The
O b s e rv e r
FRIDAY
Progressives Meet and Nomln
ate Ex-President; Denounce
Tatt Convention.
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
Chicago.—Theodore Roosevelt was
■nominated for president on an inde
pendent ticket The nomination was
made during the dying hours of the
republican national convention In
which Ur. Roosevelt met defeat.
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The followers of Colonel Roosevelt
mat In Orchestra HaH, leas than a
mile from the Coliseum, and pledged
their support to the ex-presldent.
Colonel Roosevelt said he accepted
the nomination with the understand
ing that he would he willing to step
aside If It should be the desire of the
pew party when organised to select
another standard hearer.
Governor Johnson, California’s fight
ing chief executive, presided at the
Roosevelt meeting. The colonel him
self was there and addressed the con-
Work on the Klamath Falls-Portland
out-off < the Southern Pacific railroad
Is to herushed to completion. >
At the municipal election in The
Dalles, Judd 8. Fish was elected may
or by U votes over Harry Clough.
Cheerful In spite of age and physical
infirmities, a great throng of Oregon
pioneer»—about 1000 of them—assem
bled In annual reunion at Portland. '
The people of Klamath Falls are In
the grip of the gold fever, rich strikes
of high grade ore being reported from
Now Pino creek and Mount Hebron.
Twenty-eight students were graduat
At the d osa of his speech Governor
ed at the Oregon Normal School at Johnson recognised Senator Clapp,
Monmouth. Twenty were freon the
offered a series of résolu tiens, whteh
were adopted, declaring that the
elementary department.
Roosevelt delegates and alter ante«
The 121,000 school of mines build |
wore elected by a majority of ’the
lag at the Oregon Agricultural college
j republican voters of their respective
is to be ready for the Installation of
districts and states to nominate Theo
the mining machinery and laboratory
dore Roosevelt for president, and
equipment September X.
thereby carry out the will of the vot
. The state board has appointed Wil
ers as expressed at the primaries;
liam S. Hale, of Portland, superinten
! that tor five days they were denied
dent of the state reform school, filling
Justice in the national convention;
the vacancy made by the resignation
that this result was accomplished by
of Superintendent Looney.’,
the action of the national committee
The marriage spirit has been at a
in placing on the preliminary roll a
low ebb to Hood River oonnty for the
sufficient number of fraudulently
past six months. The records of the
elected delegates to control the pro
oonnty clerk Indicate that only 2S
ceedings of the convention; that they
couples have taken out licensee.
had exhausted every known means to
Because Jackrabbits are so thick in
prevent this fraud upon the popular
Harney county that they are a menace
Will but without success; that th ey
to crops, the people of that county
desire to initiate a tow autMfirtslng | were sent to the convention bearing
specific instructions to place Roooe-
the county court to pay a bounty on j
rabbit scalps.
Pamphlets containing Initiative and
referendum measures to bo voted on
at the general election in N ovem ber
will be pnt In circulation among the
v o ters by the secretary of stats, prob
ably by August IS.
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After a lively but friendly tilt bw
tween Newberg and Tillamook. New
hffrg <»on out at the encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic at
Salem and was slated for the next en
campment to June, H U .
n it id e
Temporary
nan and Bryan Is
«Defeated.
rates from $1.00 -per day up.
Popular Priced Restaurant
to <Sonn«tion.:'
m eets sill trains.
Auto feuae
4<h a n d W ,
the opening prayer made by Cardinal
Olbbone.
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While there has been a spirited pre-
con vention fight for delegates among
the presidential candidates, no such
bitter feeling marked the contest as
that which developed to ton republican
party between Taft and Boeeerelt. A
spirited fight, however, developed
over the selection of a temporary
chairman. 'T h e subcommittee oa nr-
raagemaats appointed by the aattonal
»ifittffjhSI selected Judge AlUto >
Parker, of New Fork, a termer ddmo-
«ratlc candidate tor president. as tem
porary ohalrman.
Bryan threw a
B .t h T u b e
p in H n ck 'B uild ing n e x t Observe*
à W. ÙaWìa, B r p p r te to r .
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protesting against the selection, tff
Judge Parker. f Bryan claimed that
Parker was a reactionary and that a
progressive should be selected for the
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^■rvCter Rnaac
I c m p o n irj
Notwithstanding the objeottot ja<
Bryaa, Parker was chosen ns the dm-
didate for temporary chairman kJ the
national com m ittee Parker received
11 votes. Senator-elect James of Ken
tucky to. and Senator O’Gorman of
New Tork A Donnelly, cd Idaho, vot-
Od tor Parker and *111*. of Oregon,
and Dnnphy, of Washington, voted tor
Ollie James.
A last desperate effort t o a v e r t a
bitter factional fight w asm hde by the
Bryan forces when the Democrat!«
convention took up to t problem of
selecting a temporary chdim an. ; So
s h a r p did the lin e s d iv id f^ U ia t W, J.
Bryan himself became a eanflldat«
for the temporary chairmanship. JW
was defeated. ; Alton B. Barker waa
•tootoS .. c
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After Bryan had made a speech
nominating Senator Korn, of lndlani,
and attacking Alton B. Parkef, Kuril
went on the stand. {H e made a plea
for harmony, asked Parker to.-kHp
him to withdrawing from the contort
for temporary chairman, and
’ luting nay one of a Hat oFshVerai
men. Altar waiting t t vata for g
reply from Parket, Kern hlmeell irith-
dtfiw and pomlhptod Bryan.
