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USLItHIt rULt AtSOOIATSD P tf -OPT UOVIR THC MOHNINQ PIBLO ON TrfK LOWIft COLUMBIAN PRICE FIVEr CENTS VOLUME LXIII, NO. 81. ASTORIA, OREGON SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1907. THAW JURY DISAGREED Seven for Conviction Five , For Acquittal. NEW TRIAl THE RESULT Thaw Umply Sank Into His Chair When The Jury Rendered Its Report COUNSEL KNOCK DELMAS Thaw' Attorney Claim Hla "Demon tl, Amerioana" Statement Injured Thaw's Prospects AVOutoropping Of Petty Jealousy That Hair lasted. ..NEW YORK. April 1$. Hopelessly divided seven tor a verdict of guilty, of Arm degree rourJer five for acquittal on tho ground of Insanity, th Jury which since January 81 Ian ha been trying Harry K. Thaw, reported today, after 47 hours and I minute delibera tion. Ii could not possibly agree on a verdlt t. The twelve men wore promp tly discharged by Justice Fttrald who declared , that he. loo, believed their tak hopelea. Thaw was re manded to the Tomb without ball to await a aecond trial on tho charge of having murdered Stanford White. When the new trial will take place no on could, tonight, express an opin ion, Jerome declared, there were many other peraoni accused of homicide awaiting trial, Thaw, will have to take hla turn with the rt. A to a pos alble. change of venue both side de dared they would muke no auch move. Thaw' attorneys wilt have a confer ence tomorrow wlih the prisoner to de cide on their next step. They may make an early appllca. strenuously opiok'e It. In that event Thaw will have another long summer before him In the city prison. HIk case tlon for ball. Jerome said he would cannot possibly be reached before next fall. The announceomnt of the Ina bility of the Jury to reach an agree merit who not surprising after their long deliberation and Thaw roeclvcJ the ntwt, turrounded by the members of hla family In abroluta silence. When It became known that the Jury wan about to make & report, Thaw called hla wife to the seat by hli aide and eat with hla right ar mthrown about her until he wit commanded to aland and face the Jurors. Smiling and confi dent ns he entered tho courtroom, he sank limply Into a chair, when fore mnn Smith In response to tho ques tloy of the clerk as to whether a ver dict had been agreed upon said: "We have not." Thaw's mother, her features hidden behind a dense veil sat stolid and motionless. In HI health of late, she had felt aovcrly the strain and stress of the long hours of anxious waiting. The wife gripped her husbands hand, tightly as the fore, man spoke and then when he Rank down by her side she tried to cheer him as best she could saying she believ ed he would now be admitted to ball and that the second Jury would surely set hi mfroe. The mother and brothers, pale and well night exhausted by the todlous nerve racking wait for the verdict were permitted to speak to Thaw for a few moments and bid him be of good cheer before he crossed the "Bridge of Sigh'" to the cell, which until a few minutes before he had hoped that he was about quit forever. The police succeeded In dispersing the thousands gathered around the building as when the failure of the Ju ry to reach an agreement was announ ced but a few hundreds were there to A receive the news. The proceedings were brief and but a few minutes elapa d from the time the announcement was made by foreman Smith, until the Jurors were free to go to their homes. Thaw when he returned to the Tomb' Issued the following statement: "I be lieve that every man In the Jury poss essing average Intelligence excepting possibly Mr. Bolton, comprehended th weight of the evidence and balanced for an acquittal. Alt my family bid me goodbye, with courage. I trust we may all keep well." To 1)1 attorneys Thaw aald he wa deeply disappointed. "Out I could hardly expect anything las. In view of the events of the last few days he added, ' Earlier In the day Thaw had given out another statement In which he said h had desired that his fate should be Judged on the "Written laws of the State of New York." He declared that he believed the evidence adduced, had convinced Jerome of hie Innocence un der the strict letter of the law. Delmas who conducted Thaw's case was not In court when the Jury made Its report and was discharged. Clifford W. Hartrldge, attorney of record, who Is a personal friend of Thaw gave out the following state ment to the Associated Press. "Mr. Thaw has already expressed himself as deslroue of a trial unJer and In accordance with laws of the Btate of New York. 1 can add nothing to that except to aay, that L entirely, agree with him and hope that we shall have a new trial, speedily, and that Hie next time It will not