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VOLUME LXI NO. 33k ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1906 PRICE FIVE CE J ra VESSELS 1 DISTRESS Derelict British Bark Me- Ianope;Out$Idc. . PRIZE OF NORTHLAND Was Picked Up Off Tillamook Shortly After Noon Yesterday. BARK AGATE RETURNS ALSO Latter Vessel In Water logged Condi tlon Ten Feet of "Briny" In Htr Hold Brought In by Tatoosh Last Night Yesterday morning the steamer Northland, In command ot Captain T. A. Jamison, left thla port at I o'clock laden with lumber, for Ban Francis- co. Laat evening at sundown aha vu back at the bar with a valuable prise on her hawsers, tha Brltlab bark Melsnope, which waa deserted on th blfh mt off Cap Blanco, on Thurs- day, December I.. Hr roaster, Cap? tain a V. Wills, with hi wlfa and daughter, hla officers and crew passed a terrible night In tha rigging ot th Melsnope, and aa aoon aa It waa day light abandoned hor in tha baat and biggest of bar boata, being picked up on tha day following by the achooner WIIHam H. Smith, and taken to Port Angeles, Washington, where they din embarked last Monday. Captain Wllla wan convinced that hla veaael had gone down In the furious gala that beaet her, and will no doubt be Immensely urprlaed at the newa of her reaching POrt ;;:f':" The Northland picked her up thla aide ot Tillamook light and made a quick tow of It back to the Colum bia bar, and will bring her into port thle morning If all goea well and the fair weather holds She la quit a prise, being an Iron veaael and rated Al at Lloyds'. She la ot 1.564 tone and aside from the loaa of apara, gear and boata, ahe la In line condition and will prove a verltnbte plum for the hardy maater of the Noi-thlnnd. , She waa under charter to J. 3. Moore tt Company, of Pnn Francisco, and wna on her way to Tacnmit for a load of lumber, when ahe waa no badly used by tha elements and had to be aban doned. She hnld en Hod north from Masanlllo, Mexico, and had touched In at Eureka, en route, for a day, and It waa after leaving the latter port that ahe met with the fearful stress of weather that drove her people to the boats. She was ballasted with 700 tons ot aand. '"vKv.:.' 'V:' Today will tell the newer chapter In her career and It la needless to any, It must evolve something quite hand. oma to the credit and Interest of Captain Jamison, of tha ' salvaging steamer. On the very heels of the atory of the saving of the British bark Mel- anope, cornea the news of the saving of the AnWlcan bark Agate which left this port, lumber ladon from Van couver and bound for Ban Francisco, on Saturday, December 1. She waa towed Into port yesterday , evening late by tha bar tug Tatoosh, In a water-logged condition, and with ten feet of water in her hold. It Is aald ahe waa leaking when ahe left thla port and the fearful series of gales through whloh ahe has passed muat have rendered the work of her crew and her pumpa almost futile, but it la evident they kept her afloat until help waa at hand and ahe la now aafe and snug in the lower harbor. She la nearly forty yeara old, hav ing been built a Newburyport, Mass., In lSSS. fine I of 823 gross tons and 595 net tons; Is tiS.l feet long; of 1 1.1 feet beam; drawa 18.5 feet and carries a craw of t people; and is registered out of San Francisco. SENATOR BROWN DEAD. Mrs. Anna Bradley! the Murdrees, In vokes tha Unwritten Law.. j WASHINGTON, Deo. 12. Former Senator Brown, who was shot laat Saturday by Mrs. Anna Bradley, died at midnight. Her attorneys make the defense that ahe was justified In kill ing Brown try reaaon of ths f'unwrlt ten" law." Mrs. Bradley is on , ths verge of collapse and bar physicians say it may be several days before she can b arraigned on tha charge of murder, Another attempt was mads today to get aa ante-mortem state ment from Senator Brown, but be re fused to talk. Mr Anna Adjima, mother, of Maud Adams, will. arrive in Washington tomorrow and wilt ac company the body back to Salt Lake for burial Mrs. Adams' name was brought Into the case by reason of letters she wrote to Brown, which were found on Mrs. Bradley when she was arrested. . The former senator's son states that Mrs, Adams has long been a peraonal friend of the family. COUNTERFEIT MONEY. . NEW TORK. Dob. ll.