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VOLUME LX NO. 259
ASTORIA. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. FKHRUARY 21, t90
PRICE FIVE CENT S
LONG .LOT OF
Fit
UNION OFFICIALS TO HAVE
PI1H HEARING AT
Special Grand Jury To Be Called Saturday-Miners
Union Has Black Record of Assassination
and Other Deeds of Violence.
McPARLAND SAYS CRIMES WILL BE DISCOVERED
HARRY ORCHARD WAS EMPLOYED BY CRIPPLE CREEK MINEOWNERS
AS DETECTIVE DURING GREAT STRIKE, UNTIL SUSPECTED
OF COMPLICITY IN INDEPENDENCE OUTRAGE, WHEN
PURSUED BY BLOODHOUNDS AND JLNGRY MOB.
BOISE, Frb. 20. It ha hern
iVttiboue to b taken to Caldwell tomorrow una given a preliminary
liearing. A wpeciaJ grand jury will be called on Saturday to be in
readinm to meet any emergency, mieh as habeas corpus proceedings.
Adams, who was arrested t; Haines yesterday, was in Caldwell shortly
before tho murder and was seen walking with Orchard along the rail
way in tho vicinity of the Stcnnenberg home. Vincent St. John, who
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was arnfsieu ai nBiiara, u in uioiigm, win ttrnvu iu vuiuhcii wuiwi.,
making five to be given a preliminary 'hearing. The- authorities are
Jhottrly expecting the arrest (f mow men imiilieated in the alleged plot.
Jack Simpkina is one of these. He is believed to be in Oregon. It was
utated by Governor (.coding that a full abstract of the Orchard con
fession will be prepared by the attorneys and will be given to the press
mm as the rest of the men wanted shall have been placed under
arrest. B. F. Richardson, of Denver, attorney for the Western Federa
tion, arrived today and has taken up the defense of the accused men.
Lilt of Crlmei.
DENVER, Feb. ao (Special) The fol
lowing U lift of the crimei which
Detective McPartland decUrei will be
cleared up ia the near future:
April 29, 1890 Blowing up of the
4150,000 mill of the Bunker Hill-Sullivan
Mining Company at Wardner.
December 7, 1901. The murder of
Martin Gleaion, manager of the Wild
Horse Mine in Cripple Creek. Gleaion
wai thrown down mine ahaft.
June 33, 1901 The murder of J. W.
Barney, a non-union shift boss in the
Smuggler-Union Mine at Tellurlde, at
tacked in a livery stable, dragged out by
murderers and never seen since.
March a, 190a Murder of Wesley J.
Smith,: a-non-union shift boss of the
Smuggler-Union Mine at Telluride.
November 19, 190a Murder of Mana
ger Arthur L. Collins of the Smuggler
Union Mine at Telluride. Collins was
ifired upon through the window, at his
home.
July 5, 1903 Power House ftf the
Colorado Springs Electric Company
blown up. The bungling work of the
dynamiters saved the lives of seventeen
men,
September 1, 1903 An aged non-union
RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONISTS
ON TRIAL FOR LIVES
OTCHAKOFF, Feb. 20. The trial of
Lieut. Schmidt and thirty sailors of the
cruiser Otchakoff nnd two students in
the University of Odessa, has begun
before the Naval Court.' The general
charge against the accused is participa
tion in a movement to overthrow the
.government and an active and armed
OF MM
arrangwl for Moyer, llcywood and
carpenter named Stewart working at
the Golden Cycle Mine in Cripple Creek,
beaten almost to death.
November si, 1903 The murder of
Superintendent McCormick and Fore
man Beck, of the Vindicator mine at
Victor. An infernal machine was plac
ed in the mine ahaft.
June 6, 1904 The railroad dlepot at
Independence, in the Cripple Creek dis
trict, blown up by dynamite, fourteen
non-union men killed and many' crippled.
December 30, 1905. The murder by
dynamite, of former Governor Steunen
berg, at Caldwell, Idaho. j
McParland Does Not Know,
DENVER, Feb. 20. Regarding the
ullcgcd Orchard , confession, Detective
MeParlliuid said loduyi
"Orchard may or may not have made
a confession. I will not say whether he
did or did not make tho confession at
tributed to him. I wns compelled in
working tip my case to use some of, his
statements ss well as the statements of
other, but I did not call on him for a
confession implicating Moyer, Heywood
and Pcttihone. Numerous efforts were
made to intimldnte him into saying
resistance, the punishment for which is
death. Schmidt is .charged, in addition,
with activity Bince his youth, in re
volutionary circles, taking command of
mutinous ships, telegraphing insolent
ly to the Emperor and ordering the
sailors to open fire on the forts and
local ships. Schmidt's defense is insanity.
