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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1906)
Iwcnitwi :UBLISHt PULt VOLUME LX NO. 2H! SN0WSL1DE IBTBNt IS tlP IN Slllilll OIL INII1III1 Missouri Ouster Suit Against Standard Oil Continues in St. Louis Developing Very Important Testi mony in Regard to Operations. SUPPOSED INDEPENDENTS TESTIMONY BRINGS TO LIGHT THAT THE REPUBLIC OIL COMPANY STOCK IS HELD BY STANDARD OIL CREATURES, AS ALSO THE STOCK OK THE WAT ERS PIERCE COMPANY IN DEPENDENTS BOUGHT OIL FROM STANDARD. ST. ltl'IS, March III Tin- healing in I ho Mi-owmri ouUr unit against the Mnniliiil Oil, Hi Republic mul thi Wairrir I'iri'T Oil companies wan re mimed today. Tectinmny w beard from W. T. MiKrr, tij 'if the Republic Company, C. M. Adams, mc rotary of the W litem Pierce Company, and 11. C. I'irnv, (miner president id tin- liitter company. 'Hie testimony mutinied tip i an Inllnnn: III.' Mock nf Hie Republic Oil Colli Jul II V i lield liy individual for the Stiind Oil I'liinpiiny. Flunk Will-mi, ,isi"tunt secretary In W. (I Rockefeller, and president nf lie' Standard Oil. i a 1 1 I m 1 1 1 i t - loi kholdci . WINS BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP. ( lilt Alio, March 10, F.d waul Gard ner, ii 'iiMiiie, N, .1., wnn the amateur billiard championship nf A lien tonight v-r ' I'. l'nggciibuig, "I "'k, by a score (if IltHi tn :'. Gardner went 1 lilf iif1i the entire live games ,,f i linmpioii-liip I ii 1 1 n ii ii i ii 1 x it limit being di'li'iileil. IN PACKERS CASE Attorney General Moody Makes Government's Argument. GOVERNMENT AFTER PEOPLF Moody Says That Government Docs Not Seek to Punish Corporation, But Living, Breathing, Human Be ings, Who Did Wrong. CIIK'ACO, March III. Attorney -On- mul Moody commenced Ihe fluxing ar gument in lifhall' of the government to day in the puckers' ciikc. The court room was packed with local attorney DESPERATE FIGHT WITH TWO OF WICKLIFFE TRIO SI'lUNdFM'XD, Mo., March 10. Two men who were at first believed mem bers of the WieklilTe trio of Cherokee outlaws who have been chased in Indian Territory came to Springfield today, j One of the men Kiirrendereil to tlie police lifter 11 desperate struggle. The other, tried to shoot Ollieer Wilbcrly and was j AMOOIATSO PBt REPORT OWNED BY STANDARD The Water litre Oil Company taught oil from tft Standard's refiner In payment fm the nil Ixmglit by the Uliti'i I'ieree I'nmpuny from the At In nl ic refineries in Philadelphia, an al Icp'd indepi'tideiit concern, chickK himtr 1'iui have heen ent tn (! Briiudwav, S". Y., the hindipiarter of Ihe Standard (til Company, The took in the Wntd I'ii rcp CViin puny i held hy M. M. Van Hiiith, ii nephew' nf John Archnhl, an oflieial of I lie Slamhml Oil. Chnrle- M. AdnniH l-iled 'Jl'i llinad way In (lieii"H the nfTiiir of the Watern I'len e c puny w it li (he Standard' oIlieinN. .iuiniih to hear the lit tol ncy (?iiTill'rt ai (.iiiiieiil . Moody declared the povern ineiil ton much in eainet in the pie-cni la-en lo piiinie. ii h the pucker' attorney intimated, the Kenelc'. crea tion nf l,i u lie dci'lared if vrnii; had I n eiiininillcd the on eriimcnt va kin' piiiii-hmenl . not of Ihe coiiora- linn, Inn nf the living. In eat hinj;, hnniaii licin", who committed the wronjr. The ynv ciniiienl and Ihe people, he naid, vimilil he -ali-lled with nnlhinj; leu. He declared his appeiinince in the court was unusual ami nlmnst unprecedented, lull the law pive him (he rijjht to Bp pen r and he liclicved it hi duty tn ap pear. In jiiHtillcatinn nf his net inn he said Hint it would lie found that not only in inipnrlaiice, was the present case, luil in Ihe fact (hat if immunity shnuld he conferred upon the defendants on the grounds of which (hey claimed, it would have overthrown the legal in Icrppvn! ions of the oveinment for at iiiot Iwenly live years and would es pecially cripple (he iroverntnen! in il nt lcmits to enforce the law of the land. INVESTIGATION STARTED. CANON CITY, March 1!. Coroner Stephenson today stinted an investiga tion of the Denver and I'in (irande wreck nt Adobe. Several witnesses were ex amined. Operator Lively of Swallow, who is said to be responsible for the collision, was Hot present. shot and killed by thai, ollieer. Both men are desperate characlers, They are not known here and had been in Spring- ' geld but a short time when attacked by' the officers. The prisoner said his name Wlls jr, ,). Curtis, of Council Bluffs, In., j nnd said the dead man was ThontnsJ Murphy of Vinita and (hat they were 1 searching for land. j ASTORIA. OKKfiONi TUESDAY. MARCH 20 VM S FATA LI. Y SHOT. Man Accidintly Discharges Revolver Killing Friend. ( IIK ACO, Miiri'li 19. Ni'liola Dink It ir, T. vmi old. w Iiom' home i in ('in ('liimli, lull who has been employed ni a butler ill Chicago, wn 'hot and fiil j it II v wounded curly tl:i v while vi-ilin a young unman, ii 'iK'iil at tin' (iliiri'l llolcl. .lames filing. !i yctil old, Iho Irimi ( 'iiirimiiit i. is -ni'l tn fni vi- been examining 11 rcvnlvi'l ttlllMI it WilH (Jin- , charged accidentally, in held by till' ( lire whn ail' making mi inw'st ignt inn. Ill till' I H III) Ulll'll HllckllllfT tt'UH shot! Hi re .Mi. II. ( ', M.t 1 1 in. of Cincinnati, j mill .