' VOLUME LXI NO. 208
ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY. Al'GUST 7.1906
PRICE FIVE CENTS
FEW FRIENDS
IN CONGRESS
Roosevelt Disliked By Re-
publican Members.
POPULAR WITH PEOPLE
Republican Congressmen Extol!
President In Public Dc
nounce Privately.
voice of tit home folk.
And yet they Mill these senators ami
repretentatlv who tit in tli capltoj
in Impressive grandeur the leader of
the people ami of their parti, They
nit follower, and nothing mors. They
straggle In tin wake of public entl-
ment, lustead of riding at the head of
th procetsioa. They no mort rant rot
the working of the public mind than
they control the wind or the rising
and letting of tht un. They rt in
truth, a It wa intended they hould be.
flit tenant of the people) and while
they may not alwayi execute the will
of their .matter, they alwayi itand in
dresd of their mttr' wrath.
The bold which President Rooiev.lt
ha upon the confidence and affection
of the matte of the people U the mar
vel of twentieth century politic. Yet
Mr, Roosevelt h ai venerable and Impo
tent a any aenator or representative.'
Beeua of the many vital thing advo-
cated by Mr. Roottvelt which have the
approval of the public, the public cheer
fully overlook bit minor horteoming i
a It does the shortcoming of It other
servant. Hut let him go contrary to
what the publlo ba decided It an lra
perativt necenlty or a moral duty, and
STRIKE IS
A FAILURE
Russian People Refuse to
Obey the Call.
LEADERS IN DISPAIR
Some Already Counsel Suspension
of Strike, But Others
Would Wait
JEALOUS OF HIS POPUURITY , APPEAL IS ISSUED
Stand Pattera la Congrtat Think They
Art Following Public Sentiment
on the Tariff Question Far
Being Wrong.
WASHINGTON, August 0 (Special).
A fact known to uiot everybody I
that President Itootevelt U not popular
with the memben of hi own party ia
Oongrew. He hit hti friend thttw, of
oure. loyal and devoted friend, like
Senator Lodge and otheri only htly
le known, but the average run of re
publican senator and representative do
not enthuie when the name of Rooe
velt l mentioned. In public utterance
and formal interview they extol the
virtuei of the president, but in private
convention they critidct most of hi
official and private act.
Situation Unparalleled.
It would seem a paradoxical Hua
tion. therefore, that Mr. Roosevelt's
popularity with the people in the chief
thing upon which these republican
statesmen count to perpctunte their ma
lorttv in Congress. Thev already have
set to work to make President Rooe
volt the Itsue In this year'a congre-
tlonal campaign, and from every hut
ing In the land, the argument will be
advanced that the return of a republi
can majority to the sixtieth congress
will Im an endowment of Mr. Roosevelt
and hi administration, while an adverse
verdict at the poll will be a repudiation
of hi politic.
Here in Senator Dick, head of the
republican organization in Ohio, jour
neying to Oyster Bay to secure from
tlio president a message of approval to
be spread a oil upon the troubled
water of Ohio politic. In the camp of
Roosevelt, Senator Pick i not counted
among the faithful. Ho it not an open
enemy, it i true, but hi sympathies, it
in an id .are not always with the admin
istration. An attempt by anti-Dick re
publican in Ohio to take advantage of
till fnct threatened to cause trouble o
the senator hastens to the summer capi
tal to get a certificate of good character,
Nor i the Ohio situation a peculiar
one. Scores of other- republican mem
bers of Congress who dislike the presi
dent personally arc forced to trade upon
his popularity or face the probability of
defeat at the polls. They do not dare go
home and tell their constituents "their
real sentiments toward Mr. Roosevelt
Probably there never was another situa
tion like this in the history of American
politics. Rut that is not greatly to be
marvelled at. Since Mr. Roosevelt be
came the lender of his party, numerous
situations have been created that were
without precedent. (
Democrats In Same Boat.
Republicans of secret hostility but
open loyalty to the president are not
alone in their embarrassment. The presi
dential boom which awaits the coming
of Mr. Bryon has compelled a large
number of democratic statesmen to go
a-sailing In boats very like those pro
pelled by their republican brethren. A
good many voices that have been heard
lately proclaiming the greatness pf the
Nebrntikan are but the echoes of the
People Art All Powerful,
The repetition here of tbet self
evident truth might seem out of place
were it not for tin attempt in many
quarter to make the people believe they
no longer nave any real votct in tut
affair of their government. So long
a men art a-thlrst for fatno and
i-hunger for publlo office, and to long
a fame and public office art held at the
disposal of the people, just to long will
tbt people be all-powerful in the gov
troment, whenever they set fit to exer
cise their power.
