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VOLUME LX NO. 115
ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 20 1905
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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GOV. lit!
SPEAKS
SHERRICK ARRAINGED
Audllor Denounced as Com
mon Gambler in Pub
lic Spcach.
PRESENTS FACTS AND FIGURE
State Money to the Amount of Ton
, Thousand Dollars Spent During
Drinking and Gambling Bout at Ca
sino Absenca KipUlntd.
Hamilton, Sept. 19. In hU address
at the reunion of the Thirtieth Indiana
regiment tonight, (nivtmor J I nicy, the
rlnclpal eaker made publio the res ion
for hi action in the case of David K.
Hherrick, ex-auditor of state, whose
resignation ws forced by the govern
or. Fart and figures were ued to
show hat liecauie of 'the money be
longing to the state which was lot by
"David K. Shrrrkk, ex-Auditor of state
and common gambler."
TIS governor charg.1 that 10,000
of the state's money "went by check
into the hand of the gentlemen then
operating n caino,M at French Lick.
He charges that Sheirirk'a continued
bm-nce from the sexton of the state
board of Us commissioner, "was oc
caloned by drinking bouts and mid
night carounala around the gaming
table from which he could not recover
Jn time to meet with the comniUion."
The governor after further enumer
ating Kherrick shortcoming conclud
ed by stating that prior to Hherrick's
removal, the friends of Sherrlck of
fered to make good the shortage on
condition that no publicity he attach
ed to the shortage and that Shrrick
lie retained In oflice.
CONDITION QUITE SATISFACTORY.
New York, Sept, 19.-The following
bulletins in regard to the condition of
Daron Komura waa posted tonight:
"The Improvement continues and con
dltlon Is quite satisfactory"
RECEIVES GOOD OFFER
Dismissed From Stanford It Head of
Department fet Harvard.
Pan Francisco, Sept 1. Dr. Ooebel
who was recently dismissed from the
Stanford I'nlverslty, Is to be the head
of the department of German to lan
guage at Harvard University. He re
ceived a Ulegraphlo offer today from
President Elliot of Harvard and Im
mediately wired hla acceptance.
CHINESE BOYCOTT AGAIN. '
from Canton state that song dealing
Victoria, B. O, Sept. 19. Mail advices
from Canton, state stat song dealing
vith the ltoyeob sre being composed
CHOLERA EPIDEMIC
Washington, Sept. 19.-The German
government has declared that the chol
era epidemlo hae been checked. Am
bassador Tower cabled the stste de
partment todsy from Berlin as follows:
"It Is announced officially by the
German government that the cholera
lias been checked and that any epidemic
Is entirely unlikely
throughout Kwangl and Iliad tinging
mlntreU ere bring sent to entertain
mente to ting them. The European train
ed dot-tori have pledged tbemselvee to
buy no more drug In America.
GIVEN SOYAL BXCtmON
PrMldenti Daughter Vialte Koria's
Capital.
Seoul, Kept. 10. Through atreeU
crowded with white robed Koreans and
lined by the iinperist body guard, Miss
Alii lloevelt and Iter party riding
In the Imperial yellow palanquins, thla
evening, triumphantly progresed from
the railroad elation to the American le
ant Ion. The court chamberlain met the
party at the half way station on behalf
of the emperor with Inquiries a to Mie
Itooevelte health.
STEAMER BREMEN DAMAGED
Owing to Broken Tail Shaft Big Liner
It Towtd Into Port.
Halifax Sept. 19. The North German
Lloyd steamer Bremen which sailed from
.New York fptemlter 14 for Bremen, was
towed In here today by the British
trainer Lucigeen. The rt tail shaft
of the Bremen broke on September 13
and the Occident damaged bar star
board propellor.
CONTINUES
Neither Norway or Sweden are
Sending Troops Home.
Neither Government Are Forwarding
Any to the Front, But Are Neverthe
less Holding Them in Beadineaa for
Emergencies Hope of Agreement.
