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Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXVII NO. 30. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TELLS BAD LOAN MAKES E DUKEAND DUCHESS FOREST FIRES EAT SICKLES AND WIFE . MEET IN OLD AGE ATHLETES HIM MILLIONAIRE DEVOTED COUPLE OF CAN LOOSEN GRIP BIG OVATION CHICAGO MAX'S MORTGAGE Z1MMERMAX DEXIES MAXCHES TERS ARE ESTRANGED. BROUGHT TOGETHER AFTER 2 J TEARS SEPARATION. COVERS QUICKSILVER MIXE. 62 Pages OREGON HARRIMAN ONLY LANOSLID MIES0TH01 HAVE OREGON PLAN Will Build Road Into Tillamook at Once. ALSO LINE TO STATE'S CENTER Coos Bay Project Rests Till As sured Paying Investment. SOUND ROAD TO GO AHEAD Kew Docks and Bridges in Portland, Fourth-Street Lin to Bo Re moved, Better Steamship Serrlce Promised. WAR WITH RILL OVER, HARRI MAN" SAYS. Friendly rivalry for traffic. Instead of wr to tha knife aa heretofore will govern the relation between tha H1U and Harriman systems hereafter, ac cording to a atatement mad br E. H. Harriman at a reception given him at the Commercial Club last night. Tha former misunderstandings, ha says, are over and a friendly baala of operatlona baa been reached. All Oregon lines projected br tha Harriman system will be built, aald he, Just as soon as practicable. After a year of financial unrest. Mr. Har riman says tha Interests ha repreaenta have escaped with hardly a scratch and are In good abape to proceed with construction. Mr. Harriman left tha city last Bight by special train for San Fran Cisco. Ha will atop at Medford and Ashland and will Join his family at 'Weed. Cal. BT E. W. WRIGHT. E. H. Harriman, railroad king-, master- of finance and a man who Is famous throughout the entire-world, -wherever the telegraph ticks and newspapers are printed, arrived In Portland about 4:30 yesterday afternoon. Th special train which brought the big; railroad man to Portland was made up of the private car Arden. occupied by Mr. Harriman and John Muir, the eminent scientist, and Mr. Harrlman's secretaries. Hill and Price. Preceding; It was the car Berkeley! occupied by General Manager E. E. Calvin, of the Southern Pacific, and his secretary, Horace Jenkins. The car Oregon, with General Manager O'Brien, Chief Counsel W. W. Cotton and Secretary Walter Guild, was third In the train and a diner and baggage-car completed the equipment. Wizard Picture of Health. Wall street, at vailous times in the past, has used reports of Mr. Harrl man's alleged Ill-health to excellent advantage In raiding the market. If this Is a rule that works both ways, his early reappearance among the can yons of lower Broadway ought to be the signal for the most rampant bull market that ever delighted the spec ulators on the "long side." For Mr. Harriman is the picture of health. Bronzed by the suns of Klamath, and flushed with the health that comes from the care-free outdoor life he has been leading, he would answer for the "after taking" picture of any kind of a health testimonial. The railroad king emerges from his protracted commun ion with nature In rare good humor and there Is a cordial handshake and pleasing smile for all with whom h came In contact daring his ride through the Willamette Valley yesterday. Talks Straight to Point. Six weeks of the simple life so far removed from the financial battle ground of the Nation haa not changed Mr. Harrlman's predominating charac teristic, which Is to talk straight to (Concluded en Page 4.) poor Cnafln ! Walt Till He Know as Uracil About Entbnel mmmn mm I Dc Texas Desert Land, Forced TTpon Him In Foreclosure, Turns Out Bonanza. CHICAGO, Sept. 6. (Special.) H. E. Perry, of 119 Prairie avenue, Chicago, Is the luckiest man In the United States for he saw a bad debt grow Into $1,000,- 000. Several years ago Me. Perry was forced to take two sections of lafnd near Terlingua, Texas, on a mortgage. Situated 100 miles from the nearest railroad, in a region mountainous and barren of vegetation. It was hardly fit for goat grazing. One day, some time after the first discovery of qulcksilver ln the Terlingua district, a Mexican goatherder accidentally came across an outcropping of the cinnabar ore on one of Mr. Perry's sections of land. The ore, when tested, puroved to be rich In quicksilver, running as high as 40 per cent. One day Mr. Perry was agreeably surprised to receive a letter at his office in Chicago offering him $50,000 rash for his 1280 acres. He had con sldered the land worth not to. exceed $1000 and the letter was a mystery to him. The writer did not say what had caused the enormous increase in value, so Perry Investigated and learned that he had one of the most valuable quicksilver mines In the world. He Is working it now and it is valued at Up ward of $1,000,000. During the time that it has