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t 'MfMfrittV OOVIRt TUB M0HNIN9 FIILD ON THB LOWI COLUMBIA. uautHisiruu AttooiATto Mitt nuponr 1 1 VOLUME LXI NO. 131 , ASTORIA. OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1906 M FIVE CENTS .s BAY CITY NEED on msi mm in irs no SIM Investigation Shows That San Francisco Residents are Liable to Suffer From Famine Unless More Relief Is Soon Forthcoming. CASH CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE MOST WELCOME MAYOR MOTT OF OAKLAND ASKS THAT THE CITY BE PLACED ON SAME BASIS AS SAN FRANCISCO IN DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD SUPPLIES STREET CAR LINES BEING EX TENDED IN BAY CITY. -f, SAN FRANCISCO. April .K).-A feel- iiiH akin to conternatlori u created ,uii ,. il, uMwril munkiDal I M III"- liinuim ..... ( ' r' "I committee, v. hen Mayor SehnttU stated! the rity fared u shortage in the inm for twenty one day unner me army upply. It liad leen thought on account ration system which will here after pre of the gencroity of the country, San vail. Mayor Mott ha asked that Oak Franeieo "plc were alM.ve want for. land I placed on the same bai m San oll, ti to come. Today General j l-ranciw-o in the distribution of sup Ore, ley' plan for the distribution of plie under military supervision, ('id- oupplie went into oa-ratlon and if en who have been doing the relief diminution in the output of good wa woik are now compelled to attend to noticeable. personal affair. Food Supply Small. ! Willi i.,i ii.kiiraitce that coiulitioii I will be o noiiiuil that dm eommtini- tv will l- able to f I ltelf. the sup- ply of food U la-coming ditrelngly small. It i estimated that ei-H him died carload of supplies are already ditrihuted and only IIH arc on the way lure now. "If thi informntion i r- reet," aid Mayor SchiuiU. " We will utMUi be wore off than ever. "Contribution of money are very iiih.1i inoi-e to the purpoe than provisi on at i-eent, ye. finid will be grate fully received. It 1 hetter that we continue to buy perUhalde food in thi vicinity." Chainnan Phelan of the finance com mltt.e ha received no reply from Sec retary Taft a to how much f the $2. Stifi,(MKi appropriation by eongn will FREE SEED GRAFT. WASHINGTON', April .'HI, -The Iiouno today coiiHidered the agricultural bill. It agreed that the provision for the ilitriliution of free need for which the bill doe not provide hall I1 in-cit.-d. A vote i expected tomorrow on the am endment appropriating t(UiM for the purchase and distribution of "l!are and liliusiial need." STEAMER FOUNDERS. CI'KUNSKV. Channel Island. April U0 -T n i he passenger steamer Courier with rew of nine men and & party of NICHOLAS MUST CHOOSE EITHER DURN0V0 OR WITTE ST. PETERSHU110, April 30.-While the AKHoninted Preaa 1 unable to con firm the atory that Kmperon Nicholas ha accepted Witte'a renignation it i true that Witto has nguin asked the emperor to oliooae between him and the Interior Minister, Durnovo. Witte is untirely dlngiiBteU with the turn of events, cupecinlly with the possibility tlmt the emperor may not redeem hi I available, and he suppose the whole nmoiiut, (iciwral Greeley etiuiuU- the up- , ply of fins! in sight will be sufficient; Dynamite Destroy, Residences Thciv i mi unfortunate hiippening today when four homen aved in the dilrirt along Van No avenue were utterly wrecked by dynamite from blat ued to throw down certain in-ecure wall. Sign of a renewal of indiitrinl activity ore apparent; In score of pla i'i' the work of clearing away the de bri i pngreing. The mayor notified the Wrd of upeier today that he would appoint a committee eon-itlng of engineer, akchitect, builder and lawyer to prepare plan for laying out the at reet and boulevard and for the recount ruction of San Francico. Street car line are lieing extended in all direction and the I'nited Itnil waya have promined to give the people within a abort time a better ytcm than before the tire. twenty eM-uis-ionlt foundered today off Sink. Three of the rrew und one passenger were drowned, the other were rescued. Their- I no explanation of the disaster. POLICE STOP FIGHT. (MiDKN. April 30. The police inter fered in the fifth round of what wiw to be a twenty round go between "Fight ing Dick" llyland mid Young Corbet t here tonight, saving the later from knockout. The Denverite was overweight and put !' "B(,r exn.muon. nght soon developed Into a Mugging match, with Corbett nt the abort end. promise to dismiss Durnovo, before the assembling of the national parliament and that within n few days the premier offered the emperor the alternative of Durnovo or himself. According to the story the emperor Inclines his ear to iv:u..', f..a l.uf iliu not. wnnt him to retire to public life, but to become president of the council, a position of honor, but without power. PULAJANES PUNISHED. MANILA, MAY' l.