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jtjLI.HC. FULL AtOOUTD Mill rWOUT OOVI TNI MORNINd fllUD ON THt LOWM COLUMBIA VOLUME LVIV. NO. 203 ASTORIA, OREGON. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, t90S PRICE FIVE CENTS ' 1 ' " i i- r WAR, NO PEACE President Roosevelt's Of fer Declined. RUSSIA VERY HOSTILE Vhco they Want Peace they Will Talk With Japn Without Interference. CASSINI NOT YET REPORTED Balleved that th Ultimatum Fiom Em peror Nlchola haa been Tranaraitted to Wathlngton But hat not Been vt llvered to Preeldent Roossvtlt. Illtllllcated t) tlm diplomats most Inter ...i..l. It was not long Mi the Rn .iun finlrnxxy wa besieged with caller i...t i'u amUssador we without ad vu oo the subject, though for arviral day pant ha haa been anxiously await ing th acknowledgement of hi cable- gram detailing hla conversation with tht nre.ldent laat Friday. In expectation of the message o r" Lter in tha evening aavaral returned to tha embay 'te?r dinner pre pared to translate tha dispatch a on it .reived. Count Calnl haa not yet made an appointment at t White H..ii. Tha president confided to an ambaador who called t the White ii....- tl,.l hi Instructions to amlma l..e M..ver did not provide for a formal tender of good office. It U ImpoaalM to give their text, but they may i cor ,.,Htf narmhraaed In these word! "Kind out, from tha war what we rati do to aUl early peace." LIBERAL KINO. King of iUlf Subscribe to Inatituto of Airiculturt. Rome. Juna 7.-I a penary mating M il.i. conference on International Agri culture It a announced that it waa the Intention of King Victor Kmaunel to place tha revenue from one of hi large. est estate at tha disposal or me pro posed International Institute or Agri- I culture. KING INDORSED to hla bed for noma month and no im mediate anticipation of hia serious con dition was entertained. Patriotic Demonstration For King Oscar. TALK OF REVOLUTION j Stockholm Papers Commenting Take Extreme View of Crisis. PEACE IV NORWAY. EXPENSIVE LOT GREAT EXCITEMENT PREVAILS Opinion Prevail That Sweden Will not ... Insist on Norway Remaining in tu Union but ABaira Will be Settled at Extraordinary Session. Vienna, Juna 7. It waa learned her tonight thai tha Uuian government ha Informed It diplomat!" representative abroad, Including Count Caini. ami- ador at Washington, that the time for ltulA to rolicludu peace ha not Jed coma, and when it doe arrive, Ilui will open peace negotiation with Japan indeKndent of foreign Intervention. St. Petersburg," June f With Am- laaador Meyer' delivery to tlie emrntr. or yte rday afternoon of 1'realdent llooeevelt'i meag tendering him hl -good ofl(, pro)ct of the president' efforta to bring tha lieltigerenta together In peace negotlationa la believed to be distinctly better. It la equally evident that the altuation U an exceedingly del icate one. AmWaeador Meyer, when aeen by an Aociated Preaa repreaenU tivo tonight, absolutely declinel to ay a word regarding hi vUit to Tarkoe fieio, about the mllon with which he wa charged, or the emeror' repone; Tlte renter of Interest I again tran- ferred Wk to Vahlngton. Count Caa inl haa doubt lea received Inatructiona. from the emperor. However,, it ia poa aible that It will require aome little time to finally decided whether euece ahall crown the prealdent'aa effort and end the war. Preliminary peace negotiation be- iween Ruaian and Japan I generally be lieved to be under way and It la conced ed that Preldent Roosevelt In all prob ability will act, not a mediator, but a "tho friendly channel of eomuntcation." There ia yet no official admlaslon that Huaaia haa accepted what Count CassinJ aent in a cable to Count Lamadorff lat week decrllHd aa "the offer of good will of the president," although Instruction to the ambassador are bulieved to have reached here tonight in a long cablegram received at the Russian enhnssy quite lute and hud before the am!utndor just before he r-tlred. Immediately after hi return from a long conference with the president Mr. Takahlra Wgan the prep aration of a dispatch to hla government, upon which he waa occupied until quitt) late. At the White House up to a t hour It waa declared that the important telegram from Mr. Meyer hud not reach ed the president and If received will not be presented to the president until mori tng. St. Petersburg, June . Aa a result of a meeting of the minister today the lluasian ambaador at Washington and Parla have been telegraphed that Russia la deslroua of learning Japan a peace con dition. The dinlomatlo aervice In Washington 1m aroused tonight to a poi"1 of '"P0"' Uncy unequalled einee the Inception 01 the war In the far east by the newa from fit. Petersburg