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'V, UtUtHIBf UU AttOOIATID MBit RfPORT OOVIR9 THE MORNIN9 fllLO ON THB LOWIft COLUMBIA VOLUME LXI NO. 146 ASTORIA. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS COL BITTER FIGHT FACTIONS Liquor Question Has Divided Columbia County Into Opposing Parties and Trouble is Considered Imminent-Fischer Assault Incident. INDICTMENTS WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE ISSUED GRAND JURY IS IN SESSION AT ST HELENS, TAKING TESTIMONY DATES BACK FOR SEVERAL YEARS SALOON INTER ESTS HAVE HELD FULL SWAY FOR LONG TIME CAUSE OF CONTROVERSY. NT. IIKI.KXK. Or., May 15-The re. eeul liquor agitation and trouble at Rainier tut reached atuge where th condition may I properly aid to l acute, The ault upon V. C. Fischer, editor of tin mill liquor paper, by Iimiii iiitint, ha km wrought up public feeling against them Unit Ilif next election will undoubtedly ce the county k heavily for prohibition. Tim content however will be severe, and that trouble, will oil-ml tl inevitable duall ing of tin- two IniHtilc factions is pre dicted. Today (lie lt tuition U tciut-, and tlio grand jury which i in eion 1 receiv ing etatcmniln which will be the cause of many Indictment.' The wholes of Columbia county is divided into two opponiug fitMion. both determined to hcp the other wipeil out of exitence. Assault But Incidental. The brutal axiault on W, 0. Ficiicr, editor of the reform paper, by a con (exited hired thug of the liquor men, U but one. of the feature of the fight. Rev. H. G. Kemp, another reform leader hftH been arrested for currying a revol ver, and today ty that he received threnU against hi life. Step are lielug taken by the grand jury t see that Kemp Inn protection. The trouble at Rainier date. back sev eral yearn. The saloon have leen run wide open. Rainier appear to have been one of the moot wicked small town in Oregon. It wa w ide, open and the lid wa off. Saloon were run in a manner which would not be tolerated in As toria' wort district. Liquor men dic tated politic, controlled everything, did n they plead nnd gambling nnd vice flourished. There wa a small minority which deplored these thing, but made no remonstrance, for want of a lender. Fisher Begins Agitation. Fischer began an agitation for im proved regulation of the dive. The County Court had to net on ninny case which had their rise in the Rainier su- LOWER HOUSE REPLY ST. PETERSBURG, May 15. The lower house of Parliament tonight be gum on the reply to the speech from the throne, adjourning at midnight after a speech by Mr, Roditchcff and n dozen orators of lesser calibre. The debate tonight showed tho principal attack on the reply will come from tholoft nnd that the leaders of parliament have more to fear from the radicals than from the conservative. The debate to Mm A N El D II H r U U JL-JLJI. BETWEEN AT Iikiim. mii'li a young girl being taken drunk from the liquor placet. The young element thought, of little else thn drinking, gambling nnd dancing. After Finher began the moral move hunt, Kemp aided the raime from the pulpit. Petty annoyance were inflicted on Ficlur and Kemp, and finally the people who sided with them were boy cotted. The liquor dealer' a-ftociutiou wa orgun!ed and then the anti-saloon league wa formed. The reformers wished to rale the aloon licence from iMihi to $lux a year, tlm eliminating until v abu and regulating thoe re maining. Reformers Win Election. The reformer elected three of five Couiicilmcn. The nliHinit boosted that they wouhl control one of the reform Couiicilmcn, and later thi proved true, for one of the Councilmen repudiated hi written pledge and stood with the jiqttor (butler. The antis then notified the saloon to close Sundays, and later had them arretted by violating the laws tigninot gambling. Private detectives were hired in Portland to secure evi dence against tho saloon. Next came the nssault on Fischer, confessed by .liinici ltemington, and threats against Kemp, The situation is such that peo ple who tolerated the ituloon element in the past have reached tho point where they must take side, nnd are swinging to the mural clement. Tho liquor men in the past were powerful in politic, nnd have not lost nil their influence. They will light to the bitter end. In the conspiracy to scare Fischer nnd Kemp out of Rainier all the liquor men have been implicated but ono. Many Arrests Promised. Wholesale arrests are promised. Rain ier h tho center of a logging district, nnd Sunday wa the day the loggers and farmer came to Rainier to drink und trade. Snloonists sny their receipts Sunday are greater than nil the rest of the week. The merchants nlso derived BEGINS TO THE THRONE night wn tame. Two feature develop ed outside of tho regular debate; the Jlrst 1 tho adoption of a rule relutivo jo prepare i question whereby fifty jnembera can prevent the stoppage of the debate thus enabling flilibustering by a determined minority, consisting of a, tenth of the membership of the Jionse. The other feature was the de velopment of a conservative peasant group among the government support- RAINIER DAT Wl great benefit, und are aid by one fac tion to favor an oM-n