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-a UBUtHKt rULUAttOOIATtO 7 I ' COVKRS THI MORNINO PI1LD ON TttM LOWE OOLUMHA.1 VOLUME LXI NO. 727 ASTORIA, OREGON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9. J 906 . PRICE FIVE CENTS BIO TRACTION PROBLEM New York Spending 650 Millions for Traction. RACE SUICIDE EXITS Flat Building Owns Into Millions of Dollars This Year. FROM ZOO TO ORPHANAGE After Getting Hi Preliminary Educ tloa AmoBf the Monkey, tit Pyg my Tret Mn I Taken In Band by an Orphan Asylum, NEW YORK, Oct. 8.-T0 aolver New York' rapid transit problem, which In cludes Ingres and egre from thin city, m well a transportation within the city limit. the pity and certain rb Ho corporation are spending or plan ning to spend pmm.m). Thl enor mous turn I about $260,000,000 row than the present funded debt of the city. It reprenent about three tlme the cost of the Spanish-American war. It make the 5fl,000,000 expended on the present niibway and Ua equipment and the 23,0O0,0O0 for the two big ana. pension bridge ovr the East lilver, dwindle into Insignanflcane. Nineteen propod route for subway In Man hattan and Brooklyn will eot STCO, 000.000 and the nreeary equipment will foot up $100,000,000 more. In ad dition, four rapid transit tunnels will be built tmder the Eat River to coat J20.00n.000. Eight new giant bridge structure to span the Ent River and weld Brooklyn to Manhattan, will eon time (tgS.000,000 of the clty'a money. The Pennsylvania, railroad tunnel now neartng completion will cot $50,000,000 and other tunnela and bridges will make tip the total. These plana Indi cate that New York la entering upon a period of constructive engineering work uch a the world ha hitherto never aeen or dreamed of. There have been aeveral epidemics of matrimony In evidence in the metrop olis of late which go to ahow that Cu pid la no respecter of buslnosa. A abort time ago one of the big life insurance wimnantea. which employ acorea of stenographer, announced that ita of fice force was being seriously depleted from the fact that all the stenographer . were getting married to the young men of the office staff. Soon after the pub lis school term began It was dlacovered that seventy-four of the city's women teachers had married during the vaca tion; Practically alt of tnee came back to work. A by-law 'of the Board of Education forblda any woman teach er to marry under penalty of losing her job, but the Court pf Appeal had aided with Cupid and declared the by law null and vrld. In the third and last Instance of the matrimonial cpl emio the course of true love ran more smoothly. One year ago the manager of one of the most popular French res taurants and enfea on Broadway an nounced that he would give $100 to each of his employes that married and $50 for each subsequent visit of the itork. Since making the offer.he hat had to hire a apecial bookkeeper to keep ao count of vital statistics. Up to Oct. 1 he had pold out $5,050, of which $3, ' 000 went for marriages and the rest represented the mystical number' of twenty-threo babies. There Is no raoe euiolde in that particular Broadway cafe. Now that the heated daya are over the dtv official, who optimistically call themselves the servants of the people, can te expected to spend a reasonable number of hours per week at their dusks again. During the summer months the second largest city ; lit the world was allowed practically to run Itself. Dust gathered on the elaborate desks with which the city offices are decked and spiders wove their webs across the handsome swivel chairs. Some city of ficers, like the mayor, took extended trip abroad, othsrs, like the district attorney toured their own country, while s, whole boat Of Mr. Commission er simply frittered away the summer In little visit to country resorts or dally attendance at race track meets. About the tin) they all got back to town, tbt Democratic State convention at Saratoga was at band, and of course, all the office-bo Were, big and little, tool: week off for the tremendous occasion. Two city officers conspicuously stuck to their desk during tht summer just like ordinary, business men. These phe nomenal publlo servant wars Acting Mayor MoQowaa and Controller Metz, and Father Knickerbocker wonders at and admires them. Incidentally he I trying to flgura out bow he would stand If bla street railway and lighting sys tems were run by publlo officials who took to the woods in June, after the manner of the political office-holder, and failed to return until well into Sep tember. ' , ' probably the time will come wher- the private house Is a- rarity on Man hattan Island and all those hardy in dividuals who still dare and can afford to live in what was orfelnally New York city, will dwell In data and ten ements. The present rata at which s part men t houses are building In the city would aeera to justify this conclu sion. Since January 1 plans have, been filed for the erection of about 1.000 apartmeut aud fklbouacs In Manhattan at an estimated cost of cloae to $W,- 000,000." These structures range all the (Continued on Page 8.) JOHN D. ESCAPES Need Not Testify in the Latest Prosecution. HIS REQUEST KINDLY GRANTED Considerate Ohio Jurist Will Not Call , the Oil Magnate in Latest Case Against Corporation in That Stste. . FINDLAY, Ohio, Oct. 8.