VOL. XL, VIII. XO. 14.842.
PORTLAND, OREGON, AVEDXESDAY, JUNE 24, 1908.
PRICE FIArE CENTS.
OPERA DOOMED TO
BECOME EXTINCT
SHAH TURNS GUNS
ROOSEVELT HAS
DAY IN HAYFIELD
MAY HONOR HER .
REFULGENT SON
YALE GIVES TUFT
WILIi TAKE HAND AT MAKING
HAY THIS MORXIXG.
J. "HAM" LEWIS FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
IS GEORGIA'S CRY.
NEITHER ART NOR MCSIC, SAYS
BOLD MISSOURIAN.
BONDS SEVERED
WITH VENEZUELA
SHERMAN IS ILL,
BUT 15 IMPROVING
ROUSINGWELGOME
PARLIAMENT
Last American Diplo
mat is Recalled.
CASTRO QUARRELS WITH ALL
Germany Only Country With
Which No Dispute.
HOLLAND IS THE LATEST
Expected to Recall Minister Because
Venezuela Prohibits Trade With
Curacao Revolution Against
Him Brews in Colombia.
CARACAS. June 22. The members of
the American Legation are awaiting the
arrival of the United States gunboat
Marietta at Port Cabello, the warship
having been ordered there for the pur
pose of transferring them to the United
States. Jacob Sleeper, who has been act
ing as Charge d" Affaires since the de
parture of the American Minister, W.
TV. Russell, anr"Lieutenant Francis A.
Ruggles. the military attache, withdrew
from the Legation at Caracas on Satur
day and proceeded to Port Cabello.
The interests of the United States were
placed in charge of the Brazilian Lega
tion, as the representatives of the Euro
pean nations are having considerable
friction with President Castro's govern
ment. The American Consular Agent,
John Brewer, remains here In charge of
the archives.
Only Germany Has Xo Quarrel.
President Castro returned here sud
denly a few days ago after a long ab
sence in the interior, and his arrival
attracted much attention. All kinds of
rumors are current and the withdrawal
of the representatives of the United
States is not quite understood by Ven
ezuelans. It is probable, too, there will
be an early rupture with Holland, and
there are reports that l revolution,
against the administration is being or
ganized in Colombia,
As matters now etand, the United
States, France and Colombia practically
have no relations with Venezuela. Great
Britain and Holland have serious ques
tions pending with the government. Ger
many alone has no dispute.
Says Justice on His Side.
The Constitutional. President Castro's
organ, in an editorial today says:
"The United States, in closing a
sensational diplomatic process in such
an unexpected way, cannot weaken
the spirit of brotherhood and high con
sideration of the Venezuelan people
(toward the United States. The Vene
zuelan government and the President
Jhave the satisfaction of possessing
'justice and law In the attitude which
'they have maintained and the indis
putable adhesion of trie people."
Before his withdrawal from the Le
gation, Mr. Sleeper sent a note to the
(government asking for passports.
(This note was answered In very con
siderate language, and the American
(Charge was Informed that .passports
twere unnecessary, inasmuch as he per
sonally was persona grata and that
(diplomatic immunity would continue
until he was on board the Marietta,
there being no question of war ln
tvolved. The communication to Mr.
iSleeper extended to him the cordial
wishes of the administration for a
I happy -voyage.
Row Begins With Holland.
The recent diplomatic friction between
Venezuela and Holland over the closing
;of Venezuelan ports to Dutch vessels and
.President Castro's decree prohibiting the
! trans-shipment of cargo in the Island of
Curacao reached a crisis several day3
.ago, when the President vigorously
answered a note sent to him hy the
Dutch Minister, J. H. de Reus, protesting
against this decree and criticising the
Venezuelan Consul at Willemstad. Presi
dent Castro refused to modify the or
ders which he had issued. Minister de
Reus Is now awaiting instructions from
The Hague, and the opinion among the
diplomats here and others in well-informed
circles Is that a severing of re
lations between the two countries is no
unlikely.
There has been a great reduction in
Venezuelan revenues because of the
prevalence of the plague and bad econ
omic conditions, but the government, it
Is announced, is still paying all its obi!-"
Rations.
