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64 Pages Pages 1 to 12 prIce FIVE CENTS. VOL. XXVII. NO. l.. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING. APRIL 12, 10OS. ( HENEY RENEWS ATTACKONFULTDN Says His Election Will Restore Machine. REITERATES HIS CHARGES Fulton Accused of Handling Sack in 1897. LETTER TELLS OF BRIBERY i-Hlom ItoMdent Gives Mr. Honey De tail of Alleged Corruption by Mitchell and Fulton Large Audience Hears Speaker. II E N mr8 CH A R41 KH A A INST HLTON, Hfny object to Fulton's t-e-eloc-tton tor the reason that he believes It would mean a restoration of for mer corrupt machine politics in this state. Criticises Fulton for his support of T. a1er Powell, an ftUejteri em besxler and corrupt politician, fur I'nlted States Marshal in Alaska. Rex lews comUtlons In Oregon w hen he csme in the Kail jf lPO:i, and exposes aliened relations between Fulton t -d Mitchell with llall. In which the letter In consideration of reappointment to . l'nlted States Attorney should profect Hermann, Mays. Browne 11 and others from prosecution r Oregon land-rrauds. Reads letter from a resident of Salem' during isT session of Leg islature, detailing alleRed bribery of other members of the ltrlslature In addition to Repreeentatlve Smith, of Ilnn County. Reiterates his charge that Fulton was Mitchell's manager durlnc the 1R&7 session and handled the cor ruption fuod. ' ... . Asaoclates Fulton w 1th Tatrick CaJhoun and Abe Ruef. Declare. Fulton Is being; supported bV Jack Matthews. Whitney l. Kola, T. R. Wilcoi and w. D. WheelwrVuht, Kxposes political rec ords of Matthews and Boise. W4 Hefore an audience of 4000 persons. In the Exposition skating rink last night, Francis J. Heney reiterated him rhartres of official corruption and un fitness for office against United States Senator Fulton. With the exception of a letter that had been written Feb ruary 4, last, by a resident of Salem during: the 1897. "hold-up" session of the State Legislature. In which was detailed further evidences of alleged corruption by Mitchell and Fulton dur ing that session, Mr. Heney did not present murU, that was new. Those that had expected something: decidedly sensational were disappointed, for in reality the address consisted largely of a resume of Mr. Honey's public ad dresses at the First Congregational Church and the Y. M. C, A. last Janu ary, with the addition of the letter from a former Salem citizen, whose name the speaker was not at liberty to disclose. However, the audience appeared to be with Mr. Heney, and. with the exception of a few stragglers who left the hall, patiently listened to the address, which required nearly three hours for its delivery. Mr. Honey will address the people of Hal em today, when he will probably return to San Francisco. He said last lilght that it was not probable he could remain In the state longer than to till Ills Salem engagement. The various details of last night's meeting were attended to by United States Marshal O. J. Reed, who oc cupied a chair in . the front row of prat. leputy United States Marshal Trery was general overseer, and saw that the Immense audience remained reasonably decorous. Mr. Heney was escorted from the Tort land Hotel to ttie Kxposltton building by Steve Con licll. who Is connected with the Gov ernment Secret Service at Portland. The appearance of Mr. Heney In the Komcthlsg Wrong About That Box. 4F hall was the signal for the band to play "There'll, Be a Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight." which enthused the audience to a demonstration. There were no needless formalities. Fred erick W. Mulkey. ex -United States Senator, presided as chairman of the meeting and Introduced Mr. Heney as "a man who needed no introduction to the people of Oregon and whose mo tives were those of good citizenship." Mr. Honey's Introductory remarks follow: .Mr. Hene.i' Opening; Remarks. I feel a if I be:ona to Oregon. I came here for the first time In November. 