-DeUch- menU of troop while wonting yesterday in Garidara valley on the Maud of Kamar encounter- ed several baud of 1'ulujn n- 4 In the engagement tlmt follow- ed many Iuljurit- were killed and their upplie dent royed. No raualtie among the troops oc- eurred. SUCCESSFUL OPERATION. NKW YORK. April M.-The Tribuni today say:' Mr. F.. B. Thoma, wife of Edward Thoma. the turfman, It ws learned yesfe-nlay via operated on a few day ago fr n hresa In her throat. Mi. Thoma who liefore her marriage wii Mi Linda I-ee of the well known j Kentucky family of that name, ha suf feced iiitcrmittantly for several year frm the affliction for which he ha now bMu oj4f"Ul upon. It wa announced lat night that the ua rapidly recovering. IS FIRED ON Pennsylvania Constabulary Dis perse Mob With Bullets. FOREIGNERS THROW STONES Coal Miners Attack Detachment of the State Constabulary and are Fired Oa Twenty Men Are Wounded. MOUNT CARMKI.. Pa.. April 30. Tin" tlrstl eollj-iore in the anthracite coal region since mining was .suspended on April I, occured today between a mob of idle mincworkers and a platoon of the new tafc constabulary. Twenty men -were Injured and three will prob ably die. Several hundred foreigners liecame incensed at the presence of the constable and tluvw stone at them. The lives of the police were in danger, nud they finally tired into the mob now swelled to several thousand. One man standing in front of his house a block away from the sceue wa shot through the body. After the stone throwing began Lieu tenant Smith, drew his men into ljne and threatened to shoot if the acts wre renewed. The local leaders of the niiiu--worker ordeivd the foreigners to dis perse and keep the pence. Many left the scene nnd the troops started for the Nayre colliery where non-union men bad bee.n nt (Jacked by tU foreigners oh Saturday night. The mob followed; one stone was thrown and then many. Smith's men fired about three volleys into the mob before it broke and ran. Smith was arrested by local constables on behalf of the mineworkers charged with a-ssnult nnd battery and intent to kill. No further trouble is expeced. AMERICANS VICT0R0US ATHENS, April 30. The American athletes again had a remarkable duy of successes. The American team is con sidered here the best nil around combi nation in the world. Those who dis tinguished themselves today were Pil grim, Lightbody, Friend, Leavitt, nnd Brnihag. In the tug of war the Germans i"" eeK beat the Swedes. MOB MORE AMENDMENTS TO RATE BILL WASHINGTON. April 30,-The senate .will legin voting on amendment to the railroad rate bill on May fourth. The general linprewion among the senator that a final vote will lie reported with in a week from the time of beginning the eon-ideratlon of the amendment. Clark of Arkansas today criticized the pending rate bill a injiidiciou to rem edy evi-ting conditions FISHING SCHOONER WRECKED VICTORIA, B. C. April 30.-The hali but fishing schooner Kiilmeny m wrecked in Kan Joseph bay. at the north I west end of Vancouver Island on Ap ril 21. Captain Kehouc and the crew of four escaped and tamped near until the steamer Queen City picked them up. LONGSHOREMEN STRIKE. Ill'KAIA N. Y., April :tf).-At mid night WW) men, including every mem ber of the longhoremen' union in thi port went on a trike. It i believed every port on the great lakea will be effected. WS L Grand Jury Does Not Investigate Contributions. UPON REQUEST OF JEROME New York Grand Jury Fails to Inves tigate Political Contributions by Insurance Officials Are Cen sured by Goff. NKW YORK, April 30.-The grand jury has returned a presentment to re corder Goff in which it declared it had failed to investigate political contribu tions bv insurance officials because dis trict attorney Jerome asked the jury not to do so. Jerome had stated he was opposed to action because he first de sired an opinion from the appellate di vision of the supreme court as to wheth er such contributions constitute larce ny. Justice Greenbaum had already de cided it was larvcny but it was doubt ful, Jerome said, whether this ruiling would be sustained by the appellate division. "If Greenbaum's ruling is cor rect" said Jerome, "It will be neces sary to call Cornelius N. Bliss, treasur er of the Republican National committee and George B. Cortelyou chairman, as witnesses and to indicate a large part of the officers of every financial insti tution in the city." Recorder Goff discharged the jury but informed it that it had not done its whole duty, although it rendered sig nal service in accentuating the "unequivo cal responsibility which now rests upon the district attorney, and a number of! eminent