been operated quicksilver to the value of about $5000 a month has been ex tracted wliu a ten-ton furnace. NOT AS BAD AS REPORTED Damage to Kentish Hop Crop by Rain Exaggerated. LONDON. Sept. 6. It now appears that the report from Maidstone, that the Kentish hop crop had been greatly damaged by . the rain, has been much exaggerated. An expert says that the sound hops are not Injured by rain and it has been learned that while poles and wires have been blown down, this will not affect the yield. The recent report from Maidstone also stated that thousands of hop pickers, who went there from London, are suffering acutely, but this Is not so. The pickers have suffered soma Inconvenience and discomfort through the excessively wet weather, but many of them sleep In comfortable homes and the others are well housed In rain proof huts. There havo been a few cases of Ill ness due to exposure, but the distress Is not nearly so great as first stated. PREACHER J-IGHTS CASE Methodist Dismissed for Gross Im morality Will Take Appeal, JAMESTOWN. N. Y., Sept. 5. Rev. R. . Cooper, of HlllsvlUe, Pa-, who was re moved yesterday from membership and ministry in the Methodist Episcopal Church at the ecclesiastical conference in this city, will take the case to a higher and to the Civil Courts of Ohio, where the charges originated. Mr. Cooper was expelled on account of gross Immorality, as charged before the , conference and sustained by the investi gating committee. When sentence of ex pulsion from the church was pronounced by the bishop, said Mr. Cooper today, notice was at once given that the case would be appealed to the Judicial confer ence of the church, and It will also be taken Into the Civil Courts at Youngs town, Ohio. CUMMINS OFFERS TERMS Resign it Defeated In November and Work for Nominee. DES MOINBS, la., Sept. 5. Governor Cummins today issued a statement to the standpatters' opposition, In which he de clared that. If he Is elected for the short term In the United States Senate and la not the choice of the Republicans at the November primaries, he will resign and take tha stump for tha successful candidate. "Da I Hear Aaytklng Doing f f ' " u- '--rfjf i Republicans Not Likely to Lose House. BRYAN VICTORY MEANS CHANGE Congressional Elections De pend on Presidential Fight. DEMOCRATIC HOPE SMALL Must Win In 20 Districts In Order to Wipe Out Present Majority. Fifty Districts Are De batable Ground. BY HARRY J. BROWN. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 6. The party which carries the National election In. November will control the next House of Representa tives. Not only is this In accordance with the general role, but the prediction Is further Justified by an analysis of the situation In the present House. So overwhelmlncly have the KepuDii- cans carried the last three Presidential elections that It will, require a political upheaval a landslide, in other words to carry Mr. Bryan into the White House. A Democratic landslide this Fall would not only affect the Presidential ticket. but would carry with It a vast number of close Congressional districts, and some that are normally Republican by safe majorities. Bryan Xeeds2 9 Members. In 1904. the vear of the Roosevelt land- elide, the Republicans rolled up an un- nrecedented majority in the House, car rying all close districts and some that were never before represented by Repub licans. Two years later, when Roosevelt was not a factor, this majority was cut into. and the Republican majority' was reduced to 67. If Bryan is sufficiently mnc to defeat Taft he will be strong enough to wipe out this majority, for a hange of 29 districts will give the Dem ocrats control. Where Republicans Are Weak. Ther are 24 districts carried by the Republicans two years ago by very .small majorities, ranging from 38 to 1382. With tlie.se 24 districts as a starter, Bryan, leading- a Democratic stampede, ought to make sufficient inroads In stronger Republican districts to alter the political complexion of the House, especially in states where there Is factional trouble among; the Republicans, as in New York, West Virginia and Kansas. For Durposes . of speculation, a Congressional district carried by less than 1500 votes may be considered as loubtful. There are 50 Congressional districts, according to this rating. Men are In danger. 24 of them now represented by Republicans and 26 by Democrats. List of Pivotal Districts. The close Republican districts are: State. District. Majority. Illinois, Eighth 85 Indiana, First 1319 Indiana. Second 340 Indiana. Fifth 953 Indiana. Twelfth 350 Indiana. Thirteenth 207 Iowa. First 270 Kentuckv, Third 699 Kentucky, Ninth 1116 Kentucky. Tenth 911 Maine, Second 1051 Michigan, Fifth . 