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CM GREETED
BRITONS FIGHT
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FIRE AND SMOKE
SOCIETY BELLE
CUMMINS BOLTED
BY STANDPATTERS
WEDS MILLHAIMD
WITH JAPANESE
SCARE MILLINERS
BY HUGE CROWD
STRIKE
SAN BERNARDINO ROMANCE IS
DESPERATE BATTLE IN STREETS
OF SHANGHAI.
FOVR HUNDRED ARE PANIC-
BORN IN SPIRIT OF FUN.
STRICKEN" IX SKYSCRAPER.
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ROUBLES
MRS. HUSTIH SAYS
DEED WAS MURDER
HOPYARDS
1
Refuse to Join Senator
ial Caucus.
DEMOCRATS MAY SUPPORT HIM
Governor Scorns Demand for
Withdrawal.
LET ENEMIES DO WORST
Committee of Standpatters Threat
ens Him, but He Defies It Elec
tion by Democratic Votes May
Cause His Ultimate Defeat.
DES MOINES. Iowa, Sept 4. (Spe
cial.) Forty-even standpatters re
fused to go Into the Republican Sen
atorial caucus today, and Governor
Cummins was nominated for the United
States Senate for the unexpired term
by a vote of 53 to 1.
This Is 20 lees than the constitutional
majority, and the result of the caucus
hows that, if the standpatters stay by
their agreement, ' the Governor will
have to look for relief from the Demo
crats to be elected at the Joint con
vention next Wednesday.
May Win by Democratic Aid.
There are reports tonight that, after
voting for Porter, the Democratic can
didate, for a score or of ballots, the
Democrats will either decline to vote,
or enough will vote for Cummins to
elect him Senator. The standpatters
say If Cummins Is elected by direct or
Indirect aid of the Democrats. It will
prevent any possibility of his election
by the primary in November.
This morning Senator Whipple and
Representative Paul, the subcommit-
:ee representing the standpatters,
:alled at the legislative office in the
:aplto) and presented the Governor
alth an ultimatum threatening. If he
ltd rot withdraw, they would refuse to
nter the caucus, but pledging him
.heir votes if he was chosen at the
November primaries.
Cummins Defies Opponents.
Governor Cummins In a caustic re
ply Ignored the threat. In 1801. when
he was a candidate for Governor, he
suffered at the hands of the opposition
criticism and abuse such, he said, as
never had been known in Iowa politics
before. In 190, when he was candi
date for Governor for the third term,
many of those, he declared, who now
demand that he eliminate himself, bolt
ed the ticket
T will not yield at this time." de
clared the Governor earnestly, looking
the members of the committee squarely
in the face, "and if the men you refer
to will bolt the Republican caucus,
regularly called, the responsibility for
the results will rest solely with them."
REVEALS DYNAMITE PLOT
Detective Gives Sensational Testi
mony at Chester Strike Hearing.
CHESTER. Pa.. Sept 4. Testimony
given today by a detective, who from the
tart of the Chester trolley strike posed
as a street peddler and said he had
wormed his way into the confidence of
the union leaders, was to the effect that
he had received from their lips the con
fession of a conspiracy to dynamite and
destroy street railway property. The tes
timony caused a sensation at the hearing
of Patrick J. Shea, vice-president and
National organizer of the Amalgamated
Association of Street and Electric Rail
way Employes; William Stockhart, presi
dent of the Chester division, and 13 strik
ers arraigned today before Justice of the
Peace Williamson, at Media, the county
seat. The 15 defendants were held under 33000
bail for court The testimony of the de
tective made out the prima facie case
against the accused men.
WILL DIRECT GRAND OPERA
Cornelius, of Copenhagen, to Con
duct New York Metropolitan.
COPENHAGEN, Sept 4. (Special.)
