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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1905)
nil I1 f fffJf ift?11 r 1 f UtUtHtt FULL AttOOIATIO PHf RICOUT COVIRt THE MORNING FIILO ON THB LOWS. COLUMBIA; 1 1 i k VOLUME LVIV. NO. 260 ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS TIE CURTAIN PORTSMOUTH DESERTED Peace Envoys, Characters in World's Great Drama, Leave for Home. ENTHUSIASTICLY RECEIVED Both Missions Stop at Boiton, En Rout to Now York, and Jspaness Visit Harvard University, of Which Baron Komura la a Graduate. Boston, Sept. fl. Both the Russian nml Japanese i m t. 11 1 Im ri-, with the member of their retectlve missions, lift Boston today lionnd for New Yoik. Orcat crowd of people assembled at tit tooth station ami a the train passed out enthusiastic demonstrations oc curred. M. Witt responded to the cheer by appearing on the rcor plat form, anl making a brief speech through Rojestvcnsky. Hi gave an expression if liia thank at the cordiality of tha greeting tendered lilm. Karon Komura, with several memlicr of the Japanese miion, visited the Harvard university during tha day, and were entertained at luncheon ly the Colonial club, at Cambridge, At the railway station the Japanese departed amid great rheera from the American present and a rhorua of "llanzai," from a large body of hi fellow countrymen. New York, Sept. fl. Tltuand of person greeted the Russian jieaee en voy when they arrived tliU afternoon, and there wa a great demonstration when they left the train. The Russian envoy and the memliera of their party will be lavishly entertained while in thin city. 1 STEAMER LOSES 15 X MEN AT SEA t 4 ChnrlHtoii. S. C. Sept. S.-The Iti itlnh leumhi Tropic, Cap- tn In RarWr in i-oninmnd, arrived today after a voyage lasting nearly three month. Tha sec- otid mate, purser, and 15 teamen ate missing. After nulling front Valparaiso, Chile, on June 21, the Trople met bad weather and on .Tune 28 the ship went aground :i)0 yard from the 4) 4 beach. High aeaa were running, and the male, purser, and 15 sea- men, who put out in the life- lioat for aid, never returned. r HIGH WINDS FAN FORESTS Albany, Ore., ' Kept. .The fires which have been raging for the beat part of last week in the forests around Will City were thought to be under con trol and the people w ho hare been fight ing the flame almost night and day had returned to their home secure in the thought that for a time at least toe damage of- lowing their hornet was averted. TODAY'S WEATHER. Portland, Sept. fl. Western Oregon and rlastern Washington: Thursday, cloudy and threatening. Western Wash ington t Slfwes,, Hasten! Oregon: Fair. ROOSEVELT CONGRATULATED. SMkane, Kept. The following tele gram, approved by the Washington I'resa association wa sent to President Roosevelt Mayi "The editors of the State of Washington, in convention as semhlcd, congratulate you on the sue ees of the Treaty of Portsmouth." MAE WOOD BRINGS SUIT. Senator Tbomaa C. Piatt and U. S. Ei press Co. Art Defendants. Omaha, Sept. 6. Mae CV Wood today tiled a auil against United State Sen ator Thomas C. Piatt and the United States Express company for (25,000. The jieition allege that while she waa em ployed in the postofliee department at Washington she rendered aervieea to the defrndanta by "tipping off" the inside worklnga of the office and by assisting to keep out of Postmaster General Payne' annual reort of 100.1 a recom mendation of the Mjt check" system, thus saving the express company sev ers! hundred thousands of dollars. PAT CROWE E Officer Shot Through Leg By Suppued Kidnapper. Pol ce Hear H It in Omaha and At tempt to Arreit Him and a Companion When They Open Fire, Wound Ont Officer and Escape. Omaha, Neb., Sept. fl. During a run ning fight between the police and a man believed to I Pat Crowe, the alleged kidnapper of Kddie t'mlahy, tonight, Pa trolman Albert Jackson waa shot through the leg and the two men made their escape. A large detail of officer were immediately sent to try and lo cate the fugitive. Kver aince Crowe returned to Omaiia several week ago Chief