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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 9, 1906.
T AIMS TO
HEAD OFF BRYAN
Warmed Lest He Should
Stump for Jerome if
Nominated.
OFFERS REASONS AGAINST
District Attorney Has Rarely ' Sup
ported Democratic Ticket Since
189 2 McClellan's Pre
diction Cheering.
NEW YORK, Sept. 8. (Special.) Mayor
McClellan cams home today, and on Tues
lay "William Randolph Hearst will be
nominated for Governor by- the Indepen
dence League Convention, which is to be
held in this city. By the Utter date it
Is expected that the political pot will be
bubbling briskly. The following Tues
Say (September 18), will be devoted to the
primaries, and Tuesday, September 25, the
state conventions of. the Republicans and
Democrats take place.
Hearst men are interested In a story
that William Jennings Bryan, when he
met McClellan in London, promised that
he would take the stump for the regular
Democratic candidate for Governor. And
they don't want him to do that unless the :
reKular candidate is Hearst.
In an effort to head off Bryan, a care
ful Investigation of Jerome's political rec
ord has been made, and It is unofficially
stated that his record as a "good loyal
Democrat" is based on the following ac
tion at the polls:
Jerome's Changing Allegiance.
1S.3 Voted for Cleveland for President.
1S3 Helped to elect the Republican
state ticket (except Governor and Lieutenant-Governor,
who held over). Voted
against Maynard (Democrat) for Judge
6f the Court of Appeals.
1894 Supported Strong (Republican) for
Mayor and Morton (Republican) for Gov
ernor. Didn't like Hill or Tammany.
1S96 2o state or city election.
ISSb Voted the Palmer and Buckner
' ticket. Opposed Bryan because he was a
tree-silver man.
1897 Opposed both the Republican and
Democratic candidates for Mayor, Tracy
and Van Wyck, and lined up with Beth
Low, Citizens' Union nominee.
1S98 Didn't regard Augustus Van Wycki
Candidate for Governor, as a good Demo
crat. Voted for Roosevelt.
1S!9 No state or city election.
' 1900 Couldn't stand for Bryan for Presl
flent or Stanchfleld for Governor." Sup
ported McKinley and Roosevelt and
Ddell.
1901 Supported Beth Low (this time the
tegular Republican nominee for Mayor)
and was elected District Attorney on the
Bam a ticket.
1902 As a good Democrat he objected to
Bird S. Coler. Voted for Odell for Gov
ernor. 1903 Supported Beth Low (Republican)
for Mayor. Told him he would be de
feated, and he was.
1904 Quietly announced that Alton B.
Parker was an impossible candidate for
President. Voted for Roosevelt, but was
In line for Herrlck (Democrat) for Gov
ernor. 1905 With five city tickets in the field,
Republican, Democratic, Municipal Own
ership, Socialist and Prohibitionist, op
posed them all. Voted the ticket of the
"Jerome Nominators," which only con
tained his own name.
How Can Bryan Support Him.
"If said the Hearst man who prepared
this list, "true Democracy consists In
opposing the regularly nominated can
didates of the party, then Jerome Is the
truest true Democrat that ever hap
pened. But I don't see how Bryan can
come out .and help a man like Jerome
who is politically nothing but a com
mon scold."
Jerome's peculiar political record has
not yet been attacked In the newspapers,
but it probably will be under discussion
before long. When the matter was "put
up to" the District Attorney unofficially
the other day, he declared that he was
with his party "when it wag right." and
at no other time. Many old-line Demo
crats take exception to the Jerome point
of view, for if he is correct. It means
that the party has been wrong in city,
state and Nation ever since Grover Cleve
land ran the last time.
And that Is 14 long years ago!
McClellan Will Galvanize Boom.
Mayor McClellan's arrival is expected
to put fresh life Into the Jerome boom,
as Fire Commissioner John O'Brien, his
former private secretary and present con
fidential adviser, has stated that the
Mayor means to "fire" summarily every
office-holder who does not renounce Mur
phy and come out Into the open for
Jerome.
In the meantime, the primary fights
are becoming warmer, and one district
leader, State Senator James J. Frawley,
hag been arrested on a charge of beat
ing two hard-working motormen who are
aligned with an opposition faction. The
average employe of the Interborough,
however, is so overhearing that the Sen
ator's exploit has actually gained him
votes, for ordinary long-suffering citizens
would welcome a campaign every week
Jf It had a bruising effect upon the con
ductors and motormen with whom they
are daily thrown In contact.
