VOL. XL1X NO. 13,110.
PORTLAND, OREGOX, MONDAY, MAY 3. 1909.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
WHEAT MARKET
AGAIN BULLISH
R. S. M'CORMICK
IS IN SANITARIUM
MASS-MEETING
VOICES PROTEST
NICKELODEON FIRE
FATAL TO EDITOR
BAY CITY WARMLY
WELCOMES JAPS
BALL GAME HITS
SOCIALISM BLOW
MONTH IN JAIL
GIVEN J. H. HYDE
EX-AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA
BROKEN IX HEALTH.
WILLIAM R. ROBIXSOJf DIES IN
MOVING PICTURE FIRE.
CHICAGO COTTP FAILS WHEN
GAME ATTRACTS.
Prices Rapidly Climb
ing Upward.
PATTEN DEAL VINDICATED
Even Higher Prices Predicted
for Coming Season.
BEARS BECOMING BULLS
State Reports Indicate Million Acres
Less of Wheat Will Be Harvested
This Fall Kuropcan Tone
Is Much Stronger.
CHICAGO, May 2. (Special.) Despite a
reak In the last ten days of over 13 cents
from the recent high point, the -wheat
market last week was a strong affair
and values regained about 8 cents of the
lost ground.
A large percentage of the local traders
are now bullish on wheat and predict an
Irregularly higher market. The news from
the Northwest la considered the most bull
ish factor for the time being, the weather
being cold with snow and rain, and freez
ing temperatures in many sections. North
western seeding thus far has been only
from 15 to 50 per cent, and very little
above 25, according to most reports. A
wire from Winnipeg said that not over 10
per cent had been seeded. The ground is
frosen hard and a blizzard has covered
parts of the Canadian wheat belt with a
foot or more of snow.
Patten Is Vindicated.
No one In the wheat trade today haa
ever seen a situation similar to that
obtaining at the present time, but the
trade Is being educated to see that it is a
big broad supply and demand market,
with greater scope than the average
trader has been able to comprehend. A
Tnarket that can break 12Vs cents and
then advance nearly 8 cents in two weeks
without a bull leader. Is one that has not
been seen In recent years, and Is re
garded as a complete vindication for
dames A. Fatten.
Bears Turn Bulls.
Traders who have been very bearish
en wheat now have swung around to the
bull side and a canvass of the most con
servative and influential trading element
found a majority in favor of buying.
There has been a cleaning out of the
:areaker holders, ana the market Is In
fcetter position to advance than it has
been for some time.
. Traders who have changed from the
ifcear to the bull side explained their
position as due to the belief that the
trade from now on will be brought face
to face with more bulhish conditions, such
as lighter receipts In all markets and
especially in the Northweet. where the
country movement is said to be over and
stocks are expected to show a decided
shrinkage as compared with last year.
A depletion In stock Is sure to tell in the
long run.
Still Higher Values Feared.
T'nless the present anxieties con
cerning the seeding of the Spring
crop in the Northwest are soon re
moved the wheat trade may bo witness
ing higher values than It has yet en
countered or seemed likely to be en
countered. The close adjustment of
the 1908 crop of the -world to the actual
requirements for consumption can
hardly stand the strain of a late har
vest In 1909. The small carry-over
Irom the 1907 crop made it necessary
to apply the first two months move
ment of the 1908 crop to the replenish
ing of the reserves to normal propor
tions, and this extra drain on the 1908
crop -will make It dtfflcult to grant an
extension In the delivery of the crop
tt 1909.
Less Acreage In Wheat.
The action of the wheat markets
everywhere, both for spot and future
delivery, showed that thero is an un
derlying condition of strength. The
action of the market in this country
during the last week Is likely to make
considerable impression abroad and
possibly soon again have the effect of
restricting large marketings by the
leading exporting countries.
On Friday next the Government will
give out its estimate of losses in acre
age to Winter wheat during the last
-Winter. Various state reports indi
cate that the forthcoming report w'll
how at least 1,000.000 acres less for
harvest this year than last.
AMATEURS TRY TO AVIATE
Ixis Angeles Aero Club Holds First
Annual Show.
1XS ANGELES, May 2. The first an
nual show of the Aero Club was held
today at Fiesta Park Stadium and at
tracted a large crowd. Many attempts
were made to navigate by aeronauts
with gliders, but none was successful,
although some of the demonstrations
showed the remarkable advance that
hns been made in th science during
the last few years.
