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UBUBHB1 ruil. AMOOIATBP WBPOH.T ' ' j UOVIR THK MOHMtNa PIILO ON TH1 LOWS COLUMBIA VOLUME LXIil, NO. 79, ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL It, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS UDEF GIVEN mil Decision Allows More Per sonal Liberty. Private CONVERSATION Allowed to Converse With Any one He Desires Out of ,J Guards Hearing. MAIN POINT NOT DECIDED Legal Right Of Judg Dunn To Qlvi Elisor Custodian Pewra Not Pasted On Tho Supreme Court Billot Stuffing Thrashed Out. BAN FRANCISCO, April lO.-Inqutry by tho Qrand Jury Into tho alleged ballot stuffing by agnts of William It Hearst and Into tho Telephone Fran- chls Coruptlon and a decision by the 8uprmo Court, Increasing tho Pro rial liberty of Abo Ruef, wro, tho not result of today's proceedure, Into tho bribery (raft Investigation. Re ponslve to a letter, from Fremont Older. Managing Editor of tho San Francisco Itulletln, demanding an of flclal Investigation of tho charge pub. lUhed In that newspaper, that Eddie Ornnry, the prise fight promoter and ward politician had confessed to ape clal agent Burn that he and James Coffroth, another prise-fight promoter and warJ politician had In Aug. U04, caused tho primary ballot boxes to be atuffed, at an expense of 1600, fur nlelied by John P. Barrett and at the beheit of Barrett, who la newi editor of the San Francisco Examiner, At Infant District Attorney Honey today aummoned before the Orand Jury J. P. Barrett, W. F. Bogard, Bualnesa Man- ager of tho Examiner and Edward Burke, Caahler of that paper; Jas, Coffroth, B. E. Nathenson, a former dance-hall manager and James lO'Brlcn, contractor and politician. Each of th witnesses denleJ, unequivocally the chargea comprised In Graney's al leged confession, or any knowledge bearing upon them. Coffroth on the witness stand denounced Qraney as "craxy and malicious If he made the statement alleged," The only other witness examined be fore the Inquisitorial body was Judge North, of Riverside Calif. He Is at torney for the Home Telephone Co. In the matter of Ruet's application, the Supreme Court directed Elisor BlgKy, to allow Ruef more porsonul liberty, to permit him. within reason able hours, to see and converse with any person he may wish to see, whe ther It bo his attorneys, his prospec tive witnesses, his friends, members of his family or those with whom he has business and to pormlthlm to hold with them private conventions, out or earshot of his guards. The Court with, held Hi decision as to that portion of Ruef'i habeas corpus petition, which denies tho legal right of the Court (Meaning Superior Judge Dunne) to clothe the Elisor with custodian pow ers, so the main contention Is as yet, undetermined. CARNEGIE BUILDING. The United Engineering 8ooiety Will Dedioate Building Next Week. NEW YORK, April 10. The United Engineering Society has opened Its new home for the ereotlon, of which, Andrew Carnegie gave 1,600,000. The formal dedication will take place next week. . Rlxlng IS stories high with a front- Sllllfi: LEEWAY age of 13S feet, the club house li an Imposing structure overlooking Dry ant Park, and the New York Public Library, Th construction la of iteel, covered wllif twenty-four Inches of porous terra cott and the columns are grounded with concrete. Th idea U to bring together tho va rious engineering soviet lea of tho Uni ted States, where they will have a common meeting ground, , and to pro vide quarters for the national soci tie q? mechanical, electrical and mining engineers, ai well as for such aaojrlata sot-Mies a may require headquarter In New Tork. While each It lo maintain Its InJIvldua) character, all ar to unite to advance the engineering arts and sciences. EDITORS BIRTHDAY. , Jeesph Pulltser Celebrates Sixtieth Birthday. Olvee Pinner to Staff. .. NEW TORK. Aprl- 10.-In celebra- Hon of his sixtieth birthday, Joseph Pulltser, proprietor of the New Tork World and the Ht. Louis Post Dispatch gives dinners tonight In this city and and In St Louis, to the exwutlve heads of tho staff of the two paper. In his absence be being now In the Rlverla, Mr. Pulltser will be represen ted by his two sons, Ralph, tho elder, will take the place of hi father New Tork City, and Joseph Jr will act as host to the guests In St Louis. Each dinner will be limited to sixty guest, one fr each of his years. BULLET IN BRAIN. Walk. A Mil to Hospital and May Recover, NEW YORK. April 10. With a bul let In her train, Mabel Ouy, tho ten year ol ddaughtar of Mr. and Mrs. Charles OUT," Of Mlddietown. "N. T. walked a mile