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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1903)
rrl "II , If" k I A . ' I . . - 1 . .u - "re f-'ct la ba Teliai r,:r i'i:i3 '"i7 without p--r!ij;,,.' Aiif ks mmt .VOLUME LVI. 'ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1903. NUMBER 172. 1873 1903 Just Nobbiest Suits In x Astoria Largest, Newest and Best Se lected Stock X Full Value With 1 Every Pur- Lowest Price Consistent With Honest Values s i P. "A. S SNOWFALL The Best Oh Earth ,tU 'y SEE FISHER BROTHERS 4 ! ,i NEW HAMMOCKS r v ' Large assortment of unusually hand . , some foods just received. 75 cents to $5.00. J . N . GRIFFIN. 3 S ;,Jki ,. 31 J 4 I I IV,- -QAk f DRY BOODS, BOOTS All IhueTI Boat lines in the city for the money GROCERIES Prompt delivery of Freshest Frniti, Vegetables, .Prepared Foods ; Cured Meats, Flour, Feed etc ; ?.',. Cor Eleventh and Bond ave' u NetiGe Oqr Embroidery Window? Gr&nd vslses st 10c snd 12c a yard Tomorrow and all next week wo will have with us the representative of one ot the largest manu facturers of hair goods. Beautiful switches and pompadours will be shown in great variety. ,t . , You will be equally . welcome to the demon. r stration whether you buy or coma only to see them ! THE BEE HIVE V, III lifer' - J ' V ' ' ' TO K E S The Old Way . WAS GOOD ENOUGH. 1 . I hut IVOR unrrw w uw wucii ... .. . . - . . .LI now II I possible 10 nave mouern i.-iingc crease enjoyment and personal comfort Lot u tit tip roup bathroom properly. ' " ' Tou'll Ilk the way w io th work. W.J.SCULLEY , 470-472 Commercial. Phone Black 2243 V. H. COFFEY aoMBtfx uuiiiiiin inininniiQ d SMITH CONVICTED AND LANE PLEADS GUILTY Unexpected Climax to Trial Perjury in Eff rt False i laira Prisoners Will Appear In Court Sentence-Saving to County and City of Astoria Amounts to Thousands of Dollars. Y Th dlllgwt cfforli of DUtrlct Attor Hinlih and Bherlff Llnvllle lwv at V vlotton of Joih 8. mlth on a iarg damage ult brouirht agHlniit the dty b In which a verdtet uainiit th cltd In through the diligent efforta of Sbprlff frulHy .o the charge of perjury, and wl morrow. The people of Aatorl, by Lane, ave 12,500. and the taxpayere o ihat would have been Incurred had La Aftvr a trlul laming three daya, dur ing wlil'h every legil atrategy avall i.lile wait exhnuHted by the defense In an effort to prolong the Inevitable, Jontiih . Hmlth waa yeaterday adjudg ed guilty of the crime of perjury by a Jury In the circuit court, and wilt re ceive Kfnu-nce tomorrow. The nlgn'fl-cain-e of thla verdict la that a man who hna btn making a practice In partner lilp with another man to rob the tax payer of cltlca that they deemed vul nerable, aiding such robbery by a sys tematic line of perjury In swearing that his partner In crime waa Injured by falling on defective sidewalks,' and by those methods secured a Judgment against the City of Astoria In the sum of 12.500, which Judgment was about to be settled on a compromise, ha at last been caught In the meshes of his own clumsy work, and now stands convic ted of a crime the maximum ctnalty of which la 10 years imprisonment In the state penitentiary. The Jury brought In a verdict of guil ty yesterday afternoon shortly before 1 o'clock, and the prisoner will be brought into court tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock to receive sentence. Immediately after the verdict of the Jury had been communicated to Charles II. Lane, alias John Bock, alias John Lane, the defendant In an Indictment charging Mm with perjury, who la In the county Jail awaiting trial, 1e held a consultation with Sheriff Llnvllle and Attorneys Noland and Donovan, and expressed a willingness to enter a plea of milty Judge McBride was notl lled and the prisoner brought Into court He voluntarily entered a plea ot guilty and will receive sentence at the same time as Smith tomorrow. ,.