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AXJP 11V Jit n 1L, Jll IR. IV R I COVIRS TMI MOHNINQ HILD ON TVfB LOWE COLUMBIA. VOLUME LXI NO. 182 ASTORIA OREGON FRIDAY. JUNE 22, 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS WOULD KILL ROOSEVELT Portland Anarchists Plot Assassination. PLAN FALLS THROUGH Anarchists Plan President's Death But Quarrel and Fail to Act. FEDERAL OFFICERS INQUIRE Documents and Pamphlet! Are Seised by the Government Authorities and Forwarded to Washington Six Pole Under Arrest. PORTLAND, June 21,-Durlng the trial of nix Polo charged with assault mul battery upon Waller 8calai!klwic in the municipal court today. Sealaaakl wica tettiiled that about a month ago, a plot a laid Id this city and an attempt made to ruUe fund to send a member of tb anarchist nrganltaUon to Wash IngUm to asalnate President Rooe volt. Scabmklw'ca stated that aubse quntljr dissensions arose in the society, and the plan fell t Jtnuiyli. It was out of the dissension grew the trouble which resulted in the Pole making an attack upon Seahurklwici, Kcalasxkiwirs t tilled that thw were two Polish orga nlitlon in the city, in one of which he hold A membership. .The other society, which he asserted in nnarcMIe, he say i composed of member of the first society, I ViH'itiMi-nt and pamphlets aei.od by the Federal authorities have la-en for warded to Washington, tin- secret seiv ice agent refusing to make them public bere. The defendants iu the case today ye nemently denied Sealaszkiwics' accusa tions nnd in turn deselared he wax him self an anarchist. Secret Agents Active. Since the first disclou-iircs with ref ereni'ft to the exigence of an anarchistic society in Portland government secret agent hove conducted a careful and unrelenting investigation. The invest! (ration hna been in charge of Inspector Foster of the government secret service bureau. Hi has Wn assisted by City IVteetlvc Mean and other officers. The government olllcer and the delec live visited the place at 53 Morris street, where anarchist ie meetings nre said to lie held by members of the so ciety, nnd seized large quantities of lit erature said to be of an inflammatory nature. The con Own led literature 1 in the shupe of pamphlet uiul let tore, writ ten In the Polish language. Those from whom It was taken claim ed that it was merely socialistic doc trines and propaganda which "wan being distributed among the Poles of Port land. It has ln'cn translated, however, nnd copies forwarded to the head of the secret service department in Washing ton City. Local secret service agents refuse to submit copie of the pamphlets to the public, City Authorities Helping. - The government, it is said, will con tinue a vigorous investigation of anar chistic conditions In this cty. City ofllcials, Including Municipal Judge Cam eron and Deputy City Attorney Flte geraldi besides government ofllcials, arc convinced that a red organization exists in this city and will render every as sistance to the government' in causing the deportation of the leaders, if pos sible. ""' i DENIES IVENS PETITION. - . SPRINGFIELD, Ills,, June 21. JRich nrd IverWi the. self-confessed slayer of Mr, IIcsnIc llollster of Chicago, will be hanged In tlmt city tomorrow. The supreme court yesterday refused to grant a writ of superceded and today denied the motion for leave to file a more complete record of answer. The Isiard of pardons today heard the argu ments of the condemned man's attor ney's and refused to recommend a (tar don or a commutation. Tonight Gover nor Dfneen refused to interfere in the carrying out of the entenee, The Ixmrd of pardon held the contention that lvcn' confession wa the result of hypnotic. Influence of the police, was a mere llmory end nothing hud been pre sented to the liosrd except averments in the petition to substantiate this theory. WITNESSES SUMMONED. In Kinnan Murder Case Sixty Persons Are Called to Testify. NF.W YORK, June 21.-Interest In the Kinnan murder case centered yesterday in the announcement that 00 witnesses have leen summoned to appear before Coroner McDonald this morning to tes tify at a hearing preliminary to the regular inquest. Mrs. Alice Kinnan was lten to death on the night of June 8 on the front porch of the old mansion at Washington avenue end 189th street, which was occupied by Mrs. Kinnan, and her aged mother. Mr. Iule M. Stan ton. Although the poll) and the coroner tried to ke.-p the matter secret. It was learned last night that perhsp the only clew to a possible assailant was discov ered by a policeman last night. He wa stationed at the SUnton house to guard it. He was not in the house but In some nuinner he got hold of a letter addressed to Mrs, Kinnan postmarked two days before her murder and written by a man threatening her with bodily harm. READY FOR 1MINV Report Current That Baltic Fleet Is Mutinous. NOBLES ARE IN SYMPATHY Army Officers Drawn From the Noble Class Are On Sympathetic Terms With the Peasants and the Artisan Class. NKW YORK. June 2l.