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!1 wxnm 4 dVjtrri OOVIHt TNI MOHNIM9 fllLO ON Tril LOW! COLUMBIA VOLUME LXIII, NO. 104. ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS v. 9 - i ii hi M CAR STRIKE STILL ON Roses and Kisses Thrown at Strikebreakers. t- v ' v "'" " TWO CARS OPERATED Women Like Courage .of Unarm ed Strikebreaker! and Show Admiration. BUT ONE SHOT WAS FIRED Ani That Prom Mob Polio Proteet Can and Company Will Mak An other Attempt Today Arretted Man Claim lll'Trtatmant by Polio. BAN FTIANCI8CO, May t Rose nd carnation, Instead of brickbat an J cobblestones, featured today' run f two cart of the ITnlied Railway, manned by 10 atrtkobrkra. from th car barn at Oak and Broderlek tri for a distance of thr or four mllee through th bualnea and retHdano ireeti of tha western addition, fltlired to admiration by th courage of th th two car In tha mob crowdd thor oughfares, women all along the routa tood on dooratep or leaned from win dows and waived handkerchiefs, clap red their hand, cheered and throw kisses to th non-untonlst, s the police protected car ran slowly by. On the return trip on Sacramento treet a young girl ran out from a florist and loosed ft handful or bright oolored long-stemmed carnation to tha platform of on of tha car. Tha -r were halted whlir tha young woman brought cluster of carnations and roses from tha shop and offered thorn to lha men. Soon every strike breaker had ft flower In hi coat The xtr one they toaaed to Aaat. Praa. Mullally, . Superintendent Chapman, Chief Surgeon Coffey and other offlc lata of th company who wera keeping pace In an automobile with tha cara. From ft bakery In the neighborhood a Mout woman came hurrying breath lonely, herviand full of small kea, lm from the oven. They were devour ' ed In th twinkling by the untformed recipients and aha ran back to the hop and brought more. The afternoon' trip wa not all cake and flower. The tnuntlng, Joer Ing, :bowllng crowd of more than 1000 'trlke sympathizer Jog-trotted along the vldewalka, reviling the carmon and jelling threat to "get them yet," cry ing "murderer,"- "cowards," and "scabs." Now and then an unaeen arm was drawn back In the outskirts of tho mob and a missile came hurling through the air to crash agalnat the car. Once a brick hurled frm the Idewalk, cleared the top of a car and Biruck a union man In tha cheat. Though no ahootlng waa witnessed by tho police, company offlclnla or news papermen who accompanied th car on tholrrun, one motormnn declared after the return to the barn that a hot wa fired from the sidewalk on Devlsadcro atreet, between Golden Oataavenue and McAllister. In proof of hi atatement he pointed to ft clean cut hole in one of the ventilator win dow! of hi car, The program for tomorrow la to run two cara through the more dungerou! section of the city and that of the western addition. In thli event, more seiious trouble 1 expected. Prealdont Calhoun atated today that he baa cor roborative evidence of reputable cltl ceni that the first ahoti fired on Tuea day were not from the car but from the crowd. Twelve of the non-union men were arrested Tuesday for the ahootlng made affidavit! today that when takon to Jail they wer vrely boston by the police and deprived of food, water and bed for 14 hour. There I no pear In alght for atrlka hrmMd San Francisco, Deplt the vlgornu and unremitting effort of the pence maker, comprising th cltlsen' coidmlitwa appointed to bring the employer and employe together, no conce-dlon wo arrived at and no con cession Intimated out of which ft com. promln might grow or ttlemn( be mad. - yu -r;r""'i AUSTRALIAN MAIL LINK. New Lin of Steamer Imuguratod From Frloo to Aurtrftlla. SAN nUNClSCO, May f.-Th es tabllahment of ft new tin of big steam era to run between thl port and Auatrallan. point ha been offlctally announced by Andrew Wtolr of London and Frank Waterhouo of Seattle, both well known ahlrplng men. The flrt iteamer, the Forerto la to leave Ban Franeleco Auguet 10 next. Th other learner of th line, to leave her at Interval of ft month are th Aymerto, Koverlo Inverlc, Oymerto and Tyemlrc. The t earner rang In ie from 5700 to 7800 ton net rglet, , Th new aervlc wl1rpert under the name of the Auatrallan Mall Una. PUBLIC UTILITIES BILL. ALT1ANT, N. T.. May Tha public utllltle bill In the form dealred by flovernor Hughe t to be paed with out delay with th full aupport of the republican date organltatlon. It will probably be made a maur In both houe and a meeting of the Ttepubll can Mate committee will bo held In New Tork City at noon on Saturday to ratify th declalon and to take ac Hon concerning this and other leg!