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VOLUME LXI NO. 190 ASTORIA, OREGON, F IUDAY, JULY 20 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS EARTH ROCKS LIKE CRADLE Socorro Is Shaken By Continual Quakes. PEOPLE FLEE THE CITY Property Damaged Greatly and Natives Are in treat Terror. RUMBLING NOISES ARE HEARD Inhabitants Mid Sick by ConiUnt Swaying of Earth Outbreak of Volcanoes Feared Bouldsri BlocV Railway Tracks. " EL PASO. Texas, July lO.-Tbs Santa Fs train arrived four hour lata owing to boulder thrown on the track near Socorro. The train brought number of refugee The paeengrt report the ahocka continue, that many chimney bare fallen, and valla are cracked. Bum bling noises are heard beneath th old lava beds near Socorro. The natlvea are panto stricken fearing the outbreak of extinct volcanoes. Refugees Pouring Out ALBUQUERQUE, N. M July 19, Refugee in large number are arriving in Oil city from Socorro. N. M., where great damage has been wrought by a succession of daily earthquakes since July 2. In that time not an hour has pasted without one or more earthquakes. The center of the disturbance Is 30 miles long by about 178 miles wide running from the Ladrone Mountain southeast through Socorro. San Antonio and Snn Marcial. This side the belt the shocks have been hardly felt. Each one is pre ceded by a loud rumblinglike heavy thun dr which can be heard approaching from the northwest before It reaches Socorro. Shocks Short and Sharp. The shock generally occur at short, sharp jerks, the ground seeming to slip violently. It Is believed that the adjust ment of rock strata in the rugged Lad rone and Magdalen mountains is the cause of the continued shock. Provision are growing scarce and real distress is feared among the refugees. "The noise and the quakes are fright ful." said Mr. J. J. Leeson, a refugee fom Socorro. "I have experienced earth quakes in Los Angeles and San Fran cisco but never anything so sickening as theso prolonged lickings and Jerking of the earth at Socorro. Water placed in a bowl will show continuous vibration be tween the greater shock, showing that the earth is never still. Not a house in town i safe to enter wnd chimney and walls topple with each recurring tremor." Everyone Leaving. Scnor Baca of Socorro, until recently district attorney, is in the city with his family. Ho says people are leaving on every train and those who cannot ride on the railroad re leaving by wagon. About 2000 persons are camping out in tents and no one dares to go indoors. Mostly every residence and business block In the town has been appreciably dam aged. There has been much distress among the people who are osmping in the open as heaivy rains have fallen in th hut two days, one being the heaviest for 80 years. Most of the people are go ing to El Paso, although many are com ing to Albuquerque and Santa Fe. , Reports Exaggerated. ' SANTA FE. N. M., July 19Mayor Ilursum, who it heroically directing the work of increasing the water supply of Socorro Issued a lgned statement today denying the reports of the heavy itsmage occasioned by earthquake at Aocorro. He aaya lb njKirU ara greatly exag gerated. The actual damage, he ey, lit very slight, though there Id some un easiness on account of the frequency of the shocks, which ara becoming lighter, an Indication of a cessation of the dis turbance. ; 1 CARBIDE EXPLODES. GREENWOOD, Ind July 19.-Whtle preparing for a atereoptioan ehosr to night, a SO-gallon tank of carbide ex podad, killing (Rev, D. I. Lewi end hi altant George McNeemis, and er l(iuly Injuring the eon of Rev. Lewi. Only a few peraotii were In the tent at tin time of the Mploslon. HAY I1.50 PER TON. SILVERTOX. Ore., July 19,-Tbere Is an abundance of hay In the market at present and the price wa never at low in the history of 8ilverton at at tbe present time. Choice bay Is being told lt the field near tbli city for $140 a ton, RESULTS OIT THE DIAMOND. Pacific Coast Lsagus. At Los Angeles 1m Angeles 3. San Francisco 1. At Oakland-Oakland 3, Fresno I. At Seattle-Seattle I, Portland t Northwest Laafue. , At Butte Tacoma 10, Butt 4, At ftpokane GrsyV narbor 8, Spo kane 11. SCORES ROOSEVEET Jerome Criticizes President for Attacking Lawyer. SPEAKS ON "PUBLIC OPINION" District Attorney Says President Knows Nothing About Law and Should Not Criticiz What Ha Knows Nothing Of. WARM SPRINGS, Gs., July 19.