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VOLUME LVI1.
ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1903.
NUMBER 20.
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CHANDLERS
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ASTORIA - . -
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opp, Fiher Bros, store , Boots and Shoes
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f I
HAND
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by
Astoria, Oregon
THE ROOM
Bad Plumbing
will catch tho man who put
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y
OREGON
American and European Nan
Free Coach to the House
HOUSE
E P. PARKER, Manager.
Floor for Commercial Men
- , OREGON
CARRIES A FINE
STOCK OF
THOMAS
ACCUSED
OF FRAUD
LaGrande Receiver Indicted by
the Federal Grand Jury at
Portland on a Serious
' Allegation.
Said to Have Solicited Funds for
the Purpose of Influencing
Official Decision.
MORE INDICTMENTS TO COME
Kittl mated That In Kxcchh of One
.Million Acre Have ISeen
, Secured ly Fraud
on Count.
Portland, Oct. 26. The United State
grand Jury today returned an Indict
ment uraliwl Ami B, Thomson, receiv
er of the United State land omce at
LaOrandtt, Or. The Indictment charge
Thomson with soliciting money to In
fluence an metal derision for the ap
proval of homestead proof which had
been held up for Insufficiency of the
tame, There are three conn la of the
Indictment. One of the witnesses 1
Charles Cunningham, a well known
enxtern Oregon aux kftian, who. It la al
leged Thomson' approached.
The Interior department haa had
agent In thU ctate for month st In
vcstlgatlnir alleged land fraud, and the
Indictment of Thomson la the first re-
utt of the Investigation. Humor of
gigantla fraud In the public lands of
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Call
frnla have been In circulation for the
punt year, and It I ald the fraudulent
entrlw, all told, amount to over 1,000.000
acrwi. It I understood that other In
dictment will follow.
Aa B. Thomson was appointed na
receiver for the LaOrande land office
but a few months ago, and was a rest'
dent of Pendleton at the time of his se
lection. He hn a ranch near Echo,
Umatilla county, and Is largely Inter
ested In stock. He was born and rear
ed on Butter ?reek. being the son of O,
F. Thornton, who wa one of Umatilla
ccunty s pioneer sheriff. The son was
a member of the legislature In 1900 and
contributed to the success of Hon. John
H. Mitchell In (he final vote. Mr.
Thomson Is well thought of In eastern
Oregon tnd to the vast majority of the
people and his friends this Indictment
by the federal grand Jury comes as
surprise.)
HEINZE'S PROPOSAL SPURNED
Denounced ns Subterfuge Aimed
at Miners' Union.
iButte. Oct. 26. F. August Helnxe
this afternoon addressed a moss meet
ing of the miners of Butte, over 15,000
men being In attendance. Helnze n ade
a counter proposition to the offer of
the Butte miners' union to purchase
MasGlnnls' stock In the Boston & Mon
tana and Parrot t companies nnd thus
end the litigation with the Amalga
mated .
Hetne offerd In behalf of MacGln
nls and Lamm to sell shares In the Bos
ton & Montana and Parrott companies
at the original price paid for them and
Interest to the miners' union, provided
the Amalgamated Copper Company
shall sell to him 'ts Interest In the Nlp
jier clutm at the price they originally
patd.together with Interest from that
date, and further that the Amalgamat
ed company agree to operate Its mines
for one year continuously and present
a scale of wages to be maintained for
three years.
President William Scallon, of the An
aconda company, tonight rejected the
proposition made by Helme.
President Scallon characterises the
proposition of Helnze as astounding
and rldiculoua and unworthy of consid
eratlon. "These offers may look In
nocent enough on the face, but In reali
ty they amount to a refusal to settle
the MacGlnnls cases." said he. "They
are the turning down of the miners'
union proposition, because the con
ditions of Helnze's offers are so unreas
onably and exorbitant that ther are
impossible of acceptance."
