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intoning flirt ritf UILIHI FULL AttOOIATID fRlt lPOFIT V OOVinS THB MORNINQ FliLD ON TH LOWER OOLUMVIAil oi VOLUME LXIII NO. 7 ASTORIA, OREGON, 1 UESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, PRICE FIVE CENTS, MAY MUSE TROUBLE Woodburn Workmen Drive Out Japanese. DANGEROUS PRECEDENT Vice Counsul Says Incident is Graver Than San Fran cisco Affair. WILL INVESTIGATE MATTER Laborers at Woodburn Objeot to Com petition of Oriental! and Force Thorn (o Loavo Town Possible Complications. PORTLAND, Feb. 1J. Tho banish ment of eoven Japanese laborers from Woodburn by a crowd of angry whiles whom tho Orientals had displaced on a section gang of the Southern Pacific Kallroud, may possibly tlr up at big a fu m tho school cmbrogllo at Han Francisco. 80 itronif ha the feeling against the Japanese labor grown and no Intense la tho feeling of resentment against tho action of tho Southern Pacific Company In displacing white labor on the sMIon gangs with Japan" coolies that a crowd of 60 whlto cltl- lena of Woodburn waited upon tho Japanese aectlon crow at their ahucka Sunday night and gave them notice to loavo the diggings or suffer the con sequences. Tho Japanese stood not on tho order of their going, but packed their bugguge und set out for more comfortable part. For several year past the South ern Pnclfla has bean displacing its whjto section giirigis with Japanese laborers, and tho resentment has reached a stage were more trouble is threatened If the practice Is not abol Ishcd. Should the company Insist In furnishing Japs for a section crew at Woodburn, tho demonstration Sunday night may take a more serious turn than the former one. It Is understood some prominent men were Included In the movement. Neither Is there any knowledge here of what tho com pnny Intends doing In the light of this unexpected action on tho part of the whlto population of Woodburn, which mny spread to other points along tho line when It becomes known, Vice Consul Allin, representing the Nippon government at Portland, Is conducting an Investigation Into the matter, and If tho facts warrant It he will report the circumstances to the Japuneso minister at Washington From what Information ho has gath ered nt present, he Is Inclined to regard tho Incident as rathor unim portant, and Is loth to consider It a matter requiring International atten tlon. Mr. Alba admitted that from what ho had learned bo far It doos not ap pear serious enough to warrant any drastic action, though ho thought (Mr. Alba was very roluctant to ad mlt thla) of Itself, stripped of all other ramifications, the Woodburn Incident Is more serious than the San Francisco difficulty, for the reason than In the former case the Japanese were driven from a town and prevented from earn ing their dally bread, while In San Francisco the only Issue Involved Is whether the children of Japanese shall be allowed to go to school with white children, One attacks the en tente cordials an toe vital point of the "struggle for existence" on an equal basis with tho whites; the other touches upon the point of culture, both perhaps as Important per s, but the one more el"rnntu1, "Of course I have no further Infor mation than what In conveyed In the brief dispatch published In a morn ing paper, and 1 am Inclined to feci that the railroad ' company und Mr. Han, tho rallroitd contractor who sup plied tho Japanese with the work In question, are fully able to deal with the u-Mt litit without any onkIkIhik e, or need of It, from ollUlal sourit-s. I can See there Is danger In allowing such a precedent to pass by unnoticed by our government, because what ha Imppened at Woodburn may happen at any one or all of u hundred places where whiles and Japano ur em ployed on the same work. In that fea ture only do I think there He any poxHlblu unpleasant eventualities, though I consider them as extremely remote." MANY CHALLENGED. WALLACE, Idaho, Feb. ll.-Kleven Jurora wero parsed for cause by both sides In tho Steve Adams murder case today. A only seven uncalled Jur ors remain on the panel, It seems probable that another venire will be called. Tho state ho used two of lta five peremptory challenges and the de fense two of Its ten. President Discusses San Fran cisco Affair. ASKS FOR REPEAL OF RULING President Wants 8chool Board to Re scind Ordr 8tgrogating Japantae Pupils and Anawer of Mayor 8ehmlU la Conciliatory. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. As a re sult of an hour's conference at the White House thla afternoon at which President Roosevelt, Root, Mayor Schmtti of San Francisco and mem bers of the 8chool Board of that city, participated, Schmlti, late tonight made a statement summarizing the situation. When asked whether the proposition submitted by the San Francisco delegation called for the ex clusion of Japanese coollo labor from this country, Mayor Sehmlts replied: "We are not making a treaty and have not discussed with the Presi dent the question of excluding Jap anese from this country by treaty. Wo heard the President's views and to day he heard our side of tho question. It now remains for us to modify our views In order to reach an agreement with the President or for Mr. Roose velt to modify his views to reach nn agreement with us. Today's confer ence adjourned subject to the call of the President and I do not believe that wo will be called to the White House again until Thursday or Friday." ' It Is agreed the whole matter will bo considered at a meeting tomorrow. It can be authoritatively stated that tho President has appealed to Sehmltz and his associates to bring the nntl Japanose agitation to an end by re scinding tho order for Oriental schools. The mayor declared that the only rea son for establishing such schools was that the Japanese were crowding the whites out of certain districts. FORCE ENFORCEMENT OF RATES. ST. PAUL, Feb. 11. Attorney Gen eral Young began today mandamus proceedings In the county district court to compel the ten railroads do ing business In Minnesota to accept the freight rate reduction recently or dered by the state railroad and ware house commission. The companies In involved are those which recently en- Joined the state In the United States court from putting the rates Into effect ALMOST HARMONY HAS BUT FIVE DAYS And House Has Three Hundred Bills Ahead. HUNDRED DISPOSED OF Slowness in Organization and Defective Committees Cause Delay. WILL WORK SOON AND LATE Last Week la Given Up to Considers tlon of 8onat Meaiuroa And Tims For Action on Houte Bills if Brief. SALEM, Ore., Feb. 11. For more than a week the experienced members of the House have been worded over the amount of work piled up for the lout end of the session, but the new members were content to drift Now the entire House Is alarmed, and this week Is to be the busiest one an Ore gon legislature baa ever seen. Sessions will be held early In the morning and intll late at night, In the hope of did posing of the mass of bills now before the House, and time off for sleeping or refreshment will not be allowed be fore Saturday. The situation Is this: A week re mains to pass House bills, for during the last week of the session the House considers Senate bills only, and un less the 40-day session Is lengthened which does not seem probable at preaent, Including today there are but elx days and nights to do what usual ly takes three times that period. There are several reasons for this situation. One Is that more bills have been Introduced than evtr before; another Is that more Important meas ures have been offered that required long committee sessions and that have been the theme for prolonged debates In the committee room and when they reached the floor of the House. A third Is that the House started off lamely and lost nearly a week early In the session because of Imperfect organization, lack of printed supplies, and because of an Inadequate print ing plant that forced the House to wait until tho first rush of bills could be printed and referred to commit tees. Another reason has been defec tive committee work that has result ed In weak bills being recommended back to the House, when they should have been killed In the commitee room and that has also resulted In sever al measures being offered In the House for final passage that were not in legal form, without enacting clauses, without a penalty section or without some other essential. Still another reason has been the lack of a system In the House, the majority of the members being new to the work, members were, new to the work. Practically two-thirds of all the House bills are yet to be acted on, and nine-tenths of the bills that will cause debate are yet to be brought back from the committee room. There are six days to do it In. About the only bills the House has passed of any considerable Importance has been the tax code bills, the gen eral appropriation bill, the Coffey gas franchise bill, and, as a committee of the whole, to report on the Ore gon City locks bill. In the same time the House has killed the Huntley cor rupt practice