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VOLUME LXI NO. 173
ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 1.1,1906
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Montaoa Town Is Almost Destroyed By Terrible
Storm-Damage Is Estimated at Over Two
Hundred Thousand Dollars.
NEGROES THINK END
AFRICANS FALL ON USEES AND 0 FFER PRAYERS INDIANS AT THE
FORT FACE STORM WITH TH E UTMOST STOICISM SHOW
NO SIGN OF FEAR-ROOFS OF BUILDINGS TAKEN
OFF BY STORM.
HAVRE, Juno 12,-A hurricane this
afternoon eaued considerable damage
here miiI at Frnt Alnibonc. The wind
wit aeeompanltd by a heavy rain and
htil tcrm. Tbt ballton being of
mormon sir. Almoat every window la
(own wa broken, the Great Northern
hop Mid round hoiimi epfclally. suffer
ing In thl repect. Engine that hud
headlight w.r broken and eight coaehe
were unroofed and a string of car blown
off the aiding. The two top stories of
the Havre Commercial Company build
ing, were picked up by tlie wind and
deposited on an adjoining lot. The lower
floor remained lutact. Thoe injured
were hit by flying mille. It la re
ported there wa nevere dainnge in the
surrounding country, but no newa i jet
received.
Meagre account from Fort Alni
bolne tell of the great det ruction
wrought there. The 1urgi rointiiUsary
building together with the adjutant'
office, stable and several barrack went
down. Several thousand feet of the
Great Northern track west of Aini
loin waa washed out. It i Impossible
to communicate with Harlem and Clii-1
nook and fear are expressed of the
SESSION ENDS.
Sixty-five Billi Have Reached Hands o(
Governor For His Signature.
SACRAMENTO. Cal., Juno 12.-The
epecial session of the California Legis
lature convened by proclamation of the
governor on Saturday, June 2, to enact
laws mode necessary by the earthquake
end Are of April 18. ended a few mo
ment after noon today.
A a result of the eleven clays devoted
to legislation, the governor ha received
alxty-flve bills passed by both house.
Fifty of these await hi approval and
the others, including a measure provid
ing for a $500,000 state building in Sun
Francisco, which was signed thl morn
ing, have already become law.. Nearly
all provide in various way for the as
sistance of San Francisco, though other
plflcm will share in the aid rendered.
STATEHOOD BILL REPORT
PRESENTED TO SENATE
WASHINGTON, June 12.-The confer
ence report on statehood bill, wa today
withdrawn from conference and pre
sented to the Senate, and a new report
containing a compromise provision agreed
on by the conferee of the two home,
The new report wa not considered.
Much of tho remainder of (ho day wa
dcvot4 (o tht bill extending to thirty
six hour, Die tluu livestock may I
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OF WORLD HAS COME
afety of the resident in those placea.
in view of the break in the Irrigation
rmrvoir. A report tonight state both
reservoir at Fort Asitnfbolne burat
and the quarter of loldiera are being
flooded.
Telegraph wlrei are down and com-
municatlon with the outside world 1
practically at a atandwtill. The damage
i estimate at $200,000. . randemonlura
reigned during the storm. Women were
hyaterloal and even the men feared to
venture from their houaea. Panle pre
vailed In the negro quarter, many be
lieving the end of the world had come
and acore proat rated themnelve in aup.
plication. Contrasted with the fright of
the negroe waa the stoicism of the In
dian at the fort. The redskin huddled
together, wound' their blanket about
themselves and weathered the hurricane
without a murmur or exclamation of
fear.
House Destroyed.
TIFTON, Ga June 12 A tornado
a wept over this town late this afternoon
destroying more than fifty houo. Two
were seriously injured ami many slight
ly. No report from the outlying coun
try are received.
TRY TO FRIGHTEN CREW.
Union Sailors Board Johan Paulson and
Fight Non-union Crew Two Shot.
PORTLAND, June 12.-A the result
of nn attempt to run off the non-union
crew of the steamer freighter Johan
Paulson tonight by two Ixwt loada of
men ru lil to be union sailors, two of the
freighters crew wnre shot, one seriously
and a third injured by a rock.
Boats filled with about fourteen armed
men boarded the Paulson during the
night and ordered the sailors to leave.
The snilors refused and the shooting re
sulted. Captain Levinson of the Paulson, who
was absent, arrived during the height
of the trouble and securing a rifle from
his cabin, declared his Intention of using
it on the intruders utile they cleared
out. At this the attacking party fled.
carried in transit without unloading.
Warren wa in charge of the bill, and he
and a number of senators debuted it at
length. During the dieuion there was
some reference to the ruHted legisla
tion for the regulation of packing house
and Lodge an Id the packer are standing
In their on light in not Inviting (he
most rigid inspection, Tho bill wsi
pud.
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HOUSE MEMBERS FALL
INTO LINE
Republican and Democratic Whip Final
ly Drive the Rate Bill Back to
Conference Without Express
ing Any Wishes.
