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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1907)
Vf 0 HIE MORNING ASTOUIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOJES t, 1507, . i . - -1 i 11 1 Tinii 1 1 r k i id i r en 1 17 We not only he the largest and most complete stock of Crocllery, China $ Glassware in the city, but arp carry a large line of TIN and GRANITEWARE A. V AULfEN. PHONES MAIN 711. MAIN 3S71 Sole Agents for Baker's Barrington Hall Steel Cut Coffee BRANCH UNIONTOWN PHONE MAIN 713 Roosevelt May Conduct His Suc cessor's Fight TRY PEONAGE CASES Esnaprato Confers With District Attorney Stimson. EOTABLE CASES NOW PENDING Two Italian Accused of Sending Fellow Countrymen From New York to , Swamps in South, When They are Held in Slavery' for Debts. -Washington, Oct. 24. The New York representatives of peonage crimes in the aouthern states are to be prosected vig rously, and to that end United States District Attorney Stimson, of the south am district of New York, came to Wash ington today and had a long conference with the attorney-gerneraL It has been found that in the worst instances of peonage, or white slavery, the persons directly responsible were not always southerners and that agents of the sys tem were nearly always to be found in New York. One of the most notable cases now . pending and one -which was the subject f discussion today is the recent employ ment of laborers who were held in peon age on the railroad which is being-fcuilt Tirtually in the water, to connect the various keys of the southern coast of . Florida. Indicemeuts were found some time ago by grand juries in Florida and Sear York against a man named Triay of Jacksonville, who is "connected with the Florida East Coast Railroad, and an Italian named Sabbia, of New York, i Sabbia is a labor agent who has been carry nig on his business nndr a license issued by a state officer in New York and it did not take the government off icial long to connect him with labor conditions which were found to xist on the keya railroad in southern Florida. Triay ia'a '"sort of labor agent for the Tlagler railroads in Florida. Both men re well known in Florida and both seem to have powerful friends. When Sabbia went to Florida some time ago he was liberally entertained and was by some persons addressed as Count, the impress Son seeming to be that he was a titled gentlemen of aristeoratic birth in Itlay. Counsel for Tiary and Sabbia and others who were indicted with them lave entered a demurrer to the indict ments, and arguments on the motions for. demurrer are to be held. It is pro vable that' Assistant ".Attorney -General Russell who has had charge of the in vestigation of peonage cases in the south will soon go to New York to make the argument on the . demurrer." District 'Attorney Stimson had a- conference with Mr. Russell this morning after his talk with the 'attorney-general and it was ar ranged that Mr. Eussell should make the ', argument when the case is called tn New York. ' ; An effort is to be made by the Depart merit of Justice to break up the band of dishonest licensed agents in New lork and to encourage employers of labor in the south to apply to the federal iinml gration bureau rather than to padrones m New lork or elsewhere when they are looking for laborers. In the pse of the men employed on the Florida rail road, the offense committed in Florida was peonage proper that is the holding of men under compulsion to work out a debt. The offense ; committed in New York in the same connection was the virtual kidnapping of laborers for tran spoliation to Florida. The trial, in New York, if the demurrer is overruled, will be for kidnapping. INVESTORS ANXIOUS (Continued rfrom Fagt 1) mercantile business of A L, Levy & Co, at Valdex, paying $50,000 down and agreeing to pay the invoice price on the stock and for the building October 16. The balance to fall due October is esti mated to be $200,000. J. C. Martin, cashier of the Reynolds bank at Valdez, who is now in Seattle, is quoted as saying that he was the heaviest creditor of the bank, save one. Although he foresaw the mbarrass ment of the bank, he had hoped that Reynolds would be able to raise money to pass the crisis, and he left his money on deposit. - Mr. Reynolds says that the assets are ample to meet all obligations. xHe esti mates the liabilities at $33,000 and the assets, consisting principally 6f Valdez real estate, are estimated to be worth $92,000. , Twenty creditors of the Reynolds Alaska Development Co., whose claims amount to $75,000, decided at a meeting held at Seattle, to be lenient and to as sist Mr. Reynolds in straightening out his tangled financial affairs. STATE WITHOUT BARE EXIMHEB. CARSON CITY, Nev, Oct 24.