1WO. Senator Fulton says that I waa thn an ap plicant for the appointment as assistant to the Attorney -General of the United States to prosecute the Isnd-fratid casea in Oregon. Senator Fulton knows better. The fact Is that I met Attorney-General Knox. now United States Senator from Pennsylvania, for the- nri-t time. In the Summer of IWUt. I met him under thew circumstance., A Jurie at Xrme, AlaHtft. had bcrn rharged with contempt of the Circuit Court of the United States, the Circuit Court of Apnea' of the United States in this district. jomt I t i x I i Governor Chit rim R. IT nark en, of Xfw Vork, Indorsed by State Convention for Irri.cnt. of our country newspapers have published the fact time and apain that I was connected with the Alaska land, frauds, or rather, the Alaska mining frauds and the attempt to confiscate property there which waj charged against Judge Xoyes and a man named Mc Kenzfe and othfiw. Now, the fact Is that Seattle Is the nearest I have ever been to Alaska, and I visited Seattle on a trip from here, remaining there one day, for pleasure. I became connected with the Alaska or Nrnne contempt proceeding In this way; Fulton and Calhoun. I was practicing law In San Francisco. I had been reared in Han Francisco from the time I .was 4 years of age. I Mved there until iSTlt. 'Xow r"im going to name tho p lares I have lived since, so as to help Sena tor Fulton and Patrick CaJhoun and Abe Ruef run down my record. (Applause.) Per haps yrm think they have not done It. Ful ton has had his representatives In San Fran cisco for the past' two months.' Patrick Cal houn, the president of the United Railways and a multi-millionaire, has bad detectives in Arizona for the law: year trying to get me indicted In Arizona. They have skirmished the country, from one end to the other, raking up muck against me, and Senator Fulton U taking considerable credit to himself for the fact that he has not yet used any of that muck. Wtll, he if welcome to use it all. here and elsewhere. (Cheers.) 1 am not run ning for ptiblic office, and If I was there la nothing that Is in the possession of Senator Fulton or Patrick Calhoun or Abraham Ruef that they could not publish as many times as they plea, and you must all know from the character of things that are being pub lished about me In San Francisco at the present time that it-has about all -been said already. tLaughter.) So, Fulton Is not realry making much of a sacrifice by not using It. Xow. I had returned to San Francisco, and I was going to tell you where I went. I went in 1S71 as a youngster to Silver Ctty, Idaho. I did some thjngs there that I am not particularly proud of, and I did some things that I am proud of. I was up there about two years In . Idaho. 1 taught school about four or five months and then went to mining. There is where I got -rich. Uaughter). It is all up there yet. 1 re turned to Pan Francisco 'ntid there- attended law school, and then I went to Arizona for my health, and I remained-. there ,ten years, and In lSrt." I returned to San ; Francisco, and whenever I was a little successful In a case an attorney on the .other side would say In derlMon "These Arizona lawyers."' When 1 would come up here It was "the California importation. . They finally dropped that. Now I am "tjie peripatetic lawyer' when I get. back to San Francisco. Taken the N'oyea Caae. Well, after ten hard years of struggling, the first two ears of which from 'u." to 't7 I took in. all told, $40, after having bad five or six years of very successful prac tice in Arlxona. I finally commenced to pick up business. Wben I went to San Fran cisco I traded off every book on criminal law that 1 possessed and made up my mind that 1 would not try another criminal case. So you see 1 ml not quite as bloodthirsty as some people seem to think me. (La.uph ter. After those six or seven years that I was struggling along to secure a prac tice by hard work, end which I finally did secure, at the end of six or seven years 1 was making from $40.uoo to $30, WO a year net, and at that time I met Mr. Knox, and at that time Judge Noyes was on trial for contempt In San Francisco, and his pttorney. Mr. McLaughlin, from Minne apolis, his partner back there, had letters to V. F. Herrin. the Republican boss for San Francisco and attorney for the South ern Pacific system, asking him to recom mend a lawyer, and he named A. A. Moore, Concluded on Page 4. SOME OF THE EVENTS OF THE WEEK AS Maybe l'on Can Piny Mmrblr.? NEW YORK STAYS TRUE TO HUGHES Delegates Instructed .for Governor. EXTREMISTS ARE VOTED DOWN Only Few Scattering Noes Are Against Him. PLATFORM FOR REVISION But Wants Protection Put First In Fixing Tariff Exciting Moment Conies When Bracken Springs the