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v,,: . j. .y;.;; UOVIRS THE MORNINO PIILD ON THB LOW! COLUMBUS UiLIHIlPULU AttOOIATIO ! AtPOIIT PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME LXI NO. 127 ASTORIA. OREGON, FRIDAY. APRIL 27 1906 CLATSOP OH AUTHOHmES ilMNI PAIIIFI C1ASH Governor Pardee Meets San Francisco Citizens Com mittee and Denounces Their Action in Request, ing Militia to Be Withdrawn From City. HOSTILITY TO SPECIAL CONTROVERSY ALSO ARISES OVER.. ADVISABILITY OF ALLOWING ELECTRIC CARS TO OPERATE AT PRESENT HORSE CARS HAY BE USED- CHINAME N MAY CAMP NEAR THE PRESIDIO FOR SHORT TIME. HAN FRANCISCO, April 2fl.-C.ovw nor Pardee vUlted the city today when he attended a conference between May or Muni!., Pi. Devlne, Hen. Greeley, and other of the citizen' committee. After a (llwiilm nothing wa done regarding the withdrawal of the Mate militia from the city, Tardea Mated that he" coiiMili-red the request or a withdrawal a reflection upon a well organized and highly crtVcicrit Iwsly of m- n. Snid he wa very indignant over the attitude taken agaiimt the guard and the charge preferred against them. In fart no waVm nm he thut lie xiiid he hnd Utter not make any further re mark, Schmitx replied Hint he and the committee hnd not nmdo any charge gnlnt the guard and on the contrary had thanked the governor for their er vice, but tin object of the request n the concentration of control of the city In the hand of the federal troop and the obviating of the present misunder standing and confliction of order. Greeley said the Mayor was the head of the city and he would recognise SchmiU DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO. Bellevue, Texas, Destroyed and 14 Peo ple Are Killed. lll-XLEVCF.. Texiu, April 20.-A tor undo swept through thi plnce tonight, destroying everything in it path and practically the entire town is in ruin; only three buildings atanding. At least fourteen persons are killed and a num ber injured. The tornado wn followed by Are which consumed the wreckage. The town consisted of 200 house. Among the (lend are William Bell, Candidate for county trensurei'. DIRTY REFUGEES BATHE. SALT LAKE. -April 2d. Xot particu larly hungry but, clothed most Incon 'prnimisly, 2.rifl refugee from Hun Fran cisco reached here today. After lifting provided with suitable clothing the par ty was taken to the sanitnrium baths, when? they had a most welcome plunge into the big pool their flrt bath since Wednesday , PANIC ON FERRY BOAT NEARLY CAUSES DISASTER HAN FRANCISCO, April 20.-A panic was narrowly averted on a ferry bont to Piedmont today -while crossing the bay. Thousands of refugee were crowd ed on the boat and standing room was at n premium. The propellor struck an abandoned wow with a loud crash. The LEGISLATIVE SESSION authority only. A long discussion over Hit advisability of starting electric can occured. A number of expert stated their Itelief that It wa perfectly safe to begin in a portion of the city but chief engineer (Vhuler of the Spring Valley Water Company compared tin city to a Not of kindling wood atanding on end" and outlined the difficulties of get ting jnore water Into the city. A sug gestion wa made that hore le used inMead of electric power. Superintend ent Mullaly of the Car Company ald there were no horses. "Give u the car and we will g't the horses" said E. IL llmiiium. Finally the mayor appointed a ape cm! committee to investigate the ad visibility. Schmitjs made a formal de mand upon the governor tor n special session of the legislature. Pardee stated it wa hi present intention to call a apeclnl session, but had not entirely made up hi mind. He did not pro poc to take any hasty action. The liar Association of Sacramento iluiH ime4 a resolution declaring a HMcial eion unneceary. ARRIVES AT LAST. VICTORIA. B. C, April 2fl.-Tbe' Brit Mi ship Beacon Rock, long over due, passed In today. Kho left Liver pool nearly a year ago, and wa damag ed off Cape Horn, and had to put back to Montevido, Ife cargo included ship ment of Christmas goods. GENEROUS JAPANESE. TOKIO, April. 20. The Mikado has donated $200,000 for Snn Francisco re lief. Business men of Toklo and 0nkn hnvu contributed the same. It is ex pected the liohpital ship Kusuko. for merly the Russian ship Orol will sail for San Frnnelsco In a few days. SINKS IN PLACES. ' HAN FRANCISCO, April 20.