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torion 0Citit bOVIRB TH MOANING PIILO ON Tril LOWIA OOLUMl;i UBLIHI PULL AttOOIATIO PAMB RBPOAT ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME LXIII, NO. 78. Jw1i 1 1 V HERMANN'S TELEGRAM '7 Tip to Mays Introduced in Court. HIS SON ACQUIRED LAND Hermann Testifies That Mays Had no Interest In For est Reserve. llntiH utllf-h t,a rttfllim.1 In. wMIm f stand at Ilia recant hearln' j commission In Now Tork s ing rnforred to wa that-; iV tlgs- ilon of tha Union Tack. 0 , Harrlman waa aked how much of th Houthern I'acino stock, ha ownad, Individually, and how muc h ha paid for II, On the advice of lha counsel h rofud la anwr. Another question which he refused t answer and on which the commission wishes light, Is whether, lha director of tha Union I'acino, wara Interested In lha sate of certain share of tha Naw York Central at lha time they were sold to tha Union Pacific. HERMANN HELD 30,000 ACRES Prominent Local Man Attend Orand Rally In Portland La at Night PORTLAND, April ,The Forrea. tors of America hold a frand rally hare tonlfht at tha Forresters Hall. One of lha principal evenla of tha ev ening waa tha addreaa of Grand Chief Hangar Delglty, of Aatorla. A bl( parade waa held and a reception and banquet waa hold at the Forresters Hall. At Arlon Hall ha order want through the rltuallatlc work an In- It luted larfa clae. TMiified That Non. Of Hia Family Acquired Publio Land During Hia Administration Later Admitted That Hia Son Made Homaataad Entry. WASHINGTON. April . Wngr Hermann who haa been tetlfylng In hi. own behalf for lha past five daya waa put under cross examination lata loilny. After testifying that hone of bis fain lly had acquired, public landa, during Ma admlntetratlon, Herman quaiina.i hi. a:atemanl. later, by staling that hia arm. Schiller, had made, a home stead entry, to which the Htla haa not yet been acquired, that Schiller had purchased three such entries be n, ih. rlnlmiinta received a patent at a con of $3,000. .Hermann admit ted that he had acquired 30.000 acra n.,hiirt limil. Iii Oregon, while he waa receiver of the public moneys, at Roaeburg. Thl. ti maintained Waa not the cause of hia lalng that position. District Attorney linker next pro- dueed a telegram from Hormann to F P Mav. aent July 28. 1902. three days before the proclamation creulUiK the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve wua la- TI,U tinker contended WHS a PUCMi .. ' - ----- "Tip" from Hermann to May", that the latter might take the necessary "tope to make entries In the state school landa for which he waa negotiating, In thla reserve. On direct examination Hormann tea titled ho never had any bualnoaa' deal Iiikh with Maya; never written him nor had Intorvlewa with him; that Mnv. had no Interest In the Bluo Mountain Resorve, that Hermann knew of, and that ho wlahod the Jury and I court to understand thlar atutcment to I be a strong aa the English language i could muko It. 1 Hekor read thla Btatement from re i cord and naked defondunt If when he made It he did not think all trace of thla telegram ha been destroyed In the destruction of hia hooka. Her- f mnnn would not admit thla. He mild I he now remembered the telegram and had probably aent It In nnawer to a iuory by Maya, or bocauao Hermann knew Maya' to bo a leading public Stum, In Oregon and almply wlBhed hi Informed of the action taken. i Baker placed In evidence a regulu ,tlon of tha land olllce, forbidding the giving of evidence, In advance and an other forbidding and officer or employe of the government, acquiring public landa, waa placed In evidence by Ba ker. iTr'r'gr,iiiii ibi lUttLM m FORRESTERS RALLY. , 1111 CASE Seems to Bc-Dclay Pro ceediogs. ' ACH IN WAR OF WORDS Ruef Counsel Repeatedly Warned and Told His conduct was "MostReprehensible." TWO MORE PROBATION JURORS BIO MACHINERY ORDER. General Elaetrle Company Reeeivee Million Dollar Ordar From Japan., NEW YORK. April . Announce. ment la made today that the OJI Pa Per Co., of Toklo, haa placed a mil lion dollar order for electrical equip ment with the Oeneral Electrle Com pany, to be completed and ahlpped to Japan within al monthe, Tha mach inery ordered comprl.ee, bealdea the motor equipment for the paper ma king machinery, a water power elec tric Plant which will bo erected 15 mllea fro mthe mllla proper. STRANGE CASE. In Woman Miataking Death Notice Paper for Har Own, Drepa Dead. CHICAOO, April . A