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-.; eS r" " C V'jljVr , . 5 f : ' 4 . -11 a UBUtHIt PULL AttOOIATIO IMCtt ".IPO-.T OOVI TMK MORNING MILD ON Tril LOWS COLUMBIA VOLUME LX NO. 181 ASTORIA, OREGON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 1905 PRICE FIVE CENTS . ,w m ill. - 1i tBCSrrUaOWAiaa i AWFUL CUES UNEARTHED Life Insurance Swindlers Commit two Murders. OPERATE IN MEXICO Three Victims Lured There and Posloned After Being Insured. CRIMES DISCOVERED LATER Two SwindUr-Murdsrers Apprehended la Tail and Third It Induced ts Via it Uaittd States Where He Ii Ar rested AU ScaUnced to Death. New York, Nov. 23.-IVU1U of the crime for which W. C. Richardson, C. IL JUrle, and William Mason, Americans, Lave been sentenced to be ahnt at Chi liuahua, Mexico, were furnished lent night bjr Attorney Harry If. Bottoms, of lhi city. The Infliction of the death jM-imlty mark the end of an exlraordl naiy conspiracy to cheat the New York Life Insurance Company. Mr. lloltome waa solicitor general for that company when tlie murdra involved were com mitted, In 1002. The detail of the clime and the great detective story that followed have never been printed More, The three criminal fought extradition end appealed through the Mexican rouiU for three yeara. Hurlburt wa l!ialietr lawyrrj who ran, away to Mexico with aevrn Indictmenta over Ida head for running a "divorce mill.1 Mit chell, aliaa Maon, wan another Hx li en tr lawyer, who followed him later. With the help of !r. llarle, of Chihua liua, they poisoned with strychnine two other American, whom they caused to 1 insured in the New York Life and collected $.25,XM) on the politic. These two American were Harry MiUIJ1, brother of Mr. Hurlburt and James 1 lever, broken down mining man, Hurlburt, railing hlmaelf C. T. Richard eon, wa tlie company' agent at Chi luuihua. After the murder, the. gang, except llurlc, moved (o Texa. Detective en the Trail Sii-piclon wa aroused, and a, detec tive named (iray wa aent to Texa. He j.oM-d a a lumber merchant and wa supplied with lumber order from New York to kiH-p up the game. One day llurlbure spoke to Cray' little girl. The man mat, got intimate and Ilurlburt brouched a acheme to cheat the tnsur unit company out of $30,000. Ho on id that he had had experience. Detective my proposed that they iuaure Cray'a BAGGAGE CHECK SWIND- LEES OPERATE. Chicago, Nov. 83,--:hlcago A Alton and aeveral Western roads are suffering from th . opera- t e lions of baggage check awindlera 4 The game I a new one. Mot of the railroad have discarded the 4 old time brass checks and note utte a card on which ia written ) the destination, route, and other particular. Thee card are easy to imitate, and when the sharp- 4 er note the wording and number .aaV a i tlvAlr 11 vyoi an vtlawten ft VkCi ft. A Va BJB V IV V HAri a Y vv,i' V (faa-H -e gage that haa jut araived it ia the work of but a few minutes to prepare a duplicate and prea- ent It to the baggage man. In 4 many case the baggage haa been delivered aeveral hourae before the real owner called for it, thus 4 giving ample time to get away. 4 MANY INDICTMENTS AGAINST ILLINOIS BABNKEEft. Peoria, Nor. 2S.T-n addition' at indictment chanrlnf embei- zlement, were returned, by the November firand Jury yesterday, against Newton Dougherty, fanner superintendent and bank' er. Judge Worthlngton fixed the total bail at $10,800, which the prison ha been unable to , furruVn. brother in law for $30,000 a a begin ning. A broken down detective called John II. Kvens, waa imported by Gray as hit brother-in-law. Ha waa dying of con umptioo and Bright dUeaae. William Mitchell posed a Evan and two reput able physicians examined him and pro nounoad him good rUk. Ha waa known aa Meredith when he waa not the "Ev an.." The whole erowd, including Gray, waa arretted on November 1. Pr. Harla, who waa still in Chihuahua and wa Induc ed to come to the United State and waa arretrd. He waa put through the third degree; and made a confelon about hi connection with the two Chi huahua claim. The proceeding againat Mitchell and Hurlburt on the Dallaa plot wa dropped. All three were