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Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXVII. rOHTLAND, OREGOX, SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 190S. PRICE FIVE CENTS. EIS WOMEN IN MARCH DEMANDING VOTES POLITICAL DIN FILLS CHICAGO GOVERNOR SAYS CHINA IS WRONG L WHOLE GARRISON HUNTSLOSTCHILD OF RED TO GO HOLD UP STAGE GREAT SUFFRAGE DEMONSTRA TION' IX LONDON STREETS. RULER OF MACAO'S VERSION OF TATSU MARC. SEARCH KEEPS UP THREE HOURS AT FORT LAWSOX. 14, BOURN Hi MARSHA ROUNDS MASKED ROBBERS WRECK BOOM 0 Second Elective Term er Makes No 'Stir. TALK IN CHICAGO ALL TAFT Nomination on First Ballot Is Absolutely Sure. CONTESTS FIZZLED OUT Fictitious Cases Made by Allies. Fulton Managed Taft's Side .Be fore Committee Slated for Chairman on Credentials. CHICAGO. June 13. (Start Corre epondence.) Senator Bourne Is here with the wreck of his great second elective term boom; but his arrival to day created no visible consternation among: the Taft managers and no grcot excitement among the hngers-on around the hotel lobbies, who are al ways quick to scent the latest sensa tion. Indeed, the utter absence of any thing; like a stir over the appearance of the long-advertised "second elective term" bandwagon tends to make one suspect that the popular and eloquent Oregon Senator may not, after all, be In Chicago, for I find it necessary to confess that -I have not eeen him nor, so far as I have been able to learn, has anyone else seen him who ever saw him before. Disappointment as Spellbinder. My only authority for saying he is here Is an evening local paper, which an nounced In an obscure place that Bourne had reached Chicago and aiso informed a disappointed public that he was not now going to hold and address a mass meeting in behalf of his friend, the Presi dent. From ainTiWir'WnTTSennferred thtt the deserved local reputation of the Senator as a spellbinder has been spread abroad and opportunity is anxiously awaited here as well as in Congress to hear his clarion voice raised in behalf of seme worthy cause. Taft on First Ballot. The truth is there is no Roosevelt talk here from any quarter, not excepting Bourne himself, who has so far been ap parently dumb on his latest hobby. Ev erything Is "Taft, Taft. Taft." There is not the slightest question about the nomination of the War Sec retary for President. He has the nec essary votes and has the party machin ery. Nothing is lacking, it would seem, to make his victory absolutely certain when the day and the hour arrive. The presentation of the names of other can didates will be made as a matter of form, that is all. If there was ever a doubt about Taft's success, it was re moved when the National committee completed its work In the numerous Southern contests. In the great majority of cases Taft delegates were seated, giving him, so his managers estimate, more than 700 delegates, over 200 in excess of the necessary majorit. This Taft estimate 13 doubtless approxi mately correct and will be Justified by the events. Contests Were Fictitious. The allies say that the National com mittee, dominated by Taft men, seated Taft 'delegates' only because they were instructed or had otherwise promised to vote for Taft. They talk about the Taft "steam-roller" crushing everybody that got in its way on the political turn- lke. The facts eeem to be, however. that these so-called contests were in most cases fictitious and without merit. Senator Fulton, of Oregon, who was present throughout the sessions of the ommlttee, holding the proxy from Cali fornia, and who took a ery active part n the proceedings, says unqualifiedly hat the committee was Inspired through- lout by a desire to do Justice and that (Concluded oo Paite 2.) Commencement Season Again. Americans Lead Thousands of all Sorts and Conditions From Novelists to Barmaids. LONDON, June 13. Marshaled in eight columns on the Victoria Em bankment, a great army of from 12,000 to 15,000 women suffragists paraded the metropolis this afternoon and wound up with a meeting at Albert Hall, at which such well-known wo men as Dr. Anna Shaw, Lady Henry Somerset and Lady Frances Balfour voiced the demand of women for an immediate extension of the franchise Fifteen bands of music enlivened the parade and nearly a thousand banners were borne by the different contingents. The great procession was swelled in Trafalgar Square by several thousand barmaids, who had been demonstrating against the licensing bill. This, the barmaids aver, threatens to deprive them of their livelihood. All sorts of women whose conditions In life are as wide asunder as the poles, took part In the march. There were university women in caps and gowns, writers, dramatists, artists, doc tors, clerks, nurses, factory hands and domestic workers. Sarah Grand, Beatrice Harraden, Elizabeth Bobbins, Lady Onslow, Mrs. Alfred Lyttleton