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Jlnrnitif J rM0t tarn VOL. XLVIII. NO. 14,841. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ELLIS ANSWERS ALFONSO FATHER BLACK Ai WHITE THINKS LAWSON'S OFFER IS BIG JOKE CANADIAN TOWN ETT GUILTY OF ANOTHER BOY IS LAID IN ASHES BRYAN'S ATTACK BY HEAT OF SUN Oil FIRST BALLOT BIRTH OF LITTLE PRIXCE IS JOHXSOX LACGHIXGLY ACCEPTS BRYAX AS YOKE-MATE. FIRE LOSS AT THREE RIVERS, CAUSE OF JOY IX MADRID. P. Q., EXCEEDS $1,000,000. SCORES STRICKEN B T OUT Defends Republican In junction Plank. OTHER POINTS NOT IN ISSUE Author of Platform Dissects Seven Objections. WHY COURTS DEFENDED Democratic Attack in 1896 Made It Necessary Injunction Flank Is Declared Brave Stand for What Is Right. COLUMBUS, O., June 22. Attorney- General Wade H. Ellis, who mu a mem ber of the resolutions committee of the Republican National Convention, and chief author of the platform adopted, in a statement tonight replies to criticisms of the platform made by William J. Bryan, and denies emphatically that the draft of the platform as published be fore the convention was changed "with the Jntention to displease or disappoint the President or Secretary Taft." The Attorney-General's statement, in part, fol lows: "Of the seven omissions he (Mr. Bryan) refers to, six are in no sense issues be fore the people at this time, nor has there been any attempt to make them such by the administration, nor by any influ ential element in the party. The seventh concerns injunctions. Upon this subject, Mr. . Bryan's eriticlsm exhibits his usual recklessness of statement and his readl- ness to assume that his own lack of in formation might be the prevailing: condi tion. Clear Statement of Position. "The charge that the Republican decla ration with respect to the use of the writ of Injunctions was designed tS 'de ceive the laboring men Is unworthy of a candidate for the Presidency, and the further charge that this plank merely declares the existing law and will give no relief In those cases tn which . there has been an abuse of discretion or the apprehension of it. is unworthy of any lawyer who has examined this question. The anti-Injunction resolution Is a frank, clear statement of the Republican party's position on a quastion on which others have been attempting to deceive labor. Remove .Cause of Complaint. The so)e-raeie of any rational com plaint -tfs to tn issuance of injunctions in labor cases has been the use of the ' writ without notice and the long delays in some instances which have intervened before a hearing of the case. The pres , ent statute does not require any notice at all before the granting of a temporary order, and it is entirely within the dis cretion of the court to postpone the ques tion on an injunction. The Republican plank simply declares that notice shall always be given unless an irreparable In Jury will result from delay and in that case there shall be a speedy hearing pro vided. In other words, the platform dec laration Is designed to give assurance that what is now the general practice in the Federal Courts Bhall be made uni versal by statute, in order that here after no cause of complaint or misap prehension shall remain. This may not satisfy the extremists on either hand, but it was not expected to do that. It will meet the approval of every right-thinking man, whether an employer or an employe. No party can lose by bravely taking a stand for what is right, whoever complains, just as none can profit by taking a stand for what is wrong, whoever applauds. Resent Attack on Courts. "Mr. Bryan objects further to the phrase in the injunction plank which pro claims confidence in .the integrity of the courts. It is true, perhaps, that the con vention which is yet to meet at Denver, rather than that which has just ad journed at Chicago, should express faith In the integrity of the courts; but in view of the Democratic attack in 1S96 and the fact that .the 'same forces which ' then controlled that party are once again in supreme command, it would seem en tirely appropriate for the Republican party not only to remove any possible cause of complaint in the use of the writ of Injunction, but to make It clear that It resents again, as it did In 1S96, any attempt to assault the Judiciary. "All that anyone wants is that the powers of the Federal courts with re spect to the use of the injunction shall be accurately defined by statute, to the end that all occasion for complaint in labor cases, which happily have been few in the past, shall disappear altogether in the future. The Republican plank points to a simple and straightforward way of achieving this purpose." MORE ARRESTS ARE DUE Roseburg Men Said to Be Indicted on Land-Fraud Charges. ROSEBURG, Or., June 22. (Special.) Several arrests in Roseburg are hourly expected in connection with the land fraud cases. One or more Deputy United States Marshals are known to be in Rose burg, but so quietly