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things about himself, but I refused to
allow this."
Employed as Detective.
The Time today ay:
"Hurry Orchard was In the employ of
Cripple Creek mine owners as a de
tective during the great strike in the
Cripple Creek district. This most im
portant fact will be used in defense
of the accused labor leaders, when
brought to trial in the courts of Idaho.
The following facts come to the Times
from a moot reliable source. Orchard
was a member of the Western Federa
tion of Miners when the strike was or
dered in November, 11)03, and approach
ed a conductor named Jones and intro
duced himself aa a brother Mason. Or
chard told Jones be had heard that
membera of the union were plotting to
wreck the train and he did not believe
in such methods and consequently told
Jom-s of the plot. Jones immediately
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SUBMIT PROJECTS
Moroccan State Bank Project Sub
mitted at Algeciras.
GERMANS PUT IN BAD LIGHT
Proposition of Germany Regarding State
Bank Creates Worse- Impression
Among Powers Than Rejec
tion of Policing Morocco.
ALGKCIRAS, Feb. 20.-France' and
Germany's projects for the creation of a
stuto bank, in Morocco were submitted
to the conference today. Germany's
proposition created even a worse im
pression among the French and British
delegates than did last night's rejec
tion of the French project relative to
the police. Both French and British
delegates consider Germany's'.-position
shows an absolute disregard of France's
position na the largest and privileged
creditor of Morocco, who should be giv
en every power of controlling the ca
pacity of the administrative body with
out reference to preferential claims, re
lative to existing Joans. Von Tatten
b'uch, the German delegate, has repeat-'
o'dly expressed the view that the set'
tling of the batik question was merely
delayed by the necessity of first deal
ing with tho police. This led the French
and British delegates to believe Ger
many was willing to, effect a com
promise on the financial question in
return for French moderation regarding
the police. They contend that France's
contention on tho police amply proves
her desire for the success of the confer
ence and the uncompromising attitude
of Germany to many is very disappoint
ing. JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.. 20. -The
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
yesterday affirmed judgment of the low
er court in the case of Hugh Madden
and William Donohue, appellants vs.
Jennie C, McKenzie in the District Court
of Alaska.
CRIMES
FEDERATION
RELATIONS
STRAINED
Franco-German Tension is
More Severe.
SITUATION IS WARLIKE
Germany Rejects French Proposal
Parisan Journals Bitterly At.
tack Germany.
FRANCE aVILL NOT RECEDE
La Liberie," a French Journal Says
While Franc Wants Peace, lit
Must Not Weaken Any Be
fore German Pretension.
PARIS, Feb. 20 Notwithstanding the
renewed strain In the Franco-German
relations growing out of the Moroccan
question, public sentiment remains calm.
The journal of this city, including gov
ernment organs, bitterly attack Ger
many's course. They agree France has
reached the limit of her concesions. No
allusions are made, even by the sensa
allusions are made to war, even by the
sensational papers, La Liberte alone
saying:
" While France wants peace she does
not wont the government to show weak
ness before the inflexible and almost
humiliating pretensions of Germany."
France Offers Concession.
LONDON, Feb. 20 .The correpondent
of the Daily Mail at Copenhagen learns
that Baron de Courcel, the French am
bassador to King Christian's funeral,
tried to obtain an agreement with Ger
many on the Moroccan question by us
ing French financial influence. He offer
ed in behalf of the French government,
the correspondent asserts, to: open the
Paris Bourse to dealings iu Germany in-
dutr-ial shares, reversing the recent re
fusal of France to accede to the re
quest of great German electrical com
panies, tovget their shares quoted at
Paris in consideration that France be
given a free hand in Morocco. He states
Emperor William was most taken aback
but later seemed to consider the propo
sition favorably.
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BUYS FAIR SITE.
PORTLAND, Feb. 20 It developed to
day that the O. R. 4 N. has purchased
Guild's Lake and property extending
from a point south of the Government
building to the Willamette, comprising
in all about 250 acres.
The purchase price was in the neigh
borhood of $250,000. "
The land was bought for the North
Pacific Terminal Company, and will be
used as terminal yards.
