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vvviii vn 11 v' '"- ' ' - , LIIU OF, IS ISSUE If MANY COUNTIES Desperate Battle Near End in Illinois. DRYS MAY WIN FOUR COUNTIES Hope to Gain Five Wet Cities in'Dry Territory. BITTER CONTEST WAGED Liquor Interests Fight Hard to Re gain Iost Ground Drys Have Advantage in Most Places. May' Ix so One Town. CHICAGO. Oct. iO. (Special.) Mu nicipal and state elections of more than local interest will be held Tuesday in many parts of the United States. Illinois' contribution to the Nation wide political excitement which reaches its climax on that day. will come from bitter and slashing contests over the saloon in 33 cities and villages. Twenty-three of these places are now ' dry and the liquor interests are fight ing desperately to regain lost ground. Four new counties may be added to the 36 already entirely dry, if the tem perance forces carry the day by storm. " Where Liquor Is Issue. The cities and villages of Illinois which are to vote on the saloon ques tion are the following: Clty0croy8e"nd Chandlerville. Cass. vry Petersburg. Menard ".; Athens. Menard f;rv Tallula, Monard Oakford. Menard ".y Jacksonville, Morgan Meredosia, Morgan " Winchester, Scott -i' Naples. Scott " " Exeter. Srott.... "Jy Kempsville. Calhoun Hamburg. Calhoun. i -J Hardin. Calhoun Beechtown. Calhoun.... t Coultervllle. Randolph ry Paid win. Randolph.... Ellis Grove. Randolph vr Rockwtfod. Randolph Dnquoin. Perry. f ' ' Plnckneyvill?. Perry W.illlsville. Perry " Anna. Union.. Jone.-borp. I nion r.olconda. Pope " Brook port. Massac Metropolis. Mtssac Joppa. Massac Pulaski. Pulaski 1 Mounds. Pulaski.... ?ry Mound City. Pulaski. 'rj Granri Chr.in. PuUskl ry I llin. Pulaski ur' Four Counties May Go Dry. The four" new counties which may be added to the large number from which the saloon has already been driven are Menard. Morgan. Scott and pope. Petersburg and Athens are the only wet cities remaining in Menard'; Meredosla is the only one in Morgan; Naples is the only one in Scott, and Golconda is the only one in Pope. James K Shields, superintendent of the Illinois Anti-Saloon League, expressed confidence today that the dry advocates would be successful in each of these five .cities and would successfully combat the "liquor forces who are seeking to gain entrance in other cities in these particu lar counties. Jacksonville is the largest city which is voting on the saloon question. Two years ago the city voted dry by 775 ma jority, and this year the Anti-Saloon people claim victory by 1000 majority, although there is a mighty battle on. Reports From Counties Vary. Dispatches from the scenes of warfare today indicated the local optionists are conceded a shade the advantage in most places. Reports by counties are as fol lows: Case Chandlerville may go wet, al though claimed by both sidesL Menard Oakford and Tullula likely to remain dry, while Petersburg and Athens may be added to the dry column. Scott Indications point to gain for drys at Naples, . while South "W inchester and Exeter will remain dry. Randolph Rock wood will go dry. while Ellis Grove, Coultervllle nd' Baldwin will remain dry. Perry Saloon interests may regain (Concluded on Page 2.) Prairie Fire. J GEODETIC SURVEY. EMPLOYE DROPPED ONK MAX LOSES FEDERAL JOB, ANOTHER'S PAY CUT. Frank W. Perkins Loses Head, John J. Gilbert Reduced Mcllarg's Last orricial Act, WASHINGTON. Oct. 30.-Frank Wal ley Perkins, acting superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, vas today suspended without pay, and John J. Gilbert, Inspector of Hydrograph and Topography, reduced from 30u0 to 2000 as the result of charges of administrative irregularities. The action was taken by Acting Sec retary of. Commerce and Labor McHarg. Their cases will be passed upon later by Secretary Nagel. Just on the eve of his retirement from office Mr. McHarg took action on the charges against the two officials. Pcr kine was at ttje head of the survey, while Dr. O. P. Tittman, the director, was in Europe. The charges. Acting Secretary McHarg said today, do not in any way affect Dr. Tittman. i Terkins is charged with suppressing official correspondence and shielding em ployes who have been reported: also with having refused to forward to the head of the Department of Commerce and Labor charges against the manage ment of the survey and with evading questions officially asked him. A charge of inefficiency has been made against Gilbert. There are also allegations of favoritism through the pigeonholing of the reports against certain employes in the bureau. MAYOR PRATT PAYS FINE Delinquent in Water. Assessments, He Cheerfully Remits Coin. SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 30.