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1 sil'rttfiitii rum ULIHIULL AttOOIATIO ) RIPORT COVBnS TNI MORNINQ fllLO ON Trll LOW! OOLUMBU; VOLUMELXI.NO. 224 ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 'A. 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS -jr i ill r s SsL IN A STATE OF SE1GE Valparaiso Is Under Charge of Military. LLAILLA IS RUINED Not Single Wall Rcmaini Standing Thirty Killed There-Ccnv ctcrict Destroyed. $4,000,000 IS APPROPRIATED Cemeteries Art Unfit For Uu and the Morgues Art Crowded With Cof fin! Awaiting Burial Postal Smict Operating. i VALPARAISO, August 23-Governor Wane ha proclaimed Valparaiso In a tate of eig and conferred upreme authority upuu CapUiu Gomes Carreno. At Mill there in not ft single w in good condition. Thirty were killed there. At (Juillota many building art prostrated. The earthquake wa very severe at Aeon and Colmo. Tin (Mil in thoie placet number 23. On of the greatest dillieiiltle encoun tered by the authoritlc 1 the Inter tnent of thn bodie recovered from the riiitm, mi nl the cemeteries were de atroycil. At the various temporary mor gue heap of rofllnt have been accumu luted, awaiting the designation of their place of burial. The work of recovering the liodit'n i being pushed to the utmoM lit order to avoid an epidemic, in fear of which iiinnv families are leavintr the city. Through the whole length of lirait avenue and nil over Victoria Square large sheds have Uen constructed to abetter the homeless from the severe rains. Survivor of the earthquake any that during the shock it was impossible to stand erect without support. A move ment Ik on foot to organize a company to facilitate the raising of the money necessary to reconstruct the city. It Is proposed to advance the minis needed without Interest for the flint six mouth. The plan i to construct the new build ings of light materials niul to lay out the street so that they will have a uni form width of 20 met ins. SEVERE RUNAWAY. HLATrtt iOWItl IC, Scotland. August 2:1 While a party of American tourist were driving from Glen Slice to Itlair gowrie Tuesday their how bolted at the foot of a hill, overturned the car riage and throwing out the passenger with much force, .Mis Klmn Van Nor den, daughter tf Warner Van Norden, a retired financier of Xew York City and who was for some year private secre tary to General William Booth and had shown much practical intercut in the Salvation Army wan pitched against a rock, sustaining i fractured skull, a portion of the brain protruding. She g reported tonight as doing fairly well Miss Van Norden's cousin, Ottomar Van Norman, sustained a dislocation of thn shoulder. Rev. Oliver H. Hixmson, ii not her of the party, received scalp wound, while Edward S. Avery was cut on the leg. The coachman had his ear almost torn off. The carriage was com pletely wrecked. YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL SCORES Northwest League. At Spokane Spokane 9, Tacoma 1. Pacific Coast League. At Los Angolos Seattle 1, Fresno 3. GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT. Wtittrn Pacific Road Into California Will Havt 45 Tunnels. MAN FRANCISCO, 'August 23,-The Western Pacific U perfecting plan to enter California, mid when the road I completed it will be one of the greatest engineering feat in modern time. The engineer In charge have Instruc tion to keep their object In view the trnighlet line with the least grade. To accomplish thi ii tunnel will be iHirnd in Eastern California between Oroville and lleekwlth Pas. Instead of going around mountain the Western IVifle i going through them. The longest of the tunnel I that at the head of Spring Harden, 12 mile east of Quiney. Thi i rut under the ridge dividing the north and middle foik of the Feather river. It will be over 7ikk feet In the length when com pleted. The next longest tunnel on the rnd will lie the one under Beckwlth Pa. Tlii will be over 4000 feet In length and it I being bored at both end. The third tunnel will probably be the most difficult engineering feat of nil, a it will he eut through solid rck for a distance of 1200 feet. Thi will Im north of Quiney or Spanish Creek. NO CHANGE IN SITUATION. NAN PEDRO, August 13.The trike situation i urn-hanged. The railroads have not succeeded iu getting many men to take the place of the striker, nl they have ot omt of thote brought down from Lo Angeles. Deputy mar shal still guard the wharve and union men aeciie them of preventing some Mexican from quitting who desire to. EXCESSES CONTINUE South Carolina Mob Lynches One More Negro. HE TRIED TO ENTER A HOUSE Because Colored Man is Found Trying to Enter House, Mob Hang Him and Fill His Body With Bullets. COLl'MRUS, S. C, August 23.