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loaitn UBLISHIt FULL AttOOIATID MMft MPORT VOVIRS TMI MORNIN9 NRLO ON Trfl LOW! OOLUMBIAI J" f A VN0. 180. VOLUME LXIII, iy, y ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS Mini TRULY REIGN In New York List: of Crimes Is Daily Increasing in Their MOTHERS IN TERROR Recent Crime Is of a Brutal Assualt of a Two-Year-Old Girl Who was Attacked by Italian Fiend While Her Mother Is Away-Ms Seriously Injured. 500 MORE POLICEMEN NEEDED TO COPE WITH SITUATION ALL CRIMES COMMITTED BY ITALIA NS AND IK SECLUDED PLACES DANLEL LALO AND FRANK PEA BODY ARRANGED ON CHARGE OP ASSAULTING YOUNO GIRLS -W BOLE CITY IS ALARMED AND IS CONSIDERED UNSAFE FOR UNP ROTECTED WOMEN AND CHILDREN NEW YOItK, August 5.Crae of the niott brutal of tb? recent crimes against women and children wat today chained against Luua Fontaza, now locked up in New Brighton station, charged with nutting Antolnltte Taluccl, the two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mr. Pas cal Talueci of New Brighton, with whom Fontaza boardrd. He wat left with the child thli after noon while Mn. Taluccl went hop lng, be had not gone far from the ttouie when the child's acreams were beard. When he saw Mr. Talucci, re turning, FontaM rushed 'from the house, the woman following him. Soon a mob wa cholng the Italian down the street. He waa overtaken and severely beaten e.....i... F. P. CASEY ARRIVES FROM JAPAN. SAN FRANCISCO, August O.-F. P. Casey, who baa made some study of the conditions In Japan arrived hero today on the Nippon Maru. He says the war talk in Japan Is confined to the politic ians of the progressive party who are opposed to the present ministry, "There Is no talk of war wRh the United States among the great mass of people nor among government officials and I believe the whole thing is cou . fined to a political move on tho part of a small coterie of Japanese politicians. The present mlulstry Is very friendly 4. 41. TTUM.I cl4... ... 1 II.. i . ... w tuv uimcu oiatvs auu mo party qui m nnwap i ami ut iiim uah t,v a... i. the government aud create an issue in the coming election." 0. R. & N. IS BLAMED. 'SWHANE, August 6. In the case of 1). E. Bucban, who was killed in an ex plosion of dynamite during a fire at Winona, Wash., Saturday, the coroner's Jury returned a verdict of death caused by the explosion of dynamite stored in a warehouse of the O. It. & N. Company and not properly protected. TESTING SCHMITZ' CLAIMS. Supreme Court Grants Application for Mandamus to Compel Horton to Approve Taylor's Salary. SAN FRANCISCO, August O.-The uprcme court today granted the appll eotion of Hawy O. McKanny, aooretary to Mayor Taylor, for a .writ of man tlate' requiring City Auditor Horton to approve McKanny's salary warrant. The writ is returnable August 12. The real object of the action Is to determine the legal status of Dft Taylor as Mayor In relation to the claims of Eugene E. Sohmits to that office. MRS. EDDY'S COMPETENCY. CONCORD N. II., August B.-Oeorg W. Glover and daughter, Miss, Mary Baker Glover of Lead S. D. principals In a suit for the accounting of the prop erty of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, ar rived here today in answer to a sum mons to appear before the masters ap pointed to determine the questions of Mrs. Eddy's compentonoy. OF kin Number. " THROUGHOUT THE CITY ! until policeman appeared with a re volver and club and fought off the crowd. A physician reported the child to be seriously Injured. Angellane Condarli, aged tlx years, waa found terribly bruised In a thicket near the Tillage of LiinonviUe, Staten Island, this afternoon. She bad been atUcked by an unknown man. July Ambatro was arrested In Brook lyn today charged with the attempted sesault or two little girls. Daniel Lalo and Frank Peabody were arrlgned on linllar charges. Five hundred additional police are asked for. Most of the crimes occur in secluded places. Mothers throughout the city are terror stricken. ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN. aMM PITTSBURG, August 5 It was learn ed today that an attempt waa made yes terday morning to wreck the New York Chicago limited express upon the Pennsylvania Railroad Just ouUide Al legheny. Splice bars had been nailed to a tie and retted on each of the rails on truck No. 4, but the enormous weight of the mogul engine drawing the train pre vented the derailment and the only ef fect was to jolt the passengers badly. Detectives have been unable to obtain a clew to the identity of the authors of the outrage. BRITISH AT CASA BLANCA. GIBRALTAR, August 5. The British armored cruiser Antrim sailed for Casa Blanca today to watch oven the British Interests at that port. HALF A MILLION LOSS. TOMAHAWK, Wis., August B.