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YOUNG EST ' CHIEF
Imposing Ceremonies Accompany
v', President-Roosevelt
? Senators' Sworn Just Previously- Crowd Immense.!! 4
s .., (jtoui epMUl STfc.) ' ,
Washington, D. X, Mar.-4. Thodor
Rooaavelt waa todar traniformd 'from
. : praaldant toy chance Into praaldent by.
... choice; from president through an aaJ
' aaaaln'a bullet' Into president through
' Ute ballots of the people. , .
V.- Under the shadow of the gray-domed
capltoU gaalng Into the. placid marble
. features of Greenough's ecatue of the
' first president, the fith president of
. the United Btates. swore faithfully to
execute the laws and to Breearve pro
, teot and defend the constitution..-
.' When-ht entered the White House
the youngesi president In his country's
history, besides the vast responslblll-
' ties of his office,-he received as a herl
. Ufi McKlnleys dearest arsbltlon to be-',-
come more and more with the years the
president of all the .. people. Today
! there were represented In the throngs
that had Journyed hrther to'greet Pres
. Went , Koosevelt men from ' the north.
south, east and west, and from distant
I Islands tot the seas; from the Phlllp
r pines, from Porto Rloo, front Hawaii
from every land where floats the em
blem of the repuljllc .y,,W.
Kostt ad Boath Vresemt.
; ' sIn the great parade there rode gov
' ernors of states, both-north and south.
FUlplnes who had. fought under th
"flag of Agutnaldo today carried the
arms of Uncle Ham and stepped proudly
, beneath the stars and stripes. Blan
keted Indiana from the virile vising vied
'' with sllk-hated gentry from the effete
veam in. sounaing-tne - praises: or tnis
' cowboy.iuthor-soldler-statesman. ; ' The
president's old rancher . friends, .- with
lariat and chaps rejoe and wiry bron
- choa, mads strange contrast to the stlff
. backed, pouter-chested young mu from
the national military schools. 1
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C! H IE F r JUSTI C FU LCrt Ji DM
, the! Taking 'of,!th I Oath' by
Vice-President Fairbanks and Thirty
"-'it :t
f -n- i
: . ,Rough . Rider , from Ban . Juan hill,
volunteers from Santiago, jacklea from
llanUa bay shared' the plaudits ot, the
dvultltude . wUh modest, every -day sol
diers, for-whom the title regular ls dis
tinction AUtte enough. Political clubs
from east and west, militiamen from
north 'and south, blue-clsd, veterans of
the slxttes,,Yieroes of the Spanish-American
war, 'minera from Pennsylvania,
the entire - legislature of thai state of
Tennessee, ' the , ' president's neighbors
from Oyster bay e,ll contributed to the
national charaoter of' the splendid pa
geant," Who - shall soy that for today
at least Theodore'1 Roosevelt - was ; not
president of all the people? ' ;r .! i, V1
,. , Bongb Bide soort.'- i s
The colonel of the Rough Riders Wat
written' of' his crowded hour, insba.
Today he showed his former comrades
a crowded hour In' Washington., They
were waiting for him when he emerged
fronv' the White -lloo.se at. 10 a. m-80
picked men - usder Governor. '' Bredle.
With the crack squadron A of the Fisst
cavalry. United " States' army, they
formed his escort te-the eapltel, As
they swtmg around the treasury building
Into Pennsylvania avenue a division of
the O. a: R.. with Oeneral O. O. Howard
and staff In the lead, which had been
standing at salute, wheeled Into the col
umn, while the cavalrymen checked their
pace to accommodate the slower foot
steps of the sged veterans. ;-. i
A mighty wave of cheers swf pt ajong
the avenue as the president's csrriage
cam In sight Throughout, the whole;
route the -president, with hat In hand,
kept bowing In acknowledgment of the
greetings. .On his arrival at the capital
-(CoBttmied-da Pager Tareej"' 1 1
EXECUTIVE' IN
portland'oregon.4' Saturday evekino.'' march'
IN ISTERI fr Q :!f H E '0 ATH Tp PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. BELOW
police find mmi
IN POISON MYSTERY
A
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Strychnine In Mineral r Water
Identical, With That Used ;
-rrr ' In: Stanford Barn, t " r
.i t -h )fjooraal SpetUl errlee.Y T
; Ban i Francisco. March" t. Beyond the
departure -for ' Honolulu- today - of - De
tective Harry Reynolds of , the . city
fdrce, 'Capt', James CalJuodan, bead ef
a prlVktd detective agency employed' by
the representatives of the Stanford es
tate, David Burr Jordan, president of
Stanford university and Timothy Hop
kins, one of the trustees of the university,
themttmlng developed nothing new la
the great . Stanford poisoning mystery.
