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Speaks of His .Travels
wand:IofProgresS: of
Democracy , Abroad.
Roundly Applauded.
(8dmII Dtopatck to n wrB1.
Nw Haven. Conn., Au. II. WI)Hm
J. Bryan and party arrived Thla after
noon and war graatad by etaU. and
municlfwl authorltlea from all aaotlona
ot-New England. Mr,' Bryan. aspreaaad
orrow wlien informed . of the death
of Kdward Boaewater'of the Omaha Be
arid aent a telegram of condolence foe
btmaelf and wife to Mra. Roaewater. -Bryan
waa greeted . by . Lieutenant
Governor Woodruff and Mayor Btudley.
Aa aoon aa the carrlagea were filled, the
braaa band atruck up a- march aTftd the
i praoeaaloir' started across the city to
10 jieaaauartera or in uemacratro city
committee. The carriages were he
"Stfrtven Into Court street, where at the
Musje hall a 4uncfteon . waa spread.
. Mayor Btudley made- the opening
peach and Lieutenant-Governor Wood
ruff the welcoming speech In behalf of
the stale. There waa great applause
when Bryan waa Introduced. He aald; .
V' Maw Xavea peeea.
' "It la with great pleasure that I
com Into New England to be - wel-
. coined so cordlalfy.- Thla la a non-par-
' tlaan ocaalon, and I have given assur
ances I will be non-partlaan, though you
must understand it la very .difficult for
on in politic to apeak and not have
(Continued on Pag Two.)
fjmsW PREPARE TO
llLLUUIHLO IU IULLUUU . ; - -:"'.. Move'--Means
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Editor and Founder ofDmaha Bee' Succumbs
7 to Heart Failure-After His Recent
: Defeat for the Senate. - ' '
(Joarnsl 8pedl Bervlee.) y ..' ":'
Omaha,-Aur.- E1" Roewater,
editor of the Omaha Bee, Just defeated
' for nomination by th Republican for
the United Statea senate, . long promi
nent in all th stirring evente In Ne
braska, waa found dead In the dlatrlot
' courtroom In ths Be building by Judge
Troup thla morning. Apparently - he
went in and sat on a benoh In th rear
i roam ,to rest and fell asleep. . Th judge
' found him reclining easily .against a
1 radiator, it naa Deen nia custom w
rest la varloua quiet part of th build
ing. '. "' ;"
; Hla' family did not notice his absent!
, until nla wife missed him from bed at
; o'clock this morning. The city waa
' then searched, fearing foul play. No
trace waa found until Judge Troup en
, tered the courtroom.- , ,"; V
Mr. Rosewater had Just returned from
addressing th Q. A. R, at Waterloo,
Iowa. He waa last seen entering the
building at o'clock last night, H
it.. . -. rn.im.rn InanMaril Man lk t KaB
was in.
tate, his policies amounting to jis,vu.
Mr. Rosewater waa apparently In
good hltb yeaterday, -.
' ; Oafeat Battened Death, : -
It la .supposed that, hla defeat for
th senate hastened hla death, aa It has
been hla ambition to wear th senatorial
. toga for many years.
Mr. Rosewater last week celebrated
his slaty-fifth blrthdsy.. H wa born
l Snhami. urfcint to the TTnlted
Btates in 1141 when 11 years old." H
became a telegraph operator at II. and
MMMMHMMMtmMMMMMMml
H aeLa saw It 1 fm Who have contributed to
HtnOtlQ the WriterS the most interesting and
noteworthy symposium
Z that ever appeared in " Portland paper, and which will be
published. ,...,, .-:;.'" .;..'
1 ArrRalph U. Easley, secretanr of the National Civic Federa- i
x , tion Bishop potter, Samuel Gompers,, Upton Sinclair, Joseph x
Mediii Patterson, lames - a.
1 .Murphy dWrnm labor in Politics
2 D. Alahon, who speak tor .. t " t ' '
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fair.
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Commoner Declares He
Owed It to Himself
to Express. Views on
-ublicjOwnership.K!
' (Joarast gpsdal service.)
