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TUFT'S. TRIP
BUTTLE INTEREST
Territory of Enemies
Will Be Invaded.
HE'S WITH PEOPLE, HE SAYS
Tour Most Notable Ever Un
dertaken in "Off Year."
MANY TOPICS SCHEDULED
'Progressive" States Will Be Pene
trated and President trill Tell
Inhabitants He Will Aid
Them in Struggles.
WASHINGTON. Sept 10. (Special.)
i week hence President Taft will
be on his way across the Continent
on one of the most notable political
tours ever undertaken In a non-cam
Tiilnliii Tear.
Two years ago President Taft swung
oat to the Pacific Coast and hack
through the Southwestern and Southern
States, but that trip lacked the battle
Interest that will mark every mile of
his forthcoming Journey. This time,
aside from groin among: the people as
their President, he presents himself as
a candidate for renomlnatfon and re
election.
Mr. Taft will traverse territory where
th.r. are Renubllcan chieftains deter
mined to wrest leadership from him If
they can. They have anticipated Ms
coming; and are appealing: to their fol
lowing to repudiate his .dmlnlstratlon.
Taft -of People, He gays.
Into the "progressive" Central States,
and farther West, goes the President to
tell their Inhabitants that he la of
them and with them In the light of
the hour for all which Is termed "prog-
resslveness." Els right to such a posl
tion Is challenged by powerful states
men. who at thla time are characterised
under the general term of Insurgents.
If one will forget for a moment the
personal end. let the thought pene
trate that certain matters have been
left undone and that It la the Taft pro
gramme to aronae a publio sentiment
which will forca Congress to action
when again it meeta to fuss over
change in the existing law. It suffloea
to say that If such publio sentiment Is
aroused to the point of effectiveness
It la to be counted aa an asset In Presi
dent Taft's light for continuance In hla
present high station for another term.
Big Issue to Be Toadied.
There will be big issues In the Na
tional campaign of next year, and they
are to receive their preliminary handl
ing from one side by President Taft
In his big across-and-back tour. First,
there Is the tariff.
The passage of the Canadian reci
procity measure has made an Issue, not
between the Republicans and the Demo
crats, but between the Republican Ad
ministration and the opposing faction
within the Republican party. It la
true that "stand-patters" and "pro
gressives' were banded together to de
teat this reciprocity, but so far as the
future is concerned, the political Issue
may be said to Involve mainly the In
surgent element and the Administra
tion. It Is the President's purpose rather
his hope to make the rank and file
reach an understanding that what has
been done In this line was for the wel
fare of the many, and he believes that
experience will demonstrate the fatu
ousnss of the fear that American farm
ers or any other clasa w.U be injured
by the arrangement proposed.
Vetoes Another Topic.
Then there are the vetoes of the
piece-meal tariff revision measures
passed at the recent extraordinary ses
slon of Congress.
These vetoes have raised a tremen
dously big Issue. Tha Issue is likely to
be the paramount one of the campaign
next year. They will be defended by
the President on the ground that all
tariff revisions following the Payne
Aldrlch law which he will defend only
as a move toward real, scientific re
vision, the best that could be obtained
at the time and under the previously
existing conditions should await the
report of the tariff board, which at
present represents in Its operations the
tariff commission.
The Insurgent "progressives" contend
that measures already vetoed involved
needed tariff changes, and the Presi
dent has Joined issue with them on that
question, and is about to argue It In
detail before the great American Jury.
Referendum to Be Discussed.
Other supremely Important topics
which the President will take up be
tween the rising and setting sun sec
tions of the country are the arbitra
tion treaties, which have been pre
sented to the Senate, the statehood
question with particular reference to
the referendum and the recall, and the
question of constructive legislation
with respect to corporations.
In some speech on his trip Mr. Taft
is going to tell his audience that to
his mind a divorced man denied the
right of remarriage where divorced and
remarrying in another state s com
mitting bigamy.
The marriage yesterday of John
Jacob Astor. a divorced man. who
lias
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"WET" OR" DRY," UP
TO MAINE TODAY
BOTH SIDES CONFIDENT; FORE
CASTS VARY WIDELY.
