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ii fr m .INERO', 7NTG-' "FOR OALE." "FOR 'RENT." "LOSt" AND "FOUND." COST ONI ONE CENT A.VORD 'IN THE DAILY OR SUNDAY JOURNAL Hundreds of Wants In Today's Journal It Will Pay You to Read Them Read the .Wants Every Day. The Weather -Showers and cooler tonight and, Friday.. ... . JOURNAL CIRCULATION ' , ' YiaiEEJUY 1, WAS . , 9Q J 200 VOL. VII. NO. 43. , PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1008. TWENTY. PAGES. PRICE TWO SCENTS. ', JiAtnVSil MMMiME mm UU It i LTON Ta BE GIVEN SENATORSHIP IN 1912 Senator's Adherents :Concede ; Chamber- plain's Election Next June-Bourne to Be Knifed and Passed Into Oblivion Ful- ; ton Will Head Oregon Delegation to , the National Convention Charles, W." Fulton to the United State, aenate in 1912; Jonathan Bourne Jr. back to a niche of fame in Oregon' hall of political history This is the dream of Sftfatdr" Fultdif Mentis, which Vision' is to jbt wade to come to ; pass through the, earnest four-year-iong eirorts ox ine ruuon wing oi me Lhnrlnv throughout the state to out Fulton once more in' the place he is now soon to leave.' ' ' l- ::; . ' ' ;Testerday afternootf at 'the meeting ef the state central committee the in tention ."of Senator -LTul ton' r frtenda ""first, became . plainly ; .apparent," though ever el nee the primaries it nas oeeq working like yeast In a baker's trough until now all of the Fulton, forces of the etate ere leaTened. , ' , ; ! t ' fh breach betwn Fulton and Bourne ie to tie widens Until it yawna far epert, nd from this time on tn; . battle for the mastery .will be carried forward. Bcturne. end Bourne's effort wilt be ehown no quarter cy we menqs of Senator KuUon until the former is bMten back, if possible, out of all eem- ' , blanc of control of the eute end forced to beck out. of. the. contest, for reelee- ' tlon gracefully or be beaten at the polle in we cempaian oi . , .Bourse Oat. Out. ;. ' ' 'Senator Bourne ie not to be ellowed . to head the delegation 10 xne naimnni eomrentlon in May.-' if the -frlende of 'Senator Fulton can ; prevent it. la due to Senator Fulton that he hare that Mace and be shown that honor, his Tinrfa contend. . He is outspoken in his advocacy of W. H. Taft and in that tn In line with the administration at Waahlngton. He Is Taft's friend end Taft la hie. He should lead the dele gation and not Bourne, this is tha argu ment and it is winning favor through' ii th. ronlra nf the rmrtv. Yesterday - Senator ""uftons friends dominated the etats central committee and forced upon- the Bourne-Cake fao tlon "the resolution of Taffs indorse ment under threat of forfeiture of cont trol of the Cake senatorial campaign. Last night, it is now, claimed, a Taft delegation to the eUte convention from Multnomah, county wee selected by the county central committee, s . . No instruction was given the7 dels gates, but it is being argued that they ere - bound -bv the recommendation of the etate central committee. Whether that may. be or not it ia whispered that when the" votes are cast in the stato convention the Multnomah delegates will show a majority of Taft support-1 . " ... -.:' '. i L ": HS IS. L0N6W0RTH "COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE" ARB Washington Toliceman Ap plies for Warrant for Pres ident BooscveltV Daugh- ter-Too Speedy With Her Electric Auto. ' ' ere. "And Tsft spells Fulton Just at this time in Oregon politics. Out over the state. In every county, f the word has been' passed along ami the Fulton forces-are. lined 'up for the distant battle of 111. At every point Senator 'Bourne will be shoved Into the background If the Fulton forces can do the trick, and until the etate conven tion meats the friends of Fulton will be in control. From this time on Sen ator Bourne is to be ousted from every vantajre ooint of Dolitical nower h may possess until In 1912 he will be an eaay victim to tee Fulton force. Bourne, it in argued, has done noth In for the etate while in Washington has accomplished nothing and will, not to the ena or nis term. 