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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1905)
- - V f. UtUtHIt FULL AMOOIATf 0 tPOT COVKR THf MORNINO PIILO ON THt LOWS COLUMBIA VOLUME LV1V. NO. 234 ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY AUOCST 11, 1505. PRICE FIVE CENTS ROOSEVELT CHEERED ER1ES OF OVATIONS Vilkesbarreans Pay Hom age to Distinguished Guest. DELIVERS TWO ADDRESSES President Speak to Catholic Abstinence Union of America and United Mine Worked at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Coei to Chautauqua, If. Y. VlIkeUrre, Pa., Aug. 10. The prel ltnt of the United 8lt, who came bere today end made an nddre to the delegates to the annual convention of the Catholic Abstinence Union of America and the member of the t'nlted Mine Winker of America, wa given a itKMt enthusiastic reception. In fact, the entire trli through Now Jersey and Pennsylvania to thU city was a series tf ovation. Every station along the line from Jersey City wa decorated with flags and bunting and the crowd at the eta lion cheered the president heartily. Hut hi greateal ovation wa in the Wyoming valley, where he spent four lery buy hour. The- entire valley took on a holiday aspect. President Roosevelt in a good humor and enjoyed the day a much a the inot enthusiastic total aMalner or mine worlter. Wilkesbarre li dressed for the occasion. There was scarcely a building along the route over which the president drove that did not. display national color. The great est crowd the city ha ever had within it conflnee was present, and the eti inatod victor numbered upward of N JM(.(MH. President Roosevelt arrived at 3 o'clock and wa driven directly to the speakers' stand on the common. , Be aide the preidcnt, those who spoke were Cardinal Gibbon, Mayor Klrken dale of thin city, John Mitchell, presl dent of the United Mine Worker, and Father Curran. After the exercise, President Roosevelt wa driven alwut the city and then to the Wyoming mon ument and from there to Plttton, about 11 in ilea north of here, where he board- INDICTMENT AGAINST i SPOKANE COUNTY CLERK SjHikane, Aug, IO.r-(Spcclat.) County ' Clerk It. A. Koonta of Spokane county was Indicted today by the grand jury for accepting funds for campaign pur poses from hia deputies. The Indictment against County Clerk Koonti Is one of a number recently returned against Spokane county ofllclol on the same charge. , , . While the Indictments have been re turned rapidly, and aguinst men of prominence, that agairist Mr. Koonti lias caused great surprise here in the city. The custom of accepting monetary support for a campaign from subordi nates, it is said, I general and consid erable surprise Is manifest over this Iat action of the grand Jury. f (Wide, ug. 10. (Special.) Alex Winston, attorney for County Clerk R. A. Koonta of Spokane county, Washing ton, left here tonight for the Washing tjn city, where he, will assume the de fense of hi client. In an Interview, Just it Ms train nl left for Chautauqua, t N. Y. . . ()n tb trip from .Jersey City to this city only a few stops wr made, at fitch of wlil 'i president Roosevelt de-lixcr-d brief remurk. COLLI MS COLLAPSES. Prosecuting Attorney Suipecti Sham Illness. Vl- torla, it. ('.. Aug. 10. When the vntradltion ' iirotvcdiuga against George 1), Collin, the Sn Francisco lawyer who U vant-d In t'ahfornla for perjury vere H'iime.l to.hiy ltcfore Judge loimp man, the an ued did not appear and his foiiiiM-l pin In a doctor's certificate, stat lug thai Collin wa suffering from nervous breakdown. The prosecuting attorney questioned the genuinenens of Collm' lllnes. The pnweeution then aked that be be examine! by two doc tor to awcrtalg If hi alleged illneM wa real or sham. Judge I-ainprtmn granted adjournment until tomorrow. . FOREST FIRES. Flames Art Raging in Westers Mon tanaWill Be Considerable Loss. Hutte, Aug. 10. Advices from West ern Moiitalm tonight state that forext fire arc raging near fhe Idaho line, and rxtcn!ve damage I threatenml. The flame are in ome of the thlckeot pine of Western Montana and the lo will I considerable. I BOY DIDN'T KNOW t I 'TWAS LOADED J Ogdett, Utah, Aug. 10. Putting a ahotgun to hi er, 17-year-old (. A. lteedi-r calle-T tipon a com- panlon to pull the trigger, that be might hear the sound. Not knowing the gun was loaded, t'r- ter olieyed the command and blew the top of Rcedec's head 4 olf, killing him instantly. a)) WIRELESS TELEGRAPH. Connections