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Daily Uithn UjjrJlI lag Evwb USE TIMES WANT ADS MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS. MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1907. No. 35. VOLIU Si COM IES . (K GAINS A ' VTA Pnrtlnnrl OrYffrntnrsWnrk With j v "- y v. w. .. ..,,, V -. . M . . . .. . Mf. unicagwana intermediate N 9fc. ASSOCJATED PRESS "RED UP llailroud Men Stay By DOsts Strike Waning Operators ure Returning, Portland, Aug.l5. According to statements issueu this morning by the local managers of both the West ern Union ana the Postal Telegraph company the Portland offices are but little behind In the transmission of messages. Conditions aro reported to be improving and more operators are being added each day. 'William Dumars, manager of the Western Union ofllce, stated that 15 men are at work and he expected to increase the force to 20 tomorrow. A. P. Men Out in IJoily. The Associated Press service In the northwest is demoralized. Practic ally every operator has left the keys and each has received notice from the directors that his services are no longer required. The fight within the Associated Press shows every in dication of being a bitter one and the directors assert they will not leln stato the operators who walked out Monday evening. S. B. Vincent, northwest correspondent, says 7,000 words of Associated Press matter werb delivered over Western Union wires last night and there Is still a slight service by this means. There Is not the' slightest likeli hood that the Order of Railroad Tele graphers will take any part in the present difficulty, said Director A. O. Slnch of the order today. Their at titude is not of great importance as the commercial business handled by railroad telegraphers is very small. Only in small towns where the ontire business does not demand two oper ators do the railroad telegraphers handle any commercial messages. Officers and directors of the railroad organization are conservative and as their service is of considerable value to the railroads they are bound to abide by the contracts made with the railroads or lose their standing alto gether. Struggle Bitter One. Indications are", however, that the struggle will be a hard one. The op erators aro better organized than ever before and tho companies are determined to send their business. They are using every possible means to obtain strikebreakers and In this city aro managing to transmit tho greater part of their messages. Busi ness is oiily being received with the provision that there may be several, hours' delay In delivering. ' Mr. Dumars is uncertain regard ing tho time that will be consumed beforo a settlement may be reached and says it may last a week and may be six months. Mr. Vincent of the Associated Press thinks it may last three or four weeks. Only two circuits in the Associated Press system are not out. One of these is in New England, the other a small one In the middle West. There Is no connection in Portland with the Associated Press centers at San Francisco and Salt Lake City, although some dispatches are arriv ing from Seattle over Western Union wires. A few Associated Press dis patches aro being delivered by means of tho Western Union from Tacoma, Seattle, Spokane, Helena, Chicago and St. Paul. Old Operators Barred. fk Mr. Vincent stated this morning that he would take an operator If .he could get one, but will not take back old operators. Associated Press operators-are confident of winning, for operators suitable for newspaper work aro few and far between. Out of tho total of 400 press operators less than 100 are at their keys. . Should the Order of Railroad Tele graphers Join the other operators tho position would be critical, but local officials of that order deny that there has been oven a consideration of a sympathetic movement by the oper ators in the railroad service. This organization Is 21 years old, while tho commercial operators have been organized but about seven years. The former have already fought many battles with the railroads and at present have no grievances. A. O. Slnch, local director in the order, stated this morning that there, had been no orders received from the secrotary at St. Louis relative to tho situation and that in all prob ability the same conditions would prevail as If there were no critical conditions. "Our work is altogether separate from tho commercial business," said Mr. Slnch, "and tho Western Union business we handle is very small. Tho railroads must bo safeguarded against a sudden paralyzing of the despatching service, and we aro In honor bound to keep our contracts with tho railroad