VOL. XL VIII. XO. 14,833.
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CEXTS.
BRYAN EXERCISES
ABSOLUTE POWER
READY TO DEFEND
FAITH WITH GUNS
FOURTH OF JULY
COST 94 LIVES
KNOTTIEST PLANK
IS INJUNCTIONS
ONLY PRESS STORY,
SAYS ACTOR'S WIFE
L DOORS OPEN
E
FOR RUEF
DAKOTA FANATICS CROSS BOUN
DARY INTO MANITOBA,
GRAND TOTAL- OF INJURED
REACHES 2920.
MRS. BIEX DENIES HUSBAND'S
SAME IS INVOLVED.
TIDAL WAVE
IMS
MIES
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Convention Will Be
Mere Ratification.
TRIUMPH OVER PLUTOCRACY
Pardon for All Except Certain
Few Outcasts. '
FOR . THEM VENGEANCE
braskan Will Be Nominated Amid
Delirious Scenes Boom for Ollie
James fop Vice-President,
Rampant Bryan Man.
WATTER WELLMAN TO CHICAGO RECORD-HERALD.
DENVER, Colo.. July . (Special.)
One great Bryan ratification leading to
a. wild burst of enthusiasm in celebra
tion of the triumphant reappearance
of the peerless one after a temporary
eclipse: a demonstration of the com
pleteness of the new leader's power
over all men and measures; amnesty
and harmony for all who may be useful
and who promise to be good; expulsion
from the temple, excomunlcation and
the scaffold for all who have committed
lese majeste and who refuse to bow
the knee In humble plea for pardon
such is to be the Democratic National
convention, the first session of which
la to begin at noon tomorrow.
Vengeance on Certain Few.
Today the Bryan people have the bit
In their teeth. They are running strong
and free. They are feeling the exalta
tion of power. They bubble with joy
over the triumph they have won over
plutocracy. For the great majority of
the conquered they have nothing but
good will and the right hand of good
fellowship. But upon the heads of the
few they are preparing to wreak their
vengeance.
Guffey, the plutocrat of Pennsyl
vania; McGraw and Ills side-partner
from West Virginia: Tom Ryan, the
head devil of the whole anti-Bryan
conspiracy;. Shehan, the head devil's
chief scout; Smith of New Jersey,
known as the wolf; and poor Governor
Johnson, of Minnesota, whose crime is
that of being caught in bad company,
are to be punished. For all other of
fenders of the past, no matter what the
degree of their crime, forgiveness, am
nesty, and this Includes Roger Sulli
van of Illinois. Train-robber or no
train-robber, he will hold his place as
the chief of the mini, member of the
National Committee, with Mr. Bryan's
cheerful assent. And the long-distance
telephone is in working order between
Denver and Falrvlew.
Bryan the Democratic Party.
There Is no real contest over anything
whatsover. Bryan . is the Democratic
party. He will be nominated on the first
ballot amid scenes of delirium unparal
leled, probably. In the history of con
ventions. There is no struggle over the
platform nothing worthy the name only
minor differences to be worked out amon?r
Bryan's friends, using Bryan's own draft
as the baae and body of the final whole.
The Vice-Presidency is Bryan's also,
If he cares to Interpose, as he probably
will. Today his friends started a shout
for big Ollle James, of Kentucky, a
member of Congress, an orator, a ram
pant Bryan man. a man who Bryan
himself predicted would be the leader
of the Democratic party of the Union
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COX. 35.. I. JOJiMST01Si
Leaders Claim to Be Jesus and
Mary Threaten to Shoot When
Ordered to Disperse.
" "WINNIPEG. July 6. A detachment of 20
royal Northwest mounted police left this
morning for Plerson, Manitoba, 25 miles
north of the Dakota boundary line, where
a party of armed religious fanatics is
camping, often in large numbers, includ
ing a few women and children. They
came from North Dakota Sunday armed
with rifles.
