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AVIATRIX AND HER
PASSENGER KILLED
BRYAN
ILLINOIS
FIRM
Deadlock Is More Com
plicated Than Ever.
WILSON GAINS MATERIALLY
Clark Drops to Low-Water
Mark Since Start.
BALLOTING IS MONOTONOUS
Speaker Journeys From Capital to
Baltimore but Does Not Address
Convention Tired Members
Act Mechanically.
BALTIMORE, July 2. The deadlock
in the Democratic National convention
over a Presidential nominee seemed
more complicated than ever -when ad
journment was taken at 12:43 A. M.
until noon today.
, Woodrow Wilson had made steady
gains during Monday's balloting; until
he reached a high-water mark of 501
votes on the 29th ballot. He remained
stationary on the 40th ballot and then
began to lose ground. The last ballot
was the 42d. when Governor Wilson
polled 494 votes.
Clark Tote at Loir Ebb.
Speaker Champ Clark reached the
lowest ebb of his candidacy on the bal
lot where Wilson reached a crest. - He
went down to 422 votes at that time
but immediately began to pick up and
had gone to 430 when adjournment was
taken.
The Speaker came over to Baltimore
during the evening and was a guest at
the home of Mayor Preston, near Con
vention Halt. He returned to Wash
ington shortly before midnight. '
The convention went through another
monotonous round of balloting last
night Roll calls, in which Governor
Wbodrow Wilson gained steadily and
Speaker Champ Clark as steadily lost,
were taken without decisive result.
Wllaoa Gafna at "tart. " v
The evening started auspicious!? for
Wilson with the 26th ballot and on the
39th he had passed the 500 mark with
one and one-half votes to spare. Clark
in the same ballots lost 11 votes. On
the 40th call of the roll Wilson's 501 H
remained the same and Clark gained
. a single vote. leaving him 423. Mean
time the vote for Oscar W. Underwood
fluctuated within 10 votes of the 100
mark.
The delegates sat in a sort of stupor.
The roll call clerks entered the vote
mechanically, often without waiting
for the responses from the various
states. At the end of the 40th ballot
a tired Alabama delegate moved to ad
journ, but when a roll call en the mo
tion was demanded, by the Wilson
forces, he withdrew It.
CeavcBtloa Hall Bratrsrrd.
Convention hall was almost stam
peded tonight by thousands of persons
who were refused admission after
Chairman James ordered the police to
admit no one except delegates, alter
nates and members of the press.
When the order was Issued the po
lice were having trouble preventing
crushes at the doors and in the streets
around the hall. Within a few min
utes the authorities were confronted
with a situation so serious that re
serves were sent for and the crowds
driven from the doors. In front of the
hall the street was roped off at each
entrance of the building and double
lines of police stationed across the
streets. No one was permitted through
these lines without a delegate badge
and ticket or press badge and ticket. ,
By 10 o'clock it was estimated 25,
00 persons were packed in the streets,
clamoring for admission, but none
could elude the police. It was the
first time of the convention that the
precautions were necessary to avoid
possible trouble at the doors.
Police Ordera Strict.
The police orders were so strict that
several delegates who had forgotten
their badges, were excluded from the
hall for an hour before they could get
word to the inside and obtain Identi
fication. The hall itself was filled to
capacity, hundreds standing in the
aisles around the sections ' on the
ground floor.
A weary, bedraggled, peevish aggre
gation of delegates and alternates to
the Democratic; National convention
drifted Into the convention hall to
night, with a long, dreary night ses
sion in prospect. They confronted the
same monotonous grind of balloting
that had continued from: last Friday
morning.
A weary, bedraggled, peevish aggre
gation of delegates and alternates to the
Democratic National convention drifted
into the convention hall tonight, with
a long, dreary night eession in pros
pect. They confronted the same mo
notonous grind of balloting that had
continued from last Friday morning.
Almost a full week of controversy
between rival factions had sorely tried
the patlenee and temper of the dele
gates and the crowd was an Irritable
and excitable one. The tensity of the
situation had shown itself In a semi
riot on the floor in the afternoon
when W. J. Bryan found himself In
the midst of half a score of fist fights.
