a half Commissioner of Labor. Mr. Neill then related a parting inter view with Dr. Dyson, consulting veterina rian In Chicago, representing the packers. Dr. Dyson, he said, had suggested that Neill and Reynolds go to Washington, make no report, but Inform the packers of the conditions found and suggestions for remedies, then wait 30 days and come back and see if conditions had not been made better. This, he indicated, was to prevent injury to trade. Mr. Neill said he replied that he was not authorlred to make any trade or deal; that he did not know what the Presi dent's plan was, but believed it was to secure adequate legislation. Mr. Nelll fol lowed this statement with a letter he had received from Dr. Dyson, in which it was suggested a sanitary committee should be appointed, and that it be given 30 days to accomplish improvements, pending which no reports should be made. Floors Caked With Dirt. Mr. Neill rather discouraged a visit of the committee to Chicago at this time. as many of the conditions complained of were due to negligence and could have been remedied Immediate!) . Mj Nelll denied the statement of Mr. Wilson that the floors were scrubbed dally. The dirt in some of the rooms was caked on the floors. These floors had not been washed for weeks. Mr. Nelll said he at first began making notes of the conditions, but after several days, seeing no change In conditions from day to day, he abandoned the practice. He felt justified in saying that the dirty floors were a common condition. - There were some dirty and some clean rooms, but a clean room seemed to be accidental and gave the impression that sanitation was not a matter that was looked after in those plants. This included all the large plants. Again Mr. Nelll was asked: You take direct issue with Mr. Wilson that these rooms were not cleaned?" "Yes, sir, I do. There were floors there that were black. There was no ventila tion. These rooms were not 'chill' rooms. These, without exception, were the most satisfactory of jthe plants and no fault could be found. Looked for Things Needing Remedy But you did not mention anything cred itable in your report," remarked Mr. Wadsworth. "Were you there simply to And fault?" . No, we understood that we were to ascertain conditions that needed legisla tive remedies," answered Mr. Neill. Mr. Haughen (Iowa) wanted to know the objection to artificial light. "We are working right here In this room with artificial light, and have 50 others right In this Capitol." "My opinion i ' replied Mr. Neill, "that no one should be required to work eight hours a day by artificial light." Mr. Neill said he remembered in par ticular one cooking-Mom was dirty, and he remembered walls, particularly in the entrances, that were sticky with dirt, and a pillar that you could scrape dirt from with your knife. There were rooms with rafters from ceilings which had not been whitewashed in months. Mr. Lorimer asked a number of ques tions to find out if Mr. Nelll saw meat In transit from curing vats to the cooking vat. But Mr. Neill would not answer this directly. - "I did not follow the meat in that way,' he said. "We saw meats in all stages, not knowing where it came from or where it was going." Climbs Over Pile of Meat. In the boning-room, Mr. Neill said, he had seen dirt. In this connection he took issue with Mr. Wilson's statement yester day. One instance he remembered spe cifically in the Nelson Morris house. He saw one of the men who had just flnshed his boning walk over the dirt on the floor to a pile of meat on the floor, climb on to the pile with his feet, knees and hands. pick up a piece and throw it 15 feet on the floor to his bench and, as the dinner signal sounded at that time, he saw men climb upon their tables, get their lunches and sit down on their tables to eat. This, he said, was directly under the eye of the superintendent. Mr. Neill said the papers heralded their arrival in Chicago and their presence in the packing-houses was known daily. Asked again about the bone conveyer by Mr. Lorimer, Mr. Neill said the conveyer was. covered with grease and black with dirt. He was not prepared to say that that particular conveyer was used in a particular place. Mr. Wadsworth took up the statement in the report that "we saw meat shoveled (Conclu&dt on. Pas LIES DESTROY APEX FEED MILLS ire Spreads to Adjoin ing Lumber Yard. LOSSES WILL REACH $40,000 Building Material Valued at $10,000 Goes Up in Smoke. OIL WORKS THREATENED Quick Work by Department Saves Oregon Planing Mill's Plant and Surrounding Buildings. Started by Friction. SUMMARY OF KIRK LOSSES. The Apex mill, controlled by the Enterprise Grain & Mill Company, and the Oregon Planing Mill, owned by the Honeyman Hardware Com pany, were badly damaged by flre