-Chargcd with "conspiracy against trade" in vio lation of the anti trust laws of the State of ' Ohio, the Standard Oil of Ohio. and its alleged constituent companies, the Buckeye Pipe Line company and the Manhattan Oil company, 'will be placed on trial her tomorrow before Judge Gideon O. Banker and jury in the probate court of Hancock county. In the original information John D. Rockefeller was made party to the suit, but through the granting of a re quest for a separate trial, Rockefeller will not be called a a defendant until the case against the company has been disposea oi it s a no win nun u summoned as a witness and will not attend the trial, ' VANDERBILT PICKPOCKETS. NEW YORK, Oct. 8. It developed Sunday thnt the Vandwbllt cup course during the race Saturday was infested with pickpockets. Over 100 of them were' taken into custody around the grandstand and locked up In a cottage nearby, until the race was over and the big crowd had departed. OFFICER WITH BROKEN NECK. NEW YORK, Oct, 8. Lawrence Gil deraleeve,' whose neck was broken four years ago, has Just been made attend ance -officer at the Huntington High school. He entered upon 3iia duties last week, Gildersleeve was an ath lete before his neck was broken and is now able to participate in all sports he once took part In. Gildersleeve' heck was broken in, a football soriin-mage. ilANYVI POLITICAL What Prominent Leaders are Interested In. REPUBLICAN KEYNOTE Bcrvrfdge Contends That Only Issue in Compaign is Good Government. HEARST REPLYS TO ATTACKS Senator Bailey .Volunteers Assistance and Information In Oil Prosecution, Both of Which Are Declined by Attorney General. BOSTON, Oct. 8.' The annual dinner of the Massachusetts Republican club wae held tonight in Symphony hall and served, as a ratification meeting for Governor Guild and others of the state ticket who were renominated last week. The banquet brought together many men of pominence In publlo life, Includ ing Senator Beveridge of Indiana, Sena to Lodge and Crane of Massachusetts Senator Lodge, in the course of a brilliant speech, said, anions other things: The nomination if Hearct In New York and Moran in Massachusetts. which ere identical in character and purpose, prove beyond doubt that, the radical element in the Democratic par ty, which alms at class) legislation and strives to arouse class hatred, tends also toward socialism and the destruc tion of private property. This element which has been built up and fostered by Mr. Bryan in his two campaigns for the presidency, as well a by the pit iable collapse of the 'safe and sane' candidate in 1904. is now powerful enough to take possession of'tlie Dem ocratic organization In two great statee." Senator Beveridge delivered an inter esting address upon the theme of good government, In which the Rooseveltlan type was made conspicuously and apt ly manifest. ' NEW YORK, Oct. 8. Addressing a political meeting tonight In Manhat tan, W. R. Hearst replied to the atacks made upon him by the newspapers or New York and denounced a absolutely untrue the charges that he employed Chinese labor. He said he had never emnloved such labor unon any property which lie owns or. is Interested in, in California, or elsewhere. ne denied that he had made any pre- convention agreement with nny boss to aecure the nomination on the Democra- ... ntJ V waI mii. tribute more to his personal campaign fund than he did to the campaigns of Cleveland or Bryan. ' AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 8. Correspond eno regarding o proposition of Sen ator Bailey to assist In representing the state In the matter of proseecuting the Waters-Pierce Oil company as part of the Standard Oil Company, was made publio today. Bailey wrote a letter to the Attorney General advising him that he would be glad to lend him what as sistance he could in the way of develop ing facts In connection with the case. The Attorney General replied that while appreciating the intfrest manifested by Bailey, he would be able to handle the case with the facts