are they working that the Identity of the parties to be ar rested has not been discovered. Crowds Awaiting Xeira of Stork's Arrival Cheer Announcement From Royal Palace. MADRID, June 23. Within little over a year after the birth of a son and heir to the throne gladdened the hearts of the King and Queen and the Spanish people. Queen Victoria today presented her royal spouse with another baby Prince. The child was born at 1:10 A. M. today. King Alfonso, on learning that a con demned criminal was to be executed in the morning, immediately signed a par don in commemoration of the birth of Ljmt roe Qam Victoria of Spain, Who ' ' Om Birth to Her Second Son on Tneoday. the prince and telegraphed to the warden of the prison ordering the execution stopped. The announcement of the news td the crowds awaiting the bulletin from the royal household was hailed with great Joy and the city Is tonight the scene of rejoicing almost equal to that which fol lowed the birth of the first child on May 10, 1S07. Queen Victoria. was formerly - the Princess Ena of Battenburg, and Is a granddaughter of the late Queen Victoria of England, being the daughter of the Princess Beatrice and the late Prince Henry of Battenburg. She was born In 1S87 and is but a year younger ;than the King, who was horn May 17, 1886, and became the actual ruler of Spain on the anniversary of his birth in 1902, when the regency terminated. King Alfonso and the Princess Hna were married May 31, 1906 at Madrid, the ceremony being the most elaborate the old city had witnessed in many years. During the wedding festivities a Cata lonian anarchist threw a bomb at the carriage occupied by the royal couple, narrowly missing them and killing 16 of their retinue. x GO TO ENGLAND TO MARRY Anna Gould and Her Prince Depart From France Together. PARIS, June 22. The departure of Mme. Anna Gould and Prince Helie de Sagan from Paris, for England, where they will be married, is confirmed. The couple will not again return to France until the wedding has taken place. George J. Gould and his family are still In Paris. The lawyer of Count Boni de Castel- lane, the divorced husband of Mme. Gould, announces that the Count will take steps to bring about the transfer of the custody of the Castellane children to him self after the Gould-Sagan marriage has been actually solemnized. The lawyer in timates that something may occur to pre vent the wedding. PRISON TERM FOR FRAUD Denver Court Gives Female Spiritu alistic Faker Three Tears. 1 DENVER. June 22. Mrs. Leonora Pearce, convicted of having obtained a valuable diamond ring from Mrs. Harriet Crowe, an aged blind widow, by palming herself off as a Spiritualist callable of restoring sight, was sentenced todav to serve three to four years in the state penitentiary. Mrs. Pearce's attnrnev gave notice of an application to the Su preme Court for a supersedeas. It is charged that, in addition to the ring, Mrs. Pearce secured from Mrs. Crowe 116,800, the greater part of the fortune she inherited from her husband, a banker at Dillon, Mont. ARM TORN FROM HIS BODY Frank Ward, Oiler In Hoquiam Mill, Meets Frightful Accident. HOQUIAM. Wash., June 22. (Spe cial.) An oiler at the National Lumber & Box Company's plant met with an accident today by which his left arm was ripped from his body by being caught in a swiftly-revolving gearing. Only the complete severing of the bones, muscles and tendons prevented his being whirled to a horrible death. The injured man's name is Frank Ward, and he bore up heroically and never lost consciousness throughout his terrible ordeal. Fallieres' Daughter to Wed. PARIS. June 22. The Figaro announces the engagement of Mile. Anne Fallieres. daughter of the president, to Jean Joseph Edmond Lanes. Secretary-General of the presidency of the republic. r v si- t- A of- I Ui I Race War Begins in Sabine County, Texas. NINE NEGROES ARE LYNCHED Bloody Revenge for Assas sination of Two Whites. FIVE HANGED TOGETHER One Shot Dead While Attempting Escape Three Others Killed and ' Two Hurried Away for Safety. Both- Races Are Armed. HOUSTON, Tex., June 22. Nine ne groes met death last night at the hands of a mob in the vicinity of Hemphill, in- Sablne County. Today both races secured arms and the tension is such tonight that a race clash appears Imminent. The dead: Jerry Evans, aged 22. Will Johnson, aged 24. Mose Spillman, aged 24. i Cleveland Williams, aged 27. William Manuel, aged 25. Frank Williams, aged 22. Two unknown men. William McCoy. The lynchings followed the killing of two white men by negores. Two' weeks ago Hugh Dean and several other white men visited a negro church and schoolbouse, where a dance was in progress, presumably in quest of liquor, it being the custom of some of the negroes to sell whisky during the progress of such affairs. During the evening Dean was killed and six ne groes were held for the killing. At the preliminary examination evi dence tending to show that the