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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1906)
OOVIR6S TM MORNINQ PIILO ON TAW LOW! OOLUMBIAil UBLItHKB FULL ABBOOIATSO HiPOAT PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME LXI NO. 342 ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1906 WHITES WERE OFFENDERS "Hoodlums and Outlaws" Made Race War. TROOPSIGUARD BLACKS Four Men Killed Christmas Were Not Connected With Riots. DISTRICT ATTORNEY REPORTS Nloholson, Respectable and Unofftnd' Ing Colored Man, Brutally Mur dered, Although Offiolals Uia Own Bodies at Shields. NEW ORLEANS, "Dec 17,Tbat white man protected Innocent negroes and that av,ry effort la being mnda by tha whites to punish those 'hoodlums" or thalr own rae who wara responsi ble for tha Christmas rlota In Kemper County, Mississippi, wu tha Informa tion In detld ftoooun'a arriving ear ly today from tha lll'll towns which wcr tha seen of th6loodshd. 1 "A conference has Wn held," these dispatches say, "between tha civil and military authorities, at whhh svldenct wa produced that will establish tha Identity of flv whlta men of food families of tha county who took part In tha lynching. District Attorney Currie hna made a public statemunt. In which" ha auya: "1 foun.l upon an Investigation that tha trouble waa caused by a lot of hoodlum and out In wa who openly vl lated all lawa of God and man and deorncy. "Tha four men killed Chrlst nuui day wers not connected with the affair In any manner, and I am In formed that the houaea burned were occupied by nsgroes who ware not even In aympalhy with any of those who were connected with tha outrage. These men will ba captured If It la In tha power of tha State of Mlsalaslp pi to do ao,'" Tha dlapatchea aay that tha total death Hat la probably IS; that the mob element among tha white haa moatly fled toward tha Alabama mate line, whllo negroea In terror have gathered at Scooba and Wnhalak to plnca them selves under the protection of troopa or cklxena. The killing of a negro named Cnlvln Nicholson la reported aa "one of the moat brutal which hna oc curred alnca the days of Reconstruc tion." i " ' Nicholson waa n negro of the beat clnaa. While a posse was aearchlng for a negro named Simpson, who had killed a deputy, thoy enter Nicholson's houae, and aeveral persons began ahontlng nt him. Deputy Sheriff Alexander and two othera ruahed to the negro, ahleldlng him with their and hla house burned. District Attor boil loa. They protected him until ov erpowered, after which he wna allot and hla house burned, District Attor ny Currie aays ho hna fixed the blame for this murder upon three men and will arrest them 1 they are atlll In the atate. . '.. Governor Vordnmnn tonight offered rewards for the arrest of Ernest Bryan an Dan Kerrall, prominent men In the vicinity of Scooba, who are suspected of having connection with the Nichol son murder. OUTBREAK IN OKLAHOMA. Raoa Fsellng at El Rano May Cul minate In Lynohlng. EL RENO, Okla., Dee. 27. Race feeling la at white heat and threats of lynching are heard on every hand, as a result of the aasauH cor -tSr yfl Mrs, T, 8. Clifford, wp rotn Inant physician, by ' jt oldlr of tha Twenty-fifth ' ,. Mrs! Clif ford and har ala0 .t. B. 1L Clarke, were aiteinptlngo pas tha soldier whan ha viciously grabbed lire. Clif ford around the waist and threw her Into tha atreat, exclaiming that the sidewalk belonged to him, Mrs. Clarke creamed for assistance and the aa anllant fled, escaping before help ar rived, News of the attack spread rapidly and the entire police depart ment, reinforced by aeveral hundred men and boys, searched the town and surrounding country, but thla evnlng the chase waa given up, a the negro waa In uniform and must return to the post or soon become a deserter. SOUTH FOR ROOSEVELT. Desire for Canal Will Bring It Un der President' Banner. WASHINGTON, Deo. ItEarly n the present aaaelon of Congress there flamed tn the breasts of the disfran chised Inhabitants of the District of Columbia a spark of hope that at last a voice In the affairs of their government might be given them. A bill had been Introduced In the House providing that the District should have two elective delegates In Con gress, and a good deal of sentiment In aupportj of the measure had been worked up. Associations of cltlsens endorsed the project, and Congress appeared at least willing to lend a sympathetic ear. Rut now come the District Commla sloers, that triumvirate of presiden tial appointees who control the dee tlnlea of the national capital, and of ficially veto the proposition. They don't want any delegates In Congress, they aayj and In saying so, they pro fess to speak for all the people In the District. It would tend to dimin ish their own. Importance, It Is true; but that Isn't tha reason they give to Congress In opposing the plan. They aay It would Inject politics Into an Ideal municipal government; In other words, that the government of the capital of the American Republic would be ruined by the adoption of the American system of government. The views of the Commissioners may, or may not, seriously Influence Congress In deciding the question, but the chances are that the contradiction of the American doctrine of "no tax ation without representation" will pre vail for a number of years to come. NEW MOVE MADE. Attorneys for Sohmitz Wsnt Cat Transferred. