UBLItHIt FULL AttOOIATID PRIM RIPORT
COVINS THK MORNINO PIILO ON TH LOWE COLUMBIA
VOLUME LX NO. 109
ASTORIA, OREGON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 1905
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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HLDID
Retriever of Cashier Ad
ams Delivers Plunder.
PACKAGE IN HIS MOUTH
Secret Service Men, Friendly (o
Dog. R p.ld For Their
Kindness.
DUST WORTH $10,000 FOUND
After Package li Delivered by Adam's
Doe, Stent Service Operatives Sat
to Woik Beneath Tons of Coal
Flai tha Stolen Plunder Cached.
rnttlr, Pe 2.-IWlal Instinct of a
Chesapeake Bay dog today resulted in
the discovery of gold dut worth $10,.
OOO cached away la the home of George
K. Adam, tha self confessed defaulting
eahler of tha United Stair y of
fit In thla city,
When tha secret sen Ice oerative
entered the Adama home to make a
search, they cultivated the acquaintance
of the dog, which U a broken retriever.
A few minutes UUr ho came to the
operative with a package containing
""jgold dust in hla mouth. With thin in
centive, the searchers set to search with
a will, and underneath tone of coal
stored in tbe basement, found duitt val
ued ut (10,000.
HUNT WILL PRESIDE
Eipccti to B Called to Portland to
Try Land Fraud Cases,
lN-lf-nn, IVc, 2.-Federal Judge, Hunt,
in an interview Unlay, said, that whilf
not jet formally called to Portland to
try the land fraud cases, ho expected
hi would Im. January 8, he thought,
would ha th opening day of the Feder
al Court in Portland, at which time he
rxjMvti-d the) ram would tome up.
Heney Will Have Charge.
Washington, Dec. 2. It stated
at the Department of the Interior, that
F, J. Heney, whose successor ha lieen
named a Iitrict Attorney for Oregon,
will have, entire charge, for the govern
mcnt, in the prosecution of the land
fraud case.
NXW YORK POLICE ADOPT
IMTRINT SYSTEM.
N York, Dec, 2. Polio
(ommi-ioner McAdoo ha de-
4 elded to adopt the French inv
print system of identifying crim-
inaln, in the Ne York depart- e
merit, and ha announced that
for thin purpoce, Detective- Rcr-
grant Joseph Fauro will leave
shortly for ParU where he will
upend two montba atudying
4 the method now followed thro-
iighout France. Sergeant Fauro
in in charge of the Dertillion
measurvnient system at head'
quarter and ia an expert in
that line.
ANOTHER VICTIM OF MOW-
TAW A BLIZZARD. e
Hull, Dw. 2. A special from
Iswiiiton tjiat Tom DavU,
a sheep herder, of the Flat Wll-
low district. I niiing and it U
Mir! that he waa frown to e
death In a r-nt blizzard. Th
ottitw in Fergus County i two e
feet and a half deep on a fori e
and trernetubm atornu have
raged lately.
EXPRESS DASHES THROUGH
WRECKIHO CRXW IN TUNNEL
With Backs Toward Advancing Train,
Men Meat Their Doom Without
Moment'a Warning.
New York, IW. 2.On man killwl,
four diving ami two other seriously
hurt a a Ilia result of the dh of a
fut flying wesU-rn exprcs train
through a cotiatrurtfon crew on thef
trtu-k of lit" Krio railroad, in the
tunnel in Jersey City, early this morn
ing. The mi wera thick wifiout
warning a they were working to clear
the track from a wreck
StanUlavr Monater wan killed out
rltit. John Kobakl, William Dietree,
Vimmn Kumika, and Ctrge Yar-ii-k
were, it U aaid mortally injured.
The) uia wero working on th at
bound track of the Erie, about MO feet
went of the tunnel'a mouth. Their
bark era toward the advanoiag brain.
The train ttaelf, known aa the "West
ern Flyer," wa heavily laden and run
ning lchiud time.
The lgnal light and tower aignak
hIiowivI Die track all ck-ar and Um eo
gino driver wa going at a high peed
wlien tha train ewept around a curve
and upon the gang of Uborora.
RUMOR OF TROUBLE
French Correspondent Tells
Clash at the Ptlice.
of
CZAR QUARRELED WITH DUKE
Communication Between St Petersburg
and Outside World Shut OS on Ac
count of Strike of Telegraphers Who
Demand Durooro's Resignation
Puri. Dec. 2. The Journal thU
morning puhlihe a St. Petcrxhurg din
patch, carried to F.ydtkuhncn (Knt
Pruia) by a courier, which repeat the
recent retort relative to the violent
ccite in the pului-v, at Toarkoe Selo.
The Journal nay the trouble wa be
tween FmpernP Xioholna and the ( I rami
Duke Yhulimer, ami wa relative to the
Grand Duke Cyril
The paper add that it i certain
oiiiething extraordinary occurred there,
benitbt the diITcction of the guard, and
the whole domeotio abaff at the palace
i now preparing to Mr ike.
COMMUNICATION SHUT OFF
r
European Capitals Hear' No News from
Russia.