STANDS BY MESSENGER BOYS
Boston Aldermen Remove West-
ern Union Poles.
iBostcn, Oct. 26. As a result of the
strike of the Western Union messenger
boys, the board of rildermen thla even
ing, on motion of Alderman Lomensy
idemocrat) passed an order, by a vote
of six to five, providing that the com
pany be compelled to remove ail or
their pols in the city limits within the
next 60 days, and. If the order Is not
compiled with, the poles sre to bo re
moved by the superintendent of streets.
FOR ST. LOUIS AND PORTLAND.
Hon Qk. T. Myers, better known as
"Tobe" Myers, accompanied by Mr. 8.
D. Adair, called at The Aetorlan office
yesterday for the purpose of announc-
Ing the purpose of Mr Myers' visit to
Aatorut. Mr. Myers Is ene of the Lewis
and Clark fair directors and also a com
mlssloner of the lit. Louis fair having
charge of the flih, game and relic divis
ion for both fair. Mr. Adair seems
amply able to assist Mr. Myers, partic
ularly as he I well versed In the early
history of this part of Oregon.
Mr. Myers reports an awakening In
terest In his fair projects. He had no
trouble In Astoria In securing Informa
tion and In perfecting arrangements
to the end that splendid exhibits In
each department will be had for both
8t! Louie and Portland,
WILL BRING BODY BACK.
Ban Diego, Cal., Oct. 2 The United
State training ship Mohican, just ar
rived on a cruise which will be extend
ed as far south a the United States
coaling station at PochlUnque bay, has
order from Washington, accom
panied by a permit from the City of
Mexico, to take up the remains of
Captain W. W. neslnger and bring
them to San Diego, whence they will
be shipped to Washngton.
Captain Iteilnger, while captain of
the Philadelphia, died on board when
the cruster at Magdalen bay on ber
way back from Panama to this port.
Under the Mexican law the body had to
be burled there and could not be re
moved for two years. This period will
have elapsed since the death and burial
when the Mohican Is at Magdalena bay
on her way north, and the remains can
then be brought away.
Spirited Finish
Of Campaign
New York Politicans Will Hold
Several Thousand Meetings
During the Week,
New York, Oct. 26. If the plan of
the opposing managers do not miscarry
this, the closing, week of the municipal
campaign In Greater New York will out
strip anything of the kind ever seen
here
There will be several thousand meet
ing held In the five borough by mid
night of Saturday. There will be 600
democratic meetings held In Brooklyn
borough alone.
The fuslonlsts have hired forSaturday
night every hall south of Fourteenth,
street and east of Broadway. Several
automobiles will start with fusion spell
binders tomorrow night and continue
until the polls open.
The leading candidates will do a
hard week's work. Both Low and Mc-
Clellan will devote much time to Brook
lyn, which is, by common consent, re
garded aa the battle ground.
There seems to be some uncertainty
about District Attorney Jerome contin
uing In ;he campaign. He Is said to be
in 111 health and to have cancelled two
or three engagements in Brooklyn for
tonight. '
Nearly every minister In the city
brought up the election during the Sun
day discourses.
COST OF THE ELECTION.
New York,Oct.26. An estimate made
by the members of the board of elec
tions fixes the cost of the coming elec
tions In this city at $600,000. to which Is
to be added $130,00 that was spent In
the recent primary elections. In order
to give voters a chance to express their
desire as to candidates, 2,764,800 ballots
have been printed, which Include the
ballots for votes on the canal question
and 307.000 sample ballots which are to
be used to explain to voters how a legal
v.)to should be cast. .
STEPSON KILLS HIS FATHER
Shoots Him Because He Struck
Wife With a Bar.
Chicago, Oct. 26-As he was about
to strike his wife with an iron bar,
Nicholas Rolle has been shot and killed
by his stepson, Henry Walscheld, 18
vears old. Rolle came home and went
to the kitchen, where his wife was pre
paring dinner. He was abusive and
threatened her because dinner was not
ready. While they were quarreling
young Walscheld returned. He started
for the kitchen and as he reached the
door saw Rolle raise an Iron bar and
strike his wife. The youth drew a
revolver and fired at his stepfather.
