4 0 " I WW COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA! UBLItHI FULL . UlATBO PRIftt RIPOrlT PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUMK LX NO. 2!M) ASTORIA. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 21 1906 i i in LARGEST MOSCOW BANK ROBBED ROBBER AN IMMENSE SUM Credit Mutual, Wealthy Broad Daylight By 20 of Nearly GUARD BOUND AND GAGGED PREVENTING OUTCRY JUST AS BANK IS CLOSING FOR THE DAY TWENTY MASKED MEN ENTER SURPRISE GUARD AND SECURE 1431,500 ROBBERS WERE THOROUGHLY FAMI LIAR WITH BANK ALARM GIVEN TWENTY M INUTES LATER. KiM 11W. March 20. The Credit Mu tual, one of the target bank. In Mo i'n, 4 rn)teriouly roblw-d by iiik rd mi'ii at duk tonight, roblier. it eming H.WHI. It was an iiiuimmlly (Uring move. The fact, already devel, oped iai" the question w h-t br tin- rob bery wa committed by or under the direction of .orrie 0110 at or pre preciminly connected wit Ii the inititu tion. The. bank i local-d In t he lirnrt nf the i-ity. The lnt of the clerks hud jiff depnrted. leaving in.hlc a guard nf thrre men, while under the I'urte Coehere outside wcie Miliremeii and the house porter. The treet wn crowded with people hurrying homeward. Ac cording to the story of the guard, in a twinkling of an rye they "ere confront ill with revolver- in the hand- of twenty masked men, who cnlcicd silently by the main door, which had been locked when the ofiVe force It-f t Kxeept the enmtnnnd to the guard In bold up their hnndi not n word win pok-n. The MOORS HAVE SAY. PARIS. Mareh 20. The Moorish pie tender and ninety six chief- have pro tested at the Algeeiras convention and declared that when the pretender i victorious he will not be bound by the decision of (he conference. "LITTLE THINGS" House Spends Much Time on Points of Order. Economy in Little Things Was All Ab sorbing Topic For Debate in House Yesterday Move to Eliminate Packing Boxes Fails. WASHINGTON. March 2(1 The house today did business with n uiieroHeopo in one hand nnd tho lejjiHlalive appro priation bill in the other. The result wa that iiltlioufjh over live hours won upenl in reading tlie iuciimuio tes than twenty-live paPt was completed. Keononiy in little thingx was all ab sorbing, The points of older made and many of them weiv fatal to the pro posed increases in the salaries of olli cers, janitors, doorkeepers, messengers ami laborers, A point of order made in the appropriation for an engine room at $270 per year instead nf .$2S() caused a const it ut ionnl debate for mniv than an hour. The final round nf the day was a delmle lis lo whether the house could get as good packing boxes as the Senate did for it's members. A move was made to eliminate packing boxes entirely from the periiuisites of tlie members bill it failed, S S Moscow Bank Entered in Masked Men and Robbed Half Million. guard were quickly bound and gaggod nnd thrown into a dark corner. Th rob l'r then took position at all the, en trance and th window etirtainn. were lowered. The chief of the robber who directed bin aMoclnte by gesture and without .peaking nhowed a thorough fa milbrily with the location of the vault. When all w. ready he went to the heavy burglar proof nafe and with a few twirl of the knob threw the combina tion of the lock, the heavy door, cwung open and the troaure of the bank wa revealed. The plunder confuting of gidd, silver nnd nolo, wa speedily thiusl into sacks. Thin done, the rob ber departed a "ilently a. they ranie, making their rn'l through the main entrance and leaving no trace behind them. They bud lsen In the bank lcs than half an hour Twenty minute" later one of the guards succeeded in re leasing him-elf and gave the alarm. It is the general impression (he key to the nnslerv is within the bank itself. THREATENED TIE-UP. Booth-Kelly Company Cannot Secure Woiknven. KlUKNi:. Hie., March 211. The llooth Kcllcy sawmills in bine county are threatened wilh a tie-Up by short age of labor. 1'or several inoulhs the big mills at Springfield and Coburg have been running night nnd day, but unless more men can be obtained soon, Manager It. A. Hooth thinks the com pany will be compelled to abandon the night shifts. To relieve the situation, the company has within the past few days put to work over 100 Scandinavians brought out fiVim the Middle West. The ollicinls of the company say the labor shortage is beginning to become a serious matter with them. They say there is no immediate relief in sight. Willi the great amount of railroad work to begin in the Northwest as soon as Spring opens, requiring thousands of men, I he Itool h-Kelly people consider that the situation appears exceedingly blue for them. The company pays good wages, but none- but transient laborers, who are never satisfied to work at one place more than 11 few weeks, are se cured, and the company is kept eon slanlly busy filing the places of (hose who leave. NO CONFIRMATION OF WITTE'S RETIREMENT ST. PKTKIiSliriil!, March 20. Ko confirmation of Hie reported intention of Witle to retire immediately, is ob tainable at, the premier's chancellory. On the contrary the possibility of his