CASTRO DEFIES ALL POWERS
Dream to Unite Northern South
America Against "Barbarians."
PARIS, June 23. An interview which
the Caracas correspondent of the Matin
has had with President Castro, of Ven
ezuela, in which Castro is quoted as say
ing, "I do not fear Europe; all the powers
can coalesce, but Venezuela will remain
impregnable while I live," is attracting
considerable attention here today. After
saying the President's policy was to
fight all foreign countries that monop
olized the economic life of Venezuela, the
correspondent quotes Castro as saying:
"The business Invasion of foreigners In
Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia and Ecua
dor threatens our, National peace. Why
dissimulate? My dream is to regenerate
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Goes to New London With Whole
Family Thursday to See Vale
Harvard Boat Race.
OYSTER BAT, X. T., June 23. The
sun shone at Oyster Bay today and the
President made hay. During the mowing
Mr.- Roosevelt was content to supervise
the work, but tomorrow morning, when
the crop that covers the hillside in front
of the President's home has" ripened, the
Chief Executive will take a hand in the
work. Making hay is one of the yearly
occupations engaged in by the President
,,
Shah of Ferula. Who hns Con
quered Parliament, After
Bloody Battle.
on his Summer's vacation and he enjoys
it thoroughly.
This morning he took a horseback ride.
In the heat of the day he labored in
the field and Just before dinner lay
low a sturdy tree, the usefulness of
which, except as fuek was past.
Secretary Loeb announced tonigfit that
the President did not expect to meet
Mr. Taft at New London. At 1 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon the President, Mrs.
Roosevelt, Miss Ethel, Quenttn and
Archie will board the Mayflower for New
London. The Mayflower will arrive in the
Thames Thursday' morning. As the May
flower is too large a craft to navigate
the river the passengers In the morning
will transfer to the Sylph, which will
precede th Mayflower to tha mduth of
the Thames.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the President's
eldest son, who Is a Junior at Harvard,
will Join his father on board the Sylph.
After the races the Mayflower will re
turn to Oyster Bay, enabling the Presi
dent to reach Sagamore Hill Friday morn
ing. No visitors will be received by the
President at Sagamore Hill until Satur
day. At noon on that day Secretary
of War Taft and his successor. General
Luke E. Wright, will arrive. The entire
afternoon will be' devoted to them by the
President and affairs connected with the
War Department, especially regarding its
future policy under General Wright, prob
ably will be discussed.
LEAFGREEN SUIT AGAIN
Widow Renews Claim to Share of
Howard's Estate.
ST. LOUIS, June 23. The suit of Mrs.
Mary Leafgreen for a widow's dower
from the estate of the late Laclede J.
Howard, appealed from the Probate
Court, was commenced in the Circuit
Court today. Mrs. Leafgreen contends
that she was married to Howard in De
catur, 111., In 1S83 and that he left her
two days after the ceremony.
The defense contends that the man Mrs.
Leafgreen married was not Laclede J.
Howard, but Thomas Jefferson Miller,
who was Mayor of Tumwater, Wash.
Miller's deposition was read at the first
trial and it Is said he will personally
testify In this hearing.
Laclede J. Howard was president of the
Evans-Howard Fire Brick Company, In
St. Louis. He died in April, 1903, leaving
an estate valued at $500,000.
WST0L DUEL TO DEATH
Nevada Miners Settle Quarrel Over
Woman in Street Tight.
GOLDFIELD, Nev., June 23.-M. Taylor
and C. W. Priest, both miners, engaged in
a duel this afternoon on Grand avenue,
and both men are now in a dying condi
tion. Tho duelists emptied their guns
into each other, Taylor being shot sev
eral times In the abdomen. Priest was
taken to the hospital in a dying condi
tion. The shooting occurred immediately fol
lowing a remark by Priest reflecting upon
Taylor's wife. It is not known Just what
started the quarrel, but It is said that
the men have been enemies because of
Priest's persistent attentions to the
woman.
ELEVEN DEATHS BY-HEAT
Sun's Rays Continue to Strike Down
Chicago Citizens.
