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a; ft ' '. OOVIRS THE MORNINQ FIILO ON THI LOWE! COLUMBIA UIUHIt PULL AttOOIATIO Mill rWOAT PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME LX NO. 132 ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY OCTOBER 3 1905 SCUSSES ? GREAT CROWD PRESENT Secretary Shaw Addresses Mass Meeting at Richmond. TARIFF PRINCIPLE PERFECT Claimed That Dingley Law Protect! AU lotweiti in All Communltlee, Amend ment! Might Be Necessary, But Prin ciple Would Bo Unchanged. Ulchmond, Oct. fc-Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, In apeectt at the re publican mase meeting bold in the Ac ademy of Music, today dlcued the tariff luee, ' Mecretary Shaw wU in parti "Vou wuiit bear in mind there we never tariff law enacted that wa per-" feet or any one claimed wae perfect. Ko two congress- would enact the same lill. Every tariff law it an aggregation of compromise. All the republican par ty rvrr claim for any tariff law I that the principle la perfect.- The rate will te too high here and too low there, but protection will be found in Ite every feature. The opposition party never claim that any tariff measure are per feet. They only claim that the prin ciple" of free trade on which they pro feM to construct their Urlff law, i the correct principle. They claim to eli minate every element of protection from all their tariff laws, aa England elim inate protection from her taxation law. Kngland provide a tariff for the eole purpose of revenue and the demo cratic party, profe to do the ani. They have openly and repeatedly de nounced protection a robbery they atrike at the principle. While the republican party never aimed for any tariff law that it wa perfect and never promise to enact a perfect tariff law, it doc claim that all it tariff law are builded for the ak of building up another and never will. Kcither will it prejudice one locality in the Interest of another. It will be na tional not provincial. It will protect the aouth a well a the norths the eat a well a the wet and the went a well the eat" Secretary Shaw declared that the re publican tariff law are bo constructed to protect every man and every in dustry, Further on he said: "The wool schedule of the Dingley law may not be perfect tariff. It may' be too high or too low or the differential way have been correctly worked out. It in constructed on the nroteeUon prin ciple however, and under it Virginia farmer cll their wool and their sheep at far better price than during Mr. Cleveland' last administration, when the duty wa placed o low on both sheep end on wool that this industry wa SWEDISH GOVERNMENT . TAKES ACtiON ON TREATY Stockholm, Oct. 2. After the king epeech from the throne had been deliver ed at the opening of the Riksdag to day the government Introduced a motion requesting the house to apfrove the pro posal that arrangements between Sweden and f force from a date v. Hank, when Korway tiered into go into left , rtion. ' ruined." "Thus the achedule la aranged to give protection to the wool grower and to every wool operator, skilled and un skilled. Woolen cloth, for Instance, worth 70 cent per pound, pave a specific duty of 44 cent per pound and M per cent ad valorem. The duty on velcet car pet I 00 cent per square yard and 40 per cent ad valorem. "All that the republican party claim for the Dingley law la that it ia built on the right principle and protect all interest and all communities. It will he amended In due time, but the prin ciple will never be amended under a re publican administration. Here and there a rate may be higher than necessary) her and there a rate may be too low, but the principle I right and ao wise ly hart the differential bea worked out that the United State today ia more prosperous than ever in it hUtory." RESPONSIBILITY PLACED. Kew York, Oct 1 The rrponlbllity for the accident on the New York De rated railroad September 11, in which 12 person lost their live, waa Axed today by the coroner' Jury upon Cor- neliii A. .lackson, the towerman, who set the wrong switch, and Motorman Kelly of the train. Head of Western Life Traffics For Own Persona! Profit, Official of Company Are Surprised When Injunction la Issued Retrain ing Them From Removing Their Aa acta From Courti Jurisdiction. Chicago, Oct. 2. Individual bankrupt cy proceeding