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TTTE SUNDAY OT7EOOMAX. PORTLAND. APRIL 19. 190S. CULBERSON HIS SECOND CHOICE Bryan Plans in Case of Defeat to Throw Strength to Texas Senator. AND SUIT BOTH FACTIONS Nomination of Johnnon Would Be Hegnrrietl n Anil-Bryan Victory. Many IrnitxTiit Want tho Stmthrrit CnndWlate. WASiriNOTON', April Washing ton rtmorrat. Bryan and anti-Bryan. ar beginning to rnnsldrr aerlously tho tit com ftt I'cnver In c&t tho Ne h rag. can find he cnnnnt control two tlilnlH of the ocmvi-ntlnn. It I'- ht-Ilpvetl by nuiny member of the party that. If Mr. Bryan Is not to he the nomlnt-e, he will throw his Mrength to Senator f'hurl.'H A. Culberson of Toxn-. Would Kenent JohiiHon'a Choice. Th Bryan men n'Fcnt the John Hon tart lc. They believe, dental to tho rontrary notwithstanding, thnt the Mtnnemttnn Is Dan king: a' together too minh upon the mipport of the Demo crat! who favor neither Mr. Bryan nor bin poUoW' nd who. In a m-ftfiiM at U'UMt. wnro rHponnlbl for his two do fiMitM. The personalities that have crept into tho prn-oonvr ntlon campaign have made It seem unlikely that Mr. Bryan would loiik with equanimity upon the nomination of Mr. Johnson. Mr. Culberson in Mr. Bryan' friend, a strong man In th ranks of tho nomocracy, a clean man and a South erner, whose public Hfe has been lived nlnr the war. Talk of the probability of Mr. Culberson's nomination, If Mr. Bryan's enemies In the party can con trol enough of the delegates to prevent t hi nomination of the. Nehraskan, la becoming; open. One has to take ac count of thin talk, for, coming- as It dopM from Democrats of all factions. It must have more than a suspicion of Mr. Bryan's intention as its basis. Both Factions Like Culberson. For thrvc years serious-minded Democrats have been urging that their pprty nominate a Southern man for the Presidency this year. Mr. .Culber son has been the man in mind, for ho is acceptable to Bryanites and anti Bryanites. He is recognized both by Republicans and Democrats in tho Senate as one of the ablest members of the body. TILLS T1IK ILLINOIS STACK .Johnson Gain on Bryan and May Prevent Indorsement. niH'AGO. April IS. Clover nor John A. Johnson, of Minnesota, will be the chief guest of honor at the annual banquet of I he Iroquois flub at the Auditorium, May when he Is expected to de.iver an ad dress of National political importance. William Jennings Bryan was invited to the feast, but has not accepted, and. with Mr. Johnson as the sole occupant of the center of the stage, the club officials look for the banquet to develop Into a rousing demonstration for the Minnesota executive. Democrats from all parts of the state are expected to gather at tho dinner. The strength manifested by the Minne sota man since his friends opened head quarters In Chicago a few weeks ago has been the wonder of I e state's leaders, who point out that, with the State con vention well out of the way, Mr. Johnson will be free to utter his message to the Democrats of tho West without in any sense running foul of his declaration that he Is not making a personal invasion of Illinois." Kip lit In State Convention. So many of the down-state counties have displayed a strong anti-Bryan sentiment during the past week that the local Demo cratic chiefs assert that It is probable that the State Convention will face such a tight against the Indorsement of the Xe braskan that it will be content to send its National delegates to Denver without in structions of any sort whatever. Roger C. Sullivan, National committee man, who will be the controlling force in the convention from all prospects, has slated that Mr. Bryan will be indorsed. Down state, however, there are many reports of an uprising on the part of many counties. Some societies will be ivpresented by strong Johnson men. wiu will fight against Bryan instructions, and the Sullivan men are wondering whether they will be a.Me to put the programme through os scheduled. Sullivan's Sardonic Humor. Not that it. would break Mr. Sullivan's heart if Mr. Bryan were not indorsed, for" between him and the Nebraskan is a feeling of -deep personal enmity. Mr. Sullivan, however, has set himself the task of presenting Ms most cherished . enemy with a state indorsement, and will ' meet with opposition from two directions. The Bryan dyed-in-the-wool men want indorsement, btft do not want it from Mr. Sullivan, fearing that, if he controls the National delegation, there might be a change of attitude at Denver, while the anti-Bryanites. though perceiving the gentle irony in Mr. Sullivan's proposed plan, fail to