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1 UlUtHIS rULL AStOOIATID PRIM RIPORT COVIRt THK MORNINCJ FIILO ON THl LOWIh COLUMBIA VOLUMK LX NO. 1M ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26,1905 PRICE FIVE CENTS HI r ROOSEVELT ARKANSAS Continues to Receive Cor dial Receptions. VISITS LITTLE ROCK President Delivers Address Befor Vast Assemblage in the City Park. RFFERS TO RACE PROBLEM Inspect Barrack and Grounda at Fort Root and Eipreaaet Himself aa Well Satiated la Address H Says Wont Enemy of tht Race la Negro CriminaL Utile R.ak, Aik., Oct. 23.After an all night journey from Kirmlngham President KoomvIi ami party arrived in Argentina, a northern auburn of thia i ity promptly on time thia morning. De pile threatening weather, a large crowd wrWnieil the President. The city wa decorated with flaip and bunting, and it wa rilled with visitor from all purU of the state. It mb early apparent that the President a welcome would be warm one. When the President' train arrived at Argentina, over the Uock Island tinea, a reception ronunlttee, headed by Vnlted State Senator Herry ami ( lark, flr- 4-rnor Itavin and Federal Judge Trimble, entered the President' car and warmly welcomed him to Arkansas. The Prei lent did not alight from hi car at Ar gentina, and the train proceeded to Rig Rock, the neareat point to Fort Ignn II. ItiMit. Here the President and pnrty alighted, and a viit wa made to the poat, the party arriving there at 0:.H) o'ehxk. After a biief reception, the Preaident linpri tcd the harrark and grounda and prced hi satisfaction at the excel lent arrangement for the comfort of the Irimtis r Nearly the entire morning wa taken up at Fort llnot, after which the atart for the rity wa made. .When the ear rtugea were drawn up the mounted ea cort of honor took their place beside the Preaident Till escort, which U known a the "Hlue and Gray," consist rd or tl Civil War Veteran, 12 I'uion aoldier and 12 former Confederate, and it particularly pleased the Prcsl dent. It wa announced that thi cm rt would preeede the Preaident'a ear carriage throughout the entire day and act aa a bodyguard. At Uttto Rock in referring to the race problem, the President aid: "The worst enemy of the negro race i the negro criminal, and above all the criminal of the hldeoii type an often hideously avenged. Every reputable col ored man owe the duty to himself and to hi race to hunt down that criminal. Now, a to the white man' sides Now, to avenge one hideoiia crime by another la to reduce the avenger to the bestial level. Another thing which mnkea the lynch law o abhorrent I that three fourth of the crime for which It la in- TRUSTEES TO INVESTIGATE . AFFAIRS OF MUTUAL LIFE New York, Oct 25. The affalra of tha Mutual Ufe are to be investigated1 by threVmembera of tha Board of Trustee. "The resolution providing for mch an in vestlgation, aa the mult of the testi mony before the legislative Investigate Ing Committee, waa offered befora the board today by Preaident McCurdy and voLml ar for other than that against the women of Die country. Governor, you and I ami all others in authority out it to our x-oile to tlrivr out the rcprouch and tli menace of lynch law in tin- Coiled Slate." Preaident Seacbii Memphis'. Mcmphl, Tcnn., Oct. 2.1 President Roosevelt ami jmrljr arrival hero at siW. Tha original plan wa to atop no longer than necessary U switch the train from our track to another, wan iMKlifUul by an iiiitent demand for a hurt pe)rh liy tha Immense crow gathered at the station. Several meinlier of the Preaident'a arty lift tlii" train here ami departed for Washington. The Preaident started fur New Or leans at 8:50. The trip from Utile IUn-k to Memphis ws uneventful. ASKED TO INVESTIGATE. llrrihurg, Pa., Oct. 2.1.