The leader claims to be Jesus Christ and
says his wife is the Virgin Mary.' They
Patrick MeCnrren. 'Who Wa
Ignored In Ria Contest Acalnat
Murphy tor King County, Jl.
Y., seats.
are bound to join the Doukhobo'rs near
Torkter, Saskatchewan. On being ordered
to disperse by the police Sunday they
formed a half circle, presenting arms, and
threatened to shoot all who interfered.
It waa then that the mounted police were
summoned. .
NEW LONDON IS PUNISHED
Iicses Naval Base for Insulting Blue
jackets In Uniform.
ANNAPOLIS, Mi, July 6. It was
announced at the Naval Academy that
Superintendent Barger had approved
the recommendation of Commander tW.
S. Benson, commanding the midship
men's cruise squadron, that the base
of the squadron be transferred from
New London to Newport because of al
leged discrimination against the uni
form of the enlisted men. .
The proprietor of a dancing pavilion
at New London refused -to allow the
bluejackets to dance on the floor of
his pavilion, and because of this Com
mander Benson asked that he be
ordered to leave New London with his
vessels.
FIGHT ON LILY WHITES
Texas Negroes Will Seek Favors
' From Democrats at Denver.
WACO, Tex., July 6 Prominent negroes
of this section are said to be preparing to
take decided action showing their disap
proval of what Is known as the Lily
White wing, of the Republican party in
Texas, comprising white Republicans and
such negroes as-work, harmoniously with
them. Opponents' of the Lily Whites say
'they will go to Denver prepared to agree
to vote for the Democratic nominees for
National offices provided they are treated
right.
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OIHOM.A. - TAGGWRTXtlOiaAJS 1-1. iiU-HTER
Antis Abandon Hope of
: Defeating Him.
NEW YORK REMAINS ON FENCE
Murphy's Silence Takes Heart
Out of Opposition.
GUFFEY WINS IN CAUCUS
Contests Decided Against McCarreri
in Favor of Sullivan and John
son Parker Pulls Sting Out
of Cleveland Resolution.
EVENTS OF DAT AT DENVER.
Nomination of Bryan assured.
New York refusing to declare her
self, antls abandon fight on Bryan.
Guffey re-elected National commit
teeman from Pennsylvania and op
ponent bolt.
New York delegation appoints com
mittee to draft platform.
National committee seats Sullivan
delegates from Chicago, Tarmmany
del'dgate from Brooklyn, Johnson and
two antl-Johnson delegates from Oh low
Bitter contests from Pennsylvania
and Brooklyn.
Theodore A. Bell, temporary chair
man, delayed by washouts at Lin
coln. Illinois re-elect Sullivan National
committeeman against Bryan's wishes.
Bryan explains injunction plank
he favors.
Platform committee to telephone
planks to Bryan for approval.
Contest for Vice-President still In
doubt.
Anti-Bryan men meet in secret and
cling to last hope of victory.,
Wellman says convention will be .
ratification meeting and Brya-n will
take revenge on enemies.
DENVER. July 6. Above the hubbub
of this '.last strenuous day before the
Democratic National Convention the main
developments stand out prominently.
The wave of Bryan sentiment has in
creased to apparently overwhelming and
Irresistible proportions and the nomina
tion of the Nebraskan seems now assured
beyond any reasonable doubt unless some
unlooked-for reversal of the present con
ditions occur."
All efforts to unite on a Vice-Presidential
candidate have proved futile and
the convention will begin its delibera
tions tomorrow with the contest for sec
ond place wide open.
A majority of the Pennsylvania dele
gation in caucus named Colonel James M.
Guffey as National committeeman in
open defiance of Mr. Bryan's demand
for his displacement and on the heels of
Mr. Guffey's stinging public arraignment
of Mr. Bryan as a "hypocrite, ingrate
and falsifier."
A minority of the Pennsylvania delega
tion held a rump caucus, which sought to
depose Mr. Guffey from leadership and
install James Kerr, a Bryan man, as
Pennsylvania's leader.
