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N PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVE3IBER 7, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V V FORECAST GIVES MAN 7 Sweeping Republican Victory Indicated LEAD OF"WETS"PllTAT 4000 Hawley's Election Presaged by 6000; Lafferty 8000. ESTIMATES ARE UNBIASED Oregon Ian Correspondents Asked to File Fairest Possible Conservative He porta Deductions Based on These Returns. Forecasts of the results of next Tues day's ejection supplied The Oregonlan by its correspondents In nearly all the coun ties In the state Indicate the election of Jay Bowerman. Republican direct pri mary candidate for Governor, by a plu mmy of more than TCX) oyer Oswald Vest, the Bourne-Chamberlain candi date. The same figures presage the election of W. C. Hawley as Republican candi date for Representative . In Congress for the Ftrrt District by more than 6000 over his opponent. R. O. Smith, and of tl e election of A. W. Lafferty. Repub lican candidate for Representative to roncrm In the Second District by more than over John Manning. Democratic candidate. Claims on Liquor Issue Vary. On the prohibition question difficulty lmbeen found In the several places In stiT.dtna- .ntlmtnt, and a close vote Is Indicated In numerous counties. Aecord Irg to reports received last night by The Crvgnr.lan the state outside of Mult nomah County, as a whole, will vote dry br about 10W majority. Multnomah County is practically conceded to the wrt" side by the Anti-Saloon League by rA majority. The Greater Oregon Home Rule Asso catton insists that a conservative esti mate of the "wet" majority In Mult nomah County la "X If the difference between these estimates Is split, and forecasts are approximately correct In other portions of the state. Oregon will d-feat state-wide prohibition by a major ity of about In preparing forecasts The Oregonian'a cirrrspoiidents acted under specific In structions to give conservative estimates and not color their reports for either side, the Intention being to present a true forecast and not one designed to In fluence votes. Fairness in Estimates bought. The reports were given In response to the following telegram sent by- The Ore gotilan to Its correspondents: "Wire tonight election forecast In your county on Governor. Congressman and state ticket. By what vote will county go wet or dry? We want fairest possible conservative estimate. Consult all sides." In computing totals the lowest esti mate given was taken In each Instance except in IhoseS cases where estimates mjilc by both Republicans and Demo crats arre given. In the latter a mean was struck between the two. Of the mlssir.it counties It Is known that Sher man will go strong for Bowerman and I-afferty. and from reports gained from persons who have visited other counties f-om which forecasts are missing it may be safely predicted that all will go Re publican on the head of the ticket. Total Majority Slay Be 7000. l.ke and Grant are thought to be the closest of the several counties not heard from. The computations without the Bitsslng counties give Bowerman a plu rality of K-OO. and the missing counties may be expected to increase this to more than ;". Outside of Multnomah County Bower tn.m will apparently have a plurality ef Multnomah's vote being estimated at plurality for the Republican can didate. lAfferty Is given IrXX) over Manning In Multnomah County, and It Is Indicated wt!I carry the remainder of the Second Iltrli-t by more than SXXJ. There are missing Columbia, Hood K!er. G-ant. Malheur. Lake and Sher man. It Is indicated by the reports re ceived that Bowerman will carry Ben-t-n. l.its.. Coos. Curry, Douglas.. Gfl l.am. Harney. Josephine. Klamath. Lane, l.lrcoln. M.irlou. Morrow, Multnomah, rvlk. T'.llnmonk. Vmattlla. Union. Wal lowa. Wa.co. Washington. Wheeler and Yamhill, and that West will carry Baker. I'lnrkarnj.. Crook and Jackson. Linn Is put in the doubtful column. , Manning Conceded One County. I jiffertv apparently will carry Clatsop. Curry. Gilliam. Kamey. Morrow. Mult nomah. Union. Wallowa. Wasco and Wheeler. Baker county la conceded to Vanning and Umatilla County la doubt ful. Hawley. It Is believed, will carry Ben ton. Clackamas. Coos. Curry. Douglas. Josephine. Klamath. Lane, Lincoln. Linn. Xarion. Polk. Tillamook. Washington and Tarahl'.L Jackson Is conceded to 8ml th. The prohibition forecasts given are not on the home rule bill, but upon the ques tion of state-wide prohibition. The re ports give the prohibitionists Benton. Josephine, Linn, t'matllla. Union. Wal : Iowa. Wheeler and Yaml.lll, while In the '' column are plared Clatsop. Coos. BOWER 0 TAFT GOING HOME TO CAST HIS VOTE PRESIDENT IS REGISTERED IX O-BRIEXTILLE, CINCINNATI. Executive Will Start Back to Wash ington After Few Hours and Will Get Election Returns on Train. WASHINGTON. D. C. Nov. .