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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1907)
' ' SIXTEEN. PA0E3 PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT FIRST SECTION. PAGES 1 TO 8 COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA NO. 233. VOLUME LXIII. ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1907 PRICE CENTS FIVE VITAL MEASURES JET FOR MONDAY Chamber of Commerce to Ask Half a Million for New Fed eral Building. RAILROAD BUILDING COMING Sobert Valentine, Who I to Build the Portland-Oregon & Seacoait Railway Company Will Aniwer Numeroua Que tiona Held to Com on Tuetday. The regular meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held tomorrow night. Tbo matter to be considered r of considerably more than ordinary mKrtaiioe. The officer of the Iortand Oregon 4 Seacoant Railway Company Jiava accepted the proposition of the wee outiv committee of the Chamber of Commerce concerning the right-of-way lor tlila railroad between Clotop Station nd the Nchalm River. Mr. Robert Italontlne, the president and superintendent of the construction company which k to build this railroad, will be present and answer all tution that the member of the Chamber of Commerce may deslr to auk him. A special invitation i given to alt of the land owner over whose holding tbi, railroad will extend, t b .present At the meeting night, and dim-m the railroad proposition in fulL The con tpensu of opinion of the member of the Chamber of Commerce I that eo imple a thing a a right-of-way aiiall not 1)0 allowed to stand between Astoria and another railroad, especially a rail road up in the Xehalem Valley, because auch a railroad would be of more ad vantage to Astoria than the same amount of money expended in any other enterprine. Mr. William Reid has promUcd to 1 in the city on Tuesday next, and the executive committee of the Chamber of Commerce will go over all of the detail of hi proposed railroad proposition. Everything that the executive commit tee will do will be boned upon the a umption that the railroad will be com pleted and operated. Therefore it i es pecially desirable that the land owners interested in this right-of-way should lo present on Monday night. At any .1-- ...Ml I - ..!!.. ..-.t.l-,.l ftiO Air. Jiciu siaies iniu no win ocgui construction work at once if he is given the right-of-way. Tho Chombcr of Com merce will exert itself to give him this opportunity. President Welch will offer' the fol lowing resolution at Monday night's meeting. "Whereas it is the sense of this Cham ber of Commerce that tho Astoria post office and custom-house are -now too mail for the rapidly increasing busi ness of this growing city, therefore be it "Resolved that an appeal be made to the next congress through our repre entativea for an appropriation of $500, jOOO to "build a larger postofllce and cus tonvhouse building, one adequate to the growing business and importance of this poi-t' ": " v n ii mi V ' . NOT ENOUGH ARTILLERY MEN. General Murray Report That Enlist ' ments Are Too Few. Z ' ' ! , WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-In the an nual report of Brigadier-General Arthur Murray, chief of artillery of the army, stress is laid on the shortage of en listed men in the coast artillery corps. The maximum number of enlisted men now authorized for the gun defenses of the country is 14,351, and this is 4080 short of one-half of one complete manning detail for the guns already mounted. The remaining half of one complete detail required to qlace the United States o a war footing can be obtained, General Murray says, if each coast Btate can lie induced to organize a corps of militia coast artillery having the same organization a the regular coast artillery. General Murray also recommend the creation of a coa4 defense department and "the assignment of general officer appointed from the coast artillery to the command of uch department. AUSTRIAN RULER ILL. He I Confined to Hi Apartment In . Schoenbrunn Cattle. VIENNA, Oct. B.-'Emperor Franc! Joseph I confined to hi apartment at Schoenbrunn Cesthj auffering from an attack of bronchial catarrh. Ha 1 able to attend to business and the physi cian in attendance declare that hi con dition i not dangerou. but that the patient need a good rest. MAflAN UNDER THE KNIFE. NEW YORK, Oct. 8,-iRear-Admlral A. T. Malum, the well-known authority ou naval affair, It became known today, recently underwent a urglcal operation at a sanitarium is thi city. The opera tion wtf entirely uccwiful and Admi ral Mahan It eaia to be recovering rapidly, HARRIMAN IS ACTIVE Fighting Gould Entry Into South ern Oregon. SENDS THREE SURVEY PARTIES ELOPERS SOUGHT ON THE OCEAN Millionaire Father Tries Wire less to Locate His Missing Daughter. Show Great Enterprise in Doj-in-tbe Manger Role Grabbing All Route o aa to Block Out Gould and Moffatt Line. PORTLAND, Oct. 5.