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VOLUME LXI NO. 138
ASTORIA. OREGON, TUESDAY. MAY 8, 1906
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MINEES AND
Ml IS MOD 01
MIHQIE Hit RMS
Anthracite Committee of Miners and Mineworkers
Reach Satisfactory Settlement of Their Dif
ferences-Strike
THREE YEAR AGREEMENT FINALLY ADOPTED
AGREEMENT WILL BE RATIFIED BY THE TRI-DISTRICT CONVENTION
AT SCRANTON OPERATORS WILL TAKE BACK MINERS WHO
HAVE NOT COMMITTED VIOLENCE ON PERSONS
OR PROPERTY INVOLVED.
NKW YORK, May 7. -After nearly
three mouth negotiations the aiilhm
cili iiiineoiker and oprmtou today
greed to continue the award of th
strike cornmlmtlnn fur three year, and
the men will return to work as soon as
practicable, probably on Monday, All
the miner who havp not committed
vlolciim uKuittoi run or properly
wilt lie tatfen lmk and no one will lie
illrrlinliiuti'd ngttlnnt. beemi of any
action taken in the strike movement.
Tit RT--minl in t Mtbjcct to tin
ratinV.it ion of tin- tri iliitrii't conven
(lull itt Scraiitiiii, Imt thftc Ik not the
lightet iloiiht hut. tlutl t li will (
cur. The miner lutd lit I- to my, ex
ci'pt that it was tin' ! they could get.
COMMITS SUICIDE.
NKW YORK. May ".-Edwin Clark,
fit year old, a looker nnd a member of
the Cotton Exchange, xhot himself In
the head yesterday at hi apartments
at the Hotel Marseille, dying in
stantly. Mr, Clark had suffered several at
tack of acute Indigestion on Friday
nnd Saturday. Yesterday nionting a
ulill more violent attack taxed to the
limit of his endurance. He called to
hi wife and toltl her that he could not
possibly endure the rutin longer. While
Mm. Clark wan telephoning for a physi
cian her husband killed himself.
Mr. Clark wn ltorn in thin city nod
had been on the cotton exchange for
more than thirty yearn. Through the
maternal branch of hi family he va
connected with the Vunderbllt. He.
leave a brother, who live in the West
and three sister. Mrs. Clark wa Mi-
Inbelle 1'inke of Selwyn. Mas.
JOIN MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.
GIBRALTAR, May 7,-The RritMi
eminent AntythcHt. nnd Anngnnt today
wiiled to join the British Mediterran
ean fleet.
SPECIAL RAILWAY RATES
CONSIDERED BY SENATE
WASHINGTON, May 7. The Senate
today spent the day considering the
provision prohibiting tho granting of
rebates, passes, drawbacks or special
rates to passengers on railways and
also prohibiting discriminations in tho
way of commissions, where an equal
rate is paid. Tho clause relative to dis
criminations called out a warm protest
from southern senators who interpreted
"Discriminations" as referring to sepa
rate cars for races, and therefore opened
the race question. Money declared lie
Will Not Come.
They jn)iitt out however t it in the first
general agreement ever signed betwern
nxTtoi and miner and they look up
on it a tp forward.
The agreement was not reached with
out a Anal truggle. Preident Mitchell
endeavored to lme the time made two
year Imhwui the cost of living might
iiii-rtvima conidrably In three. The
operntor said they felt such a contin
gemy wa amply covered in the strike
commUion n ward and In'isted on three
ypr. Tlti was agreed to.
In taking Ixtrk men. the operator in
tended to take Iwek only thoi-e they
t'hoxe, lint. Mitchell contested this point
"trough- tliat tho operator finally
yielded.
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT.
NKW YORK, May 7. Today' Ameri
can Mty that John T. Brush, president
of the New York American League Base
lull Club; John T. MeGraw, manager of
the Champion", Mrs. MeGraw and Mrs.
