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VOLUME LXI NO. 207
ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER ,7 J90G
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HILL TALKS
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CHICAGO
As Is His Custom, Tells a
Convincing Talc.
tin cr for mora trok, mor engine,
more car and more facilities of at
kind. To "oonlruct the will require
many hundred of million of dollar.
Money Invented la railway expect a
fulr return oa the investment, and to
Insure this, In vlow of prompt conJI
tlon, and to prevent the force of ad
vanclng social evolution becoming de
tructlve, well ar creative, I the
I itipreme problem, '
TRANSPORT SHERIDAN SAFE.
PROPIIETOTTERANCES
Tells of (he Probable Exhaustion
of National Supply for
Industries.
j REVERSION TO SOIL NEXT
Without farther Mishap Will Star la
Commission.
HONOLULU, Oct, e.-The trsnsport
Sheridan which wa refloated today ha
been successfully docked her. Th
Sheridan wa towed off Pearl ITarbor
beach by tba tug Irqotiola, Manning
nd Buford, Scow were attached to
each eld of the Sheridan to prevent
eapsUlng. The Sheridan' pump are
kept constantly working. Captain Hum
phrey says that be ! u yet unable
to ascertain the amount of damage
done, but hope to repair the vel
her uffklntJy to proceed under bcr
own tm to Ban Francisco, She I
not leaking seriously, but her engine
tr belpleu at present.
Future Hold Some Dismal Certalatle
Imitative Cheap Labor Tran-
portatlon at Home Ifeit Vital
Question in Commerce,
MARINE MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
Japaneie Attribute. Lo of Seating
Steamer to Russian.
VICTORIA, Oct. 6 Japanese new
paper report the clearing up of the
niysterlout disappearance of the seal
I in, fjnmr fililnnma Mrn liut iiim
UilCAW, Oct. j. uiu wa. tne - - fc j,
principal apeaker at a banquet given port, fln,!jm ,t a piaM c,jjed Zobaroff
at the Auditorium, under the auspices on the coast of Kamchatka the charred
of the Commercial Aoeiatlon. tonkbt. remain 0f the lt ae.ler and the skel
About 7M person were present. Sir of her crew, all of whom were
Tboma Llpton wa one of the chid presumably murdered. The Jlyetsu's
meet. icrew believe that tne steamer wa nr
Mr. Hill, In th court of hi addres. Pd wane at ancnor by tne kumum
iUted that by the middle of the pre- and her crew all murdered.
nt wnturv thlt eoiintr would hava a J In the absence of incontrovertible
population of 200,000,000 and declared 1 proof of loth the hip Identity and
the entll problem I to determine the cauws of hr lo, it it improbable
CUP STAYS
N FRANCE
Railway Speed Maintained
Over Ulacadam Road.
RECORDS ARE BROKEN
Only five car finished the race, but
there were 14 of the 17 car that atari
ei running at tne time the race wa
declared off, which wa done a oon
a Clemm had won (fourth place.
It- wa with the greatest effort that
the crowd were kept back from the
oours during the lat lap. Without re
gard to personal afety, they swarmed
over th road, giving way only when
the fast flying machine were 100 yard
away., ' . :
While j ranee carried away premier
honor of the race, Joseph Tracey, of
the American team, had the satisfa
tlon of registering the fattest lap made,
On bl fifth round,"' Tracey drove the
29.7 mile In the remarkable time of
28.21. Tracy suffered severely from
tire trouble in the first few rounds, and
that cost him dear. He was on hi
ninth lap when the race wa called off.
Three First Places Go to Foreign!
Drivers But Fastest Mile
to American.
VINCENT ST. JOHN RELEASED.
MANY SPECTATORS INJURED
i io-Horse-power French Machine
Prove Superior in the World'
Greatest Representative Gath
ing of Racing Auto.
Colorado Fail to Convict Miner, Evi
dene Being Insufficient.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.. Oct. 6.-
Plstrlct Judge Steven today dismissed
the charge of murder against Vincent
St John, formerly president of the
Tellurlde, Colorado, Miner' Union, and
later of the union in the Coeur d'Alene
district, after District Attorney Slig
bad announced that the state could
not secure sufficient evidence to convict
hirn. St. John wa charged with mur
der in connection with the Tellurlde
riot in 1900, in which Benjamin Burn-
ham , was killed. After the Steunen-
berg murder St. John wa arrested,
charged with complicity in that crime,
but was soon released. lie was then
re-arrested and brought to Colorado.
