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Newspaper Page Text--.-". : V..VOL. IV, m: 79. 1 7 1: fHv:r' V- PORTLAND.' OREGON. : TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1905-FOURTEEN PAGES.; fKACUl IWU.VCimd-'ITUIDI. tits . : BAaia, IS ELEOEDsKXOR s : OF PORTLAND- BY DMfiMRIlMNE - GEORGE H. WILLIAM5 "r irATr ariiv tiiaiip . mh ; I V r U V n M . I i SHORT OF W. T. Vaughn,; With Municipal Asso- datioh; Indorsement, the.0nly Dem ocratic Councilman Chosen. ;rl" feWWallicc r BerLaSuIIftiri in the Second Wari'Hcrfifl b'Defcated and Sliar ; key by .Small Vote , Alone Is Reelei : : ' aaa fff MeyoiDr Harry ln;i." j v-Audlto' Thomaa C. Devlin. R. , ' ' Ttaureiv-J. av wenmn.. rer-'-J. B. Weriein, i. , s Attorney-!. A. McNary. R. ". MunlcliU Judge - QeorgeJU-J Cameron,. R. . " Councilman atl Large J onn Annand. R.i Tbomaa Oray. R-; . Dan Kellaher. R.: "John P, Bharkey. R. ; A. N. Will. It JW- . .Ward Counellmen First, Rob- art A.- PreBtoff: -second, H. W. Wallace; third, -George A.. Dua- nine: .fourth, George W. Shep- 4 krt fifth. W. T. Master ralath. : a. A.at i n a e nlntn, K. ls.-janeio-, T. Vaughn. ; v - . M . . CJ? The new offlctala wfll UM - ce July I. .';.' .v'ZJ . r' nun Lane, the eltfaen'a caadt date for mayor, haa beenelected by; a ilaclalve matorlty. wltn a Total voie i falls but UtUe short of hat cast In the presidential election, cltlsens, Irrespective fall. Good .party, rallied result waa a TO nis lURirari 7 " decisive victory fppthe cause, of.de cency and good government. . Lane'a plurality m r,V"" vote waa M7. whlfe'lhat cast for WU Uama waa .aTl. The Prohibition and Socialist candldatea' for-mayor received a total of 0 votes, so that the total number of votA east for mayor was 14.(4. A considerable number of voter did not vote for any of the can didates for mgyor, and the total number of ballots castwa over .lt.OOO. Jn the preeldential election last November, when the great tidal wave of enthual aam for Rooaevelt rolled up the biggest Republican majority ever known In thla city, the total vote of Portland wa H.114, or but little more than. 1,000 In esoesa of the vote yesterday. ' The .., . ttnr-A .t.lVIn, nMitlM tit the iiaurva . . ... s - . ni.i..i In tha ftltT tlM any puiiuBi..'i.i . - - - . I tlon and or tne wiaeapreaa nnuuinui i xwnlctt Jja.arjnaaa lAn mayor.. mamthlleawi Support Xaae. ' Nearly or quite one half of those who voted for Lane are Republicans. This '-Is the opinion of all who have studied the figures closely. ln the main Re- -..k-m... vntnf! tnr thetr DArtr nomi nee for other bfflcea than that of -mayor. ' with the result - that- only- one ether Democrat beaide Lane wa elected.- Thl waa W. T. Vaughn, Dem- ocratle and cltlsena candidate for coun cilman from the tenth ward. Five of the'eandidate for the council who were .Indorsed by the.cltisena mass meeting were elected. - - .V . . J " A notable victory waa that of H. w. Wallace, Independent candidate for counellman In the second ward against Larry Sullivan, the Republican noml tjL,nee. - Fred Merrill waa defeated In the third- ward,- and - the-only - member - of .