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VOL,. XLVI.-XO. 14,324. PORTLAND, OKEGOX, 3IOXDAY, NOVE3IBER 5, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PRED CTS HUGHES AS II CERTAINTY New York Herald Poll Carefully Taken. VOTE IN CITY WILL BE CLOSF Republicans Expect to Reach Bronx With 150,000. EAGLE ESTIMATE SIMILAR Brooklyn Paper Says Hearst Will Fall Far Below the Normal Democratic Vote in the Greater City. SEW TORE EIJECTIOX FORECASTS New York Hftrald Hushes, by 150,000. Republican Committee Hughes, by 180,000. Democratic Committee Hearat, 50,000. Ihmsen Hearst, by 2O0.OO0. by NEW YORK. Nov. 4 (Special.) New York State's greatest political battle has been fought and It now is merely a mat ter of waiting for the returns. Charles B. Hughes, the Republican candidate tor Governor, looks like a winner, but there are fears and doubts on the one hand and hopes on the other that pave the way ' lor all kinds of surprises. "Hushes to a certainty and by a big plurality.-' This is the confident predic tion of the New York Herald, after one of the most thorough polls of the city and state ever made prior to an elec tion. Not only does the Herald estimate a r Mirality for the Republican nominee above the Bronx of nearly 150,000. but the astounding declaration is made that each of the five boroughs of Greater New York is doubtful, with a chance, better than even, that the election figures from the city will . increase rather than cut the Hughes plurality from up the state. Croker Demoralizes Tammany. Results of the poll of the Herald in New York City indicate that the Croker telegram has demoralized the Tammany organization ana that, instead of de livering the Tammany vote solidly to Hearst, Murphy will be happy if he has a remnant of organization left the morn in? after election. Three of six election districts canvassed in 1901 give majorities for Herrick over Higgins Hughes runs far ahead of Hearst in all now. One-third of the or ganized labor vote, which . was almost folia for Hearst for Mayor, will evidently eo now to Hughes. The enrolled Demo cratic voters, the men who slipped in 22K, ftX votes for McClellan last year, are now almost evenly divided between Hearst and Hughes. Hughes' Plurality 150,000. Under the circumstances and the kalei doscopic change in conditions the Herald feels tha Its state total showing a Hughes plurality of 149.770 is less than the situation justifies. Murphy's claim of S0.0O0 for Hearst In the entire city is in no way borne out by the investigation conducted by the Herald. Murphy gave out his first figures Tuesday, setting up such a claim for Hearst. Men very close to him. ana calculating the result along similar lines, could dig up no more than a margin of 60.000 for Hearst in the county. During recent years the vote for Gov ernor in New York in off-year elections generally has been very close. In 1S98 Roosevelt was, elected by 1S.000 plurality and in 1902 Odell's plurality was only 8000. This year the returns are to be com pared with the Higgins-Herrick vote of two years ago a Presidential year when the Republican candidate for Gov ernor received a plurality of SO.000 In the whole state as compared with Roose velt's plurality for President of 175,000. Lowest Republican Figures. Higgins' vote in 1904 is reckoned to be the rock-bottom Republican vote of the state under normal conditions, at least above the Bronx. He came down to the city with about 160.000 over Herrick, He'rrick's plurality in the city making the former's net plurality just half of that. With the intention of presenting as conservative a view of the situation, as possible when conditions are present that Incline many observers of Ions experience antf fair ' judgment to haz ard predictions of a landslide, enough has been set forth to show valid rea-. sons for making Hughes the favorite. It is well to understand that there are some of the bitterest local Repub lican fights on in some of the up-state counties that ever have prevailed. There are hot fights over judgeships and members of the Legislature, fac tions being involved in some instan ces. There is the possibility that these fights will lead to trading that will cut into the Republican vote for the head of the ticket, but these things have been duly discounted In the figur ing that brings Hughes down to the Bronx with a plurality ranging from 3 20.000 to 200.000 and puts the question of a landslide, as matters look . to night, up to the city with Its 60.1,300 votes. There is absolutely nothing discern ible to warrant the extravagant claims of the chairman of the Hearst League state