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The Omaha Daily Bee. TH i OMAHA DEE to iho rioin Is rred by the i.-,iiti (n ils jC'Odi for advertiser. WEATHER FORECAST. J-'pr Nebraska - Fair. For lows- (.iptirrally fair For wrath r report see i.e Vol.. NL-NU. 5!. OMAHA, KH1UAV MOKNINU, AUGUST Hi, 19.11) TKX rAM-SS. SINGLE COri' TWO CENTS. OFFICIAL-COUNT f CliTo DAllLMAS Roosevelt Meets Local Committee DEATH LIST NOW NEAtt HUNDRED "Doing Very Well, Thank You" ROOSEVELT WILL HELP HONEST MEN Former President is Against Graft of Every Form and Pledges Aid . in Fight. Official Retains from Ninety Counties ; Former President Expresses Desire to , Eighty-Six Rangers Classified as in Hands of Stat; Canvassr in; Board. See Omaha Entertainers on Way West. Known Dead Number May Be Increased. I DOUGLAS AND THURSTON OUT Mayor DahlinanY ' Rtduced to One Hund. -t- e. VICTOR ASSERTS YU FIDENCE , -it. Insists Recount is Sa ry as , Far as Made. " Mj ADDISON WAIT DEFEATS RYDER Otoe County Man WIiim Hepahlirnn domination for Secretary nf Mate by Ovfr lci llnn.lreil. L j' in niiun Thursday the state canvasaing I ml J I. ltd received official returns from uli the ninety-two counties except Douglas arid Thurston. Then. Rave Dahlman 20. US! votes and bhallenberger H.9W. Adding to these th unofficial vote of the two missing counties give Dahlman a majority of little more than a bundled. The figures follow: Shallen rJahlrnan. berger. Ninety counties, official 20,2 24. Douglas 7.1W) l,t7 Thurston 10J m Totaln 27,376 7.2 Dahlman's plurality 109 Following are aome totals on official re turns from ninety counties, Douglas and Thurston missing: Governor (dem.) Dahlman ; 30,02 Shallenherger 24,lsW Railway Commissioner (dem.) Veil Harden .3tiS Victor ..Wilson 9.1X6 Coir -as. First District. Complete (rep.) Will ilkyward 6,474 Ueorse Tobey 2,573 Congress, Fourth Dist., Complete idem.) B. F, flood 2.813 V. S. Balky 1,813 H. U Mains 1.04 Malt Miller 1.H47 S. Gilbert 1.300 B. y. Mood (pop.) X F. . Hatley (pop.) HO H. I.. Mains (pop) 41 Matt Miller (pop.) 48 t S. Gilbert loop.) 102 Charles Sloan uep.) 6.124) Congress. Fifth District, Complete George Norris (rep.) 6.230 i lairuce narmuii mjqhi. j ..... ........... R. D. Sutherland (dem.) 4.6o8 Clarence Harmon (pop.)... 199 11. D. Sutherland (pop.) 778 J. D. Stoddard (pro.) 63 Congress. Sixth District, Complete 3. It. Denn idem.) 2.234 W. J. Taylort dem.) 3,229 I. R. Dean (pop.) 323 W. J. Taylor (pop) 449 Late returns from the convaaa In Lan , caster county reveal a gain of twenty, votes ! tar--Oahlmarr over the above figures. . The same ninety counties, official, give Walt, for secretary of state, 17,707 and Ryder 14,704. Adding to these the unoffi cial vote of Douglas county gives Walt 19.121 and Ryder 18,373, making Walt's plu rality 749. Mayor Dahlman said Thursday morning that the recount that has been made In a few counties on the request of Governor Phallcnberger has so signally failed to change the results that the whole matter will probably be dropped a far aa his slm ' Her request Is concerned and he Is sitting back In his chair, literally speaking, wait ing for the governor to admit his defeat. A complete oount of mlnety counties shows that the mayor leads by only 108 votes and this narrow margin. Is not de cisive enough to Insure a very prompt ad mission of defeat from Shallenberger. The recounts In the thirteen counties which Shallenbwger expected to turn the tables for him are progressing. Hall county reduced Dahlman's vote by four and added two to the governor's, making Dahlman's majority on the recount 241 Instead of 247. In the other counties one or two votes bava changed hands. v Arcsted of Sharp Tactics. Ay No more messages have been exchanged Tetween the two candidates. Tom Flynn, manager for the mayor, accuses the gov. ernor's supporters of rather sharp tactics In their recount requests. "They waited," says Flynn. "until Just before the time limit had expired and then fired In their affidavits for the thirteen counties where they think they could get mote votes. Our affidavits to all the counties were sent out aa quickly as pos sible after this, bit In some of the coun ties where the returns had been In for three days we were too late. Of course, we are not cut out of our chance In most cf the outlying places, but we were beaten out of a part of them and we wanted every vote In the atate rtcounted. The next move Is up to Shallenberger If he persists we i ill have to keep up our work, otherwise we will