-the preaent council who la reelected 1 ......John P. Sharkey. barker1 muse "Behind. - T Tha report of the grand Jury which ' wa made public Saturday afternoon un- . doutedly had a atrong Influence on the result of the election. - Had It com earlier it would probably have caused the defeat of John P. Sharkey. Aa It waa. he ran far behind his Ucket and received leaa votes than any other of - the suocesafulcandidates for eouncll .man at large, thla 1 the more re markable Inasmuch as he led ail othef candldatea- for the aarae of flee In the Republican primaries a month ago.. XTha ordinance granting a. franchise to the automatic telephone company car irle by an overwhelming vote and all but two of the proposed amendment , to the city charter were adopted. Those rejected are the amendment relating to the method of granting atreet railway franchises and ihe amendment Imposing a penalty zor aaunquent Hmiu The city boundaries have been enlarged by the .annexation of the territory be ; tween the old city limit and St. Johns. ' ' and that lying between the old limit - . and Mount Tabor The cost of bridge over gulches will In future be paid by - a special tax of mills. Instead of ay assessment on the district, beaeflted. ' MThe amendments deoreaalng tha cost of rlty advertising, raising the salary of .the clerk of the municipal court and - regulating the securities to be given by 'w hanka which handle city fund, were all 'J , adopted,. -; .. ' ... , Aa to Probibykloa. - Seven precinct voted on tha queatlon af prohibition, under la local option, ROOSEVELT S ,:'V. T-r.-..- l1- and-foor-if them, 11 wtt-Mt ., t precincts II. 41 II nmhlhltlo waa - defeated. - It j- J fti.lM iA Kit St mil ST. City Auditor Thomaa C, DeTlln. City Attorney I, AMcNary -Hy Treaa n T . Warlaln wa'ra all reelected. Georg-e J.v Cameron waa eleoted munici pal. Judge,- the oppoaltloa being apm between two other candidate,- McDevltt and Petrain. 1 - ' " - TV. flir. An tha Tnavoraltr contest show lomt Interesting' facts, Kayof Williams received DUt mue more man ia half ih Ranublleaa vote that- was feaat tast Juae a oa.l l.tOO more than K tiaA In tha nrlmarlaa a month ago. H carried only IT preclneta rat .of the il tkaai arlvlasr him . nluralitlee being 4. i , ,-!. 14. iaUloVlIr-l. tlJt. IT and I. ills own precinoi, ..' i iti. Kim lit Vataa to II far Lane.' Lane' .ewn precinct gave Wil liams votea to i iut I TX '111 l m m f m imwi1t AHV Of th mmM.iipa rirarlncta. Hla Strensth waa almost wnouy iu.u,i""' precincts, where tne-aaxoon inxiuenca strongeat. But-'the heavy rote which hla friends expected to aee rolled up in the north end rauea to maieniuiaa, i n ,K. wiorllanna nt tha T.ana chal ..'a . -o-- - i-n-a nrf tha wunlnr tlvtn br Dis trict Attorney . Manning and Sheriff Word that all Illegal voting would be promptly punished. This operated to cut (awi. th. vnta In tha north and to about a - . ..nt rit the reaiatratlon and . --- --- - - Lavne sec urea a mucn larger preinii pec ted. The Fourth preoinct. wnaae tne registration naa oeen outrmgeuuBiT stuffed, wa remarkable for . the- light vote. ' ' ' wnilama waa especially weak In fiouth ..nt .Mln.t ila Ailmlnlatratlon on-ac count of the poor work that hsL been dona on the fUla. Every preoinct in South Portland went for Lane with the llama a small ytyraHty. On the at jaa tne jL,ane HnumQni was uTvrwuu lng In its strength, and In one Repub lican stronghold after another William waa mercUeasly knifed. - . Wattora X-Mt MaavtlTi A-large amount -of money waa lost by bettor who regarded Wllllama aa a aura winner. . On Saturday and Sunday odda of two and a half to one were freely offered, and some 'beta of three to- one are said to have been made. Two to one money waa still to be bad yes terday morning, and a few bete at those odds were made -during th afternoon. Frank Baker, chairman of the Republi can atate central committee. Is credited with - having . dropped- about- 14,030 through Lane's election. Ha waa pretty badly fooled In his forecast of the re sults, and waa ofTerlng at one time to bet any sura up to 110,000 at odda' of two and a half to one. Captain H.