were begun today against K. I. Rosenfeld, manager of the West ern Life Indemnity company. A re straining order wa issued by Judge Jlcthe of the I'nlted State district court enjoining Rosenfeld from moving any of hie asset, including his alleged contract with the defendant company, from the jurisdiction of the court The move wa a complete surprise to the of fllclal of the insurance company, but It wa not the only one aa another bill wa filed asking for an Injunction re straining the official of the company from using any reserve fund of the company to pay the director and other official of the company for their work In reinsuring the company. Tomorrow an attempt will be made to have the jx'titlon filed today against Koxcnfeld individually, referred to a bankruptcy referee, and if this motion is granted Iocnfc!d can be compelled to take the witne tand and testify concerning, the asset which he iia in his osesion, Rosenfeld I charged with making $."t0,0(0 by iis purcha of a contract a general manager and the asset of the company are set forth a vastly smaller than iU liabilities. The Security Life a Annuity company, with which It is propoaed to. merge the Western Life In demnity, ia declared to be a amall con cern which lias not sufficient strength end financial ability to perform the pol icy contract of the Indemnity com pany." A soon as the Karlstad agreement I sanctioned by the Riksdag and the Stor thing, the king would submit a proposal auhorlxlng the dissolution of the union and conferring on his majesty full pow er to recognize Korway a aa indepehd ent' tat. , When this wa done, the treaty ing. of KarMad will become bind ROSENFELD ACCUSED DaIBIN ROBBERY MANYSHOTSEXCHANGED Great Northern Train Held By Bandits Near Seattle. EXPRESS CAR IS DYNAMITED Three Men Board Blind Baggage and When Outside City Limit! Order En gineer to Stop the Train Safe Blows Open Robbers Escape, Seattle, Oct. 2. The east bound Great Northern passenger train leaving Be st tie at 8 o'clock tonight wa held up by a gang of bandit ten mile out from this city. Hundred of shots were ex changed between the train crew and the robbers and the express car waa blown to piece by three charge of dynamite. Tortand, Oct 2-A special to the Ore- gonian from Seattle sUtes that the reat Northern overland train was held up and the baggage and express car dy namited a half mile east of mile post 10, about five miles from Ballard at 6:45 o'clock tonight ' It was 11 o'clock before the train pulled into Edmonds and the most meag er report sent to the local office. Three men are known to have done the work. The two boy who got on the blind baggage, aa soon a the hold up began. entered the passenger coaches and began holding up the pasenger. They were captured. They say there were two men on the blind baggage when they got on and a third got on at Ballard. All were dressed In raincoat and slouch hat. So far a reported no one was killed, but it I stated that Charles An derson, an express messenger wa slight ly Injured. v Manager I. Waring of the Great Northern Express company said tonight that he did not know the content of the safe . but believes it was only a small sum. After securing the content of the safe the three men started off in an easterly direction. It is believed that other memlr of the gang are ahead of the scene of the holdup and the robbers have joined them. The train wa (lagged near th brick yard and a he engineer slowed up two of the men with raincoat climbed over the tender and presented revolver to hi head. When the train stopped the baggage and expres car were uncoupled by one of the robber and the engineer Instruct ed to pull ahead, which he did for sev eral hundred yard when he wa again commanded to atop. The two robbers then jumped off, making the engineer and fireman do the same, and all march' ed to the baggage door of the expreee car. The messenger waa oomanded to open he door and on refuting to do ao aa extra charge of dynamite was placed against ft and exploded. The explosion tore the car almost to pieces. The safe was then dynamited. The train was delayed two and one half ' hours and then pulled Into Ed monds, making a brief report before proceeding to Everett The two boys claim they had never met the holdups until they got on the train and were in no way connected with the work. The idea to