companies. There fore, I cannot see that thero will be any sympathetic movement ordered in our organization. We have enough business of our own to tend to with out handling commercial messages, anyhow." According to tho claims of tho Western Union officiate in this city, the appearance of matterslocally In connection with the strike of the operators is now bettfer than ever beforo, from the sUmdpoint of the companies. That ifie Western Union cleared with Sydttle and Spokano this morningyftnd by 9 o'clock was wurjung wiur st. I'aul and Chicago, was tho statement of Chief Onerntnr Robb thlsrmornlnc. lavfi nnnitih mon fn tmrwlln the puCsent business, and we depend uponrgettlng at least four more from thorranks of the strikers tndnv ." B.-ihi Robb. "Tho 'fliihlpp.t. tn tlolnv' rder will hn mIko in ih Mm4k. west today, and by tomorrow we will rucuivo messages ror tho East with out tho subject to delay condition at tached to our acceptance. One of tho men who deserted us yesterday nas returned, and wo expect there will be a number drifting back to us if the strike lasts much longer." JEALOUS OF THE OIL BARON Mrs. McCormlck, Daughter of Rocke feller, Defends Father Against Accusations. Chicago, Aug. 15. Mrs. Harold McCormlck yesterday came to the de fense of her father, John D. Rocke feller, who In an Interview credited to his younger brother, Frank Rocke feller, was characterized as a "mon ster." The interview, which was denied later in toto by Frank Rocke feller, charged John D. with being responsible for the mystery sur rounding the whereabouts of his father, William Rockefeller, 94 years old, and declared that If the truth were known the oil king could not nppcar on the streets of any Ameri can city without being stoned. Mrs, McCormlck, at her summer home at Lake Forest, said tho attack publish ed as made by her uncle was due to his jealousy of her father's business success. "My uncle's failure to profit by the fortune of my father and his repeated failures in business have been worm wood and gall to him." She is Quoted as saying: "The bit terness has grown from year to year, and it has taken for its objective point the brother who has prospered. Between my father and my grand father there has .always existed the respect and love that should prevail between father and son. I hard! see just why my grandfather's where abouts Interest the public. I myself do not know where he is, but there Is nothing strange about that. Tt is according to his own request. It is a matter which is never discussed, even in the family circle." When asked whether It were true that John D. Rockoleffel, by his busi ness methods or treatment of his father, was responsible for the lat tcr's desire for seclusion, Mrs. Mc Cormlck said: "No, that does not necessarily fol low, and it is not the case; at le.-u-t it is a great exaggeration of the truth." VALLEY BOY KILLED WHILE HANDLING GUN Twelevc Year Old Ralph Read, Of Knox Butte, Dies Of Bul let WoiiMd. Albany, Ore. Aug. 15. While playing with a 22 rifle yesterday evening, which he did not know was loaded, Ralph Read, the 12 year old son of Austin Read, residing near Knox's Butte, was shot and almost instantly killed. The bullet from the rifle entered the youth's right tem ple and lodged in tho brain. At the time of the tragedy the boy was standing on the rear porch of tho Austin residence. When tho bullet struck him he pitched forward fall ing off the end of the porch. The lad's mother heard the noise of the discharge and rushed to the porch to find hor son lying face downward with blood pouring from the wound in his temple. The boy was carried inn Mm linnsn but failed to regain .consciousness and died a few mln- iltcs 1 uteri No one witnessed the accident and tho exact circumstances are not known definitely, but it Is thought tho youth believed the gun was not loaded and pulled the trigger. Dr. Davis was summoned from this city but could give no aid as the boy was already dead when ht arrived. YAQUINA SALMON RUN NOT UP TO STANDARD Newport, Aug. 15. Though sal mon are now running well In the Alsea river fifteen miles south of here and are also plentiful in the Slletz, twenty-two miles to the northward, they aro not yet running In tho Ya qutna river. Occasionally a silver side is seen in the fray, but tho sal mon run has not begun although streams both north and south of hero are full of the fish. This condition is due to the fact that lha Yaqulna river carries vy little fresh water. Both the Alsea and the Slletz are fed by many moun tain streams and the fresh water in them cause salmon to enter them earlier. Salmon never begin to run in tho Yaqulna river