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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1907)
FU1LI8HCB FULL ASSOCIATCO PRESS REPORT t NO. 238. VOLUME LXIII, T7 f arsnriciJiRrnvvii COVERS THC MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA ASTORIA, OREGON, SARTUDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1907 PRICE FIVE CENTS TO HAVE CANAL i DIRECT TO SEA Portland Paper Credits Harrl man With Ambitious Plan for Astoria. i TO DODGE THE RIVER BAR Pbws Canal From Young's River Direct to Pacific Ocean and Deep Water in Order to' Compete Against All Other Lines Seeking Outlet. , . ,. .-1 Ik. j , . I-ORTIAND, Oct. U.-The Portland Telegram eaye: That E. II. Harriroan in lilt struggle ior the mailer; of the Pacific Northwet tin planned one of the most glgantlo engineering feat ever undertaken on the Pacific Coast with a view to securing an entrance into Oregon water Inde pendent of the bar on the Columbia'! delta, ha come to I firmly believed in xallroad circle. ' The secret acquisition by the Harrl man Interest of a tract of 200 acres of land bordering on Voting' Bay, near Astoria, extended out Into the water to the ship channel, furnUhc the key that unlock the secret to the stupendous un dortaklng. Hie acquisition of thla property i declared to, Jms a part of Harviman's plan to connect Astoria Harbor with the Pa clfle Ocean by a deep canal beginning at Young Hay and running due went to the tea. I'M would give the railroad magnate a direct water connection of any desired depth for the operation of lit own ship, and which could aliio be operated an a toll canal at an cnorinoiti profit. Lending credence to the tory is the fact that George W. Itosrhke, chief en gineer of the Oregon Railroad & Naviga tion Company, and one of the recognized engineer of the country, hat made an examination of the project and pro nounced it feasible. Following Ikwhke'i aurvey, the. liar- riman Interest proceeded to acquire title to 2(K) acres of Young' Hay water front, bordering on the went aide of the bay, that nearest the ocean, and which, in point of hIm- and location, could be uaed to better advontnge for canal ten it i ft I purpose than for any other pur pose now apparent. The theory haa been advanced that this waterfront might be used an a ter minal yard for the Lytic road to Tilla mook, but this la discredited by promi nent railroad men on tin ground that terminal facilities of such magnitude would be entirely unnecessary for so smut! a road, although it is admitted the Lytic road might furnish a part of the bif scheme contemplated. That the fight between Huiriman and Hill for supremacy in the neighborhood of the ca is becoming more acute is evi denced by the fact that the Hill Inter est recently acquired the Astoria & Co lumbia River line. It is nlso strongly . .UVIlliLtVU MM Vlfw vivtni'u) V' . " " Seaeoust Railway Coin puny, of which William (l)"leo) Reid is the secretary, ia a scion of the Hill system and is in tended to be used in combatting Lytic' undertaking through the Nelmlem conn try. It will be remembered that one of the objective points announced by the Iteid road is Nehalem, which the Lytle road extends through this same terri tory. incut 'ft. arrived on the icene, but itnteau "jing the Block Hun dred they latigi. at the xapadity with which they made their escape, , Up to the present time Governor-General Nov itsky haa made no attempt to itop the outrages, but nevertheless they are dim inishing gradually. PLATT UP AGAINST IT. Aged Senator ill Have to Appear In "'. i Court. ' NEW YORK, Oct. 11-Supreme Court Justice lllanclmrd signed aa order today directing counsel for Senator Thomas C. Piatt to file within 10 days an answer to tho action by Mae 0. Wood for a divorce. The order provides that In the event of failure to comply with the or der the answer will ft deemed abandoned, EMPEROR IS ILL. Fever Wracks Frame of Frani Josef-. Pbyslclan'i Becoming Anxious. VIENNA, Oct, II. This night la a critical one for Franc Joseph. His ma jesty's physicians are visibly becoming more anxious. A fever of tea days seems to have exhausted the wonderfully trained system of the monrach. TO HANG TRAITORS. Haytl Sentence Sixteen Revolutionist! to Death. KINGSTON, Jamaica. Octo. 11. Mail advices from Haytl state that 16 men have been sentenced to death there for onspiring to overthrow the government. The country is quiet, but many fear a revolution. WILL CLEAR BIG SUM Washington Farmers Watch the Wheat Soar PORTLAND IAN TERRIBLE DEED Kills Wife and Then Shoots Him self In Lobby of a Mon tana Hotel. DOMESTIC RELATIONS CAUSE Couple Bad Been Married Ten Yeara , and Divorce Proceedings Started by ' Wife Causei Husband to Brood Until ' he Becomes Desperate. HELKNA, Oct. U.