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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1907)
V "Ttl I III 2 5' PUBLISHES rULLSSOC. ..! PRESS REPORT COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA NO. 201. VOLUME LXIII. ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30. 1907. TEN PAGES. PRICE FIYE CENTS HENEY AND Prosecutor Starts Things Delmas' Dress DELMAS REPLIES WORDS ARE UNGENTLEMANLY Attorney for State Is Back Again ' Judge Lawler Takes Dignity of the Court to Bear Upon the Situation and Reprimands Both Men. EVIDENCE USED TO KEEP OUT SUCH FRANCHISE WAS SECURED I OVER TO PACIFIC STATES COM DEPARTMENT OP COMPANY W MONY IN LAST WEEK'S TRIAL. SAN FRANCISCO, August 29. -The task of showing that by mean o( a "atraw" Horn Telephone Co., tha Paclno 8tatt Telephone Company sought to prevent tha entrance of the ml home company Into Oakland, was resumed at toe Ulan trial today. Tha evidence Introduced traded to how that tha franchise for the "straw" Home Company was secured, and later trans ferred to the Pacific Statea Company. Finally the Paclflo State Company, it U alleged, through Zlmmer asked to have the franchise forfeited and the bond returned. Delmaa eeoured the admMon from Attorney Beasley of San Jose who ten tlRed regarding the "straw" company, that the legal paper eonneeted with the mutter were drawn up by the Pa cific elate legal department preidd over- by Attorney Pillsbury, who while on the stand lat week, swore thia work to be solely under the direction of Clan. Proident Scott end Auditor Sherwln, of the Telephone Company, testified that the approval of vouchcra for Abe Ruef aalary was mailo known to the grand jury at long ago aa last month. During the afternoon sion bad blood between Honey end Delmas ahowed it aclf again Secretary Kyan of the board of supervisors waa called to the stand to identify the f ranohiite granted by that body to the Home Company. Ileney and Delmas got Into a wrangle over the physical character of the evi dence offered and finally Honey exclaim ed impatiently to Delmam "Oh, well, I'm not aa particular about my dre end speech ai you are, any show." PRINCE A WALTZER. Leaves Formal Dinner to Slip Royal Arms Around Girls Waist in Mazy Dance NEWPORT. 11. I., Aug.' 29. A cer tain emnll section of Newport voiced iU horror this morning end the rest expressed disapproval when It became known that the early disappearance of Prince William, of Sweden, from the dinner given by Mrs. OgJeu Mills last night was due to hi" democratic in stoinot that sent him to the dance given by the Swedes, of this city foe the sail ors on his cruiser,- the Fylgia. Fully an hour before social form and royal custom required his departure the Prince arose and accompanied by Baron De Lagercrnnts, the Swedish Minister at WMilugton, hurried to the dance ball, where he entered Into the fun -with such test that as the night ad vanced Baron De Lagercrnnts. was ob liged to remind Win of his royal dig nity. When the Prince first arrived ev erything was formal. On the platform were Mayor Clark and Stuyresant Fish, who told the Prince that his crew were the bent behaved lot of sailors Newport had ever seen. The Prince ex pressed his thanks and the ceremony ended. When the floor was cleared for dancing the Prince watched until he could keep still no longer. Jumping down on the floor, he placed his royal arm around the trim waist of Miss Orvlii Swcnson and joined the dancers. After that the Prince danced with half the girls in the room, until Baron Lager- to scat. DEL AS SNARL byv Refering to Attorney and Speech, With Another Hot Retort When OPPOSITION "STRAW" COMPANY If OAKLAND AND LATEB TURNED PANT WISE DRAWN U? BT LEGAL H1CH WAS CONTRARY TO TEST! "I have always understood," laid Delmas, "that there la nothing more 111 bted than to refer to a gentleman's dree' "That la tme," said Heniy, "and there la so man who Is more tnctlllioui In Us dresa and lea careful la hit) conduct than you are." 1 , "And then la no greater blackguard living than you are," answered Delmas, The content of words waa (retting close to the per tonal contact point and both Attorney Delmas and Attorney Hency were getting red in the face and shouting to each other. Their wordy paeage of the day before had brought a great many to the court room who an tieipated mjeh another exhibition today end Uiere was considerable dieturbance in the court room. The jury lent all interest in the worde of the witness and fudge Lawler rwpped impatiently on the 'leek in front of hinuwhlle he strived to make bin voice heard above