THE MORSrXG OKEUOXUS, .TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1903. ASKS FOR DETAILS KERN IS ELIGIBLE INDEPENDENCE PAETY NOMINEE FOB PRESIDENT, WHO SPOKE AT LOS ANGELES LAST NIGHT, AND HIS RUNNING MATE. Leading Furriers Exclusive Outfitters FOR RETIRED LIST Daniels Wants Facts About Trust Prosecutions. Hearst to Rapidly Dwindling Audience Pays Respects to Candidate. 5 LETTER TO BONAPARTE TV - - . ... ... . - . .'- . ... -1 si. . .-.vv. , - f-sp?e- si.- I'M' r?jr r . ,J i N I u - v LETTER TO SENATOR DEPEW Only One Mandard Oil KpNtle Is Hod, In Which rs I Inclosed. Krrn Owes Nomination to Tujt;irl, Ills Attorney. I.rS AXOELKf. 0t. 5 The spech of VM!:am R. Hearst . delivend at the Hhriix- Auditorium tonid'.t was devoted almost entirely to an attack upon John V. K'-rn. Democratic candidate for Vice l'residnt. He referred 10 the recent finding of a pass on the Big Four Railroad, made out in the namo of Mr. Kern, and pointed out that the Bin Four w branch of the Vanderbllt system, which he said had been successfully prosectitod by the Fed eral Government for araiittnii rebate to the American Refining Company and fined J11S.M. He also devoted much attention to Mr. Kern'a employment by Thomas Taaftart a a Ma attorney and discussed In deiail the alleged Rambling at French Licit Springs. Ind. Mr. Hearst rend affidavits from two newspaper men who were in attendance at the Iemocratlc National Convention, at Denver, who stated that Mr. Kern said to them that he was Indebted for his nomination to Mr. Taggart. Mr. Hearst read only one Standard Oil Company letter during his address to night. This was addressed to United Plates Senator Chauncey Pepew by John D. Archbold and waa as follows: Broadway. New Tors. February 10. to2. My Dear henatnr: Permit me to thank yrm mint cordially for your kind note of the 5'h with the accompanying- compli mentary pass. Believe me that I appreciate your kind eprelnn in connection with this rotirtecy very highly Indeed and only hope that opportuntiea may offer for such re rlrprooatlon as will lve evidence to yod and vour areat corporation of the friendly senti ments I entertain. Very truly yours. JOHN D. ARCH BOLD. To the Hon. Chauncey M. Uepew. Orand Central Depot. New York. The railroad pass, the receipt of which the latter purported to acknewledee. Mr. Hearst stated was over the New York Central lines, of which system, he said. Mr. Depew was "the representative In trie I ntted States Senate." Mr. Hearst referred to the "resignations, retirements, and withdrawals of public men." seeming to be much In vogue at present and continuing, said: "Mr. Kern, who has achieved fame as the railroad pass candidate, and who as pires to represent ttie Big Four Railroad In the government of the United States, seems eligible for the retired list, on the face of these returns and without the pre sentation of any further facts." Mr. Hearst's speech against Mr. Kern was received by the audience with but little evidence of approval. Before he had spoken five minutes, the crowd began to leave tn large numbers, resulting in such confusion that Mr. Hearst was compelled to cease speaking for some minutes. About half the audience remained -until the close of Mr. Hearst's address. He was In poor voice and was unable to make himself heard at any distance from the platform. His entrance on the stage be fore the beginning of his speech waa marked with much enthusiasm. TAXROLL S INCREASED Clatop County Ilcports $8,7 61,7 4 2 Valuation for 1908. ASTORIA. Or.. Oct. &. (Special.) Assessor Cornelius has completed the Clatsop County assessment roll for the year l?os. and it will be submitted to the Hoard of Equalization for ap proval at Us meeting on Monday, Oc tober IS. The ro'il shows the total assessed valuation of taxable property In Clatsop County to be IS. 74.74:. an Increase of J3 .ii!.574 over the total of Isst year's roll, which was $.".,69..36S. This is an advance of nearly 70 per cent on all classes of property, excepting Im provements. The roll la segregated aa follows: TlllaM land. ItfTW 9 a.