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. J7. A new move was made today by the attor neya for Mayor Schmlts In the Indict ment case. Notice waa filed with the district attorney that they have moved that the presiding judge In the su perior court transfer the mayor's case from Judge Dunne's department to some other department,' The motion Is to be argued before Judne Graham tomorrow. The arguments which Schmlts advances In the nflldavlt at tached to this motion nro Hint ho wants a speedy trial, separate and apart from Ruef. The mayor declares that the affairs of the municipal govern ment require nn undivided attention, which he cannot give ao long aa the case remalna untlred. The Japanese question, tha conditions growing out of the earthquake, and other matter are roferrod to as requiring the may or'a attention. STRIKE IN LODZ. LODZ, Russia, Dec 27. In view of the lockout," which, according to the announcement will begin In all the principal factories here on December 29, Socialists of Lodx are threatening to organize street flghta and compel the citizens to feed and, lodge the un employed. Many weulth families are leaving the elty. RACE WAR LULL. MERIDIAN, Mies., Deo. 27. All the troopa stationed at Scooba, the scene of the recent race troubles, returned thla afternoon In charge of Governor Vardaman, who went there Inat night to take personal command. There were no outbreaks today. ' 1OIHllEN SACRIFICED Eighty Thousand Perish In Past Four Years. MORE THAN CIVIL WAR Startling Statistics Shown by the Social Service In stitute. OVER A THOUSAND WEEKLY Steps Are Being Taken lit New York to Compile Csreful Records of Fa tslitiss Among the Industrial Workers of America. ; NEW TORK, Dec 27. Important steps are to be taken In this city and elsewhere to establish a system of compulsory and accurate records of the enormous number of persons who are annually killed and Injured In American's vast army of . Industrial workers. In New Tork city only mea ger details of the persons killed and Injured through accident and neg ligence are shown by the reports of tho department of health, and those re ports are said to be Incomplete. ' ' For two weeks beginning on Janu ary 28 an exposition will be held In this city under the auspices of the American Institute of Social Son-Ice for the purpoee of studying and ex hibiting safety devlcee for dangerous machinery, methods of Industrial hy giene, and to set In motion the move ment to establish a more accurate rec ord of industrial fatalities and accl denta In all parte of the country. Dr. Joslah Strong, president of the American Institute of SocMal Service. In speaking of the number of persons killed each year In our Industrial oc cupations, made some astonishing com parisons. He said: "We In the United Stntea kill In four ycara aome 80,000 persona, more than fell In battle and died of wounds during the four years of the civil war. We are killing more than twice as many every year aa perished by vio lence In both the French and English armies during the three years of the Crimean war, , "There are more killed and wound ed on our .railroads every year' than tho entire losses of tha Boer war on both aides In three years. We havo Industrial casualties enough every year to keep one' conflict like oar war with Spain going on 1,200 years, or 12 auch wars going on for 100 years. Our peaceful vocations cost more lives every two days than were lost In bat tle during the entire Spanish war. "From, the best statistics obtainable I may say there are today 675,000 persons in the United States under sentence of death to be executed at unknown moments during the next ten years 1,100 next week and the same number every week until the ghastly work la complete, ' "An Intelligent and earnest effort would procure (he replove of a mul titude of these Innocent victims." RAILROADS VIOLATE LAW. Companies Confine Stock without Food for .Undue Length of Time. WASHINGTON. Deo. 27. Secretary Wilson today transmitted to the e pnrtmant of Justice nine additional cases of violation of the law which provides that railroad companies shall not confine stock on cars for more than 28 hours without food or water, except with the consent of the owner and