extra dited to Mexico for murder. Tbi waa in June, 1903. (Continued en page 8.) MANNING ON STAND Depew'sCtnUnkerous Friend " Talks on Life Insunnce. RECEIVED PAY FROM NICHOLS Hit Salary Wat I450 Per Annum, But When New York Life Dropped Out, It Waa Seduced to Ijoo Worked is Interest of Companiea, Not Official! New York, Nov. 23. Ute this after noon William S. Manning, referred to as Senator iVpew's "cantankerous friend up the river" wsa examined by the Arm trmg In vent gating Committee. Man ning wa the moat Interesting witness of the day. ne dcuiiea in work for the various companies, testifying he waa paid $4.r0 a year by John A. Nichol, to protect the life inxurance interests, always in the interest of business, but not Interest. of the oflli-er. After several yeara this amount was reduced to $3(NI. He did not know where Nichol got the money. He denied he ever received money from the hquitablc. vh.n tr f wa reduced, however, he under' stood it wa due to the fact that the New York Life, which with the Kiiuit able and the Mutual, each paid 10, had drawn out. , An interesting part of hi testimony concerned the state Insurance investiga tion of 1A77. Manning aaid he found reort of the proceeding, "garbled and untrue." n obtained a corrected report from the official stenographer and had a volume printed, which he sold to the companiea. Jle charged thefn $30 a copy. ' He dented that he ever arranged with the companiea to stop the publication of the book. , JAPANESE ENGINEERS PREPARE TO REPAIR EASTERN RAILWAY. Victoria, B. C, Nov. 23. Japanese en- gineera estimate that eighteen montha will .be required to repair the Chinese Eastern railway in Manchuria. The Rus sians did all possible to destroy its val ue and carried away most of the ap purtenances. The line will be virtual ly relaid. Since the return to Pekin of M. Pokotiloff there haa been consider able Intrigue with the object of handi P!iB Japan's possession of the railway."" rHOUSANDS 1 STO BY IISSII CLERK CASHIER OF SEATTLE OFFICE IS UNDER ARREST Shadowed By Secret Service Man, He is Caught With a Portion oi the Plunder on His Per son and Makes Full Confession, TAKES GOLD FROM PLACER Ater Operating Succeaafully for Several Montha, During Which Tim He Stole Gold Duet to th Value of Thirty Thousand Dollars from Minerala is Hit Potaeaaion, George Edward Adam a, Caahier of Government Aaaay Office at Seattle, and Prominent in Society, la Found Out and Admits Crime. Seattle, Nov. 23. eorge Edwarda Adams, seven yeara caahier of the Unit ed States assay office In thla city, and one of the best known young men in Se attle, I under arrest accused of the theft of (3.1,000 in gold dust, to which he had acre in an official capacity. Of thla sum 112,000 taken off Ad ams by a secret service agent, who claims that Adams made practically a complete confession, stating be had ab stracted more than 130,000 from the miners since June last, and substituted black sand, to represent deficiency in weight. Shrinkage Waa Too Large. Adams waa taken before the United States commissioner this afternoon and held in $30,000 bonds, to appear for pre liminary examination Friday. Secret Service Agent Connel, on the witness stand, testified the shortage would ex ceed $33,000. Connel in his statement aaid Adams' method waa to substitute black aand, which exists In nearly all the deposit of placer gold, for the dust turned into the assay office to be weighed and melt JUDGE SAYS NEWSPAPERS SHOULD MAKE R0 COMMENT Dclarea People Are Intereated in Suit Case Mystery and It Should Be Fairly Tried. Roston, Ma., Nov. 23. Judge Stev ens, of the superior court who will sit at the trial of the defendants in the famous "suitcase" tragedy, yesterday summoned representative of the local newspapers before him and gave them a statement of his viwa regarding news paper hnlding of the case. He said: "The case of the Commonwealth vs. Crawford and others has been assigned for trial next Monday. This case has received great publicity and great public interest has been manifested in it. It ia of the utmost importance that it he tried by an absolutely impartial and un prejudiced jury. 