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jffta mmg lil att VOL. XLVI X). 14,559. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Y E French Slay Moors by the Hundred. PENALTY OF THEIR TREACHERY $l!ow Marines to Land and Then Shoot Them Down. BAYONETS SCATTER ENEMY Warships Then Bombard City and Destroy Battery Tribesmen's Camp Broken Up Powers Approve Course of France. TANGIER. Aug. 6. Casa Blanca, on the Moroccan coast, has been bombarded by French cruisers, the Moors are report ed to have been shot down in large num bers, and the town since last Sunday night has been practically in the posses sion of landing parties from French and Spanish cruisers. The first shots were fired by the Moors. The French re sponded with a bayonet charge and the bombardment of the native quarter with melinite sheila. The French had six men wounded but no (one killed. No Euro pean residents were hurt. The occupation of Casa Blanca is a di rect outcome of the native uprising, which resulted in the killing last week of eight Europeans at Casa Blanca. Both France and Spain are hurrying other war ships with troops and marines on board to various points on the Moroccan coast for the protection of foreigners. Under the terms of the Algeciras con vention the two powers are charged with the policing of Beaports of Morocco and their action at Casa Blanca has brought no protest from any power. The states of Europe have expressed their willing ness that France and Spain restore order in Morocco. No other countries are in volved. Bombardment Followed Attack. News of fighting at Casa Blanca was brought here by the steamer Anatole. On Saturday night the French naval officer in command informed the Moorish au thorities that he' was going to land a force for the protection of the French Consul. Authorization to do so was given. The force went ashore Sunday morning at daybreak. The Frenchmen were no sooner on the beach than they were fired upon by Moorish soldiers and In this first encounter the French force sustained all its casualties. The French men fought their way to the consulate and then signaled the cruiser Galilee to bombard the native quarter. The Galilee at once opened upon the Moors. She was joined at 11 o'clock by the French cruiser DuChayla and both fired until 2000 rounds of ammunition had been expended. This fire is said to have been disastrous to the Arabs. The bat teries on a fort at the mouth of the har bor fired at one of the French cruisers, but it was quickly silenced and reduced. Troops Guard Consulates. A second French landing party went ashore and Joined the first party at the consulate. A third party from the Span ish cruiser Don Alvaro de Bazan was landed and occupied the Spanish consul ate. The European quarter of Casa Blanca was not damaged. , The remainder of the European resi dents of Casa Blanca are either at their respective consulates or have taken re fuge oft board a German and English ves sel in the harbor. France and Spain have agreed on the terms of a French-Spanish note informing the powers signatories of the Algeciras ' convention, including the United States, of their intention to keep within the terms of the convention In dealing with the situation in Morocco. The next measures to be adopted depend largely upon what develops at Casa Blanca as a result of the occupation of that town. STREET FIGHTIXG AliL DAY French Slaughter Moors for Treach erous Attack on Marines. PARIS, Aug. 6. A special dispatch received here from Tangier says the street fighting in the bombardment of Casa Blanca, according to a refugee who arrived from there on the steamer Anatole, continued throughout Sunday, and was still in progress when the Anatole left at 6 o'clock Sunday even ing. The French ships fired a total of about 2060 shells. The number of Moorish dead will run into the hun dreds. A single party of marines killed 150 Moors. -.The French wound ed number about 12. No Frechmen were killed. The "Marabout Sidl Marouf was wounded. On Saturday night the Moorish Pasha at Casa Blanca was advised that troops would be landed the next day. He gave assurances that the city would remain calm. Sunday morning a detachment of 60 French marines, in command of an ensign, landed in the city. This force had hardly passed through the water gate before it re ceived a volley fire at point blank range from a detachment of regular Moorish troops. Five marines and the ensign were wounded. The ensign was shot through both hands. In spite of his Injuries, he ordered his men to tlx bayonets and charge. BLOODY REM BLANCA This the Frechmen did, and in the fighting -150 Moors lost their lives. The marines continued their way, clearing the enemy as they went, un til they reached the French consulate, where French citizens in Casa Blanca had taken refuge. The other European residents had sought safety at their respective consulates. Iu the meantime the French cruiser Galilee had commenced shelling the native villages outside of Casa Blanca to prevent armed Arabs from entering the city. According to the Anatole passengers, shells could be seen tear- 1 r f J I - Pr. James M. Smith, Who