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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1907)
Jlliniiii bOVIftt TNS MORNINa fllLO ON TM LOWKh COLUMBIA VOLUME LXIII, NO 134. ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 1 4, f 907. PRICE FIVE CENTS .A r GEAFTEE mis hum w u : w t tar The Court Will pronounce On Wednesday June 2t. "THE LAW HAS TAKEN ITS Jury on Informal Ballot Stood Eleven to One for Convlction-On First Formal Ballot After Ninety Five Minutes of Discus slon Was Unamlous for Conviction. VERDICT GREATLY PLEASED OH MOTION OP THE PROSECUTION, JUDGE DUNNE ORDERED 1BE SHERIFF TO TAKE SCHMITZ INTO CUSTODY PENDING THE PRO NOUNCEMENT OF SENTENCE S WIMITZ MAKES STATEMENT DE CLARINO THAT HE IS INNOCENT. , 'HAS FRANCISCO, June 13.-A Jury of 12 of his peers, ha declared Mayor Eugene K. fchmlti guilty of the trim of extortion charged agAiut him ljr the Oliver grand jury. Tho jury t out one hour unci thirty-five minute. They t one elected foreman and proceeded to cat an Informal ballot. This was at verbally and stood eleven for con viction and one for acquittal. The jury then begun a discussion which lasted for nearly an hour. At the end of that tlmo the first formal Iwillot was cast. It was unanimous for conviction. On the wings of rumor the report pread, "Tli jury ha agreed. and even before Judge Dunne" could reach the Synagogue nearly a thousand person were clamoring for admission. They were kept out until the Jury was brought In, then they aurjjed into the building. Then came a wait of five minute for Judge Dunne. He came presently In hie big touring automobile, Metson, Falrnll, Darrett and Drew ac companying him. They quickly took their accustomed seats, Judgo Dunne ordered the polling of the jury, this done, the cleric said: "Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a verdict !" , , The foreman aald they had. "What k your verdk r la the dc fondant guilty or not guilty V Foremiin Capp aald In a low tone, 'Guilty" - The silence was broken In a hundred placet at once like a wave draining from the rooks. A long drawn . "A" ran through the crowd. Then, "flood," cried a voice in' the far corner, and "Good, good," echoed another farther in front. All over the house the people were jumping up, and aome of them turned to strangers at their elbows and thru't out their hands in the enthusiasm of a long looked for moment and said "Shake." ' - ' "Gentlemen of the jury," aald the flerk, "Listen to the verdict as record ed i 'We, the jury In the above entitled cane, find the dofendnnt, Eugene K. Nchmlt, guilty as charged In the Indict ment.' ! that your verdict, eo any you one, to aay you all!" 'So lay we all," answered bnck the 12, their voice Jumbling and Jarring on the alienee. ' y At the request of the defense, the Jury wai polled, each Juror In turn declaring It Ma verdict. "The judgment of the court will be pronounced Wednesday, June 87," sold Judge Dunne. ' . "The court will at tht time Men to tvny motion that may suggest Itself to the prosecution." ' , District Attorney Langdon arose. , ' "We will aak that the usual course be punned," he said. "You mean," questioned Judge Dunne, "That you desire that the dofendnnt I taken into custody pending pronounce Mayor Schmitz Sentence COURSEMUDGE DUNNE SPECTATORS IN COURT ROOM ment of sentence! "Yea, your Honor, we think that it hould b done," responded the state. "The Sheriff will take the defendant Into custody pending the further order of court." Saying this Judge Dunne arose ab ruptly and quit the bench. Id bis cham ber moment later he wat asked if he desired to make any statement This wa bis reply i TleaM aay for me that the law baa taken Ita course." . When aaked if he wanted to make any statement, the Mayor at first said "No," He later, on the advice of his counsel, gave out a statement. k NEED NO SPONSOR. William J. Bryan Dlaeutaei Question of Keiorm Undiaatet For Presidency. WASHINGTON, June 13.