King Committeeman, for Oregon.
‘a. WIU A King w as, elected national
1 committeeman for Oregon, to succeed
M. A. Miller. The* delegation cfcsqa
brain U t t b o
J Thomas a Burket at .Baker, chairman,
Herman Wine, off, Astoria, secretary,
l i l . « tia .b r .
A o f 7 th
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It is new, and its room s are provided w ith
running water and longdistance telephones.
European plan.
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naif ( » JO of erette
R ates $1 per day and up.
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Portland, Onsfeon.
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the doors every few
IJyte.Mll Sheriff of
P q p tir
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an d selected the follow la g , to serve
Although Klamath Falls has adopted J
two charters In three mouths the vo-1,
tors of the city are sodta to vote on a L
third. The council has decided that ,
the best way out of the preeent char
ter muddle Is to appoint a commission I
to draft a new instrument
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Resolutions were passed by Mt h e L
state encampment of the Grand Army I,
of the Republic approving the man-1,
agsment of the old s o ld ie rs ' hom e a t 1
Roseburg and calling upon the legis
lature to appropriate funds toe the
enlargement of the Institution. e
i The Portland. Eugene A Eastern
a long wrangle. After a superfluity
has filed with the secretory of state
of oratory the delegation got down tp
supplementary resolutions to their ar-1
voting and elected W. O. Merritt, of
tid e s of Incorporation which provide
Seattle, chairman, and John Drum
for an ex tension of the line from 8a |
heller, of Spokane, secretary.
lass to Silverton, from Silverton to
Wsshlngtod Makes Appolntmentob;
Molalla, and from Molalla to Canby
Committee on resolutions, W. W.
As a result of trouble between cat
Blaok, of Everett; credentials. W. A.
W teek
tlemen and sheepmen to Baker coun
Rltx, Walla Walla; rules. Floyd Hat
ty. Governor West has announced a re- J
field, North Yakima; permanent sr-
ward of |SOO far the arrest and eon- the announced Intention. Governor
ganlsatlon, Thomas Horner, Seattle;
vtetion of any person destroy!ns J Johnsen named IB, all of whom have
notification of presidential nominee,
fleoka. IntlmMattog employee and aeoepted. •; The committee Is hsadsd
Hugh
Wallace, Tacoma; notification ¿ « C T » ¥ , * . ’" “ V
menacing the lives of sheep o w n e rs by Governor Johnson, who will be
of
vtoo-preslgantlal
nominee, D. HL , f » u h l « « i k . an< - h l
Mngineere began work last week on acting chairman. The others are:
Senator Moses E. Clapp. Minnesota; Drumheller, Spokane; honorary vipb.
the survey for the new railroad from
¡Senator
Joseph M. Digon. Montana; president, J. A- Mundy. Vancouver.
Metolius to Prineville. Actual eon
May Arkwright Hutton, of Spokane,
•traction work will begin August B. Senator Miles Poindexter. Washlag-
top;
Oovernor
C.
A.
Aldrich,
Nebras
’* To secure the road the people Of Prine
two women delegatee to the Baltir
ville, and Metolius have agreed to su b ka; Governor R. S. Veeeey. South
mere convention, was mads vtee great t
scribe for |10fi.0M to six per cent Dakota; P. A. Van Valksnburg. editor
dent
of the delegation.
of the Philadelphia North American;
Sosas sxettemsnl was created to Sa Cetoasil W. C Kllaon, owner and «dto
60M PERB GETS ONE YEAR ' * 8
lem by the discovery of a human skull, or of the Kansas City Star; termer
Richmond
Pearson,
half eaten la a kettle of quicklim e. In Japgrfisssiisn
North
Carolina;
William
R.
Prender Re-Trisl of Cehtempt Oner Seeutto to
the top of the Gray building. Patches
▼he Same Finding.
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of hair and bloodstains fire still cling gast. Hew York; James B. Garfield,
Washington.—Samuel O o m p e n , ’
Ohio;
William
Allen
White,
Kansas;
ing to the bona and Indented to the
president of the American Federation i
forehead is a piece of le a d b a k in g th p Gifford Plnchot, California; Judge
of Labor, was sentenced to one year I
Dea
B.
U
ndsey.
Colorado;
Mathew
nppeerance of a flattened bullet. - v l
to toll tor contempt of court by J u b .
That a winery majR ha established to Hale. Massachusetts; George L Rec ties Daniel Thew Wright of the Dto.
ord,
New
Jersey;
Charles
JL
Thomp
Douglas oounty, even though that Is a
trtet of Columbia supreme court.
dry county, was held by Assistant At son, Vermont; Colenel F. C. Carring Morrison, secretary of the federattoa,
ton.
Maryland,
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torney Oenaral Crawford to reply to
was sentenced to six months to Jail :
aa inquiry eant by B. C Flab, of Port
for the earns offense
< i
Joint
Maneuvers
to
he
Intensive.
land, to Secretary Olcott. Thia to with
*• John Mitchell, also found guilty fit
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—President
Tatt
has
the proviso, however, that thd wins
sent s . special message to congress oontempt to the proceedings gvbwlng
reeem aendlng the Immediate ,sppro '< out of the publication to ths Amdrtean
priatfcg o< BUM,Mfi Bor rise a f the Fsderntionist of the name of thy Book
war department to the Joint mnneuv- Stove A Range eompaay of S t Loelh,
era of the regular army and the am In hn •unfair list.” wan ns< JNteteS te c
oourt. and his ssatonse was deterred:
tlonal guard next month.
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