London, Dee. 2. Up to midnight,
lxindon, Berlin, Copenhagen, Pari and
Stockholm were completely shut off
from teprapl roinniunVwtiott witli
St, Petersburg. Early this afternoon,
the Great Northern Telegraph Com
pany, which haa two route into St.
Petersburg, one by way of Copenhagen
and Lihau. and another by the wsy of
Finland, announced communication waa
completely severed.
The Auoriated PreM waa endeavor
ing to get Into communication with St.
Petersburg, via Helaingfors, but flnda it
impossible by wire, and there ia some
EFRAUD STA
RE-SELL THE SAME TRACTS TIME AND AGAIN
After Defrauding State of Practically all tbe School
Land It Possessed They Begin Tbe Manufact
- ure of Bops Certificates.
FORGE SIGNATURE OF CLERK OF THE LAND BOARD
Operations of Swindler Who Hare Perpetrated Frauda Far Mora Serious
Thaa Any so Far Unearthed, Diacomed by State Land Agent Oawald
Went, Who Finds that Victims Aro for tha Most Part Eastern Bankers,
Who Wars Induced to Mako Final Payments and Secure Deeds.
Salem, Dee. t. Far more serious
than any of the previoua developmente
in the many skied bind frauda perpe
trated in thia state, are the charges
made in a letter to Governor Chamber-
kin today from State I .and Agent
Owald Wert, who in effect averts that
by mean of forged certificate 0f sale
of school land, Kaatern bankers have
in the aggregate been swindled of un
told aums of money.
Many Times Resold.
Not content, tbe land agent a inert,
with having defrauded the Mate of ap
approximately 500,000 acres of school
land, practically all it poneed, by
meena of "dummy" entrymen, when the
money wa no longer to be made in
tiSat manner, the land operator pre
pared printed certificate of sale and as
Hignmenta, and inserted in them dea
criptiona of school lands, on which cer
tificate had previounly been iasued, the
number of the entry, then forged the
signature of the clerk of the state land
hoard and notariea public, attached the
forged notary aeala and the forgery of
Vie great seal of the State of Oregon,
doubt aa to whether water is sufficient
ly free from ice, to permit boat cross
ing to Hehiiiigfor from the Russian
port.
Tim Associated Press and Renter
Telegram Company, aa well a the Eng
lish newspaper, sent urgent dixpatches
to their correspondent all over Rula
andspecklly at the frontier point to
-ecure new from St Petersburg and the
interior, but none of the cable compan
ies in Ixndon received a word up to
midnight '
Warsaw is the only point from which
any Russian newa haa been received
since early thia morning, and this, with
tlie exception of a private message
over the railroad line, briefly speaking
of the conflagration at Moscow, is prac
tically confined to the events at War
saw and Lods.
WHARF LABORER STRIKERS
IN CLASH WITH THE POLICE
Georgetown, British Guiana, Dee. 2.
Rtota of wharf laborers continued
throughout Friday. The police fired on
the strikers several times, killing seven
and wounding seventeen. The mob is
very determined and refused to listen
to lis own delegate, who met the Gov
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ACRES
and re-sold the lans time and .again.
to inocent persona in the Eat
Land Lists Secured.
SUte Land Agent West state that
the forger ie were discovered while en
gaged in separating bona fide entrie
from the dummies. Land operators se
cure lista of all school landa on whkh
all but the last or "demand" payment
haa been made, and filling these into
their prepared certificate, invite the
purchaser to have the land cruised and
induce him to obtain abstract) from the
clerk of the state land board, who
knowing nothing of the fraudulent na
ture of the proceeding, report the cer
tificate in good standing and gives ex
changeable deeds, on the payment of
the balance due. The deal is then con
cluded.
Eastern Banker Duped.
West says he discovered a Urge nam
ber of forged certificate in the hands
of Eastern banker, and says the mag
nitude, will be known only when,
through publicity, the duped persons
send certificates to this city for ex
amination. The forgeries, West eon
eludes, are almost perfect
Great Fire Raging.
Warsaw, Deo. 2. The railroad tele
graph operators at Moscow say a great
incendiary conflagration is raging there.
Durnovo to Be Retained.
Berlin, Dec. 2. A correspondent of
the Lokal Anzcigcr reports from Kieff,
by way of Podwolociyski, (on the Aus
trian frontier in Galicia) that Russian
official communicate with St Peters
burg by railway telegraph couriers.
Two hundred postal and telegraph del
egates assembled at Moscow, the cor
respondent add, and demanded recog
nition of the old Russian League of
Post and Telegraph officials, the remov
al of M. Durnovo, the acting minister
of the interior, freedom of the assemb
led delegates and the re appointment of
d.smil officials.
em or and secured assutraacea from him
that inquiry would be made into their
grievances and red res afforded, if pos
sible. Windows throughout city have
been smaahed and the ' electric street
railway has cea.ed running. The riot
ing continuous today.
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L LAND
GIRL CRUSHED BY A PAS-
SEIfGER ELEVATOR.