-(Speclal.)-Mayor Pratt was yesterday fined tha sum of SO cfents for failure to pay his water assessment. The Mayor paid the fine, together-with a bill-for water rental of .. with all the grace of an ordinary private citizen caught with the goods. In speaking of the matter thle morn ing City Treasurer Peterson said that the deportment was no respecter vof per sons. "Everyone looks alike to us here, ' he said, "and I am glad we had the oppor tunity of catching Hia Honor, the Mayor. People will now realize that I have no discretion In the matter of refunding fines for the nonpayment of water rentals and will not ask me to refund the amount of the fines." HOOK SAVES FALLING MAN Painter Caught in "Midair Fellow "Workman Drops to peath. NEW YORK. Oct. 30. Checked in his fall from a scaffolding off which a fellow-workman had just pitched- to death on the stope abutment of the Williamsburg bridge, ISO feet below, James Donahue, a painter, today in the sight -ot thousands hurlg suspended from a grappling hook at the end of a long rope which had caught in his clothing as he fell. ' Head downward, Donahue swung la midair . until persons on the bridge structure above swung htm another rope. This he grasped, pulled himself head -uppermost and was drawn to safety. Owne Finnegan, a painter, was the man killed. FIRES SWEEP BLACK HILLS Forests Burn in Six Places and Loss Is Immense. DE A D WOOD, S. D., Oct. 30. No less than -six forest fires are now burning in the Black Hills, and damage already done will run into hundreds of thou sands of dollars. The most serloua one, near Pactola, is still unchecked. The number of fife-fighters has been in creased. The Deadwood office of the Forest Service has been notified of a fire burn ing north of Custer, another east of Hill City, one between Mystic and Mer ritt. and still another near Merritt. The Homestake mine force at Pactola has been recalled to save Its timber re serves. SPAIN SUSPENDS CASES Courts-Martial Ordered Dropped Until Examination Made. BARCELONA. Oct. 10. Premier Morel telegraphed today to the authorities here to suspend the execution of all court-martial cases until they could be examined by the government. PICTURES FROM HARRY MURPHY'S . SEVEN Pek-a-Boo! W PTT ivn nKflOX. SIKO, OCTOBER 31, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, ONWARD MARCH OF 'PORTLAND STEADY October Figures Break Records of Past. EXPORTS BEAT PUGET SOUND Building, Banking and Postal Receipts Set New Marks. BIG PROJECTS HEL' STATE Year Will Be Best in City's History and Business Men Predict Growth and Prosperity Will Know No Lull. V ith bank clearings surpassing any thing in tho history of the city, a new high record established in the issuance of building permits, postal receipts in creasing at the rate of from 12 to 24 per cent a month, and grain shipments smashing all former records, wlt.i as sured promise of a record-breaking movement of the same products in No vember, confirmatory proof is furnished of the supremacy of Portland as the in dustrial and commercial center of the Pacific Coast. Story Told by figures. . These corroborative facts are sup plied in statistics relating to these various activities for the month of Oc tober. Statistics from the same sources for the last ten months .show that the record for 1909 for the same activities, a reliable index to the progress of any community, will exceed all former rec ords. Not only have the business operations of the city, for the month of October broken several previous . high records, but the same statistics to date prove convincingly that the record for the year 1909 will set a new standard by which to measure the future activities of a greater Portland. The prospects for a continued and increased business activity in Portland, with attendant prosperity for laborer, merchant, manu facturer, wholesaler, retailer and bank er during ' the remainder of the year and