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Newspaper Page TextPORTLAND. OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ASK CONFERENCE ON HIGHER RATES SENDS HER SOUL TO JOIN LOVER'S GOLD WATER MEN CHOOSE TICKET INSURE BUSINESS AGAINST BRYAN EDITORS ATTACK DIRECT PRIMARY MAKING IT EASY TO GET DIVORCE BLOWS BODIES TO BITS PRETTY STUDENT OF OCCULT KILLS HERSELF IN CHICAGO. FINANCIERS: TAKE POLICIES TO GUARD FROM LOSS. LAWYERS FIX TERMS, WTTH DECREE, AND SELECT JUDGE. VOL. XL.VIII. SO. 14,862. POWDER Shippers Protest at Road's Policy. SHOULD RATHER REDUCE WAGES Demand to Be Consulted Be fore Advance Made. SLY ACTION OF RAILROADS Will Increase Rates Gradually, so Shippers Will Hardly Notlo It. Advances Already Made on Many Commodities. CHICAGO, July 16. (Special.) The Na tional committee . which was appointed through the Instrumentality of the Illi nois Manufacturers' Association to take care of the shippers' interests In the proposed advance In freight rates will ask the roads for a conference before the rates are put In. President Fred W. Upham said today: "We most emphatically protest against an advance In freight rates without any consultation with the shippers." Replying to the question as to whether or not the position of the railroads was well understood, Mr. Upham said that W. C. Brown, senior vice-president of the New York Central, has said a good deal and had much printed to the effect that rates must go up or wages come down, if the roads were to survive. Should Cat Wages Instead. Mr. Upham wishes the roads to explain how they are paying big dividends if they are in such pitiful straits. He agrees with Mr.i Brown, however, that wages might better be cut than to put additional taxa tion in the way of tariffs upon the ship pers and calls attention to the fact that all roads are paying top notch prices for labor. He says that the roads were forced to Increase their payrolls more than 1100,000.000 a year ago, when traffic was at Its Best. Other lines of labor have accepted the general situation and a de crease In wages and he holds the rail road men might do the same. Advance by Kasy Stages. There is abundant evidence, the Na tional Trade League says, that the rail roads plan to put in Increases In freight rates ell over the country, but to do it so gradually and by such easy stages that the shippers will not realize that Increases have in reality become effective. Al though many advances have already been made and the schedules filed, many ship pers are scarcely aware that the move ment toward a general advance In freights la well advanced. At the conclusion of today's confer ence! the following statement was issued by C C. McCain, commissioner of the Trunk Line Commission: "The question of advance of freight rates was discussed at length and re ports from the committees having in charge the detail work of checking rates were considered. It was found that this work had not progressed to such a point as to make definite aotlon practicable at this time." RAILROAD PRESIDENTS MEET Discuss Increase tn Rates or Reduc tion In Wages. NEW YORK. July 16. The presidents of Baetem trunk lines met today to dis cuss the question whether there shall b an Increase in freight rates. It is under stood that the conference discussed rais ing freight rates 10 per cent or the altex natlva of reducing wages 10 per cent. AIjARM CAUSED IX JAPAN Merchants Fear American Railroads Will Quit Oriental Trade. CHICAGO. July 1. (Special.) Business Interests of Japan are thoroughly alarmed over the prospects of the western rail roads being- compelled to go out of the Asiatic export and Import trade on ac count of the recent decision of the Inter state Commerce Commission. K. Matsu bara, the new Japanese Consul at Chi cago, received a cablegram from the Japan Trades Association today, asking him to see if something couldn't be done to prevent such a catastrophe. It appears that the commission, some time ago. ruled that the western roads must publish the land or rail portions of their export trade tariffs. Railroads say they cannot do this and compete with the Sues route, where rates can be changed on an hour's notice. By keeping the land figures secret, the railroads have been able to do a fair share of this business. The revenue it brings them probably aggre gates U, 000,000 annually. A large proportion of the exports are taken from eastern territory, near tide water, and transported across the conti nent to ships at a very low rate. MAKY DECISIONS ON RATES Commission Holds Servant May Have Pass Rules About Routing. WASHINGTON. July ls.That a household -servant,' when traveling with a member of a family entitled to a pass, is lawfully Included within the (Ovnclua ea Pag !.) East Indian Girl Stenographer Fol lows Example of Man She Loved. CHICAGO, July (Special.) Miss Lil lian Beatrix Watkins, a pretty East In dian stenographer, formerly a co-ed at the University of Chicago, a world-wide traveler, a spiritualist and a member of the Theosophistical Society of