hold up the passengers occurred to them after the explosion. , . Sheriff Smith ha started out a hear' ily armed posse in pursuit of th rob' bera And expects, to capture them within a short time. . TCLLUW rtVLK J REPORT I . New Orleans, Oct. 2. Yellow fever report to 0 p. m.s New cas- es, 19; total, 302; death, 2; total, 394; near' foci, 0; under e treatment, 204; discharged, 2444. . Kate-hex, Oct. 2. New case, 11; new foci, 6; total cases to e date, 118; total foci, 33; deaths, 2. both neirroes; toul deaths, 7; 4 under treatment, 30; discharged, e e Vkksburg, Oct. 2. Sixteen case of yellow fever and one v death wa reported up to 6 p. m. making the total number of cas- 4) ea, 113; death, 14; under treat- ment, 61. ) F2E2TCHVE2f FIGHT DUEL. Taria, Oct. 2. A duel with word waa fought today by Guy DeCaagnao and M. Noulcns, a member of the Cham' ber of Deputies. The bitter wa e verely wounded in the abdomen. Robbery Made on Bet to Prove In efficiency of Banking Methods. Henry A. Leonard Confesses to Having Bobbed Kational City Bank of New York Had Mailed Securities to Own ersStory la Credited by Employers. New York, Oct. 2. By the eonfeuion of Henry A. Leonard, a young clerk in the employ of Halle ft Stiegliti, brokers at 30 Broad street, the mystery of the robbery of $339,000 worth of securities from the National City bank waa clear ed up today. Leonard, who live with his parents at 506 east 136th street, waa arrested yesterday and kept in clone confinement while the detective con tinued their search for the missing se curities, every dollar of which were re covered today. The prisoner, who is only 24 years old and who ha previously borne the repu tation of being an industrious and thor- caighjy reliable ejerk, mad I tlie as tounding statement in his confession that he bsd planned and carried out his scheme of forgery, not from any crim inal motive, but solely to show by what simple device the elaborate safeguards o the ew loric Dank couia oe 'sei at naught. That this statement is in a measure cofect, is shown by the facts in the cae and it the belief of the young man's employer, by whom he wa highly esteemed. Soon after. the theft, Leonard mailed a package containing $300,000 in securi ties to the residence of Pearl & com pany, by whom they were owned. The package waa received by Mr. Pearl yes terday. Today Leonard'a father turned over to the police the remaining $59,000 ia stocka and bond which he said had bee found in a wardrobe in hi house, where hi son had said after his a rest he had secreted them. Leonard was held in the Tombs police court in $50,000 bail for further examination. On leaving the court room, on his way to prison he said in response to a question j" I did it on abet" EMMOItS MAKES DENIAL, Sacramento, Oct 2. Ex Senator Em mona, now on trial for alleged bribery, took the stand in hi own defense to day and denied all the statements made in Senator Bunker's confession. He also explained hi business, relation with th Continental Building and Loan as sociation. STARTLING SM1BENT SGUSTING ACTION MOB ATTACKS JUDGE ForccHlm to Rescind Or. dcr For Arrest of Peace Officers. ORDERED GAMBLING STOPPED Marshal and Sheriff Refuse to Obey Or ders of the Court and Are Ordered Un der Arrest Judge Dragged From the Engine in Trying to Eacape. Denver, Oct. 2. The spectacle of a member of the judiciary, being dragged about by a mob and forced to rescind an official order, ended a day of turmoil at Brighton, Colorado, the county seat of Adams county adjoining he city lim its of Denver. A. H. Guthiel the coun ty ju'lgc, bailed the mayor and marshal and members of the town council be fore him and lectured them for their al leged neglect in the enforcement of the gambling ordinance and the Sunday li quor selling ordinance. Ia addition to this he ordered the sheriff and "marshal to gather the slot machines in the town of Brighton and when they reported later that they could find only one, Judge Guthiel deputized two men to ar rest them for contempt In the mean time both the sheriff and marshal had disappeared. The report of the judge action con cerning the two peace officers spread through the town and caused much ex citement Citizen began to gather on the streets and fearing for his personal safety, Judge GuUiiel boarded a Union Pacific freight engine aa it wa pulling a train