Police were warned to exert extraor
dinary vigilance In the future.- The
Officials and 'Visitors Make Initial
Trip From Salem Biff Cele
bration on Fourth.
ALBANY, Or.. July 1. ( Special.)
The first train over the Salem-Albany
extension of the Oregon Electrlo
reached this city at 7:07 tonight and
was met by a large crowd. The crew
placing the trolley wires reached Flftn
and Lion streets, the site of the Ore
gon Electrlo passenger station, at noon
today and at 3 o'clock this afternoon
the first electrically operated train
over the new road left Salem. The
train, which consisted of two cars,
made good time when running, hut
frequent stops were made for the in
spection of the work. The track was
found In first-class condition for the
operation of fast trains.
The .first train carried C. A. Cool
edge, general manager; L. B. Wlck
ersham, chief engineer: Carl Gray, Jr..
assistant engineer; C. G. Phillips, su
perintendent; A. C. Adams, superinten
dent of motive power; L. B. Kramer,
electrical engineer; M. Cunningham,
assistant electric engineer; J. Allen,
station agent at Salem, all of the Ore
gon Electric and a few visitors. The
train left for Salem on the return trip
at 8 o'clock tonight
. Regular service on the new line win
hn ln&ucrurated on July 4. when the
big Oregon Electric celebration will be
held here. '
PORTLAND HOLDS RECORD
City Best In World for Infants. Is
Report Made.
City Milk Chemist Calloway an
nounced at the meeting of the Health
Board yesterday that Portland is the
most healthful city in the world for
infants. The death rate last year for
each 1000 births ' was 70.4. A record
obtained from the health department
of New Tork shows that when the re
port was made the lowest death rate
recorded in any city in the world was
that for Sydney, Australia, with a mor.
tallty of 83 for each 1000 birth,
Healthful climate and pure water are
given as the chief causes for the low
death rate. To this has been added
in the last three years the pure milk
ordinance and the system of dairy in
spection. BIG BANK INCREASE SEEN
-'.- - .f, .- - -
Total of1 Deposits Jumps Several
BUllion In Portland.
SALEM. OrM July 1. (Special.) An
increase of 34,058,836.07 in the deposits
in the banks of Portland between June
7. 1911. and June 18, 1912, Is shown In
the report or Superintendent of Banks
Wright, which was completed today as
far as the Portland banks are con
cerned. The total deposits with the last
report were $73,358,198.42, while in 1911
they were SS9.299.3s2.35.
Overdrafts have shown a decrease of
318,408.64, being now only 398.118.03, as
compared to 3112,254.57 for the preced
ing year. Loana and discounts have
increased 34.377.389.81, the total now
aggregating (43.078,923.32 as against
338.699,531.01 for the preceding year.
Assets for June 18. 1912. total 387.
910,053.36. as compared to $82,442,220.65
for the preceding year. This is an in
crease of $5,467,832.71.
LA FRANCE FUNERAL TODAY
Man, Who Died In Clackamas River,
Burled by Lodges.
OREGON CITY. Or July 1. (Spe
cial.) The body of James C La France,
which was found near the. north fork
of the Clackamas River, nine miles
above Estacada, Saturday, by a party
of fishermen, was taken to Estacada
yesterday by Coroner Wilson, and will
be burled there tomorrow. La France
left his home in Portland June 18, on a
fishing excursion, and had not been
heard from since that time.
The funeral services will be held
under the auspices of the Woodmen of
the World and the United Artisans, of
which lodges Mr. La France was a
member. He was secretary of the Ar
tisans. He is survived by his widow
and three children.
NAVAL OFFICERS RETIRED
Twelve Still on List Who Will Be
Let Go Compulsorily.
WASHINGTON. July 1. Several
naval officers were retired today on
their application, thus reducing to 12
the number of officers who must be
compulsorily retired.
