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Newspaper Page Text60 Pages Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXVII. NO. 10. PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 10OS. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PRIDE IS OUT 1TI Formally Enters Race for Governor. MEAD ALSO A CANDIDATE Both Men Make ' Announce ment of Their Platforms. SITUATION NOW COMPLEX WaNhinKtorTs Several Guberimlorla Aspirants Must Make "ew Cal culations as to Where They Will Draw Their Voles. PI.ATFOWM OF CANDIDATES. MR. M'BKlDfc'S PLTTORM De clare for a regulative railway com mlsfftnn and anti-pass law, and eom palllnK of railroad and other property to b-ar full share of public burden ill taxm; favors constitutional amend ment to confer full rate-making pow ers on Railway Commission, If ad verse Hanford decision shall be sua talnrd on appeal; every one, capitalist and laborer, should be made to obey the law; economy should be the watchword of the etate administra tion. OOVBRXOR MEAD'S PLATFORM Relies on the record of hla admin istration, citing various Important measures passed by the. Legislature under his recommendation; favora merit system for all employes in public Institutions; declares tor reg ulation of public service corporations by a commission, and will, if neces sary, call special session of . Legisla ture to submit to people constitu tional amendment delegating to a commission power to Ax rates; all persons and corporations should pay equitable taxes. -.-- .....seaes SRATTIiH. Wash., March 7. (Special.) Ur-iiry McBrldo will bo a candidate for ilie Republican nomlrration for Governor. An announcement to mat effect was au !iuirl7.e(i by tlie former Governor today, ni from this time forth McBride will be ii-tivf In the Gulwrnalorlal contest. Gov rnor Mead. too. todtty Issued formal an nmnoement of his candidacy for renom . nation. M'-Brid has been out of the active practice of law for several months. He lias devoted mdt of his attention to tim ber and mill investments In Skagit and Snohomish I'ounties. the Skagit County Holdings forming the basis of his later Investments in Snohomish. It Is just a oincidence. lint this year of political ac tivity is one that holds out little hope of business to lumliermen, so McBride's mill nterests will not tie him down to prosaic business pursuit?. Predicted Year Ago. The announcement of McBride's eandi iacy has been anticipated by Itepublican workers. . Tt Is now nearly a year since The Oregonlan first announced that 51c Bride was belli? discussed as a successor 4 Mead, and at that time it was pre dicted he would be Induced to accept a nomination. It required a year's time' to verify the prediction, but close students of volition have never had any doubt but that McKride would get into the right. Since MeBride has been seriously con Idorinjf the Gubernatorial nomimUon he has gone at it in a thoroughly practical manner. McBride has had each county carefully Investigated, and has had re ports from each Itepublican faction. The .nnouncemerlt of his candidacy for Gov ernor means that McEtrtde believes the seniinient of the state la favorable to him. He is going- into the fight after determin ing; that he haa better than an even break In the campaign. t'pwcts Other Calculations. Already in the Gubernatorial fight are Ciovernor A. E. Mead. John D. Atkinson, Attorney-General; Colonel W. M. Kidpath, if Spokane, millionaire and well-known Kast Side political llgure, and S. G. Cos- To. hhtr. FOP, fill grove, of Potneroy, for years one of the J most prominent Kepuoncan campaigners in this state. Cosejrove did not believe, when he en tered the Gubernatorial fight, that Mc Bride would be a candidate for Governor. For that matter McBride had not even considered it at that time. But Cosgrove has built up his campaign on the theory j that he was the most available man for carrying Eastern Washington, and the de velopment of a McBride boom will make it necessary for him to rearrange hie cam paign fences. McBrkle's strength during the past six years has been in Eastern Washington and in the northwestern part of the state. On the Bast Side he meets Cosgrove; in the Northwest he is on Mead's ground. It was stated in Seattle today by two prom inent Spokane politicians that the Mc Bride announcement would- be immediate ly taken up