Aydar, Madras, India, shot and killed herself early today because of love for Thomas Kennedy. Kennedy committed suicide by shooting himself a month ago in Jackson Park after he had been married only three weeks. "Why should I linger on earth in the flesh," Miss Watkins declared a few hours before she killed herself. "My spirit cries out to be mated with that of Thomas." The young woman had studied at the University of Chicago, In California and abroad. She belonged to many societies In Chicago, where the occult predominates, and to several European, and Oriental so cieties for the study of the occult. SURE, GREEK KNOWS -ALL Langdon Believes Claudianes Knows All About Dynamiting. SAN FRANCISCO. July 16. District Attorney Langdon late last night made the following statement regarding the case of John Claudianes, who is being held for the 'dynamiting of the home of former Supervisor James L. Gallagher, one of the principal witnesses against Ruef and others in the graft cases: "Beyond a doubt we have in John Claudianes the nan who knows all about the dynamiting of James L. Gallagher's home in Oakland. I make th3 statement without reservation, and with an Intimate knowledge of all the facts. I make it unequivocally, as the result of my In vestigation today. What we want to do now Is to get Peter Claudianes. What we have learned will be made public later. I have no hesitancy in announcing now, though, that in John Claudianes we have the right, man." . , , QUESTION GOMPERS' ACTS Detroit Labor Federation Objects to Alliance With Bryan. DETROIT, Mich.. July 16. (Special.) Samuel Prince, of Isew York, an or ganizer for the American Federation of Labor, stirred up an agitation in the local body that resulted in an official protest being sent the National body against Samuel Gompers' ' proposal to take the Federation Into' the Demo cratic camp .this year. Prince made a speech before the local organization exhorting the members to stand by the Gompers" programme. He created an uproar of objections. The result of the agitation was the adoption of a resolution directing an inquiry of the National officers as to what the Gompers" programme embraced, and by what authority it had been entered upon. SUDDEN CRAZE FOR BLOOD Insane Patient Murders Another and Battles With Guards. PITTSBURG. July 16 Suddenly seized witn a mania to kill. George Tuzel. an Inmate of the Insane depart ment of the Alleghany City Home, at Claremont, near here, yesterday mur dered Harry Speiler, also an inmate, and injured two guards, who fought a des perate battle wtth the lunatic before overpowering him. The affair did not become public until today. He was committed to the Insane de partment eight months ago and was one of the most peaceful of the charges. QUAKE IN SOUTH AMERICA Shakes Chile, Peru and Bolivia. Causes Much Destruction. TACNA. Chile. July 1. A terrific earthquake occurred today in the pro vinces of Tacna and Arica. in Chile, the southern part of Peru and Bolivia. Con siderable destruction of property but no loss of life Is reported. The cable be tween Arica and Lima has been broken and the telegraph linea to Bolivia are damaged. ij. B. Bent, of Everett Herald, f President Washington State t Press Association. 2 Chafin and Watkins Will Carry Banner. THREE BALLOTS ON PRESIDENT Convention Gets Tangled on Second Nomination. PALMORE DECLINES HONOR Nominated by Acclamation, He Per sists In Refusal Watkins Chosen After Much Confusion Plat form Shortest on Record. COLUMBUS, O., July 16. For President, Eugene W. Chafin. of Chicago.' , . For Vice-President, Aaron S. Watkins, of Ada, Ohio. The above ticket was nominated today by the Prohibitionist National Convention, both men being chosen unanimously. The full indorsement of the convention was not, however, given to Mr. Chafin until after three ballots had been taken. On the first two ballots Mr. Chafin did not show a great deal of strength, re ceiving but 196 out of 10S3 votes on the first and 376 out of 1087 on the second ballot. His nomination was practically assured, however, when the rollcall began for the third ballot. His own state, which had voted largely for Daniel R. Sheen, of Peoria, 111., and the New York delegation, followed by those of Indiana and Wiscon sin, came over to Mr. Chafin and on the third ballot he received a total of 636 votes. The strongest competitor of Mr. Chafln was Rev. William B. Palmore, of St. Louis, who received 274 votes on the first ballot and 41S on the second ballot, and a comparatively small vote after it was evident that the nomination of Mr. Chafin could not be prevented. Tangle Over Vice-Presidency. . The convention up to this time had run smoothly and without the slightest fric tion. It was decided to make Mr. Palmore the Vice-Presidential nominee and he waa named by acclamation. He declined to accept the nomination, however, and persisted in his attitude despite the strong urglngs of his friends. . The convention, finding itself confronted with the necessity of naming another Vice-Presidential candidate and