Hughes Resolution. NEW" YORK, April It. Governor Charles 2. Hughes was Indorsed as New York's Republican candidate for Presi dent by that party's state convention, held today, and the four delegates-at-large, with their alternates, elected to the Chi cago National Republican Convention, were instructed to use all honorable means to bring about his nomination. The four delegates-at-larfre are General Stew art I Woodford. ex-Mayor Seth Low, of this city; Frederick R. Hassnrd, of Syracuse, and E. H. Butler, of Buffalo. . The convention the 13th held by the Re publican party to elect delegates-at-larg;e to the National convention was a repeti tion In its distinctive features of the Oneida convention of 1888, when Roscoe Conkllng sought vainly to have not only the delegates-at large, but the Congres sional delegates also. Instructed for Ulysses S. Grant. Ex-State Senator Edgar Brackett. of Saratoga, president of the Hughes State League, started a sharp debate by presenting a minority report" from the committee on resolutions to amend the resolution Indorsing Mr. Hughea and tp tntrjcjigeleatea-at-large to worltfor'Tiim'and the other d gates "persistently to labor for his nomi nation until a nomination Is made.'1 Brackett Snuffed Out. Mr. Brackett's action caused the 1000 odd delegates and the hundreds of specta tors, who filled the galleries much ex citement. When the debate had reached a point of spirited tension, Speaker Wads worth moved that the Question of adopt ing the majority report of the committee on resolutions containing the Indorsement of Mr. Hughes along the lines of the con vention Indorsement of Levi P. Morton inf 1W6 and that' of President Roosevelt in 1900, be put to the convention, and this majority , report was' adopted by a viva voce vote with only a few scattering "noes" heard above the shouts of the bulk of the delegates. Premonition of a turbulent session was felt before the opening of the convention, when the Westchester County delegation at a caucus decided to protest against the indorsement of Hughes by voting against the Hughes resolution and declaring for an uninstructed delegation. This plan was nullified by the unexpected action of Mr. Brackett In submitting hie minority report.' In" meeting this situation, the majority of the convention adopted the platform by a viva voce vote and the Westchester delegation lost all chance of voting as a delegation against Mr. Hughes Indorsement. The new Republican State Committee, elected at the convention today, held a brief session after the adjournment of the convention aid re-elected ex -Lieutenant .Governor Timothy I Woodruff as. chair man. The delegates, believing that the plat form foreshadowed in several particulars the platform that will be adopted by the Chicago National Republican Convention, more than usual interest attaches to its recommendations, which were confined practically to National issues. Congress man J. Sloat Fassett of Elmira, although not a member of the eommitte on resulu tions, said in an interview that he had taken the resolutions to Washington a few days ago and carefully considered 1 them there and that he felt assured that I they would be most satisfactory to all the ' delegates. , The platform Indorses In strong terms How tne Earth Looks to Its Timorous Rulers the administrations of President Roose velt and Governor Hughes and commends the policies of the Federal administration. A revision of the tariff is favored an! the action of Congress in declining to revise the vtarlff by piecemeal Is Indorsed. Changes are advocated In the currency laws to provide a more elastic and satis factory monetary system. It was not until State Chairman Woodruff announced Ex-Governor B. B. Odell and Herbert Parsons, chair man of the Republican county commit tee, as a committee to escort ex-Lieutenant-Governor M. L. Bruce to the platform as temporary chairman that the first real demonstration occurred. For the first time In a score or more of years Senator Thomas C. Piatt, one time leader of the party In sfate coun cils, was not in his accustomed seat with the Tioga county delegation. It was said that Mr. Piatt was ill. There was lively applause when Mr. Bruce re ferred in his speech to Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hughes. . Protection First Nof All. The platform as adopted, after In dorsing the Roosevelt administration, says: - His policies are the Republican policies and to them we pledge our continued loyalty and supjort. We believe in the Impartial en forcement of the law and the right of the Individual In commercial. Industrial and po litical affairs. We believe that corporation which take their right to exist from author ity of Oo'ernmnt should be under the regu lation and supervision of the Oovernmnt. But we are unequivocally opposed to Govern ment ownership of such corporations. We believe In protection - to American In- (Concluded on Page 2.