of the crnr'a wish to know Japan's peace term. This interest wa heightened by a call which Takahira. the Japanese minister, mad at the White House by appointment during the even ing. He remained with the president about twenty minute. When the mln ister left he declined to answer any que tiona about the call. . Peace terma were Iraroeditely com- STATEMENT DENIED. ItaUao Difficulty With Turkey Bat Been Settled. i Iiima TTI statement that ivimir, " - - lmlv ha aent warship to Yemen, Ara bia, a reported In Vienna, la untrue. Aa li.li.n citien wa killed there ty take in the middle of May, but the lo cal luthorttle gave Mtlafaction and tlie Incident wa closed amicably. GRAFTER ARRESTED William F. Karr of Smithsonian Institute an Embezzler. HAS MADE A CONFESSION Admit Tht Ha U an Embeixler in th Sum of 146wo Which He Saya Hat Ben Going on fqr th Paat rifteen Ytari and Not Diacowed. Wahlngton, June 7.-Wlillam F. Karr, an accountant with the Smithsonian In stitute, and ditributlng for the gov eminent bureau at Washington, I un der arrest here today charged with em- beulement, which, according to hi con feaiona made tonight aggregate $46,000 The stealing, he confessed, ha leen going on for the pat fifteen year. It 1- . 1,. l,af other nrominent ofliciul n i.ft.v f . in the Smithsonian Institute are impli cated and nn investigation ha been or dered. ' KILLED N SAN FRANCISCO. Chines Cook Stabbed and Aaaailanta Eacap aa Uiual. Ran Francisco. June 7. Sing Ram. wife of Chlng Jing Mm, who ia employed a a nook on one of the United State war ships, waa atabbed to death Ut night at the corner of Jackson and Mocmon streeta. The police are unable to cer tain who committed the crime, but two itnese who reported the matter will be held and It i expected they may give the information that will lead to uw identity of the aasassln. GENERAL RESIGNS. Russian Centra) At Moscow Reaigni Hia Office. St. Petersburg, June 7.-U i report ed that General Koxtoff, Governor gen oral of Moscow, haa resigned. The newsoapera here have been tor- bidden to mention the all Russian Zam- stvo congrea at Moscow. The newa ha been received here of a public demonstration at Nijl Novgorod, nguiimt the war and the autocracy. , Stockholm. June 7.-The Norwegian coup d'etat was answered here tonight by a great patriotic demonstration of loyalty to and sympathy with King 0 car. A irreat procession, accompanied by band, a formed and went to Roe endal eatle where the band played na tlonl air. In a few minute the king and other memliera of the royaf family appeared on the balcony of the castle and were e thulatkJ1y cheered by the demonstra tor, while a number of ladle advanced from the crowd and presented the king With a boqnct. Thoueh ereatly excited over the ait- nation, the populace remain outwardly calm. King Oeear held a council this evening at which the situation waa con sidered. The newspaper of Stockholm commenting on the action of the Nor wegian Storthing take an extremely aerioua view of the erisla, Th Nyal DnffliBt Allehang aaya: The Norwegian government exceeds The Norwegian government exceed ed all limits, but undoubtedly acted ac eordinir to it conviction that it waa for the country' welfare, and no party of political faction will attempt 10 per auade or compel Norway to maintain the union which has become a burden. The Swedish diet will meet in extraordinary session In a fortnight and apeak in the name of Sweden. Meanwhile the king of the union will apeak in the name of the union end haa protested against the revolution now contemplated in hia or weirian kintdom. The Daublad save: The revolutionist have now unmasked themselves and trampled under foot the union and upon their oath of allegiance to the king. A soon aa p0sihle all Norwegians employ ed in the diplomatic service must be re moved. Sweden can not be represented by men belonging to a country which orennizc revolution, dethrones it king and break all the tie of the union. Upon the king' refusal to sancton the the bill for a separate consular service the storthing today dissolved the union of Norway and Sweden. From many part of the country tele irrams are beinn received expressing the enthusiastic popular aympaehy with the declaration of the ahorthing. 