jurists." Jerome was informed the jury had declared contributions did not consti tute larceny. VOLCANO ACTIVE. MESSINGA, April 30. The volcano of Stromboli after a period of quiet is assuming activity and emiting smoke and solid material. SPERM WHALE CAPTURED. VICTORIA. B. C. April 30. Another sperm whale has been captured at the Vancouver Island whaling station. It is seldom these valuable whales come this far north. S UPPLIE SOLDIERS FILL TO PREVENT Authorities Arrest Leaders ot Labor Movement, Im perialists and Anarchists in Hope of Breaking Up Organization and TROOPS STATIONED IN ARREST OF ALL THE PROMINENT AGITATORS BY AUTHORITIES SEEMS TO HAVE SERVED TH E PURPOSE OF DISORGANIZING VIOLENT ELEMENT WHIC H IS LEFT WITHOUT LEAD ERS TO DIRECT. ' ' I'AUIS. April 30. The eve of May day find the authorities concluding pre paration of unprecedented magnitude to guard the city agaia-t violence. As a final measure of warning there were numerous arrests today, principally of the organizers of the federation of la bor and the imperialist sympathizers charged with fomenting the trouble and anarchists of various degrees of promi nence. The arrests have served their puifiose in dirJoieaiuzing tie violent element which finds itself practically without leaders for the monster dem onstration planned for tomorrow. The movement appears to have lo-t heart as the conspicuous figures were led away to jail. The imperialist arrests include Count I Bauregard. charged with being at the head of the plots against the gov ernment ; Major Feullent, formerly com mander of the imperial guard and M. STEAL CORNER STONE. PASADENA, Calif., April 30. Thieves tonight stole the corner stone of the North Pasadena Methodist church which weighed three hundivd pounds and con tained coins worth ten dollars. MONEY FOR SUFFERERS. SYDNEY. N. S. W., April 30. The steamer Siena sailed today carrying $1,350 000 for San Francisco. CANNOT HOLD STOCK. B. & 0. R. R. Compelled to Dispose of Coal Interests. BALTIMORE, April 30.-What is looked on as the first highly important result of the investigation by the interstate commerce commission into the relations between the coal carry ing roads and the mining companies, POSSES SEARCH IN VAIN FOR TRACE OF OUTLAW PORTLAND, April 30 A dispatch ,An' WnnHllnml aavsi ttiat after, 24 hours spent in fruitless running down ef rumors of the appearance of Frank Smith by posses and the tracking of several scents by the bloodhounds from Spokane, the outlaw is, still at large and the police are without a definite idea of his whereabouts. Bloodhounds are unable to follow trials many horns old. The outlaw Frank Smith has not been seen since he engaged in battle with Sheriff Shaver and Captain Henderson, PARIS Avoiding Trouble. ALL PARTS OF THE CITY Vilert. Editor of the Imperial Journal Warrants are ako out for M. Fronen tin a wealthy anarchist, who has not been found. The searches and arrests oe curred simultaneously In many provin ces. M. Griffuelness, virtually the head of the confederation of labor was arres ed and sent to jail. The police supported by troops will occupy the principal stragetic points of the city tomorrow at daylight The troops will receive support for active field duty. The chief centen of concen tration will lie the Place De 1 Repub lique, where the labor exchange and confederation of labor headquarters are located. Other points of concentration are the Bourse; the Grand Palais and the Palace De La Concorde. There will be about one hundred points linked by police and military control. occured when it was announced today that the Baltimore and Ohio, has dispos ed of its holdings of stock in the Con solidated Coal Company and the officials of the railroad have resigned from the directorate of the coal company. Th stock held by the railroad amounted to fifty three percent. i DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS. LENS FRANCE, April 30.-Theee have been repeated explosions of dyna .mite cartridges since midnight. No dam age is reported. TORNADO CAUSES DAMAGE. .-IB MEDFORD, Neb., April 30. A Tor-' uado swept through Furnacs County this afternoon, destroying many build ings. No fatilities are reported through many were injured. This was at midnight Friday. Since ! then many people have it-ported seeing Smith in a dozen different and widly separated part,s of Marion County, but these suspects as fast as investigated proved false with two exceptions, and these are in doubt. Two theories are advanced now and these are that Smith, being wounded as Sheriff Shaver declared, has wandered on until exhausted and despondent, and committed suicide; the second Is that Smith has effectually escaped. Opinion is divided on these theories and each j has its supporters OUTBREAK