CHICAGO. June 23. Eleven deaths due
to heat prostration or allied causes were
recorded In Chicago today. The ther
mometer again climbed to above 90, but
late this afternoon a shift in the wind
brought relief, and it Is believed that tho
torrid wave has broken.
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Gall Stones Cause Pain
and High Fever.
OPERATION MAY BE AVOIDED
Sick Man Sends Hopeful Mes
sage to Colleague.
WIFE HASTENS TO. HIM
Removed to Hospital When Symp
toms Grow Worse and Spends .
Restless Day Probable Course
If Illness Proves Fatal.
CONDITION AT EARLY MORS.
CLEVELAND; O.. June 24. At
2:30 o'clock Mr. Sherman's tem
perature was 101 3-5. puis 92, res
piration 28. He was reported as
resting aulebly.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 23. Repre
sentative James Schoolcraft Sherman,
Republican candidate for Vice-President,
who was removed early today from the
home of ex-Governor Herrick to Lakeside
hospital, a sufferer from gallstones, Is re
ported in an official bulletin tonight as
holding his own after a somewhat rest
less day. If the patient's condition con
tinues to improve, the bulletin said, it
is not likely that an operation for the
removal of the gallstones will be neces
sary. The physicians state that Mr. Sher
man's well known abstemlnous habits
have given him much bodily strength
to resist the ravages of the disease.
The following telegram was dictated by
Mr. Sherman to his secretary late this
evening In answer to a message of sym
pathy from the Presidential nominee,
William H. Taft:
Confident of Recovery.
"My Illness, is not of a critical nature
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Nominate Pink-Whiskered Chi
cago Colonel at Denver.
CHICAGO. June 23. (Special.) Colonel
James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, for
Vice-President on the Democratic ticket.
This was the cry today from Georgia, the
state in which Chicago's Chesterfield and
candidate for the-Democratic gubernator
ial nomination in Illinois, was born.
Colonel Lewis received a telegram to
day from a delegate to the Georgia state
convention asking him If he would permit
President Ciprlano Castro, of
' Venecuela, Defiant in Face of
' Hostile World.
that state to adopt a resolution recom
mending him for the Vice-Presidential
nomination at the Denver convention. The
message came as a surprise to Colonel
Lewis, engrossed as he Is in deep thought
over the gubernatorial possibilities. But
he pondered carefully and, after several
hours of mediation, sent a reply. As
near as Colonel Lewis could remember It,
the reply he sent back to the Georgia
delegate was something like this:
"I am not a candidate for the Vice
Presidency, but I would very much ap
preciate an honorable recommendation
such as you suggest. Being a Georgian,
the honor accorded me would be one that
no man could refuse. The office of Vice
President, however, like that of the Presi
dent, is neither to besought nor to be
declined." '
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REPUBLICAN VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, TAKEN
JUST AFTER HIS NOMINATION
JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHERMAN.
Visit One Continuous
Grand Ovation.
NEW HAVEN WILD WITH JOY
Crowd of 14,000 Cheers Re
publican Standard-Bearer.
HE ATTENDS BALL GAME
War Secretary Roots for "Old Ell'
and Leads Class Reunion Parade
Around Diamond Harvard
Beaten by 8-to-0 Score.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 23. This
has baen a glorious day for "Old EU,"
and a glorious day for Secretary William
H. Taft.- "Big Bill," as he Is affection
ately termed by all old Tala men, was the
center today, of all the enthusiasm Bur-
roundlng the Tale commencement festivi
ties. The quietude of yesterday gave
place to the most enthusiastic demon
strations of affectionate regard for one of
Tale's most distinguished sons. Throngs
of graduates, students and citizens of
New Haven followed the War Secretary's
every movement. .From the moment he
appeared this morning in a big auto
mobile at Woodbrldge Hall, where he at
tended an Important meeting of the Tale
corporation, until tonight when he left
the Edwards House the headquarters of
his class of '78 for the New Haven Coun
try Club to attend his class dinner, thou
sands of people constantly were about
him.
One Continuous Ovation.
They manifested their affectionate
regard for him in every conceivable way.
