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t . " VOL. XIVI NO. 14,556. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1907. CENTS. C It KNOX THE CHOICE OF Last Resort to Defeat Roosevelt. MANY TRIED AND ABANDONED Boot Most Able but Could Never Be Elected. MUCH MONEY FOR KNOX paring Finally Fixed on Him as Most Available Candidate, Cor porations Will Jfot Spare Cash to Nominate Him. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Aug. 2. Apparently the corpora tions have selected. Senator Philander C. Knox, of Pennsylvania, as their candi date to succeed President, Roosevelt, after trying out various avallables with Wore or less disastrous results. If this fact becomes generally recognized, it (rill make Mr. Knox's nomination abso lutely Impossible. A year ago. when the corporations were particularly bitter towards the Presi dent, they agreed among themselves that the next President should be a man very different from Mr. Roosevelt, and from that day to this they have never given up the Idea of railroading some friend into the White House. The first man they took up was Vice-President Fair banks, who was already doing the best he could single-handed to build up a fol lowing. But the corporations are now satisfied that It would be folly to nomi nate him, becouse he could not be elected. Naturally, they do not want to put for ward any candidate who Is foredoomed to defeat. One After Another Dropped. i Senator Foraker was tne next man taken up. While not so puable as Mr. alroankg -and nfd likely to be quite so subservient. In general he was In sym pathy with the corporations and he was set down as a most acceptable man. The Foraker boom was launched, but It did not take: nobody wanted Mr. Foraker except the corporations and the negroes, and then when Mr. Foraker persisted In combating the President, his popularity began to wane and the "Interests" de- cided that It would be futile to push him, especially after the Taft boom ap peared and made It doubtful whether Mr. Foraker could carry his own state. When the corporations forsook him, Mr. Fora ker let It become known that he would Ibe content if he could have another term cut Senator; he did not Insist on the Presidential nomination as the price of peace. "Uncle Joe" Cannon was then tried But. Mr. Cannon would not be an Ideal candidate from a corporation standpoint, but he would be better than Mr. Taft or Governor Hughes. He was certainly very different from Mr. Roosevelt, and would !e much less offensive to "the Interests." SThe Cannon boom did not make a go of t. Mr. Cannon proved to be too old; fooreover. he was not close enough to the people a fatal shdrtcomlng in these days twhen the people rule. No Hope Tor Shaw 'or Root, The corporations would have been per fectly happy if they could have forced the nomination and election of Leslie M. Chaw, ex-Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Bhaw was always good to Wall street, end Wall street Is sometimes grateful, especially when It can see still further Savors ahead. But the Shaw boom was es great a failure as the boom of Mr. Fairbanks. It Is heard of no more. Mr. Shaw could not have been elected, if nominated, and that Is the reason he was dropped. Elihu Root, Secretary of State, 1b not tin ideal candidate from the corporation Standpoint, but "the interests" would prefer him to Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Taft or Mr. Hughes. Mr. Root does not en tertain some of the vigorous anti-corporation views that are held by the Presi dent; that is to say, he is less radical. He does not Indorse the popular view, and therein lies the source of his weak Bess, as a candidate. It is well under stood that, If he should speak out In cab inet meetings and say Just what he -thinks, the policies of the Administration would receive many severe scorings. Mr. . Boot believes the public is often wrong, and In such Instances he would not per mit himself to be swayed by popular clamor. He holds himself above the masses. No one questions that he would make a good President; Mr. Roosevelt himself takes this view, but, like other hrewd politicians, the President Is aware hat Mr. Root would make a very poor candidate he could not be elected. So the corporations put Mr. Root aside, and .for a time they were at sea. Machine Springs Knox. Then the Pennsylvania machine got into motion, and Mr. Knox was brought forward as the most available candidate in the field. His boom was launched early In the Summer and was enthus iastically Indorsed by the Republican or ganizations of his state. It was an nounced that Mr. Knox was Mr. Roose- velt's favorite candidate for 1908, though this announcement has since been proven a fake, pure and simple. It was declared that Mr. Knox, as Attorney General, had dona mora to prosecute, the. oppressive CORPORATIONS corporations than any man connected with the Administration. In view of this fact. It was