Morning Oregonian., April 20, 1908, Page 3, Image 3

THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, AfRIL 20, 190S.
HUGHE5ND LONGER
FIGURES
IN FIGHT
Defeated, But His Friends Are
Blissfully Blind to Truth.
MO PRETENSE OF LOYALTY
Men Instructed for Governor Only
Await Signal to Desert After
First Ballot Is Taken
at Chicago.
BY LLOYD F. liOXEROAX.
XEW YORK." April 13. (Special.)
I called attention several weeks ago to
the fact that the friends of Governor
Hughes were being made the, victims
of a gigantic bunco game, so far as the
selection of delegates to the National
Convention was concerned. Recent de
velopments have emphasized this fact,
but the amateur politicians 'who are
directing the , Hughes League seem to
be blissfully unconscious of their pre
dicament. Two "Class A" Republican leaders
have already Instructed their Chicago
envoys to vote for Taft. and others,are
waiting the signal to join them. The
two men. who arc acting as advance
agents of Taft in the Empire State are
William L. ward and William Barnes.
These two Bills being for Bill Taft
makes a mighty strong three of a kind.
Ward Instructed Himself.
Ward Is the leader of Westchester,
just beyond the borders of Greater
New York. He will be a delegate to
the Chicago convention, and is in
structed to vote for Taft. As Ward's
sway In his diatrict is undisputed, this
means that the "instructions" come
from himself.
Barnes Is the absolute ruler of Al
bany County. He went on record
against Hughes some time ago, al
though stating that he "might" give
the Governor a complimentary vote.
Now ho has become bolder, and has
substituted "will not" for might.
Particular interest attaches to the
change of front on the part of Mr.
Ward, because, he Is the National com
mitteeman from New York. The Na
tional I'nmmHtpn malA. .... -
" iwb ine tempo
rary roll of the convention, and with
the numerous contests in sight and in
prospect, its duties will be particularly
hard and Important ,this year. Tlfe
Taft men have claimed control of the
National committee. So have the
friends of the opposing candidates.
Privately both sides have admitted
that tile vote is bound to be mighty
close. j
New York for Taft.
On all slates published up to date, the
.representation of New York has been
placed in the anti-Taft column. It was
naturally figured that New York, if sin
cere In Its support of Hughes, would nnt
aid in seating any unnecessary Taft dele
Bates. The action of the Westchester
County convention, however, has .put a
new light on the subject. Although Com
mitteeman Ward has not made any
statement for publication, it is fair to
presume that he can he counted on to
act with the Taft men. whenever and
wherever the necessity may arise.
General Stewart I,. Woodford, presi
dent of the National Hughes League, re
mains optimistic despite all the blows
that his candidate's campaign has suf.
fered.
"It is another case of Cleveland. He
won his fight with the New York dele
gation against him, and so will we." re
marks the former LUIted States Minister
to Spain.
Friends, however, have pointed out to
General Woodford that the cases of
Grover Cleveland and Charles E. Hughes
cannot be regarded as in any way anal
ogous. Grover Cleveland, in 1S9;, was
the idol of his party. A combination
engineered by Tammany Hall and David
B. Hill took the New York delegation
away from him. This it was that pro
voked the famous remark made in the
convention hy General Bragg, of Wis
consin: "We love him for the enemies
he has made."
It is extremely doubtful If a similar
remark would stir the delegates at the
coming Chicago convention to enthusi
asm. Hughes will only have a handful of
delegates outside of his home state.
"There will be nobody to repeat
Tii-nag' a remark, with a Hughes applica
tion." said one of the Governor's friends;
"and nobody to applaud it."
General Woodford, by the way. ex
presses pleasure at the stand, taken by
Mr. Barnes, of Albany.
General Woodford Pleased.
"I am glad that those who Intend to
oppose Hughes at Chicago have declared
themselves now." he says. "I can meet
and beat an open enemy: I cannot fight
a snake in the grass. Barnes is a brave
man. and will do what he thinks is right.