-Thrce aurveying parties of the Harriman system have recently been rushed Into Southeastern Oregon, these being in addition to three Union Pacific parties at work between Natron and Walkers range in the Cas cade country, and another working be tween Klamath Fall and Lake View. Purveying parties from both Union Pacific and Denver and Rio Grande lines are being poured into Northwestern Col orado, locating routes parallel to that of the Moffatt road, which is building through that country into Eastern Utah. The Harriman system proposes to put up a stubliorn light against both the (lould line and the Moffat road securing entrance into Oregon, by appropriating all the available routes. TEACHERS OUT ON STRIKE. Board Make Small Tax Levy and Is Un able to Pay But $as a Month. SYRACUSE, Ohio, Oct. 5. The public school teacher employed here are out on a strike. The law requires that teachers elmll lie paid not lea than $40 a mouth, but the board of education of Syracuse, having made a maximum levy of 12 mills, find itself unable to pay more than $25. The teachers demand the legal scale. ; - HELP FOR PRISONER. NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-A fund of sev eral thousand dollars has been raised for Bertha Claiehe, who is crving a two years' term in the Bradford reformatory for killing Emil Gorgon, her former sweetheart, who she declared had en slaved her in this city. The money is to be used in fixing up a little dressmaking establishment for the young woman. She "will be free in a few weeks. SUING GRAFTER. TOPEKA, Oct. 5. This city today brought suit against James F. McCabe, former city engineer, for $15,851, charg ing him with grafting in connection with gewer construction work. Shortly after MkiCabes last appointment as engineer he Was accused of crooked work, sus pended and finally dismissed. . ELOPES WITH ENGLISHMAN Helen Maloney, Heiress, Being Refuted Parents' Content, Marries Foreigner and Starts for Europe Anxious Fath er Seek a Reconciliation. NEW YORK, Oct. 5,-Every mite of the North Atlantic ocean as far a the wireless waves will reach, Is being searched lor trace of Samuel Clarkton, the young Englishman and his bride, who was Miss Helen Maloney, daughter of Martin Maloney, the- millionaire oil man, The couple have not been heard of since they came here on a shopping tour from the summer home of, the bride's parents at Spring Lake, N. J., two day ago.' v.v- Instead of returning home, the young woman sent a message informing her parents that she had secretly married the man she loved , and "that when the message reached Spring Lake, they would be on the water. Instantly a search for the young woman, who, i said to be one of the Helmut Wires iathroflCjH begun by wireles messages which have been sent to all the outgoing steamer. Coble messages have been sent to Lon don and telegrams have been dispatched to all point in America, where it is thought the young couple may have gone. The father and mother believe the elopers have sailed for Europe. The father of the missing girl stated today that while he was opposed to their mar riage at first, ne is satisfied now. It is said the young couple were well equip ped fop the European trip and it is supposed they planned to travel while awaiting the parents' action. the Kalama people claim, above Kalama and at a point where it fills the newly dredged channel on the Washington tide. iA communication protesting against the manner in which the work is being done has been sent to the members of the Washington congregational delega tion. i APPOINTED AGENTS FOR MILLS. NORTH ADAMS, Mas., Oct. 5. A.B. Paton, of Ware, who was in this city not long ago looking into the posibili ties of buying an interest in the May flower Mills, has been appointed agent of the Sawyer mills of the American Woolen Co. at Dover, K. II. He started the woolen departments of these ,mills 19 years ago and then went to Ware where for 15 year he was superintend ent of the mill in that place and Gilbertville of the George IL Gilbert Manufacturing Co. TO HAVE BLEACHING PLANT. IIAZELTON, Pa., Oct. 5. The