-res f P4.7S1 Kon-tir.aMe land. 47S.!7 acres.. J.ssi.'Jol Improvements on deeded land... I'irt..v;9 City Ion S.47K.1 It Improvements on cltv lots (147. Ml I provements on lands not deeded 17.150 Railway ned. tenrph and tele phone line. :. mllvs 4:IMVMI RaKay rl:ln sto. k Steamers and machinery !;. 4'm M-r.-hannle 3'.M.715 Farm Implements 2:1. MrtnfT 131. 70 Notes and securities l.S"0 K'.ares "f SI k. tO0 Jin.-i.io Household foods... S. '.) Horses aid mus. 17 S.V440 t attle. I7I 5.1.1 IS Sheep and goats. 929 l.'2:l Some, Si: Cll Total S.74.74J ROBBER FRIGHTENED AWAY MatLr.1 Man Falls tn Attempt to Hold I p Saloon. Georg O. Miller, proprietor of the a loon, at S Orand avenue, corner of Hawthorne avenue, reported to the police early this morntnc that a man, masked Wtn a white handkerchief. had at tempted to huM-up his saloon but was frustrated by M;lWr's escapinc through one door while the thus entered Uv an ot ner. According to Miller's atory. he noticed that the door opening on Hawthorne avenue was ajar and went to cIom It. Jus as he reached tt, the masked man tried to enter. Miller says he slammed the door violently arut held it while the man outside tried to force it open. Fall luff in this, the robber walked around the corner and entered throuicti the ilrand-avenue entrance. Mitlr then rid?ed out th other door and ran to the nearest telephone and called the police. When 'officers arrived, they found no one in the place and nothing had been disturbed. It ts believed that the man was frightened when he found the a loon d5erted and made his exit through the rear door into the back ard. His description is similar to that of the man who robbed the saloon of Kri k A. Huseby nearby on Hawthorne avenue Aiturday night. TWO AMERICANS INFECTED llarhauch and ltldgway Among New Cholera Cases at Manila. MANILA. Oct. i Ten cases of cholera were reported for the last 24 hours. The list Includes the names of two Americans C. O. Harbaugh. of the civil aerrtc. and Charles Kidgway, kno an aa "the bilns JX& VJCE-PBESIDErrTi WILL HOT TAKE ST1P KOOSEVELT ISSl'ES DENIAL OF PERSISTENT KUMOH. Statement From White House Dis poses of Story Taken I'p by Sage of Lincoln. WASHINGTON. Oct. f. "President Roosevelt at present has no Intention of taking the stump for Mr. Taft" Is the way persistent reports to the effect that ha Is going to make a speaking tour in favor of the candidacy of the Republican nominee are now denied at the White House. The latest story on this subject is that received at Uncoln. Neb., yesterday by Mr. Bryan, that the President Intended taking the stump and was planning to make at least six speeches on a tour across the country, terminating at Ban Francisco. This information was said to have reached Sir. Bryan from persons In the Kast upon whom reliability can be placed. Numerous times during tne r resiaent s Summer vacation similar reports were flatly denied by the President's secretary at Oyster Bay. Since the President's re turn to Washington, these reports have become more numerous. W hen the mat ter first came up, the denials of the President's secretary were unequivocal. but to the latest reports he has given some Qualified denials, always saying it Is the President's present intention not to take the stump. GOES TO JAIL TO GET CHILD Father and Mother Secure Divorce and Then Remarry. SPOKANE. Wash., Oct. B. (Special.) George C. McDonald, after spending six months In Jail, was remarried today to Nellie McHonaid from whom he was di vorced, after his incarceration. He de clared that they had deliberately agreed to get a divorce and remarry again In order to get possession of their child which, they allege, had really been kid naped by an uncle. McDonald was serv ing a term upon the charge of kidnaping his daughter from the home or tne uncie. McDonald asserts that the separation waa necesrary in order to take the legal steps necessary before the child could be re turned to his mother. "My brother got possession of the child at Grangevllle and brought It to Spo kane." said McDonald today. "My wife was broken-hearted and we followed to Spokane, where I took the child and went to Idaho with it. When I learned that I was charged with kidnaping. I