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N UOVsTRS THsT MOHNINQ fltLD ON TH LOWCFi OOLUMBlAi' 3v H tl. KAWi - - . - .. r t "w rr.j 1 i i w VOLUME LXI NO. 20:t ASTORIA. OREGON. W NOONDAY" "i'-pms ROBBERY GOVERNOR Japanese Bank Touched (0 Tune of $5,000. CLERKS ARE BEATEN NKWf YORK., Oct. 8-W!th the dee Miration that the issue In tbe forth coming campaign In thli state In not one nf Republican principle, nor of Demo emtio principle, nor a partisan iue at nit, but the vital Untie of good govern went, Charles E. Hughe tonight for mull accepted toe Republican nomine. tlon for Governor. Hie ceremonies of notification of Hughe end other eamll date wee held t the Republican Club on wet Fortieth street. Chose a Time When Fewest People Were Liable to Be In the Banking House. POLICE AND DETECTIVES BUSY Assaulted Men Are Lying at Hospital Still Unconscious and Their Live Despaired Of No Po"lble Clew to the Thlevea, IN A WORLD Or PLENTY. BERLIN, Oct., ' S.-The Kettowltx Zeitung y 1 Investigation disclose the awful fact that aeveral million of people art In a atate of eml-etarration In the Volga district, and there are no meana of procuring food.' CHIEF OF POLICE ABRESTED. SALT LAKE, Oct 3,-Chlef of Police Sheet wa today arretted on the com plaint of William McWhlrter. the Scotchman buncoed out of $10,000 re ccntly, Sheet la charged with com pounding a felony. Sheet' friend claim the prosecution i a political plot. NEED NO DEFENSE. DBS MOINES, Oct. 3,-Senator Bev eridge opened the Republican campaign in Deo Moinea today, in a apeech de fending the Republican administration and the Republican emigre. Beveridge a1o declared there mnet be eotne tariff changes, but not a general revition. ENTOMBED N E RAX FRANCISCO, Oct. 3.-No trace fcaa Wen found of the two men who robbed the Japanese bank hen today of 93,000, although the police and detec tive force of the city have been almost wholly devoted to the search. No crook nor granny of the city, above and below ground, mi wen left unexplored; no iralne, boat a, nor steamenj allowed to leave the city without closest scrutiny. The rubber r la accounted one of the boldeVt in the history of the city and .11 onwr. are keenly . axiou t be Buefields( West Virginia, Scene ihuvea I of Another Horror. Armed 'with revolver and piece of gasplpe, two robber entered the Jap nee Bunk Klmmon Olnko, also known a. .the Golden Gate Hank, at ISM QNE HUNDRED MEN CAUGHT irj-arreii street, at noon lonay and ar ter probably fatally beating two clerk, ewnped with M.OOO in gold. The mbler chose a time when there were but few people transacting bual neM in the bank and the deed wa 10 quickly effected that It wa all over be fore tie crowd of people palng the door of the institution were aware of what had taken place. While one of the hold-up men engaged the paying ' teller of the bank, the other walked to the rear of the bank and, going be bind the counter, picked up a nck con talnlng fliflOO. The action of the thief who went to , the rear of the bank wa wltneed by one of the bank clerk, who Immediate ly rnlcd a cry of alarm The scream had scarcely left hi Up when he wa atmicK down by the rob ber who wa carrying out the gold. The thief who bad been talking to The paying teller, drew a piece of ga pipe from hla pocket, and before the banker could reach for a revolver, itnick a blow that atrctched hlra on the floor, Both robber atopped long enough to beat their victim into unoonneloune then walked leisurely from the bank and disappeared A The crime wa not discovered until a moment or two later, when several eustomera came into the bank to make their daily deposit. They were horri- Explosion Cuta Them OS While Two and a Half Milea Underground Work of , Rescue Being Rushed Fierce Anxiety About Mines. Tit OCTOBER1W J906 PRICE FIVE CENTS Taft at First Wanted Win- (hrop, Porto Rico. PRESIDENT PREVAILS General Bell Chief, of Staff, Is Ordered to Cuba to Help Dispose of Troops. bad declild to adhre to bl plan formed yesteray t send Charle C Magoon to Cuba to relieve Secretary Taft ai Pro visional Governor, allowing Governor WlnthroiT to remain In Porto Rico. where hi service are neeed. T)i we some Incendiary talk of re siwtance to the laying down of arm in various part of the Inland, but Gov ernor Tart and the eommiMioner J charged with the supervision of the di armament of the Insurgents regard the situation a lieing well In hand. Gen. Rodiiifuez, couiniaiider of the rural guards, reported today that tbe situa tion abound Havana i quiet. Major Ladd of the dixarmament commissicm, and tbe insurvent commanders are working in the rain, accomplishing tbe work of disarming and sending home the insurgent. ,: ', ' Mr, Taft's force is engaged in moving hi office effects from the American Le gation to the palace. ' TWO-CENT POLITICS, OO-ll HISTORY Unremitting Tale oi Death Comes from Russia. EVER WARRING FORCES AMERICA NOW IN Cost of Intervention So Far Baa Coat America Sixty Thousand Dollars a Day, and This Will Steadily " Increase. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-It was stat ed today that the President had reached the concision to send Governor Ma N"SW YORK. Oct. 3. Tbe Independ ence League, which nominated William R. nearst for Governor, today received hi letter accenting the nomination. CHARGE Hearst declares the people must, by the ballot-box, do away with corporation control of the government. Following this line of thought, Hearst asserts that Charles V Hughe, the Republican nom inee for Governor, is a corporation law yer, and that corporation lawyers, and partisans of monopolies, are held up as the only men fit to select judges. Hearst declares the Republican party is nnder control of the trusts, and assert that Treasurer Sheldon, of the Republican committee, Is a' director in twenty-one corporations. He demands reform in Bombs and Raw Explosives Taken From College Labaratory in Big Job Lots. WHOLESALE ARRESTS MADE All Other Cities of tbe Empire Con tribute Their Quota to the End less and Wretched Story of Doom. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 3. The po lice today searched the students' labor atory of the Engineering Institute, of the National Starch company. It ia set forth in the announcement to the bondholders that many of the plants of the National Starch company are no longer in .operation, and that the se curity back of the bonds is rapidly de teriorating. The company under pres ent conditions is unable to sell any of the plants pledged ..rder the mart-' gage, whereas under the plan proposed by the management of the company the Cora Products Refining company, a the owner of the National Starch bonds, would consent to the release of tba idle plants from the lien of the mort gage. This would enable the National Starch company to sell the plants of which it is no longer making any ' use. There are (2,84.1,000 of the bonds out standing. ,. MOKE RUSSIAN NEWS. LONDON, Oct. 3. According to ad vice received here, Captain Dzankoweky of the Thirteenth Grenadiers, has been assassinated at Moscow. The murderer escaped. OLD GEORGIA STILL "SOLID." ATLANTA, Oct 3. The regular state election held in Georgia today resulted in the practically unanimous election of the entire Democratic ticket, beaded by Hoke Smith, for governor. goon to Cuba as was announced early th W"? "d insurance laws, wWch ig attached to the Department of 1- h.. j. and a reduction in railroad fares to alnailwavs and Communications. Fortv In tlttt Anv During the day advice, were received T " m vw from Secretary Taft, which intimated I that the arrangements made for Gov ernor Winthrop, of Porto Rico, assum ing the duties of provisional Governor had gone too far to be changed conven iently. A later dispatch from the sec retary, however, put the matter in a different liirht and Indicated that the PridnJ RftfKf.Vf.lt Itvsilt IJnon Pber of others were arrested. .... . ...1 " I li 1- k(hah thnW Thai mm FAIR COUNT WANTED Railways and Communications. Forty bombs and seventy pounds of dynamite. left in tbe laboratory by a student named Finick, were discovered. Finick's living rooms were subsequently searched and a further quantity of explosives found. The police also unearthed a store of arms in the room of the jan itor of the institute. Fimck and a WHY DID THEY REFUSE? CLEVELAND, Oct. 3. Three were fa tally injured and seventeen more or lens hurt, late tonight, when a street-car, bound for Euclid Beach, jumped the track at the foot of the Nickel Plate trestle. It is said the accident waa caused by the motorman losing control of the caij through the brakes refusing to act. FOULLY MURDERED a Square Deal secretary was willing Wintbrop should remain in Porto Rico. The President, who has all along .been anxious that Magoon should go to Cul. immediate ly annunced Mngoon's appointment. This decision, be feels, leaves Winthrop frcej to finish the important work on hand In Porto Rico. Judge Magoon will leave for Cuba on Saturday next. At the PiJesideatV special request, Arisona and New Mexico Must Provide Mystery of Carey Synder's Death Is Now Revealed. IN STATE-HOOD