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1 1 UOVSRt THE MORNING PltLO QH Jfi IQW! CQlVWff UBUSHIS FUU AtOOIATIO PRItt rUPOUT (ASTORIA, OREGON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 1905' PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME LX NO. 171) in V in I V III THE HAN Named by tic President , For Federal Bench. MAN SOUGHT BY OFFICE Appointment Came Unsolicited and Is Received With Gratification. LONG FIGHT BROUCHT TO END Kmong Applicants Were Judge McBride ef Oregon City, Juitlce Been of Su preme Court, County Judge Webtter, of Portland, J. L. Kind, Biker City Washington, Nov. 21.- President Itooevelt has appointed Judge ( liarlca K. WoUrrton, Associate J in. tit of the Oregon Supreme Court, a United Slate District Judge of Oregon, in succession to th la tf (.'bailee ft. Bellinger. It will V recalled that President Roosevelt first tendered the spointment to Judg Cot ton, who declined. The fight 1r appointment date from the time of Judge IWdlinger's death and a continued without interruption -ver since, with one exception, and that u during the interval following the announcement that W. W. Cotton ha reccUcd the appointment, until hi de clination of the office, aft-r the commis sion had Wn placed in hi hand. Candidate fur the pun were miinor tu. When the vacancy occurred Senator Fulton, the only member of Congress in petition to act, sent to the President, list of six name, any on of which, he told thr President, would ! god " lii tJon. Thia lit wa made up of the follow in: Circuit Court Judge Thoma A. Mc ' Hilde, of Orrjron Cityj Supreme Justice Itolwrt S. Bean, of Salem I Associate .fustic Char lea K. Wolverton, County Judge R. Webster, of Portland, and .lohn L. Rand, of Baker City. COMPLETE SUBPRLSE Justice Wolverton Wu Not Looking for the Anointment Portland, Nov. 21. .liinlU-e Wolverton Nrrouipunicd liy Mr. Wolverton, l in the city today to attend the annual meet iiig of the Str.te liar Association, and tin new of hi appoinment came ii a complete surprise. "I am highly gratified ''J n,y l,Pnt im-nt, jwrtU-ularly a it come to me without aoliritatinn on my part," he eaid. "I have iweiyed from Chief Ju the Ifeaa telegram of congratulation, and thl 1 deeply etent. I have up portal Judge Bean In lila candidacy from the etart, 'and ahould have been gratified had he been appointed. "1 fully appreciate the honor of an ' appointment to the Federal bench for 4 SALOOJf HELD UP FOUR TIMES in TWO TEARS. Seattle, Nor. 21. Two manked men hnld up and robbed of $20, th Maple Leaf aaloon at Van Aaeclt, aeven mile from thia cityftt .10:30 tonight Thia it tb fourth tim tha Mapla laf ha. lx-n .held up in two year One of the timet a jockey named Smith wat killed by one of the rnliler, tht man never being idmtifii'd. Another time, De Smiti, to AudtralSan, wat killed hr three robbert. VOLVERTON Of !. GERMANY'S FINANCES ABE N BAD C0IfDm0!f' ' ' lUrlin, Nov. 21.J tt Is Mini- ofliclally declared that the fluan- w of Hie (icrnian Empire r not in a satisfactory condition. 4 Thr iniMtil debt, while in IM77 was M,io.MW now amount to m;3xMXMi, not counting the in- : ; reasc in tli estimate for army and navy supplies, tus., iy about $0tw'i1iiiiO. The now rev 4-iiiif m must I" covered by an ad- ditloual taxation. life, and alo the high reponihility tlmt drvolv Umhi me by reaon of that apiMtintment, and it hall he my pui-poM to diwharge tlie dutie of the high office in jtmlire to all ntrn. .linlg" Cliarle E. Wolverton wm lirn in Iowa, My 1, W, and i now 54 vear old. He came to Oregon when but 2 year of age. He received the mot of hi education at the Christian College, at Monmouth, Ore,, from which he gradu ated in WJ, He then went Kut and .tudicd law in the I'niver.lty of Ken tucky, at Islington, from which he graduated in 1874. He then returned to Oregon. I'poii hi arrival he wu, on motion of Judge lien Haydeu, one of the character Wic figure of thn early Oregon br, admitted to practice, before the rlrcuit court at Sa- Inn. In the fall of the name year he wa admitted to practice before the tupreine court of the Male, on motion of Oeorge It. Helm, a prominent member of the (Continued on page 8.) SENTIMENT VEERING