ALASKA EXODUS BEGINS.
that any action will be taken by the
Japanese government.
where tbee people will And profitable
employment.
mil asierteu mat our puwio ianu
were practically exhausted and that
even when the present plans of Irriga
tlon were completed land would be pro'
ylded for only seven or eicht million
more people. He believe that our iron
and coal will begin to be exhausted
within the next fifty yeart h rt Retribution as Spontaneous as
JUSTICE
FOR
ENDS
Crime, Rewards Outrage.
SOUTHLAND'S OLD LEGACY
Negroes' Gross Criminal Instinct Dei'
olatea Two More Home, and Re
sult in Their Death by Rope
and Fire.
tba our forest are rapidly going and
our mineral oil supply will not last,
He say w cannot continue our pre
ent methods of trad because the min
erals of the cround will not recreate
themselves.
With coming million to provide for,
he ays, our present ransacking of gov
ernment storehouses to see what can
be sent over sea mutt be sharply
changed to the consideration of th
preservation of what is.
Upon the cultivation of the soil all
our- varied commercial activity is main
ly built and upon It, be declares, de
pend th future of mankind.
Mr mil went nn In show that the
oil of the country is becoming Impov MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 6.-Two hundred
erlshed; our forest are being eut down masked men mot Sheriff Power with
that sun may bake It and floods scour two negroes, charged with assault, at
t into- he oceans the same grain has KthMtiHm iwit,h three niile8 north of
been raised upon it year after year,
reducing it productive capacity until Moblle' 00 the Soutl,ern took
the decline in ome case is . fifty per prisoners away from Mm and hanged
cent. : I them on the pot No other were hurt.
of reform iu the method of cultivation
would double the agricultural produo
tlon and add five or six billion of dob
lars to our national, wealth, while the
adoption of the email-farm principle
would give wonderful additional in
crease.
The costliest error, he believes, will
be in the clinging to our present dclu
lon that we are to Increase our ex
port and Ite on the profits of our
foreign markets. He predicts the time
when we shall need all our field prod'
uct at home j when our mines will not
yield, and when the Imitative natives
and cheap labor In the Orient, equipped
with our machinery, will vanquish us
in all commercial pursuits,
' Every nation, he says, which enjoy
prosperity and has a healthy national
vigor, derives it from the soil. All
other industries cluster about ngrloul
ture as do the branches of a, tree,
Next to productivity of soil in Im
portance, Mr, Hill thinks the. question of
transportation is greatest. More lines
are necessary. Already there is rising
NEW YORK, Oct. fl. The automobile
race for the Venderbllt Cup on Long
Island today had an unfortunate bum
Iter of accidents. These were due to
the insatiable curiosity of the people
to get a better view of the racer. Gold and Miner Arrive From the4 North
(Heavy 1vrriers placed ti bold back Country,
the crowda were crushed like eggshells
and vast crowds thronged onto the SEATTLE, Oct. 6. Five steamships,
course. No attention -was paid to the bringing a total of $971,000 gold and
warning trumpet announcing the ap- 1.038 passengers, arrived today from
proach of the racers and often vehicles Alaska; Two steamer were from Nome,
traveling ninety miles an hour would one from Valdea and two from South
be less than one hundred yards away, eastern Alaska.
when the crowd, like an Inverted wedge.
GENEROSITY
MISAPPLIED
Free Seed Bureau Desig
nated as a Farce.
IS INSULT NOT FAVOR
Beneficiaries Consider Gifts More
' Valuable for Fuel Than
for Culture. '
SYSTEM AROUSES ANTAGONISM
Three-quarter of a Million Yearly Ex
pense Wasted to Supply Fanners
With Worthies Seed a a Sop
For Political Patronage.
COMMITTEE ACTS
Intent to Mislead Policy Holders
is Frustrated. -
would press back and allow the mo
torist to dash by. Near a particularly
dangerous turn, known as Knig cor
ner, two machine had flashed by, when
Bert L. Oruner, of Paasaic, New Jer
sey, ventured out into the road to get
a better view of the approaching ma
chines. With a rush and roar a French
car driven by Elliott F. Shephard, son
of Colonel B. F. Shephard, and grand
on of the late W. K. Vanderbilt,
dashed, into Gruner, hurling him high
in the air and many yard distant.
When picked up the man wa dead.
Shephard attempted to continue the
race, but wa completely unnerved and
could not finish the Ian. Josenh Tra
cey eraheMnto a crowd of men and staw omnm vmauM Enjoinea to
FOR ADMINISTRATION POLICY
mingham ifor safekeeping and were be
Ing brought to Mobile for trial.