quit since the nomination is ours." Muyur Jim received word through Tom Flynn Thursday from Msyor "Pet" Clay tun of St. Joseph that Clayton would gladly Hump the state for a week In "Jim's" be lialf. Clayton sent his hearty congratula tions over the report of the nomination from a fishing resort la Wisconsin. Shallenherarer's l.aat Resort. Should Governor Sliallenberger fail in his remunt of the votes of several oounties to etcurtt a sufficient number to nominate him in (he democratic primary, he may play an other card. He may. If he so desires In stitute quo warranto proceedings to oust Dahlman from the head of the ticket, should he be given the certificate of nomi nation. 1-awjer friends snd sflvlsers of the rov ernor Insist that he hws a legal way in which lit may investigate his charges of fraud made In Itouglas county, regardless of the fact that no provision for this sp pears in the primary law. One attorney, who has been directing the governor In his demands for the recount. Insist that when the certificate of nomination is given Dahl man. the governor may demand to know by what authority he holds the certificate, alleging that he obtained It by fraud, in ;hut It is charged that persons In Douglas county, not entitled to vote, cast their ballots for him. These matters this at torney Insists may gone Into should quo warranta proceedings be Instituted to oust Dahlman from the ballot. In the meantime the atate eanvxas-ting hoard will meet next Tuesday to canvass ine votvs van ai ine prims ry ana It IS very probable the Various counties In which a recount has been demanded will not have colli! let d their work by this time. To flax en t the issuance of a certificate of rumination o Dahlmaa, who has won In the face of the returns. Governor bhallent. Ik-i Her likely will siie a statement with the board apprising the members of the fact (CoaUnued on Third FaaaJi Tl;e Omaha committee which will have charge of the arrangement for the enter tainment of Theodore Roosevelt when he visit Omaha. September 2. has received not no that .Mr. Roocevelt will be sled to meet the committee hefc he comes through Omaha this morning on his way west. Victor RoKewater, chairman of the com mittee, received the following telegram yesterday, which Is self-explantaory : KKIK. Pa.. Aug. Jb, liilu. Victor' Rose water. Kditor Omaha Hee. Immha. Neb.: Mr. Uooievelt will be giad to meet com mitted on way west. FRANK HARPER. Secretary. Roosevelt's special car will be attached to a Northwestern train due to reach Coun cil Bluffs at 1:55 this afternoon. He will be In Omaha nt 3:15. and his stay here will only cover the time necessary to attach his car to the Union Pacific train. During this lime he will become attainted with the local committee. Orleans County For Roosevelt Delegates to State Convention In structed to Support Him for Temporary Chairman. NEW YORK, Aug. 25. The news that Orleans county had Instructed Its delegates to the state convention to favor Theodore Roosevelt as the convention's temporary chairman was received with elation by Chairman Lloyd Grlscom of New York county. "The news from Orleans county this morning." said Mr. Griscom, "shows how the republicans of New York state feel In the present contest. It will stir republi cans everywhere. It will be followed soon by other victories for the men who have sided with Tsft and Roosevelt. This morn ing's mall has brought additional good news of the progress we are making." Excursion Boat Runs Down Launch Two Lives Are Lost' by Collision in Bay -Near Newark, New Jersey. NEW YORK. Aug. 36. Two lives were lost today when the excursion boat Ma- lestlo. returning to Newark, N. J., from Coney Island,' ran down and sank a launch containing a party of merry-makers In Newark bay. The ; work of rescue was made difficult by the fast running tide and darkness. Mary Kops and David Sunes mere drowned. I IOWA MULCT LAW IS VALID Hawkeye Mqaor Statute la Held to Be Conetitatlwnal by Jadge MeFberaoa. DES MOINE3, la., Aug. 16. Judge Smith McPherson In an opinion filed in federal court here today .upholds the Iowa Mulct law as valid and constitu tional In one of the most Important liquor decisions handed down In many months. Saloon keepers at Marshalltown united la an application to prevent -the county attorney, sheriff and clerk from collecting the mulct liquor tax pending an appeal from the Iowa courts to the state supreme court and declaring the statute unconstitutional. A temporary injunction granted March 14 Is vacated