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VOLUME LXI NO. 320
ASTORIA AGON, bUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, J 906
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GOVERNMENT
Question Raised In Japan
esc School Exclusion.
QUESTIONINVESTIGATED
Delegates From San Francisco
Call on Roosevelt to Dis
cuss Situation.
WILL RESENT INTERFERENCE
Should the Federal Government Inter
fore or Make Attempt to Adjuit
Difficulties, the Result Will Be
Bloody Riot.
riHCAOO. Dee. 1. A dispatch to
tb Tribune from Washington says
If President Roosevelt and Secretary
Boot persist In tho position they win
Inclined to take regarding the right
of (he federal government to make
treaties which will bind states and
municipalities In the conduct of their
local affaire, half a doson able bodied
hornet' nest In the Venate will
break loose early In the seaalon.
Renntnr Flint and nnjnmln M
Wheeler of California both called at
the White House yesterday to see the
President and to ndvlso him from dif
ferent point of view that any Inter
ference by the federal government or
any assumption of a right to Interfere
with the school system of Ban Fran
cisco or any other city would pro
voke a riot.
Senator Flint declared that the fed
eral government would make a great
mlxtake, because there wna a dlspo
Billon In flan Francisco to pass a lo
cal ordinance Jllmtlng tha age1 t
which poplin will be received In the
public schools. This would do away
with most of the eomplnlnt, because
a great majority of tho Japanese stu
dents are adults, with whom white
parents are not willing to have their
young children associate.
Secretary Metcalf has come back
from the coast Intimating that any
attempt by tha United States gov
rnment by treaty or othorwlse to
regulate the schools of any city on
the Pacific coast would be resented
Instantly and could be enforced only
by the use of troops. To complicate
matters, southern senators are arrlv
lug In Washington In a perfect flame
of excitement, because they have
been led to believe that the Japanese
agitation In San Francisco Is merely
a decoy In an attempt to break down
tho. whole system of separato schools
for negroes In tho southern states. So
far as the Intention of tho admlnlstra
tlon Is concerned, the southern sena
tors are entlrojy mistaken, because
the President and Socrotary Root
have nothing more In view than the
maintenance of friendly relations with
Japan, a nation with which we have
traditional ties of friendship, and
which Is just now particularly valu
able to us In a commercial way.
While the administration Is thus
clearly acquitted of any Intention to
apply Its theories to tho negro ques
tlon, It none the less is true that the
situations are so closoly concerned
that If the Japanese by the power
of the United States, can be put In
the public schools In San Francisco
In spite of the local law, a full blood
ed negro with, a certificate of citizen-
Ship from France or Germany or
Great Britain and there are thou
sands of such could be forced Into
the white schools of Washington,
Charleston, Atlanta, or New Orleans.
The result Is that tha southern and
raclflc Coast senator are rapidly get
trg together.. They will defeat any
Ttsaaure In the future, which gives
the al.en citizens the right to attend
Iocs! publlo schools In spite of local
aws.
MONEY MARKET.
Business In Flnsnolsl Circles Depress
1 ed During Week.
NEW YORK. Dec. 1, Stock have
not been actively traded In this week,
This hardening of the money mar
ket has been a restraining Influence
and the midweek holiday had a deter
rent effect on operations, Heavy pay
ments of dividends and Interest on
December 1 make a large demand for
banking facilities. San Francisco ha
taken several million of currency for
the purpose of moving the fruit crop
and there has been a movement of
currency to Canada to fort If y tho
bank there for their annunl showing,
Foreign money market have Improved
with the decided strengthened post
tlon of the Hank of England. The Un
ion Pacific annual report was
strengthening Influence on that stock
and a sympathetic effect on the gen-
oral market
USUAL OCCURRENCE.
Five Trainmen Killed In Dally Rail-
road Accident
PITTSRURO. Pa.. Dec. 1. Five
trainmen wore killed and several pas
stingers bruised tonight when the east
bound Balltomer ft Ohio train ran into
a switch at Ouffey coal mine fifteen
miles from here. The officials of the
railway believe the switch was thrown
open by some one wno wisnea to
wreck the train.