committee that Greater New York will give Hearst 150,000 over Hughes. At best New York City is hard to judge, even under conditions when it is possible to figure the up state vote within a few thousand either way. Reasons in plenty have been given previously for the general belief among the fair-minded that Hughes has a strong tide running in his favor in the city, and at times it is hard to re strain the statement unqualified that it will be nip and tuck as to whether Hbghes of Hearst leave the city with a plurality. Bets have been made that Hughes would carry the city. This year party lines have . been so badly cleft by the unique issues of Hearstism that there is afforded no op portunity to balance one party against the other and figure out a close result. That is the reason so many persons ex pect a landslide. These persons declare i- -. 4 ( I 1 I 't i I I Mrs. Nicholas Iongworth, President's daughter, makes politics a society fad. that the usual polls count for nothing this year, because, in many places, great numbers of the voters amounting in' some cases to actual majority, refuse to tell anyone how they intend to vote. The canvassers, it is declared, have been obliged in many instances to guess on the basis of the most recently known vote to a considerable degree. Eagle Poll Favors Hughes. The Brooklyn Eagle gives no abso lute figures, but its poll runs very much like that of the Herald, and it is pre dicted that Hughes will hold, if not excel, the normal Republican vote up the state, while Hearst will fall far below the normal Democratic vote in the greater city. Final estimates submitted to Repub lican State Chairman Woodruff by county chairmen on their second can vass yesterday led him to believe that Charles E. Hughes would have a plur ality of 185,000 in the 57 counties out side of New York City. He said he re garded as certain that Hughes would be elected by a plurality of more than 150,000. ' "In view of the most extraordinary and extravagant claims made by man agers of the Murphy-Connors ticket,' said Woodruff, "it seems unnecessary for us to give any figures. Max Ihmsen is claiming the state by 200,000. I sup pose, then, on the basis of his figures, every Republican in the state will be disappointed if I do not claim the state for Mr. Hughes by at least 500,000. You can be asured. however, that the Mur phy ticket Is beaten, and beaten by so many votes that there will be nodoubt as to the views of the voters On the deal between Mr. Murphy, head of Tam many in New York, and Mr. Connors, 'the Buffalo strikebreaker.- There won't be even an excuse for an effective cry of fraud." Chairman Ihmsen. of the Hearst League State Committee, adheres to the claim of 200,000 plurality for Hearst in the Aate as a whole, and 150,000 in the city alone. Democratic Cheers for Roosevelt. At one of the principal Tammany meetings today, addressed by Bourke Cockran and Senator Tom Grady, the notable feature was a great outburst of cheering over the mention of Presi dent Roosevelt's name. Secretary Root and other Republicans.' were treated in the usual partisan fashion of the oppo sition when their names were men tioned, but when Mr. Cockran spoke the name of Roosevelt It was different. Reports continue to come in from counties all over the state telling of the change in the situation that has been wrought since Secretary Root spoke at Utica and delivered the Presi dent's message to the voters. It has caused many politicians who had sent estimates on the vote from their re spective territorial divisions to send word to jump the figures by hundreds on the side of Hughes' pluralities, and in some cases the revised figures in crease the Hughes vote by 1000 or 2000 or even more. Root's Speech Carries Weight. The Hearst managers, at first ignor ing to a large degree the serious charges made by President Roosevelt and Secretary Root, have been alarmed by the reports throughout the state, and too late to do any very practical good to their side, have sought to prevent the distribution of the placards and pam phlets containing extraetaof the Root speech. The Hearst campaign managers is sued a statement early this morning that several thousand of the Republican documents sent out by a local club had been held up on complaint to Govern ment authorities, on the ground that the charges contained were libelous and therefore unmailable. As much of a sensation as possible will be made out of the Hearst managers' statement, but millions of copies of the document had gone to the tour corners of the state by express and otherwise before the echoes of Secretary Root's voice fairly had died away. POLITICS II OHIO IDE SOCIAL FAD President's Daughter . Enters Campaign. SMILES ATTRACT THE WOMEN Men With the Votes Must Fol low Perforce.