-Thrce partios sent out by city engineer Wood ward to learn if the city n a whole ha sunk, innde. a partial report today. There is no general depreslon, though in many apnees there are bnd sinks. passengers ran to the opposite side of organized and highly efcio'nt body of of capsizing went up and they made a rush for the life preservers. These were torn from thcir oases and quickly don ned, the ofllccrs being unable to cope with the situation and "order was not restored until safe In he slip. EMHERIF The Mm! hcnt corner of the new post office wltkli extended over a small swamp U sunken four feet. The illic itly f confland to the lower part of the city and I almost entirely on the "made ground." Of all the large reld.wet on Nob Hill not a single one escaped complete destruction. Only tins wall of the FlffHl hue arc nt ill standing. The l!opkin. Huntington, Stanford. Crocker, and Nprwkles Mansion are complete ruin. Old .resident would have difficulty in telling where they stood. Curiosity hunter and other earthing in thi' abe of these hou- are slightly rewarded. SHOT FOR OVER CHARGING., DKNVKIt. Col. April 28.-C. L Good jng of Norfoulk Va., In an interview to day atate that he aaw a grocer and hi wife hot by the regubir wildier Wnn-e they charged a dollar a loaf for bread. MRS. DOWIE VISITS ELIJAH. CHICAGO, April 2. Following- the j reHrt that Dowie wa very ill hia wife viMted him at the Auditorium An nex for the flrM time they hod een one another for everHl month. Be eaue Mr. Dowie ha east her lot with th- new administration at Zion City J thene interet place great algnitlcance J on her lU. Gladstone Dowie ocoib panlei h! mother, but did not enter hi father' room. Tt I denied that Dowie U dyine. ' ALMOST FOUNDERS Supply Ship Buckman is Struck By Huge Wave. TWO BUATS BADLY SMASHED When OS Cape Blanco Monster Tidal Wave Strikes Ship Almost Engulf ing Her Snpplies Are Wel come to Homeless. SAN FRANCISCO, April, 20.-The steamer Buckman arrived here late last night with volunteer physicians, Red Cross nurses and a cargo of 2200 tons of provisions and supplies. The vessel encountered a heavy sea off Cape Blanco, which crew and pas sengers believe wa caused by subter ranean eruptions, which for a time threa teucd to engulf the ship. The Buck man was sent to San Francisco by the Chamber of Commerce of Tacoma. On the way down from Tacoma the crew and passengers linked several thousand loaves of bread, so that it would lie ready for immediate distri bution on arrival here. Off Cape Blanco yesterday the steam er ran into dirty weather and high Rens. OlT to the west passengers and crew saw a great wall like a huge tidal wave of gsecthing, boiling water running mountain high, approach nt great speed. It struck the ship with terriffio force smashed two of the boats as if they .were mere eggshells' and tons of water rolled over the deck of the steamer wltMli quivcwiii' from stcim Jo stevin and threatened every moment to foun der it. Captain Wood, his first officer and the chief engineer were swept from their feet. It was little short of a miracle that they were not washed overboard. The wall of water had all the appear ance of a hugh tidal wave, and the Beas continued running high until late in the afternoon. -v Captain Wood and the passengers are of the opinion that it was caused by some disturbance under the sea. I I , 1 I ji J i I 4 i LANDSLIDE KILLS FOURTEEN MEJ. ! HA NT A CIUZ Calif.April 20. On the day of the earthquake i fourteen men were killed at Lo- I ma Trela, ti n mlle from here j by the crushing of a sawmil by j a landslide. One man escaped j and brought the news today. The ' court house in Nanta Cruz prob- ! ably must le dynamited as it j it tir ju:h a diAigerutu con- dition. v4 ARCHITECTS FOR FRISCO, Chicago Sending 25 Men to tfelp in Con traction Work. CHICAGO, April ,2fl.-Twent.v-flve architect headed by General William R, Smith will have Chicago for San Franciwo within the next two days. General Smith offered hi service to Sun FiwwiK-o yesterday through Mayor Dunne. ' j "General Smith is a man of vaat ex perience in steel construct ion and foun dation work and ha lscn identified with the building of a large numlier of Chi cago' large office buildingf." raid Mayor Dunne. "I ahall confer with Building Commissioner BarUi-n regarding the se lection from the lint of volunteer! of the twenty-five men who will accompany General Smith." ' FOR GREATER CITY Scheme to Rebuilt and Beautify Burned District WILL HAVE WIDER STREETS City Engineer Woodward Making Plans For Widening Narrow Streets And Building Much Greater City Than Before. SAN FRANCISCO, April 26. A Grand scheme is devised for building the new San Francisco, a city of magnificent buildings with boulevards, green parks, and play grounds. City Engineer Wood ward is working the plans into shape. One feature will be the widening of Van Ness Avenue into a great boulevard to be acquired by the condemnation of a strip of choice residence property the full length of the avenue. If Wood ward has his way there will be no nar row clogging of the streets in the sec tion of the city laid waste. Many streets which have proved totally inadequate for the rush and confusion of the big metropolis, will be widened in the same manner as Van Ness. Market Street will be left as it is, but the streets in the wholesale and commission district will lie altered in couive ns well as width. Within a month Market street will be lined with temporary structures. NATIONAIST VICTORY. WARSAW. April 2(5. The victory of the nationalists at the primary elec tion yesterday was complete. The Pol ish Nationalists will form an indepen dent party in parliament. INCREASE APPROPRIATION. WASHINGTON, April 20.