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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1905)
t 7, Hi 'I , Ea.' M if R I OOVM THE M0RNIN8 FIELD ON THst LOWER COLUMBIA MrinlBti''' ' -. VOLUME LViy :NpclQ7 ASTORIA tREQONjJRl DAY FEBRUARY 17. 1905J itO? i1 JWOclJUH PRICE FIVE CENTS ,-J ''v2!Jlt LIJIl It II 111 - fer4to4 vir- LOCAL OPTION No One Would Recognize I tbc Jayneili. I t2j f113 Amended to death Liquor. Dealeri and BrewersAre ( Knocked Out In the Last i Round, S UW,, WORSE THAN BEFORE i As a Last IUrt th Bill Was Refer- Ve5 t th Commit on JudieUry ! th tflU and th Indie ? Hen Ar It Will Slp.' ' 'Hklfin, Kb, II. 8ntor IIlrkjr ind ta Ineffectual. fTort thla-morn mg 10 qv in jam local opuon ou takn out of th commltt on Juo lon and handed ovr to ta Judiciary commltt, of whl(b'"th Multnomah natorj U tbalnijjvn, ; claiming ttf wjt at ltort tot mother to blll Whll n falttd In hi pUn, (h nat lntrutd th commltt whlob has the bill to o radjr: to report ty flock tnu arte moon, it wa om thlnr of an (rort'to teat th flinf In ihe MitAt. Th liquor mo felt they hould hav received a report earlier, and whan It wa not forthcoming they lddel to fore an laiuo. Kenator Malurkey wa (elected to la4 th movement to get th bill Into other hand, but hi action waa forestalled ty Senator Booth, who moved a a uhetltute that th commute on adu lation b Instructed to report not later than S o'clock. Afer working practically all day on the Juyn local option bill, th com tnttlee on education this afternoon re ported back th measure, with Amend ments that are supposed to be a com promise, although they will hardly be ntlrely satisfactory to th liquor In terests. As a matter of fact, the bill s amended Is far different from the 2ayn bin. There ar nv principal Imendincnts by the committee, as fol ows: First Interloping elections are to be Ut out. Second The percentage for a pett lion la cut from SO per cent, as desired, to' the 10 per cent that obtains undr the present law, with the exception t list the "600", clause Is cut out, mak Ink It Necessary to secure the entire r . . . 10; per vent In the case of Portland, 3'hlrJ It exempts breweries, distil leries and factories. , , Fourth It provides for three group ings in voting the precinct, th coun ty and groups. ' Fifth The election desired for next June I cut out These are the features of the amend ed local option bill, which would hard ly be recognised by the man who In troduced It The fangs are drawn to a 'large extent In this form It seems probable the bill will secure the sup port of many who have heretofore been against It. v The bill was again amended by not allowing municipal corporations to have any say as to the sale of liquors cities being governed the same as pre cincts In the question of local option. After some discussion the 1lll wa re ferred to the Judiciary committee, where It will probably be put to sleep In the legislative boneyard. r . was announced on the stock exchange today. The firm made an assignment yesterday. A-embr -ot th Arm to day a Id tbef expected 10 resume NO MORI SCALPING. t . i . ' .- . ,.". ... L.l.!tur. Passes BUI Prehlbitinj toslser. Hal-tn. JVb. U. With S voUn for nd but t jkgliatoijtaat1(x's sntl-tlcked scalping bill passed the house this morning. Speaker Mills left the chair to support the measure. H said such a law would protect both th people And the railroads. Th roads, h, ssld, bud rpmlso to give, reduced rat, iod tWv .ajipearrd no longer a demand for a scalper. - --- The bill pusaed prohibiting anyone from opening a ticket brokers' office or engaging In that class of business. It also requires that railroad compan ies must redeem hulf-used round-trip tickets' by rfutidliig the amount ever th,on-f4lr price, Th bill encoun tered ik) opposition. Ar BOLD COUP Executed Today at Join; Session. AINSWORTH IS CHOSEN -I Will be 4 Member of the Com mission ot the Port of Portland. I JAY COOK. DEAD. ' ' ' ' ' " ' 1 - ' Noted Financier Died Nesr Phlladsl ! ' phla Tonight. ' ' ' Jay Cook, whose- fame as a flnancler In the world, died tonight at Ogonts. a suburb of this city,' aged fl years. He had been Buttering from general debility as a result of old age. His condition. was not considered aarlou. however, and death tonight cam rath er suddenly. Last Monday he enter tained a guests US young ladle who were attending th Ogonts .school, and their, friends. On .thai "ttceaslon hi appeared to be in good tptrlts and was tf last t leave the reorpUon room, v SENATE -DOODLERS i-tf-ttr. ev- mm'Mu-m- a .vC-J.. California Legislature I nvestiat 1 S'HTH I5 9 i. IGNORED AGAIN i isl.'