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TEBftDAY'S Maxlmim temperature, 70 drgrees; minimum, 44 degrees. TODAY'S Showers; southwesterly winds. Foreign. Woman's tongue spoils Asqulth's plans In reorganising Cabinet. Section 1, page Haskln on frensled finance In Japan. Sec tion 4. page 1. Osier tells Britons of great work done by Amerlcans In eradicating disease Sec tion 4, page 1. Niitlonal. Philippine squadron to cruise off Chinese CoaHt. Section 1, page 8. Debate on Navy in House turns on possible war w jth Japan. Section 1. page 8. Probable changes in land-grant resolutions. Section 1, page 5. Politics. - New York state convention Indorses Hughe. Section 1. page 1. Anti-Taft Republicans dispute his claim to majority of delegates and raise third term boom. Section 1, page 1. Victory in Pennsylvania primaries claimed by Penrose Republicans and anti-Bryan Democrats. Hection 1. page 2. Bryan men accuse Johnson of: being tool of renegade Democrats. Section 1. age 1. Foraker tolls regro Methodists he will carry - tight for Brownsville troops to Chicago tuuvcHinm. oecLion i, page z. , Nia. - uiurj ants inrj will HHlie Domestic. Etraton's winning -of Commercial Club prize foreseen by his wife. In dream. Section 1. page 5. Railroads Indifferent to bill legalizing pooling. Section 2 page 3. Five lives lost In great storm In New York. Section 1, page 4. Suorts. Frakes beats East Portland, 8 to 5. Section v page . Auto trade not - hurt- by panic. Section 4, psffe a. Smlthson breakes world's record In hurdles at Columbia meet. Section 1. page 10. Cricket club strong this year. Section 4, page 8. City Interested In river sport. Section 4, page 9, Coast League ecores Portland 7, San Fran cisco; Los Angeles 9, Oakland 3. Section 4, page 2. McFarland knock out Brltt In six rounds. Section 4, page 8. Pacific Coast. Fleet sails from Magdalena Bay. Section 1, page 3. Flnst Chinaman registered In San Francisco enthusiastic for Hearst. Section 1, page 2. Mayor Taylor reforms Jury system In San Francisco. Section 1, page 3. Commercial and Marine. Trading in produce lines on local exchange. Section 4, page 10. Sharp rise In wheat at Chicago. Section 4, page 10. Stock list generally is weaker. Section 4, page 10. -Steady growth of surplus of Xew York banks. Section 4. page 10. Steamer Lieut. Elmore lies on Tillamook mud flat for four days. Section 4, page 10. - - Portland and Vicinity. Francis J. Heney renews charges against Senator Fulton. Section 1, page 1. Railroads will open Portland gateway April 16. Section 1. page 9. Swifts purchase 300 acres more on Peninsula. Section 2. page 12. Annual meeting of Visiting Nunses' Associa tion. Section 4, page lo. B. S. Josselyn attacks Mayor's lighting policy. Section 3, page 12. Portland bank clearings gaining. Section 3, ' page 11. Realty market keeps up tone. Section 8, page 8. Buildings to cost $225,000 in process of erec tion on East Side. Section 3, page 9. 1 Ex-Senator Heitfeld discusses opening of f Lewlrton-Rlparia cut-off. Section 8, page 8. J SEEN THROUGH THE PONTLAN) Filling rn the Gap. ALLIES DISPUTE CLAIMS FDR TAFT Deny He Has Majority Up to Date. WHAT FAVORITE SONS HAYE Only One of Them Has His Own State Solid. THIRD-TERM BOOM REVIVED Republicans Fear Iyoss or House Un less Roosevelt Is Renominated. Loss of 2 9 Seats Means Democratic Control. WASHINGTON, April 11. (Special.) aims rf trie rival n-esiaenimi camps, made today, based on the dele gate returns for the past week, show a wider divergence than at any other time since the Republican Presidential race began. To date, 420 delegates have been cliosen to the Chicago con vention, being 70 less than half the convention. Of those chosen, the Taft managers today laid claim to 234, without taking into consideration the support