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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1905)
' , . , ' ' ' ' . . ' ! , . ' ' . , . j 'ire Historical Society ;i ....... - - , -- ? .... - :- - ,&.-Rflri'iit.'-ip,:a1i:..-j:-fl- -'iL-..!lvi!.;,W!l. -.",.". 1 4 - ' , , I , . 1 I ... ' - PUBUtHCt PULt AtSOOIATIO PMt MPORT , U OOVIR THE M0RNIN9 FIELD ON TH1 LOWER COLUMBIA VOLUME LVIV. NO. 101. ASTORIA, OREGON. FRIDAY FEBRUARY 10. 1905. price Five cents HOT SESSION . - , .... i'. , r n- i i w Story of ttcttartcr light ai baicm. JIM LAWS ON " CRIME Mayter Ptssei t Sizzling Bunch (h ' Chief of Ponce McLEOD'S MINT TO DEMOCRATS Cvtninf Oav Bvtrylxxly Chn to Ivi Up fkom md Nearly All Avaital ThtmMlvat of It Whara Wat Jaek BurnaT , BAlem, Feb. .-!' volt of I to 1. after ona of tfat bottt flfhta on tha floor of tha hou atnea th aeaalon tii'gBn. and for tha flrat tlma rffualnt to nbl.la bjr lh mommpoiatlon an J wlMha of a local dfllfaUon, tha hnu liiKt night poawJ Pwiator Tuttle'a amrtnlinent to the ehartrr of Atorl. It In now up to the aovernor, and th ppiicrfll auppiltlon la that tte will i.Iiic tha atamp of hla dlaupproviit upon l. It, w a iHilltkaJ flirht from atari to nnlnh. and ruilloy. who led tha onrnn Ixatlon foroa for tha bill, made no attempt to conceal that fact Ha do clurad that It waa tha duty of tha ra publican rnembora of tha houae to rote for' the bill prepared by Senator Tut U aa aalnat any roommn4atlona of the Democratic membwe. w 1 The fitht aiarted by a. motion to conaliW the t)tll eiiRroaaed. While the vote waa In progreaa Mnygfr at tacked the preaent government of A torla and eipreed aurprlae that any republican ahoutd vote acnlnat bring Ing the bill up for action. The demo, cratlc plan waa to block tha wayv MMygor aald tht Uy la without a po lice commlaalon and that the chief of police la unfit to hold his place, ... Lawn prnteated and Muyger aat down. , Jim Laws Angry. ? f Lawa demanded that tha bill b read in full, but before ttat conclualon moved to adjourn that the membera mlht rend the bill. He went Into a hlatory of politic In Attorla, wid . among other ihlnga declared tbat under Juet uch Iniquitous 'legfahitlon aa the h'ouae vrna aiout to aiMM t a republican police cimunlHalon had In 1R91 'appointed ,'a ohlef of police who ought, to b In the IM'tiltentlary, and everybody knew.lt. Ho had reference td J. W. Barry, and ipive U U..ba wtderatood thai - Mr. Burry had atolen , tag , 41'enaeB and burned up the atutC 1 i t ' Lawb dinlared that the machine roembera ' of ;the houae would vote 4iklnat him, for they had orders to do no. They didn't lfke It; but they would have to do It lut the same. Mr! Law warned the republtcatu preieat that It the charter were paaaed It would reMult In sending a democratic aenator to tha stilts ' senate It : had always done so in the past, he aald. He pro dieted that it would be a boomerang. McLeod suggested that If the charter would serve as an Incubator to hatch out democrats, the gentleman from Clatsop should have no objections. Josephine Smith. Smith of Josephine aald the people had managed to get along under the present charter, and he thought they might be able to atruggle on a little longer. He said the proposed chartei wus.tho reault of a concerted move, nient on the part of the political tna- pines of Portland aiM Aatorla to leg islate people out of oRlce. He moved an amendment submitting the chartei to a vote of the people of Astoria, , Ilaflcy said that seemed all right on the surface, but that It waa a "nigger lA-the-woodplle" proposition. It hap, pened, he said, that there waa a demo cratlc machine In Astoria, which domi nated the police and fire departments. Smith wanted to know if the ma thine sin was pardonable In Multno mah, why waa .lt a crime In AstorlaT lktley made the startling announce. ment that there Is no machine In Mult nonmheverythlng waa regulated bjr civil aervto there, he said. ' Ha fur ther said ha took ordara from nobody. Smith of Josephine crated much amusement by asking; what tha lgle latura would do without tha demo crat. Ha