plot was planned at the dance to kill Dean was produced. Saturday laet Aaron Johnson, a prominent farmer, was as sassinated while seated at the dlnlng table with his wife and child, the bul let being' fired through 'a window. For this crime Perry Prjce, a negro, was arrested and, it is stated, confessed. Im plicating Robert Wright, a relative of one of the negroes held for Dean's murder. Price declared he was offered tB to kill Johnson. Then followed the forming of a mob last night, the overpowering of the jailer at Hemphill andm the lynching of the six negroes held for the murder of Dean. Five were hanged to the same tree, while another attempted to escape and was shot to death. ' Later In the night WIlliamMcCoy, an other negro, was shot and killed while standing at the gate of the Johnson home, and this morning the bodies of two more negroes were found In the creek bottom. Wright, the negro who confessed to the killing of Johnson, and the man Implicated were taken to Beau mont for safekeeping under guard of the military company of St. Augustine. Sabine County is situated in the most remote part of the eastern section of the state, with sparse railroad and telephone facilities. 1 Rtt Wr?" PAN V-0tRRT r Statement Republican "Sure He Will Support x . Taft." (Before Erection.) Says Offer of $1,000,000 Campaign Fund Sounds Well Insists on First Place. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 22. (Spe cial.) "That sounds like a most excel lent proposition," said Governor Johnson laughingly this morning, speaking of the offer of Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, to raise a $1,000,000 campaign fund for a ticket with Johnson for President and Bryan for Vice-President. "Yes. I think we will have to stand for it," continued the Governor evidently greatly amused at the proposition. "It sounds all right, and we are perfectly willing to agree to It." But that was as far as the Democratic possibility for Presidency would go. He treated the matter In a joking manner, and while frankly admitting that such a scheme would please him immensely, would not say whether or not Mr. Law son, or any one acting for him, had ac tually proposed the plan to him. Governor Jolmson will not allow his name to be used as the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Democratic party. This announcement was made authoritatively today at the Johnson headquarters. Frederick B. Llnch, who has had charge Of the Governor's campaign for the Presi dential nomination from the outset, said that not only would the Governor not be a candidate for nomination for the seo ond place on the ticket, but that if the convention persisted in nominating him, as had been threatened, he would decline to make the race, making it devolve on the Democratic National Committee to nil the vacancy. Republican leaders remarked that Mr. Johnson's determination not to serve aa a running mate for Mr. "Bryan, even if drafted by his party, Indicated the kind of harmony existing In the Democratic ranks. The Johnson managers continue to boom their candidate for the head of the ticket, asserting that they still hope enough delegates Instructed for Bryan will break their instructions and go to Johnson to nominate the Minnesotan. WOMAN'S SLAYER ON TRIAL Case Against Holland Anderson at Coquille Will Be Sensational. MARSH FIELD, Or.. June 22. (Spe cial.) The trial of Holland Anderson, harged. with the murder of Mrs, Bertha EUa Gordon, was begun at a special session of the Circuit Court at Coquille today, when four Jurors were selected. The trial promises to be sen sational, as the attorneys for the de fense state that they will go into de tails of the history of Mrs. Gordon's checkered career. Anderson was a bar tender and shot Mrs. Gordon, May 9, on a gasoline boat at Marshfleld. The woman died a few days later. BADLY HURT IN JUMPING Passengers Fear Auto Is Running Away and Leap. MODESTO, Cal., June 22. Thinking the chauffeur had lost control of his ma chine, N. O. Hultberg. of Little Rock, and J. W. Clink, of San Jose, today jumped from the speeding automobile while on the way to the La Grange Dam and were terribly injured. Hultberg has both Jaws broken and his head Injured. He is in a critical condition. Clink had his right lower jaw broken, his throat deeply cut and an ear was nearly torn off. EXPECTATION AND REALIZATION Bat It Tarns Oat Eight Dead in Chicago in Single Day. GRAZED MAN TAKES POISON Mad Dogs Attack People and Are Slaughtered." NEW YORK ALSO SUFFERS All Eastern Cities Sweltering in Moist Heat and Will Get Xo Re lief Till Wednesday, When Cool Showers Are Promised. CHICAGO, June 23. The hottest dav of the year, with the mercury standing at 94 degrees, brought death and suffer ing to Chicago. Eight deaths were re ported to the Coroner's office and heat prostrations were numerous. In addition, a mad dog scare spread through the city and the Chief of Folic? ordered his men to shoot all unmuzzled dogs. A similar order Issued at Morton's Park, a suburb, resulted in the killing of 40 dogs In a few hours. The death list today follows: " Frank Cass. 36, overcome while work ing In his ,garden at LaGrange; a suburb Samuel Douglas, 25, a negro, made dizzy by heat and fell off yacht tn? Jackson Park lagoon, drowning befori aid could reach him. John Golden, drowned in Desplaine River while seeking relief from heat. William Dettling, 65 years old. negro, crazed by heat and committed suicide bf drinking Paris green. William Hobson, 55 years old, dropped dead of heart failure superinduced by heat. Baby Gunther. two weeks old, died af County Hospital of heat prostration. Sarah Oskmus. 