to Trall Hospital for treatment .yesterday. The girl was wounded by a young companion she was ploying with, by a pistol supposed to be empty. At the hospital and un successful effort waa made to find the bullet Tho physician say the girl may recover. STREET CAR WRECK Cable Car Struck and (Demolish ed a Hack. E. J. ZIMMER FATALLY HURT Employed By Peeifie 8tates Telephone and Telegraph Company Mrs. Wsl lington Gregg Was Also Injured By Being 8trwok On trj Head. SAN FRANCISCO April 10. Emll J. Zlmmer, of the Pacific States Tele phone 4 Tolograph Company, was fa tally Injured In a oolllslon between i hark and street car early this morning, Mrs. Wellington Gregg, wife of the cashier of tho Crocker National Bank who was In the hack with Zlmmer, was unconscious for some time after the accident and it Is feared that she sustained Internal Injuries which may prove fatal. Zlmmer and hi wife had attended the theatre together, Afterward they took supper at a resiaurant and at 12 o'clock left In two hacks for Zimmer's home at 2660 Green Street., When crossing the Washington Street cable line on Van Ness Avenue, car struck the hack In which Mr. Gregg and Zlmmer were riding. The hack was demolished and Us occu pants thrown Into the street. Zlmmer was badly crushed and hurt Internally. Mrs. Gregg waa struck on the head. Both were picked up and rushed In an automobile to the Cen tral Emergency Hospital. SPANISH HEIR. MADRID, April 10 The third week In April is the time for the expected accouchment of Queen Victoria. TW CASE TO JURY Jury Having Hard Time (o Agree. DISAGREEMENT LIKELY After Being Out Six Hours Jury Was Orderd Locked Up for Night JEROME DENOUNCED THAW Thaw Was Muoh Depressed After Jer. ome's Attack But Under Influence Of Wife Brightens Up Anj Expects A Favorable Verdict NEW YORK April lO.-Charged with the responsibility of deciding the fate of Harry K. Thaw, the Jury, which since January 13rd, has been silting In Judgement on the young slayer of Stanford White, retired at S: IT p. m. today, to being consideration of their verdict Six hours later they had failed to reach an agreement and short ly after 11 p. m. they were locked up for the night In the Jury room of the JCijlmlnal Courts Building. Justice Fltsgerald, wno had been waiting for some word from the jury room, became convinced at that hour, that the chan ces of receiving a verdict, , tonight were too remote, to warrant his re maining up any later. Justice Fits serald had earlier In the evening gone to hi club and held an auto In read I -nesi to make a quick trip to the court house, should he be needed. His in structions regarding the locking up of the Jury were telephoned. ' It was a!d that when Justice Fit gerald'a message was received at the court-house the officer on duty there, put the matter up to the Jurors them selves', asking if theie was any possi bility of a verdict within the next few hours. ! The reply was strongly In the nega tive. The Jury was said to be almost hopelessly divided and nobody con nected with the case tontghtf would venture a hope of anything better than a disagreement as the climax of the long drawn out trial. " Harry Thaw sat In the prisoners pen, adjoining the deserted court room, during the long hours of the Jury' deliberations. By his side, was his wife and his counsel, who remained with him until all hope of a verdict tonight was abandoned. During the early evening all of the Thaw family were with the , prisoner, but before ten o'clock, they inado tl.eir way up town to their hotel. Thaw, who was much depressed at the close of District Attorney Jerome's Impassioned attack on him as a "cow ardly, brutal, muderei, a rich illiterate who, always hnd, hud his own way, until he fell Into the clutches of the law." He revived In spirits as the ev ening wore on and tne chances of an unfavorable verdtct keemed to him to become more and more remote. He was reluctant to wend hla way back, over the dimly lighted Bridge of Sighs, to hli cell in the Tombs, to say good night to hla wife. A disagreement of the Jury is a pos sible Outcome which Thaw has not at any time anticipated, during the pro gress of the trial. His family and counsel were much alarmed this af ternoon, however, lest the Jury under Justice Fltsgerald"! charge, might find verdict of some les crime than murder In tho first degree; The pris oner, tonight did not share this gloomy outlook and laughed and Joked to dis- pel the serious looks on the faces' of hi mothor and wife. JuJge Fitzgerald I not expected at the court-house tomorrow until 10:30 the usual court snon hour. If the Jury