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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1905)
- ' I.- .' , COVIK THE MORNINQ FltLD ON THI LOWER COLUMBIA UBUSHIi fUlL AtOOIATIBMtt Ie9T Jtootttw PEACE TREATY Washington Selected for the Conference: ASTORIA, OREGON. FRIDAY, JUNK 16, 1905. ANNOUNCEMENT MADE Foreign Powers Impress Upon QJapan Necessity ol modera tion in Demands. MAY GO TO SUMMER RESORT 1mu and Russia Preparlnj to Select Their RepresnUUs to Co to Wash. intton tad it U Expected that tht Ap- pointatntt Will bt Mtdt this Week. Washington, Jm 18.-H officially 4nnoim.td that the Huo Japan- I''"' wnfi-anou will I held iu Washington. The announcement in U' 'l,ru' of aa official Utrltlfnt iiiel tjr See twtary Lob, by dirctiun of the prel- -dent. The etalement follow: "When tht two (vromiu - bin to upon ithr Clwf.w or VrU, the president suggested Hw 1LK' but both vernment hvt now r'uei- d tint Washington be chosen the IiW of meeting, and the president ha accordingly formally notified bom gov rnracnti that WsiuBgton will be se lotted;" It U ugirctd at the White Houe, informally, that after meeting and or ganlising the plenipotentiaries of the two government, if It should le found to be uncomfortably hot in Washington rniuht adjourn the meeting to aorne aum mer resort in the North, where they may continue their sitting until such time a the weather in Washington ahall be more eomfoi table. Pressure la being brought to bear up on Japan to Induce her to fix the aum he will demand a an Indemnity for the pending war at a low a figure in cash a possible under the circumstance This pressure l being exerted princl pally by Kureopean governmenta. Tree ideiit Rooaevelt it la Intimated In an tm portant quarter, also baa advised the Japanese government that modification In her demand for i esh Indemnity not only would facilitate the negotiation ot peace terma which would lie regarded by the power with particular favor The payment by Russia of any audi aah Indemnity aa 1 ,00O,00O,0(K) not only would embiraaa acrioualy the St. Peters l.nr.r nnvrnitllllt. bllt IirollublV WOllld disturb the finanue of the entire western world. Indeed it haa la'cn suggested that audi a payment, to. all intents and pur- poNpa, might render RukhIk a practical bankrupt. The opinion and view of the United Statea and other power on thia aubjet, hav bn prmittd to racb the principal adviser of the Japanese mpcror. The time of the conference, while not o Important, I of concern, especially to diploamtiats. A midsummer conference anywhere la not regarded with entirely pleaaurably anticipation. It ia pointed out. however, that the proposed con ference la acarcely likely to be convened before the middle of August and perhapa not until a later date. It may be July 1. possibly a little later, before the ar Tengementa for the meeting of the plenl notentariea finally are completed. Both Russia and Japan aro moving with the utmost deliberation,, for the game of diplomacy now being played I oven of greater Importance to eacn gov rnment that are the movement of the armies on the baltlflld. ttonal announcement made shortly be (me nil. Illicit that tlm Grand Duke Alxk high ailmiral, who ia an uncle of emperor, and Avcllae, head of the Ituiiaa admiralty department, had re signed, Tbli announcement waa confirm- en a few minute later by Imperial re script relieving the grand duke of the supreme direction of the navy, which he had held aine the day of the emperor father. Alexander HI, when Russia re- aolved to enter the liU a a flnt-da.i aeapower and build up a great navy the remain of which were deatroyed In the era of Japan. Although from time to tlm lnr tha war began there baa been rumor that the grand duke would retire on account of aavage criticism, not to uae harder terma, directed agalnat the navy administration and apecially in the construction of hi. the announc ment of hi relgnation came like a thun iler Udt from the blue aky. and had not Wn preceeiled by any rumor which ua- uallv tlve earning of audi an act. tn- Muetilly It la aumed that aome aud den event precipitated it and ugly torle lmiiielitely came to the nurto. The word of tlie rewript give no lnni of initial anger and r'al explanation u ill not be known for aeveral (laya. uui Ihe inatant dkpoaltion wa regarded, in the retirement of Alexl and Avella a. the concrnau of publiu opinion, follow ing the tragedy In the Sea of Japan, t barge of niUmnnagcweiit and tale of corruption and even wore againat the niariuo department ha been rue ior ... .1 - M III year. Alter ine r ,-rewaed let fold and laUly regular campaign againat the department . ha been oity wnducted iy ue pxr. MILWAUKEE Bed of Corruption Stirred Up. ftlthin