9 years old, died at Presbyterian Hospital, after heat pros tration. Estelle E. Ely, 13 days old, died at County Hospital of heat prostration. Scores Are Prostrated. The number of prostrations reported to the police totalled several score. The most serious of these Included the cases of James Burton, of 344 One Hundred and Fourth street, New York City, who came here to attend the Republican National Convention, and of Mrs. Mary Brown, of Bishop street, Chicago, who was overcome while sitting at a second-story window and fell 50 feet to a paved courtyard, suffering internal injuries which may cause her death. Scare of Mad Dogs. The mad-dog scare was due to the un usual number of attacks of vicious ani mals within the last few days. Chief Shlppy said 10 oases had come to his notice Friday, and he sent out a general order that all unmuzzled dogs should be killed. Thus far none of those bitten have developed symptoms of rabies. ' Will Be Cqoler Wednesday. The thermometer reached 94 degrees at (Concluded on Page 5.) That He. Will Support Bryan. Entire Business District Is Destroyed Before Aid Comes to Local Fire Department. THREE RIVERS. Quebec. June 22. Fanned by a high wind, a fire which broke out shortly before noon today in a stable was not checked until the greater part of the lower town, contain ing the business section of the city, had been consumed. Then, with the assist anace of firemen summoned by special trains from Montreal, Quebec, Sher brooke and Grande Mere, it was held in Walter J. Bartnrtt, San Fran cInco Baakwrrckfr, Convicted of Stealing the Col ton Secnri- . ties. check. Almost every building of con sequence in that section of the city was destroyed, including the postofflce, the city hall, every hotel worthy of the name with one exception, the fine building of the Hocheiaga Bank and most all of the leading stores.' Over 300 buildings were burned. The narrow streets of the town and the Inflammable nature of many buildings rendered the task of the firemen an al most impossible one. Outside the town Is located the camp of the sixth military district and soon after the fire started a thousand men were sent to help fight the flames. The local brigade was entirely ineffective when it came to coping with a conflagration and the soldiers rendered the best assistance they could, but their bucket brigade was not equal to the task. The loss will be considerably over $1, 000.000. So far no loss of life has been reported, but a woman and two children are reported to have been badly burned. Three Rivers is a city of about 11,000 population, at the confluence of the St. Maurice arul St. Lawrence Rivers, and was founded by the French, in 1634, be ing one of the oldest settlements in the Province of Quebec. It is a lumber cen ter and important ' manufacturing point. It is 95 miles northeast of Montreal. PUT YOUNG MAN TO WORK Roosevelt to Send Theodore, Jr., to Steel Trust's Mines. NEW YORK. June 22. The Tribune tomorrow will say: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., a Harvard Junior, will have his first experience of work this Summer distinguished from the labor Involved In study and will get that experience as an employe in the United States Steel Corporation. John C. Greenway, who was in the Rough Rider regiment In the Spanish War and for whom the President holds a hearty friendship, is superintendent of the Western Mesaba department of the Steel Corporation's ore property, and un der his direction the younger Roosevelt will be employed. (. DROP FORD BRIBERY CASE Judge Lawlor Dismisses Charge Be cause Once in Jeopardy. SAN FRANCISCO, June 22. An indict ment against Tlrey L. Ford, charging him with the bribery of Supervisor Coleman, with the consent of the District Attorney, was dismissed by Judge. Lawlor today. As he had been tried and acquitted since the finding of this indictment on one of an earlier group of similar charges, the United Railroads official raised a plea of once in Jeopardy, which was sustained by the court. TAFT'S BROTHER IS COMING With His Family Will Visit Port land and Seattle. ST. PAUL. June 22. Henry W. Taft. brother of William H. Taft, Secretary of War and nominee for President, accom panied by Mrs. Taft, Miss Louise Taft and William