(Spe cial.) President Taft wU.1 leave Wash ington tomorrow afternoon at I o'clock for Cincinnati, hta home city, where on Tuesday he will east his vote. The President will vote In the O Brlenevllle precinct of Cincinnati. He will remain In that city only a few hours, starting on the return trip oa Tuesday. -- While It is probable that from Co lumbus, Ohio, eastward, the President will receive partial returns. It Is ex pected that he will begin to see definitely how things are going all over the .country before his arrival at Pittsburg. - The President will reach Washington early on Wednesday morning and will hurry to .the White House for a few hours of business. Late on Wednesday afternoon the President will leave for Panama by special train to Charleston. At Charleston the President and those In his Immediate party will be taken aboard the battleship Tennessee, and the newspaper men and secret service men will be taken to the battleship Montana. The battleships will sail from Charleston probably at 1 o'clock on Thursday. ARGENTINA IS UP TO DATE Combined Harvester and Caterpillar Engine to Aid Farmers. BTOCKTON. CaL. Nov. S. (Special.) The first combined harvester to be used In South America Is on lta way to Buenos Ayres and on its arrival there a crew of experts under the supervision of C Parker Holt, of this city, will aasemble the big machine and show the w heat It rowe re of Argentina the most up-to-date method of harvesting. Argentina has long been a great wheat-producing country and at various times the condition of the grain there has affected the prices of wheat through out the world. The methods of harvest ing bave been crude heretofore and it la proposed to Introduce the best system ever known In handling the grain to In crease the profits of the farmers. Another California Invention, the cat erpillar engine, will alao bT Introduoed In the south. One of these machines was shipped on the ssme boat that car ried the combined harvester and It will be used to demonstrate that for power on soft or hsrd ground It can take the place of from five to 76 horses. Mr. Holt expects to surprise the South Amer icans with the. two machines. PLEA FOR CR1PPEN MADE "Belle Elmore Still Laves," Lawyer Will Tell State Department. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. S. (Special.) Francis Tracy Tobln. a prominent lawyer of this city, left for Washing ton, D. C. at midnight to demand that the State Department Intervene and save Dr. Harvey Hawley Crlppen from death on the gallows Tuesday morn ing on the grounds that Mrs. Belle El more Crlppen Is still living. He will request that the Secretary of State cable at once to the American Ambassador, asking that the latter pe tition the Home Secretary of Great Britain to order a stay of execution until Mrs. Crlppen can be produced In -the flesh. "Belle Elmore still lives." he said.. "When she is found it willje In the vicinity of Chicago, where she is In hiding- I have letters In my possession from people who know her and who have seen and spoken to her since she Is said to have been murdered. In many Instances she has not denied her Identity. She was first seen In fan Fran cisco. Later she was seen in Chicago, and after that ahe was seen arid spok en to In several cities south and east of Chicago." STRIKERS OUST PRESIDENT Garment Workers Repudiate Agree ment Proposed Settlement Off. CHICAGO. Nov: . The outlool: for an early settlement of the garment workers' strike went glimmering today when the strikers declined the rroposed agreement offered by T. A. Rlckert. President of the United Garment Work ers, repudiated him as a leader, and Bought the aid of the Chicago Federa tion of Labor. . The Federation instructed Its execu tive board to Issue a call for funds to assist the strikers and ordered Presi dent Fltzpatrtck to prepare a memorial on the strike to present to the conven tion of the American Federation of La bor, which will meet In St. Louis next Thursday. The strike has been on for six weeks and 40.000 garment-workers have been out most of that period. BANKER HOLDUP VICTIM S. F. l4ine Relieved of Money and Watch by Two Highwaymen. S. F. Lane, of the Citizens Bank of