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VOLUME LXI NO. IT 2
ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE t2, 1906
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INSURANCE MONEYS IE
RECKLESSLY EXPENDED
Grand Jury Returns Six
Gillette and One Against Robert Grannis,
Ex-Mutual Life Vice-Presidents.
PERJURY CHARGED IN COMPLAINTS
NEW YORK GRAND JURY CHARGES FORMES VICE-PRESIDENTS
THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY WITH GROSS MIS
APPROPRIATION OF INSURANCE FUNDS PROSECU
TION WILL BE COMMENCED.
NEW YORK, June II. -Six indict
menu wer found iijuiiiit Dr. Walter G.
Gillette, Ave for injury, in the thin!
degree, nnd one for perjury, and an In
dictment agliit Itolx-it A. Oraiini.
charging forgery and making n false
Utem-nt In (lie ilt-pttii mrnt. by the
Brand jury today. Roth are former !
president of the Mutual Life. The flrt
indiecment nuiiiHt Gillette charge A
Mhi entry liowlng the payment of
H.'mki iu George Mi Kililiiu ami mn fur
advertising.
Made Fal Entries.
The eciiid Indictment charge the
entry of 2o,ooo in-teud of $12,700 for
printing nnd stationery.
The third and fourth indictment
chargw similar miwlemennom; the fifth
In similar tu the firt. and the sixth
charging erjury, alb-ifc that on May
II. ItMHl, Gillette pieiired Ix-foiv the
grand jury ami testified a certain bank
nil-mint at Dobh' Kerry was hi per
ianal mM-iion. when n a fad the ac
count wan a A truotei- of the Mutual
Life, and the money hud conn- from t ho
fundi of the Mutual Life.
The indictment against Gianni charges
I.ONlX)N, June ll.-The Itiiti-Ji hip
Wolden Abby, Cuptaln Ciunphell. from
Ixmdon for San Kiuneinco, wa apoki-n on
April 12. in latitude 20 N' longitude 10
W. with her cargo afire.
BACCALAUREATE AT ALBANY.
ALBANY, Ore.. June ll.The nnnuiil
bamiluureate exercle of Albany Col
lege were held yeterduy. Preiib nt II,
M, Crook delivered the baccalaureate
addreM in the United Piebyterinn church
vent e i day morning to an immene crowd.
Irofeor A. R. Sweetaep, of the L'niver
ilty of Oregon, delivered the principal
nddrei.
DENVER IS CHOSEN.
DENVER. June 11.- Denver wa to
day choaen a the headipiatera of the
Western Federation of Minora by a
large majority vote. Acting Secretary
Kirwiu ftiiid tonight that in all likeli
hood the election of officers will be reach
ed" tomorrow. He aniit further that
I'renident Moyer and Secretary Haywood
would not be disturbed in office. There
would ,he aaid, be no election for those
olllccs and, as the by-law of the fed
eration provided the oHlcew will hold un
til Micceaaor ore vlected and they will
thus continue in office.
ADDICKS IS DEFEATED FOR
UNITpD -STATES SENATOR
DOVER, Del., June 11. -Colonel
Henty Adupent tonight dofeated J. Ed
ward Addieks in the content for the
vacant seat from Delaware in the Sen
ate. Adupent was selected to fill the
vacancy by a caucua of republican mem
liens of the legislature and ends the con
teat that has continued for eleven years
during which Addieks has been the can
Indictments Against Walter
OF
tint in hia report for the year ending
Ik-ember 31, 1004, filed with the super
intendent of iuauranci-. he failed to make
any report of the profit of the income
from the ialu and maturity of ledger
aeti, whilu an a mater of fact the
company' net profit had been over
$1,(100,00(1. Another indictment aguint
Gianni i to the aame import.
Operations Covered Up.
The grand jury in it presentment to
the court say that the evidence clearly
how that large vim of money have
Wen obtained yearly by mean most
Irregular and fraudulent, and while
probably applied to um- thought to be
for the hem-fit of the company, auch
-xKMiditiiro Improper.
"The system employed." the jury eay,
, "wa eonfeedly designed to deceive
nnd mncea! and render it very difficult
to fix the responsibility.
