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XT V V V V UBL.tBHI fULL AS800IATBD PRKA9 REPORT OOVKRS THC MORNINQ FIELD ON THH LOWEN COLUMBIAN VOLUMK LXI11 NO. 7 ASTORIA, ORKOON, TUESDAY. JANUARY 8, 1907 PRICE FIVE CENTS GEARIN HITS JAPANESE Advocates Restriction Immlgiatlon. of ARE NOT DESIRABLE Defends San Francisco School Board in Disbarment of Pupils. OREGON SENATOR USES FLAIL Dcclarci Japanti. Art Little Batter Than Chlnase and Thtir Coming Kara la a Manaca to tha En tira Country, W A 8 1 1 1 Nf) TON. Jan. 7 No new servitor waa ever accorded mu-h a compliment during lit first speech aa U accorded Henator Oeitrln today. He be;ivn Mb speech nt an hour whn moat senator take lunch: noon, how. ever, vacant im tii begun to fill, and before ha had proceed ad fifteen mln utra nearly every senator was j hla eat, arnl all who mm atiiycd to tha Bitch Heat wim filled, nlalca were crowded and corridors outside wor thronged with people trying to gain admittance. j W "California," began Mr. Oearln. "la under no otitl w.tl loiiM to th federal government to have public schools or any kind of school nt nil. And. If nht dona have them, It In her province, and not that of the general government to nay how tluy Hhall he maintained and how conducted and under what conditions." Replying to tin) claim In thi Pres ident's mcSHiiKo that tho treaty with Japan guaranteed protccllon nnd right to attend public, school In nil states lu the Union, and to attend thetn In company with while, children, Mr. tleurlii denied cinphatlcally that there U any provision In the treaty which liy any sort of construction can he inadu to mipport such a clulm. Regarding tho restriction of Japan exe Immigrants tho senator Kald: "In the school of bitter experience wo have h-ariied that the unrestricted Immigration of AHlallc laborers to this country Ih a curse anil a disorder and a menace to tho welfare nnd happi ness to and prosperity of the labor ing man of America. "We have a right to protect our selves a ml wo must protect ourselves or go to the, wall In the world's com petition." lie nrgucd that the yellow and white races never have mixed and never can. "There Ih not one single objection that was ever urged against the Chi nese laborer that does not apply with rquul force against the Japanese la borer. Why, then, the discrimina tion?" FACTS ABOUT OREGON. What the Eager Eaaterner and Others Want to, and Must, Know. PORTLAND, Jan. 7. (Special Cor reaponuYneo.) Never at nny time since Oregon became a slate has there been mich widespread Interest In her development, us Ih evidenced by the letters received from all parts of the United Stales by tho Oregon Develop ment League. President T. R Wilcox, of the State League, has just authorized an In crease In the advertising In thorough ly reliable agricultural publications of largo circulation, These advertise ments aro devoted exclusively to tho agi h iilluiul laud of 1 lit. slate, for It la an Increased farm population that Oregon need more than nil eo corn blued, I'ut iiii'i k- 1 lc fanner on the vacant lands, cut up the large ram hex and the clih-M, towns and villages of Oregon will grow and prosper, With that end lu view Oregon la being ad vertised a h ii'-ver before, und the In quiry Ik three time as great a It waa during the Lewi A Clark ICXpO SUIOII. Many communltleM of the state are sending otit literature to Inquirers, list of whom are being furnlHhed to each nnd every on of tho sixty-three organization composing the Oregon Development League, letters of In quiry ar coming In many language English, Herman, Hwedlah and Polish load; lid tern are coming from every state In the Union, hut Mlnneaota, Iowa, Kansas, VIcliiHlri, the liakotaK, and Nebraska are about equal In num ber, and It In from Juat them; portion of tho Unllud Btatea that w want our Immlirralon. An aicurate concep tlon of the enormoua corrcpondenoe can bent bfl had from the fact that It coat $ r27 to pay the outgoing poat- UK,- for ho paat twenty-five daya from the I'oitlund offlcu alone, II' member (hat It la In January that you get more reodera than any othe month, betauae the farmera In th cold B-ctlonH of the country are reat liiK. but I'Vbrunry la alo Important (iiio piece of literature and a per aonal letter aent today ure worth morn than ten during the farmcr'i liuny aeaaon. Men Try (o Cross NearjMcGowans and Their But Capsizes. FIVE PERSONS ARE DROWNED People on Shore Hear Shouts for Help and Haiten to Retcue, But No Traoe of Men ia Found Par ticulars Meagre, rollTIANI, Jan. 7. Newa was re- ci Ived liero tonlfiht that five men were drowned in the Columbia river no.