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l3i 7V :UBLIHtrULU AStOOIATIO ! RIPOHT C0VIR8 THK MORNINQ MILD ON TrfB LOWER COLUMBIA", VOLUME LX1 NO. IM ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 26 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS iii H in -"ire- -".stw MM WORDS B TILLMAN Attacks Conlerence Rate Bill Report. STANDARD'S INFLUENCE Senator Alleges Standard Oil Was Instrumental in the "Fix ing" of Report. REFUSES TOSIGN THE MEASURE Says Any Senator Who Votei For The Bill Will Have Standard Oil Branded On Mil Forehead Considered In dependent Companies Mythi. WASHINGTON, 1), C, June 25.-Tho 8nate today iImmimm1 the conference report on the rnilroml rate hill for more tlintt our hours, but did not dipoc of H. It wa evident however tlmt another confer, nee lif ordered. The discus ion ilflt entirely with the anti-pass and commodity amendment to IhiIIi of which objection wan made on various ground. KjHxmer rxpreted tlio opinion that miller the pass provision a reported. the senator and member of the house would not I"1 prohibited from accepting pH-ni'-t and that the provision wait in tlu- Inl'TeH of dicrimination, in that pun-en could !' made to take tlu place of rebates, Til I in ii ii nnd Lodge sharply criticized tin- change in the commodity amendment "it a to roliiliit "Railroad" uinl not "common currier" engaging i the transportation of article which they produced. Lodge ugrced thut the purpose of the change from common carrier to rail road had heen to "a'1 out the Standard Oil Co., ho it could continue both to produce nnd transport oil." When Tillman called up rate lull to diiy, he stated hia name was not at tached to the conference report. Tillman on ill he wax opposed to the McUiurin iimemlment divorcing the carrying and producing business, which was amended ro as not to apply to pipe linen. The change in the amendment, "In plain English," he aaid, "Meant that the fitandiuil Oil had got in its work." The agreement he aaid, relieved the Standard Oil from the control and regu lation of the itnerstnle commerce com inision. Tillman wiid when the hill wis Hriit to conference the second time, he noticed an entire change of atmosphere ami that the limine conferees insisted on opening up the whole subject, including mutter on which an agreement had been reached, He said lie then began to smell n limine or something, and became "More or les skeptical an to the motives, na one in likely to after service in tho f-enate." So firmly was he convinced of tho instrumentality of the Standard Oil in securing this change that in bin esti mation "Kvcry senator who votes for the conference report would have ''Standard Oil" branded on bis forehead. He did not intend to vote for it because be didn't want anybody to suy "You've got Standard Oil Co., branded on your foreheal." He considered tho independent companies, whose interests were suppoa ed to be involved, to be myths. Lodge believed tlint under the senate amendment a pipe lino could be com pelled to carry the produce of independ ent conipanlos, arid he could see no rea son for the change, llniley said the change was equivalent to making tho Standard Oil tho one exception to the requirement that producers should not transport their own wares. "If," he said, "tho Standard wishes to be the producer, transporter or refiner, let it engage cither of these lines of effort, but don't let it monopolize all three blanche of tho oil induMry." Ciilliini, one of the conferee. agreed that tho present report wa no so good as tlia first one. He originally stood with Tillman, but had received many protests from Independent oil producer in hi own state, in whom he had absolute con fidence, He was not willing to punish his own peoplo merely to punish the Standard, Hepburn criticised the exemption of lumber from tho commodity provision as being in the Interest of trunk railroads, which he aid. were already constructing aw mill that will drive all competitor out of buiue. GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP, CHICAGO, June 25. With a few ad litinim the field for the national open golf championship, which will start on Thurmbiy at the Onwentsia club, will lie about the name as that in the Went- ern open at the Home wood Club last week. The presence of amateur Cham pion H. C, F.gan and George Ormiston. the 1'ilUbnrg player, will add to the strength of the representation. The professionals who did not perform at Hmnewood bist week, the most notd who will play at Onwentsia are Alee Ron of llraeburn, Donald Ros of Oak ley, Peter Robertson of Oakumnt. David Itolwrl-on of Pittburg Percy Barrett of Toronto, George Cumming of Toron to, Donald Hall of Philadelphia, and I. 8. Miickle of Foxhlll. All of these men have finished far enough up In previous tournament to I counted as possi bilities. PROMINENT SKIPPER DIES. NEW YORK. .Tune 23.