-A Record special from Havre say that Roy Reed, of Port land, shot and killed bis wife, Sylva Reed, in the oflke of the Hotel Havre and before any one could Interfere blew his own brains out. From what can be learned the couple had been married ten years. Their do mestic relations became strained over a year ago and the divorce proceedings were instituted by Mrs. Reed. AIMS PISTOL AT FATHER. WEST PRODUCT TO REACH $1 ATTACKS ON ODESSA JEWS. Cossacks Laugh at Outrages by Black Hundred. ODESSA, Oct. 11. The United Union Sts of Odessa continued today their at tacks and outrages on Jews. They be gan by surrounding the Hebrew cemo tery, where a funeral service was going on. They stoned and then fired a volley of revolver Bhots at the mourning Jews, many of whom were wounded. The Jews fled in panic. Members of the Black Hundred divided themselves into small groups and ransacked several Jewish hops, mercilessly beating the proprie tors. A police sergeant who attempted to intervene was brutally attacked, whereupon ho drew Ms revolver and killed one of his assailants. There were fewer police than usunl on the streets stoday. After further Jew-baiting, detach- Should Dollar Mark be Reached Farmers in Neighboring State Will Clean up Two Million Over Price on Octo ber i. SEATTLE. Oct. 11. Washington wheat reached 04 cents today and local millers and exporters expect that be fore November 1 the price will be i dollar at tide water. There is no doubt in opinion of promt nent milling men that the shortage in India and other countries will send wheat to that figure or even more Should wheat reach the dollar mark in this state, Washington farmers will make a clean-up of more than $2,000,000 above the prices being paid on October 1. SHE SEEKS MRS. EDDY. NEW YORK, Oct. 11. The oeuntcss of Dunmore, widow of the early of Dun more, who was the most prominent Christ ian Scientist in Britain, has left this citv for Ronton, so as to be near Mis Eddy and the source of Christian Science teachings, according to a story published today. Mis. Eddy lives at Concord, ST. II., but a few hours' travel from Roston. The countess came here on a Cunard steamer recently, aecom panied by ber daughters, Lady Aldrla Historia Murray and lady Ooutts-Fowbc. Lady MMrrny organized the Christian Scientist Church in Manchester, Eng. land, one of the largest of the belief In England. . The. countess and her daughters, while here, were incognito. HONOR PROMINENT LODGE MEN. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Oct. 11 Mayor George E. Kellough and J. Car ter Smith, prominent Odd Fellows, have been notified they have been promoted in the uniform rank of the order. Mr. Kellough, who was appointed mayor early last spring, has been appointed lleutenant-eolonol of the Second Regi ment, Patriarchs Militant, and will be attached to the general's staff. Mr. Smith lias been chosen coinmisary, with the rank of captain. The local canton whs organized Inst spring and has a large membership. Sao Jose Girl Threatens to Kill Parent for Abusing Wife. SAN JOSE, Cal., Oct. ll.-Dr. A. A Gaston, a prominent local dentist, came near being "hot tonight by hi own daughter when he endeavored to force the content of a whisky flask down the throat of his dying wife. Dr. Gas ton, according to his eighteen-year-old daughter, Hazel, a beautiful high school girl, had been drinking heavily tonight and endeavored to persuade his wife to drink with him. She had been ill for four months and is in such a state that she cannot swallow without great pain. Dr. Gaston at last ued force in his en deavo to make the dying woman con sume the spirits, and Hazel came to the resce with a revolver, which he aimed at her father, threatening to kill him uwcm he desitted. - A tragedy was only averted by the interference of Henry Gaston, a brother. The intoxicated dentist was held at bay by his daughter while she telephoned to Paul Marston, the capitalist, who is re lated to the family. Marston, on seeing the situation, hurried to the police sta tion and procured assistance. Then he swore to a warrant for the arrest of Goston on a charge of disturbing the peace. Gaston's mother-in-law succeed ed in persuading Marston to withhold the warrant a the death of Mrs. Gaston is hourly expected. 4 . , PLAN TO BUILD UTOPIA. LOS ANGELES, Oct. ll.