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. , . t i 4 - i 1 . I t. NT TIIC DAILY JOURNAL IS VJOCEUTSFiCOPY Sunday Journal S cents; cr 15 cents t week, for Daily and Sunday Jour rial, by carrier, delivered. . The weather Showers tonight 6r Friday; southwesterly winds. jouniiALcncuiATio;; YESTERDAY WAS Si W r- r X VOL. IX. ' NO. 118. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1910.-TWENTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. SUZFF p AU krpm (cm imp, r it yr ,7mTHMXvl j SLA' mm . 1) REPUBLICANS IN. CONVENTION, -.. -' -TO NOMINATE' CANDIDATES; BOWERMAN'S CHANCES IN DOUBT ON FIRST BALLOT TO HEAD TICKET Otherwise Bovvennah May Be .: Defeated; Simon Not Com promise Candidate; - Organ - ize and Adjourn to 2 o'Clock. .. The Rpubltcan state convention met this' morning t 10:25 o'clock at the Ar '"tnory '; effected .- temporary organlpa ' lion sr electing W. C. Bristol of Port and temporary chairman, John H. Gib son, of Clackamas county temporary sec - rttacy ?,;Alkmf .andJE..; V.: Littlefield temporary assistant Secretaries, appoint- ipg' committee 'on credentials, "resolu v tion and platform, and permanent or der cf business. Then the convention listened to old time speeches-by Walter Todze. Wallace McCamant, George Brown and others and adjourned Until 2 o'clock this afternoon. :l!v y t The, great interest of the delegates 1a centered about the nomination-of a can dldate for governor, Jay Bowerman of Condon la given, the lead by the consen sus of opinion, though there is a feeling that unless he fit-cures the nomination on the first ballot he will lose it. In that case It 1 believed that i dark horse candidate Will land, the nomination, and C. B." Moores, formerly of Salem and Oregqn Glty. but now of Portland, is be in g groomed as that dark-horse. ' ,wnl Kot'Huyjort Sfcao.' All hope . of landing the compromise nomination jfpr Joseph Simon seems to have vanished, Ht liavipg been fotmd that the candidates from over the state would not rally to Simon as a compromise. , . This momin all of the candidates f6r governor were busy as bees about the imperial hotel. , The Bowerman headquarters were thronped, so "wero , the of pr. Andrewt C Smith; ; James Withyeombe, AJ. H. Ackerman.; C." A. Jc hns ahd C B. Moores were also active - (Continued on Page Three.) JWashingtonRepj'esentati Belief Speaker Maligned by Insurgents; ' to Whom ; He v; Denies Standing in 6; P. ,r-': ' (Ppecltl DltptAJo7tavjMirBaLl-L- , Vancouver, wash., July 21. In . an address delivered before an open meet . Ing of, the Commercial -club last night, Congrefismnn W. W. McQredie eulogized I Speaker Cannon ; and carefully defined nis position- In supporting ; him. 1 Mr, ; MeCredl said In part: .. ' v vnnn i -weni to congress 1 was an amateur and am still an amateur. The air was filled . with Cannonism and In- , surgentism. There are about 18,000,000 .ers in mcse United States and no two of them are exactly of the 'same mind on all subjects. There was much in . tij, air about Cannon. He Is a tall, piatelj-xold fellow, 74 years of age, but ... a pretty active old fellow- for 74. - "I probably -received some criticism for the position I took, hut to us here, it makes no difference whether Cannon returns .to congress or not; that is left , to his constituents. - There were, some things In favor of Cannon that I could not, reconcile, and among them was his long tenure of office, which Indicates that he must be a good , man. Every , 'body vspoke. highly pf him,' even Pemo , crats and insurgents paid him glowing personal tributes. He la an honorable, straightforward fellow, and at all ban quets he was tendered ovations, equal t to any president - " i Calls Cannon Urns and Good." ' r "I did not come here to praise Can " non, hut, as V said before, , his long tenure of office imbues us with the belief that he Is true and good. Only one man, Henry Clay, held the speaker--f-shlp longer r his name-has. gone down In .history as a great and good man, de spite the abyss that was heaped upon shim: - - , -'. "It s untrue' when people and news papers say that the epeaker wiolds more , influence than the president; the chair v man of any committee is looked to by Mtethe, piQwbera, ,sn(l ,Baturailyii.alda, in. fluency but as to wielding mora influ ence than the president, lha,t 'Is not ' true 1 , - , - 1 - "When he red hot fight was on, pat-. , ' riotlsm waa In the air, and though we ''lost We won, hecaiiKe we stood on prin- tOonllnued on Page Thirtecu.) '..vV.