relinquishing the task at the pending meeting of the national assembly is ECURE MARTYR TO SCIENCE. Professor Kill Fraternity Dog and is Sued. M:TTI. I!, M.nvli 20. Charles W. Prentiss. i(jf. or 1 f Zoology in the University f Washington, wan made defendant in 1111 odd uit. On Monday In- killed a dog bi-uiiginjr to the Phi (omul Ui'llii fraternity. The fraternity iov evidently mourn the lo of the dog nx 1 Itt-ti' ll t r hang nt liulf nmt in Imiior of tin- martyr to science. Prcnti lie thought In- was killed u stray dog" and at tin- hii lime securing ma terial tor hi Zoology classes. He fur ther ay I In- cminc wan n community iiui-ance. JURY ADJOURNS. Cannot Conclude Investigation Until Operator. Are Found. VVKflW, March 20. A special to the Chieftain from Canon City atatea the coroner', jury which i inveatigating the Adolie disaster reported it cannot fix the reponiblity until it hear'a the testimony of operator Lively and Van Duaen of Swallow. As neither could be prtvlueed the inquest adjourned until Monday. The officers continue to search for the missing men. DOCTOR IS WINDED Has Fight With Robber Who Shoots Him in Groin. Highwayman Enters Drug Store on Pre tense of Having Toothache and Tries to Rob Proprietor Fight Ensues Robber Escapes. roini.ANI), March 20. Dr. J. J. fisher, who conducts a drug store at ti,"i(t Clisan street, was shot ami ser iously injured tonight by a highway man, who secured admittance to the store just after it laid been closed for the night on the pretense of a severe toothache. Fisher who is (i." years old went to get the medicine and holding in one band tho sack of money. While the druggist was in the act id' reaching for a bottle the robber said: " Say, old man, I don't want the medi cine, I want that money," and attempt ed to grab the sack. Fisher and the robber grappled, and wrestled about the Moor, the doctor having the Isdler of hi M-nilanl though the hitler was a young man. (If a sudden, the robber put his hand (o his coal pocket and a mull'led explos ion occurred. The aged doctor fell to the Hour with a wound in his groin and the robber left without trying further lo secure a sack. llr. Fisher's clerk, who was in the store when the robber entered, disap peared out the back door nt the first sign of trouble, calling "Police." not admit led. In fact, there is n dis position to treat Witte's r-eferenee to Kokovsoff, which created a stir nt yes terday's meeting of the council of the empire, as an ironical thrust at the overwhelming ambition of the former minister of limine?. NO SIGN OF TROUBLE. Returned Missionary Says China is Quiet So Far. SAN I :AN( S( I, March 20. Miss j I Ajnui H. I'ol''. a young I'.apHst. mission-! j ary, who has been in the far interior of j j China for I'm- pa-t two years, a rived I I yc-l enlay on the liner' Coptic on her1 I way to lcK-,iud, Ohio. With Miss j Cole wen- lin-teliiii ;iiid Kathhen Well-; I wood, i,iiijjhter of I'.cv. Ilols-rt Well wood, a ini-"ionaiy in S.cchen, not far ' I from the holder of Thibet, 2IMHI miles j up Yan'tekiiing from Shanghai. , j The trip made by Mi-s Cob- and her j two youiij.' charges was one of most un usual char -icier. Leaving Snifti on .Inn nary 15 in a native boat, accompanied hv a guard in charge of soldiers, Miss Cole and tin- two little trirls started down the river, traveling only by j (In the way down their Imat was wreck- 1 ed on a rock and the party bad a nar row en-ape for their lives, finally reach 1 ing Shanghai in safety. Miss Cole says there were no signs of I trouble at Suifu when she left and j when the missionaries there received a I cable from the State Department advis- j ing them to lie ready for flight they I cahled back for an explanation. I CARRYING DYNAMITE. WINNIPKO, Mareh 20. The mounted police are held in readiness at Cal gary, MacLeod and Lethridge to prevent an attack on the Lethbridge Coal mines where the miners are said to be going armrndwith dynamite in. their pockets and writing threatening letters to the managers of the mines. PIERCE IS SICK Missouri Standard Oil Inquiry Does Not Hear Pierce. Stock Certificates Produced Showing! That Standard Held Stock in the j Waters-Pierce Company in 1900 Other Evidence. i ST. LOUIS, March 20. The second day's session of the hearing in the ouster ' case of Missouri against the Standard,1 i Republic and Waters-Fierce Oil Com-' panics, was marked by the failure of' H. C. Tierce to appear as a witness. I The testimony of his physician to the ' effect that Pierce was threatened with: pneumonia was given. C. M. Adams,'; secretary and treasurer of the Waters-! Pierce Company was severely cross ex- . amined. Stock certificates which were produced showed' that the Standard held, stock iu the Waters-Pierce Company in llHIO, when that company was reorga- j ui.ed. Attorney-General lbnlley today j telegraphed Missouri's Secretary of ! State not to permit the .Republic to! withdraw from business Missouri nsj Unit- would defeat the purpose of the! investigation. HITS UNCHARTERED ROCK. VICTORIA. March 20. The steamer Otter arrived from l.adysinith in a leaking condition, having