Donahue ha had a force of officers seeking to capture him. The task wa difficult, Wanau none of the officers knew Crowe, .lack son being the exception. It was learned yesterday that Crowe whs in Omaha and extra elTort were made to locate him, and Jackson and Officer l,cahy were sent to Lower Sixteenth street, where Crowe wa Wlicved to be. Almiit II o'clock tonight Jackson saw a man whom he recognised a Crowe, with a companion, in a saloon. He im mediately sent for additional officer. But Wfore they arrived the men left the aaloon and Jackson started to fol low them. The two men then opened Are on Jackson, one bullet breaking .lack son's leg. The other officer start ed in pursuit, joining in the fusailade and a number of shot were sent after the fugitive. The latter, however, made a temporary escape. EMBERS AGAIN ABLAZE Hut the high wind have fanned the smoking 'ember into flames again and this, afternoon a logging camp In the Cascade mountain, on the bank of the North Santiam river, was destroyed, and so quickly did the fire travel that the crew barely escaped w ith their lives. The flame are now traveling into the Cas cade mountain, where it i destroying the finest body of timber on the Pa cific coast, and doing untold damage,. 1 AGAIN TWELVENEW CASES CHOLERA STILL RIFE Area Infected in Prussia has Sensibly Widened. OFFICERS DELAY IMMIGRANTS Strict Sanitary Precautions Art Being Taken and American Health Officer Impecta all Immigrants at Hamburg Twenty-six Deaths Reported. Ilcrlin, Sept. C An official bulletin just issued says that 12 new cases of cholera and two death were reported in Prussia nduring the 24 hour ending at noon today, making the total 90 case and 20 death. The infected area was sensibly wid ened today. The river Oder ha be come tainted. Tine ease have been re ported from th administrative district of Frankfort-on-the-Oder in three small place along tlie stream among the river men. Thirty boatmen have been quar antine at Kustrin, a railway town near the uuion of the Oder and the Warthe. Sharp sanitary precaution have been taken throughout the district. M'LAUCHLIS AT HAMBURG. American Health Officer Takes Up Work Among Emigrants. ' Hamburg, Sept. 0. Past Asistant Surgeon McLaughlin of the United States Marine hospital corps, who ar rived here yesterday from Naples under order to make a thorough investigation of the situation, and who has been in structed to enforce the United States treasury regulation relative to snips leaving for American porta, Isgau work today. He visited the quarantine sta tion, and will go to Haven and examine the 1.000 emigrant there bound for New York, when they will be transferred from the Bulgaria to the Craf Welder see, on which they will sail for America. In shaking of the situation there, he said: "The methods of the Hamburg Steam ship company are very thorough and there is no danger of the cholera spread ing to the United State. The American regulations require the detention of the emigrant from the infected country for the day, while the company here de tain all emigrants bound for the United State for six day. I shall give a clean bill of health to the Craf Waldersee for 1,000 emigrauta now being detained at Hamburg." Hamburg, Sept. 0. A case of cholera, the third up to date, was found today in the heart of the business and hotel district here. The new case la that of a Polish woman living in a thinly populated alley. The health authori ties expect to discover several more case aa the result of this one. Posen, Prussia, Sept. fl. The wife of a shipowner, Karl Scheffler, of Stettin, died here today of cholera. Marienwerder, West Prussia, Sept. 8. Three fresh cholera cases and one death have been reported in this admin istrative district. Bromberg, Prussia, Sept.. (I. One death from cholera has occurred here.. BASEBALL SCORES. Portland. Sept. ft. Portland 5, San Francisco 0. HO CHANGE IN FEVER. Number of Yellow Fever Cases Con tinue to Average About the Same. .Vicksburg, Miss., Sept. C One new case of yellow fever waa reported to day, making a total of 115 cases, ten of which are still