'f Governor Chamberlain," In the private opinion of the Fulton leaders, will be the next senator at ,waahlngtonv win Assistant Ck)rjporation Coun sel Pugh Advised Patrol. man He Had No Evidence, but. Copper Thought Oth erwise. nlnar hia Mndina- battle with H. M. Cake Fultan-eiid -Chamberlain -in the United States senate will make a team hard to beat, it -being argued as a further contention, while Bourne an Chamber lain would make a combination not so strong, It la romlti IA ml nil that durinr -the time W, H. Taft was in Oregon re cently be spoke in the highest terme of Senator Fulton, holding him up as the best lawyer in the i United States senate. It la pointed out that Taft and Fulton are very friendly and from state ments made by the presidential candi date it is , now whispered . that should Taft be placed in the presidential chair, and Fulton aid in putting him there by leadln the Oreson delegation to Chi cago solid for the administration candt date, the reward would be a cabinet po sition, thus-bringing an honor to Ore gon which has not been given the state sines ueorge 1-1. vv imams neia. ine or- flce of attorney-general under the ad ministration of President Grant. But be this as it may. the fiaht Is on between the friends of Fulton and those of Bourne for the senatorship of 1911!. rand It is a fight that will not be allowed to lapso until the votes are counted in June of that year. OVER TWO MILLIONS If OR NEW HOUSES IN LAST THREE MONTHS WaBhlngton, April SO. Policeman Morris, on the Pennsylvania avenue quad, has asked for a warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Alice Longworth, daughter of the president, and haa been turned down. , The offense committed by her was not serious only automobile speed lng, but Morris vat told by Assistant Corporation Counsel Pngh, to whom he applied for the paper, that he did not have enough evidence against Mm. Longworth to fill the corner of fa la eye. ; ? Morri Is satisfied that he did his duty and can do no more. Mrl Longworth has a high-power electric automobile all her own and Policeman Morris declares she appears the happiest In it when she is preceding great cldtida of dust and running like a meteor. He has watched her on Various occaainna. until he became convinced that she Volcano ShoWS Signs Of Dan was 'Violating the speed ordinance. but now he knows It Is very difficult to get a warrant for the president's daughter more difficult than he thought It would be. JAP NAW SUFFERS BY EXPLOSIO Field 3Iarshal Oyama's .and Vice ' Foreign' Minister Chinda's Sons Among the "Killed Ship Was Blown to Splinters. ' More ' Than , Two. Hundred , lives lost "When Training Ship, Matsu'shima Goes to the Bottom All Japan in Mourning. , , ' " ETfJA THREATENS TO BREAK LOOSE HOUSAI Up to 11 o'clock today B1 building permits, providing for -new construction to the value of 1971,486, - were Issued 'from the office of' Building Inspector Spencer during the month of April. While thie total Is considerably less than that of May, 19Q7, ' it Is nearly 1100,000 greater ' than that of last month and. almost:, double the value of , permits issued in April, 1 904. . In less than four ' months Portland has recorded - building permits repre senting in cost i3,i2,so. uut or tnis sum more than $a.500,000 went Into tho l-new Y. W. C. At building. construction of new homes. - This record on Its face is a striking one. it spaaics lor neauny development In louder tones than any- other reports irom ino-realty woria. It is far ahead of the building renord made, in the' past four months by uiw other Pacific coast city, its nearest competitor being Los Angeles, where permits valued at sx,su4.2S were is sued between January 1 and Anrll if, This is more than $500,000 less than fort land records. The larsest oermit of the month was for $60,000 for partial erection of the COUNTY TO PUNISH BAD BANK NOTE MEN ' Though the federal authorities could not punish Dorsey, Baylor. Sheehaa' and others for passing bills of the defunct 'Merchants & Planters bank; Savannah, Georgia, the whole gang will be brought , before ine municipal court mis wsck. 