Classes of graduates serenaded him with
fine bands; hundreds of friends extended
personal greeting to him on the street
and at the Tale-Harvard game this after
noon, and as the Secretary marched with
his class to and from the field, the streets
were banked with people anxious to pay
their respects to the War Secretary. They
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President of State Association of Mu
sic Teachers Shatters Cher
ished Idols.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.. June 23. (Special.)
Intellectuallsts in music, who have
smiled indulgently at their uninitiated
neighbors when the latter yawned
through grand opera and applauded
only the love scenes, will not be al
lowed to rest on their superior erudi
tion, if the ideas and opinions ex
pressed by Captain Oscar Hatch Haw
ley, of Macon, president of the Mis-
"I
Mins Jean Held, Daughter of
American Ambassador to Lon
don. AVho Wu Married Yes
terday to Hon. John Hubert
Ward, I'nder Auspices of
King- Edward.
sourl Music Teachers' Association, re
ceive approval.
Captain Hawlej; in an address on
"Absolute Music, the Music of the
Future," before the state convention
of music teachers, denounced grand
opera as "trash" and "atrocious non
sense." He predicts that in the next
decade or so this form of music will
disappear. He declares that the
operas of Wagner, all operas, in fact,
are neither Ideal, real or poetic.
"Opera," he says, "has no basis in
real life. It is puroly artificial. The
drama is art. Opera is nothing. It is
neither art nor music. It tends to a
lowering of the moral standards."
CHOLERA AMONG TROOPS
Four Deaths at Camp Gregg, Luzon.
Many Natives Dying.
MANILA, June 24. Cholera has broken
out among the troops at Camp Gregg.
The scouts and one civilian have died
from the disease and the camp has been
placed under quarantine regulations.
Lieutenant Jones, of the First Calvary,
and Lieutenant Muldoon, of the Philippine
Scouts, have been stricken.
The situation with regard to the cholera
outbreak In the province of Pangasinan
on the Island of Luzon Is very serious.
Ninety-three cases have been reported
in the last 24 hours, 60 of which have
proved fatal.
The collier Caesar has arrived with the
submarines, which are Intended for this
station, on board.
Bears as Mascots for Fleet.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 23. The
Bteamer Watson, from Seattle, arrived
today, bringing two bears shipped from
Alaska to be turned over to the Atlantic
fleet as mascots.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
Tha Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 76
degrees; minimum, 49 degrees. .
TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds.
Foretipi.
Miss Jean Reld married under auspices of
British royal family. Pago 3.
American missionaries in Persia besieged
at L'rumJah Kurds. Pago 3.
Shah's troops bombard Parliament and nil
Teheran with dread. Page 1.
National.
Diplomatic relations vlth Venezuela sev
ered ; only Germany has no quarrel.
Page 3.
'President Roosevelt makes hay. Faa L
Baron Takahashl suggests remedy for Jap
anese immigration problem. Page 2.
Politic.
Taft leads Yale rooters at ball gme with
Harvard. Page 1.
Sherman seriously ill with gallstones, but
Improving. Page 1.
Close parallel between Republican and
Iemocratlc convention. Page 4.
James Hamilton Lewis boomed by Georgia
for Vice-President. Page 1.
Kills says whole Republfcan platform was
approved by Taft and Roosevelt. Page Z.
Foraker to stump Ohio for Taft. Page 4.
Domestic.
Missouri music teachers condemn grand
opera. Page 3.
Sports
Coast League scores: Los Angeles 7. Port
land 4; San Francisco 4; Oakland 3.
Page 7.
Louisiana Legislature passes anU-bettfns;
bill. Page 3.
Pacific Coast.
Alumni day at TJnlvenslty of Oregon: ban
quet and elHtion of officers. Page 6.
Aberdeen bel ie ves M 1 1 wau kee Is seek ins; en
trance to Grays Harbor. Page 16.
Commercial and Marine.
Herman Klabers view on hop market pros
pects. Page 15.
Chicago wheat market weakened by liberal
selling. Pago 13.
Stock speculation dull. Page 15.
French bark Vendee clears with valuable
cargo. Page 14
Portland and Vicinity-
Government rejects as Juror in Booth, case
man who dislikes Heney. Page 10.
