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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1905)
1 el' tuAiw UBUtHft FULL AttOOIATIO M-M AiPOAT COVER THE MORNINQ FIILO ON TrIS LOWEfc COLUMBIA fwrtttttg . .at VOLUME LX NO. 1.16 ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28,1905 PRICE FIVE CENTS PRESIDENT HAS CLOSE CALL Magnolia Collides With Steamer In Fog. IVY COMES TO RESUE President Transferred to Cruiser ' West Virginia Without Serious Inconvenience. READY FOR THE FRAY, Harrlmsn Says that' th Union Pacific ' Haa do Fear ( Other Lines. New Yoik.( IM. 27.-K. J I. Ileriimaa lislay dicud railway affair: "I think we are running into an era of wtnNtitiv tallxMil building just we have Im d an era of competitive buy in. The I'nion Pacific 1 ready. It l in the brt p.Mil ion of any of them n.l (! not fear nor doc it rare for any other road. JEROME IS NOMINATED. Takea Place of Flammer on the Re publican Ticket. 1GI Of TERR S N RUSSIA K1IARK0FF DECLARED IN A STATE OF SIEGE Aacnoia badly damaged Through Confuron of Signals in Denae Fog Fruit Steamer Eiparto Collides With Light houie Tender Having the President's Party on Board. l'iiif( Slab' Flagship Vt Vir ginia, IM. 1!7 (via New Oilcan-, by wireless).-- At II o'clock lat evening, through confusion of signal, the fruit temer Kwrla collided with tin light-hou-e tender Magnolia, wlil.li wa con veying tlr President, Sccictary Loch and fr. Itixev to t lit crnl-cr Wr4 Yiiginia. Hip rail ami Nirt bow of the Magnolia wa damaged and two or three li'ilm uiadn in tlii vrn.cl , below the water line. No one wa hurt. The Magnolia immediately nil being struck benched, her Uiw being high nml dry. After a careful examination of the damage to the vessel it wa evi dent there wa no danger, ami the Pre Ment ami hi party went to lied. . Major Craig Hill, of the I'niteil State Engineer, wa aboard the Magnolia; Hi ship, the Jvy, a sister hii of the Magnolia had preceded the Magnoliu and mh wiine distance "ahead. A Imitt wa immediately put olf for the nearest telephone, about a mile and it half away, nml the order given to load the Ivy off at Pilot Mutton mid tuive her return for the President and hit party. The transfer ttii made t .1 o'clock thin lllol IliuK- I'"' Vcvl got under way immediately and the West Virginia wan Imardiil on nrheilule lime. , No One la Injured. Vew i lenn, K t. 27. -The liKhthou.e illiii'r) here have rei-eived the follow iiiK ilKputeh from Commander liime II. Kear-), lT. S, ., dated. Naii ii, Li,- - "The lihtlyiMi tender Miiuolin waa ktruik on tli J port, Hide at II o'cliHk p. in., (k-tolNr al, liy uteamxhip Fpnrtu, near Six Mile Point. No one wit in jured. The Magnolia wa grounded. I he Preident and party were tran ferrfd to the IlKlitlvuiao tender Ivy, which wna aei-ompnnyinfr Hip Magnolia. mill prm-eeded tu the Wet Vlrjrinia on time. The minder, oll'ni-in New Yolk IM. 27.-The K.-puhli.-an Couirty Coiiiinittee reconvened tonight to nominate candidate for Di-lrirt At torney in place of (liarle A. Hammer, rei)fiiiH. The name of William Trav er Jerome wa pluiiil U-forr the con tention and ununiinoiudy nominated. No other name wa iiieiitioned. TALKS ON REBATES President of Great Western Rail way Gives Away Secrets. SMOOTH SCHEMES WORKED Head of Maple leaf Routt Saya Tnat Railroad Magnatea Hart the Giving of Rebates Down to Fine Point, and Stickney Knows Something About It. Present Situation in St. Petersburg Cannot End With out Shedding of Blood Nothing But Armed Force Can Deal with Mob. GOVERNORS CHARGED TO PRESERVE ORDER AT ANY COST Authorities Believe that Nothing but Bloodshed Will Satisfy the Revolution-- . iats Gunshops art Plundered of Firearms at Rigad Thousands of People Attend Revolutionary Meetings in St. Petersburg and Stand in the Cold ..Snow and Rain for , Hours Listening to Impassioned Addresses by Agitators M. rn ill, iai. ITeclilent Kooe velt'a foity-wveiilh liirthday wn rcb luated at St. Paul l.y tin. "Original ItooM-velt Clul." tonight through th4 nieiliiim of a liampiet at which over lK rover were laid for rnthuiii-tic ad mirera of the President, who, in the lanyiiap1 of