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:UBLISHKtJ,rUlL A8800IAT1D PRIM RtPORT
OOVKRS THE MORNINQ HtLD ON THH LOWE COLUMBIA'.
VOLUME LXI NO. 189
ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 29 1906
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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JURY FINDS
TRUE BILL
Thaw Indicted for Murder
In First Degree.
HE WILL PLEAD TODAY
Wife of Assassin Not Compelled
to Testify Before the
Grand Jury.
BODY OF WHITE 1$ BURIED
PREPARE TO ADJUST
INSURANCE LOSSES
COMMITTEES FROM COMPANIES IN
VESTIGATINO EXTENT OF LOSS
TO BANKING INSTITUTIONS.
HAN FRANCISCO, June 28.-Th.
IIM utep wm taken ycntcrdiiy by the
lniiriuce compHliicii to adjllt the loe
of big bunking ciii(iriif ion mid estate
by the llr in t It it city. Ix Angelc
eointiiitecii were then appointed by the
companies nt tin- Instance of the com
mittee of fifteen. the executive body nf
the fire underwriter, which tin urged
lllllt report H llllllll II noon N Id
nilile. Tliee committer will consider
and repent all the fact ncc?ary for a
prompt mill full eoniiIerulion of the trim
vuliie of the property before the fire,
(lie earthquake damage if uny, the lo
hy lire, iiinl nil other factor tlmt count
in determining what miiiiK nre due to
I lie important financial interests r'pre
Jilted in lln'iie Instance. The flmilicinl
center of the elty in I him represented by
th" insurance compntiics.
Murdered Man Found By Examining
Physicians To Have Been Able To
Live But Two Yean More
Mai Bright'! Dtieaie.
NO OUTBREAK OCCURS.
KIKV, June 28. In spite of rumor
f mi iniKiidin(r antlJewUh outbreak
the dny pnwd quiet I v. Patrol nre in
all the street and the military mul
police itiithnriticii have taken stringent
im-aMire to prevent exeoinie.
SURRENDER
OR PERISH
Czar and Court Must Bow
Before Parliament.
REVOLUTION SPREADS
HEROIC ATTEMPT OF
BOY TO SAVE SISTER
Time Almost Arrived When Em
peror Must Dismiss Gorem
kin Ministry.
PEASANTS ABANDON FIELDS
COURT SERVANTS REVOLT.
XKW YOltK, .lime 2.-Hurry K
Thaw tta indictiMl today fr minder in
the lint degree of Stanford White. Hi
INTEREST IS GREAT
Result of White's Inquest Awaited
. By Public.
MRS. THAW MAY NOT TESTIFY
MINIMIS', June 28 Th Time St,
Petersburg correspondent learn that the
court in nlmut to return to Tarkoe
Sclo owinif to the dieovrrv of n revnlu
if Kvelyn Nr.bltt Thaw, appeared , tW VtthM mant ,t petcr,
a vi it lie. before the grand jury, but wui hot,
excused from giving tetiinonv bv
Aitunt Diiitrict Attorney (inrvnn. and
by the jiiroi. who would not init that
he anwrr question. Thaw will plead
tomorrow. S'o time wilt lie net for the
trial until litrlrt Attorney Jerome r
turn to the eitv next week. In the
meantime witnesse have liecn nummon
ed lo nppenr in John 1' proceeding nt
the District Attorney' nlllce. White,
who vvna quietly buried today nt SI
JniiK'i, in the opinion of physician who
performed the autop-y, had not mine
tliiin two year to live, when hia life
wiii horteiH'd bv TIiiiw 'h bullet, lie wan
found suffering from Bright' Disease
iiieipieiil tuberculosis a lid from fatty
degeneration or uic liver, sir. I haw
appearance before the grand jury had
been looked forward to with consider-
able interest, a it wit thouuht she
might possibly throw some light on th
tragedy. When ushered into the jury
room Mid, Thaw was linked:
"What i your name!"
"Kvelyn Neabltt Thaw."
"How old are you!"
"Twenty yenra."
"When did you lnt kco and meet
Stanford White, ilei-cnned?"
Without becoming in the lcnt excited
Mic replied with einplia-i-i on each word
'T hope that you gentlemen will not In
Hint that I nnawer nny more qiiPHtiona.
I iniiHt respect fully decline to nua)vep the
queationa you intend to ak inc. I any
thi with nil rcsjicet to you gentlemen."
Akcd for her reason hIic said, "I might
nay aoniotliing tlint might do hnrm to
my Imsliniid and n wife ought to do n
hIic can to protect her hii-dinnd. I beg
of you not to insint in putting further
qticMioim to me becniixc if you do I
will have to decline to answer."
