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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1907)
tonon. 'UBtltHKt UU AMOOIATID PRIM niPOnT OOVIRt THE MORNIN9 FIILO ON TW LOWI OOLUMIA f NO. 175. VOLUME LXIII, ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1907. HANSEN DEFENDS HIMSELF PRICE FIYE CENTS. Principal Witness Yesterday Before the Columbia Disaster investigating Commission. DID EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER TO RESCUE He Took All on Board San Pedro That Could Safely Come art Warned Rest off Because He Thought the Ship Might Sink With the Addition. HANSEN THOUGHT DORAN WAS ON ONE OF COLUMBIA'S BOATS FINDS OUT THAT IT WAS THIRD OFFICER HAWSE WHO TALKED SO PECULIARLY TO HIM ASKED FOR HIS FIRST MATE AND SAID THAT HS KlfEW OF A WARSHIP AT SHELTER COVE III SEC HOURS. KAN FRANCISCO. July 30.-Cplain Ikiuon of the aUwuier Sao Pedro tai tiled at the Columbia investigation here (lilt aftomoon. After decriblng condi tion on hi ventel he cam to the tub jwt of hit alleged rviiitul to permit boat from the Columbia to put their piungrm on the fan Pedro. Captain UaiiMn that one of the life boU pulled up near him nnj kd that IU passengers be taken aboard. At that time the 8au 1'edio' deck were under water and waft-Fluid reached the ton' of the main dockboice. Captaiu lUneen says that he ifued to take the pat enger aboard. Tin-re have been atate iiient in the pre, Hansen y, that if lie bad taken tlu-ae on board more could have been saved, llnnicu save tint boata which aked him to take the pawienger u bad only nine passenger toard it and another hud only four In It. Captain Hansen ay that .he thought the boat with nine pertoni contained the captain of the Columbia but after ward found it wa the third umte. Hansen nay tliU limn, among his other question aked for the San Pedro's flmt mate, taying that he wanted to get to t liclter Uve and would there get a warahlp to the cene In aix hour. The San Pedro eaptain taid this man tpoke very peculiarly but he bad decided to end bU first mate w it'.t the man when a north-bound ((earner wa lghtcd about 4 wo or three mile away but he could not attract her attention. Captain Han sen eaj he think ahe wa the Wateon and doe nut underatand how 1ie failed to teem him a he taw hr very clearly. Hansen defended hlmelf vigoroutly against the cliurge brought against hitu by Third Olllcer Hawe and declared lhat he did everything In hi power to reacue the vlutlm. of tb wreck. lie took at! aboard hi little craft which it would hold and while be admitted be warned oiT one of the lifeboat be only did o for fear it would be Uve in by Dueling lumber If it approached nearer. Hie teatlmony of the ofileert of the San Pedro before Captain Birmingham louay demonstrated clearly that the habit of coaat tklnper it taid to be practically unlveral. of running their veei t nun apeed regardlrt of the Chief Mate Ifendrickten who wa in charge of the Kan i'edro at the time of the collision testified that when lie flint heard the og tigtala of the tteamer loiumiua He did not alow down and when the passenger vee loomed out or the log it wa too late to do anv tiling but try to make the collision a slight at potsible. When lie lighted the toluuiliia, according to bU testimony (lie boat were not more than one length apait and not much wat poalble to be done, There wa no time to go starboard. He therefore blew the danger aiimal and ordered the cnglnet stopped. He did not order them reverted, he ex plained, because he hoped to throw the Hm i'edro around to as to ttike glancing blow and he could not do tliU utile he kept sufficient way on her The Sen I'edro wat making about five knot when the collision occurred. The mule- ttated It wa the custom to alow down when fog ignalt were heard clote hy, but in answer to repeated ouet tiont from Captain Birmingham, he taid the reason he did not slow down when he heard the Columbia' whistle wa "beeauHQ she teemed to ifar away." f fMRt2 4u V CAN NOT LIVE WITHOUT GIRL So Amos Rumbaugh Shoots Himself Through the - Head for Suicide Girl. .. COLORADO SPRINGS SHOCKED BY AWFUL DEED Deed Was Discovered Only When Officers Went to Rumbaugh's Room to Take Him to the Inquest Over the Body of His Sweetheart. RIVAL WATKlt CARRIER! TO TUB ELEPHANT. BUO DAMAGES WHEAT. WASHINGTON', July 30.