lioveriior Onnniin, of Iowa i. in inotn wimi than one, "the man of the hour." Prehident A. H. Stk kney, of the lireat Vctern llailway, leaking on the nub- jet of "The Pn'-ident and the Hail- road," mm ill in part: ii h wcii known that ever im coiiiM'titive railway .have exi-led, the mi t mil fitiiipulitive iktr Imve l er miidc hy the rebiite nynteni. "TJie re l.ate I the offerinj; of cuinpe til hui and U never paid excpt on com xititive liu-incmt. It prolmtily oiij-i- nated with 'the railways. The inp-niiily which i now exer' ui-i'd liv In .t h railway and their cu-lo uu-ri) to maintain the N'lTccy of re lmtV aii U illiiktrateil lx-tter than e-nlied. Sime the Injunction rre iiicd nnd the terror of the law are considered imminent-1 have' Ucen told I do not vouch for it' truth although I live n what puqiort to lie a copy of the contract lietween idiippcra and the rout inp ap'iit of cVhi wherV and pilot young mm from so-called routing agen- were on duty on laaird the Mnnolia at 'i' in New York make periodical trip the time of the collision. It believed throiijili the western title, leavin not the MiiL'iiolia can make the necenry lunk check. Imt pnekap1 of artual, reinir to return to New Or lean un-! money, without note or comment, iiMin ler her own Meam. i votidier nor receipt. Counoutdy, when Nairn i on the right, or wet, bank thena package are counted, Uiey are of the river and la in a liend. It i pre aumed here that the boats were running cloHe to the ihore. , A the Magnolia wa ntnick on the port i4da it la the tchant have paid a cert, in theory that ahe wa near enough to pany sltu, the Lmt pi vk.f hore to M ogroiind immeiliately.M I (OiitA if l ee found to be exactly a eerta'n percent age, mippowed to be 25 pcf or t, of thi amount of freight vSi.Jt eh mer- y com- St. P. tendiurj?, IM. 2fl.-That' the present ait nation can not fnd without bloodhi'd i tlin convii'tion prevailing in higher government circle whuh from moment to moment are expect ing a conflict U-tw.--n the troop and revolutioniMta in St. Petemlnirg and new of trouhle In the Provim-e. es pecially at KharkolT, which ha- been de- lered In a Mate of neige. (Mtvernor !j.ive been iin.trinted to take all precaution to preaerve order. An important member of tlie Kinperor council tilay atated to an Associated Irea n-preentative that ha aa-w no way out of it, except the employment of an armed force. The revolutionist and terrrorit, he declared are absolutely bent on forcing a con Diet and nothing elite will satisfy them. Kx tension of surTrace and rhht gi-neral trike in every branch of trade by the Social democracy wait adopted with a hurrah. Kven the chinovnik in the l.overnim-nt service, possessed the same spirit and passed resolution to Up aJl work tomorrow. Th( will pruliably include government teleprapl agency and may put telegraph and cable service out of commission. The remarkable feat ure of all speech e tonight wai the spip't of complete confidence that the aiicces of the move' ment was at hand, and the present intuition wa to-fow an armed eon tin t ujwin the Ooverrnment. The meet ing were continued far into the night In spit of the absence of disorders there is a condition of actual panic in tha city. Half the population were compelled to rely on candle or kero sene for light, while the street lamp AGED WOMAN DISAPPEARS ' WITH VALUABLE JEWELRY Margaret Todd Leaves Hotel in. New York to Go to East Orange and Is Missing. Xetr York, Oct. 27. With 125,000 worth of jewelry and a large sum of money in her possession, Margaret Todd SO year old, mysteriously disappeared today while on her way'from a hotel in West Twenty-sixth street to Kat Orange. . Kay Clear Up Mystery. - Philadelphia, Oct. 27. A woman sup- hipu io dc jir. ioiiu wa louna along tint, Philadelphia k Reading railway, near the entrance to.Fairmount park, late tonight. B.