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IMlllltl UiUtMl l.rUll. AttOOIATIO PRIM Rf PORT UOVIRS THC MORNINQ FIILO ON THI LOWE COLUMIU; VOLUME LXI NO. 1G ASTORIA, ORF,GON, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 6, 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS RETURNS in his til BE 1IIIHLV MED Honest Election League in Denver Going After Grafting Franchise Grabbers in EarnestGrand Jury Will Be Called At Once. I"0RTJ.AN1, June 8.Kev.r in the lilMory of Oregon have returns from the election tome In o .lowly ami .o un satisfactorily . in the election which occurred yesterday, Kven in the mot thickly populated part of the state, where generally a complete count i an nounced on the day after the election, only partial return have been received, while from several districts, among these being Harney and Malheur coun ties, absolutely nothing in received. At .luted la.t night. Oeorye K, Chamberlain, the Democratic candidate for Governor . re-elected. Jonathan Bourne Jr., e cured the popular endowment of hli candidacy for United Rate Senator from Oregon! Willi C. Hawley will represent the first district In Congress and ex Congressman Ellis will return to Washington from the aecond rtl-trict NARROW ESCAPE. Daring Aeronaut's Try to Croii Alps and Lands in the Sea. XKW YORK, June 8,-A cable dis patch to the Herald from Miltin says Captain Nor.ari, Signor Minlcttl and Signor LVclli made a balloon ascension on Saturday evening with the Intention of croing the Tip. Their balloon was carried over the Appcniiien and dropped into the Adriatic, .event! mile from Ancotio. U.uulli clung to the rope and was buffeted by the wave, for four hour. He m finally siived by a torpedoboat. 'ptln Niuari and Minlcttl were drowned. Minlcttl waa well known and wealthy. Uiuelli wa. al.o wealthy and well known a an Alplnit. He once di.tinguiahed himself by crowing the Ande. He say that the voyage wa a ter rible one from the .tart, and nil the occupant of the balloon anticipated death. The precipitous fall into the sea wa the la.t he remembered. VOLUNTEER TOTAL LOSS. SANTA ROSA, June 5. A telephone message from Ilodega tonight say. the schooner Volunteer, which went ashore on the rocks thin morning ha gone to pieces. The cargo Is a total loss. The captain and crew, including the former's wife were all saved through the efforts of coa't residents, who succeeded In get ting a line aboard. 4 NATURALIZATION BILL GOES 4 THROUGH. 0 WASHINGTON, June 5.-In many particulars, today was a "lied letter" day In the houe, not only in the number of bills passed, but in the general char- actor of the legislation enacted. What bid. fair to cause endless trouble, 1 the naturalization biD, which was passed under a suseruion of the rules. The house 4 refused to pus. a bill, leasing to 4 a private Arm or corporation the right to mine coal In the 4 Wand of Ratan la the Phllllplna 4 group. The rest of the day wa. taken up In (he passage of bill 4 by insiiiiiiou. consent. AR afUr an absence of eight year. Woman .ufferag- ha. been defeated by a decisive vote. The state legislature eonalsta of eighty-four republican and tlx demo crat While 'with thje exception ot governor the entire republican .tare ticket ha been elected. The following It the result of the incomplete return received up to mid night Tuesday: Gocvernor Chamber lain, democrat, 34303; Dr. Jamea Withy combe, republican, 32.710. Candidate for United States Senator Jonathan Bourne, republican. 33,085; John M. (iearln, democrat, 30,620. Congressman, Klrt Dwtrkt Hawley, repnblioan, 15.MA; C V. Calloway, democrat, 12,009. Congrvesman, Second Diatrlct Ellie, republican. 21.340; J. II. Graham, demo crat, 8S13. CLEANING UP. Chicago Packing Plant! Begin to Ob serve Strict Sanitary Precautions. CHICAGO, June fi.