1 he wnoie populace appears deeply moved with a sense of the eriounea of the occasion Special mission will b aent to all the great power asking them to recognixe Norway's Independence. The announce ment that Emperor William haa'abaa doned his projected visit to Norway has given rise to a feeling that there will be trouble in the future. Effort bin Mad t lar Kisf Oacar Abdicate. London. June 7. Tha Daily Mail's correspondent at Christiana aya: .... Everything b quiet ber and there i a eeneral desire to find a peaceful SO lutioa of the crial. Considerable favor la &rese-l for an arrangement wher br Kint- Oscar ahall adbicate in favot for Instance, the Crown Prince' son. Wilhelm. The Christiana corresondent of the Times aay he haa good authority for savins that Sweden ha Indirectly as sured Norway that no forcible measures will be employed to keep her within the bond of the present union. The correspondent add that the gov ernment will today (Wednesday) def initely place its resignation in the hands of the storthing. JAPANESE RAILROAD. Order For 1,000 Cara ia Given to a Firm In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, June 7. Orders for 1, 000 cars for the Imperial Japanese Rail- railway have just been placed with tne Pennsylvania car building companies Five hundred of the cara will be of the Condoli c',a. The remainder will bt of the box car variety. Contracts' for 800 additional box cars for quick delivery will be made in a few day. Wall Street Lot Brings Big Price. $100,000 FOR ONE LOT New York Business Lot Sells at the Rate of Four Dollars 1 an Inch. crawled under. It i believed they had matches, for toon the brush wa ablaze and before the boy could crawl out they were cremated. Their bodie were scarcely recognizable. DELCASSIE'S RESIGNATION ' ORIGINAL COST WAS $18,275 Claimed that th Morocaa fuestioa Waa set Considered. New York, June 7 According to the- Pari correspondent of the Time the chief cause for Foreign Minister Del case' resignation was not the state of Morocoan affair, but bi refusal to in ternationalize the Abssinian railway. Both in Fraace and England, the corres pondent asserts, strong financial influ ence wa brought to bear to render M. Delcasse' scheme in respect to the rail way abortive." It i now expected, the dispatch idd, that the negotiation which have been proceeding with Rome and London on the subject of Amby inia will now have a different issue than was at flrtt expected. PREYING ON COMMERCE. Proerty waa Pnrchated by the Stillman Family in 187 and Has Been in the Possession of the Family Ever Since, the Owner Refuting to Sell New Office Created. St. Petersburg, June 7. An imperial ukase issued today create the post bt chief of police of the Caucasua and al- Iowa :0,000 per annum for secret police purpose. THE LAW ENFORCED Portland Wife Beater Receives Twenty Ltshes on Back. AND DOWN WENT McGINTY Charles McGinty Arrested for Having Repeatedly Struck Hia Frail Wife and Blackened Her Eye Because Sh Would Not Give Hia Money to Squander. BERIAH WILEJNS DEAD. Editor and Publisher of th Washington Pott It Detd. Washington, June 7. Beriah Wilklnt owner, editor and publisher of the wan ington Tost, and formerly representative in ennui-ess from Ohio, died suddenly to- day of heart failure at his residence In hi. eitv." Wilkins suffered a troe paralysis two years ago while on a visit to New York. He has not been confined 1 ' Portland, June 7. The whipping post law passed at the last session of the leg Islature in Jaunary, last, was carried in to effect for the first time today in the Multnomah county jail upon Charles Mt- Gintv, convicted of wife beating. Mc Ginty was convicted in the atate circuit court and sentenced to receive twenty lashes, the maximum punishment. The lashing was performed by Jailor Grafton under the direction of Sheriff W ord and under supervision of th assistant coun ty physician, McCormack. McGinty, after receiving nis enienw. was hustled to jail where he was strip ped to the waist, hi hands manacled and tied to the door in the jail corroaor. Mah ahove hi head. Although no at tempt was made to be unreasonably cruel, the beating was as severe as w powerful jailor was capable of adminis tering. McGinty endeavorea 10 or k throughout the whipping but the Buf fering endured made him wrime mi groan and strain at the manaclca which were binding hie wrists. When the pun- Ltinwnt waa concluded, Mct.inty waa re leased from the manacles and with but slicht assistance, left the jail. McGinty, who i a strapping young follnW. wa punished for naving re ...lv struck hia frail wife and for having blackened her eye because he waa not given her earning to squanuer. New York, June ".The sale to the Xferchantile Trust Company of St. Louis just reported, of the famous plot of real estate at No. 1 Wall street at tne cor ner of Broadway, ha given rise to in inUrestina compilations showing me irreat rise in property value in this cuy n "... . - At the fimire named in the iranseciwn tTdOOOO. the plot brought about $4 a quare inch, possibly the highest price .vr naid in the world nisiory. property measure only ao ie Broadway side and ha a ironwg