Encouraging to Hearst.
A. cabled interview with McClellan to
the effect that the Tammany delegation
would not vote as a unit has excited
much interest here. The Murphy and
Hearst men take it as an acknowledge
ment that the Mayor expects to be de
feated, and plans to hoia at least a
minority of delegates from New York
County against Hearst.
It is also pointed out that the abolition
of the unit rule would be of more benefit
to Hearst than to Jerome, for the former
could win with one-third of the delegates
from New York County, while Jerome's
only hope is to have a solid band of
"home folks' behind him.
The Hearst men are publicly claiming
that their man will be nominated re
gardless of the action of New York and
Kings County, but privately they only
expect 70 districts -upstate ana in Queens
County, and admit they need six In New
York to win.
Even if Jerome wins a big victory. Mur
phy is certain of a better showing than
that In the- 35 assembly districts here, so
the Mayor's announcement is naturally
a source of joy to the advocates of Wil
liam Randolph Hearst.
"If the unit rule is not enforced," said
one of the Independence League old
guard at the Gilsey House today, "no
power in the state can prevent Hearst's
nomination. Everything looks as If we
had the Jerome men on the run."
STILL- . STAXDS BY JEROME
McClellan Returns Silent About
Bryan, but Opposing Ownership.
lies
McClellan, looking the embodiment of
health, arrived today on the American
liner St. Paul after a three months' tour
In Europe. On the question of the prob
able nomination of Mr. Bryan by tne
Democrats for the Presidency he would
say nothing.
"I met Mr. Bryan in London and talked
on almost everything save the political
situation," he said.
Referring to the candidacy of District
Attorney Jerome for the gubernatorial
nomination, he said: "In an interview
cabled from Paris I expressed the opinion
that Jerome was not only one of the
strongest candidates In the Democracy,
but one of the most picturesque and
strongest figures now before the people.
Since I delivered that opinion I have
been on the sea, so can form no opinion
as to the present condition of affairs,
but I have so far heard nothing that
would alter that opinion."
On municipal ownership he had this to
say: "So far as I have been able to
Judge, municipal ownership as it applies
to street locomotion is by no means a
success in continental cities. In nearly
all those places visited by us in Ger
many and France the street tramway
system was a failure, or nearly so."
NEW SUITE FOB CABINET
MOODY SOOJT TO ADVANCE TO
Sl'PHEME BENCH.
Bonaparte to Succeed Him, Meyer to
Run Navy ud Masrooa to
Replace Taft.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. (Special.)
Political wiseacres who have been
predicting that Atorney-General
Moody would soon retire to private
practice are all agog at the j-eport that
he is to be elevated to the , Supreme
Court. They now claim they have In
side information on what will be done.
This is the way they have it for this
year:
W. II. Moody from Attorney-General
to supreme bench; C. J. Bonaparte
from Navy Department to Attorney
General; George Von L.- Meyer from
St. Petersburg to Navy Department;
Leslie M. Shaw to retire from the Cab
inet and Postmaster-General Cortel
you to succeed him.
Next year's programme: W. H. Taft
to leave the Cabinet and Judge Magoon
to be recalled" from the Philippines
(where it is said he will go this Fall)
to fill the vacancy caused by the Sec
tary of War's retirement.
ASHION HAS MORE TROUBLE
Suspends Binder Who Denounced
New Printing Office Rule.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. The Govern
ment Printing Office received another
shake-up today, when Ashlon, acting
foreman of the bindery, suspended Jacob
Hale, a bookbinder and prominent officer
of the International Brotherhood of Book
binders. It was declared at the printery that
dissatisfaction had been found with some
of Hale's work. Friends of Hale, how
ever, asserted that his suspension was
due to a vigorous address made by him
last night at a meeting of members of
the Bookbinders' Union who are employes
of the Government Printing Office, in
which they discussed the recent order of
the Public Printer requiring binders to
produce a greater output ot work.
AXIL-IKE DYES ARE BARRED
Wilson's Order Against Poison AnJ
gers the Candy Men.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. (Special.)
Candy manufacturers all over the coun
try are protesting because the Agricul
tural Department has determined to bar
aniline dyes In candles under the pure
food law. These dyes are used extensive
ly in candles and the manufacturers in
sist that prohibition of them will hurt
their business. Dr. Wiley maintains
other dyes will do as well, though more
expensive, and points out that the be3t
medical authorities here and abroad have
declared the aniline dyes hurtful to the
kidneys.