'"Moreover, the death of several
person who.- evidence might have been
of great value haa apparently encouraged
the tendency to throw burden upon
the dead which other pcrhay would
have hud to bear had death not inter
vened." SIX KILLED IN RIOT.
WARSAW. June ll.-Six were killed
In a riot here today. The dixturbance in
reported to have been organised to
avenge the workman Marccwski, who
wa executed in the citadel Saturday, for
attempting to kill a police officer,
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STEAMER ASHORE.
HALIFAX. June ll.-The Marconi
wirele atatlon at Cape Ruble report a
ateamer ahore on a ledge. There are
no particular yet.
NEW YORK. June ll.-One was kill
ed ami more than twenty persons were
injured when A locomotive nnd two cars
of the Atlantic City exprec on the Cen
tral of New Jerey, jumped the track
at the switch at Entonville, N, J. '
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
MANHATTAN', Nev., June 11. -A
party of twenty-six people mostly phy
sicians and niuw, who were driving
to Relmont to attend a dance today met
a enoim ncciftent. ino uruitea urone
on a hill nnd the vehicle dashed into a
gully. Two of the party jfloy die, a
third is serioiily injured nnd others suf
fered minor Injuries.
didate of the Union republicans for
United States Senator. .
A special session of tho legislature
meets tomorrow and will bullot sepa
rately. Wednesday they meet jointly to
verify the vote. The democratic mem
bers have criticised the governor for
calling an extra session and decline they
will take no part in the voting.
TERRIBLE FIRE
NKW YOltK, June II. Four are dcud and everal missing a the re
ault of a fire in a five-story tenement at 20ft Kat Ninety-seventh street
May, Two firemen were injured by by falling from the building and one
of the in cannot live. A wore of thrilling rescue took place and Jut a
th firemen were about to take a woman and her two babie from the
fire ecape on the third floor, the woman fell overcome by smoke and
droped the child. It wa dropjied to death on the pavement thirty feet
below. The building wa occupied by twenty-one families, and the fire
uprt-ad mi rapidly that the inmate were cut off from emwpe except by
the fltv cae.
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Democrats Allege South Gets No
Consular Positions.
OREGON AMONG THE CHOSEN
Trial of Herman Again Givai Easterner
An Opportunity to Denounce
Oregon At Bad Land
Fraud Stat.
ASTORIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, D. C June II. In democratic
criticism of the administration the
prettcnt week to prove radical prejudice
aguiimt the Southern States in oppor
tioning diplomatic nnd ciiiimiIhp ofliciitls
among the State it wa stated on au-
l tbority , of the State Department that
I Oregon wa credited with one mininter
And two eoiwul. The minister is John
j Barrett, who went to Siam from Oregon
illltiri .lie vrc.vmiiu muhiiiiih..hi'ii, biiu
was more recentlv sent to Panama and
later to Colombia. Since his first ap
pointment, the republican clement of the
State has nought to unload him. yet
find that, although appointed the last
time through influence entirely inde
pendent of the State, he i charged to
Oregon.
Congressman liurlenon. of Texas who
: introduced the subject of discrimination
aguinat the South, produced figures
showing that of the eleven great South
ern State, there wepe only three diplo
matic positions given them, out of a
total of ninety-six diplomatic offices at
the di-posnl of each president. And the
same States received but about twelve
out of a toUl of 204 consular offices.
Agnim-t this record, Mr. Burleson showed
tlmt New York had nineteen of the
ninety-six diplomatic positions and
thirty-seven of the 204 consular office.
Pennsylvania has nine of the diplomatic
offices, Massachusetts eight, Illinois
seven and California ix. The ranking
Shite in consular favor- are New York
with the number given. Connecticut 10,
District of Columbia 18, Illinois 17, In
diana 11, Massachusetts 10, Ohio 28,
Pennsylvania 22. In delivering his
speech. Mr. Burleson said he did not ex
pect to give the South any better stand
ing, iu there seemed a fixed purpose to
slight it in such patronage, but he did
hope to pave the way for bringing these
offices to communities a little more rep
resentative of the entire nation.
Stock Grazing.