In attempting to provt tbt charge
( Continued m page I)
NEGROES LYNCHED
Angry Mob Takes Three From
Jail and Hangs Them.
FIRES BULLETS INTO BODIES
Thret Thousand White Take Negroes
and in Spitt of Prayers For
Mercy Kill Them The
Militia Powerless.
CHARLOTTE, August O.-A mob of
three thousand people shortly before 11
o'clock tonight forcibly entered the
Rowan county jnil at Salisbury and re
movea inerelrom three of the five ne
groes charged with murder of the Lyerly
family at Barber Junction, on July 13th
and lynched them. The other negroes
were no( molested and biter tonight
were taken to Greensboro.
It is thought the men lynched were
the principals in the crime.
Hie local militia were called out to
quell the mob, but were of no service
being supplied only with blank cart
ridges.
A railroad employe whs fatally shot
by a member of the mob and Will
Troutmnn, a negro deliveryman was also
shot and seriously wounded. Both shoot-
rigs aie claimed to be accidental.
The negroes wore taken to the ball
grounds, given time to confess, but
would not deny or confess the crime.
One of them, John Gillespie becsted
itcously for his life and the others
were so thoroughly frightened that they
lost the power of speech.
Finally the three men were strung up
to the limbs of one tree and with howls
and euitees the crowd riddled the dang
ling bodies with bullets.
Former Deputies, Composing Social Dem
ocrats and Labor Parties, and
Revolutionary Societies, Appeal
For General Strik..
ST. PETERSBURG, Augut 7 (3:30 A.
M-) In the light of yesterday' devel
opments the general trike may almott
be regarded at a fiasco. The summon
to go out met with tome response In Mot-
cow, but then ww offset by iefeet In i
!t. reicmhurg.
An enthusiastic acceptance of the or
der to strike is no where recorded. Even
in the Donets mining district, where
practically all the miners were already
out, the factory hands according to in
formation of the Associated Press de
clined to strike. The revolution mav
possibly, yet be saved by the railroad
men, but the central committee of rail
road men have not yet reached a final
decision, and not a single important line
of the empire is affected. The organiz
er of the strike are in depair over the
prospects of a failure. Some already
are counselling the strike off, to ave
prestige, but others init on waiting. In
a last hope that some action will be
taken by the railroad men.
Issue Last Appeal
Former deputies composing the social
democratic and labor parties, Polish and
Jewish committees and various revolu
tionary bodies have issued a joint mani
festo calling upon the people for a de
cisive struggle against the government
of the emperor "For a national govern
ment and land and liberty, we call upon
you for a general strike to cast down
the imperial government and the author
ities depending thereon. Long live the
general strike and the decisive struggle
for national power."
NEW YORK SWELTERS,
Over Twenty Deaths and Many Proatrt
tions From th Beat.
NKW YORK, Atigu-t S.-New York
and its environs sweltered all day and
far Into the evening for this wa the
hottest day in the year. More than 20
persons In this city alone died from the
heat and the hospitals are crowded with
the victim of prostration. The govern
ment thermometer registered 0-1 degrees.
It waa much hotter In the street, some
thermometer registering 102. The hu
midity wa excessive. Thousand are
leaving the city for the seanhore and the
tenement dweller have invaded the
park and other1 open places by the
thousand.
KILL FISH WITH DYNAMITE.
KIXIN. Ore- August 6. Foe tome
time pat report have been ent in that
foreign laborers on the extension work
of the 0. R. & X. Co.'t new line to
Joseph. Ore- have lieen using dynamite
in "the Wallowa River for the purpose of
catching flh. At a consequence Water
Bailiff Owcar Saling was detailed by A.
D. Allen, Game and Fish Warden, to
locate and capture the offenders, and
Friday evening be had three of the men
before the Justice of the Peace of this
city. They pleaded guilty to the charge
of using dynamite in the river- for tbe
purpose of catching fish.
Tbt parties implicated were C. E.
Lind, EHi't Johnson and Axel Linstend,
each of whom waa fined $50 and costs.
EVEN PHILADELPHIA REVOLTS.
nriLADELPIIIA, August ft-District
Attorney Bell today laid before the
grand jury all the testimony he ha se
cured against 11 members of the Paila
delphia Exchange, who are charged with
having conspired to raise the price of ice.
