VOL. XLVI. C 14,330. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. STANDARD TRIED TD DEFEAT HOGH Oil Monopoly Financed Kansas Fight, EVIDENCE COMES TO LIGHT Election Now Conceded by Plu rality of 2000. RAILROADS HELP OCTOPUS HnfU of Absent Kansans Have Fare Paid to Go Home to Vote. Fund Raised to Buy Newspapers. HOCH'S ELECTION CONCEDED. TOPEKA. KJ., Nov. 11 Com plete official returns of 9(5 out of 105 counties received at 8 o'clock tonlscht, give Governor E. W. Hoco. a. plurality of 2060 vote over Wil liam A. Harris. Democrat. The nine counties still out are all small ones, but will probably bring Gov ernor Hoch's plurality down to 2000 or less. The Democratic campaign man agers now readily concede the elec tion of Horn, hut claim that "nls plurality Is considerably less than 2000. TOPEKA. Kan.. Nov. 11. ( Special.) After frequent discussions of the case with his advisers and hearing the results of their Investigations. Governor Hoch has become convinced that the Standard Oil 'Company was behind the fight made on him in the recent campaign, which resulted in his re-election by a plurality of less than 3'iort votes as against a plu rality of tiO.Oful two years ago. He will consult with Attorney-General-elect F. S. Jack-on this we.)- ir .ecard to the best 'i 11. 1. f jiiiw.jj :ri wh le truth, j ne Governor said today: Will Uncover the Plotters. "I do not think the , labors of some of the strongest Harris supporters were given gratuitously to the Democrats. One of these supporters has a reputation of not giving something for nothing. "It was a bitter and malicious fight which was waged on me a fight of the vilest slander and abuse. The state was flooded with sample copies of newspapers containing every fake and falsehood wri ters employed for the purpose could in vent "I am In hearty sympathy with any effort which may result in uncovering the source of this fight, and every part of the state machinery available will be. loaned to the purpose of the investiga tion. I understand Chairman Crammer is gathering information on this subject, and that Mr. Jackson will probe the stories. I think we will be able to learn something Interesting In a short time." Railroads Kaised Funds. It Is understood that the Governor and Mr. Crummer have received some very Interesting information during the few daya that have intervened since the elec tion. Many of these reports are vague rumors, which may or may not have veri fication, and others are in the nature of direct Information, the truth of which will be Investigated before any public state ment is made. One of these rumors is that the representative of an Eastern corporation which watched the affairs of the Standard closely told a Kansas hotel keeper six months ago that four of the largest railroads in Kansas were raising a fund to- "change the political com plexion of a newspaper and furnish its political editor." This story is to be fol lowed to its source. Fare Paid Home to Vote. I. B. Smith, engineer for the Topeka Bridge A- Iron Company, has furnished a link in the chain of evidence. He rode from Wichita to Joplin. Mo., on election day, and says that hundreds of former Kansans employed in Indian Territory by the Standard and allied corporations were coming north on transportation which had been furnished them, and that all of them declared they were coming back to Kansas to vote for Harris. Mr. Smith's statement was reported yesterday to Mr. Crummer by J. A. Cox, of Lawrence, Kan., and later it was corroborated by telephone. A majority of those returning were vot ing in Montgomery. Neosho and Wilson Counties. Those are the strong Standard counties of the state, and the heavy vote would be concentrated there. In Wilson the fight of the Standard succeeded in defeating Dr. Thomas Blakeslee. Repub lican candidate for Representative. A defeated and humiliated ex-chairman of a political committee, opening an office in another state to assist his enemies, is an unusual spectacle, and is one more of the links to the chain of evidence Mr. Jackson and Mr.' Crummer are collecting. Hates Enforced Decency. The motive which is supposed to have been behind the Standard's fight on Hoch was the passage by the last legislature of the anti-discrimination act That law bas done more to make the Standard be decent In Kansas than anything that the Legislature could have put on the statute books. COUXT EVERY IEGAIi BALLOT New York Republicans 'Will Apply for Ruling