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' " Ore. llMorr,-,! Son.-ty V PUBLISHES fULL 33rd YEAR. NO. 1&8 I HAWKINS - EXECUTFD Hung for Murder of A. C. Leonhardt ONLY 22 YEARS OF AGE Edwin Hawkins in His Confes sion Says That He Was Born a Criminal HIS LONG LIST OF CRIMES Even When t Child 8tol Relatives Whenever he Had a BPRIHGFIELD Chance Killed Leonhardt Wheni'" uuu """" he Reiiited Being Held-up. TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. M.-Edwin W. Hawkins, self-confessed murderer of Albert C. Leonhardt, a young car penter, of Columbus, 0., who was kill ed December 22, 1907, while resisting hold-up, was hung here today. Hawkins was but 22 years of age. He ran away from his home in Chi cago when he wat IS years old. "I was born a criminal," Hawkins tated in his confession, "Even when a small boy I would steal from my relatives. I don't know what caused me to do it except possibly the ex citement of the thing." Hawkins took part in a number of petty robberies at San" Francisco and was finally captured and sentenced to one year in Folsom prison. It was not long after his release from this prison until he robber a number ofi houses in Los Angeles and then came to Tucson where he secured employ ment as a street car conductor. Ac cording to his own admission he 1 robbed the company by day and resi dences at night. Hawkins first claimed that the kill ing of Leonhardt resulted after the latter had insulted his wife while they were walking along the street. He later admitted that he had tried to hold up Leonhardt and had killed Itim when he resisted., Hawkins, on the night of the mur der, was accompanied by Mrs. Haw kins and another man. This man af ter a trial by jury was acquitted of complicity in the murder. No charge was made against Mrs. Hawkins as she is regarded as being weak minded und not responsible. EDITOR'S WIFE DEAD. Mrs. A. N. Brown, Wife of News Edi tor on Post Intelligencer. SEATTLE, Aug. 14,-Mrs. A. N. Brown, wife of Colonel Ashman A. Brown, the news editor of the Post Intelligencer, and former private sec retary to Governor Mead, died after a four months' illness. BIG FIRE AT BUFFALO. East Stockyards on Fire Loss May Reach a Million. BUFFALO, Aug. 15. Fire East Buffalo stockyards at 2:30 this (Sat urday) morning. The flames spread with great rapidity through the frame buildings. Three alarms. Loss may reach a million dollars. AffSOClirCO PRC88 REPORT UNIVERSAL ENGLISH. DanUh Professor Forulli It Um, Comercially And Socially. , CHICAGO, Aug. 14.-Englih ii destined to become the universal language of the world, in the opinion of A. C. Meyer member of the lower House of the Danish parliament, and editor of a Denmark newspaper, who spoke last night at a meeting of Chicago Scandinavians. "We non-English peaking Euro peans might at well recognize the fact that English it destined to become the universal language of the world," said the speaker. "There is no use shutting our ryet to it; it is bound to be so in the nature of things. Already Europeans working for me on the continent and in the Scan dinavian nation! are learning English The English language will continue to spread until it is spoken by every na tion and tribe in the world." IRA SAN KEY DEAD. Evangelist Singer Passes Away After Long Illness. NEW YORK. Aug. 14-The death' I of Ira D. Sankey, the singing evan FrAm.gelist, today was somewhat sudden though it wat known that he was not wal ,r'en with blindness nve years ago. lie was aged oa years, sanxey died last night but his death wat not generally announced until today. SAIL FOR SYDNEY Great Atlantic Battleship Fleet Leaves Auckland SALUTED BY BATTERIES Large Crowds on Shore and Afloat Bid Farewell to Uncle Sam's Great Fighting Fleet Ships Leave on Schedule Time. AUCKLAND, Aug. 14.-The Am erican Atlantic fleet departed for Sydney this (Saturday) morning at 8:15. The weather was fine, large crowds ashore and afloat bid farewell to the Americans. As the anchors were hoisted and the flagship pointed it j nose toward the mouth of the har bor batteries gave forth parting sa lutes, which were answered by the American ships and whistles and the sirens excursion fleet resounded across the harbor was re-echoed by the distant hills. The fleet steamed with precision of alignment out of the harbor and many excursion craft fol lowed it far out to sea. JURISDICTION QUESTION. NEW YORK, Aug. 14,-Nathan O'Reilley, is one of those attorneys who declared today that no federal judge would issue an order directing the authorities of New York to per mit Thaw to be taken to Pittsburg, as a witness in the bankruptcy pro ceeding. The comment in denial if the bankruptcy proceeding is a scheme to secure Thaw's release from the asylum and get him out of the jurisdiction of the New York au thorities. EXTEND TIME. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14-The or- der issued by the Interstate Com- mercj Commission extending from September 1 to November 1, the date when the new bill of lading shall go into effect. ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1908 ENRAGED CITIZENS WRECK VENGEANCE ON BLACKS Two Arc Known to Be Dead and 40 Others Injured, Among Them Chafin, Presidential Candidate FOR ASSAULT ON A WHITE . WOMAN BY A NEGRO The Crazed Mob Set Fire to East SideFire Department Help less to Extinguish Flames, Owing to Threatening Attitude of the Mob Toward the Firemen LOCAL MILITIA 0UT-0UT OF DESPITE GUARD OF POLICE AND MEMBERS OF FIFTH IN FANTRY WITH GATLING GUN, THE CROWD TEAR EVERY THING TO PIECES AND SET FIRE TO RESTAURANT AND TAKE GUNS FROM THE SOLDIERS. SPRINGFIELD, III., Aug. 15.- Springfield is in the hands of a mob of enraged citizens which began last night to wreak vengeance on the negro citizens following .an assault committed yesterday by George Richardson, a negro on Mrs. Hallam, white woman. At 1 o'clock this morning, the whole east end of the town burst in flames, a torch having been applied to several negro houses by some more desperate members of the mob, Two men are already dead, and probably two score others injur ed, mostly negroes. The mob is sweeping through the streets attacking every negro it met. All the local militia is on duty and half a dozen companies from other citizen are be ing rush here on speria trains, and still other companies were ordered to hold themselves in reserve. The fire department is helpless to combat the fire in the negro quarter because of the threatening attitude mob to ward the firemen. The dead are G. J. Scott apd Louis Johnson. Among the Injured are Eugene Chafin, the candidate for President on the Prohibition ticket, who was struck on the head with a brick. Richardson and another negro who are wanted for the murder were stealthily taken from the Springfield jail and rushed to the Bloomington and later taken to Peoria. It is thought that with the arrival of the out of town troops the streets will be cleared and order restored. The mob is bent in wrecking ven geance on the negro inhabitants in Springfield because of' the assault1 committed by a negro on a white. woman yesterday afternoon. Governor Deenan tonight tele grapher for additional troops of com panies from Bloomington, Peoria and Pekin and they are being rushed to Springfield on a special train to cope with the mob. Richardson was arrested for as saulting Mrs! Earl Hallam, the wife of a street car conductor. Last night Mrs. Hallam was dragged from the WALSH WINS FROM MURPHY LOS AiNGELES, Aug. 14.-Fred-die Welsh, the lightweight champion, was awarded the championship over Johnny Murphy of San Francisco at the end of 25 rounds of fighting at the Jeffries Athletic Club at Vernon i TOWN COMPANIES EN ROUTE bed of her home and forced into the garden and assaulted. She was badly bruised and unconscious for some time. When Richards :n was arrest ed she identified him as being the ne gro who attacked her. feetrng grew so intense against the negro that Sheriff Warner secretly took Rich- ardson and Joseph James (later in jail on the charge of the murder of C. IT. Ballard, who had chased him from the house where James had gone evidently with the intention of as saulting Ballard's daughter), to Bloomington for safekeeping. When the authorities who had tak en the prisoner from the jail to the train across the river returned to Springfield the auto which was driven by its owner, Major Harry T. Loper, commissary of the Second Brigade, I. N. G., a large number of rioters assembled atound the machine in front of Loper's restaurant. Despite the guard of police and members of the Fifth Infantry with a gatling gun, the crowd tore every thing to pieces in the restaurant and burned the automobile. The firemen were summoned to extinguish the burning auto, and another struggle ensued when the militia tried to drive back the rabble and allow the firemen to work. Three members of the ga't lingh gun squad were injured during the mellee and the rioters took sev eral guns from the soldiers. These guns Were used to finish wrecking the restaurant. When the mob reached the bottom of the stairway leading from the buffet they found the dead body of Louis Johnson, a 14-year-old boy. Among the injured are: Fred Ramsey, gatling gun squad, struck by stone. Oscar Dahlke, police, struck on the head with rock. Albert Bierlien, postoffice employe, shot in hip. Phillip Pollock, of Chicago, lacera tions while aiding Mayor Recco in escaping from the mob. John A. Snell, of Sherman, shot in the shoulder. E. W. Bingham, struck in the head tonight. The fight afforded the greatest exhibition of gameness ever seen in the local ring, Murphy was outclassed in weight, strength and cleverness and for the last 15 rounds was all but helpless and at the point of a knockout 20 times OVf RSTMC mqrnimg ficlo 4 with a brick. . Robert S. Sturgis, restaurant wait er, artery left forearm cut by shot. Mob spent late tonight looting the Jewish pawnbrokers' shops. WOOL GROWERS TO MEET. Annual Convention Will Be Held In Salt Lake City. SALT LAKE CITL, Aug. H.