V r GIRL'S FIANCE TO EGGS FROM AIR IS TAFT CERTAIN HE BRYAN CULLS T.R.'S CHEMIST'S PROMISE SCIENTIST SEES GREAT POSSI BILITY IX XITROGEX. GET HER ESTATE ON MIDDLE WEST WILL BE-ELECTED MAX WILSOX FAVORED FOR SEXATOR IS FAR AHEAD. SAX . FRANCISCO SUPERVISOR URGES TRIAL OF PLAX. 7 POSITION UNSOUND CommonerTakes Issue on Trust Policy. MONOPOLY NOT NECESSITY Socialist Declared More Logi cal Than Colonel. PRIMARY LAW DISCUSSED Kebraskan Advocates Postal Vote, as Tried In New Zealand and Ad vises Californlans In Mak ' lngr of Platform. SACRAMENTO, Sept. 24. Ushered Into the Assembly .chamber of the Cali fornia. Legislature to the tune of "Dixie," Introduced standing under the portrait of Abraham Lincoln as "the great commoner," to an audience com posed In part of influential Repub licans, William Jennings Bryan spoke today an hour to a Democratic con vention that had Just chosen unani mously as Its temporary chairman Sen ator Caminetti, of Amanador, a man. pledged to the policies of Bryan and elected on the strength of his pledges. Mr. Bryan arrived only a moment after the utter rout of the forces led by Theodore A. Bell, who opposed him In the Baltimore convention. Callfornlana Claim Defended. In the course of his speech Mr. Bryan declared that Governor Johnson's ad dress at Chicago had been the "gem of the Republican National convention" and that in his opinion the claim of the contested Roosevelt delegates from San Francisco disallowed by the National committee was as just as their case had been interesting. Mr. Bryan's speech, however, was almost devoid of personalities. His mention of Gov ernor Johnson went no further; he re ferred to Theodore Roosevelt imper sonally and Mr. Taft's name was men ' tloned incidentally once. The burden of his thought was a se ries of recommendations to the con vention for consideration before they wrote their platform which they had not done when he spoke. Seriatim they were: 1. The New Zealand postal vote, by which traveling men and other ab sentees might retain their votes" while away from home. The measure, he ar gued, saved the individual expense and preserved to the community a measure of intelligence now lost. Modlncatloa of Law Eaggeated. 2. A modification of the state pri mary law. 3. More stringent trust laws. 4. Strict supervision of campaign ex penditures and contributions. . 5. Supervision of public moneys at Interest. Mr. Bryan gave most of his time to discussion of the state primary law, a timely topic to a state torn with un certainty on that subject, and to an arraignment of Theodore Roosevelt's position on the trusts, which he thought less logical than that of the Socialists. "At Chicago." he said. In discussing primaries, "1 thought the Progressive delegates had a clear case. I thought the preponderance of right was on their side, and yet I thought there was some right In the position of their opponents, in that California had Changed the National system of repre sentation, and. as It seemed to me, changed it to disadvantage. "The primary has come to stay. Not again. I believe shall we nominate a President by convention, but so great will bo the extension of Presi dential primaries In the next four years by the people from their homes." I alt Rule Believed Bad. "In the Democratic party we have the unit rule. I believe it Is a bad rule. I believe the Republican system of representation by', districts is the bet ter one and though I do not question that the men who framed your pri mary law meant well, they put Cali fornia at variance with the rest of the states when they declared that delegates should bo chosen at large and not by the votes of those whom they represent." In reference to the trusts, Bryan said: "Mr. Taft is In favor of enforcing the laws that exist he does not be lieve in any new ones and yet he enforces them In such a way as to please the defendants. "Mr. Roosevelt's platform goes fur ther. He takes the position that the trusts are necessities; that they are here to stay. I do not believe that his position Is sound economics. The whole tendency of monopoly is to overthrow economic law. "Wherever you have a monopoly you find four things: pressure down on the price of raw materials: pressure up on the price of finished materials; lowering of the quality of the finished goods; despotic management. Sevlallat Mere Lesleal Tbaa T. R. "Mr. Roosevelt is proposing the open ing of a question he cannot close. The Socialist is more logical in his theory. Admit that the trust Is an economic development, come to stay, - and you cannot beat the second half of his proposition that the Government must own the trust." To the amusement of the Democrats, jlr. Bryan was captured by the Roose-Tt-lt Progressives and addressed them .Concluded on Pais More Complex Compounds Than Heretofore Achieved Regarded as Certainties of