Walschled was arrested.
He said his stepfather had abused his
wife on several occasions and he him
self had quarrels with the man because
of the latter's ungovernable temper.
SETTLEMENT NOW IS IN SIGHT
Russo-Japanese Treaty To Be
Concluded Shortly.
London, Oct. 26. Official Information
from both Tokio and St. Petersburg,
says the Berlin correspondent of the
Standard. Is to the effect that drafts
of the Russo-Japanese convention have
hwn unnroved bv tho Jxar and Count
Lamsdorff, Russian foreign minister.
Only slight alterations In these drafts
are needed to effect settlement of all
difficulties by amicable compromise.
' SNOW IN NEW ENGLAND.
Boston, Oct. 26. Snow fell for the
first time this season In many places In
New England.
CONFESSES
THE SECRET
OF HIS LIFE
Sensational Disclosure by Dowie
Touching His Birth and the
Manner in Which He
Got His Name.
Admits to Vast Throng That He
is Not the Son of John '
. Murray Dowie.
FATHER WAS SCOTCH OFFICER
Mother Married Dowie Only to
Give Offspring a Xame
Itenewa Ills Scoring
of the Press. -
New York, Oct. 26. With broken
voice, with tears streaming down his
face, and his body shaking with emo
tion, John Alexander Dowie, befcre an
audience of 10,000 persons, tonight an
nounced that he was not the eon of
John Murray Dowie. of Essex, Iowa,
from whom he takes his patronymic,
but that bis father was a British army
officer of high family by "Scotch mar
riage.'' He heaped vllllflcatlon and de
nunciation upon John Murray Dowie.
who, he declared, had his mother be
lieve her marriage to Dowle's father
was shameful. .The army officer having
been taken away by his relatives, bis
mother, In the first flush of her shame,
had sought to give her son a name by
marrying John Murray Dowie.
The revelatlo nwas made at the end
of an hour's tirade against the press of
this city. Its treatment of his work and
hlnwelf being styled the "conspiracy of
falsehood." Reporters were denounced
"yellow dogs and poisonous reptiles
who have wrecked thousands of homes
and brokm thousands of hearts."
Powle's confession was brought out
by the publication this morning In a
newspaper of letters from him to John
Murray Dowie. After eulogzlng his
mother and giving an account of the
deception practiced on her, he said his
father was a man of high standing and
died leading troops during a charge in
the Crimean war.
Dowie burst into Invectives of the bit
terest type against the press for pub
lishing the letters. He raged like a
man crazed at the enormity of the In
jury done htm, and then, as If spent by
the exertion of his tirade, broke down
and wept.
At the close of his address Dowie pro
nounced this benediction:
"God look down upon the irresponsi
ble band of criminals who write papers
end publish their lies and have mercy
on them. Have mercy, O God! and
grant grace to the country, and muzzle.
M1U
UIIU FAQ
The Cheapest
I
UsaSaMVR
nnd, it needs be, destroy the newspa
pers." r , , j
NEW RULE FOR SHIPMENT OF BODIES.
Baltimore Oct.24. Representatives of
railroad companies and the National
Association of Undertakers have Just
completed a conference with the mem
ber of the State and Provincial Boards
of Health of North America In this city
on the transportation of dead bodies
A a result nine rules wereadopted
which will go into effect July 1, 1904,
and. after that time It will be Impos
sible to ship the body of any person
dying either of smallpox or bubonic
plague. Bodlea of persons dying of
Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhoid
fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, ery
sipelas, glanders, anthrax or leprosy
will be shipped only under the most
complete conditions of disinfection,.
r
SAILORS RESCUED.