dlapatch to the Tribune from Evanaton, III., aaya: Proatrated .by reading an account pub lished In a newspaper of her auppoaed death, Mr a. Lou Ida Duley agej 49, expired lat night. Through en error the death of a woman of the aame name waa report ed aa having occurred In Mrs. Du ley'a houae, and aa ahe read the story she fell from her chair to the floor. A physician was called, but waa unable to learaj the reason for Mrs. Dulcy's death. ' She became rational later and after talking a few minutes, began to cry: "I am dead; I am dead; I saw It In the paper," and died In hysterica." MEXICAN-AMERICAN COMMERCE. Um Every One Of Its Challenges Five Mora Probation Jurora Ara To Ba Secured. Oafsnaa Will Tan Pramptory DELMAS IS FINISHED declared to hia lawyers that he felt tha case waa one. In view of tha District Attorneys re marks, before the lunacy commission that Thaw la today boplessly Insane, much . Interest attaches Itaf to tha line of argument, he will pursue In ask Ing for tha man's conviction. Pleads Written and written Law. ln- DEMENTIA AMERICANA HER FATHER DYING Daughter is Refused Admittance By Mother. SHE TRAVELED 2000 MILES Married Againat Parents AVishee la Re fused Entranoe To Dying Father Fearing He Will Die Before Mother Forgivaa Girl Invokes Aid Of Law, BAN FRANCISCO. April . Four talesmen were examined today In the Ruef trial. Two of them withstood the qualification teat and were paea cd Into the box as probation Jurora. They ara Jamea Otis, commission mer chant and 8lmm Varnnagcn, produc dealer. The other two were excused for bias. Aa a result of today' proceedings, the number of Jurora who have quail- fled, but who are yet subject to per emptory challenge, waa Increased to aeven, and Ave more talesmen remain to be examined before the present panel Is cxhauatcd. A statement waa made by the de- fenae recently that It will exercise all of Its ten peremptory challcngea Is ta ken to mean that none of these seven vmiiermen will be permitted to try the case. The feature of today's pro caedlnars waa a heated encounter be tween Special Proaecutor Johnson and Henry Ach, of the counael, for the de fendant, and repeated warnings to Ach by Judge Dunne, that his conduct was most reprehensible.." Efforts Being Made to Develop Possi; bilities and Boost San Antonio. CHICAGO. April 9.-The co-opera. Hon of all the civic clubs of Chicago, particularly the commercial aasocla- tlona la asked by the International Club of San Antonio, Tex., In the up building of trade between Mexico and the United States, c! W. Lunsford. special commissioner of the San An tonio organization arrived In Chicago and will remain here aeveral wecka presenting to the representatives of the cities big clubs and the Immense commerce and the peculiar advantage of San Antonio aa a "Substation." After accomplishing hia mission In Chicago, Mr. Lunsford will visit New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington in the Interest of the club. The Name He Gave to Thaws In sanity Which Experts Failed to Classify. HIS SPEECH A MIGHTY EFFORT HARRIMAN TO ANSWER. Will Appear Before The United Statee Circuit Court la Dsolalon. WASHINGTON, April . Aocordlng to the decision of the Interstate Com merce Commlsalon, today, E. H. Har riman will be made to appear In the .United States Circuit Court In New York, In answer to the proceedings to compel him to answer certain quea- CHICAOO. April 9. At the end of a 2,000 mile Journey, Mrs, Helen Brown Ing of tho Slate of Washington, has been denied audience with he dying father to whose side she sought to hasten when sho learned that hl death was imminent. Between them atandg the woman mother, Mill bitter bocuuso of tho daughter's marriage many years ago agaliiHt parental objection. Resolute ly she refuaes her daughtor even ad mlttance to tho house. The dying Vmn la' William Sago of Wttukegon. Stricken with paralyse as the result of a runaway accident nt a funeral -a year ago, In the last week ho has grown rapidly wor. One of tho family wrote Mrs. Brown Ing that to oe har father allvo she would have to hasten. Reaching her former home In Wau kegon yesterday ahe waa met at tho door by her mother. With tears streaming, she Implored admittance, but the mother was obdurate and she waa turned away with bitter re proaches. Mrs. Browning Is now at a hotel at Waukegon. In agony lest her fath er die before her mother relents, ahe consulted an attorney In the afternoon In the hope that sne