If all the opponents of Governor Hughes
will come into "the open and tight fair,
the people of New York will rally around
the Governor, and we will probably noml
ate him at Chicago."
Now that Barnes has proved himself
not to be "a snake in the grass." voters
are wondering how General Woodford
plans to "meet and beat him." Barnes
has the delegates and they are not for
Hughes. Woodfotd is hardly strong
enough to sandbag him. and he cannot
hope to accomplish much by moral
suasion.
As for the other "snakes in the grass."
they will probably remain there until the
lme comes to hiss Hughes.
Huslies Men vSeek Orator.
Now that the delegations have been
completed, there is much speculation as
to the Identity of the orator who will put
Hughes in nomination. Just now the
honor seems to He between General
"Woodford and Seth Low, which does not
promise any particular treat for the
other delegates. General Woodford Is
3 years old. and hardly in physical con
dition to make a convincing speech.
"The spirit is willing, but the voice is
weak," to quote one of the ased war
rior's friends.
S Ih Low is far from b -ing a tl.-.MicJ
1 orator.- His style is heavy, and lie ut
terly laeks all sense of humor. As a
collece professor, he was a success. As
a talker or a rough-and-tumble politician
he has always been a failure.
Senator Depcm Suggested.
The suggestion has been made in some
quarters that Chauncey M. Depew be
asked to turn on the Hughes oratory at
the convention. Depew's last appearance
as a rpeaker was at the obsequies of the
Ffth-Avenue Hotel, a few weeks ago.
"He was a great success as a sorrow
ing friend on that occasion." said a sar
castic Taft man today, "and I think he
would make a hit as the chief mourner
at the bier of the Hughes boom. Some
body must do it, and it might as well be
Chauncey as anybody else."
. Taft Men Are Opposed.
This is the very reason why the bulk of
the Taft men do not take kindly to the
suggestion that Depew be called upon.
But it may be that they will be compelled
to accept him for lack of somebody else.
There are mighty few eloquent orators
in the bunch of "S delegates that will rep
resent New York at the Chicago conven
tion. But one fact is very clear, and it is
growing more luminous every day. They
are finished politicians.
And they have finished Hughes.
5
FRANC SGD
CRIES FOR WATER
READY FOR ROSS TRIM.
BOTH SIDES EXPECT TO FINISH
IX SHOKT TIME.
Look for Xo Difficulty in Securing
Jury Questions of Law
Will Be the Issues.
SALEM. Dr.. April 13 ( Special.) The
trial of J. Thorburn Ross upon the charse
of converting $2$R,000 of the state school
funds will begin in the Circuit Court here
at 1 o'clock P. M. tomorrow. Judse
George H. Burnett will preside at the
trial. District Attorney John .Manning
and Judge M. L. Pipes, attorneys for
the state, and Wallace McCamant. at
torney for the defense, came up from
Portland tonight and are In readiness for
the trial. Deputy District Attorney Charles
L. McNary will assist Mr. Manning In
drawing the jury, and W. M. Kaiser, of
this city, will aid the defense' in the same
respect. Both McNary and Kaiser have
a wide acquaintance over the country and
are familiar with circumstances and re
lationships that might disqualify a juror
for service in this case.
Both the prosecutirm and the defense
anticipate no difficulty whatever in se
curing a jury. Mr. Manning expresses
the opinion" that the jury will be com
pleted in half a day at the most. ' Mr.
McCamant says in his opinion the whole
trial will be completed in two days.
Apparently the issues involved will be
chiefly questions of law. Mr. Manning
has subponaed aboxtt a dozen witnesses,
former employes and experts who inves
tigated the affairs of the bank. It is
presumed, therefore, that the prosecu
tion will establish by record proof the
fact that the bank received the money,
and did no(t pay it back. Apparently the
question to he presented is whether Ross
is criminally liable for the conversion of
the money.
Mr. McCamant said tonight that he
does not know what his defense for Ross
will be, for he knows only in a general
way what the state expects to prove. He
said, however, that he will maintain that
the deposit of the money in the bank
was not in violation of the constitution.
