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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1905)
life rnttt UtLIHC FULL AttOOIATIO PRItf "ORT OOVBN THK MORNINO FIILD ON THI LOWIft COLUMBIA VOLUME LVIV. NO. 245 ".iTT.Tini a nnrr.nw vrnviiuv aiyiust 91 ions: PRICE FIVE CENTS '.-ft - in.,.. 1 ESS 13 SSLOW COMMITEES AT WORK The Resolution Commltee Hold A Strenuous I Session. POINTED LANGUAGE USED Nothing in tht Way of Public Interact Occura at Irritation Congress Nsw halt's Speech Ntnety-nlns Par Cant Falaa, Saya Williama, Portland, Aug. 22 The national Irri gation congress devoted today to com mittee work and little in the way of pub lie internet wan accomplished. The res olution committee had a strenuous se Imi tonight, and little progress had ln-rn mili ly the committee tixluy. Tonight in considering a resolution proildiug for a commission to lt in Washington and have a general uper tilon over the reclamation serin, F. II. Newell, director of the reclamation nertlcc gave an explanation, I jinl Com iniiner William of Wahingtoii Ktut then charged that 00 H-r wilt of what Newell had wild regarding the conduct if the department at Washington wa Hot Ml, for instead of M-ekillg to lessen ' led til !." a New hull weiteil, the Washington olhVlalii were attempting to mid to it. Williams asked that he reso lution go over, .fudge Itaker then entered the lists in Islmlf of Newhnll in hingiuige extreme ly pointed. Then Williams explained tlmt he diil not refer to Xewhall himself lis not seeking to lessen "red tnM" hilt his remarks applied to the otllriiils in Washington into whose hand the reel liiimitlon nroiect went after thev left i i 1 New hall' department. The whole mut ter was flimlly eompromised ly n with drawal of the origimil resolutinii. ANARCHISTS HOLD MEETING. Make Incendiary Speeches and Threaten Cm Police Present. New York, Aug. 22. A meeting of the l.iissiuil revolutionary league was held last lilu'M on I lie cast side to discuss the tikn-e issued Saturday hy Kmperor Nieii i1iih, About .'W M I Kussians were present. All ttie HjH'iikci' strongly condemned the new Hiissinn plan imd characterized it as n ruse to gain the sympathy of other con-! it ut ioua I governments, Police were scattered through the croud and guarded the door to prevent pcr-ons from entering after the seats had all been occupied. Speeches of the most incendiary type were delivered from the lieginning of the meeting. Kmperor Niehola wun subject to torrents of abusive language and' threats nl bo were made that the I'nitcd Mate will soon undergo an iimirchistie revolution. A police sergeant, command ing the detail in the hull, quickly stopped the tirade by sending word to the man tigers that if further riotous talk were D NEW YORK WOMAN SHOT Chicago, Aug. 22. Mr. S. K. Miw of New York wn shot and killed tonight hy a roblier. , Accompanied by a friend, !Mi, Mizo left the hotel about 10 o'clock indulged in arrest would I fundi?. Dr, 8chltlovky, one of Hie principal speakers, nlil: "TliU so-called ilun In give the people voire In tlu government Imi three iIium Imi'kn. Firt, those who are called lu serve In t lie wtimtvn lire required to swear allegiance to the autocracy j sec ond, nil those who wish to vol are re quired to hold certain amount of this J w in Id' good. "Tliw amount sound mII to Ameri cans, but in ItiiwU it I a large amount ntnl will shut out many thousand from voting. Third. majority of two third i nmiHwary to p any measure. Thin give the autocracy th right to over rule a two third majority, an where dor I he power of thi people lit J" j LARD IS EXCELLENT. Chrlatian Cooperative Federation May Take Up Option. Ontario. Ore., Aug. 22. K. W. Metealf, secretary of the Malheur Waterusem' a-M-lation, arrived yesterday from Hum, when he investigated the condition of the land on the French -;lenn tract for the Christian Co operative Feileration. He ay the land is a good as any he has ever wen in Oregon, with water aupply for most of it. "tiive that section transportation facil ities and develop the water system," aid Mr. Metealf, "and there will be no finer agricultural land iu Oregon." The federation ha an option on the land until August 25 at a price of 11,800,- (MM). UNION