declared that Mr. Knox as President would carry out the Roosevelt corporation policies. It is true that At torney General Knox carried out the in structions of the Preslaent; he had no other course open to him. But had Mr. Knox been President, it is very seriously to be doubted if the prosecution would have been so vigorous. Mr. Knox modestly stepped into the limelight he would be a receptive candi date, nothing more. If the people want ed him he would serve them willingly, but he would not take off his coat and go to work. Since the launching of the Knox boom, the Pennsylvania Senator has been quite busy. He has conferred with friendly politicians and with some of the big money men of the East. After looking over the situation, he has decided to get in and make an active campaign. He is" going to keep at it right up to the time the convention meets. He will be his own manager, with lieutenants to work up sentiment in various sections outside of Pennsylvania. Is Corporation Candidate. The very fact that Senator Murray Crane, of Massachusetts, Is to be the Knox lieutenant in New England Is enough in itself to mark Mr. Knox as the corporation candidate. - Mr. Crane plays In with Senator Aldrich. who is the Senate representative of the Standard Oil and allied corporations. Mr. Knox, how ever, has always been affiliated with cor porations. He owes his seat in the Sen ate to the. Steel Trust, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Standard Oil Company. Naturally a man who would permit him self to. be under obligations to these cor porations in order to attain a senatorshlp would be on equally friendly terms wtien It came to a race for the Presidency. Mr. Knox is most acceptable to the cor porations, to those that have helped him heretofore and to others. He is a stronger candidate than Mr. Fairbanks or Mr. 'Root, Mr. Cannon or Mr. Slww or Mr. Foraker. In point of ability, he is head and shoulders above all of them save Mr. Root, and, having been Mr. Roose velt's agent for prosecuting corporations, he can turn that fact to advantage In some quarters. Mr. Knox will not be an ideal candi date for the corporations; he would not be as pliable in the Presidential chair, but he has a better chance of being elect ed than those candidates who would be more acceptable, so the corporations have been obliged to turn to him as their most available Presidential possibility. He would, to their minds, be a great Im provement on Mr. Roosevelt; he would be far less drastic, and they would gladly accept him on the theory that half a loaf Is better than none. Can Get Money, Not Votes. The "interests" are evidently content to stand by Mr. Knox, and the Knox campaign fund will never be shy. He will be the only candidate among all the Republicans with an abundance of money to back him, and If these were ordinary times', when the corporation could buy up or, by the indirect use of money, con trol the next convention, Mr. Knox would be a sure winner, so far as tbe nomina tion is concerned. But the great diffl culty Is that strong public sentiment tlWit is so bitterly opposed to corporations and men who bear the corporation taint. It is such a sentiment as can not be swayed by money, and Mr. Knox, not withstanding the unlimited means that will be behind him. will not be able to carry the convention. If he could land the nomination, all the money of the cor porations would not elect him. He would be a defeated candidate because he wears the corporation brand. ALABAMA REVOKES FRANCHISE OF SOUTHERN LIKE. Removal of Salt From State to Federal Court Offense Against State. . Judge Is Deled, MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 2. An nouncement was made today by Secre tary of State Frank N. Julian that he had revoked the franchise of the South ern Railway Company because it had removed a case from the State Circuit Court of Talledaga County to the United States Circuit Court at Bir mingham. This action of the Southern Is alleged to be in violation of the two outlaw acts passed by the State Legislature last Winter, each of which provided that such removal should be punish able by a revocation of the charter of the offending railroad. One of these laws, the better known, was declared unconstitutional by United States Judge Thomas Jones, but the other has never been enjoined by the Federal courts. For this reason the action of the state official was taken under the provisions of the second of these "out law" acts. ' The state insists that this second outlaw act is still in force and It is entirely proper to act under its provi sions, while the adherents of the rail way contend the act of revocation is in contempt o.f the Federal court injunc tion, at least in spirit. Neither side would make an authori tative statement of the probable course to be pursued in the controversy to day. FAILED TO SEE DANGER Three Persons Killed by Electric Car Collision. ' JACKSON. Mich., Aug. 