until the fall rains come and the fresh water is ap parent in tho stream. ' 4"l' 4' DRAIN' STAGE SCHEDULE. j. . $ j. rri, nmln xtnoa boat leaves 4 Marshfleld at 0 a. m.; return- i j. inir nrrives at z:su I), in. tj IS. YOAKAM ON DAIRYING Addresses Chamber of Com merce Meeting and Makes Interesting Talk. BAILEY TELLS CONDITIONS W. Bennett Makes Short Speech Introducing Several Humor ous Incidents. The meeting of tho Marshfleld Chamber of Commerce was called to order by President McCormac and tho minutes of the last meeting read by the secretary and duly approved. The secretary read letters from Sen ator Bourne and Secretary of War Metcalfe with reference to resolu tions of the Chamber submitted to tho War department calling attention to tho unprotected condition of the harbor. Both Senator Bourne and the War department expressed a de sire that the matter should be at tended to and hoped that Congress would take the necessary steps to that end. Letters were also read from Hon. James Wlthycombe and others of the Agriculture College at Corvallis, in which those gentlemen stated that they would accept the invitation of tho BPnt-ofnrv nf Min P.bnnilipr tn ho present about the 10th of September j next and address the farmers of Coos i county and the people of Coos Bay on certain agriculture subjects, par-1 ticularly dairying. j 6 On motion it was voted that' the j oHlcers of the Chamber, President ' SMiirmnn .ind Secrtearv Lons. con- ! stitute a committee who should be charged with the duty of arranging to have the several gentlemen men tioned in Dr. Wlthycombe s letter and the doctor to visit the city at such time as could be conveniently designated and that In order to have a full attendance at the meetings to be held, an attractive program should be provided; also that there bo appropriated from the publicity fund tho sum of thirty dollars which tho committee should use to provide prizes for the best exhibits of Grav ensteln apples, fruits and vegetables, which could be furnished In Coos county on that occasion. Tho food and dairy commissioner, Hon. J. W. Bailey, was then intro duced and for about three-quarters of an hour held the close attention of the Chamber and tho large audi ence of ladies and gentlemen who were present, as he discussed the dairy cow and her possibilities in Coos county. Tho address was deeply interesting and Instructive and con tained much food for thought. He stated that the United States had been pronounced by eminent author ity the best daip- country on earth and that Oregon, was the best dairy region of the United States. He also stated that his familiarity with the dairy possibilities of the Coos coun try made it possible for him to as sert truthfully, that Coos county was the best dairy section of Oregon. Tne address will be more fully re ported in the Sunday Times. The president called upon Mrs. Yoakam, who was present and who has just been appointed deputy dairy Inspector for Coos county and that lady proved to be a very agreeable speaker. Indeed, she was brilliant and not only gave her experience in the dairy business In such a way as to instruct and entertain but set the house in a roar of merriment by her witty and humorous remarks. She stated that It was her first effort, but everybody who heard her and recog nized her modest and natural style, good language, command of her sub ject and her wit will hope they may hear her again. Mr. Eddy, a new arrival, who Is interested in dairying, addressed tho Chamber by req'uest of the president and added mudh to the general good feeling. , Mr. J. W. Behjiett spoke with his usual entertaining commingling of humor and sound sense. He had evi dently caught the spirit of the occa sion. He corroborated the remarks of Mr. Balloy on the subject of the dairy cow and recommended espec ially tho rich bottom lands for dairy ing. Mr. Bailey Interrupted him to say that ho believed the benches and hills would prove as, productive and declared that he believed such had been tho experience of people In other district Mr. Benntet said that much had been gald lately about the Coos Bay .eraveyrsteln being the best applo in tfhe country and declared It was, but he noticed when Mr. Bailey came down hero and mado a selection the first thing ho did was to choose a Coos Bay Beauty. This raised a great laugh and Mrs. Yoakam, just appointed deputy hispector, who lives on Coos river, blushed. Mr. Bennett recalled one of Ails experiences In helping a farmeyto get started. He and his partner'' Flanagan gavo him a couple of calves which ho took to his farm and named one Bennett and the other Flanagan. A year or two after Mr. Bennett