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VOLUME LXIII, NO. 102.
ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1807.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WILL CALL
OUT fill
Governor's iStatcmcnt on
Strike Situation.
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OULUILIW 111 AiAVUU.vrJ
4Best Way for Mob to Stop
Shooting Is to Quit Throw
Ing Bricks."
REGULARS IF NECESSARY
Th Oovtmef li Wttehlng lii 61tu
Wen Clly and teen Wots
Ar Beyend Polio Control Ho Will
Call Out 8tt Troops.
LOS ANGELES, May 7."I will not
coll out th mllltla to quell th rlott
In 8n Francisco, until tho civil u
thorltte hitvo asked mo to Jo o, or I
urn satisfied from my own tnvesttga
tlont tht thoro I no other war to
bandit th ltuatIon,"' M Governor
Olllot tonight.
! am watching tho situation closely
and will act tho moment I bailor It
necessary. I am now waiting for ad
vlota from Adjutant-General Louck,"
ho continued, "and I am depending en
tirely upon him to advts mo at to tho
xact situation. If tho rlott go on nd
they contlnuo to kill mn anJ tht po
lio ar unable to atop It. I will call
out tb mllltla. Ther will bo no
-child play about It either, It I take
that action, I will too that the rlott are
topped."
1 have boon waiting all evening to
hear from Louck, but to far have heard
nothing from him, at to the serious
nott of the tltuatlon. Press dltspatches
tat that the strike-breaker to far
have don the' shooting. The beat way
for the mob to atop the "hooting I
for tho mob to quit throwing brlckt
and atone. Then the thootlng will
cease, Everything la In readiness to
call out tho troop, Then arrange
ment were mad vrl day ago at
my suggestion, I will not my what
troopi will be called out, but they will
b on the ground ahortty after I take
otlon. I will order the mllltla out and
whenever I become satisfied that the
Ituatlon la beyond their control, I
will (end a request for the Fedeml
troop, Representative from the beat
vdomint of Ban Prancleco ttatlng that
troops are neceaaury, would be suf
ficient for the men to net without welt
Ing for the word of the' official."
"SILENT" BMITH'8 WILL.
Funeral Held Relative! Will Not Con
tt Doeument. t
NEW YORK, May 7,-Juet how the
many million of dollar of James
Henry Smith who died In JnpRn, March
S7 lat, while on a honeymoon tour of
the world I to be, distributed, will
probably be made known thl after
noon. It 1 planned to read the will
at the Fifth avenue mansion Imme
diately after the funeral and later In
the day tho documont I expected to
be filed at Goshen, brange county.
There have been conflicting report a
to the distribution of the estate which
ts estimated to be valued at more than
$60,000,000 but tho moat generally ac
cepted report I .that the bulk of the
estate will go to George O, Mason, of
Aberdeen, S. a nephew of the de
, ceased. The widow, to whom Smith
was married on September 15th last,
and who wa formerly Mr. William
nhlnelander Stewart, according to re
port, I bequeathed $4,000,000, while
Lady Mary Smith Cooper, a sister, It
It said, I to rclv $3,000,000. Other
relatival have been generously remem
bered. There have been statements
that there w more than on will In
exlilenc but the Duk of Manchester,
who with hi wifo wa with the touring
party who accompanied Mr, Smith and
bl brld disposed of the rumor
when they arrived from Japan with Mr.
Bmlth, II announced that ht knew
of no will other than th one mad by
Mr. Smith In Scotland two day after
hi marring. Th Duk wa lo em
phatic In slitting that ther would b
no dlsput among Mr, Smith' relative
over the distribution of the property.
Th funeral of Mr, Smith will occur to
day. Services will be held at 10
o'clock at St Bartholomew' church.
Dr. Park will officiate and th Inter
ment will b at Woodlawn.
ELECTED VICE-PRESIDENT.
RooMvtlt Eleoted Honorary Vice-President
of tamn' Prlnd ftoe!ty,
NEW TORK, May lUpreetdent
RooMvelt wa ' elected an honorary
vice-president at th 70th annual meet
ing of th American Seamnn't Friend
Society, President Roosevelt It wa
said, mad hi first publlo speech when
a young man In th society's room.
PALMA SERIOUSLY ILL.
NEW TORK, May J.-AJvlce from
Havana slat that a report I published
there In La Lucha that s-Preldent
Palma I seriously ill at hi ranch near
Ouamo. ,
SCHWAB ON Mil
"Unless LaborConditions Change
' Manufacturing Must Stop."