-Diseuing re Hrts from London, which were denied from .St. Petersburg, of trouble at Cronstaslt, Ivan Narodny, a Russian who came here in the interets of revision ists, said yesterdays "There will be soon, a great mutiny in the Haltie fleet nt Cronstadt, with vastly more success than the already historic mutiny in the Black Sea fleet. The cap tains commanding are in sympathy with the revolutionary movement and will declare at the appointed time for re forms. "The fuct Is the army officers drawn from the noble class are on sympathetic terms with the men from the peasant and artisan classes. The common people nnd the nobles in Russia are not sepa rated by the gulf tlmt stood between these ulusscs, under the ancient regime in France. The nobles throughout Russia-"-and the gentry toonro the peasants' closest friends, on the most cordial and friendly footing. The nobles nre the backbone of the revolution in Russia, The bureaucracy is drawn from neither class, nnd is hated by both clusses. "It is tho system which causes riots like thwt nt Bialystok. "The reason why the bureaucracy st irs up this resentment against tho Jews is that, they 'nre seen to Ihj an element strong for revolution radicals." GO BETWEEN WINS. NEW YORK. , June . 21. Alexander Shields' B-yenr-oTd gelding, flo Between, carrying 110 pounds, and third choice nt fl to 1. won the $20,000 suburban handi cap today. Oo Between was but a short head in front of Dandclmn, with Colonial Girl third, three lengths behind, and the nine distance in front of the Held. Time, 2:071-5. , CONFEREES UNISON Understanding Reached on Rate Measure. MEET THIS MORNING Complete Agreement Will Be Drawn Today Early Presentation. THREE POINTS UNSETTLED Effort Made to Eliminate Pipe Line Amendment' Anti-Paaa Provision Will Be Limited to Government Officials. WASHINGTON, June 21.-An under standing was reached by the conferees on the railroad rate bill bill tonight which it is u id will result in a complete agreement being reached tomorrow. The conferees will meet and draw up the agreement in the morning. It is the present intention to have it precented to the Hou-e tomorrow, so it may be printed in the record as required by the rules and colled up for action on Satur day. There are yet three points which will be discussed, one of the most important bcinc the pipe line amendment. The Senate amendment to this provision which included lumber irv the Itn of com modities forbidden to be owned by com mon carriers,, wilt, it is said, be retained in the bill. There has been an unceasing effort to have this amendment eliminat ed, but so f.ir without avail. The anti- pass provision will be limited to officials of national, state, municipal, county and township governments otherwise than thoe the railroads may issue passes to whomsoever tlwy wish. Member of con gress are included as oftlcers of the na tional government. DISORDER SPREADS. Garrison at Krasnoyaray Revolt and Kill Officers. ST. PF.TERSBURO (Friday). June 22. A large part of the news in the papers here this morning eonsiKts of dispatches telling of military disaffection. In addi tion to the outbreaks at Sebastopol and Ryazan, reported on Thursday, the dis patches report the garrison of Krasnoyarsk-, the capital of the Province of Yenisvi, nnd one of the principal cities of Siberia, has mutinied and killed its officers. The trouble was caused by the interference of tho colonel, one Shuiin. who hearing a titter among a .group of enlisted men, sabred one of the soldiers. The hitter's companions fell, upon the colonel with clubs. Two of the soldiers were arrested nnd as soon aa the news spread the soldiers mutined and de manded the release of their comrades. Captain Kezemln, who ordered his com- pony to fire on the mutineers, was killed by his own men. The entire population of Krnsnoynrsy is in a panic. Minister of Marino Ilirileff again visited Cron stadt yesterday and urged the mutinous sailors to return to duty. Likl-Lieklce, a Polish city, with a great Jewish popu lation, was on the verge yesterday of an experience such as. Binlystok has just passed through. During a religious pro cession, a shot was, fired,' injuring a gen darme, but tho polico succeeded in hold ing the populace in check. The mnn who fired the shot, a Pole, was arrested. COLLISION KILLS ONE. RUTLAND, Vt June 21. A peculiar accident on the Rutland Railroad a short distance.', from this city yesterday re sulted in the death of Harry N. Davis, the engineer, and