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VOLUMK LXI NO. m
ASTORIA, OREGON. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER i. 1906
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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Welch Resigns From Dem
ocratic Committee.
CORPORATIONS CONTROL
Former Secretary of Democratic
National Committee is
Disgusted.
PEOPLE HAVE LITTLE TO SAY
Charles A, Walsh Scores Four Members
of National Committee Are Senr
nti o Corporations Will Join
Independent Rsnkl.
hTTUMWA, !, Sept. l.-Charles
A. WaUh, th low member of the
lirmocratla National committee and sec
retary f the tonl committee dur
ing (he two Bryan campaigns, has ten
dered relgnatlon as member of
the national eommitte. Tlie letter,
whir), ! il(!tvrd to Chairman Thomas
Taggait. (iy thnt en he came In closer
n J doner knowledge of the "Inner
work1' of the party system, he realir.el
that there cn he nothing worse thn
the "Yellow Dog party feeling, thnt
Impels good men to support a ticket of
unfit nominees, merely because they
Iwar the party label.
Within l'Oi the )emorrtlr and Re
publican parties, he declare, (here are
two contending factions, more nuiner
ou, hut less Inflneittinl, It the rank and
(lie, which firmly believe In JclTerwn
iiin principles) the olhpr U naturally
Insignificant, hut who represent those
who me the government as an asset
In their private business. This latter,
he declares, controls the party plan and
its nonilneei.
Corporatloni In Control,
WnNh declarea the appointment of
the preent National Executive coin
mittee Illustrates how Important the
corporation element believe the control
of the machinery to be. Previously to
WH. thin committee had always been
appointed from members of the national
committee. In 1004, be declarea, four
out of aeven membem of the executive
committee, were not member of the
national committee.
William F. Shcehan, chairman, and one
of the four, Walsh asserts, Is a dis
credited Buffalo politician and now a
partner of Judge Parker, one of the
chief corporation lawyers In New York,
besides being a director In mnuy corpor
ations, Including the Cord Meyer De
velopment company, caught lately steal
ing the city's water on Long Island.
August Belmont, another of the four,
is the head of the American branch' of
the fnmoiis Rothschilds banking house.
He organized the company that captured
the New York subway nnd is ft director
In about thirty other corporatloni.
The third, James E. Smith, Jr., for
merly the Iron fisted boss of the Essot
county machine, betrayed his repute!
friend, Governor Abbott, of New Jer
sey, nnd elected himself U. S. senator,
and while In the snddlo ns boss of the
etnte of New Jersey, committed the
gravest frauds revealed In that State,
and in a whirlwind of public resentment
he and his party were driven from pow
er.. Wlille In the senate, he wag the
same corporation tol as Ryan and Bryoo.
The fourth, Thomas F. Martin of Vir
ginia, was at one tmie attorney for the
Chespeake A Ohio Railway.
Walah Roast Guffy.
Walsh pays his respects to Jomei M.
Guffy, another member of the executive
committee, saying GufTy Is looked upon
II CROOKED
a the field agent of the Standard Oil.
Thee men, he declares, were the men
who made the campaign against lloose
velt on anti-trust and antl-rorpnratlon
ground. Walsh ay the contentions of
the two antagonistic forces In the par
ty hve canned Its present vacillating
poit hm. Tli principles of JelTereon
and Democracy are true, and if the
party could remain true to those prin
ciples, it would b speedily placed In
power. Walsh In concluding says he
Intends In the future to ally himself
with any movement looking to Independ.
cut action along the line of principle
and cannot In honor to himself longer
continue as a member of tthe national
committee.
PUGS AT WORK.
(iOl.liFIKLI), Hcpt. I.-Rattllng Nel
son tmiined at the fight arena this af
ternoon and will do all hi work there
until fight time. Nelson begun his af
ternoon' work earlier than usual in
order to take advantage of the hot
sun, the het from which wa Inten
llle, by the bright new canvas. After
a vigoro Mission with tbe pulleys, the
ptmrhlug bag and skipping ro, the
llnttter and Bobble I.untlie sparred
line rounds In the 18-font ring,
FIRE CAUSES PANIC
Subway Train Catches Fire and
Frightens Passengers.