the din of tlie two lawyer's snarling speech and that occaioncd by the spectators in the court room. "I desire this evidence to be read without any further exchangee of this ort," said Judge Lawler, his manner being very curt and impatient. When the two lawyers had been re primanded by the court they settled down again into the detail of carrying on the trail but it is easy to see that there is a keen personal rivalry between the two which may break out at any time in such an incident as occurred today or even worse. Both men are of a testy temperament and the clash today will only bring more of the curious minded to the trail room who wih to see Ihe great Ileney and Delmas have a set-to. DOES NOT WANT IT. Anderson Says that Permanent Job of Chief of Police is Rot For Him. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29. Acting Chief of Police Anderson stated very emphatically yesterday that he would not by any .manner of means accept the permanent oMce 1 of Chief, even though the honor 1ms urged upon him. "I have been aked this question a great many times lately," said lie yes terday, "and! it has been somewhat em barrassing because I have been given no intimation by the Board of Police Commissioners that they had me in mind as an Appointee. Naturally I have had a delicacy of expressing myself defi nitely but thought it over carefully lately ami I have made up my mind that I would not accept the office under any consideration. "My wife has been in poor health for si number of years, and I am afraid, that the attacks that might come to one in such a position would result perhaps fatally to her." ' Notwithstanding this positive asser tion, by acting Chief Anderson, many of nig jMcniis say that lie would be obliged to accept if the proper arguments were brought to bear. His long and efficient Service In tllA ilCnUl-t.nil.nf fill tmnA. van. r-- - w, ftUVU .vv- hig personal qualities make him partloulurly eligible in the eyes of many members of the department. RECEIVED IN BANK. . LONDON, Aug. 29. Bullion amount ing to 179,000 pounds wins token into the bank of Englund on balance today. Uncle f$am 8uch a high wire perfoimance and stoppage of public business puts Government ownership ideas in my head. CLAMS FOR THE EDITORS. Seaside is Going to Glvt Knight of tht Shears a Clam Bake. SKASIDli Or, August 20. Plans foe the second big clam bake of the Clatsop Beach summer season are now well un der way, and by the time the 100 or more member of the Oregon State Press Association are ready to tackle the teaming bivalves in the grove back .of Hotel Moore next Sunday night, more fun will t uncorked for the Beaver State editors than when they receive lor suownpuona. i. V two deliberations of the Pre Assocla- tion w-iU take place, and wbo will be md a. .Hours, at wogn nnsmrv ine (iv - w wspw isvai uwses "clems is ripe." ClntJtop Beach rockpilcs, from Tilla mook Head to Gearbart, have been Irawn on for the conetruction of a properly equipped al fresco "oven," and by Saturday night the long rustic tables at which the "pencil-pusher'" and their friends will be regaled will be ready. rhe trees surrounding the campflre will be illuminated by electric lights and Oriental lanterns, and good music will be on tap for the evening's fun. NO COMPROMISE Strikers Issue Circular That no Overtures Will be Accepted. IMMOVABLE ON ALL DEMANDS Strikebreakers Are Said to be Leaving the Companies and Strikers Ask That the Public do Their Business Through the Mails Instead of the Wires. NEW YORK. August 20. In a circu lar sent out today by the officers of the Telegraphers' ;Union it was declared that the strikers ignore any suggestion of the compromise and stand immovable on all demands. It was also asserted that many strikebreakers hod left the com panies and' wholesale desertions are al leged to have been taken from the working forces in the offices yesterday. The public was asked to use the mails instead of the wires. The officials of the two big companies said, the strikers are beginning to make advances with a view of returning to work. .CONSUL DROWNS. . . . . ST. LOUIS, August 29. The dead body) of a man taken from 'the river -was identified today as jB. IV Haagnma, the consul for. the Netherlands. The body was recognized by the son who states that his father's death was prob- 4 ably accidental as the consul was 70 years old and! the son says he 4 was slightly deranged. ' GIVES LIFE FOR OTHERS. 