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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1907)
Ottlttt OOVIRt THC MORNINQ riRLD ON THi LOW! OOLUMaUAJ NO. 186. VOLUME LXIII, ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13. 1807. PRICE FIVE CENTS (MY CALL A HALT 'i Roosevelt in Telegraphers Strike. FEDERAL SERVICE HURT Report of Weather Conditions for the Mariners Is CutOtf. ANXIETY IN WASHINGTON Weather and Agricultural Bureau ti Hampered and Great Sacrifice in Run ning Government Will Emue Trade Wirei and Preai Witei Art Silent CHICAGO, Aug. 12. A dlepatch to Die Tribune from Washington )'! With the possibility of delayed trans action of government bushiest aa a re nit of the telegrapher strike, that part of the administration remaining In Wash ington, I 'deeply concerned at the growth of the movement aud it I hoping for in tervention by the ircldcnt. It ha been alv.ed of the President' couvem and determination to do what he i'tiu to prevent aerloua interruption in the lmln of the country, and the gov ernment, but unforlunately the itu at ion in of a character that doe not ad mit of Interference at thl .tage. (iorerimiPiit olllt-iuU fear that ehouhl there be a general strike it would avrl iily embaras the federal government. (perator are employed In every execu tive department ami bureau, while the weather and crop reporting service de pend on the maintenance: of regulir and uninterrupted telegraphic advices. Official Mieve that a widespread walkout of telegrapher might result in disaster at ea, especially aa tlio hurri cane season on the Atlantic is approach ing. Mariner depend tion Information furniihed by the government aa to the ttats of the weather. ThU partlcuhir xtnto of the weather depend upon the advices from the Interior and any pro longed auHiH'nnion f tnliirmnhio ad vice from the varioiu stations from the weather bureaus would be aerloua In it conKeiucnce to shipping and life at aea. Already the weather bureau hat felt the force of the Kpreuding strikes, giv ing Indication of the situation that would confront the bureau in the event of an order directing strike of all mem ber of the Commercial Telegrapher Union. Only three quarter of the ad- , vices usually received by the weather bureau up to 10 o'clock were in nt that liour last night. , x Moat of the operator employed by government departments at Washington ire union men and while they have no grievance, it is understood that It a strike order is issued it will be obeyed by government operators. SORRY HE JOINED, Man Arrested For Alleged "Black Hand" Operations Telia Of Secrets. NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-A a result of tho arrest of several men iu Tatterson, N. J., for alleged "Black Hand" opera, tions, the police havo learned some of the secret of that dreaded band of plot tor. The information came from one of the men under arrest, who claims he was decoyed into tho "black hand." The man, George Sportally, wa In vited to become a member of a "Pa triotic Italian Society," with offices in Newi York. He took the inititalon which was a hair raising performance, Drop of blood were drawn from his arm and mixed with that drawn from n otlieii member 6f the society. He was compelled to swear eternal allegiance and obedience on crossed daggers, whilo another dagger was pressed against his breast. His name was enrolled in a for midable black book in the cover of which wag painted a dagger dripping with Mood. ARMOUR PLATE VAULT. rirtt One ta The United Statei Installed In New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-Th only ar mour plate vault In New York has re cently hern iiiktalled by the National Uopir Vault Company In the new Uni ted (State Realty building at IIS Broad way, i Whether It wa any advantage over the buill-up teel vault of other InMltuUoni U a matter over which ex pert diagre. No burglar ha ever yet attempted to drill or blow hi way Into a vault of either type. Armour plate ha a characteristic which I lacking In the old style of bur glar proof vault It maMlvene. The National Cooper Vault la nine feet high and 20 feet king and each tide bat been rolled Into one solid piece. KOREANS KILL JAPANESE. They Try To Diatnn A Garrison And SuiUla Losses. fcKOL'L, Aug. 12. A company of thirty-eight Japanese troop with two ma chine gun had Ave men killed and five wounded last night and thi morning at Kang Wha Wand, twelve mile north of Chemulpo for the purpose of disarming siimll Corean garrison of forty men which were tupported by several hundred rioter. The landing party wa reinforced at II