-The annual convention of the Wool Grow ers Association of America will be held in this city August 25 to 28 in clusive. It is expected that there will be upwards of 500 sheepowners in attendance. An attractive pro gramme has been arranged for the meeting with speeches by prominent western men. The convention will have a number of matters before it for consideration, not the least important of which will be the movement to inaugurate a na tional storage plan. The question of transportation also will be taken up and active fight made to eliminate what is alleged to be unjust discrimi nation against the western wool grow ers on the part of the more important railroad systems. The decision of the executive com mittee with reference to the establish ment of a central wool station for the Intermbuntain country will also oc cupy a prominent place in the delib eration . f the convention. The states of Arizona, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah represent 12,000,000 sheep and annual wool clip of 85,000,000 pounds. Priests Identify Victims of In dian Massacre LOCATE FORT ST. CHARLES Skeletons Said to be the Bones of Jean Baptiste De Verandrye Alen eau the Jesuit Missionary and 19 French Voyagers. WINNIPEG, Aug. 14.-The skele ton of jean Baptiste De Verandrye and Aleneau, the Jesuit missionary, and the skull of 19 French voyagers, all of whom were killed by Sioux Indians on an island in the northwest angle of the Lake of the Woods in 1736 was discovered last week by party of priests cf St. Boniface Col lege, of Winnipeg, accompanied by Judge Prudhomme. The party also found the site of Fort St. Charles built in 1873 by the great explorer, Sier De La Verandrye. Jean Bap tiste De La Vejandrye was 20 years old at the time of the massacre and was the son of the explorer of that name. Numerous unsuccessful at tempts was previously made to iden tify the victims of the massacre ani recover the bodies. BASEBALL GAMES. American League. Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 2. Detroit 5, Boston 2. Pittsburg 2, Boston 1 (13 innings). New York 2, Cleveland 4. Washington 1, Chicago 0. Washington 3, Chicago 2. ; National League. St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 5. Pittsburg 6, Boston I.. Pacific Coast League. Los Angeles 1, Portland 5. San Francisco 2, Oakland 3. Northwest League. Seattle 2, Butte 3. Aberdeen 4, Tacoma 3. OLD BONES onthc iowcr Columbia PRICE FIVE CENTS t WEDDED WITH FATHER'S AID Prof. Fitzgerald and Miss Ludwig Married MOTHER IS OUTWITTED Bride's Father Gives Professor "Tip" That His Daughter Has ' Gone West ARE MARRIED ATSACRAMENT0 Mrs. Fitzgerald Neither Confirms Nor Denies Story That Her Mother Chloroformed Her to Keep Her From Coming' West SACRAMENTO, Aug. H.-The romance of Edith Ludwig, formerly of Morris, III., but lately of Palo Al to, Cal., and Prof. Fred Fitzgerald, of Stanford University, came to a happy climax at 6 o'clock tonight when Miss Ludwig arrived from the East on an overland train and was joined at the depot by Professor Fitz gerald to whom she was a few min utes afterward married. The fellow passengers, of Miss Ludwig, soon learned the story and as "All the world loves a lover" she left the train in a shower of rice and good wishes. The couple proceeded immediately from the depot to the county clerk's office; where a license was obtained and they were accompanied by friends of the contracting parties who went to the Central Methodist Eoiscooal Ohurch, where they were united by Rev. Dr. Rodda. The love story is interesting. The truth was plighted some time ago, and Professor Fitzgerald went East for the marriage ceremony. When he reached Morris the bride was taken away "by the mother and the profes sor was unable to communicate with her. He then returned to California. The mother of the girl objected to the marriage but her father approved of it. He was at Palo Alto when the professor reached home and advised the young man that his daughter had eluded her mother and was on the way to the coast. The professor then hurried to Sacramento to await her coming. y After the marriage Mrs. Fitzgerald refused to discuss the trouble with her mother and did not affirm or deny the story that her mother chloro formed her in an endeavor to keep her from coming west to marry the man she loves. PALO ALTO, Cal., Aug. 14.- When Mr. Ludwig heard of the mar riage he expressed gratihcation and said he would not form a judgment of his wife's conduct until he had heard just what had happened. Fitzerald gave out a statement to night to the effect that the repors that his wife fled from Chicago in or der to outwit her mother is false, claiming Mrs. Ludwig accompanied the girl to the station and consented to her coming to this city to marry him. BOSTOiN, Aug. 14. Mortimer Curtis Guild, who was operated upon for appendicities this evening is do ing nicely. WAS 1 1