many of the delegates, being anxious to catch the early night trains for their homes, became involved in a deep, parliamentary tangle. The rules were several times suspended and the suspensions' Immediately revoked. Finally it waa decided that Professor Aaron S. Watkins. of Ada, Ohio, should be named by acclamation. There was no opposition to him at the moment, and Chairman Charles Scanlon was on the verge of declaring Professor Watkins the nominee when delegates in various parts, of. the hall brokle. Jo. with a flood of motions, counter-motions, amendments and suspensions .of the rules. (Concluded on Page 13.) OUR GEORGE "I HOPE BffllSMBORS Pay Ten Per Cent to Cover Expected Smash In Stocks In Case of His "Election. NEW YORK. ' July 16. (Special:) Lloyds the London underwriting firm, has accepted a number of risks during the last few days. The firm has been writing policies on the election of William J. Bryan. It has placed over $500,000 worth in Wall street district since Tuesday. The rate is 10 per cent. - J The policies have been taken out mainly by brokers and financiers . who are long on the market and who were anxious to hedge against a smash in stocks in the event of Mr. Bryan's election. In' other words, at the 10 per cent rate the policy holder has bet, say, J1O.O0O against $100,000 that Mr. Bryan will be elected. The only difference Is that, in either event, Lloyds keep the $10,000, thus making the odds against Bryan 9 to 1. Bortschmann & Maloy, Insurance brok ers, said today they did a business of $445, 000 In one day and have applications for $1,000,000 more, for which they were await ing Lloyds' confirmation. . GUARD BULL RUN RESERVE Government Appoints Three Rangers Whom City Will Pay. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 16. R. R. Lewis, F. C. Hacheney and G. B. Teneyck have been appointed forest guards on the Oregon National forest. These men , will be paid by the City of Portland, In accord ance with a plan for co-operation with the Forestry Service, by which the ter ritory which supplies Portland with its water for municipal purposes Is pro tected from damage by fire. ' The territory to be protected by these men was formerly Included In the Bull Run reserve, but is now a part of the Oregon National forest. APPROVES STOCK INCREASE Interior Department Ratifies Action ' . of Umatilla Water Users. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington," July 1. The Secretary of the Interior has approved an Increase of stock in the Umatilla Water-Users' As sociation from $000 to 22,000 shares. The association, made up of landowners under the Umatilla irrigation- project, was organized with a capital stock of $640,000, divided Into 000 shares of a par value of $60 each. The project has since been extended to include a total of 22,000 acre's, and In order that there may be one share of stock for each acre of land, it has been-necessary to increase the stock to $1,320,000, divid ed Into 22,000 shares, of a par value of $60 each. STRIKING MINERS BOY GUNS War Threatened in Alabama -Priest Strives for Peace. 1 BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 16. Father H. E. O'Grady, a priest of St. Catherine's Catholic Church, is heading a committee which will make an effort to bring about a settlement of the coal mln.-rs' strike. It Is reported that every hardware store and gunstore In Birmingham has depleted its stock of firearms, and that buckshot shells are being ordered by telegraph. Last night several strikebreakers were brought to the district from adjoining states. NO ONE THINKS BROTHER KERN ISN'T ONTO HIS JOB i e y.vs w rrnn hi t Want Right to Print Po litical Ads. CONVENTION IN VANCOUVER Washington Press Association in Annual Session. OFFICE SEEKERS ATTEND Fraternize With Publishers Who Declare Some Certain Sections of Primary Law Insult to the Honesty of Press.- VANv-OUVER, Wash.. July 16. (Spe cial.) Law-making, or rather law-unmaking, will mingle prominently in the deliberations of the Washington, State Press Association, which met in its 22d annual sesslbn in this city today. An attack upon certain sections of the direct primary laws of this state was made today by the introduction of a reso lution to change those sections of the primary laws which prohibit newspaper publishers from accepting political adver tising. An interesting row Is expected as a result "of the introduction of the . reso lution. " orfice Seekers Early on Hand. Politics and the subtle art of glad-handing were also Injected into the meeting, for a dofcen or more of Washington's most prominent office-seekers arrived to day and are laying siege, as it were, to the citadel of editorial favor. Candi dates' for both state and county offices are included in the list of . visiting pol iticians. A. A. Smith, publisher of the Port An geles Tribune-Times, is the author of the resolution Introduced today, which. It is said. Is the beginning of a vigorous attack upon the objectionable features' of the primary laws. Certain sections of the law are a