-mother woman frnm the aine city-j whose liiuiii' tin' police lmvc Hut nil- Mined. ! INSTITUTE FOR NEGROES. American Church Inatitute For Negroes i To Be Incorporated. , NKW VdltK. MaO li 111. The Anieri- ' can Church Institute for N'cj:ine, which! i In lake nver (he nejrro educational i work of the Plot. Mailt Kpi'copul I chilli ll is to lie itieol pnlllteil within a few day, with llev. Siiiniiel ll. Hinhop, a j.'eneral xecretary. The incorporation j will lake phicv under the RU-picei oil llie niil(l ill lllinsumn vm. j itii-niiiiii. Kpieopul cliuivh. The Episcopal church at present am- j trols three hcIiooIh for negroes, Bishop Payne Divinity School of Petersburg, Va.; St. Paul's Normal and Industrial School of Ijiwreneeville, Va., and St Augtmtine's Aeademy and Normal Stthool of Raleigh. N. C. As soon an the new institute i in full operation, other "chonl will lie founded. The institule is (tie result of (he agi tation within th Kpi-enpal church for increased renliMlizntion nf nil ehnritic. KILLS ROBBER. Footpads Rob Sheriff Who Afterward Kills One. ! lU'T I K. Match 10. Deputy Sheriff j Weymaii shot and killed a highwayman j tonight ntlei he had ho. -it held up and rnlilicil by two footpads. Weytnnn was pirn- ling ailing Silver street when he, was accosted liy two bandit. They went' through hi pockets, but overlooked a I revolver in hi hip pocket. A the rob bers departed Weyiuan whipped out his gnu and idiot one man. The other es caped though it i believed he was wounded. LIVES IMPERILED Haverhill Manual Training School Burns Down. PUPILS HAVE NARROW ESCAPE Lives of More than 150 Boys and Girls Are Saved by the Coolness of the Teachers in Charge Professor Jumps From Second Floor. IIAVKItllll.l.. Mass., March l!. - Kite in the Haverhill Manual Training School ami High school annex tmlay tnipcrtleU more than I .ill boys and girls, and, al- llioiih mainly because nf coolness and generalship of tin teachers, tin lives were lost, several pupils were so close lo the tin mi's that their hair was burned, ami one girl injured her leg by jumping from a second story window. Instructor .lolin Bourne, intent upon the escape of the children, after they were all out, found his egress cut off j and wa compelled to leap from n win dow on the second floor nf (he training school, lie was not injured in jumping, bill previously he had been burned about the liend and hands. The training school formerly was a factory and was n three-story wooden building whose beams and flooring werv ready fuel for the fire, ARE D1SASTEE0T FIFTEEN IN WARRANT OUT FOR SCOTTY Death Valley Miner Charg ed With Assault. WOUNDED HIS BROTHER Scotty Accused of Ambushing Scott Party During Last February. ACCUSED DENIES THE CHARGE San Bernardino County Authorities Af ter Investigation Find That Cow boy Miner Ambushed His Own Friends Scott Says Plot. I .(S AXCKLES, March 19. A special to the Express from San Bernardino say warrants have been issued fop the arrest of Walter Scott, the Cowboy miner, William Kcyes, and "Shorty" Smiih charging them with nsault with a deadly weapon on Dr. Johnson, presi dent of the National Insurance Co., of New York; -A. W. St. Clair, Warner Scott. A. Y. Pearl, J. W. Owen and J. J llartigan, nil member of the Scott party nt the time the alleged ambush occurred in which Warner Scott was ser iously wounded The warrants are the results of an investigation by the San liertiardino county authorities into the alleged ninbush nt Wingate Pass in Death Valley, February 2tth when War ner Scott, Wulter's brother, was serious ly wounded from an iitiibush. Charge Trumped Up. I'OUTI.AXD, March l!).