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PORTLAND, OREGON, EpGSx, AUuUST X, 1907. x xtHJJU x JLVJii
GAMBLERS DEFY
SITE LAW'S
AN
Milwaukie Club Thus
Advised by Lawyer.
ATTORNEY HEDGES' BROTHER
Says Town Charter Allows
License of Games.
UNDER STATUTE OE 1905
This Being Later Enactment Than
That Prohibiting Gambling,
Club's Counsel Says That State
Authorities Can't Stop It. .
DEVELOPMENTS IX GAMBLING
SITUATION.
A lawyer of Milwaukie Club, broth
er of District Attorney Hedges, ay'
atate authorities cannot suppress
Gambling tn Milwaukie.
Official and citizens of Vancouver,
Wash., will not permit removal of
gambling to their city from Mil
waukie. Baker City Is "wide open" to
gambling and officials are making
no move to drive It out.
Astoria contains 12 gambling joints
run by white persons and six lotteries
and seven fantan games run by Chi
nese, all of which will close next
Tuesday.
OREGON CITY, Or., Aug. 7. (Special.)
Insisting that the city of Milwaukie has
authority from the Legislature In Its
charter to license gambling. State Benator
Joseph E. Hedges, counsel for the Mil
waukie Club, announced this afternoon
that the club will resist attempts to sup
press it under the state anti-gambling
law and that the reported plan of the
club to move from Milwaukie to Van
, couver or some other place is buncombe.
Senator Hedges is a brother of District
Attorney Gilbert L. Hedges, by whoso
tardy order the club was closed last Sat
urday night.
State Licensed the Club.
Senator Hedges says that in 1903 the
Legislature enacted a charter for Mil
waukie, giving that town power to sup
press gambling houses, and that in 1905
the Legislature changed that authority,
giving the city power to license, tax and
regulate and restrain all offenses, trades
and occupations and to license the dif
ferent branches of business or professions
which in their (Council's) Judgment,
should be licensed. As these acts were
passed subsequently to the general state
law against gambling, Senator Hedges
maintains that the general law Is not
operative in Milwaukie.
Senator Hedges has been the legal rep
resentative of the Milwaukie Country
Club for several years, and appeared for
it two years ago, when Isaac Gratton
and M. G. Nease were indicted by a
Clackamas County grand Jury. The case
at that time never went to trial, the two
defendants pleading guilty and paying
their fines. Mr. Hedges, however, has al
ways believed that the situation at Mil-
Araukle is such that the club cannot be
restrained from pool-selling and gam
Ming, and cites numerous authorities to
gprove his contention.
Senator Hedges Opinion.
Senator Hedges this afternoon gave out
the following opinion.
Much has been written in the past two
.weeks respecting the maintenance of the
I Milwaukie Country club, and urging the
officials of this county to cloBe the club and
I arrest the proprietors.
I am convinced that many of the writers
are Innocent of either the law or the facte
relating to this undertaking or the busi
ness in which the owners are engaged.
"The legislature of this state hag power
to license pool selling, poker playing, or
even maintenance of the so-called "social
evil." Only the first two of these, as 1 read,
are maintained or carried on at the club. Let
us assume, therefore, that this Is true .
The Legislature further has the right to
delegate to a municipality the power within
Its boundaries to makelawful.sofar as the
publl els concerned, a wark or business or
aa act, or. state of affairs generally, which
without such authorisation would constitute
a public nuisance, andthe person for whose
) benefit the authorisation Is made will be
exempt from liability to suits, civil and
criminal, at the Instance of the state, pro
vided always, he keeps strictly within the
etrms of the legislative license or permis
sion. If, therefor, by the act creating the mu
nicipality or In the charter the power is
, granted to license pool-selling and poker
j playing, and, under ordinance, duly and
(regularly passed and approved, a license Is
i granted to a person to prosecute this line
of business or conduct such vocation, the
licensee Is immune from punishment for
pursuing the calling or business.