The tremor caused by reports in
Washington that one or two state courts
of the West had ruled that the govern
ment nt present had no authority to
prevent stock grazing on forest pferve,
or enforce regulations requiring pay for
the license or of a prohibitory nature,
is not seriously disturbing the Depart
ment of Agriculture officials, who believe
that the interpretation of the law would
be uphold by the United States Supreme
court. If the matter is agitated mater
ially, arrangements will in all probabil
ity be made for an appeal to the high
est tribunal. Important work would
be upset by such a finding as that re
ported being sustained on Appeal.
Herman' Trial
The trial of Congressman Binger Her
mann at Washington this month is be
ing made the subjcclj for renewed ad
vertising of Oregon "land frauds." When
ever there is a lull of any material length
of time, some event I seized upon by
dose in " t'ich with the fV :mr
Department to advettise Oregon a hat-
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NORTH
FAVORED
IN TENEMENT.
LABOR QUESTIONS
Plan to Submit Problems to In
dustrial Council.
TO SETTLE ALL DIFFERENCES
President Hopper of Building Trades
Employers' Association Advocates
This Plan As Mode of
Settlement.
NEW YORK. June 11. "Establish an
industrial court with full power to settle
all questions between employer and em
ploye," said Isaac A. Hopper, president
of the Building Trades Employers' As
sociation yesterday. "Establish A court
that will settle the differences between
employer and employee in the same man
ner and with the same authority that
(lie civil court disposes of cases of credi
tor versus debtor, and the criminal
court dispones of ca-s of the people
versus the man charged with a crime,
and in thi way differences may be
quickly and finally disposed of, and the
tendency to socialism and anarchism will
lie curtailed."
Mr. Hopper made this statement
apropos of the Httuition that threatens
to bring to a standstill building opera
tions in New Y'ork City.
''In view of my experiences as an em
ployer of labor for thirty years," said
Mr. Hopper, "I am fully convinced that
some plans must be adopted different
from any we have tried up to the pres
ent, to settle difference in the building
trades. Arbitration between parties,
whereon one side there is nothing bind
ing or nobody to be held responsible, has,
to my mind, proved itself a failure. I
am fully convinced that this problem
mut be handled and solved o that de
cisions will be binding on both sides,
and a failure to abide by a decision will
be followed by punishment of some sort.
Then we can protect the public from the
hardships imposed upon them by strike
of which they are innocent victims."
The board of governors of the Building
Trades' Employers' Association will
meet today to arrange for manning the
buildings at once.
WESTERLUND FLOATED.
CAPE MAY, N. J.. June ll.-With
more than 1000 persons on board, the
steamship Westerlund, from Liverpool
for Philadelphia is hard aground on the
south shoals neaT the entrance to Dela
ware Bay. The big steamer struck about
10:15 this morning. Although she lies
hard aground she is in good shape and
in an easy position and there are strong
hopes that she will be floated with the
assistance of tugs at high tide early in
the morning. There wws no pilot on the
steamer when she grounded, the captain
expecting to take one on board near the
Overfalls light. She was steaming under
full headway when she struck. Life sav
ing erew No. 40, is standing by the
steamer and will remain there until the
vessel is flouted.
LATER.
CAPE MAY, N. Y., June ll.-The
steamship Westerland was floated at
11:40 p. m. tonight at high tide. The
liner steamed to the Delaware Break
water where she will remain until day
light. ' '
ASHES FALLING.
NAPLES, June 11. Owing to the fall
ing i nof the crater of Vesuvius toward
Ottajano there was a thick rain of
ashes today, but little harm was done.
TUCKER DIES
SHOWING
Murderer of Mabel Page
Never Weakening in
Statement
KILLED SWEETHEART IN MARCH 1904
EVIDENCE AGAINST CONDEMNED MAN WAS ENTIRELY CIRCIMSTAH
TIAL AND THE LEGAL FiCBT TO SAVE TUCKER FROM THE
CHAIR WAS THE BITTEREST EVER WAGED IN
MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, June 12. Charles L. Tucker
was electrocuted at 12:12 this morning for
the murder of Mabel Page. Tucker was
officially pronounced dead at 12:19.
Thie applications were made. When
Tucker arrived in front of the death
chair be drew from his trousers a brief
statement which he read. The state-
m.-n wa:
"I hope God will forgive me for all
the wrongs I have ever done in my past
life. I forgive everybody who has wrong
ed me. I am at peace with my maker.