Rumors followed by prompt denials
are not' lacking,, but tangible facts are
absent. The first i, rumor- denied wss
the- alleged, finding of. a. bottle of
strychnine at the Stanford munition.. The
police declare that' In Friday's search
only a few simple medicines were found.
- 'Another rumor wss to the effect that
It ' was authoritatively announced that
strychnine had . been found In Mrs.
Stanford's stomach; Neither tli police,
Mrs. Stanford) brother-nor. the coun
sel for the Stanford . estate have srfy
such Information, and sll deny tbat re
port on the work thus far accomplished
by analytical chemists hss been .given
out either at Honolulu or cabled te San
Francisco. - : r - .-: -'.-,,, - .
Miss ' Bemefs admissions thst she
purchased the bottle of bicarbonate of
soda, and that the purchase was. made
after the first poisoning snd three days
before the time she says It waa packed
away, to remain untouched until Mrs.
Stanford arrived In Honolulu, Is con
sidered fatal to her side of .the cone.
In fsrt Miss Werner's many contradic
tory Statements , and bed memory have
not helped to dispel the tmpYenslon' thst
shs is. attempting to shlrld the guilty
person. j .
. - The police department . Is "still rest-M
.(Continued on Page Three.)' -
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GE0T3GE 3XCORTBTLY0U.
PO0T GPNEEAL. ;;
HILL FINDS DIRECT
" WAY TO PORTLAND
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Belief General That He Is Pur
( Chaser of . Columbia A.
, " Northern Railroad.- .
, J, . J...H(U's long-nurtured purpose of
securing entrance Into Portland for the
Great Northern .railroad Is about to bo
accomplished. It Is believed he Is the
purchaser of a controlling Interest In
the Columbia A Northern railroad, from
Lisle to Ooldendale, and its subsidiary
boat line known aa the Regulator, and
that he will extend the road from Oold
endale through the rfh valleys of the
Taklma and Columbia' rivers to a Junc
tion with the Great Northern main line
at Wllsow-Creek, Wash..'.- ... '" - -Terms
have been agreed on between
Henry P. Scott ft Co., bankers, of Wil
mington, DeL, end the principal stock
holder In , the Columbia River : ft
Northern, for the taking Over of the
property by a, syndicate of Philadelphia
and Baltimore) capitalists, who are sup
posed to represent Mr. Hill. Mr. Scott
snd his party
are now in lower Call-
fornla. and will come to Portland within
ten days, on receipt of advices from
their attorneys,-Teal ft Minor, who are
making, an examination . of titles and
records relating to the property In
volved. The Portland stockholders who
Titfve agreed to dispose ef their holdings
are Ladd ft Til ton, T. B. Wilcox, W, B.
Aver. Rufus Mallory. A. L. Mills, C. V.
Swlgert,' H.-C. Campbell, W. P. Haw
ley, E. B. Pipe. William McMaater,
George W. Simons, M. W. Smith, U. A.
Lewis, W. K. Robertson, E. KMallory
and Charles . Coggeswell.
rrloi About
j The price Is slightly under H.OOO.OPo,
snd Is understood to -represent a pur
these of 'about 10 per cent of thebnnki
' (Continued "on race Tbr.)
4, 1905 sixteen pages. ;
ARE SHOWN THE MEMBERS
ATTORNEY CENE5L
BY COURT : OPINION
Circuit Judges En Banc Declare
, 1 Direct Primary.Nominations .
' - Law Applies This Year. .