-Coventor Pennypacker thin evening made public a letter ent to President Roosevelt o- day asking for an investigation of the affair of the Enterprise National Hank. Hie governor state that over $1,000,- (hmi wa deposited in the bank by th tale upon the assumption Ixsauna it wa under (governmental control that it wa solid. DISPOSES OF LANDS State Land Board Gets Rid School Certificates. of GOy. CHAMBERLAIN DISSENTS Governor Beliavaa that Soma of tat Ap- plicaata for Land Art Mot Bona ridel At the name time the Industrial atrike But Are Secured for tha Benefit f laaxuined large dimenaion, turbulent ele- Third Penone 10,000 Acrei Involved. Salem, Oct. 25. Ity a vote of two to one, the Oovernor dissenting, the State and Hoard today disposed of the certifi- cute for the sale of school land aggre gating over 10,0110 acre, which were held up for cancellation on the grounda of alleged fraud in the application, a tvjMiitcd by the grand jury in April last. (iovernor ChamtierUin contended that while the signature may be actually those of living persona and not dum mies, it wa hi opinion that they were not ImiiiiI fide applicant but secured the land for the benefit of third person. I lie noon ha not yet arrived at a decision concerning the eiirlitv-nne cer titlcate held by John DeUlfre and n n otheia of llimWarHdi. which iuvolvea over lOO.IXK) acre of hind. KILLED IN SELF DEFENSE. Negro Patient in Aiylum Attacka An other Patient and Ii Slain. Tacoma, Oct. 23. Henry H. William, negro insane patient at Fort Stella coom asylum, wa killed in self defense by John Schirtand, another patient to- day. While the patienta were exereis- ing, William wa suddenly m-iaed with a mad freniy and attacked Schirtand. Schirtand felled the negro with a heavy blow on the head. TROOPS QUELL RIOTS. aM Santiago, Chile, Oct 23. Threo thou and troop arrived lat night, and or der i restored. It I now believed that sixty were killed during the rioting. unanimously adopted. The member of the committee are Effingham B. Morris, lawyer and Preaident of the Girard Truat Company, Philadelphia t John W. Auchtnclo!, a merchant of New York and a prominent financier. The an nouncement-waa made In the form of a tatement issued by; President McCurdy at tha close of the meeting of the board. T IS Situation Grows More Se- rious in Russia. ALL DAY CONFERENCE Ministers Under Witte Vainly Try to Finb Some Way Out of Crisis. ASSUMES LARGE DIMENSIONS Count Witte to Preaid Over Meeting of Council Today by Direct Order of Emperor Many People Are Killed in Sioti at Ekaterinoalav and Moscow. St. Petersburg, Vt. 2fl.-Con fronted by a lituation more eerioua than any alnce the beginning of the political and MH'ial upheaval ia Hu4a, whkh at thia time bow no aign of amelioration, the F.iiipcmr'it MnUUr under the leader- hip of Count Witte apent almrxt all lay yeterday ia conference in the hope of finding aome way out of the criaii Into which the Revoluthmiata 'and 8o- Icialiat had cat the country. I meni in acveral localitiea forming open reaitance to the troop. The Minlnters who bad been in aeaaion during the day reaumed the meeting after a ahort In terval for dinner and continued de liberation until long after midnight. The reult of the deliberation are un known. The eelcction of Count Witte to preside over the Council tomorrow wa hy direct order of the Kmperor and it i understood an edict formally e- tablithing a Miniateral Cabinet which will bear the oM name of "Royvet," Council, wilt be publinliod in the Ofllciat Mcengor, Saturday next, together with a rescript addressed to Count Witte creating him Premier. The Finland railroad to HelNingfor and the steamer constitute St, Peters burg only mean of communication with the outer world. Postal authoritiiw I 4. . I! . ",T mary man ami ''-'"'i -orreponuem-e i at tandstill. Forty thousand men are out, but are conducting thenitclvc in an orderly manner. Prudent inhabitant are laying in a stock of provisions, which ha forced prices up. 1-arge meeting, main Ir of workmen were held tonight at which it wa decided to curry the atrike to a bitter end. The proceeding at several of the meeting were atrongly revolutionary in character, the orator advocating the slaying of chinovike and police, and to meet the police with armed force. The apcevhe were enthusiastically cheered The police are powrrtcsa to interfere. The prcelneta of the University ia now forbidden ground, according to an Im perial ukase. , Men Killed and Wounded. Ft Petersburg, Oct 23. In an en counter occurring thia evening between striker and engine driver preparing to take out train, revolver shots were exchanged and a number of persona kill ed or wounded. Many Killed in Kiota, Ekaterinoalav, Buaala, Oct 25. Two ! bloody conflicts occurred her today be tween the troop and demonstrator The first took place) opposite the muni cipal buildings and the second near the Pushkin monument Number were killed or wounded in both Instances by the volleys fired by the soldier. The demonstrators near the municipal build ing refused to dpere when ordered, and erected barricades A meeting of MOVEMEN SPREADING student of the schools which are on trike was dired by the pidU-e, who made free use of their whip. Many student were injured. State Department Notified. Washington, Oct. iW.