HELL IS
SENTENCED
Land Fraud Conspirator
Gets 13 Months
WATSONJURYSELECTED
Ceaimed By Government lie Swore
Falsely in Proving Up On
Homestead.
PERJURY WILL BE PROVED
Government Alleges Watson Swort to
Lie Defense Will Insist That
Ha Acted In Good Faith
is the Deal
THIS BEATS ASTORIA I
HOUSTON August 0. There are re
port from Rallonger. 400 miles west of
here (to the effect that nine inches of
rain fell during the past 24 hours over
an area including several hundred squart
milea. The Colorado river and Elm
creek tr higher than ever before. Tha
Santa Ft railroad Widget are being
swept away and in place the track to
under 20 feet of water. Today the
wiree are down and the devastated sec
tions cannot be heard from. Relief trains
are being tent out from Temple.
BOY MURDERESS CAUGHT.
DRAIN. Ore., August 6. The two
boy who shot and killed aged William
Powell for hi money at Cottage Grovt
last night have been captured here. The
boy gave their name as Thomas Revet
and Hugh Saxon. The boy are alleged
to have confessed and Reves is being
guarded to prevent his committing sui
cide. Powell wa a San Francisco refa
gee and was an unbrella repairer.
BIG
DANK
FAILURE
Milwaukee Avenue Stale Bank
Goes to the Wall.
TWO OFFICIALS ARE MISSING
Appeal to premier.
KIEV, August 6. The League of the
True Russian People has sent an appeal
to Premier Stolypin against the re
moval of the restriction upon the at
tendance of the Jews at universities
and higher educational institutions of
the country., ;
Bank Closed Yesterday in Chicago by
State Bank Examiner Had 23,000
Depositors Deficit is One
Million Dollars.
WORK OVER EIGHT HOURS.
MOSCOW, August ft. In spite of the
strike, the printers heiv, continue to
surreptiotisly print copies of the Viborg
manifesto and other seditious proclama
tions.' All of the suburbs of Moscow are
occupied by large numbers of troops.
Many of the streets in the suburbs are
in darkness. The authorities are taking
measures to prevent disorders. Wine
shops have been closed and the railroad
stations are guarded by the troops.
WOMAN THROWN FROM HORSE.
INVESTIGATION POSTPONED.
CHICAGO, August fi.-Tlio investiga
tion of the Standard Oil in connection
with receiving rebates from the rail
roads, which was begun today in the
federal grand jury, was postponed until
tomorrow, because the venire developed
a shortage.
EUGENE, Ore., August G.-Miss Lydia
Potter, aged 18 years, daughter of Zera
Potter, residing at Walterville, is in a
serious condition at her home as a re
sult of being thrown from a horse. The
horse became frightened and reared and
plunged. In falling Miss Potter struck
I on her head, fracturing the skull. She
'also sustained a fracture of one of fhe
bones of the right forearm.
CHICAGO, August 6. With a deficit
in its account estimated at close to a
million dollars, and with the where
abouts of two of its highest officials un
known to the authorities, the Milwaukee
Avenue State Bank, one of the largest
outlying banks in the city was closed
yesterday by order of the state bank ex
aminers. Great excitement followed the
closing, thousands of people gathering
in the vicinity necessiting the active
work of the police to maintain order. A
warrant was issued for the cashiers
Henry W, Herring. The last heard of
President Paul 0. Stensland, was in a
letter dated St. Paul and addressed to
his son, who is vice-president of the
bank, advising him that the bank was
in trouble. Since then so far as known
nothing has been heard of President
Stensland.
The bank has 22,000 depositors, in
cluding many foreigners.
The disastrous speculations in real
estate an in the security market are
believed was responsible.
THREE DEATHS AT PHILADELPHIA
. PHILADELPHIA, August 6.-The ex
treme heat of yesterday and today ha3
caused three deaths and a number of on the common belief in that part of
PORTLAND, August 6 Charles Nick-
ell, of Medford, Oregon, formerly United
States Commissioner, found guilty on
July 27th in the United States district
court of having conspired witU Henry
W. Miller, Frank E. Kincart and Martin
G. Hoge to defraud the government of a
portion of the public domain were this
afternoon sentenced to 13 months' im
prisonment on McNeill's Island by Judge
Hunt. Pending an appeal, Nickell was
permitted his freedom under a bond of
16000.
