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NO. 234. VOLUME LXIII.
ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1907
PRICE CENTS FIVE
CLAIMS REID
HAS THE MONEY
Vital Question Answered at
Regular Meeting of Chamber
of Commerce.
HUME SPEAKS ON FISHERIES
President Ballentine of Construction
States Tbt be it Confident he Will be
Paid-Real EiUte May Now Take
Another Rias Hold Tight ,
Robert Ballentine, president of the
construction company, which will bullJ
the first 22 nil lei of railroad at thin end
of the Portland-Oregon t Beacoaet Rail
road, tpoke at the meeting of the Cham
ber of Commerce last night regarding
the construction of the line.
In answer to a query as to whether
Mr. Reid had the money to build it, he
Asserted that he waa confident that he
bad. Otherwise he would not be going
head with arrangements for the con
atruction. lie waa postlve about the
matter and thereby satisfied a number
of doubting "Thomases" In the large
audience present.
f He had a blueprint of the section of
he road to run through the county which
calls for the contructlon of the road
over the old survey to Clatsop City,
where It was graded years ago. Where
the survey strikes the Lewis and Clark
river, there will be a braneh of the road
lull It northward to tidewater.
. Mr. Ballentine asserted that he was
ready and would go ahead with the con
atruction just iu soon as the trouble
over the right-of-way had been nettled
It seems that there hue been considerable
of muchado about 'nothing in this right
of way matter according to statements
made last night. The Astoria Abstract
. A Title Company, it appears, had a suit
filed against it before a right of way had
been asked on Its property, according
to a member. It is asserted that several
other land owners report the same eitua
tlon. It was claimed at the meeting
that the man sent to secure the right of
way by Mr. Reid did not kuow his busl
ness ,or he would have secured the right
of way.
i, Other members at the meeting, how
over, tated that the suits could not be
filed unlets the right of way had been
refused. The concensus of opinion
that there will be no trouble securing
the right of way providing the road
means business.
At the outset of the meeting, Presl
dent Welch squelched Manager Wbyte
for attempting to disturb the red tape
necessary to preserve the august dignity
of the meeting when its leading officer
waa present. Mr. Whyte had just fin
ished making his report, when he stood
up and suggested that as Mr. Ballon
tine, of Portland, and Mr. Hume, of
Rogue River, who were there by special
request, should be given a hearing early
in tho meeting.
Prsident Welch thought this was 'too
high-handed on the part of MK Whyte,
and in a manner which indicated he
didn't give a d who waa present, he
Insisted that the rest of the red tape
be administered. This having been ac
ootnplished, to the great edification of
all present, especially the visitors, the
matters pertaining to the city's welfare,
and for which the Chamber of Commerce
was organized, were allowed to come in
their place. ;
Mr. Ballentine epoke first and answer
d all the questions that he could. He
Appears very enthusiastio over the plans
for the road. In spite of the peculiar
and doubting questions asked, he re
mained undisturbed as to whether Mr.
Held had the money to pay him pr not
He was quite confident that he had. But
the only thing that will convince some
of the citizens of this town is to see
lUr. Reid bring the coin along in an ex
press, wagon, with the money in gold
not paper gold, and have it tested. It
is unknown whether they would like to
liave if in. sacks or not probably not
they could not see it all at once.
It. D. Hume, of Weddeburn, the fa
mous Rogue River canneryman, made
an excellent speech on the preservation
of the Columbia river salmon. He gave
a lengthy account of the suocew be
hod mot with in Uie hatchery themes
on the Rogue River, and is positive that
the salmon catch on the lower river can
le made larger than it baa ever been,
without the need of having a closed fish
ing season.
"Five years ago," he said, "I took con
slderable up-river apawn and after it had
been hatched placed the young fry at
the mouth of the river and turned them
loose. Four years later we had the
greatest reaults you can Imagine.
"It is my conviction that the present
system of operating the hatcheries will
never add to the oatch, and this has been
proven since they were started. The
salmon must get up the river to spawn
and the young fry must ba turned loose
at the mouth of the river to prevent them
"being eaten up by the hoard of fish
whkb follow the salmon up the river to
eat the spawn and the young fish.
