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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. . :