From Court. NEW YORK, Nov. 11. Abraham S. Gil bert, the law partner of Attorney-General Julius Mayer, and counsel of the majority of the candidates on the Repub lican state ticket, will apply to Supreme Court Justice McLean tomorrow-for an order under which the Supreme Court may pass on the question of whether bal lots cast in this county at the recent election but marked "Void" were really void, and whether or not ballots marked "protested" shall be counted. Similar applications will be mad tomor row under Mr. Gilbert's direction in Kings, Queens and Richmond Counties. The orders, if granted, will be served on the chairmen of the different boards of canvassers before actual work on the canvass is begun, in order that ballots such as the Supreme Court shall deter mine are legal can be counted. These actions will be brought, it is un derstood, on behalf of the Republican state candidates as individuals other than Governor-elect Charles E. Hughes. Stokes Does Not Seek Dryden's Seat. TRENTON. N. J.. Nov. 11 Governor Stokes tonljht denied that he is a can didate for Vnitea States Senator to suc ceed John Dryden. whose successor will be elected by the next Legislature. SHIELD3'fi!S: FAIR SLAYER MAf STABBED WITH HATPIN DIES TONGUE-TIED. Womam's Weapon Pierces Heart, but He Takes Blame and Did . f Not Name Her. SCRANTON. Pa.. 'Nov. 11. Thomas Dougherty, a prominent young man of Dunmore, . a suburb, died in the State Hospital here today of a stab wound. Dougherty died, refusing to make any statement as to the name of the person who caused the fatal injury, but inti mated that It was a woman and that he was to blame. v In the brief statement he made Dough erty declared that he Vas visiting a wom an and that she stuck a needle or a hat pin into him, after which he was taken ill. The postmortem revealed that he had been stabbed with some fine instru ment such as a hatpin and that It had entered his heart. The police are unable to discover any trace of Dougherty's whereabouts previous to the time that the doctor was sum moned. Coroner Streib tonight said the ar rest of Mary Burke, a young Dunmore woman, on whom Dougherty called on Saturday night, had bean ordered. The woman has not yet beH located. The Coroner deel ws that k was i.;ba.tr,'r . which penetrated lj(s.herty' heart, ano mat it passed through the fifth rij, indicating that it had been Jabbed with gTeat force. LIVE OLD LIVESONCE MORE Reincarnation Furnishes Theme for Fantastic New Play. CHICAGO. Nov. 11 "The Road to Tes terday," a comedy full of whimsical sur prises and fantastic charm, was given its first performance here tonight at the Garrick theater. The play, which was written by Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland and Beulas Dix. comprises four acts, the second and third of which Wepict half mythical dream scenes wherein all the personages of the first act are 6een re living their imagined lives of three cen turies ago in Elizabethan London. Every character in the past thus enacts a double role. In the fourth act their modern selves and lives are resumed, with some roman tic love episodes mixed with the dream. The re-incarnation of souls is treated throughout in a spirit, of fantasy. Minnie Dupre as the dream heroine; Madam Neshit and White Whittlesey as a pair of strangely parted lovers and Helen Ware as a gypsy shared the chief honors of the performance, which was re ceived with marked appreciation by a large audience. NEGRO TROOPS SHED TEARS Veterans of Twenty-Fifth Deeply Af fected by Disgrace. EL RENO, Okla., Nov. 11. The mem bers of Campanies B. C and D, of the Twenty-fifth. Infantry (colored, re cently ordered dismissed by President Roosevelt as a result of the riotous dis turbances at Brownsvlile, Texas, on August 13, were formally discharged today. Many of the men. some of whom have been in the service more than 20 years, shed tears when they gave up their guns. Tomorrow the disarmed troops will have battalion drill without arms, and they will be discharged immedi ately upon receipt of official orders from Washington, probably Monday or Tuesday. The second battalion of the Twenty sixth Infantry, under command of Major Charles J. T. Clarke, which ar rived last night from San Antonio, has gone' into camp just outside the garri son limits of Fort Reno. The negro troops have shown no disposition to be ugly. ROGERS TO "BUST TRUSTS" Standard Oil Magnate Will Fight Shoe Companies. FAIRHAVEN. Mass.. Nov. VL