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VOLUMK LXIII NO. 2
ASTORIA, OREGON, TUKSDAY. JANUARY 29, 1907
PRICK FIVE CENTS
PORTLAND
IN DARKNESS
Slorm Cripples Electric
Service of City.
SLEET BREAKS WIRES
Was Completely Isolated for
Over Nine Hours
Yesterday.
CAR TRAFFIC ALMOST TIED UP
Only In Business Districts Art Street
Car Being Run O. R, & N. Ha
8nowlld Ntar Bridal V.il
, Fall, Blocking Lin.
I'OnTI.AND. fire, Jan. 2S.A aloet
storm nn sevens na unusual, occurred
hem lust ultfhf rind to.liiy. The storm
I distinctly local, affoollnir only t
territory about 711 mllea In diameter,
having lln center In iIiIm city. When
tho maximum of tho storm wu reached
early 1n thu itftornoon, telegraph and
telephone companies had loHt commun
Icutlon with tho nut nidi wrld and for
it period of ulmoat iiIiik houra I'ortliiud
wn ua completely lttal'l n If It
hud tiiin lifted off tho map. Railroad
trnitlr la aorlously affected only on one
line, th . H. & N. That lino la suf
fering from it aimwidldo lit Hilda I Veil
Falls, mid this la lt expected to de
lay traffic more than twelve or fifteen
hmira. ordinarily the railroad haa tho
Columbia river to fall liai-k on for n
transfer of puaacngera In nil emer
gency of thla kind, b"t preaent nav
igation la lied tip. In thla city tho
damage to allude und fruit trees will
he heavy. I, Ike the telegraph, tolo
tdionic nnd elm-trie power wire, thoy
aro covered with a thick coating of
Ice. nnd every district nnd auhurhnn
telephone ayatetn la In bud adapt).
Whole districts uro without service be
cituMe of tho uprootlnir of pole unable
to wlthatnnd the heavy strain of the
weight of the Ico-ennte.l wlrea. Tho
breaking of wlrea, or the fulling of
polea, crossed many trolley wlrea and
except In the center of tho town where
the wlrea could bo. continually super
vlaed. no attempt waa made by the
street car company to operate Ha
II nea. Although the Portland General
Klectrlc Company Ima auflUlcnt pow
er, It wna considered ao dangerous to
turn heavy currenta through the wires,
that the street llghta were, not lit and
except where the streets aro Illumin
ated by store windows, the town la In
tlurkucHfl.
NOTED CHICAGOAN DIES.
President Chicago Board of Underwrit
er Die of Grip.
CHICAGO, Jan 28. Edward MeKIn
atry Tenll, und for a number of yenrs
President of the Chicago Underwri
ters Association, died last night after
a nionth'a Illness of grip and resulting
complications.
' Mr. Teall was born In Albany, New
York, on July 27, 1839.
At the tlmo Of his death Mr. Teall
waa President of the Board of Trus
tees of the McCormlck Theological
somlnary and president of tho Chicago
Relief and Aid Society.
ACTORS WED.
Leading Lady of the Hypoorite Mar
ries English Player.
NEW YORK, Jan. 28. Jessie Mill
ward, leading woman of the "Hypo
crites," now playing at the Hudson
Theatre, was married last Thursday
morning to John Oleridonnlng, who has
ft part In the same oompany.
Mlaa Mlllwuid, who mndu hr rep
utation herti n a a lending woman of
the Km pi re Theatre company waa born
In London and begun her career as n
member of Kir Henry Irvlng'a compa
ny. Mr. Olendennlng whoo flrat wife
died two years ago, la an Englishman.
For several years before coming to
America, lie toured Knglund with his
own company In Hhakoaperlan repertoire.
OLIVER GETS CONTRACT,
Now Practically Assured That H Will
Dig Big Ditch,
WASHINGTON, Jun. 2d. William J,
'liver, of Krioxvllle, Tnmi., the low
eat bidder In connection with the con
tract for the completion of the Pana
ma canal, today notified Homttury
Tafi that lie would complete hla con
tract wit bin the ten daya allowed him.
Ho aafuro.l tho aorrotary that ho waa
about to aaaocluto with him tine or
more responsible contractors whom ho
waa aatlwlled would bo satisfactory to
thii PrealdotiL In spunking of thu mat
ter today, Taft aald tho contract
would bo given Oliver, If, aa ho stated,
tho person ho Intends aaaoclatlng
with can bear their share of the re
sponsibility. BEACON FOUND.