noticed, ho aald, that during hla abeence a few days ago several merltorloua measures were killed while he waa gone which might have fared otherwlae had he been here. One was a resolution i cutting out mileage on Junketing trips. The house had paaaed It, and than, killed tt when It cam back from the senate. , , "What would you have done without Sheriff Word to clean out Portland V said tha speaker, while a round of ap plauaa broke forth. ,, , v, All Know Curtia. ilailey lu apeaklng for the bill read a , letter written by Lawa to C. J, Curtis, editor of th Astorlan, a new- paper, In which he aaid tho police 4e- partineul waa rotten to th cor and that ha bad aald o to the chief of po lice. , Lawa declared that he mont a much, and that he waa In favor ot abolishing th pollc commission. As for Curtis, he said, everybody knows who h la. Th charter as passed will cut short tho tenure of ofllc of th city council, th city attorney and th mayor by II months. This la what the demo crats have all along contended against. They declared It waa not right to leg islate th present officers out. The ob jection all along advanced against th present pollc commission Is t'aat two of tha throe commlMlnonera reside out of Astoria one la Portland, Cook, and tlarker In British Columbia. , Inasmuch as Governor Chamberlain vetoed a similar charter : two year ago, It la confldontlyf tfkppcted, this one will share the earn fate. The plan of the republican la to pass It over his head. BATTLE nil Armies Fear to Wait Until Thaw - Begins. JAPS NEGOTIATING LOANS Minister Now Arranging to Consult tha Banking Nations Regarding a New, Domestic Loan Russias . Bombardment Continue. . Toklo; Feb. 9 (ll;30 a, m.) The inn presslon prevails here Uiat the Im pending battle between the armies ot Field Marshal pynma f and General KuropaUcln will tKcur before any ma terial' thaw takes pluc,; which would convert the country into a slushy bog, and render , th movements of guns, ammunition and stores Impossible, un til the roads harden. I Qive 8oldierf Delioaoiss. J Toklo, Feb. 9 (U:0 a. m.) The em. peror and empress cf Japan have .given 100,000 yen' (149,000) to the army and navy depitment to purchase wines anj delicacies for the 'celebration of the national holiday which will take plac. oh Saturday next, February 11. " Will Negotiate Loans. Toklo, Feb. ' 9. Vice President Tak ahashl of the bank of Japan, will leav for America and England via Vancouv, er on February 17 to hold preliminary conferences with financiers of those countries regarding terms of a fourth domestic loan. ' ' Minister of Finance Yoshlro Is arranging to meet Japanese banker and capitalists os February ISth to discuss the rate of Interest and time for which, this loan will run.. Bombarding Jap. ' Toklo, Feb. 9.-Ai report from Man churlan headquarters says that, the Russians have continued their bom bardment In the direction, of Shakhe river since, th night of February ,7 They continue Intrenching In front of Liuchenpao and In the vicinity of Hel koutal.,. ;-' I U .. - Korea Delayed. San Francisco, Feb. 9. Owing to the necessity for some repairs to her hull, th liner Korea, will be . delayed on drydock and her sailing day has been postponed until next Wednesday, Feb ruary It. ' 'w'!.,..V'.,.'..,,wi',.'.l;-;Ai' BILL PASSES House Approves Rate Rc - ductlon Measure. MINORITY IS PLEASED Omnibus Pishing Bill is Postponed By Committee in the " ; 'HouseJ ' MERCHANT MARINE BILL HELD Action. n. Tw Important Measures Will Have to Wait Until Congr Meet Again Hatchery Bill Carried $500,000. Washington, Feb. , 9. After nearly four day of discussion the house to day, by a vote of 926 to 17, passed the garh-Townsend bill providing for the regulation of freight rates. The ne gative vote was made up of 11 repub licans and ( democrats. The closing hours of the debate wer occupied by Williams, the minority leader, and Hepburn,' chairman of the committee which had the bill. , ..; Williams, while supporting the mi nority measure, complimented the re publicans on bringing In a bill much batter, than he expected to come from them. Hepburn's speech was rather In defenso of himself. 