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VOLUME LXI NO. 181 ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. JULY 1 1 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS it mi Prisoner Positively Denies He Is Crazy. OPPOSES HIS COUNSEL Tells Newspapermen That He Is - Sane Despite Attorney Advice. WITNESS FROM PITTSBURG Paul Dorn Will Testify At Trial - Knowi Something Which H Sayi wiii mu snMtioo-wm Sea Kn. Thaw. NEW YORK. July lO.-llarry Kendall Thaw today gave out hi flnt formal etatemcnt since lie shot Htanfurd White. In it tlit young tuio uttrt a prott gainst Wing regarded it lnne ami declares hi counsel asure him no nt h coure. a the appointment of a commls Ion to Inquire Into hit mental condition is contemplated. This statement wai banded lit person to tha newspaper rep resentative, lit gave it out without the permission, of lilt counsel, with whom he pleaded 11 day to be allowed to deny in person tha current report at to hi In sanity and especially the published re port yesterday of a purported Interview with ona of hi counsel (noting hi at torney a aying the prisoner undoubted ly U Insane. Other than tha statement, Thaw re mained non committal under the rapid fire of questions hurled at him by the reporter. Garvan today continued vig orously to prosecute the inquiry Into the case and had before him several wit nees, among them James L Lederrr, mannger of "The Wild Rose." At the time Evelyn Nesbit wai a member of the organization) May McKenale. the actrei and a friend of Mr. Thaw, and Mory Leahy, Mr. Tbaw'a maid. Merer told the dint rltt attorney that It wa hiit opinion that Thaw wan eraty. lie baited bin opinion on the man't action during the time Mix Kesblt wat a mem ber of the "Wold Roue" Company. MU McKcnaie and nrold were examined briefly and told to return next week, Edna McKluer. an actress, who was ex amined Saturday afternoon, denied to day that the had made any of tha state menti attributed to her In the newpa per, saying specifically she did not tell the dUtrict attorney of Any of the threat Hhe U supposed to have heard Thaw make. The district attorney's office Issued a subpoena this afternoon for Mr. Betrloe Schwarts. It I said the district attorney wishes to question her as to the alleged threats she over heard Thaw make against White. Early in the day counsel for Mrs. Schwartz da tin red she would not appear before the district attorney. New Witness Discovered. WTTSBURO, July lO.-It was learned here today that a witness, who will appear in the Thaw case when it comes to trial in New York will be Paul Dorn of Wilkcaburg, a suburb of this city whom Hurry Thaw took to Europe sev eral years ago. Dorn said he had been instructed to keep his mouth shut, and not to say a word until he heard from Thaw's attorneys. When asked when be expected to go to New York Dorn saidi ' , "I do not know, but I am ready to go whenever Mrs. Thaw U willing to give me an Interview, and I won't talk either in court or out of it until I have seen tier." "Did you ever meet Bedford, Thaw's valet?" "Yes, I did, and it's too bad Bedford Dorn said in explanation, "Well, he wa a good fellow, and If lie had lived and could tell all be knew, it would not look so roy for Harry Thaw.'' "How do you know "Bedford knew all these thing t " "Well, wa-u't I there tH ' . ! Dorn ald ha didn't know Stanford White, bur had heard of him. n will go to New York," -aid Dorn, "and tell what. I knowi it won't, take very long to do It, but it will be enough." WALC0T BESTS DOUGHERTY, BOSTOXJ July la-Joe Wab-ot 're tained the welterweight championship of tb world by knocking out Jack Dough erty of Miuwaukee In tha eighth round tonight. .::: J':." V " :': SEAL WILL MEAN SOMETHING. CHICAGO, July 10.-Seer.Jary Wilson said tonight that lien-after when the wai of Unci Bam is put on any inpectd rticle Uncle Ram will stand for it's character, but Uncle Bam will not put that seal on last year's bird's neta nor on any old rag found in an alley. He aid the packers now fully understand the situation and tha inspectors under stand bow they are to perform their duties. SEIZE EXPLOSIVE. KOSTROMA, July IQ.