- AMBITION IS VAULTING Sirs. Longworth Does Not Shrink From Contact With Grimy Paws That Have the Power to Help Her Husband. CINCINNATI, O.. Nov. 4. (Special.) Alice Roosevelt Longworth has ac complished the seeming imposible in Ohio she has made politics fashion able. "Princess Alice," social butterfly, whose erratic traveling flights kept so- f ciety guessing, has disappeared. In her place the people of Ohio have discov ered Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, "woman politician. Mrs. Longworth is ambitious; she also is imperious, and likewise anxious to retain her place as a public personage. From Representative to Senator is but a step, from Senator to President not impossible and there is always the Governorship of Ohio on the side for a live man able to win the voters of the Buckeye State.- And that is the real reason for the sudden outpouring of society at the mass meetings in and about Cincinnati. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth has made pol itics a fashionable fad. Never has the Republican party had such a time In a political campaign. ' ' Women Bring the Men. Men, women and children flock to street meetings and crowd public halls where the g. o. p. spellbinders 'hold forth. To hear the speeches? Not by any means. Mrs. Longworth'B dresses, her smiles and her wonJerful hats are thenagnets that draw the women, who draw the men. Democratic to a degree undreamed of of by other women who have endeav ored to help their husbands win votes, Mrs. Longworth does not shirk the smallest detail of a clever politician's duty. She stands in line for hours at a time shaking hands with people whom she has . never seen before, some of them untidy and unkempt.- But every man has a vote, and it is her business to see to it that it is cast for Nicholas Longworth. Society at least that part of society that will not attend mass meetings and whoop 'er up for "our esteemed fellow citizen" is being ignored by Mrs. Long worth. Society Is Ignored. What's a tea fight to a real, live, red hot campaign? Society will send Alice Roosevelt invitations every day in the week, but a campaign with one's hus band as & candidate and stump xpeaker is an experience to be grasped. One of the most striking things about Mrs. Nicholas Longworth in her attend ance at ward meetings and "speech makings" in her husband's district is her utter absence of fear. The girl who, in her first visit to Cincinnati, was guarded by a cordon of Secret Service men, carefully instructed to keep the crowds at a distance, now goes any where and everywhere, attended only only by her husband and such women friends as she cares to invite. Her courageous bearing and the knack she possesses of making friends easjly and quickly have aroused wild enthusiasm in the ranks of both parties. Costly Dresses Sacrificed. Mrs. Longworth's maid has fallen into a state of settled melancholy. Night after night and day after day it is the same old story. Dresses that cost $300 in good American coin are sacrificed. The band that holds the ballot leaves Indelible marks on white kid gloves and delicate flounces, and in the cause im ported petticoats are being sacrificed to make a Cincinnati Congressman. Some ludicrous incidents take place at these "rallies." Congressman Long worth, patiently explaining the issues to his constituents, is not infrequently adjured to "cut it short," or "tell us something about Alice." The slightest reference to the Presi dent or his policy brings joyous shouts of "What's the matter with Alice?" and equally vigorous shrieks, "She's all right!" from the crowd. SCORNS CONSEQUENCES. Rabbi "Wise on Strength of Roose velt With the Nation. NEW YORK. Nov. 4. Dr. Stephen S. Wise.' for the last six years Rabbi of Congregation Beth-Israel, of Portland. Or., Child Labor Commissioner of Oregon and one of the leading spirits in the (Progressive movement among the He brews on the Pacific Coast, spoke this afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. Dr. Wise's topic was "Do or Die vs. Don't and Die." Dr. Wise said: "Men are warned constantly of the con sequence and peril of becoming extrem ists. The man who makes not all for truth and right, lest he sacrifice his ln- E VENTS OF COMING WEEK Elections Next Tuesday. The elections next Tuesday will be National in scope. Besides the se lection of a National House of Rep resentatives, nearly every state In the Union will choose its Governor or