to Be Established With Honolulu. Sn Francisco, Aug. 10. On top of Mount TamalpnU there 1 being erected a wireless telegraph station from which It 1 expected direct communication with Honolulu will be established, . Subsequently, the promoters of the project say that they may continue the line to the Orient HOMICIDE AND SUICIDE. Policeman Kills One, Wounds Another, Then Commits Suicide. Chicago, Aug. 10. Oscar (lenson, a policeman, this afternoon shot and killed hi brother-in-law, Matthew Mamer, SO year old, fatally wounded Nicholas Ket ten, 60 year old, and 'then committed suicide. The tragedy wa enacted in Mtimer's Jewelry store. For some time Benson and hi brother-in-law- had been at out. previous to hi departure, Mr, Winston said thut the case would never reac the jury. "In tho first place," said Mr. Win ston, ."Mr. Koonta has committed no moral wrong, and secondly, sufficient ev idence cannot be produced in support of the charge to permit the case going to the jury. It is a common custom throughout tho country fer employes in public office to contribute. In support of tho campaign of their superiors. The money tendered for Mr. Koonts'a cam paign was entirely unsolicited. "These indictments have been too promiscuous', in fact, they have become so ' numerous and common that you might say their promulgators lean to fanaticism. The charge against Mr. Koonta is unjust and I do not believe that the judge will be offered aufllcient evidence to permit his .allowing the case to go before the jury. I can see no ground upon which the case can be prosecuted." . want eosi OF WAR JAPANESE TERMS READ Cession of Island of Sakh alin Is a Main Feature. RUSSIANS ARE NOT SURPRISED Proposal of Japanese Looked Upon as Onerous, Humiliating, Unreasonable and Utterly Inadmissable Text of Peace Terms Cabled to Cur. Portsmouth, Aug. 10. Reimbursement for the expenses sustained la the prose' cut ion of the war and the region of the Island of Sakhab-in constitute the wain features of ,the peace conditions banded by lJuron Komuraato M. Witte at the conclusion of the morning session of the envoys in the General Stoics building of th Portsmouth" navy yard. The word "indemnity'' wa carefully avoid ed, tho term being "reiuilHiiMemeut" for the cost of the war. No sum wan fixed, the amount being distinctly withheld for mutual adjust ment betwecu the two countries after the Japanese expenditures have been ascertained. There are two all import aft conditions, and those which t'l Rusisian envoys find absolutely unac ceptable. It can lie stated, however, t.mt these two principal conditions did not come as a surprise tu the Russian pleni potentiaries. The friendly fashion in which Baron Komura explained the conditions be fore handing them to M. Witte and to avoi-- the expression of the word "in demnity" In presentation of Japan's ill for the cost of the war without fixing a sum leaves the wsy open for negotia tion and constitutes the main hope that a Anal agreement is possible. Certainly the danger of a sudden nip ture, no matter what would be the ulti mate result, was precluded by today's development. The other terms are sub stantially what the world expected and with one, or two, exceptions could prob shly be entertained as the basis of nego tiations. ' v . One of the terms Is the limitation in naval strength of Russia in Far F-ast-ern waters. As a whole, these terms are regarded as exceedingly hard in the eye of Russians. . In addition to the two principal conditions, which cannot be accepted under M. Witte's instruc tions, those relating to the Rhssiau naval power in the Far East and the grunting of fishing rlghta upon the Rus sian littoral, are considered a particu larly offensive to the "amour propre" of their country and of such humiliat ing character as to be Inadmissable. The Japanese, on the contrary, as lUron Komura announced at the con ference today, consider the terms mod erate, contending, that they .only rep resent a fair compensation for the, ex penses of the war and the victories they have achieved on land and aea. The Russian plenipotentiaries, so soon as the Japanese terma were in their hands, called five expert dolegatea, attached to the mission, and spent the whole aft ernoon In consideration of the. terms. Meantime, the conditions had been placed in cipher and cabled to the crsr J with M. Witte' personal explanations. It is hoped a reply will be received from the emperor, in which