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COMPLAIN AGAINST
EXPRESS SERVICE
MAKE HEROINE
BERKELEY QUEEN
MAYBELiLE YVATSOX MAY BE
CHOSEX FOR XEW IIOXORS.
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HUNDRED BURIED
BENEATH RUINS
SEEKS TO ESCAPE
WIFE'S DEMANDS
FLIES IN FRANCE
UP TO ROOSEVELT
IS RENOMINATED
CALIFORXIA SHIPPERS SUE
WELLS FARGO COMPANY.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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