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V PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATCO PRESS REPORT COVERSTHE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA NO. 231. VOLUME LXIII. ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1907 PRICE FIVE CENTS SOUTHERN LINE - ON THE GRILL Witness Admits Receiving Re bates Because of Change in Route. FATES ON SPECIAL SHIPMENTS Secret Rates Enjoyed by Large Number of Shippers, Defense Claiming Figures Are Withheld to Prevent Competitions by Bot Shipment. SAX FRANCISCO, Oct. ..-Interstate Commerco Commissioner lane today continued the hearing of testimony in the inquiry into the dealing of the Southern Pacific Ttallroni! wth shippers. Several witnesses testified to having; pre pared or filed rlaitiia with the Southern Pacific Company. Vukn-lil Baker, president of the Baker & Hamilton Company admitted firm had received concessions from the Southern Pacific, This however was between San Francisco and Ueneeio, and was due to t lie fact that they had with drawn the schooner line from the route. Thin, he added, had nothing to do with transcontinental business. Assistant (ieneral Freight Agent Mubbs, of the Southern Pacific, wo shown a lint of "Extra Speelal Rate." He aid he did not make these rate, but had made the rale on- special ship ments. Tln'e were' bcltu-cu points within California and were to meet wat--p competition. Stubbs stated in answer to a question by Iam that in a Inrge number of runes these secret rate were enjoyed liy ail shipper handling a par iiruhir commodity. tame asked if thi was so, why there should be any secret made, of it. Stubbs replied that an the rates were to meet river competition, if publiahed, they would be cut under bv the boats. automobile, And they have a clew In denting tlmt she probably lives right in Glen Cove, and thus learned their habits and the lay of their homes. Oiiti reward of $1000 for her capture has been standing for two weeks. John Alvin Voting today added an individual re waul of .'100 more. It is expected I hut imt less thau $00 additional will lx gained by the play, "The Woman Pirate." CHAFFEE IN HUMOROUS MOOD. PIRATES IN NEW YORK. Gang Pillages Cottages of Rich at Glen Cove. NEW YORK, Oct. 8. Ix-d by a Mend dec-footed woman of good taste, a dar ing band of land nnd water pirates has within the past six weeks looted $20,000 in jewels and plate from the homes of millionaires at (Jlen Cove, L. I. John Alvin Young, president of the Windsor Trust Company, is euptian of a vigilent committee of the elect rich. George, M. H. and C. M. Pratt, of the Standard Old, .1. K. nnd II. W. Max well, railroad magnates; E. E. Endow, Howard Whitney, .1. K. 0. Sherwood, Samuel Dwight Brewster, W. E. Kim ball anil (.forge P. Tangeruian, all men . of many millions, are nightly patrolling the roads' and the shores, revolvers belt ed to their waists ami and rifle in their hands. They are the home guards, de fending theij hmucty (And while they patrol nnd guard, their mothers, wives and daughters .are getting up a piny, the proceeds of which will go as n reward for- the capture of the woman "Rallies" and her band, who employ swilt niotorlmats nnd automo biles to effect their escape with their loot. , in one of their marauding trips the gang chloroformed a well-known matron und her maid. Despite the vigilence of the millionaire volunteers, the robberies continue nnd several dashes to safety have been made, almost under tho eyes of the guards. Every effort has been made to keep the depredations a secret, and the facts only became known todoy through ar rangements to present the play, which is bnsod on the recent looting. One of the most prominent society women of Glcri Cove will enact the part of the mysterious female, "Rallies." Others will be made up as villianous masked men, They will go off the stage with their booty in a big auto mobile, in accurate imitation of the act ual thieves. No one of them has seen the much feared woman leader of the pirates yet, though some servants have, but. the rich 1 1 I A .1 1. vigiianies nave seen ner iracKs maae by narrow, pointed, high heeled shoes leading from their homes to the beaches where she got into ,the motorboat pr the ' roadways wliere she entered the Sayr the Women Must Fight if We Have War. IAS ANGKLE.M, Oct. 3-'Whcn the I'nited States goes to war with Japan, which it probably will not do for many years, it wil be necessary to recruit the regiments from the women, for men are not enlisting In the army as for merly. I see." This significant statement, which may be persiflage, but was uttered with ap imient seriousness and ndt in any way explained, was made today by Lieuten ant ficncral Adna 11 Chaffee, in tho louiire of an address before the Temple Baptist Sunday-School, It excited deep interest among the hearers because1 the definite use of tho wurd "wiiuu" is