-DU trict Attorney Jerome delivered an ad dresa on "Public opinion, it's power, and some of it's evils and Injustices! and our duty as lawyer toward it," before the Georgia Bar Association tonight Jerome referred" to Roosevelt's criticism of a United States court Judge saying. "There is one injustice which public opinion not Infrequently doesj it is one which lawyers can do much to cor rect and that is criticism of judges for decisions which they could not avoid making if they obey the law. The re cent spectacle of a nation's Chief Jus tice, himself not lawyer, criticizing in a publio document, a fodernl judge for his decision on a point of law, has not, I believe, commended itself to the pro fession. The laws are our laws. Public opinion nvnde them and can change them." DREYFUS POPULAR. PARIS, July 10. There were demon strations today at the tomb of Zola commemorative of the acquittal of Drey fus. The later sent a wreath of orchids bearing his card. Major Dreyfus was recognized among the gathering and was greeted with an ovation. ASK FOR ANNULMENT. Fraud in Obtaining Franchise Causes Petition For Revocation, DENVER, July 19.-AUeging gross election frauds on the part of the Den ver City Tramway Company and tha Denvep Gas dt Electrio Company a suit in equity was filed in the United States circuit court by Ernest M. Pease of New York City, praying for annulment of the new franchise of the tramway company. Pease is a heavy property owner.- His attorneys claim evidence to sustain the charges ii embraced in the bill ; TO DISSOLVE . PARLIAMENT Russian Government Will Order New Election. REPORT IS RELIABLE Hat Decided to Hold Election on Universal Suffrage Basis. PARLIAMENT ISSUES ADDRESS Explains Its Attitude on Agrarian Ques tions and Urges Peasants to Re frain from Excesses, Await Ing Parliament's Decision. COLOGNE, July 19.-Tbo Gazette's St. Petersburg correspondent, asserts that on reliable authority, the Russian government ha agreed in principle to dissolve, parliament, and order a new election on the basis of universal and di reel tifTr. Th reason irlven I that I parliament is exceeding its prerogatives. The correspondent adds that if the revo lution breaks out the government has decided to establish a dictatorship. Address to Country. ST. PETERSBURG, Friday. JA.1L), July 20. An sddress to the country et ting forth the attitude of parliament on agrarian questions and their reason for the delay in the adoption of a. solution to the problem, was adopted by the low er house at 2 o'clock this morning, but in an emasculated form, with changes designed to minimize the revolutionary feature of tbe document and to shift the emphasis to a note. of pacification, in which the peasantry ere exhorted to re frain from excesses, and violence and await Parlaiment's decision in the mat ter. The address was only adopted after sitting twelve hours, in stormy session, and that it was carried is due to the ab sence of 101 member of tbe group of toil who favored more radical action. WILL IMPROVE ARMY UNIFORMS English Taylor Returns to London After Submitting Designs for U. S. Army. NEW YORK, July 19.-George B. Winter, the London tailor, who came to the United States to improve the pat terns of the uniforms of Uncle Sam's solidera, sailed for England yesterday on the Oceanic. His work here is finish ed, and it remain 'for the American tailors end clothing manufacturers to carry out the designs which Mr. Winter submitted and which the quartermaster general accepted with some modifications. Replying to a question Mr. Winter said: "How will the soldier look in the uni form t He will look as smart as can be for in the first plaoe the men of your army are a very smart lotall they need is a uniform that will show them off to better advantage. . There will be no radical change in the uniform as it is at present. The great difference will be in the cut The changes are to be of such nature that the layman would not understand but in the end the men will appear to far better advantage both individually and collectively. "The breeches of the cavalry will be a little fuller about tha hips and closer at the knees'and bottom, ao that the leg gings and boots may be better adjusted. The blouse will have a different .turn here and there ; there will be some change in the collar- and other details which I do not feel at liberty to discuss. The new uniforms will not be adopted immediately, the change will be gradual" :" i v . r,'' PETITION IS REFUSED. ; , ; , NARRAOANBCTT PIER, July 19. Louis Gourdain, tbe alleged Chicago and New Orleans lottery dealer, who is seeking to be re- turned to the Joliet, III, penlten- tiary, from wbhh he was recent- ly released, arrived from New York today and went to the home of Justice White of the supreme, court of the United States, who declined to accept his petition to lie returned to prison. During tbe trial Gourdian agreed not to appeal the cae if convicted, but after sent to the penitentiary his attorneys secured a pardon without his consent and he feel that his honor is in- volved, hence his petition to be sent back to Joliet. ' KENTUCKY FEUD BEGINS. LEXINGTON, Ky. July W.