COAL FAMINE.
School In South Dakota Will
Be
Compelled to Close Down.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec I. The ooal
situation In the country districts Is
becoming worse since the cold map.
One dealer said that Oarretson, South
Dakota, Is about to close Its schools
because of lack of fuel and In some
towns near that place, the residents
are threatening to move away If coal
not furnished them.
WEST POINT BEATEN
Midshipmen from Annopolis Win
in Football Game.
WAS THEIR FIFTEEN VICTORY
Tho Contest Was Fieroe From Begin
ning to End, Although There Was
No Unneoessary Roughness
and No Casualties.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. l.-In
brilliant game the midshipmen from
the Annapolis Naval Academy today
defeated West Point In the annua
football game by a score of ten to
nothing. It was the fifth victory for
the middles In the history of football
contests between the government
acadomles and the second In which
West Point had failed to cross the
goal line. The contest was fierce from
beginning to end, yet there was no
unneoessary roughness. The navy
was handicapped by a stiff wind tit the
opening half and were forced to their
utmost to prevent West Point from
crossing the goal line. Time and again
they were driven back to within a
few feet of their goal line, but their
line would not hold, Douglass would
boot the ball out of Immediate dan
ger. When the second half opened
there was an entirely different propo
sition. West Point was pushed back
foot by foot yard by yard until the
Navy had the ball within strklng dis
tance. The Jubilation was hardly
over when another cause came for re
joicing. The Navy on an exchange of
punts worked the ball well within the
Army's territory. The Navy made a
forward pass on a fake punt and
sent the ball across the Army's line
for a touchdown.
EXPRtSS
R
ROBBED
Daring Hold-Up on . Cotton
Belt Line.
MESSENGER IS BEATEN
Hurled from the Train by Robbers
After Being Badly
Wounded.
AMOUNT STOLEN NOT KNOWN
Inspection of Express Car Shows Dos
perate Battle Took Place Between
Messenger and Robbers, Car
Spattered with Blood.
REDWATER. Texas, Dec 1. The
express car attached to train No,
of the Cotton Belt Line, which left
here at 6 o'clock tonight, was robbed
and the express messenger, W.
Grlsslp, was hurled from the moving
train after having been beaten and
badly wounded by the robbers. The
robbery is believed to have occurred
one mile from this place but was not
discovered until the train reached
Evlau. The express messenger was
found by the side of the track badly
hurt and showed Indications of a des
perate fight. The robbers escaped.
That the robbery was successful
evident from the hasty Inspection of
the car and Its contents, but the
amount stolen is not known. Super
Intendent Edgal has started for the
scene and a special train of officers
has been started out tor the scene of
the hold-up. A special train has also
been sent from Redwater.
At Redwater the messenger attend
ed to his duties as usual and the
train proceeded. There are no stops
on the schedule botween that point
and Eylau. At Eylau, Conductor
Blair saw the door of the express car
had been forced open and on enter
ing found It spattered with blood and
the messenger missing and tha car
bealng every evidence of having been
looted. Trainmen were sent back on
hand cars and Grlsslp was found.
While ho Is badly hurt, It Is not be
lieved his Injuries are fatal.
GASPIPE MURDERER,
8iemen Identified as Msn Who Hold
Up Frisco Bank.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1. A. SakI,
cashier of the Japanese bank on Got
den Gate Avenue, which was robbed
In October by thugs who murdered
the manager, M. Munakata, and left
Sakl apparently fatally wounded, yes
terday Identified John Slemsen, now
under arrest, as one of the pair of
thieves who entered the bank on that
occasion. The Identification took
place at the Japanese hospital on
Plnee street. The court convened In
the sick man's room, as It was Im
possible to remove the patient from
his sick bed.
This Is the last link in the evidence
of the prosecution against the gas
pipe murderer, Slemsen,
COMBINATION EFFECTED.