other state officials. In all. votes will be cast in 42 states and three territories. In 22 states the Legis latures to be chosen will elct United States Senators. President iing to Panama. President Rosevelt will go to Oys ter Bay to vote Tuesday mornins and immediately afterward will re turn to TVashlngton to board the naval yacht Mayflower, which is to - take nim to a point oft TVolf Trap light, where he will embark on the battleship Louisiana for bis trip to Porto Rico and Panama. The Pres ident will be accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt. Surgeon-General v P. M. Rlxey. of the Navy; M. C. Latta, the President's assistant secretary, and Lieutenant Frank T. Evans, son of Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans, who will act as the President's aid. The President expects to reach Co lon November 13. An elaborate pro gramme has been prepared for the entertainment of the Presidential party while in the Canal Zone terri tory, after which a brief visit will be made to San Juan. Porto Rico, No vember 23, the return of the party to Washington being scheduled for November 27. The Louisiana will be escorted by the armored cruisers -Washington and Tennessee. The officers' quarters of the Louis iana have undergone a complete re arrangement, and it is the intention of the Navy Department to make .it possible for the President to be in touch with Washington by wireless telegraphy every day he is at sea. One interesting feature of the Pres ident's visit to the Canal Zone will be his inspection of the Culebra cut, which Is eet for the l(5th. On this tour of inspection "a will be accom companled by Chairman Shonts and Chief Engineer Stevens. An entire day will be spent In viewing this dif ficult section of the canal, which has presented some of the most serious problems In the great work. Demands of the Switchmen. An important meeting affecting the relations between the railroads and their switchmen will be held in. Chi cago Monday. At this conference the switchmen will present to the road managements a request for their .eight-hour day, but it is not expected that this demand will be insisted upon absolutely. However. the switchmen are not satisfied with the railroads' proposal to Increase wages 2 cents an hour, and will try to se cure a better ,offer in this respect. The outcome of the Chicago confer ence probably will govern relations between switchmen ' and their em ployes throughout the country. Parliament for Montenegro. The meeting November T of the National Assembly - at Cettinje "will mark the beginning of the parlia mentary system of government for Montenegro, which was proclaimed by Prince Nicholas December 19 last. State Ownership in France. The French Parliament,' which ad- ' Journed October 25, owing to the In completeness of the Ministerial dec laration, will reassemble today. The parliamentary programme of the new' Clemenceau Cabinet Is understood to include the purchase of railroads and mines by the state, reform in the system of court-martial, abolition of the death penalty, a scheme for an Income tax, complete enforcement of the church and state separation law and the creation of a state monopoly of petroleum and alcohol. Castellane Divorce Suit. A continuation of the plea of the ' Countess de Castellane for absolute divorce from her husband. Count BonL and the custo'dy of their chil dren, will be presented before the tribunal of first Instance of the elne at Paris by Mai t re Cruppi,' counsel for the Countess, November 7, after which the defense of Count Boni will be heard. fluence and his prestige, has neither the one nor the other to lose. "Theodore Roosevelt is the great saving asset of the Republican party beca use he is rightiy held by the Nation to be a scorner of consequences. Roosevelt fs greatest when he is himself, his daring and achievingNelf ; when shaking off the trammels of party allegiance, he dares to follow right, aye. to lead the people aright. The supreme test of his courage is yet to come, if it should become his duty to appeal from his party in Congress to all the parties, in the Nation for the support, enactment and execution of those measures which are just and equitable and serve the welfare of the whole Ameri can people." BLACK HAND HURLS BOMB WREAKS VEXGEAXCE ON A BROOKLYN TAILOR SHOP. Society Had Demanded Money From Its Victim, but Had Been Denied. NEW.TORK. Nov. i Unsuccessful in their ' attempts to blackmail Francisco Mesina, a prosperous tailor of Brooklyn, members of the so-called Black Hand So ciety, 60 the police say, today hurled a dynamite bomb against the front door