-A dis patch from Sera grant, Ky., states that John Hall and John ThornWrry leaders of the Hall faction of Bountain Feudists, were killed from mbuh in Floyd coun ty. Members of both factions are arm ing theselve and an outbreak of a feud war Is feared. A dispatch from Jackson, Breathitt county, states that at Hindman, Knox county,, a bloody clash has "occurred be tween the feud factions and several are, killed. No names or particulars ase giv en. Hindman is not on a telephone or telegraph line. INQUIRY PROMISED Roosevelt Will Look Into Eight Hour Law Violations. ON GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS President Contemplates Investigating Violations of Government Law Lim iting Workday to Eight Honrs, Except in Emergency Cases. WASHINGTON, July 19. An action of the greatest importance in labor circles is contemplated in a direction given by Roosevelt to the officers in charge of the public works, at the in stance of Secretary Taft, that is. to employ the government's own officers to direct and punish violation of the law of 1902, providing that except in case of an emergency, work on the gov ernment buildings, ships and other prop erties shall be limited to eight hours, each day, for each workman. MAY NOT SERVE. . NEW YORK. July 19. There was said today to be some doubt as to whether the four members of the International Policyholders' Committee nominated yes terday on. the administration ticket of trustees for the Mutual Life Insurance Company would consent to serve. The Policyholders' Committee was formed to ou the present management of the Mutual. The ticket must be filed with the superintendent of insurance today to be within the legal time. The four men named from the opposi tion are Judge George Gray of Dela ware Harlow N. Higginbotham, of Chi cago; General B. F. Tracy of this city, and Colonel Alfred M. Shook of Tracy City, Tenn. All of these men signed an address in this city on July 9 denounc ing the present management of the Mutual omd New York Life. It was asserted that none of them had been con sulted as to the nominations and of course none had accepted. It was also declared that Judge Gray was not policyholder in the Mutual and that the same was probably , true of General 1 Tracy, ';'.': ';"'"y: FATAL MINE EXPLOSION. BLUEFIELD, W. Va., July 19.-As a result of an explosion in the mine at Huge tonight, five miners are dead and three others fatally burned. DIRTY DEAL IS EXPOSED Land Fraud Swindles Told By H. W. Miller. PLOT WAS DEEP LAID Witness Testifies How Kincart and Himself Buncoed Innocent Victims. HOGE HUSTLED "EASYMARKS" Trio of Crooks do Good Business With "Suckers" in Placer and Medford New Zealand Company Bogus Fake. PORTLAND, July 19. Brazen and unblushing, with studied indifference to hi own part of the swindle, Henry W. Miller, in the Federal Court today, sup plemented his story of yesterday, laying bare the detaiU of the unlawful scheme by which he, Frank E. Kincart, Martin G. Hoge and Charles Nkkell are charg ed with having conspired to induce num erous residents of Placer and Medford to commit perjury in making applications for land under the timber and stone act Miller described how he" entered into the conspiracy with Kincart, how they agreed upon a course, concocted the bogus "Emmetsburg of New Zealand Company," and started out to inveigle the unsuspecting out of their money. He went further and drew Charles Nickell into the scheme and told him how the latter, after the first bunch had emptied their pocketbooks into the con spirators' coffers, slapped him on the back and felicitated him on the fact that he had gone about it in the right way. Then came the entrance of Martin W. Hoge into the scheme, with the details of how he became the legal adviser of the trio and later became a hustler for victims at ao much each. Hoge, so it is said, was a good investment, and so zeasously did he enter into the spirit of the thing that he was made a