Zemstvo Congress is Inclined to Favor Witte. LABORERS rVANT EIGHT HOURS Adopt Courie of Throwing Down Tool But Employert Resolved to Take Firm Stand and Shops Will Be Closed Un lets Men Agree to Sixty Hours. Mohcow, Nov. 21. Sentiment in the Zcinitvo Congrc ia veering dietinctly to the tide of Count Witte end it now iwviii probable that a large majority of delegate will favor a revolution to come to the aMKUtance of the fiovern ment againnt the forcea of revolution and diftorganiution, though the Wo of uch action i regardwl by a conlder able faction, a the b-at of many evil. The Polish delegation which came to St. IVterxliurg from Polnnd, attended the Congrena tialiy. T.hcy read the mani festo iuwl at St. IVterbirg lat night. They nW made a tKMil plea for co-operation by the ZcmMvoW in the de mand for autonomy. The Congre took no action. Want Eight Hours. St, Petersburg, Nov. 21. lVpite tlw decision of the workmen' council to night to not demand an eight hour day, the question of shorter hour I taking a critical turn, end tlirvaU-n, to produce an Industrial crik At Hubard, Paul Westinghouse, and other important factoriea, the men in sist o na. reduction of hours and have adojHsd the course of throwing down tool nfter laboring eight hours. The employer at a, meeting tonight resolved to stand firm against the de mands. The local works will be closed unlets the men consent to the old ye tem of eixty hour per week. Mutiny Follows Demand for Better Food t. Petersburg, Nov. 21. Private ad vicea from Gomel ttate that a battalion of 1000 reservist have mutinied, fol lowing a demand for better food. , British Ships Co to Pirfaeus. London, Nov. 21. The British' cruis er Lancaster, and the scout ship Senti nel have been dispatched to rirseus. " CANTANKEROUS FRIEND IS IDENTIFIED ir DISCLOSURE MADE BY W. S Manning of Albany Admits His Identity and Does Not Deny that He Made the Yearly Visit For the Voucher. DECLARES IT IS LEGISLATURE Let the Searchlight Be Turned There and on the Insurance Department, and Not on the Officials of the Company, He Declares Angry When He Heara the Part His Name Played Befort the Committee, and Retaliates by Offering to Tell a Ftw Things if They Will But Call on Him to Testify. New York, Nov. 21. The Identity of Senator Depew't "cantankerous friend from up river," was disclosed at the ses sion of the Aiin4rong Investigating Commit U'B today by the testimony of John A. Nichols, a lawyer under retainer by the Equitable Life. lVew wa un able to recall who wa meant by the "cantankerous friend," but today Nich ols disclosed a series of pawment to W. S. Manning, a former actuary who wm connected with the investigation of insurance companies in 1877. Attorney Hughes inquired a to the renort that Manning was in possession of information suppressed during this investigation, detrimental to the insur ance companies. Nichols did not recall the suppression of information, but de tailed the payment of tumt of money over a considerable period, to Manning a an inducement to give up his busi ness a actuary, in which capacity he be lieved Manning was a menace to the KciuiUiblc. Senator Piatt on the Stand. Aside from the disclosures of Nichols, the feature of the day wo the apear ance of Senator Piatt, who did not hesi tate to tell of the contributions of the insurance companies to the state cam paigns. The Equitable, the Mutual and the New York Life were the only com panies that made such contributions. The Equitable contributed regularly f 10,000 to the ttate campaigns, the Mu tual Life the same sum frequently, and the New York Lif not as large as amount only occasionally. The Senator said he wa expected to influence the legislature when any legislation appear. ed hostile to the companies. Senator Piatt said he believed he had asked President McCurdy for a contri bution when the need was very great. He had however, never been asked to use hi influence on any measure before the legislature nor had he ever done to. He knew nothing about contributions to the National campaign. (lage E. Tarbell was also a witness again today. Hit testimony consisted of an explanation of the exigency system, and the manner of arriving at a commis sion. CAN TELL A FEW THINGS Manning Offers to Go Befort Investigat ing Committee. Albany, N. Y, Nov. 2t.