reflection upon the intelli gence of the state, he said. He further characterizes them as an in sult to the sense of justice, fairness and honesty of the press of the state. As they stand upon the statute books, the publisher avers, they constitute f'a liter ary and legal abortion." The resolution, whioh was introduced during this after noon session, follows: By the Washington State Press As sociation, in annual convention, be It hereby resolved: First That as they now stand on the statute books, the so-called news paper section of the primary election law, viz.. portions of section 28 and all of section 29, constitute a literary and legal- abortion, being confusing, conflicting, contradictory, unintelligi ble and incapable of practical con struction or enforcement. Second That they, do no credit to the law-making ability and intelli gence of the state. . Third That they are an Insult to the sense of justices, fairness and hon esty of the press of the state. Fourth That they be repealed and (Concluded on Page T.) . . . . . .1 How Two People Correct Cupid's Blunder Under Laws of State of Washington. SEATTLE, Wash., July 16. (Special.) All the papers in the divorce case of C. H. Gray against Marlon A. Gray were filed today and the case is regarded as an unfavorable commentary on the di vorce laws of Washington. The matter had all been settled before hand. The husband and wife agreed mu tually that they could not live longer to gether. William Parmelee, counsel for Gray, and G. A. C. Rochester, for Mrs. Gray, agreed on the alimony, and wrote the terms of the decree and agreed upon Fred H. Lysons as special trial judge to try the case. Lysons was so appointed by Superior Judge A. E. Griffin. Lysons then took his oath of office before Parmelee, Gray's counsel. It was even stipulated that Mrs. Gray, at her discretion, might re sume her maiden name.' Incompatibility was the ground alleged and Special Judge Lysons said that the loose stat utes compelled him to grant the decree. COMPLETES FIRST DRAFT Ta ft Makes Progress With Speech and Plays Golf. HOT SPRINGS. Va July 16.-W11-Ham H. Taft is feeling very comfort able tonight over the fact that the first draft of his speech of accepance of the nomination for the Presidency by the Republican party has been fin ished. But the paper is far from be ing completed. The dictation yester aay and today amounted to 10.J00 words. This will De reduced to as near S500 as possible. Mr. Taft completed his task this afternoon and then went out to play golf with George Ingalls. Mr. Taft declared that he could not undertake to give any intimation of what his " speech in its present form contained, because great changes may be made in the paper before it goes to the printer. Arthur I. Vorys talked with Mr. Taft briefly today, but will defer any fur ther extended conference on the Ohio situation until the candidate has prac tically disposed of the work before him. . When questioned today as to the possibility of keeping the Senatorial and Presidential contests separate In Ohio, Mr. Vorys merely replied with another question r "Hasn't it been done up to this time?" FENTON WILLJNTER YALE Portland Football Star Not to' Re turn to Stanford. SAN FRANCISCO, July 16. (Special.) According to Bull Chalmers, who has Just returned from a visit to Portland, Kenneth Fenton, for four years a mem ber of the football team at Stanford, and twice one of the victorious foot ball team of the Cardinals, will enter Yale in September, Instead of returning to the California institution. . . Fenton waa involved in the contro versy with the faculty last Spring, and was later notified by the college au thorities that he would not be allowed to enter any of the classes. For that reason, his father has agreed to send him to the Eastern institution. Relatives of Kenneth Fenton In this city last night confirmed the report that he would enter Yale next Fall. Fenton Is now at the beach with his parents, and a direct confirmation of the story could not be secured. His many friends in Portland will congratulate him on his plan, and look for him to make as good a record In athletics there as he did at Stanford. Fenton will give Yale another good Oregon athlete. A. C. . Gilbert, of Yale, the champion pole-vaulter of the world, is also a Portland boy. EXPLOSION KILLS THREE Curiosity Boston Customs Officers Proves Fatal. BOSTON, July 16. Two Gbvernment cus toms inspectors and a wharf watchman were killed and two longshoremen and two clerks Injured in the explosion today of a box containing detonating caps in an inspection locker in a shed on Pier 47, Mystic Wharf. The dead: Z. H. Nlckerson, Lynn, Mass., assistant examiner. Charles F. Atwood, Quincy, Mass., In spector. Thomas Mason.' East Boston, watchman. The box containing the caps was landed this afternoon from the Hamburg-American line steamship Bethany, and taken into the compartment or locker of the pier for inspection. Nlckerson began to open the box with an ax when there came a muffled report. Nlckerson and Mason