'Portland Boy Saves Two From Drown ing But Dies From Over Exertion. Chicago. AJg. 29. At the sacrifice of his own life, Guy 11 Moore, 23 years okt, a student at the National Medical university, saved two young men from death in Lake Michigan after. a most heroic struggle against wind and waves, Moore died yesterday morning from bera orrhaire of the lnncs paiuu.it hv th tnn ereat tak which he rjerformed Twiea he swam from a capsixed craft on the jlllke to anor eac0 tlma bearing as a luir.Un th. kni.. .f nf l;. . n wvuj U. line Wl Then he sank to the ground exhausted wa. taken to the hoepiUl where he died. Moore s home was at 294 Eugene street, Portland. Oregon, where his mother, Mt. 8. Moore, resides, WITTS RETIRES. LONDON", August 29. Advices from St. Petersburg, says that Count Witte, once the most powerful man in Russia, excepting the Emperor, has accepted directorship in the Bank of Russia for exterior commerce, thug severing himself irora bis country official life. SEARCH FOR GOLO Comes to Disastrous end on Unamak Island. MINERS CAMP BLOWN AWAY Andrew Laybeck and J. H. Wilson Are Rescued by Schooner Miller From Barren Island in Behring Sea Live in a Dug-Out Since April on Caribou. SAN FRANCISCO, August 29.-An- drew Laybeck' of San Francisco and J. H. Wilson of Seattle, miners, who left here early in April to prospect for gold on the island of Wnamak in Behring Sea, were brought back here this morm'ntr by the flailing schooner Miller which res cued them from? the barren island. Their trip was a series of misfor tunes. Severe storms prevailed andthe camn was blown awav and thev were left without food or clothing. They were forced to see,k refuge in a dug-out which belonged to a trapper named Koseberg, who with his native wife was the only inhabitant of the island . They shot a few caribou on which they lived until their signals of dis tress were seen by the Miller. RUSSIA PREPARES FOR TAFT. NEW YORK, August 29. The Amer ican agent of the Trans-Siberian Rail way hag arranged for a special car to convey Secretary Taft and party from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg, leaving November 12 and arriving November 26. The only stopover between-Vladivostok and Moscow will be Irkutsk. The party win stoji in Moscow two days. COAL FOR THE FLEET. NEW YORK, August 29.-Or. dr for 34,000 tons of coal to be distributed along the route of the battleship fleet from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast were reported to have been given to four New York coal concerns by the Gov ernment. ",v ' It was stated that 125,000 tons would be needed to carry the fleet to the' Pacific and five shipments to the porta where the warships will call are already under way. 1 SNOWBALLS ARE HOT. SAN FRANCISOO,Aug. 29.-A fam ily quarrel was revealed in a auit brought in the Superior Court yesterday by H. H. and' Norman ' P. Snowball, brothers, against their sistcir, Leutie Snowball, to have set aside a deed to i i . . i . . . i turce in.Ti oi una in tne ounset district, made May 9th, by their mother, Mrs. Lucy Snowball, who died in Yolo county July 2d. According to the complaint, Leutie and two other brothers poisoned the mind of their mother against H. H. and Norman P. A. L. Snowball, who by the way, is the former policeman, who was permitted to resign from the force a few years ago while charges of grafting a tne lenueriom were being ente tainej against him. J. W. Snowball, the father of the family, died at Knight's' Landing Jan uary 23, 1900 eai a etate o. about 1100. about $100,000 to his widow, it having oeen the understanding that she should lure it with the children, in - even amounts after her death. But when IL H. and Norman P. learned that they were to get $1000 and a piece of land respectively, they were greatly chagrined, end charged that the other two brother and the sister bad told their mother ugly stories about H. H. and Norman p, accusing them of being dissipated , men who would squander their patrimony in riotous liv ing, with the result that Leutie, A. L. and M. S. Snowball received large shares while, the other two children were left out in the cbM. On the score of undue influence,, they wish the' deed Btantinir the real fctaUi to Leutie to be annulled. ELEVATORS FORM TRUST. (MINNEAPOLIS, Aiigust 29. A biK merger ofUhe Farmers' Elevators. In Minnesota n to be formed, the meeting called ti take place in this city on Sep tember 5th by the presidents and man agers of several elevators throughout the state. The plan is to secure the co operation of the 200 farmers' elevators in the state in one central organization. It is estimated there will be fully 20,000 farmers represented at thia meeting. WELLMAN ON HIS WAY. CHICAGO, August 