Portland business men going; to Eugene on
excursion today. Page 14.
Heavy work for Council at today's session
Page 14.
Walton's fourth trial for streetcar holdup
ends. Page 10.
Depth of water Is now 26 feet on Columbia
bar. Page 10.
Benator Fulton returns from Chicago con
vention. Page 9.
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Persian Nationalists
Driven From Hall.
COSSACKSTERRORIZETEHERAN
Capture Popular Leaders and
Loot Mosques.
SHAH AGAIN IS MASTER
Parliament House Bombarded When
Shots Are Fired at Troops Battle
Between People and Cos
sacks la Streets.
TEHERAN, June 23. After a bloody
fight, which was waged around tha
Parliament building, the city was com
paratively quiet tonight, although the
Cossacks were camped in the streets
and squares.
Cossacks and soldiers early in tho
morning surrounded the Parliament
building and demanded that a number
of persons whose arrest the Shah had
ordered be forthwith handed over to
them. The Parliament refused to com
ply with this demand and shots were
fired at the troops, several soldiers
being killed.
Orders were issued from military head
quarters that the Parliament building bt
bombarded and the bombardment com
menced soon after 10 o'clock. While this
was in progress bombs were thrown from
the Parliament building and the Mosqus
building, disabling one of the guns and
wounding the gunners. Eventually ths
halls of Parliament were cleared, but
not before many persons had been killed
and wounded. The bombardment con
tinued until 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
when it suddenly ceased.
In the meantime the troops attacked
the political clubs in. that neighborhood
end numerous residences of members of
Parliament, in which work they . were
aided by the populace.
The number of casualties Is unknown,
but it will be very large. The parlia
ment buildings are practically In ruins.
The tiring was confined to Parliament
Square, the other parts of the city being
comparatively quiet.
Large numbers of leading Nationalists,
Including priests and members of Parlia-,
ment, have been placed under arrest.
STREETS STREWS "WITH DEAD
Shah's Troops Drive Out Parliament
In Napoleonic Style.
BERLIN, June 23. News has Just
been received here that the troops of
the Shah of Tersla have captured the
Parliament buildings In Teheran. The
city Is now being bombarded by ar
tillery. The square In front of the Parlia
ment buildings is said to be heaped
with corpses.
The troops have dragged the
reformers, who had taken refuge
in the Parlament building. be
fore the Shah. The Shah seems to be
entirely master of the situation. A
despatch to the Lokal Anzieger from
its special correspondent at Teheran,
dated, last evening, says:
The disturbances ended In victory
for the Shah's party, the opposition
forces being entirely dispersed. The
bombardment ceased toward 2 o'clock
in the afternoon, and the artillery was
partly withdrawn from the Parliament
building after that building had been
cleared.
Some looting continues In the parlia
mentary quarters. The dead have not yet
been carried off the streets, and they
are lying everywhere in exposed places.
A very large number of persons were
wounded.
Tho artillery fired on the population
at very short range, while from the roofs
of the houses and the mosques the peo
ple, replied with rifles and revolvers. To
night the Cossacks hold all the squares
and streets. "
The Shah remained almost entirely
alone during the fighting, only his per
sonal aides accompanying him. All the
troops were engaged and they suffered
losses of more than 100 dead and
wounded.
The European quarters In Teheran are
comparatively quiet.
TOWN IX HAXDS OF RUSSIAN 9
Troops "Loot Prince's Palace and
Mosques, Enraging People.
LONDON, June 23. A special from Te
heran to the Times says that the killed
and wounded in yesterday's fighting to
taled 70. tho casualties being heaviest
among the Nationalists. Several deputies
were killed. The foreign residents are In
no danger, as the town Is In the hands
of the Russians. Rifle firing lasted for
two hours, after which the Parliament
building and other buildings were
bombarded at close range, the 200 defend
ers of the former being eventually scat
tered. The looting which followed the firing
was Indescribable and continued through
out the day. The Times correspondent
states that the behavior of the troops.
Including the Cossacks, was disgraceful,
tbe mosques, the neighboring houses, ths
palace of Prince Zilles. Sultan and ths
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