o'clock thl morning by another com pany from Chemulpo. A Japanese fishing fleet which wa driven oh thl Island, with several cas ualties, reached Chemulpo yesterday morning, August 11. AUTO ACROSS AFRICA. BERLIN, Aug. 12. Dlptches from Par Ts Salaam, German East Africa, state that Lieutenant Bract of the Prus sian army, atarted from there Saturday on an attempt to eros Africa In an au tomobile. If purposes to rid through German EaH Africa, British Central Africa, Rhodesia, and German South west Africa, to Swakopkmund, occupy ing about tl weeks on the journey If all goes well. He has a specially built 45 ft, p. car with immensely heavy wheel, four feet in diameter with maulve tire. AT Getting to Work at the Graft Pro secutions. GLASS TRIAL WILL BEGIN Men Indicted In Parkside Deal Will Be HeaDd, Before Judge, Dunne Grand Jury Will Hear Evidence Of Election Fraud! SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12.-The wheel of the graft prosecution will grind In nearly every department of justice today. The Supreme Court will listen to arguments ou the applications o the various Indicted ones, praying for writ of prohibition restraining the Su perior court from trying tjieir cases. In Judge Lnwlnr' department of the Superior court the new trial of Louis Glass und Vice-president and General manager of tho Pacifio States Transport Company will begin. The men Indicted In the Parkside deal will be called upon to make their picas before Superior Judge Dunne, The grand jury will listen to further evidence of bribery and act npon the ac cusation filed with the district attorney's ofllce by Michael Casey, chairman on the committee of election frauds, charging that the Schmiti-Benham-Bergcr crowd of the hibor party is engaged in "crimi nal colonizing," la addition to lUton ing to argument on the appropriations for writs of prohibition, The Supreme Court will probably hear argument on the mayoralty question. BRAZIL HAS NEW TARIFFS. RIO JANEIRO, Aug. 12. The new cus toms tariff has been ndapted by the Chamber, Maximum and minimum tar iffs have been adopted and the govern ment Is authorized to reduce or even abolish tariff and articles of asumption is necessary. The value of the milreiB for customs payment Is tot at 19 pence. LID GOES ON IN ASTORIA Gamblers Acquiesce Laws Demands. to MANY LEAVING TOWN Go to Nevada, California and Other Parts of Oregon to Gamble. ALL SLOT MACHINES TABOOED Order Goes Into Effect Amid Jokes, Jollification and Unique Stum Great Good. Rumor in All Quarter Came to the Last. The gambling lid went on in Astoria last night and the men behind the game are leaving the city for other part. Few of them are remaining and quite a num ber left during the latter part of the week and yesterday. Nevada, Clifornia, and parts of Oregon where the lid i loose is where most of them are bound fof. Deputy District Attorney McCue and Sheriff l'omeroy were up Ute last night keeping a lookout for any violation of the law, but found that the order wa being obeyed without trouble. Mr. Mc Cue did not anticipate any trouble last night and hi prophesy appeared to be correct A rumor was circulated around town last night that a number of the local ports and gamblers Intended to charter i ateamer and anchor it off the mouth of the river, with all the parapher nalia for a dins at fortune and for lkkerlng" up. No confirmation of this report was obtainable, however, and it la probable that steamers are too busv carryng the product of Clatsop county to other port to need ohartemg. All day yesterday the gambler in the various saloons were packing up the roulette wheels, tables, chips, and other weapon of fortune. Between numerous trips to the bar and handshakings with old friends before they departed, most of then were iu a jolly mood, and Indeed it looked as though some of them were going on a pleasant picnic. ""The surprising feature of the closing wa the good nature of all concerned. Gambler were jollied and treated alter nately. Thirsty citizens would drop into the saloons that formerly held the gamb vnmis. ...... Mist Philippines Uncle, I know a handsome admirer of mine who would like to steal me. , It is stated that the Filipinos will welcome any mow made by Japan toward acquiring the Island. News Item, ling paraphernalia. They would peer In to the vacant part of the room and would then look at the bartender in felgr.ed consternation. The bartender would take advantage of the opportun ity to state that it wa up to them to buy a drink. The man who had the "game beat" did not know where to get rid of hi money U,t night. He