Was Drowned at Long Beach While Trying to Rescue His Young Sun. lng up the earth and killing men and horses. At 11 o'clock in the morning the French cruiser Du Chayla arrived. She bad been in wireless communica tion with the Galilee, and as she steamed in her gunners were at their stations. Broadside on to the beach, she opened an enfilading fire with melinite shells on the horsemen and natives on foot, who were in the mar ket place to the east tf the town. The horsemen were riding madly in cir cles. Hapld-Fire Guns Clear Way. The Du Chayla also sent a party ashore, under Commandant Manguin. As they were landing, the men were subjected to a fire from a Moorish force under command of the Marabout Sidl Belout, but the rapid-fire guns in the bows of the French launches cleared the way for the sailors' land ing expedition. They scaled the walls of the Portuguese consulate and reached the French consulate under cover of the guns of the marines al ready there. - A party of 30 men landed from a Spanish cruiser, but this vessel did not take part in the bombardment. At half-past i in the. afternoon the French cruiser Forbin arrived and im mediately thereafter the Anatole left. She was requisitioned by the French Consul to carry dispatches to Tangier. As she left port she passed a German and an English vessel crowded with refugees. FRENCH MOW DOWN MOORS Battery Destroyed by Shells and Tribesmen Slain by Hundreds. TANGIER, Aug. 6. According to a semi-official account of the fighting at Casa Blanca, the commander of the Galilee asked for permission to land a guard of sailors to protect the French consulate, which was granted, but, while the guard was proceed.ng to the consulate, it was fired upon in the streets and six bluejackets and an ensign wounded. The French then cleared the streets at the point of the bayonet, killing many of; the Moors. On arriving at the consulate, the guard signalled the news of the Incident to the Galilee and the French ship notified the Spanish cruiser, which landed a guard for the consulate of Spain. The warship then bombarded the Arab quar ter of Casa Blanca. The Casa Blanca battery fired a couple of blank shots when the Du Chayla was entering the bay and the cruiser re plied, destroying part of the battery, the Moorish gunners retiring. The Eu ropean part of the city was not touched. The DuChayla then shelled the beach, where a number of Kabyles had assem bled, killing many of them. The cruisers also shelled the outskirts of Casa Blanca, where groups of Moors were seen. The French ships at Casa Blanca are the Galilee, Du Chayle and Forbin and the Spanish -cruiser Don Alvaro de Bazan Is also there. Senor Mezeranl, the Italian Minister here, has demanded reparation for the murder of three Italians at Casa Blanca and the wounding of a fourth Italian subject. The minister Insists on the punishment of the guilty persons and the payment of an indemnity 'to the rela tives of- the victims. Reports from Rabat say the sttautlon there is critical. The Berber tribesmen continue threatening to Invade the city, and panic-stricken Europeans are flee ing the place. FRENCH PREVENT MASSACRE First Landing Party Trapped, but Fights Way Out. LONDON, Aug. 7. In a dispatch from Tamgier the correspondent of the Times says congratulations ere due to the French government for the prompt meas ures it has taken at Casa Blanca. and to the French ' seamen, who, in the face of overwhelming numbers, showed splen did courage and . undoubtedly saved the European residents of Casa Blanca from massacre. According to the latest reports, shots were fired Sunday on a French con sulate, and when the French consul de manded protection from the governor and the military commander of the town i : :::::. : ' X h : - . : i I ! i (Concluded oa Put 2.) ORDER TO CLOSE HAS BEEN ISSUED Gambling in Astoria Is Shut Down. EXTENDS TO WHOLE DISTRICT District Attorney Hedges Makes Clean Sweep. SOONER . THAN INTENDED Did Not Want to Move fntil Prepa rations Had Been Made to En force Regulation Violators of Law Given One Week. The gamblers of Astoria say they will make no attempt to evade the law. but will obey the District At torney's order. There will probably bo a protest from owners of slot ma chines, who have paid license fees to the city. Some of the business men say that the order will enforce a curtailment of civic improvements. OREGON CITY, Or., Aug. 6. (Special.) Gambling has been ordered closed by District Attorney Gilbert L. Hedges in Astoria, and in every one of the four counties in the Fifth Judicial District Clatsop, Clackamas, Columbia and Wash ington. The District Attorney said two weeks ago when he closed up the saloons on Sundays in these counties, that he would not act locally relative to the en forcement of state laws and his action of this afternoon proves his statement correct. Came Sooner Than Expected. It was not the intention of Mr. Hedges to close gambling in his district just now. He believed the time was not yet ripe for such a move and . stated that whenever he acted he expected opposi tion and wanted to be assured that the local authorities in the