K V V V V ' VOI,. XLVIII XO. 14,880. funiLAJi, uxv, " . .. . i 1 HARD FIGHT AHEAD OUTCOME!! DOUBT Hitchcock Sees Danger of Taft's Defeat. BRYAN HAS GAINED STRENGTH People Not Afraid of Him as in Former Years. WELLMAN TELLS STATUS Say Hitchcock W isely Is Not Over. Confident and Republicans Will Soon Get Scared, but Will -Gradually Feel Better. Walter Wellman to Chicago Record-Herald. NEW YORK. Aug. 6. (Special.) "We are proceeding on the theory that we have a hard fight before ua; that there Is danger of Taft'a defeat, and that we must work hard to make sure of win ning." Thia 1 the principle upon which Chair man Hitchcock is planning his campaign. He Is not making the mistake of under estimating his foe. He la not like Wall Street, living in a fools' paradise. Ha knows he has a battle before htm, and he la getting ready for It. He does not Intend to be guilty of that most egregious of blunders, over-confidence. In the end he expects to win, but he Is going to work Just as If he feared defeat. Result Impossible to Forecast. Mr. Hitchcock has told Judge Taft and Charles P. Taft, and tomorrow will tell President Roosevelt that in his Judgment this Presidential campaign is to be no easy thing, no walkaway. There are signs of both strength and weakness, and as yet there is no assurance as to which Is to turn out the strong factor. In m opinion. Mr. Hitchcock is a wise young man to plan his work Just as if he feared it was to be a desperate case. It may or may not prove to be desperate. It la now too early to tell. But having had the opportunity to talk with men from ail parte of the country, I offer a few suggestions as to the trend of public opinion. Bryan Stronger Than Ever. Almost every man I talk wth, be he Democrat or Republican, admits Bryan Is stronger than he was ever before. Almost every one comments on the fact that few men. are now afraid of Bryan. In this one factor alone he has made progress enough to give at least the right to hope. When he ran for President in 16 and 1900. a very large part of the public looked upon him as a dangerous man. He was regarded as a revolution ary, almost a Socialist, and by some was classed as an anarchist. Level-headed, sincere men believed implicitly that. If Bryan were to get into the White House, the country would Quickly go to the devil. It la now almost universally admitted that this fear has passed away. Republican Scare Imminent. From all parts of tjie country cornea the opinion that this is not going to be a very bitter or exciting campaign. It may be close. I have good reason for believing that in a few weeka the Re publicans will have a scare on. That is, they will sudVn!y become alarmed over the progress Bryan is making and will not be able to conceal their anxiety. AI-' ready there are signs of the coming of such a scare. After it has reached its climax the Republicans will gradually begin feeling better .and by October will have recovered their normal composure and confidence. MRS. SAGE PLANS GIFT May Donate Site for Government Military Preparatory School. NEW YORK. Aug. 6. It la learned from frienda of Mra. Russell Sage that she is thinking seriously of purchasing Constitutional Island, in the upper Hudson, opposite West Point, and pre senting it to the United States Govern ment as a site on which to erect the world's greatest military preparatory school, a school that will be to West Point what Eton is to Oxford and Lawrcncevllle is to Princeton. She Is very much In earnest about this proj ect. She will send a representative to West Point within a few days to look Into the matter and put her In pos session of all the facts concerning Constitutional Island, the attitude of the West Point authorities toward the idea and whether or not Congress la likely to give Its sanction In the event of Mrs. Sage obtaining title to the property. Mrs. Sage would like to give to Vest Point a preparatory achool, it Is said, where boys, particularly those from remote places, where the public schools are not the best, can receive the preparatory education necessary to pass the rigid examination required of all candidates for cadetshlps at the United States Military Academy. In re. cent years the percentage of cadeta who have been lost to the Army aa the result of their inability to pass the West Point entrance examinations has been very large, particularly in the mathematical branches. Jtwiiiiif jj g imkti . . .t ppmtY ATTOTTRT 7, 1,fS. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FRUIT AT STAKE IN WHIST MATCH POIXT AT ISSUE IX REAL ESTATE , SETTLED IX GAME. Nelsons, of Xevada, Secure $15,000 Fruit Crop by Holding Trumps Against Harts' Skill. LOS ANGELES. Aug. . (Special.) With a fruit crop worth J15.000 as the stake, the fiercest game of whist ever seen in the Southwest was played last night in a little Summer cottage at Cor ona del Mar, near Balboa Beach. The players were Mrs. George Hart, a beautiful Los Angeles society woman, and her husband, a prominent broker, on one side, and George A. Nelson and Hugh W. Nelson, Nevada mining men, on the other. The game was the outcome of a real estate deal, the Nelsons trading the whole town of Winchester, Riverside County, for the Hart ranch in Slmi Valley, north of thia city. Both parties insisted on hav ing thia year'a valuable crop from the ranch. The Harts had leads and leads, and American and International whist signals at their finger tips, but the Nevada men had the trumps. In spite of brilliant and bewildering playing by the Harts, rough-and-ready cowpuncher luck won. Mrs. Hart lost without a wince. The. Harts led the first SB points, though It was close, and then their rivals Jumped ahead and stayed there. DEATH ROLL IN TABRIZ 800 No Missionaries Among Those Killed by Bombardment. TABRIZ, Aug. 6. There has now been 25 days' fighting In the streets of Tabriz, and the casualties, due chiefly to bombs thrown from mortars and shrapnel, are estimated at 800. Many of the finer resi dences of the city and hundreds of shops in the basements have been looted. The loss In this direction is placed at more than 13,000,000. The American mlsslonarlea in the city have been exposed to stray bullets, but although they have had some narrow escapes none of them has been Injured. During one of the heavier bombardments a pleoe of shrapnel fell in a garden with in a few feet of one of the mission ser vanta. There la a very bitter feud going on be tween the conatltutional progressives, who hold 11 wards of the city, and the reactionaries, who hold one large ward. The mass of the people, however, have Informed the central government that they are not opposed to the Shah. Those who are xealous for the continuance of the old regime regard the constitutional progressives as revolutionaries. The lo cal assembly, or Anjuman, did, on one occasion, express sedltionary views, but later acknowledged the supremacy of the Shah and adjourned Indefinitely in token of submission. To Use Quick-Flrlng Guns. TEHERAN, Aug. 6. A battery of quick-firing guns has been sent from here to Tabriz. The Shah Is augment ing the military forces In Teheran by the formation of new unite of troops. ALL BEFORE GRAND JURY Alleged Gould Divorce Conspirators Called to Testify. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. Mabel MacCaus lan, principal witness against Mrs. Ben Teal, wife of the theatrical manager; Henry T. Mousley, a private detective, and Mips Julia Fleming, all of whom are under arrest, charged with attempted subornation of perjury in connection with the suit of Mrs. Frank Gould against Mr. Gould for divorce, together with Blanche Hale, a hairdresser at the Hotel Lincoln, and Miss Marie Falk, a dressmaker, were called before the grand Jury today and questioned- Mrs. Teal and Mr. Mousley are out under 15000 ball each. Miss Fleming's ball was reduced to $2000 today and her release may soon follow. GIVES MINISTER SALUTE Dutch Warlhlp Shows Governmenl Approval of His Action. WILLEMSTAD, Aug. 6. After noon the Dutch cruiser Gelderland left the port and stopped outside the port to await the sailing of the inter-colonial steamer Chrlstianstadt, which is taking M. do Rues, the ex-Dutch Minister to Venexuela, who recently was expelled by President Castro, to Trinidad, where he will em bark for Holland. When the Chrlstian stadt approached, the Gelderland fired a salute and the populace ashore cheered him and the Queen. This Is taken to mean that Holland approves De Rues' actions. . : -v".' i '-i;,V -..