May God have mercy on my souL"
Tucker then sat down in the chair and
after the guards bad adjusted the
straps the warden raised his hand as a
signal to the electricians. Tucker was
unconscious from the moment the first
shock was applied.
Mabel Page, for whose murder Charles
L .Tucker wan electrocuted this morn
ing, was murdered at her home in Wes
ten, on March 31. 1004. The body was
found several hours later by her aged
father. On a nearby table was found
a note, supposed to have been written
by Miss Page, saying she had been call
ed to Boston because of the illness of
her brother. Later it was shown he
was not ill. and the handwriting in
the note was identical with that of
Tucker. The police learned that Tuck-
THOUSANDS DROWNED.
Great Floods in Valley of Siang, China,
Cause Terrible Destruction.
VICTORIA, B. C, June ll.-Mail ad
vices from Hankow show that the great
floods this spring in Hunan, caused ap
palling loss of life amounting to tens of
thousands. The rivers are higher than
at any previous year, and have swept
over the Dykes, submerged houses and
covered n immense area, in fact, the
whole valjey of the Siang is flooded.
AGREEMENT PROBABLE.
Strike of Coast Sailors Will Likely be
Amicably Settled. .
SAN FRANCISCO. June 11. Although
the owners of steam schooners and other
vessels conferred for more than three
hours with the committee from the wat
er front federation today, no agreement
was reached and an adjournment was
had until tomorrow. The feeling on both
CROPICONDITIONS SHOWN
TO BE MOST FLOURISHING
WASHINGTON, June ll.-Preliminary
reports to the department of agriculture
show 17,989,000 acres of spring wheat
an- increase of two per cent over last
year. The average condition of spring
wheat on June 1, was 03 as compared
with 93 on the same date last year, and
a ten-year average of 94. For the State
of Washington the acreage was 104 and
condition 92 as compared with 97, last
VITHQUT ;
SINGLE TliEMOIt
Goes to the Electric Chair
the Least-Reads Final
Before Death.
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er, an Auburndale young man, had been
seen near the houe on the day of the
murder. He was arrested, but later re
leased. Three weeks afterwards the po
lice searched Tucker's home, where they
found in an old coat a broken knife.
bloodmeared and scarred. The scars
indicating an effort to destroy it A
stick pin identified as Mabel Page's, waa
also found. An indictment followed. The
evidence was most circumstantial and
the defense produced witnesses to prove
an alibi. Every effort the law affords
had been brought to bear to prevent the
execution, and the legal fight was the
bitterest ever waged in Massachusetts.
Would Not Interfere.
BOSTON. June 11. One more effort
was made today to prolong the life ct
Charles E. Tucker through executive
clemency, but after hearing the appeal
of his clergyman as well as his counsel.
Governor Guild tonight again declined
to interfere with the execution of the
sentence of the roan convicted of the
murder of Mabel Fage.
Eev. Thomas W. Bishop, former pas
tor of the church at which Tucker was
once an attendant and his spiritual ad
viser convinced by his protestation of in
nocence, sought an interview with th
governor, but the governor declined to
interfere in any way.
sides is
reached.
that an agreement will be
RUSH COMMENCES.
HELENA, June 11. Over 1000 people
arrived here to take part in the regis
tration of land on the Crow reserva
tion on Thursday. The authorities are
bending every effort to preserve order.
CANNOT USE FORCE.
ST. LOUIS, June 11. Judge Witherow
of the criminal division of the state cir
cuit court decided today that corpora
tions cannot be forced to answer wheth
er they belong to the so-called trusts,
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FREIGHT TRAIN WRECKED.
TOPEKA, Kan.. June ll.-One was
killed and three seriously injured in a
wreck on the Southern Pacific near
Comiskey, Kansas, today. The train was
a freight.
year and a ten-year average of 94. The
condition of winter wheat in June waa
83, as compared with 86 last year and a
ten-year average of 81. The average con
dition of oats on June 1 was 86 a
against 93 last year and a ten-yean aver
age of 91.
The barley acreage increased 2.7 per
cent over last year. The condition was
93.5 as against 94 a year ago and a ten
year average of 90.