-A band of revolutionists today boarded and eclated a Volga steamer and captured 400 pounds of pyroxllene, presumably Intend ing to ue It for making bombs. PREPARE FOB Democratic Congressional Com mittee Establish Headquarters. REPUBLICANS GETTING BUSY Will Start Campaign Headquartert on August First in New York With Branch in Chicago No Funds Are Available. WASHINGTON. July 10 (Special.) "Sunny Jim" Griggs, of Georgia, , chair man of the democratic congressional com mitte, is already hard at work in his efforts to capture the next House of Representative for the democracy. The committee had headquarters open, in fact, a month before Congress adjourned, but campaign work began in earned last Monday morning. The committee will maintain headquarters In Washington, with a branch In Chicago, the campaign in the Western States to be conducted from the latter. Congressmen Lloyd of Missouri and Ralney of Ilinois will be in charge of the Chicago headquarter and will have full authority In directing the western fight Judge Pirlggs will remain in Washington, as will also Congressman Rowers, of Mississippi, who is chairman of the campaign committee of eleven having clmrgo of the contest. Democrats Are Active. The committee this year has very ornate quarter in the Munsey building, one of Washington's new sky-serapers, and there is a force of clerks and, steno graphers hard at work. Everybody connected with the campaign is deeply convinced that this is the year of Demo craiio opportunity. They recount the republican sins of commission and omis sion lu the session of Congress just end ed and are unable to Bee anything else but a democratic majority in the next House. There l-n'l mucb money In sight to pay campaign expenses, but Chairman Griggs hns n'v abiding trust" in' Provi dence and is serene in confidence that the ravens will not overlook the needs of hia committee. Open Next Month. As yet the republicans have made no move In the campaign. Congressman Sherman .of New York, who is chairman of the republican committee, says head- (Continued on page 8) JURY GETS f, ft Secure Important Standard OH Evidence. SUBPOENAS ARE ISSUED Cleveland Oil Funds Are Being Actively Probed By the Government UNDER-BILLING IS CHARGED Testimony Shows Standard Oil Loaded Cart to the Limit and Then Billed Them aa Only Partially Loaded. CLEVELAND, July 10. The testi mony today before the United States Grand Jury investigating the alleged violators of the interstate aommarce and rebate laws, with particular reference to the Standard Oil Company was of aucb a nature that District Attorney Sulli van' caused several additional subpoenas to be issued late in the day for well known Standard Oil officials. One wa for M. S. Vilas, treasurer and auditor of the Standard Oil of Ohio, and a deputy marshal was dispatched in haste to Vilas' office, but he Was not found, the officer reporting that he believed an at tempt was being made to keep him under cover, A subpoena was then issued for C. II. Richard, cashier of the Cleve land office, and he was brought to the grand jury room, but excused in a few minute. A second visit to the Standard Oil office failed to And Vilas and a deputy was then dispatched to Vilas' suburban home with instructions tq stay there all night if necessary and find the witness. ? "j A. subpoena will be issued tomorrow Standard Oil of Ohio. Government offic ials asked tonight for reports as to the successful service of a number of other subpoenas, demanding the presence of a railway official whom it is believed will be able to-give information along the lead opened up by, the grand jury pro ceedings. The testimony of a substantial character said to have been brought to lay, is underbilliug. It is explained the jury is informed a branch of the New York Central lines has caused hundreds of Standard Oil cars to be billed to con tain only about half the amount with which they were really loaded. BABY FOR SALE. , Woman Advertises to SeU Baby Juve nile Society Investigates. " SALT LAKE July 10. A sign bear ing the words'! "Baby for sale" and dis played for , several days in front of a cottage in Waterloo suburb, caused the arrest today, of Mrs. Mueller by an officer of the Juvenile Court. An inves tigation developed the fact that several persons had offered to buy the child, one woman offered $00, but Mrs. Mueller would not sell for less than $125. Mrs. Mueller stated tha$ the 7 months old baby, which she tried to sell was the child of her sister, who recently died. The woman said she had four children of her own which she was unable to care for. ; , , .. . OUTRAGES PREVALENT. T ' . 