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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1910)
N V K V . gga- roKTLAND. oregox: Tuesday, . xotbibeb 8. 1910. price five cents. VOL. L.- y- UtOOJi i LAST DAY IS BUSY Republicans Rest at Midnight, Confident. DEMOCRATS DESERTING WEST Majority Party Presents So!id Front New Era Ahead. HEAVY VOTE IS EXPECTED Xtowrrman Spend P In Unt Side Districts, Making Addresses la Company With W. C. Haw ley. Many .Mfftlnp Held. Carry Inc their campaign aggreseiively riffht up to tho last hoar. Oregon Repub licans rested at midnight, convinced that the new dar will bring forth a new era of procressivj Republicanism and mark the end of political combination and machinations. The lat day of the campaign u the most arduous of all for the Republican campaigners. Volunteer worker were bu- In every section of .the state. Ten of thousand of cards were distributed in Multnomah County alone. Big; maw meetings were held In a score of towns. Convinced a week ago that complete Re publican victory could not be forestalled, the Republican forces only redoubled their effort In the interest of a decisive majority. That Jay Bowerman. Republican direct primary candidate for Governor, has more than countered the concentrated attack of the Bourne-Chamberlain ma chine, which is back of Oswald West, la the current belief amor.. Republicans and closo observers of the campaign. The machine's campaign of vilification has been carried to such extremes a to brine on a widespread reaction, which is taking; even Iemocrat by the hundreds away from the Bourne protege. West. The eterent.1-hnur cessation of hysterical abuse by the Bourne pre has fsiled to relieve the situation. Minimum Lead Put at "000. Seven thousand majority la the mini mum set by Republican) In their fore cast on the Gubernatorial race. At head quarter of the Republican State Central Committee yesterday a forecast based on a careful canvass of the situation elves Jay Bowerman a majority of from 7000 to U.nrX His Multnomah County lead is estimated at JSC by the County Central Committee. At Democratic headquarter) figures were indulged in reluctantly, an even bresk being claimed for Multnomah County and a majority in the state at large for 'West of about 30r That there will be an unusually heavy vote there is every reason for believing-- Interest in the prohibition light Is Intense throughout the state and will serve to bring; out the heav iest percentage of voter of recent elec tions. It is believed. Not even faulty weather will affect a heavy vote. This fact is taken as adding; to the chance of a splendid and complete Re publican victory. There are approxi mately M Republicans to every IS Pftnnrntt in the elate. Republican dis affection has been largely wiped out, efforts of the Bourne machine to bring on a party rumpus have not borne fruit and hence the claim of the Republicans that the larger the vote the 'larger their majority. iH-morraM Deserting; Vfl. It Is figured at Republican head quarters that Mr. Bowerman could lose ' per cent of his registered party vote and yet be elected by a handsome ma jority. Eliminating 10 per cent of the Republican vote as not being cast at the poll, there will be tt.SOO votes left. Deducting 30 per cent of that total and adding it to the full Democratic strength of t.000. less than 10 per cent not votlnr. the product Is 41.SI0. Bow erman still has left 45. J0 Republican votes. The lead is supplemented when the IS0 Iemocratlc votes, conceded by the lemrcratlc State Central Commit tee, are added to the Bowerman total. While Democrats will concede Mr. Bowerman but 5500 of their party vote, because of the disaffection in the party brought on by Oswald West's affiliation with the Bourne machine, it Is claimed by Republicans who bare . been over the state that fulty tfoo Democrat will bolt their party. It Is the con tention of the Demoeratto County Cen tral Committee that the integrity of the Democratic par'? can be maintained only by the elimination of hybridism, political comblnationa and one-man campaigns. It is In support of this principle that West Is being cut by hundreds of the rank and file of the party that nominated him. Cattlemen of the state, and especially Eastern Oregon cattlemen, are taking the most active part In th campaign, and their activities will affect the totals considerably. It is believed. Irrespective of parry