11 said his deeds and act are a sufficient answer to the "lie and slanders" heaped upon. him. The Hepburn bill, he said, waa pre pared by the attorney general and he only yielded to hi collengue on the Ksch-Townsend bill ; because he, did not want sensational headlines., $ i No Hateheriee Now, Washington, Fob. 9. The house committee on merchant marine and fisheries today voted to postpone ac tion at this session on the omnibus fish hatchery bill. This measure pro vided for the establishment of SO flsh hatcheries at a coat of I50J.OOO, ;.- j Calls It "War Craie -a Washington. Feb. 9. The senate devoted todays session to tae agri cultural appropriation bill. There was a renewal of the discussion of tha.poU Icy of distributing the appropriation bills among a number of committees Gorman and Spooner contended that the change resulted In a vast increase of the coBt of conducting the govern. ment. Hale agreed that In recent yeurs a great Increase In appropria tions had appeared but, ,hf attributed tt to what he characterised ma the "war crate." " t'V! H Pork City Trsffio Delayed by Snow and , ' , Joe-Clad 'Raits, Chicago, Feb. 9. Plowing through snow drifts and creeping with halting gait along lee-covered rails, tralns due In Chicago yesterday were many hours behind their schedule time, In some Instances arriving ten or twelve hours lute. Many trains due last night had not arrived early today. Better conditions are promised to day, aa the weather forecaster an nounces that the great snowstorm Is over.. , The total fall since Saturday last has been nearly 12 Inches. Senators Arrested. Sacramento, Feb, ,9. A, a result of the bribery 'scandal In tWsate legis lature, Senators . .Bunker-, and , French were arrested tonight on warrants Is sued toy the grand Jury. The sheriff Is searching for Senators Wright and Emmons who were also Indicted. . NIGHT TRAINS. Panama Railroad Will,. Try to Dodge Revolutions.. IJew -York,'. Feb.' 9. At a meeting her the directors of, th Panama rail road have decided to run trains over th tin at night as weU a day. Here tofore) they have been run only In th daytime because there wer so many c-callej revolutions that It waa con sidered unsafe to let a train proceed after It had become too dark to dis tinguish object ahead. Tb director also ordered om new equipment for both freight and pas senger departments. -.iv . , I FOR A DIVORCE. French Ministry Separates th Church : t 'and Stat. ' ' -.; : Paris, Feb. 9. The Rou Tier ministry today presented hi the chamber of deputle the draft of a 'new bill for separation of church and state, - The measure wa 4(txlously awaited; owing to a doubt raised by friends of former Premier Combs, concerning the sin cerity of the new ministry In carrying forward the policy of separation. Th text of th new measure makes th separation definite and conclusive, but omit a number of details ! in the Combs bill which aroused antagon ism. ', ", i . , ' Dynamit Plant Wrecked. ' Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 9. A ter rific explosion of th dynamite plant of tb Dupont Powder Company at Boyle Gap, five miles north of this city, tonight wrecked tho plant and broke window and extinguished all light within a radius of two miles, but aa far as learned no on wa killed. Th shock was distinctly felt for 21 mile. ,- Arizona Satisfied. Phoenix, Ariz Feb. 9. The legisla ture today passed a concurrent reso lution thanking the United States sen ate for eliminating Arizona from the statehood bill, and asking the house to concur In the amendment affecting this territory. MUST PAY PENALTY 'Kid" Gouchy to Be Tried for a Murder. IS .THE SON OF A SENATOR Served in Many Prisons and Was .'V--- . r ... . . , Pardoned in Minnesota to Be Re turned for . Trial for Cali-, fornia Murder. .f . I ! ' , rortlond, Feb. 9. Detective Taylor of San Franclaco passed through Portland last night with "Kid" Gouchy a notorious criminal and son of Sen ator Gouchy of California. Gouchy was one of tho members of the gang of des peradoes