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MISSOURI REPUBLICAN "COLIN III TAFT CARRIES Unofficial Retunis Almost Complete Give .Taft the State by 935Hadley, Re publican, la Undoubtedly Governor Stone, Sehajor. With Missouri In the Republican columns Tart will probably have 887 electoral votes. Maryland has mno for Taft by 1 4 votes and it may require an official count to de termine the final result (United Preaa teased WIra.) St. Louis. Nov. 6. This afternoon the returns show that Taft has carried this state by 936, according to unofficial returns which are almost complete. Hadley, Republican, is elected governor v.. it th. rout of the state ticket appears to be safoly Democratic. The early es tlmates showing a big plurality for Bryan decreased constantly and the state swings back Into the ranks of the Rftnilhll.'PTl nanv. Wnra It twu jib place as the -mysterious stranger a ttnrnov-(it-neral Hadley. Republican, undoubtedly has been elected governor over Cowherd, Democrat. The nomina tion of Senator - William J. 8tone .for reelection over uovernor uotHJi . Folk is assured and Stone's majority 1 now estimated at xe.uuu. iriv. nrf nnaalhlv alz Retmbllean COB ...n .kvt iwHtii elected. Eighteen counties and a few scattering precints had not reported today but It Ja believed these will Increase the vott for Tart, ? Baltimore. Md., Nov. e.-Returns at 11 o'clock today Indicate that Taft will carry the state by a plurality of 14 votes. One county 1 yet to be heard from. The official count was begun to day. The result will not be known posi tively until It is completed. FRISCO'S VOTE OX .SUPERIOR JUDGES (tatted PrtM Leased Wire.) San Francisco, Nov. 8. The complete vote In San Francisco on auperioi Judges was as follows: For the long term, four to be elected: John E. Hunt, Republican and Independ ence party, 0,J4; John J. Van Nos trand, Republican and Union Labor, OREGON BY 25.000 Incomplete Returns Indicate That His Plurality Will Not Fall Far Below That Figure lias Lead in Every County of State.- (Continued on Page Thirteen.) STOCK MARKET GROWSWEAKEEt Loses What It Gained at Yesterday's Session of the Exchanges., (United Prut Leud Wtre.1 New York, Nov. B. A reduotlon In the price of steel rati was made today by the United States Steel corporation, according to reports by Wall street. The extent of the reduction is said to be quite heavy, but the exact alse Is at present unknown, ( .- Vniinwlnar the announcement of a cut in steel prices there was a pressure among speculators to sell securities in the stock market today. London was selling American shares today and the losses there were about as heavy as dur ing any recent session. In the New. York market the leaders1 in yesterday's advance were the ones that weakened first today, Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific being among them. The loss sustained by UJnited States Steel preferred was due entirely to the report of a lower rail price, St. Paul lost 1 points, owing to selling pressure ind taken as a whole the market was . Just' opposite the professional tone of yesterday.' Taft's plurality in Oregon, according to present indications, will be slightly less -than ' 25.000, though It may run a trifle above that figure. 'Returns are still incomplete: In a numher of counties,: but with about 100,000 votes counted and reported, Tift has 69,160 and Bryan 85.181. These partial figures give Taft a load of 23,979, which will probably be Increased by about 800 or S00 votes when all precincts are heard from. The combined vote of Debs. Chafln and Hlsgen was about 6,750. three quar ters or H Deing cast mr ueoa. in Douglass county alone Debs received 380 votes and in 'Multnomah 1,456. uutelde or Mulnomati county -rafts largest Dluralltlea were In Marlon. Washington, Umatilla, Lane, Coos, Doug las, Clatsop ana (jiacnamas, e carried every county in Oregon. Marion's Taft Plurality. (United Press LeaaeU Wirt.) Salem, Or., Nov. 6. According to an unofficial count, nearly 1,000 more votes were cast In Marlon county for United States senator last June than for presidential electors this week. The total vote for United States senator was 7,001 while the total vote for president ial electors as far as Is known. Is not more than 6.800. The vote in six small precincts is yet unknown and cannot he determined until the official count is rnmnlATMl thin .VAnlnr Judge Taft's. plurality in Marlon cou'h ty now stanas at aoout j.ouu wun utile change that it will exceed 1.600. The best fiauves obtainable aive Taft 3.629 and Bryan 2,166, or a plurality for Taft 01 1,473. 827 Plurality in Clatsop. (Special DtDtcb to The Joei-nal. Astoria, Or., Nov. 6. Complete un official returns from an preclnots in Clatson county give Taft a plurality of 827. The vote received by each one of the candidates is as follows: Taft 1.484. Bryan 657. Chafln 48, Debs 284, tuagen s. Wasco Gives Taft 1,824. (Spertal Dlpatrh to The Journal.) The Dalles. Or.. Nov. 6. Complete re turns from Wasco 'county give Taft 1,- (Continued on Page Thirteen.) HOODLUMS GET -Mill OF JAIL Festive Custom That Has Been a Bane in Vancou ver Gets a Jolt. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Vancouver, Wash., Nov. 5. Boys in this elty who make it a practice to secure handouts whenever there is a "wedding will probably be a little more careful in the future if they have any dislike to spending a few hours in the city bastlle. Last night, following the wedding of Miss Haack and Charles Cox. a crowd of boys assembled In front of the home of Mrs. m. ti. Haacx ana aemanaea a handout.. They were given money and went away, only to return again after spending the money. Again they were nandied witn gloves, and tne iiura ana fourth times they reappeared. It was at this Juncture that the police took a hand and arrested Henrv White. ftalph Nicholson, John Shafer, Ray Bateman and W. Weldon. They were Riven an- hour or so to think matters over and then allowed to go after prom ising that they would not-be guilty of such conduct again. HENRY IVA TTERSON'S TRIBUTE I TO WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Louisville," - K jfc Nor. 5.- Reviewing the presidential election, Colonel Henry Watt'erson fin the Courier-Journal today said: - -,. "The result of Tuesday's election shows conclusively that a great majority of the people of the con trolling section of the union are well 'content with things as they are; that it is better to endure the con ceded shortcomings of the party in power than embark upon an unknown sea of continuous agitation; that Bryan meant this, while Taft meant rest; in short, a dollar, thought tainted, in hand, is' worth a bush full of patriotic abstractions V ! "The. idiosyncrasy; of the: time is commerce. As, in the last century, it was liberty reaching out after institutional ' freedom anda measurably attaining it it is now materialism reaching oat after markets. The average voter of better; education and intelligence takes no thought of the hereafter and is even more indiffrent to the heretofore." " He is completely engrossed by the present. That which Bacon calls "the wisdom of our ancestors' makes, as little appeal to his reverence or reason as that which' Burns calls 'light from heaven' make ,to. his. imagination.. He. would not exchange the current crop reports with a rising price list for all the books that were written on political economy. He either carries the fool of 'vicanage with him or else rajses rough dust to blind' his eyes and disarm suffrage. "The result shows that we oversized the spiritual and undersized the material in the hearts and minds of the people. .They were deaf alike.ta. precedents, to reason and to eloquence; for nothing could; surpass, as nothing has ever equalled, the personal canvass of Mr. Bryan; its wondrous. lucidity and 'power of statement; its splendid intellectual and physical endurance; its unanswerable argument. Nor did Igna tius or Loyola sweep through a world of incarnate evil bearing the cross of Jesus to triumph with greater force of inspiration and truth than did the heroic son -of Nebraska traverse a .land gaping with curiosity, but too.busy over its work- and play to consider any danged to the immortal, soul .of, its. constitutional fabric. .... . "There is something yet better than. being president of the United States and that is the real sense of duty done. Tilden will live in-history when Hayes is forgotten or execrated. History, will say of Bryan that, tn three great popular movements, clouded sometimes by errors of judgment and obstructed X lways,. 'by.-i''CDrru'ptiDita.r.'.re 'knowbyVinjurrnountable corruptionhe led sublimely; that he set before his countrymen the standards alike of God and truth; and that he went,, down beaten, with clean hands T and high repute, carrying with him the homage of patriotic men." " i : y M;vu h i: imH if, hs v , i v-rSk t: i , Ah y : h 4 ' . I' U1 j ' v . y III' I rr 1 - 'i lt 4 c J J VAULT LOOTED TESTIMOfJY IS OFSTIPED William Jennings Bryan. IS TAFT'S Oscar Straus WU1 Probably Be Only Jixception in List as Jlerewitn Prepared Loeb Will Be Hon- - ored by President-Elect. (Special Dlipateli to Tbe Journal.) Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 6. It Is a good guess that, with the possible exception . of ' Oscar 8. -Straus, -.for secretary of commerce-and labor, President Taft will announce, the following cabinet Marcb York. . I . '1 - 8eor'tarr of f the Treasury -George Vttn- 1m Meyer, fHachuetts. - Secretary of 1 War Luke ' E. Wright, Tennessee.1-:. ', , t Postmater-G.'neral Frank H. Hitch cock, Jlasiachusetts. - - - - 1 Secretary-of-- the' Navy Wtinam iiOD Jr. ' - Attorney-General Frank B, Minnesota. ' Kellogg, Becretarv of the Interior Jrfmes Uarneld, Ohio, , - . . ' Secretary of Agriculture James "WiU son,, Iowa. v. 1 , Secretary of Commerce-and Labor 0s!ar:,8. Straus, New York. ' -Congressman Hepburn of Iowa may succeed Secretary Straus as hoa4 -of the coMinerce and labor department. ythe secretary to the president will be Fred W. Carpenter of Minnesota and California,' - . .. ., v - , BfLLY GATEfJS IS WIRED LUCKY (trotted Prem teased Wire.) Salem, Or., Nov. 5. So far as Is known, W. N. 3&tens, secretaryio' Gov ernor Chamberlain. U the only- Dereo- crat in Oregon who won a-strlctly par tisan election wager. An overiealous supporter of the president-elect bet Gat ens that Bryan would get no more elec toral votes than did Parker four .years ago, even though Oklahoma' five elec toral votes,- which were almost certain to be cast for Bryan, had been added to -the list since Parker's campaign. ' The wager was a, small one. .- SEClfliS WAGES REDUCED (Celtta Preas Leased Wre.) i fjO Cirosse,. Wis1., Now S. A; reduction to $1.15 per day irt the wages of section hands' and the discontinuance 'of all Im provement work here-.were opderedtt day by the management of the Chicago, Milwaukee ft St Paul railroad, - - . :-r:: t " f " ' MR. BRYAN WIRES CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT-ELECT (United Presa Leasrd Wire.) Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 6. Con vinced by more complete returns from the doubtful . states and close states that Taft has been elected, . Bryan today sent the following telegram: yyilliam. -Taft, Cincinnati, Ohio Please accept my Con gratulations and best wishes for the success of your, administra tion. rsigned) - "W. J. BRYAN."' . EUROPEAN TRADERS BEHIND THE BOYCOTT (United Press Leased Wire.) . .Tokio, Nov. "8. It is Intlmatedhera by. Japanese diplomats that the sudden outbreak against Japanese and Japanese good In Hongkong was carefully and cunningly premeditated "by Chinese of ficials. Veiled hints are made that the Chinese, were inatlfrated to the plot by European merchants. .': The possibility of a furtner" compli cation with Japan .was avoided accord ing to the Japanese, by the quick action-of the Chinese authorities in pre ventlnar the mob f mm. intuetaar -JaTiawi e meiVhftiita and their shops, although? some or tne, more, fanatical members eluded the armed police and did. nom-; lnal damage, M j - -j . SOCIALIST VOTE JMT 525,000 (United Pre Leased Wire.) Chicago, Nov. 5,-Seeretary Barnes of tha. natk7naT committee of the Socialist party today estimated that the total Socialist vote would not exceed 555,000. The vote of Illinois , according to Barnes, will barely reach 50,000. Okla homa showed the largest gain, with a vote of 17,000, compared with 4,400 in 10. e The Prohibition committeemen re port a gain in the vote but give no es timate of its s lie. G. OJ.'ClfflS OKLAHOMA YET -Waited 'Preaa Leased Wlre.l , ' Guthrje, Okla.. Nov- 8. The official; count will be required to settle the con-( eBslonjirse--i--thw "Third district which heretofore has been a Democrsthj stronghold. Morgan apparently- has de feated his Democratic opponebt by 1,000. The-ttepbUloang still cUlin the state .to Taft. , ;v, . v-i-.-' .;. 4. - Old Leather Carrier Satchels Stuffed Into Boxes Which . Had Been Robbed Short- aces.- discovered After Straus Has Left Postof fice That several leather carriers' satchels were found In the vaults In boxes sup posed to have been filled with stamped envelopes was brought out this morn tng In the hearing before United States Commissioner Cannon of Charles A. Straus, the suspended cashier of the Portland postof fice who has"-been charged with embenlement. They were discovered May 6 or 6. Straus left the office In April. The stamped envelopes supposed to have been in the boxes were worth 8212. That some one else got the money is evidently to do tne oerense or Straus, who has been charged with a shortage In his accounts of )4,O0O. The defense has also endeavored to show that there has been considerable personal feeling between the postmaster and Straus for some time and that incidentally poli tics nad Deon injected into tne (tamo. Miss Clla E. Bollman. who has been In the cashier's office three -years as Straus' assistant and who is now In oh a rite of the work, was on the stand this morning and stated that she had heard a conversation between Mr. Mtnto and Mr. Straus which was to the effect that she (Miss Bollman) was to be re placed by Dr.i J. - i, etorey, from "Wash Ington, who had worked in the. depart ment there. Mr. Straus. It seems, objected to plac ing Storey in his office on the grounds that he was incompetent and that he was not a stenographer. Kin to Enters Denial. Postmaster Minto on the stand yes terday afternoon denied that he had brought Storey to Portland, saying fhat tne department orncialn had asked him If ho had a position here for Storey as he had requested.. to be transferred. He said that he had never dhicussed the matter of replacing Miss Bollman by Storey and that his Intentions were to give the finance clerk additional help. Miss Bollman said this .morning that she had overheard the