.?ll' W. It HEARST DENOUNCED BHter Arraignment of the Four Cali fornia Senator Alleged to Hav Aocepted a Brlb, and of Wm. Randolph Hearet. Both House of th Legislature Went Into Joint S!on Tedsy to Elect vvrmninivmr fr rrianii tjna 4 ' Beat Fullr for Astoria. . Salem, Feb. II. By a coup cleverly planned , and . utterly confounding th ontl-machlne force, the organisation in the two houses today at noon went Into Joint session under the pretext of election of a boatman at the Co lombia river bar and beforf th un suspecting "minority" could catch It breath and In th far of repeated mo Uons to, 'adjourn. ..elected J. C. A ins worth of Portland to succeed Captain K. W. Spencer on the Port of Portland commission. The program went New York Brokerage Firm Suspends New York, Feb. It. The suspension of Klllngwood ft Cunningham, brokers, Sacramento, Feb. It. In one of the best considered and most convincing arguments ever delivered before an investigating body convened In the stat of California, flavin McNub sum med up lost night the evidence against the four boodllng Senators Emmons, Bunkers, French and Wright. With the skill of one trained in every point of the law, McNab spoke dis passionately, picking to pieces and brushing aside the arguments of coun sel for the bribe-takers. He tore from the shlnklng scoundrels the last vestige of their ' pretenses and con veyed to the mind of every man, wo man and child In the crowded senate chamber a clear understanding of the guilt of . the four men who bartered away not only their own honor, but th honor of th senate and of the state. He brought to the senators pre ent a convincing sense of the necessity of that action which alone can cleanse the tarnished escutcheon of th atatt th expulsion of the boodlers from of flee and their isolation from associa tion with decent men. McNab dealt almost entirely In an analysis of the damning and over whelming testimony against Emmons, Bunkers, French and Wright , The course of his argument was diverted from th main subject only ondb, when he took Into the limelight that venge ful and vicious newspaper, the Exam iner, and Its more vengeful, vicious proprietor, William Randolph Hearst "Whether one man may agree with Mr. Hearst or differ with him Is a matter with which you cannot concern yourselves. ; 'It makes no difference to you whether he (Hearst) can feed fat his (Continued a peg eight) through without a iui and be It said that never did "Csar" Reed In congress rule more damagtngty to the minority than did William Kuykendall over the Joint assembly today. It was Just a few minutes before noon when the announcement rang through the halt that "the president and members of th senate of Oregon are ready to go Into Joint session." Speaker Mills was all prepared and a certain senate bill In course of third rending- went out of commission In a second, while the senate Died In and the sensation of the session started in. President Kuykendall announced that It was th duty of the assembly, under the law, to elect a boatman for the Columbia river, bar. Jay Tuttle, the senator from Clatsop, was on his feet In a second and nominated James Keating, and th clerk was Instructed to cast the ballot for .Keating. Kuy kendall said that It was also the duty of the assembly to elect a member of the Port of Portland commission,, to (111 a vacancy under the law. Senator Smith, democrat, of Uma tilla, "moved to adjourn Just as Bailey of Multnomah arose. The president re fused 'to hear Smith, and "the Gen tleman From Multnomah", followed. . Bailey nominated J. C. Alnsworth to nil the vacancy. Then up rose Sen ator Nottingham, with fire In his eye. and wanted to know "if this body had the power to take such 1 action." He went on to say that the method In pro cess by the machine men shows how "utterly underhanded and small they are." , "The senator from Multonomah Is out of .order," said President Kuyken dall, but the senator from Multnomah kept on. The senator from Multnomah will sit down," roared Kuykendall, as the mallet resounded .with a thump.. T renew my motion to . adjourn," shouted Smith of Umatilla, but the president again refused to hear him. The vote was then taken and a storm of "ayes" swept through the hall. Another storm of "noes" follow?d, about equal In volume, It seemed, but J. C. Alnsworth was declared elected. "Move we adjourn," said someone, Just as Hodson reached his feet an shoutea ror recognition, but he was too late. The senator refused to tell what he intended to move, while the assembly broke up.. Then the house adjourned till 1:30 o'clock. ' On what ground did you refuse to recognise a motion?" Kuykendall., after he fnols had died w, , ,;, " i , vv-." ' "On Ao ground,"! simply Ignored It," said the 'president in great show of candor, and then, probably repenting, he asked with qulzslcal look In his eye: "Was there a motion to adjourn V "Tes: two of them." , ; , , , Well, I didn't hear them; you know It's ' long way up to th speaker's chalr."' " " rl . . t- "Whose place ,i this to fill, mm or Thomas r asked Captain E, W. Spen cer, who was an Interested , onlooker at this strage procfedina. after th deed was 'd6he.5 ' v'':-f ." CEARHART PARK SOLD.' purhs-d , YssUrdsy , by , h ' Krsus . , ' Catering- Company , A deed was tiled for record yester day afternoon in the office of the coun ty clerk whereby M. jV Kinney sells ail oi the Gear hart donation land claim ot 140 acre, Including Oearhart park. the hotel furniture and fixtures to th Kruae Catering Company of Portland. Th consideration waa 133,000. Th new company will make extensive 1m provements on th ground and In the hotel, and with all . the restrictions that hav heretofore existed eUmlnat it is certain to become popular summer resort Attractive features will be added for the accommodation of th large number of eastern visit ors that will come to Clatsop county this summer. A dispatch received by th Astortan last night from Salem states that the bill providing tor a patrol boat at As torla and a deputy fish warden foi Southern Oregon had passed. i ,t. ' it, !":": a ; Rsllly Knocked Out Bpokane, Feb. If. Jerry McCarthy of Spokane knocked out Jack Rellly of California In the seventh round In a It-round contest tonight ' Mann Canal Bill; Passes SENATE AMENDMENTS ,t I FOUR MEN KILLED Two Boiler Explosions on British Submarine RESCUERS ARE ALSO INJURED Lieut H. G. Good, Commander f th Vessel, Waa Blinded and) Litut 8kinnr, Wh Waa Injured, :, Died from Injuries. gueenstown, Feb. It. Four men were killed and 14 injured as a result of an explosion on board the British submarine boat "A 8," In the harbor today. ' Lieutenant H. O. Good, the commander of the vessel, was blinded and his condition is critical. Lieuten ant Skinner, officer tn the submarine boat, was seriously injured and sub- 1 r sequently died of his injuries. Only one man of the entire crew escaped uninjured. First explosion, la believed to have occurred while the crew was engaged in filling the gasoline tank preparatory, to proceeding ouslde of the harbor. "A 6" caught fire aftei the explosion. ; When this ' explosion occurred a number of the crew of the torpedo boat Hassard voluntered to go to the rescue of the men on board of the submarine boat They had hard ly got aboard when the second ex. plosion took place and all of the res cuers were more or less injured; The submarine boat was afterwards docked and an official statement Issued this evening says the vessel is not Injured. An Inquiry as to the cause of the ex plosion Is In progress. President to Have Control of the anal Zone Unttl Next ! r Session. : SENATE PREPARES THE BILL band declafsihat nVwIfe! wW never see'tneboy agaijrrr" , jBac-J f, arrived In .Athol f a s. noon tnfot fpa ,'wtthin an tour avlxii. tax boy fRHBwaitanloflSj'on jb4 frtt. stuffed a handkerchief l.i his mouth, and Jumping into a sleight, drove rap idly away. Five hours later the own er of the steUrh received a tlenhon, Caff im WlncbestetC N3 ahd Bacl talking, told th owner to Inform Mrs. Back he had the boy and sb would never see him again. -Back and his wife bad troubfe infOI and they sep arated. FISH LAW BILL PASSES. Bill Provides That th United Stats Government Shall Control th Is . , thmus, But 8hall B Exercised t ProUct Inhabitants. '. . Washington, Feb.( It. The Mann bill providing .for a government for the canal sone passed today without far ther discussion.' The bill gives all right to govern the sone to the presi dent until the, end of the next , con gress, but also provide that the gov ernrnent shall be exercised so as protect the inhabitants In the free en Joymenf of their liberty, prosperity aad religion. . : , , It abolishes the isthmus canal com mission and places the work of con structlon In the hands of the presi dent and such persons as he may ap point and employ. It also provide that persons employed by the presi dent both In the government canal sen and In charge of th work of con structlon shall make annual estimate in detail a far as possible of the Item needed for ensuing fiscal year and says that after June, 1901, no money shall be expended on the canal or canal son by the government except In accordance with the appropriations hereinafter to be made. . The senate today instructed Senator Klttredge to prepare a new bill for the committee and Introduce It in the senate, which was done. The provis ions of the Mann bill authorising ap pointment of Isthmian commission and fixing Its duties and powers ar elimi nated from the senate bill, and the en tire question covered In the first sec tion, which extends present canal acts. Several . new features are also