was to used to leaving it with the. gamblers that It eemed a useless commodity for any oth er purpose. He generally decided that since he could not throw it away be would drink it up. The slot machines both in the saloons aud the small one at the cigar stands, all came under the ban after 12 o'clock. The "collector" was aroused bright and early yesU-rday gathering the coin from the greedy inid- of ..the big machines and the faces were turned to the wall to await tranportation to the junk heap or to other happy hunting grounds. Men who ahd never gmbled since the game were allowed In the city made their first bets last night, just to be able to say that they gambled before the lid went on Astoria. It was a touching cene in aome of the taloons. There were many grave look and In some cases sign of tears by some old round ers because they could not but the bank- before it got out of town.- "That settles me for gambling," waa a common assertion by some In a tone of relief who could not overcome the" fasci nation of the game while it was open to them. PORTLAND STRIKE. Both Postal and Western Union Men Leave Key in Orderly Mannerg. PORTLAND, August 12.-The opera tor of the Western Union 'and Postal Telegraph Companies in this city left their keys t-is evening at exactly J:21 ""clock the operators of the Western Union in response to the blowing of a whistle of President Walter Branin of the local union. At 7:44 the operator of the Postal Telegraph Company learn ing of the action of the Western Union employes also left their keys. The strike was very orderly, the operatorg being in structed to leave all their messages properly arranged with their schedule sheets completed. The messenger boys of the city went out at 11 o'clock to night. Similar action was taken by the operator at Tacoma, Spokane, Seattle, Lewiston and at other points in the northwest ' HALSEY HAS CHANCE. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 12.-Theodore V. Halsey .continues, it is said, to have a vigorous fighting chance of recovery from the effects of the operotion he un derwent for appendicitis last week. Dr. Shumate, performed the opera ttuiK DEAD OVER LOVE AFFAIR. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12.-Flora Rixccker, a young girl who came here nvently from Los Angeles with her motlier, shot and killed herself with a pistol yesterday at her residence. A love affair is believed to have been the cause of the act. She was 16 years old. VICTORY FOR DEFENSE. Superior Court Ruling in Connection With Graft Trial Question the Legality of Jury. SAN FRANCISCO, August 12. The supreme court shortly before 0 o'clock tonight isued orders deciding Superior Judges Lawler, Cook and Dunne to show cause before the higher court en bane at 10 o'clock a. rn. Monday, August 19, why they should not Uue permanent writ of prohibition restraining them from proceeding with the trial of Eugene Schmit. Indicted for participation In streetcar violent, Assistant Councilman William M. Abbott of the United Rail road indicted on a charge . of bribing Supervisor Theo. V. Halsey and Louis Glass of Pacific Telegraph & Telephone Company and W. A. Brobeck of the Park Side Transit Company similarly in dicted. T m , I iuance oi inese oraer following a long consultation of the Chief Justice and Associated Justices in chamber during the afternoon is esteemed great, victory for the joint defense in the biibery graft prosecution as it mean TiO f i Ka aiirtPdmA Asttii4 a&Aa In 4-1 iou. ground on the validity of the Oliver Grand Jury indictment is attack ed enough merit to call for argument from the contending side before the higher court. The chief grounds on which the writ of prohibition werte prayed for were that the Oliver Grand Jury is an illegal body, having ceased to exist when the new grand jury list for the present year was drawn and certified by the county clerk. Hence the indictment'' by it are null and void, and cannot be tried in any court. It la the response of the prosecution that a grand jury continue in power until formally discharged by a judge of the superior court who called it into being. Answering a question Chief Justice Beatty made the following explanatory statement to the Associated Press: "The issuance of these order to a'now cause does not Hay proceeding in. the superior court. Orders to show cause were issued instead of alternative writs to avoid interference with proceedings in the lower court in the interim." Armenian Supposed to Know of Rug Merchants. GUIDED THE ASSASSAN'S SHOT The Arrest Of This Man Will Lead To Further Arrests Among