conversation about putting Storey In her place. Charles J. Schnabel, Straus' attorney, clashed with the postmaster while on the stand, and it was necessary several times for the commissioner to Inter fere. It was Intimated by the attorney that Mtnto had written to Washington, endeavoring to have Storey placed. This (Continued on Page Thirteen.) SAWS HECK WITH OLD KlilFEBLADE James Doran, 60 Years Old, Attempts Suicide at The Dalles. STRONG FOR " DEFENSE ; State Despairs of Convicting Small Boy Charged, With Killing G. De Mars Witnesses Say Lad Was Cursed and Threatened. ! - Chase Jackson . Keid. The case of little Jackson : Reid, charged with the murder of . George F. De Mars , at Government Island, just outside of this city and -within the lines of the Lewis and Clark fair ginds, Is one of the most re markable that has been tried 'in Portland for years. 7 The . boy was supposed to have shot the man down in a fit of bad 'temper and without provocation. Today the defense presents an entirely new side of tha shooting, the details of which are of more than usual interest. There is every probability that Chase Jackson Rled will . not be convicted of the murder of George F. De Mara. It it the general opinion of those who have listened to the testimony that tha state has failed entirely in Its attempt to prove Its case and the chances are that the Jury will acquit the 13-year- old homicide, ' perhaps without leaving the box. . .. : mlt this. During, the cross examina tion of Iafe Pence, a witness for tha defense. Deputy District Attorney Triad (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) The Dalles, Or., Nov. 6. Cutting a deep gash In his throat, severing the muscles over the windpipe, James Do-1 honorable career before him, if It were Vreeland. In reDlv to Mr. Pence's state ment that ne believed the boy had an ran, 60 years of age, attempted suicide. In this city Wednesday 'morning about 5 o'clock, while Intoxicated. He used a dull pocketknlfe, which was found. closed, and covered with blood, in his pocket. Doran was picked up by Chief of Po- Lflce Harper about 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, wanaering aiong tne alley back of the Hotel Gerllnger, weak from loss of blood. He was covered with gore and cobwebs. Indicating that he must have been In some out-of-the-way place when he attempted suicide. Doran was taken to the police station by the chief, and .Hr. Love was called. Doran was' taken to The Dalles; sana torium, where Dr. Lowe dressed his wounds, taking several stitches. He states that Doran may recover If blood poison does not set in. Doran Is a bachelor, living alone 10 miles from this city, on a ranch. He has fits of mental aberration and drinks heavily. He has no recollection of hav ing tried to kill himself, which he did by- "sawing" with the dull . knife, and which must have taken several strokes to do. as the wound was, very Jagged. not stopped by the trial, aaldi M don't think .the boy is . in imuch danger. - . A large numDer oi witnesses were put on by the defense this morning, in addition to those examined yesterday afternoon. The defense la that the boy killed De Mars in self-defense, f sarin ir that the 'man was about to do him anil the other children soma bodily, injury, possibly to kill them. The most Important witness along this line was Vivian Ham, who wit nessed the killing and -who testified that De Mars was running at the, bar with an up-raised . oar, cursing and swearing and threatening to "fix htm.' "Hon said, when, first called to. the stand yesterday afternoon, that with hi little uistT he was .fishing on the lu land on the day of the tragedy. . He beard a man swearing and using vile language, and started to warn him to .stop because there was a littH -girl 'within hearing, but he saw that the man. who was in tfie'boat, was in earnest and was rowing rapidly toward the land. Thereupon he told his little sister to re main where she was and he would so what he could do. "The man rn the boat was rowing as fast-as he could," said the witness. ; "and (Continued on Pag FivO GROW OR GO .. -AA :ff-m The question of educating the $ep!ei point where they : will call for, ant demand, Oregon-made goods iaone that should.be .: given a great deal of publicity in order to bring it home to the f n- sumer," said M. G. Thorsen, of the firm tl Fisher-Thorsen coiii my.. From our own experience, we find when people leartr thatijwr go ..! T ; are just as reliable as the well-advertised eastern.Unes, they pttron- I X.v be us in" preference, But the point of calling for ipreou-rt'a'!'i Z .goods' is absolutely .necessary if we are to keep pace with ntir tup- X -idly .-progressing sister" statrf-to-the north and 'south rf u, It k. ,"' a. .1.1 . . : . n...A ' r f., lli. . t f 1 . a .. tuurr i'uc'i.iiii wt Ai B"- . v tut v'v'it: i.'rK'i-' - , ' - assist ia the growing prpttss and patronize their hon- :mr; : . turers."-'-.- - ; -., , . - ' . m-M m