affiliation, tbe cattlemen are fighting the Bourne protege and have placed upon him th brand of railroad supporter. Their action is Induced by West's action in the last Legislature when, in co-operation with the attorneys for the O. R. N. and Southern Pa ' ciflc Railroad Company, he lobbyted I against a measure compelling th rail- CAMPiUS iCoacladad oa rase - HUGE BEAR HOLDS UPAUTO PARTY AXLE OP CAR BKEAKS JLST AS BRCIV REARS.. SNARLS. Women Scream and Rcnl Takes to California Mountain Brush In Peace- Riders Rescued. WEAVERVTLLK. Cal.. Nov. 7. Spe clal.) As W. A. Goets was automobll lng with women friends last night the party was held up by a huge black bear on the road from this place to Douglas City. As they rounded a point the head lights revealed brnln. who reared on his hind feet and snarled defiance. Ooetx. at the wheel, attempted to turn aside and drive around the beast. . As lie turned off the beaten road a fore wheel dropped Into a hole and the axle snapped in twain. It wa Impossible to move the car forward or backward. .creamed.' After th bear had gaxed In wonderment at the strange spectacle for a few awtui moment, he ambled off Into the brush on the mountain aide. A econd automobile party on the way from Douglas City to Weaverville picked up Goeta and his friend a few minute later and conveyed them out of th bear xone. DICKINSON JJKES FLYING War Secretary Wants Aeroplanes for United State Army. NEW YORK. Nov. 7.-"I am greatly impressed by the military value of aero l. and shall urge their adoption in the United State Army." ald Jacob M. Dickinson. Secretary of War. upon hi. arrival in New York today after his tour around the world. Th Secretary's visit to the sviatlon camp or tne tvnrh imv perhaps Impressed him more that anything; he encountered dur ing his usvelsv 'r mu three flight In aeroplane at he French military av.atlon camp at Chalons," said he. "In one. I was op more than half an hour aid the pilot drove hi machine at nearly a mile a minute. V'ic seneotlon wa superb. I waa p-- l-tilarly struck by the command the oil V. hid over their machines wnen carrying a passenger." FIREBUGS START FLAMES Los Anftelc House Where Bomb Waa Found Attacked for Third Time. LOS ANGELES. Nov. 7 For th sec ond time within a week Ore early to day nearly destroyed a house which, until ten days at 3. belonged to Felix J. Zeebandelaar. secretary of the Mer chants' and Manufacturers' Associa tion. On the day that the plant of the Los Angeles Times was destroyed a bomb was found at Zeehandlaar's home. Mrs. Elda Cloud and her seven-year-old son. who were the only occupants f the bouse, narrowly escaped from the flames, which started some time after midnight In the cellar of the bouse. H. Hlnklcman. who bought the place from ZeehanJclaar, said today that he found in the cellar tbe remain f a feather bed which he believed had been placed there by the Incendiaries. TRAMWAY BREAKS; 3 DEAD Men Cross Skagit River In Aerial Backet, riungc to Death. SEATTLE. Wash- Nov. 7. L. C Thompson, of Seattle; George Bab cock, of Clear Lake, and Joe Spangler. of Van Horn, were drowned in the Skagit River, at Van Horn. Skagit County, today when one of the bucket supports of an aerial tramway by which they were crosslnr the river gave way. dumping them into the water. Five men attempted to cross the stream In the bucket, which was not designed for so heavy a load, and when they were lialt way across one of the fastenings broke. Ed Crow and C Con radl, the other two men In the party, clung to the rim of the bucket and reached shore in safety. Tbe bodies of the drowned men have not been recovered. IN DEATH'S JAWS, GIRL WINS Maid Carries Nitroglycerine, Think it Water; Father Saves. WASHINGTON. Pa.. Nov. 7. Totally Ignorant that danger surrounded her and under the Impression that she was carry ing water, 11-year-old Mildred Anderson today tripped along with two pall of nitroglycerine, which had been prepared for shooting an oil well on the Cemaron farm near here. As she carelessly rsrof tha pails labor ers stood breathless 100 yard away, fear ing every moment to see th child hurled Into eternity. At a quiet command from her father the child et th pall down and was taken out of danger. The men. unnerved, suspended: work for the day. STUDENTS ELECT ST1MS0N Cornell Holds Mock Voe--RooseveIt Named as It IS President. ITHACA. N. Y.. Nov. 7. Henry L. Ftlmson waa elected Governor of