1382 Missouri. Eleventh 38 Missouri, Twelfth 830 Nebraska. Third 291 New Jersey. Fifth 652 New Jersey, Seventh 610 New York. Twenty-first 972 New York. Twenty-fourth 1259 Ohio, Eleventh 1333 Ohio, Thirteenth 273 Ohio. Fifteenth 1419 Pennsylvania, Twentieth ...... 449 Pennsylvania. Twenty-fourth 1327 Many of the districts here enumer ated are decidedly doubtful, and will remain so to the end of the campaign; Concluded on Pace a.) HARRY MURPHY 'NOW What Difference Short Time Makes t Says Daughter and Her Husband Supremely" Happy and Live In Perfect Harmony. TOLEDO, O., Sept. 5. (Special.) "There Is absolutely no truth in the story pub lished in some American newspapers that the Duke and Duchess of Manchester are estranged and that a separation may re sult." This is the way Eugene Zimmerman, the Cincinnati millionaire, father of the Duchess, disposes of the rumors that have been cabled to America from Dublin. "It Is all rot." he affirmed. "The Duchess Is supremely happy in her Gal way home and the Duke Is devoted to her. When Mrs. Calvin S. Smith, of Chi cago, and other American society women whom the Duchess has invited to her house party, arrive they will be enter tained royally. The Duke and Duchess have four handsome children and they live together in perfect harmony, notwith standing reports to the contrary." INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TCSTERnATS Maximum temperature. 84 rlMzreea- minimum. SO degrees. TODAY'S Probably light showers; south to west winds. Foreign. Wilbur Wright makes two flights In aero plane, but has accident in second mgni. Sectlon 1, page z. Tolstoi opposes public birthday cele bration and discusses last book. Sec tion 1, page 6. Politics. - Control of Congress will go with Presidency at election. Section 1, page l. Hughes. Beveridge and Harris speak at great rally at xoungsiown. ocuuuw a, page 5. Bourne declares Taft great man and pre dicts his election. Section 1. page 3. Hitchcock says Ta.ft will go on stump. Sec tion 1, page 8. Republican campaign text-book Is Issued Section 1, page 6. s - West Virginia Republican factions unite on Goff for Governor, but ne declines, bw tlon 2. page 12. Bryan starts today on speaking tour. Section 1, page 2. roniestlc. Rawhide begins rebuilding and has ample food. Section 1. page 6. Addition of three to bankers' colony In San Francisco Jail. Section 1, page 6. Chicago man makes million -out of land taken for bad debt.' Section 1. page 1. Zimmerman denies Duke and Duchess of Manchester are estranged. Section 1. page 1. - Forest fires destroy several Minnesota and Wisconsin towns, rendering thousands homeless Section 1, page 1.' Genera,l D.anlel, E.' Sickles and hla wife re united 'after .long separation. Section 1. page 1. - ... - Sparta. Pacific Coast League, scores: Portland 1. Los Angeles 0; San Francisco 2, Oakland 1. Section 1, page 9. Fine stock to be put on sals at Country Club Section 4. page 8. . Gens' money waits for heavier odds. Sec tion 4. page . Football aeason begins In East and Middle West. Section 4, page 6. Baseball scoring no. trivial task. Section 4, page 6- American League managers active against spit ball. Section 4. saga 7. Oregon athletes given great ovation In Chi cago Section 1. page 1. Farifle Coast. Property of four railroads m Washington Is assessed at 1 119.525.433. Section 1, page 6. Mystic Shrlners hold business and . eere- monlal sessions at Eugene. Section 1, page 7. Harriman. speaking at Salem declares he tries to meet demands of people for tall- roads. Section 1. page 4. Harriman tells Marshfield people Drain-Coos Bay road will be built 4f traffic Insures 4 per cent Interest on cost. Section 1. page 4. - , . Portland horses win ribbons at Seattle show. Section 1, page 8. Belllngham boy turns burglar In order to buy luxuries for his sweetheart. Sec-1 tlon 1. page 8. Commercial and Marine. Hop market strengthened by English crop damage reports. Section 4. page 9. Wheat declines steadily at Chicago. . Section 4. page 9. Surplus reserve of New York banks reduced. Section 4, page 9. Captain J. F. Blaln to superintend construc tion of Government boats. Section 4, page 9. Real Estate and Building. East Side maps out street plana Section 8, page 10. Dwellings In large numbera to be built on new townslte of Kenwood. Section 8. page 8. Charles K. Henry tells how they do things In Seattle. Section 3. page 8. Portland and Vicinity. Harriman telle about projects In Paclflo Northwest. - Section 1, page 1. Unions plan great celebration of Labor day tomorrow. Section 4. page 10. Bishop Scaddlng tella about Lambatte con ference. Section 4. page 6. - Master Fish Warden McAllister notifies fish ermen they must obey law. 6ectlon 8. page 12. Merry war among Oregon Splrltuallsta Sec tion 1, page 13. SKETCHES SEVERAL An Oldest Inhabitant "What Da '. Von