met him and asked which was tho better one of tho two. Tho farmer said, "Well, Flanagan is the best looking, but Bennett gives tho most milk." On motion the,meetlng adjourned, Today- -Hot chicken at Davis & Davis'. QUICK WORK IN SECURING JURY Twele Men Selected In Six Hours For Trying Louis Glass' Case. San .Francisco, .Aug. .15. All sped record In the bribery graft pro ceelngs were broken yesterday when a Jury was completed within six hours for the second trial of Vice President and General Manager Louis Glass of the Pacific States Telephone Company, charged with the bribery of Supervisor Thomas F. Loncrgan. In all only 28 talesmen were ex amined. The prosecution did not exercise one of its ,fivo promptory challenges and the defense only used Bix of Its ten. The Jury Is as fol lows: "Who the Jurors Are. Johnson Elliott, retail grocer; John B. Knude, president of a bak ery corportatlon; Richard M. Collins, hay and grain dealer; Nlles C. Mor tenson contractor; James Galley, carpenter; James Glassford, whole sale grocer; Frank W. Brown, long shoreman; George W. Pay ton, bie ycle repairer; Joseph C. Queen, ad vertising agent; Dr. Phillip H. Flood, retired physician; Edward W. Strange, jeweler; Franklin Riffle, hardware clerk. Judge Lawler insisted upon due rapidity In the examination of tales men, and he several times rebuked counsel for useless repetition of questions. The jury box was filled twice during the day with talesmen pased by both sides for cause. The six jurors last chosen were selected from a total of seven, and the one rejected man was permitted to leave the box on hi3 own request because of urgent business demands upon his time. , Housed n' Fnirniount Hotel, Immediately upon the completion of the jury shortly before 5 o'clock, they were drdered into the custody of two Deputy Sheriffs, and taken to te i unmount Hotel, wiiero 14 rooms had been reserved for them and their guards, and where they remain over nights until the trial is concluded unless in tho meantime the Supreme Court Intervenes by granting the defense a writ of per manent prohibition on the ground that the Oliver grand jury is an ill egal body and that therefore the in dictments by it returned are void. ROOSEVELT HISSED AT CHICAGO MEETING Self-Styled "Undesirable Citizens" Jeer President's Name and Cheer That of Haywood. Chicago, Aug. 15. The name of President Roosevelt was greeted with jeers and hisses and the aims of the Western Federation of Miners cheer ed to the echo at the reception ten dered William D. Haywood, tho cen tral flguro In the recent Boise trial, by the Moyer-Haywood defense com mittee at Luna Park today. Self styled "undesirable citizens" cried for Haywood, Pettlbone and Moyer and hooted and hissed the names of Roosevelt, Governor Henry A. Buch tel and the Colorado state officials and mine owners. Tho demonstration closed with a march about the grounds, tho paraders waving a small, red flag with the inscription, "Welcome Haywood." Moro than 4000 Socialists and la bor union men crowded about the speakers' stand. Many wore buttons on the lapels of their coats, on which tho words "I am an undesirable citi zen" were printed, while huge plac ards containing many of tho Socialist an labor bentiments were waved aloft. HAS VARIOUS DELUSIONS. Attorney Chandler Declares Mrs. Ed dy's Condition Will Finally Result in Senile Dementia. Concord, Aug. 15. In the Eddy case today Attorney Chandler declar ed the Incompetency of Mrs. Eddy was shown by her transfer of prop erty beyond her control and by her evasion of taxes. He said Mrs. Ed dy was not the victim of a solitary delusion but a series of systematic delusions which Influenced her wholo llfo and have resulted or will result in senile dementia. Big Run For Eugene Cannery. The Allen Fruit company will start the cannery force to work tomorrow (Thursday) on peaches, says the Eu gene Register. Not a very heavy force will be put on for this week, but a full force will bo started next week, when it is expected 50 or 75 tons will bo handled. Tho most of tho fruit will come from the vicinity of Roseburg and adjoining towns, but tho local market will also supply a good quantity. As soon as the peaches aro finished, it will bo tlmo to start on pears, and there will bo an extraordinary heavy run on this fruit. Following the pears will come tqafitoes and prune drying, canning apples, etc., so that It is fairly suro there will bo busy times there from this tlmo on. Kauiela Suicide Fails. La Grande, Or., Aug. 15. B. R. Cook, tho wood contractor of Kamo la, who attempted to commit suicide at that place Monday evening hy swallowing carbolic acid and who was brought to a hospital In this city, is rapidly recovering, Tho man's throat was severely burned hy the ucld and he suffered considerable BXlVf2r$tt. on account of . . .. 