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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.
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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.
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Commencing April 21, the Canadian Pa
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via the Soo -Spokane route, giving a 67
hour running time Portland to St. Paul.
The equipment is the most up-to-date of
any operated in the west. Electric-lighted
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S00-SP0KAJ1E SERVICE.
The new time card of the 9oo-Spokne
train to be placed In effect April 21, fur
nishes a fast service Portland to St. Paul.
The trains are electric lighted, with library-buffet
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cam. The Short Tlne to the Twin Cities.
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