Sunday. The outi have interviewed the mer chant and quote I hem a anxious to clow. Nut unlay night the Ititinier merchants held t meeting, and all but one agreed to keep cloed Sunday. Moot antagonistic i the feeling in the county, and the plan i to make the county prohibition in June for two year. After thnt the saloon men will have learned their leon and the saloons will lie reopened under other mnmige ment. Thei i a very vat accumulation of buxinc before the grand jury, and it may l several day before It can re turn indictment. lit the meanwhile the Million element, and the reformer are sitting on a sinolderiug volcano, which may erupt st any time. JEROME SECURES RECORDS. NEW YORK. May M-Aftr the ad journment of the-uftiranee grand jury yesterday district Attorney Jerome an-noum-ed that he had secured the entire record of the supply department of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. Whether he had secured them upon an order of the court he refused to tate. Shortly after the announcement of the District Attorney a truck bucked up to the criminal court building and three huge packing case containing touchers, books, and letter files were brought up Jo the district attorney' office. is Victim of the Burned Box car Is Unidentified. otis Mccarty exonerated Jury Frees From Blame, Man Who Shot Sheepherder Man Who Left the Train at Foster Now Being Sought For. PENDLETON, Ore., May 15. John Connelly, & sheepherder, who was shot nnd killed at S o'clock lat evening at Pine City, Morrow County, by Otis Mc Carty, while the former was resisting arrest. With Allen Thompson and Charles Bartholomew, MeCarty was hunting for the man suspected of setting fire to the freight oar in which a man was burned at Foster Station yesterday morning. MeCarty called to him to halt three times, shooting after the third call. Before dying, Connelly snid he had been mentally off for several days, and this was the reason he did not throw up his hands. The verdict of the Coroner's jury giv en at Kcho lust night exonerates Mc ('arty from nil blame, but the case will probably be referred to the grand jury lit the coming term of court, in Morrow county. The identity of the man burned in the freight car nt Foster Station is still unknown, William Wilson, a soldier of the Twenty-fifth Battery of Field Ar tillery, is still held in the County Jail here. He had charge of the car contain ing household goods . and two horses shipped from Fort IUley, Kansas, to Colonel S. M. Taylor, Port Townsend, Wash. He-claims he knew nothing about the men in the car nor of the origin of the fire. It is believed he is concealing the facts. Just after tho Are a small, dark stranger left the track near Foster, go ing southward, nis name is. unknown. The theory is that ho or Wilson, or both, were involved in the murder of the burned man. Further investigations are being made. Name UNKNOWN IS TOTAL U. S. LUMBER CUT. WASHINGTON, May 13. A tola of 2,7.WX)0,00O feet of lumber wa cult in the I'nited State in 1!HI." according to fig ure of the government forestry service. The stock on hand .'miliary 1, wa given a COO, fMKMKKI feet. The total cut of lath wa 2.0,0I0,000 feet and shingles 131.1)70,000,000 feet. ANOTHER LAKE TIE-UP. CIKVKLAN'L), May 15. The inability of the marine fireman to agree with the Ikc carrier UHoocintion over the wage wale today, it i believed will throw- the I-ake carrying situation back where it wa previou to Inst week. President l.ivingtone of the Carriers Association say he i confident he will tie able to securi- firemen and another tie-up will not neecstsirily follow. EDITOR RELEASED. INDIANAPOLIS, May 13.-Fred I Purdy, editor of the Indianapolis Sun wti released from jail on hi bond to day pending a hearing of an application for a writ of haleas corpus. Purdy was committed to jail fop printing a criti cism of Judge Alford of the Marion County Criminal Court Senate Committee of Whole Nearly Concludes Rate Bill. ONLY ONE MORE AMENDMENT When Senate in Committee of Whole Concludes Consideration of Anti Paas Amendment, Bill Will Come Before Senate. WASHINGTON, May 15.-With the anti-pass amendment the senate has concluded its discussion of the railroad rate bill in the committee of the whole, and as. soon as that provision is dis posed of, will take it up in the senate. The general expectation is to pass the queston to lie disposed of, early tomor row and the general hope is that the bill may be passed before the close of tomorrow's session. The greater part of the day was spent in the discussion of the eighth section of the bill, relat ing to the personnel of the inter-state commerce commission, resulting in the elimination of an entire section and re storing the present kw which provides for five commissioners at salaries of $7500. While the debate on this section was in progress, Tillman took the floor in behalf of ex-Senator Chandler, which has been momentarily expected since Lodge's denial to the Senate on Satur day of some of the statements attri buted to Chandler by the South Carolina senator. Tillman read a portion of Chandlers' memorandum, which already has been made public concerning the conference with the President, prefacing