-The Tribune says: One of the Immediate effects of the President's diclouro of packing house condition, was sci-n in an attempt in at least three of the- packing house to remedy the condition, condemned in the report, Floor, were cleaned, walls scraped, and light and ventilation im proved. The surroundings of the work em In thee three plants were improved 50 per cent in one day. The general manager of one big plant spent the morning in a downtown plumbing estab lishment, picking out the latest sanitary plumbing. Resides renovating the plumbing, the packer, put up a variety of sign, all over the plant, enjoining cleanliness. The foremen were told that the rule against expectorating must be enforced or dis charge would result. Another new mile ported conspicuously was that forbidding the use of tobacco in all food producing room. TENNIS CONTESTS. NEW YORK. June 5Ploy in the Metropolitan lawn tennis championship wa. begun yesterday on the courts of the West Side Club, of this city Sum mary: . Metropolitan championship singles: First round C. W. Throckmorton, West Side Lawn Tennis Club, defeated W. L, Pate, Brooklyn Lawn Tenni. Club, 8-3, 7-5. IT. L. Westfall, Kings County Lawn Tennis Club, defeated William B. Crngln, Jr., Seventh Regiment Lawn Ten nis Association, 3-0, 7-fi, (1-0. CHINK ORATOR. NEW YORK, June 5.-.Toe Tunglee. a Chinaman, surprised New York Univers ity yesterday afternoon by winning the Second prize In the San Ha oratory context. Ijce'. subject was "The Exclu sion, of the Chinese." The first prlne was $73 and wa. won by Arthur Henry Llmou.ee, of Leon, J, Lee I. a member of tl.( junior class and prepared at Dwight uchool, which ha entered directly from hi. native city of Canton, All th telegraphic and local news In (ha Morning A.torlan. E SLOWLY RECEIVE gooooooooooooooo O 0 o o o o o o o o o o 0 o o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o o 0 0 o o o 0 HERE ARE THE WINNERS I'nited Stat- Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., Rep. I'nitnd State. Senator (to fill vacancy )-Fred W. Mulkey, Rep. Governor 4Jeorg K. Chamberlain, LVm. Supreme Judge Robert Kakin, Rep. Secretary of State Frank W. Benson, Rep. State Treasurer George A. SUel, Rep. Superintendent of Public Instruction I, II. Aekerman, Rep. Attorney -Genera I A- M. Crawford, Rep. State Printer Willi. 8. Dunniway, Rep. Commissioner of Labor O. P. Hoff, Rep. Representative to Congress. Second District W. R. Ellis, Rep. State Senator W. T. Scbolfleld, Rep. Representatives Aimus Brlx, Rep. ; John C. McCue, Rep. COUNTY TICKET. County Judge C J. Trenchard, Dem. County Commissioner ('. C. Ma.ten, Rep. Sheriff Merritt R. Pomeroy, Rep. County Clerk.!. C Clinton, Rep. f County Treasurer W. A. Sherman, Rep. " i County Surveyor R. C. A.tbury, Rep. Coroner-W. C. A. Pohl. Cit. Justice of the Peace P. J. Goodman, Rep. Constable John Saver, Rep.-Dem. 00000000000000000000000000000000000 SENATE PASSES NAVAL APPROPRIATION Bill Carries Over 1 103,000,000 Rate Bill Will Probably be Seat Back to Conference For Con 'nopmpui WASHINGTON. June fl.-Tbe Senate today passed the naval appropriation bill and also gave considerable atten tion to the conference report on the railroad rate bill. The only important amendment to the twval bill requires the secretary of the navy to submit I plans for the proposed big warship to' Congress, before proceeding with its con struction. The bill carried over $103,-1 000,000. There is no doubt the rate bill will be sent back to conference. Till man admitted some changes were made in conference that cannot be justified under) the rules, but said they were necessary In order to make the bill har monious. Foraker criticises the change in the anti-pass provision because it doe. uot except the railroad employes addition, compelling lateral lines to connect with lateral Hues, and the omission of the provision regarding "Jim Crow" cars. The discussion of the re port will continue- CHINESE GOING HOME. SAN FRANCISCO, June 5-Nearly 250 refugee Chinese will be sent home at the expense of the Chinese government on the Hong Kong Maru, which will sail today for the Orient The Chinese lost heavily in the fire, and as there is no immediate prospect of their being permanently located in this city they expressed a desire to return to their native land. The Chinese Consul General in this city sent word to Fekin of the conditions here, and in reply received word that the government had appro priated money for the transportation of all Chinese in California who were de sirous of leaving. The liner Korea, which