The state cannot proecute as a nuisance
that which It has authorised. The term
'"public nuisance" applies only to something
occasioned by acts done In violation of lw.
,A work whllh Is authorised by law cannot
'be a nuisance.
Further, a general act will be repealed
pro tanto by a subsequent special Act when
the two acts cannot stand together, and
'our own Supreme Court has said that It Is
a rule of law. sanctioned by this court,
that whenever two acts are repubnant. one
Inimical to the other, so that both cannot
tand. the latter will operate as a repeal of
the earlier by Implication', without any ex
press words of repeal : and such will be the
effect even when they are not repugnant
In all of their provisions, if the new statute
revises the subject matter of the old and Is
plainly intended as a substitute for the old
In toto.
Such rule Is not Inimical to the doctrine
that repeats by Implication are never fa
vored, nor to that which gives effect to
several statutes upon the same subject
whenever it Is possible to do so. And again.
the same high authority says that when
two statutes are inconsistent and repugnant
o that both cannot stand, the one last
enacted shall be considered In force and to
reoeal by Implication all prior acts, or porta
of acts, that conflict with It. And yet
again, that when two statutes that are In
conflict are enacted by the Legislature upon
the same general subject, the last enactment
furnishes the rule of action and repeals the
prior act by Implication so far as they con
flict. Another court of last resort in an opinion
on a matter similar to the one in hand, says:
"The Legislature has a right to change the
common law; It has the right to allow the
legislative authorities of (a city) to
regulate the subject now under considera
tion, differently from what It Is In the
other portions of the state. It Is a naked
assumption to say that any matter al
lowed by the Legislature Is against publlo
policy. . . . To say that such law Is of
Immoral tendency is disrespectful to the
Legislature, which no doubt designed to
promdte morality. Whether the ordinance
In question is colculated to promote the
object Is a question with which the courts
have no concern.
The last-named authority further says:
The question then arises whether this
general prohibition or this special permissive
existence under regulation must prevail,
and we are clear that a particular specified
intent cn the part of the Legislature over
rules the general Intent Incompatible with
the specific one."
And finally Mr. Dillon, in his work on
Municipal Corporations says that the pre
sumption is not lightly to be indulged that
the Legislature has by Implication repealed,
as respects a particular municipality, or
as respects all municipalities' 'laws of a
general nature elsewhere in force through
out the state: yet a charter or special act
passed subsequent to the general law and
plainly irreconcilable with It, will to the
extent of the conflict operate as a repeal
of the latter by Implication: but by a well
known rule, founded on solid reasons, such
repeals are not favored.
Now the Legislature of this state In the
year 1303 Incorporated the City of Milwau
kie. and In the charter granted to the City
Council the power to prevent, remove and
abate nuisances ty general ordinances and
to suppress bawdy houses, houses of 111
fame, gambling houses and gaming.
In its wisdom, in 1005, the Legislature
changed these powers and gave to the City
Council power within Milwaukie to license,
lax and regulate and restrain all offensive
trades and occupations, and to license the
different branches of business or profes
sions which In their Judgment should be
licensed.
Pursuant to this authority from the Leg
islature, the City Council passed an ordi
nance In the Summer of 1905, which was at
once approved by the Mayor, making It un
lawful to maintain or carry on such business
as that of the Milwaukie Club, without first
obtaining a license therefor. And there
after the then proprietors paid the license
fee and procured a license. This method
has been continued till the present time,
and in July of this year the corporation
owning the business paid the quartely fee
for July, August and September' and have
a license covering this period.
It will be noted that the special act creat
ing Milwaukie and granting the powers
above enumerated to the Council was passed
long after section 1930. B. & C. Code, so
often referred to In the press during tho
past few days.
In strictness, therefore, if those who are
so persistent in having the officers of this
county compel obedience to the law but
knew lt, thev are urging that the Milwaukie
Club be permitted to continue Its business
unmolested.
MAST GAMES IX BAKER CITY
Officials and Business Men Unwill
ing to Suppress Them.