New York. Aug. 11. The brightest
light of the political firmament are to
day realising that W. J. Bryan last
night, under the guls ot 'delivering an
address, effected a eoup d'etat and at
tered the political structure batons theTr
eyea by auggeatlng what Is today dialled
aa the "Bryan platform." Such Demo
crat! leader as- Lewis Nixon cannot
decide whether to accept it aa aafa and
label It "Damoeratlo," or to reject it.
It la known that every effort of the
conservativas" . was xbaosted , U -the
endeavor to perspade Bryan to tomlt
governaaant ewnarship from hi speech.
The would-be censors failed utterly,
All day yesterday the leading man of
the party worked with Bryan, aooordthg
to the atory peine told, to Induce Dim
to eliminate what they regarded
dangerous. ' ...
Xryam aim linav .
Bryan's, refusal waa Arm, He la aald
tOi have told bla advisers that he did
not pretend to apeak for hla party or
to bind It In any course, pat that - h
owed U to himself to declare hla per
sonal views. He declared that h did
not believe it necessary to call a mass
meeting for any man to decide what Re
himself think a Hla views on govern
ment ownership of railroad were poal-
(ConiMiued oa Pag Two.)
served In th United Bute military
telegraph corps from 1S61 to lt, when
he. went to Omaha aa manager of th
Paclflo telegraph. - :
A few years after' hi arrival ,ln
Omaha bo founded -the Bee, of which
he was still the owner at th time of
hi death. In 1171 ha was elected a
member of th Nebraska legislature.
and sine then ha played a leading
part . in atat and . nation poutica.
He haa been a member of th national
Republican committee, since: Itttj and
cams within a few votes of being
elected senator In 1IIL In ltit he
was appointed United State mint com
missioner, and ha been th representa
tive of th United Statea and via pres
ident of th universal congress sine
U17. Laat month ha 'returned from
Rome, where he attended th laat ses
sion of th congress.'.
; ' Promoter of Sxpoalttoa. ,r
Mr. Roaewater was th original pro
moter of the Trans-Mlsstsalppi exposi
tion at Omaha in 18ft. and was a mem
ber of it executive committee in charge
of publicity and promotion.
When he atarted th Be he waa prac
tically without fund, but by hi vigor
ous personality - soon - mad th ; paper
successful and it ha for 1 years been
the leading - Republican organ In Nebraska.-
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He leaves large estate, principally
Invested In Oman -realty. He leavea
a. wife and several children, th oldest
being Victor" Rosewater.-managlng-editor
of the, Omaha Bee. - , '
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PORTLAND, OREGON, "FRIDAY EVENlNGrAUOUST"'3118C5. SIXTEEN . PAGES.
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Ny,. Photo o ,WUUarn Jeoninf gryan..
6REAT OViuil AT' G1DEN
Bryanjs Given ;Most Enthusiastic Reception
:i in New York Ever Accorded Rrivate fe ;
CitizenM the United : StateSeT
Uovraal Spedsl aervles.) ' '.
New Tork, .Aug., II. Mr. Bryan .was
th recipient ' ytrday" afternoon andH
laat night of the, moat eothdslaatlo ova
tion ever tendered an Amerloaa tltlsen
I. MtwA 1ie - VMIM k. llMft Af hla
arrival at th pier at 4 o'clock until he
finished his hour and a half address
before 10, 00 people at Madison Square
garden It waa-a. continuous ' ovation.
The wildest cheera greeted his .every
appearance. At th hotel l.e was fairly
mobbed by hi admirers, at the recep
tion following hla arrlvnl.at the bee-1
telry. he shook hands with many thou
sands, at th Madison Squaro - garden.
where he spoke during, th evening, ap
plause greeted hla every sentenoe, and
hi flrat apnea ran oe caned lortii. pan
demonium which shook th building for
eight minutes. ' '
Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland pro
tided over th garden . meeting. Brief
addresses were mad by Governor Polk
of Missouri, Augustus Thomas, the play
wright, and Harry W. Walker of the
Commercial Travelers - Anti-Trust
league,, under whose auapioea - tAe -ve-ceptlon
waa given, An overflow meojr
Ing outside th garden ' in Madison
Squar. waa addressed also by Mr.
