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' " ' ' " ' r PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1903. VOL. XLVIII Q. 14.943. APTRFSS' CON TO f JAPAN'S .WELCOME " SURPASSES JILL HENRY REED QUITS SEATTLE FAIR JOB RAT-EATING CATS TO FIGHT PLAGUE HIS FOUR BULLETS KILL FOURJVDIANS Supreme Nerve of Dy ing Game Warden. TAFT DELIVERS FIERCE THRUSTS WED ENGLISH GIRL E MISS HELEN BVLLi EXGAGE1 TO RESIGNS AS DIRECTOR OF EX PLOITATION. SEATTLE HOUSEHOLDS URGED TO SECURE FELIXES. VOCXG PAT CAMPBELL. Couple Met Last Winter In Chicago Where Attachment Was Formed. Boy Only 23 Years Old. Either Subway or High Speaks in Cities of Atlantic Coast. Sperry Says It Passes Understanding. President Chilberg, of AY.-P. Ex position Expresses Surprise at Action of Mr. Reed. Health Officer Declares Cats Are Best Agent for Extermination of Plague Distributors. Span Very Costly. M0DJE5KI FAVORS NEW Dl D 1 CLOSES DAY AT BALTIMORE Republican Deeds Against Democratic Threats. TWO POLICIES ON TRUSTS Taft Would Prevent Monopoly, Bryan Jetroy Trusts and Com petitors Also Will Kevise Tariff Downward. BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 19. Hitting straight at his opponent with even more fierce thrusts than In the Northwest or South. W. H. Taft today carried hi can. pa ten to the very doon of New York City and gave a clear Indication of the chart cter of the speeches he will make in the Empire State next week. Mr. Taft spent three hours In New ark, one hour In Wilmington and the entire evening in Baltimore. He en countered t remendous crowds and en thusiasm spontaneous and ample. His extended ffotts of the day were at Newark. Elizabeth and Baltimore. At Newark he gave attention to all the Is sues save labor. In his Elizabeth prerh he dwelt solely on the labor qustion, and tonight he combined the topics of the Newark and Elizabeth spfeches. The ist with which Delaware re ceived the candidate resulted in curtail ing the Wilmington speech to a few lines. Krai Isue of Campaign. "1 can only say to you," he re marked, "that from what X have seen in New Jersey today and what I have seen In Ielaware today, and what I saw in the Souih and West the last three weeks 1 am going to be elected, and it would give me the greatest pride "If ... t el.-cw.ral vote I ceuld have the three from Iilaware. "The real ipsue of the campaign is." 9a Id Mr. Taft tonight, "whether you think the Republican party, by what it has done in the last 12 years. Is en titled to your confidence. Even if it has done something to displease you. is It not much to be preferred to the democratic party under any circum stances, considering the history of that party, and considering the peculiarities to use no more offensive expression of the leadership of that party?" What IScpubllcans Have lone. The acts of the Republican party were then recounted. Establishing the gold standard, repealing the Wilson Gorman tariff Mil and enacting the 1'lngley tariff; fighting the Spanish War. He continued: We put the Cubans on their feet, as wf supposed. They stayed I here tor three is, then they foil on their knees; w had again to so and help them to their fet. In Porto Rico we hnv made 1.000.000 people rrjoii every night and every day and thank Liod that they are under the pi asperity that the tUars ana e tripes have Then we took up the Philippine the hardest problem that we had to solve, as the result of the war. Today 600.00 0 iltplno children are reading, writing- and ret'it'ina- In English; e have given them practical control over the central govern ment and full control ovtr the provincial aid municipal government. We took up the I'auama ('anal, which for 400 years since the time of Charls V had been the SLihjct of discussion. L'nder trie present administration there has been an organisation of the brains, machinery and the hands In such a way that In the t iure of iIva or six years any one w ho kr;o tout the work can promt tts com pletun. so that your Navy m ill sail from toe v'arribean to the Pacific. Mr. Taft next took up what he termed the "moral awakening' respecting the conduct of large business enterprises, resulting in a quickening of the American conscience. He added: Tou would think from statements of Mr. llryan that no