Cltrity Mat hen miii, w ife of the pitcher,
were ilung headlong from an automobile
lai-t night while the machine was reeling
olT ,'10 mic an hour on the outskirts
of Newburg.
Mm. Met! raw and Mr. Mathewson
were somewhat injured, the others es
caping serious harm.
The accident wa caused by the swerv
ing of the machine which "skidded." and
ran into a 0'u after having been turned
from it path to avoid collision with
another car. The machine was dis
abled. TO PROTECT FISH.
WASHINGTON. May 7.-The House
today pned a bill protecting and regu
lating the fisheries' of Alaska.
NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.
WASHINGTON, May 7. The Senate
has confirmed J. M. Vnrnon as post
muster of Evetvtt, Wash., and R. E.
Troxel iu Council, Wash.
would not support any bill containing
provision raising the rnco question.
Ilisi position was endorsed by Culber
son, who offered a substitute which was
adopted. This bars free transportation
to everyone except the officers, agents
and attorneys of the railroad companies,
ministers of religion and inmates of
public Institution. Violation of the law
is punishable by a fine of $20,000. So
many amendments were offered that all
wore ordered printed for the considera
tion of the Senate tomorrow.
LOOKS LIKE DIVORCE.
WASHINGTON, May 7,-The Post
tomorrow will y that Mr. James G.
Illaine, formerly Mi Hitch born, a
daughter of Rear Admiral Hitehborn,
will leave this week for Sioux Falls, S.
I). It Is understood she intends to be
absent several month, The announce
ment doc not come a surprise. For
mora titan a year Mrs. Hlalnc has spent
most of the time with her parenU at
Washington, white her husband is en
gaged in liuine in New York.
ROBS HIS FRIEND.
MINNEAPOLIS,' May 7.-Tlioma J.
Wainwright, who pleaded guilty to
robbing Dr. G. X. I'inault, who befriend
ed him, today w taken to the Peni
tentiary to serve a sentence of seven
and a half year. Wainwright not only
robbed I'inault, the residence of which
he was left in charge, but also Pinault's
safe deposit boxes of jewelry and se
curities to the value, it is said, of nearly
,'HKMXiO, Much of this war recovered.
EVOLUTIONISTS ACTIVE.
RIGA. May 7. An armed bond at
tacked the railway station at Tukum
junction. It killed a gendarme, a po
liceman, the postmaster, and an artil
lery officer. Troop are pursuing the
band.
PORTLAND WINS.
1DRTLAN1), May 7.-Iortlaud
Oakland 1.
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Woman Characterizes Preacher as
"An Ignorant Man."
GREAT SENSATION CREATED
M Close of Sermon Woman Denounces
Minister as an Ignorant Man
Preaching About What he
Knew Nothing.
CHICAGO, May ".A large audience
in St James' Methodist Church, Forty
sixth street nnd Ellis avenue, was
thrown into a turmoil last night when
the pastor, the Rev. William A. Quayle,
was denounced at the close of his ser
mon by a woman who rose from a pew
in the center of the house and declared
the pastor to lie "an ignorant man,
preaching of thing of which he knew
nothing."
After she had shouted her protest, in
spite of the efforts of the organist, who
tried to drown her voice by playing a
hymn, the woman turned nnd walked
out of the church, muttering a curse
upon tho sermon and its author.
The woman's name was not learned,
but it is believed she is a trance
medium. Dr. Qunyles sermon had con
sidered chiefly of a scathing arraign
ment of certain ideas, which, in some
quarters have taken possession of the
public mind, and a warning to his con
gregation to be on their guard against
them.
Among other things the pastor as
sayed the principle of the open shop
nnd the mania, for consulting spirit
mediums a"d palmists.
WARSHIP DRIVEN ASHORE.
NEW YORK, May 7. A dispatch to
a morning paper from Lisbon says:
"The Portuguese warship . Baptist
Andrado, which was carrying a new
governor- to Mobambique disappeared
some months ago. It has now been
found that she wos driven ashore by a
cyclone on an uninhabited African is
land. When found all hands, were liv
ing Crusoe like.