'There seems to be, no doubt that a charge of vagrancy can be successfully laid, against them,, and as this offense ' can mean 90 days on the rockpUe the v smooth swindlers may after , all suffer for their bare-faced robDory, j. n. Savior, the member of the gang who "peached" on his comrades, wis locked up this morning-, charged with vagrancy. ; . He will be heard , Friday. : rorsey IS already in Jail, and .as the other members of the gang, R. N. Wells, and .Frank Cavlness, are known to the poHes they will undoubtedly be In the uuis in a. -aay or two. These men admitted that they had passed $3,000 worth of these greenbacks between San Francisco and Portland. They are not counterfeiters, aa the greenbacks were genuine legal tender uvLure ma vivu war. xiiey nave written nothing so they are not guilty of obtain ing money under false pretenses. The Savannah bank went under during 1861, Ever since the greenback have made their appearance periodically, as the piaies were preserve!. ,.. The secret, service has tried for 47 years to find these plates. -The work of the gang on the Paclfio coast if which give every evidence of being legal tender , until the closest examination is maas. j . . j How Hear Did Ihe United States Come ;: io Var With Japan ? ; ,' Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, XJ. S, N, and' congressman from Alabama, has writtcrcfour special articles for The Sunday Journal Magazine, the first of which will "appear next Sunday, and others will follow for three Sundays thereafter. . Captain Hobson deals with his subject in a manner that is both , entertaining' and direct He tells you'some things that you ought to know about our relations witn japan. - - , ; - POST-1 YOURSELF, ON THI IMPORTANT ISSUE Buy the Oregon Sunday Journal $ oof Aa444 HALE ON DEATH LIST Official Eepbrts Put Kumlei Lost in Soutfiern Tornado at 502; Injured, 2,298. (United Freaa Leased Wire.) New Orleans, April 80. Practically complete reports from the sections of Texas. Arkansas. Louisiana, Misslsslnnl Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee which were swept by the recent, tornado show that - the death roll reached a total of 602. and the injured totaled 2.2D8. The fleam use includes ail tnose who died in the hospitals at New Orleans,. Natches ana omer cities. . EDITOR BICKF0RD DIES IN CHICAGO (United Pme LMMd Wire.) r. ChlCSKO. ADril 80. -Li. H. lnkfnrt:. associate editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean, died this momma- from annnn- dicltis after, two operations had been periormea. .- q, . He,, came to Chicago 10 years ago from Denver, where he-Was mannirin editor of the Denver Times. Sewer Diggers Find Gold, j Centralis, 'Wash., April SO. Sewer late yes- diggers- wonting in sn alley terdny took out $1.60 la gold dust from a shovelful of gravel, and aa soon as the discovery became known the gold fever struck the cltlsens. Many at once started to work and gold-bcarln gravel nas quantities.. gravel has . been found, but : in small gerous Activity and Vil lagers Flee in Terror. (Cnlted Praia Leued Wire.) Rome,, April 80. Natives living in the vicinity of Mt. Etna are trembling in fear, many, of .them, fleeing in wild panic, because a serious eruption is hourly expected. For several days the volcano has been emitting great columns of black smoke. These are accompanied by rumblings and earth tremors throughout the is land. Crops in many places have been ruined by the ashes that .have fallen in great quantities within a radius of many miles of ine crater. , Oreat earthquake shocks, especially in Santa veronica, lingua ana uioss, are reported today. Snow has com pletely covered the mountain and a steady stream of smoke is pouring from ine crater. - REPORTED THAT HUGHES IS OUT Politicians Believe He Will Declare Wish for Guber natorial Kenoniination (Calttd Frets Leaaed Wire.) Albany, N, Y April 8 0. Rumors that Gov. Hughes will soon announce 'his with drawal from the presidential race and ask for renomination as governor are more persistent than ever, in spite of the unqualified denial of a few months ago. ;; Now men who have been In-the closest confidence with, the governor are named as authority for these ru mors, and there are few politicians who do not believe that in a short time Hua-hes will declare his wish for a re- nomination. - BWCOflEIDEIIT OF WINDING: OUT uomraoner eels sure or Pennsylvania Delegation- Is Guffey Victor? By' John E. Lathrop. ; (Woblugtou Hurmu of The JournaL) Washington. D. C. April 30. "I will have the Pennsylvania delega tlon In the Denver convention," said W, J, Bryan the. other day; whereat many scoffed, predicating their scof fing on the report, widely published. that National