-The ftate IV partruent bas received a cablegram from the American Charge d' Affair at St Petersburg, stating that owing to the railroad atrike, mail communication it cut off from St. Petersbrrrg. KILLING OF A DBUKKEN . INDIAN CAUSES TROUBLE Cavalry from Fort DuCheine Quell a Diaturbasc at Myton, Utah. Salt Ule, CUh, Oct. 2.V-Tbe killing of a drunken Indian at Myton, Wasatch county, Saturday, came near precipitat ing acrioti trouble between the Indian and white. The Indian wa going about town threatening the villager, menaced a white man named Muse, and wa shot and killed. Other Indiana entered the town threatening vengeance and were making an ugly demonstration when a troop of cavalry from Fort Du Chesne came on the scene. The citizen bad telephoned that the "potnffi aa in danger." The cavalry turned Muse over to the sheriff. TWO FOUND GUILTY Prominent Men Are Convicted of. Conspiracy. ALLEGED PLOT THAT FAILED Wealthy Brick Manufacturer and Phyai dan Attempt aa Alleged Smooth Gam to Get Woman aut of Country aad Secure Her Property But Low Out Spokane, Oct. 23.-J. W. Prall, wealthy brick manufacturer of Medford Oregon, and Dr. C. H. Messner were eon victed here tonight of conspiring to ae cure the property of Dr. Mary Latham recently convicted of arson. While out on bail. Dr. Latham tried to eM-ape, but became bwt in the wilds of Northern Idaho. On being recaptured she stated that the flight wa arranged by Messner and Prall and h feared it was a conspiracy to get her out of the country and ae cure her money. TRIAL OF COMMANDER YOUNG IS ENDED Court of Enquiry in Bennington Case Will Meet ia Closed Session Later in Year. - Mare Island, Cat., Oct. 23. The trial of Commander Lucien Young of the gun boat Bennington wa concluded todav by an address by Captain West in be half of the prosecution. ,West arguod that inasmuch aa Young knew the poor condiion of the lioilcrs and the ensign had not had any previous experience in me engineer aa department, there was lack of discipline. The captain, he contended should have had paper to show that he made frequent investigations. The court will meet in closed session later and when the finding is reached the case of Ensign Wade will be taken up, probably on Friday. IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE. Punishment Meted Out to Iowa Wife Murdsrar. Des Moines, Oct 23. E. S. Blyden- berg must nerve a life sentence for the murder of his third wife. The Supreme Court today affirmed the sentence of the lower court Two year ago at Eldorw BIydenberg was convicted of murdering his third wife by giving her arsenic in the Sunday dinner which he prepared while the other members of the family wer at church. Two former wives had also died mysteriously and BIydenberg had obtained their property. BIydenberg wa a deacon in a local hurch. 'STUDENTS IN A BIO RIOT Mix It With a Squad of Chicago Police. FIFTEEN ARE CAPTURED lutcoats Forced tc Fire Revolv ers Before Students Will Give Up. CLASS RUSH CAUSES TROUBLE Although Engaged in a Clasa Riot All the Studenta from Medical College Banded Together When Detachment of Police Appeared on College Grounda Chicago, Oct 23. Twcnty-fiv police men and 100 student of a Chicago col lege, dental and surgery, engaged in a fierce fight this afternoon and before H?ace was restored fifteen students were arrested. During the ficht the Doioe were forced to fire over the heads of the student to scare them back. The freshmen ami other clause met in the annual class ru.