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THE PRICE TWO CENTS. THE RAIN SENDS WHEAT MIII NG Spring Wheat Area Thoroly DrenchedTwo Oars Sell Here at $1. Reports From the Southwest Indi cate Bad Conditions in Win ter Wheat. -4 Two cars of No. 1 northern wheat sold this morning at the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce for $1 a bushel. -$ Soaked from head to root by re peated rains, and drenched again last night, a large grain acreage in cen tral and southern Minnesota is al most drowned out The downpour of the past twenty-four hours put a heavy handicap upon the wheat crop, already backward in places by two to three weeks, and standing in urgent need of good growing weather to bring it along. Since Friday the prospect has been changed materially. A week of un favorable weather finds the growing grain practically without indication of further development, and continua tion of the present wet weather would make the situation very serious for the northwest. Heavy Rains General. Up to 8 a.m. the weather report showed 1.15 inches at Grand Meadow, Minn. 1.50 at Montevideo, and 1.32 at New Ulm. Winnebago City showed .84 and Worthington .99 Minneapo lis had .74 and St. Paul .58. Lari more, N. D., had an inch and can stand it. Huron, Aberdeen, Mitchell and Redfleld, S. D., showed .49 to .60 inch. This precipitation in south central Minnesota is not bad in itself, but it is not what is wanted. Wheat must begin growing soon if it is ever going to catch up, and weather that will make it grow is what is needed. The Red River valley had only a sprinkle last night, which is consid ered very fortunate, fts It is on the wet valley lands that the most backward wheat is found. E. M. UpBon, whose farm lies near Grand Forks, reports tKfr puUook dis couraging. Most of the wheat smarted late and will have hard work to pull ahe&d without continued good weather from now on. A Winter Wheat Buffering. Local grain men have kept the wires hot. and every important south west point has been sounded. That the winter wheat has been damaged very seriously is the general report. One wire reads: "Hard rains at Kan sas City last night and this morning. Lawrence, Kan., reports heavy rain and wheat all lost. Wires down and can't get Information from west. Was down to river last night and saw 1,500 shocks of wheat go by in thirty min utes in the Kaw river." H. V. Jones, who recently covered the southwest, says the floods have undoubtedly done serious damage to winter wheat, and that all crops have been set back, both in the northwest and southwest. Oklahoma City says: "Rained all over the state of Kansas and there was over one inch rainfall at Kansas City last night." Kansas City wires that advices from Wichita showed 40 per cent damage. Damage West of Mississippi. The bulletin of the Modern Miller of St. Louis, issued at noon today, said: "Special reports as to what effect rains have had on the crop in the winter wheat territory show that the situation is worse west of the Missis sippi river in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska and the territories. Thresh ing is delayed in Texas, but the dam age to the crop is slight. In most of the country west of the river cutting has been suspended by rain and dam age by rust is reported. Kansas has been the worst sufferer Most corre spondents say that a continuance of rain means serious loss. East of the river and in the southeast the harvest is delayed, but little if any damage is indicated. Tennessee reports most of the wheat cut, but that some is sprouting in the snock. YANKTON FAR AND AWAY IN THE LEAD Its Registrations for Rosebud Lands Exceed Those of All Other Points Combined. Speoial to The Journal. Yankton, S. D., July 8.The num ber of people registered in Yankton for the drawing for the Rosebud lands exceeds the number registered in Bonesteel, Chamberlain and Fairfax put together. Commissioner General Richards came to Yankton last night to inspect the situation, and gave out the fol lowing figures for the first two days of registration: Yankton, 5,190 Bone steel, 3.812 Chamberlain, 709 Fair fax, 628. Commissioner Richards is greatly pleased with the orderly conduct of the business, and speaks highly of the way in which Yankton is caring for the crowds. Yankton is getting the major share on account of its superior railioad and hotel facilities. The weather today is favorable to registration. Six hundred persons were standing in line before 9 clock this morning, and 1,800 will arrive on trains today. The prospects are for an immense rush tomorrow. RHODE ISLAND SELLS OUT. St. Louis, July 8.The Rhode Island state building on the world's fair grounds has been sold to a St. Louis man. who will use it for a country home. Those in charge of the building today stated that the building, which cost $26,000, was sold for less than $5,000. k R. F. PETTIGREW. South Dakotan Who Acts as Dictator of His Delegation. WANT VAN SANT TO BUN AGAIN A Century of Prominent Demo crats Meet and Thus Declare. "A hundred prominent democrats met this morning in my office in the Phoenix building, and decided that, in