Seattle, waa held up last night at 11 o'clock at the comer of East Thirty first and GUsan street by two men and relieved of $4 and a gold watch valued at 50. Mr. Lane was on his way to his rooms at "4 J Hoyt street, when passing a lonely spot two men Jumped out from the brush and revolvers in hand, com manded Lane to throw up his hands. - I ROOSEVELT STAYS IN FIGHT TO LAST Moral Issues Pending, Colonel Says. STRIFE HARDEST CF CAREER Appeal to Voters Puts Labor Question to Fore. DIX IS SAVAGELY ATTACKED Democrat Charged with Receiving Support of Men Who Boast of Having Defeated - Bill to Control Child Labor. . NEW YORK, Nov. S. After a week of traveling In which he covered more than 3000 miles and made speeches In New York, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. Theodore Roosevelt returned to Oyster Bay today for a brief rest be fore plunging into politics again. ' Beginning early tomorrow he will make seven open-air speeches of 10 minutes each five of them before 10 o'clock, then visit his offices for con ference and luncheon, and dash out again for two more speeches In the afternoon. Colonel Roosevelt Joined Henry L. Stlmson today in a last appeal to the voters. His statement said In part: "I regard this as far more than a mere party contest. I appeal not only to Republicans, for I feel that In this con test we have the light to appeal Just as strongly to all uptight and far-sighted men. Democrats and Independents, no less than Republicans. Moral Issues Lead. "The election next Tuesday turns on vital moral questions affecting the whole future of this state and of our people; and therefore It la our right and our duty to appeal to the whole body of honest cttlsens Irrespective of party ties. The powerful and crooked political organization against which we are pitted la now working hand and glove with all the great sinister Interests of crooked finance, the breath of whose nostrils la special privilege. "The sinister financial Interests fat ten on political corruption, and the bi partisan alliance between them and Tammany Hall la fraught with a grave menace to the welfare of the plain peo ple of the state. Murphy Diz Sponsor. "Mr. Stlmson has made his campaign" fearlessly and sincerely In the open; his promises square wtth hie record; he has stated his position on every question. Mr. Dlx derives his sole Importance from the fact that Mr. Murphy picked him as being the man most capable to carry out the purpose of Tammany Hall. He has no public record and he has not dared to state hla position fully and freely on a single vital question. "He dared not answer Stlmson'a ques tions and could not frame a question which Stlmson would fear to answer. "Mr. Stlmson. as District Attorney, made a record which no other man in that position haa ever approached. "He dealt as dangerous blows to cor- (Concluded on Page 2.) -...... .iiii. ---........ .............. ....... .............. i : . . . . . t i t - - -- v - I ....... ............T BOWERMAVS RAILROAD RECORD. Records of the Oregon Leg islature do not support the charge that Jay Bowerman, Republican direct primary nom inee for Governor, is a corpora tion man. They show that he Is not- At the sessions of 1905, 1907 and 1909, when Mr. Bow erman was a member of the State Senate, several bills vital to the Interests of the public and directed against corpora tions "were considered. In the consideration and disposal of each of these measures, Mr. Bowerman fearlessly took a stand for the public interest and against the corporations. Here Is presented a brief re sume of , some of the antl-cor-poratlon bills Mr. Bowerman voted for and assisted to place on the statute books of the state: 1909 session Bill requiring main line railroads to connect with branch lines and to exchange business. This measure had Mr. Bowerman's vote snd passed by the bare constitutional majority of 18. 1907 session Bill creating State Railroad Commission. Mr. Bower man was a member of the Senate committee on railroads by which this bill was considered, as well as being a member of the conference com mittee of the two houses by which the nfeasure was favorably reported i" to the two houses snd enacted. Bill limiting to 14 hours Id every the continuous employment of railroad employes. 