"Fishing above tidewater should be
prohibited and any person operating
above point should be paid for their gear
and any lots they should sustain. To do
this the state fisheries should be turned
over to the bureau of fisheries at Wash
ington. I am loth to suggest this how
ever, because I believe the state should
look after its own industries. There
cetn to be no other remedy, however,
although It goes against my state pa
triotism to suggest it."
(Continued on Fags 8.)
ADOPT U. S. PROJECT
DECIDE
AGAINST
FRISCO
UNIONS
Hammond Timber Company Up
held by Court in Injunction
Issued
THE UNIONS WANT TO BE SUED
Nations Favor America at The
Hague Conference.
OBLIGATORY ARBITRATION
Germany Opposes it While Japan and
Italy Stand Aloof Austria end Smal
ler Countries Also Vote Against the
American Measure.
THE .HAGUE, Oct. 7.-The entire
Anglo-American project providing for
obligatory arbitration, was approved at
tonight's session of the committee on ar
bitration by 31 to 0. The opponents of
the measure are Germany,' Austria
Hungany, Switzerland, Belgium, Rou
mania, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and
Montonegro.
Italy, Japan and Luxemburg, refrain
ed from voting. One delegate was ab
sent.
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WANT TO QUIT.
Cleveland Operators Want Strike Ended
on Thursday.
CLEVELAND, Oct. 7. The Cleveland
News says, upon what may be accepted
as indisputable authority, that the teleg
raphors' ,strike will probably end in
Cleveland ,at least, on Thursday morn
A request has been sent to J. E. Mat'
terna, local leader of the strike for per
mission to return to work on Thursday
and it is said if the permission is not
granted the men will go back to work
of their own accord.
The companies stated today that any
proposition looking for to re-instatement
of all the striking operators will not be
considered and that practically all the
men employed to take the places of the
striking telegraphers will be retained.
THIRTY DAYS TO ANSWER.
TOPEKA, Oct. 7. The state Bupreme
court has issued an order giving the
Standard Oil, of Indiana, the Standard
Oil, of Kansas, the Prairie Oil and Gas
Company, and the International Har
vester Company 30 dajys to answer in
terrogations put by the attorney-general
in en ouster suit instituted by the state
in which violations of the Kansas anti
trust law is alleged.
KtBJwssSlSSBar
Claim to Have Plenty of Money, But
Court Asserts Injunction of Sailors'.
Union is to Prevent Trespass and Law
lessness Charged.
SAX FRANCISCO, Oct. 7-The United
States circuit court of appeals today de
cided against the Sailors' Union and the
Faciflo Coast Marino Firemen in their
appeal against the injunction of the c!r
cult court on the application or the
Hammond Lumber Company, which
claimed it had been damaged to the ex
tent of 110,000 by the unions' interfer
ence with the vessels union packet boat
crew by dissuading the crews from sail
ing on them.
It was also stated that the unions are
insolvent and could not pay the dam
ages if awarded. In appealing the
unions stated they were insolvent, hav
ing a fund of a hundred and fifty thou
aand, and appellee had relief in suit
for damages; that the injunction was
violative of their rights; that they had
a right to endeavor to improve their con
ditions to organize for this purpose and
to communicate their desires to others
for that purpose.
In aillrming the former judgment and
so making permanent the injunction
the judge gave it as their opinion that
"Solvency, or iuulvency of the appel
lant is immaterial as, in cases of con
tinuing to trespass, the measure of dam
ages was difficult to ascertain," and the
iuunction was not to restrain the liberty
of the j appellants, but to prevent lawlessness.
Annie Brown king ill, her mother, sister
and Tom Brown's brothers watched at
his bedside until he expired, some ten
days later, from the effect of his injuries
Dy being thrown from a train.
The body was prepared for burial by a
local undertaker and the expense of the
burial borni by Toto Brown's brother,
who is employed at the university.
Death cast a melancholy shadow over
this negro family for a month, when on
morning a mail carrier brought a letter
for Annie Brown, igned by her husband,
and saving: "I hope to see you eoon and
and my brothers, too."
The family was thrown into a state
of superstitious dread, and as the letters
kept coming with their words of cheer
and all expressing a hope of an early
meeting, the nerves of the Brown family
began to get warm in the bearings, and
and they appealed to Mr. Pa ton for an
explanation of these messages and
money from the beyond.