-One of the best counterfeits that has recently eome to the notice of the government authorities found its way to the sub treasury yesterday. It is a f 10 silver certificate bearing the Buffalo Im print The back of the bill la even a closer counterfeit of the original bill than the face, but both are good enough to deceive any but experts. JAPANESE ELATED Viscount Believes U. S. Will Pre tect Their Interest. . AMEND FEDERAL CONSTITION Japanese To Be Aoeorded Same Prlv lieges In Public 8ohools aa Are Enjoyed by the White Amer ican Children. SEATTLE, Deo. 1!. The latest Kobe Herald received in America gives the views of Viscount Hayaahl, the Japan ese foreign minister, In regard to the, question of Japanese cltlaenshlp in the United States, The Herald says: "In accordance with the arrange ment mentioned in our last issue, a deputation of members of Selyu Kal waited upon Viscount Hayaahl, the foreign minister, on Sunday morning to convey to him the views of the party in regord to the Japanese -movement In San Francisco. A deputation from the Ken Kensl Honto waa also present. Addressing the two deputa tions separately, the viscount assured them that the Japanese and American governments were entirely at one in their views as to the San Francisco difficulty. The Toklo authorities are therefore limiting their action to pro viding the American government with the necessary information to enable it to arrive at a settlement of the trou ble as soon as possible. The viscount also said that the general publto opin ion In America was fully In agree ment with the attitude of the central government; In conclusion Viscount Hayashl snld that he earnestly be lieved that the United States authori ties would take advantage of this op portunity to revise the federal eonstl- tutton if such a course was found to be necessary, NOT DEAD BUT 8LEEPETH. ' TEHERAN, Dec. 12,-The condition of the Shah remains unchanged, al though he rallied slightly today. The concensus of opinion Is that he onnnot last more than five days. SIMPLIFIED SPELLING Went Down. in Defeat in the Lower House. MOODY IS CONFIRMED Several Nominations Sent to the Senate Were Confirmed by ' Unanimous Vote. APPROPRIATION CONSIDERED Deliberations of Senate Were Inter aperaed with Senator ftaynor'a Speech on Japanese Question In San Francisco Sohools. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. The open ing session of the senate was limited today so that a major portion of the day might be devoted to a considera tion in executive session of tba AI- geclraa treaty. The feature of the day was the speech of Senator Raynor of California upholding the state's doctrines aa Involved in the present Japanese question on the Pacific slope. Resolutions were agreed to calling on the President for information regard ing the selsure by Mexico of the fish ing schooner Silas Stearnes, and di recting the Secretary ot War to fur nlsh information regarding the alleged experiences with cholera virus at Manila resulting in ten or more deaths The senate today confirmed the nom ination of William H. Moody of Mas aachusetts to be associate Justice of the supreme court; Chas.' J. Bona parte, of Maryland, to be attorney gen eral V. H. Metcalf. of California, to be secretary of the navy, and Oscar S. Strauss, of New York, to, be sec retary of commerce and labor. The opposltlos to Moody and Bonaparte was not strongly pressed today and no roll call was asked for. On a vtve voce vote for Bonaparte there were a number of negative votes on the minority side, estimated at fifteen. The house today began consideration of the legislative, executive and ju dicial appropriation bill by paragraphs and completed thirty-four pages of the bill before adjournment Several hours were consumed in debating the amendment referring to simplified spelling, with the result that the orlg- mat provision on mat subject was eliminated and another amendment waa adopted. The new amendment as adopted Instructs the public printer to use orthography generally recognised by standard dictionaries. COURT MARTIAL Admiral Rojestvsnski Being Tried by Court Martial In Russia. ST. PETERSBURG. Deo. 12. Ad miral Rojestvenskl was placed on the stand today In his trial by court mar tial In which Admiral Nebojratoff at tempted to bring out testimony show' In that his sntiadronj- was unfit for bottle. The defense was unable ' to Introduce this testimony and sensa tional charges ot fraud In building and fitting out ships was barred by the court. When asked if Neboeratoff had any alternative but surrender, Rojest venskl begged to be excused ' from answering, GIRL KILLED. Pound In a San Francisco Exoava- .. '. '.; tlon. SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. 