They are: Captain James P. Parker,
on court-martial duty at New- York;
Richard M. Hughes, commanding the
Washington; Captain John F. Craven,
Captain at the Naval War College;
Commander Wilson W. Buchanan, com
manding the Ohio; Commander Guy W.
Brown, commanding the recruiting ship
at Mare Island; Commander Albert L.
Key, on leave, and. Commander Wil
liam G. Miller, under treatment at the
Philadelphia Naval Hospital.
JUNE RAINFALL IS LIGHT
Astoria Observer Reports Deficiency
of 1.04 Indies.
ASTORIA, Or.. July 1. (Special.)
The records in the offloe of . Local
Weather Observer Gllmore ahow that
the rainfall in Astoria during the month
of June was 4.14 inches, or 1.04 Inches
less than the average for the corres
ponding month of previous years. There
were 11 days on which rain fell. 16
days were clear and 15 were cloudy.
The maximum temperature was 90
degrees and the lowest was 43 degrees.
Nebraskan Resents Act
of Missourians.
CLARK BANNER IS FLAUNTED
Every Delegate in Convention
Joins in Riotous Scene. '
BLOWS STRUCK W TUMULT
Commoner Goes to Platform Where
He Is Permitted to Make Short
Speech Which . Chairman
James Brings to Halt.
BALTIMORE, July 1. William Jen
nings Bryan was the center of a
riotous scene Just before the 34th bal
lot was taken in the Democratic con
vention today. The Missouri delegation
attempted to carry a Clark banner in
front of Bryan. . He. indignantly re
sented the move and twice tried to
reach the platform.
A howling crowd surrounded him.
pushing and demonstrating. Once he
reached the platform, then returned
and 'engaged in angry demonstration
wi$h members of the Missouri delega
tion; then again mounted the platform,
escorted by a policeman. He stood there
pale and apparently deeply moved,
while pandemonium reigned, and the
convention was in a frensy of disorder.
Missouri Banaer Raised.
The Missouri banner was pushed for
ward to the platform, then thrown
back by an opposing throng. Every
delegate in the convention was on his
feet, shouting madly.
A fist fight occurred immediately in
front of the delegates while, the tumult
was at its height, policemen separating
the combatants.
Bryan, from the platform, arose to a
question of personal privilege.
' Mayor Fitzgerald, of Boston, made a
point of order against Bryan's speak
ing. '"" 's " :
The point was temporarily laid aside
and Bryan prooeeded.
Bryan said he had asked for the re
moval of the Missouri banner from in
front of the Nebraska delegation.
Chairman James ruled that Bryan had
not raised a question of personal priv
ilege and refused to permit the 'speech
to proceed.
Bryan left the platform amid great
disorder and returned to bis seat.
Portland' People in Chicago.
CHICAGO. July 1. (Special.) A. B.
Thompsan and Mrs. K. M. Thompson,
of Portland, are registered at the Majestic
Report That Many Are on Point of
Departure Because of Lack of
Money Brings Offer.
SEAGRlT. N. J., July 1. A pledge of
$5000 to pay the bills of Wilson dele
gates to the Baltimore convention was
made tonight by Samuel Ludlow, Jr.,
a banker of Jersey City, and Joseph E.
Bernstein, a merchant of the same
place.
Reports from Baltimore that on ac
count of the extended session many of
the delegations . were -hard .un.... caused
the Jerseiu of 0 Library I8XOVI2F
their offel . . : X-
mit Governor Wilson's fight for the
Presidency to fail at ' this crisis for
lack of funds." said Mr. Ludlow. "We
will be prepared to pay the hotel bills
and other living expenses which the
Wilson delegates at Baltimore are un
able to pay. We expect to spend at
least $5000 this way. If necessary, we
can raise $50,000 In 24 hours and will
do so. We will pay any sum needed to
keep these men in Baltimore."
Mr. Ludlow said that he and Mr.
Bernstein would, appear in Baltimore
by 8 o'clock tomorrow, ready to succor
the needy Wilson supporters..