Honolulu, Oct. 26. The last missing
boat of the wrecked French bark Con
netable. de Rlchemont wa picked np
today by the Inter-Usnad, a steamer.
It contained the boatswain and seven of
the ctew of the lost vessel. All were
alive, though in starving condition, hav
Ing been almost entirely without food
since October 14. , '
WHY SOUTHERN RAISED RATE
Compelled to Force Lumber Ex-
ports to Sea Route.
San Francisco, Oct. 26. Congestion
of freight on the northwestern lines of
the Southern Pacific has resulted In a
radical move on the part of the freight
traffic officials of the road. A a partial
rolution of the problem of handling the
lumber trade of the' north with insufficient-facilities,
thy have decided to
cut down the amount of traffic by e
tabllshlng a prohibitive rate on lumber
shipments from points on the Oregon
coast to Sin Francisco.
The advanced schedule will go into
effect the first of next month and the
high rate will force the northern lum
bermen to send their shipment south
by water. This rate will not affect In.
terlir mills.
LEAVES THE NAVY.
Washington, Oct. 26. Rear Admiral
Francis Bowles today tendered bis res
ignation in the United States navy to
the'preeid-jnt and requested that It take
effect November 3. Constructor L. W.
Capps ,now on duty at the New York
navy yard, has been selected by the
president for the vacancy. Admiral
Bowles Is leaving the naval service to
accept the presidency of a private ship
building company In Massachusetts.
OREGON MURDERER CAPTURED.
Boise, Oct.26. A special to the States
man from American Falls says:
Harry Egbert, .vanted In Oregon for
murder, was captured at Rockland this
morning by a posse of citizens while at
a livery stable where he kept his horse.
He escaped once and secured his gun,
which was in the barn. He fled to a
thicket, but surrendered when the posse
began to fire Into It.
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DYNAMITE
IS USED ON
BANK SAFE
Robbers Blow Off Door of Sheri
dan VauIkSeaire ,,$7000
' in Coin and Make -Their
Escape. ' ,
Raided the Little Town at Early
Hour and Were Not Seen. .
Until To Late." r ' ;
POSSE HAS GONE IN PURSUIT
'. : i
Believed Can? Is Same That
Tried Unsuccessfully to
Rob Bank at 5ew. '
.' berp, Ore. x .
Sheridan, Or., Oct. 26. Safecrackers
early this morning secured an entrance
to the Scroggin & Wort man bank and.
Mew open the safe, securing about $7000
In coin. Valuable papers and other
documents were teft untouched. The
bank building la situated in the center
of the town, but,, by choosing the early ,
hours of the morning, when everybody
waa asleep, and with everything envel
oped In a thick fog, they awoke only
one man, Mayor E.H. Eakln, who Urea
across the street, upstairs over his
store. There has never been occasion
tor guarding property hitherto and the'
town has no nlghtwatchman. e
The gang effected an entrance to the
building by using a sledge hammer and,
picks, which bear the stamp of the
3outhern Pacific Company. They drill
ed a hole In the safe near the combina
tion and Inserted a heavy charge of
giant powder, which blew the safe door
off. but did not wreck the building. It
was this explosion that awoke Eakln.
Eakln went to the window juet In time
to see the men come out of the bank
and Join another who had evidently
been on guard. The" entire party jump
ed ' Into buggy and drove off in a
southerly direction. ,,'? 1.
Eakln quickly secured a rifle and took
three shots at the fast disappearing;
men. The firing and ecfeams of Mrs.
Eakln, who had been awakened by the
commotion aroused . the townspeople
and a posse of armed men was soon on
the streets. The bank officials at once
sent out the alarm in every direction?
by telephone. Sheriff Sitton arrived
here at 8 o'clock, but, as the robber
bad secured such a start, he decided it
would be futile to organize a posse.
From the manner and, hour of the
robbery, it Is generally thought tn
irans is the -?ame which attempted to
rob the Newberg bank last Monday ,
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