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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1907)
ontnti PUiUSHCS FULL A390CIATKO PRESS REPORT COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA NO, 212, VOLUME LXIII. ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1807. PRICE FIVE CENTS 01 WWW IS After the Land Grabbers Again. WANTS BINGER HERMAN By November He Expects to Have Legal Probe in Various . Oregon Cases. THE DELAY IS HIS FAULT Secent Cry of Avoiding Trial of Ci Agalntt Brittol U Born by Heney Who Say he Was Not Ready to Procecut Cawt Retumt to San Franoiico. lORTMNI, Sept. ll.-Francl J. Hrney, famed a a prosecutor of land thieve mill of other kind of grubbinW ltd boodler, a in positive U rum Unit t lie Oregon In Hit fraud wea will be taki'ii up fur trial In Ui United Stat( cturt here in October and that the. prosecution will bo pushed until Hit jirc wiit congested douket U wpt m cU an. Il lie say aim that lie it rtKiiatlil fur I lir di' lay in the resumption uf the government proectuion n net that be alone imut bear the blame if blame there must be. lie further states that Judge Hunt of .Montana will preside over the land cases, aa he did In tlie distant day of the pant lieu the lal case wa given hearing Mr. Heney dates that lie will return to Portland from hi present municipal iiraft extirpation in Sun Francisco not later than November 1, and will then roll up hia official sleeve and take a ir.ost active part in ilniithiiig the ri" maiuing hind cases which may not have been prevlouitly disposed of by United State Ditrlct Attorney Bristol, The only iilipulatlon made I that he U to have tlie lead In the trial of tlie Binger lleruiann, the John Hull, and the Booth cane. Mr, lleney returned to Portland from came mi uiuiic ana went at onee 10 the Portland. He was lieslegod by men who wlhed to dlscii matter with him ad did not get to bed until after 1 o'closk till morning. l!y 8 o'clock the telephone in hi room began to ring and continued to do ao intermittently throughout the day. Mr. Hcmy took breakfast In hi room, being closeted with Thomna 1). Kculiauscn, one of tho men who rendered him aid during the curly preparations for the hind trial and alo during the Inter investigations and trial. Mr. Ncuhuusen now hn in his possesion or in the care of various of his agents, practically all of the evidence gathered against the different land fraud dofend mit now awaiting trial. The afternoon was spent by Mr. Heney with Mr. Bristol in hi oflloe though he was continually interrupted by thoo who came to consult with him on various matter having to do with the land cases, and the resumption of the trials. This evening he will leave for San Francisco to be present and take part In the Ford trial there, the jury for which is being chosen today . ' According to Mr. Heney, after th pre liminary November work, the land oueos will be taken up the first thing when the October term of the federal court is convened and all the case will be set down on the docket for immediate trial by United States Attorney Bristol. The first case to be considered will be those Id which the defendants have been held In the county jail for a year or more an . i... i. .j. terfelters, Indians from the reservations, And various other men held on different criminal charges. DENET TIRELESS MORGAN PAYS CITY. NEW YORK, Wept. ll.-Havliig failed to iihini'e the city nllli'lals to repavt the blouk opMill hi Wiie In a style If. accord with hi. Ideas, J. Picrpont Morgan hut determined to pay for the work tut of hi own private purse, Mr. Morgan's check for fl20f, which la the urn the city' jiving expert have fig ured out that It will con to repave the block, ha been writ to the city author! lie, and it I. expected that hi 7quct will be granted. The city wanted to patch the a-plialt pavement where it needed repairs, instead of repaying the whole block, as Mr. Morgan requested. SCIfMITZ STILL HAS HOPES. SAX FRANCISCO, Sept, ll.-"I hope the Union Labor party wliisi I want to get out of her." Kogene K. SehinlU, discussing the po litico! outlook with a friend who had dropped out to the Inglesldji jail to see him, so mined up hi Interest In she re sult in these woid, He hope the Union Ubor party will win, because he want to get out of jail. Jfe ha a hazy notion that hi imprisonment will naturally enme to an end aa soon a , chauite wines over the political complexion. Scliiuita ha a notion that hi sen tence will be disregarded if "the right ort of nuin" U elected Major. VETERINARIES MEET. KANSAS CITY, fVpt. U.-Tha time May of the annual convention of the American Veterinary Medical Associa tion wm taken up almost entirely in the reading of address md their discussion. Among thoe on the program was M. E. Knnwlcs, Helena, Mont. BRYAN TALKS AT BOISE. , BOISE, Sept. JL-Wllllam J. Bryan msde an addre, here this evening un der the aiiapice of the democratic state 'antral committee. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan will tomorrow go to Blue Lake where for several day they will be the guest or I. II. Perrine at hi famous fruit fanu in Snake River canyon. 1 RACE AGIST TIME Steamer Lusitania Ploughing Waters Toward New York. RECORD . IS BROKEN NOW If No Accident Occurs She Will Estab lish New Record Wirclesa at Cape Race Has Picked Her up and She ia Steaming at as Knot an Hour. NEW YORK, Sept. ll.-The great tur bine steamer Lusitania, of the Cunard line, la racing along at w 25 knot clip this afternoon In the final stretch of her inaldeu voyage to New York and wireless dispatche from Capo Race, N. received today Indicate she will probably arrive here sometime between midnight and 3 o'clock Friday morning, breaking all trans-Atlantio ocean reo ords, The Cunard officials are awaiting this afternoon to hear from the giant craft which has entered the wireless zone near Cape Race. STRIKE BECOMES SERIOUS. BROOKLYN. Sept. ll.