MAKE STJLTAX TAKE MEDICINE
Leishman Expects Soon to Be Re
ceived as Ambassador.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. Ambassador
Leishman expects to be received by the
Sultan of Turkey at an early date. The
State Department today received a dis
patch from Leishman saying that the
Sultan has practically recovered from his
serious illness, and within a day or two
would give an audience to the French and
British Ambassadors. After receiving
these foreign representatives, it is be
lieved the Sultan can offer no further rea
sons for not permitting Mr. Leishman to
present his credentials.
REFORMED SPELLING ILLEGAL
Congress Passed Law on the Subject
and Courts Affirmed It.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. (Special.) A
local lawyer declares that President
Roosevelt's simple spelling order : may
prove illegal.. He says that over a-score
of years ago Congress passed a Joint
resolution, which became a law, recog
nizing Webster's unabridged dictionary
as the standard for Government spell
ing, and that a Supreme Court decision
afterward affirmed the act. The records
are now being examined.
Oil Bothers Warship Engines.
WASHINGTON, Sept 8. The Louisiana,
designated as the "most modern battle
ship," which is now undergoing her
"shaking-down" process, has been
obliged to steam slowly because oil gets
into the boilers and causes trouble. This
condition of affairs has afflicted a number
Of other vessels, and alterations have
been made 'in the machinery to obviate
the difficulty. The dynamo engines are
run. the entire 24 hours of the day, and
are lubricated by a spray of oil, which
gets mixed with the steam that is eent
into the condenser and thus returned to
the boilers, where ft seriously Interferes
with the main engines.
Investigate Elevator Charges.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. A hearing on
the matter of elevator allowances by va
rious railroads will be held in Chicago
September 17 by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. The hearing is likely to de
velop some important features. It is
known that the old complaint against the
Peavey Company, which was being fa
vored by the Union Pad no Railway Com
pany, will be renewed at the hearing.
Root Has Sailed for Callao.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. The Navy
Department Is Informed that the cruiser
Charleston, with Secretary Root "and
party on board, sailed from Tocopila, a
small Chilean port about 109 miles north
of Valparaiso, last evening, for Callao,
Peru, where elaborate preparations are
being made for their reception.
Cruisers Leave for Orient.
NEWPORT, R. I., Sept. 8. The arm
ored cruiser squadron sailed from here
today for the Asiatic station under com
mand of Rear-Admlral Willard H. Brown
son. The squadron consists of the flag
ship West Virginia and the Colorado,
Maryland, and Pennsylvania
FOR DEFENSE
Americans in Honduras Guard
Consulate With Guns.
TO WITHSTAND LYNCHERS
Hot Blooded Hondurians Enraged at
the Report of Yellow Fever on .
Steamer, Threaten Death.
Uncle Sam's Warning.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 8.-(Speclal.
For three weeks a number of the most
prominent Americans in Spanish Hon
duras with loaded rifles have been stand
ing guard day and night over the Ameri
can consulate in Ceiba, according to ad
vices received here from returning Amer
icans. Dr. Robinson, representative of
the United States Marine Hospital Corps,
gave a diagnosis of a number of suspi
cious cases of fever which was unsatis
factory to the residents and which re
sulted in the quarantine restrictions be
ing so tightened that It was almost im
possible to leave the city. Dr. Reynolds,
the acting Consul, has taken a strong
stand in the matter and, after laying
in ammunition, announced that if more
than five men at one time attempted to
pass ehe consulate they would be fired
upon.
Found Yellow Fever on Steamer.
It Is said the trouble was brought about
through Dr. Robinson's refusing to give
the British steamship Joseph Vaccaro,
of the Vaccaro line of New Orleans, a
clean bill of health. He declared on
the ship's papers that there existed three
cases of suspicious fever, which he sub
sequently diagnosed as yellow fever. The
Government officials and other natives
threatened to kill Dr. Robinson if he did
not change his diagnosis. The native
Board of Health pronounced the cases
malaria and denounced him for ruining
Ceiba' s commercial relations with the
United States.
Mr. Woods, the American Consul at
Ceiba, is at Washington on his vacation
and Dr. Robinson appealed to Dr. Rey
nolds, the acting Consul, for protection.
The latter communicated with the com
mandant, who sarcastically informed Dr.
Reynolds that he could not guarantee
that Dr. Robinson would not be attacked
by the natives, who publicly announced
their intention of lynching the American
physician. The relations between the
Americans headed by Dr. Reynolds and
the natives under the leadership of the
commandant were strained and they were
about to declare war against each other.