-W. Spencer-la a handsome winner, having backed Lane-freely, : " - - T '-; VroUMttoalat Tola Ugh. : - The Prohibition vote. waa very light, and It'la evident that many Prohibition ist caat their balloUor Lane. B. Lee Paget, the party'a nominee for mayor, received only 145 vote. The Boolaliat candidate received 4. In an Interview thla morning Mr. Paget aaidi "Aa usual th votera have proved them selves an. uncertain quantity, and with characteristic. Inconsistency -hundreds who cset their ballots against George H. Wllllama must at the aame time have Indorsed John P. Sharkey and t r.m.mti jchloh .indicates te me that, tha indiscreet arid Intemperate campaign utterances of Judge Wllllama had tnora to-de-wlth-hla defeat than hla official record and Incidentally so outraged the feelings of many Prohibi tionists that tney went to ne un (hiv aaameit tr feel thev oould' roak their rebuke more effectlv. -"The dereat or Mayor nmiame ami t aiiian haa helned " to teatore some of the confidence I lost In-the pri mary law when It waa made the means of securing their nominations. - ''One of the. most important lessons of the eleetlon leh folly of -concentrating nearly all tha attention of the campaign upon the principal office and allowing the balance of the ticket to largely go by default. . . "One result convince tm that the world actually eontlnuea tto move and 1 am rejoiced to -flnd-tht I am now privileged to-live not only in a prohibi tion precinct, but also In, a ward which m almost entirely, prohibition territory," ..............,...,.........................,...... Mil.. "jy PRINCIPLES, NOT MYSELF WON" -r "1 don't iook on thia as a -; -personal victory," r said "Dr. Lane this, 'morning. "It s- the victory .of the principle's for which I stood, -I-'was-.'. 'only the. figurehead, repre- senting these principles, and they . have' triumphed. ' I : haven't" got : the : big head "over it and I shall hot have. "Without any reflection on j ; Judge ".Williams, 1 happened -totand on the" side of ther . people who -wish "to, see the . ; business of the city carefully . . and - properly attended to. -The patient bcople whose in-- jOerests arc so often neglected ' " '" have in " this", instance- re--volted. They have intrusted y'1 their affairs to me, and my ": 4s sole inv shali 'besee1 that- ; they are not 'disappointed. J I. . ''I shall endeavor to give - the people an honest, busi nesslike adrninistrationy one f which shall b for the good X of the'entire city. - . : ' t ."1 have' been very highly ; honored by tne people - ci.' Portland ; and ' I . wish esoe-, " facially to express my appreci-' A aUUll yJl U1C 5513U1HS (jlli-U me .bylthe. good women of , -the city, for they gave it in: " Sbundance. , ' i ; . XU4,i MIK HERE IS RESULT IH OFFICIAL FIGURES All Precincts but One in and It - Will Not-Affect the ' -: Totals. MUNICIPAL LEAGUE'S MEN WON GENERALLY Gray Got the Largest Vote for CouncilmarifvSharkey the Smallest. Complete return were received from aUjthe preclneta today with the excep tion or Preolnctl; result In thl can not be had until the official canvass of th ballot I made, e Thomaa Gray, A. N. Wllla, John An nand, Dan Kellaher and John P. Shar key, the regular Republican candidate for councilman at targe, were elected by large majorltlea. Gray received 1.111. th largest -vote of any-candidate for the office. Sharkey' majority over A. F. Flegel, the Democ ratio candidate, waa about 1,100 votea. The return from Preoinct 44 will make no change In the results, - - . . Tha results' of th election of all elty officer other than the mayor, are as follow: " .. City auditor Thomas Devlin (Rep.), S,0; A. K Oambell (Clt), .81 K. Jones 8oc,). J..0I4; E. P. Northrup (Pro.), 671. --- -' -' City treasurer J. C Harrington (Soa). 