the severe shaking up of the peiigr on an express train. The train was the express which left this city at 2 p. m. for Boston. At a point almut 11 mile south of Rutland the railroad nwemU a mountain, the grade being one of the heaviest in Ver mont, While the express wa climbing this grade Engineer Davis suddenly saw a single freight car coming down the hill on the same track. He tried to bring his train to a standstill, but Wore this could I done the car had crashed into the locomotive. Davit was fatally hurt. ACT OF JEALOUS MAN. U8 AXfJELKN. June 21. W, F. Kelriug, shot nnd probably fatally wounded his divorced wife and his niece, Miss Bes-ie O'Day st the home of the former early thin morning. Ketring has leen separated from his wife for the last two year. Calling upon her la4 night he asked her to return to him. She refused and Miss O'Day stepped to the telephone to call the Mlice. As she did so Ketring thrust the telephone from her hands and shot lwth women. AMENDMENT FAILS. (1fICAf;0. June 21. The referendum vote of the Chicago Medical Society on the question of the proposed amendment of the by-laws so a- to make eligible to membership physicians engaged in con tract practice, failed yesterday liecause of the rule providing that a referendum vote shall not prevail unles 50 per cent of the membership strength is voting. The majority of the voles cat. however, favored the amendment. According to the secretary' .report there ere 1928 members in the society and 358 votes were registered in favor of the anti-contract amendment, while 201 vote were cast against its adoption. SOCIAL PROBLEMS Environment Counts for More than Heredity. ELIMINATE ALL DEGENERATES Theory is Advanced That the Govern ment Should Care For the Weak Minded and Degenerate Human Beings. NEW YORK. June 21.-There is no reason why Chicago should not relieve itself of the burden of mental and physi cal degeneratea in two or three genera tions according to Alexander Johnson, secretary of the national conference of charity and corrections. This can be accomplished very easily, Mr, Johnson told the school of philanthropy yester day, simply by segregating these indi viduols. "They should be educated to the full est extent possible," he said, "and it is astonishing what can be done with a feeble minded child if it is caught young. They should be taken into the care of the mother state from childhood until death and thereby the state will be serving not only its own best interests but those of the defective individual. I don't like paternalism in government, but we can't have too much maternal ism." , Although Mr. Johnson believes in eliminating bad stock, he thinks that the idea of heredity has been greatly over worked and that environment is a mat ter of infinitely more importance. "I would rather be born in the worst slum, of tho worst parents that ever were," he said, "nnd be removed to a satisfactory environment nt birth than be born under the best possible condi tions 'and then be removed to a bad en vironment.. Heredity is a powerful fac tor, and we need never be surprised at anything' it does. , Yet this influence is slight compared with that of environ ment and much that passes was heredity is really the result of environment.' Mr. Johnson expressed the opinion that Guiteau and probably Czolgosz were defectives and ought to have been sent to insane asylums instead of being executed. , LOCK CANAL ON ISTHMUS Senate Declares in Favor ot Lock Type. ALL DAY DISCUSSION Threatened Divergence Between President and House Is Not Realized. TRAVELING EXPENSES AGAIN McLaurin and McCumber Sharply Criti cise Sundry Civil Bill Amendment Appropriating $25,000 for Presi dent' Traveling Expenses, 'WASHINGTON, June 21.-The senate today took a position in accord with the President and House by declaring in favor of the lock canal across the Isth mus of Panama. The result w reached after a day's discussion almost devoid of interesting incidents. The vote today is generally accepted as settling the type of the great waterway and terminates what at one time threatened to become a sharp divergence between the Senate on the one hand and the President and House on the other. The remainder of the day was devoted to an amendment to the sundry civil bill, appropriating $25,000 for the President's traveling ex penses and the subject was unfinished when the Senate adjourned. McLaurin and McCumber criticised the provision sharply. WILL NOT PROTEST. LONDON, June 21. Foreign Secretary Grey continues to declaim against inter vening in Russia's internal trouble. Thorne, a. social democrat, put a long question to the secretary in the House of Commons today regarding the massacre at Bialystok, whether that seeing "that this country had