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VOLUME LXI NO. 189 ASTORIA, OREGON. THURSDAY JULY 19 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS THAW CASE IN HUDDLE Defense Unable to Agree on Plan of Action. THAW DENIES INSANITY Prisoner Unwilling to Enter In unity Pie and Mother Insist, QUARREL MAY BE A BLUFF Hartridge Files Complaint to Quit Judgi Olcott's Firm From Connection With Case-Oueer Stat of Affair. NEW YORK, July 18.Tht chaotic condition surrounding the preparation of the defense of Harry K. Tbaw vera accentuated today and apparently the trMAh between the prUoner and hi. mothers Mra. Thaw of J'ittuburjr. aa to the character of to defense wa wider than ever. Following quickly upon a conference of two hour, with Thaw in the Tomb after hi mother had twice during th day endeavored to pin her boy' concnt to the re employment of Mack, Olcutt, Gruber and llonynge, and content to the pic of inanlty, Clifford J. Hartridge, Thaw'a peraonal counsel, obtained from Justice Blam-hsrd In a special term of the upreme court late today an order directing Judge Olcott firm to ahow cause next Friday why they should not turn over to Hartridge all paper In Thaw'a ca. Hartridge baed hi mo tion on the petition signed by Thaw which waa placed on moral In connec tion with the proceeding. Thl move wa a distinct surprUe, be ing a contradiction of the report which had gained wide circulation earlier in the day to the effect that Thaw had con sented to hi mother plan of action. The' rumor that the young man had bowed to hi mother' will undoubtedly had origin In the faet that Mr. Wil liam Thaw and Mr. Harry Thaw, who were In conference with Thaw at the same time today, emerged from, the prison arm in arm. It wa the first time that they had been aeen together. Thaw' wife all along tupported him In hi demand for a trial on the Issue of the case and ha opposed the insanity plea. She ha thus been arrayed against the elder Mr. Thaw, who cem to feci that the only hope of caving her eon from death in the electric clialr 1 dependent upon a defence of insanity. Thl plea would avoid the further publicity and ignominy of a trial and has been urged upon the prisoner, who, however, apparently re main obdurate, LONG AUTO TOUR. NEW YORK, July 18.-A special to the Herald from Philadelphia says: With a fifty thousand mile automo bile ton of the country more than half completed, George M. Huston of Chicago, accompanied by lib wife and ion, ar rived at the Bellevuo-Stra.tfofd yester during the height of a rain storm. More than n year ago Mr. Huston and lri family left Chicago and they have been reeling off century after century ever since. After a sliort atop in thl city and at th aeashore, Mi. Huston will turn hi car westward, never stopping until the city of the Golden Gate and the Pacific. Ocean are reached. Then the trip back again will be begun through Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. He expects to finish the 60.000 mite by next New Year' Eve, at Chicago, the original starting point , V TRIP TO ALASKA. Thru Portland Youth Start Down the River on Way to Alaska, PORTLAND, July 18.-In a small 3 mauled schooner, 28 feet In length and 13 feet beam, Thomas Ii. Cllne, Martin lloyee and Mert Stipe today started from thl city on hunting .trapping and tubing cruise along the Akkan coat. in their little craft, the "Raut nmult" they am to take In a greater portion of the Alaskan coast and return to Portland In a year with fur and other trophies of the chae which will pay them handsomely for the financial outlay and compensate them for the dangers of th voyage. They will stop at Aoria two day before proceeding to .. Each of the young men I over 23 year of age. ADDRESSES FARMERS. SALEM, July 18,-Profewor 0. L Mc Kay, director of dairying of the Iowa Agricultural College, now In Portland, will deliver aa addre upon dairying in thl city Saturday afternoon of thl week. Ho ha agreed to Investigate condition In the Wllilainette Valley from a dairy expert' point of view, and to talk to the farmers, dairy and cream ery men, upon th ubject. A BIG ENCAMPMENT Army Will Hold Manouvtn At Indianapolis. TO USE LITTLE AMMUNITION Rudimentary Method of Camp Life and Tactic of Offeaaive and Defensive Warfare Will Be Thoroughly Explained. CHICAGO, July 18.