see where the humor would come in for them if Mr. Bryan Is In dorsed. , f DAXtiKK IN CENTRALIZATION Keynote or Governor Johnson's Ad dress at Llndfiborg, Kan. LI NDSBOUG. Kan., April IS. Gov ernor John A- Johnson, of Minnesota, and C. G. Schultz, Assistant State Superintendent of Public Instruction of that state, arrived here this morning from St. Taul and today were the guests of the faculty of Bethany Col lege. During the day they addressed the thousands of people who are here to attend the annual Messiah Festival, eondiKted by the college. Governor Johnson was given a rous ing reception upon his arrival, being met at the railway station by a re ception committee and several hundred persons attendant upoa the festival. Governor Johnson's subject was "Amrrltan Citizenship." He said: "The danger of this country Is cen tralization of everything. It Is true of every line of business and that con tinued centralization of everything de stroys or reduces opportunity. A re turn to the old condition where a man could Start In business with rea sonable amount of capital and have a chance to surced a ppeals to me as one of the things this country needs most." In an Interview, Mr. Johnson said: What Mr. Bryan nay or tlven will make no liffnnf' n1 cau no rhamr1 In my plam I urn not inr th nomination f"r prIdrnt and ? miithi nny I do not car whether r not I t It A f have rtn rUrrutrd. f wtl be a rarvtlilut in cane the people lf-i(i !httt I nm tun most available cantlxlat and can st the mogt votfn. I hnv h!n tnM by i'im of Mr. Bryan'a frtrnds thkt I would r a atrongrr candidate than h I am Indtn'-d to doubt that. In addition to delivering an address, Mr. Johnson wan In charce of the Bethany Clig field meet this after noon. This feature was arranged by Personal friends of the Governor among the students as a surprise for the faculty. MAJORITY OF MOKE THAN 400 Cnke and Bailey Run Cp IHnrh To tals In Marlon. 8ALEM. Or.. April If). (Special.) Re sults of the primary election In Marlon County, so far as shown by the returns now in, give Caki 1TM, Fulton 1218: Haw ley 27H6, Bean 2743. Bailey 1779; Reid 623, Campbell 831; Carter 15H6. Robertson 314. Returns from 40 out of 41 precincts In the county Indicate that thre Statement No. 1 candidates have been nominated in this county. They are H. B. Patton. O., L. Hatteherg and A. C. Ltbby. The Re publican voters' choice candidates who have apparently secured nomination are L. T. Re4fcolds and 8. A. Hughes. W. M. Bushey has defeated W. W. Hall for the Repuhltran nomination for Coun ty Judge in Marlon County by 2fl votes. Returns available yesterday left this con test in doubt. About JV4O00 changed hands on this content, ail the money having been lost on M. L. Jones, who proved to be a bad third In the race. SWINGS THROUGH STATE BRYAN CONFERS WITH MANY LEADERS IN NEW YORK. Meetings Forecast Events or Cam paign, but He Refuses to Discuss Rebuff by Convention. GLBNS N. Y.. April IS. Artr a lonn swing acrofs the Empire State to day on a trip that mcallcd. the campal&ns of eleht and 12 yeara ano, W. J. Bryan rfacht'd here tonight and after a lecture at the Empire Theater held a conference with Bird 9. Coler. president of the Borough of Brooklyn. Mr. Bryan's day was tilled with incidents which were re garded by the many politicians who gathered here tonight to confer with him as forecasting political events of moment In the coming Presidential campaign In New York State. Mr. Bryan left RocheRtrf. N. Y.. early today, but before he left he held a con ference with Peter Keefe, state com mander of the Independence League, the nature of which wa not dlRclosed. On the way here Mr. Bryan left the train at Albany, where he was the guest of the Comptroller, Martin H. Gllnn, at lunch eon, after which he left for this city. Hb carefully refrained throughout the day from giving expression to any opinion on state or National Issues. He also de clined to make any comment on the recent Democratic state convention at New York. It was understood, however, that he was made acquainted with the action taken at the state convention by Mr. Coler, who with the other delegates from Kings County was placed on the permanent roll Instead of the McOarren delegation. Mr. Coler after a conference with Mr. Bryan said: "Mr. Bryan Is letting the state run its own business, which Is the right course." Mr. Bryan was enthusiastically wel comed here on his arrival and more than KXO people filled the Empire Theater to night to hear his lecture on "The Old "World and Its Ways." Mr. Bryan confined himself Rtrictly to the subject of his lecture, which