the interests of the people, Gover nor S. R. Van Sant should again run for office." This was the announcement of M. P. Hobart today. He went on: "They decided that the present campaign and the coming election is not a battle of one political party against another not of one set of political principles against others, but a fight of the people against J. J. Hill ism a battle that will decide whether J. J. Hill or the people are the gov erning power in the state of Minne sota. "The meeting decided that the state democracy ought to offer Governor Van Sant the gubernatorial nomina tion. If he would not run as a dem ocrat, he should, if possible, be per- suadedsfiQ run independent as the peo pie's candidate and aloof from any party affiliations. And as an expo nent of the voice of the people as op posed to control of the state by J. J. Hill and his associates, the demo crats assembled agreed to do all in their power to secure him pledges of democratic support." RUMOR ACCORDS SLAYS A VICTORY Persistent Reports of Sea Fight in Which Russians Defeated 21 Jap Ships. St. Petersburg, July 8, 1:32 p.m.- It is reported in a special dispatch from Liao-yang, under yesterday's date, that a persistent rumor is cur rent there to the effect that a naval engagement has occurred at Port Ar thur in which twenty-one Japanese warships participated, resulting in a Russian victory. A similar report was current at Liao-yang July 5, the location of the engagement then being given as northward of Gen-san, Korea. Kuroki Advancing. St. Petersburg, July 8, 1-30 p.m. A special dispatch from Niu-chuang, dated yesterday, says General Kuroki is advancing all along the line and adds that Japanese officers are organ izing Chinese bandit bands thruout the Liao valley for an attack on Muk den. BALTIC SQUADRON TO SAIL Sealed Orders May Take Fleet Direct to Far East. St. Petersburg, July 8.A division of the Baltic squadron will sail from Cronstadt, July 28, under sealed or ders. Complete mystery enshrouds its destination. It is said, altho noth ing is certain on this point, that the orders for the division will be opened at five-day intervals. Whether the warships are bound at once to the far east in advance of the other ships, may depend upon naval developments at the seat of war, but there are attending circumstances which make it seem unlikely that the division will start on its long journey until the other ships are ready. It is understood that the division will in clude the armored cruiser admiral Nakhimoff, the battleship Osliabia, the protected cruiser Aurora and the bat tleship Alexander III, and possibly the battleship Navarin and the transport Kamtchaka. Great stacks of charts were put on board the Admiral Kak himoff, the Osliabia and the Aurora yesterday. NAMED THEIR FIFTEENTH THEODORE ROOSEYELT New York Sun Speoial Service. Sterling, 111., July 8.Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cassens yesterday christened their fifteenth child, a son, Theodore Roosevelt Cassens. The proud parents wrote the president asking if he had any objection to being the godfather of the child. He replied that he was proud to have the child named after him and congratulated the happy par ents. His letter contained a photo graph of the president and requested a photograph of the entire family of fifteen children. ^f i^ $*irtt*.M 19 MORE SAYED FROM THE NORGE Boat Picked Up by Sailing Vessel Survivors Landed at Thorshavn. Leith, Scotland, July 8.Nineteen more survivors of the wrecked Danish steamer Norge, picked up from a boat by a sailing ship, have been landed at Thorshavn, at Faroe Islands. PLANNED A SURPRISE Brother and Nieee of Sioux Falls Man Were on the Norge. Speoial to The Journal, Sioux Falls, S, D July 8.It has been learned that J. A. Jensen, a Sioux Falls business man, had a brother and niece among the victims of the Norge disaster. They were Bernhard Arneson and Emma Peder son. Some weaks ago Jensen sent three tickets to relatives in Norway so they could come to Sioux Falls. He wrote to them to sail on June 80, and the first intimation he had that his in structions had not been followed was when he saw the list of the victims of the disaster, in which the names of his brother and niece appeared. Mr. Jensen is of the opinion that probably with the intention of giving him a pleasant surprise by appearing in Sioux Falls a week before they were expected, they sailed on the ill-fated Norge on June 23 instead of waiting until June 30, as he had regulated them to do. HOPE OF PARKER'S FOES LIVES ANEW Anti-Parker Forces, Jubilant Over Adjournment, Claim Judge's Defeat Is Certain. From a Staff Correspondent. St. Louis, July 8.The postpone ment of the nomination of a candidate for president until tonight and per haps until tomorrow morning, if this can be arranged, has greatly pleased the anti-Parker forces, who are using this afternoon for the purpose ot working a last grand: rally. At 1 o'clock today I was informed at anti-Parker headquarters that, as a result of last night's plans and the extra time permitted by today's ad journment, Parker's defeat would be almost certain. While