Tells Friend She Will Go Before The
Grand Jury But Will Refuse
To Answer Any of the
Questions.
XKW YOltK, June 28,-The coroner's
inipient and the meeting of tlw grand
Jury today lxith to formally name the
murderer of Stanford White, divided
public interest today with the develop
ment of yesterday when an insanity
commission declared Harry K. Thaw
nne nnd Mr. Thaw visited her husband
in hi cell in the Tomb prison. There
wa much speculation today ns to
just what position Mr. Thuw would
take when she appeared before the
grand jury today.
It wn averted that the wife had told
icr friend that hIic would go to prison
rather than testify in the grand jury
room where proceedings uro secret and
where the only counsel k a representa
tive of the district attorney's ollice.
Mrs. Thaw has told a most intimate
friend that she would "Stand pn.t," and
refuse to say anything no matter how
Roving Bands of Peasants Wander
Through Provinces Compelling
Others to Join Them Par
liament's Attack.
A SERIOUS REVOLT ON THE
POLISH FRONTIER.
ST. rKTERSIlURd (Friday)
June 29. Later lat night it was
reported that aerioua disorder
had broken out in the garrison of
(Kowiee, on the great fortreM
guarding the Polish frontier
against Herman invasion. It i
impossible to obtain details, but
an army officer intimated to the
Associated Press tlint the nllnir
wa more serious than any that
had heretofore occurred. Other
unit iuou net nre reported from
the Samara, ltutoum, and Vladi-
knvnk garrison.
.
THREE-YEAR OLD DOROTHY JOR-
DAN'S CLOTHES IGNITED BOY
RUSHES TO SISTER'S AID.
( IIK'AOO, June 28. In pite of the
effort! of 3-year-old Donald Jordan to
save her life from the flumes which en
veloped her, Dorothy, hi twin sister,
wa futility burned in the present.' of the
little fellow and hi mother. Mr. Hubert
Jordun yesterday.
The children were playing in the yard
of their home when a lox of matches
they had taken from the house became
ignited and et fire to the clothes of
little Dorothy.
Itegurdles of hi own danger, Donald
rushed to her aid. With hi bare hands
he attempted to to lieat out the flame.
He failed in this and throwing the girl
on the grass, he tried with all his
strength to roll her over and over. Hi
little hand were ciullv burned, but he
stuck to hi tusk till hi mother arrived.
Mrs. Jordan seized her Imbv in her
arms and cast her into a tub of water.
The flame were extinguished but too
late to save her life.
PORK BARREL
MB DOWN
Senate Frowns on Public
Building Bill.
NOTHING GETS THROUGH
Efforts of Individual Senators to
Secure Appropriations
Prove Fruitless.
DIES, EEFUSINO
ANY INFORMATION
MRS. MORRIS SKIRTS AIRED
LONGWORTHS DINED
WITH JULES CAMBON
Tillman Resurrects Ejection Scandal and
Treats the Senate to Some Oratory
on the Subject Deficiency
Bill Is Passed.
MEMBER OF NEW YORK CRIMINAL
GANG SHOT IN BACK WILL NOT
TELL HIS ASSAILANT'S NAME
XKW YORK. June 28. The police
found another mystery on their hand
early today, and to add to the chapter
of murders yesterday. Thomas Petto
wa found alxjut two o'clock thin morn
ing with a pistol wound in hi back,
lying on the idewalk on Forsyth ctreet,
one of the mo densely populated sec
tions of the city. He was alive and
conscious, but when the police asked him
the name of hia assailant he pleaded
the east side "code of honor" which pro
hibits man assaulted from giving any
information to the authorities. Then
declaring that he would get even, and
that there had been "no trouble in
which the police had any interest'" he
was taken to a hospital just a few mo
ments before he died. The Tetto case
illustrates one of the most peculiar'
phaes of criminal life on th eeast side,
"gam" are fn contlinual feud and
where murder are freipient, but the
slayers are seldom caught because of the
refusal of persons assaulted to assist
the police.
OUSTED FROM OFFICE.
ROOSEVELT BACKS
IDE'S POSITION i,",)or,nnt tlu' ,imBti(m-
Jhi assertion seems to have ken
brought from Mr. Thaw by the inten
WASHINGTON, June 28.-Iiiiuiry a
the state department today developed
that the I'lCHident fully indorsed Clover-
nor General Lie's position in regard to
the title to the San J nan De Dins prop
erty. It i intimated that the, Vatican
Authorities disapproved the letter writ
ten by Arcliibshop Ifnrty. Ido will pro'
tion of the district attorney's ollice to
make her a witness for the proseeu
lion.