of the tenement-house in which he lives and conducts his business. -Damage of ISOOO to the building and sur rounding property was caused. Scores of persons felt the shock of the explosion, but no one was injured. Messina has received letters demanding $400 to $1000. Detectives tonight arrested two men on suspicion. On Trial for Outlawry. MANILA. Nov. B. The trial of Fran cisco Carreon was begun here today. He is charged with outlawry. The Supreme Court has as yet taken no action on the appeals of Sakay. Montolan, Devega and Villafuerte, who were convicted of La dronism at Cavlte, September 28, and sentenced to death. FISH WILL STAY GAME TO FINISH Up Against Billion-Dollar Combine. STANDARD OIL TAKES A HAND Great Transcontinental Rail way System Is the Stake. OWE CHANCE IN RESERVE Illinois Central Stockholders Have the Privilege of Saying by Ballot Next October Who Shall Run Their Railroad. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Nov. " 4. (On Board the Pennsylvania Special.) (Special.) Betrayed by some friends and apparently hopelessly beaten in his spectacular fight to prevent control of the Illinois Central Railroad from fall ing into the hands of E. H. Harriman and his allies. President Stuyvesant Fish is speeding to New York, grimly refusing to. show the white flag. He acknowledges no defeat and declares that his one purpose in life is to defeat the Wall street crowd which is pushing him to the wall. At the meeting of the directorate Wednesday in Wall street the railroad world will see the most stubborn battle which one man has ever waged against a $1,000,000,000 combine. This combine, it is now well understood, includes H. H. Rogers and the power of the Stand ard Oil. If this fight goes against him, and it seems that it will, there is an other coming and there is another day, when the Illinois Central stockholders, according to Mr. Fish, will have a chance to say who shall run the great property in which their money is in vested. Xext Battle In October. The struggle again is to be renewed with vigor at the meeting of the stock holders next October. Meantime warn ing is served on Harriman by Fish and his friends that it will stand him in need to go into the battle with more than the one-fifth or one-fourth of the stock which he and Wall street now control. Fish is certain that one year from now he can muster proxies for the same 400,000 or 500,000 shares which were voluntarily showered on him at the re cent annual meeting in Chicago. According to Fish's friends, H. H. Rogers Is director of the fight and the stake, they say, is the future of the great transcontinental railway system which Harriman controls and which is headed by the Union Pacific and South ern Pacific Railways. The future Pan ama Canal and the Illinois Central, with their certain lower combination of freight rates, is the bogie which is threatening the Harriman system. Rogers Discloses His Interest. When Attorney J. B. Dill was asked this afternoon how he knew that H. H. Rogers was in the fight, he repTied: "If a boy throws stones at me and a door opens and a man says, 'Sonny, come in,' I naturally think the man is his father." It developed today that J. T. Hara han, vice-president of the Illinois Cen tral, is an avowed candidate for the presidency. Fish has learned that much from Harahan. He and Attorney Dill had a heart-to-heart talk with Harahan yesterday and the latter declared him self. "Harahan is a candidate for the pres idency," said Fish this afternoon. He would not talk further along this line. Fish is not charging his former friend with treachery or ingratitude. No charges were made against each other at the conference, although there was some plain speaking. Fish told Harahan that the only ap peal he had to make was for the best interests of the Illinois Central and its stockholders. Harahan replied that he did not see how the road could suffer in the hands of Harriman, and Fish en deavored to show how, to no purpose. Directorate Evenly Divided. Dill believes the directorate will be lined up evenly Wednesday between Fish and Harriman. According to Fish, there are two doubtful directors John Jacob Astor and Cornelius Vanderblit. Every effort will be made to win the support of these two men for the Fish programme. With them out of the reckoning, the board stands: For Fish Governor Dineen. Cutting, Beach and Fish. For Harriman (and for Harahan) Harriman, Harahan, Peabody, Auchin closs and Luttgen. Both Mr. Fish and Mr. Harahan will vote, putting aside any modesty that might forbid their doing so. The stake is too great, they think, to stand on