This position he took in arguing the de
murrers in ihe Circuit Court in Multno
mah County. If he should adhere to the
views he advanced in Portland he will
also insist that even if thre was a con
version of state funds, the conversion
was committed by the bank and not by
Mr. Ross. Mr. Ross is not here tonight,
but will come up from Portland tomor
row morning.
Judge George H. Burnett, who will try
the case, is serving his third term as
Circuit Judge in the Third Judicial Dis
trict and has been 16 successive years on
the bench.
NONE KNOW HE IS DEAD
Proprietor or Little Store Dies Sit
ting In His Chair.
SEATTI.K. Wash.. April 1 9. W. H.
Hargrove, proprietor of a little 10-cent
store at Kremont, died in his chair in
the store. 3500 Fremont avenue, Satur
day night. As he sat there, cold in
death, many Fremont people passed
the window and noticed him casually,
thinking him asleep. Patrolman Cun
liffe passed the store at about 11
o'clock ami saw the proprietor sitting
in his chair, apparently sleeping.
Yesterday morning when Hargrove
had not appeared at his home, a search
was instituted for him and he was
found in the chair. Ho had been dead
for several hours.
DEAD OF
TH1
XOHTHWEST
Kduard Lcc, Pioneer.
FORKST GROVE, Or., April IP. (Spe
cial. Edward L.ce. an old pioneer, died
at his home near Kanks this morning
at the age of 75 years. He was born in
Ohio and came to Oregon many ycaw
asf. He had resided in this county con
tinuously and is well known throughout
this part of the county. He was a mem
ber of Holhrook lodge of Masons, of this
city, and the local lodge will have charpe
of the funeraf, which will be held Wed
nesday morning at 11 o'clock from the
church at Banks. He leaves one son.
John Mclxtihlin.
ASTORIA. Or.. April 19. (Special.)
John McKoughlin. an old and re?
spected resident of Hammond, died
this morning at the home- of his
daughter. Mrs. E. M. I.ally. He was
born in County Galloway. Ireland, in
1S2T. and was J1 years old at the time
of his deat h. He came" to Clatsop
County about 15 years ago. locating at
Hammond, and since that time lias
been in the employ of the Government,
carrying the mai Is to and from the
trains. He leaves one daughter and
two sons, Mrs. F.. M. I-ally, I-awrenee
and Martin Mcl.oughlin, all of whom
reside at Hammond.
Mr. Sarah E. White.
FORhiST GROVB, Or., April lit. (Spe
cial )-Sarah K. White, ased 52 years,
died at her home in Patton Valley in
the western part of this county, this
morning at 10 o'clock. She was born in
Missouri and came to Oregon when
young. The funeral will be con-vuetcd
Monday from the Scotch Church at 3
P. M. " She leaves a husband.
Democrats to Hold Convention.
FOREST GROVE, Or., April 19. (Spe
cial. The Democrats of this county have
announced a mass convention to be called
at HillsboYo in the Courthouse, on Fri
day. April 24. for the purpose of nom
inating r legislative ticket for Wash
ington County that will support the
primary law and Statement No. 1. At
the primary election held Friday there
were no ivmoeratic candidates for any
of rices.
liai.an inos at KosenthuJ'd.
Held Up by Spring. Valley
Company, Blocked by
Uncle Sam.
HIGHER RATES DEMANDED
Old Company 'Wants $7,000,000
Too Much for Plant and Natur
alists Obstruct Grant " of
Helen - Hetchy Valley.
BY y. A. SINSHElMEIt.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 16. (Special
Correspondence.) After a few weeks of
comparative quiet, San Francisco has
again become a center of storm and
stress. With the conquest of the plague
assured it was thought that the city
would enter upon tranquil days, but it
has been otherwise ordained. A thousand
activities have crowded upon the city
and life here is pulsating with character
istic violence. The fleet is due, a bond
election is imminent, a primary contest
involving the control of the Republican
party is at hand, and on top of this the
water question is pressing for a solution.