Special. Henry H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil Company, is about to start out as a "trust buster." The company to which he will first turn his attention is one of the strongest combinations in the United States, the United Shoe Machinery Company. For five years past the Shoe Machinery Company has been at litigation with the Atlas Tack Company, claiming infringe ments of patent. Rogers is interested in the tack company and it is said that this Is what decided him to attack the big companies. Quietly his new company begun to acquire the rights on certain machines not controlled by the shoe concern. ELEGTR1G WAVES OFHUM Wonderful Discovery Is Proved by Test. STOMACH GIVES OUT CURRENT Sounds Carried to Telephone Through Man. ACTION OF SENSES KNOWN San Francisco Doctors Show by Pub lic Test That Man Hears, Sees and Digests by Human Electricity. SAN FRANCISCO.. Nov. II. Before a number of medical men and scientists today. Drs. Albert J. Atkins and E. J. Lewis succeeded in charging an electrical circuit with human electricity to such a degree that external sound waves were transmitted and heard through an ordi nary telephone receiver. The experiment consisted of the application of two plat inum electrodes to the walls of the living stomach. By means of copper wires the electrodes were connected with a tele phone and microphone, a sensitive Instru ment, which greatly intensifies sound. Stomach Generates Current. There was absolutely no mechanical or chemical battery in the circuit, yet the moment the electrodes were swallowed sufficiently to touch the walls of the stomach, human electricity flowed over the wires, rendering sounds audible. The electric charge measured from seven to eight milli-volts on a Weston galvanom eter. Colonel E. P. Richardson, the subject of the experiment, swallowed the elec trodes and succeeded In retaining them for a considerable time. After a hrief rest, he was given a drink of whisky and on again connecting the electrodes with the interior lining of hlr. stomach the alano-r- ' -;-rlf V : " - oite Hear iiwl -S)i4 !, 'by Electricity Drs. Atkins and Lewis claim that by this experiment they have demonstrated the law of action of the human senses. They reason that, if sound is transmitted over a copper wire when it is charged with human electricity, it is reasonable to consider the principle the same when the auditory nerve is charged with the same force. In other words, we hear when the auditory nerve Is made sensi tive with human electricity on the same principle by which we receive a telephone message. Furthermore, these scientists claim that by a series of experiments they have 1 BOOT . II lillfl pi ft U : Lit wr-----AVJ4 wmm EVENTS OF COMING WEEK President Roosevelt who, accom panied by Mrs. Roosevelt. Surgeon General Riley and Assistant Secre tary Latta, is on his way to Panama on board the Battleship Louisiana. Is expected to arrive at Colon No vember 15. Mr. Roosevelt will re ceive President and Mrs. Amador. Secretary Alios and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Sbonts and Chief Engi neer and Mrs. Stevens before leav ing the battleship. After landing, the presidential party will make a low run by train across the isthmus to La Boca, where an Inspection will be made on canal conditions in that vicinity, after which the party will return to Ancoa Friday and Saturday will fce spent at Culebra Cut. Gatun and Cristobal, and on Saturday night the party will be tendered a. reception by the canal employes. The President will leave the isthmus November 18 for San Juan. Porto Rico. Delegates from Canada. gouti America and European countries are expected to attend the Ameri can International Congress on Tuber culosis that will be held in New York City, beginning Wednesday and continuing through two days of the week. The congress Is open to mem bers of all professions and legisla tures. The governments In the Western Hemisphere were invited to send representatives and circulars were sent to American consuls in Europe, calling attention to it- It is expected that the congress will urge preventive legislation against tuber culosis and the adoption of govern mental sanitariums. The Castellane divorce hearing will be resumed on November 14. Counsel for the Countess are conn dent that the application of the Count's attorneys for an examina tion of the witnesses in the case will be denied by the court, and It Is also regarded. a certain