SWIMMERS SHOCK TEACHER
Dr.- Iuella Clay Carson Calls Police
to Onst Boys at Girls' Campus. '
OAKLAND, Cal., July ). (Special.)
Consternation reigned supreme on
Mills College campus this afternoon
when three weary, dusty, perspiring
boys, coming back from a tramp in the
hills, found It impossible to resist the
temptation of a swim in the cool lake
near the famous college for young
women.
Clad only in radiant smiles. - they
splashed about to their hearts' content
and were having the time of their lives
until Dr. Luella Clay Carson, president
of the college, taking an afternoon
walk with several of the young wo
men passed nearby. A riot call was
sent In to the Melrose police ' station.
Armed with a supply of blankets, the
police descended upon the boys and
restored peace and dignity to the
campus by carting them off to the
station.
All the. youngsters were under 13
years of age. After tearful apologies
and promises never to do It again they
were permitted to don their clothes at
the station and go home.
TILLAMOOK-GETS AIRSHIP
Chrlstofferson Promises to Fly Over
Bay If Wind Aids.
TILLAMOOK. Or., July 1. (Special.)
Telegrams to the committee in charge
of the Fourth of July celebration an
nounces that Silas Chrlstofferson, the
aviator who made a flight from the
Multnomah Hotel in Portland during
the Rose Festival, will arrive here to
morrow night and be ready for two
flights on July 3.
He will use a headless Curtiss bi
plane and plans to make flights over
the city and bay. A possible trip over
Bay Ocean and out over the Pacific
is contemplated, but conditions of wind
will direct this largely.
' SO NEAR, YET SO FAR.
Activity Subsides When
Colonel Departs.
NO CONFERENCES ARE HELD
Leaders Uncertain When They
Will Plan Campaign.
VAGUE STATEMENTS MADE
MedUl McCormlck, Who Is Direct
ing Roosevelt Cohorts, Asserts
' That There Slay Be No
News for Two Days.
CHICAGO, July 1. (Special.) Inac
tivity has taken the place of the stren
uoslty which marked the third party
propaganda directly following Colonel
Roosevelt's visit to Illinois.
While leaders who were active In
the movement while the Oyster Bay
candidate was in the city, decline to
discuss It, there has been a marked
ennui prevalent, especially since the
Baltimore Democratic convention took
on its progressive appearance.
Conferences, which had been planned
as forerunners of Colonel Roosevelt's
new party battle in Illinois have failed
to materialize and considerable dissat
isfaction admittedly has arisen over the
question of placing a third party state
and county ticket in the field in Illi
nois. McCormlck at Oyster Bay.
R. R. McCormlck, who was the 111!
nols member of the convention creden
tials committee and one of the Roose
veltians who refused to bolt when Colo
nel Roosevelt gave the "walk-out" sig
nals on the first night that the com
mittee met. was at Oyster Bay today,
conferring with the Colonel,
He is said to have discussed the Illi
nois situation frankly and to have ad
vised Mr. Roosevelt that It would be
more advisaye to "go along" with the
state organisation, which particularly
had been friendly to him so far, rather
than ' to run at cross-purposes with
Governor Deneen and his adherents.
Medtll McCormlck, who has assumed
the reins of the new party movement
In Illinois, was alone in. the third party
headquarters in the Congress Hotel,
when a reporter arrived
Leader Is Uncertain.
"No news today," he said, looking
up from a newspaper he was reading.
"When will the conference of Illi
nois leaders be caned," he was asked.
"I'm not certain," he said
"I don't think there will be any news
along that line for a couple of days.
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Willamette Valley Tariffs on Freight
Coming From Missouri River
Held Unreasonable.
WASHINGTON, July 1. Class freight
rates from the Missouri River and
points of origin east to destinations In
the Willamette Valley through Port
land, Or., today were held by the In
terstate Commerce Commission to be
unreasonable. . Reductions averaging
approximately 12 per cent were qrdered.