- lot I v niattei of Importance... - Thla I the net roault of yeaterday'a wlft development! which, beginning In aome doubt a to whether Governor Hughe would have the undivided aup port of the faaJen of hi party, ended with them all, ao far ai heard from avowedly committed to the governor program. A conference of Republican Sena ton laat night voted unanlmoualy that the bill ahould be aupported, In aub inntlully It preaent form by th re publican majority and that any pro- poed amendment mut be submitted to the caucus before adoption. MORE LAND FRAUDS Equity Bills Filed in Colorado Federal Court. TIMBER PROPERTY INVOLVED Injunction Ak For To Restrain New Mexico and Pagosa Lumber Com' panle From Further instruction of ' Forests Land ia In ArehuleU County DENVER, Mny 9 That ft conspiracy waa fostered with the object v .of wrongfully obtaining eeverol thousand acros of valuable timber land from the govornmenti that title were acquired through false filing by Ineligible en trymen and that person were Induced to settle on the claim and make mock attempt at cultivation and other lm provoments all violation of the pro visions of the homestead act are the chief allegations which form the basis of two bills of equity filed In the fed erat court hero yesterday asking to have sot aside the patent to land titles held by the New Mexico Lum ber Company and the Pagosa Lumber Company. An Injunction is also asked to re strain the different companies from further destruction of the forest which cover most of the lands. The timber properties . olalme'd by the lumber oompanlei are situated In Archuleta County, Colorado, and the values is placed At 150,000. In the complaint the court 1 asked to make the different persons who died claims on the lands defendant in the action. 1111 ON TRIAL Work of Securing Jufy Started. ' NO JURORS ACCEPTED Eleven Men Are Under Exam! nation But Were Neither Final ly Accepted Nor Rejected. ABSENCE OF CROWDS NOTICED Talmn All Swor Thy Had Not Beta Influenced By President' "Un daslrabl Citizens" Speech Trial Postponed Until Next Monday. BOISE. May W. D. Haywood, flrat of the alleged participant In the conspiracy by which It Is alleged the assassination of Governor Steumm berg waa plotted and executed, was placed on trial today for his life. Counsel for the stale and the prisoner entred at once, In ft business like way, upon the examination of prospective Juror and kept steadily at th task for five hour. No Juror wa finally accepted, but aubatantlal progress was made and the Indications at the close of the evasion were that ft Jury could be obtained by the end of next week. It waa earnest and businesslike. Its striking feature waa the absence of crowd or demonstration .In any form. At no time In the morning or afternoon wa the courtroom more than half filled and the atreet form ing the courthouse squar, contained not a single loiterer. The case was halted shortly before 5 o'clock by ex haustlon of the Jury panel and an ad journment wo taken until Monday. In the meantime exhaustion of the Jury panel and an adjournment waa taken until Monday, In th meantime the ihcrlff will summon special venire of 100 men. Eleven men are under ex amination, but are not aa yet fully accepted or rejected, they were locked ua1ffld f 1I.ua will be closely guarded. Haywood wo brought into court at 10 sharp In the morning. He found bin family In a long line of chairs to the right of his seat, and In front were all of his counsel. He devoted more at' tion to his youngest daughter than to anyone else and throughout the Jay took practically no part In the selec tion of Juror. Men InTlmllnr Jeo pardy as a rule, make a close study of their prospective Jurors and fr' quently express their personal pref erfnees, but Haywood seems content to leave the matter entirely with his lnwyers. Haywood gave no sign of any feeling, but sat quietly throughout the day. Mrs. Haywood and the elder daugh tcr stood the ordeal of the appearance In court, but th younger child cried after the examination of the talesmen began. Mr. Haywood and family did not attend the afternoon session. The questioning of the defense took a much wider range than that of the state and the most striking feature dealt with the possible effect upon the minds and attitude of the Jurors, of the letter of President Roosevelt in calling Haywood and his associates "undesirable cltlaens," the speeches In Idaho of Secretary Taft, the message of Governor Gooding to the legislature' of Idaho, the apeech at Boise of Sena tor Heyburn and the action of the Idaho legislature in passing a resolu tlon and appropriating money for the prosecution of the three prisoners. Richardson, who conducted the, ex amination, was also particular to as certain their attitude toward the so cialists