theyi expect their candidate to receive from among the uninstructed delegates. Of these 234, 190 are claimed uncontested. The allied forces concede Mr. Taft only 181 delegates, and give to the remainder of the field 2.18 votes. Including the Instructed, un instructed and contested delegates. Figures of Anti-Tart Men. These figures are as follows: Taft 181, Cannon 50, Fairbanks 30. Hughes 44, La Follette 25, uninstructed 46, contested 44. During the past week 120 delegates were chosen. Of these, the Taft men mlKlit in .South JDakpta. .ejelit. In Virginia, two In West Virginia, four In Massachusettes, three In New Tork, two In Minnesota and one In Wiscon sin, all contested by the opposition. The allies concede this vote except that they give Mr. Taft two more in Massa chusetts than' his own managers .claim, and take one away In New York. , Claims of Favorite Sons. The allies claim 12 for Cannon In Illinois, 25 Hor La. Follette in Wiscon sin, 40 for Hughes In New York, 6 un instructed hi Delaware, 2 In Massachu setts, and 6 In New York, while 2 from Alabama are contested. Upon the basis of the returns of the week, the Taft men now say they will get the solid vote of Minnesota and Virginia for Mr. Taft, a 4arge share of Massachusetts and Delaware, and a good part of New York. Fear to Lose the House. With the impetus of the Taft boom comes a strong revival of a third-term movement for the President. That the Republicans are in grave danger of losing control of the House of Repre sentatives is admitted by all the lead ers. A canvass of the House shows 58 doubtful Republican districts, 48 of which are swung by the negro vote and 30 of which are extremely weak. If the Democrats carry 29 at the elec tion, they will control the next House. Members from many of these districts say their only hope of re-election is the renomlnation of Mr. Roosevelt. POPULISM WIPED OFF ITS SIAP Kansas Official Ballot Ignores Par ty Roosevelt Is Good Enough. TOPEKA, Kan., April 11. (Special.) The Populist party In Kansas Is offi cially dead. The Republican , State Canvassing Board has refused its can didates a place on the official ballot because the party at the last state election did not poll 1 per cent of the total Vote of the state, as provided by the new primary election law passed in Januarj'. The party in 1906 polled fewer than 1200 votes. The Populist party twice swept HUMOROUS EYES OF Then and. Now tn Portland. The Kansas for Its state ticket, elected the members of the Supreme Court and chose a Legislature that retired )ohn J. Installs and Installed- W. A. Peffer In his place In the United States Sen ate. In 1892, when Kansas elected Lwellln7s Governor and gave Its electoral vote to James B. Weaver, of Iowa. Jerry Simpson proclaimed It the Installation of "the first People's party government on earth." A great Populist Jollification was held In Topeka after the election. Long-whiskered farmers came In wagons from the outlying districts and some of them pitched their camps on the statehouae grounds. Gathered m front of the east steps of the Capi tol building, from which he spoke. Jerry Simpson addressed the multitude. Pointing to the big Santa Fe general office building across the street, fie said: "In two short months the govern ment of the State of Kansas will be 1 Colonel J. M. Guffey, of Penn Mylvaala, Lender of A.nti-Bryna Democrat In Pennsylvania transferred from that building over there to this building here. For two years at least L. D. Lewelling will be Governor of Kansas, relieving George R. Peck of the arduous duties of run ning the state In connection with his duties as general counsel of the Santa Fe system." Jerry Simpson had a tempestuous career In Kansas and In Congress, while Mr. Peck, disgusted with the changed conditions, w,e,nl to Chicago. "Trie" "Populism of those days was but the foreboding of the Republican ism, of todav." remarked an old-time follower of Mr. Peffer and Mr. Simp son yesterday. "With Roosevelt or Taft in the White House Kansas Populists- are ready to -meet the fate meted out to them by the State Canvassing Board and ' the late Legislature with becoming fortitude." OPENS FIRE ON JOHNSON BRYAN" LEADER SAYS HE COULD XOT BE ELECTED. Only Aiding Renegade Democrats by Becoming Bryan's Rival Aided by Republican ' Cash. WASHINGTON, -April 11. (Special.) Angered by the covert