Chrintiania Kept. 19. The Afterpot
en det-Urea that though during the ne
(foliation at Karlstadt no troops ei
ther Kwedih or Norwegian will be or
lerel to frontier, and though the fron
tier guards on both sides are to with
draw to a dutance sufficient to prevent
sny collision there is a yet no que
lion of sending the troops home, f
Karlstad. Sept. 19.-The time of the
Sweedlah and Norwegian commission-
loners were occupied today by unofflcl
al conference and no Joint meeting waa
held.
London, Kept. 19. A cortir ,-oudent
of the Time at KarUtadt thus sums up
the progres of the Swedish-Norwegian
negotiations: The agreement on two
principal questions W still, in some
technical re-pert, under dU-ulon ana
there are alo other point on which an
umleratamling ha not yet been reached
There i however, every hope that a fin
al agreement will lie attained before
long.
GENERAL THURSTON ELECTED
Chattanooga, Sept. UK General (iales
. Thurston of Nashville was toda tin-
animouly elected president of the army
of the Cumberland in the annua! re
union here. At the campflre the fratern
si quality of the eeche lietween the
union and conferedate veterans was
very pronounced.
DISCUSSION
CHECKED IN GERMANY
Till statement will be communicated
by the department of state to the pub
lic health and marine hospital service
thitiugh tlyrf treasury department, in
order that It may modify, If It sees fit,
the rectrictions which it has been ob
liged to impose upon immigration
tnrougli German ports, '
REVOLUTION
MOB J A 1 TACK PALACE'
Columbian President Im
prisons Members of
Supreme Court.
DECLARES HIMSELF DICTATOR
People Angered at President's High
Handed Proceedings Attack the Pal
ace and Are Fired oa by Troopa Kill
ing and Wounding Many.
Panama, Sept. 19. Unconfirmed re
ports were received here today to the
effect that General Treves, president
of Colombia declared hinm-lf aa dicta
tor of that country on September 10 and
Smprioned the member of the supreme
court at Bogota. Mobs, angered by this
action, atarked tle presidential palace
and were fired on by the troops, who
killed and wounded many of the rioters.
The reports ssy that revolutions have
started in Antioqua and Santiago.
Xew York, Sept. 19. Don Diego Men-
dota, the Colombian minister to the
United States, who Is in the city, to
night wa, shown the dtyatcty from
Panama reciting the rumor of President
Regre hsvlng established a dictator
ship in Colombia. The minister would
not ssy if he had received any Inform
ation on the subject, merely declining
to make a statement tonight.
Mendota said later that he did not
believe there wae a word of truth In
the report, as he hsd received a cable
dispatch from Bogota only two days
ago which said that complete and ab
solute peace reigned In that country.
PALMER GIVEN DECISION.
Peoria, Sept. 19. Kid rainier, a local
fighter, was given the decision tonight
in a fst fight of ten round with Ed
die Gardner of Chicago.
BUILD NEW STEAMER.
Victoria, Sejt. 10. The keel of the
new steamer to be built at Ksquimault
for the Canadian Pacific railroad,- for
the Victoria and Seattle route was laid
today.
"THE" M'MANUS WINS.
Gains Political Victtory Over Senator
George W. Plunkett.
New York, Sept. 19. Thomas J. Mi
Mann, popularly known as 'The" Mo
Mantis won a hard earned victory over
Fqrmer State Senator Geo. W. Plunlr
ett, in annual primary contest in
the fifteenth assembly dUrict today.
In Brooklyn a warm contest waa wag
ed between McCarren and the anti-Mc-
Carren forces, resulting in a victory for
the senator, who retained the 18 dis
tricts already controlled by him ana
gained the 12th district, hitherto con
trolled by James Shelvin.
RAILROAD GETS VERDICT
Chicago, Sept. 10. A verdict of $100,-
000 against the city of Chicago waa giv
en the Panhandle railroad today In a
damage auit brought about by the burn
ing of freight cars belonging to the
railroad company during the railway un
ion strike of 1900. r
It trial the railroad company con
tended that the. city of Chicago wa
liable to damages because of alleged in
adequate protection to the . company's
property.
miners DEMANDS REFUSED
Coal
Operators Will Vet Agree.
t
light Heir Day..