New Tork Stat today at a mock election by the Cornell students. The total vote waa 150 of which Stimaon received 1017 and Dlx 663; scattered 70. Mr.' Put is a Cor nell graduate. The vote for President In 1912 re sulted: Roosevelt 60S; Taft 400; Gover nor Harmon 1S4; Wood row Wilson 364; scattered it.f T SIGN PEACE PACT K. & E. and John Cort Reach Agreement. "OPEN DOOR" POLICY WINS Syndicate and Independents to Play Same Houses. LOCAL SITUATION CHANGES Trust Attractions Will Be Seen In Ilclllg as Well as In Rest of Na tional Theater Owners" Association Circnlt. NEW YORK. Nov. 7. (Special.) An agreement was reached today between Frohman, Klaw. Erlanger and John Cort whereby attractions of the former will hereafter be booned in houses controlled by the National Theater Owners' Asso ciation.' This clears up the general theatrical situation. Official announcement of this agree ment was sent tonight from the office of Cort. It had been approved by Klaw A Erlanger before being issued. The production sent out by Klaw Sz Er langer will be taken care of at houses controlled by the National Theater Own ers' Association and this will Insure peace throughout the country. The Shuberta. who are the third big factor in the theatrical world, have all along been associated with the National Theater Owners' Association, and their position naturally remalna the same. In a word today's agreement means that all the houses, big and small, throughout the country will be open on practically even terms to all attractions that are available and desirable. IIEILIG DISCUSSES SITUATION Local Manager Says Change Means More Attractions' for Portland. "This puts an end to the theatrical war and clinches the victory of the theater managers, and owners of ti.e National Theater Owners' Association in their fight to take from a small group of men in New York the power of dictating- to managers outside the metropolis," said Calvin - Helllg, one of the director of the National The ater Owners' Association, and president of the corporation owning tbe Helllg Theater In this city, when the dis patches telling of the peace treaty in New York were read to him at 1 o'clock this morning. Although he knew negotiations look ing for peace were going on In New York, he first learned of their con summation through The Oregonlan. "When Frohman. Klaw & Erlanger first talked of building theaters In the Northwest In opposition to those con trolled by the Northwestern Theatrical Association, members of which are also members of the National Theater Own ers' Association. I predicted that their Oonrlud-d on I-sge 4-)' HEATER POWERS INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. BT degrees; minimum, 30 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional rain, cooler, westerly winds. - . National. President Taft votes today and then sails for Panama on Thursday. Pago 2. Politics. Election of Dix In New York by 45.000 plu rality predicted. Pace 3. Country today decides on personnel of 62d Congress. Page 6. Drys close campaign with big parade, two rallies and 14 street meetings. Page 18. Prominent men of Portland argu against prohibition. Page 9. Roosevelt wlnda up campaign in New York with prediction of Btlmson'a election. Page 2. Oregon Republicans keep up light to mid night hour; retire confident. Page 1. Election forecasta Indicate Democratic ma jority In House and several new Demo cratic Governors. ' Pace 1. Light vote expected In Waahlngton; Repub licans will win. Paae 4. Home Rule rampalirn ends with big rally at Armory. Pae 7. Domestic. Engineers of 61 roads, covering entire West, North and South, expected to strike any moment. Page 1. Aviator Latham sails over Baltimore's sky scrapers for S2 minutes. Page 5. Big bear holds up automobile party on California road. Page 1. Belle Elmore Crippen reported alive In America, page 4. Frohman. Erlanager, Klaw and Cort sign agreement ending theater war. Page 1. Psorts. Champion Beavers will be welcomed home today. Page 8. Ranking of Northwest and Portland tennis players will be out this week. Page S. Interscholastlc championship football game on tomorrow between Columbia and Washington High teams. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Water system is bone of contention In fight of Vancouver candidates for Mayor. Page 7. Woman's wardrobe burned In wreck, sounds like inventory of dry goods store. Page 2. Impostor arrested ss he draws fake check for missions. Page 1. Estate of man strangely klllel In Salem found to amount to only 1300. Page 15. Seattle women made dummy incorporators In $10,000,000 Alaska coal company. Is chsrged. Page i. Msn killed at Salem worth only $800. Pag 15. Commercial and Marine. Northwestern wheat farmera bold for ad vance. Page 21. Unloadlng of wheat at Chicago depresses prices. Page 21. Union Pacific prominent In Wall-street mar ket. Page -1. Ten Japanese desert ship when It resches Portland. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. One man killed, another mortally wound ed In attempted hold-up; Italian waiter shot dead on streets, are murders of one night. Page . ' Keren Jury disagrees; new trial ordered for December 8. Page 14. Broadwav bridge balkers get snother vital setback. Page 16. - Public ownership of dorks held unfeasible by prominent shipowners. Page 12. Prominent New York Episcopalian coming to Portland to attend order of Holy Cross Mission. Page 20. John F. Stevens returns; looks over local situation. Page 14. Polling places open at 8 o'clock today. Page 18. Judge cleeton annuls bridge pact with rail road. Page 12. Milk famine threatens; dealers may sell to cheese factories. Pace 13. OREGONIAN ELECTION RETURNS. The Oregonian -will flash election returns today on a screen in front of the Oregonian Building, beginning at 5 P. M. The Oregonian will receive the Associated Press bulletins of the election returns from the Eastern and Western states, and a special service has been ar ranged to cover every county in the State of Oregon. The elec tion news of the city of Port land and of Multnomah County will be completely gathered and promptly displayed. LISTENING. EL EGTEONTQ BRING RADICAL CHANGES Dix Slated .to Win New York by 50,000. HARMON .WILL CARRY OHIO Illinois Will Go Republican and Re-Elect Cannon. . SOCIALISTS MAY SUCCEED Ono and Possibly Two Will Go to Congress From MilwaukeeDem ocrats to Have Majority of 25 to 45 in Next House. CHICAGO, Nov. 7. (Special.) Unbiased forecasts on the general political results tomorrow, based on the best information obtainable from East and West here to night, is that: The Democrats will ht.ve a majority in the next Congress of from 25 to 15. John A. Dix will carry New Tork State for Governor over Henry I Stltnson by at least 60,000 plurality. Ohio will be for Judson Harmon for Governor by a plurality as large as if not larger than that of two years ago. Indiana Democrats will control the next Legislature by a majority of 12 to 20 on Joint ballot and Senator Beveridge will be retired to private life. Cannon Will Witt Again. Illinois will go Republican by 40,000 to 60,000; Cook County Is In doubt with the chances in favor of the Democrats on net results; the Legislature will continue to be controlled by Repub licans; Speaker Joseph G. Cannon will be re-elected In the Danville district by a good plurality over W. L. Cundlff, Democratic candidate, and the Demo crats are likely to gain from one to three Representatives In Congress. Judge Baldwin, Democrat, will be elected Governor of Connecticut. . Wood row Wilson will be chosen Gov ernor of New .Jersey. The result on the Governorship in Massachusetts i in doubt as between Governor Draper, candidate for re election for the third time, and Repre sentative Eugene Foss. who at the special election in the Fourteenth Con gressional District several months ago overturned a normal Republican ma jority of several thousand by a ma jority of SCO. Socialists Going to Congress. Wisconsin will elect Francis E. Mc Govern, Republican and a La Follette man. Governor; Victor L. Bcrger will be elected Representative by the Social ists in the Fifth or Milwaukee district over Representative Stafford, and there Is a chance that the Socialist- candi date in the Fourth, a Milwaukee dis trict, will defeat Representative Cary. a Republican. The Legislature will be strongly Republican in both branches, in suring the re-election of Robert M. La Follette "Jnited States Senator. Michigan will elect Chaoo a Osborn i Concluded on I-age 4.) IMPOSTOR CAUGHT HIDING IN MISSION H API VIE CURRIE WOULD GIVE $15,000 TO HOLT ROLLERS. Man Posing as Heir to Millions Gets Money From Liberal-Hearted Vancouver Folk. VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 7. (Spe cial.) Just as he was writing a check for $15,000 for Holy Roller mission aries, Harvie Currie, who, posing as