last night. The combined loss to the two companies Is estimated at $40,000. Fire originated in a barn In tho rear of the Apex mill and be fore it could be gotten under control consumed 500.000 feet of lumber, val ued at $10,000. and destroyed the plant of the Apex Mill Company. Thousands of people were attracted to the conflagration, and residents In the vicinity were compelled to protect their home, by throwing water on the roofs of their houses. A number of horses were rescued with difficulty. Fire originating in a barn in the rear of the Apex Mills, on Nineteenth and Wilson streets, at 10:40 o'clock last night, com pletely destroyed the mill, doing damage estimated at $30,000, and by spreading to the storage yards of the Oregon Planing Mill destroyed lumber estimated to be worth $10,000. Buildings in the vicinity of the fire and the Phoenix Oil Works woro tbrpatnnerl. but by efficient fire fighting the damage was confined to the two mill Dronertles. TTrlntlnn from a belt on a feed mill in the barn caused the fire, which was first Maonvoreri in BOO bales of hay stored in thn hnlldlnir. John Kllgore, night watch man at the mills, attempted to put out he, hlHze with a patent extinguisher, put seeing that he would not be able to get th flumps under control, ran to Dox t, it Kindcpnth and Wilson streets, ana tuT-nf&ri in An alarm. Ttcforn the engines arrived, the lumber yards of the Oregon Planing Mill, and the huiiriimra of the Arjex Mill were In flames and the warehouses of the fnoenix tm Works were threatened. Twenty horses w, imnrinnned in stables in the center of the fire-swept block, and It was only by hard work on the part of the mm hands that the animals were taken out of danger. Great Crowd; Watches Fire, mi.. tm hounded bv Twentieth Roosevelt. Nineteenth and Wilson streets was blazing when the firemen arrived. Fol- lnoHnir th first alarm, a second call was turned In by Chief Campbell that brought all the apparatus from the west side or. the river and one or two engines from the T-.t Rirto Attracted by the ruddy glow in the cloudy sky, hundreds of people from down town hurried to tne scene. rv.ii. r.irient. of the district near tne conflagration flocked to the burning mills In crowds. There were more than 5000 people sur rounding the burning block, and a full de tail of policemen under Sergeant jones foueht with the crowd to keep tnem irora hindering the work of the fire-fighters. t iho lnmher-vards of the Oregon -ian villi woro more than 700.000 feet of dressed and undressed lumber. 500,000 feet of which was either destroyed by fire or r damaged that it will be useless. James Honeyman. manager of the planing mills. estimates that the 500,000 feet destroyed or munrl la worth $20 a thousand wnlcn would make the loss to the Honeyman Hardware Company about $10,000. Mr. Honeyman said last night that the loss was fully covered by Insurance. Apex Mill's Loss Large. tv, Mills, controlled bv the En tornrlsR Grain and Mill Company, which also deals In heating, ventilating and dry ing apparatus, suffered greater carnage than the Honeyman Hardware Company. Its plant was almost entirely destroyed. Furnaces, machinery ana arying appara tus were destroyed or rendered useless; w n ."VfcPherson. Dresldent of the com pany, was In Seattle last night and could not be found to give an estimate or iis loss. Robert B. McPherson, secretary of the company, would not give figures on the probable loss, but it is estimated that the damage will amount to more than $30,000. The property was partially, if not wholly, covered by insurance. This Is the third time that the mill has been damaged by fire. For some time it was thought that the Phoenix Oil Works was In danger, but by stationing firemen near the building the warehouses of the company were saved. Good Work by Mill Hands. . Residences within a radius of several blocks were threatened by showers of sparks which ascended from the burn ing lumber piles, and many property owners protected their houses by throw- ing water on the roofs. The fire jumped the street at one time and attacked a frame shack at Nineteenth and "Vaughn streets. This blaze was extinguished be fore damage was done. Mill hands from the planing mill probably Baved the of fices and lumber sheds of the company by opening the water barrels on the roof and by using a small hose line with which they kept the roof of the structure saturated. The Are burned fiercely from 10:40 o'clock until past midnight, and the recall was not sounded until 1 o'clock this morning. The fireboat laid a long line of hose from the ferry slip and carried its lines to Seventeenth street. NO GAUDS OR GAMBLING German Baptist Brethren Denounce Pomps and Vanities. SPRINGFIELD. 