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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1907)
Jtwraiittt Ilt ftttertm !9SK?SSaf5ia HO. 189. VOLUME LXIII, ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 6, 1907, PRICE FIVE CENTS , , 9 aw , - . ; : ii .ia u i ii 1 1 Ail inm rirrn ... III III rill 111 Himou Surround, Himself With Bot- II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 IN TRIAL 4 The Glass Prosecution Use Bribery Evidence. LONERGAN UN STAND Tells How He Was Trapped by Bums and Heney Into Con fession. HENEY WANTED BIGGER MEN Supervisor Wer Not tb One Who Wars Working tbe Graft-Abe Rusf Hid Premonition That Lonergan Was Being Trapped But We Mot Heeded. SAX FRAXCISCO, August 15.-Tb ero examination of former Supervisor l.oaergan by Attorney Delma occupied the major part of the morning session of the Glaus trial and under questioning lvlma truek a new not In hi narra tiv by introducing the mine of Abe ltuef. lie wild Ruef objected to nil re- wiving money from man named Roy ttucf xid be anould not have done Its "It may bo all right but I dont like It," we Ruef'a statement. later Roy, Induced I.oncrgan to come hi hou-e and toid Lonergan Uiat h (Roy) wa to ad ai a 'go-bet ween-here after Instead of Gallagher. Roy handed tlin $500 for a vote in the oil atorage Ordinance. Lonergan aaid be wa aim itlcioua of Roy and thought he wa be lg jobbed. He tried to get out the room Init the door wo barred. Then the folding door. Into another room war flung own and Burn. Lang Uon and Heney teped Into the room. J.onirymi tried to get Burn to arreit 11 oy for attempting to brilie Lonergan tint Burnt anid that did not go. He told him he had better confes for )iia wife and children. Ho Mid that Henry practically threatened to have lii in Indicted and if he didn't ha ays Honey uid however that it wouldn't clear the atmosphere of San Francisco to aeiul a few supervisor to juil. What they wanted wiu men who had debauch- J 1 1. - T II lated the circumstance of hi eonfei- OIL At the morning eilon the prosecu tion won an Important victory in the decision of the court that the evidence of act committed after an actual brib ery for an Instant return to the Pacific Stales Company a portion of tho bribe money; Thl ruling a viewed by the prosecution will e na bin the state to ihow that Mich money wa returned ami cred ited upon the cor pom lion's cash account ia(j Hanson Surroundi Himself With Bot tles And Turns On Tb Oct. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. lS.-Surroun ded by a number of bottles containing many variotle of liquor, with all tbe orank In the room stuffed with paper and a hose connecting thega jet with the mount, tiie aeaa body or a man auout SO years obi, supposed to b named Hanson waa found yesterday morning In a room at 2205 Fillmore street by Policeman Murphy' of the Buth-street sUtkm ry little U known of the dead man except that on Saturday lis appeared at the abova address and rented a room from Dr. L. 0. SweeUer, and after oav Ing for week In advance, was seen no more. lentenlay morning when Dr. Hweetser, who Is a dentist, with an of Am In the tame building, went to his oiltce lie amelled sat and called tha no uceman to lnvetlgat. They found tha man rutty dressed on tha bed with tha tube Id Via mouth. lb teemed to bars been dead for soma time. Titer were veml partly filled llouor wiuie ia the room. The man had ta ken pain to stuff paper In all the cracks In order that his schema would not fall He had a suit cae containing some or dinary clothing, but there, waa nothing left to lead to bis Identity beside tb fact that h told Dr. Sweetier his nam was Hanson, , , WHILE DM! SEATTLE NEEDS COAL. SEATTLE, August 18. The shortage of coal 1 now beginning to be felt in Seattle, and it Is predicted that Seattle this winter will witness the worst shortage, of fuol in It history. Scarcity of oars for hauling coal Is given a the reason for the present state of affair. Only a small portion of the resident of Seattle have protected themselves for the winter by buying while the market was well stocked with coal, and there Is bound to be suffering. The labor Council has contracted for 4000 ton., of coal, which It will sell to the members of the labor unions, but so far only 400 tons have been obtained. There is plenty of coal In the mines, but the scarcity of cars prevents It from being Jiaulcd here. MANSFIELD'S CAREER ENDED. IAUV MOUNTAIN. N. Y., August IS. -r fiends of Richard Mansfield, the ac tor, ttutt today that he will never return o the stage. Hit health It still poor. Goold Confesses He Killed Girl. """"""" MURDERED MISS LEVIN Stabbed Her While Quarrel ing Over Money mat ters. : WIFE HELPED CONCEAL BODY Body Was Dismembered and Placed in Trunk and Goold's Expected to Put it Out of the Way But Police Were Too Clever for Them From Good Family. RELEASE PRISONERS Situation at Masage Again Gets Serious. Mclean not yet released Reports Were Received by Wireless Tribesmen Are up la Arms Over Bom bardment of Casa Blanca and Cause Delay in McLean's Release. TANGIER, August 15.