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VOLUME XXXI. MORE BODIES RECOVERED Heavy Peals of Thunder Raise the Dead. ••SONAOINS IS BEING TRIED -ny at the Inquest Today Shows Gross Negligence by the Steam ship Company. \V Y< »RK. June 21. —At S o'clock orning twelve additional bodies tims of the Sloeum disaster were vered, making a total of T4*>. Sixty inidentified bodies are at the .. . A severe thunder storm early 1 orning caused tlie bodies to come surface. Bight were found float - eai win-re the steamer was beach- The relief fund now stands at Two four-inch guns will to '"Al AIM" A GOOD NAME | AwAin TO TIE TO. I ♦ ~ ♦ 1 t \ * « i You Can't Define T j STYLE ♦ But You Can Tell It J When You See It &£>o ♦ ♦ i ALAIN PETTICOATS' j j Have It. We Have Them * J J iMotter-Wheeler Co. j ♦ 103-5-7-9 Main, 6 and 8 South Third Sts. Phone, Main 65 ♦ a-♦♦♦♦ Www w c Best Manufacturers of England and the United States contributed to our stock of • tackle this season and it is without doubt the finest line ) ever brought to Walla Walla. Rods, lines, reels, leaders, tlies iskets of many kinds and varieties. Pickled salmon eggs. j MEYER G KEENEY ZZZZT* j Latest Style Haaid Bags j . made of alligator skin. African bird skin and other leath- ♦ ! utiful new tints. Some contain a pocket book, card J I ts combinations, while they all have space for a ▼ i : small articles. ♦ Ifhe Hockett Drug Co.| 4 No t; East Main Street 4) I Something' New in Crowns Boston Dental^Parlors THE EVENING STATESMAN. • lay be taken out on Boats and tired along the river where bodies are sup posed to have sunk. The first of dam age suits has been filed by Mrs. X ite Mattler. who lost four children. She asks $50,000 from the Knickerbocker Steamship company. TREMONT, June 21.—When the i..- --quest on the Sloeum disaster was re sumed this morning a deck hand. Dan iel O'Neil, swore that he never par ticipated in a fire drill aboard the sio cub. He denied knowing that there had heen a fire aboard the Sloeum the day previous. He told a graphic story of the fire and declared that the fire hose burst as soon as the water was turned on. An attempt was then made to bring the deck hose into use. but the coupling did not fit. He jumped overboard and swam ashore. He land ed in a small boat which capsized. He admitted being warned by a man in the small boat not to jump as the boat was full. Second Engineer Brandow swore that he received no verbal orders from the captain while the fire was in pro gress, gress. He remained in the en gine room until the Sloeum was fast aground. There were no appliances for Hooding the holds in case of emerg ency. Inspector Henry Ludenberg of the state inspection service has been held under $500 bail by order of the coroner to await the result of the inquest. THE EVENING STATESMAN WALLA WALLA, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, JUNE 21. 1904. Coroner's Inquest. NATIONAL REPUBLICAN RATIFICATION MEETING Roosevelt and Fairbanks Sure of Nomination—Elihu Root as Temporary Chairman Makes an Able Plea for the Retention of the Repub lican Party in Power-Secretary Cortelyou Will Be Chairman of the National Committee. CHICAGO, June 21. —It is a Roose velt convention now. a hcange has come with the arrival of the great mass of delegates and thousands of hustling republicans. Roosevelt badges galore adorn the coats of men to be seen on the streets, the men not reg istered among the leaders at parlor conferences. Until Monday the lead ers held sway. They were the old guard of tlie mat bine organization, whose one great purpose was to per petuate their rule, some of whom were snti-Roosevelt and in whose eyes the president is a political accident, who was to be given the nomination by force of circumstances. They threw cold water whenever the Roosevelt sentiment appeared. They ignored the 1 resident in convention arrangements and had not thought of him in plan ning tile decorations. Most important of all, they decided that one of their own selection should be the new chair man of the national committee and leader of the party. Then it was that tin president's friends on the ground made a determined stand, insisting thai Cortelyou should have the place. These Roosevelt men held their guns until tile army of delegates began [locking in Sunday night. Monday the entire force arrived and the tad guard was routed. Talk to one (if them today and you get the meek statement that Cortelyou will be chair man and they are for him. They have heard from tin- little fellows who rep tesent districts and who are direct from the people, they find a mighty sentiment among the mass of republi cans in favor of Roosevelt. The list (.i the oh! organization displaced on tin- national committee by new men include Kearna of Missouri. Sheldon of Xew York. Stewart of Illinois and Haw ley of Texas. The old machine has heen shattered. Roosevelt is the leader. His picture now hangs in pub lic places and on thousands of badges and his name figures in the conversa tion of groups of men and in the cheers of the crowds. Fairbanks' Nomination Sure. If ever there was doubt about the nomination of Senator Fairbanks of Indiana for vice president, late devel opments have set it ;it rest. When Pennsylvania and Xew York fell into line other boomlets did not have a leg to stand on. Speaker Cannon's force ful and picturesque expressions on the subject of his candidacy settled the matter so far as the New York scheme to nominate him was concerned. Pres ident Roosevelt kept his hands out of the fight, but Cornelius Illiss. who rep resents the president, was consulted and acquiesced in the program. There will be no light in the convention, al