by the dominant faction in the Palls City and the guarantee was of fered the McBride people that Spokane would be delivered to him. Spokane used to be a McBride stronghold, but both Mead and Cosgrove have expected to break in, and Ridpath cannot ret started CunKreMman Georee I. LI I Icy, Who 1'harKFi Kleetrfc Boat Company With Corrnptlns; Con feres men. in his campaign unless he can control his own county. Strong on East Side. Atkinson's strength in the Gubernatorial fight Is something hard to estimate. At kinson personally is popular, but there Is a vast difference between personal popu larity and an ability to get votes. Wheth-, er or not Atkinson has both qualifications In something: politicians have not settled for themselves. Atkinson, Cosgrove and McBride will all draw slightly from Mead. Cosgrove rpsldes on the -East Side, where Mead's railroad commission has been doing; politics at the expenee of Portland for three years. The basis of Mead's claim for Kast Side support is the work of the railroad aid tax commissions, the former being the particular card played. Naturally Garfield County will stay with its home candidate and Cos grove has a big sprinkling of personal friends throughout Eastern Washing ton who will go the limit for him. Dividing Antt-Mcad Forces. It was McBride who initiated the Railroad Commission idea and he will use this fact in Eastern Washington. For that matter, practically every Kast Side farmer or shipper knows that Mc Bride led their railroad fight, and Mc Bride's friends believe that he can realize upon this earlier political in vestment. "Whatever is taken by Mc Bride as a result of'hia railroad atti tude or by Cosgrove from personal ac quaintance In Eastern Washington will be drawn from Mead's support, won through the Railroad Commission. Though Atkinson has held state of fice for seven years, he has maintained his home in Chelan County. He is con ceded the support of Chelan. He, too, will draw from Mead on the basis of his popularity. Means Second Choice Ballot. What the opposition to Mead must divide and must depend upon for the nomination is the anti-Mead sentiment. Not even the Governor's friends at tempt to conceal the fact that there is a strong feeling .against the Governor, based in part upon patronage ground and In part upon a number of political grounds. It is improbable any of the anti-Mead candidates would be In the fight if they did not believe that anti Mead Republican were in a great ma jority and each of them expects to poll this strength. Under the direct primary Jaw with (Concluded on Page 4.) 1 1 j i I f W J HARRY MURPHY TELLS WITH HIS PEN HOW HE VIEWS SOME OF Ona Wmj ta (ptura MintinU, TIFF REVISION IS AGREED UPON Extra Session to Be Called Next Spring, COMMISSION PLAN DISLIKED Departments to Gather Data to Aid in the Work. LABOR DURING SUMMER Petition Circulating; Tor Ways and Means Committee to Sit During Recess to Aid Members in hYa niing Xew Tjaw. WASHINGTON". March 7. (Special.) Plans for the revision of the tariff have been agreed upon by the Republican leaders. including Roosevelt. Speaker Cannon. Senator Beveridg and Repre sentatives Payne, Dalzell and Sherman, the three latter being members of the House ways and means committee, who will frame the new law. An extra session of Congress will be called immediately after the expiration of the present Congress next Spring and a bill will ba drafted reouctng some of the high schedules on steel and iron and equalizing others. If the Democrats are successful in the National election next Fall, President Roosevelt will call Con gress immediately after the result is known, so that the tariff can be revised by the Republicans. Senator Beveridge, who presented a measure providing for a tariff commis sion, had a conference witn the Presi dent today. Later he conferred with Speaker Cannon and Representatives Payne. Dalzell and Sherman. It devel oped that the commission plan is not ac ceptable, and it was agreed that a resolu tion shall be adopted by tne present Con gress directing the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Agriculture, commerce and Labor and the Director of the Census to gather such data as will be useful to Congress in revising the tariff. Hepresentative Sherman, with the ap proval of Speaker Cannon, ts circulating a petition among members of the