in 1910 never were brighter. -' Big Projects Under Way. There are many public improvements under construction and contemplated which will employ thousands of la borers and disburse great amounts of capital. Among these enterprises mar be mentioned the construction of rail roads into Central Oregon, to Tillamook and the completion of the -Klamath-Natron .. .nslons of the Southern Pa cific system, which already have been begun. . Numerous extensions of elec tric r. "way lines which have been planned, the completion of the Gov ernment irrigation projects and the continuation of many private irrigation, projects, particularly In Central Ore gon, will make for the further devel opment and prosperity of the state, in .. Men every citizen will share directly or indirectly. Promised settlement of the affairs of the two Portland banks which suspend eu during the financial disturbance 1907 will serve further to Improve pros perous conditions locally and return to circulation many thousands of dollars which have for over two years been in volved either In a receivership or a plan of reorganization. Banks Gain 21 Per Cent. Portland bank clearances for the month of October. this year show an increase of 21 per cent over October a year, ago. Throughout the year the clearances each month have been show ing an increase over the similar period in 1908 of from $8,000,000 to $10,000, 000. The total of these clearances for this month was $40.9O8.54'8. For the same month in 1908 the clearances ag gregated $32,713,00$. being an Increase of $8,195,642. For the week ending yes terday the clearances show an Increase over the total for the corresponding week of 1908 of $2,278,601, a gain of 37 per .cent. The clearances In October, 1908, aggregated $6,058,292. as" against $8,336,893 for the month which ends to- da ermits for the construction and lm- (Concluded on Page 5.) THETPRE'StSHOUl.D'BE MU2.T-LE D EX-CON fa-WlLL Ifl M 50 N . LOWE WILL BUILD BIGGEST AIRSHIP PIOXEKU AERONAUT IXVEXTS FREIGHT-CARRIER. Holds Distance' Balloon Record and Will Ely Across Continent With 20 -Ton Load. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Oct: 30. (Spe cial.) After 60 years of activity in the field of Instruction Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, of Pasadena, announces that he is about to complete the labor of his Tire and give to the world a practical freight-carrying air craft. y . ' 'The day of experimenting has passed," said Professor Lowe today, "and I hope before long to be "able to start the larg est practical airship the world has ever seen on a trip to the Atlantic Coast." While the plans of the aifship are as yet a guarded secret, the inventor has shown them to General Allen, chief of tie United States Signal Service, and to i the practical minds that have con ceived and- revievaed them they contain no flaws destined to prove fatal in the final test. "If you will Imagine that I had In my balloon car when I went up for re connoissance with General McClellan the 100 or 150-horsepower motor engines of 1909, you will see that I could have ended the Civil. War in 'a week. I will be able to carry 20 tons on my experimental air ship," he said. CONDENSED NEWS BY WIRE The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 52.7 degree; minimum, 4.1.9 degrees. TODAY'S Rain Sunday,; southerly winds, poreiffn. Professor Wheeler lectures at Berlin before Kal&er and distinguished audience. Sec- . tlon 1, page 3. Students make uproar at closing meeting of Royal University at Dublin. Section 1, page 4. La3t ct Greek mutineer vessels surrenders and Thibaldos Is fugitive. Section 1. page 2. National. Census Bureau shows year 190S had lowest death rate on record. Section 1. page 2. Plans for O.. R. N. bridge held up at Washington awaiting information from Bourne and Ellis. Section 1, page 2. Taft speaks for bond issue for rivers and harbors and suggests radical measures. Section 1, page 4. Politics. - Desperate battle on liquor issue to be fought in Illinois Tuesday. Section 1. page 1. Loss ot liquor revenue forces Alabama to borrow money for salaries. Section 1, page 2. Gaynor's election probable, but Fusionists wll: win other offices and control -funds . In- New York. Section 1." page 1. ' Speaker Cannon at New Orleans calls.Jj" Of insurgents ittnwiiywi nuu )Dnv, 1 Domestic, Other persons may be Implicated with -Me-Mahon In Van Royen murders. Section - 1, page 1. Government surveyor questions truth of Cook's claim to have climbed Mount Mc Khiiey. section 1. page 2. West Point cadet probably fatally injured In football game with Harvard. Section 2, page 3 ' - . Sports. Multnomah defeats Catholic -'Club 0 to 0. Section 2. page 2. - I ' More big league teams are expected to visit Coast in future. Section 1. page 11. Big league teams play tie contest In Port land. Section .4, page 6. Only three Northwestern League players bat better than .300. Section 4, page 4. Portland auto firm will try co-operative plan. Section 4. page 5. Oregon defeats Willamette 29 to 0. Section 2, page 2. Washington overwhelms Idaho. 50 to 0. Sec tion 2. page Z- WlIMs Brltt, pugilist, dies poor. Section 1, page 11. . Pacific Northwest. Hood River apple fair attracts 500 people from 'Portland. 200 from The Dalles; awards are made. Section 1, Pgo 6. Prize box of apples at Albany fair sell for 21.50. Section 1. page 6 Washington County farmers urged to in creased dairy herds; milk supply inade quate. Section 1. page 7. Albany prepares to entertain Al Kader Tem ple of Mystic Shrine. Section 1, page.tt. President Campbell speaks good words for college ' fraternities. Section 1. page 6. Sanitary conditions at Nampa filthy. Section 3. page . Logs capture two escaped convicts at Salem. Section 1, page 7. Three Judges may act as majority in Wash ington Supreme Court. Section 1, page 7. Real KMute and Building. Hotel deal Is feature of week's realty mar ket Section 4. page 7. October total for "building sets new mark. Section 4, page 11. Marshall-Wells Company to build $400,000 warehouse. Section 4. page 9. Portland and Vicinity. October breaks all records for business In Portland. Section 1. page 1. Alienists to examine little Ernest Harps, who Is suspected of weird power. Section ' .1. page 7. Enemies of Broadway bridge to light bond issue In courts. Section 1. page 8. Oregon Trust officials and Gus Lowitt In dicted by grand jury. Section 1. page 5. Milk famine may result in Portland from Baileys crusade. Section 1. page 4. Moffatt will confer with directors before an nouncing Oregon Electric extension. Sec tion 3. page 10. All Portland smiles and buys tags for Baby Home. Section 2j page 12. Mayor Simon becomes voluntary milk in spector. Section 4, 'page 12. Rose Festival seeks recognition abroad. Section 3, page 12. Sellwood will begin campaign Monday to raise $12,000 for Y. M. C- A. Section 1. page 8. READY PEN CAST A HUMOROUS LIGHT ON SOME OCTOBER 31, 1909. "ALL TDMMYROT" CRIES "UNCLE JOE" Speaker Defies Those Who Oppose Him. SCOFFS AT TERM: AUTOCRAT Stalks Around Stage Set for Pugilistic Match. FROTHS AT INSURGENTS Smoker at Xew Orleans Enlivened by Speech Ridiculing Idea That He Is Colossus Astride of Neck of Congress. NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 30. Speaker Cannon uttered defiance to his enemies the insurgents, tonight, and declared recent attacks upon him to be "pea nut politics," and "tomrayrot." The setting Tf the Speaker's utter ances was picturesque. Ho stood on the stage of the Athenium, where Pres ident Taft had appeared a .few hours earlier to advocate Improvement of waterways. Withui a few feet of Speaker Cannon was a pugilistic ring set up-Xor the use of a pair of boxers who were to entertain the crowd later. In the wings nearby in their abbre viated skirts sat three or four dancers who were also to take part in the pro gramme. The occasion was a smoker arranged by the business men of New Orleans for the amusement of visitors to the waterways convention. Just before the Speaker rose to his feet in response to loud yells of "Cannon, 1 he was handed a gavel as large as a croquet mailed and a cigar that looked like a fence rail. 'There has been," said the Speaker, 'a whole lot of foolishness! of 'tommy rot,' indulged in by a few fellows of the minority who. have not been able to swing t.ie majority-fellows who have said that if we stood still we were blessed and'if we moved we were damned fellows that said that this autocratic personage (here the Speaker threw back his coat and strutted around the stage) that, this autocratic personage was a Colossus astride 400 members of Con gress and 90,000,00 people. "That's all tommyrot and peanut pol itics. ' "This is called a smoker. Let's smoke." NINE LIVES LOST JN FIRE Seven Burn to Death, Two Fall From Upper Stories. ST. JOHNSBURT, Vt., Oct, 30.