-An exoert in the department of agriculture ap proximate the damage done to wheat In Kana( Oklahoma and Texat br the green bug thit tpring at 13,000,00a He maket thee flguret after a peMonal vitit to the "tricken eetion. However, at the figure ar only a guet they will not be included in the "official gmn bug" bulletin toon to be Iwued. 6HAHS AS MEMBER OF NOBILITY. Spaniard Arretted in New York For Pasting Bad Check. ! NEW YORK, July 30.-A Spaniard, who tuyt he it Murmiie do Camno Kuovo, 28 year old, wlio wa arrested last night a a tuspiciout person at the iioiei Empire, was arraigned before a magistrate in the West Side Court this morning, sheriff Fettle at Nassau county, Long Island, presented a war rant charging the prisoner with being a "beat." The complainant appcart at Manager J." Quinn of the Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, L. I. Quinn charge that the Spaniard ten dered a worthless check for $0fl to him in payment for a bill. There are said to be teveral other worthiest checkt held hy the New York hotels, which were given by the Marquis for board and waging. It It taid also that two un town garoges hold still more worthless paper handed out by the Spaniard. None of the complainants appeared against the Marqul in the West Side Court today, and he was turned over to Sheriff Pcttie. When the Marqul wat : tcarched. Detective Dlerv i j vvun jAa hit pockets, also several endeavoring letter in a woman't handwriting, all of which were signed "L D." BOYS' HOTEL IN HARLEM. Aid Society Will Make Life Better for . Poor New York Youth. NEW YORK, July 30.-A hotel for ioy wtiion is to cost $100,000 and be under the management of the Children's Aid isociety h to be built in Harlem. The hotel will be' five stories high ami have accommodation for 100 boys. Be tide reading and writing rooms the hotel will be fitted up with a m-mnn. slum and plunge. Boyt working in ofllces. store and factoriot at from $4 to $10 a week, of whom there are a large number in the neighborhood are expected to furnish the patronage of the hotel. Thev will pay from 30 to 70 centt a week for lodging and meals will be served at correspondingly low rotee. INHERIT FABULOUS WEALTH. HELENA. Mont., July 30. Three young women of this city, the Misses uertna and Frederika Volktr and Mitt Kenton Kepner, have been epprltd that after three year' litiiration in German courtt they have been declared the heii- efie to the estate of their trrandfather. valued at $40,000,000. The young wom en will go to German thortly to claim meir lortune. BOOM WELL STARTED FATALLY BURNED HE HAD KNOWN LAURA MATTHEWS BEFORE IN CHICAGO MISS MATTHEWS SENT LETTER TO SUICIDE wmrir -. BEEN DESTROYED, WILL BRI1TG OTB "wmI ENTANGLED SITUATI0N-C A. COEY, A WEALTHY CmUGoLTi INVOLVED IN THE CAUSES AND RESULTS SSSfSSm COLORADO SPRLXGS. Julv .Kl Amnn R. Rumbauirh of Washington. D. r. . ! close friend of Mis Uun Ufattw. I Ohio Politicians Indorse Tuft ' iiiuiiiui miu ajuii ii.iiiii ill ai'i , awaeeaip VI tTlV OverForaker. " cidentin Pnrfiahri REFUSED OLIVE BRANCH STARTED FIRE WITH KEROSENE Vorya, Taffi Manaeer. DecUrea the Action of Committee Important as it Show, the State it United-Gives As turance to Other States. COLUMBUS, July 30. The candidacy of Secretary Taft for the Republican nomination for President wat endorsed by the Republican state committee to- Jay by a vote of 13 to 6. The endorte nient carried with it a declaration that 'the Republicans of Ohio are onuoed to me elimination from public life of Senators Foraker and Dick." Although beaten by a decisive vote in all preliminary contests the adherents of Senator. Foraker in committee refused to