( OL P! MAi VOL. XL VIII VO. 14,865. PORTLAND. OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CONVICT VISITS DYING MOTHER EVERY WESTERN STATE FOR TAFT MRS.CARTER TELLS TALE OF FAILURE FIND MARE'STNEST " TO SCARE BRYAN WARNER PAYS HIS FATHER'S WIDOW TAFTRATIF1GATI0N CROWDS THEATER WITH CONTEMPT GOVERNOR CHAMBERLAIN"- SUS PENDS STATE PRISON RULES. STARTED ON TOUR WITH NOTH ING BUT RAILROAD FARE. GIVES $190,000 OX ACCOCXT OF $250,000 JUDGMENT. GOMPERS CHARGED Federation Officials Cited to Appear. MITCHELL AND MORRISON, TOO Alleged to Have Violated Buck Stove Company Injunction. BOYCOTT NOT ABANDONED St. Louis Corporation Files Sensa tional Petition In District Su preme Court Accusing Labor Leaders of Disobeying Writ. WASHINGTON. July 20. In the Buck Stove & Range Company's case. Justice Sanderson, of the District Su preme Court, today summoned Samuel Gompers, president of 'the American Federation of Labor; Secretary Frank Morrison, of that organization, and John Mitchell, of the executive coun cil and ex-president of the United Mineworkers of America, to appear in court on September 8, to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of the courfs Injunction or der. Basis of the Action. The citation Is based on a petition of the Buck Stove & Range Company, of St. Louis, which alleges that an order- Issued by Justice Gould forbid ding a National boycott by the Ameri can Federation of Labor has been vio lated by the public utterances and ad dresses of the three labor leaders named. It also Is stated that Gompers caused to be published In the Federatlonlst, the official organ of the Federation, a certain article reflecting- on the court's decision, and in alleged open defiance printing the name of the Buck Stove & Range Company In the "We Don't Pat ronize" list. Gompers Defies Court. . Gompers Is said to have said to sev eral newspaper men: "So far as I am concerned, I wteh tp state this: When It comes to a choice between surrendering my rights as a free American citizen and violating the decision of the court, I do not hesitate to say that I shall exercise my rights as between the two." Other utterances are quoted, and It Ifl alleged Gompers and Morrison. In furtherance of an alleged plan to nul lify the court's order, have published, editorially and otherwise, offensive to the court's decision, the name of the Buck Range & Stove Company. References, it is claimed, were made to the decision for the purpose of keeping alive the boycott, as it existed before the order of the court, and were so framed as to affect the sale of the company's products. John Mitchell, at a meeting of the United Mlneworkers last January, put to a vote a resolution imposing a fine' of $5 on any member of that organization who purchased a stove or range of that company's make. The . resolution also provides for the expulsion of a. member in default of payment of the fine. ' BODY-BLOW FOR BOOSTERS Chicago School Census Falls Below Two Million Mark. CHICAGO. July 20. (Special.) Chicago's "Two Million" Club Is about to receive severe shock. The school census of Chi cago, which has been under way for sev eral months. Is now practically com pleted, &n,d the count does not reach the two million mark. The exact result will be announced the last of the week and will be about 1,50,000. The general school census four yeans ago showed a population of 1.714,144. Sup erintendent Monroe says that the gain has been about 50.000 people a year. "There are two thingn which people are always Inclined to exaggerate," said Mr. Monroe. "One Is the population of the city they live in and the other the amount of money other people have There will be more encouraging news for the population boosters when the city directory figures are given out early nxt week. The count of directory names has been practically completed, and It is ad mitted that the result will show a de cided gain over last year. Using, the usual multiple, the directory people will show a population more than 800.000 in excess of the school figures. YOUNG TURKEY CONTROLS Entire Population at City of Monaa tlr Joins Movement. VIENNA. July 20. The Young Turkey faction, according to the Neu Freie Presse corespondent at Monastlr. Euro pean Turkey, has gained control of the entire third army corps and part of the second army corps. The revolutionary committee at Monastlr has assumed con trol and the authorities are powerless, al most the entire population having Joined rn the movement Erring Son Allowed One Hour to Bid Farewell to Aged Woman. SALES, Or., July 20. (Special.) A radi cal departure from the