House which requests the ways and means com mittee to sit during the Summer recess for the purpose of gathering data to aid the members in framing a new tariff law. Many signatures have already been procured and the committee will sit. The agreement makes it certain that tariff legislation will come next Winter or Spring. RGE FOR FB1TZI SCKEFf THE VIVACIOUS OPERA SINGER WOltD HAVE FREEDOM. P'iles Suit Under Her Off-Stage Xante, Fredericka Ton Bardele ben, in Xew York City. NBW YORK, March l-ilme. Fiitzt Scheff. the comic opera star, has brought suit for divorce from Baron Fritz von Bardeleben, formerly a German captain of hussars, to whom she was married in 1902. The papers were filed last Satur day before Justice" Platzek. An order of reference was entered and the case will be heard in private before Edmond E. Wise, an attorney, who is named as referee. The formal papers in the case attracted no particular notice In the court, but some persons remembered that Mme. von Bar deleben was the off-Btage name of Miss Fritzi Scheff, who is at present appearing in "Mile. Modiste," in Cincinnati. For some time, however, there have been reports of trouble in the domestic life of the vivacious singer. Nathan Burkan appears as attorney for Mme. Fredericka von Bardeleben. He seemed rrfuch perturbed today when asked if he Blind Mr. HarrimM. was not really acting for Miss Fritzl Scheff. 'This is only a case involving some East Side clients," stated Lawyer Burkan. But smiled when he made the statement. The complaint in the case charges an offense which is the only one on which an absolute divorce can be secured in this state. The com-plaint states that the von Bardelebens were married in 1902 and lived together In 1908 and 1904. Von Bardeleben was an officer in the Thir teenth German hussars, but resigned his commission to wed the singer. He had courted Miss Scheff several years prior to their marriage. At the time of the wedding of the couple it was said that the two had been sweethearts from childhood. When Miss Scheff was taken 111 in Cleveland. O., her husband went there. . He accompanied her to the Adirondacks, where she went to recuperate. Moses Ritkenoerg is the at torney for von Bardeleben. "I cannot discuss this case and it would not be right for me to even tell you where my client could be found." Yakima Land Case Decided. SAX FRANCISCO. March 7. The ap peal of Charles F. and Ethel Kraus and Ada Maud Kraus against Charles A. and Clara B. Congdon from the United States Circuit Court of 'Wash ington, in regard to titles to certain land in North Yakima, was affirmed by the Court of Appeals today. Judge Ross dissenting. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum, temperature, 50 degrees; minimum, 38. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. , J Foreign. Franklin's house In Paris demolished. Sec tion 3. Dace 9. j Female bomb-thrower in Warsaw acquit ted arter confessing guilt. Section 3, rage 9. - Drift towards republic In Portugal. Sec tion 4, page 1. British liberals' to renew attack on Lords. Section 4. page 1. Man foi-reits- fortune for sake - of religion. Section 4. page 5. Japan issues ultimatum to China, Section 1. page 3. Both Germany and Britain want Kaiser's letter published. Section 1, page 2. Great immigration scheme in Canada. Sec tion J. page 4e. National. Rooyevelt to call extra session for tariff revision. Section 1. page 3. Physical tests aimed to crowd old officers out of Army. Section 2. page 1. Rooseve!t- lines up Northwestern Senators for Aldrich bill. Section 1. page 2. Politics. New York Republican committee, indorses Hughes for President. Section 1, page 1. Domestic. Twenty-ninth homicide in Colorado in 190S. Section 1. page 5. Knickerbocker Trust Bank to reopen. Sec tion 1, page 3. Nine Chinese sentenced to death for murder In Boston. Section 1. p-age B. Interstate Commission will enforce nine-hour law on all railroads. Section 2, page 2. Schooner wrecked in Alaska and ten liven lost.. Section 1, page 6. Professor Quaekenbos says medicine will make bad men good. Section 1, page 2. Death list at Collinwood reaches 174. Section 1, page J. Jewish rabbi denounces Rose Pastor mokes and Dr.. Day as anarchists. Section 2, page 1. Hearst papers accused of inciting to anarchy and murder. Section 1. page 3. Black Hand meets Its match in New York. Section 