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VOL. XXVII NO. 27.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 5, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TAFT IS STORING
CAMPAIGN ENERGY
READY TO
WORKING TO SAVE
B0XB0ARD TRUST
E
JOHN . VAN ZANTE
NAMED BY MAYOR
TRAINS COLLIDE,
SIX PERSONS DIE
GET TOGETHER
T BRYAN
TRY FOR
RESTS IX QOET OF MOVXTAIXS
OF VIRGINIA.
BRIGHTER FTXAXCIAIi SKIES
GIVE ENCOURAGEMENT.
APPOINTED MUNICIPAL JUDGE
TO SUCCEED CAMEROX.
DEMOCRATS
now
PARKER
BALLOONS
SUPPDR
RECORD
r
New York and East Bow
... Knee to Bryan.
ACCEPT TERMS HE DICTATES
Ample Campaign Fund, Which
Harriman Will Help.
BRYAN WILL GIVE $50,000
Xew York Offered Radical for Vice
President, if It Fights; Conserv
ative if It Docs ot Pos
sible Peace With Hearst.
Waltr Wellman to Cfclcaso Record-Herald.
DENVER, Colo.. July 4. (Special.)
"This is the getting together" conven
tlon of the National Democracy. Har
mony is now the watchword. No con
test of any Importance is in sight at
this hour. New York and the Bast are
owing the knee to Bryan. There may
u a little ripple over some planks of
the platform, as Democrats have a way
of breaking out when least expected, but
nothing bitter or vital in the way of
opposition to the Bryan programme is
looked for.
The farmer of Fairview has every
thing his own way except the nomina
tion by acclamation, on which he has
Bet his heart. Governor Johnson still
stands in the path, and Gray, too, after
a fashion. But neither the Johnson nor
Gray movement attracts following. Both
are overshadowed by the man whom the
Democratic masses have idealized and
Idolized and made the absolute master of
the party after an interregnum out of
which no Democrat gained any satisfac
tion. Bryan's Terms to East.
As to the ,Vje-P.rssidency. the shrewd
and masterful dictator has issued this
ukase:
"If there is a fight in the convention,
the Vice-Presidential candidate will be
a radical. (If there is no fight, he will
be a conservative."
' And thus invited to be good, the East
ern conservatives and opponents of Bryan
are in a mood to accept the terms and
make sure of getting Gray or Gaynor
or some Eastern man on the ticket.
As it looks now, the Democracy will
tills time go into the Presidential battle
more united, more harmonious, more
hopeful than in any struggle since 18U2.
Will Have Good Fund.
It is no secret that Bryan believes he
was beaten in 1886 because his cam
paign was not as effectively managed
as it should have been. This time ha
plans to get at the head of his organiza
tion an efficient business man and execu
tive. He wants a man like Mayor John
son, of Ohio, or Mr. Campau, of Detroit.
Curiously enough, the Democrats ex
pect to have a pretty good sized cam
paign fund. They will have $50,000 left
out of the JIOO.OOO enterprising Denver
put up for the convention, and I was
told at Lincoln that Mr. Bryan would
Immediately chip in $50,000 more, or one
year's income over and above his living
and travefing expenses, and thus the
treasurer will have a round $100,000 to
Start business with at once.
Harriman to Contribute.
There is good authority for the state
ment that E. H. Harriman has promised
a fair-sized check and that the railroads
and corporations generally are going to
whack up evenly with perfunctory con
tributions to both parties, merely playing
safe and not caring very much which
side wins. It should be remembered
that the Federal campaign publicity law
which Mr. Bryan so strenuously advo
cates cannot be enacted until after this
campaign is a thing of the past.
Talk of Peace With Hearst.
There are renewed rumors of peace be
tween Hearst and Bryan. No one has
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Talks Politics With Burton and Kel
logg Will Take Horseback
Rides In Mountains.
HOT SPRINGS, Va., July 4. Today
was a period of quiet and rest for
William H. Taft. the Republican can
didate for the Preslency of the United
States. Mr. Taft spent much of the
time throughout the day on the ver
anda adjoining his apartments on the
first floor of the Homestead Hotel,
where he enjoyed a view of the sur
rounding mountains and overlooking
the golf links.
Assistant Secretary W. W. Michler
had about 1500 letters awaiting Mr.