were ' hurled against the side of the shed and Instantly killed. Atwood was picked up uncon scious. He barely lived to reach a hos pital. RUNNERS AHEAD OF TIME Tf. M. C. A. Boy Passes Rome, N. ., With Hours to Spare. UTICA, N. Y.. July 16. The relay message from New York to Chicago ar rived here at 1:46 this afternoon, two hours ahead of schedule time, and was sent westward by the runners -without a moment's delay. Representative James S. Sherman, the Vice-Presidential candidate, passed the message from the runner who brought it to the one In waiting. ROME. N. Y.. July IS. In tha New York-Chicago relay race. Raymond Bruenoer, the runner from Utlca bear ing the message, reached here at 3:30 this afternoon, three and one-half hours ahead of schedule time. ' ' . . Telegrapher Kills Himself. HOUSTON, Tex., July 1C. John C. Witt, for more than IB years manager of the Postal Telegraph Company In this city, shot himself dead early today. Ha had been In ill-health for several years. Magazine Explodes Near Cle Alum Wash. NINE DEAD; MORE MAY DIE Pieces of Human Bodies Found Half Mile From Scene. CAUSE REMAINS MYSTERY Two Carloads of Powder Explode With Terrific . Force Shaking Every Building In Town. " Some Bodies Not Found. TACOMA, July 16. A special to the Ledger from Cle Elum, Wash., says: ' ' An explosion in the powder maga zine of the Northwestern Improvement Company, near here, at 5 o'clock this afternoon killed at least nine persons and seriously injured a number of others. The killed: Those Who Met Death. . George Mead, manager Northwestern Improvemetn Company store, i ' Gilford McDonald, clerk In store. Andy Grill, clerk in store. Mrs. Peter Moffatt, wife of brick maker. ' Infant child of Moffatt. . . ' Joe Rossi, miner. Joe Pogrlappl, miner. Two miners, names unknown. List of Injured. The injured: Michael Evans, electrician, struk on head, by flying pick, probably will die; Mike Zuall, laborer, seriously Injured: Mrs. Robert Simpson, injured in wreck of home, probably will live; second lit tle daughter of Mrs. Moffatt, seriously hurt. Cause of -Accident-Mystery. Shortly before 5 o'clock Manager Mead and the clerks from the store went to the powder house to assist in unloading a carload of powder. How the accident happened Is not known. - The magazine Is three-quarters of a mile from the center of the town and the explosion shook the town like an earthquake. Windows for a mile around were shattered and rocks and brick from the powder house were thrown hundreds of feet. 0 Mrs. Peter Moffatt, wife of a brick maker, was living in a tent near the mag azine with her two children. The tent (Concluded on Pose 10.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northwest to northeast winds. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 70.4 degrees; minimum temperature, oS degree. Foreign Wholesale exposure of grafting In Portugal. Page 4. Count Bonl begins suit for custody of chil dren. Page 4. Prince zu Eulenherg testifies In his own defense. Page 4. Politics, Prohibitionists nominate Chafin and Wat- klne. Page 1. Financiers take insurance against Bryan's election. Page 1. Bryan dodges- Brownsville tseue. Page 7. Kern will angle for conservative vote. Page 7. National. . . Fleet arrives at Honolulu and Is given en thuelastlc welcome. Page 13. Domestic. Supreme Lodge of Workmen accused of mis approprlatlns gl.OOO.000 of funds. Page 4. Shippers protest against advance In freight rates. Page 1. Theoeophlst girl commits suicide to follow suicide lover to eternity. Page 1. . Sport Americans win two big events in Olympic games. Page 13. Ban Francisco defeats Oakland. ' Page- 10 Portland shuts out Los Angeles, 3 to 0. Page 10. Visiting players prove masters of Portland experts In tennis tournament. Page 10. W. E. Skinner discusses Oregon's advantage as livestock state. Page 16. Pacific Coast. ' Leading Gubernatorial candidates In Wash ington bring out dummy candidates to split second choice vote. Page 6. Washington editors In session at Vancouver demand amendment to direct primary law. Page 1. Powder magazine explodes at Cle Elum, killing nine and Injuring many more. Page 1. Cherry fair opens at Salem with exhibit that Is world beater. Page . Commercial and Marine. Bulk of wools In Western Oregon In dealers ban da Page 17. Bulge In Eastern wheat markets. Page IT. Irregular price movement In stocks. Page IT. Cop tains Spencer and MeCuIly arrested for exceeding the speed, limit In the harbor. Page 1. Portland and Vtcmlty. Three Jurors are accepted in Booth con splracy trial. Page 12. City Attomer discovers defect In district car company asks franchise. Page 11. Steel all In place on Willamette-River bridge of North-Bank Road. Page 11. Fred Hamilton will probably escape penalty for jewelry robberies. Page 12. City' Attorney discusses defect in district Improvement amendment Page 0. Volley of oaths proves costly In PoMca ' Court. Page -Evangelical denomtnattone wilt held joint conference. Page 12. Church of the Brethren open three-day conference teday. Page 11.