was made up of Incidents which developed during his recent trip around the world. In the course of the address he declared: "I do not see any cause for war with Japan other than to furnish an excuse for a new battleship for a larger Navy." An impromptu political meeting fol lowed the lecture at the Rockwell House, where Mr. Bryan was a guest, and Mr. Coler made a speech In which he declared that Mr. Rrvan would be the next Presi- I dent of the United States. TWO CONVENTIONS IN ARIZONA One Indorses Foraker, Other Taft, for President. TUCSON, Aril., April 18,-The Republi can Territorial Convention met here to day. Contesting delegations were pres ent from Colchis. Maricopa'" and Gila Counties. The contests were based upon the question of instructions for Secretary Taft. Governor Ktbt-ey led the faction of the Maricopa delegation favoring in structions. Immediately upon the report of the cre dentials committee, seating the anti-instruction delegations, Mr. Klbbc.y with drew, taking with him a majority of the delegates. The convention soon rallied from the disorder, however, and adopted resolutions indorsing the National and territorial administrations, and warmly eulogizing Sjenator Foraker. but did not instruct the National delegates. W. J. Kirkpatrlck. of Tucson, was named as National committeeman. The Kibbey faction proceeded to an other hall, where it organized a second convention, with a representation from every county except Yavapai. The cre dentials committee seated the rejected delegations, and regular delegates com prising more than half the total were ac credited as members. This convention adopted resolutions favoring the nomina tion of Mr. Taft. but did not Instruct the delegates for him. Ralph Cameron, of Coconino, was selected as National com mitteeman. HEARST EMPLOYES DISLOYAL Men Who Run Ills Newspaper Shun His New Party. SAN FRANCISCO. April J 8. (Spe cial.) Hearst's Independence League has suffered another blow. It has tuVn discovered that of Ihe 45 employes of the Examiner on the registration roll, only five swore allegiance to the Inde pendence League. The other 40 are either Republicans or iemocrais. five loyal men are: A. V. Murpny, political editor: G. G. Weigle, book re viewer: P. H. Terry, artist: A. Williams, circulation manager, and Joe Irwin, re porter. The defection of the Hearst staff was of some consequence to the fortunes of the party In this city. For they could have added some two score naif es to the registration list, which reached only th,e total of 640. out of a complete registration for all parties of 36.5S3. That makes the percentage of the In dependence League .01749. The Examiner employes might have Increased that by 9-100ths of 1 per cent. NEW TOR K WOMEN CRAZY OVER POKER Gambling Mania Enables Cer tain Hostesses to Live in Lap of Luxury. PLAYERS FEED "KITTY" Fn lucky Patrons Forced to Stand Of f the Grocer -1 Newspaper -Tnrnti Limelight on the Vice of Society. NEW YORK, April IS. Thousands of the women of New York are gambling rnad. The World for several weeks has conducted a quiet hut thorough investiga tion, and astonishing facts were un earthed "about the extent of tho epidemic, of gambling that now rages among wATn- en In this city. It is growing every day. 1 There seems to be no check to Its dis astrous progress. j There are hundreds of poker games ' running nightly in New York. There are , scores of w,omen lining off the profits of this passion in New York today. Hun- , dreds of other women are standing off their grocers. The fortunate women are the heads of establishments in apartments or brown-stone front houses in quiet neighborhoods. Their percentage of the profits of the game enables them to live luxuriously. Big Money In "Kitty." Mrs. Clarke Is a hostess in West Forty ninth street, a little west of Broadway. It is Jl-llmit game and. every time the cards are dealt 10 cents comes from the pot for "the house." If there are three "Htayers," the hostess takes out another 10 cents for the "kitty." During the five hours the game was observed there were something like 700 pots. Miss Jennie Thurston lives In a hotel in this street, near Seventh avenue. Her game never lacks in Interest. It is the 11 limit with the 10 and 20-cent rake-off. This "kitty" runs from 75 to two in a single night. Plays Rig- Limit. One of the most enterprising games is conducted by a Mrs. Walker In her apart ments In a hotel on Broadway, near Thirty-ninth street. More young mar ried women are Introduced to this game, the stories run, than in any other similar gambling establishment in the tenderloin. This