be neceesary for the prodding Judge to charge the Jury that we are living In a civilised community." It aald that Attorney (Continued on Page 8.) Is Arrested for Fraudulent Use of Mails. DENIED HIS RELATIONSHIP Proved In Court They Were Brothers Charges Were Withdrawn And Bro there Leave Court and Are United Onee More. SEATTLE. April 12. An utiusuoi drama enacted Itsolf today In United States Commissioner Klefer's court room, when two men. one charged with using tho malls to defraud the other, wore proved to bo brothers, who had been separated for 89 years. Tho charges were withdrawn, ond the brothers, one of whom had come from Pennsylvania to press them, left tho room together, both weeping. Yost Weber, n longshoreman, defen- dant In the case, had left his homo In Hosse. while a Ind, had followed the sea, and after Johan Yost Weber, his Pennsylvania brother had npt heard from him for many years, wrote him from Port Townnend that he was mnr. rled and In need of money, Johan Yost Weber sent ham $200. Later the longshoreman again wrote that he was lying flat on his' back, that he had been In the wreck of the Valencia, whore his wife and a child wore drowned. The easterner Immediately came west. The alleged brother wa pointed out to him on the street. , He denied being the man who had written the letters. The Pennsylvania man angry, had him arreBted, as an Imipster. Jailed for a month, the longshoreman was held un til the other might be again summon ed from the East to testify, The long shoreman Insisted that they were bro thers; the other denied It. In court both were required to write separate ly the names of certain oouslns. Both lists were identical. Other testa were mado, Including the recital of the long shoreman's class In confirmation. Ask ed why he had dontcd the other when accosted on the street, Yost declared that he had been ashamed, after hav ing Hod about having a wife and fami ly. ' RUEF CASE ADJOURNED Time Allowed Defense Reconvenes Monday. SHORTRIDGE IS FREED State Supreme Court Decision n Ruef Habeus Corpus Will Be Rendered Monday. DUNNE LACKS CONFIDENCE In Sheriff And Coroner's Honesty In Th Summoning Of A Fresh Venire Of Talesmen Ten Probationary Ju rors Have Been Accepted. SAN FTtANClSCO, April 12. This morning the prosecution In the case of alleged extortion for which Abe Ruef Is being tried wilt ask for the appointment of another elisor and the summing up of a special panel for which the trial Jury may be completed. Three more talesmen were passed y- terday, making ten men now In the box, but there are fifteen peremptory challenges- to be Issued which must be provided for In the final selection of the Jury. 8ubpoenaes will be Issued tomorrow which will bring the officials and di rectors or both the United Railroads Investment Company of New Jersey before the grand Jury as witnesses. The Investigation of the bribery of the Supervisors of the United Rail roads will be taken up early next week probably on Monday. Mr. Patrick Calhoun made a denial of the truth of the chargea, and states that his com p antes has not at any time paid or authorised payment of money tor the passing of ordinance granting the trolley franchises, The Investigation Into the affair of the Home Telephone Company hoe been postponed until next Saturday afternoon. The prin cipal witnesses are now asking immu nity before they agree to testify which has checked temporarily the course of the Inquiry. District court of appeals freed at torney Samuel M. Shortrldge from the contempt order and Jail sentence lm posed by Judge Dunne. Justice McFor Innd announced that State Supreme Court will not make known, before next Monday, Its decision on Abra ham Rupfs application for release by habeas corpus from the custody of Elisor Blggy. Judge Dunne relterat ted hts total lack of confidence In the sheriff and coroner to honestly sum mon a fresh venire of talesmen, to com plete the Ruef trial panel, and adjourn, ed court until next Monday . to give the defense an opportunity to prepare counter affidavits In support of Its ob jection to the disqualification of the sheriff and coroner. These were to day's developments In the bribery and graft investigation. There was no session of the Grand Jury. MILLIONAIRE PABST INJURED , Auto 8truok 8treet Car. Millionaire Brewer and Companion Hurt. CHICAGO, April 12. A dispatch to the Tribune from Mllwuee, sntfa Frederick Pabst, a millionaire brewer and Mrs. Leon Barnlckel wife of a well known athletic instructor were, seriously injured last night in an au tomobile accident. Both are at Trin ity Hospital, but will recover. Mr, Pabst left home a short time before to meet the manager of one of hts ranches. On hts way down town he met