Committeeman Guffey, strongly anti-Bryan, equally strongly pro-Standard Oil, had won an un equivocal victory in the Pennsylvania primaries. While Sir. Bryan haa sometimes missed a guess as to a general election result in the nation, as, indeed, all pol itlclans flften do, he usually has made specific assertions as to 8 particular stato only when he knew , his facts. These "facts are: At least two thirds of the delegates chosen at the recent uniform primaries In Pennsylvania, are committed to Bryan.1 A majority of the dolegates selected are under absolute instructions. The state delegates to meet May 20 at Harrlsburg will show that these - al legations are true. Pennsylvania has 82 election districts, sending 64 na tional dlatrict delegates to Denver. The Bryan men eieciea ox oi meae , snu It U at is beyond question that the delegates large to ;be chosen May 20 will be tried Bryan men and that they will go WILL SPIKE JOE CflllliOII'S Guns Rebellion Declared Against Speaker by Roosevelt Mem bers, -Led by Townsend. (United Prwu Leased Wire.) Washington, April SO. -Open ; rebel lion against' Speaker Cannon was de clared today by a number of Roosevelt Republican members of the house, un der ithe leadership of Representative Townsend Of Michigan, and front now on until the close of the session there will be a battle royal between: the gavel and the big stick. v a netuion xor a conrerence or the Re. publicans to be held tomorrow evening was drawn up today, and 20 signatures were secured in short order. One of the first men to affix his name was Repre sentative Hepburn, chairman of the cau cus, and a big leader of the majority, who has long been dissatisfied with the so-called gag rule of the speaker, . Fleet Weighs Anchor. (United Press Lae4 Wtr. Santa Barbara, Cal., April . 80. The Atlantic battleship fleet weighed anchor at 6 o'clock this morning and sailed for Monterey, its next stopping - place. Toklo, April 10. In nearly every household of military tod naval fame today there s sorrow,' ;A projectile in ' the rnagaxlne - room of the "Japan ese royal training ship Matsushima exploded early this morning1 and killed over 200 men, among whom were the flower of youth of the em pire. .The ship sank to the bottom of the sea instanter and left none but struggling cadets, seamen . and officers and torn bits of woodwork over her grave. Field Marshal Oyama has probably lost his son who is listed among the missing. Vice " Foreign Minister Chlnda's son was killed and the sons of many of the best known naval of ficers and 'military commanders of Japan are among the dead." It la a sad day for Japan, recording as It does the very worst accident that ever befell the Japanese navy. . Admiral Moshjamatsu reports that the ship was blown to , pieces . while maneuvering ' off the Pescadores Islands and that , 141 of her comple ment, of officers, cadets and Bailors were saved. About 214 officers, cadets and sailors were lost. The disaster was .caused by the acci dental explosion of a projectile In the stock rnagaxlne. The entire magaslns was iirnltad and before any of the boats could be- launched the ship was torn into shreds and her shattered sections of hull went to the bottom like a plum met. The men near the magasine were torn to pieces by the explosion and others were hurled into the water by the terrific shock.', ' . Those below had no chance to? escape, and were either killed Instantly orwent to the bottom with their ship. ' The cruisers Hashadate and . ttsuk kushlma, which were : accompanying the Matsushima, quickly stood by and picked up survivors. ' k The captain and most of the other officers are among the dead. None of the survivors were able to explain the cause of the explosion, and as all of the men In the magasine perished it la probable that it will never be known. The Matsushima was the flagship in , the battle of The Yalu. and rarrled SO officers and seamen besides the cadets.. TOMORROW OARS STOP ON NEAR SIDE ONLY All Portland streetcars begin stop ping to let off and take on passenarers to Denver Instructed for the Nebraskan. on the ntlAt side of the street tomorrow Mr. Guffey did not win the victory . " credited to him in the press dispatches, mo""n; A J , ' ' ' so that the claim Of Mr. Bryan lately This Is the order issued by the