1 ... i ,i ODESSA, July 10.Agrarian outrages and political industrial strikes occur dally and are alarmingly spreading in the southern provinces. The revolting peasantry are now organized and led by professional propagandists, , who are secretly important amis. . r IFOR IAIN MANILA OBSERVATORY. One of the Best Equipped In the World Recorded San Francisco Earthquake. SAX ' KRAN'CINCO. July 10,-Father R, K. Brown, assistant to Father Algue, wh ! in charge of the observatory in Manila, arrived yesterday on the liner China on bis way to England. The Manila observatory is one of the bet equipped In the world. The sesl niogrnph there made a splendid record of the California earthquake of April 18th. Three times a day, said Father Brown, a telegraphic report is received at the Manila observatory from Yap, Guam and the 58 other station scattered through out the provinces. With this informa tion it is poible to detect the brewinj of a typhoon five days before it de velops. When the instrument at Manila or el-ewhere tell of the approach ing storm, wornings are sent by wire to numerous points on the Chinese and Japanese coasts and to Formosa. "Trolley ears mined our magnetic olwwrvatory." said Father Brown. "We have daily records, however, for 15 years past, and as that for1 our purposes, con stitutes a complete cycle, we can moke estimates by the aid of tfiat data with fair accuracy." PASSENCERS SAFE. LrtUISBURG, C. iU July lO.-The pas sengers and crew of the steamer Algol, which went ahore near Louisburg are in no danger. The veel is seriously damaged. ...'- TRY LAND FRAUDS Judge Hunt Fixes Monday for . . Resumption of Hearings. . CASE WILL BE SET TODAY Francis J. Henty, Government Prosecu tor, Is Hard At Work Prepar ing His Side of the Casea at Ban PORTLAND. July lO.-Judge William II. Hunt, in the Federal Court, this morning fixed next Monday as the day on which the trial of land fraud cases will be resumed and set the case of the United States against Henry W. Miller, Frank E. Kincart, Martin G. Hoge and Charles Nickel) for trial on that day- Tomorrow morning Judge Hunt will call the calendar and all cases at issue will be set for trial. Assistant Attorney General Francis J. Heney announced that immediately following the case set, he desired to try the cases pending against Charles A. Watson, charged with perjury and Clarence B., Zachary, ac cused of the same offense. The indictment against Miller, Kin cart. Hoge and Nickell, accuses them of conspiracy to defraud the government nndiT section 5440 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. They will have to tsand trial on a charge of having conspired to defraud in connec tion with the filing of applications, un der the timber and stone act. for several tiucts of - land in township 40 south, range 3 west of the Willamette Merid ian. Franklin Pierce Mays, a member of the State Senate, now on his farm in Tygh Valley, about 40 miles south of The Dalles, will be required to appear and plead by next Friday, according to no tice served upon W. D. Fen ton, May's lawyer, by Assistant Attorney-General Heney in open court' this morning. Mays, after his indictment, went to California and remained there until a few months ago. , Mr. Heney announced that he would be ready Thursday morning to take up argument on the demurer in the case against James Henry Booth, brother of Senator Robert A. Booth (also indicted) on a charge of receiving $800 for furnish ing advance information relative to the cancellation of certain land entries in the Roseburg land ristrict. Booth was re ceiver of the Roseburg land office, but was suspended and finally removed. MITCHELL IS A FREE MAN Slayer ot Creffield Is Not Guilty of Murder. VERDICT QUICKLY FOUND Jury Finds Youth Not Guilty After Hour and 25 Minutes. RESULT OF TRIAL CHEERED Men, Women and Children Crowd Rail ing and Cheer Prisoner Aa He Walks Forth, a Free Man. WiU Go To Portland. . SKATTKF, July lft-It took the jury in the trial' of George Mitchell just no hour and twenty-five minutes to deter mine the youth was not guilty of mur der in killing Holy-Roller Creffleld In Seattle on May 7. The verdict waa read at a quarter to five this afternoon and was greeted with rounds of applause from the excited audience. Every face assumed a happy expression and many woman were hysterically ' weeping through their smiles when the "verdict was read. A few minutes later the pris oner was discharged from custody. He shook hands with the jurors and then was treated to a general ovation. Men and women crowded up close to the rail to shake hands with the youth who was clearly the hero of the hour. As he went down te stairs to te jail to gather up -a few of his effects and told ' fare well to his jailors and fellow prisoners of the past few weeks, his way was blocked by people eagerly crowding over the bannisters to catch a glimpse of the acquitted youth. Asked as to his feel ings with regard to the killing and as to the ordeal which thus suddenly term! nated. the young man replied that when he killed CrefReld he hardly