Future. CHICAGO. Sept. 24 Dr. Paul Wal den. of Riga. Russia, predicts that the next great feat of chemistry will be the making of eggs from air. Dr. Walden, who is president-elect of the ninth International Congress of Ap- ... - at. Ta plied Chemistry, to De neio. in tersburg in 1915, further predicts that a variety of nitrogeneous foods will be made from the air some day. "I consider It practically certain that at no distant day we will be drawing food supplies from the air," he said today. "Professor Bernthsen, of Germany, already has succeeded In making the simple compound of nitro gen and hydrogen. "This shows that we will be able to make more complex compounds.. An egg is a complex compound of nitro gen, oxygen; sulphur and hydrogen." ORDER OF GLACIALS FORMS Portland Newspaper Men Prominent in Party to Xatlonal Park. CAMP M'DERMOTT. via Glacier Park. Sept. 24. (Special.) One of the events of the trip through Glacier Na tional Park of the large delegation of Eastern and Western newspaper men, now on the trail, was the creation of the Elevated Order of Glacials, In which organisation the representatives of the Portland newspapers played a prominent part. The purpose of the order is to carry forward the "See America" propaganda and the charter membership includes representatives of the leading publica tions of New York. Boston, Washing ton. D. C: Philadelphia, Atlanta, Balti more, Pittsburg and Portland. Van couver, B. C; Tacoma, Seattle and Spo. The Portland representatives were chosen for the following offices: Chief terminal moraine, O. Clark Letter; great high rolling boulder. W. P. Strandburg; Chief Pathfinder, J. L. Wallln. Mr. Letter was initiated Into the medicine lodge of the Blackfoot Indian tribe and the name of Bear shirt was bestowed upon htm at the close of the unique ceremony. PRIEST BEATEN BY THUGS Trio Rob Two Sailors and Minister and Policeman Who Go to Aid. NEW YORK. Sept. 24. A priest, a policeman and two sailors were In jured in a battle with three holdup men on the Hudson River waterfront today. The two sailors were on their way to their boat, the Morgan liner Momus, when they were attacked by the trio, who beat them into unconsciousness with blackjacks. The noise of the conflict was heard by the Rev. Philip McGrath, of the Catholic Bearaen's Misson. a block away and he ran to their rescue, only to be laid uncon scious beside the two sailors. Before he fell the priest managed to draw a police whistle from his pocket and blew a long blast. The whistle drew Patrolman Bren nan to the scene, but he was knocked into the gutter and robbed of his hel met and night stick. The three holdup men escaped. BIG BULL JVIOOSE KILLED Major Harrison, of Chicago, Makes Xew Record for Quebec. CHICAGO, Sept. 24. Mayor Harri son, of Chicago, according to tele grams received here today, has shot the largest bull moose ever killed in the Province of Quebec The moose was found on Lake Marie. 140 miles north of the City of Quebec, where the Mayor has been hunting with several friends. Friends of the Mayor will urge him to present the trophy to leaders at Roosevelt Progressive headquarters here. WIFE IS GIVEN $60,000 E. E. Upmeyer Transfers Property Year Before Death. HARKISBCRG, Or.. Sept. 24. (Spe cial.) Since the will of the late E. E. Upmeyer has been probated dividing his large estate, it Is learned that by direct transfer about a year ago, he gave Mrs. Upmeyer title to land, stock and bonds to the value of 160.000. The announcement of the distribu tion of his property as stated in the will, while correct, left the impression with some that his widow had been provided for only by giving her per sonal property and life dowry In his real estate. MINISTER AIDS IN CHASE Parson, Awakened by Sliots, Lands Murder Suspect In Jail. REDOXDO BEACH. Cal.. Sept. 24. Aroused from a nap by revolver shots today. Rev. W. B. Harding, pastor of the Redondo Beach Congregational Church, discovered that Florentlno Roppa. a laborer, had been shot to death not far from the minister's home. The minister headed a searching par ty, which saw another man, who later gave his name as Jose Rodriguez, emerge from a small clump ot mm. The minister gave chase, captured the man and lodged him in the county Jail on a murder charge. . President Feels Sure ." of "Solid East."' THIRD TERM IDEA IS WANING Plea Made for Congress in Sympathy With Views. PART OF WEST RELIED ON In Formal Statement, Executive Tel is of Hopes of Victory in States Heretofore Claimed for Colonel's Party. NEW YORK, . Sept. 24. President Taft, in a prepared Interview issued to night, declared that his recent claims ot strength were entitled to respect. He repeated that the believed he would be elected, and gave his reasons for denying that he had been over san guine. e analyzed the political ' situation as he saw it, maintained