-William S. LETTERS AND TELEGRAAAS SHOWN AGAINST BURTON St. Louis, Nov. 21. The introduction of letters and telegrams between Sen ator Burton and Thomas B. Harlan, at torney for the Ritlto Grain and Securi ties Company, were th feature of the second day of the trial of Senator Bur ton. The defense interposed objection! il EQUHABLFS ATTORNEY THAT NEEDS INVESTIGATION Manning, when told the part bin name bad played in the insurance investiga tion today, replied with considerable: heat: "If you want to hear from me, let them call me before the committee. can tell Htighet a few thing. The place where they should turn the searchlight i not so much on the officers ot tUa ia ura nee committees, as on the insurance department ami the legislature." Manning stated that he never received a retainer for opHng before the Legis lature, measure harmful to the com pany and policy holders. "True I was a friend of Senator De pew, True 1 get around one a year. Once a year it wa tlie custom, as Nich ols said, if I wished to continue the ar rangement. I never was employed by the Equitable." "INTERNAL" INVESTIGATION Director! of the New York Life After President McCalL New York, Nor. 21. Appointed by the board of directors, with instructions to report to that body, a committee of the New York Life Insurance Company for the last two weeks, hat been con ducting an "internal" investigation of its business in order to learn the ex tent of the accuracy of assertions made on the witness stand in the Legislative inquiry. The report of thi private investiga ting committee is nearly completed, and it will show, according to tlie Herald, that the conclusions reached bear out those of the official inquisition and are particularly drastic with regard to John A. Metal!' administration of the office of lresident. It is understood that toe final report of this committee will be framed by John C. Laflin, who i a director of the company and a member of its finance committee. JOHN D'a. "RIGHT HAND MAN." Rogers May Have to Tell What He Knows of Mutual New York, Nov. 21. Facts are com ing to light in the investigation of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, which it is said, may make it necessary to put IL IL Rogers, of the Standard Oil Com pany, upon the witness stsnd before the continually, but notj on the question of authenticity of the letters or telegram. The Government claim'e the letters and telgrame tend to show 'Buron was acting as attorney before the Posfoflice Depart ment for the Rialto Company wfeila he was United States Senator. GIRL GETS POISON INTENDED .. FOR HER FATHER, t Pre-que I-le,' Me., Nov. 21. Mr. Isaa Barne. we arretted yesterday charged with murder. It i alleged that she placed strychnine ia epsom salt, there- by causing the death of Pearl Barnes, her 13-year old step- 4 daughter. Mr. and Mr. Barneit had been separated for several months and the authorities main- tain that the poion w as intend - ed for Barnes. Armstrong committee before long. Mr. Roger is chairman of the agency committee of the Mutual Life's trus tees and is prospectively involved in the issue raised by the Mutual' own inves tigating committee whether the con tract made with M. II. Raymond & Co., were secured properly or whether actions might lie against someone for the recovery of excessive commission paid under these agreements. Senator Thomas C. Piatt was expect ed to be the first witness before the committee today to tell ebout the money tliat ex-fJovernor Odell says the senior Senator from this state collected from insurance companies for campaign pur poses. It wa said last night that the Senator's deposition might be taken at hi office. Canada Will Follow Suit Victoria, B. C, Nov. 21. An Ottawa special says Senator Domville will move at the next session for an insurance in vestigation in Canada. A Former University President Lec tures on Chinese Relations. CHINA'S TRADE IS ENORMOUS Says that if Boycott Continues Even the Chinese Government Will Be Un able to Control it and a Serious Situ ation Will Thui Bo Created. Berkeley, Nor. 21. Horace Da