that tie public prosecutor will not avail him self of the right to be heard In the Interest of the general public The Castellane creditors, nevertheless, are urging every influence to prevent the granting of a divorce until their case Is disposed of. The German Reichstag will re assemble November 13. The laws governing the navigation of steam vessels will be discussed at a meeting of the American Associa tion of Masters and Mates, which will be held in New Tork City on Monday and Tuesday. Some amend ments to the present laws may be approved. Many prominent Democrats, In cluding candidates on the Demo cratic state ticket of New Tork, are expected to attend the Independence League banquet In New Tork Mon day night. King Hl-akon and 2uee.n Mndn of N-r-ay "111 ' .TT Kr.risrid l-irtr-s ' the weejc, -arriving tn- London on Monday, where they will be received at. Windsor Castle. King Haakon will be Invested with the prder of the Garter. t proven that digestion is an electro-chemic process; that all life action in the body is dependent upon the activity of the elec trical forces within the organism, that variations of sense manifestation, as sight, hearing, etc., are caused by the different rates of vibration set up by the human electrical currents acting on the special sense nerves. HER REAL CHOICE. OF Drama of Stensland Bankwreck on Stage. TOO MUCH FOR DEPOSITORS Anxious to Hang Impersona tors of Thieves. VILLAIN ROUNDLY HISSED Narrowly Escapes Vicarions Punish ment for Crimes of Hering Po lice Guard Theater to Pre vent Realistic Action. CHICAGO, Nov. ll.-(SpeciaL) The Milwaukee-Avenue State Bank was wrecked this afternoon at the Humboldt Theater, Milwaukee avenue and Ohio street. It was the first time the bank has been wrecked on any stage. The throng which sought admission to the theater contained scores of those who were prevented from storming the looted bank only by a. big force of police. They wanted to expe rience again the thrill of losing their money. It was the same kind of a mixed gath ering as that In August Poles, Bohe mians, Jews, Italians and Scandinavians and long before the doors opened they forged up the steep stairway to the box office and spread out in a fan-shaped mass in the street below, some carrying their bankbooks. Villains in Bad Box. During the performance the villain of the play was roundly hissed and hooted, and after It was over the feeling of the excitable spectators was such that he was in danger of being roughly handled. Most of the crowd, however, took the play in good part and restrained the radicals from excesses of any kind. "Stensland is going to sit in a box," . .ui a swarthy man. who dra-ed a t?.:ji:JEt t. mail w.t.l nim 6i h eilv. -d his way through the crowd. "And Hering in another." yelled back a youth wedged against the wall half way up the stairs. 'They'll both be in a bad box if we lay hands on them." yelled a third, who ex hibited his bankbook, and the mob strug gled forward, for the tickets were going fast Plot Close to Original. The play, called "The Bankwrecker," makes a clerk In the bank the hero, and distorts some of the characters for the purposes of melodramatic plot and situ ation. Thus the bank president Is sup ACTORS CHIME ALMOST MOBBED plied with a. niece, who is the heroine; and the "woman in the case," the "ad venturess." who helps to involve the banker, "Paul O. Stenslow." in hopeless ruin, Is credited with being the" repudi ated wife and dupe of "Charles Herring tin, the unscrupulous cashier." He is the villain and says "Aha" several times. Rounds of hisses and cries of derision greeted his every appearance. Sometimes he was in actual danger. "Paul O. Stens low" Is given the role of the remorseful man gone wrong. His remorse is evi dent after his capture. The names of the principal characters in the play are near enough like the original to be easily recognized. Police Disentangle Crowd. The piece had been well advertised and on account of the bitterness of feeling at the time of the failure of the bank, whicn was not far from the playhouse. It was feared that a revival of bitter memories might inflame the foreigners and prompt them to mischief The crowd that thronged the streets strengthened the apprehension of the police, and extra men were detailed to keep order. As it happened, they had little to do except to disentangle the gathering when disorder seemed on the point of breaking out. TOT3G MAN SHOT DEAD ON SUR PRISING BCRGLAK. Addition