nccept the olive branch "extended by. Toift supporters and when the reJ0lu tion at amended wat finally accepted, no effort was nmde to make the action of the committee unanimous.. A. I. Vopts. manager of the Taft campaign, declared tonight that the action of the commit tee was important in that it cave as surance to other states that Secretary Jatt mid the support of his party in n on ii omit. Mrs. Thomas Ryan, at Portland; At tempts to Start Kitchen Fire With Coal Oil With Fatal Result Family Home is Destroyed Last Night. BREAKS BOTH ARMS. EUGENE, Or., July 30. A peculiar accident hannenAil vfoi-,lo r... rI V"vv.ujr p.. tci IIUOII to George W. Smith, a paintimr contrac tor of this city. He was on a ecaffold 10 feet above the floor In a building, when the board on which he wet stand ing slipped and he fell to the floor, alighting on both handt. The bones of both forearms were broken squarely across. , WORLD MARKETS. NEW YORK, July 30. Lead. eomer ana silver unchanged. LIVERPOOL, July 30.-July wheat 7s 1H CHICAGO, July 30. Wheat eteady, July opened 90 1-4, closed 00 1-2; Sep tember opened 92 3-8o. advanced S-8o. closed 92 3-4oi barley, 503o; N. .W. SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.-Port!and. and Tacoma, wheat unchanged. KILLED IN AUTO WRECK. SEATTLE, July 30.-C. M. Lorn, was killed and four women and an unknown man elightly injured at South Seattle last night in a collision between en auto and a buggy. PORTLAND, July 30,-vMra . ThoniA Ryan, was fatally burned, and her S- year-old boy burned to death lat to- day in a fire which destroyed the family iiomc a tew miles southeast of this city. urs. Kyan was lighting a fire in the kitchen stove making use of kerosene. Live coals which had remained in the stove caught and an explosion resulted which threw burning 0il over the woman ami et tire to the house. Mrs. Ryan ran from the house a mass of flammt and neighbors who heard the explosion roued hep In blankets and poured water upon ner. fche had suffered terrible in juries and when brought to the hospital in tin city, It was said could not sur vive. How the little boy cauirht fire ia not Known. After the fire van evlln. guished the charred remains of the boy were lounu. Mrs. Ryan's youngest child, a babe of tew months, was rescued bv the heroin action of H -year-old Richard Cooler, a son of a neighbor who made his way into tne nouse while it was in flames and took the child from its cradle. ho committed suicide near Broadmoor on Sunday night added horror and mys Ury to the gruesome case bv ahnntin himself through the head this afternoon in the aa'iie manner adopted by Mj-s .uaunews. Kumbaugh killed himself in his room at the Alta Vista Hotel The hour when the fatal shot wat fired it not known a it wa not heard W anv one in the hotel and the deed was dis covered only when the officer went to his room to ascertain why be had not responded to a subpena to attend the coroner's inquest oven Mist Matthews body today. That the act of Rumbaugh was the uirect result of the death of Miss Mutthewt is not doubted. Rumbaugh claimed to have but a chance acquaint ance with the girl, but it develope that he knew of her in Chicago and also that he. knew C. A. Coey, a wealthy Chica goan and Dr. H. A. Thomas of "101" Ranch. Rumbaugh was the one who accom panied Miss Greene, Mis Matthews nurse to the livery stable to see if the actress' horse had returned. It was he who sent the telegram to Coey demand ing, "He do the right thing,'' by the girl and it was with him that Miss Matthews left the letter in which was enclosed the letter to Coey. Officers have not yet had time to examine Rum baugh's papers and effects and the coro ner has had his room locked. If Rum baugh did not destroy the letter left him by Miss Matthews, together with the letter t0 Coey, it is believed they will how startling facts that may en tangle many people of prominence. The telegram sent by Rumbaugh rv. Monday morning taken in the light of suicide has more meaning than before. It follows: ', "Laura committed" suicide on account of you. Letter are left behind. Send $300 at onoe for expenses." Publio officers say the letter shows Rumbaugh knew Coeywell enough to "peak to him of "Laura" and threaten hinv - Rumbanghs death is momentarily ex pected. Two brief note are aU that explain his act. One to his mothen v that there is nothing to say and asks that his body be laid away to rest Th other is to "Whom it may concern' and oirect that Mrs. J. H. Rumbaugh, Mt Pleasant, Pa., and insurance company and fraternal organizations be notified. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 30. Mrs. Jennie Matthews, mother of Laura Matthews, who was found dead at Colo rado Springs, left this mornimr for Chioago. She says she does not believe her daughter intended to commit suicide. WASHINGTON, July 30. Inquiry to night fails to reveal identity of Amoa Rumbaugh who is dying from a self ir dieted wound at Colorado' Springs. Late tonight it was learned that Miss Matthews was afraid of Rumbaueh who was infatuated with her. Miss Greene said that Rumbaugh was desperately in love with Miss Matthews and swore when she told him of the suicide that he would seek revenge on Coey "He killed himself through love of the girl." TO OPEN UP BELLING HAM. BELLINGHAM, Wash.. Julv Sft.-The liquor dealers of Bellingham are pre paring for a hot eamnaisn in Hm nYt municipal election in Bellingham this 'fall. They will try to enlist the aid of the business men in an effort to iva the liquor dealers end green cloth men more ireedom. They believe that the business men will side with them in regard to the open policy. The saloon element was instrumental in the over whelming defeat of Councilman Blakes- lee, in the Second Ward, last fall, and they have been inspiied with confidence since. . HAWSE MAY GO INSANE. Third Officer of Columbia in Serious Mental Condition in Frisco. SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.-Brood- ing over the controversy that has arisen among the survivors at the Columbia shipwreck, regarding his actions at that time and the-newspaper comment there on, Robert Hawse, third officer of the ill-fated steamer, is at the detention ward of the central emergency hospital pending an inquiry into his mental con dition. Last eveninsr he became so vio- Itnt and acted so strangely that Second Officer Richard Agerup of the Columbia, ith whom Hawse has been staying, sent for the police and had the unfor tunate man taken to the detention ward of the hospital. Hawse was very excited when first taken to the station, and acting as though he were in fear of others. CANAL BOATS WRECKED. Supports to Bed of Erie Canal Break - and Mills Are Threatened. SYRACUSE, July 30. -The stone arches which supported the bed of the Erie Canal at a point near the center nf this city where it passes over Onondasa Greek gave wayi tjhis afternoon and four canal boats were dmwn into the bed of the creek by the suction. Fifty teet or the wall of the three-story Em pire Flouring Mill fell into the water and the Bartels and Greenway Breweries respectively on the North and South banks a!, the canal were threatened with demolition. No one was hurt. GUARDS ROAD WITH GUN. SPOKANE, Wash., July 30 The Great Northern has stopped the Blackwell road Ifrom building a trestle over its road at Northport. The company has stationed a guard there and refuses to allow the new road to drive piling. The matter is now before the officer of the two roads. It Is thought a settlement may be reached this week. ' ' NEGRO ELECTROCUTED. NEW YORK, July 30.-WUliam Nel son, a negro, was executed in the elec tric chair in Sing Sing prinson at Os sining, today, for the murder of Lizzie Normau, with whom he lived, on Decem ber 2, 1905. YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL SCORES. At Seattle Seattle 0, Butte 9. At (Portland Portland 3, Los An geles 5. At Tacoma Tacoraa 3, Spokane 0. At Oakland Oakland 3, San Fran cisco 0.