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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1908)
lo tttr morning otiegonian. Saturday, aprtl is, 1908. SEVENTY-FIVE PER CENT VOTE CAST Number of Ballots Represents About Three-Quarters of Total Registration. LIVELY INTEREST IS SHOWN Balloting JvxcpmIs Kxpectationa and Few Irregularities Reported. Sample Ballots Ved by Voters In Precinct 82. Considering the inclement weather yesterday a larger vote than was ex pected was cast in the Republican and Icmocratic primary nominating election. Jn a number of precincts, particu larly In- the residence districts, the vote will eQua! 75 per cent of the registration and this if reg-arded a fair estimate of the total. There was no disorder of any kind at the different precincts and, not a single complaint of lrrrgular vntinf or other violation of the election laws was re ported at the office of District Attor ney Manning. During the afternoon Deputy Clerk Reld visited Precinct 82 In Upper Alhlna and was as ton lulled to iind voters using sample ha Hots In place of the official white ballots. It is said about 90 had been used before Mr. Reid arrived and instructed the elec tion board that the law specifically provides that the colored, or sample, ballots cannot be ued for voting, and If so employed are in reality illfgal and cannot be counted. County Cierk Fields last night said that he had in structed the election board to count the sample ha Mots, as they had been cast In good faith. Should the elec tion result in a contest, there is no question but these ballots would be thrown out of the count. The day election board in Precinct 82, which was on duty when the sample ballots were deposited, consisted of John DBuhr. Peter Dowllnff and John K Miller, judges; William Kiocker, John Becker and . Edward Cofer, clerks. They had not read 'the election law and not being posted did not know the mistake that was being made until in formed by Mr. Keid. Another Vote in lcltz' Name. Kred U Doitz, residing at the Park Hotel. 3F.0 Olisan street, went to his voting place in Precinct 5, the Cascade Hotel, but did not vote It was dis covered that earlier in the day an other man had voted under Deitz name and registration. Under the circumstances the election board re fused to permit Deltas to vote. This was the only instance of irregular voting reported during the day, bu it Is not probable that the illegal voter can be apprehended. Precinct No. 2'A was the ilrst pre cinct to report its toti1 vote. With a registration of 304 the total number of votes cast whs 2 27. There were 197 Republican and 30 Democratic ballots. The per centuge of the registered vote cast In this precinct was 74. Tent Booths Not Complete Success. The portable voting booths, used in yes terday's election, were not a complete success. During the day six of them, located principally in the outlying pre cincts, toppled over because of the wind and the mom hers of the election board were obliged to seek other accommoda tions In some nearby storeroom or resi dence, stationing a messenger at the ad vertised location to direct the voters where to vote. So severe was the storm at times- that the rain was driven through the canvas into the voting booths. On this account it was impossible for many voters to mark their ballots without hand ing In a . watersoaked ticket. In a number of precincts, especially in the suburban districts, the discomfort of the election officials was increased by the fact that the tents were not supplied with wooden floors. In a majority of these instances the booths were located In unimproved streets, affording a de cidedly unstable foundation for the tent and Its occupants. Foard walks were im provised generally in these booths for the convenience of the voters in passing in and out. The rainfall continued almost incessant ly throughout the day, but it did not erve to disperse, to any appreciable extent the ubiquitous distributor of candi dates' cards. It takes more than a re freshing Oregon Spring rain to drive these persons further than the legal 50 feet from voting booths. Armed with umbrellHs, they stood thetr ground and the voter was obliged to pass as many as a score in many cases before he could reach the entrance to the voting booth. County Clerk Fields and a number of his deputies spent the entire day go ing from precinct to precinct to nee that the different election boards were properly organized and that the work was proceeding regularly. I-ast night they re mained, at the Courthouse and received the returns from the various precincts as rapidly as the count was completed. The ofrtciaJ figures were tabulated as soon as they were received at the Clerk's office but the complete vote will not be known before late today. Many Registered at Wrong Address Deputy Clerk Christensen and two as sistants remained at the Courthouse during the day and answered the thou sand and one inquiries that were received over the telephone In addition to cor recting the few mistakes that had crept into the registration of the county's St. 0(H) voters. It developed that in a num ber of cases voters in registering had in correctly located their place of residence and consequently were enrolled in a pre cinct other than that in which they reside. The large number of Inquiries, however, came from electors who desired to know where they would vote. Many of these did not even know the ward and precinct in which they lived and considerable time taken up necessarily by the deputies In ascertaining their residence, which was required before the requested Information could be given. changed this time to 20 months, and the Burkett bill further reduces the time to eight months. The question of the constitutionality of the commodities clause had been raised and one reason for the 'extension of time for its operation was to afford an oppor tunity for testing the clause in the courts. The railroads will oppose the Burkett bill on the ground that it will limit too much the-time required for the litigation. WANT TIME TO LITIGATE Kail road Object to Early Operation of Commodity Clause. WASHINGTON, April 17 From a bill introduced in the Senate today by Burk ett it Is indicated that the resolution of fered by Klkins to extend the application of the commodities clause of the railroad rate bill to January 1. 