Americans Guard Consulate.
Dr. Reynolds appealed to the Ameri
cans living at Ceiba to assemble in the
consulate. Every one responded with his
rifle. Several thousand rounds of am
munition were quickly stored in the con
sulate and everything made ready to re
sist an attack. The Americans took
turns in patrolling the consulate and,
when their time expired, went home
heavily armed. The wives of the Amer
icans were also armed and given posi
tive instructions to shoot at the first
provocation.
Eagle Screams Warning.
Dr. Reynolds informed the State De
partment at Washington of the conditions
at Ceiba. The Honduras Government
asked at once his recall on the ground
that the Ceiba officials could not protect
him and a curt note was sent -to Presi
dent Bonilla informing him that the
United States would hold his Government
responsible for Dr. Reynolds' life.
NOT ON PARTY LINES
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question, but up to this time there is
no indication that such a bolt will oc
cur. Voters of Idaho Intelligent.
It Is true, feeling runs high in Idaho;
the people are on the qui vive, and It is
possible that the campaign may develop
something not now foreseen that will
change the trend of events and result
in the election of a slate not now looked
for. Careful study of the situation as
it exists at the present time leads to the
conclusion that Gooding will be re-elected
TOILER WHO HAS HELPED WEST.
f). D. Walcott.
Director Walcott, of the Geolog- ,
ical Survey, has done much good
work in his department. His ad
dress at the National - Irrigation
Congress at Boise on ' "Relation of
Government Reclamation Work to
Private Enterprise" brought out a
, fund of information that proved
very instructive.
Governor, possibly by a reduced major
ity, and that Borah will 'succeed Dubois
in the Senate.
The people of Idaho are a proud. Intel
ligent class; they hold sacred the good
name of their Btate, and It would be
most surprising if they should permit
their Governor to go down to defeat
simply and solely because he Insists that
the men Indicted for the murder of a
former Governor of the State shall be
brought before the bar of Justice to
answer for the crime.
Gooding is doing no more than ' any
other fair, fearless man would do under
the circumstances, ancl he is highly
FT J . - ' ' 'n n ' ' 1
lng. It is not untrue to say that he ,
has placed his life in danger by reason
of his attitude in this labor. crisis. Good-
lng knows that the eyes of the Nation
are upon him and upon the state, and at
ARM
xae fakki si nis own uie ne nas .aeier
mined that the good name of Idaho shall
not be stained. The best element in
Idaho is solidly with him. "
Borah Has Strang Backing. '
The campaign Is now on; the fight will
be waged In every section of the state,
and each party or each candidate is
using the issues which It considers most
apt to make votes. As stated above,
the Republicans are ignoring the Mor
mon question, and the Democrats, while
glad to get the votes of the union la
bor men, are profoundly silent as to
the labor question. The Republicans
sidestep Mormonlsm; the Democrats side
step the law and order Issue.
While this game is going on, William
E. Borah is moving ahead fearlessly, and
stands to benefit both from the Dubois
attack upon the Mormons and from the
labor men as well. Though Borah Is to
appear as one ot the leading attorneys
against the suspected murderers of
Steunenberg, he still has the support of
the laboring men, as he has always had,
and It would take an upheaval of unus
ual proportions to prevent his election to
the Senate.
DWELLS ON PROSPERITY
TEXTBOOK ISSUED BV REPUBLI
CAN COMMITTEE.
Tariff GlvCn Credit for Nation's Prog
ress With Staggering- Figures
to Back Up Argument.
NEW YORK, Sept. 8. (Special.)
"Roosevelt and Prosperity" is the key
note of the Republican Congressional
textbook Issued today by Chairman
Sherman of the Congressional Cam
paign Committee and which Is
Intended as a pocket com
panion and guide for the spell
binders. The doings of President
Roosevelt and the record of prosperity
under the Republican administration
ran a close race for supremacy in the
pages of the new book. They alter
nate, first, a dozen pages devoted to
the President and his speeches and
then a record of prosperity for the
past few years which is directly at
tributed to this cause. The book de
clares: Protectionists ars content to let the pres
ent law stand, -without change or amend
ment, ao long as present conditions prevail.
When there Is a substantial surplus of rev
enue: when there is a balance of trade ex
ceeding 500,000,000; when every man and
woman in the country who wants to work
and who is worthy of it can And employ
ment at high wages; when we are able to
absorb a million immigrants a year without
displacing any home labor, when our bank
clearings exceed annually $150,000,000,000,
three times amount attained in 1S&6 under
the Wilson-Gorman tariff, then it. is that
protectionists say let well enough alone and
leave revision until such a time as the con
dition of our finances, commerce and indus
try demand.