- aV on COLONELS TO Command Brown Army at Camp Murray. VSLL DIRECT REGULAR TROOPS Efficiency of McDonell and Yoran Recognized. SPLENDID WORK IN FIELD i Mobility of Troops Xlcely Demon strated by ManeuversEIaborate Receptions for Governor Chamberlain Tonight. MURRAY, Wash., Aug. 6. (Special.) At no time . during the present in struction maneuvers in the American Lake district, or during the 1 field ex ercises of two and" four years ago, has the extreme mobility of United States troops been so fully and nicely demon strated as today, when all the regulars in camp were formed into a provision al brigade and marched southward to attack the position of a theoretical di vision supposed to be marching from Portland to Puget Sound. The maneuver was not a new one, but the taking into the field 6f all ap pliances for an extended campaign was a test which has seldom been ap plied, and never with such thorough success. This success was not an ac cident in any way, but the reward of persistent progress in all branches of the service. Troops Show Good Training. Critics who have in the far past commented on the rather cumbersome methods of taking the field would have changed their minds had they been at American Lake during today. Especial progress was shown In the work of the Signal and Hospital Corps. The equipment of a mixed force of in fantry, cavalry and artillery was com plete. There was forage for the ani mals, tools for making trenches, quar termaster and commissary supplies, equipment for establishing field hos pitals and dressing stations, means of Instant communication from the point of the advance party to the main col umn, and from th,e main column on back to the headquarters of Brigadier General Brush at camp. Scene Stirs Patriotic Pride. With the command six miles out, headquarters was able to know the movements of the brigade. It was a scene calculated to Inspire confidence in Uncle Sam's fighting men when the column passed easily through camp and took the field. The pack trains and wagons had a business-like and substantial appearance. Provision was apparent for every emergency that might arise in warfare. On the edge of camp, cavalry patrols and flankers were sent out, Infantry advance parties hurried into position, and the fighting machine felt Its way (Concluded on Page 14.) OREGON MEN AT ate" . z .r : ,L. ,.--vvr-"Vrc ,: r"3 HEAD BRIGADES Vs. f ''y . W ,"..' A" ' k , 'V : I 1 BREAKS LEG ON MOUNT ST. HELENS BOULDER STRIKES J. AXDERSOX WHILE XEAR SUMMIT. Carried to Timberllne by Two Men and Then to Mazama Camp, ' Where Doctor Is Found. CASTLE ROCK, Wash., Aug. 6. (Spe cial.) When near the "summit of Mount St.- Helens Tuesday afternoon, John An derson, a sawmill man of ' Little Falls, was struck by a bowlder which broke his right leg in two places at the ankle. With him at the time were his partner. Perry Olson, and Henry Hanson, his fore man. The two men carried Anderson down the mountain side to timberllne. Ol son started at once for the camp of the Mazamas at Spirit Lake, 12 miles distant, arriving there at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning. A relief party, headed by S. E. Forsythe of this city, and with George Williams as guide, started at once for. the foot of the mountain to bring in the injured man. The party returned late at night and Dr. O. C. Akins, of Portland, who is wltu the Mazamas, set the broken leg. This morning, Anderson was made -as comfortable as possible in the big auto belonging to J. A. Byerle, and accompa nied by G. F. McClane, the start was made for this city, the party reaching here at 8:30 tonight having covered a dis tance of 46 miles over one of the rough est mountain roads ever traveled by an auto. The Injured man will be sent to Portland in the morning. He displayed remarkable endurance on the trip over the mountain to the camp at Spirit Lake. Although the men carrying him stumbled many times, the injured man never uttered a groan. ELECTROCUTED AT SALEM George A. Goss, Lineman, Killed In stantly by Shock of 2200 VoIt3. SALEM, Or., Aug. 6. (Special.) George