109 session Constitutional amend m.nt giving the people the privilege of deciding whether or not the state should construot railroads. On this bill Mr. Bowerman cast the deciding, vote leaving to the electors of the state the final decision of this sub ject In tomorrow's election. Bill compelling ail railroads to fence their right of way. As a mem ber of the Railroad Commission, Mr. West. Mr. Bowerman's opponent, ap peared before the committee in op position to the bill, which was vig orously opposed by the railroads. Bill creating State Tax Commission. This measure was fought vlclousy by the railroad and other large corpora tion Interests. This measure la said to have placed on the tax rolls of the state fully $100,000,000 of corporation property that had formerly escaped taxation. During his service of six years in the State Senate, Mr. Bow erman at all times was the vig orous advocate of legislation in support of the portage railway at Celilo. The original appro priation for this improvement, which was universally demand ed by the people of Eastern Oregon, was made at the 1903 session of the Legislature, two years before Mr. Bowerman became a member. At the 1905 session, Mr. Bowerman earn estly supported a bill providing an additional appropriation for maintenance and extension of the railway and was chairman " of a special committee that visi ted the property and made a report to the Legislature. This bill, with Mr. Bowerman's as sistance, passed the Senate only to be killed In the House. Two years later, a similar bill was before the Legislature. Again it passed the Senate but met the same fate In the House. At the 1909 session, however, Mr. Bow erman and the other friends of the portage railway, renewed their efforts In Its behalf. As a result, the bill, carrying an ap propriation for maintenance and the extension of the road to The Dalles passed both houses and became a law. Stubbs Confident in Kansas. TOPEKA, Kan.. Nov. 6. Republican leaders are confident that Governor Stubbs and the rest of the state ticket will be elected Tuesday by pluralities of 30,000 or more. The Democratlo man agers are giving no figures but profess confidence. The Democratic managers are counting on Republican dissatisfac tion growing out of the bitter primary contest to elect their ticket. GENERAL STRIKE IN GOTHAM LIKELY Climax in Express Dis pute Expected Today. UNIONS FAVOR A WALKOUT Move Would Affect Every Op- erator of Vehicles. LABOR LEADERS CONFER Meeting of Joint Executive Council of Brotherhood of Teamsters Will Be Held Today to Decide Cpon Course. NEW- YORK, Nov. 6. A climax of the express strike Is expected tomor row, and this. In the opinion, of the strike leaders, will be In the nature of a general strike. After conferences today between Daniel J. Tobln, president of the In ternational Brotherhood of Teamsters; Valentine Hoffman, vice-president, and Samuel Gompers, it was announced that a meeting of the Joint executive council of the Brotherhood would be held tomorrow to discuss the advisa bility of a general strike. Express Men in Conference. The representatives of the express companies were also in conference to day. In New York and Jersey City today there was little disorder. Several of the Express Companies managed to dispose of a few wagonloads of freight In New York. In Jersey City, cautions were given from all pulpits that par enta should keep their children at home after school tomorrow. Unions Favor Strike. While Messrs. Gompers, Tobln and Hoffman were conferring many of the 35 local unions of the city.held meet ings and went on record as favoring a general strike. -. President Tobln said a general strike would call out every driver or operator of wheeled vehicles in the city with the exception of motormen of the elec tric roads. Mr. Gompers made the following statement: Strike Peculiar. "This strike is a peculiar one. It is the first time in the history of union ism where the men have been willing to arbitrate, all questions, even includ ing recognition of their union. "As Vice-President Hoffman was leaving the conference he was seized with a sudden illness and fell uncon scious. He was taken home in a taxi cab. He had labored day and night since the strike began, and It Is be lieved his attack was due to exhaus tion." Gaynor Corrects Error. TJnder date of November 6, Mayor Gay nor addressed the following letter to the editor of the World which is printed this morning: "I see the statement in Sunday's pa pers that attempts to make peace be- Conciuded on Page 4.) WALL STREET TO KEEP OPEN HOUSE PREPARATIONS MADE FOR JOY OUS ELECTION NIGHT. Incidentally, Even if Things Go Wrong, There Will Be Chance for London Trading. NEW YORK. Nov. 6. (Special.) Wall street will keep open house Tuesday night. Generally