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Politics.
WILLS AND FACTORIES OPEN
Railroads Prepare for Big
Volume of Business.
MONEY EASY, SAY BANKERS
Makers of Automobiles Say Their
Output Is Bought Two Years
Ahead of Capacity of Factories.
Heavy Steel Orders.
CHICAGO Aug. 29.-Speclal.) Pros
perity, slowly perhaps, but none the less
surely. Is again spreading over the entire
country. Traces of the recent depression
re being obliterated and men In all lines
of business are working with their faces
toward the light.
Interviews with leaders In all lines of
business show- that trade Is booming.
Bteel mills, car shops and manufactories
of all kinds are reopening with full forces.
Interviews with heads of 20 great rail
way systems may be summarized in the
statement that all expect a tremendous
crop movement. This they say, will stimu
late all lines of business. With crop funds
circulating over the entire country, there
will follow a permanent heavy traffic
In merchandise, for stocks have been per
mitted, to run to the lowest notch and
must be built up rapidly.
Expect Deluge of Business.
The chief concern of railroad men now
is to get their equipment in order to
handle a big business, although all say
they have foreseen the turn In affairs
and are prepared to meet the deluge of
business.
One of the best indications of returning
prosperity Is the activity in steeL Mills
are booking large orders for structural
Iron. Bankers say there is plenty of
money at very easy rates. TexUle mills
In the East say their orders are Increas
ing. Manufacturers of automobiles' say
their output is bought two years ahead
of the capacity of their manufactories,
which is mother striking evidence that
money is plentiful.
The election bugaboo is held out still in
o . a deterrent to business
wakening, but W. D. Cantilllon. assistant
general manager of the Chicago & North
western Railway, expressed the sentiment
of many business men with the declara
tion: "It is a case of business forcing
Itself forward in spite of politics."
The lessons of the business, depression,
however, have been well learned. Cau
tion and conservatism have superseded
blind confidence in continuous prosperity.
In every branch of business the new sea
son Inaugurates not a boom, but a return
to normal, healthful conditions.
Picture of Future Bright.
The Commercial National Bank, in its
eighth annual report on crops and gen
eral business conditions, sees pronounced
recovery from the unsettled financial
condition which caused retrenchmen and
general uneasiness the latter part of last
year and the forepart of this year, and
pictures a future full of hope and en
couragement. The report is based upon
the views of 4000 bankers and business
men in all sections of the United States.
After reviewing the unfavorable condi
tions which marked the final months of
1907 and the start of the present year,
the statement dwells upon the Improv
ing credit and the activity in expansion
in almost all lines of trade and Industry.
Farmers Have Plenty of Money.
"With the harvesting and movement of
crops and the flow of money into the
. pockets of the farmers there must inevit
ably come general replenishment of
stocks of merchandise,'! says the report.
"The profits of the year are, or soon will
be. In hand and there will be a strong
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Socialists Promptly Publish Contri
butions to Fund Only Four
Rich Men Subscribe.
CHICAGO, Aug. 29. (Special.) Are cap
italists paying for the trip of the "Red
Special," which is to carry the Socialist
candidates on their speechmaking tour
of the Nation? This bomb was thrown
into the Washington-street National
headquarters of the Socialists by Samuel
Gompers, In an article In the American
Federationist, but it has failed to ex
plode, according to the followers of Debs.
Mr. Gompers charged that the trip of
the train was being made with the In
tention of taking votes from the Demo
crats, assuring Republicans of victory
by splitting the labor vote. As an an
ewer to Mr. Gompers, a list of subscrib
ers to the "Red Special" fund was print
ed and is being circulated.
The only "capitalists" whose names
appear are Joseph Medlll Patterson and
William English Walling, of this city,
and J. G. Phelps-Stokes and Robert
Hunter, of New York, all of whom are
open supporters of the Socialist ticket.
Each of the quartet, except Mr. Phelps-
Stokes, subscribed J100. He gave J300.
KILLED IN STAGE WRECK
Nevada Tragedy Prevents Reunion
of Father and Son.
ALTURAS. Cal., Aug. 29. (Special. )
The north-bound stage from the terminus
of the Nevada, California A Oregonover
turned eight miles below here today. One
passenger,, a man named Baxter, was
killed and a woman was badly Injured.
Seven other passengers and the driver
escaped without Injury.
Baxter was en route from Scotland to
join his father, James Baxter, a well
known stonecutter -of Alturas, and his
long Journey . lacked but eight miles of
completion. When the stage was over
turned a heavy iron casting, being car
ried as express matter, fell on his head,
crushing it and causing Instant death.