S'pose Ttala Nice Part of Summer's Named After That Cass ForT" Chisholm's 4000 Peo ple Flee for Lives. OTHER TOWNS ARE DOOMED Flames Close In Chisholm, Driven by High Wind. NO HOPE FOR WRENSHALL Sudden Sweep of Conflagration Leaves No Time to Save Any thing but Lives One Woman May Have Perished. DULUTH, Minn.. Sept. S. Thousands of acres of agricultural lands and mil lions of feet of standing timber were laid waste, one town was wiped out, three more towns may have been de stroyed, several mining locations were burned and at least 10,000 persons are homeless tonight as the result of for est fires which swept through many districts In Northern Wisconsin and Northern Minnesota this afternoon and tonight. Town Destroyed, Others In Peril. Chisholm, Minn., 90 miles north of Duluth. wa3 practically destroyed. The only building standing is the new $12o,0J0 High School..' The loss there alone is estimated at $2,000,000. Nashwauk. Minn., 50 miles north west of Duluth, Is surrounded by flames and the outskirts of the town are burning. Buhl, Minn., 12 miles east of Chis holm, Is cut off by the fires that are bearing down on the town. Vren8hall, 20 miles northwest of Duluth, faces a wall of flames that Is sweeping toward the village. It ap pears to be doomed. Several small settlements In Douglas County, Wis., have been burned and forest fires are sweeping the northern part of the county. A fire at Bayfield, Wis., damaged buildings to the extent of $75,000. One Woman Perishes. ' ' One fatality is believed to have oc curred. May Fisher, a woman at cnis- holm, would not leave the city and she Is believed to have perished. Chisholm is a mining town in the cen tral portion of the .Mesaba Iron Range, the greatest iron-producing area in the world. Until recently it derived con siderable support from the lumbering in dustry also. Chisholm was started ten years ago by a townslte company headed by A. M. Chisholm, a wealthy mining man, of Duluth, and has been one of the most flourishing and prosperous towns on the range. Refugees poured into Hlbbing to night until the population of the place was almost doubled. To relieve the congestion, the Duluth, Mesaba & Northern Railway started a special train from Hfbbing to Duluth, crowded with homeless people, who will be taken care of here. No organizations have' been started here to succor the refugees, but the Mayor Is expected to take the situa tion In hand. FIRE DESCENDS OX CHISHOLM Destroys Town of 4000 and Threat ens Other Places. DULUTH, Minn., Sept. 5. Forest fires which havo been burning for three days closed In on several towns and small settlements near Duluth this afternoon, wiping them out, rendering several hundred persons homeless, de stroying property valued at several million dollars and sweeping over lands ( Concluded on Page A.) PASSING EVENTS Bill "Hadn't We Better Hand This Dova Round, Joef Affecting Reunion Brought About by Son Recognition Is Slow, but Ends in Laugh. NEW YORK, Sept. 5. According to an interesting story that the World will print tomorrow. General Daniel E. Sickles, veteran of the Civil War, ex-Congressman and lawyer, and his wife are reunited after a separation of 27 years. During the long separa tion Mrs. Sickles has lived In Madrid, Spain. Mrs. Sickles, accompanied by her only son, Stanton Sickles, arrived here August 27 and the next day the son brought the General and his wife to gether. It is said that General Sickles expressed a wish months ago to see his wife again. The meeting took place in the rooms of the Gen.eral on the ground floor of the Fifth Avenue apartment house, which he owns. General Sickles, wasted with Illness, sat at his desk. He glanced up and bowed politely as his son entered the room with a lady on his arm. "Father, do you know this lady?" asked the son. ' The old General fixed his eyes upon the woman's face, thought for a mo ment and answered, "She looks strange ly familiar." "This lady is your wife and my mother. General," were the next words of the son Impressively spoken. Quickly extending a trembling hand In welcome, the old General said: "I am glad to see you, but, my, how fat you have grown." Husband and wife ' laughed and clasped hands. BETHUNE IN LOS ANGELES Took Ticket From Chicago Col lapses From Overwork. LOS ANGELES. Sept." 5. (Special.) Faneuil Dunkln S. Bethune, the promi nent New York- clubman and corporation lawyer, who disappeared from his home there August 23 while temporarily Insane, Is believed to be In Los Angeles. He has been traced by the Plnkertons of Chica go, where he purchased a ticket and boarded a train for this city. As nearly as can be determined he was due yester day and the police expect to find him at any hour. Whoever discovers him. dead or alive, will receive a reward of tlOOO, offered