and mmbors of the labor or- ganlxatlon and whether they could glv them a fair trial. He wa also anxious to know whether they had any professional, personal, fraternal, , re llglou or political affiliation with any of the counsel for the state, any connection with jjotectlv agencies, any experience In the pursuit or prosecu tlon of criminals, or whether they wr member of the Mlneownens As ociatlon. Richardson also asked If they had contributed to any fund for the prosecution of the prisoner, If they were member of ft citlxen1 alliance, If they remembered th old labor troubles In Idaho and If they had taken side in the labor trouble ftt any time, The remarkable feature of tbl exami nation wo that all of th talesmen examined by defense swore that they had not been Influenced by 'the letter of the PrealJnnt or the speeches of other officials of th National or State government And ft majority of them said they were Republicans. Their attitude toward circumstantial evidence, the manner in which the ac cused wa brought from Colorado, their acquaintance with the murdered man, wer the other subjects dwelt upon by the defense. Of the eleven men re maining In the Jury box at the close of today's session, only three have been pasecd by both aides, Tbey have not been finally accepted and sworn In and are still subject to peremptory chal tenge. They are A. L. Ewlng, carpen ter and vetran of the Civil War; Wll llam an Orsdale, grocer. Boise; and Samuel D. Oilman, farmer, residence, 10 miles from Boise. , t'ndcr the law each side has 10 pre- emptory challenges. Judge Wood gave both lde . wide latitude In the ex amination and also showed ft willing' nes to grant challenge where there seemed any reasonable objection to the attitude of the talesmen, and In one contest of. the day he ruled with the defense. The states today filed ft sup plementary list of 1E1 witnesses and announced more names to be filed later. OTIS ELEVATOR STRIKE. CHICAGO, May . At the plant of the Otl Elevator Company 275 men dent on strike yesterday. They wer machinists, cranemen and allied trades. The latter struck out of sympathy for tjie machinist, who demanded an In crease in wages of 25 cent a day. RIOT ON STEAMER Maori King Forced to Put Into San Diego. SAILS WITH ARMED GUARD Loaded With Coolies and Russians- British Steamer Likly To Become Involved In An International Con trovery On Arrival At Destination, SAN DlfiGO. Cal., With a guard of 20 armed men the British steamer Maori King sailed late yesterday aft ernoon on her voyage to Guaymas with the 1000 Chinese coolies and 200 Rus slans whose rioting caused tho vessel to put Into this port. When she arriv ed at Guaymas the next chapter th the affair I likely to be an Interna tlonal one. From the Chinese consul general at San Francisco yesterday a telegram indicating that this may be the outcome waa received by Lum King, secretary of the "Chinese Cham ber of Commerce here. The consul general says that Commissioner North has ordered an Investigation. The con sul-general also asks particulars with a view to laying the matter before the Chinese minister at Washington. CENSUS OF EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, May . The popula tion of Cairo Is 640,000 and Alexandria 870,000 according to ft census Just com pleted. The total population of Egypt Is estimated at 13,000,000. EXECUTED IN JULY Holivcr Mcgordon Cooly Awaits Scaffold. BRUTAL WIFE MURDER Trivial Quarrel Over Meal-Shot Wife While Children Look ed On. LETER GO I'M ALL IN Mcgordon' Way of Resigning Him self To Hi Fat As He Stepped In to Murdrr' Cell For Last Tim To Hang July 23. SALEM, Or., May . "Let 'er go; I'm all In." With the utterance of these few words Hollver Megordon stepped Inside the portal of the "condemned" cell, Indicating that he has given up the fight for life. The crime for which Megordon will be banged on July 23, is one of the most cold-blooded and atrocious mur ders recorded in the annal of Oregon criminology. So heinous was the ahoot lng down of hi defenseless wife, be fore the eyes of his children, the youngest of whom was but ft babe in arms, that It was with difficulty that a lynching seen wo averted, and. although It ha been mor than two year since the crime waa committed. public sentiment In Malheur county wa still bo strong when Megordon was taken back for resentencing two weeks that every precaution was taken to protect the prisoner from mob violence, and Sheriff O'Dell .was given a quiet "hunch" that he had better keep close watch upon hi prisoner. Megordon and hla family (wife and three children) lived upon ft ranch near Kyssa, Malheur county, about It miles from Vale. It was generally known that the relations existing between the