Bryan. - Here he was personally iroeUd
by W. R. Hearst, whoa appearance at
a box at th garden and In th -iuare
waa enthusiastically cheered. , ;;.
- Xearty Weloom Prom AIL . :.
Outside of the garden, hundmd of
thousands blocked the street for hours
waiting to catch a glimpse of the Ne
braakan. The garden Itself we a aea
of color. Every person In th audience
had an American flag, and every oheer
was accentuated- with th waving of
24,000 star and stripe.
Governor Folk receive 1 an ovation,
and It waa several minutes before ho
could speak. He voiced the welcome of
th assemblage -and spok of Mr. Bryan
as "Loved by mlUiona, for bla hand are
clean, hi heart Is pur and hi aoul
haa not been touched ..nor tainted with
scars of unearned gold. Nor in him
alone do w plac our-trust, nor in
aught that I human, but rather In
those eternal truths which h has loved
and served so well. , . v ' v .
Augustus Thomas welcomed Mr.
Bryan . on , behalf .of. 1 the commercial
travelers, stating: "The welcome 1
not for the politician, buL.tAthe 4aitt4
not by a parly, but from a people. W
feel the. pride that an unofficial clti
en of the repabllo haa stood In palace
and beside ancient tomb and haa-been
a man' full mature." , , , .. .. -
.' Tom Jokaaoa's Xntiodnotioa. -
Mayor Tom Johnaon of Cleveland
than Introduced Mr. Bryan aa "th first
cltlseo of the republlo not yet the first
offlolal, but th drat cltiaen .by common
consent. He la a Democrat, for he be
lieves in th honeely and Intelligence.,
He 1 a Republican, for h believes In
the republican form, of government.
Men aay ha Is eloquent, and so he is,
but th charm of his eloquence Is his
sincerity. His strength Is his moral
courage. Everywhere he ha ' been
hailed as th American idoat of democ
racy. -, u.. '. '
- -"Million r Just learning th. Irre
pressible conflict of democracy's strug
gling ' agatnat privilege, that Is being.
a(d in U tolled Slat, -Xb M
V4
Just-beginning to learn that American
democracy muat abolish special privl-
la. or special .prlvUege will abolish
Amerlcan democracy.' They are - Just
beginning to learn their need for th
democratlo inspiration of another Jefferson-
and ths tlemocratlo leadership
of -another Lincoln. And with it they
are learning that they have among them
a simple -cltlsen whose qualltlea of
leadership mil th world recognise.
They . are learning that for ten year
they have had in training aa able, sin-
4 democracy f ,11 rm-
Iltical parties against th entrenched In
terests or special privilege of - every
kind and degree. They hav com to
know th true man that 1 our guest to
night, .William J. Bryan. .
"Mr. Bryan, w weloom you.aa an
Ideal Democrat, who la worthy to lead
and competent to lead. W welcome
you a an American cltiaen in . whoee
preeminence we . hav an honorable
pride. , W 'welcome you because we
trust you; w welcome you because w
lov. you." - i . . v
' ; Bryaa's Aokaewledgmeat. -''
A Mr. Bryan Acknowledged th thun
dering spplaus at th garden from 10,
000 throats hi eyes filled with tear
and h trod nervously from aid to
Bid of th narrow platform.
"How can I thank you for"4hla wel
come homeT""h aald.' "My heart would
be ungrateful if it did not consecrate
Itself to your service. , It was kind to
prepare thl reception. It was kind of
Governor Polk to come her all th way
from Missouri, It waa kind of Tom
Johnson, that" example of moral cour
age w so much need In thl country,
to lend hi presents here. It waa kind
In you to recompense m fully for being
absent so long from my native land. I
thank you. I return to th land of my
birth, more proud of my cltlsenshlp than,
sver before. -' - '
Then he continued hi address, which
will be found on an Inside page.
FLIP 0 A COIN SELLS '
- y RICH MINE IN NEVADA
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' (Josroal taedsl Service.)