-"A candi date for President who is willing to run aa a 'reform' candidate ought to have record so clear as not to need a spon sor,", said William J. Bryan today. "An Inuorser on note is not required gen erally when the marker i good." Air. Bryan said he had not been quoted accurately In New York when he was made to aay: there were other questions more Important than the tar iff, He was not, however, he said, ready to indicate what would be the para mount issue. He added t "Th trust question, the tariff ques tion and the railroad question all In volve the same great principle, namely, whether the government should be. ad ministered for the benefit of the few or for the benefit of the whole people, Wen differ as to which is of greatest im portance and I do not think It neces sary for the party to designate either of the questions as paramount The Democratic party will favor the exter mination of the trusts, will advocate tariff reform and insist upon strict regu lation of the railroads. Other questions will be Included, but the three I have mentioned are closely connected and likely to be considered as really parts of the ame great issue," ADOPT TWO-CENT RATE. Missouri and Illinois Roads Decide Not . To Oppose New Laws. ST. LOUIS, June 13. Announcement was made today following the closed meeting here yesterday of railroad ofltcinls representing all the Missouri and Illinois roads and several eastern lines, that the passenger officials of Missouri and Illinois roads have decided not to oppose the enforcement of the now laws reducing fares from 3 to 2 iente ft mile. The laws become effective in Missouri June 14, 'and in Illinois on July 1, ' SCHMITZ MAKES BAN FRANCISCO, Juno M.-Mayor Sclimlt tonight made the follow lng statement . . .. "No matter what the decision of the jury was, gotten under the most adverse circumstances regarding myself, I still maintain and affirm that I ant absolutely innocent Of the crime charged against me and will fight to the lnt resort. Aa I aald before my trial, I did not expert nr did I receive fair or even decent treatment at the hands of Judge Dunne, and reallxing his prejudice I made every effort to have the case transferred to another Judge. I do not take this aa defeat and the decision will make me all the more determined to seek and secure justice in another court." OYSTERS ARE "WILD ANIMALS." Attorney-General Jackson So Holds In Deciding On Tax Cst. ALBANY, Juno IS Attorney-General Jackson gave an opinion to the state tax commissioners today in which be aid that the courts have held that oysters are "wild animals" and that the lands upon which they are planted are subject to the same rules of taxation as other real property. They become personal property when they are re claimed or artificially planted. Trie opinion was called forth In an swer to a letter received by the state commission from G. Frank Tuthill,, su pervisor of the Town of Southold, in quiring whether oyster beds should be attested as real or personal property and to what purpose the taxe derived therefrom are to be devoted. The plant ed oysters, the' attorney-general says, would be assessable a personal prop erty. He say he knows of no statute applying the taxe derived from the assessment of oMcr beds to any spec IhI purpose. swsSMasaavssBisavBBSBSBaBa CHICAGO GRAB FOR CONVENTION. Republicans and Democrats Join To Get . Both National Conventions. CHICAGO, June 13. Plan to rai a fund of $1.K),000 to secure ior Chica NO YELLOW FEVER Canal Zone Free From Yellow Jack for a Year. TROPICS IS COMING COUNTRY Colonel Goreas, Commissioner of Sanita- tlon For Panama Canal District, Says. Centers Wealth and Population Will Revert To the Tropical Zone. NEW YORK, June 13. Colonel W. C, Gorga, U. S. A., federal commission er, in charge of the sanitation in the Panama canal xone addressing the graduating class of the 'Cornell Univer sity Medical College here, prophcised that "Gradually within the next two . or three centuries tropical coun tries, which offer a much greater return for man's labor than Jo the Temperate sones, will be settled by the white races and that apiln the centcm of wealth, civilisation and population will be in the tropic, as they were in the dawn of man's history, rather than in the tempera! sone as at present." Colonel Gorgns bancs his opinion on the military achievements since the American military occupation of Cuba in 181)8, and those in the canal zone since American possession In May, 1004. The last case of yellow fever in the canal sone, he aaid, oocured in December, 1005, which was only about sixteen months later. He described the war of annihilation waged against the stego- myia (yellow fever mosquito) and against the anopheles (malaria) mo squito, and continued! "We have bd no yellow fever any where on the Isthmus for more than a year. We