"So License" Forces Close Cam.
paign With Unique Taradcs .
by 30,000 Children.
PORTLAND. Me., Sept. 10. (Special.)
Estimates tonight on the vote tomor
row on the question -of repealing the
Prohibition amendment are no closer
together than yesterday. They vary
from fOOO to 10.000 majority for repeal
to an extreme of 13,000 for reafflrma
tlon of the principle that has made
Maine famous. -
Both sides appear to be confident of
success. Frederick G. Fassett, secre
tary of the Nonpartisan Local Self
Government League, composed of Dem
ocrats and Republicans who favor re
peal, and his associates at headquar
ters feel certain that a substantial ma
jority of the people, t-l"t 5000. will
declare against prohibition. On the
other hand, George W. Norton, secre
tary of the No-License movement, also
made up of Democrats and Republicans,
aaya positively that the majority
against repeal will be around 11,000.
Both estimates are based upon the re
turns of canvassers.
The managers of the "wet" campaign
In Portland look for a total vote of
about 125,000. In Bangor, from which
the campaign in Eastern Maine has
been handled, the leaders do not expect
a total vote of more than 100,000.
The last day of the campaign was
unique.. In this city, Bangor, Augusta,
Bath, Lewlston and other large places
there were parades of children bearing
banners Inscribed, "Vote for us." Mora
than 80,000 children turned out.
There will be a great demonstration
in this olty tomorrow, led by Mrs. Lil
lian N. Stevens, National president of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union.
TURMOIL STIRS HONDURAS
Martial Law Declared aa Result of
, Revolutionary Plot.
6 AN SALVADOR, Republlo of Salva
dor, Sept. 10. It is reported here that
martial law has been declared In Hon
duras. . v '
Recently a gigantic revolutionary
plot against the admnlstratlon of Hon
duras was unearthed. Theodore Her
nandes and M. Ugorta were arrested
and letters were found revealing the
hiding place of a large quantity of
arms and ammunition.
It was said that ex-President Davlla,
who was .deposed by the revolution
under General Bonilla, was implicated.
ETNA' ACTING OMINOUSLY
Quake at Brief Intervals Alarm
People Living Near Volcano.
CATANIA, Sept. 10. Mount Etna is
showing a revival of activity. Two
new craters have opened about 8000
feet above the sea level. A cloud of
smoke Is visible and ashes are erupted
continuously.
Earthquake shocks at Intervals of
from Ave to 10 minutes are felt In all
the surrounding villages, where the
Inhabitants, are greatly alarmed.
T0RRE0N IS MADE SAFE
Thousand Troops to Maintain Order
on Mexican Holiday.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. Danger of
trouble and disorder at Torreon. Mex,
on the Mexican national holiday, next
Saturday, need no longer be feared.
aocordlng to a report to the State De
partment from American Consular
Agent Corrothers, at Torreon.
He announces that 1000 Mexican
troops have arrived at Torreon to .pre
serve order.
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RARE TIME AWAITS
AT BIG FAIR GATES
Stylish Stock Is Shown
. in Stables.
FINE EATABLES GRAM TABLES
Great Exposition, Opening To
day, Does State Proud.
SALEM PRIMPS FOR CROWD
Addison Bennett Tells of 1800 Folk
Outside Ground In Tented Town
and Their Mayor, Who Seems ,
to Be Man of Some Renown.
BY ADDISON BENNETT.
. SALEM, Or., Sept. 10. (Special.) As
milady stands before the dressing table
In her boudoir anC dabs a bit of rouge
here, a dash ot powder there, plasters
an eyewlnker with a splash of black.
grabs a corset, a shoe and various other
articles to the deponent unknown to
assemble herself, so to speak, so It Is
as the fiftieth Oregon state fair assem
bles "herself for the morrow's open
ing.
The clans are gathering from far and
wide, from near and remote, from Mal
heur to Clatsop, from Lake county to
Wallowa, they come come singly, dou
bly. in platoons, companies and regl
ments and still they come and will
come to make the next six aays
memorable in the annals of Oregon.