RELATIVE TO FRISCO STRIKES
Claim Hi Company Lett Two Mil
lion and Half On Thre Battleship
Cont not s Inferior and Inefficient
Work H Objeets To.
BAN FRANCISCO, May 7,-Charlcs
M. Schwab, former president of the
United State Steel Corporation and
president of th Carnegie Company
prior to the organisation of th tteel
corporation, heavily Interested in large
shipbuilding work In the East, chief
owner of the Bethlehem Btoel Works
and tho nrlnclpo.1 holder In Harlan and
Ilolllngsvrorth of Wilmington, Del.,
mad a Dying trip to San Francisco
yesterday. Mr. Schwab In an Interview
yesterday stated:
"Our concern will never take a bat
tleship or any other kind of a ship to
bo built In Sun Francisco as long as
tho labor conditions ar maintained a
at present. We lost 2,500,000 on tho
Inst three battleships contracted for
and have lost more money In our
work In San Francisco than we have
made, at our other work throughout
the different pot ts of th country. We
shnll not take any work of any magni
tude under the labor conditions exist
ing In San Francisco. I never have'
icon anything like It before, anywhere.
"We have Just completed three bat
tleship! for the United State govern
ment and we have lost $3,500,000 In
the construction and this was chiefly
caused by the condition of labor. When
we took control of th Union Iron
Works Henry Scott had already con
tracted for these three ships and then
the men were working ten hour a day,
but thl did not exist1 long before It
wa nine hour.
"It It not to much tho time at It la
greatly because of their Inferior and
Inefficient workmanship that we object,
as the tame ,' standard has not been
maintained.
"I want to state In the Interest of
your great city that unless labor con
ditions change here all manufacturing
must stop, at no living man would
dare bid on future contracts with your
labor organisations constantly rising
wages and reducing the hours of
labor,"
BLOODY STREETCAR II I HIS IK
AN
Attempt to Run Cars Results in Pitched Battle B
tween Strikebreakers and Mob.
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ONE KILLED AND EIGHT
Strikers and Sympathizers Assault the Heavily Guarded Cars.
Strikebreakers Retaliate By Fireing Into Mob With Revolvers
Wounding People Indiscriminately.
STREETCAR COMPANY WILL MAKE ANOTHER ATTEMPT TODAY
MAYOR 8CHMITZ ISSUED PROCLA MATION ASKING CITIZENS TO
KEEP OFP STREETS AND STAY AT HOME UNLESS THEY HAVE
BUSINESS ON STREETS, IF 80, TO AVOID CONGREGATING
POLICE ARMED WITH RIFLES TODAY AND WILL STOP PROM
ISCUOUS SHOOTING REPETIT ION OP YESTERDAY EXPECTED
IP COMPANY RUNS CARS TODAY.
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0 SAN FRANCISCO, Msy 7.-A pi tehed battle between th strike- 0
0 bresker and striker nd tympathi ter wa fought this afternoon on 0
0 Turk street for mor than an hour. 0
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0 shooting was don by th strike-breskers from oar window in r- O
O soon to shower of paving stone and brick bat hurled at them 0
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Th strike of th 1700 union motor
men and conductor of the United
Railway devr!;i5 U moon Into
a riot In which more than a score of
persons were severely, some fatally,
wounded and others mor j or less In
jured. At 1:30 the company mad it
first attempt to resume the operation
of It system by sending out seven
passenger cars manned by between 10
and 40 strikebreakers wearing th uni
form of car Inspector and each carry
ing a 18 calibre revolver strapped
around his waist, outside of his coat
The start was made from the com
pany's barn at Turk and Fillmore
treet wer a crowd, variously esti
mated at from 1000 to 5000, men and
boys had congregated.
Twenty-seven policemen, five mount
ed officers and several sergeants un
der the command of Captain Mooney
wer on patrol guard. The appearance
of the cars on Fillmore streets from
which they were twitched Into Turk
street wa the signal for an Immense
outburst of Jeers and, hoot. Before
the cars. had gone a block, they were
made the targets for showers of stones
and bricks, In a few moments every
pane of glass had been smashed and
several of the armed operatives had
been struck, cut and bruised.