BAKER CITY, Or., Aug. 7. (Special.)
The crusade against gambling in Mil
waukee and Astoria has not caused a no
ticeable flutter in this city. Baker City
continues to be a wide open town and
there are no indications that steps will
be taken immediately to close up the
games. Probably the principal reason for
gambling being carried on here In- the
open is because many business men are
in favo?- of it. u Citjr-offlclals also desire
to see the games carried on. Many think
they are a benefit-to the city.
The nearest to a reform movement was
the passage of an ordinance, toy the City
Council Monday night, which provides
that all boxes in saloons and restaurants
shall not be more than seven feet high,
shall open on a hallway and shall have a
floor spao of 160 square feet. If the
gambling dens, at Astoria are closed
Baker will be the only city in Oregon
that permits gambling to be carried on in
the open. At present, half of the 26 Ba
loons have gambling paraphernalia and
allow gambling to be carried on day and
night. The other saloons have boxes
where games may be played between pri
vate parties. The gambling is carried on
in the back rooms and anyone who so de
sires may try his luck at faro, roulette
or any other game that please his fancy.
The city officials and the members of
the police force know that gambling is
going on. ' Some of them go Into the sa
loons and watch the progress of the
games or take part in them if they so de
sire. It is estimated that the Income
from this source amounts from $5000 to
$10,000 a year, which the city fathers are
loth to give up.
ASTORIA GAMES STOP AUG. 13
Have Been Running Many Tears;
Except Nine Months in 1905.
ASTORIA, Or., Aug. 7. (Special.)
There-are in this city at the present
time 12 places conducted by white per
sons where public gambling is carried
on, and all but one of them are in
saloons. Two of the places contain but
one game each, and at 12 resorts there
are about 50 games in operation. Be
sides these, there are eix Chinese lot
teries and seven fantan games, ' also
conducted by Chinese. Except during
about nine months in 1905, when the
town was "closed" by ex-Sheriff Lln
vllle, gambling has been allowed in
Astoria for years, and the number of
games running now is about the same
as is usual at thle; season of the year.
However, the number is changing con
stantly, as during the past six weeks
five games have closed down and three
new ones have started.
As to the number of men employed.
It Is difficult to estimate them, but
there are probably between 100 and
125, and they receive an average wage
of about $6 'per day. The closing of
gambling in Portland had no apparent
effect on the situation here, and did
not Increase the gambling houses In
the city.
Only One Portland Gambler.
"While certain employes of the Port
land houses may perhaps have found
employment in some of the local
places, only one of the Portland gam
blers has slnce conducted a house here,
and he took a place in which gambling
had been In operation for years. Each
one of the games, including the Chi
nese lotteries, pays the city $25 per
month tn the nature of a fine. Nominal
arrests are made, bail is deposited, and
the cases carried through the Police
Court, where the ball is declared for
feited. In addition to the regular gambling
games, there are about 140 slot ma
chines, Including both card and money
machines, each of which pays a quar-
Concluded on Pass 3.)
MASSES FORCES
T ALLIES
Government Fights
Standard and Roads.
SECRET SERVICE MEN BUSY
Alton Expected to JSpirit Away
Witnesses, v
EVERY ONE TO BE WATCHED
District Attorney 'Will Attack Al
liance by Hastening Trials on
Rebate Indictments Move
to Frustrate Plans.
CHICAGO, Aug. 7. (Special.) Secret
agents of the Government attached to the
Chicago branch of tho Federal service
have been compelled to abandon or defer
their vacation periods to aid in the
pending prosecutions of the Standard Oil
Company and the railroads named with it
in charges of rebating.
The alliance between the railroads and
the oil corporation, of which Federal at
torneys have been notified, has caused a
requisition upon the secret service bureau
for every available man who can be used
to frustrate the plans of the new allies.