The names of the Injured woman and
the other passengers are not given in ad
vices sent here. The cause of the acci
dent Is not told.
FIGHT TO DEATH FOR GIRL
Pole Tries to Cremate Rival and
Is Killed.
CHICAGO, Aug. 29. Through the death
today of Nicolas Vldovlcm, the story of
a dramatic hand-to-hand struggle on the
top of a blast furnace of the Iroquois
Iron Company for the hand of a pretty
Polish girl was made known. Vldovlcm,
according to George Detllck, an eye-witness,
crept up behind his rival, Ivan
Meaiitch, and attempted - to throw him
into the fl?ry pit below.
Both men fell to the narrow platform,
but recovered their footing and continued
the struggle. The news was spread about
the place and work was dropped by all
hands to watch the thrilling struggle with
Its background of flames. Suddenly
Meaiitch broke away and felled his an
tagonist with a crowbar.
Meaiitch then gave himself up to a
policeman. He declared that his rival
had long been seeking a chance to throw
him into the furnace.
GAVE OUT NO INTERVIEW
Judge Baker Repudiates His De
fense of Judge Grosscup.
GOSHEN, Ind., Aug. 29. Judge Francis
H. Baker, of the United States Court of
Appeals, today authorized the Associated
Press to make a denial of an alleged in
terview with him on the subject of the
Standard Oil case, which was printed in
many newspapers August 26 and 27.
Judge Baker says he was not properly
quoted and he did not authorize any in
terview and added:
"I have never given out, nor shall I
ever give out, or knowingly permit to be
given out, any statement concerning a
case before me, except from the bench
and In a form befitting the occasion.
FIRST SNOW IN MONTANA
Early Opening of Winter Reported
From Anaconda.
BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 29. A dispatch
from Anaconda, Mont., says that the
first snow of the season fell there to
day,
Follow New York's Idol
in Great Parade.
DEWEY OVATION IS SURPASSED
Fifty Thousand March in
Streets of Metropolis.
MILLIONS CHEER HEROES
Splendid Welcome Given Athletes
: Who Won In Olympic Games.
Smithson Equals World's Rec
ord In Festival Sleet,
BT W. J. PETRAIN.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30. (Special.)
Fifty thousand men In the line of
march and 2,500,000 citizens and visi
tors standing on the curbs, sitting in
windows and on porches, or clinging
to the railings of the elevated stations.
were the features of New York's dem
onstration in honor of the B0 returning
Olympic game heroes today. For three
solid hours the parade In the streets
of the metropolis continued, taking
mare than an hour to pass the City
Hall Park reviewing stand. It was a
greater and more enthusiastic demon
stration than the home-coming of Ad
miral Dewey a,fter the Spanish War,
say people who saw both.
Hayes Is Popular Idol.
The parade was headed by a float
bearing the Marathan trophy, won by
John J. Hayes, of New York, the little
chap who Is the idol of the public here.
Following the float came the athletes
in automobiles, Hayes occupying the
first marrhiire and the three Oregon
champions, Kelly, Smithson and Gil
bert, the next. Ralph Rose, the larg
est member of the American team, rode
In the machine with Flanagan and
Garretts and carried the American flag
which he bore at the head of the Amer
ican athletes as they filed into the
stadium at London the first day of
the games.
On their arrival at the City Hall, the
athletes were conducted to the review
ing stand and presented with handsome
gold medal watch charms with fobs.
The trophies are handsome affairs and
each man Is proud of hta souvenir and
filled with gratitude for the splendid
treatment accorded them by the citi
zens of New York.
Loving Cup for Three.
Acting Mayor McGowan delivered a
speech, presenting the watch charm
Three of the athletes Hayes, the Mara
thon winner; and J. C. Carpenter, of
Cornell, and W. C Bobbins, of Yale, who
were first and second In the 400-meter
race, which was eventually awarded to
Lieutenant Halsewell, the English runner,
because of an alleged foul got the lov
ing cup. Then the Mayor extended the
freedom of the city to the athletes.
Following the parade and public recep
tion, a n umbo of 'the athletes went to
the Celtic Park track to attend the
firemen's memorial meet, held to ralBe a
fund to build a monument to the memory
of First Chief Kruger and men of the
department who lost their lives discharg
ing their duties.
Smithson's Great Race.
Forrest Smithson, the Oregon boy,
holder of the Olympic 110-meter hurdle
race, was entered In a 100-meter race
and won his heat In fine style, getting
home from scratch and equalling the
world's record.
J. A. Biller and Piatt Adams, of the
Olympic team, competed in the standing
high Jump.