Is a hlgh-ilmit poker game. One has to buy a stack of W before he or she can take a seat and the "rake-off" amounts some nights, taking 25 and 50 cents from each pot, to f 150. Mrs. Walker owns an automobile and her rent Is paid up three months In advance. There are scores of establishments of this kind on the West Side. SINGLE ROOF CITIES. Comforts In the Big Office Build ings cf New York City. New York Sun. Tenants of the newer office buludings in N?w York City have comforts and conveniences under their roofs that in a smaller place It would be necessary to go over the entire town to get. Every thing virtually but sleeping quarters is provided, even to gymnasiums and mu sical entertainments. The latter may be enjoyed from the top of some lofty structure while the patron is eating an excellent meal and gazing over the pic turesque harbor of the second greatest city in the world. A business man needn't be annoyed if late In the afternoon he hears from friends visiting the city and finds it nec essary to entertain them on short notice. Of course, he is not dressed for the oc casion, but that is a matter easily at tended Jo. First of all, he steps Into the elevator and descends to the ticket office in the building and secures tickets for a thea ter. Then he steps Into the tailor shop. If he hasn't taken the precaution to leave his evening clothes in one of the lockers there, he Is able to have his business suit pressed while he waits, or In a pinch he may rent some after-dark wearing apparel. If his linen is a trifle soiled, it takes but a minute to step Into the haberdasher's on the same floor and replace It. After a session with the barber and the manicure, an attendant has a bath ready for him at the proper tempera ture. While he is having ' his hair trimmed a long-distance telephone call comes from Chicago. He has informed his office assistants of his . whereabouts and the operator switches the connection to the barber shop. A portable telephone is brought to the business man. and without leaving his chair or even -interfering with the barber, he carries on a conversation over the wire. That reminds him that It is not a bad Idea to save time by having his friends meet him at dinner in the building. After calling up the caterer upon the roof or wherever the restaurant happens to be. for maybe it's one of the rathskeller kind to reserve a table, he wiggles the receiver hook, gets central again and notifies his friends uptown of the ar rangement. He's able to dictate a letter or so over the telephone to his stenographer while having his shoes polished and after or dering some flowers and candy for the women of the party at the florist's out side the barber shop to be delivered at the restaurant later, he goes back to his office after an absence of less than hour during which he has lost little if any time from business. The friends arrive just as the business man is signing his letters. They have come by the elevated railroad, which has a special entrance into the building, and thev will leave later through a tun nel from the bottom of the elevator shaft Into a nearby subway station. But before they start for the theater several hours may be comfortably spent at dinner in the building, made more en joyable by a good orchestra. There are several office buildings downtown where, if a tenant knows just whom to speak to, he may get sleeping quarters over night with the caretaker's family. For In nearly all the larger of fice buildings the caretaker or custodian, along with his family, has quarters in the place. In most cases this is on the roof. Not long ago a lawyer downtown, pre paring an urgent case for court, found that it would be necessary for him to work the better part of the night. He lived In Jersey, making It out of the question for him to go home: also he Tax far tram a botel and didn't care about losing valuable time during which he might be sleeping. "I'll fix you up," said the Janitor with a wink. And he did In comfortable style. The lawyer commented afterward on the fact that the bed was as nice and cleanly as In any first-class hotel. The news of this man's And spread about and now It Is possible In many cases to get sleep ing quarters In skyscrapers, though pos sibly It may not be with the approval of the building's owners. One of the large Broadway buildings, besides sheltering a theater, also boasts of the following lux uries that tenants there may have tin der one roof: A physical culture school, a fencing academy, tailor, dyer and cleanser, massage establishment, billiard and pool rooms, bowiing