H. Taft, Jr., left tonight for Yellowstone Park, Portland and Seattle. More Warships at Astoria. ASTORIA, Op., June 22. (Special. ) The torpedo-boat Rowan and the de stroyer Goldsborough arrived in this afternoon from Puget Sound to await the Fox and Davis, now at Portland, and proceed to Humboldt Bay, California, where they will remain for the Fourth of July. Later the four vessels will Join the torpedo flotilla in Southern waters and will sail in August for the Samoan Islands. is Ff Bay City Bank-Wrecker ' .Convicted. DENOUNCED AS A COWARD ALSO Prosecutor Says He Blamed His Crime on Others. COMMENDED TO MERCY Jury Decides( Quickly After Reading Convict's Letters to Dalzell Brown Sentence Deferred, Other Charges Dropped. SAN FRANCISCO, June 22. Walter J. Bartnett, ex-vice-president of the sus pended California Safe Deposit & Trust Company and administrator of the es tate of Mrs. Ellen M. Colton, this after noon was found guilty of embezzling curities and , bonds owned by the estato to the value of $31,700. The Jury was out less than 50 minutes and reached a ver dict on the first ballot. Bartnett was recommended to the mercy of the court and Judge Conley fixed 10 A. M., June 30, aa the time for pronouncing sentence. Calls Bartnett Coward. The greater part of the day was oc cupied with the closing arguments of the prosecution and defense. Assistant District Attorney William Hoff Cook spoke for the people during the morn ing and was followed by Oscar Cooper for Bartnett. James B. Geary made the principal argument for Bartnett in the afternoon and Mr. Cook closed. At the outset of his argument Mr. Cook Informed the jury that the second count in the indictment, charging Bartnett with embezzlement as bailee, had not been proved, as Bartnett did not himself steal the money. Mr. Cook pictured Bartnett as a coward, who carried on his ne farious dealings behind J. Dalzell Brown and his own brother-in-law, James Tread well. The main attempt of the attorneys for the defense was to place the blamo on Brown, the convicted manager of the in stitution. Xot Slow to Convict. Judge Conley concluded his charge at 9 o'clock and the jury retired a few min utes later. It had been out but 20 min utes when it sent into court for the let ters written by Bartnett to J. Dalzell Brown in New York. As some portions of the letters were not admitted In evi dence it was necessary to copy the ex tracts, and ten minutes were required to do the work. When the Jurors re ceived the required evidence, deliberation was resumed and it was but a short tima later when they filed into court to ten der their verdict. Foreman William Crocker announced that the Jury found Bartnett guilty on the first count in the Indictment and not guilty on the second. He concluded (Concluded on PaRe 2.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER Th Weuthrr. YQSTFJRDAY'S Maximum temperature, 68 degree; minimum, 48 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; easterly wind. Foreign. JUffht B-ntenreii for siaryers of Jews at Blalystok, Russia. Page 3. Son born to Queen of Spain. Pajre 1. Three Rivera, Quebec, h&m $1,000,000 fir. Page 1. Politics. Taft tells conception of duty of President. Pape 3. Taft spends busy day at Yale. PaRft 5. Sherman 111 at Cleveland, has to delay re turn to Utica. Page 2. Johnson ridicules Lawson's campaign fundi schema and scorns Vlco-PreBtdency. Page 1. Wade El lis replies to Brj-an's attack on Republican platform. Page 1. Domestic. Hyde and Schneider convicted, of land-. fraud. Benson and Dimond acquitted. Page 3. Wrapping- paper trust pleads guilty; all members are fined. Page J. Chicago woman insists on having sweetheart exbumed to be convinced of death. Page .". Many persons die or are prostrated by heat In Chicago, New York, and other cities. Page 1. Iprosy cured In Louisiana. Page 5. Bartnett convicted of stealing Colton so curities. Page 1. Wholesale lynching of negroes in Texas be gins race war. Page 1. Pacifto Coast. State board to decide fata of Normal Schools. Page 7. Forest Grove pledges fund for entrance of Oregon Electric. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Board of Trade clears the way for dealings In grain futures. Page 15 Chicago wheat market nervous and weak. Page 15. Break In Rock Island unsettles stock mar ket. Page 15. Inspectors order repairs to steamer Break water. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Water main breaks at Tenth and Taylor streets, flooding city thoroughfares, Pag' 10. Walton expected to go on stand today la his fourth .trial for highway robbery. Page 4. Jury being secured to try Booth In land fraud cases. Page 4. Kvangetic&l ministers discuss union of two factions. Page 4- BLajne for streetcar wreck placed on motor man. Page 11. Ways and Means committee recommends purchase of W0 fire h"drants. Page 2. Rev. John Glen drops dead of heart disease. Page 4. f Dr. Ije tells of progress of mission work In Africa, page 14.