A tremendou crowd surrounded the
railroad station during . the ' morning
and when the report of the lyncliing of
the negroe prevailed, the greatest ex
cuement prevailea. Tne crowd was
apparently dissatisfied with the method
of execution, hanging, and a mob has
departed for the ecene, with the de
dared Intention of burning the bodies,
r' JAPANESE POACHERS.
VICTORIA, B. 0 Oct. O.-Advlces
from Japan state that the crew of the
scaling schooners Toyel Maru No. 3 and
Daifuku Maru seised by a Russian war
ship off Copper Island have returnred
to Japan. The captains and mates
were imprisoned by the Russians at
retropavlovsk, whcr the confiscated
schooners are lying, The sealers claim
they put in under the lee of Copper
Island where the Russian rookeries are
located merely to escape the heavy
weather and deny any poaching intent.
boy, seriously injuring one boy and
lightly hurting several other. Dr.
Weilsehott lost control of his big 120-
horse power Italian machine in the
first lap and ran down two bicyclists,
then plunged down a thirty-foot em
bankment. No one was seriously hurt.
Several person were run down by tour
ing cars Jn the crush going to and re
turning (from- the race. The race to
day wa won by Louis Wagner, In a
French machine, and the next contest
for the cup will probably take place
in France, Of the seventeen car which
af awf A Ami., flvfh VA4 t), a3et Umn
and fourteen were still running.
Louis Wagner, In a 110-horse
power French car, today won
the third international autonobile road
race for the William K. Vanderbilt, J.,
cup, completing the distance of 297.1
miles in 290 minutes, 10 2-6 seconds, or
at the rate of more than a mile a min
ute.
Vincense Lancia,' in a 120-horse-power
Italian car, was second in 291 minutes,
28 4-5 seconds. ;
Antlonino Duray, In a 120-horse-pow
er French car, was third, in 293 min
uts 44 45 seconds.
Albert Clement, in a 100-horse-power
French car-, was fourth, In 301 minutes
59 4-5 seconds, j ' .
Cainilo Jenatzy, in a 120-horse-power
Gorman car, was fifth, in 304 minuteB,
38 seconds. f
Lancia actually finished the course
about 3 minutes ahead of Wagner, who,
however, started six minutes later
than big rival, and bnd that much mar-
n at the finish,
Prohibit Use of Ballot Foisted on
Policy Holder With Obvious
Intent to Deceive.
NEW YORK, Oct. 0 A circular, let
ter wa mailed today by Manager
Scrugham of the International Policy
HolderV committee to every state su
perintendent of insurance in the Un
ion, informing them that the Mutual
Life is sending out ballot bearing only
"Administration ticket" to policy-hold
er in advance of the official ballots,
State insurance officials are asked to
prohibit the use of these slips on the
ground of violation of insurance law
and the intent to mislead policy-hold
era.'" ,; . " .
SHOT HIS FRIEND.
Liquor Drive a Vancouver Soldier to
Commit Murder.
PORTLAND, Oct. 6. A special to the
Oregonian, from Vancouver, Wash.,
states that Thomas Anderson, of Com
pany M, Fourteenth Infantry, fatally
shot Corporal Anthony Brider of the
same company, this afternoon, in a sa
loon' on Main street. Brider died of his
wbunds an hour later. Sergeant White
head, of Company K, arrested 'Ander
son, n& he will be turned over to the
civil authorities tomorrow, Brider and
Anderson have been fast friend hither
to.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. "Behold bow
great a fire a little flame kindletb,
quoted a Long Island farmer of a re
ligious turn of mind a few days ago,
when be saw about-tea thousand pack
ages of government "free seeds" being
burned in the yard of a neighbor In
one of the suburb of Brooklyn. "Why
are you burning the seeds t he asked.
"Because they are- worthless, 5 w the
reply. The farmer thoroughly agreed
with this etateemnt, but he thought
they might ' be made useful. "What
will you sell them forf he asked. "You
can have all you can carry away for
half a dollar,? was the reply. o he
loaded up a bushel bag and took it
into New York. Here he told bis story
to a seed dealer, with the result that
those despised peeds will form one of
the principal exhibit in the anti-iree
seed campaign when Congress reassem
bies. Xbese ten thousand or more
packages of seeds wnich a generous
government forced upon unwilling Long
Island farmers were not being destroyed
because they were old or worm eaten,
a was once the case. They were prob
ably good enough in their way, but
they were not good enough for the Long
Island truck farmers, although especial
ly designed for truckster. They were
destroyed because they were of the
commonest varieties, many of them be
ing seeds that had been on the mar
ket for twenty or thirty years. In
fact, some M them, are so old that
they have been discarded by the more
enterprising seedsmen for newer and
improved varieties, and the only place
they are obtainable is at the Depart
ment of Agriculture, which sends them
out in the Congressional Free Seed dis
tribution as "new, rare and valuable"
seeds. At one time the free seed dis
tribution was a joke, but it has become
a serious matter, for Congress is wast
ing a quarter million dollars yearly in
this manner, to say nothing of the $250,
000 it costs the post office department to
hanndle them. The farmers are getting
very tired of the farce. The up-to-date
and prosperous farmer considers it an
insult to his intelligence for a member
of congress to send him a five cent pack
age of the same kind of seed bis fath
er planted twenty years ago and at
tempt to palm it off on him a some
thing "new, rare and valuable."