-When the ruins' of f.,o ultizens Savings Bank block were thoroughly searched today, it was learned that nine lives had been lost in the Are whicll practically de stroyed the principal business building of this town early today. Two other persons were probably fa tally burned. The property loss is esti mated at S0.O0O. Of tne dead, two per sons fell from the upper stories while eeven were burned to dath. KING MENELIK STRICKEN leath of Ruler of Abyssinia Con sidered Probable. . ADDI3 ABEBA, Abyssinia, Oct. 30. King Mennlik was stricken with apoplexy on Thursday night. His condition, is considered serious. BERLIN" Oct. 30. A dispatch to the Taseblatt from Addis Abeba says that King Menellk's condition has suddenly become worse and his death is consid ered probable. BOXER DIES AFTER BOUT Philadelphia Man's Skull Fractured During Match. PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 30.-Michael Murray, 25 years old, died tonight from a fracture of the skull, received ' in a boxing bout in a tournament held by the Philadelphia Athletic Club. His opponent was Harry Haber, 21 years old. He was arrested. POLICEMAN FINDS LITTLE WANDERER OFFICER LEISY RESCUES BABY GIRL FROM STREETS. Grabs Her From TTnder Horses Feet t and She Sleeps . In Station Crib With None to Claim Her. Tucked away in a crib safe from the rain that pattefed on the walls of po lice headquarters last night, a little 3-year-old baby girl, who was picked up in the early evening, journeyed into slum berland while Police Matron Simmons softly crooned a lullabye. Two floors below on the blotter of the sergeant's desk, the facts concerning the waif were inscribed on the roster of the criminals: "Unknown" and "hold" follow the entry made by Patrolman Leisy. who found the little wanderer at East Eighth and East Burnside streets. Spying the little girl dodging among the congestion of traffic, the officer res cued the baby as she came dangerously near being trodden beneath the hoofs of a draught team. Her little garments were soaked by the drenching rain. The offl o. ith th bahv clasned firnily to his Abreast, hailed a passing automobile and hurried to police headquarters witn xne blue-eyed 'stranger still folded In his arms. A warm bath and a change of clothing were soon forthcoming from the resources of the matron. While the child slept peacefully in her crib in the women's ward, the police tried to locate her parents. Up to mid night her slumbers had been unbroken because no claim had been made by a solicitous mother or father for her. GOLD TEETH NOT SEIZABLE Court Says Dentist Must Get Money First or Take Chance. CHICAGO, Oct. 30. (Special.) Teeth are a good savings bank for one's sur plus gold if one has the usual quota of teeth, and not too much gold. A Chi cago jurist intimated today that gold in the teeth 'could not be seized for debt, even if that debt were for gold in the teeth; in other words, once the gold was put in the molar it ceased to be a commodity which voluntarily or by or der of the court could be used in barter or exchange. C. E. Douglass, a dentist, alleges that Miss B. Woolf owes him J25.50 for serv ices. Miss Woolf was summoned be fore Judge HImes to-tell about it. She e-jumerated for the court several items of assets, the total of which was not appalling and one item was tha gold which Dr. Douglass had put in her teeth. "I will not issue any order to assign the defendant's savings account," sTiid Judge Himes, to Dr. Douglass. "I do not see what else there is left you un less it is the gold teeth". I do not know that there is anything in statutes cov ering just this case, but I should say it would be governed by the same sta tutes as improvements on "real prop erty." PRIVATE CAPITAL FAVORED Government Will Allow Individuals to Build Malheur Project. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Oct. 30. Secretary Ballinger, in response 'to telegraphic inquiries from Oregon, has declared that the-Government cannot build the Malheur irriga tion project because it has no available funds. This leaves the project at the disposal of private enterprise, if still desirous of undertaking its construc tion. It is understood that if the money could be had. Secretary Ballinger would authorize the construction of this proj ect Immediately, but the condition of the reclamation fund Is such that there will be no money available for at least a year, and perhaps for a longer period. It Is the understanding of the de partment that private enterprise stands ready to build this project, and if a practical private project, acceptable to landowners, is .undertaken, there will be no opposition from Washington. GEN. FUNSTON LOSES BOY Heart Disease Suddenly Carries Away Son While Mother Away. OAKLAND. Cal.. Oct. 30. Arthur McArthur Funston, the 8-year-old son of General Frederick Funston. died of heart trouble this morning at the home of his grandfather. Otto Blankart. in this city. Mrs. Funston, the mother, had left for Kansas City but three days previous. ; CURRENT EVENTS GAYNQR NUY CI BARKEN VICTORY Fusionists to Control New York Funds. SAD OUTLOOK FOR TAMMANY Minor Offices Likely to Go to Tiger's Enemies. GAYNOR BAD CAMPAIGNER Drives Away Votes by Abuse of Op ponents and Inability to Take Hearst Jledicine Without Flying -nto Rage. ' BY LLOYD P. LONERGAM. NEW YORK. Oct. 30. (Special.) In dications are that Judge Gaynor will be elected Mayor on Tuesday by 42,000 plurality. The fusionists will carry the other city offices and Tammany's coun ty ticket will probably be defeated. A careful canvass made by representa tives of Wall -street plungers indicates a vote as follows: Gaynor, 266,000; Bannard, 224,000; Hearst, 115,000. This is based on a poll of 16,000 voters and is the sixth -year it has been tried, heretofore with great success. Murphy's Figures Ixjok Bad. Tammany Boss Murphy received to day figures from district leaders. Pri vate information is that they show 70. 000 plurality for Gaynor in New York; County, with 20,000 lead for the fusion candidates on the combined Republican and Hearst tickets. This would indi cate Tammany's defeat .all along the line. Murphy, however, claims the elec tion of everybody, but gives no details. Republican Chairman Tarsons claims Bannard's election by 45,000. Gehrlng, Hearst's chairman, figures the editor'e plurality at 60,000. Both are convinced that Gaynor can be beaten and are straining every nerve to drag over the anti-Tammany vote to their particular man. Gajnor's Tongue Hurts Him. The campaign practically wound up tonight with big meetings of all par ties. The Democrats had planned a rally in Madison-Square Garden, but canceled it at the last moment. Gay nor's utter lack of tact dismayed the leaders, and they figured that the more he talked the more he hurt himself. His recent abuse of Al bert Kerr, president of the Bannard Campaign Club, whom he addressed in a letter as "cur," cost many votes this week. Gaynor's recent meetings have been poorly attended, and thle week he was unable to fill Carnegie Hall or Cooper Union, although every other candidate lias done so. Gaynor also antagonized his Independent sup porters by a plea for the election of a straight ticket. ' Fusionists to Control Cash. One thing that seems certain is that Tammany will not control the incom ing Board of Estimates, which-will dis pose of nearly a billion dollars in four years. The fusionists seem certain of the following: Controller, president of the Board of Aldermen, presidents of the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Rich mond, who collectively have nine of the 16 votes in the board. Other places are doubtful, but Indications favor .the fusionists carrying every estimate member except the Mayor. Gaynor Loses Ground Daily. If surface indications mean anything, then Judge Gaynor has steadily gone back ever since he accepted the nom ination. On the day that his name was placed at the head of the Democratic ticket, the opposition freely admitted that the only question in dispute was the size of his majority. But then Hearst butted info the limelight, and conditions rapidly changed for the worse, from a Democratic standpoint. Gaynor on the bench was Vn impress-' ive figure. On the stump he was shova to be a querulous old man, who took a wrong position, and then stuck to it, de spite anything that his frlepds might say or do. The taunts of Hearst and Ivina (Concluded on Page 2.) t