Herr Cornelius, of the Royal Opera
House, has been engaged for the next
three seasons at the Metropolitan
Opera House, New Tork, at a salary of
$17,500 yeariy. He baa sung chief parts
on several occasions at Bayreuth fes
tivals. Frau Coslma Wagner consid
ers him one of the world's best inter
preters of her husband's music.
RAIN RUINS ENGLISH HOPS
Thousands of Pickers Suffer on Ac
count of Great Storm.
MAIDSTONE. Eng.. Sept 4. The ex
cessively wet weather, accompanied by a
high wind, has completely ruined a large
part of the Kentish hop crop. Thou
sands of hopplckers who came down from
London are suffering acutely. The huts
wherein they are quartered are flooded
and in many caaea they are without suf
ficient food.
Lean to Adjoining Roofs, ' Ride
Screaming Down Smoke-Filled
Elevator Shaft.
NEW TORK, Sept. 4. Four hundred
young women milliners, employed on the
upper floors of a 12-story building at 663
Broadway, became panic-stricken today
when a fire on the fifth floor filled the
stairways so full of smoke that they were
impassable. All the girls were taaen
from the building without serious injury
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Governor Albert 8. Cummins, of
Inwa. Whose Fiarht for Office
of Senator Is Bring: Bitterly
Contested. j
and the fire was extinguished with a loss
of 1600.000. .
. Screaming with fright, the girls first
attempted to find an exit by the stairs,
but they were stopped by the emoke at
the seventh floor. A number of them
made a frantic dash for the windows on
that floor and Jumped to the roof of an
adjoining building, a story or more below
the windows. It Is believed that a num
ber of them were injured In doing eo.
Hundreds of others dashed for the ele
vators, two of which were kept running
through the smoke-filled shaft. Fright
ened by the danger and almost asphyxi
ated by smoke, many of the girls were
fainting or unconscious when the ele
vators reached the ground floor and wera
carried out by the police. Others were
hysterical with fright and created a great
commotion by their screams.
VOTE FOR GENERAL STRIKE
New England Electric System Em
ployes to Walk Out.
PROVIDENCE, R. I.. Sept. 4 -The ex
ecutive board of the Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Street and Electric Railway
Employes of America has declared Itself
in favor of a general strike of the 32.000
members of the association In New Eng
land, according to a statement made here
today by General Organizer Walsh, of
Qulncy. Miss.
Mr. Walsh said that delegates from 15
divisions of the street railway system
under the control of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railway Company
have been Instructed to gather at New
Haven, Conn., tomorrow to receive In
stitutions regarding their future conduct
WOMEN MAY WEAR BADGES
California Athletes Make Concession
to Athletic Co-eds.
BERKELEY, Sept . The executive
committee of the Associated Students of
the University of California yesterday
voted to permit the women students who
attain supremacy in athletics to wear the
big "C" given to college men who rep
resent the university in track and field
events.
This is the first time in the history of
the institution that women students have
been allowed to wear the coveted Insig
nia of athletic merit The new rule will
go into effect at once.
WIFE SHOOTS HER RIVAL
Texas "Woman Kills Girl Found Rid
ing With Husband.
WICHITA FALLS. Texas, Sept. 4.
Early today IJly Wheatley waa shot and
killed by Mrs. Walter Allen, wife of the
proprietor of the St. Charles Hotel In
this city. Miss Wheatley was In a car
riage with Allen when the shooting oc
curred. HAS TOOTH PULLED; DIES
Blood-Poisoning Causes Death of F.
C. Benjamin, of Aberdeen.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Sept. 4. Blood
poisoning, following the extraction of a
tooth, resulted today In the death of
Frank C. Benjamin, aged 44 years, of
this city. He was a well-known business
man and a prominent Elk.
COLLIER AJAX IS DAMAGED
Collides With Steamer at Melbourne,
on Eve of Departure.
MELBOURNE, Sept. 4. The American
collier Ajax. which Is accompanying the
American flee was In a collision in the
harbor today with the steamer Laura.