ceremony. "It's simply a showndown," said Mr. Dill. "We are both in the game and both have drawn four cards to a bpb tailed flush. If a heart shows up in our hands, we win. If a black spade shows up in theirs, we lose. The direc tors' meeting will tell the story, for the time. Perhaps there will be another fight." Shooting Police Are Arraigned. NEW YORK, Nov. 4. The four spe cial policemen. John H. Devlin. Thur low Waters, Warren Levfrman and Lazarus Loria. with the three strike breaking chauffeurs. Theodore Shaller. William S. Driesnider anc Max Cut terplan, who were attacked by a mob last night, were arraigned in court to day and held for examination. The special officers were charged with do ing the shooting from an Eighth-avenue car, rs a result of which August Lamb, a striking chauffeur, is in a hos pital, dangerously wounded. Bail- was furnished by representa tives of the New York Transportation Company, the strike of whose chauf feurs resulted in last night's rioting. POURS KEROSENE IN STOVE Pittburg Woman Burned to Death in Resulting Explosion. PITTSBURG. Nov. 4.-Mrs. Francis S3ntego was burned to death, Harold, a son four years of age, is in a critical condition from suffocation, and four 1 t Frank W. Mondell, candidate for Congress from "Wyoming, said to be backed by Mormon influence. other children had a narrow escape from death in a fire tonight in this city. Mrs. Santego was pouring oil in the fire, when the can exploded.' Engineer and Fireman Killed. ROME, N. Y., Nov. 4. A freight loco motive on the Central Railroad jumped the track here today and plunged into a saloon at the corner of Janies street and the railroad tracks? Albert Brown, the engineer, was scalded to death, and Robert B. Vandvoort. a brakeman, was crushed to death under the tender. Loose Rail Cause of Wreck. ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 4.-Coroner GaskiU announced that experts in his employ had decided that a loose rail caused the accident of the Pennsylvania Railroad at the Thoroughfare draw, last Sunday, in which more than 50 persons lost their lives. The inquest will be continued tomorrow. DIAMONDS IN KENTUCKY Expert Engineer Says Indications Better Than In South Africa. LEXINGTON, Ky.. Nov. 4, (Special. With a view of mining diamonds in Elliott and Carter Counties, Samuel Pearson, of Scranton, Pa., and W. J. Rice, of San Juan, P. R., have organ ized the Kentucky Transvaal Diamond Mining Company, with a capital of $100,000. Pearson, who spent years as an engineer in the diamond fields of South Africa, says that the indications for diamonds are better in Kentucky than in South Africa. Thaw's Case Is Close ("p. NEW YORK. Nov. 4. The case of Harry K. Thaw is number two on the revised list of homicide cafes and may be called this week. Thaw has been in carcerated since last June for killing Stanford White, the architect at the Madison-Square roof garden. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TODAY'S Bam; fresh southerly breeze. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 5fi A ttg.; minimum, 4fl. Precipitation, AS Inch. Political. Election of C. E. Hughe;, Republican, for Governor, by a. hl plurality. Is predicted by the New York Herald. Page 1. Republican state ticket in Colorado named by corporations, says State Treasurer Holmberg. Page 2. Mormon bishops openly instruct church members how to vote at elections. Page 1. Domestic. Mrs. Longworth makes political meetings social events in Ohio. Page 1. Standard Oil Is in the combination fighting Stuyvesant Fish for control of the Illi nois Central. Page 1. President Roosevelt gets wild turkey after three days' hunt. Page 4. Members of Black Hand society wreck Brooklyn tailor's shop with bomb. Page 1. Trusts. District Attorney Moran calls on Jerome for tobacco trust documents In posses sion of Collier's TVeekly. Page 3. Foreign. Colonel H- S. Olrott, president of the Theo- sophical Society, injured in wreck In Italy. Page 4. -Brutal murder of German woman in sight of men who are unable to aid her. Page 2. Pacific Coast. Records of San Francisco Mint may disclose evidences of graft in San Francisco. Page 3. Seattle removes padding from its clearing house reports. Page 4. Roy Seymour accidentally killed by boy friend at Falls City, Or. Page 7. G. M. Anderson, aged hermit, burned with cottage near Lyle, Wash. Page 5. Reunion of Scots of Central Oregon at Con don. Page 5. Portland and Vicinity. Bn B. Williams tells of grand stampede at Walker Lake, Nevada. Page 12. Dr. Brougher pays respects to non-church -members. Page 8. Pacific Coast League pennant race reviewed. Page Colored men will form "Elks" Lodge. Page 14- Dr. Muckley preaches on the futility of excuses. Page 8. Burglar surrounded on housetop and cap tured by police and citizens.