-ir Kutlera, Wash., Iat night by tho cap clzlng of a boat In which they were uoHslng the river from Hutlers to McdowaiiH on tho Oregon aide. People oil the shore at ltutlers heard i he men shout for help and a search w' made for the boat, but no trace of II was found, The missing ure W. K. Mi-rray, county surveyor of Skamania I utility, Wash.; Uaii Unstrom, W'M lar,: Wallace, a man named Jackman o Sli v. iison, Wash., and an unknown man. Particulars of tho accident a. 1 iid to obtain. LIST IS LONG. Accident And Crime Makes New York Coroner's Report Lengthy, NKW YoRK, Jan. 7. The report of the Hoard of Coroners for 1906 Just published shows a remarkable year of accident and crime. In all there wore fi.StiO deaths reported to the coroners olllce of which 2,lfi0 were by violence. For Manhattan alone and excluding the casualties reported In Jersey City, Long Island City and Brooklyn, the tunnel work caused 68 deaths. There were f49 felonlonsi attack,1 causing death. Surface cars causing 7 deaths; elevated trains 14 and tun nel trains 17. Automobiles killed 24 people In Manhattan during the year. Tho !U)S suicides were brought about as follows; 110 by shooting 21 by throat cuttings; 51 by poison, 124 by gas; 27 by jumping from windows or roofs, 4 by jumping In front of trains and 34 by drowning. The total number of deaths by casu alties Including falls, explosions, col lapse of buildings, premature blasts, falling of rock, timber and stone were 684. Alcoholism -caused the death of 115 persons. PERISH IN COLUMBIA TOOK TRIP TO SEASIDE Candidate for Speaker is Wrotb at Rumors. HE DID NOT DISAPPEAR Was Taking a Brief Rest After Strenuous Period of Activity. STILL STRONG FOR OFFICE Reports that Statesman's Editor Wat in Cups is Negatived by Him Upon Hie Emergence from Temporary Obscurity, PORTLAND, Jan. 7. Representative Frank Davey of Marlon county, who wa supposed to have mysteriously disappeared, returned to Portland this morning from Renaide, wherej he has ten alnce last Friday. During Davcy'a absence It was fer.red that he was the victim of some (.UtlcaJ conspiracy, having for Its object his defeat as speaker of tho House and Injuring the cause of Jon athan Itourne. Mr. Davcy, who waa In Portland Thursday, and Intended returning to his post of managing editor of the Ptntesman that evening, wired Thursday night that as trains were demoralised owing to the storm, he would return Friday morning. There v ere no Southern Pacific trains Frl- diy forenoon, so Davey decided to tcke a trip to the beach. "I was worn out," explained Mr. Da- cy, "nnd concluded that since I could not go home, the best thing for me to do was to run down to the coast and rest two or three days. It waa the only way I could get out of Portland, and I needed the rest. "No one was more astonished than I when I learned this morning, coming up from Astoria, that I was being hunted for high and low In Portland, and that my so-called disappearance had caused a commotion in political circles." From Friday morning until he ap ared at noon, Mr. Davey had been searched for In Portland In every pos sliile place. Private detectives and friends looked for him In vain. At noon today Mr. Davey returned home, and this afternoon Is with his wife and son nt St. Johns. It was considered suspicious by these who have been watching the political situation that Davey should llsappear on the evo of his apparent triumph as Speaker. Davcy has more votes pledged than are needed to elect him, but when the news was elrcu- ated this morning that he had dis appeared It was feared for a time that his chances were Injured. His return nakes him still the dominant factor In the Speakership fight. ARE TOO NOISY. Engineers Arrested At Terminal For Tooting Too Much. NKW YORK, Jan. 7. The first de Ided move In a fight which the anti- New Insurance League of Staten Is land began recently against the Bal timore & Ohio Railroad Company's freight terminal at St. George, was made yesterday when four railroad en gineers arrested charged with "Sab bath breaking." Tho league was for med sometime ago to prevent unnec- ssary noises on Staten Island on Sun day, it being complained that freight trains were ditched a great deal and locomotive whistle, were blown on that day of the week, the latter In vlo liillon of the law. The engineers were taken Into custody and the arresis brought the business In the yards almost to a standstill. The St. fieorge terminal Is one of the mot lrniortant the Baltimore A. Ohio has, cars from