progress had been made, but the progr is reaiy remarkable. Through the page of the rate bill the tailroads themselves have abandoned re bating. ha e atiitiidoned unlawful discrim ination and haxe taken aay the chief instrumentality by wnu-h unlawful trusts r.d monopolies have been maintained. Mr. Taft followed this with his In dorsement of the combination of capital fur legitimate purposes. He said: Rryan Policy of leslruvl!on. The combination of capital Is Just as !t!ntial to our progress as the combina tion of the rvirts of a machine and the fact t'lat the capital is great ami the number of plant n-eded many Is no reason for d'noiim ir.g thrrn nr. illegal unless they are vjed for an lllcgrvZ purpose. The normal. Iev;al purpose r 'such combination Is to reduce the o of production by Inducing economic n nag-ment of the capital. It is only hfn undue means a re taken to stifle c-mpetlttoa that they cross the line of leiriiity and that they ought to be re st -au.ed and punished. Therefore. Mr. )'Ms"flt and the Kepublican administra tion have directed their attention to prose- , ruling the exact evil, which Is the attempt to monopolism. Mr. Bryan, on the other hand, proposes to take steps which shall destroy the entire business. He proposes thst we shall abolish the tariff on what are called trust-made artirles. If you are ! going to tak off the tariff on trust-made articles you are g"lng to destroy the trust ! all right there will be no d if Acuity about ; that and you are going to thrrw out of employment the millions of men engaged i as wage-earners In those great businesses, snd yvu also are going to dstroy the in dependent competitors of the trust, for they are Just as dependent on the tariff. Injeed mora so, than the trusts themselves. Mr. A'aft's expressions on the tariff were: The Republican party is In favor of. and (Concluded on Pace 4.; CHICAGO, Oct. 19. (Special.) Allan t'rquhart Patrick Campbell, the gifted son of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, with whose acting and social grades society Is familiar, will be married soon to a Chicago girl. This fact became known today when Mr. and Mrs. William Ben edict Bull announced the engagement of their daughter, Helen, to the young Englishman. It was while Mrs. Fat rick Campbell was appearing in reper toire here last Winter that the young people became interested in each other. Young Campbell, who Is 23 years of age. Is said to be remarkably handsome and quite accomplished. He was trained for the British Navy in con formity with family traditions, for his father had been a soldier and fell fighting for England. He served for a time as a midshipman In the Navy and yielded to his mother's Importuni ties to give over this career and Join her in America. He is said to enter tain the hope of distinguishing himself by his writings. SAYS BRYAN POWERLESS La Follctte Speaks fur Taft, Though . Complimenting Opponent. STOt'GHTOX, Wis., Oct. 19. Senator R. M. LaFollette wound up the first day of his present stumping of Wisconsin by addressing a great audience tonight. In all of his speeches Senator La Fo'lette strongly indorsed the National Repub lican ticket and urged his audience to support it. He spoke highly of Sir. Bryan as a man and as a citizen, but he invariably ended by saying that the Democratic candidate would be powerless to accom plish anything of value, if elected, be cause he would have a Senate and House opposed to him. CAR BLOWN INTO CANYON Tornado Kills Two and Injures CS Railroad Laborers. CHEYENNE TTyo.. Oct. 19. Two per sons were killed and 2S others more or less seriously injured as the result of a small tornado blowing a caboose on a Southern Pacific work train down a 30 foot embankment near Pherirmn this eve ning. The two men killed were laborers. A relief train with physicians was started from here as soon as notice of the wreck was received and all possible as sistance was rendered to the Injured. The wind blew a gale during the after noon and developed Into a small toinado In the evening. The other cars In the train were flats and did not leave the track. YIELDS TO BAD ADVICE Aged Oregon Farmer Itemoves to Wisconsin and Dies Suddenly. MILWAUKEE, Wis.. Oot. 19. (Spe cial.) When near the close of a 2000 