Hcraoton, Sept 19. One of the largeet
coal operator la this region, who had
a conference with President Beer, of
the Reading company, today declared
unhesitatingly that the operators wiuld
not, under any eonelderatioa grant tht
demands of the mine workers for an ft
hour day and they proposed to agree
only that the present agreement be
SWiftr ftitiAsf A aw afWkllfltnktnfflt 4 a im 9
"1 the miners hold
their convention oa December 11
TODAY'S WEATHER.
Portland, Sept-19. Western Oregon,
and western Washington: Wednesday,
rain, cooler in the interior.
Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington
rain.
BASEBALL SCORES.
Seattle, Sept. 19. Seattle, 2; Tacoma,
0.
Los Angeles, Sept. 19. Los Angeles,
t; San Francisco, S.
Oakland, Sept 19,-Oakland 4; Port
land 7.
U. S. S. Sylph Is Refused Assist
ance By Steamer Oterl . .
Government Inspectors Revoke Captain
W. H. Potvilfc's License and Cause
Him to' Lose Hia Position for Re
fusal to Heed Djstreta Signal.
Washington, Sept 19. The failure of
Captain W. IL Potville ae master of
the United Fruit company's ship Oterl
to give assistance to the U. S. S. Sylph,
which was disabled off the coast of
North Carolina on the night of April
12, cost him his position through the
revocation of hia license by the United
States Steamboat inspection service.
This action was taken by the inspection
officers of Norfolk, Va., on September IS.
The correspondence was made public
today by the department of commerce
and labor.
Distress of the Sylph occurred while
Lieutenant Kvan waa bringing the
vessel up the coast from Florida, where
she had been ued bv Mrs. Roosevelt
and the children for a cruise. Lieuten
ant Evans, in commenting on the inci
dent, gave the details of the accident
to the Sylph and the failure to get the
Uteri to conform to the signals of dis
tress, and says he "was entirely help
less and the Oterl knew it."
He then graphically described the ex
perience of the night, the failure of the
other steamer to bee the signals from
the Sylph and finally the rescue on the
morning of the Kith, by the Morgan
liner Elcid.
Lieutenant Evans closes the report
with the following statement:
"I am firmly convinced that had the
Elcid not taken us in tow the Sylph
and all her passengers would have been
lost"
The inquiry, adduced the fact that
Captain Potville refused to alow down
for the alleged reaon that at the
time the Sylph was spoken the tele
graph system on the Oterl had become
impaired and there was no direct means
of sending word to the engine room for
the reversal of the enirines. The in
spector held that thia excuse showed ,
the master of the Oterl to be a man
without resources and on that ground
they revoked his license.
VACATION IS POSTPONED.
Washington, Sept. 19. Minister Tak-
ahira will defer his vacation until Bar
on Komura has returned to Japan and
delivered the peace treaty.
LICENSE S
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NEGOTIATIONS CEASE
Moroccan Conference Pla
ces Germany and
France at Outs
GERMANY REFUSES TO YIELD
French Foreign Office Continues to View
th Situation as Being Susceptible to
Adjustment and Denies That Ger
many Demands Port of Magador.
Paris, Sept 19. Another crisis has
arisen
in the negotiations between
France and Germany relative to the con
ference on Morocco.; Thla, hia resulted
in a suspension of the meetings between
Dr. Rosen and M. Revoil, respectively,
the. special .plenipotentiaries, of Gert
many and France. Their .last meeting
occurred three day ago and: there is no
present indication of a resumption of
their conferences. Dr. Rosen, in the
meantime, is seeking instructions from
Berlin, but the extended delay begins to
excite apprehension in official 'quarters
that Germany will not yield upon points
which France consider esentiaL Both
sides show anxiety and the strain prom
isee to seriously affect the Bourse.