methods which are commonly believed to prevail In state prisons has been Inaugurated by Gov ernor Chamberlain, who today allowed a convict to go home to say farewell to his mother, who Is about to die. The name of the convict and that of his mother will not be made known. It seems that the woman Is very old, Is suffering from con sumption and that she can live but a John Mitchell, of the Executive Council, American Federation of Labor. Cited With President Gompers and Secretary Morri son on Contempt Charge. few days. She has been pleading for a chance to see her son before she dies and it was at her request that the Gov ernor let the prisoner go to his home in the custody of a guard. The convict will be permitted to talk with his mother one hour, then will be brought back. The favor was extended not to him but to his mother. This is not the first time this has been done, but Governor Chamberlain is the first executive who has allowed a prisoner to be taken outside the walls on such a mis sion. . About a year ago a woman whose son was a convict became ill and the doc tors declared that her death was a mat- ter of but a few days. In response to her appeals the Governor let her son go home. The yisit had such a favorable effect upon her that she began at once, to improve and soon recovered her health. TIE UP STEAMER OHIO Passengers Who Were Caught in Ice Sue at Nome. SEATTLE. Wash., July 0. (Spe cial.) Passengers who were on the steamship Ohio, which took 41 days to make the trip from Seattle to Nome, have sued the White Star Steamship Company, her owners, for $65,000. ac cording to a telegram received by Frank Waterhouse & Company, her agents. The vessel will be held at Nome until bonds are furnished for her release. The suits are the result of the long delay In the ice, which cost some of the passengers heavily .-. and caused a great deal, of indignation against Captain Conradt. The Ohio's passengers for the south left on the Northwestern. , ; Mr. Waterhouse said that the tickets sold the complaining passengers espe cially release the company from any liability for delays due to the- tee, and that his lawyers say the persons who bring the suit have no case. He ex pects to have the bonds to release the Ohio ready tomorrow. CIGARETTES ARE BARRED Superintendent of Nevada Mine Is sues Stringent Edict. RENO, Nev., July 20. Superintend ent Vanderhoeff, of the Copper Flat and Nevada Consolidated Mines, at Ely, has posted a notice that no man who expects to work for the concern will srooke cigarettes. This order applies to all men, whether living on or off the company's property. Miners applying for employment will be asked, the no tice reads, whether they smoke. Ap plicants are told not to seek the super intendent unless they do not. Vanderhoetf believes that his men can do more work if they do not use cigar ettes. EASTERNERSVISIT SEATTLE Prominent New York Officials Take In City After Seeing Denver. SEATTLE. Wash., July SO. (Special.) A party of prominent New Yorkers reached the city this morning from Yel lowstone Park, and today visited the Exposition grounds. Besides Mr. Whalen. whose home is at Rochester, the party In cludes James J. Hoey, member of the Assembly from the Thirteenth District; Attorney P. J. Walsh, secretary to Jus tice Newberg. of the State Supreme Court: James A. Foley. Assemblyman from Charles F. Murphy's district; Michael 8kelly, clerk of the Third District Court, and Richard J. C. Couch, a New York business man. The party attended the Denver conven tion and then came West. Mr. Whalen is considered a leader In the Democratic party of the state and his friends have started a movement to make him Gov- erno , . , " Leaders Give Hitch cock High Hope. BUT WANT VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN Men From Sixteen States Talk About Conditions. OKLAHOMA MAY BE WON After Some of Members Narrowly Escape Death In Auto Smash, Conference Lays Plans to Sweep Entire West. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 20. The first session of Republican leaders with Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock, of the National committee, opened at 2 P. M. today and continued until nearly 8 o'clock. During that time members of the National committee and the chair men of state central committees from 16 states and the territories addressed the assembly and explained state conditions. Tonight Mr. Hitchcock Is talking indi vidually with the leaders from the West ern states for the purpose of working out with still greater detail plans for opening and conducting the campaign. The greatest enthusiasm was displayed by all the participants In the conference. Narrow Escape In Auto. Because of the late arrival of some of the Western leaders, no effort was made to get together in the forenoon. In stead, those men who had already as sembled secured automobiles and made a tour of the Garden of the Gods and Manltou Springs. The machine carrying C. C. Bursum. chairman . of the New Mexico committee; W. E. Martin, a Re publican leader of that territory, and T. L. Weed, one f Mr. Hitchcock's clerks, stalled on a steep hill approaching the balanced rock, and through the' failure of the brake, suddenly started down hill backward. The chauffeur commanded his passengers to jump and they suc ceeded in clearing the car just as It reached the brink of a deep gully. The car turtled and was wrecked .on the rocks below, with the chauffeur, Thad deus Thomasewski. underneath. He was not seriously hurt. Two oars were closely following the wrecked machine. In one Mr. Hitchcock was riding and In the other was James T. Williams. Jr., of Washington, D. C, who la associated with Mr. Hitchcock. Through prompt action on the part of the drivers of these machines a collision was averted, but both cars and their occu pants were In danger of being carried over the brink. The portion of the road Where the accident occurred is danger ous for automobiles and most riders take detours to avoid It. At 2 o'clock the representatives of all the states and territories Invited by Mr. (Concluded on Page 3.) Actress Testifies to Load of Debt, No Assets and Claims Which She Cannot Collect. NEW YORK, July 20. lira Leslie Car ter, who was divorced some years ago and has since remarried, but who retains her first husband's name for the stage, testified today that she is now without funds, deeply in debt and that her last theatrical tour under her own manage ment was a financial falure. Her appearance before the United States Mm. Leslie Carter. Who Applies to Be Adjudged a Bankrupt, DecrariDK She Hai 9! o Money and Is Deeply in Debt. Commissioner was brought about by a summons compelling her to submit to examination in an effort to discover other assets than those given In the schedule which she, filed with a tuition in bankruptcy some time ago. Mrs. Carter said her financial troubles dated back prior to November, 1907, when for tf'&ecorid'flme she started out for a road tour under her own management. "We had little more than our railroad fares when we started out that time," said she. It had cost us a lot of money to get the scenery out of storage. The tour was not a. profitable one, in fact we had a loss." Mrs. Carter said she has a claim for $16,659 against Charles B. Dillingham, the theatrical manager, and also that there Is a sum of money due' her from David Belasco, under whose management she appeared In leading roles for many years. She said the claim against Belasco was of long standing. She left Belasco's man agement two years ago. Kills Wife and Himself . VICTOR. Colo., July 20. Charles Wll helm, long-time resident of the district, shot and killed his wife this afternoon and then turned the gun on hin.se u, blowing oft the top of his head. Domestic troubles are said to have been thecause. .J ' it 1 i - - i i Pr: "' "J 1 ' 1 I f V,SK- - -V i I t. - jA I f Aw s SOV " liH I . x ?y x- - - : if ' ' j I - 1 f-SH " .nK I If- " 't?I it- s it I ' - ' " VI t JUST ONE DAY'S DEADLY RECORD IN Eastern Democrats Criticise Platform. MISQUOTE INJUNCTION BILL Measure Passed by Senate Was as Bryan Thought. TALK WITH DRY LEADER Editor of Voice Says Many Prohibi tionists Will Support Xebraskan. Appeal to Democrats for Campaign Funds. FAIRVIEW. Lincoln, Neb.. July 20. Influential Eastern Democrats today noti fied Mr. Bryan that In their opinion the anti-Injunction plank, adopted at Denver, was hardly worth the paper it was writ ten on, the reason alleged by them be ing that the Tavid B. Hill bill passed by the Senate, which is specifically indorsed by the Democrats, simply carried out the common law provision, granting 'a jury trial in contempt cases "in the Jurisdic tion of the presiding Judge." The plank was drafted on the assumption that the HiU bill was paased only after it was amended by Senator Allen, of Nebraska, to make the trial by Jury mandatory at the demand of the defendant. While Mr. Bryan Is reasonably sure of his ground, the allegation that he and the majority of the- resolutions committee had been "tricked," caused him worry and he admitted that he was to have an Inquiry set on foot. ' Provisions of Hill B11L The Associated Press correspondent this afternoon relieved