that the reg ular Republicans would carry the solid East and hold enough of the Central and Western states to win. The President made these statements at the home of his brother, Henry W. Taft. where he went on his arrival from Washington late today and re ceived several of his friends and po litical associates. Faith In Re-election Renfflrmed. "When I declared a few weeks ago," says the President, "that I felt rea sonably sure of my own re-election In November and of the success of the Republican party, I was regarded by some as entirely over-sanguine and un aware of the situation. Today, tow ever, after a number of Indications that the Republican party is still the domi nant party and that the . expected growth of Democratic strength has failed to materialize my original dec laration Is shown to be entitled to re spect. . "The Republicans necessarily will have a reduced majority over 1908, be cause of the presence of three tickets In the field, but the Democratic party will suffer also. The combined strength of the third-term party will not be enough to change the ultimate results. Solid East la Counted On. "Five or six weeks ago It was as serted generally that the Republican party would secure the vote of the solid East, Including the New Eng land States, with the exception of (Concluded on Page 2.) - - ., 1,111. ITTT-- . .... r ' . i canned. I j " - -. ' ' -- ' ' : - v ' - A .......... ,,.. ... Foss Renominated for Governor "in Jliissachusetts Primaries, Re publicans Picking Walker. NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 24. Returns from. 42 out of the 1799 election dis tricts in the state in today's primaries for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator give Hughes 1071. Smith 587, McDermott 35 and Westcott 14. Hughes is the man whom Governor Wilson favored and Smith is the for mer Newark "boss" against whom the Governor waged a vigorous campaign, resulting In his defeat for the Senate when he was candidate in 1911. BOSTON, Sept. 24. Governor Foss was renominated by the Democrats in the primary election today. Returns from half of the . state. Including the city of Boston," gave him a lead of near ly 11,000 votes over his opponent, Jo seph C. Pelletier.- - , In the same cities and town Joseph Walker had a lead at midnight of about 3000 over Everett C. Benton for the Republican nomination. " ELECTRIC OPIATE FOUND German Doctor Says Current Will . Also Eliminate Pain. BERLIN, Sept. 24. (Special.) An electric sleep, which may be turned on and off at will, is the alluring prospect nffrH tn neoDle suffering from in somnia by Dr. Nagelschmidt. who de scribes his invention lor tnis purpose in" a medical magazine. He says he has devised a new form of electric current which, when applied to the base of the brain, will produce a narcotic effect which can be maintained as long as is desired. It has been tried aHh onrress and without any injurious effects on dogs and rabbits, and Dr. Nagelschmidt Is convinced that it can be equally applied to numan oeinBa. ionization of the curront also elim inates pain from any part of the body. LAND IN SPAIN UNTILLED Report Shows 60 Per Cent Unculti vated 30,000 Towns Schoolless. MADRID, Sept. 24. (Special.) As a roBiiit nf the investigation ordered by King Alfonso, the Minister of the In terior reports that 60 per cent ot me inrt in Snain Is uncultivated and that 38 per cent Is utterly without .irriga tion. The renort shows that 4500 villages are without roads or railroad, 30,000 towns and villages have no scnoois ana 12,000,000 of Spain's 177,000,000 inhabi tants can neither read nor write. State Forester Goes East. SALEM, Or., Sept. 21. (Special.) Btate Forester Elliott has left for In dianapolis to attend the fourth annual convention of the National Conserva tion Association as an Oregon delegate. E. T. Allen, of Portland, will also at tend. - Father Dies on Eve of Will Contest. MYSTERY OF DEATH REVIVED Insurance Policies Held Up Un til Body Is Exhumed. STEPMOTHER WILL LOSE Mr, Wheeler and His Attorney in Denver Under Assumed Xame on Errand to Dispute Validity of Girl's -Bequest. DENVER, Sept. 24. As the result of the death here of James ' Cooper Wheeler, of Hollls, Long Island, New York, father of Miss Candace Wheeler, who was drowned here last June, It is believed that the contest of her will Instituted by her father on charges of alleged fraud will be dropped on the ground that the present Mrs. Wheeler, as the dead girl's stepmother, has no right to the estate. In this event Otto Meyer, of Minne apolis, who was Miss Wheeler's fiance, will receive the bulk of the estate, said to be worth 115 000, after the payment of a $5000 bequest to Dr. J. H. W. Meyer, Otto s brother and exe cutor of Miss Wheeler's estate. The estate comprises Insurance policies amounting to $12,500 and property be queathed by