-'.-. r-:.-V ' v I 11 H . ' I , , t I : . . - ' :. :r::::.:.:.:-::v:.:-.::.::.: : .. . ; ,i,y : yjj 7 Jay Bowerman, Who ' Aspire Japanese .Forces Forced l to ' Make Their Subjugation . : Matter of Buf chervil v fUnltM Frees Lttted Wlre.t .Victoria.. B. , C, July; 21. News of real war, in; the Japanese, - Pormoaan trouble; was, brought; by . the! steamer Ava;Maru.ThV Japanese forces are now building- entrenched lines 'with blockhouses . flanking' f,the tTWrttoans,;j thetotal lengtaad ifiate being, SOTmliea The fighting . Is 1 now' thickest In sthe" dense , Formosan forests and In . the mountains three to four- thousand feet above the" sea, where the Japanese wv, tlllery Is proving almost' useless ' The Japanese are now.mounting guns on high bills, from which the native strongholds can be bombarded. The Japanese In five detachments, resumed fighting July 2 . and toove' the natives, from their mountain stronghold "with heavy 'loss. The Japanese losses are Scant in attack compared with those during the bivouac, when the natives creep, up and begin sniping. , , t , ... j , St. Louis Man' and Los , An geles Woman Charged With . ' Stealing Diamonds. : 1 - ' i United Trew Leated TVlr.) St. Louis, Mo., July 21. Mrs. ' Annie Bholes of 104 Angeles 'and Joseph . H. Lucas have been arrested, charged with the theft of S000 worth', of diamonds from the home of Mrs. J. C- Jones, wife f a prominent St. Louis attorney. Lucas was arrested in this city and Mrir-'ShOter arttrortrT.tiear'W,no' is an electrical , contractor, waB first . ar rested. ; He admitted his guilt and under pressure named Mrs.' Sholes as, his .. ao complice. Learning that the woman was t Petrolt, th police arrested her there today, Mrs. Sholes, It Is said, has MAN AND 111) ACCUSED OF THEFT two sons at Los Angeles. : . " to . iiu bernatorial Honors . vrT-, . , .-, i win prKr iin r rr i iiiiiii.p KrriiKiu rn r 0 1 lIILUILttlL0 j i UUUUL 1LI UIIIILIU i . . ,, . . , , THree!Uerv5 Felted; in. Battle of f Rocks and ;Bulletsat Sixth , anS ; Irving V Streets; This ' .JC -Vv 'v v , 1 . ' - ' ' ' ' . vln an attack, mad? by. striking' team- tiers' uetr ,ciiii i)a f rvingi wn i ffao btlock thls'momlng, fV..E. Trultte, a (Striker. ,or :0 QUImW street, was shot In the, right leg and N. Kruer, era ployed iby 4 the. ; Oregon .Transfer ' com pany, was struck In the head with rocks and rtwo bad; scalp-' wotfmjs Were In flicted. Another strikebreaker, ' whoso name Is Ford, was slightly bruised by a rocK. '.. ' - ' ' -i Kxner. 'Ford - and two ; otlwsr "strike breakers had finished their breakfasts In a restaurant near where' the fight took plaoe. . They were assaulted as they came out. At a. signal given 1 by the assailants, & crowd of men poured out of an adjoining saloon and joined in the attack on the strikebreaker. One rock struck Kruer, In; the back of the head, cutting open the scalp.' He turned and was struck' with "another rock. In self defense, he then pulled his revolver and fired four times: Trultte dropped to the sidewalk . at the second .shot and the other men scattered.. During the affray, shots i are said to have . teen fired by some ' of ' the assailants of the;, strikebreaker- , , Kruer went to- the Barr hotel, where a number of strikebreakers are quar- (Continued on Page . Five.) census Bureau gives . y RHODE ISLAND 542,674; CAPITAL CITY 224,326 i r . I Y,MA Prete Leoted 'Wlre.l ' ' ".Washington, ,' July . "21.,The population' of -Rhode I Bland, an- nounced today by the census bu- - reau, Is MJ.74. This Is an in, crease of 26.1 per cent over h 4 ; population