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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1905)
rif'.'-' -. j;-l ml jr. iw. avrfii rTK rn rii j '-e f eYJBLIlHEft PtJLL AlftOOIATia SftK..t. Cr.. COVi THK M0HNIN9 PIILO ON THI LOW! COLUMBIA . . , 11 I " VOLUME LVIV. NO, 262 COrJTRAC PRESIDENT SO DECIDES Report' of Government Printing Investigation Is Published. PROTEST OF MERGENTHALER On Protest of Mtrgenthaler Company In VMtlgation Ia Made of Department of Public Printing Wivea of Printere Aa aiataota Hold Stock in Rival Concern. Oyster Bay, Sept 1ft President Room veil today made public the report of the Keep commission on it recent invest! gallon of affair in connection with the government printing olllee at Washing ton. The Inquiry was held on acmunjl of a protest received from the official of the Mergenthaler Type setting machine ronipany, against the award of a eon- ' tract by public printer Frank W. Tal mee in th Lanin Monotyp oinpsny for type setting machines. The president decided after an exami nation of the Keep report that the con tract for the lanston machine would atand. The Keep commission reported that If the contract could le act aside "ueh 4-ourse would Iw desirable although the ommislon etatea expressly that no cor ruption paymenla or promises of pay tnent paed from the Ijnston Mono type company to the public printer or to any peraon connected with the gor ernment service. It wa developed by the invetigatiin. however, that two important aalstant of the public printer wa Indirectly in terested in the Lan1on company. "Their wives being stock holder there in." The commission shows that a fair and impartial test of the Ijiiinton and Merg enthaler machine wa not made, and report the purchase of so large a mini 1st of the Lanston machine at "im provident, and indicated great partiality and Mil on the part of the public prin ter." The commission regnrd the purchase a maladministration. The text of the president' memor andum follows in part. "The conclus ion of the commission are hereby ap proved, save the latter port of con clusion one." It does not appear that there I any quee t ion a to the validity of the con tract In question. If it had not Wn for the conduct of the Mergenthaler company iu preferring the charge dis cussed by conclusion two, that of cor ruption, I should agree with the com mission that it would be desirable to OS COMAANDERS AT THE FRONT ARRANGE FOR ARMISTICE Godzyandiana Manchuria, Saturday, Sept. 10. At 1 o'clock thia afternoon a Japanese commissioner bearing a white flag arrived at a post near the railway and handed the Russian officers a letter rom Marshall Oyama to gen eral Linevitrh congratulating him on the conclusion of peace and begging htm to appoint a Russian plenipotentiary to meet the Japanese and arrange for an armistice. ft tilde the contract, if tuch' course were legal. "Hut second only to corruption ia a public officer in the point of iniquity U the making a Useless charge of corruption and thi it what the com mission And the Mergsnthaler company to bar done in this cate." 1 1 ? CAPTAIN COMMITS SUICIDE Started Crew of Fishing Schooner Re port Conpaniona Loet la a fog. Rothbay Harbor, Minn.,ept 10. Schooner Klla J. King arrived in today with right men of the crew of the fish tnir schooner Joseph U. Cromwell. The crew report Captain Frazler a having committed sulfide at sea and eight men lot in a fg while fishing. BARON KANEKO VISITS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. Spent Three Houri in Conference With Chief Executive. Oyster Bay, Sept. 10. Baron Kancko the special commercial envoy of Japan to the United Statu spent three hours today in conference with President IUwevclt. "My visit to the president" aid the Baron, "wa purely social. There i nothing alguiflcant or impor tant about my call." SEATTLE THEATRE ROBBED, Burglar Who Knew the Combination of the Safe Oett IjiS. Seattle, Sept. 10-Burglars robbed the safe of the Central Theatre, early Bun day morning and got U!ti in cash. The aafe waa not blown open which how the robbery was committed by some one who knew the combination. THE TARTARS Starvation and Death Faces People of Baku. Governor Report! That Diiturbincet Continue Though on Smaller Scale, Few Killed or Wounded Yesterday Hundreds Killed at Zao leturiakL Tillis, Sept. 10. The governor of Baku reports that firing wa continued all last night and today, though on a mailer scute, and but few were killed or wounded. Director Techno!! of the Technologi- cal intitute at Baku telegrap.is faying! men are starving and dying" and lm-j ploiing the Immediate di.pat.-h of th.. - if I : t . . . ; 1 me nrsi news was recc.vc,. , from the Zanguesnrski di.tn.-t where it is repnrieii inai many Armrnian Inge are wlrn-d out and hundred of tNTson have lsen killed. I The whole Tartar ,H,pultion ha rUen and have liwn joined ly at ica.i untied kurds. St. Peter.burg. Sept. 10. M. Tappke the St. Petersburg r)rcifiitiilive a Baku said today that the situstion at Baku still continues to show Improve ment. Marshall Oyama appointed General Tukushima as plenipotcntary on his side snd suggested Chakhedza as the meet ing place. General Oku"s Headquarter, Sept, 9. General Fukusiilma left Kaiyuan yester day to meet the Russian generals and arrange the details of an armistice. All correspondent are still kepHhirty miles in the rear of the army which has not yet been informed of the signing of the peace treaty. 