several-cr-anties. but in Astoria particularly, would stand behind him. This desired assurance was received sooner than he expected and today there came to him from Astoria the knowledge that both county and city officials of that city would enter no bar to his progress along reform lines. Late this afternoon he Bent the following order to his deputies, John C. McCue, of Astoria, Clatsop County; John M. Wall, of Hlllsboro, Washington County, and W. H. Powell, of St. Helens, Columbia County: District Attorney's Order. To whom it may concern: I call attention to section 1344 of Bell inger and Cotton's Annotated Code and Statutes of Oregon, which reads as fol lows: ? Gambling unlawful. Each and every person who shall deal, play, carry on. open or - causa to be opened, or who shall conduct either as owner, pro MODERN-DAY RIVALS Rammes "I'll Just pnt my name on everything;." Dr. Large rushing- to attend. prietor, or employe, whether for hire or not, any game of faro, monte. roulette, rouge et noir, lanquenet, ronod, vlngtun (or twenty-one), poker, draw-poker, brags, bluff, thaw, or any banking or any othor game played with cards, dice, or any other device, whether . the same be played for money, checks, credits, or any other rep resentative of value, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, and shall be Imprisoned in the County Jail until such fine and costs are paid; provided, that such person so convicted shall be imprisoned one day for every two dollars of. such fine and costs. And provided further, that such Imprisonment shall not exceed one year. On and after Tuesday, August 13, 1907, the above section of our statutes will be strictly enforced in the Fifth Judicial District, State of Oregon, comprising the counties of Clackamas, Clatsop, Colum bia and Washington. That the enforcement of said section may prove effective, I call upon the press, municipal authorities and the best citizens in the district to co-operate with me in this matter. GILBERT L. HEDGES, District Attorney for the Fifth Judicial District, State of Oregon. Dated at Oregon City this the 6th day of August. 1907. Gives One Week's Grace. The District Attorney believes that it Is only fair to give the violators of the law a reasonable time In which to close up ' their vocation, in view of the fact that they have remained .undisturbed for such a long while, and he accordingly has given them one week's grace", mak ing his order effective on Tuesday of next week. He took similar action when he closed the Milwaukie Country Club,, though concealing it from the public and press, and thereby making himself a target for censure and condemnation Xrom the pulpit, the press and the public. Mr. Hedges has had some terrific ex perience with the press in the past week and he wants their support in this deal. He sealized that the Astoria proposition Is not regarded as an easy nut to crack and has Issued a call upon the press, the municipal authorities and the best citi zens asking their co-operation. ASTORIA IS NOT SUPRISED Order Has Been Expected Diversity of Opinion as to Effect on City. ASTORIA, Or.,' Aug. 6. (Special.) The news that District Attorney Hedges has Issued instructions to his deputies to close gambling in the Fifth Judicial District caused little surprise here, as the order has been expected for several dayB. Deputy Attorney McCue stated this eve ning that while he had received no official notification of the order, and of course does not know just how sweeping it is, he will see that the instructions of the District Attorney are strictly obeyed in Clatsop County. Little if any trouble on that score is anticipated here, as the pro prietors of the gambling-houses say they will make no attempt to evade the law and will close down whenever notified to do so by the proper authorities. v '- Will Be Soie P d(st. The most -vigorous protest against the order Is looked for fVom the owners of the slot machfnes, of which there are about 140 in the city, including both money and card machines, on which licenses of 17.50 each have been paid to the city for the quarter ending on September 30. These are understood to be included in the list of gambling devices to be shut down. Among the citizens generally there is a diversity of opinion regarding the action of the District Attorney. Some say it is the best thing that could happen to the city, while others assert Just as strongly that nothing worse could have happened at this particular time. The latter and among them are some of the business men ay it will mean the. loss of thousands of dollars to the community as many of the fishermen will now go elsewhere as soon a the season is over In place of Concluded on Page 4.) OP RAMESES II, THE CHAMPION SELF-ADVERTISER v OF ANTIQUITY ' Mr. 3. Ham Lewis 'It mother could only see me now." Mr. John Barrett "Whoso blow eth not his own horn, the same it shall not be blown." FATHER DROWNS SAVING HIS SON Dr. James M. Smith Is Dead at Long Beach. BOY STEPS INTO GRAB HOLE Father in Aiding Him Is Caught by Undertow. , . LESLIE SMITH IS SAVED Harry Tinker Plunges In and Res cues Lad, but Father Is Carried Out Tinker