BLUEF1ELDS, W. Va., Oct. 3. As result of the explosion this afternoon at the West Fork mines, seventy-five men are supposed to be entombed. Two rescue parties have entered tbe mine and up to 11 o'clock two miners have been rescued and revived. The mine is reported to be on fire and the work of rescue is retarded. The cause of the explosion is tin known. Great exoitemcnt prevail in neighborhood of the mines and crowds of nien, women and children re main aound the drift mouth, awaiting news of relative and friends, Report of the number of entombed men vary from sixty to one hundred and the real number will not be kndwn for another twelve hours. The lack of brattice cloth retards the work of rescue and a carload of it is being hurried to he mine from here. The force of the explosion was hard y noticeable at the mine's mouth, as fled to find the Japanese ly ng prone on ()e e XI.. A..... . .1 ..!... n . . .ml Inltflll.1 UK) Jiui'l null . junnru vui, M"U louuij one-half miles in the mountain. A number of men In another part of the mine were almost suffocated, before they escaped, ONE TELEPHONE FOR 14 , PEOPLE. called for help. The bank wa soon filled with a cur ious crowd. The police arrived on the scene shortly afterward. While one of the officers went out to 'call for nn emergency ambulance, others rushed to the nenrest police box and telephoned to send riot (Tills Into the police stations. NEW, YORK, Oct. 3. The city of The surgeons at the hospital found New York now has one telephone for that the two banker had been so badly each fourteen persons. The New York beaten that their death may be a mat- Telephone company announced yester ter of but a short time. Both are be- day that, in September it placed. 7,584 lleved to have fractured skull and are new telephones in service, which is 1, tdill unconscious. 000 more than any previous month's It was about 12:30 o'clock when the gain. There are now 270,000 telephones robbery occurred. Despite the fact that in service. The company declare that the police in every portion of the city New York Is now "The beat telephoned are now on the outlook for the thugs, I city in the worm." iienerai lien, enter of ataff, will pro ceed to Havana as soon as possible, to consult with Secretary Taft as to the! disposition of the American troops. Against All Expression of Undue and Biased Interests in Com ing Contest. It is rumored thatjfthe minister of war has been informed that the troops at Cronstadt intimate they will not shoot the nineteen sailors sentenced to death in connection with the August ELECTION htiny- There is practically an epidemic to day of attacks on the government cash iers and officials similar to the one at St. Petersburg, where the attempt was Snyder Was in the Plot to Rifle the made to rob the government cashier of Forest Grove Bank and Suffered TWO COMRADES DID THE ACT HAVANA, Oct. 3.-The alacrity with which the rebel are laying down their arms is the greatest surprise the pro visional government has yet encounter ed..,. . . , . Seven hundred of Guerra's men, with horse, have already been obtained for Pinar del Rio, while one brigade marched to Guanajay without a sign of disor der. Guerra had promised 1.000 for en trainment today, but the preparation of the muster rolls, which contain minute description of each man's horse, in order to prevent substitution, re quired so much time that another special train will leave for Pinar del Rio to morrow. It Is reported that some of Del Cas tillo's followers ant reluctant to dis arm, but all the brigade commanders informed Major Ladd that they will do so when ordered to by Castillo. This afternoon Castillo gave the or der and tonight Ladd will carry out the disbanding arrangements.- The disarm anient commission entered Cienfuegos this afternoon and reports are out that it received an ovation on the way from Santa Clara, The revolutionists along the line were willing to disband, be lieving, thoroucblv, in the honest in tentions of President Roosevelt. $1,000. Four such attacks are reported near Tim's. Both Germany and Sweden are con cerned in the murder- yesterday of M. Hager, the Swedish vice-consul at Ba- toum. Hager was a German subject. The foreign office expressed regret to Death as His Share Hia Wife May Testify. HELLSBORO, Oct 3- Acting Coroner It T. Bagley now has what he eonsid- are entertained in different parts of the Ltm08t edeavors will be made to ap- The estimated cost of Cu ban Intervention is $00,000 a 1 . day. The amount varies slightly from day to day, The army costs