Me gordon and his family were not of the most feliclttous nature, but nothing of ft serious character transpired until March !8, 1905, when the tragedy oc curred. Megordon arose from bed early on the morning of March 28, and drove to Vale to transact Some business. Upon returning during the afternoon hs wife set out a lunch for him. This seemed to arouse Megordon's anger, and he in quired of his wife: "Are you going to quit cooking for "Why, I, guess not," she replied. "Why do you ask?" t M "I had to go to town this morning without anything to eat, and now you Set out cold vitflals for me." "WelV she replied, "it is so near supper time that I thought yon would not want anything warm now." One word brought on another, until Megordon struck his' wife In the face when his eldest son, aged 14' years, In terfered. He knocked his" son back Into a corner of the room, anj when the latter rose ha grasped ft 2J-calibre rifle which was standing In the corner in which he fell. Don't shoot!" the mother cautioned him a he advanced. The boy then re versed the gun and dealt the father a blow on the head with the gun, break ing the stock and Inflicting an ugly wound. Megordon then made a'rudh for his bedroom, where his revolver, which he hod purchased two ' year before, waa concealed, and the mother, antici pating bloodshed, told the son" to run for his life, a "the father had gone for his gun. The boy fled, and the father pursued, and when they had gained the road th father fired three shot at th fleeing form of hi son, when th latter pitched forward Into the aago brush and under fence. Th father evidently thinking n had killed th boy, then turned his attention to bU wife and tha other two children, who? were fleeing in terror in th other di rection. When the mother, who wag looking over her should as she ran with the youngest child In her arms, saw the eldest son plung head fore most she, too, thought be had been killed, and stopped ai though froiea to th spot while the Infuriated husband approached. " While the children clung to the skirt of their mother in terror, ht turned and raised her hands In suppli cation to her husband and begged pit eously for her life. He grabbed her by the shoulder, turned her half round and pressed the muzzle of thft revolver to 'Tier left breast "and fired. With ft stifled shriek the mother sank dead at hi feet, 'while th children wept bit terly over ber prostrate form. Megor don, without saying ft word, walked on to Sfyoso, about one mile distant, and calmly told the doctor that he hod bet ter go out and see his wife, as ha thought the bad been hurt" In the meantime the elder son, whom the mother and father, thought had been killed, but who hod only Jumped Into the brush to hide, and had. wit nessed the brutal murder of his moth- er, came out of his hiding place, and the three children, not knowing that life was extinct, placed the beloved form upon wheelbarrow and wheeled it to the nearest neighbor, about ft quarter of ft mile away, the next old est child holding and caressing the head while the youngest one toddled along behind wailing loudly for U mamma, ' Megordon made no attempt to escape but walked quietly bock to the ranch and wa In the act of going out the back door of the house when placed under arrest by the Marshal He was convicted of thurder in the first de gree and sentenced to hang when he appealed to the Supreme Court, but the decree of the lower court wa affirmed and he was. taken back to bo resentenced week before last CUBAN 8UGAR CROPS. HAVANA, May 9. Sugar export during April show that the crop is the largest ever gathered In Cuba, PUGILIST MURDERER Beat Companion to Death in Railroad Car. I PEDLAR PALMER TO BE TRIED Fainted When H Heard Th Verdict Wife and Sister Created Disturbance In Courtroom Prison Formally Committed For Trial. . LONDON, May 9. A verdict of mur der was returned In the Croyden police court today against Pedlar Palmer, the English pugilist who killed Robert Choat on April 24 by beating him, while they were returning from the races in a railroad car. When Palmer heard the decision he shrieked and fell down In a faint in the dock. His wife and sister were present in court and also created scene. They were taken screaming from the courtroom. After the testimony had been taken the prisoner wag formally committed for trial. SUE3 ROCK ISLAND. KANSAS' CITY, Mo., May 9. At torney for" Josephy D. Arsol, Mexican counsel in Kansas City, brought IS suit In the clrcurt court yesterday against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company for actual damages aggregating $160,000 for the death of 15 Mexican laborers killed In the' railroad collision ' near Volland. Kaa., January 2,: 1907.