PORTLAND. Jan. 28.-Beacon poat
light No. 2, which wont adrift from
Tongue Crowing last Friday, was
found tho following day anhore four
mllea south of tho dray's Harbor light
station. It shows that there la an
unusually strong current running north
off tho Washington coast. Cuptaln P.
J. Werllch, lighthouse Inspector In thla
dlatrlct, was notified thla morning that
the Jmal light had beo found.
ANOTHER SUSPECT
Cigar Dealer Arrested in Con
nection With Postal Thefts.
BELIEVED TO BE INFORMER
I Now Being Sweated by Federal Air
thoritie Postal Inspector .Be
lieve Thy Have Captured the
Fiv Man Implicated.
PORTLAND, Jan. 28. E. Sutter, a
young man who conducts a cigar store
on First street, between Washington
and Alder, and Is believed to be Im
plicated with tho alleged Sellwood and
HI. John's postoftlce robbers, as nn In
former nnd "fence" for the disposal
of plunder, Is In the custody of the
federal authorities, and Is being
"sweated" In nn attempt to learn what
lie knows about tho suspects. Sutter
was taken Into custody by Constable
Lou agner and Detective P. J. Patrick
Maher, of the district attorney's of
llce, und tiuestloned at tho office of
Mr. Manning. Ho admitted that ho
knows Wane, the leader of the sus
pected robbers, that ho has loaned him
money and that after Wane's arrest
nn attorney came to hlin to put up
ball for the prisoner. He denied that
ho had disposed of stolon stamps for
Wane or any other of tho party.
The officers say that Sutter's broth
er runs a store at Sellwood, near the
postofHce and they belluve the boy
gave the robbers Information about
tho postotllce. After being questioned
by Wagner and Mahcr tho young man
was turned over to the postal Inspec
tors for further sweating.
Thread by thread the postal Inspec
tors are weaving a wob of evidence
tending to prove conclusively that
Frank Wane, Charles Anderson and
Louis L. Smith were three of the ac
tive participants In the Sellwood and
St. John's postofflce robberies and that
Captain A, TurnbuII of chemical com
pany No; 1, and A. F. Bryant, a bar
tender at Tom Fallon's North End
saloon are Implicated with the rob
bers. 1
MDRED
ARE KILLED
Terrible Coal Mine Explo
sion in Germany.
GASES CHECK RESCUERS
Two Explosions Said to Have Oc
cured Involveing Those
Aiding.
FIND SEVENTY-SEVEN BODIES
Official Statement of Dead Place List
at Less Than Two Hundred, But
Report Say Three Hundred
May Be Killed.
SAARBRUEK, Rhenish Prussia, Jan,
28. A fire damp explosion occurred
this morning In the Roden coal mine
at St. John-on-8aar, opposite Soar
bruek, and cause the loss of from 100
to 200 lives. The mine Is owned by
the Prussian government. Up to 6
o'clock this evening 77 bodies had
been brought out and of these the doc
tors say that at least thirty-five will
die, as they are frightfully Injured
through having been hurled against
tho walls of the galleries by the force
of the explosion. The official report
given out this evening says that the
number of dead exceeds 160.
Immediately after the explosion the
workers were hurried from all the ad
jacent mines and they boldly entered
tho Roden shaft In great numbers. The
work of rescue has been greatly ham
pered by poisonous gases, rising from
the exploHlon and from a fierce fire
which broke out Immediately after
ward. This caused the rescue work to
be suspended and workers to be or
dered from the mine. When all had
reached daylight, according to one
version, a second terrific detonation
was heard underground. Another re
port says many of tho rescuers were
at 111 underground when this Becond ex
plosion occurred and It Is estimated
that the total casualty list of tho two
explosions will reach 300. It Is believed
that tho bottom of tho mine Is com
pletely wrecked and In order to con
trol . the lire the managers are dis
cussing the advisability of flooding
tho lower levels. It will take a full
week to enter the mine.
DENY COMBINE.
Copper Companies Say Raise in Due to
Natural Causes.'
NEW YORK, Jan. 28. Representa
tives of some of tho largest copper
producing companies in the city denied
the truth of the letter sent to Attor
ney General Bonaparte to the effect
that copper. Is being withheld from
the market by a combination. They
denied the existence of any combina
tion, nnd declared the situation is a
natural one, due to the enormous in
crease in the demand for copper.
ATTACK SHIP SUBSIDY.