his suspense by explaining to him that advices from Washington showed that the HiU bill, as finally adopted by the United States Sen ate, in 1896. provided for the summary punishment by the court in direct con tempt cases, but ' makes it mandatory for the court to grant a trial by jury in all cases where such contempt was com mitted outside of the jurisdiction of the court and where such Jury trial was de manded by the accused. This was the Allen amendment, as Mr. Bryan remem bered It, and It cleared up what threat ened to become an awkward situation for the Democratic candidate. Effect of Prohibition Vote. The part that the prohibition question will play in the campaign was talked over between Mr. Bryan and Wiley B. Phillips, editor of the California Voice, of Los Angeles, who is returning from Columbus, O., where he was a Qelegate to the Na tional prohibition convention. "We agreed," said Mr. Phillips, "not to discuss for publication what was said at our conference." Mr. Phillips, however, volunteered the statement that unquestionably a number (Concluded on Page 3.) OREGON Commissioner of Pensions Also Hands $20,000 to Step-Sister Under Decision. BLOOMINGTON. 111., July 20. (Spe cial.) Veepaslan Warner, United States Pension Commissioner, today paid" $190,000 to his father's widow, Mrs. Isa bella Warner, being part of the amount she recovered in a suit against the Commissioner, the decision in which was upheld by the Supreme Court. The whole amount ordered paid Mrs. War ner is nearly $250,000. The $190,000 Is the first payment. Mr. Warner also paid $20,000 to his Frank Morrison, Secretary of the American Federation of Labor, Cited With Samuel Gompera and John Mitchell on Contempt Charsre. stepsister, Mrs. Minnie Warner Met tler, and arranged to pay Arabella Warner Bell a similar amount. The whole estate will be settled as soon as possible. In defending the suit brought by the widow, Warner, as executor, insisted that she had no right to a share In the estate, as ahe had exerted undue Influence over his father to persuade him to narry her. He also 'charged that Mrs. Warner had negro blood in her veins, and that she successfully concealed this from the 'elder Warner. SPOILS SUMMER SUITS Inkthrower Turns Attention to San Francisco Dandies. SAN FRANCISCO. July 20. (Spe cial.) The ink-thrower who has been keeping fashionably dressed women on Van Ness avenue in terror by ruining their costly gows with splashes of writing fluid, seems to have turned his attention to the men for the time at least. - Men who wear fancy Summer suits of light .colors have been his victims for the past two days, and more than one dandy mourns the ruin of his pet pair of light trousers. Lens Peiser, who suffered from the ink-thrower last night, says he was riding on the platform of a Market street car upon which also rode two small boys and an old man of 60 years. When he alighted his trousers were bespattered with Ink. He thinks the old man is the criminal, for whom a dozen detectives are looking. BANK CLERK ADMITS THEFT Seattle Man Juggled Accounts to Cover Papr and Racetrack Losses. SEATTLE, Wash., July 20. (Special.) William C. Pruyn, bookkeeper for Dex ter Horton & Co., bankers, Is charged in a complaint issued today with embezzling $2500. Pruyn confessed to the theft. The checker at the bank discovered that some of the accounts In Pruyn's charge were badly tangled, and finally uncovered the $2500 shortage. His system was a sort of endless chain. He carried an account check Instead of subtracting the money from his own account, he would take It from that of another depositor. When this depositer brought his book to be balanced, Pruyn would restore the money to his aooonnt, taking H from the account of still another depositor. . Poker, the racetrack and other extrava gances are said to be the cause of the young man's downfall. FALLIERES . IN DENMARK French President Welcomed by King and Dignitaries. COPENHAGEN. July 20. President Fallieres ,of France, accompanied by For eign Minister Plchon, arrived here this afternoon aboard the French battleship Verile. escorted by a squadron. Presi dent Fallieres, arter his trip in the North, will visit Sweden. Norway and Russia. The French President was welcomed by King Frederick, the Royal Princess, mem bers of the dlplomatlo corps and high state dignataries. Subsequently he en tered a carriage with the Danish King and proceeded to the Christian VII Pal ace at Amallenborg. NOW RUNS ON FULL TIME Thomas Edison's Enormous Factory Abandons Short-Day Schedule. ORANGE, N. J., July 20. The plant of Thomas Edison, which