-Walter Scott stated to the Associated Press tonight I hat the charge was trumped up by hi enemies at l.ns Angeles in an attempt- to defame his character. Scott declares the ambush was perpetrated by New York men who staked him previous in his J discovery of the famous mine, but I whose money ran out before the mine I ua- discovered and had refused to , furnish further funds for exploration. j When the mine was discovered these I men wanted lo share and have been ; using evel v means to discover the loca tion of ids mine n a basis for a suit in the courts, .lohnson, Scott savs, is a li(,Mll (- ,js au, js 1()wise t,onm,ele(l SVV1... ,.;,, ,!l0 ,,..,(,. seotr. ex presses a willingness to furnish a cash ll)Ml, ( tll(, . om) . lie intend week. lo go to San Francisco next MYSTERY CLEARED UP. PORTLAND, March 1!). The mvsterv surrounding the death of .litliits Kuhu a saloonkeeper recently killed in cold blood, is believed to be cleared up and Ihe police are now searching for Paul Mttsn, a young German, for whom a war rant has been issued. It is stated the object of the crime wns robbery and Ktthn's murderer knew Kuhu had the sum of $.'1000 on the night of the crime was committed. COVERS THE MORNIN9 FIELD PERISH BIG Slides Carry Away Buildings and Half Hundred Miners are Without Food Trainload of People is Blockaded By the Snow. PROPERTY LOSS WILL WHILE MEN ARE AT DINNER M0NS TER SLIDE ENGULFS HOUSE NINE MEN DIG WAY OUT OF SNOW PASSENGER TRAIN SNOW BOUND AND GREAT HARD SHIPS EXPERIENCED STORM CAUSES MUCH DAMAGE. DEATH ROLL DENVER, March 19. By the loss of twelve lives mar Silverton the death roll resulting from the great storm in the San Juan mining district has now increased to at least fifteen. At the Camp Bird Mine, a few miles from Ouray aud at the Coal Basin hundr-ds of miners and their families set out this morning and reached, Ouray in safety coming over mountains on snowsboes.. The mills and other property estimated in value at $1,000,000, have been swept to de struction in the deep gulches. On Cumbres Pass, the highest point on a narrow guage railroad from Durango to Alamosa, a trainload of pas sengers is marooned, dependent for warmth on the meagre supply of coal in the engine fender and for food on what the hardy mountaineers can bring in on snowshoes. Twelve Swept to Death, j SILVERTON, Colo., JLirch 19-Twelve miners employed in the Shenandoah j mine were caught by a great snowslide j early today and swept to their death. I The bodies have not been recovered. Assistance has been summoned from Sil-j verton to help dig the victims from be neath the snow. According to a p-port from Howardsville the men were killed by a snowslide which struck the board ing house at the mine where they were at dinner. It is reported twenty-one men were caught in the slide and nine dug their way out more or less injured. The Shenandoah mine is located on WITTE MAY RETIRE Rumor That Russian Premier Will Go Out. REPORTS NOT YET CONFIRMED It Is Stated That Witte Stated at Meeting of Council of Empire That He Will Soon Retire Heart Trouble is Cause. SI', I-.IIS1U K(l. March 10. In high olhcial circles tonight, there is a rumor that Witte has definitely decided to retire from the premiership. The Associated Press is unable to confirm FRANCE WILL NOT YIELD ON MOROCCAN POLICE PARIS, March 19. Officials here say, France's position is absolute and final' against placing Casn Blanca under inter- national command. It is maintained j this is not a question of detail, but one I that involves the entire Franco-German j controversy over the Internationalization of the police. The changes at various ON THE LOWE COLUMBIA PRICE FIVE CENTS RM REACH ONE MILLION FIFTEEN. King Solomon Mountain nine miles from Silverton. Snowfall Heaviest Ever. 1IOLYOKE, Colo., March 19. The heaviest snowfall ever known in North east Colorado has fallen since the begin ning of March. The range is covered with two feet of snow and the roads aiv well-nigh impassable. The supply of food is almost exhausted. Railroad traffic is irregular, and has been totally abandoned during the worst of the storm. The Burlington line from Curtis to Cheyenne has been covered with drifts two or six feet deep for several days .and no attempt will be made to open the line until the storm ceases. the rumor, as Witte has gone to bed and the chancellory was closed when the representative called shortly after mid night. From an absolutely authorata tive source however, it is stated that Witte at a session of the council of the empire this afteiiioon made an enig matical statement interpreted by mem bers of the council as a virtual decla ration that his career as premier had ended and that he would be succeeded by Privy Councillor Kokovsoff. On ap parently reliable authority it is said that Witte experienced a rtither alarm ing attack of heart trouble a few days ago and his physicians advised him to give up work. MUTINEERS SHOT. ST. IKTKKSI'.l'RC. March 19. Forru- er Lieutenant Schmidt, who commanded the vessels of the Black Sea fleet which mutinied last November, was shot today nt Otehakoff with three of his sailors. capitals, nfiicials declare, mean another vote will show France is supported by Great Britain, Spain, Portugal and Rus sia, with Austria doubtful and Italy and the United States not voting. Current opinion in official circles is that Ger many intends to recede from her position. S STO