Captain T. I. Porter la said to have as
signed every man at his command to
District Attorney Sims and a score will
be summoned from other points. The
subpenas commanding the attendance of
minor employes of the Chicago & Alton
Railroad before the grand Jury August 14
will be served without delay. .The offl
clals and employes whose testimony is
desired by the Federal body will be kept
under constant surveillance.
It , is felt in the office of the District
Attorney that the first move of the rail
roads in their allied fight against the
Government will be the transferring of all
employes whose . testimony is essential
to the hearing to points where they ,caa
aot ba found by the agents of the prosecu
tion. A hastening of the pending trials of the
Standard OH Company on the numerous
indictments in connection with the Chi
cago, Burlington & Qulncy and Chicago &
Eastern Illinois roads is probable in the
face of the alleged protective pact formed
by the participants.
STATES WILL ACT TOGETHER
Attorneys-General Will Arrange
Combined Attack on Trusts.
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 7. (Special.)
Texas will be represented at the con
ference of Attorneys-General to be held
at St. Louis next Monday, by J. P.
Llghtfoot. Assistant Attorney-General,
who 1b in charge of the anti-trust pros
ecutions that have been instituted in
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this state during the administration of
Attorney-General Davidson.
The plan which they have in view,
and which is to be put into working
order at a convention of Attorneys
General of all states to be held in St.
Louis or Chicago later this Fall, is to
make a concerted attack upon the larg
er so-called trusts, which are alleged
to be operating in the different states.
The alleged lumber, trust is one of
those which are thus to be attacked all
along the line. By a simultaneous at
tack upon that combine and a free in
terchange of evidence by. the chief law
officers of the different states, the
prosecution can be made more success
ful, it is believed.
Mr. Light foot said today that the
Attorneys-General of a dozen states
had signified their intention of being
present at the preliminary conference
to be held in St. Louis Monday.
Extra Dividend of Tobacco Trust. .
NEW YORK. Aug. 7. The Ameri
can Tobacco Company today declared
on lta common stock the regular quar
terly dividend of 2hi per cent and an
extra dividend of 7H per cent, against
2 hi regular and 5 per cent extra at the
last previous declaration. The dividend
is payable September 2.
MUSCULAR WiFEDEPMS
END OF MARRIAGE LASTING BUT
EIGHTEEN DAYS.
Heinen, Whose Spouse Hit Him
"Wlth'Hammer Intends to Sue
for Divorce.
CHICAGO, Aug. 7. fSpeclal.) Mrs.
Glenada G. Heinen, 23 years old. who was
arrested yesterday, charged with striking
with a hammer her husband, to whom she
was married last month, was given $100
and a railroad ticket home to her mother
in Portland, Or. This was the agreement
made between the husband and wife to
day in a private conference with Judge
Beltler, at the Harrison-street Court.
"It appears that there is room for be
lief that the woman is not altogether
without blame," said the Judge, "and yet
1 am going to discharge her because of
her husband's conduct previous to the
time when she struck him with the ham
mer." Heinen Immediately started suit in tha
Superior Court for divorce from her, al
leging cruelty. They were married July
2 and lived together 18 days.
KILLING HEAT IN THE EAST
Humidity at St. Louis Responsible
for Seven Prostrations.
!ST. LOUIS, Aug. 7. Seven prostrations
were reported tcnight aa caused by the
heat. The thermometer registered only
89 degrees, but the humidity made suf
fering general.-
Kansas City Most Uncomfortable.
KANSAS CITTj Aug. 7. Six persons
were prostrated by. the heat here today.
The maximum temperature of 93 degrees
was accompanied by great humidity,'
making this the most uncomfortable day
of the Summer. -
MUST BE MADE OF RUBBER
Ironworker Falls Four Stories, Only
Breaks Ankle.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7. Rudolph
Rudlow, a structural ironworker, who
weighs 270 pounds, today fell from the
fourth story of a building in course of
construction at New Montgomery and
Minna streets, and escaped with no
more serious injury than a broken
ankle.
NOBODY LOVES ME"
ALONE, ALONE, ALL, A I.I. ALONE,
ALONE ON A WIDE, WIDE PEA!