and Getrude Kings ton were among the more notable women that marched at the head of the different sections. Dr. Anna Shaw and Miss Lucy J. Anthony, delegates from the United States, led the procession in carriages. The second landau con tained Mrs. Catherine McCulloch, of Evanston, 111.; Mrs. Stewart, piesident of the Illinois Suffrage Association, and Mrs. Medley, of New York. GO OVER DAM IN LAUNCH Two Des Moines Men Drown In Whirl of Water. DES MOINES. Ia., June 13. Swept over the dam of the Edison Light Com pany at the foot of Center street, in their launch, when the engine failed to start. Edward Ebersall and William Jennings, both young men, were drowned today. Their brothers. Earl Jennings and Will iam Ebersall swam out of the river and were saved. The boat and Its four occupants went over the dam, shooting down like a rocket, with three of the boys clinging to the four seats and Earl Jennings work ing desperately at his engine. The boat and its occupants were buried beneath the water and carried under the surface some distance before coming up. The bodies of the drowned men have not yet been recovered. SOLDIER PIONEER IS DEAD. Berthound, Designer of Georgetown Loop, Dies of Accident. GOLDEN, Colo., June 13. Captain E. L. Berthound, pioneer, designer of the Georgetown loop Pathfinder on the Union Pacific Kailroad in its original surveys through 1000 miles of territory in Nebraska. Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, and one of the first engineers of the Panama Railroad, died in this city this afternoon as a result of an accident several weeks ago, when he fainted and fell down stairs with a lighted "lamp, in his hand. He was born 83 years ago in Switzerland. He came to America in 1S30 and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. NECK BROKEN BY A FALL Prominent California Oil Man Killed by Auto Smash. BAKERSFIELD, Cal., June 13. Be cause of a defect In the steering wheel, an avtomobile in which A. J. Webster, superintendent of the Sunset Oil Com pany, and David Kinsey, field manager of the same company, were riding, ran off a steep grade In the Sunset Field today, plunging headlong Into a gulch. Mr. Webster was instantly killed, his neck being broken. Mr. Kinsey es caped with a few minor Injuries. Mr. Webster was prominently Identi fied with the oil industry, having been the founder of the Webster Oil Works and of lata years superintendent of the various Blodgett oil interests. Haunted Again. Great Inpouring of State Delegations. HEADQUARTERS ALL AGLOW Lack of Close Fight Prevents Thrill of Excitement. BOOMS FOR VICE-PRESIDENT Commanding Figures of Republican Party Appear on Scene Only Promise of Fight Is on the Second Place of Ticket. CHICAGO, June 13. Thp tramp of con vention hosts is now fully under way and tonight Chicago is beginning to throb with the confusion and announcement of arriving throngs, some with'banners and flags and gaily uniformed marchers, oth ers made up of state delegations with their conspicuous leaders and their co horts of strong-lunged followers and shouters. Others with the friends and admirers of the star political candidates and still others and again others of thd curious onlookers, drawn from every sec tion of the country, including many of the representatives of foreign govern ments, who have come to witness this National spectacle. . All day special and regular trains have emptied thousands of strangers Into this political Mecca. The effect of the influx is seen tonight in the throngs that crowd the streets, the crowded hotels, the strains of music and the oratory heard from some of the halls and the boundless hospitality which these halls are beginning to dis pense. Calmer Than Other Conventions. Yet this tore-gathering of the conven tloil T)f lnayanTrray established a re cord for unusual calm and tranquillity, for, measured by the din and turmoil, the scenes of delirious excitement and the spirit of die-in-the-last-ditch which has marked some historic gatherings of the past, this invading army of delegates and spertators is a most staid ana unemotional body. But it is none the less an army, with new committees coming to the front hourly and with the prospect of plenty of hurrah and fireworks ahead to animate the loaders and stir the blood of the on lookers. A drizzling rain tonight, after a hot, muggy day, tended to restrain the outbursts of enthusiasm, but there is a promise of good weather. Notable Men Abound. Centers of interest today have been the arriving delegations, with many of the leaders of conspicuous National prom inence and followers of the various politi cal candidates. Among the notable con vention followers to arrive were Don Cameron, ex-United States. Senator from Pennsylvania, who has not attended a National convention since the convention of 18S0, when he stood with Roscoe Conkling and John A. Logan