few firms have kept their offices open for the reception of election returns for their friends, but Judging from the large number who are Inviting customers, the attendance this year will be the largest on many an elec tion day. During the fortnight Just ended news tickers have been loaded with announce ments that various offices will keep open to receive returns. Practically every door will swing outward and It Is prom ised that there will be other entertain ment than that afforded by telegraph. Wall street frankly says it expects noth ing less than a sweeping Democratic vic tory. Incidentally there will be an op portunity to take advantage of the Lon don market, whatever the result. There Is always more or less trading in London for the account of houses In this city, but Wednesdays record for this business should be high. RECTOR DIES IN PULPIT Dr. Clapham, Formerly of Tacoma, Is Stricken in Santa Clara. SANTA CLARA, CaL, Nov. 6. (Spe cial.) Dr. Henry Horace Clapham, the venerable rector of the Episcopal Church of this city, dropped dead in his pulpit today as he was nreparlng to read the Scripture lesson at the be ginning of the morning service. Just as the choir had concluded the opening hymn. Dr. Clapham had opened the Bible to the Thirtieth Psalm, "I will magnify Thee, O Lord," when he suddenly tot tered forward, clutching the stand In front of him and falling heavily to the sanctuary floor. Men rushed forward and bore the dying man to the vestry. Physicians reached his side an Instant later. Just as Dr. Clapham breathed his last. Heart failure was the cause of death. . ' Rev. Henry Horace Clapham was born in England 64 years ago and came to California In 1882. For 14 years, until his late call to Santa Clara, he was pastor of Trinity Parish, Tacoma, and his return to this valley was induced by failing health. SUFFRAGE POLL IS TAKEN Twenty Per Cent of Nominees for ' Congress Favor Full Ballot. WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. More than 20 per cent of the men nominated by the Democratic and Republican parties as candidates for Congress are in favor of suffrage for women either in full or partially, according to the Congres sional committee of the National Wom an Suffrage Association. The committee has conducted a can vass by mail. The request for an ex pression of opinion was responded to by x180 of the 672 nominees addressed. Full suffrage for women is favored by 107 candidates, 64 of whom are Demo crats and 43 Republicans. Twenty-one Democrats and 15 Republicans favored partial suffrage. Only nine nominees declared themselves opposed to any kind of suffrage for woman. These were Democrats. Non-committal replies were received from 17 Democrats and 11 Republicans. A majority of nominees in California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Utah answered in favor of full suffrage. NICARAGUA WANTS LOAN Republic Would Fund Debts and Adopt Gold Standard. MANAGUA. Nov. 6. In the convention signed yesterday by United States Com missioner Dawnson, on the one hand, and General Estrada and his ministers on the other, for the continuance of Es trada In the Presidency for two years, Mr. Dawson promises to use his best ef forts to obtain a loan for Nicaragua from the United States. This loan Is to be guaranteed by 50 per cent of the custom duties, and will be used for the purpose of funding the Internal and foreign debt, building rail roads to Matagalapa and Rama and es tablishing a gold standard. MOTOR RACER BADLY HURT Tire Bursts When Cyclist Goes 50 Miles an Hour Death Expected. LOXG BEACH, Cal., Nov. 6. In an Impromptu motor cycle race up Signal Hill today Clarence Clayton was thrown by the bursting of his front tire, and struck another machine, being probably fatally injured. The riders were going about 60 miles an hour when Clayton's tire burst and his front wheel collapsed, throwing him Into another machine which hurled him 20 feet through the air. He sustained a fracture of the skulL STRAITS WILL BE FLOWN Aeroplane May Go From Havana to Key West in December. HAVANA. Nov. . Arrangements are being made for an aeroplane flight across the Florida straits from Havana to Key West, probably In December. The dis tance is over 90 miles, but conditions for flying. It Is claimed, are favorable at this season. The Havana Post has offered a prize of 25000. It Is said that Glenn H. Curtiss, Mara. Ely and Baldwin will compete, I THIS COLLIDE OH CURVE; 8 DEAD Great Northern Wreck a Catches Fire. FOUR ARE SERIOUSLY- HURT Regular