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VOL. I.II-NO. 10,132. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WINE AND WOMEN' COLONEL GLAD HE TUN DYNAMITE KILLS LENTS RESIDENT wmm plans CELIL0-PANAMA FEST IS PLANNED BLAMED IN COURT IS TO BE GATED FOR LONG SIEGE LEWISTON COMMERCIAL CLUB WTHTE-RIBBOXEttS DENT PLOT PERCY WARREN, REAL ESTATE ARRANGES BIG EVENT. TO TRAP LIQUOR-SELLER. DEALER. IS VICTIM. y DHOW'S COUNSEL HELD IN CONTEIfT CHOSEN KANSAS Honor to Be Accepted in Brief Speech A. Shapiro Relates How Unsuspect ing Driver Plumped Into Dele ' gation of Teetotalers. When a driver for the Spring: Valley Wine Company entered the home of Mrs. C. S. Drake, In the Lents district. Rift PCIT HAT II II i Mir- to make a prearranged delivery of a uiu ikki lint umu nuiwb . . . ,,. h. rlrtt Into the midst of a delegation of Women's Christian Temperance Union mamHr. acftAmhled for the TtUTDOSfl of Silk One and FrOCK COat, TOO, being: there when he arrived. He was whlpsawed. This happened nearly a year agro and yesterday A. Shapiro, a member of the firm, was placed on trial In Justice Bell's court for selling: liquor In "dry territory. He was acquitted. Mrs. O. S. Ford, daughter of Mrs. Drake, naively told the court how it I haorjened as Probable . . I neara my motner pv ine uruei Are Donned Instead. FORMER PLAN UNCHANGED Johnson Still Picked '. Running: Mate Incipient Boom for . Llndsey Abandoned. Negro Views Expanded. CHICAGO, A on. . Straljcht Inde pendent tickets will be placed la the field la Pennsylvania nnd Colorado by the rational Proreaalve party. Colo- onel Roosevelt made thin annom meat tonlaht after a conference with delegates from both states. The fight In Pennsylvania will be carried thronarh the 'O.Vnnhlnsrton" party In Colorado through the Kntlonnl Pro gressive party. CHICAGO, Aug. . Colonel Roose velt was In a happy frame of mind to night: haonv. he said, over the recep tion he received today at the National Mrs- Drake had ordered the wine be Progressive Convention, and happy cause sne tnought she might need it, over the fact that tomorrow he will be find the other women "Just happened nominated for the Presidency.- to be there when the wine was de- Colonel Roosevelt will go to the con- Hvered. Swett told the Jury not to be vention again tomorrow, after the nom- lleve thls explanation and character- Inatlona have been mad& and. in a ed tne action or trie women as an out and I was surprised. I wanted to tell the man that she was a Women's Chris tian Temperance Union member and that he would get into trouble." The driver did not get the warning and appeared in due time with the wine which had been ordered. Present be sides Mrs. Drake and her daughter were Mrs. George KImber nd Airs. M. O. Winton, staunch "white-ribbon- ers." They calmly accepted the vile fluid and paid for It. and them Mrs. Kimber went to the District Attorney and swore to a complaint. Active in the case were R. E- Beegle, real estate man of Lents, and? Rev. W. Boyd Moore, of the Lents Methodist Episcopal Church. Grilled by Attorney Swett for thsir frame - up," the "white-ribboners," stoutly denied that they had plotted. Early Returns Favor Colonel's Electors. TAFT MEN ADMIT PROSPECT Other Progressive Candidates Also Are Leading. , SENATORIAL RACE CLOSE rageous plot AUTO TRUCK CRUSHES BOY Spokane Lad Coasting on Bicycle Collides With Heavy Car. brief speech, will accept the honor. This probably will do away with the necessity for a formal notification ceremony. Llndaey Boom Virtually Abandoned, There seemed no change tonight in the plan to nominate Governor John son, of California, as the Colonel's run ning mate- A Vice-Presidential boom SPOKANE, Aug. 8. (Special.) for Judge Llndsey, of Colorado, gained While coasting down Wall street on a aoma headwav todav but virtu&llv was bicycle about noon today, Harlan abandoned tonight. Stratton, the 13-year-old son of Mr. No Southern Democrat aligned with and Mrs. M. M. Stratton, collided with the new party seemed to stand out suf- n automobile truck from' the Wonder fielentlv in the mlnda of the leadera to department store. The lad now lies offset the Insistent demand amona- the " tne JOInt or aeatn m tne emergency deleaatea for Governor Johnac,. Hospital. His chest was