-A schedule for the maneuver of the United Sfate troop at Indianapolis during the month of AugtiHt wa announced yesterday by Brigadier-General William II. Carter. commander of the Department of the take, who will have command of the encampment. The program aa given (how a ytem of discipline carefully graded from a rudimentary method of camp life to the complicated tactic of offensive and defensive warfare. A large consignment of blank cartridges has been ordered sent to the Indiana capital but it is expected that little powder will be spent. The enemy, in the higher drills. U to be purely imaginary, and no sham battle will be fought between opposing brigade, aa frequently luis been done on similar occasions. A few volley may lie fired, as the charge is made upon ths supposedly strongly defended position of the fictitious opponent but the govern ment supplies will be saved. The first two day of the encampment will be given bver to lecture by sur geons of tho northern division to all officer upon "Camp Sanitation," health precaution in the field and first aid to the Injured. Following in auccession the battalions and then the regiments of in fantry will be shown their part in the action of the brigade, which a soon as possible, will lie formed of the three aimed branches of the service for a prac tice march ready for action. A further tep, which will conclude the first week, is that of the preparation for meeting the enemy, encountered on the march, by reconnaissance and the deploying of forces for attack. The second week is to be, in a more thorough manner, a repetition of the first. The brigade will carry its rations for a day's march and will establish it self in a position of defense for a night's bivouac. Hasty intrenchmenta will bo made, outpost will be placed In similar defensive work and eJl will be ready for an attack. The next day a similar march will be taken but the action will be offensive. The imaginary enemy has taken up a strong position, has placed his pickets, has thrown up earthworks and suddenly the marchers, with no more warning than they would have in real war, are upon him. BOTH SIDES STUBBORN Portland Traction Forces at a Deadlock. MAY WALK OUT FRIDAY Carmen Are Expected to Be Cal led Out Tomorrow Morning. COMPANY WILL NOT TREAT Employer! Anticipating Tl-Up Said to B Importing Strike Breakers Sympathetic Strike May Be In auguratedLook Serious. PORTLAND, July 18. That a general strike of the union atreet car men of Portland mut be the result of the pre- ent situation 1 conceded by the offic ial of the Portland Hallway, Light & rower Company. The officials of the union aay there will certainly be a gen' eral atrlke. poib!y Friday morning, un let the company recedes from it poi tlnn. and they do not expect to ea thl happen. Employe Almoit Unit ' If a general walkout I ordered about 05 per cent of the 800 employe will go out, according to the claim of the union. The company contend that only about 00 pep cent of the men will obey the order of the union. Both sides admit that enough men will strike to seriously tie up the street car traffic of the city for a few dy at least, and possibly longer. It In rumored today that the electrical worker may possibly become involved In the difficulty and might go out upon a sympathetic strike should the carmen'i union ask aid in its fight Such a con tlngency, it is admitted, would complete ly tie up the entire city and practically all of the suburbs in every line depend ent upon electrical energy for operation. A strike of this extent would plunge the entire city in darkness and stop the wheels of industry to a most serious ex tent. Both Side Finn. The members of the union realize that the company proposes to remain firm in the stand it has taken, and the com pany is equally convinced of the fact that the union men mean to strike if the demands ore not considered ' before the expiration of Uie 48-hour truce at noon tomorrow. In consequence, both are pre paring for the crisis. The agents of the union are actively engaged in trying to add non-union car men to the organization, and the com pany is busily engnged engaging men and preparing to ship in men from out side cities to" take the places of those who go out. I It ia reported by good authority that 150 men are now on their way to the city, all of them experienced carmen. Information has also leaked out to the effect that the company has employed a strike-breaker who is now on the field and ready to take charge aa soon as a strike occurrs. The. company is prepar ing in every way possible to fight the union to bitter finish. BETTER WATER FOR M0NTESAN0. MONTESANO, Wash.. July 18.-How to secure a new water supply for this place ha become a vital question, as the present upply, takeu from Sylvia Lake, north of town, i in danger of be ing rendered unfit for use because of a logging camp situated on its banks. The new source of supply will be tome of the clear streams that flow down from the foothills of the Olympic. ON LONG WALK. Greek Walking Around the World on Bet f Arrivei la Frisco SAX FRANCISCO, July 18. Nichols. George, a Greek and a pedestrian. 