1, page 2. High financiers sued for loot taken from bank. Section 1. page 1. Palflc Coast. McBride and Mead announce candidacy for Governor. Section 1. page 1. Independant boat service promised Tilla mook. Section 1, page 6- Washington State candidates fight ahy of combinations. Section 3, page 10. Whitman College to becom Yale of the Northwest. Section 1, page 6. Fellows. California, highwayman, captured. Section 1, page , Sport. Beavers have practice game - with Santa. Barbara. Section , page Stanford and California crews at outs. Sec tion 4, page 0. Soccer game results in tie. Section 4, page 7. How the owners almost killed baseball. Sec tion 4, page 6. College football pronounced better than rugby. Section 4. page 6 Athletes training for indoar track meets. Section 4, page 8. Auto Club takes up road question. Section 4. page 7. Commercial ante Marine. English are heavy buyers of Oregon hops. Section 4, page 9. Chicago wheat market declines on general selling. Section 4, page U. Stock prices again move upward. Section 4, page 9.' New York banks steadily gain In reserves. Section 4. page 9. French bark Emilie Galline clears with second cargo within 11 months. Section 4, page 8. Portland and Vicinity. Wealthy Chinese merchant murdered by highbinders. Section 1, page 9. URen may withdraw from Senatorial race. Section 1, page 9. Self-defense plea in Wynne murder case. Section 2 page 13. Receivership suit blow to Gould's dream of coast to coast railroad. Section 1, page 8. 1 Portland realty market maintains healthy tone. Section 2, page 2. Quadrennial general conference of Metho . dist Episcopal Church to be held in May. Section 1. page 8 Light ordinance vetoed by Mayor. Section ! 3, page 10. J New stores., in growing East Side section, Section 3. page 8- I Too-Gnod to Be Tru. HEW YORK BOOMS FAVORITE Si State Committee Pro poses Hyghes. AFTER PRAISING ROOSEVELT Resolutions a Surprise, but . Secure Every Vote. CONVENTION IS CALLED Douglass Commits Members to Push Governor's Candidacy and Pro- . poses United Support by Dele gation Hughes Still Silent. NEW YORK. March 7. The Republican State Committee of New York put its seal of approval upon the candidacy of Charles E. Hughes for the nomination for the Presidency by unanimously indorsing him as the choice of his party in this state before the Republican National Conven tion at Chicago. The same resolution, of--fered by W. H. Douglass, extended the hearty thanks of the committee to Pres ident Roosevelt for his "great service to his country by a rugged determination to oppose wrong and In demanding Justice, for all." The committee then carried out the purposes for which it was brought to gether by calling the state convention to meet in Carnegie Hall, New York City, on April 11, at 11 o'clock, and by a unani mous vqte agreeing to recommend ex-Lieutenant-Governor Bruce as temporary chairman of the convention. All the SS members of the committee were present or represented by proxy, and the meeting lasted less than half an hour. The call provides that the convention shall elect four delegates and alternates at large to the National convention, elect a new state committee, nominate for the 39 Presiden tial electors from the state, and transact such other business as may come before it. No opposition whatever to the form of the call was offered by either faction in the committee. Resolutions Commend Hughes. The Douglass resolution indorsing Mr. Hughes' candidacy was as follows: New York holds the proud position of having given to the Nation one of her il lustrious sons, who now occupies the Presidential chair. Few, if any. Presi dents have ever been held in so high re gard by the Nation and the world. He has done great service to his country, by a rugged determination to oppose wrong doing and in demanding justice for all. We tender him as his term of office draws towards its close our hearty thanks, and his name will undoubtedly go down to posterity as one of the greatest and most heroic figures in American history, justly linked with that of Washington, Lincoln, Grant and Mc Kinley. The citizens of the Empire State very properly expect that our delegates to the National Republican convention will pre sent and urge the selection again of one of our many worthy sons for the greatest office in the gift of the people. The state