-Wm Spain, a negro, was shot to death by a mob near St. George, Dorchester county thi afternoon. It is the third lynching in South Carolina in ten days. S. I. Connor, manager of the Dorchester Lum ber Company' store, was untitled that a negro wa attempting to enter the win dow of his home. Conner immediately started after the negro, coming upon him iu a Minefield. Conner grappled the negro, striking him a severe blow, which broke several lump in the negro's hand. The negro finally freed himself and tied to the woods. Connor summoned the neighbors and about two hours later Spain wa captured and locked in jail Shortly afterward a posse of 40 or 80 men secured the negro, took him to Connor's bouse where Connor's 11-year old daughter positively identified the negro as the one who tried to climb into the window. The mob then took the negro to a nearby oak, and strung him up and fired about 500 shots into his body. GIVES G0MPERS THE LIE. LEW1STON, Me., August 2.'). Con gressman Cliarles E. Littlefield, nt a rally in North Hay, last night replied In detail to statements mode by Samuel (Jumpers, president of the American Federation of Labor, against Littlelleld. In reference to the charge of (tampers that in the ship subsidy bill, Littlefield desired to pass a law to compel seamen to enter the naval service In time of war, Littlelleld said the bill did provide that if seamen would agree to go into the naval swvioo when wanted, they would have higher pay, but was entirely a matter of contract and not compul sory for all seamen. mi BY THt'JEVVS Developements in Poland Indicate Trouble. SIEDLICE IS AGITATED Chief of Police Killed By Jew and Russians Attempt to Retaliate. BIALYSTOK SCENES REPEATED Russians Explode Bomb in Siedlice Jewish Quarter Jew Open Fire and the Troops Repy One Christian Kilted. ST. PKTERSBL'RO, Aug. 23,-There is great alarm in Jewish rin les on the development at Siedlice, Poland, where events eem to be shaping (or th start ing of a Pogrom similar to Blalystok. The development is parallel almost ex actly to the preliminaries at Bialystok. The long series of revolutionary and terrorist sign have been attributed by the police to the Jew, culminating, a was the case at Bialytok, in the assas sination of the chief of police. The funeral of flotseff. the chief, today wa the occasion of a demonstration by the Russian population. The condition of the feeling is shown by the refusal of (ioltseff's widow to receive the wreath sent by a Jewish society as a mark of disapproval of the assassination. Simibir to the incident which oc curred at Bialystok, it now develops that after the explosion of the bomb in a street of the Hebrew quarter, which according to the police was ac companied by revolver firing from four Jewish houses the troops opened a fusl lade In which five Jews and one Chris tian were killed and many wounded. Thirty-three Jews were arrested on the spot on suspicion of complicity In the bomb throwing and firing. The Jews are in a panic and are fleeing from the citv. Siedlice is about 00 miles from Hialystok. Excesses ore increasing and sporadic disorders are reported in tlie provinces of Moscow, Yarn Yaroslav, Volhynia, Simbirsk, Kazan and Yekoterinoslnv. Premier Stolypin lias sent n circular to all the governors ordering them to employ the most energetic measures to prevent the peasantry from taking pos session of the private estates, to which they are being incited by the revolu tionists. The disaffection of the Cossacks at Novo Tcberikask, which resulted in sending the infantry to disperse the peasants culminated in the staying of the Cossack commander. The circum stance of the affair ore not yet knows. The manager of the Odessa branch of the New York Life Insurance Company today received a letter demanding a ontrilmtion of $10,000 to the revolu tionary cause on pain of death. Instead of the paying money, the manager noti fied the police and informed General Kaulbors that he demanded protection which was furnished. HIGGINS AGAIN CANDIDATE. NUW YORK, August 23. William I llarncs Jr., chairman of the republican state executive committee tonight an nounced that (Jovernor Higgins is a can didate for I'enomination. Barnes added that the governor had never chased after the nomination and is not now chasing after the nomination. Barnes says the friends of Higgins will control the con vention and nominate him. SEA STILL SMOOTH. Efforts Now Directed Toward Steadying Manchuria Until Tugs Arrive. HONOLULU, August 2.V-The agents of the Honolulu Telephone Company visited the .Manchuria today with a view of connecting the stranded steamer with the shore by telephone, the advisability of which i lieing considered by the Steamship oria!, In a statement issued today the steamship company say all effort will now be directed toward steadying the vessel in it present posi tion until Captain Metcalf arrive. The sea still smooth. An inter-island steamer excursion to the Manchuria J Mug arranged for Sunday for sight seers. ADJUST INSURANCE LOSS. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23. The in surance ! on the Palace Hotel build ing ha been adjusted at i;02.01052. Thi i more than the insurance com panies will have to pay, for the total insurance of the building wa only 1 505,000. It being a total loss, there fore, a liability of a trifle over a mil lion and quarter will be distributed among 03 companies involved in the loss, Thi Is said to have been the largest los upon a single risk ever ad justed in thi country. After the Haiti more conflagration two year ago the largest amount paid upon one risk is said to be $771,000 upon the Equitable IJfe Insurance Company' building. The round value of the building before the flame consumed it wa approximately $1,802,010.22. The damage done by the earthquake was estimated at about 8 per cent, iiiiiInmiosie Story of Finding Valencia Victims is Doubted. LINEMAN LOGAN IS IGNORANT Man Who Helped in Valencia Rescue Work Does Not Know of Find ing Boat From Wrecked Steamer. VICTORIA, August 23.-Captain Jas. Hamlin, agent of marine, telegraphed to Lineman Logan at Pachema asking him to investigate the finding cf a boat pre sumably from the steamer Valencia in a cave on the west coast of Vancouver Island, with eight skeletons in it and the reply received from Logan is that he has heard nothing of the discovery. Relatives of the victims of the Valencia are asking that the report lie invest! gated with nn endeavor toward recover ing and if possible identifying the victims. While some shipping men are disposed to think the boat may be one sent from the King David, wrecked on Rnjo Point, the majority believe it to le from the Valencia and Mr. I.ugrin, counsel for the Dominican Government at the Valencia inquiry, gives it his opinion that it was boat No. 2 from the Valencia, the fate of which has never lu'cn cleared up. DEAD SPARROWS CAUSED IT. THREE OAKS, Mich., August 23, The cause of an epidemic of typhoid among one thousand inhabitants of this place was discovered today, when' a member of the board of health climbed to the top of the water works' stand pipe and found the dead bodies of sev eral thousand dend sparrows in various stages of decomposition covering the surface of the water. BIG RAFT ARRIVES. SAN FRANCISCO, August 23. The steamer Francis II, Leggett arrived to day from Astoria having in tow the largest log raft which ever came into this harbor, It contains eleven million feet. AMERICANS WILL HELP Artillerymen to Man Cuban Government Guns. REVOLT VERY SERIOUS Insurrection Seems to be Growing in Strength Govern ment Uneasy. SAN JUAN CITY IS CAPTURED Rebels Capture San Juan de Martinez Insurrectionary Leader, General Bandera i Killed Severe Blow to Revolution. HAVANA. August 23. Secretary Treasurer Font Sterling late tonight cleared up a misleading statement made to the Associated Press at the Palace tonight that the Cuban Government had asked the United States for eight rapid firing guns manned by American artil erymen. The facts are that Cuba has ordered four rapid fire guns from American arms- manufacturer and these pieces will be manned by former artillerymen from the American army now here. If these guns prove a success, four or more additional guns will be ordered and it is expected experienced gunner can be piocured in the United States to man them. The subject of intervention under the terms of the Piatt amendment and in deed intervention is regarded by the press and public as a remote possibility, the claim being made that all indica tion point to a speedy restoration of order through the medium of the con stituted authorities of the Cuban re public. The killing of the insurrection ary leader, General Bandera, today in an engagement w-ith the Rural Guards, is regarded as dealing the insurrection a heavy blow. The capture today of San Juan de Martinez by the Guerreras band was not a great surprise though it was not expected to occur so soon. The place was protected by a very small detach ment of rural guards. While govern ment reinforcements are going forward, it is not believed