added, one of which extends .the authority of the .president to control the same.: RICHARD CROKER HEIR. was asked of r . Pupils Striks. North Taktma. Wash., Feb. It. Thirteen members ot the senior class tt the high school went on strike at noon today and were suspended. They refused to recite tn physics under a new Instructor, on the ground that change In method In the middle of the term Is not fair to them. ' Th new In structor Is Charles Schnele of Van couver, Wash., who came her yester day to be assistant principal. ' Prin cipal J. K. M. Berry was forced by the board to resign Monday, he claiming be could not manage the schrooL Berry has the sympathy of the public. The trouble is not yet over. Estate f' Son . Frank Croker Goes to " His Fathsr. New York. Feb. It. The estate of Frank H. Croker. .. son of Richard Croker. ex-leader of Tammany Hall, who died from Injuries received in an automobile accident " In Florida, amounts to $400,000.,' His father will under the laws of New York state in herit th entire estate, and would have been entitled to letters of admtnistra tlon. He ha, however, waived this right In favor of his son, Richard 8. Croker, whose application for letters of administration will be presented to Surrogate Thomas today or Monday. He has offered as security for the due performance of his duties as ad mlntstrator a bond of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company for '800,000. LAWYER KIDNAPS SON. Goes from Vsnaouver to Bay State for the Purpose. Athol. Mass., .Feb. It Journeying 3500 miles to obtain his 11-year-old son, R. H. Back, a wealthy lawyer of Vancouver, B, C, a former resident of Athol, arrived here this afternoon and kidnaped the boy from under the very eyes ot the wife and mother, who screamed without avatl for helo. Mr. Back and the boy are now on their way back to Vancouver, and the hus- Providea for. Uniform Legislation by Satem, 6eB.'"it. Mayrer'a fillf re- , gardIng"th'fisK'lawt, to produce" uni form legislation between Washington and Oregon,, waa passed, a was also th house measure that provide for 15000 of th funds . voted th Lewis and Clark fair by the stat for th en tertainment of visitor, and also for turning the forestry building 'over to th city of Portland at th conclusion of th fair., , , . ,,. 1 Sailers on a Strik. Eureka, Feb. It. The war between the sailors and' the longshoremen of this port may resalt fn a strike that will tie up northern shipping Inter' est. The strife 1 due to the recent organization here of a sailor' anion In opposition ' to the longshoremen' association! The agent of the new m " ganizatlon has made' several demand oh the captains' of vessels 'arriving In' this port TheV nav not been com plied with, e skippers standing by h the old' union. It is said the agent has threatened td call the sailors out on strike unless be la recognised. ' ' ' ' BURNS UBEL SUIT R. D. Hume Defendant in $13,000 . Libel Suit . DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER Hum, the Rug River Salmon Paoksr Circulate a Letter in tho Legii- ' latur Defaming th Character f Rprntativ Burns. Salem, Feb. It. Because he de clared Robert Burns representative . from Coo and Curry counties, to be a sneaking, cowardly rascal and unlit to associate with honorable srentle- raen," R. p. Hume, the salmon pack ing magnate of the lower Rogue river district is defendant In an action tor libel In the sum of 115,000 damages alleged tq have been Incurred through circular , letter distributed among the members of the legislature by Mr. Hume during the present week. The " complaint was filed her today by At torneys p. H, IVArcy and W. & Rich- ardaon, who are acting for Mr., Burns In the matter. - .- - i , , The whole trouble rises out of the alleged monopoly held by Hume Over the fishing industry In the 'lower Rogue by owning all the tldeland along the Rogue from Its confluence to about eight miles up stream, and by the right given him In an act of the legislature in 1889, to fish along his 'tldeland front age in this river. . The question has been the bone of contention In Coos county for the past few ye&rs, and was the primary reason why Mr. Hume was defeated as a candidate for the legislature during the last cam paign through the instrumentality, as. Mr. Hume claims of Representatlv Hermann. t . -. During the early part of the session Mr. Burns Introduced a bill repealing the act of 1839, which gives Mr. Hum all of his vested rights for fishing In Rogue river, but the bill, although It passed the house, was smother In com mittee in the senate and never saw the light of day lnce it was referred to that committee. Mr. Burns, how ever, has not considered himself or bis cause, defeated by this disposition of (Continued on Pag 1)