PETER WOLFF
FOUND DEAD
Erratic German of Burnside Point
. Deliberately Drowns Him'
self in Slough.
PEOPLE THOUGHT HIM CRAZY
Lived Alone in Ilousbmt uml
-Had Made' Many Threat.
Tlmt He Would Com
mit Suicide.
Peter Wolff, the old German who
lived In a scow near Burnside Point
a short distance from Svenson, has
finally made good his threat to kUl
himself. Yesterday afternoon his
body was found on the tideland about
60 yards from his scow. The corpse
was brought to the city last night by
Coroner Pohl, and will probably be
buried at county expense In the pot
ter's field. , ..' .!.
tft the city to notify Coroner Pohl.
"One before tiie old man tried to
kill himself," Siild Mr, Da vis yester
day afternoon. In relating the clr-cumata-ive.
"He told met he would
kill hl.nsolf whenever, he became
hungry, but I am satisfied he was not
in need at the Jme of his raah act
On the former occasion he tried
toi
Uxwn hlinsolf, but related to me that j
he found It Impossible to do so, as he
waa too ileshy to sink,.. I have no!
doubt that the old man walked from J
Ms s-iv along the tloatittg gang
plank which leads too the tideland
and. folding his arms, laid down in
ihe water. Wlun we found him his
arum Wt-re still folded, he was bare
footed, but wore overalls, juniper and
hat It Is my belief that he commit
ted suicide about midnight on Thurs
dy night."
Wolff ownrd bo:t 28 acres of land
mur lurnside Point. On his land
wi'fl a valuable clay bank and recent
ly he had been jitgotlntlng with Fer
gtison & Houston for Its pale. Yes
torlay Messrs. Ferguson and Hous
ton went up the river to examine the
bunk, but Wolff was not to be found.
Ti e old man had been In town for a
few days, rtturnng to his home Thurs
day 'morning.'. While In the city he
told several persons, among them
Aumist Hildebrand an-l O. F. Morton
1339 NAMES
RECORDED
I Persons Who Desire to Vote for
Presidential Election Must
Register.
NEW ASTORIA'S NOTABLE GAIN
lietwecii One Thousand and
Twelve Hundred Names Will
He Added to ItuUs Iteture
May 15 Next.
Seaside .
Melville ....... ;.;..,' 11
Chadwell i.,,, . SO
Youngs River 4 . . ... .;.. ,, .... . . , . 19
Olney ......... ......... .,;. 17
ciifton
Wcntport ...........
Vesper .
Jewell
Mlshinvaka .....,,..r. ,...,,1, 13
Elsie 10
Push r...
Total In county. 1JS9
Persons who desire to vote for
presidential electors must register now.
th.it he meant to kill himself, but his
Wolff was between 60 and 65 years' 9Ute"-',t was not seriously regarded.
m lar as could be learned, W'oltf
had no relatives In this part of the
country. He had long been a resi
dent of the country. His land Is be
lieved to constitute his entire estate.
of age and had lived his solitary ex-
istenee In the lonesome scow for fully
30 Vears. The little slough in which
his houseboat was moored was given
the old man's name. He has always j
been regarded as mentally deranged,
but those who knew him considered
. him a harmless erratic old man, who
would never Injure himself. But he
finally tired of life, and some time
Thursday night drowned himself In
the waters of the slough.
News of the suifiide was brought to
the city yesterday by W. E. Davis, a
well known resident of Fernhill. Mr.
Davis Is a, logger. About I o'clock
yesterday afternoon he came out of
, the woods and near Wolffs slough
met Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Madison,
of Burnside Point, who informed him
that old man Wolff had been drown
ed. The body was lying on the tide
land. It was first seen by a man
who was walking along the railroad
Thirteen hundred and thirty-nine
persons have reglsterel for the county
state and presidential elections. Of the
total number of names on the lists
at the close of business last night. 855
had registered In the city and 484 lni
the country, l it Is expected that lOOOj
to 1200 more names will be added to
the rolls between now and May IS, I
when the boks will be closed.