then only for St hours. Compan ies alleged to be offenders are the Oregon Short Line, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, Lake Short and Michi gan Southern, C B, Q.. and Santa Fe. The secretary says that there are several hundred other cases under consideration by the Agricultural De partment and prosecution will be In- slated on wherever the evidence war- rants, ' MUCH TRACK BUILT. Lsst Year Hss Seen Sis Thousand Milss tvald Down, j CHICAGO, Dec. 27. More miles of railway were constructed In the United States during the last year than have been built during any year since 1888 according to the Railway Age. Since January 1, last. 6.067 miles of track have been laid on 8 lines In forty tour states and territories, making the country's total railway mileage 223.139. The largest amount of railway build ing during the year was done In Texas, where 701 miles of track were laid. Louisiana and South Dakota are al most tied for second place, with 891 and S8 miles respectively. FIRES IN CROWD. Two sre Killed and One Wounded In Texas Town. MARLIN.. Tex., Dec. 27.-While about 2000 people were assembled In the public square last night to enjoy the carnival attractions, great ex citement was caused by three pistol shots fired In rapid succession and attended by deadly reaults. A negro girl about 13 years old was shot through the head and Instantly killed. A negro, Hunt Broddlsh received a fatal wound in the back. A negro about 30 years old fled through the crowd, pistol In hand, shooting behind . n-e -" ....... htm as he ran, with two police In pur suit Walter Taylor, a policeman, was Sltfhtly sarounded in the arm. The negro Has not been capiurea, oui is said to be wounded. The cause of the shooting Is not known. MARSHALL KILLED. Detperst Duet Between Officers and Outlsws in Colorado. LAMAR Colo., Dec 27. City Mar shal Horace Frlsby waa ahot and killed here last night by two etrangers who subsequently escaped. There was no witnesses to the killing but Sher- Iff George Thomas heard the ahooting and arrived at the scene In time to see the two men making their escape. The sheriff fired several shots at them and succeeded In wounding one of them but not severely enough to prevent him getting away. There Is no clue to the murderers but It is sup posed that they are two men who have been hanging around the town for sev eral days and acting in a suspicious manner. , , SUES OVER FRANCHISE. EL PASO,' Tev., Dec, 27. J. P. Dieter, a prominent business man of this place, has entered suit against W. C. Greene of the Cananea Copper com pany to recover 325,000 which he al leges Is due him aa his share of the price paid by the El Paso Electric Railway Company for a street railway franchise which Dieter had secured from the city. Dieter alleges that af ter the construction of portions of the railway under franchise, . Greene sold tho franchise for $10,000 and the plaintiff sues for damages. STRIKE WITHOUT POWER. NEW ORLEANS, eo. 27. Except for livestock and perishable goods, the Southern Pacific officials announce that the company today moved all Its freight trains on tke Louisiana divi sion without dlfflcftlty. The officials also aUio that tha strike Is 'no longer regarded as a serious Inconvenience. ' STAMPEDE KILLS FOURTEEN. MANILA, Dec 27. A stampede at Christmas mass at Tangay caused by a woman being seised with an epilep tic fit, was tho cause of the death of fourteen natives. IS HUNG BYilOB Tramp Pays Penalty for His Fiendish Crime. TAKEN FROM OFFICERS Is Cool and Collected to the Last and Made No Effort to Resist MOB IS VERY ORDERLY No Shots Were Fired During the En tire Affair Leaders Are Thought to be Well Known Residents of Town. PUEBLO, Cal., Dec 27. A special to the Chieftain from Los Animas says Lawrence Leberg was lynched there tonight for the murder of Henry La venmeyer by a mob of masked men. About forty entered the jail before t o'clock and easily overpowered the sheriff, under sheriff and two other of ficers, and locked them securely In a room of the building. Tho win then went to the 'cell occupied by Lebegr, struck the shackles from his limbs and took him from the jalL A larger body of men and boys were waiting outside and when the prisoner and his cap tors appeared they formed a proces sion and proceeded a short distance from the jail and hanged the man to a telegraph pole. The self-confessed murderer made no resistance and made no statement The mob offered no violence and no shots were fired dur ing the entire affair. Before the mob reached the jail Leberg heard them coming. He arose from his cot, dressed himself coolly and awaited the coming of the avengers of Laven meyer's death. The leader of the mob made no effort to disguise himself and It Is declared the ringleaders are known to the Jail officials. POSTOFFICE