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Pages 1 to 12 COMPLAIN AGAINST EXPRESS SERVICE MAKE HEROINE BERKELEY QUEEN MAYBELiLE YVATSOX MAY BE CHOSEX FOR XEW IIOXORS. '5 HUNDRED BURIED BENEATH RUINS SEEKS TO ESCAPE WIFE'S DEMANDS FLIES IN FRANCE UP TO ROOSEVELT IS RENOMINATED CALIFORXIA SHIPPERS SUE WELLS FARGO COMPANY. HURRICANE WRECKS FACTORY IX SYEGEDIX, HUXGARY. TOT.. XXVII.-XO. 33. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNIKCV AUGUST 9, 1903. ' PRICE FIVE CEXTS. - 1 - - " WRIGHT AIRSHIP HUGHES PROBLEM GOVERNOR DENEEN Yates Loses in Illinois Primary. STEVENSON IS LEADING LEWIS Foss Is Ahead of Hopkins in Senatorial Race. NEW LAW IS GIVEN TEST On Democratic Side Stringer Is Overwhelmingly Indorsed for Toga Steturns Coming In Very Slowly. CHICAGO. Aug.- 8. (Special.) IUinoU for the first time nominated candidates for United States Senator, state and coun ty officers and members of the General Assembly by direct vote of the people, to day. The new law worked clumsily in many places and returns are coming in slowly, but the figures Indicate that Governor Deneen has carried the state by 6000 over Richard Yates for the Republi can gubernatorial noiiiination. Indications are that Representative George K. Foss has carried Chicago by fiOOO over Senator Hopktns for the United States Benatorship. Stringer Leads for Senator. Not enough reports are In from the country to warrant an estimate on the general result. Lawrence T. W. Stringer, of Logan County, has won the Demo cratic nomination for Senator by an over whelming vote if the earlier returns are maintained. For the Democratic nomination for Gov ernor, James Hamilton Lewis Is far ahead In Chicago, but Adlal B. Stevenson, once Vice-President of the United States, polled a large vote down the state and is probably the nominee by 10.000. Bitter Contest Is Ended. Never In Illinois history A politi co' contest so bitterly waged on the Republican side. Between Governor Deneen and Richard Tate for the Re publican. -nomination for Governor the campaign fight was decidedly wanri. Charges of maladministration of the stale, government were so many and so vio lent in terms that the Democrats will need only to bring up the speeches of candidates to get all the campaign ma terial they want from this time on to election day, next November. Democratic light Clean. On the Democratic side the fight for the gubernatorial nomination was spirited, but It was pretty free from personalities. Republican candidates for the United States Senatorshlp made a lively canvass of the state and of Chicago. Senator Hopkins, who wishes to be returned to Washington, was the special object of at tack by ex-Senator William E. Mason. Representative George E. Foss circulated among the people "down state" and made hundreds of speeches. 'Billy" Mason con fined his efforts largely to Cook County and operated with a brass band and a huge tent. In many of the precincts this afternoon there was trouble between the workers for the several factions and the police were called to a dozen places to quell what threatened to become a riot. Xew Law Is Unpopular. Floods of complaints against the practical working of the new law poured In upon election commissioners and precinct Judges all day. Hundreds of coaches were necessary to explain features of the law. Challenges were numerous, giving rise to bitter pro tests. Voters who had come of age since the last registration were barred from voting. Everybody was obliged to declare his party affiliations and the voter had to confine his marking to men of his own party. Men who had moved from one place to another In their own precinct were not allowed to cast a ballot unless (Concluded on Page 7.) : ( ' He Woit Be HappjTIM He Gets It! Of C-l Now. T. T.M TW. .1. . "A FVlenJ la eed," Etc. " " "' "" ' j I . . . '--.'...-----"-'-----. . ... i' . a, i iii.ts.s.i.s.itttt .......................as.ssss.ssssssea . . . .... . . . . ...... ..... ... ... . mm . .MM J. JLsl .... s s s s. a.s s s s s . a .... . s a s s a . a a a a . a s "tmi ...... -. . Four Dead and Fourteen Injured Taken Out Seventy Work men Still Missing. SZEGEDIX, Hungary, Aug. 8. Dur ing a hurricane this afternoon a large factory collapsed and 100 workmen were buried in the ruins. Four corpse have been found and 14 persons se verely hurt. Seventy persons are still missing. Szegedin Is the capital of the County James Hamilton Lewis, Defeated for Gubernatorial Nomination In Illinois. of Csongrad, on the River Theiss, at the influx of the Maros, 96 miles from Budapest. It Is the most populous city in Hungary after the capital and Is the metropolis of the Hungarian plain. The city was destroyed in 1879 by an Inundation of the Theiss and was rebuilt on modern lines, with broad avenues, spacious squares, stately buildings and fine quays. A great dike guards against' further floods. The city has manufacturies of soap and various food products. The population In 1900 was 102.991. FLEET REACHES AUCKLAND Anchors at Xew Zealand Capital on Sunday Morning. AUCKLAND, , Sunday, -Aug. 9. The iAmericanbattieship ,fleet anchored here at 8;40 .'o'clock thl-morning. HIGH TRIBUTE. TO ROOSEVELT Contained in Xew Zealand Govern ment's Fleet Souvenir. AUCKLAND, Aug. 8. 