Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-26

to Picking yesterday. He was driven
10 the Foreign Office Building. for
'nerly occupied by President Yuen
Shih-Kai. in an elegant open carriage
expressly made for the occasion,
drawn by white horses with gold
mounted harness in yellow silk reins.
The streets were lined with 1000 sol.
diers. There were large 1hrOngs at
The street corners, bur there was no
cheering. g..
President Taft, with the exception
Of filling a few engagements, expects
to stay at Beverly until election time.
With the idea that the country is
tired of stumping tours, Governor
Wilson announced today that his
present plan calls for very few cam
paign speeches.
Governor Oswald West, of Oregon,
has served notice on the authorities
Of Portland and Multnomah county
that Monday he proposes to institute
q moral "house-cleaning" in Portland
with the help of the lOca! authorities,
if they will give it, without, if they
do not care to assist, and in spite of
them if they try to block his effort
The Governor says he is going to
clean up if it takes him to January"
D1tachments of bluejackets from
the gunbOat Annapolis and the col
lier Justian are patrolling the city
at night; an armed guard of vOlun-
teers, made up largely Of the foreign
element, acting as police during the
day, and all the foreign women and
children in port sleeping on the Amer
lean naval vessels, described the sit.
uatiOn in COrintO, according to the
last report from American Consul
Johnson.
San JOrgue, a town on the coast of
the province of Divan, was lombard
ed for hours yesterday by insurgents
from the steamer Victoria, in Lake
Nicaragua.
An elleged plot to kill Representa-
tive Benjamin X. Johnson of Ken
lucky, chairman of the house commit
tee on the District of Columbia, so as
to head off certain proposed legisla-
ton, has been disclosed to Johnson,
and a sworn statement has put the
Kentucky man and his friends on
guard.
Despite the general belief that Con-
gress would wind up the business of
the long session and adjourn yester-
day afternoon, last night found the
end still apparently some days away.
No fewer than twenty-four thous-
and workmen filed past the bier of
Gen. William Booth 49, between five
thirty an nine o'clock this morning.
2 he scene was an intensely impress
i've one as the men walked bare
headed to the Congress hall.
The House Committee on War De-
partment expenditures reported that
Major Beecher Ray, U. s.. A., whom
the President nominated Saturday to
be deputy payinaster- general of the
army, had been engaged in political
activity, particularly in the interests
of President Taft; had been four
times tried for serious offenses, and
never been disciplined more severely
than by reprimand. =
Joseph E. Davies of Wisconsin, sec:
rotary of the Democratic National
Committee, announces that Rudolph
Spreckels of California, and John J.
Daline of Wisconsin, both supporters
of United States Senator LaFollette
in his campaign for the Republican
nomination, have agreed to head an
organization to work for Woodrow
Wilson in the presidential campaign.
King Nicholas of Montenegro has
called out his entire army and there
is great excitement on the frontier
where fighting goes on with Turkey
as though was was declared, tele-
graphs the correspondent at COnstan
tinople of the Daily Chronicle.
Speaker Clark, Saturday, deliver
ing the valedictory of the Democratic
House of the SiXty-SecOnd Congress,
asserted that historians would declare
with absolute truth that the house
Democrats of the Sixty-Fifst and Six
ty-Second Congress did great things
and have made a sweeping Demo
cratic victory approximately certain,
a victory that will give us the House,
the Senate and the President
The Adams and American express
companies, indicted for violation of