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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1907)
MURRAY And place your orders for wild blackberries. First come first served A. V. ALLEN. PHtNES MAIN 711, MAIN S871 JOHN D. AGAIN Did Not Request Permission to Make Deposition. BE IN CHICAGO ON SATURDAY Judge Landii of the U. S. District Court of Chicago Denies That He Received a Bequest From Rockefeller for Permis sion to Mike Deposition. GREEXBUSH, Wis, July 4.-Judge Landis of the United States District Court of Chicago, who is spending a few days here with his friend, Dr. Carey, said today that he had received numer ous requests for information relative to the report that John D. Rockefeller had requested permission to make a deposi tion in Massachusetts instead of coming to Chicago to give personal evidence in the Standard Oil inquiry which is un der way before Judge Landis. The fudge said that he had received no such request from Rockefeller and on the contrary had received word from Rocke feller that he will be at Chicago on Saturday. SENT TO INSANE ASYLUM. Escaped Four Times From Insane Asylums. XEW YORK. July 4. A commission in lunacy ha decided that William Lee who has been declared insane in New Jersey and lived in New York and who wrote many threatening letters to Gov mnr StiA-pn of New Jersev. is insane in New York, too. Acting on the re-j port of the commission Judge O'Sulivanj sent Lee to the asylum for the criminal! insane at Matteawan. j W. J. Lee escaped three times from the New Jersey insane asylum at Tren-j ton and once from the Manhattan state hospital on Warde Island. He was un-, der indictment here for writing one ofi W. C. LAWS & CO. HEATING AND PLUMBING ENGINEERS Plans and estimates furnished on application. All work done by First-Class Mechanics. Sheet-Iron, Copper and Tin Work done in ' a first class manner, as we do no other work in our shop. a 1 an je M ill i "I w hi MM 1 - mi '1 i We Carry Flags from 10c. to $20.00 and Decorations of All Kinds. SVBNSON'S BOOK STORE, 14th and Commercial Sts., Near Foard & Stokes. Astoria, Oregon TO-NIGHT AND REMAINDER OF WEEK MRS. FISK'S GREAT SUCCESS "My Sweetheart'' Change of Play Monday Night BRANCH UNIONTOWN PHONE MAIN 713 his letters threatening to kill Governor Stokes. I.ce is about 40 years of age and a civil engineer. While engaged in busi ness in Trenton, N. J., he failed and this upset him mentally. He attracted much public attention at the time by state ments that trusts hml ruined him aud by threatening the public officials of New Jersey for not prosecuting the trusts. STRUCK A HATCH. While Celebrating the Fourth Children Explode Powder with Fatal Results. SPRIXGFIELD, III, July 4-One child killed, one probably fatally Injured and two others were hurt in a celebration of the Fourth of July at Chatham last night. Frank Horrean, engineer of a coal mine at Chatham, took seven 21 gallon cans of powder with which to celebrate the Fourth and told the child ren not to touch the powder, which he left in the back yard. The children finished supper before he did and went into the back yard and Mary, five years old, struck a match. John, 8 years old, attempted to tear her hands away before the powder exploded, but was too late. Mary wag so severely burned that she died on the way to a hospital in Springfield, and John is terribly burned and may die. Maggie, aged 11 years and Ernest, aged 3 months, were also burned and are in a hospital here. DIED FROM NERVOUS SHOCK. An Effort to Enforce "Sane Fourth" Futile at Chicago. CHICAGO, July 4. The advance cele bration of the Fourth in Chicago last night caused the death of one person, the serious injury of several and much damage to property through fires and explosions. The fatality was caused by nervous shock, a woman falling dead when a giant firecracker was exploded close to, her. Though the police made numerous ar-t restg in the effort to enforce the "sane Fourth" regulations, the din and damage! to life and property were as great as ever. Statistics gathered from various parts of the United States by the Tribune shows six deaths and forty-two people injured through fireworks. Fourth of Julv. You Want Fire Works to Cel ebrate at Home. We carry a big stock of fireworks and can supply your wants, big and small, at lowest prices. THE MORNING ASTOItlAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. IS No New Developments in the Haywood Case. BOISE CELEBRATES FOURTH ' Today'i Trial Will Be Resumed and Defense Expects To Clear Up Most Of Iti Minor Witnesses Haywood To Be On Stand the Middle of Next Week BOISE, July 4. There were no de velonments in the Haywood trial today the entire city giving itself over to celebrating the Fourth. Ihe trial will proceed tomorrow at 10 0 clock when the defense is expected to clear up most oi its remaining minor witnesses. Moyer and Haywood will take the aland on Saturday if time permit. It is prob able that Haywood will tie on the Uml until the middle or latter part of next week. Following this the prosecution will undertake to have such testimony as was introduced to prove a conspiracy between the mine owner and Pinker tons stricken from the record on the ground that it has not been connected with any general mine owners' associa tion. Detente will resist this with a move to strike out such testimony of the state a not directly connected with Haywood or having any bearing on the Steunenlierg murder. FLOOD AND FIRE. Breaking Levees and Fires in Miller & Lux Grain Fields Cause Damage. BAKERSFIELD, Cal., July 4.