the dead girl's mother. Mystery Attends Drowning. The fact that Miss Wheeler's body was not recovered for ten days gave rise to rumors that the drowned wo man was not Miss Wheeler and that the real Miss Wheeler had gone East with the Intention of going to Europe. These rumors resulted In holding up the payment of her insurance policies pending the exhuming of the body and positive Identification by means of a dentist's chart. After the recovery of . the body. friends of Miss Wheeler asserted that several weeks before she was drowned all her Jewelry and other belongings had been secretly removed from her room. Father Contests Will. When the will was presented for probate and it was discovered that her fiance and his brother were the bene ficiaries and that her father was cut off with one dollar, Mr. Wheeler lnstl tuted .suit, alleging that the bene 'flclaries had exercised an undue in fluence over the girl, that the lnstru ment was "the product of deceit and (Concluded on Paso 3.) Proposal Comes as Answer to Pro test of Woman's Presbytery Against Sunday Dances. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24. (Spe cial.) Municipal dancing under mu nicipal supervision, with ' municipal music and plenty of it, is the plan sub mitted to the Board of Supervisors yesterday by Supervisor Payot. The matter was referred to the public wel fare committee for a report as to ways and means of carrying the plan into operation. It Is the answer of the Board of Su pervisors to the missionary committee of the Woman's Presbytery who de manded that the city withdraw Its ap proval of Sunday dancing at Trocadero, under the auspices of the California Outdoor League. The protest was presented in the form of a set of resolutions denouncing "the desecration of the Sabbath" with the approval of the city. It is the aim of the Puhlic Welfare Committee to devise a plan and ways and means for the creation and maintenance of a public dance place wherein the mu nicipal band may supply p'roper music and the people may enjoy dancing under conditions that will avoid any possible criticism of the dance or the dancers. - ELKS WILL USE "BEETATO" Portland Lodge Will Distribute Pnrple Tuber at Reunion. Oregon's newest pomological oddity, dubbed the "beetato." which is a hy brid between an Irish potato and a red beet, has already been found valuable as an advertising asset. Tho tuber's "innards" have a deep -purple one of the official colors of the Elks' lodge. Officers of Portland Lodge. No. 142, have been quick to realize the pecul iar coloring feature of the "boetato," They are now negotiating with L W. Rinhardt, of Silver Springs station, in Clackan-as County, the originator of the new potato, for all of next year's crop of "purple spuds" to take back to Rochester for the Elks' annual re union. Inasmuch as the reunion w;ll be held in July, Mr. Rinhardt will have to plant bis "beetato is ' as early as possible next Spring so that the product, of the new crop will be large enough by convention time. Mr. Rinhardt expects to grow enough "beetatoes" to supply souvenirs f jr everj delegate to . the Rochester reunion Portland ; Elks ar.j rejoicing tha they will have such an unique souvenir' to advertise Oregon. GUN TAKEN, OWNER FLEES Deputy, Game Wardens Seek 3Ian . Who Shot China Pheasant. Deputy Game Wardens Bremmer and Parker yesterday gave chase t.i an un identified man who shot a China pheas ant near Eugene, and, although he es caped, got his gun and the evidence thnr he committed a violation of the game laws. The gun, No. 50170, is being held pending Investigation as to wno owns it Three men. of EuEene Charles Gos- sen, John Hampton and Alex Elliott were fined $25 each at Eugene for kill insr nheasants. Game Warden Finley reports that China pheasants are plentiful In the Willamette Valley and that his depu ties have received many reports of peo ple killing them. He protested against the small line placed against me Eu gene men, declaring that unless the courts use harsh measures the nuisance will not be stopped. SCIENTISTS NOTE STRIKE Crowds Friendly When. Convinced Savants Are Not Strikebreakers. SALT LAKE CITY. Sept. t4. Twenty two of the foreign scientists touring the United States as guests of the American Geographical Society visited Bingham today, thus combining a view of a mining camp strike with an ex amination of a mountain of copper bearing menzonite. When convinced that the visitors were not strikebreakers, the crowds at Bingham regarded the scientists with friendly interest. More than half the party passed the day in visiting historic spots in and about Salt Lake City. LEPER'S WIFE FILES SUIT John R. Early's Spouse Alleges In human Treatment in Action. TACOMA. Sept. 24. Alleging inhu man treatment Mrs. Lottie Early, wife of the leper, John R. Early, now at Diamond Point Hospital, today