Reno, Nev.. Aug., II. The nip of a
coin today decided large mining trana-
oUa- in the- Sly -dlatrletr John- -MaaM
musen holds nine claims north of Ely
In Pine county and for these he wanted
1100,000. W. J. Dawaon of Butte, Mon
tana, superintendent of ' th Montana
Butte mine, made Magmueen an offer
of 171,000. The men- falling t coma- to
terms decided to abide - by 'the result
brought about by the flip ot a coin.
Dawson called "heads" and Magmueen
"tails." The coin landed "heads" and
Dawson "got - the elalms for $71,000.
Dawson represents ' a Pittsburg syndl
rste which controls 10 claim In this
section.- - . ; '- -
MUTINEERS HANGED - J
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
London. Aug.- It. A dispatch' from
Helslngfor ears the sentence of death
upon th mutineers were carried out to
day, I soldier and three civilian
bolag hanged. , '
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Either
Combination or Else
PreparationJorJlost
Former Would Be Death to De
velopment in Pacific North-
. west, . While Latter Would
Mean Progrestf and . Opening
Up of Valuable Country.
- The - Union Paclflo railroad com
pany's stockholders have authorised an
Increase of f 100,000,00 In It preferred
stock; th New Tork Central an Increase
oe-1100.000,000 of it common stock, yet
unissued; the Chicago Northwestern
stockholders will on October II vote an
Increase . of 1 100,000,000; -th Chicago,
Milwaukee It Si Paul haa announced an
tesue of Its. 000,000 common stock voted
four years ago, which with 140,000,000
surplus' gives that road ample funds.
Do these preparation a mean war, or
combination? ...s
- The ' question, i . of . tremendous Im
portance to -. th Paciflo northwest,
whose traffic i th stake in -the rall-
roaa- - gam. If combination or""bbn
trol" - of the great ; transportation
forces, under on eet of individuals, can
be avoided, and ' Independent railroad
building now planned 1 carried forward,
th result will be immense' development
and Increase of wealth in th states of
Oregon, Idaho, Washington, - Wyoming
and Montana. It a coalition I brought
about and railroad construction throt
tled. It wUl mean another long period
of suppression of individual effort and
progresa tn th development of . th
north coast country, - where need for
transportation 1 greater than in any
other part of th world, and where great
development await railroad construc
tion. . ' .
- " sport Prom th Bast, .
Repeatedly report have come from
the east in th last two weeks alleging
that Harrlman had succeeded in corral-
Ing Milwaukee, than Northwestern and
New Tork Central. Thee report have
found more or lea credence, but there
are atlll atrong grounda for doubt.' One
story, most likely to be true, la to the
effect that a struggle for control of th
M"wauT.! ''?r'''-W"tl Bunw- PromlnentTreflty
ana in. prmai niMiamaai ui in.n
roads. In which th Union Paclflo party
hope to toff threatened construction of
th Milwaukee and th Northwestern to
th Paclflo coast
It 1 ssld th alignment 1 about Ilk
this: J. J. Hill, J. Plerpont Morgan and
their foreign capitalist friends on on
Ida, and E. H. Harrlman, Schlff. Wil
liam Van Home and the Canadian Pa
cific on th other, with a neutral party,
composed of James H. smith and Wll
Uam Rockefeller, principal owner of 4
th Milwaukee, standtfrg on . neutral
groond and Jq a position to' at any time
tuTfl th cal for that road. .' A con-
(Continued on 'Pag .Two.)
JAPAN ESE
IS FATALLY HURT;
- On - life forfeited, approximately
115.00 worth of property destroyed, an
Invalid woman possibly fatally Injured
and a aerie of thrilling and miracu
lous escapes were th feature which
characterised on of th moat sensa
tional flrea In the annals of ths city,
at Fourth and Pin streets, shortly be
fore o'clock thl mornlirg.
- A quarter of a block of rookertea, th
property of Captain R. R. Thompson of
San Pranclaoo, Inhabited aolely by
Japanese and Chinese, were o badly
gutted that th rain wfll have to be
Heroic work qf th firemen and th
Invincible courage of th Japaneee oa
eunenta of. the building prevented a
terrible holocaust. . Every on of . th
100 sleeping Inmate acaped with th
exception of Klmur Tsmagata, who
rushed back Into th seething flame
In an endeavor to save hla little horde
of gold and perished In the attempt.