committee believes that the wisdom of our choice will undoubtedly commend Itself to all classes of our citi zens and to the country generally, if we earnestly advocate the selection of the Governor of o"ur state. Hon. Charles E. Hughes, for the Presidency. He is a man of the Lincoln type,' able, upright, intrepid, honest, fearless in duty and de voted to the people's best Interests. Since he has been prominently before the pub lic his strong individuality has greatly impressed us all. In all his public utter ances, he carries conviction by his evi dent sincerity and the unquestion able purity of his motives. In placing his name before the country .as our standard-bearer, we are convinced we are presenting another great leader to the Nation, one who will add additional glory to our state, and up hold the traditions of the Republican party. Resolved. That we commend the selec tion of delegates in the various Congres sional districts and of delegates at large who will act in complete harmony with the purpose of this resolution, to the end that the delegation to the National con vention from this state may present a united front in behalf of our candidate. Surprised Committee Agrees. The introduction of the resolution came as a surprise to many of the committee men, as it was not anticipated. Copies had been prepared in advance, and when THE IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE WEEK the members reached the headquarters on ESst Thirty-eighth street, where tha meet ing was held, they were advised that such a resolution had been prepared for intro duction: The matter was discussed infor mally before Chairman Timothy L. Wood ruff called the committee to order, but there was ho formal discussion. Near the close of the brief session Mr. Douglass Introduced his resolution and made, a brief speech eulogizing President Roosevelt and Governor Hughes, in which he said: We are approaching another great po litical campaign, and the people do not anticipate the same walkover the Repub licans had eight years ago and four years ago. It is our duty to. voire the senti ments of this committee so that the peo ple will know where we stand. New York is the greatest state in the Union, and as New York goes, so goes tne coun try. We want to go to Chicago and say we can guarantee to elect our man. The time has come when we should unfold our banner and "write upon it in letters of gold the name of our candidate. And the name I want to write on that banner is the name of Charles E. Hughes, j Mr. Douglass' remark were received by niny of , the members with applause. Hughes Too Busy to Talk. - Ex-Go-.-ernor Odell was present, but took i'i iritrtffiriiHBiiiiifliHilirn Mjlm i Mi'iiTii'ifriirfc ' 'ft -Frltxl Seheff. "Who Han Sued Her - Hiiihunit for Divorce in New York City. ' no part except to ask if the representa tion at the state convention will be gov erned by the vote cast in 1906 or 1904. Chairman Woodruff informed Mr. Odell that the vote of 1901 would govern. A resolution relative to calling . Congres sional district conventions where . there is no separate Congressional committee, in troduced by William L. Ward, of West chesrery was- -adopted, after . which the Hughes resolutions were adopted. When an effort' was made, to' see Gov ernor Hughes at the Hotel Astor, C. L. Treadwell, his military secretary, said the Governor was too busy to receive any one prior to his departure. General Stewart L. Woodford, president of the Hughes National League, when in formed of the action of the committee today, said: . V "I expected just such action. Of course I am deeply gratified. I believe it ex presses the purpose of a united Republi can party In New Y'ork. If New York State stands resolutely and honestly by Governor Hughes, I expect his nomina tion at Chicago." ARREST RADICAL SOCIALIST Indianapolis Man Accused of Threaten i n g 8 pea ker Cannon . INDIANAPOLIS, Intl.. March 7. Hiram Aiaine, aged 64. was arrested here today on a warrant sworn out by a United States postoffice inspector, charged with writing threatening let ters to Speaken Cannon, of the House of Representatives, and Congressman Jesse Overstreet, of Indianapolis. " These letters have continued at vari ous times for nearly two years. A throat of assassination, inspired"- by their attitude on the pure food legisla tion in the Congress