10 JO N ASTORIA, OREGON, CURSES 1 sous- SEVEN DEATHS OCCUR Distinguished Catholic Clergyman Victim of Yellow Fever. QUARANTINE INEFFECTUAL County Autboritiet Betiege State Board of Health for Help to Care for Fever Patient Yellow Jack appeart at Balon Rouge in Spite of Quarantine. . New Orleans, Sept. 10. Official rejtort up to 0 p. in. New ca-ea 27, total 22!; Death 7, total 301; Under treatment 250. New Orleans,' Sept. 10. Th unfavor able part of today's report is the un usually Urge number of death. Another ditinguihed member of 'he Roman Catholic' cVvgy i in i- t' of dead. Father I V. Oreen of tW Jv.tiit College, passed away this afternoon af ter being ill one week. The supply of yellow fever nure is almost exhausted. The demand for them I increasing on account of the discovery of fever in distant parte of the state. Two more nurse were sent to Tullalah, today and an equal num "er to Kenner. Thecounty authorities are besieging the State Board for men ami women to take care of patient and, unless the supply it enhanced, there will I a nurse famine. The inefliaiency of the county quar antines wa manifested today, when the official announcement wa made that a case of fever had appeared at Baton Roguet Ever tine the fewer' broke out here Baton Rogue has been tightly bottled up. No person wa a! lowed to enter the town until it wa proven that the traveler had not visited any infected place. The Marine ltopl tal certificates went iirnored and all , . , . . detention camo near Baton - . . . . ,,,,..,,. ln other " vHil". . . . of npw , ;v (h. diaaBiiofntla nd h vM M nnfllvorbk . . . . . , f . - t . . .n, u. tprnilnil(lil i(hln . gl.ort lilw. BASE BALL SCORES. Portland. Sept 10. Portland, 2j San Francisco, 0. Seattle, Sept. 10. Tacoma, 5; Seattle, 0. San Francisco, Sept. 10. First game, Los Angelea 0; Ookland, 3; Second game, Loa Angeles, 2; Oakland, 1. JAPANESE ENVOY IS ILL New York, Sept 10. Baron Komura I ill and all social en gagements of the Japanese en voys were today either can celled or postponed. The Jap anese envoy is suffering from intestinal trouble. Hia Illness Is not considered serious by the physician in attendance. MONDAY' SEPTEMBER It DEATH FOLLOWS TORNADO - Law ton, Oklahoma, 8ept. 10 X A tornado passed over the vi- e clnity of Walter last night kit- ling two persons and seriously e injuring nine other. The dead are Mr. E. M. Childera, and John Ros. Several bouse were e blown down and much property destroyed. , OBJECT TO TREATY. Inside Facta Concerning Pending Treaty Between Cuba and Great Britain. Havana, Sept. 10. Two of the Prin cipal commercial and economic associa tions, responding to a confidential re quest made by the foreign relation committee of the senate, for advice a to whether the pending treaty between Cuba and Great Britain ought to be ratified, declared emphatically against it ratification. On reason given Is tliat Cuba' com mercial interest are too inevitably bound to her great customer. The United State to allow the granting for ten year of such privileges to British ship and citizens a thoe named in the trea ty. Another reason is that the adoption of the treaty would allow auch privi- ligea to Briti.h warship a well as ber merchantmen a are not warraanted by the relations between Cuba and Great Britain and which are permissible in view of the relation between Cuba and the United State. IS Russian Soldiers Desire to Remain In Manchuria. Associated Press Correspondent Visits Russian Army Headquarters to See How Prospect of Peace Is Viewed Soldiers Cheer For Roosevelt. (iun.hu r, Manchuria, Saturday, Sept. 0. A corre.pondent of the As sociated press has made a survey of the Russian position along the entire line from Mongolia to their present headquarters, his object being to a certain the manner in which the ef forts for peace is viewed by the army. Negotiations will receive no official recognition in the field prior to their successful conclusion, the army keeping in a state of preparedness for battle until the receipt of a telegram from Emperor Nicholas, declaring the treaty to have been signed. The soldiers were engaged in feast ing and other form of celebration. Thousands daily drinking to the health ot President Roosevelt. The correspondent was everywhere ssked by the men if he was an Ameri can and on being answered in the af firmative they captured him and tossed him many times' in the air after the manner of Cossacks, while the of ficer gently protested tgainst the seemingly questionable form of their ad miration. Every where the soldiers eagerly scanned the news and expressed thir joy by singing which continued late in to night, interspired at intervale with cheering for Roosevelt Among the soldier generally there 1 a feeling of apprehension regarding the internal affairs of Russia and many ex psassed a desire to remain in Manchuria indifinetly. TODAY'S WEATHER. . Portland. Sept. 10. Western Oregon and Western Wa.hingtjn, Monday, cloudy with showers along the coast FEAR EXPRESSED 1905. CZAR filS UKASE UNIVERSITIES TO