accepting this statement with reservations, I am 'im- pressed with the fact that the anti Parkerites are this afternoon more jubilant than they have been since three days ago. They claim 362 votes against Parker, not counting Massa chusetts, and say that the work of solidification which will go on this afternoon will prevent that gentle man's nomination. This feeling is especially strong in the Hearst forces of the Minnesota delegation. W. W. Jermane. Marquette, Mich., July 8.John Pltl zinia was killed and Anthony Bosco prob ably fatally injured by a fall of ground in the Lake Angeline mine at Ishpeming last evening. i-, FRIDAY EVENINO, JULY 8, 1904. BRYAN, THO DETHRONED, WINS NEGATIVEWICTORY ON PLATFORM. DA VID B. HILL FAILS TO FORCE RQSS OF GOLD ON HIS OLD FOE. LONG FIGHT DEFERS MMING ^n H,,,,,,,, JOHN W. DANIEL, Whc Bitterly Assayed Bryan in Reso lutions Committee. LIVES AND CROPS LOST IN FLOODS Kansas City .Wholesale District Is CoveredWaterspout in Oklahoma. Kansas City, July 8.At 10 o'clock this morning the sun came out at Kan sas Citv and west &B far as Topeka and rain that had fallen for several hours ceased. At Abilene und Manhat tan, Kan., however, rain which began at 4 o'clock this morning, continues, and the Smoky jHift at the foraner place and the KaW at Manhattan be gan to rise again Kansas Cify, Mo July 8.All of the west bottoms on \he Missouri side, including the Union station and the great wholesale district of Kansas City, will have been covered with water before the day has closed. A break in the Kaw river near Armour dale, Kan., late* last night, sending^ a current of wafef-. into the bottoms, that first inundated the outer railroad yards, and finally fJgept north, flooded cellars- in the wJipfSsale liouses, and spread out- toward th union depot. The Water rose\ slowly artd while it undoubtedly will do great damage, it is not believed that the tremendous losses of last year will be duplicated, This will be so because the water is not expected to reach so high a stage as last year awd because merchants have taken warning from their expe rience of a year ago, and removed their goods to higher ground or to upper stories. This morning a heavy rainstorm started in at Kansas City and west to Topeka, which will send the Kaw still higher. All Kansas streams are high and thousands of acres of rich farming land has already been inun dated, causing losses to crops that will run into the hundreds of thousands or millions. One life is reported lost at Wichita, and six at Clinton, Okla. Late yesterjday the JKaw at Armour- Continued on Twentieth Page. Jonah BryanWhere in thunder is that whale? _,. Defective Pag* **\r THE DEMOCRATIC JONAHS,:. W^Mm&Mt^i^ Adjournment Taken Until 8 O'Clock Tonight, When Plat form Will Go In. S Louis, July 8.The democratic national convention spent the morn ing hours today in waiting for the report of the committee on resolu tions. A committee was appointed by Chairman Champ Clark to call on the resolutions committee and learn when the platform would be submit ted to the convention. Just before the noon hour the con vention's emissaries announced that the resolutions committee would re quire until 8 o'clock tonight to pre pare its report, but that the action of the committee would be unani mous and a platform submitted \vhich, he declared, would bring the party "a glorious victory." The convention then took a recess until 8 o'clock tonight. Chairman Clark had the convention in hand from the moment proceed ings opened. He announced, thru a strong-voiced assistant that "the first person raising a row will be thrown out by the police." After the com mittee had been dispatched to learn the pleasure of the resolutions com mittee, the band gave a concert of popular and patriotic selections. Bourke Cockran was called for to address the convention, but he was not present. Former Senator Charles A. Towne was next invited to take the platfcm, but declined. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson was the next choice and he was en thusiastically cheered. He spoke principally in relation to the disfran chisement plank of the republican platform and made an appeal to the north and the west to support the south in the position the democratic party of that section has assumed be tween whites and blacks. After the decision of the platform committee had been announced, the program for the remainder of the day was decided upon. The convention will assemble at 8 o'clock, the plat form will be read and it is believed adopted without debate and then the nomination of a president taken up. If a decisive vote is arrived at the convention will adjourn until Saturday morning, when the nomination of a vice president will be- made. Senator Hill was being urged today by some superstitious Parker men to put over the nomination until tomor row, .but he reiterated what he said -last night, that he did not consider Friday an unlucky day. ODELL AND ROOSEVELT CONFER ON POLITICS Oyster Bay, L. I., July 8.Governor Benjamin B. Odell, accompanied by Wil liam Barnes, Jr., chairman of the repub lican state oxecutive committee of New