PASTOR
DENOUNCED
OPERATORS
OPEN MEDICAL INSTITUTE.
NKW YORK, May 7.-With appro
priate eercinortf,, the Rockefeller In
stitute1 for medical resean-h will be
ojicnedj Friday nf-moon. It is ex
pected that Mr. Rockefeller who has
given $.1100,000 to the building and
equipment of the institution, will be
present
Addresses w ill be made by Charles W.
Eliot,1 presidnt of Harvard Univrsity;
Nicholas M. liutler, president of Col
umbia University, and others. It is the
first institute of its kind in the United
States and was founded by Mr. Rocke
feller aftej- the death of his infant
gtluiilftHjiglitei' in CliSrago five years
ago. It wajt his purpose to establish an
institution through which scientific
men might have an opportunity to study
disease, particularly of infants.
TROLLEY CARS COLLIDE.
NEW YORK, May 7 Fifteen passen
gers were reported injurvd in A head
on collision between two trolley ear
11 mile east of Trenton, Hi. J., early
today. Keven of the injured were tak
en in trolley cars to hospitals in Tren
ton. One of the injured, said to be
named Murphy, was thought to be fa
telly hurt.
The eollMnn occurred on the line run
ning Itetween Trenton and New Bruns
wick at the point of the accident the
trolley, passes over the Jersey Central
tracks, the latter being depressed.
REACH AGREEMENT
Republican Senate Leaders Hold
Important Co ference.
AGREE ON RATE MEASURE
Broad Court of Review Feature of
Railroad Rate Bill is Curtailed in
Spite of President Roose
velt's Objections.
WASHINGTON, May 7.-The situa
tion in the railroad rate bill underwent
another change today, and one which is
an additional step toward an agree
ment. So much antagonism was, devel
oped toward the broad court of review
feature, that notwithstanding Roose
velt's acceptance of it, and his declara
tion that the other provisions advocat
ed by him are not vital, an agreement
was reached curtailing this feature ma
terially. The agreement was reached after
several informal conferences on the
floor of the Senate today, nnd was for
mulated at a conference between Sena
torn Knox, Aldrich, Carter. Hopkins,
Cullom, Fulton and Crane, which met in
Aldrioh's committee rooms, after the
Senate had adjourned.
In brief, the new proposition is that
no order of the commission shall be set
aside, by en interlocutory order, with
out a hearing on the petition after five
days' notice of such a hearing being
given to the commission; that the order
must be concurred in by at least two
judges t that an appeal may be taken
directly to the United States Supreme
court within thirty days after the or
der is issued and that the rate making
section of the bill shall not be amended.
The conference today it is believed has
about disposed of all the points in dis
pute. The agreement reached by the
Republican leaders is a concession to
the Democrats. The Senate leaders rep
resenting both factions tonight predict
ed a compromise on the amendments
will be adopted.
"HOLY ROLLER
MEETS
Edmund Creffleld, Notorious Founder of "Holy Roll
ers," is Shot Through the Brain By Man
Whose sisters He Had Ruined.
SCOUNDREL'S WIFE
NOTWITHSTANDING HER ASSERTION CREFFLELD EXPIRES INSTA5T
LY SHOOTING OCCURS ON STREETS OF SEATTLE AND
MURDERER IS ARRESTE D BY THE AUTHORITIES .
SAYS HE DOES NO T REGRET KILLING.
SEATTLE, May 7,-Franz Edmund
Creflield, who called himself "Joshua."
notorious as the leader of the "Holy
Roller" fanatics, who created so much
excitement at Corvallis and other Ore
gon towns three years ago, was shot
and instantly killed on lirst avenue
this morning by George Mitchell, a
Portland young man, who accused
Creffleld of influencing and betraying
two of his sisters.