Mr. Paton, who has served as mayor
and alderman, newspaper man, school
trustee, poet, author, and is at present
librarian of the university, is not a be
liever in 'Bright Eyes" or any other af
finity with the power of talking through
ether. He suggested a case of mistaken
identity and justified the belief by t
letter from the postmaster in West Vir
ginia which stated that Tom Brown was
well and that day sending money to his
wife. -
The family have been reunited and
Tom's brother at the univereitv wonders
who lies buried at bis expense in the col
ored cemetery.
POOR CLERGYMAN CAN'T PAY
Has lis a Week, With Occasional I50
, Earned in Insurance.
BURIED THE WRONG TOM
Negro Family Mourned and Then Brown
Came Back to Life.
Charlottesville, Va, Oct. 7. When the
Gulick, father of Ernestus Gulick, was
examined in supplementary proceedings
yesterday in the city court in reference
to his ability to pay a judgement for
$1,500 held against him by John S. Gar
dner. Mr. Gulick is at present employ
ed! as he expressed it, "to teach Sundays,
attend prayer meetings and attend to
the pastoral work of the church in the
Third Congregational church of Water-
bury, Conn., where I now am, and have
been since March Iat.
He professed his entire inability to
pay 1,500, but declared that he had no
intention of defrauding his creditors,
and would pay them as soon as possible.
J lIe said that his total income at any
tune is about $12 a week, with an oc
casional $25 or $50 which he earns as a
life insurance agent.
New York, Oct. 7. The Rev. Uriah D.
new reached Annie Brown that Tom
Brown, her husband, was desperately
hurt and at the point of death in a West
Virginia town she hurried to her employ
er, Mr. John S. Paton, and begged his
help in bringing her husband to the
University hospital. ,
A small sum of money was necessary
and this was forwarded to the proper
authorities, who bundled up the injured
negro and sent him to this city, where i
STRIKE SETTLED.
RENO, Nev., Oct. 7. The Tonopah &
Goldfield aRilroad strike has been set
tled. .
ANOTHER CHICAGO ASSAULT
Chicago, Oct. 7. Mrs. Clara Ray, aged
42, a trained nurse, while on her way
home at an early hour, was dragged into
hallway by a negro and assaulted.
She has identified Jefferson Minor, who
has been arrested, as her assailant.
WILL RENEW BIG
DIVORCE CASE
Millionaire Hartje Will Spend
His Last Dollar to Secure
Vindication.
far off. Sometimes it was o late that
it was impossible for me to go homo
for the night, and then I have gone to
her home,
"There we have found Mi. Hill in
the kitchen with the dinner in prepara
tion. The potatoes were boiling on the
stove and the corn was all nicely
husked and also boiling. The dinner
was also in readiness, end it was a good
one, too. So you see, ladies, we must
give Mr. Hill some of the credit for too
great work Mrs-iHill has been able to do
and is doing in the cause of temperance."
The applause . which" followed tho
tir nieoAuroo iinnt 1 mcoe ' Mmil of hi conipIishments would
HE DISCOVERS MURE LETT Cn5 , have done Mr. Hill's heart good could he
have but been present to hear It.
Asks Court to Reopen Trial Against
Wife Whom he Charges Being Untrue
to Him Negro Co-respondent Said to
Have Hade Confession.
PITTSBURG, Oct. 7. Interest in the
sensational Hartje divorce suit has re
vived by the announcement of a petition
filed by the complainant, Augustus
Hartje, with justices of the superior
court sitting in Philadelphia, asking that
the case be reopened so that additional
evidence alleged to be damaging to tho
defendant, Mary Scott Hartje, could be
heard. '-
The millionaire paper manufacturer
has, it is said, discovered a package of
letters alleged to be written by the two
sisters, of Mrs. Hartje, and by Thomas
Madine, the coachman co-respondent,
and he desires to show that the respond
ent is guilty of the charges brought
against her by her husband. "
The letters also are alleged to have
made a confession to the attorneys of
Hartje and have turned over to them
masses of documentary evidence. v
The attorney for Mjrs. Hartje stated
today that the letters had no bearing on
the case. Harje says the tetters vindi
cate him and that he will spend his last
dollar to secure vindication. Mrs. Hartje
is out of the city.
TROPICAL WAS NEWS.
IS MODEL HUSBAND
Vine tw-A f Wil l I
jfKM-xA. fkfsg jr 'Him1
THE CZAR'S IDEA OF THE COM POSITION OF THE THIRD DUMA.