more than the navy. A big item is the transporta tion of troops by land and sea. In the navy the ships would be kept moving, anyhow. The only added cost to the navy is the landing, transportation and subsistence on shore of marines. I ' It was announced at the White House this afternoqn ; that 'upon further con- (deration of the subject, the President PHOENIX, Oct. 3. Governor Kibbey has iust received a letter from Presi dent Roosevelt statin that crave fears Lv. c,;.u ,omit,- la. , ers com evidence tnat Larey U. .. .....I O I Snirnai n-o fnnlln MiivrlhrnJ Aaflir ivk December, 1905, and that suicide was not the case when the Kansas City banker's son met his death on a lonely night road between Portland and Beth any, Washington county? As a conse quence, that official hag ordered the sheriff's office to reconvene the Co re united States that there will not be a fair count in the coming statehood election, and directs the governor to have representatives of both the state hood and anti-statehood parties present at the count of the votes, The President says he has sent a sim ilar letter to Governor Hacerman, of New Mexico. Governor Kibbey has r quested Thomas F. Wilson, President of the Joint-State League, to appoint rep- resentative to serve on election day, and witness the count from each pre cinct. prehend the perpetrators. The vigor with which the courts-mar tial are employed in the repression 'of the recent carnival of crime, is shown by the number of executions. In addi tion to eleven executions yesterday, ner., jury wMch WM gworn Monday at there were today seven at JSJierson, jour the Bcene of the finding of Snyder's at Warsaw, three at Kielee, three at body. The jury will meet in this city UNHAPPY MOBILE. First Wrecked by Storm, and Now Wild Over Negro Outrages, Mitau and one each at Kalisx, Batoum tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. and JiaKU. - i ' I It is ex nee ted there will be evidence v ; which will, era to show that suicide was WARSAW, Oct. 3.-Aecording to of- far from SnTder8 mind 8nd that in- flcial report, the number of police and tead h B brutanv murdered bv two soldier killed in the past four months men with whom he left portiand a few is thirty-two and the wounded 107. One dayj aftei, the Forest Grove bank ,,,1,. hundred and thirty-two citixens were bery. which took place on the night of killed and 389 wounded in the same per- December 1, or the morning of December iod. a. Wliilfl nothing can be cleaned from the coroner, it is thoueht here that POSEN, Oct. 3,-The police seized to- gnTder wag not implicated in the rob- day ten thousand copies of a fiery ap- Ug. but that, oh the other hand, he MOBH.E, Oct. 3. This city passed a day of intense excitement following the I! 11. Af T).. TTsi1t 1tiiinv wit a out wirt last night for the negro Robinson, who, P"? to Pfsh "f9' to knew who looted the bank; in fact, it is C I mal'a HamAnet rati An Ah ' flnr AnAV In. I n i n the mob thonirht was in iail here. This " - r connoentiy asserted tna uirey u. any ut;.....v .v...6.uus i"...,. w..e . laer nad agreed wiwi xne iwo men 10 in the German language in tne scnoois jlf the Forest Grove institution and of this vicinity. Measures win De ias en to prevent disturbances on that date. evening another mob was formed and its committees searched the jail. They reported the negro was not there and the crowd dispersed. ; About the same hour the grand jury returned an indictment against Robin son and also against anothe'.'V negro in carcerated on the same charge, and this had a calming effect on the crowd. PACIFIC LEAGUE. WANT THEM TO EXCHANGE BONDS. NEW YORK, Oct. 3. Bondholders of the Nationa.1 Starch company were re quested yesterday by the management of the company to exchange their first mortgage bonds for debenture bonds of the Corn Products Refining company, which through the Corn Products com- At Oakland Oakland, 8 Seattle, 0. pany controls praotically all of the stock At Los Angeles Los Angeles, 6; Port land, 12. v At Fresno Fresno, 0j San Francisco, 2. that they were to have met a day or so before the robbery occurred. It is reported here, and it seems to have the color of fact, that Snyder went to a rendervoua to meet the two men, and that they failed to meet him at the appointed place. ' The next day Sny der talked with one of them over the telephone and upnbraided the pair fop throwing him down, not mentioning, of course, the subject , of the conversation. It is' popularly supposed that the two companions then robbed the bank, leav (Continued on Page 8.)