Goldfiield Mining Disputes, Have Bonn
Satisfactorily Adjusted.,
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1. With
the acceptance by the Combination
Mines Company of Goldfleld of the
terms offered by Senator George Nix
on and George Wlngfleld for the pro
perty of the company, a long and
expensive litigation between the com
blnatlon mines people and the Gold
field Consolidated Mines Company
has been settled. While the absolute
terms of the agreement have not been
made public, It-will amount, It Is said,
to a merger of the two hitherto war
ring properties,
With the consummation of thl mer
aer all suits, pending In the courts
will be dismissed.
GUARDING PAS8ENGER3.
Chleaao Police Endeavor to Assist
Transportation Facilities.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1. City policemen
last night guarded the platforms of
three of the most congested stations
on the elevated loop. They forced
semblance of order among the scram
bllng, pushing thron of passengers
who crowded past the fare collectors
and rushed for the cars In their fran
tic haste to reach their homes un
der adequate transportation facilities.
It was the first police effort In Chi
cago to check overcrowding. The po
lice will report today on what they
saw to Chief Collins, who will In his
turn describe to Mayor Dunne the
conditions as they were found.
The policemen detailed at the ste'
tlons after the Corporation Counsel,
J. Hamilton Lewis, had given an opln
ion that the city under Its police pow
er could prevent passengers from en
terinr crowded trains to their own
possible Injury or to the Injury
others.
of
AMERICANS INDIGNANT.
MANILA, Dec. 1. The American
residents of this city are Indignant at
the order sending the United States
Asiatic squadron to Hongkong for the
holidays, as the merchants here want
ed the sailors to remain In Manila for
business.
The English fleet has sailed for
Singapore.- While hKMnnlla tho en
tertalnment of Its officers and men. was
on a lavish scale.
Charged With Responsibility ol
of Wreck.
ACTED UNDER INSTRUCTIONS
Operator Charged With Negligence
Says Ho Can Prove That Ho Was
Not Asleep at tho Time of tho
Accident.
LYNCHBURG, Dec. 1. The tele
graph operator, G. D. Mattoax, who
is charged by the officials of the
Southern Railway with the responsi
bility for the wreck at Lawyer's has
been located at his boarding house
near Rangoon tonight. Tom Mattoax,
a brother of the operator, gave out
the following statement: "My broth
er was on duty at Rangoon on the
night of the 28th. He can prove he
was not asleep and that he did not
leave the office for two minutes. When
train No. S Sapproached he let It Into
the block between Rangoon and Law
yer's. He let It Into the block under
Instructions and he can prove by wit
nesses that he tried three times to
get the operator at Lawyer's In or.
der to notify him of the approach of
No. S3. He could not, however, get
any response from the Lawyer's op
erator. The day operator can prove
that he found him on duty when he
reported at 7 o'clock to relieve him.
He did. not run away after the acci
dent. He did not feel that he was to
blame and made no effort to avoid .
arrest."
PEASANT KILLED.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. J. The
agrarian riot broke out today at Ve-
terofj, in the Kansan district, where
the rioters had looted a communal
granery, i
OPERATOR
LOCATED
NOT
BA
BUT FIGHT
Shippers Disgusted With
Diliatory Tactics.
PLAN PEOPLES LOBBY
Shippers Will Convene at Eugene
and Devise Means of
Relief.
WILL DEMAND LEGISLATION
Promises of Railroad Companies to
Relievo Car Shortage Amount to
Nothing .and No Reliance
Placed in Thorn.
PORTLAND, Dec L Such mills as
are still operating In the Willamette
Valley, hoping for relief from the
car shortage, are not selling enough
to pay! the ordinary labor, o say;
(
nothing of the skilled labor. The
Southern Pacific Railway Is controll
lng the output of lumber In South
ern Oregon more effectively than could
be accomplished by a daring trust of
lumbermen.
There has never been such a de
mand for lumber as at present, and
prices are high. At this time all the
mills should be coining logs into dol
lars Yet because of the car famine,
nearly a dozen mills have closed, near
ly 1,000 men are out of employment
the mlllmen are losing money right
and left, and cannot take in enough
to pay expenses.