111.. June 7. After re ferring to a special committee the matter of a change of name of yie church toy omitting the word "German," with in structions to report at the conference two years hence, the German Baptist Brethren adjourned their annual conference today to meet next year at Long Beach, Cal. The conference adopted a resolution pro hibiting the members from engaging in the sale of diamonds, gold rings, gold watches, dominoes, dice, playing-cards and other articles, games of chance or display. The church also took the ground that no divorced person marrying again while a former companion is living can be re ceived into the church unlesa the divorce was for adultery. CONFERENCE BROKEN UP Ohio Miners and Operators Will Fight to a llnlsh. rrT.TTf RITS O- June 7. The iolnt con ference of the Ohio miners and operators nriinnrned this afternoon In a disagree ment. Both sides declare tonight that the fight is now on to a finish. The miners' convention voted tinani monslv to stand out for the 1903 scale. and it was decided to assess all miners' now at work in the state 6 per cent of their wages for the support of the strik ers. The National organization win con tribute $30,000 a week to the strikers. Tho nnpnitnrfl nlso held a conference. and Chairman Winder announced that there would be no wavering among the stand-pat" operators. MOB 1S AFTER A NEGRO Circus Kmploye Is Accused of As sault on Girl. SIOUX CITT, la., June 7. A telephone message from Lemars says tne jan is surrounded by a mob intent trppn lynching V,n la n,.ital Ctt VlJLVinfiT &SSaUlt- "'" ' -- ed a white girl tnis anernoon. Is said to have Deen an emprojo m . cus that exhibited at Lemars today. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TTccTEnniTR Maximum temperature,- -4; minimum temperature. to x-iviii-".. trftre. TOnxyg Threatening with probably showers. Weaterly winds, Foreign. Kaiser's exchange messages with King of Italy, renewing alliance, rage o. Rolestvensky. Llnievltch and other officers to be court-martialed, v age o. Guatemalan regels gain strength. Page 5. National. Senate sends rate bill back to conference and stands by Its amenoments. r u. Brundlge denounces Roosevelt for Increas ing white House expenses. ' Page 4. Williams threatens to filibuster on statehood hML Paae 4. wun. . threatens to filibuster on state hood bill. Pace 4. Idaho land officials cleared of cnarges. Nelll reiterates and enlarges charges against Packers. Pace l. Politk. Bryan accepted as Democratic candidate for President in 1D0S. i-age i. wtteraon declares for Bryan. Page 1. Meant faction fights ' Bryan and controls nemocratlc congressional commiiiew. Page 1. Indian. Semocratlo Convention Indorses Bryan. Page 1. Domeetlo. . i - t. ,,,. rnmitilulnner issues ill timatum to shylock insurance companies. Page 2. D...u,-i,-,ri RfttlrnnA rtromlses to publish car distribution rules; more confessions of graft. Page 4. Tornadoes In Minnesota, Wisconsin. Kansas and Michigan. Page 4. Dr. Andrew C. Smith elected to nigh office by Medical Association. Charges filed against District Attorney Jer ome. Pag 7. Snort. Portland balltossera defeat Los Angeles. 5 to 2. Page 7. Card for Hunt Club races tomorrow in com plete. Page 11. Miss Button meets match at tennis, but wins, Paan 7. Go Between wins Westminster handicap. page 7. Faclfle Coast. Brave men perish In attempt at rescue in a Montana coal mine. Page 6. Main canal In the Klamath project will be nnuned tnis ran. i-age i. Official returns on Monday's elections are slow In coming in. Page a. Swarm of bees light on team attached- to harrow and laano rancnes is laiauy nuru Page 12. Seattle "lady-killer" found guilty of big amy and sent to prison. Page B. Commercial and Marine. Cause of firmness In. rice market. Page 15. Wheat lumDS 2 cents at Chicago. Page 15. Stock market controlled by professionals. Pno-e 1.1. Higher prices paid at second Shanlko wool sale. .rage io. Shlppinr tied up by sailors strike. Page 14 Several Important lumber charters recently rage x. Portland and Vicinity. Senator-Elect Bourne comments oa reasons ror nis victory, x-age u. Enemies of Sheriff Word rejoice over bla defeat at Dolls. Page 10. San Francisco Seamen's strike ties np all uoast snipping, x-age j. Sheriff Word flies election contest suit against R. L,. Stevens; Judge Eakln, of !. Rrande. will hear case. Par 10 Inman-Poulson Lumber Company sued for 1165, ooo damages br Honolulu Arm. Pace 14. Nearly 200 saloon in Oregon will be closed ' as Tesim oi recent eieciic-na; ooay diow to liquor traffic Page 1. Land Shark Puter occupies cell In Portland tall. Page 18. . Fire destroys) Apex Feed Mills and lumber in uregon naning Aim yaros; loss hu.uw. BODY BLOW TO LIQUOR TRAFFIC Nearly 200 Oregon Sa loons Must Close. BREWERIES ARE HEAVY LOSERS Wholesale Dealers