AND NEVER A SAINT TOOK PITS' ON
. MY SOUL IN AGONY. Ancient
BONAPARTE AFTER
MEN "HIGHER UP"
Officials of Harriman
Lines in View.
INTENDS CRIMINAL ACTION
Attorney-General Follows Up
Commission's Work.
WOULD SEND MN TO JAIL
Proposes to Proceed Against Super
iors, In Violation of Anti-Trust
Law, Whenever - He Can Be
Hopeful of Conviction.
NEW TORK, Aug. 7. A special dis
patch to the New York Times from
Lenox, Mass., sent under today's date
says:
That criminal prosecutions will be
taken in the near future as a result ot
the Interstate Commerce Investigation of
the Harriman railroad system was the
information obtained here upon authority
this afternoon on the virtual eve of the
return of Attorney General Bonaparte to
"Washington.
Mr. Bonaparte was asked if action, per
sonally, against Individuals would be in
cluded in the prosecutions. He replied
somewhat emphatically: "I have no
ticed a good many complaints that crim
inal prosecutions against trust magnates
and sentences of imprisonment for them
have been very infrequent and, in fact
for practical purposes unknown. It is
perfectly true that, in my opinion at
least, a better moral effect would be pro
duced by sending a few' prominent men
to jail than by a great deal of litigation,
however successful, against the corpor
ations they controlled-
Offlcers of Company Guilty.
"Some time since two corporations
and their respective presidents were in
dieted Jointly for violation" of the anti
trust law. If the corporations were
guilty of such, it would be hard for the
lay mind, at least, to see now their
presidents could be innocent. Neverthe
less the jury convicted the corporations
and acquitted their presidents.
"It is the avowed purpose of the De
partment of Justice to prosecute crim
inally any one who is really responsible
for violations of the - anti-trust law,
wherever it can do so with any reason
able probability of success. It does not
care to prosecute mere underlings who
are known to everyone to have acted
under the direct authority of their su
periors.
Will Prosecute Individuals.
"If it can get a case against any of
the superiors such as justifies a reason
able hope on the part of ' experienced
lawyers that he can be punished per
sonally the department will undoubtedly
Mariner.
take advantage of the opportunity as
soon as it is presented."
RAILROADS MUST OBEY LAW
Ultimatum of Alabama Governor to
Southern Lines.
MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Aug. 7. E. L.
Russell, vice-president of the Mobile &
Ohio Railroad. ' representing President
Finley, of the Southern Railway, and Mr.
Weatherly, an attorney of Birmingham,
continued their conference with Governor
Comer today regarding the controversy
between the State of Alabama and the
Southern Railway. The Governor later
gave out a statement in which he says
he is standing out for the 2 cents fare
bill, saying:
"Every time a ticket Is sold for more
than Ihk cents a mile, the roads violate
the law and the person selling the ticket
commits a misdemeanor. It is the duty
of .every court so to charge the jury
and the duty of every solicitor to make
out a case. 1 have told Colonel Russell
that with his reputation for fairness I
shall expect him to realize and concede
that the railroads must obey the laws
the same as any other person."
With regard to. the removal of the
case from the Talladoga Court to the
Federal Court, over which the license of
the Southern Railway was revoked, and
which the railroad people admit was
hasty and not intended, the Governor
says :
"The Administration understands that
the offense was committed against the
state laws by the removal of the suit
regardless' of the motive prompting It.
The laws are made for all alike and to
be observed by all and enforced by the
Administration impartially."
It is given out by the members of the
Legislature that, in case an extra ses
sion is called, the members will stand
solidly behind the Governor in his fight.
The evident intention of the Governor
to hold that the passenger fare law
which has been enjoined by the United
States Court, is being violated and to en
courage arrests upon it. shows a poss
ibility of conflict between i..e state and
the Federal Courts even to a greater
extent than was thought.
FEARS TO BE fN CONTEMPT
Acting Secretary of State of Arkan
sas Declines to Annul Charter.