the next decade Chim-ae charac ter whidi are now uaed in Japan, will be replwed by the lea complicated Ito- man letter. "Roman charactera," continued M Toyama, "are being ued by the aociety in all of It eorreepondence.'' The (oviety include in it memberahlp many government official and notable of the Japaneee empire. ON CITY CONTRACTS District Attorney Making invest! gation'Jnto Many Graft jj Scandals. , COLLEGE FOOTBALL. WILL PROBE TO THE BOTTOM Stanford Uniwaity Will Play Unlrer- ity of Waahinftoa. Stanford Univeraity, Cal June 15. Athletic Manager R. W. Barrett announc ed today that he had about completed arrangement for an inter-collegiate football game with the Univeraity of ! Wellington. The contest will take place at Stanford late in October or early in November and Washington will alao play a game with the University of Cal Ifornia within a few daya from the Stan ford game . Friend of Frank C. Biglow Have Detert ed Him Sine Hi Conviction and it is Rumored that H Will Give Evidoct of a Startling Mature. LAND FRAUD THIAL Case Against Senator Mitchell Commences Next Week. A MOST IMPORTANT CASE Not Thought that tht Cate Will Last Longer than Four Day Witneawi aro Beln Subpoened and Trial Prom- laea to bt Biterly Conteited. RUSSIAN SCANDAL. Iel6natioa of Dukt Alexii Cauiei Stor ies of Corruption. .St. fttcrJmrg, Juue 13.-TUe ena- Portland, June 15. With the ground cleared for action In the land fraud trial the effect of the'apeedy dUpoaal of the demurrer to the Indictment pleaded b the coueel for Senator Mitchell, the big guna in the battle will boom next week, and, a announced In court, the trial ot the moat prominent defendanta, Sena' tor Mitchell and Congressman Herman ....I Vil1i,imann. will come first. All object lona that could be urged, now that the date for triul haa been act, have Ihtii swept away and the battle will be on curly next week. Subpoena for witnesses are Wing made ready, and apparently no alone will be left unturned by the proseeu i..n tn ucure convictions on the In .. . . t VI I 11.. WAM.l i.irv dictmenis urougm oy ie n'",m J"v in. stubbornly will the case be fought from the other aide, and. with two remarkably able lawer to tight tot him. Senator MiU'hcll will be able to give tht agent for the government a muwl flirht. O " ol The trial of Senator Miteiieii, ine nrsi on the docket, will not, in all probabil ity last long, but it will be spirited ana i .,..!. i it u hoiieved tnat me aubtnittinc of teatimony by the prose- cution need not last more than three or fimr davs. ao that the case may go to the iurv the last of next week. Poasibly - . the defense will spring some eurpriae, u .n.l tnnv nrolonir the argu mint mora than i now anticipated. Anvuav. Senator Mitchell' fate in re gard to the Krib indictment-and this is one of tlw strongest case me govern ment haa made against the distinguish- .i ,i..r-n,l.int.. tha others lHmg similar rit a ' 1 11 i.. n.ir charEea-will be decided in all probability before Pre9e,,t n,ontl1 cuds. Milwaukee, June 13. Milwaukee' graft acamul, exposed by DUtrict At torney Mc (Sovern' investigation int the petty teal in conniN-tion with conn ty contract, will probably result in the impeachment of Otto J. Siedel, Jr., the recorder of deed, and the indictment of a down members of the board of super visor. A number of prominent tnic m'o interested in the county contract 'Way be Involved before the grand jury, Aet convened last Tuesday, "complete its work. While the present investigation being carried on by the district attor ney ha already stirred the people and the politkdana, the men concerned in it are practically only email fry. It generally predicted that the state' at torney will lotdc after tht bigger game nd that the grand jury will seek to get at the bottom of the alleged $100,000 boodle transaction in connection with the granting of the street car franchises to the Milwaukee Railway and Klectrir Light Company. In this deal one city official is said to have received a lump aum of tOO.OOO. The conviction and sentence to the penitentiary of Frank O. Bigelow will it ia aaid, change the entire atatua of affair. Bigelow I reported to have been financially interested in the treet car franchise. Th men who formerly back ed Bigelow have now deserted him, and it i said that he may resent their action by revealing aome of the secrets which former grand juries have not been able to learn. Brootherhood of Foundry Employe Ex tending the Strike. New York, June 15. A strike inaug urated by the International Brother hood of Foundry Employee against the New York 4 New Jersey Foundrymens' Association, baa extended rapidly. There are 2,000 men out here and in the New I Jersey plant. Today 2,000 bras work- era