-One hun dred men and women, residents of Southern Cr.lifornia, have banded togeth Colony Association, which has for it! object the setting up of a modern Utopia on the eastern coast of Lower California. liyron Hall, president of the association, is now in the City of Mexico conferring with President Diaz relative to the sale and concessions in volved in the purchase of 300,000 acres of land. A city laid out in a scientific manner will occupy the center of the vast tract. The land will be cultivated by the asso elation, which will control all the public utilities. No buildings detrimental to the public welfare and no saloon will be admitted. Families will receive an al lowawe for each child, there will be no subscribing to any religion, men and women will work equal hours for equal wages, and the initiative and referendum will govern the colony The hundred members already enlisted will be the pioneers, it being the ultimate intention to establish two similar colonies when th first is successfully under way. One Is to 1 outh of the City of Mexico and the otlxr In Kern county, Cal. HE CALLS CONDUCTOR BRUTAL. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Oct. 11. A. E. Hoover, a Northern Pacific conduc tor, Is on trial In the superior court on a eharge of aault with a deadly wea pon. He is charged with striking T. B. Toncth in the face with a ticket punch, because Tonseth would not pay his fare. Tonseth alleges that because he did not have a ticket and wished to pay cash fare he was attacked and put off the train. Hoover alleges Ton seth was drunk, refused to pay his fare and wa annoying the passengers. Lack of . eligible jurors kept the court wait ing during the entire forenoon. On account of the extreme youth of Appleton and Burns, who were tried yes terday on charge of burglary, the jury this morning rendered a verdict of not guilty. DANES LIKE TO EXCHANGE. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 11. The Danish press is earnestly discussing the propo sition to exchange professors of the Uni versity of Copenhagen and other Scandi navian educational institutions and pro fessors of American universities. It is understood that the Scandinavian so cieties in the United States will be ap pealed to, probably resulting in the for mation of an organization similar to the Alliance Francaise. ST. PAUL'S PASSAGE ROUGH ONE. SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 11. The Amer ican line steamer St. Paul steamed into this port today, 24 hours late, after a very rough passage, during which her decks were repeatedly awash. Having gone through this port the steamer ran into dense fogs, and Chief Officer Os- bourne, who commanded, owing to the indisposition of Captain iPassog, had to grope his way into Plymouth by means of the lead. WILL MAINTAIN THE LOW RATES Railroads Deny They Will Aban don Homeseekers' Excursion to the West. OREGON SHORT LINE TO FRONT All Transcontinental Lines in Favor of Special Excursion Rates at Different Periods to Facilitate Settlement of the West by Eastern People. SALT LAKE, Oct. il. Regarding t report from Chicago yesterday that at a meeting of the passenger agents of a number of the Western Railroads it was practically decided to withdraw the homeseekers low rates for the winter and spring, Assistant General Passenger Agent Spencer, of the Oregon Short Line, said so far as the Short Line, Union and Southern Pacific were con cerned the report was without founda tion. OMAHA, Oct. 11. The Union .Pacific and Southern Pacific lines in connection with the Chicago and Northwestern, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and oth er transcontinental roads have given no tice to the transcontinental association that they will continue the colonist rats during March and April 1908, and on the same basis as the rates in effect on March, April and September and Oc tober of 1907. , the Fort Stellacoom asylum, where one Insane patient murdered anotherj that under existing estray lawi in, counties where three-fourths of the area is feno ed setrays may be taken up from March 1 to September 30, and the same can be done during the .balance of the yeai under the 1905 law, and that the new law enlarging the duties of the county engineer does not take from commis sioners the power to supervise the work on roads nor affect the right of the commissioners to collect necessary trav eling expenses for such supervision, BAN IS PUT ON MONEY SIGNS. : TAOOMA, Oct. 1L Patrons for the "millionaires' club" will no longer gaze upon the highly decorative five-cent pieces painted on the windows, as th club management has been ordered by the United States authorities to remove them. Unless they come down within the week the management will either have to pay a fine of from $100 to $350 or be confined, in the county jaiL .''' ' i 1WENTY:TW0 CONVICTS KILLED, TOBOLSK, Sibena, M.iCA gang' of convict who were being escorted here from Tyumen, Eastern- Siberia, attacked their guards yesterday and wounded six of them. The guards fired on the con victims, 22 of whom were killed. Eleven