by Judge, McPherson and the law upheld. The case will be appealed to the United States supreme court. NATIONAL NEGRO CONFERENCE Representative Gathering- of Kdnca tors Welcomed to St. boats by Governor Hndley. ST. LOUIS. Aug. 15. The National VArrn Mttieatlnnal consrress. said to be one of the largest and most representa tive gatherings of education or the Arri can race ever convened, opened here to day. Governor Hadley making the open ing address. Approval of the plans of the congress has been expressed by tha governors of all southern states, and strong delega tions have been appointed to come to St Louis. Prof. J. Ellas Harris of Kansas City presides over the meeting, which will extend over three days. DENVER SHOWS A LARGE GAIN Popnlatloa of Capital of Colorado is More Than Two Handred Thousand. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. The population of Denver. Colo., Is 213,381, an Increase of 73.532, or 69.4 per cent, as compared with 133.&9 In 1900. The population of Buffalo, N. Y." is 413,715, an increase of 71.3IS. or JOS per cent, as compared with S5-,3S7 In 1900. Ninety-Five Wednesday, Two Overcoats Thursday Conductor Hotchklrs of the North Twenty-fourth street line stole a march on evil circumstances Thursday rooming, so he thought, but he soon found It was a mistake and that he bad made a bad break. Hotchklsa bss learned that his Job is one to be filled by a stole, that comfort loving dispositions don't go and that an overcoat in August Is a piece of serious Impropriety. When the conductor peeped out of bis dour at four bells In the inorniag and got his nose Trost bitten, he straightway resur rected from the closet and the moth balls, a very .serviceable uniform overcoat, and thus received the conviction he had check mated an evil condition. It was not so, however, as Hotchkias soon learned. He mingled with the other front and rear men at .the ear barns with an air of haughty superiority for a few minutes waiting for his ear to be mustered out. Hub complacency grew from tha fact that LOSS IS OVER TWENTY MILLIONS Only Timber Destroyed in Coeux de Alene District Estimated. WOULD RESCUE FIRE FIGHTERS Efforts of Forest Service Turned to Extricating Imprisoned Men. WEIGEL RECEIVES TELEGRAM Dispatch Gives Asanramce of the Safety of SerentyTno of rtanrer Kootkey's Mem on Bird Creek. BI'LLETrX. SPOKANE. WaKh.. Am. 3i Fnllnwtnv I. a revised tabulation of the dead In the northwestern forest fires: United States fire fighters in and near R6 Montana ninths InnluHimr nniiin v yi jewport, wasn... At Wallace, Idaho .Near Avery, Idaho, probably settlers.. A Vf.illan f.l.l.n - w...n ' U. 1 1 V 1 1 lutll., , 3 4 47 2 1 47 At Sponka'ne, Wash.. .!!!.!!!'.!!!!!!!!!!'.'.! wi sig t-recK, tuano . Total 203 SPOKANE, Aug. 25. The fact that about eighty-six men of the forest service have perished has been definitely estab lished by reports to the supervisor at Wallace, Idaho. quai'ters of the St. Joe river are heard from and fifty-five men under Ranger Kootkey, believed to be on Clare creek, the actual number of dead firefighters will not be known. It Is variously estimated from tele graphic reports to tha locsl government headquarters at Wallace at from 8 to lOli. That eighty-six are dead is posi tively established. A dispatch to Supervisor Welgle from Ranger Debbitt gives assurances of the saftey of seventy-two of Ranger Koot key's men on Bird creek. Debbitt re ports one dead under Ranger Rock and 22 of debbltt's men dead on Setser creek. Weigle said last night that he did not be lieve the Setser creek victims were his men. The smoke cloud over Spokane was heavier today than ai any previous time. The big fires in the Couer d' Alene for ests wero being allowed to run riot and the efforts of tha forest service were prisoned in the woods. No news was received today that re duced last night's list of dead.' which Fort George Wright received a dispatch from Arery today saying tnat CVi';oraI Baker and three private of company G twenty-fifth (negro) regiment, were still missing. , Loss Twenty Millions. WALLACE, Ida., Aug. at. The offi cial estimate of the destruction of timber say that ten per cent of the Coeur d'A- lene forest reserve is destroyed. This Is considered conservative and with the other timber burned, the loss from this source can not be less than $20,000,000. . For the first time In several days the sun shone through the pall of smoke that has hung over Missoula, and hopeful reports came In from all directions. Men reported as