Taft's signature, most of them being
replies to congratulatory letters and
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, t ill nmthmJk i n jwranrtjirmi
J. M. Guffey, of Pennsylvania,
Democratic National Commit.
teeman Whom Bryan Accuses
of Betraying the People.
telegrams, and during the day Mr.
Taft read and signed many of them.
Representative Theodore Burton, of
Ohio, is here, and together with Frank
B. Kellogg had conferences with. Mr.
Taft during the day.
A suite of five rooms was reserved
for Mr. Taft and he will have a com
plete working library here as soon
as the rest of his baggage arrives.
His span of horses also came this eve
ning and long mountain rides have
been planned.
Frank H. Hitchcock is expected here
in a few days.
MURDER THEIR FOREMAN
Montenegrin Railroad laborers
Avenge Death of Comrade.
MISSOULA, Mont., July 4. Holmes
Hayes, foreman at the St. Paul tunnel
at Taft, near this city, was shot ' to
death at noon today by five Montene
grins in retaliation for the death of a
fellow-countryman last October. Hayes
was attacked from ambush and
fell at the first fire. The fren
zied foreigners then literally hacked
his body to pieces with knives
and made their escape over the moun
tains into Idaho. A large posse of ex
perienced rangers have started in
pursuit.
Last Fall Hayes was attacked by a
crowd of Montenegrins as the result of
some difficulty and shot the leader
dead.
BONI NOT A KIDNAPER
Xo Foundation for Sensational Story
Printed in Paris.
PARIS, July 4. The statement given
publicity 'this morning that Count Boni
de Castellane, the former husband of
Mme. Anna Gould, kidnaped his three
children from Versailles yesterday, is
inaccurate. The Count simply went to
Versailles and took the youngest boy,
who is ill, to the Count's mother for
the annual visit of one month allowed
by the court under the divorce decree.
HARRY MURPHY
ill Accept Decision of
Convention.
PRAISES RIVAL'S QUALITIES
Would Wish AH Friends to As
sist Nominee.
NO DIVISION ON PLATFORM
Denver Ablaze With Bunting and
Lights, Marking Joint Celebra
tions Delegates Pour In Old
Leaders Are Absent.
DENVER, Colo.. July 4. The Ameri
can eagle and the Democratic rooster
have vied with each other today in
giving Denver one of the most lurid
Fourths of July in its brief but stren
uous existence. Throughout the day
the streets have been ablaze with color,
an incessant din of cannon and crack
ers has mingled with the enthusiasm
of arriving political delegations, and
long trains have crept over the prairie
from every direction, adding their
throngs to the multitude already here.
Tonight the Capitol and many other
public buildings loom out of the dark
ness in living fire, with every outline
marked by myriad lights; the streets
pulsate with convention throngs and
the clatter of fireworks; the hotel lob
bies are filled with political leaders,
delegates and onlookers from every
section of the country; and there is a
general culmination of today's con
junction of patriotism and politics.
Crowds Xot Up to Precedents.
Thus far, however, there is no
storming of Denver's gates, and the
crowds are somewhat below the aver
age of National conventions, owing to
the distance of Denver from the popu
lous centers, and also because the
Government and state restrictions on
railroad passes keep back the hundreds
who have heretofore made National
conventions the occasion for a Quad
rennial free excursion. However, the
convention is still days off, and there
is ample time for an Influx up to prec
edent in numbers and noise. It is es
timated that 20,000 strangers are al
ready here,- and 60,000 more are ex
pected in the next two days.
The arrivals today Included the Mis
souri delegation, headed by the tall, gaunt
form of Senator Stone; part of the North
Carolina delegation, headed by Governor
Glenn, who peremptorily retired his can
didacy for the Vice-Presidency, and
straggling advance guards of many other
delegations. Among these Pudge Parker,
the Democratic candidate of 1904; Colonel
Clayton, of Alabama, the silver-tongued
Southerner who will be permanent chair
man of the convention; Chief Murphy, of
Tammany Hall, and Governor Haskell,
of Oklahoma, a likely candidate for
chairman of the platform committee, are
the chief figures of National interest now
on the ground.
Xational Leaders Absent.