vhlch killed Policeman Rob Inum nf Kiin Vrnni-larn. nhnut three years agoJ Att .the members of thl?. gang excepting one have been caught "St. Louis Fat" was caught In Can ada, C. Woods waa arrested In Port laria W Da'pury ? Sheriff Cordnno and DetectlW Kerrigan; and Snow. He Is now under sentenec of death In Call- torulsuHj'Jvij;:. Gouctiy ,.niad good- his escape at the time and was not heard from until jrwad learned that heas serving a sentence for larceny In tht penitent vy of Minnesota. Upon ap plication of the San Francisco au thorltlea the governor of Minnesota pardoned him that be might be taken bock and tried for the murder of the policeman. " 1 Gouchy was arrested In Portland a short time prior to the murder In San Francisco by Deputy Sheriff Cordnno and convicted of petty larceny, but escaped." He was later arrested In Sa lem, and aerved a term there In th county Jail. He then went to- San Francisco. Joined this gtng and In an attempted burglury had a fight with Detective Taylor nd policertnn Rob: Inson., the latter being kUled. For Great Memorial, San Francisco, eb. 9. Mrs. Honora Sharp, wldow'pf .the' late Vjeorge F. Sharp, and the divorced wife of ex- Judge W. I Pierc. who died here to day, has left $200,000 for the erection Of on Immense gateway to the Pan handle at the Golden Gate park a a memorial to her first husband. In ad dltlon sh leaves the sum of $75,000 to local charities, Including $25,000 to the Balvatlon Army. Her. estate U valued at $$00,000, (--. .-.. ,j.w. ,i. (,'1 .. - l. MANY KILLED )' -.'.,' Rioting Breaks Oat Again in Russia. 1 .4.J .if ,.- IRONWORKERS FIGHT Employes of Several St Peters - burg Factories Again on ; ,v'. ',;;'i$Wke..!'r. 7";..;'-! J BATTALIONS GUARD WORKS Conditions Seem to Be Returning to th Critical Stag and Employer and Government Offioiala Ar Perturbed Over Outlook. Berlin, Feb. 9. Press dispatches from Sosnovlce describe the bloody character of a conflict between tije military and the striker at Katber- eenen Iron works. One correspondent telegraphs that 15 persons were killed and 35 woundsd, while another gives the number killed' at 60. V ' ' The military fired eight volleys. ' Another collision occurred 'at the Nifka mine, where. It Is rumored, 150 persons were killed. ' A- "third collision occurred today In, the forenoon near Mllovlc, but this affair was bloodless. DEMANDING MONEY. Employer Are Threatened . at the points of Revolvers. Lods, Feb. At Coaita thread "mllU and other 'establishments, the strikers today were paid three days wages as an advance, although,- It is claimed. nothing Is legally due them. The managers of Heinxetel's mills refused to pay anything and the work men , threatened ,"to -, wreck ,4h place The military prepared to fire and for a moment the situation, was extremely grave but the management anally yielded and agreed to pay provided the men promised to return to work Mon day. Another manager feused pay ment of the strikers, but at the. point of ' a revolver he waa comoelled to promise payment tomorrow, ; , . ' , JTho employers are paying only as a method of expediency. The manufac- urer were ln( conference all day- arid hd frequent conferences with the gov ernor general. - I j.u t ,; ,lrj tij U STRIKE RENEWED. '3 Men In the Capital Ar Again Leaving St Petersburg, Feb. 9. Men in two more factories, one of which is a small concern, ceased work today, and more employes nL,Ue-Tptlloff iron works Joined the strikers, j The renewal, of me wriKf nas not yet gatneo; a threat ening form, and the general mass Of workmen, though somewhat restive, la not showing a troublesome disposition. Two battalions of troops ar stationed at the Poutiloff works, but there is not the slightest disorder. . Four other establishments are Idle, but rumors f a strike at the govern ment arsenel, with which rumor, th city wa filled today are positively de nied. ' ' i Attack Electric Plant ' Sosnovlce, Feb. 9T-The strUters to day attacked workers In the electric station, and troops fired from the win dows of the plant wounding many peo ple. The situation Uj much disturbed, but the military Is sufficient to awe the.Siotere. Eight btttalions of infan try, eight squadrons of cavalry and one fVglment of Cossack1 are now in the town. '. --..J.