crushed by "T am alad." .said Colonel Rooaevelt lne maonme. iwo wneeis naving paasea tonlaht "that I had an onnortunitv in 0Ter 11,8 the convention to exnress mv vlw on Witnesses say the lad was riding the negro question. I was delighted down rade on Wall street, and as he with the InterruDtion. for It save me came 10 xne crossing on anira avenue, the chance I wanted. I think the tne Wonder truck was passing In tow question is disposed of. I was deeply of another car. A rope 20 feet In Impressed with my reception by the lenBln stretcnea Deiween mem, ana it delegates." was tnis wnicn tne boy struck, being thrown, and before the cars could be atonned th rear car had nassMl over Colonel Roosevelt discarded today his h bov'a chest. It waa discovered that oig ieu nai tor a silk one for the first tne boy's chest was badly crushed, sev lime in many montns, ana wore a frock eri riba being broken and the lumra coat. Instead of the customary sack probably pierced ' by the fractured ami. v-rowos louowea mm wnereverl bones. ne went, ana many state delegations M. jr. stratton,, the boy's father, is cuco waay ana tonigri. a dealer in mines, real estate and in- oo iar as couia oe earned, there was .unnr. no cnange tonight in the plan to con tinue ex-Senator Baveridn. nf Tnrft. ana. as permanent chairman of the con- YOUNG TAFT REFUSES BEAR vention. me ract tnat permanent or ganization went over until tomorrow, it Robert Sara "Strained Relations was said, indicated that the temporary organization., - as - a- - whole, 'would- be made permanent. Causes Blocking "Teddy" Gift. This will e the first business of the day tomorrow and then will follow the adoption f the platform, the nomina tion of Colonel Roosevelt for Presi dent, the nomination of a Vice-Presi dential candidate, speeches of accept ance by the candidates and final ad journment. Jfearo Vlewa Elaborated. Colonel Roosevelt lays much stress ea his expression today of bis views on the negro Issue, in which he de parted from his set speech. What he said on that topic was: "Any respectful requests for infor mation I will always have an answer for, and during my administration I never did anything I was afraid to be GLACIER PARK, Mont., Aug. . (Special.) A band of 60 Blackfeet Indians in full war regalia . greeted the Taft camping expedition on its ar rival here over - the Great Northern Railway today. Chief White Quiver presented Robert Taft with a young Teddy bear caught on the trail today, but the son of the President laugh-. lngly said the gift put him In a dilemma. I do not think I dare take this home," he said, "In the face of the ex isting strained relationship between my father and Mr. Roosevelt." Helen Taft, Mrs. George Vincent, wife of the University of Minnesota president, her two daughters and six other friends of the Taft family made questioned about and I shall not begin I up the party which went into Glacier National Park for a three weeks' trip. . . Louis W. Hill, chairman of the Great Northern Railway board of directors. arranged a surprise for the young campers at Two Medicine Lake. Two hundred Indians were congregated in the Progressive party. "I think the American people is a mighty good people to lead and a mighty poor people to drive. I think we can get the best results from our fellow Americans in other sections of the country by treating them as we expect them to treat ns and by our- I there and they gave a war dance. selves living up in our own homes to the principles that we profess. "In Republican National conventions hitherto there has been a large rep resentation of colored men, all from non-Republican states, the virtue of the Republicans of the Republican states taking only the form of trying to make the Democratic states be good. The colored delegates all came from "a state that never cast a Republican electoral vote, that never elected a colored man to office, where largely. owing to the action participated in for TUNA LINE LANDS SHARK San Rafael Millionaire Has Battle AYith Fighting Monster. OLYMPIA. Wash., Aug. . After be had gone to the assistance of 10-year- old Jake Breedlove, who was drown ing, and had turned him over to a 13-year-old boy, who took the lad ashore. Joseph E. Henry, aged 30, of West 45 year, by the" Republican