though there may be complimentary votes for a number of others, whose enthusiastic friends refused to permit the withdrawal of their names. The rebellious talk against the selection of Cortelyou for the national chairman ship has almost entirely subsided, nor Is there longer talk of a compromise looking either to Cortelyou's selection and subsequent resignation to accept the postmaster generalship or looking to the selection of Cortelyou as chair man of tlie executive committee, and the choice oi some one else as chair man of the national committee itself. Cortelyou is detained in New York en account of the Sloeum disaster, but he is expec ted here Wednesday. His coming however, will have little effect on the situation. The hopes of the tariff readjustee for a revision plank in the platform is doomed to disap pointment Rut little talk is heard foreshadowing the slightest conces sions on the part of the "stand pat ters." The western delegates continue 'heir agitation against the proposed anti-polygamy plank, a matter in which the delegates from Utah, Idaho. Colorado. Wyoming and other inter mountain commonwealths are standing together. Another fruitful topic for the westerners is the statehood question, the last two congresses having refused to carry out the platform pledges look ing to the admission of Oklahoma, Ari zona and New Mexico. But the state i ood boomers have not lost hope and the struggle will lie renewed before the (ommittee on resolutions. Four women are among those at the convention hall who occupy the green ( hairs reserved for the select. They ((.me from western states, where wo men vote, to sit as alternates in the convention. Mrs. J. M. West of Idaho, heads the quartet in point of national experience. She was one of the repre sentatives of Idaho at the republican convention, in 1900. Mrs. Jennie Nel sou. of Utah, another alternate, is- the wife of Charles NeUon, a prominent business man. It is her first experience at a na tional convention, although she has been a delegate at many state con ventions in Utah. Mrs. <•. EL Leferve and Mrs. A. A. Eldridge. come from Colorado. The latter is entitled to a seat as a delegate as Judge Nixon, for Whom she is alternate, was unable to < ome. Tentative efforts were made by the Xew York delegation this morning to rush the program of the ((invention and complete all business by tomorrow night. Many delegates believes that with the ticket settled ill advance and with no situation to (dear up. it is fruitless to dray the convention over two days. The question of early ad journment rests entirely within the discretion of the convention. Chair man Payne of the national committee says there is strong under current of sentiment favorable to early adjourn ment. Senator Foraker says he would not be surprised if the business of the convention wore concluded Wednes day night. Ex- Governor Black is also of the opinion that the convention ought to lie put through with snap, as everything is cut and dried. THE PROCEEDINGS. Called to Order by Vice Chairman Henry C. Payne. CHICAGO, 111.. June 21.—The open ing sesion of the national convention of the republican party was called to older at 12 14 today in the Coliseum building by Henry C. Payne, vice chairman of the republican national committee, anil postmaster general. Probably not since the days of Wash ington and Grant did a body of men having to do with the selection of the governing personnel of this nation meet under what might be called such unanimous conditions as to a proposed ticket and platform. Scramble for Tickets. Contrary to many predictions of a lack of general interest in this conven tion because of the foregone conclu sion that President Roosevelt would be nominated, the crowds of visitors literally have overrun the city's hostel ties, while hundreds vainly endeavored to secure entrance tickets to the Coli seum. Two weeks ago the price of convention seats were quoted at $. r »o, and today instances were cited where almost double that figure was offered for the coveted pasteboards. Six thousand seven hundred per sons composed the gathering that par ticipated In the opening ceremonies. Almost twice that number would have listened to the proceedings had there been room, but no one was admitted to the vast building who was not pro vided with a seat. A!! Must Have Seats. The* "standing room only" sisms were not painted, for the reason that since the memorable Iroquois theater horror, the municipal laws of Chicago have been revised so that no public hall shall exceed its licensed seating capacity. In the Coliseum that is H4i»i>. The platforms upon which the officials of the convention and the representa tives of the press sat brought the quo ta of the number first stated. Nine hundred and eighty-eight dele gates and nearly as many alternates found their places at an early hour and without confusion. Tne Decorations. The convention hall presented a bril liant scene of color this morning. Hanging as a sort of canopy above the single gallery was a long festooned strip of red. white and blue bunting stretched from end to end on each side of the vast amphitheater. From each point where the bunting was caught up wts suspended a large hanging basket tdh d With graceful fel lis. Above every s'-i<iiol one of these was tastefully ar ranged a group of five American flags, in the bosom of whose folds reposed a picture of Roosevelt. Between these stands of flags boughs of trees were placed, the green foliage affording a pleasant relief to tile eye. , The steel girders on the way to the roof were entwined with green foliage md each giider bore another portrait of the president At the south end of tht hall on a temporarj stand the first ii' giment hand held forth. .'