Incidentally Minority of Committee
Whack at Republican.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. In the
course of tho minority adverse report
to the House against the Llttauer ship
subsidy bill, J. J. Hill and E. H. Har
rlman and the Rejpubllcan policy of
protection are assailed. In discussing
the two proposed lines the bill pro
poses to subsidize between the Pacific
coast and the Orient, it says: "But
when It is recalled that at Seattle,
north of Cape Mendeclno, existing a
steamship line, owned by J, J. Hill,
and south of It at Han Francisco, Is a
Harriman line, tho I'm ifiu Mail, w
may begin to suspect there Is a nigger
In thu woodpile. Who are Hill and
Harrlmnn? The former Is the great
railroad magnate of Northern Securi
ties nottrlety, who tried to merge vast
InteresiH In violation of the law and
was only prevented by proceedings In
court, Harrlman Is another leader of
corporate wealth who controls more
railway trackage than any other man
In the world. Li It hard to guess who
under this bill would profit by $1,
400,000 of the people's money?"
SCANDAL IN LONDON.
Murder of Prominent Merchant Brings
Past Career to Light.
LONDON, Jan, 28. It now seems
doubtful whether the myntery sur
rounding the killing of William Whit
ley, the Went bourn Grov merchant,
will ever be unraveled. According U,
the latest developments It Is thought
possible that there is some truth in
the assertion of Horace George Ray
ner, who shot Whltely, that Whlteloy
was his parent. Rayner's father has
come forward with a statement in
which he declares the murderer had
no right to any other name than that
of his mother, a spinster named Emily
Turner, now dead. It appears that
somo thirty years ago Whiieloy and
the elder Rayner paid attention the
two sisters, Emily and Louise Turner.
Two children are alleged to have been
born to Emily, who, however, subse
quently confessed to Rayner that he
was not the father of the first child
and on account of this he repudiated
being the father of the second, though
he accepted the responsibility of par
entage regarding this particular child.
It was this alleged son who shot
Whlteley.
TAX FREIGHTS ALIKE
By Boat or Rail it Pays Wharfage
Tax at San Francisco.
SHIPPERS ARE IRRITATED
Lack of Discrimination on Part of Rail
road Cause Complaint to the
Interstate Commerce Com
mission by Jobber.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28. Inter
state Commerce Commissioner Lane
today resumed In this city his Inquiry
Into the affairs of the railroads In
volving the so-called Harrman merger
and the effect of such merger has upon
competition between the lines affected.
The case Is designated as the Pacific
CoasJt Jobbers ngalnst the Southern
Pacific Company. The shippers com
plain that they are charged five cents
wharfage tolls on every tno of freight
that entered the city, whether it came
across the bay or over the coast line,
in tho latter case there being no law
ful wharfage tax to pay. It was
claimed this tax is a discrimination
against the commerce of San Francis
co as compared with other terminal
points on the coast. General Freight
Agent Luce In reply to question stat
ed that tho Southern Pacific does not
divide the toll of five cents with any
of the connecting companies. The
merger question is to be taken up
tomorrow.
TRIED BULLDOZING.
Ex-Congressman Connel Found Guilty
of Contempt of Court.
OMAHA, Jan. 28. Ex-Congressman
Oonnell, one of the leading attorneys
of this state, was today found guilty
of contempt of court, after a trial last
ing1 several days. Sentence was re
served until tomorrow. Judge Sutton
In the "coal trust" suits, so called, ac
cused Connell of trying to bulldoze
tho court.
JURY NOW
COMPLETED
Last of Those to Try Thaw
Has Been Secured.
CASE WILL OPEN SOON
Defense Denies it Will Use Em
otional Insanity Plea or
Higher Law.
SURPRISE SPRUNG YESTERDAY
Declaration by Thaw' Attorney That
They Will Not Use Outline for De
fence Accredited Them It Lat
est Sensation in Case.
NEW YORK, Jan. 28. Delphln M.
Delmas, after the conference, when
asked to outline the defense, said:
"It would hardly be professional to
disclose our case. You may say, how
ever, that It will come strictly within
the statutes of New York. There Is
no higher law In this state, and all this
talk about the 'unwritten law' Is bosh,
Nor can I see the efficacy of a plea of
emotional insanity. There is really no
such thing. A man may be tempor
arily insane, but that Is quite an
other matter;55
The Jury to try Thaw has been com
pleted. When the court adjourned to
night there were nine men In the Jury
box. It Is expected that the taking of
testimony will begin Wednesday after
noon. Fifty talesmen were examined
this morning and at noon an order
was hurriedly Issued for the summon
ing of a hundred additional talesmen.