party, the rln. I1U an instructor of piano colored man has, as a matter of fact. gradually lost all his present rights. Discredit Reflected Too Baca. "So that the old policy of attempt- music at St. Martin's College at Lacey, Wash., was drowned in Hicks Lake, four miles east of Olympia, today. Norman Francis, the boy who took little Jake ashore, said Henry sank ,ng impose uu without calling for help. It is be- irora wnnouL, . ctn.u . uie t conauci 1Jeved h( wa 8els6d a crmmp. toward the negro has in fact broken Havinr taien Bre.dlova to if.tv. down, and friends, I regret to say that I Francl8 wam Wk iocatea Henry's every JUn wno n oeca to a Bodv at the bottom n tha lar. and National convention knows that the diving, grabbed him by the hair and harflrtur'nr tha e-rAAt mfliorttr nf tttm I ... . ... . .. - g-ot mm to land with the aid of an- rolored delegates from the South, from otner Doy those old rotten borough states was tuch as to reflect discredit -upon the (Concluded on Fax 2.) Henry, who had been at the college about a year, had taken four boys to the lake for a swim. Sfubbs and Curtis Will Not Know Outcome Until Todays Capper Defeats Ryan for Nomina tion for Governor. TOPEKA. Kan, Aug. 6. Scattered returns from one-fifth of the oountles of the state show that the Roosevelt Presidential electors were victorious in today's primaries. Followers of President - Taft admitted , that they seemed to be beaten. Representative Campbell probably has lost the nomi nation to W. M. Gray, a Progressive. Early returns from Wyandotte Coun ty, in which is located Kansas City, Kan., the largest city In the state, in dicate that the Roosevelt Presidential electors have a lead of about two to one in the votes thus far counted. Oth er progressives are leading on about the same basis. Based on returns up to 10:30 o'clock. Arthur Capper, publisher of the Topeka Capital, has defeated Frank Ryan, of Leavenworth, for the Republican nomi nation for Governor. George H. Hodges, on the Democratic ticket, is leading his two opponents for the same office. The fight between Governor Stubbs and Senator Curtis is close, and will not be decided before tomorrow, it is thought. The following nominations for Con gress are conceded: First District J. B. Chapman -(Democrat). . ' Second District Joseph Taggart (DemoiTat), incumbent,. . ' Fourth " District Fred S. Jackson (Republican), incumbent. Fifth District Rollin R. Rees (Re publican), Incumbent. Sixth District L D. Young (Repub lican), Incumbent. J. . R. Connelly (Democrat). Seventh District George A. Neeley (Democrat), incumbent. Eighth District Victor Murdock (Re publican), incumbent; John J. Saunders (Democrat). Explosion at Late Hour Shakes Sub urb as House is Razed and Fire Follows. In a terrific explosion at Lents at 11 o'clock last night, which shook the whole town, Percy Warren, a real estate dealer, was instantly killed. His house was on the Section Line road at Elmo Heights, about three quarters of a mile northeast of the town. The entire roof was blown off the house. The cause of the explosion has not yet been ascertained. Warren was a bachelor, and nobody Is known to. have been In his house or near at the time of the explosion. He had been visiting one of the neighbors a few minutes before the explosion occurred. The house caught fire Immediately afterward and destroyed the ruins which remained. FIREMEN. ARE ORIGINAL Blaze in Paint Shop Carried to Street and Then Put Out. By . adopting the novel expedient of carrying the fire Into the street to ex tinguish it, members of the chemical company at the foot of Stark street ex tinguished a blaze in a paint shop, at Front and Stark streets, . yesterday morning. Before this device, was hit upon, sand and sacks had been tried where water had failed. A chemical preparation was being boiled on a stove, when it caught fire. In the midst of a store of paints and other inflammable substances. The firemen were stationed less than 200 feet away and were on the scene almost Instantly. They began by trying to put the fire out with water, but this only caused it to spread faster. Then sand was thrown on the blaze, and sacks were pressed down upon It, but It con tinued to burn. At last three firemen picked up the stove and carried -it to the street, the flames lapping their rubber garments. It waa then quickly extinguished. The damage was nominal. Diaz Dismisses Men of Doubtful Loyalty. MILITARY LAW IS DECLARED Mi- Latest Oirtbrpuits In Seizure !..ierican Trains. TROOPS DESERT PRESIDENT RACE CLOSE IN MISSOURI Democratic Candidates for Governor Run Nip and Tuck. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 6. Returns from the Missouri primary at 11:30 o'clock tonight indicated a close race for the (Concluded on Page 2.) CURIOUS EYE ASTOR STORK Expectant Mother of Heir to Millions Fretted by Gazers. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. (Special.) An unusual and,, to a prospective muther, extremely distasteful occurrence marked Mrs. John Jacob Astor's at tempt late this afternoon to leave her home for a short automobile ride through Central Park, which has re cently been her daily outing. So great Jam of the morbidly curious sur rounded the gate of the big house, wherein an heir to the Astor millions is expected any day, that despite the efforts of policemen to push the throngs away, Mrs. Astor was foroed to forego her intended trip. ( Word of what was occurring In the street was taken to Mrs. Astor by her servants. Her sister looked at the crowd and made a report which de cided Mrs. Astor against trying to go out. Eve'n after it became evident that Mrs. Astor had abandoned her trip hundreds continued to loiter around the street in front of the bouse. Details of Uprising Conceived by Deposed Secretary of War at Managua Show Promise to United States Broken. MANAGUA. Nicaragua, Aug 6. (By wireless to Colon.) Military law Is being maintained over the entire re public and President Diaz-is dismissing or deposing those officials of the gov ernment throughout the country who have been shown friendly to the ex Secretary of War. General Luis Mena. As rapidly as possible he is replacing them with partisans of the govern ment. President Diaz is preparing for a long siege. Disorder still prevails in the Prov ince of Grenada and American rail roads have been seized, according to Minister of Finance Pedro Rafael Cuadra who reports that several of his brothers have been arrested and a store belonging to one in the Province of Rivas has been destroyed by troops under the command of a son of the late Secretary of War. Troops Deaert Government. Details of the revolution which be gan July 29 have , been received in official circles and is as follows: On Monday morning, July 29, Presi- dent Diaz deposed Secretary of War Mena, appointing in his place General Carmelo Berberana Diaz. He also ap pointed General Ernilio Chamorro, who is leader of the Conservative party, commander-in-chief of the army. On that afternoon General Cham orro took possession- of the left half of the fortress of Managua, In which the residence of General Mena was, The troops stationed there and in the fort on the hill joined Chamorro. The deposed Secretary of War fled to the right half of the fortress, with his guard, and the troops stationed there sided with him. There was some firing outside the fortress, one civilian being killed and several soldiers wounded. American ldxtracts Promise. American Minister Weltzel, carrying the American flag, then called upon both Generals and obtained from the Secretary of War his written resigns tion from office and his promise not to fight That night at about 9 o'clock General Mena abandoned the fortress and, with Auspicious Waterways Celebration Is Taken Up as Result of The Oregonian's Suggestion. LEWISTON. Idaho. Aug. . (Spe cial.) The governing board of the Lewiston Commercial Club took initial steps today toward holding a Lewis-ton-Celilo-Panama waterway celebra tion in honor of the completion of the Panama and Celilo canals and the opening of the Columbia and the Snake rivers to navigation to Lewiston, the farthest inland river point available to sea navigation west of the Rocky Mountalns. This action grew out of the sug gestion of The Morning Oregonian of Portland in an editorial published Au gust 4. A large provisional committee' was authorized to take charge of prelim inary arrangements and co-operate with Portland, The Dalles, Pasco and other river points in a celebration fittingly commemorating this im