knew what he was doing, so worked up had he be come by the wrongs he and his sisters suffered. He stated he could not regret be had removed the man from the possibility of harming his family. Mitchell will leave tomorrow for Portland, where he will probably resume the position in the mill which he held previous to killing Cref fleld. . HUNT FOR ROBBER. Sheriffs of Two Counties After Man Who Held UpfFive Stages. '"." , " FRESNO, Cal.. July 10. The sheriffs tf Madeira and Mariposa counties are continuing their search for the Yosemite robber. The dragnet method is being pursued as they are convinced the rob ber lives not far away, and be has se creted the treasure in a cabin or some out of the way spot. Dwellers in the mountains have been asked to agree to a search of their premises showing no dis crimination as between suspected and unsuspected citizens. The trail which the sheriffs followed yesterday led to a point near Jack Sweet's house and he was compelled to give an account of himself as he did a year ago under some what similar circumstances. ROBBERIES P 'T.ORE. MOSCOW, July 10. Two men robbed the carriage manufacturers' cashier of $5400 on the Varoslax-Moscow train to day, and escaped. ' WARSAW, July 10. Ten armed men robbed the cashier of the Vistula railway of $.)000 here today. The cashier's at tendant was shot dead. The cashier es caped saving $4000. . : GENERAL RUCKER DEAD. LOS ANGELES, July 10.-Brigadicr- General Louis Henry Rucker, United State Army, retired, died here yester day. He had been in continuous military service of the United State for more than 40 year. He enlisted at Chicago when the call for troops was first made in lttt, rose from the ranks to high grade, and retired, at his own request, as brigadier-general, in 1903. He will be buried in the National Cemetery at the Presidio, San Francisco. NO WORD RECEIVED. , NEW YORK. July 10,-Eariy today no word had been received by the officers of the Brooklyn Yacht Club from any of the yaehU that started in the ocean race from New Rochelle around Montauk Point and northeast end Lightship. At 10 o'clock this mornig the five yachts that started will have been out 72 hours. If they have sailed at the rate of six knots an hour they should have covered 432 miles. The actual distance from tart to finish is 400 miles, but bead winds and cur rents will eay increase the distance from 25 to 50 miles so tliat yachtsmen agree that the winner may not be ex pected until some time thU forenoon, and perhaps a good deal later. . GAS PLANT BURNED. v NORTH YAKIMA, July 10.Fire to night destroyed the gas plant and ms- chinerv here. The lose is 115.00. No in surance was carried. BURNED TO DEATH WlHiam Wilson, Aged Cripple, Perishes in Awful Manner. WAS A NATIVE OF SWEDEN Old Man Living on Fifth and Front Street, in House-Boat, Upsets Stove and Barns to Death . TToln irrim Tnn T.t . 'Lying just inside the doorway of his home, the bhrned and charred body of William Wilson, an aged man, and a resident of Astoria for the past "30 years, waa found at 2:30 o'clock last night by the firemen, after responding to an alartn of fire turned in by a passer-by. , The scene of the terrible tragedy took place on Front street at the end of Fifth, in an old house-boat, which wa occupied by Wilson. The man was about 60 years of age and a native of Sweden,' and was unable to walk! being crippled by rheumatism. The burned dwelling was a one-room affair, and was barely furnished, con taining a bed, stove, and the few articles necessary for his subsistence. The stove was located in the front of the room near the door, and from appearances the unfortunate man had attempted to light the fire and had someway upset the stove igniting his clothing and the contents of the room. The flames spread rapidly and Wilson in his feeble condition was totally unable either to extinguish them or escape from the place. His cries for help were heard by sev eral persons in the vicinity and at the ame time names were noticed by those near by. The crow soon gathered but the flames had spread so quickly that no one was able to enter and drag the tortured and helpless man forth. The fire department was on hand in record time, and immediately turned a stream of Water on the dwelling, extinguishing the blaze. When the door was forced open the blackened corpse of the man was found lying directly in the door way. He was carried out end laid on the ground but life was extinct. The deceased is not known to have any relatives in this country. The corpse was removed to the Pohl undertaking parlors, and an inquest will probably be held today. .