TO People Are Anxious For Amicable Settlement. Radical and Socialiat Factiona of Storth ing Obitinatly Resist Passage of Meas ure to Open Negotiations With Sweden ..Majority Rules. Christiana, Aug. 22. In the storthing today the passage of the resolution re lating to opening negotiations with Sweden for the dissolution of the union was not secured without obstinate re sUtuiice mi the part of the radical and sisialit factious. A ciuhitig majority of the government, however, shows the torthing and jH-ople anxious to secure un amicable settlement. A comniiltc" on negotiation will prob able lc appointed at once. It is he veil that Sweden is now inclined to concede the candidacy of Prince Hem lldot. WARM RECEPTION FOR FAIRBANKS Ogdensburg. X. V., Aug. 22. Vice-President and Mrs. Fair banks, accompanied by Congress, run ii and Mrs. Jhivid .1. Foster, arrived tonight. An enthusiastic reception was given the vice-president all along the rond. BASEBALL SCORES. Oakland, Aug. Portland, Aug. 22. Ixw Angeles Port hind 4. 5, DISSOLVE BY UNKNOWN ROBBER for a walk. At Eighty-fifth street and Washington avenue they wero atnpped by two men who demanded their val uable. Mr. Mie atarted to run, when one of the men shot her in the head. EACEMAY PROPOSITION LEARNED Russia to RcpurchascSak blin As Price of Peace. DECISION RESTS WITH CZAR That Ruaaia Hay Say She Never Paid Tribute or Ceded Land She May Pur chase Sakbaleln for an Amount Equal to the Coat of War. Portsmouth, X. H., Aug. 22. The A MM'iated Pre i now in position to re veal Rubstantlally the tuggestion of Pres ident Roosevelt for breaking the exist ing deadlock in the peace negotiation and reeuing the conference from fail ure. Hi solution would ingeniously per mit satisfaction of the Japanese demand for reimbursement for the cost of war and at the aauie time enable Russia U face the world with declaration that she had not ceded a foot of territory or paid a koieck of war tribute to vie tory. . . i X The solution, tersely stated, consist in an agreement by Russia to repur chase the possession either of all or half of the Island of Sakhalein, now in mili tary occupation by Japan, for a sum the amount of' which, if the two coun tries cannot agree, could be decided by some method of arbitration. , The pur chase money, together with the aunt ob tainel from the cession of the Chinese Eastern railway and the maintenance of the HiiHsian prisoner in Japan would about equal the amount claimed by Japan as a bill for the cost of the war. It was the president' message to M. Witte which caused the cnatiim of the day. Karly iu the morning came the ollicial announcement that the meeting of the conference was postponed until toinor- ow. The public reason assigned was that the protocol for Kuhmi-Mon at the sitting are not completed.. a lew Hours inter the true reiwui ()j leaked out, when J." L. Metirew, the stenographer at Oyster Hay arrived with a communication from the president for the Russian plenipotentiaries. M. Witte and He Rosen had quietly slipped over to the conference building ut the navy yard to receive the message. When Metirew took the 2:11.1 train to Boston he carried a suit case, which probably contained a reply to the president. The reply is believed to have been prepared by Witte and IV l!o-e. The general disposition' was to regard tixluy teicictoscopie development a materially brightening the chances for the success of the president's heroic en deavor to wivo the peace conference from failure. Hut it was realized that all depended upon the, attitude of Em peror Niehola and hi advisers. London, Aug. 22. The Morning Post, which throughout the war has strongly identified itself with the Japanese side, in a dispatch from it correspondent at Portsmouth, declare "the peace of Portsmouth is within n mensurable dis tance." Portsmouth, Aug. 22. It 1 Mated t that Huron Komura ha agreed to offer at the session to lie held ill the morn ing the president' compromise proposi tion. A high authority believes it im possible that a final rupture can come tomorrow, no matter what the character of the emperor's final instruction to M. Witte niny be. next week," he said, "so much pressure J can oe brought to Is-iir upon the emperor that