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VOLUME LXI NO. i!0.p ASTORIA, OREGON SATURDAY. AUGUST 4, 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS CAPITOL IS IN DARKNESS General Strike Paralyzes All Business. RESULT IS IN BALANCE Russia on Verge of Oisorders Which May Lead to Reign of Military. DICTATORSHIP IS PROBABLE Incipient Mutiny oa Cruiser Bogttyr it Quickly Quelled and Mutineer! Art Arretted Motcow Regiment ii Dissatisfied With SUtui ST. PETERSBURG, August 4 (2:45 A, M.) St. Peter-burf I in darkness tonight. The rait tot a etrikt in this city has alreay been an-wered by 20,000 factory hands. 1 The employees of the electric lighting plant, always the earliest barometle record of political condition. ed working during the afternoon in obedience to cell for a general strike. It will be impoible to predict the eurces of thin universal political etrike until Monday a the workmen in St. Peterburg end the province. have two holiday, Saturday the fete day of the empre dowager, and Sunday their regular holiday. The only available In dex to the tituntion I the railroad. Up to this time, working railroading em ployees hove not heeded the call for strike, exept in the eae of one insignifi cant road, hut which iwilted In a warm fight with the Cossack ht night. Fate of Cabinet in Doubt. The fate of the Stolypin cabinet sways in the bnlanre and Rula U upon the verge of disorders, which may lead either to a reign of the military, or- the Proletariat. It ran be stated definitely that steps toward a dictatorship may be taken Sunday or Monday by nomination of Grand Duke Nicholas, to the chief com mand of all troops in Russia. This mat ter was the subject of an earnest dis union during nn interview between the Kmperor ami Stolypin yesterday from which the premier returned to a greatly vexed state of mind. The Associated Press is informed from high sources that if the nomination of Grand Duke Nicholas to Post Com mnndcr in Chief, is made, it will be "For the purpose of harmonking the activity of all troops without reference to political affairs" but Stolypin 1 scarcely disposed to regard the nomina tion hi this high light. Pickets of cav alry ami Infantry were most conspicuous feature on the htivets of St. Petersburg last night. Business houses generally barred their windows, ns they did in thq days of the great October strike. Practically nl! street cars have stop ped running and the cabmen threaten to cease work today. MUTINY QUELLED. HELSINOFORS, August 3 (11 :17 P. M,) An incipient mutiny broke out to day on the Russian cruiser Bogatyr. It was immediately put down with the arrest of 200 sailors on board. MOSCOW REGIMENT DISAFFECTED. ST. PETERSBURG. August 3. It is circumstantially asserted that there Is serious 'dissatisfaction among the Mos cow regiment of the guards quartered in St. Petersburg. ' Demands were formu lated by the men both eoonomio and political, The Cossacks have been sent to the barracks of this regiment. NAUGHTY SAINTS. Former Secretary Navy Sayi Plymouth Borkerj Were Not So Good. NEW YORK. AiiKiiftt 3.-A apodal to the Tribune from Plymouth, Mum., nyss .lohii 1). Long, former Secretary of the Navy, stirred up a lot of excitement here, at the Tt-rcenuary of the first church of Plymouth by his address on the Pilgrim Fathers. "The saints in Plymouth colony can be counted on the finger." he said. "Some of the very elect were fal to their trust and used their positions t feather their own nels falser to the tru-t than any president of a modern fn-uranca company. Within the firt de cade social vice infested the commun ity drunkenness, bickering, slander, llcent iount. and even crimes against nature were common. All this took (dace in a community of very limited number. No New England village of today need fear comparison with the early Plymouth colony." SPEECH WAS BRILLIANT. NEW YORK, August 3.