A slight reduction in many of our sched
ules would result in the dumping Into our
markets of perhaps a billion dollars' worth
of manufactures annually more than we now
Import. That would mean a resort to one
of two things we would have to close our
mills or Teduce our wages.
The book is chock full of statistics
about trade, wages, foreign trade, etc.
Pages are taken up with staggering
figures, all attributed to the benefi
cence of the tariff. Uncle Joe Cannon
Is one of the chief contributors to the
volume. .
Several of w. J. Bryan's utterances
are printed as horrible examples of
what might be expected if the Demo
crats gain control.
YIP TIN SAYS
CHINESE MONEY KING OPPOSES
COOLIE IMMIGRATION.
Bis Countrymen Not Anxious to Help
Dig- Panama Canal Under Ex
isting Restrictions.
NEW" YORK. Sept. 8. (Special.)
Charles Yip Tin, the Pierpont Morgan
of China, is in this country investigat
ing the operation of the American lail
road systems. He ' is an Americanized
Chinaman, who is a financial and politi
cal power in China, having reoou.iv
been created a Taotal by the Emperor.
Speaking of the plan to build the Pan
ama canal with Coolie labor, he said
today:
"It Is easy for your President to say
the solution of the labor problem on
the Panama canal may be met by the
Importation of Chinese cojl.es. It is
quite another matter '.o get coolies in
any great number t3 work on your
great enterprise undr the conilrions
named. Neither my government nor my
people are anxioiys to furtner this worn.
The government realizes that tho coo
lies would not receive the same consid
eration shown the laborer of other na
tionalities and the common people
themselves have become thoroughly
conversant with all the details of your
exclusion laws, of the climatic r-erily of
Panama and of the bonding scheme af
fecting coolie laborers on the canal. I
think. I can sum up their feelings best
by saying they will not help buy J10.
000 worth of American prosperity at
the expense of Jl worth of Chinese
labor and suffering.
"If the United States must have a
borers' lives to sacrifice why not em
ploy a few of the thousands of other
foreigners who are admitted to your
country at this port every year? We
know the value of our labor and intend
to keep-it at home as muci as possible.'"
BANK RESERVE DEPLETED
New York National Concerns Lend
Out Their Safety Funds.
NEW YORK, Sept. 8. The statement of
the clearing-house banks for the week
shows that the banks hold $6,577,920 Iobs
than the legal reserve requirements. This
Is a decrease in cash reserve of $9,447,325,
as compared with last week.
The stock market today practically ig
nored the showing by the banks below
the legal reserve requirements. Specula
tive confidence was professed that the
heavy engagements of gold for import
which will become available on Monday
through the operation of the order of the
Secretary of the Treasury to facilitate the
Import movement will be Insufficient to
replenish the deficit in New York and sup
ply means for easing the-money market
Estimates of the amount of gold already
secured for this purpose vary from 10,
000,000 to over 15,000,000.
Iiondon Gold Goes Higher.
LiONDON, Sept. 8. The United States
took a further engagement of (2,600,000 in
eagles from the Bank of England today.
In consequence of the steady drain of
gold to New York, the bank has raised
the price 3d to 76s 9d.
Portland Man Made President.
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 8. (Special.)
, eled pVesldent 'ol:'' the'pacmo
' xj ci,nnrnnhr. i ..inr.
I The association meet noxt iean ftt
- jetauio.
HILL ID HIS ORES
Coal Rate Hearing at Wash
ington Opens Possibilities.
PRY INTO HIS HOLDINGS
Vice-President Farrington Swears
Great Northern ' Owns No Iron
Mines but That Hill's Money
Is Represented,
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 8. (Special.)
When James J. Hill appears on the wit
ness stand at the coal-rate hearing,
which begins September 21 at the of
fices of the railroad company in the
capital, it is likely he will find him
self called upon to tell more about him
self and his Great Northern Railroad
than pertains to the price of carrying
coal from the head of the lakes to
points on the Milwaukee Railroad. Ed
ward T. Young, Attorney-General, had
an executive consultation with mem
bers of the State Railroad Commission
on the subject of Mr. Hill, his Great
Northern Railroad and his Northern
Minnesota iron mines and their rela
tion to the new Federal law governing
railroads.