There were many models of airships
and aeroplanes on exhibition, some, of
t the working models marvelous lnven-
' tlons.
Xephew Says He Is Taking Rest
Cure, but Is AH Right Mentally.
Will Be Well Soon.
. CHICAGO, . May 2. (Special.) Dis
patches from Boston tonight say it is re
ported that Robert S. McCormlck, for
merly Ambassador to Russia and France,
is seriously broken in health and that ho
is in a private sanitarium near that city.
At the Stedman private hospital In
Brookline, where it is said Mr. McCor-
Latest Portrait of James A. Pat
ten, "Whose Wheat Deal
Promises to Result S access
fully. mick is a patient. Dr. H. R. Stedman,
according to the dispatch, declined to
affirm or deny that Mr. McCormlck is
there.
R. Hull McCormlck, of Chicago, a
nephew of the diplomat, was asked about
the report tonight. He said he under
stood that Mr. McCormlck was taking;
the re3t cure . in the Boston institution
and that his health was bad, but that he
was all right mentally and probably
would be restored to his usual vigor in
a few weeks.
Mr. McCormlck is one of the family
of harvester fame and is a son-in-law of
the late Joseph MedlU, long time propri
etor of the Chicago-Tribune." During the
Russian-Japanese war he was Ambassa
dor at St. Petersburg. Later he was
transferred to the Paris post by Presi
dent Roosevelt.
COLLEGE LADS DO STUNTS
Portland Boy Leads Classmates to
Run Away lor "Soph" Banquet.
BOSTON. Mass.. May 2. (Special.) A.
H. Clarke.' of Portland, Or., and nine
classmates at Amherst College, disap
peared from town yesterday after the
track meet with Wesleyan University.
They corraled as many other' members of
the sophomore class as they could find,
engaged a special train and ran away to
Hartford, Conn., where they held the
first sophomore banquet in years at the
Garde Hotel.
There were about 100 men altogether
on tho special, and, after they listened to
speeches from representativ men of the
class, they went back to Amherst by the
came special. Clarke was one of the
speakers. -
ROOSEVELT TO SEE POPE
Writes to Cardinal Satoill That He
Plans Visit Next Year.
ROME, May 2. While on tlte Red
Pea, April 17, en route to Mombasa,
Theodore Roosevelt wrote a letter to
Cardinal Satoill in which he said:
"I look forward to renewing our ac
quaintance a year hence, when I shall
present my respects to the holy father,
to whom I beg of you to give my per
sonal regards."
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GIANT BAND OF UNION MUSICIANS AND SOCIALIST SECTION OF PARADE IN PBOTEST AGAINST EASTERN LABOR DECISION PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN WHILE
LINE OF MARCH WAS ON SIXTH STREET. - : ' .
Unions and Socialists
in Parade.
MARCH THROUGH CITY STREETS
Use of Militia in Labor Dis
putes Is, Denounced.
SYMPATHY FOR GOMPERS
William D. Haywood and Other
Speakers Make Attacks Upon
Courts and Capitalists and Pre
scribe Socialism as Remedy.
FEATURES OP YESTERDAY'S
LABOR DEMONSTRATION.
Union men in line 1600.
Union represented 63 from Port
land, 13 from other cities.
People at mass meeting 3000.
Speakers Will J. Daly, president of
Oregon State Federation of Labor; H.
L. Hughes, Kditor Spokane Labor
World; E. J. Lewis, Portland Cement
Workers Union ; W. TJ. Haywood,
Denver.
Collected for Qomperr fund $173.
Resolutlon adopted Protests
against the use of troops when the
laboring class Is seeking to better its
condition and demands the repeal
of the Dick Military Law.
"We, the citizens of Portland, in mass
meeting' assembled, protest against send
ing: troops into peaceful communities, and
we likewise vigorously protest against the
use of soldiers at any time when the la
boring: class Is endeavoring to Improve
Us condition. We demand the immediate
repeal of the Dick military bill."
Called together in protest against the
action of Judge Wright, of Washington,
D. C, In sentencing . to prison for con
tempt of court Samuel Gompers, John
MltcheTi" aria Frank Morrison, officers of
the American Federation of Labor, 3000
men and women of Portland yesterday
adopted the abovb as the only resolution
offered for consideration.