the W-Mt are brought there and sent Houth to Brooklyn, where freight Is distributed among vssels and a great deal of freight from New Kngland Is landed there. INVESTIGATE 8ULLIVAN CO. San Francisco Brokers Meet to Arrange Inspection of Affairs. HAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7. HanFran claro brokers will hold a meeting to day to arrange for an Inspection of the affairs of the L. M. Sullivan Trust Company of (joldfteld. Oeorge R. Rice Peter Grant and other officers of the company say that they will be pre pared on Wednesday to meet With the brokers and prove that their com'rir.y 'tolv rt. Rive raid yrsterday that he had m rel'.el a copy of tho expert report on the affairs of the concern. "I do i id care," he ia'i2, "to go llto the details of this report, but It shows that we have assets to more than SI, 'G,'.ie) ti. exo.-rs of our liabilities. ThI, Is figured on the intrinsic vatuo of the s. curlty." "Our total liability to brokers amounts to not more than 1300,000 and of this amount not more than $150,000 Is to San Francisco brokers." FEAR HAD GROUNS Panama Badly Buffeted by Waves Before Reaching Port. HEROIC ACTION OF SEAMEN Some Are Swept Overboard While Trying to Fasten Life Rafts and Despite Gale's Fury Comrades Come to Rescue. CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. 7. Lewis Kaiser, United States consul at Port Mazatlan, Mexico, has telegraphed the Associated Press the story of the south bound trip of the steamer City of Panama, which for three days was thought lost off the California coast. The story shows the fears for the safety of the vessel were well ground ed, The trip was thrilling, replete with danger, narrow escapes, heroic action on the part of officers and crew. One life was lost, Manuel Acu na, a Chilean, who was drowned. The vessel was In a hurricane seventeen consecutive hours after leaving San Francisco and everything movable on board was washed overboard. Mate George, Boatswain Telecea and two seamen were ordered up to secure the remaining life rafts, but they were swept overboard. With great difficul ty, ti life boat commanded by Mate Moden was finally launched. Mean while Mate George, Boatswain Tele cea and one of the seamen succeeded In reaching one of the life rafts that had been swept into the sea. Mate Moden and his crew reached the strick en men and rescued them. Acunea was tossed up by a huge wave and disap peared. As the storm was Increasing, It was decided to run into Drake's Bay ou the coast of California. Although the boat was badly buffeted, she was not so badly injured that she could not proceed on her Journey, The pas sengers highly praised the brave con duct and efficiency of the captain and crew. A collection was taken up, the proceeds of which are to be used In the purchase of gold medals for the crew that manned the lifeboat during the height of the storm. HURLED FROM HIGH BRIDGE Mysterious Murder in Port land Streets. NEWYORKDOCTORSLAIN Attitude of Relatives and Police Make Puzzle the Harder. HOLD NO ROBBING WAS DONE Though Pockets of Dead Man Had Been Turned Inside Out, Those Who Should Know Refuse to Consider Robbery Theory. PORTLAND, Jan. 7. What appears to have been a terrible murder, follow ing robbery, was discovered here to night when the body of Dr. Philip Ed' wards Johnson, a physician from New York, was found under the Ford street bridge. It appeared at first that he had either fallen or Jumped from the bridge, which Is a steel atruqture about 100 feet high on the Ford street crossing Jefferson street An examina tion of the body, however, revealed the almost certain fact that the doc tor had been robbed and his body cast over the bridge by his assailants. An empty pocket book was found on the bridge and his watch had been unfas tened from its fob and removed. No other valuables were found. The body was mangled horribly. Dr. John son resided with his wife at the Nor tonla, a fashionable hotel. Mrs. John son Is a daughter of former Governor Hoadley of Ohio, and was a Mrs. Scar borough when she married Johnson last fall. It has been learned that Dr. and Mrs. Johnson came here from the east two months ago, It being their Intention to make Portland their per manent home. They ate dinner to gether at their hotel and Dr. John son appeared In a happy frame of mind. After dinner he visited W. C. Alvord, cashier of a local bank, and after talking with him for a few min utes, left to go to the home of Dr. Panton on Portland Heights. He had to cross the Ford street bridge to reach Dr. Panton's home, but so far no