Bled suit for divorce. , ' Th( caunlA were married In 1906 and have three children, the last of whom wa horn after Early, who was shunted about from one community to another, was known to be a leper. ARMED BALLOONS ORDERED ... France to Build Swift Dirigibles Using Machine Guns. PARIS, Sept. 24. France has de cided to build a - squadron of swift armed dirigibles for its aerial war fleet, in addition to the aeroplanes al ready possessed by the army. Four great steerable balloons of the non-rigid type have , been ordered by the government. These are to have a speed of about 43V4 miles an hour snd are to be armed with machine guns. Their gas capacity is to be about 000,- j000 cubic feet. 4 States Have Early Snow Storms. MINNESOTA CORN IN DANGER Temperature Not Especially Low at Any Point. GREAT AREA IS DISTURBED Pacific Coast and Gnlt Coast Only Parts of Country Free From First Touchea of Winter Mercury Falling on Great Lakes. CHICAGO, Sept. 24. (Special.) Dis patches received tonight at the Weather Bureau headquarters tell of pretentious snow storms in four states. The early arrival of "the beautiful" is not ac companied by unusually low temper ature and proves rather beneficial than otherwise. Wyoming was the first to report the advance agent of Winter, the vicinity around Lander experiencing a regular snow fall. The maximum temperature during the day In the vicinity of the Wyoming storm was 36 and the mini mum 32, bo that the snow did not melt rapidly. Storm Sweeps Eastward. The same storm swept rapidly east ward, and tonight was reported in both the Dakotas and Minnesota. Heavy rains have been prevailing in Western Minnesota for two days, but a drop in temperature changed the rnln to snow, and the temperature throughout Western Minnesota tonight is about 40 and the snow is melting rapidly be cause the earth is warm. Dispatches tonight say the temper ature Is lowering noticeably In North ern Iowa and there are indications of snow fall there tomorrow. Storms are also predicted generally over the Cen tral West. Rain began falling In the Great Lakes region shortly before mid night tonight and the temperature is dropping steadily. The same storm will probably spread to the Ohio River be fore Us force Is spent. Corn In Minnesota la Danger. Dispatches received on the Board ot Trade late today show that tho farm ers in Missouri. Nebraska and Kansas are not worrying over frost, as they say the corn is made and frost would be beneficial. The same conditions, however, do not apply to the corn crop In Iowa, Minnesota and states in that tier. The crop there was late In plant ing and frost at this time or within ten days would work Immense dam age. The weather map tonight shows temperature approximating freezing point in the Canadian Northwest with southwest winds. All Indications point to appreciably colder weather tomor row and perhaps for several days, un til the storms now prevailing over a wide stretch of territory have spent their force. - Storm Area Spreading. Threatening weather Is reported from practically all the Mountain states and all the West Central states. The storm area Is also spreading over portions of Michigan tonight. Rain and threatening weather is reported from New York and Western Pennsyl vania. The Pacific Coast states and the Gulf Coast country seem to be Immune from the present weather disturbance as the reports tonight are warm, clear weath er for practically all points reporting. Dispatches from Omaha tonight say that General Manager Holdredge, of the Burlington Railroad, has been snowbound in a cabin in the Big Horn Mountain for a week and that heavy snow Is still falling over that district. DARR0W JUDGE IS NAMED Governor Designates Madera County Jurist to Preside. SACRAMENTO. Cal., Sept. 24. AcU Ing Governor Wallace named Judge Conley, of Madera County, today to sit as a trial Judge at the trial of Clarence Darrow In Los Angeles, be ginning October 21, when the second charge of Jury bribing against the Chicago lawyer in the McNamara case will be heard. . Darrow was acquitted on the first charge. When the trial date for the second case was set the Superior Judges of Los Angeies County asked to be relieved from sitting, as the publicity given the first case had tended to prejudice their minds. FAMOUS CANADIAN DIES Sir Richard Cartwrlght Firm Friend of United States. KINGSTON. Ont, Sept. 24. Sir Rich ard Cartwright died today following a surgical operation. Sir Richard was born In 1835, and devoted the greater part of his life to the service of his country politically. He was a firm friend of the United statin and as Minister of Trade and Commerce In the Laurier Cabinet, urged commercial reciprocity witn tne neign boring republic. He represented Canada on the Anglo American Joint high commission at Quebec In 1898 and at Washington in 1898-99. 1