special proposition whereby he was to receive $5 apiece for victims as soon as they applied and $10 on final proof. , Before the noon adjournment Miller told how Hoge even went to the point of having him sign a bogus receipt, show ing that he (Hoge) had filed on a piece of land and paid his location fees, when the arrangement was that lor and in consideration of his rustling "suckers" his location was to be made free of charge. PEACE IS APPARENTLY DECLARED. NEW YORK. July 19. Peace is ap parently declared among the lawyers, who at various times have been engaged on the Thaw case. Judge Olcott's firm was dismissed by Thaw today and they turned over to C. W. Hartridge, Thaw's pei-sonal attorney, all the papers in their possession connected with the case, excepting the reports of the detectives which have beenfroade since the murder was committed. LUCIUS BOOTH DIES. OAKLAND, July 19. Lucius A. Booth, a pioneer of 1849, one of the original in corporators with Huntington, Crocker and tSanford of the Central Pacific Rail road, died here yesterday at the age of 88 years. ALASKA CANNERY BURNED. SAN FRANCISCO. July 19 Word ha been received here by Henry Fortmann, president of the Alaskan Packers' As sociation, that : one of the company's largest canneries on Behring Sea has been destroyed. ALMOST TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Excursion Steamers Collide and Ptnlo Follows Number Injured. NEW YORK. July 19, The excursion steamer Perseus bound for Coney Island and tha Thomas Patten, from Long Branch to New York, collided off Statea Island tonight, imperilling the lives of 1500 people, fortunately none were ser iously injured. Tha veels were inter locked, and neither sank. The shrill whitie brought assistance and the pas sengers were safely removed. A wild panic followed the collision which was due to the fog. There are inconftrmed reports that some persons jumped over board. " '' '. PURE WATER FOR EUGENE. EUGENE. Or., July 19-Tbe old pump ing station of tha Eugene water works was abandoned yesterday and the two huge pumps at tbe new station are now pumping all the water Eugene people use. Tbe two big filters are alo in use. The city water can now be used without fear of its being contiminated. The strike of workmen who demanded higher wages has been settled and the work on the new 1,500,000-gallon reser voir on Spinner's Butte was resumed yesterday. WAREHOUSE BURNS. DUNDEE, Scotland. July 19Fire in the bonded warehouse of James Watson and Company, the largest concern of it kind in Scotland, caused a loss of $1,200,000. , RELIGION IS DEAD Holy Rollers Repent When Harm Is Done. SEE PRACTICES WERE WRONG Mrs. Creffield Says She Now Realises That "Holy Roller" Faith Was Wrong Will Plead Not . Guilty Monday. t SEATTLE, July 19. "Esther Mitchell and Mrs. Maud Creffield will be arraign ed Monday morning if Judge Frater is here then," said Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh today. The court has an nounced his intention of being in Seattle on that date. Baxter & Wilson, who were retained by Alfred E. Clarke, of Portland, will represent Esther Mitchell It is probable that at this preliminary Will H. Morris, who defended Esther Mitchell's victim' will appear. Mr. Morris says he ha been asked by O. V. Hurt of Corvallis, to secure counsel for Mrs. Creffield. "It is out of our great respect and sympathy for Mr. Hurt," said Attorney Morris, "that we are willing to do this much. We will not appear" at the trial, but if no counsel has been engaged for the preliminary procedings we will plead for her." The women will elect to be tried sepa rately .and will plead "not guilty." "I believe the religion is dead for ever." said Mrs. Creffield. "We had in tended to continue our faith here but it would have been revised faith, and one against which there could not have been a breath of suspicion. What we did in Oregon we thought right at the time. We have found further light since, and view our practices three years ago as wrong. It is not for the public to know what the inner workings of our religion were. "Holy Rollerism' is not spreading, and there is little danger of it doing o ' ',: , - . V AFTER NEGRO .FIEND. OKLAHOMA CITY, July 19.-At Hen rietta on Wednesday, Rufus Carto. a negro, aged 20, raped a 7-year-old girl. The negro was caught, identified, and moved to Weleetka for safety. Miners at Henrietta have organized and gone to Weleetka in an effort to lynch him. The rumors of a pitched battle are not confirmed.