-h today and the batik became ao detuwrate that a riot call wa sent in. When the police arrived, street car and wagon traffic was blocked. The stu denta in the thick of the fight joined force as soon as they saw the patrol wagons and pelted the bluecoat with stones and vegetable, while water was poured on them by students from an aa upper floor of the college. After thi had went on for some time and the police were getting decidedly the worst of it, they drew their re volver and fired acveral shots. Thi orougnt me sruaenta to their senses and they ran in all direction, but the polk succeeded in capturing fifteen. All the students bore sign of the con diet and a number received sever cuts altout the head and face. The Faculty i investigating the af fair. TAFT TO REMAIN. Washington, D. C. Oct 23. The Post tomorrow will say that Secretary Taft ha announced that he has no intention of resigning from the Cabinet to for President run JENNINGS CURSES SISTER Say Effort Is Being Made to Create Sympathy for Her. Grant Pas, Ore. Oct, 23. Jasper Jennings, pacing restlessly to and fro in his cell at the Josephine county jail, and who recently made a full confession of the murder of hi father in the cabin at Granite Hill mining camp six weeks go. yesterday declared that the stories being sent out from Jacksonville, where hi4 sister Dora is confined in jail, are for the purpose of winning sympathy for her. The boy swore loudly when shown a copy of a paper containing an article in which the girl is pictured a sweet and sentimental creature. IDAHO LAND CASES Spokane, Oct. 23. In the lutid fraud case at Moscow, Idaho, tod.iv United State Attorney Rukk, said that the Government waa not satisfied with the evidence' in th eaei of Ketfonhach, Kester, CKecfe and Dwyer and' there is possibility that nnlcss additional evi- denc is secured they may ti ver b tried. ' POLICE POWEB OVER CHURCHES French Senate Committee on Church Matters Submit a Report. ' Pari, Oct. 25. The chairman of the Senate Committee on the separation of church and state submitted a draft of a report setting forth tbe necessity of the abolition of tiie Concordat and the resumption of the State'a complete) polk-e power over all civil and religion organization. The report approve of the bill already passed by the Chamber of Deputies ensuring the liberty of con science and the Independence of state. WOMEN KNOCK CLEVELAND. Holyoke, Ma., Oct. 23. Resolutions condemning ex-President Cleveland's at titude on the woman surTerage question and endorsing the position of Presi dent Roosevelt and Justice Brewer, were adopted at the Maachussets Wo man Sufferage Convention. BASEBALL YESTERDAY. San Francisco, Oct. 23. San Fran cisco 7, Portland 1. Oakland Oct 23. Oakland 1, Tacoma 8. Los Anugeles Oct. 25. Lo Angele 6, Seatle 2. SPRINGS A SURPRISE McCurdy's Announcement Cre ates a Sensation. COMMITTEE RESTS TWO WEEKS Paul Morton Report Increase ia Re ceipt of Equitable Life for First Six Month of Year There ia a Consider able Falling OS in Last Quarter. New York, Oct. 25. More startling than the testimony before the Legisla tive Investigating Committee waa Mc Curdy's announcement that the Board of Trustees of the Mutual Uf Insur ance Company would investigate it own working. Another interesting thing was tha statement issued by Paul Morton that the receipts of the Equitable Life for nine months of this year would exceed the expenditure by $18,700,000 an in crease of over $ti00,000 over bwt year. The receipts from premiums for tha third quarter of 1905 waa $1,000,000 less than in 1004, ami the expenses for the third quarter over $800,000 less than last year, but for the first six month of the year the increase over last year was over $400,000. After a day consumed with the testi mony of the actuary of the Mutual Ufe, and reading column after column of figures, the Committee adjourned until November 8. SPECIAL REACHES CHICAGO. Chicago Oct 25. E. H. Harriman'a pecial train arrived here tonight at 8:08 o'clock, fifty hour and forty-four minutes actual running time from Oak land. While no special efforts was made to beat the record, the train covered the distance! ii just eiglrtoctt hour los than the overland limited, the fastest train between Chicago and San Fran cisco. Mis Roosevelt was a passenger on the train. GO OVER UNTIL SPRING; Attorney Ruick asked for a eontinu- a nee until the spring term, whkh a agreed to by the defendant. Th theory iv that it i expected that new Indict ments will be found against them by the present Grand Jury. The Grand Jury i t work and addi tional indictment ar expected within, a few day.