11 A. M. The book which has been printed by the Govern ment for presentation to the officers of the American battleship fleet as a sou venir of their visit here, contains the fol lowing greeting written' by the Prime Minister, Joseph J. Ward. "No visit of foreign warships was ever so welcome as Is yours today. "In receiving the fleet a sense of kin ship stirs our hearts, for we feel that the greatest nation of the West has come to visit us,- this vessel being the visible embodiment of its might, majesty and dominion. President Roosevelt in every act and word of his life work, reflects and voices our national ethics and aspira tions. The name Roosevelt In New Zea land stands for peace. Justice and free dom. These are the thoughts and feel ings that are stirring our hearts today." CORPSE STOPS TRAIN Despondent Laborer Hangs Himself From' Railroad Bridge. , . N' K V TORK, Aug. . Unable to find work, Robert M. Miller, a carpenter, committed suicide In a peculiar man ner today. Knotting a rope to a bridge over the New Haven Railroad tracks In the Bronx. Miller placed a noose around his neck- and jumped from the bridge. His suspended body hung In the pathway of a northbound train and an early freight was stopped by It after the engineer had whistled vainly for the man, whom he supposed to be alive, to get out of the way. In Miller's pockets was an empty pay envelope on which was written, "Your services are no longer required." HARRY MURPHY r - - - - 'i t ; ; Who la I Why Thaw Has Gone Into Bankruptcy. LAW WILL LIMIT ALLOWANCE Affection Between Couple Is Ended Forever. THAW EXPLAINS REASONS Purpose Is to Put All Claimants on Equal Footing Denies Hattle ' Forsyth Knew Anything About Wife's Story. PITTSBURG, Pa.. Aug. 8. (Special.) Evelyn Nesblt Thaw Is one of the heaviest losers by the voluntary peti tion in bankruptcy filed yesterday by her husband, Harry Kendall Thaw. It will mean at least a difference of $1000 a month In her spending money from now on. It was declared today that Harry Thaw was actuated as much by a desire to free himself from her In sistent and continuous demands on his money as to frustrate the collection of heavy attorney and witness fees. From an absolutely reliable source It was learned' that Evelyn Thaw has been asking her husband to give her $1000 a month for spending money, besides her fixed settlement. The petition in bankruptcy also means, it is said, the absolute and final severance of all ties of affection be tween Thaw and his wife. This phase of the case was given by an old and very near friend of the Thaw family, whose name Is withheld. Roger O'Mara, In whose hands Thaw's affairs have been placed, says Thaw has been outrageously robbed by attorneys, one of whom, he says, lost In a poker game one night $20,000 entrusted to him for another purpose and which Thaw had to make good. Daniel O'Reilly In New York tonight announced that he would tight the bankruptcy proceedings. He says Thaw has been declared a lunatic and has no right to file such a petition. GIVES CASH TO CREDITORS Claims Against Thaw Exceed $700, 000 Forsyth Story Denied. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Aug. 8. Harry K. Thaw, made the following statement today in further explanation of the sched ules appearing In .his petition in bank ruptcy filed in Pittsburg yesterday: "The item at the foot of the column giv ing amounts paid lawyers and alienists for expenses, marked, "cash in bank," is money in the bank that I have now turned over to the receiver in bankruptcy for the equalization of all concerned." The sum of $438,500 is represented as having been paid out by Thaw in con nection with his trials, but this amount includes $191,500 borrowed on a note from his mother, Mrs. William Thaw, which amount appears again In the schedule of Thaw's liabilities. The sums he has paid and the claims, many of which Thaw says are exaggerated, will total over $700, 000. When shown an article attribute to Mattie Forsyth, an actress, printed in a Npw York paper, in. which Miss Forsyth was represented as discrediting the story told by Evylyn Thaw on the witness Btand, Harry Thaw said today: 'Miss Forsyth knows absolutely noth ing about me. She never met White and she met Miss Nesblt only once. What ever knowledge she has was second-hand. She was not one of the girls who sailed Immediately before the second trial. If she had the knowledge she says she had. Mr. Jerome would have had her as a wit ness. That goes without saying." Thaw to Pay All Creditors. NEW YORK, Aug. 8. "There Is no Intention on the part of Thaw to de (Concluded on Pace 7.) FINDS IT WORTH WHILE TO Charge Discrimination, Unreason able Rates and Poor Service in Handling Vegetable Shipments. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 8. (Special.) The California Traffic Association, with headquarters in San Francisco, and Paul Von Neindorff, a Los Angeles commission man, representing various firms, including Mitchell & Goodall and the Trobeck & Bergen Company of San Francisco, have filed a Joint complaint with the Inter state commerce commission at Washing ton against Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express. The complaint, understood to be the first of the kind ever brought against this company, charges discrimination, exces sive, unjust and unreasonable rates, ex orbitant icing assessments, unsatisfactory service and lack of suitable equipment In handling vegetable consignments. Various instances are cited as proving the allegations, and the complainants as sert that by reason of having a monopoly of the express service out of California, the company was enabled to make such rates and perform such services as It may see fit. They pray that the matter be Investigated and an order made re quiring the company to desist from Its alleged violations of the act to regulate Interstate commerce, approved February 4, 1887. SEVERAL KILLED IN WRECK Southern Pacific Passenger Train Smashed Xear Xew Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 8. A Southern Pacific passenger train, westbound, was wrecked tonight shortly after leaving New Orleans. Several people are reported to have been killed. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 88 degrees; minimum, GO degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. Foreign. Wright airship makes successful flight in France. Page 1. First act of violence In Canadian Pacific strike. Section 1, page 3. Hurricane destroys factory In Hungary, bury ing 100 persona. Section 1. page 1. Domestic. Plllsbury-Washburn . Milling Company in V hands of receiver. Section 1. page S. Illinois woman abducts ctaughter on eVe of marriage to Stanford professor. Section 1, page 9.. Thaw's motive for bankruptcy Is to etop wife's -extravagance. Section 1, pogi 1. Tblitlcs. New York leaders ' call on Rooaevelt to settle Hughes problem. Section 1. page 1. Hearst to make tour of West. Including Oregon. Section 2. page 1. Chafln taya visit to Bryan. Section 1, page 2. Hitchcock finds r.ew position for Dover. Section 2. page 2. Sports. Coast League scores: San Francisco 1, Portland O; Oakland 4. Los Angelea 2. Section 2 page 2. , R. L. Short makea fast run In auto from Seattle to Portland. Section 4. page 7. McCredle expecta to lead league after aerlea at home. Section 4. page 6. Northwest League tries to win Portland from coastera. Section 4, page 6. Hans Wagner In class by himself as base ball pitcher. Section 4. page 6. Commercial and Marine. " California plans to reduce nop production. Section 4. page 8. Wheat turna weak at Chicago. Section 4, page 8. Inspected California pears condemned at Seattle. Section 4. page 8. Advance in stock prices is slower. Section 4, page 8. Portland man goes insane on steamer Homer at aea. Section 4, page 8. Pacific Coast. Judge Snell enters Senatorial race against Ankeny and Jones. Section 1, page V Two armlea prepared for eventualities at American Lake. Section 1, page 2. Fires do further damage at Grants Pass. Section 1, page 8. Idaho farmer propagates new wheat which yielded 100 bushels to acrs. Seotlon 1, page 8. Siletx settlers declare they are being robbed of valuable lands by conspiracy of land sharks. Section 1. page 7. Portland and Vicinity. I Jackson C. Reld ! releaaed on $5000 boll. Section 1, page 8. Oregon Presidential Postmasters conven tion ends. Section 4. page 10. Fifth-street property Is sold for 870,000. Section 8, page 8. Many large realty Investments during past week. Section I, page 8. Activity In East Side suburban tracts. Sec tion 8. page 8. Oregon Good Roads Association will con vene Tuesday. Section 8. page 10. , Foresters plan big reception to Supreme Ranger O'Grady. Section 4. page 10. Arrangements complete for establishment of free trades school. Section 2, page 10. INDULGE IN A FEW PICTORIAL New York Leaders Call for Solution. ELECTORAL YOTE IS AT STAKE Danger to Republicans, What: ever Is Decision. PRESIDENT VERY ANGRY Thinks Governor Should Xot Have Created Dilemma