-A special to the Herald from Asbury Park, N. J., ayt "The mot brilliant speech on the sub ject I have ever heard. It would do much god to all the countries concern ed." said Senor Ignaclo Calderon, Min uter from Bolivia to the United Bute, when seen at the Colonial Hotel here last night and asked for hi views on Secretary Root' speech at the Pan American gathering at Rio Janeiro. "We of the Americas should be brought closer together,'' he continued. "I have always favored aucb move. IN IT Deposed Prophet Is Not Candidate for Overseer. TWO OTHERS ENTER LISTS Voliva Announces His Candidacy For Priest of Zion City and A. E. Bills Also Aspires to the Poaition. CHICAGO, August 3. Two candidates died certificates of nomination for the otllce of General Overseer of the Chris tian Apostolic Catholic ehurvli in Zion Citv. in the United States Circuit Court today. The candidates are Wilbur Glen Voliva who took charge of the church and Zion City, after Dowie had been suspended, and Alfred E. Bills, a for mer adherent of Dowie, who claims to be opposed to Voliva. Dowie, through his attorney disclaims any connection with Bills, who is said be a large prop erty owner in Zion City, where he has been a resident for five years. Dowie, through his attorneys announces he will not a candidate. TORPEDOED A DERELICT. NKW YORK, Aug. 3,-Tha United State cruiser Tacoma, anchored off Tompkinsville, last night received a wirclcs messcnge from the United States cruiser- Columbia saying that the latter vesfel had found, and torpedoed n' dere lict oft" Absecom light and that having accomplished her mission, the Columbia would sail for Tompkinsville at once nnd arrive there today. GOVERNOR CONTRIBUTES DOLLAR. NKW YOltK, Aug. 3 Gov. Iliggins sent his dollar yesterday to the Republican Congressional - Campaign Committee. With it ho sent this letter to Represent ative Shoininn of the committees "Per mit me 'to follow the splendid example of President Roosevelt and to enclose my dollar as a contribution to the cam paign fund which the committee is now raising. DIE NOT HENDRICKS IS GRILLED Prosecutor Hency Pro duces New Evidence. LEDGER IS FEATURE Government Uses Books of Butte Creek. Company to Aid in It's Case. - - MAY CONCLUDE CASE TODAY Expected Jury Will Be Given Case For Decision Letters of H.ndricka to A tent Clark E. Loomii Used PORTLAND. August 3.-The long trial of Hamilton 1L Hendricks for sub onution of perjury, Is Bearing a close. At noon today the defendant stepped down from the witnea stand after hav ing been for nearly nine hour the ob ject of scathiiig cross-examination at the hands of Special Prosecutor Hency and the defending questions of Judge Bennett, his counsel The case will prob ably go to the jury late tomorrow. Judge Bennett at noon announced that the defense might call no more wit nesses, but that the rest of it time would be short at most. Mr. Heney said, tfiat the Government's remittal evidence would not occupy more than half an hour. Mr. Heney resumed cross-examination of Hendricks when court opened this morning. The most important feature of the cross-examination was one of the Butte Creek Company's old ledgers, which Hendricks had sent to Fossil for. This was offered to contradict Hend rick's explanation regarding a conversa tion with Henry Johnson, one of the homesteader, in which he said Johnson told him that the company had been charging him rent for the bouse he lived in, whereas he wasn't to be charged any rent, To this Hendricks testified that he an awered that he wouldn't charge him any more rent, that it was not right and he would drop it. The point in the govern ment's ease Is that the ledger intro duced, showing the company's account with Johnson, contains no entry indicat ing that any rent was ever charged against him. Johnson testified that it was part of his agreement with Hendricks that ha was to receive free house rent as part of the consideration for taking up a home stead and transferring it to the com pany. Mft Heney introduced and read sev eral letters written by Hendricks, one of which was a communication to Clark K. Loomis, then a special agent of tha government, in which he declared that one Thomas Grant was angry with him and was trying to make trouble for him by circulating the report that the com pany was cutting timber on government land. , Willaro" N, Jones and Thaddeus Stev ens Potter, who were convicted of con spiracy to suborn perjury before Judge Hunt last year, will come before him for sentence tomorrow morning, after which the bill of exceptions will be settled, before taking an appeal to the h idier court. YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL SCORES Northwest League. At Hoquiam Butte 5. Gray's River 0. At Tacoma Spokane 2, Tacoma 11. Pacific Coast League. At Seattle Seattle 4, Oakland 1. At Oakland Portland 5, San Fran cisco 2. At Fresno Los Angeles 8, Fresno 1. STEALS VALUABLE VIOLIN, Thief Calmly Walks Into Music House, nd Escape Without Being Seen, ALBANY, Ore., Auut 3.