But there is rather a noticeable ab
sence of National leaders and the con
spicuous figures of former conventions
Tillman, Bailey, Culberson, Champ Clark,
John Sharp Williams and most of the
men of action in this gathering are from
the ranks of local leaders. One of the
arrivals today was Charles W". Bryan,
brother of the candidate, who came from
Lincoln with a number of the Nebraska
leaders to dispense hospitality from the
Nebraska and Bryan headquarters. This
is the first appearance of Brother Charles
in National affairs, although he has been
for eleven years the private secretary to
his brother and the head of the Com
moner, to which William J. Bryan con
tributes the editorial inspiration.
Parker a Xew Sunny Jim.
Naturally the Democratic standard
bearer of 1904, Judge Alton B. Parker,
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FINDS SOME OBJECTS OF
Reorganization to Be Effected and
Receivership Ended Soon Mills
Will Not Close.
CHICAGO, July 4. (Special.) Reor
ganization of the bankrupt United
Box Board & Paper Company, taken
over by receivers at Trenton, N. J.,
Saturday, has begun. Directors of the
$38,000,000 corporation and officials of
its subsidiary companies placed their
shoulders to the wheel today. They
hope to pilot the gigantic concern over
the rough financial sea and out of the'
bankruptcy courts before next Fall.
This was the declaration today of L.
W. Bodman, treasurer of the company
and a member of the board of directors.
The bright financial outlook, Mr. Bod
man says, has served to encourage
those behind the embarrassed organiza
tion, and a definite plan of action will
be decided upon by the board of direc
tors this week, probably in New York.
"The present industrial outlook has
encouraged the directors of the com
pany in our plans for reorganization,"
said Mr. Bodman. "Business will con
tinue under the guidance of the re
ceivers, and none of our 16 mills will
shut down because of the bankruptcy
proceedings."
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 68
degrees; minimum. 66 degree.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northwest wind.
Pacific Coast.
Celebrations in Valley towns draw thoueanda
of visitors. Section 1, page 6.
Pour persona badly hurt by runaway In
Baker City parade. Section 1, page 6.
Ten thousand Portland: people attend celebra
tion at Vancouver. Section 1, page 6.
Multnomah would pay $ 100,000 more taxes
were old law and present values used.
Section 1, page 8.
Anarchist runs up red flag at Tillamook;
serious trouble follows. Section 1, page 8.
Salem cherry fair postponed until July 19.
Section 1, page 8.
National.
Filipinos petition American Nation to remove
tariff restrictions. Section 1, page 2.
Politico.
Bryan, dictator of Democratic convention, has
secured united. Democracy. Section 1,
page 1.
Vigorous attack, on Guffey by Bryan in speech
at Lincoln. Section 1, page 4.
Bryan said to propose Ridder for Vice-President.
Section 1, page 5.
Denver platform to be made to suit Bryan.
Section 1, page 4.
Parker ready to support Bryan and talks for
harmony. Section 1,- page 1.
Domestic.
"Woman, Ignorant of her mother's name,
learns truth by remarkable chance. Sec
tion 1. page 2.
Plan to reorganize boxboard trust. Section
1, page 1.
Nine balloons start on record-breaking race,
Chicago to Atlantic Coast. Section 1,
page 1.
Sports.
Coast League scores: Portland d-6, San
Francisco 0-3; Los Angeles 3-14, Oakland
1-2. Section 2, page 3.
Nelson knocks out Gaxui and regains cham
pionship. Section 4, page 6.
McFarland and Welch fight 25 rounde with
out decision. Section 4, page 6.
Yachts start on trans-Paclflo race. Section
2, page 2.
West Portland beats East Side In Trl-Clty
League game. Section page 3.
Big crowds see motor-boat races on Wil
lamette. Section 2, page 2.
Chehalis autolst makes trip from Denver
to Portland. Section 2, page 3.
McCredie adds Graney to pitching staff.
Section 4, page 7.
American athletes picked to win Olympic
games. Section 4, page 6.
Many autolsts plan outings during Summer.
ection 4, page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
Ten cents reported offered for Oregon hop
contracts. Section 4, page 0.
River steamers carry large crowds from
city. Section 4, page 0.
Portland and Vicinity.
John Van Zante appointed Municipal Judge
by Mayor Lane. Section 1, page 1.
Chief Grltsmacher announces that Sergeant
Baty Is to be permanent head of detec
tive staff. Section 2, page 1.
Portland spends quietest Fourth. In ten
years. Section 2, page 10.
Catholic Orphanage at Oswego dedicated.
Section 1, page 9.