Both vessels were badly damaged, but
there was no Ipsa of life- .
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Wife of Omaha Doctor
Tells Story.
FOUND HUSBAND WAS WOUNDED
Dragged Senseless Man Into
House, Called Help.
SCOUTS SUICIDE THEORY
Denies There Was Quarrel and De
mands Thorough Sifting of Tra
gedy Police Arrest leona
Bonnell and Seek Murderer.
OMAHA, Sept 4. Seated in the room
with the coffin containing the body of
her dead husband, shot and killed so mys
teriously while sitting on his front porch
early Tuesday morning. Mrs. Frederick
T. Rustln today gave her first newspaper
Interview on her husband's death. Mrs.
Rustln Is bordering on collapse.
"I am glad to have the opportunity of
giving my story to the public Just as it
occurred, stripped of all these rumors
and reports which naturally circulated
when something so terrible and mysteri
ous as this shooting of Dr. Rustln oc
curs." she said.
Found Her Husband Wounded.
"This Is what happened on that night,
so far as I have any kowledge; I was
awakened by a pistol shot. I waited for
some time. men i went aowmuurw,
and. opening the door slightly, looked
through the crack: I saw my husband.
Dr. Rustln, sitting in a chair and looking
as though he was in trouble. "Then I
threw the door wide open and rushed
out onto the porch and over to the
chair In which he sat.
'Oh. what is the matter, Fred? What
has happened to you?" I exclaimed
" 'A man has shot me, he mumbled.
and then fainted. .
My first thoughts as to get him . :
couch or bed. I grabbed him In my arms
and started dragging him towards the
door. He Is a large, heavy man. and it
waa all I could do to carry him along.
But I managed to get him Just within
the doorway, and then my strength
failed me. and I was compelled to lay
him on the floor and scream to my maid
for assistance.
Not Shot Inside House.
"When the maid reached me she saw
Dr. Rustln lying on the floor Just within
the door. That accounts for the reports
that have gone out that the doctor was
within the house when the fatal shot
was fired. Then we telephoned for phy
sicians and for Mr. Rustln's mother. Mr.
Rustln was taken to the hospital and
died an hour later. That Is all."
"Why were the police not notified
earlier?" was asked.
"I did not know of such mattersr. My
one thought was of my husband and I
(Concluded on Pass 5.)
MUDSLINGING
4k f fyiSfaCTii ,
Pretty Girl Takes Job Packing Or
anges and Answers Note Writ
ten on Box Shook.
SANBERNARD1NO. Cal.. Sept. 4. (Spe
cial.) News has Just been received here
of the marriage at Sacramento of Mi
Gertrude Humphrey, a popular society
girl of East Highland, to James McNalley
a mlllhand of Sacramento, the nuptials
being the culmination of a romance which
commenced last December.
During the Christmas rush Miss Humph
rey took a Job packing oranges in a local
packing-house. She discovered written
on one of the boxes, which had come from
Sacramento "in the shook," a scrawl
asking the girl who first read It to write to
James McNalley, Sacramento. More as a
Joke than anything else. Miss Humphrey
wrote as directed. An answer was soon
forthcoming. An exchange of photo
graphs followed and she accepted McNal
ley"s proposal of marriage.
An Incident of the romance Is that Miss
Humphrey removed the board which bore
the message from the box. and this she
afterwood burned artistically and framed
it to decorate the walls of their home.
SAILS FROM MELBOURNE
Fleet Given Great Send-off From
Capital.
MELBOURNE. Saturday, Sept. 5.
Punctually at 8 o'clock the Connecticut,
flagship of Rear-Admiral Sperry. Commander-in-chief
of the American Atlantic
fleet, weighed anchor and pointed her
prow down the bay. With clock-like pre
cision 14 others of the white-hulied craft
followed in her wake and began the cruise
to Albany. West Australia. The New
Jersey remained In the harbor to convey
the American ' mail, which is expected
shortly, to the fleet.