Wall street of 39 feet, ten inches. It Mintjiin 1.170 square fet. The next biifhest figure on record in connection with real estate transactions in this eitr wa that paid in IS. oy Anthony J. Drexel for the sight of the fnroan Bankina House on Broad ana W.ll etreets. This property, measuring 17 square feet, brought S347.0. a square f,w Said the attorney who conducted the Tnul rnmnanv's negotiations: r- " . ...... "I have not the slightest douDi wai i have secured for our client the most valuable piece of real estate m the whole nrld. There is only one croaaway ni one Wall atreet and only one No " ' .1.1 1 Wall street on earth. It is liseiy iu ,. nresent lease will be allowed to run to a close. Then of course the property will be improved in a manner in seep with its value and location." ,g For many year a drug More oecup. th store room on the corner which faces old Trinity. Recently a cigar company ..ind this room and now noias a lease for three year. The building i an old-fashioned four-story bncK aimo. lt to view among the sky scraper It wa erected more than 73 year ago a am AAit 4lf M.T0O. Today the annual taxea on the property slightly exceed that figure. The ground was oougni u, f the Sillman family in 1827 at a f S18573. It has remained in the r..itv'. nosses8ln since that time. The oldest existing deed in connection with .1,. nh.t dstes from the beginning 01 me eighteenth century when it wa sold for $500 by a Dutch settler 10 au ronr- ... . , s- util Benjamin Sillman. wno aiea ia " i..in the nroDertV to a sister, refused many fabuloua offer for the ground but for ome unknown reason wouiu. sell. One instance U related of a joker having offered him gold coin enougn i cover the entire ground 10 wmcn agreed, providing they were set upon edge. Russian Transport Bold Up British Steamer Near Wooaung. Nagasaki, June 7, 7 p. m. The British steamer Cilurnum, chartered by the Nit- sui Russian Steamship Company of To- kio, bound from Shanghai to Kebe, Jap an, waa stopped on June 2, eighty mile from the ball buoy off the entrance to Woosung, by the Russian transport Rion. A boarding party after the steamer papers had been examined, removed her hatches and threw overboard 411, bag of beans, ; 125 bales of cotton and 12 boxes of antimony. The Russian left again suddenly, stat ing that the steamer was released. It ia supposed that they received a wire less message announcing the approacn of Japanese warship. SIGSBEE SQUADRON Leaves for France to Bring Body of John Paul Jones. BURRIED AT ANNAPOLIS Admiral Sigsbe Expect to Make the Voyage ia Thirteen Day and Will be Met in the French Water by the French Warship for Final Tribute, Baseball Score. San Francisco. Oakland 0, San Fran Los Angelc-rortland 0, Los Ange lea 1. Tacoma. -Seattle 1, Tacoma 11 DEATH BY CREAMATI0N. Built a Brush Heap, Crawled in and the Fir Did the Rest. AM.ntie Citv. N. J., June 7.-Two hv. have ment a horrible deatn oy ere mation on the beach nere. mry Ordner J. Delaney and William Jefferles. Kih f this city, aged 7 and 5 year re spectively. The two boys were insepa-.-Kl. mnnnions. They had gone to a brush heap of pine tree on the beacl front, at Newhampahire avenue, wmcn treea'were to be used to build a jetty. They dug a hole beneath the pile and New York, June 7. The second squad ron of the North Atlantic fleet, consist- inff of the armored cruiser Brooklyn and the protected cruiser Chattanooga, Galveston, and Tacoma, selected by the navr department to bring the body. of John Paul Jones from France, will as semble off the naval anchorage at Tom pkinsville, Staten Island, today, and will proceed on Thursday to ea on tne way to Cherbourg. The casket containing the body Will be transferred to the Brook lyn. Rear Admiral Sigsbee, who win De in command, will board hi flagship off Tompkinsville this evening. At the Rrnoklvn navy yard, carpenter nave been busily engaged on the flagship .omDletimr an oaken platform which i called the "Mahogony earophagus," meaning the mahogony casing that is w receive the leaden coffin containing the body of the commander of the Bon homme Richard. Admiral Siffsbee expects to make the vovane from Sandy Hook to the Cher- bourg breakwater In about 13 day. On it arrival at Cherbourg me qu.u ron will be met by the French warships that are to participate m the flnaie ixid ute in French waters. Ten days after it arrival the squadron, it is expected. will sail for Annapolis. REMAIN AT MANILA. Admiral Enquist Notified by Russia to Remain At Manila. XT.;. .Line 8.-Admiral Enquist re ceived this morning the following cable- gram from St. Petersburg: 'Remain at Manila at disposition of American government. Effect repair as much as possible."