came to Spokane and surrendereed. My going to Jail was a part or tne scneme to ODtain possession of the child." MRS. HAINS IN DEFAULT Fails to Specify Needs In Petition for Alimony. NEW TORK. Oct. 5 Mrs. Peter C. Ilalns defaulted In the Kings County Su preme Court today by falling to tile an affidavit of specifications In a proposed hearing on her motion for alimony and counsel fees and custody of her chil dren, which waa originally made some time before the shooting of William E. Annis by her husband. General Peter C. Mains, father of the Hains brothers, said that he did not think Mrs. Hains affidavit would bo filed before the mur der trial. The October grand Jury, to which the Hains case will be presented, was sworn In today. CARRIES HEAVY WEIGHTS Wilbur Wright Takes 216-Ponnd Frenchman Vp on Airship. LKiiANS. France, Oct. 5. Wilbur Wright, the American aeroplanist, made two short flights with passengers today. One was with M. Bollee. who weighs about !H pounda, and the other with M. Pelller, vice-president of the Aero Club, who weighs IT pounds. These demonstrations of the machine's ability to carry weight were entirely satisfactory. CONVENTIONS FOR COAST 4 Continued from First Fscs.) the Mississippi, If we ever hope to get the National legislation which contemplates the Improvement of our harbors and our inland waterways. We have to bring the people out here and show 'em. The railroads are now opening Cen tral Oregon. Business in Portland has never been so booming and prosperous as It now Is. That Is what the unlty-of-ln-terest has done. We men in the cities have gone out to help the farmeres build up their districts and they have Increased their products and benefited us. People are coming to Oregon in multitudes. Can we bring those National conventions to San Francisco? Well. I guess yes." Mr. Richardson is the most widely known booster in the United States. He has been an actlv member of the Na tional Irrigation. American Mining, trans Mlasouii and Trans-Mississippi congresses for years and Is renewing many old friendships here. He enjoys an enviable reputation as an orator. Thorn who arrived with Mr. Richardson aa; W. H Richardson. Roseburc; R. T. Holmes. Portland. Bdmond C. Giltner. sec rctaiy of the Portland Chamber of Com merce: S. M. Mears. L. C. Swetland, C. F. Swigert. president of the Portland Cham ber of Commerce, and H. A. Menslng. all of Portland: H. V. Gates, of Hillsboro, and W. H. Drannen. of Salem. Oregon will send more than 100 delegates to the I trans-Mississippi congress. DELEGATES ARE GATHERING Trans-Mississippi Congress Dele gates at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 6. Thronging the corridors of leading hotels, viewing the massive creations of steel and concrete that have replaced the desolate areas of two years ago and participating with en thusiasm In the conferences preliminary to the nineteenth trans-Mississippi Com mercial Congress, nearly 1000 delegates to the five-days session of that organization tonleht await the call to order. J. B. Case, of Abilene, Kan., will wield the gavel at tomorrow morning's opening In Dreamland pavilion, and his Introduc tory address is expected to sound the key note of a conference whereat the Western half of the United States, through Us com mercial and promotion organizations, will voice, not only Its demands upon congress. hut the Dollcy of Its numerous member ship, upon the conservation of natural resources. Irrigation anl scientific care and culture of the soil; Improvement of rivers and harbors; the need of a mer chant marine and a fleet to make pos sible its advent; trade relations with the Orient and the rest of the Western hemi sphere and a score or more of sectional issues considered of sufficient importance to affect the welfare of the W est. The congress is expected to Include rep resentatives of 18 states, four territories and dependencies and six foreign coun tries. While many districts win De repre sented by the officers of their ffavmost commercial bodies, Utah, Washington and Colorado, together with California, will send their Governors or official represen tatives