-th leg were severed j la-low the knee. She died shortly after reaching the hospital. From papers found on her body the police believe the woman wa the wife of Louis L. Todd, proprietor of tiie Hotel Marlborough and Vendome in New York. Jewelry and a small sum of money was found on lier. 157 WITNESSES CALLED Grand Jury Investigates land Frauds. ATTORNEY RUICK BUSY Peeling at Moscow is that Govern ment Has Not a Strong Case. TO TAKE TESTIMONY TODAY THEY FAIL TO AGREE Two Interstate Commerce Con ventions Are Held. I E Sort to Be Made to Connect Kester, Ketttnbach and Dwyer, all of Lewis ton, with Conspiracy to Defraud Gov ernment Out of Lands. of assembly would lie nothing to them. t in a large part of the city were exting' They are determined to have blood shed. It I a frightful disease, he said, whkh Kuia. Is aulTering from and the 'overnuieut must act with force. The minister said the law creating a resjtonsibhi I'abinet will proliably be promulgated and ('mint Witte'a nomi nation a Premier will lie announced to morrow. I'nder the statute the lhrmier may or may not hold a special port folio, fount Witte spent almo-t the entire day with the Kinperor at Peter- hof, nml ha not confided to hi col league whether he intend to take the Minister of Kniaiiee or no portfolio at all. Realizing that any attempt to inter fere with the monster meeting at the university will inevitably lead to a Woody outbreak, Ceneral Tlepoff, who announced during the afternoon that lie intended to prevent the assembly, instructed the police to close their ere to the fact, and the meeting was attend ed by Mwccti l.'i.OOO and 20,000 r- sons, passed off without conflict. Other Meetings Held. Pig meeting- were also held in Tch- nolojjfrnl tfmi Art institutes and" in two of the engineering school, The itu- lent in neither of the meetings took part in 4Rm deliberations, yielding the hospitality of the college buildings Tth- out at temping to cloak, tha meeting with the guise of student assemble. With the hope of avoiding further meet- nga at the Hniveraify.Tfepon, later In the evening, placed hall in thej differ, ent parta of tho city at tti- pi, ' uished. The street were deserted ex eept for squad of soldiers which are everywhere, The shop begun to olo-e this after noon, even in the central street. Many inhabitant shut themselves indoors, venturing forth only to make tieces sary purchase of food, which ha al ready mounted to famine prices. SITUATION IN OTHER PLACES. ARIZONA MINER SH( W; 'lii WIFE m the people, thua" rantin? for rhrht of 'aen 1 : The meeting at; gar description, in Vt Throngs! Gather in Every City Mob Loots Gunsmith Shops. Warsaw, (Vt. 27. The Governor ha ordered the trop to shoot every agi tator. Kinployea of the bank have declared n strike. Agitator tonight paraded the street, stopping car and forcing the store to close. Put rol are on guard everywhere. A detachment' of troop tired on the crowd this afternoon killing four and wounding many. Moscow A Ocnernl strike it effective this afternoon. All bu-tinesn institu tion are closed and commercial activity at Moscow is at a standstill, f! rent meeting were held in several quarters of the city. M-Haa Kigad The striker plundered a gun- shop here and seixed a numlicr of re volver and rifle and a quantity of am-, munition. ' 7 . : Loda Tha Ccvernor ha ordcrAl UJieJ . rt, with no light candles onj ? Tueon, Arls, Oct. 27.-T.il Ariza, miner, who haa been on a debauch for several days, returning to hie home In Manimoth mining camp on the San Pedro river, and his wife upbraidd hnm a a a Ik nri t I "W- ll " I ' nS i . .aap " , ,-4 . 4 f t i U ' dre,, ij.-- brfiUJvf I ft 'tvlej iffflM-1 rnfsn)ii- vourfits. 'then ho b.-gan aho(4ujg IraU-f-rlininaily. Juico of the Tfaco Klegel attempted to arrest Arlia, who resisted, and Klegel shot HTUJ'VlI - I,., ,l.l.,,L.,..-.-..1,..U.,..,..ll. I H v ti-y j. fi u tood wi .id wt t sp ,w htrrangut were held i iiiversit.i' t,il -v ' ' I, II I 7 :f : i3 TWO Moscow, Idaho, Oct. 27. Today' SETS OF RESOLUTIONS tr"'m from lje iston brought many peo ple from that city to appear a witness es before the Federal Grand Jury in alleged timber frauds, said to have been "Antia" Adopt the Title of "Federal Merpetn,te4 ln thw "Ute In ,!I the Rata Regulation Asaocuion"-Pur.