confronting him, but that vif e should need additional help or advice he would deem It a pleasure to call upon the senator. SOCIETY WOMAN FATALLY HURT. CHICAGO, Oct. 8. Mrs. Iaabelle Cup ler, wife of Dr, Ralph 0. Cupler. received I it is feared fatal injuries last night when ah aulomobilist ran into the buggy in which she and her husband and wven year old son were driving. The autonu&llist was attempting to guide the huge touring car with one hand and was holding a cigar in the other, according to a witness of the accident. None of the occupants of the buggy saw the automobile. Mrs. Cuplcr" spine was Injured and she suf fered concussion of the brain and in terna) hurts. No arrests were made. i SOCIALIST FOR CONGRESS. Yiddish 'Element in New York Behind the Project. ' NEW YORK, Oct. 8. The Socialist party announced Jast . night that jt would probably elect one of its repre sentatives, Morris HUIquist, to . Con gress from the Ninth Congressional dis trict on the lower East Side. One of the chief causes for the hope of Hiilquit's supporters is the Russian revolution. The district contain a large part of the Russian Jewish of the East Side. There are thousands of families that have lost relatives in the revolution and the score's of Socialist orators are making that one of their strong points and picturing Hillquit a the man to look' out for the interests of the Jews.".'. ,','.,i A house to bouse canvass is being con ducted for Hillquist and many women have taken np his cause and are work ing for his election. A daily paper in Yiddish will be published the last ten days of the campaign, and circulated sfliong the Jews outlining the Socialist doctrines. . ' Hillquit, if successful, will be the first man ever elected to the American House of Representatives on the Social ist ticket. The candidate is a Russian. He was born and educated in Riga, and was admitted to the bar In 1803, aix years after he came to this country. PLANS ARE CHANGED Commission Advises Strongly for Contract System. THE CHINESE MAY REMAIN Report Adhere Strictly to .Financial Considerations and Insists Strongly Against Present Arrange ments. v": ; WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.-It has been finally decided that the Panama canal be completed by contract. In f ew davs the commission will make a pub- lie statement setting forth the reasons . . iur juvuiwir me cvubiavv pjaiom o-.iu , the form of contract will probably be published showing exactly what son oi document is believed bv the commis- sioners lo be necessary in safeguarding the work. The President Is known to support the commission In its position that the work can be done more satis faotorily by contractors than by j,e government. bul!din tK c-l will I in no way effect the employment of Chinese labor. Roosevelt still intends to visit the Isthmus this fall and unless there be some change for the worse in the Cuban situation, will probably leave for Colon a short time after election. VALUABLE HORSES TMP0RTED. First Genuine - Arabian Stock Brought to America. Ever NEW YORK, Oct. 8. Twenty-seven Arabian horses, ten mares and seven teen stallions were landed yesterday from the steamship Italia. They have been on the way from Syria since Aug. 14, This importation is said to be the largest of the kind ever made and is the result of the only Irade ever issued to an American Homer Davenport ne sotiatinir . the purchase. The animals, he says, represent the only strictly des ert bred thoroughbreds ever brought to this country. . , , CUBA VERY RESTLESS Politics and Revolutionists Keeps Things Busy. AMNESTY GRANTED ALL General Steinhard Dispatched to Cienfuegos in Effort to Recon cile Political Factions. CONSIDER PAST DIFFERENCES Taft Has Decided to Overlook Many Previous Outrages in an Effort to Bring About a Satisfactory Set tlement. HAVANA, Oct. 8. The factional ill feeling that has existed in Cienfuegos since the presidential campaign of 1903, resulting in the death of Congressman Villuendas and Chief of Police Blanco, increased during the recent revolution to such an extent that the return of the rebels from the field is causing a dangerous , condition which the provi sional government considers it highly necessary to end and therefore tonight Taft dispatched Consul General Stem hart to Cienfugos with authority , to take any action that he may deem ad visable in the interest of reconciliation of political differences there and in in augurating a fresh start toward a rea sonable degree of mutual good will be tween the malcontent. Taft believes that IJ is particularly necessary that the vexed local situation in Cienfugos shall be settled before the issuance .of an