of the prisoners escaped with rifle which they had taken from the mem bers of the escort in the hand-to-hand fight which followed the outbreak. REMOVES IDAHO QUARANTINE. ' , " WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. The secre tary of agriculture ha decided that the quarantine on sheep in Idaho, which was established April 15 on account of scabbies, will be removed October 15. NORMAL SCHOOL DOING WELL. WESTON Or, Oct. 11. The Eastern Oregon State Normal School now has a registration of 155 in the normal de partment .exceeding all former records, and 100 young pupils in the training schooL There are 100 regular boarders at the young ladies' dormitory, and the dining room in the basement is crowded at limes. I He woiv of the school is prgressing very favorably, with a strong and industrious faculty. New students are still coming in, and the problem of their accommodation is quite a perplex ing one. BIG SANTA FE FINE May be Soaked a Million for Rebating. JURY FINDS ROAD IS GUILTY CONFISCATES TOLSTOI'S BOOK. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 12. The au- thorities ordered the confiscation of Count Tolstoi's book entitled "A Com er in the organization of La 'Prosperidad parative Study of the Gospels." LANDLADIES FORM A TRUST. WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Oct. 11 Twenty West Springfield boarding- house mistresses met here last evening and voted to form a boarding house union. Other boarding mistresses who were unable to attend sent word that they would stand by any action taken The union decided to raise the price of board from $3 to $6 a week and to put the new order into effect at once. The rise in the price of food is given as the cause for the raise in the price in board. ARREST PROMINENT DRUGGISTS. ALBANY, Or, Oct. 11. Warrants for arrest were issued on three prominent business men and druggists today, charging them with infractions of the local option liquor law. All are promi nent in social and church work and the publication of their names created a sen sation this afternoon. Albany has been a "wet" dry town for the past few months. The arrests were made at the instigation of the Oregon Anti-Saloon League. The Angel of Peace I think there is something wrong in my personal ap pearance that prevents m being a succes. ' The Pence Conference, which will a djourn soon, has been a complete fiasco. News Item. CONVENTION OF COTTON GROWERS. ATLANTA, Ga, October 11. Men who grow cotton and men who manu facture it into cloths for the markets of the world met in the State Capitol today in the international conference of the cotton growers and manufacturers. During the three days' sessions of the conference questions of the utmost im portance to growers and consumers will be discussed and action is looked for that will radically change for the I better methods of handling and growing ! the great staple of the South. Fully 500 delegates were present. STATE MUST PAY FOR INQUIRY. . . OLYMPIA, Wash., Oct. 11. In opin ions just rendered, the attorney-general decides as follows: That the state must pay fro nithe asylum maintenance fund the cost of the inquiry recently held at The Maximum Fine is Over a Million and the Lowest Sixty-six Thousand Dollars Road Indicted on Numerous counts to be Heavily Hit LOS ANGELES, Oct. ll.-After a brief deliberation the jury in the case of the Santa Fe Railway Company, charged with rebating on shipments, to day rendered a verdict of guilty on all counts. The maximum fine for the of fense is $1,200,000 and the minimum $66,000. OIL TRUST GIVEN TIME. TOPEKA. Kas, Oct. 11. The State Supreme Court today issue an order giving the Standard OH Company of Indiana, the Standard Oil Company of Kansas, the Prtirie Oil & Gas Company, and the International Harvester Com pany 30 days within which to answer the interrogations put by the attorney general in the ouster suit instituted by the state, in which a violation of the Kansas anti-trust law is alleged. CROWD VIEWS DEAD. COLUMBUS, Oct. 11. Emil Hoover, the son of Cassie Chad wick, made ar rangements todav to have the body of his mother taken to Woodstock, Canada, for burial. The body is at an under taking establishment and the public were allowed to see it this afternoon. NOTED SCOTSMAN DEAD. EDINBURGH, Scotland, Oct. 11. Da vid Masson, historiographer royal for Scotland, is dead. (Professor Masson, from 1858 to 1865, was editor of Maximil ian's Magazine, the publication of which was suspended last week. BAD FIRE IN OXFORD, NEB. HOLDREGE, Neb., Oct. ll.-Fire in the town of Oxford today destroyed nine blocks of buildings in the business sec tion and burned manv houses in the resi dence section. The loss exceeds $200,- 008. . ; J