FIRE IS .UT OUT WITH SAND
Train Crew Finally Manage to Exting
uish Flames Many Women Faint
From Fright Guardi Are Ov
erpowered. NKW YORK, Sept. 1. There were ex.
tiling scenes In the subway last night
,i the result of a fire on a southland
express train at the 11th street sta
tion, Traffic was tied tip for 8,1 min
utes and conditions became too Intol
erable on many of the tralni that pas
sengers threatened to attack the con
ductors and wreck the cars If they were
not allowed to disembark and make
their way along the tracks to the sta
tions. Rome of the conductors refused to
open doors or move the trains so that
the passengers culd get off, and it was
only after women had fainted that they
gave In and the trains gToped slowly
through the smoke that filled the tun
nel to the stations. Many trains were
stalled until traflle was resumed nnd
hundreds of passengers had to swelter
In the cars.
Stifling smoke Ailed the subway from
2Hrd street to the Brooklyn bridge sta
tion, Trains were stalled all along the
llpe nnd thousands of people sweltered
and fumed and choked in the cara. The
fire was caused at the 14th street sta
tion by a short circuit In the motorbox
of the sixth car of the train. There
was a xluirp report, followed by ft alieet
of blue flame, which shot from under
neath the car nnd enveloped the renr
platform. The motorman heard the
report and brought the train to a stand
still, before the first car had passed the
platform.
The bluo flame, which lighted up the
subway, scared the passengers so wo
men screamed and fainted, while men
made a bee line for the doors nnd
fought their way out to the plntform.
The guards and station men had to
look after the women nnd get them out
of the burning car. Those who had
fainted and the hysterical ones had to
be carrlod out bodily.
The current on the third rail was
quickly turned off and the train crew
fought the fire with sand for 20 min
utes before it was under control.
The trnln was then started down
town. Before it reached the Brooklyn
Bridge it got aire twice, at the As
tor Place and the Spring street stations.
No passengers were on it then, but a
volume of people who were waiting for
It to arrive made a dash for the street.
MB I
a APHIS
New York's Skyline
Rapidly Changing.
is
40-STORIED BUILDINGS
Rival Tunnel Companies Racing
Under Bed ol the East
River.
CITY OWNERSHIP OF AUTOS
Bird S. Coler Goes in For Municipal
Ownership of Automobiles City
Buys Six Machines Public
Ownership Comes High.
NKW YORK, Sept. l.-(Special)
liwer New York is being reconstructed
again on a loftier scale than efer and
soon ft new generation of skyscraper
will dwarf the elder one. Tn the lim
ited area south of Fulton street, and
principally In the financial dit-trlct, no
les than fifteen new skyscrapers are
being erected at a total cost of $40,
OOO.Ooo. The aggregate amount of rent
able office space which they will pro
vide Is 2.500.000.000 square feet. The
buildings are from twenty to thirty
stories In height, the average being
twenty-three stories. .They will add to
New York's downtown business popula
tion from 75.000 to S0.OO0 person.
Among the new skyscrapers a variation
of the accepted type make it appear
ance. This is the building with a tow
er. The Finger building with iU forty
story tower fiP4 feet high will be an
example of this and the Metropolitan
Life building will soon start its new ad
dition on the site of Dr. rarkhurat's
old church with a tower almost as high.
Most peculiar of the new kyscrapers
is that which will contain the Hudson
companies underground tunnel terminal
which will be two blocks long. Over this
terminal will lie built twin office build
ings to cost tlO.000.000. The tunnel
railway, which will run under the Hud
son to New Jersey, will have a capacity
of 19,200 passengers an hour each wy,
and the offices over, the terminal will
contain a day population equal to that
of a good-sized town.
Cities in Themselves.
Each modern skyscraper is indeed now
a city in Itself. It contains a barber,
bootblack, haberdashery store, manicure,
restaurant, bathing establishment,
gymnasium, flower, fruit nnd candy
shops, apothecary, doctor and dentist.
In fact, there is everything a city ought
to have except sleeping quarters. At
night and on Sundays and holidays,
the proprietors of these establishments
vanish. On ordinary daya they do
mulling business. Rppently tbe Turk
Row building, one of the largest of
fice structures, kept tabs on the num
ber of persons using its elevators on an
ordinary business day. The dumber
was found to be more than 00,000.
Odd International Race.
The queerest race in the world Is now
going on in New York. Already it has
occupied several months and is likely to
consume, as many more. The contest is
going on under the bed of the Kast
River. The participators are the firm of
English engineers that is building the
Pennsylvania-Long Island Railroad tun
nel under the East river and the firm
of American enginocrs constructing the
tunnel to connect Long Island City with
the subway in Manhattan. The two
enterprises started from points only a
half a milo apart along the river front
and the big tubes are being pushed
steadily from both sides of the river,
(Continued on page 8)
DOUMA MEMBER EXPLAINS.