York arrived here today to have a con ference with President RooseveJt on the political situation in New Tork state. Both declined to discuss the object of their visit or to indicate what its results might be. Governor Odell said, however, that the reports published that President Roose velt would name the republican candi date for governor of New York not only were not true, but that they were "sim ply ridiculous." y&ipi^p^ [Q ORinA! I PROBABLY SHOWERS TONIGHT SATURDA SOCIETY. FIVE O'CLOCK. OF TICKET TILL NIGHT SESSION CONVENTION IN FUTILE SESSION -$ WILLIAM J. BRYAN, Whose Fight on Gold Plank Ended in I a Victory. HILL SCORED FOR HIS GOLD PLANK Much Unfavorable Comment on New Yorker's Effort to Commit Party. From a Staff Correspondent. St. Louis, July 8.The effort of D. B. Hill to commit the party to the gold standard was the subjeot of much unfavorable comment last night and this morning. It is enough, say many delegates, to permit Hill to name the candidate for president. He ought not to try to dictate to the platform also. Bryan is not to bolt. This is now believed to be a reliable statement. There was an element of uncertainty in the proposition 'until yesterday. Bryan will not bolt anybody except Cleveland, and Cleveland cannot be nominated. Parker's nomination will be largely due to the a-ilfcfce- candidacy of Hearst on the one hand and the threatened candidacy of Cleveland on'the other. Had neither of these men* been in view it is safe to say Parker would not have grown in favor as he did, and might not even have been con sidered. The element which was afraid of Hearst's radicalism and the other ele ment which hated Cleveland, ilnally have been brought together to the support of Parker, who is not their first choice and whom they know less about than has been known of any man named for the persidency by any party for many years. Parker's friends have been shrewd enough to see their opportunity and improve it. They have said the right thing ih states which were leaning towards Cleveland. It has been a careful game of playing both ends against the middle. Parker himself has had no hand in it. The work was planned by Hill and executed by him and Belmont. At the same time the republicans think Parker is the strongest man who can be named against Roosevelt. This was the feeling at the Chicago convention, and it has not changed. The battleground will be in New York and the states around it, with a sec ondary point of interest in the middle west, centering In Indiana. Parker's Grip Tightens. The survey of the field on the eve of the decisive combat shows Judge Parker so much stronger than his combined opponents as to justify the prediction that he will be nominated perhaps on the first ballot, or before the results of that ballot can be an nounced by the presiding officer. The anti-Parker forces still lack leader ship and cohesion and seem doomed to play the part an unorganized mob usually plays when it goes against forces which are well drilled and ably led. At noon today the vice presidency was higher up in the air than at any previous time since the delegates reached St. Louis. It will be impos sible to say where the nomination will go till after the presidency has been settled. The latest move of D. B. Hill Is in the form of a flirtation with the Wall boom in Wisconsin. Hill has encour aged the Wall men to stay in the race for the presidency, promising them that he would insure Wall a generous vote later on for vice president. After this lift, which will come on the first ballot, Wall must look out for himself. The boom of Governor Dockery for second place does not seem formida ble at this time, nor does that of Governor Beckham of Kentucky. The Beckham candidacy, by the way, shows the first suggestion of section alism that has thus far crept into the convention. The Beckham litho graphs contain this legend In bold type: "Instruct for Governor Beck ham for vice president and make an opening wedge for southern represen tation on the national ticket" The Turner vice presidential situa tion seems to be as it was last night and early this morning. He no long er stands out above the other candi dates and this sag in his boom is be lieved to portend his defeat. Middle West May Get It. The vice presidency seems gravi tating towards the middle westwith Illinois and Indiana as the favorite states. In Illinois, Representative Williams is the candidate and in In diana, Kern. Illinois, like Indiana, is not asking for the vice presidency, but will accept the place if it should come to it. The argument which promises to be Turner's downfall is the argument of geography. He lives too much to one side and in a state which will cer tainly go for Roosevelt. His nomina tion, therefore, would add no strength to the democratic ticket It is said by the leaders of the Parker movement that the vice presi dency has not yet been considered seriously and will not be until after the candidate for president has been ruimed. W. W. Jermane, %M Yn a23$L ALL NIGHT FIGEfc 1 ON RESOLUTIONS Committee in Session for Sixteen Hours, but Members at Last Agree. PLATFORM WITHOUT