mile Journey. William J. Rogers, aged 84. married, a farmer living at Baker City, Or., was taken suddenly ill while on a train coming into Milwaukee and died before reaching the Emergency Hospital. A nephew, living at Pardee ville. Wis., recently visited the old peo ple at their home and persuaded them to remove to Wisconsin and make their home with him. CHURCH IS THREATENED Black-Hand Letters Demand Money of Chicago Pastor. CHICAGO, Oct. 19. The Black-Hand letters threatening to blow up the Moody Church, at Chicago and La Salle ave nues, were received by Rev. A. C. Dixon, acting pastor of the church during the past week. according to information gained by the police today. The letters demanded that ThXxt be left in a cigar box on the porch of the church. LEAVE IT TO HAGUE COURT France and Germany Agree About Casa Blanca Deserters. PARIS. Oct. 19. France has accepted the offer made by Germany to refer to The Hague tribunal for settlement the Question which has arisen between the two governments over the case at Casa Blanca of deserters from the French For eign L-gation, who, it was alleged, were under the protection of Germany. . THREE SHOCKS IN MANILA Philippine Capital's Nerves Quiver With Earthquakes. ma VILA. Oct. 20. Two sharp earth quake shocks were felt here today, fol hv a third, which was less se vere. No damage was done m or about Manila and as yet no report has been received from other points on the Isl land. The first shock came at 10:6') A. M.. the second at 1:40 and the third at 3:10 P. M. Suicide Closes Bank. CARROLL. Iowa. Oct. 19. W. L. Cul berson, aged S. president of the Klrst National Bank here, committed suicide tixlay by shooting. The bank Is closed pending an investigation. CANNOT DOUBT ITS SINCERITY Organized Plan to Prove True Friendship. SPERRY TO VISIT MIKADO Will Carry Cordial Message from Roosevelt Sailors Swarm Cities and Villages and Everywhere Have Enthusiastic Greeting. TOKIO, Oct. 19. The reception ac corded the American Atlantic fleet by the government and people of Japan is conceded by the American naval offi cers to be the heartiest and most per fectly carried out of the many recep tions enjoyed by the fleet since It sailed from Hampton Roads. Rear-Admiral Sperry said to the Associated Press to day that he was utterly unable to say how it had been accomplished, but that the welcome given the fleet and its of ficers and men here had been so care fully planned and carried out to the most minute detail that a lasting Im pression had been stamped upon the mind of every American who wit nessed it. Xo Doubt of Japan's Sincerity. The men of the American and Japa nese fleets are fraternizing everywhere throughout Tokio and Yokohama. Every wish of thejAmerican sailors is antici pated and each bluejacket finds an Engllsh-spe'aklng guide among the Japanest sailors. The American uni form is the "open sesame" everywhere, tho cordiality of the Japanese extend ing even to the inhabitants of the most remote villages. It is Impossible to doubt the sincerity of the Japanese. The American officers and sailors are already beginning to understand the fact that the evident desire on the part of the Japanese for the friendship of America is not founded upon oppor tunism, but finds its source in a sincere desire to show that such friendship, at least on the part of the Japanese, ha existed always, and that this visit of the fleet merely affords the Japanese an opportunity for the expression of that feeling. Plan to Remove Misunderstanding. There can be no doubt that the slmul aneous visits of the American exposi tion commissioners, the Pacific Coast business men and the Atlantic fleet a a part of an organized plan of the Japanese to finally wipe out all mis- (Concluded on Page 3.) W. SEATTLE. Oct. 19. Henry E. Reed, di rector of exploitation of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, since August 13, 3906, has resigned. He severed his connec tion with the exposition last Friday and. I. A. Nadeau, director general of the ex position, was instructed by the executive committee to take charge of the office pending the appointment of a successor or a reorganization of the department. Mr. Reed has declined to discuss for publication his resignation. Mr. Chilberg