1 .! J eurvaturo or tno spino is given us Jthe reason for the attempt to lako his own life. ACCUSED GIRL pusses mr Dora Jennings, Twice Tried and Finally Acquitted on Mur der Charge, Is Dead. LEAVES SEALED STATEM ENT Little Can Be Learned Concerning Its Contents Jasper's Case in Supremo Court. Grants Pass, Ore., Aug. 14. Dora Jennings, twice tried for and finally acquitted of the murder of her father, Norman Jennings, at Granite Hill mining camp September 7, 1905, died at her home in this city yesterday. Beforo her death Miss Jennings mado a secret statement to the attending physician, Dr. Love, which has been placed in the hands of the district attorney. Very little can be learned of the contents of the document placed In the hands of the physician, but it Is stated that to the last Dora declared that neither she nor her brother Jas per, convicted of murdering their father, had anything to do with the crime. Will Prosecute Jasper. The district attorney refused to discuss the case this, morning far ther than to state that tne charges against Jasper "will be fought through the supreme court to which ho has appealed from his conviction in the circuit court. Norman Jennings, the murdered man, was found dead In his bed Sep tembar 7, 1905, in his cabin at Gran ite Hill mining camp. The body was discovered in the same room in which Dora Jennings and her sister were sleeping and suspicion was directed against tho girl 'and her brother Jasper. Dora was acquitted on her second trial some 18 months ago. It was one of the most hotly contested cases ever tried in the Josephine county court. It was the belief of every one who was at all acquainted with the case that she would be found guilty. The fact that sho and her smaller sister occupied the same room and with their bed but two feet from the bed occupied by the father In tho lit tle room of the log cabin at Granite Hill mining camp in which he was murdered, seemed a certain Indica tion that the girl must at least have been an accomplice in tho crime. But she told one story and could not be shaken from it. She declared she neard no sound during tho night and that sho knew nothing of the crime till next morning, when she awoke and discovered her father dead in bed. Girl Was Self-Possessed. During liter trial Dora displayed remarkable calmness and self-possession. The cutting sarcasm and stinging invective of the prosecuting attorney brought only a pretty smile from her. She sat through the cross examination unmoved, and the jury could do naught else than acquit her. Though given her freedom, the girl was not at ease. Sho was not seen around Grants Pass for several months. When she returned sho was no longer the plump, rosy-cheeked lass who had laughed and smiled tnrough a murder trial only a little while before. Sno was a mere shad ow of her.former self. She was con tinually Haunted by some unseen terror. What this was no one knew, and no one knpws yet, for tho girl would say no word about the crime. Tho prosecuting attorney said the girl would take tho stand during tho second trial of JaBper, who was jointly indicted with her and con fess tho crime. But as Jasper's sec ond trial has not yet occurred Dora did not take the stand. Those who know her best declare she would not have done so, even had tho trial oc curred when her health was still spared her. MAY OPPOSE PLAN OF SENDING FLEET WEST Senators and Congressmen Are Likely to Ask President for Explanations. WnnJiInirtnn. Aiic'. IB. The urosi- dnet's program to send powerful bat tleship and cruiser; fleets to tho Pa cific Is threatened hy a certain ele ment In Congress. Inquiries made at tne wavy aepurtmoni uy muinuuro of tho nnval affairs committees of m .m ltmicna n n .1 r I ttri t vlfl II fl 1 senators and representatives indicate mat mere is strong opposition iu me program In the East. While a con gressional inquiry may not bo di rected, it seems certain that the op position in Congress will demand of tho president a full explanation of tho objects to be accomplished by tho movement. Unless the fleets aro well on tholr way when Congress meets resolu tions designed to embarrass the ad ministration are likely to bo intro duced. Control of tho ships of the navy Is by law within tho hands of tho president, who .will probably as sert his Independence qf Congress in such matters as forcibly as he did in the Brownsville affair. SOCIALIST WRITER ARRESTED IN DENVER Young Boise Girl Preferred Chnrgcs Against