A. Goss, aged 38, was instantly killed this afternoon by grasping a live wire carrying 2200 volts. Goss was employed by the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company and was engaged in rebuilding the com pany's overhead system on State street. He was on a pole when he grasped the wire which it is claimed was an old wire with the insulation worn off, and hung there until lowered to the ground with ropes. Goss leaves a wife and baby. FALLS 900 FEET, WILL LIVE Woman Balloonist Tumbles" When Rope of Parachute Breaks. A B BOTTSFOTLD, Wis., Aug. 6. Drop ping through the air 900 feet yesterday, when the rope attached to her parachute snapped. Mrs. Eva Jones, a woman bal loonist for a carnival company, still lives. The branches of a tree broke the fall. The woman was rendered unconscious and Buffered from several broken ribs and was otherwise Internally injured. She will recover. AERONAUTS MADE CAPTIVE German Army Men Arrested on Landing In Russia. KATTAWTTZ. Russia. Aug. 6. Word has been received here that three German military balloonlsts, who landed yesterday In a balloon a short distance south of Warsaw, were taken into custody as soon aa they stepped from their car. The bal loon also was seized by the gendarmes. CAMP MURRAY fit. JfcJV r.- .ass-,"- r & J 1 - ji Jr.. Sf.w: i '.4. taMsesi EXPLORERS DIE FROZEN NORTH Death Takes Ericksen Party on Ice-Floe. PERISH AS THEY REACH SHORE Esquimau Tells News With His Dying Breath. SEEK TO CROSS ICE-CAP Danish Explorer and Two Compan . Ions Driven to Sea on Ice and Starved to Death on Green land Coast. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 6. Mylua Ericksen, the Danish explorer, has met his death In the Far North. According to information contained In a tele gram to the committee of the Denmark-Greenland expedition, Ericksen and two of his companions who sailed with him from Copenhagen, June 24, 1906, to the unexplored regions of the Northeastern coast of Greenland, per ished In a snowstorm. The three men were on an expedition of exploration over the ice when disaster overtook them. Large tracts of unknown land have been mapped out and the entire north eastern coast of Greenland has been chawvd. A Iciter telegram says Ericksen and his companions were on an ice-floe which drifted out to sea. Their pro visions became exhausted and 'they drifted for days, growing weaker and weaker. When the floe was finally driven back to land, the three men did not have sufficient strength to make the effort to return to the 'sta tion. They must have perished on the shore. The Esquimau, who brought the news of the disaster arrived at the station in a dying condition and sue cumbed immediately after making his report. SOUGHT TO CROSS ICE-CAP Exploration of Earth's Coldest. Point Cost Erlcksen's Life. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. Mylus Erick sen had devoted several years to the exploration of Greenland. His first expedition was when he returned from that country in November, 1904, after two years and a half in the North. The expedition that sailed from Copenhagen two years ago was supported financial ly by the Danish government, and his plans had been approved by many soci eties of scientists, including the Amerl can Geographical Society. ' On a former occasion Mr. Ericksen distinguished himself as the chief of a party which traversed the route across Melville Bay to the Cape York Esquimaux settle ment on the west coast of Greenland. Mr. Ericksen planned on this last trip and this was the most adventur ous portion of his undertaking to (Concluded on Pago 8.) -4 .,, ''-: -. AUTO HOLDUP MEN CAUGHT BY POLICE JUST IX TIME TO PRETEXT ROB BERY OF TRAIX. Hot Chase by Xevada Police Ends in Arrest or Men Who Robbed Wheelers Xear Reno. RENO, Nev., Aug. 6. (Special.) Captain Cox and a posse of state po lice arrested three armed men at Car son yesterday, who, it is believed, are the men who held up an automobile and robbed Samuel Wheeler and wife within sight of Reno. . The police had been on the trail of the three men since a few hours after the robbery Monday night, and there Is little doubt but they are the men wanted. They will be brought to Reno for Identifi cation