should, earlier notify him of an agreement, be might consent to come down at an early hour, but this Is not considered at all likely. NEW TORK, April 10. What bid fair to be the lust day of the long drawn trial of Harry Thaw will begin at 11: 10 o'clock this morning at which time District Attorney Jerome will begin hi summing up for the people. For 2 day Mr. Jerome has been absent from the courtroom, leaving to his assistant Mr. Garvan, the task of making notes of Mr. Delmas remarks while he went over the evidence and prepared him self for the effort he will make today. That It will be the effort of his life there Is but little doubt The case h Is about to close, Is the longest ev er tried in New York and no other tri al In American criminal history has attained the prominence that ha been given to this. Mr. Jerome will go before the Jury In an effort to have Inflicted upon Harry Thaw the extreme penalty of the law. He has believed Thaw to be Insane, but the commission legally ap pointed by the court under the law has held that he was legally sane and If he I sane now, Mr. Jerome will ar gue, he was sane when fie fired three shots point blank Into the body or Stanford White on' the Madison Square Roof Garden, on the night of June 16. Mr. Del mas painted Harry Thaw as the model young man who In a burst of sane rage, believing himself to be the agent of providence, to put out of the world a man he believed waa a menace to society and who, be be lieved, bad ruined the woman who af terward became Thaw' wife. Mr. Je rome will contend that Thaw's act was premeditated murder and that It wa prompted 'by more than Jealousy. If Mr. Jerome finishes his address In time. Justice Fltsgerald will prob ably charge the Jury before he ad journs court thla afternoon and the day's session should close with the fate of Harry Thaw In the Jury's hands. FORAKER IN OHIO Opened Presidential Campaign at Canton. REVIEWED WORK AS SENATOR Issues Reviewed Investigation O Brownsville Episode Mention A. One Of The Anti-Roosevelt Combina tion, CANTON, Ohio, April 10. In the presence of 1200 people, Senator Jo seph B. Foraker tonight delivered an address . defending his actions as a public servant and declaring his wil lingness to abide by their decision in the future. The occasion was the an nual banquet of the Canton Board of Trade. Senator Foraker was on the program for an address on "Civic Pride," but hla speech was largely di rected to his work as Senator and Is regarded a being the opening of the presidential 'campaign in Ohio. He discussed public statements re garding the President's attitude to ward the Senator's speech at this time, replied tor a mentioning him as one of the anti-Roosevelt combination Re viewed the Investigation of the dis charge of the negro soldiers on ao- count of the trouble at Brownsville, Tex., reiterated his views regarding recent railroad legislation, protested against the Infringement by one branch of the government on the rights of an. other branch; declared that the rep isejntatlves of the people In Con gress are accountable only to the peo ple and arej not "Properly subject to any other Influence " denied the right of anyone except hla constituent to Olttl'Iffl AT Train Goes Through Under mined Bridge. FOUR MEN WERE KILLED And Four Were Seriously Injured The Latter Were Taken to Portland. ENGINE AND CARS JN RIVER Passenger Coaches Stayed On Track Latest Reports Say All Of Injured Will Reoover Passengers Were Sha ken Up, Bruised And Cut A Little. LA GRANDE, April 10. Four per sons were killed, four seriously Injur ed and several slightly hurt, today When the O. R. at N, ' westbound, through passenger train was wrecked 14 miles from here early today. The train which waa traveling about fourteen mile an hour, struch the bridge, which had been undermined by the recent rains, at Cayuse. The en gine passed orv- safely, but the bag gage and mail cars following, sank through and dragged engine after them and are now in the Umatilla River. The list of dead and Injured la a follows: , Dpad: Marvyn Thompson, logger; Mike Dunne, logger; George McPart rldge, fireman; unknown Greek labor er. The two loggers were riding on the blind baggage. ' j ' Injured: Engineer Fred G. Sen tike, leg broken, Internal Injurle; James P, Graham, mall-clerk arm broken; L. W. Owen, mall-clerk, hand cut and body injured; unknown Chinaman, face crushed and hip broken. None of the passenger coaches left the track but the passengers were all hurled from their seats, several sus taining painful hruues and cuts. The Injured were taken to Portland on a special