might through legal proceedings reach his side and obtain from him the forgiveness which her mother withholds. - "hill" CURRY GOING Effort' to Exterminati its Being Made. BA8EBALL SCORES. At Oakland, Portland 0, San Fran clsoo 2, ( At Los AJigolea, Los An gelei 4, Oakland 2. LUMBERMAN IN JAIL. Manager Of Barber Lumbar Company Jailetl For Contempt Of Court. BOISE, April 9. L. G. Chapman, manager of the Barber Lumber Com puny Is' In Jail tonight, committed fot contempt, by United States Dlatrlct Juvlgo Ueutty. Tha application will bo madu at once to Circuit Judge Gil bcrt, at Portland, for a writ of habeas I'oriiiiR. or some weeks the Grand Jury hag been Investigating the man ner In which tho Barber Company ob tnlnvd Ita tltlo to a. large omount of timber hind of tho Boise River. Chapman, was summoned by aub poena, duces tecum, and should have brought books and other records of tho company. On his demurring, he was ordered by tho Court Saturday last, to bring all of the records touch Ing upon tho acnujsltlon of titles to the land. Yesterday he appeared be fore the Jury with such records. DIs ousslon arose-whether the Jury ahould be permitted to examine the entire contents of the books and papers' or only such features as were pointed out bv Chaoman. . - - i On application of District Attorney Bulck, Judge Beatty broadened the or der, requiring Chapman bring all of the records of tho company and order. Ing htm to permit the Grand Jury to examine them fully. On advtce of attorneya Chapman today formally re fused. He waa then committed to the cus tody of Marchal Rounds, with lnstruc tlons to lock him up. A little later the Judge, authorised the Marshal to give htm the freedom of the Jail. A Thorough American In Protecting Hia Wife From A Violator Of The Highest Of Human Laws De nounces Whit, In Better Terme. LONG RIDE. Lieutenant MoCabe To Rid, Arabian Stallion From Portland To N. Y. - JUNCTION CITY , Kan, April Lieut. McCabe ,of the ISxth Caval ry, itatloned at Fort Riley, has receiv ed notice from Washington, that he had been selected a make the ride from Portland, Oregon, to New York on an Arabian stallion. The purpose of the long ride Is to test thla breed of horses andtto determine Ita value as a cavalry horse. McCabe expects to be ordered to Portland within the next two weeks. He will be accompanied by an orderly and will travel with full field equipment The distance by rail from Portland to New York, U 2181 mllea. The route McCabe will follow will be longer than that PRESIDENT INHERITS ESTATE. NEW YORK, April 9. Prealdent Roosevelt la the sole beneficiary un der the will of Lulu B. Grover of this city, which was filed yesterday. Pres ident Roosevelt will accept the estate and turn It over to some New York charity. Band- SEARCH FOR GILL'S BODY Congressman Pray Leads Effort To End Career Of Hone Thieves And Train Robbers In the Little Rooky Mountains. BUTTE. Mont, April 9. A Havre special to the Miner says: Congress man elect Charles N. Pray, of Monta na. Inst night led a surrounding mob In a search which Intends to bring to Justice all the surviving members of the "Kid" Curry gang of horse thieves an dtraln robbers. The Little Rock ies, a Chouteau bunch of mountains detached from the main range and surrounded by. plulns on either side Is to be surrounded by state and Uni ted States officers. Officers who went out of Havre tonight with Pray an nounced simply as their purpose the possible recovery of the body of A. G. Gill, who disappeared mysteriously from his ranch at the foot of the Little Rockies nt the beginning of the win ter. Gill was declared on Informer by the Curry gang, and was shot at several times by assassins on his way over the mountains and roods. About November 15 Gill left his ranch and has never been seen since. The man hunting party la to be guided by Charles Crawford of this city who for six years was under sheriff of Chouteau County, Pray was State Senator of that county and has long been noted as a vigorous prosecutor of range . thieves. TREASURY SUPERVISORS. BERLIN, April 9.