-A dispatch from Cohasset. Mass., to the Herald , says that Captain Aubrey Crocker, GO years old one of the best known yacht Ing skippers in America, died there yes terdav of Bright' ))ieae. In 1H84 he was chosen to sail the Puritan and re mained on this boat for some years afterward. Ho sailed on tbe Volunteer and Mayflower in the cup races In an advUtory capacity. He has figured in almost every important race since the Puritan came out and was in the bitter one enon after she won the cup. WILL PROSECUTE Government Preparing to Prose. cute Pennsylvania Railroad. CONSPIRACY IS CHARGED Philadelphia Will Be Scene of Trials of Officials of Pennsylvania Road and tho Standard Oil Prosecution Completed This Week. NKW YORK, dune 25,-The Times, in iv special dispatch from Philadelphia, says: Philadelphia is to be the scene of the Ilrst groat prosecutions to be brought by the government ngainst tho Pennsylvania Railroad nnd the Standard Oil Company. Arrangements for the prosecution will be completed this week in Now York at a conference between Alexander Simp son, Jr., of this city, nnd Charles H. Hughes. The chief question under consideration is the advisability of individual prosecu tions against A. J. Cassntt, president of the Pennsylvania. This was plainly in dicated today by a lawyer who has been intimately associated with Interstate Commerce Commission hearings, 'Ry both the commissioners and the special counsel appointed by the attorney-general to follow the testimony nnd prepare for the prosecution it is believed more good can bo accomplished by cen tering prosecution , upon Mr. Cassatt than by scattering energy over the prose cutions of presidents of flll the railroads concerned, most of which are directly or indirectly controlled by the Pennsyl vania. , Although Messrs. Simpson and Hughes (Continued on page 8) DRAMATIC MURDER Stanford White, Eminent Thaw, Prominent Society Man ot Pittsburg. Love Affair, Cause ot it All. PANIC ENSUES AMONG ASSASSIN FIRES THREE SHOTS INTO BODY OF HIS VICTIM-IS RESTED BY THE POLICE AND LODGED IN JAIL REFUSES TO TALK-WHITE DIES INSTANTLY THE WOMAN MAKES SCENE AFTER TRAGEDY. NEW YORK, June 25. -Stanford White, the eminent architect of the lirm of .MiKnn, .Mead and White, was shot tonight and almost instantly killed by Harry Thaw, a member of the prom! nent Pittsburg family, during a perform ance of the musical extravaganza "Mam wile Champagne" on the roof of the Madison .Square Garden. White died be fore the ambulance could be summoned and Thaw was arrested immediately af ter the .hooting. The garden was crowd ed with a fashionable audience. While Harry Short, who Alls the principal com edy role in the piece was singing a. comic song and the garden was echoing with laughter and applause, a series of shots rang out ami a man in evening dress was seen to fall across the table at which he was sitting with a party of friend. The man who fired the shots lied, pistol in hand, toward the nearest exit, where he was seized by the police, Instantly the great audience was thrown into a panic and a wild stampede occur red, during which chairs and tables were overturned and men and women fought with desperation to escape from the roof. The man who was shot was quickly identified as Mr. White, but his assailant was not positively known to be Thaw until after he had been taken to the station house. Persons in front of tho Auditorium where the tragedy oc curred say they saw a man sitting with a fashionably dressed woman in the rear, suddenly walk down towards a table in front. The first intimation of trouble came when walking in front of his seated victim the man exclaimed: You've deserved this. You've ruined my home." and drawing an automatic pistol, he fired three shots. The first two effect, but as the third was dis charged the pistol was struck up by a fireman on duty in the theatre and the bullet went skyward. The woman who hnd been sitting with White sprang to her feet and rushed up to his assailant, threw her arms about his neck exclaiming "I'll stand by you." The assailant was taken to West Thirtieth street police station. t the police station, where he de scribed himself ns John Smith, a student, 180 Fa fa yet te place, Washington, D. C, but the police on searching him found cards and letter addressed to Harry Thaw of Pittsburg, and later his identity was fully established. Shooting Occurs During Song. The shooting occurred at 10:30 o'clock while Harry Short was singing, "I Could Love a Million Girls." Thaw hud been at tho performance all evening and had been noticed to be very nervous nnd excited. White hnd been previously to the Manhattan Club nnd had bee,n at the Garden only a few minutes when Thaw confronted him. Thaw handed