missing are being found. The intensity of the flames Is greatly reduced by the snow and rain of last night and all towns In the fire districts are now out of dan ger. Telegraph and telephone communication Is being re-established, and the railroads are forwarding relief and repair supplies tor the restoration of their lines. The local forestry officials received word today from the Kootenai national forest that condi tions were Improved there, and that tha towns of Llbby and Troy were safe. Montana. Conditions Better. MISSOULA, Mont., Aug 24. Today's de velopments In the forest fire situation In Montana have been encouraging. Supervisor Miller reported that forty miles of the south at.d western boundary of the forest are afire. The fire la burning north and west of Priest lake. The check to the fires by last night's storm Is giv ing the forestry department an opportunity to reorganise its fighting force, and at tention Is now being paid to the mobiliza tion of crews for relief work. CAMPERS ilRROl.VDED BY FIRE X anther of Families Aro la Dancer Near Monai Hood. PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 26. Word has been received here that campers at Welch resort, fifteen miles west of Mount Hood, are hemmed In by fires. Up to Sunday about 200 families were camped there. Since then, however, many have returned home, and It Is Impossible to state at pres ent how many are endangered. SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 25. The forest fire which broke out last night in the Cedar river valley, twenty-five miles east of Se attle, has Increased In fury snd is entirely beyond control. D. P. Simons, Jr.. chief warden of the Washington forest fire as sociation, said today that his men were powerless and that he would call upon the governor to order out the mllltla. the other knights of the controller and bell cord were shivering overcoetlees. Hotchkias was so severely alone In his forethought that misgivings came even be fore he mounted the running board and signalled 1st 'er go. for the first trip. Fourteen fares clambered on board In three blocks, and nary an overcoat showed up. Meantime queer glances were turned upon Hotchkles, and the conductor began to feel uncomfortable. All of a sudden, an early morning fare hailed the car and climbej aboard with a heavy winter ulster draping his' form. "Wow," burst forth one of the other passengers, "look at the chap with the heavy overcoat." Thereupon everybody but the conductor emitted a loud and u proa iiouS laugh. It was too much for Hotchkixs. At the very nett corner, there, fore, where Hotchklss happens to live, he stopped the car. sprang from the running board pulling oft hU overcoat as he went, aad depualud IL garawat &id tb floor. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. OMADANSi OFF FOR CHEYENNE Special Train for Omaha People' Left Last Evening. ARE TEAVliN REAT',ST.YLE Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, .Stockmen from Snath Omaha, Railroad Men ad Several Women Make Up the Party. "Cheyenne or Bust" Is the slogan. Ninety-three of Omaha's citizens left at i o'clock last night for the annual Frontier day. A special train of five cars was sup plied by the Union Pacific. The train carries two carloads of enthus iastic members of the South Omaha Live Stock exchange and two of the Ak-.Sar-Ben knights, two Union Pacific officers' cars and another private car filled with army people, a diner and a baggage car. The Omahans and South Omahans will enter Cheyenne In style this morning, when an escort of cavalry and a regimental braes band will greet the Nebraskans. The pres ence ' of the squadron will be because Brigadier General Frederick A. Smith Is of the party and Is commanding officers of the Department of the Missouri. At the request of Commiaaioner J. M. Guild of the Commercial club arrangements have been made for the Ninth cavalry band to be at the station and lead the parade which the Omahans will make through the business portions of Cheyenne. The procession over the visitors will board automobiles for Fort D. A. Russell, where General Smith will review tho garrison. Ten thousand Omaha sheep bells will be taken along to Cheyenne and each man will carry a generous number in a paper bag especially made for the occasslon by the Bemls Bag company. Warning to bring heavy .coats and wraps was given out at the Commercial club through a telegram from Will A. Campbell, who left Wednesday night for Cheyenne. "Freeslng weather" was tha substance of