portant event. The provisional com mittee Immediately will prepare an outline for the proposed celebration and will present the plan in full to the Columbia and Snake River Water ways Convention which will assemble at Lewiston October 4-5. The plans of the committee wjjl also Include Invitations to the Governors and officials of the Pacific states, the President and officials of the United States Government, United States Sena tors and members of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, officials of the Panama Canal and United States Government engineers of the Pacific Coast, representatives of the commer cial bodies of the Pacific Coast and the trans-continental railways serving the Pacific Northwest and others. The slogan "Lewiston to the Sea" has been suggested and will probably be adopted for use on the official flag, stationary and advertising matter of the proposed celebration. Judge Commits Attor ney to Jail. HABEAS CORPUS WRIT SAVES Defense Appeals to Presiding Jurist and Escapes Cell. LAWYER ACCUSES WITNESS Bribery Trial Comes to Sudden and Sensational Halt When Legal Heads Clash on Examination of O. H. F. Mayer. (Concluded en Page 3.) HELP! BRAIN VALUE PLACED HIGH Vancouver Sued for $75,000 Dam ages as Result of Equine Bolt. VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 6. (Spe cial.) For the loss of part of his brain and other injuries, received July 4, when struck by a pony ridden by- Dude Waite, in a race, Paul Woolsey, of California, has asked the city to pay him 350,000 damages. The father, C. O. Woolsey, asks damages of $25,000, for loss of his son's services. It is alleged that the son will be permanently dis abled. He is 19 years old. Pauline Anderson, through her father, A. P. Anderson, has filed a claim of $5000 against the city for suffering a broken ankle, at the same time Wool sey was hurt The-pony, frightened something In the road, bolted into the crowd, injuring both Woolsey and the Anderson girl. The Council has referred the matter to the City Attorney, Roy C. Sugg. It is certain that the city will stand suit before any damages are paid. Young Woolsey is yet in St. Joseph's Hos pitaL MARE DIES OF PNEUMONIA Fast Trotter Held Above $5000 Suc cumbs at Salem Stables. SALEM. Or., Aug. 6. (Special.) June Pointer, a 6-year-old trotter with a reoord of 2:09. died at the State Fair stables today, following a three weeks' sickness of pneumonia. Yester day the horse had so far rallied that it was expected he could be used on the track this year, but today he suf fered a relapse and died. J. H. Christensen, of San Francisco, Is the owner of the horse and refused an offer of $5000 for him last July. June Pointer was sired by Star Pointer, famous trotter. June Pointer worked in races in California before coming here. Pneumonia was contracted while crossing the mountains coming north. M. C. Keefer and Fred Ward, two well known horsemen of Los Angeles, bringing horses in the same train as that carrying June Pointer, also found fever developing in their horses, but succeeded In avoiding a serious attack. EXTENSION IS ASSURED Washington and Oregon to Build From Centralia to Tidewater. OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 6. (Special.) Notice that the Washington and Ore gon corporation Intends to build from Centralia to tidewater, at Olympia, is Shown by a resolution adopted by that corporation at a meeting in Philadel phia May 7, 1912, authorizing and di recting the extension of the Chehalls- Centralia lnterurban line, from Cen tralia to the southern terminus of the Olympia Light & Power Company tracks at Tumwater, which was filed with the Secretary of State today. This company has been securing a right of way for some time and was reported at one time to have had an option on the Olympia streetcar sys tem. This was denied and now it is thought that they have secured the right to use the local tracks. The line will be built by way of Tenino, where the Washington and Oregon owns the Tenino power plant LOS ANGELES. Aug. 6. Today's ses sion of the bribery trial of Clarence S. Darrow came to an abrupt and sen sational halt an hour before the usual adjournment time, when Judge Hutton committed Darrow's chief counsel. Earl Rogers, to Jail until tomorrow