The murderer made no effort to es
cape and coolly submitted to arrest by
Patrolman Le Count and Deputy Sher
iff Sam Huth. Soon after being placed
in jail young Mitchell sent this remark
able telegram to O. V. Hurt, father of
Creffield's wife, at Corvallis:
"I've got my man. I'm in jail here.
"(Signed), GEORGE."
The shooting occurred on the side
walk directly in front of a drug store
and was witnessed by Creffield's wife
and a few pedestrians.
Mrs. Creffield had n"old of her bus
band's arm when he was shot. The
Holy Roller leader dropped to the pave
ment with a bullet hole clear through
his head, the leaden ball penetrating the
brain, and causing instant death.
Patroman Le Count and Deputy
Sheriff Huth carried Creffield into the
drug store. Dr. Bories was called, but
Creffield breathed his last before the
physician arrived.
Wife Says He Is Immortal.
Mrs. Creflield dropped on hep knees
beside the corpse of her husband. She
pressed her lips to his as she drew one
arm around his neck. In that position
INNOCENT OF COURSE.
ST. LOUIS, May 7.-C. A. M. Schlier-
holz. one of the twenty-one men indict
ed nt Portland in connection with the
alleged land frauds said today he was
employed by Rush and Gilchrist as tim
ber examiner on a salary and had no
interest in the deals of the company
and the charge against him is absurd.
CZAR'S EDICT NULLIFIES
POWER
ST. PETERSBURG, May 8. Another
kaleidescopio change in the political
situation occurred late last night With
unexpected suddenness the draft of the
fundamental law telegraphed by the
Associated Press on April 24, which
evoked such a storm of anger and con
demnation from the liberals, and which
it was supposed had died with the
Witte regime, was officially promulgat
ed. Although considerably edited and
changed it is practically the same. Pub
lished at this instant when the people
believed the unpopular draft was drop
AGREE
LEADER
JUST DESERTS
SAYS HE CANNOT DIE
she remained for five minutes, neither
weeping nor making an outcry of any
sort.
Finally she relaxed her hold, and
looking up into the faces of those who
had gathered around, said:
"He can't die. He cat never die. He
did no harm to George Mtichell."
"But he is already dead." calmly re
plied Dr. Bories.
The woman was then lead away to
police headquarters and Creffield's body
was taken by Deputy Coroner Arnold
to the morgue.
At the city jail young Mitchell read
ily answered all questions put to him
by Acting Chief Willard and Captain
Sullivan.
He said he had come to Seattle from
Portland last Wednesday, and had
learned that Creffield and his wife were
Jiving in this city. His two sisters, Mrs.
Burgess Starr and Miss Esther Mitchell,
have been missing for some time, and
he concluded that Creffield had influenc
ed them to follow him to this city.
Why He Balled Creffield.
"I killed Crefneld," said young Mit
chell, "because I believed it was right
for me to do so. I shall take the conse
quences, whatever they may be.
"Creffield influenced my sisters, Mrs.
Starr and Esther Mitchell, until they
joined his Holy Roller crowd at Cor
vallis. "He had them under a spell, and I
could do nothing with them. I begged
them to quit the shameful life that was
being led by the Rollers, but they would
not heed me."
GOVERNMENT VICTORIOUS.
PARIS, May 7. Results of the elec
tion are chiefly important in confirming
the policy which the government has
thus far pursued, especially on the
question of seperating church and state.
The government groups are so much in
creased that tjiey are no longer de
pendent on the socialists.
OF PARLIAMENT
ped and when the dismissal of the old
cabinet was accepted as an indication
of the desire of the government to join
hands with the national parliament, the
news will arouse etill greater indigna
tion. All changes are in the direction
of further buttressing the imperial
power. Among them the emperor is
given power to fix salaries and pension
officials, thereby subjecting even the
judiciary to the possibility of undue
financial influence, and power to con
clude loans independently should parlia
ment refuse to sanction the budget