NT. PETERSBURG, Sept. l.-M- Y
kobsoii, the representative of the Grod
no in the late parliament, who recent
ly was challenged to fight ft duel by
Lieutenant Smlrnaky, of the Artillery,
for accusing the army in Manchuria of
cowardice, in an 0en letter today says
he already had repudiated the charge
in an open session of Parliament, but
if the officer and his colleagues were
not satinfled, he, M. Yakobson, is will
ing to submit the issue to ft court of
honor.
FIRES INTO CROWD.
COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia., Sept. I.
August Krueger, a wealthy Pottawatto-
rnie county man, went suddenly Insane
this afternoon at his residence in the
town of Hancock. From the porch he
hot his rifle into a crowd of men and
dangerously wounded Ir. Alliert Stev
ens. He shot several times, wounding
lee Sidebottom, Frank .Johnson and
James Duncan, all well known men.
A mob oC citbren organized, armed
with revolver and fiuns, surrounded
Krueger' houre and riddled it with bul
lets. Krueger was shot four time but
not dangerously wounded.
FIGHT IS A STANDOFF
Neither Rebels Nor Government
Able to Whip Other.
NO CHANGE IN THE SITUATION
Hope Ia .Expressed. Everywhere .That
United States Will Intervene to Put
An End to the Trouble
t Once.
HAVANA, Sept. 1. "Neither side can
whip the other is the concise statement
now heard everywhere in Havana and it
may also be fairly construed to be the
growing opinion throughout the island.
In Havana, at least, this condition has
led, among all unprejudiced persons, to
expressions of the ardent hope that the
United States will intervene to put an
end to the condition which everybody
believes ia bound to grow more and more
intolerable.
Nobody appears to believe the insur
gents can take Havana, although this
ia not regarded as impossible. That the
insurrection is growing constantly, is
undeniably tme nnd the decree of par
don extended by the government has
brought no appreciable change in the sit
uation. An American who has been with
the insurgents, came to Havana tonight.
He informed the correspondent of the
Associated Press that 15,000 insurgents
are now south of Artesniia in scattered
parties, and will surely concentrate in
the vicinity of Gunnajay, with the in
tention of capturing both that place and
Artesniia, and holding the entire width
of Pinar del Rio province. They will
thus control the situation. better than did
the Spanish troops in the days of the
famous troelm and at precisely the same
points.
DENVER-SAN DIEGO NEXT.
DENVER, Sept. 1. Incorporation
papers Tor building a railway from
Denver to San Diego, Cat., have been
filed with the secretary of state by
the Denver Transcontinental Railway
Corporation. A. L. Cooper of Denver;
Charles L. Baldwin of Colorado Springs
and R. E. Vidlcr of Georgetown are the
incorporators. The company is incor
porated for $200,000. It is said articles
of Incorporation have also been filed in
Utah, Nevada and California. Mr, Coo
per is not ready at this time' to dis
close the identity of the syndicate and
other interests behind the project. He
says that the incorporation ' articles
have been filed, also that the interests
behind the undertaking are among the
biggest financiers in this country and
England, and that the road would be
built. .
TO METE OUT
PUNISHMENT
Earle After Philadelphia
Bank Wreckers.
EVIDENCE IS DISCOVERED
Men Responsible With Hippie for
Failure of Bank Will Be
Prosecuted.
INFORMS DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Receiver Earle Says That the Deeper He
Goes Into the Trust Company's Af
fairs, the Worse Things
Become.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. l.-Justice is
to be meted out to the men responsible
with President Hippie, for the col
Up of the Real Estate Trust com
pany. The announcement was made
tonight that the evidence so far un
earthed by Receiver Earle had been
turned over to District Attorney Bell,
who is expected to cause the arrest of
the wreckers. The names of the men
under suspicion were not made public
Since his appointment Earle has main
tained that it was not possible lor
President Hippie to entangle the Trust
company's affairs without the knowledge
of others connected with the institu-
tion. T?.'p$
Acting under this Impression he has
made persistent efforts to discover evi
dence of collusion. Directors, officials
and clerks of the company were called
before Earle today and it was after he
had concluded this part of the investi
gation that the announcement that ev
idence had been placed in Bell's hands
was made. Among the men were four
directors who are said to have heard
of Hippie's loans to Adolf Segal, at
least several weeks ago. Treasurer
William F. North, who was supposed to
approve all the loans the trust ofetaoi
approve all loans of the trust company,
and Theodore Prosser, the company's
real estate officer, who was supposed
to have approved the mortgages offer
ed as security for the loans, were both
examined. Earle says the deeper he
gets into the matter, the worse it looks.