James Henry Booth acquitted of bribery
charge. Beet ion 4, page 10.
New officials will take oath of office tomor
row. Section 8, page 12.
Washington beaches made more accessible
by new railroad. Section 3, page 12.
Week of big deals in realty market. Sec
tion 3, page 10.
Residence lots In demand on East Side.
Section 3, page 11.
United Brethren resent reports of discord In
their ranks. Section 3. page 7.
INTEREST IN THE GREAT PROCESSION ON THE
Ideal Weather Favors
Aeronauts.
SAILING EAST FROM CHICAGO
Stiff Breeze Speeds Airships
on Way to Atlantic.
TEXAS GAS-BAG IS IN LEAD
Gets Away First in Cup Contest,
Closely Followed by Frenchman.
Prospects Good for Beat
ing World's Record.
CHICAGO, July 4. (Special.) With
ideal weather conditions and chances un
excelled for record-breaking nights, nine
great balloons, entered for the "Chicago
to the Ocean" race, under the auspices
of the Chicago Aeronautlque Club, arose
here this afternoon and sped away across
Lake Michigan. At midnight three of
them had been heard from two passing
over Kalamazoo, Mich., and one passing
over Detroit, all very high and travel
ing very fast in a northeasterly direction.
If the winds continue as favorable as
they were yesterday, it is believed that all
records will be broken and that the bal
loons will land somewhere In Eastern Can
adian woods. The only thing that halted
the German balloon, Pomraern, last year
was the Atlantic Ocean. She landed with
half her ballast intact after sailing from
St. Louis to the New Jersey Coast.
Late Start Is Made.
The start was made at 6:46 o'clock, an
hour and 46 minutes later than had been
advertised, and the last balloon was not
eased away until 7:50 o'clock. A light
rain which fell on the south side at 1
o'clock in the afternoon occasioned the
delay. The bags had been rolled out
ready to be inflated when the rahi came
on and It was found necessary to envelop
them again in their canvas . casings.
Then they . had to be thoroughly dried
before the gas could be run in. They left
In the following order:
Order of Departure.
Fielding-San Antonio Captain H. E.
Holeywill and Dr. Frederick J. Fielding.
Ville de Dieppe, representing France
Captain A. B. Mueller and George
Schoenck.
Columbia C. H. Lichlelter and Captain
Martin Petterson, U. S. A.
King Edward, Canada's entry Lieu
tenant Preston and John Bennett.
United 8tates--Colonel A. P. Shirley and
Horace B. Wild.
Cincinnati Leslie Haddock and George
Haddock.
America Captain P. S. Hudson and
Lieutenant J. J. Meade, United States
Marine Corps.
Illinois J. L Case and C E. Greg
ory. Chicago G. L. Numbaugh and C A.
Coey.
Fielding Balloon First.
It was easy sailing for the Fielding
San Antonio with its advantage gained
at the start, and some enthusiastic
spectators offered to wager that it
would maintain its advantage to the
end of the contest.
New York spectators had arranged
for the Receipt of information by long
distance telephone and telegraph from
friends who had been Instructed to
watch the sky.
The first information of consequence
was flashed from the steamship Theo
dore Roosevelt on its return voyage
from Michigan City, Ind., with a cargo
of excursionists.
First News From Race.
By wireless telegraph, the captain, on
the bridge of the big lake greyhound,
sent this, the first description of the
flight, to the Examiner office:
"We -have exchanged salutes with two
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Weil-Known Democrat Will Assume
Bench Monday Morning J. W.
Grussi May Be Clerk.
Mayor Lane last night announced the
selection of John Van Zante as Judge
of the Municipal Court to succeed
George' J. Cameron. Judge Cameron
will retire tomorrow to take the posi
tion of District Attorney, to which he
was elected June 1. The official ap
pointment of Mr. Van Zante will be
made tomorrow morning.
Mr. Van Zante is a member of the
legal firm of Johnson & Van Zante. He
John Veil Zante, Who Has Been
Appointed Municipal Judge by
Mayor Lane,
has been a resident of Portland for the
last 20 years, coming here from Pella,
la., where he was born 42 years ago.
He received his legal education at the
Columbia University law department,
from which he was graduated 11 years
ago. After receiving his degree, he
studied in the office of Alan R. Joy and
several other attorneys In this city,
and was admitted to the bar eight
years ago. He has never held public
office before, but was four years ago
the unsuccessful Democratic candidate
for County Judge running In opposition
to Judge Webster.