The fleet and the two elections will
come according to schedule, but the water
question is one of pressing necessity. San
'Francisco is in reality between the devil
and the deep sea. The Spring Valley
Water Company, the local monopoly, is
supplying the city with 35.0OO.CO0 gallons
a day. The city uses 32.000.000 gallons.
With the coming of- Summer there is
grave danger that the company's supply
will fall off and the directors. although
they admit that with the expenditure of
MiO.OOrt they could augment their supply
by 5.000,000 gallons a day, have absolutely
refused to do so unless guaranteed an
addition of 25 per cent to the present
rates.
Trice $7,000,000 Too High.-
The supervisors. ' naturally, are averse
to imposing the extra burden which the
additional rate would mean upon the peo
ple at this time. As an alternative
proposition. Spring Valley offers to sell
its plant to the city for $32,000,000. This
sum represents the face value of the
stocks and bonds. The city's experts
have placed the value of the plant at
SJ5.C00.000. The city is ready to buy, but
is unwilling to pay the excess of 57,000.000.
It is admitted that the Spring Valley's
plant is one of great possibilities. In fact
it is stated that it is capable of produc
ing, if developed to its ultimate capacity,
between 120.000.000 and 140.000.000 gallons
a day. This would be sufficient to supply
a city of nearly 2,300.000 souls. Of course
it would require a vast sum of money to
make the property capable of producing
such an amount, but engineers agree as
to its potentiality.
City Turns to Hetch-Hctchy.
With the supervisors and the directors
of the. Spring Valley Company deadlocked
on the question of the purchase of the
property, the city authorities turned their
attention to the available sources in the
Sierras. The vast natural reservoirs of
the Hetch-Hetchy Valley, included in the
Yosemite National Park, together with
the vast expanse of snow which annually
accumulates in the mountains, presented
that as the most desirable of the many
sources in the range. The acquisition of
this supply, it is estimated, would cost
this city for pipe lines, reservoir construc
tion and so forth1 somewhere from $3fl,
000.000 to 50.000,000. As tno park is Na
tional ground, all rights rest with the
Government. It was thought that no
trouble would be encountered in getting
the necessary permits from "Washington,
but obstacles of serious proportions have
already been interposed.
The first objection came from the Tur
loek irrigation district, a stretch of land
which had been made available for al
falfa by the use of the Sierra waters.
Farmers and land-owners feared that the
diversion of the supply to San Francisco
would work to their injury. It has been
demonstrated, however, that there is
ample water in the Hetch-Hetchy not
only for San Francisco and the irriga
tiorfists but for the other cities about
the bay as well. When this matter had
been made plain, tentative consent was
secured from Secretary Garfield, of the
Interior Department, to the request of
San Francisco.
New Obstacles Appear.
The present deadlock with Spring Val
ley has brought the matter to a full
focus. City Engineer JIarsden Manson
hurrie ", to Washington as the emissary
of tiie Board of Supervisors to secure the
Hetch-Hetchy ' rights, and thus block
what has been termed by a section of
the local press the attempted holdup
hy Spring Valley. Great was the sur
prise, not alone to the Board of Super
visors, but to the people of San Fran
cisco as well, to learn today that a new
obstacle had come between the city and
the Hetch-Hetchy supply. John Muir,
the naturalist, and the Sierra Club, a
.mountaineering organization, have joined
in a protest to President Roosevelt, stat
ing that to allow the city to build reser
voirs in the Hetch-Hetchy would destroy
its natural scenic beauty. So impressed
lias been the President by these argu
ments that Federal consent to the use of
the Sierra supply has been withheld from
'the city.
The matter is now pending and dis
patches are being sent back and forth
daily. Unable to acquire theg Sierra sup
ply on the one hand and confronted on
the other by the demands of Spring Val
Jpy. the Supervisors are meeting almost
every day to solve the problem.
City Outgrowing Supply.