Assistant District Attorneys Nott and
(iarvin, it was said today are determin
ed that the woman shall be examined be
fore the grand jury where sho can be
put under oath and whero it will be
ceed in the court In the near future to poMibk to I(,arn from 1,er tho motive
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recover nosscsaOn of the nrnnert.v. v " iw mii u iiiie. jjir.
B-ll 4...i nt... rrn . . .
iiwii, miD mm. iurs. i im CHIinot claim
the privilege' of refusing to answer
questions just because she is the wife of
n. man accused of n rvimn iml ll.:..
, I - .....a illllb HUB
LONDON, June 28. According to a privilege is extended only to what are
f dispatch from Wnrsaw to. the Jewish known as confidential communications
Chronicle, Uman, 15 miles southeast of between husband and wife. If she re
Kiev, is in a forment and a massacre of fuses to answer other questions she can
Jews is feared. The Jewish population
of the town is In & state of panic. I (Continued on page 8)
FEAR MASSACRE OF JEWS.
ST. PKTEUSlU'RO, June 28. The
uinpnign which the opposition in the
ower house is waging to compel the
Kmperor to dismiss the fioremkin minis
try nr.d accept the principle of a re
sponsible ministry, promises to lie sue-
eful soon. Roth the Kmperor and the
court nre licing frightened into sur
render by alarming spread of revolution
ary ideas among the troop.
When the Preobrnjensky regiment "his
majesty's own" pronounced it's solidarity
with parliament, the Kmeperor's eyes
were opened and tho court began to
realize there was only a step from that
to declaring allegiance to parliament as
against the government. News from the
provinces shows that the general anarchy
is growing. In Altark and Tmiride prov
inces the peasants are abandoning their
Held and in Tula province roving bands
are marching through the country drag
ging in their wake not only workers
from the field., but domestic servants.
The only cousvrvativc group in the lower
house, the one headed by Count Heydon,
has nt last bowed it's head before, the
storm of radiea.Usin nnd declared in
favor of practically the whole of the
constitutional democrats agrarian pro
gram, including the expropriation of
state, church, crown and private land.
and insisting only on their distribution
into private holdings.
Parliament seems practically to have
abandoned its attempts to frame legis
lation. It's energy is directed towards
attacking the government by the medium
of interpollntions for the double pur
pose of strengthening it's authority with
the masse and ousting the ministry.
Today the Bialystok report was again
postponed. The interpollntions began
with the demand to know why the gov
ernment prohibited the proposed meet
ing of peasant leagues and. permitted
that of the nobles.
lilXlXJN, June 28. French Amlmssa
dor Cambon entertained Ambassador
eluded memliers of the diplomatic serv
ice and officials of the foreign oflices,
HOUSE GETS BUSY
ordinances.
i
FAVOR STANDARD
Tsrra Haute. Ind.. June 28. Hhe city
council in the impeaeliiueent charges
brought against Mayor Ed waard J. P-oda-
WAKIIIYMTMY .Inn. Oil -T1 ..I man man vesterdav found hi mmiiltir
l!..i.l 1r. J nr. r... i "- " wiiHiei
a,,u ",,u '"K- tolav w.nsi.me,! !i,. m..i. .1 .1. s charreed and declared bim
.l - i- ... . i . .i . . " K'ovw ..ail. vi nir "
""" Ul '"-l' lon.giu. nieguesis in- ,,av Hi-..,! !.. -..mi- k. from office. Bi.kman imneM,0,l fn.
s.11,7 iuunu uuimmii uiu. I "r v
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hHorts by several senator to secure in-1 ""Pg Miiureto enlo4e certain city
creases for public buildings were in no
case successful
In reporting the bill. Scott, chairman
of the committee on public grounds and
buildings referred to it as "The pork
barrel." The agricultural bill reappeared
in a portion of the conference report.
The report was conmlete excent. with
Conference Reports on Rate and a reference to the meat inspection pro- Oil Freight Rates Made Only to
A r:ii aj i.j I viion and on that another conferen. i I
IIlI IkUHUrdl Dill Moopicu. , . , "
cussion of the conference report on the
pure food bill, but it's disposition is
postponed until tnmnrivm-. Tha
UlAiiiR a m . mm I v"'
INIUni JtiMUIM 13 TANL1M ence committee's report on Jie TVo )FMAMn DDHDFD PAPII ITICC
L wi koHl all. . T 1 mm a I
i.i i cuuu vino reiver snip canal Dili, was
accepted without debate. Tillman found
opportunity to make his speech on the
Big Company.
