00111 ULllMtjrULL AMOOIATtD Pftltt HMOAT UOVKR TMI MORNINa HILD ON Tril LOWIh COLUMBIA VOLUME LXI NO. I3G ASTORIA. OREGON, SUNDAY. MAY 6, 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS LAND ANTHRACITE THOUGHT Miners Convention on Mitchell's Advice, Vote v to Adopt Operators Proposition for Continu ance of Commission's Award. DECISION IS JOYFULLY ACTION OF CONVENTION TOGETH ER WITH A REQUEST FOR CONFER ENCE MONDAY, IS TELEGRA PHED TO BAES, OF OPERAT ORS COMMITTEE, AND A NSWER IS RECEIVED AGREEING TO CONFERE NCE NEWS WELCOME. M'liAVTON, May 5.n the advice of I'ro.lilrtit Mitchell, representing the iih .full" committee, the miners' con vention utiatiimonnly voted to adopt tht fnt proposition of operators, fur continuance of th award of tht an thracite Miminiilon with tin- modifies tlon, tluit the tnn for which it It to continue thall 1 mutually agreed upon. The operator' stiggetion i that it should be at leant three tears. The action of tin convention, to gether with the r'iupt fur n confer ence oil Monday, wa telegraphed by Pre-idciit Mitchell ti Cluiii limn HaiT of th" operator' committee and nn an swer was received agreeing to the con ference. The only mutter to be dieiied t the conference are the length of time the award hIiiiII eontinue and the pro vision for no discrimination against tiie FIELD MEET JRESULTS. Cornell Beats Princeton, H:i(Tl'ON May ft. -Cornell defeat-d Princeton In the dual track meet today by a -core of .IS ."1-4 to 71. v Pennay Beats Columbia. PHILADELPHIA, May .'. - Pnun-yl-Yitii in defeited Columbia today in an mil uieej, by a scorce 102 to 1.1. Harvard Beats Dartmouth. CAMBRIDGE May (.-Harvard won Its Mist dual track meet from Dart mouth today by a score of 101 to 1(1. CONSIDER FOOD QUESTION. PAX FRANCISCO. May S.-The food question was the subject of nn import ant conference today at the Presidio and at it's conclusion funeral fireely staled Hint while sliiple Mipplics will Inst t on days longer, the money appro priated for the purpose of purchasing supplies bus been exhausted. The gen eral added that he was convinced that repeating still continues. He is willing to put the screws on, he says, but not uhlil the general committee signifies Mich a wish. L U.J"S.lI RECORDS SHOW FEW PEOPLE WERE WANTONLY KILLED SAN FRANCISCO, May ft.-The rec ords of Coroner Walsh have disposed of the widely circulated stories that a large number of people were shot and killed by soldiers during the great fire and earthquake. Of all the cases hand led by this official iu only one was it found that death was due to gunshot wounds. This was Heber Tilden, killed FRAUDERS ARE INDICTED STRIKE IS TO BE AVERTED RECEIVED BY MINERS men who obeyed the mincworken sus pension of order.. It i practically cer tain the iterator will not accede to any proposition for a two-year agree ment a that would throw the next con ference into the presidential year, and a the miner do not want a long term agreement the chances are that the three year agreement will lie eventually entered upon. An intimation ha reach ed bete from President Baer that the iix'nit.ir will not discriminate against the miner now In uetiion. It looks therefore ii if the ctrike ha lMen averted and the miner will return to wil,, probably on May 11. The new that the convention had decided against a strike wan received with great joy throughout the region. To the niinei the news a very h t i-- f ictury. They were w illing to strike if Mitchell tlioiiubt ncce-snrv, but are glad lie ha decided otherwise. DISASTROUS FIRE. SOUTH YAKIMA. Wash.. May 5.- Fire which devastated a large part of (he -hipping district of this town to night caused a lo-s of $1.10,000. Six warehouse, lumber yards, produce concern, a dairy and the Northern Pa cill" depot were destroyed. There was iS'JO.OOO insurance. DEFER AGITATION. ODESSA. May 5. -The JewWi politi cal AssiM'intion of Southwestern Ilussia yesterday unanimously resolved to de fer any parliamentary agitation for equality in civil and politienl rights until the session of parliament until (he vcar 1007. MORE LAND FRAUDS. I.OS AXHKl.KS, May fl.-Civil pro ceeding to recover about !I.KI0. acres of land alleged to have been fraudulently secured from the government nnd lo ealcd in this district, have been brought by the federal district attor ney against Jleuson and Hyde nnd sev eral others. by a civic guardsman. The military au thorities have records of two cases of killing for disobedience of military or ders, but not a single record of any person being shot to death for looting. Walsh says during the excitement he heard many reports of such killings, but from fact he never got the bodies, which convinces him the stories were false, COAST BASE BALL SCORES. Northwest League. TACO.MA, May 3.-Taeoma It. Gray's Harbor 8. SPOKANE, May ft. Spokane 0, Unite ft. Pacific Coast League. PollTLAM), May ft. Portland 7. Oakland t) (ten inning). KHEMNO, May .l.-Los Angeles 1, Fresno 3. SEATTLE May 5.-Seat tie 10, San KinucUco ij. ENDORSE STRIKE. WASHINGTON. May ft.