Guerreras following has been materially augmented by his occupancy of the two Vuelta Abajo towns. Public opinion seems to vary according to the locality, from enthus iastic adherence to the government to open rebellion. In this city the general attitude is one of loyalty. The government has not made public the news of the capture of San Juan de Martinez, The editor of the Tost, which published an extra con taining the news, was summoned before Governor Nunez and censured for ex citing the public by printing sensational news unfavorable to the government. A company of Havana recruits ex changed shots today with a detachment of insurgents near Guines. One volun teer and a policeman were injured. Col onel Rojas and all three companies of artillery stationed at the Havana forts have been ordered to Pinar del Rio, the authorities considering Havana suffic iently guarded by the rurals. rino Guerrera has sent threatening messages to members of the Agrarian league tsoting that he will pillage their plantations if they organize their forces against the insurrection. In consequence of Guerrera's threats against the west ern railway, orders have been issued to permanently guard every bridge be tween Pinar del Rio and San Juan de Martinez. WANTS BORDER PROTECTED. DALLAS, Texas, August 23. U. S. Senator Cullerton of Texas sent th following telegrams yesterday: "Dallas, Texas, August 22. "Oneral F. C. Ainsworth, the Mili tary Secretary, Washington. "In the morning papers here the Associated Press state that Fort Browa will be abandoned and I would thank you to wire me if this course has been determined upon. It is due of th United State to protect the frontier and a Texas border on Mexico it ha always been deemed advisable to police the frontier with regular troops, includ ing a station at Fort Brown. While conditions on the border have improved very much within recent years, this course is still advisable and it would Is? rergettable that this fort should be abandoned because the people of a bor der city like Brownsville, object to negro troops under circumstances of raid and minder such as recently occurred there. "Signed) C. A. CULBERSON." Senator Culberson declined to discusc the matter last night. I REVOLUTION IS GRAVE. TAMPA. August 23. A private tele gram from one of the largest exporting firms in Havana to its correspondent here states that the revolution is as suming grave proportions. The infor mation has created much alarm here, and it is noticed that all ships arriving from Havana are crowded with ship ments of tobacco indicating the import ors here feel great anxiety and are getting as much tobacco out of Cuba as possible before it may be impossible. RESulfisiNDOIT End of Cuban Insurrection Eager ly Watched in New York. ANNEXATION BY U.S. POSSIBLE If president Palma Finds Himself Un able to Cope With the Situation, He Will Call on the United States For Aid. NEW YORK, August 23. Lively in terest in the outcome of the political disturbance in Cuba is evidenced in this city which has not only harbored from time to time many of her prominent men, but is bound to the island republio by ever strengthening commercial ties. Advices to business houses here from Havana insist that the revolt has not yet assumed alarming proportions, but tend to qualify the official assurances that the government has the situation thoroughly in hand. It is believed that the next few days will demonstrate whether the present uprisings may be dignified with the term "rebellion" or are to be classed with the sporadic outlawry with which the government has already successfully coped, The active loyalty of many Cubans of influence is admittedly in doubt. To what extent, if any, the sentiment for annexation of the United States figures in the unrest and what stand the Americans in the Isle of Pines will take has awakened considerable speculation. Unofficial efforts to quiet the dis turbers are told of in a dispatch cabled early to the Associated Press. The dis patch says that 80 veterans of the revolution met last night and in a resolution pledged themselves to use their personal influence to bring the strife to a- bloodless termination. John S. Fishke, of the firm of J. M. Ceballos & Co., Cuban-American bank ers, last night said that the cable dis patches received by his firm from Ha vana, indicate that there was no need for alarm at present. He added: "If President Palma finds that his government is unable to cope with the situation, he will call upon the United States for aid, That would mean paci fication first, and then annexation. In (Continued on page 8)