Xew York Shows No Preference.
The New Tork delegation appointed a
committee of 10 to draft a platform and
named Judge Alton B. Parker, the Demo
cratic standard-bearer of 1904, as the
New York representative on the plat
form committee.
The New York caucus was silent on the
Presidential and the Vice -Presidential
situation and New York still fails to show
her preference.
The Democratic National committee
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SNAPSHOTS OF
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Number of Dead Breaks Second Day
Record for Many Years List ... .
Expected to Grow.
CHICAGO, July 6. (Special.) Ninety
four dead and 2920 injured are the totals
of the Fourth of July casualties In the
United States . this year, so far as .re
ported. In Chicago, in spite of all efforts
for a sane celebration, the toll exacted
was more disastrous than a year ago.
The cltyls .total of victims of last Satur
day's tragedies is 10 dead and 1S2 injured
an increase of three fatalities and 52 per
sons injured over the 1907 figures.
In ' the United States, as a whole," the
number of dead breaks the second day
record for. many years past, while the
list of injured ' is little smaller than a
year. ago. Ravages of lockjaw and blood
poisoning will, it is feared, add new vic
tims day by day to the list of fatalities.
KILLS FORMER HUSBAND
Jealous Kansas Woman Also Shoots
at His Fiancee.
IOLA, Kan., July . Mrs. Arlie M.
Heaton early today went to a restaurant
here conrtucted by her divorced husband,
Clint M. Heaton, and shot and killed him.
She then snapped her revolver twice at
Mrs. Ella Gill, to whom Heaton was said
to have been engaged. When the revolver
failed to shoot the ftecond time. Mrs.
Heaton threw It at Mrs. Gill and fled.
Mrs. Gill fired two ineffectual shots at the
fleeing woman.
Mae Wood Pleads Not Guilty. .
NEW YORK, July ' 6. Mae C. Wood,
whose suit for divorce against Thomas C.
Piatt waa dismissed recently, pleaded
not guilty today to a charge of perjury
growing out of her testimony in the re
cent trial that she was married to Sen
ator Piatt. .
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 80
degrees; minimum, 50 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; westerly win 4s.
Democratic Convention.
TVave of Bryan enthusiasm grows at Den
ver, swollen by New York's indecision.
Page 1.
Subcommittee working on platform, subject
to Bryan's approval. Page 1.
Pennsylvania delegation re-elects Guffey and
bolt results. Page ft.
Temporary Chairman Bell escapes flood at
- Lincoln to reach Denver In time. Page 7.
Part Oregon will take in convention. Page 6.
--- - -Foreign.
British Minister at Teheran again calls
down Shah. Page 2.
. National.
Fleet assembles at San Francisco to sail
around world. Page 4.
Politics.
Preston accepts Socialist Labor nomination
from his prison cell. Page 2. .
Domestic.
Religious fanatics from -North Dakota In
vade Canada and defy police.- Page 1.
Peary sails for North Pole. Page 2.
Ruef released on $1,560,000 bail. Page 1.
Leader of New York Black Hand captured.
Page 2.
One link of evidence against Gels falls.
Page 4
Pacific Coast.
Judge Bean sees object Hsson in East for
preservation of forests. Page 5.
Salem cannery demands three-year contract;
cherry growers object. Page fi. -City
of tents on Chautauqua grounds at
Gladstone Park. Page 5
Commercial and Marine.
New hop contracts taken at 10 cents.
Page
All American and European wheat markets
advance. Page 15.
Stock market again becomes animated
Page 15.
Steamship Alliance offered for sale by San
Francisco brokers. Page 14.
Portland and Vicinity.
Judge Van Zante, new municipal magistrate.
terror to old offenders. - Page 10.
Mayor Lane vetoes two ordinance". Page 16
Railroad rate case argued In Federal Court.
Page 16.
New city and county officers take oath and
assume duties. Page 10.