-Tbe execu tive council of the American Federation of l.nbnr ha given it endorsemenl to a utrike among 'MHHi agricultural lalior er iu the Arccibo district, Porto Rico. The laliorers are contending for an in crease of wage which it i felt by the executive council should be granted. The men on strike arc engaged princi pally in the augur industry, A cable gram was received yesterday by Presi dent fiomjNTa notifying him of the sit uation and it wa upon the facts pre vented that the executive council took the course stated. Battleship Rhode Island Fast in Cheaspeake Bay. RUNS OUT OF THE CHANNEL Ship Was Entering York River Be fore Baybrcak and Strikes Sand Spit Tugs Rush to Her Assistance. NOHFOI.K, Va., May 5. The battle shin Khode Island stranded off York spit in Chesapeake buy today. The ves sel passed in the capes early this morn ing from the Boston navy yard and was en route to York town. The big ship was just entering the mouth of the York river when she struck her nose on a sand bar and from last reports she Is still hnrd aground. The ship notified the wireless station here nnd asked for aid. The tugs Uneas. Hercules and Mohawk rushed to her as sistance and have been standing by her since early this afternoon. No one Is able to place the rc-ponsibility for the stranding of the battleship. Theiv was no fog or storm on the bay this morning and ollleials are unable to account for the accident. She was probably trying to enter the York river before daybreak and was out of the channel. In the event of the successful floating of the ship she will be brought here to deter mine the, amount of damage she has sustained. BREAK IN PRICES. NEW YORK, May 5. Enormous speculative holdings of stocks have been forced to liquidation in Wall street tins week, producing a disorderly break in prices. The relief thus offered T( suited in some recovery, in which cov eting of shorts by bears played an im portant part. The requirements for the May settlements brought to nn ucuto stnge the pressure upon the market originating in the heavy expan sion of credits in new enterprises and tie convulsive requirements growing out of the sudden calamity In San Francisco. The report on the Standard Oil inquiry and the prospect of nn an thracite coal strike were minor factors in extending the influences of depres sion in the market. WARSHIP AGROUND RACE TRACK WAR. X KW YOHK. May .'(.-What appear to le a new dun to make war upon thi; race track at the instance of aomt disgruntled pool room keeper develop ed in the la-It ing ring at Jamaica yes terday, nay a morning paper. A pro cess server in the employ of a Park How lawyer arrived la-fore the first race with a bundle of uleriHs. They were made out in the names of an offi cer and a steward of tne Jockey Club and several bookmaker. Two look makera were served. The lawyer, it Is said, I the haul repreentative of a prominent pool room man. On the surface, the cane involved is a simple one. A bet of ?.V was made some time aip at one of the local tracks by a client o'f the attorney and under the provision of the racing law a lin ing wager can le recovered bv civil action. This cae ha gradually worked! its way up to the Supreme Court, and the attorneys' representative said yes- tenia y that the men for whom sub poena were issued would be called upon to testify a to the existence of j gambling at the track, with the idea of j securing a favorable decision in the I higher courts. FAVOR AMENDMENT Republican Senators Will Vote for Allison Amendment. TO RAILROADIRATE MEASURE Many Democrats Who Favsred Bailey's Amendment Look With Displeas ure on Allison's And Will Vote Against It. WASHINGTON. May S.-Assurancca today were given the President that practically the full Republican strength would be east for the Allison amend ment to the railroad rate bill. Many senators called at the Wliite House and a few at the apartments of Senator Allison and in thi way the measure will lie enacted. It is probable a com promise will not be offered until Tues day or Wednesday, when the rate mak ing aim court sections ot me om are of Albany; J. W. Hopkins an attorney reached. After this is voted on there of Vancouver; W. W. Brown, an attor will 1 few amendments pressed, and a I nev of Seattle T. H. Watkins, former final vote on the bill may come as early j Im,lnl)ors of Erickson and Watkins Co., as Wednesday. PrieViIIe: and Edcar M. White, a sa- ainny Democrat. who favored Bail ey's amendment, look with disfavor on the Allison amendment, and it is sug gested the Democrats will vote against the amendment not with the idea of defeating it, but simply to show their disapproval of its terms, The minority it is believed vote unanimously for bill on final vote. INCITED EXCESSES. EKATKRINOSLAV, Russia. May 5. Coiisiderablc interest has been aroused here by the approaching trial of Berg- man, a provocative agent of the govern ment, who will lie tried May 10 on the charge of inciting anti-Jewish excesses iu several cities. Last year Bergman provoked the massacre at Ekatcrinoslav by throw