And with them come the exhibits of
all sorts and kinds. That great mort
gage lifter, the cow, will be here with
her great records of golden dollars
poured into her owner's purse; great
draft horses, coach horses, saddle
horses, race . horses, trotters, . side
wheelers" and runners and more
horses, young; and old; and the hog-
aye, the hog that, properly fed and at
tended, can work such wonders of pros
perity for the farmer; and old "biddy"
and her chicks, the "old gray goose and
gander," the ducks end turkeys and
pheajsanta; the sheep and goats and
mules and Is there any likely livestock
left In Oregon side from what Is assem
bling and to be assembled at the fair
grounds tomorrow? Yes. "a few." But
there will be enough and to spare here.
Let the beholder know that the Oregon
farmer Is "some punkins" when It comes
to raising arid showing livestock.
1800 Dwell In Town of Tents.
And then the other exhibits butter
and cheese and honey-hams, shoulders
and bacon. And Jams and Jellies and
preserves! Gee! Let me say It over
again backwards for emphasis pre
serves and Jama and Jellies and Jams!
And hurrah for the Oregon Jams I
But why go into details. How can
I diagnose the squeals and bleats and
bellows of the stocs, or draw a parallel
to the good things brought In "by the
famous housewives of Oregon?
But before you get to the fair proper.
Just after you cross the railroad track
of the S. P. line, you come to a tested
city, where 1800 campers will live and
move and have their being and eat
their "ham an' " and flprk and beans
this week.
And who presides over this tented
city, this ephemeral center of civiliza
tion, this assembly there! I have done
It! Assemblages - ill pass muster, but
In the newer lexicon of Oregon there
is no such word as assembly, and far be
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HAFIHOTS OB1 THE PRESIDENT OJt MIIWfG TOUH. AMD OF
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Foreign-
French bankers cause of financial disturb
ances In Germany. Fage .
Nine Mexicans slain in political battle.
. Pua 2. . -
China sends troops to guard foreigners In
flood districts. Page 4.
. National.
Taft's trip across Continent and back notable
political move lor "on year. rwo
Domestic
United States Attorney attacks Colorado s
title to statehood. Page 2.
TTntAit Kinnlnir f n th Pr-in-laW tells Of
author diet vagaries, Page 3.
Governors plan ambitious programme for
tms weeK conierentc ms"
Woman suspected of stealing Mona Lisa.
Pin 8. '
Maine to decide "wet" or "dry" Issue to
day. Page 1.
Trm. nrfpNhv back from Europe won t
telle of social triumphs. Page 3.
Chicago fashion makers decree tight dresses
without unaersajres. r o.
, .nnhiif. will suffer" an
less Krattschnltt makes concessions.
Pa vik 1
Millionaire Investigation says drinking Is
Inmilnfl-lv nrevalent In colleges. Page 1.
Altnr te-111 attempt flight from Golden
Gate to Reno today. Page 2.
Pacific "Northwest.
Addison Benne't tells of attractions of state
fair at Salem, which opens today. Page l.
Huge lor raft grounded on Peacock Spit
breaks up. hundreds of heavy piling are
washed out to sea. rage w.
Nine widows, whose ages total 625 years,
attend party In honor of Tth blrtnday oi
Vsinoniiver woman. Page 1
Southwest Washington State Fair opens to
il a v. Pasa 5.
East Side route for Portland-Salem high
way is selected, page o.
Sport.
Pacific Coast lasue results yesterday.
Portland 1, Sacramento 24 Innings) 1,
Vernon 5-B. San Francisco 2-4; Oakland
H-l I.na Anrelea 1-X. Page 8.
Northwestern League results yesterday:
Victoria 7-0. Portland 8-2: Spokane j-i.
Vancouver 1-1; Tacoma 2-1; Seattle 1-8.
Pa&a R.
Beavers and Vernon Tigers will begin series
In Portland tomorrow, rage s.
Referee at meet where Dan Kelly ' made
world record declares Smlthson's con
fession" is fabrication. Page 8.
Industrial.
Remarkable development predicted for Tual
atin Valley. Page lu.
Tillamook-Bay Ocean highway Is proposed.