-Walkin into Davenport' Music Houe, 1 thix city, yesterday afternoon, in his shirt sleeves, a young trngr calmly stole a valuable violin and successfully made hi ewape. He pretended to Inspect vio ins, with a view to purchase one. and when Mm. Davenport, who was waiting on him, turned for a moment to speak to another customer, he walked out. The aWnce of the violin he was looking at was not noticed for a few minute, and by that time all trace of the calm thief wa lost. STOCKHOLDERS MUST DIG. HAMBURG, August 3.-At an extra ordinary meeting of the stockholder of the Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Company it was announced the com pany's losse ss a result of the San Francisco disaster are $4,365,000. Re serve on hand amounted to $2,500,000 and therefore it will be necessary for the stockholders to pay 50 per cent on the capital. BOOKKEEPER GOES WRONG. PITTSBURG. August 3.-Alfred S. Hixton, bookkeeper for the Union Trust Company In this city, who is under ar rest, and I said to have confessed to peculations amounting to $125,000, is locked up in jail owing to his failure t secure bonds' in the sum of $20,000 for his release. It is said Hixton's confes sion has implicated a fellow employes who ha left the city. MINES CLOSE DOWN Company Causes Strike By Refus ing Union's Demands. FIVE THOUSAND MEN GO OUT Butt Union Demands That Company Discharge An Employ Behind in -Hia DuesCompany Refuses Strike Ensues, BUTTE, Aug. 3 On account of closing Boston and Montana smelters at Great Falls, through a striker in the Smelter men's Union, the Butte mines of the Boston & Montana Copper Mining Com pany, five in number, employing 3000 men. closed down tonight. The strike is due to the insistence of five union men, that a union man be hind in his dues be dismissed by the company, but the company discharged the quintet and a strike followed. In all about 5000 men are affected. RUINED BY CIGARETTES. ' CHICAGO, August 3. A dispatch to the Record-Herald from New Orleans says: "That an alarming percentage of the young men of the cities of the south are physically unfit to enter the army, owing to cigarette smoking, late hours, and other bad habits," is the statement of ' Lieutenant . W. E. Bennett, Jr, in charge of the local recruiting office. Lieutenant Bennett says that out of a total of 106 applicants during July only 2!) men were accepted. Out of the same number of applicants in any of the new states west of the Mississippi river or in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, the number of enlistments would have been as higl as 00 or 80. Cigarette smoking is the principal cause which disqualifies men in Louisiana, Mississippi ond Texas. MEAT IS BAD. NEW YORK, August 3. A board of inquiry has been appointed to investi gate reports concerning the quality of meat given enlisted men in the navy yard nt Brooklyn. There has been con siderable trouble on board the receiving ship Yankee, because of the meat and vegetables supplied. WAR R EACHED ACUTE STAGE Harriman, Hill and Mil waukee in Fight. WAR OF RETALIATION HillWill Parallel Milwaukee System for Invading Western Territory. HARRIMAN IS OPPOSING HILL J. P. Morgan and His Ineresti Allied With Hill, While Harriman Be lieved in Close Alliance With Milwaukee MINNEAPOLIS. August 3 The Jour nal says the three-cornered war among the Harriman, Hill and Milwaukee rail way interests in the Northwest is reach ing an acute stage. It developed yea terday that James J, Hill Is behind the Dakota Midland Railway, which is about to invade the Milwaukee territory be tween Sioux City, Iowa,: and Pierre, S. D. The new road is to run through part of the great corn belt of Iowa in compe tetion with the Milwaukee. Having fail ed to get control of the Milwaukee in 1901, Mr. Hill has now started to parallel the system wherever possible in retalia tion for the Milwaukee's construction of an extension to the Pacific Coast. J. P. Morgan and bis interests are allied with Hill, and the Harriman interests are be lieved to be in close alliance with the Milwaukee. COMPANY DISSOLVES. MILWAUKEE, August 3. Directors of the General Paper Company held a meetin gbehind closed doors this after noon with a view of winding up its affaire as a corporation in compliance with tha decision of the United