new bleaching mill which is being installed in the Knelly planing mill building on South Pine street, wil begin operations shortly. A. J. Kommer, the proprietor, is busily engagen installing the machin ery. The bleaching mill wil give em ployment to about eight men, and this force will gradually be increased as the business of the institution warrants. DIES AFTER DRINKING. EVERETT, Oct 5. August J. Wick strom, a fisherman, working off Hat island, died Sunday morning under pe culiar circumstances and was brought to the city today for interment. , t i stated that Wk-kstrom and his companions had been drinking some- wtiat excessively and upon retiring for the night all seemed well. When they awoke yesterday morning, Wickstrom was dead. The body is in charge of undertaker Jcrrvad who is making an effort to locate the relatives of the deceased. DISSATISFIED AT DREDGING. TACOMA, Oct. 4. The people of Ka lama are making vigorous objection to the manner in which the governments engineers are dredging the channels of the Columbia river opposite that place. The river has two channels, one close to the Oregon side, and the other running down the Washington bank at that point. The channel on the Washington side was dredged to the satisfaction of the Kalama people, but wnen it came to dredging the channel on the Oregon side, the silt was dumped into the river, . FOREST SCANDAL GROWING Authorities at San Juan Allege Stealings May Reach 100,000. oan Juan, Porto Rico, Sept. 29. .The federal authorities have made wholesale arrests of persons accused of cutting' and selling timber from the' national forest reservation. The amount involved is not 'known, but it is upward of $100,000. The hearing before the commissioners who ar investigating the matter, indi cates that many people are implicated and there are apprehensions of more dig coveries of frauds and further arrests. SUES TO KEEP TRADEMARKS. SHANGHAI. Oct. 5.-The British- American Tobacco Co. is suing .Chinese cigarettte makers for infringement of trademarks. It has come out in the evidence that the combine made exclusive arrange menta with dealers. SAME OLD PICTURE SAME OLD STORY. Now that the hunting season is on, reports of accidental shootings begin to come in, News Item. BUILDING FALLS UNDER BIG RALLY One Hundred and Fifty RepublK . cans Shot Into Cellar of Club. FIRE STARTS AND INJURES Two Sets of Candidates Nominated by Democrats at Same Time and in One Hall Causes Uproar in a Springfield Convention. WATERBURY, Contu, Oct. 5. During the Republican rally in the North End Athletic Club room today the floor col lapsed, precipitating 150 men into the cellar of the building. By the explosion of a lamp the building wad set on fire and the crowd of men struggled in the flames and debris almost helplessly. It is feared several were fatally injured. The fire was extinguished within an hour when the men were rescued from the cellar it was found that one, Harry Dean, a well known Republican worker, was perhaps fatally injured. Among those injured were John E. Sewell, Re publican candidate for Mayor, who had just concluded speaking, when the build ing collapsed, and Senator Irving P. Chase, one of the prominent men in the eityj. " . SPRINGFIELD, MaaV, Oct 5Two turbulent conventions were in session here today at the same time in the same hall, each nominating a set of candi dates for state officers, presented a sit uation unknown in democratic politics in this state. The trouble was over a question of credential, the Whitney men claiming the state committee had re fused to recognize the delegates elected at the primacies. The storm broke out when the chair man of the state committee, who called the convention to order, declared Bart lett a man of choice for temporary chairman. Amid great confusion each crowd nominated a full state ticket and adopted a pltform. After the conven tion, Thayer announced he would not accepte the nomination fop lieutenant- governor on the Bartlett ticket. turned over to the operating department, By October 15 H is expected to have trains running into Lyle, Wash. Splendid progress , has been made on tbe North Bank road ever since it was started, but the work has been partic ularly rapid during the lat few months. Tnack-laying is now going on in good shape. In addition to gangs, working west from Kennewick putting down track, other outfits are operating east from Vancouver and are making good time. The two ends of the track will be brought together, making it