he will not be able to resist." Portsmouth, Aug, 22. A long cable gram from St. Petersburg, believed to be the Russian reply, arrived about 10 o'clock tonight and M. Witte ere tarie immediately began deciphering it. Considerable excitement wa apparent in the annex where the Russian headquar ter are located, St. Petersburg, Aug. 22. The effect of President. It,isevelt ' persona! influence toward reconciling the difference be tween the Russian and Japanese plen ipotentiaries I heinx watched with closest attention here. Though all save the highest representative of the for eign office are in ignorance of the exact statu of the negotiation it i felt gen erally that the negotiations are on the verge of a deadlock. The public has practically reconciled itself to apparent necessity of continuing the war and there is only one opinion about the desirabil ity of peace if obtainable without humil iation. The action, therefore, of the pres ident 1 far from unwelcome. PROTESTS STILL ARRIVE. State Department Still Hear Protesti of Chinese Boycott. Washington, Aug. 22. The protest against lie Chinese Ixiycott of American good continue to be received by the state department. No further report Indicating the progress of the boycott have been received at the department. MAY CAUSE A STRIKE i , Chicago, Aug. 22. At a meet ing of the Chicago Typothetae to day it wa decided not to make any contract on an 8-hour basin. As a result a strike of printers in the job ollices represented by the ansociation i expected. ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED. Would Regulate Relations Between Em ployer and Labor Unions. Albany, X. Y., Aug. 22. Twenty-one prominent manufacturer from different part of the country are named as di rector of the Xational Association of Manufacturers of the United States, In- corHirated here for the purpose of regu lating relations between employes and employer and dealing with the labor unions. CANNOT DESTROY FISH TRAPS. Olympia, Wash.. Aug. 22. The deci sion of the supreme court just rendered points out that although a rlshtrap ob struct navigation, the captain of' a j steamer has no right to destroy (he tWh- ing apparatus. Ihe case i tlmt of James Fowler vs. Martin and Ben Har rison. The Harrisons are the owner of the steamer Fleetwood, and destroyed a tishtrap which Fowler owned in the Chehali river: LEAVES FOR SIBERIA. Russian Minister of Interior's Departure Causes Excitement. St. Petersburg, Aug, 22. The sudden departure for Siberia of Prince llilkoff. minister of the interior, is connected here with the purpose of sending further re inforcements to General I.inevitch. A a consequence, an increased pessimism i evident regarding the prospects for peace. CHINESE MAKE THREATS OF ASSASSINATION. Chinese Will Assassinate Ministers if They Oppose Boycott. Victoria, 11. C, Aug. 22. Advices were received by the steamer Slmwmut that Sun Francisco Chinese sent a lengthy cablegram 'to ministers of tho Chinese foreign office threatening them with as assination if they opposed the boycott against American goods. The telegram, which purported to lie from 100,000 Chi nese residents in America, stated that "a brave hero'' would be sent to punish them. San Francisco Chinese replied that they were doing all possible to aid the boycott. TWO TRAINS COLLI DUE TO CARLESSNESS Frightful Accident Kills Engineer, Fireman and Conductor. PARTICULARS NOT LEARNED Two Trains on the Union Pacific, Eigh teen Idles from Topeka, Come To gether in Head-on Collision, Killing Engineer, fireman and Conductor. Topeka, Kan., Aug. 22. Three per sons were killed early this morning in a head-on collision between Union Pacific freight trains one and one half miles east of Rossville, and 18 miles w;et of Topeka. The dead are: . j : William E. IL Gibson, engineer, of Kansas City, Kan. - Olsen, fireman. . Clarence Reese, conductor. ASK AGENTS OPINION. Commission Begins Inquiry Into Immi gration Laws. Washington, Aug. 22. The commission Bpointed by Secretary Metealf of the department of labor and commerce, to revise the present rules and regulations under which the Immigration laws and Chinese exclusion laws are administered tmlay sent a letter to all the officials of the immigration bureau