"It is evident that the commission
has acted on the theory that no rate
between two points shall exceed the
sum of the local rates between the
same two p-oints." said J. N. Teal, traf
fic attorney lor the Portland Chamber
of Commerce, last night.
"Either that or they have established
a rate for the Willamette Valley towns
which is equal to the sum of the rate
from the Missouri Valley to Portland
plus the rate from Portland to the Wil
lamette Valley towns and which, on
the basis of the class rate schedule
established by the state commission last
year, is equivalent to about a 12 per
cnt reduction. 1
"The probable effect will be to give
the Willamette Valley points closer re
lations with Missouri Valley points on
business governed by class rates. It
will not disturb the relations between
Portland and the Willamette Valley,
however."
DAVIC, AUTHOR, TO REWED
Bessie McCoy, Varna Yama Girl,
Wins Famous Divorced Writer.
NEW TORK, July 1. ( Special.)
Bessie McCoy, of Yama Tama fame.
and Richard Harding Davis, the for
mer war correspondent and present
author, are to be married. Tonight
Mr. Davis said at his home in Mount
Klsco that he and Miss McCoy will be
married on July 8. Asked for some
details about where the marriage will
take place, he refused to say a word.
"We are going to keep It a secret,'
said Davis. "We want to keep from
being bothered. We are going to be
married a week from today and that's
all you need. As a matter of fact we
haven't made our plans yet. anyhow,
because we don't want them to leak
out."
WILSON COOL IN CRISIS
Governor Says Votes Come "Slow as
Cold Molasses." "
SEAGIRT,; N. J July 1. "They are
coming as ' slowly as cold molasses,
was Governor Wilson's comment to
day upon his gain In strength at Bal
timore. "But at that we are doing
better than we did last week. During
the week we gained 83 votes; Today
alone, up to the present, we have gained
71. The Wilson lines are holding solid;
the gain is very satisfactory."
To all outward appearances the Gov
ernor was little concerned In the de
tails of the contest.
CAR RUNS AWAY ON GRADE
Motorman, Trying: . to Save Life,
Loses Ik Six Others Injured.
SEATTLE, Wash, July 1. Motorman
George C. Shinolt. aged 32, was killed
and six persons were Injured late to
day when a streetcar on the Broadway
line got beyond control near the June
tion with the Eastlake line and turned
over when It hit the switch at the
Junction.
None of the injured was dangerously
hurt. Shinolt was Instantly killed when
the car turned over. He tried to Jump,
but bis body was caught In the folding
gate and the car crushed him against
the pavement.
TAP LINE CASES DROPPED
Commerce Court Finds That It Han
Lack of Jurisdiction.
WASHINGTON, July 1. The Com
merce Court dismissed today, for want
of Jurisdiction, the so-called tap line
cases filed recently.
The petition presented by the tap
lines required injunctions against the
Interstate Commerce Commission's or
der determining tne status of tap lines
with relation to the various trunk lines.
The tap lines contended they were com
mon carriers under the law and that
the Commlsslson had no authority to
exclude them from the divisions of
through rates with, trunk lines.
CONGRESS THANKS SAVIORS
Captain and Crew of Carpathia Re
membered for Work.
WASHINGTON. July 1. The thanks
of Congress are conveyed to Captain
Arthur H. Rostron and the officers and
crew of the liner Carpathia for their
rescue of 704 survivors of the Titanic,
In the Senate bill passed today by the
House.
The measure now goes, to President
Taft for signature. The bill provides
for a 81000 gold medal for Captain
Rostron.
MRS. HUTT0N SPOKESMAN
Spokane Woman Announces .Votes of
Washington Delegation.
CONVENTION HALL, Baltimore, July
1. (Special.) Mrs. May Arkwrlght
Hutton, of Spokane, is announcing the
votes of the Washington delegation In
the convention.
Miss Harriet Quimby
Falls 1000 Feet.
TWO VICTIMS STRIKE IN BAY
W. A. Willard in Monoplane
With Woman at Helm.