One of the important sections .of the
new law is that in which common own
ership of mines and railroads carrying
ore from such mines is prohibited. In
recent years the rumor had got about
that James J. Hill is second only to the
great steel trust In ownership of Min
nesota Iron ore deposits. Saturday
Railroad Commissioner C. F. Staples
and Mr. Young reviewed the testimony
given in the recent rate hearings by R.
I. Farrington, second vice-president of
the Great Northern. There Mr. Farring
ton freely testified that in acquiring
its Northern roads the Great Northern
had to purchase therewith large iron
ore properties and that to make such
extensive purchases Mr. Hill used his
personal credit in the Eastern money
markets.
At another point in the evidence Mr.
Farrington testified under oath that
the Great Northern does not own any
iron mines. He admitted, however, that
for development of the property in the
state Mr. Hill has advanced money;
also that, when the Hill iron holdings
hav been sold, it has always been part
of the contract that all the ore should
be carried over Great Northern lines.
The question to bo decided by the
authorities seems to be whether the
new Federal law Is violated by the per
sonal holdings of Mr. Hill In iron
properties and at the same time a con
trolling interest In the Great Northern
Railroad.
COMING NEARER TOGETHER
Progress Toward Lease of Ore Lands
to Steel Trust.
NEW YORK, Sept. 8. The receipt of
the decision handed down yesterday by
the Supreme Court of Minnesota In the
Virginia Sliver mine, which is regarded
as definitely establishing the rights of
the Great Northern Railway in the Jease
of certain ore lands from the state, caused
a report In Wall street today that tho
long-delayed agreement between the Great
Northern and the United States Steel Cor
poration for the lease and operation of
the so-called Hill mines in the Lake Su
perior district was soon to be announced.
The court decision removes one of the
obstacles to the proposed agreement for
the constitutionality of the law under
which the Great Northern had secured
leaseholds.
The negotiations of the Hill ore hold
ings have been pending for nearly three
years, and several times have been re
ported near a conclusion. To guard
against the properties being held Idle by
the steel corporation, the Great Northern
has contended for a lease based upon
the payment of royalty on each ton of
ore mined, with a minimum output to be
agreed upon. The Hill lands are claimed
to be second in value only to those of
the Flower Iron Mining Company. Most
of the Hill holdings are as yet unexplored
and it is said .that any estimates as to
their value are mere guesses.
The financial district is somewhat puz
zled as to just what the deal between
the Great Northern and the steel corpora
tion will mean when consummated. The
annual royalties and profits to the Great
Northern from the haul to the Duluth and
Superior docks cannot be estimated. In
case the steel corporation should not see
fit to work the mines to the extent
agreed upon, it would be compelled, un
der the terms offered, to pay to the rail
road company an amount equal to the
royalties on the minimum yearly output.
This minimum is variously estimated at
from 6,000,000 to 10,000,000 gross tons per
year.
THROW BOMB INTO CAR
Lettish Reds Cause Terrible Slaugh
ter at Riga.
RIGA, Sept. 8. Three policemen were
Injured, one fatally, today by a bomb
thrown at a street railway car. A patrol
of troops was called and fired a volley
Into the crowd which collected, wounding
one man mortally and three slightly. Five
revolutionists, armed with automatic pis
tols, were halted today in the center of
the city by a policeman, who made them
throw up their hands. They did not com
ply, and the policeman began exchanging
shots with them. He killed one of the
revolutionists, wounded another and ar
rested two. One escaped. A bomb was
left today by an unknown man in the
office of the Conservative, a Lettish news
paper. One of the editors caught sight
of the burning fuse and threw the bomb
in a pall of water.
The band of revolutionary bankrobbers,
led by the well-known Lettish writer,
Plekshan, who combines the functions of
poet, sociologist and bandit, has escaped
from the country.
SMILES AT DEATH SENTENCE
Girl Assassin of General Min Will
Be Hanged.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 8. The court
martial which tried Zonaide Konopliani
kovo. the girl member of the flying group
of Terrorists, Who assassinated General
Mln August 26, today sentenced her to be
hanged. She smiled on hearing the sen
tence. The woman who was represented only
by an army captain detailed as her coun
sel, obstinately refused to rise at the
opening of court, and did so only when
threatened with force. She declined to
plead, saying that she regarded the trial
as a mere comedy. The trial lasted
scarcely an hour. The only witnesses ex
amined were three officers of gendarmes.
GET $107,000 BY CONFIDENCE
Robbers Disguised as Army Officers
Cheat Bank.