-The senate postoffice committee today increased the appropriation for the extension of the pneumatic tube service nt $1,250,000 in order: to include Baltimore and San Francisco. SB HARRY 1 SMITH SHOOTS HIMSELF IN SEATTLE Penniless and Out of Employment, a Former Sheriff of Clatsop County Kills Himself With Revolver in Madison Park, Seattle. LEAVES TWO LETTERS PHOTOGRAPHS OF WIFE AND GRA ND DAUGHTER ARE FOUND 15 DEAD MAN'S POCKET. LEAV ES ENVELOPE CONTAINING LET TER TO HIS WIFE AND ANOTHER ADDRESSED TO HIS DAUGHTER IN TACOMA. SEATTLE, WASH, April 28, (Spec-j ial) Penniless and without employment in Seattle Harry A Smith, a former sheriff of Clatsop County and an ex deputy Unitad States Martial shot and killed himself with a revolver in Mad .ion Pflrk today. Photographs of his wife and grand daughter were found in his pocket. ."When in death still my beloved wife" and " My Dear Grand RAILROAD BUYS PROPERTY. MEXICO CITY, April 26. A deed conveying to the National Railroad company of Mexico City the property of the ITidaligo and Northeastern Rail-i way will be recorded today. The price paid is $6,200,000. This line will con stitute the link which will eventually connect this city with Tampieo and Brownsville. FLOUR MILLS BURNED. LENS, France, April 20. Four flour mills burned here last night It is believed they were set on fire by strik ers or their sympathizers because their owners furnished flour for the troops. GOTHAM GIVES LIBERALLY. NEW YORK. April 26. A little less than $400,000 was collected here yes terday for the relief of Son Francisco which means that the total subscription from thi city is little short of $3,000, 000. The contribution to the stock ex change funds were made public yester day, showing a total of approximately $100,000. SUBMITS PROPOSAL. NEW YORK, April 26. The anthra cite operators have announced that Chairman Baer-haa received a telegram from President Mitchell of the mine workers stating that he has ent a let ter containing a counter proposition, to Baer, and asking their early consid eration that a decision may be submit ted to the miners at the convention on Thursday. SOLDIERS SHOOT GHOUL ON PHYSICIANS ORDERS DENVER, April 26.-Charles Smith employed on the San Francisco Chroni cle enroute to Pittsburg says:' "I was in the Mechanics Pavillion when it was used as a hospital. The doctors were about to operate on a man under an anaesthetic, who was lnujred in the CIDES TO WIFE AND DAUGHTER daughter" was inscribed on the photo graphs. A stamped envelope was ad dressed to Mrs. IT. A. Smith Seward, with a piece of paper on which was written "somebody please mail this let ter without opening the same at it contains matters of a purly private na ture of no interest to the public and oblige S." There, was also found In the pocket another letter to a daugh ter who is said to reside ,in Tacoma. GRANTS DELAY. r HARTFORD, Conn.. April 26. Presi dent Taylor of the Conneticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, of this city has directed the California n agents of the company to give sixty days addition al time without charge for the delay of all policyholders suffering by the San Francisco disaster whose premium come due in April, May or June. f WORK WAS DEFECTIVE. POLO ALTO, April 26. Cheap work man ship and defective construction is attributed the sole cause for the ab solute overthrow of the larger buil dings of Stanford University. Many students are stranded and the authori ies are unable to help them having no available funds. The railroads are help ing them to get home.. POOR PETER. BELGRADE, Servia, April 26. King Peter, while riding 'this afternoon fell off his horse and sprained his arm. MAKE RICH, HAUL. TIFLIS, April 26 A band of rob bers in the guise of soldiers robbed the treasury of tmsahet near Tiflis today of $117,000. GAP0N NOT DEAD. LONDON, April 26. The Daily Mail correspondent at St. Petersburg says Father Gapon i still living at Kukoh ola, France. groin. They pulled off his coat, and, and three fingers of women with valu able rings on them dropped from his pockets. He was revived and two sol diers called who took him out stood him against a wall and shot him like a rab bit." tj