- Page 13. 1 1 i a I " i ,- !K If V I V x - ' 1. "xl 3 t nfinnninsi nipiinnn it'iumviuh TELL HOW TO VOTE Speeches Are Made at Sunday Services. A HOOSE-TQ-HOUSE CANVASS Voting Machines Put in Meeting-Houses for Instruction. GENTILES VERY CONFIDENT Anti-Church Party Expects to Elect County Attorney in S-alt I.akc Pledged to Prosecute All Polygamists. SALT LAKE CITT. Utah, Nov. 4 (Special.) As a result of the open inter ference of the Mormon Church in the present campaign, the seat of Joseph. Howell. Republican, will be contested in case he is elected to Congress. This is with the proviso that there be a Demo cratic majority in the lower house. Judge Orlando W. Powers is the Demo cratic candidate for Representative. The Democratic managers have been collect ing evidence all through the campaign, as to the interference of the church, and they announced tonight their Intentions of making a contest. In case the Democrats have a majority in the lower house, contests will probably also be made for the seats from Idaho and Wyoming. Congressman Frank XV. Mondell in the latter state and Oongre?s man Burton L. French In the former are receHMng the active suppott of the church for re-election. Both are Repub licans. The climax in Utah came today. At Mormon meetings throughout the state, church officials made speeches in which they ordered the members of the ariotis flocks to vote the Republican ticket. Bishops and block-teachers have been going from house to house, giving the same instruction. . Voting machines are bejng . Introduced in Salt Lake County at this election. Several of them were surreptitiously used in Mormon meeting-houses thi3 evening, and after the regular meeting the bishops and other church members showed their people how to vote the Re publican ticket. In one meeting-house there was a clash, a Democratic Mormon protesting and forcing the proceedings to stop. The signed statement of Joseph F. Smith, president of the church, telling Mormons to vote the Republican ticket, is being widely circulated through eccle siastical channels. Despite these efforts, however, the outlook tonight is that Salt Lake County, which is the main battle ground, will be carried by the "Ameri can," or anti-church party, and that a County Attorney pledged to prosecute all polygamists will be elected. GREAT FAMINE IN CHI! TEN MILLIONS OX THE VERGE OF STARVATION". Crops Are an Titter Failure In the Fertile anI Densely-Populated Province of Kiang-Su. SHANGHAI, Nov. 5 (Special.) Advices received here indicate that famine condi. tions of the most desperate nature pre. vail in the Northern part of the great Province of Kiang-Su, with but one ex ception the most fertile and valuable of many provinces of the empire. Ten mil. lions of the total population of 21,000,000 in the province are reduced to stern want Crops are an utter failure and scenes of Buffering that rival anything in the empire's history are reported from every point in the region. Food riots, which have been marked with much bloodshed, are reported daily, and so far the officials have taken no steps to relieve distress. In fact, to prevent the rioting spreading to the cities all of the local Governors have been ordered to keep the people in their homes at all hazards, and further rioting his resulted from this step. All of the local diplomatic representa tives have received advices from foreign, ers in the famine-stricken region urging them to use all their influence to hav the imperial government take steps to aid sufferers. A Presbyterian missionary who has just returned from the region de clares that thousands of persons have already starved to death, and that un less immediate aid is forthcoming the death list will be appalling. STEEL INDUSTRY EXPANDS Expert Shows Big Advance Over Same Months Last Year. WASHINGTON, Nov. i.A bulletin issued by the Department of Commerce ana Labor says that exports of iron and steel manufacture show an increase o about 25 per cent in the nine months ended with September, and imports of a similar character show also an increase of praotically 25 per cent in the same period as compared with the same months of the preceding year. The growth in operations of iron and steel, the bulletin says, was larger in the nine months ended with September. lfi, than in any corresponding period of our export trade. The gain in these months over the corresponding period of the pie ceding year was over $2-4,000,000. I Dionuro " 1