-The fact came to light yesterday afternoon that Jack Marshall, a bank examiner of the State of Nevada, had tended his resignation to the Governor several days agoj that it had Jeen, accepted and that Major Miller, a well-known resident of Elko County,, has been ap pointed to succeed him in the office. Up to the present time Miller has not quali fied lot his office, and consequently the state at the present time is without a bank examiner. TEA Moneyback. means that the tea is good and well worth the money. Can't moan anything else. , Tour grocer returns your aoaaj if xu don't like Schilling's Beat: we par Din We a . 1 ; uur tsmire ' Stock of " ...... .......... ......... ;.'hh0 o-.n'.w .i'mhi") . ; , ; .; v' .......... i'.,.,'.MiiMt jfrjifitijH xttimhu' ,4we'J. e-'0V.-;: a a iiiuiiwu unu vti- M ...;-....;r.....avr..oin.P ; vimm, ll t Ufitritnmed H II 7 r 11 ft y 1 MiV M k-J 00,11 ..... ..-hvniihlL -ih.U, '(mt At ; 50c on-the: $ I ( i Plumes Dyed, , Clpenied O0.';' " ; ... -. . -.U-Ua ku;i ',fcJ-o'$Uoy.- and. Curled. LE PALAIS MILLINERY STORE i STAR THEATRE BUILDING, 505 COMMERCIAL STREET. UNUSUAL POLITICAL ASPECT President Strongly Favors Secretary Taft Not Since Andrew Jackson's Day Has the Chief Executive Openly ' Conducted a Campaign for Successor. WASHINGTON, Oct. U FrepflM tions by both parties for the manage ment of the Presidential campaign are well advanced and show the lines upon which the light will be waged. If Sec retary Taft is the Republican nominee, no less a person than President-Roose velt 'will be the real manager of the Republican campaign. For more than a year the President has frankly told everybody that Taft must succeed him in order to carry out the , Roosevelt policies. It is an open secret that Sec retary Root was the President's first choice as his successor, but after the great financial revelations in New York, the President realizes that e country would be so suspicious of any New York Republican that he dropped Root. The way the President puts it is: "What a magnificent President Elihu Root would make, but what ft -miserable candidate." Mr. Root is philosophical enough to ap preciate the unfortunate situation which cuts him out of the Presidential nomina tion. He is morely the victim of cir cumstances. While, of course, if Mr. Taft is the nominee he will name the chairman of the Republican National Committee, who will nominally manage the cam paign, still it is well understood . in Washington that President Roosevelt's interest being so direct and immediate, hia will be the real directing genus of the fight. This will present one of the most novel spectacles in American poli tics. Not since Andrew Jackson's day, has a President openly conducted a campaign from the White House for the election of his successor. But as Roosevelt has smashed all traditions, the country will not be shocked by his course in this matter. As seen from the national capital democratic affairs are now so shaped up as to take the management of that party from the control of the men and influences' which have gripped it since 1904. 'The Belmont-Sheehan crowd forc ed "Tom" Taggart of Indiana on the Democratic National Committee in that year as it chairman. Taggart's selec tion was the result of a compromise after a fierce struggle between Belmont and Sheehan for the mastery of , the machine organized to support Judge Parker's, disastrous fight. Now that the plans arc well laid to rid the Demo cratic organization of the Parker-Belmont- Sheehan-Ry an influences. Taggart will fall. The present intclition is to put in his place former Senator George Turner of the State of Washington. Senator Turner's career has run the gamut of American political experience. Bora in Missouri, he entered the Union Army as a boy. At the close of the war he settled in Alabama and, although a federal office holder he was never .re garded by the Southernors as a carpet bagger. President Arthur appointed him to the bench m Washington Territory, where