under treatment. New Orleans, Sept. fl. Official re port up to fl p. m.; New case 31, total 2,142; deaths 4, total 298; under treat ment, 317; discharged, 1,527. RAILWAY MEN JUBILANT. Expect Increased Oriental Trade Now the War Is Closed. Chicago, Sept fl. The officers of the big railway systems operating between Chicago and the Pacific- coast are en thusiastic over the prospects for an in creased trade between ihis country and the Orient. The fact that the war was settled through the interposition of American authorities, they aay, will create a friendly feeling toward this country in the Far East. COURT TAKES RECESS. Owing to Biggs' Illness Nothing Was Done in Williamson Trial Portland, Sept. 6. Owing to the ill net of Marion K. Biggs, one of the de fendants, nothing was accomplished at the Williamson trial today. The court took a rece until tomorrow morning. SERIOUS RIOTS t IN JAPAN I Tokio, Sept. 8. Rioting broke out last Tuesday night in con- 0 nection with the dissatisfaction 0 over the result of the peace set; tlement. There were several clashes with the police, and it is estimated that two were killed and 500 wounded. The rioting ceased at midnight. The police station were the only property that wa destroyed. SHAH MAKES DONATION. St. Petersburg, Sept. fl. The shah of Persia, before leaving St. Petersburg, donated $2,500 for the relief of the Rus sian wounded. CONFERENCE ESGINS WORK. Mora Delegates Arrive and Work of Conference Is in Full Swing. Seaside, Ore., Sept. 0. More delegate have arrived to attend the Northwest conferenc of the Young Women's Chris-1 lian association and the program of work has commenced. The early morn ing service wa conducted by Mr. K. L Pork of Salem. Itible cla-ses were opened by the Rev. John Pean of Se attle and Reno Hutchinson of Portland. ; The student and city conference were addressed by the national secretaries, Misse Kyle and Cratty. MANY NATIONS REPRESENTED. Attendance at Chicago's Public Schools la Mora Than 147,000. Chicago, Sept. 6. More than 247.000 cluldren thronged . through the open door of Chicago's public school yes terday and began the work of a new year. The initial attendance last year was in round figure 2.15,000. More than 40 different nationalities were repre sented. A large increase on attendance in the domestic science, household art and manual training classes was re corded. It is estimated that the total increase in these branches of learning would be 30,000. rAIAL rtKKiJ wnccL I ACCIDENT " - St. Taul, Sept. 6. This after- noon Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Sev- enthal of Euclaire, Wis., fell from the car of a Ferria wheel to 4) the gTound, a distance of nearly O 100 feet. Mrs. Sevrathal waa instantly killed. Her husband . 4) will die. The car waa descend- s ing and the seat in which thry ' were sitting broke. ARTILLERY TROOPS ARE DEFEATED Tartars Capture Bakakhan and Massacre the Inhabitants. THE SITUATION IS DESPERATE Destruction in Oil Region Still Continues and the Armenian and Tartar Warring Factions Are Entirely Beyond Con trolTroops Retire. St. Petersburg, Sept. C New from the Baku is of the gloomest character. The Armenian and Tartar warring fac tions appear to be entirely beyond con trol. The troop have been forced to withdraw from the suburb of Balak ban, where on Tuesday the rioters set Are to the oil works, and that place i now in the hand of the Tartars, who it is said have massacred all the inhabi tants who did not accompany the troops in their retirement. The viceroy of Caucasus has di patvhed reinforcements from Titlis, but owing to the condition through the southern part of Caucasus, even with the reinforcement, the troop will be in adequate to cope with the situation. In the suburban region the fight is desperate and the soldiers are using ar tillery. The representative of the oil industry are utterly despondent and de clare that on the basis of the telegrams received more than half the industry in th Baku' region has been wiped out, snd that the fire is making rapid in roads into the remainder of the oil ter ritory, e