As the vessels passed down the bay In
single file, the hills and the towns of
Melbourne resounded again with the
booming of salutes from the fleet and
the batteries ashore.
FINDS. LONG-LOST CHILD
Laborer Who Inherited Fortune
Rescues Daughter From Pover?..
SACRAMENTO. Cal., Sept. 4. (Special.)
T. A. Parrlsh, a section boss for the
Southern Pacific, who recently fell heir
tm .? . Mm ;y iif grandfather
In Ohio, has succeeded in locating hi
daughter, whom he had not seen for
many years. Through the efforts of de
tectives of the Oakland police depart
ment he found her working as a servant
girl for a Berkeley family. The daugh
ter Is married and has a little child, but
Is separated from her husband and has
been forced to earn her own living. Her
present name is Mary Marlante.
BAKERSFIELD IS SHAKEN
Two Earthquake Tremors Felt In
California Town.
BAKERSFIELD. Cal., Sept. 4. Two
slight earthquake shocks were felt
here this morning. No serious damage
was done. The shock was also feU
In nearby districts. One farmer re
ports the . shaking down of pictures,
while In the city plaster was knocked
off the walls in a few residences.
BEFORE PRIMARIES, KNIFING
Prohibition Candidate
Roundly Cheered.
TALKS OF CAMPAIGN ISSUES
Tariff and Liquor Question
Form His Theme.
TAKES FLING AT TRUSTS
Cold Wrater Standard Bearer . Pay
Compliments to Two Old Parties
Would Run for Second
Term if Elected.
Before an audience that thronged audi
torlum and gallery of Taylor-street Meth
odist Church, Third and Taylor streets
last night, Eugene W. Chafln. Prohibition
Presidential nominee, spoke for an hour
and a half In behalf of his candidacy,
It was perhaps the most enthusiastic
political meeting that has been held In
this city in the interest of any candidate
during the present campaign. The vast
assemblage arose as the Presidential can
dldate entered the building and cheered
vociferously. As he mounted the plat
from to begin hid address hundreds of
handkerchiefs, like -caps . of foam upon
the sea, fluttered a salute.
Repeatedly he was Interrupted by out
bursts of applause and the drollery of his
humor, mingled with optimism as well as
epigram and satire, kept the audience in
constant attention. Though standing-
room was at a premium In the rear of
the building. Interest was so great that
only a few departed before he had con
cluded his address.
Two subjects were discussed In "his
address. They were the tariff ques
tion and prohibition, the latter, of
course, . receiving far the greater
amount of attention. The only solution
of the tariff question, he said, was that
suggested in the platform adopted "by
the Prohibition party in National con
vention. Candidates of other parties
In discussing-this question are talking
nonsense, he said, and neither dared
talk honestly and plainly to the people
on the subject of the tariff.
There Is No Middle Ground.
With reference to the liquor question
the speaker tolerated no middle ground.
Local option is not the means to de
feat the liquor business, he sajd, and
those who are conservatives are wrong.
"The sale of liquor will never be
stopped," he said, "until its manufac
ture is stopped. Whenever you are
right you are a radical, and whenever
you are wrong you are a conservative.
In discussing the tariff, Mr Chafln
prophesied that within five years the
price oi iron ana steei ana ouicr um
modules throughout the world would
be fixed by one man. The trusts, he
said, would not confine their operations
(Concluded on Page 5 )
AFTERWARD
Outnumbered Ten to One, Whites
Withstand Assault of Brown
Mob Till Police Come.
SHANGHAI. Sept. 4. (Special.)-Out-numbered
ten to one, bluejackets from
a British cruiser in this port put up
a desperate battle with Japanese non
commissioned men and a motley Japa
nese mob, until the police broke up the
fight by the free use of revolvers, fir
ing repeatedly into the mob. Many
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Euffene W. Chafln, Prohibition- f
iMt Candidate for President, T
Who Addressed a Portland J
Audience Last Evening.