- n n,ore than 100 of "" itB" 00 pooo'of 'New Body Sam as Old.' t Claimed to B Chicago, Oit. 27. Both conventions of the Interstate Commerce Law Conven tion adjourned todav witlaSut reenn ciling, and as a consequence there will Vw' he ha Wn unb,e to do e wi" hand. - Aryet' the Grand Jury hjs not been asked-rto heay -tlieia; b"t'it i presumed fhat matter will be taken up tonight or tomorrow. ' The reason for this is that United Slate Attorney Ruick desire's personally to conduct the examination, but owing to the. qae before tha trial lie two organized bodies working in the interest of rate legislation. The title assumed by "Antis" was the Federal Rate Regulation Association The purpose of the new body are the same a tjie old except riot to fol low the views . set forth lutiiin. ; 1 conclude hi labors before the trial jury today. It i understood, that in examining witnesses before (he' grand jury, th prosecution, will endeavor1 to connect W. F. Txettentiueh, f!.lL Kester and in the reao-'"'am Dwyer all of Lewiston, with having conspired to defraud the gov- The regular convention before adiourn wnment out of. Umber lands through ing, adopted a resolution endorsing "the entrymen. In all there 'aire T37" wit- Pi-csident's plan for government freight nMsfi sn,I wine interesting develop- regulation.' The "Antis" adopted a m"nt are looked for. , . , resolution declaring that "Railroads While there is no advance information should be kept within definite righU.Hit is aserted that the government in- and for "such legislation as to remedy I tend to find a nuinlier of "indictments existing evils." against entrymen on timber claims, sub- In addresses thif" members of this stantiatu 'indictment) ' against above convention protested that it delegate I mentioned men. who are already un- lid not come to Chicago in the interest I der indictment, and whose trial on, of he railroad. I former indictment were nostiMined un- Among the vice president elected by til. next session of court... "Anti"' were Wallace Nash, of Oreiron. I The innernmeiit bus been in it effort to secure statenieftts from the' witnesses In-fore they appear before 'the Grand Jury; and a" number of tliese witnesses have. been taken into what ia termed " sweat box," but with what result ia not generally. known. . Local feeling here and at other points strenuous and Mr. Goldsmith, of Seattle. &.AUFMAN GOES DOWN . IN THE SEVENTEENTH. for ack O'Brien Proves too Swift Young Calftornian, Who Was -Badly Beaten. San Francisco, Oct. 27. It took Jack i to the effect that thu ar tke ov-r OJlnen seventeen round tonight to (ernmcnt agent hnj e not secnrfjl uBi kniHk out Al haufman, who fought hislcient testimony- ,to coyict -anyj of tha sccimiu oame a a proiessionat Kauf-1 defendants named, and that unless new man took a beating aWh'aaSva sddoin I facts are ' dcterrhin.-nl by the present received in tlie history of San Francisco Grand Jury the cases in the end will ..i.i, ' i . ... I lie uroniiea. - 1 Kaufman, a husky niueteen-vear-1 i - could Butte, Msmt.,,Oet. 27. The .Twenty. r .- . t old boy, credited with a punch, c IIhIOi"ii f'Wi Hdelphian. j fourth regiment, S. A.reeeived or I I I I I te I fi I B I 2 I "2 I I 2 i i . !ra to proceed to San Fra'neisro, whr'm S'r-'g.'Sj t o " hi o o M 3 . O A. . H O .h hopa the .rakW i ismIlJ to jSndei factories. Troops were-mm-moned and the shops cloned. Crowds are in procession herAonight singing revolutionary song, dira'rg- Ing revolvers and setting Art to." tele-' graph polea. Tlie Voilka shops and all smalle.- meetings in kburhuid secret halls. Minority Urges Conservatism In all sections of the city a strong minority urged conservatism but these were carried off their feet by the gen- j.tral-e nf.'iu sian.'.Jati L.r"duti: sail for-MartiJa.Tl. sin,;- :h:by WIRELESS' a-. - t . ' , i j . sr. t .1 J Washington, D. C.; Qkt 27.-Accord- Vm kepV-ip'ffV.n'l-ation'tT to a report received here Ihe" Xavy De paxtmesit, wireless station, at Key West picked up the oruiser Want Virginia on which President Roosevelt is return- f dis tance of 375 miTiart.?p'ri ha'f p-: ed. Tha naval oll'ulala are vaililbg with considerable interest the, effortvof m-, mander of the Wet Virginian to main-, tain communication with"th mainland