The seriousness of the situation is en
hanced by the failure of Spring Valley to
keep pace with the growth of flie city.
Several new suburban tracts have been
opened since the fire, and these have
been crowded with new homes, but on
the plea of poverty the Spring Valley
has refused to extend its main to the
new districts. Before it goes ahead the
company wants a guarantee from the
city that it will make good its losses
to the amount of tMl.OOO suffered In the
earthquake. Public opinion is against any
such action by the Supervisors, and the
deadlock continues.
Northwest People in Xcw York.
NEW YORK. April IS. (Special.)
Northwest people registered today at
New York Hotels, as follows:
From Portland A. O. Kerr, at the
Plaza; T. McCusker, at the Imperial;
M. Delavage, Miss Delavage, at the
Astor.
From Seattle J. Lewis. E. Ionian, at
the Seville: I- T. Bryan, at the La
tham: J. Price, at the Breslin; J. M.
Burks, at the Albemarle.
From Spokane J. D. "Williams, at
the Imperial; S. Berry and wife, at the
Woodstock.
From The Dalles. Or. E. R. Jacobs,
at the Breslin.
From Salem. Or. O. West and wife,
ti. G. Brown and wife, at the Grand.
l-"nim Tacnma J. I. Burrows, Mrs.
J. Burrows, at the Breslin.
Nemo Corsets
Established 1850-FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS IN BUSINESS-E.tabli.hed 1850
Efpman,
Good Merchandite Only Quality Considered Oar Price Are Alwii Ihe Low-it
Knox Hats Women
Lipman-Wolf e's Monday Bargains
These items, collected from our full-page Sunday advertisements, represent only a few of today's great
attractions. We always follow the policy of giving many extra bargains which are not advertised
sometimes they are the best of them all. Look for bargain-price placards on every counter.
Embroidery Sale, Values to $2.00 Yard, 35c
5, Insertions, Flounces, Allovers and Medallions, 3 to 27 inches wide; English eyelet, French, Soutache, Filet effects, e
Extraordinary Lace Sale, Vals. to $3.50 at 89c
White, cream, ecru and black Venise, Net, Baby Irish, Filet and Cluny Laces Edges, Insertions, Bands, Appliques, Galoons, etc
Women's Silk Dresses, Vals. to $42 at $16.35
Two-piece dresses, fancy jumper suits and princess styles of best quality taffetas, in black, navy, brown, Copenhagen, etc.
Spring Lace Curtain Sale Big Reductions
Wide variety of selected patterns, both white and ecru, in Cluny, Renaissance, Battenburg, Marie Antoinette, Cable Net, etc
All-Wool Black Voile Skirts, $15 Val. $8.87
Made of the finest all-wool black Voile in the newest gored, plaited and flare styles very smart.
Exclusive Tailored Hats, Vals. to $12 at $5.29
Every one exclusive and embracing only the most approved styles; fine imported straw shapes; elegant range of colors.
Trimmed r0n-weardy Hats, Vals. to $6 at $2.69
Small, medium and large shapes Hats for women, young ladies and children; worth up to $6.00 and more.
$8.75 Two-Piece Swiss Dresses for $5.83
Made of striped imported Swiss; baby yoke with venise medallion in the center; jumper effect combined with white.
$2.25 16-Button Length Silk Gloves, $1.29
Full 16-button length Silk Gloves; best quality silk, double-tipped fingers; all sizes, in black and white.
Dotted Tuxedo Veiling, Vals. to $1.25 at 48c
Black, white and all colors, with large and small velvet and chenille dots; values up to $1.25 per yard.
$1.25 Rough Oriental Pongee, 27-inch, 87c
Oriental Pongees in the rough finish that is so desirable this season for tailor suits, etc; all colors.
"Bonnet" Black Taffeta Silks Are Reduced
$1.00 Bonnet Taffeta, 79c; $1.25 Bonnet Taffeta, 87c; $1.75 Bonnet Taffeta, $1.49; $2.00 Bonnet Taffeta, $1.69.