will quit and 1,000 more including the coremakers, will be out by the end of the week. It ia said the foundry in Xe wJeraey will be closed by the strik ers. TEXAS WOOL CROP. NEW YORK RIOT Three Men Shot in Street Riot la designed to be the finest custom house in the world, both aa a structure and aa an office for the transaction of custom officer. It I 100 feet high. with a frontage of 191 feet on Bowling- Green and 278 feet on State and White hall street. The architectural tyle U that of the renaissance. BOY STARTED TROUBLE The Scene of the Riot Occured in Harlem's Little Italy Colony. MOBBED BY THE CROWD STRIKE INCREASING. Sateen-Year-Old Boy Loads tip Two Re volver and Shoots Into a Crowd and When his Ammunition Gart Out Ht Was Attacked by Mob and Killed. HEIR TO MILLIONS New York Woman Claims Urge Tract in the Heart of Quebec THE PIAINS OF ABRAHAM Property Valued at o,ooooo hast been Escheated to tht Kingdom of Great Britain Three Timet, But Heirs Now Appear and Contett Property Rights. Entirt Crop Sold at an Advance Ovei Last Year. San Angelo, Tex., June 13. The entire eight months spring wool clip of Concho county, the largest clip of short wool in the state, was sold yesterday. The clip amounted to 1,125,0110 pounds Prices are held strictly secret, but they are ! lieved to be between 20 and 22 cents a pound. The twelve months wool clip, also the largest in the state, amounting to 8, 000.000 or 0,000,000 haa not been sold. yet, but will be disposed of this week. Competition is brisk among the buyers here, evey big wool house in the L nited States being represented. Sheepmen are delighted with the prices, an advance of 6 to 8 cent over last year and the high est prices paid since 1893 being anticipated. TRICK'S STATEMENT. Makes statement About Affair of tit Zqtiitabls Lift. New York, June 15. For the first time since he presented his report of the Equitable investigation, Henry C. Fncle b quoted as having spoken ol tue so ciety's affairs. He waa interviewed while attending the Princeton Comence- ment exercise. "When the board of director of the Equitable society failed," he aid, "to adopt the report, or any part of it, ol the committee they appointed to invest igate the present management, of course my connection with the society ended. 'Mr. Ryan's purchase of the Hyde stock relieved the situation and will till further relieve it if he give the name of all the policy holders who joined him in that action. There is no mvsterv about it. As a matter of tact, the mystery which has surrounded thi whole subject in the past haa resulted in inferences beyond the real facta. A policy of frank publicity should be pur sued." SOMAN LETTERS. Japan to Discard Japanese Characters and Adopt Modem One, San Francisco, June 15. M. Tayama, of Toklo, a member of the Roman char acter society of Jspan, is here. Thi so ciety is really a government commission appointed to make a report on the ad visibility of the adoption of Roman char acter inthut country. While it i not known when this commission w ill make it rYnort. M. Tayama says it is the be lief of all well Informed Japanese that New York, June 13. Seeking to es tabliah her claim to a (20,000,000 estate which include a tract a mile and a half long and a mile wide through t the heart of the city of Quebec and eight acres th famous Plains of Abradant. Mrs Caroline Lambert Campbell, wife of Wm A. Campbell, an assistant auperintend ent of schools in Brooklyn, has engaged counsel to push her case in the domin ion courts. The property , waa escheated for three generations by the British gov ernment in 1760. In 1887 the privy council refused a joint application from representatives of the Catholic church, the Church of Enutand and citirens of Queliec asked ing that $150,000 held by the British government and collected as rental should be equally divided between the two Churches in Quebec. The Privy Coun cil. with the assent of Queen Victoria. decided that the heir would in time ap- near and that the property and it usufruct from the time the decree of eachest termineted in 1863 belonged to the heir of Louis Joseph Lambert, who gave largely of his vast fortune to the French church and Indian war. When the Enirlish conquered he was deprived of hla estate snd those of hi wife, the Demoiselle Genevieve de Milleray, who inherited 1130 acres hi Quebec city from her father. Mrs. Campbell claim descent from Augustine Lambert, with whose lite me escheat ended. He bad removed to the !