by their victims. While the robbers were at work. Wheeler had a good opportunity to look at them, and the officers believe he will have no trouble In Identifying them. None of the Jewels taken from Mrs. Wheeler were found upon the suspected men. - - In the arrest last night the officers believe they frustrated a plot to rob one of the Southern Pacific express trains. The men were armed, had ma terial to be used for masks and were headed as If to reach the railroad at a point near Hazen. The police sev eral days ago received warning that a train holdup was being planned to take place close to Reno. HEAT CAUSES SUICIDE Robert Turnbull, Ex-Pugilist, Kills Himself In New York. NEW YORK. Aug. 6. Probably crazed by the heat of the last few days Robert Turnbull, a prominent operator in subur ban real estate, formerly a professional pugilist of some note, shot and killed himself In his home In Brooklyn today. Turnbull is said to have been formerly lightweight champion of America. He fought against Jack Dempsey for the professional championship and was de feated after fighting two draws. Afterward he traveled with the John L. Sullivan athletic combination. Another suicide attributed to the ef fect of the heat was that of Morris L. Briskey, who hanged himself In Brook lyn today. There were a number of heat prostrations today, but these were chief ly due to the oppressive humidity. The temperature was not unusually high. WIDOW AFTER 71 YEARS Nonagenarian W ho Eloped at 1 0 Mourns Her Aged Husband. CHICAGO, Aug. e. Mrs. Benjamin Harris, a nonagenarian, bent and wrinkled, sits weeping alone in a smaii apartment from' which her husband was buried yesterday, the first time In 71 years of married life that she ever was sep nmteri from him. From the home of the Little Sisters of th Poor. Fiftieth street and Prairie ave nue, where the funeral of Harris was v.irt fivB wealthy Chicago women fol lowed the body to the grave. These Tt-nmen Boveral veara aeo prevented sep aration which poverty seemed about to force on the Harrises, taking tne coupie from the.Junnlng poorhouse ano estao Ilshlng them In a little home. Since then the five benefactors had contributed gen erously to support Harris and his aged Mr. Harris eloped with his bride when she was 19. For a time the pair eeemea In a way to become rich. Then reverses came. All their savings vanished, but their 111 fortune had been united. WIFE NO. 4 ASKS DIVORCE Alleges Spouse Abused Her When She Bought Him Xew Suit. SALEM, Or., Aug. 6. (Special.) W. D. Claggett, who recently sued his stepson on a trespass charge, alleg ing that the young man had called too frequently at mealtime, was today made the defendant in a divorce ac tion instituted by his wife, who is Claggett's fourth helpmeet. One of the principal allegations of the complaint is that the defendant became abusive and profane when the plaintiff bought and presented a shirt to defendant, so that he might have a change of apparel, "which he aorely needed." The complaint also charges Claggett with buying refuse meat and provi sions for her to eat, and getting his own meals down town. The couple have been married about four years. Claggett la nearly 70 years old and la reputed to be wealthy. EYESHADE CATCHES FIRE Celluloid Flames Vp and Burns Man as He Lights Cigar. RITZVTLLE, Wash., , Aug. . (Spo lal.1 Edward Finnell. a business man of Paha, was seriously burned about the face and head today. While wear ing a celluloid eyeshade he attempted to light a cigar. The celluloid shade exploded, a piece of the blazing com- oeitlon flying Into one oi his eyes. "TY" COBB HAS RICH BRIDE Detroit's Hard-Hitter Wins Heiress at Augusta. AUGUSTA, Ga., Aug. 6. Tyruso Ray mond Cobb, better known as "Ty" Cobb, the heavy hitting ballplayer of the Detroit American League team, was married to day to Miss Charlotte Marion Lombard, daughter of one of Augusta's wealthiest citizen. TAFT SPEAKS FOR SPEEDY JUSTICE Wins Plaudits of Vir ginia Lawyers. REFORM NEEDED IN COURTS Procedure and Delay Help Rich at Cost of Poor. WOULD REDUCE EXPENSE Fix Salaries and Cut Costs Do crease Number of Appeals and Settle Damage Suits by Arbi tration, as In England. HOT SPRINGS, Va., Aug. .