vies, a former president of the State Univer sity and prominently connected with the Pacific coast trade with the Orient, de clared today in a lecture on that sub ject before the College of Commerce, a branch of the university, the boycott on American goods in Chin to be a menace to American interests in the Orient, cre ating a situation so serious that the Chinese Government finds iUelf power less to control it. This untoward con dition, he attributed to the harsh ad ministration of the American exclusion law. Speaking of the possibilities of the trade with Chin alone, he said: "The Chinese now have a foreign com merce amouuting to about $1.23 head per year. Japan has in forty years de veloped a commerce, running up from nohing to about $3.50 per person a year, or about $260,000,000 per year altogeth er. If China can be made to develop such a trade a this, in the same time, it would amount to about $2400,000. Now Chins' foreign commerce U $333, 000,000. What this great growth would mean to alt the countries taking part in supplying China's needs can easily be understood. If Chiitv could ever bo made to develop a foreign commerce equaling per capita, the commerce of this country, it would amount to the stupendous tots! of $13,000,000,000 a year, an amount almost inconceivable." St, Petersburg, Nov. 21. Admiral Bir ileff closed the new admiralty yards to day on account of the demands of. the workmen for an eigfit hour day. St. Petersburg, Nov 21. The news papers appeared today Jot the first time in over a week. There is a significant cJiange on tht part' of" some' of the radi cal organs against the dictatorial atti tude of the Social Democrats. BOYCOTT MENACE ONE IRE HIP IS LOST Schooner Goes on Rocks Sinks Near Halifax. IDENTITY IS NOT KNOWN Believed That Ship Struck and . Foundered and That Her Boilers Expoded. CONVERSE IS ALSO A WRECK la Towed Into Norfolk With Her Saila All Gone and Water Pouring Through Seams at Rata of Foot aa Hour BonnB to New York From Port Royal. Halifax, Nov. 21. The violent atorm of last week hat apparently claimed an- other victim. A two-mas ted schooner is thought to have gone to the bottom Thursday, off Beaver Harbor, 50 miles from Halifax, Her identity is not es tablished snd as far as can be ascer tained, not one of the crew survived. News of the disaster was brought to HaJifax tonight by the steamer Kilkeel. While heading into Beaver Harbor Thursday and the Kilkeel observed an other steamer behind. When tht Kil keel reached her haven, unknown had pastted to the West of Horse Island near the harbor entrance, w.hich hid her hull, Great Cloud Ia Seen. Suddenly a great cloud of smoka or steam shot upward and when it had cleared sway, the masts of the incom ing steamer had vanished. The officers of the Kilkeel are positive she went to the bottom. They believe she struck a rock and foundered, and that iher boilers exploded. Off Ship Harbor, thirty miles West of Halifax, a large schooner, bottom up, waa passed by the Kilkeel, making the fourth wreck reported within two days. The schooner was not identified. CONVERSE A WRECK Lumber Laden for New York She la Towed Into Norfolk Harbor. Norfolk, Nov. 21. The three-masted schooner William Converse, from Port Royal to New York with lumber, was towed into Norfolk tonight, with all the sails gone and water pouring through; her seams at the rate of a foot an hour. The Converse bad a thrilling experi ence all the way up the coast. Shs first lost her deck load, and then the sail went one by one. Her steering gesr next became bjured and she rolled in the trough of the sea as tho hesvy teas swept over her. t. Water was pouring into her hold through the strained seams, when tho steamer Rescue went to her assistance off the Dam Neck Mills. I, STABBED TO DEATH IN A MONTANA SALOON. Butte, Mon.'Nov. 21. A tpee ial from Town send, Mont., aayti A stabbing affray occurred hero early this morning during E sa loon row in which John Black, a stranger, w faUlly wounded, dying about 3 o'clock.- The af fair took placa In a saloosi,! which-time 'two women of red Bgh$ 'district aril sever! .ape nierV were present? but 'no on seems tS know who1 dHtha sUb-, bins-. ' ' ' - i!