WASHINGTON. June 12.-With a
large proportion of the member pres
ent, due to the activity of the republi
can and democratic whip, the houe to
day passed the rule sending the railroad
rate bill back to conference aa aked
for by the Senate, without even an ex
preion of it win!- to any amend
ment to the bill. The rule waa debated
for forty minute. The leader partici
pated in the dJculon, the democrats
taking the portion that the time wa
opportune to concur; in the aleeping ear
amendment and instruct the conferees a
to the anti-pas amendment. Although
the democrat were aided by eight re
publicans, they did not command votes
enough to defeat the rule. While the
sundry bill waa under consideration the
bouse adopted an amendment prohibiting
canteen In ailor' home. Unexpected
ly the Nelll-Reynold report of the con
dition of the Chicago packing houaea
came in for severe criticism. Monde!,
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DIES FROM BLOWS
Woman Beats Servant Girl Caus
ing Death.
BODYEXHUMEDANDEXAMINED
Evidence Tenda to Show Girl Wat
Beaten and Scalded to Death
Wealthy Brewer's Wife
is Arrested.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D.. June 12.-A
sensation was caused here this afternoon
by the arrest of Mrs. Moe Kauffman,
the wife of a wealthy brewer, on a
charge of manslaughter, in connection
wiUi the death of Miss Agnes Petrels, a
domestic in the Kauffman home. The
L'irl died several days ago and was
lmried. Believing that death was due
to unnatural causes, interested persons
had the body examined and examined by
five physicians. On the head were found
bruises end cuts. The lower limbs were
swathed in cloths and when the band
ages were removed the flesh presented
the appearance of having been scalded,
which it is alleged was caused by at
tempts to revive her after being beaten
unconscious. It is alleged she died from
beatings administered by Mrs. Kauffman
and the beatings being due to Mrs.
Kauffman's ungovernable temper. Mrs.
KaulTman was arraigmxd before the Jus
tice of the Peace end bound over to ap
pear in the circuit court in this city.
RUSH TO SAVE NEGRO.
Angered Men of Eastern Virginia Want
to Lynch Black Brute.
NORFOLK, Va., June 12. A riot call
was sounded here this afternoon for the
quick assemblage of 200 militiamen of
the Seventy-first Virginia Regiment of
Infantry, to proceed at once to Eastville,
Va., to protect William Lee, a negro now !
in juil at that place, charged with as
sault on Mr. Roliert Barnes and her
couhIii, Mis Powell, near Kingston, in
Somerset county, on tho atern shore of
Maryland. The crime occurred on Sun
day last, while the women were en route
(o their home with the infant of Mrs,
Hurne In a baby carriage. Mls Powell
I reported to be lu a serious condition.
Morning Astoriao to cents per nontb.
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ANGRY WATERS CLAIM
TWO OF CREW
Student and Sailor on Corinthian, Vic
time of Tragedy in Humboldt '
Bay Life Siring Crew j
Work Nobly.
EUREKA, Cal June 12. While crow
ing Humboldt bar lat evening and at
tempting to navigute through the south
channel the gasoline schooner Corinthian,
Walter Ooggeshall, managing owner.
Captain Atwater, ma-ter, took aboard a
huge sea, causing her" to itecome a. total
wreck. The disaster wa marked by
two fatalities.
The dead are:
ANDREW M'CARKY. student at the
University of California.
OLE CARLSON, witor.
The remainder of the crew were taken
ahore in a breeches buoy.
The Corinthian i now upon the
beach between the shipyards and New
Era Park, just heide the hull of the
ill-fated steamer Newsboy, which wa
wrecked two months ago. Before the
eyes of the person on hoard Ole Carl
son, a sailor, was dragged dow n and out
to sea by strong ebb tide. Two other
battled so stoutly that they were able to
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CONTESTS COMING
Transportation Centers Will Test
Interstate Commerce Law.
AMENDMENTS QUESTIONED
Effort Will be Made to Have the Courts
Determine "Just and Seasonable
Rate" Clause in Near Future
Complaint on Rates.
ASTORIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
inlon, D. C, June 12 Should alt of
the Senate amendments to the inter
state commerce law be finally adopted
by Congress, which seems probable ia
the main, lively time in transportation
circles are promised for many months.
It is already manifest that several of
the great eastern producing and trans
port at ion centers will hasten contests, to
determine what construction is to be
placed upon certain provisions. First
will unduobtedly be an interpretation of
"just and reasonable rate."
The new law is intended to give the
Inter-State Commerce Commission power
to make rates. This power did not exist
before, Courts will in all human proba
bihty be called upon soon to construe
what Congress meant by "just and rea
sonable rates." Shippers and producers
the country through are anxious over
this point. If it is to be a mileage rate,
exclusively,, a traffic revolution is in
sight, for few of the important sched
ules of the country but are influenced
by other considerations. Congressmen
and senators do not believe they have
conferred the power, or rather have pre
scribed a necessary, a mileaga .basis for
rate-mUking, hence the general feeling
is that railway traffio will not suffer
such convulsion as would ensue such
doctrine's advent.