and Special Freights Crash at Terrific Speed. BODIES BURNED IN DEBRIS Half Slillion Dollars Worth of Roll' ing Stock Converted Into Kind ling Wood in Twinkling in Accident Near Spokane. SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 6. Eight are known to be dead and four known to be more or les seriously injured as a re sult of one of the most disastrous freight wrecks In the history of the Great North ern Railroad, near Chattaroy, Wash early this morning. The wreck was the result of a head-on collision around a sharp curve in a deep cut. fairly at the bottom of two steep grades. Two heavily loadod trains running at an exceptional rate of speed combined almost every con dition possible to make the impact so disastroua Traffic on the main line of the Great Northern will have to be suspended from 40 to 48 hours. The wreckage will hard ly be removed and the line cleared before Monday night. Apple Train Is Hit. Train No." 451, running on its regular schdule, westbound, collided with the "apple extra," castbound, running On a fast schedule of Ave hours between Hill yard, Wash., and Troy, Mont. Train No. 451 was loaded with paints, oils, soma furniture and some livestock, 'much of "t extremely Inflammable material and con siderably lighter than the apple extra, which carried, besides fruit, heavy loads of grain and furniture. Every man of both train crews who happened to b9 near 4he front of his train 19 dead. One brakeman saved himself by pump'ng, but he Is seriously injured. Rear Brakeman Escapes. The brakemen who happened to' be in the rear of their trains escaped with minor injuries. The loss In tho wreck is very large. A pile of 19 cars of train No. 451, Jammed into the space of an ordinary living room, caught Are immediately and were speed ily reduced to a mass of tangled, writh ing stocl bafore the fire apparatus, sum moned from Spokane, 21 miles away, could ctart a stream of water on the ruins. (Concluded on Page 2.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS s The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 53 degrees minimum, 50 degrees. TODAY'S Rain, southerly winds. Foreign. Bareness Vaughn quarrels with new hus band. Page '2. National. President Taft issues Thanksgiving day proclamation. Page 2. Politics. Unbiased estimate!. Indicate election of Bowerman by 7000, Lafterty by 8000 and Hawley by 6000. Page 1. Stlmson has "fighting chance" to via In New York. Page 3. Oklahoma's ' experience shows prohibition does not prohibit. Page 5. Big meetings will wind up campaign to night. Page 8- Prohibltlonlsts hold simultaneous meetings In four local churches. Page 12. Abuse of Home Rule leaders acts as boom erang on "drys." Page lj. Roosevelt to make many speeches on day before election. Page 1. Indications are that bowerman will carry (loos and Curry counties. Page S. Oregon stockmen big losers by Oswald Weat trickery, is charged. Page 4. Donetlc. , Baltimore aviation meet proceeds slowly. Page 3. Customary pre-election flurry' not experi enced by stock market. Page 3. Margaret Anglln will undergo operation on nose and throat. Page 3. President Taft will go home to vote. Page 1 General strike likely to be called In New York today. Page 1. Wall street prepares for Joyous election night; tickers to give returns. Page 1. Sports. Pennant-winning Beavers now on way home to enjoy befitting harvest. Page IB. Wabash football team defeats Reliance eleven. Page 39. - pacific Coast League results: Vernon, 3-7. Portland 2-5; Oakland S-3, San Francisco 1-0; Los Angeles 4, Sacramento 0. Page 18. With next Saturday's game. Northwest championship football honors hang in balance. Page 1- Gut Hetling. protested Portland player, goes to Oakland next season. Page 18. Pacific Northwest. Eight killed In terrific head-on collision of freight trains. Page 1. Explosions In coal mine near Seattle fatal to 13 miners. Page 4. Head of Vancouver, wash., bankrupt chem ical company arrested In Vancouver, B. C. Page 7. Woman may be at bottom of Salem murder mystery. . Page T. Portland and Vicinity. Would-be assassin glad victim of shooting will not die. Page 8. New bills open at two Portland theaters. Misus'of Red Cross emblem causes storm o protest. Page 14. Kersh Jury deadlocked; asks to be dis charged. Page 14. Customs officers puzzled whether to allow ship-born sheep to be landed. Pag. 15. l.eob Rossi, victim of portiere s bullet, dies; believed r to have attempted robbery. KonhhfeTu'cker. Pantage's singer, to fight charges of giving immoral act. Page J-.