The most notable gain made during
the past week has been that of New
Astoria precinct. A big batch of reg
istration blanks were " received front
New Astoria by County Clerk Clinton,
and the west side precinct Is now
credited with TS votes. Clifton Is at
the foot of the list, with only Ave, but1
STRONG AGAINST CHURCH.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mux Pracht Is lit the city from Ash
land,
John 11. Woodman was down from
Portland yesterday.
J. 8. Levy of Stun Francisco Is rrg
Istered at the Occident.
U Q. West of Clatsop waa in the
city yesterday on business.
t
John Svensen, the book dealer, is re
I covering from a slight attack of the
grip.
Robert Catlln returned last night to
Forllund after a brief visit In As
toria.
W. 8. Zimmerman of the firm of
Zimmerman A Welbi. dealers In log
ging machinery, la In the city.
Mark .T. Brownson, special agent fur
the Western Loan and Savings Corn-
Judge Powers Gives Important Testi
mony in Smoot Case.
Washington, April 22. A thorough
review of Mormon interference in polit
ical affairs In Utah was given today
by Judge O. W. Powers, the only wit
ness before the senate committee on
privileges and elections in the Investi
gation of the protest against Senator i
Smoot. Several times (efforts were
made by counsel for the defense to
show that his story was based on
hearsay, but the attempts were met
with an array of facta taken from a
signed statement of members of the
church, documents which are part of
the records of the state, affidavits of
track, and he called the attention of persons present at various places where
the ladles to the presence of the body church Influence was manifested and
, , j,av,a aegurea me corpse other evidence. Judge Powers will
bo It could not float away and came j continue tomorrow.
this precinct will cast about SO votes. -puny of Salt Lake. Is In the city.
. . wlUHlf, W1UI Henry j.'.N.k(ni,len( ,h8 we known
14S. and holds second place of all thelPortlund ,llluor WM m the cy
precincis 01 tne county.
The registrations, to date exceed
those on the same date two years ago
by 19. Four years ago at this time,:
1828 persons had registered. The !
registrations In the various precincts
are as follows:
Astoria No. 1 .....,....',,,..106
Astoria No. 2 ....... 126
Astoria No. S .'................148
Hot ' Afeeiit a- New
Sdrlna Suits
yesterday. He returned on the night
train.
Haltle M. -8eciey, Esther Walker,
Rhoda J. Hudson. Anna M .Leons and
Lizzie Forbes of Grays River and
Elisabeth Wend of Tacomn, school
teachers, are visiting In the city.
A feature of the Idaho exhibit
which has been Installed In the Pal-
Astoria No. 4 Haceof Mines and Metallurgy at e
Astoria No. S 157 1 world's fair Is a anlpndld cnlliwilAn n
gum nuggets found In the placer
Astoria No. 6 k. ....... S4
II' pfl t I
111
ml
Just Wan so tliis lioti.io Ht-I!s tho
best good--, arut'd by no uwhoh
that ' it docMi't offer tho tW
vfthics, quito tho contrary.
We noil the beat you con buy,
but we've got to movt comjictitiou
. in price in order to thoroughly ,
interest you; tho
515 and 020
SUITS
illustrate the point perfectly.
They nrgue in irtnuiugt, cot
only through their style and
quality, but through the re-won-nblenesis
of their price.
0
Suits and
Topcoats
S10.00 w S25.00
Astona ao. 7 mlMa of th9 ute TheM nuggets
j are made into stick pins and orna-
Total in city j ....... .855 ! men's and are uoId as souvenirs.
John Day. 20 i " " ::..t".x
Sven8en l Itodlly pn In loses Its terror If you've
Wal'U8kl 16 la bottle of Dr. Thomas' Klectrlc Oil
New Astoria.. , 73 : in the houce. Inntant relief in cun
S, DANZIGER C.
ON THE SQUARE
Warrenton 8
Clatsop , 20
of burns, cuts, sprains, accidents of
any sort.
1)U you 8e it udvortisttl in The Atorin lt-11 the Adyertiser of it.
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ANOTHER! ONE OF THOSE' MARVELOUS
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