- UNFRUITFUL TRIP. !! Democratic Embassy to 8alem Fall . - ' Down Hard., , A small bunch of the grooms of the democratic Jock-ass faded away to Salem Wednesday night to Influence legislation by putting a pin on the track. In front, of the republican .loco motive. According to advice that floated; Into thai 'city yesterday the ptn will be nicety mashed and will make neat souvenir for Ed Halfock and to police fore when they retire on their , laurels, or go longshortng. Most of them, however, are In good health and won't have to' Join ; physical culture class to get up strength enough to go to work. ' ' - Th democratic idea that seethed and sloshed around to Tones' thought corral wa to hit the trail to the capital , geatsrarigl fufl pir;th;goerncf ear hypnotize him, and get ilm to commit political aplcide by threatening to hold up all ihe republican masur pending by veto If they would not al low him to make, the aJTanjremejnts fw the obsequies of the Tuttle charter bill. This scheme wa hardly good enough to have trf the dfflsprhig of human intelligence, .but it -U a very fair som pie of what Instinct win do. Ail thU was arranged for, though, and the re-tf publicans, In caucus, had decided to inform trie governor that, as dog days are rapidly approaching, it was deemed the part of prudence to muzile him, wherefor if he, the gov, vetoed th Tuttle charter bill the republicans would proceed to pas every pending measure, veto or no veto. It seems, therefore, that the devoted little band of dU-demo-nrallgans will be set back th amount of their rail road far and what liquid nourishment It takes to drown their sorrow on th trip, ' ' ' 'V ' -":- 1 Messrs. Surprenant,' Linen weber and Smith were of the party that went up to come bock from Salem, and on their return arrangement have been mad to half-mast the lace curtains on the waterfront and drape the front of the building occupied by the Evening Error with mourning. ' ' ' The Tuttle charter bill'' will go through early next V- '' ' N Socialists Bitterly Denounce Rus sian Government i 21 MONSTER MEETINGS HELD .. , , - i i - . . . Maxim Gorky Is in Good Health, But; I Allowed ta Talk to None But f r Relatives and Counsel Soon ' to Be Tried. if t Berlin, Feb. 9. Socialists held Jl monster meetings in Berlin and sub-t "l -- urbs tonight to express "flaming In- j dlgnatlon at the .butcheries and mas-t sacres which the Russian government performed on the defenseless men, wo-? men end children of St. Petersburg."! Sharply worded resolutions passed. I j The,- meeting were addressed , by f Herr Bebel and other leading socialist members of the reichstag. 3 GORKY IS WELL. ? Nature of Charges Against Him Is? ' ; Kept Secret ' ; . I St. , Petersburg, Feb. 9.VTh. Asso-l elated Press waa able this- aftemoor.V to see Maxim Gorky and can assure' the author's friends that he is weU and ' cheerful." The frrocurator Of the court ' of appeals refused the Associated Press ' permission to converse with the' pris- oner, as it Is contrary to law to allow? anyona except relatives and . counsel, to , visit political prisoners. Absolute secrecy Is maintained re-' gardlng the exact nature of the charges ; against Gorky, but It la believed, it is' alleged, he attempted to , induce the, troops to mutiny, and to stir up revolt i among the workmen. It la. not yet de-Jj cided "whethei1 hfi will be tried by a 1 military or civil court, but it Is prac- tically certain the charges do not In- voire the death penalty.. Other Land Frauds. v '- Washington, Feti. 9.-A soon as the land frauds are cleared uj) In Oregon!' it is expectd the government will de- '. vote attention to cases growing out of alleged frauds In Washington, Mon- tana and Wyoming. The present ex. pectatlton is that these will be looked Into, with the same rigorous policy, a : has marked the proceedings in recent months. 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