1,441 : F. McKercher'(Pro.), tl; J. E. Werlein (Rep ). 11,111. City Ittorney L. A. McNary (Rep.), 10,744; Thomaa A. Sladden (Soc). I,l4. . Municipal Jndge-7-George J. Cameron (Reo.). .e0: E. Ladd (Soc.), 141; T. B; McDevltt. Sr. (Clt.). 4.110; El O. Mil ler (Pro.), 454; Charles Petrain (Dem.), 1.T4I. . , Counellmen af large John Annand (Rep.), 7,64; Thoma Gray (Rep.). I.2SI; Dan Kellaher (Rp.). 7,51(; J, P. Sharkey (Rek), 1,811; A. N. Will (Rep.), 1,4071 A. F. Flegel (Dem.), 1.488; Thoma Gulnesn (Dem.), 1.121;- I. IL Amas (Pro.), 1.117; A. E. Davie (Pro.), 715; J. P. Newell (Pro.). 776; F. U poa6n TPrd.-TrmrR . R; Bteeele IPHf.) 1.170; E. Carlisle (Soc), 1.080; Joh Finer (Soc). t; B. F. Miller iSoc). 1.174t A. Petereon (8.), l.r J. Treve (Soo., 767; 8. A. Brown Clt). 1.141; Hsrry W. Stone (Clt). 1.625. For and against prohibition: ' " : " For." Against Precinet II. 1 , 10 Preelnrt 4fl , ua..,,.,, -t .11' Precinct 41 17 Precinct 64 160 . Precinct 65. ....i 1J . ! Precinct 5. ............. 17 " , 71 Precinct 67 46 First Ward Robert A. Preston (Rep.) in, T, J. Concannon (Dem.) lis, r. Jacobs (8oo.) 17. - . . " " Second Ward Hugh W. Wallace (Tnd.) 606, L M. Sullivan Rep.) 617. Charles Duggan (Dem.) l'T A. O. Slmola (Soc) 17. J. ' Third Wsrd George A.' ' Dunning (Rep.) '411.-Fred T. Merrill (Ind ) 111. .Continued en Page .Two. - ... ' r , . ,:!'i:ii6-.4vvv 'vrii'aU'A ? I x'r' N v Nil T?rrffTiyXraerM7CT'Elcct ef rertland. IMilllinMMMMMilMMiM MMIM WENT FOR r , i- y&etoght' !n 'Seeons Counted V ' on i aS' Strongest for r '.Williams. ' "When, asked If he desired to make a statement'. regarding . hla . defeat, the mayor-replied: " ' t ! ' f I have -nothing whatever t ssy," and he-! would j discuss the queatlon no- fur ther, only that he. "guessed many Repubr llcana had failed to go to the. polls." --The following table shows, the vote for mayor ' by-rprecinct with one' pre cinct lacking: - - ' ' ' - ' ' ' n a - PRECINCT B. 9 First . ... SecondTT Third ... . 91 n4r- 6 78 1461 ......... T -106" Fourth- Flfthj 111 144 HI , 16 . '. 64 69 ii : 8 "70. 4 . 4 8 101 111 Sixth ..... Seventh ......... .j Eighth Ninth Tenth............ Eleventh ,..... Twelfth ......... Thirteenth ..'.. Fourteenth ...... Fifteenth v Sixteenth ,i i i . , Seventeenth Eighteenth . ..v.; Nineteenth ...... 98 rll t 130 114 105 69 158 "44 1I Twentieth ..,4... - 71 , Twanty-first .... 7 Twenty-second . ' 45 Twenly-third ..,. -111 Twenty-fourth....- Twenty-fifth ..., Twenty-sixth '.,. 88 Twenty-seventh ' . 101 Twenty-eighth.... 118 Twenty-ninth .... 148 Thirtieth .....I.. 61 Thlrty-frrst ..... 11 Thlrty-eecond .;. 67 Thirty-third 61 ' ' 14 11 85 81 '75 118 97 ..111 14 109 91 71 67 68 . 11 - 171 141 7T 100 86 98 -i 174 .. 118 -108 .144 177 .116 . 117 - .T 1 181 119 .114 ' 118 ?ii 41 8 . t . 1 ' 6 -S 8 'I 4 18 10 . ii '7 4 I ll lS It 10 17 19 r 8 - 4 e Thlrtyfourth ...- 80 - Thtrty-fh w-14 Thirty-sixth 68 . . Thirty-aeventh ... ll - 14 Thirty-eighth ..., 1118. t Thirty-ninth .... 141 5 Fortieth s. 165 15 Forty-first ...... 199 Forty-second ; .... :" 1 1 8 Forty-third .,... 