in Spirits Also Suffer Severely. LESS MARKET FOR BEER Predicted That Stronger Beverages Will Be Sold in "Dry" Dis tricts Despite Voters' Choice. About 200 saloons will be forced out of, business next month throughout Oregon. by the dry mandate of the Prohibition election, held last Monday. Portland rum shops, all added together, fall short of this number. The check on the liquor traffic In the state obvlouMy will be con siderable, and the wholesale liquor in terests will feel keenly the loss of trade. Foes of rum think they have achieved big victory in curbing the liquor traffic. - Realizing that to hold the ground newly won they will have to fight perhaps even harder than to win it, they are girding themselves for a long battle against the liquor hosts, which they expect to find ever on the alert, to stir up public senti ment for return to the old wet regime. A 3000 fund for this purpose will be raised, by subscription in Portland, by at committee of 20 of the Anti-Saloon League. On this committee are: Samuel Connell. E. Quackenbush, E. C Bronaugh. J. Thorburn Ross, J. J. Ross, E. J. Edwards. Theodore Adams. Richard L.lpp. E. N. Deady. R. R. Steele. Dr. J. R. Wilson. Dr. Clarence True Wilson. Dr. W. H. Heppe, Dr. F. B. Ford. Rev. E. H. Mowre. Rev. E. Nelson Allen. Rev. E. S. Muckley. Kev. a J. Montgomery, Dr. J. W. Brougher, Dr. R. Kelly. Plans to Continue Campaign. This committee was appointed yesterday by the trustees of the League, who met to consider plans for continuing the cam paign. The League will demand . strict enforcement of the law in every dry county and precinct, and through a secret service system of its own, will ferret out lawbreakers and gather evidence for their prosecution. The detective force of the League will be Improved in efficiency and will employ what Superintendent Rader calls a "new method of communication." The counties made dry are Linn. Lane. Yamhill, Tillamook. Wallowa and Benton. Other counties claimed by the Antl-Saloor, element are Sherman. Gilliam, Lincoln and possibly Crook, from which no re turns as to Prohibition have as yet been received. Coos County waa carried "dry,' except in the towns of Marshfleld. North Bend and Bandon, which returned "wet majorities and caused a "wet" majority In the county as a whole. County Pro hibition was also rejected by Wasco, Mor-. row. Polk and Malheur. ' Many precincts in "wet" counties werei captured by the Prohibition element, and the saloons which will be ' driven out thereby will number 60 or more. In the "dry" counties, the saloons will number about 125. i Superintendent Ttader's Figures. These figures are on the authority 08 Superintendent Rader. According to him. the saloons which will be driven out "by; the election are about as follows: Linn County Albany 6. Harrisburg 2, Tangent 2, Waterloo 1. Lower Marlon Stayton 1. Jefferson 2, Sheldon 2. Lane, 20; Tillamook, 14; Yamhill, 15; Wallowa, 8; Coos. 12: Lincoln, 12; Gilliam, 14; Sher man, 15. Outside dry counties, so far as) learned, 52. Total, as Indicated by incom plete returns, 177. The net loss to the liquor lnterest growing out of the prohibition victories) will aggregate, it Is estimated, I700.000. Besides this, a huge financial loss will bo sustained by the breweries of the state. Those who are conversant with the situa tion declare that a property loss of J250O for every saloon that will be compelled to close is a conservative estimate. As at least 177 saloons, and probably more, will be affected, this item alone amounts to approximately $455,000. The thousands of dollars expended by the saloon men in the campaign and incidental losses, it la thought, will easily bring the total up to 700,000. Albany Brewery Is Rained. The heaviest individual sufferer will be the big brewery at Albany, which, represents an Investment of more than $50,000. A prominent liquor dealer ex pressed the opinion yesterday that this) would be almost a total loss, as tha business of the establishment will bet ruined by Linn County voting "dry." v In all the counties and precincts in which liquor, elections were held the) liquor Interests gained but one decisive victory- That was In Precincts 68 and 67, In Multnomah County, which voted "wet." Precinct 67 Is at St. Johns and Precinct 66 is In Portland, but they were linked together. In the hope that the Portland vote would overcome the liquor majority in St, Johns. As two years ago St. Johns voted "dry." this is considered a great victory by the saloon men. No other precinct or county, so far as is known in Portland, changed from "dry" to "wet." Liquor men say that just as much money will be spent for liquor in Oregon as before, but that the brewers, never theless, will be heavy losers. They say . Concluded oa Page lXJk f