knows when it was first presented. In
view of these facts, which will be pre
sented to Congress, it is scarcely possi
ble that it will continue the fiction
that it is tending out 'new, rare and
valuable seeds, even if It continue the
distribution In the face of the ridicule
heaped upon it by the agricultural and
dally press, and the; condemnation ex
pressed by farmer and their organiza
tion. Senator Clark, who ha represented
Wyoming In the United States Senate
during the past! eighteen years, and
who is one of the Republican leader
in politics in the Northwest, passed
through Washington tbis week on hi
way to the New England states. On
the death of the late Senator Hoar, of
Massachusetts, (followed by that of
Senator Piatt, of Connecticut, Senaton
Clark succeeded to the chairmanship of
the Committee on Judiciary, and in that
position ha demonstrated his legal
ability to' the gratification of hi
many friends. ' Speaking of politic,
while here. Senator Clarlc said:
'The continued popularity of Mr.
Roosevelt in the Northwestern State
will have much to do in eweeping Col
orado and Montana back into the Re
publican column this fall ( resulting in
the retirement of Senators Patterson
of Colorado, and Clark of Montana. It
is very prbable that the "smelter, king,"
Mr. Gugenheim, will succeed Mr. Pat
terson, and former Senator Lee Mantle
or Representative Dixon will come to
the Senate instead of Mr. Clark' of
Montana. The Northwest Is a much
in favc of Mr. Roosevelt a It ever
was, if not more so. The people there -
would like to support him for another
term. If he will not run again, they
would support ans one of half a dozen
candidates wbo might be nominated,
but, of course, with less majorities than
Mr. Roosevelt received. Vice President
Fairbanks i very' well liked through
the Northwest State."
Fot the past week or ten day, the
nerve of the army and navy have
been taut to th limit over the Cuban
situation. A usual, the ' preliminary
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MACON
MESS
Negro Insults Two Young White
Women on Street.
SHOOTS AT REMONSTRANTS
I Arrested and Jailed and Jailed
Stormed Mayor Exhausting AH
Power He Possesses to Quell - '
the Trouble.
To determine just how "new" these
seebs are, which had been rescued from
the flames, the seed '.dealers examined
their catalogues with interesting re
sults. It was found that one variety of
parsnip, two of lettuce, three of turn
ip, one of tomato, one of onion and two
of radish seed had been catalogued by a
New York firm in 1879. One of lettuce,
one tomato, and one muskuielon came
into use in 1884. Five other varieties of
lettuce were introduced between 1875
and 1890. The newest variety of seed
was an onion, introduced by a Phil
adelphia firm In 1899, while the oldest
was traced by thirty years, and no onei
MACON, Oct. 6. About ten o'clock
tonight Charles Adams and William
Solomon, prominent young white men,
while escorting two young women,
were shot and seriously iniured bv a ne-
I - - y -
gro at the Fair Ground. The negro
offensively pushed his way between the
young women and their escort and
when remonstrated with drew a revol-
ver : and fired. Ter.r,,,rrr-."r?
A stampede ensued among the blacks,
when the white people began to threat
en vengeance. The young women caught
car and cabs and were taken rapidly
to their home. 1
The negro was arrested and taken to
jail, but a mob soon formed, and stormed
the building. Vigorous effort) are
being made to prevent trouble, the
mayo rexercising all power at his
command to this end.
MURDEROUS INCIDENT.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6A bold mur
der on the streets occuiTed here today,
when Eulogio Delgoa, a Mexican, was
stabbed In the back by an unkonwn
person and instantly killed, as he was
riding a bicycle. The assassin was not
caught.
PACIFIC LEAGUE.
, At Fresno San Francisco, 8j Fres
no 8, (darkness).
At Los Angeles Los Angeles, , Or;
Portland, 1.