the policeman, who arrest ed him $10 and asked him to notify Andrew Carnegie that he Was in trouble. Words of Murderer. Thaw it is alleged, said to tho fireman: "Ho deserved what he got. He ruined my life nnd deserted the girl." Immediately after the shooting the curtain was rung down on the play. The audience for a few moments be lieved the firing of the shots wa a hoax and applauded. But . developments oame OR THEATRE Architect, Shot By Harry THE LARGE AUDIENCE AR- so fast and it wa so suddenly made clear that they were witnessing a tragedy, that a panic followed. Thaw had been present during the entire performance. With a woman, said to le bis wife, he had taken seats at the rear. He was in evening dress. He got up every few minutes and walked about and the spectators recalled he had acted very nervously. When Thaw left bis wife, he walked down the aisle rapidly, stood for a few minutes right behind White, looking at him hard. White apparently was ut terly ignorant of bis preseace. Then Thaw pulled a pistol from his trouser pocket and in quick succession fired three shots. Two took effect, either wound being mortal. Whit Falls Pierced by Ballets. White without a struggle fell to the floor, the chair and table falling on top of him. Several men in the audience rushed to White's assistance, but physi cinns say he died instantly. While waiting for the elevator. Thaw's wife, who was Evelyn Nesbitt, a member of the original Florodora Sextett, rushed up to him, threw her arms around him and cried "I'll stand by you, Harry." There are several stories of what Thaw- said after the firing of the shots, but a number of men agreed be said: Thaw Displays Calmness. "That of will never go with that woman again." To Policeman Debes at the Garden ,he said: "well, damn mm, ne aeservea it." Once at the police station he ap parently bad recovered himself and had become the least excited man in it. Re fusing to say a word about the crime, and asking that his lawyers, Louis A. Delaficld and Frederick Longfellow be notified, be puffed his cigarette and was taken and locked up. The crime against him is murder. At White's residence it was said tonight that Mrs. White is in the West visiting friends, and is ex pected back on Saturday. White dined with bis sou Lawrence, who returned earlier in the day from Harvard to pass the summer vacation at home. Mystery still surrunds the case of the shooting, but its solution may be found in the words attributed to Thaw immediately after the shotting, "Well, he ruined my wife, and I got him." It is known that for years a bitter enemity existed be tween Thnw and White on account of the former's attention to Mrs. Thaw, which bad begun prior to her marriage. On the way to the police station, Police man Debes said Thaw expressed great gratification over the killing. 'T am glad I shot him," he said, "I am glad I did a good job of it. That man has ruined my " Then Thaw dropped his voice, said Dcbes, and said something which sounded like either "wife" or "life." Another word was not uttered by Thaw. Evelyn Nesbitt, who became Thaw's wife on April 4, 1905, was a flower girl in the "Toreador Company." They were married in Pittsburg by Rev. William E. McEwan of the Presbyterian church. Thaw's mother, in spite of earlier opposi tion, was present. Miss Nesbitt is the daughter of C. J. Ilolman of Pittsburg. PITTSBURG, June 25. Harry Kendall Thaw is about 30 years old and son of late William Thaw, vice-president of the Pennsylvania line in Western Pitts burg, and a graduate of the University of Vestern Pennsylvania. Since attain ing his majority Thaw has lived very little in Pittburg. Much of his time was spnt abroad where he met Evelyn Nesbitt, .the actress, whom be afterward married and who was with Thaw when he did the shooting. Thaw i a brother of J. Copely Thaw, the Countess of Yar mouth, Mrs. George L. Carnegie, and Benjamin Thaw. Mrs. William Thaw, his mother, nailed for Euroye on Satur day. Harry and his wife were booked to sail on Wednesday of this week. No reason for the shooting is assigned by Tbaw'a friends here. Thaw while here was a student of quiet habits. White Native of New York. Mr. White was a native of New York, having been Ixtrn in 1853. He was educated in tbe University of New York and received bis architectural training with Charles O. Ombril and H. H. Rich ardson, being the chief assistant to the later in the construction of the famous Trinity Church, at Boston, Dr. Philip Brooks' Church. He was a member of several fashionable clubs in this city. PLAN ANNUAL CONVENTION. NEW YORK, June 23. There will be a meeting in this city today of the exe cutive committee of the National State Insurance Superintendents to make plans for the annual convention of that body which is to be held in