LITTLE NECK. Ark.. Aug. 7. Assist
ant Secretary of State McHanney has not
received official notice of the issuance of
an injunction preventing the state from
revoking the charter of the Rock Island
Railroad in Arkansas. The Attorney
General urges the Assistant Secretary
to revoke the charter before the injunc
tion arrives.
H. I. McHanney, Acting Secretary of
State during the absence of Secretary
Ludwlg Issued a statement late this after
noon criticising the opinion issued by Attorney-General
Korby today in that the
state Secretary of State is urged to annul
the charter of the Rock Island Railroad
in Arkansas as he would not be in con
tempt for violating the injunction granted
by Judge Vanderventer at St. Paul.
Mr. McHanney says he did not call on
Korby for an opinion and he would never
do so unless legal principles were in
volved. He says he will take no action
fn the matter as he doe not wish to go
to Jail for contempT'of court.
Mysterious Plague in Arizona.
PHOENIX. Ariz., Aug. 7. News comes
from Wlckenburg, a mining town 60
miles northwest of Phoenix, that some
sort of a plague has broken out there
which local doctors are unable to diag
nose and treat successfully. Several
deaths have occurred during the past few
days.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 62
degrees; minimum, 00 degrees.
TODAY' 8 Showers, followed by fair and
- warmer weather; westerly winds.
Foreign.
Moorish fanatics besiege two towns and
Europeans call for help. Page 2.
France sends ultimatum to Morocco; Ger
many fears annexation. Page 2.
Hague conference decides against prise
money for warships. Uage 8.
Turks terrorize Persia and Russia is asked
for help. Page 3.
National.
Bonaparte says Government will prosecute
high officials of Harriman system and
all trusts. Page 1.
Government gathers forces to defeat alli
ance, of Standard Oil and Alton. Page 1.
Battleship Connecticut on trial trip beats
Louisiana's time. Page 2.
Politics.
Tart consults Roosevelt and will state Issues
of campaign at Columbus. Page 1.
Bot time expected at canvass of Mississippi
vote. Page 1.
Domes tie.
Senator Beveridge marries Mist Eddy.
Page 5.
Telegraph operators strike at Loa Angeles
and whole dispute may be renewed.
Pace 4.
Two men killed in automobile raoe. Pace 4.
Cbanler refused protection by court from
arrest for insanity. Page 8.
Peary tells plans to reach the Pole. Page 4.
Mrs. Helnen's sentence for hammering hua
'band. Page- 1.
George W. Delamater, noted Pennsylvania
politician, commits suicide. Page 3.
Wachusett Boat Club fears exposure of or
gies given Portland oarsmen. Page 2.
Great storm wrecks Pennsylvania towns and
causes stampede from courtroom. Page 5.
Sport.
Boston wins from Chicago (National) In 14-
Inning game. Page 7.
Gans-Memslc tight postponed Indefinitely.
Page 7.
Pacific Coast.
District Attorney's brother says there Is a
loophole for the Milwaukie Club. Page 1.
Conferences of land fraud prosecutors, fore
shadow action on railroad land grants.
Page 3. ,
Northern Pacific train runs Into threshing
machine at Garfield, injuring four.
. Page 7.
Rain throughout Northwest benefits crops.
Page 8.
Pacific Coast lumbermen units to fight In
crease in freight rates. Page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
English hop crop estimated at 450,000 cwt
Page IS.
Blump in wheat at Chicago. Pag IS.
Stocks decline sharply on heavy selling.
Page 15.
Coasting steamers make slow passage from
San Francisco. Page 14.
Portland and Vicinity.
United Railways to establish big power
plant on Upper Sandy. Page 14.
Realty Board considers establishing Teal
estate exchange. Page 10.
Portland's birth rate haa doubled la four
years. Page 11.
City Water Board will not reduce wator
rates for elevators. Page 10.
Mayor Lane refuses to admit gubernatorial
aspirations. Page 10.