Mra. Barnlckel, a friend of the family. She was on her way to the armory to meet her husband with whom she was going to the dog show, Mr. Pabst Invited her Into the au tomobile and started for the armory when they were run Jown by a trolley car. Mr. Baricjel was thrown to the pavement, while Mr. Pabst remained In his wrecked automobile n4 was dragged ISO feet over the muddy1 Ktvumerfc, Botli were uircotiJouai and were picked up and carried to a drug store and then removed to the Trinity Hospital, They are still un conscious but will recover. Mra Barnlckel Is the most serious ly hurt. Her face Is cut and bruised and It Is feared she will be Jlsflgured for life. Mr. Pabst says his most serious In juries are about the head. EVELYN'S MOTHER. PITTSBURG, April 12. All effort to obtain a statement from Mrs., Hoi man, mother of Evelyn Nesblt Thaw, on the result of the trial was unsuc cessful. It was reported tonight how. ever that the woman is preparing a statement to be made public In the near future. RECEIVED THAW NEWS. PITT8BURO, April 12.-Plttsburg received the result of the Thaw trial with hardly as much Interest as the baseball ' bulletins. There was little comment BASE BALL SCORES. LOS ANGELES. April 12. Is An geles 8, Oakland t. SAN FRANCISCO. April 12. 12 In- nlngs, Portland 2, San Francisco L "ETERNAL YOUTH" . ... First Society Has Been Formed In Iowa. MEMBERS FINED IF SICK Object To Perpetuate And Renew The Mental. Moral And Physical Youth Over 100 Membere Custom And Habit Cause Old Age And Sickness. CHICAGO. April 12, 1907. A dis patch to the Tribune from Des Moines, la., says: "The First Society of Eternal Youth," is the name of an organiza tion here which has for its object the prolongation of life and which propo ses to fine every member who becomes sick. That the association Is In ear nest Is evidenced by the fact that 100 men -already have enrolled In the scheme, the preamble of which reads as follows: The special object and the business of this society shall be to renew and perpetuate the mental, moral and physical youth and strength of all its members, to build up and continue in the highest degree the mental vigor In each Individual member anJ im peratively requiring from each and every memebr that he live the life of health, thereby contributing his share in banishing the spectre of disease and dearth from the face of the earth. Any member who la reported sick from any disease and so remains sick and is confined to his bed for a con tinuous period of three days or more shall be fined In a sum not less than fl, nor more than $10, for the first offense. For the second offense under J this article any member shall be ex pended from membership and for the third offense of any member In vio lation of this article, expulsion from the society shall be the penalty. All members joining must sign a pledge that he or she will continually assert that there Is nothlns but cus tom and hblt of thought that causes people to be sick, grow old, and die. SPEECHES 0 I Delivered By World Not ed Men. ; CARNEGIE INSTITUTE Plan to Raise Funds for Propos ed Pilgrimage to the Hague Peace Conference. MONEY SHOWERED ON STAGE Dinner In Honor Of Mr. And Mr Car negie At Hotel 8ehenley 8peeohes Of Prominent Men Upon Soience And Engineering. PITTSBURG, April 12. William T. Stead, Editor of Review of Reviews, London at-the rededlcatton ceremonies of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg today, announced a plan to raise the $100,000 necessary to conduct a pil grimage from ail countries to the Hague conference. He proposed that every college and university student In the United States contribute fifty cents toward the fund. After the ap plause Stead aald that probably his hearers would like to contribute, im mediately a shower of money landed on the stage coming from all parts of the hall. A banquet by the trustees of the In stitute in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Car negie was held in the hotel Schenley. The exercises today were largely at tended. Addresses were made by sev eral noted men. Sir William Henry Preece said in part In his address on "The Connection between Science and Engineering Political and mental free dom aided by clear thought and true reason have unfolded nature laws and the engineer has applied them to ex pedite transport, to facilitate com munication, to eliminate time and to annihilate space. The self consciousness of man has been elevated and he had learned to observe, to think, to reason and to re tain. The engineer Is a great benefac tor to his race, for he has facilitated and economized the transport to draw material and of food supplies. The railroad and the steamship render fe mines practically