19-Incn Colored Taffeta Silks Only 69c Yd.
Every color, including black, white and cream; same quality sold elsewhere for 85c per yard; full 19 inches wide.
Platte Val. and Torchon Lace, Val. to 35c at 5c
3500 yards of Platte Valenciennes and imitation Torchon Lace and Insertion from one-half to seven inches wide ; values to 35c
Fancy Warp Print Ribbons, Vals. to 75c at 35c
An assortment of Fancy Warp Print Ribbons, 3 to 6 inches wide; all colors; a variety of patterns.
Wool Dress Goods Sale Prices Much Reduced
Aft1 OQ VJ Cream Yachting Serge, 50 inches wide, for
P 1 ,iZ I U. coals, tailor suits, skirts, etc.; this special lot
of ten pieces are exceptionally good value, right in weight, color and fin
ish, and cannot be matched for less than $1.73 yard for Monday only.
A . QQr Yrl Wol Voiles our entire stock of "Lupin's"
" 1 u French Voiles. 43 inches wide, in black and all
colors; regular prices, $L23, $1.35 and $1.50.
At $1 Yrl Xovel'J' French Voiles in silk and wool stripes,
mlitfU 1 U. mohair and wool stripes, fancy stripes and fig
ures; 42 inches to 44 inches wide, all colors; regular prices $1.73 to $2.50.
A f Q7f Yd Blafk Dress Goods, fine imported novelty and sta
rt J i 1 U. pie weaves, in voiles, fancy and plain mohairs,
tamise. taffetas, batistes, panamas, shadow stripes, etc.: reinilar values
$1.25, $1.35 and $1.50 yard.
At 89c Yd.
tas, panamas and voile:
At 48c Yd.
dinal, cream and black
At$1.25Yd
At 75c Yd.
At 79c Yd.
.in stripes and invisible
Choice of over 100 pieces imported Novelty Dress
Goods, regular $1.25 and $1.50 qualities, in taffc
s, stripes, checks and plaids.
38-inch Mohair Sicilians and Brilliantines, for
bathing suits, etc.; in navy, brown, grays, ear
; regular 60c' values.
New Rajah Panamas, 50 inches wide, all wool,
in blue, black, browns, tan, etc.; $1.50 quality.
All-wool Taffetas and Chiffon Panamas, 4( inches
wide; black and all colors; reg. price $1.00 yard.
Imported English Novelty Angora Suitings, 44
inches wide, in a full range of new Spring colors,
checks, etc.; regular $1.00 quality.
PAROLE IS SUCCESSFUL
CONVICTS INSPIRED TO KE
FOll.M THEMSELVES.
Man Who Breaks Parole in Cali
fornia Ostracized by Fellow
Convicts for Injuring System.
SACRAMBXTO. Cal.. April 19. (Spe
cial.) The friends of the parole system
of handling state prison inmates are
gratified beyond fondest anticipation at
the satisfactory manner in which the
plan is opera tins at California's peni
tentiaries. It has been noted by the
prison wardens, after careful observa
tion, that the prisoner who breaks his
parole is ostracized by his fellow-convicts
when he ia returned to the prison.
The reason for this is that by his action
in violating the parole he has lessened
the chances of the other prisoners of
being freed.
The parole system is now employed
more extensively in California than in
any other state of the Union. Prisoners
who have made records for good be
havior are given their freedom on the
condition that they report at stipulated
intervals. The system has become so
that it means something to a man locked
up for a long period of time and he
knows that it is in himself to win a
parole, if those who receive them do
not violate the confidence reposed in
them.
The man who breaks a parole and is
returned to the prison finds himself ex
cluded from all the pleasures of the in
stitution. If there are any, "and he is
the friend of no man. He is avoided
on all occasions ostracized and has no
one with whom to converse. His nearest
cell neighbor will neither talk with him
nor trade tobacco. In short, he is an
outcast, left out in the cold, except that
when there is a joke to be executed he
is its butt. The parole system thus be
comes a two-edged weapon for the
making of -men out of the criminal
class. The prisoner is actuated to better
deeds from the fact that he is placed
upon his honor, and that there are still
people in the world who have confidence
in him. There is the desire in him to be
free, and he knows that if once paroled
and he breaks his parole he will find
prison life much harder than before.