Melvin W. Sheppard gave an exhibi
tion . 1000-yard run, in which Joe
Brownlow, Jr., and J. Van Thum were
Mongolians Despite Native Birth Is
. Attorney's A'erdict on Three
Little Yellow Maids.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 29. (Spe
cial.) City Attorney Long has fur
nished the Board of Education an opin
ion dealing with the question of the
admissibility of native-born Chinese
children to public schools other than
schools established for them. In brief,
he holds that the question of nativity
has no bearing on the case; that Chi
nese children are Mongolians, irrespec
tive of birthplace, and that if special
schools of equal standing are not pro
vided for them, they are entitled to at
tend any school. The opinion Is given
in response to a query from the Board
of Education with reference to the re
quest of the parents of three native
born Chinese maidens who wished their
daughters to attend schools other than
the Oriental school.
The political code provides that every
school shall be open for the adn-'sslon
of all children between 6 and 21 years
of age, residing in the district. This
section also authorizes boards of edu
cation to establish separate schools for
Indian, Chinese or Mongolian children,
and provides that when such schools
are established, such children must not
be admitted to any other school.
The object of the law is clearly to
segregate the. white children of the
public schools from those of Mongolian
or Indian descent, and Is not to deny
the latter of any of the equal rights
guaranteed by the constitution.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTER DAY'S Mexlmum temperature, 68.5
. degrees; minimum, 62.4 decrees.
Domestic.
Business condition in East indicate riturn
of prosperity. Section 1. page 1.
Atlantic City shooting uncleared' Williams
make mysterious move. Bectlon 1, page
1.
Telephone op-irator at Folsom gives up' life
in warning people of coming flood. Sec
tion 1 natrc a
Chicago father attempts to feurl daughter
from top of Auditorium hotel; wild, tsrug
gle ensues. Section 1, page 3.
roiittcaL
Taft delivers stirring of- ringing speeches In
Ohio; gives He to enemies. Section 1.
page 1. .
Idaho Republicans prepore to convene Sep
tember 1; Brady has no opposition for
Oubernatorial nomination fraction... .tf
page V.
Sports.
Oregon football season, soon opens. Section
4, page 7. -
Autos great aid to physicians in their work.
Section 4, pago 7.
Squires put up great fight against Burns.
Section 4, page 7.
Many Portland entries in Seattle horse show.
Section 4. page 6.
Portland defeats Oakland. Section 4, page
8.
Oregon boys share honors with Hayes, New
York athletic idol, in reception to re
turning Olympic game victors. Section 1.
page 1.
Chicago Nationals defeat New York 8 to 2;
big crowd seas game. Section 2, page 2.
Keene's filly Maskette wins classic futurity;
sum crowd attends, section 2, page 1.
Los Angeles . defeats San Francisco la 15
Innings. 5-3. bectlon 2. page 2.
Pacific Coast.
Decision by District Judge Quarles, of Madi
son, v is.. Indicates beginning of end in
Idaho land-fraud cases. (Section 4.
page 10.
Fire at starbuck wipes out business section.
causing loss or Strfl.ouo, Section 1.
page 7.
Commercial and Marine.
Great reduction in English hop acreage.
Section 4, page tf.
Wheat lower at Chicago on heavy selling.
bectlon ' 4. page tt.
Stock traders arrayed on bull side. . Section
4, page 8.
Money continues to pile up in New Tork
banks. Section 4, page O.
, I.Vi .t..m.hln Minlal, X7. -
" castle tor Portland. Section 4, page S.
Portland and Vicinity.
German laborer probably fatally shot in Sec
ond-street saloon. Section 1. page
Coroner believes negligence contributed to
death of Charles Scholl. Section 3,
page 7.
Lawyers plan to entertain American Bar
Association, section 2. page 12.
Seattle embezzler arrested admits his guilt-
section 2, page 12..
Suffragettes to ask ballot for women tax
payers. Section 1, page -10.
Municipal Association supports crusade of
Mayor Lane. Section 4. page 10.
Oregon Methodists to meet September 25.
Section 3, page 12.
Southern Pacific Company to run farming
demonstration train through Willamette
VaHey. Section 8, page 12.
Liquor dealers are reducing duration of
leases. Section S, page 8.
Sullivan's Gulch bridge is nearing comple
tion, section s, page .
Commercial travelers hold picnic at Glad
stone park, bectlon l. page iu.
Democrats plan series of Bryan rallies. Sec
tion 4. page a.
Boards Train Late in
Afternoon.
QUESTIONED BY DETECTIVES
Shooting of Roberts at Atlan
tic City Still Uncleared.