in the field ask ing for an expression of their opinion on each of the rules now in operation. The letter to the immigration agents practically is a first step. The most important of the steps proposed by the commission are the public hearings at which criticisms of the service may be lodged. IS HIS OWN CAPTOR. "Hop Fiend" Laden With Jewelry and Morphine. San Francisco. Aug. 22. William Ray mond, alias William Higgins, badly want ed by the police for participating in tiie robls'iy of the Peace home lust Wednes day night, bus captured himself. Laden with stolen gem and morphine he walked into the city prison and asked to see James Lambert, one of the gang already captured. He brought with him hot doughnut for hi friend. On ex amination the daughnut were found to Ik full of morphine. On hi person were 37 diamonds' and rubies. Raymond, who was recognized a an ex-convict, took ar rest philosophically. REPORTS EXAGGERATED. No Widespread Famine in Russia, Says Official St. Petersburg, Aug, 22. Minister of Agriculture Schwanelwch say that re port that famine conditions are threat ened in 22 provinces are greatly exag gerated. In Central Russia assistance may be required to tide over the winter, but there is no fear of a general famine. FATHER AND SON F0ULY MURDERED Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 22. George and James Smith, father and son, farmers of Elm Hill, were murdered while at work in the field today by an unknown per MILITARY MEASURES . PREVENT GENERAL STRIKE. Most of the Factories st Lodx Are Closed and Rioting Has Occurred. Warsaw, Aug. 22-Owing to atronjr military measures adopted the strike will not become absolutely general. Many shop are open and only few bank an insurance companies are closed. Practically all factories at Waraw and Lodz are closed. A series of rioting oc curred at the latter place, f BOY BURGLAS CAUGHT. Levi Williams Telia of Depredations in Residence District Seattle, Aug. 22. Levi Williams, the 12-year-old burglar who wa arrested in Ballard recently, ha confessed to vari ous thefts, and gradually the mystery regarding the nipper man, who has been terrorizing the Seattle police for month, i being solved. Already a large number of watches, stolen by Williams on his nightly visits to Seattle and Ballard res idences, have been returned to the po lice, and the boy has told the story of how he got them. Williams did not confine hi work to evening, but entered many houses in the daytime. He seldom took anything except watches, and several cases have been reported of valuable jewelry being passed untouched and watches, of less value, stolen. Earl William, s younger brother, and Claude Wheeler have been placed under arrest, charged with re ceiving the stolen good. Ill Hi Mexican Ambassador to Quit Diplomatic Service. Was Formerly Ambassador to Chins and It Was Intention of the President to Send Him to Pekin to Settle Trouble Over Boycott Oyster Bay, Aug. 22. Edwin H. Con ger of Iowa has resigned hi post as Am bassador to Mexico to take effect Octo ber 18, and President Roosevelt has ac cepted the resignation. Mr. Conger's retirement from the dip lomatic service was foreshadowed last week. It was indicated then that he might be sent to Pekin as a special com missioner of the president to adjust the differences between this country and China over the boycott of American goods, by some of the Chinese commercial guilds. While no ollicial statement is obtain able regarding hi mission, there are reasons for the statement that it has either been atmndoned by the president or been declined by Conger. At any rat, it i believed Conger will not go to China. It ha not been determined def initely who will succeed Conger as am bassador to Mexico, but it will probably lie David E. Thompson of ..ebraska now ambassador to Brazil. It i known that Ambassador Thompson desires tha Mexico post. YELLOW FEVER SITUATION. Kew Orleans, Aug. 22. The official re port of the yellow fever situation up to 8 P. M. is a follows: New cases 37, total 1,503: deaths 9, total 314; under treatment 310. son. Cal Newton, a neighboring far mer, was placed under arrest, charged with the crime. He stoutly denies his guilt. , "If negotiations can be prolonged into