Mra. K. Hamada. )uat convalescing
from . a - critical operation, waa hurled
from' a' second-story window by her
hunband'to aava- her from Incineration
and now occupies a cot at Bt Vincent'
hospital,, hovering, between Ufa and
death.
, Number of th little brown men de
scended from th biasing structure
with rat-Ilk agility on slender swaying
Improrapty clothes-lln fir ascapea and
Impromptu rlothea-lln fir escape and
f mm death ty loop-ng into tli arm of
the brawny firefighters.
It - was at about' flv minutes "to $
'clock that flame shot out of th rear
PRICE " TWO ,
NO ROBBERY:
SAY
... 'V
Fake Robbery Planned
by- Him. to Dodge
-His Creditors, Who
Hounded Him.
Letter From East Telle of Exten
sive Operations by ' Which
Many People Are Alleged to
Have Been Mulcted of, Big
v Sums of Money;. ! 7- ;
Anton Prlts, brother of ed Prlta,
proprietor of a north end musio hall,
who related a startling tale to th polio
yeaterday of having been robbed Of
19,400 by a wily female pickpocket, con
cocted th story, according to hi at
torney, H. C. King, with th intention
Of throwing hi eaatern creditors off th
cent so he could return In safety
Moneasen, Pennsylvania, . from - which
city h waa compelled) to tie to Oar
many owing L to . alleged schemes of
f re.nsled flnanoe that rival thos ot Mrs.
Chadwick. . - . , -
' Prlta confided his intention of notify
ing th police that he had beJ robbed
to his attorney and. was counseled by
mm iionniTwnn defiano of th
advice given by hi legal adviser, Prlt
appeared - at police headquarter yes
terday and, with a great display of ner-
rousness, told inspector Bruin th re
markable atory of th crime. -
' Carried Money Witk Xim. ' ;
' Th money which Frits claims to hav
loat he never carried In hla pocket since
arrival here several month ago and
a large portion of th fund he brought
with him are inveated in the Hal Tour
ing car In British Columbia. Attor
ney King positively declares that h
know where th balano of Frits' al
leged Ill-gotten coin la at th present
tim ana that th man never loat a
10-cent piece.
. Frits' operation In Moneesen, Penn
sylvania, hav com to light through a
letter received by a well-known mer
chant, who 1 prominently ' identified
with a large fraternal order of which
Frits 1 also a member. - If th allega
tions contained In - th communication
are true, the victim of th fake rob
bery 1 on of th moat crafty achemera
at large In th country.- Th letter 1
It explains In detail th alleged opera
tlons of Frits, by which he mulcted a
number of poor residents . ot that city
out of sums ranging from' 1,00 to 110,
00.. Th letter follows: - -;:
. . Story of BUa Opera ttoa. -
"Received your kln( (letter of June
llth, and thank you.ver much for th
Interest you still tak tn behalf of my
affair. Thl man's (A,.Frltsa) achem
wa to put up buildings on vacant lot
he had In Moneaaen. borrowing money
from . hla frienda while th building
were In erection, glv note, but request
not to put th note on record, as li
(Continued on Pag Two.)
D IES; ANOTHER
IN NORTH
Orientals Awake to
Face ' Terrible Death
in Flames Which Wipe
0ut Quarter-Block.
of th threestory fram building, at
th northeast comer of Pine and Fourth
streets, rwitn incredible awlftneas th
fir greedily x at It way through th
structure. A passing pedestrian' turned
tn an alarm from box 14 and th appa
ratus arrived promptly on the ground.
By thla time th fir had been com
municated to th adjoining brick atruc
tuae on - Fourth, street and th old
Thompson home in Pine street Battal
ion Chief Toung, realising that the fl re
fighting fore at hla command would be
entirely Inadequate to cope with th
situation, .Immediately turned in a call
for engine 7. .,
' Werk of Beseae Beglaa. .