In 1900. ' ' J 4 ' , The Increase,' entitles ' Rho -Ia4aid to- awotker ' representative- In congress.; f -.; - .The population of the eity of -; Providence Is 244,829. an increase of S7 per cent The population Of Newport Is 27J4. ' ' - - v. AT WFJ TEN MEN KILLED Breechblock of 12 Inch Gun at Fortress Monroe Blows Out While' Making Ready for . Shot 'at 6000 Yard. Range. FINAL EVENT IN COURSE , AT INSTRUCTION SCHOOL Lieutenant Van Dusen Suffers . Broken Leg and Three Men Slightly Injured. . Trjnlted Preu Letted Wire.) Washington. July 21. Ten men re dond. ' two dying and five slightly In Juicd as a result of thi premature ex pljslon today of rilte gun at Fort refis Monroe, Virginia, used ' lh mimlo wfc.rfare.-v.; 'f" -J- -"? '. The accident occurred Just before, the cloce of the officers' school of, lnstruo tion. when the big guns at the fortress wor being fired - a target. The breech of the big gun was blown open and the terrific force of ths exploding shell sent it back Into the pit where the gunners stood. The dead: - - -Sergeant Harry B. Hess. Corporal. Charles O.. Adklns. privates: Albert Bradford, Roy Dubby. r Jonn Wv Chadwick, .;-;lc.. Cir4 W. King.. . ; Albert W. Smith; Andrew . J. Sullivan.' . ' .T.imes H. Turner.' k y , , H Adrl. f ' .' mt'atally Ihluredf f Private Arlett Adrt. Private Judd B. Ucean.'-"' , ' J Slightly Injured: : Lieutenant George 1 Van Dusen. Privates Orvllls T. Bainey. . Ellsworth 7 Hoffman. Charles a.. Parkee, and William Sulsberger. -- ' The storr of the, accident was given out at the war department today. In n official statement the number of (Continued on Page Thirteen.) Anti-Cigarette League to Ask jMrs.' Longworth and Miss Sears to , Quit Smoking It Sets Pace for Others. New Tork, July .21. "When women of the beat families In the land openly encourage cigarette smoking it Is no wonder , that thousands of poor, silly working girls are slaves to the habit. They adopt It because they think it la smart I shall appeal to Mrs. Alice Roosevelt-Longworth snd Miss Eleanor Sears, . as leaders among women, to forego a habit that spreads havoc among tnpse who can ill afford the tax on health and intellect." ' Thus Miss Lucy Page Gaston today announced the inauguration of a cam paign In New York, to wipe out cigar ette smoking among women. Miss Gas- ten has devoted the greater part of her life to fighting against those who ' dear in cigarettes and has- been successful In several states in , securing, the pas sage of anti-cigarette laws. To Writ to fiUss ' Sears. ' . Miss Gaston 'declared that the prac- i tice of cigarette smoking among, women, started with actresses, society women and college girls. Now it has 'spread to tha working girl, who thinks It Is "smart." "I shall write to Eleanor, Sears, Bos ton society girl, whom I regard as the spokeswoman for the cigarette smoking women.'1 continued Miss 'Gaston. - "If she Ignores -the letter I shall visit her In personi-v"s.-',ij";'" -..j "The Anti-Cigarette league; committee will vtsif Mrs. Longworth and'ask her to juit ' smoklng.fi' We shall try " to re form cigarette smoking women and will start- on ,-MisaSeara-nd44r. Long worth. ;. ; . ' fieforming Man Too Big". . "I thjnk it Is an, outrage that women of their type should encourage the habit We object , to women smoking cigarettes, either , la public oi private. The extent of Cigarette smokinjamong women "In'pf IVato' ja 'aslbnlBhlhg. There are such women, of old families and large wealth,; in New York who-are as depraved S rthe unfortunate women walking the streets.' '.'