amnesty decree since he has deter mined to include in the amnesty all persons charged with complicity in the Villuendas murder. - Taft has also de cided to Include) in the general amnesty all persons alleged to have been con nected with the Guanabacoa outrage last February, when several rural guards were wantonly Willed in their quarters by a gang of night marauders. Taft Is unwilling to furnish any opportunity for re-opening old sores in these notor- loua matters and will Insist on the ef fectual closing- npw of all incidents wWeh are an outgrowth of the former I nnlitiitnl afrits i NOTORIOUS CROOK LANDED. Possible Solution of Japanese Bank SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 8.-After searching the city - and surrounding towns for seven days the police have last captured the man who is be- lieved to hold the key to ii oluiSuu of the robbery and murder at the Jap anese bank last Wednesday. The man is no other than the notorious Cal Childs, ex-convict and all around crook and one f the mat dangerous criminals known to crime in San Francisco. With Childs was. his confederate, t man whose name the police are withholding, but whom they are sure has been operating in company with the nortoriou jail bird. ' Childs and his confederates were cap tured shortly after 10 o'clock yesterday morning and taken to police headquar ters. ' . ,": PROMINENT PHYSICIAN INJURED. Wedged Under Car He Describe Own Injuries, NEW YORK, Oct. 8. Dr. J. Lewis Amfter, while out driving Sunday, was run down by a trolley car and seriously hurt. While wedged under the car waiting for the wrecking crew the phy sician though probably fatally hurt and suffering intense pain, accurately de scribed his injuries to the ambulance surgeon and then asked for morphine to . relieve his sufferings. A CHEAP REVOLUTION. Cuba's Outbreak Docs Most Damage In The Treasury Department NEW YORK, Oct, 8. Advices received here from Havana state that amazingly little damage occurred a a result of the insurrection in Havana province, where much of the fighting was done. There are no burned houses or barns, no ruined crops, or devastated fields. In this respect, ii I stated, It was the cheapest revolution in West Indian his tory. Farmers everywhere have re turned to their fields. CHINA PROTESTS. FEKIN, Oct. 8. China has protested to the International Bureau of Tele graphic Administration at Berne, Switz erland, against Japan's continued con trol of the telegraphic lines In Man churia. China also charges that the Japanese are breaking their agreement Iq operation from Port Dalno to Japan. IMMENSE PROPOSITION. CHICAGO, 0t. 8 Plan are on foot for the organizations of a giant rail way equipment company, the object of which is to take the place of the pri vate car companies, in furnishing refrig erator, livestock and other special kino of cars, to railways. It is proposed to capitalize the projected company at one hundred millions of dollars. MIHTABY MYSTERY Federal and Civil Authorities are Interested. NO CAUSE FOR MURDER Investigating Authorities .Unable to Formulate Any Plausible Solution of This Remarkable Crime. ' , VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 8. Nev er before in the history of crime in this county has a murder occurred where such deep mystery surrounds the incen tive for the crime than in the case of the shooting of Corporal Anthony Brel- ter of Company M, Fourteenth Infan try, by Private Thomas Anderson of. the same company. Altnough tne military , as well as the civil officers have made diligent inquiry so far no motive that can even be deemed an excuse for the commission of the act has been discov ered. So far the act, while apparently deliberate, seems to have been entirely e. f 4 1..----. ., The shooting occurred in an alley way in the rear of the Weigel block, on Main street. Both men had been In Weigel'a saloon for some time, and as far as can be learned no quarrel had oc curred between them. Breiter had been away from the garrison on a pass for 4 hours, which time he had spent in Portland. He was on his returrn to the garrison, and at the time was dressed in civilian clothes. For a short time before the trasredv several soldier were in the place. A party of three of these,, one of whom was Breiter, were standinsr at the bar drinking a glass of beer about 5:30 o'clock, preparatory to returrnmg to the garrison lor re veille, -when Anderson stepped up to Breiter and tapping him on the shoulder asked him to step out Into the rear, saying he wished to settle some mat ter with him. One of Breiter com panions advised him not to go, but he replied that he would as soon settle any question then as any other time.