believe that in the towns of Tanaim and Colon the stegomyia have been so reduced in number in faot almost exterminated that yellow fever would not spread if introduced. Malaria has been so controlled that the per centage of our total force in the month of April, "1907, was less than 17 per thousand." , TZ FOUND (II) STATEMENT. go the two national political conven tions next year will be laid at once by a joint executive committee represent ing both Republican and Democrats. At ft conference yesterday in wbicb the special committee from the Hamil ton club, Uie Iroquois Club, the City Council, and representative of the Chicago Commercial Association, parti cipated, reports were made to the City Council, that .Chk-ago stood excellent clAinces of binding the big meets if a suitable hall of sufficient seating cap acity could be guaranteed. ONE BODY RECOVERED. . NORFOLK, Va Juste 13. A report from the J.metown ExDosition grounds says that the body of one of the 11 men who were Iot from the launch of the battleship Minncoota was today found floating in Hampton Roads. Later reports from the warship in Hampton Roads say that the body re covered today is that of Coxswain Rob ert II. Dodson. - YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL SCORER Coast League. At Ran Francisco Oakland 10, San Francisco 0. Northwest League. At Seattle Seattle 0, Aberdeen 1. At Butte Butte 3,Tacoma 8. ARRIVE AT HAGUE Peace Delegates Gathering at the Dutch Capital. . CONFERENCE OPENS JUNE 15 United States Will Play Important Fart In Coming Conference and Will Probably Have Solid Backing From South and Central American Delegates THE HAGUE, June 13.-The dele gates of various countries to the second Hague Peace Conference, which will be formally opened June 13, accompained by the host of secretaries, technical ex perts and -attaches, together with a small army v of newspaper correspon dents, are arriving here by every train and the lasy old Dutch Capital is be ginning to buzs with an animation such as hnt not been witnessed since the conference of 1899. , The Austrian delegation was first on the ground. General Horace Porter, former Ambassador to Frtince and one of the American plenipottentiaries ar rived yesterday, as did the French, Jap anese and other delegates. - Already a feeling is prevalent among the arriving diplomates that the United S to tea is dest ined to pay a great role In the coming conference. Under her auspice the countries of South and Cen tral America will be introduced to Europe on a footing of equality the European delegates entertain no doubt that all the representatives of America will present a practically united front at this conference and henceforth they wilbbe In an Immense factor in suoh world conventions.' Some surprises are expected from the other side of the Atlantic. ' " RATES NOT REDUCED. LIVERPOOL, June 13.-The officials of the Cunard line announced today that the company would not reduce the steerage rates from New York to Medi terranean ports. ORCHARD SHEDS TEARS MEETING PEAOODY "I am Glad I Did Not Kill You Governor Said the Noted Criminal Weeping. . ORCHARD GIVES REASONS FOR CONFESSING Explains His Motives by Saying That Had Finally Found True Con version and in Penitence Had Resolved to Make All - Possible Reparation by Confessing. THOUGHT OF COMMITTING SUICIDE BUT WAS AFRAID TO DIE DID NOT BELIEVE IN A HEREAFTER BUT AFTER READING THE BIBLE BEGAN TO THINK THE GRAVE WAS NOT THE END AFTER ALL AND CONCLUDED TO TELL TEE TRUTH MRS. SADIE SWAN, OLIVER CROOK AND P. L. McCREARY APPEARED AT WITNESSES. it BOISE, June 13.-The men who are battling to save Haywood's life made their greatest assault upon Orchard, to day, when after carrying the reviey of his life crime down to his confession, they bitterly) assailed his guiding mo tives. Six days they have spent in strip ping him before the jury, of every sbred of morality, of character and then sud denly turning upon him in a fierce final attack, they fought with every means known to legal craft, to convince the jury) that Orchard was committing the crime of swearing away the lives of in nocent men, in hope of saving his own. The series ot quickly delivered at tacks gave to the trial a depth of dra matic intensity, that gripped and held every man and woman who watched and listened. Orchard faltered when they recited to him the tale of King David and Uriah that