.;. "We will also go after the boys. Re forming men is too big a proposition for myself and the league Just yet" i ' i .... . ' . IRISHMEN WITH GERMANS IN WAR AGAINST ENGLAND n Eloquent Address , Before 1400 Hibernians at Banquet President Cummings : Out lines Policy of Sons of Erin) ATRI0TIC WORDS ' BRING TEARS tedipts Flag of Freedom Will Surely Be Planted on Irer; . land's Hillsides: "England Is In a tottering' condition, England fears Germany. For this reason the Ancient Order of Hibernians Is af filiated With Germsn-Atnerlcans.';';;If there shall be a war between Germany end England, every red-blooded Irishman in America will fight with Germany, The price of our aid will ba the free dom of Ireland " . t! The expression from Matthew. Cum- mings, national .president; of the- A. O. H., and the tremendous applause the declaration evoked from 1400 Hibernians at the banquet in the Armory last night waa a revelation of the hatred that burns in Irish hearts against the Eng lish. It was a revelation of t practical advancement of definite plans for the liberation of Ireland from English rule. 4,Nothlng is Impossible to the united Irish traoe," concluded President Cum mings," significantly,- "We shall yet plant the flag of freedom on Irish hill- (Continued onrPage Thirteen:) r: Dr. James With ycombei Who New league Puts Itself Under I Dictatorship Third Term v "Not Contemplated'"; Jf; i ' . . t it: . . (United Prws teteed Wire ) ; Kansas City, July 21. Tha .Roosevelt National league, the obJecV of which ls to ' perpetuate the "Roosevelt 'pollc'leai' was organiied here , last ' night ;and planning to .branch put into other states. The league was formed by Kansas City business men, wjtn a, sprinkling of politicians, - Governor Hadley T of - Mis souri, Governor Stubbs of Kansas and Senator Srlstow ; being 'among thosa , The league, accordin to Its founders, stands for "honest and cbyrageous pub lic officials; for the! Just.'admlnlstra-' pon' ofm&Hrtarrgtthwir-tftgfrlmtif nation." and for the supremacy of. pub ic benefit ov'r "private 'Interest.?. The Ir-atua does ' not ' indors 4" third ' " . .,'..-. 1 T .... . terms ,for ,Robeveiv bu$ .aska hlni1 to lead In the campaign for the selection of a president , and to write tha na tional f FLAMESUCK Windyeers and Mill Valley Is Saved Smoke and Heat Cause Much Discomfort Rains Are Needed to Quench Forest Fires (Speelal Dtupttch to.Tbe Joornat) ' Albany. ,Or., July 21. A. thick mantle of smoka hangs pall like over the Wil lamette i valley. ' -The Sun resembles a ball of) fire, and ar times la completely obscured. The smoke cornea from forest fires In the Cascade mountains. It is now known that , at least three, lives have' been: lost and Intelligence; Is mo mentarily' expected; of other deaths." On Tuesday afternoon a fH-e .broke out three miles east of Detroit, from sparks irora a donkey, engine belonging to the Hoover Sawmill company and Philip Richmond of Salem, Or.; .Jay M. Brookes Of Craw fordsville, . .Or.,, and ..Prsnk: McGoe of Clearfield, Pa," lost ; their lives .when they attempted climbing the hill some 400 yards' to 1 secure their tools in the lumber camp.' ?.'v;; ' .' ' '' "V" ' The trip' seemed safs enough, as the wind was blowing' eastward; but 'when the men had ' nearly reached-their ob jective tolnt: the wind suddenly changed and the fire came In behind them. They attempted to reach the top of the ridge, but as It was very steep. they were over taken and Incinerated. ' , railing Trees Prevent Bearon. Falling "trees "prevented'a "search" and the fate of the men, was unknown until lat Wednesday afternoon. . A searehlng party tn ; went oitt and ; , found t the charred remains'. of Rlohniond and Brooka lying together and McGoey about 100 vards distant - Their remain will be. shipped!- to their respective homes tot burial, unless tha body of McQoey- is vWould Like' to Be GoyerhoK V Administrator of Estate of Ohio - Detective Who Was Killed ; by Mob Demands $5000. i' (TTnlted Preta Letted Wlrt. 'Newark.. Ohio, July 21. Licking county haa an opportunity to make pe cuniary amends for the murder of Carl Etherlngton, the Anti-Saloon league de tective, who was' lynched by a mob In Newark .after he had shot and KU1"1 a face owner during a raid on blind tlgera George Bohn... administrator, of IXherington's estate, " has made format demand; on the-county for "23000 dam "j: :;:.- ';,-.,.. ' .'. ?'