- t It Is understood that the prisoner Smith, through his attorneys, will file a motion for a new trial on Monday, and In the event of the motion being denied will take the matter to tms supreme court on a bill of exceptions. In con versation with a reporter for The As torlan before the Jury rendered Its ver dict yesterday, Smith stated that he was dissatisfied with the rulings ot the court on the question ot admissible evi dence, but he admitted that the Instruc tlons to the Jury were eminently fair. "I hardly expect to get a verdict prompt ed by Impartial considerations of the facts In the case, but If It should nap pen that I do receive the unbiased con sideration at the hands of the Jury to BELIEVES CONDUCT IS STRANGE Action of United States In Damage Case Can Not be Understood. . New York, July 18. El Ioilela, com menting upon the protest ot Monte video ot the United States minister against the sentencing ot a New Yok Insurance compandor fatae prosecu tion and assessing ' damages ot ' more than tl.000,000, declares, cables Rio Janeiro correspondent of the Herald, that the conduct ot the United States Is very strange. . v The newspaper consider the Inter vention of the. United States In this affair as very Important because It is an attack of the political Independence ot the countries Interested. .Since these countries never force industrial enter prises to establish themselves here, It Is surprising and dangerous that the country which promulgated the Mon roe doctrine should interfere In the id dmlnlstratlon of Justice and Us tunc tlons or their tribunal. of Defendant Charge! With to Defraoil City on For Damages Tomorrow Afternoon to Receive ney Harrlatm Allen, City Attorney A.M. t been rewarded by securing the con e of perjury In connection with the y Cbarlet R. 1-une, alia John L. Bock, the win of $2,506 wai obtained. AIko Llnvllle, Lane voluntarily pleaded II receive mentence along with Smith to he conviction of Hmlth, and the plea of f Clataup county are waved the exiienie ne perslMtcd In fighting the oaae. which I am entitled. " the virdlct Is bound to be not guilty." "When the clerk read the verdict the need defendant bowed to the court and wid- "all right." When Uw court convened yesterday morning Attorney George Noland ad dressed the Jury on behalf of the de fendant. He found a marked similar ity In the legal tight that has been wag ed by Smith for honor and liberty to the battle of Horatlus at the bridge de scribed In'ancient classics. Dlntrict At torney Allen followed for the state with a clear review of the testimony of the principal witnesses on both sides. He prefaced his remarks with a pleasantry In rhyme In regard to "Horatlus at the Bridge" simile Introduced by Mr. Noland. The district attorney's paro dy follows: . "They stood on the bridge at midnight, (rtcrerring to Defendants Smith and Lane.) When the clocks were striking the hour And the moon rose over the city Behind the dark church tower. How often; Oh, how often, In the days of Auld Lang Syne Have they broken that same old leg . on the bridge. In the Good O'd Summer Time?" Tlie substance of Judge McBrlde's charge to the Jury was a technical def nltlon of perjury. He laid particular stress on the fact that to return a ver dict of guilty as charged In the Indict ment the Jurors must be convinced that the defendant knowingly falsified his testlmony.and that such fafee testimony must have direct bearing on a mater ial point at icsue. The charge of the court w as satisfactory .to the attorneys on both sides of the case. The Jury re tired to consider its verdict at for further Instructions and to have 13:10 and came Into-court again at 2:40 portions of the testimony reread. The Jury stood 10 to 2 for conviction when the court was appealed to for further in structlims, but upon returning to the room only one ballot was necessary to reach a verdict of guilty. Judge McBride discharged the reg ular panel of jurors for the term Immed lately after Lane entered his plea of guilty. District Attorney Allen announced that" In view of the fact that the de feniUnt Lane had entered a plea of guilty, he would dismiss the second In dlctment against htm. Lane was In dieted on two counts, having perjured himself at both trials of the suit against the city. GRAIN MEN ARE ALARMED Kansas City, Mo., July 18.-Gnnln men here ere viewing with alarm what they term the different attitude of the local railroads In the matter ot hand ling the wheat crop ot the southwest which soon will begin to move and as sert that the railroads will try to divert the grain to other points. The local terminals of most of the roads entering Kansas"Clty have been blocked more or less since the flood. ALLEGED BURtlLAR RELEASED . Boston, July 18.