bill. There remains to be considered by the House the Cha- pln railroad bill, special appropria tion bills covering1 ujboutl $2,000,000, the reapportionment bill for county representation In the legislature, the final consideration of the locks bill, tho several county division bills, the normul school bills, the tax commis sion bill and legislation on water, mining, timber, public lands and grazing. All of these measures are of Importance, each probably will result In longer and more heated debate than any bill yet considered by the House and each will have a sufficient backing to see that It is not killed be fore it gains tho ear of the House. The House calendar shows tJiot 410 bills have been Introduced and an even 100 havij been passed, Indefinite ly postponed, killed or withdrawn. This leaves 310 bills to be acted on in the six days. The end of the Hood of would-be laws Is not yet, either. Not until Wednesday will the House refuse to receive bills on first reading and there are a number of measures yet to be presented. FOUND INFERNAL MACHINE. LONDON, Feb. 11. A special dis patch from St. Petersburg says that an Infernal machine was accidentally discovered In the chimney of the house of Count Wltte last night. The ma chine was set to explode after the family had retired. NO DANGER OF WAR But Nicaragua Concentrates Force Upon Border Line. OPPOSES INTERVENTION Report Says President of Nicaragua Believes He Haa Balance of Pow er and Propoaed Interference Would Not Please Him. PANAMA, Feb. 11. The Associated Press received the following dispatch from Manuel Bonllla of Honduras: "Nicaragua Is concentrating a con siderable armed force upon the fron tier of Honduras without having made a declaration of war. We are assured an Invasion will take place soon. Hon duras is ready to repel the movement MANUEL BONILLA." j The report says that President Ze laya of Nicaragua will oppose the In tervention of the United States. He believes he has the balance of power and wants to put the matter to a test WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. Minister Cirea, of Nicaragua, stated tonight: "There will be no war between Hon duras and Nicaragua." WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. The state ment was made at the State Depart ment that at a conference held today between Assistant Secretary Bacon, and the Mexican ambassador, it was decided that Mexico and the United States should unite with Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatamala in mak ing identical representations to Hon duras and Nicaragua to the effect that they will be expected to settle their differences without resort to war. TO BUILD MONUMENTS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. The Sen ate today passed the Army Appropri ation bill carrying $81,000,000. An amendment which permitted the gov ernment to accept reduced rates on army supplies and permitted officers and enlisted men to accept reduced transportation, an amendment Increas ing by 20 per cent the pay of officers and enlisted men w.va deftated on points of order. Amendments were accepted to build monuments to rev olutionary officers as follows: To General Stark at Manchester, N. H., $40,000; to General Nathaniel Green, at GullforJ Court' House, N. C, $15, 000; to General James Screlvener at Midway, Ga., $5,000. . ALIENIST ON THE STAND Holds Thaw Did Not Re alize Deed Wrong. TILT AMONG LAWYERS Jerome Blocks Testimony of Evelyn Thaw for the Present WITNESSES ON THAW S WILL Wife of Defendant Identifies the Note She Passed to Him on Night of Tragedy Other Alienists Will Testify. NEW YORK, Feb. 11. Answering a hypothetical question covering every detail of the testimony adduced In the Thaw trial up to this time, In cluding Mrs. Thaw's narration of her life history, Dr. Charles G. Wagner, superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane at Binghampton, de clared on the witness stand today his opinion that Harry K. Thaw did not know his act was wrong when he killed Stanford White. Wagner will be cross examined later. The defense announced that other alienists will be called tomorrow. Today's proceedings were enlivened by the sparring be tween Delmas and Jerome, and the latter effectually blocked the comple tion for the time being of the testi mony of Evelyn Thaw, by insisting that before she go any further com petent testimony of Thaw's soundness of mind Bhould be given. Mrs. Thaw was called as the third witness of the day. The first witness was J. D. Lyon, vice president of the Union National Bank of