174 Forty-fonrth .... 19 Forty-fifth 161 Forty-sixth' 176 Forty-seventh . .. 118 Forty-eighth .... 171 Fbrty-nlnth -...... 176 f 17 10 I : Fiftieth ......... 116 FTrtyTTr-t ...... 11 Fifty-second ..... ,120 1 7 tr ii : 7 11 19: Fifty-third 14 Fifty-fourth Fifty-fifth , Fifty-sixth . .... Ill riftyrseventb. M Fifty-eighth f.j., 101 JoUU tw7JIZ 111 4S MT1 I COURSE RUMOR HAS KCZAOSSASSINATED Report Instantly Denied at Ber Iin,T Whence It, - Em- : anated. ' ' ON LY? THREE. THOUSAN D ' ' SLAV SAILORS ESCAPED Fourteen Thousand Killed, Forty ". Six Hundred Captured in ' Rojestvensky's Sea Fight. . (Joereal iiiecUl Serrlca.) .Berlin. June 6. It. Is reported on the hnurse thst tha flir he Pt1 aaaaaal.- nated. It Is said-that a private tele gram to thla effect haa been received by the Mendelssohns, bsnkers for the Russian government. The Mendels sohns deny receiving ' any ' such tele gram, and the-jeport Is not confirmed from other source . NOT, SO SEVERE. tjithnatua to Bnq.nlst Xeavaa Questloa . of. Time "Under Disoussioa. (Jenrsal KpeeUl Bertlee.).. 1. 'r' Manila, June ' 6. It I learned that the ultimatum from Washington, to the Russian .Vice-Admiral Enautat la not bo severe as at nrat reported. The quea tlon of the time hla ahlps msy remain In port- W tHl-uiMler-dlacueBlonftThe breechblock of the guns of the three Russian crulaer have been temporarily removed. ' .' ' ConBUl-Oeneral-Rogers-at-.- Shanghai cables that seven Russian coll lore at Wooaung will be Interned by order of the -Chinese government, im torpedo boat deetroyer Bodry has been Interned at enangnai. MUCH AGITATION. " , ' aaaeaaaaasMB) ., ... . I i . . Creating of Trepoff as Dictator Causes Big: Commotio. UoersU Iperist Service.) St. Petersburg. June 6. Th esar" ukasarereatlng Governormeneral T re port dictator, la taken to mean that the program of reaction and euppreaslon haa beehLflnally determined upon by the eser. - The ukase is generauy tn the Influence of Procurator-Fooieaono-teff of the holy synod. . . There Is little doubt thst the ukaae will precipitate an Internal eriel end renew th agitation among workmen and liberals. M. Bouligan,-mlnler-of the Interior, haa already resigned, aa has Count Lamsdorff and Admiral Alexleff aaga protest against the imperial ukase, FOURTEEN THOUSAND DED. Tremeadoaa Iom Saffered by BiHhu Jtojeerreasky's Ifleoe Captured. - Una mil Joe-1al gerrles.) - London. June 4. -A dispatch to th Telegraph from . Toklo aaya th Jtotsl v JjConUnued pa Paga w , vanished mm "" ' , .. - - "."' " ''' ;- ';"."' r':' " e I :ar Only Ten Millions Tor Eighty in tqul - tabic Treasury ::t. THOUSAND AGENTS HOLD - - INDIGNATION MEETING Iniurancr Mn Thratn to Quit rOnlesa Reform Suggested by iiLFrtekrommitteftJrf rr . Adopted,r., iM. " (Joarnil BoecUl Serrlce.) -Kew.Tork. June 6. A director Of the Rnnitable Life Assurance society states that the surplus of the society will be fonnd to be only 110.000,000 Instead of 180.000.000. aa annunced In the report.. Aa a reeult of the June clrculerlBeued by Second Vice-President . Tarbell an Indignation meeting waa held today In thla city, and : more than 1,000 agent expressed - thelr detefthlnatloir - to quit the. company unleas tbe reforms sag- gested bv.the Frick committee were In troduced at one.. There are about $.000 agent in New .Tor City. ... Many at the agents" have been .nlTf led Induce" ments to change their allegiance. The 'particular thing about the Tar- bell letter which incensed them la that it ' malntalna the