YLADIV.OSTOKi Bent SV-Bjr means of
a bold artifice, a party of revolutionists
today obtained possession of 107,000.
which had been sent here for the Thir
tieth Regiment.
Three men, attired as an officer and
two soldiers In uniform of that regiment.
appeared at the bank where the money
was on deposit and withdrew the entire
amount.
The men disappeared immediately, and
later it was learned they were lmposters.
RUSSIA DRINKS MORE VODKA
Income From Monopoly Increases,
Though Taxes Remain Unpaid.
ST. - PETERSBURG, Sept. 8. The
growing Indulgence in spirits by the
Russian peasants, despite the present
famine and distress, is shown by a re
port of the Ministry of Finance on the
receipts from the vodka monopoly, which
for the last seven months were J183.750,-
000, an increase of 125.550.000 over the cor
responding period of 190o. This is an im
portant factor In the financial condition
of the Government, as the receipts are
$40,000,000 greater than calculated In the
budget Items.
A number of Provincial Governors have
Issued proclamations to the peasantry
concerning the use of spirits, warning
them that excuses for the non-payment
of taxes will not be accepted In view
of this condition.
An Important organixation has entered
the political field, the Pan-Russian Trade
& Industry Association, which is vir
tually an incorporation of the trade and
Industry party, whose statutes have just
been approved by the emperor. The as
sociation, which is headed by M. Nobel,
the great petroleum magnate, is designed
to bring weight to bear on political and
economic questions relating to labor laws
and taxation.
Soldiers Attack Russian M. P.
WARSAW. Sept. 8. M. Ostroffsky. a
member of the late Parliament, wai ar
rested today at Smardzevo and severely
beaten by soldiers. In front of the Bris
tol, the principal hotel in Warsaw, troops
today killed two peddlers who were sus
pected of being terrorists. Previous to
this, troops killed revolutionists in Cra
cow. A policeman was mortally wounded.
Jews Resort to Bomb-Making.
KERTCH, Sept. 8. A bomb was ex
ploded today in the garret of the prin
cipal synagogue Jiere, killing two sons of
the watchman of the edifice. Investiga
tion revealed two other bombs and tools
for manufacturing bombs and many re
volvers and cartridges in the building.
The synagogue Is now surrounded by
troops.
CLOSE OF MAINE CAMPAIGN
Littlefleld Vows He Will Not Be
Bulldozed by Gompers.
PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 8. The po
litical campaign inMaine closed to
night. The election for four Congress
men, a Governor. State Senators, State
Representatives and county officers
will take place Monday. The cam
paign, which has been the liveliest In
years, has aroused National Interest
because of the attacks upon Congress
man Littlefield of the Second Maine
district by Samuel Gompers. president
of the American Federation of Labor.
The outcome of the campaign
against Littlefield is said to be await
ed with concern by the leaders in sev
eral other states, because of Gompers
campaign against Congressmen who
reftiE-ed to support labor bills. Little
field's friends tonight predicted his re
election by a reduced plurality. His
opponents are Daniel J. McGllllcuddy,
of Lewiston, Democrat; William T.
Eustis, of Dixfleld. Prohibitionist, and
Walter R. Pickering, of Auburn, So
cialist. The candidates for the head of the
state ticket are: Governor William T.
Cobb, of Rockland, Republican; Cyrus
W. Davis, of Watervllle, Democrat;
Henry Woodward, Prohibition, and
Charles" L. Fox, Socialist.
Among the speakers who have taken
part in the campaign were Speaker Jo
seph G- Cannon, William H. Taft, Sec
retary of War; Senators Lodge and
Beveridge and several Congressmen.
The principal closing . rallies of the
campaign were held tonight. In Ells
worth Mr. Cannon and Senator Hale
made addresses. Mr. Cannon will
leave tomorrow for New York. Sena
tor Lodge In Brunswick devoted par
ticular attention to W. J. Bryan's ad
vocacy of Government ownership of
railroads and declared that the plan, if
carried out, would mean the overthrow
of the present form of government and
place the United States on the road
which tends to autocracy like that of
Russia.
Mr. Littlefield talked to a big audi
ence In his home city, Rockland, to
night. He attacked Gompers and de
clared that he was "not to be bull
dozed and sandbagged by Gompers or
his henchmen into supporting legisla
tion detrimental to my constituents."
Governor Hanley, of Indiana, also
spoke at this rally.
TALE OF THRILLING SAIL
(Continued From Pare 1.)
saved, but he shouted back, 'I am not
In the catching business."