and President Roosevelt's repu- sentatlve will be William R. Wheeler, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and LAbor. Tomorrow's session will be confined to organization and a cruise about San Francisco Bay. HIS TARGET BRYAN UNSPARIXG IX ATTACKS OX SPEAKER. Predicts He Would Block Labor Measures If Taft Won En thusiasm for Xcbraskan. HAVELOCK, Neb., Oct 5. W. J. Bryan was received here tonight in a delirium of enthusiasm. His arrival from Uncoln ihortly before 9 o'clock In-a spe cial trolley car, accompanied by 100 mem bers of the Lincoln Home Guards, waa the signal for the great demonstration. The carriage In which he rode to the City Park, where he spoke to a big audience composed mostly of workmen in the railroad shops, ran a gauntlet of red fire and Roman candles, while the throngs on the sidewalks vociferously cheered him. His remarks .dwelt mainly on the sub ject of campaign publicity, election of Senators by direct vote of the people and the labor planks in the Denver plat form. He waa unsparing In his attacks on Speaker Cannon, Mr. Sherman, the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, and Mr. Taft. Taking up the labor question, Mr Bryan denounced the Speaker as an enemy to legislation favorable to labor and said that so long aa he was in the Speaker"a chair nothing In the way of reform could be secured. Even If Mr. Taft were elected and favored labor leg islation, -which he aaid the Republican candidate did not. the Speaker and Mr. Taft would be In complete agreement The Democratic party, he Insisted, waa pledged to legislation for which labor had been pleading. Mr. Bryan left Lincoln at midnight for a one day's campaigning tour in Iowa. SEVENTH PENDLETON FIRE Flour Mill Suffers Loss of $18,000. May Be Incendiary. PENDLETON. Or., Oct. 5. (Special.) V. S. Byers, the pioneer flour mill man, suffered a losa of $18,000 "by fire tonight Breaking out In his barn, the flames spread quickly to an adjoining barley warehouse and for a time threat ened the entire mill with destruction. Several head of mules and some ma chinery were saved, but other machin ery, an electric auto, and 8000 sacks of barley are a total loss. Both buildings were ruined. Very little Insurance waa carried. This Is Pendleton's seventh fire with in a comparatively short time and many are of the opinion that the most of them have been of Incendiary origin. Byers. himself, believes that some one has attempted to burn him out Others think tonight s fire was the result of a ahort circuit In electric wires. MAVTFRS MISTAKE; PEOPLE'S GAIX S3S.0O0 Stock Mew Fall Style Shoea labeled lncn-eniy. Admit mistake and order shoes sold. Bannister. Kneeland. Slater and Moral. S and J7 grades. $185: $4 and ij gres. nVll a'r lii Jiortiaoa, bt Ui aad. Inquires How Many Trusts Prose cuted, How Many Officials Im prisoned, What, Done to Pre - vent Repetition of Offense. CHICAGO. Oct. 6. Addressing an open letter to Attorney-General Bonaparte to night. Josephus Daniels, chairman of the publicity bureau of the Democratic Na tional Committee, asserts that the Attorney-General, in his recent reply to the Inquiry for a statement showing how many trusts doing business In the United States had been prosecuted by the De partment of Justice, did not furnish the Information desired, but Instead confused the prosecutions under the Sherman anti trust law with the prosecutions of rail roads and Individuals under contracts. Mr. Daniels submits to the Attorney General four questions, as followa: First How many of the 3s7 trusts giv ing names, doing business In the United States, have been prosecuted by the pres ent administration? Second How many of these trusts, nam ing them separately. hav been' fined and the separate amounts? Third After a trust has been fined, what other steps have been taken to prevent Its continuing Illegal practices tor which It was forced to pay the penalty? Fourth How many of the otTicials of these 2ST trusts have been criminally prose cuted and how man have been convicted and the terms of lmVrisonment giving the name of each person who has been im prisoned for violating the law? In