Himself Rescued With Great Difficulty. LONG BEACH, "Wash., Aug. 6. (Special.) Dr. James M. Smith, an osteopath phy sician, residing at 286H Washington street, Portland, was drowned in the surf at Long Beach, Wash., about 11 o'clock this morning, and two others had narrow escapes from losing their lives at the same time. Dr. Smith and his son Leslie, a boy 13 years of age, were In bathing when the boy got beyond his depth in a crab hole that is about 100 feet in width between the beach and a sandbar that makes out into the ocean. Dr. Smith went to the assistance of his eon, and grabbed him by the arm, but the strong undertow tore them apart. The lad managed to reach the sandbar, but the father was left struggling In the water. Harry Tinker, who was on the beach at the time, threw on a life-preserver, plunged Into the water and would have been able to save Dr. Smith had not the boy become excited and started to swim ashore from the sandbar. This necessitated Tinker helping the boy ashore, and before he could return Dr. Smith bad gone down. In the mean time a number of boys grabbed a life line, swam out and pulled Tinker ashore just in time, as he was in an exhausted condition. ' About an hour and a half later Dr. Smith's body was seen floating in the surf off Tioga, some distance above Long Beach, -but it disappeared before it could be reached and has not been recovered. When brought ashore, Les lie Smith was in a precarious condition, and physicians worked over him for nearly two hours before he recovered. Mrs. Smith who was at the beach a the time of the accident, left this even ing with her two sons on the steamer Potter for her home in Portland. FIRES ON CAMANQ ISLAND AH the Timber on the Island Threat ened Settlers Fleeing. SEATTLE, WaRh., Aug 6. Forest fires threaten to sweep every stick of standing timber from Camano Island. Fire broko out Wednesday of last Mr. Wood "These Ideas will look new." Sog-gesrlon to Mr. Bryan- week and now three fires are sweep ing back and forth as the wind varies. The Camano Commercial Company lost 2,000,000 feet of cedar and three quarters of a mile of railroad. The heaviest losers on the island will be the Puget Sound Timber &. Mill Com pany. Settlers have been obliged to vacate their homes on short notice. One man, George Roop, saved his fur niture only by burying it in an old well. The fire is near the town of Ca mano, a place of about 350 inhabitants, and threatens some homes near the town. Camano itself has fire protec tion. Another bad fire is reported on I 4 t Frank Franti. Republican Candidate T for FlrHt Governor of the State of L Oklahoma. the southern end of Whidby Island. The Hewitts' logging camp was de stroyed at that place. MAX SAW FLASH OF PISTOL AND WOMAN FALL. Says He Is Positive Shot Could Not Have Been Fired by Convicted Professor. MANHEIM, Aug. 6. Another witness has come forward to declare that Karl Hau, the former professor of Roman law at George Washington University, Wash ington, D. C, who was found guilty of the murder of his mother-in-law. Frau Molltor, at Karlsruhe, July 27, and con demned to die, is In reality innocent of the crime. The name of. .tM -new. witness is Karl Lingenau. and his statement has created a sensation. He affirms that at the time of the murder last November be was walking behind Frau Molitor and her daughter. He saw the flash of a pistol and saw one of the women fall. He did not see the murderer but said he could not possibly have been Hau. During the trial Lingenau forwarded anonymously a statement containing these assertions to Hau on his arrest. He did not appear at the trial because of his desire to conceal, for private reasons, nis presence in Karlsruhe. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY Maximum temperature, TT de grees; minimum, o4 deirrees. TODAY Showers and cooler. Southwest to west winds. Foreign. French warships bombard Casa Blanca and French and Spanish troops occupy town. rase 1. Ito tells of reforms he has made In Corea. Page 8. Japanese army officer defends StoesseL Pag.j 8. Russian terrorists to hold convention In Lndon. Page 4. Woman murdered at Monte Carlo and shipped in trunk. Page 2. National. Army officer writes brutal letter to sol dier's mother and gets mild sentenoe. Page 3. Railroads Join forces with Standard Oil to fight rebate prosecution. Page 4. Government discovers trick of powder trust. Page 4. Politics. Roosevelt said by Intimate friend to desire New York Senatorshlp. Page 1. Domestic. Portland ' woman mobbed in Chicago for beating husband, who deserted her. Page 3. Railroad men alarmed at exposure of cause of wrecks. Fase .2. Union Pacific- earnings increase with 2-cent fare. Page 5. Miners' ' Federation dismisses Darrow and again hires Richardson. Page 3. New York mob almost lynches man for kiss ing girl. Page 2. Move to oompromlse railroad war in Ala bama. Page 5. X M. Long fined In Colorado Springs for beating woman companion. Page 4. Tornado does great damage In three Iowa Page 3. . i Sport. Sonoi.. ..all runs away In race at Buffalo, throws driver, but . wins big stake. Page 7. Portlands throw away first game