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(fillip i 72 Pages i Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXIX. 0. 29 PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. REPUBLICANS EWHUSE;NAME STRDNGTICKET Open Assembly Finds Fa vor and Unites Par jjs ty in Multnomah. DETRACTORS PUT TO ROUT Platform Affirms Accord WiHi True Principles of Direct Primary. ADMINISTRATION IS INDORSED C. N. McArthur and Louis G. Clarke Favored as Senators SOME CONTESTS DEVELOP Counting of Ballots for Representa tives Proves Long Task and Ad journment Is Taken Vn til Monday Night. TMK TICKET INDORSED BY M IXTNOJIA It RKPIB1JCAX COIXTV AS8RMBLV State Senator. Multnomah County C. N. McArthur. Joint State Senator. Multnomah. Clarkaman ami Columbia Counties 1-oula li. Clarke. Joint Kopiesentative. Multnomah and 'CJaokatuas Counties John II. Latourette. Representatives, Multnomah County John C. Mrt'iie. t)r. J. R. Weth erbee.fjaseph V. Beveridg-e, Charles B. Moores. Robert S. Farrell. Judge 11. H. Northiip. ISix were to be 'nominated. County .In, go Frank S. Bennett. Commissioner H. w. Uotldard. Auditor Captain H. u. Welch. Sheriff Ucorgo V. McMillan. Clerk John B. Coffey. Treasurer John M. Lewis. Coroner Dr. B. 1 Nordn. Surveyor Philo Holbrook. Jr. Justices of Peace. Portland District J. W. Bell and Claude Strahan. Constable. Portland District Andy "W'elhberRer. ' Justice of Pence. St. Johns District O. R. Downs. Constable. St. Johns District P. T. Hanson. Representatives of MultnoamU County's Republican electors met yes terday in assembly at the Masonic Temple Hall In a magnificent response to the general awakening: of party loy alty and laid the foundations of re newed party success and achievement. Enthusiasm, tense Interest, sincerity find fairness prevailed throughout. Aside from Indicating a heary ac cord with the fundamental principles of the direct primary law in Oregon and enunciating the principles fc,r which the Republican party stands, the as sembly discussed a long list of men presented for the various county offices and recommended those decided upon ns fittest. The candidates decided upon lre regarded us forming the strongest end most representative ticket ever put put by the party in Multnomah County. In its every essential the assembly proved a refutation of the predictions made by. Its lemicratie detractors. Ev- (Concluded on rage 10.) THE PORTLAND SECOND IN WHEAT EXPORTS NEW YORK ALOSE SURPASSED ROSE CITY IiAST YEAR. Though Aggregate Decreases It Stands Higher in Rank Puget Sound Leads in Flour. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 16. Portland rounded out the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910. with heavier wheat exports than any other city or customs district in the United States, except New York, acording to figures made public today by the De partment of Commerce and Labor. Portland' total wheat export for the year just closed amounted to 5,770.319 betshels, valued at $5, 593, 765, ' which, while lower than that of the year pre vious permitted her to move into second place, where a year ago she stood fifth, though her total shipments to foreign lands that year were 6,350,-1-33 bushels. Puget Sound ports collectively ex ported during, the year just closed 4,856.691 bushels of wheat, valued at $4,592,'371, as against 4.630,174bushels in the -year " previous, being one of the few districts showing greater exports this year than last. On flour exports Puget Sound far distances Portland, having exported last year 1,296.681 barrels, or 250,000 barrels more than in 1909. Portland's flour ""export for the past 12 months was but 217,469 barrels, as against 552,423 barrels a year ago. MONORAIL TRAIN WRECKED New Interurban Service Proves Fail ure on First Trip. NEW YORK, July 16. Twenty per sons were Injured, only one seriously, in tlie first commercial trip this after noon of the new monorail service be--tween City Island and Barlow, In the suburbs of The Bronx. . Howard Tunis, the InventdY, who was motorman, broke a rib and one pas senger broke a leg. The latter was the only one of the injured to go lo a hospital. Although described as a monorail, the only car the company yet owns did not depend for Its stability on a gyroscope. For support and traction It ran on a single rail, but twin guide rails overhead hung between pillars and lateral braces on either side of the right of way held It in balancer While the car was running 30 miles an hour one of these guide rails worked loose and the car tilted- 40 degrees, pil ing the frightened passengers In the lower angle. The pillars at either side of the car prevented it from toppling entirely. YOUTHFUL HERO REWARDED Iuls Spreckels Will Take Tiifcsaver into Sugar Business. NEW YORK, July 16. Louis Spreck els, head of the Federal Refining Com pany of Yonkers, N. Y., has