broken off relations with Servia and bad constantly remon strated with Turkey on account of the less serioiw outrages." The foreign office would consider that "The time had come for Great Britain to formally protest against a continuance of such practices by the Russian government and break off diplomatic relations." The Secre tary replied, "No, sir. My answer is in the negative." TWO MEN ASSASSINATED. GUTHRIE, Okla., June 21. A special to the Capital from Grimes, Okla., states that John Pureyear and Earl Seeds were assassinated near La mesa, Texa, today by three men. Tureyear and Seeds were fired on from ambush. Three suspected persons were arrested tonight. A crowd of farmers demanded that the prisoners be taken from the county jail and lynched. Pureyear had trouble with three of his neighbors a year ago. DISCUSSION DELAYED. House Does Not Take Up Substitute to Pure Food Bill Until Late in Day. WASHINGTON, June 21. There was an unexpected occurrence in the House today. Instea4 of taking up the' House substitute for the Hepburn Pure Food Bill early in the day as anticipated it wad late this afternoon b&fore Mann, of Illinois, proceeded to champion it. The delay was caused by a long discussion of the conference report on the naval ap propriation bill in which Foss, chairman of the committee, was defeated by the House leaders. The House was not in the .humor or accept a partial conference, nor did it desire to leave some Senate! amendments without expressing judg ment upon them. In consequence, by close vote, the conferees were instructed to concur in the senate amendment relat ing to the big battleship, which provides that it's type, displacement and tonnage, must be reported to congress before any proposal i accepted. TO CROWN HAAKON. .!' mmmmm '.' ' : JRONDHJEM, June 2I.-With a cere monkl modified - from the old Norse forms. King Kaakon VII and Queea Maud at noon tomorrow in the old Trondhjem Cathedral, will be annotated, blessed and given Norway's crowns. When nearly forty years ago King Oscar Of Sweden received the crown, be bar ed his breast end the ecclesiastic crossed it with sacred oils according to the cus toms of the older days. Haakon will be annotated only, on the forehead and wrists and the entire rite will be simp ler. Haakon will be crowned first and the Queen afterward. There will be about 3000 persona present. REGULATE PRICES. NEW YORK. June 21. At the annual convention of the National Stationers' k Manufacturers' Association yesterday E. 8. Williams of St. Paul said he thought something ought to be done concerning prices. "We don't propose anything that will violate the anti-trust law," he said, "but we do believe that prices eaa be legitimately regulated. In my own town, for instance, before "the establish ment of the local stationers' organiza tion, the stationers spent more time 'knocking one another than they did in 'boosting' their own business." The matter, it is expected, will come up later. HILLS ILL CLOSE Washington Shingle Mills Have Ceased Operations. GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED Sixty Per Cent of the Mills Close ea Orders From Committee in Charge of the Shingle Wearers Union. SEATTLE, June 21.-Sixty per cent of the mills manufacturing star shingles, and 20 per cent of clear mills were closed today by a committee of shingle-weavers in charge of the general strike. It is estimated the shingle employes of the union numbers 2500 men, and a majority of these are out on strike. Reports from outside towns show the mills have been closed irrespective of membership in either the shingle bureau or strike insurance fund. In the same centers local conditions entirely have caused the strike. This is true where the men had a grievance against their employers and took advantage of the general strike to carry the movement outside the bureau mill. Two of the three Bellingham combi nation mills closed by the weavers' com mittee have not been identified with the shingle mills bureau, and one has con sistently fought each bureau movement. Both the combination and the straight shingle mills are being affected by tho strike of the weavers. In the combina tion mills only the shingle departments have been ordered out. CASE DISMISSED. CHICAGO, June 21. A dispatch to the Inter-Ocean from Omaha says: In the district court here yesterday the $25,000 suit for damages filed by Mae C. Wood, a former clerk in the Post-Office Department at Washington, against Senator Thomas C. Piatt of New York and the United States Express Company was dismissed for want of prosecution. Misa Wood sued for services alleged to have been performed for Senator Piatt and the express company in looking after matters of interest to them in the Post Office Department.