Plan of City Engineer for improvement of
Vista avenue approved. Page ft.
Transportation for crowds at Livestock Show
arranged. Page 14.
New system installed in all District Land
Offices of country. Page 10.
SOME PROMINENT FIGURES AT DENVER
mFS.HETUJXQSJS CLUB.
Platform Js Otherwise
Easy to Build.
BRYAN OFFERS SUGGESTIONS
Meets Objections to Requiring
- Notice of Writs.
WILL APPROVE EACH PLANK
Subcommittee Will Telephone Work
to Him Tentative Tariff Flank
Offered Brown Takes
Suggestions to Denver.
DENVER, July 6. Evidences are
multiplying that practically the only
difficult plank to prepare for the
Democratic platform will be that re
lating to the use of Injunctions in in
dustrial disputes. Mr. Bryan has let it
be known through a number of reliable
sources that his position on this plank
is not rigid. Perhaps the most impor
tant conference with reference to the
Injunction plank was that held at Fair
view, Mr. Bryan's' home, during the
dinner given by the Xebraskan to a
number of prominent Democrats on
July 4.
At this dinner Mr. Bryan stated clear
ly that he realized that there might
arise situations where the issuance of
an Injunction without notice to those
enjoined would be the only remedy
against loss of life or irreparable dam
age to property. To meet such cases
Mr. Bryan further Indicated that, if
the resolutions committee could draw
a plank which would provide for such
emergencies, with the safeguard that
this class of injunctions should be self
dissolving after a period of three or
five days, the plank would meet his
approval.
Phone Planks to - Bryan. '
Work on the platform continued today
through the medium of an informal sub
committee consisting of Governor Hask
ell, who is to be chairman of the resolu
tions committee, and a number of promi
nent members of the party who will have
places on that committee. The product
of this work will be laid before a large
sub-committee of the resolutions commit
tee, when the latter is officially ap
pointed by the convention. The plan
contemplates telephoning each plank to
Mr. Bryan. at Lincoln, as soon as it is
agreed upon by the sub-committee. In
this manner it will be , possible for the
sub-committee to present to the full reso
lutions committee a perfected platform
which already has received the stamp of
approval of the prospective candidate.
So far there has developed no intima
tion of hostility to Mr. Bryan's wishes
with reference to the platform. One of
these wishes is understood to be that the
platform be the product of the resolu
tions committee, guided, of course, in its
drafting, by frequent conferences with
Fairview.
Planks oh Many Topics.
Planks of many varieties were sub
mitted to Mr. Haskell and by him to
his ' conferring colleagues today. One
of these was an irrigation plank, sub
mitted by Judge King, of Utah, which
pledges the party to conservation of
the irrigable lands in the West for
persons desiring to make permanent
homes as against allowing this terri
tory to become the property of corpor-
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Amused Over Report Robert War-v.-ick
Has Become Entangled In
Mannering-Hackett Embroglio. '
CHICAGO, July 6. (Special.) Mrs.
Arline Peck-Bien, daughter of Ferd W.
Peck, Sr., today confessed herself
"embarrassed, but amused" by the re
port that her husband, Robert War
wick, the actor, is at all likely to enter
into the domestic imbroglio, of Mary
Mannerlng and James K. Hackett,
whom she has sued for a divorce.
Warwick, who is playing with . a
stock company at the Orpheum in Den-
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Mary Mannerlng, Whose Report
ed Intention to Marry Robert
Warwick Is Denied by Mrs.
Warwick.
ver, was not at all amused by the
rumor; stoutly branded it as false, and
became exceedingly worried over what
his wife might say. .
Mrs. Bien was at her father's home
with her five,-year-old daughter. "Mrs.
Hackett and I are on the very best of
terms," she said. "She is a very dear
friend to both Mr. Warwick and my
self. He lias been her leading man
and we have all been much thrown to
gether on occasions. This Is Just a
theatrical lumor perhaps one of the
kind that Is started by an ill-advised
press agent to secure some notoriety."