-A wlrelces from Caa Illanca tayi the situation at Matnge continue to be alarming. The prisoner in the jail have been turned loose. There is still uncainrss in the position of Europeans In Morocco. There is no confirmation of the report of Mo Lean being released. A courier and serv- ant from McLean ha just arrived and ) the new of tlte bombuivlmcnt of Caaa Illanca left a bad impression on the Km tribesmen and caused a u pension of negotiations for McLean's re leas. Tribesmen are furious against all Kuropean'. They wih to be revenged on McLcon wlto i protected by Raiauli, It has been learned that Ca id Sir Hurry, MncLenn, the rtgliHlimitn in the en-Ice of the Sultan of Morocco who has been a prisoner of the Bandit Ralsull since early in July has not been set at iHieity a previously reported. The British Legation hero today received a communication from Rtilmtll threatening that unless his term are accepted Ira mediately he would remove MacLean to a place whither nil the armies of Europe If united could not follow. It seems that Ralsull upon hearing of the bombardment and occupation of Cami Hlaiie succeeded in taking Mao Loan back of the Kkss trlltesmen and removed him to a strategic position in the neighborhood of Ben Iarous. Mac Lean is well but he has been deprived of his tent and compelled to occupy an ordinaryi aoldier's tent of a amnll Bite Ilo U subsisting upon black bread DANISH VICE-CONSUL SKIPS. OMAHA, August 18. Theodore Olson, former Danish vice-consul and once city comptroller, is missing, and it is alleged that his accounts with the Danish gov ernment is short $13,000. MARSEILLES, France. Aug. 15. The famous Monta Carlo "trunk mystery, which has baffled the police for so long wa cleared up Tuesday when Vero St. Uxlgo Goold confeaed that he mur derrd Emma Levin. Still another ob stacle wa removed when Goold wa found dead in his cell an hour later, hav ing hanged himself, for eminent legal authorities were puwled aa to how they could prosecute him. Goold was an Eng- H-hnian, and the crime was committed out of France, making a complicated le i;nl problem. (Joold confessed to the murder, saying he stabbed the woman during a quarrel over f 100. He then diomembered the IkhIv and hi wife helped him pack It in a trunk. They then journeyed to Mar- seillr, where they planned to cast the body. Into the sea. Referring to the mur- lip. fl.Mll.1 Attl.l . "I had been drinking, and, becoming angry, I selied a hunting knife and buried it In Emma' back. Site fell dead. The next day I dismembered the body with a aw and knife and placed the torso in a trunk and the head and legs In a valise. I only stabbed the woman once. The other wound on her body must Imve been caused by shaking around in the trunk," Mr, (loold corroborated everythina her husband said. i(Mld and liis wife, who are both eld erly and of Rood English families, ar rived at Marseilles from Monte Carlo August 0. Their baggage consisted of a trunk and a suit can. The trunk woe left at the station to be registered for London, while Coold ml hi wife, taking the suit case, went to a hotel for breakfat. Blood oozing irom the trunk aroused suspicion. BONAPARTE WILL INVESTIGATE Will Consult Lawyer Concerning Prom ise ot Immunity to Alton. WASHINGTON. Auirait B.-JAttornr General Bonaparte announces be will ernfer Monday with the pmident and ne lormer district attorney at Chi ago on the question of the immunity promie undo to tbe Alton Railroad for rebating to tbe StandaM OIL Bonaparte did not personally oromiM immunity, to anybody but a promise bad wen maie with the cognizance of form er Attorney-General Moody. Bonaparte id lie had not arrived at a decision as to what action ii to be taken against Earrlman to compel him to answer question asked by the inter state commerce Commission. SYSTEMATIC THIEVING. " TAOOMA, August 15.-A trsnir of rail road thieve are systematically pillaging rreigtii car the past month. The amount is estimated to be several thousand. A railroad detective caused the arrest of a switchman said to be a member of the gang. A confession expected. . TEXAS KID GETS A FIGHT. SAN DlrXJO, Aug. 15. Billy Snaili- nan and Texas Kid are matched for 20 round here on August 20. SHOOTS HIS WIFE Returns Home After Four Years for Revenge. THE STRIKE CON TINUES But Officials Declare it is All Over. OPERATORS SAY NOT I opening wires at irregular interval. Ha state that prosecution will follow each pi oven attempt pn tlte part of the men to obstruct the effort of tbe warring companies. He also state a galvano. meter U being tued to locate and deter mine the guilty parties. Thl action on the part of the O. B. T. men is denied bit all telegrapher, who assert that interruption are due only to unusual condition existing on tha greater pari of ilie line on the coast, and although these interruptions occur red with great frequency before tha strike, no big outcry waa mad against such condition by the companies until it ia offered an opportunity to discredit tie striking operator. In the Willam ette Valley the strike is felt in every town where business men are dependent upon the wire for" the transaction of much busmes. . , Neither Will Arbitrate and the Wires Are Working Partially. BOARD OF TRADE RE-OPENED Office Are Filled up with Strikebreakera and Seemingly Running at Normal Striker Deny That Some of Their Number Are Going Back to Work, DAUGHTER THEN KILLS FATHER The Daughter Drive Her Father Around the House Firing at Every Opportun ity Wa Arrested on Complaint of wife on Criminal Charge, NEW YORK, August 15.