of 1906, hung over their heads, and although the en tire machinery of the Postoffice De partment and secret service was called into use, not a single clue to the Iden tity of the author of the letters, was found until a few days ago. Maine, a most prolific writer, a pro nounced radical, an admitted Socialist and preaching the doctrines of an al leged anarchistic nature, has covered the country, with his anonymous com munications. Complaints from men in public life, particularly at Washington, were registered with the Postal De partment. German Discount Kate Lower. BERLIN, March 7. The rate of dis count of the Imperial Bank of Ger many was reduced today from ( to per cent. "Oh! Oee What I'M Got!" r 1 1 BUNCO SUEO FOR LOSS Receivers After Gang of Big Financiers.. BOUGHT MORSE'S ICE STOCK Flagler, Havemeyer, Schwab Gates and Others. MANY LIKE TRANSACTIONS Secret Sale of Stock to Bank of North America Alleged to Hare Caused ftreat Loss . Restitution Is Now Sought. NKW YORK. March 7. Receiver Charles Hanna, of the National Bank of North America, filed a bill of com plaint In a . suit in the United Ptates Circuit Court today against the direc tors of the suspended Institution, in which he demands that an inquiry be made Into the losses Involved In cer tain large financial transactions en tered Into between the bank nd Charles W. Morse and others, and that those directors who were liable Jor the losses may be directed to pay. The suit is brought against Charles W. Morse, John H.' Flagler, William G. Havemeyer, - Alfred H. Curtis, A. 11. Barney and James W. Barney, as ex ecutors of Charles T. Barney, deceased; John W. Gates. Charles M. Schwab, Henry M. Chapln, Jr., Robert Thomp son and Morgan G. O'Brien. Mr. Harm a in his bill states that In 1906 the National Bank of North America purchased, from Charles W. Morse 4000 shares of American Ice Se curities Company stock and that "tha real character of this purchase was concealed and covered by entering the same on the books of the bank as a loan to Lesll K. Whiting, secured by the 4000 shar.es as collateral security." Later, according to the bill of com plaint, the stock was transferred to two other loan accounts and the books show that by the sale of part of this collateral and the surinkage of the re mainder of the security stilt htd The bank has suffered a loss of $l!a.fifl4, less the value of 2000 shares of stock still held as collateral. Transactions of like character are further cited by Mr. Hanna in his bill of complaint, in which he charges that the .defendants had knowledge of ond assented to these financial acts. KNICKERBOCKER ILL OPEN Many Millions f Locked-up Depos- . Us to Be Released. NEW YORK, March 7. An ordor was granted today by Justice Clark in the Supreme Court, Staten Island, for the re opening, on March 26, next, "of the Knick erbocker Trust Company, whose suspen sion last October, following a two days bank run, involved the savings of nearly 20,000 depositors, brought the president of the institution, Charles T. Barney, to his death In a sensational manner,, and precipitated such an unsettlement of pub lic confidence that the panic of VJ07 re sulted. The reopening of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, in accordance with plains for rehabilitation prepared after four months' labor by a committee of deposi tors, will release to the welfare of the community assets aggregating J46.I70.fii!it. The granting of the resumption order was reflected in a smart advance In se curity values today on the stock ex change. - Under the terms of this plan of re habilitation, depositors of the Knicker bocker Trust Company will not receive their deposits in full when the Trust Com pany opens its doors, but will receive 1J per cent on the opening day if they want it. and the remaining portions of the de posits can be withdrawn at intervals cov ering a period of about two and one-half years. - A comparatively small number of the depositors refused to assent to the plan of resumption, and these depositors by their refusal to assent to the plan wiil be in a position to demand nayment of their deposits in full. A largi" percentage of the depositors assented to the plan, however, and are bound by it and it was by their action that it was made possible for the institution to resume business. Jnnrt One Little Thing More t Do.