Among the mills shut down are the
Wlldwood mill, Taylor & Sons, the
Star Lumber Company, the Cerro-
Gordo, Chamber Lumber Company,
J. H. Chambers, and others. These
are tributary to Cottage Grove, prin
cipally. The night shift of the Booth
Kelly plant at Springfield has been
laid off, and there is not a mill in the
Valley which is working at capacity.
The only reason they are not ' oper
ating, night and day Is the failure of
the railroad to provide.
J. P. O'Brien, the manager of the
Southern Pacific In Oregon, recently
returned from, the East and announced
that steel passenger coaches are being
built there and that he will bring
one to this state for exhibition. D.
C. Gault, of Cottage Grove, voices
the sentiment of the people In that
territory by exclaiming:
"What Oregonlans would much
more cordially welcome In Oregon are
freight cars, common flats. Leti the
steel coaches stay In the East Give
us flats, Mr. O'Brien, give us flats."
In Lane county alone 3,000 cars are
needed. The prospect of getting them
is dim.
Back to tho Plow.
Unable to move lumber from the
docks, the smaller mills, which are
operated by ranchers, are closing and
their owners are returning to the plow
as a means of earning a living until
the railroads give attention to the
commercial needs of Oregon. Mill
workers and the men in the timber,
however, have no farms to work, and
they are in no condition to face a
winter,
T. K. Campbell of Cottage Grove
says that a month ago It was Impos
sible to hire one laborer a week. Now
all that Is necessary to engage work
men Is to place a board outside his
offices and 20 men can be engaged In
one hour that is, they could be en
gaged if there was work for them.
There Is none.
CAR 8HORTAGE.
Southern Pacific Places Embargo on
tho Northern Paoifio.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1. Because
of the congested traffic on the North
ern Pacific the Southern Pacific has
placed an embargo on all shipments
destined for transportation over the
Northern Pacific lines. The scarcity
of cars all over the country caused by
the phenomenal movement of freight
everywhere has made the Southern
Pacific extremely cautious about los
ing the use of its cars by having;
them tied up in some lnaccessablo
place along a blockaded road of some
other company.
INJUNCTION GRANTED.
Los Angeles Annexation Territory in
Court
LOS ANGELES, "Dec. 1. A two
weeks' postponement of the Injunc
tion suit brought to restrain the sec
retary of state from filing the official
vote of the annexation election was
granted yesterday by the Superior
Court
The reason for the postponement
was that Attorney General Webb was
not ready to file a demurrer for the
secretary of state.
As the result the racing season,
which opened on Thanksgiving day,
will probably continue without at
tempt at interruption until Ascot
Park is legally declared a part of this
city.
ADAM SWOPE.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1. Adam Swope.
96 years old, who Joined Trinity Meth
odist Church In Trenton, N. J, on his
confession of faith a week ago, and
who said then that it was the first
time he had ever been connected with
a church, died here Wednesday night
Last Big Gridiron Battle of the
Game.
SPECIAL TRAINS WILL RUN
So Great Has Been tho Demand for
Tickets That Special Trains Will
Bo Run From Jersey
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NEW YORK, Dec. 1. -Army and
Navy meet on Franklin field, Phil
adelphia, today In the last big grid-
Iron battle of the year. Although
President Roosevelt will not witness
the game, it promises to be the cus
tomary brilliant function, athletically,
and socially. The game Is In the na
ture of a reunion of the United Serv
ice, but the Jollity of the assembled
multitude has never interfered with
the keen spirit of rivalry. Both teams
will play "New" football right up to
the mark, and those who have care
fully followed the -work of both elev
ens, believe It is anybody's game,
with generalship and daring the win
ning factors. '
So great has been the demand for
tickets for the game from this city,
that the Pennsylvania has arranged
to run six. special trains to Frank
lin field from Jersey City.
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Myrtle Glood Goes to Future Punish-
ishment by Strychnine Route.
SAN DIEGO, Deo. 1. Myrtle D.
Gleed, thirty-one years of age, who
lived with her mother on Kearney
avenue, committed suicide, by strych
nine today. She was divorced from
her husband four years ago. She
leaves relatives in Yakima, Wash., and
Rossland, B. O. "
ARMY AND NAVY MEET
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