2. A westbound electric car struck an automobile contain ing five Jackson residents about three miles east of here tonight. Mrs. Levi Palmer, Mrs. Emily Pulver and Bernlce Oliver were killed. B. A. Oliver, who was driving, was probably fatally injured, while his wife escaped with less serious injuries. From the fact that the brakes on the touring car were not set, it is believed JMx-r Oliver did not see the eleotrlo tar, FINE SlU.OQO.OOO FOR STAFJDARD OIL Figure Judge Landisls Expected to Fix. SUM MAYEXGEED $29,000,000 Penalty for Receiving Rebates to Be Imposed. OCTOPUS CAN STAND IT Even Maximum Fixed try Lair Not Crushing Indiana Corporation Has Property Worth More Than $100,000,000. CHICAGO, Aug. 2. (Special.) There Is much speculation over the size of the fine to be announced against the Standard Oil Company for receiving re bates from the Chicago & Alton Rail way, when Federal Court opens to morrow. The general opinion seems to be that Judge Landls will .assess the company $10,000,000, although there Is no ground for the belief. District At torney Sims says he has made no recom mendations, but believes Judge Landls will do what is right In the matter. It Is a matter of comment that none of the chief cdupsel for the Standard Oil Company will be present in court tomorrow. Among attorneys this is construed as an indication that the Standard cares very little what the Government does. If Judge Landls finds that the Stand TYPES OF nittle Tommy, darling: of papa and mamma, who think him cute' racing the street. Auto man thinks Mr. Public owe. this little bill for not getting out ' of the way. Hapless .peed fiend, who mistook telegraph pole for i ' ' JWlflTso VVHEEL v2S. ard Oil Company of New Jersey Is In volved in the rebate matter, he can assess a fine in excess of 129,000,300. If he feels that the Standard Oil Com pany of -Indiana Is alone Involved, he can fine it ,10,100.000. Although the Standard of Indiana is capitalized at $1,000,000 only. It has property In Whit ing alone worth considerably in ex cess of $50,000,000 and in the state of more than $100,000,000. Inasmuch as it was shown in the trial here that the earnings of the Standard for the three years when the rebates were being paid were $199,800, 000, it is felt that a fine of $10,000,003, or even of the maximum, $29,240,000, would not so crush the octopus that it would never recover. Xo Operation on Rockefeller. CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 2. At Forest 4 o - t . Judge K. M. Landls, of the-TntMd' States Court of Chicago, Whd Will Announce Sentence on. Standard Oil Company Today. . Hill, the Summer home of John D. Rocke feller, It was stated today that there was absolutely no truth In the reports printed this morning that Mr. Rockefeller would shortly undergo a surgical operation. It was also denied that he expected to leave the city today or at any time in the near future. Mr. Rockefeller, it was added, played golf this morning with Dr. Blggcx, and was enjoying the best of health. AUTO MANIACS AND Papa and mamma, Indignant that anybody should want their darling off the streets. SOXG OF THE RECKLESS AUTO. Turn on the juice and let grief loose On that reckless crowd Just yon der.. We'll deal 'era a jolt like a thun derbolt Before they've time to wonder. - With nver a squeak, with never a creak ; We give no sign nor warning. A dash, a flash, and then the smash They're lucky to wake in the morning. And how they run Oh ho! what funl You'd laugh to see their capers. And then the glee to presently see It all writ up in the papers. We care not a cuss for fume or fuss Of sore distraught relations. A trifling fine to a wad like mine Is the least of considerations. So It's Hip hurrah! and darn the law; We'll ride 'em down like cattle. We'll fill our track with woe and wrack Twill shame a field of battle. H. M. Hilarious individual, not contemt with running: down the people all day, so keeps them awake at night. SOUTHERN TO ADD NEW TRAIN It Will Carry Only Mail and Express; PLAN IS TO IMPROVE SERVICE Change Will Permit Running Passenger Trains on Time, END TO ANNOYING DELAYS Subject Under Consideration by Railroad and Express Officials. Decision Will Be Announced In a Few Days. Harrlman officials, both in Portland and San Francisco, are seriously considering placing a special mail and express train on the Portland-San Francisco run. It is expected that a decision will be reached In a few days. Railroad officials are in clined to think the additional service is assured, although the train will have to be officially ordered by General Manager Calvin from tho San Francisco office. The proposed new train will be reserved exclusively for handling mall and express, and is being considered asN an expedient for relieving existing congested conditions, which, it is said, are responsible largely for the unsatisfactory passenger service on this branch of the Southern Pacific. This