said: "I received the resignation of Mr. Henry E. Reed as director of exploitation of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition last Fri day afternoon. It came as a surprise to me. Mr. Reed made the resignation effec tive on the date on which it was written. Mr. Nadeau was instructed to take charge of the office." As director of exploitation. Mr. Reed's salary, said Mr. Chilberg was J4S00 a year. Previous to coming to Seattle, Mr. Reed was secretary and director of exploitation of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Expo sition at Portland. He was formerly as sistant secretary of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. ATTORNEY CALLED DOWN Ordered by Roosevelt to Push Trial of Bankwrecker. PITTSBURG, Oct. 19. The trial of J. B. F. Richart, ex-cashier of t'.ie Farmers & Drovers National Bank, of Waynesburg, Pa., which failed some tfme ago for 12,000,000, was fljted for January 4 next by United States Judge Young today. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. President Roosevelt today, after hearing a commit tee of depositors of the Farmers & Dro vers National Bank, ordered United States District Attorney Dunkle, of Pittsburg, to take up within a week the prosecution of the case against Cashier Richart. The depositors told the President they feared the prosecution would be allowed to rest until the Indictments would be outlawed. They declared the District -Attorney pro fessed to lack evidence. YOUK LAST CHANCE. This is the last day you.Jiave to register in Oregon for the Presidential election. It you do not register, you cannot vote without infinite bother and an noyance to you and your friends; so you should seize this last chance in order to be pre pared to cast a ballot on elec tion day. The office of the Multnomah County Clerk will be open today till 5 P. M., but you would better go this morn ing. Doubtless ' you can go through the easy ceremony of registering then without delay. J. B. "THINGS NEED FIXING.' ENGINEER REPORTS TO COUNCIL Tube Would Cost $6,000,000 and Lie Too Far North. SITE NEAR DEPOT IS BEST Joint Session of Municipal Bodies Will This Morning Consider Plans for Project Launched by East Side Club. FEATURES OF THE REPORT. Recommends bridge across the Wil lamette River Just north of the Steel bridge, with lift drar; cost $1,500,000. Report! that high bridge, such as at first suggested by the North East Side Improvement .Association, would have to be built at about Hancock street, and would cost $3,000,000. Reports that a tube under the river would have to be constructed not farther south than Hancock street, and would cost approximately S6.000.000. The p'opular Impression that it could b put in at Morrison or Madison streets is dispelled. A bridge to cost approximately 11,500,000 to be built across the Wll lamette River just north of the Steel bridge, is the recommendation of Ralph Modjeskl, the New York civil engineer, who was employed by the City Council to report on the most feasible means of solving the vexatious problem of handling traffic across the stream. He estimates the cost of a high bridge that would clear all vessels without a draw at $3,000,000, and a tube, which he also says would have to go as far north as Hancock Btreet, would cost $5,000,000. The' report In full detail will be the subject of a special joint session of the Council and the City Executive Board at 8:30 o'clock this morning; Much Interest in Project. Owing to the fact that this is one of the most important matters now be fore the public, It is expected that the Council chambers will be crowded to the doors this morning when the spe cial joint session is called to order at 9:30 o'clock. A special call to the mem bers of the North Kast Side improve ment Association has been issued by the executive committee of the organi zation, as the movement to secure another bridge originated with this so ciety. It is desired by the committee (Concluded on Page 5.) SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 19. (Special.) Dr. Frank S. Bournes, chief of the staff handling the bubonic plague prophylactic work in Seattle, and Assistant Commis sioner of Public Health, has issued a statement addressed to the householders of the