...' '. ";- " ,'-,; Second Attempt to Float Bonds,, i Hood River' Or.. July .21;--At' a meet Ins of the ITond ' River council 'tortav e:o'n4'iiUempt" was 'malu tu .float the city bonds in the sum of 190,000 for the purpose of conatrucElng"'a ' municipal wa;er plant. ? Only, one.bld was,submit tJ by a Chicago ,ftrm . offering, a, pre mium of 1990 on a basis of a 6 per c?nt interest , rate. - The bids calltdfor' a 6 per cent interest rat., x ,. '", , ' OUTSTATE City, in Willamette too badly burned 'for embalming. If so he will be burled at Gates. Brooks was 34 years old and a member of the Elks lodge of this city. Richmond was a son of H. A. Richmond and lived at 1430 North Fulton street,' Salem. All three were unmarried. ' . ",'.,'.. . The fire at this time f has covered about three miles on the south bank of tha North- Santlam river and Is now devastating the green timber owned by tha .Hoover Lumber company, " The loss will be huge. Many acres of the finest timber In the government forest pre serves are being destroyed hourly, Near ly 100 men are fighting the flames day and night' ... The town of Mill City, on th upper Santlam river, where the Curtlss Lum ber company1 owns a big plant, came near being destroyed yesterday, and Is yet In great danger. A fire started at tha edge Of the (town and was within two blocks of tha Curtlss mill and resl- dences, when the wind changed and drove the flames In the opposite direc tion. Watchers are guarding every en- trance to the town, 1 The biggest "fire Is thought to be in tha heart of the Cascades, near the foot of Mount Jefferson. News from this district Is meager, but enough la known to. warrant the statement that millions;. (Continued on Pag Thirteen. ) Alexander Hollander. Arrested at Naples After Offices Are Raided Said to Have Se cured Half Million.' "': ' t'Mtefl rrett Leased Wire.) Naples. July 21.Alexander Hollander Is' under arrest here today on the charge of having defrauded the United States government of half a million dollars in customs, Hollander denied his guilt and aald he-would waive extradition to the United States.' . , ,,,..:,,...,,,...".. New Tork." July 21. Alexander Hol lander, under arrest at Naples for al leged customs frauds, is known here ss a . customs -broker. Recently- Henry Clews, the financier, bought- an auto mobile abroad and turned the aeciara- tion papers over to Hollander. The au tomobile was valued, at $1860, and It is alleged that one of Hollander's clerks erased the figure- "L" leaving the de- j clared-itafUe of the i car 1850. Collector Juoeb ratoOToanaers.j,'i.T, flees here and it l alleged the broker's books revealed big frauds perpetrated, against the. government ', : - , NEBRASKA" MAN " SAYS . ' . T ;, TAFT IS WRONG MAN. Iwtjnlte Brees. Uased Wlre. - Uncoln. Neb.. July 21. David E. Thompo,i former minister to Mexico under "President Roosevelt, tonav dis turbed the political otmosphera of Ne braska when he. declared, that if Taft were , renominated : forv the . presidency, the Republicans must support a Demo crat in .the national election. . Thompson recently created a slight breeze in New York by predicting a third presidential term for Roosevelt, -after he had visited the rolonel. Roone velt promptly denied that he .had aa thorUed or even, considered the matter, ""Of course-1 J favor, Roosevelt," suld Thompson, "butMf Taft runs the Re publicans might as well throw up their hands and vote for a Democrat , This Is not only my personal, opinion, but tho feeling of western Republicans. To nominate Taft in J:S would be for the party tp Invite -certain defeat Roose velt la the logical, candidate." , i Thompson is a millionaire.1 KING GEORGE V TO BE CROWNED IN JUNE, 1911; i -WILL-BE RECORD AFFAI A ' (Cnlted WeM 1f4 Wlre.V ., 4 , London. July 21.--A proc-Iama- tion issued today notifies the 'people of the United KlnK-i-'ri that George V wilt be i-rown'-'l 'Itl 'yunritTrr-TnPf rrrr.rf, ' planned to be the most inasnlfl vcont ever Witnessed In KinfUn l, snd, efforts will be ;ns4 t 4. ; ellipse in'brlllliiney the tunw. coronation of King l-'.lvii:' 1 V.'i. CUSTOMS BROKER IS HED I'll DEFRAUDING U. S.