Jspanese civilians were wounded, but
were carried away by their com
panions.
The fight started over the arrest of
a Japanese officer for a particularly
atrocious assault upon a low-class
European wuman, which was resented
by the Kngllsh Jackies. A well-organ
ized riot came simultaneously with the
publication of a letter from the Japa
nese Consul-General to the Municipal
Council, which was of a highly re
criminatory and incendiary character,
and defended the rufflanlwm of his own
people and the failure of his court to
assist In maintaining order.
The feeling between the British and
the Japanese is intense, and further
outbreaks are feared.
REVEALS SACKVILLE'S PAST
Son by Marriage With Spanish
Dancer Fights for Title.
LONDON. Sept. 4. The titles to the
estate of Lord Sackville. who died at
Knoll Park, Seven Oaks, September 3,
will not be allowed to pass to his nephew
and heir, Lionel E. Sackville West,
without a contest. A firm of solicitors
has adressed a letter to the London
newspapers protesting against the an
nouncement that Lord Sackville was not
married and pointing out that there was
pending in the High Court an action in
which Ernest Henry Sackville Wesr
claims to be the eldest and legitimate
son of Lord Sackville by his wife, Josfa
Duran.
The court disallowed his claim In 1903,
but the solicitors Intimate that the pres
ent action will be proceeded with. Ernest
is the son of a Spanish dancer who mar
ried Lord Sackville at Madrid. Lord
Sackville claimed that Senora Duran had
a husband living when she went through
the marriage ceremony with him.
TEST HUGHES SENTIMENT
Voters in Tuesday's Primaries Will
Be Asked Opinion.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4. Timothy Wood
ruff, chairman of the New York State
Republican committee, said today that he
had advised Jacob Bennar. chairman of
the Kings County Republican committee,
to .make a test of the sentiment In Brook
lyn for the renomlnatlon of Governor
Hughes In several, of the assembly dis
tricts at the primaries next Tuesday.
Herbert Parsons, chairman of the
New York County committee, last night
announced a similar test of the Hughes
sympathy in New York at the primaries
on Tuesday, when enrolled voters will be
handed two ballots, on one of which
will be printed the name of Governor
Hughes In large type.
General Stewart L. Woodford, who
nominated Governor Hughes for the
Presidency at Chicago, called on Mr.
Woodruff today and told the chairman
that unless Governor Hughes was re
nominated New York State would be lost
to the Republicans. -
SYNOD ATTACKS TOLSTOI
Urges True Believers Xot to Join
In Celebrations.
ST. PETERSBURG. Sept. 4. The Holy
Synod has addressed an appeal to all be
lievers not to participate In the celebra
tions next Wednesday in honor of Count
Leo Tolstoi's eightieth birthday on the
ground that the honor rendered an op
ponent of the church would be a stumbling
block to youth and persons of weak
faith.
The encyclical Is marked for its bitter
language. Tolstoi denied the Savior and
backsllded from the church, it says.
Since 1901 he has ranked among the
pagans. Believers must abstain from
onorlng such a man in order to save
their " souls JigQ .the lodgment of Gd."
May Cause Loss of Cal
ifornia Crop.
INCENDIARY FIRES STARTED
Pickers Demand Advance and
Threaten Strike. .
BARNS AND KILNS. BURNED
Only One-Third of Crop Tfames"
and Remainder May Be Lost.
Leaders of Strike Move-
ment In Jail.
SANTA ROSA, Cal., Sept. 4 (Spe
cial.) The hopgrowers of Northern
California are threatened with almost
the entire loss of their crops. Labor
troubles with the hopplckers, who re
fused to work unless they were granted
an Increase of 20 per cent, was the
start, and now there are reported
numerous Incendiary fires, in which
hop barns and kllne have been mys
teriously burned to the ground. The
crop is les than one-third harvested
and If the strike Is called and the pick
ers leave the valley, the growers will
suffer heavily.