the message. Those composing the party are: O. T. Alblson Chester Arnold J. L. Baker K. Barclay Joseph Barker Charles D. Beaton C. E. Black Emll Brandels K. Buckingham Mrs. E. Buckingham E. W. Burdlck R. L. Bucklnitham Dr. Palmer Flndley and son Stanhope Fleming E. P. Folda Jay D. Foster Mrs. Jay D. Foster J. T. Frederick J. E. Georise J. M. Guild W. E. Guthrie C. S. Havward Henry J. Penfold Charles H. iickenn Al Powell J. W. Judson :haiiesrr;arbach Mrs. Charles Karbach and son George H. Kelly Leaile King Joseph C. Root , J. H. Samuels General F. W. Smith Amos Mnyder Mrs. Amos Snyder A. F. Strvker F. It. Ktryker E. T. Swobo W. B. Tags C. L. Talbot Alfred Cornish C. R. Courtney John C. Cowin H. S. Culver J. J. Derlght Gould Diets Luther Drake A. E. Dunn J O. W. Dun ix I A. N. Eaton (Continued on Second Fag.) The want ad pages make the bargain counter. If you bare a thing to iell at a bargain, use a Bee want ad. if you wish something at a bar gain you will find it in the col umn!, no doubt. It you do not. It li a matter of say, 25 cents, to get In touch with the person who ia anxoua to sell you Just what you wish. Call Tyler 1000 and the want Ad man will write your ad and place It. The Job Is over. Everybody reads 13eo .Want Ads. . . ' --i Indians Gather For Convention Over Two Thousand Will Attend An- "! 'nual - Religions ' Gathering of v Episcopal Church. - ' MITCHELL, S. D., Aug. 23. (Special). Over 2,000 Indians from the reservations at Slsseton. Standing Rock, Cheyenne. Crow creek. Lower Brule, Pine Ridge and Santee will meet at Greenwood, near the Yankton agency, for the anual religious gathering of the Episcopal church, over which Bishop Johnson will preside. One of the sad features will be the absence of Bishop Hare, who has been meeting with the Indians in their annual convo cations for the past thirty years, and It is probable that a ceremony will be held in memory of the deceased bishop, who wits loved and esteemed very highly by the Indians. The session begins Friday morning and will last until Monday. The Indians place much Importace on their attendance at the Convocation and will make all kinds of sacrifices to get there. Many of them . who live so far from the meeting place that they are unable to pay railroad fare drive, the long distance by team, most of thene coming from the Standing Rock and Slsseton agencies. Over 100 teams passed Crow Creek agency on their way to the convocation. The Indians are so eager to attend the re ligious gathering that they think but lit tle of the discomfort In making such a long Journey. Reports will be made, of the increase In membership of the Indian missions, of the money that has been raised for ex penses and what has been paid out dur ing the year. The Indians are liberal giv ers to the religious work among them selves, and are strong supporters of the work of the church. Thomas Tuttle, one of the speakers at tha convocation, stated that the past year has been one of Increase In practically all departments of the church work., and that the Indi ans are becoming more closely Identi fied with the religious work that Is being placed before them by the Indian mis sionaries. GROUND. TO DEATH BY TRAIN Man Supposed to lie from Omaha Killed rr Mobridse, Sonth Dakota. ' ABERDEN, S. D.. Aug. I5.(Rpeoian. As passenger train No, 4 pulled into Mobridge from the west,' the trunk and head of a man was found on tha trucks beneath the mall car. The body had been severed at the waist, and all the clothing had been scraped off except the collar, tie and frogments of a shirt. The. only mark of identification was a letter purporting to be a letter of Introduction for a man named .miller, of Omaha, and it Is presumed thta was the dead man's name, and that his home waa in Omaha. Trainmen say four men climbed on the train at McLaughlin. 8. D., to steal a ride, and It Is aupoeed the victim was) one of the four. Osage Indians Are Richest People in World Per Capita PAWHUSKA, Okl., Aug. JB.-Testlmony was given before the congressional com mittee investigating Indian affairs todsy that each of the 2.300 Osage Indians is worth 620.000. which on a per capita basis constitutes them the richest people in the world. As the property Is held in restric tion by the government.