alleys, restau rant, shoe shining stand, tobacco store, jewelry shop (where the balky timepiece may be looked after), tel'-graph and cable office, baths, barber shop, dentist, doc tor, and. for the comfort of the women, ft hairdresser's and a millinery establish ment. Several buildings whtch are used large ly hy lawyers and engineers contain splendidly equipped libraries, while In others. In the financial district, there are branches of banks, or the main estab lishment, so that customrrs who have large deposits to make regularly are as sured of Increased safety by moving Into these quarter. One of the new bjrtldlngs not far from the automobile belt up In the Forties has added a well-appointed garage. This l a feature that Is bound to come to many other buildings. And so one comfort in novation follows another. It is not be yond possibility that tho time is not far hence when a man may sleep, carry on his vocation and live In the same build ing. The modern skyscraper Is coming to be a complete community In Itself, and a mighty big one when measured by the standard of towns elsewhere, especially in the case of the new structure that is to house some 15,000 workers In Its 5000 or so offices. FOUR IIS LOST IN FLOOD HIGH WATER IX TEXAS REN DERS 3000 HOMELESS. Fort W'orth Suburbs Are Submerged and Streams Are Still Rising. Crops Are Ruined. FORT WORTH, Texas, April 18. An other rise of three feet In .Clar and Wetfork forced thousands of persons to flc from their homes In Baat Fort Worth today. So far as known, four persons have lost their lives. At leat 3"00 per sons have bftn rendered homeless and all streams are still rising. The railroad service Is badly crippled. Five hundred delegates to the State Labor Convention are weatherbound here. A cloudburst in Parker and Palo Pinto Counties last niRht will probably send the Brazos and Trinity Rivers two ft higher and these streams are now higher than in 25 years. North Fort Worth, Mineral City and Cleburne are almost completely Inun dated. Engineer Iyinsr and his fireman were found dead under their engine to day. Their train left the track in . a washout a mile north of Cleburne. Crops over a large area have been destroyed and --the estimated loss will reach over half a million dollars. STORM WRECKS THE CIRCUS Releases Lions to Terrorize Texas 4 Town, Which It Floods. FORT WORTH. Tex., April 18. With telephone, telegraph and railroad ser vice almost completely suspended for two hours last night, thlH district was the center of the worst wind and rain storm that has raged over North Texas in many years. With two exceptfons every railroad out of this city was forced to annul some trains, owing to the washed-out tracks and loss of bridges, and at mid night the telephone companies report having lost all wires out of Fort Worth. Cleburne, 20 miles south, was struck by a wind storm of tornado propor tions, followed by a torrential down pour of rain that literally flooded the city. Within 20 minutes after the storm broke last night the two bayous that run through Cleburne had left their banks, flooding 500 or 600 houses. A circus whose tents were pitched in the western portion of Cleburne was com pletely wrecked. Two lions escaped, and prowled about town for an hour, throwing the people into a panic. At Fort Worth the Trinity River be gan to rise again at midnight, and every available man from the police force was hurried out to warn the peo ple living in the bottom. STRIKERS REFUSE TERMS Hope of Early Settlement of Chestei Trouble Abandoned. CHESTER. Pa.. April IS. All hope of an early settlement of the streetcar strike, which began in this city last Mon day, disappeared late tonight when the motormen and conductors of the Chester Traction Company refused to return to work on terms offered vby the company. The state police have the situation well in hand and there was no serious disturb ance during the day. The traction company resumed the run ning of cars within the city limits this afternoon. They carried no passengers. Traffic was suspended at 7 o'clock to night as a matter M precaution. A committee of the strikers went to Philadelphia today and hired a number of 'buses, which will be placed in service, the purpose being to compete wiih ti.e traction company. Mayor Johnson at 6 P. M. gave permis sion to saloonkeepers to open their places, contrary to the advice of Deputy Super intendent Lumb, of the state police. The state trooper who was shot by a strike sympathizer last night was re moved to a hospital in this city today from Leiperville. 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