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
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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
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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.
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