St. Petersburg, Sept. 0. Private ad vices from Baku, Caucasus, today, say that the "Black Town" district of that city is still burning and the losses amount to millions of rubles, Baku is overhung with dense clouds of amoke and the flames of burning buildings il luminated the city all night long. It is alleged that the disorder were started by Armenians, who, disguised a soldiers, fired on the Russians and Tar tars. The Persian consul was asked to act a a pacificator, but he replied that conciliation was impossible with the Ar menians who had killed 200 Persian sub jects. ANGI0LA THE WINNER. Wins Classic Charter Oak Trot in Three Heata Out of Five. Hartford, Conn., Sept. fl. By winning three out of five heats this afternoon Angiola captured tlfc cla-io. Charter Oak trot before a large throng of spec tators. The purse was distributed a follows: Angiola, $3,000; Zephyr, $2, 300; Norman B., $l00; Clcnwood M., $1,000. In the Charter Oak trot for 2:09 class for a purse of $10,000, Angiola won the third, fourth and fifth hest in 2:10 1-2, 2:09 3-4, 2:09 3-4, while Zephyr won the first and second heat in 2:08, 2:09 1-2. GOVERNMENT ASKS BIDS ON INTER-ISLAND WATER TRAFFIC Washington, Sept. fl. The Philippine government has decided to discontinue the operation of 17 of the coast guard ships and turn the inter-island water traffic of the government over to com mercial lines of steamers. Specifications have been prepared and GOVERNMENT DECREE IGNORED. New York, Sept. fl. Tha decrea of the government closing the offices of tha French Cable Company in Venzuela, has, according to a Herald dir. patch from Car acas, thus far been ignored by the com pany. SCHOONER STRIKES REEF. Schooner J. M. Colmon, Lumber Laden, May Prove Total Loss. San Pedro, Cal., Sept. 8. On Sunday evening ' the schooner J. M. Colman struck a reef 35 miles north of this port, and may prove a total loss. The Colman was laden with 600,000 feet of lumber from Everett, Wash., and was bound for San Pedro. MAIL DRIVERS QUIT. Three Hundred Men Quit Work on Ac count of Wage Troubles, New York, Sept 8. Three hundred drivers of mail wagons quit their jobs tonight. More than a score deserted the wagons at the entrance of the gen eral postoffice. It is an echo of the trouble ove wages which occurred soma week ago. All of the men are em ployed by New York Mail company. POLICE COMMISSIONER WOUNDED. Bielostok, Russia, Sept. 8. A bomb wa thrown today at the commissioner of the pouce, as a result of which he is severely wounded. Narrowly Escapes Death in Trying to Save Mother and Sister. Lamp Ezplodea in Handa of Woman at Gila Bend, ArU Resulting in Death of herself and Infant Daughter-Seven-Year-Old Boy a Hero. Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 6. News has just been received here of a terrible ac cident at Gila Bend, which resulted in the death of Mrs. D. Wintermute and her infant child, beside severely burning her 7-year-old son, who proved himself to be a hero. The accident was caused by the ex plosion of a lamp in the hands of Mrs. Wintermute, who was so badly burned that the died in a short time. The little boy, on seeing his mother and her baby on fire, grabbed the baby and dragged her outside, but not before she was so badly burned that she also died in a few hours. After seeing that hi sister was in a place of safety he placed a small hoe in action and worked so desperately that he narrowly escaped death him self. NO NEGRO DOMINATION. Baltimore, Sept. 6. The Republican state convention was today presided over by Secretary of the Navy Charlea J. Bonaparte. "The Disfranchisement Amendment" in the state constitution waa denounced in the platform, which also said "the Republican party of the state of Maryland favors no social equality among the races, and favors no negro domination over the white people here or eluewher." proposals will be invited in the Phil pine and this country for the carry i nf iha mails, tmvornnipnt MSSni?erS-' ' n i a I supplies over 21 routea in, ,n The nlan is practically irr method of tran-portatk the SnanNh rule in the BRAVE DEED ran ib- J i