24 yar old ha arrived here from Aus tralasia, en route to Bupet on a walk around the world. He must on this pedestrian trip walk 40,000 miles in thrfe year and three month and at the end of that time get a purse of 120.000 from the International TourU, Club of Budapest. ' Ha commenced hi trip at Cairo, Egypt, November 17, 1904. According to hi story he walk thirty mile a day and that he ha accomplish ed the different stage is vouched in a diary by "All sorts and condition of men." Among them were the Duke of Connaught the Emperor of Abysinia, and General Khartoum. ' CAPTAIN DIES. RAN FRANCISCO, July 18.-A com munication received here from Lieutenant-Commander Garret. U. S. N., of the United (State steamer Albatross at Hakodate. Japan, report the death of Captain Falkman of the W. H. Demond and of their mate Thomas Johnson of the Zampa. Both vessel belong to the codfishing fleet of this port now operat ing in the Okhtosk sea. TERRIBlT TRAGEDY Man and Three Children Perish in Burning Home. MYSTERIOUS SHOT IS HEARD Maa Sana in House to Rescue Children Shot i Heard and None of the Victim! Ar Seen Alive f Afterward. BOISE, July 18. Charle A. Justus and the three children of hi sister, Mrs. Samuel Moudy, were burned to death in the family homestead four milea east of Middleton hut night. The parents were in the hospital et Boise, where Mrs. Moudy recently submitted to aa opera tion. Justus remained with the aeven children. When the house waa diecc ered in flames, the four older children escaped. Justus went into the burn ing building to rescue the younger ones, aged 3, S and 8 years. Soon afterward a shot was heard and neither Justus nor the children were seen alive. This morn ing the charted bodies were found in the ruins. Mr. Moudy say a loaded rifle was kept hanging under the stair and he believes the heat caused tha gun to explodo the bullet killing Justus The dead man waa 39 years of age. HOGE'S TRIAL BEGINS. PORTLAND. July 18. The trial of Martin G. Hoge, indicted in connection with the knd frauds in Oregon, com menced todav. Frank E. Kincart. who with nenry Miller aad Charles Nickel weiie indicted with Hoge, has withdrawn hia former plea of not guilty and plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy. Harry Walter Miller, one of the defendants who confessed to his share in the alleged fraudulent transaction was the first wit ness against Hoge. WILL KEEP DIAMONDS. NEW YORK, July 18. Customs of ficial were notified from Washington, D. C. yesterday that a petition of Nor man C. Hasall of Toledo, Ohio, a jeweler for the return of a diamond brooch valued at $5000 which waa taken from him on his arrival in New York from Europe, haa been denied by the Treasury Department. Interest ia shown in the case by Jew elry manufacturers as the question turns on the right of aa American traveling abroad to have jewelry repaired and brought back without payment of du ties. A question is also raised aa to identification of the diamonds as the stone that were in the brooch when it waa taken abroad. RUSSIA IS IN TURMOIL Agrarian Disorder Spread ing Everywhere. HARVEST UNGATHERED Peaunts Refuse to Work Fields Land Owners Are Stubborn. MURDERS ARE COMMON THING Attempted Assassination of Count Tod leben Made Ia St Petersburg Bomb I Thrown at Colonel Dumbadesk. WARSAW, July 18.-Agrarian disor der are spreading and the strike now extends though several provinces in which the harvest is threatened with de struction by the refusal of the peasant to work ia the fields. The land owners union has refused to grant the demands of the strikers. There are wholesale murders of police men in the province of Lublin. Ia one town recently. 10 policemen hare been shot and many other murders are re ported. Attempted Assassination. ST. PETERSBURG, July 18. An at tempt was made today to assassinate Count Todleben. aide-de-camp to the emperor, at the engineers camp at Thera, between St, Petersburg and Thusselburg. The would-be assasia fired at the count with a revolver, the bullet grazing his head. He then made his escape in a boat awaiting him in the Neva. It is believed the act waa one of vengean- ance for the arrest of an agitator, who had affected the whole camp. It is reported that some of the soldier of the Seminovsky guard regiment have served notice on their commander, Col onel Minn, that they intended to kill him at the first opportunity for forcing them to murder their fellow soldiers dur ing the Moscow revolt, and that Minn, in fear of his life, has fled from the camp. Shot By One Of Men. TIFLIS. July 18 Police Captain Vine- gradnoff was shot and severely wounded by one of his own men today. Yesterday an