mornlns: at 9 o'clock for contempt of court In lieu of paying a fine of $50. Rogers Immediately applied to Presiding Judge Willis of the Superior Court for his re lease on a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted, Rogers being required to give $200 ball. Rogers' offense was in designating a state rebuttal witness as a perjurer and upon his refusal to withdraw the appellation, a fine of $50 was imposed on Darrow's chief counsel. Rogers, still defiant and reiterating his rights, declared that he would go to jail rather than pay the fine and the court appended on the previous judgment an alternative sentence of five days in jail. Upon the showing by the defense that the defendant could not be de prived of counsel during the course of his trial, the sentence was modified. "Myaterlooa Stranger" Appear. O. H. F. Mayer, produced by the pros ecution as the "mysterious stranger" who accompanied Bert H. Franklin to the office 'of the McNamara defense on the morning of Franklin's arrest, was being cross-examined by Rogers when the outbreak occurred. Leonard Shober, the watchman in the., offices, who first told of the mysterious man, was confronted with Mayer and said that he was not the man. Mayer, however, testified that he went to Dar row's offices with Franklin on the morning prior to Franklin's arrest and that he was the "mysterious stranger" to whom reference had been made. Mayer, who is a detective formerly employed by Franklin, was subjected to a severe grilling by Rogers in the course of which District Attorney Fred ericks remarked that Rogers was wast ing time. 'I'm not," declared Rogers, "I'm showing up a perjurer, that's all." Confusion ensued. Judge Hutton asked Rogers if he meant what he said with reference to a witness on the stand. Rogers Repeals Charge. Yes, sir," asserted the lawyer. "I repeat that In reply to the District At torney's statement that we are wast ing time, and I can show that I am right." Mayer was the first witness Intro duced In rebuttal by the state, the defense having closed Its case soon after the beginning of the afternoon session. He said that he had been em ployed by Franklin until a few days ugo. What were designated as "loose ends of the case were cleared up by the defense when Job Harriman, Darrow's associate In the McNamara case, and several bank clerks were called to tes tify concerning Harriman's cherk trans. action on the morning of Franklin's arrest. The prosecution had asked that Lin coln Steffens be present for further cross-examination tonight, but It was reported he could not be located. Philip Dodge Sues for Divorce. RENO, Nev Aug. 6. Philip Dodge, president of the Mergenthaler Lino type Company, of , New York City, filed a suit for divorce yesterday from Margaret B. Dodge, who Is now In New York. The complaint which was placed upon the secret file, is not sensational, it is said, desertion being the main accusation. Dodge has been living in this city for the last six months. "SPITBALL" HAS NEW FEAR Diphtheria and Tuberculosis Loom as Latest Baseball Menace. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. fi. (Special.) Manager Dooin, of the Phillies, de clares the "spltball" is responsible for the attack of diphtheria from which Pitcher Ad Brennan Is suffering. Therefore he means to make applica tion to President Lynch, of the Na tional League, for permission for hia pitchers to use a disinfectant on the ball when they are opposing a "spit ball" artist. According to Dooin every man who played In last Wednesday's game against St Louis ran the risk of being; Infected with diphtheria germs. Bren nan was not well when he started tha game, complaining of a slight sore throat. Before the game was half over he was complaining that his throat was getting sorer every moment. , Physicians say that should a "spit ball" pitcher have tuberculosis the en tire league might be affected. Calgary Has Typhoid Epidemic. CALGARY,' Alta., Aug. 6. One hun dred cases of typhoid fever have been reported at the two local hospitals dur. lng the past tew days and the matter is to ba Investigated by the authorities. Vaccination of all Canadian Pacific Railway and municipal employes has proved an effective preventive, accord ing to reports early today. rx I Fl 1 HQ O