The purpose of the meeting was not
wholly lost sight of, however, for each
of the three speakers condemned the ac
tion of Judge Wright, one characterizing
him as a "corporation lackey," and the
persons attending the meeting contrib
uted $173 to assist the Federation officers
in trying to get out of their difficulty.
Band Plays Patriotic Airs.
The parade that preceded the meeting-
formed at Yamhill and First
streets, and headed by a band number
ing more than 100 pieces, marched to
the Exposition Hall. The band al
ternated In playing such patriotic
airs a a "Uncle Sammy," "Stars and
Stripes Forever," "Hail Columbia" and
"Red, White and Blue."
In the order of parade the band was
followed by several carriages contain
ing: members of women's unions, with
Painters' Union No. 10 following;. It
is stated that 63 Portland labor or
ganizations were represented In the
parade. Banners were carried by the
Painters', Carpenters' Union No. 50,
Carpenters' Union No. 808, Elevator
Constructors. Electrical Workers, Bar
tenders, Leather Workers, Longshore
men, Teamsters, Tailors and Workers
of the World, or Socialists. About 1600
men were in line.
Astoria Is llepresented.
Astoria sent representatives from the
Teamdrivers, Ironmoulders, Machinists,
Cigar Manufacturers, Bartenders, Elec
tricians, Engineers and Brewery Work
ers' unions. From Vancouver there
were representatives of the Carpen-
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Explosion in Peoria Spreads Flames
Over Theater Operator Is
Badly Burned.
PEORIA. 111., May 2. As the result of
the explosion in the Crescent Nickel
odeon here today, which plunged the en
tire front of the theater into flames. Wil
liam R. Robinson, city editor of the
Peoria Star and manager of the play
house, is dead.
Walter Woodrow, the moving picture
William D. Haywood, Who Ad
dressed Labor Union People
of Portland Yesterday.
machine operator, is severely burned. Two
women fainted following their successful
escape from the building. Over 300 per
sons were In the theater, but the crowd
walked out without exhibiting any signs
of panic.
Robinson died as the result of in
haling flames in his efforts to control
the crowd. He was one of the most
widely-known newspaper men in the
country.
GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED
Argentine Socialists Angered at Ac
tions of Police.
BUENOS AYRES, May 2. The Socialist
party and the workmen's federations
have decided to declare a general strike
tomorrow as a protest against the events
of yesterday, when at the May day
celebrations a collision occurred between
the crowds and the police in which a
large number were killed or wounded.
They demand the dismissal of the Chief
of Police and the institution of an in
quiry for the punishment of the guilty
persons. They place all the responsi
bility for the occurrence on the police.
WARM WELCOME GIVEN BOY
Cabanne Youngster's Father to Start
Divorce Proceedings.
ST. LOUIS, May 2. James S. Cabanne
III, 7 years old. taken from the home
of his grandmother here April 15 by
Broughton Brandenburg, who Bald he act
ed for the boy's mother, received a warm
welcome today when he arrived from San
Francisco in care of his father, James 9L
Cabanne.
Tomorrow Cabanne's divorce suit
against Mrs. Cabanne-Brandenhurg, as
the mother calls herself, will be called
in Circuit Court here.
COLD WAVE HITS FRANCE
Snow Falls and Fear Is Expressed
That Fruit Is Damaged.
PARIS, May 2. Northeastern France ia
in the grip of an unprecedented cold wave.
There have been snowfalls at several
places, and it is feared that the fruit
crops and vineyards have been seriously
damaged.
'
600 Marines Dine at
Golden Gate Park.
JAMES SPEND DAY ASHORfc
Japanese and Americans Vie
in Providing Pleasure.
TWO FLAGS ARE ENTWINED
Bands Play American and Japanese
National Airs Music Received
With Cheers Peace Is
Theme of Speeches.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 2. The Japa
nese colony of San Francisco, under the
auspices of the Japanese Association of
America, vied with the official civic en
tertainment committee today in providing
outdoor pleasure for 600 enlisted men and
more than 90 midshipmen of the Japanese
training cruisers Aso and Soya, now at
anchor in the harbor.
The men came ashore from the war
vessels early in the morning and did
not return to their ships until nearly
nightfall, when every form of open-air
festivity that their heists could devise had
been enjoyed by the Nipponese guests.
The entertainment included a band con
cert and substantial luncheon in Golden
Gate park, followed by a programme of
addresses and vaudeville specialties by
American and Japanese artists at the
open-air theater in Hagiwaras Japanese
tea garden, just outside the park gates.