Page 10.
Pasco plans J3O.OO0 dock. Page 10.
Rain Is aid to Hood River orchards. Page 10.
Portland and Vicinity.
Sailors-' from British cruiser Shearwater
march through Portland streets on way
- to church. Page 7.
Evidence obtained at first hand to figure
in Grand Jury hearings. Page 14.
National leaders of Knights of Security
guests of Portland lodges. Page 8.
H. C. McAllister, manager of ' Home Rule
- Association, protests at police Judge's
laxness in enforcing liquor ordinance.
Page 14.
Southern Pacific attorneys explain defense
In land grant, suit. Page 9.
Horace V. Wlnchell. noted mining engineer.
says Alaska has been uelamea ny lawn
reports. Page 11.
Portland pastors denoance minister who
married Colonel Astor and Miss lores.
Page 14.
Knights of Columbus from afar attend big
initiation ceremonies in Romano, rage s.
WIDOWS FLOCK TO CALL
Idaho School Superintendent Del-
uged'with. Applications.
"WALLACE, Idaho, Sept. 10. (Spe
cial.) Do the widows In the North
west outnumber the old maids? Miss
Frances Wilson, superintendent of the
Shoshone County schools, believes they
do, Yesterday, after sorting over one
of her dally budgets of applications
for the position of teacher of the Gor
don district where the trustees re
quire a widow with four children, she
felt her assertion was Justified.
"Since It became publicly known that
these trustees wanted a teacher with
four children of school age to add to
their enrollment," said Miss "Wilson, "I
have been literally flooded with appli
cations. Letters and telegrams have
come from all parts of the Northwest."
Among these applications Is one
from a married woman wlfji four chil
dren, who Is willing to come with her
husband from Eastern Oregon. In a
postscript to her letter she asks in re- ,
gard to the chances for a man. . An
other letter from one who wished to
stretch the requirements, came from a
Spokane girl of 18 years f age, who
igreed to bring two brothers and two
sisters of the proper ag.
In the last few. days the Gordon '
school has been given to a widow with
six children. For her own services and
for the serviced of the four' whom she
delegates as pupils to sit with the dis
trict's, she will receive a monthly sal
ary of J100. -
"SWING ABOUND CIRCLE." SIMILAR TO ONE NOW ABOUT TO BE UNDERTAKEN.
COLLEGES RIBALD,
MILL!
NA1RE
SAYS
More Harm Than Good
Done, Crane Finds.
STUDENTS DRINK TO EXCESS
Columbia, in MidSt of Tempta
tion, Called Worst.
BEER - RULES PRINCETON
Wealthy Investigator Bitter as Re
sult of Findings Yale Clubs
Have Tables In Barrooms,
Is Accusation Made.
CHICAGO, Sept. 10. R. T. Crane,
millionaire iron manufacturer, made
public today an arraignment of the big
universities of the country. He charges
alarming prevalence of, drinking and
gaming among the students. Colum
bia he ranks the worst, but conditions
at Harvard, Princeton and Cornell, he
declares, are almost as bad.
Of the students at Harvard, 90 per
cent drink in their freshman year; 95
per cent in their senior year, and 15
per cent of them go irrevocably to tne
bad, according to the report of an in
vestigation which Mr. Crane caused to
be made. Mr. Crane has spent much
time and money Investigating the re
sults of higher college education. So
bitter Is he in consequence that he de
clares colleges do more harm than
good.
Heavy Drinking Common.
"An outsider can scarcely realise the
amount of drinking that goes on in the
clubrooms of the colleges." says Mr.
Crane, in his report. "Referring par
ticularly to Harvard. I estimate the
number of students who combine In a
nild degree wine and bad women, 65
per cent: who drink heavily. -35 per
cent, and who have two or three 'bats'
a year also 45 per cent.
"I do not doubt that even worse
states of affairs exist In other col
leges. At Princeton, it is beer, beer,
beer. The body of students in my mind
drink even more than Harvard men.
On one occasion I believe there must
have been more than 300 students dead
drunk.