-ThU morning the flood water in the rich re claimed wheat land in the lower part of Kern County, caused yesterday by the breaking of the Buena Vista Lake Levee, continued to spread aud rise un abated, and all resistance against their progress i impossible until the auxil iary levee being constructed at the San Emedio road is complete and the waters reach that point. The break in the levee has widened continually, and it is re ported that the entire levee is doomed Coincidental with the break in the levee yesterday was the breaking out of two large Ores in the grain field of Miller & Lux, nearly 20 miles distant from the lake. After burning all day the fires were finnlly extinguished last night shortly before midnight. About two whole sec tions of grain were destroyed, aggregat ing between 15,000 and 20.000 sacks. In telligence of the two fires and the re markable coincidence was suppressed by the officers of Iwth corporations localise of the suspicion naturally aroused by the two catastrophe occurring at pre cisely the same time. The ollleiuls of neither corporation will commit them selves. The fire broke out at Button Willow, 17 miles from the lake, ami at head quarters, four miles from Button Wil low. Flood waters from the lnkc are rising at the rate of ubotit two inches an hour. The advance this morning is about two and one-half miles from the San Emedio road, where the fight will be made by the construction of an auxil inry levee to stop the advance. Accord ing to Superintendent James Ogden, of the Miller & Lux Company, he does not expect the waters to reach that point for three days. MULTNOMAH DEFEATS SEATTLE. Two Interesting Games at Portland Won By Multnomah. PORTLAND, duly 4. The Multmonah Athletic Club defeated the Seattle Athletic Club in two gilt-edged ball games today. The morning game was won by n score of 2 to 1, nr..l the after noon game by 6 to 2. MANY FATALITIES. Thirty-six Persons Killed Yesterday While Celebrating. CHICAfiO, July 4. Thirty-six persons killed and 1471 injured while celebrating Independence day, according to the Record Herald which made a canvas of accidents in the United States during the past 24 hours. In Chicago six per sons were killed by revolvers which were supposed to be unloaded and with deadly ' giant grecrackcrs. New York furninlied seven death", while the re tered over the country. In the list of injured many were seriously hurt and a NOTHING Astoria The Brigham U ave You Any E!e ITU FOR SALE? If You Have, Come and See Us j Western I Office formerly occupied by t nun 1 tttttttrt number undoubtedly will die of Injuries. The greater number of injuries were caused by canon firecrackers. Take the Postmaster's Word For It. Mr. F. M. Hamilton, postmater at Cherryvale, Ind., keeps also a stock of general merchandise and patent medi cines. He says: "Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is stand ard here in its line It never falls to give .atisfaction and we could hardly afford to be without it." For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggist. (T Morning Astorlan, 60 cents per month, delivered by carrier. CASTOR I A For Infant! and CMldrea. Ttia Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of WATCHES SOUVENIRS FRANK J. DONNERBERG THE RELIABLE JEWELER no Eleventh St. Tlheatr Stock Company We Want We have customers for Astoria City Property, Warrenton and Seaside Property, Dairy Lands, Farm Lands, Logged-off Lands, and Timber Lands The F. N. Clark Co., 495 I tttt"1 FORGOT THE BABY. Start For Europe and Left It At the Hotel. XKW YORK. July 4. Mearlch Van Sleek of Paoli, Iowa and his wife tlmost left for Europe on the steamship N'ieuw Amsterdam without their baby yester BANKING BY MAIL YOU MAY KEEP AN ACCOUNT WITH US IN PORTLAND, OREGON AND YOUR NEIGHBOR KNOWS NOTHING OF if A JDS INTEREST WRITE FOR OUR BOOKLET ON BANKING BY MAIL Uncle Sam's Potii Office Mokes Our Banking by Mail System a Success SAVINGS BANK OF THE, Utile Guarantee & Crust Company ,240-244 Washington St., Cor. Second, Portland, Ore FRIDAY, JULY 3. W1 al Estate: t ( Commercial Street 1 1 day. They had forgotten the infant and had left It at the hotel where they had stopped over night. Tha baby was not missed until Just as the gangplank was about to be hauled In. Luckily the hotel was close by and tha officer of tha ship agreed to delay tha sailing of the ship for the ten minutes it took to fetch the Infant which had been asleep. o o TO-NIGHT AND REMAINDER OF WEEK MRS. FISK'S GREAT SUCCESS i "My Sweetheart" Change of Play Monday Night V I V 14 - ' wfc