possi ble to run trains from Pasco 'to Van couver by November 30. CABLES FARLEY FOR MEN. Seek to End Cuban Carmen's Strike by Importation of Non-Union Labor. HAVANA, Oct. 5-James Farley will ship tomorrow fifty strike-breakers for service on tbe United Railroads. The manager, not knowing Farley's address, cabled to "John Farley, expert strike-breaker, New York. The repIVcame immediately, promis ing the immediate shipment of the men required. The contract labor law exist here in a modified form, and it Is unlike ly that the men will be excluded. ON COOS RAILROADS Claim to Have Five Trans-Continentals Coming. CLARK ROAD IS AMONG THEM . MRS. D0LPH PASSES AWAY. Dies in Paris From Pneumonia After Short Illness. Augusta PORTLAND, Oct. 5. Mrs. Mulkey Dolph, widow of the late United States Senator J. N. Dolph, died in Paris, France, last midnight. Death was due to pneumonia, with which she had been suffering only a few days. The body will be brought to Portland for in terment. ; SKfiHitj Mts. Dolph left Portland for Paris last April, and intended to pass the win ter with her daughter, Mrs. Lewis Wal ter Thornton, in that city. She had been enjoying her usual health until a few days ago. The new of her death was a shock to her relatives in Portland. , Mrs. Dolph, whose maiden name was Mulkey, came to Oregon with her par ents in'1848, from Illinois, when she was a child. She was married to J. N. Dolph, in Benton county, in 1866. Short ly after her marriage she removed to Portland with her husband, who was afterward elected to the United States Senate from Oregon. Senator Dolph died in this city in March, 1897. It was Mrs. Dolph's intention to re turn to Portland in the spring, as she always considered it her home. Since the death of her husband she had not occupied the family esidence at Fifth and Jefferson streets, but had taken up quarters at the Hotel Portland. FIRST . TRAINS OCTOBER 10. . PORTLAND, Oct. 5. The first trains over the Portland & Seattle railway will be run for a distance of 'eighty miles west of Kennewick on October 10. By that date the rest of the section of the road will have been completed and Idaho and Eastern Oregon Filled With Secret Surveying Parties Railroad Truce Between Hill and Harriman Has Been Abandoned. MARSHFIELD, Oct. 5. The commit tee representing Coos Bay, which called on Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana, with regard to the extension of his road into Coos Bay, were assured by that gentleman that as soon as the Los An geles extension was completed the mat ter of such construction would be taken up seriously. It has come to notice here that several representatives of the Clark interests have visited the Bay recently and that they have not only been well pleased with it showing of large resources and great harbor facili ties, but have already reported back to their superiors in so favorable a light that they are actively moving with the purpose of bringing" the Clark lines to tidewater at this point. That the plans of the Ckrk interests, aa well as those of the Rock Island and Moffat system, have been and are directed to the occu pation of central Oregon, has been known for some time, and the activity of the northwestern, in proceeding with its extension beyond Lander, toward Boise, is accepted by all railroad men as being a revival of the great railroad con flict which was waged, so hotly two years ago. The entire country around Oregon and Northern California has been occuDied a by railroads and there remains only this large district to be entered and devel oped. The railroad truce, which is sup posed to have been tacitly declared, be tween Harriman and Hill, has been, so it is stated on high authority, abandon ed and the next year will see the Rock Island the Santa Fe, the Northwestern and Hill systems moving, into Harri- man's territory. . This conclusion of the prominent railroad strategists has been further emphasized by the action of the corporations which, simultaneously with the commencement of the Northwestern extension west from Lander have put engineers and surveyors into central and southern Oregon, in great numbers, and with as much .secrecy as possible. But the movements of the rival companies have been watched by one another with the most jealous scrutiny. Harriman is as alert in this respect as any and his visit to Southern Oregon while veiled under the guise of summer . recreation, was in fact the survey which the gen eral makes of the coming battlefield. .