train, where they arrived this afternoon. Tonight It was stated that all of the Injured will recover. Passengers dragged the river for the body of Fireman McFatridge, but were not successful In locating It How Engineer Schllke was Injured is not known, though It is supposed he leaped from the cab when the track gave way, ana mat railing debris way responsible for his Injuries. Two Italian passengers were first reported killed, but later advices were to the effect that they were among the Blight ly Injured. The smoker was filled with a numbir of laborer and others who could not get accomodations in the day coaches, owing to the heavy travel from the East Officials of the line are In a quandry as to the reason for the track being undermined, for It has not rained dur ing the past day or two, and no rise In the TJmatiha waa reported by agents alon gthe line. It rained heavily about the first of the week, and it Is the supposition that the water seeped front he high land and broke through beneath the ballast thereby causing the roadbed to be washed out George McFatridge, the missing fire can mm to account, and sounded a note of warning against Increased sur velllance of business men- who need "no moral regeneration." He quoted a published report that President Roosevelt ha drawn a dead line for Senator Foraker' and . that "if he attack President Roosevelt President Roosevelt will be heard from tn no uncertain term. CAYUSE man, had redded at La Grande for three yearn, making his home at the pattl rooming-house. He has a bro ther, whose place of resident Is not known, but , has no other near rela tives. A foster mother live at Long Beach, near Los Angeles, Cat. .;, Jam Graham and Lewis Oren, the mall clerk make their headquarters at La Grande and run out of there each day. The dead passenger wa a Greek la borer. Among the Injured I a China man whose back Is broken. It seem the train waa coming down grade when the wreck occurred and It ran Into the washout which waa about half-a-car length long. The engine In being hurled from the track struch pilot first and It now stand with the rear wheel in the air; The mall, baggage and express car left the track, but only the forward and waa smashed. Word was brought here Immediately after the wreck by members of the train crew, who made the run on a handcar. A wrecker wa Immediate ly made up, and left at ( o'clock, re turning from the scene at 8:45 o'clock. bringing the Injured, , W. C. Sechler, Conductor Coyken- daM and Brakemen Shull and Shackle ford were not Injured. Engineer Schllke states the train waa not going to exceed 14 miles an hour when it ran Into the washout The train had gotten down from the mountains and was working steam np grade toward Cause. Suddenly he felt the engine drop beneath him, and his left leg was broken below the knee and his foot crushed. He had no warn Ing, and was given no opportunity to reverse the engine. The point where the washout la wa formerly a culvert, and had been filled In. , GUILTY OF REBATING. MINNEAPOLIS, April 10. Chicago St Paul .Minneapolis and Omaha rail, road and H. M. Pearce, acting freight gent tonight was found guilty of re bating by the Jury in the Federal Court E. B. Ober and F. C. Clifford were adjudged not guilty. RESCUE SONS BODY Buried In Twenty Feet of Snow and Ice. HARRY KELLY, LOS ANGELES The Father Aoeompanied By Under taker and Ten Men Will Endeavor To Carry Body Or Shoulders From The Summit Of White Mountain, i, LOS ANGELES April 10. Harry Kelly will leave this city today head ing a party of men bound for Inyo County, there to make the haxardoua attempt at recovering the body of his son Raymond Kelly,, which has lain for five months past In the summit of White Mountain, buried in twenty feet of snow and ice. Toung Kelly lost his life on the mountain while re turning from a prospecting trip in the early months of last winter. At the summit of the Inyo County range he was overcome by the high altitude and died from heart failure. His son's companion, a young man named Thompson, made herolo efforts to save his friend, carrying him tor miles on his back, but was finally compelled to desert the) body and make hi way out aa best he could. Heavier snows made rescue Impossible. Several weeks ago, when the snow began to melt, Mrs. E. F. Schooley went almost dally from her cabin three mile from where the body lay and kept it cover ed with fresh snow. Finally Mrs. Schooley and her husband were able , to carry the body to the shady side of the mountain where they Interred It under ten feet of snow. Additional (Continued on Page 8.)