taken ot mean that Gcnral Chaffee, who has hitherto been absolutely non committal on the Japanese, believes a war to lie, a certainty, though consider ing It somcwhnj far in the future. The remark about recruiting from woman was ii ed as a compliment to the school because there arc more women than men in it. Th" Sunday-school, which is part of Or. Robert J- Burdette's charge, had Us rally day, and was organized on a novel miliUiry bards in honor of the distin guished Army speaker, the classes being designed as companies and composing battalions and a regiment, while for the time being sll the m-hool officers bore military titles, I)r, Burdette being a Major (ieneral. Bugle calls were sound ed by a musician of the Seventh Regi ment. Xational Guard of California, (ieneral Chaffee related Arnrv exper- iensep and gave sound advice to the young people. LOSES MEAL TICKET Count Boni Failed to Appeal Decree. TIME LIMIT HAS EXPIRED "Madame" Gould Pays His Bills and Her Own, But Does Not Give Him a Start in Life He Will go on the Stage to Eat. PARIS, Oct. 3. The time limit in which Count Boni IX' Castellaine could appeal .from the decree of divorce ob tained by Madame Could, expired today. The decree is now absolute. Mine. Gould lias settled out of court the creditors' claims both against, herself nnd the count. He will go on the stnge to earn it living. BIG STEEL WORKS CLOSE DOWN. Bessemer Departments at Homestead and Duquesne Lack Ore. PITTSBURG, Oct. 3.-The immense bessemer departments of, tho Homestead steel works as well as the Duquesne works of the United States Steel Cor poration, have been closed and the an nouncement is mode tonight . that the Duquesne .departments will not be re opened, but the mills there will get along as best they can until the open hearth mills are set in motion. At the Homestead, it is announced the bessemer department will be closed for at least 30 days. , ' i Thlg is one of the first moves of the corporation toward reducing expenses. iiie Homestead mills will be repaired. The scarcity of bessemer ore ond pig Iron is given as the reason of the close down In what should be the most busy season of the year. YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL SCORES. 'At Tacoma Tacoma 9, Spokane 4. At San Francisco Portland 4, Oak land 2. ' ' N ' At Los Angeles Los Aneeles 7. San Francisco 2. . .. " WANTS GULF TO LAKE CHANNEL President Declares for Vast in terior Waterway in Speech at Cairo. OBSERVATION CONVINCES HIM Finds bo Difficulty in Endorsing the Plan of Giving National Aid to Work Because of Its Interstate Character Next Stop at Memphis. CAIRO, III., Oct. 3. When President Roosevelt stepped ashore- at "9 o'clock this morning he manifested every evi dence of having spent a comfortable night on the steamboat Mississippi, and his spoken worn" confirmed the impres sion Hindu by his appearance. Iio re tired about midnight last night, and there was little to disturb his rest, ex cept two or three demonstrations on shore, which, though violent while they lasted, were necessarily of brief duration. Quiet as was the after half of the night for the country's chief magistrate, the first portion of it was fully occu pied. He was the guest at dinner' on the steamer Alton, of the Business Men's league of St. Louis, and with entertain ment and the seeeh-niaking and conver sation that followed the dinner, his time untij almost 12 o'clock was fully taken up. The important feature of the din ner was the tact that the scheme of a ship channel from the gulf to the lakes received an impetus which all believe will do much toward insuring the earn est pressing of that enterprise. The occasion was also notable in that in addition to the President it was at tended by no fewer tlian 15 governors, the members of the Inland Waterways Commission and oeveral representatives of the business world of St. Louis. The governors) attending were: Comer, of Alabama j Broward, of Florida; Dencen, of Illinois; Cummins, of Iowa; Hoch, of Kansas; Hlanchard, of Louisiana; Folk, of Missouri; Sheldon, of Nebraska; Cm ray, of Xew Mexico; Burke, - of North Dakota; Front z, of Oklahoma; Chamberlain, of Oregon; Crawford, of South Dakota; Davidson, of Wisconsin; Brooks,, of Wyoming, and Governor-elect Xoel, of Mississippi. Before beginning to read his prepared speech the President made some extem poraneous remarks, outlining his posi tion on the deep-waterways project. "I have long felt that the Nation must understand the improvement of the great highway of the Mississippi," said he, "but. my observations on this trip have hud the effect of making me much more ardent than I was," The Pivsident pointed otvt the neces sity of keeping so great a work "free from all taint of jobbery, folly and ex travagance." He reiterated his convic tion that there should be "a loop of the sea coast from the Gulf to the Great jkes,' and added