sails on June 2, will carry a huge num ber of returning celestials. SOLDIERS GUARD PROPERTY OF OHIO COAL COMPANIES DIU.KNVILLE, Ohio. June fl. With a total of about 1500 members of the national guard on duty, quiet reigru tonight in this and other mining villages of this section. Troops began arriving at an early hour today and tonight the main body U Bivouacked on the hills surrounding the Bradley mine, a mile and a half south of Smithfletd. At the office of the company, it was announced to night, that all the guards whose presence at the mines, is the alleged cause of the riot on Sunday, had been relieved from duty. There was no outward dis play of hohtility on the part of the miners on the arrival of the militia, and olllclaU of the miners organisation ay there will be no trouble. No effort has been mad to operate the mint and It U claimed by the miners canvass of the local fluid that only two men ware inclined to swept tha offer of the operators, At (he Plum Run and Ruti Run mind the regular force li employed, but no toul is being shipped out, , OO 00000000000000000 o o o o o o o o o o o o o e o o 0 o o o o o o o o o o o o 0 s NEW YORK TAILORS i TO STRIKE Twenty Thousand Tailors Are Prepar ing to Strike For Uniform Wag Scale and Shorter Hours of Work. NEW YORK. June 5.-Twenty thou sand tailors on the Eaet Side are pre paring for a general strike for a unl form wage scale and a shorter work day. A meeting was called yesterday under the auspices of the Brotherhood of Tailors, to be held Saturday to hear reports from the various shops. According to the officers of the organ ization, which consists of coatmakers, the executive committee of the Brother hood is trying to prevent a strike, but the rank and file are clamoring for a strike and are liable to go out without orders. They say that wages are beisg reduced and the working hours have been increased from 10 to 12 and 15 hours a day. About 800 tailors hare gone out on a strike on their own initia tive in the shops of Heller, Rothschild and Langdon. ANARCHISTS THWARTED. LONDON. June 5. According to a dis' patch from Vienna printed in the Tele. graph this morning, the Italian police learned that Italian anarchists at Fat erson, N. J., had directed the attempt on the life of King Victor Emmanuel at the opening of the Milan exposition and despatched one of their number to make the attempt. This anarchist, the cor respondent relates, was followed through England, France and Switzerland, and arrested the moment he set foot on Italian soil, but the whole affair was kept from the public. It further ap pears, the despatch says that all the European governments were informed that Patterson anarchists had plotted the assassination of three sovereigns. It was this that led to the discovery of bombs at Ancona, end the plot against Victor Emmanuel. COUNT OF VOTES CAST PROCEEDING VERY SLOW Indications Point to Rc-Elcction of Chamber, lain for Governor Remainder of the Ticket Elected Is Republican By Large Majority. DENVER, June 5.-Judge Mullins to day granted the petition of the honest election league praying for calling a special grand jury to investigate the alleged frauds perpetrated by the Den ver Public Utility Corporations in the interests of certain franchises at the election of May 15. District Attorney Stidger, Sheriff Al exander, and Coroner Collins are removed from office so far as the grand jury is concerned and other men will be ap ponted in their stead. F. A. Williams, chairman of the republican city central committee; W. T. Davoren, chairman of the democratic city central committee, and J. W. Brady, clerk of the Gas Com pany, who defied the court and refused to testify have been declared in contempt and will appear tomorrow to receive their sentence. CHINESE TONGS FIGHT. Attack Chinese Youth and Four Are Wounded in Affair. PHILADELPHIA. June 5. A battle with revolvers occurred between the Hip Sings and Ong Leungs in Chinatown tonight, and when the police stepped in and stopped the fight they found four Chinamen had been shot, but none fatal ly. The trouble started when Willie Lee York, a Christianized Chinaman, who has given the police much assistance in their