struck an un chartered rock near Thetic Island.' She is to be huul.'d out for repairs. DEVELOPMENTS PROMISED IN THE"SCOTTY" CASE SAX PiKRNARDINO, March 20. De velopments in the Scott case today in cluded a statement made by A. W. St. Claire to the district attorney nnd the promise from "Shorty" Smith who is in jail here closely guarded, that he will make a statement. Smith denies he was I0ODY SPEAKS IN THE PACKERS' TRIAL Attorney General Concludes the Packers Were not Compelled to Testify and Are not Free From Prosecution. ARRAIGNS PACKERS FOR ATTACKING TEDDY i MOODY SCORES THE PACKERS' AT DENT'S LETTER IN EVIDENCE NOT ENTITLED TO IMMU THEIR TESTIMON CHICAGO, March 20. Attorney-Gen- eral Moody spoke nearly all day iu the ' packers' case, concluding his argument just in time to catch the train for Wash- ington. He declared the packers were not entitled to immunity because they had given evidence of their own free will, and were not placed under Oath nor subjected to compulsion. At times be was very sarcastic in references to the statements of the attorneys for the defendants. Referring to the President's letter to himself which was placed in record in the case by the packers' at torneys, Moody said he was the last j man in t In world to say that these gent ; leinen should not give their best efforts i to their clients, but if they felt it their I duty to place that letter in evidence I when " It touches upon another subject, j against the man in the White House, i who is unable to come here to protect QUASHES WRITS. ItOISF., March 20. Judge Keatty in the United States district court today quashed the writs in the habeas corpus cases of Mover and his associates. He fiiM granted the motion of the prosecu tion to strike out material parts of the answers. Attorney Richardson gave no tice of an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Judge Heatty decided he had no power to inquire into the methods whereby the prisoners had been brought into this state in the proceed ings at bar. He said be was unable to find any provision in the law whereby he had power to remand the prisoners to the sister state after they had been brought into the demanding state, as iu the present instance, and now that the prisoners are in Idaho, ho cannot make any order to prevent their deten tion and trial heiv. SAVES CREW. XKW YORK. March 20. -The tug. Margaret arrived today with the barge j IVmpsey in tow after a thrilling exper- ; ience at sea, in which the Margaret was' compelled to abandon the barge Martha MoCnbe. on which were the captaiu and two sailors, and the, barge Virginia Hud-, son. The crew of the latter was taken j off a desperate struggle with the ele-; merits, but it is feared the others per-1 ished. with the party when the wounding of i )ES MOINES, March 20. Congress Wtirner Scott occurred, but says he will man Hull will sue his opporrent, former explain all of Scott's actions as far as Secretary of State Dobson for damage he knows them. St. Clair's statement ' for slander, because of statements last was not made public. The arrest of night in opening his campaign to de Walter Scott at Portland has not been feat null for Congressman. The speech asked of the Oregon authorities. j madu aarinux owiiKnUon ngning Hull. ALL DAY His Argument-Declare T0RNEYS FOR PLACING THE PRESI DECLARES PACKERS ARE NITY AS THEY GAVE Y VOLUNTARILY. himself if they feel it their duty to make their attack on him I have littlt more to say." General Moody declared that only, those who committed acts without tht law and who feared the law, ought to ba protected by it. Asked if he forgot that Garfield had told the defendants he was here to in vestigate the violation of the injunction issued against them restraining them ' from violating the law against the re straint of trade. Moody said be had not forgotten and did not care. It went to show, he declared, that these men had been warned that criminal action might follow. If they sought the protection of the law, thp responsibility is their's. Moody concluded by saying if the de fending escape trial, it will be a calam ity to the government and for the de fendants, whom he holds are innocent until proved guilty. u INSURGENTS - MEET. WASHINGTON, March 20. Thirty ' insurgents " met today and decided to oppose Speaker Cannon's attempt to send the Stntelnjvd bill to conference. The insurgents favor the bill as amend ed in the Senate. . Senate Votes Away $140,000,000 in Twenty Minutes. Senate Does Not Consider Pension Ap propriation Measure, But Rushes Headlong Through it Fortifi cations Bill is Considered. WASHINGTON, March 20. -In less than twenty minutes the Senate voted away .$1-10,000,000 in public fund3. The sum carried by the pension appropria tions bill which brief document was made the subject of very little discus sion. The railroad rate bill was laid aside for a day and the major portion of the time was devoted to a consideration of the fortifications bill. In that connec tion a provision for seacoast fortifica tions iu the Philippine Islands was eliminated from the bill. WILL SUE FOR DAMAGES. APPROPRIATION