to Series of Sensational Murders Causes Demand for More Police. PITTSBURG. Nov. 11. Henry F Smith. the 2&-year-old sot) of Joseph Smith, a wealthy business man, was shot twice. and almost instantly killed, early this morning, by a burglar whom he surprised in the dining-room of his father's resi dence in the East End. The crime, following a little more than a week after the murder of James A. Mc Millan, another wealthy business man of this section, together with a number of hold-ups by highwaymen during the past fortnight, has aroused the city and a de. mand for loO additional policemen to sup press the wave, of crime has been made by the citizens. That a desperate battle took place be tween young Smith and the burglar is evi dent from the disordered condition of the dining-room and kitchen. In addition to the two bullets which entered Smith's body, five other balls were found lodged In the woodwork. Three cartridges of Smith's revolver had been discharged Neighbors who heard the shots and ran to their windows say they saw no one running from the Smith house. Hundreds of dollars' worth of silver plate had been gathered together by the burglar. The entire police and detective forces are working on the case, but so far no clew has been discovered. RACE SUiCIDE INCREASING French Birth Rate Declines and Pro geny Prize Is Proposed. PARIS. Nov. 11. Public attention has again been drawn to the National peril involved in the constantly-diminishing birthrate by the publication of the vita! statistics for 1305. The births in France for this year numbered 807.292, showing a. decrease of 10,937 from the total of 1904. The reason for this decrease is not to be found in a reduction of the number of marriages, in which the statistics show a slight Increase over 1904. but it apparently arises from the aversion of the French people to raising large fam ilies. The National association which is study ing this matter nas reached the conclu sion that it is necessary to inculcate the Idea that any couple that raises more than three children merits and is en titled to public gratitude and protection. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. t degrees; minimum, 60. TODAY'S Occasional rain; southerly winds. Foreign. Pope and Kaiser quarrel about Polish school question. Page 2 Buried city of Hftrculaneum to be dug ud. Page 2. Boer raid in Cape Colony cauaea alarm Page 2. Rumored assassination of Kins. Alfonso dis proved. Page 3. Russian police fall into terrorist plot and are blown to pieces. Page 3. National. President having1 good voyag-e to Panama. Page 3. Dismissed negTO troops weep at giving up guns. Page- 2. Politic. Governor Hoch -will win and attributes small pluraliry to Standard Oil and rallroada Page 1. American Federation of Labor to adopt ag gressive political policy. Page 1. Domestic. Drama based on Stensland bank-wrecking almost causes riot. Page 1. General Shafter at point of death. Page 2. Man stabbed by woman dies concealing her name. Page L Panic wrecks theater at moving -picture show. Page 7. Murder by burglar causes demand for more police in Pittsburg. Page 1. Mysterious disease causes death and panic in Texas. Page 3. Erine railroad firemen voting on strike. Page 2. Pacific Coast. Origin and growth of Ruef's political power. Page 4. Occupations of members of new Washing ton Legislature. Page 4. Burglars crack-safe of O. R- A X. depot at Garfield. Page 4. Portland Chamber of Commerce to visit Rai nier. Page D. Cornerstone of Catholic Cathedral laid at Boise. Page 3. San Francisco doctors discover electricity in human body. Page 1. Card sharps arrested on Nome steamer. Page S. T axom a building trades union make com mon cause with plumbers. Page 4. Portland and Vicinity. Larrv Sullivan, Nevada mining magnate, re visits Portland- Page 9. President McDoel, oi the Monon, -visits Port land. Page 9. Government agents seek to connect Senator Fulton with Umatilla Indian reservation land frauds. Page 8. Coast Jobbers will combine to fight Spo kane's demand for terminal rates. Page 9. J. H. Brady. Idaho Republican leader, dis cusses political situation in that state Page S. Rev. H. C- Shaffer says no true Christian should have more than $10,000. Page "j. Hoodlums start riot at Empire Theater; at tack policemen. Page LABOR WILL TAKE AGGRESSIVE STAND Elections Encoura'ge Federation. FIVE UNION MEN IN CONGRESS Convention Will Adopt Firm Political Policy. EXPECT ROOSEVELT'S AID leaders Confident That Fre-Mde-nt's Coming Message to Congress Will Contain Jtadical Demands for Labor What Gompers Says. MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Xov. ll.