a grandson of the late Sir James Currie, of Scotland, last week obtained money from charitably-inclined Vancouver folk, was arrested today. With Currie at the time of his ar rest were two women Holy Roller mis sionaries, and it waa indirectly through them that he was captured. He had spent the whole day in the mission, waiting, the police believe, for night to make his escape. When asked why he had misrepresented himself, Currie pleaded that this was his first offense. Currie last week secured a meal ticket from Rev. H. S. Templeton, pas tor of the Presbyterian Church, and a letter of recommendation to A. Hos sack, a deacon and treasurer. From the deacon Currie got $5 In cash. He became acquainted with Mrs. Jane Sutherland, who keeps a bakery, tell ing her he was in need of money, but that in a few days he would have a remittance of $60,000. She believed him and gave him $32. When he did not re turn, she became suspicious and swore out a warrant for his arrest. Tonight Harvie Currie, Scotchman, alleged scion of nobility, alleged heir to $15,000,000, alleged grandson to one of tbe most prominent families of Scot land, occupies Cell 1. In the City Jail, charged with a felony. WOMEN. VOTE TO REFORM Mock Election in Pennsylvania May Be Straw Showin.- Result. PITTSBURG, Nov. 7. As an educa tional feature of the suffrage, the Equal Franchise Federation of West ern Pennsylvania and the Allegheny County branch of the Suffrage Consti tutional Amendment League have called a meeting here to discuss various nominees for which the men will vote tomorrow. Polls were opened in vacant stores in the East End and in the down-town section and all the formality of a gen eral election was observed with the ad dition that tea and cakes were) served at the voting booths. The rolls were open from 9 o'clock this morning until 8 o'clock tonight, and when the count was in, 619 votes had been cast. Five defective ballots were thrown out and the result gave the Keystone, or reform, nominee tor Governor 377, Republican 135, Democratic 10, Prohi bition 42, Socialist 48 and Industrialist 2. FIRE ON FALCON PUT OUT Mare Island Gets Word North Bound Vessel Is Not Delayed. EUREKA, CaL, Nov. 8. The wireless station at Table Bluff reported early this morning that a massage from Cape Flat tery had been received there telling of a fire aboard the steamer Falcon, bound from San Francisco to Seattle. No de tails were obtainable. The Falcon sailed from San Francisco Sunday night and is tonight some place off the Oregon coast. MARE ISLAND, Cal., Nov. 8. A wire less message received here says that about 9:30 P. M. the steamer Falcon flashed distress" signals.. The Snohomish went to her aid and the fire was put out at. 12:30 A. M. The steamer then proceeded on her way to the Columbia River. The extent of damage was not learned. WOMAN TO WATCH POLLS Daughter of Late Robert G. Inger soll Is Volunteer Worker. NEW TORK. Nov. 7. Miss Maude Ingersoll, daughter of the late Robert G. Ingersoll. will be one of the non partisan watchers at the polls tomor row. She performs this service at her own request and aligns herself with the EO or more women suffragists who, at the call of the. "Equality League of Self Supporting; Women," have offered themselves for the one election duty women may perform. They have been placed by the Republican. Volunteer Watchers' Association. 12 TO EAT $500 DINNER Business Man Dies, Slakes Strange Bequest to Friends. 1 NEW YORK. Nov. 7. Twelve friends of the late Ratke Sledenburg, a busi ness man who died here last October, are directed by the. terms of his .will, filed for probate today, to eat a din ner costing $500 at the expense of his estate. The selection of the guests and the time and place of the dinner are left to his executor, with the sole provision that the dinner must be eaten within three months of the testatpr's death. DICKINSON CIRCLES GLOBE Secretary of War Returns, Bronzed by Suns of Many Lands. , WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. Bronzed by the suns of many lands. Jacob M. Dick inson. Secretary or War, returned home late today after a globe-girdling journey extending over more than three months. Til talk about It tomorrow," he said. ENGINEERS OF 61 ROADS 111 STRIKE Negotiations End; Vote to Be Taken; DIFFERENCE IS 7 PER CENT Railroads to Have One More Chance, Say Trainmen. BOTH SIDES STAND FIRM Paralysis of Traffic West, South and