ROBBED. Jefferson Again Reports a Burglary the Postal Building There, in SALEM, Ore, Dec. 27. For the third or fourth time recently, the postofflce at Jefferson, maintained tn the general merchandise store of Smith & Fontaine, haa been robbed. This time the burglar secured 375 In coin, which was tn a bag in the cosh drawer, and also took a small bag of mutilated coin, amounting to about 311. The thief must have entered the store by using a skeleton key, as ev erything was found Intact this morn ing when the store was opened. It Is believed the robbery was committed by some person living m the commun ity familiar with the situation, and that all the robberies have been done by the same person. BEGGAR CHILD RICH. Five Yesr Old Boy Reputed Worth Fifty Thousand Dollars. NEW TORK, Dec. 27. Acting on an anonymous letter, agents of the Chil dren's Society found a five-year-old boy named Edward Pullman half- starved and wrapped In rags on 'the top floor of a tenemtn house In West 28th street The child's mother in the Children's Court declared that the boy is heir to a trust fund of 350,000. She said she had been married to George H. Pull man, who, she declared, was the son of the palace car man. Before the birth of the boy she said Pullman had arranged a trust fund, which he was to have when he became 21 years of age. Later she obtained a divorce from Pullman. Later she obtained a divorce from Pullman. .Those familiar with tho woman's history say that as Lillian Mason, daughter of ' Samuel Mason, a physician of this city, she was about ten years ago stenographer for the Red Cross Society and accom panied Miss Clara Barton to Armenia and Cuba. George H. Pullman, ne phew of the palace car man, waa sec retary of the society at that time and Lillian Mason alleged that he mar ried her in 1898, Subsequently he successfully opposed, this claim in the courts. In the meantime the wo man was dismissed from the Red Cross service and was sent back to this country from Cuba by General Flts bugh Lee. .. . , . . EIGHTEEN JAPANESE DEPORTED. EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 27, Immi gration officers today caught eighteen Japanese at Pala'r, eight miles from here on the Rio Grande river. These were J .-fart of fifty-three who were yes terday refused admittance at this port and succeeded in crossing the river from Mexico fnt3 til; country. T&ejr were at once deported. This city's Japanese population has Increased re cently at an unprecedented rate, not withstanding the rigid enforcement of the Immigration laws by the local of ficial a. REMAINS FOUND. MERRILL, Or Dec 27. J. O. Ben ton, a shecpherder, employed by Whit ney Bros., has found below Tule Lake, southeast of here, what is supposed to bo the remains of John Crawford who disappeared last winter while herding sheep in ; the lava beds. Crawford could not be found after a heavy storm and It was supposed he lost his way back to camp and died. The clothing and .shoes of the skeleton correspond to those" found by Benton. The spot was about a mile from Crawford's camp. REPUDIATE STANDARD OIL. LIMA, O., Dec 27. In one brief typewritten page, the three oil com panies against which State Attorney General Ellis filed ouSter suits here recently, made answer here today, acknowledging that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey owns but five shares of capital stock of the Buck Eye Pipe Line Company, Solar Refin ing Company, and the Ohio Oil Com- . pany. Wherefore each company asks that tha action be dismissed against them. BROWNSVILLE INVESTIGATION. BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Dec 27. M. D. Purdy, assistant to the attor ney general, accompanied by Major Blockson of the Inspector general's de partment, and W. W. Merchell, confi dential law clerk to Secretary Taft, commenced an Inquiry into , the . "Brownsville affair" today. Four wit nesses were examined today. It will probably take several weeks to com plete the Inquiry. The examination is private. ... '. STORM OFF ENGLAND. LONDON, Doc. 27. A terrific storm is raging tonight off Holy Head and several vessels are' reported In distress. The Japanese liner Awa Maru, from Antwerp for Mlddlesborough, ran on a rock off Red Car. Life boats reached her after great difficulty and accord ing to the reports almost all of her crew of 120 men and two passengers were landed safely. IMPORTS AMERICAN HORSES. NEW . TORK, Dec. 27. Emperor William of Germany is importing Am erican mares for his Btock farms. Ma bel L., a richly bred mare, g-years old, with a trial record of 2:10 1-4 is now aboard one of the American Hamburg liners and will be shipped to Germany today. REPORTED VISIT PLEASES. MANILA,, Dec 27. The Filipinos are elated at the report that President Roosevelt will visit the Islands next summer. ,