29. Cablegrams received last night from Walter Well- man, sent via Spitzenbergen and de layed two Jays, give rise to the belief that he is already- on his airship journey to tne role, ine cablegrams announced that everything was in perfect condi tion and a trial trip of SO miles was to be made that day In the event that the trial we, atifactory,, the tart wa to be made the nex day, Saurday. , ellman cabled1 that the monter air- hip wa holding the hydrogen well and behaving perfectly. The manufacture of the gag to fill the balloon began the last week in April, and it wag Inflated with out any trouble. In tonight's message wnicn, of course, is delayed two days he announced that the flight could be delayed to September 1st or even as late as Setpember 5th if conditions were not satisfactory; but it is believed he found the iwndg favorable and is now far in the Arctic regions. - , ; , RACERS COLLIDE WITH FREIGHT. PAYETTE, Idaho, August 29. An out-of-the-ordinary accident occurred here Tuesday evening that might have caused the deaths of 16 men As it wag that number were injured, none fatally. Tha men were coming into town from Ontario on two handcars and a spreader, and all were making full speed ahead. Just 'as theyi were entering the local j railway yards a freight train began DacKing onto the main line from the switch. The handcars could not be atop ped 'until they struck the train. J. R. Walker, foreman of the new Ontario depot, had four riba broken and receiv ed many painful bumps Martin Newton received a serious scalp wound and was unconscious for gome time. B. R, Ham ilton waa badly injured about thd shoul ders and head, besides internally. BRITISH BUY HE Yankee Horse Shoes on British' Cavalry. ENGLISHMEN ARE SORE War Secretary Gets as Good Material and Cheaper in United States. TO BUY OTHER STORES HERE Various Supplies From the United States Axe Used in English Army Much to the Chagrin of Protectionists There Will Have to Reduce Prices. LONDON, August 29. The British war secretary Mr. Ealdane, answering a question ba the house of commons last evening, announced that he proposed purchasing army stores la America, when he can get them there equally aa good ' aa elsewhere at more satisfactory prices, without apologizing to the local protec tionists who insist that British firm should be given the preference irrespec tive of price or quality. The matter was brought up by Sir Howard Vincent, Conservative and Free Trader, representing the central divis ion of Sheffield, who asked for explana tions of why the war office ordered 100,- 000 pieces of horse shoes in the United States for the use of the British cavalry. instead of supporting British industries and workmen. Mr. Haldane, in the course of his reply, said the American goods were satisfactory both as regards price and efficiency ,and in the interests of the economical administration of the- army he declined to disregard this source of upply. ROCKEFELLER GETTING FEE. CHICAGO, 111., August 29. John D. Rockefeller is having trouble in col lecting $3.95 from the United States overmnent for his traveling expenses and witness fee in the recent hearing before Judge Landis. In making application for the amount due him Mr. Rockefeller declared that he had traveled 1149 miles to attend the session of court. He did not say, how ever, whether he came from Pittsfield. Mass., or Cleveland. The government is therefore holding the money until it receives official in formation as to where Mr. Rockefeller fUrted from when he came to court. Actually, United States Marshal Hoy knows the claimant came from Pitts field, hut officially he does not know, and Mr. Rockefeller will not get his money until the marshal obtains the official information he is seeking. BREWERS CHECK LOCAL OPTION.! CINCINNATI, August 29. Represen tative brewers of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis and others cities, are holding a secret meeting here to devise means of checking the spread of local option, es pecially in the South. HEAVY LOSS IN JAPAN. TOKK), August 29. Floods which are believed to be the heaviest that have been experienced for years are reported from Central Japan. Some villages have . been completely submerged. The ex tent of the damage done is not known, but it is believed to be very heavy. MOTOR MAKES FAST RUN. OMAHA, August 29. The Union Pa cific motor .car 12 made the run from Omaha to Denver in 18 hour and 34 minutes, running as second eection to the overland limited. The regular time is 17' hours and 15 minutes The distv ance 570 miles. , V 'istWe&''