Kliminating the radical position of a
mileage basis, there is yet room for pro
found movements. A slight margin often
U the saJvution of a jobbing center. In
building up their present schedules rail
way companies have aggrieved some
communities and won the plaudit of
otliera. While the rate-making power
rested with the t raffle managers, busi
ness became a customed to the principle
governing tho interest, but now face a
new power iu the field. wtuVli may have
melt Important change to make as cut-
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GREAT
BURLINGTON IS CHARGED
WITH GIVING REBATES
Chicago. Burlington and Quincy Road Alleged to
Have Crossly Favored Packers in Blatter
of Giving Them Rebates.
TRIAL HAS COMMENCED IN KANSAS CITY
GOVERNMENT DETERMINED TO B RING THE GUILTY PARTIES TO BAX
OF JUSTICE ATTORNEYS FO K DEFENSE GIVE STATEMENT
IK OPENING HEARING TRAFFIC OFFICIALS SUM
MONED TO TESTIFY.
KANSAS CITY, June 12.-The esx; of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail
road charged with giving rebates to Ar
mour & Company, Swift & Company,
Cudahy & Company, and the Kelson
Morris Company, was begun in the fed
eral court this afternoon. The cases,
which are practically identical were
combined for trial purposes. Both sides
agreed to the statement of facts which
admits a contract existed between the
Burlington and the packers by which
freight was carried at a through rate of
about 49 cents from Kansas City to
Liverpool and other foreign points. It
was also agreed that such rate was
pot published and filed with the inter
state commerce commission. Leslie
Lyons, assistant district attorney in his
opening statement said this rate, which
t would be shown was given by the
Burlington, Lehigh Valley, Grand Trunk,
and the Toledo. St. Louis and Western,
was a concession from the regular tariffs.
WILL AID POLICE.
Husband of Murdered Woman Offers to
Help Authorities,
NEW YORK. June 12.-Detective
Sergeant Samuel Price of the Bronx De
tective Bureau announced last night
that he had been in communication with
Richard Kinnan, the husband of Mrs.
Alice Kinnan, who was murdered on the
piazza of the Stenton mansion, in
Washington avenue on Friday night.
Kinnan, whom the police have wished
to interview ever since the tragedy has
occurred, has voluntarily come forward
to do what he can to assist the police
in running down his wife's slayer. He
has been living at Belmore. N. 3 for
some time. Reading in the newspapers
of the tragedy, Kinnan sent his daughter
by a former wife to learn the facts from
lawyer Burton W. Gibson, counel for
Mrs. Stenton and her daughter, the late
Mrs. Kinnan. Gibson, on learning where
Kinnan was, notified the police, who at
KING OF ENGLAND SHOWS
ATTENTION TO ALICE
LONDON. June 12.-Seldom has the
entertainment of a representative of any
foreign government attracted such at
tention in thw social and diplomatic
world as did the dinner and reception
given by Ambassador and Mr. Reid at
Dorchester House this evening for Rep
resentative and Mrs, Longworth and at
which King Edward, by his preteno and
attention to President Roomelt'
daughter, marked bis esteem for th
United States and its chief tsscutlv.
Bilde King Edward, there were present
LOSS
A verdict of guilty, would, he said, be
expected. Judge Spencer, representing
tho iMcknr in tlie nwninir ftfatpmnf. con
tended that the contract was valid and
that there was no through rate from
Kansas City to New York, joint or pub
lished, to which the Burlington was a
party and hence no concession could
have been made by it on east line rates,
or from rates on any other lines than its
own. If the defendant was guilty of
anything, it was failure to publish its
contract rate. The indictment, he eon
tended, is for departing or giving con
cessions from the published joint rata
when no such rate, he asserted, was in
existence. George T. Roberts, of Wash
ington, the assistant auditor of the In
terstate commerce commission, was the
first witness, and produced the tariffs
on the roads concerned, covering the
period in question. Traffio officials of
the Burlington, Lehigh, Grand Trunk &
the Toledo, St. Louis 4 Western, and
others, will be examined tomorrow.
once communicated with Belmore.
Kinnan sent word that he feared there
was not much that he could do to aid in
the solution of the mystery, but agreed
to meet Detective Sergeant Price at the
Bronx bureau this morning. The coro
ner and police are working hard in the
strange case, the mystery of which only
deepens as the investigation proceeds.
ELLEN TERRY BENEFIT. "
LONDON. June 12. The most re
markable manifestation of its kind in
the history of the British stage was the
matinee today in commemoration of the
theatrical jubilee of Ellen Terry. Not
only did it attract an immense audience
from all walks of life, but the stage was
crowded with the most notable names In
the dramatic and musical prof&sion.
The most notable event on the program
was the first act "Much Ado About
Nothing" with Miss Terry as Beatrice
and twenty-two other members of the,
Terry family in the cast.
Lord Granard. Lord in Waiting, and
Captain Holford, equerry Duke of Rich
mond, Duke and Duchess of Buedeuthi
Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, Puke
of Roxburgbe, Lord and Lady Crew,
Lord Tweedmouth, Counts Grey, Lady
Townley, Lord and Lady Landsdown.
Ambassador Cambon, Admiral Founder,
Earl and Counta of Fowl, Karl and
Count of Gofod, Lord Curson, Mr.
and Mrs, Joph Chamberlain, and nuoy
other diplomat, politics! lead ere a4
pioi prominent in English mMj,