-the Indians have used a great many lawyers, It was stated. One attorney testified that he represented twenty-three claimants and demanded that the government rlace them on the Of aye roljf, thus giving each of them the right TWELVE KILLED IN COLLISION Rear-End Collision Between Grand Trunk Trains at Durand, Mich. SEVERAL BODIES UNIDENTIFIED Number of Persons Badly Injured, Several oX Whom Will Die Torpedo ' signal Falls to Stop Train. v DUKAJft). Mich., Aug. 25. More than a dozen people were killed last night on fhe Gradn Trunk railroad in a rear end col lision three miles east of Durand, Mich., when east bound passenger train No. 4 plowed through the Pullman sleeper "Nebraska" on the rear end of passenger train No. 14. The firebox of the locomotive of No. 4 fell out and set fire to the wrecked Pullman and many of the victims were burned beyond all hopes of identification. The dead: MRS. ALMA WOODWARD, travelin from Bellefield, N. D., to Montreal. MRS. K. GII.PIN, 425 East Forty-sixth Plnce, Chicago. JAMKS M'UKAN of Chicago, mlsclng but body not Identified. BLONDE WOMAN, about 10 years, be lieved to be Miss Swinger nf Bellufleid, a nurse who was traveling with Mrs. Wood vaicL 'ihi-ee charred bodies, one being that of a child. Portions of chnrred bodies believed to represent from six to twelve persons. Partial 1.1st of Injured. The probably fatally Injured are Clinton A. Davis, 27, of Moutreul, scalded and cut about the head and body; George Nelson of Battle Creek, fireman In train No. 4, scalded and cut, and Bert Mitchell of Port Huron, engineer on train No.' 14, who waj Injured about the head. The followlh gare at Hurley hospital In this city badly Injured: Bert Mitchell, Battle Creek, engineer of train No. 14, head bruised; critical. Arthur Watt. Edwonton. Alberta, Can ada, aged 88, face and hands burned. Mrs. Kate McBean, Chicago, aged 63, right leg fractured. Mrs. Lester Doehler, Tavistock. Ontario, aged 74, fractured leg and bruises. The Injured who were taken to the hos pital at Durand are: George Nelson, Battle Creek, fireman aa No. 4, badly scalded: will probably die. Clinton A. Davis, Montreal, probably fa tally scaded. - Mrs. M. Steultey, Dubuque, la., upper Up cut and severe bruises. Charles Spencer of Battle Creek, engineer No. 4, is said to have been badly Injured, but his name does not appear on the list given out by tne railroad officials. The two trains were sections of the Montreal and Boston Express and left Chicago yesterday afternoon. No. 14 passed through Duraxd at 10:02 p. m,, and No. 4 at 10:36. The air brakes of engine of No. 14 went wrong and two miles out of tills city Engineer Mitchell stopped tho train and, with his fireman, got down underneath the engine to make repairs. Slgmal la Hot BffeetWe. Brakeman G. R. Graham of Detroit was sent back to place a torpedo on the track and flag the expected second section. But No. 4 came rushing on at a speed of 40 miles an hour and ripped Its way through thn Pullman car. The shock of the collision sent the whole (Continued on Page Two.) to S20.000 worth of property. The wealth of these claimants If they are successful would amount to $460,000. Another attorney testified that he hsd been employed to oppone the claims on the ground that If allowed they would de crease the wealth of the tribe. Attorneys fees were paid to keep the Indians off the rolls and fees were paid for putting them on. A firm of attorneys declared they were to get a contingent nf 64?.Oftft for securing to the Osage tribe STOO.WiO said to be due them by the government. STRAIGHT MEN FOR OFFICE Loyalty to Party Requires Punish ment of Crooks. INTEGRITY IS. ABOVE PARTY When Question of Honesty Arises Other Distinctions Vanish. WOULD CLEANSE OWN PARTY Colonel's Rupeelal Baslnesa Is to Pat t.rwftrr and Crook tint of Own O ra n I. ut Ion Attention Fixed on (ouioet. BUFFALO. N. V.. Aug. Theodore Roosevelt pledged himself to ths men of Huffs lo today to hr'p them and all sincere citizens to fight crookedness wherever it wss found. "I'll help you Just as I did in the past," he said, speaking to the Elllcott club, whose guest he was at breakfast an hour after sunrise. Ha made a plea for the pun ishment of crooked and grafting publlo Of ficials and the election of honest ones la their places, a process of gradually but per. manently raising the morale of political and business life, and he said he thought it his duty to hunt out crooks, and espe cially crooks In his own party. "I believe lu party government," he said "but the moment a question of honesty IS Involved I recognise no party distinctions, or, If I do make make any, it ts a little more my business to put the grafter and crook out of publlo life If he belongs to my party than If to another. This