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..Presiding Judge George, by his three
associate circuit court Judges, Fraser,
Clsland and Bears. -concurring, today de
clared that the direct primary nomina
tions law applies to the 105 Portland
city election. By this decision, ". the
court compels Immediate abolition of
the Ume-honored systsm of party nomi
nating conventions, and glvee Into the
hands of the members of political par
ties coming under the provisions of the
law the exclusive power to name candi
dates who shall stand for election to
office by those parties; deprives person
not so nominated from using the name
of a political party In running as Inde
pendent candidates; makes It unlawful
for any member of one party to vote In
primary elections for tbe nomination
or candidates of snother party, -and
makes It unlawful for an elector to offer
to vote ln a primary nominating elec
tion .'Unless he ehall have bflen regis
tered es to his party affiliation. -'
i It Is- conceded that, by this decision,
political machines lose much yor their
potency, ' It being even required" that
members of! the county central commit
tees hereafter most be elected In the
direct" fcrimsry nomination election,
and cannot be"seleoted by the bossb
Who rule the parties. V i ; ,. w
' ApoUea 'to AIL-
Under the application of the law elec
tors must go to the county clerk be
tween March Is and April IS. this year,
snd register their party altlliatlona,-If
they wish to vote -las' nominating can
didate of their parties, this provision
applying to members of Republican and
Democratic parties, ss well as to tnds
pendents. - who do .not belons; -to: ny"
party or who belong to parties that did
not, cast ,Jer cent oft the vote cast
' (Continued ' oa rage Eleven).
OF THE PRESIDENT'S CABINET.'
JAPS-GUI0FF
RUSSIAN
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Kurokl Hurls Two Hundred and
' the Wing Opposing-Him and Kuropitkin's Main Force, "
Preventing Retreat to Hfbin Great Slaughter.' ? '
(Joum.1 Sperlal BerTiee.) i f
London; March .-A' Bf.' Petersburg
dispatch states that Kuropatkln reports
that ' 250,000 Japanese " have ' broken
through the left. wing of his army, cut
ting It off from' his-main force. ;' .
Kuropatkln stales ' that his losses
were 10,000 killed, and the Japanese
losses 40.000 killed." - He also -reports
that the Russians have been compelled
to evacuate Jachtoolln., and that sis
desperate attempts made by the iJupa
aeae to storm the Russntn center were
repulsed with great loss. , : ' I !;
' ' From the - above - It le evident that
Kurokl'a flank movement has been en
tirety successful,, and that his whole
division lies between 1he left wing of
the Rusalan .army ami the renter, ef
fectunlly Interfering with the retreat to
Harbin. ...
If this dlspatch'.ls confirmed the Rus
sians face the grealest disaster of the
wsr, with one third of their-army 'sur
rounded and cut off from the. main body,
with their right- In retreat and with
desperate fighting In the centerv which
Is apparently the only place where the
Russlsns have been . enabled to hol-l
their own. It appears that Kurnpatkln
is In Imminent; danger of being crushed
or compelled to surrender. .- ....
' The Japanese arnvtes-fighting on thei
right,' left and center are making steady
gains. The Japanese have defeated the
Russians at Sin Mln Tin and Genera!
Oku has raptured nine miles of the Rus
sian positions on the right bunk of the
Hun-river. '
The buttle has continued with unin
terrupted fury along the' whole' front
throughout the entire-day. Havy
gun art be lug used baoimcr... j i
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Fifty
Thousand Men Between
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clfully. at the Russian positions.' The
retirement of " th "RvJssHrts has' only'
come about after .the fiercest fighting
and was necessitated by successful flank
movement of KurokL :. The center could
probably hold their position against tho
Japanese Indefinitely, but Kurokl'e suc
cess -has forced the present retreat to-.
ward Tie Pass. ' " ' ', ' 1 -
The first Russian station east of the
Liao river has been occupied by the
Japanese and the Mukden trail la closed.
Reports from ; Mukden stkte thst tho
cannonading . "is drawing " rlQser- aal .
everything In the' rty la In. confusion, i
Thousands of wounded are streaming
through Mukden - northward. ' Kvery
means of transportation Is being ued
by. tbe people,, who are fleeing from
the Invading armies. ;
.The present battle--haa rased con (In d
ously sine February !3.when the fight
began, with) a heavy artillery at tar k by
the Japanese ob "the Russians st La fa
tal on the Russian Iff t. Interest, how -ever,
quickly deserted Utpatai and eon-
centrated Itself en Telnkhetchln, a point
SO miles southeast of Mukden. . Tbe
Russlsn left ended 10 mlle west of
this place. Its flank guards keeping
sharp watch of Knrokl to see that he
did not stretch hla for?es out beyond
the Russian wing with a view to en
veloping. It. "Buddently to Ih.lr smase
mont the Japanese appeared at Talr1--hetchin
snd sfter dexprrale t
crtmi-litMl tt retreat of tha 'is.. ,,
Following up his advantage Ik.tr I
tacked the fortifications sr..
pux and seised the pa- t- i
he hua gradually for. f I
the Kuaalaa fUnlt. r
reach the rallro-t r
ueal to lUi I h j
,s
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