"At Tale drinking Is recognised in so
great a degree that clubs have their
tables at barrooms. I was never so
shocked in my . life aa when I found
New Haven the dissolute, debauched
and whisky town that It Is. Some time
ago the statement appeared in a New
Haven paper that theras were 2000
fallen women In that city.
Cornell "Great Oa Beer.
"At Cornell the conditions are some
what the same, although I believe Cor
nell students do not carry their ex
cesses so far as do boys at Princeton.
Yale and Cambridge. The Cornell boys
are great on beer, as are also the, men
at Princeton.
'At Columbia, I believe, there exists
more debauchery than at any other col
lege, on account of Its nearness to the
famous resor.ts of the city. If further
proof be necessary, let me quote from a
letter received from E. C. Mercer, who
is special secretary of the Association
of Colleges of North America, and who
is following this matter up for the as
socation, which shows that it has taken
upon itself the work of reforming col
lege men.
"He is delivering a lecture entitled.
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.CROWDS OF ADSXIHERlt
NINE WIDOWS SIT
AT BIRTHDAY TABLE
HOSTESS IS 76, AND AGES OF
AXIi TOTAL 625 YEARS. K
Two Daughters of Mrs. Sarah J.
Hastings, of Vancouver, Bring in
Old Friends to Surprise Her.
VANCOUVER. "Wash., Sept 10. (Spe
clal.) Nine widows, five of whom were
wives of Civil War veterans, and whose
combined ages totalled more than 625
years, were guests at a dinner today,
given In honor of the 76th birthday ot
Mrs. Sarah J. Hastings, by her two
daughters. Mrs. Mary Moore, of Port
land, and Mrs. Rachael Cox. at Mrs.
Cox home, 612 "West Thirteenth street.
The party was a complete surprise
to Mrs. - Hastings, who had expected
only a visit from her two daughters.
An elaborate dinner was served, no
one except the nine widows being
seated at the table. All were pioneers
of the county and each had known all
the others before their husbands had
died. It was a Jolly party, and many
were the amusing stories told of the
long ago.
Mrs. Hastings received many pres
ents from her widowed friends, and all
passed a happy day.
The widows present were: Mrs. Sarah
Jane Hastings, guest of honor; Mrs.
Prlscllla Sparks, Mrs. Nancy Good
night, Mrs. Freelove Claver, Mrs. Isaao
Dletderich, Mrs. S. E. Campbell. Mrs.
T.nnlnda Burt. Mrs. R. A. Munn and
Mrs. Martha Huff. ,
T. KRUSE NOT THEODORE
Theories as to Whereabouts of Miss
ing Man Fall Again.
With the discovery that the T. Kruse
who was in Glenwood Springs, Colo.,
SeDtember 4, was not Theodore Kruse,
the hotel man who disappeared from
Portland August' 21, more mystery has
been added to the case.
'feA. man named T. Kruse, of Portland,
was In Glenwood Springs, September 4,
and left the same day for Denver. Upon
request of G. C. Larm, manager of the
new Carlton Hotel' here. Manager Arroll,
of the Colorado Hotel at Glenwood
Springs, went to Denver to trace Kruse.
He reported yesterday In a letter to Mr.
Larm that he found T. Kruse there but
he was not Theodore Kruse. He re
ported that ha was a traveling man and
that he made his headquarters In Fort
land. Philip Gevurts, who had a number of
business dealings with Kruse, says he
still believes Kruse will return.
CATHOLICS MAKE READY
Archbishop Says Organization
Is
Hope of Church Here.
CHICAGO, Sept 10. The Catholic
Cnurch Is preparing to meet the same
adverse conditions In the United
States that It has in Franoe and Por
tugal, according to a statement by
Archbishop Qulgley, in an address to
day before the sixty-fifth annual con
vention of the German Catholic Cen
tral Vereln.
'Organization Is the hope of the
Cathollo Church here," he said. "The
question confronting the organisation
is what to do about the dangers now
threatening Christianity lh this coun
try. In France and Portugal the Cath
ollo '.Churoh was persecuted because
the Catholics were not organized."