-Thera was no reservation in the Southern hos pitality accorded to William H. Taft by the Virginia State Bar Association here today on the occasion of the address of the Republican candidate on "The Law's Delays." His presence and introductory pleasantries were applauded by an audi ence representative of the social life of the Old Dominion. The burden of his speech met the expressed approval of the lawyers present. At the conclusion Mr. Taft was surrounded by members of the audience, who presented themselves for personal acquaintance. A group photo graph was taken under the trees, with Mr.' Taft in the center. At the banquet nnirhf m-hlch broueht to a close the 20th annual session of the association, i Mr. Taft responded to the toast, "The President. How He Won Virginians. Mr. Taft prefaced his 40-mlnute speech today by expressing two embarrassments he felt in appearing before a Virginia audience. The first he made clear by thia anecdote: "As I was entering the hall today, I was introduced to a very charming daughter of Virginia, a married lady, of whom I Inquired, on hearing her name, which was a Virginia nme. whother shu was a relative of a friend of my own from Virginia who bore the same name. . 'Oh, no,' she replied, 'my poor hus band la a Yankee." " The story seemed to remove the first embarrassment. The other was Mr. Taft's diffidence In discussing before : the bar of Virginia a technical ques tion. "Because, you know," he said, ; "eight years ago I ceased to be a Judge and became a mere politician." Drive 40 Miles Today. wr. ni fat with Mrs. Taft. llilliuiiu. ... General Edwards, chief of the Insular (Concluded on Page 11.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, degreea; minimum, i. TODAY'S Fair; northweterly wlndi. Foreign. Whole Japanese detachment masaacred br. , Corean insuritents. Pag 2. Brickaen. Daninh explorer, and two com-: panlona perish In ice oft Greenland coaat. , Page 1. ! Germans ralae great fund to build new Zeppelin alrahlp. Page 11. Canadian Pacinc atrtkers assured of aid of j American unlona. Page 11. 1 National. Honduras refuses to restore exequaturs of! American and other Consuls. Page S. Politics. Bryan defends labor planks against Van; Cleave s attack. Page 5. Democratic clubs to be organised through-1 out country. Page 5. Wellman warns Republicans against over-; confidence of Taft's election. Page 1. Taft sneaks to Virginia lawyers on conrt-i reform. Page 1. Cummins to be elected Senator at extra session. Page 3. Dcmefrtlc. New York betting law does not forbid beta ; between Individuals. Page 2 Dismembered body In Chicago Identified and suspected murderer arrestea. rage o. Dorr arrested In Los Ar.gelea for stealing railroad stock. Page '1. Wrilst game played at Los Angeles for 15.- 000 fruit crop, page i. H&rrtman arrive at San Francisco and dis cusses railroad affairs. Page 11. Reno hold-up men captured Just in tlma t prevent another crime. Page 1. Sports. Coast League scores: Portland 4, Ban Fran cisco 3; Los Angeles l. uaKiana u. Page T. M. D. Wisdom returns from canvass or en tries In Pacific ortnwcst atocn snowa and race moets. Page 14. Pacific Coast. Oregon Colonels to have charge of man euvers at American Lake. Page 1. Two conventions of Idaho Democrats at Wallace. Page 0. Passengers on launch Rose spend night of terror at sea. off Yaqulna Bay. paga i). Judge Hanford assails labor unions. Paga 6. Falling rocks break man's leg near summit of Mount St. Helens. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Local wheat market not affected by slump In Bast. Page 1. Chicago prices decline on better orop news. Page 13. Further advance In wheat at Beam. Page 13. Stock prices rise as grains decline. Page 13. Funds on hand for operation of Government dredge on Coos Bay. page n. Portland and Vicinity. Board on charter revision may make sweep ing changes. Page 10. Systematic plan for work will be adopted at good roads convention, page 14. 6outh Portland residents want bridge at Sherman street. Page . Daughters attack will of Mra Bridget Carr. page in. Automobile makes run to Government Camp In seven hours, page l. Street parade planned In honor of Oregon athletes. Page 1.