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THE SanFrancisco CALLVOLUME <XI.?NO. 14(5. SAX FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
NEW HAMPSHIREPRIMARIES GIVE
TAFT A VICTORYRoosevelt's Defeat Practically!
Conceded by Bass andOther Followers
President Will Control State:Convention by a Substan*
tial Majority
Executive Makes Success Com- iplete by Winning Voters'
Personal Indorsement
CONCORD.N. H.. April 23?Vic-
tory in the republican presiden-tial primaries in N>w Hamp-
shire practically was concede]
to Taft tonight by Roosevelt leaders,including Governor Robert P. Bass.
.Returns received at the Roosevelt? adqtiarters from MS of the 290 cities
a towns give Taft 3?rt delegates andosevelt 234 out of a total of SI 1 in
.state convention.
Admit President's LeadThe Roosevelt supporters concede the
first district to Taft, but claimed afighting chance in the second district,although admitting that incomplete re-turns showed a Taft lead there.
Most of the primaries were held thisevening. In every" case voters werepermitted to express their presidential
ference in addition to voting for
:er Taft or Roosevelt delegates inthe state and district conventions. Tab-
ulations at Roosevelt headquarters
showed a slight lead for Taft in thestate on the presidential vrting.
Victory !s CompleteGovernor H. If. Baker, chairman of
the Taft league, said tonight:
The returns received up to 11
o'clock show that President Taft has
carried the state and both congres-
sional districts hy substantial major-
ities. Tlie victory is complete.Governor Robert P. Bass, who prac-
directed the fight for Roosevelt.after admitting probable defeat, said:
"Considering that the organization inthe cities was opposed to us almostunanimously, the result is satisfactory."
"The campaign consolidated a large
of ni*n of the same political
' Ith in regard to progressive ideas
and eiean politics," continued Bass.They will stick together and will be
heard from again."
Cornish, the home of WinstonChurchill, who has been prominent in
I ptoopevelt campaign, went for Taft.
? president carried Concord. Berlin,
Which tbe Taft followers had no-c, returns a solid Taft delegation.
Cheshire county, the home of theprogressive element, seems to have gonefor Tan.Washington Straw for T. R.
COLFAX, Wash., April 23.?1n the
republican presidential primaries heldin Whitman county today returns to-
night from the must important pre-
BCtfl indicate tlie success of Roosevelt.The largest towns and what are con-
lered the most important precincts
: Roosevelt. 3i'B; Taft, 2SB; La Fol-
fowa Decides TodayCKDAB RAPIDS, la., April 23.?Vic-
tory in tomorrow's state convention
was claimed with equal insistence by
b"th the Taft nnd tb« Cummins leadersi/.night.
So confident are the Taft people ofwinning that tonight they announced- cir candidates for delegates at large
to the national convention. The Taft
list is headed by Governor B. F. Car-roll and includes George D. Perkins
* of Sioux City, Luther R. Brewer of
cedar Rapids and James R. Bryan ofCreston, one time private secretary to
former Congressman W. P. Hepburn.
colonel Hepburn at first was agreed
upon as one of the proposed Taft dele-
gates at large, but he declined to serve.» withdrawing late today in favor of his
former secretary.
Missouri Battle TomorrowST. LOUIS, April 23? With the ar-
g rival of Governor Hadley as leader of
the Roosevelt forces and Congressman
Candidates' StandingIn Presidential Race!;
Lineup of delegates to date,including New Hampshire:
Republican?Taft. 391: Roo_e-
relt, 201; la FoP.ette. 36; Cum-min*, ft; unclaAnified. 3.
Totiil number delegate* in na-tional contention. I.OSI.
"Seeded Io nominate »a major-
ity*. r»4i.\ceded to give Taft a majority,
149; needed to give Roowevelt amajority. 339.
1 et to he elected, 450.Democratic?(lark. 149; Wi:»on.
Ilß| Marshall. 30: I ndfrnood, 24;
Burke. 10; Harmon. 4.Inclaanlfleri (including' »tv
\u25a0* ork'n 90). 101.Number delegate* in democratic
convention. 1.094.\eeded to nominate ittvo-
thlrdml. 729.
Vet to be named. «7S.
FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF SOME OF THE SURVIVORS OF THE TITANICTAKEN ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA BEFORE THEY REACHED NEW YORK
This unusually interesting photograph was ta\en by Miss Bernice Palmer, a passenger on board the Carpathia. In the picture are Mr. andMrs. George A. Harder, a young couple of Brooklyn, N. V., who Were returning in the Titanic from their wedding trip to Europe. Harderis the one male member of eleven "honeymoon couples" who was saved. Facing Mr. and Mrs. Harder, with her head on her hands and weep-ing is Mrs. Charles M. Hays, whose husband, Charles M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk railway, Went down with the Titanic whileshe and their two daughters were rescued. The three survivors were talking over their awful experiences when they were photographed. Mr.and Mrs. Harder were in the concert room listening to the music when the Titanic struck the iceberg. When the cry came to get into the life-boats they, as a lark an d n°l realizing that there Was any real danger, jumped into the first boat that Was lowered.