taken under his care William Schoolmeyer, 15 years old, who nearly lost his life in May by saving a 10-year-old boy from drown ing in the Hudson River off the Federal Refinery dock. The boy will be schooled In every branch of the sugar business. Young Schoolmeyer accomplished the rescue while a dozen men stood help lessly by. It was the fourth rescue from drowning the boy had mad.e In as many years, and Mr. Spreckels was so impressed by the lad's-heroism that he gave him employment in the refinery and brought his deed to the attention of the l.ife-Saving ' Benevolent Associ ation of New Voik. Schoolmeyer made his first rescue when only 11 years old. Then he saved the life of a companion, who had been seized with cramps while swimming. The following year he rescued his brother and another boy, who had brok en through the ice while skating. FILM FIGHT STATE WIDE Salem Organizations Call on Attorney-General for Opinion. SALEM," Or.. July 16. (Special.) The Good Government League and the Minis terial Association of Salem will call upon Attorney-General A. M. Crawford for an opinion on stopping the exhibition of Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures, not only in Salem, but all over Oregon. They have Just reached the decision that they will endeavor to make a state-wide campaign. They will call on the Attorney-General to ascertain whether showing tjje fight pictures is not in contravention to section 19S5 of the code, in which it is set down as a crime to give any exhibitions of pictures which are of an indecent or an Immoral nature. PRESENT INTERESTING DOUGLAS COUNTY HOLDS ASSEMBLY County Ticket to Be Put in Field BEST MEN FORWARD IS IDEA Party Will Support Nominees of State Meeting. ROUSING SPEECHES MADE Gathering of Republicans Is Most Enthusiastic Ever Seen in Rose burg County Nominees to Be Xamed July 30. ROSEBLT.G, Or., July 16. (Special.) Declaring its Intention to support candidates for state -offices who are in sympathy with the assembly plan, and indorsing the Administration of Presi dent Taft, the Republican county as sembly, which convened in Roseburg this afternoon, proved the most har monious and enthusiastic political meeting ever held in Douglas County. In the neighborhood of 100 delegates were in attendance, as were hundreds of spectators who joined in making the occasion one of special prominence. F. E. Alley Presides. The assembly was called to order by Frank E. Alley, chairman of the Repub lican county central committee, while B. F. Steele, a local attorney, acted as secretary. Both men were later elected permanent officers of the assembly. Upon affecting a permanent organ ization, committees on credentials, resolutions, platform, and the nominat ing of delegates to the state conven tion, were appointed by the chairman. ajirt . Immediately assumed . their re spective tasks. The committee on credentials report ed 89 delegates entitled to seats on yie floor at the opening of the session, but later in the afternoon, that number was swelled to 100. 42 State Delegates Chosen. The committee selected to nominate the 42 delegates to the state assembly reported, after two hours' deliberation, and recommended that the following men be elected as delegates: Roy Smick. R. A. Preston, John E. Love, A. L- Aikens. F. W. Beyers. J. B. Riddle, R. R. Booth, Ben Huntington. Sr.,A. F. Stearns, Dwight Reed, Benton Mires. Warren Reed, A. C. Marsters, J. H. Booth. B. W. Bates, J. D. Zurcher, J. F. Barker. A. T. Marshall, E. B. Her mann, George M. Brown. A. N. Orcutt, George Neuner, A. C. Seely, F. E. Alley, E. L. Parrott, K. L. Miller. S. S. Joseph son, George E. Houck, W. T. Emory, A. L. Butler, W. L.NIchols, Roy Griggs, John Alexander, E. W. Kuydendall, C. S. Jackson. James Cole, R. W. Marsters, R. T. Blakely, Rafe Dion, Phil Hunt ington, J. W. Perkins and W. W. Card well. Unit Vote Is Opposed. The nominating committee also made recommendations they be instructed by the assembly to vote as a unit at the state assembly, but this request was turned down, after a prolonged discus sion, in which nearly every delegate assumed an active part. The delegates named by the committee were con firmed by the unanimous vote of the assembly. The committee on resolutions sub mitted but one resolution, which was adopted, as follows: "Be it resolved by the delegates rep resenting the Republican voters of the various precincts in the county that It is for the best interests of the Repub lican party that careful consideration be given at theVriroary election to the placing in nomination of the best pos sible candidates for the various offices, and that such candidate be placed be fore the people of the county as the rep resentatives of the Republican party. "Therefore, be it further resolved. That the assembly, when it adjourns, shall adjourn to meet at the