Impossible. The engineer has Improved the condition of life in the civilized world, the mean duration of life has Increased and Da vld's limit has been raised. The bloio" gist finds the germ of disease In bacil li and the engineer utilizes feeding bacteria to purify his sewage. . Thus life Itself Is made to minister, to the service of man. His works are tend' lng much to hasten the advent of peace on earth, and good will among the na tions. The engineer has become the necessity of the aire. Hitherto his ed. ucatlon ha been self acquired. Inven tlon will probably continue to be the hesult of individual private Inquiry but the great majorty of the active work ers in the field must be educated In their science and trained in their art. Sir Robert Ball, professor of astron omy at Cambridge observatory, Eng land, delivered an address on "The sol ution of a Great Scientific Difficulty," In which he explained the mainten ance of the heat of the sun during a period of many millions of years. He said the age of the sun appears to be very much greater than would be com putable with the supposition that its heat was derived only from contrac tion. He said that in the process of the contraction of the sum from in finity to Its present bulk the sum would yield its present amount of heat by contraction for only 9,520,000 years. FOR ME But Professor Jolly had shown It would require 100,000,000 years for the earth' water to turn from fresh to salt, Therefore, he concluded that thre must be some source of energy In the sun much greater than that arising from contraction. This source he said was found la the movement of corpus, cle of matter at the velocity of light. The nebula from which the un con tracted contained the particle, a tmall quantity of which such a radium, would produce a tremendous energy and heat ,: ..... MODESTY OP CLOTHES. Paper tj Club Women en "the Sein View Artistie Drees." ' CHICAGO, April 12, 1907. A dis patch to the Tribune from Detroit, Mich., says: Unclothed peoples, accustomed to see the human body nude at less vicious than a clothed nation among whom , clothing adds allurement to the myster of the body said Mra O. A. James In her paper, "Toe Scientific of Artistic Dress," read before the Twentieth Century Club yesterdays She aald. "We women wear tight fitting bod ices on the street and exposed busts in public gatherings like the opera, and we blush at the expose of the ankles and call it Immodest What la there more essentially Im modest about the exposure of the up per than of the lower limbs? "Modesty is the latest evolved of all the virtues, and originally la the effect rather than the cause of clothes. The first chapters of Genesis show that clothing originally was the result of moral degeneracy. Because we are clothed are we human beings more virtuous than the unclothed horse we drive?" Offset By Training of the Coast States Militia. OUR HAIRLESS SENATORS "(tweet Girl Graduates" 8 warm To Washington Old Warship "Marion" Sold For Junk New Activity Of Steamboat Men On Three Rivers,,.. WASHINGTON. Aipril 12, 1907. given a scant three years of prepara tion the United States will be in a position to laugh at foreign Invasion, at leaet so far as the manning of Its coasl foijtlflcatins ia !concjrne& General Murray, chief of artillery, is astounded at the enthusiasm wflta . which his invitation, extended to the militia of the seaboard states, to learn" the secrets of the big guns has been accepted. The Governor of California has just notified the War Department that the militia will join heartily in joint drills with the regulars, and has asked that provision be made for par ticipation in all of the 62 military Infantry comaalnies in the Stat a, This has been both an enjoyable and embarrassing surprise to the govern ment, for it has been proposed to en tertain only 37 companies at the out side, disposing of them among Fort Rasencranz, Fort Riley, Fort Wlnfleld Scott and Fort Baker. The militia of the other Pacific states have accepted with equal alacrity the opportunity to learn the operation of the big guns, while on the Atlantic coast the same spirit Is shown. Even little Rhode Is land will turn out its full fighting force to learn the intricacies of the coast defenses. In fact, the war spir it seems to be thriving in this age of commercialism, for the War Depart ment la advised of the formation of hundreds of rifle clubs throughout the country. The spirit even has spread to the gentler sex, and the high school girls of this city have formed an or ganization for rifle practice. It lis probable that before the summer Is over they will be able to fire the light 32 calibre flobisrt) 'wfithrtUt shultmg both eyes. (Continued Pag 8 ) I