1910, mav be op posed when it comes up for passage. The bill by Burkett proposes to change this extension to January 1, next. The rail roads have represented to Congress that It will be Impossible for them to divorce themselves from the ownership of mines, the output of which they carry a inter state commerce, by May 1. next, and, therefore. til kins resolution giving them two years additional was offered. The Senate committee on interstate commerce t'PHOLDS NEBRASKA JUDGE Supreme Court Holds That Kates Unfixed Cannot Be Enjoined. ST. LOUI9. April 17. An opinion handed down today by the United States Court of Appeals is that a Federal Court has no authority to interfere by Injunction to prevent a State Railroad Commission from changing rates, until the rates are actually fixed. The opinion upholds the decree of the United States Circuit Court of Nebraska, which refused to restrain the Nebraska. Rail road Commission from modifying rates on grain and grain pro ducts transported in Nebraska. The Burlington railroad originally brought the action and appealed the case. The opinion of the court states that the petition was premature as the rates had not been fixed and that 90 days' no tice would have been allowed by the Com- 11 T GET Time Too Short Between Now and Rose Festival. RED TAPE HOLDS IT BACK Work Must Be Begun Immediately if City's Token or Welcome Is to Be Ready for the Big June Celebration. If the usual amount of municipal red tape ha to be unwound. Portland will not have Its "Arch of Welcome" at the Union Depot In time for the June Rose Festival, although the ordinance appro- Grange: Mrs. Carrie Townsend, of Fair view Grange; W. U. Moore, of Pleasant Valley Grange. On the occasion the awards were made an entertainment was given. The essay which won the first prize was entitled, "Why Farmers Should Join the Grange." The contest was pro jected and conducted by Mrs. EL L. Thorpe, and proved, interesting and profitable. BEAT AND BITE THEIR BABY Seattle Parents Make Little Lad Sell Papers. SEATTLE, Wash., April 17. (Special.) Charles Cosam. 11 years old, Is a news boy. Kvery day he must sell enough papers to net him 60 cents, which his father takes away from him every night. If he doesn' t he is beaten and bitten when he returns home. Such is the story he told in court today, when his father, Antone Cosam. was fined $50 for cruelty to the lad. When sentence was pro nounced the boy clung to his father's ankles in a frenzy of terror. The father kicked him off and the court officers led him away. The boy was found by the police hiding under a planked street. He was bleed ing from the nose and ears and confessed that his father had beaten him because REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES NOMINATED WITHOUT OPPOSITION IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY Hobert fi. Morrow, for Judge In Department So. 2, Circuit Court. Hobert L. Stevens, for Sheriff. i r , y -l I. f - J f f V. S. Fields, for County Clerk. John M. Lfwlit, for County Treasurer. R. F. Robinson, for County Super- Fhllo Holbrook, Jr., for County intendent. Surveyor. mission in which the matter could have been taken to court if the rates were unfair. MEXLKX 1KX1KS THE STORY Says His Railroad Had Xo Advance Warning of Panic. NH7W HAVEN. Conn.. April 17. The at tention of President Mellen, of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad was called today to the statement of O. A. Crozier, of Wilmington, Del., made before the House committee on banking and currency at Washington. Mr. Crozier stated that a prominent llnancier had told President Mellen that a panic was to be brought about before the meeting of Congress, and on that information, Mr. Crozier said, the railroad borrowed 30, OOfl.000. This statement, Mr. Mellen today, in the strongest language, denounced as absurd and unqualltiedly false. He added that the plans of his company for borrowing money had been made a year or more before the panic and that the original plan had provided for an issue of stock. This had been changed owing to later panic conditions to a loan at par of 6 per cent debentures. At the time the loan was planned, and fo a considerable time subsequently, neither he nor, in his opinion, any prom inent financier of the country, anticipated the panic conditions and the subsequent condition for railroad loans which ensued. MAY SEPARATE TWO SYSTEMS Rumored Rock Island and Frisco Roads Propose Blvorce. FORT WORTH, Tex., April ' 17. Re ports from St. Louis and Texas points. to day state that the agreement in Texas between the Rock Island and Frisco roads will be dissolved. Coming after the New York report that the two lines will be separated in every particular, it tends to confirm the belief that the joint control is about to end. Officials here of both lines deny any knowledge of any change, but admit that the head officers of the lines have taken action recently which leads to the belief that separation is contemplated. CHICAGO, April 17. President Win chell of the Rock Island system said to day that he had heard nothing of any contemplated separation of the two systems. EASTER Fj-0WERS. The big annual Easter sale of fine flowers and plants is now in progress at Clarke Pros'., the popular Morrison street florists. No finer or more varied display of these treasures of the floral world has heretofore been shown to the citizens of Portland, and the prevailing low prices will place a beautiful plant or cluster of flowers in the homes of thousands of people at the coming Easter season. Notice the grand dis play at 2S9 Morrison street. Plroty of Trouble, is caused by stagnation of the liver and bowels. To get rid of it and head ache r.nd biliousness and the poison that brings laundice, take Dr. King's New Life Pills, the reliable purifiers that do the work without grinding or griping. 