North of Chicago Seems Immi nent Cessation of Confer ences Conies as Surprise. CHICAGO, Nov. 7. A strike vote will be taken among the engineers of 61 roads west, south and north of Chi cago, following the termination today of 'negotiations betw een the roads and grand officers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, which had been under consideration since Septem ber 26. Wage increases of approximately 7 per cent and alteration of working conditions stood between the negotia tors. Grand Chief Warren S. Stone, of tha Brotherhood, said today he believed the workers' vote would be unanimously in favor of striking. Immediately thereafter, he said, a last opportunity would be given 'the railroads to meet the workers, and, If they ignored that opportunity, within five hours every engine west of Chicago would be stilled and the fires drawn. Division Managers Advise. The representatives of the engine men in the 25 conferences which ended today were: Warren S. Stone, grand chief; Ash Kennedy, F. A. Burgess, E. Corrlgan, M. W Cadle and -i. E. Wills, assistant grand chiefs, Bro. erhood of Locomotive Engineers. They received the advice of SO division managers of the Brotherhood. Railroad officials who heard the en gine drivers' demands were: W. B. Scott, of the Union Pacific; F. E. Ward, of the Burlington lines; F. C. Batchel der, of the, Baltimore & Ohio 1-he; F. A Duram, of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas; G. H Emerson, of the Great Northern; T. J. Foley, of the Illinois Central; F. C. Fox, of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe; Grant Hall, oi the. Canadian Pacific; H. J. Simmons, oi the El Paso & Southwestern, and A. W. Trenholm, of the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha. . . Working Conditions Disliked. The whole question arose from the decision of the engineers in convention at Detroit last Spring. The general working conditions, of which the engineers complain, include the following: Drivers of the Mallet compound engines, which do practically the work of two engines and entail a corre sponding responsibility and capability, receive the same wages as drivers of engines of much smaller capacity. Engineers wish to be relieved of the toil of preparing their engines for travel and of caring for them after runs. They also ask that switching time be paid for on a different basis. The magnitude of the question is evidenced by a statement of the em ployes that tne 7 per cent wage dlr ferrence now standing between the drivers and the railroads means, ap proximately $2,600,000 a year. The cost of altering working conditions would be less than $500,000. it is asserted. Concessions of No Avail. "When the conferences began," said W. B. Scott, chairman' of the confer ence committee, "the engineers' de mands approximated a 27 per cent in crease. This finally was brought down to 17 per cent. We finally agreed to a 10 per cent increase, totaling $3, 840,000 for the 61 roads we represent, and there we both stuck." The following list of the lines af fected was given out: Atchison, Topekan & Santa Fe; At chison, Topeka & Santa Fe Coast line's; Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe; Beaumont, Sour Lak & Western; Canadian Pa cific; Chicago & Great Western; Chica go & Northwestern; Chicago, Burling ton & Quincy; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; Colorado & Southern; El Paso & Southwestern; Galveston, Harrisbiirg & San Antonio; Houston & Shreveport; Houston, East & West Texas; Indianap olis Southern, Kansas City Southern. Louisiana Western, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Saiilt Ste. Marie; Missouri, Kan sas & Texas;, Morgan's Louisiana & Texas, Northern Pacific, Oregon Short Line, , Quincy. Omaha & Kansas City; St. Joseph & Grand Island. Southern Kansas, of Texas; Eastern Railway, of New Mexico; Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago terminal, Canadian Northern, Chicago & Alton: Chicago. Milwaukee & Puget Sound, Chicago & Western Indiana; Chicago Junction; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha; Duluth. South Shore & Atlantic; Fort Wbrth & Denver City: Great Northern: Houston & Texas Central, Illinois Central, International & Great Northern, Kansas City Term inal Mineral Range. Minnesota Trans fer, Missouri Pacific. New Orleans, Texas & Mexico; Oregon & Washing ton. Oregon Railway & Navigation (Concluded on Pace 2.1