A FINANCIAL PLANK Party Leaders Quit Long Meet* ing in Harmony but Follow ers Are at War. 4t St. Louis, July 8.At 4:40 a.m. thai committee on resolutions voted the gold? standard plank out of the democratic plat form by a vote of 35 to 15. This was the third victory for William. J. Bryan during the all-night session of^~|| the committee. He had made two sue cessful efforts early In the evening and secured modifications for the tariff plank., & en two separate votes. i~Z St. Louis, July 8.After a continu-, ous session of sixteen hours, the com mittee on resolutions perfected the platform and adjourned Just before' noon, instructing its subcommittee to arrange the draft for submission tofs the general committee at 6 o'clock^-- this evening for report to the conven-f, tion two hours later. The platform is a compromise ac-^ ceptable to all of the interests in& volved and was adopted unanimously'"" by the committee. It may be said in general to have been a concession to the Bryan wing of the party with out in any way stultifying the declara tions of the conservatives. The absence of any pronouncement upon the financial question is most significant and discloses the utter im-. possibility of finding any declaration upon this subject acceptable to all. The committee on resolutions spent the entire night on the platform, and at 8.30 considered the last resolution of the draft submitted by the sub committee. But this did not mean that the platform was finished and ready for the convention. The strug gle continued, and at 10 o'clock it was elea that an agreement on the document as a whole could not be reached immediately. /a*" During tlie watches of tfie" longT*"""" night hfc.jthe committeeroom there were many^dramatic scenes, not the least striking of which was the ver bal encounter between Senator Hill and Mr. Bryan- It occurred while Mr. Bryan was engaged in making one of his many attacks upon the gold-standard plank as framed by the subcommittee. He was wrought up to high tension when, approaching^ the New York leader and shaking his finger dangerously near the nose of that gentleman, he exclaimed: "You ought to have a gold platform to go with the gold candidate you are forcing upon the country." Mr. Hill replied that he knew noth ing as to Mr. Parker's monetary views. "Do you mean to say," demanded the Nebraskan, "that you don't know Judge Parker's financial views?" "I mean just that," responded Mr. Hill. "You have no knowledge on that subject?" "None." "Have never asked him?" "I have not. I have never sought to secure an expression of his views, and he has never sought to convey them to me. I only know that he is a democrat and a high-minded and patriotic man, and I believe that he can be trusted implicitly on this, as upon other matters of public policy.% i Demand from Bryan. $ Mr. Bryan then demanded to know*1 when the gold plank had been de oided upon and why it had not been' incorporated in the New York plat form. Mr. Hill replied that the mat ter had first been discussed at the, meeting of the delegations about ten days ago, and that the declaration1 was the result of insistence by menw bers of the delegation other than himself. An effort was made to secure sf recess after the vote on the gold* plank, but it was voted down and the"] oommittee continued with its worto^ on other features of the platform. The contest was one of the most, interesting features of the conven-t tion. The main fight was upon aj proposed Income-tax plank, providing' for an amendment to the constitu tion to meet the adverse decision of, the supreme court upon the Wilson.' law. S It was upon this amendment anql the gold plankthe two proposition* being brought in conjunctionthat Mr. Bryan made his strong fight Mr. Williams of Mississippi first of fered the income-tax amendment, ami it was immediately antagonized by former Senator Hill, who stated thatSa with such a plank in the platfornf? New York could not be carried byv the democratic nominees. He urged^t the adoption of a platform which^i would enable the democrats to wirT in doubtful states and elect their canr didates. Mr. Williams withdrew the amend^ ment saying that he, with many others democrats, were seeking harmony and an adjustment of all differences with a view of succeeding on a democratic platform. Bryan and Income Tax. Mr. Bryan then offered an income tax amendment and made a speed* in favor of it. He asserted that, while votes might be lost among the very rich, the democratic party ought to consider the great mass of the people who bear the burdens of taxation and the expense of the government. Senator Daniel replied to Bryan an* very vigorous in his denunciation of the course the Nebraska man was pursuing. He said that he wanted to win and desired a platform which would bring back to the democratic party the voters who had left it whe$ pursuing a course which Mr. Bryan had advocated. He was tired of be* ing forever in the minority and in? sisted that it would be absurd fori democrats facing victory to take an* action which would mean defeat To' lose New York meant defeat Continued on Second Page., I i 1