PROBING FOR EVIDENCE
Remarks Made by Roberts and Mrs.
Williams in Rolling Chair and
Overheard by Attendant
Said to Be Significant.
BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 29. Will
iams is reported on -reliable authority to
have left here by the Pennsylvania Rail
road at 3:30 ' o'clock this afternoon,
whether for Atlantic City or elsewhere
has not been ascertained.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 29. Up
to this afternoon the police have made
little progress toward solving the mystery
surrounding; the shooting of Charles B.
Roberts, the wealthy Baltimorean, on the
board walk Wednesday night while . he
was riding In a closed rolling chair with
Mrs. W. S. G. Williams, also of Balti
more. Detectives Sifting Clews.
No warrants have been issued for any
person and no such action will be taken
until the police are satisfied that they
know who did the. shooting.
In running- down the clews the author
ities are trying to find out where all per
sons mentioned in the case were on the
night of the shooting. Among these is
the husband of Mrs. Williams. He Bays,
and he Is corroborated by his friends,
that he was in Baltimore , Wednesday
night. Chief Woodruff soys that be
wants it distinctly understood that he
does not deny these statements, but that
It is his duty to learn to his own satis
faction that they are true.
Roberts Resting Easy.
Reports from the bedside of Mr. Rob
erts are to the effect that he Is resting
easy. ' Mrs. Roberts may be allowed- to
see him later in the day. Police officials
have so far not been allowed to Inter
view the wounded man. The bullet is
still In his liver and .there are still fears
that complications may set in.
Mrs. Roberts wife of the wounded man,
today denied absolutely that there were
any relations between her husband and
Mrs. Williams which would lead her to
believe anything other than the robbery
motive as the cause of the shooting.
Spoke In Endearing Terms.
Two disclosures Just made " by the
negro who -was pushing the chair in
which Roberts and Mrs. Williams were
riding are considered important by the
police. When questioned in regard to
the conversation which passed between
Roberts and Mrs. Williams during the
chair ride, Jesse Jackson, the negro,
said:
"I did not hear anything except one
remark of the gentleman. I heard him
say Just before the man with a mask
came up to us, 'You have broken my
heart.' I did not hear what the lady
answered."
In addition to the fact first related by
him. In regard to the shooting, Jackson
now says that, the masked stranger ap
plied an epithet to Roberts as he ordered
him to get out of the chair. The negro
also Insists that he heard no demand for
money following the first order, "Hold
up your hands."
Malcolm Woodruff, chief of police, said
today:
Her Feelings Toward Husband.
"Many things that Mrs. Williams has
told us of her husband are Important as
showing their feelings toward each
other. She said that her eighteen years
of married life have been misery to her.
Three times, she declared, she has had
I Concluded on Pajre s.
"Xone Too Particular How They Get
Clothes, or Who Pays,"
She Adds.
BELLOWS FALLS Vt., Aug. 29. Spe
cial.) "The . women of America have
helped to make hard times. All they iyg
for, all they care for, is clothes the lat
est shape in skirts. And they are none
too particular how they get what they
want, or who pays for it." -
This is the declaration of Hetty Green,
the richest woman in the world, who to
day began her annual vacation of a
monjh. When dinner was announced on
the train, she produced an apple and three
crackers from her reticule and cheated
the dining-car.
"I do not say the American women are
immoral," she continued, "but they do
not care what fearful prices their hus
bands, fathers and brothers may be com
pelled to pay for their finery. Times are
bad in New York, and New York de
serves hard times. All are spendthrifts
and money wasters down there.
"This will be a hard Winter and we will
not see good times before Spring. The
election will not help. The panic must
run its course. Money men are doing
nothing to stop it. Standard Oil could
stop the hard times with one stroke of
the pen, but Rockefeller will not do it.
It will cost the Government $28,000,000 to
collect that $29,000,000 from him."
WIFE WOULDN'T LIVE LIE
Loveless Marriage Revealed Too
Late Wrecks Pastor's Career.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 29. (Spe
cial.) Dr. Luclen L. Knight, philosopher,
lecturer, former pastor of the Central
Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C,
and former associate editor of the Atlanta
Constitution, was granted a divorce to
day from Mrs. Edith N. Knight. He
broke down on the stand while telling the
bitter story of his domestic woes. He
testified that some years after their mar
riage his wife told him frankly that she
could no longer continue to live a He;
that she had never loved him, having
married him out of deference to the
wishes of her parents, who were dead
when she revealed the tragedy. Dr.