.i north end was strung a large placard announcing "Under tins banner both Harrison and McKinley were twice nominated." An immense oil painting of the late Mark H inna lighted from above i>y electricity and draped in Hags was suspended directly over the speak er's platform, where the furniture was of dark flemish oak with the exception of the ( hair and de; k of the presiding officer which was mahogany. Vice t hairman Payne was supplied with two gavels, one a great mallet three inches in diameter and six inches long, the "storm gavel." the other for or dinary conditions. A handsome little affair of rosewood, decorated with .-: gold band bearing his name and titl *-. similar to gavels provided for Tempo rary Chairman Root and Permanent Chairman Cannon. Greet the Celebrities. As there came into the hall a dele gate of more than usual eminence, the crowds would sond up a welcoming shout. (m every hand were to be found portraits of President Roosevelt, but, generally speaking, the decorative scheme of the convention hall was more subdued. The officers of the convention made then- appearance on tin- platform at 10:30, while very few people were in the ball. About 11 the Coliseum began to till, the earliest arrivals being four women alternates from Idaho. Utah ami Colorado. Half an hour later not more than 50 delegates were in their seats. The first full delegation to ap peal- was that of Delaware under Ad- Idicks' leadership. The Oklahoma men with sombreros came next. The first applause of the day from the galleries came with the advent of a party of lowans with Senator Allison at the'r bead. Senators Depew and Cullom were the recipients of applause, which T'nele Joe Cannon entered with Cor nelius Bliss of Xew York. At 11:45 Postmaster General Fayne, th- presid ing officer, made his way to the plat form, accompanied by Temporary Chairman Root. Eve y one in the ball joined in the greeting. Th'- delegates Series were not half full. Few ladies were present compared with previous conventions. The first real enthusiasm came when Senator Fairbanks with the Indiana delegation entered the hull. The people howled and clapped but it was all over in a few seconds and quiet reigned again. The preliminaries were so mild that this enthusiastic opening was hailed as a good omen. Uncle Joe Cannon wore an expansive smile when the cheers welled up for Fairbanks, It made plain the fact that the delegates had boarded the Fairbanks wagon. As the hour approached for the act ual commencement of the proceedings, the vast audience settled down into » quiet hum which ceased entirely as Chairman Payne stepped forward, rapped for order and addressed the convention briefly. Then followed the prayer by Itev. Timothy F. Frost, of Chicago, pastor of the First Methodist church of Evanston, 111., as follows; "Almighty Cod. our help In ages past, our hop. for years to come, we thank Thee for Thy goodness to the people of this land. Our sins have been many, but Thy mercies have been great. Thou hast poured out Thy gifts without measure. The Open ing years of a nev century have been freighted with wealth for hand and mind and heart. Best of all Thou are giving Thyself In a perpetual offering of Thy life for the life of man. Ws do not forget that in the hour of deep sorrow when the heart of the nation Was darkened by tin murder of the na tion's chief there was no break in tbo march of Thy purpose, the orderly ad ministration of our government or th»": faith of the people in their Coil. Un der the guidance of Tin holy spirit no were brought by our national woes to be nearer to Tin -. Surely Thou wilt never forsake this people. May no dominance of greed, no riot of passion, no weakening of religious conviction or enthronement of matter over spirit CaUSe the people to forsake Th'-e. May the heritage of h< r coming to us from the fathers in memories of noble sacrifices and valiant deeds be at once our glad possession and our sa cred trust. While we are grateful for the past may we remember that today is better than yesterday, and so act that tomorrow shall he greater than today. Wherever our country's flag Moats as the symbol of government, even unto the isles of the s.-a. may we cleave to the righteousness that exalt eth a nation, and cast out the sin that is a reproach to any j pie. Save our nation, we beseech Thee, from all the evil things which*deflle the home, im pair civil liberty, corrupt politics ,or undermine the integrity of commercial life. Bring to naught the schemes of men who would debauch or oppress human lit" for the gratification of lust or for persona] enrichment or power. May exaltation come only to men who despise the gain of oppressions and] shake the hands from holding of bribes May all sections and races, all creeds and sentiments, all occupations and In terests became united through the Spirit of the Highest into a citizen ship with a passion for rii;hteousness, wherein each individual shall look up to Cod as the Father of all and upon svery man as a brother. We piay The- to overrule the de liberations, conclusions and issues of this convention for the good of the American people and the welfare of mankind. Bless Thy servant, the chief magistrate of our nation. May he and ,11 others clothed with authority by tne sovereign people be protected by the powers of Thy kingdom and con tribute to its nil,mat- triumph and •onsummation in all the earth. \ll nations are Thy children. Gukta ii d keep them by Thy gracious provi lence. and hasten the coming of the lay when love shall have conquered (Continued on Page Four.) NUMBER 83.