This photograph was purchased for The Call and copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood, New York. 'DORR'S MIND ISCLEARED AGAIN
BY FALL INCELLRecognizes His Friends and
Treats His Imprisonmentas a Joke
[Special Dispatch io The Call]STOCKTON*. April 23. ?William A.
Dorr has the local officers puzzled. The
Stockton motorcycle dealer, who is
charged with murdering George Marsh.
the millionaire soap manufacturer of
Lynn. Mass., fell in his cell today and
struck his head on the cement floor.His mind appeared to become clear in
a flash. He leaped to his feet, greeted
jailers and friends, whom he had re-fused to rceogniz" before, and then
asked the officers what kind of a joke
they were attempting to play on him.When he found that he' was impris-
oned in a cell with his old friend, Zol-lie Clements, the bandit who has e«>n-
fessed to a 10 year career of crime andmurder, he declared that the joke hadgone too far and that he wanted to gohome.
Dorr's mind seems to have remaineda blank since March 14, the day of his
mytserious disappearance from Stock-ton. That day he claims to have at-tempted to separate two men who werefighting on the Stockton water front.
He asserts that he remembers nothing
from that moment until he found him-self in jail. When told that he was ac-cused of murder Dorr Immediately de-manded that Attorney O. B. Parkinsonbe sent to him.
Supervisor Tretheway, who was anold friend of Dorr's, visited the jail to-day In another attempt to gain recog-
nition from Dorr. Jailers McAllisterand Owen ordered Dorr to the door of
his cell. The accused murderer had
been complaining of violent pains in
his head and spine and appeared weak.
Will Directs HeirsWhere to Search
For Buried GoldALLF.XTOWX, Pa., April 23.
Instructions left in a sealedpacket by Miss Sallie Benning-horf. who died two weeks ago,today led the heirs to unearth$3,000 in gold and notes fromthe ground of her two farmsnear Lynn.
The finding of the moneysolved the mystery of a strangelight which neighbors had oftenseen in the meadows of MissBenninghoff at night.
Miss Hcnninghoff, who was' 97years o!rl. left $50,000 in farmsand securities to her nieces andnephews.
FAIR COMMITTEETO SAIL TODAY
[Special Dispatch to The Call]WASHINGTON. April 23.?T0 initiate
more formal movements to secure rep-
resentation nf foreign naval and mili-tary forces at the Panama exposition lnSan Francisco in 1915, a special com-
mission left Washington this morning
for New York to sail at 1 a. m. tomor-row on the Mauretania for London.
The commission is composed of John
' Hays* Hammond, R. B. Tlale of SanIFrancisco, vice president of the exposi-; tion; W. T. Sesnon, vice president of the| San Francisco Chamber of Commerce;
clarence R. Edwards, brigadier general,
U. S. A., and Sidney A. Staunton, rearadmiral, IT. S. N.. with an executivestaff.
The commission will meet some ofthe principal officials of the British
jgovernment at a dinner by AmbassadorjReid in London, and the trip wlll bej extended to all the principal Europeancapitals.
TAFT TO TELLWHAT HEKNOWS
OF T.R.'S REIGNPresident Obtains Data From
Cabinet Officers and Pre=pares Drastic Speech
[Specie/ Dispatch .to The Call]WASHINGTON, April 23.?President
Taft decided definitely today to dosomething drastic. He will tell what heknows of Colonel Roosevelt's adminis-tration as president.
After deciding to take this step, thepresident called up all his cabinet of-ficers for letters, memorandum andrecords concerning certain of the actsof the former president. These weredelivered to him without delay. Hecanceled all engagements, stayed in thelibrary of the white house and digested
them.At 8 o'clock ton.lght he summoned to
the white house Secretary Knox, Stim-son, Meyer, Nagel and Fisher, Attor-ney General Wlckersham and Postmas-ter General Hitchcock, Senator MurrayCrane. Representative McKinley andSecretary Hilles. The prepared speech
was read, discussed and edited, and thematerial for the others was passedupon.
The World Is able to state that thepresident in the speeches he will de-liver in Massachusetts will tell of thepart Colonel Roosevelt played In de-laying for more than five years prose-cution of the harvester trust and howthis delay prevented the present ad-ministration from bringing criminalprosecution against the officials of thetrust.
This exposure will bring forth theletter Colonel Roosevelt wrote to Attor-ney General Bonaparte in 1908, which,in substance, said:
"Hold up prosecution of harvestertrust until you hear from me. Theseare jur
Man Gets ComfortWhile Dying Head
Down in Elevator[Special Dispatch io The Call]
NEW YORK, April 23.?Hanging head downward in theelevator shaft of the building inwhich he worked, John Harveyreceived the last rites of hischurch. ITc died shortly after-ward, after suffering agonies fortwo hours while firemen weretrying to cut him out.The accident was caused hyHarvey's losing his balancewhile ascending with a largetouring car on the elevator. Tt
is said that he reached for thecable to stop the lift, when hemissed his grasp and felt the liftbeefming jammed. The man'sleft foot and right leg werecrushed.