Kor the past week the pickers, who
have been in an ugly mood, have been
presenting their claims for more money.
These were refused on the s:-ound
that the price of hops Is already low.
Then six ringleaders who tried to In
cite the rickers to a general walk
out, were placed in Jail. Unless the
situation changes, more arrests are an
ticipated and the entire force, number
ing more than 1500, Will leave the
fields.
The worst trouble so far has been
encountered on the Horst ranch, near
Hopland. The Sheriffs of several
counties have been called upon to pro
tect the property of the growers.
The trouble has been brewing ever
since the growers reduced the price of
picking from $1 to 80 cents per 100
pounds, on account of the dcpr-jesion in
the Industry.
From Hopland comes word that the
tarn and kiln on the Horst ranch were
burned to the ground, presumably as
a result of labor troubles. The loss
will reach thousands of dollars.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Wfther.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
8.Y7 degrees; minimum, 57.1.
TODAY'S Fair; winds mostly southerly.
Foreign.
British sailors fight Japanese mob at
Shanghai. Page 1.
Domestic.
panic among milliners In burning New York
skyscraper. Page 1.
Mrs. Rustln says husband was murdered and
ridicules suicide theory. Page 1.
Orvllle Wright makes another successful
flight. Page 5.
Nearly whole town of Rawhide. Nev..
'burned. Page 3.
Frank P. Sargent. Immigration Commla-
, mlssloner. dead. Page 3.
Donahue 'believed to have murdered Berry,
as well as wife. Page 4.
Grand .' Army decides to stop asking for
pension . laws. Page 4.
San Bernardino society girl marries mill
hand. Page 1.
Strike threatens loss of California hop crop.
Page 1
Fleet sails from Melbourne for Albany, West
Australia. Page 4.
rolltles.
California Democrats nominate for Presi
dential electois and adopt radical plat
form. Page 6-
lowa standpatters bolt Cummins and lye de
fies them. Page 1.
Governor Hanly. of Indiana, calls extra
.session to consternation of politicians.
Page 8.'
Sports.
Los Angeles wins again from Portland by
scors of B to 2. Page 7.
fan Francisco defeats Oakland. Fags I.
Opening of Seagirt rifle shoot. Page S.
Paclfls Csaat.
Recent developments in Eastern Washington
primary light Intensify uncertainty as. to
outcome. Pag 6.
W. C. Wolfe, of Tillamook, tries to escape
from officers and it placed in irons by
Sheriff. Page .
E. H. Harrlman will arrive at Portland at
4 o'clock this afternoon, making few short
stops on way north. Page 7.
Attorney-General holds State Board of Ag
riculture has no authority unuer law to
issues passes to State Fair. Page 3.
Investigation Into grain rates on O. R. As
N. opens at Wasco, September 22.
Page 6.
Grand Jury Indicts Blake for attempting to
bribe Kuer juror. raKo 4.
Commercial and Marine.
Hop sales in Washington. Page 15.
Rise In wheat at Chicago is checked.
Page 15.
Stock market affected by coming holiday.
Page 15.
Fall trade steadily expanding. Page IS.
Pacific Engineering Company to file suit
against steamer cnas. it. Bpencer.
Page 14.
Portland and Vicinity.
Bank clearings at Portland on the Increase.
Page 9.
Woman accuses former husband of theft.
Page 14.
Electric clock system In danger. Page 14.
Fisheries will be congress tneme. j-age 10.
Divorce day In State Circuit Court. Page 14.
F. X. Matthleu. venerable pioneer of Oregon,
111 at local hospital, rage j.
Republican factions bury hatchet and will
open Oregon campaign iouy. rage iv.
E. H. Harrlman will arrive in Portland late
this evening. Page 1.
City Council will probably appoint health In
spectors and nurse xor public schools.
Page It).
Eugene W. Chafln, Prohibition Presidential
candidate, discusses tariff and liquor
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