Luncheon Is Served In Park.
Coming ashore at 9 o'clock in the morn
ing, the Japanese visitors were first con
veyed to the beach in front of the Cliff
House, the midshipmen in automobiles
and the "jackies" in a number of special
trolley cars. For a while they rambled
about on the beach, enjoying the beauties
of the world-famous harbor entrance,
after which they marched m -columns of
four to the bandstand In Golden Gate
Fark, near which the entertainment com
mittee had spread a generous luncheon on
long tables. Here, while the guests from
over the sea refreshed the inner man,
the city band rendered a musical pro
gramme, of which the American and Jap
anese national anthems were conspicu
ous and appreciated features. After the
concert was finished and the refresh
ments were dispatched, the visiting navy
boys were escorted to the tea garden,
where special seats were reserved for
them in front of the stage.
Flags of Two Nations Everywhere.
The entire garden was draped with the
Japdhese and American colors, with Old
Glory and the white and scarlet Nipponese
ensign flung to the breeze at frequent
intervals. Here were gathered a consid
erable part of the Japanese colony men.
women and children while maids and
matrons chosen from among the Japa
nese residents presided at tables from
which fruits and sweetmeats were con
stantly supplied to the sailor visitors and
to all others who attended the festivi
ties.
Dr. K. TJshljima, a prominent Japanese
resident, acted as master of ceremonies.
A marine band from the flagship Aso
supplied music. Brief addresses were
made by Japanese Consul-General Nagal,
Rear-Admiral H. Ijichi. Midshipman R.
Sawamoto and others. Admiral Ijichi,
after expressing his thanks to the Amer
lean and Japanese hosts for the recep
tion accorded him and' the members of
his command, dwelt briefly on the best
means of preserving peace between the
great nations of the world.
"A navy," said the Admiral. "Is not pri
marily for fighting, as many suppose,
but for the preservation of peace among
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Demonstration to Rebuke Peace
Congress Tame When Compared
to Joy at Ball Park.
CHICAGO, May 2. (Special.) Amer
ican baseball delivered a body blow to
the sacred cause of Socialism today, and
the leaders are worried..
Their young members display too
much frivolity. They actually went to
the ball parks and whooped it up for
the home teams, when they should have
James Hacen Hyde, Xew York
Society Swell, Sentenced to
Prison in Farts.
been in Grant Park, denouncing1 every
thing:. Privately, the leaders admit that
when a Socialist begins to laugh and
enjoy the great American pastime, his
usefulness as a Socialist is ended.
As an offset and rebuke to the inter
national peace congress? which opened
here today, the Socialists had planned a
great demonstration In Grant Park on
the lake front, where the peace con
gress could see and, what was more im
portant, hear the Socialist speakers.
CASTRO MAY SUE FRANCE
Reported to Be Consulting . With
Lawyers Regarding Expulsion.
PARIS, May 2. Cip.tiano Castro, ex
President of Venezuela, is reported to
be consulting with lawyers here with a
view to bringing a damage suit against
the French government for his recent
expulsion from Martinique.
As the government has the power to
expel foreigners at Its discretion, Senor
Castro, it Is said, purposes basing his
action on the fact that he was forcibly
placed aboard a ship at Martinique and
compelled to return to France with
out being given the option of choosing
his destination.
PEACE CONGRESS TO OPEN
Secretary Ballinger Will Read Presi
dent Taft's Message. ..
CHICAGO, May 2. The first formal
session of the National Peace Congress
will be held tomorrow. Robert Treat
Paine, of Boston, president of the
American Peace Society, will preside.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger will
read President Taft's message to the
delegates.
A "silent peace demonstration" of
2000 members of the Socialist party will
be held on the lake front.
SWORD DUEL IN CHAMBER
Two Spanish Deputies Resort to
Fight After Hot Words.
LISBON, May 2. Following a violent
altercation in the Chamber of Deputies
today. Melleo Barratto and Rodriguez
Nogueira fought a duel with swords.
Deputy Nogueira received a wound in
the wrist and the duel was stopped.
French Court Fines
American.
AUTO COLLIDES WITH TAXICAB
Former Insurance President
v Forced Into Exile.
PARISIAN JAIL YAWNS
Month in Prison and $100 Fine
Faces Millionaire if He Returns
to " French Capital Ift
America In "Sorrow."