one has been found who saw him ajter he left Mr. Alvord's home. Alvord, who Is a cousin of the dead man, refuses to make any sort of a statement to newspapermen and his actions add mystery to the affair. When first seen by the reporters Al vord seemed willing to talk, but put the newspaper men off while he went to see Mrs. Johnson at her room In the hotel, and on his return he re ported her prostrated and flatly re fused to make any statement. Mrs. Johnson declined to see newspaper men. Although the pockets of the dead man had been rifled and turned Inside out, his pocketbook emptied and left on the bridge, together with his keys, Captain Bruin of the police depart ment expresses the belief that John sou was not robbed. Captain Bruin's peculiar belief in the face of the evi dence adds mystery to the affair. Cap tain Bruin does not take any stock In a theory of suicide, but rather in clines to the belief of murder, though by whom and for what cause he ven tured no opinion to the newspaper men. HAS POLICE POWER. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The House today passed the bill providing for a judicial review of orders excluding je-sons from the United States mall facilities, after a debate lasting most of the day. In presenting reasons why th bill should pass, Crumpacker of Indlira. Its author, said the power given to the postmaster general un.te? the statute to issue fraud orders waa not ,.( all an administrative discre tion, as It rather partook of the na ture of a police power for the regua tion of the morals of the people of the country. Crumpacker contended the whole fraud order law was an unusual proceeding, In that If It had been confined to institutions and prac tices that were essentially fraudulent or were Inherently bad and criminal, such as green goods concerns, lotter ies and the like, as originally contem plated by congress, there would be no complaint against It. Mann, of Illinois, read from several advertisements which, he said, seemed to show that the concerns were still doing business that ought to coma within the scope of fraud orders. He said the bill was defective In that there should be no letting down of bars to permit doubtful concerns to fleece :he public, BOARD HAS PUZZLE, SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. t-Late this afternoon a board was picked up on the beach at Ocean Side, on which was painted "Rover No. 4." The name of the boat In which Captain all Is alleged to have abducted Dora Bennls Is the Rover and this suggests that the board might be from that craft The "No. 4," however, Is a puzzle. ASSAILANT IS FOUND Bloody Blouse Leads to Arrest of Black Who Shot Macklin. NRGRO HELD ANCIENTGRUDGE Authorities Believe They Have at Last Captured the Person Who Tried to Kill Captain of Colored Troops. GUTHRIE, Okla., Jan. 7. A State Capital special from Fort Reno says: The finding of a kh&kl jacket, one sleeve of which was covered with blood and punctured, presumably by a bullet, led to the arrest this after noon of Corporal Knowles, of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, on a charge of murderously assaulting Captain Edgar B. Macklin. When arrested the negro was found to have a severe flesh wound on the wrist, for which he Is said to have been treating himself over three weeks. The wound is declared to have been Inflicted by the same size bullet as went through the sleeve of the jacket which bore Knowles' Initials. Officers of the fort and El Reno po lice do not doubt the negro is the masked man who, on the night of De cember 21 called Macklin to the back door of his room and shot him twice. The jacket which led to Knowles' ar rest was found near the fort Sunday by two boys. Knowles was given a hearing before United States Commissioner Lowe at Fort Reno tonight, but up to this hour (11:30) it Is impossible to learn the result. It was stated at the fort that he would be taken either to El Reno or Guthrie tonight. A pair of khaki trousers were found in the creek wa ters late this afternoon near where the Jacket was found yesterday. It Is said that another negro soldier will be ar rested. He is being shadowed In EI Reno tonight. Knowles was not in Brownsville at the time of the riots. It Is said Knowles formerly belonged" to a company of which Macklin was captain and It is said bore a grudge against that officer for some Incident before the Brownsville trouble. An of ficer at the fort, however, states that a theory of the trouble Is being worked out of the Brownsville affair, the for mer trouble being merely an Incident.