attempt was made on the life of chief of Police Miartinoff by a bomb, during the session of the faculty of "The Nobles School." Following the outrages the troops fired volleys into a building kill ing a director and severaly injuring two professors and janitors. Bomb Is Thrown. SEBASTOPOL. July 18. During to day's session of the court martial which is engaged in the trial of the men con cerned at the Black Sea fleet mutiny in November, , bomb was thrown from the Farine barracks at Colonel Dumbadesk, commander of the Minsk regiment, who was leaving the court room. Colonel Dumbadesk was not hurt. Two men were arrested on suspicion. The Minsk regi ment distinguished itself in the suppres sion of the November outrages. Will Have Double Track.. ST. PETERSBURG, July 18. The cabinet today discussed the proposed double tracking of the Trans-Siberia Railway and decided to present to par liament a project for the gradual comple tion of the second line, the entire dist ance to the interior of aMnchuria, except the Circum-Baikal section, where ferries will be provided, equivalent to additional track. The double tracking will enable 34 trains to pass daily in each direction. WILL FIGHT STRIKERS. United Railways Will Not Grant Union men Aa Eight-Hour Day. SAN FRANCISCO, July 18 The mem bers of the Electrical Union Worker who are in the employ of the Union Railway decided this morning to go oa strike after receiving fa ultimatum from tlit, company in reply to their demand that while willing to grant an increa-e of wage from $3-50 to $3.75 for ten hour' work, it would not grant an eight-hour day. . It is possible that the street car sys tem will be tied up if the strike is made effective. The power house cannot operate without shopmen. The United Railroads announced thl morning that it would fight the striker and fill their place with non-union men. THREATEN TO STRIKE. NEW YORK. July 18. Intimation wu iued yesterday by ' the Associated Building Trade to the contractors em ploying member of the dual union nam ed Local No. 480 of the United Na tion Association of Journey Plumber that if they did not withdraw all mem bers of the dual union from the buiding affected by the plumbers' strike, sympa thetic strike would be ordered. It ia estimated that about 50,000 men would be affected by a tie-up. iietiFtoIegon Holy Rollers May Be Sent Here for Trial. WILL BE DECLARED INSANE Statute Provide That Insane Persons, Resident! of Other States, May Be Returned Alienist Are At Work on Case. SEATTLE, Wash, July 18. Eather Mitchell and Hra. Maud Creffield may bo removed to their Oregon homes, instead of being tried for murder here, despite the direct information on a murder charge filed here today. This ia a. pro position which has been discussed at some length by, and haa met with some favor from influential members of the King County bar. One object gained by turning over to Oregon her own citizens, say court officials who have suggested the matter, would be that King county would, .t very little cost, rid itself of an expense bill of about $5000. Mrs. CretEeldV home, they claim, is at Corvallis; Esther Mitchell's in Newberg, or Portland. A Washington law provides that non-resident insane persons may be taken to their home State. It reads: "Whenever any person shall be found in the Superior Court in any county to be inaane and such person has no resi dence within this State such person shall be sent, at the expense of the State, to the place where such person belongs, in every case where such place of resi dence can be ascertained." The trial of George Mitchell, it is estimated, cost King county about $500. As many Oregon witnesses would prob ably be required in the case of the wom en aa in that of the young man against whose life they plotted. The women have the right to be tried separately, thus costing the state twice aa much as did Mitchell. Should an insanity com mission find the women insane and tha court send them to Oregoa the Oregon officials who were so outspoken in their opinions of the trial of George Mitchell, claim local court officials, would then have a chance to handle the case them selves. Probably Esther and Mrs. Cref field would be sent to the Hospital for the Insane at Salem. On the other hand, if alienist experts should find the prison ers sane, their record would be admis sible at the murder trial here. Even now insanity experts are hold ing an inquiry into the mental condition of the prisoners. Much will depend on their report. The information to be filed this afternoon names 17 witnesses for the state, including local police officers, newspaper reporters, physicians and Perry and Fred Mitchell, Fred Dickmaa and Lewie Sandelie.