Charles Watson .another alleged bogus
Fossil homesteader, whose claim is Said
to form a connecting link in the chain
of homesteads upon which the Butte
Creek Land, Livestock & Lumber Com
pany's fence joined the Butte Creek
rimrock, is on trial before Judge Hunt
and a jury in the United States Circuit
Court today. During the forenoon ses
sion a jury was impaneled and a part
of the foundation of the government's
evidence introduced.
To Provt Perjury.
In his opening statement to the jury
District Attorney Bristol said the gov
ernment expected to prove that Wafaon
had committed perjury in making final
proof on his homestead before James S.
Stewart, a I'nited States Commissioner
at Fossil. This is alleged to have taken
place June 23, 1904. The government
would prove, he said, that without hav
ing complied with the provisions rela
tive to settlement upon, improvement
and cultivation of his homestead, Wat
son went before the Commissioner and
took and oath that he had complied with
all of them, and thus committed perjury.
The evidence would show that he had
lived in other parts of the state a great
deal of the time during which he was
supposed to have lived on the land, and
had been engaged in occupations that
rendered it inconsistent and practically
impossible to have complied with the
law. It would show that he had not
lived on the place, had not built a cabin,
and had failed to cultivate the land or
otherwise improve it. The defense that
would be made that Watson was sick
part of the time after his filing, and
before final proof should be taken into
consideration by the jury, said Mi-
Bristol, but the evidence would show
that this did not disable him to the ex
tent of failing to live on the place and
follow the requirements of the home
stead laws.
Judge Bennett, in behalf of Watson,
told the jury that his client had acted
MISERY AT WASHINGTON.
..WASHINGTON, August 6.-Up to 2
o'clock this afternoon no diminution in
the intensity of the heat wave for the
past 38 hours was noticeable. At that
temperature as 92 and the humidity as
53. Only two prostrations have been
reported.
KILLS WIFE; THEN BEGS PARDON
DES MOINES, la- August 6 Because
his wife refused to accompany him home
L. Mitchell killed her and then shot him
self at Curley, last night. Mitchell fired
five shots into the woman's side. Then
he knelt at her side, begging forgive
ness before turning the gun upon him
self. Be died in half an hour. They
leave six children.
BITS SUICIDE
Major
and Paymaster Scofield
Shook Himself.
HE HAD GROWN DESPONDENT
prostrations. The maximum for the day
was 03 degrees
oa AT BOSTON.
BOSTON, August 6. The temperature
ture reached 02 here today, the highest
of the season. There was irreat suffer
ing and several prostrations are re
ported.
the country that to be on a homestead
once in six months was all the law re
quired, and that he had obeyed the law
as he understood it He would prove, he
said, that Watson had spent most of his
time, in Eastern Oregon working about
at different places, that he was sick a
part of the time and could not go onto
the land and had acted in good faith
throughout.
Son of Late Lieutenant-General Scofield
Kills Himself With Revolver
Was in 111 Health Served
in the Philippines.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 6. Major
and Paymaster William B. Scofield of
the regular army, son of the late Lieu-tenant-General
Scofield. U. S. A, retired,
shot and killed himself in this city this
afternoon.
Major Seofield was on leave of absence
on account of ill health and in explana
tion of his suicide, it is said he feared
an attack of locomotor ataxia, and that
he would become a burden to his wife.
Scofield's wife found the suicide upon
her return to their home this evening.
Scofield left a note reading "This is a
deliberate suicide. No one is to blame
but me." Scofield shot himself in the
left temple. He contracted dysentery in
the Philippines and went to Japan early
in the year. He returned here in April
and entered the general hospital Ha
became somewhat improved and was
granted three months' leave of absence
and was residing with his wife. He was
46 years of age and formerly a teller in
the Nevada National Bank of this city
and also in the New York Branch of the
bank. He entered the service in 1898 as
a major and paymaster of volunteers,
and served through the Philippine and
Pekiu campaigns. In 1900 he was made
paymaster in the regular army.
.WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS DENIED.
ST. PETERSBURG, August . 6.-The
statement that 600 of the Cronstadt
mutineers have been executed is semi
officially denied. '
CAPT. DRUM ANSWERS ROLL.
WASHINGTON, August . 6.-Captain
A. B. Drum for the past 14 years super
intendent -of ; the Military National
Cemetery, died today, aged 64 years. lie
served throughout the Civil War.