At Turk and Buchanan street an
especially fierce attack was made on
the foremost car. The guard on the
rear platform, answered ; the flying
stones with pistol shots. . A bullet
struck one of the union sympathisers
In the arm. This happening trans
formed crowds Into a wild mob and
thence forward, for 11 blocks a pitched
battle was fought, the strikers and
their friends, aided by hundreds of
youthful hoodlums, kept up a running
shower of missies,' the guards on board
th car responded with fusillade after
fussllade of pistol shots, eight men re
ceived bullet wounds, some which will
prove fatal, among those Injured be
ing a detective, sergeant and a patrol
man, Anally a dosen of more of guards
were taken under arrest by the squad
of reserves from the Central Station,
and a union crowd boarded the rear-1
most car and started It back to the !
barn. Arriving there, the strikers!
charged and a revolver Are was opened I
on them from the barns. In this en- J
countor several more men were shot.
A non-union man threw the switch!
FRANCISCO
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SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
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t with club and drawn revolver. 0
at the corner of Turk and Fillmore and
the derailed car shot onto the side
walk, maiming two men whose names
were not learned. In the stampede that
followed, score of women and chil
dren on th outskirts of tb mob in
Fillmore street, wer hurled to the
pavement and trampled upon. The ap
pearance of the relief squads sent to
reenforce Captain Moony men re
sulted, about 4:10 o'clock, in a partial
dispersing of the crowds.
A current Is rumored that Superin
tendent Chapman, who spent the fore
noon and the early afternoon at the
Fillmore street barns, was seen about
5 o'clock driving rapidly away on
Golden Gate avenue In an automobile
that was dashed with blood. There Is
yet no confirmation of the rumor that
Chapman wa wounded. At the Cen
tral Emergency Hospital, at Golden
Qate avenue and Gough street. Is
gathered a large crowd of union men
and their friends watting eagerly for
the messages that drift out from mo
ment to moment from the bedsides of
their wounded companions.
Practically all of the reserve forces
at the various precinct stations have
been called out and are now patrolling
the neighborhood of Fillmore and Turk
streets, where the greatest congestion
Is. It has not yet been learned wheth
er the company proposes to make a
second attempt to run the cars to
night, but the general belief Is that
because of the afternoon's tragic hap
penings that further effort to resume
operation of th system will be with
held until the officials of the company
are satisfied that the poltce are In a
position to afford protection to prop
erty and life.
The bloody events of the afternoon
were preceded by a less serious clash
at 11 o'clock In the forenoon when a
freight car manned by five Inspectors
and barn Superintendent Jones was
run out of the yard at Turk and Fill
more streets and operated for a half
block. , The crowds showered th car
with bricks, . bats and stones and
slightly injured two of the Inspectors.
Finally all attempt to operate the car
was given up and It was run back to
the yards by Jones himself with the
union men swarming onto the plat
forms and Joining In the cheers that
were sent up by the mob.
In a statement to the Associated
Pre tonight, Mayor Schmlts sal J:
"The deplorable occurrence of this
afternoon were not a general Hot and
there wa no necessity for calling out
the troops. Th police ar able to
handle the situation and I shall see
that they do It I have ordered tb
chief of police to cwear In mor officer
if he find It necessary. I have also
ordered him to arrest anybody carry
ing arms, concealed or otherwise. The
men who go out on the cars will not
be permitted to carry weapon. This
is th best way to maintain peace."
Schmlts tonight Issued a proclama
tion asking:
: "On account of the Industrial dis
turbances that exist In tb city, all of
those who have no business on tb
streets ar to remain at bom and
those who have to be on the street are
directed not to congregate. Tho who
ar now out on a trlka ar earnestly
requested to maintain the dignity of
organized labor by discountenancing
any act of violence on th part of
their sympathizers."
That many bloody events of today's
troubles may be repeated with even
more tragic results was tb fear ex
pressed tonight when It wa made
known that the United Railroads pro
gram for Wednesday Includes another
attempt to resume the operation of Its
system. This attempt, according; to
General Manager Mullalley, will be
made sometime In tb forenoon. He
declined to state at what hour or to
(Continued on Pag 8.)
LIMITED HELD UP
North Coast Limited is Stopped
East of Butte.
THE ENGINEER IS KILLED
Every Effort Being Mad to Appre
hend Train Robbers Bloodhounds
To 6 Usd Fourth Tim In Three
Year That Robbery Was Attempted
BUTTE, Mont, May 7. The North
Coast limited, the crack train on the
Northern Pacific, has Just been held up
at Welch's Spur about 15 miles east
of this city and the engineer killed.