by the grieving Wife. - For weeks before his disappearance Mr. Bethune was engaged .on an . Intri cate law case and devoted his time to It day and, night, .until friends begged him to take a rest. But he turned a deaf ear to all pleadings and warnings, and broke down to a tlegree,- so that he Is supposed to have lost his sense of Identity. On the day of hie disappearance he left his home for . his office-and never arrived. He had plenty -of money with him and was seen in various cities after ward, always . wandering aimlessly. Charles V. Hatter, the local Plnkerton superintendent, says Mr. Bethune may have gone through to San Francisco. HAUGHTY JAPANESE JUDGE Partial Administration of Justice Caused Shanghai Riot. VICTORIA, B. C, Sept. 6. The trouble at Shanghai, according to ar rivals by the Glenfarg, has been brew ing for some time owing to the atti tude taken by the Japanese officers in the model settlement Prisoners ar rested by the police are turned over to the Judges of their consular courts and the peculiar dispensation of Justice in the Japanese - settlement has caused scandal. On August 10 nine Japanese blue Jackets from the cruiser Niitaka were brought before T. Takashima, the Japanese magistrate of the consular court, and when Inspector Bourke pro duced his evidence the Japanese mag istrate stated that he considered the evidence false and refused to hear some witnesses. He cross-examined the police as though they were the accused and treated the arrested blue Jackets as aggrieved persons. The evidence was too clear for dismissal and the sailors were fined a paltry , sum. Rnef and John D. "Cheer Up, Old Man, While There's Supreme Court There's Hope." Own Chicago and Lead Monster Parade. ACCLAIMED ALL ALONG" LINE Illinois Athletic Club Prove;, Generous Host. WANTS TO KEEP THEM Demonstration Equals That Given Whole Team In New York Im - mense Turn-out of Automo biles, in Their Honor. BY W. J. PETRAIX. CHICAGO. Sept. 6. (Special.) Oregon's famous trio of Olympic prize-winners own the City of Chicago. Kelly, Smith son and Gilbert arrived here last night and were Immediately taken In charge by the Illinois Athletic Club and are quartered at the handsome clubhouse of that organization. The Illinois club has assumed charge of the Oregon party and today a monster automobile parade with the Oregon boys at the head took place through tlie princlial streets of Chicago.: All along the line of march shouts of "Hurrah for Oregon," "Good boys, Port land," "Oh, you, Smithson," "Bully boy, Kelly." "Rah! rah! rah! for Gilbert." the last coming from a coterie of young men waving Its "blue," greeted the lads whose work at London has made Oregon fa mous. Headed by a platoon of mounted police and the Chicago newsboys' band, the auto parade ' around Ch!cago-s famous loop was witnessed by almost as large a crowd as greeted the entire team at New York a week ago. In addition to the1 Oregon athletes, who were the center of' attraction, three other Olympic athletes' .participated in the parade. They "were John K. Garrells, H. P. Remey and Frank C. Irons.;- Immediately after the parade the ath letes and the Chicago reception -committee were taken to Rlvervlew Park, where they were extenslvly entertalnd by Man ager William M.' Johnson, who Is an en thusiastic member of the Illinois Athletio Club. Tomorrow night the Oregon boys leave for St. Louis and when the time for departure arrives it will be with the utmost regret that the Oregon champions will pase from their hospitable hosts, the Illinois Athletic Club. Charles M. Seeler, chairman of the In door committee of the Illinois Athletio Club, has extended an invitation to the Oregon party to remain In Chicago two weeks, but, owing to the anxiety of the' Portland boys to get home, the invita tion was declined with hearty thanks. Itinerary of Athletes. William . McMurray, general passenger agent for .the Harriman lines, last night received the following telegram from W. G. Nelmyer. of .Chicago, ;regardlng the movements of Oregon's returning hero-athletes, who are due In Portland Monday morning, September 14: "Oregon athletes leave Chicago Sunday, night Monday at St. Louis, leave Mon-, day night, arrive Kansas City Tuesday morning, thence to Denver; be there Thursday morning. Will make 'stop Salt' Lake City or Baker City, so as to reach: Portland Monday morning." ' SAN JUAN HAS EARTHQUAKE Shock Causes Wild Rush to Streets, but No Damage.' " " ' SAN JUAN, R., Sept. 5. An earth quake shock was felt here at 10 minutes past 12 o'clock this afternoon. ' The peo ple of the city were very much alarmed and many of them rushed from their houses Into the streets. There was no repetition of the quake and calm was soon restored. Mr. Harrlman's Popular Role Is Greatly Admired.