Labors From Eleven O'clock
Eleven P. M. Conferees Support
on Meat Inspection Amendment
No Rest Taken.
A. M. Until M-ch of Mrs. Minor Mor- Southera Rafl wm , g
upported ' by direction of Assistant Secretary v' ...
AGITATORS ARRESTED.
KREMENTCHUO, June 28.-The po
lice today arrested several agitators on a
charge of seeking to "Provoke a pro
gram (massacre) of the Jews."
WASHINGTON, June 28.-The House
worked under forced draft today and
accomplished an immense amount of
business preparatory to adjournment at
the week's end. Conference reports on
number of measures were adopted 1 1,111
without debate, but required special
rules in other particulars to effect the
consideration and adoption of important
conference agreements. Interest centered
about the conference reports on the rail
road rate bill and the agricultural ap
proprintion bill, llotli were considered
ami adopted under the blanket rule per
mitting consideration of conference re
ports without being printed in the rec
ord. The house expressed confidence in
the conferees ou the agricultural bill by
instructing them not to recede from the
meat inspection amendment. On the rate
bill there was a general expression of
satisfaction, but the measure should be
perfected. Without taking recess, the
house labored from 11 this morning until
11 tonight.
Barnes. He reiterated his charge that
Mrs. Morris was outrageously treated
and said the President endorsed the
action by appointing Barnes postmaster
at Washington. The last of great ap
propriation bills, the general deficiency,
was reached during the day and a night
Rates Except Storage Tanks
Are Built Which Debars
Small Dealers,
NEW ORLEANS. June 28.-Testimony
After the legislative business, which
kept the house at the grindstone until 8
o'clock, had been disposed of, the crowd
ed galleries listened to another series of
political speeches.
PRESIDENT WILL
NOT BE CANDIDATE
COLORADO SPRINGS, June 28. W.
A. Conant, who was delegate to the first
republican convention more than fifty
years ago from New York, recently
wrote President Roosevelt, asking him if
he intended to be a candidate for re
election, to which Secretary Loeb replied
stating the President says "That you
will haive to vote for some other repub
lican next time." .
session was held for its consideration at jon the freight rates affecting seven
which time it was passed. The hill I southern states was taken here toda v bv
carries over $11,000,000. The Senate to-tne mterstate commerce commission,
night also passed the public buildin" were witnesses of the independent
oil dealers. The book on oil tariff rates
issued by the Southern Railway was put
in evidence. W. O. Hudson, a former
employe of the Standard Oil Company,
testified that the rate published, was
between the Standard Oil stations. Mar
tin Cary of Buffalo, representing the
RATE HEARING AT
WALLA WALLA ENDS
PROBABLY BE SOME TIME BEFORE Standard Oil poined out a proviso in
inn. i,uraMiJMON WILL HAND this book, that rates will be made to anv
DOWN ITS DECISION. station when DroDer facilities for unload-
ing are furnished. Commissioner Prouty
replying said:
WALLA WALLA, Wash., June 28. "I understand that proper facilities
The State Railroad Commission finished for unloading, means storage tanks, and
the lfearing of the Walla Walla demand that small dealers cannot build such
for distributing rates today. All the I tanks."
testimony was in at noon and the attor- M. Milburn, secretary and treasurer of
ncys submitted the question without ar- the National Refining Company of Mem-
theguedment. This matter ha been one phis, Tenn., testified that in Arkansas
of the hardest problems that the com- his salesmen had been arrested by the
mission has been called on to decide and State oil inspectors on the charge that
it will probably be some time before a their oil was below the Standard. These
decision is handed down by the commis- arrests had never been prosecuted. The
sion. The Walla Walla jobbers feel con- salesman had frequently been told that
fident that the showing made will result if they would leave town there would be
in some relief being made, even if a no prosecution. At Walnut Ridge, the
complete distributing ra.te is not granted I witness said, one inspector was also a
the jobbers of this city.
distributer
Company.
for the Water Pierce Oil
WISCONSIN PEOPLE
CHEER BRYAN
GIVE FRUIT MEN RIDE.
LOS ANGELES. June 28. A resolu
tion was passed yesterday by the
Chamber of Commerce to the effect that
Congress be urgeed to include in the
Railroad Rate bill a clajuse which will
give the fruit shippers privilege of ac-j MILWAUKEE, June 28. William J.
companying shipments, as stockmen are I Bryan was strongly endorsed by the
now allowed to do. It is said that such democratic sttae convention today.
personal care is of the utmost import-1 There were two occasions on which
ance to citrus fruit growers for the pre-1 Bryan was mentioned, and in both in
vention of decay in the fruit. I stances his name was cheered repeatedly.