Armenians And Stamping Out of Society Which Has For Its Object The Killing Of Rich. NEW YORK, Aug. 12,-Kissak Jela lian, charged with being a member of the Armenian hunchakist, was placed under arrest late hut night. The po lice have been looking for him for days, So important is the capture deemed that the statement was made at police head quarters that a solution of the Armen ian conspiracy which resulted in the as sassination of Hovhnneg Tavshanjian, the Arilienian rug merchant, on July 22, is about to be made. Jelalinn, go the Ar menians opposed to the murderous so ciety assert, and so the district attor ney expects to prove, was the man with whom Bedros Khachadorian, Tavshan- jinn's slayer, lodged while in this city awaiting a ilivorable. opporttinwy to tire the fatal shot. Jelalian is also al leged by the police to be the man who guided the assassin to union square, re hearsed him in his act and pointed out to him the man marked for a victim. Jelalian's arrest, it is expected, will be followed by several more in this city, and Boston. Detectives have the sus pects under surveillance. KOREAN METHODS. Hang One And Imprison Other Two Delegates Of Hague Conference. SEOUL, Aug. 12. The Corean Su preme Court has passed sentence upon the members of the Hague deputation. Sang Son has been candemned to be hanged and Yi Wi Chow and Yi Chun have been sentenced to imprisonement for life. KANATIC ARRESTED IN HERS HANDS NOV The Associated Press J Silent. CAN M MEET DEMANDS Manager Stone Offers to Meet Strike Cammlttee and Make Recommendations. I OPERATORS WOULD NOT AGREE Operators Vote a Strike by Small Ma jorityStone Offers to Call a Tele graphic Meeting of Directors Tonight Great Newg Gathering Agency at Rest SAN FRANCISCO, August 12.-The telegraph operators in the employ of the Associated Presg throughout the entire country went on strike thi evening be cause General Manager Stone was un able to comply immediately with their demand for a radical increase in wages. Mr. Stone sent a message to the oper ators explaining that a compliance with, their 'demand would mean an increase of over $200,000 annually- in the A. P. He stated that it was a mutual organi zation conducted without profit and that there was no fund to meet such an ex traordinary expenditure. The only way that an increase such as was demanded could be granted was by an increase in the assessment of the members. It was manifestly impossible to do this within the 24 hours allotted by the telegraph ers' organization. : A meeting of the board of directorl would have to be called, and as the board is composed of 15 men living in all parts of the country it is impossible to get them together. Mr. Stone offered to meet a committee of Associated Press employees and make such recommenda tion as might be agreed upon. This was not satisfactory to the operators and then Mr. Stone agreed to call a tele graphic meeting of the directors and the associated operators and wait till Tues day night. This request was refused and the operatorg by a small majority de cided to strike immediately and at 3:30 the men left their keys and the entire Associated Press system is at a stand still ' ' SEATTLE CONSERVATIVE. Operators Will Take No Action Until Advised By President Small. 'SEATTLE Aug. 12.-Seattle Local of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America took a conservative course at its meeting yesterday on the strike situ ation, deciding not to strike , until it shall have orders to do So from Presi dent Small of the Central body. ; This action was tsiken at the labor temple after the local had. voted to re fuse to handle all unfair messages com ing to Seattle which would include tele grams, originating in offices in which members of the union have gone on a strike. This vote was reconsidered and it was decided to await instructions from the International president and his message was sent to President Small: "Local No. 40 at a special meeting vo ted to submit themselves to your leader ship and abide by your instructions ab solutely. Please instruct us what ac tion you desire taken by us." DTJND0NALD LOST AT SEA. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12.-It is now believed that the British ship Dundonald which for some time has been posted as overdue, has been lost at sea. The Dundonald carried cargo of wheat Feb ruary 16 and has never been heard from since. The average time on the pas sage is 132 days and the Dundonald has been out 175 days. Friday night eight vessels were on tho list posted as overdue and four mora names were added yesterday. . - x 0