BEATTIE SINGS MERRILY
Convicted Wife-Murderer One
Musical Trio In Jail.
of
RICHMOND, Va., Sept 10. Between
puffs of the perpetual cigarette, Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr., who was sentenced to
pay the penalty of wife murder In the
electric chair November 24, tonight
was gayest of a trio of singers at the
Chesterfield County Jail.
STRIKE LEADERS'
PLANS ARE MADE
Recognition Still to Be
Insisted On.
NO WAY TO PEACE IS SEEN
"Public Will Suffer?' Unless
Kruttschnitt Yields.
THREAT MADE BY KLINE
Advisory Committees Entrust Gen
eral Officers With Conduct of
Affairs Fair Warning
Will Be Given.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 10. Unless
Julius Kruttschnitt vice-president and
director of maintenance of the HarrU
man lines, recedes from his absolute
refusal to recognize the Federation of
Shop Workers or its committees on
these lines, he will be confronted with
a strike. No reason for believing tha
he will recede has been found by labor
leaders here.
General advisory committees of the.
Ave International shopcraft unions
which are comprised in tne federation
conclu 1 here today a three days'
conference with the international offl
cera of those unions. The general offl
cers were entrusted with full charge
o: the situation henceforth, and Inter
national President Kline, of the Black
smiths and Helpers' Union, their ap
pointed spokesman, said that the gen
eral officers had made up their mind
what they would do.
Unions Still Insistent. '
"Mr. Kruttschnitt will have to make
concessions," said Mr. Kline tonight
"or the . -lio, for which he has ex
pressed so great regard, will suffer
because he does not"
"Will the general officers ask for
another conference with Mr. Krutt
schnitt?" was asked.
"That is not In our present plan.".
he replied. "We are going to Los
Angeles tonight and may And some
way of approaching the subject again,
but none has occurred to us so far.
"Recognition of a federation of
unions Involves no principle that Is not
inoluded In recognition of individual
unions, already conceded by the Harri
man lines and no principles not al
ready utilized In the formation of the
Harrlman system itself. It Is our right
and we shall insist upon It"
Jail Has No Terrors.
Asked concerning the prospect that
the Federal statutes against comblna- .
tions In restraint r trade may be In
voked against officers of the Interna
tlonal unions, he said:
'When we took office we took all
responsibilities of the office. If these
Include going to Jail, we will go to
JalL"
Fair warning, Mr. Kline said, would
be given to the Harrlman officials in
case a strike is called.
From Los Angeles Mr. Kline will go
to Salt Lake and East to Chicago,
stopping, perhaps, at Omaha. Other
international officers will cover the
southern routes of the Southern Pa
clflc Railroad, meeting the men at railn
way centers en route.
EASTERX OrTLOOK HOPEFtti
Machinists President Thinks Thai
Strike Is Xot Imminent.
CHICAGO. Sept 10. Members of the
executive board of the International
Association of Machinists, who met here .
today to consider the advisability of
a strike of the Federated shop em
ployes of the Illinois Central Railroad,
deferred decision until a full meeting
of the board which will begin a session
at Davenport, Iowa, tomorrow.
James O'Connell. international presi
dent of the machinists, arrived hera
today from Washington and confer
ences with members of the machinists'
board and representatives of the com
mittee of international officers of the
Illinois Central Federated unions were
held. President O'Connell and several
other members of the machinists' board
conferred later.
"We reached no finality in the mat
ter," said President o conneii toaay.
"It was decided that the full board
should nass on the advisability of au
thorizing the strike of the machinists
who are In this Illinois Central Feder
ation. The full board win meet to
morrow in Davenport, where our Na
tional convention will be held Sep
tember 18."
"Is there any probability of an im
mediate strike?" President O'Connell ,
was asked. s
'My best judgment would be," he
said, "that there is no immediate danger
of a strike."
"Is it probable that the executive
board will refer the entire matter. In
sofar as the machinists are concerned.
to the convention'"
'That Is likely," President O'Connell
answered. The main question which
the machinists' international convention
may be called on to determine is
whether a striKe oi local unions in a
new Federation should be authorized.
inasmuch as these locals already are
recognized through their International
unions, which have working agree,
ments with the Illinois Central
t