company la showing gains In business in th face of present differences, whereas', the statement to the board Friday showed that the com patty did 18.000.000 less business In Mag than In the aame month last year,. President Caasatt of the Fennsyl; vanla railroad today confirmed the re port that he ha resigned from the Equl table directorate. Jacob H. Bchtff. head of the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb A Oo., who for 11 years haa been a direc tor, ' haa resigned, aa haa T. Jefferson Coolldge and -Melville Er Ingalla- from th directorate of the Equitable. Other directors are expected to resign, ifnong them being I). O. Mills. Sharp criticism of the trentmeYit awarded the Frick report la made by all retiring directors, who state that they are disgusted with the acta of the man. agement, which, they denounce" for ex. travagance. and accuse Hyde and Alex. ander of having mlased opportunities to save tha society. arrva zs sxicotbo. (Jeernal RDectal Service.) Pittsburg, Pa., June 6. James Hazen Hyde has been removed from the direc torate -ef the Mellon National bank and the Union Trust-comosnv. The action tulhjws tli nwlgfatf6n"by' IL'CTFrlck that he will not again sit on the board with Hyde. EXPEDITION LEAVES TO PBSERVITSWS ECLTPSE (Joorael Sperlal aerrlee.) i Washington, June 6. The first of th expeditions to be made under the aus pices -f American universities to ob serve the eclipse of the sun which will occur August SO next Is scheduled to sail from New York today. Three expe ditions are to be made to various parts of the world where the eclipse will be total. namely, .to a, point near Cort wrlght. Labrador, to northeastern Spain and to a point near Assouan. Egypt. The treasury department haa made ar rangements to facilitate the shipment In bond of the apparatus to be carried by the expedition. Including a large quan tity of lenses, prisms, mirrors, tele scopes, photographlo apparatus: me chanics' tools and other necessaries. PRESIDENT CREATES NEW FOREST RESERVE (jfaraal gpacui tkr-rW ) Washington. June 8. President Roose velt hag signed a proclamation creating the Maury forest reserve In Oregort. It Is located In Crock county between" the great , Sandy - reserve and the extension of the proposed Blue mountain, reserve and . 61.160 acre are 'withdrawn. csjurTCA& mmiM hit, (Joaraat Special i.rtln I - Scranton, Pa June . Prominent me chanical engineers from many parte of thl country and Canada, member of th American Society of Mechanical en gineers, are gathered In Scranton for the fifty-first meeting of the society. The T. M. C. A. auditorium will be th scene ef the formal opening this even ing, when Wllllsm F. Viet tea, chairman of tha local committee, will deliver an address of welcome and President John R. Freeman of the society will respond. The business sessions of the convention will continue until Friday and will be devoted to the. reading and discussion of technical paper. They will be Inter spersed by vidua of inspection (o nu merous Industrial planta In Scranton J and neighboring cities and. towns, m Cyclonic Disturbances las Wisconsin and South ern Michigan. ; - TWO KILLED TEM HURT BY TORNADO AT CURTIS Over a Million Dollars. Damage -to' Property Churches ;.t t - and -rHdusee- Are .Wrecked. Vlarnal Baeplal gal ilea.) ' - TWvnt Mih. June f. Western Michigan wa visited by a eloudburat -last night, the worst In 40 years. Eighty city b.locka are Inundated at Grand Rap , Ids and 500 homes are surrounded by water. . i - - T..