by Seeking Xominatlon Many Votes Sac rificed If Hughes Rejected. Walter Wellman to Chicago Record-Herald. NEW YORK, Aug. 8. (Special.) Presi dent Roosevelt 1b now face to face with one of the hardest problems of his po litical career. Shall he or shall he not turn down Governor Hughes? It may seem surprising to people out West that the President of the United States should have anything to do with this question, much less be compelled to take the responsibttTty of deciding it. They will naturally think the nomina tion of a Republican candidate for Gov ernor of New York Is the business of the Republicans of New York State, but the facts are that Mr. Roosevelt is the actual leader of the Republican party in this state. He Is as much it's "boss" as ever Conklln or Piatt, or Odell was. To solve the problem of the renomina tion of Hughes, he could not very well escape the responsibility if he would. The leaders of the party In this state are In a quandary over Hughes. They don't know what to do, and so they "put it up to" their leader, the man at Oyster Bay, and from all accounts the President Is In as much of a stew over It as the leaders. He has Just had a conference with Chairman Hitchcock, and Hitchcock Is going off to Hot Springs to have a pow-pow with Taft. , From all accounts, Mr. Roosevelt is very angry at Hughes for getting the party into this scrape through his an nouncement that he is willing to accept a renomihatlon. Mr. Roosevelt would like to know why the Governor could not help matters out a little by staying pat, by standing by his first announcement that under no circumstances wduld he ac cept another nomination'. Xew York Vote at Stake. But hard words butter no parsnips, and Roosevelt and Taft have a difficult problem to solve. It is not only dif ficult, but dangerous. The electoral vote of New York Is the real stake at Issue. Thie Is where the shoe pinches. The unfortunate part Is that Mr. Roosevelt and Candidate Taft are forced to take airy responsibility in the affair. Th best political Judgment here Is that the Republlcane will have a better chance to carry the state for President If they decide to have Hughes oft the ticket. It is a pretty hard question to decide; whether one wishes the enemy of the people who go to church or of those who do not. But in New York the former are in a large majority. Danger of Rejecting Reformer. On the other hand, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft must give heed to public opin ion outside New York State. It certainly would not help Taft's cause throughout the country if It were to become known that the President and the candidate had repudiated a reformer, a moral hero, a worker for good government and civic decency, as a matter of political exped iency. The bitterness of the Republican poli ticians against Hughes is very keen. They do not hesitate to denounce him as an lngrate and worse. The upshot of the whole business Is that until Roosevelt and Taft decide the Hughes problem, and the effect of their decision upon public opinion develops to such an extent that we may estimate it. New York must be regarded as a doubtful state on the Presidency rtth the chances In Taft's favor. REFLECTIONS ON SOME EVENTS OF THE WEEK Portland Girl AVho Rescued Fellow Passengers in Columbia Wreck Leads Carnival Contest. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8. (Special.) Miss Maybelle Watson, heroine of the Co lumbia wreck, which occurred near Eureka more than a year ago, has been chosen to represent Berkeley In the con test for queen of the Alameda County exposition and carnival. M1ss Watson achieved distinction for the heroic as sistance which she rendered to several VI sSL Goveraor Dlneen, of IIMnola. Who Ik Renominated as Result of Yesterday's. Prlmnrlars. passengers who were in imminent danger of drowning. Before she left the sinking ship the fearless girl devoted her energies to calm ing her terrified companions and aiding them to adjust their life-preservers and, when forced to leap Into the icy waters, she supported a girl passenger on the surface for hours, swimming by her side and whispering words of encouragement into her ears. When the steamer George Elder reached the scene of the disaster and the survivors were taken aboard, Mies Watson was hailed as a heroine, and after the party landed ' in Portland, handsome gifts' were presented to the brave girl. She was also named for the honor of receiving the Carnegie medal for heroism. , - Miss Watson has many competitors, but her past record has been brought ep prominently to the front that It Is expected ' that she will receive many votes - tliat would not be ordinarily cast for ;her. . MACK AND BRYAN CONFER Democratic Xatlonal Campaign Will