com that he would have Pennsylvania at pany off lclals several . weeks ' ago, and Denver is grounded in accomplished ract. It is noted that anti-Bryan men are standing for the maintenance of Demo cratic traditions as to the two thirds rule in national conventions, a rule es tablished in 1832 and honored invariably ever since. The unit rule for state delegations is equally well established Democratic, tradition. Such a' rule maintained at Denver. , therefore, will give Mr. Bryan that state solidly; and even although sucn a rule were aD- roarated. he would have more than a (Continued on Page Seven.) MASHER CAUSES RIOT IN CIRCUS BY INSULTING GRANTS, PASS GIRL . (Special Dispatch to The r Journal.) ' Grants Pass, Oft, April 80. A free- for-all fight between Grants Past men and employes of the Norria sVRowe cir cus occurred here; yesterday '"afternoon lust before the ' afternoon performance of the show. Harry Smith of this city, accompanied by a young lady -friend, were on the show grounds; and as . they passed a showman made a vulgar re mark ostensibly to catch, the ears "f bmiih4,and his companion. Smitn ex- cused himself, i and at once throttled the showman, throwing him dowrt. He would easily, have ,woH the fight bad he been left alone, but a second show man rushed up and struck Smith on the. back ot the head with a heavy . club, knocking, htm senseless., , Then several bystanders . Interfered., and the. circus cry: "Hey, Rube,"' was. given. A - half score of showmen, armed with clubs, hammers and various weapons, rushed into the fight, and a hard-fought bat tle began. Before the officers could break 'up the 'fight, several men were badly ' Injured, and It was only upon the promise of the circus management that the original offender would be sur rendered to the officers, . that- a mob attack upon the show was prevented. Smith's injuries were very serious, and it . was thought for a time that he; was "killed, as the blow t inflicted was a heavy one. The man who struck him, as . well as the fellow who made the vulgar remark,; were both tuken Into custody bv the officers, and whl be given. a hearing before local courts., was decided upon only after- due-eon alderatlon for the benefit of th travl ing public, pedestrians, the drivers of vehicles, the company, and everyone concerned as well.. i. - . Where the streetcar crossings are In bad condition passengers may enter or leave a car by the front platform. , In-Los Angeles the number of acci dents has been reduced 50 per. cent, since the near-stop order went Into effect Since ; the law compels all: cars to stop at the Intersection of other ear track, and -bellevinw that the fmotormen will ba enabled to start their cars with less probability of accident, and that the near-stop Idea is - great precaution against accidents- of various kinds, the new plan was decided upon by Presi dent B. S. Joeselvn.- So be careful tomorrow and remem ber to take the ear on the near side of the street -, PAOIFIG OITIES ARE AT ME ROY OF ASIA. SAYS CAPTAIN HOBSON (United Press Leased Wire.) '- Beanie, Apra , so. That , congress erred In turning down' the Piles bill for the construction of four additional bat tleships 1 the ' statement of Richmond Pearson Hobson, representative in con gress from the Sixth district of Ala bama, member of the house committee on naval affairs and former captain in thS United States navy, who Is in Se attle. "Four ' battleships of the latest type was the minimum number that the navy should , have," said Mr. Hobson. ''V mud a fight for four and got only two. However, we s.iall make another effort next year.. , "With the IS battleships -of the At lantic fleet on tue PacWo ocean, the people of the east have been romli'.l of the need of more ( vssetw, i : cruise has done much to Intake a I n navy popular. ': "The forts on the Parlflc rni'-( . wholly Inadequate to wlihtirid i i -vadlng army. Four, expt-dunxis t. taneouely landed on the it-moat in tacted shores could quick I v !;. , . forts from the rear and tak t.-at Tacoma, Portland, Kan Kram-lm-.i Los Angeles wnhuut a iru,iiit the name, 1'here is no arm of tn sorvlrn i could be' mfblllx.i qtili Ktv- enn withstand . the lnv'ir. If a Asiatic army ahitiii! aifn- (' . const dunnit tli r,,ri- ; f ship flfft, i! e v.: , v . .. WUattn, '