Washington, D. C. Insurance Commissioner Folk, of Tennessee, who is in New York, and who is a prominent member of the executive committee, said that the Washington meeting would follow up the important conference held some months ago in Chicago, at which steps were taken look ing to greater uniformity in the methods of formulating state reports of insurance companies and in other life insurance reforms, already made operative in New loric siaie. TERRIBLE WIND STORM. GUTHRIE, Okla.. June 23. Two were killed, extensive damage done to crops, and a heavy loss of livestock constitute the damage of the worst wind storm in years yesterday afternoon and night, in Oklahoma and Indian Territory. LARGE DEFICIENCY Revenue Customs Show biggest Item $3,000,000. PACIFIC COAST AFFECTED House Committee on Appropriations Re ports the Bill to House Total Deficiency Amounts to $ro,a45,5oo. WASHINGTON, D. C. June 23. The general deficiency appropriation bill was completed by tbe house commit tee on appropriations today and reported to the bouse. Tbe bill carries a total of $10,245,509 to supply deficiencies in the various departments of the govern ment. The chief items included in the bill are as follows: Under the state department: Trans portation of diplomatic and consular of ficers, under new law for 1907, $30,000; contingent expenses, foreign missions, $30,000; contingent expenses at consu lates, $40,000; paying to Germany in set tlement of Samon claims $20,000. Under the treasury department: Col lecting the revenues from customs, 1907, $3,000,000; engraving and printing, $23, 332; collecting international revenues, fiscal year 1907, $00,000; public buildings on Tacifto Coast, repair of. $001,017. Under the war department: Statue of Liberty, New York harbor, equipment and lighting, $02,000; payment to State of Texas of money paid state troops from 1855 to 1800, $375,016; state or ter ritorial homes for soldiers, $120,000. Under the military establishment: Mileage, officers of the army, $50,000; (Continued on page 8) RED CROSS DENOUNCED Accused of Selling Relief Provisions. BAD FAITH IS ALLEGED General Greely Charged With Selling Flour Intended to Be Free. COMPLAINTS ARE NUMfcROUS San Francisco Sufferers Bitterly Accuse I the Red Cross Society of Being Niggardly in Its Distribu tion of Fool MINNEAPOLIS, June 25. W. C. Edgar of the relief committee for San Francisco sufferers, is in receipt of the following telegram from bis correspond ent in San Francisco concerning tbe sale of Minneapolis flour by General Greely: "The Bed Cross finance committee is lying. The Examiner has thousands of applications for flour. Large numbers of clergymen are also demanding flour for their needy parishioners. "The general opinion is that a serious offense has been committed in selling goods entrusted to the committee for free distribution and I advise taking action immediately." Edgar's reply follows: "Believing in the good faith of the Red Cross, we unfortunately turned over every dollar of our funds to its agent. We therefore have no money to make a legal fight against this shameful misappropriation which is endorsed by the national au thorities at Washington." Edgar's mail contains many letters from fire and earthquake sufferers com plaining bitterly of the treatment ac corded them by the citizens' committee. They declare every pound of food which Greely had on hand is badly needed and a niggardly system of furnshing sup plies obtains in all quarters. These let ters come from illiterate and educated persons alike. SINISTER RUMORS. ST. PETERSBURG, June 25. There are many rumors tonight of disaffection among the troops. It is stated several arrests occurred at Krasnoye Sclo camp after a meeting of the disaffected guards. It is also asserted that the ring leader of the revolutionary movement among the Chasseurs of the guord, Sergeant Silynski, was captured after having tak en to flight. Sinister rumors are circu lated about the morale of the troops. HOUSE PASSES BILL. WASHINGTON, June 25. Under the rule limiting the debate on all but two sections, the so-called Immigration bill was discussed for three hours today in the house and passed without a yea and nay vote being permitted on any of the paragraphs. Late this afternoon the house took a. reoess until this evening. DISASTROUS FLOODS. FRESNO, Cab, June 25. Five hundred men are working today between Laton and Hanford, in a vain endeavor to check the mighty rush and flood of waters. About half of that number are working on the Santa Fe tracks, through which the water has broken in three or four places. The south bank of the Kings river has broken and flooded Hardwick station and Grangeville. Hundreds of acres, of vineyards and orchards are be ing flooded. Reports from the mountains Indicate that the water is still rising.