-r,t Sl.iu anil fter hi demise Ullivru sv some of the heir tried, but failed, to re nnver the nropertv. It is said by Mrs Campbell that the estate is emauea so the most she hopes to secure is a me interest. On her death the claim passes to her first cousin, Henry Lambert, pre iilent of the Grand Avenue National Bank of Kansas City, who make hi home in St Louis, Mo. New York, June 15. In a riot at sec ond avenue and Fifteenth atreet one man ha been fatally wounded and two others seriously wounded. Twenty shots were exchanged in the street before the police arrived. All the participants were for eigners, the scene of the riot being known aa Harlem'a Little Italy. A 19-year-old boy started the trouble. lie cot Into a fight and was being worst ed when a friend ,an to hi home and warned the fighter's 16-year-old brother The latter loaded up two revolver! and sallied forth. Approaching the crowd, which had gathered to witness bis broth er's discomfiture, the youngster unhm be red both revolvers and fired. One man in the crowd fell and the rest scattered. He then beat his brother's opponent over the head snd wounded him with an other shot. By this time the crowd had plucked up courage and rushed back. The shooter calmly boarded a wagon and forced the owner to drive away while he sat on the rear end shooting at his pursuers. Sev eral of them fired back and the police are astonished that several persons were not kiried. The boy's ammunition soon ran out. He was dragged from the wagon and the crowd was trampling him under foot when the police arrived. Knives were drawn by the infurated Italians and even after the police had surrounded the boy's prostrate form, they had to batter manv heads. Nearly a hundred cuts were found on his body, many of them to the bone, and one pierced his lungs. Baseball Scores. At Los Angeles. Oakland 7, Los Ange les 0. At San Francisco. Portland 6, San Francisco 3. At Seattle. Tacoma, 5, Seattle 2. IRON TRADE S Weeks Business Shows Falling off in Demand for Rails. i LARGE JAPANESE ORDERS Orders Sufficient on Hani to Xtep all the Mill Running on Foil Time for Many Months With Prospects for a Large Increase ia Foreign Orders. WOULDN'T STAND THE RAISE. New York Race Track Managers Com pelled to Reduce Prices. New York, June 15. Efforts to pro cure $3 from the public for admission to the Metropolitan race tracks will, says the World, be abandoned in the midsum mer meet at Brighton Beach. It is said the old rates of $2 for grard stand and 75 cents for field stands tickets will tnen be resumed. The advance to $3 was made at the beginning of the Gravesend meet which closed yesterday. Results on the whole were from what the track owners an ticipated. Thousands of persons who visit the tracks daily and formerly paid 12 for srand stand tickets, took the field where the cost was only $1, excepting on half-holidays, the crowds have not been uncomfortably large. . NEW CUSTOM HOUSE. Bowling Green Custom House Nearlng Completion. New York. June 15. Work on the ex terior of the grand custome house at TWlinir Green in this city has been pra tically completed and it is expected that the buildine will be ready for occupancy within fifteen months. The contractor were only two months behind in complet i exterior work. This has cost $3,000,000 and it is estimated that th interior will cost $1,500,000. In all its appointments, the building Cleveland, June 13. The Iron trade Review this week says: The most important transactions of a rather quiet week were in rails, the principal orders being: Erie 15,000 tons; Biff Four ,000; Chicago k Alton ,5,000; Illinois Central, 10,000; Buffalo, Roches ter and Pittsburg, 3,000; Volley road, Cleveland Traction Company, 6,000. The Dominion Iron 4 Steel Company at Sid ney, Nova Scotia, has obtained an or der for 25,000 tons of rails from the In- ter-Collonial Railway Company, in com petition with the mills of the United States, Germany and Great Britain. The Pressed Steel Car Company has received an order from the Japanese gor- ernment for 900 box cars, which, close- lv following an order for 1,000 cars awarded to the American Car A Foundry Company, gives some indications of the demand for American products which may be expected as soon as peace is cer tain. The demand for merchant pipe shows still further improvement and the low prices of a few weeka ago do not pre vail. None of the furnaces or steel works supplying the mills producing heavier forms of material have been shut down nor will they be closed, even for the regular summer repairs, on account of the tremendous tonnage now being carried on all the steel manufacturer books. V Killed By Explosion. New York, June 13. Two men have been instantly killed by the premature explosion of a heavy blast in a atone quary near Mont Clair, . J. mree other were badly injured. The victim were all Italians. Those killed were In charge of the blast. After the explos ion they were found beadles among the rocks. . .