-Georire YVasser, after four years' absence, re turned home and shot his wife fatally and wa then &hot by his daughter. The daughter pursued the father through the houe firing several times as he fled from room to room. Waster turned and fired at the daughter several times but missed. Finally Wasser fell wounded in the parlor. His wife died later and Waster will probably) die. Wasser on entering the house upbraided his wife for caus ing his arrest. He was charged and tried on assault of their youngest daughter '1 Mr,', ,Aj,?,rfV Little Japan It'e nice to have an appetite for the thing you want. NEW YORK, August 15. The ceneral office of both telegraph eompanie (aid Wday that business i movine in all part of the country, and they are hav ing no difficulty in handling evervthins oflored. President Clowry of the Western L'nion. said: "The strike ia over. We are having applications from the striker today but we are filled up and cannot use rnem." The Associated Press service is moving under steadily improved conditions. The official of the union still profes confidence and deny that many opera tor are applying for re-employment CHIUAUO, August 15. The telegraph eompanie today re-opened the office on tne Board of Trade but with compara tively few operators. It is predicted that the atrike of the broker operator did not materialize. Both employers and striker declare they will not arbitrate. SPOKANE, Wash., August 15.-Spo- kane is practically cut off from the out- tde world, o lar as telegraphic or tele phone service concerned. A few stray on ot new waa received by the West ern Union. The telephone wire to the coast cities were all down yesterday i he strike is general here. The Postal Company has closed it office, while the manager and hU assistant are alone at tlie Western Union office. OMAHA, August 15. President Small of the Telegraphers' Union, passed through the city this morning, en route Horn ban Irancisco to Chicago. PORTLAXD, August 15. The third day of the telegraphers' strike shows no apparent change for the better, de spite the fact that officials of the two telegraph companies ju Xew York assert that business is nearing a normal stage and that a full complement of men has been secured. Reports received by union oliicial and business men, oome few of the latter having received delayed mes sages from various parts of the couu- try show that the tie-up that has par alysed tbe business world is practicallyi complete. Sau Francisco and Oakland wires are manned by a few men, chiefly the sub ordinate officials of the companies that are located in those cities. "Seattle is tied up tight," is the word from the Puget Sound city. Managers and chief operators at this point are endeavoring to keep the service open, Dut their efforts are not crowned with the greatest success, according to ad vices received from the strikers' commit tee. Officials of the two companies, how ever, allege that business is being hand led in good shape. Superintendent Forehand, of the Pos tal in Seattle, declare there will be no arbitration. Superintendent Reid, of the Western Union, charges that railway telegraph- era, members of the O. R, T, are caus ing much convenience by plugging and FAMOUS PLAYHOUSE LEASED. - '-tl PORTLAXD. Ausnut 15. Emanuel May, a retired capitalist of thi city, oa leased the Marquam Grand Theater for at least six week, commencm- Sen- tereber 2, and will present the California ' Upera Company in a erie. of eomkt opera, including "Robin Hood," "The Serenade," and "The Girl and the Gov ernor." Mr. May returned from &n Francisco last night. Tom Carl, of the old Bostonian, is the director of tha i Cslifornlanj and will probably appear, Mr. May ba a abort lease on i'ha house, but be say it may be extended. It is hi first venture in tbe theater business. HOLY JUMPERS NOW New Sect Causing Trouble With Religious Pow-Wow. HAVE HOSE TURNED ON THEM Creed of This Denomination i to Torn Over All Property to Association and to Jump and Cry Out Religion on the Street Are Arrested Burlington, Wis., Aug 15.-Sane and sedate citizens of Waukesha. Wis., are jumping on the holy jumpers, and the fraeeg has developed damage suits be- sides fracturing the reputation of the town as a summer resort. Damage suits aggregating $30,000 gainst Sheriff George L. Dwinnell. brought by members of the Metropolitan Church association the formal name for the jumpers on the charge of false im prisonment and inhuman treatment: special meetings of the common council and an ordinance prohibiting street meetings except on special permit and continued vigilance in making arrests when street meetings are held are the latest developments in the battle. Of the nineteen members of the sect iho have been arrested within the last month charged with disorderly conduct and creating disturbance on the street each has refused to pay the $2 and costs imposed by the court, declaring that they perferred to rot in jaiL" Sheriff Dwinnell' disciplinary meas ures in turning the hose on hi prisoners in a vain effort to make them keen ouiet , 47 - at night and in giving them the1 unruly prisoners' fare of bread and water is responsible for the damage suit. A small faction of Waukesha residents sympathize with the Jumpers, but the majority feel that the religious enthu siasts provoked all the punishment they received. The present legal proceedings data back to the night of May 28, when Sher iff Dwinnell and his deputies arrested seventeen Jumpers who were conduct ing a meeting on a stree corner, jumping high in the air, shouting at the top of their voices and throwing hymn books at each other in their delirium. This tumult was carried on in spite of tbe fact that Mrs. Michael Holman was lying ill in an adjoining house. The prisoner jumped all the way U (Continued oa Page $).