Courthouse (Concluded on Page 5.) POLITICAL SITUATION ALFALFA IS SHOWN AS NEW CURE-ALL COXDEXSED HEALING ELEMENT SOOTHES TIRED NERVES. Los Angeles Doctor Puts Essence of Haystack in Tablet and Cures Delirium Tremens. LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 16. (Spe cial.) "Alfalfa, hitherto holder 'of a plebeian place in the food scheme, is destined to become a comprehensive medicative and remedial element that will put all others In the shade, accord ing to Dr. Marian N. Clark, who an nounces the discovery of remarkable curativ properties In the plant and blossoms. Her idea, already carried out on a small scale and suggested by the men thol industry, is to electrolyze the al falfa and condense its healing elements to vest-pocket size a haystack of medicine in a tiny tablet. Dr. Clark pridefully recounts many instances of curing with the condensed alfalfa Juice many nervous ailments, from delirium tremens to "that tired feeling." ' One of these was the aggravated case of a Reno sport, who- bet on Jeffries and drowned his sorrows in so many tall ones that- the cobras came to get him. The condensed-hay expert beat 'em to it and cured the victim so effectively that now he shudders at sight of even a dog. if the dog is a growler. Tobacco chewing, gloomy thoughts of suicide, insomnia and a host of other undesirable things fade away like the mists of the morning under the soothing influence of a few forkfuls of alfalfa done Hp in a tablet. CUPID ACTS, IN A HURRY Civil "War A'cteran and Widow of Old Soldier to Marry. ANACORTES, July 16. A pretty ro mance will have culminated on July 26 in this city,' when Mrs. Marion Brown will be married to Henry Clay MacFarland. Mr. MacFarland is a veteran of the Civil War, and an old pioneer of Oregon. He is also a promi nent business man of Moscow. Idaho. During the last Winter he was spend ing a vacation in Los Angeles and local friends asked him to come here to as sist in the musical portion of the Decoration day programme rendered by Emory Post, G. A. R. ' It was while on this trip he became acquainted with Mrs. Brown,- herself" one 5 bf -the most popular women in this city. and a. widow of a Civil War veteran. Jt was evidently a case of love" at first sight, as within the last few days close personal friends - received cards announcing the wedding. Mr. MacFar land is 66 years of age -and was the first man to enlist In the Company A First Oregon Infantry, irt the Civil War. . - BRIDE'S NAME FORGOTTEN Missonrian Has to Be Shown When He Asks for Marriage License. SALEM, Or., July 16. (Special.) When J. J. Stransburg, 48 years old, appeared at the County Clerk's office this afternoon to secure a marriage license, things went swimmingly until he forgot the prospect ive bride's name. It was several minutes before he could master his memory suffi ciently to give a lull answer to the depu ty's query. . . He finally remembered that she is Mrs. Lida M. Carter, 33, a resident of Salem. Stransburg came here from Missouri purposely to claim his bride. When they were young they were sweethearts, but were separated by some trivial lovers quarrel and each of them married, passing from one another's sight' Not long ago Stransburg learned Mrs. Carer's where abouts and as they had lost, respectively, wife and husband by death, he came to Oregon to renew the old affection. SHOT IN PLAY MURDERS Oklahoma Men Arrested; Charge "Knew Gun Was Loaded." MUSKIGEE, Okla., July 16. E. D. Book er and Everett Oiden were arrested here today, charged with conspiracy to kill Jacob Winkler at Stone Bluff, in a lit erary play last Tuesday. In the piay Olden pointed a. revolver at Winkler, and it was dischar d, killing him. The weapon had been handed - to Olden by Booker, and - both say they thought it was not loaded. Winkler's father swore out a warrant charging that Booker placed a loaded f cartridge in the revolver an hour before Olden used It and that Olden knew the weapon -was loaded. GIVES HARRY MURPHY CANNON COLLAPSES FROM GREAT HEAT "UncleJoe"SinksDown While Giving Speech. THERMOMETER STANDS AT 105 Speaker Suddenly Grows Pale, Totters'to Chair. RECOVERY COMES QUICKLY Venerable Statesman Is Delivering Address to Chautauqua at Win field When Attack Comes In sists on Continuing Tour. WIXFIELD. Kan., July 16. In the middle of an address he was making before the Winfield Chautauqua here this afternoon Speaker Joseph. G. Cannon, of the House of Representa tives, suddenly suffered a temporary collapse and was compelled to stop speaking. ' The Speaker had been speaking for an hour and a half under a broiling sun, with the temperature at 105 de grees, and had just taken up the Payne tariff bill when he grew suddenly pale and his head sank to his chest. He reached back and took.tjhe ice from a pitcher and placed it to his head. Finally he was able to say: "Excuse me, I am overcome," and tottered to a chair. Heat Is Too Much. Within a few seconds he had recov ered sufficiently to arise and apolo gize briefly to the audience. "I CoT.not talk longeV." he almost gasped. "There are many things I should like to have said, but I cannot. I am ov.