13. At an early hour this morning a policeman whose beat is on Sutter street, dis covered the body of a girl in an ex cavation at Grant avenue and Sutter street The supposition is that the young woman fell from the nnralled walk into the excavation., Her skull was fractured by what is supposed to have been a plunge into the un covered pit. A thorough search of the girl's clothing failed to give any c??w to hsr Identity.' She was about- U years old. DYNAMITE UNLOADED. Large Quantity of Explosives Unloadsd at Seattle. SEATTLE. Wash.. Dec. 12. Local steamship men fear a disaster will re suit from the careless way in which dynamite and other high explosives are bandied at the local wharves. It is a common occurrence for a vessel to He alongside a pier in the shipping center and unload hundreds of tons ot explosives, and the shipping men will endeavor to have an ordinance passed preventing vessels from discharging dynamite at centrally located, wharvts. The city ordinance gives steamship companies the right to unload explo sives at any wharf during the hours of the day. FARMER KILLED. . THE DALLES, Dec. IS. John Bull. aged 4 years, a farmer living at Ru fus, Sherman County, waa run over by an O. R. A N. switch engine at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and died In three minutes. The supposl tlon Is that he was on the rear of the tender when the engine backed, and he Jumped and slipped. . No. blame attaches to any one. The body was taken to his home for burial. Poor Showing Made in Madison Square Bicycle Race. THIRTEEN TEAMS IN RACE Two Deaths Have Resulted, One Boy and One Girl, In Their Efforts to Witness the Race With out Paying. NEW TORK, Deo. 12. The riders in the (-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden are falling many miles behind the record. At 4 a. m. today 12 of the teams had scored 969 miles and 9 laps, while Walthour and Bedell, the thirteenth team, had one, lap less to their credit, This la nearly. 69 miles behind the record established in 1900 by Elkes and McFarland," . The efforts of Walthour and Bedell to re gain the lap lost, when they formed a new partnership because of acci dents to their original team mates, are a feature Ot the race. Late lost night they nearly succeeded, a spill spoil Ing their effort when the men, riding alternately, ' had all but covered the lap. The desire of Thomas Breiman, an 18-year-old youth, to witness the race, cost him his life last night: The lad scaled an Iron picket fence and tried to climb Into a window in order to gain admittance to the garden. He fell and landed on the pickets, one of wliluii penetrated his abdomen. His Injury proved fatal. COLLEGE DEFICIT. SPRINGFIELD, Mo Deo. 12. Dru- ry college may not receive the $50, 000 recently offered by the Rockefeller Educational Fund. Professor, Kerby. president ot Drury, has been Informed that 2200,000 must be raised by June 1, 1907, and that the college must have no deficit this year. One ,. hundred thousand dollars of $200,000 Is pledged. The college has had a deficit every year for the last twenty years, ROOSEVELT ID Raycr Discusses Position . on Japanese. SANFRANCISC0 SCHOOLS President Has No Right to Bom bard the City In Favor . of Japs.. ADDING INSULT TO INJURY The President Hss No Authority Un der the Constitution to Interfere With School Questions in Any of the Cities. . cltiiens of foreign lands shall pos- critlcisms of President Roosevelt's , eBg prhfliege9 ta m treaty that ar, position on the Japanese question ! prohibited either by the constitution prefaced Senator RaynerJ discussion or by the laws of the state in whlci in the senate of the constitutional j they are claimed, if we can, in de questlons involved. If the military I (Continued on Page 8.) and civil forces of the federal gov-j - -.- ernment were to be used by the Pres- j ident, said Mr. Rayner, It became very important to know the exact status of the President in the matter. "Because," he added. "It is quite a serious matter In view of the great calamity that has lately befallen the city of San Francisco, for the President to con template the bombarding of the city at thla time, and to declare war against the board of county school trustees of San Francisco if there is no Justification or pretext opon which such ferocious proceedings can be undertaken. The President Is' exer cising a great many functions legis lative, executive and judicial, lawful and unlawful, constitutional and un constitutional. If he is possessed of the idea that he la supervisor of al! of the public schools of the various state of the union, and he seems to be impressed with tbts Idea, because In the very last paragraph ot his mes sage he recommends the establishment of shooting galleries in all of the large public schools of the country we' must either disabuse his mind of this fancy or we must let him know that we agree to the omnipotence of his Jurisdiction. 