'Hereafter newspapers should not publish any new or. may any comment upon this case. They should publish no news whatever about the ease until the trial, which of course, they have a per fect right to publish the proceedings." MARSHALL FIELD FAST TRAIN Chicago, Nov. 23. A special train bearing Marshall Field from New York, to the bedside of Field's son, who acci dentally shot himself yesterday, while cleaning a gun, reached Chicago at S:30 . thia afternoon. The running time waa tony minuies issier man me iwenueia Century Limited. The condition of DUST REPLACING IT WITH SAND ed. After the gold waa melted, the weight represented by the aand would be charged to shrinkage, thua protecting Adama from detection. The shrinkage became so large, however, the depart ment's attention waa attracted and the inquiriea resulted in Adama arrest. Delivers Over Whea Accused. Connel state that when he accused Adams, be delivered over $12,000 in cur rency, concealed in a belt on his person. He admitted selling dust to a local bank. Connel aaye Adams told him that all had been extracted since June 1, last. The only statement Adamt had to make waa: "I do not care to make a detailed statement until I consult my counsel. As caahier I handled no money. I am confident I can within two or three daya straighten the matter up." Jacob Furth and M. F. Backue quail ilea tonight at oonasmen. Adama ia a native of Massachusetts and waa ap pointed caahier of the assay office in 1898. He drew a salary of $1800. In 1904 he married Mist Emily Clary, of this city, and the family ia very promt nent in aocial circle. MEDICAL OFFICERS TESTIFY THAT BRANCH DIED OF BLOWS Positive in Their Conviction that No Treatment Could Havt Saved Hit Lift. Annapolis Nov. 23. Medical officer gave aa their positive opinion, at the Merriwether court-martial today, that Rranch had died of the effect of blowa received in the fight. It was their con viction that no treatment could have saved hia life. The prosecution will al most surely close its testimony early tomorrow. $50,000 FIRE IN ST. PAUL. Plant and Building of Daily Newspaper Ia Deitroped. St. Taul. Nov. 23. Fire at the corn er of Fifth and Minnesota streets, early today ceased a loss of about $50,000. The principal loss was the Volkt Zei tung Printing Company, which publish es a daily German newspaper, ita lose being $30,000. SPEEDS ON TO DYING SON Marshall Field, Jr., is reported as be ing a "shade better although it is ad mitted no confident prediction of the outcome can be made inside of another 24 hours. Dr. Bowen stated tonight that no perceptible change had occurred in the past 12 hours. He expects the crista to be reached in about 19 hours. PINED FIFTY DOLLARS FOR ROLLING CIGARETTE. Lincoln, Xeb., Nov. 2.1. Milton Patrick Raymond, aired IH. waa arrested yesterday while lighting a cigarette which he had just rolled for hi own use in the presence of a ritv detective. He was Coed $30 and cost. Tbi i the lightest penalty prescribed by the law for "manufacturing" cigarettes. The affair haa created 4 a aentation. SENATOR PLATT DECLARES THAT 0DELL MUST RETIRE. Paver Congressman Olcott But Be lirvea Any Man Opposed to Form er Governor Will Do. New York, Nov. 23. Senator Piatt, in a statement on the New York county chairmanship, tonight said the party or ganization throug)ut the state haI been transformed into a weak, discord ant and dissatisfied body, kicking con fidence in it-elf and distrustful of it't leadership. Piatt said Odcll's retirement wat nec essary in consequence of his loss of the "New York county machine." Piatt went on to say hia choice for the com mittee must lie between Congressman Olcott and some other man who waa as much opposed to Odell and to the coun ty organization subservient to Odell, as Olcott JOHN D. TO TESTIFY Summoned in a Suit Brought A gainst SUndard Oil. ROGERS MUST ALSO TESTIYF Directed to Appear Before Commissioner Appointed by Folk in Connection With Suit Brought to Prevent Them from Doing Business in Missouri New Y'ork, Nov. 23. Subpoenas were issued today for John D. Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler, Henry IL Rogers, and other financiers, to appear as witnesses in two suits pending in Missouri, to oust the Standard Oil Company, and two other oil companies, from doing business in that state. The subpoenaei direct the witnesses to appear December 4, before Frederick II. Sanborn in this city, appointed by Governor Folk to act aa commissioner for the state of Missouri. The ground of one of the actions is an alleged pool or trust, between three companies, to regulate the price paid by the retail dealers in Missouri. It was charged also, that the companies misled the public into the belief that they were three separate and distinct corporations. The second suit Is very similar to the first HOTELS ANR WAREHOUSES BURN. Vladivostok, Nov. 23. There are no further disturbances and order is com pletely restored. Warehouse have been burned end nearly all the hotels have suffrd from th torch. OYER SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND. New Y'ork, Nov. 23. Contributions received yesterday to the Jewish relief fund by the committee Having that fund in charge amounted to $30,371, making a grand total received to date of $660,758. TRANSPORT BUFORD ARRIVES. San Francisco, Nov. 23. The U. 8. army transport Buford last night arriv ed from Manila, three days overdue. She encountered some very heavy weather aftr leaving Honolulu and it tok her nine days instead of six to make the run. She had on board 78 cabin pes sengera, 13 in the steerage and a bat talion of the Fourteenth cavalry. Dill BALLOT DEMANDED Zemstvo on Its Congress Insists Inauguration. ; GOVERNMENT OBJECTS Witte Considers It Impossible Grant Demand and His Friends Protest, to ONLY WAY TO RESTORE ORDER Congress Goes on Record as Favoring the Principles of the Manifesto, But Laying Down Vote as Only Means of Guaranteeing the Douma. Moscow, Nov. 23. By the scant ma ority of twenty, the Zemstvo Congresa today adopted the first section of the program drafted by the executive com mittee, declaring the solidarity of Con gress with the . Principles of the Im perial Manifesto, and assuring the Gov ernment of the support of the great ma jority of the ZemHtvo'e and the munici palities in carrying into effect the liber ties promised by the manifesto, but lay ing down aa the sole means of guaran teeing the authority of the Douma and restoring order in the country, the elec tion of representative by general, di rect, equal and secret ballot, and the formal granting of the first Doom the power of elaborate constitution of the empire. The friends of Count Witte made a stout fight against the provision of di rect ballot, one concession which tho Premier considers it impossible to grant. but this provision waa carried over their heads, by a two-thirds majority. , Gerard Not Finland's Choice, St. Petersburg, Nov. 23. Although M. Gerard is Count Witte's selectioa as Governor General of Finland, he is) sot the choice of the Finnish delegation here, who prefer Prince Sviatapolk-lfir sky. Members of the delegation, how ever say the new general will be entire ly accptablo to the Finnish nation. He ia a man of liberal views, regarded as an authority on matters of jurisprud ence and it is believed he will make a good administer. TROOPS ARRIVING AT EJELCE. Kiclce, Nov. 23. Troops are pouring in to re inforce the garrison in Poland! One additional regiment arrived today and two passed Kiek-e, marching ia the direction of Dombrova. YOUNG WIFE VICTIM OF A SHOTGUN ACCIDENT. Los Angeles, Nov. 23. Mrs. Frieda Schultx, aged 17, wife of an electrician, waa shot in the back of the head with a double barreled shotgun and instantly O killed last evening, at her home, as the result of the care lee 4 handling of the loaded weapon by her little brother and sister. Mrs. Schulta waa engaged ia cleaning the house and aa she wma moving the article about 4 4 tho children were playing with 4 them. The shotgun waa picked up by one of them and the two 4 began a tusee! for its possession. 4 In some manner both barrele of 4 the gun waa discharged, tie - contents striking Mrs. Schulta la the back of the head, and she fell to the floor, dying Instantly.