crusades against gambling and other evils in the Chinese quarter, attempted to leave the Chinese colony under an escort of policeman. Members of the On Leung Tong opened fire on him which was returned by friends of Y'ork, who were along with him, being members of the Hip Sings. Y'ork was wounded in the shoulder and one of his protectors also shot. The other men injured be long to the opposing faction. The police made many arrests. DENVER WANTS THEM. DENVER, June 5. A movement was launched yesterday at a meeting of the Denver Convention League to bring both of the great National conventions to this city two years hence. Especial ef fort will be made to secure the Demo cratic Convention, but an invitation will be extended to both conventions. It was Agreed that at a meeting to be held in the near future, Judge John I. Mullins, Dmocratio committeeman for Colorado, and Hon. .A. M. Stevenson, Republican committeeman for this state, will be of ficially notified of the Invitation of the league, and both shall be asked to use every effort to bring the conventions here. TERRIBLE HAIL STORM. OKLAHOMA CITY. June 5. Two fatalities, three score farm residences Including the stock, bams, and ware houses, as well at the growing crops, are reported utterly destroyed by a heavy wind and hail storm which iwept over southern Oklahoma and Indian Ter ritory last night More than sixty fami lies are destitute. The damage In dol lars will run Into tlx figure at practi cally all the big cotton acreages are destroyed. D The court also expressed the belief that the character of the testimony offer ed during the hearing was sufficient to convince any court that the sheriff and coroner were not the proper persons to assist in calling such a jury and the district attorney not a proper person to lay before the jury the matters to be in vestigated. The very nature of the testimony, the court seemed to think, indicated a bold conspiracy had been en tered into by the corporation heads, who were also the heads of a political party with whom the three officials were clos ly interested. Judge Mullins seemed to be of the opinion also, that the useful ness of a grand jury wQl be increased with a special officer for the jury, whoeV' attitude toward the interests to be in vestigated could not be questioned and who should be absolutely unprejudiced one way or the other. MUNICIPAL PLANT. Mayor Dunne Favors City Owning Iti Own Slaughtering House. CHICAGO. June 5. Impelled by dis closures at the stock yards Mayor Dunne announced a new municipal ownership project last night. He declared himself in favor of the city owning a slaughter ing plant, where the packers would be compelled to kill their cattle and pre pare the meat for sale under strict municipal supervision.. The only diffi culty foreseen by the Mayor is the prob lem of raising the necessary funds for such an undertaking. He will confer with Alderman Frank L Bennett, chair man of the Council Finance Committee, and other members of the City Council to see if there is some way of finding the money. GETS BIG AWARD. NEW YORK, June 5. The jury today awarded John Delahunty a verdict is the full amount of his claims for a $43, 000 counsel fee, against Richard Canfield for legal services after District Attor ney Jerome's raid on CanSeld's gambling house in this city. TERRIFIC ELECTRIC STORM. PITTSBURG, June 5. A terrific elee trio storm here today deluged the streets and caused many thousands of dollars damage by lightning and a tie up of the street car traffic for a time and frightened many residents of the East End where the storm was most severs. HOUSE PASSES LARGE NUM- BER OF BILLS. WASHINGTON, June 6 Under suspension of the rules the fol- lowing are among the house and senate bills passed by the house 4 today: A bill ratifying soldiers additional homestead entries upon lands embraced in what former- 4 ly was the Columbia Indian Res- ervatlon In Washington; a bill authorizing Jame A, Moore or his aislgna to construct a eanal 1 I connecting Puget Sound and Lake Washington; a bill providing for the entry of agricultural land in forest reservation; and kill regulating the inspection of sieam vessels, ft 4