Detective McPartlanJ had told him when he came to seek con fession. He fought to save himself but tear filled bis eyes and he rocked un evenly like a fainting woman. His voice lowered to huskinesg and be hid his face in a handkerchief. Then he steadied himself and went on strongly to the end. He defended his motives by saving be had finally found true conver sion and in penitence had resolved to make all possible reparation by freely confessing all. McPartland had told him that be was doing a great service for the state, and that states wera kind to men who served them, there was no other promise. "You know that if you confessed to the Stcunenberg murder the state would put you out of the way?" hammered: awav Richardson. ."Yes, sir." "And would do it quickly." - i ?'I believed they would put me out of the way." ' "But somewhere along the line tne thought came to you that you could get out of it bjr laying it onto somebody else!" ",. ' " ' - "No, sir; that was not the thought at all" And here it was that Orchard gave the remarkable explanation of tbe mo tives that impelled him to confess. His voice fell to a low tone but there was no show of emotion'. Complete silence gave every word to the entire room. The whia of an electric fan overhead was the sole accompaniment to his recital. "I thought," he said, "of putting my self out of the way when I thought over my past life. I did not believe in hereafter at all, but I was afraid to di and I thought at times that I had been such an unnatural monster, my crimes had been so great that I would not be forgiven." "Who told you that!" v "No one." "Who wrote that out for .wu?" "No one, but after I had seen the bible and had read it some, I came to the conclusion I would be forgiven if I ILTY 1 made ft confession ot everything. I be gan to think that the grave was not the end of everything and I made up my mind to tell the truth about the whole thing." i "So you thought yon would make your peace with the future by having somebody else hung, did you!" aaked Kic&ardson. "No, sir, I think any man can make his peace with the future if he wants to. I believed it my duty to tell the truth. I did not see any other way, regardless of the results, to myself or anybody else, I owed it to society, I owed it to God and myself." . The defense suggested that H Orchard. did not get the reference to his duty, to God and himself directly from Mc Partland or any other person, it was suggested to him by the oath he took when he joined the Western Federation of Miner. They read to him the oath from the ritual but when they did that, he expressed a belief that the language bad been given him by the Almighty. For hours the defense hammered away on the motive ot saving his own life. They sought to show it ia the force of example drawn from the immunity ex tended to the informers in the Mollis Maguire cases, but this the witnesses would not admit. Next they sought for it, in Orchard's effort to bring Steve Adams over to the state and then in subsequent meetings with McPartland and Governor Gooding. ' Again they em phasized the fact that be had twice written his testimony out, but Orchard repelled the suggestion that it had been changed by McPartland, Attorney Hawley or anyone else. After that it was suggested that Orchard had placed hi future in-the keeping of McPartl and; that the Pinkertons had sent money to his family in Canada; that he had been supplied with jlates to ' strengthen his story and that McPart land had trained him, as state manager, for his appearance on the stage, but all these Orchard denied. Then they tried to show him a pampered, petted hero like prisoner, fd from the table of the Warden, addressed as "Harry" by the Governor of Idaho and Warden Whit ney, given freedom and liberties that no other prisoner bad in the world and all this consideration implying directly, that he would never be hanged for the killing of Steunenberg. Then came the showing as to how the prisoner has been dressed and groomed for the trial and lastly for the climax they. showed Or chard pleading for and saving the, life of Bob Wetter, condemned to death for murder. Orchard admitted he appealed to' Gov ernnor Gooding about W'etter and that later the Governor first reprieved Wet ter and then commutted his sentence of death to one Of life imprisonment. Or chard left the stand at 2:30 o'clock (Continued on Page 8 )