of series with Oakland, score D-4. Page 7. Pacific Coast. District Attorney Hedges issues an ordor to close gambling In the Fifth Judicial District. Page 1. Puget Sound and Alaska salmon pack Vails far short of last year. Page 11. Commercial and Marine. Cascara bark market unsettled. Page 13. Wheat weak and lower at Chicago. Page 15. Mysterious selling of stocks at New York. Page 15. Large sales of wool at Boston. Page. IS. Arctic Stream and H. Hackfeld chartered for Portland. Page 14, Portland and Vicinity. Mayor will aid Board of Health to secure new garbage crematory. Page 14. Police Sergeant Baty to be promoted. Page 14. Portland's assessed valuation increased by 20.O00,OOO. Page 10. Harriman expert is investigating coal pros pects In Oregon. Page 10. Father Desmarals tells of trip to Europe. Page 10. Aged disciple of frensled finance goes to poorfarm. Page 11. ROOSEVELT WANTS TO BE SENATOR Piatt's Seat Suits Him After Presidency. HE DESIRES NO THIRD TERM Course of Action Decided on Some Time Ago. ANSWER ROLL CALL' 1909 Statement Made on nighest Possible Authority That President, While Making Xo Public Announce ment, Has Mind Made Vp. WASHINGTON', Aug. 6. (Special. President Roosevelt has but one ambition for his own future. He wants to be a Senator of the United States from tha State of New York, when he has finished his term as President, and he does not want anything else. The authority on which this statement is made is the highest possible. President Roosevelt Is not personally going around telling everyone what he wants, but there is no room whatever for doubt that his personal desire is to step from the White House into the Senate Chamber, and as the successor of Thomas Collier Piatt be present at the first roll-call of the extra session that his Presidential successor will call and which will come to order oh March 5, 1909. All of the talk about te possibility of President Roosevelt succeeding: himself has been the veriest moonshine, so far as the President himself was concerned. From the moment of his triumphant elec tion, in 1904, he has never for a moment seriously considered himself a possible candidate for the nomination in 1908, and there is the best of reasons for believing that when he made his declaration that he would not accept a renomlnation he bad already determined on a course of action calculated to bring about the cul mination of his real ambition, a seat in the Senate. TEXAXS AMEND CONSTITUTION Provide lor Confederate Women's Home and State College. AUSTIN. Texas, Aug. 6. Early return received from today's special, election held throughout the state to pass upon sev eral constitutional amendments indicate that the amendment providing for a Confederate women's home, an agricul tural bureau, and for a road tax, will be carried, while those providing for an In crease in the pay of members of the Legislature and for a state printing plant will probably be defeated. Dies From Kf foots of Fall. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6. Miss Bessie Emerson, a resident of Osceola, Mo., was tonight accidentally thrown form a streetcar at Main and Washington streets and sustained a fracture of the skull. She died at the receiving hospital a few minutes later. ITALIANS TERRORIZE TOWM They Attack Railroad Foreman, but Mayor and Posse Suppress Kiot. MURPHTSBORO, III., Aug. 6. Word was received here late this afternoon from Fordyce, a village 10 miles west of here, that a gang of rioting Italians have control of .the town. MURPHYSBORO. 111.. Aug. 6. A mes senger from Foryce states that Sheriff Haiwon has suppressed the rioting Ital ians and has made IS arrests. Many of the Italians, evading arrest, were driven into the adjacent woods by the posse. The rioters were employed as laborers by the Irion Mountain road. They de manded the dismissal of Robert House, the foreman, and upon refusal of Road master Carey to accede to their demand, they set upon Mr. House and Mr. Carey. Soon the fighting became general and the village was terrorized. Mayor Craln and almost the entire pop ulation of Fordyce armed themselves with revolvers, shotguns and rifles and, by threatening to shoot, stayed the mob. Seventeen of the gang were arrested, and brought here tonight. The others es caped to the woods. No one was injured by the rioters, but the villagers are much incensed against the Italians. ANOTHER ROOT WEDDING Elihu Root, Jr., to Marry Miss A. Ii. Stryker. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. Announcement is made of the engagement between Eljhu Root, Jr., eldest son of Elihu Root, Sec retary of State, and Miss Alida Living ston Stryker, eldest daughter of President M. Woolsey Stryker, of Hamilton College. It was only a few days ago that the en gagement of the daughter of Secretary Root to U. S. Grant, son of Frederick D. Grant, was made public. KANSAS PEOPLE SWELTER Hottest Day of Year in Sunflower State. KANSAS CITY, Aug. 6. The highest temperatures of the year were reported from Abilene and Leavenworth, Kan., to day, the thermometer registering loo' de grees at both places. At Leavenworth) six persons were prostrated.