BLUEBEARD MUSTFACE FIVE WOMEN
[Special Dispatch to The Call]PORTLAND, April 23.?Five women
who claim to be victims of the wiles
of George E. Carr, alias George Tem-
ple and Jeffrey Carr, will appear
against the moderfi Bluebeard when
he is placed on trial in Spokane next
month.The first marriage was performed at
Lanesboro. Minn., May 18, 190 i, when
he married Maude Rafferty. His next
venture was at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho,
where he married Margaret Barclay,November 7, 1911. Ruth Allen of Col-fax, Wash., was the next victim.
When he left her at Spokane thepolice found he had been supporting
Miss Rafferty. Miss Barclay ami MissAllen in separate apartments within a
'few blocks of each other. '
MEXICANS ANDU.S. SOLDIERS
EXCHANGE FIREBandits, Pursued by Federals,
Cross Line, Shooting UnderMisapprehension
[Special Dispatch to The Call]L.OS ANGELES, April 23.?Thirty
Mexican bandits, closely pressed by
Mexican troops, crossed the interna-tional boundary line near Campo. southof San Diego, late yesterday afternoon.In a ravine on the American side the
'bandits encountered members of theOne hundred and fifteenth company ofcoast artillery corps. Mistaking theAmericans for their pursuers, the ban-dits opened fire. The Americans re-turned the fire and the bandits weredriven back into Lower California,leaving behind two pack horses and aquantity of provisions. No one wasinjured.
This is the first time since the pres-ent insurrection in Mexico began thatAmerican troops have fired a shot nearthe boundary.
The first division of the torpedo
boat flotilla, which has been engaged
ln target practice off San Pedro, sailedfor San Diego early this morning andthe second division tonight. It Is un-derstood that the boats wlll proceedto Magdalena bay from San Diego tobe ready for eventualities.
Active preparations similar to thosewhich marked the opening of the Span-ish-American war have been noted atports along the Pacific coast.
A mimic warfare between the Firstand Second divisions of the torpedo
fleet was carried on in the roadsteadoft San Pedro Sunday night. Duringthe latter part of the warlike maneu-vers the cruiser Maryland took part,having come in early in the morningfrom San Diego.
A division of destroyers comprising
SEA MAYGIVEUP THOSEMOURNED
AS DEADCanadian Mariner Says There
Are Many Chances ThatPassengers Are Aboard
Smaller Steamers
STRONG MEN HAD MORETHAN FIGHTING CHANCE
Wreckage Could Easily Have
Supported Hundreds Who
Took to Sea asLiner Sank
ICE FLOES ALSO ASOURCE OF REFUGE
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
HALIFAX.N. S., April 23.?Out ofthe depths conies a ray of hope thatall now missing from the Titanic's listof living made up before it sailed fromSouthampton are not lost beyond re-
call. More may be saved to add to thesurvivors brought to New York by theCarpathia. Some may have beenpicked up after hours or days on float-ing wreckage, or shivering, huggingclose to life on icefloe or berg. Thisis the opinion of Captain Robert \\ .MacKenzie, a well known master ofSt. Johns, who scouts the idea that allthose not already accounted for arenecessarily tread.
Captain MacKenzie is in Halifaxjust now. one of the most interested inthe work being done to scour thewaters off the banks for floatingbodies and return them to land forburial. He has raised new hopes by
his assurances that there are manyways in which the passengers andsailors left aboard the liner when shewas abandoned may still be saved.
Cries Not Dimmed by DeathThe captain puts stress on the testi-
mony given that for an hour after tlieship sank cries for help were heard bythe people in the lifeboats, cries grow-ing fainter and fainter as the littieflotilla rode together against the tide,keeping as far as possible in the trackof the masthead lights which the thirdofficer had noted?the lights of theship which heard the pathetic crackleof the wireless flash, but ignored itand held on her course. The increas-ing faintness of these cries, Captain
MacKenzie points out. is not neces-sarily a sign that those who were call-ing for help were growing weaker andweaker until their voices became stillin death.Tide May Have Aided
The survivor? were drifting with thetide, which was bearing them fartherand farther away from the boats, outof the track of the liners, but into thepath of the tramp steamers and sailingcraft. The drift of the stream, the cap-
tain believes, would take them at aspeed of from three to five knots anhour, and he is convinced that strong
swimmers might hold out. borne np by
pieces of wreckage which are known to
have been disgorged by the decks and
hull after the explosion.
Huge Tables for RaftsThe huge tables shot out of the sa-
loons, drawers from the larger lock-ers, deck chairs, light furniture?all
this, says Captain MacKenzie. would berafts of refuge to strong men battling
for life. Such sturdy swimmers as Col-onel Astor and Major Butt and others,who are unaccounted for and mournedalready as dead, might, he thinks, liveafloat upon these fragile, but buoyant,
supports until sighted and picked np,provided they had food to keep themalive. He thinks it likely that manyobtained from the pantries food enough
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shotPtnritgmsouthwest wind.For Detaili of tho Weather See Page 17
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