Worcester, Mass, Dee. 2.
Mis Grace It McN'ulty, aged 20
years, and employed at a de-
partment store here, was caught e
between the car of a paesenger
elevator and the basement ceil-
ing in tbe store last night, sua-
taining injuries from which she
died at tbe city hospital this
morning. e
IN A MOMENT OF SANITY
LUNATIC BEGS FOR DEATH
Implores Attending Surgeon to Kill
Him If Unable to Permanently
Restore His Rearon.
Ann Arbor, Mich.. Dec. 2. Restored
from what seemed bnpelea lunacy, to
complete sanity, ye-terday, by a sur
gical operation at the University hospi
tal, William Dwyer, in a momentary
period of control after being placed on
the ojs-rating table, begged the surgeon
to kill him if it appeared that he
would always have to be crazy.
Two years ago in a smelter furnace,
ta Portland, Ohio, Dwyer's skull was
crushed, by being hit by a steel rail.
After an apparent recovery, he became,
a month ago, a raving maniac
In Um operation it was demonstrated
that his mental trouble was entirely
due to an absceaa in hia brain. This
wa successfully removed and a silver
plate,, about two inches square, fittrd
in the hole that the surgeon had made
in the akull
Than the scalp was sewed in place
and the patient i well on the way back
to hia former nefulnea. Dwyer ia 35
years old and haa a wife and two child
ren.
18 BS KILLED
"Blow-out" Cause! Explosion in
Diamond Mine.
NO ONE ALLOWED T0,NTER
Fearing AiCer-Damp, Superintendent
Return Admissio to Mine and it ia
Many Bonn Before Rescue Parties
Enter and First Body ia Recovered.
Diamondville, Wyo., Dec, 2. Eigh
teen miner lost their lives in an ex
plosion late last night in the Diamond
Coal & Coke Company's mine. It ia
believed all the men who perished yere
instantly killed. What caused tbe dis
aster is not definitely known but the
theory advanced by the miners is that
a "blow out" shot caused the dust to
explode.
The force of the explosion was felt
all over town, rocking the buildings so
violently that the occupant ran from
them. This is the second disaster, of
the Diamond mine. February 26, 1901,
thirty-two miners perished.
Practically the whole population of
Diamondville, ' including the wives and
children of the entombed miners rufthed
to the mouth of the shaft) and the
scenes wero most patheUa
Although men were ready to enter
the mine, the superintendent refusd to
allow it, owing to fears of afterdamp,
and it waa lata today before the first
reecuo parties entered the shaft, and
after that some time before the first
body waa brought to th surfara
Every man in the mine perished, and
that the lose of life was not greater in
attributed to the explosion occurring
at night when only a small force was
employed The dead miners were most
ly Englishmen.
MISSILE SHIED
AT TBI
Tbrown through Window
of President's Car.
FALLS AT CUESrS FEET
President Attributes rVanton Act
to Some Irresponsible
Person.
TRAIN RUNNING SLOW SPEEL
When Close to Philadelphia Occupaate
Aro Startled by Metal Plua-Beh
Crashing Through Front Car Which
Fails to Inflict Injury. .
W'ashkgtor-.TJeet An .'unknown
person hurled a heavy iron plum bob
through a window in one of the cars of
President Roosevelt's special train to
night, oa the run from Princeton to
Washington. Tbe mis-tile which was
thrown with terrific force, crashed
through the transom of the window of
the combination car Salvius, and fell
at the feet of Maof Webb Hayes, sof
of the late President Hayes, who waa
a guest of the President on the trip to
the army and navy fotball game.
Fragment of the broken glaaa fell
oa Major Hayes, who waa sitting with
hia back to the window reading, but
did not injure him.
Traveling at Slow Speed.
The train at tha time waa running at
a comparatively slow rate. Bread
stmt, la North Philadelphia, Ui )a
been crossed and tbe train waa ia the
vicinity of Oxford street, wrkn ta
crah waa hard by the occupanta of the
car. The ear waa first oa the train
and might have been mistaken easily,
for President Roosevelt' private car.
That, however, waa at the rear of the
train. It waa remarked also that
Major Hayes from the profile view
strongly resembles the President and
might hare been mistaken for the chief
excutive. Doubt is expressed by the of
ficials of the Pennsylvania, whether the
missle was intended to be hurled at the
President They say several times, re
cntly stones have been thrown at the
trains pawirjg tugh Xortii Phila-
delphia, and on one occasion a man waa
severely cut by broken glass, when a
heavy stone crashed through the win
dow. (Continued on Page Eight.)
CLUNG TO THEIR BOAT FOR
HOURS.
Victoria, Dec. 2. Two Japaa-e-e
fishermen re -cued Wednes
day by the light keeper at Cow
khan Gap, showed wonderful
endurance. Their sloop waa
wrecked in an easterly gale and
the two men were in the lay
water two hour during a snow
storm, clinging to their wrecked
ve-el until it drove ahore. De
spite their privations, they
worked all night vainly trying
to save their veaseL Th light
keeper found then, exhausted
and took them to the lighthou-A,
for succor.