attitude demands that one's attention be fixed not on financial or social status, but on con duct." Nearly 400 members of the. Klllcott club and other cltlsens, representing leading professional end business Interests and a wide variety of political af illations, awaited Mr. Roosevelt's' coming from tha New York Central station, where he had arrived from Utlca at :20 In bis private car Re public, attached to a regular train. Crookedness aad Grafting. As the ex-presldent entered he was cheered and "America" was sung, with ths backing of a regimental bene ; Breakfast was expeditiously served, as there wai less than an hour before the time for Mr, Roosevelt's departure for Chicago- Among those who got an especallly hearty greet ing from Mr.. Roosevelt was '"Tony" Gar via, a Buffalp fwiHeameni formerly trough rider.''' Thero4wna'eMk hW-hatd croi the table and said some pleasant things, in which, the words "Bully, glad to see you," recurred. Mr. Roosevelt made good use of the fif teen minutes' available for his remarks. The men who heard him,, who noted his earnestness In dealing with the subject of crookedness and grafting, and who fre quently brone in wnn snarp applause, had In mind his expressions within the last few days that "They will have all the fight they want." Mr. Roosevelt first dwelt on e subject of party local interest the necessity of preserving unpolluted "the wonderful fresh water supply of the Great Lakes." "We claim to be a civilised people," he said. "As such we ought to be able to dis pose of our sewerage without putting it In drinking water. State end na tion must combine In preventing further contamination and In making the purity of lake water as absolute as possible. So also In the field of morals, public and do mestic," he continued, "there must be no pollution of the sources." This led naturally to his grimly earnest expression of Intention to seek out and bring to accounting grafters, big and little. Against All Crooka. "Dlstruct; however," he sold, "financiers who can only see crookedness In grafting small politicians end grafting leaders, dis trust also those who can sea it only in the financiers. Yeti must attack a man be cause he Is crooked. If poor and crooked, attack biro. If rich, and crooked, attach him. In fact, attack the rich crook a trifle stronger. Tea. I will put It-attack him very strongly." The gathering at the station had been considerably augmented during the hour. Standing on the rear platform of his car, Kr. Roosevelt waved his hat as the train ulled out westward shortly after 7:30. When Colonel Roosevelt appeared on tha rear-end platform at Dunkirk, N. T., hs was met by a large gathering of railroad men. "I have always admired the railroad men because they have certain qualities I Ilka to think of aa typical of Americana. They know how to act, each for himself, and also In combinations. They know how to work. They know how to obey orders and how to act, each on his Individuality. Tha average American in our political, Indus trial and social life must show Just thess traits." The train moved off as some of the men shouted, "Do them up In the convention, Teddy." Colonel Roosevelt smiled broadly, but made no reply. Great Crowd at Krle. Fully 6,000 people greeted Colonel Roose velt when his special train arrived in Kris at 9.2S this morning. Ths colonel spoke briefly, Chiefly along the tines of the ear lier speech he made at Buffalo regarding pure water In the great lakes cities. He was met at Dunkirk by a receptlun committee from Erie, consisting of Con gressman Arthur L. Bates, Frank D. Schultz, president of the Chamber of Com merce; K. C. Sturgeon, president of the Board of Trade, snd WUIUro B. Trask. Congressman Bates was a member of tin lower house during the seven end one-halt years that Roosevelt was president, and a long conversation was held In the private car as the train rushed through the north westen Pennsylvania grape belt. At every town and hamlet hundreds lined the tracks. "Hello, Teddy," was heard from the see ot humanity that lined ttie station plat form when ths train pulled Into Erie and it was some time before the colonel's vo'ce cculd bs hterd. WARM WKLIOMK FROM BICKKYRB Ureat C rowds Greet olonel at tlevr . land aad C'onneaot. CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 2o Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt outlined his political creed in three speeches which hs crowded Into a space of fifteen minutes here today. "There ere two prjma articles in my f