Pittsburg, who testified that he had received Harry Thaw's will from the latter'a own hands some time prior to April, 1906, and held it In a safe deposit until late In November last when he di rected his secretary to forward it to John B. Gleason of Thaw's counsel. Gleason when called swore he had re ceived the will by mall December 11, 1906, and that absolutely no changes were made in the instrument while In his possession. The will was not of fered in evidence owing to the fact that it has not In entirety been proved legally executed by Thaw. Mrs. Thaw identified the note passed by her to Harry at the Cafe Martin on the night of the tragedy. It read as follows: "The B was here a minute ago, but went out again." The witness testified that "The B " mean blackguard, as Thaw al ways referred to Standard White thus. Another essential point which Mrs. Thaw was allowed to bring out was the statement that the defendant never carried a pistol except In New York. She was asked many other questions, embodying various stories she has discussed with Thaw, Includ ing the alleged fate of a girl known to them as the girl," at the hands on j 'Stanford White, but Jerome blocked the questions with sustained objections. Jerome blocked many of Delmas' questions put to Dr. Wagner, the witness being confined to what he actually observed and he 'declared that the observations had been so closely Interlaced with his questioning of the defendant that he did not know whether he could separate them.' A long legal argument result In the hy pothetical question which was almost, of record breaking length. When Wagner Is taken In hand by Jerome, he will be required to give detailed reasons for his conclusions regard lng Thaw's mental condition. Wag ner with Dr. Evans, another alienist. made six searching examinations of the defendant, , NO NEW 2ION CITY. Voliva Abandons Project to Lead Fol lowers to Northwest SEATTLE. Feb. 11. Overseer T0'; Uva's plan of establishing a new Zlon City In the Northwest was abandoned with the announcement today that he had given up the trip to the Pacific Coast planned for next month. The revolt against Vollva's "one-man rule" Is responsible for the change of Vo llva's plans. BURN IN HOME. ALLEN'TOWN, Pa., Feb. 11. Edwin W. Relnaur, a baker, and four chil dren were burned to death In a Are which destroyed their home tonight HONEY WON. VALLEY FALLS, R. I, Feb. 11. Honey Mellody won over Willie Lewis,! whose seconds threw up the sponge In the fourth round. BIG GRIST OF BILLS House Passes Number of Import ant Measures During Day. INCLUDING NEW GAME BILL Turns Down Bill for Half Fart or 8eats on Street Cart Halves Pro posed Appropriation for Indian War Veterans, SALEM, Ore., Feb. 11. A number of Important bills were passed by the House and a number were favorably reported by the committees and will later pass. Dye's House bill 128, forcing street car companies to supply seats for all passengers or refund half the fare paid, was lost by a large majority, After a long debate, House bill 293, creating cheese and dairy inspectors, passed. A fight was caused by the bill to place money received from forest re serves into the school fund of eacK county. This money now goes to the general county fund, and many mem bers opposed the bill because It would Increase the taxes of counties by tak ing away money now received for general purposes from forest reserve funds. The hill was referred to the Judiciary committee again. ' House bill 97, providing that United States flags shall be displayed on or near every schoolhouse during fair weather, passed. House bill 252, providing $100,000 to reimburse Indian War veterans for horses In old campaigns, was reported back by the ways and means commit tee, amended to appropriate $50,000 for this purpose, and will likely pass in this form. A comprehensive game bll lwas re ported back by the game committee, and will most likely be passed tomor row. It relates to deer hunting and covers the entire subject for the state. The closed season for buck is made from November 1 to July 15; for fe male deer, from November 1 to Sep tember 1. No, one shall kill more than Ave deer a season and hunting with dogs Is prohibited, though If dogs get after 'deer no one has a right to kill these dogs, as the present law allows. Night hunting Is prohibited, as Is the Bale of deer meat In Coos and Curry counties all killing of , female deer is prohibited by the new bill and Har ney and Malheur counties are except ed from the provisions of the. meas ure. '. ..,..;..! .......