case M. Witte expects to have a Russian response ready by Saturday, but it is not un likely that Saturday, being the first an niversary of the birth of the ciarevitch, the presentation of the reply will be deferred until Monday. Meantime, the 1 envoys will hot meet unless some un expected. V neecwity for a conference should rie, " ,,, ' SALM09 PRICE HIGH. Humpbacks Are Crowding the Sound Sockeyea Disappearing. Keattle. Aug. 10, The run of aotkeye salmon on I'uget found i over. For the past three days humpbacks, the de spised ' member of the salmon family have been pouring Into the Sound, thus proving that the re urn of cockeyes is at an end. Where the Sound packers wete prepared to put up 1,000KtO cases they will have to be content with only 450,000 eases. That means the price will immediately jump to $1.50 per down tall tins, or M per case, the high est price ever quoted for Puget Sound i.'keye. WAS MO GRAFT. Chief of Weather Bureau Issues Signed Statement Denying Charges. Washington, Aug. 10. Professor Wil lis I Moore, chief of the United States weather bureau, today issued a signed statement denying allegation of graft In" the management of the "weather bureau station in the Blue Ridge moun tains, near Blue Mountains, and dis claiming the existence of any irregular ities in the administration of hi office and offering full opportunity for the investigation of any specific cliargea by any person. Anthony Fiala Polar Expedition Is Rescued Arctic Steamer Terra Mova, Sent in Re lief of Fiala-Zeigler Expedition Has Successful Mission All Are Alive but One Sailor. Honnigttvaad, Norway, Aug. 10. The Arctic steamer Terra Nova, which went to the relief of the Giala-Zeiglcr Polar expedition, haa rescued Anthony Fiala and all the others connected with the cxjiedition, with the exception of one Norwegian sailor, who died from natural cause. The ship America, which took out the expedition, was crushed in the ice early in the winter of 1903-04 and lost with a large pa it of her cargo and provisions.- . The 37 members of the expedition who returned to safety are all in good health, despite their privations and prolonged imprisonment in the Arctic, the expedi tion having been, severed from all com munication with the outside world since July, 1903. Anthony Fiala of Brooklyn, N. Y., the leader of the expedition, in a brief state ment, says: "The recue was moot timely. The America wintered in Xepliti bay, where early in the winter of 1903-04 the ship was crushed in the ice and became a total loss. Supplies of stores left at Franx Josefland by relief parties saved us very serious privations.. . Our rescue was due to the splendid efforts of Will in m S. Champ (secretary of the bate William-Zeigler), commanding the relief expedition, who, owing to the terrible weather, failed to reach us hist year, and to the untiring teal of Captain Kjetdsen and his Norwegian officers and crew, who for six weeks persistently forced their wsy through solid floats of ice and finally reached us. "An abundance of stores had been k'ft on the Frani Josef archipelago by the expedition, so that we did not suf fer serious difficulties on that score." PETTY SKIRMISHING. Lodwpulada, Manchuria, Aug. 10. Nothing but petty skirmishing hss oc curred recently along the Russo-Japanese front. The weather is fine and the roads are drying out.- - EXPEDITION ATLASTSAVED WILL EXERT FUNERAL TO BE PRIVATE None Will Attend Ser vices Over Archbishop Chappelle. SCOURGE FIGHT CONTINUES Surgeon White Optimistic Will Not Outline His Campaign, But Confident He Will Succeed Hopeful Feeling Generally- Manifest in New Orleans. New Orleans, Aug. . 10. The official report of the fever situation up to 6 P. M. i as follows: New cases, 68; total cases, 747; deaths, 5; total deaths, 124; new subfoci, 21; total s'ubfoci, 151; cases under treatment, 236. The situation does not look so good in face of such steady augmentation of the number of new cases and the num ber of subfoci. " ... They seem to be popping up all over the city, and a discouraging feature in today's report is that only 19 of the OS names are those of Italians. Quite a number of new cases appear to be the secondary infection. Five new cases developed in Patterson, m P Marys parish, making 30 cases in all there, while the infection was taken there by Italians from the infected district of New Orleans, the disease has spread among the residents and several women and children are infected. New