1 If he can take pos session of the public schools of Cal ifornia and compel the state to ad mit, to them Japanese students.-contrary to " th laws of California, he could with equal propriety send na an amendment tj the Santo Domingo treaty and demand the admts'lon of the negro children of Santo Domingo into the white schools of South Caro lina- or Of any? other state of the union. Of course, if the people have come to the conclusion that" every thing the President recommends . is right, then there Is hardly any use in contesting any of his prooosltlons and instead of conferring upon htm the power to nfove congress informa tion of the states of the union, we mtght confer upon him the function of furnishing his own peculiar, views upon the entire state of the universe and - recommending any improve ments or chancres In the general plrtn of creation that he may deem expe dient, from the cradle to the grave. In fact, the President, upon page 19 of' his message, anticipates the cradle and makes a recommendation upon the states of the union that tends to place in his hands , the establishment of the birth rate of the country. Now if we can only supplement this func tion by giving him complete Jurisdic tion over the death rate, we will then have a rule on which his ubiquity is unclrcumscrlbed and whose unlimited possibilities are beyond the reach of human contemplation." Mr. Rayner coincides with what the President bad said in his message In praise of the Japanese, His sympa thies had, be said, been with them during the war with Russia and he thought it a shame that Japan should have been overpowered in the con ference room when she had been vic torious on the battlefield. He pro posed, he said, to discuss the present question entirely outside of the" par ticular circumstances and plant him self on these two propositions: X. , That there is no provision what ever in the treaty with Japan 'that confers the right that the President speaks of or gives to -the government of Japan the privileges that it claims In connection with the public school system of California or of any other state. .,..'.''... . 2. If there was such a provision in this or any other treaty conferring this right the treaty would be void and ...without any authority upon the part of the United States to make it, and in violation of the constitution that the treaty-making power , of the ' government "The -precise point Involved," be said, Is the tenth article of the con-' stitutlon that powers not delegated to . the United States nor prohibited by It to the state, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people." Continuing. Mr. Rayner said: "The power of a state to regulate its pub lic school system, is clearly among tta reserved powers. Have we therefore. !JEVISH CONDITIONS Efforts to be Make to Relieve Jewish Conditions. MANY WILL BE SENT WEST All Poor Jews Who Arrive in New York Will Be Sent to Western and Southern 8tates for Homes. CHICAGO, Dec 12. Realizing the necessity of doing something to relieve congested conditions of the Jewish quarters of Chicago, New York and other large cities, leading New York Jews are planning to divert Jewish immigration to the West : Jacob Schlff, the New Tors: banker, who Is in Chicago at the preent time, discussed the subject yesterday with Judge Julian W. Mack. The plan contemplates the organising; of en as sociation, to" be financed by Mr. Schlff and other leading American Jews, v which will undertake to, oend Jew ish Immigration to the South and to the extreme Western part of the country. .. t V.'-U;;vV ' No effort will be made to encour age Immlirratlon, but all poor Jews who arrive In New Yorlt and other Atlantic ports will be given an oppor tunity to go to cities and towns in the South and West. To facilitate matters, the association plans to es tablish agencies and bureaus of in formation at New York and Galves ton and other Gulf ports. KILLED HIS SLAVES. OAKLAND, Cal Dec. 12. Choy Wah, a Chinese woman aged 25, waa terribly cut on the head and her hands were mutilated yesterday with a cleav er wielded by a Chinese, supposed to be Ah Soy, a merchant, who came to Oakland from Fresno two days ago. Soy was arrested Immediately after the crime. He refused to talk. The police think the woman was a slave owned by Soy, that she ran away and that he attacked ber In revenge.