2oc at Woodard, Clarke &. Co. 'a drug store. priating $2580 for this purpose has al ready become a law. The first cause of delay was the Mayor's veto. Then the measure was passed over his head, and was not taken up by the executive committee until last Thursday.'when It was recommended to be sent to the City Auditor that he might advertise for bids for the construction of the arch. There are now only six weeks remain ing until the Festival opens. If the nat ural course of procedure is followed, the bids must be advertised for for at least two weeks. It will take another week before the estimates can be compiled, the contract let, and still another week before the successful bidder can assemble material and get down to business. That would bring It up to nearly the middle of May. Only a very small part of the work could be done in the fortnight left until the opening of the celebration. The arch is to be made of staff and it would take at least a month for this ma terial to dry sufficiently so that It could be painted, and properly decorated. That is why there seems to be little chance of having the arch finished in season to serve the chief purpose for which it was Intended. - Only one alternative remains, accord ing to Architect David C. Lewis, whose design has been accepted. That is for the Festival people themselves or for the City Councllmen who were instrumental In securing the passage of the ordinance to devise some means whereby the prop osition can be diverted from the ordinary channels, have the contract let right away, so that work can be begun on the arch not later than a week from today. "If any more time than that Is wast ed." said Mr. Lewis last night "it will be utterly useless to expect to have the arch completed In time for the Festival. I have been after several of the Council men, have talked with the Festival peo ple, and it is up to them to take some im mediate action if they hope to get the work done in time." WANTS WIFE VERY BADLY Thirty Days on. Chaingang Does Not Dampen Ardor. SEATTLE. Wash.. April 17. (Special.) James Grant is in need of a wife. He is now serving a sentence on the city chain gang because when he declared his needs in glowing epistles to a young woman employed at the public library, with whom, by the way. he was ont acquainted, she did not respond. Piqued at her cold ness. Grant became threatening in his letters, and then she had him arrested. A sentence of 30 days, however, has not dampened his ardor, for he has addressed a letter to the Y. M. C. A. asking the aid of that Institution in finding for him a helpmeet Similar letters have been re ceived by other religious organizations. Grant, in his letter, frankly says he wants a wife and states that he Is 40 years old, good looking and has plenty of money. He further states that he la a member of the First Presbyterian Church. Grange Prizes Are Awarded. Rockwood Grange, Patrons of Husban dry, which offered prizes for essays, made the following awards: First prize. Miss Nina. Taylor, of the Rockwood school, $3; second prize, George . Crane, $2; third prize. Miss Marian Brown. 1. The judges were E. C. Huffman, of Russellvilie ne nadn t sold his papers. Tne reason be hadn't sold them was because he was too sore to move around, the result of beating the day before. He told the Judge today that his mother's favorite punishment was biting him. "Show me where your mother bit you," said the court. The boy displayed a badly lacerated right hand, where unmis takable teeth marks showed. ROB BANK AND GET AWAY Kansas Outlaws Being Hotly Pur sued Into Oklahoma. COFFETVILLE, Kan., April 17. Two men entered the Citizens State Bank at Chautauqua, 25 miles west of ConTey vllle, at 9:30 this morning, and, after forcing Cashier C. C. Walterhouse and Delegate Easley, a business man, to enter the vault, locked them in, secured all the currency in sight, amounting to about 3000, and escaped into the Osage Hills, across the line, in Oklahoma Pour posses are in pursuit, and as the roads are muddy it is believed the rob bers will be captured. The robbers se cured about half an hour's start. The robbery was not discovered until half an hour later, when J. H. Edwards, president of the bank, entered the office. After releasing WalteThouse and Easley. Mr. Edwards gave the alarm locally and to surrounding towns. Within another 30 minutes posses had been made up In this city and at Klgin and Sedan, Kan:, and Pawhuska, Okla., all contiguous to the scene of the robbery, and from three sides the armed men began a hot chase after the robbers. A dtepatch from Chautauqua says that C. C. Walterhouse, cashier of the robbed bank, states positively that one of the robbers was William Tenant, aged 23 years, formerly of Chautauqua, and who recently escaped from Jail at Nowata, Okla., where he was being held on a charge of horsestealing. Tenant some time ago borrowed a small sum of money from the bank, and Mr. Wal terhouse eald that when Tenant en tered the bank this morning he sup posed -he had come to renew the Dote or take it up. SPEC1ALSF0R MEN. Fancy sox, stripes, solid colors and lace openwork, 12; white hemstitched handkerchiefs. Be; Mount Hood shirts, fancy Madras. $1.50 grade, 79c: another range of Mr. Hood shirts at 57c: genuine Soisette shirts, worth $1.50. for $1; hand some range 4-ln-hand silk ties, worth 76c and 60c, on sale 35c: another great range special 25c; linen hemstitched handkerchiefs, 12c; extra special values in underwear. McAUen & McDon nell, popular dry goods store, corner Third and Morrison. FAST TRAjN SERVICE. 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