-come with the heat." t . , Friends rushed forward to him and an electric fan was turned on the Speaker. Water and ice were procured and the platform was cleared of the curious. The audience remained in tensely quiet. Finally "Uncle Joe" arose with a friend on either side of him and said: "I am sorry I can't continue, but I have been through three years of hard work and worry, and this intense heat has been more than I can stand. I am better now. It is nothing serious. I thank you." He sank back. Speaker Himself in Hour. Within a few minutes he' was driven in an automobile to the home of J. T. Rafferty, whose guest he Is. An hour later Speaker Cannon had so recov ered that he was greeting several gentlemen who had called to see him and seemed to be himself again. Accompanied by Congressman Phillip Campbell and declaring he was "not a bit sick," Speaker Cannon left here to night for Arkansas City, where Campbell was scheduled to spend the night. The Speaker had recovered from his collapse and insisted upon making the trip. Physicians L'rge Rest. Speaker Cannon's physicians urged him tonight to abandon his Kansas speaking tour. The Speaker, however, seems deter mined to continue it, and to interviewers he said he would decide tomorrow. Mr. Cannon feels that he is strong enough to continue his, tour, and that today's collapse was due to the excessively warm weather, which he was not used to. Mr. Cannon had sufficiently recovered by the time he had reached the home of Mr. Rafferty to say a few words to his friends and the newspapermen. "It's all right," he said. "Nothing to it, boys." The Speaker was prevailed upon to rest a while, and two local physicians were called to attend him. Cannon Tired Before Collapse. Speaker Cannon appeared tired when he reached here today. His all-night ride from Kansas City and the excitement Incident to his debate with Gifford Pin chot before the Knife and Fork Club at Kansas City last night, together with the hot weather, seemed- to unnerve him. It (Concluded on Page 2.) AN. OPPORTUNITY TO ALASKAN VOLCANO BECOMES VIOLENT UNIMAK " ISLAND MOUNTAIN IS MASS OF FLAME. Only White Men at Place Are Two Lighthouse Keepers Eruption Seen for Great Distance. SEATTLE. July 16 Mount Shishaldin. "Alaska, on the eastern end of Unimak Island, has lighted its gigantic torch again, according to news brought by the steamer Montara, which arrived from Nome today. The Montara first sighted the burning mountain on the morning of the ninth when the steamer entered Uni mak pass. The eea was turbulent as if disturbed by some seismic movement. A clear column 'of flame hundreds of feet high, without smoke, blazed from the volcano's crater. After passing through Unimak pass. Captain J. O. Farria turned the Montara east so as to pass along to the south side of the island. When 60 miles away from the volcano the officers of the ship could see through the glasses that there was snow to with in a few feet of the edge of the flames, and that torrents of water made by the rapidly melting snow, were tearing chan nels in the steep sides of the mountain. Later in the day smoke began to belch forth with the flames. The snow be came blackened from the deposit. Aside from a few Indian fishermen, the only men on Unimak Island are two light house keepers at Scotch Cap. The light house tender Ameria. will not bring news from them for a month. Mount Shishaldin is a snow-capped mountain of volcanic form, over 6000 feet high. On the one end of the island is the Pogromni Mountain, which is always in partial eruption. The Montara saw no act 'lty on Pogromni. A calle dispatch from Valdez. Alaska, to tl e Associated Press says that a vol canic sand island has arisen in the lagoon formed last year when the Aleutian vol cano Bugos'.of threw up a reef inclosing a portion of the sea. BOY FALLS INTO BALLOON Voulli Breaks AH Records by Drop plug Clear Through Gasbag. LOS ANGELES. July 16. (Special.) Within 20 seconds and 50 feet, Roy Field, an amateur, broke all balloon records of the kind today. He fell In at the top of an immense captive gasbag and was taken-aut.