slowly through the town. He ordered the engineer to uncouple the engine from the train, it ia said, and to run to this city with him, threatening legal action union the engine com plied with his demand. The bitter re fused to obey the demand and while they were discussing the nuttier a ruoo gathered around the engine and Judge Guthiel was dragged from the cab. He waa told that he must rescind his order of arret against the slieriff and marshal and upon being assured that he had al ready done o, the judge waa released by the mob and allowed to proceed to this ity on a passenger train biter. Judge Guthiel has been at war almost constantly with; other county officers since his administration began about a year ago and has had the officials and member of the bar before him time and time again on charge of contempt DAMAGE IS 0KEAT War Department Receives Official Re port of Storm. Washington, Oct 2. In a cablegram given out at the war department today, WASHINGTON AND PARIS DISCUSS CASTRO'S TROUBLES Washington, Oct. 2. Venezuela and her troublca la now the aubject of earn est consideration by the Washington and Paris government. Just from Par is, with full instructions, M. Jusserand, the French embassador, called at the stt department today and was in conference with Secretary Root for half the governor general of the Philippine give the latest report of the disast rous storm that (wept those islands on September 27. The dispatch says that 21 rmffl perished on the coast guard cut ter Lyte and report the damage wrought by the storm to be generally discouraging. The governor general cables that a all the wire are down, the report have only been in for the laat day or two. These report, he say are very dis couraging. 'The storm originated east of Samar and swept over the northeat and north end of that island and all the southern province of baton to Manila, The crop practically are all destroyed, including cocoanuU, hemp and rice. It is feared that damage equally great wa done in the province of Albay, Car mines and Tayabaa. The coast guard cutter Leyte was wrecked off Sa mar and all on board were lost except nine members of the crew. Among th officers lost were: William N. Fisher, whose nearest relative is Martin Fisher of Seattle. Among the passengers lost was James M. Dean, the person to be notified, Rait Almock, of Portland, Ore. The coast guard cutter Lyte was a 148 foot steamer, built in Shanghai for tthe civil governmen of the Philippine islands at cost delivered in Manila of 18,000. She had a crew of 3d. PAT CROWE Butte . Officers Accomplish Task That World's Detective Failed. Is Wanted by Omaha Police for Kidnap ping of Cudahy Boy in 1899. His Cap tare Has Been Stock Joke of News paper Pharagraphera for Tears. Butte, Oct 2. rat Crowe, who i wanted by the Omaha police for kidnap ping the eon of the millionaire packer, Cudahy, ia 1899, wa arrested in this city tonight Crowe' identification has been made complete through photo graph sent to the authorities by the Omaha officers. Crowe acknowledged he was a fugitive, and became alarmed when he heard the officers were going to shoot him. Captain of Police W, F. Mc Grath and Detective M. P. Macinerny, made the arrest, placing the muzzles of their revolvers against his stouiach as he emerged from a saloon in the tender loin section of the city. Crowe declared he would return to Omaha without re quisition paper. He cursed bitterly 'at hi arrest, ex pressing chagrin at his apprehen-ion in a town the size of Butte, when as he said he had travelled the world over and evaded capture in all the large cities. A friend of Crowe's tipped the local police of Crowe's presence in the city and his arrest followed after photo graphs of the fugitive had been secured from Omaha. SWITZERLAND ACCEPTS. Berne, Switzerland, Oct .The federal council has accepted the Invitation of l.ussia to participate in a second peace conference at The Hague. TODAY'S WEATHER., . Portland, Oct 2. Oregon, Washing torn Tuesday, rain, cooler in the inter ior. ' , " ' an hour. Venezuela was the mam sub- - ject under discussion, special attention being given to Preiden Castro. At it conclusion the announcement was made that the Venezuelan situation had not entered on "aa imminently ,;criiial stage." No course of action wa agrel upon today and none wal proposed. ARRESTED 1