-Flve American ttvaswry supervisors who were ap pointed to superintend the observance of custom ijules regarding exports from Europe to the United States are conferring here as to the best way of dealing with the various manufactu ring interests In different European countries. The conference will last for several days. In an eloquent appeal, both to the written and unwritten law, Dolphin M. Delmas, this afternoon commended Harry Thaw's fate to the Jury. The California attorney, concluded his five taourg summing up speech declaring, that his client waa Justified In killing Stanford White. Tomorrow morning, Jerome will make hia appeal in behalf of the prose cution, Justice Fitzgerald, will probab ly chrage the Jury immediately, and by tomorrow evening at the latest the iamoua case wiu pass 10 me ueuuera tlons of twelve men ,who have so care fully attended Us uncertain course for weeks past Jerome expects to speak for three or four hours. Justice Flts- gerald would not say today whether he will or will not charge the Jury di rectly after the District Atorneys re marks but the general Impression is he will do so. With the exception of the moments when he was reading from the testi mony Delmas, speech today, was one of sustained oratorlal eltort He threw about the form of Harry Thaw a cloak of chivalrous knighthood. "Why" he thundered, "Should we who admire the chivalry of the knights of the middle ages, who went about re dressing wrongs and rescuing maid' ens in distress, wltn-nold our sym pathy from this brave man." Bitterly the attorney assailed Stanford White He declared that White sought to play with Evelyn Nosbltt, so long as her beauty lasted, and then would have thrown her away "Like a dirty rag, to float down lifea sewers to a grave in the potters field. Delmas discussed but briefly the tes. tlmony of the expert witnesses', declar ing, whatever weight might be attach ed to their utterances It was on the side of the defendant. He declared the burden of proof as to Thaw's sanity at the time of the homicide rested with the prosecution, which had failed to make out .Its case. In discussing Thaw's mental state Delmas came at last to "Unwritten law." He declared the experts had been at a loss to classify the form of Insanity from which Thaw suffered. "I will suggest a name for It" he de dared. "I would call it 'Dementia Americana.' It Is a species of Insan ity which has been recognized- In ev ery state of this union. It Is that spe cies of insanity, which makes every American believe his home, hia wife, his daughters, are sacred and that whosoever stains the virtues of his threshold, violates the highest of hu man laws." Twice during his closing periods Delmas was interrupted, by Assistant Dlstriot Attorney Garvan, who sugges ted the argument waa taking too wide a scope, and Justice Fitzgerald, called Delmas attention to the fact. Thaw seemed to be In the best of spirits and SNOW IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 9. Over five In ches of snow fell here today. The snow waa followed by heavy ralnc. The weather Is the most remarkable for April, In history of the weather bureau. , . , THE IROQUOIS FIRE Final Trial of Iroquois Theater Investigation. CHICAGO THREE YEARS AGO Former Building Commissioner George William, Last One Of Eight Persona To Be Tried 96 People Lost Their Lives. CHICAGO, April ' 9. For the last time In a case that will be called for trial today the defense will ask of the law whether the defendant at the bar Is responsible or the Irquoia Theatre horror of three years ago and Us 596 deaths. In Judge Kavanaugh'a court George Williams, building contractor under Mayor Harrison will be ar raigned on the charge of malfeasance In office. Unusuvl Interest attaches' to the case from the fact that It Is destined to bring either the final curtain in the legal drama or the first real hear ing of charges on there merits. Judge Kavanaugh long ago upheld the va lidity of the ordinance found faulty on March 19 W1 Judge KimbBugh of Danville in freeing manager Will J. Davis on the charge of manslaughter. On account of this difference of opinion It Is considered a fair pre sumption that the merits of this case, if It is pressed, will be passed upon fully with the probability of their final disposition by the Supreme Court. Of the' eight persona held accounta ble for the Iroquois catastrophe by the coroner's Jury. Williams alone re mains before the bar. of Justice. With him in the indictment for mal feasance was named Edward Laugh- lln, building Inspector, who. approved the Irqulola ITheatre with ita Jfault equipment of fire fighting apparatus. But Laughlln died last year before preliminary hearings of the Davis In dictment. The maximum punishment that can be meted out to Williams If he should be found guilty of neglect of duty Is a fine of 11,000. i