The foreign office, ohwever, continue
to view the siutation as being suscept
ible of adjustment, and specifically de
ntes the alarmist report la a French
newspaper that the German demands In
clude the Port of Mogador, upon the At
lantic coast of Morocco.'
The folowing official statement waa
made to the Associated Urese on the
subject:
The question of the cession of the
Port of Mogardor does not enter into
toe negotiations in any form, for the
obvious reason that Germanv and
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France in their exchange of notes have
specially agreed to maintain the integ
rity of Moroccan teritory. Therefore
it is impoible to negotiate upon the
cession of Mogardor or any other part
of Moroccan territory,"
YELLOW FEVER
REPORT
New Orleans, Sept 19. Offi
cial report up to 6 p. iu.: new
cases, 34; total." 2630; deaths, 4;
total, 345; new foci, 5; eases un-
der treatment," 321; "cases' dis.
charged, 1973. Kenner report
three new cases and one death.
Bayou Natches, reports, four
new cases, one death; Tallulah
six caes and one deaths Patter-
son six cases and tow'deaths.
TALES OF PERSECUTION
Pontiac, Sept. 19. Fred Walker, the
Pontiac man who recently came from
Colombo, telling a tale of persecution
and ilegal imprisonment, arrived home
tonight. In connection with the atories
that he waa tortured into insanity by
the vermin of the Colombian prison, it
is said that he will tomorrow volun
ATTORNEY LORD'S SUIT
THROWN OUT
District Attorney Heaey Vet Guilty ef
Defaaalsg lis Character.
Portland, Sept 19. Attorney Charles
F. Lord's $50,000 damage suit against
United States District Attorney Francis
J. Heney for alleged defamation of char
acter was finally thrown out of court
this morning, when Judge Fraser sus
tained a demurrer to Lord's amended
complaint
The ground on which the demurrer was
sustained waa the same as that on
which the demurrer to the original
complaint was sustained, that la, that
a public official is not liable in a civil
action for acts done in the perform
ance of his duty. In his amended com
plaint, Lord argued that the remarks
of Heney which were the bais of the
complaint were malicious and not to
accomplih anything in court, and fur
thermore, that Heney waa not United
States district attorney at the time.
Judge Frazer ruled that the court ac
cepts the act of a public officer in the
performance of hia duty withont a
question at to motive, and in the sec
ond place that Heney was de facto dis
trict attorney at the time.
Urge Sums , Were Loantd rYith
out Proper Authority.
Suit Will Be Brought by th Society to
Recover $711,264 Which War Paid to
the Merchantile Trust Company ia
Connection with "Turner Loan."
New York, Sept, 19. According to re
port of Paul Morton to the directors
of thet Equitble txaety whkla waa
made public today the society paid out
171804 to the Mercantile Turst com
pany in connection with loans known
as "Turner loans." These loans were
made without the authority of the so
ciety, he adds, so fsr as records show.
The loans were made in 1894 by the
Western National bank, controlled by
the Equitable and were later taken over
by the Mercantile Trust company be
cause the bank examiner objected to
them. The original loan waa greatly
increased by subsequent loans made In
order to develop properties furnished as
collateral Morton states that he has
referred the matter to the special coun
sel who assures him that the society is
not responsible for the loan.
Morton al-o notified the Mercantile
Trut company that the society would
expect it to reimburse the Equitable.
The "J. W. A. Loan No. 3" carried by the
society, amounting to $083,000 on which
the society paid the Mercantile company
$263,000 has never been explained and
the Mercantile company has been in
structed to begin proceedings to re
cover this sum.
Regarding the Turner loans, Morton
says toe individual estates of IL 15.
Hyde and M. Hartley, the guarantors
01 the loan are responsible and the
Mercantile company by enforcing its
rights should be sble to ultimately es
cape without loss.
mi
IN EQUITABLE
ARE DUE TO INSANITY
tarily enter an asylum for the insane.
During his trip home from New York,
he was very excitable, fancying bis
persecutors were folowing him.
Walker'a mother was insane for 30
years, and many of Walker's relatives
here attribute his startling stories to
be entirely due to insanity.