city, requesting them to assist in the work of rat extermination by pro curing for the house an able-bodied cat. "The cat as an agent for the extermina tion of the rat," says Dr. Bourns, "can not be equalled. I would rather have 1CJ0 cats -with an appetite for rat than any thing else in this campaign, and as rats find refuge in the basement of private homes, the cat can be used to advantage. Any person desiring a cat for rat-catching purposes can be accommodated by advising the Health Department." THOUSANDS ARE STARVING Floods Devastate Vast Area in China at Harvest Time. VICTORIA, B. C, Oct. 19. Local Chi nese have received cablegrams telling of heavy lo3s of life and great desola tion of Yannan and Helping, China, as a result of the breaking of the dykes and overflow of the West River, inun dating the district for a hundred miles. The number of killed is not given, but the message states that the loss has been Immense and starvation is .feared, and it appeals to the Chinese abroad to send aid. Subscriptions from local Chinese were made within a short time after the receipt of the cablegrams, which to taled J7000, this amount being cabled to Chinese officials at Canton for distribution- among the sufferers. Star vation is expected to follow, as the disaster comes at the time of harvest when the crops are ready to be taken from the fields. Half the district is stated to be flooded. DR. SEARS CANNOT VOTE Woman Who Cast Ballot in Colorado Denied Right in Xew York. NEW" YORK, Oct. 19. Justice Truax, in the Supreme Court today denied a motion on behalf of Dr. Julia Seaton Sears that the registration board be r convened ana ordered . to register Dr. Sears as a voter for the Presidential election. Miss Mary Coleman, who ap peared for Dr. Sears, argued that as the larter had voted at three Presidential elections in Colorado the refusal to reg ister her here was in effect a denial of . the provision of the United States Constitution that no citizen shall be de prived of rights acquired under that in strument. RENO GAMBLERS AT BAY Poll Shows Majority of 1000 . . Against Them. RENO, Nev., Oct. 19. (Special.) Men and women representing the Anti-Gam bllng League sent into the home of the Reno voters have, after a careful can vass of the city, compiled statistics which show that the supporters of the reform movement outnumber by 1000 the advo cates of licensed gambling. This report, made today, has aroused the gamblers to action, and they have be gun the fight against this movement. which, its members declare, will result in closing the last wide-open state in the Union. Mass .meetings are scheduled for nearly every night - before 'October 24, when the special election to decide the is sue will be held. ELOPER 80 YEARS OLD Wealthy Octogenarian Foils Rela tives of Young Bride. PROVIDENCE, R. I., Oct. 19. Captain Benjamin D. Manton, of Colonia, Uru guay, hale and hearty at SO years and reputed one of the wealthiest land owners in that part of South America, thwarted the opposition of his relatives here, dashed away with his fiancee In an automobile and in Fall River married 5Iis Sarah a Hartman, of Philadelphia, a writer , about half his age. STATUE THROWN IN LAKE During Lugano fire, Rowdies Tear Down Bronze Figure. LUGANO, Switzerland, Oct. 19. During last night a bronze statue of George Washington was removed from the top of a monument on the quay here and it is believed tnrown into the lake by rowdies. The inhabitants of the town are indignant at the outrage. The statue was made In 1851 for the country home of an American resident. Subsequently it was purchased by the municipality. ROOSEVELT TO BE EDITOR Will Join Staff of Outlook on Re turn From Africa. NEW YORK, Oct. 19. President Roosevelt has signed d contract with The Outlook to act as an associate ed itor after his retirement from the Presidency in March next. This is made subject to the existing contract to write a story of his African travels for Charles Scribner's Sons. His work In connection with The Outlook Is to cover political and economic topics. BATTLE IN MONTANA WILDS Flathead Hunters Shoot When Under Arrest. FATALLY WOUND PEYTON Prone and Bleeding, He Rests on Arm and Sends Death Messen gers After Murderers Com rade Shot in