-S(r.. cial) That the convention of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, which opens in this city tomorrow morning, will go on record in favor of an aggressive political policy seems assured. From ali parts of the country delegates are bring in re ports of success at the polls at the ttient' election. ; So far these reports show that av least Ave trade unionists will sit in the next Congress, while a great number have been elected to the different state Legis latures. Most pronounced have been the sucess of the United Mine Tvorkers and the Commercial Telegraphers' Union. The miners in the anthracite distrirt. of Penn sylvania have elected W. B. 'Wilson and T. D. Nichols to Congress and -10 of their members to the state Legislature. The telegraphers elected three of their members to Congress in different parts of the country, including . the Fourth Dis trict of Illinois. In Hennepin County, in this state. 31 out of 39 men indorsed' by labor for the state Legislature and county officers hare been elected. These tuc cesses have whened the appetites of the labor men and it is the general opinion of the delegates who have arrived here that the convention will devote at least twn days to disciissiBK a political pro gramme Gompers Feels Encouraged. President Gompers fpels greatly encour aged over the situation. He says he has received scores of letters from men out side of the labor movement In which they declare that they never before fully understood what the trade unionists of the country stood for In a political way. and expressing sympathy with their aims and objects. 'It has been the greatest educational campaign that organized labor has ever conducted." he said tonight. "The subject is fully covered In the re port which I will submit to the convention tomorrow, but I have no hesitation in say. ing that the political programme of the Executive Council will be indorsed by the convention. It is but the beginning of organized labor's efforts in the polit ical arena." One of the effects of the labor political programme will be seen in the coming message of President Roosevelt to Con gress. According to some labor officials who have recently talked with the Presi dent on the subject, the coming message will contain some of the most radical de mands for labor that have ever been made by a President of the United States. Many Grievances Aired. Next to the political programme the delegates are interested in Jurisdictional disputes. The Executive Council in ses sion this afternoon reviewed the griev ances lodged against the United Brewery Workmen by the engineers, firemen, team sters and other unions. The council could not arrive at any decision and de cided to throw the whole matter Into the conxention. The steamfitters and plumbers are lining up their forces Tor a decisive battle against each other, the plumbers being determined to have the charter recently isued to the steamfitters revoked. The carpenters and woodwork ers are also preparing for a tight on the floor of the convention. The United Order of Boxmakers, with headquarters in Chi cago, has a representative here to renew its application for a charter which baa. for years, been denied it because of the protests of the woodworkers. Credentials have already been received for about 335 delegates and more are ex pected in the morning. The convention is expected to last two weeka. GORED TO DEATH BY DEER Mystery of Wealthy Kew Torke.r's Death Explained. NEW TORK. Nov. 11. It was definitely established today at Mont Clair. N. J . that a pet buck deer killed Herbert Brad ley, a wealthy flour exporter, whose dead body was found last night on the pre serves at his home there. Deputy County Physician Simmons, of Orange, found that Mr. Bradley's death was due pri marily to the deer's ripping open an artery in his hip. The horns of the buck, the largest one belonging to Mr. Bradley and his special pride, were found to be covered with blood. The animal also attacked him with its hoofs. Mr. Bradley returned yesterday from a business trip to the West, and was told that a great deal of shooting by hunters was going on .in woods near his estate. He started out to see if any hunters had broken into his grounds, and while he was investigating the buck, killed him.