OPEN Government of Education al Institutions Placed Hands of Professors. POtlTICAL DEMANDS IGNORED Liberal Autonomy la Granted To All Universities Pending the Elaboration of Permanent Regulations Along the Same Lines. St. Petersburg, Sept. 10. An Imperial Ukae was published this morning grant ing a liberal measure of autonomy to the universities pending an elaboration of permanent regulations along the tame lines. Thia is considered as insuring the open ing of the universities on September 14 and the resumption of the educational life in Russia which ha been at a stand still with the students and professor in the higher schools on a strike since lat February. The uka-e fails to "give 'to tight ol assembly or grant any other political demand for which students have been agitating, but the placing of the gov ernment of the universities in the hands of the professors, meets the principal grievance of student In regard to the purely academic life in which the facu lties and the students are thoroughly in sympathy with each other because of their common efforts to remedy their grievance ... - . DEVASTATION COMPLETE. Remains Of Seven Victims of the Dynamite Explosion Unidentified. Connellvi!le, Tt., Sept 10. The scene of complete devastation in the vicinity of the Rand Towder Works, which were destroyed by an explosion yesterday, beggars description. Men are at work today ploughing over and digging in the debris in hope of finding more bodies but only an arm, shoulder, foot or portions of charred bodies is found, and it i likely the bodies of the six men who are missing will never be identified. The dead bodice now recognized num ber twelve, while the six which yet re main unidentified and the child who was killed by being run over by a wagon have swelleed the death list to nineten. CRAZED BY FARM LIFE. Privation on Nebraska Farm Drives Husband and Wife Insane. Chicago, Sept 10. A pitiful case came to light to-day when Joseph and Annie Holdobler, husband and wife, were de clared insane aud committed to Dun ning asylum. Their mental breakdown waa due to the lonely life and drudgery RUSSIA LOWERS DUTIES ON AMERICAN PRODUCTS Oyster Bay, Sept 10. At the con ference between president Roosevelt and the Russian rienipotentaries, Mr. Witte by the direction of the Emperor of Russia presented the following com munication to the president. "Some years apw in consequence of a misunderstanding in the interpret ion of the most favor; d nation clause, there PRICE FIVE CENTS of farm life awai Wakefield, Neb. They came to this country from Germany, a few years ago and started to build a home on the Nebraska prairies. Then, two years ago, a baby was born but it was dumb. The mother whose reason waa already tottering because of her isolated life, broke down completely, when thia new misfortune became apparent The fath er, worried by bis insane wife, and hia dumb child, plodded along until one day be threw up hi band and began gib bering to bia horse. Meanwhile, anoth er baby had eome, a bright, perfectly developed and mentally equipped young ster, but the parents could not realise this fact A few' days ago the couple appeared In Chicago. They were de tained, and today's inquiry and the com mitment ia the result PRINTERS TO STRIKE. President of Typographical Union Saya One Hundred Citiea Will Be Involved Indianapolis, Sept 10. From infor mation given out by James M. Lynch, president of the International Typo graphical Union, a strike of the union printers employed in the Typothetae shops in St. Louis and Cincinnati may occur tomorrow and within a few days 100 cities throughout the United States maay be involved. RIOTERS IN CUSTODY. Tokio, Sept. 10. The total number of not suspects in custody now exceeds 1,650. Formal chargea have been made against 160. The remainder will probably be re leased. Mount Vesuvius and Crater on Island of Stromboli Still Active. The Last Shock Creates Leas Dam age, Bat Extendi Over Greater Area Funds Are Rapidly Coming In From Many Sources. Rome, Sept 10. Further slight earth quake shocks today caused additional terror among the inhabitants of Cala bria. The damage however was insignificant although the disturbances affected a more extended area, reaching as far as Naples. The activity of Mount Vesuvius i in creased, while the violent eruption of the ancient crater on the island St. Romboli is still in progress. The pope i deeply effected about the disaster and has instructed the church men to afford every possible aid. Funds are coming in rapidly from all sources. The Ministerial council today voted &0.000 for the relief of the sufferers, and Premier Fortia personally gave a similar amount Along the Gulf Saint Eufamia, Fair ing Island and Stromboli all the pic turesque villages are totally ruined. Many deaths are. reported mostly among women and children. wa established in Russia, on several ar ticles of American production a custom duties on a higher scale than wa levied on the same articles imported from other countries. His Majesty the Emperor has, commanded me to inform the Presi dent of the United States that he ba been pleased to order a discontinuanca of the levying of auch higher duties on the American producta." FRESH SHOCKS MID 1 1: II N I lit