Knight loved her deeply, he swore, and
the shock was terrible, wrecking his
health and cutting short his ministerial
career." He'Tbok trips abroad in the hope
W bettering his mental and physical con
dition, was 111 for months In a Baltimore
hospital and then came to California not
long ago.
He despaired at last of winning his
wife's love and sought a legal separation.
CHURCH OPEN TO LOVERS
May TTse Parlors for Courting, Says
St. Louis Pastor.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 29. Announcement
was made today by Rev. W. F. An
drews, pastor of the Centenary M. E.
Church South, that on Friday evening
the church parlors will open for the
Fall season for the reception of young
men and their sweethearts. There will
be music, recitations and refreshments,
and chaperons will be provided for
Friday girl gatherings.
"A great many young women have
no place to entertain their beaux at
home or In boarding-houses," said Dr.
Andrews, "and they have to stroll
around the city to enjoy each other's
company. Our church parlors will be
open to Just such young people. Our
chaperons will be those whom moth
ers can have confidence In, and girls
who come without escorts will be well
looked after.
"The expenses connected with the
social evenings will be met from the
church general fund."
CARGO WORTH $2,000,000
Asia Brings Great Shipment of Raw
Silk From Orient.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29. The
richest cargo of raw silk Imported from
the Orient in several years reached this
port today on the steamer Asia. It
consisted of 2660 bales, valued at
$2,000,000, and will be sent to New
York on a special train, which was In
waiting at the dock when the Asia arrived.
Proves Reaf Live Wire
An Contest.
MAKES SPEECHES IN OHIO
Denounces as Lie Report He Is
' Enemy of Laboring Men.
COMPARES TWO PARTIES;
Democratic Doctrines Have Proved
False, While Republican Poli
cies Have Advanced Nation to
Era of Great .Progress.
COLUMBUS. O.. Aug. 29. W. H. '.
Taft today went through the State of!
Ohio, leaving behind him a trail of :
speeches that doubtless will' surprise i
his campaign managers, who expected :
his trip from Virginia Hot Springs to ;
the Middle Bass Fishing Club would!
be devoid of politics, but at Athens,
after delivering the speech he hnd pre-
pared for the veterans and which had :
ho politics in it, Mr. Taft was whisked :
away to the Taft Club, where follow
ing an Introduction by Arthur I. Vorys, '
he spoke for 40 minutes.
Uses Short and t'gly Term.
"There Is one brief way to deal with .
the story which has circulated that I;
have said that a dollar a day was;
enough for any laboring man," de-,
clnred Judge Taft, "it's a lie."
The speaker came down on both
heels emphatically.
Judge Taft then defended his Judi
cial decisions in labor cases, with the
statement that when acting as a Judge
he endeavored to render Judgment in
accordance with the law and the facts, ;
"and I have no apologies to make."
In this connection Mr. Taftr said he ,
would be willing to receive Judgment
of any man who would read the rec-
ords In theso cases and the recent de-.
cislor. he rendered.
Taft Friend of Labor.
He expressed his approval of labor or
ganizations and dissected the labor plank
of the Democrats with the conclusion
that If enforced, it would be a weak end
ing of the powers of the courts and re-J
suit In loss In the rights of labor.
Political demands on Mr. Taft began
before 6 A. M. at Charles, W Va., and
continued In all the towns and cities he j
passed through. Including Toledo, which
was reached shortly before 11 o'clock to-;
night.
Taft Smile In Evidence.
He spoke briefly at Columbus to the
gathering crowd headed by the Buckeye
Club and the ColumbtiS Glee Club, and
responded with the "Taft smile" to the '
enthusiasm of Toledo.
Mr. Taft admitted that the day had
demonstrated that the campaign was on
and added that he was not sorry.
Mr. Vorys, who Joined Mr. Taft this
morning, regards the utterances of the ,
candidate as pitching the tone of the .
campaign and demonstrating the candl-'
dote to be a real "11'e wire" in the con-;
test. '
Republican Party's Record.
In his address to the Taft Club at '
Athens, which is regarded as' the Im
portant political utterance of the day, j
Mr. Taft enumerated the problems of
the government, beginning with the j
Spanish War, the Philippine question, !
the Panama Canal, Cuba, the irrigation I
of arid lands, the reclamation lands,
and "Yet," he said, "I ask you whether !
there is a single stain upon the es- '
cutcheon of the Republican party un-
der Theodore Roosevelt in meeting all
these new problems. Not only that, !
but In respect to our foreign affairs, i
never In the history of the nation has j
the standard of the United States occu- i
pled a higher place before the nations !
of the world than It is today.
"My friends, you can recollect that
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