concluding, Mr. Daniels declares that, even where the Administration has successfully consummated prosecutions, the guilty trusts have continued their il legal operations and that the penalties Imposed are analogous to police fines that are regarded as a license to continue. CUT A N Q SNAKE 119 FIGHT SEATTLE WATERFRONT TREAT ED TO NOVEL SIGHT. Cat Called "Crocodile" Tries to Eat 30-Inch Garter Snake, but Xeeds Help With -Killing. SEATTLE, Wash., Oct 6. (Special.) A pale grey, hungry tomcat and a garter snake 30 Inches long- debated the question as to which should eat the other on pier 4 this morning, and while it lasted, it was one of the hottest fights ever pulled off on the water front The cat Is known along the shore as "Crocodile" and is a large sized combi nation of yowls and appetite. As he was stealing along looking for his dally brfcad, or whatever corresponds to that, he met up with the garter snake and sailed into It The snake was shifty and after the first attack It got so busy with the tomcat that all visions of a yard of meat was given up to the one thought of getting away from the animated breakfast food. The whole pier was needed for the sidesteps of the cat, and the snake made him look like a new ring-tailed species of feline. Fi nally a longshoreman butted in and batted the snake on the head with a hammer. Then "Crocodile" squared away for the funeral arrangements, which were quickly and satisfactorily accomplished. RULING FORMS PRECEDENT Repayment of Charges for Hauling Fruit to Frelghtbouse Xot Rebate. LOS ANGELES, Oct 5. By an oral decision of Judge Wellborn in the United States District Court today the power of the Federal Courts to try re bate cases that heretofore have been regarded as strictly state offenses waa strongly laid down. Upon demurrer to an indictment charging the Penn Fruit Company with accepting rebates from the South ern Pacific Company, it was held that repayment to the fruit company lor tne expense of hauling its oranges to the freight house was witnin tne pro visions of the Interstate Commerce regulations. As far as known there have been no decisions on this point and the ruling of Judge Wellborn In effect establishea precedent HUNT IN VAIN FOR YOUTH Will Boner, Partially Paralyzed, Wanders Away and Is Lost. PENDLETON. Or., Oct 6. (Special.) Having partially recovered from tne effects of a severe stroke or paralysis, suffered several weeks ago In Northern Idaho, Will Boner, a young man a years old. the son of G. W. Boner, a wealthy sheepman of Joseph, disappeared yesterday in this city about 11 A. M. and In spite of every effort on the part of the frantic father, the city police and tne Sheriff to locate the young man, no trace of him had been found at a late hour to night . , Mr. Boner had receivea wora oi son s Illness in Sana -oim, iuu, eral weeks ago and had brought him to this city for treatment His father says the young man is un- MM m. i'l'im i3 Cor. 4th and Morrison Sts. EXTRAORDINARY SPECIALS IN WOMEN'S STYLISH NEW FALL GARMENTS Values that cannot be duplicated at anywhere near these prices. 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Specially priced at .$5.00, 7.50, $10.00 AND $12.00 able to do anything as he has no use of his right arm and but little strength In his right leg. The worst fear Is that tho boy is in some secluded spot stricken and helpless In the chilly night. Sends 'lne Students to college. HOOD RIVER. Or.. Oct 6. (Special.) Hood River this year will send nine High School graduates to the higher ed ucational Institutions of the state. Misa Ellen Treiber. Clyde Pattee, Albert Gar rabrant, Sidney Henderson, Elwood Luckey and Burleigh Cash will enroll at the State University at Eugene; Miss Leila Hershner and Miss Blanche Harbi son will attend Pacific University at For est Grove, and Claude Thompson will enter the Oregon Agricultural College at Corvaliis. Meningitis in. La Grande. LA GRANDE, Or., Oct. 5. (Special.) Spinal meningitis has made Its ap pearance In this city and has claimed one victim, a boy of live years, the son of J. Stiles. 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