that "there must be an inlet from Cairo to Pittsburg." He said he found no. difficulty in in dorsing the plan of giving Xational aid to this work because of its interstate character. He considered the canaliza tion of the Mississippi and its affluents of importance to every section. "My ancestry," said the President, "is half Northern and half Southern, and I should be ashamed of myself if I were not as much the President of the Southern State as the Northern States," adding, "and I also want you to know that I consider myself a middling good Western man." Over 50,000 persons gave the President a continuous ovation as he passed, and thousands of school children saluted en thusiastically. President Roosevelt departed from Coiro shortly before noon. The next stop will be at Memphis, which, accord ing to the schedule, will be reached" at p. m. tomorrow. JILTED, HE JOINS ARMY. Now Scion of Wealthy Family is Missing. DEADWOOI). S. I)., Oct. 2. Joining the army three years ago to forget the preUy southern girl who bad jilted him for another, Louis E. Mingledorf, 'scion of a weulihy French family-of Atlanta, Oa., is being looked for by the United States military authorities on the charge of desertion. Mingledorf was a member of Troop E, Sixth Cavalry, which was recently ordered to the Phil ippines. Mingledorf graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and then went to Harvard, where he studied law. He had In-come enguged to Miss Jessie Mallory, a beautiful young girl of Sa vannah, Ga. During hi second year at Harvard. Miss Mallory, without notice, married another young nun and went to live at Mobile. When Mingledorf learned of his sweetheart's faithlessness he suddenly left Cambridge, and was next heard from serving as a trooper. His parents offered to buy his release if he would return home or to college and complete his education, but he de clared he preferred army life in the far east and hoped some stray Filipino bul let might end his unhappy existen.se. A short time ago the young man re enlistei and looked forward to leaving for the Philippines with pleasure. Ten days before the troops were to sail, an old friend of Mingledorf, from Atlanta, arrived in Deadwood and recognized the student soldier. This man referred to Mingledorf's shattered romance and the young soldier promptly turned upon his heel and left. He has not been seen since and is now charged with desertion. His former mesmates think he lus killed himself in some isolated spot in the Black Hills. FUGITIVES TRY TO POISON DOGS Astounding Audacity of Assass ins Who Slew up Ex Sheriff Brown. SCALE STOCKADE OF JAIL S.. B. Kellogg, wlio investigated the ITarriman oases in the dissolution suit against the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, conferred; by special ap pointment with Mr. Bonaparte this afternoon. He discussed that portion afternoon. He discusseh that portion of his evidence which has not yet been made public, but which, it is declared, justified criminal prosecution of individuals. CYCLONE HITS BURG. OKLAHOMA CITY. Oct. 3. A me, sage from Elk City savs a cvclone struck the small village of 'Poarch, near Elk City, last night. Nearly every house in the town is reported wrecked. None are reported injured, but the details cannot 1m obtained, as the wires are down. Offer Baker City Prisoner Money to Poison Harry Draper's Bloodhounds Which Prove That Murderers Are Still in the City. . BAKER CITY, Or., Oct. 3.-AYith an exhibition of audacity and contempt for the authorities almost unparalleled in criminal annals, the same two men who in all probability blew ex-Sheriff Harvey K. Brown into eternity Monday night climbed the wooden stockade in the rear of the county jail last night and offered Dr. Leroy Fuller, the sok prisoner, 250 to kill Harry Draper's bloodhounds. On Fuller's refusing to cut the throats of the brutes or give them poison, with which the men had come prepared, they threatened that they would blow up the jail and send both Fuller and the dogs "to hell." Bloodhounds were placed on the tracks of the criminals at the base of the stockade at daylight this morning, and trailed them a distance of 150 feet to Fourth street, where they entered a buggy. The tracks of ths buggy, which had been drawn close to the curb showed plainly, and the footprints of the men were also left in one spot near the stock ade where the earth was soft and bar ren of grass. Not only has this performance of the murderers of Brown proved they are still in the city, but that they are men who will stop at nothing to intimidate the authorities. If further proof of the presence of the assassins and their des perate characters were wanted, it was furnished yesterday by the performance of the bloodhounds, which plainly indi cated that their hoped-for quarry was right in the nearby crowd. Between Brown's house and Stoddard's mill, across the