No announcement has as yet been
made as to whom Mr. Van Zante will
appoint to succeed Frank D. Hennessy
as clerk of the Municipal Court. Mr.
Hennessy will retire from this position
to fill a deputyship in the office of the
District Attorney. Indications are that
the new clerk will be J. W. Grussi, of
170 East Fourteenth street. It is
known that Mr. Van Zante has ex
pressed a preference for Mr. Grussi for
this position, but Mr. Grussi may de
cline the appointment.
POTTER MAY YET RECOVER
Bishop's Physicians Grow More
Hopeful Every Hour.
COOPERSTOWN, N. T., July 4. The
condition of ' Bishop Henry C. Potter
continues about the same as this morn
ing and every hour, gives the physi
cians more hope for his recovery. The
bishop seems more comfortable and
takes nourishment.
He .passed a fairly comfortable night,
although he was somewhat restless be
cause of the high humidity. His res
piration and pulse today were decidedly
nearer normal. The bishop's room- to
day was filled with oxygen, and elec
tric fans were kept constantly going.
Scarcely a firecracker was discharged
In the town, and an air of almost Sun
day quiet prevailed.
CATCH ANOTHER SUSPECT
Xegro in Jail at Schenectady Held
for Mail Robbery.
SCHENECTADAY, N. Y., July 4. The
police late last night arrested a negro
giving his name as Eugene Wilson,
whom they suspect of connection with
the theft of $50,000 from a registered ma
pouch in Kansas City.
WAY TO DENVER
Disaster Mars Fourth
at Oakland
ALL ON ONE CAR MANGLED
Six Dead, 30 Injured, Havt
Been Found.
DEADLY GRADE CROSSING
Engine Dashes Into Smoking Car,
Smashing It to Pieces and Tossing
Fragments With Occupants
From the Track. '
OAKLAND, Cal., July 4. The narrow
gauge local, bound from the Alameda
Into Oakland, crashed into the Santa
Cruz train No. 57 bound for the Oakland
Mole at 7:10 tonight at First and Web
ster streets, killing or injuring all of the
passengers In the Santa Cruz train smoking-car.
Eight were killed and over 30 in
jured. The collision was on the cross-'
ing if the Narrow Gauge and main
lines, opposite the Webster street
bridge. The engine of ' the Alameda
train, which was running with tender
ahead, cut into the Santa Cruz train
smoking-car about 10 feet from the
front.
The front end was smashed to splin
ters, the car being torn from the front
trucks and the mass tossed from the
main line track up against the signal
tower in Webster street. The wreck of
the coach, containing its dead and
screaming wounded, was hurled on ltd
side, with the Alameda local tender
buried in the wreckage. The baggag?
ceach of the Santa Cruz train, whi
was In front of the smoker, was de
railed and half-way upset. Both loco
motives were derailed.
When the trains struck, the smoker
was cut from the coach following,
which continued its course, crashing
into the boiler of the Alameda local.
Some windows were broken in this and
the first Alameda coach, which was
also derailed. Otherwise they were
not damaged. The passengers in these
were shaken up but not injured.
Practically all those in the smoker
weer pinned in the wreck and their
cries for help followed teh terrific crash
of teh trains coming together. .Some
weer able to dig themselves out of the
wreck, but the majority had to be cut
out. Several of the dead were badly
crushed. The police and fire depart
ments were called out and were soon
at work carrying wounded and dead
from the wreck.
The dead:
Sol Loeb, commercial traveler, San
Francisco.
Leslie Albee, San Francisco.
Frank Lauzon, San Francisco.
Five others, as yet unidentified.
DEAD IN CLUBHOUSE FIRE
Dwight oJhnson Fatally Injured by
Fall From Spokane Building.
SPOKANE, Wash., July 4. Dwight
Johnson, a guest of the club, is dead, and
the entire top floor of the Spokane Club
building, a six-story structure, is badly
damaged, through fire at 7 o'clock this
evening. Johnson, who thought he was
cut off from escape, had climbed out of
a window and for several minutes clung
to a shutter, while firemen made des
perate efforts to reach him. His strength
failed him and he dropped to the roof
of an adjoining one-story building, break
ing several bones and sustaining other in
juries that proved fatal.. The damage to
the building will not be more than $20,-000.