-John Lankershlm, a Harvard student, and said to be a son of a Los Angeles millionaire, has been released from ft charge of having stolen an automobile. He was about to anil last week for Frapce when the com plaint was lodged. The owners of the machine acknowledged satisfaction In a financial way and the incident of the "bunrlarv" which originally was In- fenced as a jysnk WMjtttd tMed. Strange Death In Chinatown Nude Body of Aged Chinese Wo man Found on Floor of Filthy Shack. NEAR A LIGHTED OPIUM LAMP Patrolman TIioiiihoii Makes a DliM-overy On Information of Neighbor. Lying in the squalor and dirt of a fil thy rear apartment of the building, at the corn;r of Astor and Eighth streets, in the restricted district, her body par tially stripped of clothing, and what lit tle covering remained recking with the foul orders of the vile den, the dead body of an aged Chinese woman was found last night shortly before 11 o'clock by Patrolman Thompson. The petitioned room was black with dark ness, there being no windows to admit of light and air. The feeble flame from the fuming lamp of an opium . layout hed a flicker of light on the dismal scene On the floor, ber head and shoul Jers hidden from view' under a raised matted platform, and the lower part of her naked body protruding, the legs lnt and stiff from the "effects of rigor mortis, lay the woman. , An excited little Chinese, who gave his name as Cho Bing. and his occupa tion aa woodchopper, notified Patrol man Thompson of the woman's death. He said that she died at 2 o'clock yes terday afternoon. Dr. Pilklngton, city physician, was summoned, and with Deputy Coroner Pohl he went to the shack where the woman lay. There was nothing about the place to Indi cate a struggle of any kind, the only thing that looked suspicious being the position of the woman en the floor and the fact that she waa partially nude. The Chinaman who told the police of the wom-in's death occupies the nejtf room to her shack. He said that she had been ailing for some time, and claimed to have seen her alive about 11: ) yesterday morning. He gave her name as Bok Tong Wo, her age as 5 and said she was a widow. This latter statement was confirmed by a careful ly laid shrine over the door, placed there to the memory of the departed huslnnd. The rooms were searched for valu ables, but nothing was found. The key to the apartment was also missing, and the Chinaman mid that he did not know where It was-. During the examination of the room ChoBing shook thedead body, rubbed the gaunt cheek bones, examined the teeth and pleaded long and loud with her to speak. He prattled and wailed. coaxed and cajoled,, but all In vain, and then, with tears streaming down his face, told her not to worry, that friends wuld take care of her. The body was raised from the floor to the platform, where it now rests. Dr. Pil klngton does' not think an inquest nec essary. He says the woman probably died from the effects of heart failure. There was nothing In the appearance of her eyes to indicate death from the effects of morph ine. ' PILES IS A CANDIDATE Seattle Attorney Would Like to Go to Senate of the United States. Seattle, July 18. Before leaving- for east tonight S. H. Piles, attorney for rnciflc Coast Company, announced he would 'be a candidate to succeed Sen ator Addison Fester, eighteen months hence. .giving aa hts reason the .fact that he had been petitioned by many men to enter the race in order to pro tect business interests of Seattle." WRITES TOO REALISTIC Publishing HouseSued By Sea Captain For Writing Him Up. New York, July 18. A sea captain. Axel Simonson, has begun suit for $10, 000 damages against a publishing com pany ot this city for alleged libel grow Ing out of a magasine story. The yarn as published, described a ship wreck In which the captain was the first to re,ich shore in the breechea buoy, leav lns his crew and a woman passenger to care for themselves. Slmonsom says ha Is captain of a ship of the same name, that the boat ran .ashore not long ago and that he .waa not the first one to get to land. He declare the story, although it argues as fiction, has set htm down as a coward, and dam aged hi reputation as a reliable sea larlhttnah. v. GRADUAL EXHAUSTION IS KILLING THE PONTIFF No R j ileal Change la Patient's Condition, fiat His Forces . are Spent and Struggles for Breath are Bc ' coming More Frequent. Cardinals Working for Their Interests Objections Trivial and Ser ious are Made Against Nany-Cardinal Gotti Most Likely . - Candidate to Papal Throne. Rome,. July 18. Deprived of rest the pop spent the day which has just end ed with serious depression. The doc tors reported a feeble but rapid pulse, which was generally taken to Indlcte a playing out of the patient's forces. The favorable symptom reported in th