He says $50,000 is missing from the
trust company's funds, which he first
believed intact. This is not serious, as
it can be apportioned among the $26,
000,000 the bank held in trust. Hippie's
desk was opened and there was found
a statement by Horace Hill, the audi
tor, which Earle says is materially dif
ferent from the statement Hill gave
him.
CLEVER FRENCH SWINDLER.
Man Under Arrest Who Beats All Rec
ords for Frauds.
PARIS, Sept. 1. It is a fact that can
not be denied that the most extraordin
ary charlatans and adventurers the
world has known have hailed from
France. There is one now in Paris
who, according to his record, may claim
place with the most clever and notor
ious of his class. This is a man named
Laparre, who has just been placed on
trial for forgery, bigamy, fraud and il
legal weniing of decorations. The evi
dence goes to show that he has posed
as a Russian prince, ft Polish count, ft
French general and an American mil
lionaire. He began life as ft common
soldier and rose to be sergeant-major.
Then leaving the army he became suc
cessively a schoolmaster, book agent,
fruit merchant, building contractor,
chiirch organist, mine manager, and
eventually insurance company director.
The company consisted of himself alooft
but before tha, fact was brought to
light he had secured many tliou-ands
of dollars. In his various impersona
tions he is aid to have married four
teen women, some six of whom have
come forward to give evidence against
bira. Laparre speaks several languages,
and what makes his conviction mors
difficult, is the fact that be has de
veloped the art of facial alteration to
such an extent as to make identifica
tion almost impossible.
RIVER RISES FAST.
EL PASO, Texas, Sept. 1. Tbe Nft
sas River, between Gomes and Lerdo,
Mexico, on the line of the Mexican Cen
tral Railroad, has risen 42 feet in the
last 24 hours, and the inhabitants of
two towns are fleeing to the hills, fear
ing that the cities will be swept away.
IS NOT ILLEGAL.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1. The right
of the labor unions and their sympa
thizers to call on their friends to with
hold patronage from non-union trades
men was recognized as not being ille
gal by Justice Stafford in the district'
supreme court here today.
Great Futurity Occurs at Sheeps
- head Bay.
William Lakeland Secures $50,000 Purse
Forty Thousand People Howl
Themselves Hoarse at the Ez
ing Event
NEW YORK. Sept. 1. Down a lane
of gray brown earth which had all the
softness of velvet beneath the tread of
the flying thoroughbred hoofs, fifteen
fleet two year olds raced madly to ft
goal three-quarters of a mile away,
where lay ft purse close to $30,000. It
was the nineteenth running of the Fu
turity at Sheepshead Bay and as ft roar
from nearly 40,000 throats rent the ftir.
"Electioneer," a well named colt by Vot-er-Quesnal,
finished under the wire ft
winner by three-quarters of ft length.
Another champion had been proclaimed,
and William Lakeland, a horseman by
profession, who trains his bread winners
and sleeps in s barn when necessary.
had snatched the richest purse of the
year from half a score of millionaires.
At the winner's quarters was 'Tope
Joan," the fastest filly of the year and
the best of trio sent to the post by
James R. Keene. "Demund," for which
Paul J. Rainey paid $45,000 early in the
season, was third and was beaten for
second honors by the shortest possible
head. "Electioneer" was second in the
betting at from 4 to 1 to 3 to I; time.
1:13 3-5.
TERRORISM RENEWED.
Hostility of Ruling Classes Against the
Jews Greatly Increased.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 1. A re
newal of terrorism on ft large scale has
greatly intensified the hostility of the
ruling classes against the Jews, who
have so long been regarded as tthe brains
of the revolution, and it is believed ha
correspondingly diminished the chances
of the Jews obtaining any more than ft
nominal enlargement of their rights. Ev.
ery official report of an assassination or
other crime, emphasizes the role played
by the Jews, and last week saw the
launching of two parties, the "National"
at St. Petersburg, and the "Russian
popular party" as Moscow, the" princi
pal planks of whose platforms are the
exclusion of the Jews from all political
activity. The Moscow organization pro
poses to rid the country of Jews by en
dorsing trie Zionist movement and urg
ing the government to assist it.
SEATTLE, Sept. I. While out hunt
ing near Tolt, a small place across Lake
Washington from this city, Paul Scott
was mistaken for a bear by his com
panion, Jmnes Robinson, and was. shot
and instantly killed. u J