Preparations for a Third Duma are no w under way in Russia. News Item.
CHICAGO, Oct. 7. At last that
rarity, the model husband, has been
discovered. He has been traced to his
bur, his habits and accomplishments
have been studied, and the beauties ofj
his character depicted to a waiting
and incredulous worfd.j
The discovery was first made known
to members of the Cook county branch
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
union in convention assembled at the
Wabash Avenue Methodist Episcopal
church yesterday afternoon. The an
nouncement that the ideal of the sex
lived, breathed, and had his being in
the person of Robert K. Hill, husband
of their beloved president, Mrs. Emily
M. Hill, was received with nods and
smiles of approval, accompanied with
gentle applause from the W.' C. T. U.
members. v
Though in the world of business and
affairs Mfr. Hill is and will continue to
be, known as the genial member and
officer of several insurance and fra-
terna! orders, henceforth, among the
feminine portion of Chicago's residents,
lie will be known as a model to be
held uj to the husbands who are not
models. .
The startling announcement did not
come from the lips of Mrs. Hill, and
so can not be assigned to prejudice or
affection. It came from Miss H. Ken
nedy, vice president of the organiza
tion, who is Mrs. Hill's ardent friend
and coworker.
It was Miss Kennedy who in intro
ducing Mrs. Hill for . the presidential
address unwittinglyp made known the
beauties of her friend's home life and
the domestic accomplishments of Mr.
Hill
"It is largely' to the credit of Mr.
Hill that our president has been able
to carry on her great work," said Misa
Kennedy. "I often have wondered how
she waa able to do so much and such
great work, and I confess I didn't
see how she found time for housework.
Bait now I understand.
"It was through Mr. Hill's ability
and willingness to help out. I have
often been engaged in 'an afternoon's
temperance work with Mrs. Hill when
we were -out lata) and dinner time not.
Several Porta Change 'Hand at Guns .
r. Muzzle. ' ;';"::''
' SAX FRANCISCO, Oct. 7 The steam
er San Jose from Panama today brought
wordof the capture of the Port of Aca
julta during the latter part of Septem
ber by the Honduras forces after a bat
tie with the army of Salvador. ' '
The attack is said t have occurred
during the absence of the gunboat York
town which was looking after the Ameri
can interests on -the Southern Coast. The
Yorktown was proceeding north at tho
time. '
' Three months ago Acajutki was cap
tured by Nicaragua when the gunboat
Momotombo shelled the place and drov
the governor to surrender. Since that
time no further trouble is expected. .
DYNAMITE
PACKAGE
Find Fifteen Sticks Near a Den
. verHome.
CLAIMS A WHOLESALE PLOT
Clerk Overhears Plan to Assassinate
Governor Buchtel, Edward Chase and
Others Police Seeking Number of
Suspects .
DENVER. Oct 7 A package of IS
sticks of dynamite were found by the
police last night in a vacant lot in the
rear of Edwartf Chase's residence, 142
Race street in this city. A search is
being made after Kemp Rigelow, a clerk
in a bookstore who reported he had over
heard two men discussing a plot to blow7
up Chase, Governor Buchtel, and a num
ber of other prominent citizens. A
strong guard is being maintained at the
home of Chase, who is wealthy, and who
waa for many years head of a syndicate
which controls the policy shops and
principal gambling houses in the city.
OFFICIALS CLASH.
Leaders Among Telegraphers Not in
Harmony.
NEWt YORK, bet. 7. 'Percy Thomas.
deputy national president of the teleg
raphers today resigned 1 and National
President Small announced he will make
his headquarters here to conduct the
strike of the telegraphers from this ctif.
Thomas' resignation is reported; as the ,
outcome of Small's action at the strik
ers' meeting yesterday, declining to en
dorse the local union in its move to call
out all the leased wire operators, wheth
er under contract or not.
RAISE WAGES.
Non-Union Mem Get Second Advance in
Yeaf.
TOPEKA, Oct. 7.-Tbe Atchison, To-
peka- and Santa Fe Railroad has an
nounced an increase in the pay of all
telegraphers on the system. It went in
to effect on October 1. The increase
ranges from $2.50 to $4 per month. The
increase came as a surprise to the men.
This is the second increase in the last
12 months, the increase that time being
eight per cent. The road employs non
union operators.
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