railway track, lie two residence blocks, one intersected by & sort of alleyway. The dogs were taken along .this alley yesterday morning and gave no signs of scenting the tracks of the assassins. Thirty minutes later they were taken over the same ground and bayed fran tically, straining at the leash, and show ing they had struck a hot trail. , They headed straight for the mill, but became confused on striking, a large area of sawdust. Many men had walked across this spot and several vehicles had also gone that way. BURGLARS CAUGHT. TACOMA, Oct. 2. The police tonight landed J. M. Chadwick, A. 8. Stine and Frank Helm, three of the men who sev eral days ago robbed the houre of Chas. A- Funk of $800. A Goodwin, a fourth man implicated, was arrested in Ellens burg today and will be brought to Ta coma tomorrow. Funk kept his money in a baking powder can. The quartette knew of it, and Helm and Goodwin steered Funk away from the house while Chadwick and Stine lifted the plant. Helm, Stine and Chadwick confessed to the robbery today. KIPLING TO TRAVEL IK CANADA. MONTREAL, Oct. 3. Rudyand Kip ling, accompanied by Mrs. Kipling, has arrived here. Kipling expects to remain in Montreal for a couple of weeks, after which he will cross Canada to th Pacific coast. He will return to Eastern Cana da, but after that be said his plans were undecided. BALLOON GOES SIXTY MILES. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. A success ful military balloon ascension was made here yesterday by Captain Charles F. Chandler, U. S. A. An elevation of 4,300 feet was attained before the sup ply of gas compelled the descent. The balloon traveled sixty miles in three hours. TAFT TO MANILA ROOT AND FAIRBANKS CONFER. Secretary of State Reaches Indianapolis on Way to Mexico. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 2. Secretary of State Elihu Root and party, en jpute to the City of Mexico, were here for a short time today. One, of the callers on the secretary was Vice-President Fair banks and the two talked privately a few moments. Mr. Root said to an in terviewer that he was badly run down when he went to Muldoon's farm, but the treatment brought him out, and that he felt like a new man. He said his visit to Mexico is purely social, and that nothing of a political nature would be discussed. There are no questions, he said, but could be en tirely esttled without visiting Mexico. WEEDING OUT THE BAD TRUSTS. T. K. I'll put this message in there until I'm ready for it again. The President has about finished hi message to the forthcoming Congress. It will be the longest on record. News I tern. . Department of Justice Ready to Take Up Work Again. ' W1ASIHNGTON. Oct. . 2: Milton D. Puwy, assistant to the attorney gen eral, who has charge of all trust inves tigations and prosecutions, arived to night from a two months' outing. The department of justice is now prepared to .take up the work of weeding out "bad trusts" at the point where it was interrupted by the heat of summeri The first case to be taken up will likely be that against the International Harvester Co., the prosecution of which lias been delayed by the trial of the Standard Oil rebate case at Chicago. KOBE, Oct. 3. The steamer Minne sota, with Secretary Taft and party on 1 board, left here at midnight for Manila. FRENCH SHIP LOST Sailed From Portland a Months Ago. Few LANDS ON THE IRISH COAST Coast Guardsmen Work Hard For Hours and Manage to Save Crew of Leon XIII, Which Struck a Rocky Barrier Close in Shore. KILRUSH, Ireland, Oct. 3. Not until late this afternoon did the coast guards men succeed in rescuing the crew of the French ship Leon XJII, which went on the rocks near SeaSeld yesterday. Al though tbe ship was only about 250 yards from the mainland, a rocky bar rier prevented the life boats from com ing to hee. The Leon XIIII arrived at Queenstown, September 26, from Port land, Oregon, and thenee sailed north ward. . , . BRAKEMAN LOSES FOOT ROSEBURG, Oct. 3. A. J. Willard, a freight brakesman running between here , and Junction, suffered the loss of his right foot in the Roseburg railroad yards late this afternoon. He had ju3t come In from his run on train No. 225, and was standing near the front of his train watching for a signal from the rear brakeman when an engine coming from the round house struck him as he stood beside the track on which it approached unseen by him. He was thrown with his right foot upon the rail and it was' almost completely severed at the ankle. He was taken at once to the local emergency Tiospital where Drs. Hoover and Seeley amputated the foot and tho young man was placed on board the flyer en route to a hospital in Portland. MORE DISGUST TO U. S. NEWPORT, Oct. 3. The widow of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. today form ally announced the engagement of her daughter, Gladys, to Count Ladislawf SzechenyL of Buda Pest. . :