-Fire which started in one of the buildings entire pltmt in ruins. Only the office was States Leather Company today laid the of the Tomahawk branoh of the United untouched by the flames. The loss is about $000,000. SMUGGLING IN MEXICO. , EL iPASO, Texas, August 5. The supreme federal court sitting in Juarei for the investigation of the wholesale smuggling operations uncovered in that city yesterday handed down charges against Mayor Sylvano Montemayor who disappeared on Monday night of lt week, for smuggling, 20 cars of wheat upon which charges he is liable to duties and penalties amounting to $00,000 and 12 years imprisonment. Othe roharges, muoh more serious, are pending against Montemayon. It has been found necessary to call tfor rein forcements of federal troops for guards over the prisons, courts and seized property. PREDICTS NEW COAL FAMINE. CLEVELAND, August 8 The North-' west will suffer a more severe coal lfa mine the coming winter than the record breaking last year, according to coal shippers here. i Mr. Opprelv Trusts Ah! Mr. Texas, I'm getting to see your point of view exactly. The New Laws recently enacted In Texas against the Trusts will be rigidly enforced. News Item. WILL ASK FOR AID Oregon Lumbermen Organize Against Railroad Control. ATTORNEYS ARE SELECTED Billions of Feet of Lumber Will be Af fected if New Rate Goes Into Effect Southerners Will Get Trade Inter state Commerce Commission Appealed PORTLAND, August 6. Uncle Sam is to be appealed to by the lumber manu facturers of Oregon to save them from what they believe to be utter win. Re cently tho railroads announced that be ginning October 1 the Eastern rate on Oregon lumber would be increased from $1.50 to $3.20 per thousand feet. The Interstate Commerce Commission w ill be asked at once to keep the new rates from going into effect. Last Saturday the membera of the Oregon and Washington Lumber Man ufacturers' Association held a meeting here to begin a campaign to fight the proposed increase in the freight rates. A committee was appointed, with full power to act, or carry on the struggle. It is composed of A. C. Dixon of Eugeuej B. C. Mills of Newbergj George Berlin ger of Dallas, and Philip Beuhner, S. B. Cobb and F C. Knapp of Portland. It Is expected the committee will engage Attorney J. N. Teal to lay the matter before the Interstate Commerce Com mission at Washington. The territory that will bo affected by the new freight rate purchases 2,500,- uuu,wu feet of lumber from - Oregon manufacturers annually. But this trade will be gobbled up at once by the Southern manufacturers If the proposed railway tariff is put into effect, for t least the Beaver lumbermen are just able to meet the prices made by the dealers of Dixieland. The railroads run ning Into the middle western states from the south are not going to raise the freight rates on lumber, go the Ore gon dealers would be helpless in an ef fort to fight the pine from the Gulf commonwealths. TO THE POLE IN BALLOON. OTTZENBERG, Friday, via Thomsoe, Augut 5. The balloon of the Wellman- Chicago-Record-Herald Polar Expedition was successfully inflated today, the party will start for the pole about the middle of August. JAPANESE LEAVE FRANCE, BORDEAUX, August 5 The Japanese squadron has left for San Sebastian. wmm mm OFF FOR ICE FLOS Commander Robert E. Peary Wil Leave in a Few Days. WILL NOT BOAST OF SUCCESS His Steamer Roosevelt is Stronger and Better for Tuasel With Ice Floes Than Ever Before Peary is Rugged in Health Will Profit by his Experience PORTLAND, Maine, August 5. Com mander Robert E. Peary left here to day for New York whence he will sail in a few days on an expedition to the North Pole. He says be is going pre pared to make every effort to reach the pole. He carries with him a large num bei of his former crew. He would not commit himself regarding the liklihood of his reaching the pole as, "For a man to say he will do a certain thing up there is madness. I have learned many leg sons from my other trips and I shall profit by all my experience. What I shall find at the pole is a question until I have reached it." tTeary appears rugged in health. NEW YORK, August 5. Stronger than ever in her hull and better equipped generally fop her battle with the Arctic icclloes, Commander Peary's steamer Roosevelt lies at Shooters Island ready to start inva few days on her second trip in search of the North Pole. REGISTERS EARTHQUAKE, ALBANY, N. Y., August 5.-The seis mograph at the state museum registered an earthquake early this morning last ing ten minutes. Location of shake was not determined. , STANDARD OIL BUSINESS. NEW YORK, August 5.-A telegram from H. H. Rogers, active head of the Standard Oil Company dated at his summer home at Fairhaven, Mass., is published here, in which Mr. Rogers says of the Chicago decision: "I have only an incomplete report of the Chicago decision, but Mr. Moffet statement is in full and absolutely cor rect as to facts. Fair minded and hon orable men will decide as to the logic and the law as the case progresses. The Moffet statement referred to was issued by James A. Moffet, president of the Standard OiK Company of Indiana on Saturday which gives the views of the Standard Oil Company on the decision. WILL LEAVE ZION CITY. CHICAGO. August S. Refused the petition that he be appoint- 4 ed by Judge Landls of the Unl- ted States district court a co- receiver, John C. HaUly, now in charge of the Zion City j;.op- erty and unheeded in hit pro- tests against the .tie of the lace industries, Overseer Wilburt Glenn Volvia, who usurped the leadership of John Alexander Dowie, today asserted his de- fiance of the forces against him and declared he would abandon Zion City to establish a colony of his own elsewhere. CHINA IS THE CAUSE. China Warning Students of Eastern Sit uation Think China U Drawing Fleet to Pacific. CHICAGO, August 5.