Be Outlined at Meeting. CHICAGO, Aug. 8. An important meeting having to do with the adoption of a general outline of campaign will be held on Tuesday between William J. Bryan and Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic National Committee in Lincoln. Mr. Mack will leave for Lin coln immediately after a meeting here on Monday of the various heads of the subcommittee of the National committee at which tentative plans for the cam paign will be formulated for presenta tion to Mr. Bryan. Urey Woodson, secretary of the Na tional committee, arrived here today from his home In Kentucky and Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, treasurer of the committee, was expected later. Mr. Mack said today that he would make further efforts to obtain a reconsideration of the order of the Western Passenger Asso ciation declining to give a reduced rate to the Bryan notification. Chairman Mack stated that headquarters will be closed tomorrow and the day would be spent In rest. Chairman Mack tonight addressed a further communication to Ebcn E. Mc Leon, chairman of the Western Pas senger Association, calling his atten tion to a report printed in several Western papers that special rates had been granted to a Grand Army meet ing to be held in the territory of the association. Up to a late hour he had received no reply to his letter. Governor Charles N. Haskell, treas urer of the National committee, arrived tonight from Oklahoma. 1 l i m: ..if-7i:-yvxfyw. ' t : I ,f ' V 3 I .v. .a aV x f 'SMS-'5 I V " C( . , s f I Public Test of Aero - plane Succeeds. SOARS UPWARD LIKE BIRD Describes Curves and An swers Aeronaut's Will. DOUBTERS ARE SILENCED American Aeronaut Makes Good and Is Confident of Perfecting In vention Travels Mile a Min ute for Nearly Two Miles. LEMANS. France, Aug. 8. Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, O.. made a flight computed at from W, to 3V4 kilometers (2.17 miles) with his aeroplane here this afternoon. The official time of the flight was 1:46. Throughout the flight Mr. Wright had perfect control of the ma chine. No attempt was made for a distance record, the only object of the flight beln to try out the aeroplane. While flying through the air Wright demonstrated, or so it appeared to the spectators, that he was absolute master of the airship, first soaring and then shooting down ward and then mounting again at will, until finally, after completing the two circles, he came down easily to earth. The performance was greeted with a burst of cheers from a small number of people invited to view the experiment. Wright was warmly congratulated by all the experts, who styled the flight a won derful exhibition of aviation. All Doubters Silenced. The successful flight made by Wilbur Wright with his aeroplane today puts an end to a long, anxious Walt in America and Europe to see what the Wright broth ers were capable of accomplishing. In Eumpe the ' mysterious Wrights" have been an absorbing problem for aviation enthusiasts and they have interested the representatives of the various govern ments. The long postponement of a public ex hibition of what the Americans had to show the world aroused the liveliest com ment and from some quarters of skeptic ism, a Paris newspaper only last night referring to the "Bluff Wright Brothers," of whom everybody has been talking for many years, but who, as yet, "have not made good." Weather conditions for the test were splendid. The sky was blue and without a cloud and a gentle northwest brecie was blowing. Soars Upward Like Bird. It was shortly before 3 o'clock this aft ernoon when the aeroplane, which Is the same as that used In the United States, was brought out of its shed and mounted on a small single-wheeled chariot, which in turn was resting on a single rail on the ground. After a preliminary test of the apparatus, Mr. Wright declared all was ready and took a position beside the motor. By means of a falling weight rigged on a beam erected in the ground and connected with cords running to It, the chariot was started running over the rail, and the aeroplane, thus having been given a forward motion, suddenly left the chariot and ascended like a bird to a height of about forty feet. Then it swerved and turned in its course and started up the field. It dipped gracefully up and down, attain ing a height of 60 feet, and then de scended to between 30 and-40 feet. Mr. Wrleht thus twice circled the field and then, stopping the motor, brought the aeroplane directly in front of the im provised grandstand, which was filled with wildly cheering spectators. Sure He Can Make Good. The descent was sure and easy, and was carried out with great nicety, with out causing shock to either the machine (Concluded on Page 7.)