-The strike of the Pennsylvania tunnel workers in Long Island City assumed rather a ser ious aspect this morning. The engi neer will not return to work unless the contractors agree to raise the rate of pay to that established by the Safety Engineer's Union, of which the engineers employed on the work are members, Matthow McConvlllo, the business agent of that union, ia in charge of the strike, ami he says the men were paid from $ to $1.50 a ony below the union scale. The threat made yesterday to call ont the 200 rockmwi employed on the tunnel work appear to have been put in force this morning, for there was no evi dence of those men being at work. The police on duty about the scene of the strike said that everything was quiet and orderly. die mini: IN LINE Civil War Veterans in Encampment. RANKS THINNING FAST Thousands of Aged Soldiers Cheered Wildly as They Were Reviewed. MANY UNABLE TO MARCH Pathetic and Patriotic Spectacle at Saratoga All Along Line of March Residence Are Decorated for Boyi in Blue Who Fought in Union Rank. SARATOGA, X. Y Sept. ll.-This rat the day of the big parade of the national encampment of the 0. A. R., when gray-haired veteran of the civil war marched again in martial array The line of march was comparatively short and the number of marchers was not so large as in previous years, the II rt due to the advanced age of the surviving veterans and the second to the rapid depletion of the rank by death in the past few years. But it wa a successful and spectular pH(jeant nevertheless. There were thou mi nils in line and aa they swept down tree-lined Broadway the marchers were loudly cheered by the great crowd of !evtator along the entire nvute. The formation was at Woodlawn Park and the route led for a mile and a quarter straight down Broadway. Houses and building along the entire line of march were decorated with a great display of flag and bunting. At every available point viewing stands had been build, while wmgou stood at intersecting streets equipped with chain. Arrange ments had been made for veterans who v ere physically unable to engage In the parade, or who did not care to do so, to view the procession from a stand erect ed for their exclusive use. Forty-two state and two territories were represented iu the column. The local post va given the place of honor, that of escoit to R, H. Brown, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army, New York, New England and Pennsyl vania 'were naturally the most largely represented In the column. Ohio had a good representation 'and also West Vir- THE SMALL TAmA. A far . Osds I . - -t ginia, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. California, Oregoti, Welling ton, Colorado, and other Ute of the far west, were represented by one or more post each. ' Arriving .at the social reviewing stand Command-in-Chlcf Brown left his -place at the head of the procession to review the line, (iovernor Hughes and other state official also reviewed the parade. The applause for the veterans, which ha4 been spontaneous and loud along the line of march, became a tempest as the veterans moved past the reviewing stand. PARKER ON CAMPAIGN GIFTS. NEW. YORK, Sept. II. A tatement attributed to Judge Alton B. Parker, democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1004, Is published in the World today. regarding recent newspaper exposures of campaign fund giving, at the last Na tional election. Judge Parker, in effect, says that Congress thould have performed the tervire that the newspaper are now at tempting to render, and that no man alio i fair-minded and intelligent can doubt the accuracy of his famous charge regarding camapign funds near the cloe of hia campaign. Judge Parker also advocates imprison meat a a punishment for corporation campaign gifts. EARLE DECLINES TO TALK. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. Ferdinand Pinney Karle, whose unique matrimonial arrangements have brought him notor lety, returned to hi home in Monroe late" yesterday. He was accompanied by hi mother. The village people made no attempt to disturb him, but hia home coming I fruitful subject of discus ion among the people today. Karle. declined to discuss his affairs any further ut pre!-ent but another de fensive statement credited to Mis Julia Kuttner, the young woman Earhj in tend to marry, is published today. FRENCH ORDER ATTACK. PARIS, Sept. 11. Premier Clemenceau announced tonight that he had received no further newa from Morocco. He has in- instructed Gen. Druge, commander of the French expeditionary force to deliver a sharp and decisive at- tack upon the Arab tribesmen if in his judgment the occasion is 4 opportune, at the same time the premier requested the general to inform him by telegraph when he thought he would take offensive. TRIAL DATE SET. CHICAGO, Sept. 4. The trial of Frank 1. Constantino for the murder of Mrs. Louise Gentry was set today for Mom lay next. Constantine, it is alleged, kill cd the woman by cutting her throat. He escaped from Chicago and was arrested some months ago in New York when on tlie point of sailing for Europe. I' BOY'S DREAM. WE RIOTS IN FRISCO Two Fatally Wounded Shooting Affray, in POLICE DELIVER VOLLEY Union Pickets Assert They Did Not Precipitate the Des perate Battle. POLICE SURROUND CAR BARN Union Men Claim That Slot Was Delib erately Planned by Strikebreakers to Create Unfavorable Opinion of Union- Claim They Have Such Information. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11 Five non union carmen in the employ of the United Railroads were desperately wounded, two of them fatally, in a battle with pickets of the carmen's union and police at an early hour this morning. The injured are: MORRIS RISENBERG, non-union con doctor, bullet wound to the left chest. The bullet penetrated the pleural cavity and came out et the back. ROY PERKINS, conductor, deep flesh wound in the right chest. J. J. COTTER, motorman, bullet wound left upper forearm. HARRY COHRS, conductor, bullet wound in the right leg. FRANK SMITH, conductor, bullet wound in the right forearm. The riot started when a work car car rying a crowd of strikebreakers left the car barn at Twenty-fourth and Utah streets shortly after midnight When the car passed Bryant street, atones were thrown from a place where the union pickets occupied a tent. The picket de- flare they did not throw the missiles, but the strikebreakers evidently believed they did, for revolvers were drawn, and in a few momenta a fierce battle was going. A riot call wa sent to the police station and a large detail of police rushed to the scene. They called upon the strikebreakers to cease firing, but their command was either misunder stood or the strikebreakers had no desire to let the police alone, for the car crew turned on the bluecoats and the latter responded. The five men fell at the first volley and lay writhing on the ground. In the meantime, the car bad been run back to the barn, and the men inside opened fire on the police, who besieged the place and demanded surrender. The 700 men inside continued the firing upon the police until they were peremptorily commanded to cease. The barn was then surrounded by the police and at day break a large number of arrest were made. The union men claim the riot was de liberately planned by the company to create sympathy for the strikebreakers and convey the impression ffiftt the union sanctions violence. They claim to have had advance information that the riot wua, to take place. LOCKS NURSE IN CLOSET. CHICAGO, Sept 11. In every nook on the north side of Evanston the police to-day are earthing for the burglar who broke into S. B. Sexton's home and stole jewels valued at $1,000. Miss Eli- )f zaueui hoods, a proressionai nurse found the burglar. She screamed and waa struck on the shoulder, gagged and locked in a closet. The cook found the unconscious girl to-day. . -. 1 YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL SCORES. At Portland Portland 11. Oakland 5. At Spokane Butte 0, Spokane 4. POSTS liooo FOR REWARD. George W. Moore Spares no Expense to Capture Murderer. SALEM, Sept. 11. Sheriff Culver wa yesterday afternoon authorized by Geo. W. Moore, the husband of Mra. Rebecca Moore, who was brutally rdered in he home upon the farm near Buena Vista, Wednesday afternoon, to advertise a reward of 1000 for any information which will lead to the capture of the perpetrator of the crime. He also au thorized the sheriff to spare no expense in the seareb for the murderer and to charge all necessary expense to him. Every clew local officer have run down has come to naught and the further they proceed the deeper the caae seems to become enshrouded in mystery. Practi cally the only tieory now advanced ia that the murder must bare been com mitted by a tramp who entered the house to ransack and) that Mrs. Moore, who bad an experience with a tramp onoa before, had attempted to drive him out with the butcher knife which she held in her hand. LUSITANIA SHOWS SPEED. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. Dispatches by wirelesa telegraph from the steamer Lusitania, one of the giant ships that are expected to break records in mak ing the trip between England and the United States and return, give aom dcturli how the steamer is acting on her first long voyage. The Lucania, which left Liverpool four hour ahead of us," ays the message, "was over taken and passer at 4:30 Sunday mora- u.g. bne bad half an hour start of us, leaving Queenstown." DIES BY ASPHYXIATION. WASHINGTON, Sept. ll.-The body of Dr. William H. Abercrombie, 65 years old, a retired naval surgeon, waa discovered in his apartment in Stone- leigh Court today. He had committed suicide by inhaling illuminating gas. His widow is in Atlantic City. YACHT ON ROCKS Emperor of Russia's Boat on Bleak Finland Shore. SHE IS IN NO DANGER YET Emperor and HU Family Remain on Board After the Vessel Strikes The Amount of Damage Not Known Fleet of Torpedo Boats Ready to Assist. HANGO, Finland, Sept ll.-The Rus sian imperial yacht Standart, with Em- perorNichohg and Empress Alexandria and their family aboard is fast on the rocks off Horzava Point on the coast west of thi place. The yacht is appar ently in no danger as the Emperor and his family remained 'aboard. The Standart ran upon the rocks wheh were submerged at high tide at 4:30 this afternoon and remained fast. The steam lifeboat from Reval haa arrived at the scene and seven - torpedo boats which have been escorting the imperial yacht are standing near to render as sistance if needed. SPECIAL SESSION. Legislature Will be Called in Kansas if Railroads Ignore a-Cent Fare Sate. TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. II. Politicians are of the opinion that Governor Hoch will call a special session of the legisla ture if the railroads persist in their determination to ignore the two-cept are order. The governor has not vet been notified of the action of the rail roads except through the newspapers.' He declared that Kansas will have a 2 cent rate or it will be cancelled in the states around her. It is understood that if the railroads file the resolution adopted in Chicago in court here, it will be signal for & special session call. V