-A special to th Record-Herald from Washington says "It ia Chin and not even remotely Japan, that caused Washington authori ties to choose the Pacific for the next practice ground for a big battleship "quadron, according to the deductions of some students of affairs in the Far East. China is an entity, it is believed in certain circles, and is in condition as precarous as the health of the Dowager Empress, and that when the failing health of the Dowager Empress, and that when the failing health of the lat ter leads to its inevitable end the em pire will face a crisis that will make it wise for the United States to have a presentable naval force within easy sailing distance. ART IN COINAGE. NEW, YORK, August 5. The resolu tion for an improvement in the pres ent United States coinage and the en largement Of the mint coin collection at Philadelphia which were forwarded to Presdcnt Roosevelt on last Wednesday, were favorably received, according to a letter received by the Secretary of the committee, Thomas L. Elder from the President. The President says he has called for a report on the resolutions from the Secretary of the Treasury and that already work on a new coinage of the eagle and double eagle is under way. The designs of the new' coins were by the late Augustus St. Gaudens and the blow was struck at the Philadelphia mint In their resolutions the committee recommends that Congress be petitioned to authorize an entirely new coinage of artistic design to consst of ten denomi nations, and n order that tha designs of the new coins be truly artistic the beat talent in the country should be called upon to submit drawings. CLEAN SHIRT INVAXVED. Monster Laundry Combine Raises Prices For Machinery. NEW YORK, August 5.-The news of the formation of a combination of makers of laundry machinery caused little surprise here as it has been known such a combination has been under for mation for several months. One of the features of the American Laundry Machinery Manufacturing Co, as the new combination is known is that no bonds have been issued and the financing nas been done wholly in stocks. Its authorized capital is $12,500, 000 of which $2,500,000 is nrefereed stocK. UNEARTHING ANCIENT WALL. What is Said to Resemble Old Egyptian Ruins Being Brought to Light. DALLAS, Texas, August 5. E. Mess, who returned home yesterday from Rockewall county, 30 miles northeast of Dallas, brought with him a sample of the rock wall from which the little county got its name. Mr. Hess says men are excavating about the wall in the hope of making discoveries that may prove of historical importance. It is believed ruins of a buried city will be found. The excavation work extends for a distance of six miles from the town of Rockwall. KILLS But the Poor Woman is Insane- STRANGLED IN A PARK Mrs. Nendal Makes. Way With Her Two Offspring But is Discovered. ! NEIGHBOR SEES WHITE FACE After Killing Her Children Fondles Them and is Afraid That Someone Will Wake Them Is Put in Cell and Carefully Watched. BALTIMORE, August 5. An atro cious murder of her two babies by an insane mother thrilled Northern Balti more today. Madness which had twice confined her to an asylum today took possession of Mrs. Christine NenandaJ. aged 26 ,wife of a woodworker in a wagon factory. She took the youngest of her children into the park in its carriage. Just what happened there is not known but when the mother return ed the little one in the carriage was covered with leaves and small branches but a neighbor noticed its face strange ly pale. A little later Mrs. Nanailal sent for a friend, Mrs. Victoria Vala, and asked hep to come and aid her in dressing the children. The women entered the din ing room and there, lying on the table, were two children, both having been strangled by the mother, who .fondled them. She only gave them up when forced to by the police. Her one con cern now is lest the children be awaken ed. She is in a carefully watched celL She attempted suicide sometime ago. KILLS CHUM FOR WOMAN. PITTSBURG, August 5. After shoot ing down his chum in cold blood and then attempting to chop the body to pieces with a hatchet, 24 miles from this city, Adam Lacach, was rescued from a mob and landed in jail at Blairton to night. The shooting is the outcome of a quarrel over a woman. ...... STRIKE STILL CONTINUES. BUENOS AYRES, August 5.-A gen eral strike as a protest against the Bahia Blanca occurrences which besan last Friday,! still continues, but without im portance for traffic is absolutely unaf- tectea. & group of strikers who at tempted to hold a meeting in the plaza Victoria was dispersed by the police. VISIT SPOILED BY SICKNESS. PORTLAND, August 5. Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture isaconfined to his bed today by a slight illness and cold. He is resting comfort able tonight, however. IS INSANE. PARIS, August 5. Leon Maille, a naval reservist, -who fired two revolver shots at President Falleries in Paris, July 14 was declared insane and sent to an asylum. WELL-KNOWN PASTOR DEAD. BOSTON, August 5. Rev. Dr. Charles A. Crane, pastor- of the People's Temple, and one of the best known Methodist clergymen in New York, died suddenly of heart disease at his home here to night, aged 52 years. SHE HER BABES