WIND TURNS TAIL OF PLANE
Both Are Hurled From Craft as It
Plunges Toward Water Bodies
Strike With Fearful Impact
and Are Burled In Mud.
BOSTON. July L Miss Harriet Quim
by, of New York, the first woman to
win an aviator's license in , America,
and the first woman to cross the Eng
lish channel in an aeroplane, was
Instantly killed this evening with her
passenger, W, A. Willard, manager of
the Boston aviation meet at Atlantic,
when her Bleriot monoplane fell Into
the Dorchester Bay from a height of
1000 feet.
The accident happened when Miss
Quimby and Willard were returning
from a trip over Boston Harbor to
Boston Light, a distance of 20 miles
in all. The flight was made In 20 min
utes. Machine Is Latest Model.
The Bleriot. one of the latest mo
dels of military monoplanes, circled the
aviation field and sosred out over the
Savlnhlll Yacht Club, just outside the
aviation grounds. Heading back lnt
the eight-mile gusty wind. Miss Quim
by started to volplane. The angle was
too sharp and one of the gusts caught
the tall of the monoplane, throwing
the machine up perpendicular. Por an
Instant It poised there. Then, sharply
outlined against the setting sun, Wil
lard was thrown clear of v the chassis,
followed almost immediately by Miss
Quimby. Hurtling over and over, the
two figures shot downward, striking
the water 20 feet from shore. They
splashed out of sight a second before
the monoplane plunged down 15 feet
away.
It was low tide and the water was
only five feet deep.
Bodies Embedded la Mad.
Men from the yacht club. In motor
boats, were on the spot quickly and
leaping overboard dragged the bodies
out of the mud into which they had
sunk deeply. Death probably was in
stantaneous. Both bodies were badly crushed. Sev
eral of Miss Qulroby's bones were
broken and there were many large
bruises. Willard, who weighed 190
pounds, hit the water face first and also
sustained several fractures and bruises.
The clothing of both flyers was torn and
the bodies were so covered with mud
that it was several minutes before the
doctors could determine the full ex
tent of the injuries.
Troops Hold Crowd Back.
The bodies were laid on the ground
on the edge of the aviation field. A
troop of state cavalry held the crowd
back, while Dr. George Sheanan, the
field surgeon,. with his staff and nurse.
made hasty examinations.
In a few moments the bodies were
taken to a hospital. Miss Blanche
Stuart Scott, another avltrice. was fry
ing at the time of the accident.
Mix Scott Sees Fall.
From her high altitude Miss Scott
had watched Miss Qulmby's splendid
flight and was near by when the gust
upset the monoplane. In the excite
ment of the moment no one noticed
the lone avlatrlce, but when Miss Quim-
by'B body was brought ashore all eyes
were directed aloft and Miss Scott was
seen making sweeping circles over the
field at a height of about 600 feet.
Twice she started to descend, but
each time she was seen to falter. In
another moment summoning all her
nerve, she turned the nose of her ma
chin downward and landed safely, col
lapsing In her seat before anyone could
reach her.
A. Lee Stevens, of New York, manager
for Miss Quimby, and Miss Qulmby's
friend, Mrs. Helen Vanderbllt, who
were both witnesses of the accident,
were prostrated.
Both Joke Before Flight.
Before going up on their last flight.
Miss Quimby and Mr. Willard were
talking and laughing with their friends.
Willard making Jokes about his welRht
and Miss Quimby talking confidently
about her plans to make an altltudo
record in the future that would stand
as a woman's high mark.
In crossing the English Channel on
April It. Miss Quimby flew at an alti
tude of 6000 feet, which was believed to
be the record for women.
Miss Quimby said today she felt sure
she could beat this mark, although she
did not believe she could excel the rc
ord of 13,943 feet set by Garros.
Discussing the subject of coming into
the water, if the engine should fall In
the flight over the harbor. Miss Quim
by said to a friend Just before she
left the ground:
'A water landing is all right in
Bleriot until you come down head
first. In that case the heavy motor
at the forward end of the machine
would drag the monoplane deep into
the water and sink it.- But if we came
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