jug a bottle of vitrol in the face of the commissary of police. After he had been arrested, he confessed to the prosecutor that his real name was Alexieff and that he was an agent for the secret police and that for some timo she had acted under the direction of General Trepoff. He claimed he had jflred at the prefect of Minsk in trying to provoke disorders in that city. A general strike has been caused by the arrest and subsequent banishment of Jhe director and the instructors of tho polytechnic school here and by the dis missal of the students. U.S. GRAND TWENTY-ONE Names of Twenty-One Prominent Persons are Made Public By U. S. Attorney Bristow and Prose cutions Will Be Instituted. OVER TWO 'HUNDRED THOUSAND ACRES INVOLVED INDICTMENTS ALLEGE THE CONSPIRATORS PROCURED POSSESSION OF FOUR HUNDRED CLAIMS I NVOLVING 201,000 ACRES WARRANTS WILL BE ISS UED FOR ARREST OF THE C0NSPIRAT0 RS AT ONCE. IfUlTLANI). May C I-ate tonight District Attorney W. C. Bristow made public the names of twenty-one men included in the final and most import ant government land fraud indictment returned by the present Federal grand jury which today brought a conclusion to its hearings and was discharged. The indictments, of which the charges are far reaching, show an intricate conspiracy to secure 200,000 acr.-a of some of the finest timber land in Ore gon, are located in Crook, Lake and Klamath counties. The names of thop person indicted are: F. W. Gilchrist, Ralph Gilchrist, . Patrick Culligan nnd James Maepherson of Alpena, Mich.; Herman W. Stone of Benson, Minn.; Baron C. A. M. O. S. Schlierholz, of Little Rock, Ark.; Charles M. Elkins and Jack Combs of Prinville and Ben jamin F. Allen of Portland, doing busi ness as Elkins and Co.; Judge M. E. Brink of Prinville; Donald F. Steffa. editor of the Crook County Journal, Prineville; A. C. Palmer and H. Judd Palmer, lawyers of Portland; E. Dor gan, F. J. Devine and John Collins, members of the firm of Dorgan and Co., Albany; Malcolm MeAlpin, a merchant NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL. WASHINGTON, May 5. The general debate on the naval appropriation bill terminated with the close of today's session of the house, one paragraph of the bill being read in order to make it the continuance order, before the house adjourned. Fos of Illinois, in charge of the bill stated the naval budget would probably be completed after two days' debate under the five minute rule. Payne, the floor loader, thought it would take a day longer. MORMON BISHOP ARRESTED FOR BEING P0LYGAMIST BASIN. Wyo., May 5. A sensation ' was created here by the arrest of Bishop J. Jolly, head of the Morman settlement iu Big Horn county yester day charged with sustaining polygam ous relations with two wives. Jolly's arrest will be followed by a score of other prosecutions of prominent mem bers of the Morma,n church in this JURY FINDS TRUE BILLS loonkeeper 0 Portland. Leaders Are Named. According to the indictment, Elkins and Co Dorgan t Co., the Gilchrist, Culligan, Maepherson and Stone were the moving spirits in the alleged con spiracy. If the allegations in the in dictment are all true, the mode of operations is similar to those of nearly all the conspiracies which have been found in this State, with this exception, that its ramifications are al leged to lie wonderfully extensive. The simplified plan was mervly to obtain the land by procuring entry men to file on the desirable publie acreage and as soon as the patent was issued, to sell it to the alleged ring leaders. Accord ing to the indictment these others, be sides the persons alleged to be behind the movement, were tools through which the alleged leaders worked. Some of these men, it is alleged secured entrymen to go upon public land desig nated by the leaders, while the indict ment asserts others, by reason of their prominence in responsible communities, employed further alleged schemes by recommending them to prominent offices. Although the indictments de clare the alleged conspirators procured possession of 400 claims involving 201,- IHKI acres, those accused are charged with securing of but 150 claims. Warrants will be issued at once foe the arrest of those accused and it is expected their apprehension will take place immediately. GETS TEN YEARS. MILWAUKEE, May 5.-Henry G. Coll, former casher of the First Na tional Bank, indicted for misappro priation of funds, was this afternoon sentenced to ten years at Fort Leaven worth. Goll protested his innocence. Frank G. Bigelow, former president of the b:nk, now serving a sentence for defalcation, was the principal witness against Goll. He testified that many of Goll's acts were done at Bigelow's in stigation, but of some of them he had no knowledge. county on similar charges, it is said. The alleged discovery that the Mor mons who now almost control Big Horn county, have planned to divide the county and create a new one in which they can control, has aroused th gentiles and infuriated them to insti gate criminal proceedings on charges of polygamy. 1