and .open .'at-, tacks made, on .W.', J. Bryan, by .'the. Johnson managers, -the Bryan men, have retorted with savage attacks uponthe Minnesota Governor. The Bryan pub licity bureau in" WaBhington'today 'gave out a letter from a Minnesota man, D. L. Savage, , of Minneapolis,' 'Whlch'says of Governor Johnson, among other things: "John A. Johnson is a negative man and any Democrat could have been elected Governor -. of Minnesota four years ago, because of the bitter fight in the Republican party. - . - "The Republican party r Is thorough ly united this year, and will carry the state by 40.000 majority next Fall. Johnson cannot carry the state, either for Governor or for President. "If so unfortunate a thing should happen as the nomination of Johnson at Denver next July, he would not have enough electoral votes to pay for counting. The few men who are try ing to boom Johnson are the ones who defeated Bryan eight years ago and are not even a respectable minority in (Concluded on Page 2.) HARRY MURPHY Smile That Won't Come Off (Perhaps). s .FKi' 1 T; One of Kent Highway men Is Taken. FIERCE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT Two Deputies Come Upon Three Desperadoes. WOUND ANOTHER OUTLAW Unbounded Deputy Chases Two Fu gitives Till Ammunition Gives Out Posse Is Organized and Bloodhounds Put on Trail. ,' SHATTlfK, Wash., April ll.-Deputy Sheriff Matt Starwlch, of Ravensdale, and J. C. Storey, Justice of the Peace at Ravensdale and Special Deputy Sheriff In the hunt for layers of Marshall Mil ler, of Kent, capturVd one of the Kent highwaymen this afternoon after a pitched battle In which Storey was wounded. The fight occurred near camp 6. of the Milwaukee Railroad Company, seven miles above North Bend. The man who was raptured was shot in the knee by Deputy Sheriff Starwlch, and one of the other highwaymen was shot in the right side. The man who was arrested is believed to be the leader of the gang of desperadoes who shot Marshal Miller at Kent Thurs day night. That he la one of the high waymen the officers have been hunting . for two days. Is almost certain from the fact that he had recently been shot througli the tip of the nose. . .Deputy Not Badly Wounded. . Storey was not seriously wounded, the bullet passing through the fleshy part of his right leg several Inches above the knee.- - - - - - . - - - Deputy Sheriff Starwlch and Special Deputy Storey took the trail Friday night of three men answering the de scription of three of the five despera does who shot Marshal Miller and followed them along the pipe line of the Seattle water system up Cedar River, overtaking them at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The three men were seated at a camp fire when the officers ap peared. Deputy Sheriff Starwich at once com manded them to throw up their hands and surrender. One of the men gave an order in Slavish to the other two to" open lire, at the same time reaching for his gun. Starwich understood the order and fired at the leader, blowing oft his kneecap. - Open Fire on Officer.?. The other two men ran, and securing shelter behind a stump, opened Are on the officers. Storey was shot In the first volley but continued the fight. Starwlch fired several shots at the men as they were running for shelter and one of the highwaymen was wounded .in the right side. After continuing the battle for nearly half an hour the two desperadoes were driven from behind the stump and forced Into the woods. Starwlch followed them and continued to fire at every oppor tunity until he ran out of ammunition. Mr. Storey and the wounded prisoner were taken to the Milwaukee construction camp and left, while Starwlch went to North Bend for more ammunition and as sistance. He Teached North Bend about 5 o'clock. secure'd rigs and organizing a fresh posse returned to the scene of the battle. Bloodhounds on Trail. Deputy Sheriff Jack Liner, P. C. Peterson, a well-known woodsman, of North Bend, and two other men re turned with Starwlch fully armed. The party took two bloodhounds belonging to Mr.SrYeterson and will take up the trail at the point where the battle oc curred. The three men who engaged in the fight with Starwich and Storey were well armed - and apparently Intended to fight to the death to resist capture. (Concluded on Papco 4. Small Favors NOT Thankfully Received. ROBBER 6 DEPUTY WOUNDED