SENATE DISCUSSES PURE FOOD.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. The Son
ate listened to a discussion for several
hours today on th pure food bill, and
listened to the reply of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad to charges of dis
crimination preferred by the coal
company in West Virginia and adjourn
ed at four o'clock in memory of Repre
sentative Castor of Pennsylvania.
S. P. WRECKED.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 20.-About nine
o'clock this evening the outh bound
Oregon Kxpre, due here tomorrow
morning, ran into a landslide half a
mile above the Delta,
According to meagre reports two en
gine were reduced to scrap iron, and
two mail cars rolled down an embank
ment into a ditch.
While the train crew were working
among the wreckage a econd slide oc
curred binding a portion of the wreck.
Engineer Freel of Durwmuir was in
the track of the slide and was hurled
into the midst of the wreckage. He
was dead when taken out.
DID NOT CRITICIZE.
MADRID, Feb. 20. -Premier Moret in
an interview yesterday said he had not
criticized Germany's policy in connec
tion with the Alegciras conference. The
premier said that all the powers in-1
eluding Germany were doing their ut
most to reach a satisfactory accord on
the subject of Morocco and were hope
ful of success.
OFFICERS KILLED.
LONDON, Feb. 20. An tmeonfirmea
dispalcli lias reached the government
reporting that five British officers and a
company of native troops have been
killed by fanatics near Sokoto, Northern
Nigeria,
Trans-Pacific Subsidies For Port
land and Puget Sound.
THE BRISTOL NOMINATION
Oregon's Whipping Post Law Not Suf
ficient as an Example to Induce
Congress to Apply Statute to
District of Columbia.
ASTORIAN NKWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Feb. 20. Northwest Senators
were gratified over the incorporation
of the Fulton amendment to the ship
subsidy bill, which has passed the Sen
ate. As Senator Gallinger reported this
measure to the Senate, provision was
made for a line to Asia and the Philip
pines via Hawaii, and another to the
far east without touching midway, each
line to maintain 17-knot vessels. An
other line was provided for, which was
to have at least 13-knot vessels. After
a conference with Senator Piles, of
Washington, over recognition of the
Northwest, Senator Fulton made his.
amendment substitute this last provis
ion, giving two lines, the ports being
specified as Portland and Puget Sound.
Thee lines will meet subsidy require
ments when running 13-knot vessels.
As the average speed across the Pa
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STATEMENTS OF
DENIED
CHICAGO, Feb. 20. Commissioner
of pensions Garfield took the stand in
the packers case today and denied the
many statements made by witnesses
for the packers. Garfield denied he told
the packers he had power to compel
them to give information if they re
fused to give it willingly. He denied
WASHINGTON
IRES
SITUATION
UNCHANGED
'I
Russian Cabinet Portfolio
Remains Same.
RETIREMENTSEXPECTED
Wilte Resigns Thrice But Em
peror Refuses to Accept
Resignation.
DEVELOPFMENTS AWAITED
itexl .
Public Has Been Expecting Fall of M.
Witte and Durnovo, But Retire- -t
ments Have Not Yet Been
Made Timiriazeff Retired
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 20.-The
day passed without further signs of
resignations in the cabinet The min
isterial situation is unchanged though
all circles are awaiting with keen at
tention new developments which are
expected day by day. The public has
been expecting the fall of M. Witte and
Durnovo but the retirements and ex
pected retirements announced yester
day finds political wiseacres all at sea,
M. Timiriazeffs resignation, it trans
pires, was entirely voluntary and
handed to the Emperor personally. He
explained, he based bis action on the
disapproval of the law extending sum
mary court martial, for the trial of
political offenses. The survival of both
Witte and Durnovo in the cabinet, is
causing clouds to gather ominously over
the head of the premier, who, his ene
mies declare, can no longer disclaim re
sponsibility for the repressive measures.
An inspired statement says Witte
thrice handed in his resignation to tire
Emperor, but the Emperor refused to
accept it.
MAKE NO SPEECHES.
PARIS, Feb. 20. Prince Von Rado
lin, the German Ambassador, to France,
gave an official dinner at the embassy
last night. The guests included Prem
ier Ronvier, minister of War Etienne,
Minister of Marine Thompson and
Count Tornielli, the Italian ambassador
to France, and their wives . There were
no speeches.
PACKERS
BY GARFIELD
he ever promised immunity to the
packers, saying the only protection
promised, was protection for indlvidus'
packers of their confidential figures, f
also denied he promised all inform? j
would be regarded as conir ,-t.lal.
Garfield was the first witness for th
government, the packers having rested
shortly before noon. ; i