-vfthe appendix nearly asphyxiat ed, but not otherwise injured. Incidentally he liberated 80.000 cubic feet of lifting fluid, which cost his em ployer. J. M. Burns, $64. He landed in such a way, too, after his long tumble, that the balloon had to be cut to extri cate him. This is supposedly the first time a man has fallen clear through a balloon. Field had climbed to the top of the rigging to straighten out a wrinkle in the silken envelope. His foot slipped and made a rent, and down he went through It. The rushing gas affected him so quickly that he -could not reach to the cordage. It was like falling on a feather bed, however, for when he struck the silk had not broken. He was limp for an hour. FORMOSA IS UNDERRATED Japanese Losses Reported Heavy in War of Subjugation. VICTORIA R C .Tulv lfi Tlt lha recent fighting between Janan and For- ! mosa natives in the Gifan districts of Formosa was heavy and that the enemy was underrated is shown by details brought by the Empress of China today. Japanese newspapers state that on June 21 the Japanese forces succeeded in extricating the van of the subjugation army which had been cut off and sur rounded on Mount Bonbom. Captain Ka wada, commanding the Japanese advance, was killed as was also Lieutenant Nosa wa. Several other Japanese officers and 100 of the rank and file were killed. The fighting was at close quarters and most of the Formosans killed were slain with the bayonet. , The engagements are fought in moun tain districts. Major-General Chara has been sent with' reinforcements from Ja pan and a larger campaign of subjugation will be undertaken, which is expected to occupy five years. Negro Blood Vexes Aristocrats. ELIZABHTH, N. J.,- July 16. The ap pointment of Mary Malzon, a girl of negro and Indian blood, as teacher in primary school No. 7, has agitated the white residents and protests are being made to the members of the board of education. She will teach a class of white children. . The school Is located in an aristocratic neighborhood. Miss Malzon Is almost white and is very prepossessing. DRAW A FEW LIVELY PICTURES. DEATH TOLL HEAVY IN BURNING EAST Heat Crowds Hospitals in New York City.-';: SEVEN DIE IN 24 HOURS' Scores Prostrated and Exodus From City Results. : - LITTLE RELIEF PROMISED Period of 2 7 Days of Sweltering Weather . Results in Record- "" . Breaking Mortality Poorer ,. . People Camp on Sands. ' '" j j' NEW YORK, July lfi. Special.) Th hot weather continues to take its. toll of . death in this city. Seven persona were reported to have died, within' thV 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock tonight, while the prostrations exceeded 40. Hospitals were crowded with sufferers from the heat or from ailments due to the heat, and Die report of the bureau of Vital statistics told of a record-breaking mor tality among very young children. It ex--ceeded the same period of last year by. nearly 200. New York City suffered its 27th day without a cooling rain today. There had been spurts of rain in distant parts off the city during this time, but not on earth-cooling shower. The weather bureau could not prom is any relief until some time Monday, al-' though it said there might be thunde showers Sunday. But Monday a slightly cooler area which formed a week ago in the Rocky Mountain regions, it was thought, would arrive and send down th temperature, while reducing the humid ity. '.,?:,' v. :. . . The exodus from the city today wa exceeded only by the holiday rush on July 4. Families who were unable to af ford hotel bills were departing with preparations made to-camp all night in the sands. The more prosperous were bound fo all points of the compass. - - SPOKAXE HAS HOTTEST DAY Temperature Saturday Goes to 91 Degrees in Inland City. SPOKANE. July IB. This was the hot. est day of the season here. The temper ature between 4 and 5 o'clock this after noon was 97 degrees. MRS. YERKES WINS SUIT Chicago Traction Directors Liable for Payment of 95,669,530. CHICAGO, July 16. Chicago's trac tion muddle yesterday assumed a new aspect when the nine directors of the Chicago Railways Company were "in formed by attorneys for Mrs. Mary Ade laide Yerkes, that they are fully liable for the $0.(109.530 indebtedness to the estate of the late Charles T. Yerkes. This coup was sprung by Mrs. Yerkes" attorney at a hearing before the Pro bate Court for the withdrawal of the consolidated bonds of the Yerkes es tate from the reorganization -committee of the Chicago Railways Company. In addition, the prediction wai-madt in open court by Mrs. Yerkes' "lawyer that the Chicago Railways " Company will never dare carry the so-called Har rlty Judgment, recently returned by Judge Ball in favor of Consolidated bondholders, to the Suoreme Court-: In stead, it was declared, full value would be paid to the bondholders.' -74.-' "The Chicago Railways Company is capitalized for $100,000." said 'Attorney Levi Mayer, representing Mrs. Yerkes. "It has acquired a bonded Indebtedness of $62,000,000. The company Is a sol vent property and is worth $75,600,000. "Under the laws of Illinois, directors are personally and individually respon sible for this $60,000,000. If the com pany is not solvent and cannot pay judgment on $6,750,000 the directors are liable." . -. .