This will make a total of 300 talesmen
thus far summoned. All the defend
ant's family were In court today, Mrs.
Harry Thaw and her companion, May
Mackenzie, being among the first to
arrive. They sat closely grouped in
two rows of chairs. Just back of the
prisoner. As usual ihey seldom spoke
to one another.
BURIED BY DEBRIS.
Twenty Firemen Cauht in Falling
Walls of Big Building.
BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 28. Burled
under tons of the ice coated debris of
the eight story Seneca buildinf tin
Seneca street, which was destroyed by
fire here today, three firemen are
probably dead or so badly Injured that
they will die before aid can reach
them. About twenty firemen Includ
ing the three missing men, were on
the roof of the Haywood building, ad
joining the Seneca, fighting against
the spread of the flames when two
thick brick walls of the Seneca build
ing collapsed. Tons of debris crashed
down on the roof of the Haywood
building, going through the roof and
carrying floor after floor to the base
ment. Not one of the twenty men es
caped injury, but half of them were
able to fight their way out and to give
aid to their less fortunate companions.
Rescuers worked all this afternoon, but
no trace of the missing men could be
found. As the light fell, electric wires
were strung into the ruins and tonight
tho work of rescue was kept up.
ALASKA PACK LARGE.
Nets Million for Fishermen of the
Frozen North.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Jan. 28.
Sufficient salmon was shipped from
Alaska porta to Puget Sound during
1906 to provide every other man, wo
man and child lrt the United States
with one can, the enormous number of
40,157,760 cans having been entered
at the customs houe at this port.
The number of cases Involved is 838,
$20, each case containing four dozen,
v a total of 3,346,480 , dozen. The
wholesale price for this salmon will
average close to 34.50 per case, show
ing a revenue to Alaska fishermen and
canners for the year of 13,764,790, not
counting that portion of the pack re
tained for home consumption.
RUIN IS POLICY.
Charge Made by Commission Against
Standard Oil Company.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. The In-
terstate Commerce Commission sent to
Congress a report of the Investigatlona
made by it undo the TIllman-Glllea-
pit resolution concerning the relations
of common carriers by rail to the
production and distribution of OIL The
report covers the distribution of pe
troleum and its products east of the
Mississippi River, and, Incidentally the
Kansas and Texas fields. The report
points out generally the methods by .
which the Standard Oil Company "ha
built up and perpetrated its monop
oly." It is asserted that "the ruin of
its competitors has been a distinct
part of the policy of the. Standard OH
Company in the past, systematically
and persistently pursued."
HOLD UP SALOON.
Masked Men Get Two Hundred Dol
lars at Chehaiis.
CHEHALIS, Wash., Jan. 28. Two
masked men held up the Tlvoll saloon
here at 12 o'clock last night, com
pelling the bartender to open the safe.
They got $200. Two men came In dur
ing the robbery and were held up and
relieved of small change. No captures
have been made.
FOR PRESS CENSORS
Bill Would Have Restrictions for
the Daily Newspapers.
WOULD LIMIT ADVERTISING
Joint Postal Commission Desires Touch
of Paternal Government to Correct
Loss on Carriage of Second
Class Mail Matter.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. The bill
of the Joint Postal Commission, Just
completed, if enacted into law, would
create a press censorship in the hands
of government employes to determine
what information the reading public
wants, and extend a paternalistic
guardianship over the counting-room
by limiting the amount of advertis
ing and specifying Just how it shall
be printed in the pages of daily pa
pers. The Joint commission started work
on the hypothesis that second-class
mail matter is carried at a loss to
the government and does not pay its
proportionate share in revenue. One
of the main results of its pondering
is the discovery that the newspaper,
especially the Sunday edition, has ex
panded too much in the direction of
the magazine. The members of the
commission avow that the miscellan
eous matter contained in Sunday is
sue of a newspaper lacks the "quality
to make It socially and educationally
valuable." They would reform every
thing by abolishing the Sunday sup
plement or else make it so innocuous
that nobody would care to read It.
A glance at the above provisions of
the bill will fully convince any one of
the radical nature of the law the com
mission proposes. It would limit the
amount of advertising; It would elim
inate all legitimate advertising matter
from supplements, and It would pre
vent the publication In the supple
ment of all fiction, of all matter of
general or useful information regard
ing the affairs of the world, and make
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