he won great distinction, and soon after the close of Arthur's administra tion the judge entered practice of law at Spokane. In the great 'schism creat ed in both parties in 1896 by free sil ver, Judge .Turner opposed the cause of William Jennings Bryan and gave him the electoral veto of Washington. The legislature being Democratic in 1897 sent Turner to the Senate, where he almost immediately took his place in the ranks of the thoughtful and conservative mem bers. So well was he thought of that soon after the expiration of his term President Roosevelt appointed Judge Turner a member of the arbitration commission on the long pending Alaskan boundary dispute. In the negotiations at London, Senator Turner won more ncomiuns from the European' press as i statesman of high qualities than "did any other member of the commission. I It is given out that the Democratic National Committee will select Chicago as the place for holding the National Convention and the second week in June, as the., time.' This determination indi cates the aggressive spirit now dominat ing the councils of the party, as the date set ' for the convention will call the Democrats together ahead of the Repub licans. In other words, the Democrats are to set the pace.- ; The MorscN Stock must be sold and sold at once. Our time is limited and the goods must go. From now every article will be cut deeper than ever before. , It will pay you to come and come at once and get what you want. It will cost you twice the rice later. 1 mi TIN S II fill r nil Successors to the Morse Store APPALLING POVERTY s County Agent Discovers Sickness v and Starvation. ENTI RE FAM I LY ARE SU FFERI NG Father and Mother Crippled and Chil dren 111 With Diphtheria with no Food in the House is Appalling Con dition of Chicago Family. CHICAGO, Oct. 24.-One child dead of diphtheria, three others dying of the same disease, the father disabled with rheumatism, and mother crippled by the loss of an arm, no food in the house or money to buy it such was the case of misery discovered by the police at 150 Winnebago avenue yesterday. The county agent who was called upon to relieve the suffering family, . declared that it was one of the worse 'instances brought to his attention. The home is that of Alfred) Riehert, a laborer, who was stricken with acute muscular rheu matism several months ago and had been unable to work". Mrs. Riehert, who has lost her right arm in an accident, was unable to contribute anything to the support of the household, and . the family was kept alive only by the dona tions of chartitable neighbors. A week ago, Mary) one of the six small children, contracted diphtheria. Medical aid was summoned by the neighbors only after the disease has become fatal. The con tagion spread through the home-four dark, squalid rooms in a basement, and three of the children contracted it. . . FAILURES HURT STOCKS. , Goldfield Consolidated and Florence Drop Several Points. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24.-The news of the failure of tw6 Oarson City banks caused a strong selling movement in the local mining stock exchange yesterday and all the Goldfield leaders sus tained losses. Nearly 3(,000 shares of G-oldflcld Consolidated wet 1 sold and the price dropped to $4.70, a lecline of 17 poTKfc Florence loi20 points aad others were lower by 2 to 10 cents per share. Eagle's Nest, of Falrview, was unloaded freely becaue it was a W. A. Sullivan Issue, backed by banker Rickey, whose bank Its cloaed. Tonopsh storks also suffered The Manhattans were the only steady shares. At the curb trading late in the day, the martcet ap proached demoralization, with free of fering of stock and no buying. 1 Morninpf Astorian, delivered by carrier, 60 cents per month. Morning Astorian, delivered by carrier, CO cents per month. C ASTORIA lor X&&&ti and CMldrea. mm Yea Kays Afrajs E::t Bean tha Blgnatnrrof .' 1 li1'f?iM fcv The Store g&y& Ladies' ji for Women Xdina Outfitters! We have an extensive displayjof new goods in Jfflicy Art Wr I : . ; .., :..;! v. . Yd :;4 , v; r :.' . ; ' .- " ,.'.. We are agents for Richardson's Embroidery Silks i and have the package assortment of Wallachjan, Biedermaier and Eye- let Embroidery ' with - Working Silk arid minute instructions for workingacting as a high-class teacher. i It is time now4o plan for CHRISTAAS FANCY )V0RK. f. it