as the lead ers of the third-term movement in the interest of General Grant, and Henry Taft, brother of the Secretary of War; Chauncey Depew, who eight years ago. attended the Philadelphia convention, with his speech seconding the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for Vice-President; Representative Sereno E. Payne, of New York, chairman of the ways and means committee of the House' of Representa tives, who bears on his ample shoulders a good deal of the burden of future tariff revision; United States Senator Long, of Kansas, who is reputed to have the Dol liver Vice-Presidential boom in cold stor age; James F. Sherman and Timothy L. Woodruff, of New York, both receptive Vice-Presidential possibilities; ex-Governor Yates, of Illinois, with his clean shaven, actor-like "face and a willingness to consider his return to the Governor's chair, and a host of others notable in the political world. The rank and file of the state delega- (Concluded on Page 3.) HARRY MURPHY Mother's New Merry Lid Shades The Whole Family During the Warm Spell. Denies Seized Arms Were for Chi nese Rebels and Says Permis sion to Land Given. SAN FRANCISCO. June 13. Captain Pedro Azeredo Continho, Governor of the Portuguese eclony of Macao, ar rived here today on the steamer Asia fiom the Oiient, on his way to Portu gal. Governor Continho is the official who played a prominent part in the tur moil following the Tatsu Maru freiz- ur-, which was the caus? of the com mercial war now being waged by China against Japan. His story of -the affjir puts trie incident L a differen l.gl.t. with China apparently in the wor,g. According to Governor Con'inho, the aims and ammunition on the Tatsu M21U were cor.s.'gned to a Macao mer-eh-inl, and hen landed, were to have been stored at the arsenal maintained there by the Portuguese government. Thi Governor had given permission foi landing and said he would not hive p.TnlMed the tale of the ''us or am mun!'on in lartje quantities at any one time. He declared that the arms were not Intended for Ch rtte revo' jt'onisir. ts alugtd by 2:ilna. and asss.'ted that there was no justification to: the seiz- CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER Th Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 82 degrees; minimum, 52 degree?. TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds. National. Torpedo fired at Monitor Florida proves new Lulkhead perfect. Section 1, page 4. Resignation of United States Marshal Rounds demanded; why Ruick was re moved. Section 1, page 1. Politic. Bourne arrives In Chicago, but is not in evidence. Section 1, page 3. Taft's nomination certain and attention turns to Vice-President Section 1. page 1. State delegations begin rouring into Chi' cago. Section 1. page 1. Allies scheme ta reduce Southern representa tion in conventions. Section 1, page 3. Bourne takes third term petition to Chi cago, but can't tind sponsor for it. Sec tion 1, patce 1 Doillver and Cortelyou principal candidates ror vice-President. Section 1, Page 2. Domestic. Woman in Michigan murders whole family and commits suicide. Section 2 rape 4. Caleb Powers and Howard pardoned. e,c tlon 1, page 2. Floods rise and abate again in Kansas. Sec tion 1, page 10. Nevada robbers hold un stage and get much treasure. Section 1 page 1. Sports. Portland takes game from Oakland, 6 to 1. Section 1, page 7. . Tennis tournament of Irvington Club Is ended. Section 1, page 8. Amateur track athletes regain high stand ing. Section 4, page 7. Close races in major baseball leagues. Sec tion 4, page 6. West Side High School wins lnterscholastlc meet. Section 4, page 6. Successful reason in track athletes Is ended. Section 4, page 7. Portland team wins 19 out of 29 ganvea on local grounds. ' Section 4, page 7. Portland is best baseball city on Pacluc Coast. Section 4. page 7. Proposed post-season championship games of minor leagues. Section 1, page 7. Vigorous campargn to enforce new anti bettlng laws. Section 1 page 2. Pacific k Coast. Pacific Coast schooner owners propose re duction of wages. Section 1. page 2, Early morning fire at Woodlf.nd doe3 $20, OUO damage. Section 1. page U. Salem packers report no demand for Ore gon prunes. Section 1. page 6. Barnes jury still deliberating on late of defendant. Section 1, page 6. Commercial and Marine. Slump in local berry market. Section 4, page 9. Strong demand for wheat at Chicago. Sec tion 4, page 9. Better feeling in Wall street. Section 4, page 9. Now York bank statement shows Increase In all leading items. Section 4. page 9. Willamette River is still rising. Section 4, . page S. ' Portland and Vicinity. Jury disagrees in trial of Charles W. Wal ton for streetcar holdup. Section 2. rage 12. Presiv-ent Josselyn declines to arbitrate city lighting bills. Section 3, page 12. Good progress on grounds of Portland Country Club. Section 3, page 11. Realty dealers confident of active Summer business. Section 3, page 10. Good results from lecture on street work by Engineer Thomson. Section 3, page 10. Chinese witnesses disarmed in Lem Woon trial. Section 4, page 10. Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine Initiates large class. Section 1, page 3. GLAZTCES AT A FEW OF LAST Preparing to Organize the Oregon Legislature. vMH sea, mmmr & Must Resign or Will Be Dismissed. BECAUSE HE AIDED RUIGK Party to . Scheme to Blacken Borah's Good Name. MADE' ROOSEVELT ANGRY Abortive "Indictment ' of Senator Brings Down Big Stick on Heads of Officials Bonaparte's Se vere Letter to Ruick. OHEGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, June 13. Instructions were to day sent to Assistant Attorney-General Cooley at Boise to call on United States Marshal Ruel Rounds and de-. mand his resignation and if he refused to resign today Mr. Cooley was in structed to dismiss him, as he had pre viously dismissed District Attorney Ruick. Up to a late hour this evening the White House had not been advised what action had been taken in regard to Mr. Rounds, but it is learned un officially that he refused to resign. If that is true, he was undoubtedly dis missed by Mr. Cooley. Mr. Rounds will be succeeded by R. L. Hodgson, who has been recom mended by Senator Borah. It is ex pected that his appointment will be announced on Monday. Pernicious Aid to Ruick. Mr. Rounds was very active in assisting District Attorney Ruick in working up the case against Senator Borah and used his influence to secure a grand jury that would be hostile to the Senator. It was demonstrated beyond doubt that Mr. Rounds and Mr. Rukk were in a conspir acy to defame Mr. Borah, and the Presi dent determined to make a clean sweep, taking out of office ail who were party to what he regards as a dastardly scheme to blacken the Innocent. While Mr. Ruick was regarded as the principal offender and prime mover in bringing about the Borah indictment, Mr. Rounds Is blamed for becoming an accessory, and his offense is regarded as hardly less serious than that of the Dis trict Attorney. In the eyes of the Ad ministration, the unjustifiable indictment of Mr. Borah, returned Just prior to the Haywood trial, was the mor rocious. as it was evidently arranged tc wrn'rm Mr. Borah in his prosecution of the men charged with the murder of Steunenberg. What Angered Roosevelt. The President was Intensely desir ous that the prosecution of that case should have all possible force, he hav ing publicly denounced the defendants in that case as "undesirable citizens," and he was personally highly incensed at the manner in which Mr. Ruick manipulated the chatges against Mr. Borah. Before - leaving Idaho, Mr. Cooley will investigate various candidates for District Attorney and will report upon his return to Washington. It is prob able that Senator Borah will return after the Chicago convention to con fer with the President about this ap pointment. Pending a decision, one of the assistant attorneys will be desig nated by Mr. Cooley to run the office of District Attorney. MARSHAL ROUNDS TO RESIGN Alternative Is Dismissal Bona parte's Severe Letter to Ruick. BOISE. Idaho, June 13. (Special.) Following upon the heels of the dis missal from office of United States Dis trict Attorney Ruick yesterday. It be came known today that, acting upon instructions from Washington, Assist ant United States Attorney-General (Concluded on Pace 7.) WEEK'S EVENTS Democratic Delegate Shall I ring this In at. Denver, George f Lieutenant Ewell's Infant Son Finally Located Outside Grounds, Mile From Reservation. SEATTLE, Wash., June 13. (Spe cial.) The entire garrison of Fort Lawton with officers, headed by Major W. y. Stamper, as well as six mounted men were called out this afternoon to assist in the hunt for the 3-year-old son of Second Lieutenant G. W. Ewell, who disappeared shortly after noon, to day. ' For three hours the soldiers, officers, women and children searched the build ings and grounds. The woods surround ing the cleared grounds were thorough ly scoured for a distance of half. a mile back, without finding any trace of the little child. The Seattle police were notified to look out for the boy. About 5 o'clock word was received at the Fort that the boy had been located about a mile from the Mili tary reservation at the home of a Sergeant. The Sergeant's wife, had met the little fellow just outside the gates and not knowing whose child it was took him home. SEATTLE FAIR NEEDS COIN Pleads With Government to Begin Work at Once. WASHINGTON, June 13. Henry E. Reed, of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Ex position, today filed with the Secre tary of the Treasury a plea for the im mediate use of the appropriation of $600,000 for the Government buildings and exhibits at Seattle. The law mak ing the