special will carry no passengers. The express business on this line has Increased to an extent that It Is impossi ble to handle It with the facilities that are now provided In the passenger trains OTHERS Oiraer of $5000 auto, fined $5 for $50 worth of speed sport. But Mr. Public think auto owes this other bill. Tndertaker, one man who doesn't care how fast they drive. and at the same time make schedule time with those trains. By combining both the express and mail business and handling It with a special train, the railroad offi cials figure that It will be possible to op erate Its passenger trains on schedule time, since it Is the discharging and re ceiving of express that Invariably delays trains at all of the important stations, making It Impossible for them to be run on time. It cannot be learned when the additional train will be started, if it should be de cided to make this improvement in the service. But when a decision has once been reached by the officials who have the sub ject under consideration, the demand is such that it is believed the inauguration of the special service will be a matter of but a few days. SVBJECT UNDER ADVISEMEXT Southern Pacific Official to Give Decision In a Few Days. SAX FRANCISCO. Aug. 2. (Special.) It Is unofficially reported here that a special mail and express train will soon be placed on the Portland-San Francisco run on the Southern Pacific The subject of estab lishing such a service is known to have been taken up by the officials here and In Portland, and a decision Is expected in a few days. The purpose of the projected train is to relieve the. passenger trains of this business in the Interest of an im proved passenger service. To handle the increased express business, especially, has made it practically Impossible for tho company to operate its passenger trains on schedule time. MOURNS PROMISED WIFE W. T. HUM E, FORMERLY OF PORTLAND, DISCONSOLATE. Victim of ' Columbia Wreck, Mrs. Blanche Gordon, Wa Attorney's Affianced Picked Vp, Lost. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2. (Special.) The Investigation Into the Columbia disaster today revealed one of the sad dest mysteries connected with the wreck. W. T. Hume, an attorney of this city, formerly of Portland, asked Cap tain Hansen for news of his promised wife, Mrs. Blanche Gordon. Of all the persons picked up by the schooner San. Pedro after -the collision Mrs. Gordon was the only one not yet accounted for. Mrs. Gordon became separated from her 13-year-old daughter and was taken on board the San Pedro. Mrs. Gordon for more than three years had been engaged to marry Mr. Hume. The wedding wii postponed on account of Illness of Mrs. Gordon's little daugh ter, who claimed her mother's undivided attention. - - - After the death of the child a short time ago Mrs. Gordon and the older daughter went on a recreation trip to the North. Mr. Hume was to have met her at the dock upon her return, and they were to have been married Im mediately. He has suffered keenly from the uncertainty and has been unwilling to give up hope. Mrs. Gordon's daugh ter was saved and is In this city. Half-Mllllon Fire In Wisconsin. TOMAHAWK, Wis.. Aug. 2. Fire tonight destroyed the entire plant of the Tomahawk branch of the United States Leather Company. Loss, $500,000. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 70 degrees; minimum, 81 degrees. TODAY'S Generally fair; westerly winds. Foreign. France Invites Spain to Join in expedition to Morocco. Pago 4. John Burns proposes British pure food law to fight American packers. Page 3. Blrrell going to Belfast to pacify polios strikers. Page 3. National. Naval officers believe coming of fleet to Pacific will cause war with Japan. Pago 1. Standard Oir Company to be sentenced to day; line probably 110.000.000. . Page 1. Politics. Senator Knox final choice of plutocrats for President. Page 1. Vardaman ahead according to latest re turns from Mississippi primaries. Page 8. Governor Hanley declares Indiana solid for Fairbanks. Page S. Domestic Haywood given great reception at Salt Lake. Page 5. Union Pacific will encourage coal mining by Independent companies. Page 2. New York Chinese attack Boston Chinese and kill three. Page 2. Kirk Jones, Portland burglar, arrested In Boston. ,Page 4. Alabama declares Southern Railroad out law for removing suit to Federal Court. Pag. 1. Pacific Coast. Corvallts A Eastern replies to Representa tive Jones charges. Page 0. Rain in Eastern Washington breaks hot spell. Page 4. Walter Scott of Jordan Valley kills wife, her lover and himself. Page 6. Plenty of gold "till left In Klondike. Page 4. Garfield engages Heney to supervise all Coast land fraud trials. Page 3. Four Jurors sworn for Halsey trial. Page 4. Telephone Trust supplants Glass and Zlm mer for turning against It. Page 4. W. T. Hume's Intended bride lost on Co lumbia. Page 1. San Francisco club expels man who ob jected to entertainment of Calhoun, tiio briber. Page 4. Chinese sailors, starved and beaten at sea, prefer Jail. Page 4. Sport. Coast League teams to return to original schedule. Page 4. Commercial and Marine. Encouraging news for Oregon onion-growers. Page 15. Firm wheat market at Chicago. Page 15. Midsummer trade better than last year's. Page 13. Stock- market stagnant. Page' 15. Ship Dalgon&r chartered for outward load ing of new crop grain. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. Southern Pacific may put on mall and ex press train between Portland and San . Francisco. Page 1. State Board of Health and Railroad Com- ' mission to hold conference. Page 10. Common law widow of William Ayera as sails lawyers. Page 10. yefftrmern bait JUUwaukla Tiger. Pas 18., HAUL OFFICERS NT W R Movement of Fleet Will Be the Cause. WILL PROVOKE JAPAN TO ACTION Stir Up San Francisco Hood lums to Attack. JOYOUS AT THE PROSPECT Official Announcement Battleships Will Come to Pacific Causes Visions of Promotion to Dance Before Seadogs' Eyes. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. (Special.) There was much jubilation on the part of naval officers today over the specific and unqualified announcement at Oyster Bay that the battleships of the Atlantic fleet will be sent to the Pacific. Until this statement was made by authority of President Roosevelt there was a growing feeling on the part of naval officers that these vessels would not be sent around Cape Horn. ' One of the most substantial officers of the Navy believes that the sending of these battleships to the California Coast will cause so much irritation that war between the United States and Japan will be the result. They are already figur ing on promotions, as history has shown that advancement in the naval service Is much more rapid during war than in peace. All naval officers are forbidden to dls cuss international questions for publica tion, but privately they do not hesitate to declare that they believe that as soon as the Atlantic fleet starts on Its long voyage to the Pacific the Japanese gov ernment will send one of Its fleets to the Coast of California or to the Atlantic Coast. They declare that the presence of the battleships of Admiral Evans on the Pa cific will cause the people in that part of the country to become more bold In their attacks on the Japanese. This, they say, will cause irritation, which they fear will lead to serious consequences. MUST RENDER ACCOUNT New Suit by Receiver Karl Against Sugar Trust. TRENTON, X. J., Aug. 2. A bill In equity which calls upon the American Sugar Refining Company to give an ac counting of its business for the past four years was filed before Chancel lor Magee today on behalf of George H. Earl, Jr., receiver of the Pennsyl vania Sugar Refining Company, of Philadelphia. The suit. It Is said. Is the only one of the kind ever filed In this country, and the step taken by the Pennsylvania Company may be the means of opening an entire new field for investigating trusts. The suit is separate from that for. 130.000.000 damages whlcH Mr. Earl Instituted against the American Sugar Refining Company, of New Tork. Mr. Earl holds that in procuring the controlling interest In the Pennsyl vania Company in 1903, the company became a trustee for the concern and is responsible to It for an accounting, although the American Company never operated the opposition company's plants. FOREST FIRE IN TIMBER Incalculable Loss Near Bcllingham. Crews Fighting Flames. BELLINGHAM, Wash., Aug. 2. A for est fire on the northeast shore of Lake Whatcom, ten miles east of this city, has destroyed a tract of timber six miles long and 1V4 miles wide and is still spreading. Near Belfast, this county, large tracts of standing timber are threatened and logging camps and mills have closed down to permit crews to fight the flames. No estimate of the loss can be secured, but millmen declare It is almost Incalcula ble. The fires which yesterday threatened this city are now under control. WANT THE 1903 AERIE Seattle Eagles to Make Fight for Meeting In That City. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 2. (Special.) The Eagles tonight decided to make a fight for the 1908 meeting of the Grand Aerie and pledged a fund of $25, OU) to de fray all expenses. ' The Eagles claim that they will be able to take care of a crowd of 30.000, half of whom they expect to come from the Pacific Slope. The 190S meeting will be the tenth anniversary of the foundation of tbe order, which origin ated in Seattle. CITY OF PANAMA IS COMING Sails for Portland Sunday In Place of Columbia. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2. The steam ship City of Panama is to take the place of the Columbia. She has been chartered from the Pacific Mail Steamship Company by the San Francisoo Portland Steam ship Company and will start Sunday. The City of Panama will carry a full pas senger list in tdjllUon la 100 tpius of cargo. - .