States Circuit Court a few months ago. Secre tary L. M. Alexander stated after the meeting that the company had ceased to exist, but that one or two more met ings would be held before final details of the dissolution are completed. The company's offices in Chicago have been closed, and preparations are being made to vacate the suite of offices in Milwau kee. SCOUNDRELS ROUNDED UP. PENSACOLA, Fla., August 3. An in vestigation of alleged peonage in the Jackson Lumber" Company's camp at Loekport, Ala., by United States Com missioner, was held today and resulted in three men being held to the United States Court for trial under a heavy bond. They are Robert Gallagher, su perintendent, and W. N. Grace, and Os car S. Sanders, employes of the com pany. GANS -NELSON FIGHT A GO. GOLDFIELD, Nev., August 3. Bat tling Nelson, through his manager. Billy Nolan, today expressed a willingness to meet Joe Cans in a finish fight for $30,000 here on Labor Day. The money is now on deposit in the Central Bank and will be deposited in San Francisco to morrow. Hans' acceptance is expected tomorrow. AFTER RAILROADS. WASHINGTON, August 3. Attorney General Moody in accordance with those policyholders, have determined upon, has directed further prosecutions of the railroads for violations of the federal safety appliance act. The defendants will include twelve of the biggest roads in the country. ACCUSED OF SERIOUS CRIME. Lawyer Under Arrest For Improper Re lations With Young Girl DALLAS, Ore., August 3.-J. II. Fow ler, a lawyer in Dallas, was put linden arrest this morning on a charge made by the 7-year-old daughter of James Ross, a liveryma here. He was arraigned this afternoon, and will have preliminary hearing tomorrow. Flower eame to Dal las two years ago ,and has considerable) practice. He has a family, and has been considered a man of good habit. Ho declares his Innocence. BREAKS THREE RECORDS. CLEVELAND. August 3. At Glenn ville track today "The Bronco." the little daughter of Stormcliffe recently purchased by Rockoan and Dable of Winnepeg, Man., for $10,000, won tha three heats of the free-for-sl! pace at 2:03, 2:031. 2:02J, thereby breaking tha world's record for three consecutive heats by a quarter of a second; tha world' record for pacing mares in race, and the world's record for tha fa-test third heat in a race. LEAVE FOR CHICAGO. SEATTLE, Augut 3.-Mrs. Eli A. Cage and her six-year-old son left for Chicago tonight with the body of bee husband, E. A. Gage, who committed suicide in this city yesterday. SHE PEASANTS KILLED. KURSK, August 3. -An encounter be tween peasants and dragoons occurred during which six peasants were killed and three wounded. DIES AT HIS POST Rear-Admiral Train Expires at Chefoo Yesterday. HAD DISTINGUISHED CAREER Deceased Was Commander of U. Asiatic Station Was 6i Years Old Served Country Al most so Years. CHEFOO, August 3. Rear Admiral Charles J. Train, commander in chief of the United States Asiatic fleet, died this morning of uramea. WASHINGTON", August 3.-As com mander in chief of the Asiatic station the important duty of maintaining strict neutrality in the Philippine waters dur ing the Russo-Japanese war devolved upo nAdiniral Train, he was 61 years of age and would have retired from activt service the next day. During his ser vice of almost a scores of years at sea, he has served in many stations. Dur ing the Spanish war he commanded tha auiliary cruiser Prairie in the North Atlantic patrol squadron. He had been rear admiral since 1904. DEATH OF PRINTER. CHICAGO. Aiiffust 3. Isaao D. Georse - - - - t V former president of the International Typographical Union, died yesterday at the Presbyterian Hospital alter an ill ness of eight weeks. Mr. George wa 69 years of age. He was elected first president of the National Typographical Union at Albany, N. Y., in 1869, At tha time of his death he "was president of the Old Time Printers' Association. PUNISH WITH DEATH. . CHICAGO, August 3. Punishment by death is recommended by the July grand jury as the maximum penalty for at tacks on women. The recommendation was made in its final report which was handed Judge Dupuy in the Superior Court yesterday. Changes in existing laws prescribing punishment for assail ants of children also were recommended by the Inquisitors. The action of tha grand jury is the result of the long con tinued prevalence ia Chicago of suchi attacks.