Him Wrote Dis torted Reports. Boise, Idaho, Aug. 15. Upon com plaint of M. II. Scbcrn, probation officer, a warrant was issued by Jus tice Dunbar Saturday afternoon lor the arrest of George II. Shoaf on tho charge of statutory rape. Tho alleg ed victim is Miss Florence M. Ab bott, a 15-year-old girl of Cassia county, who is attending school at Boise. It is said the girl has made a full statement of the offenses against her. The act charged in the warrant is alleged to have been committed on July 9, but it is said the girl con fesses that it was repeated a number of times, once at least In a rooming house on State street where the girl was rooming, and also Shoaf and his wite and little boy. It is claimed that the landlady on one occasion caught Shoaf In the girl's room early in the evening when Mrs. Shoaf and tne child were out at tho Natator ium. Shoaf was correspondent in Boise during the Haywood trial for the Ap peal to Reason, a Socialist publica tion printed at Girard, Kansas, and while in Boise signed his name to many articles of an inflammatory nature concerning the courts of Ida ho and the officers of the state. His reports were highly unreliable and were of so untruthful a nature that he was criticised severely by even tho representatives of other Socialist publications who wero here report ing the trial., Several of them de nounced him as a traitor to social ism in their own publications. In the present case it is understood Wiat tho prosecution hds the assurance that several of these Socialists teivo expressed a willingness to come kck to Boise to testify against him. After considerable trouble Coiflity Attorney Koelsch, after the compliant was Bworn to, located Shoaf In Den ver. Tho warrant was placed In tho hands of Under Sheriff Sigglns hnd he immediately sent a wire to the au thorities at' Denver to arrest Sttbaf and hold him until an agent coiild be sent for him with tho necesfary papers for extradition. ALASKA CANNERIES IN NEED OF HELP Pack Fair, But Moving Slowly On Account Of Scarcity Of Iiubor. Seattle, Wash., Aug 16. Captain John Rlnder, superintendent of tho Pacific Coast Steamship Company, returned yesterday from Southeast ern Alaska on the City of Seattle. Captain Rinder states that labor Is in demand at the various canneries of Southeastern Alaska. "The general complaint of the tan ners," said Captain Rinder, "is that . thero are not half enough men to handle the fish pack. The paek is fair, but little of It is moving yet, as the plants are short handed. At tho canneries I visited thero wero few Indians employed." Reports from Southeastern Alaska bays have Indicated a good fish pack. The salmon have been running in large numbers and tho ca"nnries have been busy. D. McKenzle, general agent of tho Pacific Coast Steamship Company, who has Intended going north ok tho Humboldt to arrange for han2ins tho salmon pack, has been delved. Mr. McKinzie may leave for Skag way later in the month. Captain Rinder reports a very sat isfactory inspection trip of theeom pany's lines. OREGON PRESS ASSOCIATION JO MEET AT ASTORIA The biggest Regatta and "county Fair ever held in the state of Oregon will bo tendered to tho citizens of tho west on September 2, 3, and 4. Plans are on foot to make this affair tho Henley of the west and the largest crowd of visitors ever visiting tho seaport of the Columbia Rive' will attend this celebration. The Oregon Press Association will bo tho guests of the city during tho Regatta and fair, which will be hold In connection with tho Norwegian Sangerfest of tho Northwest. Tho latter commences on August 30 and lasts until to close of September 2. This feature of the celobration alono will bring four hundred trained'jlng ers under tho leadership of Signer Sporati and several thousand vlfcKora from all parts of tho western states. The arrival of so many Norwegian; singers has enabled tho Astoria cham ber of commerce to put on a frtituro of the Regatta whicn win oe oi in tense interest to every person, visit ing Astoria. This will bo the arrival of two Viking ships named in tho stylo when might was right in tho northern seas. It will bring back tho ,lova ivlmn nnirnn ends wero worshil)- ped, when prisoners walked on redhot bars to prove tneir innocenco oi crime, and when ships wpre propelled by many oarsmen on either side oC tho ship. Dragon heads will decorate tho front of tho shops and shields will hang In rows from tho gunwales. A Viking king will Btand on deck?wlth a hugo broad sword ind lend the crows In singing old Norse war and lovo songs. This feature of the ro gatta will he, presented in Astoria and will not fall to Interest cry