Arm. MISSOULA. Mont., Oct. 19. Lying prone on his side, riddled with bullets, C. B. Peyton, a Deputy Game Warden, fought a single-handed battle with four Flathead Indians whom he had started to place underarrest Sunday afternoon, and while the blood streamed from the gap ing wounds In his breast, the oflleer coolly leveled his rifle and fired until nil of his assailants were dead. The fight in which all of the partici pants were killed took place at Holland' Prairie, on Swan River, near Ovando, Powell County. The Indians were hunt ing without license and had taken more deer than the law allows. Peyton and Herman Rudolph, another Deputy Wat den, learned of their offense and left Missoula for the Indian camp. Knowing the troublesome nature of the Flatheads, Peyton asked Rudolph to ac company him. Both went to Swan Lake and Sunday located the camp about three miles from Ovando. Peyton Shot Down. Peyton went to the camp, however, alone. Rudolph remained some littie dis tance away. Peyton found four bucks at the tepee and a number of squaws. He told the Indians they were under arreat and would have to acompany him to Mis soula. ., Peyton's words were scarcely out of his mouth when the Indians grabbed thoir rifles. The Game Warden fell at the first shot. Four bullets struck him In the breast and the blood soaked the ground where he lay. Believing their victim dead, the In dians started on a run for the neighbor ing woods. Peyton, however, was only stunned for the moment. His rifle was brought Instantly into, play as soon as h recovered himself. Dragging himself together, the fatally wounded officer drew his rifle to his shoulder, and while every move was the keenest torture and sent the blood gush- (Concluded on Pag-e 4.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY Maximum temperature 53.61 degrees; minimum, 4ti.82 degrees. TODAY Occasional rain; westerly winds. Abruzzi's engagement to be announced by King to Italian Parliament. Page 4. , national. ' Reception of fleet in Japan surpasses all -and is undoubtedly sincere, page 1. Pol It ice. ' Taft delivers fierce blows at Bryan in speech at Baltimore, Newark and Eliza beth. N. J. Page 1. Exhaustion of Taffs voice enforces change of programme. Page 4. Bryan strllled by Secretary Wright at New York. Page 3. Bryan accuses Republicans of design to buy election, page 2. How Archbold letters were stolen and sold to Hearst. Page 4. Domestic. Mrs. Hains charges Jenkln Hains with re sponsibility fnr husband's murder of Annls. Page 3. Snow storm causes six deaths in Colorado. Page 4. Tornado in New Mexico kills four persons. Page 4. Gamblers make desperate flght for life at Reno. Page 1. i Remarkable juggling with loans and securi ties In Morse's bank. Page 7. Mrs. Patrick Campbell's son to marry Eng lish girl. Page 1. Flathead Indians In Montana kill game warden, who. kills four as he lies dying Page 1. Death total by Michigan forest fires reaches 41 and frtlll growing. Page 4. South Dakota teacher wins first prize In Rosebud land lottery. Page 3. Thaw declared by lawyer to be incompe tent as witness because insane. Page 5. Pacific Coast. Oregon hanks show Increase in deposit of S2.000.OUU since May. rage i. Fierce gale on Lower Columbia; passengers on steamer Haasaio oaaiy rrignienea. Page 6- Examiner Gatch made receiver for defunct bank at La Grande. Page 6. Henry E. Reed to resign position with Seattle Fair. Page I. Commercial and Marine. Hop buying postponed until after election. ' Page 17. Stock market dull, but not weak. Page IT. Wheat very weak at Chicago. Page 17. German ship Albert Rickmers clears with part cargo of grain. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Engineer Modjeskl submits report on bridge and subway problem, page 1. Portland ministers strongly in favor of Emmanuel movement. Page II. Registration for Multnomah County will close today with over 38.000 on rolls. Page 9. Park Board may proteift agsjnst abolition by Charter Commission. Page 11. Sixty protests are made at opening session of Board of Equalization. Page 11 Secretary Mc Arthur reviews political situa tion In Oregon. Page 10. Barbers' Union enjoined, from Interfering ' with nonunion shops. Page 10. John Barrett speaks on Portland's com jncrciaJ. future. Psx 1,