(. aeinrlca la ausnended In th Vi cinity of Muskegon, where th tos reaches 5100.000. ureal aamage is rv nnrtad t ram Ionia, where roads snd raH- ; waya.: are washed routr: A'.rete Mar- quette train waa wrecked at Ionia ty waahout this - morning. Engineer AK vord and Fireman Palne-were- klHed. In southern Michigan tne storm xooa fhit Tnn rf r Sanllao counties. Mary Smith, a child of a farmer near- Urban, and Elsie Ap-pieman- were killed and more than a dosen seriously Injured. Several houses were demolished. . :. . ' -- . - i . Floods and storms In Wisconsin last night and today caused a property Jos of over $1,000,000. Twenty streets 1m Fon du Lao are -under water and th 'r loss will exceed $160,000. At Chippewa Falls two boys were swept oft a bridge '- -and drowned. , At Curtis a eyclonlo storm 'did $100. 000 damage. Two were killed and ten Injured. The Lutheran ' church and 15 houses were wrecked. v. Bevere losses are reported from She- ...... boygan, Poynette, Portage and Barron. Many towns are cut off from wire com- ' municatlon. , v Dams went out at noon at Waldo and Bingham. -- - Tha entire corn crop of the.atat of Wisconsin is ruined, except tn high places and the damage from flood I growing every hour. Floods caused a , tosV of $50,000 each to Belolt and She r boygan. - The big' dam at Sheboygan Falls. . -Wisconsin, waa. swept awsy. carrying houses, and barns down the -stream. The-water-la running over the town 1 three feet deep. 1 All trains are stalled. -Several persona are reported drowned at Newton, an laolated ' town, Tralna throughout th entire atate are de- NATIONAL CONCLAVE .. OF AMERICAN EQJTORS (Joaraul Special garvlee.) Guthrie, O. T June 6. The 10th aa nual convention of the National Editorial association, for which Guthrie and,' In fact, all Oklahoma haa been preparing, for montha past, opens In this city to. morrow and everything ia In readiness for the reception and entertainment of , the hundreds of visitors who will be here ' from all sections-of the - -country. A 1 large party from the north will reacli here tomorrow morning by special train from Bt. Louie. The formal opening of the convention will take place, tomor row evening and the gathering will e- tlnue until the end of the week. At the conclusion of the eonvention a majority of the editors and their families wilt take an extended Jsunt to the, Portland exposition, traveling by way if Texas, Arlsona, New Mexico and California. GARDINER HARBOR IS DEEPENING ITS CHANNEL: (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Roeeburg. Or.', June 1. The bar Of the harbor at Gardiner on the L'mpqua river is reported to be deepening from the big fills which were deposited by the sediment of ths river during the winter. New" the -anuth" channel la -ald ' to be clearing out Thl channel at times has 20. feet of water at low tide, but I very harrow awd -difficult-to- navigate. Considerable coasting trad I carried en from Gardiner Inr the summertime by steamers. At all time when It la pos sible a fleet of lumber schooners la kept busy plying between that point and those of California, a large saw mill ba. . Ing opersted "there. No aid from, the government haa been used to deepen Ahe bar. and keep It In good condition though It haa. It Is ald by eaiaen. the most water of any port between the Columbia and the Golden , Oate el period. - ' Mk'm. ' AJrvvA& szt: (Rperlal tMetwfli to The Joer'.l Salem, Or., J'ine 4 The V- annual recital of the Colle.n cf . of W1!!mett iinlversltr V ' v r'M nil I t V. )