Finally Catches In a Tree.
"I was feeling pretty woe-begone, as
you can imagine, by this time. I. sailed
upward again, but was not content. I
thought perhaps I was near land and
down I went to make the trial. I got
up to my hips in water and would have
been submerged and drowned then and
there if I hadn't tossed out some more
ballast quickly. As It was, the airship
yanked out of the wet in short order.
"Finally, just after daylight, as I was
passing over a forest, I managed to drop
a rope over a tree and easing myself
down, slept an hour and started for
civilization."
Republican Rally at Boise.
BOISQ Ida.. Sept. 8. (Special.) It has
been determined formally to open the
state campaign on behalf of the Republi
cans with a grand rally In Boise on the
evening of Friday, September 14. The
meeting will be presided over by W. E.
Borah and he and Senator Heyburn will
deliver addresses. The latter is now here
and will remain for the meeting.
; Edward Returns to London.
LONDON, Sept. 8. King Edward re
turned to London from Marlenbad to
day. Band Going to Seattle.
On closing its engagement In this city
next Friday, D'Urbano's Royal Italian
Band, which has been playing this season
The Itch Fiend
That is Salt Rheum or Eczema, one ot
-the outward manifestations of scrofula.
It comes in itching, burning, oozing, dry
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hands, legs or body.
It cannot be cured by outward applica
tions, the blood must be rid of the Im
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F. F. BOODY, Manager
at The Oaks, will go to Seattle to open
a Winter engagement in that city. L.
Ruzzl. manager of the band, last night
announced that a contract had been
signed- with the band, under which It will
appear for six months in the new Coli
seum, a recently built Seattle amusement
resort. At the close of this engagement
the band will return to Portland to play
during the Summer at The Oaks. Man
ager Ruzzl greatly regrets to leave Port
land, which he says has shown its high
appreciation of good music, and looks
forward with pleasure to returning here
next year.
Change State Fair Into Exposition.
MINNEAPOLIS. Sept. 8. (Special.)
Minnesota's big fair, which long since has
attained National Importance, will be de
veloped into an Interstate exposition In
1906 and continued for at least six weeks.
This is the plan of the board of man
agers, provided they are retained in
office. It Is the consensus of opinion, that
the State Fair and the semi-centennial
celebration be combined and take the
form of an exposition of the magnitude
of the Lewis and Clark Exposition at
Portland.
Is Disease a Crime ?
Not very long ago, a popular msgarina
published an editorial article in which
the writer asserted, In substance, that all
disease should be regarded as criminal.
Certain It is, that much of the sickness
and suffering of mankind Is due to the
violation of certain of Nature's laws.
But to say that an sickness should be
regarded as criminal, must appeal to
every reasonable Individual as radically
wrong.
It would be harsh, unsympathetic,
cruel, ye criminal, to condemn the poor,
weak, over-worked housewife who si oka
under the heavy load of household cares
and burdens, and suffers from weak
nesses, various displacements of pelvio
organs and other derangements peouliar
to her sex.
Frequent bearing of children, with its exacting-
demands upon the syttem. coupled
with the ctre. worry and labor of rearing-
large family. Is often the cause ot weak
nesses, derangements and debility which ara
aggravated by the many household caret,
and the hard, and never-ending work whlpa
the mother Is called upon to perform. Dr.
Pierce, the maker of that world-tamed rem
edy for woman's peculiar weaknesses and
Ir. Pierce's Favorite Prescription says
oat one of the greatest obstacle to the cure
of this class of maladies is the fact that the
poor, over-worked housewife can not get the
needed rest from her many household oarea
and labor to enable her to secure from the
use of his " Prescription " Its full benefits. I
is a matter of frequent experience, he says.
In his extensive practice in these cases, to
meet with those In which his treatment falls
by reason of the patient's inability to abstain
from hard work long enough to be cured.
With those suffering from prolapsus, ante
version and retroversion of the uterus or
other displacement of the womanly organs.
It Is very necessary that. In addition to tak
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from being very much, or for long periods, on
their feet. All heavy lifting or straining of
any kind should also be avoided. As much
out-door air as possible, with moderate, light
exercise Is also very important. Let the
patient observe these rules and toe "Favor
ite Prescription " will do the rest.
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on receipt of stamps to pay expense of
mailing only. Send to Dr. E.V. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y., 21 one-cent stamps for paper-covered,
or 31 stamps for cloth-bonnd.
If sick consult the Doctor, free of charge
by letter. All such communications ar
held sacredly confidential.
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