Above the rear of the flames could
be heard the cries of th terrified Jap
anese aoa Chinese woman aa4 everx
CENTS. SjAwlf JivI'cCT '
T O AT SI
nmi n nnnn
DUILU iiUIIU
Says United Railways
Project Will Now Bo
Rushed on ltsr Way
toJCompletion. ,
Declares No Amount of Knock
. Ing Can . Prevent y Road Being
, Built and Is Willing to Wager
that Its Construction Will Be
Accomplished. ; ' U ';' "
Preps ration for th building; of th
line of the United Railway vompany
In Portland ar going on and C E. Loss,
th contractor, who la now in control of
th property, la devoting th larger part
of hi time to this undertaking. He re- '
turned thl morning, from , San Fran
cisco, where he went, on buslnee con- '
noted with It. .- -a-
Obllgatlon of th former . manage
ment ar being taken- car of and a new .
bond issue of 11,000,000 I being printed,
which will b completed within th next
few week. 'Th Central Truet company :
of. Calif oral--at -8., Jfrancleco, will be v
th trustee of th bunds. Mr. Loss,
when asked concerning, th poaalbl at.,
feet of local "knocking" of th enter
prise, ld: .
"Th road will be financed regardlss
of opposition that' haa been made
againat it. Although; t hav spent con
siderable money lately, and am not so
very flush, I will; meet any man who
want to speculate 6n it and I will de
posit a certified check for 11,000 that
th road will be built, and that th en
tire amount of flnanoe necessary will
be In Portland at th doapoaal of th
company within four . month. That
sounds Ilk bluffing, and will not look
wall in print. -But I am qtHt aura of
what I aay. I baa my atatement oa a
cable I hav from a responsible foreign -banking
house." ' -
Regarding the disposition of a larca
supply of eteel rella that hav been
piled up in Portland for soma month
for th building of th lines, be aald
the rails had been originally ordered)
from Hoflua A- Co. by th former man
agemcntt. and note Jtad been given la
payment. He said:
"When we first took over th stock of
th company 1 needed five and a half
tion of th Redding V Red Bluff road
nnder bond and I paid Hoflua Co. th
cash for that amount of th steel and
sent It to Redding. Thar I no signifi
cance in th Sal of then rail. W
Imply will hav no us for them her
for some time, as th city line muat b
laid .with. . seven-inch rail Instead of
thoaenow on hand, and as Hoflua Co.
oould accommodat other customer who
required rail Immediately. I. told them
to go ahead and sell them with th
nnderatandlng that w are to be Tur-i
nished with th other kind of rail wherf
we need them. I understand th Hoflua
customer wis th Portland Street Rail,
way company and that th rail will
probably not be taken away but will b
laid right bar In th city." ' i
,000
-END FIRE
biasing window framed a frighten!
face. No tlm waa lot In mounting
ladder and th truckman took up their
work of reecue. . -
On almond-eyed geisha jumped from
the aecond atory into th arm oi
Truckman Rablor and-eacaped without
Injury. Another climbed dowa tb aide
of th building but feir before sh bed
completed th perilous descent The
Jape on th ton floor, finding escspe eut
off by the stairways brought rope Into
play and descended hand over hand.
wrm-nfm . wuaow.
' Lying on a couch of pain on th sec
ond floor of 171 Pine atreet waa Mrs.
Jam Kamada, who but four werk a
underwent a serious operation at -Vincent'
hospital performed by
Rand. Seeing no other alternatlv. t
husband, an employe of the Oaks, th
a mattreas out of the. window end t
eleeplng hla wife In hie arme thr -to
th sidewalk, a distance of t
The mnttress failed to hreek t
of th fall and In addition to a i
Injury sh wss Internally Injur' I. .
erel of her country-wn carm 1
tenderly Into a m-iirhhori hoiiee r
this morning she we removed ep'm
recommendation " of Pr. Herd, to
Vincent hospital In an amula!f
ateet re " " Saars.
Kimura Tm- . t.-.e vlrt' i
fire, met death In a oet tim
After escaping to tn r s
h suddenly recollected Iht
saving, amounting to r-
iCoaUau4 oa i
$25
,f