it with o. brief statement of his own, snying that on Saturday the Senate had been startled and mortified to hear the utterances of an ex-member denounced as, on behalf of the President, a "Delib erate and unqualified falsehood." When Tillman concluded Allison read the President's letter to him in order to have the letter made ns permanent on the records as Tillman's statements. Attorney General Moody's statement was also read. This closed the incident. ALMOST CONCLUDED AGITATED INSANE LOVER GOES ON A RAMPAGE OF CUE Crazy Telegraph Operator Kills One Han, Severely Wounds Three Others, Slightly Wounds Fifth, Clubs Sixth With Gun, and Kills Himself. GIRL REFUSES TO PERMIT HIS ATTENTIONS DRINK AND DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE CAUSE HIM TO GO INSANE TRIES TO BURN DOWN HOUSE OF LOVER'S UNCLE POSSE SURROUND MANIAC AND HE COMMITS SUICIDE WOUNDED M EN MAY DIE. ATLANTA. Oa., May 15 drink and disappointment affair, James IL Clark, operator at Chamblae, a Crazed by in a love a telegraph dozen miles north of Atlanta, began late yesterday afternoon a rampage of crime. In less than twenty-four hours he killed one man, severely wounded three others, slightly wounded a fifth and clubbed a sixth with his shotgun, set fire to the house of one of his victims and when surrounded by a posse shortly after noon today, shot himself through the heart. Clark had paid marked atten tion to a niece of E. S. Puree! I, but was discouraged. He went to the Purcell house last night and was refused admit tance. He then set fire to the house. When Purcell and his son came out, to CROOKED POLITICIAN, HAMILTON, Ohio, May 15.-U. F. Bickley, for years a leading lawyer in Hamilton and recently democratic can didate nominee for congres from the third Ohio district was indicted today by the grand jury for embezzlement and forgery in connection with alleged frauds while administrator of the estate of Charles Gatham. Disbarment pro ceedings are now pending. VESUVIUS ACTIVE. NAPLES, May 15. Professor Mattue- ci, director of the royal observatory, to day telegraphed that the activity of Mount Vesuvius is increasing and the main crater is discharging great quan tities of sand. The professor added that it was impossible, on account of rain to explore the volcano. TRAIN ROBBERS AFTER VANCOUVER, May 15.-The three train robbers arrested late yesterday after a, desperate fight with the mount ed police were brought into Kamloops this afternoon. They were in charge of Canstable Ferine to whom belongs the credit of their capture, and Constable Pears, who wast in charge of the police and posse. Tomorrow the bandits will be given their preliminary hearing. They will probably be remanded, for one of the younger robbers, who Bays his name is Dunn, was shot through the thight, and it will be several days be fore he will be able to answer to the charge of robbinb the train. The old man of the trio is undoubtedly Bill Miner, notorious as a highwayman and train robber and with a price on his head larger probably than any other fight the fire, Clark fired, wound ing both. He came back about midnight and mode another attempt to fire th house. When an attempt was made U seize him, he shot W. S. Mask, the sta tion agent in the back of the neck. Clark next appeared at Dunwoody, about five miles away early today and going to the store of Nash and Cheek demanded ammunition which was rs fused. Clark immediately fired, killing Cheek. He also fired at Xash inflict ing a dangerous wound. He then ran towards the woods attacking and wounding slightly J. Coker while on th way. The officers put hounds on hi track and he was surrounded soon in the afternoon. When he found his cap ture was certain Clark shot himself. VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER. SPOKANE, May 15 A verdict of manslaughter was returned tonight against Mrs. Josephine Baruth of Medi cal Lake, who is on trial for shooting her husband who was a membeer of the town council. They qnarrelled, and Baruth chased the woman through the house and she secured a revolver and (fired three shots, one wounding him in the arm and another in the breast. Blood poisoning set in, and he- died a few days later. SHINGLE MILLS TO CLOSE. TAOOMA, Wash., May 13. Tacoma, shingle mills will close tomorrow, in ac cordance with the dictum of the bureau meeting held in Seattle Saturday. Tho desire is to beat the bears and force the, price to $1-80. CAPTURED SEVERE FIGHT man on the Pacific Coast. This man says his name is George Edwards, while ,,the youngest of the trio says his name Calhoun, a miner, who has been living in Ashengrove mining camp for the last two years and occasionaly has been ab sent for a month or so and apparently went back to this mining camp after the C. P. R- hold-up a year ago. He is Wanted in San Francisco as well as for Jthe holdup of an O. R. & N. train at TroutdaJe three years ago. There is a reward of something like $20,000 coming to somebody. The robbers were fully armed with automatic revolvers and in their pockets were found several letters stolen from the express car. They opened fire when the officers came up and it was) in this fight that Dunn was hurt.