morning of the lowering of the pleuratlc liquid was sufficiently maintained to relieve the pontiff of his painful strug gles for breath which lately have been so frequent. The doctors fear the grad ual sinking is due to a general condi tion rather than to the necessity for another operation which seemed so im minent on Thursday. The sleepless night was succeeded by a day during which the pope seemed to lack any de sire to vary the medical routine by re ceiving visits from cardinals or other. Both morning and afternoon he remain ed isolated from all save the doctors and attendants. The .nourishment which the pontiff took encouraged the attendants somewhat, but the con dition of the patient pointed to the fact that it had had no beneficial effect. W'hat Is now most hoped fo is that the APPOINTED VICAR GENERAL Sane Bishop Ordained Hirrr Priest iS Years Ago. Kansas City. . July 1& Rev. Father Thojnas LUlis, rector of St Patrick's parish 'in this city, has been ordained vicar general of the Kansas City diocese by Bishop John 3. Hogan. Father John J. Glennon, now arch bishop coadjutor to Archbishop Kean at St. Loui3 was the last vicar general of the Kansas City diocese. Father Glen non was also coadjutor bishop to Bishop Hogan. Father LUlis who Is U years of age was ordained a priest eighteen years ago by Bishop Hogan. IMPORTANT QUESTION SETTLED New York, July 18. The board of classification of the United States gen eral appraisers has rendered a decis ion" In the protest of a wire company over-ruling the latter's claims as to the duty on certain cold rolled steel. The board's decision, which holds that an additional duty of one cent per pound, shall be levied on this class of steel, decides an important question that has been an Issue for several months, and many Imports of the same class are awaiting settlement of the case. Large quantities of the merchandise are im ported In lengths of 200 to 230 feet and from four to five Inches in width and very thin. Camp Furniture Cots, Stools, Stoves, Cheap stresses and Everything for ...the Seaside... See Our New line Of ;edl80m -Suites Elegant Iron Beds- -Handsome Tables and Chairs I Prices guaranteed the lowest J Kobinson's Furniture Store popeinay be enabled to secure a much needed rest. A number of the cardinals and their friends utatlned the prolonged- Illness -of the pope to tett the feelings as to the . conclave. Much diversity of opinion ex Ists regarding the probable candidate for pope. To Cardinal Gotfl.prefect of propaganda, objection Is made that as he belongs to a religious order his elec tin might, in view of recent events, be considered a chalenge to France. Against Cardinal Rampolla, it is urg ed Austria will try to exercise her right to veto as France would Cardinal Zar allno Vannuttelli, who is considered to be the candidate of the tripte allance. ' Cardinal Ferrara is not favored for the apparently trivial reason that he . uses a motar car, which Is not consid ered dignified In a prince of the church. Cardinal Agitardl is' regarded as too democratic. Therefore, unless Cardinal Gotti, who has alw ays been the "most favored candidate, succeeds In overcom Ing the objection to him; It is likely that some one now unmentioned will be elected to succeed Pope Leo. WEALTHY WOMAN DIES , r r'.l'-'..'" New York, July IK Despite an oper ation which was expected' to save her life, the widow of F. O. Matthlessen, former president of the American Sugar Refining Company is dead at her summer home In Morristown, N. J., from appendicitla Her husband died in Paris two years ago, leaving an estate of $15,000,000. His widow was a large donor to various charitable n-orka The couple had no children and the great fortune wUl fall to Conrad H. Matthiessen, a nephew. PROFESSOR IN TOILS Turks Take Him In Hand for Consplr. - ing Against Sultan. . New York, July 18. A report has been received by. Rev. Dr. 3-1 Barton of the American board of foreign mis sions, regarding the seizure and Im prisonment, recently by the Turks of Professor Tenekijian, of Euphrates col-leu,-, Harpool, a graduate of ten An ei K an college in Turkey. . The professor is charged with con spiracy against the sultan and with fomenting revolution. The report as serts he has been subjected to -cruel treatment. Representations are being made in the twitter to. the state de partment at Washington. The Czar of Russia is probably the largest landowner in the world. . , H 1 3 fi V h .,aagw...'.. i' ."wl mm i 'n n ' w