RUN AWAY FROM SCHOOL
Two Inmates of Keforniatory Slip
Away From Their Work.
SAI-EM. Or.. April 19. (Special.) Two
17-year-old boys escaped from the reform
school this evening by running away
while doing work around the building.
They managed to get to the timber be
fore their absence was discovered and
no trace of them has been found, though
a searching party is out and Sheriffs and
police officers up and down the valley
have ben notified.
Superintendent Looney will not give thf
names of the boya. as it is feared their
relatives will aid them In escaping. Pre
sumably the boys were committed to the
reform school against their parents
wishes. The boys were dressed in school
uniforms of cadet gray.
Falls From Scaffold.-
SAT-KM. Or., April 19. Special.) til
liam Frost, a well-known carpenter and
member of the order of Oddfellows widely
known throughout Western Oregon, fell
from a scaffold yesterday and sustained
several injuries, which, however, will not
bt' fatal.
BUTTLE IN HOTEL LOBBY
FAKMEIt KILLS POLICE CHIEF
AM) EXDS OWX LIFE.
neisting Arrest. Farmhand From
.Spokane Makes Bullets Fly
in -Missouri Town.
WARRENSBfRO. Mo.. April 1!). James
Ryan. Chief of Police, and Byron I (all.
son of J. E. Hail, a farmer living near
AVarrensburg. were killed and J. A. Ba
sham and Robert Pollock, nicht officers,
were seriously wounded tonight in a pis
tol duel in the corridor of the Kates
Hotel.
The three officers were attempting to
take an automatic revolver from Mall,
when he shot all three. The officers re
turned the fire, and Hall was shot twice.
Two more shots were fired at him hy
I.ouis Little, the negro porter of the
hotel.
After shooting the officers. Hall ran up
the stairway in the lobby and stood on
the landing, and the porter nred at him.
He then dashed into the alcove of the
landing and another shot was heard.
When Hall was found he was dead, and
his powder-burned shirt showed that he
had been shot a third time, this time by
himself.
Hall, who was 35 years old. and un.
married, returned tonight after an ab
sence of five years in the State of Wash
ington, having been employed on a ranch
near Spokane.
Denies Plot to lilow l'p Czar.
ST. FKTF.RSBT-RG. April Ifl.-Several
foreign newspaper have published a re
port that a plot had been discovered tc
blow up the Russian Emperor and other
member of the Imperial family. Today
an official statement waa issued to
the effect that such rumors were with
out foundation.
HONOR GRANT'S MEMORY
Taft and Carnegie Speak at Anni
versary of His Birth.
NEW YORK, April 19. Commemoratlne
the S6th anniversary of the birth of Gen
eral U. S. Grant, a memorial service was
held tonight in Metropolitan Temple, at
which Secretary of War Taft, Andrew
Carnegie and ex-.Scretary of the Trea
sury Leslie M. Shaw made addresses, and
Grant Post of the G. A. R. presented a
National flag to the church. This is the.
church at which General Grant during
his residence in this city attended
worship.
Andrew Carnegie chose '"Peaee" as the
subject of his address. He said that
General Grant, through his life of unre
mitting labor, never failed upon occasion
to express, as Washington did, his de
votion to the cause of peace.
Mr. Taft spoke of "General Giant, the
man and soldier of action." whom he
ranked as a military genius with Fred
erick the Great and Napoleon.
Linn Chooses Delegates.
ALBANY. Or.. April (Special.)
Republicans of Linn County held precinct
meetings throughout the county last night
to choose delegates to the county conven
tion which meets In this city next
Wednesday to choose delegates to i e
state convention in ortland. On the
same day the convention will be held the
new Republican county central commit
tee, chosen at the primaries Friday, will
meet and organize.