DAY'S HARVEST OF DEATH
Many Fatalities in Chicago Due to
Heat and Excitement.
CHICAGO, July 6. (Special.) This
was the busiest day of the year for
trie Coroner's office and the patrol
service of the police department. Seven
sudden deaths, five . suicides, two as
phyxlations, three accidents and one
killing in the last 24 hours kept the
men in both these departments on the
jump.
The excitement and nervous strain
of the Fourth of July, combined with
the heat, is given by the Coroner's of
fice as the explanation for the large
number of suicides and sudden deaths.
DYING; REFUSES DOCTOR
Kittitas Miser Feared Attendance ot
Physician Would Cost Money.
ELLiENSBURG, Wash., July -(Special.)
Refusing the services of a physi
cian, Phillip Schueller, an- old resident
of Kittitas Valley, died alone last night
at his home on the outskirts of the city
where he lived as a bachelor. The aged
man waa of. miserly habits and fearing
that attendance would, cost him some of
his money,-he lived In solitude.
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Bail Bond of $1,560,
OOOTs Approved.
PRISONER SEVENTEEN MONTHS
Father and Sister Sign Obliga
tion as Sureties.
HOLD PROPERTY IN TRUST
Signatures Represent Real Estate
Valued at $1,095,556 Deeded
to Them by Ex-Boss Since '
His Troubles Began. .
SAN FRANCISCO. July 6. Abraham I
Ruef was released from the County Jail ;
tonight on bonds aggregating Jl.560,000,
the largest -amount ever given in a crlmi- i
nal case in this state. This sum is the
aggregate ball upon 78 Indictments, re
turned by the Oliver gland Jury, charging !
Ruef with bribing the former Board of
Supervisors in connection with the grant
ing of franchises to publio service cor
porations and upon which he was taken
In custody by the prosecution aa a sort
of prisoner- of state," in charge of an '
elisor appointed by Judge ""rank H. '
Dunne and a half a dozen private guards
at an expense of about (1000 a month.
In Jail Seven Months.
Since January 10, when the new admin
istration went into office, Ruef has been
languishing in the County Jail.
Twenty sureties, including Ruef's father
and sister, and himself, signed the bonds.
It developed today during the examina
tion of his sureties before Superior Judge
Frank Murasky, that Ruef owned real
estate in this city which he recently
transferred to his father and sister, upon
which a real estate expert, on the wit
ness stand, placed a value of $1,095,556.
Ruef's Princely Income.
Ruef's annual income from this prop
erty was JT6.900. His father and sister
went his bonds to the amount of $690,000,
while other sureties qualified for $870,000
Of the latter, Joseph Hirsch and Leopold
Hirsch signed five bonds for J20.000 each.
Louis Friedman six bonds of J20.000 each
and a surety company deposited a certi
fied check for J100.000, equivalent to $200,
000 in bonds.
Next Trial July 15.
Ruef's next trial has been set for July
15 on one of the Indictments charging him
with bribery in connection with the grant
ing of a trolley franchise to the United
Railroads. Although he has been in
custody for 16 months, he has been tried
but once the Jury disagreeing after being
out 44 hours.
Eats a Home Dinner.
After leaving court Ruef went to the
home of his parents to Join them at din
ner, and announced that later he would
visit the county Jail to bid farewell to
the prisoners and thank them for cour
tesies shown him; also to repeat to them
assurances of his intention to look after
their welfare in the matter of better
prison accommodations.
Slap at the Courts.
"My time will be occupied with the
work of preparing my defense," re
marked Ruef. "I am glad to acknowl
edge the fairness and courtesy of Judge
Murasky, which are in decided contrast
to the methods and attitude of the de
partment from which the matter of bonds
was transferred. Had these bonds been
presented to Judge Murasky or any
other, judge than the one to whom under
the law they were required to be pre
sented, they would have been approved
not later than June 30."
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