employs 2300 men, resumed operations on full time to day. . after running on a reduced time schedule for many months. Opening Rally of Cam paign in Oregon. GREAT ENTHUSIASM IS SHOWN Republican Standard-Bearer Is Cheered to Echo. STATE LEADERS PRESENT' United States Senator Fulton, Tio Principal Speaker, Says It It Too Early to Discuss Issues. V Decorated with nags and bunting, wttlt; pictures of the Presidential nominee, and1 overflowing with a sweltering crowd of enthusiastic citizens, the Baker theater last night was the scene of the first vol ley of political and patriotic oratory thai' is to be fired in the Interest of the Re publican party during the Presidential campaign. The lower floor was crowded; the bal cony and gallery packed, the aisles lined with standing men. and even the stags and the wings behind the scenes were filled. The big throng cheered lustily at the slightest allusion to Taft or the Re publican nominees. It. was the first rally of the campaign, and if the enthusiasm that was displayed is Indicative at all, it means that the Re publicans of the state have reaolved to keep it in the Republican column by an overwhelming majority. Theater Closely Packed. Long before the meeting was celled that seats had been captured and the aisle filled. A band aided in bringing out the crowd, but the house was filled before its arrival. When it appeared It began with "The Star Spangled Banner." As th stratus of that patriotic air filled the house, some one behind the scenes low ered from the flies on the stage a hugs picture of William H. Taft, and tha crowd lost Itself In riotous applause. On the stage were seated many of the most prominent political leaders of tha state. The list included United States Senator Fulton, many who are prominent in local politics, Beveral from other parts of the state and a number of members of the state Legislature. More conspicuous than this entire array of political prominence, however, was Mrs. Woodcock, seated at the extreme left corner of the stage at a table re served for newspaper men. Armed with' a big "RoSsevelt flag," a "Roosevelt fan" and the usual amount of unquenchabla patriotism, she waved the flag vigorously and smiled rapturously. The meeting was called by the Forty (Concluded on Page 2.) INDEX OF TODAY'S MEWS The. Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 90 degrees; minimum, 02.5. TODAY'SShoHere, possibly attended br thunder; cooler; variable winds mostly westerly. Foreign. Persian revolutionists control Tabrii and hah loses Northern Persia. Page 2. National. Steamplpe on battleship Kearsarg-e ex plodes. Injuring three men seriously. Page Fleet continues festivities at- Honolulu. Page 2. Politic. Taft defend criticism of couqts. Pmpe Eastern Democrats find mare's nest for - Bryan on Injunction Uue. Page 1. Republican leaders of West confer with? Hitchcock. Page 1. Domeetlc. August Eberhard suspected of deliberate) murder of aunt. Page Gompera and Morrison summoned for con tempt in Ignoring boycott injunction. Page 1. Walker denies he ' got stolen money, banla officials contradict him. page 4 Mrs. Leslie Carter says she Is bankrupt; ex husband mentally Incapable. Page 1. Sport. Americana win three big events In Olymplo games. Page T. Wabash team turns tables on Chicago ladles and wins, 12 to 8. Page 7. Oakland open's -week's series with Portland here today. Page 7. Pacific Coast. Posse lying In wait for Sweet Home robbers; battle expected. Page ft. A. HI n man. prominent pioneer, died at Forest Grove.. Page 6. Salem Company leads In state rifle shoot. Page 6 Cottonwood, Idaho, suffers $300,000 fire loss. Page 6- Cotiiroercial. Options on wheat In local market lose cent. Page 15. Stock Exchange at New York absorbs offer ings. Page 15. Chicago wheat market holds firm, though other cities slump. Page 15. Captain Reed, of tug Waliula, says that 30 feet of water can be secured on the Co lumbia bar within two months by dredging. Page 14. Portland and Vadnlty. Republicans hold enthusiastic Taft rati flea tion at Baker theater, page 1. Dr. Gustav Baar discusses results of his re searches Into nature of Ox'aluna, Page 11. Catholics of Oregon hold great educational conference In this city. Page 10. Henry E. G-. Cooke says his company had no contract to acquire public lands. Page 10. Plan on foot to raise hotel and restaurant liquor licenses from $300 to l&iHJt Page 18. dinger Hermann may be called as witness) in the Booth trial. Page 10. Prominent Chicago capitalists are her looking for Investments. Page 14. Showers and cooler weather predicted toft today. Page lft.