appropriation stipulates that this appropriation shall not become available until the exposition' manage ment has put up $1,000,000. Mr. Reed submitted statements of amounts con tributed and available, and asked that a liberal construction be placed upon the law so that work can begin Imme diately on the Government buildings. If this is not done, lie says, several months will be consumed in raising additional funds, and suc.i delay would necessitate a postponement of the ex position until 1910. He expects a de cision Monday. GROCER KILLED BY THUG Oakland Man's Offer of Battle Costs Him nis Life. OAKLAND, Cal.. June 13. H. . W. Freeman, a grocer of East Ookland, was shot and fatally wounded before 12 o'clock tonight by a robber who made his escape. When the thug entered the grocery he made a demand upon Freeman to hold up his hands. Mrs. Freeman, hearing the voices, came from another room and handed the robber the money in .the store. Her husband went to a rear room and securing a revolver, re turned to the front of the store. As Freeman re-appeared the robber fired, the bullet entering the grocer's mouth. BABY BOY SHOOTS MOTHER Points With Loaded Revolver and Playfully Pulls the Trigger. SPOKANE, Wash., June 13. (Special.) While playing about the house this, morn ing, a 3-year-old son of Mrs. Campbell found a loaded revolver, and, pointing it at his mother, pulled the trigger play fully. The weapon was discharged and the ball lodged in Mrs. Campbell's leg. Mrs. Campbell three weeks ago bacame the mother of twins, and the accident has worked a severe shock on her nerves. THREE FATALLY INJURED Roller Coaster Jumps Track at Denver Pleasure Resort. . DENVER, Colo.. June 13. Fifteen people were injured, three It is thought, fatally, at a substation pleasure re sort tonight, when a car on the "roller coaster," running 73 miles an hour, jumped the track, hurling its passengers to the ground below. The Way the Kaiser Feels. Big Haul Is Made in Nevada Desert. express m?m is loser Express Company Is Loser by Big Haul Made in Nevada Desert. POSSE GOES ON TRAIL Masked Highwaymen Armed With Big Revolvers Stop Coach Kear Schurz Automobiles Are Used in Man-Hunt. - - RAWHIDE, Neb., June 13. (Special.) Deputy Sheriffs on horseback and state police In automobiles, are scour ing the desert between here and Schurz. armed with "forty-flves" and sawed-oft shotguns on a man-hunt. The stage from Schurz, carrying the Wells-Fargo express box, came lumbering In here two hours late this afternoon, and Tony Cano, . the driver, from the top of his stage, shouted the news that he had been held up and the box taken. The hold-up occurred six miles outside the camp, where the desert is broken with hillocks and masses of rocks. Hidden Behind Rocks. Two men Jumped out Into the road from behind a clump of rocks and or dered Tony to halt and throw down the box and "be quick about It." Not withstanding the fact that the mercury was trying to climb over the thermom eter, Tony was as quick as any high wayman could wsih. The two men were dressed In undershirts and khaki trousers. One was very stout and iiad his face half concealed by a handker-. chief tied across it, and the other had" his hidden by a gunny-sack. Rawhide was all excitement in a min ute and deputy sheriffs and the state police wanted to hear no more except that the robbers carried "forty-five" Colt revolvers. It was to horse for the Sher iffs and to the autos for the state police. Five minutes after the arrival of the stage the officers, were off on the man hunt. Empty Box Found. None of the horsemen has returned up to tills writing, but one auto has come back, with the empty box smashed to smithereecris. The contents of tin box are estimated at various amounts, ranging from a few thousand to $20.0jO or $0,000. It la said on what seems to be pretty good information that the Coalition Mines Company, the biggest operating company in the camp, had $10,000 in the box. One of the automobiles has returned, having punctured a tire in the hot pur suit, and the officers in it were trans ferred to another machine. The chau ffeur reported that the officers were then half an hour behind two men In a light rig, heading for Schurz, an swering to the description given by the stage driver, and the camp Is breathlessly awaiting developments. HULL IS BEATEN BY ONE Alleges Fraud and Will Contest Prouty's Nomination. DES MOINES, June 13. Judge R. F. Prouty is the Republican nominee for Congressman from the Seventh Iowa Dis trict, according to the latest official count of the returns from the primary election of June 2. His majority over Captain Hull is only one. He gained this lead today. The Hull faction says that fraud was committed In one precinct and charges that the returns have been changed, and will" take the contest Into court. mmm. M :-r. "Here, Yon; Cut Tliot Out!" BH 1 02.2 r