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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. '. ..,..;..! .......