OTegon riflemen chosen 'to compete la Na-
tlonal matches. Page 11.
TAFT TO FATHER
ROOSEVELT IDEAS
Consults President
Before He Speaks.
NAME ISSUES FOR CAMPAIGN
Declare Himself on Railroads,
Tariff, Labor.
MEET ENEMIES' ATTACKS
Columbus Speech Will Show How 114
Stands Towards Unions Burton
to Be His Champion on
Floor of House.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. (Special.)
Secretary of War Taft will be back in
Washington next week the first of the
Cabinet officials to return from his va-
cation. On the way from his retreat
in Canada, the Secretary will stop at
Oyster Bay for a long and final talk
with President Roosevelt before leav
ing on his trip to the Philippines.
Some facts have leaked out within a
day or two regarding the character of
the talk which Mr. Taft will deliver.
First in many particulars will be the
address at Columbus. Considerable data
has been supplied relative to the rail
road situation in all its phases, tha
deduction therefrom being that the Sec
retary will declare at the start a policy
in furtherance of the Roosevelt princi
ples, which will be prosecuted at his
hands if he is elected Chief Executive.
Will Discuss All Issues.
It is stated that the speeches will
be general in character, covering all
the topics that have been brought to
the front of late with respect to po
litical issues. This means that definite
ideas with regard to the tariff will be
advanced, that the railroad question
will be treated exhaustively, that the
Brownsville affair and other Issues
raised by Senator Foraker wlll.be met
squarely, and that, in Bhort, a full per
sonal platform will be outlined.
An Important subject, to which Mr.
Taft Is likely to' devote considerable
attention le that pertaining to various
phases of the labor question. Enemies
of the Taft movement have assiduously
sought to cultivate a prejudice against
his prospective candidacy by openly de
claring that he would not be strong in
labor circles.
Burton Taft's Champion.
The announcement by Representative
Theodore Burton, of Ohio, that he will
retire from the chairmanship of the
House committee on rivers and harbors
may have more political significance
than appears on the surface. Mr. Bur
ton is likely to become the recognized"
floor champion of the administration in
the lower House. Politics of strenu
ous character will be played every
minute of the time throughout the ses
sion. A vigorous leader of the Burton
type will find plenty to keep him busy.
RUMORS OF BURNT BALLOTS
Canvass In Mississippi Today Mj
Cause Serious Trouble.
JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 7. The Dem.
cratic state executive committee meets
here tomorrow at noon for the purpose
of canvassing the returns and declar
ing the result of the recent primary
held in this state for United States
Senator and state officers. So close
is the race in the Senatorial contest
that Interest is at fever heat.
For the past day or so there have
been all sorts of rumors of destroyed
ballots and lost ballot boxes, but,
when traced down, the reports have
been found to be without foundation.
It was said that a lot of ballot boxes
in Copiah County that gave Governor
James K. Vardaman a majority of 251
over - Congressman John Sharp Wil
liams in the Senatorial contest had
been burned, but the committee to
night certified that this was not so
and that every precinct had been
counted and that every ballot was safe
in the bands of the proper officials.
The meeting tomorrow promises to
be sensational, there being predictions
that trouble will arise In the event that
any compromise measures be resorted
to. Both candidates are claiming that
a canvass of the vote will show their
election, Vardaman by a bare major
ity, while Williams' friends claim It by
at least 100 J.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 7. Dispatches
from Jackson, Miss., say that a second
Senatorial primary for John Sharp Wil
liams and Governor James K. Vardaman
Is regarded with favor by many followers
of both. Secretary of State Power up to
last night still had ten counties to bear
the official returns from and the count
up to that time showed Williams' lead to
be about 440 votes.
Choose New Mayor of Salt Lake.
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 7. Leaders
of the American party today selected
W. J. Halloran, a real' estate man, to
succeed Ezra Thompson, resigned, as
Mayor of Salt Lake. The Council will
elect Mr. Halloran to fill the vacancy.