PARIS, May 2. Special.) James Hasen
Hyde, "the most Parisian nf a
and the most American of Parisians," aa
his friends call him,, is now neither a Yan
kee nor a Frank.
A brutal French court today sentenced
him. and his chauffeur. JLortwioo f
month's Imprisonment eacn and a fine
or iuo for Hyde and 30 for the chauf
feur for running into a public taxicab and
injuring a passenger. Mr. Hyde's chief
offense was in fleeing the scene Imme
diately after the collision, a fact which
made possible the prison sentence.
Must llfmaU In Exile.
He found it convenient to remain out
of France while the trial was going on.
Now he Is an exile. '
When Mr. Hyde left the United States
some years ago it was not because he
was in any imminent danger of a visit
from the law, although he had been a
prominent figure in the insurance scan
dal which brought many of the men of
his class into the shadow of the peni
tentiary. leaves Rome In Sorrow.
He did it, as he sadly remarked at
the dock, more in sorrow than in an
ger. He was going, he said, because
thepeople,Aof ftte United States were
too crude, too materialistic, too blatant
to be worthy of the society of a gen
tleman of leisure. He was going, he
said, to a land where life is an art
and art is life, where the . traits of
character which In his own country
had brought him nothing but bitter
ness and derision would win him. ap
preciation and friends.
Iilonized In France.
In Paris he immediately became a
lion. The fact that he was Immensely
wealthy, and that he had been made a
Chevalier of the Lgion of Honor, for
his services in New York as president
of the Alliance Francalse gave him
the entree to some excellent circles of
society.
But now all this is to change. They
manage things differently in France,
and owners of automobiles, no matter
how wealthy, cannot hope to escape
the judgments of her courts when they
violate the law.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 86
degrees; minimum. 51 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; southerly winds.
Part of oI4 guard of Turkish. troops
mutinies; quickly quelled. Page 8.
Horrible scenes at Adana massacre told in
letter from teacher. Page 8.
First president of Panama Republic Man
uel Amador, dead. Pae a.
James Hazen Hyde given prison sentence
for auto accident in Paris, page j..
Castro threatens to sue French government
Page 1.
No monopoly to be allowed in use of word
"Sockeye" by salmon canners. Page 4.,
National.
Senate tariff bill makes President virtual
boss of tariff, page 2.
Debate on tariff bill expected to last all
week. Page 2.
Domestic.
Delavan Smith, indicted for libel, will resist
extradition to Washington. Page 2.
San Francisco Japanese and Americans vie
in welcome to Mikado's sailors. Page 1.
Wheat pit decidedly bullish. Pago l.
Illinois legislature soon to adjourn with Im
portant measures pigeonholed and no
Senator elected. Page .
Halns lawyers to plan line of dpfense to
day. Page 3.
Robert S. McCormlck takes rest cure In
sanitarium. Page l.
American baseball game delivers hard blow
to Socialism in Chicago. Page 1.
Nickelodion fire in Peoria, 111., fatal to well
known editor. Page 1.
District Attorney Jerome breaks silence "
habit and talks o his acts. Page 4.
Statue to Longfellow to be dedicated May
7. Page 3. ,
Sports.
Jackson gets into training for fight with
Jack O'Brien. Page 8.
Coast League scores Portland 4, Oakland
J; Los Angeles 4, 8; Vernon. 3, 4; San
Francisco, 5, 5 ; Sacramento, 9, l. Page
Northwestern League scores Portland. 6.
Spokane, 7; Tacoma, 5, Seattle, O; Van
couver, 4, Aberdeen, 3. Page 8.
Portland and Vicinity.
Parade and mass meeting voice protest
against Eastern labor decision. Page 1.
Bunco man, representing himself as wealthy '
logger, caught by police. Page 7.
Fourteen thousand people hear five concerts
of Spring Maaic Festival. Page 12.
Democratic friends of both Munly and Lane
are hard at work. Page 5.
Advocates of recall for Councilmen seelc
candidates for their places. Page 12.
primary campaign is one of dullest in yeaxa.
Page 5-
Dr. Dyott says in sermon that reform
work here has accomplished little. Page
12.
Influx of colonists shows results of Individ
ual exploitation work. Page 14.
Hundreds of Chinese leaving Portland as
result of Tee Geung triaL Page 14.
Search by diver brings up body of Gladys !
Jacob sen. Page 4. ,
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