Orleans, Aug. 10. In, order that no unneiVssary risks will be taken, it was announced today that the funeral of the bite Archbishop Chappelle Sat urday will be private. Dr. White said it was a fact, accepted by, scientists, that yellow fever cannot be transmit ted by a corpse, but it was considered that there may be some element of danger in attracting to the cathedral an immense assemblage of people from ail sections of the citj.. Many of the cases now being reported, except among Italians, are of mild char acter and readily' respond to treatment. Dr. White said today that while the work of the thorough organization of his forces was rapily crystalliiing he will not be able to make an announcement ot the details of the campaign until Sun- i day. I With the death rate remaining lower j than in previous visitations of the fever I the feeling here, both among the health authorities and laity continues hopeful. Fever has been prevalent long enough HORN DICTATES STRICKING Seattle, Aug. 10. General Manager Horn of the Northern Pacific wired Superintendent Weymouth of the Se attle division that he would give the striking operators ten days in which to return to work under certain condi tions as to their rating after being re instated. The rating allowed is as fol lows: Sirring operators may be re-employed upon th recommendation of superintendents, subject to the approval of the general manager later. Men who have been loyal will rank first. The men who have been employed during the strike will take their seniority in to have assumed the virulent type, but instesd, it apparently i less malignant than It wa when it first appeared. RAILWAY TO BE SOLD. Canadian Pacific System Are Prospective Purchasers. Seattle, Aug. 10. IL II. Taylor, presi lent of the Bellingham Bay-A Britith Columbia railway, ha practically com pleted arrangement whereby that road is to be sold to the Canadian Pacific. Mr. Taylor has been holding off only until be could confer with Louis Hill of tlie Great Northern. At a conferem-e held here a few days ago between Hill and Taylor, the former gentleman stated that the Oreat Northern had no objec tions whatever and it is now said that the deal will go through without any further delay. ' SIERRA COMPAIfT SELLS. Minneapolis Firm Jluya Big California Lumbering Interests. San Francisco, Aug. 10. The Call to day says that tlie sale of the Sierra Lumber company's interests in this state has been practically " concluded. The Sierra Lumber company owns 87,000 acres of timber land in Butte and Te hama counties, and bas its mills and yards at .Red Bluff and Chicago, and a lumber yard in this city.' It ahto owns a short railroad. The purchasers are said to be It W. Tmnbull 4 Son of Minneapolis. SAY GERMANS MADE LOAN French People Indignant Over Alleged Transaction Believed German Bankers Have Made Loan of fa ,500,000 to Sultan of Moroc coParis Anxious for Reply to Last French Note. ' Paris, Aug. 10. The statement that Orreian bankers have advanced a per sonal loan of $200,000 to the sultan of Morocco, although not confirmed of ficially, is arousing indignant comment, coming after the assurances that the status quo was to remain unaffected un til the holding of the international con ference. It is pointed out that the le gality of the loan is contestable, the po sition of the sultan, since the last in ternational conference, being similar to that of the khedive of Egypt, at the period when the powers intervened for the regulation of Egyptian finance in order to prevent the personal extrava gances of the khedive. Meanwhile Germany bas not yet replied to the hist French note regarding the conference. . This delay is believed to be due to Germany's submitting the F;nch proposals to the sultan before 1 responding to them. According to semi official advices, the sultan is showing more and more marked opposition to the proposed conference than to any con sideration of Moroccan reforms. TERMS TO TELEGRAPHER? accordance with the date of employ ment. Seattle, Aug. 10. The Northern Pa cia today engaged 14 special deputy sheriffs to be assigned to small stations where trouble with the striking teleg raphers has occurred or is feared. The most serious trouble occuring thus far has been the forcible ejection of an op- erator at Covington, and interference with the company's wires in two or three places. The secret servico of the rail road is in charge of an organized force of guards. . '