The sheriff's office has been notified
of the robbery and, officers are now
preparing to leave for the scene.. The
object of the robbers,, It Is presumed,
was to secure the contents of through
safe carrying consignments of cur
rency from Seattle, Portland and
Spokane to eastern points. The. blood
hounds of the penitentiary will be
wired for. This Is the fourth ttme the
North Coast east-bound has been held
up In three years. The other three
times this train was robbed iear Bear
Mouth about 80 miles west of aero.
This morning's holdup Is near the
scene of the robbery of the Burling
ton flyer two years ago In a section
ol country very rough and mountain
ous. : ; ',',-...;:
" The two bandits who this morning
held up the North Coast limited at
Welch's Spur, murdering Engineer
Frank , Clow and wounding Fireman
Thomas Sullivan, thus far have man
aged to elude about 15 officers scour
ing the mountains In the vicinity of th
holdup.
Officers returning tonight from the
Spur state that the trail was lost by
the prison dogs on the road leading to
Butte, where the bandits had sprinkled
a quantity of red pepper. The officers
have a number of spare hounds In re
serve and early tomorrow morning the
hunt wilt resume.
The belief Is that the bandits are
making their way to Butte, if they are
not already within the city limits. AU
the passes leading from the divide
where the outlaws ar supposed to be
hiding, Into Butte, are being closely
watched, as a stimulus to the efforts
of the officers was added by the an
nouncement this evening of a reward
of $2000 offered by the Northern Pa-
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MURDEROUS
INSANITY
Prompted Man to Use
Shotgun. ;
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KILLED FAMILY OF SIX
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Arose, Killed Two Room-Mates
Then Visited Each Room and
Shot the Occupants.
BOARDING HOUSE TRAGEDY
Maniso Spared Ufa of Young Girl Be
cause of Resemblance to Hi Daugh
terOverpowered and Taken to In
an Ward Placed in Btraightjaokat
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SAN FRANVCISCO, May 7. Walter
C. Davis, a carpenter Jn'a fit of in
sanity today shot and killed a family
of six persons, with whom he resided.
at 414 Pierce street, this city.
The dead are:
ORSON R. BUSH, aged 6T, his wlfa
ana their young son.
W. 8. BEAR, a carpenter, with rela
tives in St Louis and Denver.
St E. ZINTON. a surveyor, recent
ly from New York.
MRS. LILLIAN D. CAROTHERS, aa
elderly woman, who boarded la th
house,
Davis and bis victims all reside In
this house, which was conducted a a
boarding bouse by the Bush family.
(Davis home was In' Farmerville,
near Vlsalla, thl state, where he ha a
wife and six children. He baa been
working here as a carpenter since the
fir. ' - ' '- " ;!
The shooting was done with a double
barrelled shotgun. Davis, Who slept In
the same room with young Bush and
Beard .arose shortly after 5 o'clock,
and after arming himself with tha
gun, shot his two room-mate and then
visited each room In turn, killing tho
occupants.
He fancied that th people In the
house had formed a plot to kill him
and take his money. The shots at
tracted a large crowd and a rush wa
made upon Davis as he was attempt
ing to reload his weapon and he was
overpowered and turned over to th
police, by whom he was taken to th
detention ward of the hospital. Tb
bodies of his victims were taken to
the morgue.
One lodger In the house escaped. She
was a young girl of 17. Davis pointed
th gun at her and was prepared to
shoot when he said she resembled- htt
daughter, so he spared her life.
; After killing Bush and Beard, th
maniac took a box of shells from a
shell and walked down the hallway,
where he met Mrs. Lillian D. Caroth
ers, an elderly woman, who had heard,
the first two shots and had come to
her doorway to find out what was tht
matter. He shot her and with tha
remaining shell killed Mrs. Orsoa
Bush.
M. E. Vinton, a government survey
or, who came here from New York,
was killed as he lay In bed.
Orson Bush, senior, was a tallyman
In the employ of the Dleckman Lum
ber Company, and had got up early In
order to prepare his coffee before go
ing to the mill. He heard th shoot
ing and rushed upstairs, where he was
met by Davis. The appearance of the
hallway indicates that Bush made a
desperate fight for his life. His body
was found as It had fallen In the head
of the , stairs. Seventeen-year-old
Annie Bush came running Into . the
hallway, and was met by Davis, hla
(Continued on Pag 8.